The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-15 00:00:00

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY.
The Royal Mail steamier Arabia arrived here
at 10.30 p.m. to-day. She brings 72 passengers,
61,241 dots. in specie, and £5,000 sterling for
England. She left Boston on the 6th, and Halifax
on the 7th inst. The Arabia landed all the mails
except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 10.55
p.m. all well.
The America, Palestine, Manchester, and Bavaria,
had arrived out. Despatches received from Toronto
and Kingston report trouble between the Prince's
party and the Orangemen. The Prince refused to
land at Kingston. A battle had occurred in Mexico
between Begollado and Miramon. The latter was
defeated and badly wounded, but escaped with a
few cavalry.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, SEPT. 4, EVENING.
Money is in active demand at full rates. Ex-
change slack, but not lower. Stocks active and
firmer. New York Centrals 831 to 84 ; Erie 27Z ;
Illinois 86 to 86i. Cotton steady. Sales nominally
unchanged. Breadstuffs and freight firm.

NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 3.
Cotton sales to-day 2,200 bales. The market is
firm, but unchanged. Oswego. Sept. 3,—Flour
dull and unchanged. Chicago, Sept. 3,—Flour
dull, 10 c. lower ; Corn 1 to 2 c. lower.

(LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX.)
NEW YORK, SEPT. 6.
The America from Liverpool was intercepted off
Cape Race on the 4th inst.
The Prince Albert from Galway arrived at St.
John's on the sth inst.
Serious Orange troubles are expeated at King-
ston and Toronto.
AiS Royal Highness the Prince 91Wales refund

to land at Kingston, the Orangemen having refused
to withdraw the colours of their party.
Cannonading took place at Trucillo on the 24th
August. It is supposed to have been from a com-
bined attack of a British frigate and tho Guatemala
forces.

News from Mexico state that Miramon had been
:otally routed by Degollado.

The New York cotton market is steady. Flour
remains steady, prices are advancing. Wheat is
buoyant, and quotations are 2c. to 3c. higher.
Indian corn is firm, and 2c. to 3c. higher.

ORLEANS, SEPT. 5.

The cotton market is unchanged. Sales in three
days, 6,000 bales ; receipts during the same period,
18,500.

GLASGOW ADDRESS TO GARIBALDI.

The following address to General Garibaldi was
agreed to at a meeting of the" Glasgow Garibaldi
Fund" Committee, on Wednesday, and will be for-
warded to Naples at once :
" To his Excellency General Garibaldi, the Liberator of
Italy, from the Glasgow Committee of The Garibaldi
Italian Fund.'

" General,—We have the high honour and felicity of
addressing you, and presenting our sincere congratulations
on your marvellous series of successes, inaugurated at
Marsala, and culminating in your triumphant and blood-
less occupation of the city of Naples. Your former bril-
liant and spotlesss career in South America, in Rome, and
in Northern Italy had inspired us with the most pro-
found feelings of confidence in your pure, unselfish pa-
triotism, your consummate genius, and your chivalric
valour. But your subsequent campaign. in Sicily and
Naples has still further increased our admiration of your
virtues and confidence in your abilities. And we are sure
that we express the unanimous opinion of the free people of
this free nation when we state that no character of ancient
or modern times has developed, whether in prosperity or
adversity, such a combination of the highest qualities of
humanity; and that history records no parallel of a man
who has, by his undoubted and acknowledged merits alone,
commanded, as you have, the enthusiastic and spontaneous
admiration and esteem of every lover of freedom through-
out the world. Italy is worthy of your chivalrous crusade.
Once ' the mistress of the world' and the centre of civilisa-
tion, she has, alas I by centuries of misrule, cruel poli-
tical despotism, and gross spiritual delusion, fallen
from her high estate,' and has become a scoff and a byword
among civilised nations. It is your mission, General, to
restore your classic and beloved country—so blessed by God
and so cursed by man—to her place among free nations,
and to raise her to her former greatness. We look with the
utmost confidence to the successful result of your grand
object; and if the Italian people are only true to them-
selves we shall have presented to us one of the grandest
spectacles the world ever saw, in the resurrection of a
nation to political life, brought about through the in-
strumentality of one man I While our Government
wisely abstains from interfering in the present com-
plications, the privilege is ours, as a free people,
to offer you the expression of our warmest admira-
tion, and to strengthen your hands by assuring you of the
strong sympathy we feel in your earnest determination to
finish the good work throughout the whole peninsula.
And we have the most unbounded confidence that what
you have thus far so auspiciously accomplished will, by
the help and under the blessing of Divine Providence, be
brought to a successful consummation. Britain, unhap-
pily, had a part in the work of imposing foreign rulers on
the Italian people. It is our duty, therefore, as it is our
desire, to assist in expunging this blot from our country's
history. And while we cannot aid you by our presence in
the field of action, we have felt it to be an honour and a
privilege to assist you with our contributions, which we
have forwarded to you from time to time. These subscrip.
tions are butte meagre expression of the sympathy which
the Scottish people entertain for you personally, and for
the noble and righteous cause of Italian freedom and
unity, of which you are the acknowledged and worthy re-
presentative, for no amount of gold can adequately express
the universality and intensity of that feeling. We would
present our sincere and earnest prayer to Almighty God,
who has thus far so wonderfully guided and protected you
through great difficulties and dangers, and led you on from
♦ictory to victory for His own all-wise purposes, that He
may still spare your valuable life, so that you may be en-
abled to accomplish your great purpose of establishing a
free Italy—that you may witness Italy a great and flourish-
ing nation, with a people happy and good—and that you
may long enjoy those honours you have so nobly earned,
and which a grateful country will be only too proud to be •
stow upon you. And we would conclude by assuring you
that none will more cordially or sincerely rejoice in your
health, prosperity, and happiness than the Scottish sub-
scribers to ' the Garibaldi Italian Fund.'—We have the
honour to subscribe ourselves, your most devoted friends.—
Signed by the members of committee.
" ROBERT WTEAR, lion. Sec.
" Glasgow, Sept. 12."

FIRST LOVE.

(F; one " Once a- Week.")
She was the first, the only star
That shone upon my life,
The summer of my days had set

Before I called her -wife ;
The leaves have fallen twenty times
Beneath our trysting tree,
Since the ringers shook the rafters
In the belfry by the sea.

The pulses of my heart beat slow,
With calm, unilutter'd stroke,
Till with a party from the Grange
I pic-nic'd at the Oak;
A stranger to our Forest ways,
She came with Alan's bride,
One glance—l knew my love was come—
The old indifference died.

The park, a summer's walk across,
Was famous in the shire ;
The porter at the crested gates
Grew rich and blessed the squire;
I show'd the glade where ballads say
The King met Robin Hood,
I took her where, as boys, we cropped
Wild strawberries in the wood.

The gardens and the orange trees,
The swans upon the lake,
The gazing stags among the fern,
The pheasants in the brake ;
These sumptuous signs of wealthy state
She 39,W with sweet surprise,
And I—now light was on them all,
Seen with a lover's eyes.

When Alan blew his warning horn,
My chestnut joined her bay ;
Down the long grassy "rides" we rode,
And watched the rabbits play.
The dead sun in his crimson shroud
Lay buried in the west,
And Love was nestling in my heart,
An inmate, not a guest.

A gipsy party gaily plann'd,
A smile, a soft " good night,"
And then I left the low white house,
Just as the stars were bright :
Lost in some far, forgotten sea,
The sailor on the shore
Sights, to his joy, the ship that comes
To bear him home onco more.

The bride moon with her dower of stars
Twice grew to matron age,
Before my birdie flew away
Back to her northern cage;
She knew the abbey pictures well,
She dared the IMunted room,
"We laughed around the Oak again,
And saw the aloe bloom.

A promise in the oriel won
To crown my growing bliss,
A drooping head, a circled waist,
And such a binding kiss !
0, happy time ! 0, happy time I
It never has its fallow—
The one green leaf that hangs among
So many sere and yellow.

Before the Autumn spent his wrath
Upon the rectory vine,
I claim'd the promise that she made,
I went and whisper'd, " mine :"
May's father trembled as he said,
" Take her, a trusting wife,
And cherish one whose love has thrown
A glory round my life."
Some days beside a lonely mere,
(Lured by the waterfall),
And then we settled at the Grange,
For Alan took the Hall :
How swift the lustres pass'd along,
Sweet heart, with love and you,
For if the sky was sometimes dark,
There came a break of blue.
And ever as the year winds round,
And brings the longest day,
We gather at the Fo.:est Oak,
Where first I met my May ;
Look, Alan's boy and our maybud
Aro coming down the " ride,"
Forhaps before another Juno
There 'll be another bride.
R. F. SRETCULEY,

THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST.—The wea-
ther during the past week has been everything that could
be desired in the important agricultural districts on the
eastern side of the kingdom, and by this (Saturday) even-
ing the wheat harvest may bo considered as concluded.
The quality of the crop has so often been referred to that it
it is unneeessaqy to repeat the information already pub-
lished ; but it is satisfactory to find that the later accounts
received are, on the whole, of a rather more favourable cha-
racter. Much of the newly secured crop will not be fit for
thrashing for some little time, but several of the smaller
farmers appear to bo already bringing all they can forward,
so as to realise at the comparatively high quotations which
have been obtained of late. They are, no doubt, acting
wisely in so doing, for the markets have shown a decided
downward tendency ; and, having regard to the great yield
in the United States, it appears very doubtful whether the
,present prices will be maintained. The barley harvest is
by no means so forward as the wheat, but with a few more
"9 days Ito 811)11-c115 ),611, mu 4 6 paw up for IQ9 WaY,"

211 E FREY

IN CIIINA.

The Moniteur publishes the following details

relative to the proceedings of the Frenehiroops.in
China :

" The- last mail from China has not brought the
particulars of the first operations towards which
the impatient curiosity of Europe is at this moment
directed, but official and private despatches and let-
ters contain information respzeting the countries
visited by the expedition, of which we feel it our
duty to give a brief summary.
" It was on the 2d July that Gen. Montauban
left Shanghai, to take up a position in the Gulf of
Pe-Tche-Li, on the small peninsula of Tche-Fu,
the occupation of which by the French troops had
been resolved on in concert with the allied generals
and admirals.

" After a day's sail the French flotilla, when off
the Sadle Islands (at the mouth of the Yang-Tze-
Kiang), fell in with the Weser, which had sailed
from Toulon on the 25th March, and reached Hong-
Kong on 25th June. The Calvados and Entrepre-
nante, laden with horses from Japan, also arrived
in those waters after a successful passage ; lastly,
the Duperre, bringing detachments of African Chas-

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seers and Spahis, came to complete the forces of the
expedition.

"The French camp at Tche-Fu occupies a spit of
land about 600 metres long by 300 wide. It is well
supplied with fresh water and everything necessary
for the well-being of the troops; the climate is at
this moment as salubrious as possible ; the tempe-
rature is about the same as spring in France, and the
appearance of the country is really magnificent. It
has not the monotony of Shanghai, where the eye is
not relieved by any inequalities of the soil. While
equally well cultivated with Shanghai, Tehe-Fu
presents mountains covered with wood ; the plain
extends like a vast lawn down to the coast, which
is fringed with islands offering excellent ports for
fishing boats. In winter the cold attains a degree
of intensity of which it is impossible to form any
idea from merely contemplating the means which
the natives employ to protect themselves against
it ; but, before the fine season is over, the allied
forces will have got over plenty of ground, and the
Chinese Government will probably have provided
their winter quarters.

" On advancing a few leagues into this favoured
country villages, which are charmingly clean, are
found. The walls of the houses aro constructed of
cut stone, as is seen on railways. Not one of the
villagers is armed ; all receive us with cordiality ;
and the poor come to cat the food which the sol-
diers leave. It is not assuredly our little French
army which will cause the Chinese to dread the ,
European character and relations.
" The town near which the French troops are
encamped is called Yen-Tai ; its population is from
10,000 to 12,000 souls. Near it is the little town.
of Ki-sen• soo, which is surrounded with an embank-
ment of earth, with gates in stone. It is but thinly
occupied just now, but every day the inhabitants
are returning. The communication between the
French camp and the people are carried on at Yen-
Tai, and in all the neighbouring places up to the
town of Teng-Tchou-Fu, the chief town of that part
of the province of Chang-Tang. Ten g-Tchou-Fu is,
it is said, a town of the first class, carrying on a
large trade ; it is eight leagues from Tche-Fu, and
some of its inhabitants, attracted by curiosity, have
visited the French camp.
" Our troops maintain the most friendly rela-
tions s ith the inhabitants, and every day, from
five in the morning to four in the afternoon, a
market is kept open at Tche-Fu, and is abun-
dantly supplied with poultry, eggs, fresh pork,
vegetables, &c. The market people and our soldiers
perfectly understand each other, although the igno-
rance of a common language is a serious difficulty,
but signs are employed, and the intelligence of the
French soldier (to which that of the Chinese dealer
is not inferior), makes up for what cannot be ex-
pressed in words. Everything is very cheap, and
the inhabitants must possess incredibly large quan-
tities of all sorts of poultry to be able to supply the
market on the large scale they do. The Emperor's
soldiers have surpassed the dream of the good King
Harry, for la joule au pot is their daily fare. Fish
is also very abundant.
"The excellent food of our troops, assured by the
active vigilance of the military administration,
contributes greatly to maintain a good sanitary
condition. The hospital returns show that on the
Bth July there were only 64 sick, which was about
1 per cent. of the effective force.
" Everything purchased from the inhabitants is
paid for in cash ; they consequently feel perfect
confidence in our troops, and the administration
has been able to treat very easily for all that is
necessary to feed both men and horses. In all parts
of the town of Yen-Tai Chinese traders have put up
French inscriptions indicating their species of
commerce ; one of these bears the words Change de
Monnaies.
" Excessively severe police regulations are en-
forced in the market of Tche-Fu, Four sergeants
of different corps are appointed every day to see
to the maintenance of order; the command of the
town is confided to a chef de bataillon, who receives
all complaints and observations of the notables, and
of the tao-tai, a sort of mayor, who is an inferior
mandarin with a brass button.
" Mules of the best sorts are found in this
country; the inhabitants on the very first day of
our arrival brought out about 50, which in height
are not inferior to those of Poitou. The General-
in-Chief is expecting a much greater number, which
are destined for the mountain batteries, and only
cost 250 f. each.
" General de Montauban, on the 11th, received
at Tche-Fu a visit from Gen. Grant, commanding-
in-chief the English army in China, who came from
Ta-Lien-Hwant to confer on the common interests
of the allied forces. The military honours due to his
high position were paid to his Excellency by the
French troops, and after having, with all his staff,
dined with General de Montauban, he went over the
camp. The bands saluted the commander of the troops
of H.M. the Queen of Great Britain by playing the
national air of God save the Queen' as he passed
before the regiments. The artillery in which Ja-
panese horses are employed manoeuvred before his
Excellency: these horses, though they arrived only
five days before, executed all the movements with
perfect precision. General Grant examined
with interest a bridge of 80 metres (about 87
yards) at the Birago, constructed by the French
pontoonmen, and over which batteries can pass.
He was much pleased with all he saw, and he said
so with that good grace and frank cordiality which
characterise military habits.
" Before embarking, General Grant made
General de Montauban promise to visit his head-
quarters at the English camp. A salvo of eleven
guns saluted the departure of the commander-in.-
chief of the British troops.
" The hour of combat was approaching when the
preceding. details were addressed to us, the allied
forces having decided on commencing hostilities by
an attack on the works which defend the entrance
of the Peiho.
" The French navy and troops, whose irresistible
impetuosity will be doubled by the constant accord
of their commanders, were preparing for a decisive
action ; and whilst in Europe so much is said of
jealous rivalries, the English and French in China
were about to compete in bravery and ardour for
the common cause—that of justice, commerce, and.
civilisatiosz."

It is reported, and we (Australian and, New Zoa•
land Gazette) have reason to believe with some probability,
that Sir W. Denison, the governor of New South Wales,
or Sir H. Barley, governor of Victoria, are likely to be pro-
moted to one of the Indian presidencies. Beth have bad a
long experience in colonial administration, and by their ad-
ministrative ability, judgment, and courtesy, have not only
made themselves highly respected in the colonies, but have
materially been the cause of the removal of that stigma
which for so long a time attached to the appointments of
our colonial governors.

THE EARL OF KINGSTON.—CHESTER, Thursday.
—A gentleman,
iigsto n, who stated himself to be a friend of the
Earl of in and who was supposed to be a solicitor
from London, though his name was not allowed to trans-
pire, arrived here this morning, and, attending at the
office of the magistrates' clerk, paid all expenses in-
curred on the earl's account, and obtained an order to
have his lordship given up to him by the officers of the
County Asylum. His lordship, we are told, was very con-
tent during his residence at the asylum, and said he should
have no objection to stay there for a month. His lordship
left hero for Dublin by the express train, at 3.45 p.m., to-
day.
THE FIGHT AT TARANAKI.—The mail has ar-
rived from Taranaki; it brings the said intimation that our
gallant British soldiers and blue jackets have suffered a
defeat. Let not the word defeat grate too harshly on your
ears; our brave troops, with their equally brave and indo-
mitable commander, Major Nelaun, performed prodigies
of valour, and showed themselves what we have always
imagined the British soldier and sailor to be—men who
will flinch at nothing where duty calls. But these gal-
lant men were left to fight—some 350—against swarms
of natives, for nearly five hours, unaided by troops which
were almost within call, for Colonel Gold, and the
equally brave Lieutenant-Colonel Murray had some 200
troops at their back while reconnoitering the very spot
where the battle was raging. They were on a hill which
commanded a view of the attacked rebel pah; they knew
that Major Nelson must have been repulsed, for they still
saw the Maori flag flying and heard shots from the pah,
and yet these gallant soldiers ordered their murmuring
men to march back again to quarters. Mind the men under
their command all desired to be led against the pah, and
yet "retire" was the order given. The sailors laid down
and refused to retire, the soldiers groaned and hissed.--•
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