The Sun. — London, England, 1860-10-08 00:00:00

OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT- I I- 1, GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON , Sole Lessees.—TlllS EVENING will be presented the opera of LITRLINEI characters by Messrs. 11. Wharton, A. Core, G. Kelley, ault W. Harrison ; Miss Lettl2r, Miss Albertazzi, and Miss LoEightuisa Pyne.—C,Juductor, Mr. Alf re d Mellon. Commence at . Doors open at Hal-past Seven. In consequence ot the numerous on from the Patrons of the Royal English Opera, on Monday, October 15, the performances will commence at half-past seven, doors opening at seven. This arrangement will continue up to Christmas THEATRg-I-LOYAL, LeViee, Mir. J. I THIS EVENING the nerlornaaiOes will commence the 119V7 comedy, DOES HE LOVE ME ? Messrs. Howe Chippendale, E. Villiers, and Buckstone ; Miss Amy Sedg wick, Miss Florence Haydon, and Mrs. Wilkins. Followed by a new comedy, entitled ROMANCE AND REALITY. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Rogers, W. Farren, en d John Brougn am ; Miss Florence Haydon; Mrs. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And THE SUN AND T D. By the Leclercqs. Commence at 7.i -____ HAYMARKET. BwBkstone. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, MAGIC TOYS : Valentine, Miss Lydia Thompson. After which, a comedy by Dion Bourcicalt, Esq., entitled THE IRISH HEIRESS. Messrs. George Vining - H. Neville (his first appearance in Loudon), John Rouse, Villiers, T. Lyon, H. Butler, Miss Kate Saville, Miss M. Hatton, and Miss Crom,rhenheim, the talented Comedienne, of the princi pal Theatres in America (her first appearance in England. To conclude with the romantic drama of THE ABBE VAUD REITIL, in which the celebrated Dancers, the Misses Collinson, will make the . r first appearance in London. The Abbe Vaudreuil, Madame Celeste. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE -ROYAL. ► Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicanit, ev Esen q., " The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every ing. THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORP iss Kate Kelly S. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby , Miss W oolgar, M , and Sirs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN BAW. D. Smith, Romer. S Bourcicault, D. Fisher, Billing - ton, Falconer , Stephenson. C. J. m ton and Miss Agnes Robertson , Miss Woo'. Billing, gar, Mrs Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC HATII CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. Doors open at half-past 6— Commence at 7 . B o x-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, - XI. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 25 • pit Stalls, 2 5.; ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, a Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY. .73L. This Evening (first time) a new Spectacle, entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood; Allan-a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Pritchard. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day, including Mdlle. de Berg and Mr. James Cooke. Doors open at half-cast 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERT S.- EVERY EVENING, A. Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. - Norma ......... ...... Miss RUSSELL. Adalglsa (Her first appearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Per formers, org, e ofanisedVocal expressand Instrumental nstruhim for tsental establishment, for the Performanc Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. Balcony, le, ...Hall. 6cl. THB WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Oar. 7, MO. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS. 63—this day at noon. 50—lowest this morning and during the night. 60—highest since noon yesterday. BAROMETER-30.28 ; falling. WlND—Westerly ; rather fresh, with dull weather in the morning, but fine in the afternoon. OCT. 8. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHA.DII. 62—this day at noon. 46—lowest this morning and during the night. 56—highest since noon yesterday. BanomETER-30.12. WlND—North :Westerly ; fresh and cool, with fine dry weather. HIGFI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. 38m.—Afternoon, 7h. Um, To-mcoaßow.-Morning, 7h. 52m.—Afternoon, Bh. 36m, iv.w :__. ) Zt s tv, .....„..,,,,, CI : J .;:. 1 • M/,...,;,,,...755i f`C :\l (lam bim ~~r THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 8, 1880. If we Londoners are not emulating our neigh bours the Parisians to the full by the Magnitude and the magnificence of our metropolitan improve ments, we are at any rate gradually advancing to a better state of things both as regards the external appearance of the capital and the general convenience of its inhabitants, Paris has been so far more readily improvable than London, inasmuch as the former capital covers an area of comparative insignificance. It being, in fact, just one-third smaller than its gigantic neighbotzr— Paris containing scarcely one million and London close upon three millions of inhabitants. Where fore, if Paris rejoices in the possession of from twenty to thirty bridges—London, with less than ten, can with these few altogether defy any attempt at comparison. Supposing our noble river to be drained dry like the Niger, or turned from its course like the Euphrates, three or faur Seines might be turned into its channel without the waterside streets fearing the risk of inundation. The fortifications of the capital of France, again, may form a symmetrical frame work to that picture of a fair city. Yet London, straggling off confusedly into ignoble suburbs, to Hoxton and Walworth, to Bow and Horsleydown, can afford to look " upon. that picture and on this," without any momentary feeling of envy at the contrast. The Parisian boulevards are certainly a series of frameworks that might more reasonably be coveted by the metropolis of the British Empire—but if London is without those unquestionably great adornments, Paris is as glar ingly devoid of the beauty and salubrity arising from our green and sylvan parks—those "lungs of London," as they are more happily than gracefully designated—Hyde-park, Green-park, Regent's park, Victoria-park, Kensington-gardens, and The park at Battersea! Granted that Paris puts to shame our metropolitan palaces (St. James's, Buckingham) and with them our wretchedly, un sightly, and inconvenient National Gallery, with the superb and truly palatial pile of the gorgeous Louvre and th e old imperial Tuileries ! True that the ridiculously so-called "finest site in Europe," Trafalgar-square, with its squirts for fountains, its vacant spaces and unused pedestals, is rendered little less than contemptible by comparison with that wondrous c en t ra l point of Paris, the Place de la Concorde, . w i t h obelisk flanked by elaboratedits Egyptian j e ts o f wa ter worthy of the name of Fount a i ns —th at that noblest Place in the fairest of all the ornate capitals of the European Continent, from which (standing with your back to the lovely gardens of the Tuileries , seen throu g h the g il ded grille and the outer line of shrubs and statuary) you beh o ld to the left the stately structure of the Chamber of Deputies, to the right the exquisite proportions of the classic Grecian temple of the Madeleine, and extending straight onward before you down the long and eiminently beautiful an d umbrageous vista of the Champ Elysees, a perspec tive completed majestically at its extremity by the famous Arc de la Triomphe, recounting, in bas reliefs, the wondrous feats of arms of NAroLEoN le Grand. Acknowledging all this, and a great deal more into the_ bargain—such, for example, as that Che Ls3a hospit a l is not to be compared in aspect to the Invalides, or, as that neither the Duke of Yor'K's Column, or the Nelson Testimonial, or the o ld London Nin n 'ament on Fish- street Hill, cat. , be contrasted without inevitable depreciation with improvement u . ponthe Trojan pillar in the Place Vendome, nutting, in these and Tari- aviarr5...........1t1i ous other respects, the immeasurable superiority of Paris over London—we have still reason to exult in other respects in our own regard in the matter of divers positions and substantial advantages quite as indisputable and invaluable. If Paris has Notre Dame—London has Westminster Abbey. If Paris possesses St. Sulspice or St. Genevieve (the latter formerly the heathenish Pantheon of the Re volution)—has not London St. Paul's Cathe dral ? The Bastile and the Temple of the Bourbon ages both of them swept away from Paris; London has still the Towers of Julius as among the curious and memorable of her historical monuments. But beyond all this, for the material comfort of her inhabitants, who shall say that London is not better paved throughout than Paris —better gas-lit—nay already, we believe, better veined or nerved with the magic wires of the electric telegraph ? Added to which, we have the satisfaction of knowing that we are already entering upon a more effectual and comprehensive system of drainage, by which the health of three millions of people Will be more reliably secured, and the natural advantages accruing from the bisecting of the capital by the river Thames restored; and, when restored, perfected for the enjoyment of it by the inhabitants of the metro polis upon both sides, by the erection upon its margin of a double line of embankments. Slowly and surely, then, we are advancing here in London with our metropolitan improvements—our neigh bours, the Parisians, speeding a-head of us the while, it is true, with marvellous rapidity. The race between us seems to have been hitherto as unequal as the race between the hare and the tortoise—but let not our Paris friends be caught a-napping, or we may, one of these fine days, be " forging" a-head of them as surprisingly as LESOP'S hare-conquering, slow-footed tortoise ! We gave insertion on Thursday, and willingly, to an extract forwarded to us from a Welsh paper, headed, " Intolerance in Cardiganshire," and con taining facts which might well, in the year of our Lord 1860, have been taken for fictitious. It is, we conceive, the duty of the Press to publish such facts throughout the kingdom, since they are deeds of the gravest moral and social delinquency, and yet wholly beyond the reach of law. The sufferers from religious bigotry have rarely indeed any court of appeal, but that of public opinion expressed _ . . through the journals of the day; and, though the - : case of the victims who may claim our advocacy can rarely be bettered by it, for bigotry is gene rally too proud as well as too bitter to retrace its steps, we may yet do something to prevent the evil spreading. We may check incipient bigotry, if we cannot in every instance destroy the full-blown evil. No social evil, therefore, ought the enlight ened press of the country to be more prompt to ex pose than that of persecution for religion. But what do we mean by persecution ? Fire and sword, fines and imprisonment, coercion to attend one form of worship, penalties for attending ano ther—all such things, happily, have nearly vanished from both statute and common law. Very few civil disabilities, in a direct form at least, lie against any creed or worship. The precise religion of the QUEEN and the Lord Chan cellor, we forget at the moment whether that of any other persons, is alone fixed by law, and as they are generally brought up to the creed they must hold they practically suffer nothing. The only persecution inflicted by the state now is purely constructive ; the bestowment of certain property on two or three creeds, and the conferring of State rack and position on the persons who hold the most favoured one of all. Even this Lord STANLEY tells us is to pass away in another generation, and, when we see the Head of Catholic Christendom losing secular dignities by the hands of Catholic sovereigns, it may well be that another generation will recognise in bishops and archbishops only spiritual persons. And, happily too, persecution 1 for creed or worship has become growingly revolt ing to the feelings of the great majority of the nation. The change in the laws has been a thawing of the rigid ice-crust of persecuting legislation, by the genial warmth of bettered social feeling rising to the surface, and softening the soil for the cultivation of genuine religious liberty. If in such a state of social advancement, and Christian advancement too,—for if hatred of per secution be not Christian, we know not what is— we ask now what is persecution, thank Heaven we have light enough to answer—" Every thing by which I place my fellow-man at a disadvantage on account of his Religion." When we were youths almost half England believed it was right that law should do this. Now, so changed is the feeling, that—we say, no Commoner, whose election might be perilled by it, but not even any old Tory lord, hardly we believe any bishop, dares venture to assert that an Englishman ought to sustain at law civil damage for his creed. But surely indivi duals, in society, are bound to be far better to each other _than law compels them to be. If the law will not injure a man for his creed, the man in society who would do it must take his place with those detested beings who practice that summa injuria the summum jus ; and wrong their fellow • men to the uttermost,while just keeping themselves clear of penal servitude. As the law treats equally all good subjects, irrespective of creed, so the man in society should know no difference between those who all treat him alike in their dealings with him. If I remove my custom from a shopkeeper, not because another will serve me better, but be cause I have discovered him to be of a different re ligious creed to myself, I may argue how I will—l am a persecutor. I cannot burn or imprison the man, but I can punish him with loss of the fair profits he might obtain from my custom, and see ing the law has repealed its penalties, I take the law into my own hands and inflict the penalty. If this ought not to brand a man as a social perse cutor, we know not what ought. What business have I with my butcher, my grocer, or my draper's creed ? They do not injure me by it. They serve me none the worse—it may even be that they serve me the better for it. They have a moral title to be treated as good and fair tradesmen, while they act as such, and it must be of the worst religious as well as social consequences, if creeds and religious profession are openly or tacitly purchased with meat, tea, and calico. The former do not admit of measurement by the yard or the pound; and woe to the persecutor who tempts the tradesman to sell his religious convictions with his goods. The Evil One has not a better servant than he. And wherein, we should like to know, is it better when a land-lady mixes up considerations of religion with the letting of her farms, and when her amanuensis, for such we take him to be— CLERICUS, exhorts all the land- lords of England to follow the pious example of Miss MORICE. We have all heard enough of Jesuitry, but if the letter of Miss MORICE, and that of CLERICTJS, both from internal evidence almost certainly the work of the same hand, be not as thorough sophistry as anything exposed by PASCAL, we know not what is sophistry, Miss MORICE sends her tenants a notice couched hi e i h n l i o n n t g d e r a p n re t p e i d o y into simply unctuous phrase- English, but w ology, ...r means—" if you cannot come and worship at the church of Landdeinol, you must leave my farm !" She and CLERICUS will not deny that that is the announcement which they try to make appear reasonable—Christian —nay even " do ing to others as we would they should do unto us"—and worthy of all imitation—in letters which filled a column of our smallest print. CLEnicus is even indignant that any one should AIR. LINDSAY, 1 rITED STATESM ITEst Mr. Lindsay, M.P., addressed the Boston, United States, Board of Trade, on the 24th ult., and stated the object of _ _ . his visit to the United States. He slid that he did not visit the United States as a " diplomztist," much less as a " special envoy," Ls had been reported in some quarters . ; but he came there as a man of business, to converse with men of business, about commercial matters, in which both countries were deeply interested. Having corn- pared notes and conversed with the merchants and shipowners of Boston, and having ascertained their views—which they appeared quite ready to furnish — he would then proceed to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and adopt a somewhat similar course to that which he was following here. The different boards of trade and chambers of commerce would no doubt forward memorals to their Government, and by the time the Government of the United States had considered these speak of such signal piety as persecution. What is it then ? Why, it is, he says, using her position as a landowner for the good of the Church in which she believes. And her conscience "forbids her to allow the tenants to make use of the advantages which they derive from connection with her property, to the support of those principles which are at variance and hostile to those of the landlady." memorials, he would have reached Washington. He would then see if the views of the respective Governments .. could be brought into harmony respecting the questions to which he would now direct their attention. In regard to We leave the grammar as we find it, but the abuse of the common sense, indeed of religious sense also, deserves exposure. This priest-ridden 'the first and most important question, that of the respon. sibility of shipowners, he said—" My idea in regard to the principles of the convention would be somewhat as follows : —That the ships of Great Britain and the United States respectfully shall be placed upon an equal footing in regard to the loss of life, personal injury, &c., by collisions at sea, and that the liability of the owners of the ship running down another shall be limited to the same amount, whether the ship belong to Great Britain or the United States ; and that the mode of procedure shall be is accordance with the law of the country in which the claim is made." He next spoke of the necessity of adopting signal lights which should be always understood. He also spoke of matters relating to insurance—to that "running down clause" which is usually inserted in the policy. It seemed to him desirable that in the United States they should have rules applicable to insurance somewhat similar to those which they had in Great Britain. The next point was that of crimes committed on the high seas. "I do not see," he said, "why some convention cannot be entered into between the two countries, so that upon the representation of the minister or consul representing your country, our law officers shall have power to issue a warrant for the apprehEnsion of the American subject in a British port, in the same way as he would issue a warrant for the apprehansion of a British subject committing a similar offence ; and, in case of very grave crimes, have power to send him home for trial ; and, in case of smaller offences, such as larceny and small crimes and disputes, giving to our courts jurisdiction, always on the recommen dation, or at the request of the ambassador or consul repre senting the United States at that port. And if some such law could be applied to American seamen in England, it would be advisable to have a similar law applied to British seamen in American ports." With respect to the question of desertion from merchant ships, he suggested that the American Government might adopt our " Foreign De serters Act," if the words, "not being slaves," were omitted ; if they agreed to do so, he would do all he possibly could to induce our Government to sub stitute some such words as " seamen who have voluntarily engaged themselves, and apprentices indentured to merchant ships belonging to such and such power." Passing on to the subject of shipping offices, he said : "If you were to establish shipping offices, into which British seamen should be admitted on the same terms, and subjected to the same charges, as American seamen, then I think our Government would be willing to allow your sea men the same privileges in our shipping offices." Several other points having been touched upon, he spoke at length upon the navigation laws ; noticing the course which Eng land had taken, throwing her ports open, so that American and British ships stood on an equal footing. He said, " When we opened the coasting trade to you, we expected that your Government would adhere to this great sound principle, as laid down by Abbott Lawrence, and open your trade to us. lam sorry to say that you still retain your coasting trade; and you do more —you construe your coasting trade to include the trade between Now York and California. I am at a loss to understand how you can call a trade that travels nearly round the world a ' coasting trade.' I will tell you what a British ship owner says Why,' says he, ' the trade between Cal cutta and London is quite as much a coasting trade as that between California and New York, because the distance is less.' Really lamat a loss to see why, if the one is to be termed a coasting trade,' the other should not be so also. Then you call the trade to the West coast, via Panama, a coasting trade I You land in a foreign country. You tranship your goods, carrying them over a foreign territory, and really, on the principle of equity, it seems to me it would bo very difficult for you to hold your ground there. If you were to give up your monopoly of the eoast ing trade, what would the British shipowner gain, and what would you lose ? If my experience is worth anything, it leads me to think that you would lose little or nothing, and that the British shipowner would gain much less than he supposes. I do not believe that you would lose any of that trade, because I believe that every nation can conduct its own coasting trade to the best advantage. It was said that the Swedes and Norwegians, eating "black bread," and working for low wages, would drive us out of our coasting tradp ; but wo have retained It, and fur this simple reason, that before the Swedes and Norwegians can engage in the coasting trade, they must come and live in the ports of England. They will there be subject to the same duties and burdens as British owners, and must feed and pay the same men, as British seamen are fed and paid. The ship owners of Groat Britain are constantly complaining about the people of America in regard to the coasting trade. You may not care a great deal about those bickerings, but anything that stirs up animosity between two great nations, especially two great commercial nations, such as England and America, must to a certain extent limit the trade be tween those countries more than it would be limited if this cause of grievance and annoyance were removed. Now, if England were prepared to give up this charge of light dues upon your ships, and the compulsory pilotage, so that your ships might not be required to pay for pilotage, except when they required the services of a pilot, and if we could give up those dues which we now levy as ' passing tolls'--I think, if you gave up your coasting trade, and we gave up these exactions, it strikes me that you would be very much the gainers, and you would remove a serious annoyance, and do much to develope your own trade. However, that is a matter for the consideration of the government of this board, and I do hope that you and the shipowners generally, and the American public, will give it a fair and impar tial consideration." The registry question was considered, and also the belligerent rights of the sea. In connection with the latter subject, he said :—" I do sin cerely hope that you may urge upon the Government of this country the desirability of moving, with England, in making all private property, except articles contraband of war, sacred, and putting an end to the seizure of such pro perty by privateers, whether it be by ships carrying letters of marque, called privateers, or her Majesty's ships, fitted out in England and going forth, in the usual phrase, to burn, plunder, and destroy.' "—At the conclusion of the hon. gentleman's speech, it was resolved :—" That a com mittee of twelve be appointed to consider the various sub jects presented to the government of this board by the Hon. W. S. Lindsay, M.P., namely, the liability of shipowners— the rule of the road at sea—collisions—signal lights—the application of the British Foreign Deserters Act to the ships of the United States—offences committed on the high seas—the settlement of disputes relative to wages, etc.— the establishment of shipping offices—the rights of belli gerents—the registering of British-built vessels—the coast ing trade, &e." lady is taught to regard her tenants' fair profits as her own ! As a gift which she may acceptably present at the offertory of her Church, though it is the fruit of her tenants' labour and skill, and costs her nothing! She is taught by her Confessor to confound her rents with her tenants' fair profits , what never belonged to her with what nnques. tionably does. If she wished to retire into an Anglican nunnery, and devote her entire rents to the " true Church," whatever we thought of her religious sanity, we should do honour to her self-denying sincerity. But when she would honour GOD in the cheap way of expel ling all who differ from her from the land, so far as lies in her power, and of substituting for them those who will conform to her creed, it is plainly serving GOD at the cost of others. She is directed, indeed, to protest against forcing her tenants to become Church people—only if they do not they must quit. She would not have them stay and go to Church against their principles ; only if their principles do not lead them thither, they must go out of their farms ! What " undue influence" means, politically, we know it is hard legally to define, but if Miss MORICE'S letter had related to election matters, we are confident the most Tory minded judge on the bench would pronounce that the votes in accordance with it would have the un questioned brand of that species of corruption. Miss MORICE'S legal right we know cannot be impugned, but the gross moral wrong she is taught to perpe trate becomes only more revolting when it is put forth as a model of religious duty. We are sorry to fear that Miss MORICE is not alone in lending her maiden ear to the charmings of priestly bigotry; but if these remarks should ever reach her, we beg her to consider what Ireland and Scotland must become if her confessor's principles were adopted by its landlords. Protestant Epis copalians hold, we believe, the greater part of the soil in both Scotland and Ireland ; are they, for the glory of GOD and the good of the true Church in which, like her, they "firmly believe," to eject all their Presbyterian and Catholic tenants, and to pro cure an immigration of men of the true faith ?" Are they to deny the " advantages" of earning an honest living to men who honestly pay their land lord's rents, and only enjoy their owu fair profits ? Is every Dissenter, Catholic, Jew, or Quaker land lord in England to act on the same plan, and eject all the Churchmen, indeed, all respectively but Dissenter, Catholic, Jew, or Quaker tenants ? Is shopping to be conducted as, if she is right, it ought to be, on the same principles—and are we therefore to have JOHN SMITH, " Episcopalian grocer," DAVID JONES, " Dissenting grocer," JAMES ROBINSON, " Catholic or Quaker grocer." Indeed we could not stop there. At Islington we must have JOHNSON, " butcher, and Evangelical Churchman ;" near St. Barnabas ; " THO3IPSON, draper, and Anglican Churchman ;" and in the sober City " ANDERSON, tea dealer, and moderate Churchman." We must, however, conclude our remarks. For ourselves, we think no terms of reprobation too strong for such landlady cruelty. Not even the absolution of CLERICUS can obtain absolution for it —in Heaven more than on earth. While the SUL TAN is treating all creeds alike, and while Spain and Rome are the models which Miss MORICE is imitating, we cannot doubt that such baleful in. tolerance will meet its just social punishment in England. In Wales every one knows that dissent is the rule, conformity the exception ; but if all the landlords follow the example of Miss MORICE, and of her father confessor CLERICUS, the farmers of Wales will have no alternative but emigration or hypocrisy. Naples. GARIBALDL All hail I thou Liberator Lord, What blessings shall we crave For Italy looks to thy sword To liberate the slave. Dear land of Arts las now—of yore, But spirit scarce the same— What pages hast thou counted o'er Of glory, grief, and shame I And thou wert dead, but livest again, • With radiance on thy brow— Thou hast produced some wondrous men Like Garibaldi now. Thou may'st be prcind of such a Son, So daring, yet so meek ; For nobler deeds were never done By Roman or by Greek. Ile won men's hearts in his own way— Was cheerful even in sorrow ; "What seems impossible to-day, May be achieved to-morrow." The Liverpool Mercury of Saturday says : " From inquiries made at Knowsley yesterday, we regret to find that the Earl of Derby has undergone a slight re lapse, though it is satisfactory to know that no danger is apprehended." But all were mute—when he arose, The man of fearless heart, And said—" Prepare to meet our foes, " This night we ship !—depart." For very joy they could but weep, Yet, doubting still, hoped on— When Garibaldi crossed the deep— And Sicily was won I The Duke and Duchess of Richmond have ar rived in town from Gordon Castle, Fochabers, N.B. We are sorry to learn there has been but slight amendment in the health of his grace. The noble duke has been unable to take the field during the shooting season in consequence of his indisposition. The Duke of Leinster has arrived in town within the last few days from the Continent, on his way to Carton near ➢laynooth, Ireland. The Earl of Aberdeen has returned to Haddo House from his lordship's marine residence near Peterhead, The venerable statesman is enjoying much better health. Colonel the Hon. Alexander and Mrs. Gordon, and the Hon. Arthur Gordon, are staying at Haddo House with his lordship. The Countess of Westmoreland and infant daughter are both progressing favourably at Apthorpe Hall, Northamptonshire. The dawn of freedom now had come, And spread beyond the wave— Where men will dare for Mother-home All that becomes the brave. " Then onward freemen, for renown Success is ever sweet ; Think nothing gained till Rome be won, And Naples at our feet !" But pause a moment—look around— Nor risk Too Much for More— Ambition treads on slippery ground, While Prudence shuns the shore. Then, yet be wise —consolidate Thy strength in Freedom's cause ; And thou mayst raise a mighty State Will win the world's applause. Lord and Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Miss Thesiger, who are making a tour in Germany, are expected to return to Eaton-square about the close of this month. Lord and Lady Proby, Colonel Steele, and a select circle have been visiting the Duke and Duchess of Manchester during the week at Kimbolton Castla, St. Neots. His march was like the welcome tide O'er parch'd and weary sand ; And as he laid his sword aside, He grasp'd them by the hand. There was no need to prove his might— His name—that magic word ! The very slaves he went to fight Turned Freemen, and adored ! Lord and Lady Taunton, who has been travelling on the Continent during the last six weeks, are expected to return to Stoke Park, near Windsor, towards the close of the month. _ . Then, praise to him who never boasts, Yet does the deeds of fame. Hosannas! to the Lord of Hosts, In Garibaldi's name ! Lord Dunkellin, M.P., has joined the Marquis and Marchioness of Clauricarde at Portumna Castle, county Galway. Mr. Beaumont, M.P., and Lady Margaret Beau mont have arrived in town from visiting the German spas and Paris. The hon. member and her ladyship leave town early in the week for Bywelt Hall, their seat in Northum berland. _ - COBURG, Oct. 3.—His Royal Highness the Prince Consort has quite recovered from the slight injuries which he received. His Royal Highness will go out to-day. RETURN OF THE COURT TO WINDSOR.--Accord ing to the present arrangements, her Majesty, and the Prince Consort will arrive at Windsor Castle from Ger many on Wednesday, the 17th inst., for the winter season, His Royal Highness the Count of Sy racuse (uncle of th e Ki ng o f N ap l es ) an d suite, arrived at the B wick Hotol, Jermyn-street, on Friday nigh t, from Peoria. The private chapel of the Earls of Shrewsbury, in Alton Towers, which, up to the demise of the late earl, had been devoted to the Romish Church, has just been re opened for Protestant worship, according to the rites of the Church of England. The Turner pension of £5O has been given to Mr J. M. Wright, the veteran water painter. .The camp a t Ch a l ons w as officially broken up on Friday. The Duke of Magenta reviewed the troops on Thursday preparatory to their separation. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1860. ENV. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : MILAN, OCT. 7. The Perseveranza announces that Garibaldi solicits the King to go to Naples, and requests that 14,000 men be sent as soon as possible. MADRID, OCT. 7. Their Majesties have arrived at Saragossa. An royal ordinance decrees the payment of an annual pension of 540,000 reals for life to the Duke of Parma. ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. 7. Advices have been received here from Pekin to he commencement of July. The insurrection in China was gaining ground, especially in the Eastern maritime provinces. The militia had been called out in Pekin and its en virons. Discontent prevailed everywhere. Provisions of all descriptions were exceedingly dear. Commerce was stagnant. The inhabitants of Pekin were favourably dis• posed towards the English, and desired their pre• sence at Pekin. This was caused by reports that the English who disembarked at Petcheli had not ill-treated the natives. A corps of 6,000 men had been despatched from Pekin against the English. Ten thousand soldiers had been sent in another direction. A report was current at Pekin that the Emperor would pass the winter at Moukden. The Emperor's thirtieth birthday would be cele brated by festivals at Pekin. BERLIN, OCT. 7. Official advices received from St. Petersburg announce that the Emperor Alexander, accom panied by Prince Gortschakoff, will arrive at Warsaw on the 20th inst. The Emperor of Austria and the Prince Regent are expected there on the 22d inst. The Russian Ambassadors at Berlin, Vienna, and Turin have been summoned to Warsaw ; whither, in consequence of a formal invitation from the Russian Cabinet, Baron Schleinitz and Count Rechberg will also proceed. TRIESTE, OCT. 7 All the Austrian ships of war which were in the Syrian and Neapolitan waters have returned to Pola, where they are concentrated under the command of the Archduke Maximilian. The Austrian Government has ordered all the lights on the coasts of Istria and Dalmatia to be extinguished. The garrisons in these pro vinces are being considerably reinforced. TURIN, OCT. 6. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies Signor Poerio made an interpellation on the news published by the Naples journals that a concession of all the lines of railway in the Two Sicilies had been granted by the Dictator to the firm of Adami, Leghorn. Count Cavour replied that Government had no official information on the subject, but he believed that the news was entirely unfounded. TURIN, OCT. 7. General Fanti has arrived here. He will leave again on Tuesday next. The Sardinian troops have not yet crossed the Neapolitan frontier. LEGHORN, OCT. 7 Advices from Naples states that the Marquis Pallavicino had accepted the pro-dictatorship of Conforti's Ministry was still incomplete. Crispi was very unpopular. VIENNA, OCT. 7 The Austrian Government has no knowledge of the despatch which, according to an English jour nal, Lord John Russell addressed to Count Rechberg at the same time that the despatch of the 31st August was sent to Sir James Hudson for commu nication to Count Cavour. According to advices from Bucharest, Prince Couza has appointed a diplomatic agent to Turin. It is believed that the Porte will protest against this appointment, because it has always claimed the exclusive right of representing the Danubian Principalities in foreign countries. PARIS, OCT. 7. The period fixed by the convention of the sth ult., relative to Syria, for the exchange of the rati fications, expires on the 10th inst. This formality will be delayed, as the Turkish Ambassador has not received the ratifications of the Sultan, It is asserted that, on the termination of the labours of the European Commission at Beyrout, which will probably occupy two months, the expe dition to Syria will return to France. THE BATTLE OF VOLTURNO. A correspondent of the Journal des Debuts, who was present at the battle, gives the following graphic description of the relative position of the two armies and of the battle : " During the last five or six days Garibaldi has shown immense activity. The Royalists, on their part, have erected formidable works on the right bank of the Volturno ; they hold most favourable positions, without mentioning the fortress of Capaa ; they are masters of the course of the river, which they can cross by the bridges from Capua, where the river is little more than a ditch, for Capua is built on the right bank. From San Cle mente to Cajazzo the right bank is bristling with guns, eleverly masked, strong redoubts thrown up with barricades and drawbridges. " The whole country on the right bank is a trap. Add to this a retrenched camp of 20,000 picked troops, elated by promises of Royal rewards. "The base of the operations of the Garibaldians is at Maddaloni. The left wing stretches from Santa Maria to Aveisa, protected here by the canal which runs through the country, and occupied by Major Corte, with the volunteers of Basilicate. Santa Maria, strongly fortified, is occupied by General Milvitz, by tke Sicilian brigade La Masa, rather an embarrassment than a support ; by the fine Tuscan regiments Malenchini and Zucchieri, and Balbi's Genoese Carabineers. The head•quar ters remains at Caserta. The right wing, covered by the mountains, stretches from Dentici, occupied by 13ixio, who has returned from Genoa as far as San Salvatore by San Lenoro. At half a mile from that village is the Punta dcl Parco, and a little be yond a ravine, capped by a hill which. commands Cajazzo. The hill is occupied by Garibaldians, Cajazzo by the Royalists. A little in advance of Punta del Parco the road divides, the one leading to Cajazzo, the other to Capua. This point is also in the hands of the Garibaldians. Monte San An gelo, the key of the defence, commanding the course of the Volturno, has triple batteries entrusted to the Genoese artillerymen and to Colonel Spangero's corps of General Eber's brigade, under the direc tion of Captain Ferrare. To this point Garibaldi has paid especial care: He has visited about 50 times the batteries, which consist of 28 guns. g; o n Saturday I took the railway and visited Santa Maria. On the preceding day the fire of the outposts was incessant. The Royalists seemed determined to strike a blow, for Garibaldi's plan The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa also publishes the following account of the battle of Volturno " We have received, direct from Caserta, under date of the 2d of October, the following details of the above battle -yesterday, at dawn, the Royalists, under the orders of Francis 11. is person, left Capua in three columns ; the one attacked Santa Maria, the other St. Angelo, and the third cut the communication between those two points. The advanced posts of Santa Maria, consisting of Sicilians, were carried, and the Sicilians driven back. The Royalists then made a furious attack on Santa Maria and penetrated into the first houses; to dislodge them it required eight charges with the bayonet. St. Angelo, heroically defended by the Ist Brigade of Medici's division, resisted all the attacks of the Royalists, though their efforts were concen trated against that position. " The first brigade suffered cruelly, and three of the staff officers are hors de combat; one is killed, the other two severely wounded. The Royalists simultaneously crossed the river at Cajazzo and attacked ou r ex t reme l e f t at L uc i a t a l a and Caste - Borrono, wh ore s t oo d Bi x i o an d Medici's 3d Brigade. " The Royalists, 20,000 strong, having driven is to remain on the defensive. I met the Marquis back our men along the whole line, commenced to Pallavicini returning from Caserta. At Santa Maria attack our positions, but at this moment our reserves I found Garibaldi much agitated, thoughtful , h i s came up , We had now 12,000 men in the battle. face blackened by exposure to the sun. The sta- At about 2 p.m. we resumed the offensive; at; 6 tion was full of artillery carriages, guns, &c., and o'clock the Royalists, broken on every side, were aides decamp were giving orders for all to be driven towards the Volturno, or in hasty retrea t pushed on towards the Volturno. During the night on Capua. I heard the sound of cannon towards San Angelo. " The King commanded in person, dressed in The night passed quietly. plain clothes. He was continually seen under fire. "On Sunday, Sept. 30, at daybreak, Santa Maria Garibaldi , as usual , was everywhere, especially was all astir. The soldiers were consigned to the where the danger wad greatest. barracks; Garibaldi started for San Angelo; troops "We have 1,280 men hors de combat ; the loss continued to arrive and artillery galloped through of the Royalists is about 3,000. the town. The faces of the people are pale and " The battle lasted from half-past three in the agitated. The tricolour flag is partially taken down morning till seven in the evening. It is evident from some of the houses, and the gates of many of that this formidable attack was the last effort of them closed. Francis 11., who, had he been victorious, would " I started for San Angelo when I heard the have marched on the capital." voice of cannon, and I arrived in time. Two bat talions, commanded by Castellini, were attempting to throw a bridge over the Volturno. Protected by Monte's artillery, they advanced by a covered road, succeeded in launching two boats ; but the enemy perceived the manoeuvre. Immediately the right bank, as if by magic, was covered by Royalist troops, and a terrible fire was opened against the batteries of San Angelo, and against the Garibal dians attempting to make the bridge. They were obliged to retreat. San Angelo opened its guns and replied with good erect. But this was simply an overture to the great event that was to come off on the Ist, " The Royalists had made up their minds to at tempt a decisive blow. They felt they were being surrounded. They knew Cialdini was in their rear, steadily advancing; that Lamoriciere was com pletely defeated ; and that Naples was undefended. At 6 a.m on the Ist of October 16,000 men, of which number 5,000 were cavalry, left Capua, com manded by General Palmieri, with five batteries commanded by General Nigri. General Ritucci had the chief command. Generals Afan de Rivera, Barbalonga, and von Michel were under his orders. I have these details from Captain Perelli, of the 7th Chasseurs, who was taken prisoner. At the same time a body of 5,000 men marched on Mad daloni to take the Garibaldians in the rear, and cut off their retreat. The soldiers of Francis 11. were divided into two corps—one, by the rail way, was to attack the position of the Gari baldians at the arches of Santa Maria and draw their attention to that point ; the other, by the parallel Consular road, to cross upon their right by the fields, guided by the reactionary peasants of San Prisco and the neighbouring villages, and was to fall upon Santa Maria in the rear of the Garibaldians. Another body of 1,000 men, starting from Pa Piana, was to cross the Volturno below Cajazzo and de• bouch by San Leuchio. " All this had been foreseen by Garibaldi, and is extraordinary that in a very reactionary country the Royalists were not better informed of the opera tions of the Garibaldians. Thus the latter had erected redoubts, dug ditches, and built barricades on the very fields over which the Royalists fancied they could advance without impediment and attack the right of the Garibaldians, or throw themselves into Santa Maria. "At half-past 6 o'clock a sharp fire of musketry commenced, and the cannon soon began to roar with fury. The population showed great excitement and every one prepared for defence. I . hastened to the spot, and arrived just as the Royalists were crossing over the 15 arches of the railway, chasing the Garibaldians before them. At 8 o'clock the former were already at Santa Maria, near the walls of the Campan amphitheatre. " While General Ritucci was carrying out this movement, Garibaldi, who had arrived on the scene of battle, ordered an analogous one. He ordered Malenchini's regiment to leave San Tamaro on his left, to leave Santa Maria by the rear, and threw it into the fields which the Royalists had to cross. The latter thus found themselves taken between two columns of Garibaldians, shut up between the rail way and the road, and completely surrounded. The 7th Regiment of Chasseurs was annihilated, with the exception of 35 men, an adjutant, major, and Capt. Perelli, who were made prisoners. It is quite impossible for me to describe the terrific ob stinacy of the struggle, and the real and calm courage of the men engaged. "I went through the whole campaign in Lom bardy, I was present at Magenta and Solferino, and yesterday I fancied I was there again. Three times were the positions of the Garibaldians taken and retaken at the point of the bayonet. The grape swept men down unmercifully. No quarter was asked or given. With mine own eyes I saw wounded men bayonetted and the stiletto and pistol used in a fight which commenced with the rifle. Except the Sicilians and the Neapolitans of the city of Naples, every man did his duty with enthusiasm. A strange and atrocious circumstance, if we con sider the character of the Italians, they fought without uttering a shout, almost in silence. It was a lovely day, the sun shining in all its glory and the ground adorned with rich produce. "At noon the tide of battle turned in favour of the Garibaldians. " Fresh battalions and new guns came up from Caserta and Naples, and joined in the battle. The Garibaldians, when the battle commenced, were not 10,000 strong ; they had now 15,000 men in the battle. Garibaldi seemed übiquitous. He watched every phase of the battle, keeping 2,000 men in re serve on his left to throw himself into Capua if the vici3situdes of the struggle should offer him a pro pitious opportunity. He was much moved, red and wet from perspiration, and his voice altered by emotion. " At the bridges of La Valle, behind the hills of Maddaloni, Bixio had definitively driven back the Royalists, who had taken and retaken that position. Near San Lucio Affranti's column had prevented the Royalists crossing the river. With the Lucans and Calabrians Colonel Corte had bravely supported the combatants of Santa Maria, and kept the enemy in check, who might have forced a passage by San Tamaro, left open by the movement of brave General Malenchini on the right. Five guns were taken from the enemy, with their mules and accoutrements. Prisoners and wounded in great numbers began to arrive at Santa Maria, and were immediately sent on by railway to Caserta. A great number of officers were killed or wounded. The Sicilians made a great noise and did little fighting. The National Guard of Santa Maria was on foot, but, having prudently placed their flag in the Guard-house, closed the doors and windows. "At noon the roar of the cannon ceased. The fire of musketry at the Archi of Santa Maria con tinued unabated. A smile be g an to play upon the lips and the colour to reappear in the cheeks o f many patriots. At this moment I was told a train t h e outposts to write was leaving for Naples. I left you an account of this a u a. be illuminated to portion of the battle—the first act of the captu re of Cp o Naples t c apture of Capua, but the n g " h T t h i e n police ho nou o r r o d f e r t e h d e news is not confirmed. FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct, 6.—The market has been heavy to-day, with but little business doing. Threes opened at the closing prices of yesterday, and seemed rather inclined to recede than to advance. Mobilier have been done at 720 f. ; Orleans, 1,375 f. ; Lyons, 922 f. 50c.; Northern, 980 f. ; Austrian, 493 f. 75c. ; Lombard, 495 f. The following are the last quotations :- 4f per per Cents ... 95 75; Credit Foncier 9OO Do end month.... •-1 Belgian 42 — 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 10 Roman Bank Shares 2840 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 712 50 , Spanish Threes 47 75 Do. Account 715 —; Home Debt - -~`` `.~ RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1368 75 .. 1372 50 Northern 9BO .. 980 New ditto • • —.— Lyons and Mediterranean 920 .. 920 Geneva .. 362 50 .. 362 50 Southern 505 .. 507 50 Western Eastern Sardinian 397 50 .. 392 50 Austrian Lombard THE GREAT EASTERN. There is very little probability of the Great Eastern making another voyage during the present year, and it is certain she will not be in position to sail, as was officially announced shortly after her return from America, for New York on the 17th of the present month. Captain Vine Hall, Mr. Thos. Bold, the manager; and Mr. M•Lennan, the en gineer, have been discharged, and but for the pre sence of Mr. Davies, the mate, and about a dozen men, the Great Ship might be called the " aban doned." The officers of the shipping department of the Board of Trade have, it is stated, withdrawn or suspended the certificate to the ship. Finding it impossible to get the vessel ready for sea without a much larger expenditure of capital, the directors last week invited some of the largest shareholders to a conference, to consider what course was the best to be taken under the circumstances. The state ment made was to the effect that a further sum of £28,000 would be required to be expended before the ship was again fit for a voyage ; that this outlay was necessary for the purpose of laying down a new deck, for providing warming apparatus —for the ship has not a single stove in any of the cabins—and for repairing the stern-post, screw shaft, and bearings, and some other defects in the engines. It was also stated that the arbitrators had awarded £lB,OOO to Mr. Scott Russell, but the directors had been advised to resist the payment on the ground that the award included various sums for matters which were not mentioned in the order of reference. There were also various other liabilities outstanding, and it was intimated that the voyage to America has resulted in a considerable loss. Under these circumstances it was considered ad visable to reduce all the current expenses of the ship to the lowest possible scale, and to lay the ship up for the present. In accordance with this resolution, the captain, engineer, and manager, as we have already stated, have been discharged, and a full statement of the affairs of the company is shortly to be laid before the proprietors. It is but six months since an additional sum . of £lOO,OOO was raised as preference capital, carrying 171 per cent. dividend. The last call of 2s. 6d. per share is now in course of being made, but the liabilities, it is stated, exceed the sum to be raised by this instalment. Of the £lOO,OOO subscribed, £40,000 with interest was required to pay off the mortgage before the ship could leave Southampton ; upwards of £30,000 was expended in the contracts for getting the ship ready for sea. There were some pressing liabilities to be discharged, and there are some claims which are still pending in arbitra tion. Over and above this preference stock there is the further demand of £28,000 for getting the ship ready for sea, and the disputed claim of Mr. Scott Russell. Nothing has yet transpired as to the mode by which the directors expect to be able to raise additional capital; but it appears highly possible that another generation of shareholders will yet be appealed to.—Observer. AMERICAN COMMERCE. The American advices on Saturday describe a continuance of the upward movement in speculative shares, which has now gone on almost uninter ruptedly for more than two months. In the grain market there was intense anxiety for the news by each steamer regarding the weather in England, and the latest reports having announced a cessation of rain a reduction in prices was daily taking place, which, however, will have since been counteracted by the remarkable renewal of firmness on the Lon don Corn Exchange. The arrivals from the in terior were extremely large, and the reports from each locality indicates that the quantity available for export has been in no degree exaggerated. At Chi cago alone, from the Ist of January to the middle of September, the receipts of flour and grain had been 3,000,000 qrs. against 1,700,000 up to the same date of last year. In the money-market there was no alteration. A New York 6 per cent. City Loan for £600,000, for the reduction of the floating debt of the corporation, had been adjudi cated at an average price of 102, the bills ranging from par to 103. As the Five per Cents. of the City of Boston command a higher price' han was obtained for these Six per Cents., the result 'was considered to afford a fresh proof of the discredit caused by the constant revelations of corporate peculation and corruption in New York, and " the almost criminal indifference of the people" with respect to it. The New York authorities and people however, may be proud of their civic position com pared with that of Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania —the Birmingham of America, where repudiation is car ried even to the extent of defying the highest law courts, and setting at naught their judgments. An invitation from Pittsburgh having been sent to the ywm protested vtse ofr Vera Prince of W ales, the New York Herald recommen d s that " as each Am erican cit y w ill present the Prince w ith some characteristic memento of his visit, she s hould tender m hisAlae attempts Royal cmoptthe s t o evadeH la i tgehstn date Highness ea a cou pon, with a fac - simile of the dishonest plea by whichdebts. ,tthhe'l city F now 2d of September. Miramon ' with 7,600 me n was preparing to defe n d hi mself in the city of Mexico against his opponents outside, who are alleged to number 20,000, n p 7,iv t e forced r on the cedloanBt,hb.ut and the attack was ex- A o l n ir t a h mon was isoccasio a n b s o e u e t me t d o l t e o v y b a e afraid to renew his applications by including the foreign residents. The intelligence of the execution of Walker and his lieutenant in Honduras has drawn forth very satisfactory comments from the New York press. The New York Times points out that he owed his fate to the inefficiency of the American Government in enforcing the United States' laws, and to the connivance of his sup porters in the South. "If Southern juries," it is observed, " had done their duty, and published his violations of international law and of our own statutes, he could never have renewed the career 1 which has had so disastrous an end." THE A PPLICAT I O N of THE ELECTRIC LIGHT l'Olt S IGNALL ING AT SEA. —The a pp lication of the electric light t d o e y t 11 , e w p h u e n r p t o h s e e o c f s o ingfinot i oe ft Devonport Harb our at half nl Wa s practically tested on Thurs past 7 p.m., and steamed into the offing displaying the electric light (i n vented by Professor Way, and super i or to any yet produced) until 9 o'clock. At a distan ce o f 13 m il es of a signalising similar prin ciple by it shone brillian tl y , . emitting a concentrated light of an and negative signals. Th e t r i a l on even i n g did not extend to the use of the signalq, intensely t hi s l it light htthiast 10 J bright yf p longbluish osit ive and hue.short os system , upon f Th ur sday but merely to the display of the light. A further trial was signalising tobe ma d e o n Friday evening, when signals were continued for several hours between the Confiance (at the east end of the hreakw.Ater), and the semaphore, Mount Wise, with soaftisftahcotionlootr'ileleligphltan seems means very y s imple, although it appears improbable that it can be worked with regularity but by scientific men. F or ' instance, two short flashes and two long ones d much denote seven, represent ing the letter C, and so on, until the words signalled are formed. The light has been worked by Mr. Evans, ana lytical c hemist, of London. The Professor and his flag atten dant, Capta in Ross, Li eut. Columb, lieutenant of the Doc kyard ; Brigade-Major Kirk, an d . several m ilitary officers besides have been iitto naval watch signals, which were continued until an ple early se hour on the Satur day morning. Cricketing is over for the season, and the Eleven seem to have no notion of a tri • p to Australia to fill up the recess. The head averages of • county matches are— Caffyn, nineteen and two over, and C. G. Lane, Esq., seventeen and nine Out over. of the ten matches played between Surrey and Nottingham, each has won Ave. -~` ^`