The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-06 00:00:00

MR. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS. LAST NIGHT BUT TWO. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING (Thursday\ a BEETHOVEN NIGHT; To-morrow(Friday), the Concert will be Miscellaneous. And on Saturday, positive y the last night of the Concerts, for the Benefit of Mr. Alfred Melon. Conductor— Mr. ALFRED MELLON Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre, One Shilling ; Dress Circle, 2s. ed. ; Private Boxes, £1 ls. and 10s. 6d. Commence at Eight. HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE,- Manazers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. R. Roxby, Belmore ; Miss Hudspeth. After which, the Second Part of Shakespere's Play of HENRY THE FOURTH. Mr Phelps; Messrs R.Roxby, Edmund Phelps, G. F, Neville, Barrett, A. Raynor, Ray mond, F. Morton, ,tc. ; Mrs. H. Vandenhoff, Mrs. Wallace, Mies E. Falconer, and Miss Collier. Commence at Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- LesseP, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. Alter which, MADEMOISELLE DE BELLE ISLE. Messrs. Howe, Farren, Gordon, Baird, &c. ; Mesdames Beatrice, Ange', And THE CASTLE OF ANDALUSIA. Messrs. Weiss. Buckstone, Chippendale, Compton, Rogers, Farren, Matthi 00tt, &c, ; 3Ls.iames Weiss, Keeley, Griffith, &c. To commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. — Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy O'ltafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. NEW THEATRE-RO YAL, Sole Proprietor and Manse - Qr. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, GOOD FOR NOTHING. Messrs. J. Clarke, Billington, Eburne, and Mrs. Alfred Mellon. After which, THE IRISH AMBASSADOR. Sir Patrick 0' Plenipo with songs , , Mr. John Collins, supported by Met srs. Billington, Stephenson; Miss Eenrie ta zdnims and rs. To conclude with TEUDY THE TILER. Teddy (with songs), Mr. John Collins. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. TALENT' AND COMEDY. This popular Theatre is Open for the Winter Season. Those Celebrated artistes Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews are re-engaged. THIS EVENING, Mr. Arthur Sketchley's highly successful and original Comedy of HOW WILL HEY GET OUT OF IT ? Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. F. Matthews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Li, J. Montague ; Miss tii entwotth, and Mrs. Stirling, Alter which, a New Comedy Farce, by Maddison Morton, Esq., entitled WoOD , OCli'6 LITTLE GAME. Mr. C. Mathews, Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. 11.) Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, JNLIMITE D CONFIDENCE. Followed by, at Eight, MIL KY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, Stoyle, James ; Mesdames Swanbor, - ugh and Mande . s. after which, the great Burlesque, THE MILLER AND EIS MEN. Messrs. Fenton, James, and Thorne; Mesdames Swanborough, Simpson. Johnstone, Hughes, and Carson. 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The condition of Ireland is a matter of such very great importance to this country, that any details or statistics concerning it must be received with interest. Rumour may mislead, and political feel ing may either exaggerate or undervalue, the national prosperity of the people, bat the facts and figures, which tell ns plainly what is the increase in the number of acres under cultivation, what is the number of the live stock, and what is the rate of emigration from the differ, nt provinces, give us some substantial groundwork for forming a fair opinion as to the real state of the case. Accord ingly, the Agricultural Statistics yearly furnished by Mr DoNNELLY, the Registrar-General, and laid le: fora the Houses of Parliament, are very accept able ; and as they are now published in a thin and concise pamphlet,* anyone who feels an interest in the matter can consult them without trouble. The abstract, which Mr DONNELLY gives in his opening pages, justifies ui, he considers, in the hope that a return to more prosperous seasons is at hand. In some respects this hope is well founded, a l though a c'osc.r examination of the figures leaves much to be dftit - ed. o,ic of the most favaarabl,3 signs is the increase in the total area reader crops in this year over last, which amounts to 1 0 , 4 93 acres, and it is curious to notice that the principal increase was in the wheat crops, while a decided diminution in oats has taken place in every county. Whether the decrease in horses has any thing to do with this is not stated, but the number of those animals, which has fluctuated between 550,000 and 630,000, during the years between 1339 and 1861, shows this year a decrease of over 18,000, while the difference between 1863 and Agricultural Statistics of Iraand iof the Year IE6I. Alexander Thom, Abbay-street, 862 is even more marked, amounting to more than 22,000. Notwithstanding this the estimated total value of stcck has considerably in creased—in fact it has risen--more than half a million, an advantage attributable to the increase in cattle and sheep. For the former the numbers have risen from 3,144,231 to 3,257,309 in the year, while the sheep show an addition of 54,864 in the same period. It must be remembered, too, that the horses do not represent the same value as they would i❑ Eng:and, being, many of them, of very inferior quality. If we can get the Irish to turn their attention to improving the quality of their stock, as well ae, or instead of only thinking of the quantity, it will be a great gain. Meanwhile it is a noticeable fact, that the number of pigs was decreased by 11,000 in the twelvemonth. This s.;ems to indicate some change in the old traditional Irish peasant life, when every hovel kept its pig or pigs, which shared the family bed and board. In England the possession of a p;g would generally indicate that a cottager was thrifty and well-to-do, but in Ireland it would afford no such test. It is, therefore, not very likely that the owners of pigs have been able to abandon their charge for the sake of more, valuable cattle, unless, indeed, the change is in the property of large owners, and not of the peasantry. This we aro not told, and, in. deed, it would be difficult to learn, although Mr. DONNELLY testifies to the general readiness with which the returns were given, still we should like to know some particulars as to the decreased value of the Irish pigstyes. In the other great staple of Irish peasant life there is, however, no such diminution—the cultivation of potatoes having increased by 15,868 acres. The principal item in the increased land tinier cultivation this year is, however, the flag crop, which shows an increase of no less than 87,761 acres over the preceding re turn, This great rise would seem to show that Irish cultivators are by no means insensible to the advantages offered by this cultivation, and that they are determined not to loae the opportunity now offered to them by high price of cotton and the consequent increas2d demand for linen materials. Many persons still retain their preference for the good old-fashioned stuff over all the dainty varieties of New Orleans and Sea Island, and there are unquestionably many purposes for which calico ill supplies its place. There is therefore no reason to suppose that the fuller supply of cotton will seriously affect the de- mand for flax, especially as Ireland has long pos. eased so high a reputation in that particular. The cultivation offers profitable employment to the people as well as its advantages to the landowner, and therefore we shall hope to see the number of acres under flux cultivation yet increasing in the next report. There is one item in these. returns which will, however, impress the reader painfully. It is the increase of over 50,000 acres under the head of Bog and Waste unoccupied. This increase is divided among the three provinces of Le,inster. Munster, and Ulster, Connaught showing a decrease of 7,000 acres in her unprofitable land ; but it is a mortifying fact that notwithstanding the 10,000 ad ditional acres under crops, so great a deficit re mains. The fact is attributable to the difference is the grass lands, in which there is a perceptible diminution of more than 60,000 acres as well as about 7,000 in the fallow lands. Fluctuations are of course to be expected, and so long as they only consist of casual variations, or of the substitution of one crop for another, there is nothing to be said, but to sae the country receding instead of advanc ing in cultivation is an awkward and unpleasant spectacle. It coincides very ominously with the continual tide of emigration flowing from the Irish ports. Emigration is indeed a blessing to as over crowded and popu:ous State, in which labour is cheapened below its fair value, and trade is damaged by excessive competition, in which energy and enterprise have, as it were, no room to move in the crowd. It is the natural channel for relief when the national family outgrows its dwelling.place, and Englishmen have good cause to rejoice over the possession of so many fair and healthful colonies, to which her people may go without breaking all the ties of home or losing the protection of his great and free Go vernment. Englishmen may still live under their own laws, they may hear their own language around them whether they cross the Atlantic or seek the Southern seas. But while a country re. turns 4,600,000 acres of land as " Bog and Waste unoccupied," there is little need for such a remedy. It is like applying the treatment required by sur. feit to starvation, or trying measures of depletion to a case of extrema debility. There is plenty of room at home for the men and women who are hur rying from their country—plenty of work to do on these waste lands for the strong arms that are going to give a strange land the benefit of their strength. There is not much chance of the "over' crowding" we suffer from troubling Ireland for a good many years to come, even should the tide of emigration be forthwith stayed ; but if the stream is to keep pouring much longer at its pre sent rate, a serious difference will soon be percep• tible. In the first seven months of 1863 the number of emigrants who left Ireland declaring it was their intention not to return was 80,506. This was surely bad enough, but the first seven months of the current year show an increase of 4,080 on that enormous amount. Of course the American War has much to do with this, and the ignorant and misguided peasantry still hurry like moths to the candle to fall into the trap set for their unwary feet. But it is strange when so much has been said and done to undeceive them, and when it may ❑aturally be supposed they have heard of the fate of many of their comrades who went over before them, that the number of emigrants should be steadily rising. We wish Mr. DONNELLY could have told us to what ports these 84,586 were bound, but in any case, we may well regret that they found it necessary to say farewell to their own green island, and trust that the gradual increase in the wealth and prosperity of the sister country may provide honest and ample means of livelihood to the active and industrious peasant, who is generally the one to try to better his condition by trying another land. It would seem from the report of the proceedings Salthill that antagonistic debate and discussion are by no means confined to the Parliamentary arena. Some few days ago the right hon. gentle.. man the member for B ackinghamshire, in pursuance of his autumnal duties to his constituents, was t:ent at an agricultural meeting, when he naturally addressed them on the topics of the day, among which the harvest took, of course, a prominent place. His speech was lucid and sensible, corn. bating the melancholy views which some persons had taken about the crops, and entering into some of their agricultural perplexities. But it seems that this address, although apparently harmless enough to the uninitiated, has excited the dire dis. pleasure of other parts of the county ; and at another dinner held yesterday at Salthill, a Mr TROMPER, who proposed the health of the county members, was obliged to relieve his feelings Ity expressing his dissent from almost everything Mr. DISRAELI had said upon a former occasion, and by gravely assert ing that "he had been told" tae effect of the right hon. gentleman's speech was to lowzr the price of wheat two shillings. Mr. DISRAELI'S words are, no doubt, listened to with respect in many influen tial quarters, and his political speeches have been read with anxiety and interest in many of the Cabinets of Europe, but it may very reasonably be questioned whether his countrymen are quite so easily influenced by the expression of his opinion on a matter which has no connexion with politics or parties, and on which a little personal observa tion and inquiry will enable most well-informed persons to arrive at their own conclusion. But, notwithstanding Mr TROMPER'S indignation about the harvest, the fact appears to be that he is rot so much dissatisfied with the harvest as with the state of farming generally. A great part of his griev. aces against Mr. DISRAELI is that the latter " de ecribed farmers and farming in a too roseate hue." Mr TROMPER is apparently a sample of the good old school of English agriculturists, who are " never happy unless they are miserable," and to whom it is a very great hardship to be told their trade or profession, whichever they choose to call it, has, on the whole; many advantages ; that its profits, if small, are sure, its investments, though tedious in their returns, are safe, and that, though they are undoubtedly liable to the vicissitudes of the seasons, the evils of which can be lessened by prudence and caution. They are at the same time exempt from those more violent and startling convulsions which so often bring ruin on the meat seemingly flourish ing commereial enterprises. What is to become of the long-established privilege of the farmer, to grumble at every change of weather, to complain of the drought of a hot season and the moisture of a wet one, to lament alike the absence of sun and of rain, and of wind and of calm, if this theory is to be generally accepted ? OTHELLO'S occupation will be gone; and what with the improvements in machinery, the advance in agricultural sciencs, and the greater diffusion of knowledge and taste among all classes, the typical British farmer will be a character unknown. Mr TROMPER, is not easily pleased. He complains alike of the low price of wheat and of the high price of beans ; but we towns• folk may at least console ourselves under the antici pation of dear meat, that bread, the great source of supply to thousands who seldom trouble the butcher, will at least be cheap and plentiful. The food for stock is certainly a serious consideration, but it will be hard if the ingenuity of our day cannot devise some substitute for the deficient beans and turnips. At all events, it is better to face a difficulty with a stout heart than to commence our lamenta tions before the trouble has reached us, especially when we have reason to rejoice in a fair average crop of whew, which, in spite of the farmers, is the first consideration with the great body of the people. The verdict of the jury respecting the Erith ex plosion is very much what might have been antici pated from the circumstances. Sa great and com prehensive was the disaster that none were left to tell the tale. No eye-witness of such a catastrophe could live to give his version of the disaster, and all that was known was the fact of the two barges laden with powder lying at the wharf. Mr HALL, the owner of the magazine, observed that he " did not know any person now living who could throw any light upon the cause of the explosion ;" and this was the difficulty of the jury. According to Mr HALL, every reasonable precaution had been taken. The barrels in which the gunpowder was conveyed from the barges to the building were twice examined as to their soundness before they were filled, so that no leakage could have taken place. No fire was allowed upon the bargee, even with the hatches down, and the men, who had most of them been employed on the establishment for many years, were said to be very steady. Under these circum stances, the jury had no choice but to return a ver dict of accidental death, but they coupled with it the expression of their opinion that no stoves or Sights of any desctiption should be allowed on board the powder barges. It is to be hoped that serioue attention will be paid to this recommendation, not only by the owners, but by the men employed in so dangerous and responsible an office. Whence came the spark that caused all the mischief is as yet uncertain ; whether it came unperceived from some other quarter, or whether there vi as actually a light of any kind on board the barge, there is no evidence to prove, but it is at least reasonable that all precautions should be redoubled, and that the men should be closely watched with regard to their pipes. We know how often recklessness of miners has cost their lives and the lives of those around them, and there is no reason to suppose that the knowledge of the danger would prevent the men employed in a gunpowder magazine from similar imprudence. Familiarity breeds contempt of danger as of other things, and utter indifference soon takes the place of alarm and anxiety. The correspondent of a contemporary vouches for having recently seen a Government barge, laden going up t h e r i ver in charge of three or four powder, going two of whom were smoking and another half intoxicated, It is in this way that accidents are brought about, and it would be a good thing if men were subjected to heavy penalties for smoking on board such barges, Me risk affects themselves moat of all, and it also en dangers the lives and property of others, and the cataetrope at Erith, lamentable as it was, except under slightly altered circumstances, has been pro ductive of damage a hundredfold greater. Home for Infirm and Incurable Women, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—As at this season of the year many are returning to their homes, after a time of relaxation, with renewed health and strength, it occurs to me that some Christian persons might be glad, from feelings of gratitude, and by way of thank-offering, to contribute towards the support of an institution, (No. 23, New Ormond• street) for infirm and in curable women. This idea has been suggested to my mind by a lady, who, returning to her home lately, sent us a donation on this ground. At present funds are specially needed, from the fact of an adjoining house, into which we are about to remove, having been recently taken, capable of accommodating, in a comfortable home, a larger number of respectable, deserving persons, now helpless through sickness and infirmity, than the limited number es yet able to be received. For the purchase of the lease, repairs, and furnish. ing, the sum of £BOO will be required. Of this about £350 only has been subscribed ; the remain der has still to be made up in order to provide, ere the winter sets in, this shelter, attendance, and nursing, proved to bo so much needed and sought for by many who can themselves or through their friends partially pay for their maintenance, but being, with advancing years, without relatives to attend on them, and a sufficiency to procure a nurse, have been obliged to resort to a workhouse, or are about doing. While assistance from any kindly disposed would therefore to us prove very opportune, so, surely no charity could be more suitable for the purpose, I hava ventured to suggest, than one which benefits those whom Gad's providence has seen fit to a fflict and to debar from the usual comforts and allevia. Lions of sickness. Donations or annual subscriptions will be thank fully received by Miss Arnott, 23, New Ormond. street (in the absence of Miss Twining, the Lady Superintendent of the homP); or, by Messrs. Twin ing 215, Strand, W.C. Post-office Orders may be made payable in Lamb's Conduit-street. S. S. A, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1864. LATEST INTELLIGENCE• (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. THE VIENNA CONFERENCE. VIENNA, OCT, 5. At to•day's sitting of the Conference the Danish plenipotentiaries are said to have made certain con cessions in the boundary and financial questions, but they insisted that the Duchies should have no part of the indemnity paid for the redemption of the Sound dues, and finally made a fresh proposi tion for the settlement of the question, Herr von Balan, recently arrived from Berlin, was present at the Conference. A letter from Berlin, dated 31 inst., says : " The progress of the Vienna Conferences meets with serious obstacles, and the idea of declaring the armistice at an end has been positively entertained. Prussia has no interest in the question of Schleswig- Holstein being resolved in the national sense—that is to say, that the Duchies shall be formed into an independent State under the Prince of Augusten burg or the Duke of Oldenburg. " The ideas of annexation have somewhat de creased, but they still exist, and the ftudal party, who are now in power in Prussia, are ready to bring them forward at a moment's notice. On the other hand, Denmark only wishes to gain time ; she hopes that Russia will help her to redeem her losses to a certain extent. "It is certain that if the idea of a Congress were now proposed it would be more eagerly accepted than ever by Prussia, considering the serious com plications which exist in the politics of Europe. "It will be remembered that the Danes proposed the arbitration of a neutral Power to settle what portion of the Danish Monarchy appertained to the Duchies. This proposal was declined by Prussia, and the Prussian plenipotentiary has received in• structions to reject all demands of this description. "It is certain that great coolness now exists between Prussia and Austria. There is no accor dance in the Conference itself, and it has been re solved to send a second plenipotentiary to Vienna to avoid a split upon the Danish question. The person selected is M. de Balan, who perfectly understands this question," THE FRANCO-ITALIAN CONVENTION. VIENNA, Ocr. 3. Positive information has been received here that the terms of the Franco.ltalian Convention of the 15th ult. are to the following effect : "1. The French garrison will be withdrawn from Rome within two years. " 2. The Pope will be permitted to organise an army, upon conditicn of his not threatening Italy. " 3. Italy engages not to attack the States of the Church (ne pas enychir), and to prevent every inva sion of those territories. "4, The Government of Victor Emmanuel will enter into negotiations with the Holy Father for undertaking the portion of the Roman debt attach ing to the territory of the States of the Church annexed to Italy." The above are the articles of the Convention. A special protocol stiff ulates for the transfer of the seat of the Italian Government from Turin to Florence. The Treaty contains no secret articles. SANTO DOMINGO. MADRID, OCT, 5. AdvicPs received here from Santo I),)mingo an. flounce that General Gandara, after the victory of Puerto Plata, returned to Monte Chriate. He has sent Senor Figueroa to Spain to explai❑ to the Go vernment the state of affairs. TURIN, OCT. 5. The Queen of Holland arrived here this evening, and has set out again for Venice. The Official Gazette published the note addressed by M. Drouyn de Lbuys to M. de Sartiges. SUEZ, OCT. 6. Th© Messageries Imperial steamer Smyrna ar rived here at 4 p.m. yesterday with the Mauritius and Reunion mails and 5G passengers. MARSEILLES, OCT. 6. The Messagories Imperiales steamer Peluseovith India and Chiva mails, arrived here at 3 a,m. this day. FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. G. The Empress arrived at half-past seven o'clock yesterday evening at St, Cloud. The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric state of Europe yes terday :—The barometer has fallen over almost the whole of Europe, and more particularly on the western coasts. The winds continue light in the North Seas, but have become stronger in the Bay of Biscay and the Gulf of Lyons, still blowing from the East. The storm of the 2d, which was deadened by the Pyrenees, appears likely to acquire fresh strength on the Mediterranean, at the same time that another coming from the west threatens the south-western of Europe. A thunderstorm of short duration broke over Barcelona on Monday night. The waters of the Seine continue below the zero of the scale at the Pont-Royal, a most unusual occurrence in October. The river, in fact, is so shallow that the steamer Seine-et-Tamise grounded yesterday near the Pont do la Concorde, end was with difficulty got afloat again., On the arrival of a train at the Paris terminus of the Lyons railway the night before last, a passenger was found dead in a first-class carriage. From papers found on his person the deceased was ascer tained to be a M. D -, a tinman, residing in the Rue St. Claude. Dr Trousseau, who was called in, declared that death had been caused by the rupture of an aneurism. BOURSE, Oct. s.—The market is rather firmer, and Threes, for the Account, are now at 65f. 90c. Mobilier have improved to 9901. It iiiway Market quiet, but firm. The market became rather heavy towards the close, and left off as follows:- 41 per Cents. 92 Italian Loan 66 9 Do. end month.... Do. end month 67 25 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 65 85 New Mexicali .... 52 25 Credit Mobilier.... 983 75 Russian. Do. end month.... 956 25 Austrian Bank Shares 3120 Spanish Thrreq... , Credit Foncier l2lO Rome Debt Roman 'Airs. Cash. Account. Orleans.. • c. • • . ~, Northern Lyons and Ileditsrzanean 908 75 .. 916 25 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian .. ..... ••••• 312 50 .. 316 25 Austrian .. Lorr‘b , Ard North of Spain Saragos-a 475 --- .. 478 74 Ditto to Barcelon a ..., 201 '25 .. ,i RAIL A curious charge was investigated Ly the Lord Mayor yesterday. Mr Marshall, of Now Bond street, was charged with having threatened to publish a libel on Mr P. J. Benett, a member of the firm of Leighton am' Co., of Mark-lane, with the view of extorting money. Mr Marshall had, it seems, brought an action against Captain Blakeley for breach of contract in respect to some guns. In conversation Mr Benett, it is alleged, offered to bet Mr Marshall £l,OOO to £1 that he would not recover more than £3OO. Mr Marshall says the bet was accepted. The case went to trial, and Mr Benett, who had been sub poenaed by Mr Marshall, gave evidence for Capt. Blakeley. Damages to the am ount of £17 5 were given by the j ury, and then Mr Marshall claimed payment of the bet. Mr Benett said it had not been accented, and a correspondence ensued. Eventu a ll y Mr Marshall printed a statement of the affair, and threatened to circulate it whenever Mr Ben nett had business connections if the £l,OOO were not paid. Mr Benett replied by putting the aff tir into the hands of his solicitor, and the matter assumed the form of the charge against Mr Marshall preferred yesterday. The Lord Mayor sent the case for trial, The Indians of D arien. The Atlantic coast of Darien is inhabited by the Tule, San Blas, or Mandinga Indians, a handsome race, of low stature, but stoutly built, with the copper-coloured skin, straight, coarse, black hair, and other characteristics of Red Indians. They live very peaceably together, are honest, cleanly, and industrious, occupying themselves in fishing, hunting, and cultivating plantains, cassava, cocoa (theobroma cocoa), and a little sugar and tobacco. They carry on some trade with foreigners in cocoanuts, cocoanut oil, cocoa, turtle shell," cotton hammocks, grass hammocks, vegetable ivory, and canoes of calli-calli, a very durable timber which they barter for coloured calicoes, shirts, calico trowsers, looking glasses, beads, cutlasses for cutting bush, hatchets, guns, powder and shot, tobacco, rum, brandy, &c. A very profitable trade might be carried on with them in dyewoods. timber, gums, resins, and a fine grass, which they use for hemp and fi tx, and of which they make a beautiful and most durable kind of hammock. They will take no money in exchange for any of their commodities ; nor will they sell gold duet, it being strictly forbidden by their law to bring down gold dust to the coast. The principal occupation is hunting deer, peccaris or wild hogs, wild turkeys, &a., and fishing for the turtle, which abound near the Kays. They are expert sailors, several of them having made voyages to Jamaica and the United States. They are very independent, never having been subdued by the Spaniards, to whom they bear great animosity. They used to make it a point to kill all of that nation who happened to fall into their hands. Patterson, in his report to the directors of the Scotch colony of Darien, of 1698, says of them :—" They expressed a won de:fal hatred and horror for the Spaniards, and seemed not to understand how we could be at peace with them." " They pressed us hard," says Mr Rose, one of the colonists, in his journal, " to come and live by them, as also jointly to make war with the Spaniards, whom they would engage, upon the forfeiture of their heads, if we would but assist them with 100 men and as many arms, with 2,000 of their own people, to drive not only out of all the mines—which are but three days' journey from ua—but even out of Panama itself." In former times, they were very friendly to the English buccaneers, whose allies they were in many incursions against the Spaniards. Their kindness to the English, however, did not always meet with a proper return, as is shown by the following despatch from Sir Charles Wager to Admiral Vernon, written July 9, 1740, in the time of the famous Portobello expedition : " I am told that the trading ships or privateers have be haved in such a manner to the Darien Indians, by abusing the women, and carrying some of the men to Jamaica, and selling them for slaves, that we have lost their friendship, and that they have, for that reason, made peace with the Spaniards, and will join with them against us where they have the opportunity; and that we have done the same to the Mwquitos. If it be so, it is an abominable thing, but not unlike that sort of Englishmen. I hope our troops will behave better," They are at present very friendly to English and Americans, but, nevertheless, will not permit them to land on the coast. When a vessel anchors, it is boarded by the Indians, who bring off their produce themselves, and do not allow their captain and crew to land. The trade is carried on by a few sloops and schooners from Jamaica and Curacoa. Occasionally the Abingdon, or some other clipper from Baltimore, finds her way to the coast. The principal foreign traders are the brothers Abraham, of.Portobello ; Captain Raimon Iglesias, of Carthagena, Ricardo Illhes, or Ellis, of Cura te, and Juan Seva, of Carthagena, a native of Malaga, who traded with them for twenty-six years, and never once landed on the coast. I have heard of Lephyrino, Richard Marks, and Capt. Latham, as traders, and the old Indians often spoke to me of the late Capt. Shephard, of San Juan de Nicara gua, who used to trade with them in his schooner, the Mandeville. There is a half Indian son of his at Tarena called Z ipata, as they pronounce Shepherd. Their Government is purely patriarchal, the oldest and most experienced man in each settlement being accounted chief by general consent, and universally looked up to and obeyed as such. The present chief of all the Indians is Calogwa, of Carti, in San Blas Bay, who is nearly 100 years of age. The) are accustomed to the use of firearms, and are good marksmen, but their principal weapons are spears and arrows. They have the woorali or curare, poison which they say they get from the Indians of Choco, and call inn or corona. The arrows, which are very slender and only a foot long, have one end smeared with woorali, which has the consistence and appearance of hard extract of opium. When about to be used a little cotton or silk cctton, from the Bombay ceiba, is wrapped round the other end ; the dart, which is of ebony wood, is then blown through a long tube of bamboo, called boro kera. The deadly effect of a mere scratch is almost instan taneous, The Indians of the coast live on the coast, and the islets and keys off it, and rarely go into the interior. They wear shirts and trousers on grand occasions, the shirt always outside of the trousers; but generally go naked. The Indians of the interior live near the sources of the rivers which fall into the Pacific, and rarely descend any of them. They keep entirely aloof from the Grandians of the south, whom they dislike very much, and kill any of them whom they catch ascending any of the rivers towards the Atlantic. In 1850 they killed four negroes whom they found fishing in Chiman river, and in 1852 they killed five negroes who had strayed too far towards the Atlantic. They are very fond of adopting English names, and have often asked me to give them some, which I have done, giving the names of Fox, Henderson, Brassey, Haslewood, Vincent, and Cullen. They have a great objection to tell their own names. When one is asked " iki pe pe nukka " (what' a your name ?) he invariably replies, " nukkachulii" (I have no name). They place great faith in the divining powers of their celes, or priests, who advise tbem in all important matters, and pretend to foretell events. They have a great dread of the smallpox, which is one of their reasons for not allowing foreigners to enter their country. Another is that they fear they would take their women ; but the principal reason is their very natural desire for independence, and their idea that God made the country for them alone. It is not unusual to meet with albinos among them. At Pardon Island, off Cape San Bias. I saw three children by the same father and mother, two of whom were albinos, with very white skins, white hair and eyelashes, and the weakness of vision, under which albinos labour, owing to the deficiency of the pigment of the iris. A moment's ex posure to the sun was sufficient to redden their skins, and smart them so much as to oblige them to run back into the rancheria or hut. Their language is very sweet and euphonous, abounding in vowels, as a few examples will show :—Whence did your friends come? Peyamala Piya Kartanigi ? The tide is falling. Timureti arreogali. When will the: canoe come from down the river? Ulo Ghana ulnonigi diba to yala kari ? My brother is in the bush hunting. Angmechati wirchanati. Loose the sail. Wur nola parmite—Wcst wind. Chagri pnruaga. The word. Tule, which is the name of the tribe, signifies people. The women wear gold nose-rings so large that they hang down below their mouths, and must be raised up when they eat. They drag down the septum of the nose considerably. They are diamond shaped, cut at one cf the angles to admit of their being put in and taken out, and weigh about a quarter of an ounce, being very thick, and made of gold, 22 carats fine. Their necks, wrists, ankles, knees, and hips are adorned with glass beads, strings cf coral, gold trinkets, tigers', sharks', and alligators' teeth, pieces of money, and a variety of miscellaneous articles. They prized very highly a lot of gilt buttons which I cut off an Armenian jacket that I bought at Constantinople in 1848. During my intercourse with this interesting tribe I was invariably treated with the greatest kindness and hospi tality, although the old men were strongly opposed to my project for cutting a canal across the Isthmus, notwith standing that I represented to them that the line which I proposed would not interfere with any of their settlements, as it would traverse a country entirely uninhabited. I take this opportunity of earnestly urging the justice and policy of dealing with this fine race, in all future transactions, in a spirit of conciliation and friendship, and with the strictest integrity and honour. I do not believe the Indian population of the whole Isthmus of Darien amounts to 3,000 souls. In 1747 Governor Joaquin Valcarcel de Miranda estimated it at 5,000 families. It his calculation was correct, there has been a lamentable falling off in the last century. The Indians live entirely on the Atlantic cotsst, and the islets and keys ofl it, and at the sources of the rivers which rise in the Pacific slope of the Cordillera. As the Cordillera runs parallel to the Atlantic, and is only from three to six miles distant from it, the whole Indian population of Darien may be considered to reside within 10 miles of the Atlantic. Further south, the only inhabitants of the Isthmus are about 1,100 negroes, citizens of the Republic of New Grenada, who speak Spanish, and reside in the villages of Chapigana, Real de Santa Maria, anti, Molineca, on the Tuyra ; Yavisa, on the Chuquanaqua ; and Tucuti and Camoganti, on the La Marea ; and about 200 civilised Indians, whose ancestors were domesticated by the Jesuit missionaries, and who live in Pinogans, on the Tuyra. Thus, strange to say, 4,300 people, mostly savages, occupy a country 180 miles in length, with an average breadth of 50 miles, having a soil of amazing fertility, capable of yielding the most valuable products, and occu pying the most commanding position for commerce, situated as it is between the Atlantic and Pacific), with magnificent harbours on each, and at only eight days' steaming from New York and eighteen from England. It seems slid more strange. when we reflect, that the narrowest part between the two oceans is there, and that there, also, the first settle mert was made after the dis , covery of America—Santa Maria do Jl Antigua del Darien, near the mouth of the Atrato, having been the first town built on the American continent. Nevertheless, there is now neither path, track, trail, nor line of transit of any kind across the Isthmus of Darien, nor even across the Isthmus of Panama, except from Chagres and Aspinwall, Navy Bay, to Panama.— The Isthmus of Darien, by Dr. Cullen. POISONING BY TOBACCO.—A very curious case of poisoning by the absorption of tobacco through the skin was mentioned, at a recent meeting of the Academie des Sciences, by M. Ll. Bernard, who received the infor mation from aM. Namias. A smuggler had placed a quan• tity cf unmanufactured tobacco next his skin, and the heat and perspiration produced by walking caused the poisonous properties of the tobacco to enter We system, the conse cpAeizoes of which were very raeriQue,—Once u wok.. The Representation of Hastings, The nomination of candidates for the representa tion of Hastings, rendered vacant by the elevation of Lord Harry Vane to the peerage, through the death of the Duke of Cleveland, took place on Tues day. The two candidates in the field were the Hon. George 'Valdegrave Leslie, who oame forward in the Liberal interest, and Mr P. T. Robertson, who appeared in that of the Conservative. The hustings were erected in the cricket ground, in front of which a large concourse of the electors and non-electors had assembled. The usual pre. liminaries having been gone through, Colonel HARCOURT proposed Mr P. T. Robert son as a fit and proper person to rtprcsent the borough of Histings in Parliament. Mr BEATTIE seconded the proposition. Mr W. SCRIVENS then proposed as a candidate the lion. George Waldegrave Leslie. Mr PUTLAND seconded the nomination. There being no other candidates to be proposed, Mr ROBERTSON addressed the assembly. He said he had been told, in the course of his canvass, that the great difference between him and his opponent was that Mr Leslie would support Lord Palmer ston's Government, while his (Mr Robertson's) sup port was uncertain. He would wish to know, how ever, what the support of Lord Palmerston implied. A great many of the Hastings electors were in favour of the ballot. Did Lord Palmerston support that ? (Cries of " Na, no," and cheers.) Many were also in favour of the unconditional annihilation of church rates. Did Lord Palmerston advocate such a measure ? (No, no, and renewed cheers.) To come to particulars, he had been told in the course of his canvass that if he was returned the 4i loaf would be raised to 7d. (Laughter.) That was a specimen of the arguments that had been used against him, and they were really too ridiculous to require refutation —as if he, a merchant, were not as much in favour of free trade as his opponent, and would do anything that would be contrary to the commercial interests of this great country, It had been said that if they did not agree with Lord Pal merston in home matters yet they could agree in supporting him in foreign affairs, With regard to America, peace there had been preserved in conse quence of statesmen of all classes uniting with heart and hand to maintain neutrality, so that neither Lord Palmerston nor any of his Cabinet had to be thanked for this. (Cheers and hisses.) Then with regard to Denmark Lord Palmerston's Government had given the assurance that if Germany went to war ,with Denmark the latter would not stand alone. That was a very proper speech to make, pro vided we had intended to carry it out. Lord Pal merston, however, did not preserve the peace by his own act ; it was because France and Russia would not join him in going to war. (Cheers.) After alluding to some local topics, Mr Robertson concluded by saying that he had made a very suc cessful canvass, and he begged to thank all the electors for the support they had given him. The Hon. G. WALDEGRAYE LESLIE next came to the front of the hustings and addressed the elec. tors. He urged them to exercise the right which they possessed of returning a member toParliament in an independent manner. He had been told by some of the electors that they had pledged them selves to support Mr Robertson because he had pro mised to advocate liberal measures, He mentioned this because it was on political principles that he appeared there to solicit the suffrages of the Has tings electors. (A Voice—But Mr Burchell says you are a poor man.) (Laughter.) Yes, he did, and "Pity the sorrows of a poor young man—(great cheering)—whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door.' (Renewed cheering and laughter.) Mr Leslie then entered into an enumeration of the reforms that had been effected by the Liberal party in the House of Commons, which party he pledged himself to support if returned to Parliament. He expressed regret that within the last few days at tempts had been made to intimidate those electors who had promised him their support, but he asked them all, in ease it came to a poll—(laughter)—to record their votes in his favour, and might God de fend the right! (Cheers.) A show of hands was then taken. It appeared to be pretty equally divided between the two candi dates, but the returning officer declared it to be in favour of Mr Waldegrave Leslie. A poll was demanded by Mr Robertson. Yesterday morning the polling was commenced with much vigour. The excitement was consider able on account of the severity of the contest. The friends both of Mr Leslie and of Mr Robertson were full of hope. At 12 o'clock the poll stood as fol lows : Mr G. Waldegrave Leslie Mr Itubertswa CLOSE OF THE POLL, Mr G. Waldegrave Leslie (Liberal) 6Bl Mr Robertson (Conservative) Majority Death of Mr William Tait, With much regret we (Scotsman) have to announce the death of Mr Tait, of Prior Bank, formerly and long known to the public as a publisher and politician, and from first to last held in much esteem by a large circle of private friends. About 16 years ago when Mr Tait retired from business, be purchased the house and property of Prior Bank, near Mel rose, where he has chiefly resided ever since, though still retaining his house in Edinburgh. His naturally vigorous frame and careful and temperate habits ensured him good health until last January, when a severe influenza was followed by a slight attack of a paralytic nature, from which he never quite rallied, and which was twice repeated. Latterly his weakness in creased, and on Monday, though there was no decided change for the worse, he requested to be taken from Prior Bank to his house in Walker -street here, where he rapidly sank and expired at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. His age was 72. He was unmarried, and the nearest relative he leaves is his sister, Mrs Adam Black. Mr Tait was a man of very distinct individuality of character. You could not confound his nature with any other person's, or adduce him as a specimen of a class all thinking and acting in the same way. He was able in all things to follow the bent of his own independent will, for his father, a successful builder, left him opulent. While in business as a publisher, his easy circumstances removed from him one motive of very active exertion—and such attention as he bestowed on his profession was in a great measure directed towards the pro motion of his political opinions —hence it is believed that he did not add materially to his wealth during the period of his business life. In 1832,he established Tad sEdinbui gli Maga zine. It appeared for some time in the shape and at the price (2s 6d) of the established magazines; but he soon reduced it to is, thus taking an important step in the progress of cheap literature. This periodical did much to stimulate and freshen the liberal cause, the more so, perhaps, that it was not very closely bound to party purposes. Anyone who had a bold and original thing to say, if he could write tolerably, was pretty sure of getting out the " bit of his mind" in Tait's Magazine, however much it might offend preju dices, public or personal. Oue feature in Mr Tait's con nection with literature must not be omitted, Partly from an independent self-reliance wh ch disinclined him to bow to established refutations, partly from a real friendliness and kindness of nature, he gave a good many obscure young men the opportunity of showing what they were fit for. In this way, in conjunction with his chief contributer,the late admirable Mrs Johnstone, ho gave Ikbert Nicol the poet opportunities for laying the fruits of his genius before the world—a position he bad little chance of otherwise achieving within the short spell of life which disease had left for him to enjoy. Mr Tait's politics were professedly those of an independent Radical, swayed by a strong friendly feeling to tho Whig party. Though not factious, and de testing anything like trickiness, he was sometimes rather provoking to the advocates of a policy and of combined action who desire to know whom they can count on. They could always be sure, however, that he would take the course which ho had in honesty convinced himself to be the right one. It should not be forgotten that at the great contest for the representation of Edinburgh in 1817, when a coalition was formed between the Radicals and the Tories and the Teetotallers and the publicans, Mr Tait protested against the conduct of those with whom he usually acted, and came to the hustings as the seconder of Macaulay. Mr Taft had received a liberal education, was a considerable reader, and enjoyed literature both when ho was concerned in its practi cal furtherance and in the ease of his retirement. Ono of his chief enjoyments was music. It was a treat to hear him at the p'ano, although his burly frame and powerful hand were rather ludicrous appendages to that feminine instru ment. He was above the ordinary size, handsome and strong built ; and his erect walk, with a certain grave expression, caused by absence of mind, to which he was a good d ea l liable, gave hi m i n hi s favourite walk in Princes - street . something of the kind of air which acquires for one the title of " bashaw.'"lhis, however, was an accident of manner. He was a good, easy,. kindly man at heart— affectionate to relations, and attentive to friends, of whom a large circle will long and sineerely mourn his loss. According to the Pali° the official lists of the victims in the riots at Turin give the number of killed at 42, and wounded at 123. SAIT , ,swr HER, MAJESTY. BALMORAL, OCT. 4. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, went out yesterday morning. In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Helena, proceeded up Glen Gelder to Lochnegar, and returned by Alt-na-GtOlasach. His Royal HighneFs Prince Alfred went out deer-stalking in Mar Forest. The Earl and Countess Delawarr had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family. -40. The Prince and Princess of Wales, COPENHAGEN, OCT. 0. The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived yes' terday afternoon at E'.sinore, and were received by the King and the Crown Prince. The royal party proceeded immediately to Fre* densborg. Foreign Courts. PARIS, OCT. 4• The Princess Clotilde, accompanied by her. brother, Prince Humbert, was present on Sunday evening at the representation of the Italian Theatre. The Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, widow of the Duke de Leuohtenberg, has left Paris for Darmstadt. The Emperor and Empress of Russia, who are now at Darmstadt, are to arrive at Nice on the 9 11 inst. Their Majesties will b 3 accompanied by Baron de Budberg, the Russian Ambassador in Paris, and a suite of about 50 persons. The Emperor ander will remain there ten days. Prince Arthur of England arrived at Brussels ca Saturday from Germany, and was received at the railway station by the Count de Flandre. In the evening he dined with the King and royal family at the palace in Brussels, and left for Antwerp the next morning on his way to England. Marriage in High Life. On Tuesday, the nuptials of Mr George Howard, son of the Hon. Charles Howard, M.P., and nephew of the Earl of Carlisle, with the Hon. Rosaling Stanley, the youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley, took plade at Alderley Church, Cheshire. There were five elegantly decorated triumphal arches erected by the tenantry on the way from the hall to the church, and a great many of the inhabitants assembled thereat and heartily cheered the wedding patty as they passed. The church was tastefully decorated with flowers, fruit, and corn by the tenantrY. What with the company from the hall, principally tenantry and school children, the sacred building 'see crowded. About lOC persons, connected by consanguinity and friendship with both families, were present at the in' teresting event. The bridegroom and most of the wedding party arrived bafore the bride, who was accompanied by her mother, Lady Stanley of Alderley. As the bride alighted, the several bridesmaids—viz., the Hon. Maude and Hon. Kate Stanley, the Ladies Blanche and ulementina Ogilvy Miss Scott, Miss Lowther, Miss Fox, and Miss Constance Adene, received the bride, who was conducted by he r father, Lord Stanley of Alderley, followed by the brides maids,:to the communion table, in the front of which the relatives and friends had congregated to witness the solem nity. Among those present, in addition to Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley and the bridesmaids, were Lord and Lady Wensleydale, the Countess of Airlie, Hon. Charles Howard, M.P„ Hon. W. Owen Stanley, M P, and Mrs Stanley, Lady Augusta Stanley, Hon, Mrs Lowther, Hon. Frederick Leveson Gower, M.P., Viscount Amberley, 11 02, Mrs Augustus Lane Fox, Hon. Mrs Scott, Col. the Hon. John Stanley, Hon, Algernon Stanley, &c. The Veil Rev. Dr Stanley, the Dean of Westminster, assisted by the Rev, Thomas Erskine, rector of Alderley, performed the religious ceremony. The marriage was a choral one, precisely the same as observed at the late marriage of Laid and Lady Richard Cavendish at estminster Abbey, the choir of the village church most ably discharging the duties required from them, At the conclusion of the service Mendelssohn's " Wedding Mare,." was played on the organ. The happy couple, after the customary re gistration of their marriage, returned with their friends to the hall at Alderley Park for the breakfast. Shortly after two o'clock the newly wedded pair left for Nawerth Castle, the fine old baronial seat of the Earls of Carlisle, in Cumberland, to pass the honeymoon. The tenantry and peasants belonging to the neighbourhood enjoyed them selves in the park with rustic games, the old Cheshire game of" prison bars" affording amusement and relaxation during the greater part of the afternoon. Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley gave an entertainment of tea, buns, &c., to the whole of the school children who had taken part in the pro ceedings of the day. Some of the bride's numerous presents were very costly, but among those gifts of re: pect none were more esteemed than a photograph book from th e school children of Alderley, and a gift from the girls of the parish of a handsome case of scent bottles. The Duke of Newcastle has no intention for the present to remove from Clumber Park, Notts, to Brighton, as stated. His grace is, if anything. better in health than when he left town for hie country seat; but no great improvement has taken place. The Earl of Carlisle continues in much the same state of health as when he left,Dublin. No change for the worse has taken place, and there are Lopes that, with retirement, his health may yet be re- stored. The Earl of Dudley, who is at present at hie estates i❑ Scotland, surrounded by a select circle to wind up the shooting season, is expected to leave the north for Witley Court, Worcestershire, the week after next. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Ladies Ashley have been passing several days in Paris on their way home from Switzerland. The noble earl and countess, after a brief sojourn in London, go to St. Giles, Dorset. Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses jocelya have arrived in Paris froze a tour in Italy. Lord Courtenay, M.P., has left town for Hugh' enden Manor, on a visit to the Right Hon. B. Vs' raeii, M.P., and Mrs Disraeli. The Right Hon. Cl.ichester Fortascue,'M.P., and Frances Countess Waldegrave are still visiting is Ireland, and are not expected to return home, be* fore the end of the month. Miss BATSMAN. This distinguished ectrcelP (who need no longer be designated as " Transatik 'antic") is now fulfilling a brief engagement at the Theatre Royal, Liverpo A, and the newspapers of that town speck loudly in her praise. The Daily Post says— "Miss Bate' man's engagement, the commencement of which we chro nicled at the beginning of the week, has been an overwhelta ing success. It is very seldom, except on the rare occasion of a very great benefit, that the Theatre Royal has been so crowded for a long time past as it is each evening to witnes o the performance of this distinguished tragedienne. As her success is purely a legitimate one, accomplished in a piece without sensational effects, and by no means remarkable for literary merit, the fact of her brilliant success in Liverpool, following upon that which she achieved in London, is a ad dramatic event." THE NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC REFORMATORY Ig THE MERSEY.—At the monthly meeting of the Liverpool town council yesterday, the following resolution was unani . " mously agreed to—" That this council make an order for the payment of the sum of £1,500 towards the expenses of fitting up the ship Clarence on its first establishment as 3 reformatory school for Roman Catholic boys, on the con dition that the managers of such school do receive therein from time to time, when enabled to do so, Roman Catholic, boys committed from this borough, and directed-to be 0 04 to a reformatory school." The expense of fitting up th e ship Clarence, which, it may be remembered, was lent O r the Government a short time ago, will be about £3,500. The government expended about X 1,200 upon the vessel, anti the committee therefore owo the government this amount. committee of the institution have received donations to the' extent of £2,040, and the annual subscriptions promised 1- 1 ? to the present time amount to £350. The whole of tb" donations have been absorbed in fitting up the vessel an d placing her in a convenient position in the Sloyne. jhe Clarence has accommodation for about 260 boys, but the actual number to be received will be fixed by the governtucat inspector. FAILURES IN THE NORTIL—We yesterday grl' nouneed the failure of Mr Clough, spinner ana manufacturer, of Bradford, and there are rumours of anothe r extensive failure in the West Riding, which, however, W t ` have been authoritatively unable to confirm. At a meeting of the creditors of Alfred Teale on Tuesday it was stated that the liabilities were considerably over £lOO,OO O , bu t nothing is definitely known as to the assets. The consign' clients on the books amount to £145,000, the books debts to £3,000, the stock to /119,000, and the plant and machinery to £6,000, so that if the realisation of the assets is favourable there should be a large dividend. At present there is a° confirmation of the rumoured irregular bill ti ansaotions bi the bankrupt, and it was intimated that Mr Teale would probably return on Saturday,—Zecds Xereury.