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Every day we hear of additions to the persons, and classes, and localities which are taking it up with sympathising activity. At Oxford, a town so little connected with manufactures, we find a public meeting convened, and £5OO subscribed in the room. At this meeting, we observe, its con veners hail procured the attendance of the Mayor of Blackburn—a circumstance we notice because of its general applicability. We all feel interested and assured by the statements of those who are personally acquainted with the state of things which we are called upon to relieve. The Gene ral Con2mittee would easily supply such ambassa- dors of charity to every important town in the kingdom, and their representatives would give a measure of confidence, which no speaking at second hand could do. Never, however, was there a case in which the old motto of the double worth of prompt charity was more applicable. And S. G. 0., as usual, is prompt with .his charitable pen for this purpose. Lord LINDSAY and his father have practically begun to call attentimi to this duty of the hour; since they, over and above a noble weekly donation, offer a large sum to take the clothing and bedding needed for the approaching cold weather out of pawn ; the Mayor of Blackburn mentions that the same thing has been done in Blackburn, a stamp being placed on the articles, which is to prevent the pawn brokers from receiving the same again in pawn, should extreme distress drive the possessors to sacri fice warmth to hunger. The fact which cannot i mpre ss us all t OD dee p ly, however, is, that it is much easier to prevent the commencement of the fatal effects of privation than to stay them when they have begun to operate. Hitherto the sickness and death has been little; but there is unmistakeable evidence that with the exhaustion of the smings of the operatives, the increasing ti me during which persons accustomed to good living have been reduced to a bar e subsistence, and the termination of the warm weather, we are now on the very threshold of those miseries which we all re member during the Irish famine. S. G. 0., writing from personal observation, says :—" When fanztra destroys life it may do so under two different ditions. Stoppage of all food, such as that we have read of in the case of the shipwrecked, brings on in a short time a train of symptoms which quickly end irt the mc,st horrible of deaths. The other condition is that, when food suffi cient, if not in abundance, gradually becomes di minished in quality, then in quantity, passing to still another stage, where it is not only altogether deficient in quantity, but also in the qualities neces sary each day to rebuild nature's waste, and thus provide for next day's life. On this stinting of Physical sustenance supervenes mental depression, causing loss of appetite ; thus there is indisposition to Partake even of that measure of food which, itself • insufficient, is still necessary to keep up some °)Elatonc e . Strange to say, at this stage of deP res ' °in mind and of gradual waste of body the suffer " "ornplai to oee ns but little, if at all ; there is ten dencyih.lax; rest, anyh o w, anywhere, yet little evidence o f of coulLuZlaiere is, however, to the skilled eye a cast aged boy ance unmistakeable ; the chil dren look their years; adults move and speak with g, gait and utterance which seem to shun all effort : ' This is the stage of suffering which, from all e xperience, fever finds its easy in state bilitated body and depressed 'victims ' Th e de bilitated readily suc cumb to what a healthier at would easily resist. But eves withoft diseaBe,this the syst em I experienced observer tells us what i s the sure, though slower , r esult of insufficient f oo d . fever,"he observes, "famine goes on t o run i ts well marked course, I write from what I and nry: o th er s saw, watc hed, and noted. With no rea l \ -y complaint developed, with little reil pain, th ere is an increase of lassitude in the adult, a want of all gy in the youn g; a species of patient, childish ener mas ters the whole sullen, hopeless de s p ondency man. You have atrophy n ow show i n g itself in many ways; the hair quits the head in patches, the un cles swell, the skin is bloodless', the ey e sunken ; at this stage food fails, medicine fails, care , o nnot rescue. _ ~‘ ;- z , ~,,Lbr, 'ice--,,,, , , ,•„4.... , ; , ,, , , t e , , .„,„,.......".._ __ 6 ," • 3i 0. 146)i THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVE'NE NG, NOVEMBER 7, 1862. It is a mere matter of time; few, if any, recover— back either on their own people or on the descendant few seem to wish it." This, as many will remem- of the BEAUHARNAIS, who, Greek by religion, bar, is but the reproduction of accounts we had would be acceptable to Russia, and not offensive to from those whom benevolence induced to witness France." As to all which we are scarcely disposed with their own eyes the horrors of the Irish Famine. for our own part to content ourselves with adding The practical conclusion with regard to the opera- simply, with an incredulous shrug of the shoulders, tives is that now is the time to prevent the rapidly Nous verrons. France is not yet the absolute arbi approaching evil. " Let this population get," says ter of Christendom. Her influence is large, doubt s. G. 0., " below a certain physical condition, and, less, in the councils of nations; but it is not para in my belief, the wealth of the world could not then mount. Agreeable enough to the reigning dynasty arrest destruction from tens of thousands of them. would it be of course to aid (in the absence of any They must have good and proper foo d, and enough of likelihood of advan c i ng th e Prince NAPOLEON to st ; they ought to have every possible means of such the crown of Greece) in investing with that diadem employment and recreation as sh all keep them, if the brow of the gran d so n of the Prince EUGENE not hopeful, at least free from over -depression ; for LEON 111. sometime Viceroy of VICTOR Em kingdom ! His Majesty thus only, should cold come on ftrhoemmw, chainchtthheeyrebise NAPO kept from fever, or the atrophy being himself the offspring of no recovery." the beloved sister of that same Prince EUGENE, ect We adverted to this subj yesterday, but we the fair and gifted Queen HORTENSE. But make no apology for returning to it again, backed even while admitting all these as probabilities, as:our yesterday's observations are by the appeals of we cannot at all regard as conclusively setting aside such an authority on this subject as S. G. 0. We the claim of H.R.H. the young Prince ALFRED, the i m pressed with the conviction that no simple consideration that such a selection is pro timeare ly stirseetgobe lost. The various relief committees hibited by the 1831 compact. Why, the Settle must be liberal. They must not think of husband- meat of 1831 has proved, after thirty tedious years' ing their money now in hand, but of using it to trial, to have been no settlement at all. The bond avert the present danger of allowing the physical is torn asunder, and the fragments of it are scat depression of the population to become a fatal one. tered to the four winds of Heaven. The settlement They must have faith in the results of urgent and of Greece will have now to be recommenced. It will universal appeals to supply the demands of the have to be arranged de nova. A new dynasty— future, and act emphatically on the divine lesson, chosen this time irrespectively of all former con that " snffieient to the day is the evil thereof." siderations—will have to be appointed. Greece—if Very probably the National Exchequer must be the principle of non-intervention has any signifi resorted to at last; if it be, the funds voted could cance at all—has a complete carte blanche in the hardly be entrusted to better management than exercise of this selection. If the popular will there that of the various committees, which by the time is to have any value whatever, there must be no Parliament meets will have served their appren- further talk of any kind, now in 1862, as there for ticeship in the practice of administering extraor- merly was in 1832, of this or that royal family being dinary relief. On this point, however, we would debarred from the privilege of having one of its offer a suggestion to our warlike Premier. We read scions chosen by the Greek multitude to be their of various employes, in different services, being Sovereign. called on to contribute " a day's wage " towards As another of our weekly contemporaries, the the Lancashire sufferers. It is often generously Examiner, reasonably enough remarks—" The case done by those who can ill afford it. We suggest to of the Greek succession has been frequently brought Lord PALMERSTON that the nation might contribute before the European Powers, but their representa a year's cessation of increased war expenditure in tives could never agree even upon the preliminaries time of peace. All England will, we think, agree of the question. It now comes before them in a that to stand as still as possible in naval and mili- peremptory manner, and it is to be expected the tary matters would be no loss to us whatever. If choice may be made without their participation. The we stop all enlistments in either service, fill up no Greeks have the example of Italian plebiscite be vacancies, lay down no new ships, proceed as slowly fore them, and they may hurry to a conclusion. The as possible with those we have in hand, leave off tendency to look abroad is not extinct. Even one of costly experiments, giving our inventors a year of the English princes has been named at Athens as cool meditation over their schemes—and above all likely to receive an offer of the throne of Greece." lay not a brick, or drive a pile for the forts, which The writer adding here bluntly, " The Duke DE we are not under contract to do—if we do these LEUCIITENBERG, proclaimed King of Greece things, we shall be only one year behind in the foolish under French and Russian auspices, would not race which an Emperor began, perhaps, but please us." Again we repeat—if there is to be any which an aged Premier persists in keeping up. A thing whatever attempted in the way of applying year later with preparations, certain not to be the principle of non-intervention to the approach wanted, can do us no harm. A year's neglect of a ing settlement of the affairs of Greece, by thePreeks population which our blockade system has starved, themselves, the latter must in reason be permitted would see thousands of them in their graves—and by the five Great Powers to choose their new would leave the remainder in a condition little fit monarch at their own absolute free will and pleasure to renew their accustomed industry when the crisis without let or hindrance, without a whisper being is over. We strongly urge therefore, that peace, heard of any prohibition whatsoever. except by our own fault, being as certain as any human expectation can be, the nation should con tribute one year's savings from a standstill naval and military budget, as soon as Parliament meets, PLYMOUTH, Thursday.—The ship Strathallan, 651 tons, Captain Isaac Paddle, belonging to Mr. Fother - ingham, London, has passed up Channel for the Thames. She left Tuticorin July 21, with 2,708 bales of cotton, 100 tons copper ore, 71 tons plumbago, 10 logs timber, and 25 tons coir yarn. She spoke, July 23, lat 450 N., long 79 9 E., the British ship Englishman, from Cardiff for Cey lon ; August 27, lat 34 57 S., long 23 30 E., the American ship Amity, from Moulmein; Sept. 3, lat 30 30 S., long 11 25 E., the British barque Earl of Mar and Kellie, from Simons Town for London ; Oct. 4, lat 12 26 N., long 28 25 W., the ship Latonia, 28 days from London, for Singapore, and the French ship Tonquin, 98 days from Calcutta, for Havre de Grace ; 20th, lat 36 30 N., long 36 26 W., the American ship Sarah March, 13 days from Boston, for Rio de Janeiro ; Nov. 1, lat 49, long 10 20, the American ship Robert Cashman, steering west; and 3d, off Portland. the Axaerte.... abip 44mticuaxl, uttaglattinifrep C'eararkaa— allan took her departure December 1, 1861, from the Isle of Wight for Swan River, whither she conveyed his Excel lency the Governor of Western Australia. She then dis charged cargo at Adelaide, proceeded to Colombo under charter, and eventually loaded a full cargo of cotton at Tu ticorin. _ . _ When the earliest intimation was flashed to us by telegram from the Piraeus, announcing the abrupt collapse of King OTELO'S Government, the thought that naturally enough sprang to mind upon the instant had reference to what some may regard as having been simply a coincidence, but what to our thinking is far more than a coincidence. Scarcely has the tomb :closed over the remains of , the late liberal minded and enlightened representative of English Majesty at the Court of Athens than the whole fabric of administration falls in to utter ruin ! The Right Hon. Sir THOMAS WYSE, during so many years past the watchful Minister at that Court in the name of the British Government, has hardly disappeared from the public scene into his grave, when the King and Queen whom he has been so long warning and guiding by his sagacious advice—being no longer aided and sustained by that advice—are flying powerlessly into exile. A more deserved tribute was never paid in our recollection to ateceased Servant of the Crown than that con tained in the following reference to these events; a reference gladly excerpted by us from a communi cation recently addressed to our chief morning con temporary by a correspondent evidently alive to the import of the whole situation—no less in regard to the past than in regard to the present :—" This may appear an exaggerated picture of Greece under a constitutional Government," writes this correspondent in the midst of his communica tion to our contemporary, " but it will The Court of Assizes of Bona (Algeria) last week tried an Arab, named Ali ben Arfa, for the murder of Fathma, the wife of a farmer named Abdallah, residing at Fedjoud, and for attempting to murder Abdallah him self. It appears from the indictment that, on the night of 4th Aug. last, Abdallah was awakened by cries for help pro ceeding from his wife's tent, on entering which he saw her lying on the ground, and over her stood a man who was stabbing her with a knife. Abdallah seized themurderer and threw him down, but was himself stabbed in the breast and was obliged to loose his hold. The assailant then fled, but Abdallah, though seriously wounded, pursued and overtook him, when he received a second stab in the abdomen, and fell down insensible. The inmates of a neighbouring douar, hearing the noise, hastened to the spot and found Fathma expiring and Abdallah in a swoon. The woman died without being able to utter a word, but her husband soon recovered, and accused Ali ben Arfa, his wife's cousin, as the assassin. When arrested, the prisoner protested that he had passed the whole night on the threshing-floor of the douar, in company with several others, but those persons all deposed that he had left them just after the moon went down, which was between eight and nine o'clock, shortly before the murder was committed. be confirmed by many Greeks, especially by those who recollect how firmly our lamented Mi nister, Sir THOMAS WYSE, asserted the rights of freedom of election, when, in 1857, he refused to attend the religious ceremony which preceded the opening of the Parliament in that year, because of the open violence which had been used by the King's sanction to insure the election of his nominees. There must also be many Greeks in their own country and elsewhere who now see realized what Sir THOMAS WYSE had disinterestedly and emphatically fo res h a d owe d to t h em — v i z ., a crisis in the country, financial imbroglio, possibly civil strife, if the Greeks were not true to them selves, honest about their national debt, and united efforts to enforce their constit u ti ona l r i g hts. points, and on all other s lik e l y t o b ene fit the people or p romote the interes ts of the Greek nation, Sir THOMAS WYSE, himself an e n li g ht e ned and n, liberal statesman, took great p a i ns to i nstruct those who sougOnn thet h ese and ht his advice, nor did h e ever flinch from giving candid expression to the late Majesties, when ca lled upon by duty t o d o so , o f his convictions as to the imprudence of their policy. Sir T. WYSE now lies buried in Athens. Hi s l oss to Greece at this mom ent will be severely felt; l et us hope, however, that hi s counsels may at least b e w hich tribute to th e remembered and productive of good." The •ii reason ableness of every syllable i memory of Sir THOMAS WYSE—who is there among ' no t be disposed very our diplomatists who will in every particu readily to accede P It is a tribute lar nobly deserved, ble weekly con- According to the view of our a temporary, the Spectator—whi le " The ca ndidates for the vacant throne are believed to be numerous, but only three have much chance. The Greeks," . nce says our contemporary, " would like to choose Pri nce ALFRED of England, with whom the Athenians were much pleased a year or two since , and who would, they think, bring back the lonian Islands, but the selection is forbidden by the settlement of 1831. The choice, therefore, is limited to the Duke de LEUCHTENBERG, grandson of EUGENE B EAU EARNms, and brother-in-law of the CZAR; AMA -12E.75, second son of VICTOR Emm ANUEL ; and Prince YPSILANTI, son of the well-known Chief 01 th e Hetairia, the Secret Society Which freed Greece. The Italian's chances would twelve months best, but ago have been far the RATAZZI'S policyhas so d egra d e d the dynasty that the i Cheeks are now half unwilling to accept s. pcl • am who may be a French nominee. As it iy, , they will probably fall That the prisoner was the man who wounded Abdal -lah there could be no doubt, but as it transpired that he was known to have an intrigue with Fathma, it seemed not unlikely that Abdallah had surprised them when together, and had murdered his wife to avenge her adultery. As there was no evidence to clear up that point, the jury acquitted the prisoner on the charge of murdering the woman, but found him guilty on that of attempting to murder the husband, allowing him the benefit of extenuating circumstances. The Court sentenced the prisoner to eight years' imprisonment. Notice of appeal was immediately given by the prisoner's counsel, The Gazette des Tribunaux has the following : " A gendarme was a few days back conducting a man, named L---, whom he had just arrested for stealing a rabbit, along the high road, near Versailles, when he per ceived, at a short distance from him, a liberated convict whom the police were in search of. The position was em barrassing, and the gendarme, thinking it would be better to run the risk of losing the less guilty of the two and en deavour to overtake the one whose capture was of the greatest importance, said to his prisoner, I must run after the man you see yonder, but I trust to your honour not to escape. I leave you here, but expect to find you when I _ • _ _ return.' Since you have that confidence in me,' returned the other, you shall not repent it, as I will help you to catch your man.' The man then started cff, and not being embarrassed with a heavy uniform like the gendarme, soon overtook the man they were in pursuit of, and held him until the gendarme came up. It is to be hoped that the tribunal will take this circumstance into consideration when the rabbit-stealer is brought before it." The Prussian steamer corvette Gazelle, which has been for some time lying in Dantzic roadstead, has received orders to leave for the coast of Eastern Asia to protect German commerce and watch over the execution of the recently concluded treaties. She is to call at Gib raltar, land the monument which is to be erected there in memory of the sailors who were killed by the pirates of the Rif. rTHE COAL SUPPLY TO THE METROPOLIS.—The supply of coal to the metropolis for the month of October last still shows a decline on the tonnage of last year, the total quantity for October, 1861, being 150,283 tons 6 cwt, against 134,226 tons 1 cwt for the month that has just ex pired. The London and North-Western has conveyed 59,793 tons 12 cwt ; Great Northern, 30,717 tons 7 cwt ; Midland, 19,210 tons; Great Eastern, 13,644 tons 8 cwt; Great Western, 7,874 tons; South-Western, 1,556 tons 2 cwt; South-Eastern, 1,317 tons 16 cwt; Chatham and Dover, 89 tons 16 cwt ; and Tilbury and Southend, 23 tons. The Grand Junction Canal has carried 1,190 tons 15 cwt, against 1,733 tons 5 cwt for the corresponding month of last year. The total supply for the present 10 months of 1862 is 1,186,450 tons 17 cwt, against 1,358,323 tons 19 cwt for the same period of 1861, or a decrease of 171,873 tons 2 cwt. Of seaborne coal we have had 105,708 tons from Newcastle; from Seaham, 25,490 ; Sunderland, 86,052 ; Middlesborough, 6,413 ; Hartlepool and West Hartlepool, 55,058 ; Blyth, 2,990 ; Scotch, 3,074 ; Welsh, 9,047 ; York shire, 4,595 ; Liverpool, 51; Duff, 249 ; small coal, 1,592 ; and cinders, 2,526 tons. The month shows an increase of from 299,560 tons for 1861 to 302,845 tons for October in the present year, but upon the aggregate for the year we have declined not less than 109,073 tons, the tonnage being from the Ist of January to the present time 2,770,459 tons, against 2,879,532 tons from the Ist of January to the 31st of October, 1861. The diminution by canal, railway, and sea amounts to no less than 286,505 tons, and that quantity less has been conveyed this year than for the corresponding period of 1861. It is said that Bombay has already been enriched to the extent of nearly £4,000,000 by the advance in the price of cotton, one Parsee alone having cleared £BOO,OOO by his speculations in that article, whilst other firms have done nearly the same. GREAT FIRE AT HULL -115,000 DAMAGES.— Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, a fire of a very alarming and destructive character broke out in the ware house of Messrs. J. S. Thompson and Co. merchants, Lime-street, Groves, Hull. About four o'clock it was discovered that the flames had communicated to the old Sugar House, and, as there were no hopes of extin guishing the fire in the warehouse of Messrs. Thompson, the firemen directed their attention to saving the Sugar House. A length of hose was conveyed to the roof, a height of 8.5 feet, by Inspector Dorsey and, a small body of men, who forced an entrance into the place, and made their way on to the rosf, by means of a dilapidated staircase. Having got on the roof, a line was lowered to the ground, and the hose thus hoisted up. The water was the played on to an upper storey, in which the flames had broken out. In about half-an-hour the police succeeded in extinguishing the flames, and thus preventing the destruction of the Sugar House. The damage is estimated at £15,000, against which there is no insurance. PRISON TREATMENT.—Yesterday afternoon an inquiry was instituted by Dr. Lankester, at the Clerkenwel, House of Correction, touching the death of John Smith aged 37, who had been sentenced to a month's imprisonment under the Vagrancy Act. The deceased was admitted to the gaol on the 20th ult. He had, he stated, not a friend in the world. He was attacked with fever, and was conse quently removed eight days afterwards into the infirmary. The infirmary nurse and one of the prisoners gave evidence showing the treatment of the deceased. He had beef tea, mutton broth, and six glasses of wine per diem. He died on Friday last. Mr. W. Smiles, the medical officer, said that on the 28th ult. he saw the deceased at seven in the morning, and, finding him buffering from fever and con gestion of the lungs, he at once sent him to the infirmary. He was in a weakly condition, although he looked robust, and he had been lying about obtaining shelter for the night wherever he could. He was also suffering from prolapsus of the bowels, with bleeding, which considerably weakened him. On the day of his death he was seized with epileptic convulsions, which eventually carried him off. The Coro ner, having viewed the prisoner's dietary scale, remarked that he had held an inquest on the previous evening in which it was shown that the inmates of the " separation ward" at St. Pancras Workhouse had meat only once a week, and it therefore appeared that prisoners frequently got more attention than paupers. He thought it was not quite fair as regarded the workhouses. He thought that prisoners were better attended to than paupers. In this case the deceased had an epileptic seizure, supervening on an attack of typhoid fever, which, acting together, had caused death. The jury returned a verdict of " Death from natural causes." PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY AT THE EAST-END.—.Yesterday afternoon orders were received ty the several superintendents of the G, H, K, and N divi sions from the chief officer of the Metropolitan Police Com missioners, Great Scotland-yard, for an additional supply of mounted police and other constables for night duty, in con sequence of the increase of garotte and other daring rob beries after nightfall. At the extreme eastern portion of the metropolis numerous burglaries have been perpetrated with violence. In the district of the H division, situated be tween Bow and Stratford, the public carriage way and the adjacent thoroughfares are badly lighted, and but very i m perfectly protected by the police. The police authorities have likewise issued printed notices to the housekeepers to properly secure their front doors and back premises, as organised gangs of garotters and housebreakers are prowl ing about at aii nours of Lt.. ul 6 -lu, in search of plunder_ The Court of Assizes of the Ain has just tried a man named Cochet, aged 40, on a charge of attempting to murder a widow named Chaffot, aged 71, residing at Bage• la-Ville. The victim of this crime lived alone, and cultivated a piece of land belonging to herself. She was in easy circumstances, and her husband, who died a few months before, left her 3,000 f. in cash, which she kept in the house, and that fact was known to all the village. On the evening of the 2d August last, while the poor woman was milking her cow in the stable, a man suddenly entered and asked some question about her son, which she had scarcely answered when she was knocked down by repeated blows with the coulter of a plough. Her assailant then wen t away, after tying the door with a cord, and hid him self in a plot of hemp close by, apparently to wait till dark before he entered the house to search for the money. Not withstanding seven severe wounds on the head, Madame Chaffot so n came to herself, and having got out of the stable by cutting the cord which fastened the door, she raised an alarm. Some neighbours immediately came to her assistance, and as they passed the hemp-plot, they saw a man run away. The description they gave of this indi vidual exactly corresponded with that of the prisoner, who was accordingly arrested, and it was established beyond all doubt that he had been lurking about the place before the crime, and was the man who had been seen in the hemp field. Several persons also deposed that he had been mak ing indirect inquiries respecting the widow Chaffot and her property. The prisoner, who was a rather good-looking man, and possessed of considerable intelligence, stoutly denied the charge, but was unable to give any satisfactory account of how le had passed his time on the evening o, the crime. The victim herself could not positively identify him. as she was knocked down almost as soon as she saw her assailant. The jury , however, thinking the evidence conclusive, found the prisoner guilty, and the Court sen tenced him to 15 years' hard labour. THE VILLIERS SCANDAL.--If any Churchman, in the innocence of his heart, believes that public opinion will avail to secure the right administration of Church patronage, let him note the facts connected with the second piece of jobbery from which the family of Bishop Villiers have proftted within the short space of two years. Surely the public outcry was loud enough when the bishop gave his son-in-law, young Mr. Cheese, a benefice in his diocese worth £1,250 a year. Yet no sooner does the death of the APridimaatme pl a ce at the dispos a l o f th e C rown th e li v i ng a t ah and Staple, worth £1,300 a year, than it is given to the Rev. Henry Montague Villiers, who took-his degree at Oxford in 1860 ; was ordained a deacon in 1861, and was made a " priest" this year only ; but who has the good fortune to be the son of a bishop, the nephew of Lord Cla rendon, and the son-in-law of Earl Russell t Nobody ven tures to suggest that the young cleric deserved to re ceive what is tantamount to a valuable life ap - nuity, for any good service which he has rendered to the Churoh; and all that the _Record can say in the way of ex planation or apology is, that Staple will be separated from Adisham, which will then be " only worth £7OO " a year. " Only £7OO I•" Hear that ye aged and hard-worked bene ficiaries of the Clergy Relief Society, who have never had the good luck to marry the daughter of a bishop or a minis ter of State ; and ask yourselves what interest you have in guarding from " spoliation " revenues spent for the aggran disement of individuals, and not for the advancement of the spiritual interests of the people. The population of Adis ham will be but 410, after the proposed division has taken place. This aristocratic, young shepherd, therefore, will have few enough sheep to tend in return for his splendid wages. Why are these rich livings kept up? The ques tion.will never be difficult to answer while such names as The Indepenelano by hoarding up moA respectable fema n le e y called her son to her, a ag d ed 83, ----. . has just been exemplified at Ostend. —Liberator. a says : —The loss sustained Cheese and Villiers are to be be found in the Clergy List. place where he would liberator. money, which belonged to him, bag feeling her end approach, A GREAT SUFFERER BY REVOLUTIONS. — King sum out n find told him to look in a certain Louis of Bavaria, who abdicated after an insurrection in a fortune of containing a sum of 1848, sees his family extensively affected by the dynastic in 1820, on the day of his firstc to make good use of. She had, ,and which she advised him changes which have taken place since 1859. His second she said, laid it by for him son is Otho, the ex-King of Greece, born on the Ist June; in the bag 671 Dutch 10-aori rmunion. The son found 1815 ; his third, Luitpold, is married to a daughter of the i t ec a e t s co ( m ab p o o n u t nd ll in ,O t O er O e fr s .2 , o G f ra A n io d de D n u a k ; e a o n f d T o u n s e c o an f Tuscany i s o g n r e a of d his daughters h. to the Duke Had the old lady placed the her son would now have had 100,000 fr. more than Adalbert, was to have succeeded Otho tyhoeuhthgreosntesoolif THE LAW OF MARRIAGE IN PRUSSI A.—An Greece. Lastly, the Queen of Naples and her sis ter, the t eres ting trial is pending before our iA.—An i n - Countess de Trani, belong to a collateral branch of the dity of a marriage contr act e d i n 1848 tribunals. between C 0 u T n h t esv_al—i_ house e l o f family, m w i l j y that tt , eisb a cohf hasik l ax t i h m e r i lei fore D s u u ff k e e r eodf mostßavaria. materially and the daughter of a non-commissioned officer of the Guard from the revolutions of Germany, Italy, and Greece, and who had been employed in the corps de ballet of the Opera, its members might give a second representation of the fa was disputed on the ground of irregularity of rank. The mous at Venice mentioned in Voltaire's " Candide." ' tribunal of Berlin declared the marriage . superior valid,aet- Le Temps. ing upon a rescript of 1746, by which no n - commissioned ‘ t ,SLAVES OF THE RING ; OR, B EFOR E AND AFTER. offi cers -and their childre n are assimilated to the u pper bour- '3 v le. —" It has been th e go od fortune of the au thor of geois class. But thi s j ud g ment has been cancelled, and th e `t hese volumes to have preduced several tales which have gain. The defendant, th e son b een well received by the patrons of the circulat i ng libr ar i es , cause sent back to be tried a of the Countess S--, pleads that his mother was a very among whom there are n o t a few who remem ber, wit h skilful dancer; that she danced solos ; that consequently agreeable feelin she was an artist, and belong ed therefore to the upper boar. gs, ' Grand m other's Money,' W ildflower, ' geois class. Thus it is upon the question of whether this and the very gracefully told story of ' Under the Spell.' lady danced more or less cleverly that the validity of the It i , no small praise present to say that the tale possesses, marriage depends. The law up on marriage presented so in. almost -every res ect the good qua lities of the author's many times, suppressed this absur d distinction of ranks ; previous wo r I, P ) It is a v er y good story; and the r eader consequently the Chamber of Peers has alwa y s refused to cannot but fee 7. vote it ! —Cologne Gazette. of.the , Slaves of in the loves, th e j o y s, and sor rows f the Ring,' ',--01)80rVer. LATESI I NEWS. _ c ,_ TURIN, Nov. 6, EVENING. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia have arrived at Naples. They are about to make a short excursion to Rome. The Italian Government has addressed remon strances to the Prussian Envoy, who represents Austria at this Court, upon the encounter between Italian Carabineers and Austrian soldiers upon the right bank of the Po. The Dionarchia Nazionale of to-day does not credit the statement of La France as to the exclu sion of the note of General Durando from the negotiations upon the Roman questio'. The Monarchia says that the circular dwelt upon the urgency of a solution of this question, and advo cated negotiation upon the subject. It states further that the French Government has recog nised the justice of the desires expressed in General Durando's note. MILAN, Nor. 6. The Bing reviewed the troops here to-day. Large crowds of spectators were present, and popular enthusiasm ran very high. MADRID, Nov. 6. The Queen will open the Cortes in person, and will deliver a speech on the occasion. At an early period of the Session the Ministry will lay before the Chambers documents referring to the - action of Spain in Mexico, and will invite discussion on the course they have pursued. FRANCE. BOURSE, November 6.—The Rente market still continues heavy, but prices have undergone no further decline, Threes, for the Account, which had opened at 70f. 70c., being now at yesterday's closing closing price of 70f. 65e. There has been little or nothing doing in Railway Shares. Mobi Tier pretty firm at last quotations. Three o'clock— The market improved towards the close, notwith. standing the decision of the Cuuncil of the Bank o. France to raise the discount to 4 per cent. Busi , ness closed as follows : It per Cents 9B Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 90 New 3 per Cents Do, end month — Credit Mobilier 1180 Do. end month — AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 6. The North German steamship Hansa, Capt. von Santer, from New York on the 25th ult., arrived this evening off Cowes, en route for Bremen. She brings 131 passengers and 237,491 dols. in specie. The Hansa was detained by thick weather until the morning of the 26th ult., when she left Sandy Hook. In New York harbour she came in collision with a laden English brig, name unknown, which was damaged considerably. During the voyage the Hansa experienced strong easterly and westerly gales and rough weather. On the 4th instant she spoke the British ship Leven, in 47.38 lat. N., and 31.21 lon. W.; the Bremen barque, August and Emma, in 49.4 lac. N., and 17.21 lon. W.; the ship Chancellor, 18 days from Baltimore to Liverpool, in 49.10 lat. N., and 14.50 lon. W. ; on the 6th the American ship Resolvido, in 49.18 lat. N. 11.24 long. W. At the same time an apparently timber laden barque-rigged vessel was seen drifting with out figure-head and with painted ports. All her spars were gone, except lower masts, yards, and c bowsprits. Every thingn deck w as was h e d t o pieces, and the rail gone. No name could be ascer tained. At noon the same day, in 49.41 N. lat. and 10.1.2 long. W., about ten miles to the north, a barque with all her topmast overboard was encoun tered, sailing eastward. • Bank Shares 3310 • Credit Foncier 1310 Piedmontese Fives 72 60 Italian Loan 72 90 • Roman • Austrian - Spanish Threes..., lime Debt - MAYS. BAIL' Cash. Account. Orleans lO5O .. 1050 Northern .... New ditto • Lyons and Mediterranean 1182 60 .. Geneva 352 50 .. Southern 862 50 . . Western Eastern Sardinian 375 .. Austrian Lorrbard North of Spain Saragossa 627 50 .. 625 Ditto to Barcelona 350 .. 355 PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, dated the 4th inst., says : " Conservative, or rather feudal deputations con tinue to be received by the King. The sense of his replies - is always the same. The constitutional struggle is spreading throughout the country. The general opinion is, that, sooner or later, the Govern ment must make concessions on the capital ques tion of the Budget. " Count Goltz is spoken of as the new ambas sador to Paris, and Count de Redern as likely to succeed him at St. Petersburg. " The King has gone to shoot at Letzlingen, near Magdeburg, where he will be joined by M. de Bismark Schonhausen, on his return from Paris. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, dated the 3d inst., says Immediatelsr on his retnrn from his leave of ab sence, Lord Bloomfield had an interview with Count de Rechberg respecting the affairs of Greece. The Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs is said to have informed the English Ambassador that, as Austria was no party to the protocol of London of 1832, she could not consequently have anything to do in a question which exclusively concerned the protect ing Powers; but that if the present movement out stepped the limits of Greece and interfered with the status quo in the East, as fixed by the Treaty of Paris, she would think it not only her right but her duty to interfere. "In an interview which took place yesterday with Prince Callimachi, Count de Rechberg ex plained himself in similar terms." " The recent despatches between Lord Russell and Prince Gortschakoff have given rise to a note from the representative of the Porte at St. Peters burg. " The private secretary of King Otho, Baron de Wendtland, has arrived here." POLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WARSAW, Nov. 1. We have not yet recovered from the painfu . stupor produced by the banishment of Count An- drew Zamoyski. This act of stupid tyranny has acquired the character of cruelty by the death of the Countess Zamoyski, who, dangerously ill, was left to die without seeing the companion of forty years' happy union, in epite of all the entreaties of her husband, and his promise not to see anyone but her. The whole of Poland resented the wrong in flicted by a revengeful and brutal hand on one of its most noble sons. And what are the faults he is so cruelly to expiate—what danger does his presence in the country offer to the Government ? These faults are, his pure and unimpeachable character, his devotedness to bis country, and his courageous frankness in claiming rights and justice where brutal force and duplicity alone are the resort of the Government. The danger of his presence lies in the popularity his patriotic virtues have acquired with the nation, and the example he sets to his coun trymen in opposition to the work of systematic demoralisation carried out by the foreign domi nators. To the grief this noble heart carries with him into a glorious exile, a deeper sorrow has been added by separating him from a beloved wife dying far from him. Thus the foreign despotism oppressing the country weighs not only upon the public life of the nation, but reaches even like a curse the family life of the children of this unfor tunate country. If any consolation could alleviate the mournful feeling of the Count, the general and deeply-felt sympathy and love he inspires through out Poland can prove to him that the nation knows how to appreciate his services and share his suf. ferings. Since the departure of Count Andrew nothing worth notice has occurred. From time to time some new regulations are published, shaped so that it may look abroad like reforms ; but none are carried out, as usually some other order, issued by the state of siege authorities, alters or puts off anything which may have the character of legality or nation ality. The Council of State holds its sittings with closed doors ; the Government is silent, and as no one but its organ is permitted to speak about home matters, nothing is known about the important and urgent measures which are looked for. Still every one knows what is going on in their sittings. Many motions have been made by members of this council, but some have not even been permitted to be entered into the minutes. Among the objects which have been allowed to be brought forward, the project of a law, providing that every person arrested should be informed of the reason of his apprehension in the space of 24 hours, and brought before his judge in the course of three days, was unanimously adopted by the council, the Grand Duke approving of it. Very probably a decree will be publi s h e d in accordance w i th t hi s pro j ec t, but its execution will be o f course s uspended during the state of sie ge , an d thi s s t a t e l as ts in the kingdom for 30 years, and in the Polish provinces of the em pire since their annexation, THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST A SOLICITOR, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,---In attempting to further the ends of jus Lice, I have laid myself open to the charge reported in your paper of Wednesday. lam thankful to say that those who best know me have suspended their judgment until they have heard the whole case, and I ask your readers to do the same.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, EDWARD C. WHITEHURST: THE EXHIBITION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—If not too late, would it not be an act of kindness on the part of the Commissioners of the International Exhibition, before they dismiss their staff of officials, to reopen the Exhibition for one week, the prices of admission to be decided by the Commissioners, the profits accruing to be given in aid of the Lancashire distressed operatives, and to any institution the Commissioners may feel disposed to select. The exhibitors would doubtless readily unite in such a cause, and the railway companies, with their accustomed liberality, might be relied upon to give their assistance by running trains at reduced fares. —I am, Sir, your obedient servant, R. R. POND. LONDON BANDI7TL TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—AII readers of felonious literature know something of the sensation scenes enacted by the late Mr. Turpin, Jack Shepherd, and other foot pads of bygone days ; but, after all, they were lambs compared with the highwaymen of the pre sent time, for they met their prey face to face, and demanded their money or their lives, and violence was not resorted to excepting in cases of non compliance with the demand. Ido not mean to say that that was, by any means, a pleasant state of things; but I do say that it.was an age otinnocence compared with the present, when three or four cowardly rascals rush on an unarmed man, strangle him first and rob him afterwards, and this constantly occurring by day and by night in the heart of the metropolis. So much for the progress of civilisation in the 19th century, and the much vaunted efficiency of the laws, when people cannot, with ,safety, walk abroad after sun set. As far as personal security is concerned, we should be quite as safe on the wretched territory of his most horrible Majesty, King of Dahomey. The maudlin and mock humanity of the age has fostered the growth of violence at the roots, till it has sprung to its present height; the mild punish ment, mere imprisonment, instead of lessening the number of flagrant offences, has a contrary effect, and no wonder, for an attempt to suppress such ruffianism, by gentle means, is like trying to destroy a stone fortress with cork bullets. Then, how to stop " Putting the mug on " (the professional term for garotting) is the ques tion. I think flogging will stop it. "Oh ! dear me, how'shocking it is to flog the poor, dear, mis guided people," say the blessed, meek, sleek-minded philanthropists. So it is; but it is more shocking for innocent people to be knocked on the head than for guilty ones to be whipped for the outrage; so that point is settled. Some years ago the Portland vase was wantonly destroyed in the British Museum, when, if I remem ber rightly, a law was expressly made to punish such offences by flogging, and it seems to have had a salutary effect, as there has been no repetition of anything of the sort. Now, I may be wrong, but I cannot help thinking that cracking a person's skull is quite as serious a crime as cracking a stone jar, and that the punishment for the one should be at least as severe as for the other.—l have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant, GEORGE ELLIS. Nov., 1862. 211 E CAMBRIDGE CART. In class 6, No. 1,409, at the Great Exhibition, a vehicle is there exhibited by Mr. Parker, of Cambridge, which bids fair to totally eclipse the famous dogcart. All the objections which have been urged against that vehicle have been re moved, and Mr. Parker's "latest notion" counteracts the jolting caused by uneven roads, the shaking of the carriage from the same cause, which impedes the horse, and last, and most important of all, the entire re moval of what is generally called "knee motion," While all these improvements have been most successfully carried out, not the slightest additional weight has been thrown on the horses ; on the contrary, the pull is lightened. The new carriage, or, as the designer has called it, " The Cambridge Cart," is also remarkable for the neat and ele gant design of the "body," the comfort afforded by the seats, and the protection afforded to the preservation of the dress, a most important consideration with the fair sex. Another feature about the " cart" is that the body rests directly on the springs, and is totally unconnected with the shafts. This of itself is a vast improvement, but added to the others it makes the" Cambridge" one of the most comfort able, safe, and stylish two wheel carriage ever submitted to the public. The London agent is Mr. S. Peake, 6, Leicester -street, Leicester-square, THE LORD ADVOCATE ON AMERICA.—The Lord Advocate, on Monday evening, delivered the inaugural ad dress of the winter course of lectures of the Dunfermline Literary Society. The subject of the address was " Home, or Domesticity and Nationality." After dealing with this subject in au able and interesting speech, he made the fol lowing allusion to the American war :—" There are some of our cousins whose homes now are anything but happy. I allude to the unfortunate state of our American cousins, whose affairs none of us can look at without the deepest in terest. This is not a place to discuss the questions that have arisen in that unfortunate country. For my own part, I can understand well the sympathy on both sides. I can well understand the feelings of the North on finding the idol they so fondly worshipped shattered before them. I can well understand those deep convulsive feelings that shake the Northern States, and the rancour deep and bitter of its citizens. I can understand the South. No doubt there is the blot and stain of slavery—the stigma which no tongue can fully express—resting upon that nation, but still ono cannot withhold a certain a mount of sympathy for a nation struggling gallantly in the minority, with an ability and a courage never surpassed before—for their homes and liberties as they think. I can understand the sympathy on either side, but my sym pathy goes out to the desol a t e d homes—to those houseless and homeless who have lost fathers and brothers on either side—in one of the bloodiest warfares the world has ever seen. It is impossible not to feel one's heart weep for the misery that during the bygone yearmyohnai overtakenprayer s o h n i c s e , ha t h p a tp y it a lo n a d y p s r o o o s n pe o r o o m us e t l a o n a d n . cu d, Ido not express my opini on as to what the terms of peace should be. Any terms would be bett er th an tt e a wful misery this terribl e war has caused." Importing Tea Without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's ally good _ Tea is uncoloured, the r efore, j " ()1d in Packets by 2,280 Agents, SEWAGE OF TOWNS. The commission "appointed to inquire into the best mode of distributing the sewage of towns and applying it to beneficial and profitable uses," have made their second report to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. In their first or preliminary re port, on 26th March, 1858, they stated some gene ral conclusions, which from visiting and personally examining several localities where sewage was treated and used in agriculture, they s ere enabled to make; but they felt it necessary to undertake a series of experiments which would extend over a considerable period. The report now submitted con tains conclusions derived from such experiments, but "in order to produce satisfactory and definite conclusions for general guidance" a further period is necessary; and such conclusions they intend to present in a further report. The most important conclusion arrived at by the commission is a pro posal that the rivers and waters of the country should be strictly conserved. All the examinations of the commission have led to the conclusion that if the discharge of solid matter of sewage and other refuse into the rivers is prevented, the chief part of the inconvenience, reaching the proportions of a na- tional evil, would be at once arrested. That this can be accomplished within reasonable limits of ex penditure has been proved by the experiments above referred to, and the experience of towns that have . alreadyadopted the system. But the commission urge as the first and all-important step, that a general local jurisdiction and conservancy be created throughout the kingdom with adequate powers and proper guarantees for due administration. They urge it as an anomaly that, in a country in which every road and bridge is under special care and supervision, so important an object as the preserva tion of its waters should be without general govern ment and control. Ownerships in streams have been recognised. Private water rights exist. The 23d Henry VIII. makes provision for the clearing of passages, of streams, building of walls, &c., and important commissions from time to time established have administered the draining of low lying and. marshy districts. Further, till recent times the necessity of a general jurisdiction over the river ap pears to have been unnecessary ; but " the .buses and nuisances which have now grown up with the growth of towns and manufactures urgently demand some available law for the conservancy of rivers from their sources to their outfalls." Great and varied interests now suffer, and the only check hitherto has been by action of private individuals who have so suffered, but the imperfect results ob tained show that the evil admits of remedy. That remedy can only be given by a general jurisdiction, for though individuals may sometimes, at great cost, protect themselves, even large communities are helpless to secure themselves against evils caused by the various populations above them. Reference is made to the report of the select committee of the House of Lords on the Scotch salmon fisheries, and their recommendation that penalties should be im posed for allowing refuse matters of mills or manu factories to go into any river. The commission, however, leave the subject with these general re commendations and remarks, and do not suggest anything definite as to the constitution of the juris diction proposed to be established. SCENE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. As the down train of the Waterford and Limerick Railway was passing between Tipperary and Cahir on Monday evening, it was brought to a standstill —the screams of two young females, piercingly loud, and their efforts to fling themselves out of a second class carriage, caused this sudden stoppage. The guard, Patrick Fitzgerald, hastened to the side of the train, where the terrified young creatures were seen with their bodies protruding from the open window. The doors at that side of the train were all locked, and the shrieks of the two young girls, who belong to a respectable class in life, were most painful. Earnestly they demanded to be re moved from that to another carriage, and they clung around the neck of the guard, whose protection they sought, and who describes the scene and the mo ment as being of a most trying character. From it very unconnected tale it appeared that a young man, " respectably dressed," and one of four male passengers who occupied seats, in the carriage in. which the girls were, had taken from his pocket suddenly a bottle, and had thrown its contents in their faces. Though thickly veiled the fluid fell on their cheeks, which began to smart them, and al most instantaneously they felt "a numbed sensa tion" and a feeling as if of unconsciousness creeping over them. The windows of the carriage had pre viously been closed by the man who had acted in so rude and mysterious a manner. Their " respect ably-dressed" assailant handed the bottle he had used to the guard; but incautiously Mr. Fitzgerald threw it away. By gentle persuasion the young women were induced to re-enter the train, under charge of Mrs. Whiteside, wife of the station-m.4B' ter at Clonmel, who states that ere they arrived at Cahir the girls seemed to pass from the paroxysm of terror into another. In Cahir suca was their enfeebled state that both left the train, and re mained there under the medical care of Dr. Stokes. The bottle-holder was detained in Cahir for the night, under the surveillance of the con stabulary, and next day was brought before Denis O'Brien, Esq., J.P. One of the young females, who had her passage paid to New Zealand, recovering, was permitted to proceed by the night mail to the steamer at Waterford, The other remained to confront the eccused. The court assembled, and the sworn depositions were read in presence of a large force of police, under Mr. Fosberry, sub-inspector, the medical gentlemen, and others, and the magistrate required the pro duction of the bottle to have the contents analysed. The guard and head constable were despatched to search for the missing phial, which was fortunately discovered, and found to contain eau de Cologne ! The accused was allowed to return to Waterford 0 . wiser if not a seder man.—Clonmel Chronicle. LIGH7ING OF MINES. It is well known that, chiefly in consequence of the negligence or imprudence of miners, Sir IL Davy's lamp is by no means a secure protection against the explosion of fire-damp. To obviate this danger, MM. A. Dumas and Benoit have recently proposed an apparatus of theirs to the Academy of Sciences. This apparatus consists of—l. An ele ment of a voltaic pile. 2. A Ruhmkorff's coil, and a glass tube of those blown by M. Geissler. The light produced is cold, or rather does not heat the , tube in which it is produced; gas or fire-damp osa obtain no access to it, since it is perfectly insulated it is quite as durable as th e lamp, and it emits no nauseous or injurious effluvia. It may be lighted or ill last at least 12 extinguished at will. Its action w hours at a time without any diminu tio n of light, or any necessity of trimming it; a ll the workm an has. to do is to shake the charcoal pencil by means of a. rod adapted to the apparatus. I t will afford li g h t eve n where other lights go o ut. The great est diffi culty the inventors had to contend with was, the regulat ing the size and weight of the apparatus so as not to be inconvenient ; they have succeeded, however, in reducing it to such a size as to enable the miner d to im c e a n rry sion it s. abo T u h t e w ai i 3 t p h ii chi w a hie b h ag th o is f a m pp o a d r e a r t a u t s e ma y receive are numerous. Coal • mines, of tour se, are the first to present themselves to the mind; but fire-damp is not fi con neu to these only ; it exists also in salt mines, andin those of bituminous schist. It may be usefully employed in gas-works w hen pipes require repairing ; in sewers, to examine and purify them; in manufactories of lueifer-matches, distilleries, arsenals or powder magazines; on b oa rd ship in boisterous weather, and in time of w ar for reconnoitring parties during the night. WRECK OF THE FLYING MIST.—A telegram was received in Glasgow on Wednesday announcing that the Flying Mist, which loft the Clyde on the stb of June last, for Otago, New Zealand, was lost at Bluff Bay, withi n a short distance of her destination. The ill-fated vessel was chartered by Messrs. Cree, Skinner, and Co., to carry out 0 , fleck of Leicester sheep, together with a general cargo, and with 800 sheep, were saved trora when she left the Clyde she h ad on board 1 ,760 sheep, be sides 18 passengers, principally shepherds. It appea r s that t t h h e e crewwrekca.ndip,htte3sFenbgienrsg Mist, a ves se l o f 1,184 tons, wa s' , built in 1856 at Midford, and belonged to Messrs, 0, B. clue and Co., of Boston, Vrtited States.