The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-28 00:00:00

MEXICO,

Advices from Vera Cruz to the Ist inst. state that
the army under the command of General Bazaine
had left Mexico city for a campaign against Juarez.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

BRESLAU, Nov. 27.

Intelligence received by the Breslauer Zeitung,
states that the arrests of superior officials in War-
saw continue.

Six hundred persone, including ladies, and
Luezezewski, the director of the department of the
Interior under the Grand Duke Constantimes ad-
'ministration, have been transported to Siberia.

FRANCE.
PARIS, Nov. 28.

The Constitutionnel of to-day contains an article
signed by the chief editor, M. Limayrac, entitled
"England and the Congress." The writer says :
" By a refusal to attend the Congress England would
afford grounds to those who assert that her great-
ness and prosperity are founded upon the misfor-
tunes and ruin of other nations."
M. Limayrac expresses griavous regret to see a

policy parading itself for Lib2ralism, inspired by
sentiments of mean jealousy, and the rivalry of
England continually put back the friendly hand
which we extend to her, and make obstacles to all
that appears generous and opportune.
"It is not only at Rome, but also at London,"
continues M. Limayrac, " that the non possumus
doctrine is made a political dogma."
The article then recalls England's refusal to
favour the national movement in the Danubian
Principalities, to protect Montenegro, Piedmont,
Mexico, America, and Poland, and reminds its
readers how loyal and sympathetic the French
Government has shown itself towards England, and
how little it has received in compensation.
" In the present state of things," continues M. de
Limayrac, " if France has reason to feel offended
at the want of concurrence on the part of England,
it is Europe that will be wounded in her most
serious interests. Free from all personal ambition,
France calls with good faith upon all the Powers.
If troubles and conflagrations should arise in
Europe, as it is only too easy to foresee, the en-
tire responsibility would fall upon those who have
rejected the work of peace and conciliation."
is understood that M. Fould, the French
Finance Minister, is about to propose to the Cham-
bers a loan of 300,000,000 f., equal to £12,000,000
sterling. The Mexican and Cochin China wars
have caused a deficit of £10,000,000, for which the
Minister is unable to provide by any other means.
BOURSE, Nov. 27.—The market has been heavy
to-day, and prices have slightly declined. Threes,
for the Account, are now at 69f. 90c. Mobilier are
also lower. The same may be said of Railway
inued heavy to the end,

Shares. The market con
and closed as follows :-
41 per Cents. 95
Do. end month
per Cents
Do. end month 66 95
Credit Mobilier 1076 25
Do. end month 1075
Bank Shares 3370
Credit k oncier 1260
Roman —

Italian Loan 72 20
Do. end month 72
New ditto
Do. end month —
Russian .....

Austrian .. 7B 75
Spanish Threes
Home Debt

Deferred -

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
977 50 .. 977 50
977 50 .. 975

Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
Geneva
Smthern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian ..
Austrian
Lowbard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

948 75 .. 950 -

498 75 -
692 50 .. 690 -
511 25 - -
483 75 .. 482 50
400 - -
392 50 , . 393 75
521 25 .. 521 25
532 50 .. 532 50
627 50 .. 627 50
300 - 307 50

INDIA.

ILLNESS OF LORD ELGIN.

The following telegram from the Bombay Govern-
ment has been received by the Secretary of State
for India, dated November 15 ;
" The following message to your address, dated
Nov. 13, has been received from Sir R. Napier,
from Calcutta

" 'Lord Elgin has become so dangerously ill that
he has thought it necessary to communicate with
Sir Win. Denison, and a steamer is in readiness to
proceed to Madras, if necessary.'
" Colonel Norman telegraphs as follows from
Meean Meer, Nov. 12 :
" In an affair on the frontier, on the 9th inst.,
we had about 60 men killed and wounded, includ-
ing Major Harding, 2d Sikh Infantry; Lieutenant
Murray, 71st Highlanders ; and Lieutenant Doug-
las, doing duty with the 71st Highlanders, who
were all killed ; Lieutenant Oliphant, sth Goor-
khas, and Lieutenant Battye,G aide Corps, wounded.
The Commander in Chief reached Lahore this
evening.'
"Funds at Bombay—Fours, at 6 discount;
Fives, at 31 premium; Five-and-a••lalf, at 13
premium.

"The last accounts of Lord Elgin were up to
4 p.m. of November 14; he was daily becoming
weaker."

Flooding of (Books about) the Nile.

It is easy to see how a Nile tourist falls into the
melancholy condition of becoming a Nile author.
Probably when he leaves Cairo, encumbered with
the normal blank journal, and the normal quires of
thin letter-paper in the normal writing-case, he has
no sort of definite intention of boring anybody but
himself with the facts to be entered in his diary, or
any one beyond his half-dozen familiar correspon-
dents with the observations and speculations to be
contained in his letters. Ho has repelled the sug-
gestion of polite friends—" Of course you'll write a
book about it"—with a negative smile of perfect
sincerity, really believing himself too sensible to
undertake such an act of supererogatory weakness.
He intends honestly to enjoy his three or
four months of lotus-eating, without aspiring to
leave any record of them which an absorbed audience
shall not willingly let die. He begins to keep his
journal as a manly duty to himself, and to scribble
his letters for the innocent gratification of a narrow
home circle. Unhappily, through pressure of time
while fitting out his boat for the voyage, he has
requested his first friend, A., just to send on the first
letter, containing his little description of the streets of
Valetta or the bazaars of Cairo, to his next friend, 8.,
to spare the trouble of saying the same thing twice
over. The next friend has, and uses, a discretionary
power of passing the letter on to a third, and so forth.
By the time the second despatch from Egypt arrives,
a whole alphabetical series of kindly critics is fairly
established, who, for want of anything better to do,
will al ways be very glad to hear how far the
writer of such a lively letter has gone up the river.
Before the traveller has reached Thebes, a packet
of home correspondence, forwarded only too quickly
through the courteous British consul, assures him of
the great pleasure and valuable information his letter
has given the whole circle of his friends at home.
The slow poison of habitual circular writing spreads
gradually over the whole descriptive correspondence
of the unhappy man, and imperceptibly developes
the fatal idea that the critical public will but be a
larger circle of sympathetic friends. He warms
towards his very journal, treating it no longer as a
mere repository of daily facts, but more and more
as a vehicle fur desultory sentiment or speculative
rhapsody. Naturally he falls in with one or two
little adventures rather different from those which
have befallen any of the other tourists of the year,
or believes that he does so. His dragoman Alee
or Muhammad is found to possess a peculiarly
amusing individuality of character or demeanour,
distinguishing him from all his brother Mnhammads
and Alees, and capable of being touched off with
great spirit, through the record of a few conversa-
tions in the Egyptian idiom of the English language.
And so the mischief is done, and sooner or later the
poor tourist finds himself committed to the task of
adding his own driblet to the ever-deepening stream
of shallow works upon the Nile. The memory of
a bright and sunny winter of leisurely enjoyment,
which might have endured for years as an unalloyed
satisfaction in the retrospect, is rendered turbid and
distorted by the necessity of arranging facts and anec:
dotes,pointing and exaggerating fir the Englishrearket the touches of local colour and individualnder the
charac-
ter which seem most lively to tell well
volume e ffective, und lastly, of ehoosiil andga
so nraettractive
title. Perhaps there aro a few persons
to start for
wrong-
headed and opinionated
as
Nile
Egypt with the couvictionN e which has nut beendetermination to print
it accordingly. But printed before, and the fixed
that they will find some-
thing to print about the
t we believe that by far the
greater number of
9expense Nile scribblers, male and female,
of paper and printers'
drift into a needles
ink in this blind sort of way. It is in a simple
spirit of kindliness that we put forward these re-
marks at the commencement of the Nilo season,
with the hope that they may be read, and their truth
laid to heart, by at least a few of the unthinking
mortals who, but for some such good advice, might
be drawn into swelling tho unreadable volumes of
the next year's Nile Nod.-- Saturday Review.

A LIFE OF PIUS. VII., by a Roman Prellte, is
announced as about to be published speedily,

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 27.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess
Royal) and Princess Louise, walked and drove in
the grounds this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
the Crown Prince of Prussia, and the Duke de
Chartres, went out hunting with the harriers,
attended by Major-General Hon. A. Hood, Major
Teesdale, and Major Schweinitz.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Chartres and the Eat]. of Carlisle arrived at the
Castle yesterday.
The Earl of Carlisle had an audience of the
Queen. •

The dinner party yesterday included their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the
grown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Princess
Helena, the Duke and Duchess of Chartres, the
Earl of Carlisle, Lady Mary Hood, Lady Caroline
Barrington, Colonel Hon. Sir C. Phipps, Dr. Halo'
uaann, and the ladies and gentlemen in attendance.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
WINDSOR, Nov, 27.

It is expected that their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales will leave the Castle
for Frogmore House either to-day or within the next
few days. It is understood that their loyal high-
nesses will spend Christmas at Frogmore, and reside
there till February.

The Prince of Wales's harriers met yesterday at
Mr. Trumper's, Lake End, near Donley. The meet
included the Prince of Wales, the Crown Prince of
Prussia, the Duke of Chartres, and a large field Of
the aristocracy and residents of the neighbourhood•
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales was
also present in one of the royal carriages. The
sport was excellent and the scent good, the running
occupying about two hours, to the evident enjoy'
meat of the royal sportsmen.

The birthday of her Royal Highness the Prin•
cess Mary of Cambridge was celebrated with the customary.
rejoicings at Kew last evening. The princess completes
her 30th year yesterday.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumalo will spend several days next week with the
Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury at Hatfield House,
Herts. A distinguished party is invited to meet their
royal highnesses. _

The Earl and Countess of Derby have entertained
a distinguished party at Knowsley Park, near Prescot,
during the week. The visitors have included the Marquis
and Marchioness of Bath, the Marchioness (Maria) of
Ailesbury, the Earl of Malmesbury, Viscount and Vis-
countess Newport, Viscount and Viscountess Grey do
Wilton, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, and Lord Claud
Hamilton. The gentlemen of the party have had excel-
lent shooting, for which the weather has been remarkably
fine.

The Earl of Carlisle arrived at Stafford House,
St. James's, on Thursday, from Castle Howard, Yorkshire,
on a visit to the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland.
The Earl and Countess Dela,warr arrived in town
yesterday from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of
Salisbury.

The Earl of Abingdon has arrived in town from
Wytham Abbey, near Abingdon.

The Countess (Dowager) of Lichfield will join
Lady Ward's party at Himley Hall, Staffordshire, which is
about to meet for the marriage of Major the Hon. Augustus
H. Anson, V.C., and Miss Claughton, niece of the Earl cf
Dudley. The ceremony is appointed to take place at Kid-
derminster on the 12th proximo.
The Baron and Baroness Waldenorff and family
have arrived at the Brunswick, Jermyn-street, on their waY
to Paris.

Lady Sarah Hay Williams and family have left
Grosvenor•street on a Continental tour.
Lord Broughton, who returned to Tidworth
Park, Hants, on 'Wednesday last, is about to receive a suc-
cession of guests at his country seat.

Lord Stanley, M.P., has joined the. party as°
sembled at Highclere Castle, near Newbury, on a visit to
the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon.

HISTORY OF THE PIECE OF THE TRUE CROSS
brought from the Crusades by Lewis IX., and
which disappeared from the Sainte Chapelle at the time of
the French Revolution : —lt was found, says J. Ph.
Berjeau, in his " Geschiedenis van het heylighe Cruys ;
or, History of the Holy Cross," as quoted in the Saturday
Review—two or three years ago in the possession of a
country lass in the neighbourhood of Dijon, who was in
the habit of cutting chips from it with her knife, for distri-
bution among her friends. A pious curate took the relic
from her hands, and carried it to the Bishop of Dijon, svb.:
deposited it in the treasury of the cathedral, where it
now to be seen.
THE MORFA COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—ReIay-
men are still at work in clearing the falls, but no bodies 11°1°
been recovered since the adjourned inquest. The falls in
4.
the west level have been found unusually heavy, and great
care has to be taken in clearing the rubbish, as the top often
falls after its removal.
NOSCITUR A SOCIIS.—A correspondent of the
Queen naively remarks—" Every man I meet speaks of his
Hears, whether he has ideas or not ; if I go to church, tt
venerable and estimable clerg3 man discourses to me on the
Lawr of lehovahr ; and people talk familiarly enough of
laying abed.
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS AT THE WORLD'S
END.—The Hon. Ashley Eden will shortly start on
his mission to Bhotan, accompanied by Dr. B. Simpson, the
best of our amateur photographers, with a retinue of 100
Sikh sappers and minors. The last mission to this most
barbarous part of Asia was under Captain Pemberton, in
1838. The present mission will proceed from Darjeeling,
to demand reparation for the incessant attacks on our fron-
tier, and security for the future. Bhotan is an Indo-Chinese
State, nominally a feudatory of Pekin. It stretches over
230 miles of the Himalayas, as far as Assam, and has an
area of 19,000 square miles of fertile valley and snowy
ridge rising to 2d,000 feet, and said to abound in copper'
and to be suitable for the cultivation of tea. The Booteabo
are very degraded—all the vices from filth of body to polY-
andry prevailing. The Deh Rajah, a spiritual ruler, 11"
the Mikado of Japan, is generally a boy kept as a State Pri-
Boner, and the Dhurm Rajah, like the Tycoon, is elected by
the three most powerful Pillas or governors, and seldom
allowed to hold office for more than three years. Mr. Edell
will go to Tassisuden, the cold weather " capital" of the
State,

WARNING TO SCOTCH SETTLERS IN IRELAND'
—A most disgraceful and diabolical outrage WIC
on Saturday night last perpetrated upon a Scotch tenant`
farmer, near Tullamore, in King's County. The circuit'
stances are these :—Mr. Richardson. who was at one time
a farmer, near Perth, became tenant some years ago of 4
farm in the county mentioned, in the mistaken belief that
the small rent of land and cost of labour in Ireland would
compensate in some degree for the heavier rent he was par
ing in Perthshire. His brother, Mr George Richardson'
who was also a farmer in Perthshire, lately gave up h
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farm there, and proceeded last week to join his brother in
the occupation of the farm in Ireland. Upon Saturday
evening last, to inaugurate their coming among the people,
and their entry upon a new house which had been built for
them, they gave a supper to the labourers upon the farm..
About half-past 9, after the workmen had gone, Mr George
happened to go out, and returned a few minutes afterwards,
saying that there were 15 men walking about the door.
John went out and asked what they wanted. " Nothing While he was talking to two of
ans rushed into the house, flinging
pt
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tl
ha re, "0 wt
haesr t hr
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far .
open the door of the room where the women and children.
were. It was immediately seen that they were armed with
guns and pistols. They ordered every one in the house to
sit down, and on being asked by George what they wanted,
they demanded the gun, which bad, however, been pre-
viously lent to a neighbour. Seeing, however, that danger
was to be apprehended, John said to two of them that, if
they would go away, he would give them the pistols which
Upon entering the kitchen, followed by the men, o'er
of t
were in his house. Two of the men accompanied him to
honisehm house,e which is only a few yards distant from the new'
struck him on the back part of his head, He wets-
nodt felled to the ground by the blow, but slid down by the
sie
s ' his lace,
of a prese. They then told Mr Richardson to turn
away u
s a
as long '•
h
but he repliedchadlife.
o
thatn One of
th the
would
blackguards look a hti
the:
said to his companions, " Put out the candle." A 6/I°t
~
was then fired, which, however, most fortunately
Mr Richardson, the ball entering the press door immedi-
ately above where he was lying. The fellows, in the belief
.
that he was dead, deliberately entered another room and
took possession of bottles containing whisky, and then,
calling upon their companions in the other house, decaropeu
The police were soon upon the ground, and every exertions
is being made by the authorities to bring the perpetrato.ira
to punishment—but it nosy be death to any one who
give evidence which may lead to conviction. Not satisfy'
by the cowardly outrage which they had committed, the
same party proceeded to the house of Mr. Wilson, 511e1::
herd (another Scot chasm), struck him severely, and carol;
off hie pistols. There is no obvious \c-Ay of accounting
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man of his land, but has carried on the operations c)
h
either of these outrages. Mr. Richardson has deprived_
farm upon the Scotch system of tillazc, by which htoial!!_i e :
given increased employment to the 1-,.)1,1e7 n
.
own, loss.-I.Yeeteman,