The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-17 00:00:00

Tli.E INSURRECTION IN; SICILY.

r (From the Times' Special Correspondent.)
MESSINA, AUG. 6.
General Clary has returned, but nothing took
place calculated to clear up the position. One
thing, however, seems certain—that the direct
negotiations between Turin and Naples are con-
tinuing. The armistice is nominally at an end, but
in reality it is prolonged to an indefinite period,
which may last for weeks, or be ended in a day.
Our preparations for further operations are not
completed ; there is, consequently, no urgent neces-
sity for resuming the offensive. This will leave
time to those who wish for negotiations. But they
had better make haste, for if they do not come to
some understanding soon they will find us all at
once on the other side, and, once in movement, ne-
gotiation will scarcely stop Garibaldi's advance.
Although willing that negotiations should take
place between Piedmont and Naples, our General
by no means intends to let his operations he in:
fluenced or retarded by. them. He will wait while
it is convenient, and no longer.

. I hear the Neapolitans think this rather unfair
and complain. They want to represent this evacu-
ation of TVlessina as a kind of concession, in return
for which Garibaldi was to wait for the issue of
negotiations. This is making a merit of necessity.
Messina must be defended from the heights, and
these once lost the town can be shelled and becomes
untenable. The original intention was to do this,
and Clary was from the beginning averse to Bosco's
expedition, his intentions being to concentrate all
his forces and defend the heights. Even when he
consented to Bosco's expedition the latter was ex-
pressly cautioned against shutting himself up in
Melazzo ; he was to fall back on Gesso, and unite
with the force which was to be collected to defend
the heights. Bosco's. defeat made the defence of the
heights almost impossible, and under the circum-
stances it was wiser to think of withdrawing the
troops rather than expose a great part of them to
be cut off. That Clary himself or the Neapolitan
Government thought so appears from the circum-
stance that the greater part of the troops was
withdrawn before ever our columns came in sight.
Not only .the heights, but the town itself, was
well-nigh abandoned by them. The convention
with Medici referred only to the withdrawal of
the materiel and the evacuation of the forts of
Gonzaga and Salvador. The second convention,
concluded by Garibaldi himself, on the 7th inst.,
decided the evacuation of Syracuse and Agosta, and
the steamers and transports were actually sent ;
but, although the time of the armistice is past, the
evacuation has not yet taken place ; so the condi-
tion is not fulfilled. It seems that orders came to
the contrary from Naples. In no respect, therefore,
can Garibaldi be considered as bound to wait for
the convenience of the Neapolitans, and thus lose
an opportunity which will not occur again. •
Several persons who saw Clary after his return
from Naples were assured by him that in case the
Neapolitan ships should be fired upon from the
Faro he would bombard Messina and drive out our
troops. Whatever Clary's own views may be they
will not long prevail, for his successor is named—
General Fergola, whose arrival is expected daily.
• Clary's conversations, which have been hawked
about the town, have had the effect of frightening
the timid and filling their imaginations with shells
and ruins. I, for my part, don't much believe in
these threats, convinced as I am that the bom-
bardment of Palermo was so severe a lesson to the
Neapolitan Government that it will not easily fall
again into the same error. Besides, before a bom-
bardment could take place the men-of-war and
merchant vessels would have to leave, and this
would give time for any one else inclined to follow
their example.
Almost every day brings vessels to the Faro with
troops and munitions of war. Although a great part
of the first are scattered in the neighbourhood of
Messina, sufficient remains to give.to the town a
military appearance. In the hurry to clothe and
accoutre thetroops no general pattern uniform could
be adopted, and in most cases the individual fancy.
of the Commander has it all his own way. Red caps,
white caps. blue caps, with peaks and without peaks,
with the cypher of Victor Emmanuel or a bugle,
round Garibaldi hats ; gray blouses, trimmed with
red, red blouses of flannel, cotton, linen, dark-
coloured ones, or of dark-gray mixture ; trousers,
equally different, give the whole force a mirch more
picturesque appearance than a regular uniform
would do. Indeed, you recognise the different corps
from their dress. Dark gray blouses indicatethe con-
tingents of Afedici and Cosenz, the difference being
in a bluer shade of the latter. Red blouses and
red caps denote Sicilian levies, red blouses and blue
caps, the brigades formed of those who remain
from the first expedition. White blouses with red
trimmings and a peakiess cap, what is called the
English Battalion, from a number of English
officers and sailors who have left their ships.
For an eye accustomed to distinguish troops,
there is no necessity of the uniform to distinguish
continentals from Sicilians. The first are, almost
to a man, made soldiers, while the latter are in a
transition state. But the material exists here as
everywhere else in Italy, it requires but a little
time to make it as fit for service as any other. The
surgeons who have to visit the new-comers, are
astonished at the forms of the great mass of the
Sicilians. If the soul corresponded with the body
they might make the finest soldiers in the world.
But they require a strong mixture with the con-
tinental or northern element.
Nor is there any want of this. According to
letters from Genoa, not less than 6,000 men are
again ready to arm, and numbers more are daily
putting down their names, The Lombards have
taken the initiative, and form a large proportion
of those who come over. Above all, the.towns of
Pavia and Bergamo seem to have sent off all their
youth in masses. Venetia and Austrian Tyrol are
likewise strongly represented, so is the Riviera di
Genoa. Almost all the volunteers who served last
year during the war have found their way here,
and
notnot
neglect aefroot the
w w ho hadop
opportunity
u opportunitynity
offered
last year
didnow.
Lawyers, medical men, students, merchants, trades-
mm euns
k, haveet.
labandoneds t
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pr
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musket. he
the
provinces which were, or are still, under Austrian
rule, will become conspicuous by their warlike
propensity. This may be of great consequence to
Italy ; it will give an altogether new turn to the
mind of those populations, and be a more power-
ful engine of regeneration than anything else
which could be devised. Nor can this be with-
out effect on the rest of Italy. The example
will draw after it many who under other cireum-
stances, would never have thought of making a na-
tional crusade. Garibaldi works the right way;

It is scarcely necessary to observe, and it would
be useless to dissimulate, that all that is done now
is only preparation for the Mi-ncio and Po. Before
beginning the last and decisive struggle which
must make Italy free there must be union of forces
between the North and the South. How this ulti-
mate hope is uppermost in all minds could be seen
a few days ago, when the rumour spread that the
Austrians had crossed the Mincio. The rumour
spread like wildfire, and Sicily and Naples were
willingly forgotten in'the excitement of the moment.
Every one expected to be led immediately against
the Austrians.

The batteries on the Faro point are getting into
shape ; two heavily armed ones have already their
guns in position, and can open-fire whenever it may
IA thought convenient. The others are preparing,
and will probably to-morrow or the day after have
their armament. The diversity .of armament is
just as great as that in the uniform. One might
make a history of the progress in gunnery and fire-
arms, from the Enfield and Swiss rifle down to the
flint-lock metamorphosed into a percussion gun,
with no few specimens of old Brown Bess. In guns
in the same way, 68-pounder ship guns, long
and short 32, 24, and 18 -pounder 7siege guns,
bridge, field, mountain guns, &c. Any one but
Garibaldi would have despairei of ever making
anything out of this cabinet, but the
great genius of our General consists in using what-
ever he has to the best advantage.

Of the preparations for crossing it would be too
early to speak, but I can assure you they are get-
ting on fast enough. The diplomatists have no
time to lose, for events will not wait for them. In
popular movements and with popular armies no
time can be lost. A. short respite after a success is
not only useful,—nay, necessary, but all along de-
lays are a decided disadvantage. The otia of gar-
rison life are not for us ; they deteriorate our
troops, while active campaigning keeps them in a
state of healthy excitement.
This afternoon Garibaldi was to have passed in
review the first category of the town of Messina.
You will remember that this first category, includ-
ing all men from 17 to 30, is to form what may be
called the active army, while the second, from 30 to
40, and the thjrd, from 40 to 50, are to be a kind of
stationary. foirce for the security of the garrison and
town. Such an idea of an armed nation is by no
means.to -the taste of the Sicilians, and long discus-
sions have taken place to modify this principle. A
levy of 2 per cent. of the population was at last
fixed, and this is to be carried out this month. But
even this the Sicilians tried to shirk. The commune
bought a certain number of volunteers, and now
tries to pass them off as part of their' contingent to
the levy. I need not tell you how repugnant an
idea of this kind is to Garibaldi, who, always ready
for sacrifices himself, cannot understand that any
one else should not be as well disposed. However,
*he cannot entertain any illusions in this respect
now, and he sees at the same time the necessity of

leaving this country in a state of defence, in case his
star leads him further on, Messina, being th'e most
exposed, requires to be likewise the best prepared,
and the review this afternoon was to be a first step

to carry out the idea of a general armament. A
o,a the Marina near
whandiccholmleacrtkeds
the
boundary of the
ethroewirdonofip•aeiloipnlge

free port of Messina, but in 9ite of commissions
n
the desired division
of named
the ed
firstb y
category effected from want
the Governor
couldad ht o
be
of preparatory registers ; many of the first category
not
had sought refuge in the ranks of the National
Guard or Guard of Public ''ecut:ity, as it is called.
In one word, there was the crowd, but not the re-
cruits of the first category.

witw there, Garibaldi
the real
As the crowd at least
wets' on horseback, ac-
companied thheymhciasssurtaeff.
Staff,
Tt3h_ereugh
the dense crowd,
hithertosa
selfishness,
ldfi ssi s , the people, tell-
iwhhteo
ecnheeeerfedthleusnteili3o-
-
country was out on the balcony, he harangued
the law, in force
ing them that when once the.
tinuci,
but in the an-
nexedmean-
time to the Italian kingdom
ed other measures.
there would be applied here,d
" I wish to
, If thel 11a
ve circumstancestele a,
e,,, hd
ee demanded
Italy that the towns
leave the country able to defend itself. It has
beennees
havetlle curse of oafb
sorbed in their local
unduly of its own affairs.
Thus it arose that their freed
each thinking
freedom and independence
were destroyed one by one. It is time that the
Sicilians, as well as the rest, should see that the
the
share union
r e
and co-operation of all.
only
Sicilyr emmuesdty
take' is
in
her like the rest, and the
greater the number the shorter and easier will bp
the work which remains to be done. An early day
will be fixed by the Government to assemble all
those appertaining to the first category."
There were plenty of
chQers ; we shall soon see
what they are worth.

THE MASSAC_RE's IN SYR' I.

(From the Corresponcee
In of the Times.)

13F,YROUT, AUG. 2.
I landed this morning from the French steamer
Euphrate, of the Messageries Imperiales, which
left Marseilles on the 22d of last month ; and, as
the post leaves at four o'clock
this afternoon, I have
had but little time as yet
for inquiries, or to do
more than faire acte de presence. We had on board
the Euphrate an intendant militaire, with his subor-
dinates, 19 in all,.who had bean despatched to pre-
pare for the reception of the
French army of occu-
pation in Syria. Colonel Osmond, of the French
staff, with whom I travelled from Marseilles to
Malta, had previously
arrived, and his mission is, I
fancy, more diplomatic than
military, at least- for
the present. As commandesng de la place at Eupa-
toria during the Crimean War he will
be favour-
ably remembered in England, while the success
which followed his more
recent mission to Nice
proves how well qualified he - is for the present pur-
pose. Nevertheless, it will
scarcely be deemed a mis-
fortune that he should have arrived after Fuad
Pasha's departure for DaMaacus, since whatever
the Turkish Minister map do there will not be
under the influence of foreiv;
pressure, but of his
own free will and sense of justice. In saying
this
I do not allude to France in Particular, but to every
foreign Power in general
; for unless the Govern-
ment of the Sultan can vindicate his authority
among his subjects -without being compelled or
urgently advised to do so—
unless the Porte can
exhibit independence and
Power of initiative, the
integrity of the Ottoman P._
'Which, for the sake of napire is a mere sham,
humanity and civilisation,
and even in the interests of the Turkish populations
themselves, had better be permitted to cease. It is
therefore essential, as a measure of self-preserva-
tion, that the Porte should exercise, without control
or instigation from friendly States, the high prero-
gatives of sovereign power by the signal punish-
ment of all among its subjects who, in contempt of
its authority, have been guilty of rapine and mur-
der. If I esteem it fortunate that Colonel Osmond
should not have seen Fuad Pasha, I conceive it
equally fortunate that Major Fraser, who arrived
here yesterday morning on a
similar mission from
the English Government, should likewise not have
seen the Turkish Minister; for before England be-
comes further pledged to maintaining the Ottoman
Empire, or involved in measures for its defence
which may entail the sacrifice cf English treasure
and English livas, let us, in. Heaven's name, have
satisfactory evidence that the sovereignty of the
Porte can be upheld for some reasonable length of
time, and that the process by which it is to be
effected is practicable and worth the cost. If not,
or if England and the Western Powers are to be
called upon to make an armed intervention—at one
time against a foreign foe like Russia, and at an-
other against internal enemies like the Moslem

On the other hand, it is said the Turkish Empire
possesses elements of vitality little dreamt of in
Europe—a vitality as tenacious and invincible as
any. Few Western States, it is urged, could have
supported a foreign invasion, an armed occupation,
and a social revolution, as Turkey did from 1854
to 1856. Persons who take this view argue that—

" Mieua vaut un sage ennemi
Qu'un maladroit ami."
And all the evils of Turkey, they contend, proceed
from the maladroitness of the Sultan's friends,
whose representatives or ambassadors at Constanti-
nople lower his dignity and diminish his authority
by the imperious tone of their remonstrances, and
the de haut en bas style in which they convey the
advice of their respective Cabinets. The Porte has
undertaken reforms of the greatest moment, which
are the object of suspicion and hatred by all " true
believers"—that is to say, the majority of the Mos-
lem population. Nothing but the absolute and
theocratic despotism of the Sultan can secure their
adoption, and it does seem the height of folly to en-
feeble his authority in the eyes of his subjects.
Such, in a few words, are the rival opinions of
persons out here. Which is the right one time will
shortly show, for the settlement of the Eastern
question is rapidly approaching.

(FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)
ALEXANDRIA, AUG. 6.
Our latest intelligence from Beyrout into the
2d inst., and was brought by the French mail

steamer, which leaves to-morrow for Marseilles.
Since the arrival of Fuad Pasha and Admiral Martin

,hings have continued pretty quiet in the neigh-

bourhood of the city ; and although very little con•
fidence is expressed in the ability of the Turkish

Governor to maintain permanent peace and order,
yet the presence of Fuad Pasha and the measures
he haL taken were, to a certain extent, producing a
tranquilising effect upon the minds of the public.

Kurschid Pasha, the late Governor of Beyrout,
his secretary and dragoman, have been sent to Con-
stantihople, and they have been followed by the
civil and military commanders of Deir-el-Kamar.
On the 27th ult., Fuad Pasha left for Damascus,
whence Achmet Pasha, the Governor, had likewise
already been sent to the capital.
These men, there can be little doubt, go to Con-
stantinople feeling 'tolerably confident in their own
minds that, whatever danger there may be, it is more
threatening to their pockets than to their persons.

Their cashboxes, they must reflect, are sure to lose
very much in weight, but that is no reason why
they themselves should do the same. Turkish
Pashas can look upon such matters with sufficient
.•erenity of mind. All is ordained by fate; and,
after all, those infidel dogs will presently cease
their howling to begin snarling at each other, ac-
cording to their wont. Snug berths will then soon
be found, where empty coffers can without much
trouble or difficulty be replenished. There is no
scarcity of good posts in the wide dominions of the
Sultan, and whether the wherewithal be extracted
from Christians or from true believers will matter
very little. Such, we know, is the train of reason-
ing to which Turkish officials, high and low, uni-
versally have recourse when in trouble or disgrace,
and it but rarely happens that they are disap-
pointed. Whether, however, in this particular in-
stance the parties will find themselves mistaken,
and their conduct be subjected to a strict and im-
partial investigation, is a question upon which few

persons in this part of the world will venture to
pronounce themselves.

- Since the arrival of Fuad Pasha at Damascus, on
the 30th ult., the only news is that he refused to
receive the members of the Divan when they called
upon- him ; that the Christians had received permis-
sion to leave the place, which they were prevented
from doing before ; and that some 2,000 persons
had ,availed themselves of the liberty, and were
seeking refuge at various places on the coast, chiefly
at Beyrout.
From Jaffa we learn that the panic lately pre-
valent there had likewise subsided since the arrival
of the British and French vessels of war. All per-
sons entering the town were disarmed at the gates.
The French Rear-Admiral and the French Com-
mander had paid a visit to Jerusalem, where
Turkish soldiers had been, placed to keep guard
over the Christian churches and convents. De-
tachments of troops had likewise been sent to
Caipha, Nablous, and Bethlehem ; but as may
naturally be supposed, after the recent conduct of

the Turkish soldiers, these measures do not contri-
bute much towards the establishment of any sort
of general feeling of security.
The Viceroy of Egypt has been at little pains
to clnceal his disappointment and chagrin at not
having been asked to send a body of troops to Syria,
to assist in quelling the disturbances, and he has
been still more free in exhibiting his feelings of
anxiety and annoyance at the idea of an interven-
tion by means of French troops. People differ
somewhat in their modes of accounting for the cir-
cumstance, but perhaps, like many private indivi-
duals, Said Pasha prefers his friends when they are
at some distance.

The news of the loan that has been contracted by
the Egyptian Government has probably before this
become known in Europe. Here the matter re-
mained a profound secret until the arrival, some
days ago, of the Viceroy's agent, Drancht Bey. The
latter left for Paris by the Calcutta mail with the
contract duly signed.' The
.sum is understood to be
20,000,000 f., and the money is advanced by the
Bureau d'Escompte, through the banking-house of
Laffitte, without security, at 6 per cent. per annum
interest and 3 per cent. commission. The object
of th 9 loan is to assist in paying off the Govern-
ment bonds in circulation, amounting to about
£2,250,000 sterling, and the due dates of which ex-
tend over a period of about three years from the
present time. This, it is stated, forms an express
part of the contract, and i Said Pasha, moreover,
binds himself for the future to maintain the amount
of floating debts within the limit of 4,000,000 f. In
the event, however, of any unforeseen emergency

•
he will be at liberty to exceed that sum ; but in such
case the first option to discount the bonds he may
propose to issue shall be offered to his French credi-
tors. Since the promulgation of this news the rate
of discount upon Government Bonds has declined
to the extent of 2to 3 per cent. The present rate
varies from about 13 per cent. for long paper—say,
of two to three years, to 15 per cent. for bonds of
three to four months.
Many persons here look grave at the idea of the
country being • involved in a debt in which they
imagine the French Government may not be with-
oat interest. But, even granting that this were so,
the amount is as yet comparatively so small, being
scar3ely three months' revenue, that it would be
premature to feel alarm on the subject. If a
determined course of economy be persistently ad-
hered to, the sum will .be sufficient to render it an
easy task to free the Government from the debts
which have latterly been assumilig the form of an
intolerable burden, and which threatened to become
a source of perpetual embarrassment. All that is
required* therefore, is that the Viceroy should per-
severe in his present good intentions of economy,
and, if so, even though, in contracting a loan, he
may have exceeded the strict limits of his legiti-
mate power, it may, perhaps, be most expedient for
those who wish the country well to close their eyes
to the irregularity of the proceeding. In speaking
of the debts of the Egyptian Government I have,
however, not taken into account the 32 millions
sterling incurred by. the Viceroy's subscription to
the Isthmus of Suez Canal scheme. It is certainly
the most unfortunate of all, for although it will
doubtless become more and more apparent that
whatever is spent on the Isthmus or on either of its
shores is irretrievably gone, yet there is but little
hope that the parties concerned will relax the hold
they have got of the Viceroy. Indeed, it • may be
well if the, penalty he will have to pay be confined
.to the loss of merely the portion of the capital, large
as it is, for which he has given his name.

GREAT YARMOUTH REGATTA.—This affair came
off on Tuesday. The prize of £5O offered for first •class
yachts was not competed for. The second-class yacht prize
of £3O was won by the Belvidere, of Yarmouth. The wea-
ther was fine, and the proceedings passed off very agree-
ably.

The interment of the victims whose lives were
sacrificed by the late fatal gun explosion at Arch-
cliff Fort has taken place to-day. As before an-
nounced the funeral of Lieut. Thompson was strictly
private ; but the interment of Sergeant Monger was
attended by the fullest military honours. It took
place this afternoon amidst such demonstrations of
woe as have never before been witnessed in the
town of Dover. Nearly the whole of the shops
were closed, and despite .a pouring rain which de-
scended in sad accompaniment to the mournful
obsequies of the occasion, the streets were thronged
with spectators.
Applications to join- the funeral procession were
received from the commanding officers of a number
of artillery corps belonging to the Cinque Ports and
the countyl of Kent; and in a few instances similar
requests had been forwarded from places beyond
these limits. Applications to the same effect had
also been received from each of the regiments sta-
tioned in the garrison and from the Royal Artillery.
The civil authorities also evinced their respect by
a request to attend, in which they were joined by
the clergy and a number of the most influential
townsmen. In short, -there appeared on all hands
a desire to exhibit the deepest tokens of respect
which could possibly be manifested; and the fact
that a volunteer should have been interred with such
honours as the remains of the ill-fated Sergeant
Monger have received to-day proves no less the hold
the volunteer movement has taken upon the public
sympathies than sorrow for the lot of those who
have suffered by this most melancholy even:
The funeral cortege started at about half-past two
o'clock from the Military Hospital, Western
Heights, to which the remains of Sergeant Monger
were taken immediately after the accident, and from
which they had not been removed at all until they
were taken to their last resting •place. The pro-
cession was headed by a firing party of the Royal
Artillery, followed by the bands of the Dover Vo-
lunteer Artillery Corps, the 60th Rifles, the 47th,
and the Royal Artillery. The corpse, borne on a
gun carriage drawn by seven horses, followed, the
two clergymen who were to perform the funeral
service walking a little in advance in full canonicals.
The pall, a union jack, was borne by four of the
deceased's brother sergeants, viz., Sergeants Iggul-
den, Beaufoy, Cotterel, and Ellenger. The body
was followed by a mourning coach, which was
occupied by the near relatives of the deceased, after
which the procession moved in the undermentioned
order :-Ist (Dover) Cinque Ports Artillery, Royal
Artillery, 47th Regiment, 60th Rifles, 24th Kent
Rifles, sth Cinque Port Rifles, 6th Canterbury Rifles,
6th Kent (Chatham) Rifles, sth Canterbury Rifles,
-2d Cinque Port Rifles 9th S;urrey Rifles, Ist Com-
pany Cinque Ports Rifles, Civil Service (London)
Rifles, London Rifle Brigade, 4th Northampton,
4th Cinque Ports Rifles, 11th Kent Artillery, Deal
and Walmer. Artillery, 22d Cinque Ports Ar-
tillery, 3d Cinque Ports Artillery, Ramsgate
Artillery, Folkestone Artillery, 2d South Middle-
sex Rifles,Dover Volunteer Cadet Artillery Corps,
Corporation preceded by Mace, covered with Crape,
Local Clergy, Dover Volunteer Rifles.
One of the most touching features of the proces-
sion was the presence of some representatives of
the Dover Volunteer Cadet Corps, in the formation
of which the late Lieut. Thompson took a very
active and conspicuous part. Each boy of this
corps wears a uniform cap, the scarlet band of which
on this occasion was covered with crape.

The procession passed through lawkesbury-
street, Strond-street, Snargate-street, King-street,
and Queen-street, to the cemetery of St. Mary,
where the interment took place. Throughout the
proceedings rain descended incessantly, but this
seemed to have no effect whatever on the crowds,
which were so closely wedged as to render some of
the streets almost impassable.
The remains of Lieut. Thompson were interred
in a private manner in the family vault in the
churchyard of Sibertswould, a village about 6 miles
from Dover. The only persons present at the
funeral beyond the deceased gentleman's immediate
connections were Capt. Wollaston, Lieut. Court,
Lieut. Stilwell (officers of the artillery volunteers),
and Mr. S. Finnis, the treasurer.

Some idea of the respect in which the late Mr.
Thompson was held may be gathered from what
transpired at the meeting of the town council, held
yesterday, when Alderman Astley, who is also a
ciptain in the volunteer carps, gave expression in a
most feeling-speech to the esteem felt for the late
Mr. Thompson by the corporation and his fellow
townsmen generally, and concluded by moving—
" That this council cannot proceed to the election
of a successor to the late Mr. G. T. Thompson, the
coroner of this borough, without first recording an
expression of their heartfelt sorrow at the loss
which the corporation and the borough have sus-
tained by the sudden and untimely removal from
the useful sphere he filled amongst them. Upright
inlife, urbane in manner, intellectual in his pur-
suits, and distinguished for taste in art, he was a very
valuable citizen, and commended himself to the warm
regards of all associates. And the council, in com-
mon with theiffellow•townsmen, deeply lament the
distressing accident which has cut off in the prime
of life one so greatly esteemed, and who has so long
discharged the duties of an officer of this corpora-
tion to their entire satisfaction." Mr. Worsfold
seconded the resolution, deeply deploring, like those
who had preceded him, the cause which rendered
such a motion necessary, and which called forth
their testimony to the worth of a gentleman whom
no one could value more than himself. The resolu-
tion was carried by acclamation. At the same meet-
ing it was resolved that a stained window should be
erected in the Town-hall, by public subscription, to
the memory of the late Mr. Thompson. At the
Town-hall the corporate flag has been half-masted
since the day of the accident, so completely has the
sad event been regarded as a calamity over which
the town mourns.