The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-14 00:00:00

YAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. tinder the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. Will OPEN for the Sixth Operatic Season on MONDAY, Oct. 21, 11461, when will be produced (first tone an entirely New Grand Opera, in Four Acts, by Howard Glover, to be entitled RITYBLAS. The Company : —Sopranos : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirl wall, and Madame Guerrabella (her first appearance on the Ens, lish stage). Contraltos : Miss Susan Fyne, Miss Topham, and Miss Jessie M‘Lean (her first appearance on the Eng li sh stage). Baritones and Basses : Mr. Santley, Mr. Kenrj con.), Mr. Patey, Mr. T. Distin, Mr. Eugene Dassek, Mr. T. W a llworth, and Mr. George Honey. Tenors: Mr. Henry Haigh, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. C. Lyall, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. PRINCIPAL DANCER, MADEMOISELLE LAMOUREUX. rnICEB OF ADMISSION : —Private Boxes, from 10s. 6cl. to 01 is.; Stalls, Seven Shillings ; Dress Circle, Five Shillings ; Upper circle, Four Shillings ; Pit, Two Shillings and Six pence • Amphitheatre Stalls, Two Shillings ;.Amphitheatre, One Shilling. The Box-office will be open from Ten to Five on, and each day after, Thursday, October 17. No Charge for booking, nor fees to Box-keepers. Doors open at Half-past six. Commence at Seven o'clock -- - Stage-Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray. Aetina idward Murray. Manager, Mr, 91 f(EATRi.RoYAL, HAYMAR KET. Lussce, Mr. J. B. Beatston.. TI-NTS EVENIN(I, the nertorraance. will commence with A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Sir Giles Over rea-h, Mr. Edwin Booth (from the principal American theatres); supported by the company. Atter which, FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL Mr. l3uckstone and Mrs. Wilkins. 7) conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER. Commence a 7. R " A 'close e d Manager . PRINCES S 'S ltr. A. H I a ' r .EIEATRE, TII IS EVENING, JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss N. Harris and Mr. H. Widdicomb. Alter which, a new and original come dy, in five acts, writ ten by John Bro u g ham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ; characters by Mr. John Brougham (his 14th appearance), Mr. Ryder, Mr. H. Widdicombe, Mr. G. Jordan (of the principal theatres of the United States, his 14th appearance in Eng land), Miss C. Lelciercq, and Mrs. Weston. To conclude with LOVE AND MURDER. Mr. John Brougham. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND. Alter which, at Eight o'clock, the new and success fal comedy of WOMAN; or, Love against the World. Gliaracters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin, J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray, And Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in which las Lydia Thompson will dance a New Volunteer Quyk Step. _ _ Prices ai usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. EW THRATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- -LI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING, MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Messrs. D. Wisher. Romer, Wanle, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw. Alter which (250th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D :3oucicault, D. Fisher, Billington, S. Emery, Stephenson, C. 3. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Bandeau% Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Teconclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher, Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. NIANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, I AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. lir.r. SAM COWELL every evening at Nine and a quarter tc Eleven Also, Grand Selections from TROVATORE, TRAVIATA, NOR A, MARTHA, &c., By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Morley, and a powerful Chorus. The Comic department comprises Messrs. Harvey and French. " The Nerves "—Mr. Marshall—Mr. Wood and his talented Son—and Miss Harriet Coveney. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission —Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. T HE 0 X F OR D, a, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EvENING. SELECTIONS from Auber's New Comio Opera, "LA CIRCASSIENNE," by Miss Ernst, Messrs. Greene, H. - Herbert, and the Company. And from Verdi's new Grand ( P.T'yille S , Morley, o Greene, Cby Momispsanity. Ru ssell , band Messrs. an chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic Entertainments by Mr. and Master Wood, Harvey and French (The Nerves), Mr. B. Msrshall, and Mr.W. Randall Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. (3d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 10h. 54m.—Afternoon, 1111. 26m. Ta-MORROW.-Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. Gm. THE WEATHER.-Sum OFFICE, OCTOBER 13, 1861, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE, 68—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 64 —this:day at noon. BAROMETERs-30.02. Wrrrn—South-Westerly--fresh and squally ; with fine weather. Evening—Wind moderate. OCT. 14. THEEMOMETEIt, IN THE SHADE. 66—highest since noon yesterday. 58—lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. BAnolanTra-30.08. W I ND—S.-Westerly—light; with very warm fine weather. 41? 11 , - t •,.. ' ...-Z,z, ~, ~.,-,,,,' - - , L'Q-:=- , ~ - , ~,,,,,-.1., , ,.,,,,, ..„- e'• '., -...' .4 ..). -- ' ------- f .....,..----&,-:„.,,,,,..),.. - ; ..,... ,- ,7/{ • ~ 0. -, -,, .0, , ;. ?":".'"" • - .141 5 . :. . . , ---' , ---t:- ~ -= ~..e.,_ • .. , '72,.);,, ".11.;,...ir 6 - * r , Rorr •:: .-- '-',4-0',..*:77t:::-:,...;',:7,•------"'---_, 't,. .;., „17 , THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 14, 1881. Cant and cursing—are the original sins of eccle siastical documents, and we might add doings. Sometimes they are freer from it than at other times, and a few seem to have had an immaculate conception. This latter beatitude we certainly, however, cannot attribute to the last offspring of Pio NONO ; the original sin alluded to having been probably developed so largely by the midwifery and nursing of Cardinal ANTONELLI. We worldly folk are apt to account for these peculiarities in our own worldly way. The holy men who pen allocutions at Rome, and exhortations to the clergy. which go by another name in England, we are apt to suppose to be men of like pas sions with ourselves. Bat, being in power they must not show their power precisely in the same way as profaner folk—the officer on board ship and frequently on board of land too, curses his men to his heart's content—and we only hear of the men exclaiming "'Tis so plea sant to be cussed by one's own officer." It is hearty hot cursing without a bit of bitterness, and Jack or the " sojer" think no more of it than they do of the mustard and pepper which season their , mess. But the unfortunate Ecclesiastics, although being men in authority, ought not, by their pro fession, to curse, so they oil the cursing with cant. They can't forego the privilege of the seeular officer, but they can send men to hell, or to the peculiar Cathartic institution of Popery, with lubrication enough to launch a Warrior. It has always been so, so far, at least, as our humble acquaintance with ecclesiastical hlstoly extends. And a cursing, canting POPE'S allocu tion strikes us only as something quite natu ral. Alt who displease Ecclesiastics by differing from them on points of discipline or doc trine, or still more by treating sacrilegiously the holy temporalities which they possess for the good of their own bodies and of other men's souls, must go to prison or the scaffold if the time and place permit such salutary discipline ; but if that be im must go to p er di tion as quickly as possible, they priestly anathemas can carry them. One of our humourists talked of " buttered thunder ;" p er h aps we may describe the dreadful wrath of his infallible Holiness, as "greased anathemas." Here is a specimen or two of them--grease a n d all. " Heartfelt grief," " holy religion," weeping over a dear son,'.' "piety and virtue" in an arch bishop, him of Naples—lubricate the very first para graph. These expressions are to make it holy, pious, and kind, to denounce the King of ITALY and the noble men who have acted with him, as "abettors of disastrous rebellion,"—as "forming part of a detestable conspiracy, as full of ignorance and deceit —as attacking with the fury of ancient heretics—as raging against Holy things"—as endeavouring to " completely overthrow, if it were ever possible, the Church of GOD and the (Roman) Catholic religion —to Wrest from every soul its salutary doctrine, and to excite and inflame every bad passion." Such is specimen a of the first va of the cant and cursing : t grapbs, and the "second and the rest are li ke more, o the desirableness the cursing predomi nates more and e desirableness of the cant .4,, , - being remembered only occasionally, in the " fury of modern Popery." After a long catalogue of black charges, founded on the text that " ati laws human and divine have been trampled under foot," the Pope actually quotes Scripture, to be sure it is to the cream of the Clergy—the " great and criminal rebellion " has filled the land with " calamities, crimes, and misfortunes, and, to use the words of the Prophet—By swearing, and lying, and killing, and committing adultery, they break out and blood toucheth blood." And this from the Pope who has filled Southern Italy with rapine, blood, and mur der by the brigands he has equipped, sent forth, and sheltered when they fled from justice. But griefs follow each other like Jos's messen gers. Forst, these spoliators of the Church profess, with " brazen impudence," that they wish to give her liberty, which, of course, means the " brazen impudence" of VICTOR EMMANUEL in offering to declare the Church free, when the Romans are permitted to free themselves from the temporal yoke of the Head of the Church. Next, some of the secular and regular clergy—Father PESSAGLIA, we suppose, at their head—" led away by a fatal spirit of error and rebellion," give their assent to these impious designs. Again, as if to wrap the very horizon of ecclesiastical temporal power in dark ness, in the Catholic " offing" of Central America itself temporalities are falling and crashing; in Mexico, temporalities ecclesiastical seem in a bad a case as the temporalities of bond holders—" they have pillaged ecclesiastical pro perty, despoiled the altars, driven away the virgins consecrated to God, and after outraging bishops, have sent them into exile." A streak of consolation is found here, however, or a little of the oil thrown in; for the Mexican Bishops have come, his HOLINESS says, to Rome and " given him great consolation by the display of the virtues they possess in a high degree." One could wish they had had the virtue of preaching honesty successfully to the Mexicans. Worse still, the near neighbours of Mexico are not much better than she. In New Granada they have made a "criminal decree, forbiding ecclesiastics to exer cise authority" without authorisation from the civil power. They have even dispersed the blessed Jesuits, "who have rendered such great services to religion and society ; and, infanduni! they com pelled the legate of the Holy See to leave their territory within the space of three days." So, after damning everyone and everything from Turin to Mexico and Granada, the Holy Father falls back "in the bitterness of his sorrow" —in " his pain and anguish"—on the vener able fathers,—the Perugian father, and all the rest of the Vatican,—and on the beloved Bishops of Italy. If theologians and clergy are seduced bishops remaiu faithful. Speaking of them it is no longer common anathema grease, but " balm of Gilead," "ointment of Spikenard,' or something of that sort. Here is a drop or two "he offers up in all humility of soul, the most earnest thanksgiving to the GOD of all consolation who deigns by the remarkable piety and generosity of the Episcopacy and the faithful, to give him alleviation and strength in the midst of his grief and bitterness." SOLOMON says that " dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour," we know not whether money-begging has any such effect on Papal ointment for faithful bishops, but certain it is that all this luscious praise of Bishops in the form of a draft on Heaven, is in immediate connection with their "pious and spontaneous donations," and the " grave embarrassments" and the enormous and in creasing charges" (for equipping brigands to ravage Neapolitan towns) of the Holy See. But enough—the conclusion of this memorable specimen of Pontifical Reviling closes, of course, with appeals to the SAVIOUR, to the "Holy and Immaculate Virgin MARY," who certainly owes Pope Pius a good turn, and to GOD himself, which, at the close of a document so thoroughly worldly in its cravings, and in the temper in which it utters them, reads to us like profanity. Whether the POPE be above advice it is not ours to say; 'but assuredly if he be not, his friends, and those who care for the credit of the faith of which he is the head, would do well to prevent the issue from the Vatican of such bootless and revolting abuse, such transparent worldly ambition, such notorious lies, and above all, of such disgusting cant. The principle of nen-intervention now regulating our Foreign Policy is not by any means to be re garded as a modern discovery. Diplomacy has been for a long while tending towards it. The fact is now merely that what has hitherto been more implied than expressed, is at length proclaimed very candidly. There is no longer any beating about the bush—any groping in the dark —any mere throwing out of hints. Formerly, for example—and as the the date we are here forthwith going to specify will indicate not so very long ago either—the style adopted by the boldest of our Foreign Ministers was about as gingerly and as cautious as well could be. Thirty years ago—it was on the 22d of March, 1831—our present Premier, then Foreign Secretary (writing to Lord HEYTESBURY, who was at that period her Britannic MAJESTY'S Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburg) could only thus insinuate the notion that England could do no more than r simply advise the councils of the CZAR in regard to the affairs of Poland :—" His MAJESTY'S Govern ment," wrote Lord PALMERSTON, at the date re ferred to, are fully sensible that it is a matter of great delicacy for one Government to make any communication to another as to the manner in which it may think fit to deal with subjects who have been subdued after an unsuccessful revolt; and they have:too high an opinion of the generous and high-minded sentiments of the Emperor of RUSSIA 1 to doubt that his victory will be used with as much moderation and mercy as may be consistent with the future security of his authority ; but as far as you may find it useful and proper to touch upon this subject, you will conform your language to the sentiments entertained upon it by his MAJESTY'S Government." As if there ware a positive delicacy about putting the matter quite frankly, and avow ing, as we do not hesitate one instant to avow under similar circumstances at this time that our foreign policy (be it in reference to Poland or to Italy, to the Hungarians or to the Montenegrins) is regu lated simply by the principle of non-intervention !I Upon that principle we were striving to act thirty years ago ; and further back even than that. Only—then —we hesitated to acknow ledge as much. If on l y f or i nasmuch as the open ad o pti on of in so m any word the s s im p p r i l n i fi e e i ps lall r o e u f e r r f r o e r d e t i g o nnowadaysrelations —saves times, save words, nay for that matter tends directly t o save b oth lives and moneaY—h that open adoption of it is most assuredly te fact matter of for flank congratulation. Nor must it be supposed for an instant that the out-spoken acceptance of the principle of non-intervention as the prominent and paramont guiding principle of our Foreign Policy derogates in any essential particular from the dig -1 nity, the self-respect, or the independence of a great nation like England. For what in truth is really signified by it ? Not that England will ever refuse to interfere when her own interests or her own honour are anywhere concerned either directly or indirectly. Simply that she will not consent any longer under any circumstances, to admit the pos sibility of her appearing before the world as little better than a political QUIXOTE. Simply that the independence of any other power, great or small, shall not be in jeopardy, henceforth (so far as the British Government is in any way concerned) of being wantonly tampered with. Guai a qui la tocca ! That is still virtually, to all intents and purposes, the motto blazoned upon our national banner. Gare a qui la touche ! The principle of non-intervention to the contrary notwithstanding! It were ludicrous to regard it, indeed, as otherwise. A Power like that of England cannot abrogate her right of interference in anything whatever that concerns herself or her own interests. It is simply, then, we repeat, that she puts aside for once and for ever the mere Quixotism that has so often marred the Foreign Policy of so many of the diffe rent races of Christendom. Henceforth—(this and no more than this is the meaning of the adoption of the principle of non-intervention by'England)— Henceforth England will interfere nowhere by force of arms save where Honour and Justice constrain her to interfere, in the vindication of her own rights, It can hardly be thought—even by the most infatuated Coalitionist—to look very auspiciously for the present Government that the Earl DE GREY, as a member of it, should have spoken of its past and future, as he did the other day at Ripon. The occasion of his rather ominous, and certainly very sinister remarks, was the banquet" given by the Mayor of that borough-town on Tuesday last. And The remarks we have just alluded to as having been there and then uttered by the Earl DE GREY were in response for no less a toast than that of "Her MAJESTY'S Ministers." Speaking for him self and his colleagues, the noble lord can hardly be said to have expressed himself very hopefully. "No one could prophesy,"—said Lord DE GREY (though assuredly it needs no Earl to tell us that !) —" the duration of a Government." Even that somewhat trite remark looks ugly, seeing that it is volunteered by a member of the Administra tion ! But, it is what was afterwards said by Lord DE GREY that looks far worse—seeing that every word we are now about to give was also volun teered. And, before giving these remarks of the noble lord's, we may premise that we hardly know which looks the more gloomily, his retrospect or his anticipations. Remember, he had just then observed, in answer to the toast of " Her MAJESTY'S Ministers,"—" No one could prophesy the duration of a Govern ment." And he now went on to remark candidly as follows :—" He scarcely thought last year, that he should have had to return thanks for the toast he did on_the present occasion ;"—how will Mr. GLADSTONE like the ad mission ? or Earl RUSSELL ? or Viscount PALMER STON ?--" but," naively continued Lord DE GREY, " having lived so long he might hope to live longer." His lordship would find some little diffi culty in getting his life " insured" in any " office" for no better reason than that ! The Earl DE GREY, however, went on at once to try and reconcile himself, without further delay, to the very worst —or, as he would fain have us believe that he re gards it (from his own point of view), to the very best ! " Though," he says, "he was convinced that it would be a misfortune to this country should Lord PALMERSTON cease to preside at the head of affairs, yet it would give him (the Earl DE GREY and RIPON) the advantage of the pleasure of being longer among his friends in that part of the coun try." Really, if we are to comment upon these words simply in our character as REFORMERS, we cannot for the life of us resist the inclination to add—Pity that the Earl DE GREY and RIPON should be kept so very vexatiously from remaining longer among his friends in that part of the coun try ! Perhaps shortly after the meeting of Parlia ment be may yet have his holidays. REMOVAL OF ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—It has been definitively arranged to dispose of the site of St. Thomas's Hospital for the requirements of the London bridge railway companies, and to coalesce with the St. Bartholomew's, the joint institution to have a convalescent hospital some few miles out of town. Mr. Henry Knight, whose name has been so familiar to the noblemen and gentlemen of Eton College for the last half century, first in the household of the late Dr. Keate, and subsequently as the host of the " Chris topher," died at his residence at Eton, on the 4th instant, in the 81st year of his age. THREE CHILDREN FOUND MURDERED.—On Saturday information was received by the police of the dis covery of the bodies of three infants who had been mur dered ; one, a female child, at Stepney, with a piece of tape bound so tightly round the throat as to cut deeply into the flesh, proving death to have been caused by strangulation ; the second, a fine male child, found in the public urinal in Arundel-street, Strand ; and the third, another male child, found in Hyde-park, all having marks of violence on their bodies sufficient to account for death. Largo rewards are offered, and the police are using every effort to effect the capture of the murderers. DEERFOOT, THE SENECA INDIAN, AND JACKSON, THE AMERICAN DEER.—Deerfoot, the Son of the Prairie, will meet another pale-face this day, at the West London Cricket Ground, Brompton, who may perchance shake a leaf from his laurels. Jackson, the American Deer, has contended with and beaten some of the best men of the pre sent generation, and has also defeated the fastest runners of seven different tribes of Indians in America. As the distance is only four miles, a good race is sure to be the result. Four p.m. is the appointed time. THE GIPSY KINGDOM.—The Kelso Chronicle has this week received a royal message from the gipsy palace, communicated verbally through a trusty source, to the effect that an inaccuracy occurred in the notice of the late king's death, in so far as it stated that his majesty left no issue to succeed to the throne. Our later and more authoritative information acquaints us with the fact that the deceased King Charles I. has left both male and female issue, there being several of the former, and all of them survive. We believe the eldest son, who, had he claimed his rights, would have ascended the throne by the style and title of King David, is resident in Berwick shire; but he has abdicated his crown rights in favour of his royal sister, the Princess Helen, the youngest of the family, and who faithfully abode by her deceased father, and nursed him in his declining years. Her royal high ness still occupies the royal palace at Yetholm, where visitors are received with as much courtesy as ever, and where they can be shown some relics of the late king, and an excellent portrait of his Majesty. We have not heard whether the Princess Helen has been formally in stalled into her regal authority, or if any form is deemed necessary in this instance ; but we understand she is by nature eminently fitted to rule, possessing all the suavity of manner Which it is possible to assume, and being able at times to awe the gruffest and most unruly subject into re spect and obedience. Loss OF THE NEVA STEAMER.—On Friday the official statement of Captain George North, of the London and St. Petersburg steamer Nova, was posted at Lloyd's. It appears from it that the Neva was an iron-built vessel of 450 tons, classed A 1, which belonged to Norwood and Co., of Hull, laden with a cargo of general merchandise, she left the Humber on the morniEg of the 25th ult. for St Petersburg. She had a favourable passage across the North Sea. On Saturday the 28th. at two o'clock in the scorning, she was in the Cattegat, steering S. half E., when suddenly a steamer's masthead and red light were observed about a point on the starboard bow. The helm of the Neva was put a-port, and the other steamer's red light was thereby brought about two points and a half on the port bow of the Neva. The helm of the Neva was next steadied till the other steamer's green light was perceived to be completely in sight. The Neva's helm was then put hard-a-port and kept so, but this had scarcely been done when she was struck by the other vessel and cut down from the gunwale to below the water mark. Captain North having sounded and found six feet of water set on all the steam pumps, Finding this, however, to be of no avail he ordered the quarter boats to be lowered. Hre stern t n e mgz h e4 i :n s or:o crew had not left the T,vhit ehvy them, hp s vessel ml noled f more do e r f t othhuienna steamerh five cr t minutes o bwtihe he w Lh h a: e N n i c. the come into t went t:od. if,cho el d l c o isr m i r onv Copen hagen, bound to Hull, sho, too, being;dana of the Neva no sooner got on boardtar they had to assist in throwing overboard cargo bwoowrksinstgovteh in her,paunmdp orapwdraent full of water she valuedarr ived theat £14,000,e e her ca pgeo a v ania W nfogr rt c h a er from 71 t he main 0 1 0 71 . The hi E n : was o t e l t w v h ao a n : dh e r ein e r and :Indemnity In insured at Lloyd's, and in the SIP °t surance-offices. THE SUN, LONDON, iVIONDAY EVEMINci-, OCrOBNR 14, 1861. LATEST NEWb. LISBON, OCT. 13. A Royal decree has been issued, opening the port for the admission of foreign grain until April, 1862. The King is making a tour through the provinces. TRIESTE, OCT. 14. Letters from Ragusa announce that the insurgents from Zubzi, together with some Montenegrin volun teers, had attacked Cincevo and Bioro, but withdrew after a hard fight of three hours. Two thousand insurgents had attacked Korienie- Ln and advanced as far as the suburbs of Bilecia. It is asserted that notwithstanding pressing orders from Constantinople, Omar Pasha does not venture to attack the Montenegrins, because he has but little confidence in his army. He is also appre hensive of a general insurrection in the surrout.ding provinces, and mistrusts Servia. The whole of Montenegro is in arms, and the country is being fortified. RAGUSA, OCT. 13. Continual desertions, caused by insufficient rations and deficient billeting accommodation, have reduced the number of the irregular Turkish troops in Ingatzko by two-thirds. BERLIN, OCT. 13. The semi-official Prussian Gazette of to-day, in a leading article on the visit of the King of Prussia to the Emperor Napoleon, says that the cordial meeting of the two Sovereigns affords the country good prospects of an increase of the peaceful and friendly relations existing between Prussia and France ; and that the cordial reception of the royal guest by the French people justifies the supposition that France, no less than Germany, appreciates the value of these friendly relations, and regards them as a valuable token of satisfac tory future. The semi-official Prussian Gazette of last evening sa ys :—" The assurance is hardly needed that the letter from the Emperor of the French to the King of Prussia, contained in the pamphlet recently pub lished in Paris, entitled L'Empereur et le Roi Guillaume,' is apocryphal." TURIN, OCT. 13. The rumoured departure of Garibaldi from Caprera has been denied. The King has signed the decrees relative to the administrative organisation of the kingdom. It is asserted that General Cialdini will to-day publish a declaration of his reasons for resigning the lieutenancy of Naples, which are said to be the cessation of brigandage and the re-establishment of public security in the southern provinces. A royal decree has been issued ordering that all Italians who have deserved well of their country shall henceforth be buried under the Holy Cross of Florence, The Espero of to-day announces that General Della Marmora has accepted the command of the troops in the southern provinces, ROME, OCT. 12. The Congregation of the Index has condemned the pamphlet of the Abbe Passaglia. The abba wished to defend his work, but the congregation would not permit him. NAPLES, OCT. 13. The Chamber of Commerce has presented a sword of honour to General Cialdini for re-establishing public security in the Neapolitan provinces. BERNE, OCT. 12. The Federal Council maintains the truth of the Geneva version of the affair at Ville•le-Grand,and is said to demand indemnification on its side &so. VIENNA, OCT. 13. It is said that the Servian deputation before leav ing Constantinople broke off all negotiations with the Porte. MADRID, OCT. 12. The city of Gerona, in the province of Catalonia, has been visited by great inundations, whereby im mense damage was done to property. THE HOMEWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Vectis, with the above mails, left Malta for Marseilles the 12th October, at 5 p.m. The Indus, with the heavy portion of the mails, was expected at Malta on the night of the 12th inst. She may be looked for at Southampton about the 22d. The Venares brought the Australian mail to Galle, arriving there on the 16th September. QUEENSTOWN, OcT. 14. The Royal Mail steamer Africa arrived here at 12.45 a.m. to-day, e mbarked mails, pa ssengers , an d latest telegrams, and proceeded on. All well. She experienced severe g ales, with a very hi g h sea, on her voyage from Liverpool. FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 13. The Pays of Saturday says:—" The statement of the Opinione that France had threatened to break off diplomatic relations with Spain on a ccou nt of the affair of the Neapolitan archives is unfounded. France has confined herself to interposing her good offices in this matter." The Moniteur in its bulletin of to-day says : "The King of Holland arrived at Compit)gne at 5.30 p.m. yesterday, and was received by the Em peror at the terminus. The Empress awaited their Majesties at the foot of the grand staircase." The llfoniteur also say,s—" The letter contained in a recent pamphlet, and alleged to have been addressed by the Emperor Napoleon to the King of Prussia, is a pure invention." BOURSE, Oct. 12 . —There has been more business doing to-day, but Stock having been rather freely offered, prices have generally declined. For the Account, Threes are now at 68f. 40e. Railway shares heavy, and slightly lower. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 95 75 Credit Fonder ll9O 05 P Do. end month.... 96 Belgian 4 ± 71i 2915 —Austrian Bank Shares 72 25 Credit Mobilier.... 7 10 Spanish Threes 4B 25 Do. o . per end Account Cents hontese 712 601 Home Debt D 3 m o n . .:::: 68 68 Roman iedm Fives 7O 20 RAILWAYS, Cash. Account. Orleans 1343 75 .. 1345 Northern .... _ _ _ isiW.,; -- diiio ---- 905 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1028 75 .. 1030 Geneva 342 50 .. Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard G 525 .. 526 25 ALGERIA. Marshal the Duke de Malakoff, in opening the session of the Superior Council of Algeria, delivered the following address : " Gentlemen,—The Imperial decree of the 25th of November, 1860, settled a great question, and centralised at Algiers the Government and superior administration of Algeria. The creation of the Superior Council was the necessary consequence of this measure. I congratulate myself, gentle men, on seeing assembled around me the heads of the great services of the colony, as well as the mem bers of my Consultative Council, and the delegates of the Councils-General of the three provinces. In conformity with the provisions of the decree of the 10th of December,lB6o, you will have to deliberate on the appropriation of the credits voted by the Legislative Body for the year 1862, and on the propositions which I submit to your examination for the Budget of 1863. Although the decree of the 10th of December lest has limited the mission of the Superior Council to these important objects, I think it my duty to avail myself of the presence of the en lightened men who compose it to call their atten tion to certain questions of great importance which are now agitated, and which I ardently desire to see satisfactorily solved. Consequently, in addition to the appropriations and the propositions for the next Budget already mentioned, I have directed to be laid before you-1. The draught of a decree with deliberation in support of it concerning the consti tution of Arab property. 2. A deliberation of the Council-General of Algiers, expressing the wish to see the Budget of Algeria form a special Budget. 3. The project for a railway from Algiers to Con stantino, drawn up by M. Godin de l'Epinay, engi neer, and presented by M. Tostain, Inspector of Bridges and Roads. The first of these proposed de crees has for its natural consequence, first a draught of ta, decree for substituting a land-tax for the taxes at present existing, to be levied on all lands; secondly, a draught of a decree for imposing duties on the alienation and inheriting of real estate. I request that you will appoint committees for ex amining these different questions, and at the same time I inform the Council that it will find me dis posed to authorise the examination of those ques tions in which its members may think proper to take the initiative." AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Europa, Captain An derson, which left Boston on the 2d, and Halifax on the night of the 3d, arrived here at 11 25 this morning. The New York Herald of the 30th ult. gives the following summary of the situation of affairs : " The whole line of the rebel army immediately , in front of Washington has fallen back, nor could their exact position be ascertained yesterday. Mun son's and Upton's Hills and Falls Church have been abandoned, and are now occupied by the Union troops. The position of the rebels at these points appears to have been not very formidable. There were no signs of guns having been mounted ; their defences were simply rifle pits ; nor were there any evidences of any tents having been there, or any other protection except rudely constructed sheds. " Another unfortunate error on the part of two divisions of the Union troops occurred on the ad vance of General Smith from Chain Bridge to Fall's Church. During the darkness of the night the Philadelphia regiment of Colonel Owens mistaking Captain Mott's battery, General Barker's California regiment, and two other regiments for a body of the rebels, opened a tremendous volley upon them, killing and wounding several. The California regi ment returned the fire with terrible effect. The guns of Matt's battery were then ordered to load with canister, and were about to pour a deadly volley upon Colonel Owen's men when the mistake was discovered in time to avert a terrible slaughter. "It is much to be regretted and condemned if it be true as stated, that the Union troops, who took possession of Fall's Church, have wantonly de stroyed private property to the value of thirty or forty thousand dollars. "It is believed by military authorities at Washing ton that the withdrawal of the rebels is only a feint of a retreat, for the purpose of leading our army into an ambuscade, just as they did at Bull's Run ; but Gen. APC:ellan has too much sagacity to be caught in that trap. "The old spirit which characterised our navy in the war of 1812 has manifested itself on four or five occasions during the present war ; and on not one, perhaps, more prominent than in the cutting out of the privateer Judith from under the guns of the Pensacola Navy Yard, now in possession of the rebels, before daylight on the morning of the 14th, by a boat expedition from the steam frigate Colo- rado. The several occasions we allude to, in which the gallantry and daring of our sailors recall the spirit which animated the navy in former times, are the cutting out of a rebel ship in one of the ports of Florida ; by Captain I'. Danali Shaw, of the steam gunboat Montgomery; the bombardment of Galveston, by Captain Alden, in the gunboat South Carolina ; the destruction of the rebel forts on Ship Island, by Commander Porter, in the steam frigate Po whattan ; the recent capture of the Hatteras Forts by Commodore Stringham and General Butler; and. lastly, the boarding .and destruction of the privateer Judith, at Pensacola. The records speaks for itself. In the ability with which this project was designed, and the coolness and bravery by which it was successfully carried out, it is almost without parallel. With seventy-five men and officers in three boats from the Colorado, the gallant assailants boarded and set on fire the rebel priva teer lying at the dock in front of the navy yard at Pensacola, under the guns of the fort, and succeeded in their hazardous enterprise with the loss of only three killed and 15 wounded. The guns from the privateer poured balls quickly upon them, but they clambered to her decks, and after a severe hand to hand fight vanquished the crew, destroyed the vessel, and returned to the frigate with the loss above stated. The original intention of the expedition was to surprise the rebel garrison at the navy-yard, as well as to cut out the privateer, but the approach of the .boats being discovered by the sentinel on board the Judith, the whole power of their attack was neces sarily concentrated upon her. In connection with this brilliant affair, we would refer to a letter from Captain Vogdes, one of the officers at Fort Pickens, to Capt. Bally, of the Colorado, in which he states that a " contraband" deserter from Pensacola brings information that the utmost discontent exists among the rebels there ; that they are pining for peace at any price; and that over 200 of the troops have deserted within a few days past. Capt. Vogdes expresses the opinion—and it is curious as coming from that isolated quarter—that the rebels around Washington do not mean to attack M'Clel lan's army, and that they have only a curtain of troops along the line there to conceal the withdrawal of their material and the main body of their army to Richmond. He states further that the Colorado expedition killed 30 of the rebels on the morning of the 14th. "A special despatch from Washington states that the Wiishington Star of the evening of the Ist inst. has positive information that the main body of the rebels, the previous evening, in a position stretch ing from Fairfax Court House back to Manassas, and from a point near Occcquan Creek to the right, extending, many miles in the direction of Leesburg. Their force could not be less than 100,000 men. " It is believed that a large part of the rebel force in Virginia has been sent to Kentucky by railroad, via Nashville." The Boston journals publish the following des patch from Washington, dated on the evening of the Ist inst. :—" There has been no change in the position of the Federal troops on the Virginia sict since yesterday. The rebel pickets still occupy the lower end of the village of Fall's Church on the line of the railroad. The troops of neither army are in possession of Lewinsville. Our pickets extend only to Langley from Chain Bridge. Langley and Lewinsville are only three miles apart. A reconnaissance was made to-day to Pohick Church and vicinity, about 12 miles from Alexandria to the left of Springfield Station. The rebel encampments were found entirely deserted, and nothing indicated their presence in that neigh bourhood. A contraband' came into Our lines this morning, and was taken to the headquarters of General M‘Dowell, at Upton's Hill. He stated that he was the servant of the surgeon of the 15th Georgia regiment, which was encamped, together with two other regiments, four miles from Falls Church, on the road loading to Fairfax Court House. He also said there are no re bel troops there excepting those just mentioned, neither were there any fortificat ions this side of the Fairfax Court House. He gave as a reason for the precipitate retreat of the rebel army, that they were fearful of a flank move ment by the Federal army from the direction of Lewinsville, that he heard his master, the surgeon, say, on Thursday last, that the fortifications onthe river below Washington were very extensive, and that Beaurogard had given orders to close the na vigation of the Potomac to our vessels. Informa tion received to-night from Gen. Bank's column, represents all quiet on the line of the Upper Potomac." It was reported at Cairo, Illinois, that the Con federate General Polk, with 20,000 men, bad taken possession of Mansfield, Kentucky. Everything was quiet at Cairo and Paducah. General Price's official report, giving a some what detailed account of the battle of Lexington, has been received. The following are the closing paragraphs :—" Our entire loss in this series of engagements amounts to 29 killed, and 72 wounded. The enemy's loss was much greater. The visible fruits of this almost bloodless victory are great. About 3,500 prisoners, among whom are Colonels Mulligan, Marshall, Peabody, Whiiigrover, Major Van Horn, and 118 other com missioned officers ; five pieces of artillery and two mortars, over 33,000 stand of infantry arms, a large number of sabres, about 750 horses, many sets of cavalry equipments, waggons, teams, ammunition, more than 100,000 dols. worth of commissary stores, and a large amount of other property. In addition to all this, I obtained the restoration of the great seal a the State and the public records which had been stolen from their proper custodian, and about 900,000 dols. in money, of which the bank at this place had been robbed, and which I have caused to be returned to it." General Anderson had telegraphed to Cincinnati for reinforcements, having received advice of the advance of a considerable Confederate force into Kentucky. Thirteen Federal schooners had left Fort Monroe for Hatteras inlet. The Confederate batteries seriously impede the navigation of the Potomac. A St. Louis telegram reports that the chief of the Cherokee nation had finally succumbed to the seces sion pressure. On the 20th August he called his council together and sent in a message recommend ing the severance of their connection with the United States and an alliance with the Southern Confederacy. The council approved the recommendation, and appointed commissioners to make a treaty of alliance with the Southern Government. The Confederate commissioner had assumed the payment of the an nuities hitherto received by the Cherokees from the United States governments. The Creeks had raised 1,000 men for service in the Confederate army, and the Cherokees formed a home guard 1,200 strong... The officer in command at Key West had issued a notification that all citizens of Key West who re fused to take the oath of allegiance would be arrested and sent to New York as prisoners of war. Foreigners who did not wish to take the oath were ordered to leave. Over fifty had already departed. Her Majesty's sloop of war Challenger _arrived at Key West on the 19th ult. Some little i/l-feeling seems to have been caused to the United States offi cials by Commodore Dunlop and Captain Kennedy, of the Challenger, erecting a target for the exercise of the men at the guns, within 1,000 yards of the fortifications of Fort Taylor. Over two hundred solid shots and small shells were said to have been fired at the target. The practice continued three hours. The British barque Hiawatha has been con demned as a lawful prize. The Bohemian has arrived out. (Latest by Telegraph, via Halifax.) NEW YORK, OCT. 3. General Wool has been surprised by General Mansfield at Fortress Monroe. A large naval expedition is being fitted out here. The Fulton has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Cotton firm. Provisions dull. Stocks firm New York Central, 741 ; Illinois, 661- ; Erie, 241 Exchange, 107 i. THE WEST INDIA 2fAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 13. The Royal Mail Company's steam ship Atrato, Captain Woolley, with the West India and Pacific mails, arrived this afternoon. The British brig Belle, of Liverpool, has been wrecked at Barbadoes—five of the hands were lost. Captain Brooks, the master, has come home in the Atrato. The weather at Barbadoes bad been more favour able ; the heat, however, continued oppressive. Showers had been frequent, and the growing crops looking better. The crops were nearly all finished; few estates were converting their remaining canes into rum. About 2,000 hhds. sugar remained to be shipped, which would bring up the total export crop of the year to over 50,000 hhds. At Trinidad the growing crops were suffering from excessive moisture, the cane pieces looking thin and yellow, and all field operations carried on under most discouraging and trying difficulties. There was nothing stirring in the political world of Trinidad. The Local Exhibition at Demerara was closed on the 7th by his Excellency the Lieutenant- Governor, who delivered an address on the occa sion. No efforts were being spared to make the collection of colonial products to be exhibited at the great exposition of industry im 1862 worthy of the colony. At Jamaica the question of cotton cultivation is still kept before the public, and in many parts of the country the small settlers had commenced plant ing. The Bank of Jamaica held its half-yearly meeting on the 10th inst. The report exhibited a sustained loss of £39,381 45., consequent upon the failure of a firm, swallowing up the nett profits of the half-year, amounting to £4,976 Bs. 5d., and the reserved surplus fund of £20,999 19s 10d, leaving a balance at debit of profit and loss of £14,304 16s. 6d. Trade is reported at its lowest ebb, without a shadow of speculative feeling in transactions ; no disposition to take up stocks to any extent prevailed, and business was restricted to almost retail opera tions; prices were with difficulty maintained. CHILI. Tho news from Chili is not important. The British ship Ann Pitcairn, from Liverpool, had put into Valparaiso for repairs, and to enable the captain to obtain medical advice for injuries he had received during a gale. The Crusader, with guano from Baker's Island, for Hamburg, had also put into Valparaiso in distress. This vessel left at Baker's Island seven ships loading guano for Europe. The Russian steamer Morge had arrived at Val paraiso. Senor Jose Juaquin Perez has been publicly pro claimed President of the Republic at Santiago, on the Ist Sept. The news from Peru is still more unsatisfactory than hitherto. There appears a fair prospect of the country getting into trouble with both Bolivia and Ecuador. General dissatisfaction has arisen in Lima and Callao from the action of President Castilla towards the ex-President Echenique. It will be remembered that the latter was arrested last March on a charge of conspiracy against the Government. He has since been tried by the different tribunals and honourably acquitted, and yet, in the face of this, Castilla has again forcibly banished him from the country. The officers of the navy all refused to convey General Echenique away, on the ground that the act would be illegal, and Castilla finally became so enraged that he drew his sword on one of the cap , tains, and was only prevented running him through by one of his ministers. Castilla finally succeeded in getting a fellow to carry Echenique off in a trans port vessel by paying him 20,000 dols. for the job, and promising him 300 dols. monthly for four years in order to live abroad, as he dare not return to Lima after thus flagrantly breaking the laws. This is considered one of the most high-handed acts of injustice ever committed in Peru, and will not only bring universal opprobrium on Castilla, but greatly strengthen the cause of Echenique throughout the country. Senores Rivas, Elespulu, and Larranaga were also banished at the sam e time. THE KING OF BOLLANIYS VISIT TO NAPOLEON Two of the Paris journals, the Constitutionnel and the P afrie, acting apparently on the maxim of "greet the coming, speed the going guest," publish articles on the royal visit to Compiegne, one on that which is about to take place, and the other on that which has just terminated. The first-named jour nal, after giving a sketch of the reign of the preselet King of Holland, William 111., since his accessiou in 1849, discusses, in the following terms, his visit to the Emperor of the French : " The visit of the King of Holland to Compiegne is the cordial meeting of two nations long since in a position to understand each other. That which ranks among the most active agents of civilisation meets the one which is the very cradle of that civi lisation. Holland and France, formerly rivals, are now friends, and may they not be allies to. morrow? They are both pursuing that work of social pacifica tion, of which the treaties of France with England, Belgium, Italy, Prussia, and Russia are the first clement. The visit of William 111. to Compiegne, therefore, only draws closer the bonds of friendship already formed between the Courts of the Hague and of the Tuileries, by the previous visits of the Queen of Holland and the Prince of Orange. Paris has saluted those illustrious visitors, who came to France to admire our political grandeur, and to demand from our men of science, artists, and authors, the pure enjoyments afforded by the contemplation of the masterpiece of art and science. The French capital will now salute, with like cordiality, the Sovereign who aims at endowing his country with the same grandeur and the same enjoyments. Were it possible for any thing, still more than the qualities of the Dutch nation, its genius and courage, to assure the august visitor of Compiegne the respectful sympathies of the French people, we should mention the generous movement witnessed in France some months ago, when Holland had to deplore disastrous inunda tions. Subscriptions were then opened everywhere, and France held out to the victims the helping hand of her inexhaustible charity. Holland also thought of our sufferers in 1856. The bonds there fore are already formed, and the Sovereigns will complete what the two nations have already begun." The following are the observations of the Patric. on the visit of the King of Prussia ; " Does it follow that this recent interview was a mere sterile event—that King William confined himself to returning on this side of the Rhine the visit which the Emperor of the French paid him at Baden, and that in a word the meeting of the two monarchs was only one of courtesy ? We are not among those persons who adopt this latter opinion, or at least affect to do so. We believe that we are nearer the truth in stating that the interview at Compiegne, without exaggerating its conseqences, possessed real importance. Not only did the Sove reigns of two great countries give each other tes timonies of cordiality, but a more serious result has. been obtained if this interview should exercise favourable influence on the relations between France and Prussia, if in particular it should allow a de cline to be anticipated in the two nations of the re sentment and rivalry which should henceforth be left to history ? It is because the interview of' Compiegne may be conciliated with such hopes ; and because, as is not possible, it may be the start ing point of a policy of good understanding that it is, in our eyes, an event of which the real bearing cannot be disregarded. The Emperor Napoleon M. and King William I. met at Compiegne, and who can affirm that by their interview great in terests were not drawn closer ?" THE AMERICAN COTTON TRADE. (From the Money Market Review.) We have to call the attention of our readers to a subject of the utmost importance to all interested in the cotton trade, and in the thousand branches of enterprise which are more or less affected by the condition of that trade. It is confidently though privately reported in ministerial circles in Paris that the Emperor of the French has taken the momentous resolution shortly to recognise the inde pendence of the Confederate States of America, with a view to put an end to the present artificial dearth. of cotton. The grounds upon which it is believed the Emperor will take this important step are un derstood to be briefly these—Regarding himself as the elect of the nation by popular will, he consider.% himself bound to respect the deliberate determina tion of the people of the South (comprising a popu lation of upwards of 8,000,000, exclusive of slaves) to secede from a nation which they consider antagonistic to their interests and policy. Coupled with this is the consideration'of the great distress which is likely to be caused in France by the with holding of an important material of manufacture at the p-esent period, when the harvest is disastrous, and when the loss of forage has caused the prices of meat and other articles of food to rise to an alarming extent. These considerations reflect at least (as we have the best possible opportunity of knowing), the tone adopted in Government circles in the French metropolis. It must never be forgotten that the Emperor of the French, owing to the despotic nature of his Government, is held, and feels him self to be held, responsible by his people for any misfortune or trial which may occur, even from causes beyond his control. He thinks it the more important, therefore, at a time of peculiar diffi culty like the present, to make a bold stroke in the interest of the mass of the people, and (which is never overlooked by him) in the interest of his dy nasty. The Emperor Napoleon considers that France, unlike England, is wholly unhampered by past legislation in connection with the slavery ques tion. The position which he will probably take up is that the block ade of the Southern States by the North is little more than nominal, and it there fore cannot clai m to be permanently recognised. It is, indeed, difficult to see how the North will con trive to keep up au efficient blockade over such a long extent of seaboard during the approaching winter. The fact that the Chambers of Commerce of Lyons, Rouele, Mulhouse, and other manufac turing places in France, the trade of which with the United State s has been prostrated by the civil war, have addressed memorials to the Imperial Go vernment, urgin g an immediate recognition of the. Confederate States and the raising of the blockade, may be regarditd as very significant, for movements of this kind aro not usually made in France unless known to actor d with the views of the constituted authorities. It is shrewdly suspected that, upon the present occasiot t an official finger is at the back of this commercial agitation. We will only add further that the settlement of the Mexican question will, in all probability, not form the only occupation of the French squadron about to start. Should nothing further be heterd for a short period respecting this contemplated re cognition of the independence of the South by Franc e, we will still advise our readers to watch warily tb,e movements to which we have re ferred. The English Government, as is notorious, cannot take the initiative which is proposed to be taken by the French Emperor, even though most impartial persons have arrived at the conviction that the sub jugation of the South by the North- is impossible. But if France asslumes the responsibility of acting, on the l of is it not extremely likely that the recognition of the South by England would follow ? The pros the probably F e Federal afar tosinduce ofmoderationthese contingencies o Go vernment. ':here is a strong impression in many quarters that, could the vanity of the North be satisfied by a. success over its antagonist, a compro mise would become very possible. The South, on its part, as is well known, holds its cotton Na ith the express objet t of enforcing the recognition of its independence by Europe. When France enters on the policy to which we have referred, there might, therefore, be k uch a degree of movement of the cot ton crop as, w hilst carrying hope to English manu facturers, op eratives, shipowners, and railway shareholders, would carry panic amongst specula tive holders o f cotton at excessive prices, an d amongst speculative sellers of the stocks of railways in our manule xturing districts. What, we ask, would be the prostration of the Liverpool cotton market, now iii an extraordinary state of speculative tension, were the contingencies which we have mentioned to be realised ? We say advisedly,, let them not be overlooked. COLLEGE or PRECEPTORS.—At a meeting of the council of this corpo ration, on Saturda y la s t, the Very Rev. e l i t e . cted an Dawes, Dean of Herefo r d, was unani mous l y honol my member of the college. It was an nounced that Mr. Dawes, whose zeal in the c ause o f edu cation is so hon ourabl y known, has offered four prizes for Pearnadeidieantec); at the th ec e o c il o o l m leg ice science,to examinations of teachers and pupils at Midsummer, 1862. This liberal offer the council has thankfully accepted. The following gentlemen were elected members of the college :—Mr. C. W. Hayes, of Brampton, near Rotherham ; Mr. Henry Smith, of Browood ; and Mr. John Tyrer, of Wolverhampton.