The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-17 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS ETENING the performances will oommenee with THE ROAD TO RUIN. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. And PAUL PRY. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. And TO PA.REN fS AND GUARDIANS. After which, TRYING IT ON. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'clock. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS. - EVERY EVENING. —The I.l.tisic of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con- Verts), the extraorainary Violin Performances of the cele. I, rated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual focal Concer t. Comic Vocalists -Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer beer's new opera of DINNORA. THE WEATHER.—Smi OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 17. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 64—highest since noon yesterday. 55—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29. 82 . WIND, North and North-Westerly; fresh. It has blown hard during the night, with rain and squally weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAT, t —Morning, 4h. 27m.—Afternoon, 4h. 43m. To-Moratow-Morning, sh. Im.—Afternoon, sh. 2Ont The Gazette of last evening published the officia account from Admiral HOPE of the too sad disaster at the mouth of the Peiho. The gallant Admiral's description is at once clear and seaman-like, doing full justice to the manly intrepidity of all concerned in so deplorable an encounter. But there is this view of the case which we cannot fail to take into consideration, now that the calamity has happened. Either there was too much made of the honour intended to be paid to the Ambassadors, and too large a force sent if no hostile opposition were apprehended, or too little by half if we were to be met at the very threshhold with a direct refusal to enter. Taken in either sense there was a want of due consideration ; for if we went to deal with a treacherous friend, surely half measures were not the safe course to pursue. We had enough experience of Chinese perfidy, and even contempt for the " outside barbarians," as we were no doubt candidly, but very ignorantly designated, to be at any loss for a repetition of their knavery. But it is all for the best, now that we cannot recal to life those brave spirits that so heroically volunteered everything in the cause of duty. We have been taught a bitter lesson, be it either from jealous Russian or from cunning Chinese, or from both combined. Our future course is now clear as our former was dubious and unprepared. In fact it was idle from the first to treat the Chinese as re spectable people whose word would be taken as their bond. They respect neither ; and thinking they were only dealing with Barbarians, perhaps they were right. But the result will teach them how idle was their presumption, and how fool hardy was their belief. It is impossible for them to repeat the same trick unless we are as stupid as they think themselves over-wise. We have had pretty good training from these Celestials in their proper persons ; and we ought to be apt scholars by this time. The Devil himself is no match for an honest man, but he is all right with a rogue—being of the same kidney—kindred in all mischief. But for JOHN CHINAMAN—he combines both characters —honest for one purpose and over dishonest for another ! Let us treat him hereafter after his own fashion and prove to him that we can cheat the Chinese Devil, even in the dark. This may excite his admiration for us if it do not increase his respect. The question, then, is how to counteract the effects of this disaster. We say—be prompt, powerful and decisive. All these are happily within our power. But how ? We answer wey how. If the Peiho River and tne Gulf of Pee-chee-he be frozen over in the winter—there are other courses open to us now as heretofore. The Chinese EMPEROR is only to be treated, with after a vulgar fashion—he must have hard knocks, as the Middy answered the people who asked what he had for barter—Hardware ! was the young Pedlar's reply—and hardware of heavy calibre must be our future Ambassadors to his Celestial MAJESTY. The Chinese worship that EMPEROR as a god from a sense of sheer policy and he seems to believe in his ascribed divinity from a similar policy to take all for the best. Mystery is only great because we don't know it ; but once unfold the imposture, and all our belief vanishes in emp t y vision ! Who would have thought it ? is only the expression of vacant unre fleeting minds. There is the bugbear so dear to superstition, and now grasp it if you can ! It is all illusion ! and just turns out to be :so to one's utter confusion. The Chinese know us to be powerful, but they think we are too generous to be wise. And per haps they are half right. Let us undeceive them for once and for all. A worthy Veteran informs us that no operations can be undertaken on the Peiho before May or June next, because the river will be frozen. Well, then, China is wide and large enough for more central operations. There is the great river leading to Yan-tze Kian-keu, on the grand canal which supplies Nankin and Pekin with food. Let us take that by way of a beginning and touch them up in their very vitals. Then, again, as the Peiho is only a water way to Pekin, surely we can make good a landing in the vicinity, for if au army be essential that army cannot operate on water, only to land ; and it were well to take the Chinese by the horns-qt once, and so impress them with a proper sense of our metal. There is no half w/IT to the goal—it must be mastered at whatever cost- That the enemy is no , wide awake to our capa bilities there is little or no do u b t ; but the thing to be achieved is, to leave no room for any further doubt. Our army can as well w i nter . Chinam as in India; and if, as our veteran Correspondent stag.—thc men must have double pay , be • he so, for t the C.,41.5,,8e5e w ill have to stand " the blunt"-- now and for ever more. Let vs tsice Nankin first, and keep it—that was the capital when the Chinese were their ow n masters. Let us then take Pekin, and keep that, too, until I%lle ransom—a right heavy one—be paid. This will bcring the EMPEROR, Mandarins, and all the believeirs in CONFUCIUS, to believe there may be yet something even better worth paying atten tion to. A good ideal has been remarked on the cunning of the Chilaese in digging holes in the mud-banks, so as to give our gallant men a sousing in their attack. The idea was worthy of the Celestials ; but it was may common to Asiatics, for it may be re members xl that the Burmese played the same game yet Ira ago. They sunk pits in the course of an hour, as Id the whole army disappeared as if by magic into the very bowels of the earth on which they were encamped! They reasoned well and practised better. In all hot countries, especially in the East, people go under ground to avoid the heat, as they do in cold regions for shelter from frost, thus pro'ving that extremes meet. And the Chinese, reasoning by analogy, turned their knowledge to account by making the deep deeper still. " All is fair in war," so the adage runs ; but sometimes people dig pits into which they may some day fall themselves ; and that the Chinese have done so is now to be proved by the promptitude of our policy and the unrelenting sternness of our actions. The passage of the Ticino, resulting in the counter passage of the Mincio, has done more already than we had at one time ventured to hope. Surely some Delphic oracle whispered in the ears of FRANCIS JOSEPH as Count GYULAI and his legions stood on the banks of the former stream, " if Austria cross the Ticino she shall destroy a hateful policy." And he modern CROESUS—CROESUS in the sense not of wealth certainly, but of willing delusion—believed that the " hateful policy" was the one so odious to him, that of spreading abroad in Italy and else where the principles and practice of civil and religious liberty. ])ash forward, therefore, GYULAI —down with constitutions and religious toleration —up with despotism and the POPE ! For a week or'two the despot interpretation of the oracle seemed right ; the free, unarmed pea- santry and burghers of Piedmont had to pay the penalty to Austrian savages of belonging to a free country; but soon the tide began to turn. And at Solferino the superstitious young dupe of the Jesuits had to wring his hands at finding that the odious policy he had subverted was of civil and religious oppression. From the very banks of the Mincio paragraphs were indited to Vienna journals which promised all kinds of reforms, especially a fair measure of religious liberty even for Jews while the Duchies ha& begun that free, self-reliant and admirable course, which has issued in the ten dering of three Austrian Crowns to the only Italian Monarch who has firmly maintained the civil and religious rights of his subjects. Solferino seems, after all, to have been a stroke which shook Austrian policy to the north of the Alps, besides over throwing it entirely in Central Italy. Not only have the Duchies and the Legations thrown off priest-rule and Austrian rule, for the rule of a constitutional monarch ; but throughout all the provinces of her empire, Austria has been obliged to proclaim new liberties for the non-Catholic churches. The document lately published in the Wiener Zeitung (the Vienna Gazette) conferring apparently equal or nearly equal political and ecclesiastical privileges on the principal Protestant churches with those enjoyed by the Roman Catholic Church, is perhaps one of the most remarkable results of the Italian struggle. For those which we have seen in Italy, we were in some measure prepared ; but few of us looked for religious liberty in Hun gary, Transylvania, Croatia, Sclavonia, and other minor provinces in that part of the empire, as a consequence of the Austrian reverse in Lombardy. Such a result is, however, perfectly natural. The state of the empire was such that it could not bear defeat, and the angry dissatisfaction of millions of its subjects also. An army of half a million men seemed enough to keep quiet all the heretics in the empire ; and it was so while it was supposed to be an invincible army ; but an army beaten in a fight against national independence and free institutions, lost half its terror for subjugated nationalities and subjugated churches to the north of the Alps. The independence and civil status conferred on the Protestant churches seems now to be about as much as they probably desire. They have practi cally become recognised State churches. The word " parity of rights" with the Catholic Church, is avoided, it is said, for fear of giving offence to the yet more numerous party ; but the thing appears to be pretty well secured. The Roman Catholic Su perintendent of Protestant affairs at Vienna, though a man much respected and esteemed by Protestants themselves, for his liberality and interest in their welfare, has to give way to a Protestant Superin tendent. The different conferences are authorised to form their own synods and religious assemblies, to elect in the parishes their own rectors, vicars, and schoolmasters ; matrimonisl affairs are to be en trusted to the management of the religious courts of each confession ; the Protestant schools are to be under no apprehension of Jesuit interference, but to be for the future under the direction and inspection of their 3w n ecclesiastical authorities. Some police rights are indeed reserved, and they might no doubt be abused, but we are willing to believe that the document is sincerely intended. The object is con ciliation. And it is hardly likely that with a Pro testant Superintendent at Vienna the Austrian police will be suffered to thwart what really seems like a new policy. What are we to look for next in Austria ? If the Concordat be thus thrown aside what else may not go with it ? It is true that these franchises concern the Protestants and their clergy only, immediately. But will the Roman Catholie clergy be content to see their Protestant confreres enjoying such power and liberty while they themselves are enslaved to Rome? The Concordat was almost entirely framed in the interests of the POPE and the Bishops. The parochial clergy were much aggrieved by it. They will in all probability now demand their emancipa tion also. If it was important to allay Protestau disaffection, it must be yet more so to satisfy f parochial clergy of a Catholic Empire. May we then venture to hope that even Austria is beginning to feel that the rule of repression must be relaxed. After 1848 the policy was adopted , and has been pursued with unscrupulous cruelty, of centralising all administration, civil and re ligious, of ruling everything direct from Vienna and Rome, and of effacing all natural and ecclesi astical distinctions in one uniform slavery. The Italian war has revealed to the most besotted and stupid Government in Europe that this will not do. It has begun to learn the lesson that contentment of subjects is the strength of a Government, and that contentment there cannot be in the leaden rule of a Viennese bureaucracy and a Catholic priesthood. Will the young Emperor and his advisers go on to learn ? They have but got through the alphabet yet. Dull pupils we must expect them to be. How ever, they have made a beginning, and, for them, a promising one. We confess we did not expect any thing half so good at first in this department. Ecclesiastical liberty and self-government for Pro testants, even under central supervision, is a great deal; and we will not cavil till we hear that those concerned detect anything underhand or seriously opposed to their interests. We would hope, on the other hand, that Austrian i rulers may find the effect of this first seriously set to w or k to vie s o wth pleasant Sardiniathat the y ‘ i nIN, renders her the ad m i rat i on of all the oppressed of Austria who can place themselves beneath her sway. It would indeedbe her amusing v various o s u e es peoples, Austria bidding for popularity among by outstepping Sardinia in the race of freedom I The seaworthiness of the Great Easter, has now been proved incontestably, Her enormous strength has been demonstrated. Her speed is no longer matter of mere conjecture. With her engines only moderately worked she has made easily fifteen knots an hour, careless alike of tide, wind, and weather. In spite of that tremendous detonation which shattered to atoms, in the twinkling of an eye, the solid iron casing of one of the paddle funnels, the funnel itself, several cabins, and the ladies' saloon—the machinery was in no way put out of order, and (as conclusive evidence of the adamantine character of the whole structure) two superb mirrors, embedded in substantial metal bulkheads, of the ladies' saloon remained unflawed in the midst of the ruins of that noble apartment after an explosion that would have sunk the largest line-of-battle ship ever yet launched. The extraordinary solidity of the whole giant fabric of the Great Eastern is, in point of fact, absolutely proved beyond all further question by the preserva tion of those two mirrors in the ladies' saloon. For had there been the slightest vibration in the iron bulkhead, upon the surface of which they are framed, or, so to speak, empannelled, they must at the least have been cracked, if not (which is far more probable) actually shivered into a thousand splinters. There, however, unharmed and perfect, those large mirrors reflected within them the splen did debris of the ladies' saloon, after the steam and smoke and dust of the explosion had subsided. Proof positive was thereby given of the matchless strength and solidity of the whole colossal frame work of this leviathan of the deep. The confidence previously placed in that strength and solidity has been now, consequently, confirmed and justified. The catastrophe which most unhappily occurred off Dungeness, so far from militating against the repute of the Great Eastern, tends very considerably and directly towards the enhancement of it. No one can hesitate to believe now in the perfect seaworthi ness of a vessel that rides out an explosion like that of Friday se'nnight scatheless and unharmed save in the compartment in which the funnel casing burst with the eruptive concussion of an artificial volcano Now that these happy conclusions have been arrived at in regard to an incident that first of all appeared to be nothing less than an unmitigated calamity—it remains to be seen what may most judiciously be done by way of clearing up that disaster, with a view to the prevention of any re currence of anything in any way similar to it, either in the way of carelessness or in the way of experi mentalising. There cannot be a doubt that there were three points in regard to which there was very grievous culpability ; and through the com bination of the culpability in regard to which we have had this most deplorable and really appalling catastrophe. Those three points ought to be thoroughly inquired into and laid bare—they hardly require enumeration, they are so clearly ob vious—they are so perfectly self-evident. Mist and foremost—it will be well to arrive at a distinct understanding as to who was really the cause of the adoption, in regard to the paddle-fun nels, of that experimental casing the generation between which and the funnel itself transformed one of those two paddle-funnels so encased into a gigantic exaggeration of an Infernal Machine. Somebody manifestly was peculiarly responsible for the adoption of a plan which was known to have always hitherto failed—which was distinctly re jected as hazardous by Messrs. BOLTON and WATT, the engineers entrusted with the construction of the engines —and which, adopted by this Somebody in spite of this warning rejection, has proved in the end so fearfully destructive. Secondly—who is responsible for those bungling donkey•engines (engines for once aptly enough designated) which failed so miserably within so short a time after the Great Eastern had quitted the waters of the Thames ? All those donkey engines were required to do, was to feed the casings of the paddle-funnels with an adequate supply of cold water to be thus pumped in at the top to be gradually heated by the hot air, steam, and smoke passing up through the funnels, and so to be run off ready warmed in due proportion into the boilers beneath them. As we all know now, one of these two miserable donkey engines, after wheezing and puffing very inefficiently, at length actually broke down—leaving all the rest of the work to be done by its hardly less efficient companion. Hence the plan of heating the water gradually in the fun nel casings, to be thence passed duly warmed into the paddle-boilers, had to be abandoned, the cold water being pumped directly into both boilers by the one donkey engine. Somebody here plainly may be held responsible—the somebody who sup plied the said donkey engine. Thirdly, and lastly—there was the stop-cock at the top of that lamentable funnel-casing shut when it ought to have been open. Who turned that cock, shutting off the steam from the chance of escape ? Somebody there, too, was responsible for the stop-cock in question is proved, beyond a doubt, to have been open (as it ought to have been all along) on the - Wednesday preceding the catastrophe. Between the Wednesday, when it was last known to have been open, and the Friday night, when it was proved very dreadfully to have been shut— proved by this astounding explosion, causing the destruction of at least six lives and £5,000 worth of property, by one instantaneous detonation— Somebody (it is self-evident) must have tampered with it, and—for some reason or another—have shut up the steam, and so transformed the funnel case into a gigantic bombshell. It will be well, if possible, to discover the real delinquents upon whom rests this threefold responsibility. he DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO CHINA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Silt, From your leader of this day, on the de spatch of troops to China, it would seem not to be generally known that the river Peiho, and indeed the whole gulf of Pee-thee-lee, are frozen Lard in the winter, so that even if our ships could get there in time for the gun-boats to get up the river before the cold weather sets in, they would almost inevit ably be frozen up, and any troops operating against Pekin would be separated from its base of opera tions—the fleet. This was the reason why Lord Gough refused to proceed against Pekin in the winter; and he was perfectly right. It was then decided to go up the Yellow River instead. This time, however, we must go to Pekin, and rely on it that cannot be done before May or June. You seem to think that our Government will send troops from India. No such thing—unless the pub lic voice compels them. Troops in India get double pay, which could not well be curtailed if they were sent to China. Besides this, it would take the pay of 10,000 men from off the shoulders of the im poverished Indian Government, anal put it on those of the British. Will Mr. Glath tone consent to that ? Never! unless compelled. Remember the 3,000 artillery men. Your obedient servant, A VETERAN. Sept. 16. A ship of the line, to be called the Magenta, which is to be steel-plated, and the largest vessel in the Freneh navy, has been put upon the stocks at Brest. Madame Clara Novello, whose spirited defence of Mr. Sims Reeves at the Gloucester Festival last Wednes day elicited so much enthusiasm, will leave England for Italy on Thursday next, the 22d inst. ; but previous to her departure she has engaged to sing at a popular concert at the Crystal Palace on Wednesday next, the 21st. As this will be her last appeara nce in England for a considerable time a large attendance may be expected, especially as the a lvertisements announce that the admission will be the same as on ordinary days—one shilling. MISS AMY SEDGWICK.-011 Monday evening next, the 19th inst., this popular artiste will make her reappearance at the Haymarket Th eatre, in the character of Rosalind, in Shakespeare's comedy of " As you like it." ------- ---• ..‘:•l'. - . -- . - . ''to' '' . ""A A 4 , 4 , a s •• , ~.... , ~,' , ... 4. .' :: ' AMR: • 41 1 °, 1 , 77-.4 ' , ~ t - ' Ne‘'-', ..',. ,';'•:',.=,-: ~, ,, llilk a , --:=~., i , :.., -, a z . m ,? , _ .„„ 04),,, DR° . . THE SUN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1859. 'THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1859 a TIL L EDITION• SUN OFFICE, Six o' Clock. AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter in the Siecle says : " According to the last advices from Venetia, the instalments of the forced loan imposed by Austria on that province are paid with extreme difficulty. The crops of corn and other agricul tural produce are very bad in Venetia this year, and two of the chief articles of export from that province, wine and silk, will yield but light re turns of cash. The Austrian Minister of Finance is greatly embarrassed for want of resources, and has been able to pay the interest of the public debt only with the aid of the National Bank, which establishment at present possesses only 75 mil lions of florins in specie against a circulation of 450 millions of notes. In this emergency he has found no other cxpedient to bring back a little specie into the coffers of the Bank, than the sale by auction of the Imperial domains, on which the Bank holds a mortgage for 99 millions. The sale of part of these lands is already advertised in the journals ; but at the present moment, when the low price of corn exercises a most depressing in fluence on the value of rural estates, this forced sale will bt: sacrificing the domains of the State. The port of Trieste, the centre of our maritime commerce, lately sent a memorial to the Minister of the Interior, explaining the causes which have long injured the trade of that town. Trieste, which is a free port, has good reason to complain of the high duties of the Austrian customs' tariff. One of the points on which the memorial lays the greatest stress is the equality of the duties on colonial and beet-root sugar." The Brussels Independance says that Lord Cowley and M. Walewski have been commissioned to arrange the bases of the co-operation between France and England in prosecuting the Chinese war. The New York papers by the packet yesterday state that a positive announcement had been received from Mr. Lever that he had chartered the Great Eastern, and that she would sail from Galway to New York. It is stated that several large creditors of Messrs. Calvert and Co., the brewers, have formed themselves into a committee for the purpose of ascertaining, if possible, whether it will be for the interest of the general body of claimants to take over the brewery property, as proposed by the inspectors, and carry on the business as ft limited joint-stock company, or whether the depositors must sub mit to the haavy loss which is now threatened by a forced sale of the assets. ETON COLLEGE.—The election vacation at Eton College, which began on the Ist ult., terminated on 'Wed nesday last, in the evening of which day the return of the boys commenced, the lower school being the first to arrive. Yesterday the fifth form followed. To-day is the day of arrival of the sixth form, when the whole school will have assembled. The number will be further increased, as more boys have entered than those who left at the vacation, when the largest number ever at Eton (803) formed the list. A SAILOR'S FUNERAL.—The remains of James Riley, the youth who was killed about ten days ago by fall ing from the yard arm of her Majesty's ship Donegal, lying in the Mersey, and whose body was washed ashore at Wa terloo, were conveyed to St. James's Cemetery, Liverpool, for burial yesterday. About 150 of the deceased's shipmates beaded by Lieut. Buller, R.N., accompanied the remains to their last resting place, and as the funeral procession went through the principal streets of the town, it attracted considerable attention from its novelty. STATE OF TRADE.—MANCFIESTER, Sept. 16. — The unfavourable commercial advices from Bombay and the news of the disaster in China have continued to affect our market adversely throughout the week, and only a very limited business has been done. Lower prices have been offered for twist in consequence of these advices, but with out being accepted, and with the exception of lid. per piece less being taken for India shirtings there is no change in quotations. The advices from Bombay were good, and cloths suited to that market continue firm, manufacturers having heavy orders yet to complete. Heavy domestics, long, and T cloths, both for export and home trade, have only been taken moderately. Printinr , cloths are out of stock, with heavy contracts to complete, and are conse quently firm. For 36-inch shirtings there is less inquiry, but makers aro well engaged for the present. Yarns are quiet, with but little business during the week either for the home or export trade. _ . RIFLE CORPS, HORNSEY (MIDDLESEX). —At meeting held on Wednesday evening, at Crouch-end, Wm. Bird, Esq., in the chair, the resultof the canvass since the public meeting in the village was communicated to the members of this corps. Upwards of 30 effectives from Crouch-end, Hornsey, Muswell-hill, Southgate, and Stam ford. hill, have been enrolled, andno doubt these districts will furnish a full company of at least 60 to the strength of the county. The members agree to subscribe 10 guineas, if required, to a general fund, from which all expenses of out fit, rifle practice ground, drill, &c., will be paid. This fund, aided by donations fram the neighbourhood, amounts already to upwards of VOO. The annual subscription has been fixed at two guineas for both effective and honorary mem bers, and produces already an annual income of more than £5OO. Contiguous to the Hornsey Station of the Great Northern Railway, a most perfect natural site, with a range of more than 400 yards, has been pointed out by the officer sent rni d N o v livanbbeytil Governmentpotial o for e ap that io v purpose, y and o u u n t o i Rant for adoption in the county. The members decided to commence the preliminary drill at once. LANDSLIP.—An extraordinary slip of land has recently thettt k I c s n le p l o a f ee s h a e t p l p V y a , r d w e h n i crho hasint, p o l n a o ethe theno r a t n h o - e a n s t t church of that parish in great danger, as the east end of the church is only 41 feet from the edge of the cliff. Per sons residing near the church state that for three or four o i s s e o v w e i r ts al h p e a a r r i d s a o t f very short intervals g t c ri e d e a r n . the land (pasture), with rows of lar g e trees, hurdle-fences, and hedges have dropped down, and the trees stand with the d a y s _previoustotlte li s k li o p d t i a s k ta in n Sce., perfectly upright, as though they had other trees are partially inclined to of many years, are turned upwards, but roots, the growth not a single tree is buried by the soil. A landslip of less ilbsie-eitedrn:lesmsahtvecudsredbalye, s a i n a d g o i e t hers are quite reversed ; the immense magnitude took place about two years since, which together with the present one acted on a space of more than 10 acres of arable and pasture land, in consequence of which the Coast- guard station at this place being considered unsafe has recentlybeen taken down. The land for some considerable distance south-east of the church is still opening in large chasms, varying from three i nches to three feet, and in depth from three to 30 feet. Great numbers of visitors have been attracted to the spot, and the curiosity does not seem at all to diminish. EXPLOSION OF THE GREAT EASTERN.—The phenomena connected with the condition of the sufferers are curious, and offer another proof of the absence of pain noticeable in cases of violent injury. The men looked be wildered at what had happened, they were able to walk up on deck, and were unconscious of the fact that their skin had been boiled by the steam. And they felt no pain when the whole skin of the arm and hand came off like an old glove. The cause of this may be found in the fact that the nerves of sensation had been entirely destroyed, and therefore, as far at least as the skin was concerned, they were as incapable of suffering as a corpse would be. Never theless, the shock was too great, and the system too much injured for recovery, and the unhappy men gradually, and no doubt painlessly expired. Another instance of serious injuries producing no sensation of pain was seen a few weeks ago, when an excursion train on the North Devon Railway ran off the line and overturned in a field, the engineer was lying under the locomotive, with both his legs horribly crushed, and there he lay ; and, calling for pen and ink absolutely wrote a letter to his wife, tolling her of the accident, and informing her that he was not killed. In fact, the nerves, having performed their office of giving warning of injury, they are no longer required, and all further pain is therefore rendered impossible.—Literary Gazette. A lad went to the parish minister to be examined before his first communion. The minister, not wishing to discourage the boy, led off with a safe question : " How many commandments are there ?" After some little thought, the lad cautiously and suggestively answered, "May be a hunner." The minister, shocked at such intolerable igno rance, dismissed this promising catechumen. On returning home the lad met another boy bound to the manse on the seine errand. Notes were compared. " Weel, what will ye say, noo, if the minister spoors hoe mony commandments I , ll , e i r e e a ni tra y ` 3, ‘ .o Sa h y im ! Wh y, y t , I enl shall ltri s e a d y h t i e m n, v, t i o , a be hu s n u n re e .;: and he wasna satisfeed." A laughable incident occurred the other day to t j e u e s t t h no a w re . the handsome Miss N—, of London, whose sparkling seoiconversationjhloF Frenchmen h m find on su turning" Send the nlo head s some pond;o f the t e , d'orris," said she to the demoiyelle of one of the grand per fumery establishments. " Tres Lein; mademoiselle." We all know that orris root is very good for the tenth. The mother of the young lady, who is a very High Church woman, and has a laudable horror of all French frivolities and deceptions, was petrified about half an hour after at re ceiving, directed to her daughter, a packet ofpoudre de riz, the secret of the deadly pale complexion of the Parisian ladies so much in vogue among them. The arrival of Miss N— and her explanatio n pacified who immediately imagined she had brought her child to the verge of an abyss in allowing her to remain a few weeks in Paris. The i;oadre de riz was soon exchanged for poadre d'o» is, with n say apologies on'the part of the demoiselle of the shop. -- Ladies' Sews:paper.' ONE WAY OF GETTINO MARRIED.—An occur rence took place in the superintendent registrar's office here, a day or two since, of a somewhat singular and altogether amus ing kind. A happy couple, who had duly given the necessary notice of their intention to be united in matri mony, had fixed the day and hour with the registkar ,r the performance of the ceremony. The day, the hour, and the intended bride arrived, but unaccom panied with her lover, and on the former being inter rogated- as to the reason of the absence of the latter on such an important occasion, she said that he was ill, but as they were both, and she in particular, most desirous that the ceremony should be performed without the delay of a day, she had brought the ring with her, and expressed a hope that the superintendent would, with the aid of that article, do what was required to effect her happiness. Of course such a request was received with the merriment it deserved, and on the registrar explaining to the simple woman that such duties were not, as yet, within his pro vince, and informing her that she must wait till a more favourable opportunity, she sorrowfully but reluctantly retired, muttering to herself that if that was law it ought not to be.—Plymotith Journal. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : FRANKFORT, SEPT. 16. A meeting of friends of the reform of the Federal constitution was held here to-day, at which 150 persons were present. The following resolution was passed " Since the formation of a national party in Ger many for the purpose of promoting the unity and liberal development of the great and common father land, the foundation of which has been laid at Eisenach and Hanover, has become a reality, the undersigned do hereby establish an association to be located at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. The aim of this society shall be to labour for the patriotic objects of this party with all available lawful means; and more especially to take upon itself the moral task of making the people more and more conscious of the aim and means of the movement which is being promulgated throughout the whole of our fatherland." A committee of 12 has been charged with the management of the association. PARIS, SEPT. 16. The Minister of the Interior has issued a circular to the Prefects throughout France, stating that it is not the intention of the Government to modify the laws on the press, and requesting them to continue to control the latitude allowed to the provincial newspapers. The King of the Belgians has arrived at Biarrits PARMA, SEPT. 15. The National Assembly met to-day to hear the reading of the answer given by the King of Saz dinia to the deputation sent to Turin. The Assem bly has unanimously voted for the contract of a loan of 5,000,000 francs. A deputation has been chosen to deliver an address from the Assembly to the Emperor Napoleon. The deputation is com posed of the following members :—Signors Cantelli, Torrigiani, Anguitolo, and Ranucci. The Assembly has been prorogued, with the power to be re-convoked by a decree of the Dictator and President of the Assembly, or can at any time be re-assembled at the request of twenty members The Paris correspondent of the Times (second edition) says : " Letters from Zurich, of yesterday's date, say that the Plenipotentiaries had for the previous four days completely suspended their proceedings, and that they had not even had those tete-a-tete inter views which before had been of frequent occurrence. This inaction was considered due to the note in the 31onitear and to the mission of Prince Metternich. Count Colloredo awaited fresh instructions from his Government, which, it was supposed, could hardly be sent until it was informed of the result of Prince Metternich's interview with the Emperor Napoleon. The Prince will be in Paris to-morrow, and has taken Zurich in his way. On his arrival here he will confer with Count Walew ski, who will leave for Biarritz on Monday. The Count's departure was announced as to have taken place sooner, hut he has been waiting for Prince Metternich, and the Chinese affair has also given him occupation. We are justified in sup posing that some progress will at last be made in the tedious and complicated negotiations that have sprung from the preliminaries of Villafranca. If we may believe the report of the day, there is a possibility of a settlement that should satisfy all parties, and the general impression hero seems to be that the political horizon is likely soon to be clearer than it for some time past has been. Great curiosity will, of course, be felt to see what ingenious combination has been found to content both Austria and Italy—if, indeed, - that end be attained, which appears scarcely possible. It is here confidently asserted, however, that the Austrian Government is content ; and letters from Turin, of incontestable authority, confirm the statement al ready made, that the Government of Sardinia is tranquil as to what is coming—the note in the 111oniteur having made little impression upon it, because it had previously received satisfactory as surances from the Emperor Napoleon. Such is the political situation of the moment, as far as it can be ascertained. In a very few days we ought to know more. Some persons here are sanguine that such an arrangement an d agreement are being come to by the two Emperors as may do away with the necessity of a European Congress." FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY, The Emperor and the Empress reached the Villa Eugenic at Biarritz on the day announced. On reaching the railway station at Bayonne their Ma jesties were received by General Montenard, the prefect of the department, and the mayor of the department, and the mayor of the town ; and after a few words addressed to those personages, their Majesties entered an open carriage and proceeded to the villa, amidst loud shouts of "Vive I'Empe reur !" " Vive I'lmperatrice" " Vive le Prince Im perial !" from the numerous persons assembled along the road to welcome them. At Biarritz the reception was equally enthusiastic, and in the evening the town was illuminated, and there was a brilliant display of fireworks. The following day the Emperor received M. de Man zano, governor-general of the Basque provinces, who had come to congratulate their Majesties in the name of the Queen of Spain. The King of the Belgians, on arriving at Bor deaux, as already stated, received immediately a visit from the prefect, and afterwards took a drive through the city in an open carriage. In the even ing the King went to the theatre and sat in the prefect's box, where was also Mme. de Mentque, the Nyife of the prefect, the general commanding the department, the persons of the royal suite, and the Belgian consul. On the following morning the King left by special train for Biarritz, where he arrived about three o'clock in the afternoon. _ _ . Count de Chasseloup-Laubat, Minister of Algeria, arrived at Bayonne the day before yesterday, on his way to Biarritz. The Courrier de Bretagne of Lorient announces that the Minister of Marine has commanded 200,000 bomb shells for the navy and 30,000 rifles for the marines. " The share which France will take in the expo, dition against China," says the Independence of 13russels, " will be very important. It is said that a corps of from 10,000 to 12,000 men is to be sent out, under General de Wimpffen. This general, who now holds a command in the army of Lyons, was in the war of Italy in command of the troops which were destined to disembark on the coast of Venetia. He has been summoned to Paris to re ceive instructions ; and Lord Cowley and M. Walewski have been charged to discuss the bases of the co-operation of France." A Paris letter in the Independence of Brussels Si!) : " Ferdinand IV., the new Grand Duke of Tus cany, has addressed to all the Sovereigns of Europe a sort of memorandum in reply to that of the Tus can Government. This document is accompanied by a letter announcing the abdication of Duke Leopold and the accession of his son. • Several sovereigns have replied to this letter, and I am told that the Cabinet of Vienna has within the last few days received a note on the subject from Rus sia. The journal de .St. Petersboury, in reference to an assertion of a journal that M. de Balabine read on the 21st ult. to Count de Recbberg a note on the necessity of submitting to the sanction of Europe the conditions -of peace, declared that no note on that question had been sent by Ru sia. The assertion is exact ; but the journal referred to took for a note relative to the Congress the commuica tion mentioned." I3ounsE, Sept. 16.—The market has been more buoyant. Threes, after having been done at 68f. 80c., advanced to 68f. 95c. Mobilier varied from 785 f. to 792 f. 60c. ; Austrian, 535 f. to 537 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 542 f. 50c. to 545 f. ; Orleans, 1,372 f. 50c. to 1,375 f. ; Lyons, 872 f. 50c. to 875 f. ; Southern, 503 f. 75c. to 505 f. ; Northern, 920 f. to 922 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations :- 4V per Cents. .... 94 50 Credit Foncier 670 Do. end month .. Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents 6B 90 Piedmontese (5) 86 Do. end month 6B 95 Roman B5 50 Bank Shares 2780 Austrian Credit Mobilier 795 Do. Account Spanish Threes - Home Debt 44 25 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 920 — 915 New ditto Bl5 .. 810 Lyons and Mediterranean 875 .. 875 Geneva 525 .. 522 50 Southern Western .. 575 -- .. 580 -- Eastern Sardinian Austrian lAnnbard.... - Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money, 25f 121 c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 24f. 95c. The Siecle contains the following : " The imagination of our newsmongers is most active at present. It was necessary to allege some plausible reason for the journey of the King of the Belgians, and they have discovered a score. We will be content with mentioning the most curious of these inventions, and which declares that King Leopold is simply gone to Biarritz to ask for the throne of Central Italy for his second son, Count de Flandre, who, in case the return of the Italian Dukes is found impracticable, will have the sup port of Austria, and reign constitutionally. This prince would also be supported by England. Others say that the candidate for the Italian throne is not the Count de Flandre, but the Duke de Bra bant himself. If accepted, he would renounce his claim on Belgium, which at Leopold's death would be restored to France as a compensation for her sacrifices. We need hardly remark that we men tion these rumours solely on account of their ab surdity." The Italia' correspondent of th• Si ecle, writing from Florence, on the 12th, says : " All that passes here is truly novel. These re volutionary governmerits are solely occupied with one thing—with putting down all the germs of revolution ; these men, whom the reactionary journals decry as the enemies of order and law, watch with the most vigilant care over every thing that might cause excitement. At Bologna they arrested a man (a stranger) who was singing verses containing a personal attack on the Hely Father. At Florence, M. Ricasoli, president of the council, suppressed, by a single stroke of his pen, a journal which published caricatures against the Grand Ducal family. Perhaps you think the .people will be irritated by such measures ? Nothing of the kind. This intelligent population is fully aware that liberty itself must be temporarily sup pressed to assure the triumph of independence, and therefore support the Government. The Tuscan people are the gentlest, most pacific, and most easily governed in the world. Remove from their sight the phantom of Austria, incarnate in the Grand Duke, and they will be perfectly satisfied. A Florentine remarked to me : I cannot help smiling when I read in two or three of your Paris journals that we are revolutionists. Strange re volutionists, truly ! For the last three months we have been on our knees imploring Europe to let us have a King.' The sincere conviction I bring back to Paris after this short tour in the Duchies and Romagna, is that with every Italian, no matter to what part of Italy he belongs, two ideas prevail over all others—those of na tionality and unity. When offered constitutional guarantees with an Archduke, he smiles bitterly, or seems not to understand what is said. The Ita- Tian would prefer despotism with a national prince to liberty with a foreign sovereign, and he is right. Before thinking of political liberty, a nation ought to secure its independence from all foreign influ ence. A constitution, however liberal it might be, given by the Archduke, would satisfy nobody, be- cause behind the Archduke they would always see Austria, and every Italian looks upon Austria with religious horror. Ask the first Tuscan you meet, whether noble, tradesman, or labourer, what he thinks of the Grand Duke, and he will answer, He is not a bad man ; but he is an Austrian.' To sum up, all, I may say that with national inde pendence there will be peace, order, and oblivion of the past; with the restoration of the Grand Duke, war, vengeance, and perpetual disorder." THE 78th HIGHLANDERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—When will the authorities at the Horse Guards learn real practical wisdom ? They find a difficulty in obtaining a sufficient number of recruits for the army, and yet they can so act as to damp, not kindle, the military spirit among our people. The 78th Highlanders—that gallant regiment which did more than any other to save India at the crisis of its peril—has just arrived on the shores of Eng land, and instead of being allowed to land, that they might be seen and honoured by the people, the authorities at the Horse Guards have ordered them to be transferred at Gravesend from one ship to an other, and sent off at once up to Inverness, where they are to be stationed. This, I happen to know, is a sore disappointment both to officers and men, as it must be to all their friends and relations living here in England. It must not be forgotten that, though this is a Scotch regiment, it contains many who are either English or Irish, both among the officers and the men, and that the parents even of those who are Scotch live, many of them, in or near this great metropolis. Surely, then, it was very unwise to disappoint and disgust all these persons, especially when, by allowing this noble regiment to land and march through London, in their own picturesque and magnificent uniform, the military ardour might have been kindled in many of our stalwart youth to offer themselves to fill up the places left vacant by the brave dead ? The sight of such a number of soldiers returned safe from all the hardships and dangers of the Indian campaign would have inspirited them, while the soldiers themselves would have felt rewarded for all that they had endured by the honour which they would have received at the hands of the people. As it is, they have been permitted only to creep, as it were, silently back to England, and then have been smuggled off in equal silence to the remotest extremity of Scotland, as if they had covered them selves with shame, and not with glory. It may not be generally known that the 78th Highlanders landed in India from the Persian war at the very crisis of India's danger ; that their first act was, by a sudden night march from Chinsurah to Goruckpoor, to put down an intended mutiny there of the sepoys, and a descent upon Calcutta; that immediately after this they hastened up to Ailahabad, where the immortal Havelock took command of them, together with the 64th Regi ment and the sth Madras Fusileers ; that thence they proceeded to the relief of Cawnpore, and beat the Nana Sahib and his troops against great odds in five successive engagements ; that after having relieved Cawnpore they made three attempts, fighting battle after battle. and in the third attempt succeeded in relieving the beleaguered garrison at Lucknow, holding the place till Lord Clyde arrived ; that subsequently, under Sir J. Outram, they kept the enemy at bay for a long time at the Alumbagh ; and that, finally, they held Bareilly till, the war beimg over, they were ordered to return to England. Surely it was not good policy to allow the deeds of such a distinguished regiment to pass unnoticed, if we wish our country to be securely protected against all coming dangers ? It is true, we are not a demonstrative people, but if we would have the . martial spirit exist among us ag ainst the tune of need, we must, as the French do, cultivate it by honouring the brave.—l am yours, London, Sept. 13. HIGHLANDER. SWIMMING MATCH IN THE . THAMES.—Yester • day morning a swim -lining match, which created much in terest among persons who are inclined to such sports, took place in the Thames for the championship and a purse of The competitors were Beckford, of the Lambeth Baths (the present champion), and Walker, both swim mers of first-rate character. The . start took pl ace s h or tly before eight o'clock , and the swim was from Hammersmith to Putney. Beckford had the advantage throughout, and won by more than a hundred yards, th us re t a i n i ng the c h am pionship and gaining the more solid advantage of 60 pounds. SP OBTL GENCE. - DONCASTER RACES—SEPT. 16. Match-300 hft ; Bst 101 b each. Red House in. Lord Glasgow's colt—Miss Whip ........... . (Al d cro ft) 1 Lt,rd Wilton's colt—Lady Eve1yn........... (Flatman) Betting-2 to lon the Lady Evelyn colt. The favourite led to the half distance, when the Miss Whip colt headed him, and won easily by three-quarters of a length. The Doncaster Stakes of 10 sove.each, with 100 added, for 3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 31b. Certain penal ties. The second to receive 50 sous out of the stakes. Last mile and a half. 76 subs. Colonel Townley's Gladiolus , Bst 71b...... (J. Snow Honer den)) 1 M r . W. C. Harland's Maid of the M ist, Bst 31b (Cha 2 Mr. Gibbon's Eskdale, B st 71 b............ (L. Snowden) 3 Mr. S. Webster's Gracchus, B st 71 b ......... (Fordham) 4 The following also ran :—Knuckle Duster, Prelude, Na - poleon, The Squire, and Beethoven. Betting-2 to 1 agst Eskdale, s t o 1 each get Prelude and Gracchus, 7 to 1 agst Gladiolu s, 8 to 1 agst Napoleon, 10 to 1 agst Beethoven. Eskdale made play to the mile post, where he was joined by The Squire. On coming round the turn Gladiolus and Beethoven drew to the front, but the latter reaching the distance, and the four placed ran home tog& 'tiler, Gladiolus coming out at the stand and Winning by half a length, three-quarters of a length between they econd and third, and a head between the third and ourth. Beethoven was fifth, Prelude sixth, Napoleon seventh, and gave way before The Squire eighth. Knuckle Duster was beaten off. The Scurry Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added, for 2-yr-olds and upwards. Red House in. 8 subs. Mr. Hughes's Brenhilda, 3 yrs (£50)..... (L. Snowden) 1 Mr. Brown's Weatherbound, 2 yrs (£5,), sst 111 b (A. Edwards) 2 Lord Chesterfield's Herman, 2 yrs (£5O), 6st (W. Bottom) 3 Layton and Brown Agnes also ran. Betting-5 to 4on Brenhilda, 4to 1 agst IVeatherboundo sto 1 agst Moulvie. On assembling at the post Brown Agnes broke away and ran the course through before she was stopped. Brenhilda came away within the distance and won easily by a length and a half ; about six le n g ths between the second and third. The winner was bought in for 255 guineas. The Nursery Plate of 200 sovs. Last mile. Captain Christie's Cheesecake, 7st 91 b ...... (Fordham 1 Baron Rothschild's Restes, B st 71 b ............ (Wells 2 . Mr. Saxon's Jenny Longlegs, s st 7 1 b ........ (Verraty 0 The following also ran :—Baron Munchausen, Mixture' Lady Trespass, Viatka, Stolzenfels , Sir William, Greta, Shoulder Knot, Dartmouth, Queen of the Vale, Queen of the May, Ringlet, Springwell, Lucknow, Little poll, Ben Webster, The Don, Syringe, filly by the Flying Dutch man, out of Rosary, filly by Augur, out of Miss Conrig" ham. Betting-5 to 2 agst Ben Webster, sto 1 agst Spring' well, 10 to 1 each agst Queen of the May and Cheesecae, 12 to 1 agst Restes, 100 to 7 agst Lady Trespass. The race was won in a smart shower of rain. After several failures the start was made. Dartmouth went to the front, fol.- lowed by Restes, Springwell, Jenny Longlegs, and Cheese cake, unt'l they were near the distance, where Dartmouth and Springwell retired ; Restes and Cheesecake then came on together, Cheesecake winning a fi ne race by a head i i very bad third. Dartmouth was a bad f ourth ; Springwell upwards of six lengths behind him. Stolzenfels headed the next lot, beaten some distance. Th fil e i P ie a s r , k Bst H 7 il l l b. Sta c k e e r s tai of n s w o . sov e s rs eac e t, tra h . receive 100 sovs out of the stakes. St. Leger Course. 22 subs. • Lord Zetland's Qui Vive, Bst 71b .......... (J. Osborne) Lord Ailesbury's Cantine, Bst 71b ............ (Flatraan) Lord Londesborough's Summerside, Bst 121 b (in. 51b ex.) (Wells) 3 Sir C. Monck's Prelude, Bst 71b • ........... (Aldcroft) 4 ft Th fo e r sec 3 O Y L oltod Betting—Even on Summerside, 9to 4 Rgst Qui Vive, 4to 1 agst Cantine. Qui Vive led from start to fini sh, and wen by three-quarters of a length, six length separating the second from the third. Prelude was beaten off and did not aTßnhegtett Betting--Even pass the post. The Doncaster Cup, value 300 sovs, for 3-yr-olds and u p' wards, weight for age, with allowances and penalties. Up Course (about two miles and a half.) Lord Stamford's Newcastle, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (car. 7st 31b) 1 (Forho l) Mr. Simpson's Eskdsle, 3 yrs, 7st . . ...... ( Bra) ? 3 Mr. Saxon's Defender, 3 yrs, 7st 31b ...... (L Snowden - - following Ditto, Ev e nano a nd ls uu o nnrddaneerrhh:—aannNdd;e3wtsotelad, Twilight, East to 1 agst Defender, 100 to 7 agst Ditto. Newcastle led , past the stand, Newstead, pulling double, being Boone, with Eskdale, Twilight, and Defender following hire ill the order named. On rounding the top turn Eskdale took close order with Newcastle, and Underhand dropped agst Newcastle, 8 to the rear. As they proceeded towards the mile post, Newstesd and Eskdale were alternately second and third. The roe , however, requires no further description, for Newcastle wont on with the running to the end, and won by a length and a half, the third beaten three lengths, bad fourth. Underhand, who was last nearly all the way, struck ists the heels of something at the last turn, and nearly cone down. The pace was bad. The Town Plate (Handicap) of 100 sovs, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Red House in. Baron Rothschild's Mentmore , 4 y rs, 9st 71b.... (Wells) I Mr. Blanton's Neophyte, 3 yrs , 7 s t 81b .. (A. Edwards) 2 Capt. Christie's Miss Julia, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (G. Fordhaw) 3 The following also ran :—Bel Esperanza, Brandy Ball , Vigo, Greenwich Fair, Hyder Ali, Nereus, BilberrYt lirralian, and Production. Betting-100 to 30 agst Mentmore, 4to 1 agst gigs Julia, 5 to 1 agst Brandy Ball, 6 to 1 agst Bilberry, 7 to 1 agst Greenwich Fair, and 100 to 12 agst Production. Miss Julia in front to the distance, where Mentmore came out, followed by Neophyte, a fine race in ending in favour of the old horse by a short head ; three lengths between the second and third. The Don Stakes of 50 Boys each, h ft, for three-yr-olds; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. Last mile. 5 subs. Baron Rothschild's North Lincoln, Bst 71b... (Wells) vir•°' Match, 300 soya, h ft.—Mr. S. Hawke's Stoc kade re ceived forfeit from Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy filly. Match, 200 soya, h ft—Sir Joseph Hawley's Madame Eglantine received forfeit from Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip filly. LATEST BETTING. CESAREWITCH. 16 to 1 agst Polestar 20 to 1 agst Royal Sovereign 25 to 1 agst Target 25 to 1 agst Artless 30 to 1 agst Roman Candle (taken freely) 33 to 1 agst Special License 33 to 1 agst Tunstall Maid CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 25 to 1 agst Volta 33 to 1 agst Maud 40 to 1 agst Woodburn Although of company washtheafternoonw v a e s ry. so n m u e m w e h r a o t us. showery, yet W T attendance . the principal item of attraction in the programme ; it vise won by Lord Stamford' a recent purchase, Newcastle, vih° 9 it may be remembered, was beaten " out of sight" at Goa wood by the Promised Land. Indeed the Doncaster meet; ing has been remarkable for the "in and out" running el certain horses. Every facility was afforded the visitors for returning to for their respective stations. Special trains were put en. the occasion, and the s t a ti on .• master, Mr. Wood. ess l 4 °* ously attended to the many requirements of the returni n g passengers. The jour ne y t o L on don by both the "sPe et and the Edinburgh express was most expeditiously formed. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, C. Home Department—The office of lord-lieutenant and sheriff principal of the county of Bute has sale'b come vacant by the death of. Lord P. J. M.P. Colonial Department—The office of librarian in the Colonial-office has become vacant by the deat ! of Mr. George Mayer ; the receiver-generals hi e r' Trinidad has become vacant by the death of Ai Francis Berens Dawkins. Foreign Department—The post of charge - a 'af. faires and consul general to Bolivia is vacant hi the promotion of Mr. Lettsom. War Office--Messrs. Herbert Eliot, Ralph Da!" yell, Edward John Morshead, Herbert H. 11°117- ledge, and Edward John Mellor have passed their examination for clerkships in Pall-mall. Cartgessr:: Thomas Quinlan and Charles Frederick have passed their examination for temporary elerxe ships at the Pimlico establishment ; Mr. eGele Clement Lintoll has passed for a temporary l ha; ship at the Tower ; Mr. John Henry Smith gr. passed for a temporary clerkship at Woolwich ; Nathaniel Taylor has passed as Deputy- Commissary-General at Malta; Mr. William fisnori Sutton Marshall has passed as stilDeputy- Commissary-General at Gibraltar. peer, The Admiralty—Messrs. Alfred Lucien SP°., fin John W. Shippen Willes, S. D. B. Cleverly , " do : Murray Hamilton, and Wm. Molesworth Bica r have passed for temporary clerkships in Losann• a General Post-office.—Mr. John Carson has Pas se l , for a clerkship at Kilmarnock ; Mr. Thomas Tu r n : bull has passed for a clerkship at New Assistat, Tyne ; Mr. William Bell has passed for a clerksh'P at Enniskillen. Customs.—A clerkship for general business it s become vacant by the appointment of Mr. 0 e o r o b; Hughes to China; a clerkship in the Long I° ll. has become vacant by the death of Mr. Georkeeea Sweet, first class clerk ; Mr. T. R. Howard has been promoted from sixth to fifth class clerk in th . _ e r tit quays department, London ; Mr. Thomas -Mau -O le te ric a has been promoted from second to first class at Exeter • Mr. Chas. Bennett ha s been prow from third to second class clerk at Exeter. Inland Revenue Department. —Excise Bfaeoffre.. Mr. J. Bolton, late of Bury District, has Ba ker, moved to Uttoxeter District ; Mr. John appointed supervisor, Charleville District, has been _u„er.. to Bury District; Mr. Patrick Larkin, :ate. s u p er' visor of Drogheda, has been appointed o District; Mr. James Bell , Ballyshannon.p.l4,lo, has been removed to Drogheda Distric_t ; t_r_ rnov ed Peacock, late of Thetford District, .has been l l ain uel d uPe rvis°r Wall, examiner, has been app ointe 8 _ - Ra i n sfOr- -- to Lynn District, vice Hillman, re . tire ; Mr• Thetford District ; Mr. Meyrick Shaw rt surv e l c4. ' is now officiating as assistant expo Tower-hill.—Civil Service Gazette.