The Sun. — London, England, 1862-09-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEN ING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1862. LIVES of EMINENT FUNSTATESMEN, by THOS. HOOD , Esq., in , every weelc to recognise the privileges of the States of the Church"—and France has "announced a firm de termination to maintain the POPE in his present territory"—and " Italy must renounce her preten sions to Rome." All of which look very much like keeping up the barriers between Rome and Italy. But what is the POPE'S part then to be ? He is to " return to ancient traditions, and to recognise the privileges of the municipalities and provinces, so that they may govern themselves." Does any one of our readers understand all this ? If he is mysti fied, perhaps another sentence or two may put him in the way to guess the enigma. It was placed be fore M. THOUVENEL on the 20th of last May. On the 30th the Minister wrote to the French Ambas sador at Rome, M. LAVALETTE Vow Ready, handsomely bound in Magenta cloth, gilt, price 45. 6d. ; post free, 55., the SECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the followmg distinguished writers : W. BalleY, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. B a rber, Esq. T. Hood, Esq. E. L. Blanchard, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeman, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Burnand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. H. J. Byron, Esq. &a, &e., &c. Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. CRYSTAL PALACE .—MEYERBEER'S AND AUBER'S EXHIBITION MUSIC will be per formed TO-MORROW (SATURDAY) by full Orchestral and Military Bands, in the Great Orchestra. Solo Cornet, Mr Levy ; Solo Flageolet, M. Bonnisseau. Commence at Four. Display of Upper Series of Fountains and perform ances on the Great Festival Organ at intervals. Admission—ONE SHILLING. • .• For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN, This Evening, Auber's Exhibition Overture. Alter which SONNAMBULA. " The words of tke Emperor have never held out a hope to the Cabinet of Turin that Rome could become the capital of the kingdom of Italy with the consent of France. " All the declarations of France announce a firm determination to maintain the Pope in the pos session of his present territory. The only possible arrangement would be the maintenance of the terri torial status quo. Italy would have to renounce her pretensions to Rome, and engage with France to respect the Papal territory and assume the greater portion, if net the whole, of the Roman debt." And this M. THOUVENEL calls a policy of conci liation, says that there is nothing in it of a minatory character, exhorts ANTONELLI, the holy butcher of Perugia, to lay aside the doctrine of immobility, only adding that if he does not, the EMPEROR would be compelled—we suppose it is what he means—to withdraw his troops from Rome : which, from no love to the POPE, but from love to the BONAPARTES alone, he will certainly not do. This, the holy murderer for his Holiness knows as well as the EMPEROR, so he still coolly replies " we are immoveable"—non possumus. Commence at 8. Some, comparing Sir HUGH CAIRNS' scheme with Lord WESTBURY'S, still accord to the former a very decided preference. Altogether idle, however, at the present moment, is any such comparison. What we have to deal with, is the actual measure passed into law last session the act which is nominally to come into operation on the Ist of this ensuing month of October : a date that will probably have to be abandoned from the difficulties still remaining to be cleared away, so that, in all likelihood, the commencement of the operation of the act will be postponed from the beginning to the end of October. Sooner or later, by a few days, in any case that act will unquestionably come into operation. There need be no alarm at all, nevertheless, even amongst the most timorous, because of this cer -1 tainty of its coming into operation so very speedily. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Ws Evening, THE ROUGH DIAMOND. After which. THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. To conclude with TIIE ARABS OF THE DESERT. A Troupe of the Beni-Zoug- Zoug. Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening., THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With CELOS Y'CALIA. And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI This Evening., THE GREEN BUSHES. _Followed by THE SHILLING DAY. Commenceat7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Evenincr, THE LOST LETTER. After which, at a quarter to 8, 'KING CoNRY VIII. With THE TWO pours. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Evening, PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLAR NEY. Conclude with TIM COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. This Evening, MAZEPPA. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle, C onc l u ding with a Comic Ballet. Commence at 7. MR. and MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS ~ AT ROME," at Her Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket, This Evening. Commence at 8. W. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. Commence at 8. Europe is sick of these farces—but what cares the master of sixty legions ? And what care the Cardinals at Rome ? The position of the French is confessed to be unjustifiable, but the despot is strong enough to confess and go on. A pretty woman weeps to him, and the woman's POPE must be sustained in his unrighteous power over the bodies and souls of the poor Romans. An ignorant clergy, and yet more ignorant peasantry, worked up by designing and thoroughly worldly bishops, threaten to vote wrong ; so, the poor Romans must be kept out of votes altogether to please them. And so it is that, to the infinite scandal of religion, and the joy of all the atheists and infidels of Europe, the head of one of the largest of Christian sects is exhibited to all the world as the trampler on all human rights—and that for the basest of all motives—in the eye of religion—worldly ambition. Disguise it how men will, but for the worldly ambi tion of the Popx's advisers (for the good old man himself is, we are told, as well meaning as he is weak, notwithstanding his allocution curses) all this wickedness would be at an end. The POPE would be advised not to "lower," but to destroy the barriers between Roman and Italian Catholics —to assume the independence of freedom from worldly ambition—to tell the French that he no longer wanted to murder his fellow-citizens' liber ties by foreign bayonets—and to set all the bishops of Christendom an example worth following—that of renouncing temporalities, and being content with spiritualities. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay , market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing. CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING. — Steckel, the great Trapeze performer —Grand Operatic Selec tion as usual Unsworth, Eugene, and Duley, the great comic trio, &c. Commence at 7. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY EVEN ING.—Grand Operatic Selections, with full band and chorus.—The comic performance of Miss Caroline Parkes— Steckel on the Flying Trapeze—The Ethiopian oddities of Rumsey, Newcomb, &c. Commence at 7. THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND, at the Hanover• square Rooms, on Monday next, at 8, by Mr. Kennedy. EXHIBITION OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE, daily, at Burlington Gallery, 191, Piccadilly. NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 10m.—Afternoon, 3h. 30m. To-mormow.-Morning, 4h. 13m.—Afternoon,' 4h. 38m. Did our readers last night notice the Imperial I Riddle, presented them by his MAJESTY of Paris— and, we were going to say, of Rome—through the Illoniteur 1 It came to us rather late. We did not understand it before we went to press. We do not understand it now. When we say so, we, of coarse, mean that we cannot make separate sen tences intelligible, or the several sentences square with each other. But as to understanding its object —there can be no difficulty in that. To the serious practical question—will you leave the Romans to the exercise of their just rights, and cease to im pose a master on them—the guilty despot is ashamed to say " no;" but he is determined not to say "yrs." We wonder he is so nice about it. Why not say "yes," and go on telling a lie? The man who cared not a straw for the most solemn legal oaths, and spontaneous oaths, and the obligations of guest ship, and the pledged right hand, prior to the 2d of December, and who made nothing of certain nega tive assertions about Nice and Savoy prior to his seizure of them —why should he mince matters— why not say, " I will leave Rome before Christmas,' and then keep his soldiers there till he died, and all the suppressed ability of France united to hand his little boy out of the Empire ? It would be but the addition of one more deception to the list. What is the use of this Imperial riddle-setting P It can deceive no one. Why not say boldly—" In 1849 I bagged Rome, and put the POPE into it, and no laws against international night-poaching shall make me give up my spoil." It would be at least merely Imperial to say, " I am a political highwayman, and I mean to keep what I have got." Instead of that what have we ? Why, first a letter from his MAJESTY to M. THOUTENEL—on a " reconciliation between the Holy See and Italy." Which compels one to wish the See were holy enough to give Italy and the Romans no trouble about such a secular and profane thing as temporal Power. However, to the first fisherman it was pro mised that he should be a " fisher of men." The inheritor of the fisherman's seal may therefore think that his net should catch men's bodies as well as their souls ; and that, as his net broke in 1848, it was very kind of the French to come and mend it for him. But the Romans, and all the intelligence and liberalism of Europe, do not like this everlasting mending. Indeed, the net after a dozen years French patching, has become a BONAPARTE not a Papal net. The poor fisherman, therefore, is actually har rassed by the BONAPARTE reminding hi m that he is really the net holder, and demanding of him some little adaptation of his behaviour to this notorious fact. Outside the net, the Ram at , see all their fellows of the same name, dispo rt i ng themselves at liberty, while they in vain try t o burst the Franco-Papal meshes. They think this hard. Why should they thus be netted up ? What good does it do anyone? They are told that it is for the good of the Catholic fish of Italy and all others countries. They deny this. The Catholics of all Italy, they truly say, wish them to be as much at liberty as they are. And as to all the rest of the Catholics in the world, they can't comprehend what good on earth it should, be to them to keep their fellow Catholics thus bondage. They are not sharks; they will not 97, Tallow up " the Fisherman." Oh dear, no; they only wish to be at large them selves, and then they will not even, on any future day, make a grand una ruinous push at his F renc h net, and drag "Fisher man," net and all, into th e Water. But to our riddle—if, indeed, it be of any use to have a try at it. Ist. The POPE id to lower the 64 " 1 " 8 which aepara tr 3 the Pontifical territory from Italy. What bariei era ? For the POPE 18 to be " master in his own domain"—" This sway is to be freely accepted by is subjects"—and "Italy is And for the one simple reason, that the act itself is purely permissive. Advantages of a very obvious and of a very considerable value are held out to all those who will avail themselves of the enactment by registering. But their doing so is a matter purely optional. And even when they have called the Act into operation by registering their title to real estates, they can at any subsequent period, at their own pleasure, cause the fact of their having done so to be erased from the books of re gistration. The very preamble of Lord WESTBURY'S Act states the object of the Act to be threefold ; namely, " first, to give security to the title of real estates; secondly, to facilitate the proof of such title; and thirdly, to render the dealing with land more simple and inexpensive than it is at present." As to the greater simplicity ensured by the new enactment here is an instantly appre- ciable exemplar of that advantage. Here, in other words, is the very brief and lucid form of transfer of land which will have to be filled up after the enactment comes formally into opera tion some time in the course of this next month of October :—• Dated this day of . I, AB, of etc., in consideration of (five thousand pounds) paid to me, grant to C D and his heirs for ever, all (insert description of land). Signed and sealed by A. B. Witness—E F, of, &c., a Solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, or a certified conveyancer. Again, turning from the mere simplicity of these new arrangements to the manner of the order ing of them—supposing that any proposed title be approved, the applicant for registration will be required to furnish to the registrar 1. An exact description of the lands to be registered. 2. A statement of the several persons interested in such lands, and of the nature of such interest; and 3. A statement of the charges and incumbrances (if any) on such lands, and of the persons entitled thereto." Finally, in illustration of the scope of the ope ration of this new enactment, it is especially notice able that it expressly provides that all registered land may be dealt with or conveyed— „ 1. By a statutory disposition in any of the forms de scribed in the schedule to the Act. 2. By endorsement on the land certificate. 3. By deposit of the land certificate. 4. By any deed, will, or other instrument by which land, not registered, may now be conveyed or dealt with. As to any doubts that may yet be entertained by the cavillers against Lord WESTBITRY's measure, as one appreciably inferior (according to their view of it), when contrasted with Sir Hum! CAIRNS' earlier and certainlymore comprehensive and elabo rated enactment—but a very few months will suffice to demonstrate the validity or the perverseness of those objections. So hampered, hitherto, has been the transference of land throughout, that it is impos sible not to wish that all possible success may attend the earnest, vigorous, and conscientious efforts embodied in. this enactment of the Lord Chancellor's efforts, namely, to clear away, henceforth, and for ever, a mass of costly, and worse than idle, of absolutely pernicious obstruc tiveness. apparently only enough so to prevent the Federal troops being withdrawn thence into Maryland. In South Carolina also they have attacked the Federal troops, and suffered a repulse ; the attack being probably with the same object. It was repelled, as of old, by gunboats. Ohio is frightened, but thinks itself safe. Pennsylvania is still more alarmed, but probably with little reason. It would be madness for the South to attack States it could not hope to gain. An opinion is indeed expressed by the New fork , Times that the Confederates really aim to subvert the LINCOLN Government and install their own. JEFFERSON DAVIS is too shrewd to think of that, MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS MARIA PIA. TURIN, SEPT. 23. The civil contract preliminary to the wedding ceremony between the Princess Maria Pia and the Marquis of Lou le, acting as proxy for King Louis I. of Portugal, is to be signed to-day. For the wed ding ceremony the 2 7th, Saturday next, is ap pointed. There are to be grand Court dinners both on Thursday and Saturday; on the latter day a serenade and illumination; on Friday a grand con cert at the palace. The bride will leave Turin for Genoa on Sunday, accompanied by the Prince of Piedmont, her brother, the heir to the throne. Three Portuguese men-of-war and the best part of the Italian fleet are awaiting the youthful Queen. An Italian squadron of four ships, und er th e or d ers of Admiral Albini, will follow th e nupt i a l cortege. This is the first instance on record of a " daughter of Italy" being given in marriage. The congratu lations which both the Princess and the King her father received from almost all the most conspicu ous cities of the newly-united kingdom, are as many proofs of the depth of feeling to which loyalty to the reigning dynasty has already penetrated in Italian hearts. Handsome, elegant, and sumptuous presents also come in from all parts. The corporation of the city of Turin presents an album of beautiful drawings in water-colour paint ings, illustrating the localities among which the childhood of the young bride were spent. Florence and Milan are quite determined not to be beaten by Turin in their token of devotion to their King's daughter; and we hear from Naples that the muni cipality are sending over a splendid ornament in pink coral, of native manufacture, of the value of 4,500 ducats. The most important present, however, comes from that once most ardent of all Italian patriots, his Holiness Pope Pius IX. The good Victor Emmanuel, however, deemed the marriage of his daughter too auspicious an opportunity of laying aside political rancour, and the Abate Stellardi, his chaplain, was sent to Rome to announce the forth coming wedding. The sleek, soft-hearted Pius IX. seemed to take great interest in the welfare of his god-daughter, who bears his name Pia (the prm nomen, Maria, being common to all the ladies of her house), and on the Abate taking his leave, his Holiness gave him a parcel containing his wedding present to the bride, consisting of a magnificent album, all studded with precious stones, with two fine engravings, representing the Virgin and an Ecce Homo. The Pope's autograph is on the title page, and Stellardi bears with him the Pontiff's blessing for the bride and bridegroom. The sister of the bride, Princess Clotilde, and her husband, Prince Napoleon, will arrive in Turin from Paris to-morrow, and great festivities are prepared by way of greeting to them. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The visitors to the Exhibition yesterday numbered 41,369, of whom 4,052 were admitted by season tickets, and 37,317 paid at the doors. STOKE ELECTION.—A somewhat strange course The Philosophic Humorist, who by a singular of proceeding has been adopted with reference to the elec freak of fortune occupies the courtly post of Clerk tion of Mr. Grenfell. On behalf of Mr. Hope a protest has been entered against the validity of his election, on the to the Privy Council, has somewhere among ground that the seconder of his nomination (Mr. Hill) is his charming Essays a day dream thus not an elector. articulated :—" I have often fancied," he says, TUE IRON TRADE.--BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 25. " that a man might play the part of BRUTUS The preliminary meeting of the iro nmas t ers o f S out h Staf fordshire and East Worcestershire was held at the Hen and in the law. He might simulate madness in Chickens Hotel here to-day—Mr. Philip Williams in the order to ensure freedom. He might make him- chair. The reports were concurrent as to the fact of the trade being in a much more healthy state than it has for a self a great lawyer, rise to eminence in his pro long time been. There is an increasing demand for all de • fession, and then turn round and say, 'I am not The long expected mails from America have scriptions of finished iron, bars especially; and the prices going to enjoy this high seat and dignity; but reached us at last. They are both exciting and of make er lrs whass f o us h ually ers. l undersell th are com t ing o rtarer d to the n ese might have be intend henceforward to be an advocate for the disappointing. It is easy to see that M'CLELLAN i u rthe price of iron generally en n v a en v tu n re c cl e people of this country against the myriad oppres- and the Confederates have met, have marched, and upon; it would not, however, have been quite prudent to do unanimously passed to adhere to the old scale of prices. Pig-iron is half-a-cro wn a t on sions and vexations of the law. No Chancellorships perhaps counterma rc h e d ; b u t w h e th er th ere h as so, and a resolution was or Chief Justiceships for me. I have only pre- been a really decisive battle, and w h a t are th e exact higher than it was three months ago. There was a nume tended to be this slave in order that you should not positions occupied, is by no m eans c l ear . Th e l as t convictione result thatlt of the legitimateimprove ma tone en roes attendance of the members of the t ra d e t o -d ay, an d t h e say that lam an untried and unpractical man— account is a " private t e l egram " t o M r . INMAN,twwahsiechheehrafus l taken ,fromthe place is th that I do not understand your mysteries.'" All dated the 17th, from Ne w Y or k, v i a C ape R ace . and not speculative demand for manufactured iron. The which is, however, as we have already termed it, the The regular telegram, via th e same p l ace, is North Staffordshire makers are full of or d ers, an d are rea d y merest day dreaming. And it is a day dream only to dated the 16th. This last telegram says that theirto a advance va n brethren c e p prices, ci enslhb o ut a w ou il t l h not T d h o e s r e e i e a x a cept inictoncoferlt labour be thought of, even by the most sanguine and ima- M'CLELLAN had occupied Hagerstown, and men- of the unskilled class in this district. If there y are any ginative, in connection with ideal regions like those tions a battle at Sharpsburg, considerably nearer the stout fellows in Lancashire out of employment, and willing sacred to the fancied footsteps of Arcadians and Potomac and Washington, too. While it describes W olverhampton to labour, they aide may f h n find t i i t at some of the works on the s district, and possibly in other Utopians. While Mr. HELPS is pleasantly con- the Federals as surrounded by the Confederates at quarters in the neighbourhood. ceiving to himself the possible advent of a wholly Harper's Ferry, which is en the Washington side THE GRAIN TRADE AT LIVERPOOL.—The Mersey impossible Lord Chief Justice and Lord High Chan- of Sharpsburg. The private telegram of the 17th Docks and Harbour Board at its meeting yesterday agreed cellor—bit by bit the anomalies of the law are speaks of a terrible battle at Hagerstown between both the Liverpool dtn f a to nd er ß eot k velex d ten .d sive e f w th a e re r hiveuersefser o t n he being lopped off by the trenchant blows dealt the two commanders.in-ehief, M'CLELLAN and th e corn trade n of the port. A special committee of the the at _them by one after another of our great Law Re- LEE. board had been considering the subject for some time; and formers. How many of those cruel anomalies have All these accounts may possibly be true, yet they yesterday wih t re d commend ly ati t o o ns er o e f et th w a a t re c h o e m u m ae i s tte fi e tte w d er n e p a ili do e there not been cleared away, as so much obstructive do not harmonise conveniently with each other ; the p requisite appliances, upon the Birkenhead side of the rubbish and pernicious lumber, by the bold hand of the dash and vigour of the Confederates are such, Mersey, at an estimated cost of £169,486, £lOB,OOO of which the greatest of all living law Reformers, the vener- that positions are quite possible, which yet do not s s u tru m e a t p w pe r r e ta h i o n u e e x a c o lu n si t v h e e ly m t v o arp th e e el b a n id il e d f i o n r g e s im ; i a l nd to en able ex-Chancellor Lord BROVGIIAM ! Beside seem easy to be accounted for. The Potomac runs at an estimated cost of £291,671, L 131,000 of purposeswhich amount him, upon that same removed bench, encouraging northwest from Washington past Harper's Ferry, will be expended upon the warehouses exclusively, and the the development and continuance of those whole- separating a long narrow strip of Maryland from balancer inPrince's Basin, forb 1 d oth an affecting the same in e some and beneficent in nova ti ons and improvements Virginia. Chiefly in this narrower p ortion of the p nected with the m a chinery , efficient working of the workphuo r u p e e: s e! co n - are there not those two other INT ...ESTORS in the Coun- State, which lies immediately south of Pennsylvania, A soiree was given two eveni • ngs back by the cils ofhlrisprudence—invested like LordßßouGHam the operations we now read of are carried on. Li terary an d A r ti s ti c Association of Brussels to the Mem himself with the honourable dignity appertaining Hagerstown is the furthest from Washington, yet b ei e t r y s . of T t h h e e S Duke oci Social dSeciDernecbeeCutongredssthnocw sitti d ng in that t o them as ex-Chancellors—Lo r d LYNDIIURST and M'CLELLeer seems to have gone thither after LEE, / were present, and conversed with several foreigners F o l f an d d ia re Lord ST. LEONAR D S ? Conspicuous am ong th e w h o h a d arr i ve d befo r e him, F re d er i c k c it y , nearer ti nc ti on w h o were presente d to them by the President of champions of leading Law Reform in this Washington, having been evacuated by the Confe- the Association. rhe steam-frigate Christophe Colomb has just l a t e r generation, being men as gifted, as Berates. Yet but a day or two before LEE had been arrived at Toulon from Algiers and Ajaccio, bringing 100 ' as pre-eminent, it eminent,may be said, reported on the south of the Potomac, at Leesburg, i cavalry horses from Algeria and a battalion of the 87th each of them in his own peculiar capacity, with a large force. We gather, however, from the I Regiment from the latter plac e . Thi s vesse l i s t o re t urn to Algeria immediately, to again remain at th e or d ers o f t h e as the late Sol icitor -General of the political party whole that the Confederates had retreated westward Governor-General. The steam-transport La Seine is also he present l earned now in Oppositior, and t occupant from Frederick city to Hagerstown, and that the at Toulon under orders to leave on the Ist October for of the woolsack, a man so profound in the depth and Federals and they had had some sharp en- Alexandria, first calling at Algiers to take on board 200 erudition, that he enj oys the r Turcos to fill up the ranks of that corps in Cochin-China. scope of his legal epu- coun t ers there. Whether the statements of the The Ocean of Brest oc mentions a melancholy acci ofbeingthe greatest Lawyer private telegram be true we cann o t k now dent whichprofess ion has justoccurred in the pond of Moulin-a who has held the seals as Chancellor since the days for some days yet. If they are, the Confederates Poudre, situated near the military port. Twelve children of ELDON. And it is:a notable circumstance surely, have be en were amusing themselves. on a raft which was fastened to obliged to recross the Pot and Potomac ; the bank. After playing on it for some time they unfas inreat law reform upon MT', - its way, that the last g ELLAN nas fairly beaten LEE in the field. tened the rope which held it and pushed it off into the which the Imperial Legislature is known to have Such a victory would somewhat revive the Federal middle of the pond, where some irregular movement on acceptance and the reali- cou rage. the i r par t caps i ze d it, an d a ll of them were precipitated into adventured, to the acceptan the water which was 15ft. deep. Four of them were rescued, zation of which the Lords and Commons of Eng- The entrance of the Confederates into Maryland I though with great difficulty, by two persons who happened successively has threatened land have been guided, at the insta nce not only that State, but Pennsyl- I to witness the accident, and the other two by a lad named Commons, and of vania also. S parfel, who had been on the raft, and who was afterwards of Sir HUGH CAIRNS, in the We hear repeatedly of movements • in drowned in attempting to save a third. The eight others that direction, andof Lord WESTBURY, in the Lords. the orders of the Pennsyl- were drowned, life being quite extinct when the bodies The Land Transfer Bill, which was happily vani sh authorities to call out the militia and to were recovered. being I make preparations for defence. As to Maryland I- EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—Mr. Samuel Harris, Passed through the legislature last session, self, the Confederates ar e - 1 landlord of the Fox and Crane, Bristol, accompanied by his enrolled enact upon the statute book as a complet e pretty sure that that State brother, adopted a novel mode of visiting the International ment, bat f will throw in its lot with the s very shortl y before the prorogation o outh. They treat the Exhibition. Having seated themselves on a velocipede Parliament, in h a bitants therefore well, and offer to liberate (which had previously been constructed by Mr. Harris), off may be said to owe its existence, in the them first place, of c o from Federal rule. They tell them , they started, and arrived in London (a distance of 108 miles) line, to the exigency of the times, however, that o n Monday, at mid-day, the journey having occupied exactly the pear being ri p , f . . decision lies with the Maryland the . ers themselves. 211 hours. After spending three days in the metropolis or this particular Law Reform in preference to any O t h • Th e south will receive them into the confederation the return journey was comfortably performed in 18 hours, Other; but in a secondary way quite as undeniably to th e • . the ir own free act only. The South is disposed neither of the travellers feeling any fatigue.—lrestern joint labours, to the by Daily Press. ' frank and earnest co .operation of the genius and to conquer the goodwill of a State thre e -f ourths of EXTRAORDINARY EFFECT OF A FIRE.—On Mon skill unmistakably appertaining, as inhab itants of which, we fear, are already warm day afternoon a fire broke out in a newly erected block of law reformers, the inhabi to Sir HUGH CAIRNS and Lord W E though a large proportion of the buildings belonging to Mr. Ridley, consisting of four re- H. *ll3 Annit. If Sir pro slavery m en, to the Wyche, CAIRNS may be said, of the two, to have led the more intelligent deeply regret the breaking -up of aboutcently a erec i t l e e d fr h e o m us A e i s al o v n er t u he road A was soon on the way by his earlier scheme of an enactment , Lord the Union. Indeed the Border States, which prac- I spot, but before the flames were engine a n rrested two of the houses WESTBURY has the honour and good f t Slave States to the North, ‘ were completely gutted. Mrs. Thomas, the occupant f of fortune tically unite the wors t the e house in which the fire originated, in a moment o ea- The to have developed his later scheme into an enactment. h athies with both. They aye naturally strong quip itement at the discovery of the mishap, cut her throat. passing of this measure was noticed at the si me have slaves, th oug h f ew com paratively—they have She remains in a very precarious state, and not in a condi as almost the one solitary and consolatory fruit et whites in largely predominating numbers. Tradi- t ni t t ,o a furnish any information as to her motive.—B • - an otherwise barren and disappointing session of t; - -on with them looks to the South, progress to the . " TUEh .Daily Gazette. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE NEW-STREET the Legislature. Perfect as a reform, the Act now North. STATION, BIR MINGHAM.—The inquest was resumed on • Tuesday a fternoon upon the eve of coming i n t o actual opera ti on , does Operations in other parts lose much of their before Dr. B. Davis, and a great deal of additional not, of course, even pretend to be. Its principal interest in th e great struggle in Maryland. In Mr. Graham e v idence wa s taken. A mo s e t ea lh ol e d r witnesses not, Holmes, who erected the m erit is that it is, at any rate, a commencement. l Kentucky the Confederates continue active, but mined, but the inquiry WWI adjourned, NEW ADELPIIL LATEST NEWS. MR. WEBSTER'S BENEFIT. The benefit of a London favourite, whether manager or actor, must always be looked at in the light rather of a challenge to public sympathy than an appeal to public support. It must be re garded as an occasion on which his patrons are en abled to testify to him personally—apart from , the acknowledgments, pecuniary and profes sional, which they may make throughout a season. Viewed in this light, it has a propriety which is creditable to both sides. It is a test of personal estimate which it is as worthy in an actor to invite, as it must always be gratifying to the public whenever warrantable to tender. It is, in fact, an occasion on which artist and patron shake hands as it were, together, and with as little loss of dignity on the one side as of sincerity on the other. As we believe it would be difficult to mention a man who, in the course of a long professional career, has succeeded in engaging a larger amount of personal respect than Mr. Webster—in addition to the admiration which he has so justly won, as one of the most perfect artists in the drama of real life who have been seen in modern times —there can be little wonder that his benefit should always be regarded by the public as a very pleasurable opportunity of crowding his theatre to the roof. Last evening, however, he enforced the event by two additional attractions. He revived in the first place, after a slumber of some five or six seasons—one of the best Adelphi pieces, and one of the greatest of modern suc cesses—Mr. Bnckstone's drama of the " Green Bushes," and he presented in its heroine, a lady whose tragic power has been demonstrated as successfully on the boards of the Adelphi, as at Drury-lane —Miss Avonia Jones. Of the drama itself we can have no occasion at this late period to speak. All who have ever seen or heard of it are well aware that, whether in respect to its interest or its humour, its force of situation, or its happy grasp of character, it has had few, if any equals in the native melodrama of our stage. It had, it is true, the advantage originally of wonderful talent in its acting; but its continued popularity afford sufficient proof that the great root of its success lay after all in its own inherent and in disputable merit. One of its most striking features undoubtedly is the character of its Indian heroine, in which Madame Celeste, it will be remembered, produced so powerful an impression. It was a charac ter in every way adapted to the genius of that lady, alike on the score of its vigorous emotion and its wild and picturesque details. She had the advantage of studying Indian life in her early travels in America, and years before in the same theatre had presented the first picture of its truth in a little drama which was taken from Cooper's story of the " Borderers." All these circumstances must be remembered, and in merest justice to that lady, if we would fairly esti mate either the trial or the triumph of her successor, Miss Jones had to follow an ad mirable actress in her very greatest impersonation, and to follow her in a field of acting which is en • tirely distinct from her own. Miss Jones, as we have repeatedly said, is a purely ideal actress, who neither by sympathy or study is adapted for mere melodrama. She belongs to the school of Rachel or Ristori rather than Celeste, and would be infinitely more at home in Shakespeare or Milman, than in Buckstone. Naveriheless, by a sudden effort, that was just as surprising as it was agreeable, she evinced last evening that the range of her powers was quite on a level with their depth. As in other eases she made her difficulties ROME, SEPT. 24. The Marquis de Lavalette will leave next week for Biarritz, whence ho will proceed to Spain. It is asserted that M. de Lavalette, having ex hausted all diplomatic means of bringing about a solution of the Roman question, will not again re turn to Rome as Ambassador from France to the Holy See. TURIN, SEPT. 25, EVENING. A grand banquet took place at Court to-day, after the ceremony of reading the stipulations of the marriage contract between Princess Maria Pia and the King of Portugal. Chevalier Nigra has arrived. The arrival of the Princess Mathilde is expected to-morrow. Senor de Castro has presented his credentials as Minister Plenipotentiary of Portugal. The papers of this evening state that Prince Napo leon had a long interview to-day with the President of the Council, and received several other members of the Ministry. Several deputations of Syndics from provincial towns have arrived with presents for Princess Maria, upon the occasion of her marriage. MADRID, SEPT. 25. It is asserted that the King and Queen of Portugal will go to Paris after the marriage. Ovations continue to be given to the King and Queen of Spain at Seville. ATHENS, SEPT. 23 (via Marseilles). Tho Bill relating to the re-organisation cf the National Guard has been voted by the Chambers. Tile session was then closed. The soldiers who took part in the insurrection of Naapolia, and afterwards fled into foreign countries, have been amnestied by the King. the true measure of her success. In the early scenes of the Indian huntress she threw a spirit and reality which could not be exceeded, and in the conflict of passion which arises on her discovery of her betrayal—the kindling of revenge in the blood of the Indian, struggling with devo tion to her deceiver, until at length the madden- ing sight of his enfolding a rival in his arms, leads her, as she watches his caresses, to level her rifle at his heart, and achieve in his punishment a far worse doom for herself she found a means of revelation for the tragic power site pos sesses, which revived the memory of higher efforts, and fully established all her claims. In entire con- tract to this display was the calm and pathetic dignity with which she invested the last act, when the loving and remorseful girl, haunted with the thought of her fearful crime, and yearn ing in some way to atone for it, comes to the land of her lover, and at length obtaining her desire—dies calmly and thankfully at the expiation she has rendered. The deep pathetic truth of the sinking spirit of the poor Indian— Miss Jones painted with a quiet power that was quite as striking and affecting as her most impassioned ebullitions. It is unnecessary to say that the impression she produced was most decisive, and that, applauded loudly in her early scenes, her closing one raised the audience to a general feeling of enthusiasm. She was called for, together with her associates, at the close of the second act, and also the last. The drama was excellently played throughout. Mrs. Mellon renewed her admirable and unique picture of the Irish Girl—originally sustained by Mrs. Fitzwilliam—rendering it with a mingled humour and pathos which no other actress of our time could rival ; and Mrs. Billington played the deserted wife—originally sustained by Mrs. Yates I—with an earnestness and feeling that were scarcely less successful. Among the gentlemen, Mr. Billing ton played the husband with great tenderness-- giving to the one good scene that is allotted him— his reading the letter of his wife—a more than usual amount of interest. Mr. Bedford, of course, resumed his original character, Jack Gong, and with not the slightest diminution of the peculiar quaintness of its first performance—whilst Mr. Toole, who, we believe, appeared for the first time in Muster Grinnedge, added another to his many and very original as sumptions. The thorough earnestness ho threw alike into the terrors and the dignity of the pere grinative showman, expanded its humour to a point which could scarcely have been surpassed. After the drama, which, we must remark, was ex cellently placed upon the stage—Mr. Webster con tributed his quota to the night's enjoyment by ap pa+ ring in his old Haymarket character of the Woman Hater, in the petite drama of Mr. Ber nard. His reception, we need not say, was most enthusiastic from the whole house, and his acting of the would-be misanthrope—whose then- retie asceticism thaws under the presence of domes_ tic happiness—had all the force and geniality Whi c h stamped it years ago. Several musical celebrities passed through Berlin last week—Verdi, on his way to St. Petersburg. ; m ime. Lombord, on her way to Moscow; and Von Flotow, who was going to Paris to superintend the perf ormance of his work, " Stradella," at the Grand Opera there. Tamburini, the celebrated baritone , h as arrived at Nice, where he intends passing the winter season with his son .in-law Gardoni, who recently arrived there from London. Lightning fell on Thursday on a floating prison for convicts, anchored in th e R oads of Toulon. After having traversed the roof and pierced the two decks, the electric fluid escaped without having caused any further in jury except having set fire to some t imber, which wa s eas ily extinguished. But it is not easy to de scr ib e t h e h orror experienced by 800 convicts when they perceived the electric spark flying from one end to the other of the massive iron bar to which their chains were attached. DEATH OF MR. FORBES MACKENZIE._We re gret to record the sudden death of Mr. William Forbes Mackenzie of Porttnore. Mr. Mackenzie had been a t "The Glen" on a visit to Mr. Charles Tennant, and had retired to bed on Tuesday night apparently in his usual health. On his attendant calling him yesterday morning, he found him dead in bed. Mr. Forbes Mackenzie was returned for Peeblesshire in 1 837, and retained his seat for that consti tuency till the ceeded by g e neral election of 1852, when he was sue his brother-in-law Sir Graham Montgomery, At that time, Mr. Mackenzie, having been a Lord of the Treasury in the Ministry of Lord Derby, offered himself for Liverpool, and was returned, though in a month or two unseated upsn petition, for bribery and treating. As a legislator, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie's name threatens to live longest in connection with the parentage of the Public we believe, th e d emerit of } buses Act of 1852—though/ that Act really belongs to Lord Kinnaird and (we grieve to say), to our otherwise reasonable townsman Mr. W. Duncan S.S.C. After his retirement from Parliament, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie took little part in public affairs, — rho tqmongroi THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 26. The Union Company's steamer Dane, with the Cape mail, arrived here this morning. She left Table Bay on the 21st, St. Helena on the 29th ult., and Ascension on the 2d inst. She brings 53 passengers. The Cape Parliament was prorogued on the 9th ult. A motion for the complete separation of the two provinces had been rejected. The real grievances of the eastern colonists were being remedied. Parliament and Government were concurring in vigorous exertions for that purpose. The principal department complained of, " the Roads and Bridges," had been called to account by the Assembly, and taken in hand by the Go vernor himself. A bill had been passed for the construction of a railway from Port Elizabeth to Graham's Town, the colonial 'revenue being pledged for the interest at 6 per cent. on £750,000. A proposal was made to introduce a bill for facilitating the administration of justice on the frontiers. It was, however, resolved to postpone the measure for another year, in order that the question might be maturely considered. A proposal had been made to petition the Gover nor to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country, but was rejected. X 15,000 had been granted for the immigration service this year. A large quantity of evidence and information re specting irrigation had been collected, and a Bill on the subject would be introduced next ;session. Bills had been passed for a railway from Wel lington to Worcester, with a branch line to Malmes bury. The long pending separation movement has been abandoned, and the state of feeling between the two provinces had become very favourable. The weather had been very boisterous, and rain bad fallen incessantly. The rivers throughout a great portion of the colony were dangerously swollen. Bridges had been washed away, and the roads in some parts completely destroyed. The destruction of private property had been enormous. The damage was estimated at £50,000. The shipping had also suffered severely. On the Bth ult. the brigantine Marietta and the barks Rate and Crystal Palace were driven ashore in Table Bay, and became total wrecks. The crews were saved. The steamer Golden Fleece, from Calcutta, put into Simon's Bay on tie 12th inst., totally dis masted. The captain was killed. The breakwater and dock works withstood the gales. The Norman arrived in Table Bay on the 12th. The Ariel reached Simon's Bay on the 21st from the West Coast. No despatches had been received from Dr. Livingstone's expedition at Cape Town, Mr. Robert Moffat, jun., died near Durruman. The Rev. J. S. Moffat was returning, with his wife, dangerously ill. The Coquette, from Rio, had arrived at Simon's Bay. Business at the Cape was still very dull. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram : MARSEILLES, FRIDAY MORNING. "The Yectis, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 7 a.m. this day. " The mails were to leave for London at 11 a.m." 4.,..--:, 4,f ....,.., 4 4 4, ', tPet, ),';',- au :,---,- k'e 7 4 ' '-..71'.W.,:,,, r ;, -- =-- b Dl ,t ---i ' , /'•,i, , .., ~ ..,. „, ~. IF, (- • , -I..iz et.., ;o IT - , ~,, 4-.., THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 26, 1862. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 25.—The documents published by the Morateur have been the subject of general con versation during the morning. As may naturally be expected, they are regarded in different points of view, but the opinion which most generally pre vails is that they may tend to facilitate the settle ment of the Roman question. Threes, for the Account, opened at 69fr. 5c., but with rather an upward tendency. Railway Share Market quiet, but in general fi rm . The following are the last prices : lt per Cents .. 96 50 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents ...... 69 20 Do. end month.... 69 15 i Bank Shares 3200 Credit Foncier 1240 Piedmontesc Fives 71 50 Italian Loan 7l 35 Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes — Rome Debt - &-Wws .-- pi• Cents .. Do. end month.... Credit Mobilier.... 1001 25 tio. end m0nth....1007 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1065 .. 1060 Northern . 1027 50 .. 1025 New ditto ............ : — • • Lyons and M e dit erranean 11 6 8 75 .. 1170 Geneva 372 50 .. Southern B6O . • 861 25 Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lou , bard SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 21st contain accounts of the proceedings of the Royal family at Saville. On the previous day a grand reception took place at the Royal Palace, and in the afternoon their Majesties were present at a bull fight, i n the evec ing driving through the city, which was brilliantly illuminated. The English Ambassador, Sir Sohn Crampton, who had been staying at Granja, has returned to Madrid. He was expected to leave in the evening to join the Royal family at Seville. J LETTER FROM MAZZINI, The following letter from Mazzini has been trans mitted to us for publication. It does not say to whom it is addressed, but we presume it is to the Italian Ministry Gentlemen,—Joseph Garibaldi is seriously wounded and prisoner. We are not now about to discuss the causes which have led to this result. We say that there are in the life of nations acts and men which cannot be submitted to common laws without dishonour and crime. Such is Garibaldi —su c h the act for which he lies a wounded prisoner. Garibaldi has fought all the battles of Italian unity. Garibaldi has given that unity ten millions of citizens. Garibaldi is the living symbol of the desire of the whole nation. He wad struck down whilst he was moving, not against you, but to where Italian right has been proclaimed by you, and has been denied by the foreigner; not to change the orders of the State or combat your programme, but to the fulfilment of both ono and the other. Gentlemen, you may judge that act, though in voked by all Italy, premature, but not guilty ; you can hinder, not punish, him who attempted it. All Italy is wounded and imprisoned with him. We demand, gentlemen, the liberty of Garibaldi, in the name of tha desire of Italy : in the name of the gratitude that you, with us, owe him. We demand that, tended and surrounded by his own, he may be freed from an imprisonment which recals to Europe the imprisonment of Columbus. Sept. 20, 1862. JOSEPH MAZZINI. --- THE VICISSITUDES OF GOLD DIGGING. A correspondent of San Francisco, reporting gold mining news from British Columbia, says:— "A remarkable instance is given of the vicissi tudes of the miner's life in a letter from a man from Victoria. The part owner of a claim writes that all felt in poor spirits,' alluding to his part ners, some of whom I am acquainted with, be cause the "company had worked 44 days, and had only taken out 30 dole.' This was written on the Bth of July. Two days afterwards, on the 10th, he opens his letter to give his friend in Victoria the gratifying news that we struck the gold lead (pay dirt) at noon to-day, and this afternoon have taken out 151 oz. of dust.' The statement is cor roborated by a gentleman who saw the dust' weighed on the spot, and he says he saw the ' nug gets plainly visible in the dirt taken from the same shaft,' that produced the 15toz. The happy con clusion is drawn that the company, lucky at last, after their long and hard labour, which only pro duced 30 dols., have made their piles.' I sincerely hope so, for one of them is an old Californian pioneer who made a large fortune and lost it, and woo has struggled with the fates ever since 1858 in the two colonies on sea and-land, with a perseve rance which deserves success, Ile is an old Scotch• man, Major Downie,' whose travels in British Columbia I described in one of my letters some three years ago. The company at work close t• the major's claim have been equally well rewarded for their perseverance. They also struck the same gold leaf on that day, and claims that were sold the day before for 1,000 dole. sold the next for 15,000 dole.' These are all hill diggings' worked in tun nels, which I have spoken of as being so much more valuable than placers or surface diggings. "New discoveries ware being made frequently, and claims hitherto worked without producing much were proving suddenly successful in the early part of July, after the 'paydirt' had been penetrated, and a case is mentioned of a man who was sued in the morning for a debt of 130 dole., and had to bor row flour for his dinner yesterday. In the evening 25,000 was offered for an interest in the claim ! Such is life in Cariboo,' exclaims the narrator." HE LOAN COLLECTION AT SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. The more we examine the various objects of art which constitute the Loan Collection at South Ken sington, the deeper is our regret that it is so soon to be again dispersed. That the contents of the International Exhibition 6 houla ha scattered causes us no concern. We do not feel the same interest in the works exposed there. They are contributed mainly with an eye to business ; ugliness and beauty, utility and vanity, economy and extravagance—all are mingled together, and chiefly as investments. No such motives could have actuated the noble owners of the "Loan" objects. The very fact of possessing them proves a love of art, of its associations and history; the fact of lending them for exhibition— gratuitous exhibition on four days in the week— testifies to the desire of their owners that the public should share the pleasure which their con templation affords. The efforts of the owners have been ably seconded by the superintendent of the art collections. The catalogues issued are prefaced by admirable introductions to the study of each subject, by Mr. Robinson, Mr. Franks, and others. When necessary, smaller notes on single or classed objects are inserted in the catalogue, so as to give the public an opportunity of prizing, at its full worth, the boon which has been thus liberally granted to it. With the counter attractions of its gigantic neighbour, and the few holidays at their disposal, a large number of the middle and working classes have, neverthless, been unable to avail themselves of the privilege of visiting the collection. We should be sorry go presume upon the kindness of liberal men, but, as one generous deed betokens the willingness to do another, we do throw out a hope that the authori ties at South Kensington will use their influence with the proprietors that they may leave their works yet a while longer on view—enlarging thus the public circle of thanks, and at the same time extending the influence which a collection so ex clusively good and valuable, and formed with such praiseworthy motives, is capable of exercising on all classes.—Building News. THE NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR UO7TON. The following relates to the proposed now sub stitute for cotton : "Oxford Villa, Haverstock•hill, Sept. 24. " Sir—Several inquiries have been made of me as to the best place whence to get fresh supplies of the Zostera marina. " It may save endless trouble and the public some de lay if I state that it abounds along the sea-coast, but that in the river Orwell, at the entrance of the harbour, it is growing largely; and I have received a letter from Poole, in Dorset, from which the following is an extract : " Will you allow me to draw your attention to the fact that Poole harbour, extending to 9,975 acres, though con taining deep channels, is for the most part very shallow, and the tide when it falls leaves upwards of 8,000 acres of mud covered with Zosto a marina.' " I still have no doubt as to the immediately available quantity of the raw material, but as the question is one of national importance, and accurate infor ma ti on as to the quantity obtainable from the United Kingdom and Chan nel Islands would be extremely valuable, may I ask gen tlemensupply me as speedily as growing, possible with the approximate , number of and others resident by or and I nweaalr imthmeesdeiaa-tec loya sea-coast that experiments are being ma d e upon li s resultnd e acres t ei , hI the understand now the plant as supplied from upholsterers. If obtained from these sources I need scarcely say that the results to be de sired will not be so satisfactory as if the green plant be used; but if the object of using the dried plant be merely to demonstrate the practicability and the inexpensiveness of extracting the fibre, then it may answer the purpose although I think the green plant is preferable. " For the information of those who have not yet exa mined the plant, and to facilitate investigation, I may men tion that the outer casing forms a sort of sheath to the fibre within, and resembles the scabbard of a sword, which may be pulled off or put on again at pleasure. " I am, sir, your obedient servant, " HENRY HARBEN." A NEW LIFEBOAT FOR DUBLIN BAY. —General Sir George Bowles, K.C.8., has just presented to the Na final Lifeboat Institution £265, to enable it to station a new lifeboat and transporting carriage at Ilowth, near Dublin. The boat, which is 30 feet long, had her harbour trial yesterday, in the Regent's Canal dock, Limehousa, self-righting and f he lifeboats were fully fication of a number self-ejectingwh th e usual o f watercshown, t e t r toh i sittsihccesl class of (t) t i, oafndpsearstiosnfasctwohrio had assembled to w i tuess the trial. The ly lifeboat and her carriage leave for their station on Saturday, on board of one of the steamers belonging to Meesrs. Mal coimson, who, in conjunction With Mr. J. Robinson, o Mark-lane, are ever ready to carry the boats, ac., free of Charge, -- _~. _•~_,.~ Ti 2I eh 241 Th any