The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-04 00:00:00

a.' since-Jet-s a.m.' Lagan rota' otrr-Flot-s Wall,&murern. (24 March- ff-29 Sept.) Erranfra-gorlns, THE ASTRAL PERIGEE'AN PHILOSOPHY. --- CINQUE-PORTAL, Wit-in-G" moot-court.—ln B. c. Diez-Cinc'kent--50. w. *Pilot-soar arc-en-ccell by p Istra-geegraph fee to Gover's 4 , Arrow . • • : : off and-on, Diepp's-Rouen to Lizard-Pt. o'er Ind. Quadra,. culmination zodiac wend t'terd minorca's Lane° ('ock 40. lc. Its state-rope Anchor flag-tow'l prss-by Tyre 'round the fiat earth, as of Titus Vespasian's meter, yr 79 on 1824-35 Act in nacca-Conchea'd, leet-C r t e . The Bow/oigne 'd illegal mixtComfn Regatta fete of the 27-Bth, August' en A.D. 1861—as Eve sham' d-on " the after math-If head'ng night of Ihon fiapte'r—issued on the 13th, Old Lammass-day from the " Mandato office (of Grand master of Malta's College, St. James's-st.", on U. S. c. 33, e. 7, 1800-2-as of Amiens treaty-Nap), in dupelex, welkin Paid the capson-scholastic,' by Goal LEWES' Ship way seal' of ,Paris on a kirk ' Earth-moving' error. *'= , x. via. " Command old words, that long, have slept—to wake ; *, Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake." This long awe. Bamfin, eut-f/ot m„exchange as Corn hill-st. ita-chaT4 " Like Gem-father-131 COWPER (1712) like GOO. , child sprig PALMERSTON 1861-as of H.J.Temple —cites the charter of Bristol by L. P. 9 Annce, 24 July for its backwarreng to six, five, or four," combar-(on's in Lath'm Span'sh Cabotage) curvature a Latrinity-ms., Yer_ . the sunk port, Q. inn JetfM land wad-set's prior to Pope Nic s tax 1291-97-Doge 91.G,'s 9th, at Shore-HAM, Bright-helm-stone meridian of London Red, now resumed for" Carthage-mud port-Coe of h on , Edict Comffn., Review in Egypt's 1828," by 9-10 W. 3d, , o. 15, for undersigned's sae Etruscan " Arbitrat'm „irate m Pontificum—EmOra tor- as G' log 6a'a 'twist Turkish AL', and Codrington, who in Claudian letter-a, didn't— " Scorn a rbitration as a stain 9th] To ninth and tenth of Williams reign." [nO 10th. So,uea'cii " no 1581's Earthrollingbulls," with a 'Fiat earth Lancr o'er Jot amen' ys astral.—lst, See I Ed w . VI 'c. 2_, re-enacted in 1832, by 2-3 Will. IV., cap. 92, sec. 4,—entitled, The Sub mission o f t he Clergy fßestraint of Appeals—as yet pending to Pombal's Brazil-9, in None intervention, 25 Henry 8, cap. 19, viz., Whereas divers life-titled noblemen and spiritual persons have sent out civil-summons, in their own names, as in the time of the usurped powers of the Bishop of Rome, • contrary to the common law, touching writs in lay causes of correction, de jure patronatus, and probates of testaments —Be it enacted, that all such citations or other processes by advocates or other officers on behalf of the King's High ness, do bear the Echo Knight rider's fiscustom'ary endorse ment, as well as the Common -clerk's name placed under the citor's name, and after the registered seal, in " Die Kaaren Jet; M" TEST to wit. o .Pevensey : " x Rofa. transit mane in Antcec right o'er N.Z—Waitangi's " Brother and sister's" treaty. -(-0. 5.209 E. .ters as r ponti-Phi/imore. Thus—Lvganum-notalorum's of Kent, under subsyderal lathe epochs for E. audits to Bow towns Bpreflx 5110 N., Us L'ond'on-wave over o Wall-in-ford bye ~f cirencester Seven hundreds' in 34-HEN. Ist.—Mile'r Alnothus, to 1-4 Hen. I's hogshead of wine Jus-" Ex-change-A 1." as of Bristol's Zeus longue,' in alt°mare Conic-meet, of Fresh and salt water Admiral's Court," not of a Co-mercer's /Brewing-sup.' " Think deep.—or touch not the Pyrean spring," 2dly. Whence, by 1 Fhilip & Mary, c. 7, " No man shall exercise the office of Justice Conservator (to Water bailiff's Silver-oar, of July, 1521, 81—now Utiecht's Indian-paddle Treaty of 1713-63, as of Mexico's Philipine isleds Bohun inspector of all i jiscal-f meter-CrtB.), who like WoLszt, shall take en himself tho power to direct and serve his own precept.' Wherefore this Negative ; since (by Russn-Dutch loan on America's double-hdd-eagles-xoriscs., in Mingan trust-acts of 1832), pension'd Church-Queen's" in a—of a, by civil list, —tho' in o'er"Reft j 'acce"—have ceased to be the head of Malcolm In.'s a.a.o -son monetary Trust in presbytera' / kindred 1.", and at your peril disobey this law —for ' ono and all' as based_ on Agricola's ,''cot and ' lot hand-up oeremonial,'—typic on Ciesar's silver coinage for electing yearly the Ex'change ghat, cn 29th Sept. or Simi-call-meze—*magistrates, on union echo-wall with 24th March one—in murri nomine"l—. 27, Aug. 31,1881 [unpaid r jan,ter martyr 19 yrs], London, Prrmu BASCIrET, g The flag-union Jag, let Fruit m M p rya. pacca-corn hill'd- tribune of Income-tax NI freeman,Antipod'n Crown Colon-ft chief Bui..er of 1842, as the Criminal Law's Eitradi o -ta, Temple. tion Act. Coistable of the Sea Shores, Labouchere. bearing /I - America's paddle of Admiral's [2 March, '4l] Court, late in Canterbury's Ge-Guizote H. M. Perley. settlement for New Zealand's Probate 3 Sept, '4l. Crt., its @jai vt-m'poy Stil'lordWarden v —. tho' cruelly set up a pecca machina. in " naccarize gentis imagines." N. CHARLES ACXERLET, J.P. of Carib-allyd f England, elected 29th August, 1825 (by Ad- .•• : : miral G. Hamond, Stuart de Rothsay's See- Crown retary ; Marcus HiII—SANDTS, _Presbyter, d9a, on The holy alliance abolition,' of King- A clubs), its Standard meter-bearer 1837—Lt. I R.N. pay'd double-oathii'd victim—supporter Si of poor indian PETER 10 yrs, by Indian female Peu Qu' sponsorship 1820—thro' Quebec's Hamilton-' Rtien Dalhousie, in Elder's duty for HIS and own's S.P.Q.R, instant State-birth provision, as the Mon tague Subsidy first-fruit loan 1814'20's, major Trevsor- Cartwright's suceessorial Ombra-U'hon2B, to trove. 1322'99'i Quadra Manfredum'y depeccaria,' Conche'd in 1-2 W. 4, No. 54, naming Act. To all metre-roded Councils General' in nature's Year-law, ender 1835's Municipal and Reform Acts to Mayor's local supremacy (against New" Comfa 'Grippe-Jesus' Christian Clubs, 11 Geo. 111, c. 55, male or female," as at Dover and Burgh Ports 1772's on the resignation aver-bull'srun of Clement 14's Jesuit priest Abolition, for Earth Lay resumption for all allotments of land) over the yearly Poor-law Guardians—(as are for the time being) on 1603's church Canon in vestry'red lettered functionaTsuccession —an afterthought of Q. Elizabeth's. P. C. l'ntat.LßT-men, foroaths, in retrospect sense for sound office. 4. Papal-tribuner of purev minor E x -change bA pointers* o.s. Fiat-earth's Piers' an Philosophy to 1582, on COWPER'S 1671's Huitson 6 ° Chiliarcb.a?r" of St. Michael's PZNN for Vox humane' organ pipe Tun' ? 162 z—to Jan. 14, 1814. 1 ", Foreign Quarterly Review, Nov., 1829, p. 303 ; and Maritime Register, 17th Aug., 1861, p. 1051. Survey Arbitrations.—By 9 10 W. ril, c. 15, it is enacted, " That merchants, sole- traders—(and all Antipade'ans as those under the 'Turkish, 1809-Dardanell'd Padi;hi Jan' Rallied treaty,' 1841)—desiring to end their controversies by arbitration, may agree that their submission of their suit to an Award or umpirage (as of Africa's 1828 trust on Thony Monthermer' ACRERLEY, Flag-Lt. of Ocean 74),—0f any person, should be made "on Captain Cook's mane rule in tribal right INTAoRre,, " of his Majesty's Admiralty courts of Record ; and in case of disobedience to such award or Umpirage, the parties neglecting or refusing (F. Q. Review, Nov. 1829),—t0 perform the same, shall be subject to the Penalties: of Contemning a Rule of Court, as apper taining to the Anglo-Saxon Mexi-Spanish trust, as Cuba- Philipne'd on 1763-4-State Grants, reset 31 Jan. 1842-3, on the Carib-Micmac'd for the whorle's head Inn-fan-Gee and Out -G.—sustentation " Locatelli's." "Neath polar Astra's warring wolf to fawn, And view with trembling whom they view'd with scorn.' ALFRED MELLON'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. LAST WEEK BUT ONE. Te last CLASSICAL NIGHT will take place this Even ing„ on which occasion the first part of the Concert will consist of a Selection from the works of MOZART and BEETHOVEN. The second part will be Miscellaneous. The following Vocalists will appear :—Mdlle. PAREP Miss POOLE, Mdlle. GEORGI, Mr. V. RIGBY, and M. FONTANIER (his first appearance). Commence at 8. Promenade, is. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. To-morrow (qaturday), the Last VOLUNTEER NIGHT, when f ethoven's Battle Piece will be performed by the Orchestra, and the Bands of the Victoria Rifles and the City of London Rifle Brigade. On Monday, Haydn's CREATION (the entire work). Ou Wednesday next, for the Benefit of Miss Julia Woolf. THEATRE•ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buzketone. "enTs EVENING, the twrlnrmanoes will commence with TILE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, Mr. Edwin Booth (from the principal American theatres); Laancelot Gobbo, Mr. Buckstone ; Portia, Mrs. Charles Young. After which, BOX AND COX. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Commence a 7. ,) OYA T. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- 11) LQFISPe and lNianazer, Mr. A. Mulls. THIS EVENING, THE RENDEZVOUS. Alter whieh, a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ ten by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ; characters by Mr. John Brougham (his 6th appearance), Mr. Ryder, Mr. H. Widdicombe, Mr. o.'Jordan (of the principal theatres of the United States, his 6th appearance in Eng land), Miss C. Lelolercq, and Mrs. Weston. With THE GARIBALDI EXCUftSIONISTS. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manazer—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, A MIDSUMMER'S EVE. kite' which at Eight o'clock. the new and success "' comedy o f WOMAN; or, Love against the World. arleters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Tezin, J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Youn7„ Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray, and Miss Lydia Thomson. whisql Miss L To ll M de with 4.N UNPROTECTED FE MALE, i n ydia Thompson w ill d anee a New Volunteer Q u ick Step. prices as usual. %fres open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-o ffi ce opeu daily from 11 till 5. Taytv THEATRE _Roy ADELPEU.--- AL r. B. I Sole Proprietor and Manager, season. Webster. l i Open tor the "virv nter 'Kelly nab' Tuts EVENING. MUSIC IT &TR en gin , D. Fisher, Romer, Ward°, Miss.s L a ltu Messrs. Alter which (242 d time). T'TE COLI Pi, ,, NT aw • 'Ak- 81icm.... P. :3.oncicault. D. Fisher , Billinclon, S. Em ery, S C l• Mr. ph C. J. Smith, Romer. Howard. Ward ; Mrs. Boueicenson uit, mi n , Wr.joN•ar, Mrs. BillitlgtOn, and Mrs. IT. Lewi s. Toconclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fi s h er Emery, C. .T. Smith , Mrs. H. Marston, a nd Miss A. Kelly. ' Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. CIANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. 1) r. SAM COWELL every evening at Nine and a quarter tc .kleven Also, Grand Selections from TROVATORE, 'l'llA VLATA, NORMA, MARTHA, &c., By Miss Russell, Ati.s Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Morley, and a powerful Chorus. The Comin department compriseq Messrs. Harvey ... anti French. " The ;Nerves " -Mr. 3fsrAiall—Mr.' Wood and his talented Son—and Miss Harriet Coveney Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 61; Stalls and Balcony, lg. TXFORD, H E O 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. A. Grand Selection from Verdi's new opera, " Simon Boa "etTni" (now produced for the first time in this country), by Miss Russell, Messrs. C. Greville, Tivoli. Greene, MorleY, Boa andßerbert ; also trout Verdi's " Macbeth," by Madame .ICnflerssohn and the entire Company. Full band and chorus. Con ductor. Mr. V. Johmans. Varied Comic Entertain ments by Harvey and W el ch (The Nerve s), Wood and his Soil, E. Ma rshall, and .Rand Balcony and Stalls, la, ; Private Boxes, los :Al : Hall, 6d. ; IHIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDG E . This DAY.—Morning, lh. 30m.—Afternoon, lh. 50m. To-moßitow.-Morning, 2h. 10m.—Afternoon, 2h. 30m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Ocrroßzß 4, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE HHADE. • 63—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 64—this day at noon. 134satomrrnR-30.16. Wrrrn—South-Easterly—fresh gal); with fine weather. con er— THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1861. would only have been the very depth of ingratitude upon our part. For it is to these men, it is to this class, it is to this particular profession, that we are indebted for being what we are. Without their aid we should have remained among the most insig nificant States of the earth, instead of being the lords of one-fifth of the whole habitable globe-- embracing within the compass of our empire vast dominions in the Old and the New World, in the east and the west, and the north and the south, in Europe, Africa, America, and Australasia. It is not, however, to the pages of our voyagers, or still more to those of our nautical remancists, that we need ever have recourse in order to gratify to the full our appetite for the marvellous in regard to the maritime service of England. Here, as elsewhere, the truth of Lord BYRON'S dictum is wonderfully verified that— " - truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction."—Don Juan, xiv 101. In testimony of this we have but to turn annually to the astounding statistics given to the world, autumn after autumn, in the shape of the yearly official Wreck Chart and Register. Here is the last of these terrible records, the one that has but just now been issued—" The Wreck Register and Chart for 1860 " Like its predecessors it tells by its appalling array of facts the magnitude of the perils encountered by "those who go down to the deep in ships !" Those gallant hearts sung of in the classic and pathetic verse of the Sailor Fal- " Tars—who unmoved behold the angry storm In conflict all the rolling deep deform, Who, patient in Adversity, still bear The firmest front when greatest ills are near." Enough almost might be said upon this point by simply notifying the fact that, upon a rough average, calculated upon a series of years, we have a loss revealed to us through those Charts and Registers of 800 lives annually, and of £1,500,000 worth of property yearly doomed to destruction. Year by year, of course the precise number of lives lost, the actual value of property destroyed, will be found to fluctuate. But the numbers and the value as we have here given them may be taken as the average. During the past year of our LORD 1860, the wrecks off the coast of England have—by reason of the foul weather that prevailed more or less throughout that twelvemonth—been unusually numerous. They amounted in fact to no less than 1,379. Nevertheless it is some con solation to find that the number of lives lost in consequence of these casualties, proves to have been considerably below the average. Instead of being 800, the total amount did not exceed 536—still a terrible waste of life notwithstanding ! Whilst, however, 536 perished—as many as 2,158 persons, we find, were in 1860 snatched from a watery grave by life boats, shore boats, and other means, includ ing the rocket and mortar apparatus. There are two or three circumstances connected with the shipwrecks of 1860 that are sufficiently curious in themselves to deserve particular notification. For example—as to the direction of the wind that proved most destructive, we find that—" 111 vessels were wrecked during the prevalence of the wind from S.W. ; 128 from W.N.W. ; and 194 from N.W. 8 vessels were wrecked during absolutely calm weather; 151 in a fresh 13-eeze ; 168 in a whole gale ; 101 in a storm ; and 139 in a hurricane." Again as to the immediate cause of several of these catastrophes—" 21 wrecks took place from not heaving the lead; 2 from intemperance; 35 from general negligence and want of caution; 39 foun dered from unseaworthiness ; and 5 from defective compasses." Everyone of these sources of disaster being obviously fortuitous and preventible. Besides this, it is somewhat singular to note the following items in regard to the ages of the vessels wrecked —items strangely demonstrative (as has been re marked elsewhere) of the very curious fact that when these ships "should be most vigorous" they are in reality " most feeble," as will be understood at once when the reader finds that, " during the past three years, 377 vessels under 3 years old were wrecked ; and 472 between the ages of 3 and 7 years ; whilst 644 of them perished between the ages of 15 and 20." So that we are constrained to add unhappily, Q. E. D. Altogether, it is frightful to reflect that during the last eleven years only there have perished in this way along our shores 6,863 seamen—chiefly on board our coasting colliers. During nearly nine years past there have been 10,336 vessels thus wrecked along the coasts of the United Kingdom. Placed side by side with which last-mentioned re cords must be given by way of consolation the gra tifying announcement that during the last five years alone, no less than 11,495 lives have been saved by means of lifeboats, of shore-boats, of ship-boats, and of the life-saving apparatus. Much, therefore, has undoubtedly already been done, but obviously, quite as obviously, more, far more, remains to do. And the directest way of all in which to do it, we do conscientiously believe, is by furthering the inte rests of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, by prompt subscriptions and hearty goodwill, for their funds are low, and getting lower, by reason of their unwearied liberality in furnishing lifeboats along the coast. Let our countrymen only think that the sympathy they now display may yet even conduce to save their own lives in the days of peril and dis aster. It is said that " who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord ; " but they who support the LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION are only lending to them selves, by insuring the rescue of their own lives and those of others. Countrymen ! be prompt in your generosity, and it will be a sweet solace when you die, whet her it be on land or wave. SUDDEN ILLNESS OF THE EARL OF EGLINTON —On Tuesday evening the Earl of Eglinton was suddenly struck down by apoplexy while in the act of leaving Mount- Melville House, St. Andrews, where he had been dining with a party of golfers and friends. Up to six o'clock on Wednesday night, his Lordship's condition was such as to excite serious apprehensions.—Caledonian Mercury. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Yesterday the mar riage of Viscount Sandon and Lady Mary Francis Cecil, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Exeter, took place at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. As usual on such occasions the church was crowded with spectators. The Emperor and Empress, the day before leaving Biarritz, paid a visit to Beholia, in order to see the famous Ile des Faisans. This small island has for some time been in danger of disappearing, owing to the waters of the Bidassoa washing away at intervals portions of earth ; but works are to be erected at the joint expense of Spain and France f preserving it from destruction on account of its historical interest. Duels seem to be increasing in Germany. The Zeit, of Frankfort, states that a hostile encounter has just been fought near that city between Major Von der Tann, Chamberlain to the King of Bavaria, and an Austrian officer, whose name is not given. The Major was shot in the abdomen, and soon after expired. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—The autumnal recess of this club having concluded, the usual monthly meetings of members have been resumed. There was a very full attendance on Wednesday night, including the noble commodore, Lord Alfred Paget. Twenty-one noble men and gentlemen were added to the list of members, amongst whom were his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, Lieutenant-Colonel G. P. Evelyn, owner of Le Neve, schooner, Mr. Augustus Nugent, of the Little Wyvern, cutter, and Mr. R, Hesketh, of the Peri, cutter. This great club, which now possesses 230 yachts, amounting to 14,000 tons, is, by the above addition, nearly full. The number of members, from time to time extended, has been fixed at 900, and there are now only ten vacancies. A letter from Biarritz says :—" M. d'Escayrac de Lauture has been received here with all the distinction to which his adventures in China entitle him. He had the honour of dining with the Emperor. M. d'Escayrac has brought back with him a young Ohinese girl, who speaks French remarkably well, A Corfu letter of the 21st ult. states that the health of the Empress of Austria continues improving, and that her Majesty's spirits are excellent. HEALTH OF THE EARL OF GIFFORD.—We are happy to learn that the Earl of Gifford, M.P., is recovering from the severe illness which has for the last few weeks confined him altogether to the house. The Great Western Railway of Canada announce that the revenue for the half-year ending the 31st of July will not warrant the directors in recommending a dividend. The weather in Paris for the last two or three days has been exceptionally fine. The sun shines out warmly, and the windows are kept open exactly as in the height of summer. It is understood that the lord lieutenancy of Monmouthshire, rendered vacant by the accidental death of Mr. Capel Hanbury Leigh, will be offered by the Premier to Lord Llanover. The Official Gazette of Turin announces that the sons of King Victor Emmanuel were present at the cere mony of laying the first stone of a monument, to be erected on the field of Castelfidardo, to commemorate that battle. Acivices from the Roman States announce that the steam-frigate Asmodee, with the Siamese Ambassadors on board, arrived at Civita Vecchia on Tuesday evening. 1 he Ambassadors proceeded at once to Rome. DEATH OF THE VICAR OF HARROW.—We regret to announce the death of the Rev. John W. Cunningham, M.A., vicar of Harrow-on-the-Hill, and the 'oldest bene ficed clergyman in the diocese of London. Mr. Canning ham was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and graduated in 1802. PASSPORTS FOR AMERICA.—We are authorized to state that the United States' Consul at this port has re ceived official notice that all persons going to-the United States will require to have passports from the authorities of their respective countries, vised by a Minister or Consul of the United States.—Liverpool Daily Post. DR. PANTALEONE.—We learn that Dr. Panta leone, who for so many years, in his capacity of physician, enjoyed the confidence of the principal English and Ame rican families at Rome, and who was so brutally expelled from that city in the spring, on the ground of his political opinions, is about to settle as a medical practitioner at Nice, where his services are likely to be in request during the ensuing winter. The Nouvellist de Rouen says that before the Tuileries can be made habitable according to the Emperor's taste, it will be necessary to pull down the Marsan pavilion on the Rue Rivoli side, as well as the Flora pavilion on the quay, which is now in course of demolition. It is rumoured in diplomatic circles that Russia has sent a comminatory note to the Porte, remonstrating against the expedition to Montenegro; there is even a talk of a Russian fleet being sent to Cattaro, and it is said that Austria is very uneasy at the projected movement. The whole of the objections of the Conservatives in the parish of Marylebone were yesterday disallowed by the revising barrister, Mr. Tyrrell, who awarded costs in each case against the objector, Mr. Martin, amounting to between £3O and £4O. The rectory of Inworth, near Kelvedon, Essex, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. Samuel Wig, M.A., has been conferred upon the Rev. Frederick Poynder, M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford, second master of Char terhouse School. THE SUICIDE AT THE AUSTRIAN EMBASSY.—Yes terday Mr. George S. Brent instituted an investigation into the painful circumstances attending the death of Bartholo mew Wittmayer, aged 28, the valet of the head-secretary of the Count Rudolph Apponyi, the Austrian ambassador. The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide, while in a state of mind unsound." A letter from Homburg states that three days ago the ceiling of the Conversation Room fell in, and that several persons were injured. No details are given. The advices from Rio de Janeiro mention the failure of the house of Pinto and Pimenta, for nearly £lOO,OOO. They were dealers in imported goods, and the liquidation is not expected to yield more than 30 per cent. It appears that it is not in the Mediterranean, near Marseilles alone, that the tunny fish has been this year so abundant. The Algiers journals state that large quanti ties have appeared on the coast of Africa, and that some of them aro of extraordinary size, one having reached the weight of 150 kilogs. ACCOMMODATION FOR THE STEAM TRADE AT THE LIVERPOOL D 0 Cii.S.—An application from the Cunard Com pany for extended accommodation at the Huskisson Dock was received by the Mersey board yesterday, and referred for consideration. Messrs. Haigh and Co. were yesterday empowered to construct the roof and sliding doors for an enormous shed at the Huskisson. Dock, by which goods will be effectually protected from the weather, &c. ; cost, £8,650. A communication from Nuits (Cote-d'Or) says : —" The vintage has commenced here, and is favoured with beautiful weather, which cannot but have a most favour able effect on the grapes. The year 1861 will assuredly be classed among the number of good years. Considerable purchases of the best growths have already been made by foreign dealers at high prices." An incident of Austrian brutality is given in the Temps. A few days ago, some soldiers, billeted in a house at a few leagues distance from Pesth, lost seven florins. Their suspicions turned on a young Hungarian named Honth, whom they denounced to the commandant of the district. The supposed culprit was:then ordered to deliver up the sum in question, but declaring his innocence, and failing to do so, was condemned to 300 lashes. Honth fainted several times under the executioner, and the day after was so ex hausted by the punishment that he died of its effects, not, however, too late to hear himself cleared from the stigma thrown upon him, by a girl who committed the theft coming forward and publicly confessing it, A Polish deputy in the Council of the Empire of Austria was lately condemned in Austrian Gallicia to 24 hours' imprisonment, for having at a funeral taken part in singing the Boz cos Polska, or national Polish air, which is considered seditious. As the bill on the privileges of the members of the Council has not yet been definitively adopted the Chamber must give him leave of absence to enable him to undergo the imprisonment. DEATH OF MR. ARTHUR SMITH.-.-We regret to announce the death of this gentleman, brother of Mr. Albert Smith, whom he has only survived some eighteen months. Mr. Arthur Smith was well known in literary and theatrical circles as one of the clearest-minded and most practical men of the day. He had the management of his brother's entertainment, and all the business arrange ments of Mr. Charles Dickens's Readings were entrusted to his care. He was one of the Committee of the Thame Fisheries Preservation Society, and the author of a clever and witty little book called "The Thames Angler." Mr Smith was in his thirty-seventh year. PETERBOROUGH GREAT FAIR.--The great fair at Peterborough, called " Bridge Fair," was held on Wednes day. The day being unusually fine, there was an enormous number of visitors. The horse and cattle fairs were as ex tensive as heretofore. Fat beasts were a ready sale, at from to Bs. 6d. per stone, and fresh short-horn stores in good condition made from £lB to £2l. There were a great many Irish beasts of a much better kind than used to be brought to this fair, and though there is great risk with them, and prices were as high as the short-horns, they were freely purchased for home grazing. The ram fair was well sup - plied by the best breeders, and full prices were made. Horses also were an advance upon recent fairs, and, taken generally, business appeared to have felt the inspiriting influence of the late harvest. MR. ALFRED MELLON.— The excellent pro menade concerts given at Covent-garden Theatre will ter minate with next week. No pains have been spared to render them attractive both to the general public and to the lovers of classical music, a Mendelssohn or Beethoven night varying with an evening devoted to the Voluntears, and artistes of the first celebrity being engaged in every department. The last " classical concert" will take place to-night, and a performance of Haydn's oratorio of the " Creation" (entire) is announced for Monday. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.-- REPUDTA.TION OF THE WIFE.—An instance of the injus tice of the law prohibiting marriage with a deceased wife's sister came before the Leeds Board of Guardians on Wed nesday, on the application of Christiana Stead for an order of maintenance against Thomas Stead, a forgeman, lodging in Hunslet. It appeared that Stead had been previously married to the sister of the applicant, and that about two years ago, his wife having died, he went through the earemony of marriage with the latter, at the parish church. Since that time they have disagreed, and, on Stead refusing to support her, she applied to Mr. Hartley, the relieving officer, for relief. The officer ordered Stead to appear before the Board, when he declined to make his wife any allow ance, on the ground that they were not lawfully married. It was admitted that the applicant was the deceased wife's sister, and Stead said that unless the law could compel him to support her ho would not do . T he chairman (Mr Middleton) told him that he ought to be ashamed of himself, to come before a body of gentlemen and repudiate a woman, whom ho had taken as his wife, on such a ground. Mr. Thompson said he was disposed to try the case, and he therefore proposed that they make an order upon the hus band for 3s. per week, and instruct the officer to summons him before the magistrates if he refused to pay it. Mr. Kirk seconded the motion, which was carried, after a short discussion. EXTENSIVE FIRE AT MANCHESTER.—About three o'clock yesterday morning a cotton waste warehouse, oc cupied by Messrs. Chadwick and Taylor, situate in Old Factory-yard, Manchester, was discovered to be on fire, and the flame spread with such rapidity that when the fire bri gade of the city arrived there appeared to be little hope of saving the building or its contents. The men exerted themselves vigorously for many hours, but it was not until noon that the fire was got under. The whole building is more or less injured, and the loss on that and the stock is estimated at £12,000 or £14,000. The cause is attributed to spontaneous combustion. A GENTLEMAN POISONED BY MISTAKE.—Mr. Hanbury Lee, of Pontypool-park, has died from the effects of poison given him, at his residence, Plymouth-house, Penarth, near Cardiff. Mr. Lee, who reached his 81st year some few days since, met with a slight accident by falling down part of the staircase. A bottle of medicine was or dered to be given the aged patient, and some embrocation to be applied to his back. On Friday night last the butler was requested to give his master a portion of the medicine. The two bottles, one containing the medicine and the other the embrocation, lay upon the mantelpiece. The butler gave the deceased the embrocation instead of the medicine. The fatal mistake was instantly discovered ; medical gentlemen applied the usual remedies with the stomach pump, but the poor sufferer, who called his household around him, shook hands with them, and more than once begged they would not hurt his butler, who had given him the poisonous liquid in mistake. He died the following evening. —Bristol _Daily Post. A WORD FOR THE MIDDLE AGES.—The great Religious period, again, when Catholicism was the religion of Christendom, was favourable to able adventurers. Its thoroughly democratic organisation was the means by which the lower classes were raised into freedom, and a career was offered to all ability. The priesthood was the highest office and dignity ; and the priesthood was acces sible to all alike ; and, when this opportunity had once been opened to the humblest classes, they had gained a social advantage which could never be taken from them. the organic period of Christendom, then, was an age of privi lege for adventurous ability. However true it may be that the present is an age, and America a country, for low-born genius to rejoice in, it may be a question whether there is any kind of age or country, on the bright side of civilisation, which men of natural force could not make their own way very much to their own wish.—Miss HARRIET MAR TINEAU in Once a Week. THE DIGESTION OF A BOA CONSTRICTOR.— Galignani informs us that the Museum of Natural History in Paris has just made an acquisition in a singular manner. About a month ago the boa-constrictor in that establish • ment took a fancy for its own blanket and swallowed it entire, so that the administration, considering the chattel to be beyond recovery, put it to the profit and loss account. But, lo I twenty-six days later, what should the keeper find ono morning in the boa's cage, but the identical blanket, this time under the form of a great roll, a yard and a lalf in length, and about 15 inches in circumference I The said roll has been placed in the Museum, to be preserved as it is, and we may state that the boa is "as well as can be ex pected" after this remarkable performance. • MADAME BONAPARTE-WYS E.--The publication of Mr. Wyse's letter, denying any relationship to Madame Bonaparte-Turr, has revived a good deal of gossip about Madame Bonaparte-Wyse. This lady is the daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, who was destined by the Em peror Napo leon I. to be the wife of the Prince of the Asturias before the dethronement of the Spanish Bourbons was decided on She was accordingly brought to Paris to be educated, but, being given to satire, used to transmit to her parents cari catures of Madame Mere and ker Imperial uncle, whose weak points she hit off so humorously that he, inter cepting some of the epistles, got enraged at the portrait which his niece drew of him, and sent her home in disgrace. Her whole life has been a series of imprudent actions, and to a great extent she is an alien to her family. In 1852 she claimed, as an Imperial princess, a dotation, but her claim was rejected. The Emperor, however, presented her with a considerable sum of money, to relieve her from some pressing embarrassments. Oscar Becker has been lodged in the House of Correction at Bruchsal, in order to commence his term of punishment. In accordance with his request, his employ ment during prison life will be that of a joiner. The prac tice of placing a variety of handicrafts at the option of the prisoners is now generally pursued in German gaols, end has been found to exercise a very favourable influence upon the habits and morale of the convicts. In Berlin, for in stance, a great deal of the carved woodwork for which the town of late has gained some reputation is manufactured by the inmates of Moabit Penitentiary, the majority of whom did not even know how to whittle a stick before the day of their confinement. A LUCKY RAGMAN.—A local paper says :—" A collector of rags and bones, named Powell, residing in Man • vers-street, Sneinton, near Nottingham, in the course of his peregrinations last week bought an old waistcoat, which as is usual in the business, he offered for sale for 2d. ; but it was so utterly worthless, that he could not dispose of it. Taking it home, he tore it up, when to his surprise, he found in the lining of one of the waistcoat pockets a cheque for £3OO. He was, no doubt, puzzled what to do with so much wealth, and the last that w.,s heard of him was that he had gone to London in order to convert the cheque into cash." ROWING MATCH BETWEEN JOHN MACKINNEY AND G. DREWETT.—Another great match has been added to the list for the present season. John Mackinney, of Richmond, and George Drewett, of Chelsea, are matched for £lOO, to row on Nov. 19 from Putney to Mortlake. SWIMMING.—THE LEANDER SWIMMING CLUB —On 'Wednesday evening last a race for a silver medal, fair breast swimming, took place at the Lambeth Baths, be tween the first-class swimmers of this club, and after some very excellent swimming, was won by young Grove, who carried off the prize for the second-class swimmers, given by the same club, last week. First Heat—Grove, 1; Wat son, 2 ; Shote, 3, :Second Heat—Evans, 1 ; Haines, 2. Grand Heat—Grove, 1 ; Evans, 2—Grove winning by four yards. THE PUBLIC BINS OF LIVERPOOL.—At the meeting of the Livei pool Town Council on Wednesday, Mr. Tobin drew the attention of the council to certain gratifying statistics in connexion with the baths. He found that in 1842-3, when the baths were first established, they were visited by 11,700 persons, and during the past year by 303,000 persons; also, that the receipts in 1842-3 were £159, whereas the past year they were £6,400. Such facts, Mr. Tobin observed, must be a great encouragement for the building of baths and washhouses in other towns, in which, he hoped, there would be erected buildings as com modious according to their size as those in Liverpool. DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT AT DONCASTER.—A most diabolical, but, happily, unsuccessful attempt to set fire to a workshop and stable at Doncaster has just been discovered, and it is apparent that the perpetrators of the outrage had calculated with some certainty on the success of their plan. Mr. Quartermaster Bull, of the 3d West York Militia, has a stable and other outbuildings adjacent to his residence in Carr-lano. Doncaster, The building is divided into several parts, and in a portion of it he has an engine, which he lets to Messrs. Candy, machinists; and in another part he has some valuable models connected with the machine trade. On Friday last he turned his horse out to grass, and, hav ing no further use for the stable for the present week, be locked the door, and did not re •enter it until Wednesday last, when, to his astonishment, he made the startling discovery that some person or persons had attempted to set fire to the stable by introducing, through a small hole above the manger, some combustible material, which had first been lighted. The straw, which was almost clean and a foot in depth, had been burnt to a cinder, and the manger and wood-work all but destroyed ; but for want of ventilation the fire had smouldered on and eventually died out. Had it not done so the whole of the models in the room above would have been de stroyed, and Messrs. Candy's plant also consumed. Mr. Bull was insured in the Yorkshire Fire-office to the extent of £1,400, so that had the place fallen a prey to the act of an incendiary he would not have been a loser to any great extent. Mr. Etches, the chief constable, and Mr. Gregory, the assistant-superintendent, both of the borough police force, have taken steps which it is to be hoped will, with the aid of a reward, bring the perpetrators of this cowardly act to justice. No motive can accurately bo assigned for the attempt, as Mr. Bull is much respected by all who know him. PEDESTRIANISM.—We last week noticed that a pedestrian, named Elston, had commenced the task of walking 60 miles a day for six successive lays, and we have now to inform our readers that the young man completed his arduous undertaking on Saturday last, a little before six a.m. The weather throughout the week was generally unfavourable for pedestrian performances, and on Satur day afternoon and evening there was incessant rain for several hours, and about the time Elton completed his task it came down beautifully. This, however, did not lull the excitement of hundreds of men and boys, who stood about in the drenching rain, waiting patiently over an hour for the arrival of their pet pedestrian. He came at last, and although pretty much exhausted, not more so than anyone might reasonably expect to find him at the finish of a 360- mile walk in six days. Immediately on reaching the Anchor Hotel ho went to his room and changed his clothes, and afterwards joined a namerous party of young people at the hotel, and sang them several songs.— West Sussex Gazette. S o f de e v c e ° l ondpi r z a t g e r e c a o s okh i ne s ss . o p have a Everyi t wonderful em shines. power T he very hung who,h p o h w y e s v ic er ally , ; fat makes go there fat generally and need warmth.l greasy con f f o o s o s d —I mean , though, that on hearing a wise man the other day remark how Greenlanders ate blubber to produce "carbon," I could not help saying. (to myself, of course, for he was a great medical authority) that they probably ate it because they could not get anything else. lam a great be liever, nevertheless, in nature as guide and caterer in eating. She not only provides oil and fat for the inha bitant of the Polap regions, but takes away from him the extreme disgust we should feel at such food. In deed, I believe that the palate is the truest regulator of our diet. What we like best agrees with us best in moderation—there is th e ru b. D ainty dishes are some times abused, because they tempt us to eat too much. Their daintiness is not their defect. The same bulk of nasty food would disagree with us much more than the same bulk of nice food. Some people, indeed, profess that they don't carp what they eat. They are generally mistaken ; but if not, all I can say is, they ought to be ashamed of them selves.—Once e Week. " DIRT CHEAP !"—The living of Hurstroonceaux —where the estimable Archdeacon Hare laboured fur so many years—has just been sold fbr £7,30 0 , which the auc tioneer said was " dirt cheap." Dirt, indecd, tbougl► iu a sense not intended by the knight of the hataiuer ; for can anything more defile the purity of a Church than this sell ing of souls for the pos'session of £1,200 a year ?—The Liberator. CRYSTAL PALACE.--ONE SHILLING DAY, Thurs day, Oct. 3,— Atnissions on payment, 2,572 ; ditto by sea- SOLI 494'64 834. Total visitors, 3,406, N EW S. PARIS, OCT. 4. A Council of Ministers was held yesterday, under the presidency of the Emperor. TURIN, OCT. 4. Letters from Venice state that a strong naval expedition, with troops on board, had left that port for the coasts of Dalmatia and Fiume. ROME, OCT. 3. The Pope has received the Siamese Ambassadors. The ex-Qiieen of Naples was present at the funeral service performed in honour of the Bourbon soldiers killed last year while fighting against the Garibal dians and Sardinians. CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 3. The Porte has consented to the raising of the blockade of Montenegro, provided that Prince Nicholas and his Senators signed an engagement henceforth to respect the Turkish territory. Namik Pasha has been appointed Governor of Bagdad. BELGRADE, OCT. 3 (EVENING). A Servian officer has just sent a challenge to the Austrian Consul-General for his disrespectful beha viour towards the Prince of Servia. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Paris papers of this evening announce that the King of Prussia will arrive at Compiegne next Sunday evening. The Pays of this evening states that it has rea son to know that the news that Austria would effect a large reduction in her army is unfounded. The Constitutionnel of this evening publishes an article signed by its chief editor, M. Grandguillot, entitled "The Visit of the King of Prussia." This article commences by recalling that, in the course of the last ten years, almost all the Sove reigns of Europe have visited France, and ex presses hopes that these meetings of the Sove reigns will lead the peoples to esteem and under stand each other. " France," it continues, " sees nothing else in the visit of the King of Prussia." Replying to the construction put upon the visit by the German press, which considers it as a mere act of courtesy in exchange for the visit of the Emperor of the French last year, M. Grandguillot says,—" It is, we think, difficult to admit that the Sovereigns of the two most influential and solidly established Continental Powers should meet solely to exchange a few commonplace courtesies." M. Grandguillot considers the treaty of commerce now negotiated between the two countries to be of immense importance, " because political treaties only reconcile sovereigns, while commercial treaties reconcile nations." The article terminates as follows : ‘, King William of Prussia is one of those princes who are able to understand their country and their age. The firmness and the uprightness of his cha racter are proverbial. He comes of the race of those princes who, boldly declaring to their people that they trample under foot unjust prejudices and blind hatreds, and that they disdain the favour of an ephemeral popularity, only seek the impartial ap• probation of posterity." TURIN, OCT. 3. It is not true that Prince Carignan will repre sent King Victor Emmanuel at the coronation of the King of Prussia at Konigsberg. General Rocea will deliver to the Sultan the Collar of the Order of the Annunziata. The anniversary of the battle of the Voiturno has been celebrated with great enthusiasm in Sicily: Perfect order prevailed. News has been received here from Palermo stating that a popular demonstration was to have taken place in that city to express the popular wish that the Italian army should proceed to Rome. In con sequence, however, of the precautionary measures adopted by the authorities it did not come off as intended. PESTII, OCT. 3. It is asserted that military auditors will provi sionally try civil causes in the Comitat of Pesth, and that a military Court will administer the penal laws. ittc`.." •?'? ~,, :74 7 1 ; - 94 '-• '''' i ,,.. t _ :,......7 _.4.,, ' kt c r ; ; -- :"j i l l ,'l 7 , ~z,,s/..-'''' ' : . t i ,-, 13-:-°‘- ' :p - '''. THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 4, 1881. Some of our contemporaries seem disposed to amuse themselves with guessing the topics which the King of PRUSSIA and the EMPEROR are to dis. cuss at Compiegne on Sunday evening. What some of them will be can be little doubted; it would be strange, indeed, if i the affairs of all Europe were not matter of conwrsation, especially when we are assured that the visit is one of cour tesy and goodwill, not of business. Perhaps we should have been more ready to think so if pains had not been taken to assure us of it. As it is, the meeting of the two monarchs will suggest all kinds of speculations to those who " put no confi dence in princes,"—and especially in princes who have done everything in their power to destroy confidence. It was not very long ago that the last threat of Earl RUSSELL was that we were to look round for new alliances in the event of a neighbouring Power showing itself so ambitious as to desire fresh accessions of territory. Prussia was commonly con sidered and understood to be one country between which and ourselves diplomatic cords were to be closer drawn, and a kind of offensive and defensive understanding to exist. We naturally, therefore, ask, what means this visit of our ally presumptive to our antagonist presumptive ? Has England any interest whatever in it ? If we may answer specu latively, we should say none whatever. So far from caring a straw for the Prussian alliance, we should think it enormously dear at the price we have to pay to supplement the poverty of the KING and his son, when we found the latter a wife, whom he could not maintain without a good round sum per annum out of our treasury. We wonder how much our German consorts, male and female, have ever received from the Fatherland ! Englishmen cannot look to Prussians as allies. They have deceived all round too often. They would sell us again at a day's notice if by doing so they could ward off an invasion, or appropriate another little principality, or set up a German fleet, or obtain as neutrals the carrying trade between two bellige rents, one of whom they knew to be violating, and the other maintaining the public law of Europe. We must say it openly, notwithstanding the differ ence in religion, and the long rivalry, we would in finitely sooner have the French for allies in any un dertaking than the Prussians. We should expect more sense of honour, and if not the absence of selfish ness, yet a greater reluctance to exhibit it too bare facedly. As to the present KING, we know of nothing to give us better hopes of him than we had from his brother. He is not so capricious and vacillating, it may be said. But then he is a dull, stubborn old Conservative, of the most leaden German type. Not one noble deed has he done since his ascent to the throne. Italy has had as little as she could of his sympathy, though his Chambers, to do them justice, were better to her than he. As to Denmark, he has used her disgracefully; the shabby man is actually joining with other Germans to demand liberties for the German population subject to the King of DENMARK, which, rather than give to his own subjects, he would see them bayonetted first. He has actually driven the brave inhabitants of the little kingdom to prefer a war with Prussia to enduring farther intermeddling. We cannot wonder that there should be again a little flutter among the German Princes. Were we in their place we should not have the smallest doubt that our territories would be discussed as matters of convenient exchange between the two greater territorial potentates. How much else where in Germany, would compensate for arrang ing natural boundaries on the Rhine, is a question which Louis NAPOLEON would certainly not scruple to put, if he thought its answer might conduce to the glory of the dynasty; and as cer tainly his Prussian MAJESTY would not shrink from an answer involving a notice to quit to some of his neighbours, if he supposed the whole thing would be to his advantage. Right or wrong, such would be the opinion of all parties who could afford to speak their minds, and that being the case, all the Sovereigns likely to be affected by the discus sions at Compiegne must feel more or less un- easiness. England can but look on with unconcern. We could desire indeed a strong Austria, a strong Prussia, a strong Italy, and a strong Spain. But Austria refuses in her despotic pride and selfishness the first condition of strength—justice and loyalty to her nationalities. Prussia is worthless as a leader of Germany, and helpless as a military power, sprawling as she does over half Germany and what she has robbed from poor Poland. We can only look to ourselves. That we mean to do ; and the Kings and Emperors must settle matters as they best can. We are ever ready to give our moral support to nations struggling for liberty, but we care not for the schemes of despots. Louis NAPOLEON may be very liberal of other English—our own good, honest native tongue, and the honours due to it, is one of the topics of the moment. A right sort of lecture on English teaching, by the Rev. A. J. D'ORSEY, 8.D., Eng lish Lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, now lies before us, urging the necessity of instruction on our language itself; and daily letters in the newspapers are demanding that clergymen shall utter it in a manner worthy of its merits. The clerical delinquents, on the latter point, seem to be the worst, judging at least by the numerous com plaints and the humble excuses. It is a clergy man, the Rev.J.D'OßsEv, who writes of his order,that we " might listen to the way in which the Ch arch service was read in nine cases out of ten as a proof (indistinct utterance, incorrect pronunciation, pro vincial accent, false emphasis, drawling ; monotony, &c.)---to the dull, listless style in which sermons were composed and delivered, and to the painful attempts of most clergymen to d o what the barrister or the member of Parliament did—speak without paper." To be sure our Parliament itself, where if we I regard its name speaking must be held to be an essential qualification, incurs a tolerably wholesale censure. "With some dozen exceptions, in neither House were there any really good public speakers. Of the 10,000 speeches made last session, 5,000 might have been spared, and the rest given in a tenth of the time, if the spealers had been trained to speak to the point, to say - lOW. they had to say in the fewest words." We musl confess our fears that most of our readers will shrug their shoulders and pronounce the lecturer of Corpus Christi College right. Mr. FORSEY would begin at the beginning. He does not in his lecture forget even the nursery and the first instructors of children. - He quoted QIIINTILIAN as to the choice of nurses with good pronunciation, and censured the carelessness of English parents in allowing vulgar, un educated servants to surround their children ; but it was to our National Schools and Universities that he chiefly addressed his observations. He ad verted to the sad condition of English teaching in our National Schools, proving his assertion from the reports of the inspectors. " He had ascertained that in our great public schools, no direct attention was paid to English ; no recognition of the dignity of our own language and of its idiomatic structure, so different from that of the ancient tongues ; no organized English department with an able Saxon scholar its head : most of the head masters being of opinion that sufficient provision was made by the ordinary practice of translation, writing an occa sional theme, or declaiming a passage from SHAKE SPEARE on ' Speech-day.' Some exceptions existed,—the City of London School, King Edward's School at Birmingham, and the School at Bury St. Edmund's." We can all of us witness to the truth of these statements, unless we happen to have been in boy hood at the schools he names. Few, indeed, are the schools in which the grammar and structure of our own language are studed at all in proportion to its importance. Germans and Frenchmen do not treat their vernacular with such contempt as to leave it to chance whether it be spelt correctly and written grammatically and in good taste. We have, per haps, the richest language on earth, yet we seem as if we knew it not. We smooth it somewhat, no doubt, on the grindstone of Latin and of Greek ; but, like the diamond, its beauty and worth can be fully developed only by friction with itself. No doubt much might be done from the com mencement to the termination of what we commonly mean by a child's and youth's education to give him a much better mastery of his own language. If required from childhood to express him self, on topics suitable to his age, in the most perspicuous, condensed, and correct language, we should not surely be bored as we are with sermons chiefly, and speeches in fair measure, which task our patience to the uttermost with empty verbosity, andby theviolationof almost every rule of good taste. To some, just perceptions of propriety in language could, indeed, never be imparted. In regard to style, they resemble persons who have no ear for mvsie playing an air mechanically. But, during the time which the great majority of the middle as well as of the upper classes attend school, even boys might soundly learn the principles of good writing. If, in regard to that comparatively early age, we might suggest a hint to schoolmasters, it would be to set their pupils to practise English composition, on topics thoroughly within the compre hension of boys. A greater error cannot be, we imagine, than to give a boy or even a lad such topics as the passions, or the virtues, or the cha racter of persons beyond their power to appreciate. The best description of cricket or football ; or of the different ways in which boys spend their money, or of their last excursion, or of a family of child dren's common characters, filled up from his own knowledge under fictitious names, would be far better practice, both for thought and composition, than anything not thoroughly under their command. General topics, on which a modern GOLDSMITH or a BACON would not find it easy to be pleasantly or profoundly original, are too often given to children. The result is a stilted artificial, or imitative effort. The thing required is to give the best expression to thoughts natural to a child. The child who can do this will be "father to the man " who can do it. Too often, we fear, from early habit, the man who sits down to write, or tries to make a speech, attempts something unnatural and artificial—something beyond—if we may a lludo to the oft-cited expression —first catching his thought, and then cooking it. As to our adult writers and speakers—the clergy especially, who have been so much before us of late, it is not for us to tender much of our advice. The Bishops, it seems, have taken their pulpit enunciation in hand, and certainly not too soon ; the worst is, it would now appear that Bishops have already tried their best, and with what results Mr. D'ORSEY has just told us. This augurs but unfavour ably for them as elocution masters ; or elocution examiners. The open expression of public opinion will, however, do much. All the pulpit readers and:orators will know that they are hence forth under special observation. Many of them will take prompt steps for self-improvement. All, except in the very rare case of utter indifference to what their fellow-creatures think of them, will feel some concern to get rid of awkwardnesses which have been publicly censured and voted intolerable. In deed, we have but little doubt that if the press does its part, if it does not suffer the thing to sleep, if it returns to the criticism, and to the demand for im provement, from time to time, this alone will be enough. The clergy will soon begin to discover the way to desk and pulpit reformation, if the pub lic does but tell them,—We must have it. CHARLES DICKENS has somewhere written—it is in one of his picturesque fugitive pieces published originally, if we recollect rightly, in household Words—" When the wind is blowing, and the sleet and rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel." And who amongst us all does not ?—though he may not have the capacity to conjure up the scene before his " mind's eye " as vividly as the Great Novelist. " Such books," adds the latter, in the same place, " have had a strange fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder," he exclaims with a whimsical astonishment at himself, "I won der it should have come to pass that I never have been round the world, never have been shipwrecked, ice-enviror.ed, tomahawked, or eaten." In a vague way similar reflections must have oecurred often enough before now to many other English " Gen tlemen who live at home at ease." Islanders as we are, citizens of the greatest maritime power upon the globe, we have all of us an instinctive hanker ing after the sea-flaring life. The veriest landsman amongst us has an unaffected interest in everything relating to that element which has been, throughout our history, at once our securest defence, and the noblest arena of our glory. Honoured though the Royal Army is, it is the Royal Navy that is regarded by one and all alike as the National Profession. Among all the warriors who have ever won the admiration of their com patriots in this country, the one who has incontesti bly gained for himself the enviable pre-eminence of greatest o c j o i d u h r o S o e a a C n a p thist i n e s 0 . being the " darling Hero of England," is the ifsavtohuernitaerrsatotirvye u country e of the adventures of a poor shipwrecked sailor. The best-thumbed pages of our annals are those in which the marvellous exploits of our great sea-fights are recorded, from the glorious feats of BLAKE down to those of DUNDONALD, And were it otherwise, it HAYTI AND CUBA. The last despatches from the French West Indian squadron, given by the .Patrie, state that the steam corvette, the Lavoisier, arrived at Hayti on Aug. 25, having on board M. de Forbin-Janson Consul-General of France at Port••au-Prince. At that date the affairs of the Island were in a more satisfactory position ; the Convention that had put an end to the differences between the Spaniards and President Geffrard had been brought into full operation. The Spanish expedition against Mexico was being actively organised in Cuba. Marshal Serrano hav ing called for volunteers to the corps that is to em bark for Vera Cruz, the whole of the regular army of Cuba, privates and officers, responded to the ap peal, and the Marshal was compelled to determine the selection by drawing lots. The enthusiasm in favour of this expedition against the Mexican Re public is extreme throughout the Spanish Antilles. FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 3.—The market has been calmer to-day, and quotations firmer, with a slight up ward tendency. Threes opened at 68f 25c., and are now at 681. 50c. The following are the last quotations :- 4.! per per Cents ... 96 40 1 Credit Foncier l2OO Do end month.... 96 20 Belgian 4i.. 3 per Cents Do. en s cl ha m re o s nth.. 279306058 —Austrian H o o m m a e 40 R Credit Mobilier 732 50 SSpanish Threes 48 Do. Account n . Debt .... '''' 477722 50 i Bank BA.ILWATS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1395 .. 1397 50 Northern New ditto ............. 900 • • Lyons and M editerranean 1030 .. 1031 25 Geneva Southern ......... 640 640 Western ...... 542 50 .. 541 25 Eastern Sardinian 355 • • Austrian Lowbard AUSTRIA. A letter f r om T r i es t e in the Danube Gazette of Vienna says :—" The news of a probable increase in the Austrian fleet has been received by the sailors with the greatest satisfaction. In its present state the fleet is absolutely insufficient to protect the coasts and ports of the Empire, and in the event of war to give energetic assistance to the army, or to be a desirable ally for a great maritime Power. We know very well that Piedmont is making extraordinary efforts to have a navy superior to that of Austria, and that the blockade of the maritime towns of the latter would ruin for a long time all her commerce. Austria has excellent sailors and excellent vessels, but not enough vessels ; and since other States impose sac rifices on themselves to increase their fleets, Austria can do the same. Towards the end of the year ten gunboats will be terminated and armed. A ship builder named Tonello deserves great praise for the firm confidence he entertains in the future of Austria ; he has disbursed 200,000 florins to trans form the dockyards of San Marco into a vast est*