The Sun. — London, England, 1860-10-10 00:00:00

OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT- I IL GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees.—THlS ZVENING will be presented the opera of LURLINE ; characters by Messrs. H. Wharton, H. Cort i, G. Kelley, and W. Harrison ; Miss Leffler, .Prliss Albertazzi, and Miss Louisa Pyne.—Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Eight. Doors open at Half-past Seven. In consequence of the numerous applications from the Patrons of the Royal English Opera, on Monday, October.ls, the performances will commence at half-past seven, doors opening at seven. This arrangement will continue up to Christmas. THEATR!.:-HOYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baekstone. THIS EVENING the performanoes will oommenoe with the new comedy, DOES HE LOVE ME ? Messrs. Howe Chippendale, E. Villiers, and Buckstone ; Miss Amy Sedg wick, Miss Florence Haydon, and Mrs. Wilkins. Followed by a new comedy, entitled ROMANCE AND REALITY. Messrs. Chppenotale, Howe, Rogers, W. Farren imd John Brougham ; Miss Florence Haydon; Mrs. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leoleroqa. - - Commence at 7.1 THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, MAGIC TOYS : Valentine, Miss Lydia 7.7llompson. After which, a comedy by Dion Bourcicalt Esq., entitled THE IRISH HEIRESS. Mess rs . George Vining H. Neville (his 3d appearance in London), John Rouse, 'Vi ll iers, T. Lyon, H. Butler, Miss Kate Saville, Miss M. Hatton, and Miss Goughenheim, the talented Comedienne, of the princi pal Theatres in America (her 3d appearance in England). To conclude with the romantic drama of THE ABBE VACDREIJIL, in which the celebrated Dancers, the Misses Collinson, will make their 3d appearance!in London. The Abbe Vaudreuil, Madame Celeste. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. • Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicanit, Esq., "The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even- THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W. Smith, D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Vi oolgar, Miss Sate Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boureicanit, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnet Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Bi llington, a nd Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC lIATH CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. pen a t half-past 6—Commence at 7 . ox-eftioe open from 10 till 5. Doors o B No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 28. ; Family Boxes .41 O rc h es tra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony , 4 s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3a • Fit Stalls , 28 .; Pit, is. 6d. ; Am p hith eatre , Is ; Gallery, id. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.— Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. This Evening (first time) a new Spectacle, entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; Allan-a-Dale, Miss Rebeoca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Pritchard. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day, including Mdlle. de Berg and Mr. James Cooke. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma ...................... Miss RUSSELL. Adalfrisa .................... Madame MARIA, (Her first appearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Per formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. Balcony, ls, _..Hall. 6d. THB WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, Oc-r. 10, MO. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADB. 52—this day at noon. 39—lowest this morning and during the night. 45—highest since noon yesterday. BAnomETER-30.08. Wricp—South •Westerly ; fresh, with cold rainy weather. Last night was the coldest this season. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAlN—Morning, 9h. 22m.—Afternoon, 10h. 7m. To-atounow.-Morning, 10h. 48m.—Afternoon, Ilh. 23m. . , •,1_ • 31 (L...,e• - ' z liPU~ t t ~:.~.; THE SUN. LONDO:g, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10, 1860. All the Governments, including that of his HOLINESS himself, are becoming Protestants. Pm testing is, indeed, the order of the day. Poor FRANCIS 11. protests from Gaeta ; the POPE pro tests from the Vatican ; and now we are told that Austria, Russia, and Prussia, in anticipation of their Warsaw meeting, have also taken to protest ing. The King of SARDINIA it is who has the honour of creating such a general protestantism. He has violated the Papal territory ; hehas marched or is aboat to march, into that of the late King of NAPLES, and the consequence is this shower of pro tests. Very harmless things they are, however. He, and GARIBALDI, and the Emperor of the FRENCH, so far as he is concerned, are doubtless supremely indifferent to them. Count CATOUR could get up a reply to fifty of them in a few hours ; and quite certain is it, that they will not stop the march of a single Sardinian regiment. The last intelligence, which we have litee doubt is trustworthy, shows that the King of SARDINIA has chosen his line of action. It was, indeed, plainly enough indicated in the Ministerial Re port to the Piedmontese Chambers ; in that he avowed that he was willing to accept the Govern ment if they were willing to confer it on him. The Report said— " The generous Sovereign who is hailed by the whole .f Italy as the leader and mover of the national resurrection has special duties towards the South of Italy. The work of emancipation began in his name ; round his glorious standard the freed people crowded and pressed. Before Europe, before posterity, he is answerable for their fate. " King Victor Emmanuel does not intend to dispose at his own pleasure the people of Southern Italy ; but he is in duty bound to give them an opportunity of putting an end to their provisional condition, by most openly, most freely giving utterance to their wishes. " What may be the result of their vote ? The answer lies in the electoral urn. As Italians, we ardently wish that the inhabitants of the provinces not yet united should act as those of Central Italy have done ; and that with the same enthusiasm, with the same unanimity they should de clare of in favour that principle of unification which may bring the whole Peninsula under the constitutional sceptre of Victor Emmanuel. " As Ministers of a Sovereign free from persoaal ambi tion, and who consecrated his sword and life to the great achievement of vindicating Italy to the Italians, we must firmly pronounce in his name that, whatever may be the vote of those people, it shall be respected. This programme has been at once acted on, all protests notwithstanding. We find from the letter of Colonel Bixio that the Piedmontese Bersaglieri, who were at Naples, Went up and took an active part in the battle of the 'Volturno, and that the Piedmontese artillery wrought wonders. The Garibaldians raised shouts of joy on seeing their brethren of Northern Italy, th e N eapolitans were frightened at the sight of regular uniforms, and Piedmontese and Garibaldians vied with each other in routing the Royalists. We cannot omit to notice, though irrevelant to our present purpose, that some gunners, absent on leave from an English steamer, thought it'the best way of spending their holiday to join the Garibaldia ns in this well-fou g ht b attle. Right worthily did the brave tars represent their own profession throughout England's marine, and indeed the feelings of all their fellow-countrymen. Perrhaps FRANCIS 11. will send them a copy of his pretest froni Gaeta, with which they would vary pleasantly light their pipes, and start off to help in the bombardment of Capua. But the KING, in the face'of all the protests, has gone farther. He has not only permitted his forces already at Naples for the maintenance of order, to fight shoulder to shoulder with the Garibaldians, but he is on the wav to do it himself. He h as assumed the command in chief of the army, and has directed CIALDINI to march his men at once in. three divisions to the aid of GARIBALDI. He has also addressed a manifesto to the people of t - .4outhern Italy, we presume on the occasion of the Saz t linian troops entering their frontier. We have not received it while we write, but cannnot doubt that its spirit and substance are quite in accordance with what we have just quoted from Count CA TOUR'S address to the Chambers. The late subjects Of King FRANCIS seem indeed to have acted very promptly on the suggestions of the Piedmontese Government, for we learn that deputations are arriving from every province of the Neapolitan States, bearing resolutions from the Municipalities, and other public bodies, which pro claim VICTOR EMMANUEL King, and solicit his presence ; and that the Governors and Magistrates of the different provinces have signed an act of submission and of homage to the KING'S Govern ment. This is all that can be done at present, when there is no regular Government, and it is the kind of formal justification of the KING in the move he has just made. Whatever the legitimate Sovereigns of Europe may do after the King of SARDINIA is in possession in Southern Italy, neither he nor the Italians care in the least. FRANCIS 11. will share the fate of former wandering despots— a moment's pity for dethroned legitimacy, and then forgotten for ever. Would that he could be joined in his travels by another FRANCIS, at whose departure Hungary and Venetia would ring with shouts of joy that would be heard in every capital of Europe. The silence of the Count DE MONTEMOLIN is sig nificant. His Royal Highness's "younger" brother. DoN JUAN, has recently been putting forward his claim to the throne of the Spanish BOURBONS, to the sovereignty of the Iberian peninsula. Very recently we took occasion to comment in these columns upon a document in which these claims were formally advanced by Prince JOHN DE BOUR BON, and since then H.R.H. has, if possible, still more formally endorsed that document by a com munication (forcibly insisting upon the validity of his " rights") addressed by the royal exile to the chief of our morning contemporaries. It was this supplementary argument, signed " JorIN DE Bon- BON," which we submitted to our readers in our impression of last evening. And those who may have glanced at it can hardly have failed to observe the emphatic and deliberate manner in which the prior and superior claims of H.R.H.'s elder brother, Don CARLOS, otherwise Count DE MONTE MOLIN, have been—ignored. An opportunity for the adoption of such a course as that which has been thus entered upon by DON JUAN Wits undoubtedly afforded to the last-men tioned personage by the late extraordinary, and, in the interests of the chief aspirant to the Crown of Spain, it may be said the most untoward and cala mitous escapade of the Count DE MONTEMOLIN. Of that opportunity the second son of the late Don CARLOS (i.e., Prince JUAN DE BOURBON) has not been slow to avail himself. The resignation by the Count DE MONTEMOLIN, while a prisoner of the reigning Spanish Sovereign, Queen Is ABELLA ll.—the formal and explicit abandonment by his Royal Highness of all his claims to the sceptre wielded by his ancestors during so many centuries—this, of itself, constituted Don JUAN'S opportunity. True, that since then this anticipatory abdication, as it might be called, sworn, signed, and sealed by the Count DE MONTEMOLIN, while in duresse, has been as explicitly, as for m ally, and as deliberately withdrawn, or abcrogated, since his Royal Highness's restoration to liberty. But—it can hardly be sur prising under the circumstances—that the Count's firtst act and not his second should have been ac. cepted by Don JUAN as the one most decisive and cctnclusive. So regarding it, the latter Prince, the second brother, has ever since then assumed to him self the right of representing the dignity of which hi'A elder brother has been hitherto incontestibly the rmognised chief survivor, and of which he himself as; incontestibly has been heretofore no more that time heir presumptive to whatever latent claims tl tere were to the rights of Sovereignty. Now, matters are distinctly held by Don J VAN, and apparently by others also, to be changed al:logether. The Count DE MONTEMOLIN appears to be regarded as politically dead—his claims, Binh as they were, being deemed to have expired t the very moment when he affixed his signature to that, for himself, most ill-advised document, b y which he resigned into the hands of Queen I. SABELLA his dynastic rights as the head of the elder branch of the Royal House of the Spanish BOURBONS. Prince JOHN has so regarded it, and h its written and acted accordingly. And the docu ments in which Prince JOHN has assumed to him so lf the position previously occupied by his elder b irother have remained altogether unno ti'Jced and uncommented upon by that elder brother—the Count DE MONTEMOLIN preserv in gto this moment an inflexible silenee. But ox le construction can be put by the public at large u on that silence—namely, the recognition by the Count DE MONTEMOLIN of the validity of the right anis assumed, of the claims thus advanced by Prince JOHN to the Spanish sovereignty. Nor are the claims now pnt forward by Don JUAN altogether those merely of the almost dead and gone school of the old world legitimists. As we have already re marked, when referring to them upon a pre vious occasion, Don JUAN, though a Spa nish Prince, writes in the light of the 1 ater half of this nineteenth century ! If he claims to be King by the right of inheritance, he Lopes to be so yet more by the free-will of the Spanish population. Aspiring to be JOHN 111. of Spain, he aspires to be both by the grace of GOD and the will of the People. Thus viewed—it is a noble and, in every sense of the word, a most legitimate aspiration. The prize he hopes to win— not through the blood of a civil war, but through the light of reason—is certainly one not unworthy of kindling such aspiration. The territory of the Spanish kingdom alone is one-half longer in dimen tions than this group of the British archipelago ! It comprises within its constitutional area no less than 15,000,000 inhabitants. If it has lost, as one might say, a half of the world in Mexico, Peru, and Brazil, it has yet, like pendant jewels from its diadem, the Canary Islands, Annobon, and Fer nando Po; the Ladrone Islands and the Philip pines; above all, Cuba, Pinos, and Porto Rico. That the mother country herself has not reached the position which she certainly ought by this time to have attained is, we presume, long since tolera bly beyond the reach of contradiction. " You will derive information"—writes Prince JOHN, in his letter to the English journalist—" You will derive information on the liberty enjoyed in Spain from all the newspapers which are not in the pay of the Government, and from the 100,000 men who are compelled to be soldiers against their will ; of its credit from the Stock Exchanges of London and Amsterdam ; of its toleration from the Jews, and from all the other foreigners who dissent from the Catholic religion ; of its prosp er it y you w ill b e taught by its waste lands and the thousand enter- Prises which die for want of credit ; to the efficacy of the colonial system the inhabitants of Cuba can i;estify, governed as they are by the laws of the 'ladies of the time of Philip II.; and as to the goodness of the econonzical system, the op pressed contributors can say a word about that !" All which, we take it, is as true and un deniable as it is shrewdly and cuttingly sarcastic. THE SUN, LONDON, - 7 -- ----- His Royal Highness continues—" All political 1 parties are preoccupied with the bad state of Spain. Except among the men in authority, the necessity of a change is in the conscience of every Spaniard Any system would be preferable to the present one ; and if the reforms which the country requires are not made by the means of a legitimately constituted Government, they will, sooner or later, be brought about after a period of anarchy and through torrents of blood." And his Royal Highness adds, in a tone with which not a rational Constitutionalist, Moderado, or Progressisto in Spain can well quarrel:—" My ambition is limited to the desire of contribu- ting to the welfare of my country. For me the Crown possesses no other attraction. In my in fancy I was judged and expelled from my country; against the decrees of every tribunal there is an appeal ; I do not promote revolution, I appeal t• the Spanish people. If they, after hearing me, re ject me, my future privacy will not be less cheerful from the consciousness of having performed my duty." Finally, it is especially and peculiarly de serving of notice, in regard to Prince JOHN, that the closing sentence in this last document, advanc ing his claims to the Crown of Spain, is the depre cation of any intention, on his part, of ever enforc ing those claims by promoting a civil war among kis countrymen. Lady Mary Craven was confined with a son on Sunday last at the family residence in Hertford-street, Mayfair. We are happy to add her ladyship and infant are both progressing favourably. The Bishop of Lincoln has collated the Rev. John Twells, .M.A., Rector of Gamston, to the Honorary Pre bend of Sanctaa Crude in Lincoln Cathedral, previously held by the late Rev. T. F. Henney, Examining Chaplain to the Bishop. The new Prebendiary was installed by the Dean on Saturday last, Sept. 29, and read in on Sunday. An excellent and impressive sermon was preached on the morning of Sunday by the Bishop.—Derbyshire Courier. DEATH OF A CHILD FROM FALLING ON A TOBACCO PIPE . —Mr. Hertford held an inquest yesterday on view of the body of a little boy, three years old, son of Daniel Longden, brewer, of 18, Bedford-street, Hulme, who came to his dea th in a somewhat remarkable manner. The child was playing with a little companion on the flags near his father's house en Sunday evening, when both fell ; unfortunately the deceased's playfellow had a part of a tobacco-pipe in Xs hand, and a portion of it ran into the neck of the deceased. He was carried at once to the sur gery of Mr. Wilde, City-road, but died in a few minutes. A verdiet of " Accidental Death" was recorded.—Man chester Examiner. WRECK OFF PORTMADOC.—PORTMADOC, Tues day.—The schooner Henry Tanner, of Pwllheli, was totally wrecked off Portmadoc, Carnarvonshire, on Friday last, during a heavy gale of wind. As soon as the perilous position of the vessel was observed, early on that day, the Portmadoc lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, was immediately manned by 14 men and launched. She afterwards proceeded off about two miles distant with all speed to the scene of the disaster. A gale blew from W. by S., and a very heavy sea was running at the time. Much difficulty was consequently experienced in getting the boat to the wind before her sail could be set. When the vessel was reached she was found dismasted and her hull broken to pieces. To the great dismay of the lifeboat's crew not a soul was found on board, the crew having abandoned the wreck during the night. After the lifeboat's return to the shore her crew were gratified to learn that the shipwrecked men, five in number, had for ' tunately succeeded in safely reaching land in their own boat. The expense of the lifeboat on this occasion was about £B. A VERY SLEEPY INDITIDUAL.—In Taunton, Massachusetts, on Monday night, a man named Soward intimated to his family that he probably would not be seen again in this world. In the course of the night he provided himself with a clothes' line, and went into his wood-house, where he was afterwards found in a sitting position, with the cord around his neck, and the other end attached to a beam overhead, he being fast asleep.— American Paper. ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—A frightful accident, resulting in the death of a man named John Cotham, occurred at the Midland goods station, Nottingham, yesterday. The deceased was an engine driver in the employ of the company, and had charge of the goods train running between Nottingham and Mans field. About five o'clock yesterday morning he went into the goods yard, and hearing there was a "break" loose, he got off the engine for the purpose of fastening it. He was net seen alive after this, and about five minutes afterwards his body was found cut to pieces. The poor fellow has left a wife and family. This is the second fatal accident that has occurred in this station in the last three weeks. LARGE PRIZE FOR A PICKPOCKET.—A gentleman from New Orleans was robbed in West George-street, Glas gow, on Thursday, of a pocketbook containing a cheque for £3lO, a bill for £4OO, a promissory note for 2,500 dols., a bill of exchange for 3,000 dole, a bill for 115 dols., a bill for £6O or £7O, and nine £1 bank notes. The theft was com mitted by a woman, who accosted the gentleman in the street. As usual in such cases, the booty was handed to an accomplice. The cheques and bills, however, will be of no use to the thieves. LATE HOURS COURTSHIP.—A public meeting of the young men of Dollar was held on Wednesday evening. A resolution, nearly in the following terms, was unani mously adopted by the meeting :—" That the young men comprising this meeting, conscious of the great evils result ing from meetings at late hours with the opposite sex, re solve that henceforth they will observe elders' hours' in the visitation of their sweethearts and female acquaint ances."—.Edinburgh Courant. THE BRITISH LEGION IN ITALY.—Captain De Rohan left London on the 7th for Naples, accredited by the G aribaldian Special Fund Committee to the General. The Melazzo has reported herself as arriving safe at her destination. The Emperor has been heard of, far on her way to join the Melazzo. Captain De Rohan will summon both vessels to Naples, or will himself go on Saturday to conduct the British Legion to General Garibaldi. RESIGNATION OF THE BISHOP OF COLOMBO.--The Right Rev. Dr. James Chapman has intimated to the authorities at home his intention to resign the Bishopric of Colombo, to which he was appointed in 1845, on account of failing health, and will only remain in the diocese until his successor is appointed. The see, which comprises the island of Ceylon is worth £2,000 a year, which is paid out of the colonial bishoprics fund. Dr. Chapman was educated at Eton, and graduated at King's College, Cambridge, in 1828. He was for some time an assistant-master at Eton, and from 1834 to 1845 rector of Dunton Waylett, near Brent wood. CHILD MURDER IN SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.— On Sunday, another murder was brought to light in South Staffordshire—the third within a few weeks. A youth, named Westwood, and some companions were out hunting rats in a ditch running through a wheat field, at Summer hill, near Coseley, when they found the body of a female child, about three months old, partially hid in the sedges and mud of the ditch. A napkin, folded into a triangular shape, was placed over the child's mouth and face, and the two ends, after being carried behind the head, were brought round to the throat and firmly fastened under the chin. The child would thus seem to have been suffocated. The police are investigating the matter. THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST.—Since Thurs day the weather has been fine and bright in the eastern counties, and yesterday presented autumn in her most lovely guise. Tie barley which has been go long lying about has been now to a great extent gathered in, but much of it is sadly discoloured, some again has sprouted, and, taken alto gether, a large portion of the crop will be unfit for malting purposes. On some farms, where the circumstances have been more favourable, a pretty good crop has been secured, but there will be great variation in quality and prices. THE GALE AT LlVERPOOL—Yesterday morning a very severe gale, accompanied with showers of hail and rain, swept over Liverpool, and continued during the entire day. The gale blew nearly due north, until ;bout seven o'clock in the morning, when it veered round to the north west with unabated fury. The river, which, fortunately, was rather clear of shipping, presented a very animated appearance, and one or two vessels, which wore riding at one anchor at Seacombe, dragged their moorings, but were ultimately "brought up" by the steam tugs. The City of Washington (s.s.), outward bound for New York, was obliged to ride with two anchors ; and the Jura (s.s.), which arrived at 6.30 a.m., experienced a severe portion of the storm on coming up the Channel. SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN AT ROCHDALE.—On Monday much excitement was produced at Townhead, Rochdale, by the report that a gentleman, named Byron Bamford, had shot himself. Inquiry at his residence con firmed the rumour, but failed to elicit any positive cause for the act. Deceased was aged about 40, and was possessed of ample means, which enabled him to keep two hunters, and to indulge freely in his favourite pursuit, hunting. Rumour, as usual, has been busy, and has assigned in its own way a motive. It is said that deceased was secretly married, and that this has been the occasion of much contention with his sister, who resided with him. The inquest will probably settle that point. SUPPOSED SUICTDE.—SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday. —Mr. Richard Pordage, a highly respectable tradesman of this town, carrying on. the business of a draper in the High-street, met with his death at an early hour this morn ing under the following lamentable circumstances : —About 4 o'clock eorne of the neighbours living on the opposite side of the sti eet were awoke by violent scre.aniings, and on looking out were horror-stricken at seeing two persons ap parently struggling with each other at an open window on the second floor of Mr. Pordage's house. One of the per sons, who subsequently proved to be the unfortunate de ceased, was standing on the narrow window sill, and before assistance could reach them from within or without he either fell or precipitated himself on to the pavement below. The screams of his unhappy partner during the brief con flict were of the most heartrending character. "While this harrowing scene was going on, two or three policemen who had arrived were endeavouring - to force an entrance into the premises, and had just succeeded when the deceased fell on the pavement. The neighbours, who had by this time reached the spot, rendered every assistance, some hurry. ing off for medical men, and others aiding the policemen in removing tho body into the house. The deceased had apparently fallen upon his head, whichwas much wounded, and blood was flowing copiously from the wound, as well as from the eyes and nose. He lived a very short time after the fall. Deceased has been in a depressed and desponding state of mind of late, caused by disappointment in regard to a business speculation in which he had recently engaged. He had taken sonic large premises in another part of the High-street, which he intended opening as a cafe, or club, on a very extensive scale, but for some reason or other the affair went off at the last moment, after he had invested a considerable sum of money in furnishing, &c. The circum stance doubtless preyed upon his mind, and, it is presumed, led to his untimely death. The inquiry before the borough coroner opens this evening. Deceased has left a widow and five or six children, one of them only a few months old. The lamentable event has caused great excitement in the town, Mr, Pordage being generally known and respected. WEDENSDAY ';EVENING, LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Renter's office : TURIN, OCTOBER 10. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Depu ties the discussion on the law of annexation was continued. Signor Chiaves spoke in favour of the annexa tion, which he said had brought things to a normal and not to an abnormal state. He stigmatised the Republican political agitators, and demonstrated that Sardinia had upheld the Italian flag during twelve years without imposing any condition upon the nation. Signor Chiaves recommended the Ministry to oppose the Republicans. Dr. Bertani gave a formal denial to all the calumnies which had been propagated against him, and promised to defend himself by means of the public press. He declared that he had been faithful to his oath, and devoted to Italy and King Victor Emmanuel. He desired only that sufficient guarantees might be given that the interests of the inhabitants of southern Italy should not suffer. ROME, OCT. 8. A courier from St. Petersburg has arrived at the Russian Legation. He is the bearer of despatches from his Government advising the Pope not to quit Rome, nor to pronounce any excommunication, but for the present to confine himself to protesting against the invasion of Sardinia. PARIS, OcT. 9. The Patric says It is asserted that a grand fete will be given by the Prince Regent at Coblentz on the 12th inst., in honour of her Majesty the Queen of England, to which the greater part of the German Sovereigns have been invited." The same journal also contains the following, "under reserve" :—" Three great Powers are said to have pretested against the entry of the Sardi nians into Neapolitan territory." In view of the considerable concentration •f Austrian troops in`Venetia, the Sardinian army will, it is said, take up positions in the Romagna and the Duchies, while the strong places will be confided to the National Guard. MARSEILLES, OCT. 9. Letters have been received from Naples to the 6th and from Gaeta to the 3d inst., containing de tailed particulars respecting the late battle, which, they state, lasted nearly two days. General Sirtori, being in great danger, sent a telegram to the Marquis de Villamarina, who de spatched to his assistance 1,800 Sardinian riflemen, by whom the victory was decided. Some gunners on leave of the English steamer Renown co-operated with the Garibaldians. The Marquis de Pallavicino, in his quality of pro-Dictator, having requested Mazzini to leave Naples, the latter had taken his departure from the city. It was confirmed that the concession of all the Neapolitan railways had been granted by Garibaldi to the firm Adami, of Leghorn. Advises have also been received from Rome stating that General Goyon was about to occupy Velletri and Frosinone, on the Neapolitan frontier. A Sardinian regiment was at Viterbo. It was about to quit the town, which would be reoccupied by the French. General Goyon was present at the funeral of General Pimodan. Preparations for departure were being ostensibly made at the Vatican, but the decision upon this step had been adjourned. The official journal had published an article claiming payment of the Peter's pence from all the faithful, but textually declaring that the Pope would accept no subsidy from any terrestrial Power. FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 9. BoußsE, Oct. 9.—The market continues without much animation, and the English funds having arrived with a decline, prices are slightly lower. Threes, which opened at 68f 90c, are now at 68f 824 c ; Mobilier, 697 f 50c ; Orleans, 1,362 f 50c; Northern, 972 f 50c; Mediterranean, 913 f 75c; Austrian, 483 f 75c ; Lombard, 483 f 75c. The following are the last quotations : 4f per per Cents 95 50 Do. end month 95 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 80 Credit Fonder 895 Belgian 99 50 Piedmontese Fives 79 76 Roman .... Bank Shares 2840 Credit Mobilier 695 Do. Account 695 Austrian .. . 76 50 Spanish Threes.... 48: 25 Homo Debt . 47 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1362 50 1362 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 915 .. 916 25 Geneva — .. 360 Southern 505 .. 505 Western Eastern Sardinian 390 .. 385 Austrian Lombard 4 4Bl 25 482 50 THE BATTLE OF VOLTURNO. The following is the official despatch of Nino Bixio, which has been published in the Genoese journals : " Oct. 2, 5 45 p.m. " Yesterday I telegraphed to you that we had driven back the enemy. To-day wa have made an end of it. Seven thousand prisoners are in our hands ; their General is one of the number. We have had great good fortune in all our movements. " On the first news from the camp there was great dis may in Naples, and fears were entertained for the safety of the town. Our (Piedmontese) infantry, the Bersaglieri, and the disposable artillery were instantly marched to Caserta. " This reinforcement was not unavailing, and had full leisure to distinguish itself. The Garibaldians raised shouts of joy on seeing their brethern of Northern Italy, and the Neapolitans were frightened at the sight of those regular uniforms. " The Piedmontese artillery wrought wonders. It fired grape shot at the rate of five shots in two minutes, aid the result was frightful. The Bersaglieri vied with the Gari baldians, and these latter with the former ; they vied as to which of them should sooner take possession of the most dangerous positions. " The first result of the battle was this :—The Royal troops forced their way into our quarters, but they were driven back with very heavy loss. Some thousands of them have by this time reached Naples, but unarmed, and under good escort. A General is among them ; many officers also, of course. "The second result is that after so terrible a defeat the Royal troops will not again have the whim of taking the offensive—nay, they will have great trouble in keeping on the defensive. " The third result I need not tell you. At the moment I write it is perhaps accomplished by an army among whom the weariness and languor of a siege have been followed by the ardour of a recent victory. " The dead and wounded on our side were not few, as may be expected from the severity of the action. ‘: Of our Genoese we have no very serious losses to de- plore. - " Gnecce, Gagliardi, Fontana, and one of the Uzielli were wounded, all slightly. " The same is reported of General Garibaldi. " Never believe anything of what they write to you about the numerous forces the Dictator may have at his disposal. His army, far from increasing, is greatly thinned. It is therefore impossible to expect great deeds from him before Gaeta. " Certainly, if all the red shirts which I see strutting proudly about the Toledo, with ponderous broad swords dangling after them, were, instead of at Naples, at the camp before Capua, we should only have some delay, and some loss to complaiu of ; as the number of these worthies is so great, that they could rout the royal troops by mere fisti cuffs. • ".The Dictator has now issued a peremptory decree bid ding all these people to join their respective corps. We shall see." I am also tempted to subjoin Garibaldi's order of the day of the same date : " Caserta, Oct 2. " To fight and to conquer is ate watchword of the brave OCTOBER 10, 1860. who long for the freedom of Italy at any cost ; you have proved it in these two days of battle. _ . " Yesterday victory crowned our efforts on the whole line. To-day at Caserta and on the hills one of those deeds of arms was achieved which will be written down in his tory among the most fortunate. " The brave and disciplined soldiers of the North, under the orders of the valiant Major Luigi Soldo, have shown to day what Italian valour joined to discipline can accomplish. If this ancient queen of nations were again to be trodden down by foreigners, the world shall see what her children can do if they be unanimous and all come forward together to the rescue of their land. " G. GARIBALDI." MR. EDWIN JAMES ON THE PRISONS OF NAPLES. No decree issued by Garibaldi after his entry into Naples produced more unmixed joy among all classes than that which proclaimed,—" All prisoners for political offences are henceforth free." This bold edict was not merely the sudden im pulse of a generous heart, feeling for unfortunate humanity, nor the grateful policy of a successful chief towards those who were suffering in his cause, but a simple act of justice done to men accused without a crime, convicted by perjury, and sub jected to the horrors of an incarceration which none can imagine and few pens can describe. Of Neapolitan State trials and Neapolitan courts of. justice the people of England are not entirely ignorant. Nine years since occurred the mock trial, the unjust condemnation, and the subsequent martyr dom of Carlo Poerio, a statesman and an orator, a man whose only crimes were a determination of purpose which no threats could alter and an honesty of principle which no power could corrupt. The pen of Mr. Gladstone rent asunder the veil which concealed the terrible but exquisitely ar ranged machinery by which the King and his Mini sters had removed not only this gentleman, but all who had become obnoxious to them—the sudden arrest, the long and severe imprisonment before trial, the hired informer ready with his false tale, the skilfully forged document to corro borate the lie, the corrupt and subservient judges prepared to pronounce the doom, the subterranean dungeon, formed to do more slowly, but as cer tainly, the work of the executioner—and exposed to the eye of the civilised world the horrors of Nea politan tyranny. The truth of the picture drawn by his fearless and eloquent pen, though denied, was never disproved, and it had indeed been asserted in Naples that the system, so far from being miti gated, had been increased in severity. I was anxious to see the interior of these dun geons, to judge for myself whether their horrors had been exaggerated, and eagerly availed myself of the opportunity of visiting them with an order which I had obtained through the influence of the new Minister of Police. I visited the cells at the Prefettura and the dun geons at Santa Maria Apparente, the Vicaria, the Castles of St. Elmo, the Ischia, Procida, and the Castel Ovo. The scenes which some of these pri sons presented have been graphically described in your columns by Lord Llanover, who was of our party. I can add my testimony to his description, and the three prisons, the Vicaria, Proeida, and Castel Ovo, which are not described by his pen, are not one jot inferior in horror and misery to the unhappy inmates than those which his lordship has so vividly pourtrayed. The appearance of the dungeons spoke for themselves, and the information we with diffi culty obtained of the mode of treatment of the in mates may be credited, as we had to extract the truth from men rather anxions to conceal it than prompt or eager to colour and exaggerate. In one instance, at Ischia, they refused to show us the pri son of the political prisoners, and asserted that the gaoler had gone info the interior of the island with the keys. We declined to leave the fortress until we had seen them, and in half an hour both autho rities and keys appeared. I will not intrude at more length on your columns, nor linger in detail over the cruelties of the Bour bon who has lost his throne. In one dungeon in the fortress of Ischia, a young Sicilian noble passed 11 years of his existence, and beneath a small aperture which formed the window, and into which the spray from the waves ceaselessly dashed, he had carved in the rock these words :—" 1849, 1860. Reo senza delitto." This touching expression of his wild de spair was, I thought, but the history of thousands who have been immured in similar dungeons, and were equally " guilty without crime." Punishment, not for guilt but from fear, was the policy on which the Bourbon relied, and on which rested the security of his throne. In what has this resulted ? In a day—almost in an hour, and with out a blow—the doors of these horrible Bastiles were thrown open, and the buildings now stand but to perpetuate the misdeeds of a cruel and per fidious reign. 711 E SUNKEN TREASURE OF THE ROYAL CHARTER. Within the last few days public attention has been drawn to a notice inserted in the daily jour nals at the instance of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, announcing that a quantity of jewellery, watches, and other valuable property, recovered from the wreck of the ill-fated Royal Charter, had come into their possession. The various articles were described in order that they might be claimed by their owners, the necessary application having to be made to the Secretary of the Marine Department. At first this notice gave rise to an impression that the divers had resumed work on the wreck, and that the jewellery in question was the result of their labours ; but on inquiry we ascer tained that the property alluded to was recovered as far back as November last, and that since the divers were withdrawn from the spot in January last the wreck has to all intents been abandoned, so far as regards the operations for recovering the treasure. This suspension seems the more unac countable from the circumstance that it is believed that there is still between £40,000 and £50,000 in sovereigns and gold buried in the sunken wreck, some or most of which no doubt could be readily recovered by the divers. Even up to the last day of the operations, almost every bucket sent up yielded gold to a considerable extent. The reason assigned for suspending the work was the great expense of the steam tug-lighters and other attend ants on the divers, and eventually the underwriters sold the wreck for £l,OOO to Messrs. Gibbs, who were to undertake the recovery of the remainder of the treasure, deducting the working expenses, &c. Tugs and lighters were brought round from Liver pool to the wreck, and some operations took place with a view to getting up the iron work, &c., of the ship, but nothing has been done towards recovering the gold. The bankers who had the largest consignments in the Royal Charter admit that all belonging to them has been recovered, but the underwriters assert there is from £lB,OOO to £20,000 in sovereigns, covered by policies of insur ance, to be regained, while the owners compute the gold and money in possession of the passengers to have amounted to at least £40,000, which is in the wreck. 110 P INTELLIGFNCE. KENT.—The hop picking in most places in this county will be brought to an end by the close of the week. Many planters have already finished; and a considerable number of grounds will not be picked at all, there being a certainty that they would not pay for the labour. We are informed, indeed, that a portion of the hops which have been dried and sent to market are almost worthless, rubbing to dust if pressed between the fingers, and wholly unfit for the use of the brewer, so that the factors will not undertake to dis pose of them. This is especially the case with the Goldings, which seem this season to have suf fered more than any other kinds. There are one or two districts, however, which are stated to have produced some good samples, though these are exceptions to the prevailing rule this year every where. In Sussex and Surrey the picking gene rally is nearly completed, and the complaint is general that the quantity has by no means come up to the low estimate which was formed of the yield while the poles were still standing. In Worcester the picking is now carried on as rapidly as possible, but the complaints are general that the new growth weigh lighter than was expected. Duty called £2,000 or £3,ooo.—South Eastern Gazette. SUSSEX.—Nothing could be more favourable for the hop-picking than the weather of the past week, and great progress has been everywhere made. The yield, however, seems in many cases to fall short of expectation, though as a rule the hops weigh well—nay, better than was anticipated. In some parishes there are fortunate exceptions to the general rule, and good crops (considering the season) are being secured. On the whole, how ever, the crop is a decided failure, and a grievous disappointment. What aggravates the mischief is that the planters have not—as is the case with other producers—reaped any advantage from the last few consecutive years of abundance. Large crops have not brought them large profits or pro portionate remuneration. Heavy crops of hops have simply induced extremely lo w prices an outrageously heavy duties, the arr ears of which last are at this moment pressing- most onerously upon the growers—,ussex Advertiser. • ____ ------- NEW CHURCH ON VAUXHALL GARDENS. Arrangements are in progress for erecting a new church on the aim of the old Vauxhall G a rdens, an : l near to he school of art, the fetmdationlatone of whic h t wa s laid by the Pr of Wales a few months ago. The church will be dedicated to St. Peter, and an ecclesiastical district will be assigned to it out of the parish of Lambeth. THE GOrERNMENT AND THE IRISR SOCIETY. Mr. Wellington Valiance, the deputy-governor, and Mr. Charles Pearson, the solicitor of the Irish Society, have within the last few days returned from the north of Ireland, where, as a deputation from the society, they have been engaged in propounding to the local authorities, specially convened. for the purpose in the Court-house of Derry, a communica tion relative to the issue of certain negotiations be tween the Government and the society in regard to the disposal of the Culmore lands, forming a portion of the territory embraced in the Ulster Plantation scheme, projected and carried into practical effect in the reign of James 1., as the seat of a Protestant colony. These negotiations, recently entered into, have resulted in an agreement between the Crown and the society, which provides for the valuation and allotment of the fort and lands of Culmore, and for appropriating the amount between the contract ing parties, having strict regard to their respective legal and equitable interests. By this arrangement the society agrees to redeem the annuity of £2OO Irish currency, payable to the Governor of Culmore, for the sum of £6,000 Irish currency, and the Crown undertakes not to fill up the vacant office, and to release the society and the Culmore lands from any obligation to rebuild or maintain the foit. The lands in question are to be impartially valued and then, together with the £6,000, to be divided into two equal parts, of which one, discharged of all legal and equitable obligations, shall be allotted to the Crown, the original grantor of the lands entitled to control the disposition of the rents and profits, and the other moiety shall be held by the society, en titled to the freehold and inheritance, subject to the conditions imposed by the original grant. Out of the £6,000 and the produce of its allotment of lands the society intends, in conformity with a resolution passed in 1857, to apply £lO,OOO in aid of a sinking fund to render the new bridge over the Foyle at Derry toll free to the public at large. The gover norship of Culmore Fort, which Lord Palmerston has thus agreed to abolish has long been a mere sine cire office, which it was the custom to confer on cer tain class of meritorious officers after spending their strength in the national service, in the decline of life, and with insufficient means of support in pro portion to their military rank. In the locality the arrangement appears to be regarded as promising hopefully for the speedy abolition of a most injuri ous obstruction to the development of its commer cial and material resources. In the forthcoming re-valuation, consequent upon the agreement be tween the Crown and the society, it is said that the question of tenant-right will be raised in a manner to command public attention and recognition ; and a confident hope is expressed that, in accordance with the equitable principle which has been recog nised upon its own estates since the era of the Ulster Plantation, the society's valuer will be in structed to form his estimate in such a manner as that the cultivators in occupancy shall have the 'relit and advantage of bona fide improvements of the lands due to the expenditure of their enterprise, capital, and toil. Turning to another phase of the transaction, it appears to be assumed that the ob- ject of the Government in retaining a portion of the Culmore lands in the hands of the Crown is to ap ply the proceeds to the common uses of the Imperial defences at large; and on that hypothesis a ques tion is mooted in the locality whether any portion of the revenues can be diverted from what are called plantation uses. THE NEAPOLIT IN REVOLUTION. One more act remains, and then the curtain will probably fall for a season on the drama of the Neapolitan Revolution. We learn by the latest advices that Victor Emmanuel has taken the final resolution, was already on his way to the Neapoli tan frontier, and had issued his address to the people of Southern Italy. It was before known that Gari baldi was himself again, and had invited the inter ference of his own Sovereign, and that all question as to the international legality of his acts would soon be merged in the responsibility of the Sardinian Government. That crisis has now arrived, and it is possible that by this time the Rubi con is crossed, and that a decisive battle has shattered the last hopes of the Bourbons. These prospects materially narrow the issue of the Italian question, and make it impossible for us to halt any longer amid conflicting sympathies. We have to choose between the Sardinian programme, as explained by Count Cavour, and a reaction of some kind, whether it be originated in the interests of France, Austria, or anarchy. There are times for all things, and this is no time for scrutinising too nicely the policy by which Sardinia has gained the control of the present movement. Whether to a Roman capacity for self-government and internal organisation she may not have added a Roman tendency to absorb neighbouring populations can well be doubted without compromising the expression of our views at the present juncture. That "poli tical necessity" which can alone justify some of our own acquisitions in India, or the famous seizure of the Danish fleet, may have lately re ceived an interpretation too favourable to Sardinian interests. The dissimulation and temporising atti tude of Cavour must certainly share with the genius of Garibaldi the credit of bringing on a dilemma which offers but one hopeful alternative. Darker and more suspicious influences may have been at work, and the correspondence which the Sardinian Ministers have declined to produce may relate to matters the knowledge of which has led to the Con ference at Warsaw. In short, there may have been, and may still be, much to excite scruples, but these scruples are not for us. Public opinion in the Papal and Neapolitan territories, however stimulated, has clearly declared for a kingdom of Italy. It is our privilege, and the direct result of our adherence to non-intervention, that we are not affected with notice of any questionable transactions, and are free to wish well to the triumph of constitutionalism in Italy. No country but Spain has exhibited the slightest commiseration for Francis 11. The dynasty which he represents was founded by a filibustering expe dition less venial than that of Garibaldi, and the earliest of its title deeds is the victory of Don Carlos over the Austrians in 1735. If conventions be tween Sovereigns can confer rights over peoples, why should we stop short at the Treaty of Aix-la- Chapelle ? Why not go back as far as the Peace of Utrecht, in accordance with which Victor Ama deus, Duke of Savoy, was crowned King of Sicily at Palermo ? Such arguments, however, are worth less, even where they are not contradictory, and, since the retujn of the Bonapartes to the throne of France has been somehow reconciled with the en gagements of the Congress of Vienna, it is mere affectation to strain at gnats in dynastic questions. Upon any other ground than legitimacy the bold est partisans of the Bourbons would scarcely venture to utter a word. Being often reproved, and that by Governments but one degree less tyrannical than themselves, they have hardened their necks, and, if they are now destroyed sud denly and without remedy, no regret for the past will be mingled in any anxiety that may be felt for the future. But why should we speak despondingly of the future ? The Piedmontese have hitherto shown: that they possess those rare qualities which fit nations to rule themselves and others. Their constitution is not slavishly modelled upon our own, but it is analogous to it, and has proved capable of uniting and assimilating for par peses of government, provinces so unlike as Savoy, Genoa, Tuscany, and the /Emilia. The loss of the former, however detrimental to the national hon our, is the loss of what we may call the most sta tionary and un-English element in this composite State. There may be doubts whether the more backward districts of Southern Italy are quite worthy of a representative system, but they must be ten times more unfit for republicanism, and failed. Moreover, the Sardin ians are no wanting tyranny has already tried its hand . on t them and in administrative ability. Cavour was the Peel before he was the Palme rston of Northern Italy, and laid the foundations of her prosperity in eco nomy, education, and the abolittio donooofbptrtiheasttly 7gi p v r e e i; dominance. We see no reason exoteerxneaelllternanoequoillif tthyiarnedxdisuteiorgespleacwtsand bein g institu tions, paid t o th tions, the Two Sicilies might be governed from Turin as successfully as, after centuries of injustice and rebellion, Ireland is now governed from Lon don. It is very easy to attribute to national cha racter failures w hich are reall y due to cir cumstances, and we sho uld be glad to learn wha t previous chance a a n r c e e n ltal y o ffdhearse ha d ad of abusing opport un i t i es such to her. But we have other g reasons for d es i r i ng the for mation of a " strong So .So large an extension of what the Pope calls the " Sub-Alpine Kingdom" must affect for good or evil the balance of power on the Continent. If Count C aa our s solemn decla rations are to be believed, we ha ve more to hope than to fear from this conseq ue n ce, be a stipulation for a fresh ces s ion Unless there of territory to France, that Power , though, will like Austr i a, it may retain a foot in Ital y, have s trong, instead' of a weak, ne ig hbou r. Since the propagandism of the first French Revolu tion e oppressed nationalities"th e favourite have been favourite pretext of French ambition. When the antagonism of races is permanently eliminated from Italy, and she becomes independent aid, "gratitude" of foreign aid, "gratitude" will cease to be so prominent a motive with her statesmen, and the ominous hints thrown out in the Savoy debate of expecte d c o-operation with France on the Rhine will lose their sigbifi cance. The same stroke which provides a counter poise to France in the Mediterranean robs Austria of an obsequious ally, and may induce her to part with the last fragment of her Italian empire—an empire ruinous to her subjects and a source of weakness to herself. Whether the fall of the Papacy as a spiritual Power will be hastened by the loss of its t empora liti es it i s idl e to conjecture. Bunyan was too sanguine when he described the giant P o p e as " grow n so crazy and stiff in his joints that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails be cause he cannot come at them." The extraordinary vitality of the Roman Catholic Church forbids us to hazard a like prognostication in casting the horoscope of Italian destiny. But enough remains without this to justify the interest that will be felt by Englishmen in the enterprise of Victor Em manuel. If he should succeed in steering an even course between Napoleon 111. and Mazzini, and establishing rational liberty throughout the Penin sula, he will find that non-intervention does not mean indifference in this country. We have too much respect for international law to foster insur rection in foreign States, but we have too little love for despotism to invoke its strict rules on behalf of it s own Government which flagrantly broke faith with own subjects, and with which we have long since ceased to hold any communication,—Times. TILE LATE STORM IN TUE NORTH. (From the Inverness Courier.) This northern district has been visited by one of the severest storms or hurricanes ever remembered. About two o'clock on Wednesday morning a gale from the south-west set in, accompanied with rain, and it rose rapidly with destructive fury, seeming in a few minutes to blow from every point of the compass. During the forenoon the storm raged, and though afterwards moderated at intervals, there were heavy squalls and rain throughout the whole day. Every district has suffered from this tempest. Trees have been thrown down or torn up by the roots, fences scattered about, and many buildings unroofed and injured or destroyed. In town it was dangerous to walk the streets, as slates, chimney cans, and fragments of buildings were falling in all directions. In exposed situations, windows were broken or blown in, and scarcely a single garden has escaped. Trees that had stood the blasts of a century or more were thrown down, and the loss and damage in this respect are incalculable. The Ness islands have been deprived of some of their finest standard trees, and the plan tations on both sides of the river and loch have been woefully thinned. The roads in many places were impassable from fallen timber. At Beaufort, the seat of Lord Lovat, at Belladrum, Conen, Brahan, Coul, Never, Invergordon Castle, Newmore, Kin craig, and Balnagown—all places finely wooded— great and irreparable damage has been done ; and no doubt similar injury has been inflicted on the more northern woods and pleasure-grounds. At Kessock Ferry it was found impossible for several hours to put out a boat, and the Defiance coach from the North was detained two hours by the state of the roads, blocked up with fallen tim ber, at Novar and about Conan House. On the western lochs, Captain Turner reports that the storm was greater than he had witnessed during the last 30 years. The waters of Loch Lochy resembled a stormy sea, and the spray was carried to an immense height. A report was current here that the Dundalk steamer had been lost in the Firth, but she gallantly weathered the gale, and appeared at Thornbush Pier about her usual time. Our telegraphic communication was cut off by ac cidents at Nairn and Brodie. At the former three of the poles were thrown down, and at Brodie a large tree fell across the line. The injury, however, was speedily repaired. In farm yards the stacks have been in most in stance uncovered or thrown down. Our Invergor den correspondent writes—" Very considerable da mage has been done in this neighbourhood. Thatched houses, doors, windows, wooden sheds, timber-yards, &c., suffered ; but the most serious injury has been done in the corn-yards. We hear on all sides of corn and hay-stacks. being literally turned over and scattered about; while the injury done to valuable standing timber at all our gen tlemen's seats is said to be unprecedented. Large trees are lying across the roads. A portion of the ornamented gable of the Free Church has been blown down. During the violence of the gale an accident occurred to Mr. Maclennan, of the Victoria Inn. He was attempting to secure the thatch of an outhouse, when he was precipitated to the ground, and suffered a compound fracture of the right leg." From Contin, Tain, and other places, we have similar accounts as to the loss in farm-yards, woods, and gardens. The damage to the growing and outstanding crops must be proportionately great, and every district has its tale of loss and suffering. At sea, we fear, still more serious accidents must have occurred. Unfortunately, we have already a record of calamities. A lighter belonging to Mr. Duffus, Nairn, sailed for Rosehearty, with two hands on board. " During the night of the storm," says the Nairn Telegraph, " she was seen to capsize at Speymouth, within 50 yards of the shore, and the two men were lost. Their names were David Foreman and William Bill, both belonging to Nairn. Foreman leaves a wife and family to lament his loss ; Bill was a young man unmarried. Another Nairn boat, belong ing to Mr. John Ross, innkeeper, manned by himself and Alexander Jack and David Jack, two brothers, from Nairn, while returning from Find horn, were also taken in the storm and driven into Spey Bay, where the sail having been blown away, the boat was driven ashore, and they were saved by Lossiemouth fishermen. Two schooners from Lossiemouth dragged their anchors and went ashore at Speymouth, one on the beach, crew safe ; the other capsized, hull separated from stern, and crew of six lost. The latter ship and crew belonged to Lossiemouth. We could not ascertain the names of the ill-fated vessels. A sloop is ashore at Camp.. beltown. The crew were landed by the fishermen there." Our Strathspey correspondent describes the devas tation in that quarter as mest disastrous. The greater part of the crops is still uncut; and all is levelled to the ground. Stacks of corn and hay were overturned ; sheds, outhouses, fences, and other ex posed property, are much injured. But the most marked damage is done to the woods. The fine old trees on the lawn and park at Ballindalloch, so highly valued by the proprietor, are mostly thrown down, and great damage done to Sir George Mac pherson Grant's woods at Cragganmore. The wood here was full grown large timber, but the trees fell like straws before the hurricane, and a surface of from si x t o e i g ht acres , covered perhaps by 2,000 trees, is one great wreck. In the counties of Nairn and Moray the damage is also univ ersa l —woods and farms being devastated. Our Aberdeen correspondent sends us the follow county, and coast of Aberdeen have follow ing Wednesday), been visited with a storm of wind and rain, more terrific and destructive than to-day T ay he ( has been experienced in this quarter during the a perfect hurricane from the west, and when city, last dozen years. Morning broke with the gale blowing came fairly in it revealed the destruction n ue eY d -c b a l n o s ; b dd l oa o yn w lei i n a few hours in the streets, actually littered y T p h l e ae w es in w d ith eo c n h t i i m n t i i n l g es, fi s e l r a c t e e l s y , and l g • forenoon ; the work of destruction is still going on throughout the city in sign -boards being torn down, high chimneys falling, the humble and olde r houses deprived of their covering, in la m ss an newbuildings in the course of • • erection sharing much the same fate, while whole . . ranges of palings, as also lofty attic w indows, dashing , come on the ground. Nor was the gale less sparing of the forest and floral beauties of the town. Trees and shrubs planted in favourite squares and other spots, have been ruthlessly broken, or torn up by the roots, while a number of gardens have likewise fared badly. About the harbour there was of course a great deal of anxiety, and not without cause. The steamer Ben my Chree, which had arrived from Inverness late the previous evening, sailed again for Edin burgh during the night, but only proceeded as far south as Bervie, when the captain found it neces sary, from the violence of the gale and the state of the sea, to turn back. Happily, the steamer was able to make the harbour, but not before some 50 of the sheep on board had perished. Several of the vessels at the qua y side broke their moorings, and pitched heavily against each other, doing considerable damage to sterns and bows, not withstanding the crews being at their posts early. Two ships that anchored a short distance out in the bay, not deeming it prudent to venture tak ing the harbour, were seen dragging their anchors about wildly, but the wind being fortunately for them, off shore—W. and N.-W.—it was presumed they would be able to ride the gale out safely. In the afternoon tidings came from the country that the storm had been quite as severe there as in town. Great trees, 70 and 80 feet in height, and the growth of as many years, had snapped under the force of the gale or been uprooted. Farmers also, it is feared, will be heavy sufferers by the storm, the stacks in the farm-yards being much injured in not a few districts, while the sheaves which hap pened to be in stook were seer • •along the fields fields like feathers. Fortunately, so far as yet known, there has been no cases of material personal injury, the only accidents reported at the police office consisting of one or two slight hurts from the falling of tiles and the throwing down of aged per sons in the streets, It is to be hoped the after in telligence of the doings of the gale may not prove more serious. Late at night the wind and rain continued high and heavy. " j~ ~~