The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1864.

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Laying the Foundation Stone of the
Palmerston Hotel at Kilburn.

General M•Clellan's Chances,

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On Saturday Fifternoon the ceremony of laying
tie foundation stone of the Palmerston Hotel, situate
at the junction of the Midland Railway with that of
the Metropolitan and St. John's Wood live and the
Hampstead and North London Railway, at the
Edgware-road station of the latter, was performed by
Captain Donald Nicoll, on whose estate it is situate,
in the presence of a large number of the gentry
resident in the locality. Amongst those on the
ground were Lieut.-Colonel Whitebead, the com-
manding officer ; the Rev. Wm. Charles Williams,
chaplain; Copts. Cameron, Goode, Gray, and other
officers of the North Middlesex. Rifles, of which
corps Mr. Donald Nicoll has recently also become a
captain ; Mr. S. Taylor, member of the Metropo-
litan Board of Works, 8,70. The ceremony having
been completed,

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Capt. DOAIALD NICOLL, in addressing the com-
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cation, it was understood that the residents of that
highly-respectable and daily.increasing metropoli-
tan outskirt district would, in the course of a short
time, be enabled to reach the very heart of the city
of London, if the Lothbury side of the Bank of Eng.
land could be so called, in a period of time not ox'
ceeding 17 minutes,and it had teibn felt by those who
had entered upon the enterprise that at the point
of junction of several important lines connecting
with the great metropolis ample hotel aecommodas
tion was absolutely necessary. Although coming
there to enjoy what he had contemplated would be
rural retirement for himself and his family, he had
he said yielded to the desire for commercial specu-
lation, and had consented to give up his property
for the erection of a neighbourhood on which 600 or
700 villa residences were to be erected, and which
would no doubt, in the course of a few years, be one
of the finest in London.
The Palmerston Hotel is situate at the entrance
of the West End Park estate, from the eastward side
of the Egdware-road, forming the corner of the road
to be designated the " Palmerston-road," comprised
of semi-detached villa residences, and upwards of a
mile in length. The design is that of Mr J. Parker,
the architect, and the lessee and builder is Mr E,
Bannister. The hotel will have a very handsome
stone front, on which will be emblazoned the noble
premier's heraldic symbols.
After the company had witnessed the ceremony
West End Park
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some silver trowel, with which he had laid the
foundation stone, was presented to Captain Nicoll,
bnearrEin.gßtahnenifsotlelorwtoinDgoinnaelcd Nicoll,ription--- inscription---" bysq., on laying
the foundation stone of the Palmerston Hotel, on
the West End Park estate, Sept. 24, 1864." The
proceedings, which were enlivened by the excellent
music of the band of the North Middlesex Rifles,
closed at an early hour.

Th© Moora and Forests of Scotland.

(From the _lnverness Courier.)

Sportsmen have almost entirely deserted the
moors, and the greater part of them have betaken
themselves to the forests, A few birds, however,
are occasionally shot. Sir Greville Smyth and
party, at Erchless Castle, bagged from the 12th to
the 17th inst., 36 brace of grouse. 16 brace of par..
tridge, and 17 hares. A few good bags have also
been made in other parts of the North. At Inver-
broom, G. Mitchell Inness, Esq., and party, bagged
40 brace of grouse the other day before luncheon.
The forests are giving excellent sport. On the
7th inst., at Fannicb, Arthur Walsh, Esq., killed a
stag with a head of ten points, one of nine points,
two with heads of eight, and one with six tines—
five stags in one day. In the Dundonuell Forest
Major Makenzie recently shot two very fine stags ;
one of them weighed 18 stones 10 lbs. clean, and
the span of the antlers was 311 inches. This is the
first season that this forest has been preserved, and
as it is already well stocked with deer it bids fair
to become a good one. Earl Cowper, at Cluanie,
has recent killed some good stage- On Saturday he
shot one which weighed 17 stones 31bs, Sir Grey.
ville Smyth and party
at Erchless, have, from the
12th to the 17th inst., shot eleven stags and two
yeld ewes. In Farley Wood, near Beaufort, on the
17th must:, the Hon. Henry Fraser shot a stag of 24
stones weight when perfectly clean. At Balms-
caan, on the 14th, the Earl of Seafield shot a fine
stag and a fallow buck ; and on
the 17th, John
Blake, Esq., Lakefield, shot a stag with a capital
royal head. The weight of the latter was 17 stones
2 pounds.
Mr. H, Snowie, gun-maker, Church-street, has
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received the following stags' heads for preservation
viz. :—Two fine stags'heads
ono of them a Loch Stack cabber slatch—span three
feet ; a very good royal head from
from
Sir
Beaufort F.
Johnson,
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the stag having been shot by the Earl of Listowel ;
a capital stag's had from H. W. White, Esq.; a fine
hnstolneroe head from Mr. Bisset, Huntly ; a roe head from
C. Mackinnon, Eeq., Culloden ; and a third from
Lochluichart. Hugh Mackenzie, Esq., of D undon-
nell, has sent a good specimen of a head of eleven
tines, and Hugh Davidson, Esq., of Cantray, a good
roe head. Arthur Walsh, Esq., Fannich, has also
forwarded a very fine head to be stuffed.
Among a great number of stag's heads sent for
preservation to Mr. Mackay, bird-stuffer, Church.
street, Inverness, from different parts of the country
there are some particularly fine specimens from
Balmacaan, sent by the Earl of Seafield ; from
Erchless Castle, sent by Sir Greville Smyth and
party; and from Dunrobin, Kinrara, A lt u naharra,
Invergarry, and Lows.
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AND FRENCH SOLDIERS. The
British Army for 1862, just issued
rlietieulars respecting the size and weight
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furnishing recruits was 1 v-,in), and that of the
army was 1.670 metres (634 in). From 1831 to 1860 the num-
ber of men rejected annually under the standard of P 56
metres, or 611 in, varied frorn 9'28 to 5.6 per cent ; but there
was a gradual, though not perfectly uniform, lessening in the
number of rejections on this ground in successive years ;
or, in other words, the height of the men forming the con-
script classes has been
artm gradually augmenting. On classing
the conscripts by depents, it appears that the number
of exemptions for want of stature, from 1831 to 1860, have
augmented in 19, and lessened in 63. This must indicate a
gradual improvement in the nutrition and bodily develop-
ment of the population, consequent on the long term of
peace and the lessened number of strong young men carried
off from the population, M. Boudin states that, from a
study of the height of mon in the departments, it is evident
that race has a predominant influence. It appears from a
table of the heights of the French army in 1561 and 1862
that 15 per cent are below 63in, that more than 50 per cent
aro between 63 and GGin in height, 32 per cent above sft
Gin, and 7 per cent above sft Bin. By a decree of 1860 the,
height for the respective arms varied from 1.70 metres (69
inchea) the highest (oarabi"e"), to 1•56 (611 inche,) the
lowest (for the infantry of the line and chasseurs). The
stature of the English army is taken from the Army Me-
dical report of 1860. In that year 1•5 per cent were below
sft 3in, 49 per cent were between sft 3in and sft Gin, 49 per
cent were above sft Gin, and 15 per cant were above sft Bin.
The weights of the French conscripts are not given. It
may be useful to place here those of the English recruits
of 1860, as given by Dr Balfour :—Weight of 10,000 re-
cruits—Below 100 lb, 157; from 1001 b to 1101 b, 663; from
1101 b to 1201 b, 2,296 ; 1201 b to 1301 b, 2,817 ; 130 to 1401 b,
2,090 ; 1101 b to 1501 b, 1,254 ; 150 to 1601 b, 488 ; 1601 b to
1701 b, 180 ; above 1701 b, 65 ; MIL 10,000,

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I suppose that most of my readers know that the
candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency
are not voted for directly by the people, but that
each State chooses according to its population -a
certain number of electors, New York, for instance,
35, and Delaware 3, who elect the President and
Vice-President, and who form the body known as
the Electoral College. But as these men are always
pledged to vote for certain candidates, it may be
supposed Viet the result of the election is the same
as if it were made by a direct vote of the people.
Not so in ono very important respect. For instance,
iu the election of 1860 Mr Lincoln bad in the Elec-
toral College (which by the way never meets) 180
votes, Breckenridge 72 votes, Bell 39, and Doug-
las 12. Mr Lincoln's majority over all his oppo.
nents was therefore very large, 57 in the Electoral
College. But in the popular vote, although he had
a small plurality over Douglas (the Democrat who,
observe, received most votes from the people, yet
least in the Electoral College), he was in a minority
of nearly 1,000,000 as against all his opponents.
This was caused by the division of the Demo-
cratic party, which had three candidates in
the field. It is plain, then, that if the Demo•
cratic party can be united upon one man, Mr Lin-
coln will be defeated, unless a change has taken
place in the convictions of a considerable propors

tion of that party. This its leaders deny, saying,
on the contrary, that Mr Lincoln's Administration
has alienated even these who first supported him.
At the last election Mr Lincoln received 1,857,610
ballots, having from the States now under " Con-
federate" control not a single ballot. Mr Lincoln's

three opponents received 2,804,560. But in ex-
amining present probabilities, it is obviously neces-
sary to subtract from this number the number of
votes cast against Mr Lincoln in the States now in
insurrection—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina,
Texas, and Virginia. Upon a careful calculation I
find that the number of ballots cast against Mr
Lincoln is thus reduced to 2,095,298, leaving the
majority against him on the popular vote in the
States now under control of our Government
237,681. If, then, the old Democratic party still
holds together, and votes together, Mr Lincoln will
surely be defeated at the coming election, even
without the aid of the ten States which four years
ago cast all their votes against him. But will the
Democratic party hold together ? I think that it
will to a very much greater degree than the new
Union party are inclined to believe. A very heavy
vote will be cast for General M'Clellan, and unless
experience of this war has purged the commonweal
and purified us more than I fear it has, there is a
chanco of his election, although, as you w ill see, a
defection of 150,000 votes from the party will give
the popular vote to Mr Lincoln. He must carry
New York, or he will be defeated. —New York
Correspondent of the Spectator.

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immediately conveyed in ambulances to the Royal Victoria
Military Hospital at Netley, and the remainder proceeded
by train to join their respective regiments. Before leaving
the vessel Lieut. Napier handed a letter to Capt. Harris,
expressing, on behalf of Himself, Dr Greig, and the troops
under his command, their full appreciation of the great
kTndncss and courtesy shown to them by Capt. Harris and
his (A-ricers and crew during the passage from Gibraltar to
England. The troops having all landed, the Gibraltar sailed
from Southampton at 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon for
London.
The following appointments were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :—Sun-Lieut. Herbert F. Gye to the Black
Prince; Sub• Lieut. Francis Romilly to the hector; J.
Alien and Dr. R. Potter, assist.-surge. additional, to tiro
Victory; C, F. Buchan and J. Stott, asrist.•suras. addi-
tional, to the Royal Adelaide,

Report of the Swiss Federal Council upon
the Disturbances at Geneva.

BERNE, Sept. 21.
A lengthy report has been sent in by the Swiss
Federal Council to the Federal Assembly conoern•

ing the election disturbances which recently took
place at Geneva.
After detailing the events already known, and
stating the measures adopted by the Federal com-
missioners to restore tranquillity, the report refers
as follows to the rumours of the riots having been
occasioned by foreign influence :
As it had been ascertained that strangers were also con-
cerned in the occurrences of the 22d August, the Federal
commissioners considered it advisable to institute inquiries
as to the surveillance over foreigners maintained by the
police. Evidence was obtained that a considerable num-
ber of partially• dangerous rabble was present, and that the
management of the police leaves much to be wished for.
It would be very desirable if an improvement could ba
effected in this matter, which is still under the consideration
of the commissioners.

We must take this opportunity of alluding to the rumours
which originated in Geneva, and have spread throughout
Switzerland, that the occurrences of Aug. 22 were brought
about by influence from abroad. We have, however, not
discovered the slightest ground for any such supposition;
and the rumour associated therewith—that French troops
had been concentrated upon the frontier—has been shown
to be utterly incorrect. The rumour referred to may never-
theless have contributed to the step subsequently adopted
by the French Government in the internisation of M. Fazy,
who evaded the order of the Federal juge d'instruction to
appear before him by withdrawing to French territory.
These are the most important points which have guided
us in constant agreement with our commissioners. We are
glad to be able to state here that as the Federal Council has
throughout been unanimous in the resolutions it has adopted,
it has always been its agreeable duty upon every occasion
to approve and ratify the measures of its commissioners.
The latter occupied a very difficult position amidst the
excited factions, and it was not to be expected that they, any
more than the Federal Councl, could escape various ex-
pressions of distrust. We consider it therefore incumbent
upon us to state here publicly that these Federal officials
have throughout enjoyed our fullest confidence.

In the above we have communicated to you measures
already belonging to the past, and with respect to which
we only seek your approval. Regarding further action wo
are at present unable to recommend any steps, but must
content ourselves with asking you for more extended
powers. Although we hope that the Federal occupation
will be speedily lessened, and in the sequel entirely with-
drawn, it would not bo at present possible to give definite
assurances to that effect. Much will depend upon the
result of the Federal investigation. Wear() of opinion that
full scope must bo allowed to justice, in order that a clear
picture of the occurrences of the 22nd of August should be
displayed to the entire Confederation at the ensuing assizes,
which we think should be held at Geneva.
_ _ _

Casting, finally, a comprehensive glance upon the whole
matter, every Swiss must deeply lament the occurrences in
Geneva, as in more than one respect sickly vagaries of
democratic life. They contain, however, light as well as
shadow. The events of Geneva have served to display our
collective Federal institutions to all the greater advantage.
It is a very gratifying fact that the mere announcement of

impending Federal intervention caused factions in a state
of the greatest excitement to cease from acts of violence.
The Federal commissioners were received with undivided
satisfaction, the Federal troops with rejoicing by bath
parties. Instead of the Confederates expected to celebrate
a holiday, they came with a different and far more serious
mission. But their rapid appearance at the cry for help
may afford Geneva proof how near is Federal aid in the
time of need, and how it will not be wanting in the hour of
danger. The assembly of our troops in readiness to march
in the course of not more than 12 hours, with their subse-
quent excellent behaviour, affords favourable testimony to
the condition of our means of defence and the spirit of our
Federal army.
The report concludes with a recommendation of
the Council that the Federal Assembly shall adopt
the following resolutions :-
1. The steps taken by the Federal Council for the recto•
ration of order in Geneva are approved.
2. The Federal Council is empowered to allow the Fede
ral commissioners and troops in occupation to remain at
Geneva so long as circumstances require their presence.
3, The necessary credit for this purpose will be opened
by the Federal Council.
4. The Federal Council is requested to lay a further re-
port on this matter before the Federal Assembly during the
winter session.