The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-11 00:00:00

CORK-OCT. 9.

The following were the quotations this morning :—lted
moheat, 18s Od to 27s 6d ; white, 228 Od to 31s Od; barley 108
Od to 17s 6d ; oats, 8s Od to 14s 3d.

EDINBURGH GRAIN—OcT. 9.

Wheat on the top Os Od up average is ld up.
Barley on the top Os Od down ...average Os 2d down.
Oats on the top Os 3d down average Os 7d down.
Beans on the top is Od up.... average is 8d up.
Averages per Imperial quarter.
Wheat....
New wheat 0 0 0 0-12ths
Barley 1 14 0 9-12ths
Oats 1 8 5 0-12ths
Beans . 2 10 8 9-12ths
Total Supply and Sales.
Wheat........ 1197 qrs Sold 1081-gra
Barley... 1796 qrs Sold 1474 qrs
Oats 1437 qrs Sold 1188 qrs
Leans lO2 qrs Sold 52 qrs

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Manager.
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BANK OFDEPOSiT.
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Prospectuses and Forms for Opening Accounts sent free
on application.
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V. R.—ARMY CONTRACTS.
Commissariat,
ber South Camp, Aldershot,
Octo 10, 1861.
TENDERS will be Received at this Office until
Noon on Monday, November 4 next, from Persons
who may be willing to enter into Contracts to Supply
FLOUR FOR HOSPITAL BREAD,
in such quantities as may be required, from December 1, 1861,
to May 31,1882, for the use of her Majesty's Land Forces sta-
tioned at
ALDERSHOT CAMP,
And within the Command.
Forms of Tender, and Conditions of Contract, may be ob-
tained on application at this Office, by letter or in person,
between the hours of Ten and Four o'clock.
Tenders on the printed forms must be prorerly filled up
and signed, and delivered at this Office, under closed enve-
lope, marked on the outside "Tender for Flour for Hospital
Bread," and no Tender will be noticed unless made on Forms
obtained from this Office.
(Signed) ALFRED SELWEY,
Deputy Commissary-General.

V. R.—ARMY CONTRACTS.
Commissariat,
tober South
10 Camp, Aldershot,
Oc, 1861.
TENDERS will be received at this Office until
Noon on Monday, November 4, 1861, from persons who
may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply
FLOUR AND MEAT,
in such quantities as may be required, from December 1,1861,
to May 31, 1862, for the use of her Majesty's Land Forces at
ALDERSHOT CAMP,
And within the Command.
Separate Tenders are required for Flour and for Meat.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on application at this Office, by letter or in person, be-
tween the hours of Ten and Four o'clock.
Tenders on the printed Forms must be properly filled up,
and signed, and delivered at this Office, under closed enve-
lope, marked on the outside "Tender for Commissariat Sup-
plies," and no Tender will be noticed unless made on Forma
Obtained from this Office.
(Sic,rned) ALFRED SALWEY,
Deputy Commissary-General.

V. R.—ARMY CONTRACT.
Commissariat, South Camp, Aldershot,
October 10, 1861.
..FIAI-4ED TENDERS will be received at this
Office until Noon on Thursday, November 7 next, from
persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for the
supply of
PAILLASSE STRAW,
AND STRAW FOR ROYAL ENGINNER SERVICE,
in such quantities as may be required from Ist December,
1861, to 30th November, 1862, for the use of Her Majesty's
Land Forces stationed at
ALDERSHOT CAMP,
and within the Command.
Printed Forms of Tender, together with the Conditions of
contract, may be obtained on application at this Office be-
tween the hours of Ten and Four o'clock, where every infor-
mation which may be required on the subject will be
inrnished.
The Tenders must be mule on the Printed Forms, which
should be properly filled up and signed, and delivered under
sealed invelope at the above-mentioned office, marked outside
" render for Army Supplies," before noon on the 7th proximo.
No Tender will be noticed unless made on Forms obtained
from the Office.
(Signed) ALFRED SELWEY,
Deputy Commissary-General.

ANNUITIES.

NATIONAL-KSSURANCE AND
INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION,

3, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 17 Vic, cap. 43.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1814.

IMMEDIATE ANNUITIES granted on very favourable
terms.

The Tables for Reversionary and Deferred Annuities arc
particularly deserving of attention, whether regarded as a
means of providing for a particular individual, or as a re-
source against the casualties of age and the uncertainties of
health and fortune.
PETER. MORRISON, Managing Director.
Prospectuses sent free on application.

THE INDUS STEAM FLOTILLA
The Directors are prepared to receive applications for
DEBENTURES, at par, bearing interest at 5 per cent. per
annum, guaranteed by the Secretary of State for India in
Council.
The Debentures are for five years, and may be renewed for
a further term of five years, at the same rate of interest.
The Debentures may be converted into Indus Steam
Flotilla Capital Stock at the option of the holder.
T BMUS BURNELL, Secretary.
Indus Steam Flotilla Office, Gresham House,
Old Broad-street, Sept. 25, 1861.

ADTOWSON.—PREEHOLDS UPTON AND ROTHERS-
THORPE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
Tro BE SOLD, pursuant to an Order of the
High Court of Chancery, in a cause of Donaldson v.
Fairfax,With the approbation of Vice-Chancellor Kindersley,
in Five Lots, by Messrs. Holloway and Son, at the George
Hotel, Northampton, on SATURDAY, the 2Gth day of Octo-
ber, 1861, at Three o'clock in the Afternoon, very valuable
Freehold Estates, situate at Upton and Rothersthorpe, in
the county of Northampton, consisting of 374 Acres of Land,
Water Mill. and the perpetual Advowson and Right of Pre-
sentation to the Vicarage of Rothersthorpe, part of the
Estates of the late Sir Thomas Samwell, Barone
Particulars and conditions of sale, with plan, may be had
gratis of Messrs. King and al`Millin, No. 4, Danes-inn, St.
Clement's, Strand, London, solicitors ; at the George Hotel,
Northampton ; the Swan Hotel, Bedford ; the George Hotel,
Huntingdon ; the Royal Hotel, Kettering ; the Angel Hotel,
Market Harboroug,h ; the Spread Eagle, Rugby., the White
Hart Hotel, Leicester ; the Crown Hotel, Leamington , and
of the Auctioneers, Pitsford, near orthampton.
EDWD. WEATNIIERALL, Chief clerk.

By post. Is.,
THE MEDICAL CONFIDANT on Midwifery,
pregnancy, the Disappointments in Marriage, and
other ailments peculiar to Ladies. Female Obstruction
Pills, ss. a box, post free. Address, Dr. Scott, 17, Adam-
street, Strand, London (since 1836). Consultations, 10 till 5.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
Patron—Her Majesty the QUEEN.
President—His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

N°. 21,616.

This Hospital relieves distress in its most helpless shape,
That of disease aggravated by destitution. With more ade-
quate funds the Weekly Board could make immediately avail-
able 500 beds for the relief of the large mass of suffering in
this metropolis. Its present resources, supplied entirely by
the Voluntary Contributions of the Public, enable it to afford,
in addition to its In-patients, effective Medical Assistance to
an average exceeding 2,000 Out-patients weekly.

PUBLICATIONS.

Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Ma -
terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ;
Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ;
Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and
Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and
Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.;• Overend, Gurney, and Co. ;
Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; Masterman and Co. ; and at
the Hospital.
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Chairman of the Weekly Board.

NEW BURLINGTON-STREET, OCT. 10.
FRANCATELLPS COOK'S GUIDE.
Price FIVE SHILLINGS.
THE NEW EDITION will be Ready on FRIDAY next.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CCXX.,
Is Published THIS DAY•

CONTENTS.
I. Shelley's Life and Character.
11. Life, Enterprise, and Peril in Coal Mines.
111. The Immutability of the Laws of Nature.
IV. Newton as a Scientific Discoverer.
V. Growth of English Poetry.
VI. Plutarch.
VII. Education of the Poor.
VIII. Alexis De Tocqueville.
IX. Adjustment of the Church-rate Question.
John Murray, Albemarle-street.

CHARLES READE'S NEW NOVEL.
t .rust out, In 4 vols., £1 lls. 6d.
" THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH."
A Fact Romance. By the Author of " It's Never
Too Late to Mend."
Trubner and Co., 60, Paternoster-row.

ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1862. The forty-
fourth 'thousand ; price Gd., contains :—Result of the
War in America. Louis Napoleon's Danger. Warlike
Doings in England. The Dc'usions of Dr. Cumming dissi-
pated, &c., tic.—G. Berger, Holywell-street, London; and
all Booksellers.

THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE
fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S
" GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES."
The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex-
perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in busi
ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive.
intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all
is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully
examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin-
ciples."

SIAUCE.-LEA AND PERRINS
vi beg to caution the Public against Spurious Imitations of
their world-renowed
WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.
Purchasers should
ASK FOR LEA AND PERRINS' SAUCE,
Pronounced by Connoisseurs to be
"TUE ONLY GOOD SAUCE."
*** Sold Wholesale and for Export, by the Proprietors,
Worcester; Messrs. CROSSE and BLACEWELL, London,
Ac. Ac., and by Grocers and Oilmen universally.

TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.—
Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS' and LIVER PILLS, pre-
pared without'any mercurial ingredient, from the red/ ie of Dr.
Scott, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious
and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness,
ditziness of the eyes, &a For habitual costiveness, as a fa-
mily aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they
are truly excellent ; mild in their operation and grateful to
the stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, and
strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W.
Lambert,
20, Jermyn-street, and by most druggists, in boxes, Ls. lid.
and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for
Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a
square green package, with " William Lambert," en grayed
on the stamp.

TOZEAU'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED
CAPSULES.—Copaiba and Cubeba are doubtless the
best remedies, but these drugs are of a repulsive taste and
odour, and occasion colicky pains, nausea, and gastric dis-
turbance. M. Jozeau has succeeded in rendering the se valu-
able therapeutic agents perfectly innocuous by increasing in
his Copahine all the curative properties. This preparation
has been adopted by the Paris Academy of Mediciiee, after
more than a thousand trials in Paris and the different Lon-
don hospitals, viz., St. Thomas's, Guy's, and St. Bartholo-
mew's, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and .Legros
Clark.—" Lancet," Nov. 6 and Dec. 10, 1857. The Copahine,
which Is in form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a cure
in about six days, either in recent or chronic diseases. 100
capsules, 4s. 6d. ; post free, ss. 2d. Post-office order required;
at .1. JOZEAU'S, French Chemist, 42, Haymarket, Lqndon ;
22, Rue St. Quentin, Paris ; and all the most importaiat
Chemists.

R. BRIGHT'S THREE DAYS' CURE.
—The most speedy remedy ever known.—The BUCHU
GLOBULES, containing the Quintessence of Cop. tiba, Cu-
bebs, Buchu, &c., at once cure, without the possibility of
failure, Gonorrhoea, obstinate Gleet, Stricture, and Urethral
Discharges, immediately subduing all in flammatory action ;
encased in sugar, free from taste or s TV_ -1, and adapted for
either sex. Price lls.; by post 12s. 6d., re from observa-
tion.
Prepared and sold only at the laboratory, 44A, Maddox-
street, Regent-street, W. (opp_osite the side of St. George's
Church), London, by RALPH BRIGHT, M.D., Member of the
Royal College of Surgeons, England, Licentiate of the Royal
College of Physicians, Edinburgh, &c., &c. ; author of
" NERVOUS EXHAUSTION," - -

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1861.
_ _

its cause and cure, with an Essay on Seminalogy. showinp;
the marvellous restorative powers of the newly-discovered
and wonderful remedy known universally as the Aplrrodi sion.
"As phosphorus in a state of nature illumines the darkness.
so the exhausted frame revives when impregnated with its
electrical properties." Price 2s. 6d., by post .2s. 10d..;
abridged edition 18., by post 14 stamps, from the residence of
the author (44A Maddox-street), where he may be Gaily con-
sulted, from 11 to 4, for the cure of the above dimases, to
which he has, for a lengthened period, devoted his exclusive
attention.

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
NVHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXIIIEITED IN TUE GREAT
Exurnmow or 1851), is allowed by upwards of Two
Hundred Medical Gentlemen to he the 'most effective
invention in the curative treatment of iiER N I A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects,
is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Moc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had,': and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
cumference of the body, twn inches below the hips, being
sent to the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is.
A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 528. 64. Postage, Is. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White,trost-
office, Piccadilly.

THE SL

"/ N 612 ON.

The Chicago Punt gives the following graphic
account of the battle of Lexington, furnished by
Alfred M. Tenny, of Chicago, a non-commissioned
officer, who was engaged in the fight, and whose
company, G, took part in every one of the many
brilliant charges
"On the Ist day of September the brigade re-
ceived orders to proceed to Lexington, to reinforce
Colonel Marshall, who had gone up about a week
previous to protect the Union men,-of that place.
But those who were not Union meni lmbracing
about all the population, were found too numerous,
and about 5,000 butter-nut-coloured rebels, under
General Hughes, being in the neighbourhood, Col.
Marshall sent down for reinforcements.

pLASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for
Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling, of
the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture,
and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking.
PriCC 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 169. each. Postage 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228,:Piceadilly.

" The brigade left Jefferson City on the Ist, and
arrived at Lexington on the 7th September, having
marched by land the entire distance, 160 miles.
We found there Colonel Marshall's Ist Illinois
cavalry, and Colonel White's Bth Missouri infantry,
from St. Louis, together with about 750 Home
Guards, under Colonel Peabody. The whole force,
including Col. Mulligan's regiment, was 2,700 men.
"The position where Colonel Marshall was en-
ealiPBe Bth
a wascalled Fort White ; Colonel White, of
the Missouri regiment, being in command
until the arrival of Colonel Mulligan, who super-
seded him. Intrenchments had been thrown up
on a rather small scale around the Masonic
College building, which served as a general store-
house and magazine.
•lir On the day after our arrival a contraband came
saying his master-
at Yorktown,
into cga
emn pe
ta
en
Joaskedn the
se e e
a protection,h
ar m y
about 15 miles from us. The enemy, we learnt
from him, were about 10,000 strong, under General
Rains. Our scouts confirmed this statement the
same day. Col. Mulligan immediately despatched
Lieut. Pease, of Company D, to Jefferson City for
reinforcements. Orders were also immediately
given to construct intrencbments, embracing an area
much larger than Fort White. The whole com-
mande
workedday and night, and on the 12th the
krather more than half completed. The
wr a
were
breastworks were 10 feet high, and the ditch sur-
rounding them about 14 feet wide. On that side
next the new town mines were constructed beyond
the ditch communicating with our position inside,
"Our artillery consisted of two brass six-pounders,
three iron six-pounders, and two six-inch mortars,
for which we had only about a dozen shells. We
also had but a small supply of round shot and musket
balls, but plenty of powder.
" On the 12th (Thursday), while we were still at
pickets—companies
y—were driven in.
Col. Mulligan immediately sent out companies B,
NAv or
nk
do
Cri tho
fe
An
ft raerisihe ha
IT
se n tesa,voaul rr
I, K, and G (Capts. Gleeson, . Dan Quirk, Fitz-
gerald, and Lieut. Wallace), to entertain the enemy.
The enemy's advance guard, about 5,000 strong,
were discovered in a corn-field on the top of the
bluff near Old Town. We immediately fired upon
them six volleys in rapid succession, killing about
600 of them before they could form in line. We
lost in this part of the battle S killed and 15
wounded.

.• .. ______
(i ' We retreated into our intrenchments, followed
byl the enemy, who brought six pieces of cannon
and commenced playing on the college building,
where our ammunition and all our provisions were
stared. We replied with all five of our guns,
giving them round shot and shell to their hearts'
content. The cannonading commenced about 3 p.m.,
and was kept up until dark. We used up all our
shells before dark. We silenced one of their guns
by knocking it to pieces, and killed, as we learnt
afterwards, about 75 of their men. We sustained
no injury at all, except in the using up our ammu-
nition. The action ceased at dark.
'"l'he enemy did not recommence the battle next
ir da ' , for the reason that his reserve forces had not
ye come up. We took advantage of the interim
to continue work on our intrenchments, working
daiand night.
After the battle of the 12th, in which the rebels
were repulsed, a second messenger, Lieut. Ryan,
was despatched to Jefferson City for reinforcements.
He left Lexington on the steamer Sunshine, which
boat was captured by the rebels on the way down,
and Lieutenant Ryan was made prisoner.

upon this battery. We were led by Colonel White
of the Missouri Bth, Colonel Mulligan being scarcely
able to walk. Colonel White and his men fought
bravely during the whole battle. Colonel White
is one of the bravest of men. Colonel Mulligan
relied more upon him than upon any other officer
of his command. In the last charge upon the rebel
battery, about 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon, he
was shot through the lungs, and died on Saturday
morning.
" Six different times during the siege the rebels
were allowed to approach the intrenehments on the
side next the city to the edge of the ditch. When
a regiment had got sufficiently near, our boys in-
side would explode a mine, sending them up into
the air and hurling them promiscuously in every
direction, slaughtering them by hundreds. Six/
mines were thus exploded under their feet, and
they evidently began to regard that side of the
entrenchments as a dangerous locality.
" Immediately after the charge in which Colonel
White was killed, Major Baker, of Colonel Pea-
body's Home Guards, planted a flag of truce on
the entrenchments. Colonel Mulligan immediately
ordered it to be taken down. It was taken down,
and the firing recommenced and continued until 4
o'clock, when Captain Graham, of the Home Guards,
again put up the flag of truce, and the whole force
of Home Guards left the trenches, refusing to con-
tinue the fight.

S, GREAT MARLBOROTJGH-STREET, W., NEAR
THE PANTHEON.
DR: CUL YERWELL, Member of the Royal
College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo-
thecaries' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as
above, on all cases of Nenicus
and allbi Delity,
ctional Languor,
erange incapacity,
Loss of Memory, Sterility, Fun Derangements
of both Sexes, emanating if= early and ;excessive
encesl
Has Just published, price ts. ;- by post, 1$ stamps;
18 scale.',

" We were out of water and out of ammunition ;
three of our cannon had been silent since the day
before, for want of shot ; our men had only six
rounds of ball left. The reinforcements we had
expected had not arrived, and we had reason to
believe they bad been cut off. It was evident we
could not hold out much longer.
" When the firing ceased the rebels sent in a flag
from their battery, and Colonel Mulligan sent
Major Moore to Price's headquarters. Price came
up in person and received the surrender.
" A day or two previously Price had sent a flag
of truce to us, and offered if we would surrender to
permit us to march out with our arms, but Colonel
Mulligan promptly refused the overture.
"The rebels took from us everything except the
clothes on our backs, and hurried us across the
river on Satudray morning. Tlio swords of the
officers were not taken away. Price said to Colonel
Mulligan that ho was too brave a man to be deprived
of his sword, and permitted him to retain it. Mul-
ligan wept like a child when he found he must give
up the battle which he had fought for four days
without ceasing against an army of 31,000 men.
" All the round shot we had were cast by our-
selves at an iron foundry in the city. We continued
this work until the rebels took possession of the
1 town.

PR1CE....... -.ld.
STAMPED

attacked Oceola, in St. Clair county, on Friday last,
and burnt the town by shelling it, and repulsed a
large force of rebels.
" There are said to be about 4,000 rebels in St.
Clair county, committing all kinds of depredations
upon Union men."

" The rebels had 15 or 16 cannon, and seemed to
be well supplied with ammunition, round shot,
grape, and cannister. Their small arms were prin-
cipally shot guns and squirrel rifles: They had
only a few muskets with bayonets, taken from our
troops at Springfield.
" During the entire time, from the battle on the
12th to the surrender on the evening of the 20th,
we neither saw nor heard of reinforcements. We
knew that General Raines, with about 10,000 men,
had been sent out to intercept and cut off any rein-
forcements that might be approaching from the
west and north-west, and we had reason to believe
that M'Culloch had forces near the river below us
for a like purpose. Had they not been intercpted
and whipped we could conceive of no good reason
why reinforcements had not arrived two or three
days before. We knew, or at least believed, they
had had ample notice of our situation. Two mes-
sengers had been sent to Jefferson City, but nothing
was heard from either of them afterwards.
" There is no truth, nor shadow• of truth, in the
statement published in certain newspapers, that
Colonel Mulligan, in reply to Priee's summons to
surrender, told him to 'Go to h—.' The first sum-
mons we had from Price was a cannon ball; the
reply to it was another.

No. 4,
An entire new and original Work, entftle4
OURSELVES.
Synopsis: The Physiology and Anatomy of our Gencatlon
—The Origin oebisease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure.
Also, an Exposition oi. and Remedy for, all Urinary Derellge-
ments and Marital Disq,:utlifloations,
MALE.
The modern treatment of Syphilla, Stricture, Blennorrhagla
(Gonorrhcea), Spermatorrluna, Impotency, and all Diseases of
the Urinary Organs, with Preh'eriptionS, &0.5
FEMA LE.
The Physiologry and Anatomy of Women—Functional Tr-
legvatitles in Health and Sloknetia—Choice in Marriage—
Their Expeetancies and Disappoilytments—Tbe Cause and
Removal of Sterility--The Theory aid Symptoms of Cleats-
tioe ir n
—Use of the Speculum. Also,
11FALTIT, HAPPINESS, and LONGEVIT Y ;
On Debility, Nervousness, Dislaepsia, and IncligastiON;

" On the morning of the 17th, we discovered that

TO THE EDITOR OF TITE TIMES.
Sir,—l observe in your paper of yesterday an
article on the Armstrong Gun, copied from the
Mechanics' Magazine, and, as you have made it the
subject of comment,
I am induced to point out the
misstatements made by the writer in the Magazine,
and also to offer some general explanations on the
points to which you refer.

we were completely surrounded by the enemy, who
had cut us off from the river entirely. His force
was six times greater than when the battle com-
menced on the 12th.

No. 2.
LOVE AND MARRIAGE :
Their Obligations, Uappiness and Disappointment 4;
nd other Matches. Sterility fr-
' Removed, and RealthY O
pring scoured.; Love

The allegations, you say, " take a distinct and
speciof
fc
thef o r mo.rd" Itan isce
Selectasserte d that,
Committee,un a
under
heavythe
g direc-
tionunwas recently tried to test rapidity of firing, that
four vent pieces were destroyed in 50 rounds, and
that the time occupied was eight hours. It is true
that a 40-pounder gun was last week tried at Shoe-
buryness for the above purpose by the committee,
and that 50 rounds were fired from it, but the time
occupied was only 57 minutes, and no vent piece was
broken or injured. The gun remained perfectly ser-
viceable at the close of the experiment,
\and the
metal did not become unduly heated as was alleged.
I will add that the time occupied in loading and
running up the gun was only 25 seconds per round,
the remainder being spent in laying the gun, which
was done with such effect that the target was rarely
missed, and had three times to be changed in cox-
sequence of being knocked over or destroyed.
A somewhat similar experiment with a 100-
pounder gun was subsequently commenced; but not
finished while I was present, and, although I have
not yet heard the result, I feel assured that had any
failure occurred it would have been communicated
to me. I know of no other trials of heavy guns lately
made by the committee to test rapidity of firing.
The next allegation concerns the shell. It is said
that 40,000 shells stored on the wharf at Woolwich
are undergoing an exfoliation of the lead from the
iron, so obvious as to be apparent on the slightest
examination. In answer, I may observe that the
attention of the Ordnance Select Committee -and of
the Superintendent of the Chymical Department in
the Arsenal has been of late especially directed to
the condition of these shells and that they have
been found free from deterioration. A report made
on the subject states that the appearance of rust on
the leaden covering of some of these shells had given
rise to the idea that oxidation of the iron wax going

"Neither is there any truth in the statement
that he refused to give up his sword when it
was demanded. His sword was not taken from
him, unless it was done after his men left the
ground.
" The statement that Colonel Mulligan challenged
Price to a fair fight, four to one, is false. Colonel
Mulligan had enough to do in conducting battle
like a soldier, and a brave one ; he had no time to
spend in ' buncombe' exhibitions of valour for the
benefit of sensation reporters,
" Colonel Mulligan displayed the greatest cool-
ness and bravery throughout. Both he and Colonel
White passed over the ground where grape and
cannister were flying in all directions, giving their
orders with as much coolness and consciousness of
what they were about as if there had been not the
slightest danger. Both led their men to the charge
against a storm of deadly hail such as few veterans
of the line have stood amid without quailing. Their
actions proved them to be men than whom there are
none braver. Both deserved a better fate, the one
being killed, and the otherwonnded and a prisoner.
" Before we left Claib Jackson made a speech.
He said we had no business in Missouri ; that ' we'
(meaning himself, it is supposed) would take care
of that State without our assistance, and that we
had better go home and mind our own business. All
of which we listened to with such patience as be-
came men who could not help it.
" General Price also had something to say as we
were formed in a line to be sent across the river.
He passed a compliment upon Colonel Mulligan's
command, by saying that they had been the hardest
troops to capture he had ever seen. In this he
could not have included the Home Guards.
" The Home Guards were not released, but held
as prisoners by Price, and it was rumoured that
some of ',them were to be shot as traitors to the
State."

forward, but that it was found to arise from small
particles of iron filings which, in the rolling of the
shells upon the floor of the workshops, had become
imbedded in the lead and stained the surface by

rusting.
As to leaded projectiles not admitting of use over
troops without the risk of casualties, the groundless-
ness of the objection has been repeatedly shown.
The simple fact is that the shell on bursting proves

" The battle recommenced at eight o'clock pre-
cisely, a signal gun being fired from General Price's
he 4d-quarters at the Court-house in the new town.
Thb firing then recommenced with artillery on
both sides.
" The enemy continued fighting from the 17th to
the 20th inclusive, night and day, without interrup-
tion. During this whole time we were without any
water except about 20 barrels in cisterns around
the college building. Most of this we had to keep
for hospital purposes. On the morning of the 19th
it rained heavily for about two hours, saturating
our blankets, which we wrung out into our canteens
for drinking.
" The rebels aimed most ©f their shots at the
college building, supposing our magazine to be
there, which it was at first ; but after the engage-
ment of the 12th we had removed it to a safer place.
During the nights we continued to throw red hot
shot at each other ; during the days the battle was
continued with both cannon and musketry.
"During the 17th (Tuesday) and the 18th, the
rebels made very poor progress, getting no nearer
to us than we found them when the battle begun. On
the 19th (Thursday) they commenced erecting
breast works of hemp bales, from behind which they
continued their fire, while they rolled the breast-
works towards us. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon
' of that day they charged over the intrenchments
upon Colonel Peabody's Home Guards, and planted
their flag upon the top of our breastworks. The
Irish Brigade were ordered to leave their position
on the opposite side, to retake the ground which
Colonel Peabody had lost. We fired on the run and
continued at double quick. The rebels scattered and
fled like a flock of sheep, but left the top of the en-
trenchments covered with their dead. We killed
about 500 or 600 in this single charge, and cap-
tured their flag. We lost about 30 killed and
wounded. They had no bayonets, and most of their
weapons were shot guns, and we did not give them
time to make use of even these. They fired only at
random. Colonel Mulligan received a buckshot in
the leg, which passed through the calf, laming but
not disabling him. He received six or seven balls
and buckshot through the green blouse he wore,
This was the end of the action on that day, except
the cannonading, which continued through the
night.

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more effective if the lead be not too adhesive, but
the lead may be made to hold with any degree of
tenacity that may be required.
With regard to " the important alterations" that
are said to have so far " regenerated" the 12-
pounder Armstrong gun that " the inventor himself
will hardly be able to recognise his own offspring,"
these are set forth in the following terms, which
would lead uninformed persons to believe that the
changes almost involved a new gun :—" The breech
tangent sight (the writer states) has to be altered
from steel to gun metal, and from a rectangular to
a hexagonal form, the upper portion being at the
same time completely remodelled, including the
leaf, crosshead, horizontal and vertical verniers,
elevating and deflecting screws. The ratchet has
undergone considerable improvement. The trun-
nion sight has been remodelled, while at the same
time it is secured to the body of the gun, instead
of being let through the trunnion. Considerable
improvement has been made in the dispart sight."
Now, every word of this applies to the sights, and
simply amounts to this—that I have improved their
construction.

The writer proceeds to state that " a change has
been effected in the elevating eye." If it has, it is
of so unimportant a nature that my memory fails to
recall it. He goes on to say, " the lever and tappet
pins have been altered." I confess to using split
pins instead of solid ones, if that be worthy of
notice. The next two items are a climax. It is
gravely brought forward in proof of my changes
that the lubricating wad is in future to be put in-
side instead of outside the cartridge, and that a
piece of string is to be attached to the shell plugs
for convenience of lifting.
The truth of the matter is that the 12-pounder
gun to which these remarks apply has undergone
no alteration whatever in form or dimensions since
its first introduction.
You remark that the vent piece appears to be a
weak point. This is perfectly true,, but the weak-
ness is one of construction, not of principle. In
determining the material and pattern of the vent
piece I have had to rely upon the experience
afforded by specimen guns ; but it is only by ob-
serving the regular course of practice on an
extended scale that the liabilities due to manu-
facture and service become apparent. Thus, steel
vent pieces which had endured trial of great
severity failed under ordinary use. Wrought-iron
has proved a much more suitable material, and
there is no difficulty in increasing the strength of
wrought-iron vent pieces to any extent by adding
thickness, the only restraint being the considera-
tion of weight. Up to the time of the recent experi-
ments on board the Trusty no instance of the failure
of a wrought-iron vent piece had been reported,
although they had been extensively used, nor has
any such failure of wrought-iron yet occurred in
the instance of the 100-pounder gun. There is
every reason to believe that the breaking of the
vent pieces in the Trusty experiments aroseitrom
special causes, and I have no doubt that by a very
moderate increase of thickness, and by improved
manufacture, as well as by elongating the cartridge,
so as to make it occupy the whole length of the
chamber, the liability to fail will be entirely ob-
viated.

The following despatches give additional particu
lars relative to the siege of Lexington :
" ST. LOUIS, SEPT. 25.
" Lieut. Harris, of Colonel Marshall's Illinois
Cavalry, who was in the battle at Lexington, ar-
rived here to-day. He says he disguised himself in
the uniform of the enemy after the surrender, and
passed through their lines, escaping without taking
an ` obligation.' He reports that a large amount
of gold, seven cannon, 4,500 rifles and muskets,
the equipments of Colonels Marshall's and Mulli-
gan's regiments, a number of waggons, and a con-
siderable quantity of provisions fell into the hands
of the rebels. There were but 2,200 engaged on our
side, the balance of the men being sick or absent
while the force of the enemy is stated at 30,000 en-
gaged, and 10,000 out on marauding expeditions.
" JEFFERSON CITY, SEPT. 26.
" A special despatch to the St. Louis Republican
says :—Colonel Daggart, of the 26th Illinois Regi-
ment, has arrived from Ostenili, where he heard
yesterday that Claib Jackson was advancing on
Booneville with 10,000 men, and Price was marching
towards Georgetown with about 20,000 men, the
army at Lexington having been divided for that
purpose.
" General Davis is in command of our forces at
Georgetown, where a large number of troops can
bo concentrated in a short time.
" The rebels were reported moving forward to
burn the Lemino-bridge again, but it was well de-
fended.
" Scouting parties were reported to be near Boone-
ville last night.
" General Siegel went west from here t d
a
Ryland o- ayh.ave
"Ex-Governor King and Judge
been released by the rebels.
" General Sturgis, with 1,100 men, reached a
point six miles from Lexington on the 19th, but,
learning that some 5,000 of Price's rebels were sta-
tioned in the woods skirting the river, waiting for
his approach, he touched to Liberty and thence to
Kansas city.
"Reports which are regarded as reliable say that
Ceiool Iviclutgomory, of Gemara' Imaeo command,

a act
controversy the
wis con-
cerned,hich I
It is impossible that a system of rifled breech-
loading ordnahce, with new forms of projectiles and
fuses, can be at once brought to full perfection in all
sizes of guns. The amount of detail involved in
such a system can hardly be realised, and it is not
surprising that some points remain incomplete. For
instance, I am at this moment anxiously engaged
Speol
point
tt
whichC o m-
m u
in settling points of detail connected with the use
cf cups for arresting the escape of gas from the
100-pounder gun. Nothing but a little time and
experiment is needed for this purpose, but in the
s Com-
mittee, jt ee
thinkce t,
who t o
ithhe aa
rvc
e oe nnt
fullyro ow l
ao
acquainted
eevrtgeir
thaiteaeeiOldnytrtedr d
raised.
every
withsvneecare .y
meanwhile some inconvenience must arise.
As to inquiry, I cannot have the slightest objec.
tion to it; but the fact is that the whole subject,
t. in far
ue
even to the minutest detail, is, and always has been,
I cannot
and,eo
soevery
ll ponarly.
fairly and temp
aht idacds been
raised,
should not have entered in this
upon
for the prominence given to
article.-- I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
W. G. ARMSTRONG.
London, Oct. 10.

" On the 20th the engagement continued, with
musketry firing at intervals. We fired hot shot into
their hemp-bale breastworks, hoping to set them on
fire, but we found they were saturated with water,
for IN hich purpose they were dipped in the river.
They came up in force to the top of the hill, when
the brigade left the intrenchments, together with
Company A of Col. Marshall's:cavalry, and charged,
upon them, driving them down the hill with great;
slaughter. In this charge the cavalry company was
entirely destroyed both men and horses being killed.
Colonel Marshall himself was in the college build-
ing with the Home Guards. The charge, like the
one of the day previous, was led by Colonel Mulli-
gan in person. The brigade lost in this charge
about 60 killed and wounded. The cavalry com-
pany received the whole contents of the enemy's
battery of six pieces, which swept them entirely out
of existence. But we drove the rebels from their
On
from
ot the he
(Friday).,fi eld
battery and spiked their guns, not being able to
take themn the
they brought up more
cannon to their hemp-bale battery on the hill.
Between AO and 2 Alec% we ramie three clitlrge§

a fitoighinrisdews otherher
em
hea g i.s
got
A CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY FINED SEVEN
POUNDS FOR FALSE SCALES AND WEIGHTS.—On Wed-
nesday, at the Rochdale Police .court, Hugh Bamford,
manager of the Thickfield Co-operative Store, appeared to
answer a charge of having in use at the store, two pairs of
scales out of balance, and 11 weights light. The case win,
proved by policeman Wilkinson, who stated that there was
not one weight on the premises in proper order. Bamford
said that the scales had been examined every fortnight at
the old premises, but this duty had been somewhat
einehg-
lected since they entered the new premises. The iv, g
It:
had all been adjusted in May. (To the Chairman, h
these.
Chadwick)—We have weighed all sorts of
at the market during the day, and b
~ We shall, for e a es,convict
traces the Chairman said,
costs ; and for the defective
in the highest penalty, £5 and
e think it necessa • that
r3the
weights, £2 and cost'?
for' Leeds M •
raw
thei
eg
rht
"marketE3 . A ft e
mr some
c r r,swev
went
nr
te 0
vr eemr
public should be protected. e) cury.
Eny OF X 2,000.—At the close of the RoBB a dealer from
Fal-
kirk Tryst, on Monday, Northumberland, who
had been engagedbecame
in tow with some ladies, who robbed him of h
pocket-
book, containingl2,ooo in cheques, bills, and is
money. There
was only about £4OO in money. The' police
po ice were communi-
cated with, but they hoe notyet cl'
or the money, at
or kFa