The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LO 1' DON, TUESDAY EVI4:INING, JANUARY
__l9,
_1864.

is the watchword, and streets are closed, houses I
demolithed, and oldest inhabitants sent marchin:,
forth in quest of new parishes, responsive to the
bidding of the despot. Moving is all very well
when locomotion is the object, but when people
wish to sit still its advantages are not so apparent.
We shall begin to think that railways, like fires,
make good servants but bad masters, and to con-
sider that it is time to put a few constitutional
checks upon the actions of King Steam. At present
he seems bent upon tearing up and pulling down
to an unlimited extent, and we would humbly sub-
mit to him that he should confine his royal progress
as much as possible to the suburbs, where he will
have more room for his antics and do less mischief
than in the mighty thoroughfares of the city. Only
last session Lord DERBY interfered with the humane
intention of smothering up one of the few green
spaces in the city with bricks and mortar. But,
since then, a myriad new schemes have sprung up
hydra-headed where the one was struck down, and
his lordship is wanted to do battle with them singly
and collectively. Unless he bestir himself actively
in the matter, he will probably have, in the course
of a session or two, to pass through th© Peer's entry
in a special train ; and may yet be destined to be-
hold some Piccadilly and Pimlico branch line send-
ing its locomotives whirring across the classic
solitudes of St. James's-square and shooting up the
narrow aperture, which, in these days, is all that
divides the Conservative from the Reformer.

Another shake of the political kaleidoscope in
Spain has led to another Ministerial combination.
Senor ARAZOLA, as President of the Council
and Minister of State, has gathered about
him as his colleagues, in the capacity of
Minister of Justice Senor.ALTAREZ; as Minister
of Finance Senor TRUPITA; as Minister of the In-
terior Senor BENAVIDES ; as Minister of War
General LERSUNDI; as Minister of the Colonies
Senor CASTRO ; as Minister of Public Works
Senor MOYANO. It is significantly added
by the telegram announcing this change of Cabinet
at Madrid, that the newly-formed Administration
is hardly expected to be long-lived. Nor,
whoa the names of the new administrators
come to be scrutinized, can we seriously arrive at
any other conclusion in their regard than that they
are scarcely likely to be long held together by
ARAZULA as a Government. Stability in power is
not to be predicated for them collectively upon
any, even the most casual or cursory scrutiny, of
their respective antecedents.

The War in America,

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In your to-day's number is a letter on the
horrors of the American war, and speculating on
its indefinite continuance.

I venture to think that we Englishmen do not
sufficiently realise the horrors of this fearful war
nor our responsibilities in respect of it. Is it not
quite clear that the North cannot succeed in its
attempt to subjugate the South ? And does not our
refusal to recognise encourage the North in its
hopeless and insane career?
_ _

But one sentiment--a determination to be free—
evidently pervades the whole Southern people,
men, women, and children. England thus appears
to me to have no excuse for refusing recognition of
the South, which, being done conjointly with France,
would be the verdict of Europe, and would no doubt
materia;ly tend to open the eyes of the North, and
bring the fearful struggle to a close,—Yours,
Gresham Club, Jan. 18. W.

FATAL AFFRAY.—On Saturday evening Mr. C.
J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, concluded an
adjourned inquiry at the Druid's Arms publichouse, Green-
wich, on the body of George Carter, aged 32, who, it was
alleged, met his death by being knocked from a barge into
the river by Timmas Perkins Syms, a Thames lighterman.
It appeared that the deceased and others were engaged in

oading the barge Fanny with pig lead from the steamer

Wanbbeck, belonging to the General Steam Navigation
Company. The loading was completed about 11 o'clock at

night, at which time Syms, who was proved to be greatly

under the influence of liquor, was brought to the barge,

with another lighterman; named Loggon, to take the

barge to the East India Docks. Just before reaching tho

barge Syms asked if the latter was the Fanny, and re-
ceived in reply an offensive answer from some person
either on board the barge or the steamer. On entering the
head sheets of the barge the deceased was the first person
met by Syms, and he accused him of being the person
who had given the answer referred to. A dispute arose
between them. Syms pushed the deceased two or three
times in the ribs, and wanted him to fight, but the deceased
said he would have nothing to do with him. On a man
coming from another part of the barge and telling Syms
that it was not the deceased who had given him the offen-

sive answer, but some ono on board the steamer, Syme
replied, "All right." Almok t immediately afterwards Carter
put on his coat and was about to get on board the steamer
from the barge—he had, indeed, laid hold of the rope by
the steamer's aide for this purpose—when Syms, who had
taken off his boots, ran across the barge and grappled with
him. They closed together, and both fell over the side of
the barge into the river, the deceased on falling into the
water being heard to exclaim, " Oh dear, oh dear, my poor
wife and children I" Syms was saved, but Carter was un-

fortunately carried away by the tide, and drowned. Syms,
having been duly cautioned by the coroner, volunteered a
statement, in which he alleged that on telling deceased he
might have given him a civil answer, the deceased shoved
him, and that they then closed together and fell overboard.
The learned coroner went through the evidence very care-
fully, and the jary, after a short deliberation, returned an
unanimous verdict of " Manslaughter against Thomas Per-

kins Syms," who was thereupon committed upon the coro-
ner's warrant to take his trial at the next Old Bailey
Sessions, substantial bail being accepted for his appearance.
The deceased has left a widow and three children, the
eldest four years and the youngest six months old.
A NEEDLE IN THE HUMAN BODY FOR THREE
YEARS —A singular instance of this kind occurred
at Inverury some time ago, of which the following are the
particulars :--About three years ago, Mr. John Dawson,
sheriffs-officer, was at times antoyed, when turning his body
into a certain position, by a sharp pricking on his back, below
the right shoulder ; and he often looked in hie vest, expect-
ing to find a pin or other sharp point sticking into his flesh ;

but as nothing could be found, he rubbed the place with
his hand, and no more was felt of it for some time. It
continued to annoy him in this way for several months,
and then ceased to give him any further trouble ; and
no notice was taken of it until the month of April last,
whc.n the same sort of pricking pain commenced imme-
diately above the elbow of the right arm, and on examining
it an apparently hard body appeared to be lying across the
arm; but, as on the former occasions, it was soon forgotten,
and continued to be so until the month of September, when
the hard substance had made its way to the top of the
shoulder, where it could not go further without cutting
the skin, and then the pain became incessant. At that
time Mr. Dawson came to the conclusion that it was
a needle, as ho had heard of such cases occurring, and ho
resolved to have it cut out; but, in attempting to do so, it
broke, and as the pain ceased the attempt was abandoned
for a time. After the lapse of a week, Mr. Munroe,
druggist, extracted part of it ; but in the course of the
week which elapsed after the first attempt to extract it,
the longest part of it had travelled upwards of an inch
from its former position. Ultimately the other half of the
needle was extracted ; and when put together, the pieces
measured li of an inch. And what is equally strange, a
small fragment of thread was in the eye when extracted.
Mr. Dawson is not aware by what means it had got into
his body ; but it is remarkable how any sharp-
pointed instrument could have remained and traversed
through the human body for three years (and :perhaps
double that time) without causing more pain. This, together
with the fact that, instead of the needle moving after the
end, as would have been expected, it was clearly shown,
from its position in the arm, that it moved upwards nearly
at a right angle to it, makes the occurrence, which we state
on the best authority, altogether a singular one.—Aierdees
Free .P7ess.
MORE HASTE WORSE SPEED.—AS the master of
a merchant vessel at Teignmouth, named Hill, was assisting
his wife, at the Taunton station, to return to her carriage
when in motion, he was thrown under the train and killed.
A porter who ran to his aid nearly shared the same fate,
and Mrs. fill was only saved by being dragged into the
carriage by her hair. Previously to leaving London the
deceased and his wife took insurance tickets for £2OO each.
PRIVATE BILLS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—
Yesterday the examiners of private bills commenced
the examination of the petitions in order to ascertain whether
the standing orders of the house have been complied with.
A large sum has been paid into the Court of Chancery
on account of the bills, and a report will be made on
the opening of the eeseion,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAM.]

DENMARK.
THE DANISH RIGSDAG.
COPENHAGEN, JAN. 19.

The draft of th© address was read yesterday in
the Rigsdag (the special assembly for the king-
dom). It says :—" The House has seen with sincere
satisfaction the determination on the part of the
King to maintain the liberty and independence of
Denmark in face of the demands of foreign Powers
for the withdrawal of the November constitution.
The task your Majesty has inherited from your
predecessors—viz., to secure for the Danish kingdom
an independent position in the whole monarchy—
will be fraught with difficulties, and may cost
bloody sacrifices. But they will be willingly borne
by the people to preserve the inseparable union
between Schleswig and the Kingdom. We desire
that the German and Danish speaking portions of
the population of Schleswig may enjoy the liberty
which we possess. That liberty and the good an-
derstanding between the men elected by the people
form the strongest link between Schleswig and
the Kingdom, and between the country and the
King." _ _

In replying to an address presented to him by
a deputation from the town of Ralster, his Majesty
said :—" In the event of a war for the protection of
the independence of Denmark, if all support me,
I hope for the support of the Danish people."

COPENHAGEN, JAN. 19.

It is believed that the Government returned a
refusal yesterday to the ultimatum presented by the
Austrian and Prussian Ambassadors.

The Berlingske Tidende announces that the
statements of foreign papers respecting negocia-
tions with Germany rest upon a dubious foundation.
It mentions especially the assertion of the Frankfort
Europe that the Government was inclined to nego-
tiate upon various points of the constitution, and
declares it to be entirely false.

REFUSAL OF THE AUSTRIAN AND
PRUSSIAN ULTIMATUM,
FLENSBURG, MONDAY NIGHT.
The envoys of Prussia and Austria have pre-
sented an ultimatum calling on the Danish Govern-
ment to withdraw the November Constitution.
The Danish Government have rejected the
demand.

The envoys left Copenhagen at two this after-
noon in a private steamer.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, JAN, 19.

The Emperor addressed the officers and men of
the execution troops intended for Schleswig at the
review yesterday. His Majesty said :
" I have assembled you for a farewell greeting.
Keep on good terms with your Prussian brethren-
in-arms. I know that you will do your duty as if
you were at home, and, should it come to blows,
will show your courage."
The Finance Committee were engaged until a
late hour last night in discussing the demand of the
Government for ten millions of florins to cover the
expenses of the expedition to Schleswig.

Count Rechberg and Herr von Schmerling were
present. The proceedings show that in consequence
of the extent of the present expedition the demand
for credit might be increased. According to the
statement of the Ministers, the Government wished
to prevent the European war apprehended to follow
the adoption of the Hessian motion, and to localise
hostilities.

Herr von Sehmerling defended the steps taken
by Count Rechberg, and said that he agreed with

his policy.

THE PAPAL STATES.

ADDRESS OF CATHOLICS TO THE POPE.

The Pope. has received a deputation of 300 Ca-
tholics from different countries, presenting an ad-
dress of fidelity and devotion to the Holf See, and
protesting against
usurpations and sacrileges.
His Holiness replied that he desired to leave the
patrimony of the Church intact to his successors.
He wou'd consequently not enter into any arrange-
ment or treaty contrary to that end. He placed his
confidence, not in the strength of arms, but in a
protecting Providence and justice.

MEXICO.
PARIS, JAN. 19.

Official advices received here from Vera Cruz an-
nounce that the French had entered and dismantled
the port of Champoton on Campeachy Bay. They
also sunk the Mexican schooner Raffaele, which
had disturbed the trade of the ports, submitted to
the French authority.
The following is the result of the election at
Nismes for a Mumber to the Corps Legislatif.
M. Bravaz, 1672; I. Boyer, 83o; and M. Brun,
189 votes.

FRANCE.
PARIS, JAN. 19.
The definitive issue of the supplementary election
at Strasburg is—.
M. Hallez Clarspede
M. Bulach
At Nismes—
M. Bravay ... 17,130 votes.
M. Royer ............... 4,811 „
M. Brun
The result in both cases still requires verification.
BOURSE, Jan. 18--The market has been inani-
mate, but in the trifling amount of business done
former quotations have been well maintained.
Threes, for the Account, are unvarted at 66fr. 70c.
Mobilier also maintains Saturday's prices. Rail-
way Shares quiet, but firm. The market closed as
follows :

41 per Cents . . 91 50
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 60
Credit Mobilier 1020
Do, end month 1027 50
Bank Shares 3290
Credit Foncier 1235
Roman

Italian Loan 6B 70
Do. end month _
ge ditto
Do. end month
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Home Debt
46 50
Deferred

BAIL-

'AY&
Cash. Account.
990 .. 992 50
943 75 ..

Orleans
Northern ....
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 932 50 .. 940
New ditto .
Southern ............•• 5
75 .. 656 25
.. •••••
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 383 75 .. 383 75
Au st ri
tornba an
rd .. • 516 25 .. 518 75
North of Spain
....
585 .. 588 75
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona ..

A court-martial extraordinary, sitting at Lyons,
has just pronounced a sentence of death under
extraordinary circumstances. The prisoner, ono Joseph
Cuq, had been a private in the 100th Regiment of the Line.
It was proved that he had deserted from the French troops
before Sebastopol just before the attack on the " Mamelon
♦ert," and warned the Russians of the impending assault,
which failed in consequence. After the war he shipped
himself as a stoker on board a Russian steamer, and was
arrested at Marseilles about six months ago. The court
found him guilty, and sentenced him to death—that being
the solo penalty reserved by the military code for desertion
to the enemy. It is not likely, however, that the sentence
will he carried into effect, When ho deserted (Juno, 1855)
Curt had been la the army 11 years,

SAXONY AND SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

The following further despatches have been ex-
exchanged between Mr. Murray, the English
Minister in Dresden, and Baron von Beast, the

Saxon President of the Council, upon the Schleswig-
Holstein question

MR. MURRAY TO BARON VON BEUST•
Dresden, Jan. 8, 1864.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the note
which your Excellency has addressed to me under date of
the sth inst., and which was handed to me upon the evening
of the 6th, I have not failed immediately to forward a copy of
it to Earl Russell, Minister for Foreign Affairs in London.
Although it will be the part of his Excellency to express
himself subsequently upon the observations you b'eve ad-
dressed to me in the above .mentioned note, I cannot allow
them to pass entirely without reply, for fear your Excel-
lency should think I admit their justice and validity.
You will permit me to observe in the first place, that the
note I had the honour to address to you did not contain a
word attacking the honour of the Saxon flag, for if the
Englfsh Government has found something blameable in the
conduct of the German troops in Holstein, where they are
placed in a country making part of the Confederation, and
in which they have encountered no opposition, no attack is
made upon the honour of the flag, for all the responsibility
for their acts is attributed to tha Commissioners charged by
the Diet with the actual government of the provinces where
they are stationed. What was, then, the motive actuating
Earl Russell to observe that their conduct in Holstein had
been contrary to the resolutions of the Diet, as well as to
justice 2 It appears to me that it is not difficult to find.
The German troops entered Holstein to carry out a Federal
execution ordered by the Diet ; the object of this formal
act was known by all Europe; it was to take possession of
this province and to govern it until certain differences
existing between the King of Denmark in his quality as
Duke of Holstein and the Confederation should be settled
in a legal and satisfactory manner. This decree
of the Diet imposed upon its officials charged with
the administration during the execution the duty of
exercising• their functions with impartiality and rigid equity,
and above all controlling the movements of hot and unre-
fleeting persons, whose object was, under pretext of main-
taining German rights, to overstep all the measures autho-
rised by the Diet, and to tread under foot the treaty of 1855,
signed by the five great Powers of Europe. Let us see how
the Commissioners have fulfilled these duties. The troops
of the King of Denmark had scarcely withdrawn from Hol-
stein and the forces of the Confederation entered that duchy
before the Prince of Augustenburg arrived, and caused
himself to be proclaimed legitimate sovereign of the duchies
of Schleswig-Holstein in various places, without any oppo-
sition upon the part of the Commissioners, and (if the re-
ports in the newspapers are to be credited) the acclamations
of the Saxon troops were joined to those by which the Prince
was greeted by the population of Holstein. Ido not at-
tempt, M. le Minister, to prejudge the final solution which
will decide the question of the succession in the duchies,
but I venture to affirm that the above cit d facts give every
impartial man a right to say that the Federal execution, as
administered by the Garman authorities in Holstein, has
been not only opposed to the order of the Diet, but also to
justice.

Your excellency is pleased to say that the conduct of the
Federal troops in a country of the Confederation in which
they are stationed in consequence of a decree of the Diet is
a subject which in no degree concerns a foreign govern-
ment. This is a proposition which no one would have dis-
puted if these troops and the authorities which direct
their movements had kept themselves within the limits of
their competence; but when they suffer that, under their
eyes, a Prince, who without their protection would not
have been able to set foot in the country, openly proclaims
himself the sovereign of two duchies long appertaining to
the Danish Crown and devolved upon the reigning King by
a treaty signed by the five great Powers of Europe, your
excellency will excuse me if I am unable to admit that this
is a subject which in no degree concerns one of the signitary
Powers.

As to the phrase in which Earl Russell mentioned Bavaria
and Wurtemberg as sharing with Saxony the responsibility
of the consequences which might result from the manner in
which Federal execution has been carried out in Holstein,
I ought to inform you that the noto which I had the
honour to address to you on the sth instant was only the
translation of a telegram which I had received from his
Excellency ; and although in messages sent by the telegraph
it is the practice to give the outline of an idea and not to
state it in detailed explanation, I found no difficulty in un-
derstanding by means of the context the sense of the phrase
in which your Excellency conceives you have found a proof
of ignorance of affairs passing in Germany. The respon-
sibility which the phrase (as I understand it) attributed to
Bavaria, Saxony, and Wurtersburg referred to the assistance
which these three Governments have given to the preten-
sions of a Prince who has proclaimed himself sovereign of
the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein before the question of
his rights had been decided by competent authorities, by
placing himself at the head of the movement in Germany
which exercises a pressure upon the two great German
Powers, and the object of which is to compel them to violate
the obligations which they had contracted in signing the
treaty of 1852 (to which the majority of the German States
have also adhered or assented). Earl Russell considers that
these three Governments share a grave responsibility, and
when his Excellency adds that "if the troops of the Confe-
deration invade Schleswig befoco the Powers who signed
the treaty of London have been able to make known their
opinions upon this subject, the most serious consequences
may result," there is not the slightest intention or idea of
menace in his expressions. They constitute a simple affir-
mation of his opinion that this step might bring about con-
sequences now unforeseen and dangerous to the repose and
wellbeing of Europe.—Receive, &c.,
(Signed)

CIL A. MURRAY,

BARON VON BEtibiT TO MR. MURRAY.

Dresden, Jan. 10, 1864.
The note which you did me the honour to address to me
upon the Bth instant reached me yesterday.
I cannot sufficiently express my thanks for your ex-
tremely obliging conduct in thus explaining to me the real
subject of the note which you were good enough to forward
to me upon the sth inst. It is impossible that I should not
experience the most lively regret that I was not earlier
placed in a positior to understand it, that I might have re-
plied in a manner more satisfactory to you as well as to
myself. If I had known that your office extended to ac-
quainting mo with the objections that the Government of
her Britannic Majesty believes itself bound to make in re-
latim to the manner in which the Federal Commissioners
execute their task, I should have confined myself, as I do
to-day, to requesting your obliging intervention in asking
Earl Russell to address himself to the Diet. It is the part
of that body to determine what effect it might, in such a
case, think fitting to give to the representations of a foreign
power.

But, M. le Ministre, permit me to recall to your recollec-
tion that you alluded to reprehensible conduct on the part
of the German troops, including therefore the Saxon troops,
in Holstein. A reproach of this kind strikes at military
honour, therefore at the honour of the flag, and I owe it to
the brave army of the King to repel the reproach with
energy. You cite one single fact in its support. If this
fact be correct, which remains to be confirmed, I have no
doubt it will meet with disapproval, although it would not
in any way justify the accusation of conduct "contrary to
justice." It is, nevertheless, my duty to repeat once more
that when Feckral troops occupy a territory of the Confe-
deration by order of the Diet, we cannot recognise the right
of any foreign Government to demand in any quarter an
explanation of their conduct.
I trust I may hope tnat after having laid my last note
before Earl Russell you will have the kindness to pursue the
same course with the communication I have the honour to
aidress to you to-day.--Receive, &c.
(Signed) BET:ST.

HODGES' FIRE BRIGADE.—A very elaborate and
interesting report has just been published, contain-
ing statistics as to the number and character of fires which
have been attended by the fire brigade maintained at the
expense of Mr. Hodges, the distiller, of Lambeth, from
which it would appear that the public are very vastly in-
debted to;that gentleman and the men under his command.
During the past year the total number of fires attended was
108, whilst in 1862 they only amounted to 60. Of the
former, S 4 took place on the south, and 24 on the north side
of the Thames. Two steam fire engines, the Torrent and
the Deluge, have been added to the plant of Mr. Hodges'
fire establishment, and have preyed very effective. Two
thousand two hundred feet of hose and all other ap-
pliances are kept in thorough repair and in readiness at
a minute's notice. Notwithstanding the eminent services
which Mr. Hodges and his fire brigade render to the
metropolitan public it is to be regretted (as a correspond-
ence published in conjunction with his report intimates)
that ho has grounds of complaint at the want of courtesy,
as well as obstruction, ho receives at the hands of the
authorities and employe's of the Loudon Fire Brigade, at a
time when the must determined energy and unity of
action are necessary to prevent the destruction of valuable
life or property.

RAILWAY BARBARISM in re THE BARTLOW
TumuLis.—On Friday, last week, Mr. Parnell laid
before the Arch follogical Institute a profile of the Bartlow
Tumuli, which had been prepared by the engineer of the
Great Eastern Railway, in order to show the manner in
which he proposes to bring a new line through these
interesting relics. At the same meeting a communication
from the Society of Antiquaries was received. That body
expressed its entire concurrence in the course taken by the
Institute, and promised, by resolution, to offer strenuous
opposition to the passage through Parliament of any bill
that shall give power to the Great Eastern Railway Com-
' pany to injure the Bartlow grave-mounds. Several mem•
bers of the Institute having condemned the wanton and
daily increasing disregard of public opinion shown by rail-
way companies, it was unanimously resolved, "That the
proposed method of carrying a line of railway through the
Bartlow Hills is objectionable, and that no scheme would
obtain the sanction of the Institute, the adoption of which
would in any degree deface these singulsr monuments of
antiquity."—Zhe liegfr. •