The Sun. — London, England, 1860-10-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1860. 1111), VCIFE AND SAN FRANCISCO, xt: PERNAMBUCO, RAILWAY COMPANY (Limited). 'Notice, is hereby given, that an EXTRAORDINARY GE MEETING of the SIIAR.EIIOLDERS of this COMPANY will be held at the Lendon.Tavern, Bishopsgate street, on Monday the 22d day of October next, at Twcr o'clocli p.m. Ato which day and place it is intended that the Ordinary Half-yearly Genera Meeting stands adjourned), for the purpose of considering and assenting to, or dissenting 'from, the provisions of a Bill inr which it is intended to apply to Parliament in the ensuing Session, for power to re gulate and inerea.se the Capital ot tho Company, and also to alter and modify the Articles of AssociStion of the Company. Dated this iith day of October, 1860. W. IL BELLAMY, secreta - I_.) 01 AL ENGLISH OPERA, COVEi7T t, GARD EN —un der the Management of Miss LOUISA PY NE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees.—THlS and EVENING TO-MORROW, LURLINE ; Messrs. H. ff. corri, G.Kelley, and Mr. W. Harrison ; Miss Wharton, Letlizr, bliss Alb ertazzi, and Miqs Louisa Pyne.—Conductor, Mr. Alfred OVERTURE to ZAMPA after the Opera. DIVERT:rbSEMENT. Doors open at Seven. Com mence at Half-past, TUEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING th.?, Performances will commence with the new comedy, DOES HE LOVE ME ? Messrs. Howe, Chippendale, E. Villiers, and Buckstone ; Miss Amy Sedg wick, Miss Florence Ilaydoii. and Mrs. Wilkins. Followed by a new comedy, entitled ROMANCE AND REALITY. Messrs. Chippetviale, Howe, Rogers, W. Farrell, end John Brougnam ; Miss FlLarence llaydon; Mrs. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs. Commence at 7. FIEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. TSole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. Brilliant and decided success of the celebrated Comedienne, Miss Gougenheim, from the principal Theatres of America. THIS EVENING, and during' th e Week A , the StIORE performances will commence with THE AIIDDY : Halcyon, Miss Lydia Thompson. Alter which, a comedy, written bi Dion Boucicault, Esq., entitled THE IRISH nELRESS. The new( Scenery painted by Mr. William Callcott. Principal charaeters by Mr. George Vining', Mr. Henry Neville (his 7th appearance in London), (her 7th Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Lyon, Mr. E. Butler, Miss Kate Saville, Miss Batton, and Miss Gougenbeim appearance in England). To co,aclude with the romantic drama of THE ABBE VAITDMETJIL, in which the celebrated Dancers, the Misses Marie and Annie Collinson, will make their 7th appearar.Ce in London. The Abbe Vaudreuil, Madame Celeste. DELPTrii, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicault, Esq., The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes R o bert3on every even, ing• THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss oolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billing-ton. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Ronrcicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. bliss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. BiMng - ton, and 3irs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for bookinz. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes,°Xl. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 45.; Front Circle Stalls, :s. ; Pit Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, 5.6 d. ; Amphitheatre, 15 ; Gallery, 6d. Lett= Manazer—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- ..7x. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Immense success of Fitztall's new Spectacle of ROBIN noon, pronounced by the Press and the Public the most beautiful and interesting Hippo-Drama ever produced at this Theatre. This Evening, the entertainments will commence with the new Spectacle, in Three Acts, entitled ROBIN HOOD • or, the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; A:lan - a - Dale , Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Robin Hood, Mr. John Pritchard. - • - To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day, including Mdlle. de Berg and Mr. James Cooke. Doors open at half-cast 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WERT. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. _ _ _ Norma Miss RUSSELL. Adairisa .. (Her first appearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Per formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Nero Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Negro Artildes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. Balcony, is, Hall. 6d. THE WEATHER.—Sur( OFFICE, Oar. 14, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 53—this day at noon. 43—lowest this morning and during the night. 51—highest since noon yesterday. BAROMETER—DOWD to 29.57; now 29.66. WlND—North :Westerly, but variable and light; some slight rain. OCT. 16. THERMOMETER, IN THB SHADS. 53—this day at noon. 40--lowest this morning and during the night. 53—highest since noon yesterday. BanonETER-29.75 ; still rising in the midst of rain. WlND—South-Westerly; fresh and squally with con. tinuous rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAL—Morning, lh. 42m.—Afternoon, 2h. 4m To-MORROW.-Morning, 2h. 25m.—Afternoon, 2h. 47m, 4S, . m m f4 ff:t, 44 irrf; - ea I. • • . • THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 15, 1860. His Majesty NAPOLEON 111. must feel his conse quence a little hurt. He does not like meetings of Sovereigns at which he is not to be present. He even stretched etiquette to force himself on the King of PRUSSIA and the German Sovereigns when the former came rather near his borders. This time they have taken care to keep far enough off, and he must post through some score of petty German Kingdoms, if he would get to the meeting at War saw. He did, indeed, make a kind of bid for an invitation, but he has got none ; and he has simply to stay at home; though, that he will mind only his :own business, is what no one can expect. He has rto put up with the rulers of three great Powers meeting formally, and with one of them carrying, too, in his pocket the proxy of England's Government, but he has no one to take his. In fact, he well knows that they all meet, not to plot against France, but to put an end to France plotting everlastingly against Europe. He had undoubtedly prepared some nice little schemes in his mind in regard to creating " influence" in Germany ; and, in all probability, a little "rectifica tion of boundary" business was to be done at the same time ; but the game has taken the alarm too s een- Prussia and the German petty states prefer anything to his playing among them the part Which he is playing in Italy. Austria, with too good reaso n , is afraid of his schemes and his plot ting amon g her nationalities. All, therefore, con spire to tell him that he must be quiet. Is it because he is baffled in Germany that he now takes a stronger position in Italy ? He is doubling and trebling his forces there ; anticipating by occupations of the towns in the northern part of the PorE's patrimony th e approach of the Sardi nians to the south, and actually asking the Sardi nians to withdraw from Viterbo an d the other places which they had occupied in the north ; and altogether taking full military possession of the w hole of what is called, so absurdl y, S T. PETER'S patrimony. Of course 'what h e aims at no one can certainly tell, but i t can hardly be doubted th at Sardinia is his real object: The more able he is to give trouble in Italy and to mar its unity, by showing himself powerful on a coast whence no one could well under take to drive him, the more he will be in a position to make his own terms for surrendering to Italy her own capital, and alloicing the King of Italy t o become really so, leaving Sardinia to become a French island. All that he could easily manage if the rest of Europe assists. Another cession, and another assent by universal sufffage to the supe riority of political slavery over political liberty, could be as easily obtained in Sardinia as in Savoy, perhaps more so. It is, however, time that some one Plat a veto on these fraudulent aggrandisements, and it i s to be hoped he will find it so if he makes another sup towards making " the Mediterranean Sea a French l a k e. ,, We suppose F rance is among the great Powers which refuse to acknowledge a blockade of Gaeta— a step which certainly viclo,l E3I.II4I`TUEL could , hardly have contemplated any more than WI L () 1,1111 111. wished to blockade the port .1 L°n" don when he wanted JAMES 11. to c i lkit this country. We are told by the Patrie that the King of SARDINIA is to enter Naples on the 17th. We hope the statement may prove true, since it will settle the chief point beyond the possibility of French intervention, and the KING will very willingly take on himself, when in possession by universal suffrage, the responsibility which the BONIFACE of the Constitutionnel throws u pon him. It is a lso but too plain that GARIBALDI and an admin. office for .his republican friends will never agree to and we hope, act. He has al; is much wanted, ;I;J:tic:a among themselves which can hold and acted on real. with technicalities. . -keoverstepped diplomatic rules, ad:he ling has done by giving FRA T therefore, that he will not delay to of Gaeta, and all will then be k:' ties instead of troubling himself He must complete what he Cis 11. the last kick out o far right. French and Austrians must afterwards ei t t her be bought or fought out of Italy at the proper time. In our last notice of Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS'S pamphlet on the " Defence of England," we merely adverted to his views of the urgency of the subject from the immense naval and military preparations of France, and the avowed regard of their naval augmentations to the possibility of a war with Eng land. Our author, in connection with the necessity of maintaining our preponderance at sea, points out the disadvantages under which we now lie, in all reßpects, in regard to manning our navy. We have abandoned, not only impressment, but also the great pecuniary inducement of prize-money for the captufe of enemy's goods in neutral ships ; and we have retained the justly unpopular practice of cor poral puni►hment, the abolition of which, except as the result of solemn procedure by court martial, Sir HOWARD deems essential. Our pay is also low compared with that of the United States—£3l2s. and £2 9s. are the' pay in the respective countries of able seamen unskilled in gunnery ; and £4 and £2 14s. 3d. per month, of well trained gunners. We have, of course, no alternative now, but to make the service, both by its conditions and its pay, attractive to good sailors. Englishmen will not tolerate the slavery of conscription, which Frenchmen and con tinentals submit to, and we must pay the price of liberty. One remark of our author we quote for the encouragement of all whom it may concern both on this and the other side of the Channel ; for we are confident it would ever be so again, and not on board ship only, but throughout the whole country: Sir HOWARD, now in his 84th year, thus writes of the England of the last wars : " No one who has not lived, as the author bas, through the stormy times of the great war, from 1792 to 1815, will be able to conceive how noble was the patriotism, and how indomitable the spirit, of the British people throughout that great struggle. There was then, as there will ever be, party spirit and some internal discontent ; but, in the main, no wavering or despondency appeared throughout all the vicissitudes of the war. The rebellion in Ireland, the failure of some of our foreign expeditions, the rupture of many coalitions which we formed with continental powers, the military dominion of NAPOLEON over the greater part of Europe, which left us to fight him single-handed through Spain, did not make England quail. Even in the mutiny of the navy, in 1797, the seamen were not traitors to their country; and Admiral DUNCAN fought the battle of Cam perdown with ships' crews deeply tainted with the mutinous spirit which discontent had produced. Ships provided by the Government, including some of the larger vessels of the East India Company, were actually fitted out and ....Luca Dy ♦olunteer seamen, in order to reduce by force those ships from which the mutineers had expelled their officers. Even the crews of the fleet at Spithead, when the mutiny was at its height, declared that if the French fleet should put to sea they would fight it as loyal subjects of their king and country." However, foreigners know now, somewhat better than they did only a year ago, what would be the spirit of the whole English people, landsmen or seamen, were any one to attempt an invasion of our island home. That spirit, however, must not be relaxed. We follow our author, therefore, to his remarks on what should be done in case of an attempt at a landing ; not forgetting, as he does not, that a landing of even the Roman Legions, under CiEsAR himself, was not effected without much difficulty and danger, though resisted only by naked Britons ; and remembering, too, what he states as a maxim among military men, that when once a body of troops have made a lodgment on the shore it is not easy to dislodge them. We must suppose then, from some cause, our Channel Fleet unable to inter fere with the disembarkation ; what can then be done to prevent an enemy's landing ? The iron steam Ram of Admiral SAMOAN'S, he thinks, might safely run at and run down the large trans ports at pleasure, sinking 1,500 or 2,000 troops at a blow—and, we presume, the enemy could not even fire at the Ram, while engaged in this opera tion, without endangering his own transports. However, we must come to the shore. Near forts, of course, the enemy would not attempt to land, and it would be a useless expense to do more than fortify our arsenals ; the landing must be on some open beach. Each kind of beach has its disadvan tages for him, and its corresponding. advantages for the defenders. If the slope of the beach be gentle, it would be free from currents ; but the boats would have a very long way to row under our fire, and the ships, whose fire should cover the landing, must lie at a great distance. This would of course enable the de fenders to place their guns near the beach on a level nearly with the sea, and the assailants would approach under a horizontal fire, and have to land amidst showers of grapes If the beach were steep, and the covering ships could approach nearer, yet on such beaches the currents are always strong and tend much to disarrange the order of the landing ; while they are also bounded landward by heights, which give great advantage in firing at ships. Our business is, therefore, to be able to bring a suitable and adequate force to resist a landing wherever it might occur. Sir HOWARD dwells a little on the training of volunteers to work artillery at our principal sea ports. He had himself, in 1795, arranged for the manning of sixty guns in battery at Tynemouth by 500 volunteer youths, who soon became expert in the working of guns which would otherwise have been useless for the want of artillerymen. For meeting a descent on our coasts he would rely on our army of all kinds, and on railroads. In this respect he would set steam against steam. If steam has bridged the Channel in any important sense, it has also enabled us to concentrate our troops at any point, at a short warning, in a man lier unknown before. With good arrangements steam on land may neutralise almost all the advantages to an enemy of steam at sea. Nor must we forget that it will enable our fleet to follow, as well as an enemy to go anywhere, wind and tide notwithstanding. The steam-bridge must, however, he observes, terminate where large ships of war and transports find the water too shallow, and the ARMSTRONG gun and other rifled cannon of long range will do much in compelling hprotecting to keep a respectful distanc e t from e the shore. h The remarks on the details of handling the ;mops brought down to oppose a landing will be read with interest. Our author thinks that if the strategical measures for the concentration of troops be properly conducted, and Britons act with their accustomed vigour, it is scarcely possible that in vaders should succeed in obtaining a footing on the soil of this country. lie remarks that practi cable breaches were defended successfully against the best troops in the world, at Badajos, Burgos, and St. Sebastian ; and he has no doubt that the shores of Britain may be made equally impregna ble. The Duke of WELLINGTON, when contem plating the coast between Sandgate and Hythe said to his staff, "Look at these splendid heights all along the coast ; give me communications which admit of rapid flank movements along those heights, and I might set anything at defiance." That rapid flank movement is now easy enough. By no great addition to our present railways it would be easy to concentrate troops at any spot on the coast ; and thus, as our author observes, "just as steam, ceases to be useful to the invaders (because his ships could come no nearer to the shore), it becomes most so to the defenders of the country." The elec tric telegraph would apprise every corps within reach; and at the rate, if need were, of forty or fifty miles an hour, men, guns, horses, everything, could be all brought without fatigue and fresh for action to the point where they were wanted. All this, " if properly taken advantage of, will give to the defenders of the country prodigious power of concentrating their forces during the long time that a landing of the invaders is being effected in open row boats, subject to the action of strong tides and other impediments on the coast." It must be borne in mind that a landing can never be the work of an hour after its probability at any part of the coast is known to the natives. Sir H. DOUGLAS observes that— " However quickly the operation of transferring troops from the transports to the boats which are to coavey them to the shore may be performed, there must always elapse— from the tim3 that the armada comes in sight, and the in vader, by casting anchor, makes manifest his intention—a considerable interval before the landing can be effected, during which the preparations for opposing him may be completed." A statement of which he gives illustrations from matters of fact. The grand object, there fore, he considers to be, that we should have our railway communications and our whole force of every kind in such a state of pre-arrangement as to enable us to throw on every point of the coast an army sufficient to drive back immediately any number which can be landed at once. We cer tainly think the author shows that this can be done, and would not be a difficult task either. He does not, however, leave us on the coast, but takes us, in the event of a landing being effected—which, if his plans are carried out, will never be—into the interior, whither we shall soon follow him. Last Saturday eight county magistrates met at Clerkenwell to discuss the merits of new applica tions for licenses for music and dancing. There are, without doubt, some clever county magistrates —men who act with common sense and consistency, but the proceedings of the worthies who sat at Clerkenwell on the 13th inst. does not justify us in placing them among that number. The first applicant was Mr. JAMES WARD (better known as Js WARD) formerly a pugilist of some note, but for the last twenty-five years a licensed victualler of credit and respectability. He applied for a license for music only; his claim was numerously supported by the neighbouring residents, and the police authorities bore testimony to the orderly manner in which his house was conducted. He had gone to a considerable expense in fitting up an ex tensive music halls The application was opposed by a few individuals, virtually on the ground that WARD had been a pugilist; for, although this was not directly stated, it was implied by the fact that the opposition was based on the ground that, on occasion of any remarkable fights, great crowds collected round the doors of Mr. WARD's house. But, as Mr. SLEIGH very properly observed, although such gatherings might be cited in oppo sition to a spirit license, they could have nothing to do with a license for music. Among others who volunteered evidence, Mr. ROBERT CLERRING stated that "he had himself visited the different houses in Whitechapel which were licensed for music and dancing. Ills opinion was that music was calcu lated to do a great deal of injury to the respecta bility of the inhabitants, but dancing corrupted every one who went near the place." Upon such un answerable logic the application was refused. Now, we do not maintain that it was at all necessary for the amusement of the neighbourhood that a license should be granted to the proprietor of the King's Arms, Whitechapel. Perhaps there are too many already who have the right to have music in their houses in that locality ; but, in the case above-mentioned, it is obvious that a respect able man, with the highest testimonials as to cha racter, is refused a license because, forsooth, he has been a prize-fighter in days gone by. If JAMES WARD is a fit man to keep a public-house, which none have denied, he is equally worthy to have music in his house. Had the opposition setup been that there were already too many houses devoted "to music and dancing" in that locality, there would be at least a show of reason, but as the case stands it is unjust. Mr; SAUNDERS, of the Philharmonic Hall, High street, Islington, obtained a license for music by a majority of the Bench, notwithstanding that one of the magistrates—we are sorry we cannot give his name, for men who can give utterance to such sen timents as the subjoined deserve to have their names recorded—stated that he objected to the building chiefly because there were private boxes in one part, which might be used for improper purposes. We would ask this particularly moral individual if such an idea ever entered his head when sitting in a private BOX at a theatre ? The very suggestion of such a use being made of a private box at a Concert-hall shows a morbid taste for the immoral ; such a sentiment is unworthy the English Bench. The two following cases will show that the Magistrates were not actuated by any particular senso of consistency, unless it were in being inconsistent. Mr. ZEBEDEE WILCOX, of the Eastern Saloon, Whitechapel-road, applied for a music license. It appeared that Mr. WILCOX was a manufac turer of ginger-beer and soda water, and never sold beer or spirits of any sort. He was supported by the Teetotallers. Mr. KEMi?SIIEAD, ene of the magistrates, said that " This house was in a neighbourhood where there were a great number of German sugar bakers, and he understood that the employers of the men made very great complaints that :they could not keep them from going to the musical places. Wherever there was a house opened for music, all the men rushed off to enjoy their favourite amusement." The very fact that a house where nothing stronger than gingerbeer or soda-water could be obtained, was a favourite resort of a certain class of work men, when music most suited to their n ational taste was played, would, in our opinion, be a st ron g reason for gr a n ti ng a license. But the bench thought otherwise. It would never do to offend a few wealthy and, perhaps, influential sugar bakers to gratify the taste for innocent enjoyment on the part of many poor operatives, and the license was refused. On like grounds a similar application, on the part of cne Mr. SEIIRT, was refused, although the Chairman (Mr. POWNALL) did observe " that it must be recollected that the license did not permit the place to be open for music till after five o'clock.'► But the sugar bakers carried the day. In the next ease the rule was reversed; but, then, the party interested in opposing the license was a poor man. A license for music was sought for by Mr. W. MOURGUE, of the Duke of York, Gloucester street, to enable gentlemen who came to din ners and suppers at his house to enjoy some music afterwards, if they pleased. An opposition was raised by a person living next door, who said " that he had several lodgers, and as the partition was very thin, the noise would disturb his lodgers, who would leave him, and as he was a poor man, this would ruin him," Now, for the first time, the magistrates perceived that the liberty of the subject must be respected. They did not see it in the case of Mr. WARD, nor yet in those of Messrs. WILCOX and SEHRT, but gentlemen had a right to music after their meals, so the license was granted. We do not wish to enter into the subject as to whether more or less licenses should be granted. Mr. MOURGUE may be perfectly entitled to his license, and the opposition may have been factious ; but the magistrates have no right in the one case to listen to the appeal of the sugar bakers, even though ad vanced by one of themselves, when the supposed injury was simply individual, and in the other to pooh-pooh the opposition of a man who could show better cause of complaint than his more wealthy and fortunate neighbours. Is that justice which was once a real boast of Englishmen to become a a jest and a bye-word ? Our county magistrates in the West have shown their incapacity to inves tigate with any promptitude or ability a most foul and revolting murder, and our Middlesex Bench give ear to the canting nonsense of such men as Mr, CLERRING, and practically make one law for the rich and another for the poor. THE MINISTRY.—Sir C. Wood and Mr. Milner Gibson were in town during the week, but the latter right hon. gentleman, after attending to matters connected with the new French tariff, has since quitted London. Mr. Gladstone arrived in town on Thursday. Sir George Lewis is expected to arrive in the metropolis on Monday next. Sir George Grey returned to this country in the middle of the week from the continent, where he has been spending some weeks. Lord Granville remains on the continent. Lord Palmerston continues at his seat, Broadlands, Hants. Lord 3. Russell is expected to reach town on Wednesday next, from attending the Queen as Secretary of State during her Majesty's continental tour. The health of the Earl of Derby is still so pre carious as to occasion some anxiety to his friends. He is much better than he was, and is now able to leave his bed, but he is still confined to hisroom. The attack from which he suffers has been much more severe than wa3 generally known, and the greatest care will still be requisite to insure his entire recovery. His lordship still experiences acute pain, and is very weak. The Marquis of Dalhousie is still suffering from severe illness. " The noble lord (says the Dover Chronicle) has long been an invalid, never having recovered from the illness with which he was afflicted while in India, and which has prevented his visiting Dover in his official capa city. Grave fears are entertained by his family and friends as to his lordship's present state of health." We regret to state thai an - ateident occurred on Saturday last to his Royal Highness the Comte de Paris, while hunting, by which his Royal Highness sustained a fracture of one of the bones of the right leg. Fortunately, the accident happened near Claremont, and Dr. Izod, of Esher, who was on the spot, lost no time in setting the in jured limb. From the latest inquiries, we are very glad to learn that the young Prince is going on as favourable as possible. - We have reason to believe that Mr. Laing, M.P., Financial Secretary to the Treasury, has consented to take the vacant seat at the Council Board in Calcutta, vacant by the death of Mr. James Wilson. The hills in the High Peak were tipped with their first snow this year on Tuesday morning last.— Derbyshire Courier. FALL OF SNOW IN YORKSHIRE.—On Tuesday morning the hill-tops in the neighbourhood of Todmorden were covered with snow, there having been a considerable fall during the night.—lerbyshire Courier. A letter fronaToulon of Thursday announces that the commanders of the steam frigate Descartes and the steam corvette Colbert had received orders to take in pro visions and stores, and to prepare to sail at the first mo ment. METROPOLIS GAS ACT.—Under the operation of this act the directors of the South Metrepolitan Gas Com pany have reduced the price of gas 4d. per 1,000 feet. The Phcenix. Company has reduced the price 3d. per 1,000 feet. It is anticipated that a similar reduction will shortly be made by the Imperial Company. DEPARTURE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRI MATE.—The Morning News announces that the Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Dixon, who said to Louis Napoleon " Robber, take your hand from the throat of the Vicar of Christ," intends leaving Ireland for Rome on Tuesday next. The Piedmontese Government has enforced in the Kingdom of the T wo Sicilies the decree published at Turin on the 25th of August, 1848, expelling from the Piedmon tese territory every individual forming part of the Society of Jesus, and confiscating for State purposes all their real and personal property. _ _ _ SIR JAMES OUT - RAM.—We read in the Army and Navy Gazette—" There is a great man who has landed on the shores of England so gently that the land has not been conscious of the presence of one of her most distinguished soldiers and statesmen. We regret deeply to hear that the cause which led to General Sir James Outram's retirement from the Council Board of Calcutta still exists to such an extent as to prevent his receiving the marks of public re spect and private homage mad affection which the distin guished services and the personal character of the modern Bayard' have richly earned. We only give expression to the feelings of all who know either the man or his services, when we venture to say we hope the day will soon come when Sir James Outram will be restored to the full pos session of his strength, and that he may enjoy for many years the honours he has won, in a field where honour is indeed hardly won." THE ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR LEEDS.—We (Leeds Mercury) understand that Mr. Lupton continues to improve, although it will be some time before he can be considered out of danger. His wounds are described by those who have seen them as being of a most frightful character, the head having literally the appearance of being " chopped" to pieces. Nothing but the temperate habits of Mr. Lupton, and physical vigour, could have saved his life with such injuries. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.—THREE LIVES LOST. —We have to record another sad casualty on our coast by which three men have lost their lives. On Thursday after noon a small boat belonging to Blackpool was seen by several of the Lytham fishermen to be caught in a squall and capsized, while the persons on board were apparently engaged in trawling. Assistance was rendered quickly, but although the boat has been dragged ashore, none of the bodies of the unfortunate fishermen have been recovered. The persons lost are John and Thomas Threlfall, of South Shore, Blackpool, and Robert Singleton, of Common Side, near Lytham.—Preston Chronicle. THE GREAT EASTERN.—During the last week, the Directors have, it is understood, received from the New York consignees of the great ship the sum of £14,000, but have not yet received the accounts which will enable them to judge as to the financial results of the trip. It is, how ever, expected that the receipts from passengers and visitors will very nearly balance the expenses. There is no probability of the ship making another voyage until the next spring ; the tides will not admit of moving her off the gridiron at Milford, even if it were desirable she should be floated, until about Christmas next. The certificate granted by the Board of Trade will expire early in No vember. This certificate will not be renewed until the bearings of the screw shaft are put in the same position as they were previous to the trip to New York, and when that is done, the surveyors will give a certificate limited to one voyage to and from America. On the r eturn, however, the Board of Trade will require a number of improvements of a permanent character necessary to re place the inferior materials and workmanship employed under previous contracts. The works include a new timber deck, the present one being so thin and so badly laid, that the water which does not remain in pools on the surface pours through in copious showers into the saloon and cabins. The alterations required for the screw shaft, for replacing the new injection feed pipes by other modes of supplying the boilers, the warning apparated, and other details, will involve an outlay of from £15,00010 £20,000. The exami nation of the ship made by the surveyors of the Board of Trade has shown that the hull has sustained no injury whatever, that not a plate has moved, nor a rivet started • but that in a few cases where the paint has been rubbed off, the plates have been corroded away some minute fraction of an inch. WHAT CARE CATTLE ABOUT PRICE ?—This prac tical illustration has just been suggested by the best practi cal authority of the day. Henry Stephens, Esq., Edin burgh, in writing me how to estimate value by an example, says—" What does a plant care what the cost of its food is ?" The force of the argument is irresistible. First let us as certain practically and scientifically what are the best proximate condimental principles, and then we shall be in a position to estimate their value in money. With regard to the commercial values of the different condimental ciples of the food of cattle, such as are contained in grasses, and such as are now being supplied artificially, they can easily be ascertained, as soon as we get trustworthy proxi mate analyses from agricultural chemists. The intrinsic and commercial values of a cattle condiment, and the profits a farmer makes by using it in seasoning the food of his cattle, are very different things. One makes a fortune at farming, a second has enough to do to keep his own, while a third l oses mone y. With this farmers are familiar, and it would be ab sur d t o su ppose similar remits would not b e experienced in the use of condiment, for there cannot be a doubt, that to use ft p ro p er ly requires no little skill, The profits, for example, now b e ing made on Therlg's Condi ment run from nil up t o five hundred per tent. of profit, while I shall be disappointed if a th ousan d per cen t, is not yet Failed in many cases,--11urnm, LATEST NEW PROCLAMATION OF KING VICTOR EMMANUEL. " TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN ITALY. " In a solemn moment for the national history and for the destinies of the country I address my word to you, peo ple of Southern Italy, who, having, in my name, changed the State, send me deputations of every class of citizens, magistrates and representatives of your municipal bodies, asking to be restored to order, blessed with freedom, and united with my kingdom. I will tell you by what thought I am guided, and what is my Consciousness of the duties which a man placed by Providence on an Italian throne ought to fulfil. " I ascended the throne after a great national calamity. My father gave me a lofty example by abdicating the crown to save his own dignity and the freedom of his peo ple. Charles Albert fell sword in hand, and died in exile. His death associated more and more the destinies of my family with those of the Italian people, who, for so many centu ries, have given to all foreign lands the bones of their exiles as a pledge for restoring the inheritance of every nation placed by God within the same boundaries, and joined together by the bond of a common language. I educated myself by that example, and the memory of my father was my guardian star. I could never hesitate in my choice between a crown and the word I had given. I strengthened freedom in an epoch not very favourable to freedom, and I wished that, as it developed itself, it should take root in the manners of the people, for I could never harbour any jealousy or suspicion of what was dear to my people. By preserving freedom in Piedmont I religiously respected the heritage which the prophetic mind of my august father had bequeathed to all Italians. By representative fran chise, by popular education, by the freedom of trade and in dustry, I endeavoured to increase the well-being of my people. I wished that the Catholic religion should be re spected, but also that every man should be free in the sanc tuary of his own conscience ; and by strengthening civil authority, I openly resisted that obstinate and scheming faction which boasts to be the only friend and guardian of the Throne, but which aims at ruling in the name of Kings, and placing between the Sovereign and the people the bar rier of its intolerant passions. " This system of government could not be without effect on the rest of Italy. The concord between the Sovereign and the people in the purpose of national independence, and of civil and political liberty, the Parliamentary tribune and the free press, the army which had preserved its mili tary traditions under the tricolour, raised Piedmont to the rank of standard-bearer and arm of Italy. The strength of my - monarchy was not the result or the acts of a clandestine policy, but of the open influence of ideas and of public opinion. I was thus enabled to maintain in the Italian people which was united under my sceptre the notion of a national leadership (egentonia), whence was to spring the concordant harmony of the several provinces in one single nation. " Italy was able to understand my conception when she beheld my soldiers sent into the fields of the Crimea, besides the troops of the two great Western Powers. I wished thereby to acquire to Italy the right of participating in all acts concerning the interests of Europe. At the Congress of Paris my ambassadors were able to speak for the first time to Europe of your sufferings. It became clear to all men how the preponderance of Austria in Italy was inju-' rious to the balance of power in Europe, and what dangers beset' the independence and freedom of Europe so long as the rest of the peninsula was subject to foreign influence. "My magnanimous ally, the Emperor Napoleon 111., felt that the Italian cause was worthy of the great nation he rules. A righteous war inaugurated the new destinies of our country. the Italian soldiers fought nobly beside the unconquered legions of France. The volunteers hasten ing from all Italian provinces, from all Italian families, under the Cross of Savoy, showed that all Italy had invested me with the right of speaking and fighting in her name. Policy put an end to the war, but not to its effects, which went on with their development, following the unswerving logic of events and of popular movement. "Had I been actuated by that ambition which is ascribed to my family by those who do not consider th e nature of the times, I could have been satisfied with the acquisition of Lombardy; but I had shed the precious blood of my sol diers, not for myself, but for Italy. I had called the Italians to arms. Several Italian provinces had changed their form of Government to join in the war of in dependence—a war opposed by their Princes. After the peace of Villafranca those provinces asked my protection against the threatened restoration of their former Govern ments. If the events of Central Italy were the consequence of the war to which we had called the people, if the system of foreign intervention was for ever to be banished from Italy, I had a duty to recognise and to uphold the right of those people legally and freely to utter their vote. I with drew my Government—they made an orderly Government ; I withdrew my troops—they organised regular forces, and, Tieing with each other in unanimity and civil virtues they rose to so high a reputation and strength, that nothing but the overbearing violence of foreign arms could have subdued them. Thanks to the wisdom of the Central Italian people, the monarchical idea constantly gained strength, and monarchy gave a moral guidance to that peaceful popular movement. Thus did Italy rise in the estimation of civilised nations, and it became clear to all Earope that the Italians were fit for self government. " When I accepted the annexation I knew what Euro pean difficulties I was about to meet. But I could not break the word I had given to the Italians in my war proclama tion. Those who would charge me with imprudence should calmly consider what would become of Italy on the day in in which monarchy should appear powerless to satisfy the want of a national reconstitution. The annexation did not change the substance of the national movement, but it assumed new forms. By accepting from the popular right those fine and noble provinces, I must loyally recognise the application of that principle, nor could I measure it by the rule of my private feeling-8 and interests. In support of that principle, I for the good of Italy made the sacrifice which cost dearest to my heart ; I renounced two most noble provinces of the kingdom of my ancestors. " I have always given those Italian princes who wished to be my enemies sintere counsels, resolving, however, that if those counsels were vain, I would meet the danger to which their: blindness would have exposed the throne by accepting the will of Italy. It was in vain that I offered to the Grand Duke (of Tuscany) alliance before the ;Far. In vain that, after the peaCe, I offered the High Pontiff, in whom I venerate the head of the religion of my fathers and of my people, to take upon myself the vicarship of Umbria and the Marches. It was evident that if those provinces which were only restrained by the arms of foreign hirlings, did not obtain the security of that civilised government which I proposed they would sooner or later break out into revolution. Neither will I recall the counsels given for many years by the Powers to King Fer dinand of Naples. The judgment which was pronounced against his Government at the Paris Congress naturally prepared the people for a change, if the outcry of public opinion and efforts of diplomacy proved to be of no avail. I offered the young successor of that King an alliance for thewar of independence. But there also I found souls closed against all Italian feelings, minds darkened by passion and obstinacy. It was natural that the events in Northern and Central Italy should arouse men's minds in the South. In Sicily the excitement broke out into open in surrection. A fight began for freedom in Sicily, when a brave warrior, devoted to Italy and to me, Gen. Garibaldi, sailed to its aid. They were Italians. Could I, ought I, to have prevented them ? The fall of the Government of Naples strengthened in my heart the conviction that Kings and Governments should build their thrones on the love and esteem of the people. The new Government in the Two Sicilies was inauguarated in my name. But some of its acts caused apprehension lest it should not in every respect well interpret that policy which is represented by my name. It was feared throughout Italy that under the shade of a glorious popularity, of a long-tried honesty, a faction should muster which was ready to sacrifice the forthcoming triumph of the national cause to the chimeras of its ambitious fanaticism. All Italians turned to me, that I might avert this danger. It was my duty to do it, because in this present emergency it would be no moderation, no wis dom, but weakness and imprudence not to take with a strong hand the direction of that national mcvement, for which I ani respongii. 'before Europe. I have sent my soldiers into I tie Marches and Umbria, and scattered that ill-sorted mob of people of all nations and tongues which had gathered there as a new strange phase effercisi interyentien, and the worst of all. I have proclaimed Italy for the Italians, and will never allow Italy to bocome the nest of cosmopolite sects, assembling there to hatch reactionary plots, or to further the objects of universal demagogy. PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN ITALY! " My troops march into your country to strengthen public order. Ido not come to impose my will upon you, but to see that yours is respected. You will be called freely to manifest it. May the vote you will deposit in the urn be inspired by that Providence which protects a righteous oause I Whatever may be the course of events, I tranquilly await the judgment of civilised Europe, because I am convinced that I have fulfilled my duties as a King and an Italian. My policy may not, perhaps, be useless to reconcile in Europe the progress of the people with the stability of mo narchies. I know that in Italy I close the era of revo lutions. "VICTOR EMMANUEL. "FARINI. "Given in Ancona, this 9th of October, 1880." The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, MONDAY. The Moniteur says: —" The Papal Nun c i o b e i ng about to proceed to Rome on leave for several weeks, and having solicited the honour of paying his respects to the Emperor before departure, wa s received in audience yesterday by his Majesty." The Moniteur gives a formal denial to the re ported existence of a despatch addressed by the Duke de Grammont to General Lamoriciere, an nouncing to the latter the immediate assistance of the French troops, and says : " The French Ambassador had only sent a de spatch to the French Consul at Ancona containing the assurance that the invasion of the States of the Church by the Sardinians was far from being effected with the authorisation of the Government of the Emperor. On the contrary, this invasion had highly excited his disapproval. " At that time it had not been decided to in crease the effective of the French army at Rome." PARIS, SUNDAY MORNING. The Moniteur publishes the following telegram, dated:— " CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 12. " General Beaufort de Hautpool has militarily occupied Deir-el-Kamar. " After having established a pro visional muni cipality and installed the Christians in the houses built by our soldiers, he advanced as far as Djieb djemin, where he arrived on the 30th Sept. " On the same date Fuad Pacha arrived al Garoun, in the valley of the Bekaa. " The two commanders-in-chief were to unite their corps d'armee on the 2d Oct." Count Kisseleff had a conference yesterday with M. Thouvenel and the Papal Nuncio. He took leave of the Emperor to-day in a private audience at St. Cloud, and will set out this evening for Warsaw. The count is accompanied by Count Stackelberg, the Russian Minister - at Turin. PARIS, OCT. 13 (Evening). The Presse contains the following passage : " The Great Powers, with the exception of England, have signified to the Cabinet of Turin that they will not recognise the blockade of Gaeta." The Patrie states that the entry of King Victor Emmanuel into Naples will take place on the 17th October. MARSEILLES, OCT. 15. It is stated by Pontifical officers returning from Italy that General Lamoriciere was expected to arrive at Rome to-day. NAPLES, OCT. 12. Having been summoned by the Dictator, the Pro- Dictator Pallavicini and his secretary, Carante, pro ceeded yesterday evening to Caserta. After a conference, at which Crispi and Cattaneo assisted, the Pro-Dictator and his secretary ten dered their resignations. VENICE, OCT. 13. Three new forts, mounted with rifled cannon, have just been completed between the Lido and Malamacco, in order to render the entry to the port of Venice almost impregnable. The whole Venetian littoral is being connected by a system of mines, which, by means of the elec tric battery, will be able to blow into the air any corps of disembarkation. VIENNA, OcT. 14. The report that the Council of the Empire had been convoked for the Ist December next, in order to examine the statutes of the Provincial Diets, is totally unfounded. The Council of the Empire will not reassemble until after the Provincial Diets shall have been formally established. MADRID, OCT. 13. The Epoca states that immediately upon the Queen's arrival at Madrid the Council will decide upon the recall of the Spanish Minister from Turin. The same journal also says : Their Majesties leave Saragossa toiday. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Ripon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, may be expected at Southampton about the 21st inst. The Columbrian brought the mails to Suez, arriving there on the 6th inst. The Salsette, with the mails from Australia, reached Galle on the 16th Sept. (correct day). OUTWARD MAILS. The Indus, from Southampton on the 27th Sept., reached Malta on the 6th inst., at 6 a.m., and left at noon for Alexandria. The Euxine, from Marseilles on the sth inst., reached Malta on the Bth at 2 a.m., and left at 8 a.m. for Alex- . andria. FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 13.—The market has shown rather less firmness than yesterday, and the English funds arriving with a decline, a downward move ment has taken place here, with, however, b u t very little business doing. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f; Mob ilier, 701 f 25c ; O rleans, 1,368 f 75c ; Northern, 973 f 75 ; Mediterrane an , 917 f 50c; Austrian, 487 f 50c ; and Lombard, 482 f 55c. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 95 70 , Credit Foncier 897 50 Do end month.... Belgian 41 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 95 Roman Bank Shares 2833 Austrian C r edit Mobilier.... 7 10 2 5 Spanish Threes... 49 76 Do. Account 7lO 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. • Orleans 1367 50 1368 75 Northern .......... 973 77 972 50 New ditto .............. Lyons and Mediterranean 918 75 918 75 Geneva ................ ........ o 508 75 ...... 358 75 Southern Western .............. 561 25 562 50 Eastern .............. 637 50 .. 638 75 Sardinian .. ............ 392 50 .. 387 50 Austrian Lombard 482 50 .. 482 50 ITALY. The Pro-Dictator of Sicily, M. Mordini, has issued the following proclamation to the Sicilians which has been posted up and distributed in every direction throughout the island : " Let us clearly explain ourselves, and declare plainly that we want to have Italy one. We desire that all the different parts of Italy, which are now divided, shall be united in one nation, without leaving any trace of municipalism. moreover, want Italy, by partial and successive annexations, to be insensibly comprised in the legislative and administrative municipalism of Piedmont. We will annex ourselves to the other parts of Italy, and those parts shall annex them selves to us, with the same political equality, in order to make Italy one. We do not want to have the codes and laws which are peculiar to Piedmont given to ns. People who procure the triumph of an idea, at the price of their blood, are not conquered people ; they have a right to give themselves codes and laws. When Italy shall be one, Sicily, Naples, Rome, Tuscany, Lombardy, Venetia, and Piedmont must, with perfect equality, co-operate in drawing up a civil and political code for Italy. Thus thinks, and ought to think, every man who is Italian for Italy." The following is a note addressed by Count Cav our to Baron Winspeare, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Sicilian Ma jesty : " Most illustrious Baron,—The events which have taken place in Naples during these last months had already determined the King's Go vernment to send to that port some men-of-war having troops on board, with a view to provide for the security of Sardinian subjects. After that time the state of affairs in that city became more and more alarming. The King, Francis 11., abandoned his capital, and thus de facto abdicated his crown in the presence of his people. The civil war which rages in the Neapolitan territory, and the absence of a regular government, place in ex treme danger those great principles on which social order rests. In this emergency the citizens and the constituted authorities of the municipality of Naples forwarded or presented to his Majesty King Victor Emmanuel addresses bearing num berless signatures, imploring the aid of that Sovereign whom Providence trusted with the mis sion of reconstituting and pacifying Italy. Mind ful of the duties imposed upon him by that mis sion, oMajesty,dy of troopsthe K t n o g be sent t o N a pl es . This , my august Sovereign, s o i r o de n r ordered s measure, which puts an end to a state of things from which disorder and anarchy may spring, will preserve Italy and Europe from very serious injury, and spare the further effusion of Italian blood. While fulfilling the duty of acquainting your Ex cellency with this measure, I take the opportunity, &c., " C. CAVOITR." We select the following extract from the official report of Count Cavour's speech, which differs in some material points from the summary received by telegraph : " 7 now come to the diplomatic question. A ces sion to France has been spoken of. I do not say the question has never been mooted, but I cannot un derstand the logic of those who would keep Italy divided because of a hypothetical ces sion, The treaty of March 24 cannot be cited as a precedent. Nationality cannot be questioned in the present case, nor would such a demand be made to a nation of 22 millions of united Italians. Whoever you may have for a minister could only reply to such a demand in the language of Gino Capponi. Rome and Venice have been spoken of; I might invoke reasons of State in order to say nothing; but in times like the present it is best to speak plain. Just now everybody is agreed that we should not go to Rome as long as the French are there. But a statesman must foresee the future, with the proviso, however, that he must change his course according to events. Now, what is our idea ? It is that Rome should become the splendid capital of the Italian King dom. (Enthusiastic cheers,) ' But what means have you,' it is asked, 'to attain this object ? Do you know what Europe itself may be some time hence ?' I can point out the great causes which will aid in ensuring the solution of the problem. We have reason to hope that a conviction will gain ground among Catholics that liberty is favourable to religion. I believe this truth will triumph. We have heard it acknowledged by the most fervent Catholics. Without our twelve years' liberty religion would have ceased to exist in Piedmont. When this opinion shall have prevailed eveywhere, then the great mass of Catholics will see that the Pontiff who presides over our re ligion will perform his duties better when de ' fended by 25 millions of Italians than when sur rounded by 25,000 foreign bayonets." AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The Royal mail steamship Europa, Capt. Leitch, from Boston, on the 3d, and Halifax on the sth instant, has arrived here. She brings 68 passen gers, and 100,000 dollars in specie, for England. She landed all mails except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 9.15 p.m. The steamers North American, Glasgow, Canada, and Connaught, had arrived out. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was at Pittsburg. The steamship Glasgow, from Liverpool on the 19th ult., had passed Cape Race on the 30th ult. At Washington, the President was daily engaged for several hours at the Department of State upon his forthcoming message. Official advices had been received by the American Government from Mr. Ward, the Minister to China. Strong efforts were being made, but to the latest dates, without success, to settle difficulties between the Chinese Govern ment and the French and English. It had been asserted on high authority that the two latter Go vernments were willing and anxious for an adjust ment, and were ready to receive any communica tion from the Chinese authorities touching that subject; but that, owing to the internal dissensions of that Government, it was considered extremely doubtful whether anything could be done. In the meantime active preparations were going on, and they were putting themselves in the best possible attitude for defence. Mr. Ward, some months ago, asked for leave of absence for six months. The Government informed him that his request would be complied with as soon as the aspect of affairs in that country would warrant his absence, but for the present they thought he had better remain. The revolutionary events in Italy had excited much interest in official quarters. Notwithstanding that the Government of Naples, to which Minister Chandler was accredited, had ceased to exist, he will remain in that country to attend to American interests, and Minister Daniel will continue in the discharge of his own duties in Sardinia. The ques tion of enlarging this mission to one of a first class, as authorised by Congress, was to be left for the consideration of the next Administration. The conference, or private meeting, as reported in late German newspapers, was not, as asserted, fit obedience to instructions irom the Administration at Washington, and certainly the statement, in the same connection, that they were to determine the policy to be adopted by the United States in the present political position of Europe, is alike with out foundation. ........ _______ The statement which had lately appeared with reference to General Harney's course at St. Juan was premature. Nothing had been or would be determined by the Administration in regard to this matter for some time. There appeared to have been a misunderstanding between General Scott and Harney susceptible of explanation. The matter would be satisfactorily arranged in due time. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had ar rived at Pittsburg on the Ist of October at 8 45 in the evening. ___ He was met at Alliance by a committee. At the depot at Pittsburg, the Prince was received by Major Wilson, who deliv ere d an a dd ress o f we l come. The Prince and suite then entered their carriages amidst the cheers of the immens • multitude who thronged the streets. The Duquesne Grays acted as a guard of honour. After partaking supper the Prince and suite retired to rest. They will remain at Pittsburg until one p.m. on the 2d. At Washington the Prince was to arrive on the 3d, about four o'clock, in a special train, and would be met at the depot by the President's nephew. In the evening there WAS to be a repast suitable to \.