The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-16 00:00:00

NO. 22,273.

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BE L DEMONIO. A LOVE STORY.
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JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE,
EVERY EVENING at 8.
Vocalist,lle. VOLPINL—VioIin, Signor SIVORI.
TIIE BRITISH ARMY QUADRILLE—SeIection from
FAUST—Grand Orchestra—Three Military Bands, and full
Chorus.

Conductor, ➢i. JULLIEN.

Promenade and Gallery, ls. ' • Boxes, 2s. 61 ; Private Boxes,
10s. 6d., Lis. Is., and £1 lls. 6d. Places may be secured at
the Box-office of the Theatre.

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H 0 X F OR D,
R, OXFORD STREET, W.

THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the
following Operas, viz., TRE SLAVE, and CLARA, the
MAID of MILAN, by Sir Hy. Bishop; also, from ERNANI
and LA SONN A MBULA; by the following talented artistes :
—Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, almsley, and Elli-
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Also, Solos on the Violin by VIOrTI COLLINS, the
celebrated English Violinist.
Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant.
And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL
PIANO, by Herr SCHALKENBACH, the Inventor.
Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Comedy, by UNSWORTII ("or any other man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, E. Marshall, G. Hutchenson, &c.
The HALL has been newly Decorated, and is one of the
most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at half-past 7 o'clock. Admission, area, 6d.; stalls
and balcony, is.; private boxes, 10s. 6d.

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and the "White" Slavery of a more boastful civilisation,
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including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Unsworth
(the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E.
Marshall, and George Hutchenson.

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Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7.

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Manager—M. GRENET.

MR. A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH,
COMIC VOCALIST.
SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED at the OFFICE of THIS
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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1863,

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The iron paddlewheel frigate Recruit, 6, 150 horse power,
will be floated out of No, 3 dock at Chatham during the
approaching spring tides, and placed at moorings in the
harbour, where she will remain for some time in order that
the merits of the several antifouling compositions with which
her bottom has been coated may bo thoroughly tested.
During the time the Recruit has been in dock her bottom
has been scraped and cleansed, and the whole of the former
compositions with which both sides were covered removed.
A portion of the starboard side, from the stem to the star-
board sponson, has been payed over with a new anti-fouling
composition submitted to the Admiralty by Mr. Wilson,
whose invention, it is alleged, has been tried on the bottom
of several of the iron West India steamers, with very satis-
factory results. The remainder of the starbard side is
coated with Crispin's composition, formerly placed on the
bottom of the same vessel. The whole of the port side is
covered with the composition of Mr. Hay, the Admiralty
chemist, who has received instructions from the Admiralty
to operate on the bottom of the iron frigate Achilles before
she leaves the dock in which she is approaching completion
at Chatham dockyard. An order had been received from
the Admiralty for one of tin sides of the Recruit to be
covered with Redman's anti-fouling mixture, but it was
afterwards rescinded.

The Wasp, 13-gnn screw corvette, 074 tons, and 100
nominal horse power of engines, ordered for commission at
Portsmouth by Capt. W. Bowden, K.L.11., made an official
trial :of her speed and machinery at the measured mile in
Stokes Bay cm Friday, under the superintendence of Capt.
H. Broadhead, commanding the steam reserve. The ship's
draught of water was 13ft Sin forward, and 14ft 2in aft,
with an immersion of the screw's upper edge of 7in. The
screw, which is of the common pattern, with the leading
corners cut, has a diameter of lift Sin and a pitch of 14ft
10in. The mean speed of the ship with full boiler power
was 8.176 knots, and with half-boiler power 5'765 knots,
the indicated horse power being 280.
The Hector, 32, iron frigate, is coaling alongside Ports-
mouth Dockyard, in readiness for her official trial.
A large piece of land fronting the Naval Asylum at Great
Yarmouth has been purchased by the Government for the
purpose of erecting an ornamental promenade for the in-
mates of the institution.
The following appointments were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty .—Richard 0. White, master, to the Colos-
sus for the Coastguard ; Dr. David Duncan, surgeon, to the
Greyhound ; Charles G. Smith, paymaster, to the Wasp;
Francis M. Wright, paymaster, to the Stromboli ; John
Ashton, assist.-paymaster, to the Hawke ; Henry Forrest,
assist.-paymaster, to the Russell; Charles H. J. Collings,
assist.-paymaster, to the Fisgard, and John C. Sabben,
clerk, to the Wasp.

THE FRENCH LEGISLATURE,

In the Corps Legislatif in its sitting of 'W ednes-
day a rather animated discussion took place respect-
ing some contested elections; but the chief interest
of the sitting consisted in the fact that M. Thiers
addressed the Assembly at some length :
" The Marquis d'Andelarre, although a Govern-
ment member, objected with great warmth that
M. Bertrand, the Mayor of Caen, was not duly
elected, because the ballot-box had not been sealed
as the law requires, and had not, moreover, as the
law also requires, been deposited during the night
in a room with sealed doors. He also complained that
M. Foucher de Careil, the Opposition candidate,
was refused the necessary authorization to print his
election address, and that the election-room was so
filled with partisans of the mayor that electors
could not put their own bulletins into the box,
but were forced to pass them from hand to hand
through a crowd of the Mayor's agents. To
these charges M. Bertrand, the Mayor of Caen, who
defended his own election in person, answered that
the ballot-box was the same that had always been
used for elections in Caen, and that, although not
sealed, it was secured by four locks of such enor-
mous strength that they might have been forged by
Vulcan. (Laughter.) As to the refusal to print the
Opposition candidate's address, it was made by the
printer, who mistakenly alleged that the prefect
would not allow it, and, moreover, M. Foucher de
Careil went to the printer's on a Sunday. A printed
paper which the prefect would not allow to be
hawked in the streets was an electioneering squib
written by an agent, and not entitled to the privi-
leges which the law accords to candidates only.
The fact of the bulletins being passed from hand to
hand to the ballot-box he stoutly denied.
"M. Glais Bizoin, one of the new Opposition
members, said that in this scrutiny the Chamber
ought to have two objects in view—first, the
validity of the election immediately in discus-
sion ; and, secondly, to take care that the
abuses which had occurred s hould be so exposed as
to serve as a lesson to the country and the Admi-
nistration with the view that they might not occur
again. He read a letter from the sub-prefect of
Falaise to all the shopkeepers of his arrondissement.
recommending them to vote for the Government
candidate, in terms which evidently conveyed a
threat. Being interrupted by ironical cheers from
the majority, M. Glais Bizoin said, This is no
laughing matter, gentlemen, it is humiliating.'
"M. Bertrand was then declared duly elected,
without a division.

" Viscount Lanjuinais (the Opposition member
for Nantes), complained that, although there had
been no protest against his election, the bureau to
which it was referred had kept him waiting for
three days, and refused to make a report upon the
pretext that a protest was expected.
" M. Rouher (Minister of State) wished to say
that the Minister of the Interior had only that day
received a protest against M. Lanjuinais's return
and that the protest must by this time have reached
the Chamber.

" A conversation ensued, in the course of which
M. Rouher admitted, and the Duke de Morny (who
was in the chair) strongly insisted, that the bureaux
ought to make their reports without delay, and not
hold them over to wait for protests to come. It
seemed to be generally agreed that there was a
cusus omissus in the law as to the time within which
a protest against an election ought to be made.
The report of the bureau in M. Lanjuinais's case not
being ready it necessarily stood over, but with an
understanding that no further evidence against the
return was to be received.

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" M. Jules Simon (Opposition member) asked for
the adjournment of the case of M. Noubel, against
whom there was a very serious protest by M. Baze,
which was to have been supported by M. Marie,
who was unfortunately absent from illness. M.
Baze had 35 documents which he brought forward
as proofs in favour of his protest, and they would
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" M. Pissard (reporter)--It is true there are 35
documents; the bureau has examined them all care-
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necessary to hear the testimony of either M. Baze
or M. Noubel—that there was nothing in them.
"M. Thiers—l wish to make a simple observa-
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" M, Creuzet—M. Baze did not ask to be heard
by the bureau ; he only said he was ready to be
heard if called upon. The bureau thought itself
sufficiently informed about the case without calling
for his evidence, that is all.
"M. Thiers—No other election Presents so grave
a fact as that which we have here—a suspension
of the course of justice. (Clamours.)
"M. Noubel—l am ready to answer. (The Pre-
sident having put the question of adjournment,
which was negatived.)
"M. Theirs resumed--I am not prepared to dis-
cuss the whole report on this election. I merely
point out one very serious fact, which is treated in
the report with an indulgence unworthy of the
dignity of this Chamber. (Cries of 'No, no.') The
case is this. M. Baze's placards were torn down
by order of the mayor in the commune of St. Front,
and that was a violation of the law. M. Baze there-
upon obtained an order from the President of the
Tribunal that the mayor should appear before him
to show cause why he should not be compelled to
post M. Baze's bills. But M. Baze could get no
huissier to serve the process upon the mayor, be-
cause the Procureur-Imperial had ordered all the
huissiers not to act for M. Baze until June 2, which
was the day after the Election. Well, you would
have the law respected in the country, and yet
you treat with indifference a fact like this, which
is nothing lees than the suspension of the
course of law in France. (Noise.) The Pro-
cureur-General and the Minister of Justice have
both censured the illegal act (applause on some
benches), and now the report treats it as just nothing
at all. (More interruption.) The bureau would
not hear M. Bate. That fact is certain. (A Voice.
It has been explainedl I will assume that
the bureau thought itself sufficiently enlightened,
but I must observe that it is the only bureau which
has refused to hear explanations. I repeat that I
am not prepared to go into the case fully. M.
Marie, who would have done so) is absent from in-
disposition ; but I call the attention of the Chamber
to this interference with justice, and I thus free my
own responsibility.
M. Pissard.—The reporters said that the judge's
order only appointed a hearing for June 6, and
therefore M. Bozo was in no way prejudiced by the
service of the order on the mayor being suspended
till June 2. _ _

"M. Rouher (Minister of State) admitted that
the act of the Procureur Imperial was not legally
justifiable, and said that he had been reprimanded
for it. But it could have had no effect upon the
result of the election, since M. Noubel's majority
was very large. The fact was, that legal process
frightened country people very much, and the Pro-
cureur Imperial thought, bona fide, that M. Baze's
writ might operate as an intimidation while the
election was going on.
4, M. Thiers.—l don't care about the influence of
the act upon the election. That is not the question.
I have obtained an admission from the Government
of all that I wanted—namely, that the course of
justice was suspended by the act of the Procureur
du Roi. (Loud laughter.) I beg pardon, I should
have said the Procureur Imperial. I shall soon get
into right habits. (More laughter.) You speak of
intimidation ; but if you say the Opposition exer-
cises intimidation in the elections, France will not
believe you. (Interruption.)
" After some further excuses for the Procurour

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Imperial's conduct by M. Rouher, M. Noubel Was
declared duly elected."

At the sitting of Friday :
" M. Geoffroy de Villeneuve, in the name of the
Bth bureau, presented the report on the election of
M. Eugene Pelletan, in the ninth circumscription
of the Seine. The number of votes was 24,522,
and the absolute majority 12,261. M. Pelletan
having obtained 12,295 votes, the bureau was at
first of opinion t hat the election was valid, but
it aftewards found that a certain number of voters
bad not taken the oath prescribed by the law, and
that M. Pelletan had not, therefore, obtained the
requisite majority. The bureau therefore proposed
to invalidate the election.
"M. Eugene Pelletan—The eighth bureau has
decided unanimously that the Prefect of the Seine,
in his mode of conducting the election, committed
an illegality, and attacked the liberty of universal
suffrage.

di M. Geoffroy de Villenuve—There was an error,
and that is all.

M. Eugene Pelletan—lf there had not been an
illegality, my election would be regular. From the
moment that the question is started between a prin.
ciple of liberty and my personal interest I no longer
insist. I sacrifice the latter, and I have too high an
orinion of the mandate of a deputy to allow even
the shadow of a doubt to rest on the validity of my
election." (Hear, hear.)
Some discussion then ensued,the bureau proposing
a new election, but after observations from the Pre-
sident, the Marquis de Talhonet, M. Glais Bizoin,
M. Emile 011ivier, and M. Rouher, Minister of
State, the case was sent back to the bureau to see
if it could not present another decision. Viscount
Lanjuinais was admitted in the Loire-Inferieure ;
the Duke d'Albufera, in the Eure ; and Count
d'Arjuvon, M. Petit, and the Duo de Marmier in
the Charente. The election of the Duke de Tarente
in the Loiret was likewise confirmed, after some
observations from M. Ernest Picard and M. Lang-
lais ; as was that of M. Belliard in the Gers, after
remarks from M. Emile 011ivier, M. Rouland,
Minister, presiding over the Council of State, M.
Granier de Cassagnac, M. Vernier, and M. Lan-
juinais. The proceedings then terminated.

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which this decree was dated, his Majesty also an-
nounced to the corporation of Copenhagen, in reply
to an address delivered by the mayor, t.`►at he in-
tended to follow the example of his pai Sent, and
more especially to endeavour to restore tran quillity
and good feeling between the different parts of his
dominions. This announcement produced the boa
effect, though petitions for a new constitution co:t -
tinned to pour in.
Two days afterwards his Majesty nominated as
his successor to the throne of Denmark, his uncle,
Prince Frederic Ferdinand of Denmark, who was
born in 1792, and was thus 16 years older than the
reigning King ; but the death of this prince pre-
vented this intention from being carried out, even
supposing the hereditary law already published had
never been passed.
The King also complied with the wishes of his
subjects by granting the wished-for constitution,
which was announced on the 28th of :Tannery, four
days after the issue of the decree above mentioned.
This concession, however, did not prevent the out-
break of disturbances in Copenhagen and in the
duchies. Though the dynasty survived the shock
of insurrection felt throughout Europe in that
eventful year, numerous troubles and discussions
arising out of the disputes concerning the duchies
since arose, and still continue.

Destructive Fires and Great Loss of
Property.

Fires occurred in various parts of the metropolis
and suburban districts on Saturday night and Sun-
day morning. One fire happened on the premises
of Mr. W. S toneman, a coffee-shop keeper, No. 80,
Princes-road, Lambeth-walk. The engines soon
attended, and a sufficiency of water being obtained
the firemen were enabled to throw copious streams
upon the flames, and the fire was extinguished, but
not until the lower part of the building was burnt
out and the upper part severely damaged. For-
tunately the sufferer was insured.
A fire, attended with considerable destruction of
property, broke out about 10 o'clock on Saturday
night on the extensive premises in Greek-street,
Soho, in the joint occupation of Messrs. 31ally, iron
boiler-maker; Rogers, carver and gilder; and Hol-
loway, laundryman. The whole of the contents of
the three floors were entirely destroyed, and the
stock of Mr. Mally, who occupied the lower porfl
tion of the premises, was seriously damaged by
water. The cause of the fire could not be correctly
ascertained. _ _

An alarming fire happened in the premises of Mr.
H. Jackson, No; 11, Myddelton-square, Clerken-
well. When discovered the.fire was raging in the
back room of the first floor, and the flames were
rapidly extending. The escapes promptly attended
as well as the engines, and plenty of water having
been procured the firemen got the mastery over the
fire, but the lower part of the building was burnt
out and the upper part much damaged. The loss will
fall upo❑ the Liverpool and London Fire-office.
Another fire took place at the same time in the
premises belonging to Mr. James Beeson, No. 165,
Marylebone-road. The engines as well as the
escapes attended, but the fire was not extinguished
until considerable damage was done.

UNHEALTHY HOMES IN NORWICH.

TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE NORFOLK NEWS.

Sir,—T he condition of the homes of agricultural labourers ,
is all parts of England is now the subject of much conside-
ration and discussion, and will probably, ere long, occupy
the attention of the Legislature.
But whilst the state of the homes in rural districts is
greatly to be deplored, there is yet much to be done in this,
the metropolis of the county, to render the city homes any-
thing like decent or healthy.
Those who des;re to pass a few hours amongst the dwell-
ings of the poor could not have selected a more fitting day
than last Saturday. The weather was then as cheerless as
the dwellings. The gentle rain had just melted through
the foul coating of Beckham's-yard, St. James's, and the
rottenness of the rickety old tenements was fairly displayed.
I will now endeavour to illustrate the condition of the oc •
cupants of these wretched abodes, the owner of which is as
poor as his tenants.
The first room contained the corpse of an old man, who
had lingered through a long period of suffering, lying in
rotten sacking, in one of the most dismal abodes that can
be imagined.
The next inspected was comfortless, approached by a
dangerous staircase, and on a bundle of rags lay a female
suffering from typhus fever in its worst form. She was
attended by an old woman, who needed almost as much
attention as the patient herself. An urgent appeal was
made to me for some bedding.
In the next room, an old woman lay on a stump bedstead,
with 3d worth of loose straw, which she had purchased, and
without any bedding.
The room on the other side was occupied by a man, his
wife, and 3 children—the woman being far advanced in
pregnancy. They have only one straw bed, and urgently
appealed for another. Ono of the children is paralysed, and
another nearly blind.
Another bed-room occupied by a man, his wife, and
daughter aged 17, lying on the floor on dirty rags.
Another occupied by a widow, and her daughter, 20, son,
11, and daughter, 9. These all sleep in one very small bed-
room, the beds nearly touching. The woman cohabits
with a black man, who shares also this room. Some of her
children are colored and some white. A donkey is kept in
a shed under this bed-room.
The next room was occupied by a widow and her son, 18,
and only one bed, The woman earnestly appealed for
another.
Another was occupied by a man and his wife and five
children.
dirty,
at whom was the widow
damp, low kitchen, oc-
The next was a wretched,
cupied by a troop of cadgers—among
of a celebrated old beggar known as
" Bluebeard ;" and
also a man, his wife, mad four children. A donkey is kept
in part of an old tenement adjoining. The plaster separa-
ting it from the kitchen is broken away and can be seen
through. Here was bred and spread abroad the dreaded
typhus. One child died, and some of the family then
migrated to Yarmouth, whither the disease accompanied
them, and two or three aro now suffering there severely,
whilst the woman mentioned in the first part is suffering at
home in a locality calculated to cause the contagion to
spread.
Recently, in another part of the city, I found a family
consisting of a man, his wife, son 21, daughter 29, daughter
15, all sleeping in one close room 12ft. by 7ft. gin. The
woman was ill with typhus fever, as was also the son. On
my second visit, I found that the son had died on the Sun-
day, and was kept in the bedroom till the following Tues-
day, the father and mother sleeping in the same room
during that time.
Next door I found a family occupying two small upstair
rooms, neither wind nor water tight. The sleeping room,
only 91t. square, was occupied by a woman, her
daughter 19, sen 14, and son 11. All lay on the son II)
floorcred.r
on
dirty rags with typhus raging next door.
I might add that a very heavy expense was
incu
few years since in temporarily putting Backb.am s-yard into
a cleanly state, and that there are difficulties with which
the guardians and their officers have to contend, in matters
such as I have described, but where fever of a contagious
nature occurs I believe it to be wise
progress regardless of expense. economy to check its
I think it unnecessary to trouble you with more of dis-
gusting details of the interiors of
very many of the homes
in Norwich; but I am thankfult that a society is now being
formed, comprising many the principal
dweinhabitantsllings of
th e iindustrial
tit rosft
iha e
city, with a view to improve of h
the l
poor.—l am, sir, your very obedient servant,

SAMUEL CLARKE, Inspector.
Inspector's Office, Castle Meadow, Norwich, Nov, 11.
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