The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-05 00:00:00

SOUTH EASTERN RA ILWAY . DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN STEAM SHIP.—The Great Ship is expected to leave her moorings, off Deptford, to-morrow about 7 a.m. Extra trains will leave London for Greenwich as often as may be required after 6 a.m. Additional trains will also run to Woolwich, Erith, Green hithe, and Gravesend after 7 a.m., affording passengers an opportunity of witnessing the ship pass clown the River to the Nore. C. W. EBORAL, General Manager. London Terminus, sth Sept., 1859. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. ri` HIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. With THE CONTESTED ELECTION. Followed by HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. And HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. .I.IOYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. And TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. After which, TRYING IT ON. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'clock. VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, Consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER. —SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 4. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67 —highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 65—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.05. WIND, North-Westerly; light, with mild weather, but dull. Very fine in the afternoon. SEPT. 5. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 66—highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 61—this day at noon. - - BAROMETEII---30,20. WIND, North-Westerly ; light, with very fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY. Morning, 7h. 14m.—Afternoon, 711. 47m. To-Moßßow-Morning, Bh. 29m.—Afternoon, 9h. 15m. The cause of Italian Independence progresses with sure and steady step. There is no tumult — no effervescence now save that of cordial good will among a united people. Everything is conducted with a solemnity worthy of a great and national cause. On Saturday last the deputation from Tuscany arrived at Turin by noon to tender their allegiance to the King. They were received with marked re spect by the Municipal body and Members of Parlia ment. Great popular enthusiasm was manifested to welcome their arrival, and a grand illumination took place in the evening in their honour. The deputation were received by the King shortly after their arrival, when Signor GHERARDINA, a member of the Commission, addressed his Majesty as follows :—" If the wish of Tuscany for annexa tion with Piedmont only served for the aggran disement of your Majesty's State, we should enter tain doubts as to the acceptance of our wish by your Majesty. But our wish being inspired by the love of Italian nationality, we hope that the thought of Italy will decide your Majesty to ac cept it." The King replied in a strain of much feeling, but with subdued policy. He thanked them cordially in his own name and that of his people. "We have received your wish as a solemn manifestation of the will of the Tuscan people, who, having made the last vestige of the foreign domination in Tuscany to cease, desires to contri bute to the constitution of a strong kindom, which shall defend the independence of Italy. But the Tuscan Assembly will have comprehended that the accomplishment of its wish can only take place by negotiations which are about to begin on the affairs of Italy. I will second your desire, becoming myself strong by the rights which are given me by your wishes. I will support the cause of Tuscany before the Powers in which the Assembly places its hopes, and especially before the . , magnanimous Emperor of the FRENCH, who has done so much for the Italian nation. I hope that Europe will not refuse to practise towards Tuscany that work of redressing grievances which it has, under less favourable circumstances, prac tised towards Greece, Belgium, and the Danubian Principalities. Your noble country gives an admi rable example of moderation and concord." His MAJESTY concluded by impressing on the Deputation the exercise of that virtue which ensures the triumph of all honest undertakings—namely, perseverance. It will be seen with what dexterity King VICTOR EMMANUEL contrived to avoid giving offence to the Deputation on the one hand, while he steered clear of putting a sword into the hands of Austria in the present temper of that already mortified and too jealous power. A Congress seems now to be inevi table, if war is to be averted. The " situation" is clear in one sense but very complicated in another. Much will now depend on the spirit in which the proposed object will be entertained by the Emperor NAFOLEON. We sincerely hope that, sinking all personal feeling, he will add to the debt of Italy by cordially seconding the wishes of that people. The vote of the Duchy of Parma, respecting its proposed annexation to Piedmont, is in unison with the devotion of the Tuscans. There were 63,403 votes in favour of annexation, and only 506 against it! After this strong manifestation of public feeling what hope is there for the return of Austrian despotism ? Indeed, the same feeling Pervades the rest of Italy. The in habitants of the Romagna have expressed their opinion in the following resolution, " that they will no longer submit to the temporal government of Modena, t h e POPE." And as for - the precious D u ke has settled that question with and under his own hand, much to the satisfaction of the people. Since writing the above we now learn that the Paris journals of this morning contain art i cles, praising very much the speech of the King of S AR _ DINIA. They conclude that it is almost certain a congress will be assembled. This augurs well. There seems to be a dearth of news in Paris, and trade, commerce—in short, everything but plea. sure—seem at a sort of standstill as if the Conre rence at Zurich had set the dreamy example. The Times' correspondent says that certain difficult points of the negotiation, such as those relating to the restoration of the Grand Dukes, have been touched in a variety of tones, but whether -with Much Or little hope, with much or little intention of promoting it, is open to doubt. 'The amnesty, too, has once or twice been the subject of conversation on the part of the Plenipo tet diaries ; but the Confederation has not yet been tret tted. It is affirmed in Paris that the limitation and the debt questions are disposed of, though dotibts are expressed if they have been so definitively, particularly the latter. But even on secondary matters the Austrian Government appears to act with the utmost slowness, and there hardly passes a day that Count COLLOREDO does not think it ne cessary to send telegraphic messages, or even Cabi net couriers, to Vienna for orders. One would sup pose that he arrived at Zurich without any in- structions whatever. On the question of Lom bardy some points are said to be settled affirma tively. For instance, whether the Lombards, who have become subjects of King Victor Emmanuel, can become Austrian subjects if they please, or whether those who remain under Austrian rule can change their nationaiity, and beconie subjects of Upper Italy ? When is Austria to relieve from their oath of allegiance the Lombard soldiers who still serve in the Imperial ranks ? On this point it is resolved that the said oath of allegiance shall cease to be binding so soon as all matters in de bate relating to Lombardy shall have been defini• tively arranged. The Lombards actually employed in the civil service of Austria are at liberty to continue or retire as they may think proper or convenient. A happier era has during the last few years opened upon Ireland. The history of the sister island has latterly been one of steady advance- ment. Seldom has there been a more striking illustration of the truth of that old symbolic saying about the Darkest Hour being the one immediately Before the Dawn. The prosperity of Ireland, dating from those calamitous months during which —now more than twelve long years ago—the population of that unfortunate country was deci mated simultaneously by famine and by pestilence! Scarcely had the ravages caused by the potato blight and choleraic diarrhoea ceased, when a new source of apparent disaster to the doomed commu nity commenced. Emigration, at all times consi- derable, then reached a magnitude up to that time altogether unexampled. The inhabitants of many localities appeared to be bodily flocking down to the seashore for embarkation. GOLDSMITH'S " Deserted Village" was no mere vague poetic imagining. It was a pathetic reality again and again renewed. Lissay or Auburn seemed to be repeated here and there all over the broad country side. Like the "halls of Balcleutha" in Ossian, the mud cabins in many and many a cluster were " desolate." The movement was, numerically, so remarkable in its way, that it received the name of the Irish Exodus. And the title was scarcely used as a figure of hyperbole. It was more a phrase of matter-of-fact than an exaggeration. In more than one quarter the land was actually depopulated. Looking around at that time, you would have said that the Darkest Hour had indeed arrived for Ireland—but it was in very truth at the same moment the precursor of the Dawn of the national prosperity. Another and romarkable security that it was in point of fact that auspicious Hour. Before the Dawn, was the coming into operation of that new and beneficent enactment which, to say the very least of it, tended to facilitate a. change in the Irish proprietary. The Encumbered Estates Act was the open sesame to a hidden treasury. It un locked stores of buried wealth. It removed from the land the curse, so to speak, of chronic bankruptcy. Its passage from a Bill into an enactment--those magic words, la Reine le vent, transforming it into part and par cel of the law of the land—sounded at once the knell of the old make-shift epoch, and the signal for the inauguration of a novel and a hitherto un dreamt-of epoch (for Ireland) in the history of mo dern civilisation. " Castle Rackrents " were there upon at once in a fair way of becoming obsolete, and of passing altogether out of view soon in the luminous pages of Maria Edgeworth. Nor was it alone upon the title-pages of that Milford of the Emerald Isle that Irishmen could no longer read Veluti in Speculum—the truthful motto emblazoned over many a proscenium. Under the influence of wiser and newer laws, and of happier and more propitious circumstances, the darker era of duelling and improvidence has already, in an' incredibly short space of time, receded to the extremity of an apparently remote perspective. So that many a comparatively recent delineator of the national character survives now quite as much a describer of long-vanished habits and customs as SMOLLETT or FIELDING in regard to bygone Englishmen. Nay—for that matter—the Ireland of To-day is hardly more unlike the Ireland of " The Collegians' and of " Florence INlacarthy," than it is unlike the Ireland depicted in the earlier romances of CHARLES LEVER and WILLIAM CARLETON, novelists yet happily in their full vigour among the number of our own immediate contemporaries. Systematic improvidence—if we may write this by an expres sive antithesis not inaptly Hibernian by its very extravagance—systematic improvidence and sys tematic duelling are no longer among the essential characteristics of the Irish population. Thrift, if not indigenous, is at any rate becoming fast a thriving exotic. Industry, both agricultural and commercial, is spreading. The incentive pro posed by Lord GEORGE BENTINCK to be applied to railway speculation in the sister island upon a scale of such daring magnitude, and with a prodigality of millions so wisely statesmanlike in its magnifi cence—that nobly proffered but unhappily discarded incentive we have still frequent reason to lament as a lost opportunity. But—without it—how much has already been accomplished ! And now that the transatlantic traffic promises to flow in its natural and straightforward course to and fro across the Galway route—to run eastwards and westwards between the new world and the old via Valentia— what prospects are there not opening up of in creasing and still increasing prosperity ! 'faking the ordinary tokens of progress made in the way of steady mercantile advancement as our guile (by analogy) from the Past to the Future — is it not significant, we may ask, that, while out of the twelve ports of the United Kingdom, one half (viz., of course, six), show a positive increase of trade during the last twelvemonth, and the other only a moderate diminution —the increase at Glasgow, for example, being nearly 11 per cent., it is as much as 2 per cent. at Cork—the increase at London being only 31 per cent., it is no less than 53 per cent. at Dublin ! ! Actually fifty-three per cent. increase of trade at Dublin achieved, as a rise, within the brief compass of a single twelve month! And the watchword social and political, agricultural and commercial, still continues to be throughout the now flourishing and advancing part of the Irish population, the one noble and in spiriting watchword " Excelsior," May its happy augury still continue also to be thus rapidly verified. His Excellency the Sardinian Minister leaves town early in the piesent week on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury at St. Giles's, Dorset. The Earl and Countess of Caithness are staying on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Fife at their scat in Banffshire. The Earl and Countess of Harewood propose g i v i n g a grand entertainment early in the ensuing month at Harewood House, the family seat in Yorkshire. The Earl of Carnarvon will receive a large circle of friends at Highelere House the week after next. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston intend to leave town within a few days for Broadlands, near Romsey, Hants. e• \ a Or' ss bRoLT 'IRV NOT, THE SUN. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1859. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY y EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1859. THE SERPENTINE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIN. Sir,—ln consequence of a few inaccuracies con tained in Mr. G. Rennie's letter of the 27th, which appeared in your columns of the 31st ult., and knowing your love of accuracy in all matters con nected with the public welfare, I have been de sired by Mr. B. Hawes, Treasurer to the Royal Humane Society, to send you the few following particulars, which I hope will set the matter in its right light before the public. With regard to building the Receiving-house ' he says :—" The expenses incurred in building the Society's Receiv ing-house on the north bank of the Serpentine amounted to between £2,000 and £3,000, with an annual expenditure of from £1,500 to £2,000." From this account it would be inferred that the expenses in Hyde Park amounted to the above sum, which would be incorrect ; the expenses of building the Receiving-house, with the exception of £5OO required from the funds, were furnished by voluntary contributions. With regard to Mr. Rennie's remarks upon the expense of keeping up that establishment, I find that for the year 1858 the total cost under the head of Hyde Park expense amounted to £615 18s. 4d., including the pay of the superintendent, the boatmen, and icemen, coals, clothing, ice apparatus and repairs to it, medicines, &c. ; but from this some allowances should be made, as the icemen and boatmen for all the Royal parks and gardens were paid at the Receiving-house, and charged under that head, and all the apparatus, being kept in store and repaired there, is classed as a part of Hyde Park expenses. Therefore, by deducting about a third of the above sum of £615 18s. 4d., the remainder may be set down as the approximate cost of keeping the boat men and icemen in a complete state of efficiency to aid those in danger, and an efficient model Receiv ing-house in proper order, to which they may be brought and treated both medically and surgically when rescued. On referring to the daily estimated reports, I find the total number of bathers and skaters in the Serpentine river, from 1844 to 1858 inclusive, amounts to : Bathers.. 3,867,083 Accidents.. 343 Deaths.. 31 Skaters... 968,305 „ 269 „ 1 Total... 4,833,493 .. 612 Serpentine Long Water Round Pond. Regent's Park. St. James's l'ark Total of all skaters in the parks Ditto bathers in Serpentine Grand total bathers, skaters, &c. 1,823 accidents in 7,248,18 43 deaths in ditto No. of Skaters. 968,305 320,311 176,877 1,015,853 899,952 3,3 , 1,208 3,867,088 7,248,386 i = 1 in each = 1 in each Injured. Dead 269 121 76 274 740 1,480 12 343 31 1,823 i 43 3,976. 168,567. There was no skating during the years 1851 and 1852, there being no ice. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. An unusually crowded audience assembled at the Gallery of Illustration on Saturday afternoon, to witness the last performance of Mr. and Mrs. Ger man Reed this season. The audience was chiefly composed of ladies, and the effect produced as they all rose en masse when Mr. and Mrs. Reed came forward to address them was extremely brilliant, and it must have been gratifying to these favourite entertainers to meet with so much enthusiasm at this late period of the season. The following address was given by Mr. Reed in his usual comic style : Ladies and Gentlemen,—This day brings to a close the Fifth London Season of " Popular Illustrations from Real Life," and guided by precedent, I avail myself of the op portunity to thank you in the name of Mrs. Reed and myself for the patronage you have so liberally bestowed on our efforts. It has been a short season, but with your cheering approval it has been a short and merry ono. This, our fifth season, has been marked by—firstly, a more extended elaboration in the mechanical change of dress ; secondly, additional scenic effects; thirdly and lastly, the production of one piece of music from my opera ; and as it has taken me nearly six years to compose and produce one piece of music, I will leave it to you to imagine, ladies and gentlemen, how long it will take me to finis my opera. Some sey, " Oh, Mr. Reed, I hope you will never finish that opera of yours ;" others say, " Why don't you complete that opera of yours ?" But the latter suggestion would be a realisa sation of cutting open the goose with the golden eggs. By the bye, ladies and gentlemen, it will not be perhaps out of place to correct now an erroneous impression, spread with mischievous alacrity abroad, that a third party is introduced in some of the changes to heighten the illusion. I assure you that Mr. and Mrs. Reed are the only people that appear on this platform. I hope you will not consider our introduction—l say " our," for I always in clude my better half—of the scenic effects by my talented friends, Messrs. Grieve awl Telbin, as all moonshine. But it's getting late. I'll not detain you longer than merely to say, that although I admire the amiable precept in Mrs. Reel's ballad of " Think before you speak," I equally ad mire that.spirited declaration of Mrs. Naggitt's when she says, "I will speak my mind if I:die for it ;" and therefore, though fully aware of the rashness of making promises for the future, allow me to assure you, ladies and gentlemen, no expense, no exertion, no energy on our parts shall be spared to render this mimic arena of real life always worthy of the continuance of the patronage you have so bountifully be • stowed upon our efforts to please ; and till we meet again in November, accept our best wishes and our respectful adieus. At the conclusion of the address the audience de manded the re-appearance of Mr. and Mrs. Reed, who finally retired amidst the enthusiastic plaudits of one of the most elegant assemblages of the season. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, after a very long arid very prosperous visit, have gone back to America. S CRIND THEATRE.—Mr. G. W. Swanborougli,' the energetic stage manager of this house, will take his benefit this evening, when, in addition to the usuil attrac tions, Mr. Leigh Murray will appear. Melodrama, farce, and pantomime are to be the: staple attractions under the new regime at the Princess's. The theatre opens on the 21th instant, with a four-act drama by Mr. Oxenford, and an extrava-anza by Mr. pi anc he . Among, the company are Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Montagu Williams (Miss Louise Keeley), Miss Car lotta Leclercq, Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr.. I G. Shore, Mr. IL Widdicomb (from the Surrey), Mr. Harcourt Bland, and several gentlemen of provincial reputation. The Sunday Times says that the difference be tween Mr. E. I'. Smith and the committee of renters at Drury-lane has at length been settled by Mr. Smith agree ing to an advance of £5OO a year on his rent, which will now be £1,500 per annum, instead of £4,000. In considera tion of the increased rent, Mr. Smith has now the ri g ht to play throughout the entire year if he thinks proper. Hitherto his season was limited to 200 nights, and when he exceeded that number he was obliged to pay £5 a night extra. ATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been repeived at Mr. Reuter's office : TURIN, SEPT. 3. The members forming the Tuscan de:putation arrived here to-day at noon. The municipal body and some members of the Parliament went to re ceive them at the railway terminus. The streets through which they passed were richly decorated. An immense crowd was collected to welcome the members of the deputation, who alighted at the Hotel de I'Europe, where they addressed the people, thanking them for the enthusiastic reception they had met with. A grand illumination took place in the evening, and numerous bodies of national guards were stationed in line along the principal street. The King received the Tuscan deputation to day at four o'clock, p.m. Signor Gherardina, a member of the Commission, addressed to the King the following words :—" If the wish of Tuscany for ancexation with Piedmont only served for the aggrandisement of your Majesty's State, we should entertain doubts as to the acceptance of our wish by your Majesty. But our wish being inspired by the love of Italian nationality, we hope that the thought of Italy will decide your Majesty to ac cept it." His Majesty the King Victor Emmanuel replied : " Gentlemen,—l am deeply sensible of the wish of the Tuscan Assembly. I thank you in my name and in the name of my people. We have received your wish as a solemn manifestation of the will of the Tuscan people, who, after having made the last vestige of the foreign domination in Tuscany to cease, desires to contribute to the constitution of a strong kingdom, which shall defend the independ ence of Italy. But the Tuscan Assembly will have comprehended that the accomplishment of its wish can only take place by negotiations which are about to begin on the affairs of Italy. I will second your desire, becoming myself strong by the rights which are given me by your wishes. I will support the cause of Tuscany before the powers in which the Assembly places its hopes, and especially before the magnanimous Emperor of the French, who has done so much for the Italian nation. I hope that Europe will not refuse to practise towards Tuscany that work of redressing grievances which it has, under less favourable circumstances, practised to wards Greece, Belgium, and the Danubian Princi palities. Your noble country gives an admirable example of moderation and concord. You will add those virtues to that one, which ensures the triumph of all honest undertakings, and which overcomes all obstacles—namely, perseverance." BOLOGNA, SEPT. 3. Several members have moved the following reso lution :—" The inhabitants of the Romagna will no longer submit to the temporal government of the Pope." The Assembly has decided upon taking this motion into consideration. PARMA, SEPT. 4. The vote respecting the annexation of the Duchy of Parma to Piedmont has been made known. There are 63,403 votes in favour of the annexation, and 506 against it. MUNICH, SEPT. 3. The former Minister, M. von Abel, died to-day. The subscription to the military loan is closed ; a great number of applications for shares had to be refused or reduced. ZURICH, SEPT. 3. 'l'o•day there was no conference. A courier from Turin has arrived here. M. Jocteau, who had left for Berne, will return to-morrow evening. BERNE, SEPT. 3. The Federal Council has sent a Government em ploye to Marseilles to receivethe 2,400 Swiss soldiers coming from Naples. PARIS, SEPT. 3. The latest intelligence from Zurich states that the plenipotentiaries have definitively settled the frontiers of Lombardy. The statement that Papal troops had been de spatched to the Legations has not been officially confirmed. The vacancies in the Imperial Guard, caused by casualties during the late war, have been filled up by men chosen from different regiments. BERNE, SEPT. 4. It is confidently asserted that a fresh interview between the Emperor of the French and the Em peror of Austria will probably take place at some Swiss town. PARIS, SEPT. 5. The Emperor will be present at the inaugura tion, in the month of October, of the colossal statue of the Virgin, which has been erected on a rock in the town of Puy (Haute Loire), and which is formed partly of guns taken in the Crimea. It is reperted that Government has given orders at Creuzot for the construction of 20 frigates, iron plated (frigates blindees). Count Rciset is soon expected back in Paris. PARIS, SEPT. 5. The Paris journals contain articles praising very much the speech of the King of Sardinia. They conclude that it is almost certain a congress will be assembled. FLORENCE, Sept. 5. The Mai quis de Ferriere-le-Vayer, the French Ambassador at Florence, has been recalled by his Government. MADRID, SEPT. 3. The Spanish Consul, at Tangiers, has presented the ultimatum of his government. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY. The electric telegraph has returned to its normal state, and communications are going on as usual. It is thought that the aurora borealis that had been so brilliant the night before had left the atmo sphere in an unusually electric state, which caused the phenomenon that produced so much confusion in the different departments in which it was observed. You will notice iu the Presse last night a Paris letter, taken from the Independance Beige, which is not unworthy of attention, from the fact of its being from the pen of a person who is known to have occasional access to the Emperor's Cabinet at the Tuilc:lies, and is therefore believed to take his views on those subjects from the genus loci. According to the writer, or his inspirer, the Emperor's object in making the peace of Villafranca was to gain the alliance of Austria; and his object in the alliance was to accomplish the mission assigned to the second French Empire, namely, the abolition of the treaties of 1815, and the lowering of the " moral domina tion of England." 13ounsE, Sept. 3.—The market has been very inanimate, prices about the same as yesterday. Threes have been done at 68f. 05c. to 68f. 85c. Mobilier varied from 817 f. 50c. to 812 f. 50 ; Lom bard, 557 f. 50c. to 556 f. 25c.; Austrian, 555 f, to 553 f. 75c. ; Orleans, 1,367 f. 50c. to 1,365 f. ; Lyons, 867 f. 50c. to 866 f. 25c. ; Southern, 506 f. 250. to 505 f. The following were the last quotations per Cents. .... 97 90 I Credit Fonder 670 Do. end month 98 I Belgian 44 3 per Cent 5....... 68 90 Piedmontese (5) 86 Do. en] month.... 68 95 Roman B6 75 Bank Shares 2780 Austrian Credit Mobilier Spanish Threes . • Do. Account RAILWAYS, Cash. Orleans ___ Northern - Account. .. 1367 50 .. 925 New ditto BO5 .. Lyons and Mediterranean B7O .. 867 50 Geneva 530 .. 530 Southern Western 570 .. 570 Eastern Sardinian 415 —. .. 415 Austrian Lombard 557 50 .. 556 25 Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 12te. ; money, 25f V i e.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 e.; money, 24f. 95c. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, SEPT. 3. From what has already appeared on the subject of the national movement in Germany, our readers will be able to appreciate the importance of the new Eisenach resolutions just published, and of which the following is a translation. Representa- tives of 21 of the States into which Germany was divided were present at the meeting when these resolutions were • passed, and among them were many of the most distinguished men of all sections of the Liberal party. "1. We see in the present political situation great dangers for the independence of our German Fatherland, which have been increased rather than diminished by the peace concluded between Austria and France. "2. These dangers arise from the imperfect Federal Constitution of Germany, and they can only be avoided by a speedy change in this Constitution. " 3. To this end it is necessary that the German Diet should be replaced by a - firm, strong, and permanent Cen tral Government, and that a National Assembly should be called. " 4. In the present circumstances it is only by Prussia that effectual steps can be taken to reach this end ; to se cure the initiative of Prussia must, therefore, be the object of our efforts. " Should Germany be again threatened from without, before the Central Government is definitively constituted, the conduct of her military forces and diplomatic relations abroad must be confined to Prussia. " 6. It is the duty of every German to give his support to the Prussian Government, so long as its aims coincide with the aims and necessities of Germany, and its actions are directed to securing for Germany a strong, free, and united constitution. " We expect from all friends of the German Fatherland, whether they belong to the Democratic or Constitutional party, that they will prefer the national independence and union to the claims of party, and will work together with one accord and with perseverance to arrive at a strong Ger- man unity. " Eisenach, Aug. 14, 1859." AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH) SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING. The screw steamer Hammonia, Captain Schwen seu, from New York, has arrived in Cowes Roads ; her advices are to the 24th ult. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. The royal mail steamship Arabia, Capt. Stone, has arrived with the New York mail of the 23d, Boston of the 24th, and Halifax of the 26th. Our usual telegram from the former via the latter port has failed to come to hand. The Arabia has brought 250,000 dols in specie. It appears from the Washington advices that the United States' Government are at length taking energetic measures to suppress the slave trade at home and abroad. Eight vessels, carrying 116 guns, were being fitted out for the African coast. The depot for the squadron will be at San Paul de Loando. Four other vessels, will cruise off the Cu ban coast. Major French, pay clerk of the Bureau of Con struction, of the Treasury Department, had been arrested upon a charge of defalcation and fraud. A Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune revives the subject of Lord Napier's recall, and states authoritatively that " The whole opera tion was substantially performed by President Buchanan, and by no other person. Mr. 0. Russell, nephew of Lord J. Russell, and attached to the British Legation here, was goinc , back to Europe This is the same Mr. Russell who has since repre sented the British Government at Rome. When he was about leaving Washington Mr. Buchanan sent for him, and desired him to say to Lord Malmes bury that Lord Napier was personally very dis agreeable to the Government here, and that he (Mr. Buchanan) would be pleased to see some other per. : son in his place. The President said it was a deli cate matter, about which he did not wish to send a formal despatch to London, but that he would rely on Mr. Russell to transmit his request to the Bri tish Foreign Minister. As soon as Lord Malmes bury was informed - of the wish of the President he instantly recalled the obnoxious Minister." A telegram, dated New Orleans, Auguit 20, con tains the following Mexican intelligence : " The dates from Mazatlan are to the 17th inst. The mails and passengers were robbed by the Pa tricios. The former were cut open six miles from the town of Tehauntepec. Miramon had dissolved his Cabinet. - Marquesa had revolted against Mira mon, but the Liberals were besieging him in Gua dalajara. The Archbishop of Mexico had excom municated the Liberal party. General Woll has been defeated in Tamaulipas, losing all his artil lery. General Degollado had assumed command of the Liberal army. He promises to take the capital by October, but wants 3,000,000 dols. and 40,000 men to do it. The decree against the Church property was being , executed. The bonds of the matured debt had risen 10 per cent The schooner Star is below with Vera Cruz dates of the 14th inst. The news is unimportant. Political affairs were unchanged. The Star has £lOO,OOO in specie. " The conducta, which left Zacatecas on the Bth ult., brought 700,000 dols. in specie, most of which was brought by the Indianola. The whole amount was previously engaged by her, but the acting agent of the firm of J. Hale and Co. sends his share of the same, 225,000 dols., by the Arizona. All the other merchants complied with their agreements, and the balance of the conducta, a half million, comes by the Indianola. " Vera Cruz dates of the 11th inst. received at New Orleans, say that Messrs. Hargous and Jecker have purchased the Tehuantepec transit route, and that their agent at Mazatlan has been ordered to engage engineers to recommence work up on it. The steamship Adriatic is to run on the Pacific side." Advices from Havannah to the 18th ult. report that sugar was firm at 71c. to Bc. ; sterling ex changes, 14 to 15 per cent. premium. At New York on the 22d foreign exchange was steady ; sterling, 60 days, 1093-, to 1091. Bankers were drawing at 110 to 110 k. Judge Strong, of the Supreme Court of Phila delphia, had entered an order prohihiting the New York and Erie Railway from using its property in the counties of Pike and Susquehanna, Penn sylvania, and directing the delivery of the same to Mr. Marsh, the receiver. The directors of the Erie road were about to meet for the purpose of receiv ing the report of their committee appointed to ar range a scheme of capitalisation. It was understood that the programme to be reported involved a general account of about 27,000,000 dols. It in cinch d all the mortgage bonds at par, the unsecured bonds at 80 per cent. on stock, and the stock at 20 per cent. on new stock. A subscription of about 1,200,000 dols. was also called for, for the purpose of lifting the road from its embarrassments, and the bondholders would probably be asked to -take stock for the coupons maturing within twelve to to en ty-four months. Messrs. Hewson and Holmes, stockbrokers at Cincinnati, had suspended payment. BY TELEGRAPH, via BOSTON. NEW YORK, AUG. 23, EVENING. Cotton dull and heavy, sales 250 bales; middling Up hinds l 11d. Breadstuffs.—Flour: State and Western, Sc. to 10c. better; unsound, , 3 dols. 25c. to 4 dols. 30c. ; superfine State, 4 dols. 25c. to 4 dols. 55c. Sundries.—Ashes unchanged ; pot, 5 dols. ; pearl, 5 dols 37c. Sugar active; muscovado, 5/c. to 61c.; Havannah 6 : 10. to 61c. Coffee quiet and nominal. Freights to Liverpool quiet and unchanged. PHILADELPHIA, AuG. 23. Flour dull, and tends dowikvard. White wheat, 1 dol 25c. to 1 dol. 30c.; red, 1 dol.'l - Bc. to 1 dol. 20c. Oats ac tive at 35c. to 37c NEW ORLEANS, AUG. 22. Cotton quiet ; sales to-day, 245 bales new crop at 12ie Freights.—Cotton to Liverpool, id. LIVERPOOL, -SUNDAY, The screw steamship City of Manchester, which left New York on the 20tb, arrived early this morn ing. She has 477,186 dols. on freight. The City of Manchester exchanged signals on the 20th ult. with the American ship Dreadnought, bound west ; 25th, off Cape Race, the City of Wash ington, screw steamer, bound west ; 26th, in lat. 48 N., long. 49 W., the screw steamship Bavaria, bound west; 2d inst., off Seven Heads, the Kanga roo, steamer, bound west ; and on the 3d, off the Skerries, the Royal Mail steamer Persia, outward bound. By comparison the figures of accidents and deaths to bathers and. skaters in the Serpentine will stand as below : .. 32 612 accidents in 4,835,393 =1 in each 7,901 32 deaths in dittO Sometimes eight or 10 bathers of a morning and evening are rescued by the society's boatmen (three of whom are always on duty), and as they only suffer from cramp and can walk home, no account is taken of them, although they would probably be drowned did not the officers of the society watch over them. SUICIDES IN TIIE SERPENTINE. Out of 283 cases of attempted suicide in the same period, 192 were rescued by the society's boatmen, and 91 were fatal, having been immersed too long for resuscitation. On some occasions during the skating season an immense number of persons receive treatment from the medical officers of the Society, in addition to the aid always so readily afforded by the medical gen tlemen passing at the moment of the accident, who also give their time and skill entirely free of charge. On one occasion 102 persons were brought to the marquee and had their wounded heads and faces plastered and bandaged in one day, and in one week, in the year 1855, 195 were medically treated for concussions of the brain and severe wounds, and five were temporarily relieved until taken to the hospital with broken legs and arms. The following table will give the total number of skaters, accidents, and deaths in the various royal parks and gardens in the abovenamed period. Trusting that the statement I have made will place the Royal Humane Society, and the good achieved by it, in its true light before the public, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, LAMBTON J. H. YOUNG, Secretary. Royal Humane Society, 3, Trafalgar-square, W.C., Sept. 2. TOTAL NUMBER OF SKATERS, ACCIDENTS, AND DEATHS, IN THE ROYAL PARKS AND GARDENS FROM 1844 TO 1858.* Date 1) - 31,500 17 0 . 16,800 57,550 12 0 22,070 48,300 16 0 20,850 82,500 3 0 32,100 7,600 3 0 1,400 6,175 13 0 4,500 173,210 24 1 71,710 42,470 75 0 22,455 62,300 2 0 17,700 385,400 135 0 73,850 No ice. I 0 0 14,890 60,000 ,0 0' 36,800 11,900 0 0 14,286 1844.... 1845.... 1846.,.. 1817.... 1848.... 1849.... 1850.... 1853.... 1854.... 1855.... 1856.... 1857.... 1858.... Serpentine.l In. Long Water RoundPondt 0 01 14,050 9 0 8,300 8 12,162 0 0 17,000 1 0! 3,500 o 0' 4,600 2 0' 23,100 7 0 16,615 0 0, 14,900 22 0' 25,932 17 0' 12,068 51 18,100 5 0 6,050 lILD 6 0 17 0 10 00 968,305 269 1 320,311 121 0 176,877 176 0 Regent's Park. In. D. St.James'sPark.i In. D. .. 70,"30 10 0 57 , 050 14 0 55,090 19 0 10,950 50 0 ... 54,400 17 0 66,070 17 0 ... 75,550 18 0 178,850 36 0 19,570 10 0 16,030 5 0 18,603 15 0 13.100 17 0 ... ... 223,150 6 0 166,650 146 0 ... 76,710 62 0 27.300 125 1 12,900 3 0 36,500 3 0 •• • 319,800 85 1 309,950 303 8 ... 13,100 10 0 INo water 35,000 8 0 inpark in -- 1857-8. •• • 7,650 11 0 8,202 24 0 1,015,853 274 1 899,952 740 10 Date 1814 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858.. LITERATURE. Through Norway with a Knapsack. By W. Mattieu Williams. Illustrated. Smith and Elder. Pedestrian excursions are now becoming the fashion. Travellers who tell their own tales, in particular, prefer this method to following the more ordinary routes. The beaten track of highroads, s.eamboats, and railways have been so often de scribed, that if the wanderer seeks for novelty, whether for his own gratification, or with a vow to that of his future readers, he is compelled to seek it in the byeways and villages, and to learn something more of the ways and habits of the people among whom he is journeying than can be gathered from an hotel or a guide book. A pedestrian jour ney among the sharp cliffs and fiords of Norway is certainly something entirely novel, and our author must have possessed a considerable share Of strength and spirits to accomplish it with success. He ap pears to have derived much gratification from his journey, and speaks in the highest terms of the general character of the Norwegian people. He was particularly struck with their possession of many English characteristics. The English phy siognomy he frequently encountered, and found a ge neral knowledge of our language among the people of the towns. In an interesting disquisition on the derivation of modern tongues, Mr. Williams gives several particulars of the resemblance of our lan guage to that of the old Norsk or Icelandic. He accounts for the resemblance which some persons find between the English and the German by their both being principally of Scandinavian origin. "We have received the Icelandic, or old Norsk, through Norway and Denmark, while it has reached Germany through Sweden; our deviations from the old tongue resemble the Danish, while those of the German are like the Swedish ; the Danish words stand midway between ours and the old Norsk, while the Swedish stand in like manner between the old Norsk and German." He considers that there can be little doubt that during the period be tween the tenth and fourteenth centuries England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark had a common language, as the Skalds, or bards of Iceland, visited these countries, and recited their poems, many of which are still extant, Iceland being at that time the literary focus of Europe. He remarks, with truth, that the princes and war riors to whom these songs were sung were not lite rary gentlemen who would learn a classical lan guage to appreciate poetry, but rough fighters who would care only for ballads in pure vernacular. " The Danes and Saxons must have spoken the same tongue, or how could Alfred have sung in the camp of the Danes, or even had the exploit put upon him by tradition ? Anything beyond a difference of dialect would have been suf ficient to disable even a literary man like Alfred from extemporising poetry." The Norwegians re gard our proceedings with the interest due to a nation of kindred origin. At Christiana he found a large meeting dispersing from the hotel, which, he was told, had assembled to listen to a reading of the English newspapers just arrived. " Such meet ings are held periodically here, when our host, who speaks English fluently, reads the English papers, translating as he proceeds. English politics, and all the incidents of our social progress are carefully and intelligently studied by the Norwegians, who seem to be quite as familiar with the names and proceedings of our leading statesmen, as they are with those of their own Storthing or Parliament." The Maelstrom, which we have all heard of, and read about, with awe, is, in the words of our author, "an unmitigated myth." He says " there are many maelstroms or bad currents thereabouts, but no huge gulfing eddy there, or in any other part of the world he believes." As he gained this knowledge at the price of being well laughed at by the Nor wegian captain, we must give him credence, and allow the Maelstrom to go with early Roman his tory, and a great many interesting facts and legends we learnt many years ago, to be unlearned in late years. The English passengers were busy search ing their maps for the terrible locality, and looked at the ship's charts in vain. At last they appealed to the captain, a man of much experience in those seas, who told them that all he knew of the Mael strom was learned from his English passengers. The English, he said, had kindly given the Nor wegians much useful information, and they were especially indebted to them for the discovery of the Maelstroms. The author explored the wildest and most lonely regions of Norway, and had to put up with sundry inconveniences and hardships in some of the primitive localities. He describes the effect of the midnight sun with enthusiasm. He was also much struck with the aspect of the Loffoden Isles. There are some interesting remarks on glaciers, and their progress, which will convey some curious in formation to those unacquainted with the wonders of mountain regions. The work has a map of the author's route, and several wood cuts. It is further embellished by six large tinted plates, some of which are very beautiful. The shot Gun and Sporting Rifle, and the Dogs, Ponies, 4.e., used with them. By Stonehenge, author of " British Rural Sports." Routledge. A more useful compendium of all possible infor mation likely to be required by the sportsman could hardly be met with than this volume. The author was induced to publish the treatise on the Shot-gun and Sporting Rifle from his having found, on undertaking the editorship of the shooting de partment of the Field, that an angry correspondence was going on in its columns on the rival merits of different descriptions of sportsman's guns. It was resolved, to satisfy the disputants, that a public trial should be made and their comparative merits fairly tested, which plan was carried out in two gan trials in 1858 and 1859, under the superintendence of " Stonehenge." In consequence of the oppor tunities thus afforded him of studying the varieties of principle and workmanship in the manufacture of guns, he has thought it advisable to lay before the public the results of his experience. He has divided his work into books, which treat i espec tively of the theory of gunnery, the shot-gun, the sporting rifle, game, the animals used in pursuit of it, and the methods of preserving it. A chapter on the present Game-Laws concludes the volume, and Ns ill be very useful to the sportsman, since the laws relating to game " differ most essentially in Eng land, Ireland, and Scotland, so that a sportsman who is only acquainted with the law of one of these countries is constantly liable to break that which prevails in either of the others." At the present season the appearance of the work is most appropriate, and we recommend it to the notice of all sportsmen. The Art Journal. - - - The pictures selected for representation this month are of unusual excellence. The first engrav ing is from Mr. Cope's painting of Wolsey's Arri val at Leicester Abbey. The abbot and his asso ciates are assembled at the door, and the dying Cardinal, assisted from his mule, is represented at the moment, when he makes the pathetic appeal, which our great dramatist has so ably spoken for him : "Oh, father abbot, "An old man, broken by the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye. Give him a little earth, for charity." The second plate is taken from Rul)ens' picture of " Summer Time" in the Royal collection. It is beautiful landscape, nicely engraved. The prose contents are full of their accustomed ability and interest. The illustrated articles are among the most attractive. Air. and Mrs. S. C. hail continue their " Excursions in South Wales," and describe the neighbourhood of Tenby, adding the usual charming vignettes. The forty-sixth number of the papers on "British Artists" treats of the works of H. Jutsum, and gives several graceful woodcuts of his principal paintings. Mr. Thornbury continues his series of the " Last Hours of the Painters," and shows us the dying scene of Beaujeau, the pupil of Watteau, who perished in the turmoil of the French Revolution. There are several other papers that will attract the reader, and the number maintains the high character of this periodical. The English Cyclopcedia of Arts and Sciences. This valuable work has reached its eighth part, and fully supports its reputation. It is now at the letter C, under which head, among many other valuable pieces of information, we find articles on Chemistry, Chess, Church Building, Circle (Astro nomical), Climate, Coal, and Codes. It is a multunt in parvo, a complete cotnpendium of varied informa tion. All who desire a comprehensive work of re ference for general questions and matters sctence should secure this division of the Eng peedia. matters of h Cyclo- Once a Week.. The monthly part of this new periodical is not likely to be overlooked, even among the crowd of serials that claim the attention of the general reader. It is full of animation and variety, with a Flemish tale, full of hairbreadth 'stapes and snares, from the vigorous pen of Ch arles Reade ; lively sketches, by Albany Fonblanque ; sensible pa T pers by Harriet Martineau; q uaint ballads, by om Taylor and George Meredith, and numerous plea sant pages of prose and verse from anonymous contributors. John Leech, Tenniel, Millais, H. K. Browne, and others of our best illustrators, assist in embellishing its pages, and it bids fair to be a pleasant and successful miscellany of popular light reading. MISCELLANEOUS MAGAZINES. - . The _Eclectic has a paper that will interest the ethnologist, on " Revolutions of Race." The life and times of John Evelyn ate discussed, and a cri ticism on the Poet Laureate's new work is given- Two agreeable papers by popular writer form Gal lery," by Walter Thornbury, attractive features in the number. " The Goldens of Sir Christopher Wren's achievements and trou bles. " Sun Pictures," by Mary- Howitt, shows us a panorama of English villages and wayside station. sh. —Titan is, as usual, full of variety. It op,e,ns vo4 a suit hives " A day's reverie in Westminster Abbey, able place for reverie and teflection.us sketch " Getting On" is continued with spirit, and has a raost, romantic episode. Papers on " Parisian Lo perusal. and " Walks about Windsor," will repay peru The extracts from new books as usual, nume rous and well-selected.— The are iational Magazine has several attractive papers. The story of Miles Cassidy's contract is continued with inteoran rest, conic ana breaks off at an exciting point. Dr. D; menses a new tale, with the promising title of he publish the Banns of Marriage." There are other papers and poems of varying, d e g rees of rnerit.--: Newton's London Journal gives its usual li s t of pat e nts and improvements, with re 01,. por ts of scie nti- .. fie meetings.—Le Follet has a gorgeous array ladies in‘full costume, with all t he varieties ot autumnal toilette.—Charles Knight continues his valuable Popular History of England, whichrk--- has now reached the second portio n of the wo: the History of England und er the house of Hanover. The first part—from the Invasion of Caesar to the death of Queen Anne—is cO ni : plete in five volumes. The re cord of the last century and a half will be comp rised in three_ more, which will terminate the arduous labours of the author.—Routledge's Illustrated Natural tory bids fair to be one of the most c o m ple tele and best illustrated works of th e kind in un guage. It abounds with anecd ote and incident, which render it agreeable re adin g to the non' studious. The part for September treats, of , the several varieties of the dog, and gives numerous illustrations of the canine species.—Boutledge s, Shakspeare in this part complet es " Julius Ca3sar' and commences " Macbeth," g iving suitable ill us or - trations of those wonderful tragedies.—Plain Ringlets ? is continued in its usual sty le without an 9 great degree of originality; it w ill serve to nter tain the lovers of the humouro us. John Leech's life-like sketches are amongst its chief recomnien "dations.—The Universal Decorator is an excellent periodical, full of general artistic information, and with numerous plates of various patte rns for articles of domestic use, such 'as car ved mantelpieces, consols, fanlights, &c. It is well ca lculated to im prove the general taste by diffusing a more correct knowledge of the principles of art and beauty and their application to domestic economy. It is edited by Mr. Wilson Ross with design s b y loYe We commend it - to the notice of all w ho . of art leads them to combine beauty and utility' in their selection of the equipments of their house hold. W. Gibbs. THE GREAT EASTERN. As at present arranged, this noble vosel Willa The leave her moorings between the hours of silc fan,. eight eight o'clock on Tuesday morning next. fastest vessels of the Woolwich Steampacket Cow" Petrel, Elfin, Sea Swallow, and Oread-- will commence running from Hungerford-bridr at half-past six a.m., and will accompany the Great„ Eastern to the Nore. A numerous party of wort' men were employed yesterday im the completion oe. necessary work before her departure. 1 11 c °lls _.• quence of the prevailing opinion that the Great°' Eastern would leave on Saturday morning a t t at time, from six o'clock the brinks of the river Woolwich and other spots contained large 131,1,ra; bers of persons, many of whom had trayenet; during the night to witness the great ship 011 ltd passage. 1 t a lc_ lVhenin f lu t ir h i e es G w re e a re t E fir a s s t te m rn ad t e he as te t r o ra t s h ed insurance e rate o, ranged from five to 50 guineas. Sever al poli . elo have since been taken out at six gu i neas , includi n g all casualties with the exception of the runniugt down clause, while for insurance simp l y agai the total loss and not against other accidents . amount asked is only from 20s. to 30s. If the ude an r; trip should prove satisfactory many o f the writers, it is said, will then be will in g togr ot policies at the ordinary risk. The corepanY d°ll e ri insure the vessel, but leave individual sharehold to protect themselves to such extent as each rual deem desirable. OUR SCREW SHIPS• The recent trials of the Mersey, Doris, and L" w,..,_ lando have set the minds of most men on the ra in order to discover how it ha pp ens that ships of an unexce ptionable model appar entl y , and enorraous power, should not surpa ss those of an earlier aliu less enlightened age. The Agamemnon, a two decker, one of the first ships built for the sere(' steamed 13 knots with 650-horse power; the Merael: a single-decked ship , nearl y 100 feet longer, sea with 1,000-horse - powe r, g oes ver y little faster, while the Orlando, another sing le -decked ship, 50 feet longer than the Mersey , w ith p ower working up to 4,000 horses, has only been propelled about hat a knot more than the Agamemnon. On the other hand, we have the Himalaya doing 16 knots wita Ther e 700-horse power, only partially exerted. are anomalies here which ought not to be. Either the model of the Himalaya is superior to that of the Mersey and Orlando , or ther e are disturb' ing causes, which should be inquired into. It cannot be the material of which the shies are built, for although the Himalaya is of iron, tue General Admiral, built in America for Russia , i 5 said to go 15 knots, and is a wooden ship. Th ese are matters which demand the fullest possible then tion and investigation. We go on building an altering, without any visible improvement 4 $943:, and engines are constructed at an enormous a? and when completed we find no perceptible get The impression left in our mind by the experilnet on board the screw frigates is that there is a Or; siderable excess of power developed, which i s ' 1- fact, wasted, and that the waste retards rather than; accelerates the speed. A curious exeraplificationa the injurious excess of power has lately been allewil two ships in s , bel o on o g e in ot g to the them,Ptehneinvseueltairs a ; nd Oriel; e mployel tai Company. u on the-Marseilles line, had 4 00 -horse power, got the highest speed attainable was 14 knots. Tha` speed, however, being considered unnecessary , of the contract did not stipulate for more than. knots, the directors determined to reduce the pour to 250-horse. The reduction was effected, audyrh: result of the reduction is a quarter knot gain '-- Vectis, which would only steam 14 with 400.her3e andob obtained in Retribution.ed som elO yearsjtid in n o g on fr boardom these the. Terri power, goes 14/- with 250. Similar results wer e ble preraise,l we see no reason to doubt that the Orlando woy attain a higher rate of speed with 500 or 600-liorse power, moderately used, than with 1,000. ge r , model is symmetry itself. She is a sort of earn . Alarm, and if not over-pressed with masts, yard s ' e 5" gines, and boilers, we should have nothing eV to her. The masts and yards of the Orla ndo weir 80 tons. Her mainmast is 3 feet 1 inch ort in ion. meter, and all her other s p ars are in T i rr o p ne e"' When under full speed t he vibration must we l sarily be terrific ;and this fact su gg ests a very int'l p or tant investigation. .. Experienced sailor s are a a ware of the damaging effe cts of vibration apon ship's sailing qualities. It has been repeatedly _ de monstrated that the vibration caused by men walk about the decks is injurious ; but how much more must a vessel's speed be affected by th e shaking occasioned by Is it not possible to reduce t 'on caused by the revo efw t hpeo sere cerre to a point at which the vibration often been asked whyr the tichtieolLsClo' mental to speed ? We have s Why should lution of the screw would not e seriously detri give the Orlando only three mast . importance is not increased by the tauntness of her she not be rigged like the Himalaya ? .A ship's 1 seems so hard to move as the naval architectura spars. But no department of the public service branch. Adherence to old rules seems to have P r o taken strong root there. Progressive seamen ha ve long since condemned the ship-rig for long vessels; but it is, nevertheless, retained, and in spite of th most forcible arguments against it. The Admiralty will, we hope, look narrowly into this steam will, ies" lion when at P ortsmouth and Plymouth, and wi perhaps, institute inquiries likely to clear away the doubts surrounding it. In order to determine whether and to what e xtent masts and y ards affect a shiP's mo tion through the water , the Orland o should be tried w ith all her masts on end and yards across ; and, aga i n with lower yards and topmasts s truck an topgallantmasts housed. If the latter expert, s howed that there were less vibration and greater speed, it would be sufficient to prove that heavi masts and yarls have had a bad effect. It mil be said, however, that screw ships are saili n g ships also! and that the one qualification is not to be sacrificed to the other. But was it not shown in the sailing ° g trials of steamers and sailing ships many years as ° that the Medea, a paddle steame r, under coo'. _ _ was fully equal to any other s hi p , althoughs h e p! was rigged as a three-masted schooner. Orlando, with lighter, shorter, lower masts, four of them, would, there is stron g reason 10:13. to lieve, be equally as fast, under sail, as with her p oi. _ suit tremendous spars ; but with this imPre tont difference, that she would be much letter gy p ! pared to go into action. Reasoning by analo,.l the Great Eastern h a d been a man-of-war.re would have had three ma sts instead of si. -- United Service Gazette The Emilienne, of Diepp e, the last of t WO vessels which left that port this y ear for the Iceland has brough t cod fishery', re t urne d three days ago wit h 20,000 fish. She back to France the crew of a vessel wrecked on the coast of Iceland. In • I,n s i ne sold at closed ( AI p 1 I) ur .he nlt in sort leis Re ha s b gene t ., 14vour 111 3 bo th 1 Per co Th e 95 4 1 the A. 21 141gla The er na 41 1 ; 444 fait k .3 Per C ,Per C .ruti bi t to