The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, 'LONDON, WEDNESDAY ',EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1862.

upon the acceptance of the Russian, the Austrian,
and ;the Prussian Governments in regard to the
Kingdom of Greece. Let the attitude still pursued
by Imperial France in regard to Italy, be the one
exception " proving the rule," the one flagrant ano-
maly, the one glaring inconsist6ncy. Otherwise—
in reference to the treatment of Greece by the
Five Great Powers of Europe—now is the most
signal opportunity that has yet been afforded to
those dominant Powers for a conspicuous and collec-
tive demonstration by them of the feasibility of
carrying out upon a grand scale, and in a very
signal manner this humane and beneficent principle
of non-intervention.

Austria and her statesmen seem to have some
considerable power of fascination for English
statesmen. Not only a PALMERSTON and a RUS-
SELL, men of the old " balance of power" school,
but even a ROEBUCK was carried off under their
arm, and TEAR'EM himself, according to a very
faithful pictorial reporter, looked up to his captor
with inimitable blandness. The good people too,
themselves, of Southampton, seemed quite ready
to do honour to an Austrian magnate, employing
Mr. ROEBUCK and Mr. J. 0. LETER, as their
speakers'-laureate, and now Lord PALMERSTON
himself takes his share in bestowing not English
honours, but honours in England, on the oppressor
of Hungary and Venetia.
We are not quite sure that it is not becoming
almost radical and ♦ulgar to stand by the cause of
legality and constitutionalism in Hungary, and of
moral and national rights in Venetia. It is no
doubt very rude to mention them, when an Aus-
trian gentleman is present, and the courtly
burghers of Southampton at least knew better
than to ask Baron THIERRY to an enter-
tainment, and then even to hint at the delinquen-
cies of his Government. We rather think, however,
that the people of England generally will wonder
what makes the Southampton Englishmen so much
more attentive to Austrian magnates than they are
disposed to be. Time does not, with most of us,
cure the wrong done to the noble kingdom of Hun-
gary ; on the contrary, it rather reminds us of its
yearly increasing greatness. We cannot forget
that up t• this moment FRANCIS JOSEPH is nothing
better than a usurper and a tyrant in Hungary,
ruling by the same right by which Irish mobs so
recently sought to rule over free Englishmen.
FRANCIS JOSEPH is not King of Hungary, any
more than, if so much as, LOUIS KOSSUTH—what
he is, he is by the force of the wicked intervention
of Russian bayonets in the first instance, and he re-
mains in power by the perfectly illegal presence of
a large German army in Hungary. The work he
is doing there is to set race against race; to split,
if he can, the country into hostile sections, that he
and his Germans may have the satisfaction of
"dividing and governing," There can be no doubt
that, judged by the, English standard, Baron
THIERRY'S master as riohly deserves the fate
of the STUARTS at the hands of Hungary, as
that equally incurable dynasty did at the hands of
England. As little can it be doubted that most
Englishmen think so.
The recollection of all this is almost forced upon
us by the topic of Lord PALMERSTON'S speech. It
consisted of the praises of Free Trade, and the
genial orator was yet obliged to confess that Aus-
tria was hostile to free trade, and that even RECH-
BERG, whom he not only believed, but knew, to be
an enlightened man, could not get the better of
Austrian prejudices. We could not bat think of a
far more enlightened man, who easily convinced all
Hungary of the advantages of free trade—Louis
KOSSIITE. Had not Lord P ALMB.I3IIT ON winked
at Russian invasion of Hungarian liberty, that
noble country would now have been carrying o❑
a vast trade with this country, through the Danube
and Fiume. We should have been acquiring all
the advantages of Free-trade with the most im-
portant half of the Austrian Empire, and the King-
dem of Hungary would have made a dozen years
progress in railroads, wine cultivation, and, indeed,
in all kinds of agriculture. Twelve years of
free trade, and the stimulus it would have given
to every industry in Hungary have been cut out of
the life of the nation by the restoration -of the
brutal HAPSBURGS and of German domination.
And all for what ? That the worst Royal
family in Europe might become absolute by
the overthrow of a constitution of a thousand
years, and that clumsy German manufacturers
might force on Hungary bad and dear manufac-
tures, in the place of good and cheap ones from
England, monopolising also at prices far below its
worth, the whole of Hungarian agricultural ex-
ports; all this is undeniable fact; and while it is so,
we could not easily bring ourselves to court and
flatter Austria and her Ministers. It should be
remembered that the same German protection is
with equal ruthlessness inflicted on poor Venetia.

However, the Premier's Free-trade lecture to the
German Baron, for the benefit of the Baron's dull
countrymen, could do no harm. It may do some
little good. As Lord PALMERSTON'S speech on
the occasion of honour done to an Austrian Minis-
ter, it will get translated into long German
sentences. And possibly some of those who
-uffer through protection may make effective use
of it. Lord PALMERSTON generally contrives to
say, what every one knows, in a very pleasant
and somewhat fresh manner. He mingled, on
this occasion, praises of the natural capabilities of
Austria, excuses for her dulness, confession of the
long reign of similar prejudices in England, an
economical axiom or two on commerce being ne- ,
cessarily mutually profitable, and stories on the
superseding of "shocking bad hats" in Portugal,
and the improvement of our silk manufacture by
competition with that of France—and all in a I
style which will make his speech a pleasant little
lesson to sucking free traders in Austria. He took
care to wind up with the proof that, however na-
tions might be bound together by commercial ties,
they must not dispense with mighty armies and
navies. Free trade, vast armaments, and high ex-
penditure, is the sum of the Premier's speech.

The Washington has brought us little military
news, though her information extends to the 21st,
four days later than that brought by the Europa.
The Confederate papers claim the battle.at Perrys-
ville as a victory for their side, and assert that they
took 9,000 prisoners; we must wait, therefore,
further information. The whole account of the late
battles, however, in the important border State of
Kentucky is very confused. As it is chiefly from
Northern sources the reasonable suspicion is that we
have statements strongly coloured by the channel
through which they reach us. M'CLELLAN has
ascertained that the enemy is massed in
great force on his left at Martinsburg; he cannot,
tharefore, continue his advance without exposing
his communications, and leaving them to
rush again through Maryland into Pennsylvania.
" Returning into winter quarters" is spoken of, but
that is an old fashioned way of making war.
Passion is not now allowed to cool in this way.
There is also a report of a slave insurrection in Cul-
pepper, County Virginia ; but it is so near toWash-
ington, that partly the country must have been very
much depopulated by the war, and partly the slaves
could have easily run North, without exposing
themselves to danger. If the report be true

that the Southerners hanged seventeen free negroes
guilty of having the President's proclamation in
their hands, we shall know in this country what
to think of the men who make so much stir about
General BUTLER'S harmless freaks at New Orleans.
He did not, at all events, hang the traitresses.
Perhaps the most important fact is the complaint
made by the New York Chamber of Commerce of
the doings of the Alabama, or No. 290, as she is
also known by that name. That she has burnt and
destroyed a great amount of Federal property, not
contraband of war, following the example of
the Sumpter and the Nashville, is certain ;
that this course of proceeding is simply barbarous
will not be denied, but the New York Chamber of
Commerce fastens on us the blame of permitting
such a ship to be built at Liverpool. But surely
we must, as neutrals, have one law for both the
belligerents. The North supplies itself far more
largely than the South can do with munitions of
war from England. Mr. ADAMS, when he remons-
trated with Lord RUSSELL, remembering this, de-
clined to press our Government to prohibit and
watch the expertation of contraband of war. It
would surely, therefore, be a breach of neutrality
if we allowed our manufacturers to make their
profits by executing the orders of one party only.
Knowing as a Government one side no more than
the other, we must leave our traders to act accord-
ing to their sympathies, or their estimates of
profit.

We are sorry for the destruction of property ;
but it is, unhappily, strictly in accordance with the
recognised laws of war. Lords PALMERSTON and
RUSSELL, and Messrs. SEWARD and STANTON
would equally contend for the right to impoverish
the enemy commercially. This, indeed, is what the
blockade does. The cargoes of cotton we desire to
fetch from Charleston and New Orleans are perfectly
innocent—the goods we should like to take there
may be harmless also, but they would enrich
the South. The North desires to impoverish
the South, and the Alabama, or No. 290, is endea-
vouring, in return, to impoverish the North. It is
a cruel, a barbarous game, but it is at least an equal
one. The North does not, indeed, burn the cargoes
it captures, it can do better for itself with them,
but the South would rather the North were also
compelled to burn them, since it does not want to
enrich the North. There can be no cure for these
revolting practices, on both sides, bat the adoption
of the rule of respecting private property at sea,
and abolishing commercial blockades. If that can-
not be done, New York merchants must not com-
plain of the destruction of property by the Alabama.

Who will not rejoice over the tidings contained
in to-day's Telegram from Spezzia about GARI
BALDI ? It is evident, from the third and concluding
paragraph of this communication flashed to us
through the electric wire, that there was serious
cause for anxiety in regard to the health, the limb,
even be it said, the life of the General. The rumours
have been exaggerated, it is true, as we had hoped
might prove to be the case, throughout. But—
nevertheless—they had foundation. There was
considerable room for doubt. There were undeni-
able reasons .for solicitude. Is it not virtually so
acknowledged by these closing words of to-day's
Telegram—the Telegram despatched late yesterday
evening from Spezzia, but published to-day in
London—" The general medical consultation will
take place to-morrow." That is, of n:airse, during
the very day upon which we are now writing, and
upon which our remarks are given to the public
through our impression of this evening. Observe—a
general medical consultation." That seapoLt town
of Spezzia in which GARIBALDI is now a sojourner
—the late prisoner having been recently removed
thither, as was announced at the time, from his place
of durance in the neighbouring fortress of Varignano
—that seaport of Spezzia having now once more be-
come a place of rendezvous fnr medical practitioners.
brought thither from various parts of Italy, from
France, and from England, to consult as to the
most advisable treatment that may be applied to
the relief of the sufferings of the illustrious victim
of Aspromonte. Not without reason have the doc-
tors been, thus again, to this end, brought together.
Not without reason have these sinister reports been
flying about of late as to the increasing anxiety
felt there, upon the spot, as to the state of the wound,
as to the existence or not of a bullet embedded in
it, as to the necessity or not of resorting to the
cruel cure of an amputation. Upon the latter point
—upon the question as to whether there should or
should not be any amputation—the telegram to. day
is happily quite decisive. Dr. NELATON, one of the
most skilled of the operative surgeons of France,
having been summoned hastily from Paris to
Spezzia, has now, the telegram informs us, " ap-
proved the course of treatment followed with GARI-
BALDI :" and, more important still than that, "He
considers amputation unnecessary and is confident
of his recovery." Than this no opinion could be
more emphatic, more encouraging, and, in every
possible respect, more consolatory. It is a satisfac-
tion to receive this fresh and deliberate intimation
from a man as eminent as Dr. NELATON—and it is
of a threefold kind, viz., in regard to the past, the
present, and the future. The treatment, hitherto,
Dr.
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The thinks, has been judicious. He
approves friends of GARIBALDI have
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nothing to reproach themselves with, consequent') ,
in having consented to allow, all this while, of this
same treatment of the hero-patient, and in having
in no way interfered with its progress, by insisting
upon calling in additional advice. It is an inex-
pressible consolation to GARIBALDI'S friends and
sympathisers, in regard to the present, to learn
that his sufferings are neither so grievous as was
beginning to be dreaded, nor likely, in any way, to
be so seriously enhanced in their poignancy by his
subjection to a formidable amputation. As to the
future, could anyone wish for words of greater en-
couragement ? He, Dr. NELATON, is " confident "
of GARIBALDI'S " recovery." A professional man
could not say more, certainly, than that.
And, remembering that Dr. NELATON has actually
said that, we may now calmly dismiss from our
minds and hearts the anxiety latterly oppressing
both in the hero's regard. He is no longer incar-
cerated. He is reposing in a dwelling-house at
Spezzia—surrounded with all that tender care and
profound respect which he has received almost from
his arrival in the Gulf of Spezzia from the lament-
able enterprise that terminated so very deplorably
at Aspromonte. There is every prospect of his
ultimate recovery. There is as much certainty as can
possibly be inspired in regard to anything human,
that the wounded General has altogether escaped
the necessity that appeared but a few hours since
almost inevitable, the dire necessity of crippling
him for life, in order to save that life of his by the
agonies of an amputation. There is to be no am-
putation. Dr. NELATON has said it.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A BETTING MAN.—
This morning a most determined attempt at suicide was
made by Mr. Vintner, better known on the Turf as Captain
Barnes, by shooting himself with a pistol, at his residence,
Grove-house, St. John's-wood. The report alarmed the
other inmates, and, on hastening to Mr. Vintner's room, he
was found lying on the floor bleeding, having fired a pistol
into his mouth, the bill from which completely shattered
the left aide of his face. He presented a shocking spectacle
and is not expected to survive, Heavy losses on the Cam-
bridgeshire are said to have induced the rash act.

THE GLASGOW MURDER.

THE CASE OF MRS. M‘LACHLAN.

The authorities at the Home-office have decided

upon granting a respite during her Majesty's
pleasure to Mrs. M‘.Laehlun, but no determina-

tion has yet been arrived at as to what the com-
muted sentence will be.

LADIES TAKING THE OATH AT NEW ORLEANS.
—The scenes at the taking of the oath in New Orleans by
the ladies are reported to have been ludicrous enough. A
letter says :—" One young Miss, as she passed out of the
hall, observed to her friend, Well, really, it ain't much,
after all, is it Clotilde I° One tall lady in black—a widow,
of rather the tragic-queen style—descended the marble
steps, staring most earnestly on the contents of the certi-
ficate. She seemed as if she would annihilate it with her
gaze, She must possess property in New Orleans. Her
struggle to save her wealth from confiscation, and her
hate for the Government that had, as she supposed, robed
her in weeds, made, most likely, the letters on that ' cer-
tificate' burn her eyes as fire. As a contrast to this,
another widow came, and tripped away with the flippant
remark to her companions, Upon my word this affair
has caused me more emotion than when I stood up to be
married."'

THE LATE SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE, BART.—The
funeral of this distinguished surgeon took place yesterday
in the village churchyard of Betchworth, where the remains
of Lady Brodie were interred about 18 months ago, and in
accordance with the wishes of the deceased in a strictly
private manner; the only public representatives being
Gen. Sabine, Dr. Watson, and Mr. James Luke, Presidents
respectively of the Royal Society, the Royal College of
Physicians, and the Royal College of Surgeons. The
friends of Sir Benjamin Brodie will be glad to know that
Mr. Weekes, the eminent sculptor, succeeded in taking an
admirable cast of the deceased for a bust commissioned
some months since for the Royal College of Surgeons of
England.

ACTION AGAINST THE GREAT NORTHERN RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.—DAMAGES £5,000.—A protracted inquiry
into the question of the damages sustained by Messrs.
Barber, Walker, and Co., the proprietors of the High-park
Colliery, by reason of the flooding of the shafts of their
mine from the reservoir of the canal now in possession or
the Great Northern Railway Company, was brought on
Mon,lay night to a conclusion. The learned assessor, Mr.
Boden, Q.C., having then summed up, the jury retired at a
few minutes to seven o'clock, and at nine o'clock returned
the following verdict:—" We find for the claimants, that
the water from the reservoir flowed to the shafts, and we
assess the damage at the sum of 4992 3s. 10d."
THE EXTINCTION OF EXETER CHANGE.—Notices
have been served on the Marquis of Exeter, the freeholder
of Exeter-hall, by the directors of the Strand Music-hall,
that they have given instructions to the Messrs. Pullen,
Horne, and Co., to sell by auction the materials of Exeter-
change, consisting of several substantial dwellings, and
which are to be cleared away for the erection of the Strand
Music-hall. In addition to the houses there situated which
are to be cleared away will be the late office of the Literary
Gazette, the large building recently occupied by the Eng-
lish and Irish Church and University Insurance Society,
which occupied the site of the late Courier office, &c. On
this extensive area will be constructed the " Strand Music-
hall," which will be made capable of accommodating about
2,300 persons, with a restaurant and dining establishment
attached. There will be a frontage in Upper Wellington-
street and the Strand, adjoining the office of the Morning
Post.

THE LATE GENERAL SIR WILLIAM MOORE.—
Lieut.-General Sir William Moore, who died at Peters-
ham on the 23d inst., was the son of Mr, Francis Moore, a
younger brother of General Sir John Moore, who fell at
Corunna. He was born in November, 1795, and was con-
seqnently 66 at the time of his death. Sir William
entered the army at the early age of fifteen, having been
appointed in 1811 to the 52d Regiment, of which his
uncle, Sir John Moors, had formerly been colonel,
and under whom it was formed into light infantry, being
the first introduction of that force in the English army.
Embarking at once for the Peninsula, Sir W. Moore was
present at the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos and St.
Sebastian, and at the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria,
Nivelle, and Nive. He served as aide-de-camp to Sir John
Hope at the siege of Bayonne, and was severely wounded
and taken prisoner while attempting to assist his General
when dismounted and wounded at the sortie from that
place on April 14, 1814. He also served in the campaign,
and was present at the battle of Waterloo, being attached to
the staff of the Quartermaster-General. Sir William Moore
obtained the rank of lieutenant-General on June 5, 1855.
He was appointed colonel-commandant of the 2d Battalion
of the 60th Regiment on the 26th of January, 1856, and on
the 4th of February of the same year he was nominated a
8.C.8. Sir William had had received the Waterloo and
Peninsula war medals with seven clasps.
ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—The Court of the
Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital met yesterday after-
noon, Sir John Musgrove, the President, in the chair, when
the report of the deputation of four of the Governors, re-
cently appointed to examine the hospitals of France, Bel-
anu fl.lland, iras received w th grC4p satisfaction.
A motion was then made to leave the whole question of
choice and purchase of site to the grand committee, subject
to the provisions of the act of Parliament, upon which an
amendment was moved, very much, it was understood,
with the view of continuing the hospital at the Surrey
Gardens. In the debate that followed the treasurer (Mr.
R. Baggallay) and the leading members of the grand com-
mittee stated that no site had been chosen or even dis-
cussed, and that 30 to 50 acres ought to be obtained as near
as possible to London. Finally, the motion was carried
by a considerable majority ; as also another, directing the
architect of the hospital to prepare plans to be submitted to
a future court and to the medical men; and, after votes of ,
thanks to the deputation and President, the meeting ad-
journed.

A LANDSLIP AMONG THE WELSH MOUNTAINS.—
The Merthyr correspondent of the Leeds Mercury relates
an extraordinary incident which happened during the late
gales in an isolated and mountainous district between
Merthyr Tydvil and Tredegar. Police-constable Lewis, of
Tir Dhil, a dingle in the Rhymney Mountains, on the slope
•of a precipitous bill, occupies one of a iow of houses quite
isolated from Merthyr district. About 7.30 on Wednesday
evening last he was cleaning out the gutter in front of his
house, when he was alarmed by a terrific rumbling noise
that seemed approaching, paralysing his movements. He at
length mustered courage to venture out and see what was
the cause, when he found a torrent of water rushing down
the mountain opposite his back door. He ran to warn his
wife and children of the danger, but had only gone a few
yards when he was struck down by the flood of water, clay,
and stones. He got up, but die not know for a moment
where he was, and ran round to the front of the house ; the
back he could not reach on account of the mound of clay and
stones that was against it. Mrs. Lewis, in the meantime,
was in the house, but knew nothing of the occurrence until
the back door was forced in, and before she could reach the
front door to escape the house was half full of stones, com-
pletely blocking up the front door and rendering esca,e
impossible. She than made her way to the door of the
stairs and tried to open it, but that also was blocked up.
At this tfme the water had risen up to her shoulders. She
held one child on her shoulder, and the other was climbing
up her side when Lewis broke in the front window with an
axe, and rescued first the children and afterwards the wife,
but it was with the greatest difficulty Mrs. Lewis was
saved, as the clay and stones had accumulated around her.
The damage done was very great; the wall between the
kitchen and front room was knocked down, the pantry was
filled to the ceiling, and everything in it destroyed. The
front room was also filled up, and all the furniture down-
stairs broken up or rendered worthless. The next house
escaped with only three feet of mud and rubbish on the
ground floor, and the remaining houses of the row were
simply wetted as if a torrent of water had passed through.
Advices from Tangier descrine a retrograde act on
the part of the Moorish Government, which,
although probably Lot intended, is virtually a
breach of faith. The Sultan, by whom only a few
months back a loan was obtained in London on the
security of the trading revenue of his country, has,
it appears, just issued a mandate by which that
t rade must be seriously crippled. He has prohibited
the exportation of wool and grain from the southern
ports, and, as it was these articles that constituted
the chief exchangeable staples of the people, a blow
has thus been struck which cannot fail to check the
prosperous foreign traffic which under the existing
commercial treaties with some of the Christian

Powers of Europe was rapialy growing up in his
dominions; while, as the duties on exports are a
leading part of the hypothecation to the English
bondholders, the proceeding, as far as they are con-
cerned, is one of absolute illegality. Doubtless the
security they possess will still be found practically
ample; but, whatever may have been its original
amount, the Sultan cannot honestly enforce any
measure tending to reduce or weaken it. A report
was circulated a little while back that it was con-
templated to raise a further loan in London so as to

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pay off at once the amount remaining due to Spain,
but if any such idea was entertained, nothing could
more effectually preclude its realisation than the

announcement now made. It seems that the Foreign
Ministers and Consuls are likely to make represen-
tions on the subject which it is hoped will cause a
return to better policy, as, according to the Gibral•
tar Chronicle, there is " reason to believe that the
real cause of the Sultan's decree is not an indiffer-
ence to foreign trade, and certainly not a wish to
evade any of his obligations."

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Sasonia, from New York on the 18th inst.,
passed the Needles at 12.10 p.m. to-day.