The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-01 00:00:00

I'HE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, IEC.:.

his proceedings, while the moral support which
several foreign representatives offered to the
Chilian Government was a suitable pledge of
the course certain to be adopted by free and
independent nations. Seen, however, in the light
of Senor CASTRO'S epistle to the Spanish Ambas-
sador at Paris, all this looks very different. Chili
is clearly in the wrong, Spain has been wonderfully
forbearing, and the prime agents in bringing about
the present difficulty have been the members of the
Diplomatic Body at Chili ! The only excuse that
can possibly be made for them is, that though they
have probably served their diplomatic apprentice-
ship a good many years since, they are not as yet
fully aware of the exact measure of respect and
attention due to the dignity of Spain. Judging
by the ordinary rules of international courtesies
and diplomatic etiquette they committed the most
egregious blunders, and forgetting that they had
to deal with the countrymen of that hidalgo who
objected to walking on the earth, they did not
sacrifice every other consideration and hasten to
tender their homage to the great Admiral Ambas-
sador. They should not even have delayed this
tribute to impress upon the Chilian Ministers their
obligations towards Spain, since that should have
been long before. Had they properly employed their
leisure in the interval between the 12th of Septem-
ber,when, to quote Senor CASTRO, " the approaching
arrival of the new Plenipotentiary with his squadron
was known at Santiago," and the 17th, when that
sublime individual actually appeared, they would
have taught the Chilian rulers to hear reason, and
have been ready themselves to hurry to the feet of
the new Plenipotentiary. But these mistaken diplo-
mats committed another and more flagrant error.
None of them thought proper to visit the Admiral
on his arrival, nor did they bestir themselves in the
interval between the 17th and 21st, the respective
dates of the Admiral's Note and its reply. The
Diplomatic Body, it is true, were 90 miles off, assist-
ing in the celebration of the national fetes at San-
tiago. But what of that ? Feasts and fasts, joy and
sorrow, every consideration, religious, national, or
political should give way when Spanish dignity is at
stake. At least, says Senor CASTRO, willing to show
his indulgence, had there been any sign of good in-
tentions, the offenders should have offered in writ-
ing to employ their good offices at a useful time and
opportunity. Their neglect was the more unfor-
tunate, because the instructions of Admiral PAREJA
contemplated the probability of the Diplomatic Body
visiting him immediately upon his arrival at
Valparaiso, and he had been consequently desired to
engage in conference with that body and interest
it, so far as his dignity would permit, in a prompt
and pacific arrangement." Two favourable oppor-
tunities, says Senor CASTRO, were therefore lost—
the first being the interval before the arrival of the
Admiral, when it was known that the Spanish Go-
vernment disapproved of Senor TAVIRA'S modera-
tion ; the second being the interval between the
Admiral's Note and the Chilian reply. To this
negligence or delay on the part of the various Con-
suls and Charges d'Affaires Senor CASTRO attributes
the whole mischief. " The deduction," he says,
"may be clearly drawn that, if inspired by so laud-
able a desire, the foreign Diplomatic Body had pro-
fited by these propitious occasions, it is very pro-
bable that the disadvantages commerce is now suf-
fering might have been avoided, and which we are
sincerely the first to, deplore." Consequently we
learn from Senor CASTRO that while all the com-
mercial nations of the world are denouncing the
conduct of Spain they have really only their own
representatives to thank for the losses and incon-
veniences from which they are suffering. The only
consolation that these guilty diplomatists can feel
under the weighty displeasure of the Admiral and
the Minister is that they are all included, and that
the burden, divided between England, France, and
America, to say nothing of minor powers, need tiOt
absolutely annihilate each individual offender.
But the tone of Senor CASTRO'S note is really
alarming. An affront has been put upon
Spanish dignity, and half the world is concerned in
the offence. We see, by the fate of Chili, what a
serious business it is to provoke the displeasure of
the Dons. Will the Cabinet at Madrid take each
offender in turn, or will they chastise the cul-
prits collectively ? We had better hasten to ten-
der the expression of our humiliation and regret
at Madrid, lest we may see Admiral PAREJA
steaming into Plymouth or Southampton, armed
with the full terrors of an ultimatum. The other
nations of Europe and the United States have
all so deeply offended them that there will, in
our cue, be no "favourable opportunity" or
"propitious occasion" for friendly offices or im-
partial negotiations. The prospect is alarming.
In the mean time the first part of our punish-
ment is begun in the injury inflicted on our com-
mercial interests, respecting which Senor CASTRO
gives us very little encouragement. No Govern-
ment, he says, can take them into account, and
there have been frequent instances of blockades
extending for :months, and even for years. As
" no one, can be blind to the fact that right is on
the side of Spain," Senor CASTRO gently hints that
the combined consideration of the justice of the
Spanish cause and the damage done to commerce
will induce the Governments immediately concerned
to exert their influence to bring Chili to terms, after
which perhaps they may hope to be forgiven for
their previous neglect and mismanagement.
There is, however, a shorter way of working the
problem, and a simpler conclusion to be arrived at,
which seems from the natural perversity of our
insular nation to commend itself more strongly to
the rude and undignified inhabitants of Great
Britain. They have heard of blockades being raised
by extraneous forces, and are credulous enough to
believe that such an achievement is within their
power. An English man of war usually proves a
good beginning, and since diplomacy is so ineffec-
tive they are inclined to try a new form of elo-
quence. There is yet time for us to try the virtu-
ous indignation plan, especially the arguments
which we can bring upon the scene may alter the
aspect of affairs at Valpairaiso, and moderate the
views of Senor CASTRO as to the requirements of
Spanish dignity.

AMONG THE DIVERSIONS OF CO3IPIkGNE is a dra-
matic piece called " Les Commentaires de Cesar,"
played on Monday night by persons attached to or visiting
the Court. Among the dramatis persona are the Prince
Imperial, who represented the future ; M. Merimee, acade-
mician and senator, the past ; a lady, Madame de Poilly,
who played au African ; and the Princess Metternich, wife
of the Austrian Ambassador, who appeared as a cabman
out on strike. Tho last-named lady will also, it is said,
play in two other characters, one of which is that of a female
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singer at the Cafe Chantant, the Alcazar, the well-known
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therebtteer are few actresses of the minor houses who could
or more naturally express the peculiar phraseology
of the Paris cabman.

CAUTION TO TOURISTS.—On Tuesday a lady and
gentleman from the neighbourhood of Peterborough,
who are on a visit at West Lulworth, sailed forth to ex-
plore the beauties of the Durdle rock and cliffs. In attempt:
ing a descent to the beach below the lady turned dizzy,
and losing her foothold, was precipitated with great velo-
city down the side of the cliff, for a distance of 30 yards,
where she fell over a kind of promontory, a distance of 14
feet, and after rolling 15 or 20 yards further her perilous
course was arrested by a furze bush. But for this she must
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LA TEST. INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TE L E GFAII S. )

FRANCE.

On the occasion of the first performance of the
".Africaine" at Berlin, the Queen of Prussia sent
Mme. Meyerbeer a valuable vase, accompanied by
a gracious autograph letter. Queen Augusta has
always been a fervent admirer of Meyerbeer. The
widow of the illustrious maestro has made presents
to the principal artists who sing in the " Africaine"
in the Prussian capital.
Dr. Barth, celebrated for the great journey he
made ten years ago into the interior of Afric has
just died suddenly at Berlin.
The Civil Tribunal of the Seine has just given
judgment in an action brought by MM. Gerard and
Co., against M. Choudens, both music publishers,
of Paris, to recover damages for an infringement of
their copyright in the " Joyeuses Commeres de
Windsor," an opera by Nicolai, originally published
at Berlin with a German libretto by Mosenthal.
The counsel for the plaintiffs stated that his clients
had purchased from MM. Bote and Bock of Berlin,
to whom Nicolai and Mosenthal had sold their
opera, the right of publishing a French edition of
the work in question, the libretto of which had been
translated from German into French by M. Danglas.
The defendant had also published the music of the
opera with words by M. Jules Barbier, and this,
they alleged, was an infringement of their rights,
for which they were entitled to compensation. The
defendants' counsel argued, on the other hand, that
as Nicolai died in 1849, the copyright of the music
expired in 1863, and that his client was entitled to
publish it with a libretto taken, like Mosenthal's,
from Shakspere's " Merry Wives of Windsor." He
maintained that though Mosenthal was still living,
and his copyright of the libretto still existed, that
fact could not prolong the copyright of the music
beyond the term fixed by the law of 1793. The
Avocat-General declared that the copyright of the
music had undoubtedly expired, and that any per-
son had a right to adapt fresh words to it from
Shakspere's comedy ; consequently, the plaintiffs'
claims could not be maintained. The Tribunal
taking the same view of the case, gave judgment
for the defendant with costs.
The demands for admission to the Universal Ex-
hibition of 1867 in Franoe alone received by M.
Leplay, Commissary-General, amounted to upwards
of 15,000 at the end of October.
A correspondent of the Temps states that the
peculiar character of the insanity of Dr. Jobert de
Lamballe, the eminent surgeon, is an almost total
loss of memory. What he says one minute he has
entirely forgotten the next. Several times in the
course of a day he will tell his attendants to get his
carriage ready, ?s he has important calls to make.
When informed that the carriage is waiting, he will
hastily go out, but before he has taken ten steps he
forgets all about his intended visits and returns to
his room. The general opinion of Dr. de Lamballe's
medical attendants is that his insanity belongs to a
category which experience has hitherto proved to
be incurable. It is said that Dr. Nelaton will suc-
ceed him as surgeon to the Imperial family.
The Journal de Falaise announces that an appli-
cation for the concession of a railway from that place
to Conde, by Pout d'Ouilly, with a branch to the
line from Caen to Flers, has just been made to the
Prefect of Calvados by M. Granier de Cassignac,
as representative of a powerful company.
A letter from Fleury-sur-Andello (Eure) says that
at the end of last week a troop of wolves came down
at night on the flocks of M. Hardi, a farmer at
Coquetot, and in spite of the dogs, who resisted
bravely, scattered the sheep in all directions. On
the following morning the shepherd found that 12
of them had been slaughtered, and several other;
severely mangled, have since died.
An Imperial decree makes the following appoint-
ments in the Legion of Honour, for services rendered
during the cholera :—To the rank of officer, Dr.
Japhet, chief physician of the navy and sanitary
practitioner at Smyrna. To that of Knight, M.
Horteloup, attached as medical attendant to the
mission sent to Egypt ; M. Verguin, in a similar
position on board the packets of the Messageries-
Imperiales ; M. Gery, medical man at Sollis-Pont
(Var) ; M. Gayal, student of the Faculty of Mont-
pellier, sent on a mission to Toulon and to the Grand
Combe.

The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric situation yesterday :
" The tempest in the Channel was spreading on
Tuesday evening to all the French coasts. At six
o'clock the wind was violent in the French ports,
and the sea, furious at Havre and Rochefort, was
running high at Lorient, at the angle of the Bay of
Biscay, and on the coasts of .Provence. At that
time the barometer marked 747.5 millimetres at
Paris, and the centre of depression .was between
London and Havre. 'This morning the gale was di-
minishing in violence, its centre continuing to march
towards the east, and approaching the Helder. The
sea is still rough at Boulogne, on the coasts of Pro-
vence, and in the Bay of Biscay. The winds are
fresh in the Channel. On Tuesday evening there
was an aurora borealis in Lapland." In Paris yes-
terday the sky was tolerably clear and the tempe-
rature seasonable. At three the thermometer marked
10.8 Cent. (51 2-5 Fahr).

BOURSE, Nov. 30.—Two o'Clock.—The reponse
des primes (option) has just taken place at the fol-
lowing rates :—Three per Cents. 68f. 55c. ; Italian
Fives 64f. 95c., Credit Mobilier, 867 fr. 50e. ; Spa-
nish Mobilier, 453 f. 75c. ; Lombards, 408 f. 75c. ;
Immobiliere, 536 f. 25c. No sooner was the opera-
tion of fixing the prices accomplished than sales
caused Rente to retrograde Tic.—to 68f. 47ic.
French and Spanish Mobilier show a decline of
2f. 50c. Very little business doing in the Railway
department. Lombard Shares have advanced 3f.
75c., whilst North of Spain have declined 5f., and
Saragossa 3f. 75c. The weekly return of the Bank
of France shows a further increase of nearly 4f
millions of francs in the bullion account, and a de-
crease of 47 millions in the portefeuille. Three
o'clock.—The market became buoyant towards the
Following improved quota-

close, and left off at the
tions :

4i per Cents —
Do. end month
3 per Cents.
Do. end month 6B 50
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares —
Credit Foncier 1320
Italian Loan —

Do. end month 65 -
BAIL'

Roman --
Ottoman Fives 44
Mexican Loan 49

Do. Bonds 332 50
Russian -
Austrian
Spanish Threes 43
Home Debt
Deferred

rAYS.
Cash.

Orleans
Northern

I ••O '''..".

Acct.
... 822
... 1098

Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian

- - 826 -
- ... 566 -
-- --- ••• 538
- - 516 --
- - 207 -

Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman ,

- - ... 418 -
- - ... 411 -
- - ... 162 -
- - ... 192 ---

- ... 150 -,

London and Provincial Turkish Bath Co•
(Limited.)

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

76, Jermyn-street, S.W., London, Nov. 30, 1865.
SlR,—The half-yearly meeting of the London and Pro-
vincial Turkish Bath Co. (Limited) took place this day at
two o'clock, at No. 76, Jermyn-street—S. E. Rolland, Esq.,
in the chair.

The report showed that the income of the company
during the past six months had very much exceeded that of
the corresponding period of last year, and a dividend at
the rate of 6 per cent. per annum was declared.
In addition to this dividend, a sum equal to 5 per cent.
per annum has been paid to the original shareholders for
the time prior to the commencement of the working of the
company. The increase during the past six months, and
especially that of the past two months, warrants the anti-
cipation of a higher dividend in the future.
A proposal was then submitted and approved for the
reconstruction of the hotel, and for increased accommoda-
tion for bathers.

A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro-
ceedings.

I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
J. O'NELL, Secretary.

Tho Hon. Georgo Stafford Jerningham, her
Majesty's Minister at Peru, and Mrs. Jerningham, have
left Maurigy's Hotel on a visit to Mrs. Fitzherbert,
Swinnerton. Park, Staffordshire.