The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MOND .V _,EVENIN4, AuGus r 25, 1862.

would accept, Mr. CHASE'S green backs, however,
would be better than nothing.

modest, respectable, young, and innocent girls, if
the press did not insist on the law being worked rks
stringently for their protection as for that of their
betters. Indeed, from the habits of society, they
need more protection.

The military movements, none of them of very
serious importance, seem to have been all in favour
of the Confederates. The dreaded Arkansas, how-
ever, through an accident to her machinery, was
obliged to run on shore, where, being surrounded
by Federal gunboats, the crew were forced to
evacuate, and blow her up. It would appear, how-
ever, that she had aided in the capture, by the Con-
federates, of Baton Rouge, which place, so long ago
reported to have been in the hands again of the
Confederates, now is really so. This gives the Con-
federates two strong positions on the Mississippi
above New Orleans, and we are not surprised,
therefore, to find General BUTLER is danger there.
The ram Arkansas is said, in the attack on Baton
Rouge to have " destroyed two Federal gunboats,
and driven eff the Federal fleet," which was fol-
lowed by the capture of the place, and of the forces
there. In Missouri the Confederates had had
guerilla successes, and also in Tennessee and Ken-
tucky ; indeed, in the South-West, and in the Bor-
der States everything looks as if the Federals would
have great difficulty in holding what they already
possess.
But it is in what is now called the battle of
Cedar Mountain, in Virginia, that the Federals have
met
with
u n h
t, e i f
mortifyingwiththe
check. We read
usual allowance for
Northern representations—and, as according to
the at or most
course,
these it was not a Federal victory, few will doubt
that it was really a defeat_ The Northern cone-
Bponaents, of course, depict miraeles of valour on
the part of their own regiments, nor do we at all
doubt them on this point. The grievous calamity
has been that again and again, when the men have
shown unquestionable courage, the officers have
shown unquestionable incompetency. In the long
run, however, it must tell on the courage of an
army, if they find that their severest losses are but
thrown away courage. Soldiers will think it fool-
hardihood, not courage, to expose their lives for no
result. It is acknowledged that, as usual, the skill
was on the Confederate side, We are told, indeed,
that the rebels sent a flag of truce to ask leave to
bury their dead, and that they retired eventually
from the field. But, as their original intention
was to attack and defeat only the advanced regi-
ments under BANKES, in which they succeeded, it
is not to be doubted that the general impression
was correct.

On Friday next her Majesty, accompanied by
his Royal Highness the Priqce of Wales and the junior
branches of the Royal family, will take her departure from
Balmoral for Windsor, where the royal party will arrM on
Saturday, the 30th inst. Her Majesty and the royal family
and suite will proceed across the country from Balmoral to
Aboyne, a distance of 20 miles, in the royal carriages: and
thence by the usual line of railway to Windsor. On the
Monday morning after her Majesty's arrival at Windsor
the Queen will proceed to Gravesend, where she will em-
bark for Germany. Her Majesty will remain in Germany
for six weeks, and then return to Windsor for the winter
season.—Court Journal.

Her 'Majesty Queen Marie Arnelie, accompanied
by their Royal Highnesses the Princes:: de Joinville, the

Duke de Nemours and suite, arrived at the Clarendon

Hotel, on Saturday morning, from Tunbridge Wells. His
Imperial Highness the Archduke Charles Louis of Austria,

their Royal Highnesses the Count de Paris, the Prince de

Joinvilie, the Dukes d'Aumale, de Montnensier, de Chaitres
and a numerous party, breakfasted with her Majesty, who

left early in the afternoon for Claremont.

The Queen of Prussia, who has been visiting her
daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden, at Carlsruhc, since

her highness's accouchement, has returned to Baden. Her
Majesty will remain for some time, and during her stay
Baden will also be honoured by a visit from the King
_of

Prussia.

THE MINISTRY.—Lord Palmerston remains at
his official residence, Walmer Castle, Kent, but is expected
to return to town this day. The Duke of Somerset returned
to London in the middle of the week from his tour to the

royal dockyards and arsenals. Earl Granville returned in
the early part of the week from Paris, and remains in the
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metropolis, The Right Hon. T. M. Gibson is cruising in
his yacht off the coast of France. The Duke of Newcastle
is the Minister in attendance on the Queen at Balmoral ;

and Sir George Grey, whom the duke succeeded, proceeded
to his country seat in Northumberland. The Lord Chan-
cellor, the Duke of Argyll, and Mr. Gladstone continue ab-

sent from London.

HER 'MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—A crowded audience
on Saturday evening experienced much disappointment in
consequence of the sudden illness of Signor Giuglini. This
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necessitated two changes in the performance. First, the
substitution of Mr. Waiter Bolton in the part of Lionel, in

" Marta;" that gentleman, though not singing the whole
of the music allotted to the tenor part, achieving an encsre
in the favourite " M' appari tutt' amor," and considerable
applause. The descriptive Ode, " L'ltalia," was, however,
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unavoidably impracticable, and Tietjens, as a compensation,
in the kindest scanner, obligingly sang a scene from " Lucia
di Lammermoor" with Signori Rossi and Gassier; the
latter as Enrico, the former as Raimondo. The director
further premised the divertissement, " Le Reveil de Fiore."
but this, too, was curtailed of its fair proportions by the
absence of the leading danscuses. Amid this complication

It is not improbable that we shall hear of very
strenuous Confederate exertions, if they be but in a
position to make them. The secessionists must know
that the Federals are making the desperate efforts
at enlistment, to which we have just adverted,
Their object, therefore, will be to attack both
M'CLELLAN and POPE before they receive reinforce-
ments. The hot weather may interfere with the
operations, but the Southerners must be better able
to bear the heats of their own climate than the
Northern men. We may, therefore, be sure that
the Southern Generals, if able to do so, will antici-
pate the new enlistments of the North. Probably
the attempt will be made to drive M'CLELLAN out
of the Peril nsuia, although some think he has taken
measures to walk out quietly, if they will but let
him. There will probably be hot work soon.

With many of our contemporaries we joined in
condemning the admission of Mr. Jvrp, the young
man charged with rape on a most respectable ser-
vant girl, to bail. Had the assault been made on
the daughter of a Duke or a Bishop, we may be
pretty sure no attempt to bail the culprit would
have been listened to for a moment, and we have yet

to learn that the honour of a servant girl, of the
best and perfectly modest character, is not as dear
to her and her friends, and as much entitled to pro-
tection as that of a girl of the highest classes. We
can hardly believe that Mr. Justice BLACKBURN
does not think so, yet he has gone out of his way
to condemn the intermeddling of the press with the
administration of justice. We must tell his Lord-
ship that the press will not be deterred from inter-
meddling when it sees, what it deems injustice per-
petrated, through carelessness, or inadvertence,—for
we do not believe worse of our judges and paid

magistrates.
We take it no one will deny that the culprit in
this case had an easy chance of escape when he
ought to have had none. The bail was heavier than
was at first reported, but certainly not sufficient
alone to detain the offender in the country. Had
we been his bail, and related to him, we, apart from
considerations of public justice, should have been
but too happy to save a nephew from even five
years' penal servitude by paying £400; and there
was nothing to prevent the nephew from having
by this time enlisted in the American war had
he chosen to do so. Yet we read that Air.
Justice BLACKBURN, in summing up, "animadverted
very severely upon the articles which had appeared
in the newspapers, and trusted the jury would, as
the learned counsel had desired, dismiss from their
minds any impression those articles had made upon
them." "Persons writing such articles were exceed-
ingly wrong. It was cruel, and a gross injustice to
those persons charged with a crime to which such
articles referred."

We are at a loss, notwithstanding his Lordship's
lecture, to comprehend either the injustice or the
cruelty to young Mr. JUPP. The press, in no in-
stance that we remember, endeavoured to prove
him guilty ; but the evidence was of a kind so un-
usually strong in such cases, the crime charged one
barely second to murder, that there did not appear
in the eyes of common sense the slightest reason
for accepting bail. Fearful as the crime was,
had the evidence been such as barely to war-
rant committal, the common sense of the public
would have thought it cruel and unjust
to shut up a man in prison when the character of
the chief witness made his guilt a very doubtful
question. In this case the evidence was so clear
that even Mr. BALLANTINE did not venture to dis-
pute it. "He (the learned counsel) did not
deny the truth of the facts, or in any degree impute
perjury to the prosecutrix ; nor did he for one mo-
ment attempt to deny the gross immorality of the
prisoner's conduct, but at the same time contended
that the very feeble resistance which the prisoner
had met with might have led him to suppose that
the prosecatrix was in a degee sufficiently a con
senting party to relieve him from the impression
that he was entirely forcing her to his will." A
defence not worth a straw, with the proved fact
before the jury of the poor girl having twice fainted
under the two rapidly following and villanous
i assaults.

BLACKBURN,
The whole case, we beg to inform Mr. Justice
tends to produce in the public mind
that most fatal of all impressiens, for the bench of
justice,.—of
one law for " a young, man of
great respectability, good friends, and good
expectations," and enothereons whose x
formeodpatio s
eesett,rre-
spectable daughters of persons
are from their hard industry. We wou d
not for a moment suspect either the committing
mßgistrate or the judge of allowing any such feel-
ing in their minds, yet the question will recur,
would bail have been accepted had the victim been
one of the class which have not to work for their
living. The judge, we trust, will, on reconsidera-
i tion, see that it would be cruelty and injustice to

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OP WALES.-
The Dagbladet of Copenhagen confirms the news of an ap-
proaching alliance between the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Alexandra, daughtir of Prince Christian, heir
presumptive to the Crown of Denmark. Prince Christian
1 eft Copenhagen some days since with the princess, his wife,

and two of his daughters. After visiting his elder brother
at Louisenlund, in Schleswig, he intends to go to Ostend.

It is generally supposed that his Royal Highness will after-
wards proceed to Reinhardsbrunn, in Coburg• Gotha, where
Queen Victoria is to stay some tweeks. Prince Christian
was born in 1818, and married in 1842 the Princess Louisa,

daughter of the Landgrave William of Hesse, by whom
he has a family of six children, three of them sons. The
Princess Alexandra was born on the Ist December, 1844,

and is consequently not quite 18 years of age. She is tall
and well-looking, and has received a most careful educa-
tion in her own family, which is generally esteemed as a
model of all the domestic virtues.

The directors of the Eastern Union Railway
Company, in their report to be submitted to the meeting on
niday next, recommend a dividend of £2los. per cent. per
annum on the A Stoek, and £1 10s. on the B Stock, leaving
a balance of about £1,900.

The directors of the East Coast Railway Com-
pany, in their report to be submitted to the meeting to-
morrow, state that they have made an arrangement for the
completion of a double line between Faversham and Herne
Bay, Margate, and Ramsgate, by the Ist of Sept., 1863 ;
that the bill for raising the capital for these object-, and
also for power to construct tramways in Ramsgate harbour,
has received the Royal assent; and that the works through-
out the line are proceeding satisfactorily.

'ORTHOGRAPHY.—Mt•. Middleton, in the course
of a lecture at Edinburgh, gave some examples of spelling
in the highest class of some schools in which he tested it,
which would be very amusing were it not for the sacred-
ness of the subject-matter so strangely mutilated:—" 'Thy
will be done on earth as teas in heaven,' =it is; in tutim
tation,' = into temptation; and past your gun,' =in pas-
tures green; 'nor sitteth in his corner chair,' = the scar-
ner's chair ; ' but placeth his daylight,' = delight; ' nor
let my hoop be lost,' = hope ; for though art with me on
the road, and staf thy confert = thou, and, thy, rod,
staff, me, still ; Clod is a spirit fat, internal, changabl,'
&c., = infinite, eternal, unchangeable,' &c.
THE BITE OF A RATTLE-SNAKE.—Mr. Geo. W.
Kendall writes the following from Texas to a newspaper in
New Orleans :—" Before I forget, I must tell you that the
medicine chest has just arrived, and the very moment I

opened it I found a pressing iise for one of the articles it
contained.. I was counting over the flasks, when one of my
men came running in, and ex l. imed that he had just been
bitten by a rattle-snake. He held his left wrist, while two
streams of blood flowed from one of his fingers, where the
fangs of the serpent had pierced him. As the man had no
tobacco, I told him to fill his mouth with salt, and with all
his might suck the wound. •I then held a cloth steeped in
hartshorn on the wound to counteract the working of the

poison. I next put 30 drops of hartshorn into a glassful of
whisky, and poured the whole contents down his throat
Five minutes afterwards I repeated the dose, and again in
other five minutes. I had now administered a whole quart(?)
of whisky, with 90 drops of hartshorn, and held it sufficient.
The man was an Irishman, an old eoldiee, and took the
thing very coolly. It was a great satisfaction to him when
he heard that another man had killed the serpent. • For
three-quarters of an hour he sat quiet, and spoke about the
bite with cold-blooded indifference, while I continued to re-
new the application of hartshorn to the wound in the finger.
He said it was too bad that he should die of the bite of a
poisonous snake, while I was astonished he could remain
unaffected after such a dose of whisky. After about an hour
he began to laugh, then to whistle, then to sing, and finally
attempted to dance. It was now all right. I knew that
the whisky had gained the upper hand of the poison, and
for the first time intoxicated him. Five minutes after he
was as drunk as Bacchus, beat on the ground with his feet,
slept for half a day, and in the morning was well and at his
work. So much for the first earn which I have cured with
the contents of the medicine chest I The hartshorn, with
the whisky, completed the cure."
THE REV. J. LIVESEY.—The more the case of
the Rev. J. Livesey, incumbent of St. Philip's, Sheffield, is
understood, does it appear to ,be in his favour. From the
commencement of the attack up,uhim, when these unwar-
rantable charges were brought against him, it could scarcely
be believed that they would be sustained after due inquiry.
A letter has been received from the Archbishop of York, in
reply to the resolutions passed at the Meeting of seatholders
of St, Philip's. .His grace speaks very favourably of the
conduct of Mr. Livesey, expressing an opinion that h) has
committed an error of judgment only, and not acted from
any improper motive.—Yot kshire Gazette.
THE ROYAL SOVEREIGN CUPOLA SHIP.-- rile
Hampshire 7elegt aph of yesterday says :—" We under-
stand thet the Lords of the Admiralty have at last virtually
acknowledged their want of judgment in cutting down this
ship to her orlop deck. By everybody, with the exception
of their lordships, it was considered that the construction
of the cuput...., inseparably connected with the construc-
tion of the ship itself, and that if there were any divided
responsibility, and the two parts were built under separate
supervision, the ship would inevitably be a failure. There
seems to be no doubt of the fact, and an order has been
issued to replace the timbers of the lower deck, and so to do
that in undoing which so much time and labour were spent.
We understand that the work will be carried out under the
personal superintendence of Cal tain Cowper Coles."
DESTRUCTIVE FlRES.—Yesterday morning a fire
broke out in theblong range of premises occupied conjointly
by Mr. Docwra, contractor, and Mr. Charles Tulley, cabi-
net maker, in King Henry-walk, Ball's-pond, Islington.
One portion of the building was upwards of 100 ft. long and
between 30ft. end 40ft. wide. There is little doubt that
the fire commenced in the workshops, and extended to the
contractor's stores and offices with such fury as to sur-
round the wle le structure before there was time for an
engine to arrive, or even information of the outbreak to
reach the stations. Four or five parish engines were soon
in attendance from Islington and other districts, as well as
Captain Shaw, the superintendent, with several of the
London Brigade engines, and a strong force of firemen
under Mr. Bridges, the foreman of the A division of the
London establishment. Fortunately, a good supply of
water was obtained from the mains running through the
district, and no time was lost in setting the engines to work.
The firemen were, after some hours' hard labour, enabled
to confine the flames to the block of buildings in which they
originated; but they were not entirely extinguished until
late in the afternoon. Mr. Tulley was not insured, and it
is unknown whether the other sufferer was insured or not.
When the premises were closed the night before, every fire
was extinguished, and there was not the 100.'et smell of any
smouldering of fire. In our last week's impression we gave
a report of an interesting marriage at Brighton parish
church of Miss Sarah Forbes Bonetta, the daughter of an
African Chief, with a rich merchant, named James Davis.
After spending a short time at Brighton the bride and
bridegroom came to London and took up their quarters for
six weeks at the house occupied by Mr. Moses, No. 60,
Bruton-crescent. While the inmates were at home, about
half-past 12 at noon, one fire occurred, and in the evening
another. Owing to the timely arrival of the engines, and
the prompt assistance afforded, the first fire was confined to
one room, but the second one had obtained too firm a hold
when discovered to be extinguished so soon. The firemen
were unable to get the flames extinguished until the greater
portion of the roof was burnt off, several of the upper rooms
destroyed, and the lower ones severely damaged by water.
It is feared splendid wedding presents of her Majesty are
also greatly damaged by water, but, fortunately, the fire-
men succeeded in saving the lower floors, and also the ad-
joining houses from destruction. Mr. Moses, the owner of
the house, was insured in the Sun Fit e-office. lot Mr.
Davis, whose residence was only to be temporary, was un-
insured.' The origin of the fire is unknown,
MURDER IN LIMERICK.--A telegram from Clon-
mel, August 23, in Saunders News' Letter, says :—" A
gentleman from Tipperary has just brought the intelli-
gence that a butcher, residing at Hospital, county Lime-
rick, was murdered to-day :by a man filing a respectable
position in the same town,and whose daughter the deceased
had attempted to kiss. The skull of the unfortunate but-
cher was, it would am ear, opened with a hatchet. Intelli-
gence as yet but very:meagre." A private telegram from
Tipperary, distant about eight miles from the hospital, con-
firms the above..
THE DISTRESS IN LAN CASHIRE.—A county meet-
ing, to take into consideration the best means of raising ,a
sum of money for the relief of the operatives in Lancashire,
was held in the Shire-hall, at Warwick on Saturday; the
High Sheriff: the Hon. C. L. Butler, presided; and
amongst the speakers. were Lord Leigh, the Lord Lieu-
tenant of the county, Sir :IL C. N. Hamilton, &C. The
=owe.; subscribed was £759.
A letter from Darmstadt, dated Aug. 17, says:
—The Prince and Princess Louis have been to Giessen, to
be present at the Mid-Rhine Musical Festival, but returned
to Darmstadt to day, and have since proceeded to the rural
retreat at. Bergstrasse. At Giessen Princes Louis and
Alexander, with their consorts, were present at the concert,
and afterwards witnessed the procession of the societies
taking part in the festival."
The first important German work on natural his-
tory, called the " Book of Nature," by Konrad von Megen-
berg, which was reprinted no less than seven times in the
course of the 15th century, has been newly edited by Franz
Pfeiffer, in Vienna, in the original Bavarian idiom of the
author.

of managerial distress, the energy and kindness of Tictjens,
who repeated her "Last Rose of Summer" the second time
in English, and the exertions of Vialetti, who sang twice
his beer song to the gratification of the crowded audience,
went far, as far as substitution could go, in restoring the
good humour of the audience.
TAKING THE LAW INTO ONE'S OWN HANDS.—
A short time ago a robbery took place in the compound of
a certain lieutenant, but no trace of the thief could be found.
On the morning of the 28th of June the lieutenant, with.
out consulting any of the civil authorities, determinel to be
his own " detective." It appears he suspected his own ser-
vants, and therefore commenced operations by lashing the
khansamah to a tree, and after having, with his own hands,
inflicted more than 100 strokes with branches cut from
date trees, on the man's bare back, he took his seat on a
chair under a tree, and deliberately ordered other servants
and chuprasses to flog the unfortunate man until ho con-
fessed to the theft. These men proceeded with the w, rk of
torture for nearly two hours, but the khansamah still de-
clared his innocence, A neighbour, hearing the cries of
the suffering man, proceeded towards the lieutenant's com-
pound, and finding the man undergoing a most cruel and
shameful punishment, he told a jamadar of a Punjab in-
fantry regiment who was looking on, that as the punish-
ment was being inflicted in the military cantonment, infor-
mation should be given to the senior officer, as the man's
life was in danger ; but finding that no one would give no-
tice, he returned to his house and wrote a hasty no e to the
Deputy-Commissioner, mentioning the circumstances.
The Deputy• Commissioner immediately proceeded to the
spot and found the man still tied to the trunk of a tree,
with a chuprassee flogging him. He demanded from the
lieutenant an explanation, and then proceeded to the senior
military officer and to the Commissioner. After a short
time a captain with some Europeans were sent, and the
lientnn.n.t pl.ood in arrest, and a court of incair, was to
be held on the 30th. The khansamah is now an inmate of
the Charitable Dispensary, his back and chest are in a sad
state, and he has been spitting blood. It was expected
that the man would not recover, but through the skill and
energy of our civil surgeon there is now some hope of his
life, though he is by no means out of danger. The natives
declared that the lieutenant ordered the khansamah to be
flogged to death ; and such must have been his intention,
as the man was flogged from 7 to a quarter past 9 a.m., and
must have received at least 20 strokes per minute,—Lakore
Chronicle.
THE HARTEST.—The wheat throughout the dis-
trict of Bedfordshire is now nearly all cut, and if the
present fine weather continues a few days longer it will be
harvested in excellent condition. It maybe remarked that
the wheat crop, particularly on the cold clay lands, appeared
strong and good, but few think the yield will be up to the
average, being more or less affected by blight or red gum.
The barley crop is generally good, though by no means
heayy; the late heavy rains have somewhat discoloured that
which was cut in the swathe. Oats and beans also pro-
mise well, -articularly the latter, which are well podded ;
some are affected with the fly and blight, but this is not the
case to any serious extent. A good deal of land in this
small county is now under steam cultivation, the crops here
are abundant,and augur well of the new system of farming.
Farmers are looking forward to better prices than they have
had lately. After a summer of unprecedented wet weather
and cold temperature, the harvest in Cumberland will be
deficient in quantity and quality, as well as late. A few
days of beautiful summer-like weather have gladdened the
farmers this week and given them better hopes of securing
their crops well, but the general impression is that the mis-
chief done by the bad weather cannot now be remedied.
There are numerous complaints, especially in the west
of the county, that the wheat has suffered much from
mildew, and is is feared that under the most favourable
circumstances the crop will be a very inferior one. Oats
give mere promise on 1 ght dry lands, but those on wet soils
have suffered very much, and will in some cases be almost
worthless. Barley shows the same variation according to
the lightness or heaviness of the land on which it has been
sown, and perhaps, upon the whole, may approach something
like an average crop. Turnips have not been so extensively
sown this year on account of the difficulty of gening in the
seed, and the crops will be very inferior. Of potatoes ac-
counts vary considerably, hut it is feared it will be a bad
crop. The weather during the past week has been much finer
than for months past in the Midland district, and harvest
prospects have considerably improved. The cutting of
wheat is now general in Nottinghamshire and Leicester-
shire, and as the season alvances it becomes more apparent
that the yield will hardly be up to an average. The rain
of last week has proved very beneficial, as the grain has
filled steadily, and both the yield and quality will be
decidedly better than was at one time expected. In many
districts of North Notts there will be a full average crop,
but on indifferent soils less favourable. B trley gene-
rally promises well. Oats have suffered to some extent by
the wirewor rn, but a good yield is expected. Beans pretty
fair. Turnips, mangold, and pastures 'are in a heal; by
condition.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE SCOTTISH NORTH
EASTERN RAILWAY.—On Friday morning a very alarming
accident occurred near the Farnell station of the Scottish
North Eastern Railway. The mail train which leaves
Perth about midnight had arrived at Parnell embankment,
which is on a curve of the line, :bout half-past 1. This
embankment is about 10 feet high. On entering on the
curve, the engine met with some obstruction on the rail—
not yet explained—and, with a sudden leap, sprang first on
the space between the rails, and then leapt on the up dine.
The guard's van and a first-class carriage were thrown
over the embankment, making a son,mersault in the fall.
Another carriage was overturned on the line, but remained
there ; the engine also steed fast on the up-line, upon which
all the eight or nine carriages in the train had also leaped.
There were not many passengers with the train, and, for-
tunately, two gentlemen wleo were in the firet class carriage
were but little injured, although one of them was for some
time insensible from the shock. The severest injury was
susta'ned by the guard, a young man named Thomson, be-
longing to Aberdeen. It appcars that he attempted to get
out of the van just as it was falling over, and that he was
thrown down the embankment, and had both his thighs
fractun d—the right one in two places—and his right arm
was broken above the elbow. In the van along with the
guard was a railway policeman, who made no ttempt to
get out, and was uninjured, except being a little shaken.
A surgeon was procured horn the village of Friockheim,
who set Thomson's broken limbs, and he wes conveyed to
Aberdeen. The engine driver, who was unhurt, ran back
to Guthrie station and telegraphed to the engineering shops
at Arbroath, whence Mr. Yarrow, the locomotive eurerin-
tendent, was shortly on the ground with a staff of workmen,
and had the line cleared in a few hours.
MONUMENT TO RICHARD OASTLER.—There hcs
just been erected in Woodhouse Churchyard, Huddersfield,
a very testeful monument to the late Richard Oastler. The
memorial is of Gothic design, and from a base of 3 feet 6
inches rises to a height of 14 feet. It is decorated with
deep moulded panels, with richly carved spandrels,crockets,
and finials. This memorial to the factory king has been
raised almost enrire'y by the contributions of the working
classes, collected by a committee of working men.—York-
shire (.7azft(e,

The veil-known editor of the Gazetta di Verona
Perego, has been arrested, on the.chargeof having corn-
witted the murder of Signora Spelladio di Colloredn, in
whose mill he is designated as sole heir. The poor lady
was found burned in her bed. The public voice loudly
accused Perego, and the authorities were obliged to take
charge of him,
PENNY TAXATION.—In 1852 receipt stamps at
various rates produced £194,089. in 1853 the duty was
reduced to ld., and this penny duty was also imposed on
draughts or orders payable on demand, and in the financial
year 1854 55 receipts and draught stamps produced
£245,368. In the year 1857-58 the sum had risen to
£302,624. The penny duty was then extended to cheques
on bankers, and tho produce of the whole for the year
ending last March was £09,446,

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follow him have placed themselves in open hos ility with
the State; it is, therefore, necessary to treat the country
which they occury as a country occupied or menaced by an
enemy. This is why, Sire, we propose to you to place the
island of Sicily in a state of siege during the whole time
that the rebellion shall last, and until order shall be com-
pletely restored.
"Your Council of Ministers frankly assume the respon-
sibility of these exceptional measures, because they com-
prise the safest means of most promptly re-establishing the
rule of law and liberty in the insurgent provinces, as also of
putting an end to the terrible anxieties caused by the dan-
gers and fears of civil war. They will, moreover, bontribute.
Sire, to protect the representative monarchy which we
have all sworn to uphold, and to obviate a most serious ob-
stacle to the accomplishment of Italian unity, and to resolve
all the elements of Italian glory and prosperity.
(Signed)
URBAIN R iTTIZZI.

FRANCE AND ITALY.
PARIS, AUG. 25.

The Moniteur of this morning says :
" Several newspapers have asked what will be
the attitude of the French Government in view of
the agitation which now prevails in Italy. The
question is so clear, that any doubt seems impos-
sible. In view of insolent threats, and the possible
consequences of a demogogic insurrection, the duty
of the French Government and its military honour
oblige it more than ever to defend the Holy Father.
The world mast be wed aware that France does not
abandon those to whom, when in danger, she ex-
tends her protection."

TURIN, AUG., 23.

The official Gazette of to-day publishes a decree
appinting General Cialdini as Extraordinary Com-
missioner iu Sicily, replacing General Cagle.

A. Ministerial declaration also appears in the same
journal to the effect that the blockade of the Sicilian
coasts will be conducted according to the princip!es
of maritime law, as laid down by the Congress of
Paris.

A Ministerial decree dissolves the Einancipation
Association of Genoa, and the associations affiliated

to it.

" DURAND°.

" PETITTI.

" CONFORM.

" 111 ATTELCCT.

The Turin journals of this evening publish the
following intelligence :
" The columns of Ricotti and Mella have effected
a junction at Misterbianco, which, with Aci-Reale,
has been occupied by Royal troops sent by sea.
" Intelligence received by the Government states
that Garibaldi has seized the public treasury and
the telegraph-office at Catania, and imposes contri-
butions on the inhabitants.
" He has forbidden the latter to communicate
with any one outside the city, and has erected bar-
ricades. His Volunteers are ill-armed. The popu-
lation is favourable to the Government.
" Palermo and Messina are tranquil.
" Order is restored at Caltanisetta and other
places evacuated by Garibaldi."
It is affirmed in official quarters that the state-
ment of the Opinions that the Prefects of Catanzaro •
and Cosenza have resigned their posts, and that
three columns of Volunteers, under the command of
Costo, Bruggesi, and Nullo, have landed in Cala-
bria, is incorrect.
Intelligence from Calabria is reassuring.
General Della Marmora has taken energetic mea-
surss at Messina.
Garibaldi is still at Catania, and appears to intend
establishing a Government in that city. The ma-
jority of the inhabitants are opposed to this mea-
sure, and many families are leaving the place. The
Royal troops are concentrating in the vicinity.
EVENING.

Mr. Whymper, father of the Alpine climber,
kindly supplies us, in the absence of his son, with a
few further particulars respecting his accident on
the Matterhorn. It appears that previous to the
accident the mountaineer bad made two attempts,
with guides, to ascend, and had fixed his tent at au
elevation of nearly 12,000 feet. It was in ene of
his trial excursions from this point to try and find
some higher ledge on which to sleep, that the acci-
dent betel him. Up to this height the ground was
pretty familiar to him, as he bad traversed it no less
than eight times. We may now use his own gra-
phic words :—‘,. I found a sleeping place, about 300
feet higher, and came quickly down. In passing
the tent I left everything behind that I ct.uld, in-
cluding my axe. The Col was passed in safety—.
but on turning a corner of the precipice, to my
right, I found that two days' sun had nearly
destroyed some steps in the ice which I had cut the
day before. The position was awkward—a long
slope of ice, as smooth as glass, led away below me;
a precipice literally perpendicular rose above; the
route lay along the junction of the two on the top
edge of the slope. Time forbad me returning for
the axe, so I commenced with my left hand to dig
the steps afresh with the point of my baton, hold-
ing to a cranny with my right. I had nearly
finished, when, on stepping downwards, my foot
slipped. Down I went like lightning; in a moment
my baton was dashed from my hand, and my knap-
sack brought my head down first ; some rocks
peeped out 20 feet down, and into these I fell. It
was now, not slidin,r, but flying absolutely head
over heels. .1 fell 195 feet in five or six bounds—
striking my head four times. The last bound must
have been fully 60 feet; it took me right across the
gully, into some jagged rocks. I clutched at them
with all my might, and; atter sliding a little far-
ther, happily stopped myself. Had I fallen 10 feet

The Diritto of to-day publishes a proclamation of
Garibaldi, urging the Hungarians to insurrection.
The Italia contains the following reply to this
proclamation from General Klapka :
" Your voice, General Garibaldi, would have
found an echo if you had uttered the war cry at
the head of Volunteers united to the Royal troops,
in order to march against the Hapsburg dynasty.
Such is not now the voice of Italy.
" The example of the Servians, Greeks, and
Montenegrins tells us to await a more propitious
moment to respond to such an appeal as that which
you address to us.
" Having been betrayed in our hopes does not
reconcile us with oppression, but engages us to
husbatia vur toroes for better times."

" DEPRETIS.
" PEBSANO.
4‘ QUINTINO SELLA."

THE LATE ATTEMPT TO SCALE THE
MATiERHO.RN.

AUGUST 24.

Intelligence received here direct from Catania
confirms that the majority of the population is
favourable to the Government, particularly the
National Guard.
The municipality correspond directly with the
Royal authorities on hoard a war vessel lying off
Catania.

It nevertheless appears that Garibaldi is still de

termined to resist.

The' Discussione of to-day says:—

EVENING.

"The news published by some Turin journals of
the establishment of a provisional Government at
Catania is false.

" Communication between Catania and Messina
has been re-established.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Aug. 23.—There has been but little
business doing, but the prices of the previous day
have been well maintained. Threes, for the Ac-
count, are now at 68fr. 75c. Railway Shares quiet,
but pretty firm. The market closed as follows i—
ti per Cents ... 97 90 Bank Shares 3195
Do. end month.... Credit koneier l2lO
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 6o Italian Loan 69 70
New 3 per Cents .. Roman
Do, end month.... -- Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 843 Spanish Threes 5O 50
Do. end month.... 845 Home Debt

lower, I should have shot over a precipice of at least
800 feet." Mr. Whymper's wounds, as we said last
week, though numerous, were superficial. The ap-
plication of snow partly stopped the bleeding. Mr.
Whyroper is of opinion that the Matterhorn is in-
accessible to mere arms and legs. Professor Tyndall
took a ladder, but even with this aid it was found
impossible to conquer the last precipices.—
Athenteum.