The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-19 00:00:00

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",. 4, ~.--"" e ;,, 1 . t 4? ,- , the machine being worked for the week in the exhibition-room at the Central Exchange. The instrument is now employed between various large —,, , 't^ ce 4111 4 . ; i , id° --,,-).,'" jintorr. ° \‘ a ' 4...:,-- mn.'..."-*--. 1 t 1 1111 N. '-. towns by the United Kingdom Telegraph Company. with. This ted to L their ard•of heads being Led at wern- REMEMBER, NVE SUP AT EVANS' xellonP's;VPßY EVENING THIS WEEK a ft er Alf re d Promenade Concerts. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. Acc umulated and Invested Funds dual Revenue...... 422,401 FIRE DEPARTMENT. Insuran-es zranted both at Home and in Foreign Countries On the most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Every facility offered to Insurers. Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers On the participating principle. The new Life business transacted in 1802 as follows: Policies. Amrunt In-ured. Premiums. 1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0 Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished en application at the four anese, , maY nerica THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1863. N°. 22,224. PR1CE.........4d. STAMPED ....sd. THE HEIR OF FRANCE AT BIARRITZ. likado ) their °Wig port of opened tlernan Immediately, in One Vol., post Bvo., MY IMPRISONMENT. AND THE FIRST YEAR OF ABOLUSIONISM IN WASHINGTON. By ROSE O'NEALE GREENHOW. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. The French Note to Russia, the object of the Cabinets is to restore peace to Poland, either by determining the proper application of the stipula tions of Vienna or by suggesting the modifications of which they are susceptible, in order to better meet the necessities of the future. The Powers who signed the Acts of Con gress are, therefore, competent to deliberate, in concert with Russia, on the questions of public right and general inte rest which the Polish insurrection places in some sort on the order of the day. be no change in the seasons, and even mountains instead of rising into a colder zone would probably rise into a hotter. In a word, the Sunites must in all probability pay for their central position by being quite ignorant of it, and of thousands of other phenomena to which the alternation cf night and day, summer and winter, are absolutely essential. A glorious privacy of light is theirs, if glorious it be. Illu minated by a mighty spherical chandelier, rather than a sun, which they can never turn down, which roofs in their universe and roofs out the infinitude of worlds, they might, it they had any suspicion of the truth, say, with the poet-- " Oh 1 who could tell such darkness lay concealed Beneath thy beams, oh Sun? Or who c. , uld find, When fly, and leaf, and insect lay revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ?" THE EAST. The Moniteur publishes the despatch addressed by M. Drouyu de Lhuys to the:Duke of Montebello, the French Ambassador at St. Petersburg. It is as follows : We take the following from the _Levant Herald " NOSTAR, Sept. 1. " Yesterday the recently appointed President of the Local Military Council, Osman Pasha, left here for Constan tinople. This is perhaps to be regretted, as his honest energy of character might have improved the conditi-n of the army, which is now left virtually =cared for. The new ferik, Omer Pasha will have an unpleasant task, being an entire stranger to the country; it is therefore probable that the administration will fall on the shoulders of Mahmoud rash], who is the only grineral officer capable of discharg ing it with any degree of efficiency. Djevded Effendi, the Imperial Commissioner, has since his arrival displayed an amount of activity locally quite unparalleled. On his first entry into Mostar in his costume as a member of the Ulema, the Bosnians almost imagined that the Prophet himself had arrived; but they soon found out their mis take, and now rather regard his Excellency as the incarnate Antithesis in a priestly dress. He certainly works well, and occupies himself attentively with the very important question of property, regulating the differences and misun derstandings between the Bey proprietors and the Christian cultivators with a vigorous despatch worthy of all praise. If his duty were only to organise the interior affairs of the province proper on a sound footing, without doubt success would crown his efforts; unfortunately he has taken in hand the troublesome affairs of the lately insurgent dis tricts as well. Though these are not now in armed revolt, they still manifest a very ugly passive opposition. Lanka and a half score of the chiefs of the country form the nucleus of what may be called a fourth political party, the other three being the Russian, the Montenegrin, and th Austrian, which last seems t, make most headway of any You are already aware that Osman Pasha was entrusted with a sword of honour for presentation to the Prince Nicholas. A Turkish officer was cosisecittairseat to Cat - tigne to invite his Highness to a rendezvous on the frontier for the purpose of receiving the gift. The Prince, however, declined the invitation, pretending that his health would not permit him, and begged the Pasha to come himself to the mountain capital. Up to the present, therefore, no inter view has taken place. On the other hand, negotiations have been entered upon with Louka, who promised to use all his influence to induce a deputation of Christian chiefs to crave the clemency of the Sultan. With this object in view a meeting of the notables was accordingly held, and it was then decided that a deputation should proceed to Constantinople, Louka himself agreeing to accompany it; but just at this moment the Montenegrin envoys arrived and upset the ar rangements—the end of the whole being that no deputation has gone, nor is any at present likely to go. Such has always been, and always will be, the case in negotiations with these gentry, till some strong measures have been taken by the authorities and the mischief-makers who foment discord and revolt sent out of the country. With a population like this half measures do more harm than good ; they only tend, in fact, to bring about fresh com plications." " SMYRNA, Sept. 5. r place. whose Troops Isaka to r in the T HE SECOND GRAND EVENING CONCERT THE ST. CECILIA'S of CHORAL SOCIETY Will take place in Sr. JosErn's HALL, Tottenham-road, liingsland, On TUESDAY, Sept. 22, 1883, at 7.30 p.m. Conductor—Mona. LEMAN. The services of 8) eminent executants have been secured. Special Tickets on applicat'on to Mons. Leman, as stove. Front Seats, 2s. ; Body of the Hall, Is. OrncEs : LONDo N Threadnredle-street. 4 New Bank Buildings. Lotlibttry. West-end Office B, Waterloo-Place. Pall-mall. M. le Due,— When the Government of the Emperor re solved, in accord with the Cabinets of London and Vienna, to address its communications of 10th of April and 17th of June to the Court of Russia, it was guided by considerations of general interest and of humanity, which we put for% ard with entire frankness. Its object was to induce that Power to seek the means of re-establishing tranquillity on durable foundations, and to prevent a return of perturbation which has never broken out without troubling the public mind throughout Europe and endangering peace. The Russian Government at first appeared to acknowledge the justifiable ness of our observations. It had in some measure invited u s to offer our views, and we were bound to believe it disposed to accept the deliberations we might consider it expedient to enter into. The Austrian Court which the Russian Government in viti d to bedome a party to this separate negotiation, from which we, together with her Britannic Majesty's Govern ment, Spain, Portugal, and Sweden, were to be excluded was the first to acknowledge that this proposition could not be entertained, and rejecied it without hesitation, as con trary to her dignity. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES, 20, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inkurance buildings. Liverpool. Total Annual Revenue exceeds £501,010. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000. ndanee mr new )f 2s to offered his day barrel )atmeal r a each —nay, to more than countless worlds outside them,—for to the varieties of torrid and frigid zone, of spring-time and harvest, of morning and evening—probably even of work and rest—and to a large proportion of that which makes countless worlds of thought and reflection within, the same dreadful uniformity of splendour would equally blind them. Then, too, shadow would be as rare there as it is frequent here,—for the light always flowing equally from north, south, east, and west, it would be only at a door, window, or a cavern's mouth, where the other quarters were pro tected from the light, that shadow would be seen. Imagine all the intellectual fruits of such varieties struck out of our literature and history, and what would the human mind be? The sun may be a dwelling-place for beings whose inner world has begun to develop itself regularly without the stimulus of outward variety and change, but scarcely for any nature less advanced. That which knows "no vari; ableness nor shadow of turning" must either be God or nothing,—the highest life or the most absolute nonentity. If we did live there, we should soon, perhaps, prefer being bombarded by fragments of planet rushing sunwards, even at the risk of annihilation, to the hot changeless uniformity of such an orb. We almost wonder no one has suggested the sun as the physical locality of the place of tor tute. That it would make evil the root and centre of our system, would only be an additional recommendation to a very popular form of modern theology. Chairman in Liverpool: CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London : 11HE X F OR D 0, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's T EIE SLAVE and Halevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, ac., with full band and chorus. The Government of the Emperor, M. Ic Due, could neither subscribe to the combination presented by the St. Petersburg Cabinet nor to the considerations put forward for support in Prince Gortschakoff's despatch. We are convinced that in pursuing the course upon which it has entered the Court of Russia departs equally from the councils of a wise policy and from the stipulations of the treaties. But, not having succeeded in making it share the conviction by which we are impressed, we can now only state the inutility of our efforts. It will not have de pended on the Powers that the solution of the Polish ques tion, s closely bound up with the peace of Europe, has not from the present time been discussed with the necessary re flection and maturity, Divested of all views of private am bition, without passion as without preconceived ideas, they were actuated by the sole desire to contribute to the pacifi cation of present troubles, to aid Rustic by a profound exa mination of the state of Poland, and to remove the cause of the constantly reviving complications. We should suppose that the Russian Government, ani mated by tendencies in conformity with those of the Powers, would not refuse to associate itself with their idea. After having given this hope, it has chosen to repel their over tures and to dispute their competency. WILLIAM WAINWRIGEIT, Esq. rKTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1862. The Directors of the Royal Insumnce Company are now called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the Meeting of its Shareholders. The Directors have, FIRE BRANCH.as pleasingly as unexpetedl at the close of the yea r , t o announce, for the first time, c that t y, he Fire Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000. The high comparative position held by the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is again fully maintained. The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably the amount realised in the precedin,g year, and in fact sur passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, sine- the ecommencement of thi , Office, the balance th the credit on account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107105. 5 d., and of the North American business, whichis kept sepa rately, £11,097 16s. 10d. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean &c. This state of things being common to us with the Courts of Austria and England, we decided in concert upon the basis to serve as a starting point for the negotiations; and the programme upon which we came to an understanding, in conformity with the most elementary principles of equity offers a striking testimony of moderation. It was to us, therefore, a source of as much surprise as regret to see the St. Petersburg Cabinet modify its first at titude, formally decline our overtures, and substitute inad missible propositions. Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any oilier man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and Georg,e Hodson. Als i, a Pei formance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHE6TIf,E, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. and 40s 36s to 3 to 309 per qr. —.Red 71ey, 5g s 6ci to CIANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order kj to gratify the curiosity of' nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the repr esen t a ti on of Pro fessor Pepper and Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, " THE GHOST," from the Picture Gallery to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, Latest e i s o t r i M m r . affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal allilLhaitts ov a n ls t il rm ar a r n aTi s ge l con4 il a v n es d te b r adz o! iv t e he (w H i a i l i !. Erovements and effects), REPREStNTATION S EACH VENING, at Ten o'clock. What, in fact, is its language in the communications re plying to the simultaneous steps taken by the three Powers? According to frince Gortschakoff, the present state of Poland is only the consequence of incitement from abroad, without which the agitation would have died out under the action of the laws, in face of the indifference and repulsion of the masses. It is solely this revolutionary character which imparts an European interest to the question, and deter mines the object of the exchange of ideas in which Russia consented to participate. The LIFE BRANCH - . state yen , gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to the sum assured on new policies for the year 1562 exceeds even that of the ye*r 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived . I`,,,,the almost u nexamp l e d am ount for a single year of " 1 027 on 1498 new policies issued. Until within the last fey 'years it is believed that such a sum acsured as that which h" O3 just been announced as the result of one year's business Was all but unheard of. T his Portion of the Company's business has been carefully 'watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the vjhareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the l iire to the participating life assurer. lEvidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply a Horded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum Proposed for as suran o'e a mounts to .£143,281. Various degrees of i neligibility have led to these lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at a „, ll, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis -46ie in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another, to complete their review, the Directors now advert to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that 1 1 Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more l iaPid than that of any other Company established either in ,onclan or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken Place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. The Directors crinclude their present Report with the txpression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal llnsurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent . r o s es, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni ',,,,cle, combining distinguished commercial success to the 'nee with a lee gthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. i met a y wet a s down. I down• I down• I down• I up. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c, ; Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. the Cabinet of St. Petersburg declares that the six points indicated as the germ of the resolutions proper to pacify Poland, contain nothing contrary to the intentions of his Majesty the Emperor Alexander towards the Poles ; but it insists that before taking them into consideration material order and respect for authority shall be re-established. A suspension of hostilities is said to be impracticable. The only transaction compatible with the dignity of the Court of Russia, as with the sentiment of the nation and the army, is the previous submission of the Poles. The Russian Go vernment does not dispute the right of the Powers who signed the Treaty of Vienna to interpret the terms thereof according to their own convictions, but everything has been said relative to those clauses without leading to a practical result, and the assembling of a conference would greatly exceed the limits of the right of interpretation. The course to be adopted is indicated by that pursued in the negotiations of Vienna. General principles interesting Europe have alone been inserted in the General Act of Congress. It is not at present a question of those principles ; but the administra tive details and the interior arrangementawould usefully fur nish matter for preliminary negotiations between the three Courts which concluded the separate treaties of the 3d of May, 1815. In claiming the absolute independence of its resolutions and the full exercise of its sovereignty, the St. Petersburg Cabinet leaves to us the eniire liberty of our judgment and of our conduct, and we cannot do less than avail ourselves of it. At the same time, there still remains an imperious duty for the Government of the Emperor to fulfil. It is to call Prince Gortchakoff's most serious attention to the gravity of the situation, and the responsibility which is thrown upon Russia. France, Austria, and Great Britain have pointed out the urgency of putting an end to a deplorable state of affairs full of danger to Europe. They have besides indicated the means which it appeared to them ought to be employed to arrive at this end, and have offered their concurrence to attain it more surely. If Russia does not do everything in her power to realise the moderate and conciliatory inten tions of the three Powers, if she does not follow the path pointed out to her by amicable counsels, she is responsible for the serious consequences to which the prolongation of the troubles in Poland may lead. You will be good enough, M. le Due, to read this de• spatch to Prince G-ortschakoff, and leave with him a copy of the same. DEDITYN DE LlitlYS. Naval and Military Intelligence. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill -street, Piccadilly. These elegant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They have been entirely redecorated. Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of monster concerts cele brity. The band is selected from the Crystal Palace, the Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. Man ager —M. GRENET. THE NAVY. ass Od ; and the offered in larse B. The jrisk as ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The GHOST The Polish Giantess, Countess Demoloth, will be introduced in the Ghost Illusion this Week—The beautiful FAIRY FOUNTAIN—Grand Divertissement by Twenty your g Ladies—Operatic Selection., by is s M`Gregor, Mr. Albert, Vernon Rigby, and Signor Georgini—Band and chorus of (10 Performers. First appearance of RAPHAEL DE SOLLA. the Infant Tenor, and LANGLOIS VELOCIMAN, the Great Indian Juggler, THIS DAY (MONDAY). I to 70 I to s#d stone. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. 10YAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. ept. 18 , et 13. )et. 5 .pt. 28- ept. 18. ept. 27 ept. IS. ept. 1S ept. 27. e pt. 25 ept. 20. ct ept. ept. 2 0 . ict. 1. ept. 2t opt. 13. ter. 10. ept. 14. ept. A B, opt. 23. Au ion if civi- o-vines peratea ur par nd they of tbe Id bard Partial re, with ing up ragging. d me he Ly work l hira to 1 to tall o o dal, the di t essen• atho he lnd de of work 3, rhea.' he sun mderful lasses of ;a work nds Leo eetroyed has the [lowey'a always Lrges by icularlY f rid thug t means or belly , internal bilious only a6' ion. but evalenta Lich had o. 62,914 , men had stage of toration, ' cheeks, perfectly isaire de Wrimley ood, liver 1. Miss ig,rest ion, ire, No. Norfolk. resisted 6d ; 5 1 b , No. 77, and all ngdom. :e, Man- In, 14th ~ Hydo aught or. von, the Cnights. , Sir W. o Edith rr, Esq., Churlby. 1., eldest °use, to Lionville Jarael , Perth.. h Gwilt Lovely -1 79.—A 3. New- Surrey', London, House, Tonkins )REY ' 1c. 11 ,', 3 4 : ;ouutV'' _____ Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thom as Bating Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. I Th omson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, RP. Mutual Life Assurance for all classes. This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a total suns of £1,500,000. The Annual Income is £51,000 The Accumulated Fund exceeds 2: o,f 00 It has paid i n Cl a i ms 112,000 The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among the Members. Three divisions have already been made , when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the policies Dec. 31, 1847 .. „ 1852 .. . „ 1857 .. •• 1862 •• •• •• making' the total bonus additions, .£9%600. Bonuses ma - ; be received in cash or applied to the reduc tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addition to the Lacy. Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid up policies introduced by this Association, by which the sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of po icy is wholly avoided. The balance -sheets of the Association are open to all, Whether assurers or otherwise. Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre sented districts. .. £5,400 .. 11,500 .. 23.200 .. 56,500 WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR, SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pail-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEARKES riARCLAy, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. aohn Garratt Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. illiam Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Joscellne W. Percy. bornas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. E.dlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. R ivers dale W. Grenf ell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Lobt, Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. min. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq. "as. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. Corporation and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this `-orporation on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par "eination in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such Participation.' The Reversionary Banns on British Policies has averaged nearl y 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. 4 , Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums valvable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Li tlY sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one This Corporation affords to the Assured—' Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience Of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, 2d September, 1863. TENDERS will be received at this office, un til • noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863 , from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for the supply of FORAGE, in such quantities as may be required, from Ist November, 1863, to 3'st October, 1861, for the use of Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on tbe outside " Tender for Forage"), and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary-General. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be received at this Office min 12 o'clock noon on t he 3d of Octobe r , from persons who May be willing to enter into Contracts to supply FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW, in such quantities as may be required, for the use of Her ~.Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following pl aces, 4 rOm Ist November, 1863, to 31st October, 1864 : FORAGE. - - - - 1. Hyde-park, Kensington, Regent's-park, and h orse Guard. 2. Hot nslow s and Kneller 3. Hampton Court. 4. Windsor. K. Ilri2liton. 6. Sandhurst. 7. Enfield. PAILLASSE STRAW. 1. B ramp t on H ouse. H yde-park, an d Kensintr,ton. 2. Regent's-park, St. John's-wood, andPortman-street Barracks. 3. New Barracks, Chelsea. 4. Wellington and St. George's Barracks. 5. The Tower. 6. Hounslow and Kneller Hail. 7. Hampton Court. S. Windsor. 9. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore ham. 10. Croydon. Separate Tenders must be made for Forage and for Pail lasse Straw for each of the above-menticned Stations or Bar racks as grouped and numbered. Pornas of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. Tenders on the printed forms must he properly filled up and simed, and no T ender will be noticed unless delivered at the under- men t toiled iffice, under clo se d envelope (trw.rked on the outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies ")., before 12 o'clock noon on the 3d October next. (Signed) W. 'l'. POWER, Comm s,sary-Gcncral. Deputy Commissary - General's Office New-street, Spring-gardens, , London, S.W., 10th Sept., 1863. li!LATING , s - f --- .. _ INSECT DEsTioi_ n ,, tiN . G POWDER, for which a Prize Atecial was awarded 1- ~,,-,,,he Produ^er at, the International Exhibition, 1862, riv-a-Itlit'owder is quite harmless to animal life, but is un- Iteei,:;; ,i/1 destroying Fleas, Bugs, Plies, Cockroaches, sPeetes'orPats, MosqUitos, moths in furs, and every other .„,sPott.taeeet. 3411_eas fii‘ttill find this an invaluable remedy for !_lestroy. vohi e o the orb Dogs, as also Ladies for their_Fe_t_DOZS. Veild has foul l - Tn.al importer of this . DOW invaluable article, observet'eallEl ;°_great a sale that it has tempted others to autozni,- -.at th -ru ele, the public are therefore cautioned to S .h pat ir e Packets f the Genuine Powder bear the So In p ack rt0), 14 , t _ o _ Dior 36 po st i t s , is 2 4, -EATING• W' char ta " ~s• d, and 4s. 6,i each, or post free for 437 - ChY4rd 41— • bY Thomas lieatirlg, chemist, 79, St. i Lona .on, Ex. R OYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Graeious Majesty the Queen. PR ESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G„ P.R.S. i CIT AIRMAIT—Thos. Baying, Esq., 31. P. the beginning 'II'ETY- CllAllttlAN—Thomas Chapman, ' Esq., ER. S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since of the year 1860 , the Royal National Lifeboat Insti tution has expended 432,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishnts on th e C oasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Society. ..nd oth er means, Theme nu mber of li ves saved b y the Life- b oats of the ior which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended since its formation, is 12,800; . Transporting-cart lazes, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful £ 8 7, 5 '00 on Life-boats, Life-boat se of the generous sapport which they have receir - •" n British public during the past iew years, P ~d from has enabled them to es t a b lish their prem.- -su p port of 123 Lifeboats on th e s h ores of - -.it magnificent fleet Deeply sensYble, however, o f the (tie United Kingdom wh t i h ch e 11:d effecteduby e a l m ar a o- na great responsibility that i flee t t h in a thoroughly efficient r statees s o n n ,:( t d l t e i ,m, C t o r e w s maintain pru ut , t s h ,,, ee d i .._ i s n t I y u p s h o u p i e d n i n 1 g to u n 'a d l p a c c i r a d p s c s P e t n e s a i O '' l l.n a lb e e l i l u r boat:,can only gemezt pert theh t • an anal income, the; rdountrymen to Aid th ea e r m ne great and tr , t y national a work. The Co%rimittee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributi:das,_ .... ..... 4, a t n inl n d u o a n l 3 n.,5 0 o co, .. .. annual 101 1 1 0 O ti ~C a. d I tier Majesty the Queen .. .. • • annual 50 C 0 nA e5 .. 5 3 ::,: . ...8 G ank . ..c . ..rs .. .. annual 10 0 n ce Ca ol eu n r l tk p cs b c e a l on l ido t nc h eo e l: , I B I: i Currie, Wm., Esq., ' ifeholt r ; , M. 2 5 0 0 Penwiek, G. J., Esq., cost , of aI. . .. , nd j an- rt:kgC l , C Vic i e ef -A J :li s n t r e ral Sir . A . . R...( . ...8. .. 9 ,1 0:.3 0 0 Fportill'Z Citri%l , 2:e • • ' ' * • • • • • 271 (4 , D flaricy, Rey. G. (3. and Mrs. - ,11 - ,:itin, Bir Ileury, Bai t. .. • • ••,' th don. 00 0 Moore, Rev. I i'. B. .. • • ' • d on. 15 15 n Smith, Mrs, Geort., , c, Greenwich .. • • 30 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.13. .. annual 2 0 0 Thomas, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her Ladyship .. .. .. • • •• 16 16 0 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. .. .. annual 50 0 Donations and Annu a l S u b scr i pt i ons w ill b e thankfully re . eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival. and Co., :6, Lombard -street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59. Strand; Ittesers. Berries, Farouhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by all the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the Unitedkingdom; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office et the: ,I nstitgio%l, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London, ii - r.‘;. - .. The argument that I have just summarised, as exactly as possible, M. le Due, is in complete disagreement ~with the most certain facts, and wanders no less from the letter than the spirit of the treaties. The Polish question, accord• ing to Prince Gortschakoff, is only European by its origin and its revolutionary tendencies, and the present events are solely the work of a cosmopolitan demagogy. In our time societies have been seen to be agitated by too many various movements for us to confound under one and the same appellation the desperate efforts of a people defending its nationality and the disordered aspirations of evil minds attacking the very bases of social order. The disturbances in Poland spring from causes having no factitious or accidental character. They are the result of a state of things dating back for nearly a century, and which has contributed more than any other conjuncture to give rise to and maintain revolution in Europe. The rising which we now witness was announced by evi dent symptoms, and provoked by a measure which in the state of men's minds at the time could not fail to be at tended with the most serious consequences. Poland replied to it by making appeal, not to revolutionary passions but to that which is highest in the hearts of men—to their ideas of justice, of country, and of religion. Is it not a fact of in • congestible notoriety that the entire Polish nation, each and every class, according to its means, actively or passively, according to place and circumstance, has identified itself soul and body with the inettrrooliou p What are, before such a manifestation, the agitations of a few emigrant committee ? The Cabinets have not, therefore, been mistaken in the true character of the insurrection. They pointed out its import to the Russian Court. In the French Chambers, in the English Parliament, in the Aus trisn Reichsrath, the opinion of the three countries has wade itself heard through its most accredited organs, in order to encourage the Governments to persevere in the path on which they had entered, Throughout Europe, wherever there exists deliberative bodies, the same accents have re sounded. Besides the Constitutional Powers, free and spon taneousdeliberations have everywhere testified to thevivacity of the public impressions, the unanimity of which is daily confirmed by the press. Bound by the consciousness of their responsibility to observe greater reserve and circum spection, nearly all the Cabinets, 'from the Court of Rome to the Ottoman Porte, from Stockhol m t o Li s b on, h ave re corded inde is atches'with the t enour of which the Russian Government acquainted, the expression of opinions agreeable to those of which the three Courts have more particularly made themselves the interpreters. The Governments, far from outstripping public opinion, have followed, and at the same time moderated it. lhis is ,vhat has been done, as far as it is c oncerned, by the Em not hesitate to affirm that t would b e o b stinately clinging i peror's Government ; and not duty accomplished , it does to a fatal illusion to continue to explain the formidable con vulsions which stain Poland with blood by reasons so little in harmony with the testimony of history and contempo raneous facts. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg is disposed, it informs us, to take into consideration the six points which have been recommended to it on the basis for deliberations, but it puts forward as a condition that the revolt must be previ ously suppressed. We believe, on the c on t rary, M. le Duc, that the surest means of appeasing the p u bli c mind would be the application and immediate development of a com prehensive system of concessions really proper to give satis faction to the national sentiment. The perpetuation of daily conflicts in which so much blood has already flowed can only render resentment more implacable, and close every way to conciliation. Profoundly moved by this spectacle, the three Courts flattered themselves that in the suspension of arms, ar rangements acceptable to both parties might be concluded, and that the provisional suspension of hostilities would only precede a definitive pacification. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg sets this suggestion as id e in the name of the Russian nation and arm ; but i s th e dignity, then, of a great empire interested in the counten ance of an unequal struggle, neither did we think that the idea of an armistice destined to facilitate the work of nego tion would be impracticable. The most irreconcileable adversaries of Russia would not have dared to refuse or violate this truce. In the contrary case the responsibility would rest cn them. Such a trial was worth making, and even if it bad failed there would have been, in our ideas, honour told profit for the party attempting it. We could not expect the same result from an amnesty which would be made subordinate to the political conve nience of the Russian Government, and of which his Ex cellency Prince Gortsclmkoff makes prospective after the entire submission of the insurgents. We are in a position to judge by the last amnesty of the influence which a simple premise of clemency would have on the arrangements of the Poles. In fact, the Cabinet of St. Petersburg substitutes for the acquiescence which it appeared to have given in its preced ing decla ra ti ons to the assembling of a conference of the Powers f signin g I . e Prussia n e „. ye; n: ee sctoi 0 . :1248t ool l s:n e ts e betweent r o i of interior r Vienna, en u na s sita the , administrationp ropositiond Austria raais of nedp r u a u by the 6181. .. e of things in Poland. The Powers would only have besides a right of interpre tation which could not bind Russia, and there would be nothing useful to expect from a fresh discussion of stipula tions so often argued without any understanding being ar rived at. I do not propose, M. le Due, to enternow into a profound examination of the doctrine professed by the Cabinet of St. Petersburg relative to the negotiations of which Polish affairs were the object in 1815, and on the clauses of the treaty of the 9th of June of the satin) year, whereby the Congress believed it had eettled the destiny of the Polish nation, sinaif to Stale and deiliqa the idea of lates the facts _ _ .... . htha e 4 nc l n vh ii i io ch te l t . i e t e i i aTi j e t s tia :i 1 1 Ta , . .y ou to tuffs a , 4 1--,jt /113 SC f in.: I 'luta which argleA'l: 4 tO me to issue thole , r i o nna was I append to this desp p a ,i tch : a . be,t weal the if -.'s true, by the conclusion of speem. the essentrai three frontier Powers of Polowl ; p r ,t ih,,,,,k ,„..ge,§ w ere The 4 - ; - 11ature of the general ,A , :tt3 . i l treaties P re " dea ' prepared by long and l aboriourilifF.:(iiir.tik.n, the hely Euro pean character of which it is inipepsible net to tctognise, Besides, the Congress did not establish so absolute a (143- Unction as the Cabinet of St • Petersburg supposes between lo t a li ftxt e thee g eri e ta n hr e ee r r a eix. l Bp s i t rt i e p tshus le l y a ttai annexeds nks oft a n h d et 0 t ih Powerst : liar :foe nth©re revise i se r . a t : g e 7 0 ,8 ia n , t , s: If the former are introduced textually in final Act tlJ:: administrative regulations, and put them in -,bartv.or;yl4 wiltl:ii,,,,,,,thjezp.trelofir;s4iils o e f ip tt age, eyes axe 0:1 their trial, av 1 THE SUN AS A DWELLING-PLACE. (From the Spectator.) Sir Wm. Armstrong suggested, in his inaugural address last week to the British Association, that that curiously mottled appearance of the sun's bright atmosphere when seen through a telescope, which has given rise to Mr. Na sniyth's expression about the solar " willow-leaves," might be due to " organised" forms of matter ; and that the con stant supply of heat which warms the whole solar system may, as previous astronomers have suggested, be due to the constant concussion of falling bodies rushing into the centre of our system, and heating it just as his own cannon balls or shells heat the great targets at Shoeburpaess. Both these suggestions are, of course, mere guesses, though the latter, at least, is as probable as any other mere conjecture concerning the source of the solar heat; but both of them suggest so many marvels and inconveniences which would attend its possible inhabitants, if it could be the habitation of beings in any way resembling the inhabitants of this earth, that if astronomers were to acquieso in them, or, at least, in the latter of them, the sun would probably be given up as rapidly as the moon to that desolating theory of 1)r. Whewell's, which refuses to giro ...Ha m a anino , n, foothold anywhere in the universe except upon our little Planet. Certainly, one would not choose for a dwelling place a sphere, however majestic, eternally bombarded from all parts of the celestial spaces—a world into which minute planets, that had been travelling from infinite distances with a constantly accelerating speed, should be constantly crashing home, where the annexation of a comet would be an every-day event. Sebastopol or Vicksburg under siege would be a sort of heaven to such a life as that, besides that, they at least had the satisfaction of returning the fire,which would be impossible for the sun, seeing that the force which would keep up the bombardment would be of no alien origin, but inseparable from its own existence. The big sala manders, 100,000 miles in area, which Sir W. Armstrong pictured as floating in the solar atmosphere, and this heavy celestial artillery, are alike matters of conjecture; but of the sun as a dwelling•place for embodied creatures we can form a few notions based on more trustworthy facts. In deed, the elder Herschel, who was one of the earliest theo rists about the sun's spots, always held that the sun might be inhabited—and its solid nucleus, that is, need not be so hot as to prevent the existence of beings organised more or less as we are. It is, at least, worth while to consider what sorts and degrees of difference such a life, if it be possible, would imply, even without an atmosphere of gigantic sala manders, and a converging fire of innumerable meteors and planetoids, or a lashing by cometary tails a few millions of miles in length. In the first place, there is no doubt room enough for a very considerable immigration there, as the surface of the SUE would accommodate in mere extent the population of 12,000 earths. In other words, if the earth had been fully peopled during 12,000 general ions, and all its population transferred to the sun, the sun would only then become fully peopled, supposing its surface to be in the same proportion suscep tible to cultivation. Unfortunately, however the muscular power, needed for walking on the sun would have to be 28 times as great, for a man of the same size, as the muscular power needed for walking on the earth. The sun is very much less dense than the earth—not much, indeed above the density of water--but its enormous size increases the gravitation there to twenty-eight times its power on earth. Every man, therefore, suddenly transferred to the surface of the sun—if he could live there at all—would appear to himself to have an accumulation of twenty seven other men upon his back—a weight under which it is needless to observe that no human muscles could stagger. However, swimming upon such a surface, in any fluid as light as water (and the bulk of the sun appears to be made up of fluid at least as light as this) would be far easier than it is hero; for all weights being multiplied by about 28, the difference between the weight of the water displaced and of the human bed y—which measures the sup porting force—would also be multipled by 23; and just in proportion therefore as the difficulty of walkingis increased there, that of swimming (in such a fluid as our water) would be diminished. But thesa differences are trifling compared with the diffe rences arising from the central position of the sun. To in habitants of that globe there would be no such phenomena de d a y and night, but a perpetual and uniform blaze, liko the light with which the roofs of the Houses of Parliament are nightly lighted up, though infinitely intense, would be always blazing above that semi - transparent cloudy screen which Sir W. Herschel thought might temper the light and heat of the solar world. It is natural to suppose that the light and heat of the sun are derived from the same source, and that since we have at times glimpses into the recesses of a darke r sphere, that darker sphere would also be a cooler sphere than we usually connect with our visible sun. In deed, if inhabitable at all, it would need to be. The tem perature of the sun's heated surface is calculated to be seven times as hot as the hottest known blast furnace. It would require the combustion of more than 130,0001b5., or nearly sixty tons of coal per hour, on each square foot of the sun's surface, to produce a heat equal to that radiated from the solar or b," The probability of some d eep c l o udy stratum of atmosphere, there, enveloping a cooler world, seems considerable. But oven if this be so, the vast difference between the phy sical situation of the Sunites and that of our race would scarcely be much diminished. With a sufficiently thick sea of cloud between them and the intolerable light and heat they might manage to exist, like the fabled mermen, who, living on the ocean floor, saw sunlight only through the un fathomable depths of the sea. But then, though living in the centre of our system, they could never know that there was a system at all beyond this centre. They could not even know that their oWn sun revolves in about 251 of our days ou its own axis. For no celestial phenomena at all could be aLces&ible to them. The constant and uniform would shut them in far more effectually than any darkness; and the cloud which would be essential to soften that con stant rind uniform light would be a second screen. We could never know that our own earth revolved on its axis !bail Ihe strongest noon always shut -fa certainly would be far If a blaz3 fit '-- th e ir light _ out the night. The solar inhata...-- more effectually cut off from astronomy, botu 4114 by the intonal screen which would interrupt the than Iy any darinegdi The planet Neptune would have a better chance of good astronomers than the sun. The ab -1 Penne of anything like night and dew, and of all the conse iquilt periodic changes in the vegetable and animal world, Tevolativ-;a:.e,e tho,,whoie _character of the ~tuuld carte.. re uatut al history. ..:leep uught perhaps es,s (tilv‘B;tl:::'..lt",i'gahlit, but both p rt lants and . animals must have a Won't , c r , jv tcctlre it, Then too there :outs VALETTA, Sept. 14.—Her Majesty's iron screw troopship Orontes, 2, Capt. Hire, arrived last night from England and Gibraltar, having on board from the latter place the 2d battalion 7th Regiment, con sisting of 25 officers, 832 men, 73 women, 6 ladies, and 97 children, under the command of Major R. Hibbert. She also had on board Assist.-Adjt.-Gen. Maude. Capt. Clarke, R.A., Dr. Clarke, R.A., Capt. 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The Cossack remained in Phalerum Bay till the 29th, when she went into the Pit - was, and took up her berth along side the Orlando, 46, Capt. G. G. Randolph, the only other English ship there. The French ship Magicienne, and two other French war vessels, one Turk, one Greek, and one Italian, were also lying in tha Piraeus. The Austrian frigate Novara and another Austrian vessel left early in the morning of the Ist inst., soon after the arrival of the mail. The English frigate Magicienne, 16, Capt. W. Army tage, called in at Phalerum Bay on the 28th ult., to communicate with the Admiral, and the Surprise, 4, Commander C. M. Seymour, left for Patras the same day. A court-martial was held on board the Cossack on the Ist, to try a private of Marines for striking a sergeant. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to penal servitude for five years. Her Majesty's ship Queen, 74, Capt. C. F. Hillyar, leaves after the arrival of the mail from Marseilles, due to-night, for Athens, with stores and provisions, and £20,000 in specie, for the use of the fleet. Her Majesty's screw steam corvette Scylla, 21 guns, 400-horse power, recently commissioned by Capt. S. G. Cresswell, was this day removed from Sheerness dockyard, where she has completed her fitments, to moorings in the harbour, for the pur pose of being swung for the adjustment of her com passes, preparatory to being taken on trial of her machinery at the measured mile off Maplin Sands. The Medusa, paddlewheel, tender to her Ma jesty's steamship Cumberland, 70, guardship of the Sheerness steam reserve, Master-Commanding J, H. Allard, was yesterday taken into the dockyard at Sheerness to be examined and cleaned, and to have some small defects in her machinery remedied. The Wrangler, 4, screw steam gun-vessel, 80- horse power, Commander Henry H. 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The inspection, which was of a very searching character, was brought to a close yesterday by a parade of the entire Ist divis ion of the Depot Brigad e , when the guns on the fortifica tions and the other descriptions of artillery used for instructional purposes were manned, and the officers and troops tested in their knowledge of the use and working of the heavy Armstrong and other gun s , as well as the numerous appliances for the transport of heavy ordnance of modern and ancient invention. An experimental 6-pounder rifled gun, on a n ew breech-loadi ng p r i nc iple, the invention of Mr, p ar _ sons, C.E., of Blackheath, which had Prev i ously undergone the Government test, was yesterday fired at the Royal Arecnal butt, Woolwich, in the presence of the full committee of the Arsenal. The gun fired 20 rounds in rapid eneeee!iinn, th e tr i a l oeeniqini,P only Saiin. 35,3ec., ieelieling the inter • vale between each discharge. It is nuderetood that a favourable reeult will be reported to the Secretary " state for War, under whose direction the gun et ' for trial. was ordereu - nearly completed his .111,. H OW ARD GWVER,uu. "'ie—to be entitled to be pre new comic opera —libretto as well as mu._ "Giralda, the Unmarried Wife." 'lie work is doted by the Pyne and Harrison company daring tl'is ;,- PrOCIUDg easoll9f. Rbglie)a Opera at Co - Feat Czaxde! " A' strike' among the fig-packers is almost the only item of news the week has produced. This novelty in our local industry happened on Monday last, and has hardly yet altogether subsided ; bat inasmuch as the circumstances permit of no sympathy whatever with the complainants, it has merely been a matter for the police, and these, I am glad to say, have dealt with it at once with the firmness and the moderation the case required. The affair is not unsimi lar to the strikes of workmen and labourers in the capital at and after the final withdrawal of the caime's, when those parties held out for payment in metallic at the old exorbi tant paper-money rates. So here again ; it was, as you know, only last season that we got rid of our three or four circulating standards, and have gradually attained to some thing like a uniform medium. These people were last year paid in base cheirouk currency what was about equivalent to from 13p. to 19p. a-day in the present good money; yet, though they are now receiving from 16p. to 20p, in the good currency, they complain and demand the same number of piastres now that they formerly got in chdrouk. Of course this could net be listened to, and accordingly the grumblers struck work in a body on Monday, and for some hours created considerable disturbance throughout the town. At length they proceeded en Inasse to the knock ; to invoke the support of 'he Pasha. Here, however, they caught a Tar tar. Achmet tried first to convince them of the unreason ableness of their demands, and did his best to persuade them to resume work ; but this moderation only encouraged them, and seeing that, the Governor-General had recourse to the more effective logic of arresting and imprisoning the ringleaders of the movement, This brought the majority of tho others to their sensc,, and next day most of them quietly went back to their work. There is still, however, considerable ferment in what may be called the "trade ;" but it will, I doubt not, subside in another day or two, and all will go on as before. It is true that the price of living has increased here greatly for all classes; but so too have wages in proportion, as may be inferred from the rates I have mentioned for this one class of the working popula tion. Their case, therefore, excites no sympathy whatever, and is consequently all the more easily dealt with by the authorities," The Hughes' Printing Telegraph. The Hughes'Printing Telegraph requires but one electrical wave for each letter which has to be trans mitted, whereas Morse's printer, Wheatstone's ' needle, Rain's chemical, and the dial, or step-by step letter-printing telegraphic instrument, depend either upon the number and duration of different signals to produce the letter intended, or upon a certain number of signals, each requiring an electric wave to produce only one letter. For the Morse an average of four waves is required for each letter, and the dial requires seven. The chief mechanical feature of this machine is the causing the almost mathematically synchronous and continuous revolu tion of two type-wheels, one at the transmitting the other at the distant receiving or recording sta tion, and causing any little dif f erence that may acci dentally occur to be corrected by the machine itself ; first, at the commencement of work ; secondly, on the printing of each letter as a message proceeds ; so that when any given letter—for instance, A—is lowermost at one station, it is also lowermost at the other. By simple mechanical arrangements a cur rent can be transmitted when any required letter at the sending station is in this position. This current instantly, by detaching an armature, allows a ham mer to strike a slip of paper egainst the correspond- ing letter of the type-wheel at the receiving station, and so prints the letter without stopping the type wheel. It will be observed that exact synchronism between the two type-wheels is absolutely neces sary. Approximate synchronism is obtained by the adjustment of two vibrating springs in unison ; and perfect synchronism is obtained by a small correc tion, produced, as each letter is printed, by the very act of printing. The type-wheel is then either hastened or retarded a little, as may be required, to bring the letter truly opposite the printing pad. The test of this is, simply repeating the same signal (suppose that of the repeat) several ti mes at equa l intervals. T h o means by which the machine cor rects itself at each letter, or at the commencement of work, is by means of a correctin g ca m—a solid wedge , pushed down into a bimilar hu:low wedge — one on the driving part, the other on the arbour of the W heel. The paper t o b e pr i nte d on i s coiled on a reel, and is drawn forward by the machine, and pressed up against the letter to be printed by the electric wave that brings the required letter or num ber to its place at the under side of the revolving wheel. The mechanical motions are produced by the force of a weight as it descends acting upon a train of wheels; a small bell rings when this weight is nearly run down, and the assistant winds it up by simply pressing his foot on a treadle. There are 28 keys, like the keys of a piano, each correspond ing to a letter or mark, as, say, a lull stop, or to a number, at pleasure. These admit of 5G variations, so that the possibility of varying signals i s near l y unlimited. When one of the keys corresponding to a letter is depressed, this brings a detent in contact with a pin corresponding to that letter on the cir cumference of the uniformly revolving type-wheel, stops it, and at the same time sends an electric wave to the distant station, which, by an elects o-magnet detaching,' a stmiisr detent, stops the mime letter for the instant, and by a revolving C5lll brought up presses the paper against the type, the impression of which is thus taken at the distant: station ; the 1 rising of the detent by the key rising to its pines s imultaneously stops the electric current, and each iwheel again starts into motion at the nine letter, as they had each been stopped exactly at the same Iletter, and so letter after letter is printed nearly as fast as the keys of a pianoforte can be moved. It was also pointed out that the instrument might be used as a chromescope ; and tables showing its application to the measurement of retardetiou in eebrneriee cables were contained in the report- An interesting letter from Biarritz, published in Galignani, is devoted to a description of the amuse ments of the Prince Imperial at this fashionable watering place. The Imperial residence, it is stated, stands on an eminence on the tourist's right as he enters the town from Bayonne. A deep hollow sctiarates the grounds from the buildings of Biarritz, so that they are en tirely isolated from the bustle of the watering-place. The villa is a large oblong building, apparently containing considerable accommodation, and sur rounded with lawns laid cut in the English fashion. The lawn from the villa on the town side slopes clown somewhat abruptly to the beach, having, however, at the bottom a wide piece of sward, whi c h. is shut out from public access by a ha-ha, defended by a strong wooden railing all round, to prevent accidents. Outside is an extensive green, at present somewhat injured in colour by dust and light sand, on which the fashionable world of Biarritz congre gate each afternoon to listen to the band of the regi ment quartered close by, to show off a collection of costumes unrivalled for expensive eccentricity and extravagance of colour, and most of all to have the satisfaction of often being very nearly in the com pany of the Empress and the Prince Imperial. In fact, the piece of sward of which I spoke above is the very spot on which the young Prince comes each afternoon to take healthy exercise with young com panions of his own age, or rather somewhat older, for the majority seem to be from about eight to thirteen. When I walked down yeeterday after noon about five to the place where the band was playing, tbc ground outside was thronged with fashionables walking ago It or seated, wElst inside were to be seen a considerable number of children, of both sexes, amusing themselves according to their phantasy. In the midst of the boys was the young Prince, and as I remained for some time close to the scene, I was able to form a tolerably ac curate judgment of his health, strength, and general b ear i n g. I should mention that a bridge is thrown over the water at one point, and there two guar dians were posted to admit every child without exception, provided he or she seemed by dress and appearance to belong to the more respectable classes of society. In fact, the latitude thus given is a first step toward imparting a popular character to the young Prince's education, and admirably calculated to give him self-reliance, and to accustom him to form a judgment for himself. The girls were in finitely more numerous than the boys, and, like the latter, ranged in age from eight to thirteen. The ostensible motive of the aggregation in both cases was youthful exercise, but the girls in almost every case seemed more fitly attired for a Ma tinCe clan sante. Nothing could exceed the extravagance of their dress, and as to play—in the frank, genial, and honest meaning of that delightful word—it was utterly out of the question. And so, the young ladies —I dare not designate them children—assembled apart, a little way up the grounds, but during the whole time I was there scarcely indulged in a single rue, so afraid they appeared to spoil or tumble their fine clothes. With the boys, the case was different, although they, too, were overdressed. The ne plus ultra of a boy's habiliment I have always heard to be such an attire as permits him themost complete command of all his movements, without bearing too much the mark of any casual tumble or accident, at the same time that it sets off the youthful person in the prevailing mode. But of all the gay and joyful company there collected, no one's dress came up to the definition just given so completely as that of the youthful Prince. He wore a dark-coloured suit of light material (alpaca, it struck me), short jacket and Basque trousers, something like what we call in England knickerbockers, with dark stockings, striped with violet crossways, and neat light uncle boots—a black and white straw hat with black band, the ends flying behind, completed his attire. He played with evident zest, and I never saw a child of his ego have more command of his limbs. He is a particularly swift runner, and from the ease of his movements ho gave me the idea of regular discipline by dancing or gymnastics. He is a far better-looking boy than anyone would suppose from his portraits, which convey the idea of heaviness in the upper part of the face, whereas the real cha racteristic of his look is open frankness and light ' heartedness. He certainly appears a particularly happy child, full of life, and eager for a game. Ho has a fine blue eye and white regular teeth, gleam ing out brightly when he smiles, which was rather frequently when any incident of the play struck his fancy. The boys were engaged in some thing like prison-bars, and the young Prince took his part fairly and readily with the rest. I saw no favour from the others because of his elevated sta tion ; all passed as may be constantly seen among the children of any educational establishment. A chair was placed a little apart for the Prince, in case he might like to rest, and he repaired to it occasionally, but so likewise did other boys; and I several times saw two of them on it together. Once the chair tumbled over as the Prince laid hold of it, and he very unconcernedly seated himself on the back part as it rested on the ground, and after wards raised his body a little in the air by strength of arm, the hands resting on the seat. There was, in fact, a visible s uperabundance of animal spirits which tried various devices to throw itself off. The w h o l e time I stood there I saw no i nterference w h a t e ver with the Prince —all was the happy and unrestricted amusement of boyhood. I did not per ceive the Empress, but some lady of the Court was seated in the grounds a little way distant, near a rustic bridge, and seemed to be the point of attrac tion to the girls. There was no other grown per. son inside the enclosure, and only one gentleman passed through across the bridge during the time I remained. My time being up, I withdrew, car rying with me the idea, when thinking of the young Prince, of a fine healthy, frank, intelligent boy, of whom any parent might be proud, whatever his rank in life. SUBTERRANEOUS RIVERS, like the one traversed by Sinbad the Sailor in the " Arabian Nights' En tertainments."—Rivers, sometimes those of considerable size, are often seen suddenly disappearing by plunging into the bowels of the earth, then suddenly reappearing a little further on, and filling anew their bed which they had left dry. Frequent examples of these geological peculiarities aro met with in Spain, in Asiatic Turkey, in Northern Africa, and in Greece. In these countries a considerable number of rivers is found whose exterior flow exists only during the rainy season, whilst they have a subterraneous flow which is permanent. Hence that denomination of Rio Seco, or dry river so common in the hydrography of Spain, and that of Oued-Beba-El-Ma, which in Arab expresses the same idea. These dry rivers, or rivers without water, present, for the most part, the aspect of sandy paths; but if we dig into the sand to a greater or less depth we find water which proceeds from the subterraneous flow that never ceases. It is this permanence of the subterraneous flow which dis tinguishes these rivers from ordinary torrents. The banks of the Ries Secos, or Oueds aro for the most part indicated by lines of verdure formed mainly by tamarisks and rose laurels, agreeably contrasting with the aridity, sometimes very great, of the countries which the rivers traverse. The total absorption of rivers which the earth again dashes forth after they have flowed for some time under its surface, offers sometimes an imposing spectacle. The Perte du Rhone, between Geneva and Lyons, is an example. In other in stances, on the contrary, the rivers skulk out of sight awk e molly and prosaically like a timid and clownish man try. hollow s o f ing to find his way through a half-opened door. The Meuse, i in the upper part of its course, illustrates this. Finally, it occasionally happens that current, like a graceful young girl playing at hide-and-seek, vanishes into the holl a lovely landscape, then beunds for th again from the midst of thickets of verdure. This is w hat takes p lac e with the Guadiana near the village o f Villa Robia in A n d a l us i a, called in the locality Los Ojos rte Guadiana--the Eyes of Guad ian a . FRIGHTFUL DEATH. — A wry tM s ton, Notts; accident occurred at on Thnrod a y last. It ap pears that a man named Timothy Coleman aril his wife were walking dawn the gangway at Selston. some waggon a were running along , and it is supp ose d that he was jump flog into the hist one, when he slipped and fell down, Mllet of the wheels passing over his head, part of which was all but cut off. Both his hands and arms were frightft:lly muti lated, and he was taken up quite dead. His wife was a short distance . off and did, not see the. accident occur. He has leitjt I=l4 of file ciaildren.