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THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 35m.—Afternoon, 3h. 50m. To-momtow.-Morning, 4h. 10m.—Afternoon, r, 4h. 26m. -.,,,, .„ .AN ;I ,-..•, - (..,„ 7 " -- ,.., 4 - - 111 1 1 0 .'? ' -s, W - ....4 - . •` t..." -, -k'.•LF .44- 'a t . •t - ',-. . -4 • - t • , -c '-7 ,1 t0.:i. - 0 • - 1 . ' ,. :T • i't 0 s THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1862. For the cool effrontery of his arguments, apropos to Rome and the unification of Italy, commend us to M. DE LA GURRRONNIERE! As for the second in stalment of his demi-semi-official revelations of the Imperial policy through the columns of La France, like lActo's baccanalian in the estimation of CAsslo, " 'Tis a more excellent song than t'other!" One in which this editorial chanticleer —representing, we should have imagined (did he not distinctly tell us otherwise), the Gallic Cock rather than the NAPO LEONIAN Eagle—does not,at any rate (whatever else he may do), sing small. To hear M. DE LA GIIER• RONNIERE reasoning about the Balance of Power in Europe, one might suppose that it was an admitted and recognized fact that the beam of that Balance was held suspended from the grasp of his Mejesty of the Tuileries. Italy, M. DE LA GUERRONNIERE tells us, if consolidated into one single Kingdom —including Rome, including Venice, including the Quadrilateral — must, there is no option whatever about it, must perforce make compensation to France ! Again, says the impe rial set ibe—Germany, if consolidated into one em pire, must, again there is no particle of choice in the matter left to her population, simply but abso lutely must make compensation to France ! There Is no compulsion, says M. DE LA GUERRONNIERE, addressing himself now to Italy, now Germany— There is no compulsion whatever, but you must. Italy, if united, will contain a people numbering altogether, 30,000,000. Germany, if united, will contain a people not less in the aggregate, numerically, thin 40,000,000. Therefore—by a necessity quite logical in the eyes of M. DE LA GUERRONNIERE—Germany must " compensate" France by ceding to the latter the whole of the Rheni,h provinces. Therefore—according to M. DE LA GUERRON NIERE'S argument Italy must " compensate" France by ceding to her the island of Sardinia at the very least. It is well that we should know the worst at once. Or hardly, perhaps, we should say, "know" the worst, for the policy here revealed by the Redacteur-en-Chef of La France has long and long ago been matter of absolute notoriety. We will say then with more exactitude in our mode of ex pressing it —It is well to have the whole truth, the truth that we have long since known perfectly well, fairly and frankly acknowledged. Of course, should there be any serious outcry raised, M. DE LA GUERRONNIERE anEcihEißat, s c newspaper can l be readily—at the mp good dire. But pleasure repudiated. Cela ca sans But even then, if pro forma th us clearly re pudiated—there sti ll in the imperial thoughts will remain that great cent ral motive pow er of the foreign policy of his Government. Nothing can touch it. And there it will continue intact, and ready to be called into play at the very firet oppor tunity. There is a passage in M, 1)E LA GUERRONNIERE'S last instalment that is particularly deserving of consideration, a passage in which the writer thus sketches out the causes that, according to his view, ought alone to be pursued by France in certain stated contingencies. " Whatever," he says (not hesitating to put forth this preposterous platitude), Whatever may happen, Franca will always be France; in presence of the empire of Germany, as of the kingdom of Italy, she will always remain, with her military virtues, her intellectual greatness, her inexhaustible resources. But it is clear that those powerful unities, in constituting themselves so near to her, would alter all the conditions of her history, of her alliances, of her policy in Europe, and, to remain what she is and what she always has been, she would necessarily have to adopt others. \Via must go further, and acknowledge that so radi e'4l a modification of our relations with the Euro pean equilibrium would not allow the maintenance of the territorial limits which the treaties of 1815 destroyed. With an Italian kingdom of 30,000,000 of men on our southern frontier ; with a German empire of 40,000,000 on our eastern frontier, while our northern frontier, open, has scarcely any de fence but French patriotism, France would not be in safety. Surrounded on all sides by neighbours almost as powerful as herself, she would be at the mercy of their gratitude or of their sympathy. Such a situation would be unacceptable for a people which has always acted in its liberty of action, and which has owed the greatness of its influence to that independence of its policy." And thereupon viewing the matter thus, he jumps immediately to the conclusion that the rest of Europe would stand by quietly looking on and conniving at the arrangement while France compensates herself by seizing in one direction the Rhenish Provinces, and in a totally opposite direc• tion the Island of Sardinia. It is said whimsically that there must be two parties to make a quarrel. Precisely the same may be said of a bargain. It remains to be learnt what Germany, for example, might have to say in re- gard to one of these coolly-foreshadowed bar gains, and what Italy might have to say in regard to the other. Besides which in each • instance there are the rest of the Powers of Europe who would for a dead certainty have something also to say in the matter of the changes looked forward to—changes affecting the European Balance in their instance hardly less than it would affect France. However this might be, we will not stop even to conjecture. Bat while M. DE LA GUERRONNIERE is carrying matters with so high a hand in his arguments as to the Foreign Policy of his Government, as shadowed forth by his lucubrations in La France—as an antidote to the bane in the mere tone, and manner, and bearing of these argu ments, there is M. NEP!TZER who can thus boldly reason upon the subject in the columns of the Temps. "It is absolutely necessary," he says, "to come to a clear understanding. What is the policy that France represents in the world? It is the principle of nationalities. As we are continually proclaiming, there can be no more questions of balance of power. Under the new system peace does not depend upon the factitious preponderation of forces, but upon the reciprocal recognition of eve! y right, upon universal satisfaction, upon the suppression of all grievances between nation and nation. Now, if our policy is to be that of Louis XIV. and NAPO LEON 1., let us say so; or rather, let us not say so, for that policy can no longer be successfully prac tised but in the secresy of the antiquated system of diplomacy. That system must abdicate, now that the affairs of Europe are transacted in public. How can we openly ask the Italians or Germans to mutilate themselves for our gratification, and in order to assure our preponderance ? If this is to be our policy, the primary condition of its success is not to cry it aloud." Excellently put are these few words of plain honest common sense as an effectual extin guisher for all the flaring rhodomontade of M. DE LA GITERRONNIEBE. Europe is now fairly upon her guard. The ab sorption of the Rhenish Provinces, and the acquisi tion of the island of Sardinia by Franca under NAPOLEON 111. are further off, we take it, than ever—now that the danger in each instance has been inopportunely (for NAPOLEON'S purpose) blurted out by the (too) " ready writer" in La France. That veracious illustrator anew of the wisdom of TALLEYRAND'S maxim that " zeal" ought of all things to be avoided in regard alike to the working and the designs of Diplomacy. Mr. EVERETT'S views on the present crisis are worthy of the perusal of every reader. There is not another gentleman whom educated and intelli gent European readers will listen to with more re spect. He is not a mere statesman, but a scholar of worldwide reputation, and not a mere scholar, but a practical statesman, as well as a hearty Ame rican. He it was who replied so ably to Earl GREY, and in whom Earl GREY found an antagonist whom it was an honour to encounter. Mr. EVERETT ad dressed, on the 27th, a war meeting at the Ameri can Athens, Boston, and to him, if to any man, we may look to understand how Northern Americans of the highest cultivation regard the present struggle. Or, shall we rather say, how they think it creditable to themselves to de scribe it to their fellow-citizens ; since we cannot be quite sure of the private sentiments of any orator addressing a meeting of his country men at this crisis. We believe, however, we may assume that Mr. EVERETT fairly represents the opinions of the highest class among his country , men. Still it may well be supposed that he doubts the possibility of adequately rousing the North. It will be seen that Mr. EVERETT fully accepts and eloquently supports the popular demand for immense and crushing armaments. He would sac rifice everything to conquer and re-incorporate the South. He concludes indeed his speech with the story of JOHN HANCOCK ; all of whose property lay in Boston, built at that time of wood; he trans mitted, however, to Washington the order to bom bard it, heartily wishing him success, although he should be the greatest sufferer, in order to drive out the British. To similar sacrifices Mr. EVERETT wished to stimulate his hearers, should they be necssary, for the re-conquest of the South. Like er,ery sensible man, he considered all the courses op en to the Northern Government, and decided for overwhelming levies. They might, first, give in, an d sue for peace at once ; or , secon dly, provide sufficient supplies jest to keep the war on foot, with a lt e rnations of victory a n d d e f eat ; or, t hi r dl y, raise n array which would b r i ng t h e contest to a prompt an d triumphant close. The important raise Mr. EVERETT has omitted to notice wo—whether the Government can raise, officer, and points an d discuss s which eus equip such an army ; and when it has re conquered the South, wh a t i t s a re t can on Republican principles —do with it. France, Austria, or Russia, would have no difficulty with this last question ; Great Britain even might do som ething with th e " reclaimed province ; but what is a Federal Republic to do with a set of States each claiming equal rights with the other set which su bdued them ? We confess ourselves rather surprised that such a man as Mr. E VERETT s hould pass over this states man's question. To Europe it seems the insoluble political diffi cu lt y of Northern succes s. We could hardly expect him to advert to the other point. But we find that the North is already short of arms to equip the men she has; of and generals worthy of the name we know that the North is short in deed. Perhaps nothing discourages enlistment more than men's knowledge that they may be sacrified to incompetent generalship. The multi tude in the North begin to see that armies incom petently led are but armed mobs, and lie at the mercy of inferior numbers commanded by higher skill. When we impartially examine Mr. EVERETT'S reasons for making such demands on his country, we find they ale but those which we have heard before, though stated with superior force and elo quence. He shows with ease that the South had not the slightest honourable cause for secession. They seceded because they were beaten in an eles tioL, the result of which they had in honour pledged THE SUN, LONPOW, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1862. themselves to accept by taking part in it. Nothing can be more certain than this ; yet the legal objection cannot be looked at apart from the fact that the South had all along asserted that it could not hold its interests—that is slavery—to be safe under a Northern administration. This may render their cause blacker in our eyes, but it also made them more implacable. Slavery in the territories was the great question. But slavery in the old States the North was as ready to maintain as the South itself. After all, there seems now little in the argument that the original and avowed ground of secession was unfair and insufficient; it is now apparent that the two sections of the States have long been growing in antagonism, Mr. ETERETT'S other arguments all resolve them selves into one or two—that the United States was really the model republic—and that it can tolerate no neighbour. It is, he tells us, " the noblest attempt made by man to combine the equal home-bred blessings of a small state with the strength and influence of a great empire." It was constructed by the wisest of men, and was an exemplar of human wisdom. Such prosperity as no country ever knew has been achieved be neath it. So attractive has it been to other people, that by millions the inhabitants of Europe have sought the protection and blessings it con fers. For such a noble monument of human wis dom, who would not fight ? is the burden of Mr. EVERETT'S most warmest appeals. Now, all this may be very effective at Boston; probably Mr. EVERETT knows that if anything in the shape of arguments will tell, these will. Yet it seems won derful that facts should not modify the warmth of his eulogies. The hard undeniable fact is, that a party, the majority hitherto in Ame rica, have always interpreted the constitu tion, as subordinating Federal to State Rights, and that it finds in the oanstitution itself the inherent right of secession. It is clear, also, that, tested by the very short period in a nation's life of less than fourscore years, the Federation has just split in halves, and threatens to separate into quarters. If we concede the utmost to Mr. EVERETT still the fact remains, that this model of wisdom is a model so easily broken that statesmen of other countries must doubt its wisdom. Mr. EVERETT also appeals to the geographical difficulties of the case. 'What are we to do without a definite border ? how can we tolerate the outfall of the Ohio, the Missouri and the Mississippi lying in what will become a foreign country ? Why, no—it is unpleasant to have the main road to your estate, through your neighbour's property : unpleasant also to have no well marked boundaries between your land and his. Still European rivers and countries have long had to get on as well as they could under these conditions ; and really the argument would be good for England's adding a tremendous slice of the United States to Canada. Had, indeed, the North used its growing empire with more moderation, had it been less of the sharper and the bully, and showed as much inclination to be a model of pleasant deal ing with other countries, as to show itself deter mined to hustle all the Governments who did not please it and pick their pockets by American mobs, we might have sympathised with its desire for Imperial greatness. Unfortunately America has produced on other people the impression, that the weaker she is, the better for the peace of the world. One of Mr. ETERETT'S fears actually is, that the Florida's might wish to return to the allegiance of Spain, and Louisiana, and tho States formed from it to reunion with France. If they did it would not say much for the blessings they had enjoyed under the model Government. It is somewhat remarkable that Mr. EVERETT should complain of the South for telling Unionists in Virginia that they had better leave the State, since Mr. LINCOLN'S military prisons bear witness to the fact that men of " Southern proclivities " in the North, are not very comfortable there ; while it was but the other day that Mr. LINCOLN was telling the coloured people—some four millions altogether—that they had better leave the States, though loyal, because their sable and Mr. LINCOLN'S sallow did not match comfortably together. The best wish we have for Mr. EVERETT, and Mr. LINCOLN too, is that they may wholly fail, till they recognise the greater right of the negro to fight for his personal liberty. This second great levy will probably fail, as the last has done—then, surely, the question must come up—shall we give up, or give negrees their rights. Is it to be believed ? That GARIBALDI, " Defeated, wounded, captured," has for several days together been left without a change of bed at Varignano ! That suffering though he is from a bruised thigh and a shattered ankle—there has been absolutely nothing whatever provided for the alleviation of those sufferings, no linen, or leeches, or bandages ! That the physician attending upon the illustrious patient had to ask a lady of Spezzio for some linen for the mutileed Hero and Liberator of the Italians! That for the very bed he lies upon —he is indebted to the consideration of another private citizen of that seaport, a shipbuilder in the Spezzio dockyard. Alas! incredible though it is—we have all this upon the authority of General Brxio. Under date, " Genoa, Sept. sth"—Brxio having just returned thither from Varignano. So that he writes of facts that have come within the range of Lis own obser vation. Now that those facts are brought to light, we cannot but conceive that for very shame the RATTAZZI Cabinet at Turin must see that the Hero of the Age is henceforth (if his life but lasts) treated somewhat differently. Our Prince of WALES is enjoying himself at I Brussels in the way in which we all could wish. The loves of princes and princesses must interest all loyal subjects, and we are amongst those who are heartily thankful that there is such a story for our wives and daughters to discuss. None of us can vouch for the truth of the rumours put forth as to the first meetings of the young couple ; but we all cherish the belief that, whether the PRINCESS ROYAL, by design, introduced a royal 1 damsel, worthy to be his wife, to he r brother, or whether a more casual meeting was the first one,—we cherish the belief that our PRINCE did not " Walk into love with his eyes open" but " fell in love." Very young indeed have our Royal family married hitherto, or proposed marriage; but wise assuredly is our SOVEREIGN in taking this grand security for happy homes for her children. Royal children have no anxiety respect ing their means of livelihood —there is no" pruden tial c h ec k," on their Anti-Malthusian sentiments— would there were none on those of any young immunity from " care for the moral blessin gs o f ear l y couple I o cth°l3e morrow"— vas tly more important in their case than b w u " t_t h r e i s o v d e e r r y s marriage in th o se of the gen eralit y of young peo p le. The re membrance of the reign and family of GEORGE 111., will justify our Q UEE N in the eyes of all i n encouraging her children in the course they have o :. taken. The Princess has iszeome pretty well known in P'ng l .-.2nd—if, indeed, as the re is no reason. that W e know to She d herha i n numerablehardly y land di no.vn i f portraits are like he she wished it ; and we shall in her favour by what ga e have been permitted to ' see. But what we hear is equally satisfactory, and we cannot doubt that the Princess ALEXANDRA Will he worthy of her post as tke second lady in the land, and the daughter-in law of our SOVEREIGN. She will come to a country prepared cordially to welcome her. That she is a Danish Princess, though the family is originally German, will itself be a recommenda tion ; that her father is King Elect of DENMARK, and may possibly be the King of Scandinavia ; making it a kind of Northern Italy, is another re commendation ; but it is also believed with the best reason that the Princess is her own recommen dation—and that of the seven young damsels, out of the eight hundred Royal personages enumerated by the Gotha Alinanack as eligible for England's Prince, she is the one most naturally likely to make him a home like his father and mother's. May Heaven make it as happy and as good, is the prayer of us all. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA. "LURLINE." " Lurline," the most melodious, if not the most I impressive, of : , )mantis operas, was produced at this theatre last evening, in order to afford a first appearance to a new candidate for public favour in the graceful music of the heroine. Every allow ance should be made for the most accomplished de butante who replaced Miss Louisa Pyne, if only for a night or two, in one of her most delightful char acters. She would not only have to compete with some of the greatest gifts upon our stage, as well as the most perfect art and culture, but with a self reliance, the result of years of well deserved suc cess, which doubles the force of every expression by the mere fact of its certainty. These considerations will be greatly enlarged in the case of Miss Sara Dobson, the debutante of the past evening, when we announce that this young lady has scarcely reached her 20th year, and this was her debut upon the London, if not on the English, stage. It can be no surprise, therefore, that she felt the severe ordeal she had to sustain, and displayed a nervousness which deprived her of almost half the power she possesses. Nevertheless, in despite of every ob stacle, she accomplished sufficient to convince the audience of her more than usual claims to favour— and to win, as she well merited, a very genuine success. Miss Dobson's voice is a pure soprano, of considerable compass as well as pliancy—but more melodious it seemed than forcible, and better in its upper range than in its lower. Her method is very good. All her notes were delivered—as far as her tremour would permit—with great ease and distinctness—and if owing to this impedi ment it was difficult to judge of her amount of feeling, she afforded sufficient evidence of ' a correct and careful taste. Her most suc cessful efforts were her s'. are in the finale of the second act, a portion of the scena of the third, and her entire delivery of the popular air, "Take this cup of sparkling wine," which she gave with such animation as to win a well-deserved encore. On the whole—whilst compelled to sus pend a conclusive opinion till we have been enabled to hear her again, and she has obtained sufficient confidence to do justice to her unquesticnable powers—we have no hesitation in auguring very favourably of her future, and in regarding her ac cession to the company as a decided acquisition. Miss Dobson was warmly called for at the close of every act. And, we trust not forget to add, that she is a pupil of Mrs. Wood, who, after fulfilling a brilliant career as the greatest singer of her time, seems now to be devoting her retirement to the scarcely less agreeable task of supplying the stage she so long adorned with meritorious successors. The opera on this occasion was excellently sustained thi oughout. Mr. Santley was the River King, and was never heard to more perfection. His declamation of the recitatives was marked with all that true dramatic energy to which he has re cently attained, whilst his delivery of the favourite ballad—" A Father's Early Love "—revealed a depth of feeling that could not be exceeded. Mr. Corri, as the slave Zelleik, sang his drinking song with a vivacity which made it one of the features of the night; whilst Mr. George Perrin, as Count Rudolf, in lieu of Mr. Harrison, made another sen sible step in the favour of the public. All well wishers to the theatre have long been conscious of the necessity of both Miss Pyne and Mr. Harrison relieving themselves of the strain of a nightly per formance, in addition to the tasks of management, and this policy could scarcely have been better car ried out than by the engagements made this season with Miss Parepa and Mr. Perrin. This gentle man combines the advantages of a very pleasing tenor voice, with an excellent style of singing, and only requires a little familiarity with the stage to ripen into ot,e of our most agreeable dramatic tenors. His execution of the music of the Count was irreproachable throughout—his most marked success, perhaps, being his delivery of the charm ing cavatina, " Sweet form," in which he was encored, and which had the additional charm o[ freshness, as it is usually omitted. Of Miss Susan Pyne, in the Lady Ghiva, Miss Thirwall, in the spirit Liba, and all the rest of the executants, we have nothing to say but words of praise; not for getting Mr. Mellon, and his admirable band and chorus, which he so perfectly directs. The house, we are happy to add, was crowded to the ceiling. EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS.—An event is reported to have occurred lately which is making no small sensa tion in the Highlands, within a hundred miles of the new line from Perth to Inverness. One of those festive ga therings such as are common at this season of the year, and which are alike attended and enjoyed by the aristo cracy and democracy of a country side, had passed off with great spirit, and was very appropriately wound up with a ball. At this ball—as the phrase is—ad the beauty and fashion of the district might be seen, and it was spe cially graced by the presence of a noble marquis, the heir to a still nobler title, as well as a vast estate. There was also present a worthy baronet, who, as the evening wore on, proceeded to escort his lady from the ball-room to her carriage. The passage was somewhat crowded, and in the crowd was the noble marquis. The hon. baronet finding egress difficult, requested the crowd to make way for his lady, which it is said they all promptly did, with the ex ception of his future grace, who, blocking up the passage, the baronet pushed him aside, for which he was repaid by a volley of abusive epithets altogether unfit to be heard by ears polite, or printed in the columns of a respectable paper. Sir G— paid no attention at the moment to the abuse with which he was thus assailed, but having seen his lady to her carriage, returned and asked the marquis what he meant by such language. Being treated in reply to a repetition of the same style of abuse, Sir G---- at once gave it to him " right and left," completely flooring the scion of a noble house, and informing him that he would be ready to meet him anywhere else, and answer for what he had done. It is said that the duchess is much grieved at the affair, not that the marquis was punished, but that be should so far have forgotten the bearing of a gentleman, while the duke says " it served him right, and will, per haps, teach him better manners. ". —.Dundee Advertiser.. JUDICIAL EVIDENCE IN 1629.—M05t of the trials reported in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. belong to the general and well-known history of the country, and the same is true of most of those which occur in the time of Charles I. . . . One singular exception occurs in the 4th of Charles I. (A D. 1629), which deserves notice both on ac count of its curiosity, and also because it is nearly the first instance in which there is anything like a report of circum stantial evidence. This is the case of the murder of Jane Norkott, for which her mother, her brother-in-law, and her sister were tried and acquitted at Hertford assizes, and were afterwards tried on an appeal ire the King's,Bench at West minster. The evidence against the prisoners was, that they were in the house alone with the deceased all night, and that no one came in ; and that the state of the body (the neck was broken and the throat cut) and other circum stances, showed, that she could not have killed herself. Hence it was argued they must have killed her. In the present day such evidence would be held to establish no more than an alternative case, that is, to prove, as in the famous instance of the Road murder, some one of several persons was guilty. What the result of the trial then Was does not appear. The most singular point about it was the evidence given by two clergymen—brothers, and ministers of the parish in which the murder happened and of the one next adjoining it. Sergeant Maynard says that he heard their evidence, took it down at the time, and would be ready to swear to the accuracy of his report. The first clergyman "was a very reverend person, as I gu esse d , o f about seventy years of age ; his testimony was delivered gravely and temperately, but to the great admiration' (1. e. wonder) "of the auditory. He said : The body) being taken up out of the grave thirty days after the party's death, and lying on the grass, and the f our defendants being present, were required each of th em t o touch t h e dead body. Okeman's wife' (the sister) fell upcn her knees and prayed God to show tokens of her innocency. The appellant' (the woman's child) 'did touch the dead body, whereupon the brow of the dead, which before was of a livid and carrion colour, began to have a dew, or gentle sweat, arise on it, which increased by degrees ti.l the sweat ran down in drops on the face. The brow turn ed to a lively and fresh colour, and the deceased opened one of her eyes and shut it again; and this opening the eye was done three several times. She likewise thrust out the ring or marriage finger three times, and pulled it in again ; and the finger dropped blood from it on the grass' ' " The wit ness added, that "he himself dipped his finger in the blood which came from the dead body to examine it, and he swore he believed it was blood." The other clergyman confirmed this account in every particular. One of the odd parts of the sbry is that, assuming the truth of the evi dence, it is impossible to make out whether it proves that a miracle was worked in answer to Mrs. Olfeman's prayer ; or that the bleeding of the body showed (according to the s common superstition) the p resence of the murderer, and, if o which o grotesquef threein the it pointed at. There is something the production of an ambiguous miracle for the pu rpose , of clearing up ambiguous evidence. —"Cornhi‘i Magazine for ,September, • LATEST NEWS. AMERICA. NEW YORK, AUG. 30. (Per Glasgow, via Roche's Point.) The New York limes says that if England, France, and Russia would mediate on the basis of the South returning to the Union, doubtless the North would assent to any terms compatible with the national honour and essential to the protection and preservation of Southern rights. " Mediation on the basis of Southern independence," continues the New Fork 7intes," is open hostility." The Secessionists in St. Louis, county Missouri, have been assessed by the Federal General Schole field in the sum of 500,000 dols., for the support of the families of the Federal militia. TURIN, SEPT. 10. General Cialdini is expected to arrive here shortly, whence he will proceed to reassume the com mand of his corps d'arinee at Bologna. General Brignone continues to fulfil the duties of Prefect of Palermo and of Extraordinary Com missioner for Sicily. The health of Garibaldi has improved. It is con sidered possible that an amnesty will be proclaimed. The Discussione of to-day states that the definitive closing of the Parliamentary session is very shortly expected. The Minister of War has under consideration a proposal to send back to their families all Garibal dians under 18 years of age who have been taken prisoners. WARSAW, SEPT. 10. An order of the Grand Duke Constantine raises the state of siege in the governmental district of Radom, with the exception of the towns of Radom and Kielce. BELGRADE, SEPT. 9 (EVENING). The conflict between the Turks and the Servians at Ongitza ended in the defeat of the former. An armistice has since been concluded through the intervention of the foreign Consuls. The Turks are surrounded in the fortress of Bel grade, i..nd their countrymen residing in the town are unable to leave their houses. In the Servian quarter 170 warehouses and 130 houses were set on fire by the Turks, and the re mainder were much damaged. The town is, in fact, nearly destroyed. In the late conflict the Turks had 30 killed and 12 wounded, and the Servians one killed and seven wounded. RAGUSA, SEPT. 10. The treaty e sncluded between the Turks and the Montenegrins contains 14 stipulations. Three of these have already been made public. The re mainder comprise : Maintenance of the frontier as agreed upon in 1859 ; Cessation of Grahova to the Mentenegrins ; Exchange of deserters ; and The opening of commercial relations between Montenegro and the adjoining Turkish provinces. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SHOW. The last show of the season took place yesterday, but the weather in the early part of the day was far from pro pitious. As a natural consequence the attendance in the early part of the day was not large ; yet, as the clouds dis persed and the eun shone forth, the company very largely increased. The flowers were arranged in the usual semi circular form, and showed to the greatest perfection. A curiosity was shown by Mr. Moore, gardener to Earl de Grey, namely, a bough on which both peaches and apricots were growing, a curious result not brought about by grafting, but by a mere freak of Nature. There was a magnificent collection of no less than 40 distinct kinds of grapes, of every size and colour, sent in from the society's grounds at Chiswick, some of the single bunches of which weighed up wards of 51b. There was a remarkably good show of roses, but the soft tints of these beautiful flowers were almost eclipsed by the noble rows of double holly hocks, which in many cases had quite the beautiful form of England's flower, and all the additional advantages derivable from every possible variety of colour. Mr. Youell and Mr. Standish each sent in a superb display of the " Gladiolus" in full bloom. The principal prizes for roses were awarded to Messrs. Mitchell, Paul and Son, J. B. Hedge, Turner, and Dr. Cooper ; for hollyhocks, Messrs. Chafer, May, and Downie ; for asters, Messrs. Belleridge ; for gladioluses, Messrs. Youell and Messrs. Cutbush ; for dahlia bloom, Messrs. Keynes, Turner, and Hall. The miscellaneous prize for flowers not specified was awarded to Messrs. Veitch and Son. GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FES7IVAL. GLOUCESTER, SEPT. 10. The first miscellaneous concert attracted a large audience in the evening to the Shire-hall. Mademoiselle Titiens, Mademoiselle Parepa, Madame Sainton Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Weiss, each took part in the programme. The concert began with Meyerbeer's " Exhibition Over ture." A few pieces from Handel's Acis and Galatea— " Hush ye pretty warbling choir" (Miss Wilkinson) "Love in her eyes" (Mr. Sims Reeves), " 0 ruddier than the cherry" (Mr. Weiss), and " The flocks shall leave the mountains" (for the three)—came next, The feature in this selection was " Love in her eyes," which, sung as it was by Mr. Reeves, would most likely have been the case in any selection. The well known though but lately resus citated air from the same composer's (wholly forgotten) opera, Admetus, sung with her accustomed purity by Ma dame Sainton, was an appropriate climax to this brief ex cerpt from Handel. A bass air from Verdi's I Lombardi (Signor Bossi) ; " Lo here the Lark," brilliantly given by Mademoiselle Parepa, the flute accompaniment being in the experienced hands of Mr. Pratten ; Mr. Leslie's trio " Memory" (Miss Wilkinson, Madame Laura Baxter, and Mr. Montem ; an air from Dr. Arne's Comus (by Mr. Winn) ; and Mercadante's "So m'abbandonai" (Ma dame Laura Baxter). were also included in the first part, which Signor Verdi's " Exhibition Cantata"—thanks to the superb execution of the solos by Mademoiselle Titiens (the original at Her Majesty's Theatre)—brought to an end amid rapturous applause. The second part of the concert gave equal satisfaction. Elijah—The oratorio of the 19th century, the most mas terly composition of recent times, and the grandest sacred work since Handel's _lsrael and Messiah—attracted an au dience this morning as large as to warrant a revival of hopes which had been somewhat dashed by the comparatively poor attendance at The Creation yesterday. The collection at the doors after the oratorio amounted to £176 16s. 21d. _ _ The prospects of the festival appear to brighten daily. A. capital attendance is expected to-morrow, and a bumper for T he Messiah is already assured. To-night, at the second miscellaneous concert in the Shire-hall, Professor Sterndale I:Sennett's " Exhibition Ode" will be performed. BRIGIJTON.—We are happy to learn that their Royal highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Prin cess Mary purpose passing, as usual, a few weeks here this autumn. Their royal highnesses are expected to leave Cambridge Cottage, Kew, in the course of the ensuing month.--Brighton Gazette. VISIT OF MR. LAING TO MANCHESTER—The presentation of the address, lately agreed upon by the Man chester Chamber of Commerce, to Mr. Laing, the finance minister of India, will take place on Thursday, the 18th inst., in the Mayor's parlour, at the Manchester Town-hall. The Mayor will take the chair on the occasion. The state of Mr. Laing's health will prevent his acceding to the pro posal made to him that the pesentation should take place at a public dinner. Accounts from St. Petersburg state that at the end of last month there were in Russia 33,104 versts of electric telegraph (24,000 miles). The number of stations was 150. An additional length of 10,335 versts is in course of being established. _ _ _ An illustrated journal of Turin, the FiBchieto, has just published a lithograph, which has obtained a great success throughout Italy. It is an imitation of a celebrated picture by Signol, at the Luxembourg ; Garibaldi, with his arms crossed, is awaiting the decision of the Ministers, when Cavour re-appears, and exclaims to the latter :--‘ Chi di voi e senza peccato gli getti la prima pietra.' (Let him among you who is without sin throw the first stone.) While the driver of a truck containing merchan dise was the day before yesterday engaged in a shop in the Rue Vivienne, receiving the amount of his note for some thing he had delivered, a thief on the look out for prey was tempted by the appearance of a small bale of cloth which lay:on the truck, and throwing it on his shoulder walked quietly off through the Passage Colbert. When the car man returned, he was in consternation at discovering his loss. A man standing near told him that he had seen an individual carry the package through the passage, and the carman started in pursuit, but without effect. Information was given to the police, and the thief was at length traced to the house of a tradesman in the Route de Neuilly, in whose shop the stolen article was found, having been, ac cording to the account of the master, left there by a person who was to call for it again. Subsequent investigation, however, led to the discovery that the tradesman in ques tion, although considered in the neighbourhood a respect able man, was a regular receiver of stolen goods, particu larly for packages taken from carts. Both the master of the shop and hia wife were arrested, as were also the man who effected the robbery and an accomplice. ALCOHOL AS FOOD.—Apart from moral in fluences, all that we see of physical misery, of weakened intellect, of shortened life, in the habitual drunkard, is due to the degeneration of tissue, which is gradually but in fallibly brought about by continual alcoholic excess. Even the very blood, the b eginning of all tissues, is affected in a similar way, as indeed we might expect. There is no doubt, that in excessive doses, alcohol, if it be a food at all, is a very bad one ; and we must remember that the drun kard does, in fact, test its capacity to act as a food, for by his habits he so impairs his appetite that he can take, very little, if any, ordinary food. So far there is no room for dispute—all physiologists would agree that this is a sub stantially correct account of the result of chronic drunken ness. But many physiologists strangely overlook a set of facts which I am now about to mention, and to which I solicit attention, viz., the frequent instances which are to be met with, among regular dram-drinkers, of almost total abstinence, for years together, from any food except alcohol and water. The fact above mentioned of the dege neration of tissue, caused by long-continued excesses, proves nothing more than alcohol alone is a bad and insufficient food ; but it does not explain the fact that it is capable, almost unaided, of supporting life for years; and yet of this fact I myself, and doubtless many others, have had the clearest evidence. Among about 7,000 hospital out •pa tien is who annually come under my care, there are a very large number of persons who indulge in habitual alcoholic excess ; and I have taken particular care,in many instances, to arrive at the real truth as to their habits of life. The revelations which are thus sometimes brought about are sufficiently astonishing. With regard to tavern waiters and potmen, I am ix a position to state that a great many of them live almost entirely upon drink, that they rarely get intoxicated in a high degree, but they eat almost no solid food. Of this number a considerable proportion suc cumb, in from a few months to two or three years, to dis eases of which the starting point is mal-nutritien--a de generation of tissue. But a very considerable minority remains which comes to no such tragic End; the indivi- duals who compos e it dr a g on a sodden and degraded existence. some of them even to an advanced age. I know also, PerEPnally, of one case, in which a gentleman, ~,-712.0 was afflicted with an intermittent mania for drink, re peatedly abs,°.itled from any nutriment except spirit and water for two or three weZsi's together, without even becom ing perceptibly emaciated, much less starved,—Cot nhill Magazine for September. FRANCE. La Patrie has the following in prominent typ e:— " We believe that we are correct in stating that the Emperor has received a letter from President Juarez. In that letter the President of the Mexican Republic complains that he cannot establish a strong and durable Government precisely because he has the French expedition against him. He, consequently, insists upon an arrangement which would separate the French troops from the party which has rallied to France, and which would establish between the troops and what he calls the National party a valu able understanding for the welfare of the country." The 111oniteur publishes a report from the Mi nister of Commerce on the working of the law of Nov. 16, 1858, by which bakers in provincial towns were compelled to maintain constantly in store a supply of flour equal to their three months' con sumption : " That measure was adopted when a crisis, pro duced by a scarcity of long duration, was succeeded by a harvest so abundant as to exercise a very sen sible depreciation on the price of corn. It was thought that, both with a view of securing a regu larity in the future supply and in the interests of agriculturists, it was advisable to apply the system of a bakers' reserve—until then only in operation in Paris—in a uniform manner, and on a basis larger than that ou which it had previously existed. Experience, however, has shown that the object in view has not been attained. In some towns want of capital by the bakers has rendered the formation of a reserve impossible. In others the reserves formed with great difficulty could not be main tained intact, and the local authorities were placed in the alternative of either tolerating an irregular state of things or having recourse to measures of rigour which would have in certain cases produced a serious disorder in the bakery trade. The law of the 15th June, 1861, by opening the ports to the free importation and exportation of corn, has also given an important development to the bakers' trade, and it appears logical not at present to any longer impose a computsory amount of flour judge of the baker, but to leave him at libert y to of the extent of the stock required in his trade, land to employ his capital as he thinks fit The Minister then recommends the repeal of the law on the reserve in the provinces, concluding hi s report by saying that the regime of the bakery trade in Paris and the questions relating to its organisation can only receive a definite solution after deliberations in the Council of State, which solution cannot be much longer postponed." The report is followed by an Imperial decree repealing the law of Nov. 16, 1858, which ex tended the measure of keeping a reserve to the provincial bakers. " The Empress of Austria," says the Wanderer, "is about to proceed on a visit to her family at Possenhofen, in Bavaria, the Emperor accompany ing her a part of the journey. Queen Victoria is expected at the Chateau of Greinburg, in Upper Austria, at the end of September. Her Majesty wil► not visit Vieun 3, but will return to London by Munich." BOURSE, Sept. 10.—The market opened at the closing prices of yesterday, Threes, for the Account are now at 69f. 65c. Railway Shares rather flat, but with scarcely any variation in price. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 96 70 Do. end month...• 3 per Cents ...... 69 60 Do. end month.... 69 65 New 3 per Cents .. Do. end month.... Credit MobiHer.... 938 75 Do. end month.... 946 25 Bank Shares 3170 Credit I. oncier 1230 Piedmontest Fives 70 70 Italian Loan 7O 90 Roman Austrian Spanitl Threes — Rome Debt .. 4Bt RA ILWAYB. Cash. Account. Orleans 1057 50 .. 1057 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1157 50 .. 1155 Geneva 370 .. 372 50 Southern Western Eastern ... , Sardinian Austrian Lon. bard ITALY. The Official Gazette of Turin publishes at last the official account of the combat of Aspromonte. It differs materially from the statement made by Gari baldi and the journals which have supported him. In Italy a great importance seems to be attached to the point—which in itself is of but secondary interest—of ascertaining on what side the fire commenced. By the official account it appears that it was the bersaglien who began. That is the only point in which the narrative now pub lished agrees with that of the Diritto. In place of Garibaldi remaining impassable in the midst of the balls and reiterating the order not to fire, the statement published by the Official Gazette repre sents him es most energetic in his resistance, and going so far in the ardour of the struggle as to de tain as prisoners the persons sent with a flag of truce. Garibaldi has also addressed a grave reproach to Col. Pallavicini de Priola—of having promised that the volunteers should be soon set at liberty, and that he (Garibaldi) should be allowed to proceed to England. The official account, on the contrary, declares that the colonel said :—" My mission is simply to fight and conquer. For everything be yond that, I am obliged to refer to the Ministry." Colonel Pailavicini concludes his report with stating that he found but two papers of some importance, and that he sought in vain for any sum of money; but that he was informed that the day before, at the Caseina, Garibaldi had distri buted a considerable sum to the men who were with him. He also states that, having asked several of the prisoners why they had followed Garibaldi After the royal proclamation, nearly all replied that they had never heard of it. It is known that Nicotera, iNlissori, and Miceli, left the Garibaldian camp on the 28th, but for what reason is not ex plained. The number of Garibaldian prisoners taken to Spezzia is 2,000. About 1,000 volunteers are dispersed about the mountains ; 58 were arrested on the 30th at Bagnara, two of whom were wounded. The arrests of the others continue. PORTUGAL. The Lisbon journal A Nacao says :—"ln her marriage contract our future Queen has renounced the name of Pia; henceforth she will be called simply Maria of Savoy. It is well-known that the name which she has abandoned was given to her from Pius IX. having consented to stand as her godfather. To repudiate it thus, is it not, or does it not appear, an insult ?" The decree issued to convoke the Cortes Extraordinary to be present at the signing of the contract of marriage names the young Princess Maria. TRIALS OF THE BLACK PRINCE. Yesterday, in accordance with the arrangements previously announced in The Sun, the trial of this frigate, with her screw at an altered pitch, took place at the measured, mile in Stokes' Bay, near Portsmouth, again under the supervision of Captain H. Broadhead, commanding her Majesty's ship Asia and the steam reserve at Portsmouth, and his staff, comprising Mr. G. Murdoch, inspector of ma chinery afloat, and Mr. Ward, assistant to the en gineer in chief of the dockyard. The pitch of the screw on the ship's previous trials was 30ft. and yesterday she was tried with it set at a pitch of 28ft. 6m. This alteration, it was calculated, would allow the engines to get away with an in creased number of revolutions, develop their power to a greater extent than had hitherto been done, and give the ship an additional speed towards mak ing up the deficiency of 1,037 knot by the result of her last full-powered trial as compared with the Warrior's average. These anticipations were fully realised as regards an increase in the number of the engine's revolutions and an increased develop ment of power, but the question of speed remains in as unsatisfactory a state as ever—that is, if the in tention of the Admiralty has been in reality that the Black Prince's speed should equal that of the Warrior, which we suppose is the cause of these re newed trials. In our previous report of her full powered trials, attention was called to the fact of the mean draught of the Black Prince being then 74- inches in excess of the Warrior's on her trial. It was also suggested that the Black Prince should be lightened to precisely the same draught as the Warrior, and again tried at the mile, when the difference in speed between the two ships, if any was then found to exist, could be satisfactorily accounted for. The ship, however, has been kept in readiness for sea, and instead of yesterday mak ing her trial at lightened draught and on equal terms with her sister ship, she actually drew a greater draught of water-27ft. 3in. aft and 26ft. 4in. forward—than she drew on her previous trial, when it was 27ft. 2in. aft and 25ft. llin. forward. The consequent result of this is that in her trial of yesterday the Black Prince had a mean immersion of hull of about 8f inches over that of the Warrior when on trial. This will by some be assigned as the true cause of the difference in speed between the two ships; others may ascribe the difference in speed to a difference in form or in finish of the ship's bottom ; but none can decide the matter satis factorily under present circumstances, or apportion to each one, or any two or three of the supposed causes combined, the loss in the 13.581 knots per hour of the Black Prince yesterday, as compared with the 11 . 354 knots per hour of the Warrior on her trial. This is much to be regretted. The two ships are acknowledged to be at present unap proached by any other ships in the world in either form or power, and any difference between them in so important a matter as speed should have been fully and satisfactorily accounted for, not as a mere matter of curiosity, but as a guide for our own use in the future. The ship weighed at Spithead a little before noon, and took a turn through Spithead to secure and stow her anchor, after which she was placed on the trial ground in the Bay, and the required six runs completed with the following results, the machinery being in charge of Mr. Tucker, chief engineer of the ship, and Mr. Holliday, Messrs. Penn's manager afloat, the firm being also represented on board by Mr. Mathews, one of its members : No. Time. Speed in Revoln of . Vacuum. . min. sec. Knots, Steam. bons of Run For. Aft . Engines. 1. 358 15.126 23.5 23 23 2. 5 6 11165 25 5 23.5 23.5 56 4 354 15.384 24.5 25.5 23.5 56 4. 5 4 11.811 24 23 23 51 ; • 3 54 15384 23.5 24 24 56 6. 5 3 11•880 24 23 23 66 Mean speed of the six runs, 13584 knots. In dicated horse power of the engines, 6,100. Slip of the screw, 141- per cent. Here we have an excess of indicated power of 540 horse over the Warrior, and also a superiority in the number of the engines' revolutions, the War rior's maximum revolutions having been 55, and her minimum 53*. The temperatures were :—During the first run, on deck, 60 deg.; engine-room, starboard side, 86; middle, 83 ; port side, 103 ; fore stockhole, forward, 72 ; middle, 102 ; aft, 85; after stockhole, forward, 90; middle, 116; aft, 112. During the sixth run: —On deck, 60 deg.; engine-room, starboard side 93 ; middle, 86 ; port side, 97 ; fore stockhole, for ward, 78 ; middle, 106; aft, 94; after stockhole, forward, 105; middle, 126; and aft, 104. A fresh N.E. wind prevailed during the greater portion of the trial, but it moderated as the runs were being made, and, being off the land, could not have produced any effect injurious to the ship's pro gress. At the conclusion of theruns the ship again anchored at Spithead, and awaits orders from the Admiralty, which last evening were hourly expected on board, to proceed to Portland, supernumeraries for the Warrior having been sent on board from the flag-ship of the commander-in-chief at the port. The Military Tribunal of Paris has just tried a Gendarme of the Imperial Guard, named Willaume, on eight several charges of stealing Crimean and Italian medals from his comrades. It appeared from the evidence that the loss of these medals caused no little excitement in the corps. ro.d that all attempts to discover the thief proved fruitless, until a jeweller named Forgelot applied at the barracks to complain that a Gendarme, who had given Ihe name of Martin, had defrauded him of 20fr. There was no Gendarme of that name, but the description given by the jeweller fixed suspicion on the prisoner Willaume, who was arrested, and ho then confessed that he had stolen all the eight medals and sold them to Forgelot, pretending that he had got them all from comrades who had been dis charged ; and added that Forgelot had advanced him the 201 r. now claimed for the purpose of buying medals which ho (prisoner) pretended had been offered to him by six or seven soldiers in barracks at Courbevoie. The prisoner persisted in his confession b efore the Tribunal, and was accordingly found guilty and condemned to five years' imprisonment. 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