The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-20 00:00:00

that the enrolment is not completed, and
commissioners to superintend the draughti
claims of exemption have been appointed,
not be within the time specified. Yet
M'Clellan is greatly in want of reinforcements, auX
New York owes the Federal Government 40,000 men
under the two calls. The State of Maine resoried
to the draught to fill up its second quota, but gene-
rously allowed the men draughted, 5,000 in num-
ber, to call themselves volunteers, and receive the
bounty_ money. -Slaiiiiehusetts, the roads of which
were to swarm with volunteers as soon as an edict
of emancipation was issued, has not sent twenty
men to the field since the proclamation was pub-
lished, and remains in arrear, under the ewo calls,
of no lees than 19,080 men. The other New Eng-
land States have come nearer to the mark ; but
Massachusetts is so very warlike in Fanueil Half
and in print, and has so very warlike awl tre-
mendous Ei Governor, that peoples who Pre not habi •
tually ill-natured are compelled to admit that sh
barks more than she. bites, and would rather save
the Union by me 'ey and by speeches then by herd
fight inv.
The Post-office Departiheit-has raised into prc-
minence once again the vexed and vexatious ques-
tion of a small currency. When silver first went
up to the moderate premium of 4 per cent. —it is
now at 17—Congress, to prevent the issue of " shin-
plaster," passed an Act legalizing postage-stamps as
a currency. Itnecessarily followed that, in passing
from hand to ha' nd,:fiuch. fragile little articles would
be more or lilies :worn, soiled, or defaced, and to meet
with a perfectly clean one, unleis procured directly
from the Post-to-face,' waS :in a few days. a sheer im-
possibility. TAst week the Post-office issued a noti-
fication refusing to forward any letters that had
otizer than perfectly clean stamps on them. The
whole press of the city was up in arms immediately.
The ordeaa was declared to amount to the repudia-
'tlon;of rtlin'ai millions ordbllats—the amount of
stamps believed_ to be in circulation.- The Post-
office; however, reigsed to reseind its decree, and it
wss proposed, in the Common Council of the cityaof
NE4 'Yotir that • the _lMllk;ielpalit_yellould take the'
matter in hand, and provide the pei.TPle with small
change, either in the shape of a ge'eatly alloyed
silver currency, too worthless intrinsioally to cora-
-1 mend a premium from bullion dealers, or in that of
small notes, issued on the credit of the municipality.
Under these circumstances Mr. Chase forgot for a
little while his projects for the abolition of slit very,
and devoted his exclusive attention to the abolit,ion
of silver as a circulating medium, and discoverec2a
after consultation with his printers, that he could
supply currency notes for five cents and upwards at
a much greater speed than had hitherty been em-
ployed. He has promised to put on extra steam
for the parpose, so that the postage stamps may be
immediately withdrawn from circulation as money ;
but he has not promised to exchange such as have
been soiled or defaced in their legal use as a currency,
and which the Post-office refuses to redeem, which he
clearly ought:to do if he would keep faith with the
people. The Post-office may be perfectly right, but it
is Mr. Chase's business to assume the responsibility
caused by the laches of the Treasury Department-
If a Bank-note,for three cents. or for three dollars,
were to be generally declared uncurrent or worth-
less because it was soiled or dirty, it would amount
to the repudiation of nine-tenths of all the paper
money of America—a state of affairs to which the
republic is not yet reduced—and which Mr.:Chase,
as guardian of its financial honour, is officially
bound to guard against, in small things as well as
in great. If the soiled postage-stamps be not ex-
changed for postage currency, the refusal will be
the repudiation of a legal debt, whatever may be
urged to the contrary.

OCT. 8.
P.S.—The battle of Corinth was renewed on Sun-
day. The Federals claim a complete victory.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of the most noble Mary, Duchess Dowa-
ger of Buckingham and Chandos, relict of the late
duke, and daughter of the first MarTiis of Bredal-
bane, K.T., was administered to in the Landon
Court of Probate by her son, the present Duke of
Buckingham, the sole executor nornlciated in the
will, which bears date November, 1850, by which
the te,tatrix disposes of tho property she inherited
from the estates of her father, and over wi:ich she
had a right of disposition according to the order of
the Court of Session in Scotland, to her only son,
subject to a small bequest to her only daughter,
who, under the clause for younger children, is other-
wise provided for.
The will of John Lewis, of Tilney-street, Park-
lane, was proved in the London Court under
£300,000 personally by the trustees and executors
--t Sir Charles Locock, Bart. (the testator's son•.in-
law), Alexander Trotter, Esq.; James Bury Capel,
Esq. ; and Charles Brodie Locock, Esq , the testa-
tor's grandson. The will was executed in 1859,
and a codicil in 1861. The testator has made ample
provision for his two daughters, and has directed
that the residue of his property, real and personal,
shall be divided into five parts of equal value,
leaving to each of his five grandsons an equal por-
tion. There is a legacy of £lOO left to the fund for
decayed members of the Stock Exchange, to be paid
free of duty.
The will of Alexander Giovanni Cassavetti, Esq.,
of Porchester-terrace, and of New Broad-street,
merchant, was proved in London by three of the
executors, namely, Michael Spartali, of Gresham
House ; Constantine Geralopulo, Esq., of Pem-
bridge-gardens ; and Enterp Cassavetti, the relict ;
power being reserved to Sophocles Constantinides,
Esq., of New Broad-street, and of Alexandria, in.
Egypt, merchant, to prove hereafter. The per-
sonalty in this country was sworn under £lBO,OOO.
The will bears date January, 1862, and there are
two codicils, executed in February and March fol-
lowing. To his relict the testator has left an abso-
lute sum of £lO,OOO, together with an annuity of
£5OO and a share of the residue of his entire pro-.
perty for her life, giving her a power, with direc-
tions, to leave some portions thereof to her own re-
lations. The residue of his property he leaves to
be equally divided between his son and two daugh-
ters. The testator has also given directions to his
trustees that, upon the decease of his widow, a
certain portion of the share of the residue enjoyed
by her shall be applied for philanthropic purposes
in Greece and Thessaly—the latter being his native
Icountry.

ANOTHER ROMAN CATHOLIC PASTORAL,—Dr.
Grant, " Bishop of Southwark," has issued the following
letter to the clergy of his diocess :—" Rev. and dear Sir,—
I have not been abl to ascertain that any of the Catholics
belonging to your flock have taken part in the meetings held
in the park or elsewhere within the last three weeks, and I
therefore abstain from publishing any letter on the subject
of them. But it you find any excitement prevails use every
endeavour in the pulpit and in private to dissuade our
brethren from doing or saying anything likely to disturb
the peace, or even to provoke angry feeling on the part of
others. I send this letter to the clergy of the diocess because
there is reason to fear that in other places, and especially in
missions where there are Catholic soldiers and sailors, the
discussion of the questions that have led to the meetings
already mentioned have tended to produce dissension and
quarrelling among our spiritual children and those who
have taken advantage of passing events to speak disrespect-
fully of his Holiness, without knowing how deeply rooted is
the attachment of Irish Catholics to him, and how keenly
they feel every word that is uttered against him. In
your prudence you will calm these feelings, and will
earnestly entreat our children to remain silent, and to
bear patiently and meekly every harsh and insulting word
and act. If it is in your power to speak to the masters
or superiors under whom Catholics are employed or sta •
tinned, entreat them to forbid the mention of all subjects
which have produced this excitement, and explain to them
that our efforts to restore quiet will be wasted uutil the
bitterness which these domestic disputes have caused is
allayed by the firmness of superiors under whom Catholics
and Protestants are living. Yours sincerely, THOMAS
GRANT, Bishop of Southwark."
DANGEROUS CONDITION OF HOLBORN;nIfin ligLh.;
On Friday the drizzling rain that fell intlaesmo morning
that
the effect of rendering the carriage Pavement h
greatest difficulty,
few horses could stand, and it was
w
and by attaching extra horses, that
was extremely hazard.. that the ascent was accom-
plished. The descent from i
ous, even with wheels double-locked. The poor animals
d with great force, sliding from the top
were pushed
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occasioning many collisions. To avoid
to the bottom,
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street, Brooke-street, into Holborn, and vice Versa.