Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-29 00:00:00

a (474 0 61 ,1 °" F:01 - s1 al"' u; ,a rn~t, :sp"-~!" orf .nd be'' ; o« 1: o .oih.f°.ll 0 1°11 c oc" - t 3 Aid THE BATTLE OF SOLFERINO. TURIN, Monday, June 27th, 11.55 p.m.—The fol lowing is the order of the ' day of the Emperor Napoleon to his soldiers, published at Cavriana on the 25th inst. " The enemy, who believed themselves able to repulse us from the Chiese, re-crossed the Mincio. " You have worthily defended the honour of France. " Solferino surpasses the recollection of Lonato and Castiglione. In twelve hours you have repulsed the efforts of 150,000 men. " Your enthusiasm did not rest there. The numer ous artillery of the enemy occupied formidable positions over three leagues. "Your country thanks you for your courage and your perseverance, and laments the fallen. " We have taken three flags, thirty cannon, and six thousand prisoners. " The Sardinian army:fought with the same volour, against superior forces ; and worthy is that army to march beside you. " Blood has not been shed in vain for the glory of France and the happiness of the people." Count Cavour has returned this evening to Turin from the camp. _ _ _ TURIN, Tuesday. —The official bulletin published to-day, contains details of the operations of our troops in the last battles fought. The best troops and the most skilful generals of Austria had been sent against ,ipal combat in which the the Piedmontese. The princ Piedmontese were engaged, was fought at San Mar tino, where they performed prodigious acts of valour, and took formidable positions defended by superior but a fearful tempest prevented the soldiers from remaining in those positions. The French -with valour and noble impetuosity won the heights of Solferino, and forced the enemy to withdraw towards Gaito. Oar troops also drove the enemy from San Martino leaving five pieces of cannon in our hands, and the Austrians having withdrawn to the Bridges re-crossed the Mincio. The victorious results compensated for our serious loss. THE WOUNDED AT SOI :,FERINO. PARIS, Tuesday. —Besides General Auger, Generals Furey, Ladmirault, and Dien, were wounded at the battle of Solferino, but happily their wounds are unimport a --...........---.....• TE DEUM AT PARIS. On Sunday next the Te Deum will be sung in all the churches in France, in celebration of the victory of Solferino The Empress, and all the great bodies of the State, will attend the service in Notre Dame. THE FRENCH FUNDS. PARIS, June 28, 11.50 am.—Rcmtes commenced very flat at 61.78, and are now 61.85. 12.15 p.m.--The Bourse opened fiat. Rentes 62, beinz a decline of since yesterday, 3.20 p.m.—An improvement has taken place. Rentes closed 62.30 for Money, and 62.20 for account) being in the latter case a fractional decline. FRANCE. PARIS, Monday Evening.—About eight o'clock last night a supplement to the Moniteur was published, containing a despatch from the Emperor to the Empress, dated Cavriana, '26th, 11.55 a.m. It was published with avidity ; all the world expected to find in it the confirmation of the first telegram announcing the victory. When, however, it was found that the French army had not crossed the Mincio ; that the " numerous standards" captured amounted only to and that the only details given of a pitched battle which had lasted sixteen hours was that General Auger, who commanded the artillery, had had his arm shOt off, the enthusiasm of the previous day was suddenly checked. Bat three; it was presumed that the Moniteur this morning would set all right again. The official print, however, has no further news. It only contains the not important information that the battle is to be called the " Battle of Solferino." One cannot be surprised at there being some disappointment at this want of information, and, in fact, but for the dispatch from Vienna, which admits that the Austrians have been defeated, the issue of the battle would be open to consider able doubt. The inference which is drawn from the official telegram is that the French army suffered so severely that two days after the battle it was still unable to resume the offensive. Mean While a few `details are b .;inning to ooze out. The Piedmontese, who were at the extreme left, suffered very severely. The Pattie publishes the subjoined paragraph, which has all the appearance of having been communicated by Government 24th, 7 p.m —This morning a trifling outpost engagement took place, but the enemy advanced with immense forces, and off.3red battle. On here at seven this morning .the Emperor heard the cannonade going on on:every. side. His Majesty, accom panied by his staff, immediately proceeded to the scene of action. The enemy defended their positions with the greatest energy ;_ but our troops, electrified by the courage, amounting even to rashness, displayed by the Emperor, soon drove them back. While lam writing (seven p.m.) we are victorious on all the line. The Emperor exposed himself throughout the battle; and the soldiers were divided between the apprehensions with which this noble boldness inspired them, and the admiration they felt for their chief." On this I will make only the remark that such pre posterous. absurdity could only emanate from official quarters. When a battle lasts 10 hours, the enemy cannot be said to be soon driven'back. • In fact, it appears beyond question : that the Austrian soldiers fought at least quite as well as the French, but that the Austrian generals are not fit to .hold a candle to the Niels, 111‘Mahons, and Canroberts, and the less known but equally efficient staff that second efforts, and intelligently carry out skilfully-devised The "'aerie, in a second communicated article, states that the Emperor was personally in the thick of the fight, that M. Larrey, the head surgeon, who was riding close to the Emperor, had a horse shot under him, and that two horses of the Imperial escort of Cent Gardes were killed. Matters are looking very gloomy here. The 'indecisive character of the battle holds out :no hope of a speedy termination 'of the war, and there are vague rumours of " very bad news from Prussia." People contrast these hardly fought fields with the victories of the first Empire, and the official papers with characteristic indiscretion record the anniversaries of that glorious era : thus, in to-day's, Patrie, I find the following "28th June, 1797. -- General Senurier arrives rho s with twenty-one colours taken from the enemy by the army of Italy." CASTIGLIONS, 'June arriving Marengo had been fought on the 14th. There is some difference between the three colours of Solferino and the twenty-seven of Marengo ; yet, if report be correct, the loss of life was quite as great, not to say more, on the 24th of June, 1859; than on the 14th of June, 1797 The Gazette de France states, that preparations are twain; at the War Office to bring together within two months from this a force of 450,000. I have heard from a eertain source that great naval preparations are making at Cherbourg. None, however, are more significant than the accumulation of coal that is taking place there. At the beginning of last month there were 18,000 tons in store. Since thea 17,000 tons have been imported-12PN from England, 6,000 from other quarters. At Rochefort great quantities of coal have also been collected, the coal mines of Descazevillc, in the department of Gironde have, I am told, furnished the greater part. The Patrie gives it to be understood that the atrocities committed by the Swiss troops in the service of the Pope, at Perugia, have excited so much indignation in Tuscany that Swiss subjects residing there are threatened and insulted. The Federal Council announce through their official organ that they are taking steps to protect them. What steps ? Considerable rein forcements are ordered to Italy. Besides the two divisions from the camp at Chalons, which I mentioned last week as being under orders, another division from Paris has received the route. In addition to this, a force of 40,000 men is to be sent to the Adriatic dit on. They may, how ever, be wanted on the banks of the Mincio before they can reach the Adriatic. THE NORTHERN MI S, WEDNESDAY, JUNE '29' 115 Falk of the victories of the allied armies;. to wear in the a pink, white, and red, whichmith the green stalk would together form the tricolour, and a thousand other futile causes, is sufficient to cause the offender to be thrown into a dungeon _ The Ministers add insult to injury . by making the King sign decrees- of which I have given you the analysis. In Bossa, Milanses, the director of the electric telegraph, and his deputy, have • been imprisoned for having well interpreted the cipher of the Government. The first act of the Minister Filangieri was to cause himself to be paid a sum of 53,000 ducats, which he pretended was due to him. The Count de Salmont, the Piedmontese Envoy, is followed even to the theatre by the sbirri and an inspector of police;. the cele brated spy, M. Schimardi, is constantly stationed' at the door of the hotel where he resides. Great agitation pre vails in the provinces and in Sicily, and it is manifested by numerous acts contrary to the Government. The prefect of police insults the prisoners by' telling them that the liberators of Italy, Victor Emmanuel and Louis Napoleon, will soon come and release them from , their cells. Filangieri and other generals have visited the forts of of the city and prepared a plan of defence for the kingdom ; and, from remarks which dropped from one of the generals,. it appears that the King has it in contemplation to attack the French troops at Rome, and put down the insurrection in the Romagna. This surmise is confirmed by the depar ture from the frontier of nine battalions of troops commanded by General de Benedictis. The ambulances have been ordered, as well as the military chest. Numerous pro motions have lately been made in the army, which is now composed of eight divisions, one of which is Swiss. s ----- The Times says the government proposition to elect Mr. Massey as Chairman of Ways and Means, will not be assented to without opposition. A correspondent of the Siecle says, that one of the best shots in Garibaldi's service is an Englishman of fifty years old, who carries a capital Lancaster rifle, and aided by a pair of spectacles of which he stands in need, brings down every Tyrolean chasseur that he takes aim at. .t omebody lately asked him whether he had been attracted to join the volunteer corps by a strong feeling for the Italian cause, or by a love of sport. Ile answered - very - .coolly, " I have a great respect for Italian independence, but I am also, very fond of shooting." . . HINT. TO ADVERTISER 71Tpin York 'he New.Orlean.3 correspondent s :—" The Merchants of /few ibune sa Orleans are far more liberal in ad;rertising than those of , and it is they alone which support most of our One firm in this city, in the drug business, expends your city __Jars a year in job printing and 30,000 dollars in advertising. A clothing firm has expended 50,000 dollars in advertising in six months. Both establishments are now enjoying the liou's share of the pats onage, and are determined to continue such profits and investments. A corn doctor is advertiaing at over 10,000 dollars a month, and the proprietor of a corner grocery' on the outskirts of the city has found it advantageous to advertise to the extent of 7,000 dollars 0,000 dol during the past winter. " LONDON CHILDREN.-Dirty in their appearance and slatternly in their attire, they congregate together wherever a few inches of 'space is left to - them, and engage in the pursuit of enjoyment under extreme difficulties. Their behaviour is occasionally of the roughest, and their games are, for the most part, of a nature which seriously imperil the safety, or, at least, the comfort of the chance passengers ; and in so far they afford a complete justification to the police for banishing them from the more frequented thoroughfares. But, in spite ,of all this, they have their good points. Who that has seen them has not been touched with the care be stowed by. urchins of six or seven 'years of age, upon their baby brothers and sisters, under whose weight they can hardly [nd whom yet they nurse with the greatest tender- stagger What a tale is thus told of the straitness and incon venience of the homes of the poor, when mothers are glad to trust their infants out of their sight, and in the hands of such young and, as it might be fancied, such careless nurses! And who that has seen these groups, but must have wished that some cenyenient play-places might be found for them, e _ these victims Of circumstances might at least have a chance of name I seeing a blade of grass, and feeling the blessed air blow about was g them in something of its original freshness ? Hitherto ;nd wa a London, and indeed all large towns, have grossly neglected cl • al , their duty in this respect ; and we see the consequence in the tiring stunted and shrivelled appearance, the. pale faces,. and the felti narrow chests of the children of the town poor: The Society serior for Providing Play-grounds. for Children has resolved to vho NI grapple with the evil. We think their object is deserving of . the fl cordiasupport, and we very heartily wish them all success. a Cl h —Lady's- Newspaper. ne DISGRACEFUL STATE OF THE SERPENTINE. — The Serpen - lenbr tine is a most positive nuisance. We entreat any one who fectie may doubt the truth of our assertion to satisfy him sel f b y ell 1 personal investigation of the real state of the ease. Within sorrel the last few: days the miAasmata which it emits have as t men become so offensive that speedy action must be - taken i n the matter or evil will surely follow, which we shall all deplore Ling when it is too late. In the earlier part of- the- season some row rho feeble attempts were made to abate the virulence of the stench by casting into the metrupelitan lake certain modi - t see cams of lime. There are traces of the presence of t his p al- the; liative on the. batiks,,_ as though to mark how the nymph and Serpentine had spurned the purifying agent from he r d i rt y floe You might administered. as well have ministered. a seidlitz pro powder to a dead body in the hope of staying the pro e re es of e --4 - corruption. There is but one thing to do , which is Co drain A letter from Turin in the Nord says-e--- the lake thoroughly, as was done with- the sheet of orna mental water in the gardens of St. James's-park. No half Ressuth arrived inour city from Genoa. He was received measures: will be- of the slightest avail We do not, of lat the station by. the Deputy Valerio an&some others, ultra course ; mean to say that this can -be done just now, when `democrats, of the- city. The celebrated Magyar agitator things are at their worst. To expose the coagulated filth of i was accompanied by two of his former officers. It is. said the. Serpentine to the action of a July. sun would probably that he will shortly leave for Acqui e where a Hungarian be to send tha inhabitants'of Knightsbridge, Kensington,, legion is being organised under the- command of General and Mayfair out of the world, or out of town, before the 12th Klanka." of August. rill the colder weather returns such palliative,* A LONG 'loam:ie.—Among, the-obituary notices-in the as are possible must be aPplied, and when the summer. Leeds Intelligences is the following-: - 7 -" On the 2.0t1e inst., has passed' away let- the only real and effective remedy aged 45. Mr. Peter Matterson, of Low Dansford, near be applied. The Serpentine must be drained ; what Boronghbridge. He and his ancestry have been the owners 'pollutions are Owed - into it, or 'percolate into it, must be and occupiers on the farm on which he died for more than diverted into another channel; the bottom must be: left 800 years. The farm was not entailed, and the owner has exposed - fora certain and sufficient period to the purifying always been a Matterson, without adoption. influences:of the air, ' and finally- be dealt with as wes,the DEPoirwrlox or VENETIAN, NORLES TO BIRFAIIA.—On botteneof theornamental water in St. James's Park. This the 22ndinst. ten or twelve nobles arrived at Vienna from is no idle speculation. .We haVe present before our eyes,- or, Venice,as e prisaners. In. the.avereing they were escorted by what is perhaps more important; our noses, the results of soldiers to the terminus of the' Northern Rai toad, and it .an, operation of this 'kind. Why should not that which has is believed they ' are to he confined in the fortress of The me° succeeded so admirably succeed again? The purifica- resienstedt, in Bohemia. Almost all the prisoners were tionof SteJaines's viaters has proved one of the most grati- young then of gentlemanly appearance. One-of the unfor-_ . fying iinprovemente of the metropoliSin oar time., We are tunate party, who was advanced in years, was believed to be therefore most anxious to see the results of our-experience theexepoclesta of Venice. . brought to bear upon a. nuisance similar in kind, bat far Execterimes or Fraxeeee. SOLDIERS.—During last week more intense in degrea.—Times, and the week before there were so many desertions from the' SPIRIT RAPPING.---A SCENE —For some days.past it has Austrian regiment " Alemann," which recruits at Bergamo, been announced ;that a lecture would be deliver ed at the ill Lombardy, and from " Aivoldi," whiclie raised at Lodi, Library Hall of the Athenaeum, by Mr. S. Owen, on the that drum-head law was proclaimed in- both regiments. subject of " spirit rapping." At eight eolock, the time Four deserters fruit the first-mentioned- regiment, which is appointed for the commencement of the lecture, Mr. Owen in garrison in Vienn e were brought in and, as two of them made his appearance on the platforM in a somewhat excited; were taken after drum-head law had been instituted, they state, and announced that he was placed ill a dilemma. He. were tried and shot within the next twenty four hours. said he had seen the secretary (Mr. Schofield) in the course A CENTENARIAN.—Sarah Wattort Hughes died last of the day, and had told him that a gentleman residingln Saturday, in Sedgeley, near Dudley, at the age of 113 Lever-streete bad promised to pay the.fee demanded for the years. F o r a number of years she had been an inmate of use of the room if he would apply to.him The secretary Sedgeley Workhouse, and on the removal, a few days ago. had prornieed that he would do so, but had not seen the gen- of the paupers to. the new union at Dudley, she performed 1 tleman, and as the room was not paid for, he was told that he the journey comfortably, and without fatigue. She is couldnot proceed withthe lecture., He thought this was unfair without femily, never having . been 'married. She has' treatment, and he was sorry to say abet in the other towns outlived all her brothers and sisters, notwithstanding that similar-tricks had been played upon, him. He thought such one was born more than forty years subsequent to her conduct on the part Of the authorities of the Athenaeum birth. During the whole of the time she was in the was mean in the extreme, mune recommended the audience workhouse at Sedgeley, although entirely blind, she knitted tee express their opinion to that effect. At this stage of the all the stockings for the paupers, consisting of nearly 200. proceedings, he retired intr . + the ante-room to confer with . THE AUSTRIANS AND THEIR WOUNDED.—The leaving some of the directors, and shortly afterwards returned, and behind all their more severely wounded men after stated that the money hail been paid, and that he should evacuating a place is a practice which has been generally proceed with the lecture. Before 'he had an opportunity adopted by the Austrians during this campaign. In Milan, of doing so, however, the hon. secretary stepped upon the Como, Leno, Bergamo, Brescia—everywhere, in fact, where platform, and explained to the audience that it was a stand- the y have had garrisons -esick and wounded were left ing rule . that on all occasions when the hall was let the rent behind. The calculation is not so foolish either, Only of the room should be paid in advance. This had not bee n tho se are left who, it at all, would net be able to , do duty done by 'Mr, Owen, and hence the circumstances which for some time to came, so leaving them behind is getting had arisen. For what had occurred the directors were rid of troublesoMe encumbrance. There is no surgeon or in no way responsible. Mr. Owen reiterated that Mr. any other medical officer left with them, nor is there the Schofield had promised to see that gentleman whose name usual recommendation of the disabled to the magnanimity he had given, but had not done so, and said he was prepared of the enemy — a courtesy whic h has been adopteeelsewhere to make oath to that effect. Mr. Schofield then made his as an invariable practice of civilised warfare.—Letter from • appearance, and denied the truth of the statement made by Castelnedolo. Mr. Owen, and both gentlemen endeavoured to make' their TF.STIMONIAL TO MR. C. KEAN.—On Wednesday, July statements emphatic by violently striking the table at the 20th, a testimonial is to be presented to Mr. Charles the same time. Mr. Schofield, however, shortly retired Kean, the eminent actor, who is about to retire from the from the platform, and the lecturer proceeded. He management of the Princess's Theatre. The presentation is said it was customary for him to harmonise the feel- to be made the occasion of a grand banquet, which will be ings of his audience by playing to them some music, . spread at St. James's Hall, and we observe that the Right but as lie was not sufficiently composed for that he Honourable the Earl of Carlisle is to occupy the chair. The ' would recite a piece of poetry which would perhaps have committee announces itselfasself-constituted, and is composed the same effect. He then recited a composition of his own on of noblemen and gentlemen who were nearly all cotemporary "The New Era," in blank verse. After proceeding with with Mr. C, Kean at Eton. It comprises two dukes, one his discourse for some time, he said he would not ask his marquis, seven earls, two viscounts, five lords, and nearly a ' audience to believe what he said, but to suspend their score of right honourables, honourables, and men of mark judgment, and hot tn. d e nounce until they were qualified to and distinguished position, who state their object is "to give an intelligent o pinion upon the subject. At the con- mark their sense of the distinguished talent of their old elusion of the l ec tu r e, air, John Plant asked the lecturer schoolfellow." At the same time, as they believe that the says : - if he really believed what he had stated. Mr. Owen right of acknowledging the services Mr. Kean has rendered, " The new - King of the Two Sicilies inaugurates his replied that he did, and he was willing to make oath to to the drama "belongs to the nation at large," they invite Government by continuing the system of the late King. that effect. H e mi a smic/l ily answ ered several questions the public to "unite with them in testifeinee their itiln , '" r a: Arrests are every day made in order to intimidate and which were put to him, but he refused to gratify the wi s h es ; tin for one who has so long. and so sneees3fully lal)os'l re d to prevent any public manifestation of sympathy for the war of 1 of some of the a u di e nce w ho asked eek be furnished with i provide for their intellectual etpilent, and who Italian independent°. To form part of any demonstration; - ; ; ocular demonstration in the way of morigont,-- Iso much towards upholding the -dignity and IWcharacter .... to re* a bat Ykien the new Vietlinellteee Envoy paeeee itn • Manchester Examiner. - of the national steel." • - I a . . 'h as done uprooted. A youth, whose As since been ascertained to be George Michael Field, was going along the Kenning ton-road towards the gate, and was struck by the lightning, and fell heavily to the ground; and, on being raised, was perfectly insensible, as if suffering from asphyxia. On beimg brought to, he stated that he felt as if his head was suddenly encircled by fire. Another serious accident happened to a man in Westminster-road,' who was on horseback, and the animal being infuriated by the flashes of lightning, threw his rider, who received' a concussion of the brain. For a considerable - time after the storm broke forth, the sky over Sydenham and its surrounding neighbourhood was perfectly clear, and the sun shining ; while Camberwell and Walworth and the vicinity was deluged with torrents of rain, and the flashes of lightning were so vivid as to cast a strange glare upon all around. Three Young men were passing along the Old Kent-road when the lightning struck two of them, named Edward Perry, and James Summers, who fell to the groun and were conveyed to their homes in an insensible condi— tion., Perry being stillin a serious state from the effects of thfkshoelc; In nlmost , all the suburban districts south of the -Thames the storm•of Sunday will be long remembered; destroying as it did emus, flowers, greenhouses, conserva tories, and other valaahle property, whit - 4 will cost a amionnt of money tarestore. breast ." On the 231,4 " It is quiteieertain that the petty states which demanded the most loudly that Prussia should adopt military measures, have suddenly thrown difficulties in the way of the move ment of,our troops. In addition to Bavaria, Electoral Hesse is now doing so. The ordinary trains have been suspended. on the Frederick William -Railway to allow the military trains of Prussia, to pass, but theso latter have been counter manded. From the positions which the six corps of the Prussian army are to take,_ it appears that Prussia will not participate in any military measures decided on on the Upper Rhine. The Prussian troops will not ero beyond Coblentz and Frankfort in the south , and will' allow the petty states to di,pose of their troops themselves." * TUSCANY. The Monitore . Toseano of the 24th announces that the Neapolitan consul-general at Leghorn having announced his intention of recognising the authenticity of the acts emanating from the Tuscan Government, has been reinstated in the exercise of his functions. The same paper publishes the following officio a note " The despatch addressed by the British Minster Plenipo tentiary at Florence to the Earl of Malmesbury, dated June 2, gives an account of a conversation between the diplomatist and the undersigned. The undersigned regrets that in the account of this conversation, addressed to his government, Mr. Scarlett, no doubt led into error by an imperfect recol lection of what had passed, should have attributed to him opinions which he does not entertain, and expressions which he never uttered ; the undersigned having simply declared that to the causes which render a restoration of the dynasty of Lorraine in Tuscany impossible, there must also be added its having taken refuge in Austria, and remained there permanently, (Signed) " C. Riporsi," AUSTRALIA FALMOUTH, Tuesday.—The ship Result, Dickenson mas ter, from Melbourne, arrived off the port this morning, and landed 27 passengeas and mails. She brings 2.00 passen gers and 36,400 ounces of gold dust. - • STATE OF AFFAIRS IN NAPLES. A Naples letter, of the 22nd instant, in the Morning rest, MI2II - 8 7 7 E11E4E_ RE-ELECTIONS OXFORD UNIVERSITY.-IST DAY'S POLL.-Mr. Gladstone was generally from ten to twenty above his antagonist; at the close of the -poll the numbers were Gladstone.... Lord Chandos . . Majority 2ND DAY'S POLL. Gladstone Chandos NEWCASTLE. —Mr. Headlam's re-election was opposed, and a poll was demanded. The following is the close:vfitlie poll : Fleadlam . 2.170. Cuthbert Majority for Headlam 1,079. The Right Hon. Edward , Cardwell, Secretary for Irelariat was returned on Monday, for Oxford City, without oppo sition. HALIFAX. Sir C. Wood was returned yesterday without being opposed. Lord Palmerston, Sir R: Bethell, Attorney-General; Sir' H. Keatin g , Solicitor-General ; the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Vice President of the Couneil; Sir G. Lewis, Home Secretary; and Sir George Grey were yesterday returned without opposition. The return of Mi. Whitbread; the new Lord of the Treasury, is opposed at Bedford. The poll takes place to-day. NORWICH..—Three candidates were nominated yesterday morning—Lord Bury, Sir S. Bignold, and Colonel Boldero. The show of hands was in favour of Viscount Bury. THE THUNDER-STORM, ON SUNDAY. The thunder-storm, in London, on Sunday, was much more serious in its consequences than was at first supposed. At about half-past seven o'clock in the morning the storm burst with the greatest fury over the south side of the water, and occasioning the greatest damage to property, and was unfortunately marked by one of the most terrible deaths by lightning ever remembered. It happened to henry 0 ulton, a groom in the service of 'Mr. Herbert, of Cavendish-road, Clapham-common. About twenty-minutes to eight o'clock,, the deceased, a fine young man, aged • twenty-eight, who _ _ 1:v end. has left a wife and four children to -mourn his anti it would appear, met a friend, a servant, in the _ a genteman named Ferry, residing . close to Mr. Herbert, After some conversation, the storm increasing, and the rain coming down in torrents, the'two 'men. parted, the deceased taking refjige under a gigantic poplar tree,, and in about five minutes afterwards, a lad, who was endeavouring to keep a herd of affrighted cattle together, perceiVed the deceased lying on the ground' under the tree, and immediately gave information to police-constable 103 V, who was on duty close by. That officer gives the following description of the dreadful sight which met • his view on arriving at thb spot indicated by - the lad. The deceased, whom he at once recognised, was lying on his back with his feet towards the trunk of the tree, the heel of tbe left boot resting in a rut formed by the roots. His face was perfectly black and the grass around him for some distance was burnt and blackened as though by fire. The crown of his hat was torn away, the electric fluid having evidently struck him on the head, passed down the front of his body, the leg, and out of the toe of hii boot,• the sole being ripped from the upper leather. MS shirt, coat, waistcoat, and trousers, were burnt and rent in tatters, and his stockings absolutely torn in shreds and - stripped from his legs, and two bottles which he had with him were smashed to pieces. The tree under which the poor fellow was lying had evidently been struck on the left side, being completely - split nearly to the ground, and otherwise shattered, the bark also hoing stripped off, and such was the. curiosity of crowds of persons to obtain - a piece of the tree as a relic, *.hat -it had to be surrounded by hurdles. The scene during - the storm was truly awful branches of trees being torn away, an(' small -saplag AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA VIENNA, TUESDAY. —The report is current, that the Emperor of Austria will shortly have an interview with the Prince Regent of Prussia. Two decrees favourable to Protestants and Jews are expected. THE GERMANIC CONFEDERATION AND THE WAR The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saxony has addressed a despatch to M. de Kcenneritz, Saxon Minister at St. Petersburgh, in reply to the circular of Prince Gortschakoff. After elaborately examining the Russian circular, the Saxon Minister continues : " This is not the first time that the Diet of Frankfort has been called on to discuss the extent of the federal obligations of Germany to the two great Powers which form part of the Confederation. It is not without utility to recall precedents of a very recent date ; they will prove in what manner its defensive character has hitherto been understood without giving rise to any objection on the part of the Great Powers which signed the treaties on the basis of which Germany entered into public European law. " Some years ago Russia, owing to a difference with the Ottoman empire, caused her troops to occupy the Danubian Principalities. The intervention of the great powers having for its object to bring about an understanding, remained fruitless, in consequence of the refusal of the Ottoman Porte to accept purely and simply the arbitration of the conference of Vienna, and Turkey then declared war on Russia. She had for her allies England and France. At that elioch the Germanic Confederation, on the proposition of Austria and Prussia, took a resolution that any act of agression against the non-Germanic possessions of Austria and Prussia should be considered as an equivalent to an attack on the Federal territory, and when some months after the Austrian troops occupied the Danubian Principalities, the confederation amplified the said resolution to the effect that an attack on that armed force, which was not only out of . the federal but even of the Austrian territory, should be considered as an agression against the confederation. " I am not aware that these decisions drew forth protests or remonstrances from Paris or London or even from St. Petersburgh ; and yet the Imperial Government of Russia would certainly have found cause for opposing them if the attitude of the Confederation had been contrary to treaties. But if the Confederation then remained within the limits of its rights and its duties, why should it now falsify the object of its institution, and disregard the spirit of treaties, by taking similar resolutions ? Or is there no analogy between present circumstances and those which then existed ? There is in truth a difference to be noted. In 1854 the Confederation had in view the eventuality of an aggression coming from the east, and it now turns its regards towards the west. But at that epoch the intervention of the Diet was not preceded by any act or demonstration tending to menace the Austrian or Prussian 'territory ; but now, on the contrary, the intervention has not yet taken place, but the Austrian territory is already invaded. "Will it he objected to us at St. Petersburgh that at that epoch Germany had more to dread from Russia than she now has from France ? The despatch of Prince Gortschakoff reminds us that the French goYernment has solemnly pro claimed that it has no hostile intention towards Germany. It at the same time informs us that this declaration was re ceived with ready assent by the majority 'of the Great Powers. We however remember a manifesto proclaiming the intention of delivering Italy from the Alps to the Adriatic. Has this declaration also obtained the ready assent of the Great Powers ? "ibis dispatch of Prince Gortschakoff states once more the intention of the Imperial Government to watch over the maintenance of the European equelibrium. We are pro foundly impressed with the re-assuring character of this manifestation as regards the future of Europe. We can ap preciate in the same degree the importance of the interest which the Imperial government professes to attach to the integrity of Germany. We flatter ourselves with' the per suasion that if Russia has made sacrifices in favour of Ger many, she does not regret them, for, as stated in the despatch of M. de Gortschakoff, Russia acts in accordance with her own interests, and circumstances have arisen in whiCh Russia, in her turn, has had reason to be satisfied that Germany was eqUally inspired by her own interests. Germany at present calls for no sacrifices ; she only claims her independence in the accomplishment of her federal duties. In thus speaking we have no pretension to be the organ of Germany ; but in matters concerning federal affairs and the maintenance of the rights as well as the obligatiens of the Confederation, we think - each of the Germanic governments is called upon to speak, and, on our part we do not fear any contradiction ,from our .confederates. will please to read the present despatch to Print Gortsehaloff. " BEUST." The National Gazette of Berlin publishes a sort of . appeal to the German nation signed by the principal menibers of the two Chambers of the Duchy of Nassaa, calling on them to leave to Prussia the direction of affairs in the present crisis; They declare, however, that though they are dispOsed to combat, for Germany, they will not do so for the maintenance-of the treaties of 1815., "If Germ any," the add, " must make war, it will be for herself,, and not to defend the interests of Austria. " A letter from Berlin, of the 24th, in the Consfitutionnel, says:— MURDER 42r-DiSEICIDE The itihabitauts of Fountainbridge,_ Edinburgh,. and =3.;7a neighbourhood,- were greatly , excited one Saturday by thr discovery of an appalling tragedy which Ind taken place in one of the houses of that street; occupied by James Hewat Ferrier and Agnes Gourley or Ferrier, his wife. The house in question is in a common-star . , No. 173. Fountainbridge, third flat, and the neighbours having observed no one going in or out of the house for some days past, became alarmed, and gave information to the lieutenant of police, at the same time stating that noises as if of a continued scuffling had been heard on Wanesday evening last. The lieutenant at once ordered the house to be forced open, and this having been accomplished, a scene of the most horriale , nature presented itself. The lifeless bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Ferrier lay stretched on the floor of the kitchen, both of their throats being cut, and the floor a perfect pool of blood. The man was lying with his face downwardl*, .with a razor under his neck. There were also two table knives lying close by the body of the woman. It was at once suspected that the man had been the perpetrator of this atrocious deed, and the suspicion was confirmed some time afterwards by the discovery of a slip of paper, on which the man had written the following words :—" I am now unfit for my business. I have applied to the authorities of both .Ayr and Edinburgh for protection; and only got laughed at. I now appeal to God.' I should wish to 'be laid beside my boy ; but, if this woman is to be laid there,• let my body be given to the disse 'and after they have done with me let my - body On the same paper there were also instructions , the management of some property of which he was pro prietor and the whole was distinctly written. It may be inferred from the words in the above-quoted sentence — "but if this woman is to belaid there"—that Ferrier had written this scroll in the interval between his cutting of the throat of his wife and his own suicide. Both of the deceased were nearly sixty years of age, and had no family. The man was not engaged in any particular business, but he had a good income from horse-property. The neighbours state that, in consequence of the intern _ . sting-room e burned.' given as to me that 110.0 131 10. W Ucva any disturbance was heard in their - house was on Wednesday night last. Early on that evening the wife had been seen much intoxicated, and between- eleven and twelve o'clock a noise of scuffling was hea rd in the house. r". scuffle had not lasted long when some of the ne' mhbours been choking a to-pay as It immediately after which all became suddenly quiet. Aitnougn neither Mr. nor Mrs. Ferrier were seen next day, no atten tion was paid to the circumstance, in consequence of the frequency of such quarrels between them ; and it was only A A.... I ',ranee; nn fien the house remainea quiet Tor SUVItfUt Uar au,vcooLvu. at the neighbours became alarined and called upon the Messrs. Armstrong and Boddington, two English gentle men, belonging to the Indian Railway Company, have been ecordinz to a telegram from V Vaal( of the y-five miles e yesterday. Fiench on Venice and — Tagliarnento (at north-cast of Venice) was expected to t The Grand Duke of Baden has addn Aed'• to his army.an " The time tier of the day, which concludes as fol ce and repose has not yet'arriN'ed may have to - impose on ourselves greater sacrifices, and to undergo more painful trials than any we have hitherto borne. libld yourselves therefore ready to respond to my call and to Zglit under my flag like valiant Germane, for the honour (whore of 1 Ore( Cato that the of the country A le' er from Varese of the 21st qnprlart ,o the ( fe - ssor Dionaco arrived here in such all4iabie greatest uneasiness is felt for his life as a; hostage by General Urban, an obliged to follow the Austrian column onto withstanding his great age, has-been horrible fatigue. His strength- .haYir, he applied to General Urban for - some sufferings. The reply was an order fro him fifty blows with a stick, alter Ile had been arrested ad has: ever since been and, no t- to the most ee9me exhausted ation of his rom the , general to givc r whit he wa! liberty." THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON- .IN evening—the Emperor comes down front his room,- at tended by Marshal Vaillant. The whole military house hold comes out and stands apart.: The Emperor sits down, and a map is brought to him. Marshal Vaillant presents several papers to his Majesty. The Emperor remains alone for a moment, and rests his elbow , on- another chair beside him. A spy arrives, and is introduced. His Majesty listen to him, but apart. A colonel is called; he gives ter, Napoleons to the spy, who seems -well satisded with his pay Marshal Regnault de St:- Jean Emperor convenes with hint. The map is called for several timas —lt is six in the d!Angely rerives ; the Other generals come:. in rhe king arrives in ,lake Soften carriage, and, the two monareas down a little the hectoring air which some portrait, give to King Victor Emmanuel, . - give--him, .a very plain cavalry uniform, and you will. have the portrala of Victor Emmanuel. You must also darken his complexiou a little, give:greater distinctness to his features, so, as- to have the -true ,phy siognomy of a frank soldier used to the life of camps. The Emperor and he go a :littie. apart and converse, both making cigarettes ---ession. The, Emperor, -•o-on close rafts of a VTI aid long. Ottt. I rapid' suc titist th tired of standing, leans ag, by ; the conversation is livers ..._ .. gene,ra, come in. The light, though. now - deelming, is still sufficient to allow of seeing the map,. whioli is again brought forward. At last the King left at tea o'clock, and the Eineearer dismissed his household; a, -w days, Yo :es arc wors -ts retired to his apartment. • of the leeti sleeps more by day than by .oitice, ' a bagel morning, and is called up, as -14 religious ;cuts from Montecitiari. . memorial.' ,sured. THE GRAND Duipe: CONSTANTINE.—sUIt tat. -,....---__ et , hold forth ' ne se shores of the Bosphorus is a romantic,- valley known as ' the truth, theewholo truth, and nothing but the trail s' Gueuk-sou, or the Celestial Waters. He re, embowered truths which, neefforts on the part of all the priests and in amidst gigantic planeetreos, is a kiosque or summer- fatuated and misguided followers of the Church of Rome house belOnging to the Sulean. It was in this. sechnied could affect ;-and should any breach of the peaCe o c c ur—an y and lovely spot that, Abdul Medjicl... Khan, Chef of the ' disgraceful exhibition' manifest itself—your worship's good. Faithful, entertained- at his owe table the. Grand sense willleadyou to infer from what quarter it would arise. Duches - e, Not only did. he depart. from the law which The attempt-in question involvee,these conclusions:—Shall forbids the successor of Othman e to admit. any guest the truth be withheld and suppressed ? ' Shall "'the crimes to his.. table, bat he still further shocked Meissman and abominations practised upon amiable but` too credu prejudices by in. this instance setting aside the. edicts lous feraale.s he glaringly and inhumanely tolerated? Shalt of the Prophet in favour 4:),• a lady and a giaour. the Jesuits be allowed to cut off and destroy Tour rights, It was on the morning of the 17th instant that libertiee, and the blessings of the.constitution of this free glo this memorable circumstance. took place. It was a nuns, and professing Christian land ? 'lf they shall exist it ckjiineur dinatorie,. at which the Grand Duchess, the will ne the guilt of those who calmly look on whilst they even Sultan, and the Grand Duke alone were present. It was profess to pride themselves in, their Dritish privileges. As about mid-day that the three sat down to. table, and regards.my being an 'impostor,' this reiterated falsehood is they did not quit the kiosq.F.,e- till sunset. It must not now in a legal form, and will,be decided in a high court of be forgotten that it was. at the valley of "Inkier- justice..--The Baroness DE CAMIN, in the absence of the Skelessi, a little higher up, the Bosphorus,. that a treaty Baron, at Wigan.—Manchester, Monday, June 27, 185 9 .. " was entered into 'between. Turkey and Russia many —Perceiving that a breach of the peace was likely to take years ago, and it is but natural that rumour should be place, the mayor announced that the lecture would not be now afloat of a secret treaty of no less import having delivered. The town was in a slate of great excitement, been concluded between the Sultan and his imperial and, had the baron shown himself: there is no doubt that a guests in the valley of the Gueuk-Sous. On the evening serious breach of the peace would have occurred. of the same day the Sultan's private operatic company DIPIITILERIA. The symptoms and treatment of performed at the imperial theatre of Dol-naghtehe- diphtheria are attracting the, careful notice of some of the Seated beside the Sultan in hie- box were the Grand most eminent of the medical profession, and without doubt Duchess and her husb.snel. In. the other boxes were ere long any uncertainty, which now exists on the matter will foreign diplomatists.and Turkish Ministers, but Sir Henry be removed. Besides the manner of treatment, it is most Bulwer, the ambassador of England, was not present.— necessary to determine to what extent diphtheria depends Letter from Constatitimpld. upon sanitary conditions; and whether it can, like typhus PRINCE NAKILL'os's ARm.x..—lt is not easy to count fever, be attributed, to bad drainage, want of cleanliness, the men, nor yet the infantry and cavalry regiments, overcrowding, and. other evil arrangements prejudicial to which constitute this Fifth Corps. It is asserted, rather health. Dr. Ballard, the medical officer of health for the loosely, that we have 0.000 men marching with us ; Islington district, has inquired into between sixty and but that nine batteries—that is, fifty-four piecea—of seventy distinct cases, which have occurred in that neigh artillery wound their way through the na rrow streets beurhood ; and it appears that about one-half of these took of Massa this day every man with two pair of eyes place in the families of persons in good positions, occupying could see ; and the trtin, ammunition, and other waggons houses in which no imperfection of drainage or other faults are in proportion. Such a mass of heavy lumber must go could be discovered by the sanitary inspector. It must, by smooth and broad roads if any are to be fo und ; and however, be noticed that, at the rate of 50 per cent. the those of the Al l etone from Fistula to Modena, and of the Cer - houses were in ill -eondition. It is noticed of this disorder, veto fromFirdinovo to Reggio, were so far from offering the , that it has been most serious in ever the s in this respe expedient, in order to follow the easiest way, to lose at from plague or cholera, which generally, like an invading least six days in going back to the very track which, if army,. skirmishes about the outskirts before it attacks you will please to remember, I had pointed out in my the centre. In the City district, and in other populous correspondence for the last 'month or two. By landing parts, the number of eases of di is has been very few at Spezia and c ro ssieg the Cisa the Fifth corps could It is necessary to mention this in, order that we may judge have reached p arm a an d t a ken up its position on the how much this complaint, in its. present form, depends on bank of the Po full two weeks before the battle of malarious influences, and how,touch on sanitary derange- Magenta. What the result of such a move mi g ht have meats. In considering the condition of those dwellings in been towards cu tti n g o ff the retreat of the Aust rians an y which deaths from this ewase have occurred, in houses person conversant w ith military matters will readily seemingly of a zood order, we s hould not loose tight of the perceive. Since, however, a triumphal march into Tuscany surrounding evils. Are there back slums and fever nest was in the ease en scan o f the expedition of the Fifth close by, althou g h hidden f r om the view' Are there p s esti- Corps, it was still expedient, and even almost necessary, to lential ditches, or- unchained lauds near ? ?some of the follow the route we are now travelling over. Our immediate French writers on this subject ti,ttiibut..:l this disease to destination i s P arma , no t Piacenza, as many French officers malaria 2 arising from, fens, stagurAt water, with absurd coofidence asserted. A wearer of epaulettes in other similar causes. The co a I C- -; :ion of Boulogne, where the Fronoh e:rmy is seldom a man of much general informa- diphtlierialas destroyed cesspools, and , , a - I lvich life, is sufficient to account tion, F ee is up to all -the minutest details of his on, sanitary -principles, Vl' . the outbreak which has taken. Putinrilar branch of the service, but, unless he be on place. We hope sesse?. •b y Olio staff, he never looks into a map, never seeks for before the pabliyfr, know-Ist. If t his dan g erous disease ;"_aformation in the hi stor y of past campaigns. I know depend, to a Ireo the facts which will be Id& extent, on neglect of sanitary conditions.: colonels and other staff officers, very loud in their 2nd. If it be. k eect i ous, an d can be transmitted from place idolatry of the m emor y of the first Napoleon, to whom i to place. -'.d. If by here. And , 4 th. " What means by its progress i n other countries, it is the far-famed names of Montebello, Castiglione, Lonato, I likely to 'b e a n e and other twice and thrice-fought fields convey no meaning. 4 would best. best. put persons out of danger of such an enemy.. The Prince, I am told, expresses his conviction that the Wo should also know the extent to which diphtheria has Fifth Corps will operate Under the wall of-Vercna , ' ' 'rage in the provinces.—The Builder. quarter of an ho afterwards. the ht. He wor:iistill one in-the an at three or four.--fitter SEDUCTION. At - tie Court" of Exchequer, on Monday, the ease of Thompson v. ROSS' was tried. This was an ac ti on b ro u g ht by the plaintiff, who is a widow, to recover compensation in damages for the-sed - Uction of her daughter. The defen dant pleaded not guilty. Mr. Pearce was counsel for the plaintiff; -- Mr. D. D. Keane was counsel for the defendant. Mr. Pearce, in stating the case for the plaintiff, said that she was- a widow, in the employ of Messrs. Nicoll's, shirt miters; as a seamstress, in which she was assisted by her daughter; The latter, however, went into the employ of Mr. and Mrs. Ross, there residing in the Old Kent-road, but 'now residing near Big:zieswade, in Bedford, where the defendant's son is stationedlas •an officer of Excise, with a salary of about £6O a year. It appeared that during the absence of his parents this young man, who was about twentvfii , e years of age, returned home, and finding the plaintiff's daughter alone, effected his purpose, and she subsequently gave birth to a child, which was dead-burn. Another result of the illicit intercourse was that the female contracted a disease of a certain character front her sedUcer, and for which she was now under medical. treatment; Mrs. Thompson deposed that she-was a widow, and that - her daughter Frances Eliza would be 18 years of age in January next. In 1356 she obtained a situation for her at the defendant's father's, who resided in the Old. Kent-road. Mr. Ross had a son named George Forrester Ross. She was eleven months in their employ, and when she returned to me she was three months gone in the family way,. and was suffering from disease. r have been employed by Messrs. Nicolls, shirt maker's, and my daughter worked nir me in that business. Cioss-examined : She gave her consent to her daughter's entering the defendant's service. Fiances Eliza Thompson deposed that she went into the defendant's service_ in May, 1857. T son was represented to witness by his mot s i;( years of age, but he stated he was ltv-one wen ty- ye years of One day, when her mast id mistress were out, Eking the bed at the the son returned" home time. Witness then detailed what to( had been confined in October of a ice, and that she child. She also contracted at the time a loathsome dis ss-examined n named She. never I The Lord Chief B: and she also knm a pers door to her m either of them. s with learned counsel for the plaintiffs if he thought he could maintain the action. The girl was in the service of the defendant, and under no obligation to serve - - Hu suggested that counsel shr,,,il m, and reserve liberty verdict for tY t to rule a 1 for • the defendant mi:g Hord to be liber little chance that he woul Against his own so Lord Ct (Laugh would have been awkward the father would have to pay any ( and therefore he could not There had 1 the son tant sum vas very Mr. Yes. that Keane said found against It to an exorbi- DO solititation on tha son's part, and the girl had continued, after the•committal o act, in the defendant' Ho - would Tree to a verdict of '220, subject to the point of law to be ie2erved. As the learned counsel could not agree on a sum, the case proceeded: Evidence was then , given of the birth of the child and the state of the female. Mr. Keane, on the part of the defendant, called Mr. Charles . Baker. He deposed that he was a house decorator, and' knew the defendants. with Frances Eliza Thompson whet service. Recollected being there on one .o Ross's'were out. She sat on his 1 took liberties with her. Lord ItiOn take place ? What r did no ainted was in their ion when the s, kissed him, and he aron : Tit 2 any Mr. He was au Witness ily not NO; they were interrnpted by tboreturn of the defendant's parents. Mr. Pearce : Where did all this take place ? Witness : In- the first place in the front parlonr ;- but, as the gaslight tlirCw their shadow orrthe blind, they adjOurned to the back kitchen. (Laughter.)- - A verdict was then, taken by consent for £5O, with leave to the defendant to move the court on the point of law xAether the girl was in, her mother'§ service, so as to enable- the mother to maintain. her ac of Ellis and The Daily .New says that Mr.. Blackburn, Blackburn, is to be the new Paine Judge. The Mowing Adrertiser puts the. country on its guard by stating, on its own authority, that Louis Napoleon-has made up his mind, at the first favourable- opportunity,, to make a descent-on the shores of Ireland. The Pest anticipates the speedy - expulsion of the -Austrians from -Italy, and then will be,the. time for .Europe to inter fere-for pe:;.ce ; for if peaes be not then obtained; none can tell what more extensive conflagration may spring forth from ,the unqueseled fire THE I rkItTON DE CA memorial is in the ha bormw.h Itzanan Cat INTIGAs. - The following of• several inhabitants of the ;:atimidatiou. = To.the MaTor ~ester :B'xaminer a statement from the Wigan. correspondent of that - journal of a Jesuitical effort on the part. of some Roman Catholics having addressed a memorial to your Worship, with the wicked and twofold view to intimidate and induce your Worship to prevent the delivery of my lectures 'On Jesuits and Nunneries,' and 'On Auricular Confession,' in the, Mechanics' Institution,, Wigan, and thus keep in ignorance the Protestants of England, whilst at this moment the. Sardinian . government is not only suppressing those dens of abomination and crime, but has issued a. mandate commanding the Jesuits to pit the land withir hip - is unblush ingly told that the. °Meet. _ ...re likely to lead. to a disgraceful. eyanhition' .each of the peace'-- ' villify the dearosf ...-ntiments of the large body who present the Be assured, Mr. Mayor, those .lectures wou t- - not ono sentence contrary to of Wiian Mr. Mayor M I nines, there ['Deus