The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-06 00:00:00

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THE CROSS OF HONOUR. By the Author
of " Small House in Piccadilly." [On Oct. 10.
London : John Maxwell and Co . 122. Fleet-street.

T " 0 XFO R D,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.

THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE, CLA.RA, the
MAID of MILAN, and Bellini's SONNAMBULA.

Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean, dtc.

Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any other man "), Mnn°,
W. Randall, George Hodson, and those marvellous French
Clowns, Messrs. ARTHUR and BERTRAND.
Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his
wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCIIESTRE, contain-
ing a full baud of 40 instruments.
The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is. ;
private boxes, 102. 6d.

CIANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order
\..) to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds,
Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro-
fessor Pepper and Henryllircks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral
Illusion, "THE GHOST," to the Concert Hall, where a
new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample
view of the Illusion from Stalls, Balcony, and body of the
Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give
(with all that gentleman's latest improvements and effects),
REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at half-past
Nine o'clock.

AU the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual,
including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by tinsworth
(the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, and the
marvellous Arthur and Bertrand.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street. Piccadilly.
These elegant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter
Season. They have been entirely redecorated.
Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of monster concerts cele-
brity. The band es selected from the Crrtal Palace, the
Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty.

Doors open at 8 o'clock.
Admission, Is.

Manager—M. GRENET.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
GHOST ! new version—The FAIRY FOUNTAIN—
Grand Divertissement—Favourite Opera Selections—NlCO-
SlA, the eminent Violinist—RAPHAEL DE SOLLA. the
Infant Tenor—LANGLOIS, the Great Juggler, Every
Evening.
Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1863.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, Sept. 29.—Her Majesty's iron paddle-
wheel sloop Trident, 3, Commander C. J. Balfour,
left Malta harbour on the 23d inst. for Athens, with
a mail for the Commander-in-Chief. She took with
her as passengers Commander Comber, R.N., to
command the Pelican, and Lieut. Harris, R.N., and
Lieut. Ching, R.N., to join their respective ships.
Her Majesty's screw gunboat Foxhound, 4, Cam-
mender W. H. Anderson, left port the same day, to
show the British flag at Syracuse, and returned on
the 26th inst. She will leave again on the 30th for
Athens, with the mail due from Marseilles on that
day. Her Majesty's screw frigate Phcebe, 35, Capt.
T. D. A, Fortescue, returned from Corfu on the 26th
inst, in consequence of a breakdown in her machi-
nery. It will probably not be necessary for her to go
to England for repairs, which can be made good
here, and she is awaiting instructions on the subject
from England. Sir V. Houlton and Lady Houlton
returned to Malta by this vessel. Her Majesty's
screw line-of-battle ship Revenge, 73, bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral H. K Yelverton, C. 8., Capt.
the Hon. F. A. Foley, arrived this morning from
Corfu and Patras, in consequence of the receipt of a
telegraphic despatch ordering her immediate return
to this port. It is rumoured that she is to proceed
to Toulon, to escort the new King of Greece to
Athens, where, after his Majesty's coronation, it is
expected she will relieve the Commander-in-Chief,
and remain for the winter. She is at present await-
ing telegraphic instructions from. England. Her
Majesty's screw line-of-battle ship Meeanee,6o,Capt.
G. Wodehouse, is still here, and is to go up to Athens
with the mail expected on the 7th or Bth pros. There
are also in port her Majesty's ships Psyche, de-
spatch vessel, and the Medina, surveying ship.
Colonel Crawley is expected tonight from India,
on his way to England via Marseilles, to undergo
his trial by court-martial, and by the steamer
Ceylon for Southampton, 63 non-commissioned offi-
cers and privates are proceeding home to give evi-
-1 deuce in the case.

A letter from Corfu, dated Sept. 21, says—The
health of the troops has somewhat declined lately,
as the temperature is excessively hot for the season.
Rear-Admiral Yelverton in the Revenge steamed
into harbour on the 13th instant from Greece, the
Hon. Sir Victor Houlton and Lady Houlton being
passengers. A shock of earthquake was felt here
to-day at half-past 1 p.m., but it caused no damage
that I have heard of. The frigate Pheebe came in
on the 18th and a gunboat on the 19th inst. The
former 1 hear will leave for Malta and England on
the 23d of this month.

The screw steam corvette Scylla, 21, from Ports-
mouth for China, arrived at Plymouth yesterday

Execution of Deserters from the Federal

The orders issued by the Federal authorities for
execution of all soldiers deserting their colours, are
being unsparingly carried out. The correspondent
of the New York Herald, with Meade's army, writ-
ing on Sept. 19, thus describes the shooting of two
deserters !—" Yesterday the solemn and impressive
scene of shooting two men for desertion took place
in the third division commanded by Gen. Hayes.
The unfortunate victims of this tragic event were
two substitutes who were sent out from Boston a
few weeks ago to the 14th Connecticut Volunteers.
Their names were Edward Elliot, Company B, and
Charles Eastman, Company I, both privates. As
the second corps had been on the march for several
days,the prisoners were brought in charge of the pro-
vost-marshal, and were removed from corps head-
quarters to General Hayes's on the morning of the
execution. As the sentence was to be carried out
before four o'clock p.m., and it was now within half
an hour of the time, the door was thrown open, and
the two prisoners, leaning on the chaplains' arms,
walked to the ambulance that was to carry them to
execution. From our elevated position we could
plainly see the troops forming in line around the
graves. The procession now formed. In front was
the band of the 14th Connecticut, playing the dead
march. After these the shooting party of sixteen
selected from the provost-guard of the division, and
belonging to the 10th New York battalion. After
these followed the coffin-bearears—eight conscripts
of the Ist Delaware. Next, the ambulance bear-
'
ring the prisoners, the chaplains, and myself,
followed by a guard. The procession moved along
slowly and solemnly, the prisoners all the time
either reading the Testament or conversing with
the chaplains. As the third brigade was out on
picket duty, only the first and second were present.
They were drawn up in the following order ;
The second brigade formed two lines of the
square, whilst the first brigade formed the other
line. As the procession reached the square the rri-
sonere alighted from the ambulance, and the band
fell to the rear. Here the bearers took up the
coffins on their shoulders, in front of thn prisoners.
The prisoners cast a timid, troublous look at the
coffins, and then moved on, leaning on the chaplains.
The coffins were placed beside the two graves, which
were dug about five feet deep. The Rev. Mr.
Murphy addressed the prisoners and the troops
present in feeling language, exhorting all to join
in prayer to God to have mercy on the two souls
so soon to appear in His presence. He strongly
exhorted others to take warning by the tragic fate
of the prisoners, and not desert their country's
service. Captain Fields now came up and bandaged
the prisoners' eyes. Elliot sat back on his soffin—
Eastman knelt in prayer. His voice was audible
above the click and sound of the guns as they were
brought to " present." The word " fire" having
been given, Elliot fellbacir gently on his coffin, only
wounded, while Eastman jumped up and tore the
bandage from his eyes, evidently untouched. The
reserve was ordered up. Eastman appeared as if
electrified, and placed his hands before his eyes to
shut out the horrid sight. The men again missed.
The provost-marshal, during this, in mercy, pulled
out his revolver and shot him through the head; he
also fired another ball through Elliot's head.
After the two unfortunate men were pronounced
lifeless, the troops were marched by the corpses.

The Sunday Haymaking Case.

morning.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great
Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR
lv ICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every
Evening.

SHORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA-
PHIC TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d.

SHORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA-
PHIC MANUAL. Free by post, is. 6d.

SH OR THAN D.--"PITMAN'S PHONO-
GRAPHY forms an exceedingly efficient—probably
the MOST efficient—system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir
Rowland Hill.
London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C.

HARPER TWELVETREES' GLYCERINE
SOAP POWDER makes its own Soap, and saves
one-half of time, two thirds of Soap, and tnree-fourths of
labour ! Patentee : Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley .by-Bow,
London. Sold by Grocers, Druggists, and Oilmen.

TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti-
mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They
especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced.
to 3s. 2d. ; Souohong, reduced to 3s. 6d. ; mixed Assam, re-
duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d.
to 3s. I.ld. per lb.
MOORE BROTHERS. 35, London-bridge, City, E.C.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort-
ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &c., in Italian,
Alabaster, Parian, Marble. Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c.
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine-
ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., Lonaon.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS,
MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly
facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON-
CHOLOGY. and GEOLOGY, at 2, 5,10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas
each.

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PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand, W.C.

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
17117HITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT
EXHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective
Invention in the curative treatment of HEItN I A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects,
Is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
bloc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
sent to the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and Ms. Bd. Postage, is.
A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. Bd. Postage, is. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Poet.
office, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
ELASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of
Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are
tporous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
!We an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7e. 6d., 10s., to 16s.
each. Postage 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 22e. Piccadilly.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co., Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co., bankers, London. _ _ .

By direction of the AdMiralty the apparatus in-
vented by Captain H. F. M'Sillop for cleansing
the bottom of iron ships from seaweed and other
marine incrustations is to be tried at Chatham
dockyard. Their lordships have directed the first
trial to be made on the bottom of the iron paddle-
wheel steamer Recruit, which is to be plead at the
disposal of Captain M'Killop. The chief merit of
the invention lies in their being no necessity for
placing iron ships in dock every time their bottoms
require cleansing. If the trials ordered to be made
should prove satisfactory the invention will prove
of the greatest possible benefit, as the only draw-
back to the use of iron ships for lengthened voyages
undoubtedly is to be found in the necessity which
periodically exists for placing them in dock to un-
dergo the cleansing process. An examination was
yesterday made of the bottom of the iron steamer
Recruit bysome of th© staff connected with the mas-
ter shipwright's department, when it was found to
be very foul, many of the weeds which thickly cover
her bottom being from one to three feet in length,
while the other marine incrustations were likewise

The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

found to be very thick, The bottom of the Recruit
had been paved over with one of the anti-fouling
compositions, none of which have proved better
than the Admiralty mixture of coal-tar and naphtha.
After the Recruit has been treated according to
Captain Maillop's method she will be placed in
dock in order to ascertain the extent to which her
bottom has been cleansed.

Yesterday the paddlewheel steamer Lucifer ar-
rived alongside the dockyard at Chatham from
Portsmouth with a cargo of timber, machinery, and
other stores for that establishment.

The Lords of the Admiralty have awarded a
silver medal and an annuity of £lO to Sergeant C.
Jeffery, of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, '
for distinguished service and exemplary conduct.
The following appointments and promotions were
made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander M.
B. Cockraft to be an Inspecting Commander of the
Coastguard, vice Commander Symons, appointed to
the Indus; Lieut. C. G. Fegen, additional of the
Pembroke, for service in the Coastguard; Lieut. G.
Parsons, additional of the Pembroke, for service in
tender; Lieut. C. R. T. Russell and Lieut. George
W. Allen to the Excellent, additional for study;
E. C. D. Phillips, master, to the Asia for the Wasp ;
R. C. P. Lawrenson, assist-surg., to the Cumber-
land, for naval barracks; C. C. P. Bawden, mas-
ter's assistant, supernumerary, to the Fisgard ; J.
Anderson, of the Indus; Hugh Aitken, of the Ed-
gar ; George Boyd, of the Asia; E. C. Legh, of the
Dauntless; J. Ring (b), of the Havock ; J.
Watson (b), and R. Blackwood, supernumeraries of
the Indus, and C. E. Uffindell, supernumerary of

he Fisgard, promoted to first-class assist. engineers;

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PATRONESS LIFE-BOAT
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APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state
that, since
the beginning of the year 1861, the Roya' Nationallnstitution has expended £28,550 on various Lifeboat
Lifebooat
lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and tt ref stab-
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of
Society, and other means, since its formation, is 13,220
tor which services 82 Gold Medals, 733 Silver Medals, and
£17,200 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £75,380 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-carriages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 125 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whin. can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con
tributions

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Her Majesty the Queen
.. annual 50 0 0
Campbell, the Iron. Mrs. G. .. .. annual 5 0 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. annual 1 1 0
(butts and Co. Messrs., Bankers .„ .. annual 10 0 0
Currie, Wm. 1;:sq. 4th don. 10 0 0
Erie, Lord Cilia Sustice .. don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., H.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-
sporting* Carriage- 250 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 30 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. 7th don. 10 0 0
Palmer, Sir Roundel], M.P., ll.M.'s Solici-
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Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. annual 5 0 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Cc., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Herries, Farouhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London ; by al. the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary,
Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Instlt4ieri. /4,
John-ztrect, lomclon,

J. M‘Master, of the Vulcan ; T. Russell, of the
Tartar; G. O'Brien, of the Rapid; D. Grant, of
the St. George ; James Jack, of the Aboukir ; T. N.
Crowder, of the Jason ; and D. Ferguson, of the
Nile, promoted to acting first-class assist engineers.

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removed to Johnson's Island, from which place he
sent a letter to one of his friends in this city to go to
his late boarding house, settle his bill and get his
trunk, which was to be forwarded to him on the
island above named. This news being imparted to
the military circle generally the terrible truth
flashed across their minds for the first time that
they had been entertaining and giving important
information to a spy from the Confederate army.
Measures were immediately taken to fasten upon
the sharper Belville the charge of being a spy, and
District Provost Marshal Reaney went to Johnson's
Island for that purpose. Mr. Reaney has returned
from Johnson's Island, bringing with him the spy
Belville, who is at present lodged in the M'Lean
Barracks, on Third-street, to await the further
action of the authorities. His real name has not
yet been developed, the probabilities being that
Belville is fictitious. The marshal has further
learned that about two and a half years ago Bel-
ville entered the rebel service under John Morgan,
a portion of whose command, of which Belville was
a member, was detached and ordered to report to
Humphrey Marshall. General Marshall made Bel-
vine's acquaintance, and learning that he could speak
five different languages, and being exceedingly
shrewd withal, had charged him to come North in the
capacity of a spy. Belville went to Washington,
New York, Boston, Baltimore, St. Louis, and all the
leadng cities and posts, and adroitly succeeded in
gaining the confidence of all the military authori-
ties, from President Lincoln down. The information
be gained at the capitol from the War Department
and the cabinet officers was of great importance, and
was continually forwarded South by the under-
ground railway. When he had occasion to visit the
armies he would purchase stores for the Union
troops, and, as a sutler 'or agent for the Sanitary
Commission, always had free passes to every part
of the Union camp. Stich was his knowledge of
all our movements that no sooner were they deter-
mined upon by our commanders than the enemy was
posted at once, and our plans checkmated or frus-
trated. It is truly marvellous how successfully he
carried on his operations. He is now kept in close
military confinement, and will be brought before a
military court-martial to be convened by General
Burnside, and tried as a spy, and, if convicted, of
which there is no possible doubt, he will suffer death
by being shot.— Czncinnati Enquirer.

A public meeting, convened by the National
Sunday League, was held last evening in Cam-
bridge-hall, Newman-street, Oxford-street, Mr.
shaen in the chair, "to protest against the inflic-
tion of punishment by fine, distraint, or the stocks,
in cases of necessary Sunday labour, and to appeal
to parliament to amend the law relating thereto."
There was a very large attendance. Mr. Morrell,
the hon. secretary of the League, read letters from
Sir J. Walmesley, Sir J. G. Wilkinson, and others,
apologising for their inability to attend, but entirely
concurring in the objects of the meeting. The
Chairman, opening the business of the meeting,
a,prerslsteThis opinion that if the Leigh magistrates
had thought for one moment that their judgment
would have called down upon them the obloquy it
had done, they would have hesitated before putting
into force the provisions of an old and obsolete law
against the farmers of the neighbourhood for per-
forming an act of necessary labour. (Cheers.)
Having
reviewed the whole circumstances con-
nectedf i
with the haymaking case, he concluded by
contending
that the decision of the magistrates was
unjust, uncalled for, and tyrannica'. (Cheers.) Mr.
lte eding
J. B. Langley moved the first resolution as follows :
.....a That this meeting strongly condemns the con-
ductthe justices in the Leigh hay-harvesting
case of
, as
an arbitrary and vexatious infliction of
punishment for necessary Sunday labour, and thanks
the gentlemen forming the defence committee for
theiri i
eenergetic action, by which and the support of the
h
press, the Leigh farmers have been held to
have been justified in saving their crops from the
pe
effects of ruin." Mr. John Kenney seconded the
resolution, which was carried with one dissentient.
Dr. perfit moved the second resolution :—" That
the Sabbotarian element of the country, in defiance
of public opinion, having resorted to the revival of
Acts parliament deemed obsolete, warrants the
adoption of
of
a new sphere of action on the part of
the
National Sunday League in affording protec-
tion in cases of necessary Sunday labour." He en-
forced the resolution in a very eloquent speech,
which was
received with applause by the meeting.
Mr. 0. Clements seconded the resolution, which was
supported by Mr. S. Ay toun, and carried unani-
mously.
The following mously. resolutions were also
adopted :--" That a petition to Parliament be sent
from this
meeting, calling the attention of the
legislature to the necessity of devising means for
the decisions of county justices on Sun-
dPrveaeyonbtsienrgvance being made a public nuisance and
dal." "That this meeting, desirous that the
Sunday, a s far as
possible, should, in addition to
purely religious duties, be made available for the
healthy recreation and moral elevation of the people,
s
would urge upon Parliament, by petitions, the de-
sirability of opening the national institutions on
Sunday afternoons, being convinced that much
labour now done at home on that day would thereby
be
vote
ba
udoned." The proceedings concluded with a
v
of thanks to the Committee of the League for
the Leigh hay-making case before the
ae
bringing
to the chairman for presiding on the
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op cucbal si ico, n. and

CANINEMADNESS CIIRABLE.—The generally re•
ceivedopinion that this disorder is constantly fate
seems about to be seriously questioned. The Abeille Mddi
cage publishes a letter from M. E. Decroix, a veterinary
in which he arrives at the following conclusions
surgeon,
That a subject labouring under canine madness may
e
die without any fit of frenzy. 2. That a subject in whom
the disorder is characterised by such fits, their frequency is
in the direct ratio of exterior provocation. 3. That a dog
anger, communicate the disease by
a bite,ay in
an a
d violent
yet fit
continue of
to enjoy perfect health; and 4.
may,
That there are examples which show that communicated
rabies is capable of cure, either spontaneously or by means
of a proper treatment. The, first two points were the sub-
ject of an article we gave a few weeks ago ; the third is
rendered probable by an observation published some time
ago by M. rut6gnat ; as to the fourth, the cases quoted by
our author are certainly conclusive. In the first, a dog inocu-
lated with the saliva of a man attacked with the disease, a
fortnight after displays all the symptoms of quiet madness,
which gradually diminishes in intensity, and at length
disappear entirely in the course of 13 days without any
remedy being applied. The second case was much the same.
In the third cast), a man and his wife were bitten by an un-
known dog. A month later the man died of confirmed
rabies at the hospital. Two days after his death his wife
was taken ill and received into the hospital, where the phy-
sician pronounced her disorder to be rabies, nevertheless she
got better and eventually recovered. The doctor then said
he had been misled by the symptoms, and that the disorder
was not rabies. The question at once presents itself—m hat
was it then? Either rabies has definite symptoms which
may be easily recognised, or there must be a disorder as yet
unknown, which has the same symptoms and yet is not
rabies. Is it not more logical to confess at once that rabies
is not always incurable ? The fourth case is one reported in
1777 by the surgeon Beudon. A sow and a little dog were
both bitten by a mad dog, which afterwards ran away, but
returned two days after in a pitiable state. 13eudon had it
put into a cage, and for several days it dii•played all the
symptoms of rabies. Beudon then caused vinegar to boil
in the cage, so ae to expose the animal to the fumes. By
degrees the patient got better; and at length recovered. Six
days after the infliction of the bite the sow became raging
mad, a state which lasted seven hours. Beudon took ad-
vantage of a momentary respite to cause boiling vinegar
to be let down into the sty. When this vinegar got
cool the sow drank some and got better; vinegar was
then mixed with its food, and in the course of a few
days the animal was medically cured. The little dog had
no symptoms at all. It may now be asked whether these
cures were spontaneous or owing to the vinegar. At all
events, these cases show that there is a possibility of reco-
very; and M. Decroix thinks that among all the nostrums
proposed as specifics for this terrible affection, there may
happen to be one of real value, but rejected on account of
this preconceived opinion of the incurability of the disease.

PR1CR......, ..4d.
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GERMANY AND DENMARK.

We take the following from the official report of
the sitting of the Ist of October of the German Diet
at Frankfort
" The President laid before the Assembly a note from the
British Envoy, Sir Alex. Motet, dated the Ist of October,
in which the latter communicates to the Diet a despatch
from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affaits of Great
Britain, Earl Russell, dated the 13th of September, con-
cerning the constitutional question of Holstein-Lauenburg.
The Diet directed that this document should be referred to
the joint committees charged with the examination of the

question.
" After some local business, a vote was come to upon the
report presented to the sitting of the 19th of Sept., relative
to the constitutional question of Holstein-Lauenburg by the
joint committees, as also upon the propositions advanced in
that report. These latter are approved by the majority of
the Assembly. The envoy charged to represent the Minis-
ter of Denmark and Holstein-Lauenburg protests against
this approval in the name of the rights of the Royal Ducal
Government, referring to the declarations made previously
by Denmark, and abstains from voting upon the approval
of the joint committees.
" The resolution which the Diet takes on the subject of
this question runs thus :
"1. The Government of Denmark and of Holstein-
Lauenburg has not fulfilled the federal obligations relative
to the constitution of the Duchies of Holstein-Lauenburg,
and, especially, by its declaration of the 27th of August of
this year it has not acted up to the federal resolution of the
9th of July last; federal execution must, therefore, be
resorted to to enforce (if they have not already been com-
plied with) the application in the said Duchies of the federal
resolutions of the 11th of February and 12th of August,
1858, of the Bth of March, 1860, of the 7th of February,
1861, and of the 9th of July, 1863.
"2. The Austrian, Prussian, Saxon, and Hanoverian
Governments are charged to carry out the execution, and
the Governments of Saxony and of Hanover will be invited
each to name a civil commissary, who, it needs be, and
after having received the instructions of the Diet on the
mode of execution, will have to administer, according to
those instructions by order of the German Confederation,
the duchies of Holstein-Lauenburg in the stead and in the
name of the King-Duke, without prejudice to the rights of
the latter, which are only provisionally suspended.
"Moreover, the said Governments shall be called upon
to place at the disposal of the civil commissaries a detach-
ment of 6,000 men, the composition of which they will de-
cide upon between themselves, and at the same time the
Governments of Austria and of Prussia will be invited to
hold ready, in case of resistance to the federal executive, in
concert with the kingdoms of Saxony and Hanover, a suffi-
cient body of troops to support victoriously the detachment
in question.
"3. Communication of this resolution shall be made to
the Royal Ducal Government in virtue of Article IV. of
the regulation for execution, through its envoy ; at the same
time, that Government will be reminded in an official state-
ment of the propositions of the committees of the 18th Juno
of this year, of the Federal resolution of the 9th July of
the same year, and of the report serving as a basis to the
motions actually made by the joint committees, and Den-
mark will be summoned to comply with the demands for-
mulated, and to make known her intention within a delay of
three weeks. _

YY;
" 4. This resolution shall be brought to the cognisance of
the Governments of Austria, Prussia, Saxony, and Hanover
by their envoys, and those Governments will be called upon
to make all the necessary preparations, that the measures
decreed may be immediately put into execution.
On this question the Journal desDebats publishes
the following, dated Frankfort, Oct, 1 ;
" A note has been addressed by the English Government
to Baron de Kubeck, President of the Assembly for Austria,
in which Earl Russell calls upon the Diet to open fresh ne-
gotiations with Denmark through the intermedium of Aus-
tria and Prussia before carrying out its threatened invasion,

in the hope of thereby attaining a pacific settlement. The
English note has been referred to the two united committees,
who will make a report to the Assembly in an early sitting.
This new diplomatic incident will necessarily lead to a de-
lay in the execution of the military measures which the
Confederation proposed to take against Denmark. The con-
tents of the English note dwell, we are assured, upon the
proposals which the chief of the Foreign-office addressed
simultaneously on Sept. 20, 1562, to the Diet and to Den-
mark ; they pointed out the basis upon which a friendly
entente might be established between the two pasties inte-
rested. Germany, it will be remembered, showed itself in-
clined to accept those proposals, but they were not well re-
ceived at Copenhagen."

The Moors and Forests in Scotland.

(From the Inveniess Courier.)

The moors and hills are so difficult of access, on account
of snow, that very little sport has been obtained during the
past week. Deer-stalkers especially are compelled to
remain idle, and most of them have left for the South.
Lord Selkirk took his departure from Gildermory, on the
Novar estate, this morning, his lordship having this year
concluded one of the oldest shooting leases in the North of
Scotland. The following are the notes which we havo been
able to collect :

Lord Dacre and party have killed 37 stags at Ceanacroc,
up to Monday last. On the 23d ult. his lordship killed a
very fine royal, with a head of 13 points. The brow
antlers measured 12 inches in length. Lord Middleton has
shot a number of fine fat stags in the Applecross Forest.
The weight of one of them has been tested, and found to be
20 stones 2lbs. clean, with a fine "long-tined and beau-
tifully-formed" royal head ; span 341 inches. Captain
Ayre also shot, in the Applecross Forest, 6 stags, from
10 to 12 points, by only firing seven shots, and only kill-
ing one stag at each shot. A few days ago, Lord H.
Bentinck shot two stags right and left in the forest of
Glenavon, and two on each of the two following
and days.
On Friday week he shot three stags at One talk
hese , an-
other stag on the afternoon of Saturday. Among t was
a royal, and another with 11 points. All were in good con-
dition, averaging about 15 stones. His lordship has now
left for the forest of Loch-Fero
and will finish
his deerstalking for the season by returning to Mar Forest
through Glenavon, thus hunting three extensive forests in
one season. Up to the present time, 19 stags have been
killed in Sir James Matheson's forest of Morsgail, in the
Lows, most of them in very fine condition. In spite of the
weather being unfavourable, Lord liinloch has succeeded
in bringing down three stags, one of them having a head of
14 points. Sir Gr orga Deuys has shot three stags, Mr. E.
A. Tanford one, Mr. Magnay two, one being a royal; Mr.,
Ryrie two, one with 14 points, and one a Royal. The sal-
mon fishing in the river Creed, near the Castle, and at the
Ghrimersta on the west side of the island, has been success-
ful, although the season was a late one, owing to the dry
weather during the summer preventing the fish running up
the river. Mr. E. A. Tanford has caught 98 salmon, having
several times brought home eight or nine fish in a day, and
on one occasion at the Ghrituersta, 13. Three gentlemen
from the Castle, in a day and a half, caught in the Ghri-
ntersta, 27 salmon, the two largest weighing respectively 15
and 16 pounds ; and two gentlemen, a short time before,
caught in little more than two days 32 salmon. In fact the
lochs and river at the last named places quite swarmed with
fish, affording sport unsurpassed in Scotland.

LOLD CLYDE'S BEQUEST TO GENERAL VINOY.--.
In a codicil to his will, dated May 23 last, the late
Lord Clyde thus expresses himself in reference to the above
distinguished French general, now commanding the Ist di-
vision of the army of Paris :—" I give and bequeath to
Lieut.-Gen. Vinoy, commanding a division in the French
army, and my old and beloved comrade in the Crimea, the
sum of £5OO, as a token of my especial esteem and regard."
During the Crimean campaign Gen. Venoy commanded a
body of French troops placed near those commanded by Sir
Colin Campbell at Balaklava. On several occasions difficult
and perilous duties were confided to their united forces.
The upshot was a warm and lasting friendship between the
two generals, whose example contributed much to the esta-
blishment of that thorough good understanding, kindly feel-
ing, and mutual admiration, which marked the intercourse
of the Zouaves and Highlanders throughout the Crimean
war. Uwe are not misinformed, a portrait of Gen. Viuoy,
painted expressly for Queen Victoria, now hangs in her
Majesty's writing-closet at 'Windsor Castle, as a companion
picture to that of his comrade in arms, Sir Colin Campbell.
At the assault and capture of the Malakoff General Vino;
greatly distinguished himself, and at this moment,theroto
no officer in the French army more likely than 1 moy
obtain a marshal's baton.
EXTENSIVE FIRE AT LIVERPOoL,
of
the
upper
day morning a fire broke out in r ester-
°,
017f0:0 a,
in II a r ri n
flogsg-
of Rainford-square Rice and Flo_n_essrs. Wright
and
ton-street, Liverpool, belonging
Cross, corn merchants and Willer
first that the fire would be aro to lu
It was anticipated at
illertf'dastrous one, owing to
•ose block of buildings. Which
the proximity of a very exteuer The well sustained and
were threatened by the flan'rlicu, however, prevented any
active erty, and the fire v
active exertions of the
cooN" sub-
very serious destruction of P P _
had been
sustained.
anted John Clu
dued, when an estimated loss of 1),
es, who was known
It is feared that a boy n
to be at work on the floor below when the fire originated,
and who has no, been seen since, has perished.
t
THE TEA TRADE, October, s.—The deliveries in
1 London estimated for the week were 1,019,16111)., which is
an increase of 19,2111 b, compared with the previous state-
ment.