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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.

--4.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Bondville, Tynau, County Armagh, Aug. 29, 1865.

SIR,—In your impression of 2lth August there is a
quotation from the Newcastle Daily Journal, in reference to
the Turkish Bath and the Cattle Disease.

Will you allow me to refer you to the reEult of my
experience, as communicated to Sir John Fife, under the
title " Four Years' Experience of the Turkish Bath on
an Irish Farm ?" of which I send you a copy in
pamphlet form, extracted from " The Manual of the
Turkish Bath."

Since writing that I have adopted, from Mr. Urquhart,
the use of radiating heat with remarkable success—decreas-
ing the original outlay, time in construction, and current
expenses—shortening the time in taking, and gaining more
marked and rapid results ; besides, providing a much more
enjoyable and enlivening medium to remain in than is to
be procured from other heat.
Both on my own and other farms, where radiating heat
has been introduced according to my instructions, the most
marked success in treating the diseases of inferior animals
has followed.

The symptoms that are recorded of the fearful visitation
now raging in England are such as we frequently subject
to the action of heat, and with uninterrupted success. It
must be high heat-180 deg. to 210 deg. Moderate tempera-
tures won't do. Tho rapid action of heat on disease ren-
ders it peculiarly adapted to meet the exigencies of the pre.
sent occasion.

Nor need the uninitiated hesitate to try. Skill and
knowledge are, of course, necessary to obtain the most
favourable results; but, till acquired, intelligent observa •
tion will enable one not only to conduct experiments with-
out harm, but with great benefit to the animals operated

After some trouble I have succeeded in getting a heat-
ing apparatus, which will, I hope, fulfil all the conditions
required by the introducer of this cheap luxury and
powerful remedial agent.
I shall feel happy to communicate the information that I
have accumulated by years of experience, from the time
that the first horse ever known to take the bath was
put in by me, at Saint Anne's Hill, County Cork. His
history alone should induce stock owners to learn some-
thing about the bath.—Yours truly,
J. E. SCRIVEN.

[Our correspondent's pamphlet has been more
than once referred to and quoted from in the columns
of The Sun—to the readers of which, therefore, the
above communication will for that very reason
prove doubly interesting, if only as the record of
Mr. Scriven's fresh experiences.—ED. SUN.]

THE LOSS OF THE GLASGOW Messrs. Inman and
Co. have presented a valuable watch and chain to Captain
Grace, of the National Steam Navigation Company's
steamer Erin, as a mark of their appreciation of his ser-
vices in receiving on board the passengers and crew of the
Inman steamer Glasgow, burnt at sea. The watch bears
the following inscription :—" Presented by the Liverpool,
New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company to Capt.
R. W. Grace, of the screw steamer Erin, for his humanity
in receiving on board that ship the crew and passengers of
the steamer Glasgow, burnt at sea 31st July, 1865."

LATEST INTEL LIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEG!'4OI3.)

SOHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

MUNICH, AUG. 31.

The official Bairische Zeituw of to-day declares
the rumour that negotiations had taken place at
Vienna between Bavaria, Saxcny, 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 mae determined to take
further steps in the Federal Diet, and maintains
that the Duke of Augustenburg is alone entitled to
the sovereignty of the Duchies.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
'IENNA, AUG. 31.

The Chancellor of Hungary, Count von Maylath,
has issued a circular, in whick 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.

MEXICO.
MEXICO, JULY 28.

According to the 14t advices the road from
Matamoras to Montereiwas 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 Naevo 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, some 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
to 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-

raise.

Some little doubt begins to be expressed relative
to the ability of Senor Martinez for the difficult
task of conducting the financial affairs of the coun-
try in their present critical and complicated phase.
It is even rumoured that, after the dissolution of
the Cortes, Senor Salaverria would replace the pre-
sent Minister of Finance.

FRANCE.
PARIS, AUG. 31.
The Moniteur of this morning contains the fol-

lowing :

" The convention signed by the Great German
Powers has just been published. It is not our
intention to discuss its different clauses, but it is
impossible for us not to point out the unfavourable
reception it has met with even in Germany. The
principle of the union of the Duchies is one which
has hitherto been most constantly proclaimed by
the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin, but the Gastein
stipulations proceed from a contrary order of ideas.
They, moreover, imply no participation of the
Duchies in the settlement of their own destinies, and
take no account of the nationality of the inhabitants
of Northern Schleswig. The two Courts, it is
true, represent this arrangement to he provisional.
They have only geograpically separated the use of
their rights of sovereignty until a fresh understand-
ing has been arrived at. It is therefore necessary
to wait before passing a definite judgment upon
their policy on the question of the Duchies.
" Some French SP ilors employed in the coral fishery
on the African coast having been attacked by
Tunisian Zouaves, our acting Consul-General
immediately lodged a complaint with the Govern-

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 growerp, 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 Mr. 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 :

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

Ditto Threes —
Mexican Loan 4Bi
Do. Bonds
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —

Deferred
Roman —

PAYS.
Cash. Acct.
... 852 50
... 1085 -
- 872 50
... 568 75
546 25
... 532 50
255 -
- ... 413 75
... 477 50
217 50
827 50

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western

Eastern
Sardinian ,
Austrian
Lombard

North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Roman

- - ... 222 50

Haymarket Theatre.
The production of a new and original five-act
tragedy is not a matter nowadays to be passed
over without attention ; accordingly last night a
very crowded audience assembled to witness the
first representation of " Fra Angelo," by Mr. W.
C. Russell (a son of Mr. Henry Russell, the musical
composer.) We may as well at once say that the
tragedy is, like most of the modern productions,
faulty to a degree—it is devoid of interest, slow of
action, intensely disagreeable, and full of common-
place similes. The plot is related we presume by
the author, as we extract the following " argument"
from the play-bill :

The drama opens with an interview between the Duke
de Cerreto and his son Lorenzo. The duke, proud of a
name venerable for its antiquity and renowned for its
splendour, is anxious to see these honours perpetuated in
his son ; and therefore discloses to him this secret of his
heart, at the same time commending to his notice, as one
by birth and position eminently adapted for the furtherance
of these views, Leonora, the only daughter of the Mar-
quis de Volgenza. This hint, however, is received with
every token of dissent by Lorenzo, who, after pointing
out to his father the defects in the character of Volgenza,
declares himself to be already in love.
Fra Angelo, an elder brother of the Marquis, a hunch-
back, has been debarred from enjoying the rights of his
seniority by a capricious and strange law of his ancestry,
which forbids all offspring
Deform 'd, unfinish'd, sent before their time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
from representing the house of Volgenza, unless an only
child. Infuriated at the loss of his birthright, and mad-
dened at the lasting horror of his misfortunes, he meditates
endless crimes against mankind, that by wreaking his ven-
geance on those who are innocent he may assuage the burn-
ing passions of his soul. The better to achieve his demo-
niacal purposes, he masks his feelings beneath a religious
aspect, a character so well assumed that he is universally
recognised as a good and pious man ; he is treated with all
the respect due to virtue, and, in the spirit of the times, he
receives the prtunomen of Fra, by which title to both high
and low he is generally known.

Leonora, whose love for Lorenzo, although unrequited,
has grown with her growth and increased with her
years, is acquainted by Fra Angelo of the desire expressed
by the Duke of seeing her united to his son; but he adds that
Lorenzo has no love for her; that his affection is entirely
bestowed upon another ; and subsequently proves to her
the truth of his story by showing her the spot where they
meet. Shortly after Marina and Lorenzo enter, and, hidden
from their view, Leonora hears him swear that Marina
alone possesses his love.
By a series of progressive exertions Fra Angelo first per-
suades the Marquis to sanction the murder of Marina, and
then succeeds in inducing Leonora to acquiesce in the
same terrible appro7al. But the agony of remorse over-
powering the determination of love, Leonora hurriedly writes
to Lorenzo, acquaints him of the* scheme aimed against
Marina's life, and bids him haste to her rescue ere it be too
late. Saved by the timely entrance of her beloved, Marina
watches with horror the dying agonies of the wretch when
the potion he has prepared for another ho is compelled to
swallow himself. The Marquis, impatiently waiting for
the return of Fra Angelo, is terrified at the sudden entry
of the Duke, Lorenzo, and Marina. Seeing that all is lost,
with a sarcastic allusion to the vicissitudes of life, ho is
about to stab himself, when his arm is arrested by Lo-
renzo, and at the same time Leonora enters, pale and dying
from the effects of a poison she has taken, resolved rather
to perish than to submit to the humiliation of being pitied
by the world and hated by herself. Her death, the sorrow
of her surrounding friends, and the mental agony of the
repentant marquis terminate the drama.
It will at once be seen that the horrible element
predominates, and that the moral sought to be in-
culcated is, that those deformed in body must be
treacherous, detestable, and irretrievably bad.
With all respect for the author, and giving him the
full benefit of dramatic licence, we must be allowed
to differ with him. The character of Fra Angelo
is a monstrosity—in fact (he must pardon us for
saying it) an utter absurdity—such an one that only
the fertile brain of Mr. Russell could conjure up.
Then, with respect to the " sensation" portions of
the tragedy, they also went beyond " the modesty
of nature," and that which the author intended to
be tremendously effective merely proved a pro-
vocative to mirth. Not only did " the unskilful
laugh," but the whole audience joined in an
irrepressible titter when the lady Leonora, the
daughter of the Marquis de Volgenza, went
plump down upon her knees before Lorenzo, and,
point blank, asked him to love her ! Then, again,
another incident that caused much merriment was
the great scene of the tragedy, in which Fra Angelo
is about to administer poison to Marina. Here the
lady's lover, Lorenzo, rushes in, seizes the diabolical
Fra, and, just as a determined parent administers
brimstone and treacle to a troublesome child, so
does he force the deadly potion down the throat of
Angelo, who, of course, kicks and splutters, but to
no purpose, as all that is left him to do is to take
the dose and die. The audience laughed outright,
and certainly there was just cause for their hilarity.
As far as the acting was concerned, Mr. Mont-
gomery made the most of the very conventional part
of Lorenzo, while Miss Katharine Rodgers, as Leo-
nora, although slightly imitatingthe statuesque style
of Miss Bateman, threw considerable force and pas-
sion into the character. It was her first appearance
in London, but the part was not one calculated
to enable her to do full justice to her
abilities. She has a fine expressive face, a
graceful bearing, and an agreeable voice,
and doubtless she will be an acquisition to the
metropolitan stage. Miss Louisa Moore enacted
the part of Marina with much feeling, but Mrs.
Marston's Emilia was the most artistic impersona-
tion of the piece. Mr. Vollaire raged and ranted
throughout the part of Fra Angelo in the most ap-
proved Victoria style, and Mr. Fernandez was as stiff
and as awkward as could be desired as the cowardly,
cool, and revengeful Marquis.
The tragedy has been mounted with the utmost
care. The scenery and appointments were really
beautiful, and we can only regret that they had not
to illustrate a more successful play.
It is but just to say there was considerable
applause at the termination of the play, and that
the principal performers were called before the
curtain, the ladies being honoured with a shower of
bouquets.
On Saturday week, we believe, Mr. Montgomery's
season terminates, but before the time we are pro-
mised a new historical play by Mr. M. F. Tupper,
entitled " Alfred the Great," which we honestly
and heartily wish may prove more successful than
" Fra Angelo,"