The Sun. — London, England, 1860-09-15 00:00:00

ENsoN , s wATCHES. "Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Silver 5 to 100 g - nineas. 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip eCe of every construction of watch now made, with their 1 toes. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for 55. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hlll, London. E.C. Established 1749. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON—wiII open for the Fifth Season on MONDAY, October Ist. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lemee, Mr. J. B. Haekstone. THIS EVENING the performances will OOMMenee with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Blackstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. z After which, USED UP. Mr. C. Mathews. To coticlude with SHOCKING EVENTS. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE -ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, a new drama, by Dion Bourcleault, en titled THE COLLEEN BAWN. Messrs D. Bourcicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing,ton, and Mrs. Chatterley. After which, SHE WOULD BE AN ACTRESS. Miss Agnes Robertson, Mr. W. Smith, and Mr. P. Bedford. To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. llor-eftlee open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes 42 28 • Family Boxes,-Xl. Orchestra Stalls, 5s ; '4B • Front Circle Stalls, is. ; Pit Stalls, 21.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amp.hitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.— Mr Proprietor and Manager, . WM. BATTY. Cro'Wed .Houses.—Second Week 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 15, commencing at Two o'clock. Thi s Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hi ppo -drama of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be fbllowed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day, including the greatest Eque s t r i enne i n the world, Kadlle. de Berg, and the Wonder of Wonders, Little Menoni. Doors open at half-past 6, performance oommenoe at 7. Box-Oloe 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 MARTHA, And Selections from DINORA.H, TROVATORE, MACBETH, And numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, is, Hall. PA Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Liegro delineations, anecdotes, ft., in addition to the usual entertainments. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THK WEATHER..-SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 15, 1160, THIARNCOMETER, TN THII SHADE. 64—this day at noon. 51—lowest this morning and during the night. 64—highest since noon yesterday. BAROMETIM-29.59; falling. WIND -- South-Westerly; rather fresh, with cloudy weather, but fine. It rainwl in the morning. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tale DAY.—Morning, lh. 29m.—Afternoon, lh. 49m. To-monßow.-Morning, 2h. 10m.—Afternoon, 2h. 31m. oci J I ‘AlijA 4 '47 - !- - - 7 .c1. 1 z , . 4 4 , r , 2 7 1 47,, Z ui p. el i 3 at D re „,„ K * l•T't 'lb • z•-• ' ge; `~~ THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT.:IS, 1860. The Americans are said to be a " fast" people, but we think some people or their rulers nearer home go faster still. The French, of course, are the cleverest people in the wide world of genius and invention ; they have eclipsed all and every other people, and now they are preparing to set us down on our own proper element—the sea. Their papers boast that, by means of the superior knowledge evinced by French architects, ship-builders, and others, they will now teach us a lesson for which we xnuA be grateful. They h ave failed hitherto to bring us tea sense of our position on the broad waters where great ships are to be superseded by frigates clad in armour—real mail clad ships cased in steel, against which resistance were hopeless. Well, we have seen many strange inventions in our time—some of them so clever that the very inventor burnt his fingers in showing them off. There are many things which look well and promise more—but there are also such things that in their ex periment prove too clever by half. And such we take the steel plated frigates may prove upon trial. The French ought to recol lect that, in the late wars, when only wind and sail helped rival fleets to manceuvre and to fight, their ships were almost always the best sailers—in fact, their ships were built with that one idea—of out sailing all others ; and yet when the hour of trial came, and close quarters were the order of the day, British pluck made amends for wind and weather and fast sailing too. We will just remind our clever inventors, be it in wood or steel, that English sailors don't like playing at long bowls, and if the plated ships try to keep away there is such a thing as bring ing them to book—by boarding—and all the steel alongside will prove of little avail on the quarter deck, when the hurrah ! of the Boarders re-echoes to the rush for victory. Steel will then be at a discount in the market. It is hardly to be believed ! But the fact is undeni able, that nearly fifteen months have elapsed since the outrage to the British flag in the Peiho, since the destruction of 400 of our gallant tars by a das tardly Chinese ambuscade, since the solemnly ar ranged treaty of Tien-tsin was torn asunder, so to speak, by the murderous fusillade opened upon the attendants of our Ambassador, from behind the screen of those treacherous masked Taku fortifica tions. Yet up to this present moment those infamous acts have remained unpunished, have bees allowed to pass unchallenged, have elicited hitherto from the majesty and might of insulted England not one solitary attempt at retribution ! It was near the end of June of 1859 that the gunboats in attendance upon Mr. BRUCE, as her Britannic MAJESTY'S representative, were opened fire upon by the lawless dastards lying in wait behind those veiled batteries infamously prepared for their ob struction upon the muddy banks of the river Peiho, or Tien-sin-holt I And here is the middle of Sep tember, 1860, and we have not heard that a single blow has yet been struck by sea or by land i n those Chines© waters, to avenge our 400 dead and gone, and almost, it would seem, forgotten, our cruelly and barbarously murdered countrymen ! Not a blow ! And yet we sahroeratcatunally (thanks to our steam power) within lm in terval from the scene of these atrocities that within two months from the date of their perpetration the stretched out arm of England might have sun -flea-Lily avenged the four hundred British seamen who had fallen by the heinous crime of the Chinese Government ! " Shanghai," says the cap tain of H.M.S gallant . the Furious, " Shanghai is only forty-two days by the overland route from Charing Cross ; and at the entrance of the reiho river I met a traveller in 185 8, who was only fifty days from Paris 1 1 ' Mark that —note those words—remember that 30 days had sufficed to bring that traveller from , Paris to the Peiho—recolleot, moreover, that nine r whole months were allowed to elapse before any offi cial notice whatever was taken in Western Europe of a deed of infamy the knowledge of which had made the blood of every Englishman boil with in dignation. And even then of those nine months when the silence was at length broken—it was broken not by England but by France ; the French EMPEROR being the first to speak at all upon the matter—announcing at last to Europe, in so many words, that " a serious expedition combined with the forces of Great Britain would chastise China for her perfidy." Impunity like this cannot but have the most lamentable effect u p o n our prestige in those Chinese waters, and cannot but exercise the most disastrous influence upon .the councils of the Chinese Government. Yet we are acting thus towards a nation that might (if but dealt with as we could deal with them) be awed , readily enough into submission ! To appreciate at once, how readily, it is only necessary to note the manner in which Captain OSBORNE records the astonishment produced among the wonder-stricken junkmen of Shantung by the appearance amongst them of her MAJESTY'S steamship the Furious amazed, when they " now, for the first time saw a huge apparition advancing against the tide, uttering strange noises, and glaring upon them with huge eyes of red and green (the steam lights), and beating the water like one of their own mythical dragons of the sea. No wonder they exclaimed " 1/1-yate !" Observe them again, those astounded Chinese, as they behold the tars from the Furious taking some of our gunboats up the winding current of the Peiho, when, writes Captain OSBORNE, " the whole male population of a village (might be seen) ranged along the banks, on their hands and knees, and performing hotour as our gunboats passed !" When " some more frightened than the rest" shouted to our interpreter—" Hail, great King. Oh, pray be pleased to disembark and reign over us." When, among other incidents of a like kind, " One man at a village . . . improved upon the proceedings by placing himself on his knees, in the position of adoration, and continued so long as H.M. gunboat Bustard remained in sight." An unsophisticated people like this ought, in reason, to be treated other wise than we are treating them now, than we have been treating them, for the last half century. Ignorant and treacherous to the last degree of ignorance and treachery, they have been allowed to feel but partially the mighty power of England—they have been reasoned with by a confiding diplomacy only to be encouraged to perpe trate crimes like those that dishonoured our out raged flag upon the waters of the Peiho— when (instead of being reasoned with thus fully by diplomacy out of mistaken notions on our part of a humanity that they could not understand) they should have been made to feel at once summarily and vividly the irresistible force at our command both upon sea and upon shore. To put an end to these miserable periodical wars with China, to close the epoch of their continual recurrence, it behoves us at length that we should scatter to the winds these puerile notions of a false humanity and spurious philanthropy—that we should rather than this (in the true interests of humanity and philan thropy) carry conviction to the obtuse intellect of China, a full and lasting conviction that it is idle on her part to tamper thus perpetually with the forbearance of the leading powers of civilised Europe. This can alone be done now by carrying the war at last into the heart of the stronghold of the imperial sovereignty of China—by advancing direct upon Pekin, and there dictating terms to the Chinese that shall guarantee their future amity with a race they have so often outraged from a mistaken notion of its incapacity to approach much more to assault and capture the capital of the Celestial Emperors ! The above was written before the arrival of the last China mail. We may now expect that the next mail will bring as news not only of the land ing of our troops, but the capture or destruction of the Taku forts, and the advance upon Pekin. The capture of the capital is the only argument that will bring the Emperor of CHINA and his deluding Mandarins to a true sense of their position. We have repeatedly expressed our regret that the Expedition was not undertaken by England alone, for recent events have too truly proved the folly of seeking the aid of those who only encumber us with their help and then claim all the glory. We suspect that this China Expedition will be the last of our going into partnership with the politest nation in Europe, and yet the most gasconading and presumptuous in the universe. Henceforth let England stand or fall by her own intrinsic might alone. England hates coalitions in the Cabinet, and she is honest and strong enough to hold her own by sea and land. Freedom and despotism can never cordially coalesce. It was a foolish attempt from the first, and may terminate disastrously. There can be no true friendship where jealousy is predo minant, and vanity the overruling " idea" of national glory. Away with it —now and for ever more ! We are frequently favoured by a contemporary, in his comments upon the career of distinguishel public men, with the moral, that it shows what any Englishman of fair abilities may be, or do. It strikes us that this moral might be deduced for English Lords from the career of the son of their Conservative Leader. Most of them might well despair of emulating Lord DERBY himself for thongh at the University, and frequently since then, he has applied himself to work with no little dili gence for a time, yet it is more to high natural endowments—to a considerable share of the genius of oratory especially—that he owes his position. The gifts of nature would have made him a dis tinguished man had he been born a butcher. He would have risen to some station, in which he would ha ve b een a bl e to a d op t th e re ply o f ano th er great man, to one who taunted him with his origin —" had your father been a butcher you would have been one too." But Lord STANLEY has received . few gifts from nature, except those which are sup posed to be at least - within the reach of most Lords. He can work ; and he can work till he masters a subject; and, if he has got his crotchets, he has a very considerable share of good common sense. Had all hereditary legislators used such capacities as they possess with the diligence and honesty of Lord STANLEY, the House of Lords would have been a. formidable competi tor indeed with the House of C)mrnotis ; since, do what we will, in this country of a tho roughly free press, the House which shows the' moat capacity for business, and the most good sense in its debates, would carry the nation with it. Of course such good sense would not suffer the House to be far behind the political advance of the day, and such a hereditary house would, we fancy, com mand the same comparative respect here, as the Senate in the United States. The idleness of the great men of the Lords is what really keeps their House uninfiaential. That same indolence makes them Conservative, and even a DER BY , t o pa t ron i se, iu compe l, at present, language, all the antiquated notions and timidities of the noble idlers. Wednesday's work seems to have suited Lord STANLEY as well as most which he undertakes. It is not often that he ventures upon sentiment, but we find him alluding to his father, whom he repre sented in the following terms :—" The noble lord in the chair has said something of his public life. I think I know enough of his feelings to be able to assure you that no renown or popularity that can be acquired in political life—no official rank or distinction, no matter how high it may be—no mark of Royal favour or Parliamentary confidence, can be to him half so gratifying, or touch his feel ings half so nearly, as a simple expression of kindness and goodwill from those neighbours and friends with whom he is personally acquainted, who know his private life, and among whom his lot is cast in this county of Lancashire—with whom our families have been for so many gene rations connected." A just representation, indeed, of what an English nobleman ought to be, and one which, were it as universally true as it easily might, we may remind Lord DERBY would, even with a largely extended, and really free suffrage, ensure the eldest sons of Peers a place in the House of Commons whenever they were really fit for it. No people more readily worship their aristocracy than Englishmen. And the former may easily enjoy a better than feudal in fluence, by the means which win the attachment of honest, but intelligent free men. A nobleman who values his neighbour's esteem, and who counts all around his mansion and estates his neighbours, may be a lord among them in something more than name, and by some tenure of their affections better than the miserable substitute for it acquired through a land-agent, a steward, or a lawyer. Adverting to the Chairman's remarks on the Knowsley Review, he gracefully observed :—" I don't know whether many of those whom I have the pleasure to address were present then ; if they were I hope they enjoyed the sight. But of this I am sure, that no one in the vast concourse there assembled could have enjoyed it half so much as he by whose invitation some 150,000 of his neighbours came to pay him the compliment of a visit at home." On the subject of Volunteers, such a voluntary as Lord STANLEY might be expected to feel no little interest, and he strongly expressed, therefore, his hope that they would become one of the permanent institutions of the country. " I believe," he said, " it has done more than any in crease of the regular army possibly could have done to elevate the position of England among the nations of Europe; and I think so for this reason, that it has shown to every foreign population and every foreign prince that in this country, however it may be elsewhere, the Government and the nation are one, and that whoever contests with England will have to combat not merely with the Government, not merely with the army, but with the united nation in arms. It is a purely defensive movement ; it has in it nothing of aggression, it can cause no fear and no jealousy to any foreign country." " However it may be elsewhere " Yes, indeed—only think of regiments of volunteers a short time ago in Naples—think of them now in the Papal dominions, such as yet remain to his Holiness Imperatoris gratice—think of volunteer regiments in Venetia, in Hungary, in Bohemia, think of them in half the States of Germany— think of them even in Paris and France itself ! Verity the Continental despots must be conscious of the difference between lawls which have liberties to defend, and those in which armies are partly pretorians of whom Empire must be purchased and held, and partly im plements of annexation to tickle the vanity of a people who have no liberties to love and be proud of. One little piece of practical advice Lord STANLEY dropped, in which we most heartily con cur—that as Reviews and similar demonstrations cannot be very frequent, the shooting matches, such as were inaugurated on Wimbledon-common, will be introduced into every county in England—" I hope that they will take their place amongst our national amusements, for they are an amusement as well as a kind of military discipline ; and I hope to see them adopted in every county, and if that is the case I am sure Lancashire will not be behind hand." Of course, agriculture could not be forgotten at an agricultural meeting. And we suppose we must argree with Lord STANLEY, that such meet ings are specially useful for farmers, who are not packed closely together like townspeople, and who therefore are too "apt to think there is no place like home, and that there is no farm like his ; that there are no crops and cattle like his, and that he has not much to learn from his neighbours. Now, if any Lancashire man has an illusion like that, it is an illusion which a walk over this showyard is very likely to dispel; and if a man is sharp and has his wits about him—and for my part I know very few Lancashire men who are otherwise—if he has his wits about him he can hardly help getting hold of some ideas which are worth taking home and working out ; he can hardly help going back and knowing more of his business than when he came." His lordship, however, seems to overlook that grand resort and school of farmers —the market. The yearly meeting is of course, however, a vastly larger school. Lord STANLEY also pointed to the "spirit of healthy emulation, rivalry, and competition," which these meetings create, and which is " the very life and soul of business." He honestly adverted to the glaring deficiencies, now fast passing away, of Lancashire farming :—" If you speak of manufas tures, there is no man all over the world who will not admit that Lancashire stands without a rival ; if you talk about agriculture (you see I don't mean to flatter you), although Lancashire holds a fair and satisfactory position amongst English counties, still it does not hold an equally pre-eminent and un rivalled position; but I, for one, shall not be satisfied till it does. We live in times when farming is likely to go through a revolution greater than any which the world has hitherto seen. The old time honoured implements with which men have tilled the soil and gathered in its produce since civilised society began, are, one by one, being super seded in favour of new and modern inventions." And so his Lordship concluded, pointing out what farmers ought to aim at, and what even farmers who could not afford the costly ma chines and experiments he had adverted to, could yet accomplish. "But there are some things which I believe every farmer who is worth his salt can have, whether he is a large or small farmer, and these are—straight fences, clean crops, thorough draining, aria plenty of manure. And, I take it, if a man has these four things upon his farm he will be able, for the present at least, to hold his own against any competition, native or foreign, with which he is likely to have a struggle." We have only to wish the farmers of England spirit and energy to follow, universally, the advice of Lord STANLEY, and they would certainly have but little need for importations of food. England, if she used all the manure of her towns, and carried agricul tural reform into. her more backward districts, might, we verily believe, be herself an exporting country, TilE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER' 15, 1860 FESTIVAL OF THE THREE CHOIRS. WORCESTER, FRIDAY. The audience last night was the largest that was ever gathered within the four walls of the noble College Hall. Not only was every seat occupied, but the passages, and even the stairs, had their occupants, who were forced to be content with standing-room, and many were obliged to return home without obtaining admission, all the tickets having been sold, and the stewards not feeling jus tified in taking more half-guineas, when they could not accommodate the parties who offered them. But if the muster was large in the concert hall last night, it was nothing to the throng at the cathe dral this morning, to hear the " Messiah." We stated two days ago that all the floor tickets for the morning had then been sold ; but the stewards, finding that applications were still pouring in, set carpenters to work, and enlarged the area which is usually appropriated to the principal (155.) sitters, and placed some hundreds of extra seats in the aisle. Not withstanding this there were many occupants of the choir who could find no sitting room elsewhere. The aisle tickets issued at these meetings generally reach on the best day to 600 or 630, to-day there have been upwards of 1,800 issued, those for the floor (prin cipal seats) being also issued to a much larger ex tent than ever known before. The principal seats, of course, were used by the gentry and nobility, the aisles being occupied by the tradesmen and middle classes, who are extremely musical in Worcester, though the rail brought a vast number from neigh bouring towns. A great many people went to hear for the last time Madame Novello's rendering of the affecting air, " I know that my Redeemer liveth ;" and cer tainly, to listen to such a performance as that of to day was worth a long journey and some treasure. It brought tears to the eyes of hundreds ; and, as of course was expected, at the request of the Very Rev. the Dean, it was repeated. The collection at the doors of the cathedral on behalf of the Clergymen's Widow and Orphan Charity amounted to £285 ss. 3d. It is expected that there will be a large surplus to hand over to the charity, to add to the very large sum received in donations daily at the doors of the cathedral after the oratorios and morning services, which, it should be stated, have each day been crowded. To-night there will be a grand ball at the Guild hall, which will wind up the festivities of the week. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. Lord Sandys: The will of Lieut.-General the Right Hon. Arthur Moyses William Hill, Baron Sandys, Colonel of the Scots Greys, was proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate on the Ist of the present month by his brother, Lord Geo. Augustus Hill, the sole executor. The personalty was sworn under £lO,OOO. His Lordship has left the whole of his property, real and personal, to his brother, Lord George Augustus Hill, fifth son of the second Marquis of Downshire. The will bears date the 17th of July, 1848. His Lordship died at his seat Ombersley Court, Worcestershire, on the 16th of July last, at the age of sixty-nine, and was the second son of the said Marquis, Lord Sandys having died a bachelor, the title and entailed estates pass to his brother, Lord Arthur Marcus Cecil Hill, P.C., K.T.S. of Portugal, the third son of Arthur, the said Marquis. Major-General Godfrey Charles Mundy, Lieut.- Governor of the Island of Jersey, who died in Lon don on the 10th of July last, had made his will on the Bth of May, 1855, which was proved in London on the 10th of this month. The executors are Mon tagu Chambers, Esq„ Q.C., and Abel Jenkins, Esq., of New Inn, who are also the trustees. The personal property was sworn under £12,000. The Major- General had, moreover, a power of disposition over various sums of trust property, amounting to £30,000, and on the decease of his wife—who is the daughter of the late Hon. and Very Rev. Wil liam Herbert, Dean of Carlisle—he directs that the said sum and all other property shall be divided between his two sons, the elder taking two-thirds and the younger the remainder. The Major- General has made bequests of three swords which he appears to have highly es teemed. These decorative weapons he has be queathed to his eldest son and his (the testator's) two brothers, one to each. The family of this gal lant officer is highly distinguished in rank, as well as in naval and military command. Major-General Frederick Thomas Buller, of St. Alban's place, Pall-mall, who held a commission in the Coldstream Guards, died at Dover on the sth of June last, at the age of 61 ; and during a resi dence in Austria made his will, dated the 21st of August, 1857, in Ischl, leaving all his property to his brother, the Rev. W. Buller, whom he ap pointed sole executor. The terms of the will are very brief, and drawn up in his own handwriting, and attested by two witnesses, one a French sol dier and the other a native of Austria.—From the Illustrated London News, &pt. 15. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT, Sept. 14. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES TOWN REGATTA. This event, which has been delayed to this late period of the season by. the wet weather in August, is now proposed to come off on Thursday the 20th. Her Majesty and the Royal family are annually present at the Town Regatta, and if it does not take place between the 18th and 22d that cannot be the case this year, as her Majesty will not arrive till the 18th and leaves Osborne upon. the 22d inst. The Sun, the Moon, and the Planet Venus were in conjunction on Wednesday, and were visible to the naked eye the whole day. EMBARKATION OF 7hER MAJESTY FROM GRAVESEND. It having been officially intimated to the Corporation of Gravesend that it is the intention of her Majesty to em bark at that town, for the Continent, on Saturday, the 22d inst., a special meeting of the Town Council was held at the Town-hall on Thursday, the Mayor in the chair, for the purpose of deciding upon the arrangements requisite for her Majesty's convenience. A communication was received from the London and Tilbury Railway Company, offering to place the Terrace Pier at the disposal of the Corporation for the day, and it was then resolved that this offer be accepted, and that similar arrangements should be made on the Pier for her Majesty's embarkation, and for the accommodation of the burgesses, &c., as on previous occasions. The Gravesend Volunteer Artillery Corps has applied for permission to form a guard of honour to her Majesty, but an intimation was given by the Lieutenant- Colonel of the Brigade that such privilege belongs specially to the regular troops. It has, however, been arranged that the Volunteers will have, the honour of firing a royal salute from the battery at New Tavern Fort, at the moment of her Majesty's embarkation on board the Royal Yacht. DINNER TO MR. BUCKSTONE.—Ibe members of the Haymarket company, in return for a similar invitation which they had had given to them a few weeks ago, invited their esteemed and respected manager to a dinner on the 9th inst. Mr. Chippendale, Stage-Manager, was in the chair, with Mr. C. Mathews facing him, and amongst the few visitors invited were M r . Benjamin Webster, and Mr. Robert Keeley. As the dinner was entirely of a private nature, we need only record that the numerous toasts and speeches pleasantly commemorated the harmony that has reigned throughout the establishment for so long a period, and that the health of Mr. Buckstone elicited one of the heartiest responses of the evening. MADAME GRISI AND MR. E. T. SMITM—Some weeks ago we recorded in these columns the announcement of an engagement having been made by Mr. E. T. Smith, the lessee of her Majesty's Theatre, which secured the valuable services of Signor Mario at that establishment, at the same time that it would lead to Madame Grisi taking her farewell of the lyric stage, on the boards where she first made her debut in the metropolis. A contradiction of this statement having appeared in some of our contempo raries, who assume to be well informed on operatic matters, we take this opportunity of again assuring our readers that the fact is exactly as we originally reported it, and that the subscribers to her Majesty's next season will have the op portunity of hearing both the above-named artistes, and that the positive farewell of the " great Grisi" will take place on that stage..—Era. It is stated that the directors of the Great Ship Company intend to appeal against the award of £17,000 or LlB,OOO, made by the arbitrators in favour of Mr. J. Scott Russell, who had previously received some £14,000 in ex cess of the contract price. The directors consider that the evidence taken before the arbitrators was of a one-sided character, and that the award is not just. There are good grounds for believing that the statement of the strength of General Lamoriciere's army lately circulated by several Paris papers is erroneous, and that the Papal forces are considerably more numerous than they were there made to appear. lam assured that they are very little, if at all, under 30,000 men. The French Government is despatching vessels from St. Nazaire to China laden with coal, the produce of the mines in the Haute Loire, for the supply of the squad ron in those waters. The coal reaches St. Nazaire by rail way. Three vessels, the Niemen, the Armonia, and the Souvenanoe, have left, or are on the point of leaving, con veying 2,650 tons of French coal. HEENAN'S BELT.—We understand a gentleman, well known for his liberality in yachting, as welt as in thea. • trical circles, has dis,eharged the money duo to the host where Heenan's belt was retained, and has forwarded the same to him by the last American mail,—Era. EXTRAORDINARY SHOOTIN..—Five sergeants of the 22d depot battalion, Stirling, having got up a shooting match in the first period (from 150 to 300 yards) on Friday, the 7th inst., made an average of 29.40 points per man ; and having, on Sunday last, seen in the United Service Gazette a paragraph relative to a detachment of eight men of the 2d battalion. 18th Foot making in the Ist period— file, volley, and ski rm i s hi ng practice—the then unpre cedented average of 55.64, the sergeants then resolved, if possible, to gain pe rm i ss i on t o per f orm th e fil e , vo ll e y, an d skirmishing practice. This liberty having been granted, and the practice conducted under the superintendence of Capt. Webber, 42d Royal Highlanders, musketry instructor to the battalion, the following are the averages obtained : let period, 29.40; file firing, 13.20 ; volley, 13 . 20 ; skirmish ing, 9 80—making the figure of merit 65 - 60. Per centage of hits to rounds fired, 86.80. which we believe to be the best shooting with the Enfield rifle ever published, LAT EST NEW S. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, SEPT. 15. The Constitutionnel publishes an article by its chief editor M. Grandguillot, explaining the policy followed by the Emperor in Italy-. The Constitutionnel says :—The object of the French Government in recalling its Ambassador from Turin is to express its dissatisfaction at the course which has been taken by Sardinia, but such a disavowal is far from a rupture. The interests of France and Sardinia always coinciding, re quire that Piedmont should remain the insur mountable rampart of the Italian peninsula. The legitimate enlargement of her territory, which she owes to our common victories and to the treaties, cannot in any case be compromised." TURIN, SATURDAY. General Fanti entered Perugia yesterday. The town was taken, after a hot fight, which was continued in all the streets. The troops of the enemy withdrew into the for :ress, which surrendered towards evening. Our troops made 1,600 prisoners, among whom us General Schmidt. Our losses are insignificant. TURIN, FRIDAY EVENING. General Cialdini, after having followed the enemy's corps on the road to Ancona, and dispersed them, has re-entered Sinigaglia with 200 German prisoners. The official Gazette of Turin publishes a Govern ment memorandum addressed by the King of Sar dinia to his representatives abroad, and dated 12th September. The memorandum explains the state of things in Italy since the peace of Villafranca. It adverts to the refusal of the Court of Rome to accede to the demand of Sardinia to disband the foreign legions, and justifies by imperative reasons the step taken by Sardiaia. The Sardinian Government could not allow the Italian movement to dissipate itself in anarchy and disorder. The memorandum confirms the assurance already given that the royal troops will scrupulously re spect Rome and the surrounding territory, and it makes an appeal to the Holy Father, who some years ago inaugurated the national movement. The memorandum thus concludes :—" When the Pope shall recognise the regeneration of Italy, which enters into the designs of Providence, he will again become the Father of the Italians, as he has never ceased to be the august and venerable Father of all the faithful." PARIS, FRIDAY. The Petrie says :—" Authentic advices report that the revolutionary movement in the Marches and Umbria does not extend itself among the in habitants of those countries." The same journal announces that Baron Brenier, with the personnel of the embassy, has embarked at Naples, in order to return to Paris. The repre sentatives of the> other powers have also received orders immediately to quit the kingdom. Baron Talleyrand will leave Turin on the 15th instant. Count Rayneval will undertake the direction of the affairs of the French Legation. The Opinion Nationale says :—" If we are well informed, the Austrian cabinet has announced to the French government that Austria, for her own security, is about to concentrate a corps of observa tion of 50,000 men at Mantua and on the river Po, but that she has no intention of intervening in the events resulting from the entry of Sardinian troops into the Papal States." AJACCIO, SEPT. 14. The Emperor and the Empress have arrived here. TURIN, SEPT. 14. The Turin journals publish a proclamation ol General Lamoriciere declaring a state of siege at Perugia. The proclamation is dated the 7th inst. General Lamoriciere threatens the inhabitants with confiscation of property, death, and a fine of 30,000 ducats, for even a more fracture of the tele graph wires, The Opinione says :—" Cardinal Antonelli hav ing refused to accede to the demands of Piedmont, Count Minerva has left Rome and has arrived at Florence." FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 14.—The arrival of the English funds with lower quotations, and the announce ment in the illoniteur of the recall of the French Ambassador from Turin, has caused some degree of heaviness in the market, but without effecting any change in quotations ; Threes, for the Account, being now as yesterday 67f 80c. Mobilier have varied from 672 f 50c to 673 f 75c; Orleans, 1,377 f 50e ; Northern, 957 f 50c ; Mediterranean, 887 f 50e ; Austrian, 456 f 25c ; Lombard, 457 f 50e. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 95 35 1 Credit Fancier BB7 50 Do end month.... Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 85 , Roman Bank Shares 2815 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 672 50 , Spanish Threes — Do. Account 675 I Home Debt .. 46 60 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans l3BO 1378 75 Northern 951 25 .. 956 25 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 888 75 .. 888 75 Geneva — .. 350 Southern 497 50 Western .. Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lorrbaxd . 456 25 .. 458 75 AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY. The Royal Mail steamer Arabia arrived here at 10.30 p.m. to•day. She brings 72 passengers, 61,241 dole. in specie, and £5,000 sterling for England. She left Boston on the 6th, and Halifax on the 7th inst. The Arabia landed all the mails except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 10.55 p.m. all well. The America, Palestine, Manchester, and Bavaria, had arrived out. Despatches received from Toronto and Kingston report trouble between the Prince's party and the Orangemen. The Prince refused to land at Kingston. A battle had occurred in Mexico between Begollado and Miramon. The latter was defeated and badly wounded, but escaped with a few cavalry. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, SEPT. 4, EVENING. Money is in activo demand at full rates. Ex change slack, but not lower. Stocks active and firmer. New York Centrals 831 to 84 ; Erie 27. 1 8 4 Illinois 86 to 861. Cotton steady. Sales nominally unchanged. Breadstuff and freight firm. NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 3. Cotton sales to-day 2,200 bales. The market is firm, but unchanged. Oswego. Sept. 3,—Flour dull and unchanged. Chicago, Sept. 3,—Flour dull, 10 c. lower ; Corn 1 to 2 c. lower. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 6. The America from Liverpool was intercepted off Cape Race on the 4th inst. The Prince Albert from Galway arrived at St. John's on the sth inst. Serious Orange troubles are expected at King ston and Toronto. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales refused to land at Kingston, the Orangemen having refused to withdraw the colours of their party. Cannonading took place at Trucillo on the 24th August. It is supposed to have been from a com bined attack of a British frigate and the Guatemala forces. News from Mexico state that Miramon had been ,otally routed by Degollado. The New York cotton market is steady. Flour remains steady, prices are advancing. Wheat is buoyant, and quotations are 2c. to 3c. higher. Indian corn is firm, and 2c. to 3c. higher. ORLEANS, SEPT. 5. The cotton market is unchanged. Sales in three days, 6,000 bales ; receipts during the same period, 18,500. GLASGOIV ADDRESS TO GARIBALDI. The following address to General Garibaldi was agreed to at a meeting of the " Glasgow Garibaldi Fund" Committee, on 'Wednesday, and will be for warded to Naples at once : To his Excellency General Garibaldi, the Liberator of Italy, from the Glasgow Committee of The Garibaldi Italian Fund.' " General,—Wo have the high honour and felicity of addressing you, and presenting our sincere congratulations on your marvellous series of successes, inaugurated at Marsala, and culminating in your triumphant and blood less occupation of the city of Naples. Your former bril liant and spotlesss career in South America, in Rome, and in Northern Italy had inspired us with the most pro found feelings of confidence in your pure, unselfish pa triotism, your consummate genius, and your chivalric valour. But your subsequent campaign in Sicily and Naples has still further increased our admiration of your virtues and confidence in your abilities. And we are sure that we express the unanimous opinion of the free people of this free nation when we state that no character of ancient or modern times has developed, whether in prosperity or adversity, such a combination of the highest qualities of humanity; and that history records no parallel of a man who has, by his undoubted and acknowledged merits alone, commanded, as you have, the enthusiastic and spontaneous admiration and esteem of every lover of freedom through out the world. Italy is worthy of your chivalrous crusade. Once ' the mistress of the world' and the centre of civilisa tion, she has, alas I by centuries of misrule, cruel poli tical despotism, and gross spiritual delusion, ' fallen from her high estate,' and has become a scoff and a byword among civilised nations. It is your missien, General, to restore your classic and beloved country—so blessed by God and so cursed by man—to her place among free nations, and to raise her to her former greatness. We lDok with the utmost confidence to the successful result of your grand object; and if the Italian people are only true to them selves we shall have presented to us one of the grandest spectacles the world ever saw, in the resurrection of a nation to political life, brought about through the in strumentality of one man I While our Government wisely abstains from interfering in the present com plications, the privilege is ours, as a free people, to offer you the expression of our warmest admira tion, and to strengthen your hands by assuring you of the strong sympathy we feel in your earnest determination to finish the good work throughout the whole peninsula. And we have the most unbounded confidence that what you have thus far so auspiciously accomplished will, by the help and under the blessing of Divine Providence, be brought to a successful consummation. Britain, unhap pily, had a part in the work of imposing foreign rulers on the Italian people. It is our duty, therefore, as it is our desire, to assist in expunging this blot from our country's history. And while we cannot aid you by our presence in the field of action, we have felt it to be an honour and a privilege to assist you with our contributions, which we have forwarded to you from time to time. These subecrip. tions are but a meagre expression of the sympathy which the Scottish people entertain for you personally, and for the noble and righteous cause of Italian freedom and unity, of which you are the acknowledged and worthy re presentative, for no amount of gold can adequately express the universality and intensity of that feeling. 'We would present our sincere and earnest prayer to Almighty God, who has thus far so wonderfully guided and protected you through great difficulties and dangers, and led you on from ♦ictory to victory for His own all-wise purposes, that Ho may still spare your valuable life, so that you may be en abled to accomplish your great purpose of establishing a free Italy—that you may witness Italy a great and flourish ing nation, with a people happy and good—and that you may long enjoy those honours you have so nobly earned, and which a grateful country will be only too proud to be • stow upon you. And we would conclude by assuring you that none will more cordially or sincerely rejoice in your health, prosperity, and happiness than the Scottish sub scribers to the Garibaldi Italian Fund.'—We have the honour to subscribe ourselves, your most devoted friends.— Signed by the members of committee. " ROBERT M'TEAR, Hon. Sec. " Glasgow, Sept. 12." FIRST LOVE. (From " Once a- Week.") She was the first, the only star That shone upon my life, The summer of my days had set Before I called her wife ; The leaves have fallen twenty times Beneath our trysting tree, Since the ringers shook the rafters In the belfry by the sea. The pulses of my heart beat slow, With calm, unflutter'd stroke, Till with a party from the Grange I pic-nic'd at the Oak ; A stranger to our Forest ways, She came with Alan's bride, One glance—l knew my love was come— The old indifference died. The park, a summer's walk across, Was famous in the shire ; The porter at the crested gates Grew rich and blessed the squire; I show'd the glade where ballads say The King met Robin Hood, I took her where, as boys, we cropped Wild strawberries in the wood. The gardens and the orange trees, The swans upon the lake, The gazing stags among the fern, The pheasants in the brake ; These sumptuous signs of wealthy state She stw with sweet surprise, And I—new light was on them all, Seen with a lover's eyes. When Alan blew his warning horn, My chestnut joined her bay; Down the long grassy "rides" we rode, And watched the rabbits play. The dead sun in his crimson shroud Lay buried in the west, And Love was nestling in my heart, An inmate, not a guest. A gipsy party gaily plann'd, A smile, a soft " good night," And then I left the low white house, Just as the stars were bright : Lost in some far, forgotten sea, The sailor on the shore Sights, to his joy, the ship that come s To bear him home once more. The bride moon with her dower of stars Twice grew to matron age, Before my birdie flew away Back to her northern cage ; She knew the abbey pictures well, She dared the haunted room, We laughed around the Oak again, And saw the aloe bloom. A promise in the oriel won To crown my growing bliss, A drooping head, a circled waist, And such a binding kiss 0, happy time ! 0, happy time I It never has its fallow— The one green leaf that hangs among So many sere and yellow. Before the Autumn spent his wrath Upon the rectory vine, I claim'd the promise that'she made, I went and whisper'd, " mine :" May's father trembled as he said, " Take her, a trusting wife, And cherish one whose love has thrown A glory round my life." Some days beside a lonely mere, (Lured by the waterfall), And then we settled at the Grange, For Alan took the Hall : How swift the lustres pass'd along, Sweet heart, with love and you, For if the sky was sometimes dark, There came a break of blue. And ever as the year winds round, And brings the longest day, We gather at the Forest Oak, Where first I met my May ; . Look, Alan's boy and our maybud Are coming down the " ride," Perhaps before another Juno There'll be another bride. R. F. SKETCI3LEY. THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST. - -The wea ther during the past week has been everything that could be desired in the important agricultural districts on the eastern side of the kingdom, and by this (Saturday) even ing the wheat harvest may be considered as concluded. The quality of the crop has so often been referred to that it it is uruaecess aqy to repeat th e i n f ormation already pub lished ; but itis satisfactory to find that'the later accounts received are, on the whole, of a rather more favourable cha racter. Much of the newly secured crop will not be fit for thrashing for some little time, but several of the smaller farmers appear to be already bringing all they can forward, so as to realise at the comparatively high quotations which have been obtained of late. The are no doubt, acting wisely in so doin g , f or t h e markets have shown a decided downward tendency; and, having regard to the great yi eld in the United St a t es, it appears ' very doubtful whether the present prices will b e ma i nta i ne d . The barley harvest is by no means so f orwar d as the w h ea t, b u t with a few more alio days the growers will soon ,‘ make up for lee way." 2HE FRENCH TROOPS IN CHINA. The 21Ioniteur publishes the following details relative to the proceedings of the French troops in China : " The last mail from China has not brought tho particulars of the first operations towards which the impatient curiosity of Europe is at this moment directed, but official and private despatches and let ters contain information respecting the countries visited by the expedition, of which we feel it our duty to give a brief summary. " It was on the 2d July that Gen. Montauban left Shanghai, to take up a position in the Gulf of Pe-Tche-Li, on the small peninsula of Tche-Fu, the occupation of which by the French troops had been resolved on in concert with the allied gonerals and admirals. " After a day's sail the French flotilla, when off the Sadle Islands (at the mouth of the Yang-Tze- Kiang), fell in with the Weser, which had sailed from Toulon on the 25th March, and reached Hong- Kong on 25th June. The Calvados and Entrepre nante, laden with horses from Japan, also arrived in those waters after a successful passage ; lastly, the Duperre, bringing detachments of African Chas seurs and Spahis, came to complete the forces of the expedition. The French camp at .Tche-Fu occupies a spit of land about 600 metres long by 300 wide. It is well supplied with fresh water and everything necessary for the well-being of the troops; the climate is at this moment as salubrious as possible ; the tempe rature is about the same as spring in France, and the appearance of the country is really magnificent. It has not the monotony of Shanghai, where the eye is not relieved by any inequalities of the soil. While equally well cultivated with Shanghai, Tche-Fu presents mountains covered with wood ; the plain extends like a vast lawn down to the coast, which is fringed with islands offering excellent ports for fishing boats. In winter the cold attains a degree of intensity of which it is impossible to form any idea from merely contemplating the means which the natives employ to protect themselves against it ; but, before the fine season is over, the allied forces will have got over plenty of ground, and the Chinese Government will probably have provided their winter quarters. " On advancing a few leagues into this favoured country ♦illages, which are charmingly clean, aro found. The walls of the houses are constructed of cut stone, as is seen on railways. Not one of the villagers is armed ; all receive us with cordiality ; and the poor come to eat the food which the sol diers leave. It is not assuredly our little French army which will cause the Chinese to dread the European character and relations. "The town near which the French troops are encamped is called Yen-Tai ; its population is from 10,000 to 12,000 souls. Near it is the little town of Ki-sen• soo, which is surrounded with an embank ment of earth, with gates in stone. It is but thinly occupied just now, but every day the inhabitants are returning. The communication between tho French camp and the people are carried on at Yen- Tai, and in all the neighbouring places up to the town of Ten g-Tchou-Fu, the chief town of that part of the province of Chang -Tang. Teng-Tchou-Fu is, it is said, a town of the first class, carrying on a large trade ; it is eight leagues from Tche-Fu, and some of its inhabitants, attracted by curiosity, have visited the French camp. " Our troops maintain the most friendly rela tions with the inhabitants, and every day, from five in the morning to four in the afternoon, a market is kept open at Tche•Fu, and is abun dantly supplied with poultry, eggs, fresh pork, vegetables, B,:c. The market people and our soldiers perfectly understand each other, although the igno rance of a common language is a serious difficulty, but signs are employed, and the intelligence of the French soldier (to which that of the Chinese dealer is not inferior), makes up for what cannot be ex pressed in words. Everything is very cheap, and the inhabitants must possess incredibly large quan tities of all sorts of poultry to be able to supply the market on the large scale they do. The Emperor's soldiers have surpassed the dream of the good King Harry, for la poule au pot is their daily fare. Fish is also very abundant. " The excellent food of our troops, assured by the active vigilance of the military administration, contributes greatly to maintain a good sanitary condition. The hospital returns show that on the Bth July there were only 64 sick, which was about 1 per cent. of the effective force. Everything purchased from the inhabitants is paid for in cash; they consequently feel perfect confidence in our troops, and the administration has been able to treat very easily for all that is necessary to feed both men and horses. In all parts of the town of Yen-Tai Chinese traders have put up French inscriptions indicating their species of commerce ; one of these bears the words Change cli Monnaies. " Excessively severe police regulations are en forced in the market of Tche-Fa, Four sergeants of different corps are appointed every day to see to the maintenance of order; the command of the town is confided to a chef de botanic" who receives all complaints and observations of the notables, and of the tao-tai, a sort of mayor, who is an inferior mandarin with a brass button. " Mules of the best sorts are found in this country; the inhabitants on the very first day of' our arrival brought out about 50, which in height are not inferior to those of Poitou. The General in-Chief is expecting a much greater number, which are destined for the mountain batteries, and only cost 250 f. each. " General de Montauban, on the 11th, received at Tche-Fu a visit from Gen. Grant, commanding in-chief the English army in China, who came from Ta-Lien-Hwant to confer on the common interests of the allied forces. The military honours due to his high position were paid to his Excellency by the French troops, and after having, with all his staff, dined with General de Montauban, he went over the camp. The bands saluted the commander of the troops of H.M. the Queen of Great Britain by playing the national air of God save th e Q ueen ' as he passed before the regiments. The artillery in which Ja panese horses are employed manceuvred before his Excellency: these horses, though they arrived only five days before, executed all the movements with perfect precision. General G ran t exam i ne d with interest a bridge of 80 metres (about 87 yards) at the Birago, constructed by the French pontoonmen, and over which batteries can pass. He was much pleased with all he saw, and he said so with that good grace and frank cordiality which characterise military habits. " Before embarking, General Grant made General de Montaub an p rom ise to visit his head quarters at the English camp. A salvo of eleven guns saluted the departure of th 6 commander-in chief of the British troops. " The hour of combat was approaching when the preceding details were addressed to us, the allied forces having decided on commencing hostilities by an attack on the works which defend the entrance of the Peiho. " The French navy and troops, whose irresistible impetuosity will be doubled by the constant accord of their commanders, were preparin g f or a d ec i s i ve a ction ; and whilst in Europe s o muc h i s sa i d o f jealous rivalries, the English and French in China were about to oompete in bravery and ardour for the common cause—that of justice, commerce and civilisation." , It is reported, and we (Australian and New Zea land Gazette) have reason to believe with some probability, that Sir W. Denison, the governor of New South Wales, or Sir H. Barley, governor of Victoria, are likely to be pro moted to one of the Indian presidencies. Both have bad a bong experience in colonial administration, and by their ad ministrative ability, judgment, and courtesy, have not only made themselves highly respected in the colonies, but have materially been the cause of the removal of that stigma which for so long a time attached to the appointments of our colonial governors. THE EARL Or KINGSTON.—CHESTER, Thursday. —A gentleman, who stated himself to be a friend of the Earl of Kingston, and who was supposed to be a solicitor from London, though his name was not allowed to trans pire, arrived hero this morning, and, attending at the office of the magistrates' clerk, paid all expen ses in curred on th e ear l' s accoun t, and obtained an order to have his lo r d s hip g i ven up to him by the officers of the a w s ea um re , andtold said he should, was very con- County Asylum. lii tent during his residence lordship,ctheeat asylum, have no objection to stay there for a month. Hi s l or d s hi p left her e f or Dublin by the express train, at 3.45 p.m., to day. THE FIGHT AT TARANARL—The mail has ar rived from Taranaki; it brings the said intimatien that our gallant British soldiers and blue jackets have suffered a defeat. Let not the word defeat grate t oo h ars hl y on your ears; our N ave troops, with their e qua ll y b rave and indo mitable commander, Major N e l son , performed prodigies of valour, and showed themselves what, we have always imagined the British soldier and sailor to be—men who will flinch at nothing where duty calls. But these gal lant men were left to tight —some 35 0 —against swarms of natives, for nearly five hours, unaided by troops which were almost within call, for Colonel Gold, and the equally brave Lieutenant -Colonel Murray had some 200 troops at their back while reconnoitering the very spot where the battle was raging. They were on a hill which commanded a view of the attacked rebel pah; they knew that Major Nelson must have been repulsed, for they skill saw the Maori flag flying and heard shots from the pah, and yet these gallant soldiers ordered their murmuring men to march back again to quarters. Mind the men under their command all desired to be led against the pah, and yet "retire" was the order given. The sailors laid down and refused to retire, the soldiers groaned and hissed.— Nelson correspondent of New Zealand Examine'.