The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

E,NIING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1865

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTF.R'S TELEGRAMS.)

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PRUSSIA AND THE DUCHIES.
BERLIN, SEPT. 26.

The charge against Dr. May, who was arrested
by the Prussian authorities at Altona, is now defini-
tively stated. He is accused of .having published
an article insulting to the King of Prussia. The
trial is appointed to take place on the 6th of
October next.

ITALY.
FLORENCE, SEPT. 26.
The King left this capital yesterday for Somma.

AUSTRIA,-
VIENNA, SEPT. 26.

It is semi-officially stated that the assertion of
some German papers to the effect that Austria had
invited Prussia to reply collectively to the Circulars
of the Western Powers in reference to the Gastein
Convention is without any foundation.

It is also announced in official quarters that
neither France nor England have sent any direct
communication to the Vienna Cabinet in reference
to the above Circulars.

SPAIN.

MADRID, SEPT. 25, Evening.

The cholera has disappeared from Valencia.
At Barcelona yesterday there 'were only 14 cases.
The epidemic is also decreasing in the neighbour-
hood of Seville and at Carthagena.

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, SEPT. 26.

The extra Inman steamer City of Manchester,
from New York on the 13th inst., arrived here at
1 a.m. to-day, with 210 passengers and $160,156
dollars in specie. She landed 51 passengers, and
proceeded at 1.15 a.m. All well.

Her telegraphic advices have been anticipated.

PER THE PERUVIAN.

NEW YORK, Sept. 14 (Evening).
The following order has been issued by General
Gilmore :

" Headquarters Department of South Carolina,
Hilton Head, S.C., Sept. 8, 1865.

" General Orders No. n--In order to remove
all seeming conflict of jurisdiction between the civil
and military authorities throughout the State of
South Carolina, promote the preservation of quiet
and good order, relieve the people as much as possi-
ble from all unnecessary restraints of martial law,
and reduce the expenses of the military establish-
ment ; it is hereby ordered—

" First—That the Superior and Circuit Provost
Courts will continue in operation as heretofore, and
shall have, as against any and all civil Courts, ex-
clusive cognisance to try End adjudicate all cases
wherein Freedmeen, and otherpersons of colour, are
directly or indirectly concerned. This will not be
so interpreted as to restrict the authority of the
agents of the ' Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and
Abandoned Lands.'

" Second—The Civil Conrts may be opened, and
all civil and municipal officers who shall have taken
the Amnesty Oath last prescribed, and who, if they
belong to either of the classes excepted from
amnesty, shall have received Executive pardon, will
be allowed to resume the exercise of their official
duties under such of the laws of South Carolina, in
force immediately before the 17th day of November,
1860, as are not inconsistent with the laws of Con-
gress and the proclamation of the President, which
laws and proclamations are in all cases to be re-
spected.
" Third—lt being impracticable to establish and
preserve military posts in sufficiently close proximity
to maintain a perfect military police in every por-
tion of the State, the civil magistrates will be al-
lowed to make arrests in all cases of breach of the
public peace ; but the arrest of freedmen and other
persons of colour, when rendered necessary by the
absence of the military, will in all cases be imme-
diately reported, and the custody of the person or
persons arrested promptly transferred to the nearest
military commanders.

" The functions of civil officers who disregard
this order will be suspended.
" By command of Major-Gen. Q. A. Gilimore.
" W. L. M. BURGER, Asst-Adj.-Gen.
(Official) "T. D. HODGES, Capt., 35th U.S.C.T.,

Acting Assist.-Adjt.-Gencral."

The Washington correspondent of the New York
Tribune says :—" It has heretofore been stated that
Jeff. Davis will be tried before a civil tribunal for
treason, probably before the United States Court
for the Eastern District of Virginia. Nothing ad-
ditional has transpired on that subject since the an-
nouncement was made. It is a mistake to suppose
that Chief Justice Chase has anything to do with
the preliminary arrangements any more than he
has with the preparation of cases for adjudication
before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Nor has he expressed, as has been stated, a desire to
try the case of the United States against Jefferson
Davis,:but he will try that, as he will all others
which may come before him, in the usual course of
business.

GREECE.
ATHENS, SEPT. 25.

The King has announced his intention of dis-
pensing with a third of the civil list, in order to re-
lieve the embarrassments of the Treasury.
A letter from Athens in the Pays says:—" Bri-
gands are rising on the market here. Their heads,
which a month ago were only worth 5,000 or 6,000
drachmas, even for the most famous, are now offi-
cially demanded at 9,000, 10,000, and even 20,000
dr. The Government has succeeded in contracting
a loan of 3,000,000 dr. with the lonian Bank. One
of the first purposes to which this influx of cash has
been applied is to increase the rewards offered for
the capture of brigand chiefs, dead or alive. On
this subject a royal decree of the 10th August says :
—' The pecuniary reward offered for killing or
arresting the brigand Kitzos Nifitzas is fixed at
15,000 dr. Whoever shall give accurate informa-
tion as to the place of his retreat shall also receive
5,000 dr. A reward of 10,000 dr. is alzo offered to
any who may arrest or kill any one of the under-
mentioned brigands : Evangelis Spanos, George
Lyngos, Costas Liarocapis, and Costas Masouras.
Any person indicating the hiding-places of any one
of them shall receive a reward of 4,000 dr.: total
14,000 dr. for each brigand. A reward of 6,000 dr.
will be given to whoever shall kill or capture any
one of the following brio-ands : Barbouclis Diplas
°
Delis, Coutzoyannis, Cricas, Pelios Mellen, Alexis
Batzalexis, Elias Spanos, Elias Crikelas, Demetrios
Chouvelos, Niccolas Dedousis, and Athanasius
Repas. A reward of 3,000 dr. will be given for a
truthful indication of the retreat of each : total
9,000 dr. per each brigand.' These extreme mea-
sures show the extent of the evil. The brigands
plunder villages and farms, and defy the efforts of
the Government. The police, and even the soldiers,
will rarely venture to attack them unless with a
greatly superior force. Many of the peasantry,
either to save their own property or to share in the
plunder, aid the brigands with all their might, and
mislead their pursuers. Kitzos, who has long de-
solated Attica, has been enabled to brave the Go-
vernment and to continue his exploits. Whether the
high rewards now offered will induce the peasantry
to betray them remains to be seen. Public opinion
is greatly dissatisfied with the conduct of the army
in this matter, and in others besides."

Roman municipality. Similar services are to be
performed whenever the Pontifical troops hold gar-
rison.

Letters from Biarritz mention that the Emperor
reviewed two days back the detachment of Grena-
diers of the Imperial Guard which has been doing,
duty at the Imperial residence, previous to its leav-
ing for Paris. This does not imply the return of
the Court, as the troops had been summoned to
Biarritz for the reception of Queen Isabella. Their
departure, however, proves that the King and Queen
of Portugal will not visit the Emperor and Empress
before their Majesties go to Compiegne.
The Countess de Montijo has been spending a
week at the estate of M. Ferdinand de Lesseps, in
the province of Berry. Some large shooting par-
ties took place on this occasion.
A report is current that M. Drouyn de Lhuys has
written a second circular on the question of the
Duchies, with the object of attenuating the effect of
the first, by showing the provisional character of the
Convention of Gastein. The necessity for this note
arose out of recent communications between Berlin
and Biarritz, where the Prussian Ambassador, Count
de Goltz, is now staying.
A desperate fight occurred two days back at
Cherbourg between some American sailors and a
number of the inhabitants. The seamen had been
first quarreling among themselves in the street and
then proceeded to enter a cafe on the Place du
Chateau. The landlord, not wishing to have a
disturbance in his establishment, refused them ad-
mittance, whereupon the sailors set upon him.
Some civilians and French seamen came up to the
rescue, and a general fight ensued, in which the
Americans attempted to use their knives. Finally,
the original authors of the riot were secured, and
next morning taken on board their ship to be
punished according to the discipline of the United
States' service. Fortunately no one was seriously
hurt in the conflict.

The Swedish corvette Oradd, 10 guns, has just
arrived at Havre to take on board some paintings,
statues, and other works of art, for the Museum of
Stockholm.

" It is announced, says the Nouvellis'e of Rouen,
" that the Count de Chambord has written a letter
of condolence to Madame de Lamoriciere on the
occasion of the death of her husband. Madame
de Lamoriciere and her children have just passed
through Paris on their way to their property in
Anjou."

Advices from Havre and Dieppe describe the heat
that has prevailed there during the greater part of
the present month as excessive. Agriculture had to
be suspended on account of the drought ; the supply
of water being very deficient. On Thursday last,
however, rain fell in torrents, and towards three in
the afternoon a waterspout broke over the neigh-
bourhood of 'port, transforming the roads and
streets of the town into real torrents, and inundat-
ing all the lower storeys. At Vaucotte, a little
village near Etretat, several carts with their draft-
horses were swept into the sea. All communication
was impossible during four hours ; when at length
the rain ceased, and the waters began to abate.
Considerable damage has been done to the standing
crops, and even to many of those already gathered
into the barns. At Etretat, Les Loges, and other
villages on the coast, several houses were flooded,
and much damage inflicted.
The fishing smack Etre-Supreme, of Trouville,
was capsized at about six miles off Dives three days
back, and filling weiit down immediately. One man
and a hoy were drowned, but the master and another
man maintained themselves on the surface of the
water by swimming, each with the aid of an oar,
until the smack St. Pierre, which had witnessed the
disaster a mile off, bore down and rescued them.
A large carpenter's yard and workshops at Cha-
prais, near Besancon (Doubs), belonging to MM.
Blondeau, freres, were destroyed by fire the night
before last. Two horses, a cow, and a sheep were
burnt, and 150 men are thrown out of work by the
disaster. Neither the origin of the fire nor the
amount of the loss are yet ascertained. The owners
are taking steps to provide their hands with work.
A tragedy was enacted in the night of the 19th
ult. in a cottage situated in a small hamlet of the
commune of Monieux (Vaucluse). A violent dispute
having arisen out of a feeling of jealousy between
a husbandman and his wife, the former ended it
by firing a gun point-blank into the mouth of the
;roman, wounding at the same time his little
daughter, aged three years, who was in her arms at
the moment. The assassin immediately afterwards
blew out his own brains with the same weapon.
The following order of the day was put forth by
Monsignore de Merode on the 16th, to the army of
his Holiness :

"General Christopher Louis Leo Juchault de Lamori-
ciere, a captain illustrious among the captains of his
age by his valour, virtue, and unstained reputation, was
at your head. More anxious to respond to the noble im-
pulse of his magnanimous heart than to be able to say with
Epaminondas I die unconquered,' he hastened at the sum-
mons of the great voice, which from the Vatican called
him to the defence of the rights of the common father of
the faithful, the supreme guardian of the liberty and dig-
nity of the redeemed human raco. Being a most tender
son of the nation, which glories in being called the eldest
daughter of the Church, the very love of his country in-
flamed him with the desire of defending his mother with-
out fearing the enemy's number of arts. You know how
he was conquered ! He was now only waiting for a pro-
pitious opportunity of again offering and even sacrificing
his life. It pleased God to call him to himself in the night
of the 10th to the 11th September. Struck, but not sur-
prised by death, Christopher Lamoriciere was found
expiring on his knees with the crucifix in his hands. In
so deplorable a loss of him who had lived for honour and
duty there remain his example and his memory—let there
remain in the heart of every one the ambition of being
worthy of such a chief. Solemn obsequies will be cele-
brated on Friday, 22d current, at 10 a.m., in the church of
the Araceeli.

" The Pro-Minister of Arms,
" SATIRE° DE MERODE."

BOURSE, Sept. 25.—Two o'Clock.—The market,
uncertain at first, is now a little better maintained.
Threes, for the Account, are doing at 68f. 40c., and
Credit Mobilier Shares at 823 f. 75c. Italian Fives
have receded to 65f. 85c., and Immobiliere have
advanced to 531 f. 25c. Comptoir d'Escompte
Shares remain stationary at 1,005 f. 50c. Three
o'Clock.—The last quotations were as follows :-
4} per Cents 96 25
Do. end month
3 per Cents. 6B 30
Do. end month 6B 40
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3590
Credit Foncier 1325
Italian Loan 65 75
Do. end month 65 85
RAIL

Ditto Threes —
Roman —
Mexican Loan 52
Do. Bonds 337 50
Russian -
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Rome Debt
Defored

WAYS.
Cash. Acot.
Orleans — ... 846 25
Northern ' ... 1087 50
Lyons and Mediterranean — ... 872 50
Southern — ... 566 25
Western — ... 550
Eastern — ... 535
Sardinian , — ... 247 50
Austrian — ... 412 50
Lombard — ... 460
North of Spain — ... 212 50
Saragossa — ... 312 50
Ditto to Barcelona — -- •.•
Roman

lIOW THE MAORIES WERE SUPPLIED WITH AMMU-
NITION.—We take the following curious story of smug-
gling war materials to the Maories from the Ifawkes Bay
7 jolts :—" The writer of this was in the employ of a noted
trading firm engaged in the native trade, owning a small
schooner running from Auckland to the Bay of Plenty,
trading with the natives with gunpowder, lead, and rum,
arms of all sorts, from a George 11. musket to a minie rifle,
tomahawks, and cartouch boxes ; in fact all the imple-
ments of war coveted by their dusky customers. One of
their common tricks to cheat the Customs was to enter the
vessel with pork in casks, and to clear out with empty
casks and salt, the said casks containing six or ten kegs
of sporting powder and bags of salt, containing each about
1001bs. of old lead, boxes of caps, &c., all these shipped in
the open day, rolled through Auckland streets, left stand-
ing on tho wharf, and sold in the Bay of Plenty. The old
files of Auckland papers need only to bo consulted to tell
tales of cargoes of empty casks and tons of sash weights
(lead, of course) for building purposes, in places where the
only buildings going up wore raupo whares. The writer
of this knew of one whare containing at one time 72 kegs
of powder headed up in the way mentioned, and close
alongside an old potato hole with about a ton of leaden
sash weights in it. And all this carried on by a firm whose
principal held office next to the Superintendent, and he
went home and with other Auckland merchants who bad
made their pile by Tower muskets and other honest mer-
chandise, went in deputation to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies and hoped that the war would be carried on
with vigour, and eruiser3 stationed to prevent the exten-
sive sinuazhng by the Yankees."

Naval Intelligence.

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The screw frigate Bristol, 39, 3,027 tons, 600
horse-power, fitting for the flag of Commodore
Geoffrey T. P. Hornby, has been floated out of the
dock at Sheerness in which she has been fitted, and
is now moored near the entrance to Chatham har-
bour. She is fully rigged and complete aloft, and
only a comparatively small amount of work remains
to be completed on board, where the greatest expe-
dition is being used to have her ready for sea by the
middle of the ensuing month. Her armament has
been put on board from the ordnance-wharf, Chat-
ham, consisting of 14 8-inch 65cwt. guns and 12
64-pounder rifled guns, each of 64cwt., on her main
deck ; and five 110-pounder rifled Armstrong guns,
each of 82cwt., on her upper deck. The Bristol
relieves the Rattlesnake as flagship on the West
Coast of Africa.

The Recruit, 6, iron paddlewheel steamer, which
recently underwent extensive repair at Chatham
Dockyard, since which she has been lying idle in the
Medway, is recommended to be sold out of the navy,
in consequence of her unfitness for further service.
This vessel was selected by the Admiralty a few
months since as a test ship, to try the value of the
various anti-fouling and anti-corrosive mixtures
for the protection of the bottoms of iron vessels
submitted from time to time to the Admiralty.
Various compositions were at that time applied to
the ship's bottom, but the results in every case were
pronounced unsatisfactory. Previously to her being
sold the Lords of the Admiralty have again directed
her bottom to be coated over with an anti-fouling
composition, and an opportunity accordingly pre-
sents itself of testing the value of Gisborne's mer-
curial anti-corrosive and anti-fouling composition
for the bottoms of iron ships, which has already
been used largely in the mercantile marine with the
most satisfactory results, and is now being applied
to the hull of the iron-clad frigate Valiant, 24, 800
horse power, at Portsmouth.
Yesterday Mr. G. W. Beardslee, United States'
officer. accompanied by Mr. Donald M'Kay, of. Bo-
ston, America, both of whom are now in this country
for the purpose of bringing under the notice of the
Government the value of torpedoes, visited Chatham
Dockyard to make the preliminary arrangements
connected with the experiments about to be made at
that port. The Terpsichore, sailing frigate, which
has been selected by the Admiralty to be experi-
mented upon and destroyed, had previously been
removed into the deep-water channel, near Gilling-
ham Creek, and the whole of her internal fittings
and gear removed. In the course of yesterday after-
noon Beardslee and M'Kay, accompanied by Capt.
Stewart, C. 8., and other officials connected with
the dockyard, went out to the frigate, proceeding
on board and inspecting the vessel with the view of
deciding on the best spot in which she can be moored
with the object of giving full effect to the experi-
ments about to be undertaken. Yesterday the
whole of the apparatus, together with the torpedo
shells and other appliances used in the undertaking,
arrived at the dockyard, and the work of preparing
the torpedoes will be commenced to-day, under the
immediate superintendence of Mr. Beardslee, the
powder required for the shells being supplied
from the Government magazines at Upnor Castle
and the Volage powder vessel. Only one of the
torpedoes will be used for destroying the
Terpsichore, the remainder being placed in
various parts of the river and discharged
under every variety of ciramstance, to show the
value of this agency in destroying small boats. A
test torpedo shell will be deposited several feet in
the mud and sand, at low water, and allowed to re-
main in that position 48 hours, after which it will be
exploded, this experiment being undertaken with
the view of showing that however long a torpedo
may be kept submerged its destructive powers are
not in the least diminished.

The Favourite, 10, screw ironcased corvette,
2,094 tons, 400 horse power, Capt. F. G. Shortt,
having been completely fitted, was yesterday taken
out of the basin at Sheerness dockyard. Having got
up steam, she proceeded on a run of a few miles to
test the working of her machinery, prior to the trial
of her engines on the measured mile. The ma-
chinery, which has been erected by Messrs. Hum-
phrey and Tennant, worked very satisfactorily dur-
ing the cruise. The vessel afterwards returned to
the Little Nore, where she awaits her trial, which
will take place to-day.
The Basilisk, 6, paddlewheel sloop, 1,031 tons,
400 horse power, recently commissioned at Sheer.
ness by Capt. W. N. W. Hewett, V.C., was taken
into dock yesterday for the purpose ofhaving her
bottom cleaned and examined prior to sailing for
the China station. According to present instruc-
tions she will proceed to her destination in the
beginning of next week.

Druids' Circles in Northumberland.

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Since the examination of the Castle Howard tumuli a
few weeks ago, the Rev. William Greenwell, of Durham,
has been making most interesting discoveries relating
to the British period in Northumberland, at Blawerie,
near Eglingham, west of Alnwick. In this district there
are many remains of British occupancy—camps, tumuli,
Druids' circles, &c. ; and it is in the latter that Mr. Green-
well's latest researches have been carried on. The results
elicited show that instead of the popular, and the
often-published, notion of these circles being " courts of
justice," " temples for Druid rites," places of assembly,"
and other extravagancies being correct, they are—most of
them, at least—simply places of sepulture. Some years ago,
it seems, a cist was discovered in what had hitherto been
named a "Druids' circle." The stones forming this circle
are large slabs set on edge, sometimes touching, at other
times some short distance apart. Tho circle was 36ft. in
diameter, and there was no mound within, the interments
in the cists, of which there were more than one, being sunk
into the natural soil, the lid or cover of each cist being just
level with the grassy surface. In the cist which was first
opened a cinervy urn was found, of which Mr. Greenwell
has a small fragment showing the nature of the pottery
(which has been thick and very rude), but there is not
enough to show the shape. Mr. Greenwell's explorationS
of the remainder of the area within the circle yielded most
interesting archaeological results. About 9 feet from the
centre a second cist was discovered lying N.W. by S.E.
This grave was 3ft. 4in. long by lft. 10in. wide and lft.
10in. deep, and was made of four slabs of stone set edge-
wise, with a fifth slab as cover. In the north corner was a
cinerary urn, lying on its side, the mouth towards the
centre of the cist, and almost buried in light sand, which
had been strewn over the burial, and was now about 4 in. '
in depth. The urn is perfect, and is of a singular shape,
much resembling a common flower pot in form. It is
covered externally with lines arranged herringbone fashion
which have been made by a sharp pointed instrument when
the clay was in a plastic state. The urn is Gin. wide in the
mouth, and Gin. high. The bodies had completely gone to
decay in this as well as in the other cists from the air gain-
ing free admission, there being no earth or any covering
save the superabundant slab over any of the burials. Three
feet to the west was another cist, from which the' cover,
being a useful slab of stone, had been carried off by some
local Vandal some years since. After careful removal of
the accumulated rubbish, it was found that the cist con-
tained about Gin. in depth of fine sand, and abounded in
relics of the pre-historic race. A very pains-taking
examination of the sand brought to light at the north
corner a flint knife and a necklace of 89 jet beads. There
had no doubt originally been 91 beads, but in the search or
at disturbance when the cover was removed one or two had
been lost. Although the body had decayed beyond recogni-
tion, there was yet enough arrangement left to showtow
the beads had been strung. Ten of the beads were long and
cylindrical, the others were flattish—circular, not quite
globular. The arrangement was one cylindrical and then
nine globular beads, consecutively. Twelve feet from the
centre, on the north-west side, was another cist, N.E. by
S.W., being 2ft. 4in. long by lft. sin. wide, and Ift. Sin.
deep. It was formed of four edgewise stones and a cover,
and had 4in. of sand at the bottom. So far as could be found
nothing had been interred with this burial, and of the body
all trace had disappeared. The cist without a cover, and
which contained the beautiful beadS, was rather larger than
the last mentioned, being 2ft. Bin. by 2ft. 3in. and lft. 3in.
deep. The district in which this encircled graveyard of the
Britons stands abounds in camps and barrows, and has one
of those remarkable rocks covered with the concentric
circles. This rock and the fine camp are half a mile distant
from the burials. There are two other circles near which
it is proposed to explore on a future occasion. It is almost
certain that all small and so-called Druidical circles are
places of sepulture, and that the circle is only the fencing
off or outer preservation which is found so frequently round
the base of barrows, and sometimes within them as well as
on the outsides, and sometimes also at a short distance
from the circumference. Sir R. C. Hoare, in Wilts, thought
those interments with no mound but within a circle of earth
or rubble (there being no stone in that district) Were of
Druids, from the rich ornaments found with them. They
aro undoubtedly of women. In the Blawerie find the
burial with the necklace was of a woman, but nothing
can be said as to the sex of the others. The north of Eng-
landand
interments differ from the Wilts, where only one body
is found the circle, ours having. several interments,
tbhoothceomf leitnebryurfnotr asnudccbctsisTvtebotlieess,. showing