The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-12 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LOINDO.N, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, la t-7,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL FOR WILFUL DAMAGE.—Ann
Smith, a low-looking woman, was charged before Mr.
Knox with wilfully breaking two panes of glass, of the
value of £B, the property of Mr. Thos. Henry Cockhead,
of the Queen's Head, 381, Oxford-street.
Mr. Cockhead—About a quarter to one this morning,
while busy serving in my bar, I heard a smash at my
windows, and on going outside I found the prisoner in
custody of a constable and two panes of glass in my win-
dows,• of the value of £B, smashed. I then gave the pri-
soner, into custody. _ _ .

Mr. Knox—Do you know anything of the prisoner ?
Prosecutor—About half-au-hour before she came and
knocked at the shutters, and said she would do for the
windows becausa we would not take her into the house.
She was a very drunken woman.
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Prisoner—Every time I pass his house he points me out
to people. About three months ago I charged him with
cutting my head open.

Mr. Knox—ls that true ?

Prosecutor—Yes, and I gavo her money to settle it.

James Livermore, 118 C—l saw the prisoner take up a
stone and with it break two panes of glass in Mr. Cock-
head's window. I then took her into custody. Sho was
sober, and said she would pay for the windows if she had
time.

Prisoner The prosecutor entertains an animosity

towards me.

Mr. Knox—l am going to send you to tho sessions.
You people who break licensed victuallers' windows are
under a mistake, as they insure their windows, and are
not therefore injured by their being broken. You are liable
to five years' penal servitude.
The prisoner, who declined saying anything after being
cautioned by Mr. Knox, was then committed for trial.

Mrs. Ill'aregor's Levee.

the title of Mr. and Mrs. Gourlay's new
Scottish entertainment, which was given for the
first time in London last evening at the Polygraphic
Hall, King William-street, Strand. Mr. Gourlay
has long been known throughout the United King-
dom as one of the best delineators of Scottish cha-
racters on the stage, and Miss Susan Goddard (Mrs.
Gourlay) has also acquired a reputation for her
vocal abilities. On the rising of the curtain we
were presented with a very capital representation of
a Fifeshire inn, and then we are introduced to Mr.
and Mrs. M'Gregor, who are staying there for a
short time during their wedding tour. The lady is
j im Englishwoman, supposed to be doatingly fond of
Scotch songs, novels, dances, and Scott's novels ;
in fact, everything Scotch, even to her husband, Mr.
Duncan IN regor, the happy man, who is everything
a newly married man should be. Their joy, however,
is interrupted by the arrival of a telegram calling
him back to his office in Edinburgh for a short time.
To amuse the lady during his absence, Mr. M'Gregor
invites a number of Scottish curiosities, both male
and female, to pay her a visit, and thus the oppor-
tunity is presented to Mr. Gourlay to assume a
variety of characters of the most amusing descrip-
tion. First, we have " Andrew Gudale, the land-
lord o' the Thistle, Scotch to the back bane," and
certainly a very entertaining fellow he is. Next
comes Miss Kitty
M'Tavish, a gossiping old maid,
who is, according to the description of the worthy
landlord, " as fu' o' gossip as an egg's fu' o' meat."
She is a maiden lady on the sunny side of fifty, with
a little money and less occupation. She is in fact the
village scandal-monger. Her little secrets involve
everybody in the village, from Jenny at the mill, to
young Bob Sparke, the banker's son, a wild daerin' lad,
that gangs fox-huntin' and horse-racin', and that
whistles "Dainty Davy" on the Sabbath day. The
Luly aco,ny,to <7.l the merits of Xll th, people in the
village, but her visit is cut short by the announce-
ment of the arrival of Mrs. Paterson, a strapping
amazon, but " sair gi'en tae the dram." Miss
M'Tavish disappears, and then we have the per-
sonage who thinks that for a cordial " there's
naethin' like a drap of guid Scotch whisky," The
tippling widow is excellently and judiciously por-
trayed, as Mr. Gourlay stops just at the proper
point. Then follows " daft Wattey" and " Needle
Tam," the latter of which, to our thinking, is the
best character in the entertainment. " Needle Tam"
is no knavish mendicant, he does not cringe or
whine, but plies his profession, such as it is, in a
manly way. He is everybody's friend, and is univer-
sally liked for his good.qualities and nobility of nature.
He favours us with a capital song, " Kate Dal-
rymple," and, having taken his departure, we next
have " Kirsty Claver, the Newhaven Fishwife,"
and, finally, the " Auld Village Nurse." From the
above it will be seen there is plenty of character
about the entertainment; but there is, in addition to
the pranks of Master Gourlay, a merry lad of about
12 years of age, whose unexceptionable Scotch
pleases the audience amazingly. He sings two or
three songs, but here we must take objection, not
to the abilities of the little fellow, but to the taste
that selected for him, in a Scotch entertainment,
such an unmitigated vulgar song as " Slap, bang,
here we are again." R is a decided mistake, and
the sooner it is omitted the better. The entertain
ment is an exceedingly good one, and we can con
scientiously recommend it to the pleasure-seekers o
the metropolis.

This is

The Wealth of France.

The following very able article we quote from
the Herald of to-day :

The advent of Prince Louis Napoleon to political power
in France spread universal disquietude amongst us—as
well as amongst most other European nations—and this
dread of the consequences which might ensue was by no
means allayed as he progressed step by step towards the
attainment of the object of his ambition, until, by the al-
most unanimous will of the French people, he was placed
in triumph upon the Imperial throne. It was feared that,
smarting under the reminiscences of the deposition of the
founder of his race, and anxious to consolidate his power
by yielding to the wishes of a gallant nation panting for
an opportunity to avenge past reverses, he should seek
to wrest from their present possessors the territories
torn from France by the Treaty of Vienna, and thus

prove himself to be the inheritor of his uncle's policy
and the redresser of his country's wrong. Few believed
in the sincerity of the declaration, " L'Empire, c'est la
paix;" but one consolation remained to those who dis-
trusted his intentions, "he had not the funds necessary to
embark in war," and capitalists smiled as they buttoned
their pockets, and declared that none should he get to
carry out his aggressive projects. It was then the general
conviction that money could only be procured to the neces-

sary extent in England, and as those who could control its

supply had determined to withhold it, it was hoped that
the peace of Europe might be preserved from the lack o 1

means to disturb it. When the Emperor, passing over the
great capitalists whose trade it was to negotiate loans for
the Powers who required them, determined to appeal
directly to his people for pecuniary support, the project
was received with mocking incredulity by otr men upon
'Change. The attempt to obtain any considerable sum from a

nation composed of petty landholders, in which there were
no great proprietors. and but comparatively few ex-
tensive merchants, must, according to them, as a matter

of course, end in signal disappointment ; but the sagacious
sovereign persevered; he knew, none better, the vast,
though widely disseminated resources of his subjects ; he
tapped the spring of national wealth, and it flowed in super-
abundance, for three times the amount required was in-
stantly subscribed by the middle and lowest classes of so-
ciety, This unexpected result ~....ttriLuiaa La, "ur
acres to the intrigues of the French Government. The
market was supposed to have been -"rigged," and it was
almost generally believed that the success achieved was
more apparent than real, most of the applications for in-
vestment being set down as fictitious, while even those
who believed in the reality of the offers considered the
first lonn as an experiment which could not be again re-
peated. Two subsequent appeals, however, eventuating
in tenders largely exceeding in amount those made
on the first occasion, convinced the most sceptical
that money could be found out of England. Then
the question arose as to the sources from whence it
came ; and to this inquiry the recently published letters of
our Special Correspondent travelling in France furnish,
we think, a full and satisfactory reply.
The advocate of farming on an extensive scale must be
not a little surprised at his statements, although their
truthfulness will be readily admitted by those who have
resided for aby time in France, and occupied themselves
in investigat'ng the condition of its inhabitants. Farm-
ing on a large scale, and on the most approved principle;
may prove most remunerative to the individuals engaged
in it. They, however, are but the few. And it may be
fairly asked whether it tends to the general advantage

thai those few should prosper, while the agents of their
prosperity, their labourers, are steeped in ignorance and
misery, or whether small holdihgs should become the
rule, with their occupants, as is the case in France
living in comfort, the national wealth being at the
same time enormously increased by their industrious exer-
tions ? When we find that our hoMe growth of cereals,
which in 1841 was sufficient to support 23,250,000 of our
population, is now, with all the boasted modern improve-
ments in tillage, inadequate to the maintenance of 13,000,000,
while a corresponding reduction has taken place in the
amount of all descriptions of live stock, we may fearlessly
assert that there is a progressive and rapid decline in our
agricultural products, indicated but too truly by the re-
duction of the rural and the unnatural increase of the urban
population, which, the moment a check is given to manu-
factures, becomes a burden on the land. On turning to
the statistics of the Irish Registrar-General for 1864
we find that the number of horses in Ireland has di-
minished by no less than 50,000 within the last two
years, while there was a deficit of 10,606 head of black
cattle, and of 28,354 sheep in the stock brought for sale to
the great fair of Ballinasloe in 1864, as compared with those
sent there in 1858. Whether a similar reduction has
taken place in the number of live stock we cannot posi-
tively say from the want of official statistics, although the
fact that one-half of the number of beasts now sold in the
Metropolitan Cattle-market are returned as of foreign
growth goes far to support the supposition that such is
the case ; and while this is the condition of agriculture in
Great Britain and Ireland under the boasted sytem of ex-
tensive holdings, we find that the cereal productions of

the small holders in France have been doubled in amount
during the last twenty years ; their black cattle being
now more than double in number what they were
forty years ago, and their sheep having Increased by about
five millions since 1852. That the French peasantry are
content with their lot is made evident by their disincline--
tion to emigrate even to Algeria, whioh lies at their very
doors, although every inducement is held out to encourage
them to do so. The secret of their prosperity and happi-
ness lies in the subdivision of land, which stimulates them
to exertion in the hope of becoming proprietors ; and this
grand object of their ambition they aimost always attain,
although as tenants they pay higher rents, hold under shorter
leases, have less encouragement from their landlords than
the farmer of any other country; and what no doubt would
be by Irishmen considered more discouraging still is, that in
one month after a half-year's rent falls due, and remains
unpaid, they are liable to summary eviction, without any
right of redemption, by the simple order of the justice of
peace of the canton to which they belong, their cattle,
crops, afM furniture remaining in the hands of the proprie-
tor, to be sold by auction in discharge of their arrears.
Those small proprietors whose value is so little appre-
ciated in this country from the veritable conservative
power of France—as proud of their petty and hard-won
possessions as the long-descended baron is of his ances-
tral estates, and consisting, in a great proportion, of
the annually discharged soldiers, who, while serving in,
the ranks, have received an education which enables
them to appreciate the value of their social advantages ;
deeply imbued with the imperishable renown of the First
Empire, and having been many of them participators in
the glory of the present one, they form the bulwark which
will defend the Government of the people's choice against
the assaults of Red Republicanism or the intrigues of
Legitimacy, and, should need be, they would quickly teach
those who sought to overthrow the Sovereign who has so
signally benefitted themselves and their beloved country
that Paris is no longer France.

The funeral of Colonel Plunkett Burton left his
late residence in Grosvenor-square, on Monday morning
the 11th inst., and he was interred in the same vault with
his much-beloved mother, the Hon. Mrs. Ryder Burton,
in Kensal-green Cemetery. The hearse was drawn by
four horses, followed by three mourning carriages and
four, and private carriages. Several peers came to town
from a great distance in the country, to pay a last tribute
of respect to one whose virtues and noble disposition
adorned his life.

TRUE MODESTY.—The Spectator publishes a
letter addressed to its editor, beginning—" Sir,—l
am a constant reader of your journal, and a great admirer
of it. I find in it profound thought and true piety," &c.,
&c. [We cannot but regret that our very able contempo-
rary should have allowed itself the luxury of printing in
its entirety an eulogium that, no matter how well deserved,
appearing as it does (in the Spectator itself) amounts to
nothing less than the grossest self-laudation.]

KISSING A LADY IN A RAILWAY CARRlAGE.—Yes-
terday, at Croydon Petty Sessions, a young man
named M'lntosh was tried for attempting to kiss a young
lady named Sutton whilst passing under a tunnel on her
way home in a South-Eastern Railway carriage, on the 7th
of the present month. He was handed over to the police
at the Croydon Station, and Miss Sutton was advised, as.
well as anxious for the protection of other ladies, to pro-
secute. The defendant through his solicitor expressed
great sorrow, and he was fined in the amount of £5, and

13s. costs.
CANADIAN IMMIGRATION. —The number of people
who arrived at the port of Quebec during the month
of July last was 3,705, of whom 172 were cabin passengers.
The steerage passengers consisted of 1,765 male and 819
female adults, 776 children between the ages of 1 and 12
years, and 173 infants. The total number of deaths on
ships arrived during the month was 11. Twelve persons
immigrated by parochial or Government aid, 1,168 persons
immigrated from England, 625 from Ireland, 394 from Scot-
land, 437 from Germany, and 1,081 from Norway ; but the
nationalities of the immigrants were-612 English, 822
Irish, 334 Scotch, 378 Germans, 1,360 Norwegians, and 190
Swedes, Danes, and French. The principal occupations re-
presented were-508 farmers, 665 labourers, 70 clerks and
traders, and 522 mechanics. The total number of arrivals
from Jan. 1 to Aug. 1 was 13,188, being a decrease of 212 in
the immigration of the corresponding period last year,
which was 13,400. A large number of the Norwegians who
arrived iu July were entirely without means, and as their
destination was the Western States they had to be assisted
to the frontier.

FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR DERBY.--On Saturday
evening Mr. Samuel Thompson, aged 29, of the firm of
Thompson and Fryer, builders, Derby, and Mr. Robert
Dickenson, aged 51, foreman to the firm, were killed by
being thrown from a Whitechapel cart, the shaft of which
snapped asunder while it was going at a rapid pace. The
accident took place at Shardlow, about seven miles from
Derby.

THE OPERA HOUSES.—" Every one will be glad
to hear," says the Atheneum, "that the project of making a
gigantic speculation by uniting our two foreign operatic
theatres—the result of which would have been fatal to art,
in every sense of the word—has come to nothing."

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS
(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 12.
The peninsula).- and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Delta, Captain Kellock, with the above mails,
has arrived. She Wings 116 passengers, 13 pack-
ages specie,
value £2,809, and a general cargo, in-
cluding 2,309 bales value £150,000.

The Delta had flue weather during her passage.
On the 7th she spoke tilt: steamer Cadiz, bound for
Gibraltar ; on the Bth the OPon, with the outward
mails of the 4th ; on the 10th, passed the French
fleet in the Bay of Biscay ; and tL:e steamer Dakah-
lich, all steering south-west.

The Italian corvette Etna, the French storeship
Perdrix, and the Egyptian squadron were at Alex-
andria. At Malta her Majesty's ship Racer.
GIBRALTAR, Sept. G.

The weather continues warm. Eight fresh cases
of cholera have occurred during the last twenty-
four hours, but only one death in the same period.
The Tangier Board of Health has, according to
letters from that town, decided that all vessels from
Gibraltar shall be driven away from Tangier and
the ports of Barbary, so that all intercourse must
cease between the kingdom of Morocco and those
places in which the Tangier Board of Health may
decide that cholera exists.

A private letter from Port Mallon mentions the
arrival there of a large Egyptian steamer with 1,280
pilgrims on board
_for Tangier. The steamer had
lost some of her passengers, and decomposed re-
mains were said to have been found on board. It
is further said that the number of pilgrims was
originally 1,800. It is probable that some had been
landed at Tripoli.

The mission, about to proceed from his Majesty
the Sultan to the French Court, arrived at Tangier
on the 24th ult. The ambassadors arp the Governor
Sid Ouled Eba Mohammed El Sharqui, maternal
uncle of the Emperor, and Sid Hadj Mohammed
Ben Said.

The following British vessels have arrived here
since the sailing of the last mail for Southampton:—
Steamer Oswin, seven days from Grimsby ; steamer
Poonah, six days from Southampton ; steamer
Calpe, seven days from Liverpool; steamer Penin-
sula, eight days from London ; R.Y.S. schooner
Heroine, ten days from Falmouth; brigantine
Revival, twenty-three days from Swansea; and
steamer Bienda, eight days from London.
Her Majesty's gunboat Skylark and the Prussian
men-of-war Nymphe and Delphine are in the har-
bour. The Nymphe saluted the garrison with 21
guns on arrival, which compliment was returned
from the saluting battery.

Exchanges are quoted—London, 90 days' date.
49 ; Paris, sf. 24c. to 25c. ; Marseilles, sf. 25c. ;
Genoa, Of. 25c. ; Madrid, 8 days, 1 dis. ; Cadiz, 1i
to 4 dis. ; Seville, par to + dis. ; Malaga, a dis.
Premium on Of. pieces, 1 per cent.