The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-26 00:00:00

LONDON, IVED_v'ESDAT , SEPT. 26, 1866. Count BISMARCK has gained another triumph ; and of his successes at home and abroad it may well be said that their name is legion. The re sumption of the debate on the Loan Bill was the occasion of a stirring scene, in which the Minister put forth all his efforts to convince and persuade. In consequence of his making more concessions the amendment was passed by a large majority, limiting the loan to forty instead of sixty million thalers. The Minister of Finance complained of the harsh interpretation that had been put upon the measure by the Committee. He tried to bring forward arguments which should impress those he addressed of the necessity of no delay taking place. It is almost ludicrous to notice how the Berlin Cabi net changes about at every opportunity, in order to suit circumstances, and thus we find the Finance Minister recapitulating recent events, and declaring that the position of Prussia was not yet settled, and that peace was not concluded with Saxony. We do not credit for a moment that BISMARCK and his coadjutors care a bit about the Saxon negotia tions one way or the other, except so far as they can gratify their spite; but it is very convenient, of course, to make a great deal out of a very little, and declare that things are not yet safe or secure. All the argu_ ments pointed to one end, namely, that it would be most unwise, most impolitic, and most blame able if the Deputies did not at once settle the dis puted question of finance. " Money must be at the disposal of the Government. We must have our hands on our swords and our purses well filled." The other day Count BISMARCK declared that the Annexation Bill was the vital point of Prussian politics ; and now the Finance Minister asserts that the " financial question is the chief point." Count BISMARCK'S address was very determined, and he seemed more anxious than he generally is to convince his hearers of the necessity for unity than he was to contradict them, and contests hispoint at all hazards. He said very plainly the House should consider the bill from a political stand-point, and thus put the authorities in a position where they could defend what they had gained. He then went on to show that the present aspect of affairs was not so very good as some might suppose, for official communications had shown that the spirit of con ciliation had not entered into the Imperial Court with the conclusion of peace. Certainly it would be ve r y very strange if it had done so, for every possible thing has been done that could provoke and irritate those who have lost by the chances of war. Moreover, said the Count, the Eastern question was by no means disp ose d of, and might yet lead to serious European difficulties, a n d they must all recollect that at a time of difficulty with the money market the Government would not be able to raise a loan. This was felt by them a short time back, and we suppose that it was the awkwardness of that dilemma which induced Ministers to make the compromise which they have done. What was drawn from the State Treasury last year must now be replaced. surely a moral may be drawn irom thifi debate As Mr. BRIGHT has not quite exhausted his eloquence, and his friends at Manchester have very properly given him a grand banquet in recognition of his exertions. It is only to be regretted that so power ful a speaker should so often allow his zeal to out run his discretion, and it is likewise remarkable that Mr. BRIGHT generally makes these grand demon strations as soon as a Conservative Ministry gets into power. Certainly the member for Birmingham had a good deal to say about Reform during the last few months of 1865, but, for the most part, there was silence on this subject from the tribune during the interval which elapsed between his tour of agitation when Lord DERBY was in office and the events of last autumn. Radicals have long had a name for gaining moderation in office. Mr. MILNER GIBSON, par exemple, has not much benefited the country by his accession to power. No sooner does an en thusiastic reformer take office than he turns the mental telescope round forthwith. The wants and grievances which formerly assumed such alarming proportions when viewed through the medium of a comfortable sinecure are apt to shrink into very small dimensions. Who shall say what marvellous transformation we might not witness if Mr. Joint BRIGHT were to be pre vailed upon to accept the seals of one of the depart ments of State ? He might, perhaps, take the Secretaryship of War, having already got a good way from his peace doctrines. He has reached the stage at which he considers being accused of holding peace-at-any-price doctrines as an insult, and yet not so many years back, we fancy, his speeches would have told a different tale. The, fact is, that the military spirit is so strong in Mr. BRIGHT that he must needs be fighting something, and if he cannot fight something tangible he must contradict or oppose some political dogma. " I believe," he said last night, " that however much any of us may abhor the thought that political ques tions in any country should ever again be settled by force, yet there is something in the constitution o: our nature that when these evils are allowed to run on beyond a certain period unredressed that the most peace-loving of men are unable to keep the peace." It is possible, such is the extent of human self-deception, that Mr. BRIGHT may consider himself a peace loving man, but his hearers' imaginations could hardly have been so active after the passage which followed. " And bear this in mind— that however much we may wish political questions to be settled by moral means, yet it is no more immoral for a people to use force in the last resort for the obtain ing and the securing of freedom than it is for a government, by force, to suppress and deny that freedom." Mr. BRIGHT apparently knew his audience, for this passage excited the greatest enthusiasm, the audience rising to applaud. Would he have uttered it in the House of Commons? It is true he qualified it after by hoping that the time was far distant, but the effect pro duced was that the employment of physical force might be necessary to carry a new Reform Bill. What that bill is to be he takes care not to particularise too closely. He admits that the mem bers of his party are not unanimous as to details, but he urges, sensibly enough, upon them the ad vocacy of general principles. " My view of the whole question of these differences is this—that when one sees a real movement—something grand in its pro portions, powerful for the gaining of results, the plan of a sensible man who does not want to split hairs, is to take with that movement, to help it, to make the beat of it, and to get all the good he can out of it." Why this is the very principle on which Mr. BRIGHT himself refuses to act. Had he looked only for " a real Movement, powerful for the gaining of results," we should have had aßeform Bill seven years ago, because if the Liberals in the Lower House had combined heartily and di sinterestedly with the Tories to improve Lord DERBY'S Bi ll we mi g h t h ave a really good measure. Mr. B RIGHT i s sa dly behind Mr. GLADSTONE, to whose services in the ca use of Reform he makes no reference. The right hon. gentleman boldly said that, when a Reform Bill came before the House of Commons, he would judge it on its merits, regardless of whence it c ame. This is a point of liberality and toleration to which Mr. BRIGHT will never attain. Like THADDEUS STEVENS and :WENDELL PHILLIPS his idea of political freedom is to have the pow©r of abusing his opponents without their having the power to reply. His notion of popular representation is to have his own party re presented and his opponents unrepresented. If he leaves more thoughtful and cautious men behind he cares not. Perhaps it is all the better that lie alone should lead the van, and have the honour of heading the charge,—only it is not always quite clear whether the enemies he is attacking are giants or windmills. Among the many minor tragedies which find a place in our daily records our readers may have noticed two painful cases which serve to illustrate each other. So much has been said about the faults and shortcomings of our workhouse system that some persons may have reasonably supposed that a little closer supervision was now exercised over them ; but such a belief would be erroneous. A very painful case of neglect was brought to light at By ORDER of the SHERIFF.—No. 35, Milk street, Cheapside, City.-office Furniture, and Fixtures, Large Iron Repository, Crane, &c. ALEX. HUMPHREY will SELL by AUCTION in the ground floor offices, on FRIDAY, September the 28th, 1866, at 10 for 11 o'clock to the minute, 21, Coleman street, Bank. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton T HIS EVENING will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of KING JOHN. Mr. Phelt.s, Mr. Barry Sullivan, Messrs. T. Swinbourne, T. Mead, Maser Percy Roselle; Mesdames Herman Yezin. H. Yaadenhoff, G. Hodson, F. Bennett, A. Golier, To conclude with Shakspere's COMEDY OF ERRORS. Arothers Dromio by the Brothers Webb. Commence at Seven, THEATRE RU YAL, HAY MARKET. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Bueksione. This Theatre will OPEN for the Season o , i MONDAY. Oct 1. Mr. and Mr . Charles Math. ws, , n their return from the Continent, w.ll appear. with M r.Buckstone, Mr. C•in.pton, Mr. Chippend..le, Mr. Howe, Mr. W. k'arreo, air. t lark, lir. Rogers, Mr W. Gordon, Mr. Braid, Mr. ‘Yeathershy, Mr. Coe ; Miss Nela Moore,Chippendale, Miss C. Hid, Miss Fanny Wright, MiSN 1 oyet/, Miss Coleman, dc. Mr. Sothern at Chrtstinas. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE._ IR, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Fechter. TaIS EVENING. and during the week.—Mr. and Mrs DION BoUCICAULT in the new Drama, " THE LONG ST MIKE." Performances: —At 7 o'clock, NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. IL Widdicomb, Moreland, D. Evans, and Miss K. jilandlord. At a Quarter before 8. the new Drama, in Four Aces, THE LONG STRIKE, written by Dion Boucicault. The New Scenery by Mr. T. Greive and assistants. Messrs. S Emery, Wid licornb, Fitzpatrick, Dalton, 1). Evans, Anderson, Isiewbound. Stanley, Lomas, Moreland, Andrews, Reynolds, and J. C. Cowper. To conclude with UP IN THE WORLD. Acting Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THE LONG STRIKE.--ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, —Johnny Reilly (an Irish Sailor), Mr. D. Boucicault ; Jane Learoyd (a Factory Girl), Mrs. D. Boud cault. At 7 o'clock. ROYAL 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. Stir, ing, Miss Neilson, Miss A ugusta Thonisoli ; Mr. Geor, e Honey at, d Mr. Vying. Grand Ballet of Bohemians, in which MM Flageo let, Clodoche, Comete, and Normande, will appear. New scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster, Will RE-OPEN cn MONDAY, Oct. 1. The Company to meet in the Green Roera on MONDAY, Sept. 24, a, One o'clock. Miss KATE TERRY will make her First Appear ance at the Theatre Royal Adelphi on Monday, Oct. 1. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE MARRIED BACHELOR Messrs. Thorne and Price; Misses Johnstone and Hughes. To be followed by WAIIING FOR THE UNDER GROUND. 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Tar's DAY.— Jonahag, 2 u - Afternnon, 3'l. 15m Ta-MORROW.-Moming, a I. . ~--Afternoon, 3u. 5811 L 4 ". u at, to the dangers incurred by those who persist in fol lowing the bent of their own wishes without regard to the claims of individuals and the just rights of nations. Had the Berlin Cabinet not resorted to such a daring act as that of last spring, they might now have as much money as they desired for the heavy expensesithey have to meet; but even a Prussian Assembly, inflated with triumph, cannot forget that gross outrages have been committed by the Government that now presents itself before the Chambers and asks for unlimited supplies of money, and appeals also for additional authority in various directions. The French EMPEROR is said to be already much the better for the change to Biarritz, and Count BISMARCK is reported to be on the eve of a visit there. Furthermore, it is intimated that his journey will do no good to Belgium, and on this point great doubts prevail. We hope and believe that her MAJESTY'S present ad visers will not follow in the line chalked out for them by their predecessors, but will show some energy and determination if their ally is in danger. Lord DERBY and Lord STANLEY have both de clared that they did not advocate a policy which interfered with continental nations, and this asser tion has met with general approval. This case of aggression on Belgium is, however, very different, and cannot be tolerated by any one of spirit. We yet cling to the belief that the Emperor NAPOLEON will not disappoint his admirers in this country by acting so contrary to the course he has hitherto followed, but let our Government be prepared for any emergency that may arise. It will be no service to any Power to let it act with oppression and harsh ness, and it will be a blessing for Europe in general if the Government of England will stand firm on any point that concerns her honour. This will be of far more avail than anything which appertains to commercial interest or immediate power. It will show that those who rule the destinies of this mighty empire put the chief thing foremost, and do not intend to forget the substance in the shadow. THE SUN, LONIJOA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1866. an inquest held last Wednesday, before Mr. HUMPHREYS, on ABRAHAM BROWN, a silk weaver, aged 60 years. It seems from the evidence that the deceased, a respectable man, had been out of em ployment for several weeks past. His brother and others advised him to go into the Bethnal-green Workhouse, as he had no home ; but he was averse to go, having been there once before, and ill treated. At last, however, the poor man's courage gave way, and he applied for admission three weeks ago. He was kept all day at the workhouse gates, but not admitted. Last Saturday week he again applied, and was taken in. On the Mon day he was moved to one of the wards, being evi dently extremely ill. During the night he kept getting in and out of bed, and " talking inces santly like a man deranged." Such symptoms, however, do not disturb the equanimity of work house officials, excepting so far as they interfere with their personal comfort or convenience. In the morning, said the wardsman, deceased "got out of bed and lay on the floor. Witness put him back in the bed " (roughly and carelessly enough, no doubt), " and half an hour afterwards found him dead. Witness then called the doctor. He did not call the nurse or the doctor to the de ceased during the night because he never complained —he seemed like a man deranged." The idea of delirium being a sign of illness did not apparently enter the mind of this worthy, who has charge of 14 men in this sick ward. The post mortem exami nation showed that death was occasioned by failure in the action of the heart, and both the doctor who made it, and the medical officer of the workhouse, said that life might have been prolonged by timely treatment. The verdict was death from natural causes, and the jury found " that there was great neglect in the workhouse ward, where the de ceased was left dying the whole night without any attendance whatever." It seems that the deceased was to have been buried without an inquest, when the Coroner accidentally heard of the case. In waiting till so.ne better and more humane system of workhouse management is organised, it would at least be some check upon cruelty and some stimulus to selfish callousness if an inquest were held on every death in our unions. The case of ABRAHAM BROWN sufficiently ex plains that of MARGARET Swim, a muslin worker, aged 76, who died from want of the common neces saries of life. She was urged to go into the White chapel Workhouse, but said she would rather die of hunger. As might be expected with her trade, at her age, the poor creature earned so little that she was in a state of abject destitution. A keeper of a common lodging-house kindly allowed her a few nights shelter and gave her some food, but she was at last removed to the dreaded " house" in a state of insensibility from absolute want, and died very shortly after. Verily, there is something strangely wrong in our system of relieving the poor when two inquests like these can be held in one week. They are a scandal to the public dis charge of a national duty—the care of those honest and friendless poor who can no longer work for themselves. If England cannot do better than this for honest poverty, she may look for a plentiful increase of thieves and swindlers. At any rate, her people had better cease to boast either of their humanity or their justice, and still less of their system of local government, when an aged pauper can deliberately and with reason pre fer to perish from absolute starvation than to submit to the treatment of want and suffering in the recog nised institutions of the State. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. The 41foniteur says that the private despatches and the Italian papers consider the definitive con clusion of peace between Austria and Italy as liely to take place speedily in consequence of the settle ment of the financial question, which hitherto had made delicate uegociations very necessary. The Siecle says :—" The negotiations between Italy and Austria proceed slowly. Those between Prussia and Saxony appear to be suspended. All that we receive from Germany is the text of a pro clamation of the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen to his faithful subjects. In order to save them from mak ing sacrifices, he renounces power in favour of his son. The Duke who thus abdicates, Erich-Freund Bernhard, born on the 17th Dec., 1800, succeeded his father, the Duke George, on the 24th December, 1803, and was placed under the tutelage of his mother until the 17th December, 1821. He, there fore, reigned nearly 63 years. His successor, the Duke George, was born on the 2d April, 1826, and by his first marriage he is the son-in-law of Prince Albert of Prussia. The Elector of Hesse Camel has addressed a pro clamation to his troops, in which he releases them from their oath of fidelity. The Gazette de la Croix states that the health of M. de Bismark is not yet sufficiently re-established to enable him to attend to his ministerial duties, which, for the present, are intrusted to other hands. M. de Bismark will not leave for the country until the close of the session, which will take place next week. It is officially announced that the demand for space for 199 exhibitors inscribed on the list of ad missions of class 53 (machines and mechanical apparatus), at the Great Exhibition, is agreed to. The space to be allowed to class 53 will be 978 square metres. The Royal Commission for the great Exhibition at Paris have issued a circular at Florence, signed by the President, M. Vicenzi, in which ho states that all motive of war having disappeared, the na tional prosperity has been the great want of the country. He, therefore, urges the manufacturing and industrial interests to " fructify" the natural riches of Italy by their exertions. The coming Ex hibition (he says) ought to serve to make us known to others, and instruct us to know ourselves. Count Bacocchi, Senator, first Chamberlain to the Emperor, superintendent-general of the theatres, died on Sunday morning at the Palace of the Tui leries. The Count had occupied the position of Chamberlain since 1852, and died very rich, hav ing inherited the property of the Prince de Lucques. He was the nephew of the Princess Bacocchi, also is much interested in agriculture, and occupies a large farm in Brittany, which was presented to her by the Emperor. Shocks a earthquake have taken place in Ger many and Italy. At Essegg, in Sclavonia, 53 hours before the earthquake took place at Paris, " the sun appeared to shake." So says the Ham burger Nachrichten. On Saturday last, at Turin about four o'clock in the afternoon, there was a slight undulating movement of the earth. A new Catholic Church has been consecrated with much ceremony at Liestal, in the canton of Berne, Switzerland. Catholics and Protestants took part in the ceremony. During the banquet given on the occasion, the Bishop of Bale gave a toast, which was i acknowledged sueh atevbeyts arheme of the pariah of Liesta . common in German Switzerland. The restoration of the Notre Dame, which has been in progress for 20 years, is nearly completed. The last two statues are about to be placed in the niches prepared for them in the Gallery of Kings. The statues in that gallery were supposed to be those of the Kings of France from the time of Charlemagne, but under archaeological discoveries prove that they represented the Kings of Judea and not those of France. A King seated upon a lion is certainly a David. There will be a splendid exhibition of fruits, vegetables, and flowers in the Rue de Grenelle, St. Germain, from September 29 to October 3. Medals of gold, silver, and bronze, given by the Emperor and Empreea, the rrinceiffi Itathilde and the /Ws ; ter of Agriculture and Commerce, will be distri buted. A splendid plant, nevly introduced into cultivation in France, will be ethibited. A literary paper, in its account of the inaugura tion of a statue at Argentan to the memory of the great historian of France, De Mezeray, mentions a curious instance of the eccentricity of his character. Merzeray was born in the year 1610 at Thy, in Lower Normandy, and commenced his great work, " The History of France in 1643," when he was only 32. The last volume was published in 1651. He died on July 10, 1683, at the age of 73. Mezeray was of a very chills disposition. One cold winter day a friend met him in the street, and in answer to the question, he said he was hurrying home to his fireside. "I am a-, L.," said Mezeray. This answer seemed apocryphal, but it is thus ex plained. When winter began Mezeray prepared 12 'Airs of shoes, which he marked IN ith the letters of the alphabet. Before getting out of bed he con sulted his thermometer. When the cold commenced he began with his A shoes. At the time in question the cold had increased, and on that day, as the thermometer had gone down 12 degrees, he put on the L shoes, the twelfth letter. When Cardinal Mazarin found that Mezeray in his History described Louis XI. as a bad son, a bad father, a bad friend, and a bad husband, the pension he received from the King was stopped. In Mezeray's desk was found the following memorandum :—" This is the last money I have received from the King. He has ceased to pay me, and I have ceased to speak of him, whether for good or evil." Proceedings have long been pending in France between the Duke of Hamilton and the Marquis of Abercorn, both of whoni claim the right to the title of Duke de Chatelherault. The Council of State has just decided in favour of the Duke of Hamil ton. General Baron Rohalt de Fleury has just died at the age of 84 at his seat of Forgot near Montoire. Au honest tradesman, who . had been enjoying himself at St. Cloud, was passing over the pont de Grenelle, about 1 o'clock on Sunday morning, when a ferocious-looking fellow, wearing a long, dark bushy beard, dashed upon him, and holding a pistol to his throat, said—" Your money, or your life." Our tradesman, who was in too joyous a mood to be frightened, declared that he had been making things pleasant with some friends, and that he had spent all the money he had in his pocket. The robber said he would believe him, and not search his pockets, for he liked to have confidence in his " customers," but he must swear by the remains of his grand father that he would do exactly as he ordered. The robber then told the grocer that he must go the next morning, at 5 o'clock, and fish in the Seine until he had caught five gudgeon. He must then put them under a stone, which he would point out, accom panied by 500 f. and two sous. The grocer pro mised to do all this, but as he proceeded homewards he met a patrol, to whom he related the occurrence. They soon met with the supposed robber, who was still on the bridge. On searching him it was dis covered that the supposed pistol was only a black wooden pipe. Further investigation led to the dis covery that the formidable-looking mustachios and beard were false, and that the wearer of them was a lady ! In short it turns out that she is only 25, and is well kncwn at La Chapelle as "La Belle Ecaillere." She has long followed the occupation of an oyster girl, but a disappointment in love has turned her brain. With some difficulty she was compelled to resume her proper dress, and she has been taken to a mad-house. Yesterday the trial commenced before the Count of Assize of the Seine, of Berthome, foimerlyl cashier of the sub-treasury of the railways, and Dupray de la Maherie, a printer, who are charged with frauds and forgeries to the amount of more three molions of francs. Count C. Chanel is in cluded in the accusation, but that gentleman is ab sent without leave ; and indeed a report has been spread that he is dead. The simple process adopted by the prisoners was to forgo bills of ex change and appropi 'late the money of the company to the supposed purpose of discount ; but the money obtlined was used by the prisoners themselves. Among the forged bills is one for no less than 400,000 francs. When examined by the President at the commencement of the proceedings Berthome seemed to confess the trtath of the charge. The Manchester Meeting—Ho w Many Were Present ? The extreme difficulty of estimating the numbers in a large crowd is remarkably exemplified by the following statements of the Loudon and Manchester papers yesterday STAR.—Upon the most moderato caculation there could not have been less than 120,000 to 130,000 upon Campfield. POST AND ADVERTISER.—There were probably, including spectators, 100,000 persons present on the ground. DAILY NEWS AND TlMES.—Perhaps at no period of the meeting were there more than 80,000 to 100,000 in the square at once, but Liverpool-road, Deansgate, Gartside-street, and other approaches, were constantly filled with people for upwards of two hours, going and returning, and it would be no exaggeration to say that the total number present at various times did not fall much short of 200,000. TELEGRAPH.—In the spacious and well-paved square, called Campfield, extending from St. Mat thew's Church as a centre over a space of ten acres, there were not fewer than 40,000 persons present —a number that would without doubt have been doubled had the weather been dry. A more imposing dis plal‘ylAcNocuinciEnSToEtßwEellXAbMeliNmEaßgi.-- imagined than was presented on Campfield after the arrival of the last procession. There could not have been fewer than from 80,000 to 100,000 persons present. The ground was lite rally covered with human beings. MANCHESTER COURIER.--The result, as far as de monstration is concerned, was incommensurate and unsatisfactory. Various estimates have been formed of the number congregated at the point of rendez vous, but at no time did the number exceed2o,ooo. MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.—About 15,000, and " it was not the impressivegathering that the leaders of the League hoped to bring together." The Manchester Guardian adds :—" The meeting was very inferior to the Birmingham demonstration in respect to numbers. From a window overlooking the area, we were able carefully to estimate the numbers. In front of No. 1 platform the crowd was dense, tapering to a point towards the lamp post in the middle of the square. Round other three platforms there were much smaller gather ings. If all these gatherings had been collected into one, and the walking marginal crowd with umbrellas had been united with them into a solid mass, they would have occupied about one-fourth of the entire area, including the streets. By mea surement we have ascertained that the ground (including the streets), at the rate of seven men to a square yard, will accommodate 61,404 indi viduals, and a quarter of that number is a little above 15,000. Precisely the same result was ar rived at in another way. Where the crowd was dense there were no umbrellas, and by counting the number of umbrellas in a line surrounding each compact mass we were able to estimate the area enclosed, and in this way the number obtained was 12,000, and 3,000 is a fair estimate for stragglers. The meetings on the Haymarket, at the east end of St. ➢Zatthew's Church, where were two platforms, were too small to deserve consideration." DREADFUL RXPLOSION.—NORWICH, Tuesday Night.—This afternoon a boiler explosion, attended with death to three men named Taylor, Breeze, and Clarke, oc curred at Messrs. Starks' dyoworks, Norwich. Five other persons were injured. DEATH OF THE INFANT DAUGHTER OF GENERAL Tom THUMB.—Yesterday Minnie Stratton, or as the child used to call herself Minnie Tom Thumb, the in fant daughter of General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, died at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. The child was left some days since at the hotel in charge of her nurse while her parents were on a professional visit to Yarmouth and Lowestoft. About a week since it was taken ill and two medical men were called in ; they failed, however, to allay her suffer ings, and yesterday it died from inflammation of the brain. Mrs. Tom Thumb was sent for; she arrived in Norwich on Thursday, and remained in attendance on the little suf ferer till cloth t99k LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE PAPAL STATES. ROME, Sept. 24. Yesterday a grand banquet for 360 persons was given by the officers of the Pontifical army to the officers of the Roman Leg:on. The French gene rals were present during the banquet. M. de Sar tiges, the French Ambassador, the Duke de Monte bello, and Colonel d'Arey, drank toasts to the health of the Pope and the Emperor. To-day his Holiness gave his benediction to the Roman Legion, which defiled before him. ITALY. FLORENCE, Sept. 25. The Empress of Mexico has passed Bologna on her way to Rome. TRAPANJA, Sept. 25. News received here from Palermo states that the normal state of things in that city is completely restored. AUSTRIA, VIENNA, Sept. 26. Baron Bannigarten has been released of his func tions as Governor of Galicia, and has been replaced by Count Cypluchowski. Baron Bannigarten has received the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold. Count Rothkirch-Pruten has been appointed Go vernor of Bohemia. Vice-Admiral Tegetthoff has been removed from the command of the fleet in order that he may enter upon new duties. Ho is replaced by Herr von Pokerhy. Her von Wiplinger has been appointed President of the Marine Department of the War Ministry. FRANCE. PARIS, Sept. 26. Yesterday the rivers Allier, Loire, and Youne and other streams continued to rise. The waters of the Lot and Dordogne appear to be de- creasing. The river Are, in Savoy, has overflowed its banks. The telegraphic communication between the centre and south of France is difficult. BO URSE, Sept. 25.—Two o'clock.—Abetter feeling is prevalent to-day without there being any very apparent cause unless it be the natural reaction to the continued state of depression in which the mar ket has lately been plunged. Nearly all securities show an upward movement, though not in most cases to any very great extent, the principal varia tion being in Italian Fives, which were done at 57f. 20c., or an advance of 60c. ; French Threes at 69f. 40c., a rise of 20c. ; Mobilier, 670 f., or a 3f. 75c. higher ; Credit Foncier at 1,377 f. 50c., or an im provement of 50f. ; Comptoir d'Escompte at 910 f., or a rise of 2f. 50c. ; Paris Gas unchanged at 1,620 f. Railway shares have been firmer. Three o'clock.—No change of any moment has occurred, the closing prices being as follows: 41 per Cents — Do. end month — 3 per Cents. — Do. end month 69 40 Czedialobilier De. end month Credit Foncier — Do. end month 1375 - RAIL Bank Shares.., Italian Loar. — Do. end mouth 67 15 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Span's i r_e_ti-ees Home Debt Do:erred - 'AYB. For Account. Orleans BBB 75 Nor horn. 1172 75 Lyons and Mediterranean OO5 Southern.. 572 50 Western 570 Eastern 545 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 416 25 North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Bracelona Roman 155 - THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. BERLIN, Sept. 25, Evening. To-day in the full sitting of the Chamber of De puties the debate on the Loan BPI was resumed. The Minister of Finance made a speech regretting the harsh interpretation put upon the Bill in Com mittee. He said : "'The position of Prussia is not yet decided, peace has not yet been concluded with Saxony, and the relations of the North German Confederation to Southern Germany are not regulated. Prussia must defend what she has acqu'red, and must always be able to take up arms for that purpose. In such a position the unforeseen often plays the most im portant part. " The financial question is the chief point, and if the right moment be allowed to pass the accom plishment of Prussia's arms may be deferred for years, and her very existence again endangered. Money must be at the disposal of the Government. We must have our hands on our swords and our purses well filled 1" The Minister of Finance eventually agreed, on the part of the Government, to all the amendments authorising a maximum loan of 40 millions or 30 million thalers, in place of the GO millions which had bc3n demanded. Herr Virchow opposed the proposals of Herr von Twesten, and defended the amendment brought forward by himself. Count Bismark then made a speech, in which he urged the House to consider the bill from a political point of view, and pince the Government in a posi tion to defend what had been gained. Official communications proved that the spirit of concilia tion had not entered the Imperial Court with the conclusion of peace. Moreover, the Eastern ques tion might lead to serious European difficulties, and in time of danger, with the money market hi an unfavourable condition, the Government would not be able to raise a loan. Should no circumstances arise, no money would be expended by the Govern ment without the approval of the House. What had been withdrawn from the State Treasury last spring must be replaced. Count Bismark concluded by appealing to the House to trust the Govern ment. He then signified that the Al inistry accepted the amendment proposed by Herr Michaell'i!, and on the decisive div:sion the bill, with that deputy's amendment, was passed by a large majority. Yesterday the Liverrool magistrates fined a man named Greenstock .£5O for acting as an emigration agont without a licence. SOMETHING LIKE A PRESENTIMENT.—A young lawyer, who had chambers in the Temple, had a nodding acquaintance with an old gentleman on the same staircase. The old man was a wealthy old bachelor, and had a place in the country, to which he went for a week every Easter. His servants had charge of the place while he was away —an old married couple who had lived with him for twenty-seven years, and were types of the fine old English domestic. One Easter Tuesday the young lawyer was astonished to find the old gentleman on his Temple staircase, and made some remark about it. The old man asked him into his room, and said he had received a fear ful shock. He had gone down as usual to his country place, and had been received with intense cordiality, had found his dinner cooked to perfection, and everything as it had been from the beginning. When the cloth was re moved his faithful butler put his bottle of port on the table, and made the customary inquiry about master's health, hoped master was not fatigued by the journey, had enjoyed his cutlet, and so on. The old gentleman was left alone, his hand was on the neck of the bottle of port, when it suddenly flashed across his mind, " Here I am, a lonely old man ; no one cares for me ; there is no one hear to help me if anything should happen to me. What if my old ser vant and his wife have been cheating and robbing me all the time ? What if they want to get rid of me, and have poisoned this bottle of wine ?" The idea took hold of him so strongly that he could not touch his port. When the man came in again he said he did not feel well, would have a cup of tea; no, he would have a glass of water and go to bed. In the morning he rang his bell, and no one answered. He got up, found his way downstairs ; the house was empty, his two faithful old servants had vanished. And when he came to look further he found that his cellar, which ought to have contained two or three thousand pounds worth of wine, was empty, and the bottle they had brought hint last bight was poisoned.—Cornhill Jia,lcainefa 9c(c.kr. New Editions of Famous Books• Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature—recently ap pearing anew, in a periodical re-issae of it 137 the Messrs. George Routledge and Sons, in sixpenny parts or numbers—has now at length been published complete as a goodly three-and-sixpenny volume, one of the very cheapest volumes, surely, that ever yet has been printed. Affecting to be, according to its most happy title, no more than a mere com pilation of some among the unnumbered Curiosities of Literature—it is in itself a very hive of know ledge, richly stored with honeycombs of wit and wisdom, and all of it the work not as of a swarm of bees, but of one solitary labourer—of one whose la bour was a labour of love—of one whose whole blameless career was, as it were, a beautiful realisa tion or fulfilment of the innocent industry inculcated by the most famous and familiar of all old Isaac Watts's lyrical apologues. Among the leaves of his library, this other Isaac was " gathering honey all the day"—and half the night—through the chief part of a long lifetime : and the most luscious accu mulation of all that honey he has here stored up in. the very noblest of all his honeycombs—the " Curiosities of Literature." That one work is in itself a library. It is better even than that—con taining within it, as it does, the culled and excerpted excellences of many libraries, of the libraries of all ages, of all languages, and of all literatures. It is a book to treasure up on our bookshelves. It is a book ever welcome at our elbow, and one that may be taken up at any hour and dipped into anywhere as an entertaining and most instructive table book. It never palls upon us. We can read it over and over again —and this, because it is racy, thoughtful, elevating, and delightful throughout. Lockhart's Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, illustrated by George Cruikshank, has just now been re-issued from the press by Mr. Tegg, in a new one-volumed edition of 643 pages, elegantly bound in blue cloth and richly emblazoned with goldon bees, the im perial diadem, and a fac-simile of the autograph of the Great Napoleon. The work—which, by the way, was originally written by J. G. Lockhart for " Murray's Family Library"—has never appeared (to our know ledge at any rate) in a handsomer form; and, see ing that extraordinary cheapness is the rather singular accompaniment of this same external beauty of the present edition, to say nothing of the work's own intrinsic excellence asan epitome of the astound ing career of the modern Sesostris, it is likelier now than ever, as a compact record of the valour, the genius, and the mighty achievements of Napoleon the Great, to win for itself a wider and wider popu larity. Oriyinal Penny Readings by George M. Fenn—is a little shilling volume (first issued by Messrs. Routledge), consisting of a most amusing contribu tion of that writer to the pages of Chambers's Journal, Once a Week, and All the Year Round. A Set of Shilling and Sixpenny Song-books, Edited by J. E. Carpenter—have also just been given to the public by the same publisher under all sort of names —Comic, National, Humorous, Fireside, Fashion able, Convivial, and we know not what else ; some good, hardly one bad, but a great many, it must be confessed, very indifferent. Launch of the Transport jumua. At Jarrow, on Monday, was successfully launched the largest vessel ever built on the Tyne. It is now a year and a half since the Flies of the future Go vernment transport Jumna were laid down in Messrs. Palmer's yard, the company having then been successful in obtaining a contract from the Admiralty to build the first of a new . 17 ne of trans ports destined primarily for the East Indian ser vice. The dimensions of the Jumna are as follow: —Length between perpendiculars, 360 feet ; ex- treme length, 370 feet 51- inches ; beam, 49 feet ; depth moulded, 41 feet 11 inches. Tonnage, re gistered 4,173 25.91 --- by displacement, upwards of 6,000 tons. The engines are of 700 horse power nomina:. The proportions of the Jumna are of the most graceful description, the elegance and lightness imparted to so heavy a vessel being wonderful. The bow is formei in a swan-like ,curve, and the stern is circular and lighted by windows. The hull is in 26 watertight compartments, each having been tested to a pressure of 24 pounds to the square inch. Every attention has b3en paid by Mr. Reed, the Government archi tect, in the internal arrangements, to comfort, con venience, health, and ventilation. The launch took plr,ce at 25 minutes to four o'clock. There was an immense concourse of spectators present. Lady Margaret Beaumont performed the ceremony of christening, and the huge hull glided smoothly into the water, being easily and skilfully brought up by the moorings. Subzequently a large company, comprising many names well known in Parliamentary and commercial circles, assembled to luncheon in the spacious drawing loft of Messrs. Palmer's works. Mr. C. M. Palmer occupied the chair, and was supported right and left by the Right Hon. T. E. Headlam, M.P., Alderman Candlish, M.P., Sir M. W. Ridley, M.P., the Hon. H. G. Liddell, M.P., Sir Hedworth Wil liamson, M.P., Mr. Wentworth B. Beaumont, M.P., and Mr. S. A. Beaumont. The CHAIRMAN proposed " Success to the ,Tumna and the health of Captain Mends, of the Royal Navy." The line of which the Jumna was the pioneer was one of an entirely new class of trans ports, in which special attention had been paid to the comfort and accommodation of large bodies of troops—such accommodation is was found neces sary in a case of emergency like that which re cently occurred when they were likely to be involved in difficulties with the American nation. There was always great anxiety attending the launch of vessels of such huge dimensions, and it had been a source of great pleasure to him to see the vessel go off so well. He was sorry the weather had been so un fortunate, and he thought the gentlemen who had come in spite of it were entitled to thanks for their perseverance. Captain MENDS, in responding, said that he had never seen a launch so gracefully accomplished. There was always a pleasure in witnessing such a sight, but there were many special elements for gratifica tion in that they had just seen. The great advantage and utility of the vessel to the service on which she was to enter was an element of additional gratifica tion. The interchange of British troops between Britain and India had occupied the attention of the Government and the members of the Indian Coun cil for many years. He had been appointed by the Government to superintend the internal construc tion of transport ships, but the internal arrange ments was all he could lay claim to having given the direction for, and he hoped he had given such at tention to the subject for the last two years as to have omitted nothing that would contribute to the comfort of the troops and the efficiency of the ser vice. They should regard the soldier bound for India as of commercial value, and it should be their study to deliver him on the shores of India in the same condition as he was received into the transport on leaving British soil. In giving instructions for the construction of the ship he had paid special at tention to the safety of the troops to be conveyed, and had ordered on that account that she should have a double bottom ; and it was further resolved, for the same reason, to divide the hull into water tight compartments. He had also stipulated for a light draught of water and a speed of 14 knots, which was a high rate considering the accommo dation required for the soldiers, their wives and families. He was thoroughly satisfied that every condition had been complied with. The Right Hon. T. liEIDLAm asked the assembly to drink a bumper to his friend, Mr. C. M. Palmer, in congratulation of the great success of the day. The toast was given amid loud and prolonged cheering. Mr. C. M. PALMER responded, thanking them for Or; honour done to him. Other toasts followed before the proceedings ter minated. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone have returned to their residence on Carlton house-terrace from Cliveden, after paying a visit to the Duchess Dowager of Sutherland. The right hon. gentle man and Mrs. Gladstone and daughters leave towards the 01060 of the week PA a ceatinental tour. , irrt 114* IC V 4 D I g ttraika: HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Sept. 23. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday morning, and went out in the afternoon with the Princess of `Vales and Prince Arthur. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill, went out driving. The Earl of Derby had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal family last night. Sept. 24. The Queen, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur, attended by Lady Churchill and the lion. Major- General Hood, were present at Divine service yes terday at the parish church of Crathie. The Rev. Dr. Boyd officiated. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the Queen last night. The Hon. Mrs. Coke and the Earl of Derby had also the honour of being invited to dinner. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary Adelaide and his Highness the Prince Teck are expected to return from the Continent towards the end of the ensuing month. 'lhe Earl and Countess Vane were prevented by illness in their family from joining the party assembled at Dutp-obin Castle to meet their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Countess Cowper and family come to town on Friday. On the following day the marriage of Lady Adine Cowper, her ladyship's second daughter, with the Ifon. Julian Fans, is to take place at St. James's Church, Piccadilly. - The Countess of Portsmouth and family have left Cataldi's Rotel for Devonshire. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean at Glasgow. We are delighted to see that these distinguished artistes are now starring it with great e'dot in the provinces —the fact of their doing so giving assiir ance that the health of the tragedian is in a fair way towards its re-establishment. The following account of their appearance is taken from the North British Daily Mail of yesterday : " According to announcement these distinguished artistes made their appearance last night on our Glasgow boards. Their reception, we are glad to say, was warm, honest, and heart-stirring—such as became their eminence in their profession, the in calculable services they have rendered to it, and the well deserved popularity which they have long en joyed. The house was crowded from floor to ceiling, the treasurer having to perform the verydisagreeable duty of intimating that "no more money could be taken." Both Mr. and Mrs. Kean were received with rapturous and prolonged applause. " It is an old story now to attempt any recital of the extraordinary devotion and high success with which Charles Kean has striven to elevate the stage, and to make the drama more purely attractive. His whole life-time, since as a stripling he first came be fore the foot-lights in the decline of his father's fame, has been given with conscientious assiduity to this purpose. By social position, by personal character, by a commanding talent which (surely a noble triumph) has conquered rancorous jealousy and dislike, he has long entitled himself to the first rank among actors. In his own vacation there has never been a more striking illustration of Carlyle's dictum that, after all, genius consists in the power of taking uncommon pains. Under the influence of a high idea he has wrought with all his heart. Assigning to himself a clear aim and well-defined limits, his success has been slowly and carefully earned by dint of the most elaborate and painstaking care. His greatest qualities as an actor are remarkably exemplified in his impersonation of Louis the Eleventh. By common consent it is allowed to be, in subtlety of conception, in carefulness of study, and, in vigour of expression, the most masterly por traiture of the kind that has been seen, at any rate on the British stage, since Macready's Richelieu. The character is one that must tax the self-restraint no less than the expressive powers of its interpreter. In its swiftly varying moods it sometimes approaches to the verge of what might be deemed almost pan tomime. Not one man in a thousand could depict it without running either in the Charybdis of cari cature or on the Scylla, of inanity and tameness- For the Louis which M. Casimer Delavigne has put into his play is that same Louis with whom Sir Walter has made us all so familiar in " Quentin Durward"— the Louis of the chroniclers as well of the novelists—of Brantome and De Comines as w ell as of Scott. He seems a mere bundle of eccentric and impossible inconsistencies—such a character as no one could either create or sustain—awakening at every turn uncertainty, curiosity, and sur prisedness. What evil is there that mai not be believed of him—a parricide il l design, a fratricide in fact, the sovereign who slew four thousand nobles without a trial by cruel tor tures, the gross sensualist for whom the Cent Nou velles Nouvelles were compiled ? 'With what folly may he not stand chargeable—the devotee who gav e the Blessed Virgin military rank as Colonel of 1115 Guards, who invented the prayer called th e " Angelus," who wore as a sacred thing the vest of St. Peter had on when he first said mass at Rowe , who carried in his cap those little leaden images °f saints before one or other of which he would de" voutly kneel in what Sir Walter Scott describes a° one " of those ague fits of devotion which gave eve of the most sagacious monarchs who ever reign ed the appearance of a madman ?" What baseness might not be expected from the man who was at one° a poltroon and a gallant, the dupe of fortune-telle rs and impostors, yet a match for the keenest wits 01 his time, in love with sin, but in constant fear of death and hell ? Add to these characteristics others —such as keen insight, wide views, large forecast/ intrepid courage—which we know must have he longed to the man who humbled the power of feudalism, extended direct taxation, fostered th e growth of commerce, and first brought into reecg" nition the existence of a middle class—and one in° l bleb have some idea of the psychological puzzle 'iv Mr. Kean undertakes to depict. iti No one will say that he fails to impress upon the features of a distinct and self-consistent indivi duality. In a manner which oue feels to be at on natural, and yet the consummation of art, he rea ders the blending of motive, the sudden alternati on° of mood, the subtle self-deception, the cautious sel f : regard, the utterly craven fear, the fearful tortilrry living, and the morbid craving for life. His Pc! e was established, in the judgment of the crit ic, ' spectator, before he was five minutes on the stag e c i From first to last he has the most perfect coninia of himself, and directs all his powers to help turierj illusion he represents. The most intent rega,sr a' could not have detected a movement of attitude with u, feature that was not entirely appropriate. h there was an ease, or an appearance of ease, wh lc contributed in an essential degree to the satisfact" effect. The performance was a copy of nature ties enough to satisfy the most ardent pre-Rapha e it yet it was one instinct with vividness and realiti• i _ cot might be hard to determine which scene wa s c where all were excellent. The death, manag e d it was with consummate skill, probably itur resse r t the audience less than the admirably acted Pa oar where Nemour's destruction is suggestively manded to Tristran. Yea Mrs. Kean in the little part of Marthe was e a graceful and piquant; Miss Chapman was se r v i e t r y and gallant as the Dauphin ; and a word et c , ic a special commendation is due to the mannerin c v; ir . Miss Leclerq filled the part of Maria. Mr' , ah its, cart's Nemour had all the merits, and all the of his usual impassioned and declaniatorY y s i t i i h in while Mr. Everett was as dark and gloomy a as heart could desire. The piece is to be alternated through the scce o l : no t (except on Saturday, when the Keau party d ° 0 , 0 appear) with Shakspere's " Henry the Og ii be We cannot doubt their favourable opening will the prelude to a highly successful engagetneat' BOAT-RACE ON THE TYNE. —On Monday ' 1)0 0 1 noon a rowing match for £5O a side, from the 11 r iJd e Bridge, Newcastle, to the Scotswood Suspension 0,01,1 four miles, took place between J. Cl a sper, of 9 ,1,1 0 te' and J. Percy, of Newcastle, two well-known river After a good race Percy won by six lengths,C° l74 the dibtance in 27in. 375. Aletri l n ' ve h e irate ] 201 ; a 13er-C Do.. per( Ne w 3 Ne w 3 Do. Alanui Do( Ex‘the D, Bank ( Do) D. ) . Do. Do. Do. Arg on { aastri trazili Do. D. Brteno, Doi Do Do. t o c , 00m ifuba, ~ nub tquad Do. Do] 'gYpt Do 7. no. no. t xUatei ttolis.c DO7 4:Le x: C c; 1)0. Do! Do J Barlin „ Do. 9 3 aui , Do, Do Do Do. h • 13 rati,k 1/1,1 re ndKiiti 110.' 00 Z801 Do. 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