The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-21 00:00:00

RE::::::FE0. TFIE S U - lt, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1868 1868. _ - ......... --, .-- - __________ _ _ _--• - - - ____ ____ - - THE TV.E m A ET T E / 0 / Marshal the Duke de la TORRE, who was President to see what immediate advantage will accrue to the COUNTER CLOTHS FOR LICENCED LATEST INTELLEGENCE VORRESRONDENCE - nom - war.' VICTUALLERS. ►of the Senate, formally has put himself at the head world at large if capitalist proprietors are forcibly • - .! ____...._. R2 :7 •H reim i . B 2- - 13 ::.:011 (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (FR01701:77t OWN 'COBRESPONDENI.J. 1 1 f E only article really suitable for that purpose, I of this movement, the object of which is declared to dispossessed, and the State lets out the soil, of 43litics; though many fkAß nd i i S m ": p S o t r ilD ta:t Y rln S e e s P ti t e e ns illb ai e ' lr et w „ ii. ss. 61. rer dozen, hemmed, ready for use. Address . __ Ai ,— be against the reigning dynasty, and the insurrec- which it is the only recognised proprietor, to co on foot, have fallen into the shade before the news of di? Sept B. T. W . I F te . 105, Fleet-street, and 5, The Pavement, Clapham. I RISING IN SPAIN. ~ - tionists go so far as to demand the " establishment operative societies. The capitalist, we may be t i b er a r: l bl w e as explosion indicated at M b y e t t 1 MADRID, Sept.l9. 04r. 55 54 E.• 2 1 S.E.• c.r. - 5 6'rLASS CLOTHS SUITABLE FOR LICENCED ! of a Constituent Assembly and a Provisional Go- sure, makes the most of his land for his own sake,B a.m. 12 9 Advices received from Cadiz of yesterday state be wounded being considered by the surgeons io______ _ ____ ____ _ VICTUALLERS, 7s. 9d. PER DOZEN. I This . • Metz. e Th arl e ier dis in as t t e e ll r ig is en e g n: m 6 an e ; t6 Of Nairn vermnent. looks conclusive at any rate, and in order to get as much money as he can out of it, e in a hopeless . condition. .Thq. at numbo of 29'93r. 56 55 E.N.E. 2 3 E.N.E. c.o. - 2 W I L F L I I A t A Fleet-street, e I t l Of foot l o C f ! L I u , a i onadt,o hill CO., and d o . N 1 . 00 5 5, 1 ' may be regarded as the beginning of the end by and the co-operative societies can hardly do more. that the whole fleet stationed in that port has risenhoithAberdeen 2915 r. 59 06 E. 3 4 KZ c.b. against the present Government under Rear- g i e j it ie rt i o s roil'iti B:g r r . . Fs n E.S.E. I g 14 E. r c:O.' SV Toe Pavement, Clapham-common. . those who have studied the state of affairs in the When they have turned the land to the best ad- persons employed in the workshops at the time . was icar e n i aoutix 2918r. 61 60 E.N.E. 2 4 KB; C.b. - 2 Peninsula of late. Perhaps the most surprising vantage, the products, wo presume, are to be sold Admiral Topete. 109. In the one room were 71 women, in the other 14. rriAß r E CLOTHS, in every Width and Length, Cuxbavei * L . - - - ..... _ _ 2 - : I At the same time the generals mend; exiled to There were also 10 foot chasseurs, 10 artificers, 3 sub- L expressly for Licenced Victuallers. Damask Napkins part of the business has been that the finale did to the rest of the community, unless, indeed, money Ik r ir ro e s s 6 n a tu i s i_ 29 - 8 - 4 r. .; Ei i" — i - 3 - E -. 077 - for Tray Cloths, Drills for Bar Aprons and Towellings of the Canary Islands arrived at Cadiz yesterday, on intendants, and an inspector engaged in the same einploy- Greencastle `2975r. 09 57 E. 2 3 E. r r. c o: o'lo 1 not come sooner, for disaffection has been so rife for is to be done away with, and a system of barter very description. Patterns gratis and post free. ment. The woodwork of the building was first blown to gox p e o a o c l i. : : gW. p 8 R s.g.y. 2 1 E.S.E. o.c. o'o2 - tradin board the Buenaventura, a g steamer. Pre- alentia months past that at any moment an ovet throw of adopted instead of a circulating medium. Having pieces, the roof fell in, and the fire afterwards co • v ramum- Cape Clear.. 29:56r. 58 57 S.IV. 1 3 N.N.E. c. r.o. - 1 if IARDIGAN JACKETS made expressly for Bar therule might have happened as a thing come to this point, corn will be dear after a bad existing vious to their landing the garrison of Cadiz had eating with the heaps of cartridges, literally burnt up the ge ° l c l l z'a e ;i B c e P . t : FMr: 55 gt s %. 1 g E. o.c. 0:40 1 AJ use, Warm and Elastic, from ss. 6d. each, formade a pronunciumento in favour of the insurrec- persons present. The firemen and detachments of troops Plymouth .. 297,r. 5;8 57 S. 7 7 0 1 E. c 0 . . 1 c ,i 0 16 i _ialies' an:l Gentlemen's use. WILLIAM lIOLDICII of course, as it were. In following out the cause of harvest and cheap after a good one; the price of and CO., LICENSED VIcTUALLERS' DRAPERS, 105, Fleet- tionists the revolt is said that the telegraph wires in Anda- live stock will be affected by the price of fodder, • hastened to the spot, but were too late to save the i' v o e its ni m ° o"u t in g 7 7!ir r : 2gg t: ? g S.S.W. o .i. - 2 , , reet, City, and No. 5, The Pavement, Claphm-common. unfortunate sufferers. One account says that the court of London .; .. 2975 r. 55 IA E. 1 6 S. • b.f. o'lo - 1 - - lusia were cut immediately on the news of the out- the price of coal will be influenced by the question Marshal the Duke de la Torre, formuly Presi- the arsenal presented the appearance of a field of battle, gje, c s,r l • B 1 e . z . 8762.r4: . 9 's'7s E.N.E.i 1 4 Mir. 1 ;; c4- ' 1 \ V ILLIAM HOLDICH and Co., LICENSED break being received, and that "several towns have of a long or short winter. Do what they dent of the Senate, has placed himself at the head being covered with dead, dying, and wounded. " From ii. ' ,; - cK e e l f l ow :: BM: 57 55 S.E.. 4 5 8 1 W • , Y . 915 t VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, Established 1842, at 105„ of the movement. It is asserted that this latter is under the ruins sixteen dead bodies were withdrawn, so Ra r r a rv i a :: : : __- _. :: ::: P :, , ,3t- street, City ; Southern Branch-No. 5, The Pave- Joined the insurrectionary movement." From Paris will the working men of Brussels will find burnt and disfigured as not to be recognisable, and fifty*- - - -- _ 13 , r , u r ;If els. : . . - :: --- LT - - - - 1 n lot, Clapham-common. Patterns gratis and post free, we hear that General PRIM with his staff has em- the old laws of supply and demand too directed against the reigning dynasty, and the in- . . nine persons dreadfully injured and bruised lay on the Strasbourg.. - - - - -1 - = 7: with Price List, barked from London, intending to effect a landing strong for them, and after all their dreams and surrectionilts demand the establishment of a Con- ground until they could be conveyed to the hospital. Dons ...... r - - - - _ _ _ -- 7_ 1 o lon .... A9'74L 66 66 S.S.E. 3 5 S.E. f.r. t 7 TO LICENCED VICTUALLERS. on the Valencia coast, and subsequently to take their visions they would find if their theories were stituent Assembly and a Provisional Government. The fire was soon extinguished, and by activity ilar t t'Ac a o m n: ESTARLISIIED 1842. the command of the movement. suddenly put into practice that they were travelling The telegraph wires in Andalusia were imme- and courage further disaster was prevented. Several local time) 30'51f. 44 43 E. 1 1 E. b. - 2 barrels of gunpowder were got out from the burning planks. lATILLIAM HOLDICII and CO.. 17...;r,11a nallaaa ~,no he , ftcgtiomPfl for the outbreak, in a circle. diatel y cut. Several towns have j oined the insur- The least snark would have sufficed fn pyillnfle. +barn n,,,1r... -.. . .....1 1 -.."- on WILLIAAI HOLDICII and CO., LICENCED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, No. [O5, Fleet-street, corner of Farringdon-street ; and at No. 5, The Pavement,,Claphani-common (Southern Branch). 'HEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. Winter A_ Season will commence Saturday. October 3.—Mr. Feehter an,l Mr. Benjamin Webster. filllE NTRE-ROYAL, AD ELM Winter & Season will commence Saturday, October 3. with an en tirely new and original version of MONTE CRISTO. L YCEUM THE A.TRE.- Lessee and Manager, E. T Smith. T tIIS EVENING, THE MARRIED RAKE. A [ter which, at 7.45, MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Fairclough : La ly Macbeth, Mrs. Sidney (her 2d appearance). 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Various causes may be assigned for the outbreak, but no doubt the extreme step taken a little time ago of banishing the Duke and Duchess of Morr- PENSIER from Spain has had a great deal to do with precipitating matters, if it has not wholly given them the disastrous turn they had taken for the reign ing Princes. The meeting of the Emperor NAPO LEON and the QUEEN ISABELLA, from which so much has been expected in some quarters, does not seem to have been productive of anything but evil. It was not so much the affair itself as the surmises to which it gave rise that heralded the evil, for there is no denying that the idea of a closer alliance with France is not popular in Spain, and in all directions the most unpleasant suggestions were made in reference to it. At any rate, whether by ill deeds and unwise ma nagement, the QUEEN and her advisers have come to grief, curiosity will be excited to see what new order of things will obtain favour in Spain. If the Royal party have been building their hope on the support of the French EMPEROR they will only be preparing themselves fur fresh mortifi cation and discomfiture. It is one thing to ex change unmeaning courtesies, and another to im plicate oneself in a most unpopular affair, and draw down most unpleasant consequences upon one's head ; and the world-wide reputation cf the Em peror NAPOLEON for caution needs no assurance to the contrary to prevent the slightest credence being attached to the reports which would fain assure us that French influence, in arms or diplomacy, is to prop up the failing power of Spanish royalty. Since the above remarks were penned the Moni teur of this day officially contradicts the interview between the Emperor NAPOLEON and the Queen of SPAIN. Working men have no reason to complain that their affairs are not regarded with sufficient interest or respect. The proceedings of the International Congress at Brussels have attracted a good deal of attention, and public journalists have given a good share of their space and time to discussing the ques tions raised by its members. To do them justice they have displayed in their debates and their essays a high degree of intelligence and education, and have not shown themselves to be more preju diced or more obstinately wedded to their own of inions than philosophers of higher stand ing. If they were too ambitious in their pretensions, too extreme iu their demands, and too unreasonable in their expectations, it is only what might be expected from a body of reformers who have never been able to submit their theories to the test of practice. At first sight it appears so easy to net the world to rights that a clever schoolboy's essay ou Government will dispose of all the difficul ties that perplex a Prime Minister of fifty years experience, but a little additional knowledge of the world and its ways soon serves to dishearten the severe and uncompromising reformer. The working men who have been so quietly disposing of war and defining the duties of capital and the privileges of labour at Brussels arc very much in the position of the young enthusiastic student who with a few strokes of his pen produces a political Utopian. Unluckily the men and women who must inhabit this Utopia are very self-willed puppets, and will not move to order. We had better not break up our ironclads or discharge our soldiers on the strength of the proceedings at Brussels until we have a little more evidence that the world at large is ready to accept and obey the dictum of our new philosophers. If we have a little patience we may perhaps find some of our social reformers modifying their views with time. It was at one period a favourite dream of those who classed under the manifest inequalities of fortune that all land and property should be equally divided among men. The Brussels Confer ence have got beyond this. Its members are suffi ciently men of the world to perceive that such a system of subdivision would end in the destruction of national wealth and civi lization, and would send us back to the days of primitive life " when every rood of ground maintained its man," with the awkward difference that there are now, thanks to the increase of popu lation, mora men than roods of ground, and con sequently a good many unlucky individuals would be left without maintenance. Even looking no further than the cultivation of the soil,, the system of small proprietor Ships is opposed to the general good. According to the doctrine that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, the great capitalist does more service in his generation than a body of small proprietors holding the same extent of land. Our friends at Brussels are not slow to perceive this. "The small farmers' position in modern society," said one of the speakers, " is as incom patible with the progress of production in agricul ture as that of the little handicraft producer in in dustry." The advance of scientific knowledge, as applied to agriculture, has brought new machinery, new appliances forward, and rendered it impossible for the small proprietor to keep pace with the man who can command the newest and most costly im provements. Evidence that the plan of subdivision is unsatisfactory in its results is not wanting. "Peasant proprietorship," it was remarked at the Congress, " as it exists on the Con tinent, does anything but lead to individual liberty and happiness." In the same way the pos session of centralised capital is necessary for the conduct of those large manufacturing and commer cial operations which occupy and reward the indus try of the populations at large. The working men are forced to acknowledge this, but they try to evade the difficulty by suggesting that co-operative societies should take the place of large capital!s's But supposing, for a moment, that it were possible to realize such a vision, what guarantee have we that matters would be more equitably adjusted ? The experience of joint-stock associations in the higher clisses does not give us much ground for anticipating the removal of all our troubles by a more wholesale adoption of the prin ciple. Some must be the leaders, the managers, the responsible parties, and the outer circle will infallibly lay the blame of every misfortune or mis adventure on their shoulders. It is not very easy Every youth is to be wiser than the men who have preceded him, but the men were youths once and had the same dreams. If society were to be resolved into its primitive elements as the Brussels reformers seem to wish, it would go over the same ground again. Australia and Tasmania and America all started unfettered by old rules and systems, and where aro they now ? Following in the steps of older countries, and fighting the same problems. If the working men want to try co-operation in land or manufactures, there is nothing to prevent them from trying it. They have only to save their money—to unite their subscriptions as they do for their Trades' Unions, and they can make the expe riment. Mr. STUART MILL has written a letter to the Weekly News advocating the principle of work ing mens' partnerships, which he thinks would solve the difficulty of uniting their interest with that of their employers. All such methods may be tried with advantage, but the abolition of all private ownership, as advised at Brussels, is not at present advisable. On Thursday Mr. STANSFELD addressed a crowded meeting. He alluded to some features of the approaching contest which occasioned a degree of awkwardness. There are three Liberal candi dates in the field, and that is certainly of itself a mistaken line of action to pursue. It must damage the cause for which the candidates appear, besides exhibiting a state of disunion in the ranks always to be regretted on many accounts. Mr. STANSFELD entirely disclaimed the idea of " dictation," and laid down some definite rules as to the duties of candidates to the constituencies 'which are worthy of notice, especially just now, when there seems to be a tendency in many directions to adopt this un deniable method of increasing influence. The absolute right of selection must remain with the constituencies, and there is an end to all free dom of election, and the sooner this is clearly under stood the better. One thing is certain that if this principle be departed from nothing but disappoint ment will ensue alike to the representatives and those who send them forth. Looking at the work already cut out for the new Parliament, the hon. member foresees no idle time of it, for directly before him there appear " Reform, justice to Ire land, national economy, and the education of the people." Respecting the changes likely to he brought about by the general election, Mr. STANS FELD hopes, and " almost believes," that they will bring " Mr. GLADSTONE back to power as the Prime Minister of this country, and as the leader of a compact, earnest, and Liberal majority." The first is, perhaps, less un likely than the last; but, at any rate, it is a relief to notice that we have not here so confident an asser tion put forth as we so often meet with in these addresses and speeches. It is arrogant and pre sumptuous for people to go about declaring tha t they know exactly the turn events will take, a 3 if they could not be mistaken, or as if they could further the circumstances which may yet change current opinions, and turn the tide of events. Mr. STANSFELD looks forward to Mr. GLADSTONE'S re sumption of power in one important point, that of the expenditure. He thinks that the right hon. gentleman will immediately effect a considerable reduction in the Estimates, and then the argument will be at an end. lie need not look so far as that. If Mr. GLADSTONE gets into power he will trouble himself very little about the expenditure being re duced, but just now it answers the purpose to take up any matter that can tell against his opponents. This comprehensive discourse was concluded by some impressive remarks on the importance of pro moting by every means in our power the spread of education, so that the gifted children of the poor may rise through every gradation of school and col lege to the universities themselves. The telegraph wires in Andalusia were imme diately cut. Several towns have joined the incur• rectionary movement. Great panic prevails at the Royal Court in Madrid. Troops have been despatched from the capital towards the south. Marshal Concha has been appointed to the command of the Government troops in Andalusia, and General Calonge has been nominated Captain-General of Madrid. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS SUEZ, Sept. 21. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Salsettc sailed at 1 p.m., and the Mongolia at mid night yesterday, for Bombay and Calcutta respec tively—clearing off all cargo. MIN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from dec).y, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to he breath. Price ls. 6d.—lted Bull Wharf, 93, Upper 'l' !tames- street, London. A NIGHT IVITHOUT A FIRE 11. V LONDON. (FROM 01:72t OWN 'CORRESPONDENtj TAMS; SMUT, SepteMber 20. olitics;thOugh Many and important kiiestions are now on foot, have fallen into the shade before the news of di? terrible explosion at Metz. The disaster is eVe4' 6eater than was indicated by the earlier intelligence, man? 9f the wounded being considered . by the surgeons to be in a hopeless conditi on . Th e t o t a l numbo Of persons employed in the worksbopi at the time was 109. In the one room were 71 women, in the other 14. There were also 10 foot chasseurs, 10 artificers, 3 sub intendants, and an inspector engaged in the same employ ment. The woodwork of the building was first blown to pieces, the roof fell in, and the fire afterwards communi cating with the heaps of cartridges, literally burnt up the persons present. The firemen and detachments of troops hastened to the spot, but were too late to save the unfortunate sufferers. One account says that the court of the arsenal presented the appearance of a field of battle, being covered with dead, dying, and wounded. " From under the ruins sixteen dead bodies were withdrawn, so burnt and disfigured as not to be recognisable, and fifty* nine persons dreadfully injured and bruised lay on the ground until they could be conveyed to the hospital. The fire was soon extinguished, and by activity and courage further disaster was prevented. Several barrels of gunpowder were got out from the burning planks. The least spark would have sufficed to explode these, and blown to pieces the brave men engaged in the heroic task." Another account in the Libert6has the following passage:— "Presently from the burning ruins were seen to emerge men and women, burnt, mutilated, their clothes on fire, some of them without a shred of clothing left. One woman had no less than ten wounds, but had not lost consciousness. The artillery barracks are olose at hand, and the men were immediately set to work to clear away the wreck, and collect the killed and wounded. The sight was fearful—a heap of heads, arms, legs, and shapeless trunks. An officer pulled a soldier by the arm to extricate him from the debris; the arm remained in his hand. Townspeople who had relatives employed at the workshop broke through the Line of troops, and an agonising scene took place. The exact number of the - victims is unknown—forty bodies were discovered, and twenty-five were buried to-day," The cause of the accident was precisely as I described it in my last. A young woman, in a fit of temper, threw a pair of scissors at one of her companions ; the point of the scissors struck a percussion cap, which immediately exploded. It is impossible to estimate the exact loss of life. How many of the wounded will recover is a most doubtful question. One surgeon says that out of fifty nine women wounded, scarcely ten can be deemed hopeful eases. The total number of deaths so far is forty. The situation has suddenly become pacific —so far as France and Germany is concerned. The Emperor said nothing at Lannemezan ; at the banquet which followed he simply pronounced the words, " I drink to the army;" and the semi-officials have evidently been ordered to mend their ways and preach peace. Can more be desired ? The Bourse had a fluctuating career on Saturday, but this was chiefly owing to the proposed interviews between the Emperor and the Queen of Spain. • Prince Napoleon is living at Prangins in the most com plete retirement. He receives but a very limited numbs, of friends, Count Walewski being the most favoured. Count von Goltz is a little better. Ile is about to quit the residence which the Emperor placed at his disposal at Fontainebleau, and will soon return to Paris. Amongst the on dits of the day is the forthcoming appearance of an article in the Revue des Deux Mondes on the battle of Sadowa. It is looked forward to with much interest, being, it is said, from the pen of an exiled prince. SUM • a-, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 21, 18G8. A new armour-plating, designed to supplant iron, was submitted to the consideration of the Emperor during his stay at Chalons. This new defence, the invention of an Italian, is made of felt, vegetable fibres, and a textile fabric, so compounded by powerful machinery as to acquire all the solidity of cast metal. It seems to be particularly fitted for breast-plates, defying a Cpassepot bullet at half the usual range. " The prophets of war," says the Independence Beige, "have turned from Germany to seek in the East a pretext for the conflicts which they are ever declaring to be imminent." In truth, the news from the Danubian Pro vinces is not at all reassuring. A vague statement that the Turks were preparing to enter Roumanian territory, and had made the necessary preparations for crossing to the right bank of the Danube, has been strengthened by a Belgrade telegram affirming that the preparations were actually going on, The reason assigned for this aggressive measure is that the Turkish Government has resolved to take time by the forelock. Having good reason for sus pecting that the Roumanian Government aims at the com plete independence of the province, the Ottoman Cabinet has resolved to take immediate steps to reduce all the semi•subject provinces to order. The Belgian paper reproduces a report to the effect that the English Govern ment, represented by Lord Lyons, is endeavouring to gain the assistance of France in persuading Turkey not to proceed to these extremities. M. de Moustier, how ever, is animated by a very different policy. France will encourage Turkey to persist in its designs, in order that the Eastern question may culminate in a general war— that desirable consummation the pretext for which cannot, happily, be found in any other quarter. A Paris paper of good authority says that the troops of the Porte have actually entered Roumanian territory. This, as well as the whole of the consequences deduced from the Belgrade telegram, must be received with caution. But should the From 12 o'clock last night until 6 o'clock this (Monday) morning not a fire took place in any par; of the metropolis, a fact worthy of being recorded. During the morning of Sunday, however, as many as eight fires were attended by the Brigade and London Salvage Corps. One fire, which was very rapid in its progress, took place in the premises of Mr. Short, No. 50, Castle-street, East Ox ford-street, which, in spite of the early arrival of assistance, destroyed an immense portion of the top floors. The occupier was insured in the County Fire Office. Another fire happened in the Royal Thames Yacht Club House, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. The firemen promptly attended and succeeded in con fining the fire to the kitchen. The business of the club will therefore not be retarded. A very de structive fire, and nearly attended with the loss of two persons, broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. J. Chapman, a cook and confectioner, situate at No. 48, City Garden-row, City-road. A man and an aged female, to avoid being burned to death were obliged to jump out of the. back windows. The escapes and engines were soon on the spot, and plenty of water having been obtained one of the powerful land steamers by Shand, Mason, and Co., was set to work, but the building and all it contained were destroyed before the flames could be conquered. Insured iu the Im perial Fire Office. A fire also broke out in a store in the open grounds of the Belvedere Tavern, Pen tonville, which was destroyed. A fire likewise oc curred in the beer-shop of Mr. Reeder, No. 227, John's-lane, Clerkenwell, which partially destroyed the basement and bar flooring. Barometer corrected and reduced to 82 deg. s sea level. The letter r., rising; f., falling; 0.. steady—indicate direction of motion of tits mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shads. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—eslm Weather: b.—blue sky; e. —clouds. detached; I.—fog; h.—hail : m.—misty, hazy : co. —overcast, dull; r. —rain; e.—snow; t.—thunder. Bain-fall. snow or hail (melted) during last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. It will hardly be a matter of surprise to any one that Spain has at length shown manifest symptoms of disaffection. G-ONZALEZ BRAVO has carried on affairs with a high hand for some time, but he may now find the tables turned with a vengeance upon him. The return of the Generals who were banished to the Canary Islands seems so far con clusive evidence that something is resolved upon of a decided nature, and there is no doubt that the Government will find all differing parties united against them, thus making common cause upon a point in which they all agree, dis like to the existing state of things, and distrust of the Executive. A rumour is current that the QUEEN has abdicated, and a despatch received by the Spanish Consul at Bayonne announces that hn. MAJESTY will leave St. Sebastian for Biarritz, but this is not yet assured intelligence. Meanwhile all the French journals, except the Moniteur and the Constitutionnel, contain rei orts of this revolu tionary 'outbreak in Spain. The whole iLet sta tioned at Cadiz have, it is sail, risen against the G and Rear-Aliniral TOPETE has the command. Previously to th,.; landing of the exiled Generals at the port of Cadiz the garrison took a decisive part in the affair, and made a pronuncia mento in favour of the insurrectionists. It thu3 ap pears that nothing is wanting to give the movement a comprehensive character, and to impart significance to it, and ; indeed, so decisive is the nature of the affair, that if the rumour of the QUEEN'S abdication be not correct now, it may be styled premature, and not wholly false, for in all probability the next intelligence will announce it as bona fide news.' THE CRINESF, EMBASSY.—The members of the new embassy which the Emperor of China has sent to the United States and Europe loft New York on tho 9th inst. in the Cunard Royal Mail steamer Java, which arrived in the Mersey at noon on Saturday. Tho Java, on entering the Mersey on Saturday, with the Chinese ensign at thl fore, at once proceeded to the Canada Dock and landed her passengers, so that but few persons were present to wel come the " distinguished strangers." They at once en tered a private omnitus and some other vehicles provided for them, and drove off to the Washington Hotel, where their arrival created a great sensation. After partaking'of dinner and resting for an hour or two, the members of the embassy left Limo-street station for London, where they are expected to remain for some two or three months. During their stay in the metropolis they will reside at the Grosvenor Hotel, but they will probably visit some of the largest towns in the provinces before they cross over to the Continent. Turkish Government finally take the threatened step, serious consequences must almost necessarily ensue. The passage of the Danube would be an infraction of the Treaty of Paris. Treaties are not usually of much consequence when the interests of nations are at stake, but they have extra importance attached to them when broken by small Powers in the face of the great. Public feeling in Canada during the trial of Whelan rose to a degree of intense excitement. While there was a general conviction that the accused was the guilty person and would be convicted, the loyalists openly threatened that if justice were not done they would take Whelan and hang him by force. Six or seven head centres came from New York with money to aid in the defence. They were closely watched. Two witnesses were brought up from Montreal to swear in direct opposition to the prose cution, but " they declined to perjure themselves," and a fracas ensued. Threatening letters were sent to all the witnesses for the prosecution, and one of them was attacked and knocked down by a sling shot. The mail reports of the trial do not give the sentence, and we have therefore yet to learn why the execution is not to take place until the 10th of December. The collection of a large body of troops on the Pun jab frontier is the principal intelligence coming from that quarter. No further disturbances are announced, and the prospect of a " cold weather campaign," as the Anglo- Indians delight to call it, was not, according to the latest advices, very threatening. The array of troops seems to have cowed the natives. All the hostilities recorded in the Indian papers are included in a raid of a native tribe upon a police-station. The natives found the police quite equal to thern, betook themselves to the mountains, and have not again made their appearance. Some reports, however, state that the hostile tribes were very numerous, one estimating them at 10,000 strong. The large force which the Government has sent to the troubled district does not, therefore, appear superfluous, nor is the danger altogether at an end. Indeed, time accounts in the Indian journals clearly shew that if serious war is not to be apprehended, it is the vigilance of the Government that has prevented it. The Indian Daily Neics thinks that this rising will lead to the establishment of an army on the north-west frontier, not only for the purpose of defending it against the Indians, but also to watch over British interests in Afghanistan. The Morning Herald publishes an elaborate article and statistics with the object of proving that where Mr. Glad stone's finance has been successful the success has been due to no merit of his own, and where Mr. Disraeli's has been unsuccessful the non-success has been due to adverse circumstances over which he had no control. The figures for the whole time during which the Liberal leader was Chancellor of the Exchequer are printed, and prominence is given to the fact that the highest point at which the income tax stood during his career was 16d., whilst that during Mr. Disraeli's was only 9d. The fact that Mr. Gladstone had to provide for a Russian war explains the high figure here mentioned. The Rev. J. C. Gill, whose name does not appear in " Crockford," and who is therefore, we suppose, one of the " unattached " clergy, as they were described with reference to the clerical memorial against the Irish Church, has written a letter to the secretary of Sir John Lubbock's and Mr. Angerstein's committee to express his good wishes for the success of the Liberal candidates for West Kent. Mr. Gill dates from East Down Park, Lewisham, and declares that he is quite unable to defend the Irish Church Establishment ; that it is absolutely necessary to do something with it ; that he prefers im partial disendowment to " levelling up." He goes on to say : " The Premier is evidently ready to ' educate' the Conservative party to anything, and it seems to me that the climax of inconsistency is reached when a Protestant meeting closes its proceedings with cheers for Mr. Disraeli. As a friend to national pro gress and improvement, I support the Liberal candidates for West Kent. They belong to the party from which all benefi cent measures have come,:and from which, with that great statesman Mr. Gladstone for its leader, we may look for still further salutary and beneficent legislation. The present Government is a weak and a wasteful one; it has already sacrificed its principles for the sake of office, and I have no confidence that it willsst do BO again, whenever there is A cOnvpient season!". NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART AT LEEDS, 1868.—Returns of Admissions, Friday, Sept. 18, 1868 : —By season tickets, 978; by payment of 2:4. Cd. each, 1,036: total, 2,014. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN R. GLENIE, of the SI orting, kir. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park ' London, W., begs to .tu,rin his customers, and the Licensed Victual:erg in genera: that he has been appointed Agent for the above-named paper in 3dition to his agency for the Sporting Edition of " Tub: Sus. - Ind can supply the same on Friday evening, if required, in town couutyy. _ . . _ 0. It. 0. begs to inform the Trade that he is Agent fur the %ATEST EDITION of "TETE SUN," and can supply it earlier Jan any other man in London or Country the evening of publi itiun. No connection with any other persons. Bally's, Buff's. Vri l eit's, and 3PCall's Guides. All the Daily Papers, 3laga sines, and Periodicals as soon as published. Agent for the Joint k tock Coal Company. Orders by post attended W. Orders by post punctually attentled to. "SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE ors the L ‘TE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn, 8; March-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 0.20; Watford, NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA. AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no mattor at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public iu a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including. brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street, London. E.C. FRANCE. PARIS, Sept. 19. La France of this evening denies that the stay in Paris of Count Girgenti has been prolonged from political motives. The Gaulois announces that the Spanish generals exiled to the Canary Islands have arrived in Anda lusia, where they have raised the flag of insurrec tion against the present dynasty. The paper adds that General Prim, with his staff, had embarked from London with the intention of landing on the Valencian coast. The General is to take the com mand in the insurrectionary movement. The news that the Turks had crossed the Danube is regarded as untrue. The Epoque asserts that the Porte had demanded of the Greek Government an explanation as to the fact of the existence of committees supporting the insurrection in Roumania and Bulgaria. Sept. 20. All journals, except the Constitutionnel and A!oni teur, contain reports of a revolutionary outbreak in Spain. A rumour is current that Queen Isabella has abdicated. A despatch received by the Spanish Consul at Bayonne states that the Queen will leave St. Sebastian for Biarritz at 6 o'clock to-night. Sept. 21. The Moniteur of this morning says :—" The Progresaist party has caused a revolutionary move ment at Cadiz which, on account of the participa tion of the soldiers and sailors on board several men-of-war, bears a serious aspect. The reports as to the character of the outbreak are still incomplete. Tranquillity has not been disturbed at Aladrid. " The intended interview between the Emperor Napoleon and the Queen of Spain has not taken place, owing to the events in Spain. The Queen was to return to Madrid on the 20th inst." The election in the second circumscription of the Nievre for a deputy to the Legislative Body has resulted in the return of M. Bourgoing, the Government candidate, by 15,708 votes. The total number of votes cast was 21,179, of which only 3,891 were recorded in favour of M. Girerd, the Opposition candidate 1,877 votes were invalid. BOURSE, Sept. 19.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 69 124 Credit Mobilier :.. 281 23 End of month... 280 Credit Foncier ...1415 End of month... - RAILWA Bank Shares 3120 It&lsan Loan End of month — Mexican Loan 23 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes 36 50 Home Debt 3l Deferred — -- .Y 3. Cash Orleans Northern ......... 1172 Lyons and Mediterranean ............... 953 Southern..." ................................. 581 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain ............................. 52 Saragossa Roman TIIE PARIS RACES. PARIS, Sept. 21. The Paris autumnal races were run yesterday in the Bois de Boulogne with the follo w i ng resu l ts : Prix de Glatigny. Gondolier .......................................... 1 Prix de la Prairie. Colere .................................... 1 Omnium (Handicap). Alabama Fidelia 2 Grand Prix du Prince Imperial. Nelusko Prix de Jouvence. Trocadero ASSISTANT POLICE COMMISSIONERS.—The follow ing provision appears in the new Act on the Metro politan Police :—" Thera shall be paid to each Assistant- Commissioner of Police, in addition to his salary, as an allowance for house rent, such annual sum not exceeding £3OO, as may from time to time be directed by one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, with the assent of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury; and any allowance so paid shall be deemed to bo part of the ex penses of the Metropolitan Police." ESCAPE OF A PRISONER.—On Saturday a prisoner in the Hull Gaol effected a very daring and ingenious es cape. His name is Barnard Hopkinson, and had recently been a seaman on board H.M.S. Dauntless, the Humber Guardship. Last week he was committed for trial on a charge of robbery from the parson. On Saturday morning his cell was found to be empty, and a search on the prison premises showed that a carefully planned and well-exe cuted escape had been effected. Some time during the previous night he had left his cell, traversed two or three corridors, and passed several iron doors, reaching the pri son yard unobserved. He also effected an entrance of the store, where he tound a change of clothing, and, what was more to his purpose, some rope and poles. With this mate rial he managed to make a first-rate ladder, which he car ried across the yard and reared up against the prison wall, which is about 25ft. high, and surmounted by several tiers of loose bricks, placed there to prevent escape. From this wa:l ho got down into the outer yard, then over a lower wall and into the street, and all efforts to capture him had failed up to Saturday nignt. IRON AND COAL TRADES OF SOUTII WALES. — The iron trade of the district continues to evince a degree of improvement as compared with what was the case three mouths ago, foreign buyers more especially purchas ing much more freely than usual. Efforts aro being made to complete tho Russian contracts before the close of the shipping season ; and as there are no other heavy engage ments pressing, this will no doubt be accomplished. From the Austrian and other Continental markets there are in quiries which lead to the belief that business will follow. To the American States the exports are considerable, and indications are not wanting that there will be an increase in the demand from that quarter provided no further tariff restrictions aro imposed. Home business is rather quiet, but there is a disp...)sition evinced by buyers to gradually increase their purchases. Quotations for rails are firmer, with every prospect that a substantial advance will be established before long. For tin plates there is a tolera bly good demand. The consumption of house coal has slightly increased, consequent upon the change in the weather; and the quantity of steam coal exported is in excess of last week. REMARKS. Barometrical pressures had decreased yesterday in the N. of our islands, but a general increase has occurred during the last 24 hours to the extent of nearly two-tenths of an inch. The lowest readings are in the S.W. of Ireland, and highest in Scotland: a difference of nearly four-tenths of an inch exists between Cape Clear and Nairn. Temperature is a little lower at southern stations. On Saturday night a north-easterly gale blew on the Scottish coast, and at the same time a south-easterly gale prevailed in the English Channel. Winds yesterday had moderated, except at the entrance of the English Channel and on the W. coast of France. This morning very light easterly winds are prevalent in these islands: at Toulon a south easterly gale has set in. Since yesterday rain has been general. Yesterday the amount on our eastern coasts was large. The weather is cloudy. Fog is reported from the S. coast of England. The Prince of Wales is expected to lay the inun dation-stone of the Now University building in Gilmore hill early in October, and his Royal Highness will 100 accom- panied in his visit to Glasgow by the Princess of Wales. Messrs. Carey Brothers have sent a sovereign to the editor of the Freeman for a "testimonial intended as a protest against the recent persecution of Mr. A. M. Sullivan by our present rumbling, stumbling, fumbling, trembling Government." • . • The Court Journal states that the public will be Pleased to learn that Mr. Gladstone has perfectly recovered from the slight attack of indisposition , under which he suf fered during his sojourn at Ponmaenmawr, and that ho is now in the enjoyment of perfect health. On Saturday morning a woman, apparently about 80 years of age, was seen walking over London-bridge to wards the Borough. She suddenly mounted the stone Parapet, and then leaped into the river Thames. As the unfortunate creature sprang over she cried out, "Gone, for ever." Assistance was almost immediately at hand, but too late. The body has not been recovered. On Saturday Mr. T. B. Hodgkinson, the borough accountant of Southport, was brought before the magistrates, charged with embezzling various sums of money belonging to the town and corporation. Ono case, in which the sum of X 1,155 was involved, was gone into, and the magistratcs determined to commit the prisoner for trial, but as thero were several other charges to be brought forward, the fur ther consideration of the case was adjourned for a week. Christianity is altogether in the ascendant at Madagascar, th 3 new Queen having abolished idol worship, and openly declared her contempt for the idols and their priests. It is not known whether she has personally espoused Christianity, but she tolerates it so fully that most of the princial chiefs and their families have embraced it, and the Christian churches cannot nearly contain the crowds who flock to hear the gospel. A renewal of the " potato rioting" in Cork—to prevent exportation to England—has been marked by the peculiar circumstance that several hundred women sta tioned themselves across a leading thoroughfare, and searched every cart thtit had sacks on it. Two other sections of the mob, also composed exclusively of women and girls, broke into the yard of a large dealer and carried off pota toes in great quantities, which they brought to a forced sale in ono of the markets, exclaiming that they "would not allow English forestallers to raise the price." Four of the ringleaders, Margaret Callaghan, Hannah Desmond, Ellen Manning, and Mary Woods, were taken into custody. Sir George Douglas writes to the Edinburgh Courant to request the insertion of a letter he has received from Lord Schomberg Kerr. For election purposes it appeals to have been reported that his lordship was a Roman Catholic, and he therefore wishes to state that he is and always has been a member of the Established Church of England. Elections are . always very demoralising, notably in the the enormous number of lies which are put into circulation with the money and the beer. The Daily .News writes very dolefully of the position of the commercial world. " It is not," says our contemporary, "agreeable to look forward to the future. If we were to judge by existing appearances alone, there is no likelihood of improvement over the past. The same elements of doubt and apprehension which have crippled commercial prosperity during the last two years are present now. Perhaps, however, for this very reason a change may be hoped for. It seems certain that public affairs have . arrived at that point when there can be no holding back, and that some decisive step must be taken one way or the other." The formidable and appa rently irremovable drawback to the revival of confidence rests in the continued tension of political affairs. This is shewn by the very efforts which are made to restore con fidence. Last week the King of Prussia made a speech which caused a panic on the Paris Bourse. Thereupon three French Ministers of State wrote to the Syndic of the Bourse, giving their views of the speech, which were, of course, pacific. Fancy Lord Stanley, Mr. Hunt, and Mr. Hardy sending similar letters to the committee of the Stock Exchange. This sort of official commentary would cer tainly have in London, and probably had in Paris, pre cisely the effect it sought to avoid. An ostentatious avowal of confidence in the maintenance of peace has come to be considered rather more alarming than a warlike manifesto. Even the Times has at last come to the conclusion that such a disturbance as that which took place in Lombard street on Friday is discreditable to those who originated it. It inserts three letters, all with the same tendency, viz., that Mr. Lyne's sermons are anything but Popish, as they are supposed to be, but as that very fervid Protestant Mr. Hugh Allen declared them to be—" God's truth ;" and that the scandal of " ladies bonneted and hooted by a rabid mass of City clerks and inebriated stockbrokers" is intolerable. The Times follows up these letters with a leader, which, while it pours out sarcasm on the preacher, condemns, with such faint heartyness as it can muster, the men who have brought disgrace upon London by misconduct "which might easily assume the dimensions of a grave national scandal." Let it be understood that ,the tumultuous clerks and brokers have risen against Mr. Lyne, not because of doctrinal unsoundness, but because he denounced their morals in language more vigorous than discreet. Their irritation appears to have been turned to account by the Ultra-Protestant party ; and Mr. Pascoe Grenfell Hill, the rector of the church in which Mr. Lyne preaches, declares that there is behind the scenes a person of the Murphy type, only, unlike that agitator, he keeps in the background, and sends his paid emissaries to " whoop on the rabble whom they bring with them." DEATH OF DOWAGER LADY GLENTWORTH.--011 Friday last Annabella, Lady Glentworth died at her resi dence in Chester-square, after a long illness, in her 78th year. The lamented viscountes was the second daughter of Mr. Tennison Edwards, of Old Court, county Wicklow, and married Henry Lord Glentworth, eldest son of Edmond Henry, first Earl of Limerick, 11th May, 1808. By her husband, whose death preceded that of his father in 1834, she leaves an only son, the present Earl of Limerick, and four daughters—Lady Mary (unmarried); Lady Emily, married to the Rev. Henry Gray ; Lady Cecilia, married to the Rev. G. Herbert Repton ; and Lady Augusta Maria, married to Sir Edward Kennedy, Bart. ORDINATION AT CARLISLE.—On Sunday morning the Bishop of Carlisle held an ordination in Carlisle Cathedral, when the following gentlemen were admitted into holy orders, viz. : Deacons : William Gabbett, Lon don College of Divinity, licensed to the curacy of lio'y Trinity Church, Whitehaven ; Thomas Brassington, St. Aidan College, Birkenhead, licensed to the curacy of Waberthwaite, Cumberland; Robert Dixon Hope, literate, licensed to the curacy of Barton, Westmoreland ; Joseph Stephen Pratt, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, licensed to the curacy of St. John's, Keswick ; Joseph Knight, London College of Divinity, licensed to the curacy of Brough, Stainmore ; Robert Neil, 8.A., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, licensed to the curacy of St. Paul's, Silloth ; James Henry Blackman, late vice-principal of the Bangalore Government High School, South India, licensed to the curacy of Preston Patrick, Westmoreland ; James Targett, London College of Divinity, licensed to the curacy of St. Mary's, Ulverston. Priest : Rev. William Edmund Strickland, 8.A., Trinity College, Dulgin,. irate of St. Stephen's, Carlisle, -csea v feto 7 t C nai • Zt.< Jo _ . HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, Sept. 19. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, went out yesterday morning, and in the afternoon drove out with Princess Louise. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince John of Denmark dined with her Majesty last night. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli arrived at the Castle yesterday. SIGNAL BETWEEN PASSENGERS AND GUARDS. A recent act of Parliameat makes it imperative that by April next railway companies shall establish some means of communication between passengers and guards of railway trains, an I the consequence is that railway directors and officials are now direct ing their attention seriously to the accomplishment of this object. A few days ago a railway trip was taken at Manchester for the purpose of testing the efficiency of an invention recently patented by Messrs. Kearsleyand Holt, which they denominated the " Passengers' own signal." The experiment was made upon the Manchester, South Junction, and Altrincham line, between Oxford-road Sta tion, Manchester, and Kutsford, Cheshire. Several railway officials and other gentlemen interested in witnessing the experiment, with a view of recom mending the adoption of the apparatus, upon ap proval of its working, were present. The trip and the trial were highly satisfactory, and it was the unanimous opinion of all who inspected the inven tion that the signal is as effective in character as it is simple iu its contrivance. One prominent ad vantage of the signal is that it appeals at once to the eye and the ear of the officer in charge of the train, while it consequently will enable the passengers to become acquainted with the nature of any alarm that may have arisen. The apparatus, from the simplicity of its construc tion, can be easily described. It consists of a small windmill or vane, fixed upon the roof of one of the carriages, the vane being turned a t an amazing speed when the train is running at, say, 30 or 40 miles an hour, as was the case on Friday with the Bowdon express. This vane, thus in motion, rings a large bell, which is as loud as one of our factory bells in Manchester, and which, once set in motion, never ceases until the train is stopped. The alarm can be raised by any of the passengers by pulling 3 chain drawn across the roof of the carriage in which they are seated. The chain hangs conveniently overhead and can easily be reached from any portion of the seats, and, in fact, without the passenger rising from his place. The first effect of pulling this chain is that two semaphores rise up into the usual position which in the railway dictionary means " Stop ! and the second effect is that the wind-vane is re leased and exposed to the current of the air, which sets it rotating as above-mentioned, while of course the bell is set ringing at the same instant. Attached to the windmill is a white light, meaning " A ll right," but upon the alarm being given the white light instantaneously gives place to a red one—th e " danger" signal. Those who, on Friday, during th e return home, rode upon the engine, expressed them' selves much pleased with the precision with which these changes were brought about. It is obvious tha t they can be most effectively seen by the driver and the guard in night journeys, or while the train is passing through a tunnel. The semaphores als o show strikingly by daylight ; and, taking the soma' phore light and alarm ball together, the officers in charge can hardly fail to see the one or hear the other. During the whole of the trip the bell, as We were informed, was distinctly heard to the extreme end of the train, which on this occasion consisted of 13 carriages. In the Old Trafford tunnell the sound was remarkably distinct. This is the more worth)" of being mentioned because one of the objects of the patentees was to prevent the possibility of 3 renewal of the outrages we have too frcquentlY heard of being committed in the noisy transit through dark tunnels. Another evidence of the ad vantage of the alarm bell was observed in the atten tion it excited among the residents in the differen t localities through which the train passed. The thought occurred that if a carriage were ' 6 on fire , or " off the rails," or if any o th er cause of peri l should arise, plenty of s t ou t h earts an d w illi ng hands would flock to the spot from th e i r rura l labours to render timely and perhaps priceless aid. Every carriage can be fitted w ith it s apparatus i n such a manner that it will act without the train being connected from end to e n d, so th a t no time w ill be lost at stations in dropping off or taking on car riages, nor will any staff of men be required at the _ railway stations to attend to the coupling or iv coupling of the carriages that compose the train. 211 E CASE OF JAMES BELL. It will he remembered that on the 28th of Ma rch last a young man named James Bell wa s convict ed at the Middlesex Sessions, and sentenced to li ve years' penal servitude for sheep stealing. The evi dence given on that occasion was to the effect t hat the prisoner was a cattle drove r , i n the serv ice of a Mr. Goodge, who was employed by Ale ssr°. Elmore and Co., meat salesmen, in Pewter Platt e ' , : yard, to drive 58 lambs to their slaughter-h OO° — on the 27th of February. On their arrival 13elis ti g; gested to his master that the lamb s s h ou ld be count e adding, " lest some should be t a k en away ill th; ; night." They were accordingly counted, an d i t the following morning twelve had been stole". to was afterwards stated by three p o li cem en that th e saw the prisoner driving some l a mbs &col the direction of the yard to the Islington-market st il% e ° o'clock the same morning, and he was given ilit custody. At the station-house he asked a boy' tell his mother that he was " nicked" for the ~,. sheep. At the trial his father, mother, and brother' in-law were called, and stated that the pris elle o was in bed at the time he was sworn to b a, ', been driving the sheep. The ju r y disbelie ve ' the alibi, and the priso ner was senten ced to five years' penal se rv it u d e b y the As 3 ist alt Judge (Sir William Bodkin). Immediately afte r t he r - sentence, Mr. Guerrier, a salesman, believing t . be e - if had been a miscarriage of ju s ti ce , i n terested hi' aie in the case, and spared no endeavours to get at re , truth. Through his exe r ti ons an d th o se of the " Is latives of the prisoner B e ll, th e y l earn t that h ew 4 , 3 l perfectly innocent of the charge, an d that the r" culprits were Thomas Daley and Edwin Wilider, who had since been convicted of sheep-ate s L it and Frederick Wind er , the brother of the 'Telg named. On the 28th of August last Frecle iocr Winder was brought before Mr. Sergeant lin g at the Middlesex Sessions, c harged with st es jet s 39 sheep belonging to Henry Cook. The e °11 : 09 0 Daley and Edwin Winder were then made witn ess against him, and they proved conclusively th at • a oth 3 were the real thieves, and that Bell had 0- ; ta ke whatever to do with the robbery. The 133 ' 5 a ed had arisen through Bell being very like I) 3l :.Y e ' lt i v g 0 through the witnesses for the alibi preva""` i3 ce in some essential particulars. Bell was at - or liberated after having served six months ' tll' prisonment, and Messrs.. Elmore, the pros p- i c ,, il ac ed took him into thei r serv i ce . Th e judge sent Winder to 14 y ears ' pena l serv itude, it „ c o proved by Inspector Thomson that he had "the a sheep-stealer for years. Mr. Guerrier' cur , salesman, had been put to great expense in s e r o\l. ing Bell's liberation, and Mr Alderman Lusk-, base had applied to the Home Secretary to reini leL these expenses. On Monday last he received art gr, ter from Mr. Adolphus Liddell, s tating th 3,, to Secretary Hardy was prepared t o reconun e u " err ier the Lords of the Treasury to repay to Mr . whatever reasonable and proper expense s de' have incurred in convection with this case, &tailed siring him to furnish, with that view, S(X ret arY account of the money so expended to the of the Treasury. PLOUGH Tile? PLOUGHING MATCHES.—At Warwick , on - 4 t day last, awl at Faringdou, on Thursday, all the 131 P, 0 prizes iu the men's classes were won With 14115°° ploughs. ' Ru; Vi teb; Jarosl 8 t!,r"l itt Per .Lie w New 2 D o . ui D o . D o( z;xehe D o . Bank 'anal, IN India 5 Do, I Do. Do. Ar 4ent Atritri: 0 3 , Do. Co D o. 84,1 ~.. D o . no: D,, 1)0 Dc : Do. D o. no.