The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-24 00:00:00

MARKET

MONET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
firmly and with animation, and all descriptions
were quoted 1-16 d. per lb. dearer. The sales were
12,000 bales, 2,000 for export and 3,500 on specula-
tion, comprising 380 Pernam and Maranham at
bid. to Bd. ; 100 Bahia at bid. to cad. ; 100
Egyptian, at 6d. to 7d. ; and 1,000 Surat at 4id.
to Sid. per lb. The Railway Share Market was
quiet, but prices were a shade lower than on Mon-
day.

A telegraph despatchic from Berlin mentions that
adviCes had arrived from St. Petersburg announc-
ing the definitive revolution of the Russian govern-
ment relative to the construction of the principal
railways throughout the empire, and that the con-
cession for this purpose has been granted to a
society formed by capitalists of different countries,
among whom are named the chiefs of the Credit
Mobilier of France and Messrs. Baring, Hope,
Stieglitz, and Hottinguer. The concession is for
eighty-five years, and a minimum interest of 5 per
cent. is guaranteed to the shareholders by the
Russian government. The lines are to be finished
in 10 years.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes two decrees
.relative to the export and transport of cereals from
Algeria to France. The first abolishes, up to the
31st Dec., 1857, a previous decree, interdicting the
exportation of wheat and barley from Algeria to
any foreign country ; and the second continues up
to the same period the privilege accorded to
foreign vessels of carrying grain, flour, rice, &c.,
between that colony and the principal French
ports in the Mediterranean.

Later advises from the Continent give further
evidence of the increasing tightness of the various
money markets, produced almost solely by the
extraordinary demand for the precious mete ls.
The policy adopted by most of the German Banks,
viz., of raising the rates of discount, has been fol-
lowed by the Banks of Amsterdam and Holland.
Others, it is expected, will also soon have to resort
to restrictive measures, as the supply of capital in
particular States is becoming exceedingly con-
tracted, to the serious inconvenience of the com-
mercial interests. In Franca the high rates which
now rule for discount accommodation have a de-
pressing influence on most branches of business,
and speculative transactions on the Bourse are
very circumscribed.

The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon did
not vary to any important extent, but the tendency
was rather downwards.

The market for English Securities still exhibits
a heavy appearance, and the transactions are very
limited. Besides the unfavourable condition of
the Money Market, the Italian question now con-
tributes to the weakness of the Funds ; and al-
though, as before remarked, very little business is
transacted, it is of an adverse character. Consols
for transfer have been 93i and for account 93i
to 94. Exchequer Bills continue firm at 14s. to
17s. premium, and the Bonds are 991. East India
Bonds have been 17s. premium. India Stock is
230.

Very few bargains have been reported in the
Foreign Markets. Turkish 6 per Cents. have been
1011 I, but are now rather firmer, viz., 1011 to
102. Spanish remain without alteration ; the 3
per Cents. are 43, and the New Deferred 24k,
Russian 5 per Cents. have been dealt in at 1074 ;
ditto 4i per Cents, at 97 ; and Grenada Deferred
at 7i. Mexican Stock rules firm at 221. Portu-
guese 4 per Cents. are 98.

The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7 to 7 ;
Mexican, 22i to ; Peruvian, 79 to 81; ditto
8 per Cents., 57 to 59 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents.,
44 to 45i ; Russian 5 per Cents., 107 to 109 ;
ditto 4i per Cents., 96 to 98 ; Spanish 3 per
Cents., 42i 3} ; ditto Deferred, 24} ; ditto
Certificates, si 6 ; ditto Passive, 6} 7.
The English Railway Shares, with the exception
of Caledonian, Great Western, and North-Eastern
Berwick, which are firmer, are mostly to per
cent. lower, but without much activity in business.
In the Foreign market there is no change of im-
portance, and the Colonial rule dull at about pre-
vious quotations. Rigas are steady.
Most of the joint stock bank shares have been
largely dealt in at reduced prices.
Miscellaneous shares are also depressed.
Canada land are 2/. to 31. lower.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
(From, the Official List;
Rusin.... dons.
3 rer Cent. Console Annlitier (131
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO l7 p
Consols for Account
E (chequer Bills, lid.
£IOOO
£5OO l4 17 p
qmall l4 17 p
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3A per Cent. 99i
Ditto, 1859

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lO2
Grenada New Active, 2} per Cent.
Ditto Deferred 7*
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Peruvian Bonds 4i per Cent BO
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent 57.
Ditto Account 5B
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent 441
Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent lO7l 8
Ditto 4i per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account 9l
Sp-nisi Bonds, 3 per Cent 43
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Turkish Bonds, 6 par cent
Ditto Account
7)itto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
,r ends; on the above nayable In London.
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cerk:;., 12 Guilders
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 93
THREE O'CLOCK.

Console, money 93/ )1
Ditto for Account, Oct. 8 93i 4

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Sept. 24.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.;
fresh breeze and cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 23.—Wind W. to W.S.W.—Ar-
rived—Lord Nelson (tpt.), from Constantinople.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. • 3.—Wind W.— Arrived—Phari-
mond, from London, for Launseston.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 23.—Wind W., strong gale.—Off the
port—Marie and August, from Porto Rico.
SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 23. —Wind S. W.—Arri ved —Sul-
tan (s ), from Gibraltar. Sailed- -Norman, for Bahia.
SWANSEA, Sept. 22. —Win d W.N. W.—Arrived—Pasco
Grenfell, from Cuba.
SHIELDS, Sept. 23. Wind S.—Arrived—Rosedale,
from Quebec.
HULL, Sept. 23.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Chase,
from Richibucto.
ABERDEEN, Sept. 22. —Wind S.W.—Sailed—Clarendon,
for St. John's, Newfoundland.

(PER ILEUM(' TFLFGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
Sailed.—Norman, screw steamer, for Bahia and Rio de
Zaneiro.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning.

Wind W.
Arrived—Shooting Star, from Bombay ; Edward Dona-
ted, Moulmein ; Ellen, Dalhousie ; Protector, Montego
Bay ; Sardinian, Miramichi.
Sailed—Rattler (s.), for Lisbon; St. Andrew's (i.e.),
for Alexandria.
QUERNSTONM, Sept. 22.

Wind W. _
Arrived—Nugget, from New York.
HOLYHEAD, Sept. 23.

Wind N.W.
Arrived—Augusta, from Kamiesch.
WATERFORD, Sept. 22.
Wind S.W.
Arrived—Johanna, from Ibrail.

(BY SUB)IA.RINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10 a.m.
Wind W. • bigh water ; tine.
Arrived, Sept. 23.—British Tar, from Kamiesch.
Arrived, Sept. 24.—Wm. Thornborrow, from Guernsey
W. B. Sewall, Calcutta; Director, Montreal.
DEAL, Wednesday, 9.56 a.m.

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Wind W.S.W., moderate.
Passed—Bridget, frotn Ancona ; Majestic, Quebec ;
Mary Ann, Alexandria—all for London.

We regret to announce the death of General Sir Colin
Ralkett, G.C.B , Governor or Chelsea Hospital, and
Colonel of the 45th Regiment, which took place this
morning.
The weekly reviews from Amsterdam and Rotterdam
produce markets state that the operations have not
proved important, but that prices continue to be sup-
ported. The letters from Rouen mention the appear-
ance of increased activity in the market for manufac-
tures, piirchases generally having been made on a more
extensive scale.

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this day

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(Ftorn tie Daily News.)
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 22.
A cold, wet morning—one modelled on a Novem-
ter sunrise in Le...den—has not sufficed to damp
the ardour of the delegates from various nations
who have taken up their abode in this city for a
few days, to discuss the grave subject of Customs
Reforms all over the world, in an International
Congress. Last evening a preliminary private
meeting of the delegates was held at the Rotel do
Suede, at which business of a formal characf er was
discussed, and in which vice-presidents of the vari-
ous sections into which the Congress is separated
were appointed. That sections are determined
to work, and that the Belgian Customs Reform A—
sociatiou keep clearly in view the elimination of
telling facts, while they discourage mere ( ratori-
cal flourishes, are points which may encourage
us to hope that, erg the Congress separates, it
will have passed a series of importa:at re-
solutions ; and, more, will he ready to back
them with- carefully arranged illustrative reports.
The rapidity with which the Belgian Association
has grown, the readiness with which the provincial
manufacturing towns. of Belgium—as Vorviers,
Liege, Charleroi, Huy, &c.—have identified them-
selves with the metropolitan organisation ; and,
above all, the injury done to Belgian manufacturers
by the heavy import duties on iron and coal, com-
bine to strengthen our hope that public opinion in
this country will soon be brought to bear with irre-
sistible force upon the government. The Belgian
Association has already poured no less than 140,000
printed reports, pamphlets, 'N., over the country.
The ironmasters are up in arms, and while the ma-
nufacturers demand the total abolition of the im-
port duties on coal and iron on the one hand, these
producers of native iron use their powerful influ-
ence upon the legislature to prevent the demand
from being heard. Moreover, they pretend that
the gentlemen who have called together the Inter-
national Congress now Bitting are simply a etuated
by interest, being chiefly manufacturers, or rather
merchants, who have everything to gain from the
reduction or abolition of import duties on raw ma-
terials. These arguments are represented by such
ironmasters as Dupont, of Fayt, and M. Mon cheur.
Of course the members of the association have re-
plied to these taunts, and successfully ; being, in
the first place, clearly able to retort upon their ac-
cusers, who appear to talk about the heavy com-
pensation the Government will owe them, should
they listen to the free-traders. But the appeal
made; by the association to the manufacturing
towns of Belgium shows, by the answers it has
called forth, the temper of the Belgian people with
regard to Customs Reform.

The resolutions submitted by the Central Asso-
ciation to the chambers of commerce of the pro-
vincial manufacturing towns ran thus :-
1. The free admission of raw materials.

2. An ad valorem duty of 10 per cent. on raanufac-
tured articles. Certain industries, however, now pro-
tected by prohibitive duties, may for a time and under
exceptional circumstances be protected by a higher
duty, to be fixed hereafter.

3. The classification of articles liable to duty in broad
clasFes, so that the tariff may be reduced to the simplest
possible form.

The answers received from the more important
commercial towns prove that the Central Asso-
ciation has the entire sympathy of the Belgian
people. Bruges applauded the efforts made by
the association for the wise reform of the Belgian
custom-house, and hoped their labours would
be crowned with success. Ypres and Dixmude
passed resolutions in support of the propositions,
and promised their aid to make them become
law. Alost fully appreciated the object the asso-
ciation had in view in oalling together an Interna-
tional Congress in order to hasten the freedom of
commerce throughout the world. The sympathies
of Alost were with the movement, because no
country had a weighter interest than Belgium in
this liberty. Namur was in favour of reduced
duties, but believed that they should be reduced
gradually, in order to protect the interests of men
&read/ embarked in commerce under the standard
of rigid protection. Verviers declared that it had
long pressed the Government to abolish the import
duties on alimentary substances, coal and iron.
Autwerp had Beim KI every occasion to urge upon
the Government the simplification of the tariff, and
the free admittance of all raw materials, in order to
enable the Belgian manufacturers to compete with
foreigners. These answers are proof positive that
the Central Association is backed by the country,
and that M. Corr Van der Maeren is destined to
become the Cobden of Belgium.
On Saturday evening the list of registered mem-
bers and delegates to the Congress contained no
less than 561 names. Among these are the Lord
Mayor ; Mr. Ewart, M.P., who represents the
question of uniform weights and measures; Mr. C.
Lawson, delegate from the Edinburgh Chamber of
Commerce ; Mr. W. Scholefield, M P., delegate
from the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce ;
Sheriff Mechi, from the Society of Arts ; the Right
Hon. Milner Gibson ; Mr. Alfred Taylor, Messrs.
Leone Levi, John Bennett, George Lawford, Jas.
Yates, and Dr. Buchanan, delegates from the Deci-
mal Coinage Association ; Messrs. Titus Salt, H.
W. Winckam, Jacob Behrens and J. Darlington,
a deputation from the Bradford Chamber of Com-
merce ; Mr. J. K. Jefferey, from Liverpool ; Mr.
E. Chadwick, Mr. H. G. Bohn, Sir F. Foster, and
J. A. Turner, President of the Manchester Com-
mercial Association. In the list of foreign delegates
I remark the names of M. L. Wolowski, of the
French Institute ; Guido, from the Society of Arts
et Metiers at Milan ; Dr. E. Engel, delegate from
the Government of Saxony; Alfred Darimon, contri-
butor to La Presse, Ph. de Molinari ; F. Magemes-
ter, from St. Petersburg • Baron Edouard Cogels,
senator, from Antwerp ; Dr. Michel Berend, of the
Gazette de Cologne; M. E. de Rivero, consul general
for Peru ; Peyer Imhoff Neher, delegate from the
Swiss Government, and M. Cherbuliez in the same
capacity; Dr. Maurice de Stubenrauch, member of
the municipal council of Vienna ; L. de Dorlodot
de Moriame, from Lodelinsart ; Liefmans Delagache,
delegate for the Oudeuaerde Chamber of Commerce;
Seb. Bertant, delegate for the Marseilles Chamber
of Commerce ; Cad Antonio Sialoja, professor of
political economy in the University of Turin, dele-
gated by the Count de Cavour ; H. P. Vankeuke-
lorn and Theophile Leotard from Amsterdam ; E.
Van Voorthuysen, from Maarsin, near Utrecht ;
Bischoff, delegate from the Aix-la-Chapelle Cham-
ber of Commerce ; G. Cipri, from Italy ; and Dr.
D. D. Friedlander, from Heidelberg. This glance
at the long list of names will suffice to prove the
general interest taken by the practical men of
various nations in the movement of the Belgian
Association. In the list of replies only one notable
exception to the general expression of approbation
appears to have been received, and this is from the
Chamber .of Commerce of Brussels itself. The in-
creased-interest shown in the subject of customs
reform may be proved by comparing the number of
delegates who attended the congress of 1847 with
that which the list of to-day exhibits. In 1847
there were 160 members, and on the present occa-
sion no less than 561 gentlemen have adhered to
the proposition of the Belgian Association. At a
little past 12, while the great fountain in the Grande
Place was drenching all people who got to wind-
ward cf it, and while the dealers in second-baud
furniture were dividing the attention of loiterers
before the Town-hall with the picturesque flower
merchants, the delegates from Holland, from Swit-
zerland, from Spain, and even from Russia, were
seen picking their way through the mud to the Esca-
lier des Lions of the Town-hall. In the noble Go-
thic hall, decorated with the Belgian tricolor,
some four or five hundred people had already as-
sembled. Various delegates were busily employed
distributing pamphlets on the subject in which they
were respectively interested. The decimal coinage
advocates of England were especially active.
The chair was taken by M. Cor Van der Maeren,
who in a speech of some length thanked the foreign
delegates for their presence on that occasion. He
bade them welcome iu the name of prosperous Bel-
gium. Their present congress was widely different
from that of 1847. We had advanced. Holland had
abolished her navigation laws, and in England the
opposition of the protectionists to an established law
had ceased. France had modified her tariff and was
about to erase the word "prohibition" from it ; and
Sardinia, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, arc.,
had liberalised their customs dues. Something had
been done, it must be confessed, in Belgium ; but a
coalition of interested men had prevailed to retard
the application of the good intentions of the Govern-
ment. Still the principle of free trade, or of a re-
duction of duties, had been allowed—the method of
reduction was alone the question. And now the two
great questions which the present Congress would
have to deal with were--Ist. What were the obstacles
in each country to the reduction of customs dues 'I
2d. What were the remedies applicable to the re-
strictions that existed in each country ? Nor would
their inquiries be limited to these questions. There
were the coinage and passport systems—both mat-
ters that restricted the free commercial inter-
course of nations. This remark was received with
loud cheers. The hon. gentleman then referred to
the meeting held at the Hotel do Subde last even-
ing, at which the 24 vice-presidents, representing
various nations, were nominated. At this point, the
secretary, M. Conoreru, read the names of the vice-
presidents, in which the names of Messrs. Oliveira,
Henry Bohn, and Wink worth, figure with others,
for England. The reading of the list over, the
vice-presidents were requested to advance from the
body of the hall, and take their places around the
president. This was done amid general cheers.
M. Cor Van der Maeren then announced to the
meeting that 3/1. Brouck6re, burgomaster, of Brus-

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THE SUNi LOND-ON; WEDNESDAY EIVE.NING SEPrir,MBEA 24, 185 6.
Ait It fit Ai I.ft T 3, trltti tgmfm AT Vtl;4o AIIitTAUL
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s:fs, ILaLt aenBnisil ihn kiloo o.`
gress ; and the honourable gentleman proceeded to
take the seat vacated by the active president of the
Customs Reform Association. M. do Brouckdre
then addressed the Congress, and expressed his plea-
. sure in doing so, seeing that while in 1847, when he
last presided at a Reform Congress, t hey had to deal
with theories, they had now advanced to a point
when it became their business to consider the appli-
cation of principles generally accepted. He now de-
clared the Congress constituted and opened ; and he
thought that their first act should be to return
thanks to the active Association, under the
auspices of which it had been called together. This
proposition was received with loud cheers. The
president then read the order of the day, and
called upon the Dutch delegates to open the discus-
, sion. The first of these gentlemen who addressed
• the Congress maintained that Holland might lay
claim to be one of the liberal nations of Europe,
because she had abolished her navigation-laws, had
admitted corn free since 1847, and had abolished
her old duties on the transit id goods. He con-
tended, therefore, that Holland had little to yield,
and much to demand from her neighbours. And
ho might add, that the prosperity of the country
had fully justified the liberality of the Government.
A delegate from Antwerp then rose and proceeded
to show, amid the applause and the amusement of
the Congress, that Holland was apparently a libe-
ral state, but in reality a protectionist—a highly
protectionist—state. Protection and prohibition
were, in truth, the law. She bad steadily conti-
nued to refuse concessions of railways between
Holland and Belgium ; and was, in short, only in
appearance a liberal state. In reply to this dele-
gate a second Dutch representative rose, and while
dealing effectively with the colonial policy of Hol-
land, and allowing that it was most faulty, begged
the Congress to believe that Holland was on the
high road to a veritable state of free trade.
The president then introduced Mr. Winkworth,
who appeared for the Society of Arts ; and after
having expressed a regret that Colonel Sykes could
not be present, and that it therefore devolved upon
him to represent the society alone, intimated that as
he could not freely express himself in French, a
friend of his would read a translation of his address
to the Congress. This address, in which Mr.
Winkworth went into a history of the Society of
Arts, and then glanced at its influence in involving
the great exhibitions of 1851 and 1855, included
statistics showing the progress of British manufac-
tures since the establishment of Free Trade.
Mr. Winkworth's address, at the conclusion of
which the Congress gave the honourable gentleman
three rounds of applause, was followed by a call from
the president for Mr. Hertz, a delegate from Ham-
burg.
This gentleman read to the Congress an amusing
paper, in which he explained that Hamburg was
necessarily a free port, since freedom was the only
advantage it could offer to the world. It was a
town that was also a state in itself, that had no in-
terior, no manufactures of its own to protect. But
there were great abuses still in Hamburg. The
little bourgeois had not the privileges which the
great bourgeois enjoyed ' • there were still corpora-
tions of working men, with privileges that reminded
us of the middle ages.; there were closed trades, as
the bakers and brewers ; and there was the octroi
which levied enormous duties on the food of the
citizens. The delegate concluded by hoping that
Hamburg would get rid of her errors, and that
the world would soon enjoy the commercial
freedom which was the only attraction to foreign
nations. The amusing manner in which this dele-
gate put his case, and more especially the contrast
he drew between a little bourgeois and a great
bourgeois, elicited frequent bursts of laughter.
M. Cherbuliez, delegate from Switzerland, then
addressed the Congress, in explanation of the Swiss
tariff, upheld, according to the Speaker, simply to
repair the roads—neither the cantons nor the
federal government being able to pay the cost of
maintenance. Before 1848 goods entered the Swiss
territory free, but then they were liable to tolls
that often prevented them from reaching Central
Switzerland. This was the justification of their
tariff. The speakerthen entered into details on the
manner is which the tariff was arranged. Its ob-
ject was to lay the high duties on articles of luxury ;
but no native industry was specially protected.
The meeting rose before half-past four o'clock.

THE AMERICAN CRISTh.

(Front the _Daily News.)

The more serious the news from America becomes the
more necessary it is that English opinion should not be
misled or perplexed by the misrepresentatlsns or mere
ignorance of journalists, who ought to have more ho-
nesty or more knowledge than they have yet shown in
their treatment of the existing American crisis. We bad
oco ,sion last week to point out some absurdities put
forth by the Times. There have since bean more and
worse—in the review of "Dred." and in the leading
article of last Saturday. It seems to be the aim of the
Times to make its readers believe that there has been a
pitched battle on the political ground of Congress ; and
another, of the physical force kind, on the soil of Kansas.
This leading assumption is entirely untrue. The aggres-
sive party has made its onslaught, 'after halt a century
of express preparation ; and the other party receives the
attack as a summons to collect and organise its forces,
and gird itself up for the conflict, which is now to begin
in earnest.

First, as to the political struggle. The Southern elec-

tions have for many years been onducted with the sole
view of sustaining slavery, and overpowering the num-
bers and the energies of the North ; whereas, the North-
ern elections have had every conceivable aim rather
than that of attacking slavery and humbling the South.
With the exception of a very few constituencies, the
North has carefully chosen men who would nut trouble
the South and imperil the Union ; so that Congress has
in fact represented the pro-slavery element of Northern
society almost exclusively. The most thorough aboli-
tionists, indeed, abstain from voting ; and thus, not only
is Congress the representative of a state of opinion of
soma years' standing, but it is the exponent of only a
special element of public opinion on this particular sub-
ject. By one of those apparent accidents which open
the sluices unexpectedly of ail revolutions, it was dis-
covered last winter that there was anti-slavery force
enough in one House of Congress to resist the insults
and aggressions of the South, and the immediate conse-
quence was, the election of Mr. Banks to the Speaker's
Chair. A very fair resistance has been made for sew.•
ral months, considering the inferiority in numbers of th•
Republican members ; and that the President has met
with any check at all from the federal legislature is quite
as surprising as that free trade measures should make
progress in an European Parliament returned under a
Protectionist Ministry for Protectionist purposes. No
doubt it is abundantly disgraceful to the Northern con-
stituencies that they should not have ma to this great
question the first instead of the last in their political
programme ; but, as a matter of fact, it has hitherto
been so, and it can never b 3 so again. The struggle is
now forced upon them; they cannot evade it ; they no
longer think of evading it ; and the world will be shown,
through the whole series of the coming elections, what
their strength really is. Meantime, they have not yet
been beaten ; for they have not yet gone out to the
political war. A few members of Congress made a
stand in a tentative spirit, and on a special occasi u.
The scouts have given the alarm ; but the battle is
not yet begun. The marshalling of the forces looks
well thus far. Maine is the first New England State
which can :influence the results of its elections, and
the ether New England States usually follow its lead.
The tidings from Maine are unexpectedly good. None
hoped for more than a bare success for the Republican
candiate for the office of Governor, and few expected
that much, but Mr. Hamlin, the Republican candidate,
has been elected by a majority of 11,000. As Maine
leads New England, and the New England States lead
the whole Nortb, it is reasonable to anticipate the irre-
sistible preponderance of the Republican party, and an
anti-slavery strength in Congress proportioned to the
numbers, the education, and the wealth of the North,
and the importance of the vindication of its free labour.
As for the military conflict, in which the Times as-
sumes the North to have been vanquished by the South,
there has been no such measuring of strength. It is not
true that the " vehementspirite of the pro-slavery and
anti slavery parties went to Kansas to fight out the'
quarrel. The pro-slavery force there in part consists of
bands of so-called immigrants, who have gone with—
not ploughs, teams, seed, and cattle—but rifles, revolvers
and bowie-knives. ,They are, truly enough, the vehement.
spirits of one party, but they are far outnumbered by the
ruffians of Ow Missourian population, who, living at
hand, have crossed the frontier for marauding purposes.
To these two elements of the pro-slavery population in
Kansas must be added the federal soldiery, sent by the
President to take the side of the slave-power, for, his
own personal objects. To meet this composite force what:
troops has the anti-slavery power sent to Kansas 1 None
whatever. The free-settlers of Kansas have been bona,
fide immigrants, carrying with them wives and children,.
farming stock and utensils, or tradesmen's wares. Those
who did not go on their own resources. were despatchedi
by the Emigrant Aid Society ;—aspeculative association
organised for purposes of gain. When the immigrants
were found to be exposed to injury from Southern ma-
rauders and border ruffians, certain citizens, individually
or in companies, sent them arms, ammunition, and
other resources, and organised more bends to follow
them. These were intercepted--the arms and sup-
plies given to the marauders ; the men and women
turned back after being stripped ; and the ferries
stopped and rivers guarded to prevent all ac-
cess to the territory. A new route has recently
been organised, out of reach of the Missourians; but it
was not available prior to the late conflicts.

Thus, instead of "vehement spirits," leaders of anti-
slavery enterpt lee, the free•soil party iu Kansas consisted
of disarmed and plundered immigrants, cut off from aid
and reinforcement by the interposition of Missouri be-
tween them and the free States. To speak of this as a
first victory in the sectional warfare now beginning is
as ab urd as it would be to say that Greece is conquer-
ing Turkey because a party of brigands has routed a
company of merchants or drovers. Nobody doubts what
the result would have been if any kind or amount of
pro-slavery force had invaded any one of the free States,
from Illinois to Maine. But the free settlers in Kansas
did not go there as soldiers bnt as industrial adventurers.

Tio,y obje-..i but t.Tr.
making their fortunes ; and, losing their game, the
speculators have been shot as abolitionists. None knew
better than they that abolitionism bird nothing to do
with their enterprise, and that it never received any aid
rr furtherance from the abolitionists. The North has
yet to show what it can do, in the military as in the
political field. When it is remembered that of the
tw.:nty-six 'milieus of the United S.atee' population hem
than half a million are slaveholders, and that those slave-
holders will scarcely suffice to restrain their own slaves,
1:1 case of commotion, there can be no serious doubt in
any man's mind as to who will conquer when it once
c ones to fair fighting.
The inequality is so prodigious that it can hardly be
seri .usly supposed that the South will encounter the
enemy it has roused. The most conservative, ease-loving,
apathetic, and timid of No: them cAizens are fairly stir-
red at last. The corning elections wili be toe first evidences
of their awakened vigour, and the next necessity will be,
apparently, for the South to caoose between the only two
courses open to her ---session from the Union, cr soh-
inissior, to the primitive coi.ditions of Union, d veloped
to meet modern requireolent'. 'rile first can scarcely
praw.icable, for two reasons among otter.: that ti e
North can interdict and prevent the eecission, it it so
pleases; and that (as the South w.-11 knows) it is only her
connexion with ;he anti-slavery North which preserves
her from a servile war. If she cuts the cable, the n-xt
hour the crew will rise, throw their tyrants overboard,
and sail to rejoin the fleet. No Southern newspaper says
this, nor probably any Northern one ; but every man—
north, south, east, and we it—knows it.

The reviewer of " Deed" in the Times exhibits an igno-
rance, geographical and historical, which is perfectly
astonishing when he pleads, on behalf of the South, the
concentration of the negroes there. He says the Nor-
thern States posted their negroes into the Middle States;
and that these last are emptying themselves into the
Soathern. So far from this being the case, the North has
sent no negroes southwards. The tendency is all ti e
other way. The coloured population of the North is
abundant and prosperous beyond what European tra-
vellers have any means of witnessing. The census in-
forms us that their numbers do not diminish, even now,
under the atrocious legislation of recent years, and not-
withstanding the large emigration to Canada and foreign
shores. Travellers see only hotel waiters and shoeblacks;
and they o include the " niggers" to be few, and employed
only in menial occupations, unaware of the merchant and
sbopkeeping class in which the real development of the
social qualities of the race is to be seen. The North bas
its "niggers" living at home at ease, and has not de-
ported them, as the Times reviewer asserts. The Middle
States—by which we must suppose the reviewer to Meal'
the impoverished States, in which slavery no longer
answers—do certainly send a great number of slaves to
the South ; but it is not their own plantation hands
that they send, but a new progeny, bred for purposes of
sale. A stock farmer does net rid himself of his stock-
in-trade when he sends a drove of cattle to the fair.
Finding tillage unprofitable, he turned grazier ; and the
stock he sends to the fair were bred for the purpose, and
constitute his means of gain. Thus it is with Virginia
and the rest of that group of States. The South has to
deal only with the slaves she chooses to purchase and
rear. Having chosen an unprofitable mode of living,
through which she finds herself falling behind the world
from year to year, her last desperate chance is to ste-p
the conipetition of free labour with slave labour by en-
grossing the area of production, and hedging in the
numbers and enterprise of the North. Her programme
to this effect is before us, and we may perhaps present
it to our readers some day soon. We need not show
why the project is as hopeless as it is desperate. Our
present purpose is simply to warn all who take an in-
terest in American affairs against supposing that any
"victory" in " fair fight" has been obtained by the
slave power. Ttie North is stirri,g, but it has not ye,
taken up a position in either field—of politics or civil
war.

Sporting Intelligence.

PONTEFRACT RACES.-TIIESDAY.

The Tradesmens' Plate of 30 Bove, added to a Sweep-
stakes of 5 soya each. Two-yr-olds, 7st ; three, 9st.
From the Wood end, three quarters of a mile.
_ _ _ _

Mr. Sidney's Sister to Nancy, 2yrs (30/.) (Withington) 1
Mr. Osborne's Walhalla, 2 yrs (301 ) (Challoner) 2
Polish (late Painter) and Perjury also ran.
Won easy. The winner was sold for 401.

The Stand Plate (Handicap) of 40 sovs, for three-year
olds and upwards. One mile and a quarter.

Mr. Sidney's Excitement, 4 yrs, 6st (Withington) 1
Mr. E. Gill's Bourgeois, 6 yra, Bst 71b (Aldcroft) 2
Thy following also ran :—L'Addio, Alfred, and King
Brian.

Betting—Even on Bourgeois, 3 to 1 agst Excitement.
Won by a length.
The Innkeepers' Plate of 25 soya, added to a Sweep
stakes of 5 soya each ; for all ages, with certain allow-
ances, &c., one mile, was won by Mr. Robert's Yeutick,
beating Victory and Biron.

The Cup Stakes (Handicap) of 5 Boys each, with 100
sovs added by the members for the borough, for all
ages. The second horse to receive 20 soya out of the
stakes. One mile and a half.

Mr. Sidney's Excitement, 4 yr-t, 101 b (Witbington) 1
Mr. Andrew's The Martlett, 3 yrs, sst 41b.„(Bullock) 2
Lord Alfred, Catherine Parr, and The Scotehman
als.) ran.

I3etting-5 co 4 on Lor I Alfred, 5 to 2 agst Excitement,
Gto 1 agst Tite Martlett. Won by a head. An objection
was lodged by the owner of Lord Alfred against Excite.
ment and Martlett for crossing.
Tire Scurry Stakes (Handicap) of 3 goys each, with 20
added, for all ages (three quarters of a mile) was won by
Mr. C. Marson's Typhon (Forster), beating The Med-
way, Lady of the Lodge, Yeutick, Peto, and Game
Pullett.

CESIBEWITCH AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE STARES.—
YOUATT GRAY's advice for the above events is
now ready. Lance for the Portland Stakes, at Doncas-
ter, and eleven tiler winners is something extraordinary,
but the advice on the above races will astonish all, as
1,000 to 1 can be obtained about the double event. I
am positive one, if both, does not come of. Recollect, I
named Mr. Sykes and Crown Pigeon last year (first and
second). Apply early, or the long price will be lost
Terms : ---To the Cambridgeshire, 7s. 6d. ; one week,
ss. ; single race. 2s. 6d. ; to the end of the season, 10s.
6d,—Address, 15, Charing•cross.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.

It appears that considerable interest is felt in Canada
respecting the intended opening on the let of Oct. of the
section of this line from Brockville to Toronto, a diseance
of 210 miles, which, with the exception of the Victoria
bridge, will complete railway communication by the
Grand Trunk line from Toronto to Portland. It is also in-
tended to open the section from Guelph to Stratford (29
miles) at the same time; tnus completing, with the 63
miles from Toronto to Guelph opened on the Ist of July
last, 92 miles to the west of Toronto. The opening of the
above sections will complete 850 miles of railway be-
longing to the Grand Trunk Company. Owing to the
capabilities of the harbour of Portland for acoom-
tnodating very large steamers, the Canadians ex-
pect much benefit from the establishment of a
line of steamers from Liverpool and the west of
Ireland to Portland in connection with the Grand Trunk
Railway. The company have also a railway from the
main line at Richmond to Quebec, so that, whether
Quebec or Portland be chosen as a packet station, the
Grand Trunk will convey a large portion of the traffic
through Canada to the west, and vice versa. The 92
miles of new railway to the west of Toronto, and the
210 miles about to be opened to the east of it, will com-
plete railway communication from Stratford to Brock-
ville, a distance of 302 miles. This, with the section from
Brockville to Montreal, 125 miles, opened last Novem-
ber, will make a continuous line of railway 427 miles in
length, from Montreal to Toronto and Stratford.

GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND.
The extension of this company's line from the present
terminus at Huntly to Keith i 4 nearly completed, and
it is intended to open it for traffic on the let of October.

The Sheriffs' inauguration dinner will take place at
the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on Tuesday
next, the 30th inst., and will be carried out on a scale of
almost unprecedented splendour. The number of guests
invited by the sheriffs elect, Messrs. Mechi and Keats,
amounts to upwards of 200
ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY.—The prcspectus
has been issued of the Oriental Inland Steam Company,
with a capital of 250,0001., in 101. shares. The object
is to establish an extended system of navigation on the
rivers of India, especially the Ganges, Indus, and Gotia-
very, a,cl the mode proposed is to to employ steamers to
tow trains of flat barges constructed for the service. The
board of direction comprises several persons who have
filled influential positions in connexion with public in-
provements in India. For many years the cultivation
of a traffic of this description has been advocated as
likely to achieve, in proportion to the expenditure re-
quired, results even far greater than those to be antici •
gated from railroads, and such experiments as have
already been tried seem to demonstrate that under
proper management there could be little doubt of satis•
fao ory returns.

We understand that the directors of the Crystal Palace
Company have received, by letter, a confession from their
absconded clerk, Win. James Robson, in which full par-
ticul rs are given of the manner and extent of his frau•
dulent dealings with tne company's securities. The share-
holders will be glad to learn that the amount of the
frauds to which the delinquent confesses does not greatly
exceed that already publi•sbei. He alleges that his first
embarrassments arose from an imprudent advance to a
relative, and that they were subsequent v ag4ravated by
unsuccessful speculations. If we are rilhtly informed,
he also expresses willingness to devote his remaining
funds towards the reduction of the losses inflicted by his
malversations. Even if such an offer be bona fide made,
however, it is difficult to see how the company could
•entertain it, for they could not be parties to the coin
pounding of the grave offence with which their dishonest
servant is charged. His hiding place is bei?ved to be
somewhere in London. The ()phi to is universally ex-
p ressed that the company are bound, both in law and
equity, to make good to their utmost extent the losses
su stained by innocent parties through the fraud of the
CeL 2pAny's recognised officer. The securities irregularly
iris ted, cornpxsing both ordinary and preference stock,
con sist of shares which had been left in the company's
cuss ;ody, with a view to their safe keeping. by the re-
spe( !rive proprietors, Robson having obtained access to
the box in which these shares were deposited, proceeded
to p pt them into circulation.—Daily News.