The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-23 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, VVEDNESDA EVENING, JULY 23, 1E62.

THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1862.

There can be, and will be, but one opinion
throughout the whole British Empire, we might say
without exaggeration, throughout the whole
civilised world, on the duty of Parliament to make
the best possible provision for the daily increasing
suffering in the cotton manufacturing districts.
What is the best provision may well be matter
of discussion, but with half a year before ue, during
which legislation would be impossible without an
extraordinary session, it would have been criminal
for Parliament not to take into consideration the
means by which such an extraordinary emergency
could be met. It may be, as Mr. BOUVERIE seems
to think it will, that parish rating will meet
the parish difficulty—but that is certainly not the
general opinion. It may be wise, as the
general rule that the property in a parish shall be
altogether exhausted before the relief of its poor is
thrown on an adjoining parish (though we cannot
think so), but this is not an ordinary case. It is
not a crisis brought about by the common process of
over-manufacturing, and a subsequent glut. We
all feel that the case of the North is, so far as the
inhabitants of the districts are concerned, as
genuine a calamity as a flood or a drought, or a
potato rot, Ordinary rules and existing laws
cannot be expected to suffice in such a case.

It is early yet to express any decided opinion on
Mr. VILLIERs' plan, but we must say that pre-
viously to the discussions of the parties interested,
which will be sure to bring out all the probabliities
of its practical working, our impression is favour-
able, But two principles have been suggested, one
that of guardians being empowered to raise loans
on the security of the rates ; Vile other that of ex-
tension of the area of charge, when a parish be-
comes incompetent to
support its poor. We do not
see why both Powers should net be given. The
chief objection would
that no parish would raise
a loan Which it must repay by
instalments, when it
could resort to the adjoining parishes, and ulti-
and so avoid future liability.
mately to the county,
Prcba.bly it wouid be so. Yet there tray be parishes
so situated that a loan would be its proper, possibly
may have
its preferred, resort. Parishes
spirit
enough, like individuals, to prefer borrowing to
tbrc,wing themselves on the union rates.

Be this as it may, the principle of resorting to a,
larger area is a fair one. The difference between
Mr. VILLIERS'S proposal and the existing law is,
-that help may be sought from the wider area before
the suffering parish is itself beggared. When its
rates exceed by two-thirds the average expenditure,
which, during the three preceding years, had been
incurred for the support of the poor, such parish is
to have a claim upon the common fund of the Union
to which it belongs. Unions at present divide the
poor into two classes, one settled in the several
parishes for which each parish pays separately ;
the other, the poor which are irremoveable from
the Union, and belong to no particular
parish. The fund which supports the latter is the
common Union Fund, and on this the Government
Proposes to throw the burden of the excessive
charge caused to particular parishes by the present
'crisis. To this fund, the parish seeking aid itself
contributes, so that it bears a part of the additional
charge which it brings on the common fund. Mr.
VILLIERs does not consider the case of a distressed
Union is likely to occur ; should it do so, the ma-
chinery is ready to hand by Which the county rate
could be made chargeable to the
amount required.
'Therein little weight we think 1 Mr. BOIJ7ERIE.E;
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violated by the Government proposals. The old
law he argues requires persons to put their hands
into their own pockets, for the relief of their poor ;
the new proposal would enable them to put their
hands into those of their neighbours. But this
would raise a very old question—" Who is my
neighbour P and the manner in which that
question was answered by the highest autho-
rity is little favourable to Mr. BOUVERIE'S
notions. He would make the other parishes of the
Union pass by a suffering parish like Priests and
Levites ; Mr. VILLIERS would have them act the
part of good Samaritans. Public feeling will, we
are inclined to think, go with Mr. VILLIERS. Mr.
BOUVERIE is terrified by visions of " profusion and
extravagance," that there will be cases of imposture
is quite certain ; just as every great distant battle is
sure to generate beggars with limbs lost in it, who
never left their own country. But Lancashire is
a county certainly not wanting in intelligence, and
quite capable of guarding against anything like
general profusion or extravagance.
The general objection that the distress has not
yet reached the point at which additional legislation
is necessary, will meet with few sympathisers. The
poor law returns show an immense increase of
pauperism already ; but the distress is far wider i
than is indicated by these returns. The Savings
Banks accumulations have saved thousands hitherto
from resorting to the relieving officer, and submit-
ting to what they feel the lowering act of taking
money which they have not earned. There can be
no doubt that the pawnbroker also has, for the pre-
sent, done his sad part towards lightening the parish
rates. These sources of support are, however, nearly
dried up, and a rapid accession to the list of reci-
pients.of relief is now to be expected. As the sup-
ply of cotton also continues to diminish, the prices
which must be given for the little to be had
—indeed, its absolute insufficiency to feed half the
mills—will deprive increasing numbers of em-
ployment. We must confess that ever since
we perceived the backwardness of Lancashire to
operate in India, and the consequent failure of the
large hoped-for supplies thence, we could but fear
the worst for next winter. To lose almost at a
stroke more than a billion pounds of raw cotton,
and to find its loss met by only about 150 million
pounds, as the increased production of other coun-
tries, is the fact we must grasp if we can. Nearly
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We only add our wish that the intelligence
of what our Parliament has to do, and the melan-
choly reasons why it has to do it, would awaken
some compunction in the Federal Government of
America which is, now, the guilty cause of all this
starvation and distress. We are sorry to fear that
to the North, the sufferings of Lancashire are oniy
a cause of grim and cruel satisfaction. They will
bear their own extra taxation with somewhat of
malignant satisfaction, because it enables them to
blockade cotton ports and distress millions of
Englishmen,

The Duke of BUCCLEUCH'S conduct last evening
in the House of Lords ought certainly to put to
shame Mr. HORSMAN and his backers. His Grace
acted like a sensible man ; and, with a due regard
to his own dignity, announced at once, yesterday,
his intention to offer not one particle of opposition
to the carrying out in its integrity of the whole
scheme of the Thames Embankment. The Govern-
ment Bill was in consequence advanced another
stage in the House of Lords. It was read there a
second time, and is next, of course, to come forth-
with under the consideration of their Lordships in
Committee. It has already, we know, passed
through all its stages in the House of Commons.
But—only after going through there, a whirl of op-
position—sometimes carried on in the most acri-
monious spirit—sometimes renewed almost with an
appearance of malignity on the part of those
chiefly concerned in originating it. All the effer-
vescence, so long bottled up in regard to this
question, however, it would seem, passed off in the
popular branch of the Legislature. It was there
so repeatedly ventilated that by the time it
comes to be quaffed in that " other place,"
it turns out, as a mere theme for de-
bate even, to be essentially " stale, flat, and un-
profitable." There is no opportunity left for any
further personalities, even if there had been any
inclination in the Lords to indulge in them. The
discussions provoked in the Commons by the right
hon. member for Stroud had pretty well ex-
hausted all the personalities that could have
been applied to the subject in dispute, by way
(if that had been possible) of somehow impeding
its further progress. Hence, it can hardly surprise
anyone upon reflection that no sooner had
Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY resumed his seat upon
the Treasury Bench in the Lords yesterday, after
moving that the Thames Embankment Bill
be then read a second time, and that his Grace
the Duke of BUCCLEUCII should hasten at once
to intimate, as we have said, that he, for one,
I intended in no way whatever to oppose the pro-
jected improvement. While, however, the public
generally would hardly feel in any way surprised
that the Duke, as a rational man, and therefore
as one instinctively alive to what was due to his
own dignity in this matter, should so have resolved
to offer no opposition to the Bill, his Grace's con-
duct
in so doing, we repeat, ought to carry a cer-
tain sense of shame to Mr. GORE, and Mr. HORS-
MAN, and other disinterested sticklers for the main-
tenance of the privacy of Whitehall Gardens.

The Duke of B UCCLEUCH, we observe, expresses
himself, at the outset of his remarks, as having felt
himself aggrieved at what he terms " the most un-
fair manner" in which his name had been refered
to, in connexion with this whole project of a
Thames Embankment. For the which, however,
We would remind his Grace, he is altogether in-
debted to those over-zealous " friends" of his who
filched the renewal of his lease of Montagu
11"4e from the Treasury, under (to say the least
of it) such
extremely odd circumstances ! To
who rashly obsequious
those othe,
ed and sycophantic " friends"
,n
upon altering the whole
scheme in the Thames
mbankmouternagti Committee—
dirty work, this, of a„en
of
hot-tempered,
committeemen ! To
or two
and thoroughly
those other haughty, hone
so doing—absolutely
of them, members
all sense of
and subservient
i of
flt-hadavt ill-advised
same committee,
and
participators
attempted
ipators as much in
the glories of the Seven),who—
the proprieties in
modification, foisted into the whole plan as
revised
to brazen it out that the mean
$ tit roue, should be allowed to hold good! The route
followed out along the northern margin of the river
Thames, from Biackfriars towards Westminster,
suddenly stopping short at the corner of Whitehall
gardens, for the purpose (a3cording to this modest
proposition of the Seven committeemen !) of easing
the traffic by causing it at that particular point to
diverge into Parliament-street ! To these very
questionable friends of the Duke of B UCCLE UCH, his
grace is alone indebted, We would remind him, for
his name having in anyway whatever become mixed
up in the transaction, or in the diseusions)

which took place in regard to it during the passage
of the bill through the House of Commons. To
three men above all others may we consider his
grace in this matter to stand very heavily indebted.
First of all, to one who is unhappily as yet name-
less—meaning the individual, whoever he may
have been, who contrived so cleverly to " dodge"
Mr. DISRAELI out of his signature to that very
important paper which pledged the Treasury to the
renewal of the lease of Montagu House ! That very
renewal of the lease which Mr. DISRAELI had him-
' self before then so peremptorily and distinctly re-
fused to countenance! The other two " friends "of
his grace in this affair of Whitehall-gardens and ,
the Thames Embankment—don't we all remember
who they are Their names are at any rate not
lying perdu in this attempt at a dirty, muddy eva-
sion of the Thames Embankment immediately oppo-
site Whitehall-gardens, but especially opposite that
sacred part of Whitehall-gardens adorned by his
grace's new town palazzo, Montagu House ! To
Mr, GORE and to Mr. HORSMAN, but to the latter
gentleman especially,theDuke of BUCCLEUCH is more
largely indebted in this affair than it is very easy
for anyone upon the spur of the moment to calcu-
late. There are other kinds of candour in a frier d
(so-called) than that peculiar description of candour
from enduring the effects of which Mr. CANNING,
in the famous couplet of the "Anti-Jacobin," so pas-
sionately besought Heaven that he might be spared.
And throughout the whole of the late discussions
in the House of Commons in reference to the lease
of Montagu House, and especially in reference to
the alteration (in one sense so potty, in another so
monstrous) insinuated into the scheme of the Thames
Embankment by the seven obsequious committee-
men—Mr. HORSMAN was, in the Duke of BUC-
CLEUCH'S regard, so painfully "candid" from first
to last, that his grace might, in the recent recol-
lection of his very painful experience in this matter,
echo from his heart Mr. CANNING'S agonised sup-

plication,—
" But, of all ills, good Heaven, Thy wrath can send,
Save, save, 0 save me from the Candid Friend 1"

Fortunately for himself, the Duke of BUCCLEUCH
has known how (upon the first opportunity) to
shake his reputation free from these candid
friends of his, who were for dragging his great
name down into the dust and mire, in the hope of
keeping the vulgar daily trail of London Traffic,
the common place stream of 'busmen, and cabbies,
and costermongers, and the like, from coming be-
tween the wind and his nobility ! " 0 for an ounce
of civet, good apothecary !" There is no help for it
now—the river front of Montagu House must needs
be desecrated after this deplorable fashion. The
House of Commons has decided it. The Duke of
BUCCLEUCH consents. The tall Mr. HIGGINS "has
his way," much after his wont. " J.o."—According
to Mr. DICKENS'S whimsical way of expressing it—
has put an end to another " J. 0.8." So that after
all, the Duke's men—" Flunkeys," Mr. CARLYLE
would probably be disposed to call them—have
toiled and moiled—in vain. The River Thames
is to be Embanked continuously upon the northern
side fr-Jm the bridge at Blackfriars to the bridge at
Wr.stminster.

Just as the Night Poaching Prevention Bill has
passed its second reading in the Commons—a trial
takes place, founded on a sad poaching affray of
1848, as if to remind all of us of the evil which this
b4ll is designed to foster sad protect. Its better
title would be, " The Game Preservers Indemnity
Bill ;" for, its real object is to save landlords who
gather together their game in such flocks and herds,
and in such exposed places, as to invite the poacher's
visits, the expense attendant on watching it. It is
gang poaching which is the occasion of all the
murderous battles between poachers, and game-
keepers, and it is just gang poaching which Lord
BERNERS' Bill is sure to increase. Mr. HENLEY,
whose lead his brother Tories would have wisely fol-
lowed on this occasion, showed them unanswerably,
how certainly the poachers would protect them-
selves by numbers against the interference of the
solitary county policemen, as they now do against
that of bands of gamekeepers. Gang work will be
increased not lessened, when it will be necessary to
the poachers' safety from sunset till eight next
morning.

Our readers have probably almost forgotten the
frightful affray near Beverley, in which Jex, the
gamekeeper, was murdered after having first en-
deavoured to murder the poacher, and his assistants
badly wounded. Seven men were tried for the of-
fence at York, and four of them are still undergoing
penal servitude for the offence. The one now tried,
convicted of assaulting a watcher 'with intent
to kill, and sentenced to three years'
penal servitude, escaped the police for
a long time, but was at last captured in a brick-
yard near Scarborough. That JEX was savagely
murdered, and that the others were attacked, is
true, but that JEx was as ready to commit murder,
for he and his two companions attacked eight men,
and could have no hope of success but by murderous
violence, is equally true. If nothing can excuse
the extreme violence of the poachers, neither can
any thing excuse that of the watchers. All the
game in the preserve was surely not worth the life
of one watcher or one poacher ; but both parties
had gone out armed with deadly weapons, both in-
tending to fight rather than not to capture, or to be
captured.

It is really horrible to think of the bloody-
mindedness with which both keepers and poachers
set out on tt'eir rounds. The reason is obvious.
The brutal stringency of the laws which pro-
tect the wild animals called game, and the bar-
barous severity of their administration by the clergy
and game preservers, make poachers desperate in
resisting capture. At the same time they know
that the keepers will be equally desperate to catch
them. Hence, as the distant or extensive preserve
is an irresistible temptation, the dangers are risked,
and these fierce, bloody contests are the result.
Now, we hold that the last thing the law of the
land should do is to encourage this inexcusable
mode of game preserving. We mean, of course,
not the preservation of what we may call a natural
head of game in such numbers and over such an
extent of wood or country as may furnish ample
manly sport, but what is now understood by game-
preserving. When the pheasants roost in the
woods as numerously as hens on a farm-yard
tree, or hares issue from them in flocks almost like
sheep, destroying far more generally than the
same number of sheep would consume —this is the
social crime which law ought to discourage, not to
protect. It is in vain to make more stringent laws
to prevent poaching and the murder and demorali-
sation consequent on it while these allurements to
the vice exist. Game preserves ought to be known
to the law very much as houses of ill-fame and
gambling are—as a nuisance to be abated, not in-
stitutions to be put under the special charge of the
county police. Least of all ought arbitrary and
irresponsible
powers, against poachers, to be in-
trusted
t° the police much like those now assumed
by the gamekeepers.
The result will be as was well
pointed out by iyir.
HENLEY and others, that the
policeman no,
andaPase_ctieid as a thief-taker,b
bitterly hated
the counties will e
will
as a gamekeeper. In-
deed
double their police to
to
save the game--preserver's Pockets.
one of our contemporaries, trod whom we ex-

petted a more sportsmanlike view, has taken up the
cause of these game-preserving landlords, repre-
senting them as the poulterers, in this article,
for the nation. Will these should-be sports-
men thank him for the argument. It
is, in a modified sense, true. We know of
some sad tales of game-selling meanness, and we
also know that in multitudes of cases the exa-
cerbated feeling of the keeper towards the poacher
arises far more from his interference with the
gamekeeper's own profits than with his master's
pleasures. But to this argument, otherwise, the
answer is simple: Let those wbo desire to breed
game for the market do so avowedly and as a busi-
ness—let them make proper arrangements to keep
and feed the wild animals within enclosures suit-
able for their protection ; let such properly fenced
in limits have fair protection by law ; they will be
a directly commercial undertaking, and the crea
tures fed at the cost of the proprietor, and kept like
other fowls, as far as pos.ble, from wandering into
other persons' property will be fairly recognised as
property themselves. kWh a preserve would be
very differently regarded from game maintained in
a style which endeavours to combine those incom-
patibles—poultry-yard ease of killing, and, field
sport. We shouli have no objection to a bill, were
one requisite, to facilitate growing game for the
market. Game for sport ought to need no protec-
tion but trespass laws, End the law of good feeling
between a benevolent Landlord and well affected
tenantry and peasants.

Out of the "Persona' Explanations" which were
made yesterday in the louse of Lords by the Earl
of CARNARVON and thF Duke of NEWCASTLE re-
spectively, there have come forth more distinctly
than ever to the recognition of the public at large,
one or two extremely gratifying facts in respect
to our Colonial Civil Expenditure. Speaking
hastily the other evening, and somewhat confusedly
withal, though in the midst of a really able speech,
the Earl of CARNARVON intimated, as plainly at
least as his words could be understood, that, whereas
the Civil Colonial Estimates were in, 1856,
£320,000, they bad expanded so rapidly since
then, that they had swelled at last, in 1862, to the
enormous amount of £937,000. The young Earl's
statements, however, and not the Civil Colonial
Estimates, were what happened to be (in Mr.
DISRAELI'S phrase) " bloated." His Grace the
Colonial Secretary yesterday, however, took
the Earl's two statements in turn—and, at
the first puncture, how they collapsed ! In-
stead of £356,000 being the Civil Colonial Esti-
mates for 1856—" for £356,000,",5aid the Duke of
NEWCASTLE, " read £122,000." Again, instead of
the total of these estimates in the financial year last
past being, as the Earl intimated,
£937,000—for
£037,000, quoth the Duke, read £113,000. In each
instance, but especially in the latter instance,
a wonderfully agreeable and consolatory drop
down Having explained that his noble
friend had probably erred in his second estimate
(that for 1862), by including in it, among other
items, such sums as Treasury chest, £242,000;
captured negroes—bounty on slaves £55,000;
commissions for suppression of the slave trade,
£lO,OOO ; consuls abroad, £167,000 ; services in
China, Japan, and Siam, £86,000 ; North American
boundary commission, £4o,ooo—the Duke of
NEWCASTLE assured the Lords yesterday, and
through them the country, that the truth is these
colonial expenses are steadily and appre
viably diminishing! Fluctuating every now
and then, of course, as they diminish—
but still, upon the whole, undeniably and re-
cognizably diminishing. Enough, in proof of
this being the fact, when it is remarked that
while, as we have already seen, the Colonial
civil estimates were, altogether, in 1856, 122,0001.,
they were in 1857, 185,0001.; in 1858, 141,0001. ;
in 1859, 183,0001. ; in 1860, 163,0001 ; in 1861,
112,0001., and in 1862, 113,0001. Will not this, of
itself, be sufficient to console Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH,
the Regius Professor of History at the University
of Oxford ? And will it not do something towards
silencing that learned scholar's most unpatriotic
proposition for the dismemberment, virtually, of the
British Empire ?

DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FOR SCOTLAND
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, with the junior members of the
Royal family, and the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal
suite, left 'Windsor yesterday evening at 6 50, by special
train on the Great Western line, under the charge of Mr.
Gooch, locomotive engineer. On arriving at Leamington,
a distance of 90 miles, at 9 25, there would be a stoppage
of ten minutes for refreshment; the train would arrive at
Bushbury Junction, 127 f miles, at 10 42, and enter upon
the London and North-Western line, ai riving at Whit-
more, 155 miles, at 11 34; at Preston, 1061 miles, at 12 51
a.m., where the engine would take water; at Kendal Junc-
tion, 2081 miles, at 2 39, where the engine would take
water ; the Royal party then proceeding on the Caledonian
line to Carlisle, where they would arrive at 4 7, distance
3082 miles , thence to Aboyne, 582 miles, at 1 50. After
remaining at Balmoral one month, the Court will return to
Scotland.

TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. J. M. BELLEW.—
On leaving the ministry of St, Mark's, Hamilton-terrace,
where he hes been officiating for five years, the Rev. J. M.
Bellew was presented by his parishioners with a very nu-
merously-signed testimonial of respect, and with a puree
containing. 230 sovereigns. Lady Holland has allotted a
plot of ground in Holland-park, on which it is proposed to
erect a church for Mr. Bellew,

THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY'S
SERVANTS.—Yesterday the 7th annual rural fete in aid of
the Great Western Railway Widow and Orphans' Fund
was held in Eng Meld Park, which was kindly granted for
the purpose by Mr. Richard Benyon, M.P. for Berkshire.
The directors of the company caused special trains to be
run from London, Oxford, llungerford, Reading, and other
places, to Theale, the nearest station to the park, to which
they were conveyed by omnibuses which were in attendance.
Large numbers of the company's servants attended, and
amusements of various kinds were provided for their benefit.
In the evening there was dancirg, there being present
Mathew's quadrille band, the band of the Paddington Rifles,
and that of the lot Berkshire Volunteers. After having
spent a very pleasant day the visitors were conveyed home
by special train.

THE ORLEANS PRINCES.--The following is an
extract from a letter addressed by an officer of the Guards,
who was present with tae army of General M`Clellan, to a
field-officer of the same corps. It is dated, head-quarters,
seven miles from Richmond, June 8 :—" The French Prin-
ces are here, and we see a good deal of them—in fact, when
our tent went astray I lived in the tent of the Count do
Paris and the Duke de Chartres. They are two of the best
young fellows I have ever met, and are among the most
active and best of General N.'Clellan's staff. The Duke de
Chartres has perhaps been educated more as a soldier than
his brother, but both are thorough good officers. I cannot
speak too highly of them. Under fire they are just as
pleasant and agreeable as at other times. Their uncle, the
Prince de Joinville, we like very much ; he is a superior
man. The officers of this army have a great regard for
them. General M'Clellan told me that ho considered the
two Princes as the best officers on his staff, and that he
could not please the young Duke better than by sending
him out for a long ride at night."
REPRESENTATION OF KIRECALDY.—The Sheriff
has appointed Friday for the nomination, and Saturday for
the poll, should one be required. Mr. R. S. Aytoun, in his
address, says his political opinions are Liberal, and his de-
sire is to act in conjunction with the Liberal party. He
entirely approves the foreign policy
of the Government,
and considers that in the present crisis of events no man is
so ab e to overcome the difficulties that may arise between
Europe and America as Lord Palmerston. He approves
the measures of defence and for strengthening the navy
which have been adopted, and would support a well-consi-
dered measure of reform. Lord Schoenberg Henry Kerr is
to contest the burghs on Liberal Conservative principles,
and has also issued an address.

REPEAL OF TILE HOP DUTY.—A great gathering
is to take place in Lord Harry Vane's park, Battle Abbey,
near Hastings, on Thursday, the 31st inst., in celebration
of the repeal of the excise duty on hops, A dinner will be
given, and in the evening entertainments of all sorts will be
provided. Amongst those who have promised to attend are
Lord harry Vane, M.P.,
Viscount Pevensey, M.P., Sir
J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., Sir E, Faller, Bart., M.P., Sir
Brook Bridges, Bart., M.P,, Sir T, M. Wilson, Bart., the
Hon. H. Brand, AI. Mr. M. T. Bass, M. P., Mr. Coning-
ham, M.P., Mr. Dodson, M.P., Mr. E. C. 'Egerton, M.P.,
Mr. P. W. Martin, 'M.P., Mr, I'. North, M.P., and Mr.
A, J, Beresford Hope.

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, JULY 23.

The Moniteur of this morning says :
" Some inflammatory symptoms have necessitated
the application of leeches to the Princess Clothilde.
This measure had the good effect which was ex-
pected.
" The Empress visited the Princess on Tuesday

evening."

TURIN, JULY 22, Evening.

The rumours current to-day on the Bourse of the
disappearance of Garibaldi, and his having set out
for an unknown destination, are unfounded.
He was at Palermo this morning on his return

from Trapani.
At Marsala ho was slightly indisposed.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 22.
The conferences upon Servian affairs begin today.
The Italian Minister arrived here on Sunday last.

MADRID, JULY 22.

The Epoca of to day says :
Spain, in re-establishing relations with Italy,
would reserve to herself liberty to always defend the
Italian dynasties, united to her by the ties of kin-
dred and the rights of the Papacy.

LISBON, JULY 22.

Before the Lisbon Bank advertisement of the
Portuguese Loan, contracted for by Messrs. Knowles
and Foster, was published, applications were made
here in excess of the £500,000 sterling reserved for
Portugal.

BERNE, JULY 22.

In reply to the protest made by the Swiss
Government against the words lately uttered by
General Bixio relative to the annexation of the
Bishopric of Ticino by Italy, the Italian Government
has stated that it will disavow those words on the
first opportunity, and that it is the interest of Italy
that Switzerland should remain intact.

BERLIN, JULY 22.

To-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Reichens-
perger asked for information respecting the recogni-
tion of the Kingdom of Italy by Prussia.
Count Bernstorff replied, that the Government
did not, in recognizing the Kingdom of Italy, ac-
knowledge the principle of nationalities. He said,
also, that guarantees had been given in the de-
spatches of General Durando, and that it was in the
interest of Prussia to recognize Italy. Count
Bernstorff concluded by stating that the Catholic
Powers had recognized that kingdom, and that
Prussia need not be more Catholic than they.

THORN, JULY 22.

According to authentic reports received here from
Warsaw, the Government had discovered a wide-
spread conspiracy, in consequence of which nume-
rous arrests had been made during the night.
Some pupils of the preparatory school were
among those arrested.

PARIS, JULY 22.
The Paris papers of this evening publish the fol•
lowing telegram :
" RAGUSA, JULY 21, EVENING.

" On Friday and Saturday last 50,000 Turkish
troops attacked the Montenegrins, who, numbering
about 15,000, and being short of ammunition, fell
back upon the line of Sagaratz. Both sides suf-
fered heavy loss, but the advantage remained with
the Turks."