The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-17 00:00:00

THE 'SUN" NEWSPAPER._ G. R. GLENIE delivers the LATE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40 ; 8; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30 ; Uxbridge, 9.20 ; Walford, 8.45. nri HEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.- 1 Solo Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATURTON. The public is respectfully informed this Theatre, having been Redecorated and Refurnished, will OPEN for the DRAMATIC SEASON on SATURDAY next, Sept. 22d, when will be performed Shakespere's Tragedy of RING JOHN : King John, Mr. Phelps ; Falconbridge, Mr. isarry eStaliviin ; tluuert. Air. T. Jwiuuuurue, Prince ur, 11faster Percy Roselle ; Constance (first time), Mrs. Herman Irezin. At the conclusion of the Tragedy, the National Anthem will be sung by the entire strength of the Com yany. Principal solos by Madame Jenny Bauer, Miss -Poole, and Mr. W. Harrison. To conclude with Shak eipere's COMEDY OF ERRORS : Dromio of Ephesus, Mr. ilenry Webb; Dromio of Syracuse, Mr. Charles Webb. Prospectuses of the Season Arrangements to be obtained At the Stage Door. Prices : Private Boxes, 1,2, 3,4, and 5 guineas ; Stalls, 75.; Dress Circle, 55.; First Circle, 45.; Second Circle, 35.; Fit, 25.; Lower Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, lid. . Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. ROYAL LYCEUM. THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Feebler. id is EVENING, :ind during the week.-Mr. and Mrs PION iIuOCICAULT in the new Drama, " THE LO\G ta ICE." Performances •.—At 7 o'clock, NURSEY CHI - KWEED. M es srs. If. Widdicom b, Moreland, D. and Miss K. Illandf ord. At a Qaarter before 8, the new Drama, in Four Ac's, TILE I.OISUr STItIKE, written by Dion Boucicault. The New s c enery by 11,Ir. Greive and assistants. Messrs. S Emery, WicLicomb, Fitzpatrick, Dalton, D. Evans, Anderson, I Ne wbound Stanley. Lomas, Moreland, Andrews, Reynolds, and J. C. Cowper (his first appearance). Acttng Manager, Mr. IL Barnett. Stage Manager, Mr. W. 'West. Box-office open daily from Ten till Fire. LONG STRIKE.-ROYAL LYCEUM TITEATLIF,-- Johnny Reilly (an Irish Sailor), Mr. U. Boucicault ; Jane Learoyd (a Factory Girl), Mrs. D. Bouci cault. At 7 o'clock. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr Geo. Vining. - Doors open at Half-past Seven, performances commence at Eight o'clock precisely. - - - • THIS EVENING a New and Original Drama, in Three Acts, by Watts Phillips, Esq., entitled THE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN. Principal characters by Mrs. Stlr.ing, Miss Neilson, Miss A ugusta Thomson ; Mr. Geor, e Honey and Mr. Vining. Grand Vallet of lio:lemians, in which MM Flageo let, ulodoche, Comete, and Normande, will appear. New scenery by Mr. F. Ll.,,yds. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. 'Webster, Will RE-OPEN on MONDAY, Oct. I. The Company to m-et in th Green Room on MONDAY, S. pt. ar One o'clock. Miss KATE TitatltY will make her First Appear ance at the Theatre _Royal Adelphl on Monday, Oct. 1. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE MARRIKD BACHELOR. Messrs. Thorne and Price; Misses Johnstone and IL4hes. After which, will be produced the Latest Edition of KENILWORTH. Mes.rs. [borne, Jame,, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, itaynham, John stone, and Holt To be followed by WAITING FOR, THE UNDER GROUND. To conclude with SIR. AND MRS. WHITE. E "SUN" NEWSPAPER.- G. E. GLENIN, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught terrace, Edgware-road, is specially appointed AG r.;.`i t' to deliver the LATE EDITION of " TUE SUN " at the earliest possible moment alter leaving the tress. 7lc im able to deliver copies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the Country at a comparatively early hour the same tvening, Say 40 miles by 9 o'clock. _ _ . Orders by Post punctually attended to. rrHE LATEST EDITION of ' , THE SUN." J. HOLMES begs to inform his friends, and the public generally, thc.: - , he supplies the LATEST EDITIoN of THE SUN '' as sooa as published —No. 16, lianipstead r3ad. N.V. SPECIAL NOT ICE MOSES AND SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS wi I be CLOSED on WEDNESDAY, the 19th in t, RIO RE-OPENED as usual on TIITLISDAY MORNING, the 2.)th inst., bt Seven o'clock. E. MOSP-S and SON, Beady-made and Bespoke T railers, llabft slakers, Woollen Drapers, Ratters, lloiers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General outfitters. London Houges : 151, 155, 151, 157, 311nories ; 83 64, 85, 86, 87, 1;8. 82, Ald,zate ; 506, 507. 508, New Oxl ord-strret ; 1,2, 3, Bart-street ; 137, 138, Tottenham-court -road; zB3, Euston-toad. Country ITrauch—Bradford, Yorkshire. IN, MON im EV ENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1866. BENSON'S WATCHES. 53 and 69, Ludgate-hill; 25, Old Bond-street. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 61L 50m.—Afternoon, 711. 15m. TJ-31oRnow.-111orning, 7h. 45nL—Afternoon, 8 22m. 4 1, 4- Vi.7)l ,( 11 1 , V; j . .2tY4-A:,l LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 18G6. The Emperor NAPOLEON has renounced his in tention of proceeding to Biarritz, as he had appa rently settled to do. Of course this has afforded an excuse to many to declare that his MAJESTY'S health is at fault, but it is reassuring to notice that he is able to continue his daily exercise ; and, no doubt, we shall find that it is the confused state of political affairs that has delayed his journey and finally pre vented it altogether. The irritated feeling in France has not abated concerning the course adopted by the Prussians, and in many ways we meet with the manifestation of this feeling. At Colmar, in Alsace, there was a notable instance of it the other day, when, at a yearly local dinner several speakers took the opportunity of denouncing the Prussian policy. Baron DE lIEECKEREN was very vehement on the subject, and elicited the sym pathy of his hearers by declaring that the German braggadocio was extreme, and that they had the arrogance to claim Alsace and Lorraine, owing to the fact of their German origin. All these signs are significant enough, and so the Prussians will find to their cost when hostilities begin, which they must sooner or later. A very good article has appeared in the Opinion Nationale concern ing the aggrandisement of Prussia. It is well worthy of attention, as it enters into the con sideration of those things which have conduced to give Prussia her superiority over Austria, and points out the benefits France might derive were she to follow her example in some conspicuous ways. Great stress is laid upon instruction, and the intel lectual level of the Prussians is shown to be greatly superior to that of the Austrians. "In this respect," aids the writer, " may we not have to borrow from Prussia ?" In France of the present day there are departments in which sixty conscripts out o f a hundred cannot read or write, and it is justly com plained of here that the small sum of £24,000 per annum is deemed sufficient for the important pur poses of education, while it is found that immense sums are contributed to objects quite secondary, however desirable they may be in themselves. The Americans spend six francs per individual for pri mary instruction, while the French think it enough to devote six centimes for the purpose—a sum amounting to three half-pence. "This is the most serious charge Ive know of that can be brought against our boasted civilisation—a building all out side show, with gilt cornices, but rotten fonnda tions—an odd mixture of prodigality and stinginess —prodigality for superfluous luxuries and stinginess for indispensable necessities." There is a good deal of Sou n d sense in this, although it may not be very flattering to the amour propre of those to whom it is addressed. The French conscription system is also discussed in a very earnest manner, and it is truly said that it would not enable the Government to raise with the same speed as the Berlin Govern ment have done " so large a number of well-drilled awl well-instructed men." It is said b y the Nene Freje Presse that the King o f Saxony will not be allowed to take any part in the ne;-_otiations for the formation of th e N orth German ConftAeration. If t his be tr ue, all we can eay is that it is a very hard measure, and quite in compatible with the terms of the treat y , which promised to give Saxony some advantages. It will be, however, quite in keeping with the course pursued by the Berlin Government ever since they started on their late dangerous plan of annexation. A meeting was held at Hadersteben, attended by persons from North Schleswig,at which it was declared that any division was undesirable, 4 " a Complete incorporation with Prussia was ad vocated. How much reliance may be placed upon this we know by this time, for experience has shown us how determined the Prussians are to ameliorate the movements of those whose views are in their favour, and how zealous are their efforts to retard the course of those who may presume to differ in opinion. The Venetia question is not yet settled, but it is said that Prussia has declared the line taken by Austria to be most faulty, and that the difficulties she has interposed place in jeo pardy the execution of the Treaty of Prague. Perhaps nothing more forcibly brings before one's mind the great changes that are taking place in Continental matters than the various addresses which meet the eye, and which tell of old things passing away, and of new things supervening with amazing rapidity. 'The farewell of the Duke of Nassau to his army is melancholy and impressive, and all must sympathise with his sorrow and respect his self-control. He is in one of the most trying posi tions in which a man can 'be placed, and yet he con tinues so to express himself as to maintain his own dignity, and yet to say nothing that may incite those whom he addresses to continue a useless struggle. In exhorting his troops to return to their homes, and not to combat their destiny, he exhibits a sense and discernment which do him credit. It is well to continue the struggle while it is possible, but when the moment for action has gone by, it is idle to prolong a strife that wastes valuables lives, and causes distress and loss in various ways. The Princes of the various German States have, on the whole, exhibited great moderation in their demeanour during the trying position in which they have been placed ; but while we admire their fortitude, we cannot but condemn in strong language the unfeeling conduct that has been shown by their conquerors. The tone in which the King of PRUSSIA has deemed it advisable to reply to the various deputations and addresses he has received is indeed most unbecoming to one in his high position. It would be far more suitab:e for King WILLIAM to declare openly that he deemed it advisable for the interests of Prussia to do as he has done than to persist in saying, as he does, that he was forced into the war when he wished for nothing but peace, and desired no change. That self-preservation necessitated the annexation of all these places is quite absurd, and, in point of fact, it is an insult to all parties for him to say so. There is much to regret in the close that has fallen upon these lesser German States ; but if they are to per sist, let them not be mocked in their hour of tribu lation, and let not their ruthless destroyers add in sult to injury by imputing to them the blame of the misfortune that has befallen them. Such disgrace. ful language can answer no end that we can see but that of exhibiting the utter recklessness that pre vails among them. The official inquiry into the circumstances at tending the late fatal collision off Aldborough was brought to a conclusion on Saturday last. The evidence on both sides, including the important tes timony of the independent witnesses on board the Grenadier, the vessel which passed between the Bruiser and the llaswell shortly before the collision, was closed on Friday, but on Saturday the Court was occupied in hearing the officers in charge of the respective vessels, each making a statement in his own behalf. It had been a matter of doubt whe ther the solicitors, who appeared for the owners of the two ships, would advise the making of these statements, but it was finally decided that the men should speak each for themselves, and this was cer tainly the best way of obtaining a full and accurate account. The officer in charge of the Haswell was completely exonerated by the evidence, and he seems to have done all in his power to avert the col- lision and to save life after the disaster had taken place. The Court, finding no reason to attach any blame to him, restored his certificate, but can celled that of JOHN Sc orr, chief mate of the Bruiser with whom the fault unmistakably lay. So clearly and decisively did the evidence point against him that the solicitors for the owners did not attempt to exonerate him from blame, and only attempted pleading in mitigation of his offence. He urged the Bench to consider that there was no gross negli gence, but an error in judgment, and appealed for as much leniency as they could consistently show. Certainly, considering the serious nature of the catastrophe, and the loss of life consequent on one man's carelessness, recklessness, or indifference, the public will not be inclined to accuse the Court of excessive severity. It may very well be doubted whether the punishment which they inflicted in can celling his certificate was at all commensurate with the nature of the offence. No doubt he acted from an error in judgment, as was contended on his behalf, but an error in judgment may have very serious consequences when it is com tnitted by a man who is responsible for the lives and safety of others. No one can suppose that officers in charge of ships are desirous to destroy their ves sels and drown their passengers any more than the stokers and engine drivers, whose recklessness or mismanagement is the cause of untold suffering, intend to bring about a railway accident. In the latter case the men in charge of the train are usually the chief sufferers, and it is no uncommon thing for them to be frightfully injured when others escape comparatively unhurt. Yet it has long Leen thought necessary to hold them individually responsible for the disasters they have occasioned directly or indi rectly, and long terms of imprisonment are often in flicted upon them. It may seem hard that one man shouldimpi,aity ; suffer for a fault which many commit with so far from a but experience has amptly proved that responsible and dangerous position securing caution it usually produces recklessness. Men forget that the risk to which familiarity has made them indifferent may bel ess agreea b le to others than themselves, and unless they are made to feel that in any case of accident arising from carelessness or negligen ce they will be personally puni s h e d b y the law, there is no t much chance of their takin g d ue care of the lives of their passengers. It is very much the same thing in re g ard to those colli sions at sea, of which we have professional lately had far too many. A poin t eti quette, the humour of the moment, an unyielding temper, a few minutes ne g lect of duty, man may deplore bring about consequences that a all his life long but cannot mend. He can not, how ever much he may repent his negligence, restore the dead to life, give back the husband to the wife, the mother to her bereaved little ones, the child to the sorrowing parent. A few moments of neglect or fully may take the light from a happy household and shadow the memories of years. They may bring ruin and misery in their train, and affect the whole future lives of the survivors. Men in charge of vessels or of trains think lightly of such matters, if they think at all ; but the consequences of their actions are patent to the looker on. No doubt, JOHN SCOTT, who began his career before the mast, and has served the company faithfully for 22 years, rising through the succes sive gradations to the post of chief mate, which he has held for eight years, is deeply pained at the catastrophe which was due to his mistake. At the same time the public have a right to de mand that the officers in charge of vessels should be held responsible for any mistake, error, or negli gence. The sea is surely - wide enoug to avoid all TEE SUN, LO )1 possibility of a collision. Why not have given the Haswell such a wide berth that there could have been no chance of a disaster ? These accidents are growing much too frequent, and are totally inex cusable. We repeat that we fear they will continue to occur until the authorities decide upon punishing with severity every person who through rashness or negligence has imperilled the lives entrusted to his care. A letter from " A London Incumbent," in the columns of a contemporary, gives us a very good idea of the manner which our cholera preserves are kept up, and, unfortunately, any one who has had much experience of the dwellings of the London poor can amply endorse all that he says. Two or three rooms, with the staircase running up from the corner of the lower room, no passage, yard, or office of any sort, windows that do not open at the top, and bed-rooms with the ceilings very low, are so common that they would be hardly noticed by a casual visitor, while the custom of keeping the water in water-butts or cisterns is very general throughout the poorer houses. There is often, in rows of these kind of houses, a total ab sence of all domestic accommodation. It seems as if the landlords undertook no more than to give the bare shelter of walls and roofs--the latter, even in tolerably decent houses, often anything but intact. In the case referred to in the letter we have mentioned there are fourteen houses, and there arc two cesspools as the only attempt at drainage.' Under these circumstances it is not very surprising that repeated cases of diarrhoea have occurred and are occurring among the inhabitants. And yet what can the poor do ? They must live somewhere, and cannot afford to be too particular. The land lords have might, if not right, on their side, and if the tenants complain, it is only too easy to get others. Until those who destroy the houses of the poor are compelled to provide others, we shall never get this evil redressed, and it must be remembered that the sufferers are too ignorant to know half their own danger. The question has been left in abeyance too long already. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. The Emperor is still at St. Cloud, and presided at a Council of Ministers yesterday, although it was generally expected that he would leave for Biarritz on Thursday. Some of the papers specu late on the reasons for delay in his Majesty's de parture, but I believe that no one knows the real cause of it. The Austrian fleet (says the Honiteur) has left the roads of Muggia, where it had been stationed for a month, to return to Fasana, where its disarmament will be immediately proceeded with. The Siecle, in its weekly political review, says : " Thanks to her ingenious military mechanism, Prussia has just proved that she can put on foot a million of soldiers. It is, then, certain that all the efforts of the Powers of the first order will tend—iu order not to be annihilated—to be able to be on an equality, should it be necessary, with an exorbitant amount of men. It will be in vain to say to Aus tria, to England, to France, disarm. They will reply that they are hardly armed at all in comparison with the much greater armament of Prussia, and that they wish to be more armed. It is an heroic course to take, but how is this course to be avoided ? It is no longer a question of ambition or domina tion—it is a question of beingion a level. "To be or to appear." L'Epoque has an article upon the Prussian army, in which it shows that Prussia, by her skilful and cunning policy, contrived to deceive the first Napoleon in regard to the amount of her military forces. In 1806 she engaged not to have an army ready for the field to the extent of more than 40,000 men, but a few years afterwards she had more than double that number of picked soldiers who could begin a battle at any moment. Some years later Prussia had more than 120,000 men to oppose France, and in five years after she had an army of 300,000 men. M. Leon Gozlan, a very prolific writer, died sud denly yesterday in his 69th year. his wife on enter ing the room that morning found him dead. He was one time a writer for Figaro and the Corsaire, and wrote articles for the reviews, the Revue des Deux Mondes, the Revue de Paris, and the Revue Britannique. A great many romances were written by him. He was also the author of a play called " La Main Droit et la Main Gauche," the first representation of which was ouite an event of the day. As to his romances, their name is Legion. Perhaps the most remarkable were, " Le Medecin du Pech," " Aristide Froissard," and "Les Nuits du Pere Lachaise." Madame Capelle, sister to the Baron Capelle, who was Minister of Marine in the times of Charles the Tenth, died on Friday at the age of 93, at her chateau of Charguagnieu, in the department of Irene. On Friday morning an earthquake shock was experienced at Sevres, Chaville, Ville d'Avray, Versailles, and other places in that direction. It does not appear to have been so much felt at Paris. The shock took place exactly at five o'clock a.m., and from the concurrent testimony of several per sons who have written to the newspapers, although it was not very violent, the phenomenon had a marked and rather violent effect, and the oscillation which was from west to cast, shook the furniture in some of the rooms. The shock was felt at Tours and Saumur, -but it was manifested with more violence in the departments of the haute Vienne and Sarthe. Its course there was in the same direction. A French writer notices that Homer speaks of earthquakes, and attributed them to Neptune, the god of the seas, to whom he applied the epithet of "shaker of the earth." Seneca also speaks of earthquakes and says that maritime countries are the most subject to them. It was in 1755 that the city of Lisbon was nearly destroyed by an earthquake,and in 1783 thousands of persons perished from an earthquake in the Two Sicilies. The de struction of Pompeii by an earthquake is alluded to by Seneca. The following is the account furnished by the Observatory :—" This morning (Friday), at 10 minutes past 5 a.m., several persons living in the Quartier St. Sulpice (experienced shocks of an earth quake. The fact cannot be doubted, as there is concurrent testimony. The movement was oscilla tory. The beds, which seemed to rock, experienced from four to fourteen oscillations in the direction from north to south and vice versa. At the same hour shocks were felt in the Quartier de la Made leine. In the Rue du Battoir, at nine minutes past five, there was a powerful oscillation or earthquake. After displacing a bust which was on the mantel piece, the movement was in the direction from the s opr o fah u se t tth h fi - ei e nv a hte s ea t to labegi violent the trai telegraphic l inhabitants no cot fe lines t ar h t house e oc sus states a t e . k e T that nearh e was fAe at tt Auteuil etaeut director-general l Saumur m Nv i e n r u e t s e o s . alarmed that they ran out, and the house was so shaken that it will be necessary to shore it up with out delay." A splendid aurora borealis was observed over the heights of Monttnartre on Friday night. The sky was illuminated as if there had been a tremendous fire in that direction. There have been some remarkable meteorological phenomena. The telegraphic lines and the compass and barometer have been much affected. On Friday morning, during a heavy shower of rain, fl a k es of snow fell for about two minutes. Yesterday morn ing and this morning the fields, at a distance of seven or eight miles to the south of Paris, were covered with frost; violent winds prevailed through out the day, accompanied occasionally by rain. Be fore the rain fell the masses of dust gave the idea that you were looking through a veil. In some localities the wind has nearly stripped the trees of their leaves. The Chassepot gun, which will in future be the gun in use in the French army, has a range of 500 metres, but it may be made to reach a distance of 1,000 metres, and it can be fired 230 times without being cleAued, During some experiments just made with this gun, it was fired from 1,000 to 12,000 times without any apparent effect upon the barrel. The gun was fired 12 times in a minute, when the person who fired had the cartridges at hand upon a table. It remains to be seen whether the new gun all made of iron, which it is said M. Dreyse has submitted to the Prussian Government,:will prove to be a more formidable and destructive weapon. A house is in coarse of construction near the Faubourg St. Ilonore, which will have 'a remarkable characteristic. It will be without a staircase. in cluding the cellars, the house will have 11 storeys. An apparatus will be constructed, which will con tinually ascend and descend, and will safely and comfortably take residents or visitors to the floor to which they may desire to go. They will be seated on a sufa. Contrary to the usual custom, the upper floors will be the dearest, it being considered that they will be tbe most airy and agreeable. There are more cases of poisoning from supposed mushrooms. A man and his wife living at Bor deaux partook of an esculent gathered in the wood at Merignac. The family of a neighbour, consisting of five persons, also ate some of the vegetable. The man died in a few hours, and his wife was taken to the hospital in a dangerous state. The members of the other family have suffered excruciating pain, and some are expected to die from the effects of the poison. Among some old worm-eaten documents sold last week at the auction mart in the Auction Mart, was a placard containing some regulations issued by the Paris police on the Ist of September, 1609. They refer to the performances at the theatre of the Hotel d'Argent, near the Helle, in a street now in course of demolition. The document is interesting as illustrative of the different customs which prevailed two centuries ago. It is as follows : " Upon the complaint made by the Procureur- General of the King that the comedians of the Hotel d' Argent finish their comedies at unseason able hours and inconvenient in the winter time, and that, without permission, they extort from the people excessive sums, and it being necessary to fix a moderate price, we have made and make an ex press prohibition to the said comedians from the day of St. Martin (the 11th of November) to the 15th of February to play after half-past four o'clock in the afternoon at the latest. With this view we enjoin them to commence the performance for such persons as may be present at two o'clock in the afternoon, and that the door may be opened at one o'clock precisely. We forbid the comedians to take a larger sum from the inhabitants and other persons than five sous for the pit and ten sous to the boxes and galleries; and should they have any piece to perform which may entail extra expenses, we will provide for them should they make the request." L A TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. IMPORTANT FRENCH CIRCULAR NOTE. PARIS, Sept. 17. The Marquis de Lavalette has addressed to the French diplomatic agents in foreign parts a circular dated the 16th inst., which is very pacific in tone. After showing that the recent changes in Europe are favourable to France, the circular proceeds : " The coalition of the three Northern Courts is broken up. The new principle ruling in Europe is the liberty of alliances. Aggrandised Prussia secures the independence of Germany. France will not feel disposed to oppose or to regret the work of assimilation which has just been accomplished, and to subordinate to feelings of jealousy the principles of nationalities which represent and profess regard for the peoples. By imitating France, G ermany has taken a step which draws her nearer to us. " Notwithstanding unreflecting susceptibilities, Italy has equally drawn nearer to us in ideas, prin ciples, and interests. The September Convention, which secures the Pontifical interests, will be loyally carried out. " Second class naval forces are arising in the Baltic and the Mediterranean which assure the liberty of those seas. Austria, relieved of two Italian and German leanings, and no longer employ ing her forces in barren rivalries, but concentrating them upon the East of Europe, still represents 35 million souls whom no hostile interests separate from France. " By what singular reaction of the past upon the future shall public opinion see, not the allies, but the ene.nies of France, in nations liberated from a past that was hostile to us, and now called to enter upon a new existence, guided by principles which are our own, and animated by the sentiments of progress which form the pacific link of society ? "An Europe more strongly constituted, and more homogeneous by better defined territorial divisions, is a guarantee for the peace of the Continent, and is neither a peril nor an injury to our nation." The circular proceeds to demonstrate that the the part of mediato r . On Empe rortlle was sright in ac contrary, he would n have disregarded his high responsibility, if, violating the neutrality ceiAig pro mised and proclaimed, he had suddenly plunged into the risk of a great war— one of those wars which arouse the hatred of race, and in which whole nations meet in conflict. " The Government," continues the circular, " compre hends annexations dictated by the absolute neces sity of uniting country populations having the same manners and the same national spirit. It can only desire those territorial aggrandisements which would not affect its powerful cohesion, but must always labour for its moral and political aggrandisement, using its influence on behalf of the great interests of civilisation. " Nevertheless, the results of the late war teach an important lesson, and show the necessity which exists for the defence of our territory, and for per fecting without delay our military organisation. The nation will not fail in this duty, which cannot be regarded as a threat by any." In conclusion, the circular considers the political horizon to be free from any threatening contin gencies, and expresses belief in a lasting peace. BOURSE, Sept. 15.—Two o'clock.—This being the day for the half monthly reponse des primes (option), a little more animation has been exhibited, but the tendency of the market continues down ward, more especially in Italian Fives. The follow ing rates were declared for the reponse :—ltalian Fives at 56f. 30c. Mobilier, 662 f. 50c. Lyons, 888 f. 75c. French Threes were done at 69f. 75e., or 15c. lower ; Italian Fives at 56f. 40c., or a loss of 70c. ; Mobilier at 666 f. 25c. or a fall of 2f. 50c. ; Credit Foncier at 1,365 f., or 2f. lower. Comptoir d'Escompte at 910 f., unchanged. The railway market is also declining. Three o'clock.—The market has been rather firmer, the closing prices being as follows : 4i per Cents 96 75 Do. end month Bank Shares 3578 75 Italian Loan 56 20 Do. end month 56 50 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred A' &YE!. 3 per Cents. Do. end month 69 85 Credit Mobilier 667 50 Do. end month 665 Credit Foncier Do. cud month 1360 itAIL Lyons and liediterranean For Account. Orleans Northern ....... : 890 Southern Western Eastern ................................................ Sardinian. Austrian Lombard 415 North of Spain lO7 50 Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona R0man.......,--_ ........ -- 512 50 65 --- WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—With the permission and approbation of Dr. Stanley, the Dean of Westminster, the Abbey is to be bested iu the winter. Preparations are now being actively carried on for the reception of the necessary hot water apparatus for so doing. Four boilers are in ma, of COligruction, IHE A.TRE ROYAL LYCEUM. Dion Boucicault's "Long Strike." On Saturday caning Mr. Fechter's new season was inaugurated. As usual, the house was densely ' crowded throughout. And—again as usual—the audience showed themselves delighted, at times even enthusiastic in their welcome of the opening night's performance. This, moreover, it should be observed,, although that same performance partook very; much indeed of the proverbial character of the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet left out. For the manager himself only once made his appearance during the night— after the entertainment was all over, when the curtain had finally fallen upon the last act of the new drama--and appeared then only (in answer to the delighted summons of the house) in propria persona, and purely and simply in his character as manager. As all the London playgoers very well knew for some time previously, ,the opening night at the Lyceum was to be in the general character of it something wholly exceptional. And it was so. The event hasfulfilled the expectation. The long announced new play in four acts, a drama entitled " The Long Strike," struck home to the hearts of the audience, and already gives fair pro mise of enjoying a long run, to the great benefit of the Lyceum Exchequer. For the play as a play, the public are once more indebted to one of the most pro lific and successful of living dramatists, the author, among a multitude of other famous pieces, of " Arrah-na-Pogue, " the " Colleen Bawn," and " London Assurance." For the play, as a story, he, in his turn, it is true, is indebted to the late Mrs. Gaskell, one of the homeliest and most charming of recent novelists. The groundwork of the whole plot of " The Long Strike " is taken in fact from the first and perhaps the happiest of all her literary performances, her homely, tragic story of " Mary Barton." Through a parenthetical announcement, indeed, upon his playbill the author of this dramatic version of " Mary Barton" " ac knowledges his obligation to the descriptions of Manchester life contained in the works of the late Mrs. Gaskell." But obviously to all those who have ever read that best among all Mrs, Gaskell's writings, the tale but just now referred to, it is from the fictitious narrative of the loves and sorrows of Mary Barton that the main interest of the " Long Strike" is derived. The names are changed, the incidents are modified, but the story, in each instance—here in the novel, there in the drama—is to all intents and purposes simply identical. Only, it should be added that Mr. Boucicault uses the materials thus adroitly se lected by him for the fabrication of his new drama —materials hitherto strangly overlooked by the cultivators of the dramatic art—with all the inimitable .skill, tact and discretion which were only to be looked for from so complete a master of stage effect as himself. As a dramatic version of Mary Barton, " The Long Strike" is in its way a masterpiece. It is worthy of the author of " Arrah na-Pogue." It does for the operatives of Manches ter what the latter play did in regard to the Irish Peasantry. It brings the in completely and vividly within the pale of our sympathies. And as the hearts of the London Playgoers burned within them almost as though they had become for the time being those of Irish rebels while listening to the Irish rebel song, the " Wearing of the Green,"—so do they now glow within them as they listen to the delegates of the united working men and the ringleaders of the " Long Strike" down at Manchester. Admir ably well acted and beautifully put upon the stage, the cast being excellent throughout, and the new scenery by Mr. Greive wonderfully effective—" The Long Strike" went off to admiration—without even one noticeable hitch—on Saturday, the firstnight of its performance. In his impersonation of Johnny Reilly, the Irish sailor (every inch of him a sailor) Mr. Boucicault won the the hearts of his audience at the Lyceum as completely as ever he did at the Pr in cess's in his impersonation of Shaun-the-Post. And, in her turn too, his charming wife spoke and looked and moved as gracefully upon the scene, all through the four acts as the poor Factory Girl,Jane Learoyd, as who that ever saw her in the part does not remember her to have done in the character and play (for they were synonymous) of Arrah-na pogue, or Arrah-of-the-Kiss. Three other imperson ations on Saturday night achieved for three members of Mr. Fechter's company a brilliant, an exception ally brilliant success, two of the three more especially. Mr. Emery as Noah Learoyd—Mrs. Gaskell's John Barton as now dramatically realised by Dion Bouci cault—was the very incarnation of the Ringleader of a Working-man's Strike, the very archetype of an honest, homely enthusiast, with his brain all aflame with sympathy for the wrongs and sufferings of his fellow-workers. The make up was admirable, the every movement of his limbs, the every glance of his eye, the every tone of his voice, the very clumping walk of the man clad in his threadbare fustian and corduroy —everything was in cha racter. While, throughout the last scenes of the drama, after the murder has been committed, the crazed look of the care-worn face had in it a world of tragic power that, in the mere remem brance of it, commands our admiration. Mr. Wid dicombe, again, as the eccentric and kind-hearted attorney Moneypenny, we don't think we ever saw to greater advantage. It was a good, sterling piece of genuine acting—without one touch of buffoonery in it. It went right home to the hearts of his• audience, and roused them at the close of the third act to• unmistakable enthusiasm. Almost upon a par with these two as an impersonation was the Jem Starkie of Mr. J. C. Cowper—who looked and acted the part of Jane's lover, the honest homely young foreman of engineers, admirably well from first to last. As for the plot of the story, it needs hardly to be recapitulated here. To the readers of "Mary Barton," it has long been familiar. And the leading incidents of the novel are, for the most part, faithfully adhered to, with very slight modifications here and there no ticeable—at any rate up to the very climax of the story where, however, the crowning circumstance of all, meaning the manner in which the evidence of vital import has to be reclaimed, is not so much simply modified as it is absolutely transformed. Mary Barton, or we should rather say, Jane Learoyd, does not go in quest of that evidence herself as in the original story—the witness being brought back (as the incidents of plot are here re arranged by the dramatist) by another and a totally different agency —to wit that of the electric tele graph. The scene in the telegraph office in effect is the great sensation scene of the drama. There—to the click, click, click, click of the electric needles— the true Spirit Rapping of this Age of Scientific Miracles—the hearts of the audience beat with sympathy for the loves and the griefs of poor Jane Learoyd, the all but heartbroken factory girl, as she—Jem's betrothed, Noah's daughter; Johnny Reilly's sister-in-heart—is presented to our view by Mrs. Dion Boucicault. Another strangely effective scene before this one was the murder scene at the back of the murdered man's villa in the suburbs of Manchester, among the hedgerows and the meadow stiles, far away beyond which are visible the flam ing windows and flaring chimneys of the giant fac tories of Cottonopolis. The manufacturer Radley, by the way, the man who is murdered, that is, it may here be remarked, is impersonated effectivelyenough during the first two acts by Mr. Fitzpatrick. One or two trifling anomalies (or however we may like to call them) in:the piece, it may be as well, perhaps, in passing, to particularise. For example—it appears to us that, when Noah Learoyd picks up the pistol from Jane's tea table, and hurriedly loads it with one of the bullets found by him in the saucer, he would hardly regard the circumstance of their being there ready to baud at the moment of his forming the deadly design of taking Mr. Radley's life as so abso lutely a mere matter of course. He would evidence, at any rate, some surprise at so extraordinary a coinci dence! Again—in the repeated " Withy Grove" scene —both at its going off and at its coming on— could not hat ridiculous Pump (so suggestive of Mr. Crumnales' tag e property in " Nicholas Nickleby") could not that very absurd Pump, instead of gliding off by itself in one scene and gliding on in another, be got rid of altogether? Finally—while we are tak ing these exceptions to the way in which the piece is ; put upon the stage (and Admixably put upon it as a whole) at the Lyceum —we would add that when the murder at length takes place immediately before the fall of the drop scene, at the close of the second act, it is quite a relief to us to see two or three policemen come on to the stage to take part in the tableau! For—hitherto —all through those first two acts—thepoliceman Crankshaw alone appears on the scene iu that capacity among all the gatherings of the operatives in the streets and else where—as though there were only one policeman in all Manchester ! As it is, however, the whole drama, or, perhaps, we should rather say the drama as a whole, is, with such masterly effect in the gene ral getting up of it, in the acting of it, and in its scenery, put upon the stage of the Lyceum Theatre, that mere passing little exceptions to it like these, seem even to ourselves, iu the remembrance of all this, very much, indeed, like hyper criticism. Altogether the play itself, and the performance of it, must be pronounced to be a brilliant and unmistakeable success, and one upon which Mr. Fechter may be, as he is, hereby, very heartily congratulated, our congratulations extend ing beyond , with Mr. Fechter as manager of the Lyceum, to the author of " The Long Strike," to the actor-dramatist, Dion Boucicault. Perilous Adventure in the Solway. The storm-tossed Solway Frith has often, and recently, been the scene of dangerous adventures ; but it may be doubted if any of them surpassed in perilous interest a voyage made on Monday and Tues day last in :a little boat. About 10 o'clock on Mon day morning a crew of four persons started from Silloth for Annan. Their names were Capt. John son, Mr. George Stodart, and a young man named Proud, all of Silloth ; and Mr. Thomas Johnson, relieving ',officer, of Carlisle. The object of the voyage, was to bring back the hull of a large boat belonging to Mr. Stodart, which is intended for a yacht, and the sail was expected to be a pleasant ohs. The morning was fine, and with a favouring wind the little boat scudded away to the Scotch side, and right up the river to Annan. But in coming back the troubles of the voyagers began. The wind was now against them, and the difficulty of dragging the hulk behind them became at once apparent. The wind and tide drove thenA, at will, and it was not till a fishing boat came to their help that they were able to get fairly away from land. Drifting, rather than steering, they toiled along the Scotch side, keeping as far as possible the boat's head pointed towards Skinburness ; but sail nor oar could cope with the wind and ebb tide. Towards 4 o'clock in the after noon they found themselves being driven upon the great sand bank opposite Silloth and about midway in the Frith. " Pull Tom, pull Captain," shouted the helmsman, but all the pulling at command was unavailing, and the hulk grounded. There was nothing for it but to make the best of the situation, and the party quietly resolved to wait till the tide flowed again. Their position was' observed from Silloth, and a boat, with provisions, &c., w as sen t out. The men left the boat, on the edge of the bank, stripped and crossed a big channel, and banded the necessaries to their tide-bound friends, with the in timation that, as soon as the dock gates were opened, Captain Matthew Irving would come out and bring the boat and the hulk over with the steamtug. So the party dropped anchor, made merry, and awaited their deliverance. But dark ness came on, and with it a rough tide, a high wind, and a downpour of rain. In a short time the sea was rushing with a roar over the sandbank, and preparations were at once made to start sail. A light was carried from the hulk to the boat, with the intention of hoisting it on the mast ; and Cap tain Johnson and Proud got into the boat for that purpose. They had no sooner set foot on the littl e craft than she broke from her moorings, the tow rope snapped, and away she flew with lightning speed back towards Scotland. The light was seen for a moment, like a star, and then disappeared. Mr. Stodart and Mr. Johnson were left together in the hulk, but in pitch darkness. She tossed and plunged in the heavy sea, threatening at every lurch to drag her anchor. There was nothing to make a light of, except pocket handkerchiefs, when the thought struck them to unravel some of the rope and set fire to it. Several bits of rope were teased, but in attempting to strike a light, both men were over and over again pitched from side to side of the vessel. At last a light was got, and one after ano ther the ropo ends were fired. They waited long and anxiously for the coming of the tug, dreading every moment being cast loose without oars or sails. Towards 11 o'clock they saw a light twinkling out of the harbour, but whether it was that of the steamtug or of the steamship going to Liverpool, they could not tell. Another •suspense, and they fancied they heard the noise of the paddle wheels, wheli up went another fiery rope end, which was responded to by cheers, which in turn were answered by the forlorn adventurers. After a good deal of trouble, on account of the force of wind and tide, the tug got round, threw a double hawser, and the hulk was safely fastened. Then the wrecked pair had a long pull to get up the anchor, which being done tug and hulk set off to find the little boat. After a long cruise a dipping light was seen in the direction of Annan, and the boat was found at last. Fortunately a second anchor had been found, which was let go, or there is no knowing what might have been the fate of the little craft. It was two in the morning before the rescued adventurers were safely landed at Sil loth, thoroughly drenched and worn out. The greatest praise is due to Captain Irving and his crew for their gallantry in facing such a storm for the rescue of men who, notwithstanding the assur ance of Mr. Stodart that, if the hulk broke her moorings she would turn up somewhere, had, to say the least, passed six or eight hours in the ex tremest peril.—Carlisle Examiner. INTENDED REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT LEEDS.— The Reform Manhood Suffrage Association of Leeds is making arrangements to hold a West Riding Reform De monstration on Woodhouse-moor, Leeds, early in the en suing month of October. At a meeting of the Association on Friday last letters were read from several members of Parliament approving the demonstration. Among them was Mr. E. Baines, who, while approving the intended meeting, declined to bo present, as he did not go so far as manhood suffrage. Resolutions were passed in favour of inviting a great number of the leaders of the extreme Liberal party, members of the House of Commons, and others to be present at the demonstration, and of taking various special means to insure the demonstration being numerously attended. COSTOFA DOUBLE RE-ELECTION.—In the course of July Viscount Cranborne, M.P., and Sir J. C. D. Hay, M.P., offered themselves for re-election for Stam ford, on the occasion , of their accepting office in the pre sent administration. It appears from an official return, just issued that Viscount Cranborne expended £B7 69. Id.- and Sir J. C. D. Hay £B7 42. 7d. ; agency cost each candi date £33 Bs.; and £l5 15s. was expended by each for pro fessional services. The Mayor (Mr. 0. N. Simpson) also delivered to each candidate an account for expenses to the amount of £2B 9s. ld. THE HARVEST IN LINCOLNSHIRE.—The harvest has closed very unfavourably in Lincolnshire. In the Spilsby district a considerable quantity of grain has not yet been secured. About Brigg the straw of the last wheat carted had become discoloured, and many of the oars which had rested on' the ground exhibited sprouts an inch in length, Floods accumulated last week in the low-lying districts about Lincoln. Much corn will be damaged in con sequence. A good deal of corn is stated to be still out about Alford. In the Kirton Lindsey district heavy crops of bar ley are now much sprouted, and under the most favourable circumstances the damage will be considerable. GALE IN THE NORTH AND EAST RIDINGS.--A furious gale of wind, and up to noon heavy rains, prevailed on Thursday night and Friday throughout these divisions of the county of York. On Thursday the weather held fair for the first time during a long period, and harvest work was pushed on till dark, the corn being secured in damp condi tion mostly. On Friday, however, the rain stopped work in the morning, and in the afternoon the wind was so high that no leading could be done. Indeed, the stooks in the fields were blown over in exposed positions, and the uncut oats and barley crops will be considerably damaged by the wind. The gale is from the north-west. The Charivari publishes a woodcut representing Count do Bismarck sowing various pieces of linen together, one marked Prussia, and the others Hanover, Nassau, Frankfurt, Saxony, &c. He exclaims at the same time, " What a clever thing it is to be able to use the needle so adroitly ; still the talent should not be abused." THE STATUE OF THE PRINCE CONSORT. —O n Sa turday the Mayor of Liverpool received a private letter from her Majesty, declining, for reasons similar to those given to Manchester, to inaugurate the Liverpool statue of the Prince Consort. A contemporary has stated that the Earl of Sefton has been invited to officiate, but the report is without foundation. —Liverpool Albion. p• ..."'"" fAle ~. 40tx, :- - - - --- 4 tc.... _,_E„ ~,. Elnular HER MAJESTY. -0- BALMORAL, Friday. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian and Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, and attended by Lady Churchill, drove yesterday to the Lynn o f Dee. Princess Louise, attended by Miss Grey, Went out driving. The Right Hon. J. R. Mowbray, Judge Advo cate-General, had an audience of the Queen, and left the Castle yesterday. Mr. Helps arrived at the Castle. Mr. Walpole had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the royal family last night. Saturday. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis e ' drove out yesterday morning, and also in the after" noon with Princess Christian and Princess Louise. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Duke of Edin burgh, Prince and Princess Christian, Princes s Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, went at half-past six to Abergeldie, where the Prince and Princess of Wales gave a gillies' ball, which the Queen honoured. Her Majesty and the royal fatal dined with the Prince and Princess of Wales, and went again after dinner for a short time to the ball• The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were in attendance. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador left Bryanston-square on Saturday for St. Leonards. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort will shortly entertain a party of friends at Llangattock, after whic h they go to Troy House, Monmouthshire, to receive coo' The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe and M' Dalton arrived at the Clarendon Hotel on Saturday evening from Stockholm. The Duchess of St. Albans and Lady Diana Beauclerk left Mar Lodge an Thursday for Bhtisgowriel where they expect to remain a fortnight. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury ha" been staying with Lord and Lady Foley, at WorksoP Manor, Notts. The Earl and Countess of Scarborough ha" entertained a select party during the past week at SO" beck, Yorkshire. Among the guests hav e b een the Bari of Zetland, the Earl and Countess of Bradford, Viscoun6 Canterbury, Colonel Hon. H. Forester, Colonel Hon. James and Mrs. Macdonald, Mr. and Lady Augusta Stuart, Air' J. Lumley, Mr. H. Chaplin, Mr. H. Savile, &c. The Early and Countess Spencer, who are on 3 tour of visits in Scotland, have arrived at the Earl Co roper' s shooting box in the Highlands. The Obsequies of the Prince of Conde. The solemn ceremonial consequent upon the funeral obsequies of the Prince of Conde, the eldest son of the Due d'Aumale, who died of fever in Sydney on the 24th of May last, took place on S 5" turday in Miss Taylor's Roman Catholic Char ] ; IVcybridge, Surrey, whither the mortal remains 01 the young Prince were conveyed on Wednesday 154 after their arrival in thii country. The chapel wa s hung and carpeted with black drapery, and in the centre a bier was erected, upon which the coffin was laid. On the lid at the foot was placed a smal l casket, containing the heart of the young Princ e ' who at the time of his death was, we believe, in th e 20th year of his age. The sombre appearance of the chapel was rather increased than lessened by th e light which was given forth from 14 large Via l candles ; they were fixed in an equal number of massive silver candlesticks, and were placed along the sides and at the top and bottom of the coffin. About 10 o'clock the Duc d'Aumale and other illustrious relatives, together with the Duchesse d'Aumale, the Countess de Paris, and a large nuns' ber of other relatives and friends, arrived at the chapel, and nearly filled the sacred edifice. Shortly before 11 o'clock the Right Rev. Dr. Grant, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark, attended by Mr. Moore, of St. George's Cathedral, Southwark, arrived at Weybridge, and at 11 o'clock the Bishop said a " low" mass, the Rev. Mr. Moore officiating a° chaplain. At the conclusion of the mass the Bishop gave the " absolution," in the course of which h e sprinkled the coffin with holy water, and fumed it with incense, in accordance with the form adopted in the funeral services of the Roman Catholic Church. The Duchesse d'Aumale and other female rela tives of the deceased Prince then passed round the coffin, and sprinkled it with holy water, as did 0! Duo d'Aumale and the male relations present. It is needless to say that this part of the ceremoat was most impressive and imposing. Dr. Gran then said the " Benedictus," and the religious cere mony terminated. The body and the casket containing the Prin ce : 8 , heart were then taken from the chapel to the vau lt under it. The former was laid upon low tressels, and the casket was, as before, laid upon the coffin ; In the same vault are laid the remains of LOU' Philippe, his Queen, Marie Amelie, the Duch esso de Nemours, and other members of the royal TamilY; The body of the Prince of Conde will only be h er d temporarily, and will be removed with the remai n of the other distinguished persons already men tioned to a new vault which is in course of et struction in the immediate vicinity of that in Whi' they now lie. The ceremonial having been brought to a close the Duc d'Aumale, and the other relations 511 a friends of the deceased, left Weybridge, and Pro ceeded to their residence in the neighbourhoo d e Twickenham. SOLEMN AND IMPOSING CEREMONY. —Yesterd4 morning a very solemn and imposing ceremony 1 ;: place at the Catholic Church, F u lh am -fi e ld s , i n the prose 101 of a large and respectable congregation. The mourilftuo occasion was that of the b ur i a l i n th e groun d s attache d that sacred edifice of th e rema i ns o f Mi ss C a th a rine 143ri a Swift, the much-belov e d d aug ht er an d on ly c hild of Swift, Esq., som e ti me M.P. f or th e coun ty o f Sligo, a 11)- r ; gistrate for the county of Middlesex, and w ho a few Yt it ago discharged the duties of one of the sheriffs for , I,l2l'ri, anctaliddlesex. The deceased young lady had fromb o f hood made up her mind to devote herself to the gl °rl re f- God, and had been preparing for some time to joie gious community belonging to that Church of which 1 was so devoted and ardent a member ; but un fortuna w to the grief of her sorrowing friends and all who kno W , ll l e if; her expectations were prematurely and in the prime frustrated 133 , the hand of death. Miss Swift died on Ti'li-!,5 day morning last at Folkestone, and her remains 133`if-.. been brought to London were yesterday interred in 15 0 0 vate vault prepared to receive them with all the so' e s t ceremonials of the Catholic Church, performed with g r o - i impressiveness by Dr. Morris, the venerable Bishop of 1:1. , c 0 ' assisted by a number of clergymen. The mournful s ° if attracted a large assemblage, many of whom were d ee ',i , affected at the premature removal of one who was as u versally beloved in herlife as she is lamented in her ao' Observer. THE COMMAND OF THE CHANNEL FLEET. --11 : ° 10 appointment of Rear-Admiral Warden, C.D. , t° p second in command of the Channel Fleet, howe'rer';:fs parently unnecessary, is significant of one fact, 00 not the intention of the present Board of Admiraltit:i.efl bun. e Rear-Admiral Yelverton, C.B as ComuluP' e n - i lli t' Chief beyond the year for which he .r'eceives his OP': e ment from the Duke of Somerset. Two admirals t ° charge of less than a dozen vessels would be far tool/bet:, 11.1 a n arrangement in these days of economy. Whi l e 31 ing to Rear - Admiral Warden we cannot but help re L o ra ,03 rug that the fact of his hoisting his flag on board the the Clyde presses hard upon Captain Dew, - uuless, fri d r eed : u ° officer would rather than not have a flag fly ing f o e el of his mastheads. Captain Dew, when he coniuu-h-nsre ti' Lord Clyde, fully fully expected that he vrOur.ldt-lt ig an independent command ; and, notwithstanding 41°- it a general and wholesome rule that all officers shoul d re° et' their own convenience subsequent to the good of the, stilf vice, still captains will feel annoyed when unelPerhei deprived of certain privileges, the absence of wilic-rent; never contemplated N, hen applying for active einPlol.oo and wo can scarcely believe that the honour now c°ll.ftce4 upon Captain Dew will compensate him for the s f , ael , te• he will be called upon to make.—Army and Navy "a,61.010. MILITARY AEROSTATICS.--The M e morial -1 ,, 1 b 0 matique says that an Austrian engineer, 31. St e ' Pf' invented an aerostatic apparatus for the purp ose °f t s° A HT during war the strategical movements of an ouerale.oo" trial was made a few days Since in the presen ce of v' e pt, mission of superior officers and of the Archde.ke A lbr bicit generalissimo of the Imperial army. The ap parates d° ov d Do' consists of five balloons connected together , succee ,t,J;a yond all expectations. A final experiment will s bortli i v se j place before the Emperor, but the results ahead)" °l) ,, ' t3 o dag have been such as to cause the invention to b e regal one certain to be adopted. Th e Per ee , falli n g, th e ofa, friars. Atl as st eady 110,,ds Bush gained htly j oal l‘'e ster v Orksh have • C, btitt,o 18, • itc