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' ilk 4".4 . 416' ''' - * -'7.- -.'" - 11' 1 ' 1 Company have this dhy Opened aB I ZANCII BANK at their c 9,, -, ~ _ ,Asoks —. I express rol ~ ! 1 1 '.i .e • N , -. ~,,,,A, ,-,.60. , ..L D ./. /.... ~ -- .0 .„ , „ et , , y, T .- ~..t ., . 2% . ,:,;1' •: ., 11_01 7 ... f s ''.* cos - 4, - ' z-, --.- ",- - __ 'herr they temporary premise, No. 79, Shoreditch. By order. \ l k 44 -,1 . 4 l' ' j s' '''t 41 v‹ .. ! ' It re - iitn . --- , -W c'' L WM. 3PKEWAN, General ManPger. --.., ___ passion and Governor T 1 frOzn tlip Government, was annom their immediate departure for Rome. They were ._ lhibited from taking any oticles for their own use. TL. , were a n handcuffed aiii is simp,ahut up in the prison vans. In that state,. young, old, and hick were conveyed to Rome, the period no more than 17 hours. It how these wretched creatures had employedossi b i le t t h o e d r e e frge ni being suffered during the journi.ye They had stopped out in the Campagna, always shut up the night ;• they were unable to eaie ji l t v their prison vans, heated by the September sun, and this in or der to enter Rome during the wants of nature, and several suffered take the handcuffs off; they were prevented from relieving ,because they could not on the road from Paliano to Rome. A. g' . Very much in con sequence. The Government sent a stronforce to precede t Poletrina a them company of Swiss drove away the citizens who wished to look at them as th e y were p ass i ng th roug h. After this there were ther three arrivals on the following evm:ings, the with difference that the others came by a diffeVent road.' " London, Oct. 31, 1860. THE SUN, LoNDorz, THU RSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1860, FIVE PER CENT. DEBENTURES FOR THREE, FIVE, OR . 21,308. 4D . STAMPED, sr. SEVEN YEARS. T HE SCOTTISH AUSTRALIAN INVEST. MENT COMPANY (Limited). • PUBLICATIONS. GARIBALDI'S A RMY. fire, and you will be glad to hear that they behaved well. I send you the report which their commander, Colonel Peard (Garibaldi's Englishman), addressed to the Dictator on the subject : (Established in 1840.) raid-up and Invested Capita', £209,052; Reserve Fund, Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., DA UNTO N MANOR-HOUSE. A NOVEL. Also, now ready, in 3 vols., THE VALLEY OF A HUNDRED FIRES. ty the Author of "Margaret and her Bridesmaids." Burst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. (From the Speeml Correspondent of the Times.) CASERTA, OCT. 22. Decidedly the denouement of the third phase of the struggle for Italian independence is at band, and before, perhaps, you get this letter it will be completed. Yesterday, the first day of the ple biscite, a despatch came from Cialdini, dated Iser nia, in which he annources that he had gained a victory over the Neapolitans before Isernia. The £13,290 2's. sd. "ESERCITO MERIDONALE.—BRIGATA VOLUNTARI BRITANNICI. " San Angelo, Oct. 20. The Directors of this Company are prepared to receive Loans on Debentures for three, five, or seven years, bearing interest at the rate of five per cent, per annum. Coupons for the half-yearly interest are attached to the Debentures. and are payable at the City Bank. Threadneedle street, London, on the Ist January and Ist July in each year. The Debentures will be issued free of any expense to the lender, and forms of transfer are printed on the back of them. Interest will commence from the date when the money is received by the bankers of the Company. By order of the Directors, C. GRAINGER, Secretary. No. 24, Gresham-street, Loudon, E.C., 26th October, 160. GRAND TRUNK of CANADA RAILWAY. A Meeting of the First Class Preference Bondholders will be held at the Guildhall Coffee-house, Gresham-street, City, on FRIDAY, the second day of November next, at One o'clock precisely, G. W. C. DEAN, 27, New Broad-street, City. lONDON & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. IMPROVED COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ENGLAND AND IRELAND. DOWN TRAINS. Week Days. Sundays. Euston, departure 7 25 a.m., 9.15 a.m., 8.25 p.m. 8.25 p.m. Kingstown, Dublin time 6.5 p.m., 9.50 p.m., 7.5 a.m. 7.5 a.m. UP TRAINS. Kingstown. Dublin time 7.0 a.m., 8.45 a.m., 7.30 p.m. 7.30 p.m. Euston, arrival.... The 6.15 a.m., 10.0 a.m. 5.0 p.m., and 9.0 p.m. down trains continue to run between London and Holyhead. The 2.0 a.m., 7.45 a.m., 11.10 noon, and 8.24 p.m. up trains continue to run between Holyhead and London. By order, W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, October, 1860. SALE OF OLD STORES AT DEVONPORT. Admiralty, Somerset-place, 29th Oct., 18691 THE COMMISSIONERS for' EXECUTING - 2 - THE OFFICE of' LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That ct. WEDNES DAY, the 21st November next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon the Admiral Superintendent will put up to Sale in her Ma jesty's Dockyard at Devonport, several. Lots of OLD STORES, Consisting of Old Rope. Shakings, Spun Yarn, Canvas in small pieces, Oakum, and Coal Sacks, &c., &c., &c., all lying in the said yard. Persons wishing to view the lots must apply to the Super intendent for Notes of Admission for that purpose. Catalogues and conditions of sale may be had here and at the yard. ►TIHE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London. Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE SURVIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. John Elliotson, M.D.,Cantab.„Tohn Moss, Esq. F.R.S. John Symes, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO TITE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blonde!, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford. Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &O. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford- TOW. The next Quinquennial in May, 1860. _ _ Division of Profits will be declared Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Policy Sum Bonus in Bonus in Permanent taken Age. Assured. addition Cash. Reduction out in to Sum of Annual ....--._ Assured. Premiums. £ £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1838 55 3,000 867 17 7 428 1 4 56 3 8 1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 1845 59 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 1848 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 1851 55 2,800 i 120 17 0 72 14 6 6 7 7 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the International Life Assurance Society:— The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every five years. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chairman, 142, Strand. EDMOND S. STHES, Chairman. 142, Strand, London, W.C. DAV f - ESON'S EVERLASTING TEETH.- THE LATEST DISCOVERY. Mr. EDWARD for the ESON, Surgeon-Dentist, has introduced a material the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH so extraor o.lnary that nature appears to have made good the ravages of 1131 E, DISEASE, or ACCIDENT, and when fitted detec tion is impossible even though the wearer's mouth be closely examined. The price is so moderate that it is within the reach of all, and it is fitted withou., springs or other unsightly fastenings. The removal of stumps is unnecessary, and thus all pain is avoided. Mr. Edward Davieson invites one vis,t of inspection to his establishment, which will convince the bloat sceptical of the truth and straightforwardness of this Statement. The LIQUID ENAMEL, for Stopping Decayed Teeth, is ENAMEL WHITE, keeps its colour, and lasts for ever. It is invaluable for Front Teeth. 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The valuable advantage derived from their Invention is, that vision becomes prese rved and strengthe ned ; ver3Ttlgd Persons are enabled to emp loy their sight at the mo st minu te occupation, can see with these lense s of a much ess magnifying power, and effects dthey do not require th e frequent changes to the d an cre ance.-39, Albemarle-stree of further p powerful assist- Hotel. t, Piccadilly, opposite the York T ELEscopEs , Opera, Race-course, Field, and 1 general Out-door D ay and Night Perspective Glasses , s very small, for the waisteoat pocket, each containing 12 and is lenses, constructed of German 41ass. Will show distinctly a person to know him at tw o - and-a-half and three miles. and an object from 8 to 10 miles distant. Her Maiesty's Coast Guard are making use of them as day and night glasses in preference to all others ; they are also preferred for deer stalking by sportsmen, gentlemen, and gamekeepers. Tele scopes, 3i inches long, by which a person may be clearly seen and known at 34 miles, and an object at 12 to 14 miles' dis tance ; and with an extra astronomical eye-piece Juoiter's ASaturn's rincrs, and the double stars are distinctly moons, they are in endless variety, of larger and all sizes, with i nere asinz powers. and are se cured by he r M a j esty's Royal letters patent. —Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMONS. Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, W. .1,,,,-..LaRa of purgative "The temporary relief obtained by means medicines is purchased at the hi 2-11 D and if the perpetuating the disease.Hi ß t " aggravation ----...-- Y . MD. NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER p H . v . FOR CONSTIPATION', INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA) ~ ' , I C TATION, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER c BI n A)9 PALPI DEBILITY, DROPSY, EPILEPSY, PARALYSISMPL,A/NTs, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, s,,—_ , 'CtrOH. FEVERS. '.. THROAT. 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CITA PTE It ll.—Causes of Sperrnatorrhom and Impotence; Parly Vicious Indulgences Dangers of Ne. CHAPTER ITI.—A Review of the various glect Disqualifications Marriage; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of ATnturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CH APTaR IV. —The Anther's plan of Treatment, Medical and Moral, being* the result of a successful practice extending over a period of 25 years. CHAPTERS V. and VI. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhsea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting L asotes, to which is added the Auth or ' s recipe of a preventive ion. REVIEWS OP THE WORK. " Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly v aluable work, and should be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," 13d March, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1856. 00111111 Sold also by Kent and CoZPaternoeter-row;:jdann, 80 11. despatch is very laconic. It, merely says : " The enemy has been defeated by me before Isernia, with the lose of 800 pr!soners, 50 officers, among them Gen. Seotti. several cannon and colours. Every moment peasants armed by the Reaction are brought in whO have committed horrors: I have them shot." Yesterday another equally successful engage- ment took place near Venafro, and this morning King Victor Emmanuel has . made his entry into Isernia. These events took place sooner than was ex pected. But evidently the Piedmontese were anxious to come up, and have made forced marches from Popoli and Sulmona. According to the ac count of people come from Campobasso this morn ing, the fi3ht before Isernia lasted three hours, and would have had even more complete results, hod not the exhaustion by marching of the troops prevented Cialdini from following up his success. Of the seeond'encounter we know not the exact spot, where it, tockgpliee, but accorang to all pro bability it must have been on the banks of the Vol turno, which has to be crossed on the road from Isernia to Venafro. Venafro once passed, Cialdini is in the rear of all the lines of communication between Gaeta and Capua. He may either turn to the right towards San Germano, and pass the Garigliano by Ponte corvo (a part of the Papal territory), or else come down in one march of 20 miles on Calvi, which is the centre of all lines of communication on the western part of the Apennines, and just on the northern out skirts of the plain of the Volturno. He will pro bably choose this latter road, which will bring him nearer to the forces south of the Volturno, but which ever he chooses he will probably have to meet once more the Neapolitan army, unless these latter resolve to withdraw at once to 'heir second line of defence, the Garigliano, leaving a small garrison to hold out at Capua. From what we hear we ought to conclude that they will attempt some resistance before they withdraw, for there are still from 3,000 to 4,000 men in Cajazzo, who would be cut off were the army already withdrawn behind the Garigliano. Capua itself has been almost denuded of troops ; so has, with the exception of Cajazzo, the rest of the line of the Upper Volturno. In consequence of all this, proceedings at the front are almost eventless. Only when one of our patrols, encouraged by the inactivity on the side of Capua, pushes forward under the very walls of the fortress, do there come signs which show that Capua and its neighbour hood are not deserted. Nevertheless, yesterday being the first day of voting for the annexation, precau tions were taken in case there should be on the part of the enemy an intention of disturbing the process which is legally to deprive King Francis of his kingdom and make Italian unity almost a reality. As I told you long ago, as soon as the Pied montese crossed the frontier Garibaldi considered his military task ended, and yon will find that from that time no offensive movement was made on our side. On the 18th, nevertheless, the Medici Divi sion was sent forward towards La Valle, in front of Maddaloni, and this looked as if this division was sent to unite with the Sonnaz Brigade, which was expected in that direction, and then make a joint operation against the Volturno, near or above Cajazzo. The intentions in this respect have been changed, and the Medici Division returned the next day and took up its quarters at Caserta. It received next (lily orders to return to St. Angelo and re- lieve the Piedmontese troops, who were all to unite at Maddaloni for a forward movement. According to this, Garibaldi's whole force is to remain on the south side of the Volturno, and the offensive move ments to be exclusively made by Piedmontese troops. This is a kind of compliment on the part of Garibaldi, and not, as some might think, another slap in the face of the Dictator ; for it is but fair to say that the commanders of the Piedmontese troops have paid their respects to Garibaldi, informing him that their orders were to place themselves unconditionally under the orders of the Dictator, to be employed as he thinks most fit. Nevertheless, I do not believe that Garibaldi has any intention of making any operation whatever, his presence being required with the King, who is approaching. Much will depend upon their first interview. There is no doubt that evil councillors have shaken the confidence of Victor E mmanuel in the purity of Garibaldi's designs, but subsequent events must have made him see the error into which he was led, and he must be anxious to heal the wounds which his distrust has inflicted on the frank but extremely sensitive nature of Garibaldi. For the last few days he has beep., as it were, making his Dictatorial testament—making those last dispositions which he thinks necessary, partly to recompense those who have suffered or distin guished themselves during the war, and to have those who have lost limbs or property by the war provided for. As you will remember, the original few hundred Cacciatori who remained after Calatafimi and Pa lermo became the nucleus of the first two Brigades, Bixio and Eber. These Cacciatori represented, as it were, the creme de la creme of the Volunteers, the majority of them being educated youths—students, engineers, lawyers, proprietors, &c., who, carried away by the greatness of the enterprise and its dangers, followed Garibaldi, regardless of all con sideration. It is matter of history how this small band behaved, and, not unnaturally, very few of then were inclined to separate, even for promotion's sake, from their old companions, with whom they had trod the same path of honour. They were like so many groups, which in their turn were held toge- ther by emulation. Thus all the students of Pavia were in one, those of Bergamo in another battalion, those of Genoa and Milan again in others. This clubbing together was greatly favourable to the development of an esprit de corps such as perhaps no other corps pos. sesses in the South Italian army, but it was by no means favourable to the promotion of these devoted youths. In spite of all the care taken to reward those who had most merited it, there were not officers' charges enough in these two brigades to recompense all those who would have deserved it. Numbers of youths who have behaved splendidly every time they were called upon, and who besides by their education were quite as capable of being officers as the boys who came out of the military colleges of Ivrea and Novara, are still privates and non-commissioned officers. It would have been the ' greatest ingratitude to leave them so, and Garibaldi has now raised all those who deserved it to the rank of officers. Whether the Piedmontese. War Department will recognise these as well as the other promotions and nominations of Garibaldi is a matter still to be discussed, for the union of South to North Italy has been so unconditional that not' even this point was insisted upon by Garibaldi. Another last disposition of Garibaldi is that the families of all those fallen in battle, and those who have suffered imprisonment or exile under the late Government, should receive pensions from the State. Further dispositions are to be made by the Ministry of the interior, that all those who have suffered by the inevitable consequences of war in their property may be indemnified in proportion to the damage they have sustained. To recompense soldiers of merit the national domains are to be employed, and the property exist- ing in mortmain. The British volunteers have had their baptism of " Ecclenza,—l have the honour to report that, after taking up the position assigned me, according to the orders I received, I placed one company in support of the battery on the centre of the position, and gent forward the 10th company to occupy a farm-house in the front, at the same time sending out two companies to the right, andOo to support the advanced company from the Ist battalion. Hearing a smart fire in front, I went in person to the farm where the 10th company were posted, and, ordering up three companies from the 2d battalion, I advanced the 10th and 7th in skirmishing order. '• The fire continuing heavy, and the Bersaglieri on the hill appearing pressed, I ordered the two extended to ad vance to their support, and at the same time advanced two companies to occupy the line the 10th and 7th had held. " I went forward with the advancing companies, accom panied by the officers named in the margin.* The men advanced in admirable order, and opened fire with great precision. At this time I had to deplore the loss of Mr. Tucker, the interpreter of the brigade, who fell in advance of the line of skirmishers. The enemy being in great force, I ordered one of my adjutants to return and bring up a re inforcement. Accordingly he brought up Nos. 4 and sto the front. " The fire was excessively severe, but, united to the gal lant Bersaglieri, we were enabled not only to resist, but to drive back the enemy within their lineik with great loss. On theput...,pf. , #.4s 2 !rig - 4.,,T..har0 to lairent killed and eight wounded, without mentioning contusions. " I cannot speak too highly of the conduct of my soldiers and officers, mostly men who had never seen an enemy be fore, and who have, the greater part, been enrolled only a iew weers. They not only advanced under a heavy fire in the most gallant manner, but retired (when I considered it necessary that they should do so) with the steadiness and precision of veterans. " Where all behaved so well it would be invidious to par ticularise, but I should be unjust if I neglected to bring to your notice the gallant conduct of Capt. Styles, who, with his whole company, volunteered to attack the enemy i the last position he held with the bayonet, after having been engaged the whole day. I regretted that, for the g of the service, this offer could not be accepted. " Let me particularly bring to your notice the se 'cm performed by Private Munday, of the Grenadier Com y. The surgeon of the brigade not being present, he, h g received a medical education, afforded the most imp tant professional services to the wounded. "The following soldiers, also, are reported to me as worthy of commendation :—Walker, No. 1 Company; Wil son, ditto ; Prosser, No. 4. " I have the honour to be, General, your most devoted " JOHN W. PEARD, Colonel Brigadier. " His Excellency the Dictator." " NOMINAL LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED. " Killed—Ensign Bars Tucker; Private Lewis Mit chell, No. 7. " Wounded—Privates John Clark, No. 7, severely ; W. Ritchie, No. 7, severely; J. Prosser, severely ; Ma earthy, No.!1, feared mortally ; Wilson, slightly ; Cor poral Beonet, No. 2, slightly. Private Mathew, No. 2, severely ; Bate, No. 2, severely." " DIVISIONAL ORDER, BRITISH VOLUNTEERS, OCT. 20. "The Colonel Brigadier begs to express to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the brigade of Bri tish Volunteers the high sense he has of their noble conduct under fire on the 19th. In the two last campaigns in which he has had the honour to serve in Italy, he has never seen a more severe,fire of musketry, nor men who have stood under it with greater steadiness than did the young soldiers of the Brigade. Proud as he was to be appointed to the com mand of a brigade of his countrymen, he feels now that he has a right to exult in the young soldiers of Old England, under his command, not only advancing under a heavy fire, but retiring in obodience to orders with the precision of old campaigners. The Colonel Brigadier has had pride in re porting to the General their admirable conduct, and he trusts to receive from their noble chief such an answer as shall make every man feel proud to serve not only in such a noble cause as the struggle for freedom of a great people, but under such a leader as Joseph Garibaldi." OCT. 23. There is this morning reason to believe that the Neapolitans will abandon the Volturno line, and withdraw towards the Garigliano. Caj a zzo has been evacuated by them, and on the river, with the ex ception of cavalry detachments, no troops are left. There was besides a great backward movement ob served from Capua. Sonnaz, with his brigade, has arrived at Madda loni, where the Brigata Re, now at San Angelo, is to join him. Medici, who is to relieve the brigade, left Caserta this morning. * Captain Hoskins, Brigade-Major ; Captain Sarsfield ; Military Secretary ; Captain Hare, Aide-de-Camp ; Lieu tenant Gribbell, Adjutant Ist Battalion ; Lieutenant Camp bell; Lieutenant Knapman. 111UTINY IN IHE DUTCH EAST INDIAN ARMY. BATAVIA, AUG. 23. European supremacy in the East seems to be un dergoing a series of severe trials. The last week has shown that the Government of British India is not the only Power in this part of the world which has leant on a broken reed. That your readers may rightly understand the nature of the mutiny which is causing so much alarm to the European popula tion of this archipelago, I must first say a word with reference to the constitution of the army by which Holland has hitherto retained its supremacy. The Dutch Government does not permit the same freedom of inquiry and criticism as is allowed in British colonies, hence it is not easy to form a cor rect estimate of the military force in these islands. It consists nominally of about 20,000 men, of whom probably less than one-third are Europeans. It may be doubted whether Europe ever before sent into the East an army so thoroughly demoralis ed. The Dutchmen belonging to these forces are well enough but they do not form more than one-fourth even of the European troops, the remainder being drawn from the dregs of every army in Europe. These mercenaries have frequently shown symptoms of disaffection, which, however, caused no anxiety to Government, as it was evident that no attempt at a mutiny could be successful if uuaccompanied by an insurrection on the part of the natives. As the geography Of the Dutch East Indies is not very well known to English readers, I may state that the three principal towns in Java are Batavia, Samarang, and Sourabaya, all lying on the north coast of the island, and strongly garrisoned. The mutiny has hitherto been confined to Samarang and Sourabaya. At the former place it was discovered by a Dutch sergeant, who ascertained on the even ing of the 16th inst. that a simultaneous rising of all the mercenaries was to take place next morning. He communicated the intelligence to his command- ing officer, whoimmediately ordered that the native troops should with all secrecy get under arms. It so happens that these occupy the ground floor of the barracks, the European troops being located above them. The former were posted at the door, and or dered to fire on every European who attempted to come downstairs. The mutineers quickly took the alarm, and as they could not escape by the door com menced firing from the window. As however it was already dark, they fired mostly at random, and their ammunition was soon nearly exhausted. By this time the National Guard had mustered consisting of the whole European population capable of bear ing arms, and the barracks were surrounded. The greater part of the mutineers now cried for quarter, which was granted to them, on condition that not more than three should descend at once, and that each bring with him two muskets. The condition was accepted, and thus, while one-half of the muti neers were safely handed over to the authorities, the other half were left without arms. Speedy justice has been executed on the ringleaders, upwards of 30 having been hanged. What Government 'will do with the rest remains yet to be seen. The most serious danger which has threatened this colony for the last half century has thus far been averted almost without bloodshed, and no small credit is due to the Dutch officers who have brought the affair to so speedy a termination. A singular adventure happened to a gentleman of Samarang, who was riding home from his club on the evening of the outbreak. His horse started at the firing, and bore him at full gallop along the narrow street which is overlooked by the windows of the barracks. Every musket was levelled at him by the mutineers, who mistook him for an official carrying despatches. His horse fell, pierced by more than 20 bullets-, and the rider, stunned by the fall, was also taken for dead. On recovering, however, from the shock, he was found to have escaped without a wound. It would appear that the outbreak at Samarang was the result of a deep and wide spread plan, for intelligence has been received that on the same day a desperate attempt was made to 'set fire to the magazine at Sourabaya. The Governor-General has declared all the fortresses and garrisons in a state of siege. There is not much probability of the mutiv coming to a head in Batavia. A large propor tion of the troops, including all the Artillery, are Dutch proper, and the National Guard is nearly 1,000 strong. A very strong force also is to be found in the Roads, where there are some 2,000 or 3,000 sailors, who could be brought on shore and armed on any emergency. The mutineers probably expected the natives to revolt along with them ; but in this hope they have been disappointed, and there seems at present to be no cause for anxiety or uneasiness in that quarter. Not that the supremacy of the Dutch is at all po pular with the people of Java ; quite the reverse ; but their present rulers have adopted two very ef fectual measures for keeping them in order. They have taken the native'chi43fs into their pay, and they have made it illegal for any native to possess firearms. During the mutiny in British India the utmost efforts were made by the Mahomedan priest hood to raise a rebellion throughout java, but they could not succeed. The disaffected among the rat'ves at large had not the means to create a re volt, and the native army was not, like that of Ben gal, organised into entire native regiments, but was so mixed up with the European as to be completely overawed by the latter. The consequences would doubtless have been far more serious if those efforts to create a revolt among the natives had occurred simultaneously with the present =tiny. The question has often been asked, " Why were not the foreign troops which our country enlisted during the Crimean war sent out to India P To this inquiry the p i iesent mutiny in the Dutch East Indian army affords a very significant answer. Not a fe the present mutineers belonged to our Ger man region. Holland will now have to work out on a smaller scale that Indian-army problem which has caused so much anxiety to our own statesmen. She will find it necessary to spend a little more of the reve nue she draws from her fine Indian dependencies in their defence. She will find that good European soldiers cannot be got to live in the tropics for a penny a-day, and that some provision also must be made for the moral and intellectual culture of an army which is to maintain the supremacy of 3,000,000 men over 11,000,000. THE PAPAL PRISONS. We have heard much, and are likely to hear more, of the Neapolitan prisons. But the Papal prisons have likewise their tales of horror to relate. Much light has lately been thrown on them by a small Italian work, entitled " The prisons of Pali ano." From the account of that work given in the Florence Nazione, we here reproduce the following details : " Amidst the events which, during these last days of re volution, menaced the temporal authority of its State, many things were forgotten by the Court of Rome. It omitted, for example, to remove from the telegraph offices the regis ters of the despatches, at d thus Europe has had an oppor tunity of admiring the Mussulman orders exchanged be tween the foreign generals and the Monsignori, Italian and non-Italian. But one thing it did not forget, namely, to remove the political prisoners shut up in the fastness of Paliano, and to bring them under safe custody to Rome, lest their liberators should arrive in time to free them. The pleasure of vengeance must be, indeed, a sublime one. It must be quite inexhaustible. It must transcend all imagi nation when priests seek to gratify it with so much eager ness. But what an outrage is thus offered to the religion of a God of peace and mercy. Whilst those who inhabit the sacerdotal palaces of Rome take delight in tormenting, in torturing, in prolonging the slavery of the prisoners of Paliano, the Government of King Victor Emmanuel grants all the honours of war to the cosmopolitan soldiers of the Pope, sends them away perfectly free, and pardons the ministers of the Church ox whom severe sentences have been passed by the tribunals. Thus it is the King who pardons, while the Pontiff strikes down his victims. " Italy has now been made acquainted with the torments inflicted on political prisoners, in the prisons of Medicina and of Ferrara, by the turnkeys, and even by means of dogs; and publicity has been given to the sentences passed by the Papal tribunals themselves (though never executed by the Government) on the political agents who in Bologna in flicted tortures surpassing the memories of the middle ages. " We shall now hear the treatment pursued towards the political prisoners of Paliano. The description which we now publish has been written in the fortress itself, and came into the hands of one of our friends. We give it without any alteration, because its simplicity is not unimportant, and because from that very simplicity it better represents the truth respecting the Papal Spielberg. •-- "' In the fort of Paliano there are about 200 political prisoners, dressed like the criminals condemned to the gal leys, and, like them, shaved. They are divided into five sections. Those condemned for life are shut up in cells, about nine spans wide and about sixteen long, including the little table of brickwork. Other cells, about three spans wider, contain three prisoners; and others, not much larger, have 17 all huddled together. In the first of these there is a small grating over and opposite the door, through which the food is introduced. The other cells have ono window, and sometimes two, with an opening of about four spans in breadth and one in height, and through this the prisoners are fired upon if it be necessary to keep them quiet. " The food consists of two black loaves, a composition of earth, rye, vetch, and insects of all kinds, villanously baked, and weighing from 15 to 16 ounces. About half a pint of wine, of which the composition is unknown. The soup is made of French and common beans of the worst quality that can be found. Of these there should be four ounces, but there are scarcely six with the addition of the water. The condiment for the same ought to be three ounces of lard for every five portions of soup ; but there is not more than the half, and that of a rancid quality. On Thursday the soup is made with rice, of which there should be four ounces raw, but there are not four ounces even when it is boiled, and it is dressed in the same way. On Sunday macca roni is allowed, but very few are able to eat it. It is positively noxious from its acid quality, and from the mixture of the excrement of mice and also of insects. The room used as an hospital is 65 spans in length and 30 in breadth, and only 10 spans from the floor to the ceiling, with two small windows on one side overlooking the country, and a very small loophole on the other, corresponding with the interior of the fort. It contains 21 beds, with planks, on which there are laid straw mattresses, containing some 301 b. weight of the filthiest straw, which is changed once a-year. There are likewise woollen mattresses, stuffed with from 201 b. to 251 b. of miserable wool. That also is cleaned only once a year. The bed-linen is very scanty and very bad. There are one or two woollen coverlets weighing but a few pounds. " ' When some wretched creature has been struck down with ague he has no means of covering himself. The hos pital food, when on full allowance, consists of two loaves, which ought to weigh 120 z., but are seldom more than 10oz. ; as to the meat—Heaven only knows from what ani mal it is furnished—the weight of the same is not more than 30z., including skin and gristle. The broth is like dish-water. The soup is of maccaroni, rice, and semolina, these being of the quality which you would give to poultry, and also of straw. The weight of the said soup is 3oz. for two portions, and half a pint of wine of the mysterious quality aforesaid. The half allowance in the hospital con sists of two small loaves of scarcely Boz., half the wine, and half the meat. The strict diet consists of a soup in the morning, and another in the evening, of the quality of that just described. After dinner each invalid bas en egg. The treatment is homoeopathic. The phy sician, Carlo Rosilli, is a homoeopathist. The surgeon, Luigi Riguinot, a Cor sican, is an. allopathist. They visit the sick alternately. The patients are neglected an d ill-treated. The meth al l attendants will hardly ever send a patient to the hospit and when they do send hi m the y almost always keep him on strict diet. Perhaps the y , have a secret understanding with those who contract for the food. The hospital keeper is a certain Raffaele Revetti, who has been condemned for peculation—the worthy guardian of such a place of deten tion. There are 24 g aolers ; the chief one Giuseppe Pacifici, from whom all iniquities spring. " ' Of the per sons thus imprisoned very few are in health. Many are suffering from complaints of the chest, or are scorbutic or feverish, and almost all are affected with hernia. They are allowed to take exercise for an hour and a half in the morning and in the evening; during winter for an hour only ; when it rains never. When a si c k per son asks for the physician he is rarely removed to the hos pital, but shut up in his cell, deprived of air. One day the physician visits him ; the next day the surgeon ; sometimes neither of the two. Thus patients have been left for nine days in the last stage of illness, af6r they have been given up by the doctors. One day, when some complaints were made on account of the bad soup in the hospital, the person who made the complaints was taken by two keepers, and by dint of blows and kicks was forcibly thrust along into the darkest dungeons, and there detained many days by • • order of the governor. • The governor, Signor Trasmondo, has the supreme com mand over all, and exercises his authority tyrannically. Inflexible, and deaf to the complaints of suffering humanity, he expects an audience to be asked of him as if he were a sovereign. He does not always grant it, and even when the audience is granted the request is generally refused, When some prisoner at the point of death refuses to receive a con fessor he is removed into a solitary cell, and there, after having heaped on hint a thousand outrages, orders are given to one of the lowest turnkeys to kill him by, suffocation. The fact is known from, the confession of the turnkey him self, who on one occasion refused to be a party to this bar barity. The corpse is interred in the interior of the fort, and the governor is present at the funeral. Sometimes he gives a kick et the head of the corpse, and commits similar outrages. Before the nomination of the present governor there was a Captain Savini, a mild and humane man, and thq prisoners at that period were allowed to take the air during the whole day, and obtained what was needful for their wants; and those who had no means of their own were allowed to work in order to procure a little money.' " So far the account which has been transmitted to us. We desire, however, to complete it by other facts which another prisoner of Fallen° has mad. public, in order that an the severity of a blind and revolting persecu tion may be denounced before the tribunal of public opinion —before that tribunal which was able, even in less fortu nate times, to destroy Spielberg. Let us quote various passages : " ' There exists in the fortress of Paliano a "parlatorio," or place set apart for the interviews of the prisoners with their friends, consisting of three rooms, one adjoining the other, and arranged in the following way :—the first room looks through a window, with a thick iron grating, into the second or middle room, to which also the third room cor responds by means of another window, also protected by an iron grating just like that of the room opposite. These holes serve for the transmission of the voices of those who, from the first room, speak across to the persons in the third. Into the third room (whilst the middle one always remains empty) there is conducted the prisoner, having at his side the head gaoler and the clerk of the for ress ; into the first room there are admitted those who have obtained permis sion to see their friends in the company of the governor ; and all these listeners hear every word, and interrupt every word when not agreeable to them. The gratings and the distance between the two windows completely prevent the speakers from seeing and even from hearing one another, unless they raise their voices very high. Besides, the time allowed for the conversation is extremely short. On its ex piry the prisoner is• taken back to his cell, and the visitors are dismissed. Is it possible to imagine a more painful trial ? But such is the refinement of clerical vengeance. Having premised these necessary explanations, I now pass to special facts : " Whilst I was an inmate of this den of horrors, a wife with her little boy, obtained permission to see her husband. It was ten years since the Papal Government had torn her husband from her embrace ; the boy had never known his father, for he was born after the arrest. Neither the prayers of the afflicted wife, nor the tears of the tender child, nor the sobbings and despair of the unhappy father, could induce the governor to allow them but one embrace —to let them mingle their tears together. Such are the consolations which the mercy of the Papal Sovereign and of his Ministers grant to a bereaved spouse, to an innocent son, to a despairing father and husband. Surely such favours should rather be regarded in the light of a now and of a more cruel martyrdom to torment the spirits of the victims immolated, and to more cruel hatred. It would be impossible to describe the rigours and the tortures, always new and increasing, which have been invented to augment the sufferings of the prisoners after the last fatal attempt at I flight. The following fact will show of what the Papal Government is capable when it wishes to torture by way of precaution, " ' In order to prevent the political prisoners from holding the slightest communication with the outer world, recourse was even had to the very strange and absurd expedient of forbidding the physician (although an individual com pletely subservient to the Government) from personally visiting the sick in the prison. He was to treat them on the report of a oreature who but a short time before had been in the galleys, and was transferred thence to perform the office of an hospital attendant. This liberated galley slave felt the pulse, made his diagnosis, drew his conclu sions, and the physician meanwhile waited in thc i room of the governor for the report of the attendant, and, according to the character of that report, prescribed remedies to patients whom he had never seen. Representation on re presentation was necessary before the Papal Government could be induced to abandon this singular mode of proceed ing ; and it was only after some time that the physician obtained permission to appioach the bed of his patients ; but even then only in the company of the turnkeys, who wore placed as spies over his movements, his words, and the very expression of pity which his countenance might betray. Nothing more thoroughly demonstrates the utter barbarity and immorality of the Court of Rome, which is unable to treat its political prisoners with a less degree of inhumanity even when they are stricken down by sickness, or stretched on a death-bed. " ' One of the patients, a certain M—, of Bologna, begged to see the governor, to implore in the name of his com panions, the permission to have the period for exercise ex tended for half an hour. The only reply he received was an order from Trasmondo that he should be put in chains weighing 80 pounds, and thrown into the tower. The tower, situated in the centre of the citadel, is the most horrible of prisons—damp, isolated, with an opening at the roof, leav ing the prisoner exposed to all the inclemency of the weather. It is the worst den in this abode of grief and of despair. Into this the patient was thrown, weighed down by the terrible burden of his fetters. Be it summer or winter the inmate of the tower has no bed save the bare ground—no covering save his own apparel—no food save bread and water. Many through that punishment alone have been stricken with disease, and if you once lose your health in that dungeon it is your death-warrant. When I left the fort to be conveyed as an exile across the frontier a poor prisoner had just died in consequence of illness caused by the repetition of this punishment, from which more than one prisoner has died whom the Government perhaps wished to get out of the way. " 'A certain P—, of Ascoli, on returning from the chapel to his own cell, happened, when he reached the court-yard of the fortress, to turn back and salute a con demned prisoner belonging to another section, who was looking through the grating. For that offence the head gaoler, after beating him, had the usual chains put on, and then sent him to the tower. It was in March, on an Easter Sunday. After three days of suffering, he was found stretched out, almost frozen, on the ground. Then ho was removed to the hospital, and thanks to a strong constitution, after some time he recovered. How many most Vir tuous mon have suffered similar torments when they had once become a prey to the vengeance of the priests. - _ " ' Many amongst the political prisoners, in consequence of the treatment they have received, from the moral and physical tortures endured, have become insane. They howl in their prisons; sometimes mingling with the other victims, at other times alone, but without any differ ence of treatment. And yet even the least civilised Governments employ special cares and special relief for the insane ; but priestly hatred has no bounds ; and could it follow its victims even beyond the tomb, it would gladly do so, though at the r;sk of outraging the Deity himself. " Ono of those wretched maniacs committed ono day an insane act. The head gaoler beat him so cruelly as w to hoh leave him almost lifeless o n the ground. Young C—, ap pened to be in the same cell, indignant at the outrage, called out that they were murdering the man. Thereupon the gaoler departed, but immediately returned with a band of turnkeys, who at once fell upon the youth, removed him t o another priso n, and there, with sticks and ropes, merci lessly belaboured him. Another poor fellow, whose intel lect was temporarily wandering, A. M--, having made some complaint about his food, was dragged out of his bed and kicked and thrashed back to his old cell—there left without attendance, without the visit of the physician, and with the coarsest diet. Thanks to his strong constitution, he re covered fro m his mental illness ; but now, owing to the l e ngth of the imprisonment, of the sufferings endured an d to the treat ment to which he ha s been subjected, his health has s uffered to such an extent, t hat his him again on this s id e the friendsavhe.a've no hope of eve r seein g " As we had occasion to observe in the commencement, the prisoners were transported to the prison of San Michele in Rome. It happened thus. We employ the words.of one of the inmates of San Michele, whose imprisonment Fl has been in changed into exile, and wh o is now7e is a most respectable young man , an d h as allowed Florence. give his name—Signor Tommaso Saracini, of Rome. He says that ' on one of the evenings of last December, after the priso ners of San Michele had been shut up in their cells, Mon signor Pila came to inspect tha whole place ; next morning orders were given for the immediate clearing out of that part occupied by the younger prisoners condemned for common offences, and called the house of correction. Some reports united with these arrangements led us to believe that something extraordinary was to happen; and infect one evening, about ten o'clock, we heard the arrival of the large prison vans, then the gates were opened, and there entered 40 prisoners, just arrived from Paliano. If you could edalY have seen them. They scarcely preserved the trace o f man. IThey were all clothed in the dress of common galler°laves" Ivißn most respectable by their social position, beheld by 1129 COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS. asked, l ec , The opposition to thesystem of competitive xa ti argument.i nao nsha s been y supported by one remark ablecertainl no t anovhut it is novel argue m , urged e a with apparently, wanitdh greatasce energy , and rtainlynotasonnd otte regarded, pp em I t i s much complacency by its authors. We are w ith singular confidence of top a e, what ad vantage literary attainments can confer upon a clerk in a public office, or a servant in any public department. Take, for instance, the Colonial, the Inland Revenue, or the Post-office department ; ob serve the duties actually devolving upon the clerks employed in those services, and then say what use can be found in Latin, Greek, mathematics, goo. graphy, history, or natural science. The argument has been pushed even further, r - that in Gover most part onl even on4_ e ru i aid spelling. been worked with order to place the assumed absurdity in the strong light, we have been treated with specimens of the very p e c t a questions n t Excise putoffi officers s c candidates d atefi Custom - house p lace have been asked, we are told, to answer questi ons in European and Asiatic geography, and an in stance has been quoted as more than usually ludi crous, in which a candidate for place in the " Its land Revenue" Department was catechised about the trade winds and the Gulf Stream. After we have been thus entertained, and invited to smile at such ridiculous proceedings, we are asked, in a strain of grave expostulation, clerks whether we can really expect to get good servants for public offices by examining . them in matters which have no imaginable connexion with the duties before them. We are testing, it is said, the fitness of a man for one sphere of office by ascertaining his aptitude for another. We are weighing with. the wrong weights, and measuring with the wrong measures. We want the best clerks, whereas all we do is to choose the best scholars. Now, on this pretty argument there is a word to be said of considerable importance. If the reason ing is good for anything, it is good for a great deal more than is here assumed. We are not concerned to estimate the relative values of arithmetic, geography, orthography, history, mathematics, or other branches of knowledge, but it must never be forgotten that these things, whether useful or otherwise, are simply the ingredients of the com pound termed "education," and that they cannot be disparaged without the disparagement of education itself. If they are good for nothing, education is good for nothing, and all our labour in this matter is labour lost. To say that a man has no need of such acquirement is merely to say that he has no need of being educated, for education means teaching people to write, to spell, to understand the configuration of the globe and the events of past ages, and to get an insight, more or less completely, into those very branches of knowledge now put in so ludicrous a light. If it is really true that these studies, or, in other words, education, can have no bearing whatever upon the duties of practical life, it is clear that we are lying under a prodigious mis take, and squandering vast funds and pains in an undertaking of utter inutility. We have been all under the impression that in educating the youth of the country—that is to say, in teaching lads geography, arithmetic, and the like—we were ren dering them better qualified for the general duties of citizens, and fitter candidates for their respective callings, that of the Civil Service included. If, however, education produces no such results, and the best educated man is no better than another, we should like to hear what the results me which tire expected to repay us for our sacrifices and • trouble. As regards this question, the Civil Service of the State differs in no respect from any of the ordinary occupations of life. It is perfectly true, no doubt, that a collector or supervisor may live out all his days in office, and never once be called upon to make a direct application of his geographical or historical knowledge; but the remark - gill apply with pre. cisely the same force to a tailor, a grocer, a shoe maker, a lawyer, a physician, or indeed anybody, except an author or a schoolmaster, The studies so ridiculed in the argument we are considering are precisely of the same use to a civil servant of the State as to a man engaged in any ordinary pursuit. If they are irrelevant in one case, they are irrele vant in the other ; that is to say, they are irrelevant altogether, and we may at once conclude that edu cation, which is composed of these things just as the alphabet is composed of letters, may be given up for good and all as a pure delusion and folly. The very same contrasts which are drawn between duties and qualifications in the case of Post-office clerks may be drawn with equal smartness in all cases where competitive examinations are employed. Even in the Woolwich and Sandhurst examinations —the most special of all—there are hundreds of questions which might be shown to be utterly un connected with any probable duty of militafy life. If we are wrong in the matter of the Civil serrice, we are wrong everywhere, and, instead of subsi dising, educational establishments from the funds of the State, and pushing the work of public instruc tion by all possible means, we ought to deci de at once that no one should be taught or expected to know anything beyond the actual sphere of his im mediate and daily calling. This would tend won derfully to simplify a great national problem, erabutl we doubt if the theory is likely to find gen acceptance. The truth is, that in this sy stem of competitive examinations we are but ac tin g in accordance with all the principles of educa tion and duty recognised in modern times. We found and support National Schools in order to rear better citizens for the na tional benefit. We prescribe the studies to be pur sued in these schools, according to their presumed bearing upon the actual duties of life. We teach ar ithmetic, history, geography, and the rudiments of various sciences, simply because such acquire ments are believed to conduce to a man's value as a citizen of the State, and to render him a better man for his work, whatever may be his particular ourschwoaoyi; occupation. When the schoolmaster first went n I'taught the in right abroad it was ex p ressl y for th e diffusion of useful g s arc IWe oepdeg that lV e the hope thi we with such infinite pains are really useful things, and that in proportion as they are learnt they really do make the learner fitter for the various callings of life. If this then it follows at once that the is the case, must be sound, for in adopting competitive system carrying out our own principles, it we are merel y the most approved scholarsW e are selecting design. We are from schools of our own studies which we have rewarding excellence in the very previouslyprescribed as most serviceable. We have been trying to train up good citizens, and we select for the service of the 'public those who have given the best promise on this very ground. We have spared no effort to encourage education, as the be s t possible thing for the State, and we choose for theimmediate service of the State those whose education appears the most complete. Of course, there is another side of the question. We may be wrong instead of right. All these studies and sciences of which education is com pounded may be utterly without use in fitting a man for any practical duties, and may, indeed, as is now intimated, actually detract from his value, by inspiring him with a feeling of independen ce. All this may perhaps be true. We cannot say we think so, but we are willing, for argument's sake, to note the possibility. What we wish to adel l that in this case our whole theory of educations tumbles down together. 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