The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-22 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY' EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1863.

warmest admiration, and they could hardly have
been less impressed by their visit to the Liverpool
side, where they saw the massive gates of the
Canada Dock-100 feet wide—opened and shut
mithin one minute and a quarter through the
agency of hydraulic power. The seamen thus saw
some wonders in return for those they exhibited
to the landsmen, and these reciprocal courtesies
and kindnesses go far to cement the bonds of
friend3hip between the different classes of the com-
munity. A tribute to the excellent order and dis-
cipline preserved in the fleet, as well as to the high
character of the men, was paid by the sitting magis-
trate at the police court, who remarked at the close
of the holiday week, that not one of the men em-
ployed in it had appeared before him on any charge.
Officers and men are, we may hope, alike enjoying
their holiday in the frank and manly manner
befitting English seamen, and we hope the inha-
bitants of Liverpool and its neighbourhood may
carry out Admiral DACRES' advice, and sleep the
sounder henceforth for knowing of what stuff are
made the ships and men whose task it is to guard
their liberties.

Amid the many trounlous scenes that are enact.
ing in various parts of the Continent, it is gratify-
, ing to turn the attention to the cheering prospects
at home that are connected with the harvest which
has more than crowned the expectations of the
most sanguine, and imparted everywhere a buoy-
ancy and elasticity. Last Wednesday a festive
gathering took place in Buckinghamshire. It was
a Harvest Home, which class of entertainment is
now very prevalent in substitution of the old form
of harvest suppers. The affair took place on the
grounds of Rayners, near Penn, the seat of Philip
Rose, Esq. This gentleman very kindly gave up
his grounds for the occasion, and thus conferred a
boon on many. The festival began with a thanks-
giving service for the bountiful harvest.' On coming
out of church the labourers on the various farms
were provided with dinner in a tent at Raynersl
and afterwards entertained with various games.
Later on a tea meeting was held for the wives and
families of the labourers. Thus, by these severe,
plans, all classes and ranks were duly cared for.
A large assemblage of the gentry and clergy of the
neighbourhood also came to do honour to the occa-
sion. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. DISRAELI,
Lord and Lady CUEZON, and others of note. Mr.
DISRAELI proposed the health of the landlords of
the parish, and associated the name of Lord HOWL
with the toast. He congratulated his friends on
the termination of their harvest, and remarked that
he did not think on the Chiltern Hills a finer har-

vest had ever been reaped. He observed that after
having wisely expressed their thanks to the Giver
of all good things, they met there to celebrate the
event in a different form. The right hon.
gentleman made some comments on the new
institution of harvest homes, and expressed his
approval of these meetings. They were calculated
to produce very great advantages, and one of their
principal benefits was to cause the mixing of all
classes in the agricultural world, "Here the land-
lord, the farmer, and the cultivator of the soil—the

British labourer—meet, bound together by a sym-
pathy of feeling, and Equally rejoicing in the
honourable and honest fulfilment of their labours

for the year." There is truth in this, for nothing
can tend more to establish a kindly feeling between
employers and employed than to meet on good
terms, as it were, in the freedom of such levelling
festivities, where the restraints of c3nventional
etiquette are ignored, and masters and men seem,
for the time at least, associated as fellow-workmen

in a common cause, and labourers whose success

has made glad their hearts and rejoiced their spirits.
Likewise the day entertainments enable the more

elevated class to see somewhat of the doings of
their neighbours in a humbler sphere, inferior to
them in worldly station, but invested with im-
portant functions to fulfil, and on whose welfare
depends so much of the prosperity of the land, while
the fruit of their !abours fills the treasure-stores in
the homes of munificence. The fact is, that there
cannot be too much communion of interest between
the divers ranks of society. It elevates the
lower while it ennobles the higher class, and it
is therefore so desirable a thing to find that a
gathering of this style referred to should
be in vogue, since it depends on a constantly-
recurring event to herald its approach and
recall its scenes to memory. Mr. DISRAELI

rendered a just tribute to the merits of Lord
HOWE, and observed that, in mentioning the
first class in the " agricultural hierarchy," the land-
lords, he knew that nothing could be more agreeable
to the landlords than " to feel that they possessed,
and were entitled to the good feelings of those
among whom they lived." In regard to Lord
HOWE, although he did not reside among them,
there were many proofs of his " bounty and public
usefulness.' The Church, the school, and the cot-
tage alike testified to the Efficacy of his fulfilment
of the duties of a landlord. There is certainly no
social virtue that affects more immediately, and
with whose traits more interests are concerned
than that of being a good landlord. In the strictest
sense of the word, and the fullest acceptation of the
term, it comprises, indeed, a wide range, and gives

free scope to description of character, and know-
ledge of disposition. There must be something ra-
dically wrong in the nature of the man who is dead
to all the claims of social life, and cares nothing or

.ittle for the concerns of those beneath him in ata-

tion. One of the chief causes of the strength and
stability of our country, and its happy escape from

the charges that periodically revolutionise the na-
tions of the Continent, is the general goodwill that
exists between the different classes of the commu-
nity, The barriers may never be so completely re-
moved as frequently occur in other lands, but the
foundations of the social edifice are more deep, more
solid, and more permanent. Lord CURZON, on be-
half of his father, who was absent, made an appro
priate speech, and said that Lord HOWE had long
seen the disadvantage of the old style of celebrating
harvest homes, and all must condemn a system
which generally terminated in riot and bebauchery
at night, and the next morning frequently termi-
nated in a bad headache. He congratulated them
on the quiet tone of their meeting, and the happy
hours that they had spent in cheerful amusement.
It is always a source of satisfaction when distin-
guished individuals, and those in high position,
come forward to assist by their presence, and coun-
tenance by their support, any undertaking of a
centralising kind, and any meeting that aims at the
difficult task of uniting separate interests and dif-
ferent ranks. Great credit is due to those who in-
augurated the meeting last Wednesday, and the
proceedings will doubtless long live in the v.:collec-
tion of those who were fortunate enough to parti-
cipate in the affair. It seemed to realise some of
the special requirements of such an occasion, and
altogether to form a precedent that other places
might with advantage regard as a prototype in their
rejoiLings on this splendid harvest.

ETON COLLEGE.—The long vacation will termi-
nate to-morrow, when the lower boys return to the college.
On Thursday, the 24th inst., the fifth form boys return ;
and on the h.llowing day (Friday), tho 25th inst., the boys
of the sixth form will return from their holidays, when the
whole school, numbering upwards of 800 scholars, will have
again assembled after a vocaticn of about eight Weeks'
duration,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

POLAND.

KONIGSBERG, SEPT. 11 (Evening).

The (Currier de Wilna, of the 17th, announces
that Andri Woytulowicz, of the St. Petersburg
Lancers, has been condemned to death for having
passed through the ranks of the insurgents. He
was shot at Ponewej.

THE MEXICAN THRONE,

FRANKFORT, SEPT. 21.

The Europe of to day Bays :—" The Archduke
Maximilian has finally accepted the Crown of
Mexico, at all risks and peril, and even renounces
his rights and prerogatives as the nearest, collateral
Prince to the Austrian Crown."

A letter from Vienna says :—" The vote relative
to the Crown of Mexico in favour of his Imperial
Highness the Archduke Maximilian will give rise
to family arrangements at Vienna of great import-
ance. The constitution of the empire of Austria
enacts that the eldest brother of the reigning Sove-
reign shall remain at the disposal of the country to
assume the regency in the eventuality of the Em-
peror's death. The son of the present Emperor was
born on August 21, 1858, and will, consequently,
not attain his majority till 1876. Until then his
uncle, the Archduke Maximilian, having to be pre-
pared to act as Regent, cannot accept any situation
abroad without some arrangement being made.
Should, therefore, the Archduke Maximilian accept
the crown of Mexico, he can only do so with his
brother'a consent, that his claims to the regency
shall be transferred to the Emperor's second bro-
ther, the Archduke Charles, who was born in 1863.,,

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 22.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Delta has arrived here with the heavy portion of
the above mail, 33 passengers, £1,147 in specie, and
1,380 packages of cargo, including raw silk, value
£lOO,OOO sterling. She left Gibraltar on the 17th
inst., and in the Bay of Biscay experienced strong
north-westerly winds, heavy squalls, and a high sea.

The Federal man-of-war Constellation was at
Gibraltar.

The brigantine Norah of Sunderland was totally
wrecked off Port Casablanca on the 27th ult. The
master and crew were saved.

The Italian corvettes Eurydice and Valoroso, with
cadets from the naval school, left Gibraltar on the
17th inst. for Algiers and Tunis. These vessels
have been on a cruise to the Canary Islands, and
are now returning to Genoa.

The screw line of battle ship Re-Galantuomo,
with the crew for the armour clad frigate Re d'ltalia,
constructed in America, left Gibraltar on the 17cli
for New York via Madeira.
Exchange on London unaltered.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SETT. 22.

The Moniteur of this morning reproduces the
letter from 'Warsaw, dated the 15th of August,
addressed by the Polish National Government to
Prince Czartorisky, and already published by the
English journals.
liounsz, Sept. 21.—The market at the opening
showed a slight improvement, but has since re-
ceded—Threes, for the Account,
being now at 68f.
,et, but in general firm.

35c. Railway Shares qu
The market closed as foil
t per Cents .. 96 25
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 35
Credit Mobilier 1205
Do. end mont h 1206 25
Bank Shares 3100
Credit koneier l4OO

Italian L0an......
74 05
Do. end month.. • •
New ditto ........ 73 la
Do. end month....
Russian ........ 93
Austrian ......
Spanish
Debt
hTh
.ee. .... ..
. .
H-5°

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans lO4O 1037 50
Northern lOOO --
New. ditto .. • • • •
Lyons and Mediterranean 1037 50 .. 1037 50
Geneva 497 50 ..
Southern 740 742 50
......
Western ' 540 5:17 50
Eastern ....... .. 510 .. 510
Sardinian
Austrian
Lon. hard ........ 413270.-3) •,r.'os 454372221 255500
......
North of Spain ........ 565 —•562 50
Saragossa .. 665 662 50
Ditto to Barcelona .• • • 365 • •

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p R Tjj S 1 A .
A letter from Berlin.
the Augsbarg Gazette, dated the 17th inst., in
says :—" The ministry
are
very busy with the draught of the reply of the
king to the collective letter of the Frankfort Con-
gress.
hasre sasl r e aPd rya ssannouncedi a wii
n this i persist
s which
she
Will be
declared that Prussia is willing to enter into a dis-
cussion upon German reform in ministerial
conferences, but on the condition that an
absolute veto shall be reserved to Prussia
in the questions of war and foreign policy. The
documents relative to this debate shall be submitted
to the Prussian Chamber, and it is not doubtful that
the latter will pronounce itself in favour of a
National Assembly, charged to concert the work of
Federal reform with the Government. This path
also appears to the Government to be the one most
likely to obtain the assent of the individual Parlia-
ments to the proposed reforms. The Passing of an
electoral law for the National Assembly would offer
to those Parliaments an opportunity for expressinc,
their consent to the arrangement concluded." 1°
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The Channel Fleet at LiverpooL

was not generally known that the
Eastern, the Cunard Royal Mail
About 6,000 people visited the Channel fleet on Sunday,
ern! other leviathans were moored
inspection. In addition to the
vnotwithstandinge thatopeui tf 0 r
sCtehaamnnsbelipflpeeetr,sitah,eauGdresaevt
in the Sloyne, and the Mersey generally presented a scene
and although which has never perhaps been equalled. The ferry boats
were the water almost
touched crowded t
be to
gunwale
es coefsasto
me
of
the craft, no accident took
place. Admiral Dacres and a number of the t fficers yester•
day visited the Mercantile Marine Training Ship Conway,
and
who expressed Most complimentary terms
are receiving their education in it.
wi,t ipo
regard
themselves
Jack"t
ohthaos
n school.ot i n
beena the
f and
the smartness of the lads
or g
otten. To-day the non-
commissioned officers and
will walk in procession
men
through the town, and will be regaled with roast beef, glum
pudding, beer, grog, and tobacco in St. George's Hall.
We understand that the fleetwill remain in the Mersey
Yesterday until Thursday
only were open to the the minor vessels of the fleet
Public, but notwithstanding the
drenching rain, immense crowds of people thronged the
stages and the steamers
employed to carry visitors to the
fleet.
the Mersey Yacht Club to Admiral Dacres
and
A grand banquet was given last night by the Commodore
The entertainment was one of
the most magnificent which ever took place in Liverpool,
the tickets being sold at £3 3s. each.
and
members
nl
officersneran f
of the fleet.
The guests numbered altogether 480, and of these 144
were the commanders and officers of the Channel fleet. Mr.
S, E. Graves, chairman of the Mersey Yacht Club, pre-
sided, and was surrounded by Lord Stanley, M.P., Gen. Sir
Geo. Wetherell, Col. Sir J. Jones, Admiral Dacres, Capt.
Inglefield, R.N., Vice-Admiral Grenfell, Rear-Admiral
Evans, the Mayor of Liverpool, C. Turner, Esq., M.P., J.
Laird, Ebq., M.P., and other gentlemen either connected
with the army and
navy or of considerable local position.

EARL ST. VINCENT'S MEMORIAL OF HIS LATE
TUIIMPIL.—IIis lordship's son—born only last week, the
week of Lord Cliidea's brilliant success—is to be named
St. Leget.

OLD ABE'S LAST JOKE.—A GHASTLY ONE.--
Our readers will be pleased to learn that General Gilmore
has no less than 30 Parrot guns mounted that will throw
shells plump into Charleston. The use of Greek fire shells
to bombard that rebel stronghold was personally ordered by
President Lincoln. The Greek fire burns for 20 minutes.
It will burn on the water as well as on land, and each shell
covers a surface of 100 square feet with flame. The shell
bursts into about 120 pieces, or ten times as many as the
ordinary shell. Of course the effect of these shells will be
to set Charleston in flames, which nothing can subdue.—
Boston Journal.
QUEER TlTLE.—.Amongst the swarm of pamphlets
directed against M. Penan's "Vie de Jesus"-is one by M.
Dzlaportc, Professor of Dogmatic heolo g y to the Faculty
of Bordeaux, with the odd title, "Le Diable—exists-t-11, et
que fait•il

DRUR,YZANE.

A new two•act serio-comic drama, entitled "The
Deal Boatman," was produced here last evening in
the most successful manner. The author, Mr. F. C.
Burnand, has evidently founded his piece upon the
episode in the incomparable story of David Copper-
field, which treats of the fortunes of Old Pegotty,
the boatman, and his adopted child, Mary. In the
drama the old Deal boatman is named Jacob Vance
(Mr. Belmore), who has saved and adopted Mary
(Miss Rose Leclerq), and at the opening of the piece
she is about to be married to Mat Bramber (Mr. G.
Weston). The marriage feast is prepared and the
festival so far carried on that a brisk dance is given,
when it is found that Mary has gone off with a Mr.
Leslie (Mr. F. Charles), who has been boating with
the old man. The misery and distress caused by
this unexpected elopement is most vehemently ex-
pressed by the old boatman, who from a hearty
joyous old fellow becomes almost a lunatic.
The second act is occupied by the efforts of Leslie
to break his humble marriage to his ambitious and
purse-proud uncle (Mr. Barrett). Jacob Vance is
here shown seeking his adopted daughter, enfeebled
by his sorrows, and enraged by the scornful pro•
posal of the rich man to settle the matter by money.
After a scene of passion and a little prolonging the
distress, all things are made pleasant, Mary being
married to Leslie, and its being discovered that she
•is the daughter of the rich old uncle whose wife
was lost at sea.

The acting of Mr. G. Belmore, as the old boatman,
was of first-rate excellence ; his powerful represen-
tation of despair, anger, and (on the recovery of his
lost child) joy, produced tremendous applause. The
other parts were all well sustained, and the author
received the usual compliment at the fall of the
curtain. Mr. Falconer's new comedy, " Nature's
above Art," as we anticipated, has greatly improved
by curtailment, and in its present shape it nightly
produces universal satisfaction and applause. The
house, we are pleased to announce, was very fully
attended.