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London, England, 1862-09-24 00:00:00

of Mx .. Serge t SgEE as an inopportune
candidate for their suffrages—had no Liberal
electors been driven, by the confusion resulting
from Mr. Sergeant SHEE'S appearance there as a
candidate for those suffrages of theirs, into not
voting for any one of the three rivalcandidates—had
1 no Liberal electors under cover of this very con-
fusion been induced to desert Mr. GRENFELL (as
many did) and actually to swell the ranks of Mr.
HOPE'S supporters—the chances of the latter gen-
tlemen we may now be certain would, as we can
very well perceive, have been absolutely in-
significant.
It is certainly to be regretted that a man of Mr.
Sergeant SHEE'S standing at the Bar—no mere
Mr. CHAFFINBRASS, but the very antithesis or an-
tipodes of your Old Bailey practitioner—should
have consented, no matter at whose instance, to go
down to Stoke-upon-Trent, or to assume a position
in regard to any body of electors in any part of the
kingdom, like that which he has so recently as-
sumed in regard to that constituency, It cannot
possibly redound to his credit. It cannot in any
way advance his interests or his reputation either
political or professional. On the contrary, it must
henceforth be " ticked" against Mr. Sergeant
SHEE'S name as a decidedly bad mark in the
event of his going, sooner or later, anywhere else
in the character of a Liberal candidate for a
seat in the Commons House of Parliament. It
bears from first to last so paltry a construction, the
whole scheme of these proceedings. Not a vestige
of a real bona fide chance for himself was Sergeant
SHEE'S, from the commencement of this glaringly
invidious contest. Down there, at Stoke-upon-
Trent, from the very outset he himself, in effect,
was just de trop' He could possibly do no good
whatever for himself—had about as much chance
of climbing to the top of the spire of Salisbury
Cathedral, as of finding himself at the top of the
poll at the termination of this contest down at
Stoke-upon-Trent. His persistence in going to the
1 poll could only be a threat of detriment to the inte-
• rests of the other (the veritable) Liberal candidate.
Sergeant SHEE must have known as clearly as any
F one down there yesterday, inthat agitated borough,
that his going to the poll, if it tended to influence
the election in any way, tended certainly to afford
a ghost of a better chance to Mr. BERESFORD HOPE,
as the Conservative candidate. The result has shown
happily that in this scramble, the Liberal interests
in the town have not suffered. But that they have
not is unquestionably not the fault of Mr. Sergeant
SHEE. And what served to lend weight—not by any
means unnaturally—to the insinuations thrown out
against him as a man fighting pirate-like the Tory
battle, under the false banner of Liberalism, was
the fact that in doing so he was for once suspi-
ciously not in the same boat with his co-religionists
down at Stoke-upon-Trent. While the Catholic elec-
tors of that borough are understood to have, for the
most part, given in their votes to swell the number of
the 918 supporters of Mr. BERESFORD HOPE—Mr.
Sergeant SEME was, with every profession of loyalty
to the cause of Liberalism, endeavouring to dimi-
nish the number of the supporters of Mr. GREN-
TELL " the" Liberal candidate. Cunningly con-
trived though this device was to which Mr. Ser-
geant SHEE condescended to lend his name and his
tongue, it has nevertheless proved an egregious
failure. The Liberal gentleman who was yester-
day morning the gibe and laughing-stock of the
supporters of both Mr. BERESFORD HOPE and Mr.
Sergeant SHEE, had, before the closing in of yes-
terday evening, turned out to be the successful can-
didate after all! The one chosen by a clear and de-
cisive majority of 139 out of the 2,039 electors who
took part in the contest of yesterday, the one
elio,;en deliberately by that clear majority to be
M.P. for the borough of Stoke-upon-Trent.

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nervation so long. We noticed in a Manchester '
contemporary another claimant for the honour of
the discovery ; but having made it our business to
see his patent, it is for a very different and unim-
portant thing, the extraction of fibre from common
seaweeds—(seaweeds proper, Alga, not Zostera)—
and by processes so common and rough as this
beautifully delicate fibre would never bear
It is quite evident that the patentee knew
nothing whatever of the marvellous filaments of
the Zostera Marina. If he had, indeed, he would
have been chargeable almost with cruelty in sup-
pressing such knowledge while Lancashire was
starving, for his patent dates seven years ago.
When examined by a good microscope, in com-
parison at the same time with cotton wool, it was
impossible to notice any difference in the thickness
and smoothness of the filaments, which were quite
different in this respect from the fibres of flax
hemp and that class of substances. We can hardly

doubt, indeed, that it will prove a unique pro-

duction.

A doubt has been suggested whether the plan
can be obtained in quantities sufficient for commer.
cial purposes. From all the information yet before
us, we 4 rather imagine that it is abundant in shal-
low marine water all over the world. On some
parts of our coast we know of its existence in great
abundance. It is carted away for manure by the
farmers, and is thrown up after storms in immense
quantities. It is brought from the Mediterra-
nean in bales for the cabinet maker; and perhaps
may grow better in some currents and temperatures
of the ocean than in others. We should think it,
however, almost certain that wherever salt water
can cover the soil, there the Zestera Marina either
grows, or may be made to grow. We can easily
imagine, indeed, that if there should be any diffi-
culty in finding enough, our estuaries will be planted
with it ; there will be a regular cultivation of it, and
thousands of salt marshes in England will become
as valuable as the sea islands of America themselves.
It would be interesting,meanwhile, if persons on the
coast would communicate to the press such know-
ledge as they may have of the growth of this plant
in their own localities. It has been a subject of
such extremely little interest hitherto, that no one
would notice it. There are, we are inclined to
think, vast fields of it, without our going so far as
the Mediterranean; perhaps some of our readers
can confirm our conjectures.
The whole business is, however, through the
noble generosity of Mr. HARBEN, in the way for
the fullest and earliest investigation. Instead of a
patentee and his assistants trying unsuccessful and
imperfect plans of manipulation of the rough ma-
terial for months, all the modes, mechanical and
chemical, which can occur to hundreds and thou-
sands, will be in operation at once. Strange in-
deed will it be if, with so many minds brought to
bear on so intensely interesting and practical
a matter, we do not quickly hear of a
"eureka" from some of them. The grand discovery
has been made. There is the fibre or filament,
whichever we please to call it. There can be no
mistake on that point. And when we have before
our eyes a beautiful tissue of fibres, which every
child playing on the beach could learn in five
minutes to develope to almost any length, it would
be a stigma, indeed, on our ingenuity if qualified
aduits do not 0p,.-.T dily place it in the hands of the
manufacturer. ,........---..
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It was very cleverly arranged no doubt, but the
dodge has been entirely unsuccessfu:,' down at Stoke-
upon-Trent. Mr. GRENFELL, the Lib's:lral candi-
date, has been returned thereby a majority it; every
way decisive. Whatever Mr. Sergeant SIIEII nat:?
say to the contrary, it still looks, as it has looked
all along, exceedingly like a perfectly understood
thing between himself and the Conservative candi-
date, Mr. BERESFORD HOPE. Who, in the name of
fortune, ever supposed for one instant that Sergeant
SUEZ had the smallest atom of chance of being re-
turned by the Stoke-upon-Trent constituency.
That he would get the show of hands at the hust-
ings upon the nomination day—as he did—was an
event no doubt very probable. But it might
almost be taken as a rule, that the show of
hands, in these mixed constituencies, might
be regarded at once (certainly in the majority
of instances it might)---not as a prophecy of
success to the candidate favoured with that show of
hands, but—tout au contraire. Here is a case
exactly in point. The competitor who, instead of
making a rush first past the winning-post, turns
out eventually to be just nowhere—obtains the
show of hands (according to the dispassionate
view of the returning officer) unmistakeably, over-
whelmingly. He is, in fact, the non-electors' candi-
date. His rival competitors —"the" Liberal
candidate, Mr. GRENFELL, and the Conservative
candidate, Mr. Ever-so.many-letters-of-the-alpha-
bet HOPE—are compelled to demand a poll. And
the polling takes place, on the subsequent day, ac-
cordingly. With what result P Why, with a re-
sult so preposterous of its kind, that the doubt
hitherto entertained as to the integrity of these
recent proceedings down at Stoke-upon-Trent be-
comes more than ever strengthened and confirmed.
The Liberal candidate who was to be hastled
out of his otherwise certain promise of success
by the appearance of an invidiously superfluous
Liberal candidate (No. 2) in the person of Mr.
Sergeant SrIEE, obtains from the electors not
simply a clear majority but a majority so clear, so
large, so decisive by its magnitude that his oppo-
nents are at once placed in a positively ludicrous

The marriage of the Princess
MARIA PIA
(shall we still say of Savoy?) with the King
of PORTUGAL occurs rather opportunely, in
some respects, at the present juncture—
immediately after the close of GARIBALDI'S last
fatal enterprise on the Calabrian hill-top of As-
promonte. In anticipation of this alliance, Turin is
just now becoming a general rendezvous. In con-
sequence of the negotiation of these nuptials, several
Courts, recently more or less estranged from each
other, have been brought into direct communi-
cation. The Princess has even written to
her Godfather, Pope Pius IX., informing his
Holiness of her approaching union with the Portu-
guese Sovereign, and received in return the POPE'S
blessing, his holograph, and a magnificent wedding
gift. It is not to written correspondence, how-
ever, that the communications we allude to are re-
stricted. Turin, we repeat, is becoming just now
a general rendezvous. The Princess CLOTILDE
and her husband, the Prince NAPOLEON, as a
matter of course, go there to take part as the
near relatives in the pageantry of these royal cere
monials. Thither returns the ex-Premier of Italy,
the Baron RICASOLI, just fresh from his holiday
excursions into France and into England, but pare
titularly just emerged from that Ministerial Cabinet
at Paris in which he has had a lengthened inter-
view with M. DE THOUVENEL. Thither also
hastens M. BENEDETTI, charged by the Emperor
NAPOLEON to convey to the Court of King VICTOR
EMMANUEL, and to the boudoir of the
Princess PIA, his Imperial MAJESTY'S felicita-
tions. There are assembling the diplomatists
of all the various countries accredited to that
I Court, certain, each of them, except in case of any
I inopportune illness that may set aside their good in-
tentions, to be there assembled in person around the
Sovereign of the chief part of the Roman Penin-
sula. If nothing else comes immediately from
this timely gathering of Princes and Diplomatists
at Turin, at least there will surely come an Am-
nesty—the first result of the granting of which
would be, of course, to fling open the prison doors
now closed upon GARIBALDI.

position.
"HOPE told a flattering tale!" says the song.
And of this old fashioned, plaintive, lachrymose
little love ditty there comes floating to us just now
a very doleful echo indeed from theToryreCfoomrmimnitg-
tee-room down at that liberal, free-trade,
borough of Stoke-upon Trent. HOPE there,
has of late been telling an excessively flattering
tale in very deed, and in very truth, when
promising, through this cleverly thought-of dodge
—(in the playing out of which Sergeant SURE has
enacted the part of poor old BERTRAND to the Tory
ROBERT MACAIRE)—SO very brilliant a triumph to
the Conservative candidate! Those uncompromising
numbers jotted down at the close of the poll yester-
day at four of the clock, on the 23d of September,
down at Stoke-upon-Trent, serve in regard to the
I very Moral Tale we are here particularising " to
paint the Moral and adorn the Tale !" For Mr.
GRENFELL, "the"
Liberal candidate-4,089!
Nearly an
odd hundred over and above a good
round thousand! For Mr. BERESFORD HOPE; the
Conservative MACAIRE-918! For Sergeant
SLTEE, the pro-Tory BERTRAND, though all
3', and so far as honour the while ostensibly
went, the quasi Liberal or soi-disant Reforming
Candidate-32 ! Eighteen less altogether than a
mere half hundred! So that, while Mr. GRENFELL
(now chosen, in spite of how much derision ! M.P.
fcr Stoke-upon-Trent) is recognised as 171 ahead of
Mr. HOPE himself, and as many as 1,057 (tell it
not at Sergeant's Inn !) ahead of Mr. SUER—this
successful Liberal candidate, now, we repeat, chosen,
beyond any doubt, M.P. for Stoke-upon-Trent, has
absolutely a clear majority of as many as 139 votes
over and above the numbers accorded to his two
antagonists put together ! Had no Liberal electors
whatever been lured away from the Liberal cause
by the inopportune appearance among them

THE sigN, LONDON) WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEVIBEh 24, 1862

STOKE-UPON-TRENT EL
HECTION. "-CLOSE OF
THE POLL.—Grenfell, 1,059 ; ope, 91S.
A German weekly journal has been started at
Sydney, New South Wales. It is entitled Der Hezaths-
bole (The Home News.)
THE NEXT RUN THAT IS WANTED.—A Papal
Bull's Run, with Pope at the head of it.—. Punch.
POLITICAL PRECAUTION.—Lord Derby has just
become a Colonel of Volunteers. Lord Palmerston sent his
respectful compliments to the Leader of Opposition, and
hoped that he intended to stick to the motto, Defence, not
Defiance."—Punch.

L ATE

A singular accident happened at Breslau last week
during a violent storm, which passed over that city. When
the rain began, a number of persons who were bathing in
the Oder, in one of the wooden constructions generally
arranged on the continent fcr the purpose, took refuge in
the dressing-boxes, where they had left their clothes, but
the moment after an unusually powerful gust of wind sepa-
rated the construction in two and loosened its anchorage.
A scene of indescribable alarm and confusion ensued, as
part of the woodwork began to float down the river ; fortu-
nately there was plenty of help at hand, and all were got
safely to land ; some, however, losing part of their clothes.
A GENERAL ACCUSED OF SWINDLING.—The
New Hanover Gazette announces the arrest of General de
Hedemann, ex-marshal of the royal household at Blanken-
see, near Hamburg, on a charge of swindling and embezzle-
ment. The sum which he is said to have appropriated is
100,000 thalers (375,000 francs), the property of the King.
What adds to the gravity of the case is, that the general
had been placed under arrest. on parole not to attempt to
escape, and yet broke his parole, leaving a letter behind
him in which he declarei he would rather appear before
the Supreme Judge than before a human tribunal. The
prisoner is by law amenable to the military tribunals, but
as the latter have the power of referring the case to the civil
I ones, it is probable that it will be tried before a court of
I assize.

E W

3.20 P.M.

Two men, father and son, have just been arrested
in Paris for the following ingenious but by no means novel
system of robbery. The son, elegantly dressed, goes to a
first-class restaurant, and orders a breakfast, taking care to
select dishes which will require additional spoons and forks,
and then having, unobserved, fastened with some glutinous
substance one or two of the articles of plate underneath the
table, pays his score, and leaves. If by chance the articles
are missed and the thief accused, he immediately professes
great indignation and demands to be searched; of course
nothing is found on him. A few minutes after the father
arrives and places himself at the table just occupied by his
son, and, ordering some trifling refreshment, pockets the
articles attached beneath the table by his confederate.
Suspicion of these individuals having been at length excited
they were watched, and the father was two days ago de-
tected while completing an operation commenced by his
son in a restaurant. The latter has since been arrested, and
both are now secured at the Prefecture of Police. We should
have scarcely thought the scheme worth being acted on, as
most restaurants now use only Ruolz goods for the table.
The Journal de Belfort states that the supply of
cotton in that manufacturing town, although not entirely
exhausted, is so greatly diminished that the manufacturers
have been compelled to reduce the number of days of em-
ployment in order not to deprive their operatives altogether
of work. M. Legrand, the most eminent manufacturer at
Thann, has determined that his operatives shall not work
more than six hours a day, but that they shall be paid as if
they had worked 12 hours a day.
The town of Leyden has just been thrown into a
state of commotion by a very singular cause, M. Hendriks,
the head commissary of police, three days since issued a
regulation that foot passengers in the streets should always
keep the right hand side, as is the practice in London. He
also sent police officers to enforce the regulation in some of
the more crowded streets. The passengers, however, proved
rebellious, and one gentleman lodged a complaint with the
burgomaster against the police officers for assaulting him.
The burgomaster, who had not been apprised of the new
regulation, at once ordered the police agents to retire. But
this did not satisfy the people, who, assembling in crowds,
went to the commissary's house, smashed his windows, and
assaulted his person. It was even found necessary to call
out the military to clear the streets. On the next day the
town resumed its usually quiet appearance. It seems that
M. Hendriks, who recently visited London, had there seen
he advantage of all passengers, going in the same direc-
ion, keeping the same side, and had consequently resolved
to introduce it among his fellow-citizens in Holland.

BERLIN, SEPT. 23.

Chevalier Nigra is expected to arrive here.

THE HARVEST IN SOUTH WALES.—Notwithstand-
ing the fine weather which has been for some time experi-
enced, numerous csops are yet uncut, and it may safely be
said that a fortnight or three weeks must transpire before
harvest operations are completed. There are several fields
of oats and barley in a very backward condition, and re-
quire a good deal of sun to make them fit for the sickle.
However, a considerable breadth of land has already been
cleared, and we are happy to say that, upon the whole, the
crops have exceeded general expectation. Wheat, if at all,
is not far below an average, although, perhaps, the quality
is Boniewv,.* inferinv, hut fauns... ure inclined t. bateve
that it will improve by keeping. The yield of barley is
tolerably good, and the same remark is applicable to oats,
but the quality of the latter is in most cases indifferent,and
it is feared the crop will not this year prove remunerative.
Beans have done fairly, and turnips in many instances are
excellent. It must be stated, however, that many fields
have been twice and even thrice sown. At one time much
was said about the potato disease, but we are happy to re-
port that, take South Wales throughout, the crop is an
excellent ono; the quantity is large, and the quality good.
The disease has manifested itself in some part- more than
others, but, speaking generally, there is no cause for mur-
muring. Fruit is scarce.

CAPTURE OF A SHARK.—A eorrospondent writes
to a contemporory from Luccombe Chine, Isle of Wight,
on Sept. 21—While sitting upon a rock last Friday about
2 o'clock p.m., I observed a large fish floundering in the
sea, a short distance for the shore. On bringing my tele-
scope to bear upon it I descried a huge fin above water,and
while still wondering what it could be I saw it turn on its
side, evidently to seize some prey, and this convinced me
it was a shark, and a very large one too. Hastily summon-
ing some fishermen, we embarked in a boat, armed with a
hook on on iron chain, baited with beef. This on approach..
ing the monster we dragged behind us. He immediately
seized it in his rapacious jaws, and then—well for us was
it that we were powerful men, for his efforts to escape
were fearful—he tried with his teeth to cut the chain ;he
almost turned his stomach inside out to disgorge the hook,
but in vain. The struggle lasted half an hour, when, quite
spent, he suffered his head to be drawn above water, and
confining his tail with a noose we drew him to shore, and
despatched him with great difficulty by beating him on the
head. He measured 18 feet 4 inches, and from his enor-
mous mouth, containing six rows of hard fiat sharp-pointed
teeth (of which I counted 120), and the total absence of
spiracles, its skin rough, hard, and prickly, I judged it to
be the Cartharias vulgaris, or white shark, which is,
according to Cuvier, sometimes found on the British
coast. I wished to have preserved the skeleton, but found
the next day, to my regret, that not having been pro-
perly secured, the huge mass had been washed out to
I sea.
PLAIN SPEAKING.—The Constitutional Union
Convention assembled on the Bth at Troy, and the Hon. B.
Davies Noxon, of Syracuse, was appointed to the chair. In
the course of his introductory address he said—" We have
had enough of the war ; blood enough has been spilt; the
country has suffered enough, and we have an abundance of
expenses. Let us stop the war without any further ex-
penses than are absolutely necessary. We shall not get rid
of it, unless we can have a change in our members of Con-
gress ; we shall have no peace until that change is effected.
There is no hope of rescuing the Union, except by such
means ; that seems the most plausible. We regret and
abhor a national policy which is dictated by vindictive re-
venge. We demand from the President that he shall obey
his oath of office, and protect the constitution and liberties
of the American people. The painful truth is manifest that
the President and our Generals in the field are embarrassed
and threatened by the leaders of a party whose object is not
the restoration of this Union, but the abolition of slavery—.
the unmitigated curse of abolition." The vote for Governor
resulted in favour of Horatio Seymour; for Lieutenant-
Governor in favour of W. C. Hasbrouch.—New York
Tribune.

- • -
THE GOLDEN EAGLE.—Under the above attrac- I
tive title a Mr. Phillips, of Snow-hill, a working artist in
copper, as we understand, exhibits at 191, Piccadilly, a very
extraordinary and beautiful specimen of art workmanship.
It is a model of the magnificent golden eagle which is still
sometimes seen by tourists in the Highlands of Scotland
and in the mountainous districts of Ireland, life size, and
almost alive in its truth to nature, the fierceness of its atti-
tude, and its beauty and care of workmanship. But the
most singular feature about this unique work of art is the
mode in which it has been executed, Mr, Phillips having
first roughly modelled his bird in copper, proceeded
patiently to make its plumage, feather by feather, and
each feather a counterpart of a feather in the living bird.
These feathers are all beautifully worked in copper, and are
then placed on the body of the bird in such a way as to make
the imitation the closest similitude to life that has ever yet
been produced by art. To crown all, Mr. Phillips has in-
vefited a new process, which he calls cold electrotyping, and
by means of which he gives to the bird the exact ma
wolf
gloss gloss and varied hues of life. The bird is altogether
derful result of patience, industry, and taste. It is exceed-
ingly well worth a visit, and it is to be hoped will also find
a purchaser liberal enough to reward Mr,
Phillips h.l
six years' labour which we understand he has devoted to
his work.
DEATH FROM BOILING TEA.—Yesterday Dr.
Lankester, the coroner, held an inquest at Middlesex Hos-
pital on the body of a child, aged three years, named Henry
Evans. The mother, Angelina Evans, stated that she re •
1 sided at 10, Tudor-place, Tottenham-court-road. On Friday
, last at 7 p.m, she poured some boiling wat9r into her tea-
\l
• pot to make her tea, and as she mometaril
deceased child
took up the teapot and swallowed some of the boiling tea.
She immediately had him conveyed to the hospital, where
he expired. Verdict—" Accidental death.".

STOCKHOLM, SEPT. 23, Evening.
A large Garibaldian meeting was held to-day in
he Exchange.

An address was enthusiastically voted, express-
ing sympathy with Garibaldi, and urging the
speedy evacuation of Rome by the French.

PARIS, SEPT. 23, Evening.
The papers of this evening state that the Chevalier
Nigta will leave for Turin tomorrow.
The Presse of this evening publishes intelligence
from Mexico to the 24th of August, stating that
2,000 French troops had disembarked at Vera Cruz,
and were immediately despatched to Orizaba.

The Bourse closed flat.
Rentes were finally quoted 691.10 c., or 20e. lower
than yesterday,

A report was circulated to-day upon good autho-
rity in the Chamber of Deputies that the Minis-
terial crisis was approaching its termination.
It is almost certain that Count von Bismark-
Schonhausen will be appointed President of the
Cabinet and Minister for Foreign Affairs; while
it is believed that Herr Bodelschwing will replace
Herr von der Heydt as Minister of Finance.
The other members of the Ministry will remain
in office.

It is said that Count Bernstorff will proceed as
Ambassador to Paris.

TURIN, SEPT. 23.

The Royal Princes, the Marquis de Pepoli, and
Signor Depretis have left for Genoa to meet Prince
Napoleon and Princess Clotilde.

The Mayor of Turin has published a proclama

tion expressing the joy of the citizens at the visit
of the King's daughter and the illustrious Prince,
who is the fervent friend of Italy.
The Turin papers of this evening publish a letter
from Garibaldi, replying to some friends at Naples,
in which he says : _

" I am surrounded by kind attention, which I
believe will facilitate my cure."

EVENING,

The National Committee in Rome is taking the
lead in preparing a wedding present for the Princess
Pia.

No fresh intelligence respecting the health o:
Garibaldi has been received from Variguano:

ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 23.
The Emperor received a deputation from the
peasantry of Novgorod yesterday.
His Majesty, in addressing them, gave a denial to
the rumour that fresh concessions were to be made
to the poasants, and called upon them t 4 come to a
speedy arrangement with their landlords.

RAGUSA, SEPT. 23.
Vukalovich has signed here, in the name of the
Herzegovina, the record of submissian.
Kurschid Pasha, who was present, has amnestied
Vukalovich, and conferred upon him the rank of
Bimb ►schi.