The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-13 00:00:00

IMPORTANT MED!CAZ DISCO VERY. A remarkable discovery, made public by James Dewar, N.D., of Kirkcaldy, as to the application of sulphurous acid and gaseous liquid, is exciting much interest in Scotland. The Glasgow Herald says it has " divided public attention in that part of Scotland with the Fenians, the opening of Parliament, and the reported submersion of Tortola. Everybody has been asking his neighbour, Is there any thing in it? and we believe there has been a very extensive application of the brimstone fumes and sulphurous acid spray to the sore throat and stuffed nostrils that are not uncommon at this foggy season of the year." Dr. Dewar thinks a great many of our worst diseases have their origin in animal or vegetable growth, in the presence of animalcule' or imperceptible germs of fungi, and that sulphur is the best remedy for destroying these impalpable organisms, either in the air or the human system. He calls it " blessed parasiticide," and asserts that it not "only cures, but prevents the spread of diseases of this nature, inasmuch as it cuts off the source from which they come, the parasites in the atmosphere. He has proved from his experiments that patients suffering from consumption, fevers, and a great ; many other diseases have been greatly benefitted, and in some cases completely cured, by being subjected to a sulphurous atmosphere, or to sulphurous medication. His own groom was far gone in consumption when be was called upon to tend the sulphurous experiment upon some cattle. He began to recover immediately, and all the bad consumptive symptoms left him ; he gained in weight, and though now depending on one lung for breath, he looks nearly as strong, and is as able for ordinary stable work as he was previous to his illness." According to Dr. Dewar, simple cough and complicated tubercular dis to-se alike give way before sulphur fumes, and cholera and diphtheria fly from the acid gas spray producer." This sounds wonderful, no doubt, but it is not impossible ; but when the doctor tells us that rheumatism and religious despondency amounting to insanity have been cured by the same means, he makes a large demand on our faith. FENIAN MA TTERS. The funeral demonstrations proposed to be held at Glasgow will, no doubt, be prohibited by the authorities. The officials of the Orange brotherhood have issued a notice desiring the brethren to abstain from anything calculated to compromise the peace. Black-bordered placards were posted throughout Leeds on Thursday, announcing that a funeral procession, in honour of the three men lately executed at Manchester, will take place in Leeds next Sunday afternoon. The lovers of Ireland, both male and female, are called upon to assemble in Kirkgate-market, and to walk thence in procession to St. Patrick's Roman Catholic burial -ground, York-road, in the outskirts of Leeds. No public announcement on the subject has yet been made by either the civic authorities or the Roman Catholic priest. hood. Some excitement has been created in South Wales by the capture of one of the Fenian fraternity, who is be lieved to have taken a prominent part in one or more of the raids by Fenian in Ireland. A man giving the name of John Ryan, but whose real name turned out to be John Castrell, was apprehended by Inspector Fowler, of the Monmouthshire constabulary, at Tredegar, on the 2nd inst., on a charge of stealing a passage warrant to America from a woman with whom he was cohabiting, and whose husband (in America) had sent the warrant, which was worth £27. It appeared that the man belonged to Kilmallock, and was actively engaged in the attack on the police barracks of that town on the 6th of March. The prisoner was taken from Tredegar to Usk, and was there charged with theft. An officer of the Killarney constabu lary, who had come over from Ireland, then swore an infor mation that prisoner was concerned in the attack on the police barracks, and upon that information he was handed over to the constable, who immediately started with him for Lime rick. The man appears to be about 30 years of age, about bft. 6in. in height, dressed very poorly, and is an ignorant sort of fellow. While living with a married woman in Tredegar, he has a wife and two children in Limerick. He, of course, intended to have got off to America by altering the woman's passage warrant ; and for revenge she gave him in custody, and disclosed such particulars as led to his apprehension on this further charge. She appears to have afterwards repented of this step, but the man makes no secret of his complicity with Feuianisea. TENIAN FUNERAL PROCESSION IN NEW FORK. The following account of this event appears in the .IVezo ror,l, Herald of the 29th of November :—" One of the 7slost imposing gatherings that the IreLians of this city ever had occurred yesterday, to mark the sympathy fe!t by the brotherhood of New York in the fate of the three Fenians recently executed in Manchester. The demon stration was fully prepared for beforehand. There had been meetings of the various circles, indignation assem blies to express the popular voice on the subject, and a general muster of the friends of Ireland throughout the town. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in a variety of ways by our citizens, and the Irish portion of them thought that the most appropriate celebration they could have would be a grand funeral to commemorate the fate of the Manchester victims. At an early hour the by-streets leading to East Broadway, where the funeral procession was to muster, were thronged with men in the uniform of the Fenian brigade. The ferries that ply from Brooklyn were con tinually bearing over fresh cohorts to add to the ranks of these, and by the hour of noon the whole plaza of East Broadway, from Grand-street down to Chatham-square, was crammed with a dense crowd of those who sympathised with the cause of Young Ireland. At twelve o'clock the pro ceesion started down Chatham-street towards the City Hall, and when it had been marshalled in order and had actually got under way it was grand in its imposing effect. Led by two marshals and headed by a band, a mass of some 5,000 men was formed four deep, marching with solemn tread along the street. Like a serpent of chameleon hue, the procession defiled across Chatham square down towards the hall of the city ; and like an army it marched across the park in review order by the mayor and corporation, who stood on the steps of the City Hall to receive them. The green and gold uniform had a won derful effect even on the sombre day we had yesterday; the day itself seemed in keeping with the ceremonial, which was altogether one of a funeral type. The men men marched by, troop after troop, corps after corps, some boys, some men, until half the procession had passed, when three hearses, each drawn by four horses, came in view. In every hearse a coffin was deposited, on which were in scribed the names of the Manchester Fenians, O'Brien, Allen, and Larkin,with the touching and sententious com ment on each, 'We mourn his loss.' The words were suffi cient. After marching by the City Hall the Fenian funeral wound its slow length along up Broadway. First came the marshals, then a band, and then a battalion of boys, after which the rank and file of the Fenian brigade men, placed in companies. On the banners which were carried at the head of the column the following lines were printed " `Whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle van, The fittest place for man to die Ts when he dies for man.' On the reverse of each of the two banners the words ' The Martyrs of Manchester' were inscribed. The Second and Third Temperance Societies of New York took part in the Fenian gathering, and mustered pretty strongly on the oc casion. The G rand Marshal of the procession was Jeremiah M. Creed ; the aids were John Kerr, Cornelius Mahony, Timothy Lynch, John Murphy, and John Leney. The rescuers of Col. Kelly and Capt. Deasy were the chief mourners, who followed the hearse in the mourning car riages engaged for the purpose. On reaching Fourteenth street the Fenians marched down to Seventh-avenue, up that thoroughfare until they reached Twenty-third-street, when they crossed the town to First-avenue, and finally gatheredin Union-square. Here addresses were delivered by John Savage and others, the former making a funeral oration to the memory of the Manchester men. He spoke of how they had been martyred in the cause of liberty, and how England was accountable for their fate. There was a dense crowd assembled in Union-square to partici p'•,t.n in the meeting, and the balconies of the houses along ti:e line of the procession were crowded with fair and gaily-dressed ladies, who looked with great interest as the Fenians marched by. The speeches did not termi nate until a late hour in the afternoon, and it was dark before the men had dispersed and the last green uniform eli.sappre , l. The ff,ll ,, wing order was telegraphed on Wednesday to the various captains of the Metropolitan of this city and Brooklyn. It may be added that a committee of the Irish processionist.s, on the same day the order was issued, called on the superintendent to obtain a police escort for the parade, but were unsuccessful in obtaining what they sought, Mr. Kennedy contending that as a policeman he could not order policemen to escort a procession of sympathisers with the fate of men who had murdered a policeman. A large number of citizens also called at headquarters to urge upon the Police Com missioners the propriety of not granting an escort. There was no need of any urging A parade intended to do honour to the murderers of the Manchester policeman h av i n g been projected for to-morrow, you will on that day hold your whole command on duty, your off platoozi in reserve, subject to future orders, jp i p 4t. CRUEL OUTRAGES IN TIPPERARY, A Dublin correspondent mentions a horrible outrage, accompanied with cruelty, which occurred a few days ago in the county of Tipperary. Some wretches entered the byre of a farmer named O'Brien during the night, and, it is asserted, " cut off the paps " from four cows, leaving the poor animals weltering in blood and moaning with pain. The act is akin to one that took place a year or two ago in another part of the country, when a number of sheep belonging to a farmer who was unpopular were impaled and left writhing on the mountain side. To say that such deeds are characteristic of the worst savages is easy enough ; the difficult thing is to imagine an adequate motive. The Irish are the reverse cf cruel by nature, and yet torture must have been the object sought ; for, if the mere destruction of a man's property were desired, the animals might have been killee outright with far less trouble. Apparently, therefore, the purpose was, not only to destroy a neighbour's property, but to pain him through his sympathies. In this respect the outrage was certainly effectual, and the ferocious dastards may be congratulated on the completeness of their work. LAW AND POLICE. ACTION FOR DAMAGES.—PERSONAL INMT.-Mr. Jus tice Byles, with a common jury, tried the case of Wilkin v. Fitter, an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The plaintiff was a butcher in Leadenhall Market. The defendant was a salesman in that market, and in March last the plaintiff bought some meat at the defendant's shop. His case was, that whilst there some one called his attention to some flanks of beef which hung in an unusual part of the shop, and he went to look at them, and whilst doing so he took one step back and fell through a hole in the floor, which led into the basement. His leg caught in the ladder or stairs which were there, and he hung head downwards. He was lifted up and sent home, and it was found that his leg, thigh, and ankle were hurt ; he was confined to his bed for five weeks, and unable to attend to his business for two months. The negligence alleged was that the flap which was made to cover the hole was open. The defence was that the plaintiff was not invited to go to that particular part of the shop, and that he had no business there. Mr. Justice Byles directed the jury that the plaintiff must make out that either by actual words or by the course of business the defendant invited the plaintiff to go to that particular part of the shop. The jury found for the plaintiff ; damages, £6O. ARREST OF AN ABSCONDING INCOME TAX COLLECTOR. — David McWilliam, an income tax collector, absconded from Wigan in 1866, a defaulter to the amount of £3,000. He escaped detection until recently, when he was appre hended in Staffordshire, where he was working as a pit man. Having been removed to Blackburn, McWilliam has been charged before the magistrates with ie offence of embezzlement, and remanded for the completion of the case against him. REYNOLDS V. THE NORTH .6ASTERN RAILWAY Cox- PANT.—An action was tried in the Court of Common Pleas in which the plaintiff, Mr. Reynolds, a warehouse. man, of Milk-street, Cheapside, sued the North-Eastern Railway Company for injuries sustained while travelling on their line. It appeared that plaintiff commenced his journey at nine o'clock p.m., at Edinburgh, on the 20th April, 1866, and went to sleep on the seat of a second class carriage. When near Berwick, the train, going at full speed, ran into a truck which had been blown on to the line from a siding where it had been carelessly left unsecured. Plaintiff was thrown violently on to the floor of the carriage, one end of which was staved in. Although only confined to his bed three days, he received " a shock to the system" which incapacitated him wholly for three months, and partly so for twice that period, from attending to business. The jury for this awarded him, as the Scotch courts have it, a "solatium" of £7OO. MANSLAUGHTER. —At the Leeds Assizes, William Burton, a blacksmith, pleaded guilty to the man slaughter of Thomas Moresley, at Doncaster, on the 27th ult. It will be remembered that the deceased was in the habit of annoying and chaffing the prisoner, whe was his fellow workman, and a person whose irritable and sensitive temperament rendered him peculiarly open to such attacks. On the fatal occasion which led to this trial annoyances of that 'kind had been conti nued for two hours, and at length, the patience of Burton becoming exhausted, he raised a hammer and struck at his tormentor. It was said on his behalf that he only intended to strike with the handle, which was of conside rable length, but Moresley drew back, and the iron head (truck him on the temple, inflicting almost instant death. Judge Pigott, taking this view of the case, inflicted the lenient sentence of one month's imprisonment, with hard labour. HOOLE V. TIM GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —PREFERENCE STOCK IN LIEU OF DIVIDENDS.— The Lords Justices in Chancery had before them the case of Hoole v. the Great Western Railway Company, which involved a question of great importance to shareholders in railways. It was an rppeal from Vice-Chancellor Wood. The bill was filed by Mr. Hoole, who is a holder of ordinary stock in the Vale of Neath section of the Great Western Railway. The directors of the company having employed their revenue in discharge of liabilities on capital account, pro- posed to the shareholders that they (the shareholders) should accept preference shares instead of their dividends. Mr. Hoole opposed this, and obtained from the Vice-Chancellor an injunction restraining the issue of the preference stock. The company now appealed. Lord Justice Cairns said that there could be no doubt that what the company were proposing to do was a literal violation of the Act. He also thought it was a violation of its spirit. It was, in fact, issuing stock at a discount, which the company had no power to do. If the stock were really capable of being applied in this way, it ought to be sold for the common benefit of all, and not issued to those who would accept it, and while those who did not accept it got nothing at all. Sir J. Rolt being of the same opinion, the appeal was dismissed with costs. EQUITABLE JURISDICTION.—Vice-Chancellor Stuart has; had before him a case which he characterised as eminently one for equitable jurisdiction. It was a motion to restrain an action at law brought on a bond which provided that during the joint lives of two persons and the life of the. survivor a certain annuity should be paid. The plaintiff's bill alleged that a second bond was given to the persons named in the first bond, and in lieu thereof, and that the first bond was cancelled ; but as there had been no release under seal he had no defence at law, and hence this motion for an injunction. His Honour !anted the injunction as prayed. NON-DELIVERT OF A PARCEL.—Mr. Baron Bramwell, in the Second Court of Exchequer, tried the action Bestial against the London and South-Western Railway. From the evidence it appeared that in 1865 the plaintiff, a tailor at Farnham, executed a deed of composition for ss. in the pound with his creditors. The deed was sent as a parcel to London from Farnham, to the plaintiff's solicitor, who was to get it registered. Through some mistake the parcel was not delivered in time. The solicitor was not able to get the deed registered before the expiration of the twenty-eight days required by the Act. The deed was therefore of no use. The plaintiff was corn pelled to pay the whole of his debts to some of his creditors and more than ss. in the pound to others. Besides, there was the cost of the deed. He therefore sued for damages for breach of contract in not delivering the parcel in time. The jury found a verdict for plaintiff; damages, £5. SHOCKING SUICIDE AT BIRMINGHAM.-21./1 in quest was held on Thursday on Mr. Bridges, the solicitor, of Birmingham, who committed suicide in so shocking a manner on Tuesday by throwing himself upon the rails in front of an express train at Stechford Station. The medical evidence was to the effect that he was suffering from delirium tremens, and the jury returned the stereo typed verdict in such cases of " Temporary insanity." FOOD PRICES IN CANADA.-0n Saturday, the 16th ult., the following were the market prices of poultry at Kingston, Canada :—Geese, is. to is. 4d. each ; tur keys, is. id. to is. 3d. each ; ducks, Is. 6d. a pair ; chickens, ls. a pair. Beef, mutton, and pork were pro portionately cheap—that is to say , beef was selling for about 5 cents per lb., mutton at about 4,i cents, and pork at 4 cents per lb. Kingston, it is true, is a cheap market as compared with Montreal and Toronto, but, with these exceptions, the above prices may be taken as the average of the Canadian markets generally. TIIE LATE MR. JOIIN AMES. —We have heard that this gentleman has left £l,OOO to the Bristol Infir mary, and we believe some other charitable bequests. His wealth is, we hear, estimated at nearer a million than half a million of money. Among other legacies, he has kft, it is said, £30,000 each to seven of his nephews. It is also reported that rather a curious and characteristic provision is made in his will. It appears that Mr. Ames had some few years ago a prolonged and severely con. tested lawsuit with the town authorities of Lyme Regis, close to which his domain and residence were situated. The suit was on the subject of a church or public pathway through the grounds, which Mr. Ames desired to shut up, but the attempt was resisted by the town, and, after much litigation, the latter was successful. Mr. Ames then had two very highwalls built, one on either side of the path, so that though parties could still pass through, they had no view on either side, and, as may be supposed, the once pleasr.it walk no longer possessed its former charms. In his wail, it is stated, Mr. Ames has left a certain sum to keep the walls in repair, and charged the possessor of the estate with the duty 9 # pp,i 4 t 4 i 44 ,41 g thew j4l THE SUN, LON DON,; FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1867. THE VOLUNTEERS. The annual distribution of prizes to the members of the Ist Middlesex Artillery Volunteers who had been successful in the various shooting competitions of the year was held last night at the headquarters of the regiment, Leicester-square. It was expected that the Duke of Buckingham would preside at the ceremony of presentation, but his Grace was pre vented from attending through the pressure of offi cial business. The attendance at the distribution was very numerous and fashionable, and the display of prizes, consisting of massive centrepieces and tazza cups by Streeter, was unusually brilliant and pictur esque. Mrs. Creed, wife of the commanding officer of the corps, presided, and was supported by Lord Ranelagh, Lieut.-Col. Creed, and the other officers of the Ist Middlesex Artillery. Col. Creed, in open ing the proceedings, alluded to the part the corps had taken in the field-days at Dover and Wimble don, and said he was happy to congratulate them on the creditable appearance they made on those occasions. Col. Chirnside had lately inspected the corps, and had given his highest testimony to the manner in which the men had performed their evolutions. The regiment was in a very satisfac tory condition as regarded efficiency and numerical strength. The brigade to which the Ist Middlesex belonged consisted of three regiments. There were 383 members of the corps, and of these no less than 301 were efficients. They had seven batteries, and in one of these, consisting of 71 members, which he had inspected the night before, no less than 60 were efficient. The number of Government drills required to qualify a man as an efficient was 12, but he was glad to find that some of his own men had performed as many as 119 drills during the past year. The following are the names of the principal prize win ners and the rewards which they respectively received :—Garrison gun prizes.-Ist prize, Por trait, painted and presented by Gunner F. A. Phillips, Sergeant Gibbon. Other prizes in the same class :—Trumpeter-Major Orme, Corporal E. Tracy, Bombardier Herbert. Bom bardier Gibson, Gunner Haig, Gunner Phillips, and Gunner A. Rymer. Field gun prizes, value £loo—First prize, Sergeant Long, winner of the Duke of Buckingham's prize. Other prizes in same class—Gunners Boswood, Shanks, G. N. Miller, Warner, and Edwards. Colonel Creed's prizes for field guns at unknown distances—First, Captain Hunt. Other prizes in same class—Assis tant-Surgeon Donne, Quartermaster-Sergeant Tabrum, Bombardier Waud, and Gunners Parry, Badger, and White. Brigade competition with garrison guns—First prize, Captain Dixon. Other prizes in same class—Sergeant-Major Taylor, Bombardier Everist, and Gunners Prichard, Wells, Badger, and Newton. Carbine prizes were awarded to Bombardier A. Garnham, Corporal Clarke, Gunner Brooks, Corporal Meens, Captain Dixon, and Bombardier Edwards, in competition 1 ; and to Bombadier Garnham, Lieutenant Craggs, Bom bardier \Vaud, Captain Monkton, Sergeant-Major Tilfor, and Gunner Bird. The Ladies' Consolation prizes were won by Gunners Shanks and Hist and Bombardier Gibson. Lord Ranelagh said he had been called upon to make some remarks on the Volunteer movement in its general aspect.. The subject of artil lery was a very difficult one upon which to speak, for the changes that had taken place in modern warfare were so extensive that what was expedient 50 years ago would not be so now. Defence had become more difficult than offence, and artillery, which used to be directed from positions against large masses, was now employed as the circum stances of the time demanded. In coast defence, too, heavy guns were now directed not against wooden ships, but against broadsides which could resist them. He had very strong opinions, and he would utter them in that place. Those who said that the great Volunteer force as at present consti tuted could not keep the field for 48 hours were quite right, and those who thought otherwise were wrong. They had not the proper appliances of warfare; they had no commissariat, no hospital staff, no telegraph train. All would be confusion and chaos i❑ the field under the present organisa tion. When a review was held in Hyde-pack with some 20,000 men, they required 100 or 150 officers. One hundred and eighty thousand men would re quire 900 officers ; and where were they to be ob tained ? Why had they not proper combination ? When the service was first instituted they were told they should remain in companies, but on his (Lord Ranelagh's) representations, Lord Herbert had the volunteers formed into battalions. Nothing but jealousy now prevented them from being formed into brigades. A great deal had been lately said about what took place at Mentana, but he believed that the men fought there as well as men could fight ; but they were like the volunteers in England —they had no proper organisation. The cere mony of presentation was then proceeded with, after which cheers were given for Mrs. Creed and Colonel Creed. The proceedings terminated with the performance of the National Anthem by the band. saved by Hoodlers riding into the water and bring ing them off. It should be added that many parts of the Lincolnshire coast are very flat, and often shallower at some distance from the land.—Taos. DonsoN, Coxswain of the Lifeboat." upon Italian unity, it wishes, as M. Rouher said, that mutual hatred and distrust should be forgotten, and it would hasten the time when that unity, being constituted, must understand that its part is to de fend the sovereignty of the Holy Father. It believes that as the advice of Europe can exercise a happy influence in causing this idea of conciliation to pre vail, the Conference has lost none of the opportu nities open to it. It has expressed itself in this sense towards the different Governments, and the negotiation entered into before the deliberations in the Chambers is still proceeded with." ROME AND THE POLICY OF THE FRENCH GIIVERNMENT. -~►- SPEECHES OF M. TIIIERS AND M. ROUHER. In a former number we gave the substance of M. Thiers' famous speech, which forced from the Government a clear and categorical statement of their policy on the Roman question. The conclusion of his speech, and the important reply of M. Rouher, we now give in full : Look at Italy. The situation there is deplorable, for we have made no one happy ; neither the Pope, nor Italy, nor France. You expected to work wonders by the Con vention ; but you have not placed the Pope out of reach of danger, and you have deprived Italy of her strength in removing her Crown from the strong city of Turin to the soft and pleasant city of Florence, which received it with a smile. Sicily is absolutely detached from the govern ment ; Naples ready to rise ; Milan unsettled ; and Turin, irritated, speaks openly of destroying Italian unity. And that unhappy King, enclosed in the Pitti Palace—built for the Medici, and not for the wolves of Savoy—not daring to return to his native country, where his statues are overthrown—he is well punished for having played the Mazzinian part of overthrower of thrones. He is perhaps the only man in Italy that clings to France, and he has said—" If you do not give me Rome, I am lost." This mistaken policy must be quitted. But it is asked— The rest of Europe ? We must not misconceive the ties which attach this question to that of Germany. There is always the danger of seeing these two causes united, and our situation would then be that of Austria, but with this difference—that we should have the French army. (Hear, hear.) The eminent statesman who at this moment directs Prussia is too able not to be moderate. He feels that, when France has such duties in Italy, to intervene against her would be to draw on himself uni versal censure. We must not, however, believe that Prussia will too easily abandon her ally of Sadowa, and I do not say that if we sent an army into Italy Prussia would not interfere. I do not, therefore, ask the over throw of Italian unity. What I demand is, that we should not permit ourselves to be deceived by Italian cunning. I repeat, I do not say it is necessary to destroy Italian unity ; no, the fault is committed ; but confident in the power of frankness, I would say, "You have never been willing to comprehend me. Well, now, lam going to be clearer : and in no case will I abandon the Pope to you." (Rear, hear.) And here are the reasons ;" I compromised my interests in permitting you to unite with Prussia ; I allowed you to doubt my loyalty in delivering up to you the various states of Italy ; I cannot sacrifice my political considerations to you !" Let us look at the position of France before the world. From Mexico (various move ments)—from Mexico we withdrew our troops to pre serve peace with the United States ; last year we allowed to be consummated in Germany an immense revolution against us ; and to-day we should abandon the Pontifical States to Italy ? What ! France, so powerful, so proud, abandon thus positions which her honour commands her to retain ! (No, no.) Should she do so, the world will say the conduct of France towards the Pope has been one long perfidy. Even should the Conference pronounce that abandonment, it will be said—France hid herself behind Protestant Europe to abandon the Pope. I should say, therefore, to Italy : I cannot deliver you my honour. Before such a declaration what Power could seek a quarrel with you ? Either Italy would submit, or, throwing herself on your sword, you, like the wise man obliged to defend himself against a maniac, would use that weapon to cover yourself and not to kill. You would not have destroyed Italian unity, but the latter would have impaled itself on your steel. (Hear, hear.) The counsel I give you is a friendly one. I gave it you three years ago, and again last year. I have always told you, and I repeat it. You can only escape from the difficult situation in which you are placed by an act of frankness and loyalty ; that is to say, of good policy.,, ; (pyol.onged move ment, and applause.) M. ROUHER said—Gentlemen, I shall address myself principally to the justification of 'the conduct of the Go vernment in the past and at the present ; I will then in quire whether it be true that the policy pursued is marked by indecision, reticence, and ambiguity ; and I hope to make my declarations so clear as. to Idisrel all obscurity, and enable me boldly to appeal to the loyalty of public opinion. First, I believe it will be of use to inquire what are the character, the scope, and the object of the revolution which has threatened Rome ? I will then judge the conduct respectively of the Italian and French Governments; afterwards, I will turn to the ob jections of the hon. M. Thiers against the Italian cam paign and against Italian unity, and will endeavour to justify, from every point of view, social and moral, the intervention which the Opposition reproaches us with ; finally, I will approach and ripple with the dilemma in which some have sought to place us, and I hope to do so with a frankness which will bring every troubled con science round to the loyal declarations of the Government. (Hear, hear.) What was the character of the revolution which menaced Rome ? Was it prepared in darkness and mystery, in order suddenly to show itself in the light of day ? No ; it was publicly organized, developed in view of the Pontifical territory, on the soil of Italy, alto gether too hospitable towards it. Was, at least, the im prudence of these preparations compensated for by the rapidity of the execution? Not at all. During eight months the Pontifical States were under the double menace of an invasion and of an insurrection at Rome. Italy was disturbed by it ; France was disquieted ; Europe was moved. The Revolution was anxious, during this inter val, to assume the appearance of a regular power. General Garibaldi addressed to the Ministers of England, Prussia, and Russia, resident at Rome, a circular note, informing hem that he had been appointed, in 1848, Governor of Rome, and that his authority not having ceased to be valid—for the Pope is only a usurper—he intended to re sume his rights and his power. (A laugh.) What was its plan ? To provoke insurrection in Rome, and then to support it by corps of volunteers who should by that time have crossed the Pontifical frontier. What were its means of organization ? Subscriptions which had been collected, chiefly in England, depots of arms, enlistment offices where, amongst men of honest convictions, there were mercenaries —(hear) —because on etrroling them they were paid a premium, and promised quadruple pay. Gari baldi was at the head of two secret societies at Rome—the National Committee and the Centre of Insurrection. He also acted at Florence, and that publicly, as President of the National Committee of the Roman Refugees. Some time . passed ; the volunteers drew near to the Pontifical frontier, and on the 21st of June 200 of them attempted to cross. But the insurrection did not break out at Rome, and these 200 volunteers were repulsed at Terni and dispersed by the Italian army. A Voice—Roman. M. ROM:MR.—No ;by the Italian army. The two Roman committees were reconstituted, and all the mem bers suspected of moderatism excluded. Discouragement, however, seemed to have seized on the revolutionists, and Garibaldi appeared to be on the point of abandoning his project. A Peace Congress was then assembled at Geneva (laughter), where all the revolutionists met. M GARNIER-PAGES.—Tkere were secret agents to pro voke excesses. (Noise). M. Rouiten.--the Governments would not have ex ceeded their rights in sending agents to Geneva to watch the meetings of the revolutionists ; but they were spared the trouble by the publication of the bulletins of the pro ceedings. I will only quote some fragments of the speeches of Garibaldi ; M. Garnier-Pages will then see whether he ought to apply to him the qualification em ployed just now. (Laughter of approval.) Garibaldi, who had received an ovation on his arrival, left like a fugi tive. This miserable Congress terminated amidst the in dignation of the inhabitants. The impulse had, however, been given, and some Italian deputies of the Left and senators took up the movement. Menotti Garibaldi formed bands openly, and took them to Monte Rotondo. Those acts were taking place before an expiring Government. The Italian press entered into a conspiracy of falsehood. The successes of the Pontifical troops were transformed into defeats ; Rome was said to have risen in insurrec tion; the Pope was stated to have left the Vatican, and the credulous populace considered Rome as already con quered. Garibaldi arrived at Florence, harangued the people, and told them that they were menaced by a foreign fleet, which would, however, be dispersed before the breath of the people. (Laughter.) The French fleet did not, however, disappear as he had predicted, and the invaders received a just chastisement at Montana. Yes! a great number of men fell before the improved fire-arms of our soldiers ; but let their partisans be consoled ; all the chiefs escaped, and not one was touched. On several occasions the leaders of the Revolution in their incendiary proclamations promised to conquer or die. Garibaldi cried out, "Golgotha or Rome!" He wished for a calvary. But we must do them the justice that they did not receive a scratch. What did Garibaldi want at Rome ? I have heard during the last three :days ingenious and subtle distinctions between the spiritual and temporal powers. But that was not his object. He wished to crush them both in his hatred. In February last, at Venice, he said, " There is still a portion of our country out of the fold. If those mitred gentlemen will not give up Rome, which is our capital, to Italy, we will force them. It is time for the priests to finish deceiving, sullying, and drag ging in the mire the first :people in the world, and making a sewer of the city. Italy has brave men enough to take Rome by arms, if necessary. Rome is ours legally. We must go there as if we were going to our own house." And one of the audience, in his excitement, exclaimed, "He speaks like - a god." On the 22d of May he wrote to Colonel Chambers, in England : " Hundreds of years ago your brave and energetic nation overthrew the taber nacle of idolatry and falsehood ; we will follow your; cou rageous example, and in the place of impurity, misery, and tyranny, we will place the true religion of God the Father, the Saviour of all, and the real fraternity of free nations." Such was the first symptom of a true religion inaugurated by Garibaldi. (Laughter.) At Geneva, ad dressing the people from the balcony of M. Fazy's house, he said :—" Here your ancestors had the courage to attack that pestilential institut'on called the Papacy. I ask you now to complete the work of your ancestors when we shall give the first blow to the monster." (Exclamation.) Lastly, in the first sitting of the Congress, he brought forward his political, social, and religious programme, of which the following is an extract :—" Sixthly. The Papacy is declared to be abolished." This statement was followed by bravos with prolonged cries of " Vive Garibaldi!" " 7th. The religion of God is adopted by the Congress, and each of the members engages to propagate it over the surface of the world." One indiscreet hearer asked, " What god do you mean ?" (Laughter.) Garibaldi continued :—" I owe you a word of explanation on the religion of God of which I have just spoken. By that I mean the religion of truth and the religion of reason." And every one exclaimed " Bravo !" Such is the doctrine of the revolutionists whom we have to combat. They make no distinction between the spiritual and temporal powers. What they desire is the fall of the Papacy and the inauguration of a new religion. At Voghera, a few days later, Garibaldi addressed the crowd: "Be ready," he said, "to cure yourselves of the black vomit." (Murmurs.) A few miles further on he continued in language which I can scarcely quote. (Yes, yes.) " I am not a rhetorician," said Garibaldi, "and I will speak frankly. If Italy has not the place in the world she ought to occupy the fault lies with the black race. Let us go to Rome to drive out that nest of black vipers. The place must be thoroughly purged (exclamations). It must be rid of that black tribe which is more fatal than cholera morbus." (Fresh excla mations.) Europe and France should know what are the objects of this revolution. And now, did the Italian Go vernment do its duty, as France accomplished hers ? I believe that up to the 21st September it was sincere but weak. After the22nd of that month I do not hesitate to declare that it 'was complaisant, subordinate, and almost an accomplice. (Movement.) It had declared in all its despatches that it would execute the September Conven tion even by force. I believe that M. Rattazzi was sincere, but he was pursuing a chimera - that of prevent ing an aggression on Rome by his good relations with the Left. That is an idea often nourished by statesmen, who think that by concessions to the Opposition they may con_ ciliate it ; but they only arrive at lamentable and dangerous compromises with the Revolution, and are eventually swept away by it. (Hear, hear.) After the 21st September the dyke which had been opposed to the invasion was re moved, and the revolutionary torrent • hurried on unro• strained, profiting by a parliamentary interregnum of a week, which left Italy for a time without a government. Were we dupes, as M. Jules Favre says ? What could we do? We pointed out to the King of Italy the revo lutionary leaders indicated to us by our counsels. Could we have Garibaldi arrested and the offices of enrolment closed by French gendarmes ? Do you think that in the verbal relations which continually take place between an ambassador and the Foreign Minister of the country to which accredited, opinions are not being continually ex changed? Do you believe that the Italian Government had not been warned that on the day:on which Garibaldi should set his foot on the Pontifical territory France would interfere ? A part of the French press, by its cry of "No intervention !" contributed to diminish the effect of that salutary menace. Those journals said, " Will you crush the weak ? will you destroy yourown work ? The nation is not with you." Abroad the journals of the Opposition are willingly believed—they are supposed to represent public opinion ; and this language of the press it was that encouraged the perturbators and hurried so many unfortunatejmen on to the battle-field of Mentana. The French Government exercised great moderation and firmness. It refused to identify the Italian nation with an ephemeral Cabinet ;it gave tune for a Liberal-Conser vative Ministry, disposed to respect treaties, to be for med; and was able to preserve the Holy Father,without having to combat with Italian troops. (Hear, hear.) I am here led to explain the differences which separate me from M. Thiers, for on many points we share the same ideas. :He said yesterday that nations are in a state of nature ; that they have no law or jurisdiction to cause it to be respected ; that might decides their conflicts ; that the weak group around the strong for protection against other nations which are stronger, and that this state of things is called the balance of power. In this order of ideas politics consist in not allowing one's neighbour to become too great. M. Thiers also said that this principle was contested in the name of the false principle of na tionalities, that unsound theory had already several times compromised the interests of France, and that no other nation had applied it. The campaign of 1850 was directed against the interest of that equilibrium, and it was in opposition to that same interest that bypersevering conni vance, in spite of the treatise of Villafranca and Zurich, Italian unity was constituted. I earnestly protest against the idea that nations are without laws and jurisdiction. Has not the Emperor Napoleon always taken the initative of that arbitral jurisdiction, the absence of which M. Thiers regrets ? Has he not attempted to constitute it in such a manner as to put an end to the scourge of war ? (Hear, hear.) But in fact what was the Italian war? I have already explained its origin twenty times. But as the same criticisms are repeated they must be again refuted, or at least not be allowed to pass unchallenged. (The honourable minister then passed in review the causes which led to the war in 1869, showing that the presence of Austria on the Alps was a continual menace to France.) He then continued :—We are told that after Villafranca we failed in fulfilling our engagements by allowing Italian unity to be accomplished. It was based on two elements : the first I respect, the second I blame. The states whic:i Piedmont first annexed had beefrabandoned by their Sove reigns. Were we to go and support those princes who had fought against us at Solferino, and who had taken refuge at Vienna ? When subsequently the hero of Caprera at tacked Sicily with his thousand men, that was no longer a movement of independence but of revolution. That is the element I blame. Yes, the conquest of the Two Sicilies, accomplished by Garibaldi and accepted by Victor Emmanuel, imposed on the King of Italy a heavy mutual responsibility, of which he is now supporting in a large measure the chastisement. His responsibility became afterwards greater when he seized on the Marches and Umbria. I must here again contradict the calumny which M. Jules Favre has repeated, namely, that the French Government had verbally authorized the expedition against those provinces. I have now to examine the question whether the expedition of 1867 is justified by international law, by the Convention of September, and by great Euro pean interests. We are told that we have violated the principle of non-intervention in going to protect the Sovereign Pontiff. This is as much as saying that it is unlawful to aid the robbed against the robber. (Loud cheers of adhesion.) Our duty as an allied power was to arrest the invader. (Fresh applause.) M. EUGENE PELLETAN.—fiat was what Austria said to Charles Bonaparte in 1831. M. RourrEß.—l did not catch the purport of the inter ruption, but what I can say is, that on the day on which such principles shall triumph, civilization will have re ceded before barbarism. (Hear, hear.) M. Thiers has qualified the Convention as absurd. Yet by it Italy recognized the Pontifical States, contracted an obligation towards Rome, and effaced the vote of the Italian parlia ment in 1861. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, if, after the invasion of Garibaldi, France had remained indifferent, she would have fallen very low in the opinion of the world. (Yes, yes.) Our intervention against parasite and disor derly forces was not commanded solely in the interest of Rome. It served also to protect the throne of Victor Emmanuel. In preserving Rome from invasion we have saved Italy from anarchy. I do not reveal completely enough all the plots made at Geneva ; the foetid miasmas of the demagogy have reached even the soil of Paris. There was a miserable attempt at an appeal to arms, which sank into shame. All conspirators are acquainted with each other ; evil passions know how to unite, and the three projected centres of insurrection were Rome, Florence, and Paris. (Movement.) I would not have my words exaggerate my thoughts. We were not in any way disturbed by it. All Governments are exposed to such attempts. The dregs of all evil passions accumulate in the lower social stratum, and sometimes will come to the surface. (Hear, hear.) M. Jules Favre has endeavoured to show that the Convention has been destroyed by the Encyclical Letter of the Bth November ; by the Pope's allocution in the Consistory of 1857, and again by the act of France. Lastly, he says that we are dispensed from executing the treaty by superior interests. There is some thing strange in those arguments. He does not hesitate to say that the independence of the Holy Father should be absolute, that his spiritual power ought to be protected from all attack, and that to defend itself it has no need of the temporal power. And yet, in the face of that tem poral power, he seizes on words addressed exclusively to Catholic conscience—language which the Pope uttered, not as a Prince, but as a Pontiff. M. JULES FAVRE.—You confound what I said. M. ROURER.—M. Jules Favre makes of the allocution a cases belli against the Pope. But let us grant him what he asks ; let us suppose a King of Italy enthroned at Rome by the side of the Papacy, and let the Holy Father then oppose himself to any recent law, the sale of ecclesiastical property for example. Would not the Sovereign on his side then have the power of charging him with preaching up sedition, and even of throwing him into prison ? Such is the independence you offer to the Holy See ! And the Legion of Antibes ! How much agitation has been caused by the formation of this corps of 1,200 men, for some months past reduced to 800 ! Nevertheless the Conven tion authorized the Pope to form an army composed of foreign Catholics. At the request of the Roman Govern ment we authorized enrolments in the legion, and con sented that the men enlisted should not lose their nation ality. We even allowed French officers to take the command. But did that make it a French legion, under the control of the Minister of War? By no insane. The Moniteur de rArmee, in February, 1866, published full details about the constit u ti on o f th e corps i n ques tion, and explained that the grades conferred on the officers by th e Roman Government would in no case be recognized by that of the Emperor, and that the soldiers could not allege their nationality to withdraw themselves from the Roma" jurisdiction and discipline. Certain desertions subs& quently took place, and the colonel wrote to the Ministe r of War on the subject. Marshal Niel replied ; but his letter, made public by an indiscretion, had never all other than a strictly private character. A short time afte r General Dumont went to make personal observations aS to the desertions in a military point of view. Was that a violation of the Convention ? How was it that Italy, under such circumstances, did not demand the suppres sion of the legion ? She certainly did nothing of the kind ; and upo n ex pl ana ti ons b e i ng g i ven s h e re cognize d the probity of our conduct ; but, in fact, such matters are really too trivial to dwell upon. Gentlemen, allusions, partly ironical and partly serious, have been made to other treaties, which we are accused of having left to take ca re of themselves ; the London Treaty of 1852, concerning Denmark, for example. But by that act we never bolte d ourselves to guarantee Denmark against all aggression; we merely adhered to the settled order of succession. An did the other great P owers w h o s i gne d th e treaty fe e l themselves called on to intervene ? By no means. As t° the German war it was not brought about by the events in Denmark ; the duel which ended at Sadowa was ine vit ' able, and had been long before premeditated. But We are also charged with viol a ti ng th e T rea ty o f Miramar, an d thus becoming responsible for the tragedy of Queretaro' That treaty, however, did not fix any date for the with drawal of our troops ; and we recalled them, not in obe dience to any foreign injunction, but in compliance If° the desire manifested by this assembly. (Yes, yes.) M. JULES FAVRE—You ought to have consulted it lx forehand. M. Rounzen—We wished to bring back the unfortunate Maximilian to Europe, and few knew the supplications We addressed to him to induce him to qu it that land f anarchy. Let us leave the responsibility on those qho have assumed it by a crime, for if we were to go W it to original causes we should, perhaps, find too many in the dangerous revolutionary fe e li ng di rec t e d against w e French flag from France itself. (Great applatt ee.) Another reproach has been cast on us by M. Jule's Fevre ; we are accused of having picked up fragm ents of the Encyclical Letter to serve as wads for the Chas" sepot rifles. The metaphor, however striking, is ° l3 : plagiarism ; for long ago M. Billa u lt sa id th a t the speeches of the Opposition served as wads for the rifles of Jua t r (Applause.) I have now done with the opponents of W e d Government, and shall next turn to the majority , a ll say a few words in reply to the questions put to These are three in number, viz. :—What will your Stet do at Rome ? If the Conference meets, what will be Y°` attitude ? And, lastly, if it does not meet, what will the conduct of the Government ? On the first reply, the French troops will remain at Ronie as long ' the security of the Pope shall render their presence P e ; cessary ; and by the word "security" the Goveruln en t means to speak not on ly o f ma t er i a l t ranqu illity, also of serious guarantees to be given by Italy, care, cially after all the deceptions we have expericeee-; (Great applause.) On th e su bj ec t o f th e C on f e rence ws i have declared to all the P owers th a t we would li° t form any programme. Do you wish to be more Mt n lml than they ? We shall present ourselves to that asse with our past akd our present in our hands. And has ll° the Pope, the most interested party of all, idea without reserve ? How, then, can you feel an) tation under such circumstances ? I now come W this dilemma : the Pope wants Rome, and Italy cann° t " 0 - without it. We declare that Italy shall not seize le o Rome. (Sensation, and prolonged applause.) 11113 : 4 will never submit to such a violence committed on m" honour and on Catholicity in general. (Renew ed 11 „ P ; probation.) She demands from Italy the -rigorous 11- 1 . accepted th.e energetic execution of the Convention of SePt eln . be „,.; and if this be not conceded she will supply the deficiency herself. Is that clear enough ? (Applause again renew e ', Gentlemen, if your plaudits cause me great emotion th e ' are also the occasion of some little embarrassment , lna n s i much as whilst we fi rm ly suppor t th e C onve ntion v a September we desire to see Italian unity respected 9 : 13 d, strengthened. We wish the two Powers to co-exist by side. GIIEROTJLT—That is very difficult. M. RolmEn—We should b e ver y unw illi n g to Se e °P it , work accomplished by our victories tor n t o pieces. 18 11 - $ tertain a profound convictio n th a t if th e two que sti° , - 0 were proposed to the people of this country- I) °, 3 f o r wish for the overthrow of the P o p e , or d o you wish , the destruction of Italian unity, the answer would be 4 16 gative in both cases. Our be s t p o li c y li es i n allowing : fig two powers to co-exist. We should be wrong in towards Italy the menacing language of M. Thiers. cons btu; should rather say to her, " Abov e a ll. things yourself. You who are a nation without precedent/ tr ti , dition, or experience, cast out of your bosom the B ev° „ r , tion which unfortunately con t r ib u t e d t o y o ur origin; - t o ganise your credit and finances ;in fact, become t i ,l 3 like the others. Have no fear because an old rna e : or , drezeers prayers to heaven under the arches of St. for with his extend e d h an d s thi s same old man tra n , clo „ l ,t lizes the disturbed consc i ences of all C a th o lics. (u r ,:„ r applause.) We should als o counse l It a ly t o live on in P- 1 ., present unity, to resp ec t th e d oma i n o f th e Holy Fa tis3 .o and then the Liberal and Conservative element gradnally develop itself in that country. Gentlemen/ o , Gueroult said just now that th e t as k which rre f f er e . posed was a very difficult one; but in our favour le tu o , is time, whose sover e ig n p o w er a l wa y s e nds in ing to justice and truth. M. GURROULT-But have you time at your disr oB4l? 01 M. Roman—The interruption is a strange ° lle ' o y what are you afraid Of the Revolution ? Idle hension ! The power of evil is only ephemeral, awhile lasting greatness depends only on the power of c, which has the impress of God Himself. (Warm aPP r La,9 tion.) And is not history full of examples of ha" - ti . extinguished, interests reconciled, harmonies re-0• Llished ? Why, then, suppose that the inveteracy beilfee m Italy and the Papacy will remai n e te rn al? (Adh eß :i Gentlemen, I have now given all the explanation s power. As to the two interpellations, we reject the in toto, and hope we are in a complete commu tsu °l3 o l ideas with those who presented the second. Is f $ (Yes, yes.) Well, then, let this accord be slip B ros unanimous vote of confidence. The Revolution is e ' d o the watch, seeking to enter the stronghold by anl, b ; col that offers. Can you doubt our capacity for E . , : c i p o ot when you have as pledges the victory of Montana''' . a wed flag floating over the walls of Civita Vecchia? Oell applause.) .„„ ia . The sittm . g then remained suspended for 0° "": stants, and a great number of members crowded '- 4 0 0 the hon. minister to congratulate him. In the el la ' a id , ' M. ROEMER again ascended the tribune, a nd 4, tie; Gentlemen, during the short sus p ens i o n of th e 8 ; or some members have expressed to me a fear i. tjj ,..for°' words were not sufficiently clear. I will add, tn,.. e- n e i th e that when I spoke of Rome, I meant to speak 'aro' present Pontifical territory in all its integrity longed approbation, and cries of " Vote, vote n 1:4 6; [ADVEATlSEMENT.]—llyepepsia(lndigestion), Const i P a A nd bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stonnte ll ',,,eieWvii complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and ti e IV A II by thugs of every descriptio n , b u t p er f e ctly Cu ra- rove - 0 •1 1 Barry's health-restoring nevalents. Arabica Food, J e ss, thousands of cases which had been considered hoP - ,. v er as—cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, haamorrhoid6, thre-0,1 plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, fo r bo ci diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the .., e nrTA , ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hybsetaerirtt_lDirsni,c3;llbreal:: irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea an." f icr°,oo l even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, broucho s !,,ch l ib tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stel" ee h j o lt between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few7 P e roe , 4 ,ll, restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. -- e spe",ell 12, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excelletn%d bon' Do since, abandoning all other remedies, he has cznilr o bieD• o r. entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, ° ,,„ c etl 0 0 1 consumes a plateful at every meal. It has Pre" - e es ati prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his prase, bei praise this excellent food too highly."—From the rts, tP•;,ss, Midi, July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James itnb e ied merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' dis e i deaf,' of spitting of blood, liver derangement, and VOWS Lictwtl Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lor . 32. ; 0 0, Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49, :l e rvon! e oc! years' indescribable agony from dyspePsieh s 'i c soe';oon, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms , of t i l e, too o. vomiting.—Maria Jolly." 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Frances Diana, wi le ° __-----------;-11h,,tg London : Printed and Publiehed-by--W-112.141).A. 1 4° I.l o ' t of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tas Sun ° P 'l O / 4 Strand in the Precinct of the SPvoy, Siie filidcUe6ox.—Friday, December V, 1867. NOBLE LIFEBOAT SER VICES. Mr. Henry Pye transmits the following report from the cockswain of the lifeboat North Briton, stationed at Donna Nook, on the coast of Lincoln : On Sunday last, the weather being very strong, I, with six others and two horses, at 12 o'clock at night walked the coast for upwards of four miles in the direction of Granthorpe Haven, when we dis covered a schooner on the sands, which the crew, consisting of three men, were about to leave. Her name wts the Mary Ann, of Whitby, in ballast. The men being straegers and much fatigued, we took them back to Donnallook on the horses. There I put them to bed, and at 2.30 the same night we again left the Nook and went back to the schooner and moored her, and while there we discovered another schooner throwing ur signals of distress and burning tar barrels between Mr. Pye's house and the station, when we immediately returned, it being then about 5 o'clock a.m., and sent messengers for the crew and the launching men, and at daylight, about 7 a.m., hoisted my flag to expedite the crew, which signal was also seen by the crew of the schooner. We got the boat off about 8 a.m., but the heavy gale holding up the tide the horses had to go a mile and a quarter, belly deep, before reaching the outer bank of sand, so as to get to the windward of the schooner ; but the tide running so rapidly, backed up by the wind, the launching men, being up to their armpits in water, could not stand to pull the boat off the truck, and were obliged to get into the boat, when we shoved her off the truck and over the bank, and with great difficulty reached the schooner, which proved to be the Esk, from Montrose, in ballast. After making fast the boat by anchor and ropes we succeeded in getting six hands aboard the boat, and brought them back as far as the above bank, where she grounded, where all hands, except the crew of the schooner, got out, and, up to their middle in water, dragged the boat as far as they could. Not being able to get clear, all got out ex cept myself, and waded up to their middle upwards of a mile to the station-house, which they reached about 12.30, but all so frozen and starved that it was necessary to send for a medical man, who re stored most of them before he left, one coastguards man being still under treatment, though better this morning. I remained with my boat and truck to secure them from loss or damage, and did not get up till late at night, when I found that none of the farmers would let their horees go out again, they being so perished as to peril their lives. 1 then waded back to my boat with another coastguards man, when we discovered a third schooner, at 6 a.m., with signals of distress flying, nearly eight miles away. When I got back to the station again I sent for the crew and launchmen, but none of the neighbouring farmers would allow their horses to go out again ; indeed, they could scarcely keep them alive from their first exposure to the cold, so I was obliged to abandon the effort to get to the vessel, and it was not till the evening of the day that I could get any horses to bring back the boats to the station. The gale having been considerably mode rated, we got her up without sustaining any injury. [ never experienced a more trying time for seamen and horses. I never had my clothes off from the Saturday night till the Tuesday night, or any rest, being soaked through all Monday and Tuesday. The crew of the third schooner referred to were RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The directors of the Grand Trunk of Canada Railway, preparatory to the general meeting on the 19th inst., have issued the report of Captain Tyler on his return from his recent mission of inquiry. It is an elaborate document, and points out, in con clusitin, that the greater works on the line are of a substantial character, one of them in particular being far too magnificent for its commercial re sources; that it has suffered from defects of origimd construction as regards its permanent way and minor works ; that a considerable proportion of its rnileage is actually worked at a loss ; and that the receipts on the greater part of it are earned only by a constant struggle against numerous com petitors. After the various creditors and the bond and shareholders bad submitted inevitably, but at so much sacrifice, to the compromises of 1862, it appeared to be in a fair way towards yielding some return to them. But the calculations which were then made have been upset, partly by the immedi ate effects and the after effects of the American war, and by the supply of unsuitable iron for the permanent way, partly also by the abrogation of the Reciprocity Treaty and other causes. In the existing condition of the property, two courses pre sent themselves for adoption. It must be allowed to go on either without or with a fresh expenditure of capital. If no further capital be expended its im provement will, to say the least, be a gradual process ; a large proportion, if not the whole, of its revenue will for a series of years be swal lowed up in the cost of maintenance, the pay ment of fixed charges, and the supply of necessary meana and appliances; and the prospects of cash dividends to the preference bond and stockholders will be very remote. If capital can he raised, and if it be expended on the various objects considered necessary, a more speedy return to the proprietors may, in Captain Tyler's opinion, with good reason be anticipated. The amount which will require to be raised and expended on capital account is £900,C00. " The question then arises, how is this money to be raised ? The credit of the company is at the lowest ebb. It has not yet been found practicable to place the remaining £40,000 of the existing 6 per cent. equipment mortgage. That security is now nominally quoted at 80 per cent. in the market. The interest upon it was only paid by carrying over a deficit from the past to the current halt-year. Any further mortgage must follow it in the order of precedence. A second equipment mortgage could only be issued on ruinous terms. The proprietors have expended vast sums of money, more freely than wisely, on a great highway, from which Canada has derived and is deriving infinite advan tage. The city of Montreal has grown and is grow ing rapidly, as an emporium for Western commerce, under its auspices. The price of land and property of every kind throughout the country has largely increased in value. Manufacturers are spriuing up. The land is becoming settled, population is grow ing, and facility of intercourse has been provided over the whole length of the Dominion. The pro prietors have hitherto received little but hard words for themselves. They are ready and anxious to pro ceed yet further in the hope of working out the undertaking to a successful issue. They are even now promoting a bill in the Canadian Parliament for power to raise an additional £500,000. That sum would be insufficient, even if it could be issued at par, for the requirements enumerated. The country and the company would alike be benefited if £900,000 were expended, principally in Canada, during the next six years. It would be more profit. able, as well as more satisfactory to both, if this railway, which will ultimately carry traffic on an unbroken gauge from Halifax to Chicago, were placed in a perfect condition, and were to become, as would then be the case, a favourite route for American as well as Canadian passengers and pro duce between the East and the West. Having regard to all these circumstances, the Government and people of Canada may now fairly be asked for such reasonable assistance as will suffice to improve the credit of the company, and to enable them to raise funds for the purposes above enumerated. There are various ways iu which assistance might be rendered with mutual advantage. But it would be premature to discuss them here in detail. It is sufficient for the present to have demonstrated the reasonable nature as well as the desirability of the proposal." THE FRENCH DEBATE ON 7HE ITALIAN Q tiES TION. The weekly bulletin of the Moniteur du Soir con tains the following paragraphs, of which a sum mary appeared in the 7 imes of yesterday :-- « 'The language used in the Corps Legislatif by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of State determines, in the most precise manner, the policy of the Imperial Government with regard to the Holy See and Italy. The Marquis de Moustier said, at a meeting of the 4th inst., that it would be a very great mistake to believe that France is dis posed to abandon the Papacy to chance and cove tousness. Defining the convention of the 15th of September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs re minded his audience that the object of that great international act was to place the Holy S e e under the safeguard of Italian honour, and under the protection of the engagement entered into by Italy towards France. " Speaking of the project of this Conference, M. de Moustier showed that all the Cabinets willingly admit that, whatever the religion of the majority of the nation, each State has serious duties to dis charge towards its Catholic subjects, and ought to provide for every legitimate satisfaction of a moral and religious kind. The Powers have also ad mitted that the state of affairs in Italy might, by a series of rebounds (co/are-coups), lead in Europe to complications of a nature to affect the general and special interests of the different nations. " As M. de Mou.stier said, the French policy has not changed. To remove the Austrians from the peninsula, to restore Italy her liberty and inde pendence, to guarantee at the same time Catholic interests, and to seek a guarantee for those interests in the reconciliation of•ltaly and the Papacy, is the idea which has always guided and still guides the Imperial policy. No mo lification has been intro duced, and if the Government has imparted to its language an emphasis which had become indispens able, it is with the view of reassuring public opinion and of preventing every kind of equivocation, illu sion, or misconception. " The speech delivered by the Minister of State at the sitting of. the sth inst. terminated the detate by establishing in a striking manner the close agree ment existing between the Emperor and the country on the Roman question as on all others. M. Rouher passed sentence upon anarchic and revolutionary passions. He solemnly declared that Italy shall not take possession of Rome ; that France will never submit to such violence being done to her honour and to Catholicity. The Government of the Em peror demanded the energetic application of the Convention of the 15th of September, and if that, Convention in time to come should not prove effica cious, it will itself add what is wanting : it includes in the defence of the temporal power of the Pope the integrity of the existing territory. "M. Rouher expressed, in his eloquent speech, the desire to see the harmony of the great Powers represented by a vote of confidence in favour of the Government. The Corps Legislatif was almost unanimous in replying to that appeal ; 237 votes ag tinst 17 were given in favour of the order of the day, pure and simple. Never was there a more com plete and sympathetic understanding established between an Assembly and a Minister. As a testi mony of approval for the past and of absolute con fidence for the future, the vote of the sth December brings new strength to French diplomacy. The Government of the Emperor attaches no less value than before to applications for the assistance of the Powers in the work of appeasement and justice, which it is carrying on in the interest alike of the Papacy and the Peninsula. " Instead of bringing disdain and indifference AF T ER After D rtt ilter 1; 4 auter Ad e After Oly After Stra After N o After St. J 1 44 4 ft" (I°II BILI . sir THE_ ii( 11)N ouE( I CU 41,i:the-class " 0 "R. I.°eTn ril; 0 4: 1 3. 1 1 4 . 4 after ? l c I T „Ille1 / 3. 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