The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-30 00:00:00

f k .4, 4 " 1 • • • • • A:0 1 p itipz .013 , Sun, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1863. For France, the situation at this moment is cer tainly momfantous. At one and the same time, tb.ere is an imminent possibility of the Empire being engaged is a war with Russia and a war with America. The juncture looks ominously in this way befn at St. Petersburg and at Washington. Angry feelings, in regard to the course pursued by the EItIPEROR'S Government, appear to have sprung up almost simultaneously, far to the east in the great Autocracy, far to the West in the great Democracy. So far as these ill feelings have arisen within the Imperial Councils of the CZAR, they have been there engendered by the irritating influence of a long and rather sharp diplomatic correspondence. In its origin, the ill '6ll now, every successive mail, more and more 4 btrily manifested towards the Emperor NAPO- L 4c * by the Federal authorities at "Wash iD g t°l l, is traceable to a vary different source indeed - - --not so much to words written or spoken, as to acts visible or inferred. The occ upa tic % of Mexico by French troops ; the proclivity t , t the EMPEROR'S policy, by preference, towards tue a -4 uth ; the building up of an empire, at his IVlai 4 rt's instance, cheek by jowl with the disrupt republic of North America ; the favourable teeption granted in Paris to the representative of the Confederate power, the rebel power as it is considered to be at Washington ; even the r ‘lnoured, we must add the akstirdly rumoured complicity (or whatever else it - may be called), of the Goverment of NAPOLEON 111. in the ordering of tb t , te from t h e - two nominally En Egyptian steam rams%hall shipbuilder's yard at Liverpeol—each and all at these things have had a share, more o r less direct ,; provoking ill-blood towards France, or at any rate towards the ruler of France, among the angry population of the North, as well as among the F 6 deral.Admirastar ats at Washington. All this while, however, it is certaira s . due to the Government of his Majesty the French EMPEROR, to assert that, so far as acts go in regard to America, that is to say, in regard to the Federal power in America, that so far as words go, the written notat e of diplomacy, in regard to Russia neither the Federals on the one hand, nor the Russian Autocrat upon the other, have any grcunds whatever for complaint against the Governme'ot of NAPOLEON 111. In respect to the affair of the two steamers at Liverpool there is no case at all that can in any way be made out against the ExPEßon's Govern- With that transaction he has nothing what ever to do. It is a matter resting entirely hitherto 13etween a private mercantile firm in 'era's theFrances,htihpe 7'a's Government in Egypt, and builders in England. Our Foreign Secretary seems bent, however, upon assuming to himself, i n the transaction, the full weight of whatever respensi• biliry may bo involved in the settlement of it. Whether be will be backed, in E 0 doing, by Parlia. meat. T HE SO UTHSEA PIER HOTEL COMPANY (Limited). Incorporlded under the "Joint-stock Companies Acts, 1856 and 1857," and the "Companies Act, 1862," whereby the liabilitj of each Shareholder is strictly limited to the amount: subscribed. Capital £60,000. First Issue £30,000, in Shares of £5 each, with power to the Directors to issue the remaining £30,00, in \Viola or in part, when requisite; the Original bareholders having, a preferential claim, pro rata, in the Shares so issued. Deposit on application 59. per Share, and 15s. on allotment. Calls not to exceed 20s. each, at intervals of not less than three months. DIRECTORS. J. W. MOORE MILLER, Esq., Gloucester House, Southsea, Chairman. H. HAWES FOX, Es. Queen's-gardens, ITyde-paorkn, lr!; don, Director of th q e , Brighton, Ucktield , and T Dm. Rai way Company, Vice-Chairman. 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In Two Parl:s—as given by him in all the principal Theatres and Opera Houses of the Continent of Europe and America. The whole of the Marvellous Illusions entirely new, and invented by Herr Herrmann. Prices of admission as usual. Doors opec. at half-past 7. HEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE. - _IL Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, THE DEAL BOATMAN : Messrs. G. Bel•anore, F. Charles; Miss R. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund Fal :oner. TO conclude with the new and original Comedy, by Ed murrd Falconer, entitled NATURE'S ABOVE ART : A Ro mance of the Nursery : Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder, Barrett, G. Belmore, F. Charles. Neville ; Miss Charlotte sau aders. Miss Murray, Miss R. Leclercq, Mrs. Melville, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. B ox-ofilce open from Ten till Five daily. Prices as usual. Commence at 7. TIHEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.— Oven for the Season.—Notice.—During the recess the undermentioned alterations have been made to ensure the comfort of the audienca : A distinct row of Stalls has been erected, with two new Stall Staircases, one on each side of tbe Theatre. In the Dress Circle, all the partitions and ori ginAl seats have been removed, and chairs o' a convenient size. covered with Utrecht ve.vet, int r oduced. The approa ches to the Dress Circle will be carpeted and generally improved, while the seats In the Amphitheatre will be made as commo dious as those of the Pit. In addition the whole of the inte rior of the Theatre has undergone a thorough restoration. Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan every evening. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, to commence at 7, with AN UN LUCKY MORTAL : Mr. William Farren, Miss M. Harris, &c. Alter which, at a quarter to Et, the new C omedy of FINESSE ; or ,p l y l e h , a r M a r c . t ß e r u s e k b s y t o 3 n r e r ; Spy and Counte 3 r ir S . Miss L. Angel, and Mrs. Alf red Wigan, Mr. C',hippendale, bl re. Dowton (ad appearance) , Alfred Wigan. Concluding with TURNING THE TA ISLES. Monday, Oct. 26. Mr. and Mrs. CiLAS. MATHEWS will return to the London stage. NEW THEATRE-RO YAL, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. This Theatre will RE-OPEN for the Winter Season To morrow, THURSDAY. entirely new painted and decorated. First appearance of Miss BATE.4IAN, the celebrated Ameri can artiste. At 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. Stirling. At R, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Mr. Arthur Stirling (his first appearance her, Messrs. R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, A. Wood, Eberne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Bel ford, Miss Simpson. Followed by (63d time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria iiiimpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. IRE THAR]) EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening . of G. R. GLENIE, NETS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tlas DAY.—More ing, 3h. 45m.—Afternoon, 4h. 4m, To-mnanow.-Mon ling, 4h. 25m.—Afternoon, 4h. 42m, The Weather—Sun Office, Sept. 30, 1863. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-29.84. Wind—South-Eas' erly ; moderate, and fine. merit remains to be seen, of course, when the Lords and Commons shall have assembled once more in February. But, in any case, it is just the idlest phantasy to tax the Emperor NAPOLEON'S G overnmen t w i t h this affair of the steam rains, so far as can be reasonably judged from any facts that have been yet brought to light. It should no less distinctly be borne in mind by every dispassionate ob server) whether here in Europe, or yonder in America, that so far as the French EMPEROR has corresponded diplomatically, through his Minis ter that is, with the Goverment of the CZAR at St. Petersburg in regard to the affairs of Poland, he has done so conjointly with the other great Powers of Christendom, harmoniously that is with the Austrian Government and with the English Government. While so far as his policy in respect to the disrupted Republic of North America can yet be judged by his written words, or his overt acts, he has up to this moment acted and spoken quite frankly and freely from first to last. Twice he has striven to inter pose as a Pacificator between the infuriated Belli gerents. It is no fault of his that he could not contrive to succeed in either of these magnanimous endeavours. Circumstances, events, the flying moments, were not propitious. And, as England, knowing all the while that such efforts, however generous, must perforce be wholly futile and ineffectual, held aloof from the first, so also the French EMPEROR was constrained to hold aloof at last, when reluctantly convinced of what his Allies had instinctively recognised tl roughout, namely, that endeavours of that kind were;iittogether premature and precipitate. The anger oftthe Rus sians and of the Federals towards the MPEROR arises more from a doubt, there at St. Retersburg, there at Washington, as to what that inscrutable Ruler proposes to do in the future, as to what he is understood or surmised to be preparing to do in the future, than as to what he is doing in the pre sant, or has been doing in the past. So far as his policy, both in respect to Russia and in respect to America, can be estimated from a scrutiny of that past and of this present, and not from any vag ue anticipation of th at di m and doubt ful future, it can surely not be pronounced in any wa y r eprehensible. The cloven hoof of evil intent towards either the CZAR or the Federal PRESIDENT has yet to peep out from under the imperial purple of France. It were as outrageous to charge the French EMPEROR with anything like unfairness or insincerity in his policy towards Russia in respect to Poland, or towards Federalism, in this san guinary crisis of the American Civil War, as it has ever been to charge him, here in England, with any thing like unfairness or insincerity in the matter of the Anglo-French Alliance. We last week announced the startling fact that the Lords of the Admiralty intended to discharge a large number of hands from Chatham Dockyard, amounting to upwards of one thousand from all departments, and these at a time when all the avail able mechanics were employed in bringing forward the iron-cased frigate Achilles, causing considerable delay in the commencement of the Bellerophon and Lord Warden. We rejoice, however, to be able to state that the Lords of the Admiralty have in this instance seen the error of their ways in time, and have rescinded their extraordinary order. A tele gram was received at the dockyard on Saturday directing the officials and heads of departments to report if it were advisable to make any reduction in the present strength of the establishment, and if so, to state the lowest possible number of workmen in each branch that should be discharged, the proposed reduction being confined to the hir©d mechanics, artisans, boys, and labourers. As might have been expected the officials of the dockyard made ready answer that it was most undesirable to reduce the number of mechanics at present engaged ; that those employed on the Achilles bad been for some time working over hours ; and that notwithstand ing this, several months must elapse before she will be ready to go to sea, and they therefore recom mended that " no considerable number of the dock yard hands should be discharged until the Achilles is completed, and at all events floated out of dock, by which time the Lords of the Admiralty wil have made up their minds as to the commencement of the other iron vessels proposed to be laid down at Chatham." We hope that, for the present at least, the penny wise and pound foolish policy of certain heads of the Admiralty may be checked. A new era has commenced in the construction of ships of war. All the maritime nations of Christendom are emulating each other in the construction of iron plated ships and armour-piercing guns. Our pri vate yards are busy in constructing vessels for foreign Powers, and our iron foundries in casting cannon for the same destination. There is the possibility of hostilities in Europe at no distant period, and a great probabilty of col lision with America at any moment. France, Russia, and the United States are hard at work, constructing formidable ships of war, while Eng land, whose prosperity, and greatness depends on her maritime superiority, instead of calling into action the vast resources of her private yards to aid the Royal dockyards to the utmost, suffers certain gentlemen at Whitehall to sit in cool debate, con sidering the advisability of discharging 800, 000, or 1,000 artisans from one of her principal build ing yards. We do not wish to be too severe in a case like the present when the mandate of suspen• sion and delay has been rescinded, but rather to draw attention to the injury that the service and the country may at any time sustain from the ca price or ignorance of men in the wrong place. When iron ship building became general in the Govern ment dockyards, and the construction of wooden vessels proportionately reduced, thOe was n o t em ployment enough to be found to occupy the ship wrights of the old school; but on the principle that when one trade fails a man must turn his hand to another, a large number of the shipwrights threw aside the saw and adze,and took up the blacksmith's hammer, and to such good account did they turn their abilities that we learn that the " whole of the dockyard mechanics engaged on the Achilles were formerly shipwrights employed on the wooden ships, and since trained at the coat of considerable time and labour to become workers in iron. In addition to the ordinary established dockyard hands, hired workmen have also been taken on from time to time, and these have attained considerable profl tiency in iron work." But this is no solitary case ; the plating of the Caledonian (85) which has just been "TuPitted, at Woolwich, was accomplished by ship wrights „ I _ y, and the excellence of the work was acknowledged, and similar remits may b 3 expected from the employ went of these m en i n o th er dock yards. Here then are men, doubly valuable to E ng land, men 'Mil can turn their hands to either n am w e h r o ic se an s s e a r n v d ice ß s u w ss o ia u n ld s be eagerly b ra nch of s r h e i c p e b i u v i e l d di b e yg , tmhee _ —nations, too, which pay far more generously for skilled labour than does our own country. There exist a few deluded indi viduals who may think that p atriotism would prevent them from lending their aid to th e enemies of England, but England is not at present at war; and alth oug h in time of petit Englishm en would stand by their country if at home, the case would be very different when, to a certain extent, naturalised to a foreign nationalit In the old TIM SON. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1863. American war the Yankee navy was manned by British seamen ; why may not American and Rus sian ships be built by English artisans at the pre sent day ? What a certain cavalry officer said to MURAT in the Russian campaign of 1812, when censured for the failure of a regiment of dragoons in a charge—namely, that " the horses had no patriotism, and would not fight without corn"— may apply in some respects to mechanics, for, if Government will not find them employment, they must not expect to find the men for the country when wanted, and the day may come when least expected, and the navy of England be found as un prepared for action as it was at the outbreak of the Russian war. It is curious to remark that, while the Lords of the Admiralty are so eager to save a few thousands sterling this month by the discharge of competent workmen—which must in all probabi lity cost the country thrice that amount in the next by the re-engagement of double the number discharged, to make up for time lost by their pre vious parsimony—they think nothing of squander. ing millions of public money in very fanciful altera tions, and in building up one day and pulling to pieces the next, as the epirit moves them. Again, it is by no means uncommon for ships to be docked, thoroughly overhauled, and fitted for service, and then condemned as unseaworthy, dismantled, tied sold out of the service or broken up. We find that some eight gunboats attached to the steam reserve at Chatham have been ordered round to Deptford to be broken up : they would have been sold, but no purchasers could be found who considered them worth what the Government required. In other words, the ships were not worth buying. May we not ask why the ships were not broken up at first, rather than expend large sums to fit them out for the reserve, and then, after all, to break them up ? The total . failure of the Recruit the other day, when she was taken down to the Nore to try her engines and rate of speed, is a case in point. It may be re membered that some years ago the Board of Admi•• ralty then in office exchanged, for reasons best known to themselves, a fine 38-gun frigate, the Thetis, for a couple of gunboats belonging to Prus sia, which that Government found to be by no means up to the mark—the Recruit and the Weser. The latter is at present in the Mediterranean, the former was to have proceeded to the coast of Africa, but on trial proved herself to be so unmanageable and unsafe in a breeze that it was deemed unsafe to proceed with the trial. Might not the former per formance have furnished evidence of what might be expected from such a coffin, and prevent her being selected for a station where speed and sea going qualities are indispensable. Let us look at another branch of the dockyard management. The Caledonian was yesterday floated out of dock at Woolwich, where she had just received her armour-plating, but the great accumulation of mud and refuse in the river, opposite the dockyard, ren dered this an operation of great difficulty, for the sternpost of the frigate took the ground, or rather mud, just outside the dock, and brought her up, and it was only by great exertions that she was dragged through the mud and moored in the river. What is the meaning of this ? The presence of the accumu lation of mud was well known to the authorities some months ago. It must therefore either have been left there by gross negligence, or for the pur pose of calling into play the ingenuity of dockyard people, and demonstrating the power of science over matter, and likewise just to try what stress might be put on the sternpost of a ship without carrying it away. Would any of our large private companies have been guilty of such neglect ? No; the cost of an accident would have fallen upon the proprietors, but in a royal dockyard nobody is ever to blame, and JOHN BULL pays the piper. It is not to be wondered at that the naval estimates are always so heavy, and the results for the large sums yearly voted by Parliament so inadequete. It is for the public to look to it, and take care that the honour and interests of the country are not trifled with to suit the fancy of any visionary statesman and expe rimentalist. In the meantime it is to be hoped that due care will be exercised in reducing the number of artisans employed in the dockyards while so much yet remains to be accomplished. It is but lately that the practice of discharging a ship's company after a three years' cruising, and after having learned their business, and engaging new hands for the next ship in commission, when a great part of the new hands have to commence their education, has been discontinued, and the continuous service introduced. Let this system, at present in force in the navy, be introduced, as far as practicable, into the dock yards. The opening of the Danish Rigsraad, or Repre , sentative Assembly for Denmark and Schleswig, is, , at the present crisis, no inconsiderable event. For many years the vexed question of German right and German interference have troubled the peace of the little kingdom, and year by year the solu tion of the difficulty seemed to be getting farther off. It was in fact tacitly felt on both sides that there was small hope of its settlement, since the real object of Germany, and more especially of Prussia, was not put openly forward. The wish to make a military Power a great naval Power also, to secure by fraud or stratagem those advantages which the very configuration of their country denied them, was not exactly a suitable excuse for Prussian diplomatists to put forward; and it was, moreover, a plea which would certainly fail to gain the support of the rest of Europe. It was, there fore, better and easier to discover that the Hol steinere were an oppressed and ill-used people, the jurisdiction of whose affairs belonged of right to Germany, while Schleswig could easily be claimed as part and parcel of these Federal territories. Ac cordingly the strife began, which has been waging ever since, by speech, by despatch, by proclamation, by threat, and by counter-threat. It has exercised a most injurious influence on the affairs of Den mark ; arresting its internal progress, unsettling its people, and introducing all those elements of dis tur hence and discontent which hinder the develop ment of a nation's fortunes. The various phases through which the matter has passed within the last year or two are so familiar to the public that it is unnecessary to refer to them ; but the address of the KING to the assembled members of the Rigs read is important, as indicating his views of the recent proceedings of the Diet. The speech, like all the public words and acts of the Danish Monarch, is temperate and moderate in its tone, betraying no ambitious desire to extend his sway over the provinces not strictly belonging to him, and manifesting no wil lingness to provoke hostilities by arrogance or as sumption. At the same time the language of the KING allows no doubt of his determination to de fend his constitutional right. It is firm and reso lute, showing that he fully appreciates the difficulties and dangers of his position, but is not disposed to shrink from them. The speech refers almost ex clusively to the exciting topic of the day, the Ger man mischief. makers forbidding the consideration of domestic improvements for the present. The summary of the Royal Speech tells us that it opened with congratulations on the recent elevation of a Danish Prince to the throne of Greece, an event which naturally could not be passed over 9n such occasion. The ZINO nezl proceeds to, inOrga • the Assembly that he has ordered bills to be laid before them relating to a new constitution for Denmark and Schleswig, which will give the Rigsraad such power that it will be able " to meet the gnat demands of the proximate future," i.e., to repel the aggression of Germany, and a future time it may succeed in accomplishing " the com plete constitutional development of the country." Further on the KING boldly refers to the existing state of things. " The dispute between Denmark and the Federal Diet," he says, "appears to be approaching a decision, as the resolutions passed at the Congress of German Princes anticipate a change in the relative positions of Holstein and Denmark in conformity with my proclamation of March last. I trusted that an understanding with the Federal Diet would be arrived at ; but, in reply to that pro clamation came the Federal Diet." The last despatch which Denmark forwarded to the Federal Diet expressed, as we already know, her readiness to carry out its resolutions in Holstein, provided they were found to be compatible with the Danish KING'S authority over the Federal Provinces, and "did not impede independent legislation in the other parts of the kingdom." However reasonable and complaisant such an offer may appear, it is certain that these two provisos entirely deprive it of all favour in German eyes. The resolute distinction maintained between Holstein and Schleswig by the Danish Government is a serious ground of offence to the Diet, and the stipulation as to any undue interference with the administration of the other parts of the kingdom, shows tte determination of Denmark to preserve her independence in spite of the benevolent efforts of the CoAfederation to take the trouble of government off her hands. His Majesty of DENMARK points out to his people that should the Diet refuse to listen to his remonstrance the question would no longer beeof Federal rights over Holstein, but of the independence of Denmark herself. The KING and his advisers have the sense and sagacity to perceive the vital importance of preserving the line of distinction between the two Duchies. Being unable, as a member of the Confederation, entirely to resist the claims of the Diet to interfere on behalf of the Holsteiners, King CHRISTIAN is yet resolved that the intruders shall not make these claims a specious pretext to dismember his kingdom. The number of Germans resident in Holstein, and the active propagation and disturbance by German agents help to complicate matters, and it certainly needs a large share of prudence and firmness to steer the bark of State through such troubled and treacherous waters. The KING expresses his conviction that he relies for support on his people, love of their country and their liberties, and in this hope he will probably not find himself mistaken. He may also count upon the assistance of Sweden, and we hope on the aid of England. Lord RUSSELL has now an opportunity of rectifying the blunder he made last autumn in his diplomatic intervention between Denmark and her aggressor. Much depends on his conduct at this crisis, and we very much doubt whether he will prove equal to the occasion. He may be sure that his c o unt r y m en, as well as Danes and Germans, are narrowly watching his move ments, and unless hi s wor d s an d acts are worthy of an English Minister, he will have to account for them to Parliament and people. The Acclimatisation Society of Great Britain. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—We have the honour to inform you that The Light of the Age (passenger ship belonging to Messrs. Mackay and Co.), sailed on the 27th inst., from the East India Docks, carrying with it a consignment of five variegated pheasants from this Society to tho Acclimatize).- tion Society of Queensland. The birds are caged in the manner we think most likely to ensure their safe delivery, an ample supply of food and gravel has been provided, and Captain Porter, who commands the ship, and who has kindly interested himself in the matter, feels very confident of being able to deliver a fair proportion of them at Brisbane. The birds were presented for the Purpose by Higford Burr, Esq., of Aldermaston Court, Reading. By the Ariadne (also belonging to Messrs. Mackay, and which sails within a month) a large consignment of game birds will be sent by the Society to Queensland, to which his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Hill, C. Hembro, Esq., of Milton Abbey, and other members of the Society, have promised to contribute. The owners have kindly promised the use of a eabin to accommodate these birds, and thew can be no doubt that this will materially increase the chances of the safe arrival of the birds, whose most fatal dangers arise from exposure to the weather and the salt water. All who wish well to our prosperous Australian colonies will, we are sure, b e g l a d to hear of the safe arrival of these emigrants) Who will, no doubt, be welcomed on their arrival far more cordially than the gaol birds whom our Government has lately been send ing to Australia.—We are, sir, your obedient servants, F. BUCK.LAND, Secretaries. JAMES LOWE, Sir H. Verney, M, P., and Mr. Hubbard, M.P., in Buckingham. The annual dinner of the local association took place in the Town-hall, Buckingham, yesterday, under the presidency of R. P. Fitzgerald, Esq. patriotic toasts w A e f t r e e r g d i i v n e n n e , r as t h w e e r u e saulas also s lo e y ve a r l al and approp r i a t e to the occasion. Sir H. Verney, in the course of the re mks, urged upon his o the labouring he a a r rers h t e h w e a im s called portan uponoe of elevating make, the condition of c l ass es in the agricult ura l di s t r i c t s and improving cottage and tenant res id ences . Th ese were subjects which demanded the serious attention of landlords, as well for their own interests as for the general good of the country and the individual benefits of labourers and tenants. Mr. Hubbard, in rising to address the meeting, remarked upon the tranquillity of the last session of Parliament, which he considered was attributable, in some degree, to the fact that the House of Com mons, as at present constituted, was no longer in its hot legislative youth; and individual members had either succeeded in carrying out the views they entertainedthem on entering Parliament, or had aban doned as hopeless. In speaking of the foreign policy of England, the hon. gentleman expressed his satisfaction at the resolution of the present Go vernment respecting the Polish question, as made known recently by a member of the Ministry, in a public speech in Scotland. Ho was quite of opinion that England was not called upon to go to war on behalf of Poland. The hon. gentleman went on to say that he thought Russia had not been fairly dealt with, that the claims of Poland had been exag gerated, and a great deal of misplaced sympathy accorded to the Poles. Regarding the war in America, he considered the Government had acted very wisely in a strict adherence to the policy of nonintervention. Sir H. Verney again addressed the meeting on the termination of Mr. Hubbard's speech, strongly expressieg his dissent from that gentleman's views respecting Poland and Russia. History did not furnished a parallel to the dreadful tyranny and cruelty exercised towards Poland by the Russians, and he considered that moral as well as diplomatic obligations made it incumbent upon England to hold out a helping hand to the unhappy Poles. The remarks of the hon, gentleman were received with marks of the fullest approbation by the meeting. Several toasts of a local and special character were given and responded to, after which the proceedings were brought to a close by the usual votes of thanks. JOHN LEECH'S Fourth Sena of " Pictures of Life and Character," we are right glad to see announced for publication in October, according to a notification of the fact upon to-day's number of Punch. A MEMORIAL TO WILLS, THE AUSTRALIAN EXPLORER, is to be erected at Totnes, he having been a native of that place. Mr. Ritchie, of Chester, has supplied the design for this work, which is to consist of an obelisk, one face of which bears a medallion portrait of Wills. The obelisk, resting upon a pedestal, with plinth and cornice, placed upon a rusticated base, is to be 33 feet high, the base 11 feet square. A new Paris journal, called Le Peuple, will be ohorily issued ; its prioo ouo am! LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] THE UNION OF THE lONIAN ISLANDS WITH GREECE. PARIS, SEPT. 30. Advices received from Corfu announce that the elections in the lonian Islands have terminated. The Islands of Corfu and Paxos have pronounced in favour of union with Greece. The result of the elections in the remaining islands is not yet known, but it is not doubted that it will be favourable to the union. THE BRAZILS. RIO DE JANEIRO, SEPT. 9. By telegraph from Lisbon. The elections are favourable for the Government. Exchange on London, 271 ; coffee, 7,500 to 8,500 reis ; shipments since the departure of the last mail, 85,205 bags, including 32,378 for the Channel; sales, 60,500; stock, 70,000 bags; freight, 355. to 40s. BAHIA, SEPT. 13. Exchange on London, 26-1 27; cotton, 19,000 reis, no sales; sugar, 2,200 to 2,400. PERNAMBUCO, SEPT. 15. Exchange on London, 277, ; sugar, 3,500 to 3,800 reis ; brown, 1,700 to 2,100 ; cotton, 20,000 to 22,500. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Giuenne arrived at Pernambuco on the 12th inst., and sailed the same evening for Bahia. LISBON, SEPT. 30. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Parana from the Brazils has arrived here, and will leave at 11 o'clock to-day for Southampton with 82 passengers, £22,051 in specie, 200 rolls of tobacco, and 228 packages of sundries. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 19. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Germania, from New York on the 19th inst., has arrived off Cowes. Sie brings 32 passengers for this port and 93 for Hamburg, 132,314 dollars in specie for England, and 10,000 dollars for France. On the 24th she passed large icebergs, and on the 26th a large steamer, supposed to be the Glasgow bound west. For the first six days she experienced rough weather and strong easterly winds. .....---- MEXICO. PARIS, SEPT. 30. Advices received from Mexico announce the in• creasing dissolution of the Juarez party. There is a probability that San Luis Potosi will shortly pronounce in favour of the French inter vention. A rural gutird has been organised, which suc cessfully resists the guerilla bands. —_..— JASSY, SEPT. 30. The rumour of the attempt on the life of Prince Stoureza has been denied. RUSSIA• 1311,ESLAU, SEPT. 30. The Breslauer Zeitung asserts that the Grand Duke Constantine has fallen seriously ill, and that General Berg will be replaced. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON , SEPT. 30. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, arrived off the Needles at 1.45 p.m. to-day, FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 29.—Business commenced with great spirit, and with a further upward movement, but the improvement was not long maintained, sales for realization having again brought prices brought back to about yesterday's quotations. Threes, for the Account, w hish had touched 68f. 20e., are now again at 67f. 950.1 and Mobilier, which had been done at 1,235 f., ar e now at 1,220 f. The Railway Share Market has been firm, and up to the present time almost all the lines show an ad. vance. Sales for realization continued to the close, when the market stood as follows : 4t per Centa. 95 60 Do. end month 95 60 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 8b Credit Mobilier 1212 50 Do. end month 1213 75 Bank Shares 3389 Credit Foncier Italian Loan 74 Do. end month.. • Nov ditto D o , end month 73 75 ItusoiIY I Austrian .. — uu ish Threes — T o me Debt rumwAys. Cash. Account. Orloam lO2l 50 .. 1027 50 Northern New ditto . Lyons and Mediterranean 1027 50 .. 1025 Geneva 497 5 ° •• Southern 7 35 .. 738 75 Western Eastern Sardinian .... 42 5 .. 425 Austrian Lon , bard North of Spain Saragossa.. 660 • • 658 75 Ditto to Barcelona LIT-ERATURE. The Phonographic Teacher. By Isaac Pitman. Eleventh edition, pp. 32. The Manual of Phonography. By Isaac Pitman. Eleventh edition, pp, 72. F. Pitman: Bath and London. The Eleventh Edition upon the title-page of the " Manual" of Pitman's Phonography, signifies in other words that one hundred and seventy-seven thousand copies of it have now been put into circulation ! The same intimation upon the title page of the " Teacher" by the self-same hand, stands yet more notably for an equivalent to the announcement that this is the three hundredth thousand of it published ! Having mentioned which significant facts in regard to these two little pocket pamphlets, the one price sixpence, the otter price eighteen pence, it would almost seem superfluous to add that both " Manual" and " Teacher" are intrinsically worthy of the very extended popularity and the very brilliant success they have each of them acquired—a success and a popularity which, or we are much mistaken, they are both of them long destined to enjoy. A disastrous error it will always, however, be, inevitably, on the part of any would-be phonographer—to imagine for one instant that a system so wonderfully swift and simple as that here so cleverly contrived by Mr. Pitman, and in these two capital little handbooks explained by him (the inventor of it) with so alluring and encouraging a lucidity, will clear away any very appreciable portion even of the enormous array of difficulties standing in the path of the beginner ! We take it to be a fact altogether indisputable,. that there are not two shorthand writers anywhere to be found in the wide . world who write phono graphically precisely alike. A couple of students may begin learning and practising phonography upon the same identical system—say upon this very system of Mr. Pitman's, for example—but the longer they ply the pencil, the more dissimilar will become their respective methods. The greater the lapse of time during which they continue to toil as phonographers, the more remarkable will become the divergence from each other of the track followed up by each respectively. Not a shorthand writer but has tricks of his own individually. Symbolical touches of abbreviation that he adopts almost, we might say, unpremeditatedly, and to which he soon becomes habituated. Little turns and twists of ellipsis, incommunicable perhaps to another by any sort of" rule" in the way of guidance or explanation. We are insisting upon this especial peculiarity of phonography, because it indicates by a sort of necessary corollary that the one grand and para mount axiom to be borne in mind by the shorthand writer (as the only principle indeed that will point out what really will clear away all _difficulties), is the very trite but very truthful proverb, that "Practice Makes Perfect!' As applied to phonography it should rather be held to signify indeed, that practice, and practice alone, can, by any possibility, make perfect the possessor even of the quickest ear end the swiftest hand. With out practice even Pitman's system will be of little or no avail. With practice it will facilitate the tyro's progress in phonography very wonderfully— but more especially at the outset. Perhaps as good an illustration, in its way—instantaneously--as to what it is Phonography really aims at, in the mat ter of abbreviation, may be found in Miss Braddon's famous story of Aurora Floyd ! Namely, where that handsome vagabond, James Conyers, the rough rider, returns quite drunk to the north Lodge of Mellish Park but a very few hours before he is murdered, and—as he descends from the chocolate cushioned Newport Pagnell, thus addresses the "Softy," Steeve Hargraves (in a language, says the writer, entirely composed of consonants)—" B't s'no' y' h'v' ch's'n t' s't 'p y' m'y dr'v tr'p b'ck t' et'bl's." Not in the writing of the mere symbols of any such one abbreviation as that, however, lies the chief bulk of the difficulty. That is discernible rather at a later stage in the practice of shorthand—to wit, in the bewildering attempt to read those hieroglyphics afterwards when jotted down, no matter how glibly, those wretched little puzzling dots and flies' legs that almost drove David Copperfield, to despair when grinding his way (with the aid of Aunt Betsy and Mr. Dick) along that dull track of preliminary drudgery that alone leads up to The Gallery. Cassell's Illustrated Bunyan. Part IV. Cassell, Pater, and Galpin. Another instalment of this wonderfully cheap and very beautiful edition of the Great Prose Alle gory of the pious Tinker, reveals to us yet more clearly the discrimination of those by whom the illustrators of the present edition were selected—P. Priolo and H. C. Scions. Let any one glance at the ful-page embellishment delineating Christian and Faithful passing through Vanity Fair, or that other one of the Pillar of Sait, and the force of this re mark will be at once recognised. SPAIN. -- A Madrid letter of the 25th relates the following extraordinary escape of prisoners :—" About three years and a half ago, M. Delago Mo lero, one o f the richest inhabitants of Toledo, while going to hi s country house at some distance from that town, was seized by bandits and carried off to the mountai ns . Some days atter bis family received a letter an nouncing that M. Molero was a live and well, b ut that he had fallen into the hands of the caballeros de camino real (knights of the highway). If his family ever wished to see him alive again they were directed to send 50,000 douros (192,000 fr.) to a cer tain place on the following day, a nd the writer added that if this demand were refused or any attempt made to communicate with the i police in the matte r , M. Molero would be murdered the following night. The money was sent, and M. Molero returned home safe and sound. Other facts of the same kind hav ing subsequently occurred, the authorities ordered a general battue in the mountains, which resulted i n the capture of nineteen bandits, twelve of W h om were recognised by M. Molero as his captors. Aft er the long delay usual in Spanish courts of law, fiv e of them were condemned to death, and the re s t t o hard labour for life. Until these sentences should be confirmed by the Supreme Court, the bandits were kept in prison at Toledo, from which th ey all contrived to force their way in th e ni g ht of the 20 th inst. Before leaving the town the ruffians had the impudence to knock up M. gole ro, and when he opened the window to inquire their business they visit was:to i n . replied that the sole object of the ir form him that his old captors were once more at large. This evasion has made a great sensation, and caused no little alarm in To l e do and its neigh_ bourhood. The police have since retaken fiv e o f the least dangerous of the band.'' SEVERAL NEW FRP.NCII No - 0 are announced, namely, by GEORGES SAND, 4 4 Mdite. de Quintine," reprintcd from the _Feuilleton of the faepenclance Bei ge , by PAUL DE rocs, " La Fille aux Trois uJ pons ;' ' and .6 A Cycle of Three Tales," by the renowned author of "Fanny," M. FEYDEAUX—respecti aely called: " U n Debut a l'Opera," "M. de Saint Bertrand'" and "Le : Mari de is Danseuse." Besides these the followin g (some of a strong sensational character) are also forthcomi ng "Les Enfants de l'Amour," by EVCIENE Sun; "L es Mysteres du Palais-Royal," by Georges do Eieux (X av i er de Montepin), with engravings by Delac ille and iiildibra nd, " after drawings by J. A. Betince and Andrieux ; "L es Amours d'Artagnan," by A. %airing l Les Ca va li ers de la Nuit," by Ponson du Terraii; ti gonsieur Cherami," " by Ch. PAUL DE KOCK ; "Lea AmourValgaires, by A. Vermorel ; " Les Secrets d'une Jenne Fille, by the Countess of Passanville. ------- Six EXCEEDINGLY SENSITIVE PLANTS are now amongst the many additions lately received at the Jardin d'Acclimatetion in the Bois de Bouloglie, viz., somethi ng of the Chinese rose species, singularly remarkable from their 0;4;1014 oolotir three times t day! CHARLES DICKENS. In to-day's number of Fun, among other para graphs coming under the general head of " Our Own Agony Column," the following imaginary advertisement appears:— "To C—s D—ck—ns.—Dear Charles—When are we going to have another serial ? The public are pining, your publishers are languishing, and everyone is expecting. When, oh I when, are we to be gratified ? Return to your former industrious habits, and all may yet ba well." Our contemporary might have seen only as recently as the day before yesterday, that is, on Monday evening, the subjoined announcement given by us in the columns of The Sun exclusively, and which for his consolation we repeat : " Mr. Charles Dickens has in preparation (how rejoiced we are to announce it I) a new serial story in the dear old familiar monthly numbers. The first two green leaves, however, cannot be looked for until about April." The Catholic Congress in Frankfort, A letter from Frankfort in the Monde gives some details of the Catholic Congress which has just met in that city. It says : " The city of Frankfort, including its dependen cies, contains 20,000 Catholics in a population of about 90,000. They form a single parish, and possess five churches, with different religious insti tutions and associations. On Sunday, the 20th, 250 delegates of the Catholic societies, not counting the other members, assembled in a preparatory sit ting under the presidency of Mgr. Thissen, chief ecclesiastic of the place. The following day the Congress in its first general sitting was definitely constituted by the election of Baron de Ketteler, brother of the Bishop of Mentz, as President. The Baron and Mgr. Thissen were formerly Prussian deputies, and were among the number of those who founded and organised the Catholic section of the Berlin Chamber. The Bishops of Mentz, Limburg, and the coadjutor Bishop of Cologne had promised to be present at the Congress, but were unavoidably absent. The grand mass which pre ceded the sitting was consequently performed by M. Stein, the cure of Cologne. After the organisa tion of the five sections, for missions, works of charity, Christian art, the sciences, and the press— the President informed the assembly that the Holy Father had deigned to graciously reply to the news transmitted to him of the convocation of the Con gress, by sending his apostolic benediction. M. Lingens, of Aix .la-Chapelle, then read the minutes of the preceding Congress. M, Philipps spoke of the former President, Count de Brandis, who had died since the last meeting: A religious service was performed for the late President, at which all the members of the Congress were present. M. Philipps, who represents the Catholic University in the committee, announced that the Holy Father had chosen the Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne as his representative, with the assistance of the Bishops of Mentz and Paderborn. REMOVAL OF MESSRS. TATTERSALL'S FROM HYDE-PARK-CORNER.—Yesterday the necessary prepara Lions commenced for the conversion of the Portman-street Barracks, Portman-square, which have been given up by Government, into a horse repository, for the use of the Messrs. Tattersall's, who are about to remove the whole of their extensive establishment thither from the premises so long occu l , - 1d by them ill, Grosvenor-place, Hyde-park cornet'. , Itto jll' The Queen in Scotland. BALMORAL, Sept. 27. The Queellt . cotnpanied by Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Beatrice, drove to Altna Guithsack yesterday. Pricce Arthur, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Madlle. Bauer, ascended Lochnagar. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with her Majesty and the Royal family at Balmoral. This morning Divine service was performed by the Rev. Dr. Caird, one of her Majasty's chaplains, who is staying at Balmoral. The Queen and Royal family wore present, attended by the household. The Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, and Princess Helena also attended the parish church at Crathie. The Prince and Princess of Wales. On Tuesday last the Prince and Princess of Wales drove to the Den Abergeldie, about half a mile from the castle, took luncheon in that quiet, romantic spot. esday brought a regular d9Vin pour of rain, w lasted all day ; but, notwith standing, the Pri of Wales, Prince Louis, and Prince Alfred wee out shooting till dark, and brought down sev stags and some hinds. The Prince and Prince.* g Wales leave Abergeldie on Thursday. Their departure is hastened on so that the Princess may see her brother, King George, before his final departure for Greece. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, on his recent arrival in Paris, alighted at the Hotel du Rhin, in the Place Ven dome, and occupied the same apartments the Emperor Na' poleon did in 1848. THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS of the French Will visit Compiegne on the oth of October. H.I.H. PRINCE NAPOLEON and suite visited the Hammam (76, Jermyn-street), yesterday, and enjoyed tits luxury of a Turkish bath. CARDINAL WISEMAN.—We are glad to hear that the health of his Eminence has improved. The Duke of Montrose has arrived at Buchanan Castle, N. 8., on Monday last, from London. The Duchess and Lady Violet Graham left Belgrave-square oa Mondah for Scotland. The Marquis of Normanby has arrived at 46, Queen's-gate-terrace, Kensington, from Nova Scotia. The Marchioness of Westminster and LadY Theodora Grosvenor have arrived at Stoneleigh Abbey, on a visit to Lord and Lady Leigh. The noble marquis re mains at Motcomb. Count Nesselrode has returned to Maurigy's Hotel, from a visit to the Marquis of Bath, at Longleat, Wilts. Viscount Hamilton, M.P., has joined the party visiting the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Gordon Castle, N.B. Lord and Lady Rokeby and the Hon. Miss Montagu have arrived in Paris, with the intention of making a short stay. Col. Lord Seaton has arrived at Fenton's Hotel, from Bert House, Athy, after attending the funeral of his relative, the late Lord Downes. Lady Ebury and Hon. Miss Grosvenor have ar rived at Paris on a visit to the Earl and Countess Cowley. The Dowager Lady Ward has arrived at Dudley' House, Park-lane, from Norfolk. " The Baron and Baroness Oldendorff and family have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for the Isle of Wight. The Hon. Col. Thesiger left town yesterday for Switzerland to meet Lord and Lady Chelmsford and Hon . Miss Thesiger. General Sir 'Wm. and Lady Gomm are expected to arrive in town today from their seat in Hampshire. THE ANNAMITE AMBASSADORS, who have corn° to Paris in the hope of buying Cochin-China from the French for about seventy millions of francs, are said to Wish to come to England, being rather curious about our bar barous habits THE EMPEROR AT PAU.—The Monieeur publishes the following letter from Biarritz :—" The Emperor left Tarb es at nine yesterday morning, after having ex amined, with M. Fould and the principal functionaries, all the questions which interest the department of the Hautes-Pyrenees. His Majesty performed the journey from Tarbes to Pau without either suite or escort, in a light open carriage driven by a postillion of the country. The Emperor, nevertheless, received on his way numerous marks of the feelings of the inhabitants. His Majesty, in spite of his precautions to travel incognito, ;was anxiously looked for at Pau by all the people who went out to meet him, and followed his Majesty with loud acclamations dur ing the whole time he remained there. The Emperor went to the Chateau to visit the embellishments which have been executed there, and then took a walk through the town, accompanied by the mayor and the prefect, who pointed out the improvements made or projected in the place, which is rapidly increasing in size. The Emperor returned to Bayonne by the new railway, which is not yet open to the public, and at five in the afternoon rejoined the Empress and the Prince Imperial, at the villa, after an absence of three days well occupied. This day his Majesty reviewed the troops of the garrison of Bayonne, and distributed re compenses, meeting on every side with the warmest accla mations from the people." VESPERS FOR THE DEAD AT THE ORATORY, BROMPTON.—Yesterday evening, at 8 o'clock, the mortal remains of the late Very Rev. Frederic William. Faber, D.D., superior of the Oratory, were taken in a coffim covered over with a magnificent pall from the house into the chapel of the Oratory, where the solemn vespers for the dead were sung. An enormous congregation filled not only every available seat but every passage and every corner of the spacious building, and over 2,000 persons must have been present. Owing to the crowd which occupied the passages, the body was not borne up the nave as was in tended, but through the sacristy, to a spot in front of the altar, the priests and attendants chanting the " Miserere"' in mournful and impressive effect. Vespers then com menced—Psalm 114 ("Dilexi quoniam"), 119 (" A d Dominum clamavi"), 120 (" Levavi oculos"), 129 (" De profundis"), and 137 (" Confitebor"), being first chanted. After a few versicles had been sung, the " Magnificat" wag chanted, also without the organ; and with a prayer for the absolution of the deceased (" Absolve Domine, animanl famuli tui," &c.), the solemn office was concluded. The funeral of Dr. Faber will take place to-morrow, privately, at Sydenham, after high mass in the Brompton Oratory. THE LATE CANON CARTON, K.L.—The late celebrated Abbe Carton, a Knight of Leopold, has just died at Bruges, after a short illness, in the Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, of which he was the found and director. He was born in 1802, at Pitthem, in West: Flanders, and, after taking priest's orders, concentrated all his energies in providing for the deaf, dumb, and blind children, whose pitiable state had, from his early years, attracted his sympathies, Encouraged by the support and encouragement of the late Mgr. Bousseau, Bishop of Bruges, he founded the sisterhood of the Children of Mary, a com munity which has been most successful in educating chil dren labouring under the above afflictions. The most in teresting of all the lions of Bruges, "that quaint old Fle mish city," as Longfellow calls it, was the acting by the deaf and dumb children of the Litany of Loretto, while the blind boys sang it. LORD STANLEY TAKING A LEAF OUT OF MB SQUEERS'S SCHOOLBOOK.—Iambics are wrong, but pumps are far worse. Making a pump is not more useful than cleaning windows, and Lord Stanley's theory is really that of Squeers, and the boys in his school would not only be taught to spell "window" but have to polish their maw. ter's glass. Still we allow that making pumps, and evert cleaning windows, ought to Rem a part of a boy's educa tion, or something very like them. It is a great thing for a boy to be ingenious and handy, and to be able to shift for himself. But this ought to be a part of home education, or of play hours at school. A boy may most usefully learn. how to saddle and feed and clean a horse, how a ship is rigged, how potatoes are boiled, how a salad is made. But as a matter of fact, he does learn things like these at school already, and if parents took a little trouble, he would learn. the rest at home. When it is asked how an imaginary scholar would get on if wrecked on a desert island, an easy triumph is won by the uneducated, who picture him sitting on the shore making Greek iambics and starving. But in , real life the maker of Greek iambics has probably also learned to shoot, to play cricket, to row, to climb trees, to ump, and to swim. All these things would help him en his desert island, and as an English gentleman expec ts to live in England, and not on a rock in the Pacific, this brings him quite near enough to the capabilities of the sa va g e. would be a fatal mistake to make these things, a nd things. like them, a part of the ordinary school teaching• masters of most public schools give little enough now of thr education which strengthens and liberalises the ordina mind ; but if the pump theory were once est ablished general favour, they would give none. We will t oe y ns t e. prevent them forcing our stupid boys to do bald, bay.' less iambics; but we will be also firm in protestina:, against their pocketing cur money and handing our s tupid boys over to bungling imitations of the arts of t h e plumber and the carpenter.—Saturday Review. THE GOVERNORSHIP OF THE IRISTI SOCIETY.--• It is understood that the present Lord Mayor will succee d to the valuable and honourable post of g overnor of the Irish Society, vacant by the death of Ald erman liumphery, t being generally conferred on the Lord Mayor in whose term of office it is vacated. The emol uments a r e coneiclerabic being; plurally reckoned at l 44000 a year, I t' f I