The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-16 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES. —During the storms of the past twenty months the National Liteboat liistitution, by its cite boats and other means, contributed to the savin: of 1,25') persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The Institution also expended .042,420 In the same perl.4 on its lifeboat ettablishmedts, in audition to granthig £3,362 as tewarde. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A ?PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 172 lifeboat establishments. Contributions are received coun t ry In • n s and by the Secretaryby the London and , Richard Lewis, Esq., at he tution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. TfiEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. boo Lcss,e and alanager, Mr. I:. Chatterion EVENING wll be performed haksperc s ' Tragedy of AIN,JIIOIII Mr. 11. Tainot ; Mcfir6. btuclair, ad, W. MA ntyi e, Icm i yton ; ct d ane Amy bud,wick, Jenny Bauer, -Rebecca Isa4cy. :C 10 conciude with Tti.r, 1;1,6G AILS' OPERA. Captain IlaJleath, Mr. IV...Harris .n. -3,,uilnence at Seven. I:IIEATRE IIOYAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Let see and mana4er, Mr. Bucks TIIIS F.Vo:N IN , 11 1 % OV . 1 % RI , ‘L'i ItOU Messri. Chu tee Ma hews, Buckst ,ne, Cotni ton, Clinipelca!e, Clara, Braid. (Jordon, White, ; Mesdauns Ma th ews, Chie pentiale, II right, &e. Aller which, the BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. The Misses Healy. To be tollowed by THE cram. Me srs. C. Mathews, Compton, hogers ; Mrs. titzwilham, To conclude with MY . HUSBAND'S 4iIIOST. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. lechter. EVENING, BRUTUS AND CXSAR. Miss Ilenrade. At a Quarter before 8, the new Drama. in Four Ac's, THE LONG STRIKE, written by Dion Boucicault. The New Scenery by Mr. 'I. Greive and assistants. Mess's. S Emery, H. Wid itzpatOck, Daion, D. Evans, Anderson, bewbound, Stanley. Lomas, Moreland, Andrews, Reynoids, and J. C. Cowper. To conclude with TWEEDLETON'S TAIL COAT. Toby Tweedleton, Mr. IL Widdicomb ; and Miss Uratton Acting Manager, Mr. IL Barnett. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. yalIE LONG STRIKE. -ROYAL LYCEUM Tu E A.T a.E,— John r, y Reilly (an Irish Sailur), Mr. D. cieault ; Jane Learoyd (a Factory Girl), Mrs. D. Bouci cault. At 7 o'ciock, ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining,. WINTER SEASON. N.B.—Doors open at Half-past ;ilk, performances to Com mence at Seven. THIS EVENING, a Comedy, in Three Acts, by John Oxenford, Esq, entitled THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE sir. Vining, air. J. G. shore; Miss K. Rogers, Miss Neilson, and Dirs. Buckingham White. Atter which, at 9 o'clock, THE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN, by Watts Phiiiips, Esq. Mrs. Stirling, Miss Neilson, Miss A. Thomson; Mr. Forrester, Mr. G. Honey, and Mr. J. G. Shore. Grand itallet 01 ito:ienti.ns, in which MM. lelageo,et, clo doehe, Comete, and Normande, will appear. Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. TEETS EVENING, at 7 precisely (3d time), E MEL ; er, OLNEY A LIFE. Miss Ka e Terry, Mrs. Allred Mellon, Miss Furtado, Miss Emily Pitt ; Messrs. Billington, Steklieh son, Ashley, Kom2r, C. J. Smith, &c. To conclude with HELEN ; or. TAKEN FROM TILE GREEK. Mrs. A. Mellon. Miss Furtado, 31iss Emily Pitt ; Messrs. Paul Bedford, K. F. A. Shaw, Ashley, Eburne. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Airs. bwanborougli. THIS EVENING, MARRIED B.A.CIIELOR. Messrs. Thorne and Price; 3lisses Johnstone and llabhes. To be followed by IN THE WRONG BOX. After which, will be produced a Grand ilarlesque of DER FitEISCRUTZ ; or, A Guod Cat tor ames a Piece - bowers. horne, Jame, and Robson; esd Swan b or ough, Raynham, J o hnstone, and du,hes. To conclude with WAIBING FOIL THE UNDER GROUND. Commence at Seven. THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.- G. R. 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Sub j ects of what may be called chronic i m p ortance, which vit ally affect and influence the well-being of the population and the destinies of the country, are likely to obtain a fair share of attention. In the whirl and hurry of the Parliamentary session , t h e excitem ent of the po litical campaign, there is not much hope that time or thought will be given to the solution o f those social problems which, after all, belong of right to the province of the statesman and the legislator. National education is undoubtedly a matter of the very highest importance, and it is one which it is most disastrous to neglect or postpone. While we ar e wasting time in care less and occasional discus sion, in fierce polemical contentions, and in the indulgence of party feeling or local jealousies, the precious mouths are slipping by which are turning children into men and women. Politicians may be indifferent, or, if not indifferent, more eager for the success of their own particular schemes than for the eventual gain of the country, but the consequences of the delay are becoming every day more serious. Oar population is rapidly in creasing, and in spite of all that schools of various denominations have done and are doing the members growing up in absolute ignorance and heathenism are reckoned by hundreds of thousands. We talk a great deal about the elevation of the masses, and Peculate as to the best mode of raising them in the scale of intelligence and civilisation, but there are two most important means of elevation ready t o Our hands which we have hitherto scarcely heeded. These are the improvement of their dwell ings and the education of their children. As it is, in spite of all drawbacks , the working clazses of our day are immeasurably superior to men and women of the samerauk thirty or t o t years sc ago ; and this is due to the increase: p o pular education. invidious comparisons given to comparisons ale often made, unhappily, without reason between this county a nd oth ers. Amer - Ica and Prus sia are both in adv ance of us in this respect, but then circumstances it must be admitted are diff erent. America is not so thickly peopled, and from the p ec ,_ liar circumstances of her history she has been able to frame her Government more upon theory than older and more complex nations. In Prussia a certain amount of education is compulsory, and some enthusiasts advocate the adoption of the inter same system here. But to Englishmen any ference with individual freedom and independence would be simply intolerable to the people, who hold, and rightly, the blessings and advantages of civil freedom and independene'3 to be above any other boon which the Government can been On them. It is evident that some other plan than compulsory education must be devised if we are to settle the matter in a satisfactory and practical manner. We have very recently had the opinions of some of our leading politicians with regard to this ques tion. In addition to Mr. BRUCE'S very able address at the Social Science Congress, we have had Sir JOHN PAKINGTON at a provincial United Association of Schoolmasters, and the Earl of MALMESBURY at a Mechanics' Institute, both attacking the subject. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON frankly confessed that he was not satisfied with the present condition of education in this country. " Great sums of money," he said, " had been spent upon it ; and there had been no want of zeal on the part of the Legislature of this country, but it has not succeeded. We have done a great deal, but a great deal remains undone." He would not, however, admit the discouraging assertion of some gentlemen present who believed that they had actually retrograded. Lord MALMESBURY, speaking on the same subject, referred to the altered tone in which popular educa tion was now spoken of in allquarters. There was, he said, but one opinion, whereas some 30 years ago a large number of influential men were altogether opposed to it. He remembered, he said, a Liberal Prime Minister declaring that popular education might be carried too far, for if housemaids learned to read they would read novels in bed, and set the house on fire, and if they learned to write they would waste their time in writing letters to their sweethearts. Now few gentlemen would take a servant into his house who could not read, and the state of intelligence throughout the work ing classes is altogether different from what it was. " When you consider this," said the noble earl, " that £9,000,000 have been expended within a very brief time, and that 11,500 certificated teachers are at this moment hard at work in the instruction of the middle and lower classes, I say it would not be correct to state that Parliament and Governments have done nothing for the education of the people. He promised on behalf of the new Administration that they would exert themselves to the utmost to solve the problem of national education, and this promise will, we hope, be faithfully kept. It is quite time not only that we should come to some regular understanding with respect to the principles to be followed in the schools directly under Government inspection, but also that some provision should be made for the education of what the committee term neglected districts. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON quoted a passage from their re port, in which some practical suggestions were made towards dealing with the difficult question of em ploying uncertificated teachers. On the one hand, there is no doubt that the whole standard of education has been raised by the employment of capable and well-informed teachers; while, on the other, it is hard that districts, which fail to come within the limits of the Government grant, should be left altogether neglected. Some subsidiary provisions may be made to reconcile these differences. On this point the example of America is worth considering. Female teachers are there employed to a great extent in the teaching of the boys, and if we would secure a sufficiently solid education this would offer a great resource to our unemployed females of the middle classes. The employment is in every way fitted for them, and it is one they could, if properly taught, discharge better than men. We hope iu the next session the whole question will be fully discussed in all its aspects. If Mr. BRIGHT were to exercise the influence be possesses, or at least fancies he does, in pointing out to the working men the errors of their ways respecting Trades Unions and Societies he would be doing far more service in his generation than by railing against the views of the higher orders and seeking to make class wage war against class. It is some time since so outrageous an occurrence took place as that which was lately recorded at Sheffield, and the public will ponder over its details with in dignation and regret. FEARNEYHOUGH, who, with his family, narrowly escaped with life, had been a member of the Sawgrinders' Society until within the last year. However, he subsequently sought to be re-admitted into it, but demurred on account of the sum re quired to complete the transaction. The unfortu nate man from the period referred to felt himself to be in danger, and surely it is a disgrace to say it in this state of society in England it was with just cause that he did so. One day last week a dreadful explosion took place, which startled the occupants of his house and his neighbours also. The walls of some rooms were blown away, and after some time FEAP.NEYHOUGII discovered in the cellar the remains of a can, which had been destroyed, and which had evidently contained gunpowder. It is certainly a most extraordinary thing that no one was hurt ; but this fortunate circumstance does not excuse the conduct of those miscreants who perpetrated so fearful an offence, and risked so many lives for the gratification of their own spite. Of course, it is now the chief duty of all concerned to find out who committed the outrage, and this, we all know, is a very awkward thing to do. Still it will not do to relax the efforts made for this purpose, seeing there can be no decisive check put upon such acts until some examples are made. The inhabitants of Shef field are naturally much shocked at the occurrence, which was so threatening, and nearly ended so tragically. It may be in the memory of some that the dark deeds of the Tracks Unions were rife in this town a few years ago, and no doubt if some adequate measures are not adopted we shall soon see a recurrence of these horrors. Last week the masters of Sheffield met together, and there was likewise an assemblage of the other side, with the view of entering upon this question. It is also to be deplored as an additional evil occasioned by the occurrence that an ill-feeling has been engen dered between masters and men, and it has been pro posed by the Trades Executive, and very much to their credit it is, that a reward should be offered for the discovery of the offenders. We are glad, i n _ deed,to find they are ready enough to denounce the atrocious act, and they have the sense to see, an d the courage to own, that such doings are likely to injure the character and prospects of Trades Unions all over the country. This is as it should be; but far otherwise is the course that has been pursued by the secretary of the Sawgrinders' Union. We must declare that his language causes us regret and surprise, and we are sure that it will be read by all with indignation. lie seems to go out of his way to condemn the unhappy victim of this cruel persecution, and although he says that he regrets the sad occurrence, he tries hard to find excuses for those who take part in it. He says that he must condemn the conduct of those who act like FEARNEY iIouon; indeed he actually goes so far as to declare that by th e i r ac t s th e y " cause those outrages to take place, and that as their disreputable give rise proceedings • ing he sho u ld to them, he cannot go into a subscripti on for them, as he believes that by so do embers." We lilyoalarlaybtehaodudgihnt any man could writegfiretotheburning asat he rd is l y after this fashio n vh e ,,- .. , 0 taken place, and we wo n d er th ta not ashamed act hhas to use such language concerning a detestable crime like this. All we can say is that if these societies and union)) keep ao the exponent of their • • principlea THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1866. men who entertain such opinions as this Secretary, just referred to, the sooner a change takes place the better. We can assure the writer of this letter, and all who think with him, that they are wrong in themselves, and are also doing great wrong to others. If this FEARNEYHOUGH had committed of fences, nothing can possibly under any circum stances excuse or explain such acts as these com mitted in New Hereford-street. " Next to the perpetrators themselves I abhor their conduct," writes the secretary in descanting upon the course pursued by one like FEARNEYHOUGII, and while such sentiments prevail among those who direct the men, how can we expect improvement to take place, or anything like freedom or fair play to exist? Of all tyrannies none equals that exercised by societies like these. It is time that the sense and spirit of the country should declare strongly against such proceedings, and, to borrow the secretary's own expression, we consider the language he uses far more " disreputable' . than any act which FEAR NEYHOUGH committed in not joining the society. It is satisfactory to notice that a large reward has been offered by the masters in order to bring the offenders to justice, but we believe that if the Trades Unions themselves do their utmost they will have a better chance of success ; and for the cre dit of society at large, and the cause of justice, we hope that before long those who have been mur derers at heart may receive the retribution which they deserve. It is certain that the condition of Mexico at the present moment is calculated to give rise to the most serious apprehensions for its security and safety. It is generally believed that the Emperor MAXIMILLIAN will have to retire from the scene of his arduous exertions, if he is not speedily rein forced with men and supplied with money ; and as the untiring efforts of his devoted Consort have been attended with no success in Europe it is no wonder that speculations are rife concerning the future. The French troops are now collecting towards the centre, and it is said that preparations are being rapidly made for their successive enter tainment. It is to be hoped, at all events, that their departure may take place peaceably, and that no great disasters may mark the close of their stay in America. The position of the Emperor MAXI MILIAN is indeed a very painful one, and those who have all along been doubtful as to the result of this Mexican venture must agree that he has shown a spirit and a determination worthy of a better cause and of more prosperous circumstances. It is confidently asserted by some that the Emperor NAPOLEON has found it to be impossible to afford the assistance required of him by MAXI MILIAN, in consequence of arrangements he has previously made with the United States, and hence the failure of the expedition of the EMPRESS. If the United States' Government are resolved that there shall be no longer an Empire in Mexico, upon them will devolve the serious responsibility of pre venting the unfortunate nation from relapsing into the state of anarchy which previously afflicted it. We do not wonder that so mush doubt and dis quietude should prevail among the inhabitants who desire tranquillity, for under no circumstances do their future prospects look very bright, or their chances of security from strife very promising. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Monday Evening. The iloniteur says that on the occasion of the ratification of the treaty of peace concluded ou the 3d instant between Austria and Italy, the iron crown of the kingdom of Lombardy, which had been in the possession of the Austrian Government, was restored by Count de Mensdorff to General Mena brea, Plenipotentiary of the Italian Government. On Saturday afternoon the Emperor, Empress, and the Imperial Prince, accompanied by the Mar quis de la Valette, Minister of the Interior, and M. I)uruy, Minister of Public Instruction, embarked on board the Chamois, stationed at Bayonne, for a sea trip. They went as far as Fontarabie, and were at • sea about four hours. Monseigneur Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, has issued a circular to the clergy of his diocese, in which, after citing the noble example of the Em peror and Empress, he invites them to make a col lection among their parishioners for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations. A letter from Vienna states that exertions are being made in Austria to effect a great development of her relations with Italy. Several chambers of commerce have drawn up documents having for object modifications in the tariff of custom duties upon the revision of the Convention signed on the 22d of November, 1851, between Austria and the former kingdom of Sardinia. The silk manufac tures of Bohemia, which suffered much during the late war, will no doubt be the first to profit by the change, and it is hoped that fresh outlets will be found for this article of industry in the north-east of Italy, with which there is an easy communica tion by way of Vienna and Trieste. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is engaged with arrangements for the establishment of consuls in all the various ports of the peninsula. _ _ _ _ A commission was about to be sent to the fields of battle in Bohemia to examine into the extent of the injury caused there by the late war. The Siecle, in a review of foreign affairs, says : " Holland is at this moment in a very agitated state. King William the Third is not satisfied with having dissolved the Second Chamber of the States General. In a proclamation just issued he interferes person ally with the rights of the electors by asking them to choose a Chamber with a more settled policy." In the course of this proclamation his Majesty says— " The continual changes of our responsible Ministers will end in injuring the moral and material interests of the nation. They will paralyse the power of the Government." " A personal intervention of the Crown in all countries is always, a very threatening incident. Whatever may be the motives assigned to justify it, a Constitutional King should only use his preroga tive in very extreme cases." A decree has just been published fixing the duty upon the importation of olive oil into France as follows :—ln French vessels, 3f. per 4001 b. In foreign vessels, 4f. per 4001bs. Later accounts received in Paris contradict the report of the total loss of the packet boat Vera Cruz and the crew in the Gulf of Mexico. The vessel foundered a short distance from the coast, but happily the crew and all on board were saved. The ship and cargo were totally lost. Accounts from Port-au-Prince announce another terrible disaster in that town. Early on the morn ing of the 12th of September the greater portion of the houses which had been saved from the late fire were destroyed by an explosion of gunpowder and shells which were in the Arsenal. The house of the French Consul was totally destroyed. The Consul-General and the Charge d'Affaires, Count Mejan, and other individuals, exhibited great in trepidity. Ten persons were killed and about 30 injured. The cause of the explosion has not been ascertained. Among the amusements imagined by the visitors to some of the French sea-bathing ports is a crab race. The sportsmen, in the first instance, go to the sea-shore and catch some of the largest and most lively crabs they can find. They are kept in sea water until the day appointed for the race. Twenty, or sometimes thirty,lof these crabs are placed in line on the sea-shore, and kept from moving by a weight upon the back. The ceremony is much the same as at a horse-race. At a given signal each crab is re leased. The crabs are sure to make for the sea at a slashing pace, and the judges are there to decide which was first in the water. These crab steeple chases are described as highly amusing and exciting. Of cowrie each crab is named, At liobcoff, On the coast of Brittany, the other day there was some rather heavy betting on Gladiateur. Of course, Gladiateur, as usual, was the winner. It may not be generally known that young crabs can run more swiftly than a horse. The Museum of the Louvre now contains 2,000 pictures, of which 560 are of the Italian school, 620 of the schools of the North, 700 French, 25 Spanish. The rest are of various schools. In those of the Italian school there are 12 pictures by Raphael, 3 of Corregio, 18 of Titian, 13 of Paul Veronese, 9 of Leonardo da, Vinci, and 8 of Perugini. The northern schools are represented by 12 of Reubens, 22 Vandyck, 11 Gerard Don, 17 of Rembrandt, 11 of Philip Wouvermann, 14 of Teniers, 7 of Adrien Ostade, 6 of Ruysdaal, 2 of Hobbema, 11 of Berg hern. The French school includes 40 paintings of Poussin, 48 of Lemeur, 16 of Claude Lorraine, 20 of Philippe de Champaigne, 17 of Sebastien Bour don, 26 of Lebrun, 12 of Mignard, 41 of Joseph Vernet, 1 of Largilliere, 1 of Watteau, 13 of David. In the Spanish school there are 11 of Murillo and 6 of Velasquez. The Emperor has ordered a bronzed medal to be struck at the Mint commemorative of his decision as arbitrator on the 6th July, 1864, in favour of the execution of the Suez Canal. The inscription on the medal will be " Junction of the Two Seas." An unfortunate child, only nine years old, has been arrested for stealing a piece of stuff from the door of a mercer in the Rue St. Lazare. The child said his mother had ordered him to steal it, and she was watching about to see that he did so. The wretched mother was of _ course taken into custody. A drag-vessel, which is now in operation on the Seine near Notre Dame, has brought up from the bed of the river a number of bronze medals of the date of 1710. On the obverse is the figure of the Virgin and the infant Jesus. On the reverse, in Roman figures, are the number of sous, from three to 19, which the Chapter of Notre Dame gave to the poor who were the holders of the medals, and the amount was paid to them on application at the Treasury of the Chapter. The year 1710, when these medals were struck, was that which followed the remarkable year when the winter was so cx- tremely severe, and which was followed by three years when much misery and destitution prevailed in Paris. _ _ There was rather heavy rain last night, and the fog reappeared this morning, but not so dense as it has been generally for the last fortnight. The sun was not visible till two this afternoon, but continued to shine brightly until sunset. The temperature was moderately warm. Phrenology. TO THE EDITOR OE TIIE SUN. SIR, —Judging from the statement of Dr. Dono van, published in your journal of the 10th inst., this science is likely to obtain fair play at last, after having been unfairly treated by open enemies and indiscreet friends. As long ago as the year 1849 I was informed by the late Dr. Conolly, consulting physician to the llanwell Lunatic Asylum, who showed me the wards and premises, that in the treatment of lunacy the science was calculated to be useful ; and the prior governor 'of the asylum joined in a memorial to that effect in the year 1836, which was presented to the then Government. Since that time numer ous medical men in various parts of the country have confirmed these statements, and it is gratify ing to find that there is on the part of the officials generally a desire to assist those who wish to further the cause of cerebral physiology, thereby benefiting the human race. _ _ The case of the late criminal Jeffcrys showed the sad consequences of an indulgence in intemperance, and also the inutility of public executions as an example to the multitude. Jefferys was a moral lunatic, if not legally one, and as such he ought to have been treated.—l am, &c., London, Oct. 13. CHn. COOKE. The Fatal Rifle Accident in Mar Forest The following from the Inverness Courier is sen ,o us as a more correct version of this sad event : " On Friday, the sth inst., a fatal accident hap pened in Mar Forest, by which George Urquhart, the head forester, was killed. It appears that in the morning Mr. Powell, with Urquhart and another forester, named Peter Macintyre, went out deer stalking on the face of Cairntoul, one of the highest of the Grampian range, on the ridge overlooking Glenglusechan. Mr. Powell, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, shot at and wounded a fine stag. Fear ing he might escape by the pass he sent Urquhart with a rifle, round the head of the glen, and the latter fired at the stag and again wounded him. John Grant, another forester, joined him, and they followed the stag, which was only able to go at a slow pace for about a mile down into a very steep burn, the sides of which rose precipitously for 200 or 300 feet. Being desirous to get the stag into more open ground before he killed him, Urquhart tried to drive him down the burn, pushing him with the butt end of the rifle. The stag, in his struggles kicked the locks of the rifle, which were downwards, breaking the hammer of one lock off and striking the other hammer on to the cap, breaking the catch of the lock, and so exploded the rifle. The muzzle being pointed towards Urquhart's chest, the bullet went right through his. side. The poor fellow stood for a moment, then, exclaiming, " I am shot," fell back into the arms of Grant, who was with him in the burn. Grant laid him down and did what he could to stop the bleeding ; but Urquhart himself said he felt he was dying. Grant then ran to Glenglusechan to get the assistance of Mr. Powell and Peter Macintyre, who had in the meantime come round the head of the glen, and were waiting at the top of the ridge, unable to find out where Urquhart and Grant had gone to. T he y immediately went to where poor Urquhart lay, and Grant ran to the Geldie shieling, one of the outlying lodges in Mar Forest, about seven or eight miles distance, for fur ther assistance, and thence sent a messt , nger to Braemar, about 16 miles distance from the Geldie, for surgical assistance, and returned himself with the only other man at the lodge, Donald Fraser, taking with them a deer pony. In the meantime Mr, Powell and Peter Macintyre had been doing all they could to comfort and relieve poor Urquhart, who when they first came to him was perfectly sen sible, and related how the accident happened, but after they had been with him about an hour he got much weaker, and died about half-past five o'clock. The stag Which he had followed so keenly lay dead also in the burn within a few feet of him. It was about 7 o'clock before Grant and Fraser returned with the pony, and the body of Urquhart had to be carried from the burn to the top of the brae, and was then placed on the pony. By this time it was quite dark, and a dense mist came on. Mr. Powell and the three foresters very soon lost their way. The wind was in the east before darkness came on, and they hoped by keeping their faces to the wind to get to the Davy burn, and so on to the Geldie-lodge ; but after walking for more than four hours they got into such broken and mossy ground that it was impossible to proceed further with the pony. It was perfectly dark, and they laid the body on the heather, expecting they would have to pass the night on the hill; but after proceeding some distance further and getting on to lower ground they saw a light, which proved to be a fire outside the Geldie sheiling, about four miles distant, and soon afterwards they met some of the other foresters, who had come out in search of them with a lantern. About two o'clock in the morning they reached the sheiling, where Dr. Marshall, of Braemar, and Dr. Maclaren, of Allan -a-quoich, were waiting. The body of Urquhart was taken home the following morning, and was to be buried on Wednesday last. The deceased was universally respected and liked by all who knew him. He was a most brilliant deerstalker, prompt in determining what course to adopt in following deer, and most successful in getting up to them. He was altogether as keen a sportsman as ever trod heather. The way he met with his death was certainly most extraordi nary, for he may be said to hate been shot by the stag he was pursuing. EXETER HALL—The National Choral Society will hold its first rehearsal this season to-worrow (Wed needay). Conductor, DU. Q, W. Martin. LATEST INTELLIGE2TOE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE INSURRECTION IN CANDIA• PARIS, OCt 16. The Moniteur of this morning says :—" Accord ing to intelligence brought to Constantinople by the Sultan's aide-de-camp, Djemil Pacha, who left Candia on the 12th inst., no engagement had taken place up to that date. The Turks had commenced an offensive movement, and had occupied an im portant and advanced position in the direction of Dapoconio, the principal centre of the insurrection. This point was to be attacked on the 17th instant. Dissension was beginning to arise among the in-. surgcnts. AMERICA. (By ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Oct. 15. The _Hamburg and American Company's steamship Bavaria and the North German Lloyd's steamer America arrived out to-day. ITALY. FLORENCE, Oct. 16. It is stated that Count Oppizzoni, formerly Charge d'Affaires at Frankfort, will take charge of the Italian Legation at Vienna until the appoint ment of a plenipotentiary. FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 15.—With rising quotations, the reponse de primes (option) is taking place quietly and regularly, in a firm market. Threes are sc. higher, at 68f. 85c. Italian Fives are in good re quest, and have advanced 45c. to 55f. 55c. The reponse has just been closed at 55f. 50c. on this stock, with a deport of sc. Credit Mobilier and Credit Foncier Shares have risen each by 2f. 50c. to 635 f. and 1,362 f. 50c. respectively. Comptoir d'Escompte have advanced by if. 25c., to 892 f. 50c. Paris Gas are unchanged. Railway Shares are firm, with in some cases a slight improvement. Three o'clock.--The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cents 96 90 Bank Shares 3560 Italian Loan 55 90 Do. end month 55 95 Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred rAYB. 10. en, mon 3 per Cents. 69 Do. end month 6B 92i Credit Mobilier 642 55 Do. end month 642 50 Credit Foncier — Do. erid month 1360 For Account. 857 75 Orleans Northern 1167 50 Lyons and Mediterranean B9B 75 Southern 582 50 atrn Western e E 545 Sardinian. Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman 376 25 413 75 65 - The Seizure of the Tornado. _- - A Cadiz correspondent, writing on the 9th inst., sends the following in reference to the seizure of the supposed Chilian privateer Tornado : " The assertion of the Memorial Diplomatique to the effect that energetic demands for restitution and oompensation had been addressed by the English Government to the authorities in Madrid respecting the seizure under British colours of the screw steamer Tornado off Madeira, on the 22d Aug. last, by the Spanish frigate Gerona, and that the Eng lish Mediterranean fleet had been ordered to approach Cadiz in order to insist on immediate attention being given to the application, is completely contradicted by thepapers here, but I know not on what authority. The statements of the journals most likely amongst those referred to to be well informed may be summed up as follows :—That the English Government is already well aware that if there were no legal proofs that the Tornado was being fitted out for the Chilians, the facts were more than sufficient to justify a moral conviction that the object of her owners was inimical to Spanish interests. That the seizure of the Tornado was in strict accordance with the definite instructions of the Spanish Govern ment, founded on subsequent advices received from the Spanish consuls in England. That when the Tornado was seized and the house which pretends to the ownership applied to the English Government to demand that the ship should be returned, the only act of the English Legation in Madrid was to ask particulars of the occurrence, and having obtained these has remained entirely inactive, persuaded that the verdict of the tribunal formed in Cadiz to in quire into the matter would abundantly answer all purposes of justice, so far as the legality of the prize was concerned, which verdict has not yet been arrived at. That the English Government and its representatives in Madrid have done nothing since June, from which is to be deduced, without pre tending to know the official secrets of the inquiry, that tha statement that the English Government has made an official demand, and that the Mediter ranean fleet has been ordered to enforce the resti tution of the Tornado, is completely and entirely false. " So far the Spanish . newspapers ; for my part I have been informed by Englishmen employed on board of various steamers in the port and in the Royal Arsenal, who have had every opportunity of ascertaining the real state of things, that each indi vidual member of the former crew of the Tornado enjoys the completest liberty compatible with his position ; that all are treated in every respect, each in his class and rank, like officers, &c., of equal grade in the Spanish navy ; that not one man has been placed in irons; and that not more than one tenth of the Tornado has been discharged ; or, say, about 150 tons of the 2,000 or, 1,500 tons of coals which she had on board at the time of her capture " You will see from the above that the Memorice Diplomatique is far from the actual truth in its ver sion of the attitude of the Spanish authorities to wards the Tornado and its crew ; and I think it right to put you in possession of these particulars , which I know are in accordance with the real facts of the case, in order to counteract as far as may be in my power the effect of the ill-advised paragraph . of the Memorial Diplomatique, which is calculated to foment an unnecessary and useless ill-feeling between two friendly nations.". MARKETS.---This Day. HAY. SMITTIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 lOs per load. Inquiry limited. CUMBERLAND.—Iicadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s Od; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s ; and straw, £2 2s to £2 12s per load, k. moderate demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s; clover £4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 lOs per load Trade dull. COLONIAL. TEA.—The market has been dull, operations having been deferred until the public sales, which commence to day. The chief feature has been the examination of the samples of the new semen's Monings, a bargain in which has been reported at 2s. sd. per lb. SUGAIL—There has been a very limited demand, and the salas of West India have been unimportant, at hardly late rates. Refined goods remain inactive without any change in values. COFFEE.—The inquiries fnr both Plantation and Native Ceylon have been to an average extent at late prices. RlCE.—Business has remained dull, and the few opera tions entered into have been at slightly reduced rates. TALLOW.—There has been considerable excitement iu the tallow market during the past week, and at one moment an advance of fully is Gd per cwt. was established, but, sellers coming forward, a portion of this improvement was lost. The business dono has not been large. The fluctua tions in this market have bad a corresponding effect on prices at St. Petersburg, and several thousand casks had changed hands, at 471 to 49 silver roubles. The exchange has somewhat declined, and was last quoted at 30id. To day the market is steady. Quotations are, spot, 44s ; all the year, 44s 9d ; December, 45s 3d to 45s 6d ; and January to March, 44s 6d per cwt. MRS. JOHN T. HANSON, niece of Oliver Gold smith, died on Friday, the 21st September, at her residence, West Hoboken, New Jersey, in the 81st year of her age. Some time ago the old lady was in very reduced circum stances, but public attention was called to her condition in the columns of the press, and a fund was raised suffi cient to maintain her iu,oomo degree of comfort up to her doom. The Atlantic Cables and the Screw Propeller. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. have read with much pride, as all other Englishmen must have done, your almost daily re ports and leading articles on the progress and final success which has been achieved in the laying of the Atlantic cable of 1866, as well as the recovery and restoration of that of 1865, which was so generally considered to have been for ever lost at the bottom le ocean. Next to the gratification experienced by all classes at the completion of so huge a task, in the face of innumerable difficulties and in direct opposi tion to public opinion as to the feasibility of raising the 1865 cable, comes the public announcement, at the Atlantic Telegraph banquet. at Liverpool, on the Ist inst., of the honours which her Majesty the Queen had been pleased to confer so promptly and graciously on the gentlemen who in their respective departments have contributed so much towards the accomplishment of one of the greatest, if not the most important, feats of the present age. All England does, no doubt, and all the world should if it does not, join in one big vote of thanks to every gentleman officer, man and boy, engaged in the recent cable-laying expedition. The promptitude, however, with which these acts of justice have been performed to the persons whose names must for ever shine with electric brightness in the history of submarine telegraphy, serves to mark with greater force the tardiness and neglect with which the name of Smith has been so far treated. Francis Petitt Smith, I mean—he man to whom the world is indebted for the benefits conferred on its maritime interests by his successful introduction of the screw propeller. More than a quarter of a century has now elapsed since I saw his first screw ship, the Archimedes, ex perimenting at Portsmouth, and having, like many other officers at the time, looked upon her as a mere toy, and predicted a total failure of the principle when tried on a larger and more practical scale, I cannot now think of or overlook the wonderful changes which have been effected in the sister ser vices of my country without a blush to own, and in this way give publicity to the fact, that this veiy Smith, who expended the best twenty years of his life, at first in overcoming endless difficulties, and latterly in beating down with all superhuman per severance, the prejudices commonly opposed by vested interests to the introduction of anything new, is at this moment scarcely known or heard of be yond the precincts of a small salaried office in the machinery department of the South Kensington Museum. Surely, sir, this is not the way for a great and prosperous country to repay such labour, such an expenditure of ti.ne and capital. The Archimedes of 1840 was the immediate parent vessel of the Great Britain, admitted to be the most successful ocean steamer that ever rounded Cape Horn ; from which and others came the queen of cable-laying ships, the Great Eastern. Add to these leviathans 476 ships in her Majesty's service and 912 vessels in the merchant service, which, accord- ing to the latest Admiralty and Custom-house re turns, have been fitted with the screw. What stronger proof can be given or required of the value and importance of Mr. Smith's past services ? Who in this country at the age of threescore years can be more entitled to honours, who, after a life of toil and anxiety, more deserving of retirement and a proportionate compensation for paving the way to a peaceful old . age ? It would be a well-timed act indeed if Sir John Pakington or Sir Stafford Northcote, or perhaps both, as the heads of the two marine services of the country, which have been alike benefited, were to unite in recommending Mr. Smith's long-forgotten claims to the favourable notice of her Majesty. AN OLD NAVAL ENGINEER. Portsmouth, Oct. 12. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—The daily journals are occupied upon the subject of the Atlantic Telegraph," and the names of many who have been instrumental to its success are now before the public, and have been most de servedly honourably mentioned for their zeal in this great national undertaking. I think it but right to state that I was the original projector of this, and also of the first laid Submarine Telegraph from Eng land to France, and that my late brother, John H. Brett (who was associated with me as early as 1845 for carrying out these objects) did much to promote these undertakings. Aa evidence of what I have before stated I sub mit copies of official documents.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, JACOB BRETT. Portland Hotel, Great Portland-street, October 13, 1866. COPIES OP DOCUMENTS. N o. 1,167. Registry of Joint Stock Companies Office, June 16, 1845. Received from Jacob Brett, Esq., for the General OCeanic Telegraphic Company document entitled (P R) as under noted s. d. Return of the name, business, and promoters,... 0 1 0 together with the fee marked opposite thereto, payable on registration. For the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, • GEORGE TAYLOR. No. 384 Certificate of Provisional Registration of the General Oceanic Telegraph Company, pursuant to the Act 7 and 8 Vic. c. 100. _ _ I, Frederick Rogers, Esquire, Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, do hereby certify that the General Oceanic Telegraphic Company is provisionally registered according to law. Given under my hand and sealed with my seal of office, the sixteenth day of Juno eighteen hundred and forty-five. FREDERICK ROGERS, Registrar of Joint Stock Companies. Provisional Registration. 1,2, 3. The Name, Business, and Promoters of the Genera' Oceanic Telegraphic Company. Provisional Dated Reg i s tration. 116th June, 1845, j 1. Name of the Proposed Company. General Oceanic Telegraphic Company. 2. Business or Purpose. To form a connecting mode of communication by telegra phic means from the British Islands, and across the Atlan tic Ocean to Nova Scotia and the Canadas, the Colonies and Continental Kingdoms. 3. Promoters of the Company. Name. Occupation, &c. Place of Residence. Jacob Brett. Engineer. No. 2, Hanover-square, London. (Copy of Letter.) To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. London,"July, 1845. We beg the honour to submit a plan for general com munication by means of Oceanic and Subterranean In land Electric Telegraphs, for which patents have been received by/the undersigned, and for their construction on cheap and efficient plans. By means of this telegraph any communication may be instantly transmitted from London, or any other place, and delivered in a printed form almost at the same instant of time at the most distant parts of the United Kingdom or of the Colonies. The advantage and power offered to the Government by this invention render it of the greatest importance that they should have it under their own control, and arrange and conduct this plan of general telegraphic communica tion. The following are a few of the advantages offered by this patent :- 1. The immediate communication of Government orders and despatches to all parts of the empire, and the instant return of answers to the same, from the seats of local Go vernment, Lc., all delivered in an unerring and printed form. 2. A general telegraphic post-office system, uniting the chief and branch offices in London in connection with all the offices throughout the kingdom, for transmitting mes sctges of business, &c., from merchants, brokers, tradesmen, and private persons, at a fixed rate of charge. These corn munications would be printed on papers and all enclosed in sealed envelopes, and addressed by confidential clerks, and issued by special messengers or the usual post-office delivery. 3. The advantages of this plan applied to police arrange ments throughout the United Kingdom, and to the army and navy departments, must be at once obvious to the Government. By it instructions might be conveyed in stantaneously, and the movements of the forces so regu lated that any available number of them may be brought together at any given point in the shortest possible time necessary for their conveyance. These are some of the advantages. Others readily sug gest themselves —namely, general communication between stations on the coast, such as lighthouses, Channel Islands, &c., so that a general supervision of the coast might be obtained for the use of the navy, Lloyd's, and for the pre vsmtion of smuggling, &c. jAcoB and Jou.s IV. BRETT, 2, Egrrnr-square. 0 „ Tv 4, 4- 111111 Cfni matr,. HER MAJESTY BALMORAL, Sunday. The Queen drove in the morning yesterdalt accompanied by Princess Christian, and went out in the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart. Sir Stafford Northcote had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Queen of Denmark, with the Prince and Princess of Wales and Princess Thyra, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, went to the Lyceum Theatre yesterday evening. STRAND TBEATitE. A one-act comedietta, entitled "In the Wrong Box," evidently from the French, by Mr. W. IL Swanborough, was produced last night with perfect success. It seems very much such a piece as Rave l would delight in. Harry Radcliff (Mr. Parselle) is employed by 3 friend to get back from a danseuse, Madame Pn' vernay, who does not appear, certain letters he has written to her ; and now he is courting a rich young widow, Mrs. Armitage (Miss Maria Simp son), with whom he wishes to appear respectabl e. The two ladies live next door to each other, an d Radcliff, who is a blunderer, goes to the wrong house and treats the widow as the danseuse, disclos ing the real intentions of his friend. Of course h e mars his fortunes, and produces a great imbroglio; which is further added to by the waiting-maid LucY (Miss E. Johnstone) who makes him believe over • again that he is right in his wrongdoing. After the confusion has been kept up long enough the widoW is merciful, and seeing that Radcliff is an hones agent of a disingenuous fellow, gives him encour agement, and the curtain goes down to her saying he may come again to-morrow evening and try hi s fortune. -- There is not much in this trifle, but the blunder ing of the agent is amusing ; and Miss Simpson' Miss E. Johnstone, and Mr. Parselle sustained th e little piece to a perfectly successful issue. Th e actors and the author were called for and enthusias tically applauded. The new burlesque of " Der Freischutz" is rat' ning, and seems to be a great favourite with tse audience. " ANNALS OF A QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD." J 3l George Mac Donald, M.A., author of "Alec Forbes," tS G ; 3 vole.—" This story is one to be read. No skimming it will do. There is scarcely a page in the book which b 35 not an attraction of its own, either in the shape of so ni li ° peculiar beauty of expression or of soma thought wb i . e ' deserves examination. The characters stand out life-1110, on the canvas. The book is a charming counterfoil to tlio• l ' t unhealthy sensationalism of most modern novels. 5111 % Mr. Mac Donald has shown us how much of poetry th°!" is in our everyday life, how muel of interest there i s la simple things, proves him to be a story-teller far above common CATHOLICS IN RUSSIA.—A. letter from Novgorod, in the Monde, says—" Without including the Gr a t i Duchies of Warsaw and Finland, there are 610,000 lier e A - i i tary nobles in the Russian empire. Of these there are 232,i ' y in the provinces purely Russian, and 377,500 in Lithala s „ is ' Volhynia, and Podolia. The whole of these latter are Or tholics. AtWilna, out of 51,078 nobles, only lo are ort hodos l and at Kowno thore is not a single one out of 90 , 392 . An tl3 „ l l that population, acquired by treaties stipulating the freede of the Catholic faith, has only exiled or dependent pri e6t ,. and has not a single journal or an educational establis h in the That injustice becomes especially insupportable when concessions concessions are considered which are made by th e GOO"; ment to the sectarians.who profess doctrines infinitely as 9 A r o dangerous than the Catholic, as it places no other boas 7 than the Divine law to the submission due to the authc't ties. These sectarians have for their chief place a te rr : t called Khvalinsk, not far from Saratof. The Gobs has / ti ll published a description of it. They are there lords as masters, possessing, in a park eight versts (5-Bths mile each) in extent, monasteries, a bishop, and a ca tbedr° o and no stranger dares penetrate this oasis. What Passlieo there ? How many malefactors seek refuge ther e ? rt authorities allow everything to pass over witho ut net' ;.: whereas if a Catholic only suspended a lamp befor e a V I -, ture in his own home all the journals would immediate' exclaim against the scandal." SEALS OF OFFICERS WHO PERISHED IN . AFF 6III‘ ; s sisTAN.—ln October, 1852, Mr. Bayley transmitted t 0 to from Futtehgurh three seals, supposed to have belonged to officers who fell in the Affghan expedition, with a vies' © g, their being identified and restored to their represe ntative a We described the seals, and one of them was identified tly restored to the family of its former owner, and was the oji relic of him ever recovered by them. The same geatleist`iie has now forwarded from Simla five more seals, w ith following following letter :—" Simla.—Dear Sir,—Major-Gen eral Cunningham, C. 8., has placed at my disposal, for trans i %g siert to you, four more seals collected by him, with 01,0 and gems from Central Asia, and which he believes to h s i belonged to officers of the late Cabul force. I a dd s b ft , ts ; which came similarly into my hands a short time ag o. oqo I ask you to give publicity to the impressions on the by seals, in the hope that some of them may be recognis ed jf and restored to the friends of the original owner s ? T he not recognised, you can dispose of them as you like. three with heraldic devices ought to be recog nisab Yours, &c., E. C. BAYLEY." The following is a deseriPlioa of the seals :-1. On a shield, semd with fleur-de-lys, s rampant. Crest, a demi - savage with club in dexter i f 0° Motto, "Fides spectatior auro." 2. Argent, a chevron b e tween three boars' heads, erased gules. Crest , i t d : 1 lady from the girdle, holding in her dexter hand a t° v . e of and in her sinister a branch of laurel. 3. Crest, a traitor° an oak tree, thereon a buck's head caboched bet W ee n, the branches sprouting from the sides. Beneath the as s ' te a l e tters aW. P.," i n o ld E ng li s h. 4. A thistle surinoll.f:os by the words, "Dinna Forget," and below the old "T. A.," in old English. 5. The initials " S', ," „ - Sros ° English letters. Nos. 2 and 3 are probably Elnui— and Pottinger.—Notes and Queries. .0 1 THE 1-IUNTERIAN MUSEUM.—From the last nia l , it report of the Council of the Royal College of Surg eeli' lr appears that Parliament having voted £42, 500 for thelloo- chase of the extraordinary collection formed by Jeb ll ca ita ter, and towards the erection of suitable buildings ' ll - display and preservation, the largo sum of £61,0% far been supplied from the college funds up to 1847, Iv b.° : s sari thor enlargement of the building having become 11e0 '1 is by the continued increase of the collection, the C°ll°A-ilder that year purchased the extensive premises of lgr• se o man Copeland, in Portugal .street, formerly the site Jonson's theatre, for the sum of £16,000, and in 1- 852 ,„; ceeded to the erection of the Eastern Museum, a t t ; pease of £25,000, Parliament granting £15,000 'OOl- thereof. The re-arrangement of the specimens watecli° pleted, and the additional portion of the building °P e a 0 0 5 t visitors, in 1855, since which time considerable 0) ,, do og valuable specimens have been added by purchas e and of the tion. Mr. Flower, the indefatigable conservator °OOO- Museum, has for some time past been exploring the 0,,00/ logical stores which have been accumulating for e' " sa d years in the subterranean apartments of the Collegt 00' which are now gradually yielding up the treasures ° ' 0 0 rich the Museum. Among the particularly valuable the tions from this source, which appear to have esc a P e f attention of previous conservators, is the skeletoaisa pie rare and probably extinct bird the Greek Auk 6 1 c w a t o pennis), of which only three other skeletons are 1 01 % w et' exist in Europe, and none BO perfect as the 6 P e o s e t lately added to the collection. Some of the I) , ° , at s ' this valuable Hunterian specimen ware already c ce to logued in the collection, but without any referelltil the the remainder being in possession of the colleg e the par examination of the boxes in the store-room during AO' d 9 sent year brought tolight all the others require" eg. Tb e of the skeleton, with a few unimportant exception s. g as of this bird at auctions have recently f e tched 11 11 0 50 11 0 £3O each, from their great rarity. The Hunterian of possesses half a dozen. Another rare skeleton is tila' ,l iros' Awantibo (Arctocebus calabarensis), alemuroid Old Calabar, and is the only skeleton of the goot i ,j, fr to exist. The skeleton of another very ra re as' i ' t - i ; o tli Aye-Aye, has been added during the past yea r s W interesting additions, to the Hunterian Museum' 0 11:4 ; of TIIE CONVICTION OF A SERVANT GIRL AT h sv ° —The following is the reply to a memorial s'raie- th presented to the Secretary of State on behalf t Loughurst, who was lately convicted of larcenY_%e, Nv a before Mr. Alderman Evers and Mr. Alderman av Jai tc' about whose case some rioting took place a Ae` , dirt% tO —" Whitehall, Oct. 10, 1866.—Gentlemen,— 311- tia es" 5 , by the Secretary of State for the Home DiV r t h V es , thank you for your report on the case of Eli' lbe ras tas e ti o burst, and to acquaint you that, under all the eir c : w irli he does not propose advising any interfere lle st oh edi prisoner's sentence.—l am, gentlemen, your v? Alr' ic a humble servant, BELMORE.—Mr. R. Reeves , J_l )o s. si; o ,l Wade, J.P., York." Mr. Lowrie states that the 000 10 1 : 4 ,, by his late servant, Elizabeth Loaghurst, was 3 . 9 : is is Por Indian box, for which he paid 10s. in India; in ad its fectly good condition, and he values it far heYeo,ia4S. trinsic worth. The writing case allu ded to he P h lta l y for, and it had been little used. Dui ll ' THEATRES IN EUROPE.—The total 337, theatres in Europe is 1,584, of which France I rito io ! jo t (including Venetia) 346, Austria 150, Germany 191, Russia and Polal lu so ford 0 0 34, Holland 23, Switzerland 20, Sweden an d ,, g o uts ° Denmark 15, Portugal 16, Turkey 4, Clreeee Spain 168, Great ;P o, oolb i s 3, awl §cryiir 1. The throu l now I Gover quire") the m rates trade ' and t and 4 The Stock the ar to q u foreig tlire Navin / prove, dull t and 8 It i a sho precio is o eel silver, denial India. with t th e f Bank pester land. Alexa Thi tan ce on thc An Vene: the fc Cara aPprio Silt the sa in the ceive c the di which arm y, Meat had el interh and tl Viou s ] Vene sin c e l'eaul Oec a ad va tl vieNN Jul, th e den eith ar e 13i eat, Cre, qri tal to