The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-23 00:00:00

BARCELONA.

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When, last year, I first visited Turin, I perceived that I
was in the Paris of Italy; here it struck me that Barcelona
is the Paris of Spain. There is quite a French air about the
place. Ono of the nearest narrow side streets was crowded
with
people, there were no end of shops in it, with various
goode—cloaks, mantillas, fans, bright-coloured ribands, al-
luring to the eyes and attracting purchasers; there I wan-
dered about wherever chance led me. As I pursued my
wey, I Lund the shit) eul back streets still more nar-
row, the houses apparently more adverse to light ; windows
did not seem in request; the walls were thick, and there
were awnings over the courts. I now reached a small square;
a trumpet was sounding, and people were crowding together.
Some jugglers, equipped in jelaitted yests, with party-
coloured swimming small-clothes,
and carrying with than
the implements of their profession, were preparing to exhibit
on a carpet Spread over the pavement, for they seemed to
wish to avoid the middle of the street. A little dark-
eyed child, a mignon of the Spanish land, danced and
Le,ayed the tambourine, let itself be tumbled head over
heels, and made a kind of lump of, by its half-naked
papa. In order to ace better what was going on, I had
ascended a few steps of the entrance to an old dwelling,
with a single large window in the Moorish style; two
horse-shoe-formed arches were supported by slender
marble pillars ; behind me was a doer half open. I looked
in, and saw a great geranium hedge growing round a dry
dusty fountain. An enormous vine shaded one halt the
place, which seemed deserted and left to decay; the wooden
shutters hung as if ready to fall from the one hinge which
supported each in their loose frames ; within, all appeared
as if nothing dwelt there but bats in the twilight gloom.
I proceeded farther on, and entered a street, still narrow,
and swarming with still more people than those I had
already traversed, It was a street that led to a church.
Here, hid away among high houses, stands the Cathedral
of Barcelona: without any effect, without any magnifi-
cence, it might easily be passed by unheeded; as, like
many remarkable personages, one requires to have one's
attention drawn to them in order to observe them. The
crowd pressed en me,
and carried me through the little gate
into the open arcade, which, with some others, formed the
approaches to the cathedral, and enclosed a grove of orange
trees, planted where once had stood a mosque. Even now
water was splashing in the large marble basins, wherein
the Muaselmen used to wash their faces before and after
prayers. _ .

The little bronze statue here, of a knight on horseback,
is charming ; it stands alone on a metal reed out in the
basin, and tho water sparkles behind and before the horse.
Close by, gold fishes are swimming among juicy aquatic
plants; and behind high gratings geese) are also floating
about. I ought perhaps to have said swans, but one must
stick to the truth, if one wishes to be original as a writer of
travels.

When he is visiting Valencia, our traveller recounts
to us they legend of the Cid mho, like "Douglas

dead," won a battle after his death, and here the
imaginative character of his musings is testified in
the following extract.—
And now stands, with its enormous square stones and
jagged wall, the old gate through which the dead rode on
that night of dread and destruction to the Moors. I stood
in the shade of that gate, and was thinking of the hero and
his war horse, when, strangely enough, quite a different
vision was recalled to my, mind. Just as I stood there
came a boy, shouting in his glee, riding the most miserable
nag I had ever seen; the animal was literally skin and bone,
and looked the picture of hunger : my thoughts naturally
wandered from the Cid's noble war-horse to Don Quix.)te's
Rosinante l Both still equally live in the world of poetry
and romance ; and these, the names of Babieca and Itosi.
nante will always survive.

We commend these pleasant pages to the attention
of the reader, who will require to exert but a slight
effort of fancy to find himself " In Spain" when he
has once opened the book.

Illy Indian Journal, By Colonel Walter Campbell,
author of " Tne Old Forest Ranger." One vol.
Pp. 477. Edwonston and Douglas.
"I have read somewhere," says Col. Campbell
" that any one who has seen a little of the world,
and taken notes of what he has seen, need only
publish these notes to produce an amusing if not an
instructive book." Assuredly, if the " any one "
alluded to possessed the keen powers of observa-
tion and the happy facilities of description of "the
old forest ranger," the amusement and instruction
to be derived from ft ese notes would be a matter of
certainty: We learn from the preface to this volume
some interesting particulars resmaing its prede-
cessor. " The Old Forest Ranger," it appears could
find no publisher willing to stand godfather to it.
The author was therefore induced to bring it out at
his own expense. It succeeded so well as speedily to
go through three editions; and now having, as he
says, " rested en his oars ever since," the author is
induced again to solicit public attention, and again
for a similarly truthful record of the results of his
personal experience. The Indtan Journal now before
us is,we are told,mainly compiled from travel-stained
MS., volumes which have lain " undisturbed for the
last three decades," containing the journal and notes
of n subaltern in a marching regiment. To these
are added descriptions of wild animals, and the dif-
fer‘nt modes of hunting them, compiled from notes
taken from time to time during a five years' resi-
dence in India. The narrative compiled from these
authentic reminiscences is full of interest and vicis-
situde. Some of the hunting exploits aro of en-
thralling interest. Colonel Campbell is evidently a
daring sportsman, as every tiger and bison that
came across his path can testify. A,s an illustration
of these anecdotes let us take the following ac-
count of

HUNTING THE TIGER WITH ELEPHANTS.
In parts of the country where good " ehikaris" were not
to be obtained, I used to find tigers by fastening a bullock
near some ravine or thicket known to be frequented by them;
the poor animal was generally carried off in the course of
the night; and nothing further was necessary than to
follow up the trail of the tiger to some neighbouring cover,
where we were sure to find him lying gorged. Tigers are
also found when returning at daybreak from their nightly
prowl, by men stationed upon trees, who hem them into the
first cover they enter. In whatever manner a tiger is
found, the great point to insure success, is to procure plenty
of hands from the nearest village, and effectually to surround
the place, so as to prevent his stealing away before the
elephant arrives. If he becomes restless, as he is apt to do
when not gorged with food, a shout is generally sufficient
to prevent his breaking cover ; for, with all his ferocity,
the tiger is a cowardly animal, and much averse to show-
ing himself by daylight.
Having found our tiger, we must, before proceeding to
action, devote a few words to that most useful auxiliary—
the elephant, A really good sporting elephant is invalu-
able. He beats for his game like a pointer; and carries
his rider in safety over the most dangerous ground, and
through the thickest covers, which he searches inch by
inch, with a degree of patience and sagacity that makes
instinct almost amount to reason. Trees that oppose his
progress are levelled by his head, or torn down with his
trunk; his stupendous weight forces itself through every
obstacle; and at the word of command, the sagacious brute
picks up stones and hands them to his driver to throw into
the thicker parts of the cover.
On finding the tiger, the elephant gives warning of his
proximity, by throwing up his trunk and trumpeting; and
if well trained, should remain perfectly steady, ready to
obey every command of his " mahout."
The worst fault an elephant Gau have, is a propensity to
charge the tiger. Ia doing so, the violence of his motion is
apt to unseat the riders, rendering it impossible to take aim ;
and what is still worse, he generally throws himself upon
his knees at the moment of attack, pitching the men out of
the howdah by the violence of the shock. This bad habit
is Usually caused by the driver encouraging his elephant to
trample upon a tiger when killed, and thereby rendering
the animal ferocious. Nothing is required of an elephant
but to remain perfectly steady when a tiger is found ; and
the bast way of training him to do so, is to make him stand
quietly over the tiger after he is killed, without allowing
him to touch it ; while the driver encourages him by his
voice, and rewards him with balls of sugar dipped in the
blocd of the animal. Some elephants are so steady, as to
allow a tiger to rush up to their heads without flinching;
bat there aro few that are not more or less alarmed by a de-
termined charge. A veteran gains confidence, and is at
length made perfect by the coolness of his driver, and the
good shooting of his owner; but those which are ill-entered
turn round and often run away at the first roar of a tiger ;
and even the best and most practised are often rendered
useless, and become irrecoverably timid, by wounds received
in a successful charge.
I have had occason to use nervous, timid elephants, and
they are bad enough ; but I would rather ride a determined
runaway than a savage brute who insists on killing the
tiger himself. It is, no deubt, a severe trial to tte nerves
to find yourself hurried away by a huge ungovernable mon-
ster, with the prospect of being tither smashed against a
tree, or rolled into a ravine; but this is nothing to the risk
you incur on a fighting elephant, of being pitched into the
jaws of an enraged tiger, or pounded to a jelly under the
elephant's knees.
On a really good elephant the sportsman is exposed to
little danger; less perhaps than is most Indian field-sports.
He is raised from 10 to 12 feet off the ground, on a com-
fortable seat, from whence he can fire in all directions, and
he must be a bad shot indeed if he fails to stop a tiger in
his charge. But even supposing that he does miss—which
he bas no basiness to do—and allows a savage tiger -to
spring upon the elephant, still the man is seldom the object
of attack, and he ought to be able to blow the brute's
brains out before he does much mischief. Tigers generally
spring at the elephant's head, rarely making any attempts
to reach the howdah. Instances of their doing so have
occurred, but they are very rare.
Many similar descriptions we might readily
quote. The lovers of adventure will flad ample
amusement in the spirited , reminiscences of Col.
Campbell. , Some of the animals, the tiger, the
bison, the ibex, and others, are the subjects of
beautiful illustrations by Noel Paton and Wolf.

DEVELOPMENT of ►SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE AND
INDUSTRY.—The following list of manufactories
show that our people are really snaking some progress to-
wards independence. In this list are not included the cotton
and woollen mills dotted here and there in all the States,'or
she iron establishments, or the Government works making
arms, powder, —Hat manufactory, Statesville, North
Carolina—stocking factory at Columbia, South Carolina—
stocking factory at Danville, Virginia—bonnet frame fac-
tory at Newberry, South Carolina—cotton card faltory at
Greenwood, South Carolina—cotton card factory at Fayette-
ville, North Carolina—cotton card factory at Columbia,
Georgia—cotton card factory at Danville, S irginia (two)—
cotton card factory at Selma, Alabama—cutlery, knives and
fork., at Raleigh, North Carolina—cotton batting factory at
Charlotte, North Carolina—corn-broom factory at David-
son's College, North Carolina—match factory at Danville,
Virginia—blanket manufactory at Montgomery, Alabama—
knitting-needles at Columbia, South Carolina—glass manu-
factory at Richmond, Virginia—glass manufactory at
Columbus, Georgia—glass manufactory at Savannah,
Georgia—button manufactory at Columbus, Georgia--
powder manufactory at Mecklenburg, North Carolina—
several copperas mines extensively worked in Rutherford
county, North Carolina—one copperas mine in Chesterfield,
South Carolina. We have no doubt there are many other
establishments than the above.—flichmond Examiner.

RELEASE OF PRISONERS AT BOKIIA.RA.—A de-
spatch received in St. Petersburg announces that
four foreigners (three Italians and one Frenchman) toge-
ther with 13 Russians, have been released by the Emir of
Bokhara, after having been imprisoned for a year. When
the imprisonment of the four persons became known is
January last, the Italian Government immediately sent an
agent, AI. Bonhomme, to do what he could in the matter.
Provided with letters from the Sultan,the Viceroy of Egypt,
and other Maliommedan sovereigns, AI. Bonhomme pro-
posed to travel to Bokhara through India, but was dis-
suaded by the Viceroy, as his death would have been in-
sured by so doing, on account of the Emir regal ding all
Europeans as Englishmen. and entertaining a mortal hatred
to them. N. Bonhomme then travelled through Persia to
Russia ; hut even in Russia he was advised not to make the
venture, and thus he could only forward his letters through
the officials. The letters, however, remained unanswered,
as the Emir is not partial to such means of communica-
tion, and had only sent one answer to four letters from
the Russian commandant at Orenburg. Notwithstand-
ing all these difficulties, the prisoners are now liberated,
and M. Bonhomme has returned from Italy to St, Peters-
burg,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S ETLEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, AUGUST 23.
Herr von Bismark had a long conference with
Ccuat Rechberg yesterday.
The statement of some foreign journals that a
project for Federal reform, drawn up by Herr von
Bismark, would be the subjcet for negotiations, is,
in well-informed circles, considered unfounded.

ALEXANDRIA. AUG, 22.

The differences between the American consul and
the Egyptian Government have been settled, and
the former has resumed his relations with the Go-

vernment,
Nabar Paths, hals ariired here, and left imme-
diately for Cairo.

FRANCE.

A Paris correspondent of the Independance of
Brussels says :—"I have hitherto refrained from
alluding to the projected marriage of Prince Hum•
bert with the Princess Anna Murat. The hand of
the Princess has been officially demanded in Paris
by the Marquis Pepoli, who is himself the son of a
Princess Marat. The initiative taken in this matter
by King Victor Emmanuel's Government is gene-
rally considered judicious, as this marriage will
draw closer the bonds which unite new Italy to the
only great Power from which it can reasonably
expect the final development of its unity. The
negotiations for this marriage explain the intimacy
with which M. Nigra has been received at the
Tuileries. The future Queen is some few years older
than the Prince, but that is a matter of little im-
portance in the case of a political alliance."
" The interview at Kissingen," says the inde-
pendance, "begins to bear its fruit : the diploma-
tic relations between the Courts of St. Petersburg
and Vienna are about to be re-established on their
former footing. Count de Stackelberg is expected
at Vienna, and Count Revertera is on the point of
proceeding to his post in Russia. The choice of
these diplomatists shows the value which the two
Courts attach to the restoration of their good un-
derstanding. Count de Stackelberg is a great fa-
vourite at Vienna, and Count Revertera, who has
married a rich Russian heiress, will be well received
at St. Petersburg.
BOURSE, Aug. 22.—The arrival of the English
funds with a fall of has tended to impart dullness
to the market, but without causing any material
decline in prices, Threes, being now at 66fr. 40c.
Mobilier, which opened at 1,023rr. 75c., receded to
1,017;r. 50c., and have since recovered to 1,020 fr.
The Railway Market has varied but little from
Saturday's quotations. The market became heavy
towards the close, and prices receded, to leave off
as follows :-
41 per Cents. 94 50

end month

3 per Cents
Do. end mouth 66 35

Credit Mobilier.... 1910
Do, end m0nth....1011 25

Bank Shares 3360

Credit Fonder 1220
Roman —

Italian Loan . 67 90
Do. end month.... 67 75
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Russian.
Austrian
Spanish Threes 49 50
Homo Debt
Deferral

RAILWAYB.

Orleans
Northern ......
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Cash. Account.
890 899 --
980 .. 986 25
928 75 .. 930 --
640 .. 641 25
521 25 .. 625
491 25 .. 492 25
337 50 .. 348 75
430 , . 433 75
542 50 .. 541 25
412 50 413 25
606 25 .. 503 75
330 .. 227 50

SPAIN.

The Spanish journals remark with satisfaction
on the manner in which King Don Francis has been
received in France :—" We desire," says the Diario
of Barcelona, " that the journey of the King of
Spain in France, while strengthening the bonds of
friendship which unite the two reigning families,
should contribute equally to the union of the two
nations, and lead to a sincere intimacy, based on
the interests, respect, and independence of the two
nations. If. at a later period troubles should arise
in Europe, let us not rush into a policy of adven-
tures, nor undertake premature and useless sacri-
fices. Spain must hold herself in readiness, in order
that if she has one day to struggle for one of her
most important interests, she may be fortified by
alliances on which she can reckon." What the in-
terest alluded to is not stated, but probably the
recovery of Gibraltar is meant.

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
(From the limes' Correspondent)

HAMBURG, August 19.

However hard the terms of the peace, which is
now in progress of negotiation at Vienna, may fall
upon the Danes, it may be questioned whether the
condition of the conquered people will at any time
be worse than is at this present moment that of their
" liberated" fellow-sublects, the Schleswig-410i-
steiners. Moral evils are, for rational beings, the
most unendurable, and the vary worst is uncer.
tainty. Now, of one thing done are the people of
the Duchies perfectly sure, and that is, that
whoever else may be destined to settle the affairs
of their country, they will themselves be the last
to have anything to do with the matter. To
consult the wishes of a people A to their national
tendencies and the disposal of their sovereign
rights is, under all circumstances, an almost
impracticable undertaking, bat it becomes an
especially hard task when the nation which is thus
to fix its own destinies happens to have no settled
constitutional form upon which its choice may be
based, when, in the general breaking up of the
links of sooial order, political passions have been for
some time allowed to run riot, and when the country
is at the same time trodden down by an overbearing
soldiery and overrun by needy and noisy demagogues.
We may be willing to admit that in Holstein,
and in a part of Schleswig, the peop.le considered
themselves, and were Germans, and tizat, on the
ground of the repulsion and affinity of they
aspired to be eeparated from Denmark and n:lited
to Germany. The troops of the Confederacy ai;d
those of Prussia and Austria have fulfilled that
wish ; so thoroughly fulfilled it, that the vote of
the pure Danes and that of Danish loyalists and
sympathisers must go for nothing. Schleswig.
Holstein, and even Lauenburg, must become Ger-
man; they are German.
-What of it ? Now that it is settled that these
people belong to Germany, is it also decided that
they belong to themselves, that they are their own
mastere, and are, for once at least, to exercise their
inalienable sovereignty over their own destinies ?
Alas ! the Germans curie to bring to their Schles-
wig Holstein brethren not peace but a sword. They
bring their jealousies and squabb;es, their whole
system of pedantic chicane and feudal confusion to
hear on the question, and will muddle it tod befog
it till the luckless people of the Duchies be to
accept any compromise, and submit to any 4,69
sion, out of sheer bewilderment and weariness of I
mind.
_ _

The first arrangement at which the German
Powers seem to have arrived is the very one that
can best prolong the complications under which the
Schieswig-Holstiners are labouring; they have hit
upon the schema of a " Provisional Government."
Sow all who are familiar with any of the European
changes that have occurred since the beginning of
ttis century are well aware that all the scourges of
war, plague and famine, are nothing for a country
in comparison with a pro-interim rule; it is tanta-
mount to a rapid dissolution of the past, by well
free
from all responsibility as to reconstruction for thefuture; it is grounded on an assumption of the
neu-
trality of people who have an object to carry, and
pursue it untrammelled by legal bounes,.undis.
turbed by a sense of duty or a qualm of principle.
A provisional government generally contrives to
achieve what revolution or war etopped short of.
The Governments of PrUES/3 and Austria dare
not claim the Duchies as their own by righ
of conquest, neither are they willing that any one
should dispose of the but themselves, Indeed, in

their own mind, the question as to the future
destiny of those provinces is already settled, but
it is for time and the Provisional Government to
work ft out. The management of the affairs of the
Duchies is to be entrusted to Commissioners ap-
pointed by the two great German Powers—a Prus-
sian Commissioner and an Austrian Commissioner.
Perhaps the junta may be a triumvirate, a third
Commissioner being named by the Frankfort Diet.
But even should the Federal principle obtain so
much as that, its represenjative would still have the
odds of two to one to contend with, and there is no
doubt but, so long as the two Great Powers agree,
no will but their own would have the force of law

in the Duchies. Dow it does so happen that Prussia
and Austria are at the present moment of one mind
for what concerns the Duchies. A cordial under-
standiug between those two Powers en any point it 3
a strange phenomenon, and has been accounted for
either by the dependence of Austrian on Prussian
help, in the event of Italian complications, or by the
forms of a compact between between Northern
Powers reconstituting the Holy
Alliance ; but,
may be the cause, it is a fact not only that Austria
is going hand-in-hand with Prussia in this matter,
but also that the former State is willing that the
latter should reap all the benefit of their ceinainu
enterprise.

If a crafty and steady policy have power to se'
complish anything, it seems certain that Prussia
will extend her dominion over the Duchies ; it little
matters whether this is done directly by immediate
annexation, or, indirectly, by the creation of a sub-
ordinate and vassal State. I fancy I can see evert'
where symptoms of a disposition on the part Of the
Frankfort Diet, and of the lesser and least States
of Germany to knock under. Not only are thl
unequal to a contest with the combined efforts ed
the two Great Powers, but they evidently feel, an
all but acknowledge their impotence. The helpless'
ness and dilatoriness of that poor Frankfort Viet
are in themselves sufficient to give the gone into
the hands of any adversary. Tho minor Carte'
always wriggling and shuffling, are giving in one 11
one ; and Saxony, who would seem to evince greater
stubbornness, takes up such absurd grounds ea to
call down upon her the ridicule of her very partisans'
She gravely tackled Austria and Prussia for „ac-
cepting Denmarks cession of Holstein and Lauen"
berg, as by such an accptance they virtually admit-
ted on the part of Denmark a right on those Duchies
which never existed."

As it becomes more and more obvious that Pres.
sia has carte blanche in the Duchies, both en the
part of willing Austria, and on that of releetatl",
Germany, it eppers also evident that the diePesi-
tion of mind of the Schleswig-Holsteiners has abated
from its former hostility to that designing Power.
" The Schleswig-Hotsteiners," it begins now to be
argued, ":are committed to no irrevocable course.
Prince Frederick of Augustenburg was hailed at
f
Kiel, at Schleswig and Flensburg, as the elect t' -,- n,
the people. But in a community, however ern"
where anything happens suddenly to ShaneShanethe
authority of the Government, where," "it iS now
asked, "where is the people P The petty tone o
Holstein and Schleswig have never even g-1
through the vain forms of a plebiscite; the rural
districts have made no sign whatever. Whatever
the merits of Prince Frederick may bQ, however
ready the country might be to pronounce his
is
favour, he is as yet," people begin to find out
" only a mob candidate. His name has been pro"
claimed; deputations have come to him ; meetings
have been held in his interest; but all these have
been mere individual acts, the acts of men without_
call or mission, whom the presence of an armed
force secured from all opposition. The people at
large have had no chance to speak out; it is alwaYa
the most worthless wheel in the cart that creche,
and nothing is easier than to bring a multititude
to
cut its own throat."

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

NEW YORK, AUG. 10.

The Southern papers announce the appointment
of the Hon. George A. Trenholm, as Secretary of
the Treasury, in the place of the Hon. C. G.
Meminger, resigned. Mr. Trenholm is a native of
Charleston, about 55 years of age, and tha senior
partner of the firm of John Fraser and Co., of
Charleston, which, with its Liverpool branch
Fraser, Trenholm, and Co.—has been extensively
engaged in biockade-running enterprises since the
beginning of the war.
A gentleman, long a resident of Mobile, and
familiarly acquainted with the topography of that
port, gives the following particulars of the locality
of the late naval victory gained by Admiral Far-

ragnt
Forts Morgan and Gaines are situated about 33
miles from the city of Mobile, and command from
opposite sides the entrance to the bay of the same
name. Thf.s entrance is about 21- miles wide. Fort
Powell commands another entrance, or rather nar.,
row artificial pass, called Grant's Pass, into the
same bay from the Mississippi Sound. The true
harbour of Mobile, locally called the anchorage, is
a few miles above these forts, under the lea of
Dauphin Island, and about 26 miles from Mobile.
Only vessels of small draft can come to the wharves
of the city, which is approached by a narrow and
tortuous channel averaging nine feet of water, never
exceeding 11. The most difficult portion of the
channel is at a point called Choctaw Pass,
about
five miles distant from the city.
" It is not believed that the city is in any danger
of capture from a naval attack. A successful land
attack would require at least 15,000 men, and the
approaches in that case would not be from Dauphin
Island but from Pascagoula. The object of Admiral
Farragut's operations is, therefore, probably—first,
to destroy the Confederate fleet in the bay ;
and,
secondly, to more effectually close a port which,
from its large cotton exportations, had recently be'
come of considerable importance to blockade.ruu-
ners. These objects attained, the situation will
not be very dissimilar from that at Charleston,
except that the distances between the outer 60
ja,:ter lines of harbour defences are greater."

.---__ _
MORI: ABOUT THE CONFEDERATE CBVISrt
FLORIDA-- By intelligence received yesterday at LloY"'sP
through the Treetop, Captain Wakeham, just arrived at
e
Liverpool from ilembay, it appears that vessels spok
at. 36,
l d
Confederate cruiser Florida on the 25th of July'. in the
long. 36, on the look- out for prizes. The Florida steame
up alongside the Preston, and having ascertained her
nationality, put a numbeit of letters and late newspapers on
board her, the latter contaiving accounts of the destruction.
of tho Alabama by the Ne,arsage. Further communica-
tions were about being interchanged, when a vessel bearing
the United States flag hove in sight, and
0 accident, terminating ill
steamed off in pursuit.
FATAL ACCIDENT.---A
hue just held the population of Saila-
loss of life,
in a state of painful suspense for
manches (Haute-8:
neatly four days. A
well sinker named Pericr was bet
iztt down into an old well nearly sixty feet deep, for
the
purk.,ose of effecting some repairs, and had already reached
within a short distance of the bottom, when a stone at the
side on which he had for a moment placed his foot, gev°
way and brought with it the whole of the masonry work
lining the sides of the shaft. Ji,s sistanc® was proui
obtained, and after about fourteen hours' labour, card,
rIY
and the voice of the unfortunate man could bead ar
12°t
although closely pressed by the riaas, h°h
twenty feet of the stones and rubt..ish were rem ov d
received any
freely. Two mornings after, the removal ,of the rubbish
salons injuries, and was ,iblo to breathe
was so far advanced that the workers had reachead
to within six feet of the Perier, and some brot:f was pose
to him through an elastic tube. The work had, b°vicaviejr;
now become more dangerous. Twice the shoring Para 0
gave way, and the clearing-out of the materials had to
taourer°
recommenced. On the evening of the next day the
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in the well called out that the unfortunate ll'an ;to b°
length reached, and at the same time asked for a cor
. , other
let down, in order to draw him to the surface. Another
moment and he would have been rescued, but the eideth tile
more gave way, the man again disappearing
stones. Three hours later the rubbish had bbeeenneaele_,rtot
awry from Perier's head and shoulders, but it Was n°w..iir.
late, as he had succumbed from suffocation, after reill''
rag buried fur 8(1 hours,