The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-27 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1869

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

T'Er BIRTH or Arrotumt. ratNerss.

We have much pleasure- iii .stating that the Prin-
cess of Wales was safely delivered, early yesterday
morning, of a girl, and that by a bulletin issued
yesterday afternoon ~. her Royal Highness, as
well as the infant *Princess, were doing well.
The Prince and Princess of Wales were married
on the 10th of March, 1863, and there are now five
children—two sons and three daughters—viz.:
Albert Victor, born January 8 1864 ; George, born
June 3, 1865 ; Louise, born February. 20, 1867 ;
Victoria, born July 6,1868; and the Princess born
yesterday morning.

avi tegstration secretary4Wthe ineflicliibefor the
lodger franchise. Withi certain limits the lodger
can now have a vote. But the difficulty of getting
and keeping his name on the register is so great that
the franchise is practically a dead letter, except for
the intervention of some society ; and it is only by a
large expenditure on the part of such societies that
any proportionate number of lodgers can become and
remain voters. Of the London boroughst only West-
minster has many lodger voters, and m this case
success has been attained only at great cost. Mr.
Carr, secretary of the Westminster Liberal Registra-
tion Society, calls for one or two changes m the
present law. The first is, that a lodger who has
once proved his claim, and had his name placed on
the register, should not be called to attend again
unless, as in the case of householders, he should
be formally objected to. The second, which
would be more comprehensive, and, indeed,
includes the first, is that what is at present the list
of claimants, should be compiled by the parish
authorities, and be published simultaneously with the
householder list; that any objections should be made
and published in the same manner as objections to
householders ; and that the revising barrister should
deal with the two hats in precisely the same manner,
striking off those only against whom objections had
been published and sustained. Either of these two
remedies, but more especially the latter, would, Mr.
Carr thinks, effectively remove the difficulties which
lodgers encounter yearly in sustaining their claims.

THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
The Marquis of Salisbury was, on Thursday,
admitted formally and fully to his position as
Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The
ceremony took place at Hatfield House, Lord Salis-
bury's mansion, instead of at the University. The
Standard explains, in picturesque language, that
"it is usual for the University when it
elects a Chancellor to go out to him, and
to fetch him in and to welcome him to her arms."
For this purpose, therefore, delegates were chosen,
and went to do honour to the new head of the Uni-
versity. One of the galleries of Hatfield House was
converted into a Convocation House ; the beadles
were sent after his brdship ; he soon came in; (vas
addressed in Latin, and replied in the same language;
and thus was recognised as the occupier of the place
held by the late Lord Derby.

Bible that there may be such a slip in the transfer
of the Hudson Bay Government to the new Do-
minion. Red River District, bordering on the
State of Minnesota and the Territory of Dacotah
to the South, and Lake Winnipeg with the Swan
River Territory to the north, has risen iu arms,
and pursued Governor M'Dougall over the boun-
dary into Dacotah. At first, 600 strong, they ap-
pear to have seized Fort Garry, on the Lake, and
to have been reinforced with a number of Irishmen,
when they took possession of stores belonging to
the Hudson's Bay Company. On the arrival of
Governor M'Dougall, who was but newly in-
stalled, the half-breeds at Fort Garry raised a
disturbance, which soon subsided, and it is
probable that these gentry have successfully re-
newed them, with Irish aid. The Red River
Settlements cover the most fertile portions of
the Hudson Bay Territory, and the insurgents
may cause very much trouble on account of
their proximity to the boundary. The Governor
is adopting a conciliatory policy, endeavouring,
like a sensible man, to settle the matter amicably.
What the insurgents demand appears to us to be
reasonable, and that which must eventually be con-
ceded—a Legislature of their own. It would be
absurd to suppose that Canada can do what the
Federal Government does not even attempt to do,
that is to govern locally every portion of so vast a
territory. The Dominion must follow the example of
the United States, or its Imperial aspirations may
soon, and effectually be extinguished. The Hudson
Bay Territory comprises 2,250,000 square miles,
with a population of about 150,000, land enough,
it might be supposed, to divide into many States.
The United States man-of-war Albany sailed
from New York on the 10th November with 1,000
tons of ammunition, field pieces, guns for fortifi-
cations, rifles, and other warlike implements. She
is under the command of Captain Batch, with a
crew of 250 officers and men, a company of marines,
and about 40 guns. Her destination was stated to
be the Tortugas, where it is said she will take on
board a regiment 500 strong. On board are Sena-
tor Cole, General Badcock, and judge O'Sullivan,
who have a roving commission to converse gene-
rally, and with• President Baez in particular, but
not to commit the United States to any bargains.
The Tribune says :—" The tenour of our advices
from Washington hardly warrants the belief that
Sa❑ Domingo is even now, so to speak, cut-and-
dried for annexation ; or indeed that the sensations
about the instant annexation of the island have any
substantial warrant." It is, however, noteworthy
that General Badcock and Senator Cole have but
a few weeks returned from a secret mission to St.
Domingo, that Badcock is on General Grant's staff,
and rumour has for a long period associated his
visit to the island with annexation.

So important do we consider the following ex-
tract from the New York Evening Express that we
desire to bring it prominently forward. We doubt
the truth of the report about one of•the old cables,
as arrangements have, we believe, been made with
Germany to hand over one of the two for the ex-
clusive use of the people of Northern Europe :

"Negotiations, it is understood, aro going on between
the -Western Union Telegraph and the French Cable for
a union of force and operations. There is a report that
one of the wires of the old cable is so eaten by some small
insect that it is very slow and uncertain in its operations
if not gone ; and hence the prospect of a union of all the
Atlantic Cables with the Groat Western Union Telegraph,
which reaches all over the English-speaking part of this
continent."

A question of deep interest is being tried in the
Superior Court of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the expul-
sion of the Bible from the public schools upon the
petition for an injunction restraining the execution
of the order of the Board of Education. That
Board has appropriated $2,500 for the defence, and
both sides intend to fight the battle out. Judge
Storer will deliver the opinion of the Court during
the first week of December, and as the Supreme
Court will then be in Session, an immediate appeal
will surelybe made to the highest tribunal. The legal
existence of the Board is questioned, and the judge
has remarked that it is open to attack, as it is
doubtful whether it could be sustained by the law
under which it claims to act. Nearly all Protes-
tant Clenumitiatlons uptioia the reading of the Bible
in the schools, and the Young Men's Bible Society
has taken vigorous action on the subject. The
Catholics arc divided, the German priests opposing
the Board as Feniaus oppose reform in Ireland,
because by using the Bible in the schools Catholic
children will be kept away from them altogether,
n„d rw.aly Catholic. The liberal
Catholics, on the contrary, who appreciate the Free
Schools, sustain the Board, as its action removes
the chief objection of the priesti to the at-
tendance of their children. Generally the Ger-
man element takes sides with the Board, as do
the Jews, who are numerous and powerful in
Cincinnati. They are willing to have the Psalms
and Proverbs bound separately and distributed
gratuitously, the reading being without comment
or other religious service. The controversy which
has thus arisen in Cincinnati has been growing
into importance, and for many years has threat-
ened a collision. The spirit of Roman Catholicism,
which has been strengthening with Irish immigra-
tion, was sure sooner or later to fan such a dis-
pute into a flame. On the other hand, it may be
doubted whether in any other country the animat-
ing spirit of Protestantism has so strong a hold.
Hence the danger of the antagonism. To scores
of thousands the Bible is the Book of Life, the
ground-work of law, education, of all that is good
in this world, and they regard its expulsion from
their schools as neither more nor less than pro-
fanity. To suppose that the powerful holders of
such a doctrine will lightly abandon the position
taken on such a point is to ignore all past expe-
rience, and as with them it is a subject beyond ar-
gument, of belief, of faith, and their first duty. They
will keep alive the little fire now smouldering at Cin-
cinnati, which may ere many months be a fiercely
burning flame throughout the Union.

Mr. Gladstone's speech at the Lord Mayor's
banquet has been received iu America as indicating
an early resumption of negotiations on the Alabama
Claims question, and probably a satisfactory settle-
ment. There are many articles on the subject in
the American press, where the belief is general that
after the question again comes up in London the
negotiation will be transferred to Washington, as
the Senate is the American Treaty-making power,
in connection with whom it is essential that the
pioceediogs should be carried on. Though Richard
Cobden and Sir Frederick Bruce are dead, Bright
still lives, and there are other Englishmen whose
names would command the confidence of the Ame-
rican people if entrusted with such a mission to
Washington. The Saturday Review and the Pall
Mall Gazette are always sneering about the intro-
duction of sentiment into this question, indeed into
all questions relating to America, and they show an
ignorance which is pernicious about the other side to
the dispute. The venom of the subject is sentiment,
for the material losses have been borne, and would
but form a small item in the bill for the war which
the American people have paid. If Mr. Gladstone
sincerely desires to settle this question satisfac-
torily to both nationP, he must first make up his
mind to have the negotiations conducted at Wash-
ington, and then put such a pressure upon Mr.
Bright, or Mr. Forster, or the Duke of Argyle,
that one or other would undertake the mission for
England. Whether it be sentimental or not, such
men would find a far easier path to satis-
factory terms, although prejudiced people might
raise an outcry that the interests and honour
of England-were being sold. On this subject we
may menttion that a letter of Mr. F. M. Edge, ad-
dressed ',;o Mr. Gladstone, has just been published
by Ri4!way, Piccadilly. It contains a mass of in-
formati, .m which the writer has gathered in the
United States, and, if extensively read in Enoland,
will co•avey to the public a notion of the injury
sustained by the United States through the conduct
of E ngland during the rebellion, which may have
the more force coming from an Englishman, who
er.rnestly desires to have the question settled with
nonour to his country.
On the 19th inst. Walter Brown, of Portland,
Maine, defeated William Sadler, of Putney, on the
Tyne in a sculling match for £lOO. Brown won
the choice of station, and went off in grand style,
rowing so rapidly that he was soon four or five
lengths ahead. About half way Sadler began slightly

to gain, but no material difference was made till
within a quarter of a mile of the winning post, when
Sadler gradually came up to within half a length,
and the excitement became intense. The effort,
however, was too severe, and when within 200 yards
of the goal the Englishman stopped, and nearly fell
from his boat exhausted. Brown then paddled the
rest of the way, coming in alone. The betting was
in favour of the American champion, rapidly rising
from sto 4 to sto 2. Much credit was given to
Sadler for the " pluck" with which he rowed so long
as he bad any rowing left in him ; and he is said to
have arranged another match with Brown, who was
well received on the Tyne. There appears to have been
some fine racing on that river last Saturday as well as
on the preceding day. Henry Kelley, the Thames
champion, and another Thames man, rowed a
double sculling match against James lienforth, the
Tyne champion, and another Tyne sculler. The
Tyne men had beaten the Thames men in the regu-
lar four-oared race, both on the Thames and the Ty ne,
and this match arose from a boast made by Pen-
forth, offering to scull any two Thames men, the
first for two miles, then to be replaced by the other
for two miles more. Kelley offered to take another
man from his crew against Itenforth and another of
his crew and row a double-sculling race, and one of
the best contests which ever came off on the Tyne
was the result. The North countrymen felt sure
of success, and freely backed their champions, but
the Thames men bad great confidence in Kelley's
sculling. He chose Joseph Sadler, the elder brother
of William, who rowed against the American cham-
pion. Kelley pulled stroke, Sadler bow ; and lien-
forth pulled stroke, and Taylor, of the Tyne mew,
bow. It was blowing hard, and Kelley, who had
removed the washboards from theboat's bows,brought
his boat in half full of water. Notwithstanding,
however, after a close and most exciting contest, the

Thames men won.
The election of O'Donovan Rossa to serve in
Parliament as the member for Tipperary has called
forth some doleful articles from the London papers.
The Times drew this fearful picture, taking ano-
ther leaf out of "a he Literary Body-Snatcher's"

journal:—
" Black clouds overhang the southern half of the island,
and apparently refuse to lift; and though streaks of light
flicker about the edge of the darkness, they do not pene-
trate, still less dispel it. The most frivolous must become
serious in considering such a phenomenon."

We should think so ; indeed, the whole article is
calculated, if not to raise the hair, in the Indian
acceptation of the term, at any rate to make it
stand on end. The return of O'Donovan Rossa is
one of the freaks so common in Ireland, but
the Times and other papers may desire to use it
as a means of crushing what they justly term the
" seditious national press." Mr. Heron probably
encouraged the useless voting for Rossa, knowing

that if he could come next he would secure the seat;
and we do not suppose that even a Tipperary man
thought the British Government would send a car-
riage and four to the Portland Gaol, and an express
train to bring Mr. Rossa to Claridge's Hotel to
await the assembling of Parliament, on learning the
result of the ballot. They knew that their votes
were merely an expression of their Fenian sympa-
thies, and that Mr. Heron would get the seat, and
we cannot see in this intelligence what has so scared
the Times.

Andrew Johnson, nothing abashed by his defeat

for the Senate, hopes to be elected to the House as Repre-
sentative from Nashville. lie wants a stage whereon to
act the part wherewith he bursts, and a stage Andy will
have, though all the world should say him " Nay." We
have always had a certain degree of admiration for his in-
domitable obstinacy, which oscillates between the sublime
and the ridiculous. True, Andy failed in one great role,
for he failed to play out his part of Moses, but he did not
'elect it, and it was rather thrust on hit* by his African
allies, for he had too much in him of the born Southerner
heartily to take up such a character. But when it comes
to wreaking his vengeance on the heads of his enemies
those who hear Andy's cry, Clear the way ! know ho means
what he says. Senator Brownlow, for whom it is meant,
resists, refusing to die to make a place in the Senate
for the ex-President. On the contrary, he has written to
the Tennessee State Agent at Washington, "Should I lire
to get to the Senate in December, my friends and ene-
mies alike will know bow little truth there is in the state-
ment that 1 have forsaken the Republican party, joined
ine .vemocrativ, or 111UOU lu Do,iviu6 tiav vt,vuluu Lti LLItl
Senate of Andrew Johnson."
The General Superintendent of Schools among
refugees and freedmen has just issued his eighth semi-
annual report up to July 1, 1869. Organized opposition has
nearly ceased, and most of the Southern States profess to
favour schools for all. The numbers established are :
Day and night schools, 2,118; Sabbath schools, 1,196;
total, 8,814. Teachers in day and night schools, 2,455;
t,achers iu Sabbath schools, 5,451 ; total, 7,909. Pupils
in day and night schools, 114,522 ; pupils in Sabbath
schools, 89,731; total, 204,253. Of these pupils, 192,227
aro reported as having been slaves before the war. Of
the above day and night schools, the freedmen sustained
wholly or in part 1,581, and are the owners of 759 of the
buildings in which the schools aro held. The Bureau
furnished 772 of the buildings used for educational pur-
poses. The majority of schools are on tho most approved
system, 312 being reported as graded, and rival many of
longer standing in the North. The Superintendent knows
of the following though unreported : —Day and night
;total, total, 1,110. Teachers schools, 794 ; Sabbath-schools, 310

in day and night schools, 1,594 ; pupils in day and night
schools, 34,722 ; pupils in Sabbath-schools, 17,378; total,
52,100—giving an aggregate of 4,424 schools of all kinds
total teachers of all kinds, 9,503 ; total pupils of all kinds,

256,353. The Peabody Fund has been found of much ser •
vice, and immense progress has been made in all the
Southern States, with the partial exception of Alabama,
a failure attributed to detective legislation. Georgia pre-

cents the most cheering results, which we hope give pro-
mise of an end to Ku-Klux outrages some day. These
efforts are likely to end in the firm establishment of the free

school t4ystein throughout the country.

A pretty little quarrel has arisen between Great
Britain on the one part and Liberia on the othe-, the con-
_ _

sequences of which we hope the Consul-General in Lon-
don, Mr. Gerard Ralston, may be able to avert, and settle
more amicably than at present appears to be the case. Liberia
has extended its territory, and does not know exactly

how far it reaches, perhaps to the Suez Canal; but it ap-
pears to have seized a schooner, belonging to English sub-
jects, named the Elizabeth, to have broken up factories be-
longing to the people of Sierra Leone, established in what
was asserted to be Liberia, and to have sold the goods cap-
tured under the decree of the Admiralty Court. For this the
Governor of Sierra Leone demanded redress, requiring the
Elizabeth to be immediately delivered up, and on the 10th
Sept. her Majesty's hips Sirius and Petrel anchored at Mon-
rovia, when his ExcelloncyJ. J. Kendall, signified ho was
there to seek redress. In reply, he was invited ashore to
discuss the subject, and informed that Mr. Gerard Ralston
was in communication with the British Government in
London on the subject, the result of which ought to be
awaited. Governor Kendall was willing to see the Presi-
dent on board the Sirius, while he confessed it would be
of no use, as he was not there to discuss a question of
boundary or any other question, being unauthorised, but
to carry out the instructions of his Government ; that the
messenger was directed to wait until 4 p.m., after which
if no settlement was arrived at, the matter would be handed
over to the officer commanding the squadron. Upon this the
Liberian authorities surrendered, signifying that they un-
derstood a refusal to mean an immediate bombardment,
and that they were unable to oppose forco by force. The
Elizabeth was given up, $2,400 handed over, as well as the
bond of the Government to pay the balance of $16,000 by
equal instalments at six months each. The Liberians
term this, shameful oppression by force, but they seem to
have hesitated little in resorting to forco when they cap-
tured the schooner, and broke up what they termed illegal
trading factories.

The following description of the President and
his Cabinet is from the pen of a Washington correspondent
—" General Grant's chief mode of recreation is a long
walk early in the morning and a ride after dinner. One
day he walks towards the Capitol along F street and
back, and the next day along the avenue towards George-
town. Ho walks very slowly, with ono hand in his
trowsors pocket, and the other either holding a cigar or
thrown behind his back. He never looks to tho right or
left, but straight befora him, or towards the ground, and
seems not to notice any of the passers. Many who know
him pass President Grant in these walks, but very few
venture to join him. Mr George S. Boutwell's chief
amusement is billiards. He is not a professor
of the game, but is a fair player. He has a cue of his own
which he brings with him to the billiard saloon and car-
ries home with him when he finishes playing. lie may be
seen issuing from the saloon sometimes as late as mid-
night. Secretary Fish rides to and from the State Depart-
ment in a stylish little cantle, and after official hours
generally passes his time at home in entertaining select
parties at dinner. Messrs. Belknap and Robeson are great
walkers. The former is a splendid looking man, the very
picture of good health, with fine, clear, dark oyes, ruddy
complexion, and a well put together frame. He has made
a very good impression. Mr. Robeson likes good dinners
and gives them. Messrs. Cox and Hoar are reserved and
quiet, and Mr. Hoar seems to some a little bit sour."
Mr. Lewis Chalmers, the manager of the Im-
perial Silver Quarries Company, writes from Bullion a,
Alpine Company, California, to the Mining and Scientific
Press, calling attention to the taxation of undeveloped
mining claims, which ho states, if persisted in, will have

a n injurious effect on the investment of foreign caPite/
in those mines. He asserts that the assessment is in 3
hi gh degree arbitrary and unequal, not intentionally, but
because there are really no means of ascertaining their
value until the claims yield bullion. One of the ledges
assessed had been worked through by Mr. Chalmers,
which " notwithstanding the assurances of the vendors to
the contrary, had proved no ledge at all, and there Wt' 11°
guarantee that the other nine might not turn out ra°r.,e,
valuable." However unanswerable the argument, it will
prove but cold comfort to the English shareholders, wile:
we believe, lately met to consider the disagreeable posr
tion of having got through all their funds, then occugliig
the hopeless position of Oliver Twist at dinner, when he
asked "for more." The shareholders may, however, de-
rive comfort from this extract from a local paper gilled
the Chronicle of the 10th Oct., which should make then'
pause ore sacrificing the work already done. "The, Thialtd-
penal Silver Quarries Company up to Monday last
made 1,200 feet of tunnel, and was within 360 feet of tb°
perpendicular of the Florence lode. There is no claial
this country more promising."
Advices have been received from Tahiti to Oct'
16, via San Francisco, giving an account of one of those
frightful massacres which periodically occur in the trm'ir
port of Chinese coolies. A massacre seldom or °Yea
does occur where the coolies voluntarily come' foriva
and pay for their transport to a county where they 05..-°
to work ; but the case differs widely when they are 101
carried to such countries as Peru, when the passageis„rti
very dissimilar to the slave trade from Africa. The ":";,-
Cotton Company about six mouths ago sent the hod
Margaret Gander, Capt. Blackett, to the Gilbert Isle„g
for a cargo of coolies. The captain' succeeded in secilti:;
about three hundred, and during the return voyage beg
Bold mutinied and killed the captain and two officers, cirri,;,"f
mutilating their bodies. The mato escaped to the 'the
the vessel. There he placed a keg of powder under
main hatch, and, having arranged a fuse, called the cooltebe
when the savages crowded around the hatchway' st
fuse was then fired, killing nearly all on board. The
jumped overboard or fell victims to the mate and rein
ai
ing men. The vessel was brought safely to Tahiti.
During the quarter ending September 30th 135,0
the receipts of the United States Treasury from revee-0
were $109,642,079 12, and the expenditures for carrying en,
the Government and paying the interest on the Pubn'id
debt were $88,034,163 03, The Report of the Seeet-bo
Auditor contains some curious information. During
year the total number of accounts audited was 18',"„Sho'
involving $207,563,432. The accounts unsettled at 18-'the
beginning of the year numbered 265,311, and at the
179,588. The clerks averaged 392, and the average' The
respondence for each working day was 1,300 letters. s
Pension Office commenced the year with 96,883 ci3etto;
to which were added during the year 51,883. la„sa
same period there were settled 85,279. About half tw-t.
reeeived were rejectOd. The claims of the coloured Sew
diers are peculiarly difficult to investigate, while all co
volve immense trouble. As many as four or fiyo N°
the
will claim to be the widow of one coloured man, sad be
whole career of a white soldier has to be traced ere "0
claim can be verified. The records of the office occtiPlthe
large rooms. From the army fines were levied to
amount of $858,032, which went to the National Mile

for disabled volunteers. r
Mr. Ross Browne, Mr. Burlingame's suceess°,it
Minister to China, delivered a lecture on the Bth ine"-
at San Francisco on China and its Government'
Browne is a practised writer, and a good speaker, silt" is,
fil
therefore, well able effectively to uphold his view °I
/11th
sort of relations Foreign Powers ought to maintain 0
the Government at Peking, with which he det3iled,i to
experience, contrasting the scant welcome accorde,.
the American Embassy at the Chinese Court with the Vieth°
did reception of Mr. Burlingame at Washington and f
capitals of Euro., e. Ho mentioned numerous instanc":a
the hostility of the Chinese to foreigners, and ass than
that the Chinese Court was never more exclusive —,
now. Notwithstanding the opinion of the Englishovi:e,
who holds a high post in the Emperor of China's r
at
that Ross Browne is substantially right, the Executive,.
Washington appear to desire that the system of coneilte";b°oit
t
should be fully carried out, and have signified this .
new Minister, at the same time leaving him a Wide do
tionary tionary power. Mr. Low will not, however, Prne, e
ec; p
his post till after Congress meets, and he has had t',"
port unity of discussing the subject with both the
heo- ti
and the Senate Committees on Foreign Affairs. -13'1,,40i
ho will d 'cline to go at all unless Congress raises the
sion into the first class, as he dislikes the post, and 'Yr a
gladly resign and return to California. Mr. Low Was bore
in Frankfort, Maine, in 1828, but he was one of the ear-
in
liest settlers at San Franoisco, having joined the 4fire
neer band in 1849 when twenty-one years of age. :Dt
he commenced business as a banker, and in 1861 Was an
as a Representative to Congress. On his return to
wvtas
Francisco he was made collector of that port ;
orein
chosen Governor of California, but declined a ren
t:ou on the expiration of his term. When self lifer'
man for the Mission, General Grant had a list a Cad 00
lams made out who wore qualified for the post,
. ":.E, by U cuta al Otici Luau, he at once eeloccod for
who is said to be in every way singularly well fitted
the appointment.
The Suez Canal was successfully opened last 153,.
turday, and the Journal Official announces, Nov. 2,,00t
"The canal has been traversed from end to end Acit'clicl
hindrance, and the Imperial yacht Aigle, after a
spltbus
passage, row lies at her moorings in the Red Sea• ithig
are realised the hopes which were entertained °A or
groat undertaking—the joining of two seas. ti'll!,f3c-
vernment of the Emperor cannot but look with 05t'srer
tion upon the saccess of an enterprise which it has 90
ceased to encourage. A work like this, successful-110a
complished in the face of so many obstacles, does 1s a
to the energetic initiative of the French mind, and iis•
testimony to the progress of modern science." .6-4.11 0-
penal decree has boon issued, dated the 19th 101 the
pointing M. de. Lesseps to the rank of Grand Cross' °
Legion of Honour, in consideration of his servictloir
piercing the Isthmus of Suez." On Monday last si% "ow
sand five hundred and ten metres of the Mont-Cenis
ofro jO,
an
nel on the Italian side were completed. The W
therefore, half finished, and the works have uovr en
t°cl
upon French territory.