The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-26 00:00:00

Lyons and Mediterranean.

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Wilful Damage.

. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
S IR, —We shall be glad if you will give publicity to the fol-
lowing account of wilful damage, as the information might
be of benefit to other tradesmen, and may, by making the
circumstance public, enable others to take precautions
against their property being destroyed. On Wednesday
evening last, a few minutes before nine o'clock, a missile,
either from an air gun, catapult, or from the hand, wit
thrown at one of our plate-glass windows, breaking it.
On the following morning we discovered that another had
been broken, probably about the same time ; on Thursday
evening, five minutes past eight, a third was broken. We
are of opinion that the missiles were discharged at our
building from a vehicle, in which opinion the police with
whom we have communicated coincide. We have offered
a reward of five pounds for the conviction of the offender,
as per enclosed copy of advertisement, which appears in
to-day's Sun. Trusting the insertion of this in your in-
fluential paper will prevent a repetition of the offence,—We
are, sir, your obedient servants,
London, Aug. 25. E. Mons AND SON.

CONTINENTAL HOTEL CHARGES.—The resources
of hotelkeepers in imagining new items for increas-
ing their charges are yet far from being exhausted. At
Interlaken kurtaxe has been introduced into the hotel bills
for music and tau ! The landlord of an hotel at Heyst, a
bathing place in Belgium, has even surpassed his Swiss
colleague in ingeuity. In the sallo h manger is placed an
old piano constantly open, and should any of the inmates,
in a moment of absence of mind run his or her fingers along
the keys, or wile away a dull quarter of an hour in playing
an air, a charge for the use of the instrument will inevitably
be set down in the bill.
CINCHONA.—A writer in the Queensland Guardian
says that the cinchona plant is indigenous in that
colony. It grows plentifully at Gayndab, and very abun-
dantly in the Burnett dishict. I have seen it on the banks
of the Mary River, as well as in the interior of the Wide
wporchee.ifacesiostinhonetyaol
Bay country. Visitors to Sandgate can either eat the
leaves, pluck the berries, or drink the juice of the bark
I have seen, and have now in my possession, a very excel-
lent tincture, a homoeopathic preparation, prepared by a
the trees overhanging the sea.
emshaonuldinbethwisalicnitgy,towthryiciht
oifnlilhlanveessarney:
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quiring quinine.
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BUCHAREST, Aug. 15.
The following are fuller details of this day's out-
break than have yet been given :
" As early as 6 a.m. a considerable crowd of par-
tially armed people rushed into the Hotel de Ville.
In a moment all windows and furniture in the build-
ing were smashed, the archives torn to pieces and
thrown into the street. As soon as the insurgents
observed that infantry was being moved up they
barricaded the doors, and offered so stubborn a re-
sistance to the troops, that it was not until many
had fallen upon both sides that the place was carried
at the point of the bayonet. The number of killed
and wounded was considerable.
" Armed men on horseback at the same time gal-
loped through the streets, calling upon the people to
band together and attack the palace. Crowds by
this means soon collected in the principal streets,
which offered considerable resistance to the troops.
A body of men in the Lipskanin-street three times
repelled charges of cavalry, and it was not until the
troops were reinforced that they succeeded in dis-
persing the rioters. A major, several officers of
lower rank, and a large number of soldiers a):1,1 in-
surgents fell at this point, some killed, others badly
wounded.
"By 11 a.m. all the principal squares and govern-
ment buildings were held by the military; the small
arm fire continued till about four in the afternoon.
At this hour shots were fired from four houses in
the Belvedere-street against troops marching by
(among them artillery), through which several sol-
diers were killed and wounded. Major Dunka,
in command of the detachment, immediately planted
his guns in front of these houses and literally bat-
tered them down. The insurgents and inhabitants
in the four houses were all crushed beneath the
ruins.

" At about half-past five, a violent thunderstorm,
succeeded_by heavy falls of rain, put an end to the
small-arm fire. By nine in the evening, when this
report left, strong detachments of infantry, cavalry,
and artillery occupied the principal streets, and
bivouacked in the squares. The people appear only
to have been ultimately dispersed by the violence of
the weather. The military hospital has just been
cleared of all the patients to make room for the
wounded soldiers, whose number seems very large.
" P.S.—lntelligence has just been received from
a well informed source that the original plan of the
insurgents was to have surprised and captured the
Ministers, and other unpopular persons, when as-
sembled early in the morning in the Catholic church
to celebrate the fete of the Emperor Napoleon.
This was, however, frustrated by the police, who,
having been informed of what was intended, warned
the Ministers and enabled them to escape into the
War Ministry, which was defended by a strong
body of troops. The insurgents only found in the
church the French consul, whom they did not
molest."

The Neue Freie Presse of Vienna, August 21,
publishes the following communication from a cor-
respondent in Bucharest, dated August 16 :
" The occurrences of yesterday are already so
far intelligible as to permit the decided assertion
that the Couza Government availed itself of a riot
—possibly brought about by its own intrigues—to
introduce a reign of terror by means of the soldiery
it kept ready for the purpose. While the number
of the rioters, who were only armed with clubs and
loaded sticks, at the most amounted to from 150 to
200 men, the garrison, consisting at present of fully
15,000 horse and foot armed with sabres, pikes,
muskets, and cannon, moved out and directed its
attack, in default of any other enemy, upon the
harmless population. The savageness and brutality
are incredible with which the military fell upon men,
women, and children, peacefully pursuing their
ordinary avocations. The cavalry instituted a per-
fect chase through the streets of the town with pikes
and sabres, in which the age and sex of their vic-
tims were matters of perfect indifference. Men
quietly at work were assailed with lances and swords
until they fell, and were even then trodden under-
foot and stabbed. Women were dragged by the
hair by the mounted Dorobantzes, and children
under twelve years were struck until they fell. All
these exploits were performed, not only on unarmed
persons, but upon those having no sort of connection
with the outbreak, and who bad neither been ver-
bally nor by proclamation cautioned not to enter
the streets. Among those thus ill-used were many
Austrian subjects, including the dragoman of the
consulate, who received a thrust from a lance in the
breast while engaged in the duties of his office.
After dark every civilian who left his dwelling was
struck down or dragged off by the soldiers, notwith-
standing no orders to remain at home bad been
issued. In short, the military, excited by brandy
and the speeches of their officers to barbarous
ferocity, fulfilled the orders they received from
their superiors so thoroughly, that a complete panic
now obtains. A proclamation by the ministerial
council was issued this morning, praising the con-
duct of the soldiers, and the ministers have not felt
ashamed to append their names to this atrocious
document. The tranquility of fear and despair pre-
vails in the town, and the only hope of the popula-
tion is, that the great powers will no longer stand
idly by while all human rights are thus shamefully
trodden under foot in a country placed under their
protection.

A letter from Bucharest in the Constitutionnel
says :
" I have waited two days before writing to you
about the disturbances here, the causes and ten-
dencies of which might at first appear uncertain.
This day, however, all doubt is removed, as those
troubles are evidently the sanguinary result of the
coalition of parties in the chamber during the last
three years. In presence of this coalition of the
most opposite principles, public feeling cannot blame
with sufficient severity those who, under a futile
pretext, have lent their aid to a revolt against a Go-
vernment which M. Bratiano, one of the chiefs of
the revolt, in a letter addressed to the Prefect of
Police, calls " the expression of the national will."
The object of the movement, openly acknowledged
by the leaders, was the downfall of Prince Couza.
In order to estimate the full signification of this
programme, it may be useful to remember that the
actual Chief of the State is the personification of
the new regime against which all the old parties are
struggling. Whatever in fact be the faults of the
existing administration none can refuse it the merit
of developing, with the support of the
Western Powers, the principles contained in
the demands put forth by the divans ad hoc in
1857, and in the Convention of Paris in 1858,
namely, equality of all before the law, universal
suffrage, the rural code, and, lastly, union. The
late revolt, had it triumphed, would by the force of
circumstances have become a revolution. Did then
the insurgents, in overthrowing Prince Alexander,
hope to preserve the exisiting institutions ? If such
a thought could have entered their minds, the same
idea certainly did not guide the more practical men
of the party with which the liberals have erroneously
associated themselves. Those men know full well
that if the present order were subverted, there
would be a forced march towards the restoration of
the old regime, even were that impossible restoration
to be carried out, as it was before, by the aid of
foreign bayonets. People would be glad to see in
the late revolt a purely local incident attributable
to the inexperience of the authorities. Unfortu-
nately there is every reason to believe that it was
the result of a conspiracy of discontented or ambi-
tious parties, themselves led on by some chiefs
whose names are openly pronounced by the public.
Thus we, in our turn, shall have had our " day of
dupes."

A communication from the same place in the,
Nord, written before the outbreak, accounts for the
rising differently. It says :
" The situation of the finances continues to inspire
the greatest uneasiness. The waste in the manage-
ment of the public money has finished by exhausting
the resources and credit of the State. Instead of
retrenching useless expenditure from the budget,
regulating the collection of taxes, and adopting
serious measures, the ministries which have suc-
ceeded each other since the union have done nothing
but levy new- imposts, which, while paralysing the
productive forces of the country, have hardly been
of any avail in relieving the treasury. The present

Minister, M. Crezalesco, being at the end of his
resources, has finished by introducing the tobacco
monopoly. He was himself formerly opposed to
the project, which had been already presented by
the preceding Cabinet, and which he withdrew on
his accession to power. The adoption of this new
tax will not fail to excite great discontent. The
mode of applying the decree is besides as objec-
tionable as the measure itself is in principle ; the
holders of tobacco, among whom are a large number
of foreigners, will be bound to deliver up their mer-
chandise annually by the Ist August at fixed prices,
against a payment partly in cash (from 5 to 20 per
cent., according to the quantity) and partly in
Treasury bonds payable at from three to 12 months.
The enemies of Prince Couza appear to be prepar-
ing to take advantage of those causes of 'discontent.
The radical fraction of the opposition is especially
provoking a decisive action, although its influence
has considerably diminished for some time past. A
certain agitation which might be taken for the pre-
cursor of a serious movement is felt throughout the
country.