The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25,

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A 14%, , CURIOUS RELII3IOUS CERBMONY IS JAPAN. ELISSrAN BAIL 1 ;TA I'S. ee
th
dirtily 411 XIII tit ern . The Mcnitear dela- —±lottc publishes the contents of a ---es---. ,di
; letter of July 15, from Simoda, a port of Japan Op' to Acc B.,rtfordshire Incumbent," in writing to the of
....---- foreigners, giving an account of an evun% nf great into-
Times, S3.ys : w
SUN Oli 'PICA Seimir, i m it, ,-,.* (go f:i.c . : rest to the followers of the r digion of Sinto,
a Pagan "In a letter which you did me the honour to I'
-------------- -- - - - - ' sect of the extreme East, haven; under its rule 40 mil-
- _ insert a few days back I called attention to the --‘)
POSTPONEMENT OF THE GR.EAT , lions
,of souls. The letter says
.: i fact that the construction of railroads in Russia
n,
1 4 lhe vast empire of Japan Js gover.ned by an here-
,voutti, having regard merely to the amount of iron T
BOAT RACE AT NORWICH, ' ditsry and absolute prince named Korey,. or Emperor, I
; required, be altogether incompatible with the ex- t,
end tesi.liee at Yeddo, in the ieland of Niphon. Inelee
-.:, isting tariff of that country.
pendently of the Emperor, another personage in that I
(EY ELECTRIC TELE:IRA PII.) 1 cliti,try is of first-rate irnportance—the Dairi, or sove- I`` It seems that the Russian authorities have ,
reign-pontiff of Japan, stspreme head of the religion of I opened their eyes to this circumstance, and we are p
• (Flsnet OUR OWN'. CORRIISPONDENT.) I
Sint,. Ile is regarded as a god on earth, who never told that not only rails, but all other articles of tl
NORWICH, Nov. 25. dies, but, who from time to tines renovates his soil. The iron bearing directly or indirectly on the great en-
n
Dairi inhahits the city of Myako, also situated in the ' ter rise are to be admitted free of duty. This is h
The race between Kelly, of Fulham, and Bmtle, the lie possesses there a magnificent 1.- a result upon which the English ironmaster and the 1
Nerwichc'eamploo, fixed to take place this forenoon, n.
- s.'
I lisalcae.'danottiNh'alPslia°nc.ourt of 21,C00 priests,' charged' itl Pthe j Russian labourer are equally to be felicitated, as i 1
Nerwich, in consequence of some mismanagement, I
did serv,;ce of 4,000 places of worship in 4hati3eWnS.Oleit I indeed every one else is who has no vested interest vt
not canto off as was appointed. i llis dress is cempesed of a long white tonic, over which in the amount of the Custom-house duties on im- r
It will be remembered that two matches were is a wide crimson robe, and he wears 3 white tarnsparent I
veil, *rimmed with gold lace, the people never behold• ported iron, for that. these will rapidly become an f
made leStween these two mon simnlteneousle, the first
ine his face. On July 1, 1856 the Dairi fell ill and proposed relaxation ,
L , '-
to be 'erred on the onlen riser, and the next at Nor- evanescent quantity under the
tCI high priest Was immediately called to the palace is almost too obvious to remark. i
will; No arrangement which 'Nag to secure to each the 1 with the sacerdotal college, composed of 200 priests " Nevertheless, although one obstacle to the con-
ativant-ige of his own water. The first of these was de- of the first el"; charged with the religions admi• struotiou of these lines has been removed, many 1
titled on Thursday weak, and decidedly established the t! ettret'" of the empire. Oa the 3:1 he got much worse, others still exist. However, as we are informed by
and immediately. the priests spread the news that the Le Nord that a strong Government at the head of
superiority of Kelly in rowine with a ho td title under
ih e Nerfolk men were not at all disconcerted by air( had p•aced himself in communication with the
great gods of heaven,7o,oo,ooo of subjects having decided on the neces-
him.and was about to renew bit ee'el in sity- of them they will certainly be constructed,
the defeat in Lerelon, and basked their matt freely at the bosom of Ten-Sin Dai-isin, the highest of all these without any need of resorting to. either the experi-
pre,,,ent occasion being an divinities. Prayers wer.: ordered for the happy nee im-
evens. Bottle up till theence, the capital, or the iron mines of England, it
unbeaten man upon his ties e water. piisement of that solemn act, a,u.l when they had termi •
may he as well to let the " strong Government" find
At tlio hour appointed fort he startle; it was disco. itioatbede the priests announced that the people were ahoet
out at its leisure what these are'. In the meantime
admitted to the palace to behold their venerated
the following table may serve to console the British
vetted that no coneeyanee haul been provided for the nee
pontiff. The crowd hastened to the palace, where the
Public for their exclusion from the tempting pro-
of the•referee ; and, owing to this circumstance,there Dairi was lying on an immense bed of state with his
was no, other alternative than to postpone the match ropes on and the gauze veil covering his face. The priests ject. The first column gives the Russian govern-
until to-morrow, at 12 o'clock. . remained praying iu turns in the midst of the burning ments through which the intended lines will pass,
Of course, such an omission caused great disappomt• perfumes and other practices of their religion. Oa the the second the number of inhabitants which they
merit, and their conduct was freely csmmented upon ?*th July, at nine in the morning, the Dairi expired, and. respectively contain to a German aquar® mile,
ainnioneoeudpiacteedlythaattterthheis breathinglhi his lest the high priest and the third and fourth the corresponding num-
by the. vast assemblage (many of whom sere from Louber in the Eriglish (or rather Scotch and Welsh)
don) who had congregated to witness the interesting the gods, but wouldlotion. which
rrh comes the nearest in
English
of popu-
sspueediry return.gone toA7lead silence
event. thee succeeded ; and at the end of about ten minutes, eßussian and. _ the . numbers are
.----e—....----.. the high priest, surrounded by the sacred college, threw both Lakenfrom the official returns of the census of
a large white linen cloth over the body, and the moment,
1851, so
LONDON GAZETTR—(This Evening.) after, withdrawing it, discovered to the eyes of the maul- that there can be no reasonable doubt of
thei
The first and second lines, from St. Petersburg
r authenticity.
_+_,
to Warsaw with a branch from Kowno to the
titude another form altogether similar to that of the late
' Dairi, but full of life and health. This new head of the "
ITEF, Nov. 94.
The Qeeen has been pl lALLeased to constitute and appoint Church at once sat up in the bed, then rose altogether, ,
WH
the Rev. Francis Close, M.A., to be Dean of the Cathedral and proceeding to an altar placed en one side ascended it, Prussian frontier, will pass through the—
and gave his benediction to the multitude, who uttered
chiba shouts of joy. By a stratagem easily managed, the priests Containing containing
Church of Carlisle, void by the promotion of Doctor Ar- to th
1 English Counties to the
of London. ld Campbell Tait, late Dean thereof, to the Bishopric had substituted for the deceased Dairi the person of his Governments. Germane , of German
CROWN'-OFFICE, Nev. 21. son, ' his natural heir. A trap had let down one body, teuare mite— nearest density. senare mile—
Days and Places appointed for holding Special Commis- and raised the other, without the people being able, in Inhabitants. o Inhabitants.
sion .of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol !Delivery, for the the midst of the pro strations called for by their form of —_____
et.-I;ece-r—sburg—.. —l—,lBo 1'..10 I Caithness . .. 1,i44
undermentioned places : worship, to perceive the deception. Toe corpse was re- Pskov •••• .. •• .. 832 34 , Selkirk.shire.::.. 783
Cheshire, Wednesday, Dec. 3, at the Castle of Chester. moved from the palace the same night and burned; and Vitebsk ........ 938 V Kirkcudbright .. 953
Southampton, Saturday, Nov. 29, at the Castle of Win- Courland •
...... 1,069 I; I Perthshire .. •• •• 1,038
the ashes deposited in the hollow head of one of a range
cheater. Wilna ..... ..... boss ' Ditto
Wiltshire, Friday, Dec. •7i, at New Sarum. of bronze statues erected in the Temple of Yale to the Grodno .. • • .... 1,255 :, I Radnorshire ....:: 11,23288
Somersetshire, Monday, Dec. 8, at the Castle of Taun- highest god. On the ith the new Dein quitted his pa- Kingdom of PO- Cardiganshire .. 2,160
ton. • lace surrounded by all the priests, and went through land.. ...• .... 2,111 I
~.,._:,,,,0 e.irtst of the city in a grand triumphant car I-
Average .... 1,203 Average .... 1,192

The Monitemr de la Flotte publishes the contents of a
letter of July 15, from Simoda, a port of Japan opsn to
foreigners, piving an account Of an even% of great inte-
rest to the followers of the r iligion of Sinto, a pagan
sect of the extreme East, having under its rule 40 mil-
lions of souls. The letter says :
" The vast empire of Japan is governed by an here-
ditary and absolute prince named Koribe or Emperor,
end esi.iine at Yield°, in the i-land of Niphon. Inde-
pendently of the Emperor, another personage in that
c-miitry is of first-rate importance—the Dairi, or sove-
reign-pontiff of Japan, supreme head of the religion of
Since. Ile is regarded as a god on earth, who never
dies, but, who from time to tire) renovates his soil. The
Dairi inhabits the city of Myako, also situated in the
islaed of Niphon. lie possesses there a magnificent pa-
lace, and has a court of 22,600 priests, charged with the
serv;ce of 4,000 places of worship in that immense city.
Ilie dress is composed of a long white tonic, over which
is a wide crimson robe, and he wears a white tarnsparent
veil, trimmed with gold lace, the people never behold•
log his face. On Jnly 1, 1856, the Dairi fell ill, and
the high priest was immediately called to the palace
with the sacerdotal college, composed of 200 priests
of the first class, charged with the reiieiucs adnii•
uietretien of the empire. On the 3:1 he got much worse,
and immediately the priests spread the news that the
Dairi had placed himself in c eminunication with the
great gods of heaven, and was about to renew bit sox: in
the bosom of Ten-Sin Dai-Tein, the highest of all these
divinities. Prayers wars ordered for the happy sec un-
plisement of that solemn act, wad when they had termi-
nated the priests announced that the people were ahoet
to be admitted to the palace to behold their venerated
pontiff. The crowd hastened to the palace, where the
Dairi was lying on an immense bed of state with his
roots on and the gauze. veil covering his face. The priests
remained praying iu turns in the midst of the burning
perfumes and other practices of their religion. On the
I sth July, at nine in the morning, the Dairi expired, and
immediately after his breathing his bet the high priest
announced that the soul had gone to pay a visit to
the gods, but would speedily return. A dead silence
then succeeded ; and at the end of about ten minutes,
the high priest, surrounded by the sacred college, threw
a large white linen cloth over the body, and the moment
after, withdrawing it, discovered to the eyes of the mul-
titude another form altogether similar to that of the late
Dairi, but full of life and health. This new head of the
Church at once sat up in the bed, then rose altogether,
and proceeding to an altar placed en one side ascended it,
and gave his benediction to the multitude, who uttered
shouts of joy. By a stratagem easily managed, the priests
had substituted for the deceased Dairi the person of his
son,' his natural heir. A trap had let down one body,
and raised the other, without the people being able, in
the midst of the pr, strations called for by their form of
worship, to perceive the deception. Tao corpse was re-
moved from the palace the same night and burned; and
the ashes deposited in the hollow head of one of a range
of bronze statues erected in the Temple of Ircle to the
highest god. On the ith the new Dairi quitted his pa-
lace surrounded by all the priests, and went through
the various parts of the city in a grand triumphant car
drawn by one hundred white horses. Everywhere on
his passage the people bowed down to the earth as if a
ditinity was before them. On that day all work and
business were suspended, the prisoners set at liberty, and
ail criminal proceedings annulled. There are in the city
of Miyake, as in all the ether parte of Japan, a consider-
able number of Buddhists, who, from de'erence to their
adversaries, remain shut up in their own houses during
these events, slight being permitted. Formerly the
Dairi united in himself both temporal and spiritual power
in Japan, hut in the year 1,200, having called to his
assistance the Seogoun, or commander-in-chief of the
army, the latter officer by degrees encroached on the
temporal power of the former, until about 1590, all
that remained to the Dairi was the spiritual power,
which he retains in all its plenitude. Since that time
the successors of the S4ogoun have never ceased to
reign, and the present Emperor of Japan is his direct
descendant. There has never been any cantest with the
Dairi, and so complete and well-observed a separation
of the spiritual and temporal power is unexampled in
history. With the exception of some petty pagan sects,
Japan is divided between Bhuddiem and Sintoism, the
professors of those religions living on good terms with
each other. Sintoism is the creed of the Emperer, his
family, and the numerous princes who surround his
throne, and who form an oligarchical power with which
he is obliged to govern. According to the religion of the
Sintos, the souls of virtuous men inhabit the luminous
regions, en the threshold of which Japan is placed, arid
which regions are the habitual residence of the seven
spiritual gods. The souls cf the wicked are condemned
t a eternally wander about in the air, rejected by the
gods both of heaven and of earth. The prie,ts of
Sinto, who are 60,000 in number in the empire, abstain
from the use of animal food, and live on vegetables
end fruit. They call their vela Sin or Kami, and their
temples Miya. In addition to other allegarical objects
there is placed in the centre of each temple a large mir-
ror of metal, the p .lisp of which is carefully preserved,
and the signification of which is, that if the bodily de-
fects are faithfully reflected by the mirror, the defects of
the soul are seen by immortals. The other religion prac-
Csel at Japan is that of Boutado, which is nearly the
same as that of Bouda, but with some trifling additions.
They admit the doctrine of the transmigration of souls,
and they threaten the wicked with all the torments of
hell. They believe in the existence of a paradise—a
place of real happiness, called Gokurak, which is go-
verned by the god Amide. Beutsdoism is, however, so
closely allied to Sintoism in its belief and practice that it
is probable that a; no very distant period the two creeds
will become one. Kio, or /Eyelet), which is the place of
residence of the Dairi, is the second capital of Japan. It
Las a population of 500,000 souls."

WHITEHALL, Nov. 24
The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint
the Rev. Francis Close, M.A., to be Dean of the Cathedral
Church of Carlisle, void by the promotion of Doctor Ar-
chibald Campbell Tait, late Dean thereof, to the Bishopric
of London.
CROWN'-OFFICE, Nov. 21.
Days and Places appointed for holding Special Commis-
sion of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol !Delivery, for the
undermentioned places :
Cheshire, Wednesday, Dec. 3, at. the Castle of Chester.
Southampton, Saturday, Nov. 29, at the Castle of Win-
chester.
Wiltshire, Friday, Dec.:, at Nev Sarum.
Somersetshire, Monday, Dec. 8, at the Castle of Taun-
ton.
Devonshire, Thursday, Dec. 11, at the Castle of Exeter.
City of Exeter, the same day, at the Guildhall of the
said city.
Northumberland, Monday, Dec. 1, at the Castle of New-
castle upon-Tyne.
Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the same day, at the
Guildhall of the said town.
Durham, Wednesday, Dec. 3, at the Castle of Durham.
Yorkshire, Saturday, Dec. fl, at the Castle of York.
City of York, the same day, at the. Guildhall of the
said city.
Northamptonshire,
Glamorganshire, Monday, Dec. 1, at Cardiff.
Gloucestershire, Thursday, Dec. 4, at Gloucester.
City of Gloucester, the same day, at the city of Glou-
cester.
Essex, Thursday, Dec. 11, at Chelineford.
Kent, Monday, Dec. 15, at Maidstone.
Sussex, Monday, Dec. 22, at Lewes.
Staffordshire, Monday, Dec: 1, at Stafford.
Shropshire, Monday, Dec. 8, at Shrewsbury.
Herefordshire, Wednesday, Dec. 10, at Hereford.
Worcestershire, Saturday, Dec. 13, at Worcester.
City of Worcester, the same day, at the city of Wor.
ceeter.
Oxfordshire, Wednesday, Dec. 17, at Oxford.
HOM E-OFFICE, Nov 22.
The Warwickshire Reformatory Institution, at Weston
under-Weatherley, near Leamington, in the county o.
Warwick, has been certified by the Secretary of State as
fit to be a Reformatory School, under the provisions of the
statute 17 and 13 Victoria, cap. 83.

Average ...

The third line, from Moscow to Nishni Novgo-
rod, passes through the Governments
Moscow
Vladimir 1,358 $,, I Merionethshire ... 1,377
Nishni Novgorod - Ditto ... Do.

Average ... ...... 1,763- j Average ...... 1,801
The fourth, from Moscow to Theodosia (Kaffa),

passes through the Governments
Moscow
Tonla ...
Orel
Koursk 2,112*-5 Cardiganshire 2,1e0
Kharkoff 1,202 g -Radnorshire
Ekaterinoslaff B2l ,i,,,.. I
Orkney and Shetland 847
Taurida .. 572 2.' Arg,yleshire 572
- of --
Average
.) Average
And the fifth line, from Mato Archangelsk to
Libau, through the Governments

Koursk 2,112,3 '
Tscheroigoff
Mohileff
Minsk
Wilna
Courland 1,069
_ !...

Cardiganshire 2,160
Merionethshire
Kirkcudbright
Peebles 635
'Perthshire
Ditto

Average
" It will be seen that only two English counties
have been used in the comparison—viz., Cumber-
land and Westmoreland, the two in which popula-
tion is the least dense ; and of these two it is only
the latter which is exceeded by the most populous
of all the governments of the Russian empire--
Moscow. The county of Kent, which, if it did not
lie between London and Dover, would scarcely be
regarded as a favourable field for railway enterprise,
contains a population standing three times as thick
as in that government which is in the heart of
Russian commercial enterprise.
" A. strong Government at the head of 70,000,000
of subjects may do a great deal of mischief, if not of
good ; and if the Czar has set his heart upon these
railroads he may probably contrive to obtain them.
Most men, whether Emperors or not, can carry out
a favourable plan, if only they are determined to
spare no cost. An eminent agriculturist, at one of
the society's meetings a few years ago, declared that
he would gros, a turnip on a deal table, and he was
as good as his word. But what Mr. Huxtable did
not attempt, and what the strongest of govern-
ments will never succeed in, is to induce men who
have not been deceived by false representations to
undertake a similar task as a desirable investment.
There is no royal road to commercial development
any more than to mathematics, and if the projected
Russian lines are to be, profitable I will not say,
but even self-supporting, it is useless to set them on
foot until at least a generation has passed away in
the enjoyment of a liberal tariff, in the accumula-
tion of capital, and the ventilation of enlightened
commercial ideas. At present, if they could be
made, they would subserve only one purpose—to
menace Western Europe by the fAcilities they would
offer for moving armies, and thus to revive that
oppressive sense of indefinite dread which has re-
cently been dissipated through the happy co-opera-
on of this country and Vrance."

BANKRU PTS.
[Up to the time of our going to press the portion of the
Gazttte containing the Bankrnpts had not been received.]

• COUI3.SE OF EXCHANGE.— THIS DAY.
Amsterdam ............ 11 14!<, Gibraltar ...... •••• • • • •
Ditto, three months .. 11 17 t 4, Leghorn ..
Rotterdam ............ 11 17 2 Genoa

Antwerp .............. 25 32.;, Milan --
Brussels • 000000 ••• •••• 25 32 Yernee• ••••• • • •• •• ••
Flambeirgh ............ 13 7 y?, Naples! ......... . 43,4
Ahem... • • Pnlermo ..... ...• • • . 130
Paris 25 25 ;Messina .. ... 130
Ditto, three months .. 25 b 5 Lists), .. -44
Marseilles ............. 671,4 Onorio ................ 5174
raourdeant, „. IZio 3 arteh,
r intictort-on-Maine•• .. 119% itnenos Ayres..• •••
................ , SOX' York, days' eight
Vienna .... 10 41 Philadelinna .• ........
•••• 10 44 raters cr sum r7l oz.
lreterslvirg •• •••• •• •... 37,E, !Foreign (inid In Bata SO 0 0
Madrid „. „,„ „„ „„ ,„ .. 484 : Portugal WI (Iciri • • U 0 0
Cadiz ......... • • 49 ic Mexican Dollars 0 0 0
Rtreelons •. ••• • • • New -Dollars ......0 0 0
Seville ! Silver in bars ~« 0 0 0

TAE RECORDER sIIIP OF BRISTOL —Mr. Se*snt Ring-
lake has been appointed to this office.
A VaLUABLIe POCKETBOOK.—A German gentleman,
who was a passenger from Melbeurre by the James
Baines, had his pocket picked in Lveri»ol, on Saturday
night, of a pocketbook conteining Australian bills on a
London bank for 10,0001. bank-notes to the amount of
11!., and a number of letters of introduction.
'ROYAL COLLEGE OF SußGT.ese.—The following gen-
tlemen, having undergone the necessai y exaniiiisti.,us
for the diploma, were admitted members of the college
at the meeting of the court of examiners on the 21st
lost :—Messrs. William Dailiog, Nev York ; Francis
:Von Bennett, Birtnim,'nain ; Samuel Atkinson Richards,
Camberwell ; F.tward Ambrose Fitzgerald, CAle'ittn. ;
Thomas Wise, Beaumont-street, Portlanil.place ; Thorcas
Williams lia.deburst, Claverley, Shroo,hire ; Ma•thew
west Berry, Waringstown, County T),-p.xan ;
Thomas Pearse, Ciit,on, near Bristol ; and Peter Daniel
Anthonißz, Ceylon. At the same meeting of the court,
Messrs. Samuel Clift and George Bernie Mil passed their
examinations for naval surgeon'. These gent'ernen had
previously been admittel, the former at member of the
London College, and the latter of the Edinburgh College,
eheir diplomas bearing date respectively the oth ot
1345, and February, 1346.
A. B.ZT,Ic OF BOTHWELL—A mong the books sold in
Elinburgh by Mr. Nisbet on Tliimilay last was a hand-
s•ime form which belonged to the celebrated Earl of
Bothwell, the lineband of Mary, Queen of Scots. It is
a copy of a maihensatical work orintod in Paris in 1538
—" ot C;:lore4,r'ie de Maistre Estienne
de Is it"clic." The hook- is in the original binding, ani
has the shies stsrup.l wicn a well-cut die, showing the
arms of Bothwell, with the motto " Kip "Test"—that
is, keep teyst, and the ioser:ption " Jacobva
IlepLvrli
Comex Beth'''. D. Baines Gricthoure et Lld,les. et Magn.
Admiral Janice Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell,
Lord Haile R, Crichton, and Liddesdate, High Admiral
zee:Aland." It is supposed that the binding was exe-
cutedin France, as the workmanship is very seperior
a yd%y b the. armorial bearings beautifully cut and designed.
toeve there is only another volume known to e,Cst
of the famous earl's once magnificent library, and that
is in possession of the Faculty of Advocates. There was
spirited competition for'' this interesting' relic. It was
oltimately knocked down to a Mr. Gibson-Craig for 13
guineas.—„Seotgr,l,,
UnDltlt OF TAE " GIPSTKsTer."—The a.ij ,urned in-
,.inest on old Stanley, the ~
was held before Mr. CockeY Gipsy King ot the West "
,
evidence
Friday last, at Tetnce.
Some important additionale
which
eleArly proves that the 01,1 e"" was addue'rl
roan veas barbarously mur-
dered • but the perpetrator
yet been dis-
c lvvred. It appeared thatonthelencittaw7tn the deceased
VC41.9 last span be was observed
the
!on a cottager, on the bridge
taaitiTotnes about
talking to a little boy,
o'clock. While he was
jeaockeeutg,acagaledeult.p',r,dienuFctilar man,
dressed in a velveteen
ley in rough language to come with ailed to Stan-
him, as he wanted
to speak him. The 0141 mau hesitated,and on too
to
my o stra-
'izer's again requesting him to
o hi"
Stanley said to the little boy, " "acme
Come with ,e ant
what be wants." The man heard this and sai,l„;ee
;
I want to see you alone. Stanley then went ovc:r'so'
him, and the two men soon disappeared. On the
lowiner morning about 2 oclock a wyrnan tie '
.ng near
the river heard angry voices and a noise ruggh„
and fighting. After a little time she heard a splash in
the water, and on throwing up Ler window and lookine
out she Raw a man whose app.2aranco crirresp,mded with
the man whom Stanley accompanied 'on the previous
night, ,end who bad been deßcribod by the lad, leaning
over the water's edge, apparently watching something
or some person in the water. Alter he heardlthe window
open be ran off and soon disappeared' It was again
clearly pointed out to the jury by the medical men that
the death of old Stanley was caused by strangulation
and not by drowning, ate] the jury, after mature delibe-
ration, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against
some person or persons unknown." The police are still
Prosecuting inquiries, and, having got a description of
the man,with whom Stanley was last seen, they are
endeavouring to ascertain his whereabouts.
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NATURAL MARBLE PAINT FOR

FITERIORS.

Monsieur Claudot, architect, at Verdun, has recently
made a di- covery which promises to prove of the greatest
utility to architecture, despite all the nonsense Mr.
Raskin, Mr. Street, and the rest of the realists, may say
about the abominations of stucco, the hypocrisy and sham
of external facings, and which consists in the formation
of a coating of natural marble on surfaces of build-
ing-i. M. Claielot was led to his discovery by remarks
ing that up to the preseet time the powerful affinity
of hydrate- of line far carbonic acid has not been di-
rectly turned to useful account ; nor, consequently, the
force of aggregation, which is the result of this chemical
combination. Ia common mortars this cohesive and
' hardening force acts indirectly, because they contain but
asmall quantity of hydrate, which is notemployed in con-
ditions favourable for the development of the powers of
affinity. Ilvdrate of 'line does not exist in a state of
venire, and carbonic acid, from always acting in
what may be termed an aggregating sense, some-
times pewit-ices a contrary effect. In fact, when
the carbonic acid is i❑ excess, it dissolves the car-
bonates of lime, and forms calcareous, laminated, sac-
charoid, and concrete productions, such as the translucid
marbles of Paros, Carrara, and alabaster. After having
observed the great affinity of carbonate of limo for car-
bonic acid, when pure, and in large quantities, finely
divided, and remarked the effects of saturation, which
aeemeuti its density by 0436, the inventor was in-
duced to believe that this powerful affinity might be
made of direct use in the production of mortar cr facing.
In order that this affinity may act to the fullest extent
possible, not only must the hydrate of lime be perfectly
, pure and free from the presence of foreign bodies, such
as timid, &c , but it must be employed in such a manner,
as that each molecule of hydrate may be exposed to the
action of the acid—that is to say, that actual contact
may take place ; and M. Claudot was thus naturally
led to the invention of a natural marble paint.
In taking the common calcareous stones from
the neighbourhood of Paris, which are composed
of 097 parts of lime, a marble paint was obtained
as pure as the marble of Carrara, and which acquired
considerable density. But limestones, not so rich in
lime, may be employed, and excellent coatings obtained.
The modus oporandi is as follows: —The lime is ter.-
, ployed alone, ground very fine, and applied as a wash,
having the consistency of mi'k, by means of a brush.
When a compact arid smooth coating hasbeete obtained by
successive washes, it soon acquires, in the course of a
; 1 few days, a degree of hardness so as not to beeemoved by
I the nail. Within two or three months, according to the

(From, the Times.)

c..:ne.tions of the atmosphere, the hardness of the coating
becomes equal to that of marble, and acquires the same
impermeability. That this hardness and impermea-
bility aro the natural results of the satnraion of the
lime by the carbonic acid absorbed from the at-
mosphere may 14 easily proved by secluding a por-
tion of hydrate of lime from the atmosphere, when
it will be found to remain permeable and soft. No
mortar composed of lime and sand pozzolana becomes
impermeable until years after its application,—not
I even those which are termed hydraulic, which is
l due to the presence of the sand, and by the little
`freedom afforded to the action of carbonic acid, of
which the volume, proportioned to the quantity of
hydrate employed, can only be 0.07, which is die-
mmarble, as
setninate(l by the sand. In the natural marble paint
the \surface acquires the brilliancy and polish of
marble almost immediately, and the hardness of
i and finiasii before explained, in from two to three
, I faocentihss.The cost of' material for a square yard of sur-
a tt
oat:ale:mu unites,
halfpenny ; and a workman can easily lay on
a square yard in an hour. The natural marble
paintt.c may be applied to any holding surface, with which
madei in
and, by
appearance
annfs
anyof m colours,arbie.
ittea
i its impermeability and
resistance to frost it offers a
means of preserving • • buildingsexist may
From be
inn. ; and, in
a sanitary point of , ..
ine7, for interiors, will prove of
the greatest utility,
Miaton's tiles. Wel as it may be washed down like
; architects will try theirlln cerelY trust that some of our
hands on this new preservative
and decorative material, which may be made to con-
done so much to the comfort of
ourhomes and the em-
bellishment of our cities. London houses faced with
marble, instead of wearing the
air of dinginess now so
e
repulsive, will become, at
all ev
design—cheerful and clean.-2aact elts—whatever their
g News.

The fact of the Bank bullion havin x h
perienced and
increase of 154,01.51. during the past having
some surprise to be expreseed that the advanac'ecortl'ie
rate of discount to 7 per cent. should have been resolve d
upon. It must be remarked, however, that this inerew e
of bullioa was not more than should have taken place
advance r
two cr three weeks back from the reflux of the coin paid
for dividends, and that so far from there being any sign
at the time the Bank determined upon thee
rfa
o ~
ga:
favourable turn in the foreign exchanges, they were
dually assuming a worse appearance. If the James
Bai,:?:3 and the Lightning bad still licpt out, the position
of the mor.ey-cuart at thin moment would have bet n
such as to induce the public to congratulate themselves
upon timely precautions having been taken,—Times.

left resting on her stealthy advance by the Oxus—at
liberty to carry on those intrigues with Persia of which
we are j;1:-:t now getli7.:g a small foretaste at Herat,
whilst at the same time she is covering she Biacl( Sea
with a fl.ot of steam frig disguise, and about to
m a fresh Sibastopoi in -the spacious harbour of
Bala, with ten fathoms of water close inshore. A
good war harbour, which we shoig.id hays to call
quarantine fur soo,c veare, on the coast of Mingrelia, is
the only thio, wanti:d to make her dispositions perfect
in respecl, to 'her future desivis upon Turkey through
her Eastern provinces, and .her arrangements for ap•
poaching India, which sho will do vicariously through
Persia and Affghanistan ; and it really does her Minis.
ters the greatest credit that they have been able, within
little more than six months of a disastrous war and
an enforced peace, to present their country to the world
in so creditable and imposing a position.

correspoedent, who writes from St. Petersburg with a
thorough kn0w1e(1,,,,,e of Rue is, that, if this pledge be
July observed, it must be fatal to the present rroteution
of the Res- len iron trt,de. For our part. however, we
would rather not embark in an undertaking
which
1 ro ight us into collision with any wealthy Russian class.
We are reminded, indeed, that the iron lords of Russia
—the Dernideffe and the rest—are only a civil or lower
nobility. But it is not moral prestige that is in question.
This is not a conflict of opinion with opinion, or an in-
terchange of ideas from soul to soul. It is that which
p issesf nom palm to ram that isnow in qusstion. There
are in Russia many men whose wealth and posit:oa de-
pend on a high price of iron. There are also. even round
the very person of the Czar, many ill Told, or at least
needy functionaries. Even the late Czir could not
help much that he deplored and cauld not always de
test, and the present Czar is comparatively young.
Nobody shall persuade us but what there were Russians
who knew what they were about when the improvident
bargain was made with the American Company for the
maintenance of the Moscow Railway, and that they
found their account in that transaction. So, though we
are told that every pound of iron and. other material
r (paired for the railway shall come in duty free, yet the
very promise, and the state of things which it indicates,
contributes to our feeling that the contractor for these
railways has his head in a lion's mouth. He is at the
mercy of the beast, and that beast not one, but many.
He may be let off. Supposing the thing to answer, the
railways to be made cheap, and the traffic to be produc-
tive, then most probably presperity would leave no
occasion for foul play. But what. if the whole should be
a vast disaster ? It will then be a distribu' ion of losses,
in which case woe to the man who is at the mercy of
another.
At home we all know too well how slowly railways
have fulfilled the sweet promise of making their own
traffic, and how far some of the principal companies are
even now from the desired result. In these Russian
lines, in the first place, the whole country is such as has
been described—as thinly peopled as our own most re-
mote and mountainous districts ; then, all the institu-
tions of the country, and all its industrial arrangements
—particularly the attempt of every proprietor to be
complete within the .borders of his own estate—are op-
posed to regular traffic. Further, the lines are laid out,
not for passenger traffic or for commerce, but for mili-
tary purposes. In fact, the Western States are invited
to make for Russia a military road from the Baltic to
the Euxine, and military roads from St. Petersburg and
Moscow to Warsaw and Konigsberg, enabling her to
lay armies at a few days' notice on the frontier of Prus-
sia and Austria. The rejection of Riga and Odessa in
favour of Libau and Kaffa is a significant commentary
on the announcement that Russia intended henceforth
to devote herself to the works of peace and social im-
provement. There is no reason, however,—at least,
there will be no objection felt, to assist in the formati
to
of military roads it they will become great channels of
trade, and if, by' so doing, they will pay a good divi-
dend. But the interests of trade are utterly set at
nought, as well as the interests of the shareholders, by
railways which leave Odessa out of the question, and in
theenorthe propose to encounter the competition of the
railway from Riga up the valley of the D wine. With
regard to the cost of construction, the sum to which
the guarantee of 5 per cent. extends is considerably
less than the average coat of British railways, and it
rests with the touters in the interest of the conceseim
to show that the lines can be done for at least that sum.
Our Russian correspondent is no mean authority, and
he says that they cannot ; on the contrary, that much
of the country—for instance, that on the line from
Little Archangel to Libau, traversing the head-waters
of many considerable rivers and the intervening ridges
—is quite as difficult and costly as our own. Of course,
all the expenditure above 16,0001. per mite will be at the
risk of the company, and the interest of that exdoss
must be deducted from the 5 per cent. to be received.
Should the lines, then, involve a total expenditure of
24,000/, a mile, and the revenue not exceed the gua-
rantee, the difference due to the shareholder will be only
2 per cent. When he has received this magnificent
interest for his money for 20 years, the Russian Govern-
ment will have, it appears, the right of purchasing the
railway at a valuation based en the net profits of the
last fire years. We very much suspect that even 20
years hence the profits will bo nil, and that, by the
terms of the concession, the Czar will be able to walk
into the 2,600 miles of railway with no other payment
or formality than a civil speech to the unfortunate pro-
prietors. With this dismal prospect we are resigned to
see this magnificent concession pass into other hands.
There are tradesmen, indeed, so devoted to their
business, and so proud of fashionable customers,
that they are glad to supply a Lord for nothing,
or, what comes to the same thing, at ruinous
credit. Our contemporary would be glad to supply
so grand a personage as the Emperor of All the Russias
with rails, chairs, and locomotives on almost any terms.
We are old fashioned enough to estimate a customer by,
the intrinsic value of his custom, and the intrinsic value
of the custom iu this instance we believe to be a very
anima quantity.

LA (VINTELLIGENCE.—Not'. 24.

COURT OF CHANCERY.

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;Bzfore the Lord Chancellor, the Lords Justices, and
Mr. Jostles Cresswoli.)

EX. PARTE THE OFFICIAL MANAGER IN RE WINDING-UP

ACTS AND THE ROYAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA.
This appeal from an order of Vice-Chancellor Stuart,
assisted by Mr. Justice Erle, was argued at Westminster
before the full Court of Appeal, with Mr. Justice Cress-
well and Mr. Baron Martin, a short time before the long
vacation. The point, which is one of considerable impor-
tance, was whether a call made by the Master under the
Winding-up Acts was a specialty debt, or only a simple
contract one ? It appeared that a Mr. Robinson took
120 shares in the abovementioned bank, and signed the
deed of settlement. Robinson died, and his executors
paid a say a considerable portion of his assets in liqui-
dating the simple (entrant debts of their testator; and
the que-ilion raised by this motion was whether they
were to be allowed those payments as against the call of
1001. per share made by the Master upon the 120 shares
held by Robinson ? The Master decided that the call
under the Winding-up Act was a special .y debt ; but
Vice-Chancellor Stuart said Mr. Justice Erle, reversing
that decision, held that it was only a simple contract
oue. The case was placed in the paper this morning for

judgment.
Mr. Justice Cress=ll read the opinion come to by
himself and Mr. Baron Martin, which, after analysing
the deed and the Winding-up Acts, was in effect the
same as that come to by the Court below—viz., that the
call was only a simple contract debt.
The Lord Chancellor said the Com t would deliver its
judgment on Thursday week.
(Before the Lords Justices of Appeal.)

(From the Morning Post.)
It does not appear that the Russian railway scheme
can be made to float in its present form, but we may
rest assured that it will not be abandoned. It is too
promising ; and the deadly tenacity with which the
Cabinet of St. Petersburg clings to its plans allows no
retreat. The mistake was made at first of not offering a
Eufficient rate of interest; that mistake can easily be
rectified, and will he so directly or indirectly. A six
per cont. Imperial guarantee would certainly add
400,0001. a year to the expenditure of 3,ussia itself—
about forty millions sterling when all was done ; but
the railways will not be altogether dead loss ; and
though not, perhaps, the most advantageous that could
be devised for external commerce, still will no dou,t
add materially to the tar-paying power of the people. In-
deed the omission of Odessa almost looks as it it was
not intended that they should encourege foreign trade
too much, that being the very point where Russia is
most yulnerable. As long as the principal revenue of Rus-
sian nobles is derived from the export of their produce to
foreign countries—which an effective blockade almost an-
nihilates, as the cultivation of their soil depends upon ad-
vances from their customers, which are stopped by the wee-,
and on the number of their efficient serfs, whose number
and not tho area of land is the true measure of landed
property in Ruesie, and who are taken away by the war
—so long will a Russian war with this country run iter
regular course, through the impoverishment of the land-
owners, to discontent, to conspiracy—sooner or later to
the assassination of the Emperor or a revolution. Paul
neglected the warning, and perished ; Alexander saw tee
advance of the grim spectre in 1811, and preferred evea
the terrible scourge of the ncnch invasion to the piti.
less ruin of the English blockade. Nicholas confronted
it in an evil hour of overweening pride, saw the wreck
his obstinacy had made, felt that he could no longer
brave it, and sunk, broken-hearted, at the prospect. We
may therefore look to every effort being made by Russia
to increase her consuming power et home, and the ac-
tivity of her dernestic traffic, and render her in that
respell independent of foreign nations; and certainly
the obtainieg poeeession of forty millions of !racier)
capital to invest in Works facilitating her interior corn-
munications, though not leading to important seaports,
is not a bad beginning. We believe the exact sum pro•
posed is 43,200,000/.—the odd three millions being, and
appears to be, veld clowu forthwith ro the Ruseian
Government for that portiOn of the St. Petersburg and
Warsaw Railway which it has already executed ; and .
there is likewise talk .of a further suns to be paid
for come large works for the construction of machi-
nery belonging to a member of the Imperial family.
Altogether,
we may Assume that from fifty to sixty
millions will be expended in the dominions of the
Czar ; for, if be will only offer sufficient interest, he
will get the money. In the course of the neat ten
et tvetlee years therefore the pear will be ripe for further
operations, and as that will about have brought round
the cycle of Russian outbreak, it may not be amiss to
consider what will then be our mutual position.
Three great facts in favour of the encroaching policy
of Russia have come to light from the may
ended. ar that has :met
ended. Firstly, that Cronstadt is now, whatever it ay
have been three years ago 3 impregnable, and St. Peters-
burg, conseciently, secure from insult; seconaly, that
the tranquiLpossession of Flalacid is not to he meddled
with, and half-Ruosianised, as it •is, will be left undo-
Lathed tilltlithe Rwsianisation is complete—an operation
which will be fecilitated by the circumstance of the pre-
sent Czar having beau brought tip in Fmland—to say
nothing of the disputed boundary at the Warangee
Fiord, of which we shall probably hear ire before
long ; thirdly, that the Polish question is disposed of.
There is no more a Poland in Poland. A few wandering
exiles cherish the memory of Kosciusko, but the guns
of the citadel of Warsaw will never open to fulfil Ni-
?holm' threats. The nationality is gone, the country
is Russianised ; and so fully i 3 that felt, that it is well
known that the Russian army in those provinces never
was so weak IA it is now. Of course the completion
of the railway to Warsaw will strengthen Ruesia in
that quarter ; but upon the whole we may assume that
the empire is now perfectly at ease and unembarrassed
in her European relations. She is liable to no aggres-
sions from the West ; the time is not favourable for ag-
gressions on her part in Europe ; and we may safely con-
clude. that the whole activity of her never-slumbering
policy will be turned upon Asia. Through two portals
she debonches on the East—Kaffa and Nijni Novgo-
rod—the first leading to Constantinople and Ispahan,
and supporting en echelon the advance of the latter
upon Delhi and Calcutta. It sounds wild to talk of a
country
so recently and so hopelessly defeated under-
taking such enterprises, but it must be remembered
that Russian policy never varies and never halts, ex-
cept to
_take breath for a new spring. We may think
the. Bessarabian frontier rectified—which,-by-the.bye,
it is not yet—and the Turkish question settled for half
a century
,to come ;
but the Russian Cabinet sees a
second Suwarrow before Ismael, who will ieceive thegame laconic order the first did, though it may not, to
judge from the experience of Silistria, be in his power
to send back the same reply of blasphemous doggrel:
That, however, is probably distant; the ope.rircassia dohs
in Asia are going on now. Like Poland,
heard the summons to resistance, arid heeded it not.
The brazen head has uttered its third sentence, and th. e
absorption of Circassia is now merely a matter of detail,
C
and somewhat advanced detail. , A complete chain of
posts on a splendid military road by the Vladi Caucasus ;
a communication, no longer seriously menaced, by the
shores of the Caspian, theougb Derbend and Baku ; the
undisputed possession of Georgia ; the proved incapacity
and corruptibility of the high Turkish officials in Ar.
meals ; a
position at Gumri which we must learn hence-
forth to call Alexandropol, which no army likely to
be collected in the effete pashalics of Asia Minor. could
look at, and which all but commands, or at all events,
a not very difficu‘t advance from, which would com-
mand the roads to Erzerouin, Aleppo, and Damascus,
leave Russia—with her force deployed to the south of
the Caucasus, her right flank sufficiently secured, her

Besides the many powers ascribed to us, there are
some which we possess in epite of ourselves. We can-
not help having shadows, and as little CAD we help giving
opportunity to those who contradict for contradiction's
sake. There are those who are sure to take one opinion
if we take another, who would be right enough) per-
haps, if they could be tight first, and would rather be
wrong than seem to play second fiddle. Suppose that
we had e-asted a column or two in exposing a projected
railway from Archangel to Tobelek, with a branch to
Nova Zelnbla, before the end cf the Week we nhottld find
ourselves accused of all manner of ignorance, geographi-
cal, commercial, political, and social. We should have
imposing statieticr, lists of Russian houses, financial
returns, ukases, and Heaven knows what not, all ar-
ranged in overwhelming gravity against tie. lied not
the Czet expressly undertaken to provide free iron, free
forges and foundries, frea blacksmiths, Tangoes, carpen-
ters, and navvies, at every station on the line ? What
if there were no popu!ation now ? Railways make popu-
lation. They make also their own traffic. The cutting
through the Ural Motintaina would pay RAW In gold j
and if the passenger traffic to Tobolek fell off the Czar
would only have to exile to Siberia fifty-thousand
first-class passengers per annum, giving them return
tickets available after one, two, or ten years. Then
as to the branch to Nova Zembla, if the strait is
not always frczen over, perhaps never, no dotibt ere
could have an Imperial pledge that it shall be for
the future, This may seem rather an extravagant
illustration, but it is not much more so than the scheme
which has actually found favour with a jealous contem-
porary. Before we name the dreary termini and the
awful distances, we will just premise that the railway
connecting the two Russian capitals, even with the as-
sistaace of the war and a coronation, has not jet cleared
1 per cent. Well, the new scheme comprises, first, a
line of 670 miles from St. Petersburg to Warsaw, with
a branch of 60 miles to Konigsberg. It would be just
possible to make a line of this length in Great Britain
by making the Land's-end and John o'Groat's house the
two termini, and if the provinces through which the
Russian line passed were- all as populous as the north
of Scotland and the heart of Wales, neither of them
yet reached by a railway, the St. Petersburg and War-
saw would, in one respect, though only one, stand
comparison with the Caithness and Cornwall. The second
item of the scheme is a line of 280 miles, through a
country most of which is about as populous as Me-
rionethshire, from Moscow to Nishni Novgorod. As
the latter place is ordinarily a city of no great size,
and only exists for traffic during its two months' fair,
which fair is fast declining, and will decline all the
faster through the operation of railways, this is a line
" from the ace of spades to next Michaelmas," for
every condition is fleeting and temporary. Then comes
a line of 840 miles, from Moscow to Kaffa ; over a
world of steppes and through the Ciimea, but avoid-
ing the comparatively rich provinces of Podolia and
the Ukraine, as well as the commercial port of Odessa.
The average populousness of the country traversed
appears to be about that of Westmoreland. The
last is a line of 750 miles, from Little Archangel, south
of Moscow, to Libau, passing through a population
about as thick as that of Cardiganshire. For these
comparisons we are indebted to the " Hertfordshire
Incumbent," whose letter will be found in another

olumn.
It might have been supposed, after our own railway
follies, and the commercial disasters AO fresh in the me-
mory of the nation, that the merest patriotism would
have prevented any public writer from assisting the Czar
to pass off his bad railways. The love of contradiction,
no doubt, drives men to extremes, hut it ought to have
its limits like any other mental disorder. It is an assist•
ance to the Czar when one particular of the concession
is fixed upon, without which, indeed, it would be simply
ridiculous, but which goes very little way to redeem 1.8
certain failure. Cheap iron is the first condition of a
cheap railway, for iron is required not only for the
engines, permanent rails, temporary rails, bridges, and
tools of all kind, but also for all that work which our
railway contractors find already done for them when
they enter a country. The exceptional importation and
transmission of duty-free iron in all forms for 2,600
miles of railway, much of it into an interior 700 or 800
miles from the port, is an operation quite out of British
experience or conception. We cannot but believe our