The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

Aux d'Esprit on Garibaldi,

(From the Realm.)
Salve valde, Garibaldi ! Welccme to Britannia's shore
YJu are dear, oh ancient hero to all hearts of oaken core.

Though true bluo be, more than ruby, pleasing to the
taurine eye,
Bull wont run down tints of sundown—morrow's promise-
blushing sky.

Brave as lions, void of science, cool in fight, in council hot,
Unsuspicious, injudicious, great you are though wise you're
not,

Dwell with Sutherland:--no other Duke could such full
trust inspire,
Whose endeavour has been ever to secure the Thames from
fire.

THE PROPOSED STATUE OF SIR ROWLAND HILL
AT BIRMINGIEA3I.—The following communication has been
received by the treasurer : —" Cannes, Var, Ist April, 1861.
—Lord Brougham presents his compliments to Mr. James
Lloyd, and authorises him to put down his name for ten
guineas (£lO 10s.) to the subscription on account of Sir
Rowland Hill, of which he highly approves, regarding Sir
Rowland as a great benefactor, especially to the working
classes."

"Moi," at the Theatre Francais, is the title of a
three-act pray, and, as the mane signifies, is the
delineation of extreme egotism, as shown by an old bache-
lor, who has a young and pretty housekeeper, over whom
he tyrannises, and whom he keeps in a present state of
slavery, and also hopes to bind to him for life, as a needy
dependant to be the kind comforter of his old age, The
charming housekeeper is, however, rescued from
the clutches of the old man by a nephew who
arrives from abroad, falls in love with the model
young woman, and, even in spite and at the risk
of offending his uncle, insists upon marrying her. The
process of bringing the uncle to an unselfish view of the
case, through the hard things said of him by his friends,
their threat of desertion, and at last a self-prompting ray of
generosity left somewhere in his breast, forms the points for
the actor to show his development of character, and have
been very ably seized upon. It is a piece well suited to the
Francais, which loves the careful and truthful portraiture
of some idiosyncrasy, and the result has been a success
which rings in all quarters of Paris.
DISCHARGED CONVICTS. The managers of
Scotch prisons, in their report on 1863, give an
abstract of the returns made by the chief officers of the
general prison at Perth, relating to 561 juvenile male pri-
soners liberated in the last six years. The first half yearly
report after their liberation showed that the cgoonodduccotnedfu2c7t:
was good; of others it was tolerable or not known; of 54
bad, and 91 tohyaeadrallarteeard,yshreotwuerdneodulylB7 of
crime. The next re-
port, half
and 45 bad, but 187 returned to crime. The third report,
half a year later still, showed 170 of good conduct, 56 bad,
and 207 returned to crime. The numbers at the three
periods whose conduct was tolerable were 42, 56,r ch
and 50,
FATALGoAspeocrltDEoNnT.—thAe ACCIDENT.--An
of Major uest was held yester-
day at
IN ()Hasten Clerke, of the 26th (Cameronians) Regiment,
commanding a detachment of the regiment stationed tem-
porarily in Fort GJmer. It appeared that after mess on
Sunday evening he lit a cigar and went out alone for a stroll
upon the ramparts. He did not return. On the following
morning his bidy was found in the moat which surrounds
the work, and in which the water has a depth of three feet.
From appearances which could be plainly traced on the
ramparts of the work and in the moat it would seem that
he stumbled over a part of the stonework on the ramparts,
and fell over into the moat. His footprints could be traced
round the work in his endeavours to extricate himself to
the spot where the body was found. One hand was bound
up with a handkerchief, it having evidently been cut in
falling over the parapet. The features were quite calm,
and this fact, coupled with the delicate health of the de-
ceased and the shallow depth of water, leads to the belief
that he must have been drowned while fainting from ex-
haustion. An inquest was formally held, and a verdict
was returned in accordance with the facts of the case. The
funeral, attended with military honours, will take place to-
morrow.

SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident of
a very serious character happened on the Methley branch
of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on Tuesday, The
engine of an ordinary passenger train got off the line and
crossed the rails a few yards further up, and then, breaking
from the carriages, fell over an embankment. The stoker
had both his legs broken, and the driver and guard were
both injured, as were also one or two of the passengers,
A MAN BURIED ALIVE.-0a Monday afternoon
A man named Thomas Wilds, who worked for Mr.
Fairbank, a contractor for the Peckham branch of the
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, was admitted into
St, Thomas's Hospital, having been fearfully injured by an
and before he could
awchcautp
ac at
ina
nb ewghaetnh et
hr eede froar thm
gaveh way,that ho was at hie usual
immense quantity of earth falling on him. it appears from
get out of the way the whole of it fell on him, completely
burying him. A number of men were quickly on the spot,
and ho was as soon as poes:ble extricated and conveyed to
the above hospital, where he was attended by the house
surgeon, who ascertained he had fearfully injured his
back, hip, and thigh He lies iu a dangerous condition.
FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT TORQUAY.—On Sun-
day a large number of the crew of H.M.S. Prince
Consort, now lying off Torquay, in Torbay, were permitted
on shore on leave. With the exception of some stragglers
they returned on board about 7 o'clock in an orderly man-
ner. Soon afterwards those who had been left behind came
down to the pier—it is said a dozen in all. They hired a
waterman's boat, and two men, named Norsworthy and
Hayman, pulled them off, With such a number the boat
was overloaded, and wh.n only about a dozen feet from the
pier head capsized. Eight of the men were rescued ; how
many are drowned is uncertain for the present, but the
bodies of two men—Hayman, the waterman, and Winters,
an able seams —b.ave been recovered.— Wesforn Morning
Nhes.

Daring the night the enemy extended the parallel
already commenced.
Oar loss is trifling.

AMERICA.

SOU THINII"l'ON, APRIL 7.

The Hamburg and American Comp,nys steamer
Saxonia sailed this morning for New York with a
large cargo and upwards of 500 passengers.
The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Hammonia sailed at the same time for Liverpool.
The gun fired on board to announce her departure
exploded, killing the gunner.

THE CAPE MAIL.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7.

The royal mail steamer Saxon left here last night
with the Cape mails, comprising 19 bags of letters,
100 bags of papers, and 12 bags of books, 32 pas-
sengers, and £60,000, shipped at Plymouth for the
Cape Government.

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 7 (Morning).

The Moniteur of this morning says :—" Accord.
ing to advices from Miramar the Archduke Maxi-
milian will receive the Mexican deputation a-on
Saturday. Lie will leave for Mexico on Sunday
next."

BoußsE, April 6.—Stock has been rather offered,
and the business done has been at a slight decline.
Threes, for the Account, are now at 65f. 95c., and
Mobilier at 1,045 fr. Railway Market also heavy,
and many of the lines show a slight decline. The
following are quoted ox div.:—Orleans (Old) 70fr.
New 81fr. 25c. Western 20fr. Roman 12fr. 50c.
The market closed as follows :

4 per Cents. 93 20
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66
Credit Mobilior 1042 50
Do. end month 1043 75
Bank Shares 3295
Credit Fonder 1272 50
Roman

Italian Loan 67 40
• Do. end month 67 65
New ditto —
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Rome Debt
Deferred
WAY d.

!IA IL

Cash.

Orleans
Northern

Account.

885 - .. 890 -
963 75 .. 967 50

New ditto —
Lyons and Mediterranean 932 50 .. 935
New, ditto 875 5)
SJuthern 650 648 75

Western ..
Eastern ....

Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa sss 580
Ditto to Barcelona 260

LITERATURE,

A Wonderful Index.

Index Goographtcus. Compiled Sp:citllly with
reference to Keith Johnston's Royal Atlaa. One
Vol., pp. 676. Wm. Blackwood and Sons.

As a mere matter of curiosity we should like un-
commonly to know how long it could possibly have
taken to build up, as it were, pebble by pebble, this
mighty cairn of geographical information. We
should be disposed to conjecture, at a rough calcu-
lation, that within the compass of these 676 double•
columned pages there must be ranged together here
in alphabetical order—from " .Aa dtfoss; Zealand,
Denmark, 55 deg. 35 min. N. latitude, 11 deg. 30
min. E. longitude," to " Zywiec or SeypuEch ; Gal-
licia, Austria, 49 deg. 4t min. N. latitude, to 19
deg. 12 min. longitude"--upwards of one hun-
dred and twenty thousand pieces of just such
precise and valuable (almost, we might say, in,
valuable, because direct and practical) information.
The Index Geographicus, it should be especially
noticed, is, as we have just slid, arranged in one
long streak (as the Yankees would term it) of names,
of localities, of Mountains, Rivers, Valleys, Straits,
Archipelagoes, Gulfs, Peninsulas, Settlements,
Provinces, Capes, Forts, Harbours, Islands, Parishes,
Volcanoes, Glaciers, Counties, Promontories, In,
lets, Canals, Bridges, Lakes, Villages, and what not
—alphabetically I That is, in one consecutive chain
of names—alphabetically printed—from the top of
the first column in page 1 to the bottom of the
second column in page 674—comprising the body of
the work : otherwise from the beforementioned
inaugural Aa-moss to the final name (exclusive of
those in the single leaf of the addenda) i, e., Zwiec.
It is worthy of particular note, again, in regard to
this marvellous repertory of knowledge of a
purely geographical kind, that while each name
out of so vast a multitude of names as to have
been already computed by us as extending to a
total iu round numbers of some 120,000 or there-
abouts—that while to each of these names there
is attached not only mention of the latitude and
longitude of the especial locality referred to, but,
in numerals and abbreviations, reference also to a
given map in the magnificent Royal Atlas (that
ne plus ultra among atlases) compiled by Mr.
Keith ,►ohnston, and published by the Messrs
Blackwood and Sons, of London and Edinburgh—
the Index Geographicus is, notwithstanding this,
applicable, directly and instantaneously applicable,
to all modern atlases and maps whatsoever. In
point of fact, the work is announced by advertise-
ment to have aimed, in t►he first place, at rendering
itself as completely as possible an Index of easy re-
ference to the Royal Atlas of Mr. Keith Johnston
aforesaid; and, in the next place, at becoming, as far
as might prove to be in every way compatible with
this primary object, available as an Index of easy
reference to all other geographical works—howso-
ever, or by whomsoever published, whether as
single maps or as atlases (other than the Royal),
whether published by the Messrs. Blackwood, or
issued from other establishments than theirs, say,
for example, from a e establishments of either
Mr. James Wyld, or Mr. Edward Stanford, both
of Charing-cross. The work before us, as it has
now been completed, we may assert at once quite
confidently, realises both of these objects—
that is, the primary one and the subsidiary
one—and it does so in a manner in the
highest degree satisfactory, Nay it does more
than this—it has been so carried out as to
constitute itself what it indeed has acknowledged
its aspiring to do—it has conetitued itself that
is to say, a direct and acceptable substitute for the
Gazeteer. As a matter of course, in realising thus
the primary object with which this mammoth
Index Geographicus was undertaken, every in-
dividual name anywhere to be found in the Royal
Atlas has in this vast and comprehensive Index
been duly catalogued. In recording thus every-
one of those names, here, in alphabetical order,
the greatest care appears to have been taken, not
in a merely general sense, but in a very especial
sense indeed, to secure exactitude in the nomen-
clature. Meaning, when we say this, that
all the nearly countless aliases of localities have
been duly recorded and catalogued in like man-
ner. As, for example, in respect to names
occurring in the map of Hindostan—in the map of
that country to be found in the Royal Atlas and
equally also in every map of Hindostan whatever—
Pondicherry is recorded here in the Index Geogra-
phicus, and so also is Catch, but with Catch occurs
here likewise as more consonant with Eastern pro-
nunciation Kachh, and with Pondicherry for a like
reason, Puducheri. Ex uno disce mimes. And hence
the whole " Index," as an " Index," is really and
truly about the completest possible. Another ex-
traordinary facilitation of reference is secured by
the careful insertion of all names having the prefix
Saint—under any and every of its niodifica•ions, as
Sainte, San, Santa, Sao, Szent. The clue of clues
for reference—to the Royal Atlas first of all, but
quite as well also to all other maps and
Atlases—is to be fond, the most naturally

it is wonderful what solid and valuable ia iorma-
tion has been here compacted togther— wiihin less
than one hundred pages octavo. Another work of
very considerable value has thus been added to the
list of pub ieations now cornrnenc,d, with a pro
sr( et, let us hops, of fast maltiplyieg into a sub-
stantial library, under the auspices and, more than
that, under the careful eupervisionland at the direct
instance of the society of our London Anthro-
pologists, The treatise here pine, d within reach of
the Eaglish reading public is obvious s, of course,
in no degree comparable, in the ctmprehensiveness
of its survey, to its immediate predecessor, that
remarkable work from the hand of Dr. Weitz,
constituting about the aptest introduction to
the science of Anthropology yet comriled,
penned, too, by one of the profoundest masters
of that science for the use of every student corning
to it purely and simply as a beginner—a work we
ourselves bad, the satisfaction nearly four months
ago of earnestly commending, through these
columns, to the consideration of scientific readers
generally, meaning the happily chosen first volume
of the " Anthropologic der Natursolker." It is not,
in this instance, once more to a German master
that the Publishing Committee of the Anthropo-
logical Society has directed its attention, with a
view to selecting some new work upon a specific
branch of the science (not upon the science
as a whole hut, let us repeat the worsts, upon a
specific branch of it), it is not, we say, to a German
writer again that the Publishing Committee of our
English Anthropological Society has turned its
regard, but to a French anthropologist as profound
in his mastery of the science as Dr. Broca. A
writer, moreover, upon this science whose merits
are such, within the recognition of scientific Europe,
that his present euitor, Mr. Blake, can deprecate
his own selection by the learned President
of the Anthropological Society as editor of
Dr. Paul Broca's treatise on Hybridity, thus
earnestly, and yet in no respect at all extravagantly :
namely, where he says in his Preface—" The
habitual methods of thought of Dr. Paul Broca are
so exact, his style [is ?] so terse, his knowledge of
the literature of anthropology so vast, and his power
of application and concentration of ideas [are] so
powerful, that a just preference might have selected
another Editor." Not so—at least so far as relates
to their appreciation of his selection as Editor of Dr.
Broca--not so will the readers of this English
version of this little work on Hybridity, by
the French philosopher, think when they have
come to read it, or even when they have
come to advance a little way in the reading of it :
though it is agreeable eriougn, in the midst of so
much intolerable self-assertion on the part of others,
to note a skilled and conscieations cutvator of the
science of anthropology, such as Mr. Carter Blake,
waiving _has any claim of his to the honour ot
being in this manner singed out from among all
his colleagues by his President.. A more judicious
selection, evidently, the learned President, Dr.
James Hunt, could hardly have made than he has
made in thus choosing the " other" Secretary of the
Association to endite a treatise, within the narrow
compass of which so much of the exact thought, the
terse style, so much of the power of concentration
and the capacity for concentrated thought, so much
of that vast knowledge of anthropological literature,
noticeable in the writings of Dr. Broca, are com-
pacted together. As a searchitag inquiry into the
complex subject of Human Hybridity, the work,
brief though it is, we believe to be as yet unrivalled.

Popular Edition of the Speeches and Addresses
of IL R.S. the Prince Consort. One Vol.
pp. 127. John Murray.
As a memorial of our beloved and lamented
Prtnce nothing could well be more beautiful in its
way than this popular edition of his Speeches, in a
little green volume issued from the great publishing
house in Albermarle-street, price Oae Sai ling
The very colour of the brochure seems to us appro.
priate--Lence, indeed, we nave just now mentioned
it—this same popular issue of the Speeches
and Addresses of H.R.H. being in a very
especial manner calculated to " keep his memory
green" in the hearts of that Great People
who had learnt so to love him, and who
have had, during these last two years, such
bitter cause to lament what still appears to us his
premature disappearance. Popular—in the fullest
meaning of the phrase—the work is surely certain to
be : and it is earnestly to be hoped, both for the sake
of the departed Prince, and for that also of his
revered relict, for the sake of his Royal
Highness and of her Majesty, that it may be so.
And for this reason—that these Speeches and Ad•
dresses, just exactly as they are here faith-
fully recorded—these Speeches and Addresses,
just precisely as they fell from his lips
in life, verbatim et liter atinz, now that he
is dead, now that his lips can breathe no other
syllable, at once, to any one who reads them
thinkingly, explain and justify (both, to the
full) the Prince Consort's resplendent reputa-
tion. They explain and justify, completely
and signally, his reputation es a philosophic
thinker, as a keen-eyed statesman, es an appreciator
of art, as a scientific enquirer, and, above all that,
(and how much more!) as a practical philanthropist.
Nay, more than this, it should be said
in simple justice to the nature 'of the
Prince, that the little work here comme-
morative of so many of his gentler senti-
ments and aspirations, as a sympathiser
with his "kind" generally, but in a , very
particular manner as a sympathiser with the
great multitude of the " workers" among his
fellow-creatures, indicates in the Prince's regard
fir more even than his• wisdom—his goodness.
It is so conspicuously thus with the whole
tenour of these Speeches and Addl., sses that
they may be said in a manner to underline
and emphasise the epithet distinctively applied to
H.R.H. by the Poet Laureate in those exquisite
verses, which are perhaps the masterpiece of Alfred
Tennyson—that dedication of his " Idyls of the
King" to the memory of the Prince, in which
the Poet apostrophised him as " ALBERT THE
Goon!" As a poputar memorial calculated to
perpetuate the im imele appreciation of his nobler
qualities by the English people. the cheap re-issue
of a work hitherto published only in a
costly form is beyond all the sculptured
monuments, the marble cenotaphs, the architectural
mausoleums, the porphyry sarcophagi that could
be constructed, as symbols of honour to his me-
mory, by the lavished love and grief and wealth of
a mourning nation. The little book is altogether
so perfect a memento of the Prince Consort, as one
who was " a Prince indeed" that it would be a
gratification to thick the time may yet come and
that speedily, when a copy of it may be lying upon
the parlour table of every cottage in the land, and
upon the scant book-shelf of every town mechanic.

THE QUEEN OF SPAIN has presented the Empress
of the French with two magnificent horses of the Aranjuez
race—a mixture of Arab and the Spanish breed.
A NOBLE VETERAN.—A movement has been set
on foot for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the
honour of Field-Blarshal Viscount Combermere, G.C.8.,
G.C.H., to commemorate his long and distinguished ser-
vices as a soldier. It is proposed to erect the memorial in
Cheshire, in which county Combermere Abbey is situate.
Lord Combermere, who has reached the age of 84, holds the
office of Constable of the Tower of London, and Custos
Rotulorum of the Tower Hamlets, to which he was ap-
pointed on the death of the late Duke of Wellington.
Russia gives hostages to the future fortune of
Danmark in the annnuneement of the heir to the
Czar's throne having proposed for the hand of Princess
Maria Dagrnar, younger sister of the Princess of Wales.
Tue bridegroom comes of age on the 20th next S,ptember,
being four 3ear, above that of his iuteuded bride. The
Danish ninceas is to visit St. Petersburg in the autumn,
and conform ►o the orthodox Eastern Church, according to
tha laws of the Empire,—/alter cram 2'aris,

E 3rl Granville arrived at the (Jostle yesterday.
The royal dinner party consisted of his M .jestY
the King of the Belgians, her Royal Highness
Princess Helena, her Royal Highness Princess
Augustus of Saxe Coburg, and her Serene Highness
Princes Own& ; the (29uotess of Giinsoorough,

Lady in Waiting to her M.•jPety ; Lidy Caroline
tingtbn, Mid.ile. de B irsct!, the Hon. Caroline
Cavendish, the Hon.Ernrna Lascelles,
Lieu'.-Gnerai the lion. C. Grey, Col. the. Hoe. Sir
Cnarlis 'Phipps, General Count de Moerkelke. and
Dr. K 6,)1, gentlemen in attendance on the Ing of
tne Belgians ; Lord Ricers, Colonel F. Seymour,
C. 8., Mljor-Gne.ral F. Seymour. Lieut.-ColOnel
tin Plat, Mr. S.thl, and the Master tf )11,-:-.llcld,
Hik M.tjeaty the litng of the Belgians, attended
by G,neral Gaunt de Moil-kerke and Dr. Kt 621,
left the Castle this at ernoon for Buckingham
Palace.

Her Roy it Highness Pt incess Augustus of Saxe
Coburg, their Serene Highresses Princess Ciotilde,
Princess Arne i-, and Prince Ferdinand, attended
by Madlle. de Borsch, left the Castle this morning
fur Claremont.