The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-06 00:00:00

GREAT EASTERN STEAM SHIP. SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY. The GREAT SHIP is expected to leave her moorings, Off Deptford, to-morrow about 7 a.m. Extra trains will leave London for GREENWICH as often Its may be required after 6 a.m. Additional trains will also run to Woolwich, Erith, Green hithe, and GRAVESEND after 7 a.m., affording passengers an opportunity of witnesstng, the ship pass down the River to the Nore. C. W. EBORALL, General Manager. London Terminus, 6th Sept., 1859 r - _ T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAY M ARKET Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with VIE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. With THE CONTESTED ELECTION. Followed by HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. And HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. this means they learn the degrees of distinctness with which the details of a man's features and form can be distinguished at different distances. Judging distance, therefore, does not require the use of a rifle, for it is not necessary to bnock over a man with a ball to show that you know the distance he is off. There are, moreover, many instruments gradu ated to the average height of a man which are used for the purpose, and which in actual warfare the captain and officers of a company would do well to carry. Nothing could be clearer or better defined than this. Then as to the dress—that of the Knicker bocker is preferred as possessing all the advantages of the kilt as regards freedom of limb, without any of its disadvantages. " Moreover," he says, "the Knickerbocker legging and laced ankle-boot have this additional recommendation, that they re semble in a great measure the dress of our own peasantry. They might, indeed, be almost said to constitute an existing national costume—for the English peasantry generally wear breeches, leg gin gs, and laced ankle-boots ; and the Irish peasantry wear breeches. The main difference between the two is this: the Englishman buttons his breeches and the Irishman habitually wears them unbuttoned." Then, as to the colour of the dress, it should be grey, light or Austrian grey, the material Tweed. The worst colour for riflemen is the invisible green, which actually appears' perfectly black. He gays that red is the most fatal colour, while the least fatal is Austrian grey. The proportions are—red, 12 ; rifle green, 7 ; brown, 6 ; Austrian bluish grey, 5. This is curious and instructive, if true. Now we suppose it must be true, for the Austrians are on the point of changing their military uniform of white to grey ! There is a capital woodcut of a rifleman prefixed to this speech, which looks all that a practical soldier at ease should be. Major-General HAY has endorsed Lord ELaro's proposals in the appendix to this speech, and is Well worthy of perusal. Matter-of-fact and prosaic to the last degree though the Right Hon. JAMES WasoN undoubt edly is, he nevertheless afforded, upon the first of this present month of September, the liveliest illus tration of one of the most amusing among the earlier sketches of Mr. THACKERAY. This was upon the occasion of The Cutlers' Feast down at Sheffield, a full report of the elocutionary proceedings at the close of which banquet appeared . in our impression of Saturday evening. It will probably have been remarked by many of our readers how, in the exor dium of the otherwise singularly rational and argu mentative oration delivered upon that festive night by the right hon. gentleman, lately M.P. for Devon port, previously M.P. for Westbury, and now, as we may style him pretty correctly, her Britannic MAJESTY'S Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer, indulged himself and his hearers, in a piquant manner, with a variation of the customary after dinner hyperbole. If that was not precisely the happiest evening of Mr. WILSON'S life—it was all but that acme of human felicity. Observe the very opening words of the harangue—when the right. hon. gentleman rose in the midst of "loud cheering" to articulate his grateful acknowledgments. " I am sure," quoth he, " every gentleman will well understand what must be my feelings, almost a stranger in your town, after you have received me in so kind and indulgent a manner, to have to ac knowledge it." A little incoherent, by the way, but no matter—the right hon. gentleman thus con tinues to articulate his thanks in emotional lan " I rise," he says, "as well as 1 am able" —giving one a lively notion, in that one brief sen tence, of the relief and refreshment it would pro bably have been to his delicate and agitated nervous system to have taken at that moment a timely swift at a bottle of salts, or a vinaigrette. However, in the absence of any such opportune reviver, Mr. WIL SON has to gird up his loins and brace himself to the encounter of the rhetorical difficulty as best he might under the circumstances. And it is in these words he continues—and it is here that we find the apt and vivid illustration (already alluded to) of that humorous sketch from the pen of Mr. THACKERAY :—" I assure you," he says impres sively, " I assure you the observations of the gen tleman who proposed it (viz., his health), and the manner in which you have received it e., the toast), have made on me the deepest impression, I say without exaggeration, THAT I EVER EXPE RIENCED IN MY LlFE—(loud cheers—and no wonder)—the deepest impression not only from the kindness of your reception, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera." Pretty tall talking, that ! or, as the Yankees would otherwise express it—Piling it up rather mountainously ! Blatherum-skate ! accord ing to some Irishmen—or precisely what that facetious Patlander startled Mr. Secretary PEEL with at the Lord-Lieutenant's table, when de scribing the rhetorical arts of the oiliest of Advo cates—" First of all he butthers them up, and then he slithers them down!" To indicate the same thing more epigramatically—what the French call "blague !" and we, in our more homely vernacular, " bosh !" But the Sheffield people liked it. The Master Cutler sat in the chair—and the cutlers generally, or the pick of them, sat round their own hospitable board, after the best possible use of all cutlery in the shape of knives and forks, drinking in the seductive flatteries of their honoured guest, and—" listening delighted." It was only a sample of human nature—and " Natur'," as we all know, is " a rum un'," accord ing to the celebrated Mr. SQUEERS, the Yorkshire schoolmaster. guage. So true is it to human nature, indeed, that we have read the whole thing years ago, or, at any rate, have enjoyed the opportunity of so doing, if we cared for it, almost word for word in SPEC'S report of " A Dinnei in the City "—to be found in Vol. 11. of Mr. TIIACKERAY'S republished " Mis• cellanies." There we read. at page 334, as follows —in the course of the after dinner speechification : —" Then the ,secretary of the Tape and Sealing wax Office [Mr. WILSON to a T], rose to return thanks for the blessings which we begged upon the Ministry [read for " Ministry" " Himself," and the cases are precisely analogous]. He was," he said, "a humble—the humblest member of that body.. The suffrages which that body had received from the nation were gratifying ; but the most gratifying testimonial of all was the approval of the Bellows Menders' Company. (Immense applause.) Yes, among the most enlightened of the mighty corporations of the City, the most enlightened was the Bellows-Menders. Yes; he might say, in consonance with their motto, and in defiance of illiberality, Affiavet veritas et dissipati vent. (Enormous applause.) Yes, the thanks and pride that were boiling with emotion in his bosom, trembled to find utterance at his lip. Yes, the proudest moment of his life, the crown of his am bition, the meed of his early hopes, and struggles, and aspirations, was at that moment won in the approbation of the Bellows-Menders. Yes, his children should know that he too had attended at those great, those noble s those joyous, those ancient festivals, and that he too, the humble individual who, from his heart, pledged the assembled com pany in a bumper—that he too was a Bellows- Mender." That—perhaps with a little more florid eloquence—is really and truly the English of it all, the right-down, plain English of all the hyperboli cal flummery addressed to the Cutlers of Sheffield by Mr. JAMES WILSON upon the first of September. It is Mr. THACKERAY'S anticipative ironical cora- mentary upon such assurances addressed to a Com pany of Cutlers by a right hon. gentleman, as—" I assure you that so-and-so, and so-and-so, your com pliments, your approval, your approbation have made on me the deepest impression, I say, without exaggeration, TIIAT I EVER EXPERIENCED IN MY LIFE !" and so forth. There is but one lexicographer who can afford authority for any such language, and (we need scarcely add) he is obviously— WALKER. Most of our readers will have read with surprise and regret the new style of public amusement that has been introduced in America. We allnde to the extraordinary and foolhardy achievement of cross ing Niagara upon a cord. Not content with this daring feat M. BLONDIN, the adventurer in question thought proper to risk another life as well as his own, and on the 17th of August he crossed the falls on a tight rope, carrying his agent, Mr. CONCORD, a man weighing 136 lbs. on his back! The excite ment created by the announcement of this perform- ante is described as something surprising. Ex cursion trains were run upon all the roads leading to the falls and every train was crowded. Two steamers each took down about twelve hundred persons, and a very large number went down in their own carriages, making in all, we are told, " probably the largest crowd ever assembled at Niagara Falls." The ordinary feats of M. BLONDIN are, one would think, sufficiently perilous without his undertaking to carry a man over. Here is the description of his crossing alone :—" After proceeding about 100 feet he stopped, swung one foot and then the other, and then, walking along 15 or 20 feet, stopped and stood upon his head, resting on the balancing pole which lay across the rope, the ends supported upon the guy rope. He then ran along the rope, stood upon his head, sat down, turned somersaults backwards and forwards, and proceeded to the middle of the river where there are no guys. He here lay down on the rope on his back at full length, stood on his head, laid his balancing pole across the rope and stood upon it with one foot, and balanced it with the other foot, his hands lying by his side. He then passed along the rope to where the guys on the Canada side were fastened, and laid down his balancing pole. He now returned with his body suspended beneath the rope, running along with his hands and feet, as an ape, to the middle of the rope, between the guys. He here went through all the feats attempted by tight-rope performers, such as hanging by one foot, then the other, by one hand, then dropping his body down full length below the rope and whirling round, resting his breast upon the rope, and with arms and legs extended, as if in the act of swimming. He hung by both arms, and then passed his body between his arms and the rope, and in fact per-' formed all the feats ever accomplished by the most agile tight-rope performers. He then returned to where his balancing-pole was, took it up, and crossed to the Canada bank, stopping several times to turn somersaults, stand upon his head, upon one foot, and to lie down upon the rope." M. Blondin occupied something over half an hour in crossing, most of the time being spent in his performance on the rope." As might be expected, the excitement occasioned by this feat induced another adventurer, whose heels are more gifted than his head, to make a similar attempt. The Rochester Union tells US that a man named Delave crossed the Genesee river and falls upon a rope with safety and success, all the more marvel lous that the rope was wet and not properly tightened. On this occasion, too, the crowd was immense, being " the largest array of spectators ever seen congregated for a single object in this city." It is with great regret that we witness the encouragement and continuance of such foolhardi ness. Our transatlantic cousins are thought to be somewhat too careless of human life as it is, and such exhibitions as these are certainly not calculated to increase their respect for it. Were there any possible object to be attained by the display, were there any public good, or even scientific advantage, to be derived from it, recklessness would rise into heroism, and we should regard with admiration as a noble courage what we can now only look upon as a contemptuous disregard of the respon sibilities of a human being. These American ad venturers should be warned by the fate of the poor acrobat at Waterloo-bridge, who lost his life under such melancholy circumstances. Human life is surely something more than a mere toy, that the fact of a man running an imminent risk is to be considered as a fitting public exhibition. We believe such aimless achievements have gone out of fashion on this side of the Atlantic, and we trust to the good sense and humanity of our people to discou sage their revival. Our " go-a-head" cousins do not display their civilisation to advantage in en couraging these reckless proceedings, stimulating the acrobats to continue their foolhardy exploits, and tempting excitement on the verge of eternity. Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Leiningen have left Howchin's Hotel on a tour through Switzerland. His Excellency Baron Bentinek has left town ox a tour of visits in Yorkshire. Viscount and Viscount Palmerston left town yes terday for Broadlands, Hants. Sir G. C. Lewis left town yesterday for Harpton Court, Kinston, Herefordshire. DEATH OF THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP CARR.— The Right Rev. Bishop Carr, rector of Bath, and formerly Bishop of Bombay, died yesterday morning at a quarter to eight o'clock at his residence in Lansdowne-crescent, Bath. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews are about to re turn to the United States, intending, it is said, a theatrical tour there. They will go by the Great Eastern. OPENING OF THE ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY IN TILE WOKING NECROPOLIS.—Yesterday forenoon a large number of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fel lows, Manchester Unity, left London by the South Western Railway, for the purpose of being present at the inaugura tion of the Odd Fellows' Cemetery, a portion of the Necro polis at Woking. The members walked in procession from the station to the ground, and assembled in the chapel,. where the chaplain, the Rev. R. Le Make, made a dis course, founding his remarks on the 133 d Psalm. They then went to the ground, where an address was delivered by Dr. Pettigrew, who stated that there were in Middlesex no less than 54,710 members of the society, and in Surrey nearly 2,000. • - • PARIS, Sept. 4.—The Emperor does not relax in his warlike preparations. A foundry for cannon is about to be established at Bourges, and the town is to be strongly fortified. The number of iron-bound ships of the line which are ordered to be laid down is raised from 10 to 20 ; and since the Admiralty workshops do not suffice for the Completion of the engines, &c., the Creusot Company has received orders to keep their forges at the disposal of the Government. This order has been given in consequence of the successful issue of the experiments which you were re cently informed were about to be made at the Hyeres isles, on some iron-sheathed gunbiats. IMMIGRATION.—The number of emigrants who returned to the United Kingdom in 1858 was 23,704, of whom there came from America 18,841, and from Australia and New Zealand, 4,863. The return of emigrants from America is attributable to the commercial distress which during last year prevailed in the United States and British North 'America, and paralysed the usual means of employ ment. The smaller number who returne I from Australia consists, probably of persons who, having acquired pro perty, have come back to enjoy it in the mother country. M'MAIION AT MAGENTA.—TIic Nation, which we suppose is an authority upon everything relating to Mar shal M'Mahon, says that the following passage is extracted from a letter scut by the marshal to Gen. Changarnier, and concludes that it proves the nnwenient by which the fortune of the day was retrieved by the French army to have been undertaken by the successful general on his own responsi bility, and contrary to the orders he had received :—" I had orders to operate in a given sense. But' having heard the sound'of cannon, and learned the danger which threa tened the army, I tore up my orders, and did the reverse of what I was commanded. I succeeded, inasmuch as I have been made a duke and marshal of France. But is it your oninion that I failed in my duty as a soldier and in discipline ? I feel the necessity of having the decision of such a man as you." The bar silver by the Mexican steamer has been disposed of at 61d., it being a decline of id. from the price realised by the preceding packet. The dollars are still unsold. Commence at 7 o'clock. VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY. Sonsisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, aad Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR. SIX, and FIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evci written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi. ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu idastio tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They ll wi perform T WICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 6. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 65—highest since soon yesterday. 60 lowest this morning and during the night. 67—this day at noon. BABomETER-29.87—falling rapidly. WIND, S.S.W. ; rather fresh, with some rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, Bh. 29m.—Afternoon, 9h. 15m. To-Moßuow-Morning, 10h. lm.—Afternoon, 10h. 45m. 4 -,-. , ..:, , e , .. ...... ~, ik „...:r \ , .., , ,,,I*.CLU f • Mg, . l' i f / ' - Z'i - 1-4 - ''.-'-::, , j' '''• , ' 40 : , it i ~., 4\: 14 0 , 1; ' l ' 40 " V - •• -4 ."" ~ , , f^, 4 ., -91-4 4 , ~ ' ~,,,‘,- - N- • , THE SUN. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1859. For some time back the country has been all on the alert to be prepared for invasion. This has been occasioned by the supposed conduct of one of our faiends over the way. It is now assumed that there was no sufficient reason for such alarm. However that may be, the people all over the United King dom have taken up the idea, and acted on the princi ple, that where danger was apprehended although it did not appear, still it might come, and so they resolved to be prepared against the cry of wolf come when it might, This is consonant with pru dence and will one day find its due reward. We may have nothing to fear in probability—but as the possible might take us unawares it is well to guard against all dangers. Acting on this princi ple we hear of nothing but the formation of Rifle or Volunteer Clubs. " Riflemen, form !" seems to be the order of the day, and a manly amusement, if not one of duty, it is universally acknowledged to be. In July last a public meeting of Scottish Volun teer Rifles took place at the Freemasons' Tavern, under the able presidency of Lord ELCHO, who made a very stirring speech on the occasion. That 2speeck had been so well thought of that the meet ing requested his lordship to be allowed to publish a corrected report of it. His lordship readily con rsented, and now we have a copy published by RIDGWAY, and the SMITHS, of the Strand, lying before us. Lord ELMO is not only a bold Scot, but an accomplished sportsman. The rifle is to him ." familiar as a fan" in fairy hands, and right well does he expound its use. After enlarging on the desirability of the formation of volunteer rifle clubs, he points out the best manner to ensure their accomplishment. In 1804, when we were threatened with invasion by the genius of NAPOLEON from the Heights of Boulogne, Mr. PITT called out the Volunteers, and he considered them as a body forming a solid system of national defence. Lord ELcno now enforces that principle by showing that our independence should not rest 'on the friendship or forbearance of any foreign potentate ; and his lordship is quite right. The wonderful efficiency to which a body of men might be brought in the event of invasion is exemplified by the example of GARIBALDI, who, with but a handful of volunteers, hung on the right wing and .1f the Austrian army in the late war. His Lordship then speaks of the probable number of volunteers that might be raised : " Wha t number of volunteers we may expect to get I cannot pretend to say, but I have fall confidence in the spirit and patriotism of our people ; and we have lately seen what may be done in an emergency, when in such a town as B. rescia, 3,000 out of a population of 40,000 volun teered for Garibaldi's corps. London alone, therefore, if ever called sapon to make similar exertions, might, accord ing to the same relative proportion, furnish more than 200,000 mem We may, therefore, I think, reasonably look to the ,establishment of numerous volunteer corps ; and we may e•onfidently trust to their zeal and patriotism, as well as to a spirit of rivalry and competition, for their skill I s marksmen, and for their efficiency as sol- diers. " I have el-ready touched upon the chief objection to them, naniel . y, that they would be inefficient for pur _ poses of defe: tee ; but there are other objections urged against them. It is said that you cannot have these rifle corps in any n amber, from the difficulty of getting range, and the danger of shooting in all directions ; that there is risk in thus arming the people and establishing a na tional guard, a 'ad, finally, that it will interfere with yeo manry corps. , " Now, gentle ;nut, .as a practical rifleman, accustomed to the use of the rifle from my childhood, I say, without fear of contradict tian, there is no greater delusion than to suppose that it :se nee-essary to have a long range to learn to shoot. These m aim n rifles, with the canical expanding ball, will unquest'ombly shoot accuracy at extreme ranges at 1,000 or 1,50 C. yi rds—but, in order to learn to shoot at that distance, thei e is no occasion to practise at a long range. The art of rile-shooting may be divided into two . parts—shooting, an d 'judging distance. " Shooting consis 'A —Firstly, in knowing in what position to hold the body wh esl taking aim ; secondly, in knowing how to t a k e th e s i g hts, and aim at the object you wish to it ; and thirdly, in knowing how to pull the trigger by a steady p ressure, w i tl Lout a j er k . ,c Now thase s can be acquired without even powder and hall —simply BIZ ipping off caps at a lighted candle. To 'teach men to shoot rat a mark with ball, a range of one or two hundred Yrds. , iiis all that is required. Beyond this, it is a mere question d : the sighting of your rifle; and the , m um who can hit a b nil's-eye at 100 yards will be able to cahoot no less well at ,0001 f his rifle is properly sighted, and lye know the distance. In point of fact, as far as this matter of range go( there is no more difficulty now in eatablishing rifle con Is than there was in the practice o :the bow in the good old day o f merry England, w h en , , VIII., butts were ord ere d to b e set Ban act of Hen r y „ o r that the youth might be instructed n every parish, ;31 t)'i e use of the bow, All that would now be required w. Ink 1 bk the erecti on of walls or mounds at the back of ,he targets, where there. was not some hill-side against whip +h to practise, . u'd if additional precautions are thou ;1 ,t to be desirablo, as screen with an opening thrmseegh which' nothing but the ba ll and target can be n rhould. be erected at the other end of the range. Through it tixe ri :Keenan would fire, and any chance shot which did n ot go through this opening would be stopped by the screen. " Th L ) other part .of rifle-shooting, namely, j u d g ing dis tance, i, a perhaps the chief difficulty to be overcome. It is m ore from want .( - )f the power ef judging distance than f ro m any inaccinaey of aim—as many who hear hie wet ' know — that deer' so often escape unscathed by the sportsman's bullet. Now, judging distance is taught b y stationing men at certain measured inter vals, s a y' every 100 yards along any clear open space ; a str a i g h t road would do. At Hythe it is done along the beach in London the Guards are taught to judge dis tance i n Ff y de Park. The men under instruction are singly, made to g ne , ;i3 the distances at which the different points are placed, az Id the answers are taken down in writing; by THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1859. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : ZURICH, SEPT. 6. Austria desires a guarantee from Sardinia against all future secret intrigues in Italy, previous to making any concessions at the Confere'nces. t is asserted that the principal object of the visit of Prince Metternich to St. Sauveur was to endeavour to arrange an interview between the Emperors of France and Austria for the discussion of the difficulties the Conferences have met with, but this interview has not yet been decided on. PARIS, SEPT. 6th. Rear- Admiral Du Pouy who had been summoned by the Emperor to St. Sauveur, has just quitted the Imperial residence and proceeded to Cherbourg. PARIS, SEPT. 6. The Constitutionnel of this morning publishes an article contradicting certain assertions contained in a leter, which appeared a few days ago in the In dependance Beige, from its correspondent, with the signature " IL," and which treated of the policy of the Emperor towards England in connection with the treaty of Villafranca. COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 5. The Faedrelandet of this day states that Prussia and Austria have informed the Danish Government that the affairs of Holstein are being treated of by the Federal Diet. Prussia and Austria stated that this communication needed no further reply from Denmark, TURIN, SEPT. 5. The municipality of Milan has arrived at Turin for the purpose of inviting the deputation from Florence to visit the city of Milan. The Tuscan deputation will quit Turin on Wednesday and pro ceed to Milan. VIENNA, SEPT. 5. The official Wiener Zeitun 9 , in its evening edi tion, contradicts the alarming rumours which have been current regarding the continuance of the Zurich conferences. It hopes for a satisfactory conclusion, and considers the presence of the French troops of occupation, which have been left in Italy, to be of service to the interest of order. BERNE, SEPT. 5. Signor Manuel Rances y Villanueve, late Minis ter at the Court of Brazil, is appointed by the Spa nish Government Envoy Extraordinary and Minis ter Plenipotentiary to the Helvetic Confederation. FLORENCE, SEPT. 5. Last e4ning a grand illumination took place throughout Tuscany; the arms of the house of Savoy were placed upon the gates of the Palazzo Vecchio and the Palazzo Pitti, amid the enthu siastic cheers of the populace. The municipal body of Florence gave a grand fete. A proclamation of the Government explains the words which the King of Sardinia has addressed to the Tuscan de putation. The peasantry participate in the uni veral joy of the people of Tuscany. TRIESTE, SEPT. 5. Advices have been received from Corfu to the 28th ult. The lonian parliament is prorogued to the 10th of December next. PALERMO, AUG. 29. Complete tranquillity prevails throughout Sicily, PARIS, SEPT. 5, Prince Richard Metternich arrived here this morning. To-morrow a conference is to be held at Paris for the definitive settlement of the question of the Danubian Principalities. FLORENCE, SEPT. 5. The Marquis de Ferriere•le-Vayer, the French Ambassador at Florence, has been recalled by his government. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. BoußsE, Sept. s.—The market has been rather firmer. Threes were done at 69f. 10c. and improved to 69r. 20c. Mobilier varied from 815 f. to 822 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 558 f. 75c. to 560 f. ; Orleans, 1,368 f. 75c. to 1,372 f. 50c.; Lyons, 870 f. to 873 f. 75c. ; Southern, 507 f. 50e. to to 510 f. ; Eastern, 650 f. to 652 f. 50c. ; Northern 925 f. to 927 f. 50c. The fol lowing were the last quotations : . 4? per Cents. .... 98 ' Credit Fonder 670 Do. end month. .. '— Belgian , I, 3 per Cents. 69 20 Piedmonteso (5) Do. end month.... 6 9 20 Roman B6 Bank Shams...... 2800 Austrian Crdit Mobilier .. 823 75 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 823 75 Home Debt 42 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Amount. Orleans Northern New ditto BO7 50 .. 811 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 875 872 50 u..neva Southern Western 572 50 572 50 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard .. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 e. ; money, 25f 71e.; three months, paper, 24f. 9740.; money, 2tf. 95e. THE PAPAL STATES. A letter from Rome of the Ist, in the Debats, says :—" The Ambassadors of France has repre sented to the Government here that the Emperor would see with pleasure, under certain conditions freely accepted by both sides, the Legations return under the authority of the Pope. They might, for example, he said, retain the Administration which they have given themselves, and which appears to satisfy them, and pay the same tribute and taxes as those which existed at the moment of the de facto separation. It is probable that Bologna would sub mit to these conditions if they were recommended by friendly Powers ; and in that case the Pope would keep a governor at Bologna to prove his high suzerainty, but everything else would be dis tinct and separate. The Ambassador has also recommended reforms in the rest of the States of the Church, but he has done so in terms which, from their perfect moderation, cannot leave the Holy Father to suppose that ho does net enjoy full liberty. It appears that the basis of the pro posed reforms will be the project of 1857. It was added by the Ambassador that the military occupa tion of Rome by a French division must necessarily cease, but nothing definitive was said as to the period at which it should do so; it is, however, believed that it will be in the course of the coming year, and perhaps in the first six months of it. The Holy Father must then prepare a serious military force and be supported by the opinion of his own subjects, for Austria will not intervene, and if by chance a third Power should attempt to meddle in the affairs of Italy, and if Piedmont, as an Italian State, should wish to prevent it from doing so, France would probably see no sufficient motive for creating an obstacle." THE DUCHIES. Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna publishes the following curious article:— " The question of the Duchies will not much impede the proceedings of the authors of the peace, as it has been completely settled in the preliminaries of peace. It will present but very few difficulties of detail, and those will not in reality belong to the sphere of action of the Conferme. The clause of the preliminaries by which the expelled Sovereigns are to return to their States may be simply copied into the treaty of peace. It will without doubt be therein copied, such as it is, with perhaps a clause in favour of the Duke of Parma. The execution will not, therefore, be an object of stipulation, but a question of fact. The affair of the Duchies becomes very simple when one fact is not forgotten, to which the journals pay but little attention. It is, that the King of Sardinia signed the preliminaries of Villafranca, including the cause relative to the Duchies. Whe ther he did it willingly or unwillingly matters little. He did it, and he will be obliged by the other. contracting Powers to hold to it. King Vic tor Emmanuel is bound by his signature, and as neither Austria nor France is disposed to allow the article to fall to the ground, he must also sign the treaty of peace which reproduces it. King Victor Emmanuel cannot therefore accept the annexation of the Duchies. At this moment, that is before the signature of the peace, he is still free to leave hope to his admirers by saying to them—' I cannot yet explain myself, for I da not yet know what will be the final result of the Conference;' but when the treaty of peace, including an article on the restora tion of the legitimate sovereigns, shall be signed, the King of Sardinia can only express in his declaration the regret that he was not able, in apite of the best intentions, to annex the Duchies to his kingdom. The restoration will then take place of itself. Victor Emmanuel will not accept his election, and his in terest will not permit him to let another candidate be chosen. He would moreover condemn a pro clamation of the Republic, and the same would be the case with France and Austria. The procla mation of a Republic would be, in our opinion, the only case that could occasion an armed intervention. The restoration of the legitimate princts will not necessitate any such intervention. Let the Pied montese volunteers and soldiers who agitate the Duchies. in the disguise of national guards, be re moved, and that can easily be done by menacing the King of Sardinia to cause French troops to re main at Milan, Turin, and Genoa so long as the Piedmontese shall remain in the Duchies ; let, we say, the populations of Central Italy be delivered from revolutionary terrrorism, and reaction will take place of itself for the advantage of the dis possessed Sovereigns, supposing that those Sove reigns proclaim the reforms and institutions to which the populations are entitled." The Piedniontese Gazette announces that in answer to an application made by the Prussian ambassador at Turin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Vienna has informed him that the hos tages taken in Lombardy were released by the military authorities on the 18th ult., as well as the horses taken by requisition. The following statement of the votes collected in the States of Parma is published in the Piedmon tese Gazette : —For annexation to Piedmont — Parma, 23,222 ; Piacenza, 17,287 ; Borgo San Don nino, 5,963; Borgotaro, 4,679; Poatremoli, 5,044 —total, 56;195. Against annexation—Parma, 113 Piacenza, 257 ; Borgo San Donnino, 43; Borgotaro, 49 ; Poatremoli, 19—total, 483. AMERICA. The screw steamer Hammonia, Captain Sohwen sen, arrived in Cowes Roads yesterday morning, en route from New York to Hamburg, with 54 pas sengers, 188,047 dols. in specie, and advices of the 24th ult. The Hammonia had during the voyage fine wea ther and south-westerly winds, except during the last two days, when the winds were variable. On the Ist inst. she passed the ship Marengo, and on the 3d the Flying Foam, both bound to the west ward. By this arrival he have one day's political news beyond what was brought by the Arabia. Late advices from Kansas state that the border ruffians are again in arms. Considerable uneasiness existed, and a renewal of the old disturbances is anticipated. The latest accounts from the gold region speak of new and very productive dis coveries of the precious metal. The diggers in the Kansas gold region have adopted a state consti tution. Energetic measures are being devised by the Government at Washington to put an end to the Cuban slave trade. By late advices from Hayti we learn that the republic was quite tranquil. President Giffard has been chosen " Grand Protector" of the Order of Freemasons. The Canada, from Liverpool, falling due at Hali fax on the 23d, had not arrived there on the 24th. At Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, and Buffalo, flour and wheat were dull and unchanged up to the evening of the 23d. At New Orleans, on the 23d, cotton was unchanged. Sales during the day, 550 bales. THE SILK TRADE. Accounts from the silk-producing departments announce that native silk is becoming every day more scarce. There was scarcely any business transacted at • the last market of Aubenas, the heavy rain having prevented the growers from coming to market. The little silk ofered for sale was purchased at from 88f. to 92f. the kilogramme, according to quality. The manufacturers of Lyons are living almost entirely on orders received from the United States. Spun silk from Syria is quoted at Marseilles at 92f. the killogramme. Wines of last year's growth are in good demand at the wine market at Bercy, and prices are firm. The near approach of the vintage appears to produce no effect on prices. Holders of stock are now convinced that the vintage will be deficient in quantity, and the quality will depend on the weather. It is generally believed that a further rise in prices will take place. At Auxerre, where the vineyards pro mise an excellent vintage, the light stock of wino on hand, and' the unfavourable accounts received from other wine-producing districts, have caused an increased demand, and good ordinary Burgundy is not to be had for less than 110 f. the cask of 300 bottles. White wines of 1857 are quoted at Ber le-Dec at 70f. the hectolitre. Macon wine was sold at Bourg last week at 56f. the hectolitre. The wine-growers of Chaulieu have raised their wines 15f. the cask within the last month. The vintage in that neighbourhood is not as good as last year. Wines of the Beaujolais have risen 20f. the cask at Macon within •the last few days. The wine-growers in that neighbour hood are in despair at seeing the appearance of the grapes. They have become small and withered, and, as they drop off the stalk, the crop is daily diminishing. The damp nights have improved the vineyards in The neighbourhood of Montelimart ; grapes are - sold there at 12f. the 100 kilogrammes. The approach of the vintage and the prospect of a good crop in that nighbourhood have produced a fall in the price of wine at Nantes. There is very little business doing in brandies in the Paris mar ket ; prices, nevertheless, are well maintained. At La Rochelle brandy is quoted at from 105 f. to 120 f. the hectolitre, without the cask. Beetroot spirit is worth, in Paris, 87f. the hectolitre ; Languedoc, nor. TIIE DUKE OF MON.TROSE ON TIIE PROBABILITY or• INvAsioN.—At a meeting held on Friday last at Dum barton, for the formation of a volunteer rifle corps, Sir J. Colquhoun, lord-lieutenant of the county, presididg, the Duke of Montrose said—" Wo know, as the lord-lieu tenant has said, that we are now more liable to invasion than formerly—that is to say, that an invasion might more readily take place now than in former years, as the navies now-a-days ere different from those of past times, so that there is no doubt it would be easier to land a large body of troops here than formerly. We must feel that,motwith standing the great amity that is professed by a neighbour ing country towards us, which we reciprocate and are anxious to maintan, yet 'we cannot feel so safe as if there was a constitutional Government in that county, when the whole is dependent on the single will of one individual. (Cheers.) We must feel that there is no check upon him if he should think it to be to his advantage—but I think he won't find that—to attack this country. He has not the check of a Parliament or of the representatives of the na tion, or the more mild influence of the country through the public Press ; and therefore we cannot possess all the secu rity which we should have without baing armed for all c ,, ntingencies. This feeling has spread all over the coun try, and has been spoken of in Parliament, and the expres sions there given forth have been endorsed by the people at large; and therefore I think we ought to adopt a line of conduct pursued by a large portion of the people of Eng land, and also by many in various parts of Scotland—a course which I consider extremely desirable." ASCENT OF Mos . !: BLANc.— Messrs. Tyndal and Frafrikland have just made a successful ascent of Mont Blanc. On the 21st August these two English savants macho% the summit, where they placed their tent of india rubber on the south side, and prepared to pass the night, with the intention of returning at 10 o'clock the following morning, which they accordingly did. Thus these two gentlemen sojourned on the summit of Mont Blanc for the space of 20 hours, with their three guides and seven porters. Thus thiS hazardous enterprise, and which was the first attempt pf the kind which has been made ' was happily crowned with success. The party suffered from violent attacks of headache, exactly resembling sea-sickness in their efe3ts, and from which none of them were exempt.— Journal de Geneve. THE GREAT EASTERN. Unavoidable circumstances connected with the clearing out certificates prevented the great ship leaving her river moorings this morning, as previously intended. From an early hour the various thoroughfares on both sides of the river leading to the place of departure of the mon ster ship were crowded by pedestri,aus and vehicles of all descriptions. As early as fi tve o'clock some thousands were waiting at the different railway stations, eager to be transported ti.l some favourable spot where a view might be had of the greatest achievement in maritime archite , cture. However, all were doomed to disappointmE nt. The railway officials, as soon as they were made aware of the postponement of the sailing of tl to ship, very con siderately issued a placard•to th at effect, and thus prevented an idle journey to the a nxious expectants. Trips had also been announced by the steam-boat companies to convey passengers some considerable distance down the river ; but ti ley likewise gave timeons notice of the delay vili.ich had occurred. The scene on each side of the river at Greenwich was most enlivening; the espla.nade presented quite a holiday appearance ; and as numerous visitors had arrived at Greenwich the previous night, the various hotels must have reaped a good harvest. We believe it is finally arranged that the Great Eastern will sail to-morrow (Wednesday) morning. It is intended to commence tow ing her down at the half•flood tide, so that she may reach Gravesend by mid-day. She will arrive at the Nore about noon on Thursday, when she will swing to adjust compasses, starting for Portland on Saturday morning next. The Liverpool Albion says—" Some i)f our metro politan contemporaries, in enumerating' the imports and exports of India, China, and Australia, and speaking of Calcutta as the port of the, monster ship, confidently ask, Can any one doubt but she will get full cargoes there ?' Now, our readers will only have to look at the map of Endia to see that nothing will be got at Calcutta save the pro ducts of Bengal and the provinces on the Ganges, and that it would be foolish to suppose that Bombay would send goods 1,400 miles out of their course, Madras 700, Singapore 1,300, and the Chinese ports from 3,200 to 3,500, Australia being equally distant. The directors must not be misled by such nonsense. The imports of Calcutta are not equal to those of Pailadeiphia, Boston, Montreal, New Orleans, or Baltimore, nor one-twelfth of those of New York ; and of her exports, what may be the Great Eastern's share but a part of the indigo, silks, spices, and valuable products, not amounting alto gether to 25,000 tons a year ? Sugar, rum, rice, would come by clipper ships to direct ports, the freights of these, during the last two years, ranging from 10s. to 60s. per ton—a poor look out for her shareholders ! Where, then, is the emigration to or from India? As we said before, the trade for her is that formerly carried on by the liners and packets, and now by them and our steamers, and as the great ship cannot come here or.to New York, the St. Lawrence and Cork are the next best. Should 'the internal navigation of America, by Quebec, be overlooked, and another port chosen, then Portland and Norfolk have their claims, the former being the shorter voyage, but having 200 or 300 miles more rail to Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Chicago, and St. Louis, and 100 more to Philadelphia, Washington, and Baltimore, New York being half way between them. On the other hand Norfolk has, by rail, all the cotton trade of the Carolinas and Georgia, as well as the tobacco and grain trades of Virginia, Tennessee and Ken tucky. Next to New York, Quebec, by her vast inland ship navigation, would be the most likely port to fill the great ship ; and second to her, Nor ' folk. It will depend on the Grand Trunk Railway and Canadian people, by having the rail extended to a proper harbour for the winter in the St. Law rence, and a wharf erected, to have the benefit of the great ship at all seasons. The British and Irish press have given the pros and cons, but we believe that it is as yet undecided as to her trade by the directors. . Saunder's News Letter says :—" A noteworthy fact is that the ship nearest in size to the Great Eastern arrived in England from America about 30 years ago. She was called the Baron of Ren frew, was 600 feet long, and was composed of large logs of timber clamped together in the roughest manner. It was predicted that she never would steer, never would cross the Atlantic ; but she did, and immediately upon her arrival was broken up. Indeed, she was nothing more than imported timber, having been patched together to avoid the timber duty, which wasithen exceedingly heavy. She ful filled her mission in every way, but the Govern ment was down upon the new dodge, and prevented any repetition of the experiment. • ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENON.—A very curious atmospheric phenomenon was produced on Friday morning on the railway wires round Paris. At 7 o'clock, when the service commences in the various stations, it was remarked at the central station, placed at the hotel of the Minister of the Interior, that some of the instruments were charged with electricity, as if the corresponding station had sent a constant current. It was soon found that the fact was general, the wires at all the stations being in the same state. By interrupting the circuit of the wires strong sparks were obtained. The same thing was produced at the same time on all the telegraphic wires throughout France, the stations placed between two lines receiving the current from each side. At halt-past nine the electricity, in place of being permanent, showed itself only at intervals. The scientific authorities were consulted as to the cause of this phenome• non. In stormy weather atmospheric electricity produces many discharges, which set in motion the telegraphic ma chines, but thse discharges are instantaneous and have net a permanent character. EXTRAORDINARY ELECTRICITY IN THE ATMO SPHERE.—STOPPAGE OF TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICA TION.—Astronomers are divided as to the causes of the re cent extraordinary superabundance of electricity in the at mosphere, but of the fact there can be no doubt, as evi denced not only by the unusual brilliancy of the aurora , borealis, but the impossibility of transmitting messages by the telegraphic wires. On Sunday the deflections of the needles at the telegraphic offices were strong and erratic, but not being a busine a day the inconvenience was not great. Yesterday, during the early part of the day, the electricity was so abundant that no information could be obtained for the newspaper offices, nor were private messages transmissible. The needles instead of being obedient to the ordinary magnetic current, were violently agitated and de flected by the electricity of the atmosphere, the result being that the telegraphic clerks could only decipher a word or two of a sentence, leaving the information incomplete, con sequently valueless. These phenomena occurred in connec tion with the wines of both the Electric and the Magnetic Telegraph Companies, and were not merely local in their manifestation, but interfered with messages from London, Liverpool, Birmingham, and more distant places. So great a disturbance of the electrical Currents has not been known for many years, scarcely since the invention of electrical telegraphing. During the afternoon and evening of yes terday the communication became re-established and regu• km—Manchester Courier of Saturday. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY.—In a letter to a con temporary, the writer refers to an institution which has already for a long time worked well in the armies of several States of Northern Germany. He states that in the armies he alludes to there is a law that no soldier can be flogged unless he is previously, by a sentence of a military court, transferred to the second class of soldiers. The measure of transferring a soldier to the second class is never resorted to, unless the man, by committing many offences, or by persisting in the repetition of the same offence in spite of punishments, has shown himself to be an otherwise incor rigible offender. It deprives him of the honour of wearing the cockade with the colours of his country, and renders him liable to bodily chastisement, which even then can be inflicted only in consequence of a fresh offence, and a sentence to that effect passed by the Court. This institu tion exempts the great body of the soldiers from a punish ment which is considered degrading in the armies of Northern Germany, France, and many other countries; it gives a fair warning to the obstinate offender, and might prove to be of benefit if adopted in the army of this country. ANOTHER RUSSIAN EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE THE AMOUR.—The Hamburg Correspondent has the fol lowing from St. Petersburg :—" We are informed that another expedition to explore the territories of the Amour is ,now being organised under the auspices of the Grand Duke Constantine. At the head of the expedition is M. Maninow, well known for having travelled on foot through all Russia in the costume of a working man, in order to study the condition of the peasantry. Several exploring parties have already left Irkutsch for the countries men tioned, but solely with a view to search for the gold places said to exist there. Some of the explorers have found rich mines near the source of the Seja, but not easily worked, as they are covered with a stratum of peat of immense thickness. It is not without interest for the China trade to learn that the westetn . provinces of that empire now send caravans of tea to Semipolotinsk, so that Kiatcha no longer enjoys the monopoly of the tea trade. The caravans from Central Asia generally take two routes ; some go towards Siberia, by Semiplototinsk and Petrohauwtosk, and others towards Orenburg by Tronzk. The favour the othersaccorded to the Asiatics of passing the Russian frontier withoutiouctn passports from their own Governments and the reduction of the custom duties, have had a most beneficial effect on the trade." say l s )l. w S h rT is ll D Uß r. S s:m T. that ed there ri are ex tenuatinggaol ? Is he considered "guilty," . contemporary "°p — et A hur W st i i s t t e il r l d i e n ta a in circumstances to justify a s P on ° e l ri 3 u . circumstances, which exte nuatesentence. Unless there are no Howes' to lake its but ation" of the the crime, the law ought to be a course. is he considered innoce nt ? Then he ought to be released, f o r it is as unjust to detainhaninnocentmanin prison 'as it is to execute 4m . Te only conclusion, I think, to be drawn from the rl i c s t that that h t e h ‘ e ‘ is reprieved ved ing her Majesty's pleasur e, ' is none, in tsthuimech,eii circums circumstances, sift the matter. As there are no xt • 9 sus pended during her. pleasure, in e ord e e n r .u t a o t n gi , ve . mor ui e stail t tat i io m otn e o to f andt e sentence, e b n e ce , for investigation, there appears to a r ecpar.sice st-e)," justifyor the a c d in tendedelay to give mow )40 Sentence should be deferred. On the other hand, if no is considered inno cent,be no valid reason why the execution , of or if there be a doubt As to his guilt, then he ought t 4 be immediately discharged, since it is the height of c4velty to punish, in any . way, an innocent man, or It an of whose must be borne in mind eri in D a r lit .s y ni there eth is a Smethurst is not It t t nalvin gaol awaiting a fresh trial, unless what is going on at the Home-office may be that m considered enalu THE NINE HOURS ' MOVEN. The members of the conference who assembled yesterday at the Paviors' Arms were in higher spirits apparently than they have been at a n y time since the commencement of the strike, a t the prospect of the dividend which they were enabled d to eclare: It was generally supposed by the employers and others who were not acquainted with the nature and amount of the levies which have recently b een f made among the men in work that the dividend would be even smaller than it was afortnight They will he surprised, therefere, to learn that the to every actual dividend declared amounted to 3s. per men ment out of work in consequence of the lock-ou society man, of whatever class, at this mot-. This is in addition to what the societies, will seve rally contribute, so that for this week at least the men will not be lett entirely without funds. At the same time Trollope's men, now r educed to 191 1.11 number, received, as was anticipated, 12s. skillT and Bs. unskilled labourers. The effect of a distil is twofold. It induces non -society bution of this nature, amounting t) nearly w ho are now out of work for no fault of their own, and w ho have no quarter to look to for assistance, to join so cieties ; and it makes the masters more determinen in their resistance to unions of every description' when they see how powerful an organisation can be raised as it were almost instantaneously.for ject so unworthy as that to which, in their opinion, the present agitation is directed. • dof Satisfactory, however, as the present divides men, who _ 3s. per man is regarded to be, it must be remem bered that last week no dividend was struck, !O that adding it to the previous one of ls. 1d• it oil gives an average of ls. Old_ per man per week- F, e the first time since the strike began we have b een furnished with an exact list of the number of men in each trade who were entitled to share in the dt . tribution. together with the exact amount disburee,u,_ The document is interesting in a statistical point of view, and it is important, also, as showin' be: yond cavil the number of society men in of branch of the building trade at this moment out 0 work in London and Woolwich. Here is the list Trollope's men lO4 skilled artisans at 12s 2 1,6 0 34 16 ° /, . 87 unskilled, at Bs. .. Carpenters and 3 66 18 j o i ners 2,446 at 3s ° Bricklayers 740 at 3 s lll 0 3 0 9 Plasterers 37 10 0 0 v Masons Woolwich men .. 250 „ 1 8 0 Pai n ters 7 Stone sawyers ''''''''''''' 10 - Labourers' Lodge, . No. 1 491 • 7 3 ' 13 6 No. 2 • • 449 " '''''''''''''' 66 0 • 3 N o . 3 .. 189 :', '''''''''''''' 28 7 No. 4 .. 278 „ ''''''''''''''''' 41 14 0o No. 5 154„ ''''''''''''' . 23 2 , 0 .. No. 6 .. 517 ' 77 11 0 No. 7 .. 250 ':: ''''''''''''' 37 10 No. B''''''''''' 71 0 47 „ 242 '''' ' 6 6 ° O No. 9 .. No. 10 • •,, .............. '',,, 1 No. 11 167 4 „ .............. - 8 • 1 0 9 No. 12 • ' . 0 ,, 7, .............. 3 , 0 No. 13 .. • ~,0 ” ..... ......... 116 0 12 „ .. Labourers from . Mr. Macey's .. 0 1 8 ° 6 0000000000 0 ... £1,24 5 7,846 t uber Of this total of 7,846 the skilled artisans nu . 0 , 1 4,889, and the labourers 2,957. This p ro are would appear to indicate that the laboure art isans, sre no means so generally society men as the 2a n while the small number of members in 11, 1 o do , es 13 would lead to the conclusion that those 1%; i s were of recent formation. Indeed the probah u ni l t. that they owe their origin to the present We' ve s The men continue to receive contribu tionin from the provinces and the delegatas rePo%,„ favourable terms of the reception which es' to where greets them. A great meeting isj ° , ll a held in the Trades' Hall, Glasgow, to-oir" to Mr. Potter and Mr. Gray left London yesterdsiev, be present at it. A monster meeting alsedeie. .petted at Manchester this evening, at whi ch The gates from the metropolis will be present. est er Anti-Strike Committee held two meetings Yes' in day at the Adelaide Gallery; but they were og u ie ,, overwhelmed by the scouts and pickets of the slur ties, who interrupted the proceedings od e s hed gether behaved so outrageously that th e pIL te d, to be called in to clear the hall. This they enee his not without difficulty, and the device wa s then by the committee of admitting by tickets o.11,:yro but these were surreptitiously obtained , and someinaw were little mended. On the whole, however, so 40 men appended their names to the lists , and it W to stated that many more were known to be willia liar subscribe, but were prevented by the veil Pe en t he and cogent system of 4 , persuasion" adopted by Trades Union men. The committee conti nue to re 'Trades encouraging and sympathising letters to a all quarters, and already the subscriptions forwar''',. e to Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith's begin to 1": sume important dimensions. The deputation of 16 from the 400 builders' O re :, men, who were appointed at the meeting held e'" Saturday, met yesterday at the Foremen's Institute' Lyons'-inn, for the purpose of arranging the view which it was anticipated the employers voll.'oo give them at their meeting to-day. An applicatl,o with this object was forwarded in the course of day to Mr. Wales, the secretary to the Central sociation of Master Builders, but it did not orrice time to elicit any reply. It is understood, hoscr f h; that a joint deputation from the foremen an d the Anti-Strike Committee will be received range masters to-day, when it is hoped that some ar inent will be arrived at for opening the shops, THE ANTI-STRIKE MOVEMENT' r the During the whole of yesterday num bers 01 oil unfortunate operatives in the building trades et, strike crowded the thoroughfare in Adelaide -s i _t re .a. Strand, in front of the Adelaide-rooms, the u e- eo , quarters of the committee recently Formedfording rolling the men opposed to the strike, and afte r w e them an opportunity of emancipating, thernse the from the tyranny of the society origina ting hnut Nine Hours Movement. At intervals threug, t he the day Mr. Ballard, a f orem an smith, o „ sse d Chairman of the Anti-St r ik e Committee, adu ll_," t i n a large bodies of them w ithi n the hall in exp lana o g of the objects of this counter movement, an d l i the them in their own interests as well.as.the se ;those masters to give in their adhesion to it. On e orn meetings was held betwehn 10 and 11 in the r a lli ctert ' ing, and another, of a more animated `c",11,--„ w as later in the day. Mr. Superintendent Durneok in attendance with a small body of police to c de any any attempt at a breach of the peace, bet, te d no meanour of the men was so ord e rly as to a_ en t pretext for his interference. M o st of those P ry r, were society men, precisely the class wh" l f the Ballard aims at winning over to his sid e ° h oe, question ; but a large number were men wh ° ,, h the from principle, ne ver id en tifi e d themselves vg"' t o f society, but who are, nevertheless, thrown society employment by this unhappy strike. The sill s :. men now and then interrupted the address otsitl_.. Ballard, as did others, asking him question° on various points in dispute, and especially as or interpretation to be put upon the " document , o declaration, which the masters seek to impose, u _ them, and which it 'is clear many of them ne mired was that in signing the declaration they rightly understand. What they required to be..isod not thereby be precluded from joining or contomilL ing to be members of a body formed for the,. them nary purposes of a - benefit society. Many el are certainly under the impression that they would, be so precluded, though the words of the cle .o nr iot , tion itself, as explained by Mr. but as d much warrant any such interpretation ; it would be certainty prevails among the m . point, including even non-socie y_ all concerned hem and to but an act of justice to them and beyond the for the masters to place the matter it _ is important stionmight etn,oinnenth, possibility of cavil or que 1 f the strike. tend to shorten the duration o yester- Numbers of the men of both classes day inveighed in indignan t terms agallw' other the document, designating itl among epithets, as a badge of slavery and degrad ation which the masters soug ht to impose on them, an declaring that no coniiideratin duce an earth should n duce them to subscrib nese expressions anon were vociferou sl y opinion and determination cheered by the rest of the audience, and Mr. Bal laid at times fo und it a work of difficulty to LI anything in favour of the obnoxious document. Th e contended, however, that, judged by itself, ther was nothing in it contrary to personal freedom: He was twitted fur bein g o. paid for the part he We" takii:g in the dispute, but that he indignantly the nic d. He said , incidentally, that the object of t masters was to obtain labour in the che a p e" market. This sally elicited a storm of derisive laughter, and one man, taking up Mr. Ballard's line of arg to ment, added that their (the men's) policy was sell it in the dearest—, sentiment loudly cheere_ Mr. BALLARD rejoined that the best course v 1 : 1 1 ; to leave labour to the operation of supply and Hof mend, and he implored them in the inter e¢ to themselves, of those who were near and dear,_ at them, and of their employers, forthwith to do vl ie they could to terminate this unhappy quarre.e,„_ 'ken left the hall, and the men attempted to eirman of their own and continue the diseu;ceti, but to the manager of the building °Pi e Z ia , whereupon they gave three cheers foret:_ntat hours' Movement and separated. Between 40 men came forward in the course of the t d a,a r nst pledged themselves to support the prOte3 thQ strike, --------------- Council of At the ordinary meeting of the Tow:tiding, it waii , Glasgow on. Friday, the Lord Provosto Pr to request the agreed, on the motion of Sir Andrew rj, t ask the N¢" Lord Provost and magistrates of the city 5) s lice to • of Social cie tlonal Association for the Promotion hold the meeting of 1860 in Glasgow.