The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-15 00:00:00

Spirit of the Public Journals.

(From the Times.)

Another wrinkle on the face of old Europe.
After mutations and combinations as many as in a
kaleidoscope, Spain has taken one more step to
pure absolutism. She has gone back with a re-
bound, and in a day finds herself little else than
the inheritance of Isabella and the dowry of Chris-
tina. The junction of the two Queens was omi-
nous, and O'Donnell must have felt the reins day
by day slipping from his hands. As it was easy to
see, he was only a provisional arrangement, a posi-
tion tolerable to those whose aims are neither dis-
tant nor high, and who are content with one har-
vest if they are not allowed two. Narvaes has now
stepped into the place prepared for him. Spain
has returned to him again and again, one cannot
say how often without being sensible of lost time in
coming round and round to the same man at last.
To say that he is precisely the man for Spain would
be too much praise, not only to him, but to Spain
herself; for it would argue some unity and con-
sistency in that country. But, no doubt, he is the
man for the present mood and the existing situa-
tion ; and perhaps nobody else would represent
Spain nearly so long and so fully. Taught by ex-
perience, we are happily not engaged for or against
any Minister that may happen to carry the day at
Madrid. If the Spanish are satisfied, so are we.
We fear it is not quite so with our Imperial neigh-
bour. He has invested his affections--some say
even more—in O'Donnell, and the investment is a
failure. The Britiih public is altogether blunted
and reckless about S pain. Owing to soma unfortu-
nate incidents in our history, we had not much
affection for the people till about 50 years ago,
though we admired their pride and overrated
their power. They now scarcely occupy any
measurable space in our minds. We know
something of the Spain of 400 years ago, but
nothing of Spain present ; we read stories of the
Cid ; we model the Moorish palaces ; we amuse
ourselves with "Than Quixote ;" thanks to Mr.
Ford, we have now taken up the Gipsies of Spain,
and we read with just pride the exploits of our
armies in that peninsula ; but the people them-
selves have worn out our interest. There is so
great an interval of character between them and
us that sympathy only exerts itself to be baffled in
the end. It may b a said of them, as of many indivi-
duals, that they s( !em born to excite hope and then
to disappoint it ; 1 nit even this must now be said
in the past tense, for we can hope no more of
Spain.
The " antecedents" of the new Ministry con-
trast oddly with those of a British Cabinet. The
difference may not be wholly and absolutely in our
favour—indeed, it certainly is not—but there is
on the Spanish side an utter want of some elements
that we here deem Essential to stability. A British
Cabinet must couta in men known as the authors of
useful and successful laws ; the well tried chiefs of
party, or holders of a definite policy ; men of terri-
torial consequence, the heads of great and still
powerful families. In order to be strong it must
be made of strong materials ; and the strength
must be somethinw more than that of personal
character, or ability, or eloquence. Of the Duke
of Valencia's eight colleagues four are lawyers and
four soldiers, the foi .mer being men who have really
made their fortune* at the bar, and the latter in
the civil wars of t'n eir own country. In our pre-
sent Cabinet there, is one soldier who has never
seen a gun fired, exqapt at a review, and who early
gave up his profess ion for civilian's work ; a law-
yer who, at'er a rn ist unpolitical and unobtrusive
career, is now at the head of his profession ; and
one more lawyer, also remarkable for avoiding
politics when he caza All the rest are simply noble •
men and gentlemen of fortune. Of the legal moiety
of the Spanish Cabinet one is described as an ardent
partisan of Maria 'Christina and an avowed hater
of Lord Palmersto. He was made a Marquis, we
are told, for his support to the " Spanish mar-
riages." Of the your soldiers, the first was once
a general officer in the atrlist army, and deserted;
he was implicated in the O'Donnell pk)t in 1841,
and shortly afterwards was more successfully en-
gaged in getting up the insurrection that over-
threw Espartero. The second is to be a gallant
soldier, and nothing more ; but, among other in-
cidents, he assisted in preparing a coup d'etat, and
was implicated in an insurrection, the olject of
which was to carry off the Queen to France or the
Basque provinces. Ia this country nine sueh men
would hardly carry the day at a meeting of county
magistrates, or iu the vestry of a metropolitan
parish. In Parliament they might just gain the
ear of the house for any measure on which they
might choose to concentrate their strength, but
they would scarc3ly venture on a division. Itmust
be said, however, that even in Spain these men
are not supposed to make a strong Cabinet. They
are to serve their purpose, and at the proper mo-
ment Narvaez is to make way for a still purer Ab-
solutist. As for O'Donnell, it is suggested that he
may have fore seen his fate and made terms. For
the quiet surrender of a Government once the
proudest in Europe he may possibly find some com-
pensation in the mysterious riches of Cuba.
We have compared the new Cabinet with our
own, or any that world be possible in this coun-
try. But there is probably not one country in
Europe where such a Cabinet would stand for a
day. There is not one where the Sovereign is so
absolute, and at the same time so wanton in his
absolutism, as to govern by means of men with so
slight a stake and standing. For aught we know
these nine men may be personally as powerful as
any other nine in Spain ; but it must only be in
the same sense that the individuals composing the
Cabinet of the United States might be powerful—
viz., for their reputation and talents as success-
ful soldiers or lawyers, or simply as the repre-
sentatives of certain strong ()pinions. So far a
Spanish Cabinet might find a parallel in an
American. How such a thing is possible in Spain
is an interesting problem net very difficult of
solution. With a diffused, poverty-struck, and
degenerate aristocracy, wi than impoverished clergy,
with little trade, with a backward agriculture, and
all its natural resources more or less neglected,
Spain has no powerful class, no basis for the public
institutions, no natural stay against the violence of
factions, the tyranny of the Crown, or the ascen-
dancy of anybody who may usurp the helm of
affairs. In this country the men to govern us
must command the respect of numerous classes of
noblemen, country gentlemen, and wealthy mer-
chants, as well as soldiers and lawyers, who are
the mere hands and tongues of society. The Mini-
ster here represents not only an opinion or a
party ; he directly represents a vast solid embodi-
ment of men, traditions, property, and power, be-
sides the acquiescence and respect of the rest, who
may not agree with him, but accept him in the
spirit of generosity and fair play. But the most
powerful statesman that ever governed this coun-
try never omitted to xesociate with himself the
strongest men that agreement or toleration. placed
at his disposal. Whatever the natural genius of a
politician or the merits of his cause, even if he have
the talent of the house on his side, still he must
also have colleagues that represent the great inte-
rests of the country, otherwise he must take his
place in the common rank of senators. Whether
this is right, and whether we are likely to improve
very rapidly when the very motive power of the
State machine is so heavily encumbered is another
question. The fact is as we describe.' It is evi-
dently otherwise in Spain. There it is sufficient
at least for the turn, that the Minister should be
a bold, skilful, and unscrupulous soldier, a man for
a coup d'etat, an insurrection, a Royal abduction,
or some such achievement, and that his colleagues
should be either of the same sort or popular law-
yers squally ready for a bold game. That may
answer the present purpose, but it affords no secu-
rity, either in Spain or anywhere else, against
insurgents or conspirators, or any of the enemies
that a weak Government is sure to provoke.

(Frain the Morning Advertiser.)

In what we yesterday said respecting the con-
templated. alliance between this country and Aus-
-I_lla. more was meant than met the eye. We did
n" say all we knew, nor will we now, because,
though
we speak advisedly when we say that the
idea
has been entertained in quarters in which we
shonld have supposed it would have been scouted
at
onoe,—..we
Palmerston cannot'
and will not, believe that Lord
to any couldsuch proposition.
bring himself to listen seriously
132roposition. Diplomatic ingenuity
could not hit
the souls of Er131:13 an idea more calculated to stir
If it were believee'cliBhmen to their lowest depths.
country and the n that an alliance between this
°use
of
Hapsburg were aprobable
contingency, a feeling
bosom which would sweep
fs
indignation would be
evoked in the national
away, as chaff before the ,
that could be a consenting wind, any Government
people ~oipa rty to such a scheme.
Much a 3 the
mistakes
still. We
England hate Russia,
pthreehireuhltßreuasseiaf. AuNsotri:nies
com-
es her character. i
She herself is hardly at pains-to conceal
atnceal it. Sh
, un
a bold, audacious, haughty pc,,, ere
i-
is 1
carries versal dominion, and. altogether
to the means by which she cart." unscrupulous
out her views, as
Austria
provided only she can achieve success. But
is a despicable, hollow, perfidious Power,
impress of cunning, selfishness, and treachery th
e Y with e
bly impressed on her visage. The characterrwilit e
ih
w-
-
she bears is traditional. It has been what 1-;
have described it sine() the days of our - own King
John, and which S hakspere has so forcibly and
felicitously portrayed, when ho makes one of his

interlocutors in the play in question thus speak of
the Austria of the period referred to :

" 0 Austria! Thou dost shame
That bloody spoil: Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward,
Thou little valiant, great in villany !
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side !
Thou fortune's champion, that does never fight
But when her humourous ladyship is by
To teach thee safety ! Thou are perjured, too,
And sooth'st up greatness. What a fool thou art—
A ramping fool ; to brag, and stamp, and swear,
Upon my party ! Thou cold-blooded slave,
Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side ?
Been sworn my soldier? Bidding me depend
Upon the stars, thy fortune, and thy strength ?
And dost thou now fall over to my foes ?
Thou wear a lion's bide ! Doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs."
- -

Any man describing the Austria of 1856 could
not do it more truthfully than it was done more
than two centuries ago, by the greatest of earthly
poets, when he thus held up to the scorn and in-
dignation of the world the Austria of the four-
teenth century.
And yet it has been—we say again, we speak
advisedly,—seriously proposed that a " close alli-
ance" should be formed between that country and
ours. The Governments of the two countries
might possibly have some sort of alliance together
for a brief period, but the nations never. Austrian
and English principles are at irreconcileable vari-
ance. They are as opposed as light is to darkness.
There never can be any concord between them. It
were well that this fact should be dinned into Ger-
man ears about our own Court, as well as at the
Court of Vienna. We need not say that the unna-
tural notion is of Garman, not of English, origin.
The great danger to be apprehended is, lest Lord
Palmerston should, in any measure, yield to the
Coburg pressure to which, in this case, as in so
many others, he is subjected. And yet we can
hardly think he will. Burnt children, we are told,
dread the fire. Lord Palmerston, of all men in
the world, ought to be on his guard against the
wiles and perfidies of Austria, on the principle
that—

" He best can paint them who has felt them most."
The Noble Lord's experience of Austria ought
not to be lost upon him. He knowsthat for years,
when in the Foreign Office, he was regarded with
an implacable hatred by the Court of Vienna, and
that all the schemes which Austrian ingenuity could
suggest were resorted to, with the view of eject-
ing him from office, and destroying him for ever as
a public man. He knows, moreover—and the
world also knows—that, aided and abetted by Ger-
manism at the Court of St. James, he eventually
became the victim of Austrian intrigues. Nor can
the Noble Lord be ignorant of the fact that what
he is now, he is in virtue of the power of public
opinion—of that popularity which he has with the
people—in defiance equally of Hapsburg and Co-
burg hostility. The very idea, therefore, of an
Austrian alliance under the auspices of Lord Pal-
merston seems so utter an impossibility, even in
idea, that did not our information come to us from
sources which leave no doubt whatever as to the
fact of the notion being entertained we could not
for a moment give the slightest credence to it.
It is not in England alone that the idea of an
alliance between this country and Austria would
evoke emotions of the most intense concern. It
would inspire alarm and indignation throughout
the whole of the Continent. It would be regarded
as sounding, at least for a season, the death-knell
of hope in the bosoms of oppressed nationalities.
It would be treason on the part of this country to
Sardinia. It would be to the sovereign and people
of Piedmont an act of treachery of the grossest
kind,—one to which there would be few parallels
in the page of history. With the sacrifice of Sar-
dinia to the " perjured House of Hapsburg " there
would be the consigning over to the tender mercies
of Francis Joseph, Ferdinand of Naples, and the
Pontifical tyrant at Rome, all the patriots of Italy,
and with them the Italian cause, so dear to the
heart of every friend of freedom throughout the
world.

But we repeat, the thing cannot be. No matter
what Governments may do, or mean to do,—their
will is not law. There is a power immeasurably
above them. There is the power of the people.
The latter power is omnipotent. The King of
Sardinia and his subjects may rely with confidence
on the people of England. They will not desert
the cause of Piedmont and of Italy. They will be
true to their implied. if not expressed, engagements
to Victor Emmanuel and his Government. And
any Minister, he he who he may, who will lend
himself to any scheme whose tendency is to betray
the cause of Sardinia,—which is synonymous with
the cause cf Italy,—will be unceremoniously
hurled from his high eminence by the breath of
public indignation.

H.I3,:eLTH OF LONDON DURING Tlig

WEEK.

(lrcni tic Report of tie licyistrar-General,)

The leturn far the week that ended on Saturday exhi-
bits a lore rate of mortality. The deaths, which in the
previous six weeks have been oa an average 1035, de-
clined last week to 939. In the corresponding weeks of
ten years 1846.55 the average number was 1103, and if
this is raised by a tenth part for increase of population it
becomes 1203, compared with which the present return
shows a reduction el 164.
Ot the total number 434 were deaths of males, 455
those of females. Deaths from the zymotic or epidemic
class of diseases, which in the previous week were 256,
were last weep only 234. Of these 14 were from small-
pox, 25 from measles, 28 from hoopicg-coul4h, 42 from
typhus, 46 from searlatiun. The deaths from diarrhoea
have now fallen to 45. No fatal case of cholera is re-
corded. There were 11 of erysipelas, 4of syphilis,
and 2of pureura, Seven of the deaths from typhus
occurred in Pae.:•tas ; 5 in Shrreditcb. The medical a:-
tendant of a woman who died at 63, Drummnond-street,
Somers-town, of maiignar4t typha.., reports certain
unieances in the rear of the house, and states that the
whole of this neighbourhoed is more or less affected with
low fever ; the drainage (tie adde) is everywhere de-
fective. A. girl died of tetanus apparently idiopathic ;
and a child ot erysipelas and abscesses consequent (it is
said) on purulent infection of the blood after vaccination.
Two persons died ot carbuncle.
Four persons died at the age of 90 years or upwards ;
two women who were 90 years old, a Greenwich pen-
sioner who was 91 ; and a gardener's labourer who died
in the Wyndham-road, Camberwell, at the age of 94
years.
Last week the births of 782 boys and 757 girls, in all
1,539 children, were registered in London. In the 10
corresponding weeks of the years 1846 53 the average
number was 1,351.

At the Reyal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
heighA of the barometer in the week was 20.881 in. On
Thursday and Friday the mean daily reading was above
30 in., and on the latter day the highest reading in toe
week occurred, which was 30.12 in. The mean tempera-
ture was 54.3 deg., which is 2.5 deg. above the average
of the same week in 38 years as determined by Mr, Glai-
sher.oThe mean temperature was above the average on
every day. The highest temperature occurred on Fri-
day, and was 61.8 deg. ; the lowest 49, on Saturday.
The mean dew-point temperature was 52.4 deg. ; and
the difference between this and the mean air temperature
was 1.9 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the
Thames was 56.3 deg. The wind, which was in the
south-west and east in the beginning of the week, was
in the nurth-east towards the end. Rain fell to the
amount of 0.:0 in., the greater part of which fell on
Wednesday and Saturday.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS,
NUIIIEER OF DEATHS raou ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
LN THE WEEK ET.TDING SATURDAY, OCT. 11
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Btood-vessels 32
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration l5l
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin; &e.
Malformations .3
Premature Birth and Debility 23
Atrophy .... 36
Old Age
.. 37
.
Sudden
Violence, Privation Cold, and Intemperance 3
26
Causes not specified

DEATHS TROX ALL CAUSES 939
Population Deaths in corn- Deaths
Enumerated, sponding week in the
1851. of 1855. Week.
West Districts ...... 376,427
North Districts ...... 490,396
Central Districts..... 393,256 .. 154
....
East Districts 485,522 ...... 161
South Districts -
..... 205

Totals-
Males. ...................................... 484
F:nales ................................... 455
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Ma1e5....................................... 782
Fema1e5.................................... 757
Total 1,539

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

A letter from Bombay, Sept. 12, to a Portsmouth
correspondent, gives the following details of the prepara-
tions making by Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Leeke (Com-
mander-in-Chief) to supply the naval contngent of the
expedition to Persia :-
" With this you will receive the account of the expe-
dition now getting ready for the Persian Gulf :-5,050
men, besides seamen and marines, who will amount to
1,000 more; 14 steamers, six of them carrying from ten
to four 68-pounders ; 10 heavily-armed gunboats, four
schooners, and other craft for landing troops ; about 20
or 24 transports ; it will be very complete ; the Island
of Karrack will be taken first, for the purpose of getting
water, but we think of taking both together. We trust
that Sir Henry Leeke will command the fleet in person,
and take the places with the seamen. If he does he
will hoist his flag or pendant on the Assaye or Punjab,
heavy steam frigates tsister ships), carrying each ten
68-pounders and 240 men. All are hard at work getting
the expedition ready."
Letters from the Royal Albert, bearing the flag of
Admiral Lord Lyons, to as late a date as the 2d of
October, announce that she was making preparations to
winter above the South-bridge within the Golden Horn,
and that, in consequence of the non-execution of the
treaty of Paris by Russia, her Majesty's steam frigate
Magicienne, the Lynx, steam corvette, and the Weser,
steam gunboat, had re-entered the Black Sea, to be fol-
lowed forthwith by the Vulture steam frigate.
The following circular letter was yesterday aidressed
to the commanding *Mem of the 4th and sth Dragoon
Guards; I,t and 2d Dragoons ; 4 h and 6th Light Dra-
goons ; Bth, 10th, and 11th Mussars • 12th Lancers,
13th Light Dragoons, 17th Lancers, Grenadier Guards,
Seitz Fusilier Guards ; lst Foot, Ist and 2d Battalions ;
3d, 4th, 7th, 9th, 14th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 23d,
28,b, 30th, 33d, 34th, 38th, 39th, 41st, 42d, 44th, 446th,
47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 55th, 57th, 62d, 63d, 68th, 72d,
77th, 79th, 88th, 89:h, 90th, 93d, 95th, and 97th ; Rifle
Brigade, Ist and 2d Battalion.
"Horse tluards, Oct. 4,

" Sir,—His Majesty the King of Sardinia having
been graciously pleased to confer a proportion of the
silver medals destined for distribution among the Sar-
dinian troops lately returned from the Crimea upon such
officers and soldiers of the British army as distinguished
themselves by personal acts of valour in the late war,
I have the honour, by desire of his Royal Highness the
General Commanding-in-Chief, to request you will with.
out delay transmit a nominal return of officers and non-
commissioned officers and privates of the regiment under
year command whom you may conceive worthy of the
decoration in question.

" The officers are to be selected from among those
whose rank up to the 9th of September, 1855, was not
higher than brevet-major.
"You will be careful to recommend no individual
except for distinguished services against the enemy
under fire, and the special services on which the recom-
mendation is founded are to be fully detailed.
"If there are any whose claims cf distinction are
equal to those who have already received the French
Legion of Honour, the French military war medal, or
the English medal for distinguished conduct in the field,
but whom it has been hitherto impossible to reward,
you will give them the preference in this instance, ex-
plaining at the same time your reasons for doing so.
"The claims of officers of higher rank than those
pointed out in the preceding will be shortly taken into
consideration. "I have, &c.,
" G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General."

Major-General the Earl of Cardigan, Inspecting-
General of Cavalry, arrived at Newbridge on Tbursday
Ibnd on the following day made a very minute in-
specti ,n of the Ist Royal Dragoons and the 2d North
13ritido Dragoons (Scots Greys), and expressed himself
h;goly pleased at the fine appearance and discipline of
these gaLant Crimean heroes, who so bravely distir.-
guisaed themselves throughout the campaign. A great
number of the invalids and unfit were selected for dis
charge. On Monday both corps, together with a troop
of the Royal Horse Artillery, were reviewed on the Cur-
ragb, and went through a variety of manoeuvres, which
were admirably performed. His lordship and staff occupy
quarters at the camp with Lieutenant-General Sir R.
England.

Lieutenant-General Sir Cohn Campbell, G.C.8.,
Inspector General of Infantry, accompanif:d by Major-
Genera; Sir G. A. Wether.dl, K.O B , Adjutant-
General t) the Force, paid a❑ unexpected official visit
to Chatham garrison yesterday for the purpose of making
an inspection of the Provisional Battalion. fi)a their
arrival at the Provisional Battalion Sir Colin Campbell
and the Adjutant-General were received by Colonel W.
H. Eden, in command of the garrison ; Colonel 11.
.Tervis, commanding the Provisional Battalion ; and
Brigade-Major C. S. S. E. Gordon. After witnessing
the troops parade, the visitors proceeded to the offices of
the Provisional Battalion for the purpose of making an
inspection of the battalion books and accounts, in which
trey were engaged several hours. It was expected that
an inspection of the troops would have been made in the
afternom, but, owing to the length of time occupied in
the examination of the books, this did not take place,
and it is expected that the inspection will be made this
day.

The non-commissioned officers and men belonging to
the several depots at the Provisional Battalion, Chatham,
are making considerable progress in their instruction in
the use of the Enfield rifle, under Captain W. Mott and
Lieut. A. AVLeed. Firing parties are marched down
from the barracks every m.rning to the marshes near St.
Mary's creek, where they are practi,:ed in firing at the
iron targets, at distances raLging from 300 to 800 yards.
The trJops belonging to the Royal Sapper. and Miners,
and those of be Riyal Marine Light Infantry, at Caat-
ham, are also undergoing a cnirse of rid.: instruction.

Tne MArines be:trugiug to her Majesty's ship Power-
Jul, 84, were paid off at Chatham yesterday by Captain
G. ilookey, paymaster to the Ciataath division. Atter
being paid, each man was granted !cave of absenc4 for
periods varyingfrom one month to six weeks.

.thr Majesty's ship Melamps, 42, Captain Borlase,
arrived at Spithe'id on Monday night from the Crimea.
Thy: following vessels were spoker with en her voyage
between the 25 h of August and October :—August 25,
3 p.m., the English vessel Nelsons ; September 9, Eng-
lish barque, name unknown ; September 13, the brig
Bristol ; September 21, the English barque Cairo ; Oct.
8, a barque, supposed to be English, waterlogged and
abandoned. She was found in charge of a Prussian
barque. Left Constantinople August 21 ; Malta, Sep-
tember 5 ; Gibraltar, Sept. 22.
Messrs. Wigrar's ship Sussex, from London for Mel-
bourn,, put into St. Helen's Roads yesterday morning,
and, after communicating with the shore, proceeded on
her voyage with a fine, favourable breeza.

TheEspiegle, 12, Commander Lambert, sailed yes-
terday morning from Portsmouth to Sheerness to be
paid off.
The Colessug, 34, Captain Thompson, was inspected
yesterday by Vice-Adinit al Sir G. &ymour.
The C,ar, 2, gunboat, Lieutenant Villiers, sailed
from Spithead on Monday evening for Plymouth and
the East Indies.

Tne Czar, 91, CaptAin RJhb, was paid wades yester-
day..

The following appointments wen, made yesterday at
the Admiralty :—T. IV. Simeon, mate, to the Surprise;
R. 11. Thompson, mate, to the CJratorant ; Mr. A. S.
Hare, mate, to the James Watt ; H. J. Codrington,
midshipman, to the, Sparrowhawk ; G. T. Med:l, mid-
shipman, to the Dr:vt.r ; L. M. Mallett, midshipman,
to the Dragon ; W. H. Purve, master's assistant, to the
Calcutta; James Ribertson, toaster's assistant, to the
Satellite ; E. Westaway, to the Calcutta ; H, ii-71ight,
clerk, to the Satellite.

FRIVITFUL DEATH BY A LION.

(From a Cape of Good Hope paper,)

On Friday morning, the 13th of June, several wag-
gons, forming part of the second division of the com
mando, left Mooi River Dorp for the lager at Mariko.
They rode the first evening as far as Riet Spruit, a
noted Waco for lion'. Mr. Philip va❑ Coller and his
brother wishing to proceed, inspanned their waggons
about midnight, although they were strongly advised by
their companions not to ride before morning. They had
scarcely ridden an hour when the oxen were suddenly
frightened. Philip van Coller jumped off his waggon
and endeavoured to turn them, but not succeeding if;
doing so, sprang upon the waggon trap, from whim he
mutt have been immediately dragged by a large lion with
such force as to break one of the trap-riems. He was
heard to cry out twice for help, but in the confusion of
the moment was not missed, his brother Adolphe being
busy at the time on horseback, endeavouring to stop the
oxen, which were going at a fearful rate through the
veld. With much difficulty he succeeded in doing so,
and then returned to look for his missing t rother, whose
body he found about daybreak, and the lion couching
about 12 yards from it. With a feeling of denperation
he levelled his gun and fired at the animal. The aim was
good, and as the ball paiieed right through its head, it
fell down on the spot. On coming nearer to his bro-
ther's body the poor man was sadly shocked at its muti-
lated cond*ion, the lion having carried it a long distance,
and then devoured the greater portion. The remains were
hastily ecn.reyed to town, and upwards of 80 perons
attended the funeral. Poor Philip van Coller loaves a
widow stud several children to deplore their loss, and his
melancholy end.
We have since learnt that previous to the oxen becom-
ing frightened, the lion first attacked, without any pro-
Aocation, Adolphe va❑ Coller, and three other men, who
were riding on horseback some distance in front of the
waggon. Having no guns with them, they jumped
on their horses, aed stood between them and the lion.
The lion, however, appeared to be more anxious to at-
tack them than their horsee, on which they shouted,
and throw their bats at him, and afterwards fired the
gra,s, whet; he left them and went to the waggon. The
surrounding country being all occupied, the lions ap
pear to have cmecentrat:d themselves at this spot, where
they are extremely bold.

ICE or GOLD.—The quctation of gold at Parie is
aboot 0 per mills premium, and the short exchange on
Londo;?le 2.5.22!1 per 11. sterling. Oo comparing these
rates wii.ll the Engiish Mint pr;.ce of 3/. 17s. 1011. per
ounce for E-tandard gold, it appears that gold is
neary 4 10. is per cent, dearer Li Paris timn in Lon-
Con. 13y a:lv:T.l-x. from Ham burg the price of gold is 424
pc r mark, and t. le short exchange on London is 13.2 aper
1/. sterling. Slo,ndard gold, at the English Mint price,
is therefore ;.bout 9-10Vi8 per cent, dearer in Hamburg
than in London. Tie course of exchange at New York
°o London to: bil;e at GO days' sight is mit per cent.,
wllieh, when compared with the Mint par between the
tot.) countries, shows that the exchange is slightly in
favour of England ; and, after making allowance for
charges of transport and difference of interest, the pre-
sent rate leaves a mall profit on the importation of
gold from the United States.