The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING.; DECEMBER 4, 1860.

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endeavours to show that Mr. LINCOLN is rather an rate, playgrounds for the use of
toys
in
object of pity than of dread. That he is so fettered i the moping nrchins of the metropolis, hod are
by a majority both in the Senate and the House of restrieted for the most to the manufacture of irt-
-IRepresentatives that he will be powerless for evil. pies in the gutters—having in their eyes a
The present laws, Mr. DOUGLAS argues, and with becoming fear of the policeman: . But for
too much truth, are all such as the South must the Relief of Distress, as projected by
wish to keep, and Mr. LINCOLN cannot repeal W. D. 8., and as advocated by his sympa-
them. He cannot even fail in his duty as a Presi- , thisers, Lord EBURY can indulge only in words of
finding himself " a prisoner before scorn and objurgation. It seems almost ineempre-
dent without
the 'Ugh Court of Impeachment." minority
hensible that Lord EBURY could write as he has
In a
in both Houses of Congress, and with the Supryme written upon the subject of this proposed associa-
tion, that he could have written thus upon such a
Court (the same which gave the infamous DRED
eubject at any time—but it is most of all matter of
SCOTT decision), to expound the laws he will be
amazement that he could so inaugurate the month
powerless for evil. Mr.DouGLas does not deem it
ecember, the month of Christmas ! But that
we have all long since learnt to recognise in Lord
possible that the President should be able to per- of D
petrate any act which would interfere with the
EBURY a man of genuine though (as the case in
rights of individual citizens, or invade the reserved point indicates) of occasionally eccentric benevo-
rights of the States on the subject of Slavery,
Even his nominations to office must be confirmed lence, we should certainly have come to the con-
by the Senate, so that a body in which the South elusion that his temperament bore an affinity, rather
, confides can prevent his appointing any bad man
to the old stage-type of the unmitigated hunx
or curmudgeon. And throughout these extraor-
to a public post.
Mr. Senator TRUMBULL joins, to a great extent, dinary strictures of his, Lord EBURY is ,
in the same line of reasoning with Mr. DOUGLAS. above all, as we have intimated at the
He also shews that not a single illegal ael/4 has been very outset of these remarks, so illogical !
committed to justify the idea of secession, but he He directs the particular attention of those who
disclaims besides for his party any thought of trench- are most interested in this warm-hearted enterprise
ing on the rights of the States. Mr. LINCOLN will of Mr. BROMLEY'S, to the eminent success
be, he says, the President of the whole country' already attendant upon the operation of
and as ready to protect and,defend the State from kindred societies now for years past in
which he has not received a solitary vote, against existence societies like the Mendicity
any encroachment on its constitutional rights as Society, or again like the Metropolitan District
which he has received the largest majo- Visiting
the one in and Relief Association. Of the latter
rity. Those who elected him knew that they body he writes—" It is now extending itself south
elected a President with limited and delegated of the Thames, and with as increase of funds is ,
powers; they contemplated no inroad upon the capable of coping, as far as with safety it can be
rights of any of the States ; on the other hand, the attempted, with all the occasional destitution of
Republican party will rejoice in an opportunity of the capital." Yet in the same breath almost he
showing that they are " not for interfering with inveighs against the distribution of relief in this
the domestic institutions of any of the States, nor way among the more destitute part of the metro-
the advocates of negro equality, or amalgamation,
politan population. He instances, with appa-
with which so many have charged them." rently a glow of satisfaction while so doing, the
Secession, he says, is an impracticability, or
remarkable fact that one among the many " Re-
rather an impossibility. The Constitution provides
fuges" in London has, within the last year, pro-
novided ," 50,000 lodgings and 116,000 rations to
way by which a State can withdraw from the
Union. If all the Federal officers in South Carolina the destitute multitude yet he has scarcely
were to resign, and the State to declare itself out done so when he is prophesying all sorts of dreadful
of the Union, the only result would be inconveni- disasters from the distribution of aid by such a
ence to the State itself, so long as it did not venture scheme as the one proposed by W. D. B. In order
to interfere with the collection of the Federal re- to impress the force of which lugubrious and almost
venues. And, then, as to its raising an army, what malignant predictions upon the public mind, Lord
is the army to do ? With whom is it to fight ? EBURY, with an astonishing obliquity of judgment,
Revolution would not begin till they attacked the recalls to mind thus garrulously " What took place
Federal officers in collecting the revenue; but there thirty years ago, when, from a continuance of a lax
and what was intended to be a benevolent admini-
is no complaint against the Revenue laws. He shews
titration of the Poor Laws, paying wages not accord-
that the clamour of S. Carolina is, in fact, a sham.
ing to work done but according to the size of the
She complains of the non-execution of the Fugitive
labourer's family, &c., the peasantry of half our
Slave Law ; yet she is so surrounded by slave States
s
that just in her case the law is never needed. He southern counties rose in insurrection ; the late
warns them, however, that the great mass of the Duke of RICHMOND was compelled to repel an
people of the States will not tolerate separation in attack of armed men by force ; and so dangerous
any form—that " the Union must and shall be was the state of affairs at that time considered to
be, that the Duke of WELLINGTON himself left his
preserved."
But if the South have so little to fear from country house, and established himself at Winches-
the triumph of Republicanism, we may well ter, that he might from the most central position of
begin to ask what all the stir has been about, that county of which he was Lord-Lieutenant
We cannot do better on this pcint than quote direct the movements of the regular troops and
Senator TRUMBULL'S own words—" Should any Volunteers !" As though any such preposterous
Republican inquire what has been gained by the project as that the acme of the folly of which we
triumph of Republicanism, I answer much. We have above italicised, had the smallest atom in the
have gained a decision of the people in favour of a world to do with the relief of the most abject
Pacific Railroad—a homestead policy—a judicious poverty in this metropolis, through the agency of
tariff—the admission into the Union of Kansas as this now most generously projected association !It
a free State—a reform in the financial department is susprising to us that a man of common sense, and
of the Government—and, more important than all, a man of knownbenevolence like LordEBURY should
the verdict of the people—the source of power, and have pledged himself thus petulantly to oppose the
from whose decision there is no appeal, that the con- establishment and organisation of a society designed
stitution is not a slavery-extending instrument, No to carry aid so humanely to the most hidden and
more DRED SCOTT decisions will now be made. Free- forlorn sufferers, fainting, and occasionally even
men, both of the North and of the South, will here- dying from absolute starvation, in the back slums
after be protected in all their constitutional of this vast metropolis. Lord EBURY, we cannot
rights. The policy of the Government, as of old, will but think, might better have employed the first
now set in favour of freedom, and not for the day of this present month of December than in
supremacy of slavery, as has been the case for the penning these strictures against the Relief of Dis-
last six years. Freedom henceforth will be the law tress in the Capital—strictures chiefly remarkable
of the territories, because the people, in their for their most inappropriate ascerbity, for their
majesty, have so ordered, and neither courts nor most perverse and indeed utterly incomprehensible
congresses will be able to thwart their will. When misrepresentation.
full effect shall have been given to all these great
measures of the Republican party, and the preju-
dices engendered against itinlthe minds of many, by
the artful appeals of demagogues, who.have mis-
represented its objects, shall have been removed
by actual knowledge of its acts, we may expect the
bitterness of party spirit to subside, the cry of dis-
union to be hushed, and the principles of Republi-
canism to become the permanent policy of the
Government, under which it will flourish and pros
per, as I trust, for ever."

His Excellency the Count de Persigny will leave
London this day for Paris, to enter on his official duties
there as Minister of the Interior.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and family left
Buxton on Saturday for Roseneath Castle, N.B.

The Marquis Camden and family, the Earl of
Romney and the Ladies Marsham, the Earl and Countess
of Orkney, Count and Lady Cecil de la Field, and Lord
and Lady Huntingtower are amongst the visitors who are
passing the season at St. Leonards-on-Sea.

The Earl and Countess of Craven have arrived
in town from visiting the Earl and Countess cf Verulam at
Gorhambury Park. The countess and the Ladies Craven
will leave town to-day on a visit to Lady Marian Alford, at
Ashbridge.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke passed
through town on Saturday from visiting her Majesty at
Windsor Castle. The noble earl and her ladyship are gone
to Wimpole
The Countess Delawarr was sufficiently recovered
from her late indisposition to enable the noble earl and her
ladyship to leave Buckhurst Park yesterday for Paris, on
their way to Nice and Genoa for the winter.
The Earl of Wilton has arrived at Melton
Mowbray, from Heaton Hall, Lancashire.
Viscount and Lady Blanche Dupplin have
returned to town from a tour of visits. Her ladyship is
quite recovered from her late indisposition, and will shortly
join the family circle about to assemble at Badminton.
Lady Marian Alford will receive a distinguished
circle at Ashbridge Park during the present week. Her
ladyship will leave Ashbridge early next week:for Rome for
the winter.

One of the most illogical arguments it has ever
been our fortune to read has but just now been
endited by Lord EDURT in depreciation of the
newly projected Society for the Relief of Distress
in the Metropolis. At the very outset of these
strictures by the noble lord, he takes occasion
somewhat perversely and petulantly to designate
S. G. 0. " a chartered libertine." Without indulg-
ing in any such direct vituperation upon W. D. B.
the noble lord insinuates as plainly as possible that
he is fain to regard the gentleman represented by
those now familiar initials as one of the most
indiscreet and crotchetty of living philanthropists.
Lord EBURT, when he sat down to write this long
yarn of his, at Moor Park, on Saturday, the Ist of
December, was evidently in ill-humour with nearly
everybody (himself included) and with nearly
everything. His aid he had some time since
accorded, he acknowledges, to the recently defunct
Society for the Establishment of Playgrounds in
London and Westminster. He is "put out" at the
failure of that benevolent scheme—" I confess," he
says, "I am not disposed to criticise with undue
severity the conduct of those who "—had the
management of the undertaking! He has just
written " I had no hand in its management." And
he goes on to protest that he has no inclination to
fall foul with those who had. Observe he is
burning to be " at" them—tooth and nail—hammer
and tongs—at the very time he deprecates any such
intention or even predisposition. He has given
his name, he has given his guineas, so that if
possible all the gamins de Londres may bowl their
hoops, spin their tops, fly their kites, fillip
their marbles, tip their "cats," and so forth
through the whole Book of Games in
their own nicely gravelled and smoothly sodded
Playgrounds. He is sorely vexed that the whole
project has collapsed. Most of all he must be
irritated against the Management under which it
has
collapsed. Yet in spite of all this, which is so
obvious, be has not the smallest wish, ho protests,
to criticise with undue severity that same manage-
ment.

Lady Margaret Beaumont was safely delivered
of a son and heir on Sunday last at Bywell Hall, in
Northumberland.

Lord Dunkellin arrived in town yesterday from
visiting the Earl and Countess of Cork at Marston House.
His lordship will shortly leave town to join the Marquis
and Marchioness of Clanricarde in Ireland.
The Hon. Flora Macdonald has returned to
Farranco's Hotel from attending on her Majesty at Wind-
sor Castle.

The Hon. Grantley F. Berkeley has left Far
ranco's Hotel.

A letter from Calcutta says that the train which
conveyed the Governor-General and his court from Calcutta
to Rajmahal, on the occasion of the opening of the East
Indian Railway, could have been traced for miles by the
softening savour of Manilla cheroots, the smoke of which
proceeded equally from the viceregal car and the every-day
first-class cariage, forming an Oriental expression of disre-
gard of Sir Benjamin Brodie's counterblast.

DEATH OF SIR HENRY MARSH, BART,—This
eminent physician died on Saturday at his residence in
Merrion-square, Dublin. Sir Henry rose apparently in his
usual health, and when about to leave his house, his car-
riage being in waiting at the door, he was seized with an
apoplectic fit, and expired at a few minutes past 12 o'clock.
This sad event has thrown a gloom over the city, and
caused the deepest sorrow to the profession of which Sir
Henry Marsh was so eminent a member. Sir Henry was
not conscious after the moment of the attack.

The ,S'cotsman announces with regret the death of
the Rev. Dr. James Robertson, Professor of Church History
in Edinburgh University, and long a leader in the General
Assembly, which took place at his house in Ainslie-place,
Edinburgh, on Sunday afternoon. On Friday week Dr.
Robertson had an attack of constipation, which was followed
by jaundice and gastric fever, under which he sank. Dr.
Robertson was only in his 58th year, but though apparently
robust, had long worn the aspect of a more advanced age.
The chief work of Dr. Robertson's latter years has been
the promotion of what is known as the Endowment Scheme
of the Church of Scotland, in which he laboured with un-
tiring zeal and with the most splendid success.

Having tied his own hands from the chance
of flinging even a single gibe against the
recently deceased association that never came
to anything beyond a public dinner and a
prospectus and a subscription list—upon the
principle, of course, de mortuis et cetera : Lord
EMMY turns round savagely upon the little
callow project of benevolence that has but just
chipped the shell in its nest under the eaves of the
Thatched House. His lordship can heave a sigh,
could almost drop a tear, for the unaccountable
failure of the attempt to supply toys, or, at any

MR. BRIGHT, M.P.—A meeting is to be held
in the Town-hall, Leeds, on Tuesday evening next, the 11th
inst., to inaugurate a society called the Leeds Working
Men's Parliamentary Reform Association, and among the
gentlemen who are announced to take part in the proceed-
ings are--Mr. John Bright, M.P., Mr. E. Baines, M.P.,
and Mr. B.A. Leathern, M.P. The chair will be occupied
by
Mr. Middleton, barrister, one of the aldermen of the

THE LATE EARL OF DIINDONALD.—The Ayr-
shire Advertiser understands that the mortgagee of Dun-
donald Castle has made over the property and grounds to
the presont Earl, in token of his admiration for the
deceased.

The Salut Public of Lyons announces the death
of the Archbishop of Auch.

The Bordeaux journals state that upwards of 80
dogs were destroyed in the course of last month by the police

For wandering unmuzzled about the streets of that city;

not fewer than 47 persons were prosecuted for having
allowed such animals to go astray.

THE CASE OF MISS AYLWARD.—The friends of

Miss Aylward, foiled in their attempts to secure her libe-
ration, through a legal quibble, now talk of bringing an
action against the Governor of Grangegorman Prison for
her illegal detention by him. The News, which claims
to be the organ of Roman Catholic proselytism in Dublin,

scouts the suggestion thrown out in the judgment of Chief
Justice Monahan, that the matter might be brought before
a Court of Error, seeing that before such a step could be
taken the greater part of the lady's captivity would have
expired.
The Gazetta di Torino contains the programme of
a national subscription for Garibaldi. The committee say
—lt is not to confer honour on Giuseppe Garibaldi that we
address ourselves to the Italians, but that history may not
one day accuse his contemporaries of ingratitude.

Some months ago Sir Bartle Frere sent to this
country a magnificent collection of casts from Hindu archi-
tecture and antiquities. These are in the custody of the
committee of the Architectural Museum, and, pending the
settlement of the points at issue between that body and the
Government, are at present invisible to the public.

Nl%\',. 11,

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
PARIS, DEC. 4.

The Moniteur contains the following :—M.
Baroche, President of the Council of State, having
the rank of Minister, takes the title of Minister
without portfolio.

TURIN, DEC. 3.

King Victor Emmanuel has issued a proclama-
tion to the Sicilians, in which his Majesty recalls
that one of his ancestors has reigned over Sicily.
He likewise mentions the election of the Duke of
Genoa as King of Sicily in 1848, and the vote of
Sicily in favour of annexation recently given.
The King promises to establish institutions for
promoting public morality, and to respect the
privileges of the Sicilian Church. He concludes
by requesting unity and concord among the
people.

NAPLES, DEC. 1 (via Marseilles).

The English fleet salutedaing Victor Emmanuel
on his departure for Sicily. This act created a sen-
sation. The fleet har left Naples, iu order, it is
believed, to follow the King to Palermo. The
National Guard has dispersed the last riotous
assemblages of the mob, and the city is now
tranquil. The Marquis of Villamarina has been
entrusted with the direction of foreign affairs.

The sum awarded to Herr Molique by the min-
mittee of the Norwich Festival, as a remuneration for hi
successful oratorio of " Abraham" has been returned to the
hon. secretary, Mr. Roger Kerrison, with a request on the
part of the composer that it may be presented to the cha-
ritable fund in behalf of which the festival was instituted.'
After an investigation extending over several
days, the Royal Dockyard Commissioners terminated their
labours at Chatham Dockyard on Saturday afternoon.
THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND HIS LATE CONSTI-
TrENTs.—His Grace the Duke of Richmond has issued the
' following address to the electors of West Sussex :—" Gentle-
men,—lt is with feelings of no ordinary pain that I address
you on the present occasion. The sad event which we all
deplore compels me to resign that trust which you haie so
generously confided to me for a period of 19 years. I shall
never cease to look back with pride and satisfaction on the
connexion which has so long subsisted between us. In
offering you my best thanks for the many marks of confi-
dence at your hands, I beg leave to assure you that I shall
always continue to take the deepest interest in all that per-
tains to the welfare of the county of Sussex.—l am, gentle-
men, your obedient servant—RicumoND."

GAETA, DEC. 1.

General Bosco, in a report to the King, states
that ho reconnoitred the valley of Astralina on the
29th ult., and did not find any siege works in
course of construction there. It is denied that the
King has ruptured a blood vessel.

ROME, DEC. 1.
Seven hundred pontifical gendarmes are traver•
sing the province of Viterbo.

THE REPRESENTATION OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-
TYNE.—Mr. P. A. Taylor, the radical candidate, in an
address issued on Saturday night, retires from the contest.
He gives as his reason that he has been twice chosen by a
show of hands on previous elections, and, as his ping to
the poll on this occasion would not secure his return, he
vacates the field, and leaves it to be contested by Mr. Beau-
mont and Mr. Carstairs, promising to come forward on
some other occasion, if called upon to do so. As a number
of Mr. Taylor's friends will support Mr. Carstairs, the con-
test will be a pretty smart one. If a Tory had come for-
ward and fought for the seat along with the two Liberals,
Mr. Carstairs might have been elected, but under present
circumstances Mr. Beaumont's return is considered pretty
certain. The nomination may be expected on Thursday.
SOCIETY OF ARTS.—The subject of electro-block
printing, applied to the enlarging or reducing from any
printing surface, or original drawing, will be brought before
the Society of Arts on Wednesday (to-morrow) evening,
the sth instant, by Mr. H. G. Collins. Mr. George Cruik.-
shank will preside.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The council,
at their session on Saturday last, received notice that a
fund of about £l5O had been raised by pupils, former and
present, of the junior school, for instituting a perpetual
annual book prize to be awarded to the best mathematician
in the school, and to be called the Cook prize, in commemo-
ration of the respect and gratitude entertained by the
subscribers for the late Rev. William Cook, deceased,
who for 21 years had been the head mathematical master
in the school. The council directed that the offer of Mr.
Martin Tucker Smith, M.P., to confer a nomination to an
appointment in the Madras Army on a student of the col-
lege to be recommended by the council, should be commu-
nicated to all the students of the college, and their parents
and guardians. On the recommendation of examiners,
Professor Jenner, M.D., Professor Sharpey, M.D., and
Professor Walshe, M.D., the Filliter exhibition of £3O, for
proficiency in pathological anatomy, was awarded to Mr.
H. C. Bastian, of Falmouth.
THE ROYAL MAIL STEAMER TASMANIANASHORE.
—SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Evening.—The Royal Mail
steamship Tasmanian, Captain Sawyer, which sailed this
afternoon with mails and passengers to the West inmes,
has gone ashore in Totterill Bay, just inside the
Needles. The South Western Company's steamer Cou-
rier, Captain Harvey, from Jersey, reports having ob •
served a large steamer showing blue lights and sending
up rockets. The Courier stopped her engines and
dropped anchor. At 4.45 p.m. Captain Sawyer sent a
boat to the Courier, when Captain Harvey went on board
the Tasmanian, but found he could render no assistance.
She had apparently sustained no damage. It is sup-
posed that the Tasmanian must have gone inside of the
Warden ledge buoy, and the weather being very thick, went
ashore. She was lying in three fathoms depth of water,
but draws, however, nearly four fathoms. The chief officer
of the Tasmanian came up in the Courier for assistance, and
Captain Vincent, with steam tugs and a great number of
men and has proceeded this evening to render
assistance. It is hoped she will come off with flood tide.
It is not known whether the pilot had left her when the
accident occurred.
A HOME THRUST.—A devout slaveholder in
Louisville, Kentucky, was exhorting a poor, pious old
female slave to be very humble—reminding her that the
Saviour Jesus had neither house nor home. "Yes," she
replied with emphasis, " blessed be God; he had no house,
no home, and no niggers !"
A QUIET NIGHT IN AN AUSTRALIAN INN.—And
then we went to bed. But not to sleep—oh, dear no I I
was in bed at a quarter before eleven. At eleven two dogs
had a difference of opinion under my window; they walked
up and down, growling, till, as near as I can guess, a quar-
ter past eleven ; when they departed without fighting, at
which I was sorry. At half-past eleven (I merely give you
approximation as to time : I did not look at my watch), a
drunken man fell into the gutter, and, when helped out by
another man, pitched into him savagely. They fought three
rounds, and exeunt. At twelve, the bar was cleared and a
gentleman, of the name of Bob, was found to be unequal to
the occasion, and lay down in the mud, pulling a wheelbarrow
over him, under the impression that it was the bed-clothes.
Bob's mates fell out as to a score at the blacksmith's for
sharpening gads. Fight, and grand tableau—exeunt. At
half-past twelve, a drunken Irishwoman was conducted home
by two policemen; on reaching my window she declined to
proceed on any terms whatever, and committed a series of
savage assaults on the constabulary. At one, a gentleman
from over the way came out of his house, and, without notice
or apparent reason, discharged a six-barrelled revolver, which
reminded another neighbour that he might as well let off a
two-barrelled fowling-piece; which caused a third neigh-
bour to come out and swear at the other two like a trooper.
Macmillan's Magazine.
" POISON PROOF."—On Frid:y, an inquest was
held at Aldershot, touching the death of Samuel Wells
Hillier, paymaster sergeant in the 9th Lancers, who had
committed suicide by shooting himself the previous morn-
ing. It appears that Hillier was a defaulter to the extent
of seven pounds, and the following letter, addressed to a
comrade, was read :—Dear Cliff,—l suppose I'm the last
man in the world you would imagine to commit such a
deed ; but under my assumed gaiety I have been fright-
fully miserable for the last six months. . . Besides,
what have Ito live for I My poor mother, the only person
on earth I cared for, is dead. As to death, I look it as
calmly in the face as I would a number I report. It is a
most remarkable thing, but I really believe I'm poison
proof. About ten days ago I took an ounce of laudanum,
enough to poison a horse. It had no effect on me. After
that I took eight grains of opium ; again no effect, except
a slight drowsiness. Then four grains of morphia ; no
effect. I then took five grains of Lig. Opida, Lidatirue,
with the same result. My last mode of exit is a sure one.
I know the exact position of the heart, and if a ball doesn't
penetrate the centre it is strange to me. I am sure you
will say, " What a fool to do such a thing," but my life is
truly miserable. When I went to London and heard for
certainty of Josephine's marriage with a man I hate above
all men, I was nearly driven mad ; for, although parted
from her for more than six years, I love her more than
ever; tut yet I accuse her for marrying the man I hate.
Good-bye, good-bye, Cliff. God bless you.—Yours, not
perfectly sane. SA.M HILLIER. The jury returned a ver-
dict of fele de se.
A MAN STABBED BY A VOLUNTEER AT DON-
CASTER.—On Saturday night last, at a late hour, a work-
man employed at the Great Northern Railway Plant, at
Doncaster, named Thomas Smith, was stabbed by a volunteer
named Charles Christopher Watson, also employed by the
company. Watson had been attending drill on Saturday
afternoon, and afterwards it would appear he went to the
" Sir Charles Napier" beerhouse, in St. Sepulchre Gate,
and there met with Smith, whom he knew, and to whom he
offered to toss for a shilling ; Smith acquiesced. Watson
lost the toss, and then refused to pay it. Smith demanded
payment and put out his hand to receive it, but Watson
still refused, and the quarrel that ensued caused the land-
lord to eject him from the house. Smith left in a few
minutes, and on his way home ho met Watson, who said
—" Now you doeyou want your shilling." Smith said
" Yes I do." He again put out his hand to receive it, when
Watson, who had on his rifle dress, took out his bayonet
and stabbed Smith in the arm, inflicting a serious wound.
Watson then made his escape and has not since been heard
of. It is thought he left the town after going to his house
and changing hie clothes.

VIENNA, DEC. 4.

The official Weiner Zeitung says:—"We are
authorised to declare that the rumours concerning
negotiations on the cession of Venetia for a pecu-
niary indemnity are unfounded, and that, as a
matter of course, there can be no question of selling
a crown land,

TRIESTE, DEC. 3.

The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian has
assumed the command of a squadron of evolution.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY, 10.45 A.M.

The Tasmanian appears to have suffered no
damage beyond the fouling of her screw, which it
is expected will be cleared so as to admit of the
vessel resuming her voyage in a few hours.

MADRID, DEC. 3.

In to-day's sitting of the Cortes Senor Revero
proposed that any acts of the authorities which
might obstruct the lawful action of the political
parties should be considered as a violation of the
representative system. The Cortes rejected this
proposition, and the Minister of the Interior then
declared that democracy had no legal existence in
Spain.