The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-27 00:00:00

PRANCE.

The Moniteur publishes a letter from Mariette-
Bey, a savant in the service of the Viceroy of Egypt,
which contains the following statement :—" At
Abydes I have discovered a magnificent counterpart
of the tablet of Sakharah. Seti 1., accompanied by
his son, subsequently Rhamses 11. (Sesostris), pre-
sents an offering to 76 kings drawn up in line before
him ; Menes (the first king of the first dynasty on
Manetho's list) is at their head. From Menes to
Seti 1., this formidable list passes through nearly
all the dynasties. The six first are represented
therein ; we are next introduced to sovereigns still
unknown to us, belonging to the obscure period
which extends from the end of the sixth dynasty to
the beginning of the eleventh. From the 11th to
the 18th, the new table follows the beaten track,
which it does not quit again during the reigns of
Thoutmes, Amenophis, and the first Rhamses. If in
this new list everything is not absolutely new, we at
least find in it a valuable confirmation of Manetho's
list, and in the present state of science we can hardly
expect more. Whatever confirms Manetho, gives
us confidence in our own efforts, even as whatever
contradicts it weakens the results we obtain. The
new tablet of Abydos is, moreover, the completest
and best preserved monument we possess in this
respect. Its style is splendid; and there is not a
single cartouche or escutcheon wanting. It has been
found engraved on one of the walls of a small cham-
ber in the large temple of Abydos, which we are
still engaged in extricating from the rubbish which
covers it. Opposite the same Seti is perceived on
another tablet, making an offering to 130 other per-
sonages who, this time, personify the nonies and
districts, or geographical divisions and subdivisions
of Egypt. Thus on one side of the valuable cham-
ber we have just discovered we see the representa-
tion of the history, on that of the other the geo-
graphy of Egypt."
The decision arrived at by the Italian Chamber
of Deputies to terminate as rapidly as possible the
discussion on the disturbances at Turin is highly
applauded by several of the Paris journals, such a
course being considered by them as prudent, conci-
liatory, and patriotic. The conduct of Baron Rica-
soli, in coming forward with his amendment to
promote that most desirable result, likewise receives
very general encomium. The observations of our
contemporaries are, however, necessarily marked,
from the nature of the subject, by a certain mono-
tony, and to give an extract from one article is very
nearly the same as to select passages from another.
We consequently content ourselves with laying be-
fore our readers a portion of the observations made
by the Sikle, running thus
" The excitement caused at Turin by the an-
nouncement of the Convention of the 15th Septem-
ber is well known. All the friends of the Italian
cause were saddened by the deplorable disorders and
sanguinary conflicts which took place—a misunder-
standing and erroneous interpretations had irritated
that Turinese population which has given many
proofs of patriotism and disinterestedness. The
authors of those turbulent manifestations were
sought out, and an inquiry ordered. But what re-
sult could be obtained by that investigation, in
which the city of
Turin and the former Cabinet
were equally interested ? Was it not much better
to throw a veil over those lamentable events ?
The Italian Parliament has not hesitated for a
moment in the matter. It has understood that the
first necessity of Italy-was concord, and through
M. Ricasoli it has openly proclaimed the necessity
of forgetting the past. If there were really guilty
parties, instigators and promoters. of disturbances,
it is not for a tribunal, but for the public conscience
to judge them, and brand them with infamy. The
noble city which
has given so many pledges to the
cause of independence cannot be held responsible
for the violence committed in its streets. M.
Ricasoli developed those generous ideas and
patriotic feelings, and the Assembly was deeply
moved when he read the order of the day which
we announced
Yesterday the adoption. The Go-
vernment and the Parliament have merited the
gratitude of Italy. T.
that nation, born but yester-
day, in want of disorders and irritating discussions ?
No ! Before all, it must complete its internal
organisation, and carefully exclude from its de-
bates everything which might trouble that pacific
work. The Italian Parliament has understood that,
and has adopted the order of the day, to the great
vexation of the men who wish to render those in-
testine divisions eternal, in order to place a barrier

to Italy on the way to Rome. What will the bishops
say to that order of the day, which denies their
assertions in such a striking manner ? That Italy,
that unfortunate Italy, who is represented to us as
abandoned to the worst inspirations ; that Italy
excommunicated and insulted openly practices the
pardon of injuries ; she gives to the world a noble
example by inviting all her children to live in con-
cord."

A Paris letter in the Indipendance Beige says :
" The serious idea of a separation betweeil the
Church and State is daily gaining ground
.here. You
are aware we have in France an infallible thermo-
meter of the tendencies of the Government in the
theses put forward and supported by the ministerial
journals in the provinces. The articles of those
organs of the press arrive daily by the lithographic
sheets from Paris, the writers of which derive their
inspirations from the Minister of the Interior, and it
is unusual for an idea to pass to the state of a fact with-
out the journals of the departments, the real inflipnde
of which is known by the Government, having
beforehand prepared the public mind to adopt it.
The provincial press now reverts to the discussion
of such a separation with a persistence which appears
to be at least a serious indication. Sometimes such
a proceeding is only a pilot balloon to ascertain the
opinion of the country. As to the Paris press, you
know to what point it has reached on this question.
I do not believe that anything else will come of this
discussion, to which the Monde appears to accord
such importance, than a profound conviction in all
minds, whether in the Napoleonian or the Demo-
cratic world, that the serious solution of the inex-
tricable religious question must be a definite and
intelligent separation—one which shall consult both
religious and social interests."
" Ambassadors from Madagascar," says the Nord,
" are said to have left Tamatava on the 23d De-
cember for New York, Paris, and London, and are
believed to be provided with the necessary powers
for negociating and signing treaties with the three
countries. Their stay in the United States will pro-
bably extend over two months, as they have to
make purchases on account of the Government ;
consequently they will not arrive in Europe until
about the end of April."

BOURSE, Jan. 26.—The market presents a more
favourable aspect to-day, and more business has
been transacted. For the Account, Threes opened
at 66f. 95c., and are now at 66f. 97ie. Mobilier
have been firm ; they opened at 956 f. 25c., and
are now 958 f. 75c. The market closed as follows :

41 per Cents 96
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67
Do. end month 67
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3510
Credit Foncier 1275
Roman 74

RAIL'

Italian Loan 64 90
Do. end month 65 05
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes 44
Home Debt
Deferred -

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern 998 75 ... 1000 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 935 936 25
Southern 578 25 577 50
Western 535 ... 535
Eastern
Sardinian 307 50 ... 307 50
Austrian

Lombard 542 50 ... 543 75
North of Spain 337 50 50
Saragossa 4OO ... 400
Ditto to Barcelona lB3 75 ...

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

FALMOUTH, Jan. 25.

The Diamond Company's steamer Caffraria,
Cummings, master, arrived here this evening from
the Cape of Good Hope, &c., having left Port Natal
December 7 ; Algoa Bay, the 19th ; and Cape Town,
the 23d ; St. Helena, January 1 ; and Madeira, the
20th. She brings a large mail, which is landed here,
and the following passengers :—Messrs. Langford,
Collyer, and Farmer, from Natal ; Lord and Lady
Brown, Major Plunkett, Master Bisset, Mr. and Mrs
Every and three children, Misses Hyman and Gould,
Mrs. Marks, and Messrs. Hinds, Reiche, Brown,
and Colquhoun, from Algoa Bay ; Captain Andrea,
Captain Elmstone, Rev. Mr. Alington, Mr. R.
Stanford, and 21 time-expired men, from Cape
Town ; and Captain Biccard and Mr. Dillin, from
St. Helena ; also the following cargo :-1,232 bales
of wool, 50 bales of hides, 467 bags of sugar, 37
cases of sundries, and 47 packages.
--
Her Majesty's ship Valorous was at Algoa Bay
on the 17th of December.

The Cape Argus of December 23 summarises the
news as follows :—" His Excellency the Governor
returned to Cape Town on the 23d of last month.
Affairs on the frontier are peaceable, and it is be-
lieved that no trouble need be anticipated from the
neighbourhood of the free State. Moshesh has an-
nounced his intention of abiding by the decision of
the Government in respect to the boundary of his
territory. The railway from Cape Town to Wyn-
berg was thrown open to the public on Monday last,
and the trains have since conveyed large numbers of
passengers every trip. By the present mail instructions
will be forwarded to the agents-generalfor the Crown
colonies for the issue of advertisements, inviting ten-
ders for the construction of a railway from Port
Elizabeth to Commando Kraalin, in the direction of
Graham's Town. Mr. Justice Connor, of Natal, and
Mr. Advocate Denyssen, of the Cape Bar, have been
appointed judges of the New Eastern District
Court; Mr. J. C. Davidson has been appointed
Treasurer-General, vice Mr. R. Southey, promoted;
Mr. A. W. Cole has been appointed law lecturer to
the South African College, in the room of the late
Mr. F. S. Watermeyer."
The official returns of the revenue and expendi-
ture for the quarter ending with the 30th of Septem-
ber last have been published. They show a great
improvement upon previous returns of a similar
character.
Commercial matters are, on the whole, satisfac-
tory. Trade amounts to a fair average at this late
season of the year, with a tone of confidence in
business transactions.
Money plentiful, and Bank rates of discount 6
per cent. per annum. Not more than 6 per cent.
can be obtained on first mortgages of landed pro-
perty in the neighbourhood of Cape Town. The
crops of oats and barley will be below an average
yield, and contracts for the supply of oats in large
quantities are being secured at nearly double last
year's price.

THE Loss OF THE BLOCKADE RUNNER LELIA.—
LIVERPOOL, Thursday.—The melancholy loss of the block-
ade runner Lelia, off this port on Saturday evening, 14th
inst., has been made the subject of a Board of Trade in-
quiry, and to-day Captain Harris, R.N., and Captain Baker,
R.N., nautical assessors, together with Mr. Raffles, stipen-
diary magistrate, commenced an inquiry into the matter.
Mr. Hamill,who appeared on behalf of the Board of Trade,
stated that the Lelia was a paddle steamer, clinker-built,
with a steel frame and one deck. Her gross tonnage was
640 tons, and her, registered tonnage 431 tons. She had
two engines of 300-horse power. She left Liverpool at 930
a.m. on the 14th instant, in charge of Captain Thomas B.
Skinner. Her crew consisted of 49 hands, all told, and she
had on board a Cork and a Liverpool pilot, together with
eight passengers. She had on board 85 tons dead weight,
and 460 tons cargo. The barometer was very low and fall-
ing, and a strong gale blew from the north-west, and when
she passed the Crosby Lightship the sea was breaking over
her. After passing the North-west Lightship she shipped
a great deal of water which caused her to settle by the
head, and the captain considered it desirable to turn back
for Liverpool. She soon lost her steerage way, but by the
assistance of a sail her head was brought round towards
Liverpool. After proceeding for a few miles she sank
deeper in the water, and her hatches burst open. The en-
gines were [then stopped and the boats ordered out, of
which only two got safely away, the others being capsized.
The other two when they reached the North-west Light-
ship also capsized, and only 12 persons were rescued-37
of the crew, 8 passengers, and 2 pilots being amongst the
drowned. Mr. Hartnup, of the Liverpool Observatory,
stated that at midnight on the 13th the barometer stood at
28 55, and next morning at half-past Bit was 28 34. The
case was adjourned until to-morrow.
REYNARD IN A FIX.—On Monday evening a fox
strolled into the farm-yard of Mr. James Meagher, near
Killenaule, and seeing the door of the fowl house open,
made towards it, and safely ensconced himself inside. The
fowls, of course, were driven in there at nightfall, and fell
an easy prey to Master Reynard, who enjoyed himself for
the night at their expense. Mr. Meagher's daughter opened
the fowl house door next morning, and, discovering the un-
welcome visitor, closed it again on him, and gave the alarm
to her father, who went in and found the remains of the
fowls strewn about, and Master Reynard looking com-
placently on from the corner. He is held in custody, await-
ing an opportunity of delivering him up to the tender
mercies of the Tipperary Hunt.--Tipperary Free Press.

GREAT TEMPERANCE PICTURE.

" The Worship of Bacchus,"
Painted and Etched by George Cruikshank.

Published by William Tweedie, 337, Strand.
George Cruikshank has, long since, risen, by the
natural development of his genius, from the Carica-
turist to the Moralist. As a Caricaturist he was for
years—nay, he is still to this hour, when we come to
look back upon his countless grotesque productions—
j ust simply incomparable. Beyond all the coarse vulgar
Rowlandsons, beyond the gaudy Gilrays, the fantas-
tic Bunburys, and the evanescently humorous H.
B.'s that ever, with pencil-point, tickled past genera-
tions into laughter ! A portfolio of comical cuts by
George Cruikshank will settle that point any day—
by its inevitable appeal to the risibility of those who
venture gravely to examine it, by way of testing the
potency of this Lord Paramount in the realms of the
Ridiculous. But the rarer, and later, and greater,
and far loftier powers of the same extraordinary
artist in his capacity as a pictorial Moralist--powers
often incidentally indicated, whenever an opportu-
nity may be said to have offered itself to this
end even in his earlier productions—we have,
to their fullest extent at least, seen manifested, com-
paratively speaking, only of late years ! To be plain,
let us say at once—since the date when George
Cruikshank became, heart and soul, hand and brain,
with all the force of his genius and all the energy of
his ambition, one of the most devoted, and certainly
also one of, the very foremost advocates of Total
Abstinence, one of the most prominent and gifted
among all the champions of the cause of Tempe-
rance. After the Great Apostle of Temperance,
Father Theobald Mathew, we know of no man who
has given himself up more thoroughly or more con-
scientiously to the furtherance of that good cause
than George Cruikshank. He has given himself up
to it so thoroughly and so conscientiously, that he has
long ago lived down the derision with which his devo-
tion to it was first of all greeted, so very plentifully
and pertinaciously. Even those who cannot for the
life of them recognise to this day (any more than we
can ourselves, for example) the necessity insisted
upon by all the more advanced Teetotallers, men
like Gough or like Cruikshank—that it is the duty of
everyone, alike, old and young, male and female, to
pledge themselves, for once and for ever, to a life of
total abstinence from the consumption of fermented
liquor—even those who look upon the advocacy ofTee-
totalism as common sense surely ought to look upon
the advocacy of that or of any other pretended
panacea, as a sort of craze, cannot by possibility
do otherwise than regard with respect the persistent
advocacy of the principles of Total Abstinence (as
a means for the prevention, or at any rate for the
diminution, of crime) by a champion of that philan-
thropic cause, such as George Cruikshank ! But, of
philanthropic champions, " such as George Cruik-
shank," there are but few indeed ! They come but
once in a century, but once in an age, rara nantes
in gurgite vasto ! Meaning by this—that when they
do come, they go on " swimmingly." As, for
instance—.---in his capacity as a pictorial Moralist, as
a practical Philanthropist, as an advocate of Tee-
totalism, as a champion of Temperance—George
Cruikshank has done, of late years, and not a doubt
about it. Whether with advantage to himself as a mere
mercantile enterprise may be very possibly questioned.
But, beyond any question at all, with the happiest
results in the way of developing his rare and in some
respects matchless powers as an artist of excep-
tional and extraordinary genius. Instance this, his
two wonderful series—among the very finest things
that have ever come from his hand—his two really
wonderful series of pictures entitled " The Bottle"
and " The Drunkard's Children." Pictures that, as
mere artistic creations, but, still more, as visible:en-
forcements of a moral coming home to vast multi-
tudes of the artist's fellow-creatures, are as im-
pressive, in their homely yet wonderfully pathetic
and tragic way, as some of the finest of the renowned
series of that true brother in Art and in Heart
of George Cruikshank—William Hogarth—as, let
us say, " The Rake's Progress," and " The
Harlot's Progress," as the famous " Marriage-
a la Mode," or us " The Industrious and Idle Appren-
tices." Enforcing a moral admitting of yet wider
application than any of those, or than all of them
together, " The Bottle" and " The Drunkard's
Children," as drawn upon wood by George Cruik-
shank, command by the power of the genius that is
in them the fullness of our admiration. We
stint no words of praise when we look at
them. Costly enamels they are not—com-
mon prints they may even be called, slightingly,
by the collector, at fabulous prices, of gravures de
luxe—yet are they wonderful ! Wonderful by reason
of that tragic and pathetic power already alluded to
as in either series so marvellously manifested. The
hero of one is, if you will, a mere artisan or handi-
craftsman, in his fustian jacket. The locality depicted

is no better than a kitchen-like house-room or a

bare-walled prison cell. The heroine is in a draggled
Paisley shawl, her worn boots are unlaced, her battered
bonnet is askew. The instrument of destruction is no
jewelled dagger or gem-encrusted chalice, but,
instead of either, a common twopenny glass gin -
bottle. Yet, out of these and other similarly sordid,
squallid details, a story of human miseries shines
forth as pathetic and. s tragic in its appalling truth-
fulness as the history of Orestes or of Clytemestra.
Crowning the labours of his life, however, with a yet
more ambitious undertaking, with a single master-
piece yet worthier of his reputation than any one of
the affecting drawings in either of those two
remarkable series of " The Bottle" or 4t The
Drunkard's Children"—George Cruikshank has
here, in this astonishingly eleborate etching
(far more, to our thinking, than in the ori-
ginal oil painting from which it has now been
copied upon metal by his own hand) produced what
must henceforth be regarded as, in truth, among
all his works his opus magnum, his chef d'ceuvres, his
masterpiece. " The Worship of Bacchus"—or—as
the artist calls it by a matter-of-fact sub-title—
" The Drinking Customs of Society"—is a veritable
microcosm. It is the world-in-little, this modern
world of ours in all its phases--revealed to us at a
single glance in one marvellous engraving. It is not
a picture--it is, so to express it, a very congeries of
pictures. It is a sort of ganglionic representation
of the social nervous-system—very little of that
nervous system in a naturalor healthy condition—
almost all of it in a frightful state of disease--4
study of morbid anatomy, admitting almost of exa-
mination under the microscope. The Human Race,
as it is familiarly known to us, at these times,
-in this country, amongst ourselves, we have
here
displayed before us, under all its aspects
—from infancy to senility—from the cradle to the
coffin—from the swaddling-clothes to the winding-
sheet--from the nursery to the cemetery ! The opu-
lent and the poverty-stricken—victims of atrophy
and of elephantiasis—Lamberts and Living Skele-
tons—the handsomest and the ugliest of both sexes
—divines and blasphemers--prattling innocents and
red-handed murderers--the profound philosopher
and the drivelling idiot--soldiers and sailors, lawyers
and doctors, pagan gods and potboys, raving maniacs
and whispering lovers ! Here they all are, in hundreds
upon hundreds of figures—apparently at the first
glance jumbled together in inextricable confusion,
but, when they come to be looked at in their general
arrangement and disposition in groups, with a
readily traceable clue running, by a series of
wonderful involutions, all through the seemingly
inextricable labyrinth. Upon the canvass of the
original oil-painting, George Cruikshank was, with
all his accustomed industry, labouring (as upon a la-
bour of love) for a whole twelvemonth—but for no
more than a twelvemonth. Altogether—starting with
his first sketch of his conception-(the whole picture
presenting itself to his imagination, according to his
own account of it, at once, instanter)--altogether,
we say, the whole work, from the jotting down of
the first rough sketch until the completion of the
noble engraving of it now happily completed,
has occupied ,the Artist-Moralist during a
period of from two to three years in its produc-
tion. With the etching needle in his hand
George Cruikshank is always at his best. He is so,
here, in this strangely, almost bewilderingly elabo-
rated limning of Bacchus and his Worshippers.
Bacchus is here at the very centre, at the very sum-
mit of this comprehensive grouping of almost incal-
culable groups of his Worshippers! Bacchus himself

HER ITAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan. 26.
The Queen, attended by Lady Churchill, dr°l6
out yesterday afternoon.

The Princess of Wales also drove. deft
The Prince of Wales went out shooting, atten
by Lieut.-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the
Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps, and Captain Grey.

Railway Accidents.—Letter of the Queen'
At the meeting at Manchester on WednesdaY °
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail
the Chairman (Mr. Watkin, M.P.) said that her
Majesty the Queen had written to some of the rail-
ways centred in London, as follows :
" Sir Charles Phipps has received the cormnal
of her Majesty the Queen to call the attention °
the directors of the to the increasing nun) tber
of accidents which have lately occurred upon dg
ferent lines of railroad, and to express her Majestci
warmest hope that the directors of the --
carefully consider every means of guarding agawr,
these misfortunes, which are not at all the necesso4
accompaniments of railway travelling.
" It is not for her own safety that the Queen It
wished to provide in thus calling the attention of t':;
company to the late disasters. Her West/ -
aware that when she travels extraordinary prec3ll'
tions are taken, but it is on account of her fa'' 1;
of those travelling upon her service, and of het
people generally, that she expresses the hope tll5OB
the same security may be insured for all as is
carefully provided for herself.
to
" The Queen hopes it is unnecessary for her u
recall to the recollection of the railway directors ti`ee
heavy responsibility which they have assumed Of
they have succeeded in securing the monopol9
the means of travelling of almost the entire POPII-
- of the country.
" Osborne, 27th December, 1864."

Health of Cardinal Wiseman,
TO-DAY'S BULLETIN.
The Cardinal has passed a bad night, and
worse to-day.

The following bulletin was issued last evening
" The Cardinal has passed a rather tulciwe
night.

" W. MUNK, M.D•
" CHARLES HAWRINS'
" EDWARD TEGART•
" Thursday,yan. 26, 1865."

THE COURT.—Preparations are being made
Windsor Castle for the reception of her Majesll
and the royal family, who are expected to leave Osborn
,:
on or about the 11th or 12th of next month, and return
Windsor Castle. During the absence of the Queen a nuir
ber of workmen have been engaged in repairing a portic'
of the stone coping at the lower part of King John's Toner
and around the base of a portion of the exterior of tb:
State apartments abutting on the Grand Quadrangle. Potci
of the ancient castle buildings near the Corfew Tower, au
overhanging Thames-street, are also being restored.
His Highness the Prince of Oudh left London
yesterday on a visit to Lieut.-Colonel Palmer, at Nazills-
- Essex.

The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle are ejr„,t
pected to return to town to-morrow from Brighton, an
then to go to Clumber-park, for a short visit. Aieo
The Earl of Powis and the Countess and La-- t
Herbert have left IPowis Castle, Welshpool, for Will°l2to
Hall, Salop, where they will remain till they return
town for the season.
The Earl and Countess Delawarr arrived in tom
yesterday from visiting Mr. Hastings and Lady Elizabeth
Russel at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. 10
Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton leas
town to-morrow, on his return to Melton Mowbray.
DEATH OF LADY WILLOUGHBY DE ERES<
After a few days' illness Lady Willoughby
Eresby died at the family house on the Terrace, Picoacli!,;',:
yesterday morning at an early hour. The deceased 17:f
Clementina Sarah, who was the only daughter and Iv3P.,,ci
the late Lord Perth, was born in May, 1786, and niarrl
11°
October, 1807, the Hon. Peter Robert WilloughbY,
afterwards assumed the name of Drummond in coniut
don with that of Willoughby. The late Lady Willougll
leaves surviving issue, a son, the Hon. Alberic DruniM°lla
Willoughby, and two daughter; the Lady Avelaud
Lady Carington.