The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-22 00:00:00

711 E AB'.

The Trafalgar, 89, 500-horse power, Capt. the
Hon. T. Bain), sailed from the Nore on Monday
for the Mediterranean, calling at Portsmouth for
final orders.

The Revenge, screw line-of-battle'ship, Capt.
Charles Fellowes, flagship of Rear-Admiral Robert
Smart, K.H., went out of Portsmouth harbour
yesterday morning, at high water, and joined the
Channel fleet and other men-of-war at Spithead.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty:—Edward G. L. Street,
master, to the Russell, for the Coastguard ; Dr.
Thomas Warden, assist.-surgeon, to the Pysche ;
James Thomson, assist.-surgeon, to the Woolwich
Division of the Royal Marines; Alex. Minnoch,assist.
surgeon, to the Fisgard, additional ; Thos. G. Slade,
chief-engineer, to the Barrosa ; G. Griffiths, en-
gineer, to the Psyche ; W. A. Elliott, engineer, to
the Blenheim ; for service in her tender ; T. Sum-
mers, engineer, to the Asia, for the Enchantess; A.
Smith and J. Gray, first-class assist-engineers, to
the Psyche ; J. Rice, first-class assist.-engineer, to
the Asia, as supernumerary ; W. Roberts, first-
class-assist.-engineer, to the Indus, for the Zephyr;
A. Bullions, second-class assist.-engineer, to the
Psyche; A. Sitchie ; supernumerary in the Asia,
confirmed as second-class assist.-engineer ; the Hon.
E. A. Pery, midshipman, to the Leopard ; and W,
S. Allnutt, clerk, to the Indus. Mr. D. Wilson,
Mr. W. Edney, Mr. R. Borrows, M.D., and Mr. C.
M'Carihy, assist: surgeons, have been promoted to
be surgeons in her Majesty's fleet.

A letter
little
from
confidence
Mexico,
dated Sept. 13, says
have
thepresent courier arriv-
ing in time for the French packet I shall do no more
than send you a short account of what has taken
place since the date of my last.
Juarez and his party have sustained a severe loss
in the death of Zaragoza; he was seized with typhus,
which is raging to a frightful extent in the Mexi-
can camp, and expired on Saturday last. Zaragoza
had acquired a high reputation by repulsing the
French in their attack on the " Cerro de Guade-
loupe" on the sth of May, and possessed the confidence
of Lis troops to a greater extent than any other Mexi-
can General. The opinion of his country men is
summed up in the following lines, printed in large
letters, and posted at the corners of all the streets:—
" He died unconquered, and in the page of history
neither God nor man can tarnish his glory." What-
ever may have been his qualifications as a general,
he was undoubtedly a man of energy and courage, and
what is more to his credit, I cannot learn that his con-
duct has ever been tainted by deeds of cruelty.
Gonzals Ortega has succeeded to his command, but
whether he will be retained in that position seems
more than doubtful. Some say that Comonfort has
been applied to, others that Uraga has been sent
for. The former is not like to accept of any com-
mand under Juarez, having already allied himself
with Fidauri and Doblado ; and the latter, although
a military man of some repute, cannot be expected
to do much against the veterans of France with a
force of 8,000 or 9,000 men, badly paid, worse fed,
and composed almost entirely of raw recruits. In
spite of all these disadvantages, Juarez seems bent
upon resistance. Puebla has been strongly forti-
fied, and upwards of 2,000 men are daily employed
upon the earthworks around this city. To man
these earthworks, extending as they do over a
circuit of some ten or twelve miles, would require
at least 30,000 men, and as the Government
scarcely possesses as many hundreds, it is difficult
to see what good can result from this useless expen-
diture of money and labour. Much dissatisfaction
has been created of late by the different proprie-
tors of estates being obliged to send all their
labourers to work at these fortifications, supply-
ing them with tools and paying them at the rate
of Is. 6d. per day. Many of the papers suggest
that foreigners should be made to work, and it may
come to this at last. It is still confidently asserted
that upon the approaCh of the French the upper
lake will be let out and the city laid under water.
An order of the President was published a few
days back directing all the priests to lay aside
their distinctive dresses, and appear in ordinary
costume. As most of these men, since the confisca-
tion of their property, have no means of providing
themselves with lay habiliments, the order is con-
sidered as oppressive and unjust. I informed you,
in one of my previous communications, that the Go•
yernment bad determined upon nationalising, or,
in other words, appropriating all the property be-
longing to schools, hospitals, and other charities.
Some of these establishments have already been
disposed of, much to the scandal of the inhabi-
tants, and only a few days back the Collegio de
las Nines, a very large establishment for the edu-
cation of young women, was ordered to be sold.
Nothing can warrant such an act of spoliation, and
it is only surprising that the people tamely submit
to it. Almost all the charitable institutions with
which this capital abounded were founded by Spa-
niards, and were mostly of a private nature; the
act, therefore, is the more arbitrary and the less jus-
tifiable ; in fact, it can be viewed in no other light
than an attack upon a species of property which has
always been held sacred in every other part of the
world.

I have just been furnished with the following ac
count of the murder of M. Collenot at his hacienda,
about a league from Cordova, by a party of Carava-
jal's men. M. Collenot was formerly manager of
some ironworks in the neighbourhood of this city,
and was nephew of M. Legrand, the gentle-
man in whose house Capt. Aldham was so hospita-
bly received and so kindly attended to.
"On the 12th of August some 50 or 60 soldiers
entered the courtyard of the hacienda. Mr. Col-
lenot had not time to ask them what they wanted,
when one of the men, without the least provoca-
tion, shot him through the chest. Mortally
wounded, and having only a few minutes to live,
he had strength enough to rush to the apartment of
his wife, with the hope of saving her. She fortu-
natelyescaped into the woods, notwithstanding that
the miscreants fired several shots at her. Collenot,
seeing the wife safe, took his gun down, had just
ng
whenon shedead.ofHisenough
washorribly
found that her
husband had been thus barbarously murdered may
be imagined but cannot be described."
settrtbodyr to fire
wife
The case has been brought to the knowledge of
Baron Wagner, but it is not likely that any repara-
tion will be obtained, or that the Government will
even dare to reprimand the ofh
'cer who sanctioned
and witnessed this barbarity.
Some 3,000 French troops landed at Vera Cruz
the latter end of last month, and to-day it is confi-
dently asserted that General Forey, with 4,000
more, arrived off that port on the 7th or Bth. The

LEEDS, Oct. 21.—The weather was not very fa-
vourable for business in the cloth halls this morning,
and the attendance was rather small. Sales to a
moderate extent of seasonable fabrics were effected;
but as the great bulk of the trade for winter goods,
so far as the manufacturers are concerned, is now
over, and it is too early for much being done for the
spring trade, the markets have worn a quiet aspect.
In the warehouses, too, there is not much activity,
though the business doing is considered of a satis-
factory character. The same amount of employment
which we have lately had to report as prevailing
throughout the woollen district of the West Riding
continues, and while there is not much short time
working, there is overtime working in some parts,
those of heavy and cheap fabrics, orders of which
for America are making up. The local wool trade
is not very brisk, but prices rule firm.
NEWPORT, MONMOUTHSHIRE, Oct. 20.—The
two staple trades of the district are in a buoyant
condition. Soma extensive orders have lately been
received for rails, and prices are becoming more and
more firm. Merchant bars are also in good request,
as well as sheets and other descriptions of iron.
Rails command at the works £5 17s. 6d. to £6, and
merchant bars £5 12s. 6d. to £sl7s, 6d. The coal
trade is brisk, as is usual at this time of the year,
and preparations are being made by several of the
local colliery proprietors for increasing their supply.
The Abercarn Colliery will shortly commence
working, and employment will thus be given to 300
or 400 additional men. The following are the ave-
rage quotations for coals, free on board. Steam,
7s. 3d. to Bs. ; house, 88. to 9s. The tin works of
the district show increased inactivity, and there is
some hope of a revival in this branch of business.
The advance in the raw material proves that
smelters are sanguine as regards future prospects,
and !tinplates having in consequence been selling
at from 6d. to ls. per box higher than previous
quotations.
ROCHDALE, Oct. 20.--Owing to the unfavourable
character of the weather there was not quite so
large an attendance of buyers to-day as last Mon-
day. All things considered, a fair amount of busi-
ness was done in flannels, especially in the finer
qualities and in fancies. As there has for some time
been a good demand, stocks in the hands of manu-
facturers are not large. Indeed, although the manu-
facturers keep well employed they take care not to
accumulate much stock. There is a good sale for
Yorkshire goods, and the prices of them, as well as
those of flannels, keep firm. The same may be said,
too, as respects those of wool.

The French steam sloop Rhin, from Rochfort, ar-
rived on the 16th inst. with the Japanese Ambassa-
dors, for whom the Portuguese Government had
provided apartments at the Braganza Hotel.
Princess Clotilde and her husband, Prince Jerome
Napoleon, were hourly expected at Lisbon when
the Tartar left.

Her Majesty's ship Flying Fish arrived at Lis-
bon on the 16th, from the Island of Ascension, to
coal.

The Brazilian war steamsloop Imperial Marin-
heiro left Lisbon on the 13th.

The Royal Mail steamer Oneida, from South-
ampton on the 9th, arrived at Lisbon on the 13th,
and left on the same day for St. Vincent and the
Brazils.

The steamship Catalonian, from Liverpool,
arrived on the 15th, and the Russian steamer Vests
on the same day from Odessa.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

(From the Weekly Colonist, Aug. 26.)

The following extract frrom a report received
thin day from the Assistant Gold Commissioner of
the Cariboo district is herewith published for gene-
ral information.

WILLIAM A. G. YOUNG.
Colonial Secretary's-office, Aug. 20.

" MR. ELWYN TO TILE COLONIAL SECRETARY.
" Williams' Creek, July 13.
_

"At the time of my visit to Lightning there were nearly
1,000 men on that creek and its tributaries, some engaged
in opening out their claims, the majority prospecting.
Lightning is considered a difficult creek to work, its waters
being affected by every shower of rain ; a rise of two feet
during an afternoon is by no means an uncommon oc-
currence.

d‘ In spite of this disadvantage, the creek, I am convinced,
will be most extensively worked. At the time of my visit
the claim owners had not commenced to take out gold, and
I am, therefore, unable to report with certainty as to the
richness of the claims. I have no hesitation, however, in
stating as my firm belief that Lightning will be found
second only in importance to the creek from which I write.
At the junction of Van Winkle with Lightning Creek a
town has already sprung up, and, unless I am greatly mis-
taken, will become the depot for the whole of the present
mining district.

" The rich lead on this (Williams') creek, hitherto only
found in Steel and Co.'s and a few other claims near the
town, has at last been 'struck' at a point on the right bank
of the creek, about a mile above where the lead was lost.
In addition to this the lead has also been found at two points
between and in a straight line with the places above men-
tioned, showing almost conclusively that the lead runs the
entire distance, and most probably beyond,as far as the Bald
Mountain, from which the creek takes its rise, a distance of
about three miles and a half.

" The importanee of this discovery can hardly be over-
estimated. I believe most firmly that in a month's time
gold will bo taken out of this creek to the value of at least
£20,000 per diem. Such is the confidence men now have in
Williams' Creek lead that claims in a line with those lately
discovered are selling as high as £BOO, though unprospected.
"On Antler Creek the claims aro being rapidly opened
and worked with great success.
" A great many new creeks, most of them supposed to be
rich, have been discovered since the date of my last report.
"I would submit that, as a gold-field, the prospects of the
country could hardly be better. Many old miners have
stated to me as their belief that British Columbia will sur-
pass both Australia and California.
On the other hand I regret to report that the great scar-
city, and consequent high price of provisions,is, for the pre-
sent, not only crippling every man in the mines, but forcing
very many to return. I fear that few will be able to pass
the winter in Cariboo this winter for want of provisions.
The present rate of supply by no means equals the demand,
and I am at a loss to conceive how any surplus stock can
be laid in for winter use. By far the majority of the claims
on this creek are in the bank, and, could provisions by any
means be brought up, claims would be worked (tunnel) all
the year round, and many men unsuccessful during the
summer could then get employment during the winter
months.

" There is a report up here that merchants do not wish
to send up supplies because as yet no money has been
taken out to pay for them. I can hardly believe that an
idea so absurd can have had any weight either with the
British Columbia or Victoria merchants. Not one sack of
flour has been sold in the district this season without cash
payment.

" I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, ,
" T. ELWYN.'

THE RECTORSHIP OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—
The Morning Journal of Thursday says that the Liberal
party of the University of Glasgow propose to nominate
Lord Palmerston to the office of Lord Rector at the forth-
coming election in that university.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.--On. Sunday morning
as the 10 o'clock fast train oa the North Kent line was
nearing Erith station on the wayto Stroud the engine-
driver saw a boy, of about 12 or Im3 years of age, being pur-
sued by a bull from the adjoining arshes. The boy got on
the line, calculating that the animal would not venture on
the metals. He judged wrongly, however, for the animal
dashed over the fence, and had just reached the down
metals, when the noise of the whistle caused it to hesitate
;or a moment and incline its head towards the engine,
at the instant it was struck on the right shouler by and
near buffer, and the guard-iron in front, having entered the
the
body, tore it up in such a manner that death must have
been instantaneous. The engine passed on uninjured, and
the boy had been fortunately delivered from 1118 danger.

SUCCESS.

(From Les Ifiserables.)

Success, we may say in passing, is a hideous affair
enough. Men aro taken in by its spurious resemblance to
merit. In the eyes of the multitude, to get on has much
the same profile as to be absolutely the best. Success, that
Menechmus of talent, has one dupe : history. Juvenal and
Tacitus are the only ones who kick at it. In the present
day it keeps at its beck a kind of official philosophy, which
wears the livery of success and dances attendance in its
ante-chamber. Get on : and what follows ? To be in clover
is to be clever. You win at a lottery, and you are set down
as an able man. It is the winner who is worshipped• Be
born with a silver spoon, and your fortune's made. Have
ask pack h
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but luck, and the rest won't lag behind. Be but fortunate,
and you will be thought great. With five or six immense
exceptions, which are the glory of an age,thilladdinmgirgaotienonfnorf
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a Moses, an lEschylus, a Dante, a Michael Angelo, or a
Napoleon, are awarded by the multitude, "at one go and
by acclamation, to any one who makes a good hit in no
himself into a deputy,
matter what. Let au attorney turn
a sham Corneille write a Tiridales,
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pasteboard for the army of SamaubretTe°t-Meuse, and with this
pasteboard which he sells for leathweirthm
come of 400,000 francs, let a ether to bed of seven or eight
take Usury to wife, and bring
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about in the soft mud of a boggy ground.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said it was found that the establishment of
the Indian Carrying Company was indispensable
for developing the full advantages of the rail way
system, and, judging from European analogy and
experience, there was every reason to expect that
it would realise as great pecuniary benefits as its
prototype in this country. It was the Pickford's
of the East, and already promised to take its place
at an early period among the most useful institu-
tions of the country. The directors had been for-
tunate in their selection of the managers, who ha&
shown themselves fully deserving the confidence re-
posed in them. Waggons of various descriptions
suited to the several localities had been built
and despatched to India, with ironwork for con-
structing others of the wood of the country.
The company's managers had received the cor-
dial assistance of the merchants, of the Government
officers, and of the agents and engineers of the rail-
way companies, and had enlisted the good will of
those engaged in limited local carrying operations
by intimating their readiness to co-operate with or
to employ them. The directors had exercised the
utmost economy consistent with effectually accom-
plishing the object in view, and the funds Which
they had invested exclusively in Government secu-
rities were now worth upwards of £l,OOO more
than when invested, besides having yielded
nearly £5OO for interest. (Hear, hear.) Carrying
stock was constructed and shipped sufficient to
commence work in each Presidency at the cost of a
few thousand pounds, leaving invested a sufficient
sum to increase the supply of cattle and waggons as
required by the increasing demands of the traffic,
and to render it unnecessary at present, and pro-
bably for some time to come, either to issue a further
portion of capital or to call up any more upon the
shares already issued.

Mr. J. WALKER seconded the motion for the
adoption of the report.

After a few observations from Mr. G. SMITH and
other shareholders the report was unanimously
adopted ; the retiring directors, Sir M. Stephenson,
Mr. S. G. Frith, Mr. Norton, Mr. P. D. Hadow, Mr.
Hartridge, Mr. J. F. Leith, Mr. G. Norton, Mr .J.
Stewart, Mr. J. Walker, and Mr. A. Wilson were
re-elected ; Mr. J. E. Coleman and another share-
holder were elected auditors of the company, and
they were to receive 25 guineas each per annum for
their services.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
to the chairman and directors.

THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH AND
GLASGOVRAILWAY.—Another death resulting from this
accident is reported, making the total number of deaths 18.
Mr. Isaac Marr, fruiterer, Falkirk, who was on Sunday
night so dangerously ill, in the infirmary, that it was not
expected he would survive the night, breathed his last at 5
o'clock on Monday morning. Harvey, the Scots Grey, and
M'Donald and Allison, still continue in a dangerous state';
but all the others are progressing favourably. By the latest
accounts from Linlithgow, we learn that Mr. Shaw, of Fal-
kirk, Mr. Brown, East Fortune, and Miss Isabella Wood,
Leith, are still very dangerously in.—Scotsman.
The Chief Constable of Cheshire reports that the
distress in the manufacturing districts of the county is on
the increase, and many of the evil-disposed avail them..
selves of the opportunity and circumstances thus produced
to impose on the charitable, or commit depredations, al-
though the hard-working operatives themselves continue
to hold their high character free from crime, and to bear
their sufferings with a firm and peaceful resignation.
SINGULUR COINCIDENCES.--A series of singular
coincidences in connection with the demise of no less than
three of the Presidents excited extraordinary interest at the
time of the occurrence, and are still referred to as among
the most remarkable of their class. On the 4th of July,
1826, being the fiftieth anniversary of the birthday of the
nation, died John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the imme-
diate successors of Washington in the executive office. They
were both originally lawyers, both members of the Congress
which declared the national independence, both on the com-
mittee by which the declaration itself was reported. One
was actually the author of that memorable instrument, and
the other one of its strongest advisers and supporters, while
both signed it ; both were subsequently employed on foreign
missions, both became Vice-Presidents, and both, finally,
Presidents; and both having assisted so materially at the
nation's birth, and watched and fostered its growth for
exactly half a century, sank at almost the same moment
into their final rest, and their memories received jointly
the funereal honours bestowed upon them by their mourn-
ing country. It is doubtful if a parallel can be found any-
where in the pages of history. But to add to this extraor-
dinary record, the death of James Monroe, the fifth Presi-
dent, occurred just five years later,
also on the 4th of July. in the year 1831, and
Although he had not been per-
Independence,
sonally connected with the history of the Declaration of
yet he had afterwards been one of its firmest
defenders, and owed his eminence to its existence and per-
petuation. Singularly enough, also, John Quincey Adams,
sixth President, and Monroe's immediate successor, died on
the 22d February—another anniversary little less sacred
to Americans than that of the 4th of July, viz., that of the
birthday of Washington.—Macmillan's Magazine.
A NEGRO PHENOMENON.—Physically, and in
animal temperament, this negro ranks next to the lowest
Guinea type : with strong appetites and gross bodily health
—except in one particular, to be mentioned hereafter. In
the everyday apparent intellect, in reason or judgment, he
is but one degree above an idiot—incapable of comprehend-
ing the simplest conversation on ordinary topics—amused
____________=.7.-_ or enraged with trifles, such as would affect a child of three
BRUTAL MURDER OF A GIRL.--HEREFORD, rues-
years old. On the other side, his affections are alive, even
day.—Last night Mary Corbett, a girl of 16 or 17 years of vehement, delicate in their instinct as a dog'sor an infant's ;
age,
in the service of Mr. Skerrett, farmer, of Ullinswick, he will detect the step of anyone dear to him, in a crowd,
'
in thivounty, was sent by her mistress to a shop at some
and will burst into tears,
hat if not kindly spoken to. His
he can repeat, without the loss
distance to purchase some candles. As she did not return
nifenlo a discourse of fifteen minutes in length, f
during the nigh', a search was set on foot by the parish
whichsyllable, he dces not understand a word. Songs, too, in French
constable and others, which resulted in the finding of the
body in an orchard. Marks were first discovered near to
or German, after a single hearing, he renders not only lite-
the side of the turnpike road, along which the girl would
e,
rgll in words, but in notes, style, and expression His have to pass, and it appeared as if two or three persons had voice, however, is discordant, and of small compass. In
mmic, his boy of 12 years old, born blind, utterly ignorant
been there engaged in a struggle. From this spot footmarks
were somewhat indistinctly traced across some fields into an of a note, ignorant of every phase of so-called musical
science, interprets severely classical composers with a clear-
orchard, where they discovered the body of the poor girl in
ness of conception in which he excels, and a skill in me-
such a state underneath a tree as to lead to the conclusion
charism equal to our second-rate artists. His concerts
that her person had been violated. Her neck bore marks
usually include any themes selected by the auch.esnee, from
as if she had been strangled, the ribbon of her bonnet, which
the higher grades of Italian or German oper
understand 11:
that not an
ha; t iI ic
o r catPo r e:
was on, having been pressed into the skin of her neck,
hension of the meaning of music, as a_pwmerp
while her mouth was full of blood. The authorities were t
fe
whatever 'lB
at once informed of the sad event, and the Hertfordshiremastery
fingering,
constabulary force having been put into operation, two
of the mere material part
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bfeewren souls
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withsds e s 8 ,
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YePbeut means to him, rama-
men, named George Hope and Wm. Wenner, one of whom
ts. One could fancy is a returned convict, were at once suspected of being con-
end, as with rn—intent or soul of the theme.yTon,
was
What God
nected in some way with the offence. The body was re-
never traitor to
thet
to by this moved to the Prince of Wales public-house, where Mr. Nor the Devil mean say or that harmony, what
e man cried aloud to another • 1 hi
the soul of one tic effects, and
ns:t fort?.
mi, t sboy•
the coroner for this division of the county, will
to that faithful •
Lanwerne,
suspected knows, and is awitness.—biekens's cc
hold an inquest on Thursday next. The men
(4.
the Year Round."
had been drinking at a public-house in the neighbourhood.