The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-22 00:00:00

PARAGUAY,

The French papers publish intelligence from Pan-
quay received from a Brazilian source, confirming the
news of the victory of the allies. Lopez was not
captured on the 23rd September, nor indeed was
he traced, but it was believed that he was directing
his retreat to Bolivia. Many prisoners had been
released, who repeated the statements respecting his
cruelty towards the Brazilian prisoners. The whole popu-
lation is described as in a miserable condition, and the
people were flocking to Asuncion, where the Provisional
Government had been established by the allies. Villa Rica
and San Jose had made their submission. The ratrie,
which is always disposed to befriend the Paraguayan cause,
receives these accounts with some suspicion. It remarks
that the Brazilians no longer talk about the bombardment
of an inland town by their fleet, but that they content
themselves with the announcement that Lopez is in
Bolivia, when, according to their own despatches, he was
proeeeding in a totally different direction. The Patrie
anticipates the dissolution of the triple alliance, and com-,
ments upon the folly of the Argentine Republic in assist-
ing Brazil to destroy an independent State like Paraguay
The....Vew I ark Herald has already given a similar caution
to Buenos Ayres and Montevideo, warning them that the
fall of Lopez would be a general calamity to the Republics
of South America.

The violent attacks on Prince Napoleon in the Pays have
called forth a remonstrance from the Journal Officiel. Tho
Government sees them "with deep regret." No par-
ticular article is specified, but it is plainly the one pub-
lished a day or two since that was yesterday commented
on by the Journal des _Mats, which has called forth the
official protest. The subject has excited a good deal of
discussion, because in the present state of affairs
the question of hereditary succession is peculiarly inter-
esting to the French people. The Liberti, of this morn-
ing, while examining the arguments of the Pays, maintains
that the hereditary principle must be either accepted or
rejected in toto. If it is to be set aside every time that its
application would be dangerous or inconvenient, it would
be better boldly to return to the electoral system. In any
case it will be well to remember, says the Liberti, that the
first protest against the hereditary transmission of power
has come from the ranks of the Bonapartists themselves.
The Pays, in the article to which I have referred,
declares that should Prince Napoleon be summoned to the
throne, it would refuse to recognise him as the legitimate
head of the State. Rather than do so the Pays would
erect barricades. It is not surprising that so violent and
apparently unreasonable attack, not only on a member
of the Imperial family, but on the very principle of here-
ditary succession itself, in a journal supposed to be abso-
lutely devoted to the reigning dynasty, should have
excited a good deal of attention. Naturally the other
journals perceive that the objections which the Pays urges
against the Prince might be used with equal effect against
the Empress as Regent, or the Prince Imperial as minor.
The doctrines that "France is no longer the pro-
perty of a race," that an heir to the throne,
does not inherit parce que l'autre est mart,
but becausp France through universal suffrage ratifies his
inheritance, are certainly strange and anomalous when put
forward by the Journal de l'En'pire

Another protest of a different ki has been made by M.
Jules Favre, who has very justly resented the arbitrary
summons to the meeting in the Boulevard de Clichy. " I
am not in the habit," writes the distinguished orator and
advocate, " of receiving summonses of the kind you have
sent me, and still less of obeying them. Yon will not,
therefore, be surprised not to see me at the appointed
rendezvous." The reading of this letter produced some
murmurs, but it has been highly applauded by the press.
The only regret expressed is that the other deputies so
rudely summoned were not equally careful of their dignity.
The Journal des Debats thinks it is singular enough to see
some 500 electors professing to represent the 400,000
electors of Paris, and demanding from the deputies of the
Seine an explanation of their conduct; but still more sin-
gular to find all the deputies, with the exception of M.
Jules Favre and Ernest Picard, answering to the call. To
these names the Debats should have added that of M. Gam-
betta, absent through illness. He did not lose much, and the
poor unfortunate deputies who did present themselves at
Clichy are not likely to accept a second invitation of the
kind. Riot, disorder, and'interruption prevailed through-
out the whole séance. The deputies narrowly escaped
injury, and certainly cane in for some rough usage. M.
Bancel was the most, successful, and obtained some
applause by his version of the famous manifesto. The
most unfortunate wa 3 M. Pelletan, who was hooted
at, called a Jesuit, rdered from the salle and insulted
in every possible manner. The president of the
meeting, far from• protecting him, declared himself to
be insulted by a • comparison to M. Schneider and the
confusion that arc se was indescribable. If anything was
needed to convir co the Deputies of their wisdom in aban-
doning all ideas a demonstration, these turbulent pro-
ceedings must ha ye supplied conclusive proof. This, how-
ever, was the gre; t cause of offence. " If the Deputies,"
exclaimed one speaker, " had said We go,' 500,000 men
would have fol (owed tliem." Another contemptuously put
aside the plea ( if WI. Jules Simon and Ferry, that they
wished to avoi, (bloodshed. The authorities, he said, would
not fire on 200,0 )3 men,though theymight on a few insurgents.
If the Left had pared to act, there would not have been a
AroP of b 19911 WO. s3nt I need not continue,_

extracts will show you the temper and language of the
meeting, and I have no doubt that the four Deputies, who
could scarcely have expected such a rough reception, were
heartily glad when after great difficulty, amid cries of
" Ils sent juges," they escaped into the street.
The Ministry, which was said to be in a precarious con-
dition,. seems to have been consolidated by the crisis
through which it has passed. M. de la Tour d'Auvergne
has written from Compiegne to his friends alluding to
the entente cordiale that exists between the members of the
Cabinet. It was said in Paris this morning that those who
were most anxious for the manifestation of the 26th of
October have changed their minds, and put off the affair
until the 2nd of November, but no reason has been assigned
for the change.
The Tatrie contradicts a statement which had been made
to the effect that the cashiers, the responsible agents, and
others had joined the drapers' assistants on strike, and that
the masters would in consequence be compelled to yield
to the demands of their empkyes. The first houses in the
trade are now, it is said, completely settled with respect to
their attendants, and the new hands, in spite of their
inexperience, arc able to accomplish their tasks in a fairly
satisfactory manner. The customers have shewn a good
deal of consideration under the peculiar circum-
stances of the case, and the young women who have
been employed in the emergency have answered the pur-
pose of the employers. The Shopmen's Syndicate is pro-
viding lodgings for those who are without a home, and he
is also trying to procure premises for setting up new shops
in which the men on strike may find employment. The
strike does not seem to have taken place in consequence of
the desire of the employes for increase of payment, but
chiefly with the object of shortening the hours of work.

An accident happened to the first detachment of
Europeans who set out for Suez to witness the inaugura-
tion of the canal. The train took fire through the friction
of the axles, which were not greased, and in a few minutes
it was enveloped in flames. The carriages were stocked, but
an adventurous passenger got cut of the window and tried
to pass along the footboard to call the guard, but the
luggage van, which separated him from the guard, had no
footboard. It was not till the panic had lasted three-
quarters of an hour that the attention of the official was
aroused by the screams which proceeded from the different

carriages.
Three hundred and eighty tradesmen's assistants have
sent a sympathetic address to their Parisian brethren, who
are on strike.

The &lut Public of Lyons has announced that a preacher
of the order of the Carmelites, who was to have officiated
in one of the Lyonese districts during the Advent season,
has declined to do so in consequence of the orders of the
Superior of the Carmelites, who has provisionally inter-
dicted the preaching of Father llya.cinthe's brethren in
France.

Thu Rev. John Ingle, an extreme High Church-
man, has declined to sign the protest against Dr. Temple's
appointment to the bishopric of Exeter, because oven if the
Dean and Chapter complied " with the request of the memo-
rial, Dr. Temple will not thereby be kept out of the
bishopric for a single hour, as in that case the Crown can,
and no doubt will, make the appointment by Royal letters
patent; which will do away with the necessity of any capi-
tular election. Non-election would be a mere brutum ful.
men, and it is always unwise to bark if you cannot bite."
Further, " It does not seem to me to be the part of good
Churchmen to force upon the Church the spectacle of a
bishop's appointment by the civil powernlnne."

THE CANYON OF THE COLORADO.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

One of the most interesting of rivers, and one
of the least known, is the Colorado. Till now it
has been unexplored ; indeed, till the full reports
are obtained of the two recent exploring parties, it
must remain unknown. Colonel Powell, in a long
letter to the New York Tribune, gives an interesting
account of the strange country through which its wa-
ters bore him. We have endeavoured in a series of
articles to describe what may, par excellence, be
termed the Alpine region of the Continent, the
western half of the Territory of Colorado. From
the rolling prairies, at the head of which is Den-
ver, the land abruptly aseends, and the great pla-
teau of America is entered. Between the Rocky
Mountains, which there arise, and the Wasatch
chain there is an extensive valley of this upland
country, and the rivers rushing from the snow-
covered mountains run westward till intercepted by
the Colorado in its southern course to the Gulf of Cali-
fornia. There is no other body of water having a
channel of so extraordinary a character. It passes
through an elevated plateau, and, at times, it has
to burst its way through barriers of mountains.
The consequence is, it flows in a bed contained
within walls of rock literally thousands of feet high.
To the spectator who comes suddenly upon it the
scene presented is a marvel. He stands on a yawning
chasm two, three, perhaps four thousand feet deep,
with a wall like that upon the tiummit of which he
is, before him, showing the geological strata in va-
riegated rock. So far beneath flows the stream at the
bottom, though twice the size of the Danube, it ap-
pears like a roaring rushing brook,' and so perpen-
dicular, yet so gigantic are the walls, that they seem
as if the earth had opened, and the view was into its
interior. Often comes the roar of water, plunging
over cataracts, filling the dark chasm, and reverbe-
rating from wall to wall. Is it surprising that
through such a gorge, shutting out the day, men
shrank from essaying the passage? and that the
stories circulating iu the camps of hunters among
the Rocky Mountains were of underground pas-
sages, where the river became lost from the face of
the earth, and that boats which had been swept
into those subterranean channels had never again
appeared. Even on its banks the thirsty traveller
had arrived to behold the tempting draughtas wholly
beyond his power of reaching, as is a shooting star,
and the tale is told of parties dying of thirst who
had wandered for days along the abyss in search of
a descent. Mr. Catlin inclines to the belief that a
river similar to the Colorado, but really subterra-
nean, runs beneath the Rocky Mountains, and it
would appear that the Colorado itself must have
had a narrow escape from being so mysterious a
stream. From the other side of the Wasatch
mountains, vast as is the basin, no river whatever
finds its way to the sea, and the Colorado alone
between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Ne-
vada can be traced at least, to the ocean. Colonel
Powell started from the point where the Union Pa-
cific Railroad crosses Green River, on the 24th May
last. The river turns east to get round the Uintah
Mountains, and has cut a series of canyons till it
is joined by the Yampa. To Henry's Fork the
distance is GO miles, through the Uintah canyons
are 70, to the White River 50, and to the juuction
of the Green with the Grand River 190 miles, making
the distance from the Pacific Railway to the Co-
lorado proper 370 miles. Portions of this present
the most singular appearance, more especially one
termed the Canyon of Desolation. Not only does
the great river cut its way through the upland
country, but to the right and to the left other
streams have hewn out their courses in a similar way,
often so close to each other as to make the tower-
ing walls of from two to three thousand feet high
look like pinnacles, upon which a man could
scarcely stand, though large enough on the summit
for a huge castle. Behind rise crag upon crag
until they reach an altitude of 5,000 feet, rusty
grey, and dark red, with a few greenish cedars and
a little sage constituting all the verdure. These
fissures, opening on the main canyon, have others
opening on them, till in instances the country is
broken into sections of this extraordinary charac-
ter, upon the summit of which no human being can
ever rest. In Still Water Canyon the walls arc of
orange-sandstones, with domed alcoves and amphi-
theatres, grottoes, and caves cut out of the solid
rock; the lateral canyons contain rivulets, as Powell
says, born of a shower, and born again of a shower,
while at every curve the river leaves a spot on the
inner side, of meadow bordered by willow. Then the
cliffs again grow higher till the junction of the Grand
and Green where they have attained an altitude of
1,300 ft., with a back country cut into a labyrinth of
canyons rising in floors at the bottom of the lowest
of which they are, in the channel of theriver whereon
they are borne. At the junction the banks are not ver-
ticle, but having the slope of broken rocks tumbled
down, though the lateral canyons are for the most part
perpendicular. Starting from the junction which is
in about latitude 38, the Cataract Canyon is entered
and the roar of water resounds. Where the rushing
river tumbled over rocks the explorers were com-
pelled to make portage; sometimes having to carry
boats and all ; but in other cases, however quick
the rush, they committed themselves to the rapids.
Sometimes the waves would roll over a boat which
would not sink, having a water-tight deck fore and
aft, but now and then a boat would itself roll

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over, and the men then had to cling to the Od4
i
and conduct it to the bank. Often the whil'
pools would sweep them into the vortex, carrying
them back under the falls,'dashing them against t
rocks, or whisking them down the river. Thetlg,
but 45 miles, they toiled for twelve days throng;
this canyon, the walls of which, at their higilejej
altitude, reached 2,500 feet. Then they enterw
the Mound Canyon at a sharp bend, whose Pewial,
was set with ten thousand crags and ragged r°ccd
Narrow Canyon followed to the mouth of the °-
Juan River, a distance of 68 miles, over which
sly
tl
were carried by the rapid current at railroad Sc
In it they were joined by a river of mud they d. 4,
the Dirty Devil. The rocks were cut into mown.4
and cones, and hills of solid sandstone, sieP,-11,1back for miles, one rising over the other.
bright orange stone, of which they were comPe
ed
glittered reeplendently in the sun's rays, and offered
to the travellers entrancing scenes of beauty as h i
were borne smoothly, yet with the speed of a bi of
by the slreitn. Col. Powell reached the mouth
to
the San Juau on July 30. This and the Granuot,
two of the greatest rivers which find their way w .t
ward from the Alpine region of Colorado. '-fI,-e P O
for
run was named Monument Canyon, stretchiag4
100 miles through a country covered with too'
ti)
and pinnacles, alone or in groups, spread over ng
landec ipe as far as the eye could reach.
from that Marble Canyon was entered, the 1/,,
low at first, but gradually growing in height till t.mtod
towered up 2,900 feet, terraced and broken
crags above. The lower strata was formed of anisol
coloured marble, white and grey, pink, purple,
brown, gradually increasing till the marble
A e'
rose 400 feet on either side, embossed in strang-
vices, and polished by the water into 'bet/t.loo,
Patches of the marble floor had been scooPeci:fol
basins filled with clear water, in pleasant eon'ild
to the red mud of the river. Cool springs Odd
from the rocks, sparkling, foaming cascades Plu°lo
into marble fonts, and in little harmony
these, after every shower, jets of red mud eiviith
over the walls from the red sandstone above, .Iji,
eti
b
a fall of hundreds of feet. Then they were j°l irt
by the Little Colorado after they had passed t teal
six miles of the Marble Canyon, and they, en
get
the Grand Canyon, 238 miles long.e" The darns,
may be gathered from Col. Powell's account.
the roar of the cataract could be heard morent o 0
half a mile from the fall, but the st.reatia svre'"dog
,
between
forstone walls, sometimes witout strrol
room a goat. The raging flood h
in its in'nf
gorge often falls at a plunge from five to °foci°
feet, the greatest being twenty-two, and over
tbef
the travellers were frequently carried whetherotti6
liked it or not. From the entrance of the eat'
s
Colorado to the Virgin River the course 15 /I 50
ward, but there are three great bends sott,,t ard
north, and in the last of these to the out') of
series of cataracts crowded into three-fourths
mile. Just above the falls a stream came dow° "foot'
h
row canyon on either side, which gave them rslivo
hold whereon to land. To make a portage ascp :be
the 800 feet of the wall, and descending belowloon
taract, would occupy ten days, while the pr°,,"
could not outlast five ; so Colonel Powe"'cefie'
careful examination, determined to shoot the Pi DO
Three of his men objected, and every effort c;with
failed to induce them to throw in their 10; OP
their companions. They were hastily fitted rations,
guns, ammunition, and a small store of
and one of the boats, which could not the/I°o4
manned, was tied up and abandoned When stied'
ready,, hands were shaken, and some tear,s,oo'
each party thinking the other was going to 07d.ott
tion. Away went the boats over the first 11'51
then among the rocks, and over the second, tb
by a huge boulder and whirlpool ; then 4611601
plunge, and they were in the eddy below',
and they found that what had looked so fortala 1,6:3
was really less dangerous than many theYPslol!.°
fore passed over. The three left behind sat
into
watched, and the party-below waited two howith tl3l,
hope that they would essay the passage wi neve'
example, in the boat left behind, but 009 800
saw them again, nor does Col. Powell kr°
became'of the three. We presume that theYo
the men killed by the Shebett Indians, who'd thelj/0
told in a former number, say they discovers t
starving, fed them, and put them on the trijot,
Washington, a small settlement far south iO,OO, 0
but that they shot a squaw, and the Incli3 cl$11:
revenge, followed and killed them. Another
,ocr
gerous rapid was passed, and then there was s''idor
fair sailing to the Virgin River, through theof
tbo
mon Valley, as they named it. The altituded front
walls of the Grand Canyon of Colorado varieotber°
2,500 to 4,000 feet, and the terraces of the 50e,,
bends have been the sites of ancient villactioct'
habited by a diminutive race now almost tor:
Their clusters of houses, built of stone laid I'S tbei'
tar, rose about 1,000 feet above the river, an otterl
they had reservoirs of water. Their Pa foot'
was scattered in profusion, and deeply wows cot
t;
paths led from village to village down to
nor _ they
rent and up to the summit plain. On the owe,
bend their dwellings were near the vrater't gel) a
centuries old, others inhabited by the pres.eain tt,r
ration, but only a few villages now ren3aln„a ae,'
country to the south-east, though still fou:100. tvj
the mouth of the Little Colorado. From 13:3,
Grand Canyon the country had been exltted
the correctness of the descriptions is at'ed, '91)(1
Colonel Powell. Of the ten who start,,
left at the mouth of Uintah and three in ti with Cot;
Canyon, as described, leaving these five Ig„eril°110
Powell himself, -who accomplished the s'ses
voyage from where the Union Pacific ere ovigio,
Green River to Callville at the head of theov, Jo eg
tion of the Colorado ; Captain W. 11. Foir` 03° on
C. Sumner, George Y. Bradley, 'V: gorniocl
Hawkins, and Andrew Hall. Through tutoes, 6.0
Valley to the Virgin the distance is 43 Lm.anet3,lo
to Callville 18, making 555 miles from till ofl4
of the Grand with the Green to the he .00111'd
navigation, and the run of these explorers,sod sore
miles. We may here observe that the Aztecan Plhe
7,
like tribes, with the ruins they have left, 1, of ,0
numerous on the Gila than any other bran' tbooto
Colorado, which is further south in Arizona/ of t„)
many ruins are marked along the tours e foBvev
Little Colorado. Fuller accounts of Colene'rosti;io
expedition will be awaited with much int: cAP' 00
they will be supplemented by those of iserP
Adams, who has just explored the Grand "'
the summits of the mountains of Colorado.

RACING FIXTURES.
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OCTOBER. 46,
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St. Albans 5, 6 Shrewsbury ••••• ...

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Lverpool 9 10,11, 12 1

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