The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-21 00:00:00

,t Aberdeen. ABERDEEN, Thursday Evening. This afternoon the Prince of Wales presided at the inauguration of a fine marble statue of the Queen. The town for the time may be said to have kept holiday. After 12 o'clock all business was at an end in the banks and chief mercantile offices, while, in compliance with the request of the Lord Provost and magistrates, shops were closed from noon till 4 o'clock. From the railway station at Guild-street, all along the route of the procession, to the corner of St. Nicholas-street, where the statue stands, the streets and windows were filled with a dense crowd. Flags and streamers were plentifully displayed along the route, and the har bour presented a very grand effect, the vessels being decorated with their colours and ensigns. Barriers, to prevent the crowd encroaching too closely upon the procession, were erected on each side of the streets, the city and county police occupying posi tions where the crush was likely to be greatest. The Artillery and Rifle Volunteers, under Colonels Gor don and Erskine, and with the Highland depot at present quartered in the town, commanded by Col. Gordon, and the men of the Royal Naval Reserve, were posted along the line of route. One hundred and fifty officers and men of the 72d Highlanders, from Edinburgh Castle, were also in attendance, by order of the Duke of Cambridge. The arrangements made by the authorities, civil and military,were very complete, and conduced much to the comfort and success of the day'sproceedings. During the forenoon a good deal of rain fell, but after 1 o'clock the wea ther cleared up and it remained quitefair. The situa tion chosen for the statue is one of the most conspi cuous in the city ; indeed, the only fear is that the position is too public for the safety of so fine a work. It stands at the corner of St. Nicholas-street, right opposite the to of Market-street, and within two hundred yards of the Post-office, having for a back ground the Town and County Bank. The sub scriptions to procure the statue were collected im mediately after the inauguration of the statue of the Prince Consort by her Majesty in October, 1863. A thousand pounds was soon obtained, not a few of the subscribers being working men. Baron Marochetti's statue of the Prince Consort was, it may be remembered, of metal, and represents his late Royal Highness seated in a chair in the dress of a field-marshal. The work unveiled to-day has a far more effective appearance, the artist, Mr. Alexander Brodie, a local sculptor, has represented the Queen standing, bearing the sceptre in her right hand, while with the other hand she clasps the folds of her tartan plaid. The drapery is skilfully managed. The figure of her Majesty stands Bft. 6in. in height, is cut from a block of Sicilian marble, and is placed on a richly polished pedestal over ten feet in height. At the back of the statue runs an ornamental railing, while in front are three lamps. The inauguration proceedings proper began at half past 12 o'clock, at which hour the Lord Provost, magistrates, and Town Council, with the Principal and Professors of the University, and other gentle men who were to' join in the procession that was to convey the Prince of Wales to the scene of unveil ing, assembled in the Town-hall. Thence they drove to the Deeside Railway-station in Guild -street. Here a large company of ladies and gentlemen were in waiting, admission to the station being obtained by ticket. The Prince was to arrive at half-past one o'clock, but it was 12 minutes to two before the train reached the station. During the interval the attention of the spectators was in a great measure centred in Lord Derby, who, having just arrived from the south, on his way to Balmoral, unex pectedly found himself one of the reception party. Among the party in waiting to receive the Prince were Sir Alexander Anderson, Lord Provost of the city, the magistrates and members of the Town Council, the Earl of Kintore, lord-lieutenant of the county, Sir James Burnett, lord-lieutenant of Kincardineshire, Mr. Dyce NicOl, M.P., Sheriff Jamieson, Sheriff-substitute Thomson, Principal Campbell and the Professors of the University ; Mr. William Leslie, chairman of the committee of sub scribers to the statue, with several of the leading members of the committee ; Convener Berry and the members of the Incorporated Trades; the Commis sioners of Police ; Mr. Brodie and Mr. Ellis, the sculptor and architect of the statue, &c. The arrival of the Royal carriage was the signal for a hearty round of cheers. The Prince, who was dressed in Highland costume, on alighting acknowledged the compliment by frequently bowing to the spectators. His Royal Highness was accompanied by General Knollys, Colonel Keppel, and Dr. Robertson, her Majesty's Commissioner at Balmoral. Some dis appointment was evidently felt that the Prince was not accompanied by the Princess. In accordance with a unanimous resolution of the Town Council to confer the freedom of the city upon the Prince, Sir Alexander Anderson addressed him as follows : " May it please your Royal Highness, —I have the honour, as chief magistrate of Aberdeen, to present to you my col leagues, the magistrates and Town Council, who are in attendance, to assure your Royal Highness of the warm wel come of the citizens, of the high gratification with which your visit is received by every class of the community, of the universal affection entertained for you, and that they warmly share in the high hopes of your future entertained throughout the British nation. I have it in charge, also, from the Town Council, to express their unanimous wish that your Royal Highness will be graciously pleased to accept the freedom of this ancient city as the highest mark of re spect in their power to bestow. With the permission of your Royal Highness, the Town Clerk will read the diploma." Mr. Angus, Town Clerk, here read the diploma in the following terms : " Quod bonum, faustum, felix, fortunatum sit : "Aberdonian, XII. gal. Oct. " Anno millesimo octingentesimo sexagesimo sexto, " Prrefectus, Cieterique Magistratus et Commune Concilium " Civitatis Aberdononsis, "Principem Celsissimum, " ALBERTUM EDVARDUM, " Vallias Principem, ." Quo tempore Aberdoniam urbom primum visebat, ‘‘ "Ut a morem et fidem In Principom spei florentissimm " Non sedum bubo eivitati, "Verum etiam toti genti Britannica 3 "Tam merit() earum, " Testarentur, "Civitato donaruut. "In cujus rei testimoniurn hocce Diploma., " Sigillo Publico et Scribal Commune "Chirographo muniendum curarunt. "JOANNES ANGUS, " Scrib. Comm." The diploma, when it had been read, was fastened by a riband of the Highland cap of the Prince. The Provost, then prOceeding, said,— " The manner in which this diploma is handed to your Royal Highness is in accordance with time-honoured usage. I now have the honour to welcome your Royal Highness as the youngest burgess of bon accord, in memory of your illustrious father, and to a long list of honourable names standing on the roll. (Cheers.) The Prince then said : "My Lord Provost and Gentlemen—l thank you for the honour you have conferred on me by presenting me with the freedom of the ancient city of Aberdeen. I thank you also for the welcome I have received to-day. I shall not easily forget the kindness you have shown me on this oc casion. (Cheers.) This ceremony over, no time was lost by the gentlemen of the reception party, the Prince and suite, in making their way to the carriages in wait ing. The p rocession then started fronithe railway station in the annexed order B ody of Police. Military Escort. The Convener, and Master of Hospital of the IncoVrated Trades. The Principal and Professors of the University. Mr. Brodi e an d Mr. Ellis. ;The Sub-Committee of Subscribers. Tho Lord Lieutenant, the Sheriffs, Convener, and Member of Parliament for the County. The Lord Provost, Magistrates, .and Town Council. The Suite in Attendance on his Royal Highness. Members of the Royal Family. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. Military Escort. All along the route the Prince received a hearty welcome from the crowd, and he frequently acknow ledged the demonstrations made froni the streets and windows, The procession halted at the Royal Hotel (Robertson's), which is only separated from the statue by the breadth of Union-street. In front of the hotel a balcony was erected, from which the ceremony of unveiling the statue was to take place. Re entered the hotel and appeared on the balcony, preceded by the Lord Provost, and accompanied by a number of gentlemen already named. Loud cheers greeted him, which he answered by biting his bonnet and bowing. The Rev. Professor Milligan, D.D., one of the Deans of the Chapel Royal, then o Tered up an ap propriate prayer, after which Mr. Leslie, chairman of the subscribers to the statue, reading the follow ing address To HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, &C. " May it please your Royal Highness, " This statue which your Royal Highness has graciously come to inaugurate is intended as a lasting memorial of the sentiments of devoted loyalty and ardent attachment which the inhabitants of Aberdeen and the neighbourhood entertain towards her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, and their sense of the blessings they enjoy under her bene ficent reign. " The idea of erecting this statue originated with some tradesmen of the city, immediately after the visit of her Majesty to Aberdeen to inaugurate the statue of the late lamented Prince Consort. The proposal was cordially sup ported by all classes in the city and county, including a large number of the working men of Aberdeen. " The committee of subscribers beg to express their gra titude to her Majesty for her kindness and condescension in affording such ample opportunities to their artist to per feet the model, and trust that the statue now about to be unveiled will, as a work of art, be satisfactory to her Ma jesty and an ornament and honour to the city of Aberdeen. " The committee also desire most respectfully to thank your Royal Highness for kindly acceding to their request to come to inaugurate this statue, and to express their loyalty and attachment to your Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, and the other members of your Royal Highness's family. " That her Majesty may long be spared to diffuse the blessings of good government and example, and to enjoy the happiness of reigning over a loyal and devoted people, is our earnest and constant prayer. "In name and by appointment of the committee of sub scribers, " WILLIAM LERLIF, Chairman. " Aberdeen, Sept. 20, 1866." - Mr. Westland having presented the Prince with .the address, his royal highness accepted it, and said : " Gentlemen,—lt has afforded me the greatest satisfaction of attending here this day by wish of her Majesty and at your invitation for the purpose of inaugurating the statue of the Queen, my dear mother. Her Majesty has desiredme to express how much she appreciates the motives which have led the people of Aberdeen to give this lasting evidence of their attachment and loyalty to her person, of which she has had so many proofs, and whose sym pathy in her groat sorrow has touched her so deeply. Her Majesty's satisfaction is much enhanced by the cordial unanimity which has combined all classes in your city and county in the erection of a work so grateful to her Majesty's feelings, and so satisfactory as a work of art. On my part I have to thank you, gentlemen, for the expres sions of attachment you have been good enough to make use of towards myself and the Princess of Wales and other members of the Royal family, and I heartily desire to join in your prayers that her Majesty may long be spared to reign over a happy, devoted people." (Cheers.) The Prince then, advancing to the front of the balcony, pulled the cord affixed to the flag which enveloped the statue, and in a second or two it was unveiled amid loud and enthusiastic cheering. The Prince expressed his high admiration of the statue, and warmly complimented Mr. Brodie on his suc cess. Before leaving the balcony his Royal High ness also congratulated Mr. Leslie, chairman of the committee of subscribers, and Mr. Alexander Yeats, their secretary, on the success of their labours. Inscribed on the pedestal of the statue are these words : " VicromA, D. G. Britanniarum Regina, 1866." When the ceremony had been completed the Prince drove to the house of the Lord Provost, where his Lordship and Lady Anderson had the honour of entertaining his Royal Highness and a distinguished party at luncheon. At 10 minutes past 4 the Prince and suite left by special train for Abergeldie Castle. Court of Common Council. THE GAS QUESTION IN THE CITY. A special Court of Common Council was held yesterday at Guildhall, for the purpose of taking into consideration a report of the Special Gas Committee delivered in at the sitting of the court last week, re lating to the important question of the supply of gas to the citizens of London. Alderman FINNIS presided as locum tenens for the Lord Mayor. The report, which extended to considerable length, and which had been printed, set forth the various proceedings that had been taken by the committee with a view to break up the monopoly enjoyed by the three gas companies that at present supply the City with gas, and to obtain a better, cheaper, and purer supply than is at present furnished. The report stated that in accordance with the suggestion of the commit tee of the House of Commons that was appointed to investigate the subject, they had made proposals to all the existing companies for the purchase of their works, and it appeared that although the answers they received from them were couched in different terms, they were all to the same effect, namely, to decline the proposition. The report congratulated the court and the public that although the bill they bad introdueed into Parliament for the purpose of enabling the corporation to erect works of their own to supply the city with gas, had been rejected, still their efforts before the Select Parliamentary Gas Committee had led to the satisfactory result of ob taining a report from that committee which entirely endorsed the opinions arrived at long before by the citizens of London and the public generally, that the gas, as at present supplied by the existing companies, was deficient in quantity, and in purity and in illu minating power, and of an exorbitant price, and that the late Home Secretary had expressed his intention of giving instructions that abill should be introduced into Parliament as speedily as possible, based upon the report of the committee of the House of Com mons, and with a view to remedy the evils that were complained of. The report also stated that the com mittee had been in communication with the present Home Secretary upon the subject, and he appeared to be fully inclined to carry out the views of his predecessor in office, but the committee at the same time observed that it was in their opinion very ne cessary that the matter should be earnestly pressed upon the attention of the Government, and they therefore recommended that they should be em powered to continue to act and take such steps in the matter as they might deem to be expedient. Mr. J. F. BONTEMS, the chairman of the special Committee, on: moving that the report be agreed to by the court, and that the committee should be em powered to continue their labours, went at consider able length into the various proceeding that had been adopted by them with a view to carry out the Wishes of the court. recurred to the course t h at was taken by the select committee of the House of Commons, and said that notwithstanding that committee was not favourably constituted as re garded the corporation, and the strenuous opposi tion made by the different gas companies, they were compelled to agree to the report, which must be considered exceedingly satisfactory to the public with regard to the important object theyhad in p ro view. It was estimated that the different gas com panies had expended £lO,OOO in opposin g the ceedins, and the expense incurred by the committee had been about £B,OOO. • A discussion then took place upon the question but almost all the speakers were on one side, namely ; in support of the recommendation of the committee and eventually the report was agreed to unani mously. A report was brought up by Deputy Fry, the chairman of the improvement committee, recom mending that a sum of £400,000 should be raised upon loan for the purposes of the Holborn Valley improvement. The report was agreed to, and the court adjourned, " There is no shame to our manhood if we distrust our own ability to endure the anguish of the body. is no secret that of late local anxthesia has been produced to such ca n wa a degrea that th e patient, retaining his consciousness, tch the surgeon' s k n i fe as it cuts to cure, and yet be w i thout the l ightes t sens a ti on of physical suffering. " —Daily Telegraph, July 13, 1865. "To none is the public more in debted than to Mr. Day."—lllustrated News, page 826, June 9. "Mr. Day has succeeded in robbing tooth extraction of its horrors, and we think we are only fulfilling an act of duty in giving publicity to the fact ."—Court Journal, p. 582, May 23. Painful teeth, or disease Stumps extracted without pain. No chloroform, and perfectly safe. Every description of teeth, combining the latest inventions and improvements in dental mechanism, may be procured from Kr. DAY, dentist principal assistant to Mr. Eskell, of 8, Grosvenor -street, (late W.), 281, ltegent-street (3 doors from the Polytechnic). Pilgr, ides. (From the Times' Correspondent.) BUGLOSS (Department of the Landes), Sept. 15. Close to the spot which marks the limit of the Landes and La Chalosse, on the right bank of the Adour, about nine miles from the town of Ear, and in the midst of a desert, stands a chapel long renowned in the traditions of the country. This shrine, which was for centuries the ob ject of the deepest veneration among the populations of those sterile tracts, is known as the Chapel of Notre Dame de Buglose, from the statue of the Virgin which it contains; and it attracts crowds of pilgrims every autumn from the neighbouring departments. La Chalosse, in Lower Guienne, once formed part of the territory of the Dukes of Aquitaine, and St. Sever, its principal towns, owes its existence to a Benedictine Abbey founded there towards the close of the 10th century, but the very ruins of which have long disap peared. No spot could better be chosen by a recluse for me ditation and prayer than that on which stands the Chapel of Notre Dame. The bleating of the flocks that now and then traverse those vast plains, covered hero and there with patches of scanty vorbage, the sharp stroke of the wood man's axe among the distant firs, the roar of the waves of tho Gulf of Gascony breaking on the sandy coast, but which is softened by distance into a murmur, or tho moaning that comes from out the depths of the pine forest as the ocean breeze sweeps through it, are the only sounds heard there. To the north and east of the shrine extend the sandy and apparently boundless plains ; to the west, the vegetation of the Mare nien ; to the south the horizon is bounded by the jagged peaks of the Pyrenees, and in the foreground the eye re poses on the wooded uplands of the Chalosse, bathed by the waters of the Adour. On one side is a desolate steppe ; on the other are rich slopes, smiling valleys, and fields waving with corn. The spot on which the chapel of Notre Dame de Bugles() stands was the site of an ancient oratory, which had been resorted to from time immemorial for devotional exercises, and the statue it contained was endowed by popular super stition with wonderful gifts. During the religious troubles of the 16th century it was laid in the dust, and the statue disappeared. An edict of Jeanne d'Albert, Queen of Lower Navarre and Bearn, and mother of Henri IV., who intro duced the reformed faith into her States in 1567, ordered that all the rural oratories and chapels, "which tended to keep alive silly superstitions, as well as the shrines in the towns and villages, should be demolished, and the materials turned to useful purposes." One of tha first of these resorts dear to the devout and superstitious, that was treated in the way the edict of Jeanne recommended was the Saint Cha pelle of Buglose. It was burnt to the ground in 1570. It is handed down in the traditions of the country that its great attraction and its great ornament, the statue of Our Lady, was saved from destruction by a few zealous worshippers, who threw into a morass near to the fountain, still called the Fountain of Miracles. In the course of time the memory of the miraculous gifts of the Sainte Chapelle began to fade away ; the pilgrimage had long ceased, for the few persons who knew where the image was concealed died without intrusting the secret to any one. An accident disclosed its hiding-place. The story runs that, about 100 years after its disappearance, a herdsman of the parish of Pouy, who used to drive his oxen to the edge of the morass, remarked that one of his animals constantly strayed from the rest of the herd, plunged into the water, and remained there the whole day, occasionally raising his head and lowing pite ously. This occurred so often that the man's curiosity was roused. He followed the animal, and found him lick ing what appeared to be the feet of a woman's figure, which just rose to the surface of the water. He at once ran off to announce to the priest of the parish what he had seen. The priest got together a number of men and pro ceeded at their head to the morass, and after a good deal of labour reached the spot where the ox was still standing nearly covered with water. They pulled out the statue and bore it away in triumph. A rude pedestal was piled up on the spot where the kiosk or chapel that covers in the miraculous fountain now stands, and Notre Dame de Bu glose received once more the homage of her worshippers. The traditions of its miraculous gifts were riot quite obli terated. They were soon revived, and the annual pilgri mages were resumed, and have continued to the present day. The Bishop of Dax ordered the statue to be trans ferred to the church of Pony, in his own diosess. It was placed on a car drawn by oxen, and was fol lowed by crowds of people, who flocked in from the country round about on hearing of the re covery of their long-lost relic. When the procession had advanced about four hundred paces the oxen sud denly stopped, and neither the shouts nor the goads of the drivers could make them move one inch further. It was called to mind by some of the old inhabitants that the spot where the oxen stood motionless was th 2 identical site of the ancient oratory w hi c h was b urn t iE compliance with the Queen of Navarre's edict. The clergy and the people believed they discerned a supernatural agency against which it would be impious to attempt to struggle ; and the place was fixed upon as the site of a new chapel, where the statue should find a permanent resting-place. A collection was opened for the building. The Bishop, the Karquis de Payenne, and other noble families were the first to contri bute. rn less than two years the edifice was completed ; and on the first Monday of Pentecost of the year the chapel was consecrated in presence of a vast concourse, and with great pomp. In the course of time the chapel was found to be insufficient for the crowds of worshippers who increased every year. Ten years ago a new and more elaborately ornamented structure was raised on the same site; and the statute of the Virgin and Child enthroned with due solem nity. Pope Pius .IX. issued a Brief granting a "plenary indulgence" to all who should visit on the day of its con secration, confess, communicate, and pray between the hour of evensong and sunset, before the high altar, "for concord among Christian princes, for the extirpation of heresies, and for the exaltation of our Holy Mother the Church ;" as also to those who should perform the same devotional exercise during the same !hours, on the anniversary of its consecration. The fountain which is hard by the Church, is enclosed within a kiosk; and the water is carried by pipes into a large marble re servoir for the use of invalids who, after drinking at its source, hope to complete their cure by bathing:in it. On the walls of the chapel . of the fountain are hung up crutches, 'staves, and other votive offerings attesting the efficacy of these waters. Three miles from the church of Notre Dame de Buglose is the birthplace of St. Vincent de Paul, on which a chapel has also been built in his honour. The pilgrims who visit Buglose never fail to pay their homage at the shrine of the saint, and these have for some years past become so numerons that the directors of the Bordeaux and Bayonne Railway have built for their special accommodation a station midway between the roads, con structed by the municipality, that lead to the two churches of Notre Dame and St. Vincent de Paul. On Sunday last more than 150 persons from :the en virons of Bordeaux from Bayonne, Aite, Tarbes, Pau, and the Basque country assembled together on this usually de serted spot. In accordance with the wishes of the clergy of the department of the Landes, Pius IX. authorised the crowning of the statue. To give more solemnity to the act, the Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux, the Bishops of Aire: and Dax, Puy, Tarbes, and Soissons presided at it. As the parish church of Buglose could not contain a fifth of the number, many of whom had arrived during the night, it was resolved to perform the coronation in the open air. At the entrance of the village of Buglose a triumphal arch, formed of branches of the fire tree, shrubs, and flowers, was raised in honour of the five prelates who were to take a loading part in the solemnity; another of similar materials stood in front of the church, and the houses and trees in tho intervening space were decorated with flags. The tricolour was planted in the centre of the town ; and the Pontifical banner displaying tho Tiara and the Keys floated in the Court of the Missionaries and in the alley leading to the "Chapel of Miracles." In front of tho chapel a platform was erected for the bishops and their attendants, and on it stood an altar gorgeously decorated, at which mass was to be performed by the Cardinal. To the rear of the altar, but rising high above it, stood the throne on which the statue was to be placed during its coronation. The Prefect of the Department and the other? public func tionaries had seats on a lower platform, and to the right and left of the altar benches were arranged in the form of an amphitheatre for the clergy and others who were to walk in the procession. The Orpheonist Society of Dax and the Philharmonic Societies of the neighbouring de partments had a reserved space of their own ; 800 places were kept for those who had got tickets of admission to the enclosed ground, while the maize fields to the right and left and the little grove of oaks hard by were occupied hadhte the the eanwbeen general iehneognl whole fen milgi har p tne ub itdehs l te i o andc interior ht eetrTh the oe,: The previous an r ptg e he v leo i o fo us chapel artillery, Miracles," evening an m istatueamid the were bAs tl il e lizt t ly etr il e l aks umin ef at e d and dth the durin g all e alle y daylight appeared in the distant horizon the bells of Buglose rang out to announce that the hour of the great festival was approaching. The morning was be au tif u l , not a breath stirred the fern, and the sun rose in a p er f ectly cloudless sky. The bells ' of 20 parishes repeated the signal. Crowds of men, women, and children poured in from the railway station, and moved along to the chapel reciting their rosaries Twelve altars had been erected in the open air,lfsaid tpa a s nd wB.i i t n h Aotuetntttheesisafsohirnourtghfearoppomear4-1 o per formance of mass, and at the high altar th a t rose from the us foot of the statue, mass o'clock s and i a salute in the morning till wereha of artillery announced that the cere mony was about to open. The people left the places re served for those who were to take the lead in the proces sionaut e n dceerr corteges, —the e h g e e trium phalth 0 the canons, and archpriests forming t heesa ; cro a cr n ht d . o t f h lh e to b eno i o s nu h sr o i p sat s, wedarimo fd Trophy, the Shrine of St. Vincent de Paul, and the tihtsreceomeeipnarg Mira culous Statue. The first was opened by a detachment of sappers with drums and trumpets, cross-bearers, choristers carrying flags, the Sisters .of our Lady of Loretto, of the Reunion, of the Christian Do ctrine, the Sisters of Nevers, the Daughters of the Cross, .and other religious communi ties; while pilgrims walked o) I both sides carrying banners, on which were inscribed the n lost remarkable facts relating to the statue —its discovery int 1620, the pilgrimage of the Bishop of Dax the same year, the pilgrimage of the Queen of Spain in 1709, and the Brief of Benedict XII. in 1728 according various pri rileges to the Church of Notre Dame de Buglose. Theo w fpllowed by censor-bearers, groups of young girls dressed in white with blur sashes, strewing flowers, religious confraternities with their re spective banners, chanting hymns; and six priests in rich vestments came last. The second cortege, that of the shrine of St. Vincent do Paul, was similarly composed. , The third, the most numerous and the most imposing of all, was that which accompanied the Miraculous Statue on its way from the chapel, where it had been temporarily placed the night before, to the Throne which it was to oc cupy during the coronation. When this part of the cere mony was gone through mass was performed by the Car dinal Archbishop, who delivered, after the first Gospel, a discourse on the event of the day ; and after the last Gospel which concludes the mass the Pontifical benediction was given by the five prelates at the same moment. A loud peal of bells, the beating of drums, and a flourish of trumpets announced the moment for the coronation. The Bishop of Aire, in whose diocess the parish of Buglose is, read in a loud voice the Papal Brief authorising the act, and then proceeded to place two golden crowns, ono on the head of the child, and the other on the head of the Virgin, amid salutes of artillery, the ringing of bells, and sacred music. The statue was then taken down and placed on a car drawn by four oxen with gilded horns, their heads and necks decked with flowers, and covered with blue and white housings. When the car began to move the Or pheonists struck up the Magnificat, in which the whole assemblage joined. Three hundred priests from the diocesses of Aire, Bayonne, Puy, Tarbes, Bordeaux, and Limoges—Carmelites, Dominicans, Jesuits, Lazarists —the bishop in mitre and cope, the civil and military authorities, the Mayors of many of the communes, with hundreds of others, formed the escort of honour, which was closed by a detachment of mounted gendarmes.. On arriving at its destination the last act of the ceremony was performed. The statute was lifted from its triumphal car, and, while the clergy chanted the Te Deem, was placed on its throne over the high altar of the parish church of Buglose. At five o'clock a sermon was preached by the Dominican Pere Minjard, one of the provincials of the order, and the even ing service, vespers, and benediction were performed. As twilight came on the multitude of pilgrims began to leave, and before 9 o'clock the wide plains of the Landes were left to their wonted solitude. Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, Sept. 15.—0 n Thursday information was received here by telegraph announcing the ar rival of Lord Clarence Paget on the south-east coast of Sicily. Owing to the regulation prohibiting more than three foreign ships of war from entering an Italian port at the same time the Admiral divided his squadron, proceeding himself with the Victoria (flag), the. Royal Oak, and the Assurance, gun ves sel, to Augusta, and sending the Gibraltar and the Prince Consort to Syracuse, where they are to re main for the present, but will eventually probably extend their cruise to Palermo. As they are shut out from most of the ports of the Mediterranean on account of cholera, it is expected they will return to their winter quarters earlier this year than usual. The health of the crews of the different ships continues excellent. Commander Bosanquet returned from Corfu on Tuesday last and has assumed the com mand of the Enterprise in lieu of Captain Rowley, lately promoted, and who proceeds home by the next packet. The Enterprise will leave about the 19th inst. to join the flag of the Com mander-in-chief. The Assurance arrived this morn ing from the squadron with despatches from the Commander-in-Chief, but brings no later news. The vessel Psyche left for the squadron at Syracuse and Augusta after the arrival of the mail last night. The Cruiser, unarmoured screw sloop, Commander M. Singer, which left Spithead on the 28th ult. for the Mediterranean, has not yet arrived here. The Resistance, from Naples, and the Racer, from Corfu, are now daily expected. Following the example of Sicily fresh quarantines have been established here during the last few days on arrivals from the Lipari Islands, Austrian ports, and the lonian Islands, and to-day, in consequence of the receipt of a telegraph announcing an outbreak of cholera in Adalia (Asia Minor), and again following the same guide, our Government have included the Turkish Islands and ports southwards as far as Alexandretta, and the Turkish ports in the Adriatic in the category of infected places, and established an uniform quaran tine of 15 days against them. There was some talk of putting Leghorn and Sicily in quarantine also, but the Government having this day received by telegraph an official denial of the existence of cholera in Tuscany and Palermo, where it was reported to have made its appearance, arrivals from those coun tries continue to be received in pratique. The route from England to Malta via Leghorn is, therefore, still open to travellers. Alexandria has reduced its quarantine on Marseilles to seven days, and pro mises to still further decrease it to three if favour able reports are received. It is consequently not unlikely that arrivals from Alexandria will have, to be subjected to quarantine, in order to observe a consistent line of conduct on the principle which is now acted on by our local sanitary authorities. As au instance of the jealous watch kept over us by our neighbours I may mention that our Consul- Gene ral at Tunis has just telegraphed to the Go vernor to say that Tunis has put us in seven days' quarantine, and refuses to receive at all susceptible goods from this island, because we had omitted to esta blish a quarantine on arrivals from Sicily, the occur rence of cases of cholera at Palermo being suspected. It has been reported that the captain of the Russian frigate Grand Admiral, now at Corfu, intends to proceed to Malta, to ride out his quarantine, having had cholera on board. Should he arrive here he will have to perform quarantine outside, as under the circumstances the ship will not be permitted into port. An English bark, the Cecrops, of St. John's, New Brunswick, Capt. Dixon, arrived off the har bour this morning from Naples, with a fatal case of cholera on board. She left Naples on the sth inst. to load at Girgenti, where she arrived on the 14th, but was not allowed to enter. She has now pro ceeded to Palermo in the hope of being admitted there. Col. Mitford, Town-Major ; Capt. Berkeley, 29th ; Capt. Farquharson, Lieut. Ford, Bth ; Lieut. Bridge, Bth ; Lieut. Russell, 29th ; Ensign Little dale, 29th, and others arrived last night in the China from Marseilles, returning from leave. Yesterday a telegram was received here from the Consul- General at Alexandria stating that the insurgents in Candia were getting the better of the Turkish troops, and that reinforcements from Egypt were to be sent to the island. The Virago, 6, paddle-wheel sloop, 1,059 tons, 220-horse power, which has for some time past been under the hands of the factory and shipwright departments in Sheerness dockyard, was on Wed nesday taken to the measured mile off Maplin Sands for the official trial of her machinery. She was in charge of Capt. G. W. Preedy, C. 8., of the Sheerness Steam Reserve ; Commander Polinghorne of the Cumberland ; Mr. W. W. Williamson, in spector of machinery afloat ; Mr. G. Blaxland, chief engineer in Sheerness dockyard ; and Mr. G. Treliving, chief engineer of the ship, being like wise present. Six runs were made on the measured mile, giving an average of 8.646 knots per hour, with a maximum of 23.5, and a mean of 22 revolu tions of the engine per minute. The load on the safety-valve was 181 b. the pressure of steam in the boilers 17.9161 b. ; vacuum condensers, 24.896 in. ; the draught of water forward, 13ft. 3in., and aft, 15f t. 2in. Two runs were made at half-boiler power, giving an average of 7.076 knots per hour with a maximum of 16.5 and a minimum of 1515 revolutions of the engines per minute. The ship is propelled by ordinary paddle-wheels 20ft. 10in. in diameter. The engines are by Messrs. Maudslay and Co., of London. The state of the sea was smooth, the wind blowing with a force of four from S.W. The vessel was fully rigged, having all her armament on board and 250 tons of coal. The trial was considered satisfactory. Her Majesty's fleet of ironclad screw steam ves sels which have assembled in Portland harbour during the past week from Portsmouth and Ply mouth is composed of the following ships :—The Caledonia, 30 guns, Capt. the Hon. Fitzgerald A. C. Foley, flagship of Rear-Admiral Hastings R. Yelverton, chief in command of the fleet ; the Lord Clyde, 24 guns, Capt. Roderick Dew, C. 8., flag ship of Rear-Admiral Frederick Warden, C. 8., se cond in command of the fleet ; the Achilles, 26 guns, Capt. Edward Vansittart ; Bellerophon, 14 guns, Capt. E. Tatham ; Ocean, 23 guns, Capt. C. S. Stanhope; Hector, 20 guns, Capt. W. G. Luard, Pallas, G guns, Capt. Matthew Connolly ; Research, 4 guns, Capt. R. E. A. Scott; Wyvern (turret -ship), 4 guns, Capt. H. T. Burgoyne, V.C. ; Pigeon gun boat, tender to the Caledonia ; and Helicon, paddle, despatch boat for the fleet. The squadron got up The Prince of TuE s LONDO.N, FRIDAY EVEN !NG, SEPTEMBER 21, 1866. steam early on Thursday morning, and at 10.30 a.m. the Lord Clyde was the first to weigh anchor, followed in Indian file by the Achilles, the Pallas, and the Research, w hi c h formed the first division. The Caledonia then followed, leading the second division, and in succession the Bellerophon, the Hector, the Ocean, and the Wyvern weighed an chor. After rounding the breakwater and getting to the southward of the Shambles lightship the fleet formed in two divisions, and, under easy steam, bore away for the westward with a fresh westerly wind and overcast sky. If the fleet is, as is already stated in the public journals, gone to seek bad wea ther, there seems every probability of their meeting with it in the Chops of the Channel, whither they are about to proceed. After a fortnight's cruise it is anticipated the fleet will again return to Portland harbour to await instructions from the Admiralty as to their future movements. THE CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM. On Tuesday evening a meeting was hold at Bristol to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the local Industrial and Provident Society. About 200 persons were present. The chair was taken by Mr. Commissioner Hill. The CHAIRMAN, in his introductory address, said he had for many years of a long life been intimately acquainted with the class to which his hearers belonged, and which ho also claimed to belonged to—he meant the class of workers; and he believed that during his life he had established some little claim to be a member of that body. (Applause.) He knew that among the workers of this country, male and female, there were many, many sound hearts and excellent heads. They had heard much of late in praise and in dis praise of the working men—some had been eloquent in their praise, others had been bitter in their criticisms. For his own part, he should neither praise nor criticise, for he thought, from a very long acquaintance with that body, that they were wonderfully like other people —(laughter) —that there were many who were good, and that there were some who were not quite so good as one could wish, and that might be said, he thought, of every class, from the highest to the lowest. (Hear.) He was delighted that they should be assembled there that evening, because they were assembled in the prosecution of a good, and, he would add, of a great design—(applause) —a design to make the working man's income go as far as it could for the true comfort of his family. But that was only one part of it. They were not each for himself, but each for all and all for each. They were truly a brotherly society, for none of thorn desired to gain at the expense of others—(hear) but they desired that the general interest of the whole should be promoted as far as possible. After their society had been in action for nearly seven years, it would be a waste of their time to go into any description of it; they all, know what it was better, no doubt, than he did himself because they had more experience. They knew that the principle of co-operation was not only thoroughly esta blished in their society, and in the other society which flourished in Bristol, but that it was making its way throughout the whole of the country. Throughout the United Kingdom they were awakening co the advantages of co-operation, and not only in this country, but abroad. Ho had conversed in France with members of co-operative societies there, and had heard from the lips of members the advantages which they derived from co-operation. He knew also that it was rapidly extending in Germany, and reports from the United States told them that working men there were sending over to England, and Germany, and France, and S witzerland to obtain information upon the subject, in order to turn it to their own advantage in the United States. (Hear, hear.) He found that within the last few days a congress, as it was called—a large meeting of deputies from co-operative societies through out Europe, so far as they were established—had assem bled at Geneva, in Switzerland, to discuss how they might be best carried on, how any defects might be removed, how improvements might be advanced. He should tell them that the most respectable meeting at Geneva came to the conclusion that strikes are not the best means, the true means, of removing the evils of which the working classes complained. (Hear.) He had not a word to say against working men who combined in strikes, just as he had not a word to say against masters who thought that they could only meet strikes by lock-outs. (Hoar.) He only mourned that there should be such differences, such want of har mony between the two classes, which, to his mind, were equally necessary the one to the other for the good of both. (Applause.) He did not presume to say that strikes must always be unnecessary, neither did he presume to say that lock-outs must always be unnecessary, but this he did presume to say, that when he heard of a strike or lock-out he felt the deepest regret, for he knew that a great calamity had fallen upon a large portion of his fellow-men, because, whether successful or unsuccessful, the expe rience he was sure of many in that room would corroborate him when he said that they worked a great suffering to those who were prosecuting them, often most conscien tiously on .their part, b3lieving th3y wore performing a duty to themselves, and to the body to which they be longed. And so, again, the masters suffered, and were sometimes brought to ruin; but whether they were brought to ruin or not, the whole of the country suffered from the enforced idleness which was the consequence of strikes or lock-outs, and was tantamount to taking so much money from the public and throwing it into the sea. (Hear.) He found that the masons had spent half a million in strikes. He supposed that meant that they had partly spent the little property which they had, and partly that they had lost the opportunity of earning their wages, till the two losses together came to that great and appalling amount. However, they were not engaged in co-operation of that kind which sought to gain income; their society was one of that class in which they sought to learn how so much of their income as must necessarily be expended for the sus tenance and comfort of their families was best expended, and they also learnt a most valuable lesson how to dispose of the part which they were not necessarily obliged to spend—they had the means of employing it so as to pro duce them a return for the money they invested: He had pleasure in informing them that he had gone over the statement of their accounts. He had compared each of the three first quarters of the year 1865 with the three quit.- tors of the present year, and he found that in each of the quarters that had expired of the present year the amount of sales was greater than in the corresponding quarter of the last year. (Applause.) Having congratulated the so ciety upon the fact, and upon the manner in which the executive performed the duties intrusted to it, the learned commissioner observed that the society had had prosperity and it being nearly seven years old, they had a right to feel that their position was a permanent position ; they had a right to feel that if 'there were ups and downs, ye if there were downs there would be ups again, and tha they might go on for their whole lives with the full confi dente and proof that the co-operative principle was not a vague speculation but a great reality. (Applause.) Ad verting to some of the advantages of being connected with such a society, the speaker remarked that such a course of life was just the course of life—he did not mean to say filled up the measure of all human duties, but so far as went it was just the course of life—which was most likely to cDnduce• to their happiness in this world and the next He also dilated upon the advantages held out by such so cieties of forming acquaintances and friendships which were likely, he would not say certain, to preserve them from temptation instead of leading them into temptation. The learned commissioner concluded by alluding at some length to the advantages 'of the co-operative system in manufactories, where the men shared to a certain extent the profits of the business with their employers, and were thus induced to energy and economy, to the advantage of all connected with the concern. A sanguinary encounter took place a few days back at St. Trand (Belgium) between some citizens and soldiers. One of the former had his head laid open with a sabre cut. A woman made an ineffectual attempt to com mit suicide at about two o'clock the morning before yesterday, by jumping from the Pont des Invalides. She was rescued by a boatman, and sent home on promising not to repeat the offence. A fire broke out yesterday in a range of stables and granaries in the rue Bercy St. Antoine; the premises were consumed. The damage is estimated at 10,000 fr. [ADVERT ISEMENT.]—Dyspepsia (indigestion), constipa tion, debility, consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and acceleraced by drugs of every description, but perfectly cur able by Du Barry's health-restoring itevalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of oases which had been con sidered hopeless, such as—cough, asthma, also dtarrhwa, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, im purities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, 'even in preg nancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, kc. We quote a few :—Cure No. 16,276. Mr James Roberts, timber merchant, of Fernley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and par tial deafness. —Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of ex treme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings; low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, lord lieut. of Waterford: of many years' dyspepsia. —No. 49,832. Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia., nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, siokoess, and vomiting—Maria Joly.—Cure No. 54,816. The Rlv, James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpid ity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment.— In tins, lib, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 6d; 61b, 11s; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 408.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dialers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at 61, Gracetchurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand; 51, Upper Baker-street; 133, Tottenham-court -road; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and die. mists•—Beware of spurious imitations. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—In one of the first days of this last stormy month of September there happened one of the most critical and heart-stirring events in the history of this world. It was something that the wise and the good of all ages had imagined, and de sired, and that many had thought for and written for. Yet it was not on any one of the usual theatres of this mighty drama. It was not on a field where half a million of men decide empire ; it was not in a senate or at a national fete, or in a congress ; there was not even so much visible solemnity, or such a concurrence of appearances, as when a man of science promulgates a new law of nature. It was in a dark cabin constructed on the deck of a ship roll ing heavily in the midst of the Atlantic, carried far out of its course by'unknown currents, without a ship in sight, or aught but sea and sky, both tem pestuous. All who have done that crossing know the sense of utter separation from the world of land that must come on them sometimes. But all at once the occupants of that gloomy cabin found themselves freely conversing with both the conti nents that lay many days' sail beyond the far east and the far west of their horizon. They got the exact time to the fraction of a second from Green wich ; they got the current news from home ; they learnt that the Terrible had arrived at St. John's only about an hour after the occurrence ; and they were informed of the ships that were to meet at Trinity Bay. Exact orders for stores were sent and acknowledged, and appointments made as to time and place of delivery and meeting. Inquiries were made, answered, and exchanged as to the weather in different parts of the Atlantic. The company are entertained with the forebodings of a sceptic re ported to them, and they send back as an answer the fact of their honest, well-earned triumph. They receive a congratulatory message from the New York Chamber of Commerce, and send it a long-winded sentence in the best telegraphic style, containing a crowd of long words and good wishes. No doubt they also sent a little " chaff" to their private friends, and got some in return. No doubt they had the substance of the London papers a good deal earlier than most Lon doners. That a "voice" or a "message" should come from the deep at all is wonderful, and we all know the melancholy form in which it comes. A bottle is thrown on the beach, or pickedup floating. A hasty scrawl in it tells friends that some weeks before a ship was fast settling down into the sea, or, perhaps, that its crew were dying of hunger or beaten by fa tigue. By this time the voice is from the grave, and a mere record of human helplessness. But the com pany on board the Great Eastern were talking cheerily and pleasantly about the success of a great enterprise, and the few arrangements that still re mained, about public affairs, and no doubt private, with the inhabitants of two worlds. The message went toValentia,o,nd thence to London, to St. John's or to New York, 5,000 miles by this route. It cer tainly had been possible before to converse with two worlds, and it had already been possible to converse with one world from the mid-Atlantic. But n ow , f or the first time, it was possible, and it did actuallytake place, that men, tossed about on a stormy sea, in utter darkness, could hold a conversation at the same time with Europe and America. .There has in all a ges been the idea of such communication either by men tal sympathy, or by the sympathy supposed to exist between fluids of substances and phases of mind, or by spirits, which were generally only another name for laws of nature hitherto baffling investigatioh, if, indeed, they were ever scientifically observed. It was to the mind that the ancients and our fore fathers looked most for the higher effects upon mat ter or brute natures ; and Bacon evidently thought it worth a serious trial whether, by the use of s t rong efforts of the imagination and the will, it would be possible to make crops grow faster, hounds run quicker, and hawks pursue the quarry more ke en l y . It is only at the tail of a multitude of similar sug gestions, and expedients far more ridiculous, that he drops a hint or two really founded on observa tion and capable of being followed up. But he leaves the true scent as heedlessly as he finds it. "It is an ancient tradition," he says, " everywhere alleged, for example of secret properties and influxes, that the torpedo marina, if it be touched with a long stick, doth stupefy the hand of him that to uc h et h i t. It is one degree of workingat distance, to wo r k b y the continuance of a fit medium." He here suggests that the stick had only to be sufficiently continued, and 'any distance of communication could be ob tajned ; and this in a context of instances, from his tory and his own experience, where the illnesses of distant friends, great victories, and sudden deaths had become known by a secret sympathy. So a pt are even the most hopeful and inquiring minds to halt on the very threshold of a discovery, and dis credit the practical consequences which it obtrudes upon them. Now that these amazing results have been obtained, the Atlantic is found to be so little impediment to conversation that the dropped mes sage may be picked up from its deepest abyss, and wanderers on its faithless surface, though unable to hold their course, in strongcurrents and tempestuous gales, can yet converse with two worlds. It is im possibit not to cast a glance at the future effects of an achievement which destroys at once more than half the time necessary to all undertakings that em brace a wide sphere and require the least degree of international separation. The old proverb says that the beginning is half the work; but that may be more truly said of the requisite information, intelli gence, and arrangement, orthe common understand ing and concert. This must always be a waste of time; and when a communication has been made at much cost of time, it has frequently had to be unmade and the work begun again. It is this time which is saved by a discovery enabling all the civilised world to com municate instantaneously, one may say. It is true there appear to be obstacles of a practical and very serious character, somewhat damaging to the disco very thus far ; and it is also true that the telegraph is only open as Dr. Johnson said of Courts of Justice and the Clarendon Hotel were open—that is, to those who can pay. But what we have to con sider are the great common interests of mankind, and no doubt they will be furthered by a discovery that brings all men nearer to one another. We can not suppose that the news vhich concerns all will suffer needless delays, careless miscarriage, or ob structive devices of a purely mercantile significance. The various Governments of the world, too, will see the wisdom of allowing intelligence of universal interest to pass acro ss th e i r frontiers without idle and mischievous scrutiny for the mere benefit or amusement of officials. The nations that have to thank England and France for this vast accession to their comfort and convenience may well be asked to give the electric fluid the freest po ss ibl e course through their countries, and do us a service which even the stormy Atlantic does not deny. The land ought to be at least as hospitable as the sea, as generous, and as sociable ; for it would, indeed, be a stigma on humanity if it should avow itself less kind even than the rude elements of nature in their wildest and stormiest mood. POST.—If, as there is every reason to suppose, the peace now established in Europe continues for some years, we may expect t o fi n d t h e commerc i a l relations subsisting between the several European Powers placed on a still more satisfactory footing than that which they now occupy. Much has been done of late years to effect the substitution of a free trade policy for one of p ro t ec ti on, and the long list of commercial treaties which have been concluded bear witness at the same time to the zeal with which the expounders of the new doctrine have pursued their labours, and to the sagacity which their con verts have displayed in turning the lessons they have recivedto practical a ccoun t. B ut although, with one notable exception, to which we will pre sently direct attention, the majority of the COnti nental States have entered into conventions for removing those restrictions upon trade which formerly were supposed to constitute its only safe guards, we conceive that the application of the, principles on which these conventions rest is still only in its infancy. This country and France have outstripped many others in the race, but there remains still some distance to be traversed beforebeven these Powers reach that goal which the late Richard Cobden would have prescribed for them. If, however, not only they, but those other States which as yet have scarcely banished the ap prehensions with which they viewed the extinction of that protective policy in which they have here tofore trusted, are to make further progress it can only be under conditions which will favour the pro secution of trade in all its various branches, and which will insure commerce against those disturbing influences which so speedily paralyse it. The expo sition of the policy of the French Government which has just been made will tranquillise the fears of those who were inclined to think that serious offence had been given to France by the brilliant successes which Prussia has achieved. From France, the traditional disturber of the peace of Europe, no danger need be apprehended, and, without being prepared to endorse the sentiment that when France is satisfied Europe is tranquil, it will probably be admitted that her contentment contributes in no small degree to createa sense of security which wo u ld o th erw i se be want ing. As one of the principal results of the restora tion of peace, and of the removal of those causes which have hitherto kept the peace of Europe in continual jeopardy, we may therefore expect to find an additional impulse given to that spirit of com mercial enterprise which has already swept down so many of the barriers with which States loved to en circle themselves. By no State ought greater benefits in this respect to be reaped by Austria. She alone of all the European Powers has refused to believe that free trade means wealth, and protection poverty. The experience of the past has, until now, been lost upon her, and it re mains t o b e seen whether' she will benefit by the lesson which she is J3v taught. Not that Austria has been without warp' ings and examples sufficient, one would ha ve thought, to have conv i nce d her that her system n o ' commercial policy was radically bad. Year s h ag „ o she allowed Prussi a t o str ik e the fi rst of tu% blows which eventually occas i one d h er e xclusio n from the Confederati on w h en s h e re f use d to be,,,, member of the Zollver e i n . O ne b y one the various German States recognised the soundness ui the advice given th em b y P russ i a, an d ma de an accepted those mutual concessions which were re to P r quired from those w h o j o i ne d t h e customs nnlo But Austria persist en tly s t oo d a l oo f . Sh e saw, l she could not help s ee i ng , th e commerc i a l a d va ntages which resulted to those States which j o i ne d the ne:: league, but she refused t o b e li eve that by adopting ; similar course she would s h are i n t h em h erse lf.o was it any success which attended her p r otectn , policy that could h ave ren d ere d h er t h us o bdurati.. In all Europe there was not to be found a Ste l a whose finances were i n a worse con di t i on , wi l ° s trade was at a l ower e bb , or w h ose cred i t was be'd in less estimatio n on th e E xchanges of Europe. Year after year Austria a dd e d l arge l y to her de b ts , with out either developi ng h er i n d ustr i al resourc es or bettering her position. Making every other eon si i i deration subsidiary t o th e o bj ect o f ho ldi ng , at 3A hazards, dominion s w hi c h were useless to h er , an sacrificing everything to the prosecution of a tern; tonal grandeur whi c h was a source of wea k nes s, an a n not of strength, A us t r i a cont i nued to ma i n t a in , : struggle which exhau s t e d her treasury without afferu f ing the slightest prospect of creating the germs ° future greatness. The long-continued and disheart" ening struggle is now at an end, and it is net t° . ° A much to know.that t h e willingness which she seemb , " to evince during the past two or three years to re trieve her past erro rs w ill b e s h own now i n a et..t more marked man ner , an d t h at one of h er first steps towards reformation will be a spontaneous entrance into that great league which already nut °. bers amongst its members almost every civilised State' Austria is almost the only Continental State whose industrial resour ces may b e sa id never yet to have had fair-play. Without possessing in an e lcl traordinary degree th e e l ements of great na tural wealth, it may be said that she is at all events endowed with the m eans o f prov idi ng i n the w est ample manner fo r h er own necessities. All that she needs is to direct h er expen di ture i nto different : channels, and to open he r mar k e t s t o t h e r est e; the world. The jealousy which so long subsist between her and It a l y i s now at an en d , an d w" . may expect to see th e s p ee d y restorat i on o f th 0 . 6,.: commercial relations b e t ween th e two co untry which were brought to an abrupt t erm ination ,e short time since. A us t r i a an d I ta l y respec tively produce commodities of which the other has neet:, all Italy can give to Au s t r i a h er w i ne and t i m b e r, 011 and fruits, in exch ange f or manu f actures, an d : 3 that is necessary to f ac ilit a t e th e exchange is til removal of the restricti ons by which such a bartf t, e is at present rend ere d almost impossible. On part of Italy it is needless to say no unwillingn' will be manifested to adopt a policy which has been left her as an heirloom by one of her greatest states men. Cavour was one of the first to recognise tb' be merits of a free trad e p o li cy, an d , to h i s cre dit it spoken, he left no opportunity untried of securil for his country the b ene fit s w hi c h h e knew w ould flow from its adoption. Antipathy to a Govern" ment or to a State did not prevent him seeking ° form commercial alliances. In this respect his con duct was notably different from that of the states" men who have alway s ru l e d i n t h e councils L°. Vienna. However, it i s o f th e f uture an d no t a - past that we desire to speak. Austria, we believei has a prosperous f u t ure b e f ore h er i f she w ill bu abandon the selfish and suicidal commercial polio/ which she has so long pursued. COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM —THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a fair supply of Eng lish , wheat, which realised ra th er over l ast week s rates. B ar. ley is to 2s p er qr . d earer. Oa ts advanced 6d to is per qr' Beans tending upwards. Peas is per qr. higher. BRISTOL—THURSDAY. 11 The market to-day was thinly supplied with Englis wheat, for which an advance of 2s per qr. was obtaine...„ Foreign improved is per qr. Malti ng b ar l ey f u lly 2s i.. .rh qr. dearer, and grinding s per qr. more money. In t - p corn advanced 6d to is. B eans una l tered. Oats v " supported last week's rates. MAIsIVIES TER--TKURSDAY. Our market this morning was fairly attended. Th e o r l was less disposition to buy than of late ; good qualities,,. wheat and flour brought fully lat e ra t es . O a t s 2d per 451 r. and oatmeal is per load dearer. English beans is Per q higher; foreign unchanged ; Indian corn unaltered. EDINBURGII—WEnis-Esn.tv. Wheat on the top, 2s Od up average, is 5d do vll3. Barley on the top, is Od up average,. Os 8d up. Oats on the top, is Od d own werage, Os id UP. Beans on the top, Os 6d up. average, 5s 3( 111 P' Total supply and sales. Wheat 527 qrs sold 367 Barley 956 qrs so ld 856 Oats 6Bl qrs. .sold 676 11 qrs sold 10 Average prices. Wheat, 535 . 2d Oats, 30s 4d Barley, 34s Od Beans 50s 3d Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 43s 6d; es superfine, 42s Od ; superfine, 40s 6d ; fine, 39s Od. Beans.., GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. To-day's market was well attended, and the sa le : effected of wh ea t f u ll y rea li se d t h e above advance Gd to is dearer per sack ; barley, beans, peas, and Indiangd corn Gd highe r p er b o ll ; an d oats and oatmeal 3d to " per boll and load respectively. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, v i a S outhampton SeP- L 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 14 ' Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet ......Oct. 4 • _ Ditto, by French pack e t .. Sep t . 22. t, Z Cape of Good Hope, A soens i on, and St. Helena...,. Sep- ' 2 ... China, Penang, and Sing :s p ore , v i a Southampton .. I Sept Ditto, via Marseilles Sept- , Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampto n Sept- 19. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 1 : Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via So u th amp t on. Sept. : , , - 0 Ditto, via Marseitles ... ..Sept . 2' Malta, Egypt, and Ade n , v i a S out h ampton Sept 1 "; Ditto, via Marseilles Sept- °L* Mauritius, via Southampto n Ditto, via Alars eil:ei Oc t 14 Newfoundland Portugal . -- Oct. 4 Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United States and British North America, byßri- Ugh packet ...... wept. 26 Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton ....... .. . Ditto, Nia Cork L Ditto, by Canadi an p ac k et, v i a Londonderry ..SeP- West Coabt of Afric a , M a d e i ra, and Tenerife ....Oct. 1(/' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Ilondurai) Sept 28 .7. Cuba and Mexico Sept- - Bermuda, via Halif ax Sept' 2 8 Bahamas, via New Y or k . Oct. I"g6 [ADVERTISEMENT.]--Holloway's Oi n t men t and rills.'" Hearty and Healthy.. —The experience of thousands ',T o t at home and ab roa d h as amply demonstrated the P 7 re possessed by these he a li ng an d pur if ying reme di e s 0' Da moving cutaneous eruption; repairing ulcerations , 7 1 . 0 . relieving fistulas and a b scesses. Th ese hidd en evils ,„co quently rob life of every com f or t t h rough the reluetsipt of the sufferer to exposo hi s i n fi rm it y . H o ll o way's ° t i l ie ment supersedes s uc h d rea d e d pu bli city by placing w'iveB the reach of all pl a i n i nstructions for curing theins°„ing without danger, and w ith ou t th e necessity of menti, ° ,'ll e 0- their malady t o an y one. T he ointment and pills will ' D wise curo bad le gs , sca bb y rus h es, and those Woes o f which arise from the abuse of mercury and from the il Se other deleterious drugs. Births. IRWIN— On the 19th i ns t., at 111414 of a son. go of PL AYPArR —On th e 18th i ns t., a t S car b orough, the wmf a Dr. W. S. Playfair, of 5, Curzon-street, Mayfair , - son. •r,, of STONE—On the 19th inst., a t 114 , Pi cc adilly, the John Stone, Esq., of a daughter. pf SNow—On the 19th inst., at Eaton, Mrs. Herbert Snow' a daughter. Marriages. 0 311 GRATIAM — MILLER—On the 19th inst. , at the pens7 l ; li s ceff of Greenwich, Alex. Gordon Graham, Esq., of ',4 1 ., a- b c alTh and of Calcutta, second son o f t h e late Alex. egle" Esq., of Glasgow a n d o f D unc i ntha Dunooe , shire, to Katharine Elsie, third daughter of the C. Miller, D.D., rural dean and vicar of Greenwich* 3fari ' MAssELL—MITCHELL—On the 19th inst. at St:,-,oier -13iyanstone-square William Mansell, isq., of rial-cter smith, Captain to Ann Mansell, of Glouce; place, Portman-square, only daughter cf the la te Mitchell, Esq., of Sherborne. Deaths. AsTELL—On the 13th inst., a t W oo dl an d s , Waterloo, lip N. Antell, of Portsea, aged 70. by it e ' ARBWRIGIIT—On the 19th in s t., a t Will er sley, Der-. , ° Peter Arkwright, Esq., aged 82. ~ n oiel DENNIS -On the 23d M a y l as t, a t sea , Philip P. - 1 -', e- ot• third son of the l a t e R ev . J. R . P . B enn is, of lig" Edmund's, aged 19. • • E' T WARRY—On the 16th in s t , at Sidmouth, Devon, Warby, M.D., aged 65. , WREFORD—On the 18th inst., at 17, Chepstow-place' 13 , water, Wm. Wreford, aged . 55. s ' lcle °) WILSON On the 13th inst ,at Paris, Henry Leopold..„ o 7 e f . surviving son of C. Wilson, Esq., of Richmond , Sw-- London : Printed and Published by WIL LIAM AN oZ n of No. 112 , Strand, Printer. at Tun SUN °toe, a. ty Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Cow"" Middleem—Friday, September 21, 1866. A_ the UNI T ANI they 11 :r Farts c ure o. terta Af then K Ti Dub som a So by t Whol Ot -____ 'I '4, i? Pr( C' I , 'L Pa l Inonl .......... N i f .upp4 •ro m Mani aitho Igo. 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