The Sun. — London, England, 1860-09-05 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET.I Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will comm enee with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale. Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wiildns. After which, A GAME OF SPECULATION. Mr. Affable gawk, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Hawk, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliarn. To conclude with THE CHRISTENING. Commence at 7. ''--.. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THE ATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed MACBETH. Mr. James Anderson and Miss Elsworthl. Alter which, THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. A. Harris and Miss Maria Harris. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW T HEATRE-ROYAL. A 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. After which, THAT BLESSED BABY. Mr. Billington, Mr. J. L Toole, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors oven at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Zox-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, 12 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 49. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. • pit stalls, b.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre , 19 ; Gallery, d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Crowded Houses.—Re -engagement of the celebrated Dela vanti Troupe, Mr. George Hutchingson, and the Wonder of the World, the Great Little Menoni. A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on SATURDAY next, Sept 8, commencing at Two o'clock. This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointinents, introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scenes in te Arena b the Stardrs of the day, including the greatest Equestrien y Riders Equestrienne in the Madlle. de Berg, and the Wonder of Wonders, Little Dimon!. Doors open at half-past 6, performanoe commence at 7. Box-aloe open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolt!. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from mART HA, And Selections from DINORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH, And numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, ls, .. ~..Hall. 6d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimics), 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 Negro delineations, anecdotes, in addition to the usual entertainments. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 5, 1860, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 66—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 64—this day at noon. BAnomsTER-30.28. WlND—North-Westerly; light, with rather dull weather but fine in the morning. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, 4h. 26m.—Afternoon, 4h. 40m, To-moaltow.-Morning, 4h. 55m.—Afternoon, sh. 11m, ~.. ' lt . s. , ;., (.:4 , -... •_,-- , _;)t. , ., .. L4....L.L ' 1 , / v t y „7(..9%:' . 1 . •it t , t , • . ~ ....I z. , :wzlcr `+4....3",,,,... ..t 4 . /'' THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1860. An able northern contemporary lately, in an article on the " kept press," pointed out, with much vigour and justice, how one member espe cially of the penny press, though always loudly proclaiming its own peculiar independence, and attacking almost daily the servility of the Times and other journals, gave, itself, some rather un mistakeable signs of writing to order. And, we were certainly exceedingly surprised the other day to find in it a prominent leader, in such painful antagonism to the sentiments of English Liberals—indeed, of almost all Englishmen—that we could not at first account for it. The leader was on the candidates for the Presidency at the coming election for that office in America, and it so openly espoused the candidature of the worse man and commended the worse party—judging, we mean, from the anti-slavery stand-point of Englishmen— that we could hardly believe our eyes. It was impos sible to suppose ignorance of the views of each can didate. They have been long before the world, and the journal referred to is very partial to American In stitutions, and always defends them. It would seem also to use the leading American papers. Its avowed sentiments are thoroughly anti-slavery— but like so many in America, who speak against slavery, it is writing in the very strain to serve the interests of the domestic institution. The solution which occurred to us at last might be expressed in two words—Manchester—Cotton. We have reason ourselves to know how tender is Manchester on the subject of American slavery. We have long been accustomed to write our views on it when the occasion required, without reserve. We have been assured by gentle men of the highest standing in America, including a well known and respected judge, that it was most desirable that English literature should speak the minds of Englishmen freely on the sub ject of slavery. Yet for this we, with several other journals of long established reputation, incurred the contemptuous and angry denunciation of no less a personage than Mr. JOHN BRIGHT. This was at a time when the hon. gentleman was the oracle of Manchester and its member: Ever since that time we have noticed that Manchester orators completely Americanise on the subject of slavery. They talk very philanthropically and liberally of it as a great evil—but as one about which the less said the better. And as to the Abolitionists, they never men tion them, but to vituperate them in the well known slang of the Yankee respectables. The truth we take to be, that Manchester trembles lest tho infernal iniquity of slavery, and the atrocity of the American slavery laws and system, should one day recoil on it as the far inferior villainies and atrocities of Neapolitan despots have recoiled on them. And then—What would become of Manchester's supply of cotton ? and Liver- This is the great dread of Manchester pool, as it is of New York, merchants. By slave grown cotton not only the Southern States, but the merchants of the Free States, and the merchants and manufacturers of Liverpool and Manchester make their wealth. Bristol, before negro emanci pation, could not be moved to advocate like other places the abolition of slavery. It was said of it that its very bricks were cemented with the blood of slaves, and it seemed like it. Manchester does not, we believe, hold mortgages and property in the Southern States, as Bristol did in the West India Islands; but it fears an unsettlement of the slave-growth of cotton, because it cannot feel sure that free labour would supply it. Its wisest men are, indeed, using every means to seek other fields for growi ng it, that we may not be solely de pendent on America ; this is the right course. If Manchester did its duty to India—it might soon obtain thence all the supplies it needed. Generally, however, Manchester is nervously an xious to keep slavery as it is, lest cotton should fail. Now it can hardly be aoubted that DOUGLAS and his section of democratic party are the favourites of Manchester and Liverpool—the favourites of that class, we mean, which is wealthy enough to raise a very large sum and spend it in " keeping" a daily penny paper. Mr. BREKENRIDGE is too atrociously southern to be acceptable to the free states, or to Man chester respectability ; but Mr. LINCOLN, for whom every freedom-loving Englishman would cer- tainly vote, and the Republican party, though what would be held very moderate here, are honestly opposed to slavery, to its ex tension especially ; and to southern denomination, there has been no limit to the threats of Southerners as to what they would do, if a Re publican candidate were returned—secession, and breaking up the precious union which enslavesWe have the north to the south, are common t hreats. no doubt whatever that the southern bullies would, if fairly beaten, as they could so easily be by the Free States (the votes for the PRESIDENT, being 183 Free State votes to 120 Slave State votes) — that they would quiet themselves down after the manner of all baffles, and only console themselves by " whacking their niggers" a little more bloodily for a time. But Manchester and Liverpool too, like their New . York agents, quake at the thun der of the HAIM and LEORRES. And, of course, the " kept" organs of Manchester quake with them. But a short time ago we described the 20sition of the several candidates, in regard to the silvery question, and we need not repeat ourselves. We have the less need to do so, because a well informed correspondent of the journal we have referred to, who honestly remonstrates with them, has stated the well known truth with brevity and clearness. Of the demo cratic party, patronised by our penny contemporary, he truly says :—" That party, for more than forty years, has been pre-eminently the slavery propa gandist party—the zealous and subservient tool of the remorseless and insatiate slave power—from the time of the first piratical attempt to dismember Mexico, on the hypocritical pretence of colonising the Texas, down to the Ostend manifesto, the buc caneering invasion of Cuba, and the border ruf fianism of Kansas, under the administration of those twin champions of slave-holding democracy, PIERCE and BUCHANAN." Of Mr. DOUGLASS, and Mr. LINCOLN the Repub lican candidates, he says —" As between Mr. DOUGLAS and Mr. LINCOLN, I cannot hesitate to choose the man whose party platform embraces all which in your article you deem it desirable to censure, and does not, like Mr. DOuGLASS ignore the rights of the black man, whether bond or free. That Mr. DOUGLASS is mainly supported by the votes of the Southern States, and that the democracy of the free states is likely to unite in his favour, are convincing proofs of his pro-slavery tenden cies, and of the subserviency of his admini stration (should he be elected) to the designs of the slaveholders. He engrafts upon his favourite dogma of " Squatter sovereignty," the Dred-Scott decision, which expressly denies citizenship to the coloured man. He proposes a federal enactment for punishing conspiracies formed for the securing of liberty in the States. He main tains the hypothesis that the Declaration of Inde pendence, when it declared all men to have been created free and equal, referred to the white race alone, and not to the African—to the British sub jects then upon the continent. To him, also, be longs the demerit of having been the author of the repeal of the Missouri compromise, thereby throw ing open the whole of the vast territories of the Union to slavery propagandists." Of the Republican party he says :—" You are, permit me to say, in error in representing the Re publican party as making war upon slavery where it exists, and aiming to transcend the limits of con stitutional authority by aggression upon the rights of the several states. On the contrary, that party declares ' that the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Federal Constitution, is essential to the preservation of our Republican institutions, and that the Federal Constitution, the rights of the States, and the union of the States, must and shall be preserved.' " And again—" It would undoubtedly be a great gain to the cause of freedom if, by the triumph of the Re publican party, the Government of the United States were divorced from the active support of the inhuman slave system. To pluck the executive patronage out of the hands of the pliant instruments of the whip and chain ; to turn the tide of the national administration against the men-stealers of America, and in favour of a partial application of the principles of justice, would be an achievement of a pure and glorious character, and one to which I feel confident you would wish success." Unless the Austrian Government brings the pre sent crisis in Hungary to a solution, grave com plications are expected. This is the news from Pesth —the latest news from that city—under date the 4th instant, that is—yesterday! The inevitable reflection is—immediately after the perusal of that simple but emphatic intimation of the telegram flashed across Europe, and under the waters of the Channel—ls Austria at this moment in a posi tion to adventure upon any such undertaking ? And the instantaneous answer to that (as we may call it) spontaneous inquiry—will be quite as in evitably we believe, in the vast majority of instances, in the negative ! The Viennese Government is scarcely in the position to attempt seriously and promptly the solu tion of a problem that has hitherto baffled the ingenuity of her most sagacious states men. It is true that the long estrangement of Austria from Prussia, and, in effect, also from almost every one of "the numerous members of the great Germanic Confederation, has very recently, and we may add, too, in the interests of Europe generally, most happily terminated. It is true that the accord now established throughout the whole of Vaterland is such, is so complete, that for the first time since the close of the last national outburst of enthusiasm in Rhineland, the symbol of German unity, the tricolour of red-black-sold, can now be displayed with perfect immunity by the more enthusiastic of the patriot multitude. It is true, moreover, that a significant evidence of sympathy with the Austrian KAISER has within the last month been given to the world by the Russian CZAR, through the affectionate terms in which his Majesty the Emperor ALEXANDRIA 11. gave at a state ban quet the toast of his Imperial brother,the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH ! A testimony of goodwill not once manifested until the occasion referred to since the interposition of the forces of the Autocrat in Hungary (in favour of the re-establishment there of the Austrian rule), since that interposition was responded to from Vienna with the sinister portent, almost, w© might call it, the flagrant promise, or even prophecy, of a heinous evidence of ingra titude destined to be manifested by the Austrians towards the Russian Government. Hence, in fact, while the Autocrat of All the Russias was but two or three years afterwards assailed by the armies and fleets of the Allied Powers of Western Europe, Austria stood wholly aloof from the conflict and raised not a hand to aid the Mus• covite defenders of Sebastopol. Russia under her new Sovereign has magnanimously forgotten all this —and ALEXANDER 11. appears prepared to sustain, if requisite, by his powerful alliance the jeopar dised sway of the KAISER. Nevertheless—with Germany thus united, with Russia thus friendly, with the Courts of Paris and Vienna in a great measure reconciled (thanks to the mutual conces- sions made by the two Emperors at Villafranca)— ATEST ,174. never perhaps has Austria been in a worse position for solving the problem of her anomalous rule in Hungary ! Has not her European prestige, such as it was, been but just now seriously weakened, if not disas trously shattered ? The invincibility of that for midable army of 600,000 troops, reputed to be little else than an organized machine cif Victory, has been scattered to the winds as a delusion. The most beautiful of all the many noble provinces of the EMPEROR has been finally torn from Austria by the conquering grasp of the reigning French Sovereign. The comparatively:insignificant power of Sardinia has been augmented upon the morrow of Solferino by the absorption of Lombardy within the Piedmontese boundaries. Venetia, in its turn, has been ever since then in imminent peril of falling into the new Italian system by the sheer force, so to speak, of the principle of mere political gravitation. South of the range of the Carpathians, in truth, the whole of the remaining fragments of Austr;..qn dominion are endangered. Her defeated soldiers—froi the close of their last calamitous ca mpaign—have beenvirtually, are even new at this moment, literally at bi; within the shelter of the fortresses of the Quadrilatera::. AOSSUTH, the Leader of the Hungarians, too, cliZ scar c ely appear anywhere in the north of Italy but 17711:: the sympathetic Italians welcome his advent with significant acclamations. GARIBALDI, in the south of Italy, all the while advanc ing from one triumph to another seizing Sicily with a handful of followers—taking first Palermo and then Messina—crossing the straits into Calabria, and there kindling like wildfire the latent ardour of the Neapolitan population ! Every thing in effect yielding indications that but a brief interval can now elapse from the time when the soil of Italy must prove too hot for the foot of the Austrian; and when, consequently, it must be idle to dream of her solving thus readily (as is now pro posed) the problem of her un-natural rule over the Hungarians ! ing telegram : The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe are enter taining a large party at Floors Castle, N.B. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester arrived in town last evening from Folkestone, where they have been sojourning for the last six weeks, on their way to Kimbol- ton Castle, Huntingdon. The Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Stafford House, St. James's, last evening, from Paris, and will shortly leave town to join the duke and family circle assem bled at Dunrobin Castle, R.N. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and Lady Mary Cecil have arrived at Homburg, from Burghley House, Stamford, Northamptonshire. Her ladyship's sister, Lady Clinton, and Lady Sarah Spencer ; are also staying at Homburg. The Marquis and Marchioness Dreischor and family have taken their departure from the Brunswick, Jermyn-street, for Holland. His Excellency the Count de Saligny (French Ambassador to Mexico) and suite have arrived at the Brunswick, Jermyn-street. The Earl loof Warwick passed through town yes terday on his way to Warwick Castle, where the noble earl will entertain a select circle of friends during the race meet ing at Warwick, Lord and Lady Foley have left Worksop Manor, Notts, on a tour of visits in Scotland. Lady Milford will leave town to-morrow to visit the Earl of Wicklow at his lordship's seat in Ireland. Lord John Manners, MY., is making a tour o visits in Scotland. The Baron and Baroness De Langnau have le the Brunswick, on their return to Switzerland. ...__ Sir Fitzroy and Lady Kelly have left town on a tour in Germany. YV Garibaldi has decreed the adoption of the decimal system for the coinage in Sicily. The new pieces bear the head of his Sardinian Majesty with the legend " Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy." SIR JAMES OUTRAM.—Sir James Outram has returned to England to recruit the health shattered by hard work in the exhausting climate of India, and we are sure that the feeling which inspired the valedictory addresses of the one country will animate the warm welcome of the other. In the old days of the East India Company there would have been meetings of directors and meetings of proprietors to do him honour, and to confer upon him more substantial rewards, and a public banquet at which the flower of the Indian service in England would have been invited to meet him. These things have now become mere traditions. But such a man as Sir James Outram will not be suffered to re turn to the country for which he has done so much without a hearty, grateful recognition of his many and great services. This autumnal season of the year, which witnesses the perio dical dispersion of the upper ten thousand, may be unpropi tious to an immediate demonstration, but Outram has fixed himself too securely in the affections of the great profession to which he belongs for this to be the cause of anything more than an incidental delay. —Homeward Mail of yes terday. Two GENTLEMEN DROWNED.—We learn with deep regret that John Blair, Esq., procurator-fiscal, Irvine, and another gentleman, whose name we have not learned, have been drowned in the sea off Irvine. A party of five, composed of Mr. Blair, a lad a relative of his, and other three, went out in a boat, intending to sail as far as Troon. After passing Irvine bar, the boat from some cause cap sized, and all were thrown into the sea. Mr. Blair, who was a good swimmer, endeavoured to save himself and the young lad, but before assistance came to them he had sunk. The lad was saved, but Mr. Blair and another of the party, we regret to say, were lost. Mr. Blair was in the prime of life, unmarried, and greatly respected by a wide circle of friends. —.Yolk Br XVI. Mail. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about. at par, and the short exchange on Loudon is 2.5.15 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 1-10th per cent, dearer in Paris than iniLendon. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4251 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is therefore about 3-10ths per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 110 per cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the exchange is slightly in favour of England ; and, after making allow ance for charges of transport and difference of interest, the present rate leaves a small profit on the importation of gold from the United States. ' TRIAL FOR MURDER IN FRANCE.—A very young man only 18 years of age, named Jacques Debenath, was a few days ago tried by the Court of Assizes of the Haut-Rhin, for the murder of his brother Sebastien, seven years his senior. The two lived with their parents at a place called Huystein, but the younger entertained great animosity to the elder—why was not known—and often threatened and struck him. For an assault on him he was last year condemned to a month's imprisonment, and this increased his hatred. " W hen I come out of prison," said he, " I will do something terrible ;" and he afterwards more than once declared to certain persons, "You will see I shall shoot my brother dead ! " In the evening of the 16th March they supped together and then went out. Shortly after the report of a gun was heard, and Sebastien was found lying on the ground at some di s t ance w ith a gunshot wound in the breast; he died without speaking a word. As no one but his brother bore him and as no one but he had been with him at the time, there was no I doubt that ho was the murderer ; and besid es th e wa ddi ng of the gun fired, which was picked up, had been made of paper similar to some be possessed ; the slug which had hit the deceased was also like some he had had, and lastly a gun which he had borrowed from a neighbour had dis appeared. Being declared guilty, but with extenuating circumstances, he was condemned to twenty years' hard labour. In reference to the lamented death of Decamp, the painter, several of the journals relate an anecdote which, although not by any means new, is so appropriate to the moment that we give it :—" Decamp was very inti mate with the Duke of Orleans, eldest son of Louis Philippe, who, like him, met with his death through a restive horse. Long before the painter had acquired a European celebrity, the Duke cultivated his friendship, and used to visit him in his humble abode on the fifth or sixth storey with all the familiarity of an old acquaintance. One day, when his Royal Highness was going up to visit Decamp, as he passed the porter's lodge, that functionary inquired whom he was going to see. On finding that he was going to Decamp's, the man asked him to have the kindness to carry up a coat which a tailor had just left for the painter. The visitor consented, and great was the astonishment of Decamp, when, on opening the door, he saw the prince enter with the coat on his arm, and heard him say, laughing heartily—' There, Decamp, is a coat which your porter and tailor have sent you!' The painter began to apologise, but the prince stopped him. Do not mention it,' said You have a fine coat there will you do me a pleasure r' Two, it I can, your Royal Highness." Well, let it be two. So put on the coat and come and dine with me.'" THE MOORS.—CRIEFF. — The weather for sever a l days last week was very unpropitious f or p rosecu ti ng spor t on the moors ; Wednesday - and Thursday especially rain fell in torrents, accompanied with high winds on the hills. The sport, however, when the weather permits, continues to be good in all directions, and the variable weather has not in the least affected the grouse, for they appear strong and healthy, and it requires good man:salon to be success ful. His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, Auch lyne House, and party, killed upwards of GO brace of growl) and 10 brace black cock on Monday last. Mr, Walker and party, on the few days out, bagged on an average 40 blace of grouse p er d a y a t Loch ear nhead. On the hill a t Glent ney and Lo e h earns id e , E ar l S e fton and the Hon. H. Heath cote, M.P., killed for sever •1 days a large nu m b ei of grouse. At; Auchnatre e , M onz i e , C anna chan, and Gle nqua i c h , th e number of grou se b agge d, b es ides other game, has also been large. The game boxes and hampers which are sent off from the station when the weather is good continue to be numerous. Partridge shooting commenced on Saturday, and the day was fine throughout, when the slaughter was great and the birds in fine condition,--Scotsmen, The following telegrams have been received at IVIr. Reuter's office : PARIS, SEPT. 4. The Patric of this evening publishes the folloW- "NAPLES, SEPT. 3. " The anhesionist dommittco assembled this morning, and received communication of a letter from Garibaldi, stating that, as the state of the country regires a definitive solution, he will arrive at Naples about the Bth inst., and will, in the name of Victor Emmanuel, assume the Dictatorship of the Two Sicilies. " The committee is making preparations for the reception of the Dictator. The city will be illumi nated for three nights. "Two Sardinian vessels with troops arrived here on the morning of the 3d inst." The Patrie also says : " Nothing definitive has yet been decided relative to the interTiew at Warsaw." NAPLES, SEPT. 1. The Ministry tendered and then withdrew its resignation. The attempt to form a new Cabinet, under the preslu l,? . ncy of Prince d'lschitella, failed. The chiefs of the National Guards entered the Royal Palace and demanaed from the King the dismissal of Generals d'lschitella and Catiofiano. The confusion is increasing in the city. It is said that, should anarchy ensue, a disembarkation of Sardinian troops may be expected. NAPLES (via Genoa), SEPT. 4. royal troops are concentrated near Naples. P acards having been posted up bearing the words " Long live Victor Emmanuel!" several soldiers tore them down. The lazzaroni became irritated, and a conflict with the soldiers ensued. NAPLES, AUG, 29. A bill circulated in the city invites the people to petition the King to leave before the arrival of Garibaldi. It is supposed that the Count of Syra cuse is at the bottom of the movement. The object of it is to spare the shedding of blood and the dis turbances which are expected unless this step be taken. The King has been counselled by Austria to re main till the last moment, and there is every ap pearance at present of his intention to remain. TURIN, SEPT. 4. Signor Parini went yesterday to Florence, and will return on Thursday next. Signor Fanti will leave to-morrow for the Emilian provinces and Tuscany. The Count of Syracuse is about to proceed to Florence to visit Prince Carignan. He will re main there ten days. The Gazetta di Torino says :—" A despatch, re ceived from Naples this morning, states that the King of Naples had presided at a Council of Ministers, at which resistance was resolved upon." CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 3. The sixth article of the first protocol, signed on the 3d August last at Paris, expressly stipulates that the six articles composing the protocol shall be textually embodied in a convention. Neverthe less in the project of this convention, as elaborated at Paris, some phases were introduced foreign to the protocol of the 3d August, and of a nature to excite the susceptibility of the Porte. Although the Convention had, on the representations of Vekif Effendi, been confined purely and simply to the above-mentioned articles, there still remains an allusion to the Hatti-Humayoun of 1856, which the Divan will not admit. Vekif Effendi will, there fore, receive full powers to sign the convention, but with formal instructions not to make use of them should the said allusion not be removed from the original text of the cottention. VIENNA, SEPT. 4. Count Nadasdy, Minister of Justice, who has already twice tendered his resignation, insists upon leaving the Cabinet at the close of the extraordi nary session of the Reichsrath. His retirement will bring about, if not a complete change, at least essential modifications, in tie present Ministry. During his stay here, Prince Metternich has not ceased to urge the Government to enter frankly upon liberal reforms, which Le stated to be the only efficacious means to establish the influence of Austria abroad. TRIESTE, SEPT. 4. The report which has been circulating, that France was about to send two war vessels to Cattaro, is without foundation. Cattaro is a military port, where foreign war vessels can only enter for refuge; under other cir cumstances they cannot, according to the interna tional laws, enter without being reported to the Cabinet of Vienna. The latter has, up to the pre sent time, received no notification of the kind. VERONA, SEPT. 4. On account of the rapid progress of Garibaldi's arms in the kingdom of Naples, four batteries, sent from Vienna, have been added to the great artillery depot at this place. It is asserted that the 7th and Bth Austrian corps d'armee have received orders to join, at the first summons, the army of Venetia. PESTH, SEPT. 4. It is certain that although tranquillity continues to prevail in Hungary, it is less to bg attributed to the measures taken by the Government than to the perfect unity with which the national move ment is organised throughout the Country. The instructions for this course of action have been given by secret chiefs, and observed by the masses with an admirable discipline. It is therefore be lieved that unless the Government brings the pre sent crisis to a solution, grave complications will result. The Nord publishes the following, purporting to be a note addressed by the Neapolitan Govern ment to the foreign Powers, protesting against the promulgation of the Piedmontese Constitution in Sicily, and against the oath of fidelity to King Victor Emmanuel which Garibaldi administered to the municipal authorities of the island : " Naples, Aug. 21. " General Garibaldi, after having invaded Sicily, not satisfied with having usurped tho royal banner of Sardinia, and clothed all his acts with the name of Victor Emmanuel, has, by a decree of the 3d inst., put in force the Sardinian constitution, and obliged all functionaries and municipal. ties appointed by the revolution to take an oath of fidelity to King V!ctor Emmanuel. " The Government of his Majesty *inks it its duty to bring these new acts of usurpation üß.diir the cognisance of all the Powers—acts which tread unik :oot all the prero gatives of royalty, all principles of international law, and make the destinies of a 'nation depend upon the arbitrary caprice of a foreign Power. " The Government of his Majesty wishing, at the price of the greatest sacrifices, to avoid the effusion of blood, in keeping with the promulgation of the Sovereign act of the 25tli of June, and with the desire of putting its policy in :~~ /JAI4GIxt{IICe Ot peace in Italy, hoped for a solution of the Sici Tan question in its long and persevering negotiations. " This last hope having been deceived, the Government Of his Majesty, by the organ of the underSirsned Minister secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, fludg. kcself inevitably called upon to denounce those attempts to 'your Govern ment—attempts which are committed, under the pressure of 1 ,a foreign force in Sicily, and to protest formally against all acts which tend to disown or weaken the legitimate rights of the Xing, his august master, and declares that he dogs not ( f cpouiso, and will not recto e, any d their consequences, being firmly resolTO. to m.aintain the ample liberal institu tions promised especially to Sicily, and not to infringe upon the principle founded upon history and international law, which unites the two kingdoms of 'Naples and Wicily under the Royal house of Bourbon, "DE ILMINO," PRANCE. BorßsE, Sept. 4.—There has been little or no business doing, and up to the present time prices have been obtained at about those of the close of yesterday. For Account, Threes, are now at 68f. sc. Mobilier, 685 f ; Northern, 955 f ; Mediter ranean, 887 f 50c ; Lombards, 475 f; Austrian, 480 f. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 97 50 Credit Fonder 89G 25 Do ead month.... 97 95 Belgian 41 9B 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 05 Roman . 78 Bank Shares — Austrian ...... Credit Mobilier 685 Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 685 !Home Debt ItAILWATS3. Cash. 40OolMt• Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 886 25 .. 888 75 Geneva Southern 5OO -- 498 75 Western Eastern Sardinian 391 25 387 60 Austrian Lombard 475 , 475 SYRIA. A Paris letter in the Inclependance of Brussels says :—" The massacres in Syria have shown that the apprehensions expressed by Prince Gortschakoff in his famous despatch of April last, were well founded ; and nevertheless, scarcely any Russian vessels of war have been sent to Beyrout. Thu Grand Duke Constantine, who was to have com manded the squadron which it was at first intended to send, has been suddenly informed by the Em peror Alexander that the project will not be carried into effect. The interference of France in the affairs of Syria has given great satisfaction at St. Peters burg. Russia sees in it a precedent which will suit her purpose wonderfully well, and at this moment she again seeks to realise the idea of holding a con gress for settling the Eastern question. In the opi nion of Russia, Europe ought not to be taken un awares, and affairs of Syria have proved how little confidenge can be placed in the declarations of the Ottoman Government. Prevention is better than cure. I much doubt whether these overtures will be well received by the other Powers ; nevertheless, Russia declares that if massacres like those in Syria were to take place in Bosnia, Servia, or the other Sclavonian countries, she could not do otherwise than act. It is for that purpose that she has al ready assembled on the Pruth an army of nearly 80,000 men. The French go alone to the assistance of the Christians of their religious creed, and they are right in so doing, but it would be but justice to allow the Russians also to go alone to the assistance of their co-religionists. Such is the language held by the representatives of Russia both at Paris and Vienna." NAPLES. A letter from Naples of the 30th ult., says : 'The National Guard two days back sent a de putation to the King, to declare that it would only lend its services to maintain public order. His Majesty replied that he did not expect anything else from it ; and that to prove his confidence in it he would enlarge the limits of its duties. He then added that perhaps the National Guard would soon hear the sound of cannon in the neighbour hood, but that the city itself would not, as he had promised the diplomatic body, be the scene of war fare. The King afterwards conversed for a long time in secret with Major Ferranti. It is said that the conversation was relative to the project adopted of forming a camp at Salerno, and of wait ing in the adjoining plain the army of Garibaldi and the insurrectional bands. (Colonna, Barba longa, Bosco, and other officers have left to esta blish the camp, after, however, receiving three times counter-orders. Yesterday, 5,000 or 6,000 men also took their departure for that place. As to the foreign corps, it quitted Salerno this morn ing for Eboli, and it will perhaps march on the _Basilicata or Cilento, where public rumour says, for at least the tenth time, that a corps of Gari baldians is to disembark. The camp of Salerno must prove very unhealthy, on account of the bad air, and the feverish exhalations of Pestum, which penetrate to the plain. It will be like wise useless, should an insurrection break out at Avellino, as is expected, and in the Capita nata, as it already appears to have done. :The place can be turned or attacked on the flank. This concentration of troops will besides hasten the disorganisation of the army, which is not very solid, and which has been shaken by the letter of the King's uncle. But this attempt at defence is the last resource of the Court. Yesterday evening the King assembled the diplomatic body at the Palace, in order to make a final attempt to obtain foreign intervention, that is, the occupation of Naples by the troops in the fleets, and the neutrali sation of the capital and adjacent territory, to the extent of a league. Baron Brenier accepted the proposition, but M. Elliot rejected it on the ground that he had no instructions. On the diplomatists leaving, the King promised that there should be no combat in the city, but he declared that he himself would remain and struggle to the last. The King did not appear at all cast down. The Cardinal Archbishop of Naples has alto waited on the King to pray his Majesty to spare the city ; he is afraid of the danger to which the 180 convents would be subjected in the event of a bombardment, as they occupy one-fifth of the surface of the capital." Another letter of the same date says :—" The pictures, the furniture of the palace, and the bag gage of the King, have this afternoon been em barked on board a Spanish vessel. Gen. Briganti is said to have been guilty of the most shameful treason ; he massed his soldiers together in such a way that they were surrounded, but they, in their indignation, are stated to have shot him." A third letter from Naples to the Siecle says : —" The King, on hearing the disastrous accounts of the insurrection, said in a sorrowful tone to those around him, My soldiers, nevertheless, had pro mised to defend me.' Sire,' replied a general, who was standing near, ' when the soldiers are in your presence they cry Long live the King, but the mo ment they turn their backs, and it is necessary to lead them against the enemy, they cry Garibaldi for ever. That sorcerer of a man has bewitched them, and no one can any longer be relied on.' The old lazzaroni, those traditional supporters of the throne of Naples, but now become Italian people, have lately evinced feelings of a threatening cha racter. The riflemen of the Guard, irritated at having seen them take the part of the bersaglieri, threatened to give them a drubbing. The people defied them, and a meeting was appointed at Capo di Monte, on the very spot where the attack on the Piedmontese soldiers took place. The riflemen came with their arms, and the people with sticks in their hands, and their pockets filled with stones. They looked at ea.ch other for some time, but without either party venturing to commence the attack. In the mean time the commandant of the garrison having been informed that a conflict was about to take place, and that it might lead to a revolution in the capital, sent a body of infantry and cavalry to the spot, and ordered the assemblage to disperse, and thus the collision was prevented." The gificial Journal of Sicily contains a decree by the pro-Dictator Depretis, opening a loan by subscription for the amount of 3,400,000 fr. Five per cant. rente, representing a capital of 68 millions of francs. The bonds of the old Sicilian rente are to be withdrawn, and issued again on the same model as the new ones, By another decree, the old Sicilian debt contracted by the Parliament of 1348-49, which had been repudiated by the Bour- Fon 'Government, is to be paid off. For this pur pose a new loan of 2,550,000 f. rente is opened, and all holders of the securities relating to the debt alluded to are admitted to subscribe to the new loan, their securities being received in payment at par. The price of the new rente in both cases is fixed at 95. The Nazione of Florence announces that that city is now without a garrison, and that all the mili tary posts are occupied by the National Guard. The same paper gives some details relating to the departure er N !icotera's volunteers, 1:rom Leghorn. .4 arrived there ; 1 - '41,,3 chiefs declared they would not go to Palermo, but would land on 91 14 point of the Neapolitan coast they please?,. Th e captains of the vess,llq whioh had ben hii,;(l, to con vey them then, declining puttin g out 4 Lo sea, lest the volunteers should offer 4,tiem - violence during the therefore, obliged P assage. The GoyernL ien t was , to have recourse to force. The troops were called out, nu the generale was beaten. About 1,000 National Guards were soon under arms. The royal delegate and an officer of carabineers went on board the vessel where the chiefs were, and, ac cording to law, summoned them to obey (about the same as reading the Riot Act in England). The chiefs then yielded, and promised to let themselves be taken to Palermo. A Vienn?. letter of the 30th ult., in tb: a Boersen kg., says " Two very important telegra',las arrived h ere l as t night, one of them addressed direct to the Emperor by the King of Naples, the, other to Count de Rech berg, from Count Szechenyi, the Austrian Minister at Naples. The latter announced that Francis 11. had resolved to leave his• States, the situation hav ing become quite hopeless. Other intelligence received during the day leaves no room to doubt that a catastrophe is imminent. As to the King's despatch, it is said to announce his Majesty's deter mination to retire to Spain for the present. Prince de Metternich, who has arrived here from Paris, had an interview this morning with Count de Rech berg, which lasted several hours." CHINA. (From a Correspondent of the Daily News.) TALIEN-HWAN BAY S NORTH OF CHINA, JUNE 20. You will find this Bay on the point of land which forms the eastern jaw of the Gruff of Pecheli, and in the same lati tude as the mouth of the Peiho river, distant, in a straight run across the gulf, 180 miles. This is the rendezvous of the British expeditionary force, about half of which has already arrived. This bay is a fine expanse of wlter, deep enough for the largest ships, with good holding ground, and sheltered from all winds except those from the southward and south-eastward. A large portion of the force, in about 20 transports, left Hong Kong on the 18th of May for this rendezvous, and the ships made their way under convoy, with light winds, till the 28th, when a violent gale from the north-east caught the squadron in the For mosa Channel, between that island and the mainland and I fear has done considerable damage. It blew steadily and furiously for eight days and nights, during which no observation could be had of the sun, moon, or stars, with heavy falls of rain, which, in some instances, filling the quarter boats of the ships, tore them from the davits ens?, washed them away into the ocean, Some of us, however, held our own, and weathered the gale successfully ; but as half the ships which left Hong Kong with us have not as yet made their appearance here, we cannot know what the general appearance was. The storm extended down the coast to Hong Kong, on the east end of which island the Assistance is reported to have been lost, with Chinese coolies on board ; and also a French transport, with all their artillery gear and harnes on board, no light loss, if true, for our allies just at this time and place. On the gentle hills all round this bay are scattered several very pretty small villages, shaded by trees, the rest cf the landscape being bare of wood and foliage ; but indus triously cultivated as high up the slopes as I suppose the soil will admit of, or as will repay the labour and expense. On the arrival of the first ships of the force the inhabitants of these villages sent away inland their women, children, and live stock, and many of the men have also gone ; those who remain being seldom seen with our glasses, and hold ing no communication with us. These people must, I should think, pass much of their time in fishing in peaceful times ; but now their boats have been sent away, and they do not venture on the water or come down to the beach, being, both by orders from their Government and by fear of mistrust prevented from communicating with us. There are now collected here about fifty ships, men-of-war and transports, under the command of Rear-Admiral Jones, in her Majesty's ship Imperieuse, Admiral Hope not having as yet arrived : but as only about one-half the transports have as yet come in, the force is made up of portions of regiments, four corps being entire, and none of the cavalry having joined. The estimated time for the entire arrival and formation of the force, and the final preparations for cross ing the Gulf of Pecheli, landing, and commencing opera tions, is three weeks, during which we shall all, I believe, remain on board ship and get ready for fighting, which, if report speaks truth, will be rough work whilst it lasts. As I told you before, the Taku. Forts have been for midably enlarged and strengthened; and these best in formed now tell us that they are not assailable from the rear so as to be taken in reverse, the country on the land side being a swamp or morass, impracticable for artillery, and even, it is asserted, for infantry. If this be true, then these dens must, it would appear, be again attacked from the river face, with little or no co-operation or aid from the army ; but I feel a difficulty in believing that the country on the land side is really impracticable at all times of the year, however wet or inundated it may be during the rainy season, and especially when under rice cultivation. Let us hope that this somewhat formidable information as regards these forts is exaggerated, for they are certainly to be taken before any political intervention in the shape of diplomacy comes upon the field, as I believe I am right in saying that Lord Elgin will scarcely appear, certainly will not speak reason and peace to the court of Pekin, until after these Taku Forts shall have been smashed infinitesimally, which we can certainly do, whatever sur roundings they may have. I am sorry to say that reports have reached us here to the effect that our allies the French have been behaving in what may be called a scandalous manner at Shanghae, and to the southward ; but as there are regu lar mails from those places to England, you will have re ceived authentic and detailed accounts of the matters to which I refer before this reaches you, and I am afraid that France will have reason to frown and shrug her shoulders at the conduct of some of her soldiers out here. I am philo-Gallic in my feelings and associations, and I write with regret anything about French soldiers, but extraordi nary occurrences will come out, and may as well be tempe rately mentioned by a friend to the French as written violently and distortedly by those who do not know and cannot understand there. The main fact, then, is, that the French expedition to China on this occasion is not creditable to the nation, financially, militarily, or marinely ; and, moreover, another fact has come out on'the present occasion—that the French, though rapid and powerful in military organi sation, movement, and evolutions, have not as yet acquired the capacity of fitting out a large combined military and naval force for a distant expedition in the north of Asia. No one knows when the French will be ready to join us in military operations against the Chinese; but every on e knows that the French expeditionary force has been sent out here miserably deficient in, everything fearfully crowded, and very poor. Hence many scandals, out rages, misconduct, and suffering, and consequently a lamentable diminution of that esteem on our part to wards them which alone can keep up the true entente cordiale; for an Englishman is not long caught and kept by vivacity, politeness, and glory; but, on the contrary, soon looks for the solid qualities that command respect in a friend or an ally. Out of the obliga tion to show some of these qualities no man who wants to be John Bull's friend and associate can long keep : and I am very much afraid that we are not getting on well hero with our European neighbours. The Sikh regiment of Loodianah, which was ordered to remain behind on the Kowloon promontory, opposite Hong Kong, has, as you will doubtless have heard before, been ordered up to Shang hae, where I believe the French troops have been behaving very badly, as far as we up here can learn. They com menced their unmilitary and undisciplined conduct at the Cape, on their way out from Europe : and they have continued to create eclat as high as Shang hae. They have plenty and more than enough to do in trying t o get ready to join us in this coming fight, without lessening their strength and ruining their character by doing, as we are not doing, and as we have not time to do just now, even if we had the incli nation. There is not much entente in our position or asso ciation now, for there are no French flags flying here, ano I believe that they have their arrangements pretty much to themselves. As I have said in all my letters, this Chinese war will do little indeed to increase or to foster the mutual attachment of the two first of nations, and I am sorry f if for it. It is not the fault of the French themselves ; but their ex pedition to China is miserably fitted out , and Dever was as far from Calais as is Hong Kong or Shanghae, one might amuse himself with the idea an d organisation of a French invasion of England just as he would with th e story of " Jack and the Beanstalk , " or a Christmas panto mime. We have received here the London papers up to th e middle of April, with the Chin a war discussions, which are sufficiently amusing. We could not keep out of this war. civilised world. Those China, and every other n ation, must be made to come into the community .... and accept i n England. and talk abstracted responsibilities, with o f peoples, the restto exchange c t h h a e n a'e who sit at home benevo lence, and the selfish. doctrine of every one doing as he F likes, may argue in favour of the voluntary isolation and sulky mischievousness of large nations and empires • coast ast furious on b g o a t l h e in sidesthe , .and Formosa not but . if they passed, as we did on our voyage up, ' or a ti offorce, rwarna enatio ntt: awt humanityhnedi c d.hr mariner,asaogeneglects ee within el t re h vo e te they nights main tg ne o h rh s atotosc guide: h e iy ni violentr v t h a s t awaCe ollhogbuatilehli eight single deg ] al z ea e ays d e and b i aig y tl t hhl ld m t this d th e paleenormous o f gen general T r e e s p t c h n e s r i e b s i beacon maintained by the T Y All along the coast of not a single lighthouse or not tell you what'lirkish Government, and I need a, ri ch and valuable trade is carried on up 1114 (1 " 11 thes e 8": ores. In the Formosa Channel alone two fiv e light-14°118e' on the are required, th ree on the mainland, and consider ~ island, on e a t either end. Scurvy to at her - :tole extent h as b ro k en out in the force norf . o) 'ooth European and native Indian ; and as D.one but strictly medical treatment is practicable on ' ward ship, and th e Chi nese will have nothing to d o vcith us, thus putti ng f res h vegetable diet for the) troops out of th e quest i on, I am afraid that - the dis ease will spread extensively, as all the mei? have tome long voyages, and many from England. The,re is also an anxiety about the supply of water here, and 'parties go on shore to dig wells; but I understand that, whereas the consump tion of water in the force now 'sere is 400 tons a-day, the supply hitherto procurablefre An these wells does not amount to above 40 tons daily. . . 1 a .bout all this part of the no r th o f Chin s a surface water fit fo r drinking purposes is scarce , river and !,,s are comparatively few, and it is necessary to (1 . 43 for water when large bodies of men may be masse ,1 together. We and the Court of Pekin now new:r hear anything from one another; though doubt less they know a good deal of our movements, and are acting accordingly, as you will hear after we have tried the Taku Forts: The annexation of the holy island of Poo-too, of which I spoke to you in my former letters, has been dropped, and even the force at Chusar. has been much re duced, the main portion and headquarters of her Majesty's 67th and 99th Regiments having come up here to join in the fighting, leaving each a few. companies on the island. • The weather—poor Lord Ra'glan's favourite toPic—is 'Vari able and uncertain here, for some days past having been. most trying, wet and gloomy, but being to-day as fine as his lordship coubl have wished, warm and summery. Then again; as the worthy Lord Lyons used to write, at the same time, " the health of the troops is excel lent," with the exception that, as regard s the pre valent scurvy, I am sorry I cannot add that " the men are well supplied with fresh meat and vegetables, sent from Malta by Rear-Admiral Stewart," Waiting and preparing to fight are not very exciting Or newsful ; but there is not long to wait now, and I fear that my second letter after this 'will have a red tinge upon it. However, as our french allies say, " you cannot make omelettes without I breaking eggs." The naval brigade, for service on shore, is being organised, and, as far as practicable, on ship board, being drilled and practised, and it will be a formid able part of the force. There is great gun exercise, rifle exercise, revolver exercise, and hostile activity movements of at least a hundred different descrip tions and powers. The entire force to be collected here be fore a move is made will be about forty men-of-war of dif ferentover eighty transport s ; b u t I d o not know what t rhaet littleand bill to be paid by the peopl e o f E ng l and will amount to ; and, indeed, there is no o ccas i on to make up any pages of the account just yet, as we shall, in all pro bability, be obliged to go nn with the, " carried forward" for some time to c ome . Ab ou t th e ti me you get this the small items will be dropping in upon you pretty fast, the just retribution and suffering for the accursed wicked ness of war, necessary or unnecessary. I believe that we are to have a despatch of letters for England every fortnight, if practicable ; and it would appear that our letters are to go home free of postage, a boon which I think we deserve, notwithstandin g the latest distance they will have to go for nothing. The latest news is that we do not make a move from this till Lord Elgin comes up, and so he will be welcome when be does arrive. COUNT PERSIGNY ON THE ROZAN QUESTION. Count Persigny delivered the following speech at the laying of the first stone of a church at Roanne : M. le Cure and Gentlemen,—l thank you for the flattering manner in which you have been pleased to allude to me, and, above all, for the honour you have done me in asking me to lay the first stone of the church so impatiently expected by the piety of the fathful in this town. In bestowing that honour upon a man whom his native country only receives with so much eclat because it looks upon him as the representative of the Em peror, you evidently entertained the idea that the Government was the natural protector of religion and its Ministers, and you were perfectly right. (Applause). Such is the devotedness of the Em peror for the Church that he is above that immense injustice which has lately agitated Catholicity and. astonished the world. (Loud applause.) Allow me to say a few words on the subject. I will not remind you that it was the Emperor who re-esta blished the Pope at Rome, and who maintains him there with the sword of France. (Loud acclama tions.) I proceed at once to the Italian war. At that period the States of the Church were occupied partly by Austria, partly by France, to secure the existence of the Papal dominion. The two corps darniee in the Papal States were instructed, seeing what was going on in Northern Italy, to maintain a strict neutrality, and await the progress of events with grounded arms. Now, how was that duty carried out by both parties ? Whilst France faithfully executed her mission, by keeping that part of the Italian territory which she had to pro tect, and still protects to this day, Austria, in order to turn to account against us the forces which she had in the Legations, abandoned that part of the Pontifical territory committed to her care ; and in consequence of this desertion on the part of Austria the Pope lost the Romagnas. (Applause.) But that abandonment of the Pontifical territory did not prove fortunate for Austria—(sensation) —for soon afterwards she 'was defeated at Sol ferinoi and compelled to make peace. (Ap plause.) Now, gentlemen, the basis of the peace a basis enforced. by the nature of circumstances, by the state of the public mind, and by the attitude of the whole of Europe, was this—that henceforth all interven tion in Italy was interdicted to France as well as Austria. So that Romagna having been abandoned. by Austria, and the Pope being unable to recon quer it with the aid of French, Austrian, or any other foreign forces, that province was inevitably lost to the Popo. It was at that time and in the midst of those difficult circumstances that the Emperor, in his high wisdom, in his devotedness, equally ab eolute and enlightened, for the Holy Father— (applause)—showed himself disposed to make that famous proposal which has given rise to so much clamour and injustice. Now, what was that pro posal, gentlemen ? It was simply the safety of the temporal power of the Pope ; it was a combination at once the most simple, and most skilful, and, the best adapted to the object which it was in tended to realise for the independence and dignity of the Holy See. You will judge of it. The Emperor, seeing that in consequence of the irretrievable fault of Austria, the Romagna was irrevocably lost to the Pope, wished at least that if that province was united to Piedmont. it should be governed in the Pope's name, in order to preserve, and cause to be respected as much as possible, the proposal necessity, e ee the s right of the Holy See. But that is no t all. hilst in making Empero r o b e y e d th e inexorable slip, he de r i ve d f rom it an enormous advantage for the P o p e , as i n exc h ange for the sacrifice he offered to gua ran t ee hi mse lf, or this dictates to obtain the guarantee of Europe, or at all events of all the Catholic States, the integrity of the pre sent dominions of the Church, and thus secured for ever the independence and security of the Pope. (Prolonged applause.) That those wise, noble, and generous proposals—(bravo, bravo)_ should have been distorted. for some little time by ignorance, error, or the hatred of parties, concealed beneath the cloak of religion, is by no means surprising. ; but what I can tell you, gentlemen, is, that m.the eyes of all poli ticians of any worth in Europe these proposals have been looked upon as the most striking proof of the devotedness of the Emperor for the Holy Father; that all the religious enemies of the Papacy re joiced at their rejection ; and, lastly, that had they been adopted, at the present moment Italy would be at peace, and the Court of Rome free from all its dangers. (Applause.) Ah , gentlemen , w hil st I am about to lay the first stone of the Church of our Lady of Victories, 'whose name is such a good augur, pray th e A lm i g hty to Holy Father, to preserve him from the dangers that beset him, the most to be dreaded of which ar e not the attacks of his armed enemies, for the Sword of the Eldest Son o f the Church, despis ing his calumniators, continues to protect the august person of the Pontiff, and the venerated throne of the Holy See." RAT FROITE PROM A BLADE Or named H enry P. Harding, a GERIAIAsits.I.LAABLE young DEATH raa n miller at Valli s h a s met with his d ea th under extraordi nary, circumstances. The deceased. was walking In his gar den three w e e ks since, when he put i n hi s mout h a p i ece o f common grass, beneath lie felt the prickly end penetrate the skin an d while chewin the ton g gua. Ho asked hi s w ife to and dpufr some she was unable to perceive anythi ng , daysl 't , however, othing more was th oug h t o f th e mat t er. The tonove sc an au ll s it out, bu t b began to swell, and recourse a h omam pathic practiti oner . O n F r id a y l as t h worse; Dr. Wh ite was called in and found the tongu e much inflamed and swo ll en , an a b scess h av i ng ap parclatly formed. N o i mmediate danger was apprehended ; b u t on S a turday ni g h t, about eleven o'clock, the deceased suddenly was s became hado sprung from his bed, fell into his wife's arms, and in a f e w minutes expired. The singularity of the occur rence, and the fact that the deceased was much respected, has caused his melancholy death to excite great cousterna tioU, t )c' ' 1 Past Woi The Roc Tyr Risi Am Can Vol