The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-25 00:00:00

CANADA.

ARRIVAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

V, .
This morning the LImaERPOOL
il screw steamerTHURSDAY
North
American, Captain Grange, which left Quebec on
the 13th instant, arrived in the Mersey. She has
brought, besides the mails, 150 passengers, bat no
specie.

The Royal Mail Steam-ship Cambria, from hence,
arrived at Boston on the 13th. The Republican
party have succeeded in returning every member
for Congress in Ma ine.

' NEW YORK, . 12.
Money was easy on call at 7 per cent.SEPT Exchange
dull and unaltered .
Stocks were actiN •e, with a better demand. Ashes
firm, with moderate ) sales. There was an improved
demand for cotton for home consumption, and
prices firm.
Wheat met with, brisk sales for export, which
excited the market and caused a rise of 3 cents.
Flour was without 'change. Indian corn firm.
The previa= hiewhet was steady.

ALGERIA.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow-
ing report, received by the Minister of War from
the Governor-General of Algeria :

" ALGIER Sep 18.
" Monsieur le Mar6chal—l have the honoS, tot,ur inform
you that General Jusuf has advanced into the territory
of the Frikat with the column under his orders, rein-
forced by that of General Gastu. The troops, thus
united, were formed into two brigades, the one composed
of two battalions and four companies of the Ist Regi-
ment of Zouaves, one battalion of the 68th, and of the
18th battalion Of Foot Chasseurs, under the orders of
General Gastu; the other, formed of two battalions of
the lst Regiment of native Riflemen, commanded by
Colonel Bataille.
"The camp occupied by General Jusuf was dominated
at the east by a high rock, the defence of which was
intrusted to the let battalion of Riflemen. The Kabyles,
knowing the importance of this commanding position,
attacked it vigorously in the night of the 11th to the
12th, and renewed their attack during the day on the
12th. They were each time vigorously repulsed.
" It was important not to lose time in pressing upon
the enemy, and consequently on the same day, the 12th,
General Jusuf attacked the villages to the north of the
camp with two battalions. They were occupied without
auy resistance, although they had a large force in reserve
at hand.
"On the 18th General Gastu made a descent upon the
villages in the Frikat with five battalions, and caused
the enemy considerable loss. During this operation nu-
merous groups stationed on the surrounding heights
contented themselves with exchanging a few musket-
shots with our troops.
" The Kabyles, believing the camp to be unprotected,
came as on the preceding evening and attacked the post
of the Rocher. They made this third attempt with great
energy, but they were again vigorously repulsed, and
some of our men, led away by their ardour, having left
their entrenchments to pursue the enemy, Col. Battaille
rapidly advanced to the scene of the combat with fresh
companies. At the same time Colonel Fenelon, at the
bead of a squadron of the head of a squadron of the lst
Regiment of African Chasseurs and our goums, advanced
upon the line of the enemy's retreat. He took a preci-
pitate flight, concealing himself in the ravines.
" On the 14th Colonel Bataille, with his column, visited
the village of the Frikat, on the confines of the country
of the Beni-Small. The Kabyles kept up a sharp fire
with our riflemen, and it was only by means of a steady
attack with the bayonet that they Trere repulsed.
"The troops returned to the camp without having
been seriously annoyed. In these combats the enemy
must have suffered considerable loss. On our side we
have to regret three men killed and 24 wounded. Among
the latter are two officers of the 18th battalion of Chas-
seurs, Messieurs Legros and Merie, and in the Ist Re•
gi ment of Rifles, M. Lepretre.
"On the 16th the column marched against the Beni-
Snaail in the Guechtoulas. General Jusuf thought it
necessary to take up a position in the very heart of the
country, so that he might command the heights of the
villages.. The position which he assumed at Mahallet-
Ramdan, above Sidi-Abderahman, perfectly answered
the object he had in view. The Kabyles used every
exertion to prevent the occupation of Mahallet-Ramdan,
but they were forced to retire before the impetuosity of
our troops, in consequence of the excellent dispositions
taken by General Jusuf, who has addressed to me the
following report ;

" Mahallet, Sept. 16.
" Monsieur le Manichal,—During yesterday the bri-
gade of General Gastu continued the operations com-
menced on the previous evening by the second brigade.
The losses suffered by the Kabyles had prot ably discou-
raged them, for they hardly durst show themselves, and
the brigade returned to the camp at three o'clock in the
afternoon, after having accomplished its mission.
‘" Informed of the arrival of fresh reinforcements
among the Guechtoulas I did not think it right to wait
to give opportunity to the Kabyles of repeating their
attacks upon my advanced guards. I determined to
advance against them, and this morning, at half-past 6
o'clock, the Gastu brigade ascended the mountain to
the point which separates the Guechtoulas from the
Ouled-el-Aziz. The Battaille brigade, at the same time,
took possession of the posts which had been occupied by
the Gastu brigade. The men took a road which was
not so steep, and which they could follow without diffi-
culty under the escort of cavalry. The second brigade
formed the rear guard.
" The column mounted the series of ascents which
separates the Guechtoulas from the Ouled-el-Aziz' and
I learn during the march that there had been a large
armed assemblage upon the plateau of Mahallet Rana-
dan, upon which I wished to establish my bivouac.
This plateau is an excellent strategical position, as it
commands the whole country, as well to the north as
to the south ; but to be established there in security it
was necessary to dislodge the Kabyles, groups of whom
occupied the summits of the rocks to the east. They
bad established intrenchments of dry stones, behind
which they thought they were sheltered from our attacks.
" As soon as I had reconnoitred the position I formed
the whole of the column in mass before arriving at the
plateau, and after a few moments of rest the troops
destined for the attack advanced to nearly within gun-
shot of the enemy. Four pieces of artillery, under the
orders of Commandant Pellieux, threw a few shells
into the midst of the Kabyles. Their explosion excited
confusion among the group, and I sounded the charge.
The Zouaves acted with admirable energy. The
second battalion, commanded by Colonel Collineau,
took the right ; the third, led by Lieutenant-Colonel
Manuelle, took the left, so as to surround the culminat-
ing point of the entrenched position defended by the
Kabyles. They fell upon them from a rapid descent
without replying to their fire. The 18th battalion of
ehasseurs supported the movement by advancing to-
wards the extreme left. The Kabyles, fired upon by
the Zouaves, took to flight, and in a short time they had
all disappeared.

" this combat the second brigade and the
escort arrived at the bivouack, and the camp was im-
mediately formed. It is so situated as not to be liable
to attack.

" 4 The losses of the day are small, being only 2 killed
and 11 wounded.

" To conclude, Monsieur le Marichal, I may state
that we are well provisioned, and the Kabyles have wit-
nessed for the first time a French column in the occu-
pation of the elevated point where we are stationed.
am happy to be able to mention to you the
brilliant conduct of a young officer of the Staff, Sub-
Lieutenant Chanoine, detached from the lst Regiment
of Zouaves, who was the first to reach the Kabyle
position, having always been 40 paces in advance
of the charging party. Colonel Collineau and Lieut.-
Colonel Manuelle worthily maintained the ancient
reputation of the Zouaves.

"'According to this report, M. le Marechal, I think
that the struggle in the country of the Guechtoulas is
near its termination, for the troops concentrated at
Algiers, while our preparations were in progress, are
is movement, and now even the heads of columns begin
to appear on the plateau of Boghni.

"'Accept, &c.,
RANDON.
" The Marshal of France, Governor-Genera]
of Algiers.' "

THE LATE COLLISION AT OLDBURY

STATION.

A " Railway Director," writing to a contempo-
rary, after showing the insecurity of the " distant
signals" now in use, says these "distant signals"
are frequently fixed round curves, and in such a
position as to be quite beyond the view of the sig-
nal man at the station, so that he has no means of
/ knowing when the whistle is sounded whether the
train has passed the signal or not. Therefore, in
case of a sudden emergency, when the signal is set
behind the train, this " distant signal" becomes in
itself a snare ; the engineer having passed in its
" all right" condition, considers it unnecessary to
look for any further indication from the station.
But, to make the signal effective to stop a coming
train, two conditions are necessary :—First, the
signal must be fixed so far in advance of the train
as to enable the driver to see it, and yet leave suf-
ficient space to bring up his train ; secondly, the
driver must see the signal.
By the affirmative system both these conditions
are secured in the only way possible. The signal
being so weighted as to assume the position of
" stop" when at rest is always on, and therefore is
always in advance of a coming train ; there is
nothing for anybody to do in case of an obstruction
of the road—no running here or there, or fore-
thought or extraordinary presence of mind required
where it may be constitutionally deficient ; there
is the signal standing as a constant protection to
the station ; any man passing it while in its
normal position does a wilful act for which he is
amenable to the law ; and to change its position so
as to enable the train to enter there must be a de-
liberate act on the part of those who alone have
the means of knowing the condition of the road.
The second condition—namely, that of securing
the attention of the driver of an approaching train,
is effectually obtained by calling upon him to per-
form a preliminary act. Previous to his entering the
station he must " whistle the signal down " before
he can pass ; in other words, he must obtain the
consent of the station officials before entering the
precincts.
Apply
case at Oldbury, the
of thenecessity in its proper
signal
w thisuld shyasvt
position—namely, to stop a coming train ; the
eembee t
no
driver of the train would, according to his daily
habit, have sounded his whistle at such a distance
from the signal as to have the train under his com-
mand ; his attention is thus secured by a daily
practice the very opposite of that which now ob-
tains ; and seeing, as he unquestionably would
have done, that, contrary to the usual course of
things, the signal rigidly maintained its position, he
would at once have concluded that there was some
obstacle to his progress, and without adopting any
extraordinary precaution the train would have been
brought to a stand.

ROME, Sept. 18. —The shears of the newspaper censor
have been employed in extirpating from the Galignani
of the 11th inst. the account of Gioberti's posthumous
work upon the reform of the Catholic church. It may
be easily imagined with what horror the master of the
sacred palace and similar inquisitorial functionaries look
upon such propositions as a Pope without temporal
power, priests with lawfully married wives, and a pro-
paganda for the diffusion of pure truth from the goPPelt

A ROYAL MARRIAGE IN PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, SKPT. 20,

This evening at 7 o'clock the marriage of the
Princess Louisa of Prussia with the Grand Duke
of Baden took place, in the recently erected chapel
of the Royal Schloss, with all the pomp and cere-
mony that this Court can put forth.
The procession was opened by the officer of the
Court whom we should call the Lord High Steward
or Marshal, Count Keller, a portly aristocratic
man, bearing his wand of office, with a costly jewel
as a knob to it ; Chamberlains, two and two, in
dark blue Court dresses, barred horizontally with
gold lace down the chest, and carrying three-cornered
hats, richly laced, with marabout feathers laid in be-
tween the overlying flaps; a number of pages, two
and two, rejoicing in scarlet merino jerkins, and
doublets trimmed with silver lace, white silk stock-
ings, and several ells of fine batiste round their
throats, as cravats, with long ends. The rear of this
preliminary column was brought up by the two
cavaliers appointed by the King to be in waiting on
the bride. At an interval of a few paces came the
bridal couple.
The Royal chapel, in which the wedding cere•
mony took place, was already occupied by the
Ministers of State, the high officers of Government,
the Generals of the army, and one or two repre-
sentatives of the naval force, the Corps Diploma-
-1 tique, the foreigners of distinction (chiefly from
Baden), and as many officers of the garrisons of
Berlin, Potsdam, Charlottenburg, and Spandau as
could squeeze into the space. The east end, at
which the altar stands, was occupied by a full dis-
play of the clergy of the cathedral and the Royal
chaplains, and on their right (spectators' left)
the King and Queen took up their stand, and next
to them the parents of the bride ; while opposite
to them the rest of the Royal family, and in the
centre, alone, in front of the whole assembly, stood
, the bridal couple, as is usual at the celebration of
matrimony in Germany. The symbolic act in this
rite, as performed here, consists in the exchange of
rings, the officiating priest first receiving from each
the ring they have worn since the betrothal, and,
after imploring a blessing on the union, putting it
on the third finger of the right hand of the other.
, Immediately after tho ceremony was over, the
1 Royal party withdrew to a private apartment to
interchange their congratulations, the Court offi-
cers remaining in the outer room, and the guests
who were assembled in the chapel withdrew to the
White Saloon. The Royal Chapel is a classic,
Grecian, octagonal building, with a Roman cu-
pola and Byzantine decorations • its walls are
resplendent with polished marble of various
colours, fresco paintings of apostles, saints, and
martyrs on gilded ground, and enriched with ara-
besques and scriptural mottoes.
After leaving the chamber of private congratu-
lations the royal party proceeded to the White
Saloon to receive the congratulations of the Court,
the arrangements for which are very peculiar, and
carry one back to the times and customs of Louis
XIY., or of Friedrich Wilhelm 1., who was as fond
of court ceremony as the French monarch himself.
The King and Queen took their places with the
bridal couple at a card table, placed on the dais
beneath the canopy that usually overhangs the
throne ; the various members of the august party
seated themselves at similar tables placed in
line running from both sides of the dais, and
were supposed, according to the theory of Court
etiquette, to be at once immersed in the mysteries
of long and short whist and Boston. While so en-
gaged, the various members of the Court file before
the Royal table and perform their reverence. As
soon, however, as supper is announced the King
breaks off this unsatisfactory pastime, and the pro-
cession returns to the Ritter Saal to sup. Here the
bridal couple took the place of honour at the centre,
of the table, with the King on the right of the brine
and the Princess of Prussia beyond him, while the
Queen sat on the left of the bridegroom and the
Prince of Prussia beyond her, the remaining
princely persons according to their rank. In the
neighbouring apartments there were tables spread
for all the Court invited, at which the High
Chamberlain, the Minister ['resident, the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the troops in the Mark, the
High Dapifer, and the Commander of the Guard
did the honours ; the convivialities, however, were
suspended until the first course was concluded at
the Royal table, and the King had drunk to the
health of the bridal couple. Up to that time the
High Dapifer and the Royal Cupbearer, and many
others, had been occupied in waiting on the Royal
personages; two Lieutenant-Generals had the office
of carving at the Royal table, where the lackeys
first removed the plates as they were served,
brought them to their pages, who first handed
them to the next higher rank in the hierarchy of
gold lace, until eventually the highest officers
attained possession of the food that was destined
for the Royal palates, and conveyed it respectfully
to its destination. After the King, as said
above, had drunk to the health of the new
married couple, and the band of a regiment of the
Guards had blown a flourish of trumpets, his Ma-
jesty gave his high officers of Court permission to
seat themselves at the tables that were awaiting
them, and where they had to use all despatch with
their knives and forks, seeing that they must all of
them range themselves again in due order to ac-
company the Royal party on its way from the
supper-room to the White Saloon again, where the
fackel-tanz, or torch dance, is then to be per-
formed.

BERLIN, SEPT. 22.
Yesterday being Sunday, the festivities at the
palace partook solely of the religious and family
character due to the day and the occasion.

THE POLITICAL TRIALS IN ITALIC

NAPLES, SEPT. 19.

The political trial of Mignonna has again been
suspended, and the accused are doomed to drag on
their 15th month of imprisonment uncondemned.
The trial will not be resumed until the begin-
ning of the next month, owing to the absence of
Captain Acuti, the witness who is again to be ex-
amined in consequence of the alleged errors which
ho committed on September 6. On the 6th Sep-
tember he was examined for the defence, but,
amongst other matters, he stated that, when he
first was appointed to his command in Procida, he
found everything in disorder. The servants were
all venal indulgences might be purchased
almost according to a tariff. Thus, eight
grains for a determinate time would purchase.
permission to take off the irons ; two carlint
a day, better rooms ; something more, better
food : in short, the custodes seem to have thriven
on the political prisoners. Acuti tried to put
a stop to these excesses, and wrote to General Pa-
lumbo on the subject, suggesting the lash as a sub-
stitute for the legal punishment for taking off
irons. Orders were returned to threaten 40 in case
of any being found without chains. The threat
appears to have maintained a better discipline for
a short time, but the old excesses recommenced.
He did not change the custodes as he had been re-
commended, for it would have been of no use—all
would have done the same thing. He wrote again
to General Palumbo, and soon after received a
royal order to inflict fifty lashes on every one found
without his irons. In execution of this order he
proceeded to inflict this punishment on 56 prisoners
whom he found unchained. Two thousand eight
hundred lashes at a word In reading the proces
verbal the words inserted by the president were
"superiori ordini," which the witness corrected by
aomr ordini s ovrani. Littleis
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precision.
The court re-assembled on Monday, the 15th, to
hear the requisitions of the attorney-general, but
instead of proceeding with it he announced his in-
tention to recall Acuti, who, influenced by either
malignity or ignorance, had given calumnious and
false evidence. The King, he asserted, had not
given the order, but the minister ; and he had done
so by a rescript of the 4th class, which permits the
use of the name of the King in all matters of rou-
tine, where no novelty is introduced. The Attor-
ney General then read the rescript, which was
signed by Signor Scorza, Minister of Public Works,
ordering 50 lashes to be given to any prisoner
found without his irons. The entire effort of the
Attorney General was to exculpate his Majesty
from having issued the rescript in question, assert-
ing that it was mere formality to use the King's
name, and that the minister was justified by usage
in taking upon himself such a responsibility.

NEWLY-INVENTED FLOUR MILL.—Some experiments
were made on Monday, the 15th inst., with a newly-
invented flour mill, constructed by Mons. Fouchier, in
Lambeth, at the arch No. 159, South-Western Railway.
There were present, by direction of the Admiralty, Cap-
tain W. V. Read, R.N.; Mr. Breaks, R.N., storekeeper
of Deptford Victualling-yard ; Mr. Vaughan, chief engi
neer, Victualling-yard ; Mr. King, master miller, Dept-
ford-yard ; and Messrs. George Thornton Curl, engi-
neer, Hamilton Browne, and others. The results of the
grinding of 100 lbs. weight of wheat were as follows :-
76 per cent. of the best flour, or 83 of all sorts, from
wheat that weighs from 62 to 63 lbs. per bushel. This
gives a considerably greater quantity over the present
plan—the average being 68 lbs., and leaving a great re-
siduum of bran. It will be seen by the statement pat
there is about 15 per .
cent. saved by the new process ;
and, in addition, the flour turned out perfectly cool,
and consequently a saving is effected by not being
obliged to have recourse to, the present mode of cooling
the flour after being discuarged from the mill. The
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