The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING JUNE 14, 1864.

to the finances of New Zealand, in order that they might
be able to judge whether the surplus fund relied upon
existed.

Mr CARDWELL explained that the loan was to be a
first charge upon the general expenditure of the colony.
Mr WHALLEY requested an answer with respect to
his inquiries on the conduct A the Roman Catholic priest-
hood.

Mr CARDWELL said he did not think it was necessary
at so late a period of the evening to go into such matters.
(Cheers and laughter.)
The resolution was then agreed to.
COLLECTION OF TAXES BILL.

On the order of the day for the third reading of this bill,
Sir W. JOLLIFFE appealed to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer not to press forward so unpopular a bill until
more time had been allowed for the consideration of its pro-
visions. He moved the adjcurnment of the debate.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
house had concurred in the principle of the bill ; so he
hoped that the house would not concur in the motion.
Mr NE WDEGATE said that great dissatisfaction existed
in the country as to the nature and objects of the bill with
reference to the exemption of the large towns, and on those
grounds he should support the motion, so as to give an
opportunity for further discussion.

After some explanations from Mr HARVEY LEWIS in
explanation of his reasons for withdrawing his amendment
for exempting large towns,
Mr KNIGHT supported the motion.
The house divided, with the following result--
Ayes
Noes
Majority
Sir W. JOLLIFFE expressed his regret that the right
hon. gentleman should persevere at so late an hour of the
morning (ona o'clock).

Mr HENNESSY moved that the house do now adjourn.
Mr NE WDEGATE urged the right hon. gentleman not
to persevere.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER yielded to
the suggestion of Mr Newdegate, and put the third reading
for Thursday next.

SUPPLY.
The report of supply was brought up and agreed to.
PUBLIC AND REFRESHMENT HOUSES (ME-
TROPOLIS) BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
PILOTAGE ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
SUPERANNUATION (UNION OFFICERS) BILL.
This bill was read a second time.

BEER-HOUSES (IRELAND) BILL.
The amendments to this bill were considered and
agreed to.

COVENTRY FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
This bill was read a second time.
The Settled Estates Act Amendment Bill was read a
second time.

BURIALS REGISTRATION BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
The County Constabulary Superannuation Bill was ?ead
a second time.
The house then adjourned.

DENMARK,

(From the limes' Special Correspondent.)
ELSINORE, June 9.
Yesterday the King opened the new railway line
which hasjust been completed between Copenhagen
and Elsinore. The distance as the crow flies is not
much more than 20 English miles. They have
made the railway more than one-third longer by
going round to Fredericksborg and Fredensborg, so
that the fastest trains will not get over the ground
in less than two hours, which is just the time em-
ployed by the steamers plying from port to port.
Speed of locomotion and the time gained by it are,
however, no objects with these good Danes,and they
think little of the loss of an hour in a line of first-
rate European importance. This line is to join the
Swedish railways at ilelsingborg, across the Sound,
the train being carried over the three miles of water
by one of ;;nose ferries on the American plan, con-
structed for that purpose. It will thus become the
direct means of communication between Stockholm
and Copenhagen ; further, by following the line
from Copenhagen toKorsor, from Korsor by another
ferry to Nyeborg by rail to Middletart, from Middle-
fart by ferry to Snoghoi, in Jutland, and thence all
across Schleswig and Holstein to Hamburg, this
will travel over Zealand, Funen, and across the
Oresund and the Great and the Little Belts, convey.
ing passengers in the same carriage from the two
Northern capitals to the great German free city and
the rest of the world.
We were all assembled at the terminus (Clampen_
borg station) in Copenhagen at half-past 11. The
Ring was there, the Queen, the Crown Prince, the
Princess Dagmar, and about 200 persons, Cabinet
Ministers, civil, military, and naval officers, cow-
' tiers, railway directors, and other citizens; most of
the people in uniform ; almost all with stars and
crosses, cordons and keys, a goodie display of the
world's vanities, all glittering in the sun of one of
what the English people called " Queen's-days,"
the weather being as propitious to the movements
of Royalty in Denmark as it is proverbially in
England,
The district travelled over by this short line may
be called the garden of Zealand ; it is a blessed land,
equally good to live and to look upon. Four or five
of the greatest Royal parks stretch in eight of the
line to the right and left—Charotten-lund, Dyr-
have, Hovelte, &c. ; sweeps of the richest meadow-
land and masses of the thickest forest verdure swell
about far and wherever the eye tures. It is Eng-
lish landscape in its happiest mood, with the addi-
w hero and
tional peculiarity of broad sheets of water
there; the mirror ever ready 'wherever there is
beauty to rejoice in its reketion.
At
; most o
the f the 8
t:etions the trait stopped, as I
said
:coal autheritles stepped up to the
here
King's caretage as it slackened speed ; there the
King himself and his suite and all of us alighted,
and there was interchange of obeisances, congratu-
tions, and good wishes. The whole population of
the neighbourhood, es a matter of course, crowded
together at these halting-places—a well-dressed,
good-looking, wellebehaving Danish multitude.
The King stepped down not merely in front of
them, but among them—into them,---the Xing and
the Queen, and the Crown Prince—a rather tall,
handsome young gentleman, in the uniform of a
field-officer of the infantry of the line—and that
lovely Princess Dagmar, so young and modest and
ingenuous, looking evidently happy
with the gaiety
and the novelty of the scene, as were also her
parents, for the reception they met with every-
where was so hearty and genuine as to dispel even
the cloud of care so habiteally set on the noble
brow of the Queen. Truly this a goed-looking
family, and I am sure the impression they made
yesterday upon thousanda ef their subjects, to
whom their facss were ors yet unfamiliar, was that
no kingly race ever better became their station
than this "newlyearrived" house, who to
take so little of the greatness of
Royaltyseem upon
themselves, Not the King only, but the Queen,
and even the young Princess mixed
the Pr;‘,see,
singly with the crowd, and had a word to say to all
who were not too shy to approach them. No won-
der the arrival and departure of the train were the
signals for the loudest shouts of the delighted assem-
blage. At Fredericksborg, especially, the scene was
extremely animated ; dense throngs of ladies, in the
gayest attire, filled up all open spaces and spread
widely over the avenues, their handkerchiefs wav-
ing in the air beautifully contrasting with the
variety of their rainbow dresses and pink parasols.
They looked like an animated Dannebrog—all red
and white. Those dear national colours, floating
above the buildings, absorbed all other hues die-
played by the motley multitude.

An affecting scene awaited us as we burst in sigh,
of the Sound just upon nearing Elsinore. The train
came to a standstill on an elevated position near
the shore, and drawn up in a line before us wesaw
about a dozen of the men of-war of the Baltic fleet,
from every one of which the cannon gave its thunder
of welcome to the king. On the land side, along
oe di
ni
the road, were most of the crews of those ships in
their clean blue shirts, presenting arms; their
trumpets, rather more in tune than the bugler of
the land troops, struck up the noble strain "Kong
Christian stod ved hoien Mast"--a strain that went
through the nerves of most bystanders, and thrilled
them with some of those emotions which come upon
us when wo are least in quest of them.
It was impossible to look at those fair, weather-
beatencees without
mariners,f
as we went past the long row of
fsenc e
convinced that one stood in
p
array of English tars. The
look, the shape, the bearing of the men are identi-
cal. The very sound of the language displays the
faces,
a g i.g
goodly
greatest affinity. There were men in the Danish
army at Sonderborg who used to startle me as I heard
them talking among themselves, because I actually
thought ailit their idiom Was not only like Eng-

lish, but actual English. This is especially the case,
I am told, with some of the people of West Jut-
land and Schleswig, whose dialects are not altoge•
Cher unintelligible when they come ashore in some
of the English northern counties or in the Scottish
lowlands. Truly a closer kinship than exists be-
tween Great Britain and Denmark is nowhere to be
found on earth; and it seems hard, indeed, that the
bigger sister should not raise as much as a little
linger in behalf of the younger one, to save her
from the two great bullies who have almost beat=
the soul out of her body.
Presently we all set foot on Elsinore, and the
King and suite proceeded in carriages to the shore
of the Sound, where they alighted in sight of the
Kronborg and of the Swedish coast, the King stand•
ing on a high spot near the shore and pointing out
the most salient objects to the Queen, who seemed
to be a stranger in these parts, and was delighted
h what There was then a backward
move, and b
all saw.
joined again at the Skyte-bane, or
shooting gallery, a large building and grounds near
wit s
belongingasantead.
to the rifle club of the town,
wheret the station
the
feast
was
I happen to have been more than once present at
the opening of railways by the King of Italy, and I
was particularly struck with the difference with
whichcan be gone through in
different
In Italy the road from Bo•
logna to Ancona, or from the latter
place to Pesa
cars, traverses classic ground, and the names of
the
same
countries.
Faenza, Rimini, Peser.in thto
o,&oot, makes far different im
pression on the ea,r.fra
bf Hellerup, Lyngby,
Birkerod, &c., wench tee man has ever heard out of
Denmark, tyad with Which the Dane himself has no
great treediticns to associate. Moreover, the Italians
are it loud, demonstrative people ; art and taste
Come natural to them in the decoration of their
most crushing tyranny ; the locomotive was as new
to them as the King who
fee stciuveadls. froniTho thsee provinces, besides, were new 4
had lately annexed them, the fellow-subjects who
were coming to greet them, and the glad tidings of
freedom and civilisation that 'name in their train.
eris;aark,
The opening of a railway under such circumstances
in Italy was a pohtical event, a peaceful revolution.
the railway comes as the last
dfl ilea: kir
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b a t chain
suorfprgradualsurprises
b
noscoediya progress.ilepeople
I t
go out ee welcome the train as a matter of com-
Inca occurrence—.a familiar object, which, if they
have not seen here, they have seen a score of
miles ofir, They are glad of a holiday—glad
of an opportunity for the display of loyal
feelings to their Sovereign. That Sovereign is no
stranger to them ; he comes to the throne as the
heir of a long-established dynasty in the regular
course of succession. For the rest, they think little
of arches, tapestries on the walls and damask cloths
from the windows ; they bring themselves, and their
honest, bright faces, and their lusty cheers. That
must make joy enough for the new corners end for
themselves. Anything theatrical would be out of
the question ; anything eves artistical would be out
of keeping with the prosaic iron rails.
On one point, however, the Danes have exhibited
a most decided superiority over the Italians, and
that is the dinner. At Ancona or Pescara four or
five hundred starving men, standing round ill-
provided tables, with hat, in hand and cloak on arm,
had to snatch such morsels as they could get at.
wrangling and almost squabbling. In Denmark
we sat about 200 in one room, seated round
four longitudinal tables and a transverse one, and
before us were laid about twelve dishes, handed
round in as many courses, with every variety of
French, German, and Peninsular wines. The din-
ner was a good thing ; but the leisure, cordiality,
and actual brotherhood with which we ate
it were even better. The King sat in the
middle of the high table, having his Queen on his
left, the young rrincess Daginar on his right, who
was supported on the other side by her brother, the
Crown Prince. Round the same table were the
Ministers, some of the great Court dignataries, and
the directors of the new railway, the hosts of the day.
One of these latter, a Herr David, stood up just
as we had despatched our kalvert:ay, groncester,
olivensaracc—i, a., when we were through about
one-fourth of the dinner, and, as he stood face
to face with the king, the table only intervening,
he, in a short neat speetb proposed the " Health of
the King." The band struck up "King Christian
stood by the i.orty mast; " the cannon thundered
outside. The toast was received with real enthu-
slum!), and the King actually,lingled glasses" with
Herr David. He then thanked thu assembled ghests
with an easy fl)vv of language and some happy allu-
sion to the " hark of the State that would yet be got
s
safely out of the stormy tae," Which elicited new
The Queen," for whom the Xing made an
applause. The same indefatigable Herr David next
proposed "
apprcpriate answer. The ttrrn next came for Prince
Frederick, the Croa.n prince, and his sister Dagmer,
when the former get up and acquitted himself of his
task with a readiness and aplomb quite beyond his
years, The King rid not forget " The Army and
Navy," which toast was drunk amid the strains of
" Den tappre Lanlsoldat" and " Holmens faste
Stock." The absent were not defrauded of their
share, especially King George of Greece, who, no
doubt, would have been glad enough to be with us
—glad to be anywhere, perhaps, rather than where
he is, Bishop Monred also proposed "The Princess
of Wales," who might almcst have heard the hurrah
which rose in her honour all the way from the shores
of the Oresund to her boudoirat Marlborough House.
fhe King assured the bystanders that " his absent
daughter felt as poignantly for the calamities of her
country as any there present." After one more
toast, for the " good old city Elsinore," the King
and suite left the table. We rose in a hurry and
followed into the garden, whence, after a hasty cup
of coffee, 199 of the company took their seats in the
carriages back to Copenhagen, and only one—your
correspondent—repaired to his new quarters a
Elsiuore.

Naval and idilitary Intelligence,

A letter from Malta says :—" Between the 2d and sth of
June the harbour presented unusual activity. The steam
storeship Supply had arrived froth Corfu; the Dromedary,
from Cephalonia., with items and baggage; and the Or-
lando steam frigate, and Trident steam sloop, from Cepha-
lonia; the steam frigate Liffey, from Zante; the steam fri •
gate Alagicienne, from Santa Maura ; the steam Corvette
Cossack, from Ithaca; and the screw steath line of battle
ship Meeanec, from Corfu. The last siX brought 39 officers,
1,118 non-commissioned officers and privates, 61 women,
and 133 children of the Ist battalion, 9th Regiment.
Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Galatea arrived
on the 4th from Corfu, bringing nine officers, 109
non-commissioned officers and privates, 35 women, and 63
children of the I4oyal Engineers; eight non commissioned
officers and privates, 14 women, and 12 children of other re=
giments for Gibraltar, for which port she left on June 6.
Her Majesty's screw steam troopship Himalaya arrived on
the same day, likewise from Corfu, bringing 33 officers? 912
non-commissioned officers and privates, 65 remen, and 302
children of the 4th Regiment and of the Royal Artillery.
Her Majesty's scull' steam troopship Tamar also arrived
from Corfu the 4th, bringing
for Malta One tion-corn-
raiseerne() officer and 18 privates) and for Gibraltar, for
'which port she took her departure on the same day, 980
officers, noh-eommissioned officers, and privates of the 2d
battalion) 12d Regiment. Major-Gen. Sir It. Garrett) lately
commanding the forces in the lonian island% slid Mrs Gar-
rett, Capt. Beresford, A.D.C.) Col, Maude, C. 8., V.C., of
the Royal Artillery, with his wife and family; Col. Robert-
son, appointed Deputy Quartermaster- Gen, at Malta, Assist.
Coln.-Gen. Cruickshanks, Deputy Assist. Com.-Gen. Leach
and wife, the Rev. Mr 'Wrench, and the Earl of March,
besides several civilians, came as passengers by the above-
named ships of war. Her Majesty's screw steamship of the
line, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Smart, K.H., Com-
mander-in-Chief, arrived on the 7th from Katackolo, in
Greece, preceded on the 6th by the schooner steam yacht
Undine, from the same place, having on board the Duke of
Sutherland and the Earl of Sefton. The United States
sailing corvette Constellation left Malta on June 1 for
Alexandria.
The Pigmy, Goverment paddle steam tender at Ports-
mouth, Master Commanding W. W. Vine, has returned to
that harbour, from her temporary station, under the command
of Commander Colomb, R.N., off the south coast of the Isle
of Wight, where she has been engaged in experimental tele-
graphic operations. These telegraphic experiments have
been carried on by Commander P. H. Colomb, R.N., with
Capt. F. J. Bolton, 12th Regiment, F.R.G.S., under the
direction of the Admiralty and the War _office, in order to
perfect a system of telegraphy applicable to one code of
signalling for the use of the army and navy, and having
special reference to coast defences. So far as the experi-
ments have yet gone, they have been most successful. Com-
munications by signal have been kept up for hours from the
temporary signal station on St. Catherine's Down, Isle of
Wight, under the direction of Capt. Bolton, and the Pigmy
steamer 24 English miles off in the Channel, under the direc-
tion of Commander Colomb, and from the results which have
attended these experiments inferences may be safely drawn
that an ordinary message of 20 words may be thus trans-
mitted from a look-out ship nearly halfway across the Chan-
nel to the nearest English headland in 15 miles. Such re-
sults as these bid fair to revolutionise the ordinary modes of
signalling, It is understood that the Admiralty, fully ap-
preciating the importance of the whole question, have
ordered a further series of trials to be made.
The America, target-ship at Portsmouth, is again having
her sides strengthened in parts, and newly planked with
greenheart planking to receive armour-plates for trial. The
greenheart planking is six inches in thickness inside and
outside the ship's frame, and on this will be bolted with iron
and steel bolts (the latter experimental) for the next trial
iron and steel armour-plates from the firms of John Brown
and Co,, of the Atlas Steel and Iron Works, and from C.
Cammil and Co., of the Cyclops Works.
The Wolverine, ironca'ed corvette, and the Research
and Enterprise, rams, arrived in Great Yarmouth Roads
last night, to await orders, it is supposed, for the North.
Fires were lighted in the furnaces of the Channel
Squadron at 7 o'clock yeoterday morning at Plymouth. The
screw steamship Prince Consort, 3.5, Capt. George 0. Willes,
C. 8., hove short at 9, and at half•past left the Sound
by the Western Channel. The Black Prince, 41, Capt. J.
B. Wainwright, second in command, followed. The flag-
ship Edgar, 71, Capt. G. P. Hornby, cleared the western
end of the Breakwater at 10 a.m., and all was ready
for the immediate departure of the 'Warrior, 40, Capt. the
Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, C. 8., and the Defence, 16, Capt
Augustus Phillimore.

The following garrison order to the troops who took part
in the siege operations carried out at Chatham in the pre-
sence of the Prince of Wales has been issued by General
H, Eyre, commanding the Chatham district :
"The Major-General has been commanded by his Royal
Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief to
express the great satisfaction with which his Royal
Highness witnessed the complete success of the siege
operations carried out in the presence of his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales. The Major General is aware,
from his own personal observation, how anxiously the
troops of all branches of the service (assisted as they were
by the Royal Navy at this station, and the Royal Marines
from Woolwich) have endeavoured to deserve the approba-
tion they are all so much gratified in obtaining ; but it is
to the very able and skilful superintendence of Col. Harness,
C. 8., Royal Engineers, and the remarkably zealous and
cheerful co-operation of the officers, non-commissioned
officers, and sappers of the Royal Engineer establishment
that such a successful result must be chiefly due on an oc-
casion of the kind."

The Garibaldi Testimonial Fund.

A general meeting of the subscribers to this fund was
held yesterday afternoon, at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street. The meeting was convened in terms of a re-
solution agreed to at a meeting of the general committee,
held on the 30th ult., and was for the purpose of determin-
ing as to the future action of the committee, and of consi-
dering the propriety of suspending for the present all fur-
ther Operations in the way of collecting subscriptions for
the Testimonial Fund.
Mr. J. A. NICHOLAY, having been voted to the chair,
briefly stated the object of the meeting.
Mr JOHN RICHARDSON, C.C., one of the hon. secreta-
ries, stated that having heard from reliable resources that
the magnitude of the fund would be much impaired if fur-
ther proceeded with at the present time, the provincial
towns being still smarting under the disappointment caused
by the sudden and unexpected departure of the General
from England, ho had prepared a resolution, which he
would submit to the meeting, on the subject. He must say
he should submit that resolution with no little regret, as he
could have wished to have gone on until they collected a
fund worthy of the country and of the illustrious man for
whom it was intended. Under present circumstances, how-
ever, that was impossible ; and, at all events, he had the
satisfaction of knowing that in the course he was pursuing
he was acting in according with the feelings and the wishes
of the most intimate friends of Garibaldi, as well as of that
great man himself. It was not intended that the com-
mittee should be dissolved, but simpiy that, its action
should be suspended until the General should again revisit
England, which he had every reason to believe would be at
no distant period, as the proplo of Glasgow seemed to be in
hopes of seeing him during the autumn. But, however,
that might, it would be useless to proceed under present
circumstances, and he therefore begged to move the follow-
ing resolution :—" That this committee, having carried to
a successful issue the reception of Gen. Garibaldi by the
people of this great metropolis, and having done their best
towards securing a testimonial to the illustrious here
worthy of the British nation, deem it to be desirable that
for the present no further expenses be incurred as regards
the Testimonial Fund, as most of the General's friends in
the provinces seem to prefer postponing their subscriptions
to the fund until he revisits England, That the accounts,
therefore, be audited by the two auditors, Edmond Beales,
Esq., M.A., and J. A. Nicholay, Esq., and that the trea-
surers prepare a balance-sheet thereof, to be signed by the
auditors; and that a copy of it be forwarded to every sub-
scriber, and that the balance in hand, when ascertained, be
paid over to the order of the General; and, lastly, that the
honorary secretaries be requested to summons a meeting of
the Garibaldi Reception and Testimonial Fund Committee
as soon as they receive official intimation of the time when
the General intends to revisit England." Mr Richardson,
in conclusion, read a largo number of letters from various
gentlemen, subscribers to the fund in London and the pro-
vinces, all concurring in the coarse proposed by his re-
solution.
Sir C. M'GREQOR, Bart., seconded the resolution, and
highly concurred in the course it pointed out. He had no
doubt that at a future time, and when they had the General
again amongst them, they would be able to carry out their
original intention to its fullest extent.
The resolution was supported by Mr E. Beales, Mr Jones,
and Mr Webber, C.C. ; and, on being put from the chair,
was unanimously adopted.
Mr RICHAABSON stated, in reply to several gentlemen,
that he thought, after the accounts were made up, there
would be a balance of some £lOO to be remitted to General
Garibaldi. That was in addition to £2OO already remitted,
and independent of the Crystal Palace Fund, the accounts
of which, in consequence of the absence of Mr Negretti
from London, had not yet been made up, but which would
be considerable. These accounts, it was expected, would
be ready very soon.
Mr 'Volum after alluding to the offer made by Mr P. A.
Taylor, I`l. P., at the previous meeting, of allowing the com-
mit te the use of the rooms of the Italian Unity Committee,
in Southampton-street, Strand, and the services o
secretary, gratis, should it be decided to continue fund,thdefhttotheir
moved, that - Chile the committee deemed it inexpedient
accept the offer, the thanks of the meeting be accorded to
Mr Taylor for making it.
Mr RIZHARDSON having seconded the motion it was °or-
dially adopted.
Votes of thanks were then passed to the honorary secre-
taries, Mr J. B. Taylor and Mr Richardson, for their inde-
fatigable exertions in the cause ; to Mr B. Langley,.. for_ the
excellent manner iu which he and those who assisted him
conducted the procession arrangements ; and the chair-
man, for his conduct in the chair and the interest he had
taken in the entire proceedings.
The meeting then broke up.