The Sun. — London, England, 1860-09-07 00:00:00

BENSON'S 41111.01faiseib WATCIIES. " Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Gold . 5 to 100 guineas. Silver Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. om free by post, or to Watches sent to all parts of the kingd India and the Colonies for 55. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. E.G. Established 1749. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Less ee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Buckstone, Comp, Chippendale. Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. C. Mathews ; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with THE KING'S GARDENER. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed MACBETH. Mr. James Anderson and Miss Elsworthy. After which, THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. A. Harris and Miss Maria Harris. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. .1 -1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Last nights of the popular Adelphi Drama of Janet Pride. 'THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and Miss Laidlaw. A.f ter which, THAT BLESSED BABY. Mr. Billingtou, Mr. J. L Took, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. 13oxzoffice open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 25. ; Family iloßeo. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Baloony, 45. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.— P ro prietor and Man ager, Mr. W3f. BATTY. Crowded House,. — R e -engagement of the celebrated Dela vanti Troupe, Mr. GeOT,7f;Hutchingson, and the Wonder of the World, the Great Little Menont A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on sKrult , DA y n ext, Sept 8, commencing at Two o'clock. Th i s Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of mAzE -prA. AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new and 'beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day, including the greatest Equestrienne in the world, Madlle. de Berg, and the Wonder of Wonders, Little Menoni. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti. CANTERBU EV ERY E HALLVENING, CONCERTS.- EV A Grand Selection from MARTHA, And Selections from DINORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH, And numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, is, —Hall. Bd. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with .tiegro delineations, anecdotes, ctn., in addition to the usual entertainments. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—Surt OFFICE, SEPT. 7, 1860. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 62—this day at noon. 49—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—highest since noon yesterday. BAROMETER-30.38 ; a'slight fall_ WlND—North-Westerly; light, with fine sunshiny weather. Yesterday afternoon the sun burst forth splendidly in London after a dull day. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, sh. 29m.—Afternoon, sh. 47m. To-isommoviv.-Morning, 6h. 7m.—Afternoon, 6h. 30m, _ _W tej .. . 1 .1r 4 • ‘ •1114,,A, 4 . •1 A ±4 1. , , l k A . s - tt . _ c i 'V • i'!".l 3' ,- , ' ‘ , " 4lPflt . ' __•,_ , p • i ..• - hf , o T tv< t —....10.4.4....... ,r.. ...--A.41,..., 2? . Z, - 7- ... THE SUN. r ! ,. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 7, 1860. We shall not be surprised to learn by Monday of GARVBILDI'S triumphal entry into Naples. The news of to-day report his arrival at Eboli, in the Gulf of S alerno, while other accounts state that he has actually entered that city. Naples is said to be tranquil just like Vesuvius before the outburst of fire and fury. It may be that the presence of GARIBALDI will so far assure the people that their only demonstration will ex haust itself in commingled joy and intoxicating enthusiasm—for the transition from such a state of stupor and fear to one of freedom will be so overpowering to an ex cited people that they will forget themselves in the rapture of their giddy delight. The KING that was—is said to be resolved on trying the issue of battle. Even cowards are brave in extremity, as rats will attack when pressed in a corner. But will his army fight for the Royal Refugee, who, other accounts say, is on the point of fleeing to Gaeta, and there take ship, leaving all the beauties of a bountiful nature behind him for ever. Shame and despair have so unmanned him—if he ever was a man, that could have acted so unlike a man—that h e knows not whom to trust, or on whose counsels to rely. Ire is even afraid of himself — such is the effect of moral degradation. Nor is the Rin— g of NAPLES alone in his troubles —his relative the Emperor of AUSTRIA is in a sad gift , / with his Hunga r i an people. HeTrofesses to give a Constitution - while at the same moment he tries to bewilder" them with a semblance for the real gift. Such trading willonly redound to his own confusion—for pe , ople of late have h a d th e ir wits quickened not ()Lily by the wrongs of the present but by the recollections of the past. Men may forgive, but th ey will not and cannot forget. The Iron has pierc ed too keenly into their souls ever to per m it t h e woun d s of oppression to heal. Indeed, the Eastern part of Europe seems to sym pathise with theiNetkt in its liberal longing for eman cipation from despot lc as well as priestly Tyranny. Fanaticism in the (me case rouses the dormant energies of some, while a holier aspiration stimn late3 the endeavours Of others to acquire that inde pendence which is the natural inheritance of man kind. A week of ! the finest harvest, when up till that time all things had threatened u s with ruined or damaged ci tips, is, indeed, matter for congratulation. This is, in leed, just the eighth day on which, around us not, a shower has fallen. The tempera ture has m )t, indeed, been very high. The earth must have become so much cooled by incessant showers, s Ind must have imbibed so little solar heat durin g the summer, that it can hardly do its ordinary Autumn part towards increasing the warmth of the atmosphere ; and even this week we have had i n the daytime a good deal of cloud, as Well as rip ich very cheering sunshine. There has, however, on most days, been a pleasant breeze, just eno ui ;h to aid in ripening corn and drying the soil, wit out being inconvenient to workmen. Altogether, we have been favoured with as fair a week of harvest weather as we could desire; and as a contrast to the almost ceaseless showers of previous reeks it is most cheering. Througl tout, indeed, the perseveringly wet time preceding, most farmers told us, that if they could but now ha• ve a dry time, they should have as good a harvest as ever. The wheat was in many places very much la id by the heavy sudden showers, but it was laid, for thv more part, too late to sustain muc h injury tt ) t . he kernel, which had been fully formed. This .m, ekes a great difference to laid corn. We remember tirmer once taking us over a large field of wheat, on a stiff clay soil, which was then nearly ripe, bu, t - which had been laid so flat that there was scar 'eelY a spot in the field on which you could no t walk on the fallen corn as easily as on 6 pasture. He afterwards told rnE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1860. us hat that field furnished the best crop in point of quality; as well as quantity, he had ever grown on his farm! From what little we have personally seen and heard, as well as from all re ports, we are inclined to hope that, except in the fen districts, something similar will be general throughout England. The light lands, too, the chalky and sandy soils, will yield, in consequence of the wet, hardly ever excessive to them, cowl- derably above an average. The crops of summer corn, barley e specially have sustained more injury; oats not so much, as they are hardier ; but barley is a more tender plant, more affected, perhaps, by extremes of wea ther than any other. It is also sooner over powered by weeds, which the wet has so largely developed ; and even becomes of double growth in the same field. It is also a crop, the deficiency in which, for brewers' purposes at least, is not so e asily made up from abroad ; foreign barley being rarely equal to that from w hich the better English malt is made. We may expect therefore that the best English barley will be scarce and dear next year; but this, though we could wish it otherwise, is not to be compared with a failure in the wheat crop. Root crops have been, of course, rather benefitted in the earlier period of their growth by moisture, and they have now at tained a vigour which will enable them to flourish and bulb soundly and well, should even a long dry season be before us. The only thing against them has been the difficulty of keeping down weeds ; a difficulty chiefly felt where old lazy habits of farming haven ot introduced the horse-hoe. As we were favoured with very fine weather just in time to save a splendid crop of hay ; and as the second crops of grass and hay must also be un usually abundant, we may confidently look forward to a full supply of animal, as well as cereal food in a reasonable time. The effects of only a week's fine weather are being quickly felt both in the money-market and the Corn Exchange. Prices become nominal, or recede. The buyer is again getting the advantage every where. Less money will be wanted to purchase foreign corn, and our manufacturers will find more at their command at home. And, though full supplies of new English wheat will be unusu ally late, the harvest being four weeks on the average later than usual, yet old stocks and large supplies of foreign corn will enable us easily to meet the difference: It is not a little remarkable that two of the countries from which we generally derive large supples—Russia and the 'Western States of America, are earlier than usual with their har vest ; indeed they have both suffered from hotter and drier weather than usual. We believe that large supplies additional to its own growth will, after all, not be wanted by France, probably none by other large continental States ; we may therefore hope that before long we shall have the pleasure of noting that the prime article of human subsistence has fallen very con siderably. It is hardly credible how much our existence may depend indirectly as well as directly upon the weather. For a time the distress of Coventry weavers, the lower wages offered, the strike, and all its miseries, were charged to the COBDEN Treaty. It appears, however, that the French ribbon weavers are as short of orders as our own ; and it now turns out that the wet weather has actually lessened the de mand for ribbons for summer dress ; rain has stopped the looms of Coventry ! It must be added, we fear, that that fickle goddess Fashion has also done her part in the mischief. She has seen fit in her caprice to require less ribbon for the trimming of bonnets. We fear, however, the straw plait makers of Bedfordshire must im pute their sufferings and want of employment I almost entirely to the weather. It has been most unpropitious to a demand for their manufacture. One thing should result from such warnings as that of the panic in which all our agriculturists have been so recently involved. We have spent much thought and skill in improving cultivation—plough ing, manuring, sowing, cleansing the land, have all been the subjects of much study and improvement. We are also got as far as reaping with greater rapi dity by machinery—but there we have stopped. In a climate like ours, which may permit us to gather in our crops 'without the slightest damage, but which may also render it almost impossible to har vest them—the harvesting in any weather—is as great a point as any. We inserted a letter of Mr. WAKLEY'S on the subject a few days ago. It is one we have often thought over ourselves ; the practical difficulties are very great—much greater than Mr. WAKLEY supposes. The corn must be free indeed from weeds, and the barley free from the grass which is commonly sown with it, to be dried sufficiently for the stack or the barn by such dessicating processes as he describes. We at least should fear so. All plans that can be suggested resolve themselves apparently into varie ties of two modes—forcing air, heated or not, through the wet corn—and some camp method of covering sheaves in the field which shall protect them from wet, in such small quantities as give scope to the na tural effects of the open air. Farmers must consult our mechanics in regard to one scheme—our tent cloth manufacturers in regard to the other. The record of the Prince of IV ALES'S progress through Canada is highly gratifying to readers in this country. The warm reception everywhere given to the representative of his Royal mother shows not only the affectionate respect with which she is regarded by all classes of her subjects, but willingness of the Canadians to recogni se Eng lish es ov:reignty. Times are changed since Lord NORTH'S Cabinet vainly endeavoured to exercise over the vast p rovinces of the New World the au th or ity with which they riled the citizens of an English town. The stormy days of WOLFE and MorizcaLm have pass ed away, a n d the close vicinity of the greatest Republic of the world has not shaken the allegiance of the Canadian s to t he mother country. It must be hi g hl y interest ing to the young traveller thus to mingle with a Population speaking in his Own tongue, yet diffe r ing in so many res p ec ts from his compatriots. The wonders of nature, too, in a land so richly gifted, cannot fail to have impressed him with a new sense of sublimity and beauty. The great cataract of Montmorenci , which he lately visited, is one of the most striking spectacles on the whole northern con tinent; once seen it can hardly be forgotten. If, according to the poet's immortal line, A thing of beauty is a joy for ever," surely those who have "gazed upon the torrent of waters rushing down the long inclined plane which precedes the fall, and then shooting ovor a perpendicular rock 250 feet in depth, returning in clouds of snowy spray which the sunbeai. -is illumine with the glittering h ues o f ,*he rainbow, must retain the memory of that gor6,eous spectacle eve n a mong the smoky atmosphere of cities and the dreary monotony of civilisation. 1 - lhe celebrated flight of Natural Steps in close proxim“y to the cataract and the gorge where the waters of the Montmorenci sweep into the noble river of St. Law rence, must also have impressed the royal spectator with a sense of the magnificence of nature in the -I .ce New World. Such scenes enlarge the mind of the spectator scarcely less than association with the denizens of another country, and assuredly the PRIIcCE will regard with more interest and will better appreciate the character of these Canadian coloniists over - whom he may one day rule, from his present sojourn among them. One specially interesting feature, among the routine of pres entai ions and ceremonials, was the address l'offered to the Prince by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada. The splendour of the coup d'ceil in the hall of the University is described with enthwiasm by the spectators of the ceremony, and this token of good feeling and religious tole ration, let us hope, impressed on the mind of the Prince the secret of the true strength of the British rule—toleration for the principles of others, combined with a consistent maintenance of its own, and a recognition of the claim that all who acknowledge its authority possess, too, its impartial and ungrudging protection. LATEST NEWb The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING. The Moniteur contains the following, dated Naples, Sept. 6 : Garibaldi is at Eboli, near Salerno. The Royal troops are being concentrated at Capua. The King will proceed thither, and afterwards :o Gaeta. ' Naples is tranquil at the present moment. The authorities constituted by the King remain en functions. NAPLES, SEPT. 6, 1 P.M. It is said that Garibaldi arrived at Salerno this morning, and he is expected at Naples immediately. It is said that the Bing will leave here to-day ror Gaeta. The Intrepid returned here yesterday from alerno. Mr. Edwin James, M.P., the Hon. Mr. Ashley, M.P., and other Englishmen, are gone on board of a Sardinian vessel to pay a visit to Garibaldi at Salerno. The city of Naples is perfectly tranquil, and the people conduct themselves in a dignified manner. PARIS, SEPT. 6. The Patrie publishes a telegram announcing that on the sth inst. Garibaldi disembarked near Sa lerno. Several corps were to join the dictator on the following day. A battle was expected on the 7th inst. between Nocra and Salerno. The royal troops occupied strong positions. The King and his brothers had been among the troops. It was said that in case of defeat they intend to retire upon Gaeta. TURIN, SEPT. 6. Baron Winspeare presented yesterday his lettres de creance to the King. The Opinione publishes an article referring to General Lamoriaiere's recent order of the day in the following terms : " The principle of non-intervention cannot be applied until the Papal government disbands the foreign hordes which it has assembled against Re neighbours. This crusade against Italy may bring about complications and serious disturbances if the resolution be not taken to disperse it." The Opinion° counsels the Pontifical Government to disband its 20,000 foreign soldiers, and says : " The Papal Government must understand that for the peace of Italy an extrication is necessary from the abnormal state of things which has hitherto wearied the patience of all the Powers." VIENNA, THURSDAY. The Hungarian delegates have declared that they will adhere to the programme of Count Hartig should it be imposed by the Emperor upon the country as a constitutional law. But should the Reichsrath be left at liberty to discuss the con stitution to be granted to the Austrian Empire they would not give up their principles, and would rather resign their seats in the Reichsrath than renounce their special position. Count Rechberg, at the last reception of the diplomatic corps, expressed to the different foreign Ministers his confidence that the question of inte rior reforms would be decided at the very opening of the plenary sitting of the Reichsrath. VENICE, SEPT. 6 The recent disturbances at Udine have led to the discovery by the Government of a great conspiracy organised by secret agents with the object of pro voking manifestations in favour of Garibaldi. Numerous arrests have taken place at Udine as well as in other Venetian towns. General Nunziante to the Neapolitan army on the occasion of his abandoning the Royal service : " Companions in arms !—A few days since, in taking leave of some of you, I exhorted you always to show your selves as courageous against the enemies of Italy as generous towards the weak, and to give the most noble proofs of that real military virtue in the new path of glory which Provi dence opens to all the sons of the great common country. " The moment for responding to my exhortations has now arrived. " Distant from you, the thought of your prosperity, honour, and glory has grown within me, and having studied the history of all Italy and Europe, I have come to the deep conviction that for you and for this beautiful portion of Italy there is no other means of salvation than for you to join the great Italian family under the glorious sceptre of Victor Emmanuel, that admirable monarch whom the heroic Garibaldi recently proclaimed in Sicily, and whom God, in his impenetrable designs, has evidently chosen to consti tute in one great nation our great common country, so un justly despoiled and assassinated without a motive. " This thought has irresistibly brought me back to you, resolved to act fraternally with you, and to accomplish with you the sacred calling with which we must all feel invested for the supreme wants of the country. As long as Provi dence allowed Italy to be divided, I knew better than any one how to remain faithful to the cause which I had em braced. But when the all-powerful hand of God visibly tends to make it united whoever does not follow the impulse is a traitor to his country. " This sacred' truth must strike you in your own con sciences, and under your present yoke drives you to a par tial desertion. " Do not follow that path; of all it is the one most dangerous to the country. " King Victor Emmanuel, in whom Italy is incarnated, wants you all united and disciplined to employ your valo rous arms to crush that stranger who has been the eternal enemy of our happiness." M. La Farina, President of the National Society, has addressed the following letter, dated Turin, Aug. 31, to the different committees : " Gentlemen,—The King's Government having decided on mobilising a part of the National Guard, and forming ' detached corps of Volunteers, to co-operate with the army in the present grave and critical state of affairs in Italy, the Central Committee exhorts all the provincial and municipal commissions, and all the commissaries, to open lists for en rolling young men not connected with military service. I will apprise you by another circular of the time and place for assembling the volunteers." ROME. The following order of the day has been issued by General de Noue _ _ " Officers and Soldiers—A Ministerial decision, doted 24th August, appoints me to the command of the French troops at Rome. " You have known me a long time. You know how fully I appreciate your exact discipline, your devotion, and your excellent spirit. " Sure of the loyal and sympathetic support of your chiefs, I can only feel pi oud of having to continue the com- mand which is left to me in such excellent conditions by General Count de Goyon, to whom we all pay a unanimous tribute of respect. "To-day, as yesterday, our duties are the same; indif ferent, strangers to the sentiments which may divide the Roman population, we shall have but one will—that of as suring tranquillity, of not allowing any species of disorder under any form whatsoever. " We will also give the most firm and solid support to the Holy Father, and we shall attain the object desired by all— to fulfil the intentions of the Emperor and to deserve his approbation. " General of Brigade, Commandant of the French Troops at Rome, " Rome, Aug. 29, 1860. " Comte DE NOUE." AMERICA. GALWAY, FRIDAY The Atlantic Royal Mail Company's steamer, Parana, Captain Heenan, arrived here at 6.30 a.m. to-day. She left Boston on the 28th ult., and St. John's, Newfoundland, on the Ist inst. She brings 90 passengers. The passage from St. John's was made in five days 22 hours. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH via ST. JOHN'S. NEW YORK, AITG. 3: The Africa has arrived out, and the Nova Scotian at Father Point. The City of Baltimore arrived on the 27th inst. The Prince of Wales visited Aberbrook, St. Hyacinth, and Lennoxville yesterday. He started for Ottawa to-day, and was to visit Boston about the 14th October. General Houston has declined to become a can didate for the Presidency, and urges a union of the Conservatives and the Union men against Lincoln. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, AUG. 3 Cotton steady. Flour advanced 45c. since Mon• day. Wheat 6c. higher. Corn scarce, and nomi• nally higher. Provisions steady. Stocks heavy. NEW ORLEANS, AUG. 30. Cotton advanced I. Sales, to-day, 4,000 bales Middling upland 10tc. to 10'4c. QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY, The Royal Mail steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins, which left New York on the 29th ult., arrived here to-day at 10 a.m. She brings 67 passengers and 405,832 dols. in specie for England. She landed eight passengers and all the mails, except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 10.30 a.m. All well. The Persia made the passage in 8,1 days. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY. MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS.-THIS DAT, This afternoon, at one o'clock, the general half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to receive the Report of the Directors of the progress of the company during the past half.year, and the declaration of a dividend. Sir JAMES CARMICHAEL in the chair. The SECRETARY having read the Report, which has already appeared in the Sun, The CHAIRMAN referred to their increased expenditure arising from accidents to cables, which had been heavier than in any former half-year, and the cause of these acci dents were mainly to be attributed to the severe storms that had occurred in the Channel, where at one time there were no less than 300 wrecks. But at the present •time their cables were in perfect order; but he did recommend that a larger amount ought to be re served out of their revenue to meet these expenses than heretofore, without being compelled to have recourse to their capital. The chairman, after adverting to the working expenses of the company, congratulated the shareholders on the success they had attained in completing an entire communication with Hamburg and the North of Europe, and road a statistical account of the number of messages that had been received from various cities during the past half-year as compared with the previous, showing that in most cases they were doubled, trebled, and in one instance quadrupled. He might mention that the last year had been one of remarkable depression in trade on the continent, and had seriously affected electric telegraphs generally. A memorial had been pre sented by shareholders at Manchester relative to a reduc tion of their tariff, and on other points as to the manage ment of the company, and he would recommend that a committee be appointed to confer with the directors oa the the subject. He then moved that the report be read and adopted. Mr. ITINDMARSII seconded the motion. _ _ Mr. SAUNDERS and several other proprietors having ad dressed the meeting, the report was received and adopted. The proposed committee having been appointed, the re tiring directors were re-elected, and a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. on the half-year declared. The proceedings then terminated. THE COST OF A GAOL BIRD.—At the County Hall, on Friday last, James Turner, whose name is always before the public during the poaching season, was charged with trespassing in search of game at Eckington, on the 28th of June last. The prisoner has only just been libe rated at the expiration of his 34th term of imprisonment for the same kind of offence. He was ordered to pay 40s. and costs, and in default was again committed to his old quarters for two months. Among other offences com mitted from the year 1832 till the present month, he has been convicted for stealing coal, breaking a fence; assaults, stealing ducks, trespass (seven times), poaching (eighteen times), and sundry misdemeanours. He has been in gaol 35 times, and his sentences have ranged from fourteen days to five months. Al together he has in 28 years spent 65 months in prison, and the following figures show the ap proximate cost this vagabond has inflicted on the county and his prosecutors-260 weeks maintenance, £143 , 35 convictions, £24 10s. ; total cost, £167 10s. It is quite clear that the gaol has no terrors for James Turner.— Derby Mercury. LAST OF THE HORSE RIDE IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.-A report upon this subject was brought up at th • vestry of Kensington on Wednesday last, and after having detailed the course adopted by the committee and the re sult of the memorial to the Queen, which wan signed by 43,000 persons, against the horse ride, it stated that the hurdles and posts had been removed, the road was being levelled, and new turf laid down. Mr. Banting, in propos ing the adoption of the report, congratulated the vestry on the triumphant results, and said their enemy was beaten, and he hoped by that time he was auried and under the turf. The report was adopted and a cheque drawn for the expenses. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 6.—The market continues heavy, with the smallest amount of business doing, and the arrival of the English funds with lower quota tions tends rather to increase the feeling of de pression. For the Account, Threes, which opened at 67f 90c, are now at 67f 871 c. Mobilier, 687 f 75c.; Orleans, 1,375 f ; Northern, 952 f 50c ; Mediterra nean, 885 f ; Austrian, 472 f 50c ; Lombards, 468 f 75c. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 97 90 Credit Foacier 890 Do end month.... i Belgian 4f 7B 25 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 90 Roman Bank Shares 2805 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 680 Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 6BO —lHome Debt ...... RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1375 .. 1375 Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 886 25 .. 886 25 Geneva.. — .. 360 Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian 385 .. Austrian Lombard NAPLES. - A communication from Naples of the Ist says " There are four camps of insurgents in Calabria, and 1 am told that Garibaldi has already 40,000 men at his disposal. Desertions continue at Naples, whole piekets leaving their posts and disappearing. There are hundreds of houses ready to conceal them. Among the persons known to hide these runaways is a woman called Giovannara, quite a hero in petticoats, brave to excess, and a Garibal dian to her very heart's core. When less pressed I will give you a sketch of her life. Two evenings ago, 200 men deserted from Capna with a captain, three officers, and several non-commissioned offi cers, all belonging to the Bth regiment of the line. It is said that the young Prince Don Alphonso, the King's brother, is going off with the troops; that Campagna, Sala, and even Aquila are in revolt; that Castrovillari has disarmed its gendarmes ; that Garibaldi was at Piszo on the 28th. The Iride brings us singular news from the Bassilicata. The province is now under the com mand of Colonel Boldoni, who has published orders to the effect that whoever without giving him due notice shall organise bands, whether armed or not, and all who join them, shall be punished with death. He has issued one most curious order, being a set of military instructions for the insurgents. Rumours of reactionist conspiracies are rife here. Not fewer than 40,000 copies of a paper addressed to the King were found in a printing office since closed. Sire,' says this document, when the country is in danger the people have a right to call upon the King to defend it, because the King is made for the people, and not the people for the King.' The writer then goes on to relate the expedition of the adventurer who has entered the kingdom to decatholicise (scattolicarci), and to establish a re pubtic.an Government under the dictatorship of Mazzini, aided by the treason of some few wretches, and the connivance of a still more miserable diplo macy. Sire, save your people ! The country in danger demands four things, as follows :-1. Your whole Ministry is betraying you, which is proved by its acts, and its relations with the Pilates and Judases. Let your ministers, therefore, be dis missed, and replaced by honest men, devoted to your crown, your people, and the constitution. 2. Many foreigners are conspiring against your throne and our nationality. Let these foreigners be ex pelled from the kingdom. 3. Numerous depots of arms exist in your capital; let a general disarming be decreed. 4. The police is wholly devoted to your enemies ; let it be disbanded and replaced by an honest and faithful body of men.' " The following proclamation has been issued by AMERICAN SLAYER E The following letter has been addressed to the Star in reference to its support of Mr. Douglas as candidate for the Presidency of the United States : .. .. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "STAR." Sir, —The letter of " Zeta," in the Star of Sept. 4, pre sents a true picture of the American slavery-supporting Democratic party, its representative, Senator Douglas, of the anti-slavery Republican party, and its representative, Mr. Lincoln. A glance at the Presidents will confirm the views of " Zeta," and show that the slave can hope for nothing from the former party. George Washington, a slave holder, was twice elected ; John. Adams, a non-slaveholder, was elected once. The first Democratic President, Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder, was twice elected. Madison and Monroe, were also Democrats, slaveholders, and twice elected. John Quincy Adams, a non-slaveholding Whig, was elected once. General Jackson, a Democrat and slave holder, was twice elected. Martin van Buren, a Democrat and no slaveholder, was elected once. General Harrison, a non-slaveholding Whig, died soon after his election. John Tyler, a slaveholder, became President, and went over to the Democrats. James R. Polk, a Democrat and slaveholder, was elected once. General Taylor, a Whig slaveholder, died soon after his election ; and Fillmore, the Vice-President, a non-slaveholder, became President. Franklin-Pierce and James Buchanan, both Democrats, and the willing servants of the slave power, though non slaveholders, complete the list of Presidents. There are some slaveholders who fear that Douglas, if elected, will not go far enough in supporting slavery. The Mobile Register in allaying their fears, says :—" By the death lately of the mother of Judge Douglas's first wife, who was a Miss Martin of North Carolina, his two boys, his own children, come into the possession of a large fortune, consisting in plantations and slaves. This, added to his extensive Mississippi property, will make Mr. Douglas, in behalf of his children, one of the largest slaveowners in the South. How a man who has twice selected a souther' lady for his wife, the whole fortune of whose children is dependent on the perpetuity of our institutions, who is almost the only northern man of prominence that has ever uttered one word of dislike, much less hatred, to slavery, how such a man can be re presented as a worse enemy to slavery than Lincoln, passes our comprehension. The judge has been sent for by his connections in North Carolina, and will probably visit the old North State." From these statements it is evident that the success of Douglas is the triumph of the slave power. John Quincy Adams contended that the Federal Govern ment would have the right, in time ,of war, to emancipate the slaves. At present it has neither the will nor the power to do this. As each State becomes prepared, by the public opinion of its own citizens, to emancipate it slaves, they will be set free. In this mode seven States have become free, which once held slaves. The Star has done much to aid in abolitionising the American public senti ment. Public opinion is stronger than armies or navies. It made slavery, and can unmake it. One condition, however, of its success is to place the pa tronage of the Federal Government in the hands of the anti-slavery party. " When the righteous are in au thority, the people rejoice; and when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn." As you, sir, have done much to establish this great truth, I feel persuaded that you will not object to its application to the anti-slavery movement —I am, sir, &c., EDWARD MATHEWS Spring Cottage, Upper Bland-street, Dover-road, London. POPULAR EXCITEMENT AT GENEVA. The Independance Beige publishes the following letter : GENEVA, SEPT. 1. The presence of the Emperor Napoleon in Northern Savoy induced a great many inhabitants of the province of Annecy to come to Geneva and embark on the lake, in order to proceed to Thonon by water. For the last two or three days a crowd of Frenchmen have been attracted by curiosity to parade our streets. The Helvetia steamer took them on board yesterday morning; there might be about 500 of them, and several priests were of the party. The popula tion of Geneva, attracted in considerable numbers to the quay, saw them depart with much indifference ; but some 20 Cenevese or so were observed among them. A few per sons immediately made up their minds to receive these Geneva truants with a hissing on their return, taking care, however, not to let it be supposed that this sign of disap proval could be addressed to the Frenchmen who were on board. The boat returned last night at half-past nine. A larger crowd was collected on the quay than usual, close to where the boats disembark their passengers. As soon as the steamer arrived the hisses of the crowd began to be directed against their fellow-citizens, who had shown such a want of tact, under the present circum stances, as to go upon a trip which might be considered as a manifestation in favour of the annexation of Savoy. Un fortunately the Frenchmen, who formed the immense ma jority of the people on deck, imagined these hisses were meant for them, and some of them retorted by crying out— " Annexation for ever I " The hissing became then more violent than before, and when the landing began a collision took place, in which happily no one was killed or wounded. Some of the more peaceable citizens interfered, and the whole thing seemed to have passed off, when a porter pressed through the crowd carrying a box with a flag-staff sticking out of it. The flag was the imperial tricolour of the town of Get, and it was instantly recognised. Some imprudent fellow began to shout out, " There's our flag ! We will stickit up in spite of you in Geneva I" This cry produced an unanimous commotion among the crowd ; an angry shout was now raised, and the French travellers answered it re peatedly with their " Long live the annexation 1" The porter was stopped, and the people wanted to seize the flag. The French resisted, but in spite of their efforts the colours were carried off to the office of the commissary of police just opposite the landing-place. Thanks to the inter vention of 34. James Fazy and a few of our statesmen, who came up in all haste to the spot, no fresh collision ensued. I hear the French flag was carefully replaced in the box this morning, by direction of the Genevese autho rities, and consigned to a commissary of police, who imme diately left in a private carriage to go and restore it to its owner, the mayor of Gex, in the town of Gex itself." REMOVAL OF THE COURT TO TIIE ISLE OF WIGHT. It is understood that her Majesty leaves Scotland on the 15th inst., and is expected at Osborne on the 18th. GREAT CONFLAGRATION AT SMYRNA.—A sup plement to the Impartial of Smyrna, of the 29th August, Publishes an account of a terrible conflagration which has taken place at that city. No less than 700 houses have fallen a prey to the flames. A MAN THREATENING TO CHOP HIS WIFE'S HEAD OFr.—At the Hove Bench, on Friday, Richard Trangmar, shepherd to Mr. Harashar, Fatcham, was charged with threatening to chop his wife's head off with a hand-bill, and also with threatening to kill her. Ordered to be bound over in £ 2O, and to find two securities in £lO each, to keep the peace for six months, and being unpro vided he was locked up.— West Sussex Gazette. SERIOUS EXPLOSION ON BOARD SHIP.—CARDIFF, SEPT. 6.--An explosion of fire damp occurred last night on board the steamer Asia, of London, loading coals, when much damage was done to her decks, and eight men were slightly injured. DEATH OF MRs. ABBOTT LAWRENCE.—We regret to report the death of Mrs. Lawrence,. widow of the l a te Hon. Abbott Lawrence, formerly minister at the court of St. James's. Mrs. Lawrence died on the 20th of August, at Boston, United States, after an illness of three weeks. " A fact of great importance to the turf," says the Sport, " has just been officially announced, namely, that Count F. de Lagrange and Baron Niviere have entered into partnership. The two stables of Royal-Lieu and La Morlaye will nevertheless be kept on separately for some time to come." In consequence of the demand for lads for the naval service, an additional number will be entered weekly on the books of the Fisgard flag-ship. A nu mber of able seamen are now required for vessels fitting out. TIIE FORGERIES AT NOTTINGHAM —Yesterday Francis Edward Shipley, colliery proprietor, was again brought before the mayor and borough magistrates, charged with forging bills of exchange. The charges this morning were five in number, and the sums upon each bill varied in amount. The court was again crowded, a number of the leading men of the town being present. The first charge eniared into this morning was for forging a bill for £84135. upon Mr. Henry Norman, of Leicester. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and was, after evidence had been taken, committed to take his trial on the charge; as also upon others. Application was made for bail, but the bench con sidered the charge of too serious a nature to grant it. The prisoner was then removed togaol. Langham (who was C9l4Ccrned with the first forgery case) is yet at large. TIIE PRINCE'S VISIT TO CANAD A. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) QUEBEC, AUG. 23. On Monday, Aug. 20, when I despatched my last brief letter, I mentioned that the weather was then about as intensely unfavourable for all the arrangements connected with the Prince's visit as could possibly be imagined. It rained for about 14 hours with a steady, dull monotony of water, as if it meant to wash away Quebec, winding up in the night with a terrific thunder storm, which left the air rather thicker than it was before, and certainly no drier. The decorations of some of the arches were decomposed into the dimmest and most extra ordinary outlines of their former selves, the bal conies were limp and frowzy, and people groped their devious ways through the streets under the branches of small wet fir-trees, that rendered an umbrella doubly necessary at the time they utterly prevented its use ; in fact, these festive evergreens seemed only to answer the purpose of wetting the benighted struggling passengers, save where the wind had overturned them across the footway in dark corners, where they all at once fulfilled another and still more unpleasant duty for those who did not cautiously look where they were treading. The streets and little by-ways of Quebec (the latter always the majority) were trodden into swamps,. neither mud nor water, though partaking largely of the most unpleasant attributes of both, and in these crowds of Canadians squattered and splashed, for many had come into town that day to see the fire works which were appropriately fixed for the even ing, as affording some variety after the rather libe ral allowance of the other element. On such a day, of course, all jumped to the conclusion that nothing would be done by his Royal Highness, and the idea was encouraged by every rational and sober-minded person in the town. But Royalty has its duties, &c., aid as it had been arranged that the Prince was to make a private and unostentatious visit to the falls of the Chaudiere on this day, to the falls he went accordingly—though as long as his Royal Highness remains in America he is never likely again to pass through so much water to see so little. Mark Tapley himself would have succumbed to the adverse influences of such weather ; and had the trip been arranged for anybody short of Royalty it would have been thought sheer lunacy to adhere to it. But the programme for the Prince is clung to everywhere with desperate tenacity, and the laws of the Medes and Persians seem mere by-rules when compared with this. So the Prince and his suite pushed their way through the dense rain as they best could, and saw the tumbling, smoking falls of , the Chaudiere, which, as their name implies, seethe away in spray as if their waters were boiling hot and fell steaming among the rocks. Their effect, however, must have been rather lessened in Royal estimation by the weather of the morning, for such a waterfall as they bad passed through to reach them was almost enough to make anything short of Niagara seem tame and dull. If the programme is to be followed throughout after this fashion, I can only say that his Royal High ness is certain to come back a sadder and a wiser man, for the mere personal fatigue in volved in these continued journeys, balls, ad dresses, and receptions would wear down almost a constitution of iron. That the inexhaustible fund of good humour and good spirits which his Royal Highness possesses will carry him through anything I well believe, but I almost fear arrangements must be made for relieving the suite, who, though of course not wanting in the amiable characteristics which distinguish his Royal Highness, do not possess that charm against all excitement and fatigue which belongs alone to youth. As for mere journalists and correspondents, who have to go everywhere, see everything, travel all day and write all night, relays of them should be ordered in advance along the route like post horses. A great many programmes of what the Prince is to do each day during his Cana dian tour have been given to the public by the American and Canadian journals. - Not one of these has been entirely correct, as, till this after noon, none was definitely decided on for the route from Quebec. I subjoin it now with its latest alterations, from the day of his landing here to his final departure from the Canadas. None of your readers who glance at this and bear in mind that the visit to the States is to follow on it immediately, and that this, in balls and entertainments, is likely to be the hottest work of all, will think I have at all over-estimated the amount of fatigue both his Royal Highness and suite will have to endure before the tour is over. Nothing has yet been decisively fixed for the American trip. It is proposed that the Agricultural Exhibition of Upper Canada, for which very oxtensive ar rangements are being made, shall be opened by his Royal Highness at Hamilton. At Hamilton seve ral gentlemen have offered to place their houses at the service of his Royal Highness, but considering the limited time at his Royal Highness's disposal, and that his other residences, whether at Toronto or at the k ails, are so accessibis, it is possible his convenience may be better suited by engaging a portion of the hotel at Hamilton, and arrangements, subject to his Royal Highness's sanction, have been made accordingly at the Royal Hotel, Hamilton. It is proposed that an entertainment shall be given on the Exhibition-ground to the agricultural popula tion, and also that his Royal Highness be requested to inaugurate the new City Waterworks and visit the Central School. It is also proposed that a num ber of Indians from Brantford shall be brought to Hamilton during the Exhibition." From this point his Royal Highness goes direct to the falls of Niagara, and here the Canadian Go vernment leave him for a few days' rest, when he at once passes into the United States. As to the time or direction of his tour here nothing whatever is definitively decided yet, beyond that as a matter of course a visit will be paid to Washington, and one to Ne w York. The port for departure, it is now almost certain, will be Boston. Beyond the damp visit to the Falls of the Chau • diere I have already mentioned that nothing of note took place on Monday the 20th. If I paid the least attention to popular rumour, or believed in the often offensive and always ridiculous canards everywhere afloat about his Royal Highness, I could easily fill up my letters with such thrilling adventures by flood and field, of daring feats attempted, mingled with absurd impertinences and gaucheries committed here and there, as would, no doubt, impaft a most pecu liar interest to my narrative. But alas !in this matter I find myself everywhere fettered by the unfortunate necessity of adhering only to what is true, and rejecting at once the half-romantic, half scandalous garbage with which, in the way of private anecdotes of the Prince, some of the American journals are just now entertaining their readers. As a matter of course, their fancy sketches differ considerably in their outlines, and not less so in the deductions as to character drawn therefrom, if all of which are to be believed his Royal High ness must be one of the most extraordinary com pounds of chivalry, impudence, dignity, and buf foonery that ever landed in America. According to one he is represented as systematically in sulting his partners in the dance by refusing to gave them his right hand. Another portrays him as amusing himself by shooting soda-water corks at the head of the Duke of Newcastle during lunch. One of the illustrated papers will shortly have a thrilling woodcut of his Royal Highness as he ap peared when rescued from the deep and dangerous waters of the Saguenay by a gentleman named Price. Already there is a rumour of his horse having run away with him when on his way to Montmorenci, and of the infuriated animal having jumped clean across the Falls, or something equally monstrous and improbable. An account of this will doubtless appear in time, written with all the wealth of adjectives peculiar to that style of composition known among Americans as " Hivalutin.'' For all these lively but frivolous anecdotes there is not a particle of foundation. They all have their origin in a morbid appetite for " sensation writing" which is just now so unusually strong that these rank morsels are swallowed with an avidity that must in the end severely tax the imaginations of the re porters if the diet is to be continued. Some of the higher New York journals are honourable excep tions to this, but they are exceptions, and, I am sorry to say, rare ones. His Royal Highness must, indeed, be cautions how he slips here, either lite rally or metaphorically. At the ball on Tuesday night his Royal Highness, in waltzing, caught his spurs in a lady's dress, lost his balance and fell slightly, releasing his partner before he did so. In 10 minutes afterwards, I am told, it was telegraphed to the New York press that " his Royal Highness had a heavy fall while dancing in th Next day, one of the leading New York fifth pa s' Next , e . with the taste and delicacy which always distin guish it, headed its account of the ball thus . THE CANADIAN COMMOTION, Splendid Splurge of the Quebeckers. The Prince at the Grand Ball given by the City. lie danced Twenty-two Times, tripped and fell, his Beautiful Partnee rolling over him. Honi soit qui mal y pense. The Prince immediately picked himself and Partner up and continued the Dance. Terrible Flutter of Crinoline. Salutes, Illuminations, Levees, Fireworks, and Dinners. Curious Speculation of the Prince's Barber. Souvenirs of Royalty. One of the Government Steamers placed at the Disposal of the Reporters, &c, How this little mishap was detailed in various narratives, each more coarse and vulgar if poss ible t h a n that which preceded it, I nee d no t say. 011 ne pu ts it on record that h e a l ways wears v ery fitting dirty white glov es ; anot h er , th a t 6, his hair is soft, with a strong t en d ency to grow down on the forehead, while his head is well shaped, and would indicate mildness firmness quickness of benevolence, of music"— of perception, a love and a trifling knowledge of the trombone, it s hould have added to make the picture quite complete. There is literally no end to the absurdities written about him here, some arising from ignorance, some—as that about the left hand—from sheer ill-nature and love of snarling. Whatever is wanted to complete the picture of his private life is imagined, and if rather strongly seasoned, has an immense run till some other more startling revelation supersedes it. In England the journalist that intruded upon private life, and, above all, the private life of Royalty, would not be a journalist long. There were no illuminations on Mon day night, save the awful flashes of lightning which poured down at quick intervals and continued through part of Tuesday the 21st. This was the day fixed for the levee, and just as the Prince entered the town the weather cleared up fine and, warm, too warm per haps, for, though it failed to dry the streets (what could ?), it converted their slush into a paste as tenacious as birdlime, and not half as clean. The ---- presentations took place in a chamber of the Upper House, which had been richly and tastefully deco rated for the occasion, and which, with its walls draped with crimson cloth and hung with a fine series of portraits, had a very regal and imposing look. The Ministers of the Canadian Government were in uniform, and there was a very large and brilliant staff of naval and military officers, and all previous levees were therefore quite eclipsed by this. The Speakers of the Upper and Lower House had the honour of receiving knighthood from his Royal Highness, the first time that the Prince has ever conferred that distinction on any one. Sir }Tar cisse Belleau was the first created. There was some? - doubt whether the Speaker of the Lower House was to be so honoured, but it was soon removed, when the Prince again took the sword of the Duke of Newcastle, desired Mr. Smith to kneel, and laying it lightly twice across his shoulders, plain Mr. Smith rose up Sir Henry. Before these honorary rewards had been bestowed two addresses —one from each branch of the Legislature—had been read, first in English and then in French, and duly presented and responded to by his Royal Highness. Another address was also presented from Bishop Mountain and the members of the Anglican Church of Quebec, to which the Prince likewise made a grace f u l an d appropriate reply. The levee over, a dejeneur took place, at which most of the members of the Government and Legislature were present with the Prince, and after which the healths of the Queen, Prince Consort, Prince, and Governor-General were given, and cor dially acknowledged. From the hot crush of these scenes the Prince escaped at last on Tuesday, and drove to the Falls of Montmorenci, some eight miles below Quebec, and situate between the picturesque hills which form the left bank of the St. Lawrence. The road to it is pretty enough ; not much in its way, though sufficiently undulating to prove that it must at one time have been richly picturesque, before all the trees were utterly uprooted and de stroyed. Now it is a fine well-cultivated la n d, c l eare d of even the sembl ance Of a shrub, and closely dotted here and there with white wooden houses, all of which are tenanted by French Canadians, who pre serve their Gallic type, Gallic language, and, in too many se Gallic an ti pat hi es , to t hi s very d ay . Like all such conservative settlers, in whatever land, they are quiet, frugal, and industrious, sel dom meddling much in the political concerns of the colony, though, when they do so, invariably with their compatriots on all subjects. The Falls of Montmorenci are said to be, after those of Hamitt, in California, the highest in North America. The river, rather a deep one, though only some 100 feet across, comes brawling down a series of rocky chasms to the edge of a tremendous cliff which opens on the St. Lawrence, and over which the stream rushes in one grand heavy mass down a sheer unbroken depth of nearly 300 feet. The character of the beautiful fall is gene rally thin and foamy—at a distance like a huge avalanche of snow reposing softly among the gaunt black rocks. Its appearance of majestic repose, however, soons gets broken as the visitor advances towards it, and the roar gets loudee and fiercer till you come out upon a little point which overlooks its edge, and gaze upon a huge sheet of water springing madly over, white, boiling, and angry, its long shoots of spray plunging further and. further down, till the whole is lost in piles of mist below, soft, white, and irregular as a summer cloud. When the Prince saw it it was at its grandest. Unlike that lofty monarch of cascades, Niagara, to the might and rush of which the melting of the winter snows or the largest summer drouth neither adds nor detracts, Montmorenci, and, indeed, all other falls, are visibly increased by much wet weather. After the very heavy and un interrupted rain of the three previous days, therefore, the fall was swollen to its utmost, and came down the rapids bellowing with a noise like thunder as its great final plunge, which was to shut it out for ever from the light of day, grew more imminent. It was really a grand sight, and one which is regarded almost with a regretful awe as the river, in all its fiercest energy of life and power, makes its last leap, and, all torn and dishevelled, with not a trace of the stately gran deur with which it left the cliffs above, but a mere crowd of hurrying broken water, enters that mu.- fathomable hole at its base, and is never seen again. Strange as it may seem, of this tremendous body of water, which pours down within a foot or so of the St. Lawrance, not a drop is known to enter the river which it rushes to meet. A Ettle narrow semicircular ledge of rock, not a foot high apparently, surrounds the foot of the fall, separat ing it from the tidal mark of the great river. Over this ledge, which marks the rim of a yawning funnel-shaped hole, the baffled waters of the Mont morenci never pass, but sink at once without a sign, and rush on no one knows whither. The hole has never been fathomed, its course has never been traced, and things that pass over Montmorenci are never more seen. The impression is rather height ened by the gloomy luxuriance of the scenery around. The black, dead-looking rocks and lofty reared pine trees, the white gravestone-looking towers of granite, which till two or three years back supported a suspension bridge over the falls, when it suddenly gave way, hurrying those upon it to an instant and dreadful death, all add to the mournful effect. At the foot of these falls, too, General Wolfe made his most desperate and most disastrous attempt upon Quebec. Here he suf fered a severe defeat from Montcalm----a defeat which he so signally avenged within two months afterwards by his capture of the Heights of Abra ham, and Quebec itself. Montmorenci roars and plunges now without a change as fiercely as it did on that disatrous day, yet the very name of the battle is almost forgotten, or degenerated into a local tradition, and the mounds of the redoubt which Wolfe reared to cover his retreat and em barkation are mere shapeless ridges, which even the eyes of the curious can but faintly trace. From Montmorenci the Prince proceeded some three miles up the rocky banks of the stream to a place called the Natural Steps—a little gem of Canadian scenery which, for its size and peculiar character, is not to be surpassed in any part of America, It is a wild, lonely place, where a series of rocks, as regular as colossal steps, jut out on either side into the deep, narrow rapids of the Montmorenci. Their geolo gical formation, I have no doubt, is curious, and some learned theories have been broached as to the cause of their being there at all, though few will care to think or read of these when in that rich, wild, quiet glen where the river, not yet brawling angrily with upstart 'rocks, flows on with quick, silent dignity, as if it knew the massive steps as friends since all creation, and recognised their solemn granite masses as characteristic o rnamen t s of its brown,steps , nsll old, w decaye o d r - n, and looking waters. Higher upthe imposin g, break and loom about in great a rekaitnd gray of mournful p i nn acles like th e ruins of an old g ti irregularity, castle, with gaps and rents in the tremendous walls between, ea their strength than weakness. speaking rather of Everything tells o f age and qu i et h ere, and the woods , which almost close in the glen at top, give a dull, solemn repose to t h e w h o l e, as w dark apertures bet ween t h e i r trun k s were leaves rustled gently of the if fhate vaults, tes, and the very mysteries of nature. It is a pity that these exqui site scenes of Canadian beauty are never painted, photographed, or printed, —are, in short, almost un known by name to the world in general. If the Falls of Montmorenci and their Natural Steps were in the United States, there would be pictures thousands goin g of them everywhere, a f i ne h o tel in th e i r i mmediate neighbourhood, and to visit them annually, As it is, not 10 per cent. of those who drive to Montmorenci ever hear of the Natural Steps at all. In the evening the Prince entertained a large party at a banq uet , and afterwards went to the grand ball given by the Mayor and citizens of Quebec to his Royal Highness. The latter fete was given in the Music-hall, a large and ver y lofty buildi ng sometimes used for concerts, s ometimes as a theatre, and once, after the fire which destroyed the Parliament-house, as the place a meeting f or t h e C ana di an L eg i slature. In sp ite of these vicissitudes of fortune, however, it s till remains a noble and well-decorated salon, and on the occasion of the ball it had, at great expanse, been entirely rehabilitated in fresh paint and gilding in such a rich and tasteful style that the recollections of the ball at Halifax, for the first time since the tour commenced, now suffered by comparison. Nothing is really more astounding, when the time of the Prince's stay in each place is considered, than the lavish ex penditure which seems to have been incurred every where to give him a fitti_lag and splendid reception. It is only when one drives about Quebec, and finds in remote corners handsome arches which it was never once expected he would pass under, or eves E WI SO' ab 131