The Sun. — London, England, 1860-10-31 00:00:00

'ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN—under the Manarzement of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, DINORAII Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Leffler, Miss ThirlwaTl; Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. T. Chapel, Mr. H. Corri, Mr. St. Albyn. Fo Conclude with the First Act of TROVATORE. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Hall-past. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING- the performances will commence with THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs. Followed by DOES HE LOVE ME ? Messrs. Howe, Chippendale. E. Villiers, and Buckstone ; Miss Amy Sedg wick. Miss Florence Haydon, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the revived comedy of THE IRISH AM BASSADOR: Mr. John Brougham, Miss Florence Haydon, ors. E. Fitzwilliam. And ANY PORT IN A STORM. Commence at 7: OYA I, PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING-, an adaptation of Victor Hullo's cele brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. t when Mr. Pechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown, will make his 4th appearance on the English stage;supportecl by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To be preceded byISIJSAN SMITH. - - After which, THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. A. Harris and Mi s Maria Harris. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. The Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott. Principal characters by Mr. T. Lyon, Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. George Vining. Mr. H. Buttes; Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell, Mrs. Keeley, Miss K. Saville, and Miss Gougenheim. After which. THE ABBE VAUDREITIL: Mr. H. Neville and Madame Celeste. To conclude with THE MIDDY.ASITORE. Harry Hal- Cyon, Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster. Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Boureicanit, Esq., "The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even- ing. THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W. Smith, D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Killington. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Rourcicanit, Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith. Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing:ton, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC RATH CHARMS. Fisher. _ Mr. David Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charg-e for bookinEr. Private boxes £2 2s. ; Family Boxes , "Xl. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 45.: Front Circle Starts, lls. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; 'Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. ioting Mans,fier—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. JAL Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand Spectacle of ROBIN noon. First appearance of Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome, and their Troupe of uneqnalled performers, &c., includin2; the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. - - This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three Acts, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD - or, the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Ailan a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Rood, Mr. John Prit chard. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Riders of Europe. Doors open at half-plat 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma ...................... Miss RUSSELL. Adalzisa .................... Madame MARIA, (Her first appearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consistingof Seventeen 'for formers, organised expressly for this establishment, frir the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Coy:lie and. Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, It7J. Prin cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, 11. Drummond, and Charley Fox. . Musical Director, Mr. F. JONr,ILIMANS. Balcony, le, -.Hall. eir._ TILE WEATHER.--SUN Ormr-m, OCT. 31, 1560. THERMOMETER, TN TWA SHADE, 62—this day at noon. 46—lowest this morning and (luring the night. 51—highest since noon yesterday. BAROMEreMR-30.20. WlND—North-easterly; fresh, and rather cold, but dry. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Twee DAY.—Morning, 2h. 29m.—Afternoon, 2h. 41m. To-moßßow.-Morning, g, 3h. 2m.—Afternoon, 3h. 18m. k .'W 4. " 1 " ..:',:'•92:-::_41,4--1,t.,j--,•,,,)42..., ~ ritl.( ,; „, qt*..4,7 , -. , , ;7 - 7i. * ~_ ~.2e., e-,-Itit,:::;:/yi.,.. -c.71,-- ‘ Q" 7 - •-- -I ~.,...i... i N ......, _ 1,.. _.... „i1a,..; .-4 __ z 4 i r 4"/' •,I 0 ~.., .• 1) (', it '' . -,' ' • '' I • ,I ." ,----=— ,a „,—, k , -4 z 7-„ , • , P-- • _ , , THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31, 1860. If we may believe our contemporary, the Daily .News, " the Emperor of the FRENCH has placed four ships of the line before Gaeta," and with orders not hostile to the ex-King, nor even to ob serve neutral ity, but to intervene between the ex- King of NAPLES, and the King elect by popular suffrage; for " the French Admiral has orders to prevent an attack on Gaeta by Admiral PERSANO, and if necessary for that purpose to sink his ships." " Under these circumstances," it is added, " Admi ral PERSANO will take no part in the approaching siege of Gaeta." Of course not, if the state ment be correct, though we are not told by our contemporary the authority on which it rests. Assuming its correctness, the interference is intole rable, and the threat outrageous. What Admiral PERSANO can do, we know at Ancona; and we know also how the Austrians dread the thought of his visiting Venice with his fleet. To prevent his joining in the attack is to prolong uselessly the siege, and by liberating the entire garrison to defend the land side is a virtual French rein forcement of it. We may well ask what the motive can be ? Can it be to show that notwith standing PERSANO'S splendid success at Ancona, a large force of ;French ships could vanquish him ? Xo one, however, needs that information. Can it be to help himself, as he doing at Rome, into a better position for demanding the talked-of ces sions, if he consent to complete Italian emancipa tion? But England and all Europe, we fancy, would be of one mind, if he dared really to demand Sardinia and Genoa. Or is it a mere blind ? Does he wish to act the " Moderator of the Revolution," at the eleventh hour, by taking some part in the final settlement with FRANCIS IL ? Perhaps he thinks it perfectly certain that GARIBALDI and the Piedmontese togethcr are quite able to take Gaeta, and thatea little by- PAY, to make them take it in the way he chooses, may present him in the light of arbitrator in the final arrangements. It may be useless to speculate on his movements. We are warranted, however, in assuming the most selfish to be the most likelk, an a . asserting this new intervention to be grossly i n consistent with his own professions. We may hope, however, that things have already gone too far for even Louis NAPOLEON to venture on much mischief. A. 7 IcToR EMMANUEL is now King of the Two Sicilies by the same right as LOUIS NAPOLEON is Emperor of France. The notice to quit wilt soon be enforced on the unfortunate, but hardened young Bourbon ; and we trust that England will not allow VIC TOR EMMANUEL, abjectly, yet further to " mar his inheritance" for the aggrandisement of France,"and to our injury in the Mediterranean. All Europe could not show, what to us does not seem anything surprising, a First MiniAter of the Crown presiding at a succession of public meetings, and speaking with interest at them all. Italy may possibly in no long time have again, as in the days of the old Roman Republic, a number of leading states men, who are also able speakers both in the Senate Rouse and at the Rostra. But in Europe, at pre sent, we stand almost alone in that characteristic of our social life, which makes it natural that our first men —our high official otss—should be looked up to to sustai n the interest of public meetings of all kinds. Besides Lord PALMERSTON we have but just had Lord STANLEY and Sir J. PAKINGTON ; and we may certainly look for Mr. GLA.DSTONE and Pt7sir.-7; Lord J. RUSSELL to be called on soon tc , become the' great guns " of some social gathering, and to have their speeches as fully reported as if they were speaking in Parliament, perhaps at greater length. Even the despots will not deny that this is a great politieal advantage. On these occasions, generally, party feeling is forgotten in the object, or party allusions are but the humorous and enlivening part of the oratory. Even when our Ministers or ex-Ministers address a one-sided meeting, like Sir JOHN PAKINGTON at Worcester, it is expected to be with geniality, and good feel ing towards opponents. But the grand advantage is, that it makes our official men, far more than the Ministers of despots can be, men of the people. The Ministers learn to know, almost as personal friends, their political supporters, and often their opponents, too. And a vast amount of good-will from all classes is conciliated towards their actual governors, from whom they have so often to differ. It would not be easy to estimate the extent to which the public social habits of the servants of the CnowN of both parties conduce to the easy working of our Constitution. The unofficial public work of our high officials is not one of their least valuable services. And when our Premier does "ride 'abroad," there are few members of the Ministry, or of the House of Commons, whom the public like better to hear. We were very near writing our " Vene rable Premier ;" but we found our pen stuck at the word. Lord PALMERSTON Venerable ! When will that ever be. Lord LYNDHURST is so ; Lord BROUGHAM is so. The Duke was so, and his suc cessor as political moderator is so ; but Lord PALMERSTON can never lose his wings and his mischievous arrows—no more venerable at seventy fi ve than at twenty-five—should he reach the age of the patriarchs he must be what he ever has been—he would doubtless skip up JACOB'S ladder itself. Many a quarrel we have had with him. As deep as he is genial we know him to be. Yet we have no doubt that, should he be a Prime Minister at four score and ten, he would still, as he had done before, send us away laughing with the rest of a deputation, while we were about to assemble again and to pass a vote of dissatisfaction with his answers. Who can tell how much his light heart has to do with his political success, perhaps as much as his adroitness and untiring industry. Our Leeds friends will certainly agree that he was genial enough with them—pleasant as pleasant could be ; and sensible things, of course, ho said, as he can say, on any subject, from town sewerage and dirt, at agricultural meetings, to high politics, and science and literature, at mechanics' institutes. We liked much even the report of his speech at the soiree of the mechanics' institute. He could not be as learned as GLADSTONE, or as profound in science as Lord BROUGHAM, but he could illustrate with exceeding aptness the value and extent of literature and science. He gave his hearty en couragement to introducing good works of imagi nation into the libraries of institutes. He pointed out the absurdity of the objection that the little knowledge learning persons could get was of little use, and did them as much harm as good. " And then we have," said he, " dinned in our ears the old and trite quotation that ' a little learning is a dangerous thing.' It is true that a little learning is a bad thing—that is to say, it is a bad thing to have only a little learning ; and the less learning a man has the worse it is for him. But there is one thing worse even than having a little learning, and that is having no learning at all." He was also very happy in insisting on the advantage of variety of knowlege. We have lately had, and from a distinguished man too, earnest inculcations of the necessity of thoroughly studying what we begin—but Lord PALMERSTON put the other side in a rather striking light, " I am glad," he remarked, " to see by the report which you have heard read that this institu tion will have the means of imparting to those who will be its members learning of the most various kinds, acquisitions of the most different natures, adapted to all callings, and fitting men for all em ployments. And if I were permitted to give to the working and industrious classes a single word of advice, I should say this : —' Whatever your calling in life may be, learn fully, deeply, and completely, everything that bears directly on that calling. Make yourselves masters of everything that will tend to help you in the particular sphere of industry. But don't confine yourself to that. Cultivate your minds by acquir ing as much knowledge as you can on as many sub jects as you can. You will learn but little of each, but that little of each will make an important aggregate in the main, and every new branch of knowledge which you enter into, every addition made to your general stock of information will im prove the faculties of your minds, just as various exercises improve the * powers of the body, and will make you more skilful, more able, more clever in the performance of your particular duties than if you were skilled only in that particular and simple branch." On the advantage of reading good works of imagination our merry Premier was almost philo sophic-al. " I would not," he said, " recommend those who frequent the library to confine themselves solely to books of serious reading and of practical or scientific utility. The human mind requires variety of exercise for its diffeient qualities and its different functions. The imagination was implanted in man not merely for the pleasure of others by the works of imagination, but for the pleasure of the individual in exercising that faculty. That pleasure is great and laudable, and, therefore, though I would not recommend a man to waste his time in what is called novel reading, uninstructive and not improvitg, yet works of imagination, the works of our great poets and our distinguished novelists, such as WALTER SCOTT, BULWER, and others, are works which teach him- good ,principles by examples in the recitals which they contain ; tend, in the first place, to improve the moral feelings of the man, and, in the next place, give a legitimate and proper enjoyment, by exercising and cultivating the imaginative faculties of the readers." Our readers will certainly agree with us that all these observations, as well as so much more which we might quote, are replete with practical good sense. But besides the mechanics and their friends, whom his l or d sh i p went specially to meet, he had addres s an assembly of West Riding merchants, who earnestly pressed on him to pass his bank ruptcy bill next session , which nothing loth t o d o. It will suit h th im ey m f u o t u u n h d be h tt i e m r than a Reform Bill. Then he had to speak at a Ragged School meeting ; and again in reply to an address in his own praise from the corporation, not to mention exercitations at Pontefra c t an d elsewhere. Few, however, were his words on foreign politics. Just one good wish 017 two for Italy—but not a word of Warsavi—of A.'astria.—of Venetia—of Rome—of Hungary. Righ t so far as it went, but we should have liked a little more at such an opportunity on the grave, question whether England's Cabinet wanted Austria to. surrender Venetia, and to give Hungary not a shashahl, but a real constitution. Very remarkable too, it *struck us, was his not saying a word to the consoration of one of the first mercantile towns in the kingdom, the chief seat of the cloth trade, on the commercial treaty with France. But how was it the corpora tion itself did not notice it among the achievements of the present Cabinet ? Are the Leeds people not satisfied with it ? It ought to be a boon to them. Nearly forty years ago an admirable plan was hit upon, and acted upon, at Berlin, with a view to the extinction of Pauperism. The Prussian capital, it should be remembered, contained within it at that time a population of about 300,000 souls —not as with us, at this moment, 3,000,000 ! Berlin is now estimated to comprise 452,000 inhabitants—it contained at the period we are al luding to, namely 1821, as nearly as the fact might be accurately expressed in round numbers, three hundred thousand. Among those 300,000 Berliners—hid away in dark places, according to the custom observable among all great cities, se creted in the back slums and the low rookeries of what is yet to this day one of the most beautififi among the gay and wealthy capitals of the Euro pean Continent—there lay festering a fearful throng of the most necessitous and impoverished. The Government Commissioners of Prussia in the year but just now mentioned (that is in 1821), decided as it chanced most wisely, upon delivering over the tare of the poor in all the large towns of the kingdom to the respective municipalities. The municipalities thereupon nominated a body of ad ministrators called Poor Directors. These Poor Directors were of one of two classes—they were either nominated as permanent or they acted ex officio, and were therefore changeable : the latter being in fact the town deputies and the members of the magistracy. As to the working of the new system thus adven turously organised in Prussia for the suppres sion, or at any rate the direct and immediate al leviation of Pauperism throughout the kingdom—a system which has now been in active operation for 39 years since the date of its original establish ment—we may best illustrate that in a few words, by restricting our regard for a while to the chief city of all those in which the benignant scheme was organised—to Berlin itself, with its 300,000 inhabitants. There, at the outset of the enterprise, the - projectors of this novel undertaking tested the feasibility of their plan upon one solitary police district alone, by way of wholesome experiment. Encouraged by their success in this they speedily mapped out the whole metropolis, subdividing it into fifty-six districts altogether, each district having its own cluster of Commissioners. These Commissioners varied in number in the different districts, in proportion to the extent of the squalor and wretchedness in the area set apart for each division respectively. Nine formed the maximum, five the minimum in the fifty-six groups of Commissioners. Each of these fifty-six districts had its physician, its surgeon, its oculist, its apothecary. 'Every month these four officials were remunerated for the services they had rendered. The Commissioners themselves—being volunteer philanthropists, doing duty purely and solely out of motives of benevolence—did their duty, happily, we can say—have done their duty, one after another, now for thirty-nine years— thank GOD, for the sake of humanity, it can still be added, are yet doing their duty, from first to last gratuitously. They are chosen—these Commissioners—from all classes and grades of society indiscriminately, saving and excepting alone from the legal and clerical professions. They are selected, moreover, periodically by the Poor Direc tors—whom we have already mentioned as having been nominated by the Municipalities. It is, in other words, at the instance, at the personal request of the Poor Directors that this gratuitous office for stipulated periods is accepted by the Poor Commis sioners. At the close of every month the Commis sioners of each district meet—make out their report —wind up (for that month last past) the whole business of their arrangements. During the in tervals between those monthly meetings they act — they hunt out the most urgent cases of pauperism —they personally visit the lowliest of the back slums, the foulest and wretchedest of these misera ble rookeries. The Commissioners in all very urgent cases are empowered to afford instant relief upon their own individual responsibility. Otherwise they bring any case they may have ferreted out under the consideration of their col leagues at the next monthly meeting of the District Commissioners. In every in stance they probe the case of each applicant for relief to the very bottom by a systematic. course of examination—with a view simply to avoid as much as possible the encouragement of mere men dicity. Their inquiries ' are addressed to the landlord of the house, to the neighbours, to the last person who has given the necessitous employment. Supposing any case to have been thus brought before the monthly district meeting, and there deemed worthy of being taken into further consideration, the president or chairman of the commissioners thereupon him self visits the case so approved of, and, taking his examination-book with him, there enters the appli cant's replies to five-and-twenty inquiries—the answers to which recount, among other facts, his age, his health, his capacity for labour, his avoca tion, his recent misfortunes, the extent of his family, and the capability or incapability of his relations to afford him assistance. These investigations are revised, so to speak, by means of a yet further scrutiny of the case by the two Commissioners in each applicant's instance, especially appointed to search into the validity of his claims for help. Medical aid is at all times, of course, afforded with far greater facility—the Commissioner of the particu lar section in which the ailing applicant resides supplying him at once with a note which has merely to be countersigned by the President of the District Commissioners—whereupon that signed and coun tersigned note becomes at once a summary authorisa tion, addressed respectively or collectively, as the case may be, to the physician, the surgeon, or the apothecary. Clothing, fuel, food, medi cines--are thus distributed providently among the most necessitous. Another subsidiary but very important advantage being secured by the opera tion of this beneficent system of relief to t7e most unfortunate—the school attendance of the children of the very poor being personally seen to by these gratuitous and volunteer District Commissioners. We have been thus intentionally specific—it may he even, we fear, in'the estimation of some, unneces sarily prolix—in describing minutely in detail the machinery of this beautiful and benignant organi sation in Prussia, but especially at Berlin, because we cannot but think that much good may possibly accrue from its careful examination in the develop ment of a very noble project of a kindred character now, our heart leaps with joy to think, in active preparation for the relief of the very poor—of the very poorest of the poor—in our own vast metro polis—in this city which is at once the wealthiest, the largest, and the most populous among all the cities of the earth—this great London of ours with its 3 ,000,000 inhabitants. It is a frightful truth that in London, in the midst of all its riches, in the midst of all its splendid charitable institutions, men, and women, and children are perishing unknown (and uncared for, simply because unknown) from actual want, that they literally die at times from absolute starvation ! The Registrar-General's reports may be turned to by the incredulous—and it will be there seen whether the fact is so or not. When we come to reflect upon the mere size of London, and then upon its astounding population, it can hardly be marvelled at however, after a moment's thought, that our system of affording relief, simply when relief is asked for, should prove—as it is, alas ! only too frequently proving—inadequate. Recollect, in regard to its mere superficial area, that London now covers a space of ground ten miles long and seven miles wide—and then recollect that within that space there is massed together not far short of the popu lation of the kingdom of Belgium, fully the popu lation of all Scotland! Here—close beside us— around us in every direction, if we will but go and look—may still be seen, as in the days of our LORD upon earth, LAZARUS dying of actual famine at the very door of DIVES ! To supplement all our previous efforts fer the relief of pauperism, to prevent, so far as may be in any way practicable, the recurrence amongst us of these appalling calamities, these deaths from posi tive starvation which are a disgrace to our civilised state, and one, in truth, among the number of those crimes which cry to heaven for vengeance upon a community—it is now proposed that a comprehen sive system should be organised, a system, as it appears to us, so far at least as we can understand the hopes and intentions of its projectors, precisely analogous to the one we have here particularised, a system which has now been flourishing benig nantly (as we have shown) during very nearly forty years in the Prussian capital. God speed this humane project ! is, in truth, our one earnest aspi ration at this moment in its regard, an aspiration towards the fulfilment of which, upon the rational principle expressed in that sententious axiom of Christian philosophy—aide toi et Dieu t'aidera— our own heart-born efforts and sympathies, so far as these can in any way serve the interests of the promoters of the benign enterprise, can never be wanting in co-operation. The Lord Chancellor returned yesterday after noon to Strathedon House, from a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne, at Bowood. The Duke of Somerset left his official residence at the Admiralty yesterday for Mamhead, Devon. The duchess has gone to Maiden Bradley, the family seat in Wilts. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are ex pected to leave Fryston Hall, where they have been -visit ing Mr. R. M. Milnes, M.P., and Hon. Mrs. Milnes, for 'Wentworth Rouse, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Fit zwilliam. Lord and Lady Clarence Paget arrived at his lordship's official residence at the Admiralty, Whitehall, on Monday evening, from the Continent. THE GREAT EASTERN.—The arrangements for winter are, we believe, as follows :—On and after the sth of November the ship will be under the charge of Captain Jackson, the ship's agent, who will be assisted by Messrs. Curtis and Archdeacon, and about ten men, including an auxiliary engineer. The ship will remain open to visitors during the winter, and it is expected that an average of 25 to 30 per diem may be calculated on. Some 30,000 persons have visited the Great Eastern since her arrival at Milford llaven. During the month of September last the very low fares of the South Wales Railway drew upwards of 19,000 excursionists alone to Milford Haven, exclusive of those who travelled by ordinary trains at excursion prices, and would doubtless have drawn double that number had the weather not been so bad. " The labours of the plenipotentiaries for fixing the details of the tariff on merchandises, such as tissues of all kinds," says the Debats, " are go i ng on w i t h g r eat ac tivity, and it is expected that everything will be concluded by the Ist of November." CRIEFF—THE RIVERS.—In consequence of the flooded state of the Earn and other streams during the last two weeks the number of salmon which have ascended to the spawning beds has been large. At Darnock and other dam dykes the fish, generally of a large size, appeared to be leaping at the barriers in immense numbers, and have now reached the fords at Comrie. The water is well pro tected by a strong body of watchers, and poaching, which was indulged in to a great extent in this district a few years ago, has entirely disanpeared, FATAL A CClDNET.—Yesterday morning Richard Jupp, aged 61 years, who resided at Beckingham, Kent, • encountered a painful death. He was jammed between a loaded waggon and a gate, receiving such serious injuries to his leg, that on his arrival at Guy's Hospital amputation was found to be necessary. After this he gradually sank and expired. HER MAJESTY'S STAGHOUNDS.—Yesterday being the first day of the regular hunting season with the Royal pack, the meet, as usual, was at Salthill, and the day was everything that could be desired. There were not less than 300 horsemen, including many of the o ffi cers i n garr i son at Windsor, and many of the more celebrated sportsmen of the neighbourhood. Through the kind permission of Mr. Cantrell, of Baylis Farm, although at the sacrifice of some of his nowly ; sown fields being ridden over, the deer " Cran bourn" was uncarted in one of his fields about a mile from Salthill, and, after the usual law being given, the hounds were " laid on," and away they went in beautiful style in thp direction of Stoke, finishing at Mr. Drake's farm, near Amersham, after a good run, which improved towards the last. The noble master was absent owing to a domestic affliction. • THE LATE DUKE or RICHMOND.--The funeral of the late Duke of Richmond took place yesterday. The mortal remains of the duke were removed at an early hour on Mon day morning for Goodwood-park, Sussex. There were a great many applications on the part of the Royal family and nobility to be allowed to have their carriages follow, but it appears that the duke left a document written shortly after the interment of his father-in-law, Field-Marshal the Marquis of Anglesey, wherein he requests that his family will see that his own funeral should be conducted in the most private and quiet way. In accordance with the wishes of their lamented relative, all the offers were declined, and the funeral arrangements were on an unostentatious scale. Yesterday forenoon the funeral procession loft Goodwood house for the Cathedral shortly before 9 o'clock for inter ment in the family vault in that fine old ecclesiastical edi fice. The mourners included the Duke of Richmond, Lords Henry, Alexander, and George Gordon Lennox, sons of the deceased ; the Earl of Bessborough, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, and Lord Bingham, sons in- law of the late Duke ; and Dr. Hare. Lords George, Arthur, and William Lennox, brothers of the deceased,were also present on the mournful occasion. SCIENCE CERTIFICATES FOR TEACHERS IN ARTI SAN CLASSES.—The number of entries for the certificates of the Committee of Council on Education for teaching sciences bearing on industry, and for which examinations commence in the first week of November at South Kensing ton, has increased about 50 per cent. beyond the number of last year, while the number of candidates has advanced from 57 in last year to 90 at the present time. The increase ex tends to all the subjects of examination except the first— viz., descriptive geometry, mechanical drawing, and build ing construction, in which there is a decrease from 20 to 9. In physics the increase is from 23 to 43, in chemistry from 53 to 86, in geology and mineralogy from 5 to 11, and in natural history from 3 to 6. STRANDING OF ,THE NORTH AMERICAN MAIL STEAMER NORTH BRITON.—LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—The fine screw steamer North - Briton, belonging to Messrs. Allan Brothers, of Liverpool, and employed in the mail service between Liverpool and Quebec, went ashore about 6 a.m. this morning at Ballycastle, a fishing village about two hours' sail from Londonderry. As our readers are already aware by telegraphic despatches the North Briton called in at Londonderry at 4 a.m., and after landing ber mails and some passengers proceeded on her voyage to Liverpool, and about two hours after leaving she ran ashore near Ballycastle during a dense fog. The telegraphic de spatch announcing the accident states that every exertion was being made to float the ship off; that the cargo—the grain portion—was being thrown overboard, together with other articles, in order to lighten the steamer. The despatch also adds that assistance was being sent round from Lon donderry, so that there is no occasion for uneasiness either as re g ards passengers or ship. AWELSII JURYMAN.—Every succeeding quar ter session brings with it increased difficulty in finding sufficient good and true men to serve their country in the honourable capacity of jurymen. The excuses made are frequently ingenious, but wo do not remember anything equal in quiet assurance to the reasons urged by a tall, san guine-complexioned Welshman, at the Salford Quarter Sessions, on Monday last. On the name being called its owner promptly stepped into the witness-box ; being sworn to speak the truth; addressing the learned Chairman with unhesitating fluency, said : ' Your honour, I claim to be excused. I brought up in Wales all my life, and Ido not understand the English language properly." The learned Chairman looked at him with some astonishment, the-row of magistrates contemplated him with evident in terest, and each gentleman of the long robe gazed at hire curiously through his eye•glasses, or through his specta cles, or without the aid of spectacles. " Why, you see," continued the juryman, "there are many words you gen tlemen make use of that I don't understand at all." " You seem to speak the language very well," said the Chair man. " Well, but," quickly replied, the Welshman, "these words are only common words, but in law, you know, there are many words I could not understand at all." "Oh, but," said the learned Chairman, "I don't think you will find that to be the case. I think it's worth your while to stay and see how easy it all is." (Laughter.) " I assure you I shall not understand it," continued he of the land of leeks, "I've heard what's passed this morning, but I don't understand a word of it." (Roars oflaughter, in which the Bench, the Bar, and the people all joined in one common chorus, while the Welshman looked round him with a complacent grin.) Notwithstanding his evident ignorance of the language, Jones was sworn, and we are bound in justice to add that he appeared to make such an excellent juryman that we hope to see him in the same box next ses sion.—Salford Weekly News. THE lIEW DUBLIN MAIL STEAMER MUNSTER.— Messrs. John Laird and Sons, of Birkenhead, have just completed the magnificent steamer Munster, the last of the three built by them for the mail and ilassenger tint& between Holyhead and Kingstown. The Munster, in all respects the fac simile of the Ulster (said to be the fastest steamer afloat), is expected to make a trial trip during the present week, 10110111MXI!Mwokr ow 4 "! THE SUN, LONDON; WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1860. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrarn3 have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Pera, from Southampton, on the 4th, and Massilia, from Marseilles, on the 12th, reached Alexandria on the 16th and 18th inst. respectively, and await the arrival of the Candia at Suez, which had not arrived on the 22d. The Columbrian left Suez with the outward mails ex Pera and Massilia on the 21st. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Ellora, from Southampton, on the 12th, ar rived at Malta on the 21st, at 2 p.m. She left for Alexandria at 10 p.m. The Vectis, from Marseilles, on the 20th, reached Malta on the 22d, at 10 p.mi She left for Alex andria on the 23d at 2 p.m. The above intelligence is supposQd to have been brought from Alexandria and Malta to Marseilles by French packet. The date from Malta is the 26th. MADRID, OCT. 29. In to-day's sitting of the Cortes, Marshal O'Donnell repeated his statement that the Spanish Government has resolved to maintain neutrality in the affairs of Italy. The Marshal protested also against the speech of the Deputy Aparici, in which doubts were expressed as to the loyalty of the Emperor of the French towards the Spanish Government. VIENNA, WEDNESDAY. The official Wiener Zeitung contains the follow ing Imperial resolution, dated 30th instant, decree ing the appointment of the different dignitaries in Hungary : The Councillor of the Empire, Count Maylath, is appointed Tavernicoruin regaliurn Magiger. • Count Franz Zichy, jun., chief gentleman usher. Count Andrassy, chief cup bearer. Count Barkoezy, chief Hungarian chamberlain. Another resolution appoints thirty-nine provin cial judges, and six refrendaries to the Court of Chancery, among whom is Court Councillor Zsed denyi and Bishop Korizmics. SESSA, OCT. 30. After the concentration of the Sardinian troops yesterday, a reconaissance was made by the Sar dinians on the left bank of the Garigliano. Some volleys of musketry and a short cannonade were exchanged between the outposts. NAPLES, OCT. 27. Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel, whose military operations are now combined, are preparing for a battle. • Victor Emmanuel is nevertheless. expected to enter Naples on the 30th inst. Great preparations are being made for his re ception. OCT. 90. The result of the voting in the kingdom of Naples, with the exception of two provinces, the returns from which are still wanting, is as fol lows : Ayes noes . 1,102,499 9,371 PARIS, Ocr. 30. Judicial proceedings have been institlted against the responsible editor of the Opinions Nationale, on account of the publication of false news in that journal. M. Guerault was examined yesterday by the Juge d'ln.struction. MADRID, OCT. 28. Government has presented a project of law to the Certes, fixing the strength of the army for 1861 at 100,000 men. ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. 28. The following bulletin was published to-day : " Gladdened by the return of the Emperor, the Empress Aleorandrina Feodorowna passed a rather quiet night. " Although there are no signs of any particular disease, the strength of the august patient is gra dually failing." PRUSSIA. AND THE WARSAW CON FERENCES. The German journals are unanimous in pro nouncing the Warsaw Conferences a failure. The National Zeitung, of Berlin, has the following on the subject : " Every indication proves that the interview at Warsaw has been without result, as was expected. Austria has done her best to turn it to account. The new Constitution of the Empire was gmated at the last moment, in the hope, doubt less, that it would be hailed with enthusiasm throughout the whole Austrian Empire, and especially in Hungary. The Emperor Francis Joseph wished to appear before the other Sovereigms, surrounded by a number of thoso mani festations. " The magic formula of the diploma was to make them believe that all. the old sores of the Imperial State were healed. The Empire, rejuvenated, was to resume its full strength, its former weight, in the councils of Cabinets. Everything indicates, it must be admitted, that the Austrian Government had no intention to allow the fruits of the changes operated at home time to ripen, but wished to cull them at once. " If Austria had found some support from Prussia and Russia, she would, it appears, have at once commenced war in Italy. The army of the Tyrol, of Venetia, and of Dal matia had been considerably reinforced, and the evident sign of Austria's intentions was the nomination of General Benedek to the chief command of the troops. "It might have been foreseen, despite the recall of the Russian Ambassador from Turin, that those plans would not find an echo at St. Petersburg. It is also allowable to believe that the Prussian Government endeavoured to per suade Austria to remain on the defensive in Italy. It is difficult to believe that Austria will have the courage to re commence the dangerous game of last year, although, with. a sort of despair, she always has recourse to extreme reso lutions, which, at that period, ended in such a sad expe rience. " We have always denied any vital strength to the machi nations of the coalition which were set on foot in various. quarters during the summer ; they have only served to con solidate the position of the Emperor Napoleon. The sove reign of France even derives from them this advantage, that the national spirit of France is excited by the threats which. result from all these underhand manoeuvres, and that France will follow the Emperor the more williitgly in his. ulterior march. " It is a proof of great confidence when, in the last article of the Constitutionnel, the Emperor Napoleon places himself " simply opposite the Warsaw Conference as the renovator of the system of European States, called to heal ancient sores precisely because he is not bound by Legitimist traditions, and that he can examine without prejudice the interests of " peoples and make them prevail. Can we absolutely refuse to admit the justice of those proud words ? Can we deny ' to French policy, despite a certain egotism with, which it must be reproached, that it has not really exercised a salutary and beneficial action ? "If, on the other hand, the opposite tendencies, sup ported on formal right had been victorious, everything untenable and bad would have been consolidated ; not only would the oppression of peoples not have been put an end. to, but it would even have been increased. "As long as that resistance has no other basis than that • which it has hitherto possessed, as long as liberal public • opinion cannot stand by its side it will be struck with , absolute impotence. " That impotence is clearly visible in the Conference at Warsaw, and not the slightest counter-demonstration has been made to this programme of the French Government. "When we recall to mind all the princely conferences of - this summer, from Baden to Warsaw, we behold in the • most incontestible manner that all the extraneous support • which Prussia has sought for cannot offer her the slightest • guarantee. Russia is paralysed, and can scarcely help us in the West. Austria has nothing to offer us, and only seeks to turn us to account in a manner most hateful to our peo ple. England, on the only question w'iich has a real interest • for us—the question of Schleswig-Holstein—is on the side of tyranny and oppression. England finds the French al- liance a better investment, and any attempt at an approxi mation calls down upon us a shower of abuse which wouh seize upon the first given pretext. " "Under these circumstances it becomes more and nioi necessary for Prussian policy to detach itself from all Legi timist theories, from all illusions of the parentage of race, natural alliance, &c. This policy must acquire at last a perfectly independent position which, undei l the circum stances, will allow it to act as well in concert with France as with any other Power. Without such a position it will end in our being dragged into a war with France, while all the other great States make use of us, according to their good pleasure, for all sorts of diplomatic mancouvres, with out remunerating us with any notable concession for our friendly services, which they pay us for with insults. " The salvation of Prussia lies in a liberal internal policy, which must assume a more energetic character than it has hitherto done, and in the advance of national tenden cies connected therewith. There alone will Prussia find the sources of her moral and material power, and, once that power acquired, she will not be wanting in allies ; they will voluntarily offer themselves en all sides, and she need not anxiously seek for those which only bring her prejudice and humiliations," FRANCE. Prince Metternich and M. Hubner were received by the Emperor on Sunday at St. Cloud. The Am bassador is said to be pleased with his reception, as also M. Hubner. Hence it is inferred that the prospects are more pacific. In proof of this I sup pose is the fact that every one seems preparing for war as actively as he can, and that the Aus trian Government are recalling their officers on leave of absence in foreign countries. On the other hand, the opinion Nationale is threatened 1 1 with prosecution for having circulated false news to the effect that an ultimatum had been sent from Vienna to Turin. The Editor has already been up before the Juge d'lnstruction. The Opinion Nationale is the organ of the Palais Royal, and has great credit at Court. The Credit Mobilier people, whose special mission, it seems, is to keep up the Bourse at all risks, are indignant with the Opinion Nationale for causing the fall the other day, and would willingly see it in the pillory, for presuming either by true or false intelligence to interfere ; but the Opinion is too highly protected to care much for their anger. Great discontent has been caused among the working classes in Paris by the increase in the price of tobacco, pursuant to a late Imperial decree. As the workman must be kept in good humour at any cost, the Constitutionnel will be ordered to pub lish an article tending to pacify them. Great activity is observable at the hotel of the Minister of Marine, Admiral Hamelin is occupied with the creation of companies of naval artillerymen to be employed in the defence of the coast. These artillerymen are to be chosen among the trained seamen who have not yet completed their period of service. Several of the towns on the coast have been placed in a respectable state of defence. It is moreover reported that a corps of observation is to be formed on the frontiers of Alsace and of Lor raine. BOURSE, Oct. 30.—There is no change in the aspect of the market. Business continues dull, but with little fluctuation in prices. Threes have been done at 69f 971 c; Mobilier, 707 f 50c ; Orleans, 1,371 f 25c ; Northern, 970 f; Lyons, 917 f 50c ; Austrian, 486 f 25c; Lombard, 483 f 75c. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 95 50 Do. end month.... 95 50 Credit Foncier 900 Belgian 41 lOO PieamontecJe Fives 79 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 474 Home Debt 3 per Cents D. end month 69 Bank Shares 2850 Credit Mobilier 710 Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Orleans 1370 Account. .. 1370 972 50 Northern ... 972 50 .. New ditto BBO .. -- Lyons and Mediterranean 917 50 .. 917 50 Geneva 3s') 355 Southern 503 75 505 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard NAPLES. A letter from Naples, in the Debats, says : " The city and the theatres were illuminated in consequence of the result of the voting. Garibaldi had come in the morning from Caserta not to oc cupy'himsclf with bminess, for he has given that up entirely, but to visit his old friend Col. Deidero. When Garibaldi was introduced to the Colonel at Caserta by Bertani, Crispi, Gattaneo, and others (these gentlemen have now all left), Deidero, who always speaks freely to his friend, addressed him rather roughly, saying, In Europe they believe you to be a robber; your prestige is at an end, you have fallen ; your word, your feel ings, your courage, and your good faith are mistrusted; the press attacks you ; your honour able friends repudiate you : abdicate, abdicate.' Garibaldi had sulked at those words ; Deidero left Caserta, and did not return. Garibaldi felt some remorse ; he came to Naples, and went to the Hotel d'Angleterre to dine with his old friend. The people, who understand nothing of political intrigues, but who believe in and adore Garibaldi, assembled in large numbers in front of the hotel with a band of music and began applauding him. The Dictator appeared on the balcony. The people were silent, and so was he. The band commenced another air, and the people renewed their applause. Garibaldi remained there with his arms folded, but did not speak ; be appeared discontented and angry. The music and the plaudits were renewed, and when they again ceased Garibaldi still remained silent us a statue. The people then, with a supplicating voice, ex claimed, Speak, if only one word, General—one word.' Garibaldi was affected, and said, What do you wish me to say to you, Neapolitan people, who by a gesture indicate to Europe that you will have Italy one ?' and, in saying this, he energetically pointed upwards with his forefinger. In the even ing he again started for Caserta. That was, per haps, his farewell to the people, for he has decided that if war with Austria does not break out he will return to Caprera after the arrival of the King." HUNGARY. The concessions of the Austrian Government have been received with great disappointment in Hun gary. The first news received from Pesth after the promulgation of the imperial decrees was satisfac tory to the Government ; the restoration of the kingdom of Hungary and of its Diet being warmly applauded. Speculating on this feeling the local authorities ordered an illumination. But before it could take place the truth became known ; Hungary was not to be restored in its historical unity, but mutilated and weakened, the Magyars being cut off from the races which formed part of the old kingdom, and polically organised apart, while the Diet was to have no control over the taxes. The reaction of public feeling was instant, and, instead of illuminations, there were riots, both at Pesth and Presburg, The Vienna papers, while reporting the disorders which took place, are re served as to their causes. The Austrian Gazette says :—"Some scandalous scenes took place at Pesth on the 23d. An illu mination had been ordered, but darkness had scarcely set in when bands of young men tra versed the streets, putting out the lamps. Vast crowds were abroad, great excitement existed, and cries and appeals of all sorts were heard. It was found necessary to call the troops to arms. Small patrols of ten or twelve men were insulted. A man who was arrested was torn from the hands of the soldiers. The soldiery were called out in large numbers, and kept the streets clear by marching in close columns. Several persons are said to have been wounded, and the tumult was not appeased at nine o'clock." The Ost-Deutsche Post says : The students were the primary cause of the dis turbance of yesterday evening. The youn g men were at the Café Filinger all the day, and when it was announced that some houses in the Faubourg Leopold were being illuminated, some 30 of them proceeded to that quarter of the city, and a desperate fight took place in the Place Christophe before the hotel of the King of Hungary. They attacked the house of a stereo scope manufacturer, who had illuminated. The' soldiers interfered. A soldier of the guard received a cut in the back from a knife, and two persons were mortally wounded, A little after the Zrinyi brewery was the scene of a fierce contest. The brewery was completely gutted, and a great num ber of persons were wounded." The Wanderer says :—" Fresh tumults occurred on the 24th, and the troops had to be called out. The Place du Theatre, the Cafe Zrinyi, and the Faubourg Joseph stadt were the scene of these disorders. Some per sons were wounded." M. Szemere, Minister of Finance and President of the Council of Ministers of Hungary under the revolutionary government, has addressed a letter to the French journals on the subject of the re-estab lishment of the Hungarian constitution. After alluding to a work which he recently published, and in which he pointed out all the just complaints of Hungary, and the remedy which should be applied to them, the writer expresses his approba tion of the constitution just promulgated by the Emperor, and concludes his letter as follows : I may, perhaps, be asked whether Hungary will now, as regards foreign affairs, follow the traditional policy of the Hapsburgs. To that I dare to reply in the negative, for the dynasty must entirely abandon its absolutist policy. A sovereign truly constitutional at home, cannot be despotic abroad. If Francis Joseph only grants these reforms with the secret idea of leading Hungary into an offensive war against Italy, it will be a fatal error for him, and his con cessions will lose all their moral and political value ; but, in a contrary case, constitutional liberty in Austria will be a new pledge for dpacific solution of the Venetian question. This is why the recent decrees are of great European im portance, for we may hope that from this time we have one constitutional state the more, and one despotic the less. M. Szemere's hopes are not shared, we believe, by his former associates in the national goTern ment. SARDINIA AND SYRIA. Count Cavour has addressed the following circu lar to the Sardinian Legations : TURIN, OCT. 15; " Monsieur le Minister,—You know from my preceding communications the attitude which the King's Government has thought right to take in the question of Syria. When, in the month of August last, on the announcement of the massacres which devastated the Christian regions of that country, the Powers met in conference in Paris to devise means for putting an end to such frightful disorders, and to prevent the renewal of others, we claimed to be allowed to take part in the arrangements to be come to. Our right to do so was evident. It was conse crated by Art. 7 of the treaty of the 30th March, 1856, which, by admitting the Sublime Porte to the advantages of public law and of the European con cert, contains the formal engagement of the Powers which signed it to guarantee in common the inde pendence and territorial integrity of the Ottoman empire. In virtue of that disposition the assent of Sardinia to the occupation of a part of the Ottoman territory was indispensable to the legality of the measures to be taken in common. Accordingly, the right of Sardinia was not contested. Only, it was remarked to us, more, however, as a technicality than as a real objection, that the question of Syria, as it presented itself, was connected with the ar rangements of 1845 —arrangements to -which we were strangers—and that consequently it might be believed that the Powers acted on this occasion less in virtue of the Treaty of 1856 than of previous understandings. It was, however, easy for us to show that the question could not be considered. as simply local, but that it possessed general inte rest, from the influence it was destined to exercise on the situation of Turkey and the relations between the different States of Europe. We might even have added that, without going back to the conven tions of 1848, which referred to Mount Lebanon, the Treaty of 1856, by introducing a right as re gards Turkey, implicitly modified all previous special conventions which were contrary to, or not in conformity with, this new general and permanent right. Nevertheless we could not ignore that the obstacles which opposed them selves for the moment to the reception of our de mands were specially owing to the efforts of Austria to exclude us from the understanding. At that moment the lives of several thousand Christians were in the greatest danger, and it was necessary to apply a prompt and efficacious remedy to such a frightful state of things. We, therefore, thought it right not to insist any longer, for by doing so we might have caused some delay in the decisions of the Conference of Paris, and any loss of time would have caused the most fatal consequences. We pre ferred to suspend for the moment the exercise of our fright, but at the same time we notified to , friendly and allied Cabinets that we made reserves.. On its part the Sublime Porte, in the course of the month of June, having confided to his Highness the Grand Vizier Kuprisli Pasha the mission of visiting the different provinces of the empire to inquire into the fate of the Christian populations., hastened to give official communication of his ap pointment to the representatives of the Powers which signed the Treaty of Paris residing at Cele. stantinople. His Majesty's legation not having received that communication, the King's Minister demanded explanations, and then doubts were ver bally expressed by the Porte as to the legitimacy of our pretensions. I immediately gave orders to General Durando to reply categorically to the ob - servations made, and to protest formally in advance against any interpretation restrictive of our rights.. I transmit to you a copy of the note which his. Majesty's legation addressed with this object to. Savfet Effendi on the 22d September last, and pray you to read it to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and to give him a copy of it.—Accept, &c., " C. CAVOUR." h'Ei'✓S I'RO3I TEHERAN. TEHERAN, Sept. 7.-1 have already apprised yea that the Turcomans had broken their engagement not to enter the district of Merwi in a hostile man ner, and also to abstain generally from bri gandage in Persian territory. With a swarm or nearly :;0,000 horsemen, however, they broke into and overran the district in question, pillaging and. making captives on all hands. They even threat ened to extend their ravages into Khorassan ; but to prevent this, and signally punish them once for all, Prince Ilamza Mirza, the Commander-in-Chief in the latter province, marched rapidly on them from Sarax with a division of 10,000 infantry, 4,000 cavalry, and a strong force of artillery, calculating that from their great numbers they would sho fight. Nor was he mistaken. On Aug. 27 he arrive before Merwi, and, although the Islamites do not, if possible, attempt any important affair in the monith of Sefer, the Prince determined at once to atta( dr the Turcomans. The combat commenced at dad 7. break and lasted nine hours. Notwithstanding sev a ril dashing charges of the infantry, under the cop a. mand of Gen. Mourtusa Khan, it was the artille) under the Prince (who carried with him the II n. perial standard) who decided the day. The Turcua mans were thrown into utter confusion, and took to flight in complete di sorder, hotly pursued by the Persian cavalry. The plain ofAlerwi was covered. with between 3,000 and 4,000 bodies. The detailed. bulletin of the battle has not yet reached us, only the general official account, which we have receiver to-day. A great number of prisoners were captured 1, including some of the chiefs; also some thousanlis of horses, camels, arms, and standards fell into 'the Persian's hands. The loss of the latter was co nal derable, a large number of officers being among the, killed and wounded. The General of Brigade Srertip All Kouli Khan, who at the commencement of the action commanded the artillery, was mortally wounded, and although alive when the account was despatched, he was not expected to survive many hours. The town and district of Merwi have been, completely occupied by Prince Mirza. The bridge over a river which falls into the Mourgab, a, most important stragetical position, has also been: taken, and is now held by the Persians. At Mcs ched, the capital of Khorassan, which was also threatened by an invasisn of the Turcomans, there was a great popular demonstration on the occasion of the news of their defeat. The town was nated and fireworks let off as in honour of some great national event. The Prince Commander has determined strongly to fortify Merwi and to make it a strong military post. The name of the town, has also ben changed to Nazire, in honour of the- Shah. The Shah has been stopping for some time at his summer palace of Chimarn, but is expected. to arrive here in a few days to take up his resi dence for the winter. His return to the capital has been hastened in consequence of the approach of the feast of Mewlud, which will he observed as usual by his Majesty in the capital. There is no other local news worth reporting. ALIMENTARY AND MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF CONDIMENT.—As to the alimenta r y and medicinal action gsoe material s nal of Thorley's Condiment, it improves health and economises es cattle to cattle they food, and promotes healthy di ges tion, preventi ng t h e gene er a x t t i r o a n c t o n f l g o : r is e e n s oaunidisNivutitlsetn,etoffrfludieedlint also otherwise could do, and fatten more evenly, w hi le, by im proving health, it at the same time reduces the daily waste of the body. These are facts. supported by th e _L ancet, D r. Ilassall, and the best scientific authorities id this country and America. EXCITING RACE. —Last week there was a most exciting race in the Strand between a tiretengine ands Pickford's van. The former had the start, but: was soon caught up by the latter. The pace for about ten minutes was terrific—we rillgnt almost say, killing —but ultimately the Pickford's van won by a good couple of streets. Only live children and two old ,women were thrown over, fifteen apple-stalls upset, one ces,ormyager's donkey seriously in jured and not exre,:ted to tmtvive, besideg an old gentlemanand a commissionaire, who were carried to the hospital, and lay in a very precarious state. The winner was taken to the station-ho use, and weighed i n t h e sca l e o f just i ce, where upon some . little irregularity being detected, he was de tained. This irregularity i s•mPIY arose from the fact of his being colliderably Qverweightea with liquor,--.Poach. t" • 1