The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON; WEDNLESDA.Y
_EVENtit-Im AUGUST et Ist&

UGO BASSI, the priest, and knocking and kicking ,
to death two boys whom their bullets had left
struggling for life ! The genius of a SHAKSPERE
or a DANTE could hardly invent execrations be-
fitting this deed of a Hapsburg.
Take another. They arrest FELICE OESINI at
Hermanstadt travelling under a feigned name,
arrest him on suspicion merely ; they knots of no
charge against him, though they subsequently did.
Now, allowing despots to punish convicted political
offenders, what are we to think of subjecting them,
prior to conviction, nay even prior to examina-
tion, to the most revolting cruelties ? ORSINI
was at once thrown into a damp dungeon,
allowed only a straw mattress and two blankets,
and denied books to read, and even a change of
linen. Attacked, in consequence, with agonising
spasms for forty-eight hours, he was for days
refused a medical man, and when he began to
recover his health and appetite, he was not only
not permitted to purchase needful food, but
allowed so little bread that he was almost deliri-
ous, and in danger of dying from hunger. All
this time he was not allowed sheets or towels, or
even a basin to wash in ! One is at a loss to
conceive the fiendish malignity which could treat
thus a gentleman, and man of education, as yet
merely suspected. With like brutality he was
conveyed on some straw in an open waggon, during
a bitter frost, and loaded with irons, to Vienna.
Of course, the head-quarters of Hapsburg bru-
talities must more than outvio provincial
savagery ; he was thrown into one dungeon after
another, dreadfully ill, ironed, the stench and
vermin so intolerable, that he nauseated the
wretched food provided him ; even the water was
too filthy to be drunk, and frequently swarmed
with worms. His companions were five thieves
of the lowest description. Nothing in all the
maltreatment of this high-minded Italian struck
us so much as the wanton suffering inflicted
on a gentleman, and inflicted before trial. And
all the treatment of political prisoners, their heavy
chains, their damp dungeons, their revolting
food, are all as minutely regulated from Vienna,
as they were in the days of Sumo PELLICO.
Young FRANCIS JosErg, to please whom wo sacri-
ficed such thousands of our brave soldiers, must
bear the odium to all ages of these loathsome and
gratuitous cruelties. His conduct is worthy of
the repulsive features which we have seen in a
bust, opposite :to that of the noble bust of Kos-

SuTg.
The brutality of the SOVEREIGN pervades all
the Austrian soldiers and officers. There is not
among civilised troops probably such a set of uu-
chivalrous cowards as Austrians and their com-
manders. Their delight is to cut and hack
unarmed civilians, they dread to meet an armed
, foe, Russian, Hungarian, or Turk. Anything
more infamously cruel than their system of
espionage was hardly ever invented ; whoever
does not inform the police of any signs of disaffec-
tion be has witnessed, be it in his friend or rela-
tive, is liable to five years of the carcere duro.
The code defines this punishment thus—" The
condemned shall be confined in a dungeon, se-
cluded from all communication, with only as
much light and space as is necessary to sustain
life ; he shall be constantly loaded with heavy
fetters on the hands and feet ; he shall never,
except during the hours of labour, be without a
chain attached to a circle of iron round his
body ; his diet shall be bread and water ; a hot
ration (consisting of slices of bread steeped in hot
water and flavoured with tallow) every second
day, but never any animal food ; his bed to be
cru-nr,,Afl of naked planks, and he shall be for-
bidden to see any one without exception." We
can but ask is the brute who can retain and en-
force a punishment like this for what is no crime
at all, or even for heinous crimes, is such a
brute fit to have an English Amb tssaclor at his
Court, to bo dealt with as a gentleman and a man
of honour ; and, cr edite posteri, to be employed as
a silver-tongued NESTOR to soften the heart of
the obdurate savage who deals out to POERIO
and his companions Austrian penalties ?
We need not describe again the infamous Las-
tinado on the caralletto, nor illustrate further what
tyrants can do in the case of FRANCIS JOSEPH'S
counterpart BOALEA—brutality, wanton, cruel
brutality is the modern tyrant's stigma, the
markset on those CAINS. Would that they
tto were wanderers and vagabonds on the face
of the earth—or, off its face. To blame assassina-
tion and insurrection under such laws and gover-
nor's is literally childish. Men must be maddened
to almost anything. They cease to be account-
able to the ordinary rules of prudence when
plagued from day to day, and from night to night,
with such devilry under the name of Governarent.
But what shall we say to Cayenne ? What,
of gentlemen accustomed to the best society,
and paorer, yet worthy men, all guilty only of
opposition to the subversion ,af law, the destruc-
tion of the constitution, and the inauguration of
an irresponsible empire, by a President who had
sworn to maintain what he overthrew,—and yet
—sentenced for this crime only to the tail of
galley slaves, to the "Isle of Despair"—and to
working in a chain fastened to a cannon shut.
Can LOUIS NAPOLEON--a ur ally—cherish the
rancour of a IT ipsburg or a Bourbon ? Can he
willingly bear the tyran is stigma malignant
brutality ? Will he vienture, now that all
Europe knows it, to retain unconvicted prisoners
in disgraceful bondage (mo at disgraceful, however,
to him), mainly because hey did not believe in
the Divine Right of the os ,up d'etat of 1851 ?

" FREMONT stock" is :st ill rising rapidly in the
Transatlantic market, and there is reason to be-
lieve that the Gallant Cc dconel may yet succeed in
obtaining the absolute maj 'o:rity at the first election,
which will disappoint tilt) hopes of BUCHANAN,
FILLIMORE, BRECKENRIDICk E, and their respective
adherents. The best p ossible proof has been
afforded of this auspiciot tst result. The value of
real estate at Washingtt Pr!, and, by a necessary
consequence, in the South ern estates, has been
emsiderably affected. C),uotations have fallen,
and a capitalist desirous oi: making investments
in sable stock may now d / so on very advantage-
ous terms.

And yet Colonel 'REII roNT is not a thorough-
going Abolitionist. He, by no means pledges
himself to the overthrow of the " domestic in-
stitution," or insists on an immediate enfranchise-
ment of the coloured pot
"
.elation. "The head
and front of his offending'' is, simply, that he re-
fuses his assent to
at ty further extension
of the Slave system, or the admission of
new Slave States into the Union. He will
not "go the whole hog" x. z ith. the Southern States,
and is thelefuro regarded : t .s an enemy. The very
moderation of his viol vs enhances the danger,
inasmuch as he is thereL 9, rendered more capable
of sapping the foundatCo ms, and leading to the
ultimate extinction of ti he iniquitous practice.
The Southern Yankees an! ) well aware that a state
of chronic excitement is ii ,dispensable to the con-
tinuance of the system. Tr: Lie moment " terrorism"
is abandoned it must Ii Neu sarily fall to the ground,
and whenever it has , not all the energies of the
Government for V ~ time being enlisted in its
favour it must grs
• •
%dually sink in the social scale.
The Transa tla
ate " protectionists" are even

more zealous in their vocation, and more gloomy
in their vaticinations, than their English brethren
were some ten years since. Slavery is to them
what the Corn Laws were supposed to be to the
English agriculturist the very " Palladium"
whereon their security depended. Could they be
induced to reason calmly, and to take a dispas-
sionate view of the subject, they would soon per-
ceive that free labour could be procured
as cheaply, and would be fully as efficacious as
that which they are now straining every nerve to
maintain in all its fearful atrocity. The cow-hide,
powerful as it may be deemed, is by no weans so
efficient an instrument as the desire of obtaining
" a fair day's wages for a fair day's work," and
enjoying the moderate comforts that under the
new regime will be placed within the reach of
every well-disposed labourer.
At present all things are viewed through a
distorted medium. Slaveowners altogether ignore
the notion of going on without compulsory labour.
They think that the change would be perfect ruin,
and thus attacked on the tenderest point they are
ready to proclaim war to the knife on behalf of
that which gives them, as they believe, the
" means whereby they live." Honco have they
thrown themselves heart and soul into the con -
test. Hence have they supported Lynch law in
their own districts—the forcible invasion of Kan-
sas, and the ruffianly assault on Mr. SUMNER in
the Senate. They are, in fact, in an .abnormal
state, feeling that their future condition entirely
depends on feverish and almost convulsive efforts
during the present contest.
The question is, indeed, one of vast importance,
on the solution whereof depends the welfare and
prosperity—nay, more, the future respectability—
of the United States' Government. If the gigantic
natural resources of the magnificent territory be
duly and properly developed, the "statesmen"
may become the greatest benefactors of their
species. The domestic institution is the curse
which hangs over them, and which brings an
avenging NEMESIS into the field. The rejec-
tion of Colonel FItEMONT would be the signal
for their speedy ruin—for the commencement
of a contest which would be far more injurious
than any as yet anticipated. There would be a
speedy solution of the interesting problem, with
nothing to break their fall. Should it be other-
wise they will have ample time to set their
houses in order, and to get out of the difficulty
without loss, if they decide on a speedy retreat ;
or, should they have the moral courage to meet
the new state of affairs, to find that
their position has been really materially im•
proved. The Southerns will really be the
parties to reap the greatest benefits from Colonel
FREMONT'S election; but, in the meantime, every
philanthropist, every one desiring the happiness
of his fellow-beings—the peace and tranquillity of
the world—must feel deeply interested in a ques-
tion by which these matters will be so greatly
affected.

The population of London; and more particu-
larly the poorer portion, are not a little indebted
to the Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers
of Health, for the able and practical Report of
the Committee appointed by the latter to inquire
into the Alleged Sale of Unwholesome Meat in the
Metropolis. To be assured of the existence of
danger may or may not be deemed a boon, just
as provision can or cannot be made against it—
but when the warning is accompanied by the sug-
gestion of gipuate means of prevention there
can be no doubt of a real and important service
having been rendered.

The Report in question, a copy of which will
be found in another page of our present impres-
sion, establishes the fact of unsound meat being
extensively, and in large quantities, offered for sale
is the metropolis—points out the appearances pre•
son ted by the various kinds of diseased moat, reveals
the pernicious results of eating such meat, and,
finally, gives the public assurance that the Legis-
lature has already provided adequate means for
putting a stop in the long run to the sale of it.
Stich moat, we are informed, has boon found ex-
Posed pretty generally for sale in Southwark,
Bermondsey, the Holborn districts, and in large
quantities in Newgate market. In the latter
place, thanks to the City Inspector, it is promptly
seized when offer,td, but at the expense, we are
afraid, of the outskirts of the metropolis, to
which, there is too much reason to believe, un-
sound meat from the country is secretly and sys-
tematic•ally conveyed. The appearances presented
by such meat are principally the following, which
ought to be known as such by the public. In
the first place, the colour is either dingy or too
bright. Secondly, the smell is peculiarly sour
and sickening, even when it is fresh. Thirdly,
besides such meat being soft, flabby,
and not set, there is a peculiar and de-
cided wetness about it. In addition to
these appearances, there are marks indicative
of special diseases, and of the animal having been
killed when out of condition. For these the
reader must consult the report. Among the con-
sequences of eating such meat is, in the opinion of
the committee, the occasioning of tapeworm and
other hydatids, of debility, poverty of blood, and
many of the intractable maladies by which the
poor are afflicted. The preventive measures are
indictable at common law and a number of special
enactments, including the Nuisance Removal Act,
as well as others of a local nature —the primary
steps to be taken by the existing inspectors of nui-
sances, who should be authorised to act as sanitary
inspectors. The great amount of poverty in the
metropolis, the high price of meat, and the neces-
sity of the labouring poor having this description of
food, together with the immense sale of sausages,
into which all filthy and unwholesome meat regu-
larly finds its way and is engulphed beyond the
possibility of detection by the public, attach more
than ordinary importance to this subject, which
for the present we must leave the metropolitan
reader to ponder over, assuring him that, directly
or indirectly, he is personally interested in it.

DEATH OF STAUDIGL.—A letter from Vienna, in the
Augsburg Gazette, announces the death of Staudigl the
Finger. He died in a madhouse.
Mr. Andrew, the chairman of the Euphrates Valley
Railway and :European and Indian Junction Telegraph
Companies, transacted business yesterday with Lord
Clarendon, at the Foreign-office.
The Pope has just appointed the following- council-
lors of State for the finance—Prince Orsini, for Rome
and its prhvince ; Count Ronchi, for Ferrara : Count
Beni, for Urbino and Pessru ; and Dr. Joseph Nebbia,
for Ascoli.

',INLAND 8008 POST.—On the Ist of September next,
and thenceforth, the privileges of Inland Book Post will
be extended so as to include printed letters like other
printed matter.—ROWLAND HILL, Soc.
Tna RUSSIAN CORN TRADE.—We have just received
information (says the Lubeck Gazette) that the Russian
Government has prohibited the exportation of corn from
Bjornebog, and it is expected that the prohibition will be
extended to the whole of Finland.
The Lubeck Gazette says :—" We have just received
the information that the Russian Government has pro-
hibited the exportation of corn from Bjornebog, and the
expectation is that this interdiction will be extended to
the whole of Finland."
A letter from Turin, of the 221 inst., says :—" Pied-
mont is arming and snaking warlike preparations, as if
she were on the eve of a new collision. The fortifica-
tions of Alessas dila and Casale are rapidly advancing.
The troops are employed in constructing the works."
CAPE OP GOOD HOPE,—Cape papers of one day's later
date, viz. of the 31st May, have reached us. The only
news they contain is the arrival out of the intelligence
of the cessation of the war, the official annoui c .nient
of pea n', and the order of the colonial gove nor ft r a
general iiluminatinn in eelebration of the event.
THE TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPII.—The United States'
screw-steamer Arctic arrived at Queenstown on Satur-
day, after having been 23 days out, from St. John's,
Newfoundland. The Arctic has been engaged in taking
deep sea soundings for the contemplated line of telegraph
between Ireland and America.
The Dresden Journal says:—"The great subject of
conversation in the military circles of Berlin is a new
kind of small field piece, capable of carrying correctly
1,000 yards and which is mounted on wheels, and so
light that it can be drawn sad manoeuvred by a single
man."

MONET.—Meley is in good supply in the Stock-Ex.
change at 41 per cent., and in the discount market the
demand is only moderate. An instalment of 500,0001.
on the last loan falls due to-morrow. A payment of
1,000,0001. on the 18th of September is all that will then
remaiu to be paid.
THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL COMPANY.—The directors of
the Australian Mail Company have visited Southampton,
and highly approve of the accommodation which the
docks there will afford them. Their first mail-packet,
the Oneide, will reach Southampton the first week in
October, and will start for Australia on the 18th of that
month with the first mail. The whole fleet of 'French
transatlantic steamers are about to be sent to South-
ampton to be docked.
Miss NIGHTINGIALE.—On Monday afternoon and
evening two meetings were held in Birmingham—the
one of the clergy, merchant,, and traders of the town,
at the Town-hall, and the other, of the working classes,
at the Public Office—to promote a subscription in aid
of the Metropolitan Nightingale Fund. Mr. C. H.
Braoebridge, of Atherstone Hall, presided on both occa-
sions. The following resolution was unanimously
adopted :—"That this meeting, being desirous of ex-
pressing its sense of the noble exertions of Miss Night-
ingale and her ts>ociates in the hospitals of the Risk
re4olves that a subscription be forthwith opened in this
town, in aid of the Nightingale Fund—.the amount of
each subscription not to exceed a guinea." Committees
were appointed to carry out the objects of the mewing.
The Bulletin Scientifique, edited by M. Babinet, of
the institute, contains the following curious informa-
tion :—" On the 23d of August, 9 minutes after the hour
of midnight, the first satellite of Jupiter was eclipsed.
The same phenomenon will again occur on the 31st at 3
minutes after 2 o'clock a.m., and on the Ist of Septem-
ber at 32 minutes after 8 o'clock a.m. the eclipse of the
first satellite of Jupiter may be observed. The second
satellite of this planet will be eclipsed on the 29th of
August at 46 minutes after 9 o'clock p.m. ; the third
satellite was eclipsed on the 22d at 4 min. after 3 a in.,
Paris time." The same journal says :—" We have a
more exact map of the moon than we have of the earth,
witness the lake, 300 leagues in length, in the centre of
Africa, which bad hitherto escaped the investigation of
travellers ; while the uncertainty of the position of cer-
tain points in the moon is limited to an error of two or
three leagues at most."
THE REPRESENTATION OF YARMOUTH.—The Mandies-
ter Guardian of yesterday says :—lt is now, we believe,
pretty certain that our townsman, Edward W. Watkiu,
Esq., will at the next election become a candidate fee
the representation of Yarmouth ; his colleague, in con
testing the Liberal interest, being, in all protability,
Wm. Torrens M'Cullagh, Esq., late M.P. for Dundalk,
who, in connection with Sir C. Napier, contested the
borough at the last election. Mr. Watkin's services in
time gone by to his native city, combined with his de-
servedly high character amongst his fellow-citizens, will
induce them to look with interest at the result of a con-
tesl, through which his talents may be as usefully em-
ployed for the benefit of his country in Parliament as
they have been out of it, in connection with our great
industrial undertakings, and with the social and political
improvement of the people.
THE ENORMOUS STORES OF GUNS AT SEEISTOPOL.—I
was incited by curiosity to ascertain the cause of the
enormous stores of guns at Sebastopol, and learnt that
Sebastopol was the storehouse for the Crimea and the
forts of the eastern c)ast of the Black Sea, and conse-
quently all the old guns from the Caucasus were sent to
Sebastopol, as well as those from the different places in
the Crimea. The guns that could be repaired were re-
turned to the huts to which they belonged after the ne-
cessary reparation, while those which were worn out
%mei put into store. Another reason for the number of

guns in this town wal, that the ships of the Black Sea
fleet wore built and armed at Nico!aieff, whence they
wire brought to Sebastopol ; and when they were
broken up in the latter place their guns were placed in
store. The consequence is, that during a period of 70
years the number of guns ham increased to something
enormous. The number of convicts confined in the town
amounted to about 7,000 men, whom Menschikoff em-
ployed upon the fortifications of the harbour.
The CROPS Is SCOTLAND.—The harvest can scarcely
yet be reported to have commenced in Scotland. The
cutting of wheat will not be general in the Lothians,
even under pretty favourable weather, till the beginning
of September. Scarcely a stook is yet seen in the neigh-
bourhood of this city or in Ayrshire. The present week,
however, has greatly promoted ripening, and from this
time forth the sickle will be pretty active in all the lead-
ing districts. Some fine fields of wheat will be ready to
cut down i❑ a day or two on the farms of Myremill and
Lyonston, near Maybole. At the Isle of Whithorn, in
Wigtonshire, reaping commenced about ten days ago.
At Baldonr, East and West, in the same county, a con-
siderable quantity of wheat has been cut since Mokday,
and in all the arable parts of Galloway stooks are begin-
ning to appear. In the districts, however, where the
corn crops are farthest advanced, the potato blight has
set in, and the progress of that mysterious distemper is
to be feared. Everywhere nearly the same report is given
of the general condition of the crops. They are some-
what late, but heavy, and more than promise, notwith-
standing all the disadvantages of the season, an abun-
dant return. Both wheat and oats are alike good, the
former probably having the superiority. Such weather
as we have bad this week, eeld but dry and sunny, is
primely suited to the filling and maturing of the grain
crops in their cmdition after the superabundant rains.—
Nora British Mail.

DISASTER. AT SEA.—We have received an interesting
account of an eventful occurrence at sea from Mr. C. W.
Adams, a pa,senger on board the Pacific steam .ship San-
tiaga, Commander W. R. Bartlett, from Valparaiso,
dated Callao, July 4. He states that the Santiago, 1,500
ton., with 150 persons on board, alai carrying a valuable
cargo, and specie to the amount of $200,000, two days
attar leaving Valparaiso, on June 28, struck upon a
reef of rooks, known as the "Infernal Rocks," during a
dark and hazy night. The ship was immediately
stopped and backed off the rocks ; but the water hav-
ing gained upon her forward, it was anticipated
every instant that she would go down. The coolness,
energy, and judgment of the captain, however," ap-
pear to have saved the ship ; and, after almost incre-
dible exertions, shared in by all on board, for two days
id nights, she arrived in safety at Callao. During
Vas fearful period the anxiety of all on board may be
imagined—the water gaining on them in spite of the
utmost exertions at the pumps. The water-tight
compartments alone saved them from destruction;
for had the bulkhead forward
given way the firesany'would have been extinguished and the engine a,'
pumps stopped, and the vessel must have sunk in h 5.„...
an-hour, Throughout the whole of this trying scene the
captain never quitted the deck, and the officers and crew,
to a man, are stated to have behaved with the most ex-
emplary fortitude and untiring zeal, Owing to those
exertions, in circumstances of such distressing difficulty,
no life was sacrificed, and the valuable cargo was pre•
sei y ad.

ASTURIAN MINING ComPANL—An extraordinary
meeting of the ehaieholders of this company took place
on Saturday, at their offices, 28, Rue de Miromenil; M.
Lillo, one of the members of the committee of surveil.
lance, in the chair. The meeting have been declared
duly constituted, M. de Grimaldi, the gerant, read a
report, setting forth the reasons which necessitated
a considerable increase in the capital of the company,
with a view to enlarging the works at Micros, so as
to insure the production of a far greater quantity of
iron than was fabricated there at preset. To that end
he should propose that a liquidation of the present
company should be proceeded to with all conve-
nient expedition, and a new company formed on more
extensive bases. In order to arrive at that result, he
should further propose that the property of the present
company be sold at Paris by public auction to the high-
est bidder, he pledging himself to procure a minimum
offer for the works of 2,125,000 f. (85,000/.), and that
afterwards a new company be formed with that sum as
a staitina point. A desultory conversation ensued, in
the course of which it appeared that the non-privileged
shares would be entitled to 100 f. each, in case the hold-
ers should not wish to join the new company ; that the
sale of the property should take place on the Ist Octo-
her ; and that the whole of the proceedings of the liqui-
dation were to be terminated by the let of March next.
The proposition of the gdrant for the liquidation of the
company was then voted unanimously, and M. de Gri-
maldi, M. Lillo, and Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, of Lon-
don, also a member of the committee of surveillance,
were appointed liquidator; the first in his quality of
gerant, and the other two as representing respectively
the French and English shareholders.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SII/LLING DAY, Tuesday,
Aug. 26 :—Admissions on payment, 29,646 ; ditto by
Beason tickets, 1,108 ; total visitors, 30,754.

SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY,
(This Day.)

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholder; in this
undertaking was held thi; afternoon at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street-11r. Chaplin, M.P., in the
chair.

The SECRETARY read the following report :
" The directors beg to call the attention of the proprie-
tors to the very satisfactory increase of the revenue over
that of the corresponding six months in 1855. It must be
remembered that the receipts of the half-year ending on
the 30th Juno are always less in proportion than thoso of
the half-year ending on the 31st December. It is there-
fore very gratifying to perceive that the traffic of the last
six months has exceeded by a small amount that of the
former half-year by 173/. 10.1. 5d., while the in-
crease over the corresponding period of 1855
amounts to 1,7911. 18s. I.od. The number of
messages transmitted between the lst January to the
30th June last amounts to 30,811, and the cash receipts
would have been proportionately large, but owing to the
active competition of telegraphic business on the Conti-
nent, the directors have boon obliged to expend a consider-
able amount in the shape of commission, and for establish-
ing agencies at the principal continental towns, so as to
secure their traffic for the lines of this company. Already
considerable benefit has been derived from these agencies,
and it is anticipated that by the close of the present year,
the business of the company will have greatly increased,
especially as most favourable arrangements have been
entered into with several Governments for the more
direct and cheaper transmission of despatches be-
tween Great Britain and all parts of the Continent.
After deducting the working expenses, and placing 10 per
cent, of the net profits to the reserved fund. there will re-
main a balance of 3,0461. IGs. 6,1., out of which the direc-
tors recommend tho payment of a dividend at the rate of
7 per cont. per annum, which will leave 3311. Os. 6d. to be
carried over to the credit of the current half-year. The
directors are happy to state that the increase in the num-
ber of messages since the 30th June last, warrant the an-
ticipation of an increase of dividend at the expiration of
the next six months."

The CHAIRMAN, after apologising for the absence of
the Chairman of the Board, congratulated the share-
holders on the satisfactory state of the company, and
assured the shareholders there WAS every reason to be-
lieve the same prosperity would attend them in future
as had for the past, and he was happy to be enable to
to inform them on the authority of the Engineer that
their line between Dover and Calais was as good now as
when laid down. He moved the reception and adop-
tion of the report.

Mr. JOHNSON seconded the motion, which was agreed
to unanimously.
A resolution, confirming the amount of dividend men-
tioned in the report, was agreed to.
Mr. F. Edwards and Lord De Manley were re-elected
directors.

The other business having been disposed of, the meet
ing separated, a vote of thanks having first been unani.
mously accorded to the chairman.

NORTH DEVON RAILWAY.
(This Day.)

The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this
railway was held this afternoon, at the offices of the
Company, Gresham-street—Mr. Tite, M.P., in the
chair.

The report was agreed to, after a short discussion,
and a dividend at the rate of per cent. per annum
on the ordinary stock, and of 2 per cent. on the B
Stock, was declared.
The meeting then separated.

THAMES HAVEN DOCK COMPANY.
(This Day.)

The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the above com-
pany was held this afternoon at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street, when a report was submitted and
agreed to authorising the company to proceed at once
with the works authorised by the act. A plan was
proposed showing the extent of dock accommodation.
A resolution was agreed to authorising the construc-
tion of the docks.

A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro,
ceedings.

THE CAMP AT COLCHESTER.

Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge reviewed the regiments of the British German
Legion now encamped at Colchester, numbering in the
aggregate about 5,200 men, divided into six regiments
of infantry, under the command of Major• General Baron
Stutterbeim. The Comrnander•in-Chief proceeded by
the exprfss train which leaves the Shoreditch terminus
of the Eastern Counties Railway at 9 o'clock in the
morning, attended by Major Clifton, aide de camp to his
Royal Highness ; Colonel Gordon, Deputy Quartermas-
ter. General ; and Colonel Kinloch, Inspector-a-Offal of
the British Foreign Legion. On arriving at ti .e statim
at Colchester he was received by Major• Gen ral Gas-
coigne, in command of the camp, and Maj.,r-General
Stutterheim, with the officers of their respective staffs,
and escfrted to Wyvenhoe park, the residence of Mr.
Gordon Rebow, a distance of between two and three
miles, where the troops were to be inspected.
The whole of the troops left the camp at half-past 9
in heavy marching order, and proceeded to a large open
field in the immediate vicinity of Wyvenhoe-park,
signed for the review, having a wood on one side and
skirted with trees on the three others. They consisted
of the Ist and 2d Rifle Regiments (Jagers) under the
respective commands of Colonel Schroer and Major Von
Vess, and the 2d, 4th, 5.h, and Gth Regiments of Light
Infantry, commanded respectively by Major Adams,
Col. Humfray, Col. Bathurst, and Col. Kent Murray.
Arriving on the ground they were drawn up in three
lines, each line two deep, the Jagers being in front,
forming one line, and the four infantry regiments be-
hind.

When the troops had marched past a sham fight en-
sued, which was maintained with great spirit for nearly
an hour. A regrlar series of evolutions t,f this kind
was performA, the general effect of which was ex-
tremely animated, particularly the rapid formation to-
wards the end of the fight, of the greater part of the
troops into hollow squares to receive a cava'ry charge.
Nor was the scene wanting in one at least of the incl.
dal is of a real onset, for a poor fellow belonging to a
rile regiment was carried to the rear with his hands
dreadfully lacerated by the accidental explosion of his
musket while he was in the act of reloading it. Finally,
the whole 5,000 men on the ground f ,rmed into a large
open square, facing inwards, with the Commander-in-
Chief and the staff officers, surrounding him in the centre ;
the six regimental bands, now consolidated into one,
played the national anthem, and his Royal Highness
took his departure amid the enthusiastic cheers of the
tr)op3. The Commander in-Chief, on leaving the field,
Proceeded to the house of Mr. Rebow, at Wyvenhoe-
park, where he partook of lunch in the company of the
officers who had formed his escort. He then returned to
the station at Colchester, attended as before, and left by
the 4 o'clock train for London.

war.

LATEST E WS.

MARSEILLES, AUG. 26.
The packet from Constantinople has arrived,
with letters to the 20th inst.

M. de Boutanieff, the Russian Ambassador, ar-
rived at Constantinople on the 19th. He landed
at Bouyouk Dare.

Mohammed Kepresli Paoha was to leave on the

21st for Moscow.

The Russians have not yet evacuated Boucora,
Bayazid, and the environs of that town.
The Russians completely evacuated Kars on the
4th of August. The fortifications of that place
have been left intact, except two forts which have
been destroyed.

The Russians have blown up Toultcha, on the
Danube. The captain of the English ship Medina,
coming from the Danube, speaks of a rumour
that the town of Toultcha had shared the fate of
the fortress.

France has given 120,000 f. towards the restora-
tion of the Russian Embassy at Constantinople,
which the French used as an hospital during the

BERLIN, AUG. 25.

Recent intelligence from St. Petersburg denies
the truth of the project attributed to the Russian
government of establishing a third military port

for its fleets in the Baltic at llalbinsel Kaska, in
the gulf of Finland, not far from the coast of

Sweden.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

A decree in the Moniteur makes four promo-
tions to the rank of officer and 13 nominations as
knights in the Legion of Honour among the
engineers of the Ponts-et-Chausees for proofs of
devotedness during the late inundations. Another
decree makes one promotion to the rank of officer
and eight nominations to that of knight among
persons connected with the late Agricultural Ex-
hibition, and a third nominates two of the engin-
eers on the Strasburg railway as knights in the
order.

The Malta Times of the 19th contains the fol-
lowing :—" The City of London steamer which
arrived here on the 14th from Genoa returned on
the following day with 450 soldiers of the Italian
legion. The rest are under orders for England
with the exception of about four hundred who will
shortly be despatched to Venice."
The Messager of Bayonne says :—" The Emperor
and the Empress walked arm in arm for an hour on
Thursday on the beach, and his Majesty, noticing
thatsome bathing machines had been destroyed by a
strong tide on the previous day, ordered a sum of
money sufficient to replace them to be given to the
owners. On Friday afternoon, after a shower of rain
which refreshed the atmosphere, the Emperor and
Empress left the chateau on foot without any at-
tendants, and walked to the extremity of the
beach, amidst a crowd of visitors, who fell back to
allow them to pass. Their Majesties then ascended
by a narrow path to the cliffs, and arrived at the
Atalaye, where they seabed themselves to enjoy they
splendid view of the sea and of the coast of Spain..
Their Majesties then returned to the town, and
visited the new church, after which they walked
back to the chateau. On arriving there their Ma-
jesties found that the Marquis de Turgot, Ambas-
sador of France at Madrid, had arrived, and he
had the honour of being invited to dinner."
BOURSE, Aug. 25.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. tr. g.
q per Cents 94 35
3 per Cents 7O 40
New Loan 7O 50

End of Month.
—f. —o.
70 45

Bank Shares 4,100
Credit Mobilier 1,595

Roman
Austrian

Belgian Fives. — Spanish Threes
Piedmontese(s) 9l 50 Home Debt .........

RAILWAYS-PCB CASH.

fr. c. ft. o.
Orleans ....;... 1,385 Western 053 75
Northern 1,042 50 Strasburg
Lyons ....... 1,382 50 Nov Ditto
Mediterranean 1,790 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva BO2 50 Teste
Cette

IiEADPOZID iiitlKto i}
I,IK.3:IIVAL. -

FIRST DAY.

The great musical carnival in this town, to which
so many have looked forward with interest, if not
excitement, commenced yesterday morning. Had
any person, ignorant of the event, entered the
town on Monday or yesterday, they could not but
have observed many signs of something unusual.
In the neighbourhood of St. George's Hall long
wooden railings dividing the streets longitudinally
into compartments for foot passengers, cabs, and
carriages, so as to prevent obstructions, collisions,
and accidents, were erected, and the lines of route
to be taken at the commencement and close of eacik
performance were publicly announced.
For some weeks past Mr. Jackson, the chorus
master, bad been exercising his troupe, and on
Friday last M. Costa arrived, and drilled them
efficiently in his own " Eli." In the course of
Monday the whole of the principals arrived, except
Piccolomini, who does not appear until Thursday
evening, and in the course of two long rehearsals
the singers went triumphantly through the whole
or most of their allotted parts.
Shortly after half-past ten yesterday morning the
lines of route became thronged with cabs, carriages,
and foot passengers, and the spacious hall began to
fill, and at the hour announced for the commence-
ment of the festival a vast and brilliant assembly
crowded it in every part, including the Earl and
Countess of Harewood and party, the Lord Bishop
of Ripon and lady, Lord and Lady Hawke and
party, and a long list of distinguished persons from
a distance ; and among them and in the side
stalls we observed the most distinguished citizens
of Bradford and the principal towns in the district.
At half-past 11 the band and chorus, numbering
350, were in their places, and were soon followed
by the principals in the oratorio—Mesdames No-
yolk), Weiss, Garcia, Sherrington, Huddart, and
Crosland ; Messrs. Reeves, Weiss, Smith, and Brad-
ley, and all were receivedwiththundersof applause.
The proceedings commenced with the National An-
them, the solo part by Clara Novelle, who appa-
rently did her utmost to please, and was eminently
successful, her clear and full-toned commanding
voice ringing through the vast hall like the intona-
tions of a bell. Mr. Weiss, who is admitted to be
the best interpreter of the character and music of
the " Prophet" in the kingdom, sustained his high
character from the beginning to the close. Hence
the great burden of the labour lay principally upon
his shoulders ; his rich, full-toned, and swelling
voice was in excellent order, and his commanding
execution was universally admired. Mr. Sims
Reeves also, as Obadiah, performed his parts with
his usual ability, but as these were few, and pos-
sessed few commanding points, less scope was dis-
played for criticism. The recitative and air,
beginning " What have I to do with thee, 0
man of God ?" were given by Mr. Weiss and
Miss Sherrington in a high state of beauty and
excellence, and the recitative beginning "As
God the Lord," in a manner equally splen-
did. These were perhaps the portions of the whole
composition which most electrified the audience, and
most displayed the unity and precision, and hence the
excellent training of the band and chorus. No less ad-
mirable than the principals was the chorus in "Baal, we
cry to thee," and the recitative beginning "0 man of
God." In this part of the!composition most energy was
required, and it was put magnificently forth. In the
second part Clara Novello gave a beautiful rendering of
the air, " Hear, 0 Israel ;" and Madame Viardot Gard s
shone to advantage, as the Queen, in the recitative be-
ginning " The Lord bath exalted." But in point of
execution nothing was, or could be, more beautiful than
the rendering by Mesdames Novello, Garcia, and Weiss
of the trio of angels, "Lift thine eyes to the mountains,
whence cornett' help;" and in this they were encored—a
practice in an oratorio much to be condemned, as it
seems a breaking asunder of the links which bind it in
one, and gives it altogether too much of a theatrical air.
It would be extremely difficult indeed to choose out of a
composition of such length all the parts best sung, or
any which could be pronounced as absolutely indifferent.
All cannot possibly be first-rate, or the rules of compa-
rison would be ended ; but in the performances under
consideration all seemed to exert themselves to gratify
and please. Miss Fanny Hurldart possesses a contralto
voice of moderate quality. Miss Sherrington rises on
her soprano voice with a bolder sweep, and will attain
higher excellence, and if she cannot rival Sunderland or
Novello, she will yet occupy no mean position. The
Yorkshire chorus sustained the reputation they have so
sedulously toiled for and earned.