The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, MONDOb4, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1865

neighbourhood of Edinburgh. Sanitary precautions
have been adopted, it is most important to state,
however, and surely this example will not be lost
upon those in this country who are menaced with
the infliction of this deplorable calamity. Some
discussion took place upon the desirability of
killing the cattle who were affected, and the Duke
of BUCCLEUCH very truly said that it was unreason-
able to destroy all the cattle who caught the
disease. Professor DICK declared that it was pos-
sible to effect a remedy, and in those instances
where remedies were employed at an early stage of
the affair the beasts recovered fast from the evil
effects of the malady. From this statement, again,
we may glean an interesting and important piece
of intelligence. Too much haste cannot be made
to insure prompt and efficient treatment to all those
animals who suffer from the disease, and the attempt
to hush up the matter, and not to let the fact of
the disease having broken out in any particular
spot become known, must be highly injudicious and
injurious. It was stated at this meeting that the
disease was infectious, but that it spread in an
epidemic form, taking hold of particular districts,
like the Cholera.

The temporary settlement of the Schleswig-Hol-
stein affair has caused a great deal of annoyance in
various quarters, and the various comments that
are passed upon it would be amusing to read if the
whole subject were not so unsatisfactory in every
respect. The Austrian journals do not think that
their diplomatists have made a good bargain, and
are quite ready to pick holes in the management of
their puissant ally. One of these organs very care-
fully criticises the present posture of affairs, and
truly states that injuries will accrue from the divi-
sion that has taken place in the Duchies. Of what
avail, it asks, is it to declare that the State union is
to be maintained when a separation has actually
taken place, and when different masters rule ?
This is a very fair argument, and it seems only
strange that such a reflection should not have pre-
viously occurred to the arbitrators ; but when sel-
fishness and greediness are the predominant quali-
ties, it is idle to expect that any very satisfactory
conclusion can be arrived at. The connection is
truly described as patchwork, which will last one
day and be destroyed the next. We find, however,
that the secondary States are still more vehement
in their indignation, and outspoken in their
language. This is not to be wondered at, for
they have indeed been most shamefully duped,
and all the grand professions that have been
so plentifully made have been totally disre-
garded when the time for settlement arrived.
Under the present circumstances it is little that
these victims can do except to complain and to
protest against the usurpation of national rights
and the destruction of well-grounded hopes. One
of the journals that comments upon these matters
intimates that the union again patched up between
Austria and Prussia may not be so lasting as some
expect, and then goes on to point out the signifi-
cance of the secondary States being excluded from
the " solution of the question." These States cer-
tainly gave themselves a vast amount of unneces-
sary trouble at the outset of the Schleswig-Holstein
dispute, but wrong as they might have been in
principle they deserved better treatment at the
hands of the great Powers, since they strenuously
laboured for the advancement of the same end
which these professed to have at heart—the con-
solidation of the Germanic Empire, and exclusion
of strange interests from national affairs. It is
not surprising that, taking all things into considera-
tion, Austria should be the chief point of attack,
for it was the firmness of that Power that was
chiefly relied on for securing the integrity of the
Duchies, and protecting the claims of the smaller
States. This idea has proved illusory, and disap-
pointment has prompted the utterance of some
home-truths more poignant than pleasant and more
appropriate than complimentary. The prospect of
making Schleswig-Holstein a vassal State is indig-
nantly alluded to, and spoken of in terms of
the greatest reprobation. It is, however,
to be questioned, if, notwithstanding the
truth contained in these animadversions, such
will not virtually be the condition of the unfortu-
nate Duchies, or at all events will remain so until
some startling change occurs. Germany, at any
rate, cannot be considered as a " house that is at
unity with itself," and may therefore expect sooner
or later to share the fate that attends on disorganised
and discontented establishments. The other na-
tions of Europe can pass no comment upon the
events that occur of a more disparaging nature than
those that are so lavishly uttered and so freely
passed by the different States of Germany itself.
First one and then the other is eager to explain its
own wrongs and proclaim its own rights, although
it must be confessed that the true meaning of these
terms is little understood and still less acted upon.

The Cattle Disease and the Turkish Bath

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

MUNICH, AUG. 31.

The official Bairische Zeitung of to-day declares
the rumour that negotiations had taken place at
Vienna between Bavaria, Saxony, and Wurtemberg,
in accordance with which the Minor States would
cease to oppose the policy of the great German
Powers in the Schleswig-Holstein question to be
incorrect. Bavaria, on the contrary, has since the
Convention become still more determined to take
further steps in the Federal Diet, and maintains
that the Duke of Augustcnburg is alone entitled to
the sovereignty of the Duchies.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

VIENNA, AUG. 31.

The Chancellor of Hungary, Count von Maylath,
has issued a circular, in which he designates as his
first duty to harmonise the constitutional and his-
torical rights of Hungary with the position of
Austria as one of the great Powers, and also to
strengthen the union, founded by the Pragmatic
Sanction, between Hungary and the other provinces
of Empire by respecting mutual rights and interests,
and taking into consideration the present state of
things.
The rumours here of Prussian declarations ren-
dering doubtful the execution of the Gastein con-
vention are unfounded.

111EXICO.
MEXICO, JULY 28.

According to the last advises the road from
Matamoros to Monterey was occupied by guerillas,
and communication between the two towns entirely
cut off.

The Jaurist bands lately defeated at El Portezulo
and Santa Maria del Rio have separated, some re-
treating to the Valle de Purisuma, and the rest to
the Haciendu of Palo-Blanco. Advices from
Mineral del Catorce to the 17th July state that a
French detachment had destroyed the guerilla band
of Ildefonso Martinez. This chief was one of those
who took part in the Nuevo Leon expedition under
Negrete, and who surrendered at Monterey at the
time of the occupation of that city by General de
Castagny.
News from Michoacan states that Ronda, who,
at the beginning of the month, was at Purnamdiro,
left that place on the 11th for Coeneo with 300 men
Private letters from Monterey, to the 12th, state
that upwards of 4,000 inhabitants of the former
Confederate States had arrived in that city. Among
them were several superior officers of the Southern
army, soma of whom, it was said, intended to take
service in the Mexican army. It was stated that
there was at least an equal number of Southern
emigrnnts on the banks of the Rio Bravo.

SPAIN.

MADRID, AUG. 28.

On the recent visit of Queen Isabella, to Bermeo,
the ancient capital of Biscay, her Majesty expressed
a desire to possess a branch from the " Holy Tree
of the Liberties of Biscay," and to present another
to the King. Two branches were accordingly cut
and offered to the Royal visitor, on which occasion
the following conversation is reported to have taken
place between the Queen and the Deputy, General
Senor Urquiza, to whom her Majesty delivered one
of the branches. The Queen said, " Take this
branch, and preserve it for my sake. I assure you
that as these two branches," pointing to that des-
tined for the King, " belonged to one and the same
tree, so shall our ideas be one and the same respecting
the tree." Senor Urquiza replied, " Madame, this
branch, placed in a frame bearing the precious words
uttered by your Majesty will be the ornament of the
Chamber in which we assemble." ;)
A petition was lately presented to the Queen to
re-establish the Franciscan community formerly
existing at Zarauz. This request, as might be ex-
pected, met with a refusal. Early in September
her Majesty will lay the first stone of a monument
co be erected at Motrico to the sailor Churricca,
one of the Spanish officers engaged at Trafalgar.
Espartero is represented in Ministerial circles to
have latterly been himself less favourable to the
continued non-participation of the Progressists in
political affairs. The Central Progressist Com-
mittee meet in October. Should the non-partici-
pation policy be then adhered to, it will not be, it
is believed, without energetic and authoritative
protests. The new electoral law is said to have
great weight with many unprejudiced and disin-
terested men of the party, who, believing it to be
based upon truly liberal principles, consider there
is a powerful motive for abandoning a policy which,
if persisted in, would be reduced to a barren menace.
Very satisfactory intelligence on the subject of the
cholera is received from Valencia. The epidemic
is announced to be rapidly on the decline. The
town is regaining the usual animation, and affairs
are returning to their normal condition.
Referring to the efforts of the Minister of Public
Works for the encouragement of a modern system
of agriculture in Spain, a Madrid journal points
out that little advance can be made under the
present deplorable ignorance of the agricultural
class. The rural population read nothing of all
that is published in Europe on this important
matter, and, blindly attached to the routine trans-
mitted by tradition from father to son, persist in a
system of cultivation very similar to that of Adam
and Noah, leaving to Providence the care of con-
verting Spain into a new paradise or land of pro-

ment of the Bey. The satisfaction given is of a
nature to produce a salutary impression upon the
tribes along the coast. Several Italian sailors having
equally suffered from these acts of aggression, the
Italian Consul made the same complaint, and ob-
tained similar reparation."
The cattle plague has broken out at the Hague.
The professors of the veterinary school at Utrecht
have been ordered by the Government to inquire
into the disease.

The council-general of the Seine-Inferieure has
voted the sum necessary for the purchase of the
tower at Rouen in which Joan of Arc was confined
previously to her execution.
The journals of the Charente mention that certain
fruits, such as figs, peaches, &c., are so abundant
that, although the growers give them away to who-
ever will accept them, large quantities are left to
perish.
BOURSE, Aug. 30.—Two o'clock.—The market
rather weak, and prices have generally receded.
Threes, for the Account, are at 68fr. 50c., and
Italian Fives at 65fr. 85c. Credit Mobilier are
doing at 805 fr., with a loss of sfr. Spanish Mo-
bilier are well sustained. Credit Foncier Shares
have advanced 22fr. 50c., and are in great demand
at 1,307 fr. 50c. Three o'clock.—The Bourse be-
came buoyant towards the end, and closed as fol-
lows :

4} per Cents 9B
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 50
Do. end month 6B 62}
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month 813 75
Bank Shares 3590
Credit Foncier 1310
Italian Loan 66
Do. end month 65 90

Ditto Threes —
Mexican Loan 4Bl

Do. Bonds -
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —

Deferred
Roman —

LITERATURE.

The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams. By
Frank Seafield, M.A. Two vols. Chapman and

Hall.

Mr. Seafield has collected in these two goodly
volumes (elegantly bound and printed on tinted
paper) a mass of curious and interesting matter
respecting the world of dreams. He describes his
book as " a commonplace book of speculations con-
cerning the mystery of dreams and visions, records
of curious and well-authenticated dreams, and notes
on the various modes of interpretation adopted in
ancient and modern times." It is not every one
who can regard a vision of the night with a coolness
and courage equal to that of Scrooge, when ad-
dressing the unwelcome Ghost of Marley—" rou
may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of
mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an
underdone potato. There's more of gravy
than of grave about you, whatever you are."
The result of Mr. Seafield's very elaborate and be-
wildering explorations in the world of shadows
leaves him, we are glad to find, still in possession of
the common-sense belief that dreams are, for the
most part, occasioned "by our present bodily sensa-
tions, or our previous waking thoughts, dispositions,
and prevalent states of mind. A hard bed or an
uncomfortable position will cause a dream of frac-
tured bones, or become suggestive of the rack and
the wheel. The throat, say, is tightly compressed
by a too affectionate button, and the dream is of
Calcraft and public perpendicular suffocation."
Nearly two hundred different authors and autho-
rities are quoted in these volumes—ancient and
modern, sacred and profane----Socrates and Mrs.
Crowe, St. Augustine and Thomas Hobbes. Among
the curiosities of literature this work may take its
place—a goodly Substance evoked from Shadows.
It does credit, in its patient research and skilful
combinations, to its author. We cannot say that it
is likely to confer much benefit upon its readers—
at least it may interest and perhaps astonish them.

Etoniana, Ancient and Modern : being Notes of the
History and Traditions of Eton College. Re-
published from Blackwood's Magazine, with
Additions. One vol., pp. 332. Blackwood and

Sons.
" Floreat Etona I" should have been the motto
of this work ; we are surprised not to find it on the
title-page. It contains a delightful collection of
Eton anecdotes, and the remaining chapters are
devoted to the history of the college and collegians
under the different provosts. Of these one of the
most important describes the reign of Dr. Ideate, so
admirably portrayed by the author of " Eothen."
It was of this master that the Italian
modeller is said to have sold so many statues, " 0
yes, sare," he remarked, " Eton gentlemen buy
him many times, they have much pleasure to break
his head."

The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict ; Sketches of
some of their Homes, Haunts, and Habits. By
Thomas Archer, author of "Wayfe Summer,"
&c. One Vol., pp. 239. Groombridge and Sons.
An interesting but melancholy volume on sin and
sorrow as seen in our metropolis, in a London work-
house, in the House of Correction, in the gaol of
Newgate, and finally at Millbank or Portland. It
well deserves a thoughtful perusal.

The Progress of Medical Science (Churchill and
Sons, Bvo., pp. 32)—is the title of a rather verbose
and rhetorical lecture by Dr. Edward Ellis, whose
confession of Medical Faith, nevertheless, as therein
conveyed to the public at large as well as to the mem-
bers of his own learned profession, affords, as it
appears to us, very favourable evidence, indeed, at
once of his accomplishments as a man of letters
and of his sagacity as a physician.

7 he Anthropological Society's Anniversary Address,
by Dr. James Hunt (Triibner and Co., Bvo., pp. 32),
was in every respect sufficiently noticeable to de-
serve the honour here accorded to it of separate
publication. In the far-reaching scope of its survey
it is an address not unworthy of having fallen from
the lips of the President of the Anthropological
Association—a society, the main object of which,
according to Dr. Hunt's own view, is the formation,
the consolidation, and expansion of a reliable Science
of Mankind.

Seric(itis Railway Collision.

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An accident of avery terrible nature happened to a Mid-
land excursion train, when passing the Colney Hatch Sta-
tion, Great Northern Railway, last night, by which between
20 and 30 of the passengers were more or less injured, and
a serious amount of the railway stock destroyed. The train
was run by the Midland Railway Company from Notting-
ham, Derby, and the adjacent places, and was timed to
arrive at King's-cross at a quarter before 8 o'clock. It had
proceeded as far as the Colney Hatch Station in safety ;
but at that part of its journey it ran into a coal or goods
train, with the unfortunate result stated. It appears that
the arrival of this excursion train was known to the offi-
cials at the Colney Hatch Station and that the goods train
was being shunted out of its way when the up train came
into collision with it. The passengers describe the shock
as terrible, and it is astounding that the casualties which
consequently ensued were not far more serious than re-
ported. The officials at King's-cross state that there are
from 20 to 30 sufferers, but up to 2 o'clock this (Thursday)
morning no fatal case had been reported.
The engine of the excursion train, after it had dashed
into the goods train, smashing several of them to pieces,
fell over, and now lies on its side in a very damaged state.
The up line was blocked up by the fragments of broken
carriages. The station-master at Colney Hatch at once
forwarded a telegram to King's-cross, reporting the serious
nature of the collision, and took immediate measures for
relieving the wounded passengers. They were, after con-
siderable difficulty, extricated from amidst the debris of
the smashed carriages, and those who were seriously in-
jured taken to an adjoining hotel, but the majority were
enabled to proceed to town by a short train, which was
sent up on the down line. Orders were given to collect
some of the fragments of the broken carriages, and light
a fire by which to work in removing some of the ob-
struction which had completely stopped all traffic. The
officials at King's-cross, immediately they received infor-
mation of the accident, procured a staff of officers, with
some medical men, and despatched them to the scene of the
collision, where their services were urgently needed.
The cause of the collision is not known—at least whether
any person is guilty of culpable negligence. It is stated
that the " block" signal was on at the distance, so as to pre-
vent the driver of the excursion train from passing, but
that he either did not see it or else did not attend to it.
The guard of the train states that the whistle sounded, and
that he applied his break, which would seem to prove that
the driver was attending to his duties. It is certain, how-
ever, that from some unfortunate cause or another the ex-
cursion train did proceed, and came into collision with
the goods train, which was being shunted at that moment.
The traffic was stopped for several hours, and at last the
up trains had to be passed on by the down line.