The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-07 00:00:00

MISCEttANEOUS

The Empress's journey appears to have been, so far, didie
a success, and her Majesty has expressed herself in the
highest terms as to her reception. One a the most
interesting incidents of her journey was her visit to the
battle-field of Magenta. She desired to be conducted to
the monument raised to the memory of General Espinasse
and his brave companions in arms. The monument was
illuminated ; the Empress placed some flowers upon it,
and waited before it some minutes in prayer. She seemed
greatly affected, and gathered a handful of grass as a
souvenir of the place. Addressing her suite, who stood at
a little distance, she said that she would always regard this
visit as one of the dearest recollections of her journey. It
is said that the Empress charged M. do Bonneville to
entreat the Pope to include 'Monseigneur Darboy in the
number of cardinals he proposes to make before the
Ecumenical Council.

The Liberte declares that the Emperor and the Prince
Imperial met with a very cold reception at the race course,
in the Bois de Boulogne, and that this was in all proba-
bility owing to the decree concerning the opening of the
Corps Legislatif.
Active preparations are being made at Compeigne to
prepare the apartments of the Emperor and the Prince
Imperial, who are expected to arrive there at the end of
this week. The court will remain at Compiegne until
the 10th of December, and during its stay the coun-
cils of Ministers will be held there twice a week. M.
Gressier has started for Bordeaux, in order to ascertain
the exact particulars connected with the disastrous fire
that occurred there. The Emperor has directed that a
considerable sum shall be given to the Mayor of Bordeaux,
for the relief of the distressed victims of the calamity.
Tne aererrea date or the opening of the Chambers. is
still the great topic of tho day. The press is full of it,
and having almost exhausted reproach, regret, and gloomy
prognostications, the non-official journals are now.seek-
ing in vain to discover the reason for a defiance of
public opinion, which appears to be as unreasonable as
it is certainly impolitic. The Pub/it, M. Rouher's
organ, attributes the delay to the influence of Prince
Napoleon and. 31.. Magne. The Gaulois affirms that it is
owing to the wish of the Empress, who only agreed t. leavo
St. Cloud after exacting a promise from the Emperor
that he would not convoke the Chambers until her
return. This seems absurd enough but the theory finds
supporters. The Libertd yesterday repeats it and gives full
details of the eventful Council on Saturday. The Ministers,
it says, made no opposition when they heard of the
Emperor's promise, though before that the Con-
ference was animated. To-day the same journal
gives another account. The Ministers, it affirms, met at
M. de Forc.sde's before proceeding to St. Cloud, and agreed
upon the Bth or the 9th of November for the date of con-
vocation. When they reached the Emperor, they found
him somewhat excited. In a brief, but imperative
address he said that the pretensions of the Left were
extravagant, that he would not be ennuye by M. Raspail,
and that wishing to reconcile the wants of the nation
with his own authority, he intended to convoke the
Chambers for the 6th of December. Whatever the truth
of the matter, the blame of the delay is generally attached
to the Emperor, and grave suspicions are entertained in
many quarters that he has some ulterior motive in pro-
voking tho people. A riot in the steets on the 26th of
October would justify another coup d'etat. All moderat
men are anticipating that date with some uneasiness,
and with reason. The threatened demonstration of MM.
Keratry and M. Raspail, whatever you may think of it
politically, will prove a dangerous test to the stability of
the Parisians. It is said, though I know net with what
truth, that the Extreme Left has a hand in the organisation
of the numerous strikes now in progress. All the workmen
aro to be free on the 26th October. Such is the word of
command.

M. Baneel, invited to a banquet at the Drome,
sends a letter of excuse. He cannot, he says,
delay returning to his post in the state of affairs in
Paris. Tho coincidence of the Paris elections is particularly
unfortunate, and so the authorities seem to think, for
there is a talk of their being deferred until the beginning
of December. This would, I fear, be only a fresh cause of
irritation. The Vienna Tresse, I must not forget to men-
tion, explains the prolongation of the recess by the
Emperor's desire to complete his negotiations for a general
disarmament to be announced in the speech from the
Throne.

The Hamburg-American Company have ordered
a new steamer for their New York line. She will be
similar in size and construction to their recent new ones,
and will be built and engined by Messrs. Laird and Co., of
Greenock, who have built all th 3 vessels of tile company's
fleet, with the exception of one constructed at Sou:hamp-
ton. The new steamer will be named the Thuringia.
The following is an extract from the letter of a tourist in
the Unitad States :—" I went. over 600 miles of railway,
probably destined hereafter to be an immense place. a
was exceedingly pleased with the country en route. It
really seemed in great part like a succession of gentle-
men's seats, and one quite expected to s.-?e turrets and
gables peeping out from the, thick wools in the distance.
People say why do not English gentlemen come and invest
t heir money in laud here for theiryounger sons ? In 20 years
they could sell it for four times the price they gave. This is
quite t. ue. It is a mistake to suppose that there is any pre-
judice here against individual Englishmen ; indeed I
doubt whether any is entertained against Englishmen at
all, although both Germans and Americans look down very
much on the Irish ; the whole of this western country is
in a very great degree peopled by Germans. In every
town there are hundreds of lager beer shops and beer
gardens ; and at St. Louis especially, where there are
100,000 Teutons, you might imagine yourself in Bavaria.
This German interest is immensely antagonistic to the
Irish, and I am disposed to think that the Hibernian day
is gone by in this country. Between Germans and China-
men Paddy will go to the ground. The abuse of England
which appears in the press is simply a pandering for the
Irish vote, and should be thought nothing of at home,
Even in New York the German will soon be the dominant
interest if the German population there increases at the
present rate."
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RAILWAY NEWS.—The Central Pacific Railroad
Company has succeeded in breaking up the gang of incen-
diaries, banded for the purpose of destroying its fuel,
water-tanks, and stations, in the East Mountains. Among
the parties arrested were those who set fire to the snow-
sheds near Summit a few weeks since. A number of lead-
ing citizens and railroad men left St. Louis Sept. 13 to
celebrate the completion of the road between Leavenworth
and Atchison, Kansas.—The managers of the Central
Pacific have put emigrant cars on their line at the low rate
of $5O ; the chief difference between other passenger cars
being that, as they go with the freight trains, they are
much longer on the journey.—The Erie Railway Com-
pany contemplate, it is said, the erection of a road from
New York to Newark. It is proposed to build the line
from the west end of the tunnel to the depot of the
Newark and Paterson Railroad, in Newark. The esti-
mated cost is 400,000 dollars. Surveyors have been sent
out to ascertain the feasibility of building a line near Fort
Lee, so as avoid the Bergen tunnel and the drawbridges.
The survey of the new route, from the Erie tunnel
to the Cattle Yards at Hoboken, has been completed.—
The Pacific railroads are doing a good passenger
business. Tho train that arrived at Sacramento on the
30th of August consisted of 14 cars, two of them being
for second-class through passengers. A large proportion
of the second-class travellers are foreigners, many of them
scarcely able to make themselves understood in English.
Theygo to the Pacific coast in families, evidently intending
to make that their home for the future. This train also
took over the mountain 130 Chinese labourers, who have
been employed on the Virginia City and Truckee Rail-
road ; also 30 carpenters, who are going out to work on
the Western Pacific Railroad.—The last rail of the Leaven-
worth and Atchison Railroad, connecting the central
branch of the Pacific Railroad with Leavenworth and St.
Louis, via the Missouri Pacific Railroad, was laid on Sept.

2, and the first train passed over it to Atchison.—The
Wall-street Journal says:. "Railroads in the Western States
are being pushed with increased zeal, bonding towns and
counties, if not lending State credit for the purpose. In
Minnesota the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, about ninety
miles long, is under contract. There are also roads through
each of the lower tier of counties, which will be inter-
sected by the road from St. Paul to Omaha. There
are several other enterprises suggested, and it is said that
fire thousand men are now employed in railroad conctruc-
tion in the State. lu Illinois 'seven new roads are now

building. Y One extends •
from St. Louis to Rook Island ;
a second from St. Louis to Paducah; a third from
St. Louis, by Vandalia, to Terre Haute, Indiana, to
be worked by the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company;
a fourth, the Duquesne Road, is extending to Cairo, and
also from Duquesne to Paducah. The officers of the
Duquesne Road are stimulated by the desire to connect
with new roads in progress in the Southern States. Con-
gress has authorized a bridge over the Ohiu River to
Paducah, so that this new road will 17)5, this connection.
bring St. Louis within 702 miles by railroad of New Or-
leans, and within 638 of Mobile. These roads are all
advancing rapidly, and will be completed at an early
day." The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Erie Railway Company will be held at the office, New
York, on October 12th ; of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail-
way Company, at the office in Cincinnati, on October
14th ; of the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad
Company, at the office in Providence, R. 1., on September
28th. The Hudson River Railway Company will pay on
October IZ.th, four per Cent.; the Cleveland and Pitts-
burgh Railway Company, on October 20th, two per cent.
Ex-Collector Perry Fuller was arrested in St.

Louis on Monday, Sept.l4, on the charge of Special Trea-
sury Agent Kinsella, that he defrauded the Government.
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EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LONDON.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS,
For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual
General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869,
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Deputy-
Chairman of the Company, in the Chair.
The Report which the directors have now to submit to
the proprietor differs in its tenor but little save in one or
two particular from that laid before them in 1868.
the income of the year, it will 1 e seen, amounts t
£610,499 18s., and the total charm t £415,077 ltls. 9d
1714-1 surplus tend at the commeneetnent of tto. ticancia,l
year, raised that item to £1,002,974 Iss. 9d., its present
amount.
SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, JUNE 30, 1869.
INCOME OF THE Y EAR.
s. d.

Balance of account, 30th
June, 1808
r'rerniums on new assur-

ances
Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0

371,548 12 1
Interest from investments 120,959 12 10

492,508 4 11.

.£ s. d

907,;.52 8 6

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