The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Sept. B.—We have bad a large business
transacted in yarns, both single and double. The demand
has embraced all descriptions, for all markets, and many
yarns have been sold at an advance of ld. per lb. on the
rates current last Friday. Sellers in some instances have
asked even a greater advance than this. The market has
been very excited, and closes strong and buoyant, with an
upward tendency. We do not remember often to have seen
a more lively and animated feeling. Home trade, or cop
yarns, have participated freely in the demand, and this
branch of the market has also been rather excited. The
prices of cops have advanced id. to ld. per lb. as compared
with Friday, and there has been a fair business done. The
cloth market has shared in the excitement which prevails in
that for yarns, and which is to a great extent the result of
the state of things prevailing in the Liverpool cotton mar-
ket. Since Friday a rather uncertain feeling had prevailed
among manufacturers and holders of cloth as to what prices
should be asked, and buyers had been equally at a loss i
what offers they should make, but to-day there has been a
decided advance upon nearly all descriptions of cloth, and
pretty nearly to the extent of the rise upon cotton. They
' have not been able to obtain this advance in all cases, and it
has had the effect of limiting business. The inquiry has
been very active, and buyers would have been glad to give
out large orders at the old rates. In some cases they have
consented to give the advance, but not to any great extent.
The inquiry has been pretty general and has embraced de-
scriptions of goods suited to nearly all markets, home and
foreign, and has to some extent partaken of a specula-
tive character. Both buyers and sellers are watching
the market somewhat keenly, and it has been pretty obvious
that buyers would have supplied themselves more freely if
they could have felt that the prices demanded to-day would
become firmly established. The fact that some of the busi-
ness doing is of a speculative character no doubt operates to
render them cautious, though there can be little doubt that
spinners and manufacturers have such large engagements
as to encourage a belief in this direction. Messrs. J, Slagg
and Co. report of the cloth market :—" From Tuesday last
to the close of the week there was no material change in
the market, and the moderate amount of business done was
at the extreme prices of this day week. Yesterday and to.
day, owing to the course of the cotton market, there has
been considerable excitement here; but, as manufacturers
hold firmly for an advance in proportion to that on cotton,
there has been very little business done."
LEEDS,
Bth.—The woollen cloth trade keeps steady in all
departments, and for a Tuesday's market an average amount
of business has been done in the cloth halls to-day. The
bulk of the sales has been those of witneys, meltons, pilots,
and other heavy fabrics for winter, with a fair portion of
tweeds and ordinary black cloths. Mixed witneys in fancy
shades, command a ready sale. Indeed, novelties are sought
for, but not many are offered in the public market. Prices
are very firm, the various raw materials used in the woollen
trade being high. The flax trade is active, and both threads
and yarns are in good consumptive demand at late prices.
The raw material is scarcely so firm as it was, the reports
as to the new crop inspiring hopes on the part of spinners
that a slight reduction may be reasonably looked for.
NOTTINGHAM, Bth.—There was a better attendance at
makers
ue:Au
this Exchange-hall to-day, and the demand for lace yarns
was more active, higher prices being asked for and obtained.
For hosiery yarns an advance of le. per bundle was asked,
not 7 t obtain
but the demand was by no means brisk. Silks unaltered.
The
o e demandtl
d E
. for
h.
brownThwithiner neehasts wloabspeeenr decidedlym cuntuc.ho fwapwri
miomrasetei cost.oandn in
all departments
of• merchants' goods, but the inquiry and
actual trade going on at this moment •
in Heeds of the highest
class are something almost
nothing like it for unprecedented. There has been
stocks of menths
past, and even the lightness of
of
stocks mediums
being
epee2d lower qualities shows the necessity
are exerting yreplenished. This the manufacturers
themselves to do but
for that it will be a long time 'goods are so eagerlysought
accu-
mulate to any extent. At
to-days market there has been a
before they can possibly
good deal of activity, and buyers were numerous. There is
a slight tendency to an increase
has taken place on anything like ainlarge scale. The prices
prices, but no advance
of Yorkshire goods are firm, and there
business doing. The trade in wool, is a good amount of
judging
which has changed hands lately, .8
onlyu from the bulk
'
and as certain qualities are getting
moderately brisk,
dearer, in that fact we
may see a cause for contracted operations,

THE Posr IN THE 19TH CENTURY.—Letters
posted at Drangan, in the South riding of this country, for
Cloneen, a distance of two miles, take two days, and travel
222 miles to reach their destination.-1V emagh, Guardian.
A HINT TO PANTOMIME WRITERS.—A few
days since a clockmaker of Brussels, having but
little room indoors, packed away a lot of clocks in a basket,
on the pavement in front of his house. The basket was
carefully filled, and straw was pressed down on the top of
all. Nothing was then needed but is lid, to procure which
the busy tradesman entered his premises. During his ab-
sence a tumbril, used for the collection of the sewage and
refuse of that part of the city, came along, and the driver,
seeing the basket, immediately enipted the contents into his
receptacle. The clockmaker's astonishment at finding his
empty basket on his return may ;be imagined. His loud
cries attracted the neighbours, who, seeing the scavenger
in the distance, guessed what had become of the clocks, and
they were soon recovered, but decidedly the worse for the
inametsion they had undergone.

(I ELEANOR'S VICTORY."--A withered old Irishwoman,
named Eleanor MiCormack, who has been very trouble-
some to the shopkeepers in and near Whitechapel, was
brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with stealing a
pound and a half of bacon from the shop of Mr. John Crew,
a cheesemonger, No. 1, Commercial-road East.
It appeared from the evidence of Henry Phipps, the pro-
secutor's shopman, that he saw the prisoner loitering about
his master's shop and watched her. She managed, how-
ever, unperceived to snatch a piece of bacon from the shop
board, and put it under her shawl. A few seconds after-
wards Mr, Phipps missed the bacon, and went after the
prisoner. He took the piece of meat from her, and gave
her into the custody of police-constable Chandler, 117 H,
to whom she said that she took the bacon for a lark, but
the proprietor of the shop and his servants were not at all
disposed to treat the matter as a joke, because they had lost
pieces of cheese and lumps of bacon when Eleanor had
visited them before, and insisted on her being locked up.
Chandler said the prisoner had been in custody fifty times
for pilfering from the shops, and that bread, meat, vege-
tables, or anything that came in her way, had been
stolen by her. She had been repeatedly punished for theft.
The prisoner, who groaned incessantly, called all the
saints in the calendar to bear witness she was a lone wddy i
woman, and that she was as innocent as the blessed babies
that were niver born.
Mr. Woolrvch—You make a business of this. You go
from shop to -shop pilfering. I sentence you to three months
imprisonment and hard labour.
Eleanor anathematised Chandler as she was leaving the
dock, and said, "Ye murthering villain, ye would trans-
port the if ye dared. Only three months, ye villain—this
is my victory, and be hanged to you I"
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. COMMITTAL POR TRIAL. —.
Margaret Gibbons, a wretched and dissipated woman, who
has been repeatedly in custody, was brought before Mr.
Woolrych
prisoner The has made repeated unsuccessful attempts
the police
to commit suicide. She has plunged into the docks on
several occasions and been rescued. She has hung herself
in
Police Court, being cut down before life was extinct. Mr.
cnleasismo
fh ehr,e: cells, and in the cells attached to the Thames
W?olrych has in the kindest manner endeavoured to re-
lac d o
uo
rf
st spokeneeno f life whent oh heron
sohne thefollywas l
last
andt remwarnedt ce hd e d
to-
the Ho use of Detention for a week, that she might receive
Roche, the
the spiritual advice and exhortations of the chaplain.
gaoler of the Court, said he could not be
answerable for her life, if she was left alone fora minute;
and she was sent away in a cab direct to the House of De-
tention.i•gs4 the prisoner was in King David-lane,
Shadwell, making a disturbance in front of the station.
;
Last
house there. She was intoxicated and very much excited.
She was taken into
minutes afterwards Charles Witt, a police-constable, went
into the cell where the prisoner was' confined, and, although
another
piecean was alongside of her she had contrived to
the station and locked up. A few
fasten a .of tape r
-Mud her neck and her face was
swollen and discoloured. The constable said " What do
you mean by this," and cut the tape. He sprinkled water
this a second alarm was given. She had twisted aon her face, revived her, a
hand-
kerchief round her. neck and was black in the face. A sur-
geonnd left her. Half-an-hour after
was called in, who revived her. This morning at
half-past eight o'clock, although closely watched, she
396 K, with difficulty saved
twisted her apron round
raider' and took away her apron.
William Bloom, 458 K, the prisoner was before Mr.
her throat. Charles Whisson,
Partridge five weeks ago forattempting to commit suicide,
and she was then sent to prison for a month in default of
finding a surety.

Mr. Woolrych said the P— rt
soner had made so many
attempts on her life that he was
now under the painful
necessity of committing her for trial,

MARKETS—This 13—a.

MARK-LANE.
Tb.a supply of English wheat
received fresh up to this
morning's market was very modemt
and the trade ruled
advaboth for red and white qualities
advance in prices of Is to 2s per quarter.
at fully Monday's
In foreign wheat a moderate business was transacted,
supported. There was
anda
fullll laovnedr aayg. 'es
squotationst
hwe esr
tea
nwdesl
.1 s
currencies.
tm
e
cargoes of grain were in Weedy request, at full
Malting
e rates. barley was very firm,
and prices had an upward
at
tendency. Grinding and distilling sorts moved off steadily,
Malt was in average request at quite
previous rates.
eotrat
The supply of oats was tolerably large ; on the whole, the
demand ruled steady at full currencies.

Beans and peas were firm, and quite as dear as on Mon-
day.

In flour a fair business was transacted at full quotations.
ARRIVALS THIS IvuEx.
Wheat. barley. Oats. Flout.
En,1i5h...... CBO I 2) ; 150 — 2 O 2O
1ri5h..........
Voreigu...... 1,650 I 8,510 320 sks.

BOROUGH HOP.
New hops are in steady request, but in yearlings and
olds very little is doing. New Weald ©f Ja.tr
ents, £5 to £6;
and new Sussex, £4 lOs to £5 lOs per cwt. "

WHITECHAPEL.
The trade is steady at the annexed currency
Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 2d; mutton, 38 Gd to 4s 4d , !rub,
Os Od to Os Od; veal, 3s Gd to 48 Gd; and
pork, 3s Gd to
4s 4d per Blbs. by the carcase.

The forts at Spithead are ordered to be proceeded
with immediately.
The keeper of a wine shop in the Passage St.
Louis, named Thevenot, was killed by accident
yestesrday while getting a cask of wine down a
flight of
to his cellar. Bing
man of great strength, he
staire a
undertook the exertion himself, and was standing below
the cask to support it down the steps when his foot slipped,
and he fell to the bottom of the flight. The cask rolling
on ctuthed hint to death,

Belshaw submits that he has made out a case
for compensation, and calls upon Lord Russell to
make the necessary demands upon the Southern

Government.

A curious observation respecting the rapidity of
eagles in their flight has just been made by a traveller cross-
ing Orison Alps. An eagle, in flying from one mountain
peak to another, at a height of 8,000 or 9, 00 0 feet, performed
the distance of five miles in five minutes.
The Bulletin de Lois publishes a decree order-
ing all notaries who may have in their keeping wills
containing legacies to the poor, or to public, religious, or
charitable institutions, to transmit a statement of such be-
quests to the Prefect of the Department, immediately
after the opening of each testament, besides giving the
usual notice to the legatees.

DAMAGES FOR TEIE Loss OP A HUSBAND
Among the claims for damage sustained in the late riots,
and filed with the Controller yesterday, was one by Mrs.
Anne Garney, "for loss of husband." She claims 5,000
dollars.—New York Express.

The Frankfort journals state that the Emperor of
Austria before leaving that city sent one of his Aides- de-
Camp to the King of Prussia with the result of the labours
of the Congress.
BLACKBURN.—A further reduction has taken
place during the past week in the number of recipi-
ents of parochial relief in the Blackburn district of the
union, and a small increase has occurred in the Darwen
and Oswaldtwistle districts. The returns show that during
the week 6,327 persons were relieved with £363 Os, 9d.,
against 6,437 with £358 16s. Ild. in the previous week,
and 10,806 with £587 Ss. 9d. in the corresponding week
of 1862. Of these 4,791 belonged to the Blackburn dis-
trict, and were relieved with £267 Bs. 4d., against 4,865
with £266 10s. 9d, in the previous week. In the number
of inmates in the workhouse there has been a decrease of
two on the week, and of 65 on the year. A letter from
the county treasurer was read to the Board of Guardians
at their meeting on Saturday, stating that if the amount
of county rate due from the Blackburn union was not
paid by the Bth inst., application would be made at the
forthcoming sessions at Preston for warrants against the
defaulting townships. It was said that the Black burn
township owed £5,000 on this account.
The Courrier de Bretagne states that a great
commotion has just been caused at Lorient by the flight of
Bonnetaud, agent of Le Deuc and Co., bankers, leaving
an enormous deficit. Several retail houses in the town
have suffered considerable losses by his departure.

The London magistrates, we are glad to observe,
are putting down the objectionable exhibitions styled poses
plaatiques. Several proprietors of refreshment rooms where
these figures are shown have been ordered to suppress the
exhibitions, under a threat of heavy penalties in the event
of non-compliance.

Offenbach, of Vienna, has another romantic
opera accepted at the Karushner Gate Theatro. It is called
"Armgerd, the Spirits of the Rhine."
The Permanent Exhibition Works at Passy are
progressing with rapidity. It is to be to Paris what the
Kensington Museum is to London.
MR, CONINGHAM, M.P., has been appointed by
Lord Clyde one of his executors.
A VENTILATING OILSKIN WATERPROOF is de-
scribed with horrible accuracy by the Saturday Review as
a contrivance for frying people in their own grease.
eres
Mn. GYE has engaged the celebrated German
singer, Schmid, for next season at Covent Garden,
ST. HELENA AND NAPOLEON'S TOMB.—Admiral
Elliot, recently appointed governor of St. Helena in the
room of Sir E. Hay, arrived there on the 30th of July. The
Admi-
ral's
arrival.
Napoleon'swo works tha that weretomb
wgoinger e
cool forp lcompleted at the restoration
timeatio n
of of
the the Great
the

arrested,
two
ene
collarl.V hheins
FATAL ACCIDENT AT WOOLWICII ARSENAL.
Yesterday afternoon John Iredley, a lad, 16 years of age,
whilst assisting to load a barge with stores, at the Royal
Arsenal canal, fell into the water and was drowned, not-
withstanding that every effort was made to extricate him,
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A RACE-HORSE.—On Satur-
day evening, while the race-horse Heber was on its
way from the Weymouth races to Marlborough, it met
with its death under the following circumstances :—When
within two miles of the latter place the saddle slipped
round, which so alarmed th 3 animal that it immediately
commenced kicking. The jockey, Cannon, fortunately ex-
tricated himself from the stirrups without receiving any
injury. The horse then dashed away at a fearful pace..
At last it struck its head against the corner of a house in
Silverless-street with such force as to literally knockits
brains out. The animal fell dead upon the spot.
A rather singular incident occurred two nights
since at an open-air concert in the Champs-Elynsdees.
A creditor met one of his debtors in thehgtnarhdennm,ea
watch-
pressed his determination to accompany. 1
his house till daylight, and then have him
the concert was over, a crowd followed thendmorn
to
see whether the debtor, a much younger
As active
What they
man than his creditor, would noltlghivyeddh_oimes“atheensloitl3.
were going along, a person exclaimed h a stupid
fellow that creditor must be.
debtor and make a disturbance, so that the sergents de villa
might arrest both and lock them up for the night la" The
creditor followed the advice, but not with any great success
for the debtor managed to get away in the scuffle, thanks to
the aid of sympathising bystanders, while the creditor and
his officious counsellor were taken into custody for a breach
of the peace and marched off the nearest police-station,

Volunteer Review and Sham Fight at Lamb-
ton Park, Durham.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
WARWICK RACES.----Tres Dar.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS.

Cadiz
1
_Xing George
Clown

• 0

WELTER CUP.

Nebula
1
Cheerful
Alcibiade
COUNTY HANDICAP. •

Barter
Croeket:colt ..................
The PrizaciPal ..............................
Nine ran.
MEMBERS' PLATE.

Usher ................. I
....... Queen Fastrada ...................................
Wave .......................................... 8
Sia ran.
WARWICK. CUP.

FDr. Syntax
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Mairwater .......................................... 2
agnum Bonum ................ ............... NURSERY HANDICAP. 3

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Rizzi°
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Jet colt ................
Fairhurst ..... • . 2
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Eleven ran.

LIFE AT BIARRITZ.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
BIARRITZ, Sept. 5.

The Empress and the Prince Imperial arrived here
at 2 o'clock on Monday morning last. This early
hour was chosen probably to spare the authorities
the trouble of a formal reception, of addresses, and
processions of young girls dressed in white strewing
flowers and presenting bouquets. The three tri-
umphal arches,—one at the railroad terminus of St.
Esprit, which as a faubonrg of Bayonne is now at-
tached to the Department of the Basses Pyrenees,
the other at the village of Anglet, where the road
turns off to Biarritz, and the third at its entrance,
close to the Imperial residence, or as it is now called
the Villa Eugenie,--were barely completed. All
other display was dispensed with. The Mayor's
proclamation, while informing the good people
of Biarritz of the Empress's approaching visit,
recommended them to refrain from any noisy de-
monstrations of loyalty, and otherwise to respect
the retirement and repose of the august visitors.
The Empress fee's nowhere more at home and more
independent in her movements than in this long,
familiar spot, In every other place, whether at
Fontainebleau, St. Cloud, or Compiegne, a certain
degree of etiquette is observed which interferes
more or leas with freedom of action. At Biarritz it
is not so. Their Majesties come hither to seek re-
pose, though not absolute solitude, and they live and
move about pretty much as any of the people they
see about them. You meet them any morning or
evening walking about the streets, or strolling
along the beach or on the slopes. Everybody treats
them with respect, and nobody intrudes upon them.
For the Empress it is her place of predilection. She
frequented it in times gone by, when she certainly
did not dream that she should one day wear the
crown of France. Not a pass, a ruin, a glen, or a
atreamlet which is not familiar to her, and the
pleasure with which she revisits them as Empress of
the French is net less lively than when she knew
them as simple Eugenie Montijo. The morning
after her arrival she might be seen, accompanied by
one or two attendants, walking about the town, or
on the beach between the Imperial residence and
the Port Vieux, the favourite resort of bathers. The
villa is nearly at the water's edge, and stands on a
terrace the base of which at high tides is beaten by
the sea. A very few years ago the piece of land at-
tached to it was but a sandy plain. It is now covered
with verdure and shrubs ; is enclosed by wooden
palisades, and is irrigated by means of small canals,
which are fed from an artificial lake at a short dis-
tance. Biarritz itself, from an insignificant village
some five-and-twenty years since, is become a re-
srctable town, and is every year growing larger.
lts lodging houses, hotels, and restaurants are good,
and th.l prices by no means extravagant. You have
the eagle°, with its coffee room, and its terrace
where you ,eat your ice, sip your coffee, smoke
your cigar, xead, loiter, or converse, while
you breathe (Ili atmosphere which is health
itself ; or the theatre, with Levasnsoigrhto.r
yo some
other Parisian favourite every
stroll through streets thronged with English,
French, and Spaniards in every variety of cos-
tume, and all affording a scene of animation which
cannot be surpassed anywhere. As it is just now
the height of the season, Biarritz is crowded, and
every day brings new visitors; and where they all
find room it is not easy to imagine. The carriages
which ply betVveen Bayonne and Biarritz keep up
a perpetual movement. Spacious and handsome
chars-a-bane, with accommodation for twenty per-
sons, omnibuses, with six insides and six out-
sides ; Darrigrand's dil!gencera and neat caleehes, all
admirably horsed, are antilable at moderate prices.
Bazaars displaying shawls,siiks, muslins, babonches,
Turkish pipes, and what in case of need passes for
Latakia tobacco, reading rooms, gymnastics, the
Spanish hawker with his blue velvet jacket orna-
mented with silver filigree buttons, his red sash round
his waist, his head bound with a yellow silk handker-
chief, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, and carrying
his immense pack of soft goods as lightly as if it were
a cushion of down ; with a smile, a salute, and a com-
pliment for old and young,handsome and ill favoured,
gentle alld simple—in Spanish or Basque, French or
Gascon—for it is all the same to him—are all at hand
.0 minister to your taste. Juan Perez has not, it is
*rue, made much progress in English. Whether he
adopts Figaro's theory as to the root of the language
I know not, but. I suspect he is of opinion that
" How do you do ?" and " Good bye" will enable
him to face every emegeney.
If you are of a romantic turn, the Chamber
d'Amour, with its touching legends, the curious
cavern of Ustarits, the picturesque Cambo, Roland's
pass, the secluded valley of Itsatsou, Hasparren,
Fontarabir, whose echoes repeated the doleful blast
of the wild horn which announced to Charlemagne
the death of his hero in RoecesvaNes, the erags of
San Marcial, with its votive chapel and ever burn-
ing lamp, commemorating the tritunph of the
Spanish army over the French during the great
war of independence, the Nivelle, the Nive, the
Adour—all are near at hand.
There is another spat of a different character
about half-an hour's drive, and which few quit this
part of the country without visiting. I allude to
the establishment known as the Refuge, which is di•
rected by the religious community, the " Servantes
de Marie," and that of the Bernardines, at a short
advance from it, both in the commune of Anglet.
The pleasant and picturesque village of Anglet
stands close to the route from Bayonne to the
Spanish frontier, at the angle where that of Biarritz
begins. It is halfway between both towns. It was
on the heights of Anglet that the English division
was posted which commanded the high road to
Spain during the preparations for crossing the
Adour, and the blockade of Bayonne, in 1814.
Its name occurs several times in the military de-
spatches of the period. On the sandy plain between
Anglet and Biarritz the Refuge has arisen, as it were,
by magic, by the energy of a single man. Some
five and twenty years ago the Abbe Cestac, whose
name has long since gained a well-merited celebrity
throughout the Pyrenees, founded at Bayonne,
to the Cathedral of which he was attached, an
orphan asylum, the direction of which he confided
t_othe sisterhood known as the Servants of Mary.
litg comprehensive benevolence was not content with
this. He opened a home for the unfortunate class
of young women, the outcasts of society, who math-
felted a desire to abandon their evil ways, and he
placed them,
Bord under the name of filles repenties,
ornhemiee asat
t and Toulouse in houses belonging to the
resonreee,Yiwrth. In 1839 he bought out of his own
ground in the Some help from his family, a spot of
tween Auglet moat secluded part of the plain be-
huts, and aided Biarritz. On this he built straw
of the Servants
Y4hilits sister, who joined the sister-
hoodtheie superior, under
SOf Mary, and soon became
the Abbe Cestac setteeuarne of Sister Magdalene,
and obtained the Work on the ungrateful
soil,
While engaged in this goodly
successful results.
mad© the mark for every work he was
yo
sarcasm.
were ascribed by scoffers to the His acts
Worst motives; and,
even by those who knew his
purity, to an overweening vanit; mindedness and
,ur to a wild fana-
ticism. He persisted through good
report
turning aside from his object,
and evil
report, never 3ect and
never once desponding. Not a garret, or
a cellar,
where he knew that vice or misery lurked
Within
the sphere of his ministry, but he visited. In little
the Refuge
of than two years from its foundation
of Anglet sheltered near 200 young women rescued
from vice, and lodged, fed, clothed, and taught to
work. The Refuge now consists of 550, includ-
ing " Servants of Mary" and 44 Repenties.he
cells are built of stone, but the straw hut
which was the first habitation on the sands
is still preserved. Every sort of neddio work
is now done there, from the finest embroidery
to the coarsest garments used by the peasants; and
a marriage trousseau, valued at some hundreds of
pounds, was completed last week. Certain articles
of carpentry work are done by the sisterhood. Their
farmhouse is well stocked with Breton cows,poultry,
and pigs; their dairy is excellent, the butter is in
great repute in the neighbourhood, and from this
last article alone the Community received during the
past year about £l5O. No member of the Commu-
nay remains unemployed for a single moment of the
day. Those who are not employed inmanual labour
are engaged in teaching the poor children of the

neighbourhood. The funds derived from the sale
of their produce, needlework, or tillage arc spent in
educating the poor, and in other work f bene-
volence. The " Servantes de Marie" end " Re-
penties" aro cloistered; the former t life, the
latter for whatever period they may think
proper. The " Servantes de Marie" wear a light
blue uniform, with the hood, veil, and rosary of
the regular recluse. The " Repeuties" have the
blue gown, with a shawl marked with a large white
cross; instead of the veil and hood they wear the
handkerchief on the head, the same as that in com-
mon use among the Basque peasant women.
Strangers visiting the establishment are received
with courtesy by one of the sisterhood, and are
offered such refreshments as the house can afford—
excellent brown bread, delicious butter, wine, cheese,
and can sucree. They feel a pleasure in showing
you the neat refectory, cowhouse, piggery, rabbit
enclosures, garden, and cemetery. When one re-
calls to mind what that place was some 20 years
ago, and sees what is now is, it is impossible not to
feel the highest admiration for the founder. During
their stay at Biarritz the Emperor and Empress oc-
casionally visit the Refuge, which, of course, dis-
plays its rustic triumphal arch, the Mayor of Biar-
ritz being a very devoted functionary. Their Ma-
jesties are received with the courtesy shown to every
one. They invariably leave some marks of their
bounty, and the sisterhood certainly do not forget
them in their prayers.
The order of the " Servantes de Marie"
has spread
the influence and exertions of the Abbe Casto with
wonderful rapidity. There are few places in the
departments of the Low,
High, and Eastern Pyre-
nees, where there are not branches of it ; and where-
ever the outcast is to be reclaimed, the orphan shel-
tered, and the ignorant to be taught, there you are
sure to find a member of the Community. It has
branches in various provinces of Spain, and some of
the sisters were detached not long ago from the
parent establishment of Anglet to organise a house '
in Madrid.

But this is not the only conventual society you
meet on the sands of Anglet. About a quarter of
an hour's drive from the Refuge you find a Commu-
nity under the rigid rule of St. Bernard. The Ber-
nardines pass their days in seclusion as complete as
if they lived in the desert of Egypt. The sanction
of the Pope for this establishment under the rule of
St. Bernard was obtained in 1851 by the Abbe
Cestac. The sisterhood spend their time in improv-
ing and tilling the soil, in prayer, and meditation.
From that lonely spot[the Bernardines have no view
of the village of Anglet, of Biarritz, of the ocean
which beats at the base of the sandhills in the dis-
tance, of the river, or the mountains. The straw
cabins which they erected with their own hands
in 1850 have since been replaced by ones partly of
stone and partly of earth. They transplanted a
quantity of soil to the sands on which their huts
stand, and on it they cultivate asparagus, cabba-
ges, maize, and even vines. Their dress consists
of an ample gown of the coarsest wool undyed, to
which is attached a hood ; from a rope tied round
the waist depends a rosary, and on the shoulders is
a large cross made of light blue stuff. When
working in the fields during the heat of summer,
they are allowed to wear a broad-brimmed hat,
made out of the coarsest straw, such as that used
by the peasant women. The food of the Bernard-
ines is coarse, but not unwholesome. Their beds
are simply pieces of canvass made like hammocks.
They quit them at daybreak, and after some time
spent in devotion in their chapel they repair to
their labour in the fields, which is only interrupted
by a short repast or by prayer at stated hours.
Absolute silence is imposed upon them, the only
exception being in case of illness. When the Em-
peror visited the place a year or two ago, he ex-
pressed a wish to see the features of one of the sis-
ters whose air of distinction, even under her coarse
attire, struck him, but he failed to obtain what he
asked. It would be a mistake to suppose that the
Community consists exclusively of the poorer class
of society. Young persons belonging to families
of good standing and means have sought, and still
seek, to be received in it. There are instances
where postulants of the class I allude to have
been rejected on the ground that their health was
not robust enough to practice the severe rules of
the Order. They were not received even as novi-
ces, and after repeated entreaties, contented them-
selves with becoming sisters of the neighbouring
Community, as " Servantes de Marie."
The ordinary route from Bayonne to Biarritz is
the high road from the Porte d'Espagne to the vil-
lage of Anglet. The other passes by the beautiful
walk kt.own as the Allees Marines, along the banks
of the Adour to the downs which lie between the
villas and gardens of Bayonne and the sea.
There are few sensations more delicious than
those you experience while descending on a sum-
mer's morning the banks of the river, which, from
this point, where its waters are increased by its
junction with the Nive, really looks like a noble
stream. At the extremity of the Allees Marines you
enter the pine woods the verdure of which defies
the winds of autumn and the cold of winter. The
road winds through this wood for about art hour,
when it emerges on the downs. At one time you
enter a deep ravine, where you are shut in among
sandhills, and a moment after you catch a glimpse
of the sea glittering in the beams of the morning
sun. As you proceed along towards the Chambre
d'Amour and the Lighthouse, you perceive groups
of women working in the maize fields on your left,
whom you recognise as Bernardines by their peculiar
habit and the large blue cross on their shoulders.
If you happen to inquire which of the many paths
before you leads to Biarritz, they raise their faces
for a moment from the ground, and point with the
finger—but not a word is uttered. From this spot
half an hour's smart walk brings you to Biarritz.
It is possible that at some future time the Refuge
and the plantations of the Bernardines will be
cited as instances of the skill of religious communi-
ties in selecting the most favourable site for esta-
blishing themselves. It is certain that, however
flourishing the site may be at some distant period,
nothing could be more desolate, and, apparently,
more incapable of being turned to account than the
spot on which, not many years ago, the Bernardines
and Servantes de Marie pitched their tents.