The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-12 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE:- Managers, 31 essrs. Edmund Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.—The E ablic is respectfully informed that the above (the National) Theatre will be OPENED t , r the WINTER SEASOaS, THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, Sept. 12th. when will be produced an entirely new and original Comedy', by Edmund Fal oner, Author of " Extremes," " Woman." " Peep o'Day," &c., entitled NATURE'S ABOVE .ART A Romance of the Nursery, in which Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder, Barrett, G. Bel:more, F. Chafes. Neville; Miss Charlotte Saun,ters. Miss Murray, Miss R. Leclercq, Mrs. Melville, and Mrs. Ed nurid Falconer. assisted by other artists, will perform. After the Comedy win be presented a Popular- Farce, prin cipal characters by favourite members of the Company. B , m-oflice open from Ten till Five daily. R OYAL L PRI II NC r.G ESS' v S inin I HEATRE. esse e, Open under the Management of Mr. Walter Montgomery. THIS EVENING. THE LADY OF LYON M S. Claude 311elnotte. Mr. Walter Montg omer y ; Damas, r. C. Fitz ja mes ; Pauline, Miss Kate Saville. 'lo conclude with THE POS BY. Mr. Sefton Parry. CommencT e at 07. •it t rw TIEA.FILE-RO YAL, ADELPIII.- joie p r opriotor and Manazer, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING ('d week), at 7, a new comic drama, THE ILE N AND CHICKENS ; or, A Sign of Affection. Messrs. Billington, R. Phillips, Stephenson ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss After which, at a quarter-past 8. the new drama of THE JC I.A.I.TNTED MAN ; OR, THE Go OST'S BARGAIN, in which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptation of - lie Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, S atton. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IL TROVATORE. Messrs. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, Ebn•rne, C. J. Smith, Romer; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and fares, and 21iss K. Kelly. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, HIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Mr. Leigh Murray. Followed by (48th time) THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN , " Containing the Latest SPORTING MELLIGENCE, oan be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 40m.—Afternoon, lh. 59m. To-monnow.-Morning, 2h. 15m.—Afternoon, 2h. 30m. The Weather—Sun Office, Sept. 12, 1863. THERMOMETER. This m . orning 5B This day at Two o'clock 6l _ Barometer-30.23. Wind—S.-1V ; moderate, and cloudy. ~1~?~~ ttt LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 12, 1863. In the Times of yesterday there is a letter on the court-martial of Colonel CRAWLEY, which contains information that is anything but satisfactory. The writer sends passages from a letter which he has received from an officer at Mhow. These refer to the steps now being taken with reference to col lecting evidence for the approaching court-martial. It would seem from th is authority that a totally wrong system is being adopted. In the first place Major MAUDE, the Commandant Magistrate, is taking the summary of evidence for the prosecution. Now, when it is remembered that he was the Judge Advocate at the Mhors court-martial, which judgment has since been quashed owing to the illegality of the trial, it seems a mockery to select him for this new undertaking. The manner in which he is carrying it out, certainly does not do much to remove the unfavourable impression with which his name is received, for the plans he has formed are calculated entirely to defeat the ends of justice. He examined the witnesses the first day in the presence of Colonel CRAWLEY. Was ever anything more preposterous ? No one who was impartial would do such a thing. Same Captains then asked for leave to be present when their men Were examined. This removed the examinations to the mess-room of the 6th Dragoons, and then Colonel CRAWLEY was not present. It seems , however, that nothing can deter this man from meddling where he has no right whatever so to do, and consequently he sent for Cornet SNELL, who had given evidence against him, and cross-exa mined him in the presence of only one person, Captain BILLINGTON, for two hours. Captain BILLINGTON is the one who previously gave his testimony at the trial of the Mhow court-martial, to the " amenity of Colonel CRAWLEY'S man ners and language in conducting the affairs of his regiment." It is qaite evident why he was selected to be present on the occasion referred to, but by what right does Colonel CRAWLEY assume the privilege of stultifying the trial about to take place, by tampering with witnesses, interfering where he ought to be quiescent, and altogether adopting a most extraordinary and unprecedented course. It is truly said, in the letter from which extracts are taken, that SNELL ought to have refused to give any statement, but all know the influence, direct or otherwise, which is brought to bear on these cases. Inexperienced and ignorant persons are taken advantage of, and on assumption of au thority goes down with a great many for a lawful exercise of a just prerogative, and hence, before wiser heads can interfere, the mischief is completed, and the wily stratagem succeed. It appears that Colonel CRAWLEY had the audacity to summon SNELL to another examination, so that that gentle man has very wisely sent in a letter of remonstrance to the General, begging to be informed whether he is compelled to answer questions, and also remonstrating against being subjected to a rigid cross-examination before going into court. "The tenour of the letter," it is said, " con veys an impression that the witnesses for the pro -4e eution were not b e i ng f a i r ly dealt with . " If suc h should prove to be the case, indignation in this been4Y will know no bo u nds. It wou ld h ave to better to have refused a court-martial on Colon e l CRAW LEY altogether, if he is too sacred to be treat ed ~ like other officers in a similar situation, and if b e le to be allowed to trifle with the solemnity of • Justice, and to interfere with the right and fitting arrangementsH e of the trial. can have no earthly right to be present at the examination of wit ness them in court afterwardses* If be cross-questioned that would be quite a different affair, b ut Ith Prefatory stages of the case he ought to be i n the e writer of ground altogether and completely. The the authorities this letter states t ed with a t the what War office i very properly, that ought to be made 11 s going on at M Rn ow)" and adds • l utedly enough, that "it was proved very dangerous fo in this deplorable b n : in a e ll/ officer to take any part Be which is considered adverse to the autnorities, ,, „ o pre fors making the communicat ion in the manne r ferred to instead of adopting a more direct c o u rse, This sentence leads one to rcfltct that it would b e wiser for those in authority to be mire rigid i❑ enacting suitable conduct from the individuals who are comparatively high in command, and less severe in visiting the consequences of breaches of disci- pline on the heads of the offonders who protest, or complain at the tyranny practised upon themselves or others, It is an undoubted and indisputable fist that any laxity of rule, or want of discipline in the army or navy is serious in itself and baneful in its effects ; but let those who dilate cn this theme take heed, and reflect that 4here are evils a hun- dredfold more to be dreaded than any mischances of that nature. If the notion once becomes current that favouritism and prejudice are to influence the cfrairs of the army, and to reign paramount in the investigation of charges, and the findir.gs of court- raartials, the results will be disastrous indeed. It is mentioned in the Indian letter referred to, that _ "DARAL, the sergeant-major who was imprisoned at the same time with LILLEY and WAKEFIELD, and who would be a most important witness as to the treatment which they received, is not to be sent home." This information is of a piece with all the rest,but yet, if it be true, it will be a most scandalous proceeding. It is the universal rule in England, and one which has excited the envy of foreign na tions, and awakened the just pride of her own people, to consider every man innocent until he is proved guilty. Granted that, assuming this plea, Colonel CRAWLEY is clear of the many grave charges im puted against him, there is one question to be asked which his upholders would find it difficult to answer. Why does he not act like an innocent man under the presence of so heavy an accusation would be certain to do ? Why does he not insist on every witness being produced who is supposed to be capable of affording the slightest clue to the mystery hinted at ? Why does he not summon his enemies instead of keeping them back; and then, face to face, in the light of day, himself confute their statements, and confound their charges ? That is the only way to take from slander the sting, and to rob injustice of its victory. That is the only way is which an English public will brook to see an affair investi gated which concerns the vital interests of an army, and relates to the honour and impartiality of some high in rank in our Eastern possessions. It is a pity that Colonel CRAWLEY has no friends or admirers to admonish him of the imprudence of his conduct. Such subterfuges as those chronicled in the letter made mention of above, will not suffice to shut the door upon inquiry, and to hush np what must be made clear. Statements have been put font. and direct accusations preferred against an officer, high in rank and potent in influence. Public opi nion expressed in Parliament and elsewhere ha s occasioned the order for a court-martial. It is too much to suppose that now at the eleventh hour, a s it were, all that has been gained is to be made null and void, and after a few lifeless reports an acquittal is to be granted the accused. Not so do we read law and justice in this land, and not ao, will men of honour and integrity have it exhi bited to the world, that their country is satisfied to vindicate the cause of the oppressed. Sergeant- Major LILLEY has departed this life. For him tyranny can do no more wrong, and cruelty can impose no infliction. But, inasmuch as he was injured, being dead, he yet lives to speak his wrongs until they are redressed. They live in the memory of all who have read his story, and will remain a stain in the annals of our military records if some reparation is not made over his grave. It is to be trusted that this letter will call attention to the facts here referred to, and that before it is too late some special inquiries w:11 be instituted, and some stringent regulations passed, which will pre vent unwise management and unfair procedure from militating against the intentions of those who gave orders in this country for the trial to take place; also from frustrating the desires of those whose remonstrances called forth the command There are some things that cannot be trifled with the case of Sergeant -Major LILLEY is pre-eminently one of these, and it behoves all concerned. and con nected with that affair, either remotely or imme diately, from the highest to the lowest, to take heed to their ways ; for, if they halt in their course, or falter in their actions, the day of reckoning may be sooner than they expect, and the consequences more unpalatable than they perhaps imagine. It is long since a similar case was heard of, and never in the recollection of the present generation has a trial taking place in so distant a spot engaged so much attention and excited so deep and painful an inte rest throughout the length and breadth of the land. The demand for ar, inquiry was based on principles that cannot be questioned, and to disappoint that demand will not be right, neither will it be wise, nor answer the purpose by enshrouding the case in mystery. In the midst of the proverbial selfishness of our iron age, when the incessant pursuit of business and the continual toil cf money-getting is too much regarded not only as the chief, but as the one duty of life, individual instances of the purest philan thropy and of the most generous- hearted benevolence occasionally manifest themselves, as if to bear wit ness to the real nobility of human nature, and to put to shame the indifference and the apathy of the great multitude. One of these little incidents occurred a few days back when two or three of these unobtrusive and open-handed philanthropists gave a very sumptuous and hospitable entertain ments. A feast given not in the LORD MAYOR'S hall, not to the Prince and Princess of WALES, but a banquet spread out on the green country side, in the fresh country air, for the little children of the Ragged Schools of London ! Some fifteen hundred and more of these children, boys and girls and little creatures of aa ages, were conveyed by the railway to Richmond, the heavy expense of so large a number of passengers being generously defrayed by one of the benevolent gen tlemen above alluded to. Hence the motley troop bearing the flags of their schools through those beau tiful green suburban neighbourhoods. Hackney and Spitalfields, and Spicer-street, and the most crowded rookeries of London, marching on to Petersham common, where tents were erected, and a plentiful feast provided, in the midst of thickly covered blackberry-brambles —a welcome sight to the little inhabitants of the close-packed alleys and narrow lanes of London! To many of these children, doubtless, it was their first glimpse of the country—their first sight of green fields and waving trees and blackberries ! " 0 but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet I With the sky above their head, And the grass beneath their feet 1" Or, in these autumnal days, the fresh perfume of the very moss and heather ! That happy recollection they have borne away with them to their humble homes, and the memory will not be without its effect. The out lay occasioned by this little festival was necessarily great, and many utilitarians may coldly inquire cut bono? The answer, perhaps, will not be within their comprehension, but many of those who watched the varied little troops pass ing by in fifties and hundreds, and all so helpless, so tender in age and in appearance, must have felt their hearts yearn with sympathy to those urchin group s who know so little of the sunny days of childhood, to whom so much of the freshness. And the jsousnesi, and, alas ! too often of the simple innocence of that golden age is unfamiliar, and they mast . . have re j o iced to think that at them. was not : o;et g :t a s l tvv aid s a s y o , ll ce o n i n e a re w a a l y T tr o u ti e chs h a f o e ] d i d a t y o command which joins lathe t h ose who can return it to us not to call together the true spirit of that , when we make a festival, rich and the proud and again, but the blind and the maimed and the helpless. Few, indeed, in a moral and spiritual point of view, come so truly within that pitiful definition as the poor little urchins of our great metropolis. Not " brought up, but dragged up,"as CIIARLF.S LAMB touchingly describes it, am idst squalor and penury, and too often amidst sin and shame, every .nfluenee that surrounds them in that most impressionable age, tends to train them in the way in which they should TIM SON, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1863. no; go, and when they are grown up, it is not likely that they will depart from it. How true was that saying of some thoughtful moralist, in regard to the rival meats of schools and prisons,—" It is better to place a sign post at the beginning of a man's life than a gibbet at the end of it !" In the good cause of ameliorating the condition of our poor children much has already been undertaken, much more also remains to be done, and to every single effort which, like the country gathering we have alluded to, tends to help on that noble work, we very heartily wish a GOD-speed; and while we congratulate the generous Samaritans who so bene volently lend their aid on the occasion we have been here referring to, we trust that many others, prompted by their example, may "go and do likewise." Among t he p t n r e a s y e n h t e d r a e y e ;I w o which t a h r e e absence of that narro w exclusiv eness which of old concen trated the interest of each class upon itself. unmistakeable the improvements c hange s ° 1 Agriculture and mechanism were regarded as an tagonistic forces; they had each their votaries who looked upon the members of the rival profession as enemies ; and the idea of anyone not a farmer or an agriculturist of some sort, taking any part in the proceedings of an agricultural society would have been greeted with ridicule. But things have altered for the better. As each science becomes more de veloped, as each branch of useful knowledge grows more complete, a harmony is perceived between them which was never visible before. It is seen that, instead of being antagonistic, they are really congenial, and that a man never does his own work the worse from understanding the principles which govern that of his neighbours. In addition to this reason for the increased interest now taken in rural gatherings and exhibitions, we may -add that such shows have considerably increased in interest, owing to the application of science to agricultural implements. Those who know very little of farm ing practically may feel considerable curiosity in watching the action of the new steam ploughs, or in examining the various devices by which air and iron are brought to do the work of man. A liberal example of the wonders effected in this class of machinery was exhibited on Wednesday last by the Manchester and Liverpool Agriculture Society. This society possesses some claims to notice on the ground of its antiquity, being thirty yeah old. It has lasted through all the changes of those eventful years, and has more especially flourished since the two societies of Manchester and Liverpool were united, at the suggestion of Lord DERBY, who is one of its patrons. Its annual show, which was this year the largest ever known, was held in Birkenhead Park, a fact which gave occa son to some singular comparisons of the present condition of the busy and thriving locality with its former state. Fifty years ago Birkenhead had only about sixteen houses, and little mire than 100 inhabitants. What it is now we all know, and it is but fair that the first representative it has re turned to Parliament should be one of those public spirited and energetic men who have made it what it is. Mr. LAIRD was, of course, present on the occasion of the recent gathering, and took a promi nent part at the annual dinner, where plenty of al lusions in jest and earnest were made to that far famed vessel which has made Birkenhead a word of terror to the Yankees. However, all was taken in good part, and when the health of " the first Parlia mentaryrepresentative of Birkenhead"was proposed, the hearty cheers with which it was drunk were wound up with " one more for the Alabama." So it appears that the cause of the North is not very popular in Birkenhead at all events, and the pre sumed infraction of neutrality which has called down such vials of wrath from Mr. SEWARD has not exposed the builder of the " 290" to any loss of the respect of his town-fellows, The gentlemen con cerned in the management of the show might well seek for some refreshment and entertainment at the close of the day, for their labours were most arduous. The judges found it impossible, notwithstanding their exertions, to award the prizes until a very late hour, and we shall not be surprised at this if we glance at the extent and variety of the articles to be decided upon. There were, of course, agri cultural implements and machinery of all descriptions —the new magic steam machinery exhibiting its powers in action, cutting imaginary chaff, and crush ing useless corn. But besides tt ese familiar and useful articles of industry there were model iron cottages to be inspected, washing machines of fabalous power, exciting the admiration of thrifty housewives, and a still more astonishing apparatus for drying the clothes thus marvellously washed. As Liver pool and its vicinity have long enjoyed an unenvi able notoriety for smoke and " blacks," it is to be hoped that these industrial inventions will help to remedy the evil. But the tasks of the visitors and judges were not half done when ploughs, carriages, sausage machines, and summerhouses were inspected. There remained the live stock, which comprised four separate shows-163 entries of horned cattle, 223 entries of sheep, and 83 entries of these equally use ful but less esteemed animals, pigs, kept up our English reputation in this particular, while the show of poultry might serve to attract lady visitors, and the canine race had An exhibition of its own. The show of horses was something of an innovation on the ordinary custom, but its extent and success will probably make it a more prominent feature in agricultural shows. Fruits, flowers, and vegetables were also represented, and this department excited general approbation. We mention these various items to show the variety and character now pos- sessed by an agricultural show. Could the farmers of thirty years back have seen the present exhibi tion, they would probably have disclaimed its con nection with agriculture. They would have re garded it as some exhibition of a more general nature, and might perhapa have been as much sur prised at the number and character of the visitors who took an interest in the scene as at the marvels which formed part of the show. But old prejudice is dying out on both sides. The agricultural inte rest is no longer wrapped up in its own traditions and unwilling to share its sympathies with workers in another sphere, or to profit by the results of their labours. Men of cities, too, have learned to interest themselves in questions connected with that profes sion, without which, after 411, the wisest and shrewdest among us would be sadly at a loss. We might make excellent taws, write wonderful books, nay, eN en construct astonishing machinery ; but if our supply of bread and meal were tot kept up by the . industry of the farmer, our skill and science would be of little profit. Such exhibitions as the present are doub!y useful in bagging together the representatives of both forms of industry —the mechanical and the agricultural, and by un i t i ng their sympathies, and proving to each how much the other can accomplish, they serve still further to cement that happy co-operation by which the skill and energy of both are made to work for the com mon good. ir DEATH OF THE MARQUIS TOWNSHEND.—The Marquis Towushend has died at his seat at Norfolk. The deceased peer was born in 1798. He was a rear-admiral on the reserved half-pay list, and war naval aide-de-camp to the Queen. He represented Tamworth in Parliament from 1847 to 1856, when he succeeded his cousin in the peerage. The title descends to his eldest son, Lord Raynham, who is one of the members for Tamworth. HOW ABOUT THAT OTHER LION OR Two ?—Sir Edwin Landseer has left town for Scotland, to pass a few weeks in the Ilistaauds, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. ROME, SEPT, 11. A Papal Bull hes been Published, creating several benevolent establishments, and apportioning them a revenue out of the private estates of the Pope. THE BOMBAY MAIL. ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. The Valetta left here with the Marseilles portion of the above mails at noon this day. The Delta, with the heavy portion of the mail, sailed at four p.m. yesterday. She may be expected at Southampton about the 23d inst. The Onissa brought the mails to Suez, arriving there on the 9th inst. The Carnatic reached Calcutta on the 20th August-54 days from Southampton. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. IVIARSELLES, SEPT. 12. The Euxine arrived here with the above mails al 7.30 this day. The mails leave for London by the 11.30 a.m. trait. THE POPE'S ENCYCLICA. The following is a very able epitome of the Encyclica of His Holiness, as summarised by the .31orning Post's Roman correspondent : Induced by the present religious and political condition of the peninsula, his Holiness has addressed an encyclica to the cardinals, archbishops, and bishops of Italy - , which has just been published under the date of the 10th ult. In the first paragraph the Pontiff laments the sacrilegious war waged against the Catholic Church in almost the whole world,but especially in wretched Italy, by the Subalpine Government. The firmness and constancy of the prelates under such a trial affords his Holiness matter for the warmest con gratulation. Irreligious, heinous, and obscene Publications are next complained of, with theatres, houses of prostitution, abominable vices and crimes, incredulity, indifferentism, and contempt of eccle siastical authorities, depredation of the property of the Church, and persecution of her ministers, and many other wickednessea committed by the enemies of Catholicism. The final triumph of the Church is next predi cated ; and the example of bishops, priests, and laymen, who have laid down their lives and suffered tortures for Carist's sake, in Tonquin and Cochin China, is earnestly held up for imitation. His Holiness goes on to condemn the grievous error fallen into by some Catholics that salvation may ha obtained out of the pale of the Catholic faith and unity. Invincible ignorance, combined with a moral life, is allowed as deserving Divine clemency ; but the Catholic dogma is repeated clearly that no one out of the Catholic Church can be saved, and many passages of Holy Writ are quoted in support. After recommending the use of Christian charity towards all such erring brethren, the Pontiff pro ceeds to reprove the insatiable love of riches and Power which at present leads mon into all sorts of crimes, inquiring very justly, What profits it a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?" Members of the regular and secular clergy are next reproved for forgetting their holy vocation so far as to excite the people against the temporal sovereignty of the Holy See, and to form the societies vulgarly called Cierico•liberali Di Mutuo Soccorso, Emancipatrici del clero Italiano, and others animated by an equally depraved spirit. Impious publications of all sorts, and the open en couragement of non-Catholic worship, with public instruction by non-Catholic masters, form a source of deep regret with his Holiness, who goes on to urge the clergy to combat these rising evils by their personal integrity, moral habits, sound doctrine, and industrious teaching, and winds up by a tri bute of praise to the greater part of the Italian clergy who have proved faithful to their duties, to the virgins consecrated to God,'who, expelled from their convents, have continued to offer up prayers and wait for the mercy of the Lord, and to the people of Italy, who, animated by Catholic senti ments, detest impious attacks on the Church, and endeavour to relieve the dicalties of the Pontiff and the Holy See by subscriptions of money or other oblations. His Holiness concludes with reminding his vene rable brethren and beloved children that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church, and requesting their urgent prayers for the assistance of the Almighty, that she may pass through the present tremendous tempest, triumph over her ene mies, and enjoy peace and liberty on the earth. Time flies rapidly, for this encylical letter of Pio Nono is dated in the 18th year of his Pontificate. It is to be hoped that the numerous evils which afflict the paternal heart of his Holiness will be alleviated by the devout procession which is to take place to-morrow of the image or rather picture of the Saviour, known as the Acheropita, which is painted on a panel of cedar or palm wood, six feet high by two feet and a half, and represents the Saviour standing with a long beard. Pope Inno cent 111. covered it with silver, save the face and feet, and a scar under the left eye is attributed to an outrage of the Iconoclasts. It is traditionally assigned in the outline to St. Luke and in the colouring to angels, whence its name of Acheropita (not made by hand), which is traced back to the ninth century. The arrival of this picture in Rome is variously attributed to St. Peter, to the Emperor Titus, and to St. Germanus, patriarch of Constan tinople under the Iconoclast Emperor, Leo Isauricus. This prelate, flying with the sacred images of the Virgin and the Saviour, encountered in a storm in the Archipelago, and entrusted the Acheropita pic ture to the mercy of the waves with a letter directed to Pope Gregory /I. The Pope, informed of the fact by a vision, proceeded at the head of the Roman clergy to the port of Ostia to receive the picture and transport it solemnly to the capital. It appears to be proved that the picture existed in Rome in the eighth century, and it was carried about in times of public calamity, whence Pope Honorius 111. called it the Athlete, or defender of the public. The first public record of these pro cessions is under Pope Stephen 111. (752), when Astolphus, King of the Lombards, threatened to exterminan Rome and the Church. Pope Leo IV. had recourse to a similar procession in 847, to deliver Rome from a terrible serpent which had taken re fuge in a cavern under Santa Lucia, in Orphea, and by its pestiferous breath killed all who passed by that way. The serpent disappeared after the procession of the Acheropita. Numerous miracles succeeded in after ages, and a special adoration was paid by the Romans to this image, which appeared in public on every occasion of public danger or calamity, until Pius VI., on the 16th of January, 1798, invoked its aid against the French Republicans, who, notwithstanding, entered Rome under General Berthier on the 10th February following. The last procession of the Acheropita was in 1831, when Pope Gregory XVI. feared that the revolutionists of Romagna (Napo.. —•-- - leon 111. included) would have succeeded in upset ting the Papal throne. To-morrow I hope to witness this renewal of a most ancient custom, and to give you an account of the impression it makes on modern Romans. A Few Bold Words on the Great Socia Evil. (From the Law Times of to-day.) The evils that flow from this state of things are quite certain. Disease transmitted from parent to offspring, and tainting the healthy of the present and the constitutions of future generations, is the foremost mischief, Next to this comes the degradation of our streets by the flaunting harlots who have taken possession of them ; vice forced upon the notice of virtue ; our wives and daughters expelled from all public places of amusement by the immodesty that throngs them ; temptation meeting our boys at every step, and turning them to premature debauchery ; England pointed at by all foreigners as a hypocrite, who preaches against vice and professes extraordinary virtue, and yet leaves her streets to be what they are. These are the facts. We have already dealt by law with adultery, seduction, and bastardy, offences growing out of the same passion. We havepartially subjected prostitution to police regulations, and so far we hav e recognised its existence. Is not the time come to deal with all of it that yet remains untouched ? But what to do ? Plainly it cannot be prevented. But may it not be regulated ? May we not learn from experien ce ? W hat has been done by other countries ? Certainly we do not see in them the scenes that nightly disgrace our own towns and cities. They have succeeded in restraining and regulating a vice they cannot prevent, and in reducing it to the most harm less condition possible. This th©y have dune by placing prostitution under police regulation, compelling it to observe strict ruks, and requir ing medical inspection and hospital cure. To this they add a license. But reasonable objections may be raised to so far assimilating harlotry to honest trading, and therefefe we would suggest, in lieu of license, a medical certificate of health, to be granted periodically, say once a week at the least. It is the opinion of medical men that, if some such plan were to bo persistently acted upon, the disease that is now desolating so many families and sapping the vitality of the nation, might be nearly if not quite extirpated, and in the army alone this would be equivalent to the saving of seve ral regiments every year. Perhaps some of our readers could suggest the outline of a bill for embodying these suggestions iu a practical shape, to be submitted to Parliament next session. THE MEXICAN THRONE.—It is stated by tbe Paris correspondent of a morning contemporary that the Archduke - Maximilian has positively accepted the Throne of Mexico, FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 11.—The market has been rather more buoyant, and a fair amount of business done at an advance. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f. Railway Share Market firm, but without much animation. The market kept improving to the close, and left off as follows :- 41 per Cents .. 95 75 Italian Loan 74 10 Do. end month.... Do. end month 74 10 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 69 20 Do. end month 73 80 Credit M0bi1ier....1215 Russian Do. end m0nth....1220 Austrian .. — Bank Shares 3380 Spanish Threes.... Credit k oncier 1420 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO3B 75 1045 Northern N .. ew. ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1060 .. 1070 Geneva 497 50 .. Southern 752 50 .. 7 45 Western Eastern .... Sardinian 430 .. 431 25 Austrian 426 25 -- Lou.bard . North of Spain Saragossa 657 50 . • 665 )itto to Barcelona .... 365 • • BANK OF FRANCE. The following is the account for month ending Thursday, Sept. 10 : ASSETS. F. C. .. 82,437,638 89 233, 386,672 -- 376,585 23 Cash and ingots .. Cash at th e branch-banks .. • • • • Bills due to be paid to-day.. • • • • Bills becoming due in Paris, of which 71,860,4801. 78c. are from the branch -253,065,312 Bills in the branch -banks • • • • • • banks • • 18,383,000 Advances on coin and ingots • • • • • • 4 262 900 Do in the branch 46 006,200 Do on French securities 21,887,550 Do in the branch-banks .. • • 50,64 , 2 000 Do on railway shares and bonds • • 35 420,150 Do in the branch -banks 611,900 Do on Credit Foncier Bonds • • • • 589 000 Do to State by treaty, 1848 • • Do in the branch -banks 307,712,7 92 48 • • • • 0 000 000 Rentes of the rese f d rye- un • • • • 85 31 Rentes, disposable funds .. • • • • 35'299,1 100,000,000 Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) • • Hotel and furniture of the Bank • • ' ' 132 '0 67 0 1 -- Real property of branch-banks .. • ' 5 " ' 1 064 988 15 Expenses of administration • • • • ' -, 4 890 393 93 • • 6 12,980,750 14 _ . .. , , Sundries .. _ _ 1,278,873,689 13 • 182,500,000 - ▪ 12,980,750 14 9,125,000 - 4,000,000 - LIABILITIES• Capital of the Bank Reserve-fund New Reserve • „ Reserve-immobiliere • • - - . • ~ Profits to be added t o Ca • oi piial (Art. 8 .. 2,316,503 57 law June 9, 1857) Notes to bearer in circulation in Paris and the branch-banks • • .. 807,651,525 4,612,991 • • - Do. to order (Post-bill s ) • • • • 41 4,623,618 _ Bills payable at sight Do. branch-banks 67,143,751 Acc. cur. of Treasury Creditor . • • • 11 „ 130,200.786 23 Various accounts current .. • • • 30,002,425 • • • , 1,651,709 7 5 Dividends to be paid •••• • • • 2,543,468 5G Arrears of values deposited •• • • • Discount, interest, and expenses .. .. 6,632,092 76 Re-discounts of the last half-year „. 1,554,317 16 surplus of profit no t disturbed .. .. 1 . 016 ,709 23 Sundries .. .. • • '' • • 10,318,041 21 1,27 8 , 8 73,689 13 Nits. ABE LINCOLN ! NEWS OF HE It COMING TO ENGLAND: 1 I shall communicat e a p iece of p etticoat in forma D BY MANHATTAN. making preparations t o l eave been for several day s, E t i o u n r o i p n e . t h i t m i s E r l P s e . t ° t L e i t i r T n , c E t o h l n a that will sio w a i s n t o N n e i s w h y t h o e r k C, oanurdtshaot,f. for—Europe. Her nominal object is to visit G er. many, and place her son Bob at school in Heidel berg, where be can learn High Dutch. H er real object is to visit th e different crowne d heads of Europe, except France. Mrs. Lincoln is a woman of the highest rank and of the loftiest vi r t ue. She makes no bones of e x p ressin g her o p inio n in regard to Napoleon, and t hat he is a dan g er ous customer for a good woman to be even on sp ea ki ng terms with. Another reas on why she will not go to Paris is, that she might b e cau g ht there when War is de clared and be locke d u p in conse quence. I hope Mrs. Li n coln will be cor di ally received while abroad. 1 believe she is the first lire Pre- An English girl, sidentess that ever went abroad w hi le her husband the President wa s in pow er . born in London , became a Fresidentess in after 1826—mrs. Adams. years, I t may from r o mb be that to Mrs. Li ncoln may do more to 0 fetch the leading peop l e of England roun d t o her side of the house than Thurl ow 'W ee d , E vans , Jones, Smith, Evart, Archbishop Hughes, G. F Train, Brown, Whitely, and all the other dis tinguished Americans sent out by the State Depart ment (expenses paid out of the Secret Fund) to induce the English people to back us up with their moral if not physical power. If once Mrs. Lincoln gets access to Palmerston or Russell, I will bet my life they never dine with Virginian Mason on the sly again , although Mr. Mason may be proud of his distinguished country woman, for he used to know her when her husband was in the House of R epresentatives. I hope Mrs. L. will call at the Tower, St. Paul's, and other, great points i h London. There will be a chance now for my old friend Hiram Fuller to ring in for a foreign consulate. He is a quiet, lady's man ; an d by being attentive for a few days will be forgiven his rebulism, and be promoted to a fat office, for Mrs. Lincoln •all is powerful. In fact, the British Ministers may as well be told that fact, so that if they Want to make any treaties, or things of that sort, Mrs. Lincoln is as sure a card—in fact surer —than the President, for she is the ruler of him and his Cabinet. Mrs. Lincoln is not officially Presidentess—that is, she is not elected by the peo ple, but she makes it her business to see what is going on. After s h e leaves Bob in Dutchland, she will probably make the tour of , and perhaps go e to Asia. Woe , 1 0 go be to that official who neglects her; his term of eifi - cial life will be brief indeed. THE INDIAN TELEGRAPH CAELE.—The Kirkham, 1,001 tons registry, w i t h a b out 187 m il es o f thi s ca bl e on board, left Gravesend yesterday (Friday) for the Persian Gulf, her precise de s ti nation being Bagdad. This is the se cond portion th a t h as gone out, and the rema i n i ng l engt h s will be con veyed in th ree sailing vessels an d a steamer. Th e entire length is upwards of 1,200 miles, and the weight about 5,000 tons. TESTIMONIAL PRoit A MAGISTRATE TO A GOOD OFFICER.—Mr. 11. Selfe, the magistrate who left the Thames police court three months since for West minster, gave Mr. William Langston, the chief usher. a very substantial t estimonial on retiring from th e first named court, for his Nvillinc , and valuable services , and this morning Mr. S e lf e called at the Thames po li ce court, Stepney, and pr esented to Roche, the gao l er , a valuable ivory pen-holder an d pencil-case, w i t h a go ld pen, pen- Wye, and gold and attention du r i ng the eight years Mr Selfe offi ciat ed at Pencil as a testimonial fo r g ood conduct the court. The ivo ry case, or holder, bears th e follo wing inscription :—" R o b ert Roche, f rom H.S.S." (the magis trate's initials). R oc h e well d eserv es the compliment paid him. He has been ga o l er 18 years, and is a meat excellent oflicers i CHARLES MATHEWS AT PARIS. (According to the Times and Galiynani.) Charles Mathews, the well-known comedian, has performed a feat which is probably without a prece dent. In Paris, at a French theatre, he has acted the principal part in a French vaudeville, written by himself—a complication of audacities which For tune, who loves the bold, might be expected eminen t!yr to favour. Mr. Mathews came out on Monday at the Varietes in the one-act vaudeville, Un Anglais tinzidc. There had been no preliminary flourish of trumpets, and Paris learnt the hazardous venture from that morning's playbills. Brown, the timid Briton, had been sent abroad by his father to acquire assurance. At least this is the account he gives of him self to a certain Monsieur Gogo, into whose house he introduces himself with a remarkable absence of ceremony, as a particular friend of his son, with whom he has been travelling on the Rhine. Gogopere is soon of opinion that the object of Brown senior in sending his son abroad has been attained with a superfluous degree of completeness. Brown junior makes himself perfectly at home in the casa Gogo, invites himself to breakfast, makes love to the niece, romps with the maid, doubles up his host by facetious punches in the ribs, sings a patter song in English and a soi-clisant Neapolitan ditty with guitar accompaniment, and is active, voluble, and impudent as only Charles Mathews can be—and as nobody could have expected that he would be when acting in a foreign tongue. During the first two-thirds of the piece it bade fair to be a com plete success ; the audience was evidently greatly amused, and laughed heartily at the impudence r and eccentricities of the English traveller in a very short coat and very big buttons. But the piece dragged a little to wards the end, a part of the audience got impatient, and the curtain at last fell upon what a French journal to-day says was only a demi-sucds. The audience was cer tainly not disposed to indulgence towards a foreigner attempting for the first time so difficult an achievement. I heard a Frenchman who sat behind me remark dryly to his friend, "Oa regoit mieux les acteur Franc .is it Londres," and I think the Frenchman spoke the truth. The actors of the Varie:e 3 seemed to do their best to support their new comrade—especially the ladies,who were mani festly unable to help laughing themselves at his eccentricities. The piece remains on the bills. Mr. Mathews will probably have seen the necessity of cutting down its latter portion, and will have van quished, at subsequent performances of it, a slight nervousness, natural enough under so novel and arduous a task, which evidently affected his acting on the first night. I have just found, in the Galsg nani of this date, the following appreciation of the piece and actor : " Mr. Mathews is an Englishman, but is so perfect a proficient in the French language that, but for the unmis• takeable something which no foreigner can completely dis guise, he might be taken for a native of France. His manner and delivery are easy and unembarrassed, and save some little awkwardnes arising from the double novelty of his position as a Mutant, and speaking in a foreign tongue before a public to whom he was an utter stranger, it would be difficult to set the free and easy gentleman before us down as anything but an oid familiar acquaintance. Of his talents as an author " Un Anglais Timide" does not convey so favourable an opinion; the piece appears a mere rejaccianiento of incidents collected without attention to probability or consistence for the purpose of displaying the talents of the principal personage, who indulges in a series of absurdities and oddities which amusingly furnish the materials of the little piece of which his acting is the life and soul. He was warmly applauded at the fall of the curtain, and the piece was a settled success, but a few ion. gueurs on the first night, more apparent, perhaps, behind the scenes than to'the audience, having disappeared on the second representation, it went off throughout with a spirit and vivacity quite triumphant, and the plhudits of the pub. lie at the close left Mr. C. Mathews in possession of all the honours of denizenship on the Parisian boards." WHAT IS " GREEK FIRE ?" A vitally important question just now : thus answered by Dr. Richardson, in to-day's number of the Social Science Review : —From the number of times I have been asked this question during the last few days, the answer to it seems to be one that would prove of great interest. I shall try and give the answer, therefore, as briefly and clearly as I can. The term " Greek fire," as applied to the substance which the Federals are pouring into Charleston, is strictly, a misnomer. The secret of the manufacture of the original Greek fire has been lost for nearly nine hundred ant fitly years, and it is probable that it will not again be found, seeing that modern chemistry suggests agents quite as dangerous, and perhaps simpler than the original. The modern representative of " Greek Fire," although in tended for the same purposes, is different in character, more portable, more certain, mote terrible. It is a fluid substance, is cheaply made, keeps for years, and is pro duced so quickly that the ingredients of which it is com posed may be put together at the moment when the com pound is required. In using the liquid it has to be enclosed in a shell which shall burst at a given point of destination and allow the fluid to be distributed. The occurrence of flame from this liquid is not immediate, various circumstances modifying its action in regard to time. I made some experiments in the course of the present week with a little of the fluid that had been in ray possession seven years, and found that with the tem perature of the air at 63 deg. Fahr., and a fair wind blow ing, combustion took place in four minutes and a half, the fluid being distributed on dry wood : on a moist surface of wood, however, at the same temperature and with the same wind, combustion was delayed half-an-hour. There are other differences, varying with the external conditions; but these are really of no moment ; because the engineer, if it were requisite, by calculating the temperature of the air, the force of the wind, and the moisture of the air, could come to a very accurate conclusion as to the period of combus tion after exposure of the liquid. When combustion has taken place, or before combustion has taken place, it may be suppressed by water, and other means of extinguishing flame : but there is this peculiarity, that the fire is sup pressed only, it is not extinguished; let the water evapo rate, or remove the covering, and, though a month, a year, or a century I had almost said, had elapsed, the chances are that the fire will break out again; and paradox as it may seem, it is still true, the more effectual the suppres&ion for the time, the greater is the danger when that suppres sion is removed. The construction of modern "liquid fire" is based on simple scientific principles, and more methods than one may be discovered for producing it. I think—and I know its inventor, to whom I shall refer in a moment, thinks so too —that it might be so formed that it would actually burn under water. But, however much it might be modified in detail, the principle would be the same, and the principle is this : a rapidly oxydizable substance—which means a sub stance that in combining greedily with oxygen whenever it can get it, gives rise to the evolution of heat and flame— is suspended for a time through a liquid, in which it is held innocuous, so long as the two are confined together, but from which it is separated spontaneously when both are set free in the open air. The modern chemist who fit st brought liquid fire into notice, was Mr. Wentworth Scott. I have been told that the method suggested by the late lord Dundonald was of the same nature; but, for special scientific reasons, this view is not probable. Mr. Scott suggested the principle eleven years ago, and during the Russian war he was un tiring in his efforts to get it practically into use in our army and navy. There is an official board which received Mr. Scott, heard his plans, promised him means for experiment, nibbled at his idea, and then repudiated it, and did many foolish things which it is not worth while to rake up; suffice it, that after tantalising Mr. Scott for a long season, and after supplying him with " lots of forms," our circum. locutionists became acquainted with another gentleman, who proposed a liquid fire, but who I believe in the end was gently dropped also, I mean, Captain Disney. While Mr. Scott's and Captain Disney's experiments were being canvassed, in 1855, I wrote a letter to the limes on the whole subject, which letter was inserted, and gave rise to much comment. I may state now what I could not state then positively, that at the time some in quiriea were being made in a continental laboratory, having in view the supplying of information on "liquid fire," to the Russian Government, and my great object in writing to the leading journal was to apprise our people that the Russians,who, under the direction of Prof. Jacobi, were constructing very terrible implements of war, might some day. and quickly, envelope the whole of the British fleet in flames. Fortunately the peace which followed shortly afterwards put a stop to all proceedings of a war like 'kind, and my warnings, as well as those of that eminent patriot, Mr. Punch, who came up nobly to second them, fell uselessly on the public ear. At the same time experiments with liquid fire did not cease; there was a gallant and ingenious officer named Captain Norton, who took up the inquiry and advanced it an im portant stage. Captain Norton invented a small shell for a rifle, which shell, filled with the liquid, would discharge its contents by merely striking a piece of stretched canvass, like the sail of a ship, and would set the whole rapidly i n names. His experiments, of which he carried out a great number at his own expense, pointed but to one conclusion, namely, that certain kinds Of warfare, such as sieges, and battles in wooden ships, could be rendered impossible from the certainty of entire destruction. At last, that which the English nation, or rather Government, refused to study as a means of warfare, has been turned to practical account in America. Liquid fire has found its way into Charleston, and the gut stion to be asked is, Will its application stop there ? , TifUrt Cirmlar HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Sept 11. Her Majesty drove in the grounds this morning. The Ear! of Caithness and Col. Hon. A. Liddell are tho lord and groom, and Major-General F Seymour the equerry in waiting. The Hon. Horatio Stopford and the Hon. Lucy Lyttelton are the maids of honour in waiting to her Majesty. ,f,,,-_-___ DEPARTURE CI THE QUEEN FOR SCOTLAND. -- Her Majesty is expected to leave Windsor Castle for Scotland on Monday. As at present arranged, the Queen will travel by the Great Western Railway, an d will leave Windsor terminus at 10 minutes to 6, proceeding by way of Leamington to the Bushbury ju n ction, where charge of the train will be taken by the North-Western Railway officials. The train is timed to arrive at Perth at 20 minutes to 9on Tuesday morning. After a stoppage of an hour and a half the journey will be continued, and Aboyne , the last station, will be reached shortly bef ore 2, when the Queen will pursue her journey to Balmoral by r o ad. His Majesty Dom Fernando, King of Portugal, fattier of the reigning King, Dom Louis, arrived in Amster dam on Monday last. Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg visited his royal relative on Tuesday. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, and LAY' Blanche Somerset, who came to town for the marriage of Lord and Lady Londesborough, left on Thursday afternoon for their seat in 'Wales. The Duke of Newcastle has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from his seat, Worksop, Notts- The Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey have left town for Eastwell Park, Ashford, Kent, the seat of the Earl and Countess of Winehilsea. The Earl and Countebs of Howth, and Mrs. Bar. , foot, have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Dublin. _ ------ Earl Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford have arrived at Ashridge Castle, from Belton House, near Grantham. The noble earl int e nds to p ass th e w i nter at Madeira. The Earl and Countess of Lincoln, with their daughter, Lady Beatrice Clinton, have arrived at Clumber Park, the Duke of Newcastle's seat in Nottinghamshire. Adelaide, Countess of Yarborough, has left London for their marine residence at St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and Mr. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., have been receiving companY at Dudbrook House, Essex. Among the visitors were the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, Prince Conde, the Belgi9 Minister, Miss Van de Weyer and Mr. Victor Van de Weyer, Lady Gilbert Kennedy, Hon. T. Stonor and Miss Stonor, Hon. and Rev, Francis Byng, Mr. and LadY Horatio Wardlaw, the Rev. C. Harcourt, Captain Beau champ Seymour, Mr. George Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Urquhart and Miss Money. Th e p ar t y w ill separate this day. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston intend to save town early in the ensuing week for Brcadlands, near Romsey. Lady Hermoine Graham, who came to town from Cumberland to visit her sister, Lady Ulried, Thynne, has left town on her return to Netherby Park. It is understood that the marriage of Major the Hon. Augustus H. Anson, V.C., brother of the Earl of Lichfield, with Miss Claughton, daughter of the Rev. rlr• and Hon. Mrs. Claughton, will take place at Whitley Court, the Earl of Dudley's seat in Worcestershire. The day is not yet fixed. Lieutenant the Hon. Albert Denison, R.N., who came to town to be present at the marriage of his brother, Lord Londesborough, has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, for Portsmouth. Sir George Grey arrived in London on Thursday night from his seat, Falloden, Northumberland. Sir Edward and Lady Synge have arrived at the Alexandra Hotel (late Wallace's), Hyde-park. corner, from Windermere. The marriage of the only daughter of the Count and Countess Metaxa with Mr. Crawshay Bailey, onlY ' 3°ll of Mr. Crawshay Bailey, M.P., will take place on. Tues da y' the 29th inst., in Cheltenham. In the neighbourhood of Nant-y-Glo and Aberaman P a rk th e d a y w ill b e k e pt with a general holiday a nd grea t f es ti v iti es , th e i n h a bitants of these localities being desirous of thus t e stifyi n g the great esteem and respect which they have always f e lt towards Mr. Crawshay Bailey an d hi s son . HEALTH OF THE DUKE OF ATHOLE.—His grace's health shows no sy m pt om o f i m p rovemen t ; on the contrary, it is unclerstoOd that his eyesight is failing r a pidly under the medical treatment which has been adopted with a view to induce sleep, from the loss of which he has of late suf fered much. The most sincere sympathy is universally felt for this esteemed nobleman, whose benefactions to the labouring classes on his estates have greatly endeared /ain't in their ebtimation.—Perthshire Advertiser. AT THE KAISER'S ARRIVAL IN VIENNA, the burgomaster, Dr. Zelinka, addressed his Majesty in tho following terms your Majesty deign to allow me to give expression to the joyful feeling which animates the entire population of your capital of Vienna at the return of their beloved Emperor. Our blessings attended yo ur Majesty during your journey —you are received with . our joy on your return to your faithful city of Vienna. This general joy will proclaim through the whole of ,Germany' yea, through Europe, that the people of Austria are bound toyour Majesty by everlasting gratitude. For your Majesty has magnanimously resolved that the historically just prin ciple should be recognised that Austria promotes the unit) ? of Germany, and also that Austria's strength is necessary to protect Germany from all danger. This strength of Austria is also rooted in the free institutions generously granted by your Majesty, in the bravery of the Austrian army, and, before all however, in the love and devotion of all your people, who regard their Emperor with pride. God preserve our good Emperor, and long may he live I Rio Majesty, thereupon, replied as follows :—I joyfully return you my thanks for the friendly reception prepared for me• I endeavoured to promote the interests of Austria ,moat energetically at Frankfort, and I rejoice to be able to assure you that everywhere in Germany I have met with the warmest sympathy for our fatherland, On this occasions Mr. Burgomaster, I renew to you verbally my approbation and thanks far the pains you took in carrying out the na tional festival. It did my heart good to hear of th e VP/ order, and the lively patriotic sentiments of the inhabitants of my imperial city and capital, and I regretted that I wag not in a position to personally take part in the festival. " CLAW ME, CLAW THEE !" OR CUTTLE FISH AND CRAB.—The cattle fish, aptly called, by old Ger man writers on natural history, the "suer spinn," or sea' spider, not only resembles a fat spider in its appearance, but takes after the spider also in its habits, for it squeezes its body into ambush, and there waits patiently till its prey comes to it. True, it does not spin a web, but has enore mously long prehensile tentacles, covered with suckers , with which it is enabled to grasp any living thing that comes within its reach. The specimen at the Zoological feeds principally upon crabs. The moment the foalish crab,. in his constitutional walk round the tank in search or amusement, comes near one of the outstretched arms of the octopus, it tw ices round him with the celerity of a whip' lash round a gig -shalt. The crab struggles and fights with all his legs working all abroad, reminding one of a naked child about to be ducked under water by the remorseless bathing woman who, coming stealthily round the corner, has seized the infant from the steps of the bathing-ma chine. The crab in the arms of the octopus is as help less as the child in the arms of the bathing woman. Go he must; but there is this difference, the child is after a while restored; the crab never. In and in and in he goes, slowly and gradully ; the other arms of the hungry monster. involved like to the rescue; the poor victim is hopele ssl y like a fly in a spider's web, and at last, thoroughly worn out and exhausted, he is dragged up to the feartul mouth of the octopus—the arms all fold up in a bunch, and all is quiet. How the octopus manag es to crac k the shel l of t he crab and get out the meat we know not ; but yet, a ft er a certain time, the octopus relaxes his grasp, and ou t f a ll s t he shell of the poor crab a s em p ty as the e gg -sh ells IA hich can be found on the table after the repast of a hungry tourist. 'IRE WORLD TOPSY TURVY ! or Life at the An tipodes : being a few among the many Peculiarities of Australia.--7 - What strikes the European traveller the most vividly when he arrives in this land of the Antipodes , is the total ovet throw of the physical conditions to which he has been accustomed. The course of the seasons, for instance, is the reverse of what it is in Europe. January marks the middle of summer, and July the middle of winter. Spring embraces September and October; summer gees from the commencement of November to the end of Febiu ary. March, April, an d M ay are t h e autumn mont h s : the remaining time to the 31st August represent winter. There ate three months of rain : in March and April, two of the auttrenal months, and in August, the concluding winter month. When it is midnight in Europe it is noon in Aus tralia ; and reciprocally. When it is tiny weather in Atree tralia the barometer sinks—to announce bed weather it rises. The longest day comes in June with us, in December with the Australians. Tde heat blows from the north, the cold from the south, and it is on the top of the mountains that the heat is greatest. Everywhere there is the same contradiction. The swans are black in New South Wales, the eagles are white. The bees do not sting, the birds do not sing ; the owl comes forth during the day, the cuckoo utters his own name to the echoes during the night. Quad rupeds are seen which have a beak and which lay eggs, others are furnished with pouches to carry their young The cherries hvo no stones; pears, which are so richly melting in our climate, leek in Australia os if they had been cut out of oak. The trees do not in general give anY shadow, because it is the edge of their leaves, not the sides which is turned toward the gun.