The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-07 00:00:00

THEISITN, LONDON, FRIDAY 'EVENING, NOVE3IBER, 7, 1862.

back either on their own people or on the descendant
of the BEAumAurrAis, who, Greek by religion,
would be acceptable to Russia, and not offensive to
France." As to all which we are scarcely disposed
for our own part to content ourselves with adding
simply, with an incredulous shrug of the shoulders,
Pious verrons. France is not yet the absolute arbi-
ter of Christendom. Her influence is large, doubt-
less, in the councils of nations; but it is not para-
mount. Agreeable enough to the reigning dynasty
would it be of course to aid (in the absence of any
likelihood of advancing the Prince NAPOLEON to
the crown of Greece) in investing with that diadem
the brow of the grandson of the Prince EUGENE
BEAUHARNAIS, sometime Viceroy of VICTOR EM-
MANUEL'S kingdom ! His Majesty NAPO-
LEON 111. being himself the offspring of
the beloved sister of that same Prince EUGENE,
the fair and gifted Queen HORTENSE. But
even while admitting all these as probabilities,
we cannot at all regard as conclusively setting aside
the claim of H.R.H. the young Prince ALFRED, the
simple consideration that such a selection is pro-
hibited by the 1831 compact. Why, the Settle-
ment of 1831 has proved, after thirty tedious years'
trial, to have been no settlement at all. The bond
is torn asunder, and the fragments of it are scat-
tered to the four winds of Heaven. The settlement
of Greece will have now to be recommenced. It will
have to be az ranged de novo. A new dynasty—
chosen this time irrespectively of all former con-
siderations—will have to be appointed. Greece—if
the principle of non-intervention has any signifi-
cance at all—has a complete carte blanche in the
exercise of this selection. If the popular will there
is to have any value whatever, there must be no
further talk of any kind, now in 1862, as there for-
merly was in 1832, of this or that royal family being
debarred from the privilege of having one of its
scions chosen by the Greek multitude to be their
Sovereign.

As another of our weekly contemporaries, the
Examiner, reasonably enough remarks—" The case
of the Greek succession h as been frequently brought
before the European Powers, but their representa-
tives could never agree even upon the preliminaries
of the question. It now comes before them in a
peremptory manner, and it is to be expected the
choice may be made without thetr particspahon. The
Greeks have the example of Italian plebiscite be-
fore them, and they may hurry to a conclUsion. The
tendency to look abroad is not extinct. Even one of
the English princes has been named at Athens as
likely to receive an offer of the throne of Greece."
The writer adding here bluntly, " The Duke DE
LETICHTENBERG, proclaimed King of Greece
under French and Russian auspices, would not
please us." Again we repeat—if there is to be any-
thing whatever attempted in the way of applying
the principle of non-intervention to the approach-
ing settlement of the affairs of Greece, by the Greeks
themselves, the latter must in reason be permitted
by the five Great Powers to choose their new
monarch at their own absolute free will and pleasure
without let or hindrance, without a whisper being
heard of any prohibition whatsoever.

PLYMOUTH, Thursday.—The ship Strathallan,
551 tons, Captain Isaac Paddle, belonging to Mr. Fother•
ingham, London, has passed up Channel for the Thames.
She left Tuticorin July 21, with 2,708 bales of cotton, 100
tons copper ore, 71 tons plumbago, 10 logs timber, and 25
tons coir yarn. She spoke, July 23, lat 450 N., long
79 9 E., the British ship Englishman, from Cardiff for Cey-
lon ; August 27, lat 34 57 S., long 23 30 E., the American
ship Amity, from Moulmein; Sept. 3, lat 30 30 S., long
11 25 E., tho British barque Earl of Mar and Kellie, from
Simons Town for London ; Oct. 4, lat 12 26 N., long 28 25
W., the ship Latonia, 28 days from London, for Singapore,
and the French ship Tonquin, 98 days from Calcutta, for
Havre de Grace ; 20th, lat 36 30 N., long 36 26 W., the
American ship Sarah March, 13 days from Boston, for Rio
de Janeiro -, Nov. 1, lat 49, long 10 20, the .A.merioan. ship
Robert Cashman, steering west ; and 3d, off Portland, the
American ship Portland, steering up Channel. The Strath-
allan took her departure December 1, 1861, from the Isle of
%Tight for Swan River, whither she conveyed his Excel-
lency the GoraruvL of "W 001..., A
charged cargo at Adelaide, proceeded to Colombo under
charter, and eventually loaded a full cargo of cotton at Tu-
ticorin. _ _ _

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The Court of Assizes of Bona (Algeria) last
week tried an Arab, named Ali ben Arfa, for the murder
of Fathma, the wife of a farmer named Abdallah, residing
at Fedjoud, and for attempting to murder Abdallah him-
self. It appears from the indictment that, on the night of
4th Aug. last, Abdallah was awakened by cries for help pro-
ceeding from his wife's tent, on entering which he saw her
lying on the ground, and over her stood a man who was
stabbing her with a knife. Abdallah seized themurderer and
threw him down, but was himself stabbed in the breast and
was obliged to loose his hold. The assailant then fled, but
Abdallah, though seriously wounded, pursued and overtook
him, when he received a second stab in the abdomen, and
fell down insensible. The inmates of a neighbouring douar,
hearing the noise, hastened to the spot and found Fathma
expiring and Abdallah in a swoon. The woman died
without being able to utter a words but her husband soon
recovered, and accused Ali ben Arfa, his wife's cousin, as
the assassin. When arrested, the prisoner protested that
he had passed the whole night on the threshing-floor of the
douar, in company with several others, but those persons
all deposed that he had left them just after the moon
went down, which was between eight and nine
o'clock, shortly before the murder was committed.
That the prisoner was the man who wounded Abdal-
lah there could be no doubt, but as it transpired that he
was known to have an intrigue with Fathma, it seemed
not unlikely that Abdallah had surprised them when
together, and had murdered his wife to avenge her
adultery. As there was no evidence to clear up that
point, the jury acquitted the prisoner on the charge of
murdering the woman, but found him guilty on that of
attempting to murder the husband, allowing him the
benefit of extenuating circumstances. The Court sentenced
the prisoner to eight years' imprisonment. Notice of appeal
was immediately given by the prisoner's counsel.

The Gazette des Tribunaux has the following :
"A gendarme was a few days back conducting a man,
named L---, whom he had just arrested for stealing a
rabbit, along the high road, near Versailles, when he per,
ceived, at a short distance from him, a liberated convict
whom the police were in search of. The position was em-
barrassing, and the gendarme, thinking it would be better
to run the risk of losing the less guilty of the two and en-
deavour to overtake the one whose capture was of the
greatest importance, said to his prisoner, I must run after
the man you see yonder, but I trust to your honour not to
escape. I leave you here, but expect to find you when I
return.' Since you hare that confidence in me,' returned
the other, you shall not repent it, as I will help you to
catch your man.' The man then started cif, and not being
embarrassed with a heavy uniform like the gendarme, soon
overtook the man they were in pursuit of, and held him
until the gendarme came up. It is to be hoped that the
tribunal will take this circumstance into consideration when
the rabbit-stealer is brought before it."
The Prussian steamer corvette Gazelle, which
has been for some time lying in Dantzic roadstead, has
received orders to leave for the coast of Eastern Asia to
protect German commerce and watch over the execution
of the recently concluded treaties. She is to call at Gib-
raltar, land the monument which is to be erected there in
memory of the sailors who were killed by the pirates of the
Rif.

The Independance says • —The loss sustained
by hoarding up money has just been exemplified at Ostend.
A respectable female, aged 83, feeling her end approach,
called her son to her, and told him to look in a certain
place where he would find a bag containing a sum of
money, which belonged to him, and which she advised him
to make good use of. She had, she said, laid it by for him
in 1820, on the day of his first communion. The son found
in the bag 671 Dutch 10-florin pieces (about 14,000 fr.)
Had the old lady placed the sum out at compound interest,
her son would now have had a fortune of more than
100,000 fr. _ _

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terestingiliELtrAiallVisOFThe vali-
dity of a marriage contracted in 1848 between Cou
S—
and the daughter of a non-commissioned officer of thetGs--,
who had been employed in the corps de ballet of the Opera,ard
was disputed on the ground of irregularity of rank. The
superior tribunal of Berlin declared the marriage valid,act-
ing upon a rescript of 1746, by which non-commissioned
officers and their children are assimilated to the upper bour-
geois class. But this judgment has been cancelled, and the
cause sent back to be tried again. The defendant, the son
of the Countess S--, pleads that his mother was a very
skilful dancer; that she danced solos ; that consequently
she was an artist, and belonged therefore to the upper bour-
geois class. Thus it is upon the question of whether this
lady danced more or less cleverly that the validity of the
marriage depends. The law upon marriage presented so
many times, suppressed this absurd distinction of ranks ;
consequently the Chamber of Peers has always refused to
I vote it,—Coiogne Gazette.

1 THE COAL SUPPLY TO THE METROPOLIS.—The
I supply of coal to the metropolis for the month of October
last still shows a decline on the tonnage of last year, the
total quantity for October, 1861, being 150,283 tons 6 cwt,
against 134,226 tons 1 cwt for the month that has just ex-
pired. The London and North-Western has conveyed
69,793 tons 12 cwt ; Great Northern, 30,717 tons 7 cwt ;
Midland, 19,210 tons; Great Eastern, 13,644 tons 8 cwt;
Great IVestern, 7,874 tons; Soutll-Western, 1,556 tons 2
cwt; South-Eastern, 1,317 tons 16 cwt; Chatbam and
Dover, 89 tons 16 cwt ; and Tilbury and Southend, 23 tons.
The Grand Junction Canal has carried 1,190 tons 15 cwt,
against 1,733 tons 5 cwt for the corresponding month of last
year. The total supply for the present 10 months of 1862
is 1,186,450 tons 17 cwt, against 1,358,323 tons 19 cwt for
the same period of 1861, or a decrease of 171,873 tons 2
cwt. Of seaborne coal we have had 105,708 tons from
Newcastle; from Seaham, 25,490 ; Sunderland, 86,052 ;
Middlesborough, 6,413 ; Hartlepool and West Hartlepool,
55,058 ; Blyth, 2,990 ; Scotch, 3,074 ; Welsh, 9,047 ; York-
shire, 4,695 ; Liverpool, 51; Duff, 249 ; small coal, 1,592 ;
and cinders, 2,526 tons. The month shows an increase of
fiom 299,560 tons for 1861 to 302,845 tons for October in
the present year, but upon the aggregate for the year we
have declined not less than 109,073 tons, the tonnage being
from the Ist of January to the present time 2,770,459 tons,
against 2,879,532 tons from the Ist of January to the 31st
of October, 1861. The diminution by canal, railway, and
sea amounts to no less than 286,505 tons, and that quantity
less has been conveyed this year than for the corresponding
period of 1861.
It is said that Bombay has already been enriched
to the extent of nearly £4,000,000 by the advance in the
price of cotton, one Parsee alone having cleared £BOO,OOO
by his speculations in that article, whilst other firms have
done nearly the same.
GREAT FIRE AT HuLL.-015,000 DAMAGES.—
Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, a fire of a very
alarming and destructive character broke out in the ware-
house of Messrs. J. S. Thompson and Co. merchants,
Lime-street, Groves, Hull. About four o'clock it was
discovered that the flames had communicated to the old
Sugar House, and, as there were no hopes of extin-
guishing the fire in the warehouse of Messrs. Thompson,
the firemen directed their attention to saving the Sugar
House. A length of hose was conveyed to the roof, a
height of 85 feet, by Inspector Dorsey and, a small body of
men, who forced an entrance into the place, and made their
way on to the roaf, by means of a dilapidated staircase.
Having got on the roof, a line was lowered to the grouiad,
ana one riuo. rivro,„a 1". water -.vas the played
on to an upper storey, in which the flames had hrnizen oat.
In about half-an-hour the police succeeded in extinguishing
the flames, and thus preventing the destruction of the Sugar
House. The damage is estimated at £15,000, against which
there is no insurance.
PRISON TREATMENT.—Yesterday afternoon an
inquiry was instituted by Dr. Lankester, at the Clerkenwel,
House of Correction, touching the death of John Smith
aged 37, who had been sentenced to a month's imprisonment
under the Vagrancy Act. The deceased was admitted to
the gaol on the 20th ult. He had, he stated, not a friend in
the world. He was attacked with fever, and was conse-
quently removed eight days afterwards into the infirmary.
The infirmary nurse and one of the prisoners gave evidence
showing the treatment of the deceased. He had beef tea,
mutton broth, and six glasses of wino per diem. He died
on Friday last. Mr. W. Smiles, the medical officer, said
that on the 28th ult. he saw the deceased at seven in the
morning, and, finding him suffering from fever and con-
gestion of the lungs, he at once sent him to the infirmary.
He was in a weakly condition, although he looked robust,
and he had been lying about obtaining shelter for the night
wherever he could. He was also suffering from prolapsus of
the bowels, with bleeding, which considerably weakened
him. On the day of his death he was seized with epileptic
convulsions, which eventually carried him off. The Coro-
ner, having viewed the prisoner's dietary scale, remarked
that he had held an inquest on the previous evening in
which it was shown that the inmates of the " separation
ward" at St. Pancras Workhouse had meat only once a
week, and it therefore appeared that prisoners frequently
got more attention than paupers. Ho thought it was not
quite fair as regarded the workhouses. He thought that
prisoners were better attended to than paupers, In this
case the deceased had an epileptic seizure, supervening on
an attack of typhoid fever, which, acting together, had
caused death. The jury returned a verdict of " Death from
natural causes."
PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY AT THE
EAST-END.—Yesterday afternoon orders were received by
the several superintendents of the G, H, K, and N divi-
sions from the chief officer of the Metropolitan Police Com-
missioners, Great Scotland-yard, for an additional supply of
mounted police and other constables for night duty, in con-
sequence of the increase of garotte and other daring rob-
beries after nightfall. At the extreme eastern portion of the
metropolis numerous burglaries have been perpetrated with
violence. In the district of the H division, situated be-
tween Bow and Stratford, the public carriage way and the
adjacent thoroughfares are badly lighted, and but very i m-
perfectly protected by the police. The police authorities
have likewise issued printed notices to the housekeepers to
properly secure that front doors and back premises, as
organised gangs of garotters and housebreakers are prowl-
ing about at all hours of the night in search of plunder.
The Court of A... Leos "f arm. Ain L.o ilaot tried
man named Cochet, aged 40, on a charge of attempting to
murder a widow named Chaffot, aged 71, residing at
cage-la-yule. The victim of this crime lived alone, dud
cultivated a piece of land belonging to herself. She was in
easy circumstances, and her husband, who died a few
months before, left her 3,000 f. in cash, which she kept in
the house, and that fact was known to all the village. On
the evening of the 2d August last, while the poor woman
was milking her cow in the stable, a man suddenly entered
and asked some question about her son, which she had
scarcely answered when she was knocked down by repeated
blows with the coulter of a plough. Her assailant then
went away, after tying the door with a cord, and hid him-
self in a plot of hemp close by, apparently to wait till dark
before he entered the house to search for the money. Not-
withstanding seven severe wounds on the head, Madame
Chaffot so n came to herself, and having got out of the
stable by cutting the cord which fastened the door, she
raised an alarm. Some neighbours immediately came to
her assistance, and as they passed the hemp-plot, they saw
a man run away. The description they gave of this indi-
vidual exactly corresponded with that of the prisoner, who
was accordingly arrested, and it was established beyond all
doubt that ho had been lurking about the place before the
crime, and was the man who had been seen in the hemp
field. Several persons also deposed that he had been mak-
ing indirect inquiries respecting the widow Chaffot and her
property. The prisoner, who was a rather good-looking
man, and possessed of considerable intelligence, stoutly
denied the charge, but was unable to give any satisfactory
account of how he had passed his time on the evening of
the crime. The victim herself could not positively identify
him, as she was knocked down almost as soon as she saw
her assailant. The jury, however, thinking the evidence
conclusive, found the prisoner guilty, and the Court sen-
tenlcendEhivmito
LlllsERyesarss'ChAaNrDd
SCANDAL.--If any Churchman,
in the innocence of his heart, believes that public opinion
will avail to secure the right administration of Church
patronage, let him note the facts connected with the second
piece of jobbery from which the family of Bishop Villiers
have profited within the short space of two years. Surely
the public outcry was loud enough when the bishop gave
his son-in-law, young Mr, Cheese, a benefice in his diocese
Staple,
Yet no sooner does the death of the
year,
disposal of the Crown the living at
worth £1,300 a year, than it is given
Montague Villiers, who took his degree
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at Oxford in 1860 ; was ordained a deacon in 1861, and
was made a "priest" this year only ; but who has the good
fortune to be the son of a bishop, the nephew of Lord Cla-
rendon, and the son-in-law of Earl Russell I Nobody ven-
tures to suggest that the young cleric deserved to re-
ceive what is tantamount to a valuable life ap -
nuity, for any good service which he has rendered to the
ChuTah ; and all that the Record can say in the way of ex-
planation or apology is, that Staple will be separated from
Adisham, which will then be " only worth £7OO " a year.
" Only £7OO 1" 'Hear that ye 'aged and hard •worked bene-
ficiaries of the Clergy Relief Society, who have never had
the good luck to marry the daughter of a bishop or a minis-
ter of State ; and ask yourselves what interest you have in
guarding from " spoliation " revenues spent for the aggran-
disement of individuals, and not for the advancement of the
spiritual interests of the people. The population of Adis-
ham will be but 410, after the proposed division has taken
place. This aristocratic young shepherd, therefore, will
have few enough sheep to tend in return for his splendid
wages. Why are these rich livings kept up ? The ques-
tion will never be difficult to answer while such names as
Cheese and Villiers are to be be found in the Clergy List.
•—liberator.
A GREAT SUFFERER BY REVOLUTIONS.—King
Louis of Bavaria, who abdicated after an insurrection in
1848, sees his family extensively affected by the dynastic
changes which have taken place since 1859. His second
son is Otho, the ex-King of Greece, born on the Ist June;
1815 ; his third, Luitpold, is married to a daughter of the
Grand Duke of Tuscany; one of his daughters to the Duke
of Modena; and one of his grandsons, or his youngest son
Adalbert, was to haVe succeeded Otho on the throne of
Greece. Lastly, the Queen of Naples and her sister, the
Countess do Trani, belong to.a collateral branch of the
Royal family, that of Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria. The
house of Wittelsbach has therefore suffered most materially
from the revolutions of Germeny, Italy, and Greece, and
its members might give a second representation of the fa-
mous dinner at Venice mentioned in Voltaire's " Candide."
Le Temps.
SLAVES OF THE RING; OR, BEFORE AND AFTER.
3 these volumes to have produced several tales which have
been well received by the patrons of the circulating librat ies,
among whom there are not a few who remember, with
agreeable
fletelhiDagsB, ` Gan
toldbeen the good fortune of the author of
Under the Spell.'
It is no small praise to say that the present tale possesses,
rdinol,shteor story of
f eney,'
and the very gracefullyWildflower,'
in almost every respect, the good qualities of the author's
previous works, It is a very good story; and the reader
cannot but feel interested in the loves, the joys, and sorrows
of the Slaves of the Ring.' "--Observer.

LATEST NE WS.

TURIN, Nov. 6, EVENING.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia have
arrived at Naples. They are about to make a short

excursion to Rome.

The Italian Government has addressed remon-
strances to the Prussian Envoy, who represents
Austria at this Court, upon the encounter between
Italian Carabineers and Austrian soldiers upon the
right bank of the Po.
The Nonarchia Nazionale of to-day does not
credit the statement of La France as to the exclu-
sion of the note of General Durando from the
negotiations upon the Roman questio 1. The
Monarchia says that the circular dwelt upon the
urgency of a solution of this question, and advo-
cated negotiation upon the subject. It states
further that the French Government has recog-
nised the justice of the desires expressed in General
Durando's note.

MILAN, Nov. 6.
The Bing reviewed the troops here to-day.
Large crowds of spectators were present, and
popular enthusiasm ran very high.

MADRID, Nov. 6.

The Queen will open the Cortes in person, and
will deliver a speech on the occasion.

At an early period of the Session the Ministry
will lay before the Chambers documents referring
to the action of Spain in Mexico, and will invite
discussion on the course they have pursued.