The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1865.

Opportunities are needed, however, for the cultiva-
tion of thesegifts, and in some classes of life especially
it is certain that talents must often be lost which,
if perfectly developed, might have conduced to the
welfare of society, and the fulfilment of the mission
of the possessor of the privilege to do honour to his
MAKER and render service to his fellow-creatures.
There is great truth in the observation here made,
that education of a certain kind has a tendency to
raise all to one level, and to sink all to the same
level also. It ignores genius altogether, and while
it produces a fair mediocrity, "it never can give
to the world men who are capable of shaping a
statue such as CANOVA could chisel, and such as
MICHAEL ANGELO could design." All that
familiarises men's minds with works of art and
trophies of genius must be of advantage,
both in awakening dormant qualities in the
few, and in refining the taste of the many.
Those who contributed to the striking wants of
industry to the Exhibition were congratulated by
the Bishop on such a " day of lawful triumph and
real intellectural rejoicing" as that which called
them together. The right rev. prelate adverted to
the good-will displayed by those who had lent
works of art to the Exhibition, and foremost
was the name of our gracious QUEEN, who has
lent some of the treasures of Windsor Castle to the
Industrial Exhibition of Reading, and concluded
his excellent address by entreating those around
him to make the best use of that and every other
opportunity afforded to them, anxious to do
their duty in the state of life to which
GOD had called them, "to develope more
perfectly the instruments of service with which he
had endowed them, and in the midst of a redeemed
world to work as renewed men, educating them-
selves for service here, and the blessed vision of the
ALMIGHTY hereafter." At the luncheon subsequently
given, Mr. WALTER made an appropriate speech on
the " Contributors of the Loan Collection," in which
he said that he hoped on a future occasion Reading
might contribute a large share of its own proper
industry, and cited " inlaid woodwork" as a manu-
facture that the town might produce, and thus suc-
cessfully rival other cities in their different depart-
ments of industry.

Almost the worst part of any public disaster is
the consequent panic. The dangers of an epidemic
are increased tenfold by the alarm and depression
produced in the public mind, which predisposes per-
sons to infection, and in the same way most other
evils, when magnified by fear or rumour, grow into
unnecessary size. At present the cattle disease is a
very great and serious evil, and the English being, as
a rule, very helpless when deprived of their ordinary
food, the diminution of. supplies is naturally no
slight difficulty. But we need not make the worst
of things. In the first place, we must be on our
guard against the extortions of tradesmen and dealers,
who are very likely to take advantage of the con-
fusion to raise their prices and increase the alarm ;
secondly, to mitigate the present panic against the
old English dish of beef, we may remember that
the disease has hitherto shown itself principally
among the much cows, and also that proper in-
spectors being placed in every market there is no
great risk of unwholesome meat being freely circu-
lated. But the scarcity and dearness of meat may
teach us that there are other kinds of food cheap,
wholesome, and palatable. Fish is certainly un-
affected by the disease, yet very little fish is con-
sumed among us, notwithstanding the plentiful
supply on our coasts, and the ease and rapidity with
which it is transmitted inland.

The tasteful and savoury dishes prepared by
French peasants out of ingredients that an English
labourer's wife would disdain to use teach us ano-
ther lesson. There are endless varieties of stew
and soup to be made out of the neglected parts of
wholesome meat and good fresh bones, with plenty
of vegetables, which are surely forthcoming. Any
one who has seen what fine rich soup is procurable
from a sheep's head properly cooked will know that
excellent family meals are to be had for very little
money. The haste and ignorance with which our
poorer housewives prepare their meals waste at
least half their hard-earned money, and in the pre-
sent scarcity of meat it is much to be wished that
they could be taught better.

LATEST INTELLIGEbRT.

(REUT2R'S TELEGRAMS.)

RETURN OF THE POPE TO ROME.
ROME, SEPT. 13.

The Pope has returned to Rome.
Great fires have taken place in the vast woods of

the Decima, Castel Romano, and Castel Porriano.

SPAIN.

MADRID, SEPT. 13.

The Patria says there is no foundation for the
rumour that Senor Castro, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, intends to resign.
The Queen will leave Avila on the 15th inst.,
arriving on the 18th inst. at San Ildefonso.

RECEPTION OF THE ITALIAN MINISTER
BY THE QUEEN OF SPAIN,
MADRID, Sept. 10 (Evening).
The Marquis Tagliacarne, Italian Minister to
Spain, was received in private audience by Queen
Isabella at Zarauz on the afternoon of the 7th inst.
Her Majesty was attended by the First Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs and the great officers
of the household. In delivering his credentials to
her Majesty his Excellency said:—
"Madame, —I have the honour to place in your
Majesty's hands the letter in which my august
sovereign announces to you that by virtue of a law
approved by Parliament, and which has received his
Royal sanction, he has assumed for himself and
successors the title of King of Italy. I have also
the honour to present to your Majesty the letters
accrediting me to your Majesty's court in the quality
of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary.
" Your Majesty will see by the latter that the
King earnestly desires to strengthen and consolidate
the bonds of true friendship which have existed for
several centuries between your Majesty's family
and his. The strongest desire of the King and his
Government is that the best relations should be
consolidated between the two crowns and the two

nations.
" I am happy, madam, to have to express to your
Majesty on this occasion the sincere wishes formed
by the King and his Government for your Majesty's
happiness, the felicity of your august family, and the
prosperity of this noble Spanish nation, to which
Italy is united by so many sympathies and common
interests. My first duty will be to strive to render
myself worthy of the mission confided to me, my
greatest happiness to obtain, in the exercise of my
functions, the precious esteem of your Majesty."
The Queen made the following reply :
" In receiving the letters of the King your august
sovereign, announcing to me that by virtue of a
law voted by Parliament he has assumed for himself
and successors the title of King of Italy,and accredit-
ing you in the quality of Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to my court, I have plea-
sure in stating that I also desire to strengthen the
bonds of true friendship which, during so many
centuries, have existed between his family and mine.
"I am sincerely grateful for the wishes formed
by the King for my happiness and that of my family,
and the nation whose destiny has been confided to
me ; and I beg you to convey to him, in my name,
the wishes that I, in return, entertain for his happi-
ness and that of his royal family, and for the pros-
perity of the Italian nation.
" Respecting yourself, Senor Ministro, I do not
doubt that you will be worthy of the high mission
entrusted to you by your Sovereign, the King of
Italy ; and, in order that you may perfectly acquit
yourself as you wish, you may from this moment
count upon my goodwill and the loyal co-operation
of my Government."

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND ASTRAL lAN

MAILS.
MARSEILLES, SEPT. 14.
The Syria, with the above mails, arrived here at
a.m. to day.
The mails leave for London at 11 30 a.m.
Ship and passengers quarantined for 60 hours.

BUENOS AYRES, AUG. 12.
(By telegraph from Lisbon.)

Exchange, 498 50. Ounces, 27.30. Wet salted
ox hides, 348 ; dry American, 35. Wool in de-
mand. Tallow, 14k. Lumber, 37, nominal. Flour
firmer. Refined sugar, 19.

Mr. Henley, M.P., in Oxfordshire

BICESTER, Wednesday.

The annual meeting of the Bicester Agricultural
Association was held yesterday in this town. In the
afternoon a dinner was held in a marquee erected
at the back of the King's Arms Hotel. Sir H.
Dashwood, in the absence of the Earl of Effingham,
presided, and among those present were the county
members—the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, Colonel
North, and Colonel Fane—the Rev. J. C. Blomfield,
Mr. •G. R. Clarke, the Rev. F. French, and a
large number of the gentry and tenant farmers of
the district.

The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been
honoured, the chairman proposed " the Health of
the Bishop and Clergy of the Diocess," which was
responded to by
The Rev. J. C. BLOMFIELD in a speech of some
length, in the course of which he expressed a strong
opinion that the condition of the labouring classes
in the locality was becoming much improved, and
urged upon the landed gentry the necessity of pro-
viding them with the means of obtaining better
education and an improved class of dwellings.
Mr. G. R. CLARKE proposed " the Members for
the County," and thanked Mr. Henley for the ser-
vices he had rendered as chairman of Quarter Ses-
sions.

Mr. HENLEY, in responding, said—l assure you
that I feel most deeply grateful for the manner in
which you- have been pleased to receive the toast,
and for the kind expressions my hon. friend Mr.
Clarke has used in reference to me when I filled the
situation of chairman of Quarter Sessions. But per-
haps the first thing I ought to do on this occasion
is to congratulate myself that I have again the
chance, in the office I now hold, of being here among
you to return thanks, as one of your county mem-
bers, for the kindness with which you have received
me. (Cheers.) There have liken "so many seats this
year who have run on the wrong side of the post
that those who happen to have come in on the right
side ought only to be too thankful. (Laughter.) We,
therefore, cannot but be thankful to our friends and
constituents with whom we meet on this occasion.
It is not my intention to say anything upon politi-
cal matters. If I can help it, I shall not say one
word calculated to promote the slightest disonance
of feeling, and I quite concur with the wisdom of
the rule laid down that at meetings of this nature
all such expressions should be carefully avoided.
We meet here for a common purpose—that of giv-
ing such countenance as we can to a society which
we believe to be useful, and which we hope is
doing good in the various ways in which it is
concerned. (Cheers.) There are not now many
matters :of great public interest before us. As
agriculturists it is impossible for any two of us to
meet together without one saying to the other,
" How about the cattle plague?" We cannot get
past that, and therefore I will venture to say a word
or two about it. As to its origin and nature, I be-
lieve that we yet know very little about it, and
from all we read from other countries it would
appear that they do not know much more there than
we do ourselves. Our Government have taken such
measures for preventing the spread of the disease as
in the state of want of knowledge we are all in at
present seemed to them to be best. Ido not think it
is our business to canvass those measures, or to set
up our own judgment against theirs, and against
what they may have done, but I think, for the
common good, our best course is to do what the
Government have pointed out as, in their judg-
ment, the best means of helping us. If we can
discover anything among ourselves that will aid the
measures suggested to us for checking this alarming
disease, of course we can adopt and make it known
to others. (Hear, hear.) We must not forget that
in matters of this sort the interest, great as it is to
us as agriculturists, is greater to the immense masses
of the people who eat meat, because we may depend
on it that if this disease continues to spread the price
of meat must inevitably run up to a figure which
we should all regret to see it at. (Hear, hear.)
P assing from one thing to another, there is one
matter which I cannot help glancing upon. I ob-
served in the show-field to-day a magnificent show
of specimen roots. I hope that they may be fair
specimens of the general crop ; but, however that
may be, the specimens to-day are so magnificent of
their kind, and we have all been so much accus-
tomed in other years to see specimens exhibited so
much worse, that I have a good hope the bulk from
which these specimens have been taken is in quality
far above that of ordinary years. If that be so to
any degree, it will to some extent help us against
the loss which the disease in cattle may bring about,
because these great crops of roots may be turned
into meat, and the more roots there are the more
meat will probably be produced from them. I have
no doubt that some of the inconveniences—or con-
veniences, as some of the agriculturists may regard
them—of high prices have arisen from the shortness
of the root crop of last year. It was impossible,
with a shortness of food of that description, that
meat could be produced except at a very high cost.
But the spirit of our agriculturists was not wanting
to the occasion. They met the failure of the root
crop by an enormous outlay in corn and other mat-
ters, but that could only be done at a considerable
expense, and to a great degree it run up the price
of meat. I trust, therefore, that the great supply
of roots which we have this year, although it will
not altogether remove, may palliate in some degree
the losses which may be sustained if this wretched
complaint should continue to go on among our
cattle. (Hear, hear.) There is no subject of public
political interest on which you will expect me to say
a word. Fortunately, we are in the enjoyment
of peace with foreign countries, and peace ap-
pears more likely to be preserved all over the world
than for some years past. At the same time lam
afraid, whatever my hon. and gallant friend (Col.
North) may feel uponthe subject, and however much
disposed the lion may be to lie down by the lamb,
that the time is far distant when we shall feel justi-
fied in dispensing with the services of our army and
navy. lam afraid it will be very long before we
shall be able to see so good a day as that. My rev.
friend who sits near me (Rev. J. C. Blomfield) has
stated a fact which, from his very great power of
observation, I have no doubt is correct, and which I
am glad to hear, and that is that in his judgment the
working people of this neighbourhood are well off.
This is the most comforting statement I have heard
for a long while, because of this I am quite sure, that
when the working people are well off, and if they can
command a reasonable share of the necessaries of life
and of their humble luxuries, they will not be long
without good dwellings and not long without educa-
tion. (Cheers.) I believe that no greater libel is
ever uttered against the working people than when
it is said that- they do not want to improve their
children if they can. I have never been brought into
contact with any of the working classes who adopted
such a view. On the contrary, in the intercourse
which I have had with them they have always said,
" We have only had so much money a week," tell-
ing me what it has been, " and this child can earn so
much, so that I cannot afford to send him to school."
Of this I feel quite sure, that if my rev. friend is
sound and well-founded in the statement he has
made, and that the situation of the working classes
in this neighbourhood is improved and improving, I
have no doubt that those other matters which he
wants will be called for, and directly they are called
for they will be found. (Cheers.) The supply is
sure to come if there is a reasonable demand for it ;
and if the working people are reasonably well off
they will be in a position to say to those who employ
them, "We will not live here, and we will not do
your work unless you provide us with better places
to live in." We know very well that we cannot do
without their work ; and if they ever come in that
position we may depend upon it that they will not
be in it longer than they can help. I believe that
they who tell us the people are not increasing out
of the towns only do so to deceive us. lam firmly
convinced that the people in the agricultural dis-
tricts are not diminishing.' We all know the great
spirit with which the land is now cultivated. We
know that • cultivation is not decreasing, and the
number and condition of the people must be im-
proved in consequence. lam speaking in the pre-
sence of men much more able to judge of these
things than I am, but, I believe that, in the last 20
years, the wages of labour have greatly increased
in this country. That certainly is the opinion which

I have formed, and if that is so, you may depend
upon it that the comforts of the people will very soon
follow. (Cheers.) Persons in the situation I have the
honour to fill are often found fault with because
they do not on these occasions talk what is called
" agriculture." Now, I will tell you honestly why
it is that I never presume to do that. lam here in
the presence of gentlemen who know a great deal
about it, whereas I know next to nothing. (Laugh-
ter and cheers.) I have been an occupier of land
nearly all my life, but I know the difference be-
tween a man who occupies land and a man who
occupies it for a business and for making a living
out of it. If 1 were to presume to tell you anything
in regard to agricultural matters, I know that you
would receive it with great kindness, but you would
be very apt to laugh at it afterwards. (Laughter
and cheers.) That is the reason why at all these
meetings I have never thought that I had anything
to tell you upon agricultural questions which you
did not know better than I did myself. That being
the case, I have always considered that the less I
said about the subject the better. (Cheers.) I have
now only to thank you for the kindness with which
on this and all occasions you have ever received me,
and to drink all your healths in turn. (Cheers.)
Col. NORTH briefly returned thanks.

COL FAKE also acknowledged the toast. Referring
to the question of educating the children of agricul-
tural labourers, he expressed himself warmly in fa-
vour of extending the advantages of education ; but,
he asked, how was it expected that a boy who had
engaged at the plough for, eight or ten hours a day
would be prepared to walk at night two or three
miles to the village school ? His rev. friend (Mr.
Blomfield) called upon the landlords to build cot-
tages for their labourers, but who the deuce was to
find the money? (Laughter.) He would also ask
his rev. friend whether he and his people, and the
college to which he belonged, had done their duty ?
He (Colonel Fane) was, he was happy to say, a
landlord, and he believed that he was not disliked
by his tenants.. He would.ask, however, who made
the best landlords for the poor, the college or indi-
viduals ? Had therefore the clergy the right to
complain of individual lands, when it was noto-
rious that they failed to administer to the
necessities of the poor labourers who were
more immediately under their charge ? The gallant
colonel concluded by thanking them for the compli-
ment they had paid hini, and by assuring them that
he should endeavour to deserve their good opinion
by the manner in which he discharged his duty as
their representative.

Various other toasts having been drunk, the pro
ceedings terminated.

Mr. Layard, M.P., on Museums and the
Progress of the Working Classes.

P

Last night a grand musical conversazione, to which all the
members of metropolitan working men's clubs were in-
vited, was held at the North-Eastern London Exhibition,
Agricultural Hall, Islington.

H. LAYARD, Esq., M.P., presided, and in addressing the
audience, which was extremely large, said the principal
object of theirapaeeting there was to consider the importance
of having in various parts of the metropolis "local mu-
seums." The importance of the subject he presumed no
one who knew anything of it would deny. Exhibitions of
whatever kind owed their origin to Paxton, who was the
main cause of the establishment of the Great Exhibition of
1851. It was Paxton who, whilst others were discussing
whether there should be an Exhibition or not, stepped for-
ward, and like Columbus showed them how to make the
egg stand on its bottom. (Laughter and cheers.) That
man had by his own merits raised himself from the ranks
of the working classes—(cheers)--and showed the work-
ing men of England what was required of them to success-
fully compete with other nations. At the time of the Ex-
hibition there was one thing wanted to enable them to com-
pete with the world, and that one thing, viz., " free trade,"
was gained for them by Richard Cobden. Since then
England had made such progress in the arts requiring
taste and colour that she had not only regained lost
ground, but had distanced all competitors ; and in 1862
France had to acknowledge the superiority of British
workmen over her own. (Cheers.) But as the principle
of free trade advanced it became necessary for Englishmen
to increase their efforts to keep pace with the times. He
addressed himself to all classes of society, for the question
was a national one—(cheers)—and he hoped that, ere long,
a museum would be established in the north of London, to
aid in improving the taste of their artisans. By museums,
he did not mean exhibitions of the nature of the one they
were in, for that only existed for a short time, and its in-
fluence was not maintained ; but he meant local establish-
ments of a permanent nature, where articles illustrative of
applied science could be exhibited. He did not see why
they should not accept the offer of the Government,
through Lord Granville, of the building at South Kensing-
ton for such a purpose, and that offer, he ventured to sug-
get, would be extended if a movement were really made in
the right direction, He did not mean that Government
would give money assistance, for if that were done in the
case of Islington, every other town in the kingdom might
expect the same—(hear, hear)—but he considered that
Government might be inclined to give them duplicates of
works in the British Museum and other places. A propo-
sition had been made to open the public museums at night
time, but he was entirely opposed to such a course, not
only account of the risk that would be run of destroying
by one accident incalculable treasure, but because he
thought that on account of the distance of the museums
from the homes of working men they would be unable to
avail themselves of the advantages offered. Referring
again to the supremacy of Great Britain in arts of taste, he
alluded to the works in china and glass produced by Min-
ton and Phillips, which were unequalled by any other
nation. He then proceeded to urge upon the working
men the necessity of maintaining their position, and con-
cluded by earnestly expressing a hope that working men
would shortly be aided by the museums he had referred to.
The speaker, on sitting down, was enthusiastically
cheered.

Messrs. Sales and Hodgson Pratt and the Rev. H. Solly
were amonist the gentlemen who afterwards addressed the

meeting.

Resolutions in support of such a scheme as proposed were
adopted.

THE OXFORD AND CANTERBURY HALL COMPANY
(LIMITED).—The second annual report of this com-
pany states that the amount paid upon the 6,652 shares
issued is £38,204, £6 per share having been called, and that
£40,234 have been paid off the purchase money, leaving
£39,766 still to be paid. The profit and loss account shows
that, after taking into consideration the gross receipts for
admissions, &c., the profit made on sale of refreshment;
writing off the expenses of the year, and making an allow-
ance for sundry accounts unpaid, there remains a balance
of £5,860 18s. 11d. net profit; from this balance must be
deducted the £1,620 10s. dividend and bonus paid to the
shareholders in February last, when £4,240 Bs. 11d. will be
left for appropriation. The directors recommend that a
further dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, with
a bonus of 2s. per share, should be paid to the shareholders
(free of income tax); that a sum of £l,OOO be carried to a
reserve fund, to cover contingencies and depreciation of
property, and the remainder be carried forward to the next
account. At the annual meeting, to be held on Monday
next, Messrs. E. B. Jones and G. F. Anderson, the senior
directors, will retire, but will be eligible for re-election.
Two auditors will also be elected for the ensuing year.

THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—At an inquest
held yesterday on the body of Wm. F. Vincent, who
stepped in front of an advancing train on the South-
Western RaiWay on Tuesday last, and was killed by the
train passing over him, Mrs. Emma aVincent, wife of de-
ceased, stated that her husband for at least four months had
been in a very bad state of health, mental and bodily. Ho
had made an attempt to destroy himself with his necktie.
Steps were being taken to remove him to an asylum, and
witness had been told to watch him. He had been obliged
to give up his shop, and the feeling that his circumstances
were getting worse daily had, no doubt, preyed upon his
mind. Verdict—" That the deceased destroyed himself
while in an unsound state of mind."

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE CALEDONIAN RAIL-
WAY NEAR CARNWATll.—Yesterday morning, the
1.40 goods train from Edinburgh to Glasgow ran off the
line near Ampherlaw siding, situated about a quarter of a
mile to the eastward of Carnwath station. The result of
the accident was very serious in damage to the line; to
rolling stock, and to the goods in the train, though fortu-
nately no accident to person was sustained by any one on
the train. Nearly half-a-mile of the road was torn up ;
and fifty yards of the embankment—which is about
half-a-dozen feet high at the place were thrown
down. Fifteen waggons went over the embank-
ment, and their conttints were thrown out into the
adjoining field, a heterogeneous mixture of beans,
wheat, oil, grease, and furniture. The loss to the company
will be very large, as the goods were mostly valuable. A
large 'force of Men were put upon the line early in the
morning, and continued at work during the day, but at
dusk their labour was not more than half-finished, and it is
not anticipated that the road will be re-laid and opened for
traffic until this afternoon. Yesterday the ordinary traffic
was worked for nearly a mile to the eastward of Carnwath
on the single line, and the arrangement was carried out so
efficiently that there was no detention of any trains. The
cause of the accident cannot be clearly ascertained, but it
is believed that it was occasioned by a large pair of smith's
bellows, which
.were in a truck near the centre of the
train, falling off, and disturbing the wheels.—Scotsman.

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Her Majesty's Visit to Scotland.

The royal train, which left Windsor on Monday
night at 7 o'clock, arrived at Perth on Tuesday
morning, at 8.38, being two minutes before time.
Amongst the few persons present on the platform
were the Right Hon. the Earl of Mansfield, Lord
Dupplin, Sir David Ross (late Lord Provost of the
city of Perth), &c. Her Majesty, on alighting from
the train, graciously bowed to the Earl of Mans-
field and Lord Dupplin, after which, attended by
several members of the royal family and suite, the
Queen proceeded to breakfast in the board-room of
the Caledonian Railway Company. Breakfast over,
the royal party resumed their journey at 9.25, when
several hundred citizens were admitted to witness the
departure. Ferryhill Junction is situated half a mile
from Aberdeen, and was reached a few minutes after
12 at noon. A large number of spectators, admitted
by ticket, had assembled in the inclosure, and they
gave her Majesty a loyal and hearty reception. Her
Majesty stood up in the saloon, looked out, and most
graciously acknowledged the greeting of her sub-
jects. Her Majesty graciously recognised and
spoke to Mr. Thomson of Banchory, who enter-
tained the late Prince Consort at Banchory House
in October, 1859, when his royal highness was pre-
sident of the British Association. At Aberdeen,
Mr. Duncan, the chairman, Messrs. Gordon and
Whyte, directors, and Mr. Ferguson, manager of
the Deeside Railway took charge of the train,
which, after a stoppage of five minutes, left amid
the cheers of those assembled to witness its-depar-
ture. The journey up the Deeside was very plea-
sant, the weather being magnificent. Aboyne was
reached at a quarter past one. There the royal
party entered carriages awaiting them and posted to
Balmoral, finishing their journey at about 20
minutes past three o'clock. Her Majesty appeared
to be in excellent health. A guard of honour of the
72d Regiment from Stirling is stationed at Ballater.
Her Majesty arrived at Balmoral at three o'clock
on Tuesday afternoon.