The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-03 00:00:00

A letter from Toulon, in the Temps, describes
a singular piece of negligence in connection with the Mexi-
can expedition. On the 26th a telegram was received in-
quiring whether room could not be found on board sots° of
the ships about to sail for Mexico for 254 tons of heavy
stores, which had doubtless been forgotten in some corner.
The "heavy stores" in question were nothing less than the
siege train, which had been completely overlooked in the
orders for shipment.
We were under the impression that the last
Order issued by the Horse Guards, intended to provide
young cavalry officers with chargers at a reasonable price,
had given general satisfaction, and had removed the causes
of those complaints which were not unfrequently poured in
upon us before its issue. We are now asked to bring for-
ward a grievance of a different character. Formerly the
complaint was that commanding officers were too particular;
that they would not pass a • charger unless it fulfilled some
most fastidiously conceived conditions, without the slightest
consideration for the pocket of the young officers. A cor-
respondent, on the other hand, now writes to us that the
newly joined cornet is compelled to receive two chargers,
for which he pays £5O a-piece. The horse-dealer who keeps
the :egiment in re-mounts is supposed to provide (when
called upon to do so) young officers with animals not only
superior to those intended for the ranks, but also to the
class of horse for which that price would generally be asked.
"Instead of this," says our correspondent, "any ugly, ill-
shaped, fiddle-headed brutes are supposed to be good
enough for officers, and if passed as sound by the veterinary
surgeon, are admitted into the regiment by the commanding
officer, who has no option. After the cornet has paid his
£lOO, the dealer sends him another bill for travelling ex-
penses,which may run to almost any sum he chooses to ask."
Our correspondent adds some particulars respecting the pair
of screws foisted on himself, which entitle him to sympathy,
and make us regret that a rule which, in the main, we con-
sider to be well conceived and wholesome in its operation,
should be thus abused in particular instances.—Army and
Navy Gazette.
The American commercial advices this week are
not of much importance. The premium on gold continued
its upward course, but not rapidly, as the new batch of notes
intended for issue were not yet ready, and there had conse••
quently been no fresh inflation of the currency. The mer-
chants were looking for a new and very distinct movement
as soon as the printers would be ready with this supply.
Since the necessity had been avowed for 600,000 additional
soldiers it was seen that the financial question had assumed
new proportions, but the idea of any possible difficulty
is still entirely dormant. The first estimate of the cost
of each Federal soldier placed in the field was £2OO,
and the calculation is said to have been confirmed
by experience. It is therefore remarked that if the
proposed 600,000 are now raised, even though the cost
may be partly reduced from the fact of the nece:sary ma-
chinery being provided, the sum of 256 millions sterling
appropriated by Congress for the expenditure of the fiscal
year ending the 30th of June next will not be sufficient.
But, so far from this conclusion causing any misgiving, it
seems rather to be regarded with pride, and even the
.New York Journal of Commerce, the only paper that
makes any pretence to an occasional recognition of the ele-
ments of economical science, takes the opportunity to assure
the people that the country can maintain the contemplated
rate of outlay "for several years," without exhaustion.
There is " ample wealth," it is said, "to go on with the
war, and more readily available than that of any other
country in the world; but the journal does not pause to
reconcile this statement with the fact that America up to the
present time could scarcely ever build a city or a railway
without applying to Europe for the means. Foreign credit, it
is admitted, must now be given up as gone, but home credit
will do everything. One point, however, is insisted upon to
the effect that for home credit to be successfully developed it
will be absolutely essential that the "leeches fattening on
the public Treasury" should be rigidly dealt with. It is
conceded by these writers that at all times of great public
expenditure there must be some attendant corruption, but
they assert that in the Government of the United states
the "selfishness, fraud, and peculation" is such that
" every citizen"—that is to say, every man to whom these
peculators owe their position, and by whom they are up-
held, should "aid in detecting and exposing it."
SAWNEY'S CAUTION.—Making the overland jour-
ney from the West-end to the City the other day, in one of
the new big 'buses imported from Manchester, I asked the
conductor whether he sold many Exhibition tickets to the
country visitors, and he replied that it was very hard work
to induce them to believe that the tickets sold in the omni-
buses would really admit them to the building. He added,
however, that he "generally contrived to manage it some-
how, except when the folks was Scotch." "How is that 1:"'
said I. " Well, you see, sir," responded the conductor,
" them Scotch chaps is so cunning,' you can't make 'em
believe nohow you ain't a trying to rob 'em I Says Ito
one of 'm this werry mornin'—This here ticket will admit
you without no bother at the doors, and it's the same to
you whether you pays a shilling here as there. Hoot,
toot, man,' says he, ' how do I ken that ? Lunnon's a
very wicked place; and, though I'am obleeged for your
ceevility, I'd rayther keep my ail]. Biller in my ain poke."
The fellow told this story with a good deal of Cockney
humour, and, as you may suppose, elicited a roar of
laughter from the passengers.—Belfast News Letter's Cor-
respondent.

ROMANTIC CASE OF DESERTION AND SUICIDE.—
Yesterday forenoon the body of a young married woman,
named Mrs. Austin, lodging at 4, Hall place, Hall Park,
Paddington, who was found dead from poison, was removed,
in pursuance of a coroner's order, to the parish dead-house
to await an inquest. The previous night the door of her
house had been forced open by a constable whose suspicion
had been excited by her threats to destroy herself. He
found her lying in bed quite dead, and she had apparently
been so several hours. He also found a phial containing
laudanum, a portion of a packet of sugar of lead, and an
empty half-pint tumbler, which appeared to have contained
beer mixed with these poisons, on the dressing-table. After
the removal of the body a quantity of poetry was dis-
covered on the mantelpiece. It was dedicated to a man
supposed to be her husband, bewailing her deserted and
isolated condition, and begging he would forgive and at once
receive her back to his arms, all expressed in the most
romantic language, but no allusion was made to her inten-
tion to take away her own life.
A PERSIAN BEAUTY AT SIIIRAZ.—As I said be-
fore, the street was narrow. What was to be done? Turn
I could not, even had I wished to do so, for my servant was
following close upon me ; and had I turned back to get out
of the way of a woman, he u ould probably have instantly
poured forth upon her a volume of startling and horrible
abuse. For this a Persian invariably does if a woman happens
to get into his way, and often he will strike at her with his
whip. It then occurred to me it was just within the bounds
of possibility that, if I pushed my horse close in against the
wall to allow her as much room as possible to pass, her cu-
riosity to see the Feringee would cause her to lift her veil
as she went by. My curiosity was at that point that I would
have charged the very wall itself, had I been sure that the
unveiled face of this majestic form would have greeted me
on the other side. In the full consciousness of her youth
and beauty—for the latter I had quite made up my mind
she possessed—the former could not but exist with that
proud airy step—she advanced towards me, keeping the
very centre of the narrow road. I felt that I positively
grew pale with anxiety as the veiled face came level with
my horse's head. Was I fated to see only that provoking
bit of white gauze that so effectually concealed the face be-
neath ? or was I to be dazzled with the beauty it so jealously
guarded ? For a few seconds I was in anxious doubt, and
then the rosy-tipped fingers held back for one instant the
white gauze veil that fell before the face. And the beauty
that shone upon me during that one short instant was one I
have never forgotten—never can forget. It was not the soft
beauty that floats down upon you from the eyes of the For-
narina—no, far from it; nor was it the beauty of a Magda-
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the face. The eyes were large and softly brown, as a deer's ;
for that one instant they flashed forth a look, which was
perhaps more of wonderment than alarm, at the black-
coated infidel, over whom, at that very moment, the skirts
of her veil were sweeping. The complexion was exquisitely
fair. No wanton ray of old Sol had ever touched that pale,
bloodless cheek, which seemed as if it could never have
known a blush. One thought of the lines,
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Beyond a small blue spot tatooed on the centre of her chin,
I can give no further description of a face that haunts me
like a dream whenever I think upon it.--.Blackwood's Maga
zinc for September.

THE THEATRES IN HOLY WEEK.—A number of
churchmen, headed by the Hon. Colin Lindsay, have me-
morialised the Lord Chamberlain on the opening of the
metropolitan theatres in Passion Week, as the time is ap-
proaching when the ordinary annual licences are issued.
Mr. Lindsay reminds the Lord Chamberlain that in the
spring a deputation waited upon him in connexion with
this subject, when his
lordship declared that it
would be impossible to accede to the memorial
then presented in consequence of the licenses having
been already granted. The
memorialists now urge that
there is a strong feeling of respect in the minds of church-
men for the holy week,
and that it would be a serious blow
to re'igion as well a violence to
a feeling of reverence for a
time-honoured and pious custom if the theatres were again
allowed to be opened during that week. The memorialists,
therefore, submit to the Lord Chamberlain that in the re
i-
ssue of the usual licences to the managers of metropolitan
theatres he should insert the ancient clause prohibiting the
theatres under his lordship's jurisdiction—that is, within
the metropolis—from being opened iu the holy week,