The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-26 00:00:00

THE SIN,' LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1864.

a re turn to Beene of the worst evils of that state of
neglect from. which they have only so recently been
in a grea's measure rescued. It was mentioned
at the meeting that whole parishes of houses
are be ing removed for the construction of
rt Always and other " improvements," but yet
rio aft ampt seems to be made to procure " decent
houses') for those that are being swept away. The
b est proof that could possibly be furnished of the
desirability of this company being formed consists
in the fact that was mentioned at the meeting that
numerous applications have already been made for
the " dwellings," although the buDdiugs are not yet
roofed in. This circumstance should unquestionably
impart confidence to those who are as yet but lookers
on at the scheme, and take no active part in its
prosecution. There is everything to recommend an
immediate attention to the claims of this society on
public support. The profit is almost certain, and
the philanthropic nature of the scheme is beyond
all praise. It is incumbent upon those who are
possessed of sufficient means to do what they can in
the way of providing for the pressing necessities
and urgent wants of their fellow-brethren; and,
sad as are the cases of absolute distress, it is in a
great measure more incumbent upon us to take care
of those who are bordering on the precipice, and in
a short time will be driven over into the gulf of
ruin beneath. A timely hand stretched out, a friend
in need, may often prove the turning points in the
career of many. It is not charity that is here
sought, but assistance that is immediately required to
enable the work now in full trim to go on prospering.
Those difficult first steps have been taken which are
too often the beginning and the end offair-seeming
enterprises; and thus the timid and doubtful have
not the very plausible excuse in their power of say-
ing that they are afraid it will not do so well in
practice as in theory, and that they must reserve
their judgment until a more fitting opportunity.
The board very wisely suggest to the members that
they should use their efforts to induce their friends
to take up the remainder of the capital of the com-
pany without delay. The reasons for this are I
ob-
vious, because there often occur opportunities for
obtaining advantageous sites, but the Board hesi-
tate to purchase more land unless they have a larger
capital. There is every reason to hops that due
attention will be paid to this suggestion, and that
this excellent undertaking will not be allowed to
languish for want of the right means for carrying
out to the fall entirety its plans sad purposes. That
something decisive must be done has long been ad-
mitted on all sides, and it seems only the practice of
a wise forethought that induces these members of
the Company to undertake in time what must be-
fore very long be done by some means or other. It
will be quite impossible to treat this question
of the dwellings of the working classes with the
indifference that so often pervades the social ques-
tions of the day. The mischief will spread like
wildfire—fever, disease, and miseries of all kinds
will supervene if the poor are left to remain in
their closed, crowded dwellings, with hardly any
appliances for decency or comfort, and often pay-
ing an extravagant price for their miserable loca-
tions. It is of more especial importance, too, to
pay all possible heed to this subject, on account of
there being the certainty that as lime passes all
these evils of overecrowding will increase, instead
of diminishing. The improvements of modern
science, and the new aspect things are assuming
in all directions, tend to militate, very consider-
ably, against the chances of the poor being left
in peace, or even undisturbed in their hardships.
A company of this class may, in some sort, be re-
garded as partly a national institution, for it pro-
vides for a great want of the community, and in
some degree finds a remedy fore great and pressing
evil. Every inducement, then, seems to invite us
to pay special heed to the undertaking of such an
establishment, tied it is earnestly to be trusted
that it will go on and prosper, and that succeed-
ing years will find it advancing in usefulness,
while the more pressing and painful demand for
its agency shall cease, through better arrange-
ments and the progress of improvements.

HENRY PHILLIPS AND THE YANKEE MUSIC
SELLER.—I had had written beforehand, as ens
my custom to make all the preliminary arrangements, and
arrived about twelve o'clock in the day. The person who
kept the music store was to lend me a piano forte on hire,
and had promised it should be on the platform, with a
music stool, not later than four o'clock in the afternoon.
Knowing how dilatory men of business are in these hot
climates, I always took the precaution of ordering every-
thing some hours sooner than was necessary. I went to
the rooms at five o'clock, but no instrument had arrived.
Six o'clock, sti.ll no pianoforte. Half past—no signs of
such a thinß, I looked down the long avenue leading to
the store), but there was nothing on the way. Seven o'clock
approached; and hot as the evening was, I resolved to go
down to the store and inquire the cause, as in another half
hour my audience would be arriving. About a quarter of a
mile down the road I saw a little knot of negroes carrying
.mething that resembled a square pianoforte. By the time
I came up with them they had laid it flit on the ground,
and some six niggers were sitting on it. Another nigger
was carrying two of the legs, a second two more, and a third
the music-stool. The-six were wiping their foreheads, and
telling all sorts of stories, when I asked, "Is that pianoforte
for the concert-room toenight ?" " Yes, massa," replied
one. "Then why don't you take it ?" I said. "It ought to
have been there two hours since," " It's ber heavy," re-
plied my friend. " We'll get on do track presently.'
" Very well," said I, shaking my finger at them, " I'll
complain to your master ;" and in a raging fever I reached
the music store. There .stood the proprietor, picking his
teeth with his penknife. He was a till, thin-faced man,
all bone and muscle. I was red with rage when I dashed
into the shop and said, " What dues all this mean ?"
" What do you allude to, stranger,?" he replied, `in the
coolest manner conceivable. Speaking rapidly, I con-
tinued, 6' You said my pianoforte should be in the room
at four o'clock; it's now past seven, and your niggers are
now sitting down on it in the street, It has put me in a
fever of rage and disappointment. My auditors are
coming. Those lazy brutes won't stir, and you ought to
have seen them off three hours since. It's scandalous
shameful! abominable 1 How am I to sing after this ?
What excuse can you make ? " All this time he stood with
his arms folded, looking coolly at me; and while I was
waiting a moment to take breath and renew the attack, he
said, " Well, stranger, have you done ?" I hesitated for
an instant, and said " Yes." " Look you here, then,"
said he, "This is our mode of doing business ; if you don't
like it, move the pi-a-no forte yourself." This philo-
sophical mode of treating and looking at the matter put a
stop to all argument, so I hastened back, and sang well to
a very good audience.—ellueical and Personal Recollections
of henry Phillips.
FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last
sitting a paper was received from M. Valz, the
astronomer at Marseilles, in which he stated the elements
of the new comet as follows:—Passage through perihelion
September 7.05. mean time of Marseilles; perihelion die
tance, 0.823 ; longitude of perihelion, 289.37 degrees ; right
ascension, 66.56 deg. ; inclination, 1'45 deg.; motion, re-
trograde,—Dr Nelaton communicated a paper on the de-
struction of tumours by an electrolytic method, applicable
to cases in which the tumour is deeply seated and inacces-
sible to ordinary instruments. The case quoted by him was
a naso-pharyngian polypus, which was electro chemically
destroyed by inserting two platinum pins into its mass,
and making them communicate with the poles of a Bunsen's
pile, consisting of 9 elements 16 centimetre in height by S
in diameter, and arranged for tension. The tumour was
destroyed in six sittings, without any effusion of blood, and
with very little pain. A parer was received from M. Pisani
on the chemical composition o the aerolith which fell at
Orgueil on May 14 last. He states that all the specimens
of this aerolith do not present the same state of cohesion,
but that they are all of spongy texrure, and all eagerly
absorb water. M. Henri Ste. Claire Deville communicated
further researches on the penetrability of iron. Our readers
may recollect that in a previous paper this eminent
chemist had shown that hydrogen contained in art iron tube
will ooze through its pores if heat be applied, a fact easily
explained by tho expansion of the metal consequent upon
au increase of temperature. In the present case M. Deville
introduced an iron tube into a porcelain one, so as to form
an empty cylindrical space between the two, closed at both
ends. lie then filled both the inner and outer spaces with
nitrogen, and heated the apparatus, after which he caused
hydrogen to pass into the annular space, taking care to mea-
tsuub. o
reethspa inreasnsaulryes,wghich soon became doubled in the iron
the gas contained in the latter, he
found it to emnbist of hydrogen and nitrogen, the former
in by tar greater quantity than the latter, besides a lade
oxide of carbon, This shown that the hydrogen had pene-
trated through the tube.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREITTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

PRANCE.
PARIS, JULY 26 (Morning).

Orders have been given in the military ports to
despatch the necessary ships to Mexico to bring
back the troops that are to return from that cone.
try. The ships will leave France early in August.
The Paris journals continue to remark on the
imperial decree for reorganising the administration
in Algeria, but in general their observations are of
a pale, undecided character, and certainly far in-
ferior is energy of expression to the almost hostile
extracts which we have given from the Opinion
Nationale and the Gazette de France. Thus, for
instance, the Monde merely says :—" One thing
seems clear—that Algeria is returning to military
government. So long as there is no serious plan
of colonisation, we shall be perpetually oscillating.
We are even ignorant of what the prefects do in
Algeria, and what they have to administer.
The Nation sums up its opinion in these words :
" There is nothing changed in Algeria—there is
only a prefect the more, and the military supre-
macy is more firmly established than ever." The
Patrie confines itself to showing that the consider-
able changes introduced into the regime of Algeria
have for object to assure the complete predominance
of the military element. The Debats makes the
following observations :—" There are two impor-
tant points which must be considered in any dis-
cussion on Algeria. In the first place Algeria
is not purely and simply a colony founded,
like the English ones, by a free move-
ment of emigration, developed by the in-
dividual initiative of a few enterprising men;
it is, above all, a conquest to which the mother
country has devoted too-much of her wealth and cl
her most precious blood not to have the right to
retain, so long as she may think proper, the supreme
direction of its government. In the second place,
Algeria is not, like Bourbon and the Antiles, peo-
pled exclusively with one race, that of resident
Europeans; it is occupied by two nations, differing
in origin and religion, one of which, having long
been master of the soil, only submitted to France
on certain specified conditions, after obtaining the
solemn promise that its property, customs, and laws
should be respected by the conqueror. It appears
to us that too little attention is paid to this double
character peculiar to our possessions in the North
of Africa by these who compare the institutions given
by England to Australia and even to Canada with the
institutions which have at different times obtained
in Algeria, and who pretend to draw decisive argu-
monis from the comparison of objects and situations
so widely different."
The Presse declares that it can readily understand
Marshal Bandon's scruples relative to the system of
duality, the unfortunate eff c' s of which he bears
witness to; that journal has little confidence in the
union of the civil with the military regime.
" Either one or the other," it says, "should be
adopted." Still the Pressc has ingeniously dis-
covered a method to do without either. It is
almost prepared "to look upon the inefficiency•
of all the systems as an argument against the
occupation itself!' The work which France
commenced in 1830, and which she has been steadily
pursuing for the lest 34 years should therefore be
abandoned. The colonists, who at the price of so
many sacrifices have succeeded in founding such
valuable establishments there, should resign all. To
immigration to that country must succeed emigra-
tion from it. This idea is too unpatriotic to be
seriously entertained. When brought forward in
the Chamber of Deputies by M. De:-jobert, it was
laughed at, and will probably be similarly greeted
now by the public.
BOURSE, July 25.—Tbe market is somewhat
firmer to-day, but there has been scarcely any
variation in prices. Threes, for the Account, opened
at 661. 10c. and rose to 66f. 15f. Mobilkx opened
at 980 f., and have gradually risen to 985 f. But
little doing in naiiway Sfiares, but prices show a:

slight upward tendency. The market closed as

follows :

per Cents .. 04 50 I Italian Loan CS

15o: exd month.... I Do. end month.... 6S 05

3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 66 10 New Mexican 56 50

Credit Mobilier.. 932 50 Russian
Do, end month.... 935 Austrian

Bank Shares - 3390 Spanish Throes .51
Credit Foueier ....1210 Llama Debt
Roman

RA IL WAYB.
CE eh. Account.
Orleane =••.. 872 60 872 50
Northern . ... _ 378 75 .. 877 50

Lyons and l'iediterranean 895 897 50

New ditto
Southern
Wetitern
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austri<ua
Lois bard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Eureelo,

637 50 .. 610 -
515 - .. 513 75
472 50 .. 477 50
351 25 350 -
411 25 .. 410 -
527 50 527 50
437 50 435 --
526 25 .. 527 50

Ditto to

ala .... .... —.• ••

HIS HOLINESS THE POPE.

The Giornale di Eonza of the 19th says :—" The
Holy Father has at last left Rome, as you are
already most probably aware, for Castel Gandolfo.
His Holiness ptoceeded to the central railway
station, where he was received by the Commander,
Baron Baldini, Minister of Commerce and Public
Works, and congratulated by General de Monte-
bello. The Piazza Tanini, where the Pontifical and
French troops were drawn up with their bands,
was filled with carriages and spectators on foot.
At half-past five the
Holy Father took his place in
the train with the prelates of his household, and
went as far as Frattochia, where his carriage
awaited him. The Holy Father arrived at Castel
Gandolfo at seven in the evening, and was received
at the church of the parish by Cardinal Alfieri,
Bishop of Albano. His Holiness crossed the square
before the church to the Pontifical palace on foot,
in company with Cardinals di Pietro and de Sil-
vestri, amidst the acclamations of the crowd."

GERMANY AND DENMARK,
(From the limes' Correspondent.)
-VIENNA, July 23.

M. von Bismark
Copenhagen arrived here at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon of yesterday, and 111. von Quaade and
Colonel Kaufmann, who are to represent Den-
mark in the Conference, are now on their way from
of Vienna would go to the
was expected that many of the
energetic statesman being a rarity in Germany, it
to this city. A strong-willed and
political quidnunes
railway terminus to
see, if not to welcome, the Iran " of blood and
iron ;" but such was not the case. Baron Werther,
who is well known to the Viennese, received M. von
Bismark on hie arrival, and took him to the Prussian
Legation,
but few of the persons whom they met in
the streets turned to look at the man who by superior
ability and force of will. has succeeded in making
Austria subservient to Prussia
. In the evening the
Prussian statesman went with Baron Werther and
Count Rechberg to the Voikeg erten, where Strauss'e
band was playing, and this morning he had an au-
dience of his ajesty the Emperor. Before von Bis-
mark left Carlsbad he had a conference with Prince
MGortschakoff, and they are said to have come to the
conclusion that, if the German Diet had to decide on
the question relative to the right of succession, the
Grand Duke of Oldenburg would have little or yo
chance of reigning over Schleswig Holstein. As
has repeatedly been said, the Austrian Government
wishes for
peace, but Count Rechberg is so entirely
in the power of
his Prussian colleague that he will
hardly fail to obey his high behests. The conditions
which Prussia
Schles-
wig-Holstein as.follows:-I.now intends to make are in substance
The complete separation of Schles-
this side of the The said countries, including certain districts on
to Jutland, to oLn
ja: na
uh
,u rwgh
which
fromat
present Denmark.
be l 0
n2g.
verned by a Prince the validity of whose claim.,,
form a State, which shall be go-
to the throne have been recognised by a Federal
Court of Justice. 3. ltendsburg to be a Federal for-
tress, and Kiel, or some other sea-port in Schleswig-
Holstein, to bo a Federal war-port. 4. Prussia to
indemnify Austria for her catlay during the war,
and to leave her troops in Schleswig until her own
expenses (which are estimated at about 20,000,060
of cioliars) have been paid cut cf the surplus revenue

of the Duchy, which is to be collected by Prussian
officials. 6. The Duchy of Holstein to defray the
expenses arising from the Federal execution. 6.
When all the expenses incurred by the German
Powers in the Duchies have been defrayed, Schles-
wig and Holstein are to be definitively united and
placed under the sceptre of the Duke or Prince
whose claims may have been recognized by the
German Band.

Though not able to assert that the foregoing pro-
gramme is perfectly correct, I must needs believe
it to be so, as men in office profess to be astonished
at the " audacity" of the Prussian Minister. Pres-
ident. Success has made M. von Bismark vainglo-
rious, and doubtless he flatters himself that sooner
or later ho shall be able to incorporate the Duchies
with Prussia. The French Government has recently
advised the Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs
to be indulgent towards Denmark, but he takes so
little notice of the communications received from
M. Drouyn do Lhuys that people are greatly dis-
posed to think there is a secret understanding be-
tween him and that subtle politician who, having
obtained Faucigny and Nice, covets a part, if not
the whole, of the left bank of the Rhine.

The sitting held by the German Diet on Thurs-
day last was a very animakd one. Austria and
Prussia proposed that the Duke of Angustenburg
should be called on to establish his hereditary
claims to the throne of Schleswig Holstein, and the
motion was carried by a majority of 11 voices, or
" curie," to five. Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg,
Darmstadt, and the 13th " curie" (Brunswick and
Nassau) opposed the motion, because, in their opi-
nion, the validity of the claims of Duke Frederick,
of Augustenburg had already been substantiated.
The 12th "curie" (the Saxon houses) voted with
Austria and Prussia, but it at the same time de-
clared the claims of the Duke of Augustenburg to
be indisputable. Daring the sitting a telegram was
received from General Hake, in which is was said
that Prince Frederic Charles of Prussia was about
to take possession of Rendsburg. General Hake,
who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Federal
forces i❑ Holstein, further stated, that in order
to avoid a bloody conflict we should withdraw the
Saxon and Hanoverian troops from Rendsburg. In
general the members of the German Diet take
things very easily, but on Thursday they were
thoroughly roused. They expressed approval of
General Hake's intention to avoid a conflict, but
ordered him formally to protest against the violent
and illegal conduct of the Commander-in-Caief of
the Allied forces.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This
_Day.)

COURT OP DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde.)
WILLIAMS V. WILLIAMS.-JUDGMENT.

Sir J. P. Wilde delivered judgment in this case this
morning, which was a suit by the wife for a dissolution of
marriage, on the ground of her husband's adultery and
desertion without reasonable cause, and it appeared that
both were in domestic service. The learned judge said that
it was not easy in all cases to deo'de what constituted deser-
tion as the circumstances in which the parties were placed
must affect their cohabitation as man and wife. Marital
intercourse was interrupted in the cases of persons engaged
in tloks army and navy, in many eases in commercial enter-
pris where the husband was compelled to leave the
country, and more particularly in cases like the present,
where the parties were engaged as domestic servants. It
appeared that the parties were married several years ago,
and lived together for some time, during which they got
into business but failed, after which they both returned
to service. The husband visited his wife very frequently,
and afterwards, according to his statement, as often as
the nature of his duties would permit. The period of their
ceasing to live under the same roof was about twelve yeara,
and all that time the respondent's visits were continued
regularly. It had been urged by the petitioner that she had
acquired means sufficient to enable them to resume business
and cohabitation, but the respondent's refusal to accede to
her proposition to go into business again could not be con-
strued into desertion, as he might reasonably have doubted
of his success in business atter the former failure, and
therefore might be induced to hesitate before he em-
barked in trade again. It was also urged that he
cohabited with another woman, but as he continued his
visits to the petitioner, this could not be called desertion,
He came therefore to the conclusion that the husband had
not deserted his wife without reasonable cause—but on his
conviction of his having committed adultery, he would
grant to the petitioner a decree of judicial separation.

MARRIOTT, FALSELY CALLED BURGESS V. BURGESS,

JUDG3IENT.

In this case the wife prayed for a decree of nullity of
marriage, and the question on which the Court reserved
judgment was whether there had been unreasonable delay
in commencing the suit, and whether it had been promoted
for an indirect object. The parties were together from 1853
to 1863, and during that time there was no complaint.
However, a quarrel arose relative to a servant boy, which
appeared to have led to these proceedings by the petitioner,
and under the circumstances he felt bound to dismiss the
petition.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr Commissioner Gou'burn.)
IN RE FREDERICK TAYLOR.

Mr Sargood called attention to this case, is which
an application was made for his Honour's sanction to a
criminal prosecution, and his Honour had intimated that
he would look over the papers.

His Honour said he had not yet done so, but he was still
of opinion thct he ought not to interfere until the party
charged had been taken before a magistrate, which would
form some guide for him to come to a decision.

Mr Sargood said that he was aware of his Honour's
general opinion on that point—it was a question of costs.
His Honour said that the expense of going before the
magistrate would be very slight. It did not require his
authority to do so.

Mr Sargood said that after such an intimation he would
say no more ac present.

IN RE WILSON.
This bankrupt was described as a timber merchant, of
Belvidere-road. Lambeth, and this was an application to
dismiss the petition, which was filed by the bankrupt, on
tho ground that the debts exceeded £3OO, Mr Fairhead
having claimed :200 on what he alleged to bo an accom-
modation bill given to the bankrupt and taken up
by Fairhead. The bankrupt, however, swore that the bill
was given for a half share in the profits of a patent for a
"shield ship" (the nature of which was not explained).
The bankrupt and Mr Fairhead were examined, and his
honour considered that the debt had been proved, and re-
fused to allow the schedule to be amended by the insertion
of the debt and additional stamps to be affixed to the
petition,
The petition was therefore dismissed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

BOW STREET.

A QUEER COSTUME.—A miserable looking elderly man,
named 1-13nry Sanders, wearing no coat, but a very dirty
and ragged light waistcoat and red shirt, and with the
battered remains of what had once been a hat, stuck
on one side of the head, was charged with stealing a coat.
On being placed in the dock, tho prisoner, at the jailor's
suggestion, but somewhat reluctantly, took off his hat, and
stuck out his elbow in a grotesque fashion, having the hat
thereon.

The prisoner was at once recognised by the officers of the
court as having on former occasions been charged at this
court with various offences, arising more from eccentricity
than deliberate dishonesty. Ho appears to have suffered
terribly from poverty and dissipation, and is thought to Le
hardly capable of taking care cf himself.

Alderman, one of the beadles of Covent-garden Market,
said the prisoner was brought t) this court a few days ago
for stealing flowers in the market, Some of his friends
then promised that he should be removed to the workhouse
to be taken care of, but that had not been dene.
George Thorp, a salesman in the market, stated that on
Friday he saw the prisoner hanging about his stand, and a
few minutes afterwards he missed a coat belonging to his
brother. It was lying on the stand within reach of any one
standing by.

The Prisoner--A strange place to leave a coat, Ono
would think you wanted it taken.

Mr Thorpe went on to say that the prisonerhad been seen
lounging about the market every day, but without thecoat,
and though he was suspected, there appeared not sufficient,
proof to justify his apprehension, tilt this morning, when
witness saw him ith the coat on, end gave him in custody,
The prisoner—l had been unfortunate and had had my
own coat torn from my back, and I was very cold. I saw
the coat lying about as if it did not belong to any one, and
it was a temptation.

Wm. Thorpe, brother of former witness, said the coat
was his property, and worth 108; whea he left it on the
stand there was a halfcrown in the pocket,
The prisoner—There was no halfcrown in it, I will
swear, It there hej been IPh ,uld have spent it. (A
laugh.) That is a fabrication,
Witness—There was a halferown, and I have no doubt
you did spend it.
The prisoner—l should havo been glad of it. I was
very hard up. I was hungry. I had no bed. But you
must be a very foolish fellow to leave your money in your
coat.

Mr Flowers—Well I suppose you don't dispute that it
Was foolish

Witness (laughing)—Y), 1 don't say that.
The Prisoner•—HsYez't ).ou a puree, or a waistcoat ?