The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1.865.

LATEST MTELLIGENOE.

(RE 1,7 T E n's TELEGRAMS.)

ITALY.
ROME, APRIL 16.

To-day being Easter Sunday, the Pope officiated
pontifically at Mass, and afterwards solemnly gave
the benediction Urbi et orbi.

The French and Pontifical troops, and an im-
mense number of people, were present at the cere-

mony.
Enthusiastic cheers were raised in honour of the
Pope.

The weather is magnificent.

MEXICO.

PARIS, Arm,l6.

Official despatches received here from Mexico
announce that the work of pacification in that
country is everywhere complete.

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, APRIL 17.

Meetings have been held by the Opposition and
the majority in the Cortes, the former yesterday
and the latter the day before.
The Marquis La da Bandiera is considered unable
to form a Cabinet, and it is thought probable that
the Count d'Avila will be summoned by the King.

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 17.

SPEECH OF THE EMPEROR.

The Emperor received the deputation with the
Address of the Corps Legislatif at 2 p.m. yesterday.
His. Majesty thanked the deputation, and added :
" Every year you defend with firmness the funda-
mental laws which maintain a just equilibrium be-
tween the powers of the State. The :country is
grateful to you for this. Under the present regime
its life is being developed. It sees administrative
obstacles disappear, progress is insured, and secu-
rity guaranteed. By the electoral movement and
the voice of the Tribune and the press, it feels that
it is free. Thus far from wishing to cut down the
tree which has borne good fruit, the mass of the
labouring classes, the classes who possess, the men
who remember, and those who hear and read, fear
the abuse of liberty even more than the abuse of
power. Continue your labours, the object of
which is the moral and material improvement of
individuals by the education and labour of the
commune and the department, and the extension
of their powers.' Without incessantly wishing to
change everything, let us be content with bringing
a fresh stone to the edifice, the foundation of which
is broad and cannot be raised too high."
His Majesty's speech was received with applause.

The members of the Cercle Imperial have held a
general meeting to nominate a President in the
place of the late Duke de Morny, and Gen. Fleury
was elected by a largy majority.
Prince Napoleon, it is said, will prolong his stay
at Prangin, on the Lake of Geneva, until the end of
the month. The Prince took with him Col. Ragon,
Dr. Yvan, and M. Hubaine, his secretary.
General de Wimpffen has left Paris for the
African colony, to take the command of the Algiers
division.

BOURSE, April 15.—Transactions in the market
are checked by the nature of the American news,
and more ample information is awaited for. Threes,
for the Account, are now at 67f. 75c. Italian Loan,
65f. 85c. Mobilier have been done at 820 f. Rail-

way Shares are inactive. The market closed as
follows:

41 per Cents - 96
Do. end month ___.

Italian Loan 65 80
Do. end month 65 95
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Rome Debt —
Deferred
41 -
RAILWAYS.

3 per Cents. _ 67 60

DO. end month 67 75

Credit Mobilier ... 813 75

Do. end month ... 810

Bank Shares 3550

Cr3dit Fonder 1290

Roman —

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern 1055 ... 1060
Lyons and Mediterranean 970 ... 972 50
Southern 6OB 75 ... 610
Western 530 ... 528 75
Eastern 526 25 ... 530
.
Sardinian 305 ...

...
Austrian
Lombard 550 ... 551 25
North of Spain
...
Saragossa 385 ...
Ditto to Barcelona — ...

THE PRINCE OF WALES IN IRELAND.-" Erin-go-
Bragh" writes to us :—" May I ask you if the Prince of
Wales is to come in a princely or regal manner—as ho will
be received—or as an ordinary passenger by the mail-boat ?
The Admiralty should place half-a_dozen of our crack
vessels to attend the Royal yachts,"

AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE 'AT LIVERPOOL
THIS YEAR.—The following steamers are due at Liverpool
this week with the American and Canadian mails, viz.
The City of Manchester, Damascus, and Asia. The former
two, with dates from New York on the Bth, and Portland
with corresponding advices, may be looked for off Crook-
haven or Queenstown in the course of Wednesday. On
Saturday next the Asia, with dates from Boston to April
12, and Halifax to the morning of the 14th, will no doubt
reach Crookhaven or Queenstown,

GALLANT ENCOUNTER WITH BURGLARS.—At the
Nottingham Borough Police office on Saturday
morning last John Jones, George Braham, and William
Littlewood were taken before the sitting magistrate, charged
with an attempted burglary at the house of Mr. Taylor, in
Lincoln-street. Taylor's house joins up to the shop of Mr.
Lovell, a watchmaker and .jeweller, and appears to the
casual observer to be part of his premises. Mr. Taylor and
his wife were sleeping in a room over the house place, and
about two o'clock on Thursday morning Mrs. Taylor was
awoke by a "scratching noise," which appeared to come
from the shutters of the house-window. She aroused her
husband, and told him there was some one at the shutters.
At first he said it was all nonsense, but, as the sound con-
tinued, he eventually got up and threw up the sash of the
bedroom window, and after telling her that the house-
shutters were open, leaped out into the yard, making
a remark, at the same time, that there were three
men outside. His wifo went down stairs, and on going
out found him struggling with a man in the narrow pas-
sage. An alarm was then raised, and Sergeant Atkinson
came up and took the man into custody. After jumping
out of the window Mr. Taylor seiad two of the burglars,
who made a desperate attack upon him, kicking him about
the legs in a fearful manner, and striking him violently on
the head and face. Having nothing on bilt his shirt, their
kicks and blows took great effect ; but, though one of the
men got away and attempted to force him to release the
other, he hold him until the police officer had handcuffed
him. The prisoner gave the name of John Jones. Mr.
Taylor was so seriously injured that it was thought advis-
able to call up Mr. Brookhouse, surgeon, who stitched up
the principal wound, which is on the shin. The other
two men were apprehended on Thursday night by Mr.
Chief Constable Hedington. Both of them were identified
as having been seen late on Wednesday night loitering
near the place where the burglary was attempted. As
Taylor was unable to appear, owing to the injuries he had
received, the case was remanded for a week.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The contractors
for the Spalding and March extension of this sys-
tem have erected a temporary bridge across the Welland,
over which the ballast waggons are daily running. The
permanent way is now laid for several miles from the
junction with the Great Northern. A number of men
are engaged in improving the gradients of the loop line, as
it is proposed to divert along this part of the system a con-
siderable portion of the coal traffic which now passes over
the main line, and which is found to interfere with th,
lighter traffic. The directors have entered into a provi-
sional agreement to work a proposed line from Spelsby
to Forsley at 60 per cent. of the gross traffic receipts.
THE EXPLOSION IN THE BOROUGH.—DEATH OF
ONE OF THE SUFFERERS.—It will be recollected that
when the first explosion took place on the premises of
Messrs. Tilleard and Sons, the oil and Italian warehouse-
men in Great Suffolk-street, Borough, on Tuesday last,
two police-constables attempted to rescue Mrs. Tilleard
from the first-floor window of the house in question by-
means of a ladder, which they placed against the front of
the shop.- When they were bringing Mrs. Tilleard down
the ladder, a second explosion taking place, the unfortu-
nate deceased and the two constables were thrown from
the ladder on to the granite pavement beneath. Mrs. Til-
beard was afterwards removed to No. 25, Great Suffolk-
street, where she was attended by Mr. Sleeman, surgeon,
but her injuries were so severe that life was from the
first despaired of. Iler death took place on Friday night
at 6 o'clock.

The Volunteer Review at Brighton,

If the indications presenting themselves at
Brighton yesterday afforded anything like a fair
test of the interest taken in the Volunteer Review
of to-day, there can be little doubt that it will prove
the most successful that has yet been held. The
liberal arrangements of the railway company in-
duced and enabled an unusually large number of
Volunteers to convert the occasion into something
more than a hasty and fatiguing run to Brighton
and back, and to spend not merely a few hours, but
a few days at the sea-side. Accordingly, out of
the total estimated attendance of 22,000 men, for
which, by the returns sent in to the War-office,
provision had been made, it was calculated up
to midday yesterday that only 16,000 re-
mained still to be looked for. The residue had
already travelled down either in companies by
extra volunteer trains, or as individual passengers
by those starting at the regular hours. The rail-
way authorities speak of the number of civilians
conveyed by their line during the last two or three
days as something unprecedented. A rough, but a
very fair test of this traffic is afforded by the number
of cab fares from the Brighton terminus. Volunteers,
as everybody knows, carry with them the requisites
for their brief holiday in a very small compass,
and, in fact, pride themselves upon the compactness
and portability of all such impedimenta. Those, on
the contrary, who drive from the station in cabs for
the most part give pledges to fortune in the shape
of luggage, and thus show that they are civilian tra-
vellers. On Friday 1,300 cab fares were registered
as leaving the station, and on Saturday 1,236. In a
town of such magnitude es Brighton it seems dan-
gerous to hazard the opinion that all available ac-
commodation is absorbed, but, certainly, appearances,
in the concurrent testimony of fresh arrivals who
seek in vain for consolation at hotels, strongly tend
to favour that view. The townspeople, warned by
last year's migration to Guilford, and the anxiety
shown in many influential quarters that the review
this year should be held at Dover, had taken active
steps with a view of regaining and securing the
affections of the Volunteers. One sore point has
always been the exactions of the farmers for in-
jury done to their crops in the course of the
evolutions. To meet, and if possible anticipate,
objections on this score a guarantee fund of con-
siderable amount has been raised in the town, and
a further amount of £3OO was subscribed and placed
in the hands of the Match Committee of the Ist
Sussex Volunteers, with a view to the organiza-
tion of rifle matches that might prove attractive to
the visitors. As the object was not to make a profit of
the competition, but to obtain as many competitors
as possible, it was made a sine qua non by the sub-
scribers that the fees upon entrance should be of very
moderate amount ; these were accordingly fixed at
2s. 6d. A point likewise was conceded to the Volun-
teers upon which the experience of Wimbledon has
shown that a strong feeling exists—namely, that in
proportioning the amounts of the several prizes re-
gard should be had to achievements of the artillery
carbine equally with those of the long Enfield. Up
to Friday morning just 70 entries had been made,
and the Match Committee naturally believed that if
they made arrangements so as to admit of the in-
crease of this number to 450 they would be leaving
an ample margin. Volunteers, however, flocked down
in such unexpected force that on Saturday there
were upwards of 1,000 entries, and it consequently
became impossible to finish the prize shooting that
evening. The scene in Sheepcote-valley, where the
ranges of the Ist Sussex Rifle Volunteers are situ-
ated, was exceedingly picturesque. Marquees were
erected, everything was carried on strictly according
to rule, and for a time the place assumed quite
the aspect of a miniature Wimbledon, with this ad-
vantage, moreover, of being upon undulating instead
of perfectly level ground. The day was all that could
be desired for the purpose; and as the Volunteers
and spectators strolled about the Downs or col-
lected
at points to which for the moment the greatest
interest attached to the scene, either as a whole or
broken up into detached groups, was one present- '
ing charming subjects for the artist.
Yesterday was as bright and warm as one could
wish for in August, and every one is in high spirits
consequently. Already several thousands of volun-
teers have arrived, and yesterday morning Brighton
assumed an appearance something like a garrison
town, but during the day the military element was
increased with a wonderful rapidity; the streets are
thronged with volunteers ; and those who are latest
in arriving find it no small difficulty to obtain
sleeping accommodation. The difficulty in this re-
spect is increased by the large influx of excur-
sionists, who make the review the pretext for getting
a day or two at the sea side.

MONDAY Morning.
The excitement and bustle of the approaching
review commenced at a very early hour this morn-
ing. The first impulse of every one of the hundreds
of volunteers who had taken up their quarters at
Brighton on Saturday and Sunday was, doubtless,
the drawing up of the window blinds to scan the
state of the weather. Few of the shops were open,
but the town was astir at an early hour ; the first
train arriving about 7 a.m., and the succeeding ones

arriving about ten minutes after each other.- The
arrangements for the town and country corps were
very closely observed, so that notwithstanding the
rapid arrival of the trains there was nothing of con-
fusion or delay, and nothing could be a better proof
of the discipline and intelligence of the men than the.
rapidity with which the tumultuous crowd disgorged
from . the reeking carriages, in a few minutes as-
sumed order, and was marched away. Each corps
as it arrived at the station marched off to the ren-
dezvous marked out for it in the town ; and the
local authorities of Brighton had set apart the open
space north of St. Peter's Church, known as the
Inclosure, St. Peter's Churchyard, the North Steyne,
and the Pavilion Gardens for this purpose. The
quartermaster's department of the service seemed to
have increased immensely since the last visit of the
Volunteers to Brighton, for most of the corps, espe-
cially those which started early found a welcome
breakfast ready provided for them.

On the order being given to fall in, some time
was occupied in the process of incorporating into

the contingents just arrived those members of the
same regiment who had been on the spot since
Saturday or Sunday. The stragglers, however,
having returned to their duty, the process of brigad-

ing was commenced and completed with less trouble
than was expected, and the battalions began to move
off in the direction of the same cause.

The windows, "as well- as the streets, were
crowded with spectators, and along the roads which
were not occupied by the Volunteers, streams of
vehicles followed steadily up-hill.
The following is the plan of battle to be per-
formed this afternoon :

Having reached the southern extremity of the
race-course and eastern side of the Queen's Park, the
massing the troops, preparatory to the march past, will
take place. The saluting flag will be placed a little
to the south of the Grand Stand, and here the com-
manding and inspecting officer, Major-General Sir
R. Walpole, K.C.8., with Colonel Erskine, inspec-
tor general of Volunteers, and the staff will take
post, and the march past with the advance of the
regular Cavalry (6th Dragoon Guards) in squadrons,
followed by the various brigades of Artillery, and
the first division of Infantry under the command of
Major-General D. Russell, C.B. The first division
having been appointed as the defending force will,
on reaching the windmill at the southern end of
the racecourse, deploy to the left, and keep-
ing the high ground on the western side
of the valley of the Lower Bevendean, take up the
ground allotted as their first position of defence,
their rear resting on Coldean, Stanmer Park, and
Palmer. The defending force will be supported by
the cavalry, the first and third brigades of field
batteries, and the Garrison Brigade, under com-
mand of Lieut.-Colonel W. Richards. The enemy
constituting the attack are supposed to have effected
a landing upon the coast, and with a view to avoid
a collision with the tremendously strong and almost
impregnable garrison of the fown, are making their
way from the sea over the downs, in the direction
of the London-road, when reaching the heights of
Upper Bevendean they are for the first time aware
of the fact that a powerful defending army are
awaiting their advance on the opposite ridge, in

a very strong position, the whole force drawn
up in line of battle. The attacking enemy imme-
diately deploy, and form line of battle from
the defending force. The action then commences
with various successes, and a grand struggle takes
place for the mastery at the bottom of the valley,
where Lower Bevendean is situate. That which is
1 , termed " Lower Bevendean" is a small farm and a
series of outhouses and buildings—a sort of Hougo-
mont, the struggle for and possession of which are
hotly contested, but which ultimately falls into the
hands of the enemy, the defending force being driven
back and compelled to change their front, till at
last, by the manoeuvring of the enemy, they have
assumed that which is designated on Wyld's Plan
as the second position of the attacking and defend-
ing forces, the right flank of the attack and the
left flank of the defence resting on Falmer and
Stanmore Park. Having attained this position the
field-day evolutions will be brought to a close, and
the First Division will march off the ground by
means of an outlet leading by Hotshrove into the
Lewes road, and so on past the cavalry barracks to
the Level, while the Second Division will return
the way they came, along Upper Bevendean and
the race-course, through Bedford-street, and the
Marine Parade, to their respective enclosures, from
which they will march to the railway station on
their return journey.
The arrangements at the London-bridge Ter-
minus and the Victoria Station of the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway were perfect in
every particular ; and notwithstanding the immense
number of persons, as well as the thousands of
Volunteers, to be conveyed from town, the trains
left with the greatest regularity and rapidity.
Outside the respective stations, from a very early
hour, crowds of persons were collected to witness
the departure of various regiments of Volunteers.