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The Two Prince of Wales' Fountains. The Large Central Basket Fountain. The Two Graceful Water Temples. The Forty-eight Tazza Fountains. The Six Boiling Fountains. The Grand Cascades and Waterfalls. The Eight Dancing Fountains. And the whole of the varied and beautifully designed Foun tains and Cascades of the GREAT LOWER BASINS, which alone cover a surface of five acres, numbering Twelve Thou sand Jets, discharging One Million Nine Hundred Thousand Gallons of Water, including Les GRANDES EAUX, which attain the altitude of 234 feet. v t • For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening, MARITANA. Commence at 8. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This Evening', PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. And THE RELIEF OF LUCICNOW. To conclude with THE ARABS OF THE DESERT. A Troupe of the Beni Z Oug- Zoug. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET, This Eveninm, A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Alter which, OUR AME RICAN COUSIN. With DUCK HUNTLNG: And THE GALICIAN FETE. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening, THE GREEN BUSHES. Followed by THE SHILLING DAY. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Evening, THE RENDEZVOUS. After which, at a quarter to a, KING HENRY VIII. With BORROWING A HUSBAND. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Evening, PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLAR NEY. Conclude with THE COLLEEN HAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. This Evening, MAZEPPA. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle. Concluding with a Comio Ballet. Commence at 7. W. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, Polygraphic Hall, Hinz William-street, Charing-cross.. Commence at 8. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing. CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING.— iiteckel, the great Trapeze performer—Grand Operatic Selec tion as usual —Unsworth, Eugene, and Duley, the great comic trio, ttc. Commence at 7. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY EVENING.—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, dm. Commence at 7. 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, 2h. Om. Afternoon, 2h. 18m. To-MORROW.-Morning, 2h. 31m.—Afternoon, 2h. 50m. Things are certainly carried with a high hand over in Paris. NAPOLEON is there out Napoleoned Meaning by this that Le Petit goes far beyond Le Grand, in some respects at least, in the assertion of his Autocracy. Not that the reigning EMPEROR condescends to do this individually. His Imperial Majesty does it coolly by delegate—through his Ministers. Wherever the vicarious exercise of his authority can be accomplished, it is accomplished. And with so ineffable a complacency. It will per haps be remembered, indeed it can hardly by pos sibility be forgotten, that at the period (not so very long since !) when M. DE PERSIGNY resigned the embassy to the Court of St. James's (handing it over to the veteran Count DE FLAHAULT)—his Excellency (that is the said M. DE PERSIGNY) assume d high administrative responsibilities in Paris, as Minister of the Interior: a mag nificent flourish of trumpets being sounded the while about the liberality of the principles he was immediately going to apply and to establish en permanence, as part and parcel of French jour nalism. Credulous people, even the most credulous, listened and wondered—quietly awaiting proofs of the Ministerial sincerity before flinging up their caps in jubilation. Well, certainly they had not long to wait after all. The looked-for proofs came thick and fast upon an European multitude of ob servers—a multitude more than ever astonished at these flagrant and absolutely, at last, outrageous and insulting contradictions. Scarcely had M_ DE PERSIGNY'S hand got well " in" to work as that of the so-called Liberal Minister of the Interior (a sort of Imperial LEDRU ROLLIN we were al most taught to look for in his instance) , when one caution after another, one reminder after another, fines, warnings, threats of im prisonment and of confiscation, were dropping down upon the devoted heads of our brethren of the pen across the Channel swift, cold, and hard as hail stones. Those were the kind of relaxations of the laws regulating the press of France that befitted M. DE PERSIGNY'S ideas of liberality, that were dreamt of as the halcyon visions of " Freedom of Writing and Printing" in the empyrean of his Philosophy ! so n,neh had this generous-hearted and large-minded, politician, diplomatist, statesman, and administrator profited by his sojourn amongst us as imperial ambassador ! The crowning of the pyramid was —postponed. That was all. France, not less than Dr. CBARLES MACKAY'S disciple, was "to wait a little longer." Satisfied # with one microscopic crumb of comfort dropped from the imperial table in the f orm of a vague intimation that, when the R e l er of France saw fit, the still slightly delayed bo ons , of Free Writing and of Free Speech should b r duly vouchsafed according to promise. Since v o. „et : 1 by the way, the time has sped on rapidly e- dough. The reputed Liberal Minister of the Interi or was not only warm in his seat, but glued it almost as tightly, one might think, as Tr ..ESEUS to the in fernal throne of punishment ! So prepared has he showed himself to be upon ,, all imaginable subjects —to resign ' his own ,rowed opi n i ons, to swallow his indignation, to oat his words (poisonous fare enou gh at all trines for any mortal, let alone a pre tended Champion of Liberality turned a Satrap o f Despetisln)—ready to do anything, to say anything,'' to write anything, rather than resign his Minis terial chair and his Ministerial portfolio. Have we not seen M. DE PERSIGNY still holding office as Minister of the Interior at Paris, with the Paris Pre ss , nay, the Press of all France, subjected moxs conspicuously than everot twt,unfrequent in- 4 .. .e. ~, 01 (21r trfc , * ...0,1. Qt. I. ~,,,. ... 1 ... z . .t, -, ' A ..,- ..,, , -.."4 -4, ~,, ____ t•- , , , ..)-: , ti, , 'C :.. --. ~ '1 14 , t N % , • av . , 111100? fr ' -6 1.1. I. — 47 41. • , i t. 4 j ~ PT )‘' I '''' I , - ,ir. THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 8, 1862. tervals to the most grinding restrictions ? Have we not seen him, still there at the head of his depart ment, and at the EMPEROR'S council-board—with the French troops yet remaining on guard in the Eternal City (those troops M. DE PERSIGNY affected at one time to be so bent upon removing thence), still remaining there, even after GARIBALDI had been shot down in Calabria, and removed as a wounded prisoner to a fortress in the Gulf of Spezzia. All in effect is exactly of a piece in re gard to the development (by a series of anti climaxes), of the pseudo-liberal policy of the Em peror NAPOLEON 111. and his ministerial coadjutors. The latest illustration of this fact has but just now been afforded. It is one of the most flagrant cases of the kind that has perhaps yet occurred since the Second Republic merged into the Second Empire. Not the most flagrant—but one of the most flag rant. We allude, of course, to the arbitrary suppression of anything and everything relating to VICTOR HUGO'S last grand literary achieve ment, his extraordinary romance, Les Miserables. Everybody, as the phrase is (and it is certainly less of a mere phrase in this instance than usual) —everybody has read it, is thinking about it, is talking about it (talking about it in France, per haps, for prudence sake, only in whispers, but still talking of it there 274 whispers) has wept over it, more or less, has shuddered over it, has devoured its three marvellous stories, its ten won derful volumes. Yet M. VICTOR HUGO being under an Imperial taboo—the existence of Les Miserables is to be summarily and altogether ignored ! A passing allusion to it even ix prohibited at the Theatre des Varietes. The work is elaborately dramatised, and is about to be presented to the pub lie at the Ambigu Comique. It also is prohibited. The representation is not to be thought of. It is true that the romance in its dramatised form has never yet come under the notice (even in the shape of the most scrambled manuscript) of the Imperial Censor, the functionary answering in his single per son to those two distinct individualities on this side of the water, the Reader of Plays and the Lord Chamberlain. No matter. The mere circumstance that such a play is known to be in preparation is enough for the EMPEROR'S Imperial Rhadamanthus. It comes to his knowledge quite casually in the course of a conversation between the high and mighty Count WALEWSKI and M. CAMILLE DOUCET, the chief of the theatrical division of that great Minis ter's department. " Speaking of that," (we are told) quoth his Excellency, "is it true they are dra matising Les Miserables ?" Assuredly, is the reply. " For what theatre ?" asks Count WaLEwstit. He is informed. It is for the Ambigu. " Tres bien," says the Minister, with a charming air, " then you will inform the management, M. DOUCET, that it had better not incur charges [so conside rate !] for its getting up." Adding —we can ima gine, with the portentous "A-hem I" of a Stage Brigand or a Giant Blunderbore—" I prohibit it I" Even the Minister's creature is taken aback, stands aghast before so premature, precipitate, peremptory an announcement. " Beforehand, Excellency ?" stammers M. CAMILLE DOUCET. "Yes, before hand," is the laconic rejoinder. Eh, voila tout— c'est fini—the interview is over, the affair is settled, the play is doomed, it is prohibited. It is only a run of two or three hundred nights denied to the playgoers among the Parisians. It is only a profit of ten or fifteen thousand livres prevented from pouring into the empty coffers of the management. It is only one injustice the more. What does it matter ? Even in dumb Paris there are inarticulate grumblings at all this—nevertheless. An evidence of insubordination so astounding that it must be put a stop to forthwith, and quite effectually. How? By one of those marvellous little official paragraphs that do occasionally adorn the columns of the Monti- Jeer. Imperial enigmas, that are very Delphic Oracles in their ambiguity—that might (for any I meaning they convey) just as lief have been printed in Arabic or Sanscrit for the vulgar multitude, as in the French vernacular. People have rubbed their eyes, and read it again and again, since the still re cent date of its appearance—that wonderful little paragraph in the Ilioniteur about Les Miserables. They have read it backwards, and they have read it forwards. They have looked at it this way, and they have looked at it that. And—when all this is said and done—we defy any one to deny that it comes by right under any other category than that to which Lord DUN DREARY would'infallibly assign it—as one of those things a fellow will never understand ! It is meant evidently to explain the prohibition of Les lifiserables in its dramatised form : but really the explanation itself requires explanation. And so we leave it there—like one of those little puzzling aerolites dropped oension ally upon this globe of ours—this last and still smoking thunderbolt hurled from the claw of the imperial eagle. It is one of those very comfits of liberalism, we presume, which were promised to France and to Europe when M. DE PERSI GNI crossed the Channel from England to lend the light derived from his judgment, and the strength drawn from his experience, to the councils of the French EMPEROR. There can be no doubt, says Mr. GLADSTONE to the men of Newcastle, that " JEFFERSON DAVIS has made a nation of the'South." We think so too. It has been impossible to watch, as it has been our business to do, the course of things since secession began, and to watch with the responsibility of pre senting just rep resentations of it to our readers, without perceiving the great superiority of the Southern President. 'With hi s cause we have had nosympathy. So far, ind ee d , as the South was seeking the independence of sep ara t e political exist ence, Englishmen could not b u t f ee l an instinctive interest in its object. But whe n we remember the reason for its seeking indep en ,% ll .,_ , our English blood boils with indignation at the prosti tution of the word. They mean by it indep en d enoe to do wrong, and to commit crie.de independ ence of the morality of civilised Chr%stendom ; independence of all restraints on the t:ropagation of slavery. Be it remembered that ;,he turning point of secession was the claim to exter,d slavery over the free soil. For this single purpose the doctrine of State sove reignty was pressed into disunion. We do not dislike the '.vision of North America ; better, we that believe, d it should form several respectable, well ^ behaved kingdoms, than one monster Jully of an Empire. That, however, does not alter the vileness of South ern mo ti ve s. The South were content enough with Union, while it governed the Union ; content with it while it could nominate the executive, and insult England through its official agents. But as soon as the Republican vote declared that slavery ought not to curse soil yet free, that the free negroes, at least, ought to be treated as citizens; and that a slaveholder ought not to be permitted to live with his sl aves in f ree St ates, immediately they repudiate the election in which they had joined; and because the voice of the ballot box is against them, resort to the bayonets The foundation of the Southern Republic is —„ t the love of independence, but fanatical love 'Jr th e horrid tyranny o f s l avery. We believe, with Mr. GLADSTC'NE, that that able administrator JEFFERSON will found a re,pub. lie, but one of fa/40$ for 514yery, Bat fr, , r this we could wish it success, but whether we wish it success or not, we believe it will be done. The con sideration for England, therefore, is what ought she to do, as a nation, in regard to the nation which Mr. GLADSTONE says is already made. Ought we to recognise it at once ; ought we, like President LINCOLN, to promise recognition within ninety days ; or ought we to leave the two belligerents to go on till they have wearied themselves of the war. We must reply that, as an anti-slavery nation, we cannot recognise, unconditionally, a Common wealth based on the indefinite extension of the Divine institution of slavery. All our antecedents are against embracing a confederation of slavery extensionists. Of men, too, who will as certainly reopen the African Slave-trade when once they have obtained the power to do so, as they now pro claim the will of Omnipotence to be, the bondage of the African to the white man. On the ground of humanity to the white men, who perish in thousands on the murderous battle-field, we might be glad to recognise the South, if so doing would hasten the termination of the war; but humanity to the black man has its claims on Eng land also ; and, when the cause of bat tle is to enslave him in greater num bers, over a wider area, and for a political eternity, England ought to hesitate . Tell us, we should say to the South, what you want us to recognise. Is it your right to devise your own plans for the emancipation of your human property, or is it to curse the earth with creating fresh sovereign States on the infernal system of negro slavery ? No question of this kind does the authorised agent of the South, Mr. MASON, advert to in his letter to the Stockport committee, which appeared in Tlie Sun yesterday. He appealed to international law as justifying acknowledgment of the nation ality of the South under the circumstances. They had existed politically for more than 18 months ; they had proved, in arms, their power to sustain their independence, and therefore no just cause of offence would be given by acknowledging them as a nation. The advantage would be that it would " dispel all illusion on the subject in the United States." At present the holding back of Europe is taken as an indication of its belief that the North may yet conquer the South, or that there may be a restoration of the unbroken Union. Recogni tion would also be a proof that in the judgment of Europe the rebellion had terminated in the creation of an independent power ; and the result of this would be that the war would no longer be carried on for so hopeless an object as at pre sent, at so enormous a sacrifice. All this we in England would cordially approve, but for the one consideration, that the South is fighting to establish a nation of tyrants. The cause of the North we know to be defective — it is, however, a cause in which England herself has often fought, the cause of empire, the cause of ambition. We can understand it, and also feel that, in the same position, we, rightly or wrongly, should have been likely to do the same thing. But we do not understand fighting for slavery. If the North is not fighting against negro slavery, it is, at least, now fighting for a policy which will entail its extinction. It is becoming more and more apparent to the North that it must give up supporting slavery even in independent States, or give up all hope of conquest. It is in this light we read Mr. LINCOLN'S manifesto of the 22d. Throughout it is tainted with the evident wish to get back the South with slavery, It offers, , as indeed Mr, LINCOLN has done from the begin ning, immunity from slavery as the purchase price , of repentance and loyalty to the Union. But Mr. LINCOLN never offers permission to extend slavery. That was the permission refused by him and his party, and on which the ballot went. And its de cision not to permit the extension of slavery was the one point on which the South bade farewell to the North. If our Government therefore discusses the ques tion of Southern recognition, it must ask itself on what terms it will concede it. It is now obvious that militarily, the South may become a vast power in the North of America. It will, it is true, not be near our Northern possessions, but Cuba and Jamaica will always be coveted, and the whole of intertropical America could present no resistance to its overbearing temper and power. It would soon hate England, as the leader in the opposition to its hateful helotism, and would be ready enough to join the ever jealous Yankees, should war unfortunately ever arise. Of course in the day of its weakness it uses plausible language, and may have but moderate views, but how can we trust it. The South, inde pendent, would be the same government which, when it controlled the Union, insulted England and bullied her out of everything not worth fighting for. The North might and did follow—but it was men placed in office by the South who have gained America a reputation for vulgarity, low cunning, and insolence, unparalleled in the history of inter national iLtercourse. While, therefore, we believe that the South will be a nation, while we think it likely that recogni tion might, for it is by no means certain, hasten the termination of the war, we cannot think it would be creditable to us to recognise an indefinite South. A South between the Mississippi and the Atlantic, between the Gulf of Mexico and the Border States ; with entire exclusion of its " damning crime" from all other territory, ought to be the least which the North and England should accept. To this the South will certainly never consent, and therefore we would leave it, for the present, to its fate. We should gladly recognise the South, if the South would but first recognise the rights of four millions of the twelve millions of which it boasts. 211 E QUEEN IN GERMANY. COBURG, OCT. 3. The Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, left Rheinhardtsbrunn at 2 o'clock this day, and arrived at Coburg at 6 o'clock. Her Majesty was received at the station at Coburg by the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, who accompanied her Majesty to the Palace, where the Duchess of Coburg received her. The Crown Princess, with the Prince William, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Albert Henry of Prussia, had come from R heinhardtsbrunn to Gotha early in the day. Her Majesty is as well as can be expected under the trying emotions of revisiting for the first time the birth place of the beloved Prince. Her Majesty has taken daily walks and drives, with the members of her family, in the neighbourhood of R heinhardtsbrunn, but is unequal to much exertion. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood have shown the greatest respect for her Majesty's feelings by refraining upon all occasions from intruding upon her privacy. The Queen's departure was delayed for two days by a slight accident which occurred to Prince Leopold, and which proved more difficult to cure than was at first expected. His Royal Highness is now quite recoyared, and bore the journey remarkably well. o m h o u u s u b t e a e i n n s for is some e t d e a d y s t o up n o t n u a rn t o t u on r o morrow Pfor iont in Prince o At C rht o eh b i ui tr ir , a gwr.thz / The Earl and Countess Ashburnham, and Ladies Ashburnham, have arrived at Ashburnham House from a tour of visits. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have re turned to Brocklesby Park from Convarnore, Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon arrived yes terday at Gedling Lodge, Notts, the Earl of Chesterfield's shooting-box, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Satistury at Hatfield House, Herts. Lord and Lady Forester are entertaining 8 select els , * at willeyl 3 alr, Shroptire THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, 001"011ER, 8, 1862. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN AMERICA. PER BOHEMIAN, VIA QUEBEC AND LONDONDERRY. NEW YORK, SEPT. 26, Evening. No Federals have yet crossed into Virginia. The Confederates remain along the upper line of the Potomac. It is rumoured that another draught will be pro claimed to increase the Federal army to 1,000,000 men. The Governors of 16 Union States assembled on the 24th inst., at Altoona (Pennsylvania),land ad journed on the 25th to Washington, where they presented an address to President Lincoln, express ing their determination to support his constitu tional authority, approving the emancipation pro clamation, and suggesting the expediency of raising a reserve force of 100,000 men. The Governor of Maryland objected to sign the address approving the emancipation proclamation. The New York Republican State Convention ex press profound satisfaction at the President's pro clamation. The President has been serenaded at Washington, on which occasion he made a speech, saying that he issued the proclamation after full deliberation, and under a heavy sense of responsibility. He trusted in God that he had made no mistake. It was now for America and the world, he said, to judge the proclamation, and, it may be, to take action upon it. The Chicago Emancipation Committee have pub lished President Lincoln's reply to them, delivered on the 13th of this month. The President therein states that he did not favour an emancipation pro clamation, as it would be inoperative if issued, and if the slaves were armed their arms would fall into the hands of the rebels. The New York Trorld thinks that the President's change of policy is caused by a fear of foreign in tervention. A portion of the emancipation proclamation was erroneously printed. The proclamation declares that the presence in Congress on January Ist of the members from the rebellious States shall be evi dence that such States are not then in rebellion ; instead of the presence of such members being evi dence that they have not been in rebellion. The Southern journals claim victory for the Con federates in the battle at Antietam Creek. The Confederate Gene. Startel and Branch were killed. The Confederate force numbered 60,000, under Gen. Lee. To avoid a flank movement by Gen. M'Clellan, Lee withdrew his army across the Potomac. The Petersburg Express thinks that the majority of the people of Maryland are not disposed at pre sent to join the South, otherwise they would have risen en masse. The Governor of Pennsylvania has discharged the militia lately called out. At New Orleans Gen. Butler has ordered all foreigners to present themselves, with the evidence of their nationality, to the nearest Provost-marshal to be registered, as in the course of 10 days it may be necessary to distinguish disloyal from loyal citi zens and honest neutral foreigners. Naval expeditions ,are fitting out at Port Roya . and Pensacola. Correspondents report that the Federal General Rosencranz captured 36 cannon and 500 prisoners in the late battle at Juka, Mississippi. Preparations have been made to burn the city of Memphis if attacked. The Ariel, from Aspinwall, has arrived at New York with 880,000 dols. (By Telegraph to Father Point.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 27, EVENING. General AiTlellan has constructed a pontoon bridge, over which to cross the Potomac: at Har per's Ferry. The Louisville Journal declares that Kentucky will never acquiesce in President Lincoln's procla mation. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, SEPT. 26 (Evening). Money abundant. Gold, 201 premium. Exchange quiet. Bankers' bills, 132. Immense excitement prevailed. in the railway stock and gold markets yesterday. Stocks rose 3 to 5 per cent. at one session of the Stock Board. Government bonds, however, were dull, and did not respond to the general rise in other securities. To-day there was a slight reaction from yester day's extreme prices. The following are the latest quotations New York Centrals, 981; Illinois, '7ll ; Erie, 45t. Cotton quiet. Middling upland, 571. Flour very firm. Wheat in good demand for export. Corn steady. Provisions dull. Coffee very firm. Sugar advancing. Molasses quiet. NEW YORK, SEPT. 27 (Evening). Money abundant. Gold, 21 . 1 prem. Exchange—Bankers' bills, 1321 133. Stocks advancing. New York Centrals, 99k ; Illinois, 721 ; Erie, 461. Cotton dull. Middling upland, 56/. Flour, wheat, and corn in good demand for ex port. Provisions dull. Sugar very firm ; molasses good inquiry. The Edinburgh, which sailed to-day for Europe, took 100,000 dols in specie✓ MEXICO. The New York papers publish the following in telligence from Vera Cruz, under date of the 11th of September:---" Vomito is making great havoc in the French fleet. Anxiety is felt for the safety of a French convoy which left Vera Cruz with 1,000,000 doll. for Orizaba. The convoy was 10 days overdue. It is reported that the French were about to attack Jalapa." CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 7. The Valetta and Ceylon, with the above mails, sailed this morning for Marseilles and Southampton respectively. The Ceylon may be expected at Southampton about the 20th inst. The Columbian brought the present China mail to Galle. She left the latter port for Bombay on the 18th of September. The Madras, with the English mails of the 20th 26th of August, left Galle for Australia on the 18th ult, (three days early). The Nemesis and Ottawa left Suez on the even ing of the sth inst. for Calcutta and the Mauritius respectively, BERLIN, OCT. 7. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the debate on the resolution proposed by Herr Forkenbeck was continued. Herr von Vineke made the following amend ment " The Chamber of Deputies declares that, inde pEndent of further proposals which are to be ei pected concerning the Budget 1:4 1862, the Cloven), ment,in order to maintain the constitutional state of things, is bound to propose to the Chamber before the close of 1862 the grant of the provisional extraordinary credit for the Military Budget, in case the Budget for 1863 cannot be settled before the end of this year." The President of the Council declared in the name of the whole Cabinet that the Government would look upon the adoption by the Chamber of the amendment of Herr von Vincke as a pledge of the reconciliatory views with which the Chamber desires to meet the efforts of the Government to bring about a mutual understanding. " Should the Chamber adopt this amendment, the Government would make proposals which should accord with the motion, without, however, depart ing from the same principles." (Loud cries of dis approbation.) " The Government would take the steps painted out by the amendment in reference to the Budget of 1862, in case it should become appa rent that the Budget for 1863 could not be prepared in good time." The Chambers, after some further discussion, re jected by large majorities all the amendments, and adopted, by a special vote, the resolution of Herr Forkenbeck by 251 against 36. TURIN, OCT. 7. The Di/it/0 of to-day publishes a telegram from Naples, announcing that Deputies Mordini, Fabrizi, and Calrino have been set at liberty. The Discussione of to-day states that the visit of Prince Napoleon to Naples has been undertaken with the object of inquiring into the political condition of the country, and of reporting it to the Emperor. The same paper says that the institution of a great military command in Sicily was intended immedi ately to precede the raising of the state of siege, bat that this measure has been postponed on account of the recent outrages. The disarmament of Palermo is being promptly carried out. A deputation of citizens has declared to Signor Brignone that all honest men will assist the Go vernment in the repression of the criminals. The number of those excepted from the amnesty does not exceed 100, two of whom are commissioned officers, and 10 are non• commissioned officers. ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. 7. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day pub lishes an article in reference to the journey of Count Zamoyski, denying certain erroneous reports cur • rent upon the subject. The writer says :—" It results from the explana tion of Count Zamoy ski that the assembly of the Polish landed proprietors, and the resolutions which they passed, were merely the effect of thoughtless impulse. This act, nevertheless, constituted an in fraction of the law, as it could only increase agita tion. A possibility existing that the name of Count Zamoyski might be used as a watchword by the party of disorder and of anarchical tendency, the Government summoned him to St. Petersburg, to preserve him from this taking place. Under pre sent circumstances the Emperor has considered the return of Count Zamoyski to Warsaw inconvenient, and he will, therefore, travel for a period in foreign parts." FRANCE. BOURSE, October 7.—Sales for realisation con tinue, and the business has been done at a further decline. Threes, for the Account, are now at 72f. The same remarks apply to the Railway Share Market, the quotations of which are also rather lower. The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cents .. 98 35 Bank Shares 3225 Do. end month.... Credit F oncier 1327 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 7l 70 Italian Loan 74 60 Mew 3 per Cents .. Roman Do. end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 1160 Spanish Threes 52 25 Do. end m0nth....1170 Homo Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern NEW ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1192 50 .. 1193 75 Geneva Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 382 50 .. 385 Austrian Lowboy] North of Spain Saragossa 620 620 Ditto to Barcelona 343 75 343 75 SONG lOR 7HE THRONG. (Front Fun.) THE MEMBER FROM OVER THE WATER. To Westminster a member came, Of the Liberals a supporter, And he was returned to Westminster, From the other side of the water. His father, .Dod said, had smelted lead, Somewhere down and about that quarter ; But the gentlefolks all they took off their hats To the Orcesus from over the water. 'With a do, etc. Now the Lambeth folks this wealthy gent, As their member did decide on, ,Cos they thought he'd set fire to the river Thames, What the penny steamers rido on. But little they knew he'd happened to do Some things that he didn't oughter-- For he'd forged a will and several deeds, Had this member from over the water. With a do, etc. But he cut such a dash and spent his cash, That his means ran quickly shorter ; So at last one day he'd to run away, T'other side of Biscay water. But soon from Spain ho returned again, Like a " regular ring-tailed snorter," For his family's good to confess his crimes, And get sent t'other side of the water. With a do, etc. The confession he made in Guildford town : 'Twas took down by a sharp reporter ; Tried for forgeree at the C. C. C., Was this rogue of the very first water. To begin with, indeed, he refused to plead, But he changed his game soon arter : And he didn't come out with his lilywhite hands From the business done over the water. With a do, etc. Now, when Justice Byles had heard what he said, His eyes ran down with water; But ho gave him transportation for life, So he didn't show him much quarter. And the public said, " Well I this here Roupell Has got no more than he oughter 1" So there was an end of the wealthy gent, As was member for over the water, And a do, etc. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury en tertained a select circle of friends at Hatfield House, Herts, during the last week. Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., M.P., returns to the the Admiralty to-day from his seat in Wales, to resume his duties as First Secretary of the Admiralty. Lady Coote and family have left Brighton for Folkestone, en route to the south of France. Captain the Hon. James Robert Drummond, C. 8., has teamed his official duties at the Admiralty, after spending the customary vacation of two months in Scotland. Mr. Monckton Milnes, M.P., has left town on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, at Broad lands, Hants, Sir Henry and Lady Sophia des Veeux have left Berkeley-square for their seat in Derbyshire, and also to visit the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Gedling Lodge, Nottinghamshire. A marriage is arranged to take place between Mr. William Henry Melvill, son of the late Sir James Como Melville, K.C.8., and the Hon. Elizabeth Theresa Lister, youngest daughter of the late Lord Ribblesdale,and stepdaughter of Earl Russell. Inquiries have been made regarding the cause of a recent fall in the premium on the shares of the Ocesn Marine Company, but it appears that nothing has occurred to affect seriously their value. They have, with other com panies, lately experienced some losses, which, however, it is stated, hardly exceed 255. per share, while the price has been thrown back g; Per glare, GARIBALDI IN HIS ISLAND HOME OF CA PRERA." PAINTED BY T. JONES BARKER. Successful though . .N.tr. Jones Barker has often before now been in the production of more elabo rate and ambitious paintings of a historical cha racter, we do not hesitate to pronounce this ex quisite portrait of the Hero Garibaldi as in many respects his chef d'ccuvre. It is destined, we are absolutely certain, to eclipse all his others in popu larity, It will be scanned by the people of after times with more lively interest than any other of the same artist's productions—singularly attractive though these latter have almost every one of them been in their subject and wonderfully in teresting though they have everyone of them been without exception in their treatment. Nor can it very much awaken surprise even among those who may not yet have seen for themselves the remark able picture upon which we are commenting, when I it is borne in mind what is in truth the subject here represented in glowing colours by Mr. Barker's brush of skill and facination. Everyone who has looked upon the painting itself, everyone who has glanced at the engraving from it now dis played in the shop-windows of so many of our printsellers, will corroborate what we have already remarked about the peculiar and really exceptional charm in investing this the artist's latest master piece. Garibaldi is here represented as standing in an easy, natural sailor-like attitude upon a rocky eminence in his Island Home of Caprera. It is early morning—the rusty boots worn by the Hero telling of the tramp he has had across the dewy herbage before reaching the elevated spot upon which he is standing—a spot well known at Caprera as a favourite haunt of the Italian Liberator. Objection has been made by some, among the more critical or captious, to the attitude in which Garibaldi is hero pourtrayed—as one savouring rather of the theatri cal. Yet, here, again, the artist has deliberately "selected" this attitude, and for a reason that all will at once admit to be sufficient, and a reason none the less acceptable to the artist surely, and none the less readily to be allowed him, because at the same time it chances to be wonderfully pictu resque. This sufficient reason being, that it is a frequent and favourite attitude of Garibaldi's— particularly when rapt in thought ! Standing► " at ease," with his arms carelessly folded, his lion face directed full towards the spectator, his cavalier bonnet of felt held negligently in his left hand, his grey eyes full of animation, his noble broad and lofty brow serene and bared to the cool breezes of daybreak—Garibaldi stands before us in this beau tiful painting the beau ideal of a Hero ! One in whose lineaments, and especially on his ample forehead— "Every God had seemed to set his seal To give the world assurance of A Man!" The extraordinary effect produced by his per sonal aspect being, as a matter of course, very con siderably enhanced and heightened by the remem brance of his great deeds, by the recollection of the very situation in which he is represented (standing there in his island home, looking towards the mainland of the Italian peninsula) —heightened and enhanced even by the simple grace of his marvellously picturesque cos tume ! The light grey or drab coloured sailor cut trousers—belted about the waist, fitting tightly about the loins and hips, and flowing loosely down to the feet, clad in the rusty dew-dulled boots of leather already mentioned ! Completing the cos tume—the renowned and henceforth historical Garibaldian Redshirt—a deep-blue handkeechief tied negligently across the shoulders of the great Condottiere, the ends of it hanging down his breast. Far below in this picture—at the base of the jutting and lofty eminence upon which he is standing, the blue waves of the Mediterranean dashing into spray against the rocky headlands. In the foreground, close to Garibaldi's feet, two of his tame goats nibbling the fresh green leaves of the brambles and herbage—leaves powdered over with glittering dewdrops. Above in the growing light of the sky, still scintillating radiantly above the hero's head the " Star of Promise—to Italy ! Altogether, so far as our own observations have extended among the numerous effigies of the Italian Hero that has been published, Mr. Jones Barker's painting of him is incomparably the very best that has been produced. Those who kuuw the General intimately, pronounce it, without any hesitation to be among them all the most faithful. The original painting will still remain, we believe, for a brief while on view at the German Gallery in Old Bond-street—prior to its removal further to the east for exhibition at some convenient gallery in the City of London. It is worthy—at once as a historical work of art, and as a life-like portrait—of the very highest com mendation. THE INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL GABIBALDI. We extract the following from a letter written by an Englishman, dated Spezzia, Oct. 3 : For the first eight or ten days after Garibaldi's arrival two large frigates and four gunboats were moored opposite Varignano, and a perfect fleet of armed boats circulated about the harbour. Now, as I write, there is but one, a small despatch-boat, remaining. The rigid orders against landing are withdrawn, and I stepped on shore at the stairs, and wended my way up to the fortress, unopposed and unquestioned. A letter to the colonel-commandant, Santa Rosa (the son, by the way, of the Gen. Santa Rosa who was killed in Lord Byron's expedition to Greece), from the Minister of War procured me a very gruff and not over conciliatory interview with a bushy whiskered, very coarse-looking man, of about forty, who curtly told me the General was wearied, iie had seen so many people, and that I had better leave hiai in quiet. After briefly assuring my courteous informant that my visit would be of the briefest, he gave Ice permission to proceed, and I mounted a wide and dirty stair to a corridor as wide, as dirty, and in many ways as disagreeable. Two gendarmes were stationed at a small door in this passage, entering which I found myself in a room with some seven or eight persons dressed in scarlet shirts, and seated at dinner. They received Ine with much politeness, and one, a tall, dark-complexioned young man, of about eight-and-twenty, Menotti, at °nee offered to con duct me to his father. On a small truckle bed, scrupulously clean, but of the humblest kind, lay the wounded man, with his arms folded, and his head a little bent forward, so deep in thought that we were beside him before he noticed us. He gave me his hand and addressed me at once in English, but speedily added, " You must talk Freneh to me, for my English has rather rusted lately." He knew my name, as the bearer of a letter from an old and valued friend; but added again, " Talk to me freely, but don't be displeased if I can say little in return. Tell me everything about C—; where he is, how he is, and what he is doing." I tried to obey him; though far more eager to learn tidings of himself, and learn if there was anything which the solici tude of his English friends could do to lighten his solitude and his suffering. " No, " said he, " I believe I want nothin g . I have ha d sympathy enough for a thousand men. Your great nation is greater in nothing than in its generosity." It was no time, nor had I the presumption, to a d v ert to late events ; a nd so we talked only his wound and the time it would take to restore him. "Patience," said he, with a smile, "is not said to be my c haracteristic, but they shall see that I can exert it." With a permission to be admitted to see him soon again, I withdrew ; and, after a few moments of civil intercourse with the doctors, Rapari, Basile, and Altaneso, whose dinner I had already disturbed, I came away. As I rowed back to Spezzia I had time to think over my late interview, and was astonished to own to myself how powerfully the magic of that great man's simple and gentle manner had worked upon me. My boatmen, who knew . where I had been, a n d w h o certainly were not restrained from questioning me by any modest deference, never asked me how he Was or how he looked. They tcld with com placency how much employment they had had in conveying strangers across to see " II Generale;" t h a t there were Italians and English and Swiss every day. Rather piqued at last I said, " The General is meglio . '—" So much the going on well." " Tanto better"—was the response, and no more passed be- I tween usa THE RIGHT HON. TV. E. GLADSTON. IX N.EJVCASTLE. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in this district yesterday. He came from Brougham Hal 1 in the afternoon to Blaydon, where he alighted, and drove to Gibside, the residence of the Right Hon. Wzn, Hutt, M,P. To-day he came to New castle, and after visiting the church of St. Nicholas, the High Level Bridge, the monument recently erected to the memory of George Stephenson, and other places in the town, he attended a banquet in his honour in the new Town-ha 1. All the tickets for the dinner had been sold several days ago, and there was a number of per sons from all parts of the country who were anxious to be present, but who could not get admission for want of room. After dinner the side elevations and galleries were filled with ladies, who gave the hall a lively appearance. The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Newcastle (Joseph Armstrong) occupied the chair. After the cloth was removal., the usual loyal toasts were proposed by the Chairman. In reply to the toast of " The Army and Navy and Volunteers," Sir JOHN FIFE responded, and said that the Tyne side had reason to be proud of the part it had taken in improving the efficiency of the army and the navy in the famous gun of Sir W. Armstrong, and the iron-clad frigates of the Messrs. Palmer. (Loud cheers.) The number of the resignations in the ranks of the volunteers were more than made up by the new enrolments. The Rev. R. W. GOODENOUGH responded to the toast of "the Bishop, Clergy, and the Ministers of all other Christian denominations," and took occa sion to declare his adhesion to the new project of reform for the Durham University. (Applause.) The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of Mr. Glad stone in highly eulogistic terms, referring especially to his repeal of the paper duty, and the furtherance of commercial treaties with other nations, from which this district had reaped so much benefit. The toast was drank amidst loud applause, and Mr. Gladstone, on rising to respond, was received with great and protracted cheering. The Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE acknowledged the warm compliment paid him. He contrasted the labours of a public career, its toil and responsibility; but its reward, though not always in the present, lay in the future, and to the future it was most whole some that a public man should look ; and in England it had a generous reward. Though a member of the Government, he had freedom to speak of public af fairs. Asa member of the Government, he would take credit for his own services in promoting the French Treaty ; yet to the Emperor of the French and Mr. Cobden it was mainly due. They were two- distin guished men, whose position on the one hand, saga city and ability on the other, had accomplished it. His noble colleague and Earl Russell were next in order entitled to the honour of the meeting on account of the treaty. It had been a success beyond all expecta tions. The commercial experience of the public knew it as surely as official documents showed it. The right hon. speaker gave numerical facts as to the state of trade with France for 12 months past. The trade foreign and colonial of England, which was before the treaty of the value of 9 millions, was, 12 months after, 21 millions. The increase of export of British produce was no less satisfactory. On the average of two years before the treaty, the value of trade in metals and tissues was two millions, now it was six millions. The particular commerce of New castle had benefited 300 per cent. The exports of America had fallen off in 12 months 9 millions. The treaty of commerce had supplied this calamitous de ficiency. The hon. speaker gave the increase of ton nage by sea resulting from the treaty. Every 10 or 12 millions of increased trade gave us an increase of a million of duties arising from tax-paying commo dities imported. The treaty had compensated for all the nation's sacrifice on account of the treaty ; besides, the moral effect of the treaty was greater than its pecuniary result. France, then, took its stand on free trade; it added its influence to Eng land's, and new treaties elsewhere had arisen, and its effect upon the future peace of the world was very significant and influential. When Parliament met, it would be its duty to retrench, as far as pos sible, its expenditure. Not wishing to occupy the meeting with official considerations alone, he would notice that the paper duty, hop duties, and an in come tax, once 10d. now 9d., were no longer col lected. These facts had to be taken into account in estimating the improved revenue of the country. Considering that the great industry of the country had been smitten by a blight, it was a matter of great satisfaction that the revenue had increased to the amount of X 600,000. The Chancellor of the Ex chequer must compliment the workmen of the north thrown out of employ. He doubted if any class of the community would have borne similar calamity with equal fortitude and self-denial. He defended the manufacturers generally, but condemned those who made wealth the object of worship and ne glected its wise use—the manufacturer who sold his cotton clandestinely, as abusing the rights of pro perty, as much as any condemned aristocrats. Re lief ought to be given to the workmen without hu miliation. The men were innocent as children, but had borne their sufferings like heroes. He hoped that no man would be deprived of the franchise be cause he accepted parish relief. When Parliament again considered the franchise the conduct of the men of Lancashire would be taken into account. He referred to the war in America. The slaves would be better off if the States were separated, as on the basis of union, the laws against the slaves were enforced by the whole power of the Federal united Government. Our neutrality had been more against the South than the North. We ou ght to judge tenderly the North. It had never drunk the cup of bitterness, and it exaggerated its feeling Let us bear with them, let us forget the reception they gave the Prince of Wales—it was a proof of the settled goodwill of America to England. There could be no doubt that Jefferson Davis had made t i nation of the South. Mr. Gladstone treated tro 3 South as a successful cause. (The announcemen t caused great sensation.) Lord Palmerston had bear• one of the earliest in this country to recognise the condition of Italy. Lord Russell had no less faith fully represented the sentiments of the people of England. The conduct of the people of Italy gave them new cl tims to public confidence. They would not follow the man they best loved into error, for the sake of peace in Europe. He hoped that the question of Italy would early reach its final stage. Mr. Gladstone ended by proposing " The health of the Mayor, on account of his connection w ith the the safeguard of liberty, and the Press," which he praised as the friend of the people, c heck upon Mi nisters. The other toasts proposed and —" Her Majesty's Ministers," "r esponded to were: The Members for Newcastle, and for the other boroughs, and cone sular Representatives o f Foreign States." ties of Northumberland a nd Durham," " The Con- TERRIFIC GAS EXPLOSION IN A FACTORY.--O n Monday last a violent explosion of gas occurred at the lac.- tory of Messrs. Harris and Sons, Braunstone-gate, Leices ter. It appears that on the above evening the front part of the building was about to be lighted with gas for the first time this season, and the meter was turned on about five. o'clock by Mr. Broughton, the timekeeper, who shortly afterwards discovered a strong smell of gas in his office ; he immediately communicated the fact to a mechanic COn nected with the establishment and the meter was imree diately turned off. A person named E. Shuttlewood then applied a light towards the ceiling, when a terrific explo sion took place. The report was heard at a considerable distance, and the houses on the opposite side of the street were much shaken. Mr. D. Shuttlewood, overlooker of the mechanics' department, was seriously injured, one side ~4 ' :f his face being m uc h b urn t and completely disfigare'• Messrs. Broughton, E. Shuttlewood, and J. English were,. also badly shaken, and the latter was burnt seriously abe' the neck and hand. In the room were the explosion .000: curred the plaster was stripped from the ceiling explosion wrapper set on fire, a portion of the floor above wa s 3 ,, e sprung. Had not the precaution been taken to shut off Le ust gas previous to testing the pipe, the consequenc es , w a i e have been most disatrous both to life and property. 3 - 11 ~.. bar of the Earl Howe's Arms, about 30 yards frora T . ', scene of the explosion, the reflecticn of the light resembled a strong flash of lightning, and many were impressed Now' that idea until the facts became kuown. ven l t m s pthoreticniaginTeseea pwa,istihngouotffeeinlofeurrioronietavhees l a e s a f in P r e i , b 0 " usua l kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncol our ed, therefo re f a iivoys 094 alike, Sold ha paci4tel)s 7 2, 28 V Agellt°' - -