The Sun. — London, England, 1860-10-18 00:00:00

N'S WATCHES.' "Perfection of mechanism." --Morning Post. Gold Wit. ;diver 2to 50 gu send stamps ter ile7ison's Illustrated :Pamphlet, descrip tive of every r./..)c:itr,...ction of watch now ma&, with their ;r:ce,s. • Wat& . .es sent to al' parts of the kingdom free by post , or to India and the Colonies tor 50. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. E.C. Established 1749. • 1_! OPAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT ARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA PYNI and Sir. W. II ARRISON, Sole Lessees. TATS EVENING, LURLINE : Messrs. H. Wharton, H. Corri, G. Kelley, and Mr. W. llarrison ; Miss Lefflar, Miss Albertazzi, and Miss Louisa Pyne. C o uductor—Air. Alfred Mellon. OVERTURE to ZAMPA after the Opera. DIVERT ISSEM ENT. Doors open at Seven. Commence at HaTf-past. 1 1 EA TR ti;-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EVENING the pert corm anceg will commencs with the new comedy, DOES lIE LOVE ME ? Messrs. Howe, C hi p pendale, E. Villiers. and Buckstone ; Miss Amy Sedg wick, Miss Florence Haydon, and Mrs. Wilkins. Followed by a new comedy, entitled ROMANCE AND REALITY. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Rogers, W. Farren, .end John Brougnam Miss Florence Haydon; Mrs. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs. Commence at 7. THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUALI Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with Sheridan Knowles's admired Comedy of THE LOVE N e ville, CHASE. Principal characters by Mr. T. Lyon, Mr. Mr. George Vining, Mr. Henry Butler, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Kate Saville, and Miss Gooth u genheim (from the principal Thea tres of America, 1 appearance in England). After which, a petite comedy , entitled GRIST TO THE MILL. Mr. Forrester, Mr. G. Vining, Mr Miss Rose Howard (the popular American actress and voca list, her first appearance In England). To conclude with THE 3IIDDY ASHORE : Harry Halcyon, Miss Lydia Thompson. DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. A Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicault, Esq., Baw n."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even " The Colleen Incr. THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Bourcimult, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. . _ - ---• Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking . . Private boxes, X 2 2s. ; Family Boxes,"Xl.. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 45.; Front Circle Stalls, 35.;; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6 d. ; Amphitheatre, ls ; Gallery, 6d. Acting - Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- rl and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Immense success of Fitzball's new Spectacle of Ronni Hoop, pronounced by the Press and the Public the most beautiful and interesting Hippo-Drama ever produced at this Theatre. This Evening, the entertainments will commence with the n ew Spectacle, in Three Acts, entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or, the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; Allan-a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Pritchard. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day, including Mdlle. de Berg and Mr. James Cooke. Doors open at half -Fast 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma .......... • ........... Miss RUSSELL. Adalrisa .................... Madame MARIA, (ETer first appearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Per formers. organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Negro Artistes. Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGFIMANS. Balcony, le, Hall. 6d. THE WEATHER.-Sux OFFICE, OCT. 18, NM THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 57—this day at noon. 45—lowest this morning and during the night. 56—highest since noon yesterday. BAROMETER-29.76. WlND—West-South-Westerly ; fresh breeze, with dull weather, and occasional showers. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 53m.—Afternoon, 4b. 16m. To-MORROW.-Morning, 4h. 38m.—Afternoon, sh. lm. , ft**. ftiSt .. fAt \ • i=.lza" , s 4747 4 4 f, •: , „•: v 44711z -I '° 4 `_ ~1:(i( e-~ > ~v~~ ~ THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 17, 1860. Oar young Prince is now taking his lessons on Republicanism. When he first came in contact with it at Detroit it seems to have almost suffocated him with kindness, or with curiosity ; but through out all, the son of a Queen, and the great-grandson of the " horrible tyrant," comported himself to the entire satisfaction of the great-grandsons of those who rebelled successfully against the tyrant. Perhaps in that part of the States, however, no large proportion of the inhabitants are natives, much less great-grandsons of natives ; but even the Irish settlers there seem to forget their old anti pathy to the Sassenach, for one of them rode back to him after having taken his farewell, to assure him that " If he would come back four years hence they would run him for President !" a compliment which the hereditary Prince doubtless fully appre ciated. He soon found himself, however, where he was at least free to enjoy himself free from crowds. His visit has also furnished us with two or three more attempts to describe what all travellers pro nounce to be indescribable—the Prairie. Niagara and the Prairie are the two things on which all who see them cannot help saying something—and we a re thankful for it—at the same time they all agree in the same preface or conclusion, that to form any idea of them, they must be seen. The boundless oeean of land, the long waving Prairie grass, and the magnificent flowers interwoven with it, and the prairie fires, must form a spectacle worth exchang• ing with the Alps, and their, too frequently, fatal dangers. Not that the Prairie is without its dangers. The awfully splendid fires may be blown towards you, and you may soon lose yourself in the level or succession of uniform undulations ; but there is the resource of firing the grass before you, a nd if you have forgotten your compass, and the sun and stars are invisible, there is, it seems, the friendly compass-weed, whose leaves always point due north and south. Here, however, the PRINCE found another attraction. There was game of various k inds, especially the much-coveted prairie hens, a spe c i es of grouse. Surely, next season, numbers of our sportsmen will visit the far west. There they will hav e game enough, from the buffalo which to the smallest specie s , will furnish them infinitely more manly and exhihrating sport than that poulterers' amusement —sport we will not call it—of battue shooting. Baron RENFREW, as we ought now to term him, had a peep also at slaves and slave States. In fact this was the greatest novelty he had to see. The game he might perhaps have found specimens of in the Zoologica l Gardens. The y could at least be brought to Eng land ; but, happily, a slave he can not see in his native land. He must go to the great Republic for that. The grandsons of those who were GEORGE subjects have 'emanci pated all their slaves, and never would allow this island to be tainted with the breath of slavery ; the grandsons of those who founded the great Re public have multiplied their slaves to millions, and glory in their shame. Not much, for his comfort, did Baron RENFREW see of this disgust ing institution. Missouri, through which he passed, is losing its slaves, and fast becom ing " Republican" in the technical sense—that i s desirous to limit, control, and finally to get rid of the curse of the country. He • la now, however, in the American political capital, and h as inen cordially welcomed by the PRESIDENT. All seems to be good-will and plea- santness ; and a visit to the grave of WAsiIiNG TON was the purpose of the morrow when the last accounts left. It is theme enough for the moraliser, whose of we do not just now aspire to fill. We can only note the political signifi cance of it all, and wo think that must be an agreeable one. It seems hardly possible that this visit, on the part of Eng land, the somewhat sentimental turn given to it by the youth of the Royal personage who is the representative of our goodwill, and of our re spect for the great country which has sprung from us—should not tend to promote better feelings be tween the two great divisions of " the Anglo- Saxon family." We should not at all wonder if many of the more thoughtful among our transat lantic brethren will not inwardly think, what it would be treason to utter, that a hereditary prince might be a greater blessing to America itself, than the quadrennial fight of faction and corruption, to place a successor on the chair of WASHINGTON. Our readers may remember that we called atten. tion a short time ago to an outrageous cleric& prosecution, in which the Rev. EDWARD POTE NEALE, of Horsey-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, brought two worthy Primitive Methodists before the Small burgh Magistrates, for singing a few verses of a very appropriste hymn over the grave of an infant child of one of the parties, who was, moreover, a woman. The facts will be fresh in the recollection of most persons, The poor defendants' sense of religion did not permit them to see the child consigned to the earth without some kind of religious service. The Rev, EDWARD POTE NEALE, of Horsey next-the-Sea, would not perform one, because the little innocent of eight months old had not been baptised, so the mourners had a little service in their own way, in the road, outside the church wall. They considered that to be the service; but as every one knows that Methodists are very much given to expressing their religious feel ings by singing hymns, before leaving the grave they sung a few verses; of which the worst we can say is, that we only wish the more polished services of many a West-end Church had half as much sincerity and heart in them as was doubtless recognised by the Most High in this probably not very musical singing. The Rev. EDWARD POTE NEALE, Vicar of Horsey next-the- Sea, rushed into the church-yard—as angry with this unauthorised worship, as ever a certain personage, who must be nameless, could be. lie protested. But the good people finished their hymn, left, and found themselves soon after prose cuted for an indecent act, by which the Vicar was vexed and annoyed—and notwithstanding an able defence by Mr. TILLET, the Mayor of Norwich, they were fined ls. and 13s. expenses each. Mr. TILLETT very properly appealed, and yesterday the appeal was heard at Norwich. Our readers will remember that we strongly urged, that Par liament certainly did not intend by the Act of last session, passed to put down such disturbances as those at St. George's-in the-East, to make penal such a simple and natural expression of religious feeling as that just described—and the point at issue was whether it was indecent, within the meaning of the act. The Rev. EDWARD POTE NEALE seems at last to have thought it was not. The whole press, so far as we have observed, commented on the transaction in terms of strong indignation, mingled with deserved ridicule of the persecutor. This, no doubt, led his Reverence to think better of it ; indeed, had the case gone on he would doubtless have been convinced of it by being "cast." Very wisely,therefore,he abandoned all defence of his utterly indefensible conduct ; and declared himself only anxious for the peace of the parish ! Well had he shown his solicitude for parish peace before the whole press of the kingdom, daily and weekly, metropolitan and provincial, had cried open shame on his conduct. In these days of religious liberty, and of religious efforts in behalf of the working classes, it seems scarcely credible that even at Horsey-next-the-Sea, be it where it may, a Christian minister could be found to prosecute two poor persons for singing a hymn over the grave of their beloved infant, while he refused even to read the service over it! Without affecting to possess the prophetic powers of a ZADKIEL or a RAPHAEL, anyone, we believe, may confidently predict, without much prospect of beholding his predictions falsified, the speedy ter mination in open war of the present ominous pre tence of European tranquility. The development of the great movement of. the Italian people to wards their political emancipation is of itself one of those extraordinary and astound ing events that it would be ridiculous to suppose could be carried in any way to a successful completion without so far affecting surround ing nations as to drag one or other of them eventually into the contest ! More parti cularly when it is remembered that the task thereby attempted is not simple but complex, is not the emancipation of one state pure and simple, but the combination of many minor States into a single grand and homogeneous Power—a sovereignty one and indivisible. The mere "geogra phical expression" as Prince METTERNICH termed Italy, in derision, has there to be rendered the equivalent or symbol of a substantive kingdom, worthy of taking rank among the chief Powers of Christendom. Worthy of resuming that place by reason of its territorial dimension, and by reason also of the extent of its population. As to the scope of its superficial area, that may be the more readily estimated amongst ourselves by saying that it is, as nearly as possible, twice the size of England and Wales ! While, as to the number of its inhabitants, the estimated total of the Italian population, exclu sive of Venetia, is a little over that of the estimated population of Great Britain, i. e., of England, and Wales, and Scotland. Not by any means so dis similar, however, as are down to this very day the English, the Welsh, and the Scotch (talking as these do each in their own vernacular a perfectly different language) ; not by any means so dis similar are the now rapidly re-uniting and coalescing nations of the different Italian provinces, Piedmontese, Lombards, Modenese, Tuscans, Sicilians and Neapolitans. Theirs is the same lan guage, with a difference of dialect or patois, only akin to the variations of English pronunciation in our forty shires, as, for example, in Yorkshire and Somersetshire. Again among the Italians, far more than among ourselves—their's is the same religion. Their tongue, their creed, their history, their aspirations all present facilities for the realisation at last of the long-cherished day-dream of their political cohesion, and for the surer esta blishment of their collective independence—to the far north, to the far south, along the shores alike of the Adriatic and of the Mediterranean. In the realisation of this golden day-dream, however, there are, as we observed, almost inevitable incen- tives to the clashing of nationalities beyond the boundaries of the Roman peninsula itself. The vortex of war there, in thht peninsula can hardly fail, in other words, to agitate seriously, if not, actually to drag into its eddying current some among the surrounding " powers and principalities" of Europe. however, there are recognizable Apart from Italy) THE SUN, LONDOT, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1860. FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 17.—The market has been rather less animated than yesterday, but prices up to the present time have been pretty well maintained. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f 40c; Mobilier, 712 f 50c; Orleans, 1,374 f 25c; Northern, 975 f; Mediterranean, 948 f 75c; Austrian, 488 f 75c; Lombard, 487 f 50c. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 96 —( Do. end month 95 901 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 101 Bank Shares .. 2850 Credit Mobilier 7lO Do. Account 712 50 ; Credit Fancier 1897 50 Belgian 4i — Piedmontese Fives 7o' 25 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 4B 50 Home Debt .. 47 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1370 .. 1371 25 Northern New dittO Lyons and Mediterranean 920 .. 920 355 Southern 507 50 .. 507 50 Western Eastern .... -iardinian —• Austrian .. 390 .. 490 .. 488 75 Lombard the following order of the day, issued before the capitulation of Baid " The army, if it has beard with pain of acts of weakness and cowardice, which will be punished with all the rigour of military law, has also heard with pride of the praise worthy conduct adopted up to this day by Major Livreaa, commandant of the fort of Baid, who, deaf to all deceitful redactions, and thinking only of his name and his duty, re plied like a brave man to the first summons, and answered the attacks of the enemy by the roar of the artillery. The army, also, learns with the same satisfaction how the garri son of the citadel of Messina, in a situation of great diffi culty, does not allow a day to pass without showing that it is animated with the most generous sentiments, and decided on keeping thestandard of the King untouched. The praise for this honourable resistance belongs in the first place to General Fergela, the Commandant of the fort, and, after him, to all the generals, officers, and soldiers. "ANTONIO TILLOA." The sitting of the Chamber of Deputies at Turin, on the 13th, was occupied with the discussion of a bill which no one could have expected to see opposed. Its object was to relieve the landowners of Lombardy from the enormous land tax of 33 per cent. imposed by Austria some few days before the evacua tion of Milan. Nothing seemed more just than to remove such an unjust burden, and the Ministry itself had introduced the measure. Nevertheless there were some Deputies ready to maintain that Lombardy was able to pay in that proportion. The reporter very pertinently replied that after having, for ten years, represented the Austrian Govern ment as the most grasping in the world, it was at _ _ least absurd and most impolitic to defend its fiscal laws, and to pretend at the same time that there is no discontent in Lombardy. The bill, when put to the vote, was not decided on, the number of De puties present not being sufficient for a legal vote. A considerable collection of despatches emanating from General de Lamoriciere or from his Lieu tenants have been received. The first point proved by these documents is the connivance of Austria and of some other Powers in what was taking place in the Roman States, and their participation in them : _ " To the General in Chief at Spoleto. " Anemia, Pith Sept. " By tho Lloyd's transport, 119 recruits for the Bersag lieri and 10 for the foreign regiments have arrived from Trieste. " DE GADY, Colonel." " To the General in Chief at Spoleto. "Ancona, 6th Sept. " I have just learnt from the Delegate that, about the 10th inst., two mortars with 800 shells and all the accesso ries will arrive at Venice from Mantua. Two similar ones will come from Vienna to Trieste, as well as ten cannon with their accessories and 4,000 balls. I have given notice to the Prior of Camerano that I shall send him two com panies who will be lodged and paid by the commune, on the first disturbance breaking out on that point. " DE GADT." " To the General-in-Chief at Spoleto. " Ancona, 7th Sept. " The Austrian Consul, in his letter to the Delegate, and the latter in his letter to me in which he encloses a copy of that of the Consul, requests that some one may be charged at Venice and at Trieste to receive the artillery which I mention in my letter of yesterday. I thought it my duty to communicate this to you. "DE GADY," "To the Minister of Arms at Rome. " Spoleto, Sept. 12. "Change the officer of gendarmery at Rieti, and orga nise there the battalion of auxiliaries. Endeavour to effect the arrival of the troops of the Duko of Modena, and, for the love of God, do not quit Rome, where your presence is necessary. "DE LAMORICIERE." Austria was not alone in giving assistance, as Naples promised considerable aid, and conferences took place with the King on the subject : (Without Date or Address.) " The Bong, artes in France, the Murats at Naples ; de fold the King of Naples ; hostility to Napoleon 111. Pro pose to Changarnier or Bedeau—they may save the mo narchy ; if you do not satisfy France, on my intervention at Naples be assured that she will do nothing for us against Piedmont. Gramont is aware of the proceedings of Tre pani. I want no troops from Naples except with our cock ade and on our territory ; the Pope must not solder his crown to that of any other dynasty. "Da LAMORICIERE." A denial has been given to the fact that money col lected by the French Prelates in the churches was to keep up war in the Roman States, the following despatch being on the subject : " To Intendant Monari, at Rome. " Spoleto, Sept. 8. " Open immediately on the funds sent from France and Belgium the following credits to the Chief of the Engineers at Ancona :—For the fort of the Capucins, 12,000 f. ; Monte Gardeto, 60,000 f. ; wall between the above forts, 13,000 f. ; for sappers, I,ooof. Total, 109,000 f. The change in the Chief of the Engineers has delayed this demand, and the credit must be sent without delay. "DE LAMORICIERE." "To Captain Count de Quatrebarbes, at Ancona. " Spoleto, Sept. 7, " Tell Colonel de Gades to immediately arrest Pasquale Tommasini. As to the suspected wineshops, an order from that officer will bo sufficient to have them closed. The journal, the Twenum, of Ancona, is entirely under your direction from Sunday morning next. Captain Esserva, who starts to-night, is the bearer to you of a document which I hope will calm all desire for manifestations for the future. If any take place after the procession to-mor row evening, disperse them with the bayonet and with musket shots, in order to remove any wish for recommenc ing them. " DE LA.MORICIERE The following despatches show that great diffi culty was experienced in keeping the Irish brigade in order : " To Colonel de Pimodan, at Spoleto. " Sinigaglia, July 11. "Believing Russell to be at Macerate, I ordered him to Ancona, but since he is at Spoleto, keep him there. Con tinue to send away those who have been condemned with or with or without the concurrence of the Delegate. As to those who are detained without trial, a prison must be found for them in the town. Keep the time of the Irish well occupied, and let them have plenty of marching about ; furnish them with some old muskets for learning their exercise. The small carbines of the carabineers aro on their way. As soon as the first Cour de la Rocca shall be empty, put the Irish therein. "DE LAMOEICIERE." " To the Minister •f Arms at Rome. " Spoleto, 11th Sept. Almost all the officers of the gendarmery of Rome and of the Marches arc incapable men. There must be a clearing out effected, similar to that of the Italian regiments. I shall proceed by degrees by sending to Rome those who are good for nothing. In the first I point out him at Rieti, an impotent and stupid old man, who made us uselessly send a battalion to that place last month, and in his room a good officer must be sent without delay. I request your immediate attention to this. "DE LAMORICIERE."• " P.S.—Endeavour to send some assistance to Viterbo. If we are alone, God will fight for us. We call on him to give success to our good sword. I must now beg leave to go and finish my report, and get my breakfast." The despatches of which we are giving the analysis, completely destroy a report which had been current, that the Piedmontese had entered the Roman States without any previous declaration : " To General de Courten, at Macerata. " Spoleto, Sept. 5. " I request you to occupy yourself with the political state of your province, and to allow your officers to make themielves respected, when the police is too cowardly to perform their duty. If the conspirators of Macerata were in prison as they ought to be, all this would not happen. The affair of the waiter at the cafe proves how cowardly the police are, if it does not betray the Govern ment; it would not be too much to make a regular distri bution of blows of a stick. It would ha% e been better if that man had boen knocked down on the spot. Do not write to me about any more of those gossips, or else request me to put Macerata in a state of siege. We will arrest twenty-five persons, shoot ten of them, and then it will be all over. Do not believe a word about the increase of the Piedmontese troops in Romagna ; there are only concen trations in consequence of the bad feeling of the people towards Piedmont. "DE LAMOILICIERE." " To General Gourten, at Macerata. " Thanks for having so promptly repaired the posts of the telegraph which had been cut down. Have the line well watched by gendarmes and others. Naples evacuated .by the King after making a conve ntion. The army, which has remained faithful, falls back behind the Volturno, on Capua. Garibaldi coolly received at Naples. The King of is at Gaeta, whither ho was followed b y the greater part the fleet. There will be a grand battle between Caput) , and Gaeta. The Piedmontese party lose ground. The Neapo • litans like Murat better than Victor Emmanuel, France is of that opinion. A large French regiment arrived at Rome yesterday, and two others aro announced as on their way. Two batteries of artillery, two squadrons of cavalry, and 6,000 infantry of the troops of the Duke of Modena are about to arrive at Ancona. You will receive to-morr ow a copy of the p ro clamation of the state of siege of Ancona. If you wish for the same thing to be done at Macerata, you have only to say so. Study well the conditions of my decree with the Delegate. " DE LAMORICIERE." "To Colonel Blurnensthil, at. SPerugia. " poleto, Sept. 11. " France has forbidden Piedmont to attack, bat the ITALY. The Official Gazette of Turin states that on the Marquis Villamarina's passing through Giulianuova, the people assembled under his balcony with the word " Yes" stuck in their hats. His Excellency addressed the multitude as follows : " I thank you in the King's name, and promise you to inform his Majesty of your sentiments. The King waters these provinces to restore peace, security, and liberty. He is called by all the Re Galantuomo, and such he will prove himself to be to all. His name is synonymous with loyalty, courage, and abnegation." These words were received with loud cheers for the King, Garibaldi, Cavour, and Villamarina. The following is an order of the day, published by the King of Naples, and dated Gaeta, Septem ber 29 : - - " Soldiers,—Since favourable chances of war lead us forward, and oblige us to attack the country occupied by the enemy, my duty as King and as soldier compels me to remind you that courage and valour degenerate into bru tality and ferocity when they are not accompanied by virtue and religiouo sentiments. Be, therefore, generous after victory ; respect the prisoners who no longer resist, and, in imitation of the noble example set you by the 14th Chasseurs, bestow on the wounded all the assistance in your power. Remember that the houses and the land in the country which you occupy militarily are the pro perty and patrimony of many of those who fight in our ranks ; be, therefore, humane and charitable towards those unfortunate and peaceable inhabitants, who aro cer tainly innocent of the present calamities. Let your obedience to the orders of your superiors be constant and entire, and always have before your eyes the honour and dignity of the Neapolitan army. Almighty God from on high will bless the arms of the brave and generous soldiers. who combat, and victory will be on our side. FRANCIS." The Neapolitan Minister of War has also published elsewhere in various quarters of the Continent pro vocations to a war that we believe to be as inevi table as in the event of its outbreak it can hardly fail this time to be general throughout Christen- dom. There is Turkey gravitating now more rapidly than ever towards its long-approaching dissolution and dismemberment. The sick man at length is obviously at last sick even unto death. Nor is there any probability that the Western Allies will again consent to sustain him once more through the crisis, at a cost to themselves of so much lavish expenditure both of blood and treasure. France and England regard each other with too reasonable a jealousy, have manifestly too much cause to husband their strength for more important pur poses, to admit of their again dedicating their energies to the maintenance at all cost of the integrity of the Ottoman Porte. While Sardinia has in another way no less cause to retain her own troops near at hand upon the soil of that widened and widening home of hers which has already expanded from the frontiers of the Piedmontese kingdom until it has even now nearly embraced the whole boundary line of the Roman peninsula. Hungary, again, is still, moreover, in eager ex pectancy for the signal of her emancipation. So likewise is it at this moment more than ever here tofore with the whole of the murdered Polish nationality. How far the Northern Powers are alive to the imminence of the present juncture is plainly enough indicated by the meeting at this particular time, in Warsaw, of the rulers of Prussia, Austria, and all the Russias. As for Imperial France the multiplication of her warlike enterprises at Cher bourg and Toulon, the rapid increase of her naval power generally, the hasty pouring in of fresh troops, day by day, into Central Italy, all this, and much more, has about it a peculiar and sinister sig nificance. As for ourselves, we have the satis faction at least of knowing that we have, per haps, never been less likely, at any period of our history, to be taken at anything to all like a disadvantage. During thi4 last year of peace for example our warlike expenditure upon the two services has exceeded as we have only too great reason perhaps to remember the enormous aggregate of £30,000,000 sterling. We are likewise peculiarly alive now-a-days as a nation to all the latest scientific warlike improvements—in ships of war, in erdnance, and in projectiles. Above all, within—, " This fortress built by nature for herself;" within this island-home of ours -44 Encompassed by the inviolate sea," that protective sea (as SHAKsPERE sings through the dying lips of old JOHN of GAUNT, time-honoured Lancaster)— " "Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house Against the envy of less happier lands," —here, within the compass of our own dominion, we have the whole nation armed or arming, in the patriotic ranks of that true National Guard the Rifle Volunteers. 11ER MAJESTY'S RETURN. The Queen, after a sojourn of more than three weeks on the Continent, landed yesterday afternoon at Gravesend, along with the Prince Consort and the Princess Alice, and immediately afterwards proceeded by railway to Windsor. It was the Royal intention to return to this country on Monday the 15th, but in consequence of her Majesty hav ing been attacked with slight indisposition, the journey homeward was delayed for a day or two at Brussels, and the Royal party did not leave that city till Tuesday. On the afternoon of that day they reached Antwerp, and thence em barked in the royalyacht the Victori9. and Albert for England. The Terrace Pier, at. which the landing WAS to take place, was decorated much in the same style as when the Royal ' party left for the Continent. Along the centre of this covered way there was a pathway for the Royal party and suite, covered with crimson cloth, and on each side seats were placed to accommodate 1,400 persons, who, on the invitation of the magistrates and town council, assembled to testify their loyalty and attachment to the Sovereign. The other portions of the pier were also gaily decorated, and in front there was exhibited a large painting of the Royal arms, the gateway underneath being clothed in appropriate drapery, At half-past four the Victoria and Albert was seen round ing the Coalhouse Point, and by a quarter to five she was brought to nearly alongside the " brow" constructed for the purpose of disembarcation. Another quarter of an hour elapsed before the yacht could be brought near enough to allow of the gangway being extended to the deck, as the tide was getting low, but by five o'clock everything had been satisfactorily arranged for the Royal party leaving the vessel. While these arrangements were in progress her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Princess Alice walked up and down the deck surveying the operations ; but, though distinctly visible from the pier, no cheer was raised by the persons assembled on it, a special request having been made that no cheering should take place till after the Royal party had landed and left the pier. The utmost silence prevailed, therefore, only broken by the occasional discharge of a gun from some vessel in the river—a mark of attention to her Majesty which was considered rather disorderly by the officials on the pier, as it appeared to anticipate the Royal salute of 21 guns whi c h was to fellow the Royal landing. - • Shortly after 5 o'clock her Majesty left the Royal yacht, leaning on the arm of the Prince Consort, and followed by the Princess Alice. No traces of her Majesty's recent in disposition could be observed in her appearance, and she looked extremely well. The Royal party were driven im mediately to the station of the North Kent Railway, attended by the lfith Lancers, and cheered at every step by dense masses of people who had assembled to testify their loyalty and affection for her Majesty and her Royal Consort and daughter. A special train, including the royal railway carriage, had been provided at the station. The Hon. J. Byng, chairman of the London and South-Eastern Rail way Company, and several of the directors, with Mr. Eborall, the traffic manager, and Mr. Knight, the traffic superintendent, were present to welcome her Majesty and superintend the arrangements. At half-past five the train left the station amid the cheers of a large body of people who had been admitted within the gates, and reached the Bricklayers' Arms at a quarter past six o'clock, where an immense crowd had assembled to see the Royal party. Carriages were waiting for the royal travellers and their suites, and they drove off immediately for Vauxhall, where a train was waiting, which conveyed them to Windsor by the London and South-Western Railway. The royal party were accompanied by Gen. Grey and Col. Phipps. THE EARL OF DEREY.—We have great pleasure in being enabled to announce that Lord Derby is gradually recovering from the weakness usually following a severe attack of gout. His lordship's recovery has been retarded by the state of the weather, but there are not the slightest grounds for the sinister rumours which have been in circu lation, Lord Derby's family and friends looking forward confidently to the speody re-establishment of his health. The Earl and Countess of Cork have arrived in town from a continental tour. The noble earl and countess leave shortly for Marston House, Somerset. The Countess (Dowager) of Verulam has arrived in Grosvenor-square from visiting the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, at the Grove, near Watford. The Countess of Glengall and Lady Matilda Butler have arrived in Grosvenor -square, from the Isle of Wight. _ The Earl and Countess Grey, since their return from the Continent, have been staying at Howick Hall, Northumberland. Viscount Palmerston will leave Broadlands on Saturday morning, for town, in order to be present at the Cabinet Council appointed to be held that afternoon. One of the young princes of the House of Orleans has entered his name as a pupil in the course of lectures on " Architecture," at the London University College. TIIE WIDOW OF SIR HARRY SMITII.—In the obituary notices of the late gallant general which have appeared it has been briefly mentioned that Sir Harry Smith married a Portuguese lady. A most romantic story is told of the manner in which he became acquainted with that lady. After one of the actions in the Peninsula, in or about 1813, a Spanish officer of high rank and great gal lantry, with whom Sir Harry happened to have a slight acquaintance, was found mortally wounded on the field. He lived for two or three days, and, while in the hospital, to which sir Harry had had him conveyed, he sent for his wife, to whom he had been married only a few weeks, and who was a Spanish beauty of between 15 and 16 years old. The dying officer entrusted the lady to his gallant English friend, with a 'request that he would see to her welfare. How well he discharged the confidence thus'reposed in him was shown by the fact that no sooner was the war in Spain at an end than he made the Donna Susanna de Leon Mrs. Colonel Smith. The marriage was never blessed with issue. The gallant general has left a brother and a sister to 1;1. raeut his loss. LATEST[ NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : TURIN, Ger. 17. Tho evening journals announce the resignation of the Marquis Pallavicino, but the news has not been confirmed. Despatches from Naples announce that a fresh attack of the Royal troops had been repulsed. Count Amari, representative of Sicily at Turin, has resigned. King Victor Emmanuel will be at Chieti on the Bth inst. NAPLES, OCT. 17. The decree of the Pro• Dictator of Sicily, con voking the Provincial Assembly, has been can celled. The decree convoking the popular assembly of Naples for the 21st inst., in order to vote upon the question of annexation, has been extended to Sicily. Pallavicini and the Ministers remain in office. The reasons are—popular demonstrations, and the proximate arrival of Victor Emmanuel: MADRID, OCT. 17. Judicial proceedings have been commenced against the author of the attempt on the life of the Queen. The man, whose name is Rodrigue Servia, has confessed his crime, and declared that he was em ployed by Nunez Pradeo, a deputy of the Cortes. PARIS, OCT. 17. The Patric says :—" As soon as the annexation of Naples and Sicily to Sardinia shall have been proclaimed, Garibaldi will resign his political autho rity, and will assume the title and functions of Commander-in-Chief of the land and sea forces of Southern Italy. He will exclusively occupy him self in preparing for war next spring, and will make an appeal for volunteers from all Europe." VIENNA, OCT. 17. It is said that Prince Petrulla, the Neapolitan Minister to the Court of Austria, is about to pro ceed at Warsaw, entrusted with a confidential mission from his Soyereign to the Emperor of Russia. BERLIN, OCT. 17 According to reliable information the Russian ambassador at Turin has been recalled, and the Sardinian ambassador at St. Petersburg has re ceived his passports from Prince Gortschakoff, TURIN, OCT. 17 . The Turin Gazette says that Prussia has simply made some remarks against the entry of the Sar dinian troops into Naples, and that Russia has made no communication to Sardinia. PARIS, OCT. 17. The news that Baron Hubner, who is staying here, had been summoned to Vienna to enter the Austrian ministry, is completely false. BERNE, OcT. 17. The note which has been remitted by France to the Federal Council states that, independent of the insult offered to the French flag at Sion, a French subject was maltreated on that occasion. The French cabinet claims, therefore, that a severe inquiry should be instituted on that point, and expresses a hope that the guilty parties will be pnnigbod, a►►d full satisfaction afforded to the injured party. The Federal Council has commu nicated the French note to the Government of Valais, with a request that ilia inp'iry which it had already instituted concerning the affair of the flag should be completed by an examination of the fresh complaint on the part of France. CONSTANTINOFLE (via Marseilles), OCT. 10. Kupush Pacha and Riza Pacha are perfectly agreed. Much uneasiness is felt in Moldavia, Servia, and Wallachia, on account of the concentration of Russian troops in Bessarabia. The Karageorgewitch party in Servia is agi tating. Reports are still current of new loans to be contracted in Europe. BEYROUT, OCT. 8. A disturbance has taken place at Damascus, occasioned by the levy of the war tax. Gen. Beaufort d'Hautpool has distributed rc• lief among the Christians. Piedmontese may not immediately listen to her. Order straw and prepare accommodations at Gubbio and at La Tratta, but without making any purchases. Arrange every thing at Perugia, and leave to-morrow at half-past four with the battalion Bell and your four pieces of artillery for Foligno, where I shall meet you with a numerous company. Pergola has sent to demand thanks for the news of the de parture of Kansler. Nothing new. "DE LAIIORICIERE." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, dated the 15th inst., says : " It is asserted that the interview at Coblentz has proved the understanding between England and Prussia both in the Eastern, as well as in the Italian questions. The Prussian note, which will shortly be sent to Turin, will be couched in the following effect. It will serve as a more detailed reply to the Sardinian memorandum of the 12th of September, which has already, perhaps, received a provisional reply. The note will allude to mote recent events in support of the remonstrances of Prussia. It may be observed, that this note was drawn up after the interview between Baron Schleinitz and Lord John Russell. It is now almost certain that Baron Schleinitz will go to IVarsaw, the presence of Prince Gortschakoff and of Count Rechberg being an nounced as certain. According to the Neue Preussische Zeitung, Russia has decided upon recalling her. Ambassador from Turin, and going further than France in break ing off diplomatic relations with the Piedmontese Government. The motive for this measure is attri buted to agitation which prevails in Poland and Hungary." PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CON CERTS, EXETER HALL. Last night the Oratorio of the " Messiah" was performed in a very creditable manner by this society. The numerous company present appeared in every way satisfied with the entertainment. The chief singers were Mr. Weiss and Mr. Wilbye Cooper, Madame Catherine Hayes, Madame Laura Baxter, and Madame Gilbert. Of these Mr. Weiss was the best, and the admirable manner in which he rendered the beautiful, " Why do the nations so furiously rage together," &c., was most effective and drew down considerable applause. Mr. IV ilbye Cooper was also very successful in the celebrated solo, " Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron." The splendid Hallelujah Cb orus, which is one of the most striking of all the chef d'auvres in sacred music, was very impressively executed, and elicited cordial testimonies of approbation. Madame Catherine Hayes's artistic style seemed to give universal satisfaction, and on the whole it must be considered that this attempt to afford the public the advantage of hearing first-rate compositions at a very moderate cost, was very successfully carried out, and there is no reason to doubt that the suc ceeding performances will be less happy in,their results. On next Wednesday, Mendelsshon's "Elijah" will be performed. SADLER'S WELLS 2HEATRE. It cannot be denied that Mr. Phelps has rendered great service to the legitimate drama and its professors, and the barrier ho now seems determined to remove is one that has existed for many years, during which time it has worked most detrimentally to rising talent. Immediately an actor by fortune becomes the manager of a theatre, from that moment he, without considering whether he possesses the requisite talent and ability for the task, foolishly imagines that as a matter of course he must play the whole of the leading parts, whatever talent he has secured to enable him to carry out his speculation to a profitable issue. In the majority of cases within our recollection this rule has acted most detrimentally, because the public are debarred the pleasure of novelty, and as a natural conse quence failure, commercially speaking, follows. Mr. Phelps, however, seems determined to break down this custom which has so long prevailed. But a short time ago we were called upon to notice his abdication of one of his favourite parts to Mr. Marston, and last evening Mr Hermann Vezin appeared in another of his characters, viz., Posthumus Leondus in " Cymbeline," The task for Mr. Vezin, it must be admitted, was no easy one, especially after the impression Mr. Phelps had created by his forcible acting ; but we are bound to say his young successor ac quitted himself in a manner that proved his talent and ability had not been over- estimated. His conception of the part was admirable.. The different phases of the character of the brave Briton were brought out with a truthfulness and pathos that told immensely with the audience. We have not space to dwell at length on the many beauties of the part, but the manner in which _ 41,n nn f+hpth;ra nnf elocution of the highest order—in fact, the fervent thougEL of the great poet were rendered with the taste of a man of genius and a scholar. Mr. Marston's Jachimo was a careful piece of acting, as was Barrett's Belarius, Lewis Ball's Clo ten, and Mr. Rayner's Cymbeline. Mrs. Chas. Young sus tained the part of Imogen, and a more exquisitely beauti ful peaformance has seldom been w itnessed. MR. JOAN BROUGHAM'S NEW PLAY. (From the New York Times.) WALLA cies THEATRE. -- Mr. John Brougham, the uni versal favourite of the public, is now in London, playing, we understand, in a successful engagement at the Hay market Theatre. We will send him, across the water, a few hearty words of congratulation. His new comedy, called "Playing with Fire," produced last night at Wal lack's, was not merely a success, but a triumph so unequi vocal as to deserve to be marked with a " white stone," according to the recommendation of Plautus, in the history of the drama. We are aware that this is high praise, but it is merited. Do not the roars of laughter echo in our ears yet. Was ever audience dismissed, at the fall of the cur• tain, more thoroughly satisfied with their night's enjoy ment ? To describe the plot would be almost to write the play. It cannot be wisely attempted, and we prefer to let the patrons of Wallack's, who in this instance will be nearly all the theatre-going population of the city, evolve it and resolve it for themselves. It may be sufficient to say that supposed matrimonial difficulties, which have no real exist ence, entangling a pair of husbands and a pair of wives, lie at the base of its construction ; and that the "Playing with Fire" typifies the dangerous mode of resort whereby they endeavour to test each other's fidelity and sincerity of affection. But beyond this, and yet artfully interwoven with it, are a series of the most amusing stratagems, equi voques and contretemps that have been witnessed in a new comedy for many years past. A crowded house testified their approbation of these effects and situations with such manifestations of delight as are seldom heard within the walls of a theatre. M. LOUIS BLANC ON NAPLES. TO THE EDITOR OF 'TILE SUN. Sin,—l have never been in Italy, and I have just returned from Scotland. I am, therefore, perfectly amazed at reading in a telegram, published by yesterday's newspapers, that the Pro. Dictator Pallavicino has " forbidden me to open national workshops." This fable is, lam afraid, worse than ridiculous. It has probably been set afloat for the purpose Nap of working credulous people into a belief that Naples eves a present a nest for cosmopolitan schemers. At ll e vents, it is calculated to revive the systematic calumny which has fathered upon me those "national workshops" of 1848, which, far from being established by me, were established against me, that is, in utter opposition to my principles, with a view to counterbalance my influence, and were, according to M. Laniartine's public confession, " the de vice of my adversaries." The Italian Pro-Dictator must bo well enough ae. ared to quainted with contemp orar y history to know this. h Con sequently, even i n the event h of would have myhaving rbeeniep Naples—which is not the case — no necessity of forbidding M. Louis Blanc to open national workships—l am, &c., LOUIS BLANC. Oct. 17. 7118 LONGESwo RLD.T VESSEL IN THE We have just received an official report of the perform ance of a river steam vessel, or articulated train of barges, belonging to the Oriental Inland Steam Company, and in tended to navigate the shallow rivers of the east, which possesses peculiar scientific interest from the fact of this composite vessel being the longest vessel ever yet con structed, being nearly half as long again as the Great Eastern. It appears that on trial this great vessel or train was found to be easily manageable, and attained a satisfac tory rate of speed ; and its success solves the important pro blem of how to carry a very large cargo on a very small draught of water against a rapid stream. The train consists of a steamer and five barges, of the collective length of 900 feet. But these barges, instead of being towed asunder like common barges, are joined to one another by circular joints like a hinge, so that they constitute one longe flexible ves sel, with only one bow and one stern. The purpose of this arrangement is to obtain the necessary displacement with small resistance, and without the risk of damage, should the vessel get aground; and all these conditions are effectu ally fulfilled by the arrangements adopted. The train is 30 feet broad and about 7 f ee t d ee p. At a draught of water of 3 feet it will carry about 3,000 tons of cargo. Such a vessel is greatly needed at the present moment to carry up railway materials in India, and to bring down cotton, flax, and other articles 9f agricititwal produco,.Engineer. COVENTRY AND THE FREYCII TREATY. The following correspondence has passed between the Mayor of Coventry and the Chancellor of the Exchequer " To the Rt. Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. " Coventry, Sept. 2:4. " Sir, The Coventry riband manufacturers, having applied to Mr. Prissly, of the Inland Revenue-office, for a drawback of tho excise duty on paper which is destroyed in the blocking and boxing of ribands, and the application having been refused, I most respectfully beg to submit to you what we conceive to be a serious grievance and a gross injustice. " All ribands prior to being sold have to be blocked and boxed, which consumes a large quan tity of paper, irrespective of the ordinary packing of goods, the paper having to be cut into narrow strips from 1 inch to 5 inches i n b rea dth, an d 18 inches to 18 yards in length; this being entirely spoilt for any other purpose, before being blocked up with the riband. This and the pa s t e b oar d use d in making boxes is what we claim a drawback on, and which we conceive for the following reasons should in justice be allowed. " The foreigner sends his ribands into our mar ket blocked and boxed in a precisely similar man ner, and in paper identical with that used by us ; and these ribands being blocked and boxed abroad the paper used. in the same pays no duty, thus giving an advantage of 4d. or sd. per box of six pieces of riband over the manufacturer of this coun try. And as by recent legislation the foreigner has been placed upon a footing of equality with us in the disposal of his ribands in our market, we claim in justice to be placed in a similar position with him in an essential article in the product of ribands for sale; and that either we should be allowed a drawback of Excise duty on paper used for the purposes described, or that the foreigner should be charged duty on all paper used for simi lar purposes in ribands imported into this country. I believe the principle has been acted upon in many instances by your predecessors of exempting the duty upon paper and other excisable articles de stroyed in manufacturing products. " I am sure you will pardon me for thus troubling you, knowing it was your intention to have relieved the country of the paper duty altogether, —I am your most obedient servant, _ " HENRY SODEN, Mayor of Coventry. "P.S.—The secretary of the Riband Manufac turers' Association is in communication with our re presentatives, Messrs. Ellice and Paxton, on the subject." Mr. Gladstone sent a brief roply, .promising at tention to the subject, and the following has been since received : " Hawarden, Oct. 9, " Sir,—ln conformity with my engagement, and with a great desire to relieve, if possible, the riband manufacturer of this country from even the smallest disadvantage which can be traced to the operation of British law, I have had the request contained in your letter carefully examined by the proper de partments—l mean by the Board of Inland Revenue, as respects your desire that a drawback should be allowed upon paper used in and in connexion with the packing of ribands ; and by the Board of Cus toms as respects the alternative plan of a Customs charge on foreign paper used in like manner for foreign silk goods. . . " I regret to say that the result is that her Ma jesty's Government cannot adopt either plan. I think the amount of this evil is less than you esti mate it to be. But, be that as it may, lam of opinion that relief could not be granted in the former mode without giving rise to numerous ap plications, which would rest on similar grounds, and which when awarded would gradually break down the revenue from the paper duty. Mis chievous as I conceive the continuance of that duty to be, I am under obligation to guard it equally with any other branch of the revenue so long as it con tinues to be leviable by law. " A charge upon foreign paper used in and about the packing of foreign silk goods would entail such annoyances, delays, and embarrassments to trade,. that it cannot be entertained. " You will of course consider this letter as in tended for the general information of those on whose behalf you write.—l have the honour to be, sir, your very faithful and obedient servant, "W. GLADSTONE. " The 'Worshipful the Mayor of Coventry." EXECUTION OF GENERAL WALKER. In an American letter dated Truxillo, September 18, we read—" General William Walker was shot on the 12th instant, at eight o'clock a.m. He showed throughout the greatest coolness, not even changing colour when walking from the prison to the plaza, where he was'shot. Two soldiers, with drawn swords, advanced in front of him, and three with fixed bayonets followed him. In his right hand he carried a hat, and in his left a crucifix. Before taking his seas on the fatal cauquete he re could not speak lo . itd enciu'ilito be fieard, to say 'to the people that he asked the pardon of all whom he had injured in his present expedition, &c., which is variously reported by various persons. He then sat down. A file of ten soldiers advanced and fired on the instant. He died at once. The soldiers gave three cheers and all was over. His remains have been decently buried, with the usual rites of the church. I think there was a deep feeling of sympathy for his fate on the part of the people generally, nor does there appear to be any spirit of vindictiveness on the part of the Government and its officers. Radler is condemned to four years' imprisonment, but I think he will be liberated before long. Matters are getting more quiet here, but still American interests require looking after, and our countrymen feel very anxious to know if we aro to expect an American vessel in these waters. The English war steamer is still here, and so long as she remains there 'will be no risk to foreigners. • They will not, however, sleep, so well when she leaves, not that the Government or people gene rally are disposed to violence, but because there are always a certain number of ladrones to profit by moments of excitement and a popular prejudice. Such a prejudice does exist, and is mainly the creation of the man who never succeeded, and who now lies cold and stark in the Campo Santo of Truxillo. This goes by the steamer Osceola, be longing to the li ne es t a bli s h e d by M essr s. Squier and Spofford, of New York, which now runs regu larly between this port and that of Batarano, in Cuba, making two trips monthly. We hear that the same parties are about putting on another steamer, to be called the Olancho , to run between Cuba, Omoa, and Belize. I fancy they will do more for the interests of the United States in these coun tries than all the filibusters, past, present, and to come." Anot h er co rrespondent, evidently a Spaniard, writes:— " In his six days of imprisonment Walker had ample time for thought, and conscience smote him on contemplating his prison, and also on seeing the people that he had defeated and driven from their homes on the 6th of August treating him with the greatest benevolence and kindness. Carried to the place of death and being ready to be executed, he begged leave to address the people in these few words I declare myself to be a member of the Roman Catholic Church. I declare that I have injured the people of Honduras to a great extent, being led to do so by the people of the island of Ruatan, who after calling me deceived me and left me to my fate. I ask pardon for those poor men that accompanied me, for they are not as guilty as I am. If my life can be of any benefit to society I lay it down with the greatest readiness, pardoning my judges, that I may be enabled to obtain my pardon in the next world. These were his last words, and with these the scene closed; it being worthy of notice that although the port of Truxillo was attacked ruth lessly by him, yet the people of the town pitied him, and in the whole crowd there was not one glad countenance." THE LEBANON.—The religious and the reading o most valuable We san g t'tshabto i k t i w s t t h h e p m l e o a s s have n world will r s q a u y h i a and interesting historical work that has been published in tho present century. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. An _accident o f a mos t frightful nature, involving the loss of one life and causing serious injury to five o ther p ersons, occurred yesterday morning on board the new steamship Ulster, built by Messrs. Samuelson a nd Co., at Hull, a nd at present being fitted with machinery in the Victoria D ock. A number of men had beenworking night ; and it was about half as all Tuesday t five yesterd a y mornin g that the accident occurred. A huge cylinder, weighing . 23i tons, had to be elevated a r , ' little, in order to allow the engineers to place it in its p r oper position. For this purpose a crane weighing nearly a ton, p l ac ed upon two l ar g e bea ms , 1 4 inches by 15 inches thick, e leva t e d a bove the deck, directly over the space in the ship a ll o tt e d to the engines, and which h a d severa l ti mes pre viously lifted the ponderous cylinder, was called into re- A number of me n were upon the two b eams at the crane, and another lot of men were in the bottom of the ship placing packages und er t h e cylinder, as it was being raised by the crane. It had been raised to an elevation of about three inches, which was all that was required, and the men on the top were just about to fasten the crane, when a sudden cracking was heard. Some of the men on the top rushed on to the paddle-bcxes, and one jumped upon the deck, but in an instant one of the beams snapped, and a man named Thos. Smith, along with the crane, was precipitated tD the bottom of the ship, a distance of over 40 feet. He fell underneath the crane, and was killed on the spot. In falliry , the cran e b ro k e i n t o severa l pi eces , an d fi ve o ther men who b were engaged packing the cylinder were severely crushed by the pieces falling upon them. The men were immediately extricated and removed---Thos. Burton and William Postill to the Infirmary, and James Rowland, Martin SeulinZ,, and lobert Garratt to their homes, .!~ 4~