The Sun. — London, England, 1866-09-22 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT S E RVI C E S.-1) urin g the storms of the past twenty months the National Lifebiat institution, by its life boats and o‘her means, contributed to the saving of 1,25') persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The Institution also expended £42,420 In the same peri.rd on its lifeboat ettablishmeuts, in addition to granting £3,362 as rewards. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A ?PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 172 lifeboat establishments. Contributions are received by the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adel phi, Llrnion. rTHEATRE ROYAL DRURY -LAN E.— -.IL Solo Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON. The public is respectfully informed this Theatre, having been Redecorated a nd Refurnished, will OPEN for the Dramatic Season THIS EVENING (SATURDAY), Sept. 22, when hPrMojesty's Servants will perform Shakespere's Tragedy of KING JOHN : :slr.Phelps,Mr.Barry Sulliva, Messrs. T. Swinbourne, E. Phelps, T. Mead, Barrett, J. Johnstone, NV. M'lntyre, F. Barsky, Master Percy Roselle, Mrs. Herman Vezin, Mrs. 11. Vaudenhoff, Mrs. G. Hodson, Miss A. Golier, At the conclus ion of the Tragedy. the National An them will lo sung, by damentire strength of the Company. Principal solos by Ma Jenny Bauer, Miss Poole, and Mr. NV. Harrison. To conclude with Shakspere's COMEDY OF ERRORS Dromio of Ephesus, Mr. IleuryWebb; Dromi• of Syracuse, Mr. Charles Webb. Prospectuses of the Season Arrangements to be obtained at the Stage Door. Prices : Private Boxes, I, 2,3, 4, and 5 guineas; Stalls, 75.; Dress Circle, 55.; First Circle, 45.; Balcony Seats, 35. ; l'it, 25.; Lower Gallery , ls.; Upp er Galler y , Gd. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. IrEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Bucks one. This Theatre will OPEN for the Season on MONDAY, Oct J. Air. and Mr. , . Charles 31 at hi.wis, cif their return from the Continent, will appear, with Mr.lluekstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Llowe, Mr. W. k'srren, Mr. (lark, Rogers. Mr W. Gordon, Mr. Braid, Mr. Weathersby, Mr. Coe ; Miss Nelly Moore, Mrs. Chippendale, Miss C. Bill, Miss Fanny Wright, Miss Lovell. Mrs. Laws, Miss Coleman, c. Mr. Sothern at Christmas. Full particulars on the' 6th. ROYAL LYCEUM TIIEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Feehter. THIS EVENING, and during the week.—Mr. and Mrs DION 139UCICAULT in the new Drama, " THE LONG STRIKE." Performances :—At 7 o'clock, NURgEY KWEED. Messrs. IL Widdicomb, Moreland, 1). Evans, and Miss K. Blandlord. At a Quarter before 8, the new Drama, In Four AC.P, THE LONG sTrtiKE, written by Dion Boucicault. The New Scenery by Mr. 1. Greive and assistants. Mess, s. S Emery, 11. Wid!icomb, Fitz L patrick, Dalon. D. Evans, Anderson, Newbound Stanley. Lomas Moreland, Andrews, Reynolds, and J. C. Cowper. To conclude with UP IN THE WORLD. Acting Manager, Mr. IL Barnet:. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Box-office open daily from Tan till Five. THE LONG STRIKE.-ROYAL LYCEUM THEATKIC,-- Johnny Evilly (an Irish Sailor), Mr. D. Iloucicault ; Jane Learoyd (a Factory Gal), Mrs. D. Bauci 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 I'rincipal characters by Mrs. Stining, Miss Neilson, Miss A ugusta Thomson ; Mr. Geor,_ e Honey and air. Vining. Grand Fallet of lioaemians, in which MR Flageo let, Ciodoche, Comete, and Norm ande, will appear. New scenery by Mr. F. Ll•,yds. HEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII, TSole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster, Will RE-OPEN on 310NDAY, Oct. 1. 'lha Company to meet in tlei Green Room on Mori")Air. Sept. 24, a One o'clock. Mies KATE TERRY will make her First Appear ance at the Theatre Royal Adelphi on Monday, O c t, 1. R O AL STAND THEA'F Sole Lessee and Ma ß nageress, Mrs. Swanborough. RE. THIS EVENING, THE MAR KIND BACHELOR. Messrs. Thorne and Price; Misses Johnstone and II i.hes. After which, will be produced the Lalcat Edition of KENILWORTH. Mes , rs. I borne, Jame-, Fenton, and 'Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborougb, Ritynham, John stone, and Holt. To be followed by WAITING FOR THE UNDER GROUND. To conclude with MR. AND MRS. WHITE. 1111 E "SUN" NEWSPAPER.- G. R. 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Those who think that the danger is over, and that they may relax their efforts in the preservation of the sanitary laws to which so much importance was lately attached, will find themselves very much mistaken in the long return. The Registrar- Gpineral's last return presents us with a solemn warning, which it would be well not to disregard. The last report shows us that an increase has na turally taken place in the deaths from cholera, and that for the first time in the last six weeks, 182 i s the number of deaths from cholera during last week, while the week before it was only 157. Surely this must convince the most sceptical that care and vigilance must not be forgotten, and that the enemy at the best is scotched and not killed. The words of the Registrar themselves confirm the truth of this, for they declare that " the utmost vigilance is required on the part of the people, the health officers, and the Board of Works, in order to insure the continued decline of the disease." One of the chief points to which he seems to attach importance is the course pursued by the local authorities, and that by the health officers especially. These latter have furnished him with details that are very essential for the right understanding of the case. Perhaps nothing can better illustrate the careless ness that still exists in the face of all the fearful warnings that have occurred than some facts which are mentioned in the communication forwarded to the Times by a medical visitor to the East London Union. It is indeed scandalous to reflect upon the negligence and oversight which allow these " Cholera Nests" to exist among us, and that, too, after the repeated instances we have had of the mischief they produce, and the misery and suffering they entail on the community, This gentleman, at the commencement of his labours, remaiks that lie was ‘‘ disappointedly struck with the sad state of sanitary unpreparedness against the present plague. During the ninth and tenth weeks of his visitation he is compelled to confess that his daily inspection still continues to exhibit the horror of cholera nests." The details furnished by the visitor are indeed dreadful to dwell upon, and it would seem indeed as if those who managed and mismanaged the places he referred to were bent upon propagating the spread of cholera to the utmost of their power. lle uses no extravagant language, and is not depende nt for effect on strong terms, but simply states what facts have come under his notice ; and that is enough, and more than enough, to show the aspect of affairs, and the great want of care that is ex hibited in the very spots which imperatively demand extra vigilance on account of the crowded state of the inhabitants and their scanty accommodation. In Clement's-place, which is near Sun-street, no less than 100 persons lived in eight small houses, the sanitary araangement of which were so bad that the causes of cholera, each fatal in less than twenty hours, were furnished from one of these tenements, and a house in Sun-street was in such a filthy state on the Ist of September that its details hardly bear description, and on the 14th of this month no change had taken place for the better—" no attention to or alteration of these disgusting matters had been paid or effected." One of the first reports of this dis trict medical officer was concerning the " filthy and overcrowded state of 140, Bishopsgate-street With out ;" but although he then stated that " this house requires the constant supervision of our inspector of nuisances, its state on the 15th inst. was on the whole no better than six weeks before when visited with cholera." What makes this condition of affairs the more truly lamentable is that ample provision is made in the Public Health Act for the remedy of all the sanitary evils here so properly com plained of ; and, as the writer says, none of her MAJESTY'S principal Secretaries of State would re fuse the applications made to them by the nuisance authority of the city of London for the necessary power to remove the evils here complained of. We entirely concur with the concluding remarks of the medical gentleman on this matter. He states first of all that the fact he has set forth may perhaps account for the sudden outburst of fatal cholera iu Bishopsgate parish, and at all events " they suffi ciently show the palpable absurdity of drenching our streets with caloric acid, and of even lime whiting the interior of houses, while blots far deeper and more foul are left to poison the physical and moral humanity of our poor." It is not surprising to find that another case of Asiatic cholera in a state of collapse was admitted into the temporary cholera hospital of the Union from Catherine-wheel alley, one of the places referred to in this letter as being in a very unfit state for human occupation, and that there were diarrhoea cases in almost every house in it. It is almost impossible to account for the great dilatoriness which has been displayed by the board of guardians of the East London Union in the face of the epidemic raging around them. Surely the events of the last few weeks have spoken to them in their position as strongly as any possibly could, and those who would not heed their warnings are of that nature which would not mind the words of one that rose from the dead. No doubt, however, but culpable indifference is by no means an isolated case, and if we had before us a full and comprehensive account of all the facts relating to the existence of nuisances and the care bestowed upon their removal, we should find plenty of cases as bad, if not worse, than those we have been considering. It rests in a great measure with private individuals to effect some bene ficial change in the condition of things, for by the provisions of the New Sanitary Act the representa tion of any dweller in a parish to the Secretary of State will call for his interference ; and we trust that many will be led to adopt this wise course, for it will be the best and most effective means of checking the evils that abound. One very notice able thing in the accounts we find in this letter is the faulty supply of water in these crowded places, where abundance is especially called for, and, in fact, may be considered as most essential to health. In many places an uncovered water-butt is the only means of obtaining water, and that is in a fearful condition with decomposing matter. The local authority enforces the landlords to alter the condition of their property, and it will be a shameful thing if after all the care that was taken by the Govern ment to got the Sanitary Act through Parliament, and the zeal displayed by the members of both houses to facilitate the object, it should turn out by the commencement of next session that little or no good has been effected by it. The River Lea has been an active agent in the spread of cholera, and the other day an investigation took place which re sulted in the opinion of the jury that a young man died from the prevailing epidemic "occasioned by drinking polluted water from a certain pump." The analysation of the water showed that it was totally unfit for drink, as it contained matters derived from surface drainage, and the filtration from sewers and cesspools. The pump was in the vicinity of Bow Creek, and the deceased drank some of the water from it in a vitiated state, which made it so much the more dangerous. Earl GREY is always well worth hearing, and, although he does not choose to enter the arena of official life, he does the public good service by his straightforward manner of dealing with the vexed questions of the day. His ability is great, and he does not allow himself to be biassed by the preju dices of his order, or by the tenets of party, so that he frequently says things that other men have either not the sagacity to perceive nor the courage to utter. He has just been dealing in this manner with a very difficult and complicated social question —that of Strikes and Lock-outs. The occasion of his speech was the opening of the fine arts exhibition of tho Newcastle-on-Tyne Mechanics' Institute, at which Earl GREY delivered the inaugurative address. He referred to the sub scriptions on behalf of the Institute as a proof that masters were not always indifferent to the welfare of their men, and he exp resse d a h o pe th a t the In stitute itself would tend to enlighten its members as to the causes which really influenced the rate of wages. The question of strikes is just now a very prominent one in the North, for, in addition to the great strike which is paralysing the iron trade of that part of the country, the masons and building trades have a strike of their own, so that the new t e e t merits Earl of M e chanics' Institute in w hich this very exhibition was t did to have n o tp been a t attempt m held t in j GREYto decides lleft t uponincomplete. h ple. the matter, but addressed h imself to the general question, and endeavoured to m ake his hearers rea lise the great losses which resulted to all p arties from prolonged inaction. The wages annually paid in the iron trade amount to two millions sterling. Even a few weeks' stagnation of one branch of the trade must, therefore, it is manifest, occasion a heavy pecuniary loss. During the strike just over in the blast furnaces £50,000 in wages had been lost in four weeks ; and in the strike still going on in the rolling mills, £lOO,OOO in wages has already been forfeited. Lord GREY pointed out the practical results of such a loss of wages in the homes of the men themselves. "Must there not," he asked, " have been women in weak health to whom the loss of their accustomed weekly income would make the difference between life and death, or between permanent and confirmed sickness and restoration to health ? Must there not have been children whom, at their critical period of life, the loss of their parents' income must deprive of the advantages of schooling, and of that nourishment which was so essential in order that they might grow up to be strong and healthy men and women 9 Were there not the causes of f uture and greater suffer ing, perhaps for many years to come, to numberless individuals in that unhappy otato o 4 ti iDgg ?" And THE SUN, LONDON, SA TURDAY EVENING% SEPTEMBER 22, 1866. the loss, as he pointed out, does not stop here ; the distress and inconvenience occasioned by it spreads further and wider. The masters lose heavily by having their capital standing idle, and the whole retail trade of the neighbourhood suffers in conse quence directly and indirectly. It does not by any means follow that the men are always in the wrong in these disputes, only they are too apt to rush into strikes regardless of consequences. Combination is, of course, the men's great weapon against their employers, and if they only used it in cases of direct oppression or injustice they would be justified in resorting to it for the protection of their inte rests. But, unhappily, they are not sufficiently educated to understand how far away events, of which they have scarcely heard, may affect trade more or less throughout the civilised world. This year, every one knows, has been a bad one finan cially, and the iron trade and the building trade, like other branches of industry, must of course feel the consequences of commercial depression. Is it the way to restore confidence and prosperity to stop business altogether ? The masters, no doubt, often take advantage of their men, and, in fact, the men have often good reason to distrust them as a class. But they in their turn suffer so much from these stagnations of trade that a wise con cession on their part would often profit them largely. It is a lamentable thing that some sys tem of arbitration cannot be adopted between mas ters and men in the interests of both. If war is to be deplored between foreign nations, and philosophers and philanthropists hope for a time when national disputes shall be settled in the council chamber rather than in the battle-field, how much more reasonably may we anticipate such a mode of dealing with a pacific question, a matter of pounds, shillings, and pence, which it would be ridiculous, if it were not so lamentable, to settle by both sides voluntarily in flicting on themselves a heavy loss. Earl GREY, in concluding his observations, which were received with loud applause, expressed his conviction that it was the duty as well as the interest of all parties, to arrive at an amicable settlement of trade disputes, and he added that if a really Christian spirit pre vailed amongst masters and men such a thing as a lock-out or a strike would cease to be heard of. We trust the noble earl's just and sensible remarks will have their due weight with his audience, and that they may influence those who are still pursuing this mistaken policy in the iron trade. In these times, when cholera is amongst us, and the bare necessaries of life are so costly, it is no light thing to occasion the loss of £lOO,OOO in wages. We hope both employers and employed will reflect upon this, and endeavour, in a spirit of mutual conciliation and good faith, to bring to a speedy close this lamentable state of things. At the meeting of the Court of Common Council on Thursday the question of the Holborn Valley Improvement was brought under consideration. It was agreed to borrow £400,000 to complete the un dertaking until the viaduct was completed and the surplus ground realised. This is all very satisfac tory, and we are glad to find the good citizens of London are determined to carry out this really im portant metropolitan improvement in an energetic and liberal spirit. Holborn Valley has long called loudly for some active reform, and it is quite time that our metropolis was put to rights in such matters. There is one point, hbwever, which the circumstance of the present time renders very imperative, and which we hope the Common Council will not over look. We allude to the destruction of the houses occupied by the poor, which must inevitably re sult from this as from all other architectural or to pographical improvements. The neighbourhood of Holborn-hill is densely populated, and in these days of overcrowding it is not easy to see where those who are turned out can betake themselves. The destruction of Agar-town has been a terrible grievance to the labouring classes, and it is the duty of the Legislature to put a stop to the present system of demolition with restoration. In every act granting enlarged powers for the destruc tion of working men's homes there should be a clause compelling the company who require the ground to erect a given number of similar houses or cottages elsewhere. If some plan of this kind is not to be adopted the grievance will become into lerable, as the injustice is oppressive. The public health already suffers, and the comfort and morals of the people are sacrificed. What are they to do ? They cannot build houses for themselves, even by paying rents quite disproportionate to their earnings they cannot obtain decent lodging? The streets and squares which are demolished by the railway or the improver are replaced by suburban terraces and villas, but the court, and the lane, and the alley are pulled down without their fellows being built elsewhere. It would now make little difference in an undertaking like the Holborn Valley Improve ment to borrow £lOO,OOO or £50,000 more, but what a vast difference such a sum laid out in build ing commonly decent habitations for the poor would effect ! Such an addition to a scheme for improvement need not be eleemosynary, but might be made remunerative, and we hope it will be seen to. His-spelling of Names in French and English. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN' CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Friday Evening. My information that the Emperor had not relin quished his intention of going to Biarritz proves correct. His Majesty left St. Cloud for that town last night at 11 o'clock. The Moniteur, quoting from the official Gazette of Florence, says that the insurrectional movement which has taken place in Sicily has been nearly suppressed. The great majority of the population refrained from taking any part in the insurrection, and are animated with the best spirit. A portion of the National Guard of Palermo arrived speedily at the scene of disturbance, and assisted the troops, who took possession of the Palace Royal, the Trea sury, and the prisons. A squadron composed of eight vessels was expected to anchor in the port for the protection of the city. It was hoped that the telegraphic communications would soon be re-esta blished. General Cadorno had been appointed commander of the military forces of Sicily and com missioner extraordinary of the town and provinces of Palermo. A force of 15,000 men had been placed under his orders. We are now enabled to judge of the effect pro duced in Germany by the Circular of the Marquis de Lavalette. If possible it has produced more enthusiasm and satisfaction than in Paris. I select one specimen (the only exception) from the Gazette de la Croix. That paper to a certain extent ap proves of it. It says—" The clear and moderate language of the circular does not leave any doubt that France has no intention to make the aggran disement of Prussia the pretext for aggrandising herself ; but she holds firmly to peace. Thus vanish all kinds of apprehensions, and, at the same time, thus are frustrated the hopes of certain patriots of a peculiar kind, happily not numerous, even in Southern Germany, who thought that France would aid their views. That is the prin cipal point of information to be derived from the Circular. As a nation, of course we do not agree with what it says respecting the principle of Nationalities, but we approve of the conclusion at which it arrives—that peace will be durable." The Journal des Debats says :—" A notice from the President of the Commission of Mexican Finances states that the payment of the coupons due on the Ist of October is postponed, no funds having been transmitted by the Mexican Govern ment. He also recals to recollection that a sum of 34 millions placed in the Caisse des Depots and Consignations, is for the purpose of reconstitution of capital." A great many documents have been sent to the Academy of Sciences, communicating further in teresting particulars relative to the earthquake. At Angers the noise was very peculiar and alarming. At Nancy several shocks were felt. M. Le Verrier, the astronomer, announced to the Academy that he had received many letters mentioning circumstances connected with the earthquake. M. Fagot exhibited a map upon which were marked localities which had been more or less affected by the phenomenon. These places include Rouen Auxerre, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Nantes, the valley of the Loire, Le Mans, Chartres, and Alencon. M. Le Verrier remarked that although only these places were named, it was not to be supposed that the earthquake did not manifest itself in many other localities. A peculiarity to be noticed is that in some towns the direction of the shock was from west to east, and in others from the south to the north. It was in the latter direction that the shocks were the most violent. At Chartres the bells rung, and the furniture was moved. The mass of the concurrent testimony is that the earth quake took place at ten minutes after five in the morning, but the writers of some of the letters sent to the Academy say that they felt it at two o'clock. M. Charles remarked that some fifteen years ago an earthquake of the same kind was felt at Chartres. A scientific gentleman at Versailles wrote to the Academy to say that the earthquake shook his bed with great violence. He felt four lateral oscillations, the duration of each of which was about two seconds. The gendarmerie on duty in the Route do la Revotte have had some rather difficult work to pacify the eccentricities of one of the softer sex, a lady of property, about 50, residing in that place. She began her little game of excitement by going into the rooms of some of the lodgers, and break ing their windows and chimney glasses. She next directed her attention to her husband, and said she would kill him with a washerwoman's iron which she had in her hand. lle is a man of eighty, and on the arrival of the police they found that she had partially carried out her promise by striking him some severe wounds with the iron, and kicking him out of doors. She then locked the door of her apartment, and barricaded it with the furni ture. When the police summoned her, in the name of the law, to open the door, she politely in formed them that the first who attempted to enter her room would be a dead man. They, however, broke open the door, and the lady sallied forth, armed with a brass basin, and dealt blows with it right and left very impartially upon the lodgers who had come to reinforce the police. S ome o f th em received rather severe injuries. The police tried to disarm her without hurting her, and at length suc ceeded. She was conveyed to the barracks of the gendarmerie, when she rushed under the bed and began to howl and bark like a mad dog. In the morning, when the police wished to take the fair lady before the Commissary of Police, it was no joke to drag her from under the bed. She bit their hands, and kicked them with great violence. She has been conveyed to a madhouse. The fine weather has been as " brief as woman's love." To-day the morning broke loweringly, the wind was cold and violent, and heavy rain began about mid-day, and continued for some hours. The barometer indicates more storms. The Constitutionnel again refers to the circular of the Marquis de la Valette. It says the Times de votes a " great" (important) article to it, in which it characterises the policy of the Emperor Napoleon as wise, generous, and foreseeing." The Presse, of Vienna, concludes an article upon the subject by saying—" We admit with satisfac tion that M. de la Valette declares that no hostility, no interest, separates France from Austria." The death is announced of M. Maria, who was a surgeon on board the French fleet during the battle of Trafalggr. The evening Moniteur announces that the Em peror stopped an hour on his way to Biarritz, in the department of the Landes, to visit the agricultural settlements of Solferino, and was expected to reach Biarritz at four this afternoon. It is officially announced from Vienna that peace between Prussia and Saxony is definitely concluded, and that the treaty would be immediately published. The disarmament of the Austrian army proceeds on a vast scale. The number of troops who will remain in activity will not exceed 250,000. GOVERNMENT INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES. — TiIe following additional post-offices will bo open on and after the 24th inst. for the receipt of proposals for the insurance of lives or the purchase of Government annuities, under the Act 27 and 28 Vict., cap. 43 ; and for the receipt of the premiums becoming due to the Postmaster-General, from time to time, under contracts for the insurance of lives or the purchase of Government annuities, and for the payment of any sums which shall become payable by the Postmaster- General, under the said contracts :—Annan, N. 8., Auchter ardor, N. 8., Batley Carr (Dowsbury)„ Blockley (Moreton Marsh), Jedburgh, N. 8., and A.thlone, Ireland. DISINFECTANTS.---CARBOLIC ACID AND CHLORIDE OF LIME. —Among the many valuable improvements in con nection with the application of chemistry to the purposes of industry for which wo aro indebted to Dr. F. Crace- Calvert, F.R.S., it is probable that his labours in connec tion with carbolic acid have contributed more to his honour and reputation than any of his other discoveries. The explanation of the reason of carbolic acid (consi dered only as a di s i nfectant, a l t h oug h it i s l a rgely used in other forms) becoming so great a favourite as to place so cheap a substance as chloride of limo in the shade will, therefore, be generally interesting. The power of carbolic acid is prompt and persistent—putrefaction can neither commence nor go on in its presence. Chloride of lime promptly deodorises the air, but destroys the noxious matter by chemically changing it, and at the same time becoming itself changed and useless for further good. Carbolic acid does not change ; it mixes as readily with everything as the chlorine of the lime, but always remains ree carbolic acid, and continues indefinitely to perform its good offices as Ps disinfectant. —. Mining LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. (Via Roche's Point.) NEW YORK, Sept. 11 (Evening). President Johnson received an enthusiastic recep tion at St. Louis. He made a long speech, declaring that the Orleans riots were plotted in Radical Con gressional caucases, and announced his intention of adopting a course of determined opposition to the Radicals in all respects. At Indianopolis so many groans and hisses came from the crowd and such confusion prevailed that the President was unable to make a speech, and was obliged to retire. Several pistol shots were exchanged between political oppo nents among the crowd. A delegation from the Southern Radicals who attended the Philadelphia Convention are making a tour through the States, addressing the people at the various cities which President Johnson lately visited. Thaddeus Stevens has made a speech de claring the future Radical policy to be territorial government in the South, confiscation, and negro suffrage. Resolutions have been introduced into the New Jersey Legislature declaring that Johnson's speech to the Committee of the Philadelphia Convention is calculated to excite a renewal of the rebellion against the constitutional authorities of the Govern ment, and as being indicative of a revolutionary purpose on the part of the executive. The Republicans carried the Maine elections by a majority of 30,000, showing a large Republican gain. Numbers of Democratic Irish voted for the Republicans. The Rev. Mr. Beecher Ward has written another letter, announcing him to be partly, but not wholly, in favour of Johnson's policy. The Fenian Congress at Troy have deposed Sweeney for incompetency, and re-elected Roberts as President. An American steamer has been seized at Montreal on suspicion of being engaged by the Fenians. It is believed that no Fenian raid will occur before November. MEXICO. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. Advices received here from Vera Cruz via New Orleans, dated Aug. 25, state that an engagement was expected to take place between Marshal Ba zaine and General Garcia, with 30,000 men, be tween Sans Luis de Potosi and the city of Mexico. The Liberals had destroyed and sacked Medellin ; they also captured 200 French troops near Tuxpan. The Grench gunboat Eugenie had been repulsed off Tuxpan Bay. GREECE. ATHENS, SEPT. 20. The King returned here yesterday evening from Corfu, after having visited Zante and other places. The English and French Ministers have also re turned to this city. THE CAPE MAIL. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 22. The Cape mail steamer has arrived in the Chan nel, and will reach this port early this afternoon. TO TIIE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. SIR,—" Why do so many of our journals abstain systematically from paying illustrious foreigners the compliment of spelling their names correctly?" Who should put this question but the Pall Mall Gazelle, a newspaper which daily treats the French language as the Daily News and Mr. Goldwin Smith would fain treat the French nation? It was only the other day that this valuable periodical informed its readers of the death of "M. Goylau," leaving to their saga city to find out that L6on Gozian was no more. No wonder if some of them, seeing the next day the somewhat rash query which I have just quoted, ex claimed with the Latin poet,— " Quis tulerit Gracchos de sedition querentes ?" London, Sept. 18. UN FRANgAIS. THE REFORM LEAGUE AND TIIE BRIGHT BAN QUET AT DUBLIN.-At the weekly meeting of the Council of the Reform L eague, held last evening at the offices, to No. m B ,r A Ba t d rti e eg l nh p a h t i at - ht t : D r i bu tt ab c ul e cii , u Mr. Stubber proposed that a deputation si n l e l dt r u . lrvihnige Baxter ftent i n the chthe air Mr. League should , proposed to be given month. Mr. Mr. L e no seconded the proposition, andthe ensuin g saidhe should see Mr. Beaks accompany Mr. B r i g ht on the occasion.e ° Mr. Mantle expressed his dissent at the proposition, to w hich he would move an amendment. He believed it would be more dignified on the part of the league to await thelaction of the I rish members in the matter. Mr. Acland coincided in that view, and said it would be obtrusiveness to send a deputation from the league if no invitation bad been sent by the Liberals of Ireland, especially those who took a prominent part in the getting up of the banquet. Mr. Conolly said he had,little doubt that the Irish members would do their duty in the matter, and ho did not at all agree with Mr. Acland, inasmuch as the proposed banquet was intended as an evidence of the desire of the people of Ireland for reform as well as a demonstration of their affec tionbelie a v n e d d t p h e c Mr o . r Mantle the it championw eu l o d f b t h e e betterLiberale ca. le u a s v e e H thee question of the invitation of Mr. Beales to the Irish mem bers themselves. After some discussion Mr. Stubber with drew his proposition, and the matter dropped. DIOCESS OF RIPON.—The Rev. Henry John Bur field, M.A., of Lincoln College, Oxford, Incumbent of St James's, Bradford, and the Rev. Charles Augustus Hulbeclo M.A., of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Incumbent of Slaithwaite, Yorkshire, have been appointed Hon. Canons in the Cathedral Church of Ripon by the Lord Bishop of the diecede. FRANCE, BOURSE, Sept. 21.—Two o'clock.—The depression which existed yesterday has made further progress to-day, and repeated sales have caused a further decline. As was to be expected orders from the provinces to sell Mexican Bonds caused that Stock at first to be quoted lower, and the first transactions took place at 125 f., but as soon as these orders were executed the Bonds recovered to yesterday's prices, viz., 132 f. 50c. French Threes were done at 69f. 35c., or 10c. lower; Italian Fives at 57f. 50c., or a fall of 35c. ; Credit Mobilier at 670 f., or 6f. 25c. less ; Comptoir d'Escompte at 907 f. 50c„ or a de cline of 2f. 50c. Railways are weak. Three o'clock.—Scarcely any change has occurred, the closing prices being as follows: If per Cents 97 25 end month Bank Shares 3550 Italian Loan .57 60 Do. end month 57 50 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred 'AYB. 3 per Cents. 69 30 Do. and month 69 45 Credit Mobilier ... 672 50 Do. end month ... 673 75 Credit Foncier Do. end month 1380 For Account. Orleans Northern 1173 75 Lyons and Mediterranean 903 75 Southern 567 50 Western 572 50 Eastern Sardinian — Austrian Lombard 421 25 North of Spain ll6 25 Saragossa 152 50 Ditto to Barcelona — Roman EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDING.—The foreman of the grand jury empanelled at the present session of the Central Criminal Court, and which body was dis charged' from further attendance on Wednesday, came to the court yesterday for the purpose of bringing to the no tice of the authorities an occurrence of a very singular na ture. It appeared that among the charges that were brought before them was one against a young man named John Creek, of a peculiar character, which it is not necessary fur ther to allude to, which rested entirely upon the evidence of one witness. The Common Sergeant, in his charge to the grand jury, referred to this case, and also to the fact that there was only one witness to support the charge ; and he advised them, that unless the evidence was very conclu sive, the better course would be for them to throw out the bill. When the bill was returned, it was returned as a true bill, and the prisoner was tried on Wednesday before Mr. Justice Lush, and sentenced to 10 years' penal servi tude. The foreman of the grand jury having heard of this result, now attended for the purpose of stating that some serious mistake had taken place, for the grand jury, after carefully sifting the evidence, had come to the determination to throw out the bill. The indictment was referred to, and it was found that it was duly endorsed "a true bill," but the foreman still persisted in stating that it. was a mistake, and that the intention of the grand jury was to ignore the bill, and that the endorsement upon it must have got there by accident iu the hurry and con fusion of the duty in which they were engaged. The matter was mentioned to the judges, and at first an im pression prevailed that the proceeding might be treated as a mistrial, but upon consideration it was found that, upon the face of the proceedings, they were quite legal, and that the court had no power to interfere. The only thing, therefore, that could be done was for the grand jury to memorialise the Secretary of State, and this it was stated would be done at once, and thus the matter rests at pre sent. OVEREND, GURNEY, AND CO.'S SHAREHOLDERS. —We would earnestly dissuade the shareholders in Overend and Gurney from rushing into costly litigation, which can end only in discomfiture and the consequent increase of their losses. They should remember that all the expenses must come ultimately from their pockets. They fight the official liquidator in form, but in fact they are fighting themselves. Perhaps the costs may bo ordered to come out of the estate ; perhaps to be paid by the litigants. If the latter, the fund collected for fighting is an added loss to the subscribers beyond their present losses. If they should be ordered to be paid out of the estate, the result will bo that there will bo so much less of divisible assets, and consequently so much the more to be called for from the shareholder; and the only difference will be that, instead of the litigants paying all, they will impose a part of the burden upon the other shareholders, who more pru dently prefer to make the best of a bad matter and get off as cheaply as possible. The opposition to the call will raise only the question whether it is competent to speculators to make contracts with or receive property in trustfrom other persons, and than to plead some fra ud practised upon themselves as a ground for refusal to per , form their part of the bargain, or refund the moneys they have received from those who have dealt with them, igno rant of the hi s t or y o f the fraud. The claim is so mani festly inequitable that it scarcely needs the reference we last week made to the decided cases to show that it has no chance of success. They must pay their creditbrs—that is certain. But say , they succeed in extin guishing the company as a corporation, would they be better off ? Certainly not. In such case the limited lia bility would be lost, and they would become jointly and severally liable_ to each individual creditor for the full amount of hie debt or their own fortunes.—. Law Times of to-day. The New Sheriffs• (From the City Press.) In accordance with our custom, we now give a few particulars respecting the gentlemen who were elected on Midsummer-day last to the ancient and honourable office of Sheriffs of London and Middle sex, commencing with MR. ALDERMAN WATERLOW. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Waterlow was born in 1822, within a stone's throw of the northern boun dary of the City. Before he was nine years of age he entered St. Saviour's Grammar School, then under the direction of the late Rev. Lancelot Sharpe, and he remained there more than five years, receiving an education almost entirely classical. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed at Stationers' Hall, to Mr. T. R. Harrison, printer to the Government, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, where he was em ployed some three or four years in charge of the private press reserved for printing the papers for private circulation among the members of the Cabi net ; and he was thus afforded many opportunities of gaining a slight experience of the Continental lan guages. At the expiration of his apprenticeship, being then 21 years of age, Mr. Waterlow went abroad, returning in the spring of 1844, to commence business in London-wall, where, as one of the part ners in the firm of Waterlow and Sons, he has been actively engaged for more than 20 years deve loping a business now employing an average of 1,200 hands within the City. Mr. Waterlow has taken an active interest in municipal matters for the past 12 years, having been elected in 1855 a member of the Court of Common Council for the Ward of Broad-street. In 1859, with the assistance of Mr. Owen Row land, Mr. Waterlow arranged and successfully erected first the over-house telegraph i❑ the City. It connected the premises of the firm in the City with those of Westminster, stretching in its course twice across the Thames. In 1861 he received a special vote of thanks from the Corporation for hav ing suggested, planned, and superintended the erec tion of the telegraphic wires communicating with all the police-stations in the City. Those wires are entirely supported by the towers of the churches, in order that they might not at any time be subject to private control or caprice. In 1863 Mr. Waterlow was, by a very large ma jority, elected alderman of the ward of Langbourn, in the room and stead of the late Alderman Cuhitt. During the last four years . Mr. Alderman Water low has devoted a large amount of time and money to the improvement of the dwellings of the working classes in the metropolis, and during that time nearly 540 tenements have been erected upon his plan and under his guidance, affording accommoda tion to nearly 3,000 persons ; and it is his most ardent hope that during the next few years this work may be much more largely developed. MR. SIIERIFF LTCETT. As often happens with men of basiness, the career of Mr. Sheriff Lycett has not been marked by any great amount of incident. Not aiming much at being a public man in the full sense of the term, he has en joyed a quiet, prosperous—we had almost said enviable life—honoured by all who have known him. He was born in the city of Worcester, and there was educated under the care of the late Dr. Simpson. Leaving school he entered his father's glove works, and gained for himself such a knowledge of the business that in 1832 the great firm of Dent and Allcroft invited him to assume the management of their new establish meat in Friday-street, backing the invitation in a manner sufficiently forcible and satisfactory to in duce Mr. Lycett to accept their offer. After 13 years of this work he became a member of the firm, and continued during 20 years in that position. This period was one of great prosperity, and in 1865 he was able to retire from the commercial world with an ample fortune gained before the prime of life had slipped away. For many years Mr. Lycett has been an influential member of the Wesleyan denomina- tion, and his purse has been freely opened at all times to the demands made upon it... lie is now the Trea surer of the Metropolitan Chapel Building Society, and has had the pleasure of laying the foundation stones of 20 chapels in various parts of the country. True to his colours, he has appointed the Rev. E. T. Perks, a well-known Wesleyan minister, as his chap lain during his term of office. It only remains to be mentioned that Mr. Lycett has been a candidate for the honour of representing his native town in Par liament, and intends again to present hipaself before the electors at the next opportunity. The chain and badge for Mr. Alderman Water low, sheriff-elect, has been manufactured by Mr. Adams, of 84, Cannon-street (formerly of Lombard street). The pattern is founded upon the old City or mural chain, so improved as to admit the intro duction of myriads of small burnished discs, which have a very brilliant effect. The badge is of stan dard gold ; the arms of the alderman in the centre, the quarterings, crest, motto, &c., in colour and enamel ; on either side the arms of the city of West minster and Middlesex, and beneath are those of the Stationers' Company. The City mace and sword are beautifully modelled. The whole work reflects great credit on the skill of the manufacturer. MARKETS.---This Day. -s-- COVENT GARDEN. Considering the time of year the market is fairly sup plied with various kinds of fruit. On the whole, the trade is steady, and for some descriptions high prices aro ob tained. The quantity of vegetables on offer is somewhat extensive, and the demand for them is moderately active, at about previous rates. FRUIT—Pine apples, 5s to 7s; grapes, 2s 6d to 6e ; filberts, 8d to is per lb ; apples, is 3d to 3s Od ; pears, is 3d to 35 Od; gooseberries, Os Od to Os Od; currents, Os Od to Os Od ; plums, 3s Od to 3s 6d ; damsons, 3s Od to 4s Od per half sieve ; oranges, lOs to 15s; lemons, 3s 6d to 88 ; walnuts, is to 2s Od per 100 ; peackes, 4s to lOs per dozen. VEGETABLES—Red cabbages, is 6d to 3s Od; white do., 8d to is 3d ; cauliflowers, is to 2s 0(1; horseradish, 9d to is 6d per doz heads; greens, 2s Gd to 3s Od; turnips, is Gd to 2s Od. ; carrots, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; onions, is 6d to 2s per dozen bunches; cucumbers, 4d to is Od each ; celery, is Od to la 9d per doz ; French beans, is to is Gd per half sieT• ; cos lettuces, 10d to is 3d per score. POULTRY. Geese 6a ad to 7s Od; gosling; 6s to 7s; ducks, 2s 3d to 3s OX; duckling; 2s 3d to 3s ; tame rabbits, is 3d to is 9d; wild do, ls to is 3d ; pig eo n s , 6d to 8d ; partridges, is 3d to is 9d; hares, 2s 6d to 48 ; leverets, 2s 6cl to 4s ; grouse, 2s 3d to 2s 9d; Surrey fowl; 8s to lOs ; do. chickens, 6s 6d to 8s ; barn-d oor f ow ls, 4s Od to 6s Od per couple. English eggs, 10s Od to 06 Od; French do., 7s Od to 8s Od per 100. Fresh butter, is to is 3d per lb. BILLINGSGATE. Soles, is to 4s Od per pair ; cod, 3s Od to Os ; brill, 2s Od to 8s Od; turbot, 4s Od to 15s each ; whitings, 3e to Os ; haddocks, 5s to 15s per dozen ' - herrings, —s to —s per 120 ; native oysters, 80s to 110 s ; other sorts, 80s to 40s per bushel. NEWPORT. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef 3s 8d•to 4s 10d I Mutton ... as 6d to 5s 4d Veal 4s Od to 5s 2d Pork WFIITECHAPEL. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef as 10d to 5s Od Mutton ... 3s 6d to 5s 44 I Veal 4s 2d to 5s 4 d Pork BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from Bd. to Bid. ; of household ditto, 61d. to 70. per 4lbs. loaf. HIDES AN!) SKINS Market hides, 561.7;6711.)5; 21d to 3d ; 64 to 72 lhs, 3d to 3}d ; 72 to 801bs, 3d to 3id ; 80 to 881bs., 3}d to 4d ; 88 to 961b5., 4d to 44d ; 96 to 10 41 b5., 4 id to td. Horse hides, 9s to 10s 6d ; calf skins (light), 2 s 6 d to 4s; full, 7s; polled sheep, Os Od to Os Od; half-breds, Os Od to Os Od ; downs, Os to Os Od; lambs, 3s 6d to 6s Od; shearlings, 4s 6d to 6s Od. HAY. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 08 to £5 5s ; clover £5 Os Od to .£6 Gs Od ; and straw, £1 16s to ..£2 5s per load Inquiry limited. • CumBERLANTL-31eadovr hay, £4 Os to .£5 8s Od; clover, £5 Os to £6 Gs Od; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load. A moderate demand. - - • -- - WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 58 ; clove'. £5 Os Od to £6 1080 d ; and straw, £1 16S to £2 5s per load. Trade heavy. ' COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. d. Walls End Hetton ... 22 6 Ellison Steam 15 6 Tees South Hetton Wallsend Haswell 22 6 Original Hartlepool .. 22 6 East Hartlepool Ships at market, 36—sold, 32. Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day. The market opens very steady, and prices are a farthing above Friday. Sales probably 12,000 bales. The wheat harvest in France is much below the average in quantity and quality, and prices are rising in all the markets. Meat is exceptionally dear, and tho prospects of the vintage are as bad as possible. The potato disease has also reappeared in several parts of the country. - - . 9 , 111 h e HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Sept. 20. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian and Princess Louise, went out yesterday morning, and in the afternoon drove out with Princess Louise, attended by Lady Susan Melville. Princess Christian, attended by Lady Churchill, went out driving. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the Qieen last night. The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by Lieut. Haig, left the Castle this morning for Dunrobin to pay a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. Speech Day at Christ's Hospital. Yesterday being St. Matthew's-day, in accordance with time-honoured custom, the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs (Alderman Gibbons and Mr. Figgius), accompanied by some members of the Corporation, pro3eeded iu state to Christ's Hospital, for the pur pose of hearing the orations which are annually deli vered there by the principal Grecian scholars prior to their leaving for Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Having arrived at the school, the civic party was received at the entrance to Christchurch-passage by Mr. Gilpin, the treasurer of Christ's Hospital, and other Governors. They immediately went to Christ Church, Newgate-street, where divine service was performed, prayer being said by the Rev. Prebendary Gibbs, M.A., with full cathedral chant, Te Deum, Jubilate and anthem. The Rev. W. 'Webster, rector of Colne Engaine, Essex, and late head master of the mathematical school, Christ's Hospital, preached the sermon, taking for his text 2 Kings, chap. xxiii., verse 25—" And like unto him was there no king before him which turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to the law of Moses, neither after hint arose there any like him." The rev. gentleman in his discourse drew a parallel between King Josiah and King Edward VI., after a brief sketch of Josiah's life. At the close of his sermon he assured the boys and their friends that all his affections and all his oldest associations, from his earliest years almost, were bound up with Christ's Hospital, and to it be owed his allegiance, while its honour and its effi ciency would always enlist his interests. He thanked his late colleagues, and he wished them God speed in their labours, and thanked the governors for their kindness to himself ; but after all, he asked, what is the most efficient servant in comparison with the house he served? The civic procession then moved into the Great llall, which was well filled with visitors. Many of the old students were present—indeed, more than the usual number, for not a few came specially to congratulate an old master who, after many years of hard service, has been promoted to one of the hospital livings, that gentleman being the appointed preacher of the day. The Rev. Dr. Jacob, the head master; the Rev. T. J. Potter, M.A., head mathe matical master; the Rev. Robert White, the Rev' Robt. South, the Rev. S. Gale, the Rev. J. T. Peek" over, and other masters and authorities were in at tendance. The Lord Mayor, the members of the Corporation, and other governors took their seats on a raised dais at the western end of the great hall. In the c3ntre, facing the Lord Mayor, was a platform from which the scholars delivered their orations. An admirably-constructed Latin iambic prologue was delivered by Mr. G. A. Greenhill, Fourth Gre cian, Thompson's Mathematical Medallist, Pitt Club Exhibitioner, 1866, and Exhibitioner, St. John' s College, Cambridge. Then followed in the follow ing order four orations on the benefits of Royal Hos pitals. Greek Oration : Sidney Simpson Allen, Scholar of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, Secoud Grecian ; English, by William Keymer, Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge, First Grecian, Thompson Classical Medallist and Richards Medal list, 1866 ; Latin, by Samuel Sheppard Oakley Morris, of Jesus College, Oxford, Fifth Grecian ; French, by Augustus Lawrence Francis, of Jes us College, Cambridge, Third Grecian, French Prize" man, 1866 ; the orations speaking in praise of Ed' ward VI. chiefly, but the English being varied this year by notices of the Fenians, Lord Palmersto ns death, the German war, and the Atlantic telegraPl4 and the French (a very excellent one by the way)' by notices of the cholera and complimentary allu sions to the Lord Mayor's exertions, and also a eulogy of the Rev. W. Webster. All the orator s were very much applauded ; but Mr. Francis, W . his careful and earnest delivery, and a marvellously correct French accent, received the largest share ° enthusiastic approval. in Mr. William Keymer, the First Grecian, gap e Latin hexameters Mr. Richards' prize compositiooo, " .Nuntii per vim electricam missi," hitting of f 1 5 excellent verse many of the leading advantages which are likely to result from the last great tole graphic success. hilfle Greek hexameters—Translation from " Harold," Seymour John Sharkey, Sixth Grecis°' who is proceeding to Magdalen College, Oxford' Latin alcaics—Translation of " The Last 3 0° (Campbell), John Thomas Bell, Eighth Grecian. a Greek iambics—Translation from " Ri char III.," Richard Appleton, Seventh Grecian. Latin sapphics—Translation of 44 c a ,sa,biab i l i tb (Mrs. Hemans), Eustace Fyffe Gilbard, Grecian. a th e Greek elegiacs—Translation of "Death all„, Warrior" (Mrs. B.emans), John Bowen, Nn' Grecian. 0 , 0 Latin elegiacs—Translation of " The Sl av e Dream" (Longfellow), Joseph Blades F3lll3rt Tenth Grecian. In the matter of these recitations there was t he siderable merit, and the delivery being 0 9°L4 therecites well applauded. tiou At conclusion of the orations a subscri p tion was entered into to defray the expenses of Gr ee.3 t be who are about proceeding to the universities, io Lord Mayor and the members of the CorP °l.t i og contributed liberally. The scholars thou sOO.. " God save the Queen" in capital style , ace ro. panied by the organ ; and the very gra tify ooe ceedings terminated by the boys loudly chee ri l r ed , Lord Mayor and the other Governors as theYre"" THE DUKEDOM OF CHATELHERAULT.---We °O: informed that a paragraph which we copied frotadooo Scotsman in regard to the dukedom of Chatelheraolt The not altogether represent_.the case in its true light • to p appeal of the Marquis of - Abercorn, as the undoubted, olt, heir and representative of the first Duke of Chateihrie:ooll created in 1548, has not been rejected by th e -, th e d'Etat of Paris on a question of right, but sole l y ro ver s° " e incompetence of the Conseil d'Etat to reconsider or t ot the decree of the Emperor, who, in 1864, re-crestei;,il• title in favour of his relative, the present Duke Of lair° ton, without any consideration being giv en to the ° of the Marquis of Abercorn to the original title. • AND ITS CROPS. —lt is now an o' l°6l CANADA as eer .etio o fact that, notwithstanding the uufavourablo P re h at o cea r made in the early part of the season, the crops 01 this as will prove throughout Canada to be largely sh °Ve raine rage. It is true that during the last few weeks " t lec aliti° to a very unusual extent, and that in some lorr ectioa they are nearly drowned out ; but on a general tinsli)„.geot of the country we learn it is now certain that l.-eceat in Canada is equal, if not superior, to the of any • year.—Canadian News, Sept. 20. r ot,. fo ll°ll l THE FRENCH HOMAN LEGION. --11,' t 00 0- 1 letter has been addressed by the Minister of Vi r a r r ° C o wl ° d'Argy, colonel of the Roman - legion :—" a noth erdeg —You are about to quit France to servo under rowel; I wish you to consider this letter as a proof 0f to s . to brance. The legion you command is called w - or tbi t y mission; the elements composing it aro h os % ,uth °ll o have the honour of defending the person a n „ t o " of the Holy Father, as the corps of t he leg already done. The decree which gives to tia a diell 8 , decoration and four military medals is m thf:respeii r e' the Emperor to his brave soldiers. Th col ic s hall minds them, my dear colonel, that the watchf u sh e , of the Sovereign will follow them where their teuir'irespe:o show themselves as French by their attitude, h yo , for discipline, their devotedness to theist;utY; _cote '34141 personally, my dear colonel, a difficult tato : r e y of lid ly will derive the necessary force from the h' eut _ 010 5 t past conduct, and from the thought that th e yoa 'tl to sympathies of France are enlisted in hi v e noserdefa po about to serve. In a few days you will receive but from the Pontifical Government ; b _ u it t bt l3 : : ;:o l need to tell you that yo ur letters will meet tdi ti reception from me whenev er y ou wish to sPea,li;4;o.,, yourself and your legion.—Receive, eic•l It° Th( to the tiatiot disco u for th 'nand, cent. ThE drawa day a The been ( itnpor from amour have portio Tlic Was ai The b. 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