An Incident of Exster Hall.
--A letter from London (July 3d) to an English gentleman' now adjourning in Richmond, says--"Anderson, the negro, is one of the great attraction at present.
He was presented with a of English soil last night by Mr. Harper Twelvstress, the unsuccessful candidates for Maryl. The Rev. Hugh Allen t had blows with a gentlemen, and the Daily Telegraph' was rightfully abused."
s prevented Mr. Venable from devoting as much personal attention as he would have desired to this good work; but those to whom he entrusted it have done it much better than he could possibly have done.
The patriotic charity of the women of North Carolina is fully appreciated by the soldiers, and "the blessing of God, which maketh sick and addeth no sorrow therewith," will fill their hearts with joy.
To the sick soldiers of North Carolina who may hereafter come to Richmond, Mr. Daniel H London will give his attention, and direct as many of them to the Sycamore Hospital as can be received into that institution.
They will there find in the pastor of the church, the Rev Mr. Pet , his associate superintendent, John P. Dickinson, Esq, and the pious ladies of his congregation, together with the aid of an intelligent committee and an excellent physician Dr. Snead all the appliances necessary for sick and suffering strangers — In the name of North Carolina, our thanks are tendered to tha
A Spunky Tenant.
--A late London paper contains the following advertisement: "A gentleman who is about to leave the house in which he resides, and being desirous to return it to his landlord in the same condition in which he found it, will pay a fair price for five hundred full-grown rats, an acre of poisonous weeds, and a cart-load of rubbish; the weeds to be planted in the garden; the rubbish left on the door step, and the rats suffered to run loose through the house.
Address,"&c.
Mr. Yancey.
Hon. W. L. Yancey, has written a letter from London to the editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, saying that if elected by the Legislature as Confederate Senator from Alabama, he would serve in that capacity.
His letter concludes as follows:
If I cannot finish my mission here, or shall not be honorably recalled before the 1st January, I shall ask the President to recall me. I came here reluctantly, at his request — at great personal and pecuniary sacrifice — which I cannot continue longer than then, as long as the country has so many able men who can supply the vacancy to be made by my retirement
nce more the validity of paper blockades.
Short time in the Stockport Mills. [From the Stockport (Eng) Advertiser, Oct. 17]
As we anticipated, the fruits of the present partial working are thus early beginning to exhibit themselves, for in those parts of the borough where the machinery of the mills has positively ceased to run, the hands are driven to the necessity of seeking temporary existence for themselves and children by supplication for relief.
Interesting letter from London.
The Washington Republican, of the 29th, publishes several interesting extracts from a private letter written by a gentleman in London to a gentleman in that city, from which we extract the following:
The news of the disaster at Lexington has just reached us. I will not stop to say what you know already — that it has deeply afflicted me. I send you the Times, chronicle, and Telegraph, with leaders on the subject, that will let you know what is thought of that defeat over here.
But
trade of the country has undergone no very material change since our last report.--Dullness is still prevalent, and while it is evident that the trade generally is not worse, it is difficult to say that it has improved.
At Bradford there has been a moderate demand for home requirements, but as regards the continental trade, the result of Leipsic Fair is writed for before it is considered prudent to enter upon large transactions.
The iron trade of Wolverhampton is but partially supported, although the probability of an early demand from North America is generally indulged in.
The Nottingham market for goods and yarns has advanced considerably, and the demand for hosiery has been very brisk.
A very active demand in the Leeds woolen cloth market is noticeable.
It is said that London houses received large orders from country tailors and drapers.
The French treaty has had the effect of giving rise to considerable shipments of Manchester goods on French account.
een an informal conversation between him and the proper Department concerning it. Those who are intimately acquainted with Lord Lyons believe that in this as in other matters he has observed his usual discretion in refraining from premature expressions of opinion.
Important advices from England — her Relations with the United States, Etc.
"Ion," of the 22d inst., has correspondence from Washington in the Sun, from which we make the following extract:
Advices were received from London by the last packet from the leading American bankers, Mr. George Peabody and Mr. Bates, stating their own opinion to be that the British Government is desirous of preserving peace with the United States, and that it will not recognize the Confederate States, nor attempt to raise the blockade of their ports.
Some hesitation in business is caused in Boston and New York by an apprehension that the British Government will resent the arrest of the ministers Messrs. Mason and Slidell. Stocks
ia regiment in all, about five thousand five hundred men. General Benham had the Tenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and five hundred men from each of the Thirty-seventh and Forty-fourth Ohio regiments; in all, three thousand two hundred men. The boys returned to camp in high glee, and now demand to be sent to Kentucky or the Potomac, where they can find something to fight.
for the South shipped from England--Tiations for vessels.
George Francis Train, of Boston, has written a letter from London, in relation to the shipments of cannon, rifles, and ammunition fire.
Explained by the Southern Confederacy He states that besides the valuable cargoes army and ammunitions of war which have to the Confederates by the and Fingal, the Gladia old bon screw steamers at a few miles below cargo of arms and munitions next day for Ten The estimated value of and it comprises every the equipment, so far as of an army of 25,000 all the parties concerned given, as well as those officers
was made.
And the extraordinary delay which attends the movements of Lord Lyons finds a very satisfactory reason in the supposition that Mr. Adams has been already charged to present the whole case to the British Government at London."
The New York Post, of the 24th inst., says:
A private letter from well advised sources at Washington represent that certain interviews took place between Lord Lyons and Seward immediately after the Trent affair, and that their respective letters to London at that time were based on a disavowal of any knowledge on the part of our government, that such a capture was to take place, and a disavowal of all purpose to insult the British flag.
This has delayed the presentation of the peremptory-demand of the British government, which came out on the Europe.--Further advices from London will therefore probably be a waited.
A special dispatch to the Post from Washington gives a rumor that the Cabinet have resolved to release Mason and Sildell, a
een engaged in buying up all our purchasable means of offence and defence, after a fashion that Charles Dickens would describe as "wholesale, retail, and for exportation." By much or by little, whatever was to be obtained for money was about to be purchased and shipped for America.
Within the last ten days an agent of the Federal Government is understood to have bought up three thousand tons of saltpetre, the chief component of gunpowder; and this was so much more than the whole amount that London could supply that the American agent, we believe, was obliged to complete his commission by contracting with manufacturers of this commodity in the provinces.
The export of these three thousand tons was arrested by the former proclamation, probably just in time.
Mean while, however, the American government had been purchasing small arms on a scale somewhat less vast, or with so much more discretion, at least, that the fact had not become notorious.
But the necessities of the Washingto
