The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1864

LITERATURE.

Charles Dickens's New Serial Story.

Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. No. V,
Chapman and Hall.

With the fifth number of " Our Mutual Friend"
Cie first Book is completed. And—out of all
this same first book of Boz's last story--(commend
us to the two closing chapters of it ! Chap-
ter the sixteenth that is and chapter the seven•
teenth ! Commend us, especially and beyond
all, to the sixteenth ! The chapter introduc-
ing us to poor old (very old) Betty Higden—
to her great grandchild Johnny, the looked-for
Orphan, at length discovered, by Mrs Boffin, in the
flesh, and very chubbily in the flesh, too, as it hap.
pens ! Nay, introducing us, besides these (this won-
derful chapter) to a delightful long boy, ycleped
Sloppy—and to two little children (two very little
children) called respectively Toddles and Peddles.
The scene, peopled by these very old and very young
creatures, is extremely humble, a mere cottage room
in a bye.lane down a back street in muddy Brent-
! ford. Extremely humble, but extremely clean—
sweet and fresh as Mrs. Batty Higden's
house. room is, with a well - scrubbed brick
floor, and with plenty of fresh linen, then
and there undergoing pressure in the ecrooping
mangle worked by Sloppy. This latter individual
(already mentioned) Master or Mister Sloppy being
described as " one of those shambling male human
creatures born to be iudtscreetly candid in the revelation
of buttons—every button he had about him glaring at
the public to a quite preternatural extent." Other.
wise-defined—" Full-Private Number One in the
Awkward Squad of the rank and file of life, was
Sloppy, and yet had his glimmering notions of
standing true to the Colours." Although as yet
Sloppy has never once opened his big mouth—
except, time and again, to roar with laughter and
for one brief while to howl eympathetially up
on Betty Higden's breaking down for a moment
and hating a good cry—we are, nevertheless, fully
impressed with a conviction that Sloppy will turn
out to be not only "Full Private Number One,"
as aforesaid, but that he will stand forth
conspicuously, and hold his own thoroughly well,
among that strange and wondrous throng of origi-
nals—the Bcz Characters. Then, again—Toddles
and Peddles ! Who but the creator of Paul Dom■

bey, and Little Nell, and Tiny Tim—who but the
_ _ _

delineator of David Copperfiald in his childhood, of
Peepy playing at wild beasts under the piano, and
of ever so many more little children, of all ages, from
Tilly S!owboy's charge (in arms) upwards—who,
in a word, but Charles Dickens, could ever have
dreamt of three such little creatures as Toddles and

Poddles, and Johnny ! When Dams Betty Higden,
the last-mentioned little creature's great-grand•
mother, gets him (Johnny) up into her lap,
while having a talk with that dear, kind,
good old soul, Mrs. Boffin, who has come
there to adopt the orphan—Betty, contenting
herself at first with kissing Johnny's fat, dimpled
hand by times, as she prattles on to her visitor—
when, we say, old Betty, at last, (Johnny
sitting there in her lap, "with his chin tucked
in and his lips pouting, concentrating his
blue eyes on the visitors, and shadowing them
from observation with a dimpled arm ")
when Old Betty comes to taking one of his fresh fat
hands in her withered right, and falls to gently
beating it on her withered left—Ah, well, a point
is then soon reached (as we read on) when
the great Master-Humorist of our age—of any age
for that matter—has full and absolute command (as
he has so often had before!) over our tears. " And
now," says Mrs. Boffin—just before Old Betty
takes to gently beating one of Johnny's fresh fat
hands on her withered left,—" And now," says Mrs
Boffin, "concerning Johnny." " Yes, ma'am," says
Old Betty, beating on, " concerning Johnny."

" If you trust the dear child to me," said Mrs Boffin,
with a face inviting trust, " he shall have the best of homes,
the best of care, the best of education, the best of friends.
Please God, I will be a true good mother to him I"
" I am thankful to you, ma'am, and the dear child
would be thankful if he was old enough to understand"
—still beating the little hand upon her own, "I wouldn't
stand in the dear child's light, not if I had all my life be-
fore me, instead of a very little of it. But I hope you won't
talc-a it ill that X c2oato to ato child olaeor tbetzt wurd.r oat:
tell, for ho's the last living thing left me."
"Take it ill, my dear soul ? Is it likely ? And you so
tender of him as to bring him home here 1"

"• I have seen" said Betty, still with that light
beat upon her hard rough hand "so many of
them on roy lap. And they aro all gone bat
this one I lam ashamed to seem so selfish, but I
don't really mean it, it'll be the making of his fortune,
and he'll be a gentleman when lam dead. I— I— don't
know what comes over me. I— try against itl Don't
notice me 1" The light beat stopped, the resolute mouth
gave way, and the fine, strong old face broke up into weak-
ness and tears.

Here it is that Sloppy, as already related, lifts up
his voice and bellows, terrifying Toddles and
Pod dies into a roar by so doing, and causing Johnny
by sheer sympathy to become a prey to despair!
" The absurdity of the situation" at this climax of
it, at once, effectually, as our author remarks,
" put its pathos to the rout." Toddies' and Poddles'
buccanneering expeditions, hand-in-hand across the
floor, across country, one might almost say, in an
attempt to bear Johnny, " crowing, into capti-
vity and slavery "—the fluctuations of this game
—every casual touch (each given with such a tender
hand!) in the description —all is, just simply in one
word, charming. Another of those delicate limnings
of childhood and little children—that we read—
thrbugh a loving mist of tears (half of fan half of
tenderness)—in the works of our Great Novelist—
descriptions that, once read, we ever after-
wards bear among our most cherished recollections.
Incidents of various kinds, some of them of con-
siderable importance in the development of the plot
of " Our Mutual Friend," are here related. Inci-
dents, for example, of such importance as the dis-
covery that it is Gaffer Hexam's dead body
that hangs drowned at the end of his own tow-
line—as the appointment of John Arrowsmith
as Mr Boffin's secretary—as the removal of
the Boffins into their grand fashionable resin
deuce at the West-end, with all its consequences,
in the shape of a dismal swamp of begging. letter
correspondence ! But, tempting though the last-
mentioned theme especially is to delete upon, we
can give not a thought at this moment to anything
but the little children.

THE DUKE OF HAMILTON.—" The title of Dal.'2
de Chatellerault," says the Gazette de France,
"which has just been confirmed to the Duke of liamilton)
is one of the small number of those which the
French kings had created in favour of some noble
foreign families, in order to perpetuate the remem-
brance of gnat services, or the participation
in some famocts event. James Hamilton, Earl of
Arran, son of a Scottish peer, and of the eldest daughter of
James IL of Scotland, was by his mother presumptive heir
of Qum, Miry Stuart. The Parliament had already de-
clared him governor and protector of the young Queen,
second person in the kingdom.' It is in that double title
the Earl of Arran negotiated and concluded the marriage
of Mary Stuart and the Dauphin of France, afterwards
Francis 11. King Henry 11. gave him as a recom-
pense for that happy intervention the dukedom of Chatelle-
rault, to enjoy it, he and his posterity, male and female.
The younger branch of the House of Hamilton came down,
in direct line to the present day, and is still represented in
Scotland by the Marquis of Abercorn. The elder branch
bezame extinct about the end of the seventeenth century in
the House of Douglas, a branch of which was substituted
for the Dukes of Hamilton and de Chatellerault. The
transmission of the title of Duke de Chatellerault in France
had been recognised in the House of Douglas by Charles X.
in 1826, in spite of the reclamations of the Marquis of
Abercorn. The young Duke of Hamilton was born in
1845."

FOUR MEN BURIED ALlVE.—Yesterday after-
noon, shortly before 4 o'clock, a sad accident, which
has terminated fatally to two men and serious injury to two
others, occurred on the new line of railway now in course
of construction by the South-Eastern Railway Company
between Deptford and Lewisham. It appears that at the
time stated a party of excavators were at work cutting
away a portion of the chalk embankment, and had just
completed their work when, without any warning, a mass
weighing nearly 100 tons suddenly fell, burying four of the
unfortunate fellows, and others narrowly escaping a similar
fate. Such was the weight of the falling earth that a truck
standing on a side line of rail was completely smashed.
The men immEdiately set to work to rescue their com-
panions, and messengers were despatched for medical as-
sistance. After a short time two of the unfortunate men
were reached, still alive, and having been attended to by
two medical gentlemen resident in the neighbourhood, they
were conveyed to Guy's Hospital. The other two men,
named Thos. Will bourne and Samuel Brown, both of whom
were married; on being gut out were pronounced dead, and
their bodies were removed to the paribb dead-house to await
the coroner's inquiry,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTEE'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS
MALTA, SEPT, 1.

The Ellora will leave here at 10 p.m. to-day for
Marseilles, and the Ceylon, at 3 ear. to-morrow, for
Southampton.

OrTWAIID CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND
AUSTRALIAN MAILS.
The Malta, from Southampton, on the 20th Aug.,
reached Malta on the 29th, at 8 a.m., and left at 6
p.m. for Alexandria.
The Syria, from Marseilles, on the 28th August,
arrived at 11 p.m., on the 30th, and kit at 4 a,m.
on the 31st for Alexandria.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SEPT 2.

The Constitutionnel of this morning contains an
article, signed by M. Paulin Limayrac, reviewing
the language used by M.M, Rouher, Rouland, and
Behic, at the opening of the Councils General. The
writer says—" In view of these manifestations
of the ideas of the Govermient who can deny to the
Empire the spirit of progress and initiative. In a
restricted sphere of a department as in the wider
sphere of a State we find the Imperial policy
animated by the desire of most completely and
surely developing principles in which we discover
the same thought of giving to France all the bene-
fits of progress and saving her from all excesses of
revolution."

BOURSE, Sept. I.—The market has been more
buoyant, and a fair amount of business has been
done at an improvement, Threes being now quoted
at Mr. 50c. Mobilier have advanced to 1,015 fr,
Railway Market firm. The market continued im.
proving to the close, and

41 per Cents .. 94 75
Do. end month.... -

3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 65

Credit Mobilier...:lo26
Do. end m0nth....1020

left off as follows
:
Italian Loan 67 70
Do. end month 67 60
Ditto Threes ..
New Mexican .... 56
Russian
Austrian .. B2 50
Spanish Threes —
Home Debt
Deferred

Bank Shares - 33b

Credit Fonder 1225
Roman

RAIL WAYB.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1141, 592 50 .. 892
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean 923 75 .. 930
Southern 640 .. 638 75
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian -
LOB' bard
North of Spain .. 407 50 .. 403 75
Saragossa., 487 50 .. 487 60
Ditto to Barcelona

THE CONGRESS AT IIIALINES.
(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
The meetings of the sections of the Congress
were resumed yesterday at nine a.m., and on visit-
ing again the fifth section, which had hitherto
been busy with the questions relating to the press,
I found that the members had proceeded to the
part of their programme which related to religions
freedom in general, and the right of Catholics to
have separate cemeteries in particular. It is truly
scandalous that in a Catholic country, the men in
power from mere irreligious feeling should hinder
their religious countrymen from enjoying one of the
earliest and dearest advantages which Christians ever
possessed, that of being buried in consecrated
ground. Still I found that funeral subject treated
in so funeral a manner by the local speakers, that
I sought out the hall where the fourth section on
Christian Art was assembled, and heard there a
discussion on Church decoration, in which, although
a great deal of amateur talk took place, still we
had the great advantage of hearing speak with
the same ability on that subject as he does on poli-
tical matters, Herr Augustus Reichensperger, the
representative of Cologne in the Prussian Parlia-
ment, and the leader therein of the Catholic
party. The recent decorations in the Cathe-
dral of Amiens were severely criticized by
M. Bordeaux, a well-known writer on Christian art.
The meeting of the sections ended at twelve, after
which the greater part of the French visitors went
in a body to the Archbishop's palace, to pay a visit
to their illustrious countryman, M. Dupanioup.
At 3 p,m. the general meeting began, and the
hall, capable of containing 4,000 persons, was filled
to overflowing to listen to the Bishop of Orleans,
who was announced to speak. Several well-known
personages were applauded as they entered to take
their seats, and especially General Delanoy, a recent
victim of the liberal Government of Belgium, hav-
ing been placed on the retiring list for having pre-
sumed to stand as a candidate of the opposition.
The celebrated French Jesuit preacher, Pere Felix,
was 1004 cheered.
After several announcements made by the Score-
tP.ry.Gieneral, M. Ducpetiaux, the Cardinal and
Bishops entered the hall. Tho whole of the Belgian
episcopate was there present. N. Ducpetiaux
communicated to the assembly the answer to the
telegram sent to Cardinal Antonelli, and trans-
mitted by him to his Holiness at Castel Fidardo.
The Holy Father, trusting in the spirit of good-
will and rectitude of intention of the Congress,
bestows upon its members the Apostolic blessing
fr,at and
of bietg,
sn his long address standing
they have asked.
in front The Bishop of ORLEANS then ascended theiplat-
orm
down after his exor-
dium, and resuming the standing attitude
towards the end. His fine, tall, and venerable ap-
pearance was greatly heightened by his purple
ecclesiastical dress, consisting of cassock and cloak.
a
itting
His address was admirably delivered in a fine clear
voice, and a most appropriate mixture of calm and
energy, and lasted during the whole of the time
alloted to the meeting, concluding at a quarter to
six, having lasted two hours and a half,
with-
out the least flagging in the interest of t'ae hearers
or the powers of the orator. "I should have a heart
"not to feel the flame which burns in
your kearts, not to be moved at the generous beating
of ice," he, said,
of so many Catholic hearts who cannot hear the
names of Christ, of His Church, and of His Vicar
uttered without bursting into
applause. How
charming it was for me yesterday to hear of
your invincible trust in your institutions, and
I felt immediately reassured. I thought, pardon
me, to find you
in sadness, and I came to comfort
you. But you are earnest Christians, who know
that struggling is the essential condition of Chris•
tian life. The Church on earth is called the Church
militant. It will only be in the other
shall find the Church t world that we
rineaphant. Christians,
therefore, as such, may be killed but never con-
quered. You are in no way downcast. St. Augus-
tine asked the Christians of his time, who were
saddened by the inundation
of the barbarians who
came to besiege even his episcopal city of Hippo,
made Christians to en.
therefore be militant
dare thaeffir tihoteiyonh?ad
Inloret
sbheoeunld
and yet prudent. Not
prudent according to the
sense of pusillanimous men, but prudent in thereat
sense of that cardinal virtue, an epithet which be-
comes it the more in the presence of your primate.
Be prudent. Be prudent in the sense in which
Christ spoke, when he recommended his disciples to
have the simplicity of the dove. St. Chrysostom
says, "As long as we ar© sheep we conquer, if we
become wolves we are conquered. Struggle is
eternal. You have been buptiz,d not to ilQuriSh,
withhbut s t oablbe l
p apr
dur
vdu
ede
rne s ne a
et r
eel.
DIV euAs a
t: .11
hdah
how
oevwer
e,
teoo not enemies
uorvseeretoo aet
h echarity.perm
The Abbe Libermann, the founder of that congrega-
tion of missionaries who die the death of martyrdom
from pestilential climate, to rescue the Africans from
the darkness o. paganism, was once met in the
streets of Paris by a man who raised his hand against
him, saying, "Priest ! oh, if you knew how I hate
you." " Friend,"
answered the priest, s' if you
knew how I love
You, for Christ's sake." These
words struck the
man so that he embraced the
priest, and in that sacerdotal embrace his heart
was changed, and he became converted.
have been invited by your Cardinal to treat

of an important question, as sacred as it is practical
and useful—popular education, with its contingent
questions of professional teaching and freedom of
teaching. Oa these points we may easily agree
with the adversaries of the Church. There are
two secondary points of the education question,
which are its gratuitous and obligatory cha.
rectors, which we have to contest. The
Church claims specially the right of found-
ing schools, and that in virtue of the commission
she received from her Divine founder. "Go and
teach," he said to her, and she has ever since gone
on, never stopping as long as schools had to be
founded. The first Councils ordered priests to be
schoolmasters, There still exists a pastoral of
Theodule, Bishop of Orleans in the ninth century,
in which he bids his priests to attend personally to
the schooling of children. What, then, can be
the worth of the pretensions of the Liberatres—
not liberals, I say, for, like Felix de Merode,
I cannot call our adversaries liberals any more
than a mardtre (stepmother) can be called
a mother. The name of liberals in such
a case is not French. Fenelon and Bossuet are my
true liberals. France and Belgium are united in
language, as they are sisters in Christ. I wish that,
being what you are, our souls remain ever united
in devotion to Christ and His Vicar, the Holy
Father. But now let us trace up the career of the
Church in her efforts in behalf of popular education.
We can go back to the documents of every century
—say the Bth, 7th, or 6th even. In 589 the Court..
cils of Narbonne, and later, those of Lateran, order
that priests should go and instruct the children in
their districts, and that not only in the villages
(per vicos), but even in the hamlets or detached
farms (per villas). At the very time when Voltaire
speke of certain classes as ignorant blackguards
(grueux ignorants), who were not to be taught
(gu'on n'enseigne pas), a priest of the diocese
of Rheims, the Venerable De la Salle, was founding
a religious order of schoolmasters in France, and
the Pepe of that time, the great Benedict XIV.,
blessed and confirmed this order, and wrote—
"Ignorance is the origin of all evil, especially among
the industrious classes!' In this nineteenth century

tvve brothers of the name of Lamenais made them-
selves celebrated. The one, on whose unhappy end
I will not dwell, made a great noise but left no
disciple ; the other established schools in Senegal,

in the isle of Bourbon, in the West Indies, for the
education of the children of the Negro slaves. And
now the zeal of our missionaries leads them every-
where to establish at the-same time churches and
schools. The letters of Saint Francis Xavier testify
to this constant pursuit of founding both churches
..ind schools (at the same time. And the
society which now has enlisted in its ranks,
the children of Belgium, as well as those of France
and other Catholic countries, is that of the holy
childhood, which keeps up schools for Chinese
foundlings. And, then, we are told that there is a
prejudice among religious men against popular in-
struction. We deem some certainly dangerous; but,
then, only when it is given by bad teachers, and I
repeat, with the eloquent orator you heard last year,
M. Cochin, "the worst teacher of all is ignorance."
I bless the progress of inventions, and especially

,hat which allows me to come and see you here, and

to return to Orleans, without loss of time and detris
merit to my charge, bat I feel that the more these
material inventions are developed and multiplied

the more need there is of a moral restriction.
The march of competition gives us better workmen,
better cultivators, and improves their material con.
dition. Let it march and march onwards, but let
it march in the light of the Gospel. Otherwise all
instructed workmen will be discontented, and all
ignorant workmen will become paupers. Let not
those who pretend to instruct the people take them
from the guidance of God, and represent Him as a
mere sentiment, something useful, perhaps, but not
necessary, Not necessary! Why our God made
heaven and earth. It is our God who now multi-
'ides at this very moment teaching orders in France,
till I can reckon more than 40 containing 150,000
members. And yet they are not sufficient. And
yet we are told that religious teaching is not
wanted. To those who tell us so, we may ask,
where were your schools in France when we
founded ours ? Have you any in Thibet ? we
have And then we are taunted with opposing
and neglecting the education of females. Instruct
them, we do. Instruct them you, also, as much as
you like. But, do not make mothers who cannot
take care of their children. Napoleon I. said to
the mistress of his schools, " Give me mothers
who can bring up their children I" Da Maistre said
that Christian mothers alone could teach their
children to fear God, and not to fear death. In
Belgium you have an admirable law on primary
schools, which is due to M. Dechamps%ministry
in 1862. In France we have been struggling for
something like it for the last twenty five years. I
struggle myself for it as much as I can. I try not to
insult any adversary, and to b© always in the right,
but I mu3t say 1 enjoy particularly, leaving nothing
to say to my opponents. Not long since an im-
portant personage insisted upon it to me that we did
nothing for girls' schools. I had no answer ready
for him at the time; but I made inquiries, and
found that out of the 21,000 girls' schools existing
in France, 14,000 have been founded, and are di-
rectel by the Catholio clergy. On the other hand,
it cannot be denied that the men in power are very
busy in that respect, and aro applying the public
money in founding normal schools, &c. The Gene-
ral Council of a department in France has ever
proposed a premium for the schoolmasters who
should marry schoolmistresses! I do not know,
however, whether they always recollect that
women have to be brought up from the
interior life of a family; that their chief
characteristics should always be selklevotion and
modesty. Women of talent are all very well ; but
among the popular classes only ask their husbands
what they think of them. As for me, I reverence
good schoolmistresses, but my ideal of a girls' school
is that in which the image of the blessed Virgin is
set before the eyes of the pupils, whose school-
mistress goes to communion."

I have given you thus far the very words of the
illustrious orator as far as I could note them. I
feel it impossible to abridge the rest of his dis-
course. It seems to me a profanity to attempt
it. I find that I am reaching tha limits
of my present communication, and prefer to
end here the specimen I can give you of the
matchless and, above all, intrinsic eloquence which
riveted us for two hours and a half to the lips of
the Right Rev. Academician. Au involuntary re-
mark was in everyone's mouth who had attended at
the previous meeting, and it was for the highest
praise that could be bestowed—" Montalembert
himself has been distanced." None will acknow-
ledge it so readily as that truly Christian great
man, and there seems no invidiousness whatever in
the comparison.

On leaving the hall I was quite astonished
to find among the crowd an American gentleman,
from California, and his wife, who had both
come up that very day from Antwerp to hear
Mgr. Dupanloup, paying the ticket for the whole
of the Congress meetings, to hear that one great
speech ; and who, although they had but an imper-
fect knowledge of French, were overjoyed at having
been present at such an event. In the evening we
had, at half-past seven, a most interesting lecture on
" Spiritism, Table-turning, and other Spirit Mani-
festations of the Present Time," by the Chevalier
Deglageux Desmousseaux.

DEATH OF SIR JOHN RATCLIFF.—BIRMINGHAM,
Thursday Evening.--Sir John Itatoliff died at his resi-
dence, Wyddrington, at noon to-day, after a few weeks'
illners, the immediate cause of death having been diabetes.
Tho deceased was Mayor of this town three times consecu-
tively, and on the occasion of the Queen's visit to open
Aston Perk ho received the honour of knighthood. He
was for many years engaged in trade in the town, and had
realised a large fortune. _ _

- - -
fa BRANDING IN THE AT:MY.—We understand, says
the Medical Times and Gazette, upon good authority, that
his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief has seen fit to issue a circular from the Horse Guards,
by which the present very objectionable plan of branding
soldiers is removed. When the necessity for marking a
soldier occurs, the operation is to be performed by the
drum or trumpet-major at the orderly room, in the presence
of the adjutant, and under the immediate supervision of a
regimental or staff medical officer. This is as it should be,
and we congratulate the profession that a medical officer
no longer occupies a derogatory and false position, and the
Duke of Cambridge that he has had the good sense to con-
cede an alteration which was very urgently required,

Disturbances in Syria.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, AUGUST 24,

Disturbances have again broken out in the dis•
trict of Payaz, in Syria. Dede Bey, son of the
caimacam of the district, Mustik Pasha, who was
recently arrested by order of the Government, has
declared himself in armed revolt. His followers
consist of some two thousand mountaineers, well
armed and mounted. Their refuge is in au almost
inaccessible spot in a gulf on the sea, at alout four
hours' distance from the commercial port of Alex-
andretta, and has been rendered notorious as the
scene of the assassination of Mr. Coffin, the American
missionary. This rebellious lair commands the roads
from Marasch to Alexandretta (Scandaroon), and
from Adana to Aleppo. These routes are now quite
unsafe, and the commerce from the interior, which
comes down to the sea at Alexandretta, the port of
Aleppo is vexatiously impeded. Mr. Skene, the
British Consul• General at Aleppo, travelling
the bother day from Aleppo to Alexandretta,
to embark there on his leave of absence had two
valuable horses stolen from his escort, although
protected by a strong force. These brigands are
not wanting in boldness. Even the town of Alex-
andretta itself, where there is probably never less
than 4,000 bales of merchandise waiting for ship.
ment or conveyance into the interior, is not free
from their marauding incursions, A band of thirty
horsemen appeared in the town last week and
attacked the premises of M. Derivaux, the local
agent of the Russian Steam Navigation Company,
but as M. Derivaux rapidly collected his people, and
the other European residents hurried to the rescue,
the assailing party were driven off. Since then
Sureya Pasha, the governor of Aleppo, has, so to
speak, garrisoned the town with fifty soldiers.

BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS,

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 2.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Oneida,
Capt. Bevis, with the above mails, arrived this
morning. She brings 57 passengers; specie, £9,225,
of which amount £1,069 is gold and £8,156 silver;
seven packages of precious stones, pearls, &c., also
547 rolls of tobacco, 100 bags of coffee, 250 barrels
of tapioca, 11 cases of ostrich feathers, and 139
packages of samples.
The Oneida spoke, on Aug. 12, a steamer showing
3 DP 9,354, steering for Bahia ; on the 20th, lap.
16 30 W., long. 25 16 W., steamer Sarana, bound
to Brazil; on the 24th, lat. 25 36 N., long. 18 30
W., British ship Hope, from Liverpool to Calcutta ;
and in lat. 25 54 N., long, 18 66 W., bark Granville,
from London to Mauritius; and on the 31st, lat.
45 38 N., long. 7 35 W., the steamer Gibraltar,
steering south. _ _

Her Majesty's ships Satellite, Stromboli, Triton,
and gunboats Spider and Sheldrake, were at Monte
Video; the Egmont, Bombay; Electi and Curlew
were at Rio Janeiro i also the French ship Astree,
at Bahia, and the Federal war steamer Wachiselt.
BUENOS AYRES, July 27.

Congress is still sitting, A bill granting a con•
cession for the construction of the telegraphic line
between this city and Monte Video has been
passed; also a subsidy of 800 silver dollars per
month to a company to build a steamer to navigate
the Upper Uruguay,which it is thought will open
up the traffic in those distant yet rich parts of the
country.

One of the most important projects is an English
Bank, in Cordora, capital £200,000, with right to
emit convertible bank bills for half a million star.
ling, which has been before the Legislature, and
expected to meet with little opposition.
A project for the construction of floating docks is
under consideration, and likely to be passed.
The sheep formers of Buenos Ayres are doing
well, the grassekbeing abundant. and the 11006 in
superior condition.
Business is dull, being winter, and the public en•
gaged discussing a project for the redemption of
the paper money which the Finance Minister is to
introduce into Congress. Specie, which ruled high,
has fallen considerably, as the Government pure
poses putting a fixed value of 25 paper dollars to
the silver dollar. As the Provincial Government of
Buenos Ayres has ratified the proposed measure of
the National Government, it is believed the bill will
pass.
The mining interest in San Juan are improving
every day, and the wonderful richness of the Go-
vernment mining district of the Andes beyond
doubt.

The Great Southern Railway progresses rapidly ;
but the Boca and Baracas line goes on slowly.
Sales of wool very limited, but a speculation is
going on in sheep skins, which have gone up
greatly—the current selling price is 3 dole. and 3f
dois. Dry cow,laides are weak, salted hides are
firm. The prospects of the coming clip are good;
the wool will be far superior to last year's. The
estimate to be expected the coming season will be
from 90,000 to 95,000 bales, In Entre Rios and
Santa Fe the wool exports will be considerably in
excess of last season.

Tho state of the money market is critical, the
very beat signatures can only be discounted under
11 mo. Foreign gold abundant. The transactions
in exchange for the Oneida have been heavy,
amounting to some £130,000 at 49L- to a per pats-
con.

The Republic of Paraguay continues to progress
with marvellous rapidity under the influence of
peace and the wise administration of President

Lopez.

The condition of Monte Video is bad, the nego-

tiations with Flores having failed. Intelligence says
the frontier is now invaded by a Brazilian General
named Netto, at the head of 2,000 men ; he is said
to be fighting on his own account. The President
and his Ministers of War are said to be hemmed in
at Canelones by the rebel outposts. The latest news
held out hopes of an arrangement being made with
Flores.

Cerdoba has again been invaded by the Indian
savages, In Reija all is quiet.

Rio JANEIRO, Aug. 9.

The coffee market has been more active, and pur-
chases to the extent of 112,000 bags effected from
Bth to 31st ult. A decline of prices may, however,
be expected, as supplies are gradually increasing,
which average about 4,500 bags per diem. Busi-
ness since the Ist has been restricted to the sale
of 4,560 bags. Stock is 55,000 bags. Superior
washed and pulped, 7 300 to 500 per aroba ; superior
fine, 7 200 ; superior, 7 000 ; first good, 6 700; and
first ordinary, 6 300. Prices.—Sugar declining.
Hides no sales. Freights to the Channel, 50s. to
605.; England, 405.; Havre, 50f. and 10 per cent.
Exchange, per Oneida, has reached to £400,000
sterling. £60,000 taken by the Government at
274 ; the price ranged from 274- to On Paris
and Antwerp about 1,800,000 f., chiefly at 347 reel;
on Hamburg, 8.M,, 500,000 and 660 rees. Dis-
counts in the banks unaltered at 8 per cent.

BAHIA, AUG. 12.

Sugar in demand for browns, at 2 700 to 730.
Stocks small of whites, no sales. Cotton, 27 500
per arroba Coffee, no sales of importance. Cocoa,
accounts of new crop unfavourable. Hides, dull.
Rum unaltered, 75 to 80 per pipe. Tapioca brisk
demand at 4 000 to 300 per alqueiro. Tobacco sales
small ; no demand; 2 800 to 3 100 the quotations.
Freights to the Channel 42s per ton; Exchange 271
to 7 on London ; on Paris 347 to 345 per franc, 90
days.

PERNAMBUCO, Aug. 14.

Sugar entries small. Browns sold at 3 000 per
arroba, Paraiba 2 700. Cotton entries 2,000 bags
for the fortnight, and from Ist January 59,500 bags
against 26,000 last year, corresponding period.
Prices rule from 28 000 to 29 500 and 700 per ar-
robs. Dry salted hides and rum no change.
Freights to Liverpool:—Sugar, ballast, 15s to 17:,
6d, and cotton to fill up ate per lb. Exchange on
Londonp 470,000, at 271 and

Tlllllll Ortllbt

HER MAJESTY,

BALMORAL, Aug. 31.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High..
nesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess
Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, with their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg
and Gotha, arrived at Perth at 8.45 a.m. yesterday,
end was received by the Lord Provost, the Earl of
Mansfield, Viscount Strathallan, Lord Dupplin,
Lord Kinnaird, the Hon. A. Kinnaird, &e.
At 9.45 her Majesty proceeded to inaugurate the
statue erected by the inhabitants of Perth to the
memory of the Prince Consort at the entrance of
the North Inch.

In the carriage with her Majesty were the Duke
and Duchess of Saxe•Coburg and Gotha and Princess

Helena.

In a second carriage were the Princesses Louise
and Beatrice and Prince Leopold, attended by the
Marchioness of Ely.
The ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite were
in other carriages—Lieut,.Gen. the Hon. C. Grey)
Major. Gen. the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Majon,Gen.
Walker,
horseback.
commanding the troops, attending on

Her Majesty was escorted by a squadron of the
15th Hussars, under the command of Capt. Pen fold,
and was received at the site of the memorial by a
guard of honour of the 79th Regiment.
The streets were lined by detachments of the
Highland Regiments and Volunteers.
A prayer having been said, the statue was unw
covered, the guard of honour presenting arms, and
the artillery posted on the North Inch firing a royal
salute. .

At the termination of the proceedings the Lord
Provost received the honour of knighthood from
her Majesty.

Her Majesty, though a good deal fatigued by
this great exertion, has not suffered from it, and
was much gratified by this mark of respect and ad.
iniration paid by the city of Perth to her beloved
Consort.

The Queen expressed her high appreciation of
the statue itself to Mr Brodie, the sculptor.
The Queen then returned to the station, accom-
panied as before, and at 11 o'clock proceeded on her
jLurney to Balmoral, arriving there at 4.30 p.m.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of \Vales received her Majesty at the Castle, and
dined with the Queen last night.

The Prince and Princess of Wales,

The Provost of Dundee has been apprised by
telegraph that the Prince and Princess of Wales
will embark at that port for Copenhagen to •mor.
row. The Osborne arrived there on Wednesday,
and received coals and stores from the Medusa,
which came in on Monday evening. The special
train conveying the Prince and Princess is timed
to reach Dundee at three o'clock, and it is expected
that the small squadron will be under weigh in an
hour afterwards.

On Saturday their Royal Highnesses, accom-
panied by the Hon. Mrs. Coke and Lord Hamilton,
Mejor Teesdale, &c., drove to Strathdon, to the
seat of Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, viewed
several of the places of note in the district, returns
ing by the low road from Strathdon, and through
Ballater, reaching the Castle in the evening. On
Sunday, the Prince and Princess, attended by the
Hon. Mrs. Coke, Lord Hamilton, Major Teesdale,
Mr. Wood, and Dr. Robinson, attended public
worship at Crathie Church. The Rev. Dr Norman
M'Leod, from Glasgow (who arrived at the Castle
on Saturday afternoon), preached a moat instructive
and eloquent sermon from St. Luke, 16th chap.,
25th verse. The church has not been so full for a
long time past.

THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA.—Sir Charles
Locock, who has been commissioned by the Queen to attend
upon the Crown Princess of Prussia at her approaching
accouchement, arrived at Berlin on Monday night. It waa
intended that Sir Charles should proceed to Potsdam at the
end of the present week, and reside in the new palace occu-
pied by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess.
THE PRINCESS LOUIS OF HESSE.—TOO proles.
sion will learn with great gratification that Professor
Priestley, of King's College, has been appointed to attend
the Princess Louis of Hesse at Darmstadt in her approach..
ing confinement, which is expected to take place about the
end of October or the first week of November,—lledical
Times and Gazette.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
left Cambridge Cottage, her residence at Kew, yesterday
for Scatborough, where her royal highness intends to reside
for several weeks.

The Prince do la Tour d'Auvergne, French Am-
bassador at London, is at present on a visit to his brother,
the Archbishop of Bourges.

The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort has left her
residence in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, for Dupplin
Castle, Perthshire, un a visit to Viscount and Lady Blanche
Dupplin.
Louisa Marchioness of Waterford has arrived at
Farrance's Hotel, from, the Continent.

The Earl Spencer, as Groom of the Stole to his
Royal Highness the Princo of Wales, left Althorp
Northamptonshire, yesterday for Scotland, to accompany
the Prince and Princess of Wales to Copenhagen and St.
Petersburg. The Countess Spencer has gone with the
noble earl, and will accompany the royal party to the Baltic.

The Earl Anneeley returned to London early in
the week from the Continent, and the day following lett
for Bretby Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of
Chesterfield during the Derby races.

The Countess de Grey will leave Studley Royal,
near Ripon, Yorkshire, this morning, in order to join their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at
Dundee. The countess, as lady in waiting to the Princess,
will accompany their Royal Highnesses on their northern
tour.

The Countess of Dalkeith, who arrived in town
on Monday last from Tunbridge Wells, left yesterday with
her children for Drumlanrig Castle, N,8., one of the seats
of the Duke of Buccleuch in Scotland.

Lord and Lady Arundell of Wardour have left
Brown's Hotel, Dover-street.

Lady Hermoine Graham and family will leave
.he Duke of Somerset's official residence at the Admiralty
:o-morrow for Netherby Park, Cumberland.

The Hon. Mrs. H. Pakenham and the Misses
Pakenham have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper
Norwood.

Sir Fitzroy Kelly arrived at Paris a few days
since on his return to England from Switzerland.

SHEERNESS.—The new Catholic church at Sheer-
ness was on Wednesday consecrated by the Rev. Dr Grant,
who was attended by -nany of his clergy. The church is
said to be a great success, both in design, cost, and execution,
and was much admired by all present. The solemn opening
takes place on the 14th instant.

INSTALLATION OF THE DEAN OF LINCOLN.-•--
The Very Rev. Dr. J. A. Jeremie, Regius Profes-
sor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, has just
been installed into the deanery of Lincoln, rendered vacant
by the preferment of the Very Rev. Dr. Francis Jeune to
the bishopric of Peterborough. In an address presented to
the new dean by the canons, the prebendaries, and others,
they expressed their satisfaction that the advisers of the
Queen had selected from among the members of the cathe-
dral itself a clergyman so distinguished—one whose attain-
ments as a theologian had gained for him the first positron
as a professor of sacred thealogy in the University of Cane-
bridge, and whose lectures from the professorial chair must
have been eminently useful to the theological students—
one whose character both in public and private had been
marked by Chriatian truthfulness and Christian gentleness
—one whose persuasive eloquence, whenever it is employed
in enforcing the lessons of the gospel from the pulpit, is
highly apppreciated. The dean in acknowledging the c am,
pliment, said his connection with Lincoln went back
into the distant past. It began morn than 30 years ego,
when the responsible office of examining chaplain was co -
ferred upon a ',prelate (Dr. Kaye), whose mild virtues
still lived in their memory. Some years afterwards he was
admitted to a prebendal stall, and 16 years had elapsed
since he became closely united to the chapter through the
office of sub-dean and canon. The new dean, after the
Quem's lettcrs patent had been read, was invested by the
precentor in tho usual manner, and formally conducted to
his stall. The first duty of the new dean was the installs.,
tion of the Rev, Henry Mackenzie, M.A,, rector of Tydd
St. Mary, formerly vicar of St. Martires-in-the-Field33
Lor don, as his successor in the sub-deanery.

THE CHAIR OF LOGIC IN GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.

—We un.derst and that the Queen in Council has now con-
firmed the resignation of the Chair of Logic in Glasgow
University by Professor Robert Buchanan, who retires into
private life after an honourable and useful public career of
40 years, The election of his successor by the University
Court is expected to take place about the middle of Septem,
berg—,,Scoton an,

Two O'CLOCK. 911
At Paris this day, according to Mr. Reuter's sl(
telegram, the French 3 per Cents. were 66f, 75c.
A very heavy market has prevailed all day for
English Stocks. Continuous sales have cauJed a
further decline to-day of 8 per cent., and affairs at I
the Stock Exchange present a very dull and de.
pressed appearance. Consols for money and ac-
count are now quoted 881 1. The New Threes Ai
and Reduced Annuities are I Z- ex div. ; March
Exchequer Bills, 20s. to 10s. dis. ; and June ditto,
275. die. ; and India 6 per Cents., 1031 104.
In the Foreign Market there is very little busi.
tress, and a general downward movement has taken
plane in prices. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are
70 s ; do. Consolides, 601 ; Mexican, 281 j-; do.
New, 251 26 ; Greek, 238 244 ; Spanish Passive, et
311 4 ; do. Certificates, 14 4 ; Russian, 871 88/ ;
and the Confederate Loan, 74 75.
In the Railway Share Market there has been
rather more business transacted, but prices have, 1,
in moat instances, exhibited a downward move• l',
ment. Great Northern and West Midland have et;
each declined Xt 102. Midland and South Eastern, of
each ; South Western, 15.3.; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, ; and Great Western, North Western, ,
and North Eastern (Berwick) each Se.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
been very inactive, without any change of import
since to note in values.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are also in limited
demand, Alliance have declined to 541 ; Hindu•
stan, China, and Japan to 311; Imperial Ottoman
to 164; and London Financial to 23i,

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Do Account, Aug. 8
88
3 per Cent. Reduced B6l h x d
New 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880..
Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885...
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908...

March. June,
Exchequer Bills, 4000, 3 & per,Cent. 20 27
Do 4500
Do £lOO and £2OO
Bank England Stk, 5/ per Ct.
Do Account..
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 212
Do Account
•
Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do Account
Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do Certificates
Do Account
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) —
Do 41 psi Cent .......
Do Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872D 0
51 per Cent., May, 1879
Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1865'
Do Bonds 11.000
Do under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do 1863
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Do Account.... .
Chilian 6 per Cent.
am*
Do 41 per Cent
Colombian 6 per Cent
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
..
Do 5 per Cent. 1864
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.....
Do, Provisonal Land Warrant
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Do 4 per Cent, 1863
Egyptian 7 per„Cent
Do, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.•. .
Do Account
LsDo Coupons
Guatemala 5 per Cent.
Do 1839 and 1859
Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway)
Mexican 3 per Cent ....
Do Account Do "•... 2Bi
Do French Scrip,lB64 Ex.. 26f 20c
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French dis
Ditto Scrip, £23 paid....
Moorish Imperial 6 per Cent ......
New Granada ................
Do 2 per Cent. ....................
Do
Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares) ..
Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1864..
Do do Aug., 1866...• Peruvian 41 per Cent
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 41 per Cent~ 1862
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account ....................
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 —
Do Account -
........... .....
Do
Russian 5 per •Cent., 182'2, £
Do 4± per Cent., 1850. . .
1860 ..
Do 3 per Cent 1859 - -.... ...

-- ................
Doper Cent, 1862 ................ 55
87i 8
..
Do Anglo-Dutch . .............. --
Do Scrip, £4O paid
...... -- pin
Sardinian 5 per Cent
........ .....
Do Account
....,
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Account —"
Do Passive
Do Account ......
31i
Spanish Cert. of Coup
not funded ..
..,, 1
;' , Do Account
i 4
Swedish, 4 per Cent. 11
it&
Do Scrip, £6O raid
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1851
D1)o Account
-0o 6 per Cent. 1863 ............ .. •
DOO Account
D£lo6 Bonds
Doo 6 per Cent. 186 Z
DoAccount
£lOO Bonds
Do
1863 :
Du Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.„..
Venezuela 3 per Cc.nt.
DoDDo Account
o 6 per Cent., 1862 ...................
Account
paid
Do Scrip £45
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Consols Money ...................TWO O'CLOCK.
. BDo Acoount...,. .............. .., BBBl i
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Liverpool Cotton Market-this Day,

Market quiet. Sales probably 3,000 bales