The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TIM PUBLIQ JOURNALS. The Herald balls attention to a significant blank in Mr. Bright's prospectus in respect to the questions most highly in favour with some of those who have recently taken the condition of England under their care. Not a word does Mr. Bright utter as to the question of trade unions—of woman's rights—of new laws for the distribution of property, or for the regulation of labour. He hais only a small and feeble word for the ballot—more out of old feeling for a battered piece of Radicalism, which in its day has been extremely convenient to the demagogues, than from any real belief in its vitality. Mr. Bright, in fact, however he may have earned it, is presently inspired with a genuine desire for repose. He gives us to understand that he has given up agitating ; and that is an assurance which we may accept with a modest thankfulness. When the great disturber talks peace it is peace upon the surest gua rantee. When the Liberal of the Liberals declares that he sees nothing to amend in the existing condi tion of things beyond a mechanical alteration in the system of voting, and some trifling modifications in the electoral scheme—when he has nothing to demand beyond the surrender of a portion of the Church Establish ment to make him happy for ever, we must feel that we are getting onward to the Millenium, and that this England of ours, but yesterday so corrupt, and degraded, and wicked, is in a tolerably sound and wholesome state, after ' only a quarter of a century of Mr. Bright's treatment. The Times has a leader on the East Kent election hoax, in which it strongly condemns Mr. Loftus Pemberton for his indiscretion, his reckless language, and his wish to keep the matter before the public, when it is most clam aging to his brother's interests and his own that he should do so. The Times cannot but condole with Mr. Pemberton, the sitting member and candidate for re-elec tion, on the dangerous help he has received. He may well cry, " Save me from my friends 4 ." This terrible brother of his has done him as much damage as any man could do, and it is evident that unless he is restrained he will yet do more. The mock address was stigmatised by Colonel Deedes as " a disgraceful trick upon the constituency," and the feeling must be shared by many of the freeholders and occupying voters of East Kent that it is not with such weapons party contests should be fought. But these reckless attempts to cover a retreat by throwing out recriminatory charges and making no attempt to establish them when challenged are much worse than the first offence. To charge one opponent with " gross behaviour" against an intimate friend, and to be silent when asked to substantiate or withdraw the imputation— to accuse anothei of having been the author of " a most scurrilous squib," and to say opinions differ about the meaning of the word " scurrilous" when asked to explain himself—what can be worse than acts like these ? Having them before us, it is impossible to regard the first hoax as a joke. It is the symptom of a vicious spirit which must be reprobated on all sides, if it may not be visited with other punishment. A recent discussion, the Daily News notices, has arisen on the old so-called Malthusian doctrine of possible checks to the increase of population. From time to time during the last few years we have heard dark hints concerning alleged systematic limitations to the increase of families in New England, and particularly in the old and educated society of Massachusetts. The writer who brings these statements forward, finding the birth-rates of the North- Eastern States, and particularly those of the New Eng. land States, very small, concludes at once that the phenomenon is due to artificial restrictions, representing an aversion to large families, and his inference has been widely accepted, almost with out investigation as to its accordance with the facts. The fact is, however, that the American census shows that there are more " old maids" in New England than in any other part of America, but that the birth-rate is, in Proportion to the marriage rate, as large as in any other country. In no other part of the United States are there so many women employed in other than domestic occupa tions. All the facts show that the, in many respects, unhappy disproportion between the numbers of the two sexes is being largely compensated by the enlargement of the activity and usefulness of a sex which elsewhere is too generally absorbed in the one object of husband-seeking. The Herald expresses its approval of the line of argument taken by Mr. Baxter, the Conservative candidate for Hull, on the Irish Church question. Mr. Baxter picks out the strong points of his opponents' case, and grapples with them fairly. For instance, it is always worth while to r._ mind public gatherings of constituencies that the plea of justice to majorities will not hold water in the present instance. It is said that under the existing system we are making four millions and a half of Irish Roman Catholics pay for the support of a Church of 600,000 members, constituting the wealthiest section of the Irish p op'e. That is an argument which tells immense'y with a miscellaneous audience not very well up in the facts, and always obedient to the "inevitable logic " of delusive statistics. When it is added that eight-ninths of the funds from which the revenues of the Irish Church are supplied come out of the pockets of the Protestant landowners, the case for confiscation breaks down. As Mr. Baxter asks, Is there anything like oppression of the Roman Catholics in this ? The whole argument relied upon by the disruptionists is equally applicable to individual rights and to the tenure of land. If it be held that a tithe rent charge r ayable out of land belongs to the State, whenever the State chooses to lay its hands upon it, we are not far from the contention that the land itself belongs to the nation. I! endowments are not to be held sacred it will next be main tained that ordinary bequests, or property held by succes sion, are equally at the disposal of the Legislature. It L not to be supposed for a moment that a religious-minded man will build and endow a church in connection with certain form of religion if he is confronted with a precedent for alienating his bequest to a wholly different object. H' will know that he does so at the risk of the State coming in and appropriating it to purposes which possibly might be utterly abhorrent to him. The Daily News, in an article on the Abergele accident, observes that the whole narrative, as given by Sara, the engine -driver, reflects strongly on the general arrange ments made for the mid-day luggage train, and especially for its shunting and reconstruction at Llandulas. These were in some respects, indeed, so defective and unsatisfac tory that the only wonder is that some accident did not happen at this point before. The luggage train was too long to be shunted as a whale, and with the greatest despatch it could only be put out of the way a few seconds before the mail train should dash by. Under these circumstances the only protection against a terrible accident was the signal " danger" at the Llandu las station. This is, however, an extremely inadequate Protection, especially as the line curves soon after leaving the station. And whether sufficient or not, it cannot excuse the flagrant neglect of established rules. If at this point the goods train is usually only a quarter of an hour in advance of the Irish mail, ample provision ought tobe made for shunting the whole at once. There ought to be sidings long enough to receive the longest ordinary goods train. Another matter which requires consideration is, that had the guard been in the van, he would have been conscious of the first tendency to move, and, by tightening the screw and keeping it firmly down, might have arrested it at the outset. At Llandulas, however, both guards were helping to shunt the train, and were therefore at some distance from the trucks and wg i ggons when they began to move, and their efforts to arrest them were thus useless. The lesson taught by such an experience is at once too obvious and too urgent to need enforcing. Every goods train ought to have a sufficient number of breaksmen not only to assist in the shunting, but to take charge of any porticn of the train left for a time on the main line. That all persons are equal before the law is a maxim which has been, says the Telegraph, amusingly exemplified within the last two days. On Monday, in London, a prize fighter was bound over in recognisances of £1,500, that ho might be prevented from battering the head of another pugilist, all in the kindliest spirit; and on Tuesday in Manchester, William Murphy, the notorious Protestant lecturer, was called upon to find security in the sum of £4OO that for three months to come he would not be guilty of inciting anybody to break the peace of her Majesty. We can hardly hope that Mr. Whalley or the Marquis of Westmeath will experience a true sense of the reproach that has been brought on the name, not of religion, but of Protestantism as they understand it, by the remarkable parallel which the law has drawn between their apostle and a distinguished and aspiring member of the "fistic brotherhood." Yet a certain amount of injustice is done to Allen by the comparison. If his heart's dearest wish had been gratified, and he had gone forth to " deal some doleful dumps" upon the cranium of Joseph Guns, at least be would have entered the ring without malice and bitterness, would have shaken hands with his opponent in manly good humour, and would have spurned the thought of using any trickery or violence, or resorting to any weapons but those which nature gave and the con ditions of the fight allowed. How different in demeanour and spirit do we find the champion of Christianity, who, in his zeal for the truth of that religion which is " peace on earth and good-will to men," comes down to Manchester with a loaded ten-barrelled revolver, a store of spare car tridges, and a "knuckle-duster," pronounced by the chief constable to have been one of the most formidable weapons of the kind he ever saw. A FLOCK OF BEES IN THE ROOF OF A Cuurtcu.—lt having been known that bees were working iu the roof of All Saints Church, from which honey had been observed to flow for some time past, Mr. Barber, the church clerk, obtained authority from the churchwardens - 1 , to remove them, and in doing so on Thursday last obtained Do less than a hundredweight of honey. —Bury and Nor wick Post. 4 "A HEN ATTEMPTING TO CROW." A convention of strong-minded women has been held at I Chicago. Miss Buffon, one of the speakers, addressed the convention as follows :—" Society shakes and trembles under the reconstructive hands of women. The new Government had assumed such gigantic proportions as was unsuspected by the opposing powers. ' Have we a govern ment?' was a question often asked by statesmen. She was happy to announce that the women had a government instituted and officered by women—a de facto government, acknowledged by thousands of men and women—a combined government of Church and State. (Applause.) It was running all right, and drawing into it philosophers and scientific men. The great central idea was, who should rule this earth—man or woman. A new era had been reached, or such a question could not be found. The blood of women clamoured for the right to rule the earth, and to so construct the State and Church as to prevent abominations from entering. Man had gone just as far as he dared, and was now waiting to take the oath of allegiance to the new govern ment, and become loyal subjects thereof, of which a woman is the head and the prime mover. They needed the pro tection of men, but if it was denied them they would go alone. Woman would never yield her position. Man might pout and rave and storm, but there she would stand immovable, with a ray of light enshrining her. The seed was with woman, and it would bruise the serpent's head. All things were possible with women. The same could not be said of men." ►SEVERE CENSURE OF A COLLIER'S MANAGEMENT. A fortnight ago an explosion of fire-damp took place at Hindley Green, near Wigan, by which a man, Charles Abbott, was killed, while two others lost their lives by suffocation when searching for him. The inquest on the bodies of the deceased was brought to a conclusion on Tuesday last, on which day several of the men who have been employed in the colliery gave evidence as to the condition in which the mine had been. Some complained of the state of the ventilation, others of the want of brat ticing, and two or three spoke of the presence of gas in the mine, particularly on the Friday and Saturday before the explosion. Mr. Dickenson, the Government inspector, reported the result of an inspection of the mine four days after the accident. At the place where the explosion occurred he had to measure the air with the anemo meter, but the current was not strong enough, although since the explosion brattking had been put in sufficient to clear out the gas. Judging by his breath there was something less than 1,000 cubic feet of air per minute passing this part of the pit, and the total intakes was a little over 7,000 feet—a very small quantity for such an extent of workings. He could readily believe there would be accumulations of gas, the issue of fire-damps in different parts being quite audible. There was a scaffold in the downcast shaft which was being widened, and this interfered with the current. He did not consider the mine had been judiciously worked. The jury returned the following verdict :—" That Joshua Fishwick and John Reeves came to their deaths in the attempt to rescue the third deceased, and that Charles Abbott was killed by an explosion of gas, having ventured with a naked light, knowing that the fireman had not been round, and that one of the places in the brow had contained gas on the previous Saturday ; and we find that Mr. John Johnson is deserving of censure for allowing Abbott and others to enter workings which had not been visited the same morning ; and also that the ventilation of the mine has been censurably irregular and imperfect, as well as the general management underground loose and unsatisfactory, and we recommend that, if possible, proceedings be taken by the Government inspector for the breaches of the colliery rules." LAW AND POLICE. THE EMISSION OF SMOKE FROM LOCOMOTIVES.—The West Riding magistrAtes at Tadcaster have had before them a case of some importance to the general public. Birkbeck Forest, a police-constable, had laid an information under the Bth and 9th Vic., cap. 20, sec. 114, against the North-Eastern Railway Company, for having, contrary to the section, emitted smoke from one of their locomotives on the 12th ult. The section referred to enacts that " every locomotive steam engine to be used on the railway shall, if it use coal or similar fuel emitting smoke, be constructed on the principle of consuming, and so as to consume its own smoke ; and if any engine be not so con structed, the company, or party using such engine shall forfeit £5 for every day during which such engine shall be used on the railway." The charge was not pressed, and, on an undertaking being given that the offence should not bu repeated, the case was dismissed on payment of costs. THE FOUGERT ON THE RUSSIAN BANK.-At the Thames Police-court the spy Zbaski, who, at the late sittings of the Central Criminal Court, was the principal witness g inst the prisoners indicted for the forgeries on the Rus.!ian ra.)k, was now brought up on a charge of perjury, alleged to have been committed at the trial before mentioned. It was stated that Mr. Rewman, who was formerly charged with the forgery, had been seriously injured in reputation and business, and this was in conse quence of the false representations of Zbaski, who had deceived both the Russian Government and the Metro politan Police, for the purpose of obtaining money. After hearing the evidence of Rewman and others, the case was sent to the sessions for trial. THE IMPORTANT CASE OF PERJURY.-At the Magis trates' Office, Maidstone, Thomas Lawford Hawgood was charged on remand with having committed perjury during the hearing of an *Sion in which he was the plaintiff, and the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company the defendants. Several witnesses who were in the employ of the company stated on oath that which, if true, indicated that the prisoner could not have been assaulted, as alleged, in a first-class carriage. The bench decided the case for trial at the next assizes. THE WATERLOO HIGHWAYMEN.-At the Southwark Police-court the magistrate was engaged in hearing several serious cases of highway robbery, alleged to have beer t.ommitted by a number of thieves, known as the "Water 100 Highwaymen." In tl.e first case the prosecutor, a clerk in the Privy Council Office, stated that on the 17th ult., about six o'clock in the evening, he was passing along Blackfriars-road, and when near Warwick street, he felt a tug at his watch-guard from some person behind. Prosecutor at once closed his hand over his waistcoat pocket, and saved his watch, but a portion of the chain was broken away. The prisoner Green was the man, and immediately ran off towards a court in Warwick-street, and on prosecutor following, he was met by three other men, and knocked down by a tremendous blow on the right side of the head, cutting his ear. All the men got away, and he could not positively swear to any of them but Green.—ln another case the prisoners were charged with assaulting and robbing a barrister. Sufficient evidence having been given to justify a remand, the prisoners, some of whom are well known as thieves, were remanded. CHARGE OP LIBEL AGAINST THE " TIMES " AND Tim "TELEGRAPH."-At the Guildhall, an application was made to the sitting magistrate for summonses against the Times and the Telegraph for a libel published against Mr. Bewicke, of Threepwood Hall, Northumberland. The alleged libel was contained in the report of a trial at the Central Criminal Court, in width Mr. Bewicke was the prosecutor. • After reading the affidavits, it was agreed that the reports in the papers should be compared with the shorthand writer's notes, before further proceedings were taken. STEALING Loan SUAFTESBURY'S WOOD.—At the Oran borne Petty Sessions Samuel Rabbit, of Cussage, All Saints, was charged with stealing wood, the property of Lord Shaftesbury, and valued at twopence. Mr. Chitty defended the prisoner, and stated that he did not believe that the Earl of Shaftesbury, whose fame for humanity and charity was spread throughout the world, could know of this prosecution, the value of the wood being so trifling. The prisoner was asked if he elected for the magistrates to dispose of the case under the Criminal Justice Act. He declined doing so, and conse quently was committed, the bench accepting his own re crgnisance to appear at the ensuing quarter sessions. The Dublin Evening Mail understands that the Lord-Lieutenant and the Duchess of Abercorn are likely to honour Mr. and Mrs. John George Adair by a visit at Glenveagh Castle, in the county of Donegal. To the natural beauties of mountain and lake which distinguish Glenveagh, the care of Mr. Adair during many years has added features of industrial civilisation. which have greatly changed the social aspect of the district. The mountains have been drained for sheep pasture to their t ops, and, with U e help of Manchester people who are workin; the mines, the entire population have constant employment. HALF-YEAR'S CONSUMPTION OF SPIRITS.—In the first half of the year 1868 the quantity of home-made spirits returned for consumption in the United Kingdom as beverage amounted to 9,571,812 gallons, a decrease of 605,315 gallons compared with the quantity in the first half of 1867. In England the quantity was 5,317,574 gallons, a decrease of 42,425 gallons ; in Scotland, 2,048,640 gallons, a decrease of 217,135 gallons ; in Ireland, 2,205,628 gallons, a decrease of 345,755 gallons. In the same half year, in addition to these 9,571,842 gallons of home-made spirits, 1,454,198 proof gallons of foreign brandy were entered for home consumption, an increase of 4,111 gallons over the corresponding period of 1867; and 1,896,168 proof gallons of foreign rum, a decrease of 216.614 ['Minna. SUN, LONDON, THURS,DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1868. PRUSSIA AND ITALY. A Paris correspondent of the Cologne Gazette gives the following account of General La Mar mora's conduct before and during the war : " From the very outset political circles had been made aware that the war of 1866 was not only permitted, but perhaps even promoted, by the Em peror Napoleon, becouse it might possibly lead to the aggrandizement of France on the Rhine. Prussia had certainly refused to accord him that aggrandizement before the vat. ; but what she would not concede of her own accord and in ad vance he hoped to be able to exact against her will a little later. The diplomatic world thought it extremely probable that Prussia, in the event of a defeat, would not object to be succoured by France, and requiting the good service rendered by the cession of the Rhine. As to Austria, it. was assumed that she would be sat'sfied with Sile sia, in return for which she was expected to relinquish Vienna. The less doubt was enter tained on this last head, as the cession of this province had been talked about even before the beginning of hostilities, the equivalent offered being money. When the war did commence, therefore, General La Marmora had good reason for saying that he was ' crossing the Mincio with Venice in his pocket' —an assertion which the French Foreign-office, speaking by the mouth of M. Valfrey, has but lately caused to be confirmed in the most unmistakeable manner in the Memorial Diplomatique. " Napoleon 111. knew and fully approved the treaty concluded between Prussia and Italy on April 8,1866. lle had the less hesitation in ex pressing himself satisfied with the agreement, as Prussia otherwise might have desisted from war at the eleventh hour, in which event the chance of the Rhenish acquisitions would have been lost to the Emperor. La Marmora, as Italian Premier, had on this, as on every other occasion, not moved an inch without first, inquiring the pleasure of the Paris authorities. Difficult as it was for Prussia to manage an ally whose decisions were swayed by orders from abroad, still, if she wishei to profit at all by the co-operation of Italy, she must accom modate herself to circumstances. " Considering what La Marmora's proceedings were before the war, and remembering subsequent events, there can be no doubt Austria, with the General's knowledge, formally promised to France to respect Lombardy and the line of the Mincio even were she victorious in the Quadrilateral. The equivalent demanded for this concession by Austria it is not so easy to ascertain ; but what else can it have been if not the engagement of France to prevent Italy from crossing the Isonzo should she succeed in overcoming the enemy? To localize the war in Italy was the evident desire of France. "In its reaction upon Prussia this clearly amounted to the conclusion of an armistice between Austria and Italy even before a shot had been fired. Nay, if Austria had still made up her mind to cede Venice, she would, with this instrument in her hands, have been in a position to turn her whole force against Prussia, without employing a single man against Italy. "As soon as Prussia got wind of what was going on she exerted herself to thc utmost to cause Italy to adopt a more effective plan of war. Except by La Marmora and his adherents, her representa tions were favourably received by the military and political leaders of Italy. Yet all her endeavours in this direction were fruitless. Notwithstandinc , what had occurred at the military pour-parlers at Berlin and Florence, and the Conference held on June 6 I. etween La Marmon, Count Usedom, and Colonel Bernhardi, it soon became evident that a localized war to be carried on within the precincts of the Quadrilateral had been determined upon by the Italian Premier. The march on Vienna, as proposed by the Prussian negotiators, was reacted as a wild fantasy, the whole conduct of Ita'y going to render the only effective allianct3 at the disposal of the Berlin Government useless. " In the middle of June hostilities commenced in Germany. Italy, too, was preparing for the contest: But how ? The main force, 120,000 strong, under the King and La Marmora, ap proached the Mincio to divert the attention of the enemy. Cialdini, who with 70,000 men, was to open the campaign in earnest, had been ordered to march due noi th from Ferrara and attack the 80,000 under the command of Archduke Alb: echt. As to Garibaldi and his volunteers at Bari, they were, instead of Dalmatia, sent to the hills and precipices of the Tyrol. La Marmora's plan was then to be preferred definitively to the one urged by the Berlin Government. " In this crisis Count Usedom determined to have recourse to a last means of saving Italy a de feat, and preserving to Prussia the effective support of her ally. Ile wrote the note of the 17th of June, and by giving it a strictly official form made it incumbent upon the Italian Government to re turn as official and binding a reply. In a word, he essayed to take the matter out of the hands of in dividuals and make it a Cabinet business. On the reception of such a communication as this note, it would be the duty of General La Marmora, in his capacity of Premier and Min'ster of Foreign Affairs, to submit it to the King, the Council of Ministers, and the Council of War, and to frame the answer according to their decision. Were the Prussian proposition approved by them, he would have no alternative but to carry it out ; in the opposite event, Prussia, at any rate, knew what she had to expect, and could act accordingly. This was an ugly dilemma for La Marmora. It was plainly on the cards that Prussia would regard his not crossing the Isonzo as tantamount to a breach of treaty, and in her own negotiations with Austria leave Italy to shift for herself. In this predica ment La Marmora hit upon an expedient which, it is true, had not entered into Count Usedmn's cal culations. lie suppressed the note, the original of which remains in his possession to this day. Thus, he *was saved the painful choice between a decided ' Yes' or 'No.' • gi But it soon became General La Marmora's turn to be surprised. The disposal of his troops and the loose and scattered order in which they were to enter the Quadrilateral had been betrayed to the enemy. A Tuscan, who was related to an Italian staff officer, had gone to Trieste and re ported all the necessary details to the Austrian commanders there. From the latter he received a considerable sum, which, it is said, was subse quently, even increased by Archduke Albrecht. In consequence of these disclosures, the Archduke re called General Marcovich and his 35,000 men from the Adige, and, having thus concentrated his entire forces at Verona, marched forward to meet the Italian army at Custozza. " In the meantime, La Marmora had been all but perfectly idle. Ile fondly imagined he should find the Austrians on the other side of the Adige —say somewhere near Vicenza ; and to this opinion he adhered, in spite of all that should have taught him the contrary. Patriotic countrymen who, at the risk of their lives, came to impart intelligence from the interior of the Quadrilateral he scorn fully sent away, vilifying them as rascals and scoundrels. The Venetian National Committee sent him written information of the approach of the Austrians ; he contemptuously refused to be guided by it. Exactly the same behaviour was, displayed by the commander of another corps; who received the same news from the National Com mittee at Verona. - With equal obstinacy, the General declined to make any change in the scat tered disposition of his troops, much as he was warned against continuing in a loose and straggling order of march. On the morning of the battle, reconnoitring and other military precautions were suspended by the General's own order, so that the troops were actually cooking their dinner at the moment the Austrian cavalry was bearing down upon them. Each of the attacked divisions had to fight as best it could. None knew what had become of the others, nor were they provided with any instructions for such • an emergency. It was ' confusion worse confounded.' " It is easy to say that in such a case the retreat ought to have been sounded, and the troops with drawn to be concentrated in the rear, preparatory to a fresh attack.. It -requires particularly well disciplined troops to carry out such a movement without its leading to flight, even when the dis tances between the various corps are not so great as they were in the present instance. Orders, moreover, for this movement must have been de vised and written down on horseback a task which the General, unsupplied by his staff, which had been left in Cerlungo, a long way off, was altogether unequal to. Instead of taking his stand on one particular spot, as is the duty of a com mander-in-chief, he hurried from one division to the other, placing one of them, I am told, with its back to the enemy. The precipitation with which he took his measures, and the desire to attend to every detail himself, caused him to neglect the supervision of the whole. Adjutants and orderlies were galloping over miles and miles of country to make reports or to ask for orders and succours without meeting with the General. Those that did chance to fall iu with him found it impractic able to extract anything, definite . from the Com mander-in-Chief. "Towards noon the General left the battle-field for Goito. But where is Goito ? Was it a rendez vous a quarter of an hour to the rear, the usual distance in such. cases? Nothing of the kind.. Goito is the well-known place on the Mincio, which one of his corps had passed but the day before. From the battle-field the place is full twenty-two kilometres distant. What could be the meaning of this impromptu ride ? In his report the General says that he intended to secure Goito in the event of a retreat. But, at twenty-two kilometres in the rear of the Italian army, the passage of the river could not be possibly menaced by the enemy. Thanks, moreover, to the wide tract of land over which the troops were spread, Goito was not left without a force sufficient to repulse attack. But perhaps the General went there to fetch reinforce ments? But these could not reach Custozz t before nightfall, and an ordinary officer would for such a purpose have done as well. And why did not the General return to the battle-field after a lapse of time sufficient for this task? Why did he leave the army five long hours without orders from, and any substitute for, the Commander-in-Chief ? Why did he tarry at Goito, listening to the dis tant cannonade in despair, and proving himself utterly unequal 0 the emergency, however brave and respectable he may be? It is certain that it could not have been the balls of the enemy, nor the defeat nor flight of his troops—for things did not reach such a pass—that drove the General from the battle-field. What scared him away was the hail-storm of reports, entreaties, and queries to which he had no answers to give. "As to whose fault it was that the army re mained a fortnight quietly encamped on the Po and the Oglio is a question still being discussed in the ptimphlet war which has broken out between Cial dini and La Marmora. We shall not be far wrong in ascribing the inactivity of the Italian forces to the confusion then prevailing atnong the general officers in the camp." IHE ACCIDENT TO THE IRISH MAIL TRAIN. ABEiiciELE, 'Wednesday.. Joseph Henry Eaton, son of the atation-master,.., sail he was thirteen years old last birthday. lie worked the signals under his father's orders, and never by himself. On Thursday, the 20th of last' month, he put up the distance eignal,. towards Abergele, which signal is within sight of the station of Llanddulas, and stood at danger when he put it up with the angle. He put . up the same semaphore to show danger, in the same way as the distance signal ; and he was quite sure that both these signals were up during the time the goods train was at Llanddulas. He saw the whole operation of shunting as described in the evidence of the driver, Alfred Sara. He was confused in his memory as to the waggons, but was certain there was a break van. Ile did not know what "fly-shunting" meant, but he saw some waggons shoved down the main line. How many there were, and whether they were loaded or not, be did not know. Both guards were there, but he could not tell which of them un locked the waggons. It was he, the witness, who turned the points, by dir.3ction of his father. The want of observation and general intelligence in this witness was shown in the fact that he had no idea whether the waggons were running down hill, when they did run. He was the very re verse of a sharp lad, and did not know which of the breakstnen ran after the waggons, or whether they were waggons in the plural number or only one waggon, or whether the shunting was going on in the siding when this thing happened to the waggons or waggon, or what he saw last. lie did not sea anything of the accident, nor had he any valuable impression about it. To Mr Edwardes. Wood the witness said he did not know when his last birthday was. When his father was giving out tickets he attended to the points, working both them and the signals. This statement he after wards.contradicted; and it was pointed out by Mr. Littler that the first assertion made in reply was obviously a mistake. The boy said he remembered seeing Mr. Edwardes-Wood last week. "'We bad a long conversation, I think," said Mr. Wood, and the counsel for the company laughingly said that this avowal might have been anticipated. The boy assented when asked whether he had seen trucks "on a previous occasion" run down the line; but after long boggling it came out that he meant the same occasion, and no other. " He told me diffe rent," said Mr. Wood ; and the remark led, by the " he said something and he said something" pro cess, to a most unseemly altercation, which was o the commanding tones of an police, who, looking nly ins s p t e o c stopped of f y down from his elevation on the table at which the lawyers sit, cried with a loud voice, There was a littl e m irth at " Si "Silence, must gentlemenkeep l'm p u t h ere t o k eep or d er , andit." this official rebuke, and all went smoothly after wards, for The lad joseph Henry baton presently pr a time esently daitstlienagstis, hed himself by saying, in answer to Mr. Littler, and after a deal of cogita tion,'that he did not know.on which line of rails the engine went down to bring up the breaks, or whe ther it went down on the same line of rails, but that it fetched them back. Though the boy told very little, and was evidently too stupid or fright ened to tell more, his evidence took up a long time, as he was wonderfully slow with his answers. He had proved, however, that the signals were up, and this, Colonel Rich said, was enough to clear the station-master from any charge of negligence. It would be highly desirable, the Government inspec tor thought, to have the evidence of this man, and really there was no apparent danger of incriminat ing him by examination. Mr. Littler said he thought Eaton should consult a solicitor, and con curred promptly in the suggestion of Mr. Ed wardes-IVood thatAthe solicitor advising the man should be independent of the company. The question whether two gentlemen who had come a long way, and at some personal inconve nience, to give evidence, should now be examined, so that they might be able to leave Abergele the same evening, or whether Mr. Edwardes-Wood's urgent wish that the inquiry might proceed " seriatim, according to the chapter of accidents," should rule the order of proceedings, was now discussed. The minion of the Court was that there would be no serious departure from strict rule if Mr. Kennelly and Mr. Charles Uniacke Towns. end were allowed to proceed with their testimony ; but Mr. Edwardes-Wood said he had a witness to produce whose-evidence would be found to be of a most important character, and though he must be excused saying exactly what it was, he would pledge his professional reputation and respectability to the assertion that he should not be. taking up valuable time save with au examination that would throw entirely fresh light on the matter. Yielding with a good grace, the Court gave orders that Thomas Davis, a platelayer in the company's service, should be called. The first few questions put by the As sessor to Thomas Davis elicited nothing of the least importance with regard to the accident, which the man bad not seen, being at work on a " length" somewhere between Llanddulas station and Penn men Rhos tunnel, which is the other way from Abergele. All that Davis had been able to observe . was that the signals wero at danger for both lines, as they should have been at the time. Mr. El wardes-Wood then took the witness in hand, but was so manifestly puzzled and -disappointed with him as to ask, "Are you not the man who carried my coat down the line the other day ?" There was a titter round the table when this question was put, and when the man said " Yes ;" but there was a downright guffaw that shook the room when, in answer to the next question by Mr. Edwardes-Wood, " Do you not remember about a twelvemonth ago that some trucks ran down this same incline ?" the witness said, " Why, as nearly ar I can say, to speak English, that is the vary thing this gentle man told me, and I knew nothing of it till I heard it from him." Colonel Rich here interposed. He was in.attendince, he said, on behalf of the Go vernment, to assist the Court in eliciting from wit nesses such facts as would tend to the elucidation of the recent lamentable occurrence. Really the time of the Cana was being taken up with very needless matter. The witness, from whom so much was expected, had told nothing. Mr. Edwardes- Wood said there had been " misapprehension ;" and that his long experience had taught him how diffe rent a man's story might be when told out of court and when repeated on oath. But, said Col. Rich, if the witness could even have said that something happened a year ago,• it would have been irrelevant to the present inquiry. "Is it not a principle of mathematics, sir," asked Mr. Edwardes-Wood, " that what has once happened may happen again?" The Government ingpector, though a man of science and an engineer officer, refrained from giving the obvious reply that this would be :rather a prin ciple of the " chapter s of accidents" than of mathe matics. Once more the question was debated whe ther Mr. Townsend and Mr. Kennelly should now be examined, or whether Mr. Edwardes-Wood's next witness, Dicken, the husband of the woman whose evidence first uns2ttled the theory of instan taneous death in the cases of all the victims, should be called. This time the Court was firm in the de termination to take the responsibility of going a little out of the regular course, in order that two independeut witnesses might give their evidence ; though, after all, it was found possible to examine only one of them. This one was was Mr. Kennelly, who described himself as being of no stated occu pation, but at present a commissioner taking evi dence for Lloyd's Salvage Association. He said, in answer to Mr. Edwardes-Wood, that his last placeof residence was 19, Eldol-crescent, London, but that his family were now staying in Jersey. His story of the accident was as follows :—" I was a passen ger in the down Irish mail train from London to Holyhead. I had a through ticket to Cork and Killarney. I was in the first or second carriage pre ceding the break van at the tail end, in the last compartment, with my face towards the engine, sitting close to the window on the right hand, or six-foot, side. I left Chester with the train, and I do not remember that it stopped at any place before reaching the scene of the accident. I think not. I may say lam positive it did not. I felt a collision, which threw me to the floor of the carriage. There was one other passenger in the same compartment with me. Oa being thrown down I felt a slight r,bound of the train. I..sprang up immediately an l found my companion - looking up in my face. I put my,head out of - the window—that was the .. right hand- window, on the six-foot side—and saw an in tense flame' and smoke in front of me, looking towards the engine. I dropped out through the window, Without trying-whether the door was un locked or not'. Ido not suppose that five seconds could have elapsed before I was out, after having s:en what I have described; nor three seconds before I had put cut my head after feeling the colli sion. I ran forward on the six-foot for the dis tance of about one or two carriages. I siw a lady looking out of the window of one of those carriages. She seemed alarmed. I jumped upon the footboard and tried to dispel her alarm, and told her I would lift her through-the window. I put my arm round her, and lifted her on the six-foot. I then ran for ward to the headof train until stopped by the flame. That was in the rear of the mail van. I ran to the couplings, and, on endeavouring to disconnect the carriage next the van, found I was unable to do so. There seemed to ba a great strain on the irons, and 1 called to some gentlemen on the other side of she train, whom I supposed to be passengers, and who did not move at my call. They had evidently just escaped from the train, and looked pale and alarmed. I could not s'.!e the engine or anything behind it for the flame an-1 smoke. When they had to a certain extent subsided, I saw that about four or five car riagos—all, in fact, that constitute) the front part of the train, had been on fire. I stayed on the scone of the accident till the train arrive I from Abergele, and took all the passengers back from the after-part of the mail train. This was about twenty minutes or half an hour, during five minutes of which I was in the mail-van." To Mr. Elwardes-Wood the witness said, " I saw a countrywoman, about forty or forty-five years of age, with a pail of water in her hand." It was Mrs. Dicken, obviously, to whom the solicitor's question referred, and the subsequent answer of Mr. Kennelly tended to show that the woman could not possibly have spoken to a living, soul in the front carriages after the collision, con sequent on which was the instantaneous outbreak of flame. The witness said that he was morally sure that nothing could have lived many seconds in any of the carriages in the fore-yat of the train. Sharply cross-examined by Mr. Edwardes-Wood, the witness adhered to all that he had stated. One additional point was gained. Mr. Kennelly did not think there had been an actual explosion when the engine struck the oil-waggons ; or, at least, he gave the answer " No" to the scientific query, " Did you hear any combustion when this quantity of oil was volatilised ?" The court was not adjourned quite so early yes terday, as the jury had been promised it should be, and whether they got to Rhyl or not in market time is doubtful. To-day they re-assembled at half past ten o'clock in the Town Hall, the windows of which municipal building are, at that end which is dignified by the present inquiry, fixturtes. The warmest day we have had since the long run of very warm days has been oppressively felt in this un ventilated chamber. Handkerchiefs were in gene ral use, to cover the herids of those persons on the platform sitting under the southern glare of the sun. On taking his seat the coroner said he had received several letters relating to the evidence of Mrs Dicken; and he thought it was of the greatest importance that her husband should be examined, if he had anything to say in corroboration of his wife's statement. In an early stage of the proceed ings Mr. Littler said the company had ascertained the fact that four years ago some waggons had run down the incline at Llysfaen, and had been brought back by an engine. If it wa% considered necessary that evidence on the point should be given it would be forthcoming. Colonel Rich said that if this had happencd one year ago instead of four years, he should not think it a matter bearing on the present case. Mr. Charles Uniacko_ Townsend, of Burlington road, Dublin, said he was a passenger by the Irish mail - on Thursday, the 20th of August, and was in the London part of the train, about the third car riage from the mail van that was saved. " I was sicting," he said, " with my face towards the en gine. My brother was on my left and my wife was facing him. I occupied the centre seat, and was thrown forward by a- collision against my sister in-law, who was sitting opposite. I re covered myself, having felt so little horn the shock that I thought it was not over. I heard, for less than half a minute, a dull grating sound underneath. I looked out of the window on the land side not more than 20 seconds or half a minute after the collision, and saw a dense black smoke about the front part of the train. Flame was showing throlgh the cloud iu flickers. I opened the carriage door on the land side—it was unlocked— and I got out. My brother lifted out the ladies, and we saw the ladies to a place of safety in the rear. After this I came back, and we found three people locked in a second-class carriage, the last compartment of a mixed carriage, next the mail van. A little girl was calling out that they would be lost; that her father was paralysed, and would nobody release him ? The guard was passing down from the burning part of the -mail van, with -a key in his hand. I told him to unlock that door ; this was about four minutes after the collision ; and the guard put his hand to his head, and seemed quite incapable of doing anything. I took the key from his hand, and unlocked the door, which was, I am quite positive, locked. The passengers then got out ; and a gentleman on my right took the key from me, as I understood, to unlock another door, but I did not see him do so. I saw other doors opened by passengers from the inside; and my impression is that all the doors with the exception of the one I myself opened were unlocked. I cannot describe the gentleman who took the key from me. I heard no other passengers asking to be released. There were three persons in the compartment I opened, and they were apparently all of one party. I don't know their names, but I conversed with them afterwards. Tha smoke was what I especially observed in feunt of the mail van. It was the blackest stuoke I ever sm. 1 could not see beyond the cad of the front mail van. I remained at the scene of the acci lent till the train came to fetch the passengers back to Abergele. This was about half an hour. The fire was raging fiercely when I was at the mail van, cutting the leathers. I could not see what was on fire in front of the mail van, but when it was attached I crossed over to the six-foot, and saw a barrel of the burn ing oil close to whatever was in front of the van. The wind was blowing obliquely across the line from the sea. I heard no living sound, nor do I believe that anything could have lived in the fore part of the train. I saw a woman below the line looking towards the sea when I was going to help in bring ing up water. 'There was no actual explosion that I saw." In answer to the jury, the witness said that the handle of the door he opened had been turned, as if there had been an attempt to open it without unlocking. Mr. Edwardes-Wood cross examined the witness, interrogating him first as to the lapses of time in these occurrences. In answer to subsequent questions, Mr. Townsend said the flame was low down, and went underneath the car riages. He had been on the six-foot side before going there to assist in cutting the leather of the mail van. He had taken his wife to that side, on first getting out of the train, and had left her at the top of the bridge which goes under the line, return ing to the side at which he got out. " I had to lift out the gentleman who was a cripple," the witness said, " and I am quite sure it was from the car riage next to the mail van. It did not take in e a minute to get out the party of three, and I placed them opposit3 the door by which they had left the carriage." " Did you think they were then safe from the flames ?" asked Mr. Wood. " Yes, if they went away directly" was the answer. Mr. Littler asked the witness if he could have got in front of the mail van, even at the earliest time he saw it, and the answer was " No." Mr. Townsend said he looked up along the train on the six-foot, 'at the same time he placed his wife in a place of safety, and he saw no oae on that side. The gentleman he lifted out had grey hair and whiskers, and had a fresh complexion and full face —he thought an Irish face. " Was the third oc cupant of the carriage a lady ?" asked the counsel, and the witness replied in the affirmatire. In answer to the jury, Mr. Townsend said it was about nine minutes after the collision that he saw a woman in the cottage below the line. She was the same woman who had helped to fetch up water. Samuel Eaton, the station-master at Llanddulas, having taken the advice of Mr. Davis, a solicitor in attendance, offered himself as a witness. Ile said the goods train arrived at Llanddulas at twenty-four minutes past twelve. The down Irish mail train was due to pass the station about 12 39. He was there when the goods train arrived, and his boy worked the signals, under his (wit ness's) instructions, he being present, and seeing that they were properly put. The tail end of the train was left standing on the main line by one of the breaksmen- —he could not say which. The sp)t where the waggons and break-van were left was an incline. They could not have stood there a moment unless a break or some other check, such as a scotcher, had stopped them. Ile did not know who gave the orders to the driver for the shunting, but that would be between the driver and one of the breaksinen. The witness was at the points, at the first shunting, and his boy at the second. Some waggons, three in number, were " kicked" off the end of the remaining part of the train ; he could not say whether they were loaded or unloaded, nor who gave the orders. Such orders would be given by signal from the breaksman to the driver, and not by word of mouth. Alfred Sara was the driver. The witness said he was in the habit of giving orders as to, shunting and the putting in of empty waggons, but he gave none that day. After the three waggons were kicked off, he saw them in motion towards the tail eni that had been left standing by itself. The waggons were kicked off in the ordinary way, with no more nor less force than is usual. It is customary to break them be fore kicking them off at this spot, but the witness was unable to say whether or not these waggons were breaked. He did not then know with what the tail end of the train was loaded. He was about 130 or 140 yards off the spot where the loose trucks would have struck the standing waggons and break-van, and the noise of the shunting as well as the distance prevented his hearing the concussion ; but although he did not hear any sound, he saw the waggons moving down the incline. He would not speak with certainty as to having seen the loose trucks reach and. strike the others that were stand ing. He thought he saw them reach, but could not well have seen them strike, because the last trucks hid the view. After he saw all the waggons moving off, he told the breaksman to run after them. Until he saw the waggons move, he had no notion that they would do so. He hal been four years station-master at Llanddulas, and had never known the same thing to happen before. He had a copy, which he produced, of the regulations fur nished by the company to their servants ; and, at the Assessor's desire, he turned to rule 6, which I quoted in my letter yesterday. This rule orders that shunting operations shall be performed ten minutes before a train is due. He could not say at what time the trucks were kicked off the end of the goods train at Llanddulas. The longest line of the siding at Llysfaen was not empty, and could not take the whole length of the goods train, and this was . the reason of delay. He had thought then that there was quite sufficient time to shunt the train in two parts before the mail train should come up, though not in compliance with the rule which says there shall be ten minutes clear interval. In answer to Mr. Edwardes-Wood, the witness said the driver of the engine had not suggested to him that be should follow the trucks with his engine. If the line of the siding nearest to the moun tain were empty, the operation of shunting could be performed with greater ease. Mr. Littler said here that the siding had been measured, and was found to be capable of holding fifty-four trucks in the long line, and seventeen in the short or back siding. " 1 passed there this morning, and saw thirty-eight waggons," Mr. Edwardes-Wood was beginning, when Mr. Littler said, " I cannot have that, unless you are sworn as a witness." Eaton, continuing his evi dence, said it was not common for the breaksman to quit the break-van when the tail end of the train is left on the line. "I found it so this morn ing," said Mr. Wood; and the voluntary informa tion was again objected to, as not being evidence. Mr. Littler, at this point of the proceedings, handed up to the Government Inspector a packet contain ing all the locks that had been found, and promised that the utmost endeavours of the company would be m ide to recover the rest. Robert 'Williams, timekeeper of Abergele station, was then exa mined, partly in Welsh, but was so nervous that very little of what he said could be heard. Ile produced a book showing the times at which the trains passed, and, referring to it, he found that the pick-up goods train, due to arrive at Abergele at 12.5, and to leave at 12.15, actually did arrive at 12.5, and departed at 12.15, the witnes3 having made the entries at the time. The passenger train No. 16, timed to pass Abergele at 12.34, was the down Irish mail, and it passed on the 20th of August at 12.39, being just five minutes late. Goods train No. 15 was timed to arrive at 11.55, and to depart at 12.5; but the witness had not got the actual times of this train [for the day of the accident. When the :evidence of this witness had been read over the Court rose for the usual half-hour or three- quarters. The most remarkable evidence this afternoon wa 3 given by Arthur Thompson, the engine -driver,. who is still in a weak condition. lle came into court with his head bandaged. lie took the whole Court by surprise when he made statements completely coinciding with those of Mrs. Dicken. It was elicited, in his cross-examination by Mr. Littler, that he Ills been lodging at the cottage of Mrs. Dicken's husband since the accident. The written statement forwarded by him to tho Goverement Inspector was read over to him in •con tradiction of some part of his new evidence. Ilinton, the guard, was recalled, and gave a cif cum3tantial denial to the story of Thomps3n. Mr. IVoodroffe, travelling sorter of the Moll mail, also gave testimony contradicting that of the engine -driver. 7EVIVED USE OP TILE LAUGHING G,AS• -.... If we go back to the discovery of sulphuric ether, we find that in America, as in Euglaud, that anal thetic quickly took the place of the nitrous oxide gas, but not to the utter exclusion of the nitrous oxide, which still was given in extremely dangerous cases, as to persons in the last stage of con' sumption, &c., and where the surgeon feared to ri,k ether. In dentistry, too, its use had de clined. But in 1863 it was again brought into activ e service by Dr. J. H. Smith, a dentist of Connecti cut, and Mr. Cotton, who delivered the chemica l lecture at Hartford in 1844, residing in New York. Its use has been perfected, and it is found to have such great advantages fur short operations that gr. Cotton, in conjunction with Dr. Allen, a dentist of New York, est ablishel an anaa3thetie institution for the extraction of teeth by the use of the gas, a nd each person operated upon entered his name in register kept of the cases. Up to January, 186 1 , the number of names was seventeen thousand nil hundred and one, and in no single case had the nitrous oxide produced any alarming symptoms- From Boston the practice has extended into other large cities, and is rapidly spreading al l over the country. In surgery, too, nitrous oxide is again used in many American hospitals. it e condemnation in England appears to have bee ° , premature and without sufficient cause. Some e' the chief dentists in London have been reviv ing the experiments made on its first introduc" tion. The gas has been administered at the Den: tal Hospital by improved methods, and with great' success, the patients being brought fully under it° influence in about forty seconds, and about the same time being taken for recovery. The nitrous oxide gas has one gre a t a d van t age , w hi c h i s , that 1 " , does not produce the unpleasant after symptonls following the use of chloroform or ether ; 1)46 this may be compensated by more serie° disadvantages, which experiment will al° e° show. The difficulty of preparation will pre vent its use in the army, where chlorofort!' must continue to'be used, en account of its portals ; lity and easy application ; but th e h os pitals, whe re these objections are not of such ser i ous mon - teat"; success attend it—it mty supJrsede the use of valuable, but rather dangerous, anwithetie Wore* form.—Dickens's " A // the Year Round." M. Emile Andreoli, who took part in the b ob the Polish insurrection, and on b e i ng ca pt u red by - Russians was sentenced to twelve years' imPr i9 °, ll ; ment in Siberia, has just publi s h e d i n the R e y" • s Moderne the first part of his prison recollectl enl some of which are curious. " I was told," he , ro i ; marks, " that on two or th r e e occas i ons an battery had been made use of by the Russian po , "" i to loos:n the tongues of the prisoners who refn - o to answer the questions put to them, which say' that the Russian Government is one of Preg. r c o e and knows how to turn th e di scover ies of sel e " n thAr i to account. After all this was not more cruel - 1 , 0 the torture of the herring. I knew savers]. „ underwelit the latter, and they told me that nothilll' could compare with the sufferings N.vhich they e A dured. They were confined i n a well-ware l ' - i apartment, salted herrings with b rea d and w a if for the first few days being their only food. they refused to answer the questions of the i t . . miming commissioners the bread was first of 9 0 withdrawn, and then the water, whereupon ilB torture, of inteass thirst commenced, depriving . king sufferer of all moral strength, and even rn 3 him aban lon the resolution which h 3 had. forra t° to die. Very rarely did any one remlill 1- na when brought before the commissioners a time. The sittings were usually at night ir' of splendidly lighted apartment with refreiluneil t all kinds temptingly displayed on the side t a bl e t; , The president would usually be most grac h hef By-and-by,' he would say, we will, if you vie ask you to have something to drink with 1 . 15 * J oe fever and the vertigo caused the prisoners t ° - their reason, and they generally yielded. t would not have brought about the same re —„gil ra thirst, which loosens the tongue e ven far readily than drunkenness does." n ADVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's Ointment , a-d.,„iy • 11 ( unfeignedly the remedies upon which all nut 9 are suffering from diseases of the skin, scro fula, o f 0 90 ulcerations, and bad legs. When the war mth lo be weather determines unduly blood to the skin it sPlrt complaints assume a worse appearance, and tk n oin tale be toms become more harassing unless Holloway 'a to soot ® be applied to check increasing inflammation an d o tai n i. the excited nerves. No knowledge beyond that n u i s c o° in the "directions for use" is required for using t o neial i t, ing and healing unguent, which always acts boniviy 5 1 elf Thousands afflicted with bad legs who were al ° ot h ing under their sufferings have been rescued ft ° p oe t perilous position (after all curative means soo n t s. e , less) by persevering with Holloway's InediCara °ll olo o,, , ; e r [ArovEariSEMENT. J—Dyspepsiaandigestion), Ca°l bility, Consumption, aud all nervous, bilious, stoulac complaints in every stage, are only aggravated su cl by chugs of every description, but perfectly curallfrofeaap Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, to Y 10 5 ' 00 . thousands of cases which had been considered holliver as—cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, hfemorrholds, plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, 84-I;esti diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in Or o so'7 ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hystertob,iro, 11 0 0, iriltability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, hearth ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea 9 : 11 .,. ser2 ua even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronellit'aise.„,,lol `' w tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stsbufail between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few: — Th e Floot o, restored by Du Barry's Food. 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