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THE LATEsu EDITION of " THE SUN' supplied, as soon as published every Evening by lik:NRY BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. SIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Isis DAY.—Morning, id, 40m.—Afternoon, Bh. 12m, f o-tiroußow.-Moraing, Sa. 48m.—Afternoon, 9h. 32m 4 , (I% n6l 'llll, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1864 It is quite time that something was done to im prove the physical condition of our troops in India, if we are to judge by the revelations of the Com• mission of Inquiry. There have indeed long been misgivings as to the defective sanitary arrange ments of our barracks and depots in that country, and since public attention has been called to the matter the rough figures which have been given have been startling enough to arouse the most in different. But the full particulars gathered by a commission of no mean weight or authority and ' laid by them before the War-office, leaves no excuse for future neglect or inattention to a subject in volving the lives of so many men. Politicians and statesmen of all grades pride themselves on their reluctance to involve us in war and their unwills ingness to sacrifice the lives of so many brave men, and the health and comfort of so many more as would necessarily be the result of a protracted struggle with any of the great Powers. But the yearly campaign of disease among our :Indian forces gives returns of killed and wounded that are overlooked. Whole regiments melt away, and where a thousand fine stalwart men land from England is one year, not less than a hundred remain eighteen or twenty years later without a shot being fired, or any military duty undcrtakrn to account for the deficiency. A special instance of the truth of these calculations is afforded by a return laid before the Commission by one Brigadier-General, showing that out of 1,064 non commissioned officers and men of his regiment, who arrived at Moulmein in 1842, only 93 landed in England after 17 years' service. The regiment that returned was, therefore, almost a new one ; and ss hen we aro further told that the mean term of Indian service is 8.6 years, and that 11 recruits are annually requisite to keep up a force of 100 men, we shall have some faint idea of the drain upon the physical strength and public exchequer of the country which is represented by the Anglo-ludlan arnaY• The natural question that follows is how f.r such an extravagant rate of mortality as 69 per 1,000 is traceable to the climate, the occupation, and other influences inseparabie from their profession. the rate of it appe ars that B ut mortality among the o fficers is only 88 p er 1.000, so that nearly one-halt of the deaths among the privates and non-commis sioned officers must be attributable to some other causes than the inevitable Qv i:s of an Indian life. Tae same difference is apparent between the deaths of English women 01 different ranks; the , wives of officers between the ages of 20 and 40 die at the rate of 14 in 1,000 whereas the wives of the non-commissioned officers and soldiers d:a at the rate of 35 per 1,000. It is e er y plain, therefore, that if the heat of an Indian sun has' anything to do with the extraordinary rate of mor tality, its effects can be in a great measure coun teracted. Among the chief reasons for the exces sive mortality among the men is their living and 'Leping in crowded barracks, while their Qfficers have their sgparate bungalows. The officers have another very great advantage. They are able, when ill, to move to a healthier spot, at least tem porarily, and can recruit their strength by the fresh breezes of the hills, The hills are India's native sanitarium, and the advantages which they have over the lower levels are clearly manifested in the children reared in the Lawrence Asylum, who are strong and healthy, looking, as a native chief remarked, like lions' cubs, while little Anglo Indians pine and droop unless sent to England in good time. The enforced idle ness of troops in barracks is an unmitigated evil even in England, but in India it is disastrous in its consequences. It induces the men to drink, and drink is one of the prime agents of disease in India. There is, therefore, as much practic.-„1 prudence as kindness in the new system of establishing regi mental workshops and allotting small gardens to the men. They have availed themselves most eagerly of the means thus offered to dispel the ennui of their aim less existence, and already the Commander•insChief is able to compliment the men at several stations on the result of their handiwork. Fresh vegetables and more wholesome food will also be attainable by means of the gardens, while the pleasant recrea• tion will draw off the men from the vicious indulp ences which have helped to swell the death rate. Besides the 69 per 1000 lost annually to the service it seems from the statistics furnished that 84 per 1000 in the stations of Bengal are, on an average, constantly in hospital. The average mortar lily in the native troops in twenty years was 8 per 1000; 19 per 1000 being the rate of the invaliding. Allowing for all difference of constitution, the commissioners attribute the chief part of the native superiority in point of health to ,he fact of their generally living with their families in small bamboo huts, instead of being crowded in barracks, where many sleep in one small, perhaps ill-ventilated, room. The Commissioners are san. guine that, from the experience now gathered, the mortality may be reduced from 69 to 10 per 1,000. It now remains for the public to watch carefully the progress of reform, and to see that official negli gence and indifference are not suffered to trifla with a matter so vitally important. Plenty of air espe cially in sleeping rooms, pure water, good food, and temperance appear to be the primary requisites for health in Indian stations as elsewhere, and they are none of them sufficiently unattainable to justify a rate of mortality four times as great as the highest in England. It is a pity that Lord PALMERSTON cannot learn the propriety of keeping silence at times. His conduct during the past session was not of a cha, racier to elevate his reputation, and it is a mistake for him to be perpetually referring to the policy of the Government. It would seem as if the mis guided course that was taken by the House this year had completely obliterated the sense of shame that ought to be experienced by all in power re garding the line adopted in the question of the Der o-German war. For a Minister to take credit to himself or his colleagues concerning our foreign policy at present is really quite absurd and a mockery to common sense persons. Lord PALMER STON seems to be one of those whose glory is their shame, and ho endeavours to put forth all the miss deeds of himself and his Foreign Secretary, for the purpose of pronouncing a laudation upon them, First of all, he begins with Poland, and congratu lates his hearers that we had not been reduced to lend our succour to the Poles; this ho declares to have been a great advantage. If it be true that it was not desirable for us to be involved in a war, it was not justifiable fur the noble lord at the head of Foreign Affairs to induce the Poles to believe that our sympathies were ail enlisted on their be. half, and that at the worst they would receive assistance. Then as to America, the course pursued by our Government has been most prejudicial for our interests in a commercial form, and created many evils in various ways, while their mean spirited subserviency to the Federals has been a disgrace to the country. Great as are the blunders and mis takes made in connection with other countries, however, nothing at all comes up to the enormity of the conduct pursued towards Denmark, and the remarks of the Premier on that subject are quite unwarrantable. Ile has adopted a tone at Tiverton that he dare not have used in the House of Commons, and it is perfectly scandalous that the First Minister of the Crown should employ such terms, in speaking of this coun try's resources, as he has done. Much may be allowed to speakers in the heat of debate, and, of course, all officiel personages get used to comment ing upon their management in a bombastic tone; bat it is too much when a man deliberately gets up and discourses as Lord PALMERSTON has done at Tiverton. It would have been better to have said that the Government did not see any call to go to war, and that the Danes had acted imprudently. Anything would have been better than to traduce the fame of England and the character of her army to cover the errors of policy, of which he must be at heart ashamed. Everyone at ell competent to judge of the affair must know that England is more than a match for Germany at any time, and for Lord PALMERSTON to state that we could not have succeeded in rescuing the Danes from the grasp of their greedy foes is perfectly preposterous. Such language will lower him in the esteem of all inde pendent persons, and. for ever diminish the influence that he ought to possess in the country. It is, in deed, seldom that one in his high position so com promises himself. It is almost incredible that the Prime Minister of this country should thus ex press himself:--" We have no means of sending out a force at all equal to cope with the three or four hundred thousand whom the Germans could have pitted against us, aad such an attempt would only have insured a disgraceful discomfiture not to the army indeed, but to the Government which sent out an inferior force and expected it to cope w ith a force so vastly superior l' If the Government have escaped discomfiture they have decidedly reaped a double rshare of elk ' grace by their dastardly conduct. What can Lord PALMERSTON mean by thus scattering to the winds the reputation of a long career, and throwing away the renown he, has won by half a century's service to his country. There was a time, in past days, when his name sounded stirring in the ears of the enemies of this country ; it was a trumpet blast to remind them that England possessed a minister with spirit to defend her rights, and enterprise to consider the affairs of other nations. It was, indeed, very suitable that Lord PALMERSTON should have endeavoured to pass an eulogium on the peace party—it is on the principle of making friends with the mammon of unrighteousness—and certainly the only consistent part of his speech. If he has rightly read the history of his country he must have seen that in the battles where the English gained enduring renown, their num bers were always inferior to those of their adversa ries. Surely it is too much for the impertinent exaggeration of ministerial parlance to assert that the German legions are to be compared to th e armies of NAPOLEON. It is but seldom in the hiss tory of the world that such a military genius appears, and if wo could conquer his battalions, flashed with their unrivalled success, it is ridi. 1 culous to speak of the GimecAn troops as inyini ' - THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1864. cible. It is indeed true that, at present, there seems no prospect of a PITT or a Fox to rule our councils, or a WELLINGTON to lead forth our armies; but the national spirit is not dead, and that is the true secret of self-reliance. When Lord PALMERSTON talks of sending a fleet in mid winter to the Baltic, he chooses to forget that the spring was far advanced before any of the more decisive engagements took place in the late war. If it is to be broadly asserted that the course of our policy is to take care of ourselves and let others take their chance, it will be a ruinous one; and let the country bo ever so great, ever so rich, or aver so strong, the seeds of decay will be sown in her constitution. It is time we had statesmen at the head of affairs who recognise some principles of justice and conform to some notions of honour. At present we present the picture of a great nation always ready to make a boastful parade of our strength, and never willing to prove it ; and while we rush in to interfere with all foreign questions, we retire in unseemly haste when our mediations are treated with deserved contempt and no resource is left but an appeal to arms. Such a course is most derogatory to the character of a people, and it is most lamentable that our present Cabinet should have pursued so reckless a path of policy. Nothing is easier than to compromise one's character politically or otherwise, and nothing is more difficult than to rehabilitate it. Perhaps the recent speech of Lord PALMERSTON at Tiverton is the most suicidal act of his long career. He openly identifies himself with the clique who have set out with the dishonourable cry that we cannot fight; such are far more contemptible than the peace at any price party, who are at least consistent. The language that was uttered at Tiverton was not suit able for an English Statesman, not in accordance with the knowledge that should be possessed by a public man of so much experience, but, above all, it was unworthy of the position of the First Minister of the Crown. Declaration of the Danish Plenipotentiaries. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) BERLIN, Aug. 22. According to the tenour of the armistice protocol signed by the Plenipotentiaries of Prussia, Austria, and Denmark upon the Ist inst., the Danish pri soners of war were to be set at liberty upon the assurance being given that they should not serve again in the Danish army until the conc:uiion of peace. By order of their Government, therefore, Lbe Danish Plenipotentiaries in Vienna have de• livered the following declaration to the Prussian Ambassador in that capital : Vienna, Aug. 8, 1864. The protocol signed upon the Ist inst., in execution of Article 4 of the peace preliminaries concluded the same day between Denmark upon the one part and Prussia and Aus tria upon the other, contains the following stipulation in its Sth paragraph : " Prisoners of war and political prisoners will be liberated upon the assurance that:the prisoners of war shall not serve in the Danish army before the conclusion of peace." In reference to this stipulation, the undersigned Pleni potentiaries of his Majesty the King of Denmark, by order of their Government, have the honour to give by these pre sents to Baron Werther, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Prussia, the formal assurance that the Danish prisoners of war at pre sent detained in the States of his Majesty• the King of Prussia will not serve in thd Danish army before the con• elusion of peace. The undersigned take this opportunity of offering to his Excellency Baron Werther the assurance of their high consideration. (Signed) QUAADE, KAUFFMANN. The Grouse Season. At Gannochy Loe.ge, on Saturday, Capt. Pearoth killed 531 ; brae s of grouso and 1 rabbit; Captain O'Hara, 20 Brace and 2 snipes ; the Hon. CharL!s Carnegie, M.P., 20 brace and 2 snipes; and Capt. Carnt gte Lour, 301 brace, 2 hares, end 4 rabbits. On Cordovon Moors, Viscount Holmesdale, M.P., and Sir Edmund Phillimore, MT., on the 12th, bagged 30 brace of grouse on the moors attached to the Lodge. On the same moors en Friday last, Viscount Holmesdale and party were out again grouse shooting, and bagged 32 brace. On Satur day Lord Holmesdale went out deerstalking and was successful in bringing down, right and left, two noble stags on the hill to the north-west of Iver cauld House. One of these stags possessed a fine head. The Hon. George S. Duff was out deer staking in the Alton 0 wer Forest on Thursday last killing a fine stag. The Earl of Fife, on Monday week, when on his way to Crocklach Lodge, Glen dee,lo go out grouse shooting, was fortunate in get ting a capital stalk on a fine herd of deer. His lord ship brought down three r ( Oendidstags,one of which weighed list. 12ib. clean, and had a magnificent Royal head. Another stag weighed upwards of 15st. avoirdupois. Since then the noble earl has been grouse shooting daily on the Baynoch Moors adjoining the Croclach Lodge, and has had excel lent sport during the week, killing upwards of 120 brace. On Thursday he had the best day's sport of the week, bagging 31 brace grouse. On the Glen callater moors good sport was got by Mr John Marshall, Gilbert Wilkinson, Esq., and party bag ging daily from 20 to 30 brace grouse, 30 brace being the highest reached on any day of the week. On these moors there are plenty of birds, but there is the usual complaint that they are very strong and wild, and, to use a gamekeeper's phrase, are "packing," or collecting together into large flecks on the moors, which materially impedes the progress and success of the sport.—. Dundee Advertiser. On the 12th August Messrs. Gerald Fitzgerald and two friends killed, at Gawe, Dingwall, 95 grouse, 5 hares, and 2 woodcocks. Shooting small, birds plentiful ; since the 12th sport has been good. On Farr Moor, near Inverness, Messrs. Joseph W. Pease, John \V. Pease, and H. F. Pease, killed 166 grouse and 25 hares. The broods were generally good and strong ; a considerable number of barren birds, the result of the snow in May, caused the bags to be light. The 12th and 13th were exceed ingly hot ; for the last four days the weather has been wet and unfavourable. CASTLE CARR MOORS, NEAR HALIFAI.—CoIoneI Edwards, M,P., entertained a succession of visitors this year, as usual, including his sans, Viscount In gestre, H, W. Wickham, M.P., Mr. Alfred Dan combe, Hon, Colonel Duncome, Lord Warneliffe, Sir J. Lyster Kaye, Bart, Sir S. Armytege, Bart, Graver Browne, Esq., Hon Captrin Lawley, Gen, Hall, Captain Dearden and Rowland Winn, Esq. The weather has been very fine and the sport excel lent. The three first days 406 brace were shot over the dogs ; the five days following 703 brace in "driving," the total bag in the first eight days being 1109 brace.—Halifax Guardian. LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGE STIENS.—We are sup rounded by forests which are infested with ele phants, buffaloes, rhinoceros, tigers, and wild boars, and the ground all about the pools is covered with their footprints. We live almost as in a besieged place, every moment dread ing some attack of the enemy, and keeping our guns con stantly loaded. Sometimes they come close to our quarters, and we cannot go even a few steps into the woods without hearing them. As a general rule, however, they fly from the approach of man, and in order to get a shot it is neces sary to lie in wait, either among the branches of a tree, or hidden amid the brushwood near the spots where they come to drink. Scorpions, centipedes, and, above all, serpents, were the enemies we most dreaded, and against which pre cautions were chisfly requisite; but the matquitoes and the leeches, though less dangerous, were the most troublesome and most inveterate plagues. During the rainy sesaon you cannot be too much on your guard ; going to bed or getting up, you are ever in peril in putting your hand or foot on some veuemous snake. I have killed more than one in my house with a gun or hatchet. As I write I am obliged to be continually on the watch, fearing to sea one re-appear on which I trod this evening, but which made his exit without hurting me. From time to time, also, I stop to listen to the roaring of a tiger, who is wandering round our dwelling and looking longingly at the pigs through their fence of planks and bambocs. Again, 1 hear a rhinoceros breaking down the bamboos which oppose his progress towards the brambles encircling our garden, on which he intends to banquet.—Jinhere Travels fr; pglat,China. LATEST INTE.LLIGENGE. (REUTER'S ETLEGRAMS.) THE CAPE MAIL. PLYMOUTH, Auc. 25. The Cape mail steamship Athens arrived here this morning. She left the Cape on ae 21st, Helena 30th, and Ascension on the 3d. The Athens brings 72 passengers, including the Hon. Mr Raw. son, the late Colonial Secretary, who has been ap pointed Governor of the Bahamas, Colonels J. G. Rawstorne and Ker, Mrs, Stoltz, and seven children of the Moravian mission. Parliament was still in session. The vhole of the Government texing bills had passed, together with a bill to provide fur the formation of a sinking fund. Business continued dull, and money was seeking for investments. There was every prospect of a good harvest, the extent of land brought under cu)tivation exceeding the average of the previous Tears. Owing to the stoppage of the Government works, a large number of working men had flockec to Cape Town for employment, which could only be )btained at low remuneration. The intimation that free passages to lvew Zea land would shortly be offered by the Government of that colony, had induced numbers to determine to emigrate there. The prices of all kinds of colonial grown provi sions were low. The bishop of Cape Town had returned from Natal, where he was very warmly receives. The barque Saxon seized by the Unitel States steamer Vanderbilt, at Angra Pequina, but released by the New York Prizo Court, had returned to Table Bay. Further news had arrived from the frontier of dissensions among the natives, and war between some of the tribes was considered certain. The small-pox had also broken out among them in the neighbourhood of Griqua Town. In Damaraland two commandos were going out against the Hottentots to recover cattle stolen bS them. The Athens mails have been landed here, and forwarded by to.day's trains. SWITZERLAND. GENEVA, AITG. 25. The Grand Council of Geneva have decided to submit the affair of the late election to the judgment of the Federal Council. The town is tranquil, AUSTRIA. VISIT OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO BADEN BADEN. VIENNA, AUG. 24, Evening. The King of Prussia will proceed to-morrow, via Stuttgard, to Baden-Baden, where his *Majesty will probably remain until the 9th of September. SPAIN. AtiG. 24, Evening. The Correspondencia of to-day proposes an in crease of the Customs duties on the importation of foreign textile fabrics. The Epoca replies that it would b 3 better to abolish those on the raw material. FRANCE. ST. ETIENNE, AUG. 21 (Evening) A banquet took place here this evening in cm sequence of the Assembly of the Council General for the _Department of the Loire. The Duke de Persigny, who presided, provad the health of Napoleon 111,, " the founder of liberty in France." The Duke's speech was:a complete re view of the theory of the Imperial constitutim He showed the form of liberty to vary with every free people. " The present physiognomy of liberty, properly so called," said N. de Persigny, " may be recognised by the striking signs of the solidity and duration of the governments which it founds, and above all ,by the passion it inspires for great things,' M. de Persigny then demonstrated that the psli. tical institutions of England are not adapted for France. "It not being possible,' he continued, "for authority and liberty to remain in the hands of one class as in England. Instead of subordinating one class to another, it was natural to render them independent, and this is the fundamental principle of our institutions." The Speaker further said:—" In order that the liberty of the press may be a benefit, it is necessary, in a country newly constituted, that a new, vigorous, and independent political generation should arias to replace the minds enervated by revolution." "Some journals," says the Putrie, " have spoken of the approaching dep Irture of the Emperor for the camp of Chalons. Tne exact day is not yet fixed, but the expectation is that his Majesty will leave St. Cloud between the 26th and the 28th, to remain absent only five or six days. Some change may be made in this arrangement in consequence of the arrival of Prince Humbert, the precise day when his royal highness will reach Paris not being known. Nothing has yet been decided respecting the visit which the Imperial family makes each Sear to Biarritz." The Dresden Journal publishes a note contra. dieting the statement made by the journals that the occupation of Lauenburg by the Federal troops had given rise to differences between Hanover and Saxony, and that a note containing complaints had been sent to the Saxon Government on the sabject. The Dresden Journal affirms that no note or any other communication has been received fora the Hanoverian Government relative to the iffair of Lauenburg. The Si ec le makes the following observations on the li ne o f con d uc t which the Emperor iljaxi milian has adopted in his new States :—"The i n . telligeuee from Mexico refers to the inbatience with which the first reforms of t he new haperor are look e d f or w ar d t o . That prince has found out the means of exciting in the highest decree the curiosity of his new subjects, who all, like 'he Jews on Mount Sinai, stretch forth their handA for the new law. Previous governments simply t2Oll pos session of the authority with an abundant supply of constitutions, decrees, and regulations )repared beforehand, and in that way they inaugurated era of h app i ness prom i s ed, but, alas ! alwtys post poned. the In doing s o they showed but littl3 adroit ness; the illusions and hopes were too soon dissipated, and the discontented quickly manifested their dis pleasure or their disappointment by renewing the hardly-interrupted series of conspiracies and pronunciamien tos. Maximilian proceeds in a dif ferent m anner . Sl u t u p i n th e p a l a ce which crowns the hill o f C apu l tepec , he envelops nimsel in si l e n c u and myst er y. R umour d ec lares that he is occupied in dark manipulations of systems destined t o recon struct the governmental machine—tc efface the wrinkles of the Mexican people alretidy afflicted with signs of a premature old age. At four in the morning the Emperor is on foot, interrogating, noting, studying, and labouring in his great 'work. This activity, unusual in those climates, has pro cured him the admiration of the foreign residents. The Mexicans themselves are, however, bat slightly touched with this ardour, which they do not under stand. They are above all astonished at being kept at a distance, and not being able to treat their monarch with the familiarity which formerly existed between them and their presidents. Lastly, they are impatient at the long period of gustation, the end of which they cannot foresee, and the authors of the celebrated report which declared for the Mexican monarchy can hardly explain the hesi tations and scruples of their elected, for in his place they would have presented a hundred solutions for his one. By a rather singular revulsion, the clergy and the reaction, which ought to love the sovereign of their choice, 'nave arrived at the point of fearing him; on the other hand, the honourable men of the Liberal party, whilst keeping at a distance, how ever, seem to show a certain sympathy towards Maximilian as a private man." BOURSE, Aug. 22.—The market has been again heavy, and Stock and other Securities have been offered. Threes, for the Account, however, remain unvaried at 66fr. 30c., but Mobilier have declined to 9957 r. 50c. Railway Market also dull, with lower quotations for several of the lines. The mar ket became rather firmer towards the close, and left as follows : 4t per Cents .. 94 45 Do. end 1 per Centa Do. send month..., 66 20 Credit Mobilier..., 097 50 Do • end raonth....looo Bank Shares 3360 Credit Fonciei 1210 Italian Loan 67 50 Do. end month 67 55 Ditto Threes — New Mexican 66a Russian Austrian Roman Spanish Threes.., 4P [Tonle Debt Deferred ILA IL AltB. Cash. Account. Orleans - 6 BB 6BB 75 .. 885 Northern Lyme and Mediterranean 915 .. 917 50 Southern 637 60 .. 638 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 538 75 .. 538 75 North of Spain Saragossa .. .. 498 75 .. 497 50 Ditto to Barcelona .... The Vitrified Forts of Scotland. A correspondent of the Daily Review, we observe, has been recently starting a new theory as to the origin and use and purpose of those remarkable objects generally known as Vitrified Forts. The theories hitherto propounded in connection with the subject may be briefly stated. Dr Anderson, who was among the first to draw attention to the matter, gives it as his opinion, in the Archooloyia, that the vitrification of these forts is an effect designed by their builders. He supposes that the ramparts or walls were first built of such common stones as the place afforded, and in the cour;,e of building all the interstices between the rude and, rough stonework was filled up with vitrescible iron ore common enoueh in the northern parts of the island. The wall being at last finished in this manner, a brushwood fire was kindled all around it, which, melting the vitrescible ore, the whole would become connected into a wore or less co• hwent mass in proportion to the intensity of the heat and the time the fire lasted. As the country then abounded with wood, there would be no scarcity of fuel. Such is the first theory. The second, that of Mr Tytler, is this :—These forts were places of defence—a sturdier sort of Caledonian palls designed by our unconquerable quasi Maori ancestors. According to this theory, they first began the fort by erect• ing a strong double row of palisades, the outline of the in tended structure. These palisades er upright stakes were probably warped across and closely interwoven with branches of trees and such brushwood as was at hand. Into the in termediate space between the double row of palisades or wooden fences thus formed, all sorts of rubbish, stones of every description, earth, branches, stems, and roots of trees, were thrown; little care or trouble being necessary, all tha was wanted being the filling up of the vacant space between the palisade rows, to the required height, indeed, but any how and with the readiest materials that came in the way. The fortification thus formed some neighbouring enemy would attack, literally, with fire and sword—fire first, which meeting with so much ready fuel in the closely interwoven double row of palisades, would burn fiercely, acting upon the intermediate stone conglomeration which would thus become vitrified. The third theory is Sir G. Sinclair's. He supposes that from fear of invasion, or otherwise in prospect of hostile attack from some neighbouring tribe, the natives of a remote period selected a conspicuous spot, naturally a hill top, for lighting beacon fires upon for the purpose of spreading an alarm from one part of the country to another. To prevent these fires from being spread about and scattered by the wind, they piled heaps of stones to leeward of the fires, and hence the vitrification. To ourselves we confess none of these theories is quite satisfactory. But supposing them to have been designed as places of defence, we should meantime be more inclined to go with Dr. Anderson's views than with those of his brother theorists, The new theory to which we have alluded, and which is to be found in a well-written communication to the Daily Review of July 12th, is, that the hills or duns on which we find what are called vitrified forts, were in truth the mountain altars of the ancient fireworahippers. The author argues his case in a very able manner. We refer our readers to the article itself. Our object at present is merely to draw attention to the subject, and to assure the writer of an otherwise very clever paper, that on one point at least he is quite wrong, He sees, or pretends to see, that the vitrified walls are never found to be circles, but ell pses, and supposing a central fire in the focus of these ellipses, he coolly comes to the conclusion that this would be a designed though rade re presentation of the heay. nly motions, " according (he says) to the Copernican system, which was derived from Pytha goras from the East, whence the system of fire worship originally came," ergo, these are the works of the worship pers of fire or of the sun, and at a period long anterior to the Christian era. All we have time to say at present is, that there is not the shadow or a shade of proof, probability, nor, we had almost said, of possibility, that the ancient fire worshippers knew anything whatever of ellipses or their foci either. The circle and the circle only—the most simple, and perfect, and beautiful of curves—was alone known to the ancient ire worshippers, and held by them as sacred, and by it only. Let us further add, for upwards of five thousand long years, was it ever attempted by the astro nomers of each age to account for the planetary motions, The ellipse, it is true, was known to the mathematicians of ancient Greece, and its properties, very different from the properties of the circle, may, for all we know, have afforded them an amusing subject of speculation, but nothing more. Neither they nor the astronomers of many succeeding cen turies ever once thought of erecting the ellipse in the heavens, and making the solar system move harmoniously in obedience and subservience to its laws. This was re served for the immortal Kepler, who quite in modern times —about the time, that is, that our own James VI. ascended the English throne—after long years of undaunted perseve rance and toil, was the first to announce to the world the hitherto undreamt of truth that " planets revolve in elliptic orbits about the sun, which occupies the common focus of all the orbits." This is Kelper's first great law, deservedly entitling him to be styled "The morning star of modern astronomical science." What then, let us ask the ingenious author of the new vitrified forts' theory, what in the uni verse —(the term is surely fitting here, if anywhere)—what did or could the ancient fire worshippers know of the ellipse or its foci? What did Pythagoras or Copernicus either ? Absolutely nothing ; as far at least as we now know it in its connexion with the laws which regulate the movements of the heavenly bodies. The new theory must stand or fall without any help whatever from an "ellipse" or a "focus" and their introduction at all, so inopportunely and irrele vantly, into the discussion, has, we confess, not a little assisted in strengthening our other objections against an otherwise very plausible and ingeniously argued out hypothesis, THE MURDER OF MR. BRlGGS.—lntelligence may be anticipated in the course of a few days, possibly hours, that the suspected murderer Muller is in the hands of justice; as the Victoria, in which he sailed, had been out 30 days when the steamer left which would bring the mail due to-morrow (Friday). If the arrange ments of Inspector Tanner, the chief of the metropolitan police, and Sergeant Clarke, assisted by the New York authorities, should be successful, the American officers will board the Victoria in the open roadstead, acccompanied by the English officers. The American police will arrest Muller and take him before the proper authorities at New York. The warrant will then be produced by Mr Tanner, and evidence given of the alleged complicity of Muller in the murder ; and should that evidence be considered suffi cient, he will be remitted to England, and for that purpose be given into the custody of the English officers. In the event of their not being any steamer leaving within a con venient period of the magisterial examination at New York being concluded, although Muller may have been given up to Mr 'Tanner's charge, he will ba kept in ward in the House of Detention there until the departure is fixed, when he will be taken on board the steamer by the English officers of justice, accompanied by the New York police, and when safe on shipboard left entirely in charge of Chief Inspector Tanner and Sergeant Clarke. ACCIDENT FROM FlRE.—Yesterday morning the family of Mr Chetwynd, Gordon-terrace, Highbury, were aroused from their sleep, between one and two o'clock, by loud screams and cries for help issuing from the sleeping apartment of Miss Maynard, who was on a visit to the family. On proceeding to her room they discovered the lady with her nightdress and the bedding on fire. She had, it appears, fallen asleep while reading in bed, and the candle falling set the bedding on fire. Mr Chetwynd smothered• the flames with a carpet, but the young lady is shockingly burnt, and not expected to recover. THE ATTACK ON MOBILE.—What if the report of the Federal success of Mobile should turn oat to be a fabrication ? The telegram forwarded by General Butler to President Lincoln announcing Farragut's victory has a very suspicious appearance. It purports to be taken from the Richmond Sentinel of the Bth, on which day the paper must have reached Butler, as he telegraphed the so called official despatch of General Maury, at three p.m. of the same day, to Washington. How could General Butler have ;ot the Richmond paper at Bermuda Hundred on the Bth. And is it probable that the Confederate Secretary of War eould publish such intelligence? Fourteen of Far ragut's fleet are stated to be wooden ships, and only four ironclads—one of which, the Tecumseh, was sunk by Fort Morgan. The action took place at the entrance of Mobile Bay, thirty miles from the city, on the .sth instant, and was telegraphed the same day to Richmond. Now, though it may be true, it certainly looks very like a stock -jobbing canard, --,Liverpool Courier, LITERATURE. Guilty, or Not Guilty. A Novel. By Mrs Gordon Smythies, author of " Cousin Geoffrey." Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. It would be somewhat akin to the famous im. 1 possibility of "breaking a butterfly upon a wheel," to subject a work of this class to the ordinary rules of criticism. As the gay orange binding which forms the external decoration of its cover is only calcu lated to please the eye and adorn the boudoir-table, so in like manner the highly extravagant and alto gether impossible marvels which it contains, told as they are in Mrs Gordon Smythies' gay and lively manner, are only intended to amuse and entertain the reader. " Guilty, or Not Guilty" is just the book for the sea■side and the circulating library. Full of adventure and vicissitude, the story never flags; the author never seems to grow weary; the reader is constantly amused—although occasionally the smile is raised at the expense of the fair autho ress when some over-extravagant incident or description taxes the credulity of the most credulous sensationalist. The first volume opens with a Countess of Rockalpine seated in her dressing-room. " The large oval mirror is draped with lace and muslin, and looped up with pink ribbons," &c. Mrs. Smythies is a little too tend of such nzinutice. She not only describes a banquet but enumerates the dishes; she not only conducts us to the ball-room but explains to us all the mysteries of the toilette of the danseuse. It is true she excels in such descriptions, as, for example, when the fair heroine makes her debut at a ball in Paris. We are told that the Empress's milliner and dressmaker, "the great Mdme. Roget," was consulted. With the enthusiasm of genius she threw her whole heart and soul into Edith's ball dress"—" for Edith she was inspired." The result, of course, is mare vellous. " Nothing in such exquisite taste, so fairy-like, so aerial, so becoming, so costly, so light, so chaste, and yet so rich, had ever been seen, even in Paris ! No wonder that Edith, thus apparelled, is the admired of all. Even her own mother, the haughty Lady Ilauteville, who had not seen her for some years, having sent her abroad with a chaperone for her health, does not recognise her. This amiable and noble lady and her elder daughters are accustomed, in the elegant language of Bel gravia, to speak of the fair and delicate Edith as " the carrotty cripple !"—no wonder they fail to recognise her in the ball-dress of Madame Beget ! But we are talking of balls and ball-dresses, when in the volumes now beside us there is matter far more attractive. What will the novel-readers say for the treat in store for them, when we tell them that we have here no less than two murders—two real murders—one in the first volume and one in the second; in both of which the victims are actual lords, and for each of which an innocent man is arrested! We have three elopements—in one instance two sisters going off together. We have four different incarcerations of different people in a madhouse, in two of which the victims are perfectly in their senses, and the heroine is three times rescued from death by the hero at the peril of his life. In fact, it is almost impossible to enumerate all the marvels to be met with in these pages ; and comedy is so in termingled with the tragedies that, when Mrs. Smythies calls upon us to sympathise with a tender love scene, in which a most euphoniously-named lover whispers to his beloved, "Doesn't she see how her poor Tight-Blower loves the ground she treads on ?" &c., we must confess that we feel bewildered as to whether we are expected to regard the scene as belonging to the sublime or the ridiculous! We will not spoil the mystery of the tale by any fur ther revelation of its secrets. The three brilliant volumes—brilliant without and animated within— will wile away many an idle hour and afford no little entertainment, and let the amused reader, on concluding a perusal of the whole work, pronounce whether, in our estimate of its contents, we our , selves are "Guilty, or Not Guilty." The Late Sir Charles Justin Macarthy. One more name must be added to the roll of able men to whom our Eastern possessions have brought distinction and death. Sir Charles 1‘. , 1 acarthy, Governor of Ceylon, has died at Spa from a disease which he contracted in that island, and which he allowed to gain a fatal hold on his constitution be fore he consented to abandon, even for a time, the important interests there confided to his charge. A life spent in the colonial service of this country, even when eminently successful, effords few occa sions for fame, and men like Sir Charles Macarthy or Sir Edmund Head must look forward to the op portunities of later years to win for them the public repute which their abilities fully deserve. This was eminently the case with the late Governor of Ceylon. He was a man of the most apprehensive intelligence and of the most varied learning. An elegant, though hardly profound, classical scholar, his command of the great instruments of modern language was sin gularly complete. In French, Italian, and German he possessed not only the facility, but the graces of speech, not only the power of a ready writer, but the finest discrimination of a master of style, and, as he passed from one nationality to another, the delight at the charm of his diction was only exceeded by the wonder at his familiarity with every litera ture. These were the materials out of which he and his friends hoped and believed that, after the labours and anxieties of public life, he would be enabled to build up a name of intellectual worth to the honour of the country that had recognised his talents and employed his more active energies. Now, this cannot be. The distant province, which for many years has been familiar with hie genial presence and sagacious administration, will receive with earnest sorrow the tidings of a loss here hardly felt or known beyond the narrow circles of private or official life. But it is well to record that Sir C. Macarthy entered the public service as superinten dent of one of the smallest of our West Indian de pendencies, and in that insignificant sphere gave evidence of the rare capacity that can handle the least and the gravest matters with equal accuracy and adroitness, and which, though capable of the largest inductions, is not indifferent to the lightest details. On returning home on leave of absence from his post, he attracted the attention of the heads of his department, and was soon transferred to more serious and responsible duties. Thence, solely by the due appreciation of his powers and their exercise, he rose to the important and lucrative Government now vacated by his decease. Short as was his en joyment of wealth and dignity, it is something to have shown that the tastes and accomplishment of letters are not irreconcileable with the careful die. charge of official functions and the wise manage ment of the concerns of State, and that our institu tions permit such a man as Sir Charles Macarthy to compete successfully with the discreet, mediocri ties of intellect, and the ouperiorities of birth and fortune.— Times. Loss OF LIFE IN THE THAMES. —Yesterday morning one of the crew of a barge fell into the river, off Cuckold's Point. The poor fellow, whose name was John Paddiford, instantly made for the boat lying astern of the barge, whilst his companions endeavoured to render him assistance, but before lie could be rescued the tide had swept him away, and he was drowned. THE LATE TRAGEDY ON BOARD AN INVERNESS VESSEL.—On Saturday the body of a man was picked up out at sea, a little above the port of Sunderland, by a tug belonging to the port. When brought to the dead 'house, it was identified as that of Wm. Duffey, one of the men belonging to the collier Rosemary, of Inverness, three of whose crew fell overboard on the 3d July, when off Souter Point. Our readers will remember that on the above date the Rosemary left Sunderland between 12 and 1 o'clock at night, with a crew consisting of the captain and three men, and about two hours afterwards the collier was brought into port with only the captain ( Alexander Ross) on board, the whole of the others having, whilst quarrelling, fallen over board. The tragedy at the time caused great excitement and much speculation, as the disappearance of the men was somewhat shrouded in mystery. The body found has been in the water seven weeks, and when found was floating, and in a dreadful state of decomposition. In his pockets were found two sixpences, some coppers, a short catty pipe, and a quantity of tobacco. Wm. Duffey belonged to Inverness, was married, and left a widow and two children to mourn his untimely end. It has been reported that a week ago the body was seen floating near to the place where the above was picked up. It is supposed to have been that of another of the men belonging to the collier. The names of the other two unfortunate men were Chas. Munro and Hugh M'Kaye, the mate of the vessel, —Edinburgh 4evicw, F-_ , -- ~, '4 L r . Ml's _ -- EU:Mk , c - / HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, August 24. Her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Litut.-Colonel Du Plat, The Prince and Princess of Wales. The wooda of Abergeldie were beaten for deer on Saturday last, when the Prince of Wales v«as ac" companied by Lord Hamilton and Major Teesdale. One stag fell to the gun of the gallant major. Bad weather prev:.iled, as the wind was very rough, e-nd lain fell heavily. During the day the Princess of , Wales drove out, accompanied by Princess Mary of Cambridge. Another ball was to be held at Abergeldie last night, when the tenantry on the Birkhall estate were to be invited. The Prince and Princess of Wales and Princess Mary of Cambridge are expected to be present at the approaching Braemar Gathering. In all pro" bability the princesses, who will accompany the Queen to Balmoral, will be also present. Shortly after that event the Prince and Princess of Wal es leave Scotland for Denmark. It is understood that his royal highness is about to erect a palace at Abergeldie, and that Mr Smith , Aberdeen, the architect for Balmoral Castle, i s pre paring the designs. Foreign Courts. PARIS, August 24. " After the official reception at the Spanish Eca` busy," says the Union, " the King of Spain Paid a visit to Count Aquilla, his uncle, and we have been assured that the interview was most cor dial) and full of sympathy on the part of the King for the misfortune of the royal house of Naples. Oa the following day Count Aquila went to see Ilia nephew at the palace of St. Cloud." Prince Napoleon has arrived in Paris on his r e ; turn from his excursion to Scotland. His yac il d entered•the port of Havre yesterday morning, a n the prince immediately left by rail for the capital.. M. Mora, the Mexican Minister to the Courts 01 Russia, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, left Paris las t evening for the purpose of notifying to the Govern," ments ti which he is accredited the accession of his Sovereign, the Emperor Maximilian I. General Marquis de Grouchy, senator, has just died in Paris. The Count and Countess de Paris a t Twickenham. Yesterday afternoon the public reception of the Count and Countess de Paris (whose recent oaf', riage at the Kingston Roman Catholic Chap el be well remembered) took place at York fi clse ' Twickenham, on their return from spending the honeymoon. In order to welcome them hom e wit proper rejoicings a subscription had been previously G made among the inhabitants of Twickenham , a nd g a committee appointed (of which the Be v ' . - 0 ; Master, the vicar, was chairman) for the P ar P, "e decorating the approaches leading to York Houser their future home. Great preparations had been made in the village for the entry of the Count and Countess,and Church' street and the various roads leading to the house were decorated with flags, banners, and mottoes, while the approaches nearest the mansion were gal with coloured poles, ornamented with shields bear ing the arms of the ex-royal family of France, the flew , delis being every where conspicuous. A tri umphal arch, formed of flowers, banners, and escut cheons surmounted by the word " Welcome" la large letters, and crowned with a coat of arms and coronet, had been constructed, while from the poles already mentioned hung bright garlands of flowers and streamers of every hue, forming, with the ira4 mense crowd of spectators which had assembled near the entrance, a gay and lively scene. Shortly before four o'clock the members of the committee, consisting of the Rev. G. S. Master, Mr H. G. Bohn, and other gentlemen, took up a posi tion near the gate of the mansion in order to pro sent an address, while near the spot the band of the 16th South-West Middlesex Volunteers were stem tioned, and agreeably diversified the proceedings - with their music. A few minutes afterwards the Count and Countess de Paris arrived in an open carriage amid merry peals of bells from the parish church and a royal salute of 21 guns fired from the ait. ° 3 • reaching the gate the carriage was brought to a standstill, while the Rev. G. S. Master read an address of congratulation and welcome. The address, which was engrossed on fine vel - and beautifully illuminated, was then presented to the count, who, in a speech which could hardly. be heard from the noise of the cheering, r eturned thanks, and trusted that he and the countess would enjoy that happiness the wish for which had been so kindly tendered by the inhabitants of Twieke" ham. Mr Bohn then read a history of York Notre, which was also handed to the count, after which Mrs Master and Miss Bohn presented the Coun tess de Paris with two bouquets of choice flowers, which were most courteously received, and the carriage immediately afterwards drove through the count triumphal arch to the mansion, where the and countess alighted and prcceeded to the ivy' covered wall of the river front. In the nite ath"r beneath this (to the number of about 1,300) of the various pa!'°,, wall, and opposite the ait, th e childrea chial schools had been collected. These carried' numerous flags and banners; and on the appear ance of the Count and the Countess de Paris _ and the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier cheering was excessive. Each child was afterwards e presented with a fourpenny piece in mem or y of the event ; and the proceedings of the day were agree ably ably brought to a close by a display o f firewore: o on the river, the barge from which they were (Its charged being decorated with lamps and flew, de wit 4111 s, while the streets of Twickenham were the illumination proceeding from the shops houses of the principal tradesmen. bright wad lii. Excellency the Austrian Ambassador Oa the CourLtess App o nyi returned to Chandos Hous e yester day from visiting the Earl and Countess Russell at lirobaru Abbey, Beds. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland Ar 6 expected to arrive At Northumberland House toll2°ll.cw. lea ve f rom Sion House. On the foll ow i ng day they Will town for the North. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have their arrived at Tarbet House, in the north of Scotland, on way to Dunrobin Cas:le. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings wil l leave Loudoun Castle, Ayrshire, on Friday next for Dolling. ton Park, LeiceAershire, where they will receive a select circle of friends for Lichfield and Derby races. The Earl and Countess Spencer are expected to proceed on a continental tour i n the course of the ensuing week. The Earl and Countess of Seafield, with Visco unt Reidhaven, have arrived at Balmacaan, for the shooting season, from Cullen Boise and Castle Grant, Viscountess Jocelyn and Hon. Misses Jocelyn have arrived at the Motel Nirabeau, Paris, from London. l Viscount C o urtenay and Lord Poltimore wil parties during the ensuing week for the D evon ahnadveElreg Exeter race meetings. Lord Lond e sbo r ough has a rrived at his deer,. shooting quarters, Tulchan Lodge, Glenisla. Lord Houghton has left London for the baths of ichy. Sir Lydston.Newman, who has been making tour in South W a l e s, will entertain a distinguished artl at Starcross during the Exeter races. The marriage of Lieut.-Col. Farquharson of Ic 4 vercauld with Miss Oswald, eldest daughte r of NI. Osscs id of Auchincruive, is fixed to take place in London ear ly in the, month of November. DISTRESS IN THE UNITED STATES.--The sewir women in Philadelphia and New Yo rk are in great distress, as their scanty earnings are ins ufficient to sapporto them. For soldiers' pants they get only how to 8 c in el' in paper money; and for shirts one dollar per dozn , eluding buttonholes and all complete. F or tents, w ith 1 0 button-holes, they get 1 5 cents pet tent. These wornlll. I'' ell have held large meetings both in 1\.1.1w York and P deiphia, but a deaf ear has been paid to their re° *trances.