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There have indeed long been misgivings as to the defective sanitary arrange ments of our barracks and depots in that country, and since public attention has been called to the matter the rough figures which have been given have been startling enough to arouse the most in different; Bat the fall particulars gathered by a commission of no mean weight or authority and laid by them before the 'War-office, leaves no excuse for future neglect or inattention to a subject in volving the lives of so many men. Politicians and statesmen of all grades pride themselves on their reluctance to involve us in war and their unwille ingness to sacrifice the lives of so many brave men, and the health and comfort of so many more as would necessarily be the result of a protracted struggle with any of the great Powers. But the yearly campaign of disease among our ',lndian forces gives returns of killed and wounded that are overlooked. Whole regiments melt away, and 'where a thousand fine stalwart men land from England in one year, not less than a hundred remain eighteen or twenty years later without a shot being fired, or any military duty undertaken to account for the deficiency. A spacial inst ance, of the truth of these calculations is afforded by a return laid before the Commission by one Brigadier-General, showing that out of 1,064 non• ceramissioned officers and men of his regiment, who arrived at Moulmein iu 1842, only 93 landed in England after 17 years' service. The regiment that returned. was, therefore, almost a new one; and when we are further told that the mean term of Indian service is 8 6 years, and that 11 recruits are annually requisite to keep up a force of 100 men, we shall have seine faint idea of the drain upon the physical strength and public exchequer of the country which is represented by the Anglo.lndian arm y The natural question that follows is how fir such an extravagant rate of mortality as 69 per 1,000 is traceable to the climate, the occupation, and other influences inseparable from their profession. But it appears the rate of mortality among the <Boers is only 88 per 1.000, so that nearly one-half of the deaths among the Privates and noncommis sioned officers must be attribatable to some other causes than tea inevitable ev i ls of an Indian life. The same difference is apparent between the deaths of English women of different ranks; the wives of officers between the ages of 20 and 40 di e a t th e rate of 14 in 1,000, whereas th e wives of the non-commissioned officers and soldiers die at the rate of 35 per 1,000. It is very plain, therefore, that if the heat of an Indian sun has anything to do with the extraordinary rate of mor tality, its effects can be in a great measure coun teracted. Among the chief reasons for the exces sive mortality among the men is their living and elvPing in crowded barracks, while their officers h eve their eoparate bungalows. The officers have aiaother very great advantage. They are able, when ill, to move to a healthier spot, at least tems porarily, and can recruit their strength by the fresh breezes of the hills. The hills are India's native sanitarium, and the advantages which they have over the lower levels are clearly manifested in the children reared in the Lawrence Asylum, who are strong and healthy, looking, as a native chief remarked, like lions' cubs, while little Anglo.lndians pine and droop unless sent to England in good time. The enforced idle ness of troops in barracks is an unmitigated evil even in England, but in I n di a it i s di sas t rous i n i ts consequences. It induces the men to drink, and drink is one of the prime agents of disease in India. There is, therefore, as much practical prudence as kindness in the new system of establishing regi mental workshops and allotting small gardens to the men. They have availed themselves moat eagerly of the means thus ()flared to dispel the ennui of their aim less existence, and already the Commander-ins Chief is able to compliment the men at several stations on the result of their handiwork. Fresh vegetables and more wholesome food will also be attainable by means of the gardens, while the pleasant recreae Con will draw off the men from the vicious indulge ences which have helped to swell the death rate. Besides the 69 per 1000 lost annually to the service it seems from the statistics furnished that 84 per 1000 in the stations of Bengal are, on an average, constantly in hospital. The average mortar lity in the native troops in twenty years was 18 per 1000; 19 per 1000 being the rate of the invaliding. Allowing for all difference of constitution, the commissioners attribute the chief part of the native superiority in point of health to the fact of their generally living with their families in small bamboo huts, instead of being crowded in barracks, where many sleep in one small, perhaps ill-ventilated, room. The Commissioners are san guine that, from the experience now gathered, the mortality may be reduced from 69 to 10 per 1,000. It now remains for the public to watch carefully the progress of reform, and to see that official negli gence and indifference are not suffered to trifle with a matter so vitally important. Plenty of air espe cially in sleeping rooms, pure water, good food, and temperance appear to be the primary requisites for health in Indian stations as elsewhere, and they are none of them sufficiently unattainable to justify a rate of mortality four times as great as the highest in England. It is a pity that Lord PALMERSTON cannot learn the propriety of keeping silence at times, Hie conduct during the past session was not of a chae racter to elevate his reputation, and it is a mistake for him to be perpetually referring to the policy of the Government. It would seem as if the mis guided course that was taken by the House thie year had completely obliterated the sense of shame that ought to be experienced by all in power re garding the line adopted in the question of the Darn-German war. For a Minister to take credit to himself or his colleagues concerning our foreign policy at present is really quite absurd and a mockery to common sense persons. Lord PALMER STON seems to be one of those whose glory is their shame, and he endeavours to put forth all the mis deeds of himself and his Foreign Secretary, for the purpose of pronouncing a laudation upon them, First of all, he begins with Poland, and congratu lates his hearers that we had not been reduced to lend our succour to the Poles ; this he declares to have been a great advantage. If it be true that it was not desirable for us to be involved in a war, it was not justifiable for the noble lord at the head of Foreign Affairs to induce the Poles to believe that cur sympathies were all enlisted en their be half, and thst at the worst they would receive aseistance. Then as to America, the course pursued by our Government ,has been most prejudicial for our interests in a commercial form, and created many evils in various ways, while their mean spirited subserviency to the Federals has been a disgrace to the country. Great as are the blunders and tale takes made in connection with other countries, however, nothing at all comes up to the enormity of the conduct pursued towards Denmark, end the remarks of the Premier on that subject are quite unwarrantable. He has adopted a tone at Tiverton that he dare not have used in the House of Commons, and it is perfectly scandalous that the First Minister of the Crown should employ such terms, in speaking of this coun try's resources, as ho has done. Much may be allowed to speakers in the heat of debate, and, of course , all official personages get used to comment ing upon their management in a bombastic tone; but it is too much when a man deliberately gets up and discourses as a ) :.ord PALMER STON h as d one at Tiverton. It wou, have been better to have said that the Government did not see any call to go to war, and that the Danes had acted imprudently. Anything would have been better than to traduce the fame of Er gland and the character of her army to cover the errors of policy, of which he must be at heart ashamed. Everyone at ail competent to judge of the affair must know that England is more than a match for Germany at any time, and for Lord PALMERSTON to state that we could not have succeeded in rescuing the Danes from the grasp of their greedy foes is perfectly preposterous. Such language will lower him in the esteem of all jade pendent persons, and for ever diminish the influence that he ought to possess in the country. It is, in deed, seldom that one in his high position so com promises himself. It is almost incredible that the Prime Minister of this country should ,thus ex press himself:—" We have no means of sending out a force at all equal to cope with the three or four hundred thousand whom the Germans could have pitted against us, sad such an attempt would only have insured a disgraceful discomfiture not to the army indeed, but to the Government which sent out an inferior force and expected it to cope with a force so vastly superior !' If the Government have escaped discomfiture they have decidedly reaped a double rslaare of dis grace by their dastardly conduct. What can Lord PALMERSTON mean by thus scattering to the winds the reputation of a long career, and throwing away the renown he has won by half a century's service to his country. There was a time, in past days, when his name sounded stirring in the ears of the enemies of this country ; it was a trumpet blast to remind them that England possessed a minister with spirit to defend her rights, and enterprise to consider the affairs of other nations. It was, indeed, very suitable that Lord PALMERSTON should have endeavoured to -pass an eulogium on the peace party—it is on the principle of making friends with the mammon of unrighteoasness—and certainly the only consistent part of his speech. If he has rightly read the history of his country he must have seen that in the battles where the English gained enduring renown, their num bera were always inferior to those of their adversa ries. Surely it is too much for the impertinent exaggeration of ministerial parlance to assert that the German legions are to be compared to th e armies of NAPOLEON. It is but seldom in the hiss tory of the world that such a military genius appears, and if we could conquer his batteliene, flashed with their unrivalled success, it is ridi culous to speak of the German troops as invinl cible. It is indeed true that, at present, there seems no prospect of a PITT or a Fox to rule our councils, or a WELLINGTON to lead forth our armies ; but the national spirit is not dead, and that is the true secret of self-reliance. When Lord PALMERSTON talks of sending a fleet in mid winter to the Baltic, he chooses to forget that the spring was far advanced before any of the more decisive engagements took place in the late war. If it is to be broadly asserted that the course of our policy is to take care of ourselves and let others take their chance, it will be a ruinous one; and let the country be ever so great, ever so rich, or ever so strong, the seeds of decay will be sown in her constitution. It is time we had statesmen at the head of effAirs who recognise some principles of justice and conform to some notions of honour. At present we present the picture of a great nation always ready to make a boastful parade of our strength, and never willing to prove it ; and while we rush in to interfere with all foreign questions, we rotire in unseemly haste when our mediations are treated with deserved contempt and no resource is left but an appeal to arms. Such a course is most derogatory to the character of a people, and it is most lamentable that our present Cabinet should have pursued so reckless a path of policy. Nothing is easier than to compromise one's character politically or otherwise, and nothing is more difficult than to rehabilitate it. Perhaps the recent speech of Lord PALMERSTON at Tiverton is the most suicidal act of his long career. He openly identifies himself with the clique who have set out with the dishonourable cry that we cannot light; such are far more contemptible than the peace at any price party, who are at least consistent. The language that was uttered at Tiverton was not suit able for an English Statesman, not in accordance with the knowledge that should be possessed by a public man of so much experience, but, above all, it was unworthy of the position of the First Minister of the Crown. Declaration of the DF;Jaish Plenipotentiaries. t % REITTER'S EXPRESS.) BERLIN, Aug. 22. Accecding to the tenour of the armistice protocol sir,paed by the Plenipotentiaries of Prussia, Austria, and Denmark upon the Ist inst., the Danish pri soners of war were to be set at liberty upon the assurance being given that they should not serve 'again in the Danish army until the conc!uiion of peace. By order of their Government, therefore, the Danish Plenipotentiaries in Vienna have des livered the following dEcleration to the PruEsian Ambassador in that capital:— Vienna, Aug. 8, 1861. The protocol signed upon the Ist inst., in execution of Article 4 of the peace preliminaries concluded the same day between Denmark upon the one part and Prussia and Aus tria upon the other, contains the following stipulation in its Bth paragraph : `° Prisoners of war and political prisoners will be liberated upon the assurance that:the prisoners of war shell not serve in th© Danish army before the conclusion of peace." In reference to this stipulation, the undersigned Pleni potentiaries of his Majesty the King of Denmark, by order of their Government, have the honour to give by there pre sents to Baron Werther, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Prussia, the formal assurance that the Danish prisoners of war at pre sent detained in the States of his Majesty the King of Prussia will not serve in the Danish army before the con elusion of peace. The undersigned take this opportunity of offering to his Excellency Baron Werther the assurance of their high consideration. (Signed) QUAADE. KAUFFMA.NN. The Grouse Season, At Gannoohy Lodge, on Saturday, Capt. Pearoth killed 532 braes of grouse and 1 rabbit; Captain O'Hara, 20 brace and 2 snipes; the Hon. Charles Carnegie, M.P., 20 braca and 2 snipes; and Capt. Carnegie Lour, 30-1 brace, 2 hares, and 4 rabbits. On Cordovon Moors, Viscount Holmesdale, M.P., and Sir Edmund Phillimore, ALP., on the 12th, bagged 30 brace of grouse on the moors attached to the Lodge. On the same moors on Friday last, Viscount Holmesdale and party were out again j grouse shooting, and bagged 32 brace. On Satur day Lord Holmesdale went out deerstalking and was successful in bringing doe n, right and left, two ❑oble stags on the hill to the north-west of leer cauld House. One of these stags possessed a fine head. The Hon. George S. Duff was out deer staking in the Alton Over Forest on Thursday last killing a fine stag. The Earl of Fife, on Monday week, when on his way to Crocklach Lodge, Glen dee, to go out grouse shooting, was fortunate in get ting a capital stalk on a fine herd of deer. His lord ship brought down three splendid stags,one of which weighed 17st. 121 b. clean, and had a magnificent Royal head. Another stag weighed upwards of 15st. avoirdupois. Since then the noble earl has been grouse shooting daily on the Baynoch Moors adjoining the Croclach Lodge, and has had excel lent sport during the week, killing upwards of 120 brace. On Thursday he had the best day's sport of the week, begging 34 brace grouse. On the Glen callater moors good sport was got by Mr John Marshall, Gilbert Wilkinson, Esq., and party bag• ging daily from 20 to 33 brace grouse, 30 brace being the highest reached on any day of the week. On these moors there are plenty of birds, but there is the usual complaint that they are very strong and wild, and, to use a gamekeeper's phrase, are. "packing," or collecting together into large flecks on the moors, which materially impedes the progress and success of the sport.—Dundee Advertiser. On the 12th August Messrs. Gerald Fitzgerald and two friends killed, at Gawe, Dingwall, 95 grouse, 5 hares, and 2 woodcocks. Shooting small, birds plentiful ; since the 12th sport has been good. Oa Farr Moor, near Inverness, Messrs. Joseph W. Pease, John W. Pease, and IL F. Pease, killed 165 grouse and 25 hares. The broods were generally good and strong; a considerable number of barren birds, the result of the snow in May, caused the bags to be light. The 12th and 13th wore exceed ingly hot ; for the last four days the weather has been Wet .and unfavourable. CASTLE CARR MOORS, NEAR HALIFAI.--Colonel Edwards, MP., entertained a succession of visitors this year, as usual, including his sons, Viscount In gestre, H, W. Wickham, M.P., Mr. Alfred Dun conabe, Hon. Colonel Duncome, Lord Warncliffe, Sir J. Lyster Kaye, Bart, Sir J. Armytage, Bart, Graver Browne, Esq., Hon Captrin Lawley, Gen, Hall, Captain Dearden and Rowland Winn, Esq. The weather has been very fine and the sport excel• lent.. The three first days 406 brace were shot over the dogs; the five days following 703 brace in "driving," the total bag in the first eight days being 1109 brace.—llakfax Guardian. LIFE AMONG THE SAYAGESTIENB.--We are ear rounded by forests which are infested with ele phants, buffaloes, rhinoceros, tigers, and wild boars, and the ground all about the pools is covered with their footprint. We live almost as in a besieged place, every moment ()read ing some attack of the enemy, and keeping our guns con• staatly loaded. Sometimes they come close to our quarters, and we cannot go even a few steps into the woods without hearing them. As a general rule, however, they fly from the approach of man, and in order to get a shot it is neces sary ti lie in wait, either among the branches of a tree, or hidden amid the brushwood near the spots where they come to drink. Scorpions, centipedes, and, above all, serpents, were the enemies we most dreaded, and against which pre cautions were chiefly requisite; but the mosquitoes and the leeches, though less dangerous, were the most troublesome and most inveterate plagues. During the rainy sesaon you cannot be too much on your guard ; going to bed or getting up, you are ever in peril in putting your hand or foot on some venemous snake, I have killed more than one in my house with a gun or hatchet. As I write I am obliged to be continually on the watch, fearing to see one re-appear on which I trod this evening, but whioh made his exit without hurting me. From time to time, also, I stop to listen to the roaring of a tiger, who is wandering round our dwelling and looking longingly at the pigs through their fence of planks and bamboos. Again, 1 hear a rhinoceros breaking down the bamboos which oppose his progress towards the brambles encircling our garden, on which Its intends to banquet•-4toutwt'§ Zrace(s tin ,Indo!China. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S ETLEGRANS.) THE CAPE MAIL. PLYMOUTH, Ara. 25 The Cape mail steamship Athens arrived here this morning. She left the Cape on the 21st, Helena 30th, and Ascension on the 33. The Athens brings 72 passengers, including the Hon. Mr Raw.. son, the late Colonial Secretary, who has been ap pointed Governor of the Bahamas, Colonels J. G. Itawstorne and Ker, Mrs, Stoltz, and seven children of the Moravian mission. Parliament was still in cession. The whole of the Government taxing bills had passed, together with a bill to provide for the formation of a sinking fund. Business continued dull, and money was seeking for investments. There was every prospect of a good harvest, the extent of land brought under cultivation exceeding the average of the previous years. Owing to the stoppage of the Government works, a large number of working men had flocked to Cape Town for employment, which could only be obtained at low remuneration. The intimation that free passages to New Z3a land would shortly be offered by the Government of that colony, had induced numbers to determine to emigrate there. The prices of all kinds of colonial grown prov sions were low. The bishop of Cape Town had returned from Natal, where he was very warmly received. The barque Saxon se'zed by the United States steamer Vanderbilt, at A ngra Pequina, but released by the New York Prize Court, had returned to Table Bay. Further news had arrived from the frontier of dissensions among the natives, and war between some of the tribcs was considered certain. The small-pox had also broken out among them in the neighbourhood of Griqua Town. In Damaraland two commandos were going out against the Hottentots to recover cattle stolen by theta. The Athens mails have been landed here, and forwarded by to-day's trains. SWITZERLAND. GENEVA, AuG. 25. The Grand Council of Geneva have decided to submit the aff.ir of the late election to the judgment of the Federal Council. The town is tranquil. AUSTRIA. VISIT OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO BADEN BADEN. VIENNA, AUG. 24, Evening. The King of Prussia will proceed to-morrow, via Stuttgard, to Baden-Baden, where his Majesty will probably remain until the 9th of September. SPAIN. MADRID, AUG. 24, Evening. The Correspondencia of to-day proposes an—in crease of the Customs duties on the importation of foreign textile fabrics. The .Epoca replies that it would be better to abolish those on the raw material. FRANCE. ST. ETIENNE, AUG. 21 (Evening). A banquet took place here this evening in con sequence of the Assembly of the Council General for the Department of the Loire. The Duke de Persigny, who presided, proposed the health of l‘l . po!eon EL, " the founder of liberty in France." The Duke's speech was:a complete re• view of the theory of the Imperial constitution. He showed the form of liberty to vary with every free people. "The present physiognomy of liberty, properly so called," said M. de Persigny, "may be recognised by the striking signs of the solidity and duration of the governments which it founds, and above all ,by the passion it inspires for great things," M. de Persigny then demonstrated that the poli tical institutions of England are not adapted for France. "It not being possible," he continued, "for authority and liberty to remain in the hands of one class as in England. Instead of subordinating one class to another, it Was natural to render them independent, and this is the fundamental principle of our institutions." said :—" In order that the The Speaker further liberty of the press may be a benEfit, it is necessary, in a count r y new ly constit u t e d, th a t a new , v i gorous , and independent political generation should ariss to replace the minds enervated by revolution." "Some journals," says the Pattie, "have spoken of the approaching departure of the Emperor for the camp of Chalons. Toe exact day is not yet fixed, but the expectation is that his Majesty will leave St. Cloud between the 26th and the 28th, to remain absent only five or six days. Some change may be made in this arrangement in consequsnco of the arrival of P r i nc e Humb er t, th e prec i se d a y w hen his royal hi g h ness will r eac h P ar i s not b e i ng k nown . Nothing h as yet been decided respecting the visit which the Imperial family makes each year to Biarritz." The Dresden Journal publi s he s a note contra dicting the statement mad e by the journals that the occupation of Lauenburg by the Federal troops had given rise to differences between Hanover and Saxony, and that a note containing complaints had been sent to the Saxon G overn ment on the subject. The Dresden 'Totowa affirms that no note or any other communication has been received from the Hanoverian G overnmen t re l a ti ve to the affair of Lauenbu rg . The Si ec l e ma k es t h e f o ll ow ing observations on the line of conduct which the Emperor Maxi milian has adopted in his now States :—" The in• telligence from Mexico refers to the impatience with which the first reforms of the new Emperor are l ook e d means took p su forward to. That prince has found out the of exciting in the highest degree th e curiosity of his new subjects, who all , like the J ews on Mount Si na i , stretch f or th their hands f or t h e abundantsinily pos sesf sion constit u ti ons, decrees, and regulations prepar e d s n e e s w sio l n a law, t previous he au t: authority rtywith th governments a n beforehand, and in that way they inaugurated the era of happiness promised, but, alas ! always post poned. In doing so they showed but little adreit ness; the illusions and hopes were toosoou dissipated, and the discont en t e d qu i c kly manifested their dis pleasure or their disappointment by renewirg the hardly.interrupted series of conspiracies and pronnnehunientos. Maximilian proceeds in a dif ferent manner. Shut up in the palace which crowns the hill of C.paltepec, ho envelops himself insilence and mystery. Rumour declares that he is occupied in dark manipulations of systems destined to recon struct the gcvercmzntal machine—to effnce the wrinkles of the Mexican people already ritlYcted with signs of a p remature o ld age. A t f our i n th e morning the Emperor is on feot, interrogating, noting, studying, and labouring in his great work. This activity, unusual in those climates, has pro cured him the admiration of the foreign residents. The Mexicans themselves are, however, but slightly touched with this ardour, which they do not under stand. They aro above all astonished at being kept at a distance, and not being able to treat their monarch with the familiarity which formerly existed between them and their presidents. Lastly, they are impatient at the long period of gestation, the end of which they cannot foresee, and the authors of the celebrated report which declared for the Mexican monarchy can hardly explain the hesi tations and scruples of their elected, for in his place they would havo presented a hundred solutions for his one. By a rather singular revulsion, the clergy and the reaction, which ought to love the sovereign of their choice, have arrived at the point of fearing him; on the other hand, the honourable men of the Liberal party, whilst keeping at a distance, how ever, seem to show a certain sympathy towards Maximilian as a private man." BOURSE, Aug. 22.—The market has been again heavy, and Stock and other Securities have been offered. Threes, for the Account, however, remain unvaried at C6fr. 30c., but Mobilier have declined to 995 fr, 50c. Railway Market also dull, with lower quotations for several of the lines. Tao mar ket became rather ti:mer towards the close, and left es follows: It per Cente. O4 45 Do. end 3 por Cents Do. end month 66 Credit Mobilicr Do. end month 1000 Bank Shares 3300 Credit Fonder 1210 Roman RA ILI Orleans Worthern Lyons and iledituranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian O Austrian • Lombard North of Spain Saragossa„ Ditto to Bar3elona Italian L , an 67 50 Jo. eild. month 67 55 Ditto Threes, New Mexican Itu.ssialt Austrian ..... --- Spanish Threes 46i Rome liobt .. 4B 50 Deferred 'AY'S. Cash. Account. 888: 75 ~ 885 -- 980 980 915 917 50 637 50 .. 638 75 522 50 .. 520 495 .. 495 --- 345 345 -- 430 431 25 538 75 .. 538 75 410 410 498 75 497 50 Tha Vitrified Forts of Scotland. A correspondent of the Icily _Review, we observe, has been recently starting a new theory as to the origin and nee and purpose of those remarkable objects generally known as Vitrified Forts. The theories hitherto propounded in connection with the subject may be briefly stated. Dr Anderson, r, ho was among the first to draw attention to the matter, gives it as his opinion, in the Archoologia, that the vitrification of these forts is an effect designed by their builders. He supposes that the ramparts or walls wore first built of such common stones as the place afforded, and in the course of building all the interstices bat ween the rude and rough stonework was filled up with vitrescible iron ore common enough in the norther:a parts of the island. The wall being at last finished in this manner, a brushwood fire was kindled all around it, which, melting the vitrescible ore, the whole would become connected into a were or less cc• harent mass in proportion to the intensity of the heat and the time the fire lasted. As the country then abounded with wood, there would be no scarcity of fuel. Such is the first theory. The second, that of Mr Tytler, is this ;—These _ _ 'orts were places of defence—a sturdier sort of Caledonian palls designed by cur unconquerable quasi Maori ancestors. According to this theory, they first began the fort by erects ins a strong double row of palisades, the outline of the in tended structure. These palisades or upright stakes were probably warped across and closelyint er woven with branches of trees and such brushwood as was at hand. Into he in termediate space between the double row of palisades or wooden fences thus formed, all sorts of rubbish, stones of every description, earth, branches, stems, and roots of trees, were thrown; little care or trouble being necessary, all tha was wanted being the filling up of the vacant space between the palisade rows, to the required'height, indeed, but any how and with the. readiest materials that came in the way. The fortification thus formed souse neighbouring enemy would attack, literally, with fire and sword—fire first, which meeting with so much ready fuel in the closely interwoven double row of palisades, would burn fiercely, acting upon the intermediate stone conglomeration which would thus become vitrified. The third theory is Sir G. Sinclair's. Ile supposes that from fear of invasion, or other wise in prospect of hostile attack from some neighbouring tribe, the natives of a remote period selected a conspicuous spot, naturally a hill top, for lighting beacon fires upon for the purpose of spreading an alarm from one part of the country to another. ro prevent these fires from being spread about and scattered by the wind, they piled heaps of stones to leeward of the fires, and hence the vitrification. To ourselves we confess none of these theories is quite satisfactory. But supposing them to have been designed as places of defence, we should meantime be more inclined to go with Dr. Anderson's views than with those of his brother theorists, The new theory to which we have alluded, and which is to be found in a well-written communication to the _Daily Review of July 12th, is, that the hills or duns on which wo find what are called vitrified forts, were in truth the mountain altars of the ancient fireworahippers. The author argues his case in a very able manner. 'We refer our reaiers to the article itself. Our object at present is merely to draw attention to the subject, and to assure the writer of an otherwise very clever paper, that on ono point at least he is quite wrong, He sees, or pretends to see, that the vitrified walls arc never found to be circles, hut ell pees, and supposing a central fire in the focus of these ellipses, he coolly conies to the conclusion that this would be a designed though rude re presentation of the heav my motions, " according (ho says) to the Copernican system, which was derived from Pytha goras from the 'East, whence the system of fire worship originally came," ergo, these are the works of the worship pers of fire or of the sun, and at a period long anterior to the Christian era. All we have time to soy at present is, that there is not the shadow or a shade of proof, probability, nor, we had almost said, of possibility, that the ancient fire worshippers knew anything whatever of ellipses or their foci either. The circle and the circle only—the most simple, and perfect, and beautiful of curves—was alone known to the ancient ire worshippers, and held by them as sacred, and by it only. Let us further add, for upwards of five thousand long years, was it ever attempted by the astro nomers of each age to account for the planetary motions, The ellipse, it is true, was known to the mathematicians of ancient Greece, and its properties, very different from the properties of the circle, may, for all we know, have afforded them an amusing subject of speculation, but nothing more. Neither they nor the astronomers of many succeeding cen turies ever once thought of erecting the ellipse in the heavens, and making the solar system move harmoniously in obedience and subservience to its laws. This was re served for the immortal Kepler, who quite in modern times —about the time, that is, that our own James VI. ascended the Euglish throne—after long years of undaunted perseve rance and toil, was the first to announce to the world the hitherto undreamt of truth that " planets revolve in elliptic orbits about the sun, which occupies the common focus of all the orbits." This is helper's first great law, deservedly entitling him to be styled "The morning star of modern astronolical science." What then, let us ask the ingenious author of the new vitrified forts' theory, what in the uni verse —(the term is surely fitting here, if anywhere)---what did or could the ancient fire worshippers know of the ellipse or its foci? What did Pythagoras or Copernicus either ? Absolutely nothing ; as far at least as we now know it in its connexion with the laws which regulate the movements of the heavenly bodies. • The new theory must stand or fall without any help whatever from an " ellipse" or a "focus" and their introduction at all, so inopportunely and irrele vantly, into the discussion, has, we confess, not a little assisted in strengthening our other objections against an otherwise very plausible and ingeniously argued out hypothesis. TEE MURDER OF MR. BRlGGS.—lntelligence Way be anticipated in the course of a few days, potaibly hours, that the suspected murderer Muller is in the hands of justice; as the Victoria, in which he sailed, had been out 30 days when the steamer left which would bring the mail duo to-morrow (Friday). If the arrange ments of Inspector Tanner, the chief of the metropolitan police, and Sergeant Clarke, assisted by the New York authorities, should be successful, the American officers will board the Victoria in the open roadstead, acccompaniod by the English officers. The American police will arrest Muller and take him before the proper authorities at New York. The warrant will then be produced by Mr Tanner, and evidence given of the alleged complicity of Muller in the murder ; and should that evidence be considered suffi cient, he will be remitted to England, and for that purpose be given into the custody of the English officers. In the event of their not being any steamer leaving within a con venient period of the magisterial examination at New York being concluded, although Muller may have been given up to Mr Tanner's charge, he will ba kept in ward in the House of Detention there until the departure is fixed, when he will be taken on board the steamer by the English officers of justice, accompanied by the New York police, and when safe on shipboard left entirely in charge of Chief Inspector Tanner and Sergeant Clarke. ACCIDENT FROM FlRE.—Yesterday morning the family of Mr Chetwynd, Gordon-terrace, Highhury, were aroused from their sleep, between one and two o'clock, by loud screams and cries for help issuing from the sleeping apartment of Miss Maynard, who was on a visit to the family. On proceeding to her room they discovered the lady with her nightdress awl the bedding on fire. She had, it appears, fallen asleep while reading in bed, aid the candle fallins set the bedding on fire. Mr Chetwynd smothered the flames with a carpet, but the young lady is shockingly burnt, and not expected to recover. TIIE ATTACK. ON MOBILE.—What if the report of the Fcleral success of Mobile should turn out to be a fabrication? The telegram forwarded by General Butler to President Lincoln announcing Farragut's victory has a very suspicious appearance. It purports to be taken from the .IZiehinowl Sentinel of the Bth, on which day the paper must have reached Butler, as he telegraphed the so called official despatch of General Maury, at three p,m. of the same day, to Washington. How could General Butler have got the Richmond paper at Bermuda Hundred on the Bth. And 's it probable that the Confederate Secretary of War eould publish such intelligence? Fourteen of Far ragut's fleet are stated to be wooden ships, and only four ironclads—one of which, the Tecumseh, was sunk by Fort Morgan, The action took place at the entrance of Mobile Bay, thirty miles from the city, on the sth instant, and was telegraphed the same day t o Ri c h mon d. N ow , thoughi it may be true, it certainly looks very like a stock-jobbing canal - cis—Liverpool Courier. LITERATURE. Guilty, or Not Guilty. A Novel. By Mrs Gordon Smythies, author of " Cousin Geoffrey." Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. It would be somewhat akin to the famous ims possibility of " breaking a butterfly upon a wheel," to subject a work of this class to the ordinary rules of criticism. As the gay orange binding which forms the external decoration of its cover is only calcue lated to please the eye and edorn the bendoiresabi e , so in like manner the highly extravagant and alto gether impossible marvels which it contains, told as they are in Mrs Gordon Snaythies' gay and lively manner, are only intenthd to amuse and entertain the reader. "Guilty, or Not Guilty" is just the book for the seaside and the circulating library. Fall of adventure and vicissitude, the story never fisgs ; the author never seems to grow weary; the reader is constantly amused—although occasionally the smile is raised at the expense of the fair autho ress when some over -extravagant incident or description taxes the credulity of the most credulous seneatioualist. The first volume opens with a Countess of Reckalpine seated in her dressing-room. "The large oval mirror is draped with lace and muslin, and looped up with pink ribbons," &s. Mrs. Smythies is a little too land of such minutia. She not only describes a banquet but enumerates the dishes; she not only conducts us to the ball room but eeplains to us all the mysteries of the toilette of the danseuse. It ia true she excels in such descriptions, as, for example, when the fair heroine makes her debut at a'hall in Paris. We are told that the Empress's milliner and dressmaker, "the great Mdme. Beget," was consul ted. With the enthusiasm of genius she threw her whole heart and soul into Edith's ball dress"—" for Edith she was inspired." The result, of course, is mare vellous. "Nothing in such exquisite taste, so fairy-like, so aerial, so becoming, so costly, so light, so chaste, and yet so rich, had ever been seen, even in Pares No wonder that Edith, thus apparelled, is the admired of ail. Even her own mother, the haughty Lady 11a.utevi)le, who had not seen her for some years, having sent her abroad with- a chaperone for her health, does not recognise her. This amiable and noble lady and her elder daughters are accustomed, in the elegant language of Bel gravie, to speak of the fair and delicate Edith as " the carrotty cripple !"—no wonder they fail to recognise her in the ball-dress of Madame Roget ! But we are talking of balls and ball-dresses, when in the volumes now beside us there is matter far more attractive. What will the novel-readers soy for the treat is store for them, when we tell them that we have here no less than two murders—two real murders—one in the first volume and one in the second ; in both of which the victims are actual lords, and for each of which an innocent man is arrested ! We have three elopements—in one instance two sisters_going off together. We have four different incarcerations of different people in a madhouse, in two of which the victims •arc perfectly in their senses, and the heroine is three times rescued from death by the hero at the peril of his life. In feet, it is almost impossible to enumerate all the marvels to he met with in these pages ; and comedy is so in termingled with the tragedies that, when Mrs. Smythies calls upon us to sympathise with a tender love scene, in which a most euphoniously-named lover whispers to his beloved, "Doesn't she see how her pour Tight-Blower loves the ground she treads on P" &e., we must confess that we feel bewildered as to whether we are expected to regard the scene as belonging to the sublime or the ridiculous! We will not spoil the mystery of the tale by any fur ther revelation of its secrets. The three brilliant volumes—brilliant without and animated within— will wile away many an idle hour and afford no little entertainment, and let the amused reader, on concluding a perusal of the whole work, pronounce whether, in our estimate of its contents, we our. selves are "Guilty, or Not Guilty." The Late Sir Charles Justin Macarthy, One more name must be added to the roll of able , men to whom our Eastern possessions have brought distinction tied death. Sir Charles Macarthy, Governor of Ceylon, has died at Spa from a disease which he contracted in that island, and which he allowed to gain a fatal hold on his constitution be fore he consented to abandon, even for a time, the important interests there confided to his charge. A life spent in the colonial service of this country, even when eminently successful, effords few occa sions for fame, and men like Sir Charles Macarthy or Sir Edmund Head must look forward to the op portunities of later years to win for them the public repute which their abilities fully deserve. This was eminently the case with the late Governor of Ceylon. He was a man of the most apprehensive intelligence and of the most varied learning. An elegant, though hardly profound, c!aeeical scholar, his command of the great instruments of modern language was sin gularly complete. In French, Italian, and German he possessed not only the facility, but the graces of speech, not only the power of a ready writer, but the finest discrimination of a master of style, and, as he passed from one nationality to another, the delight at the charm of his diction was only exceeded by the,wonder at his familiarity with every litera ture. These were the materials out of which he and his friends hoped and believed that, after the labours and anxieties of public life, he would be enabled to build up a name of intellectual worth to the honour of the country that had recognised his talents and employed his more active energies. Now, this cannot be. The distant province, which for many years has been familiar with his genial presence and sagacious administration, will receive with earnest sorrow the tidings of a loss here hardly felt or known beyond the narrow circles of private or official life. But it is well to record that Sir C. Macarthy entered the public service as superinten dent of one of the smallest of our West Indian de pendencies, and in that insignificant sphere gave evidence of the rare capacity that can handle the least and the gravest matters with equal accuracy and adroitness, and which, though capable of the largest inductions, is not indifferent to the lightest details. On returning home on leave of abonce from his post, he attracted the attention of the head' of his department, and was soon transferred to more serious and responsible duties. Thence, solely by the due appreciation of his powers and their exercise, he rose to the important and lucrative Government now vacated by his decease. Short as was his en joyment of wealth and dignity, it is something to have shown that the testes and accomplishment of letters are not irreconcileable with the careful dis charge of official functions and the wise manage ment of the concerns of State, and that our institu tions permit such a man as Sir Charles Macarthy to compete successfully with the discreet mediocri ties of intellect, and the superiorities of birth and fortune.— Times. Loss OF LIFE IN THE TllAMES.—Yesterdey morning one of the mew of a barge fell into the river, off Cuckold's Point. The poor fellow, whose name was John Paddiford, instantly made for the boat lying astern of the barge, whilst his companions endeavoured to render him assistance, but before he could be rescued the tido had swept him away, and he was drowned. T.LIE LATE TRAGEDY ON BOARD AN INVERNESS VESSEL—On Stfturday the body of a man was picked up out at sea, a little above the port of Sunderland, by a tug belonging to the port. When brought to the dead house, it was identified as that of Win. Duffey, one of the men belonging to the collier Rosemery, of Inverness, three of whose crew fell overboard on the 3d July, when off Souter Point. Oar readers will remember that on the above date the Rosemary left Sunderland between 12 and 1 o'clock at night, with a crow consisting of the captain and three men, end about (eve hours afterwards the collier was brought into port with only the captain (Alexander Ross) on board, the whole of the others having, whilst quarrelling, fallen over board. The tragedy at the time caused groat excitement and much speculation, as the disappearance of the men was somewhat shrouded in mystery. The body found has been in the water seven weeks, and when found was floating, and in a dreadful state of decomposition. In his pockets were found two sixpences, tome coppers, a short catty pipe, and a quantity of tobacco. Wm. Duffey belonged to Inverness, was married, and left a widow and two children to mourn his untimely end. It has been reported that a week ago the body was seen floating near to the place where the above was picked up. It is supposed to have been that of another of the men belonging to the collier. The names of the other two unfortunate men were Chas. Munro and Hugh M‘li_ ey the mate of the vessel,—.Erlinburuh tinatt' -tlrtnhir ELER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, August 24. Her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses Princa end Princess Louis of Hesse drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lim t.- Colonel Du Plat, The Prince and Princess of Wales. The wooda of Abergeldie were beaten for deer on S - aturday last, when the Prince of Wales TA as ac cciropanied by Lord Hamilton and Major Teesdale. Oue stag fell to the gun of the gallant nasjer. Bad weather prevailed, as the wind was very rough, and !air' fell heavily. Daring the day the Princess of Wailes drove out, accompanied by PrincEss Mary of Cambridge. Another bail was to be held at Abergeldie lest night, when the tenantry on the Birkhall estate were to be invited. The Prince and Princess of Wales and Pricos e Mary of Cambridge are expected to be present at the eppro:ching Braemar Gathering. In all pro bability the princesses, who will accompany th e Quee❑ to Balmoral, will be also present. Short l Y after that event the Prince and Princess of Wa lE e leave Scotland for Denmark. It is understood that his royal highness is about to erect a palace at Abergeldie, and that Mr 6 ' in itbo Aberdeen, the architect for Balmoral Castle, is pre paring the designs. foreign Courts. PARIS, August 24. " After the official reception at the Spanish Era' bassy," nays the Union," the King of Spain paid a visit to Count Aquilla, his uncle, and we have been essured that the interview was most cordial, and full of sympathy on the part of the King fo r the misfortune of the royal house of Naples. On the following day Count Aquila went to see his nephew at the pakce of St. Cloud." Prirce Napoleon he'S arrived in Paris on his re turn from his excureion to Scotland. His yach t entered the port of Havre yesterday morning, and the prince immediately left by rail for the capital• M. Mora, the Mexican Minister to the Courts of Russia, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, left Paris last evening for the purpose of notifying to the Govern' meats to which he is accredited the accession of his Sovereign, the Emperor Maximilian I, General Marquis do Grouchy, senator, has just died in Paris. The Count and Countess de Faris at Twickenham. Yesterday- afternoon the public reception of th e Count and Countess de Paris (whose recent oar' riage at the Kingston Roman Catholic Chapel wixl be well remembered) took place at York Hou se ' Twickenham, on their return from spending th e honeymoon. In order to welcome them home with proper rejoicings a subscription had been previously made among the inhabitants of Twickenham, " cl a a committee appointed (of which th e Rev. a Master, the vicar, was chairman) for the pupae° 0f decorating the approaches leading to York N°n se ' their future home. Great preparations had been made in the village for the entry of the Count and Countess,end Church" street and the various roads leading to the house were decorated with flags, banners, and mottoes, while the approaches nearest the mansion were gag with coloared poles, ornamented with shields bear.. ing the arms of the ex-royal family of France, the flew , cle lis being everywhere conspicuous. A tn. umphal arch, formed of flowers, banners, and escut cheons earmounted by the word " Welcome" in large letters, and crowned with a coat of arms and coronet, had been constructed, while from the poles already mentioned hang bright garlands of flowers and streamers of evory hue, forming, with the irnm manse crowd of spectators which had assembled near the entrance, a gay and lively scene. Shortly before four o'clock the members of the committee, consisting of the Rev. G. S. Master, Mr 1 - 1. G. Bohn, and other gentlemen, took up a posi tion near the gate of the mansion in order to pre" sent au address, while near the spot the band of the 16th S)uth-West Middlesex Volunteers were ste4 cloned, and agreeably dive:allied the proceedings with their music. A few minutes afterwards the Count and Countess de Paris arrived in an open carriage amid merry peals of bells from the parish church and a royal salute of 21 guns fired from the alt. On reaching the gate the carriage was brought to 0. standstill, while the Rev. G. S. Master read ea address of congratulation and welcome. The address, which was engrossed on fine vel lum and baautifully illuminated, was then presented to the count, who, in a speech which could hardly be heard from the noise of the cheering, returned thanks, and trusted that he and the countess would enjoy that happiness the wish for which had been so kindly tendered by the inhabitants of Twicken' ham. Mr Bohn then read a history of York Sous e ' which was also handed to the count, after whi ch Mrs Master and Miss Bohn presented the Cou" teas de Paris with two bouquets of choice flowers, which were most courteously received, and the carriage immediately afterwards drove through the, triumphal arch to the mansion, where the count and countess alighted and p rocee ded to the ivy covered wall of the river f r ont. In the mead ow beneath this wall, and opposit e the nit, the child ree (to the number of about 1,300) of the various paro chial schools had been collected. These carried numerous flags and banners; and on the apPear— ance of the Count and the Countess de Paris and the Dake and Duchess de Montpensier the cheering was excessive. Each child was afterward s presented with a fourpenny piece in memory of th e event ; and the proceedings of the day were agree" ably brought to a clime by a display of firework s on the river, the barge from which they were dis charged being decorated with lamps and faeutade while the streets of Twickenham were bright with A the illumination proceeding from the shops 6112 ' Acuscs of the principal tradesmen. Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Coun,:,ees Apponyi returned to Chandos House Yeat e " day from visi:ing the Earl and Countess ;Russell at Woburn Abbey, Beds. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland a re expected to arrive at Northumberland House to - m° ll°° from Sion House. On the following day they will 100 town for the North, The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland hheir arrived at Terbet House, in the n o rth o f S c otland ) a" way to Dunrobin Castle. The Marquis and Marchione s s of Hastings Will leave Loudouu Castle, Ayrshi re , on F r iday next for Doriing ton Pti , k, Leicestershire, whe r e they will recei ve a select circle of li - lands for Lichfield and Derby rac es. Me Earl and Countess Spencer are expected to proceed on a continental tour the c ourse of the ensuing t on week, The Earl and Couzitess of S c ofield, with Viscount Reidhaven, have arrived itt Ealmacaan, for the shooting season, from Cullen House and Castle Grant, Viscouoteo Jocelyn and Hon. Misseq JaCelY ll have arrived at the H otel Mirabean, Paris, from London ' Viscount Courtenay and Lord Poltimore will have large parties during the ensuing week fcr the Devon and Exeter race naeetinp. Lord Lonclesborough has arrived at his deer -2 lleu34ion has left London for tbo b aths 0 Sir Lydston Newman, who has been ma kin g a t ou r in South Wales, w ill en t er t a i n a distinguished arty a t Starcross duri ng th e E xe t er ra ces. 11:L:itocirni,d: qu arters, Tulchen L e d ge , Gl e nisla. The marriage of Lieut.-Col. Farquharson of I t : vercauld with Miss Oswald, eldest daughter of Mr 03vv 31 u . of Auchineruive, is fixed to take place in London early la the month of November. DISTRESS IN THE UNITED STATES.-7he t women in Philadelphia and New York are iu g rea t distrees, as their scanty earnings are insufficien t to suPi ls them. For soldiers' pants they get only from 6 to 6 cen t in paper money; and for shirts one dollar per done:2;l3h eluding button -holes and all complete. For tents, witnig tutton•lioles, they get :15 cents pee tent. These 713i1a,. have held large meetings both in New York. and on . de,:phia, but a deaf ear has been paid to their re atrances, :THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1864. A