The Sun. — London, England, 1860-06-28 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. "Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. E.C. Established 1749. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 1 Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buukstone. THIS EVENING the performances will comm e nce with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buck stone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the now farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and Rogers ; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade. To conclude with THE OD DITI} OF THE OHIO. By the Leclercqs. Commence at 7. ROYAL PR INCE S S'S THEATRE. — Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR• Sir John Falstaff; Mr. Phelps. - To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Mr. Meadows, Miss C. Leclercq, Commence at 7. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE - RO YAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reproduction of the powerful the Adelp t. hi drama, "The Flowers of Fores" Ninth week of the popular Ainerican Actress, Miss JullaDaly ti I VF.N ENO, THE LOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, I". Bedford, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Mrs. Billington, Miss Laidlaw. After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, Miss Julia Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, .£2 2s. ; Family Boxes, It Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. FRENCH PLAYS—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chattetton. Positively the last Two Nights of M. LECLERE. TO-NIGHT (THURSDAY), LE GENDRE EN SUR VEILLANCE. LES NOCES DE CLEOPATRE. Comedie entrois actor; M. Leclere. Madlle. Marie Basta, M. Thomas. , Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. Commence at 8. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. - ../7 - 1. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. New Engagement, for nine nights previous to his departure for the Continent, of the Greatest Rope Dancer in the World, HERR CHRISTOFF, and the popular French Clown, MONS. L'EPINE. MADLLE. Lsorrnivß received with enthusiastic applause. Fhe superb Hippo-drama is a decided success. On Monday, June 25, 1860, and during the week, the En tertainments will commence with the Grand Historical Spectacle in Three Acts, entitled "FAIR ROSAMOND, or the AMAZON CRUSADERS." To be followed by an incom parable display of Equestrian Achievements in the Scenes of the Arena, supported by the most talented Artistes in Europe, including Maxine. LEONTINE. To conclude with a Popular Farce. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Bog-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING. C H. GOIJNOD UST 'S OPERA.. FA._ CONCERTS.- First Time iii this country. Faust .... .. . Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. M argue rite ..... Miss Russell. Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, ls . Hall. 6d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and W. T. Critchfield. The AFRICAN OPERA. T ROUPE, their first appearance E since 1852 , consisting; of ELEVEN STAR PERFORMERS, who will give the whole of their inimitable entertainment every evening. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER..—SIIN OFFICE, JUNE 28, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night. 67—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.80. WlND—South-Westerly; rather fresh, with very fine weather. There was some heavy rain in the night. QUARTER-EAST Two.---WIND, W.S.W. ; fresh and squally, with a wetting hailstone shower, followed by sun shine, and another heavy shower. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 9h. 4m.—Afternoon, 9h. 38m. To-moPatow.-Mornin' g, 10h. 12m.—Afternoon, 10h. 48m, The Anchor has become the very emblem of security, and every sailor, we may say almost every landsman, well knows that it is the reality too. If, therefore, there be one thing in which common sense may decide, it would be on the ques tion whether our now tremendously costly steam men-of-war should be insured against accidents when at anchor by furnishing them with the very best to be obtained, cost what it may. The most faithful disciple of JOSEPH HUME would at once exclaim, " in whatever you economise, don't econo mise in the quality of your anchors." The public will learn, therefore, with no little surprise, that the Admiralty has been, ever since 1852, not economising, but wasting money on in ferior anchors. We request every reader to turn to the plain, business-like letter of Mr. TROTMAN, and to reflect on its facts. They are briefly these : —ln 1852 the Anchor Committee reported that the anchor of Mr. TROTMAN was most ap proved. That it was twenty-eight per cent. better than the Admiralty anchor, and stood at the head of a list of six, all better than that of the Admi ralty. We must do the authorities the justice to say that they have supplied one to her MAJESTY'S yacht Victoria and Albert—perhaps one of the royal personages from whom the yacht is named required it. Another great fact on the subject is, that the anchor, which is more than one-fourth better for all the purposes of an anchor, costs three fourths less than the Admiralty anchor!!! There can be no dispute about facts here ; the Admiralty anchor costs £365, for which Mr. TROTMAN offers to furnish a substitute at £9O, which shall do its work better in all respects. _ _ _ Mr. TROTMAN went to the expense of £4OO to have his anchors tested before ; and naturally looked for reimbursement from Government orders. It will hardly be credited that from that day to this, now a period of eight years. he has not had a single order. The QUEEN'S yacht for plea sure—not the QUEEN'S ships for her Kingdom's defence—has alone been provided with an anchor at once the best and the cheapest. The official trick seems to be, that if an officer applies for one, he is ordered to be supplied with it if there be one in store. But good care is taken that there never shall be one in store ! We shall not anticipate the explanations which the Govern ment officials may have to furnish to-morrow night of . their unaccoun t a ble conduct. Nothing will satisfyco, s the p a bli c b u t that our ships, which have so dear, should have the best possible anchor insurance, especially when pecuniary eco nomy and quality go togeth9r' Mr. TROTMAN offers a second trial, if the past be not enough. lie v - wi h ll submit an anchor of 50 cwt. to competition it an Admiralty anchor of 100 cwts.—the form er t o the latter actually costs £365 otoatthbut £9O, while the severest tests which nautical men can devi se , in r e gard kind of anchor duty, and the test shall be made at his own expense. To the latter part offer, especially if he be triumphant —afte r the e re the former trial, too, at his own cost, and the founded on it — we b e g to demur, The country i s not so pinched for nioney that it will submit to such meanness in its name. Let the authorities make the trial at the country's cost (it ought to be at their own), and let it settle the question. The code of honour and the code of morality do not always square ; but in one s con they agree, wherever any nation is civilized enough to have them both. Thou shalt not lie, is the injunc- „ ,%,*•••-• :• , THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1860. tion of honour and morality equally ; the first says it is the most disgraceful of disgraceful things— the second says it is the sin of sins—the Devil's own. And even expediency steps up and says— it is the folly of follies ; for you will never be trusted again. Is it not wonderful, then, that what every gentleman, every good man, and every wise man, instinctively recoil from, should be the beset ting sin of tyrants ? Happily, their punishment has often served to strengthen respect for the value, as well as the dignity of veracity. Our own CHA.RLES I. was a martyr to perfidy and lying. He would not have lost his head, if his opponents had not previously lost all faith in his word. All the un easiness Europe has lately felt has arisen from the utter impossibility of putting any faith in Imperial assurances. Hungary has the same ground for distrust of the family whose whole history has been • one of perfidy. And all the German States are now ' living under modes of Government, which are existing witnesses of princely faithlessness to en gagements, But of all the dynasties distinguished in this way 1 is the one which now totters at the approach of GARIBALDI. A son has just succeeded to the in heritance of his father. The father was equally notorious for lies and perjury, and for treachery and cruelty. He had granted a constitution in 1848, and sworn to it most solemnly ; yet, no sooner had RADETSICY turned the tide than he foreswore him -1 self and imprisoned the men he had called to his counsel, among them the noble POERIO, and sus pended the constitution,whose Chambers have never assembled since. Ho recalled his troops, professedly Lent to fight against the Austrians, and commenced that course of misrule which has filled all Europe with disgust, and of which the former bombard ment of Messina, with the crucifixions on the dun geon walls by the police--the prisons full of the best citizens—the denial of all regular justice, the treatment of our own countrymen, WATT and PARK—and thn conduct, altogether, which com pelled England and France to remonstrate, and then to withdraw l 'heir representatives—are a few specimens. FRANCIS 11. succeeds FERDINAND—he has not yet had the opportunity of breaking his own—his personal oath ; but he does what is equivalent to it. He not only treads in his father's footsteps, but he continues the violation of the constitution—be stands by his father's outrageous perjury. He Ras bound to have called together the Chambers, and to have taken the oath to the constitution ; he did nothing of the kind. In every course of illegality, of oppression, of cruelty, he has, when it was pos sible, surpassed his father. The reign of spies, policemen, torturers, and illegal arrests was con firmed and increased in vigour ; and, as if to give an earnest that in nothing evil would he fail to imi tate an evil parent, he followed his example in burying alive hundreds of his subjects in the burning ruins of a second bombardment of Palermo. It is to this precious illustration of the doc trine of transmigration of wicked souls into bodies of yet viler creatures than those they occupied before, that the Emperor of FRANCE sppears to have sent friendly counsel; with what results the last telegrams tell us. FRANCIS 11., urged thereto by the advice of his great cousin the Emperor of the FRENCH, has, now that Sicily is gone, and that all Naples quakes beneath his feet, offered a con stitution, an amnesty, the adoption of Italian prin ciples, and alliance offensive and defensive with the King of SARDINIA. In itself such offers would but provoke the taunts and laugh ter of the Sicilians, the Neapolitans, and indeed, of all Europe. Not one of his subjects would dream of trusting him for an hour. What guarantee could they possibly have for their personal or political liberties, if they left him at the head of the Government and Adminis tration. Like his father, he might throw into a dungeon to-morrow the men of whom he asked advice to-day, and because they gave him the advice which though it saved his life, he hated and resented as soon as his life was secure. Se curity for fidelity no tyrant in terror can give. Besides the Neapolitans have a Constitution and a code of laws, which needs but to be restored and carried out in - its integrity, and it would then leave nothing to to be desired. So at least we have been toldagain and again. But even if these were restored in their integrity, who is to assure the Neapolitans that the same man, who only restored them in dread of GARIBALDI, would not again suppress them, unless GARIBALDI himself were the commander-in-chief of his army ? But what is most to be complained of is, that the EMPEROR should intermeddle at all, unless in con junction with England, in a case in which we have been so much concerned in common ; also, that after all that passed, which he as well as we have been compelled to censure, he should intervene in any such way as may afford him a pre text for furnishing aid to the hardened young Bourbon, if he adopt his advice. We trust our Foreign Secretary will in pretty firm style advise the EMPEROR to avoid committing himself. If Louis NAPOLEON interfere to preserve to a tyrant the rule over his people, it will be for England to insist, as Lord PALMERSTON would advise, that the people shall have full opportunity, if they wish, to put an end to Revolutions, by getting rid of the real authors of them. " Stable equilibrium," of a peo ple eager for their acknowledged rights under the rule of a Bourbon, is a proved impossibility. Among all narratives of adventure, the narrative of a shipwreck is unquestionably one of the most enthralling. And, although happily not one single life was lost upon the occasion so graphically com municated yesterday in our columns by the special correspondent of our chief morning contemporary, we cannot remember reading, for a long while past, any more breathless record of perils passed through with profound emotion, by 'scapes literally hair breadthed ! The vessel wrecked was the two-year old iron steam-ship, of 1,080 tons burthen, the Malabar. The scene of her destruction was the dangerous roadstead, known to oriental voyagers by the cruel misnomer of Gallo Harbour. A harbour which is at the best of times no harbour at all ! But which is, at the worst of times, girded seawards by clustering rocks and breakers, sunken coral reefs and gigantic boulders surrounding the so-called harbour, as with a throng of the multiplied horrors of Scylla and Charybdis! Here, in this agreeable anchorage lay the Malabar on the morning of the 22d of May, preparing to weigh anchor and " off" to her Chinese destination with the British and French ambassadors. The Simla had started but a few hours previously for Calcutta, carrying thither Sir IltiGH ROSE as Lord CLYDE'S successor in the responsible post of Indian Commander-in-Chief. The draught of the Malabar at the time indicated is 15 feet 6 inches aft, and 13 feet 6 inches forward. Astern she has the cus tomary mooring anchor, with a 30-inch hawser, carrying her head nearly south with a 30 cwt. anchor at the bows. A little after half-past two on the 22d ultimo, comes from the north-east one of the frightful squalls peculiar to those eastern seas —an i nstantaneous hurricane that sweeps across the port side of bay, and, swooping upon the the Malabar, makes her heel over immediately, Her moorings, however, snap like pack-thread—the ship swings round upon the instant, reversing her position entirely. Then—let the eye-witness relate the immediate result in his own graphic language—" comes a shock which shakes the vessel fro an stem to stern ; a second, which brings the saloon sky light crashing into the cabin ! Again, again, again, and lamp after lamp is shivered to pieces. We are on the reef, and the rocks are smashing in our plates one after another !" The vessel is in five distinct compartments—two abaft and two before the engines, which occupy the fifth or intermediate compartment. Although—directly after the snap ping of the hawser—the skipper (Capt. GRAINGER) is on the bridge, although the engineer is at his post—their presence is in a manner valueless at the moment, for the steam is not up, and with every swell the huge ship " crashes and crunches" upon the hidden crags over which she is swinging by her best bower cable. Let that cable (thinks the correspondent who writes the narrative of this disaster) " drag but six feet and the engine com partment will be smashed to pieces : let those heavy engines descend with all their weight on these pointed rocks, and our vessel must split in two. A double danger then awaits us : we shall be blown into the air by collapse of the boilers, or down we shall go among the sharks and the breakers !" Fortunately the 30 cwt. anchor holds ; the best bower is true in the tenuity of THE ROYAL VOLUNTEER REVIEW. The Secretary at War has issued the following circular to the Lords-Lieutenant of counties : WAR-OFFICE, June 27, 1860. I have the pleasure of enclosing a copy of a gene ral order, in which his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief has been authorised to ex press her Majesty's admiration of the soldierlike bearing of the Volunteers reviewed by her Majesty in Hyde-park on Saturday last, and the deep im pression made upon her mind by the loyalty and devotion evinced by the Volunteer force throughout the whole country. In communicating this document to you, and re questing you to enclose copies of it to the command ing officers of the various corps in your county, I avail myself of the opportunity to express to you the high gratification with which her Majesty's Government have witnessed the rapid success of the Volunteer movement, and the degree of efficiency to which the corps present at the late review have attained. The zeal and public spirit of the Volunteers have added a new and valuable element to our means of defence, and have earned for them the approbation of their Sovereign and the gratitude of the country. I have, in conclusion, to convey to you the thanks of the Government fur the assistance which you have afforded me in the raising and organisation of this force, and for the zeal with which you have discharged the onerous duties which have devolved upon you in connection with it,—l have the honour to be your obedient servant, SIDNEY HERBERT. every strand. And more fortunately still, at the critical instant when all seems to be hopelessly jeopardised, the wind veers back once more to the south, the squall abates in its violence, and the Malabar swings clear of that sunken reef, which must otherwise in a few more seconds have proved her inevitable destruction. As it is, the battering the good ship has already endured is such that when the pumps are first sounded they show three feet and half of water in the first com- ONCE UPON A TIIIIE. BY ELIZA Coox. (From " Once a Week.") Only look at Gaffer Grey Creeping slowly on his way, With a staff to help him stand, Leant on with a shaking hand ; With a step that fears to meet The pebbles of the village street ; With a cheek that falleth in, • And a very peaked chin ; With a forehead made of wrinkles Carved in crosses, cranks, and crinkles, And a voice so thin and mumbling That his glee might pass for grumbling. See his eyes so blear and dim, And his beard so grey and grim ; See his legs, all lean and lank, Dwindled down to skin and shank. Poor old Gaffer Grey is labelled With th 3 words that tune my rhyme : Read him over—you'll discover Nought but " Once upon a time." I wandar'd to a spot of earth, Where Fame had crowaed the ruin-crags, Where ravens in their shrieking mirth Flapp'd their black wings like conquerors' flags Waving above a battle-field ; Where bat and lizard had allied, With mole and owlet by their side, And forced the bulwark foe to yield. Some phantasy beguiled my sight With vision of a gorgeous story, — Of jewell'd roof, of halls of light, Of purple woof, of walls of might, Of pillar'd temples, thrones of state, Of pomp and palace, grand and great, Of people's shouts, of feasting kings, And all the myriad dazzling things That haunt the place of faded glory. —I started, for a friglaten'd thrush Flow from a tuft of sedgy rush, Then, gazing down, I stepp'd aside To let the toad crawl back and hide ; A squirrel brood ran up the larch That sway'd within the oriel aroh, And then my tread disturb'd the rest Of a wild rabbit in its nest. I trampled through the dank thick grass, To catch the bindweed's trailing flowers, That tied themselves in tangled masa Across the cracking turret towers. The topmost battlement was lying Co-equal with the buttress pile : And dolefully the wind was sighing Through festive court and priestly aisle. Time's robe of green was flung about The mammoth skeleton of strength ; And scatter'd bones of granite stones Told of its giant breadth and length. I stood upon a scatter'd heap Of fragments of the watchtower Keep ; I wander'd on, and atroll'd across The banquet-hall, laid down with moss ; I climbed some steps shut out from day, Till dust and nettles choked my way ; I saw a mushroom springing up Where royal feet had led the dance ; I saw the foxglove's swinging cup Where knights had hung their banner'd lance ; And as I gated I saw a hand— A wither'd hand —stretch forth and write A short text fraught with holy thought, Easy to read by dullest sight. 'Twas plain and terse, but sacred page Gives nought more simple and sublime, It soften'd youth, it solaced age, It mock'd the hero and the sage In these words—" Once upon a time." 'Twas but yesterday I found A score of letters, closely bound : Some were torn in treasured pieces, Some were worn in careful creases, Ink had faded, seals had crambled, And my heart felt sad and humbled ; For I knew the thoughts, the hopes, The earnest wish, the brilliant tropes Those letters hasten'd to reveal Were symboll'd by the ink and seal. I opened one--my pulse grew quicker, My eyelid fell, my breath came thicker ; I traced its lines, close, firm, and clear, Tolling how deeply, fondly dear, The being was for whose loved sake That letter came, with such a cake. It gave report of Pincher's health, It told of Muff's increase of wealth In five young r Lbbits, all milk-white, That. Gyp and Dobbin were " all right," That Midsummer would quickly come, And then for holidays and home. I gave a gasp, half sob, half sigh, While Memory's flood-wave filled my eye, And folded from my misty gaze My look'd uponanother mother and my h schoolgirl and days. I Bold, free, and dashing in its form ; And then I saw the lee-shore strand, And heard the passion of the storm That torn the right arm from its hold, And flung it nerveless, still and cold, Upon tho rocks, no more to send Its tidings full of life and joy, And cheer his childhood's playmate-friend With letters from the sailor boy. Another and another scroll I opened—one by one I read : I gazed as they who may mired A shroud to look upon the dead. Love, with its ardent vows, was there, Friendship, that promised to be true, Words that like summer light and air Fill'd my heart's world with gold and blue. Where was the lover ? Where the friend ? The bond that was to know no end ? Where was the promise and the vow ? Alas, a yawning gulf of gloom, Bridged only by the dark grey tomb, Had open'd wide 'twizt then and now. A muffled sound seeiu'd breathing round, A mingled tons of merry chime And funeral knolls, but all the bells Gave chorus of the theme which tells Sad tales of " Once upon a time." partment, and five minutes later five feel . is announced. "Before us," quoth the eye -witness, " is the bay with its roaring swell ; behind, at 400 yards distance, tie fort, with the sea dashing over the rocks which jut into the water, and breaking in tremendous spray right against the parapet wall." Even when the worst perils of the hurricane are over, when the squall has abated, when the wind had chopped round again to the south, when the vessel has swung clear of the appalling reef, the after compartments are found to be filling rapidly, and the Malabar is visibly settling by the stern. Immediately there arises a life and death contest between the getting up of the steam and the rush of the water into the ruined compartments. Gal lons of oil are poured on the coals to ensure their more rapid combustion ; but the water is rising, rising from below yet more rapidly. In the midst of the general panic there is a rumour afloat that the captain is bent upon going out to sea for the purpose of more effectually working the pumps, and of so saving ship, cargo, and passengers. At the whisper of this rumour the chief engineer is almost distracted. "In the name of GOD, captain," he cries, "don't proceed to sea ; we are in a sinking state ! Beach her at once !" Meanwhile, there is the British Ambassador to China, the Earl of ELGIN and KINCARDINE seated quietly upon the poop, watching the course of :events —cool as a cucumber ! At the report of the cap tain's intention of going out to sea, there appeals addressed to Lord ELGIN by various pas sengers :—" Will not your lordship order the boats to be lowered ?" " Will you not protest against going to sea ?" " Will you not speak to the cap tain ?" The incident is worth recalling, it is so characteristic of the cool, dare-devil pluck of Englishmen. " Lord ELGIN," writes the eyewit " steadily refuses to interfere with the cap tain in the discharge of his duty, but sends Colonel CREALOCK with a message—‘ Lord ELGIN presents his compliments and wishes to know if you are going to sea.' Going to sea !we are going down." As they were obviously, steadily, unmistakeably with every throb of the ship's chronometer. Mean while the steam has at length been got up in ear nest—the anchor is weighed, the men work with a will, and no wonder, for it is for their lives—the ship moves a-head at the first revolution of the screw propeller. It is a race now across the harbour to the beach. "Keep your eye on that mast," quietly remarks an old sailor to the eye-witness ; "I don't expect we shall get across, and if we sink it may be above water." In:the occurrences following hard upon the eventual sinking of the Malabar, two widely contrasting incidences are par ticularly deserving of commemoration. One of these incidents relates the gallant advent of succour brought to the vessel's side by two brave captains who brought their boats thither with imminent peril to themselves—one a Frenchman, the other an Englishman. The Frenchman CH. MESSEMACCHER, Capitaine au Long Cours, and his ship is the Paul Auguste, of Dunkirk. The Englishman PETER UPTON, commanding the barque Waverley, of New castle! In contrast with which gallant tars of France and England, to whom the thanks of the British and French Ambassadors were returned in the names of their respective Governments—comes the record of the other incident in which two men try to save themselves by meanly jumping into the women's boat—the first leaping " for the stern, where he tumbles among the ladies and nearly capsizes the boat ; the second for the bow, which he misses, and takes a header right into the water." Neither of the poltroons, it is delightful to know, being English or French —one, in fact, proving to be an American skipper, the other a Dutch engineer. Altogether the loss of the Mala bar turns out to be the loss of everything but the lives of the crew and passengers. Cargo, lug gage, state papers, ribbons of the thistle and the bath, badges of honour, plate, and trousseaux, all are sunk into the deep with the Malabar : in the narrative of the wreck of which noble steamship it is pleasant to note the chivalrous coolness manifested throughout by Lord ELGIN and Baron GRos, the worthy representatives of the allied French and English Governments. ness, Come, I will write my.epitaph • In letters shadowy and dim, And though the young strong man may laugh, 'Twill shortly serve as well for him. Just heap the clay where frost and sun May help the ivy leaf to climb, And all I've said, and all I've done, And all I've lost, and all I've won, Tho struggling race that I have run Shall find full record on the stone In these few words of solemn tone,— " Once upon a time." v is ic a a n ra n g o e un o c f e s d t. th p a a t ne t r h a e s s R i n e e v e . 1 I t Thomas l r D e t a i l r e e , vk a , t h o t h h e e d el t o h s e e been N s v V i l appointedAPVl" e . C e h ia hmi hisps o o f f N t v h h o tu p e ne r e hd s aa e yp n e. week , R o k , haesv and . n farewellesyuslea successor, se s o e r r m rectorw oiln next l read himself in on the following unday morning. VOTES FOR DISQUALIFIED CANDIDATES.. .This bill, brought in by Mr. Butt, recites that a candidate in a minerity is often eventually declared elected in consequence of his opponent being found incapable of sitting, of which fact the voters were warned, but had no sufficient opport u nity of ascertaining the truth of the statement. The Bill therefore proposes to enact that such votes shall not be deemed thrown away or null, unless it appears, from the nature of the disqualification, its notoriety, and the circum stances, that the voters wilfully and perversely voted fur a person who to their knowledge was plainly and manifestly incapable of being elected ; but the bill is not to render valid the election of any person which would have been invalid if the bill had not passed. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—It appears by a recent return that in the five years between 1854 and 1858 inclu sive 408 accidents occurred on railways under the jurisdic tion of the Board of Trade, being at the rate of nearly 82 annually. Of the total number of accidents, 203, or nearly half, were collisions, and in 85 cases the trains left the sails. Ten accidents occurred at level crossings, 13 from entering stations at undue speed, 29 at facing points, 1 7 from explo sions, 12 fr om fractures, 15 from persons in trains striking against bridges, &c., and 22 from miscellaneous causes. Not only are collisions the most numerous class of acci dents, but they are the most serious in their effects, 1,611 out of 2,068 sufferers in the five years (exclusive of servants) being classed under this head. In other words, 80 per cent. of railway accidents a n d nearly 80 per cent. of railway ca sualties arise from collisions. I ATEST Mr. Reuter's office : CALEDONIAN BALL.—The Paysaune quadrille — one of the chief attractions at this ball on Monday evening —was by a lapses pen;sx described as having been arranged and led by the G. unless of Essex, instead of the Countess of Eglinton, to whom the exclusive merit of this beautiful quadrille is justly due. We are informed that it is in con templation to re-form the fancy quadrilles which excite I so much admiration at one of the forthcoming Almack's sub scription balls. THE COMMITTEE ON TAXES BILL—The Tax Bills Committee sat again at noon yesterday , in the Library of the Hens?. of Commons, for the purpose of pro ce,iding with the consideration of their report. SALE 01? . SHAREB.—A portion of the share pro perty of the late Mr. John. Holmes, of Co ham, the gentle • man who was the a nonymous con t r ibutor of £3 , 000 towards the erection of the new chapel for the BAN. C. H. Spur geon, was sold by auction yesterday by Messrs Targas , of Bristol. The foll ow i ng prices ware realised :—.P.,800 of Bristol United Gas Stock sold at 180 per cent. ; £1,500 ditto at 179 i ; and £1,030 at 17 9 . Ten shares in the Somerset Coal Canal c om pany fetched £ 4l each; five ditto, £42 each; and four ditto, £4O 15s. each. £ 4,757 New Granada Stock, Active and Deferred, and £285 Venezuela Stock were told for £lB5. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1860. JUNE 20. NE The following telegrams have been received at PARIS, JUNE 28. The Moniteur publishes the convention between England and France relative to the division of cap tures in China, The Moniteur also announces that the funeral of Prince Jerome will take place on Tuesday next. VIENNA, JUNE 28. The official Wiener Zeitung of to-day, says : " Strict military inquiries relative to the embezzle ments of the late General Equatter, have proved that no charge of dishonesty can be raised against any other functionary in his department." NAPLES, JUNE 26. The following concessions are announced : A constitution, an amnesty, an alliance with Sar dinia, the adoption of the tricolour flag, and a mi nistry under Commander Spinelli. Analogous in stitutions for Sicily under a viceroy. GENOA, JUNE 27. Advices from Palermo state that the Government has published an electoral law. Prince Torrearsa and Signors Pisani and Guaneri have resigned. CONSTANTINOPLE (via Marseilles), Yesterday 2,000 soldiers were sent to Beyrout. The garrison of Damascus have committed acts of pillage. The Governors of Damascus, Aleppo, and Smyrna have been deprived of office. The Christians received with joy the intelligence that the Porte was instituting an inquiry into the recent disturbances. The troops which have been sent to restore order are, however, insufficient, and massacres are always feared. The Christian inhabitants of Cyprus are emigra• ing en masse to Greece. Hassan Bey has been sent on a tour through the Empire, in order to institute inquiries. The Marquis de Lavalette has given 3,000 francs to the sufferers from the late fires. To-day the fire recommenced for the eleventh time since first breaking out, but now shows signs of subsiding. NAPLES. A letter from Naples, dated June 21, says :—We begin to have details of the retreat of the Neapoli tan troops from Palermo, and it would appear that, while the officers are amenable to the charge of in capacity or cowardice, the soldiers thought more of stealing than fighting. A sergeant in the Foreign Battalion, who had just returned from Palermo, was in the same house with me yesterday, and said that in many cases the soldiers fought without being officered. Their commanders kept within the houses, as happened especially in the Royal Palace. As for the soldiers, I told you before they left that there was a general expectation of plunder, and I mentioned several cases where obligations had been incurred in the prospect of booty. The result has proved the correctness of my assertion. Both in Sicily and on the continent the stolen property has been sold, and the stories one hears here of such deeds are numerous. An officer told a friend of mine yesterday that he knew one man who had loose dia monds to the value of several thousand ducats. Robbery was not confined to the soldiers, and as to receiving stolen goods, as my reports have already proved, it was considered quite a venial offence. It ;s said of the Vice-Intendant of the Army, a man named Carelli, that his magazines, which had been abundantly supplied with every species of material, were found empty. He asserts that they were at tacked by the Royal troops ; and, further, his report goes on to say that he could give no account of the balance which had remained in his hands, the same troops having burnt the archives. It is calculated here that the said balance amounted to the pretty little sum of 56,000 ducats. In fact, in this country—this be-priested and be-policed coun try—there is neither public honour nor private morality. The very persons about the King are betraying him ; he is too obstinate and too incapable to see it, or to be persuaded to the contrary. Every branch of the Administration is a den of corruption, and things are done and laughed at here, or called clever, which would set a mark on the forehead of a man for life in England. That which the Bourbons have sown they have reaped. For years they have done their best to sow the seeds of suspicion and hypocrisy ; all manliness of character has been destroyed, and the meanest and most contemptible vices have replaced it. There is an universal scepticism of all religion ; some of the best go to mass to " levare un pensiero ;" and there are numbers who are practical atheists except in danger, when St. Anthony or St. Christopher, or any other saint is invoked. The enemy is now upon them, and what have the Bourbons to support them ? The men they have formed —councillors without intelligence or good faith, and soldiers with out patriotism, whose loyalty is valued at 5 grani a-day, and whose sole object in war is to rob. The results will be the same on the continent, if the affair goes on ; for a Bourbon, a priest, and a policeman will never make a man, any more than six tailors, according to the proverb, can form one. From what I hear, all counsel seems to be thrown away at the Palace. A general officer not many days since saw the King, and said, " Your Majesty is betrayed by those who surround you. The people have an impression that the city will be bombarded and pillaged. Restore confidence by appointing a national guard among the most respectable classes, and then concert other necessary measures." He is listened to, and then others, high in the Royal confidence, are called, and the same questions are repeated. " What am Ito do ? General -- says you betray me !" "We in the Palace," says the officer of whom I speak, "are all ready, knife in hand, to destroy each other ; and some morning we shall rise and find ourselves without a King." The 13th number of the clandestine journal, the Corriere Mercantile, has just made its appearance. It was given to me yesterday by an officer in the army, who folded up with it a most inflammatory address of the Neapolitan army from the Comitato Generale. It concludes thus : " We confidently feel that you, soldiers, together with your chiefs; feel your bosoms burn with holy national love. But if in the case of some we are deceived, let them know that in despite of them the redemption of Italy will be com pleted, and one sole cry will echo from the Alps to the ex trem est shore of Sicily—' Viva l'ltalia ! Viva l'lndepen-. denza !" A brigade, or, as it is called, a " flying column," was sent off yesterday in the direction of the Lago d'A guano, Bagnoli, and Pozzuoli, in order to guard against an apprehended disembarkation near Naples. It consists of two battalions of Chasseurs, a squad ron of cavalry, a regiment of the line, and a battery of artillery. There has been a report of either a landing in the Abruzzi or of a conflict between the troops and the people. I am too much in the dark about it to speak positively. His Majesty was suffering slightly from fever yesterday. Letters from Messina, dated the 18th, say that the garrison had not been increased from Palermo ; on the contrary, embarcations had taken place for terrajirma. Desertions continued, though the gates were well guarded, and no soldier was permitted to leave the city. The Customs duties •f Sicily were not acknowledged in the province of Messina, nor within a few miles of the gates. From Catania we hear of disturbances in Biancaville, where the country people had taken vengeance oa some of the old re gime. The conscription had also excited discontent, but it will be submitted to on seeing that many belonging to the first families in Messina had en rolled themselves. The post communication was 'established, and the courier arrived three times a week from Palermo. The Neapolitan Government had decided that merchandise embarked shall not pay any other duties on being again landed in Porto Franco. GARIBALDI'S FLEET. GENOA, JUNE 25. I think you may like to know that a steamer, of 800 tons and 300-horse power, which arrived this morning at Genoa, has been sold to Garibaldi for 460,000 f. It belongs to a French company, and is called the Provence, a screw. This is the fourth steamer bought by Garibaldi. The others are the Amsterdam, Helvetie, and Belzunee, besides two tugs. THE CAPE MAIL. PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. The Dane, Captain Hoffman, with the above mail, arrived here this evening. She brings 52 passengers and a full cargo. Her dates are—Cape, May 22; St. Helena, June 1; and Ascension, June 5. Much gratification was expressed at the Cape at the coming return of Sir George Grey and the ex pected visit of Prince Alfred. Preparations were being made to give the Prince a right loyal wel come. Government affairs were much neglected, and were left to stand over until the return of the Go- vernor. A parliamentary finance committee had been ap pointed to consider whether the government of the colony can be carried on with the present revenue. Some method of direct taxation was expected. A motion had been made in the House of Assem bly for instituting a responsible Government. The dissolution of the house was expected to take place at the close of the session. A census was ordered to be taken in March, 1861. The schedules contain 74 distinct queries, one of which is—How many pigs have you ? The Convict Exclusion Bill had passed both houses. The subject of more frequent mails to Eng land had been brought before Parliament. A fort nightly mail was wanted. All the Paarl district canteens had been shut up to prevent drunkenness. The population on the Kaffir border was very unsettled. A Dutch Reform Church conference on doctrinal subjects had been held. The Church of England financial question was still unsettled. Major General Bolton was dead. Business was very dull, and no speculation was going forward. The rate of discount had not ad vanced. The Bank was 'allowing 5 per cent, inte rest on deposits. White wine was quoted £10; Pontac, £l3; sweet wine, £18; brandy, £24. Wool, unwashed, lid. to is.; washed, is. 6d. to is. 10d: Nothing of importance from the Orange Free State. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Hamburg American Company's screw steamer Savonia, Captain Elhers, which left New York on the 15th instant, has arrived here. She brings 244 passengers, and 300,000 dolls, in specie, of which 277,870 dols. are for England ; the re mainder is for Hamburg. On the 27th, twenty miles south•east of the Lizard, she spoke the American ship Rhine, of New York. • The news brought by the Savonia has been an. ,icipated. LITERATURE. Only a Woman. A Story in Neutral Tint. By Captain Lascelles Wraxall. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This is a most peculiar story, and it certainly affords ample scope for curiosity and novelty, but at the same time it is not a probable one. Allow ing for the events to occur, the particulars are too strangely worked out, and the character of Jessie is not natural. Sir Norton Folgate is the best per son met with, but he is early removed from the scene. He is uprignt ana stint 6 litforwara, are qualities that the other dramatis personce are lamentably deficient in, Herbert Leigh himself is a despicable character, and his conduct towards Jessie is disgraceful to a man possessed of any feeling of justice, putting aside all ideas of generosity. To leave a young woman on the other side of the world to contend for herself, and to plunge reck• lessly into all sorts of pleasures and dissipations, was bad enough ; but to contract a second marriage without being more sure of the death of his first wife was most unfeeling. Jessie, however, stops all sympathy by her strange conduct; it is hardly likely that she would have concealed herself while her husband was being married in her presence. The motive of revenge that prompted her to such a course was something so intense and dreadful that really one cares very little afterwards as to what suffering she underwent. Alice is really to be pitied, she was betrayed on all sides, and her gentle nature was ill fitted to cope with the dreadful struggles she had to go through. Far happier would she have been had they left her in the retirement of the convent where she had taken shelter on her father's death, but the absurd fancies of her sister Blanche caused her to be dragged into the midst of a cruel world again. The subjects introduced into these pages are most painful, but it must be ad mitted that the exciting passages are narrated with force and earnestness, and the hours of wrechedness that were alternately gone through by the guilty couple, Herbert and Jessie, are life-like in the ex treme. It is not satisfactory, however, to note how at the conclusion things seemed in a manner smoothed over, for the way in which they had gone on did not give any such promise of attar happiness, as we are led to believe was their portion when we take leave of them. Mistakes of a grave nature, errors that are very serious may be committed, but it is another thing to plan deliberate sin like Herbert did, and to indulgel dreams of revenge and ideas of horror, such as Jessie revelled in till she seemed possessed of an evil spirit. The friends of Herbert, Bertie Dymocke, and Doctor Jones are refreshing to meet with in their honourable and honest life after the mingled confusion of craft and misery that we are introduced to. Bad as Blanche is, it must be agreed that Harriett, the other sister, is the worst by far ; there is nothing more calculated to create mischief and misery in the world than a person acting as she did. Such a course under mines the strongest social foundations, and destroys the surest prospect of happiness in the homes where the destroyer enters. Gerald Folgate is a striking instance of the misery that a prolonged course of gambling is sure to result in. Some of the scenes of the plots and counterplots of the conspirators against each other are most vividly depicted, and there is enough of exciting matter in these volumes to ensure for them attention, even when the general tenor of their narrative may not be appreciated. A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas. Hurst and Blackett. Although the author has not chosen to disclose his name, the fact of this work being edited by Mr. Wilson, better known to the public under his nom de plunze of " Mountaineer," is a sufficient guarantee for the merit of the production. The author is an officer in her Majesty's service, and rather a sports man for pleasure than a man devoted exclusively to that avocation ; in fact, he does not pretend to belong to the school of Gerard or Cumming, but he makes up for his want of ardour in field sports by his vivid descriptions of scenery and the eustoms and manners of the hill tribes : " On reaching a little rivulet at the foot of the steep hill we had come down, I halted to rest a little, and the men had a smoke out of a rather primitive pipe. With a small stick they made a hole in the ground some inches deep, widen ing it a little at the top. A space from this they made another, slanting to the bottom of the first. Into the former they dropped a small ball of grass, rolled up, and over it the tobacco. Putting their closed hands o ver the orifice of the other, they inhale the smoke through it. What various methods are pursued in imbibing the narcotic weed." Now that gold digging has become a profession, and has its representatives in all classes of society, we may any day look for a new rush on the banks of the Ganges, gold being daily obtained by the natives in small quantities from the bed of the river. This gold deposit is the washing from pa rent reefs, which must ultimately be drowned and worked. The strange fancy which people have for the dangerous is well shown in the followin g extract : " At one village I delayed the camp half the day to wit eength, extendedwhich from i s aan eminence in loca l parlance onthe ness an extraordin ar y p erformance which deserves describ ing in detail. It c onsisted of a man sliding down a rope nearly e half a mile h rope length, hill side above the village, over a ravine and down to a 8 green knoll in the fie lds below, and was draw n a tight as sev eral hundred men with their united strength could e b. They had just finished stretching it when we arrived, ffec and I could scarcely believe a man was actually going to slide down it, the feat appeared so utterly impracticable with any chance of safety. Imagine a rope extended from the top of a rock at least 500 feet high,lo a pole some 2,000 feet from its base, and some idea may be formed of the undertaking. A great concourse of people of both sexes were assembled, all in their holiday garb, and the man who was to slide was swinging round at the end of a long plank fixed on an up right pole as a pivot." Let not the public believe that Mormonism is the ne plus ultra of religious absurdity or extrava gance ; unless the hill people have clearer heads than their western brethren they must be per fectly dazed regarding their relationship. _ _ " It has been thought that in the hills several brothers sometimes marry but one wife amongst them, who is com mon to all. This odious practice does exist to some extent in Koonawur and some other states, but is certainly not the case in Gurwhal. This belief has doubtless arisen from the fact that ix this, and most other hill countries, a bro ther's wife is not looked upon at all in ihe light of a sister, and intimacy with an elder brother's is not considered at all criminal. A younger brother's wife, on the contrary, is treated by most as a daughter-in-law. A wife's sisters, again, are treated with almost as much familiarity as her • self, and intrigues with them, though fined as severely as others by the authorities, are not looked upon as so deserv ing of censure by the people themselves; indeed, a man would be thought ungallant if he did not pay some little attention to his wife's sister. The relationship caused by , these customs are rather curious. A sister's chil dren only are a man's nephews and nieces, a brother's being called sons and daughters. By the same rule a woman's nephews and nieces are brother's children, only her sister's being sons and daughters. A child calls its father's elder brothers big fathers ; their wives being its big and little mother. Its only uncles are its mother's own brothers, and its aunt its father's sisters. Cousins are all brothers and sisters, that relationship being unknown, and there being no word for it in the language." The Long Run. A Novel. By Henry Owgan, LL.D., author of " Out on the World," " My First Romance," &c. Booth, Regent -street. We here meet in an unpretending form with a most interesting tale, which displays some power ful scenes of life, and which has a great variety of incident to render it readable. There is a strong undercurrent of romance in its composition. It begins peacefully enough in a smiling and sunny village "on the soft soutnern coast of Ireland where it begins to bend round towards the west." In this tranquil place dwelt the chief characters of our story. Charles Everton, the hero, is•a high-spirited youth, who early evinces a daring disposition that is sure to make for itself a way in the world. His brother . James is the exact opposite, cold, cautious, and selfish. The contrast exhibited by these two is really remarkable. When Charles returned from India renowned far and wide for his prowess and skill, the mean relative who refused to lend him a small sum to start with out of his hordes was al most ashamed to face him. As often happens, those who seem the most adroit are suddenly entrapped, and the way in which the Swyvels caught him un awares is most amusing. He deserved all the life time of petty persecutions and grievous annoyances that afterwards befel him. Mrs. Vandeleur is a very well delineated sketch ; she would have done for a tragedy queen, with her majestic bearing and her dark hatreds. It would, however, have been more satisfactory had she not in her sweeping condemna flaw included the innocent with the guilty. Poor Sir John Stopford had committed no sin against any one ; on the contrary, he had been very much ill-used by Miss Linton, who had no right to marry him to suit her own purposes of aggrandisement, and then to treat him as she did. It was a just retribution to the Lintons, whose conduct was sys tematically base from the commencement, and whose long years of ill acquired riches deserved to come to a sad conclusion. Louisa Linton is well drawn as a selfish girl, who stifled the feelings of her heart, and determined to crush-down all senti menr to make a grand marriage. She worked out for herself a sad fate ; her passions were checked by prudence, not subdued by prin ciple; hence, in the struggle, of life they soon rose again in a surging fury she could not restrain. Few lives offered a more pain ful warning as to the culpability of avarice and the harm of self-indulgence than that of this beautiful young heiress. The conclusion of the story is rather too abrupt, and it is too bewildering to the mind—rather too much of the Continental school of romance—to learn in four or five pages that Herbert was engaged to the widow, his first love, but that she died suddenly. Afterwards, that Lord Crenella, meeting a fatal accident while hunt ing, Herbert engaged to marry his widow, with whom he had long had an acquaintance, and to whom he had been of signal service at a trying period of her life, when he was totally friendless. Apart from these slight drawbacks, we find much to entertain one in this little volume—some sad, many stirring, and several admonitory scenes of life. Charles Everton had many a hard day to pass, and many a bitter suffering to undergo before he reached the proud position in which we leave him. " The. Long Run" is decidedly a brilliant sketch of life, and an effective exposition of some momentous phases of humen nature. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Gluck's justly renowned opera of " Orfeo e Euridice" was last night given entire with all the accessories of stage representation. Madame Csillag, in Orfeo, obtained even a more brilliant and decided success than in Fidelio, proving herself not only a tragedian of rare gifts, but a thorough mistress of the highest school of vocal declamation. Fier portrayal of Euridice's constant lover, to the charms of whose music even demons and furies are not insensible, was in all respects consummate, and made a deep and abiding impression. Scene after scene elicited bursts of genuine ap plause; and at the end of each act Madame Csillag was enthusiastically recalled. It was a triumph of legitimate art--the more remarkable, inasmuch as it was achieved in an opera almost wholly unknown to the great majority of the audience. The remain ing characters—even Euridice, admirably sustained by that experienced and intelligent artist, Madame Penco—are throughout subsidiary to Orfeo, upon whom devolves the lion's share alike of the music and the dramatic situations. Nevertheless, they were allotted, in each instance, to distinguished members of the company ; and when it is added that L'Amore was represented by Madame Nantier Didiee, and L'Ombra Felice (the Happy Shade) by no less eminent an artist than Madame Miolan Car. valho—both of whom in honouring Gluck did honour to themselves—it will be easily credited that the music was rendered to perfection. The excel lence of the chief personages, however, was not all. The opera is put upon the stage with equal splen dour and propriety. The scene representing the Elysian fields, where Orfeo discovers his lost Euridice, is equal to anything that has been wit nessed of the kind; while the costumes, the ballet, and all the stage arrangements are to match. The band and chorus were irreproachable, the latter being especially effective where the furies, after striving to terrify Orfeo from his quest are ulti mately vanquished by the dulcet tones of his lyre. 'vir. Costa himself showed his respect for the old Viennese master, Mozart's greatest predecessor— by remaining at his post, contrary to his usual cus tom, to direct the performance of the ballet. In short the whole performance was worthy of the theatre and of the occasion ; and the applause it elicited was quite as well merited as it was liberal and unanimous. LYCEUM THEATRE. open o e m d r f a b n r_7amateur J. I'n aid o f performance Last night b t y hi t s n h e ou A s was r e tiller Artillery Company, funds of the Nationa l Rifle Association, and the audience presented a. singular appearance, the mnaijfoorrYmt. of The he musicgentlemenbeing attired in milit ary u incidental to the perf ormance was played by the band of the regiment, an d thus the whole picture was in perfect keepi ng. majority The programme of the evening comprised " Still Waters Run Deep," " Charles II.," and the " Spital fields Weaver," all played by amateur gentlemen, assisted by professional ladies, and the re was a p as But was t a h n e a c d h d a r r e a s c s s t e e r u i l s t b i c y feature Miss it c' o s f i n t a h e W e evening written by " Captain Tom Taylor, of the Civil Ser vice Rifle Volunteers," and spoken by Miss Kate Terry in the attire of Britannia. In heroic verse, the juvenile goddess reminded her hearers that duty, not glory, was the watch-word of Englishmen, gently reproved Sam Foote for laughing at Major Sturgeon, alluded to Queen Bess and Mr. J. Forster's " five members " in connexion with city train bands ; compared old England's bows with young England's rifles ; and' then ar rived at this practical appeal : "If Switzerland's stout race, though poor and few, Their thousands find—in purse and person too — Their trusty Alpine weapons to essay, And crown with prize the victor of the day— Have England's sons less precious trusts to guard ? Are England's means less ample for reward ? No I—let your answer to this night's demands Prove nearts as earnest, and as liberal hands 1 " At the conclusion of this address much applause demanded and obtained the re-appearance of Miss Kate Terry. I prix amo Bar the mai an has wh spe Me is 1 hal Th shi