The Sun. — London, England, 1860-09-01 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCH Es.' " Perfection of mechanism,"—Morning Post,. Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps fer Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their irises. Watches sent to an parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. E.C. Established 1749. 4 .. it Bue ii ksto A n Y e. M ARKET. r lip THEA T RE-II 0:f THIS EVENING the performances will comment* with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Bwkdone. Compton, Chippendale. Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, PAUL PRY. Mr. and Mrs.:C. Mathews. Commence at .7. ROYAL P:R INCE S S'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. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. . 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. To conclude with THE ENCHANTED ISLE ; or Raising the Wind under the most approved Principles. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, C. Selby, Powell, Romer , Mi s ses Woolgar, K. Kelly, and Emily Thorne. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booting. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, IL Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is.; pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. — Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Continued Success of "Mazeppa." This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of MAZEPPA 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 ;;genes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day, including the greatest Equestrienne in the world, Madlle. de Berg, whose wonderful Leap through the body of a Mail Coach (a feat never before attempted by any other temale) has been nightly received with enthusiasm. Doors open at half-past 6, performance oommenoe at 7. BoX-office open aily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr.V. WERT. Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti. CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS.— EVERY EVENING, 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 a(egro delineations, anecdotes, ezo., in addition to the usual entertainments. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 1,:1860, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 49—lowest this morning and during the night. 64—this day at noon. BAuomrrint-29.86. WlND—West-North -Westerly; light, with fine harvest weather now, and a fair prospect of continuance. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TEIH DAY.—Morning, 2h. 34m.—Afternoon, 2h. 43m, To-uoßßow.-Morning, 3h. 2m.—Afternoon, 3h. 16m LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 1, 1860. The Liberals of Maldon and of Essex have given their fellow Liberals all over the country a valuable hint. They have met to organise. All in the orthodox good-tempered style of English politics, they start with a banquet. Two hundred of the principal members of the Liberal party of Maldon and of the neighbouring parts of Essex assembled to resuscitate the old "Maldon Liberal and Inde pendent Club," which seems to have fallen into decay of late years, but in which the fathers and grandfathers of those present took an active part. The almost complete overriding of the whole county by the Tories has at last aroused the Liberals to propose and inaugurate a common effort to deliver what was once a Liberal district from the domination of the party opposed in heart, though not always in words, to all reform. . The meeting was conducted with excellent spirit; the member for Maldon, Mr. T. S. WESTERN, being of course the chief speaker. He enjoys, he tells us, the melancholy honour of representing all the Liberals of Essex, he being the only member out of ten holding liberal principles. The practical question is, how the nine are to be brought down from their position and replaced by men of progress and liberal ideas. The advice of Mr. WESTERN, and those who are acting with him, is thoroughly sound, as far as it goes. For sixty years the Maldon Club did good service, and we suppose we may regard Mr. WESTERN'S membership as some fruit from the good seed it so long sowed at Maldon ; he now, therefore calls on the Liberals throughout Essex to unite on the Maldon basis. "If all honest Liberals would sink their petty differences, and rally around the centre supplied by the Maldon Club, he believed they would acquire ere long true strength, and they ought not to rest satisfied until, by means of the machinery supplied by the club, they made the re gistration so exact that they could calculate the numerical strength of their friends and their foes, and reduce to a certainty what had hitherto beeu a matter of speculation. They might depend upon it that when that time arrived, as he trusted it would. soon, the Liberals of Essex would not be restricted to a single seat, but make the Tory nine descend and sing very small indeed." Now we do think this a text worth the earnest conside ration of all Liberals. First, all over the country wt; want organization. The Tories have an organisation almost without trouble. With in sigmific:ant exceptions, the Church is a great Tory organic cation having representatives, and very influen Alai, if they cannot be very noisy ones, in every - village. The clergyman instinctively feels that Ia e is a privileged man ; he alone, amid all the religious teachers around him enjoys an income Prov ieled by the State and belongs to a Church whit alone has representatives in the second estat e of the ieclra. The host of Tory landlords have . therefore, besides their own stewards, law yers , and tenants, an educated my3teriously in flue. filial personage in every place to back their effo: cts, and in addition to this they have generally a g •ood registration agent looking well to the lists 3c of electors. Tories can afford to do this, for, to them, is the pecuniary gain of keeping thi: qgs as they are. Liberals, unfortunately, has 'e no similar inducements to exert themselves. If t hey bestir themselves, it must be " for an idea," as I,he EMPEROR would say ; the public good, by the abc tition of unjust privilege, is the grand motive of Liberalism. But while tho class which enjoys privilege has personal reasons for defending it, the class which attacks it can hope for the rewards of patriotism only. The Liberal party peculiarly needs, therefore, all the encouragement and support which organisation and agitation can give. It can live only by continued discussion. But if the Liberals would unite they must, like the Tories, sink their minor differences. Now it is easy fOr Mr. WESTERN to say this, but!he should remem ober the real difficulties in the way. The Tories ; are ever ready to combine, because they have but on e object-.-the retention of aristocratic privi- lege, an object worth sacrificing something for ; hence it is but rarely that Tory splits endanger Tory seats. But Liberals, contending as they do for an idea, naturally have many aspects of the general idea before them. From the ballet and universal suffrage to the " poor little bill ;" from the abolition of all Ecclesiastical establish ments to a " fair compromise on Church-rates"—are well known lines of latitude and longitude on the Liberal chart. Now it frequently happens that those who teed to both extremes of the `lines are in some constituencies essential to each other. Neither can return a member without the help of the other. Such constituencies are numerous in boroughs, perhaps not wanting in counties. The fair course in all such cases seems obvious enough. Sinking petty differences must be mutual. 'The old Whigs, as well as the Radicals, must sink something. They must have a member each. They must stand honourably shoulder to shoulder. The Whigs must not meanly give their second vote to some plausible Liberal Conservative, put forward by the Tories just for that purpose, and Radicals must not, in anger with the low political standard of the Whigs, refuse to vote for their candidate. Where there is a very large majority of Radicals or Whigs, as the cage may be, the minority may be fairly expected to yield—but this is rare; the common case is, that though one party be the larger both are essential to success. Then let the majority good temperedly give the minority a member. Neglect of this simple rule, which has been most successfully adopted in several constituencies, has lost many a seat to the Liberals. The Whigs have generally been the offenders, Their pride has re fused to vote for a people's man : they would unite rather with Tories than with Radicals. It is time that this suicidal folly came to an end. Mr. WESTERN observed that it would be a great advantage to have in the clubs, like the Maldon one, centres of action for the popular party all over the country. They are admirably adapted to bring public opinion to bear on Parliament after an elec tion. " Clubs of this kind might organise petitions, and petitions, when sufficiently numerous, would destroy the plea that the people were apathetic and indifferent in many cases, when their silence had only arisen from the want of proper machinery to enable them to express their wishes." He thought the course of things in the last Parliament would have been very different if there had been some means established of enabling the constituents easily to express their wishes. Upon the occasions he alluded to, the people were compa ratively silent, and the enemies of popular rights, and, he regretted to say, some members of the Liberal party also, considered that their silence in dicated indifference. The consequence was, that the popular rights went to the wall. It was the fashion of their opponents to treat these events as symptoms of what they called ' Conservative reaction ;" but if the view he took was correct, it would be much nearer the mark to say they were the results of Liberal inaction. At any rate, he should like to see " an appeal to the country where such reaction was the watchword on one side and Progress the rallying cry on the other." These remarks are perfectly just. From one cause and another Liberals have been inert ; on one minor grievance, the " Religious in quisition," several members of Parliament and other gentlemen did form an organisation a " club " for a special object. No great number combined, but they worked ; and with what a satisfactory result—two principal Ministers of State had, although avowing their reluctance, to surrender at discretion. It was organisation did it all. One word, however, in conclusion. If the Liberals would succeed with the country, they must take up reforms that will warm the heart of the country. The people at large will not exert themselves merely for a party bearing a certain name—if they see it distinguished by that name only from Conservatives. The secret of Liberal inaction is the heartlessness of Liberal Ministers. Had Lord JOHN RUSSELL, for instance, before thelast election, announced that henceforth a Liberal Ministry must be a Ballot Ministry, Mr. WESTERN would not have been the solitary Liberal member for Essex. Lord JOHN wanted to kick out the Ballot by extension of the suffrage ;he ludicrously failed. Had he proposed first to secure the independence of the present :constituency by the Ballot he would have gained an immense number of real voters ; and, that point secured he might have appealed to the emancipated constituency to declare what further reforms it wished for.' STEPHEN BLACKPOOL'S frequent exclamation " It's aw a muddle !" migbt very appropriately be inscribed over the entrance to the valuable but hotch-potch museum collected together in what are called the Brompton Boilers, down at the corner of South Kensington. It would constitute in every respect quite as appropriate a superscription for the Kensington Museum as that exquisite line of JOHN KEATS'S (the very first verse, by the way, that KEATS ever published, being the initial line of his maiden work Endymion, as it has certainly proved to be the most famous verse he ever com• posed)— " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever !" —emblazoned over the porch of the Fine Arts Ex hibition at Manchester. So—in a kindred spirit — would we most respectfully suggest that there should be emblazoned over the porch of these wonderful Brompton Boilers that memorable epitome of STEPHEN BLACKPOOL'S experience of life—the eja culation familiar to the readers of Hard Times— already quoted above, but eminently worthy of being here quoted again, if only by reason of its exceed ing appositeness— " It's aw a muddle I" Looking at the outside of the buildings ! was there ever such a medley raised in so short a time—painted all manner of colours—constructed out of every variety of building material, wood and iron, bricks and mortar, stone and stucco— here something like the squat ghost of a sham Swiss Cottage—there a cockney imitation of a Cheshire farm-house, half whitewash, picked out with black beams and rafters—yonder the eidolon, as it were, of an exaggerated boiler turned into an impromptu tenement, such as we may sometimes have remarked the half of a disused barge in a boatbuilder's yard, erected perpendicularly and " transmogrified"—(that is really about the only fitting expression for it—though the word will be vainly looked for either in WALKER or in JOHNSON) —transmogrified into the ludicrous semblance of a sort of a Jack Tar summer-house ! Literally and positively, that is a tolerably fair description of the heterogeneous aspect of this won derful museum of ours at South Kensington. Then look at its contents ! .The treasures there compacted together are, in many respects, only just a trifle better than the jumblei toys in a child's Noah's Ark of the old approved fashion—a Noah's Ark, the roof of which slides off at one side for all the animals, and birds, and creeping things, from the elephant and dromedary down to the beetle or the tomtit, to be tossed in promiscuously and shakes together. Nor can the confusion (every now and then " worse confounded" than ever) down in that marvellous museum of museums, or collection of collections, be very much wondered at upon reflection. Certainly it is impossible not to feel surprised that so much order as there actually is there could possibly have been already obtained in the Kensington Museum, after reading the report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into its general character and arrangement—a document which we presented to our readers yesterday in extenso, verbatim et literatina ! It is amusing to note in the very pre- amble ,of this elaborate rigmarole that the Com mittee disclaims the smallest intention of " entering at any length upon the many large and important subjects involved in the institutions for promoting science and art—viz., the School of Mines, the Geo logical Museum and Geological Survey, the Museum of Irish Industry, the Royal Dublin Society, the Industrial Museum of Scotland, the twelve Navi gation and Science Schools, and the eighty art schools, throughout the United Kingdom, all of which are under the Science and Art Department !" Why, of course, the notion of the Committee doing anything of the kind would be, upon the fats of it, simply ridiculous. Particularly, when they have themselves to add immediately, that the institu tions just enumerated " did and might exist quite independently of the South Kensington Museum itself"—the South Kensington Museum having, in fact, been added as recently as in 1857 to those Institutions ! And certainly the Museum alone presents a pretty stiff piece of business for the Committee to get through as best they may—as we have actually contrived to get through it somehow ! For, recollect the departments into which it has been subdivided in the report of the Committee are nine—the Museum being, in effect, composed of the following nine different kinds of collections :—" 1. Objects of ornamental art as applied to manufactures, with an art library ; 2. British pictures, sculpture, and engravings; 3. Architectural examples; 4. Appliances for scholas tic education ; 5. Materials for building and con struction; 6. Substances used for food; 7. Animal products ; 8. Models of patented inventions ; and 9. Reproductions by means of photography and casting." Now, from these nine distinct sections we have not to-day to announce for the first time that we would gladly have the second elimi nated ! Or, at any rate, a portion of that second section ? namely—the British Pic tures ? Leave, if you will, the sculpture and the engravings in the Museum at South Ken hington. But, at the very least—in the name of common sense, let the national paintings—the most national part of the national paintings, viz., the British Pictures—be, where they ought in reason to be, i.e., in the National Gallery. Upon this we shall take occasion to speak again at another and an early opportunity. For the pre sent we content ourselves with commending, as they deserve to be commended, the assiduity and industry displayed by this Select Committee upon he South Kensington Museum, as evidenced by heir report. While we all lament the loss and distress caused by the inclemency of the season, it is lamentable to reflect that accidents, disasters, and destruction of life and property, which might be avoided by proper attention, are of constant recurrence. The urgent need for a harbour of refuge in the Bay of Wick, on the Caithness coast, has been frequently brought before the notice of those in authority, but the public are not perhaps generally aware of the imperative necessity of the case. The account given by eye-witnesses in the local press, and referred to in a letter in another column, gives some startling particulars. Thousands of men are engaged in the fishing trade in this loca lity, employing many hundreds of boats. Storms are of frequent occurrence on that rugged northern coast; and when they do occur the lives and property of these men are exposed to the utmost risk from the culpable negligence of Government in leaving the neighbourhood without a harbour. As Mr. MACKIE, the patriotic editor of the Northern Ensign, observes,while insisting on the necessity of construct ing a place of refuge in the bay, the fishermen of this locality do not ask for bounty as in France, for official assistance as in Norway, for Government protection as in Russia. They only claim a small expenditure of the public money, so lavishly be stowed elsewhere, for the erection of a harbour, which is to them a matter of vital importance, and to which, though beyond their means to accomplish unaided, they are ready and willing to contribute During the gale which blew on Thursday last, the boats crowded into Pultneytown harbour, the only one on the coast worthy of the name, and the scene of confusion existing there is said to have baffled description. " Boats ran into each other, and in a short time the limited area of the harbour was crowded to its entrance, while hun dreds of boats were tossed about in the offing, their crews at their wit's end to know where to run to ; and well knowing what they had to meet at Pulte neytown Harbour, some tried the river before sufficient water was in it, and struck on the bar; several, and particularly one fine boat, suffering serious injury. The scene at the river's mouth was at one time really saddening." The same writer says, in another place, "We have not had time to hear, as yet, from the coast creeks ; but we have reason to fear that a similar scene has been witnessed along the whole coast." When we reflect that these scenes are constantly recurring, that the lives of hardworking men are im perilled and their property exposed to needless risk, the apathy or indifference of the authorities seems no less surprising than lamentable. We learn that during the severe storm of last week, the precursor of the gale we have just been re ferring to, 30 large•fishing boats were driven to pieces on a short seaboard, and about double that number seriously injured, involving as many fishermen in a loss of several thousands of pounds; and had the storm broken out a very few hours earlier it would have been encountered by 10,000 men, sailing in 1,700 boats, on thisacoast, with no place to run to for shelter. Surely these facts speak for themselves, and the immense extent of the Caith ness trade gives it an indefeasible right to a share in the public expenditure. We are told by Mr. MACKIE that, " generally a fourth of the whole quantity of herrings annually caught on the Scot tish shores is brought ashore on the Caithness coast; and the Caithness fishery, besides providing a valuable article of diet for hundreds of thousands of the people of Britain and the colonies, and em ploying a large amount of tonnage of vessels in carrying stores and exporting the cured fish, gives employment directly to about 30,000 men and women from all the north-eastern counties, and the Highlands and islands." The claim on Government is further substantiated by the fact that one-fifth of the whole number of Royal Naval Coast Volunteers enrolled over all the Scottish sea-board were obtained in Caithness. It is, indeed, short sighted economy which refuses the necessary grants for harbours of refuge for localities like these. It is another form of that rash and narrow minded parsimony which suffered our national defences and naval armaments to sink to so low an ebb, and for which we have since had to pay so heavily. % ~!s, \ " ° VA<. it i gilY ' , 00- -- --,,., _-_),) 44,4 ta , A 4 ,-. ey,,., . • •,fr . . 0...., ''' b b. ,..... i ..._* ,_ t - . 1. • NI 0 . - 41. 1 , -ROIT --S—t ' v -"I. - 4 -.,,,, '.---4-... THE SUN. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1866. There is little doubt that the fishing trade, exten sive as it is, might still be greatly developed, were the necessary protection provided for the men from the frequent disasters they must encounter. It is a subject urgently demanding immediate attention which we trust it will recceive, for it is a national disgrace that life should be risked and property destroyed, in this crowded and industrious locality, for want of a place of shelter from the dangers inseparable from its trade. As the nursery of our seamen for the Royal Navy is said to be fostered by the coasting trade from the Northern coal ports, where protection is given by several harbours—some of doubtful refuge and others of safety—why should our Government, with the Board of Admiralty at their wit's end for men, hesitate in affording adequate protection to a host of seamen as brave and as able as can be found? The question, though local, is yet Imperial ; and if there were not wheels within wheels encased by Jealousy on the opposite coast, a harbour would have been mado at Wick long ago. It is unworthy of a Government to allow itself to be influenced by the jealousy on one locality against another. The question bein g national and the necessity human life—and valu able life too—being in imminent danger, a wise Government shoult take the matter up with spirit worthy of itself and the national interest. We have no objection whatever toussist Peterhead and the southern coast with a harbour also, but the true providence would be to extend the helping hand to the sinking man first, and then save those in least danger afterwards. Now, though a storm be a storm on the east coast—it is a hurricane on the far north-east, in the merciless regions of Cape Wrath—a truly fitting designation of the nature of that stormy coast. Let us hope that Lord PALMERSTON, who has of late reverted to his old habits when he was " the Minister of England" and nothing less, will now think it becoming of his fame to step forward like a British Volunteer and prove his sagacity, as well as humanity, in providing shelter for a large body of industrious seafaring people, who, in case of a Northern invasion, would be found as truly brave as they are fearlessly hardy in ther hazardous avo cations. His lordship has shown his foresight in providing for the national defences to the tune of millions. In the same spirit let him provide for the safety of its daring mariners in a similar manner, and here the cost will be only thousands as compared to the other—bearing in mind that neither ships nor forts are but good for little, without men to give them a working spirit and national impulse. GRENADIERS OF THE Bth ( Tli KING'S) REGIMENT. TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin, —The letter from Lieutenant Finch, which appears in your paper of this day, will be read with pleasure by all belonging to his old regiment; and that officer will re joice to learn that the memory of the grenadiers of the Bth who fell at Toronto in 1813 has already been nobly honoured. _ Some 30 years ago the officers and men of the 71st High land Light Infantry, then quartered at Toronto, reverently collected the bones of the soldiers of the Bth, which had been washed from their grave by the waters of the lake; they gave to them a soldier's funeral, and placed a tablet to record the action in which they fell. I need not say that this chivalrous tribute to the memory of brave men has formed a lasting bond of friendship be tween the regiments. The King's Regiment has not, I trust, degenerated. The grenadiers of the corps gave their lives as freely at Delhi as they had done at Toronto. The storming party, led by Captain (now Major) Baynes, carried up the ladders to tho assault on the 14th of September, 1857, uncovered by any firing party. Of 75 men, 50 fell upon the glacis under the fire from the walls, but the remnant went in.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant, E. H. GREATHED, Colonel, late Sth (The King's) Regiment. United Service Club, Aug. 31. ANOTR.EI? STORM AT Trivir. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—We have this morning been visited by another storm, accompanied by considerable destruction to the boats engaged in prosecuting the herring fishery. The gale had not reached its height till this forenoon; notwithstanding, several fine boats, the property of the fishermen, have been destroyed, and not, a few are greatly injured. The only harbour on the coast deserving the name is at this moment crowded to its entrance with boats and vessels belonging to all parts of the kingdom, and hundreds of beats, with many thousands of pounds, are lying huddled together in the many small creeks and rocky inlets which abound on the coast, but over which the sea, as it always does in such storms, is making a complete breach. It is impossible to estimate the amount of property de stroyed this morning; but if the gale increases, as it threatens to do, the storm of to-day will be more disastrous than that of a fortnight ago, serious though its results were. Writing, as I do, in sight of the scene which the Bay of Wick now presents, and of the dangers to which many in dustrious men are exposed in endeavouring t• save their property from destruction, I am free to assert that a more startling sight cannot be presented, and that her Majesty's Government will incur a grave responsibility if they delay longer in taking measures for protecting the great national fishery that is prosecuted on these shores. When I state that one-fifth of the whole number of Royal Naval Coast Yoluntee'rs enrolled over the entire Scottish seaboard were obtained in Caithness; that generally a fourth of the whole quantity of herrings annually caught on the Scottish shores is brought ashore on the Caithness coast; that the Caithness fishing, besides providing a valuable article of diet for hun dreds of thousands of the people of Britain and the colonies, and employing a large amount of tennag e of vessels in carrying stores and exporting the cured fish, gives employment directly to about 30,000 men and women from all the north-eastern counties and the Highlands and Islands-4 state facts which, without specifying many others not less striking, ought to have an influence in inducing the Government, without farther loss of time, to proceed with the erection of the long promised and urgently demanded harbour of refuge at Wick, for which all concerned are willing to pay a fair amount of annual tax. We rely, sir, on your invaluable aid in urging this im portant matter on public attention. When our northern population were misrepresented in Parliament 16 years ago, you ably and successfully vindicated them, and the grate• ful remembrance of your services then 4 on behalf of the Highlanders induces us to hope that you will now come forward and give your powerful assistance on behalf of the thousands of fishermen who are at this moment tossed about on board their boats at the mercy of the storm on this un protected coast, but a coast from which, with proper re fuge, treasures can be drawn that will prove a source of national importance and wealth. I am, sir, yours respectfully, JOHN MACKIE. Korthern Ensign-office, Wick, Aug. 30. PAUL HERRING.—The rumour, that this well known clown had died last week, is without foundation. We'are happy to say that the clever pantomimist is in ex cellent health and spirits.—Bra. RUMOURED LEGAL CHANGES. — The Fraeman's Journal states, as a general rumour, that either Mr. Francis William Brady, or Mr. Andrews, Chairman of the East Riding of Cork, is booked for the Mastership in Chancery (L 3,000 Irish currency per annum) vacated by Mr. Ache son Lyle, Lord-Lieutenant of Londonderry. Mr. Brady is son of the Chancellor, and twice contested the city, in the hope of ousting one of the " Dublin six " Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Richard S. Dundas, K.C.8., Captain Charles Frederick, and Mr. Romaine, C. 8., the permanent secretary of the Admiralty, remain in London to form a Board for the dispatch of business in the absence of the Duke of Somerset and the other members of the Admiralty.—Army and Navy Gazette. The Government of India has been pleased to allow officers serving in India, who may, under instructions fr.,m the Horse Guards, be ordered to England to join the Staff College, to be provided with a contract passage in one of the mail steamers.—Army and Nary Gazette. OPENING OF THE NEW FLOWER MARKET, CovExT-GaunEx.—Yesterday orders were issued for the new flower market, just erected by the Duke of Bedford in Covent-garden, to be opened to the public this day (Satur day) for the sale of flowers. The structure, which is of a temporary character, though somewhat ornamental, is on the cast side of Covent •garden-niarket, next the Hum moms Tavern, and is built on the site of the houses pulled down for the continuation of Burleigh-street, Strand, into Covent-garden-market It has a frontao-o of about 60 feet, and a depth of 120 feet ; th e area, ''bout 7, 9 00 feet, is laid out in three avenues, having 61 distinct standin°s. The interior is spacious and well ventilated, and fitted with an abundant supply of gas-burgers. The temporary erection will ultimately be superseded by a highly ornamental building formed of glass and iron, after the style of the Floral Hall, occupying increased space by the removal of the remaining houses required for the com pletion of the new street. The new market will no doubt prove a great public accommodation, as that for flowers has hitherto been held in the open space in front of St. Paul's Church, so that in unfavourable weather both buyers and sellers were subjected to much annoyance and pecuniary loss, Li AT EST NEW b. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, AIIG. 31. The Patric of this evening contains the following telegram, dated Naples, 30th inst.:-- Tranquillity prevails in the city. The King held a review of sonic regiments which have been despatched to Castellamare. The expected military demonstration in favour of annexation to Piedmont has been adjourned. Garibaldi has left Calabria, but it is not known in what direction. Decisive events are expected to take place shortly. Baron Brenier has obtained the satisfaction which he demanded. The Patrie also says : It is asserted that two more regiments are about to be despatched to Rome as reinforcements. GENOA, Auct. 1. According to advises from Reggio, a report was current that General Briganti had been shot at Monteleone by the soldiers of his own regiment. It is stated that Garibaldi entered Monteleone on the 27th inst., and that he had succeeded in trans porting his whole army to the mainland. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. The Peninsular and Orient al Company's steamer Ripon, Captain Christian, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She had 97 passengers, of whom Major-Gen. Sickyer, C. 8., Dr. Kelart, and the wife and child of Captain Rennie, died at sea. Her cargo includes raw silk valued at upwards of £lOO,OOO, and precious stones of the value of 2,300 rupees. She spoke the Indus, the Valetta, her Majesty's ship Orion, brig Sussex Maid, barque Jane Thur ston, barque Arabista, schooner Rapid, and steamer Euxine. The Pera lefi Gibraltar on the 26th ultimo for ;he East. Exchange on London, at Gibraltar, was quoted 50;-1. ; an Paris, sf. 32c. ; on Marseilles and Genoa, sf. 33c. ; on Cadiz, Malaga, and Valencia, at par; Spanish Pillaired dollars, 3 per cent. pre mium. Freights to London and outports in Ulla United Kingdom, 12 dols. per ton and 10 per cent. ; Malta, Leghorn, Genoa, and Marseilles, 4 dols. to 5 dols. per ton and 5 per cent. PARIS, SEPT. 1. The Moniteur of to-day publishes the following telegram, dated Thonon, Aug. 31 : " Their Majesties have arrived here. Through out the whole journey they have met with a sym pathetic reception. Their Majesties have made an excursion on the lake as far as Evian. Notwith standing the fatigues of the journey, the health of their Majesties continues to be perfect. The weather is admirable." The Illoneteur also says : " The inquiry instituted at Naples not having succeeded in discovering the individuals guilty of the assault upon the French Ambassador, the Duke of Canajello has been sent to Paris to express offici ally to, the Emperor the profound regret of the King of the Two Sicilies on account of that event. The same journal contains the following : "Prince Murat has published a letter disavowing those who would in his name excite troubles at Naples. " The Government of the Emperor can only ap plaud this declaration ; but the hope which the Prince expresses in that letter of being one day able to go to Naples, with the consent and support of France. is too much opposed to the wishes of the Emperor to allow such a supposition to pass with out an official disavowal." BERNE, AUG. 31. On Monday next the Ambassadors of Switzer land at the Courts of Paris, London, Berlin, and Turin, will assemble here for a conference with the Federal Council. FRANCE. BOURSE, August 31.—The reponse des primes (option) has been made at 6S f sc. Little business doing, but prices maintained at the rates of the previous day. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f 5c ; Mobilier, 685 f ; Orleans, 1,373 f 75c ; Northern, 951 f 25e ; Mediterranean, 885 f ; Aus trian, 485 f ; Lombard, 475 f. The market improved slightly towards the close. The following are the last quotations :- 4 per per Cents ... 97 75 Credit Fonder 9Ol 25 Do end month.... —1 Belgian 4 3 per Cents Do. cod month 6B 15 , Roman Bank Shares 2820 I Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 687 50 i Spanish Threes 47 75 Do. Acc oun t 6BB 75 Home Debt . 47it RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 883 75 .. 886 25 Geneva 362 50 .. 362 50 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard THE PENINSULAR MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, Japtain Hall, with the above mails, has arrived. She left Lisbon on the 27th ult., and brings 30 passengers, £4,285 in specie and 1,150 packages of general cargo. On the 21st she spoke the Masillo, on the 27th the Una. Captain Callow, the chief officer, and two engi neers of the steamer Ganges, which foundered at sea, on the 29th of July, have arrived from Lis bon. The remainder of the crew were left at Teneriffe in charge of the Consul by whom they would be sent home. Lisbon Exchange on London at three months 54:, on Paris 526, on Hamburg 48, on Amsterdam 421, and on Genoa 5.25. Rentes 3 per Cents. 47i, Coupons 46/, Deferred 341, Lisbon Bank 555 milreis, Oporto Bank 260 milreis, Mercantile Bank 251 milreis. CARDINAL ANTONELLI AND MS GEMS.—The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian writes : " Lot me aid a trait or two of Cardinal Antonelli to the very interesting ones contained in the article of theSuturday Review. They illustrate the odd mixture of caution, cool ness, and timidity ia the man, and the sense of insecurity in which he lives. He was showing a gentleman, from whom I have the story, his valuable collection of ancient gems. They were deposited in a room so far removed from that usually occupied by the cardinal that my informant expressed his surprise that, fond as he was of studying and showing his t r easures, the cardinal did not find some place of custody l ess remote for them. " I used to keep them in a cabinet opening from my bedroom," said Antonolli, "but it occurred to me that if robbers broke in, it was highly desirable that the most valuable objects of my collection should be depo sited as far off me as possible. Suppose these gems in that closet —that thieves came after them—that I awoke and overheard them. They might think it advisable to cut my throat. But now there is no fear. If they rob me of my gems, I shall be at least be out of earshot, and it will not be necessary to give me my quietus in order to get off clear with the bootr" NARROW ESCAPE.—The bathing beach at Ostend was two days ago very nearly becoming the scene of a melancholy accident. One of the bathers, an Englishman named Ensor, notwithstanding that he had been cautioned as to the danger, swam out to a considerable distance from the beach. On turning towards the shore he fdbnd him self caught by a strung current against which he vainly attempted to make head, and which was rapidly carrying him out to sea. Luckily his danger was seen by the super intendents of the bathing establishment, and three of the men swam off to his assistance, reaching him just as he ' was sinking from exhaustion With some got him on shore, where, by the two:- they r . ealedies l h asppyil „,,,cation of prompt ,Iva. THE INSURRECTION IN THE TWO SICILIES. A letter from Naples, dated Aug. 24, says :—A telegraphic despatch from General Viale, received at the Ministry yesterday evening, seems to confirm the news already received, that after the surrender of Reggio, an advance was made against the Royal troops stationed at Piale, who were driven away. By this movement Garibaldi has collected his forces, which has been isolated in the Corona camp and at Aspromonte. This Piale is a plateau, close to which is the Alla Fiumara, and a little further off the fort of Scylla, commanding the Faro. The moment this position is occupied by the enemy the Royal troops at Scylla are compelled to capitulate, because they are cut off from the army-corps at Catanzaro, or else they must let themselves be beaten. Master of the fort of Scylla, and being already in possession of Torre di Faro, Garibaldi commands the strait, and the citadel of Messina has no choice but to surrender. Garibaldi moreover has the ridge, along which he can march freely towards Catanzaro, just as he can freely land what ever he wants henceforth on the coast of Reggio. Garibaldi's small army-corps has the three Cala brias for the field of its operations, and can rally the inhabitants around its standard. The object of the corps of Sapri is to act on the Basilicata, on Cilento, Salerno, Campobasso, Avellino, and to lead them on to the conquest of the capital. Nothing is done rashly. At Cosenza everything is ready. The officials of Francis 11. are mere passive spectators of what is doing there. The Royal force, 4,000 strong, per mits the revolution to develope itself peaceably. The province is by a committee, consisting of the most influential and wealthy men of the kingdom—Messrs. Bavacco, Campagna, Forginele Morelli, their president, M. Quientire, who places his entire fortune (eight millions of francs) at the service of the cause, and others. The Jesuits and the magistrates have left. The prefect and the com mandant of the province shut their ayes to what is done. M. Meseraro leaves to morrow. H e had p u t off his departure for want of arms, and the armed revolution will break out at Lungro the day after his arrival. He is going to Paola, where there are 4,000 Royalists. AUGUST 25. The Syren, which arrived from Calabria at six o'clock last evening, has brought news to the Go vernment that Torre de Cavallo has been taken, &a tone, Punta del Pizzo, Bagnara, and Scylla. The soldiers holding these positions had embarked in the City of Lyons and the Tancred, and gone back to Naples. Garibaldi was master of the strait. The Minister of War immediately sent the Syren off again, to go and meet the 'steamers bringing back those troops, and show them their destina tion. In fact, one of the steamers had brought 850 wounded to the Granili here, and the other has brought 1,000 men to Castellamare. At the same time the Minister ordered the 7th, Bth, and 9th regiments of Chasseurs to embark, and to leave Naples that evening. Gen. Pianelli is to take command of the troops in Calabria, and they are to be concentrated in the defiles of Campotenere, on the borders of the Calabrias and Basilicata, un less there should be counter-orders induced by the march of events. Between the Court and the Mi nistry the orders given clash and are contradic tory. They wish to guard against everything and yet remain, inactive, for their discouragement blinds their vision and paralyses all their efforts. They talked at Court of the King's imminent de parture, or in any case of the young Queen's, for Gaeta. But as it seems that Garibaldi has now a powerful navy, and as the royal navy is not in clined to be very royalist, a refuge at Gaeta does not appear to be safe or impregnable, and that something else must be thought of, It is said that the French Minister was summoned to Court the same evening. The King gave a ready ear to what M. Brenier had to say, but he does not al ways follow his advice. The battle of Piale was extremely sanguinary. The Neapolitan soldiers displayed incredible bra very and tenacity. The Italians required all their ardour to dislodge them at the point of the bayonet, after having made several charges with success. The number of the killed is not known, or they are afraid to publish it. A few of the wounded and killed Tteliving have been imemed. to me. Ido not give their names, that I may not renew the alarm occasioned by the false reports of Bixio's death, after the battle of Calatafimi. Bad news soon spreads, sooner than good news ; there is no occasion to supply it with wings. Three or four hundred Garibaldian red blouses, hidden in a house, were seized here yesterday. The plan of defence provisionally adopted at the War-office is, I hear, to establish a solid force, by Concentrating the troops behind the line of the Ca labrian mountains in the defile of Campotenere, and lastly behind the course of the Garigliano. These plans might easily be baffled by a " pronunciamen to" of Italian] m on the part of the Neapolitan army, and some Italian sharp-sighted politicians affect to see it already in their mind's eye. The movement in the province of Basilicata is assuming proportions greater every day. Potenza is about to become the centre of several provinces. Salerno and Cilento hold their weapons in their hands, and are waiting for the tide to come up from Calabria. The Neapolitan Government has given satisfaction to the Sardinian Minister for the attack on the Ber saglieri in the streets of this city. It has paid 20,000 francs, which the Marquis of Villamarina has caused to be distributed to the families of the five civilians killed in the riot. The guilty are handed over to a court-martial. 3 o'clock. —The following is the latest news, but not guaranteed. The chiefs of the movement have ordered their agents, from Reggio to CasteHamar°, to supply the Garibaldians with provisions and broad, upon receiving bonds signed by their com missariat officers. Marshal Viglia and General Desuget convoke the generals to protest against the order probably about to be given to them, to fight in the city and vicinity of Naples. The Government wished to form an entrenched camp at the gates of the capital. Sala, Valle, and Campagna have risen in full insurrection. From Cosenza to Salerno there is not one soldier. General Casdavella, at Cosenza, and General Ghio at Monteleone, are cut off by the Garibaldians. At Rogliano, near Cosenza, there is an intrenched camp of 12,000 insurgents ; 300 in surgents are occupying the narrow passes of Campo tenere. At Castao-Villari the gendarmes have laid down their arms. At Naples a committee has been appointed to collect money. Last night fifty deserters were sent to Avellino. At Bovine, in the Capitanata, there is a reactionary movement, and the national guard has been disarmed. The divisions of Viale, Melendez, and Briganti, which took part in the battle of Piale, are destroyed, the men being partly in flight, partly wounded or killed, and partly having deserted. A French volunteer, serving under Garibaldi, gives the following account of the proceedi ngs o f the General's troops from the day after their landing on the mainland of Naples :—" On the 20th, departure at three o'clock in the morning from our bivouac. Arrived at Lazzaro at ten. Repose till six o'clock in the evening. Depar ture from Lazzaro at six, taking the carriage road to Reggio. Half way to Reggio we took a path by the mountain. We marched in the following order :—" General Bixio and myself, his aide-de-camp preceding us; behind us his two orderly officers and two guides, and a quar termaster and his assistant; the advancedg d y. t a h r e d consisting of the Ist battalion of bemaglieri, commanded by young Garibaldi ! Garl_joaldi and his staff; the Ist brigade, command ea by Colonel Dezza, and the 2d by Colonel Elibrard ; an rear-guard, formed of the battalion of bersag lieri. At four o'clock in the morni n g of the 21st we entered the suburbs of Reggio without having met a single Neapolitaa soldier. We arrived in a great square in which two Neapolitan companies were encamped. Our soldiers cried with cnthu siasmVice Garibaldi !' The c r y awake nei the Neapolitans, who seized their arms and ni:lt-blank. Gen. Bixio w as hit by a ball fired on us almost P the left arm and his horse was .killed under him. By a providential chance, I was not wounded. The Neapolitans so ught refuge in the citadel. The garrison consisted of eight companies of infantry, of half a squadron of lancers, and a bat• tery of artillery. Two companies had boen de spatched the day before along the high road to pre vent us from approaching, but one short cut across the mountain had enabled us to miss them ; we sent a battalion after them, and in an hour they were brought back prisoners. The fort, of the Marine was taken at one o'clock, and 12 large cannon in it fell into our hands. I received orders to rally all the bersaglieri who had dispersed in the streets. Fifteen Neapolitans had taken refuge in a private house ; one of them fired a musket at me from a window. I cannot say how it was that I was not killed, as he was not more than 15 paces from me. I called two bersaglieri and we entered the house. Ail the soldiers in it gave themselves up prisoners ; among them was the son of the colonel who com manded the regiment; he was wounded. I took the flag of the regiment and gave the tassels of the colour-knot to General Bixio. Garibaldi was on the heights which command the citadel, and I re ceived orders to go to him to announce the taking of the fort of the Marine. The colour-knot of the flag consisted of two bands of silks embroidered with gold, one red, and the other white. I offered the red one to Garibaldi, who.pressed my hand, say ing, lam happy to clasp the hand of a brave Frenchman, and I thank you !' I preserve the white band for myself. Wo leave this evening to continue our route towards Naples. A communication from Naples in the Debate gives some account of the subsequent proceedings of the volunteers :—" Once masters of Reggio, Garibaldi's troops did not make it their Capua. They marched, immediately on the entrenched camp of the Royal troops at Piale and attacked it. The Government in:its official journals declares that the troops were attacked by a superior force. A private letter adds that the attack was formidable and the resistance energetic ; that the forces of Generals Melen dez and Briganti were more numerous than those of their assailants ; that the latter took pos session of the principal positions, the Royalists being forced to quit them in disorder and re tire on Montele one after a struggle of ten hours. A telegraphic despatch, received yesterday evening by thd Government, confirms the news. By this movement Garibaldi has formed a ju nc ti on with his men who had remained isolat e d in the pClaamtepand, half -way up Corona and Aspromonte.a w t hiehisAua v Piale is a iuraar_ a, and. a little further the fort of Scylla, opposite to Faro. That position once occupied, the troops of Scylla, being cut off from the corps d'armee of Catanzaro, were compelled to c a pit u l a te. Garibaldi, _master of the fort of Scylla, as he was befo re of Torre di-Faro, commands the St ra it, and t hecitadel of Messina must soon surrend er . G ar ib aldi is more. over in possession of the road front Catanzaro and n r eadily advance. He can a l so freely land at present all that he wishes on the can Coast of Reg gio. The small corps d ' armee of Garibaldi has for and to rally them same round on hi object to act on the three Calabrias; baldi to act at th e m. the Basilicata , that f C Capri has nto Salerno, Cam time and Avellino, and to lead pobasso, them with him to the conquest of the capital. Nothi ng has been done without due consideration." " We learn," says the Opinion Nationale, " that a short Ministerial crisis took place Within the last few days at Turin. Count Cavour tendered his resignation, but withdrew it a few boors after; and. the reconciliation of the Cabinet appears to have been marked by greater latitude allowed to the volunteers to embark for Sicily." A proclamation from the Committee of Italian Unity, Printed at Milan, advises the N Ft eapo ans to refuse the annexation, as the consequence of that fact would be, it says, the cession of Sardinia to France. It also recommends them to reject the royalty of the Prince of Carignan, because the in dispensable unity of Italy would then become, impossible. These propositions, it is stated, come from Mazzini, whose party is now raising their heads, and seeking to form a fusion with that of Garibaldi. In Sicily discontent and agitation against the pro visional Government are on the increase; the pro- Dictator is without influence or authority, and the Mazzinians boldly throw off the m ask. It is an nounced that to put an end to this state of things the Court of Turin has sent a deputy, M. Bottero, to Palermo, charged to intimate an order to the Go vernment of Sicily to assemble the committees as soon as possible, and to allow universal suffrage to declare itself on the question of annexation. A letter from Messina, of the 26th, in the Patris, says :—" About two o'clock on the 22d a large Neapolitan frigate of 56 guns entered the strait. She took up a position opposite the batteries of the Faro, and opened a warm cannonade, which lasted about two hours. Some time after, a French screw steamer showed herself at the en trance of the Strait, and received several cannon shots from the guns of the Faro. It was not un til the 18th shot, that the error was discovered. On the following day, the Prony arrived in the roadstead of Messina, and a demand for satis faction was immediately sent to the commander in-chief of Messina and the Faro. At no the Descartes and the Prony got under weigh, and. anchored near the Faro. General Turr hastened to write a letter to M. Boutard, the French Con sul, expressing his deep regret at such an error having been committed. He said that in the midst of the smoke the colours could not readily be distinguished, and that moreover the Garibaldian artillerymen were much enraged at the disloyal con duct of the Neapolitan frigate, which had come up under a French flag, and after examining the batte ries and taking up a favourable position, had dis charged two murderous broadsides on the men who were quietly watching her movements. The French flag was not hauled down, and replaced by the Neapolitan one until after these broad sides had been fired. General Turr, without wishing to make this fact an excuse, offered the most ample satisfaction to the French command ant. A melancholy event occurred on the 22d; Commandant De Flotte, formerly a lieutenant in the French navy, was killed at Solano. He had landed with 50 men, French and English, to join one of the corps which had disembarked on the previous day. On reaching Solano he fell into the midst of a battalion of the Neapolitan troops, who opened a fire, and De Flotte, who was in ad vance of his men, received a musket shot through the head. His small detachment afterwards sue ceeded in joining Cosenz, carrying with them the body of their leader. General Garibaldi gave orders that the body should be buried in the chrarch of Solano, and placed the name of the comanandant and his brave detachmet on an order of the day to the army. DEATH OF Mits. YATES.—One of the most cele brated and highly-esteemed actresses of domestic drama expired on Thursday last. Mrs. Yates d au ghter of M r . J. Brunton, manager of the Nor wich circuit, and niece of the Dowager Countess of Craven, also j u st deceased, was bo rn on the 21st Jan., 1799, and, after performing in the pro vinces, made her first appeara nce in London, at Covent iii September, continued i l n B u l e 7 d , as Letitia Hardy in the " Belle's at this theatre playing the chief characters, till th e year 1824, when she m a r. ried Mr. Frederic Yates, w ith whose triumphs as manager of the Adelphi she w as i pAim gely . associated. will remain in the mem ory the stage in th e 19th Till a large ugh g S at:adtean comedye m . ' ' portion of the present generation is swept away the figure " Victorine," &c., centur y. She remained at the Adelphi of Mrs. Yates in th e g , vvreaeks o A n s e h o o f re tk ' e ' death of her husband in 1842, and principal types of YP,ars ago she fore s ingle season at the Lyceum. About for some ti.lne after the from the prof ess i on, o f which she afterwards eedretired 11 vr:ts a most distinguished ornament. On One oCeasion great anxiety was felt respect. ing the safety of the Atlantic, one of the American line of ars. News was brought by the Africa, that A steatn-s,,a safe and the Atlapti° .. -s sa thus the pleasing intelligence in all parts of the country long before the ship was mown wilt the news had come to her moorings. The in that hrol. r of de light with which the news was received is thus r ived by Mr. Jones, onu of the earliest members of the do.ic AS ° °e lated Press. H e ...e says :—" At last the news came. It was read aloud to them—' The Atlantic is safe I'—when there arose loud and e nthusiastic shouts of joy. It flew from mouth to mouth, from one extremity of the city to the other, along the shipping, among the ship-yards and ship-builders, among those who had worked on the missing vessel. It flew abroad to the suburban towns. It became a theme of exultation at the hotels and theatres. In some of the latter the managers came on the boards and an aouncod to 1 heir auditors, ' 110 Atlantic is safe P which was followed by th e rising of the whole audience to their feet, and giving the most deafening and enthusiastic ap plause. In our whole experience in telegraph reporting WI recollect no instance in which news gave such universal de light. No battle ever won in Mexico diffused greater satisfaction in New York than the safety of the noble ship A.tlantic."—Onee a Weak. 1