The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-20 00:00:00

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(CANTERBURY
EVERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NORMA.

English, that it was, for the session, more intent
on Italian liberties than on our own—woe to
Ministers if they do not, then, at once tell Austria
that if she moves towards Southern Italy or
across the Po at all, our Mediterranean
fleet shall demolish Gaeta and co-operate
with GARIBALDI and PERSANO. England will not
hear—let Lord JOHN RUSSELL know it—of any
attack by Austria on emancipated Italy being a
"just cause "—it could not even think defence of
the Quadrangle just. But after the manner in
which the Premier and the Foreign Secretary spoke
in Parliament last session, let them be assured that
this country looks to them to forbid any inter-
vention for Bourbonism and Papal rule by
Austria. If Austria, however, moves—let her
of a European war, in which
take the responsibility
we trust Austria herself will go utterly to pieces,
free nations arise out of her fragments; while to
France, if she does her duty, and as a well deserved
punishment for the selfishness of Prussia, we
should hardly grudge, if the inhabitants really
approved, a rectification on the Rhine itself.

Norma ......... ......... Miss RUSSELL.
Adahrisa ....... ......... Madame MARIA,
(Her first appearance in this country.)
After which the ETHIOPIANS, consistint!, of Seventeen Per-
formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the
Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, with Nero Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin-
cipal Neo-ro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley Fox.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGITMANS.
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Balcony, 15,.... ........ Hall, 6d.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Ocr. 20, 1860,

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

In regard to the Royal Conference which should
commence to day at Warsaw, one thing, at least, is
very remarkable. Not a mortal living for a moment
supposes that it bodes any good to subjects. Here
are three Royal Personages all claiming a right

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Divine to be shepherds of the people ; they meet ;
they consult ; they will separate ; and no doubt the
object of the consultations is, how they may shear
their sheep most safely; and of the separation, to pro-
ceed warmly or violently, as they may have advised
each other to the process of shearing. Anyhow the
fleece is universally understood to be the object. A
fleece partly golden in the literal sense of the
word—and partly so in a figurative one—for the
golden prize of these mortal deities is the most ab-
solute rule over the greatest number. Happiest of
the thre9 the one who can say, sic volo ; sic jubeo to
the greatest number of millions—for so they esti-
mate rank in their little circle. At the same
time, to do them justice, they acknowledge the
brotherhood of Absolute Power in very small
kingdoms. The hereditary monarch of a small
duchy is an object of deep interest to them, if his
subjects desire to share his power, and would
limit or regulate it by free institutions. It
is, of course, quite another thing if any of the
greater Powers swallows up, or mediatises any of
these minor ones ; then one little divinity is but
absorbed by a greater, and enjoys a sort
of Hindoo beatification. A totally different
thing that, to a divinity being somewhat
narcotised by the mere mob born to obey. The
people keep their place still when they pass, KING
and all, under the equally absolute power of a
greater King. They set no dangerous, because
contagious, example of popular liberty.
Probably no one doubts that the aspect of Europe
in regard to popular movements is a chief reason,
if not the chief one, for the meeting of to-day.
Fear of what Louis NAPOLEON might dream of,
and at last accomplish, is unquestionably one of
their motives for laying their Royal heads together;
but even that is inseparably mixed up with this
question of popular right and popular measures to
obtain them. Prussia chiefly, and Bavaria and
other minor States, have most to fear from any
movements by France for the rectification of boun-
daries. But neither Prussia nor any German
State would have anything to fear from any
Boundary Rectifier, if the people of those States

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 20, 1860.

What credit is to be given to the statement of
the Courrier de Dintanehe, which, our readers will
find in the telegrams, a little time will show. Why
a letter from London should be the mode of pro-
mulgating such a story it is not easy to guess. It
may be for the convenience of the journal under
the present press-laws of France, or for the con-
venience of the Government, or it may be an in-
vention, like so many set afloat in Paris, just to see
what would be said. If Baron HUBNER be in
Paris, it would not seem to need an English letter
to apprise Parisians of the fact; and if his business
be to sound M. TIIOUVENEL and the EMPEROR
on the subject of Austrian intervention in behalf of
the POPE and the BOURBON, We are not aware
that any one here is specially in the secrets of
Austria.

had been dealt with honourably and fairly by
their masters. The really German people, indeed,
we believe, as well as their masters, would resent
and resist French rule; But still, they have one
and all been cheated by their Sovereigns, who pro-
mised them free constitutions if they would rise to
expel the French; and who, when they had done it,
retained their despotic rule. Prussia, besides,
has really French provinces who care little
for the Germans, and who would as soon be French-
men as Prussians if the Emperor's Government
were not more despotic than their own.
It is the uneasy state of the subjugated and
wronged peoples which gives all his strength for
annoyance to the French Emperor. He has con-
trived to disseminate the notion among the
suppressed nationalities that he is friendly to their
liberation, All the provinces of the Austrian Em-
pire imagine that if there should be a general move-
ment he would, so far as circumstances allowed, be
found on their side. They have seen, it is true, the
idea for which he went to war in Italy, carried out
by GAIUBALDI end VICTOR EMMANUEL, not by
himself, there. Still he, unquestionably, with
whatever design, gave Italy the start it has now
obtained ; and it was something, something consi-
derable too, to have said before all Europe, and
backed it by an army of 200,000 men, that nationality
was not a mere visionary idea, but one worth
fighting for. Were England in the condi-
tion of Hungary, Croatia, Transylvania, we may
add of Bohemia and the Tyrol, we too should look
with no little hope to the man who did so much
in Italy in the name of the idea which we should
then be so eager to realise. We should be ready
to make excuses for the short-comings of Villa- 1
franca, and perhaps to credit him with half of
what has followed since, little as he deserved it.
Hence it is, as we conceive, that the Potentates
of Warsaw are now racking their royal brains
with the double question—How to keep Louts
NAPOLEON within his present boundaries, and how,
at th... time, to keep their subjects out of the
liberties which they demand, and most of which
have been taken violently from them by the pre-
sent monarchs, or by their not remote an-
cestors. They assemble, indeed, like three
robber kings, in the very centre of their great
territorial robbery. A Romanoff, a Haps-
burg, and a Hohenzolleen, fitly represent
the original atrocity of the partition of Poland, and
their meeting in its ancient capital seems intended
to proclaim to all Europe, and to all the upheaving
nationalities especially, that they glory in the crime
of their ancestors. Stolen crowns it seems are
sweet—a few years' possession sanctifies the crime ;
and grandsons can glory in what their predecessors
did not deny was simply an act of violence—indeed

There is indeed one family which probably knows

a great deal about the intentions of Austria—a
family which has lately been visiting its German
relations, some of whom are deeply interested in
Austrian matters. But we imagine that family is
a lithe too highly placed to gossip on such matters
with those who show their letters to a Paris news-
paper editor. That another Ambassador has arrived
in Paris we know. Count PERSIGNY is there,
having left us expressly for the purpose of seeing
-whether he could set things straight between M.
THOUVENEL and the EMPEROR, and if not, helphim,
in his own person or that of another, to a Foreign
Minister more to the EMPEROR'S mind. So far it
looks well, since we can hardly suppose M. PER-
SIGNY, the old friend of Polish liberties too, will
not carry with him much of the feeling towards
Italy which he may have nataL,..ll., :--"Mhed in this
country. Still we confess we do not like the com-
bination of several circumstances. There is—the
Warsaw meeting—the return of our Court from its
German fraternisations—the strengthening of the
French army at Rome, and its placing part of the
POPE'S territory which has been emancipated under
his hated rule again—the great increase of the
Austrian forces on the Po and the Mincio
—some of those forces crossing the river,
though into territory belonging to Austria—
and the assurance with which Austria is arresting
and imprisoning, without trial, persons suspected
of patriotism, or, which is the same thing, disaffec-
tion to the Government of Vienna—and, as much
as anything the apparent hesitation of the King of
SARDINIA and the Piedmontese soldiers in their
progress to Naples. All these things look, it must
be owned, the wrong way ; and it is remarkable
that the Paris papers have been sedulously chro-
nicling every threatening movement of Austria, or
even inventing such movements for her.

the female ancestor of the HAPSBURG of the day
had conscience enough to weep over the folly, as
well as the crime, into which she had been seduced ;
for MARIA THERESA had the instinctive perception
of a woman, that Poland was a valuable ally to
Austria—her first defence against Rassia, and
against the growing power of ambitious Prussia
too. All that, however, has passed away—the
children now to the third and fourth generation
glory in the sins of their fathers—may they only,
in the language of Holy Writ, have the sins of
their fathers visited upon them
In the present state of Hungary and Italy, it is
tl e monarchs should be alarmed. The former
refuses to be cajoled. One of the most singular
proofs of the madness of the oppressor being that
Catholics there heartily join the Protestants in de-
manding for the latter their historical franchises ;
and one of the last accounts from Hungary tells us
that the plausible but treacherous Patent has been
again, in a solemn meeting, almost unanimously re-
fused by the Protestants. In Italy, all things are
against the Absolutists. They see there the whole
country ejecting its hereditary Autocrats, and in

We had hardly written the last when,
paragraph
like JOB'S messengers, another telegram comes,
with "official" information that the Courts of St.
Petersburg and Turin had recalled their respective
Ambassadors. We may suppose that the recal of
the Prussian Ambassador is to follow ; if so, the
last clause of the previous telegram, that Austria
would make her action conditional on that of
Russia and Prussia, will have important meaning.
It will be inferred that Austria was aware before.
hand that these Powers meant to give her their
moral support at least.
Such are the auguries under which the meeting
at Warsaw is initiated! Now, then, England to
the rescue ! This country 'MUST speak out, if the
dangers are what lthey seem to be, or it will be all
'tt with our Gov ernment. The one thing which
all aeremur
of
defence s tb e session have had to say in its
4, that Parliament was so thoroughly

the most orderly way placing themselves under
Constitutional Monarchy, the very thing desired by
every fragment of the Austrian Empire, and by
every State of Germany. That they will lay their
plans to prevent, if possible, the contagion spread-
ing into countries which they have so well prepared
to receive it ; that they will, if they dare, even
attempt, through:Austria, something reactionary
in Italy, we may be quite certain. They will do
what they can, and dare, to erect a bulwark against
the ever strengthening moral and physical forces
of the popular cause; and, only too happy will they
be if they could send GARIBALDI to his little island
• home again, or even to South America, and make
' VICTOR EMMANUEL King again of his old territory
only—minus, of course, Savoy and Nice.

NEW THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL—Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary,
and suite, honoured the performance at this theatre by
their presence last evening.
SHIPWRECKS.—TYRELLA, DUNDRITIII BAY, Oct.
18.—A. large American ship, the Martha Whiteman, of
Richmond, United States, from New York to Glasgow,
stranded this morning at two o'clock, during a heavy gale
of wind and rain, in Dundrum Bay. The disaster took
place about six miles from the new lifeboat station of the
National Lifeboat Institution. Horses wero put immedi-

The Brothers CIIEERYBLE were—we may all
now be quite certain of this—no impossible crea-
tions of the generous imagination, the large and
noble heart, the vivid fancy, and the exquisite
genius of England's greatest Humourist. It is not
only that reference may still be made to the late
Messrs. GRANT, of Manchester, as not unworthy
prototypes of the twin friends and employers of
young NICHOLAS NICKELBY and old Tom LIMKIN-
WATER—but that we can point to a Merchant

Prince actually still, thank GOD, living and breath-
ing amongst us, not a mere memory, but a veritable
substantial existence, in the person of the head
partner in an honoured Lancashire firm, known as
the Messrs. BROWN, SHIPLEY, and COMPANY—

that we can point to the two Brothers CHEERYBLE
rolled into one in the form of that good citizen of
the British Empire, WILLIAM BEoWN, the mer-
chant of Liverpool.

ately into requisition, and the lifeboat, on her carriage,
transported to the place of danger. On arriving there,
however, the tide had nearly ebbed from about the ship,
and it was found that her crew had been previously brought
ashore in a Coast-guard boat. Captain Ridge, R,N., of that
service and his men were most indefatigable in their exer •
tions on the occasion. This lifeboat, the cost of which was

It is quite impossible, we believe, to read any of
the accounts published in our columns of Mr. Wm.
BROWN'S recent doings at Liverpool without ex-
periencing a sympathetic glow of pride in the mere
fact of that man's history as a fellow-countryman,
or without regarding his name with sentiments of
peculiar and profound admiration.

presented to the institution by a benevolent lady, has only
been on this dangerous station three or four weeks.
HOLYHEAD, FRIDAY.—Last night, about eleven
o'clock, we observed rockets and blue lights shown from
the Breakwater light-ship. The Coastguard boat was

quickly launched and despatched, and the lifeboat of the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution was soon afterwards
away. It was found that the barque Cherokee was an-
chored close to the Clipera rock, and a schooner still' fur-
ther to leeward ; wind, a moderate gale from the westward.
Assistance was offered to the barque, and declined; but
seven hands were put on board the schooner, but after-
wards withdrawn, as it was not considered prudent to
weigh just then, and the wind was abating, so that there
was no fear of her safety. Although in neither case were
the services of the lifeboats needed, yet the quickness with
which each boat, in the middle of the night, arrived at the
scene of danger satisfactorily show the promptitude with
which the means provided by the Lifeboat Institution are
now made available, even on the most remote parts of our
coast, to save life from shipwreck.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following are the
names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine and received certificates to
practise on Thursday last :—Frederic Charles Bailey, Nor-
wich ; Thomas William Orwin, Birmingham ; Wm. James
Lancaster, Barnsley, Yorkshire ; Frederic Hase 'Watts ;
and William Jas. Thomason, Royal Navy. Jas. Savage,
Hull School of Physic, also on the same day passed his first
examination.

The Oesterreichische Zeitung of to-day contains
an article, in which the writer maintains that Austria is
not impoverished, but naturally he fails to make good his
thesis. State domains and railroads have be en sold, hun-
dreds of millions of florins have been spent for warlike pur-
poses, Government stock bearing 5 per cent. interest is at
61, the metallic currency is at a premium of 32 per cent.,
and it is therefore absurd to say that the nation is as
rich as it was formerly. As it may be urged that it is the
wealthier classes who most feel the fall in the price of Go-
vernment stock and the deterioration of the currency, it
may be as well to observe that poor and rich now have to
pay 132f1. for what is worth but 100 fl.
ABOLITION OF PASSPORTS IN SWEDEN.—The
Swedish public were agreeably surprised by the appearance
in yesterday's official gazette, Oct. 10 (the Post-och Inrikes
Tidningar), of a Royal Ordinance, dated September 21, by
which the system of passports is entirely abolished in
Sweden. This ordinance repeals formally all existing laws
relating to passports, and enacts that henceforth no such
document shall be required, either on entering or on leaving
the country, or for travelling in the interior. Although
passports for some time have been virtually abolished in
many of the Germar. States, no formal regulation to that
effect exists in Germany or elsewhere. Therefore Sweden
is the first continental country where such a law has been
passed. This being the case, the matter is of sufficient im-
portance to call the world's attention to the fact as an
example to be followed by other Governments. In 1857 a
very liberal Customs' tariff was adopted by the Diet. In
both these respects—free trade and exemption from the pass.
port nuisance—Sweden has of late made great steps in
advance of most, if not all, continental States, as becomes a
country where a free press has long been one of the funda,
mental institutions, and constitutional liberty is as old as
that of Great Britain herself.
HEREFORD CATTLE.—A great sale by public auc-
tion of cattle belonging to Mr. Rea, one of the first of Here.
ford breeders, took place at Menaughty on Tuesday. The
auctioneer (Mr. Russell) stated at the sale that for the last
20 years Mr. Rea, at the Royal Agricultural and all the
principal shows of Hereford cattle in the kingdom, had
taken upwards of 200 first-class prizes, and sold a great
number of animals for exportation to Australia, Jamaica,
and America. There were about 150 lots, and the prices
fetched were in some cases high, though not extravagant.
The highest figure was £157 10s. for a bull, " Sir Benja-
min," and the total sum realised was nearly £3,000, some of
the lots being withdrawn in consequence of the lateness of
the hour and the departure of a portion of the company.
THE GLEANER'S BELL.—Recently, at the ancient
town of Great Wakering, in Essex, with some friends, I
found the sexton or bell-ringer just about to enter the
church tower for the purpose of tolling the bell. It .was then
on the stroke of 6; o'clock p.m. Thinking there was to be
weekly evening service, we proposed retiring, as we had not
come to pray, but to pry into the curiosities of the place.
The old man told us to stay, as he was only going to ring
for the gleaners, and added that he did this regularly dur-
ing harvest time, at sunrise and sundown. Is this custom
common to all counties of England ? How far back may it
be traced ? And is it simply to be ascribed to the want of
watches and clocks in bygone times ? Or is there a sacred
token of prayer and praiso attached to it ? Notes and
Queries.

" The land it boasts its titled hosts—
They cannot vie with these,
The merchants of old England—
The seigneurs of the seas!"
And assuredly, remembering what has now been
actually accomplished by WILLIAM BROWN of
Liverpool, we may echo, not inappropriately, these
concluding words as well as those opening words
of the noble patriotic ballad of the late Lord

STRANGFORD :
" Then glory to the merchants
Who shall do such deeds as these,
The merchants of old England,
The seigneurs of the seas 1"
Recollect what precisely has been the gift of WIL-
LIAM BROWN to the mayor, corporation, and bur-
gesses of the town of Liverpool ! A Public Library
and Museum—a library already holding 30,000
volumes—a library capable, as it at present stands,
of holding 100,000 volumes—a structure covering
very nearly 4,000 square yards—having cost its
one munificent donor, during the process of its
erection, the good round sum of £40,000 sterling !
That is certainly a noble gift from a private citizen
to his fellow-townsmen. We don't wonder that
Liverpool made much of the occasion of its pre-
sentation on Thursday last, the 18th of this
' present month of October. The marvel would have
been had the townspeople not displayed all this un-
wonted enthusiasm—for the incident was altogether
unprecedented. It was only fitting, among other
events of the previous day, that the working men of
Liverpool, in proffering their testimonial of grati-
tude to WILLIAM BROWN, as their great Public
Benefactor, should have enabled themselves by the
graceful choice of their tribute to do so thus effec-
tively: saying in so many words—" We respectfully
present for your acceptance—first, a silver shield
bearing upon it a view of that temple of civi-
lisation which you so generously purpose hand-
ing over to your townsmen to-morrow ; second,
we hand you a clock, which, while it chronicles
the progress of time, will, we feel assured,
never indicate that hour in which the name of
WILLIAM BROWN will cease to be held in reverential
estimation." And it was something, too, in recog-
nition of Mr. BROWN'S civisism and of his ser-
vices, when Lord BROUGHAM—himself one of the
most venerable and illustrious benefactors of his age
and of his country—should afterwards have risen (as
he did) in the presence of the assembled multitude,
and have thus spoken emphatically of the incident
which he had hastened (we grieve to think at what
inconvenience to himself) to witness and applaud :
" I have come," said Lord BROUGHAM, " at only
a trifling personal inconvenience from having been
exceedingly unwell; and, indeed, I come contrary
to the orders of my medical attendants, but I could
not resist the strong desire which I felt to be pre-
sent at a meeting held in honour of my most
esteemed friend, your munificent—not only bene-
volent, but munificent fellow-townsman ; for
without that wisdom and good sense and discretion
which have directed his great munificence, his
generosity, unexampled as it is, would not produce
the effect which PROVIDENCE designed it to have ;
but I consider that this is unexampled in the history
of human munificence, not only in the amount, but in
the perfect judgment, the true wisdom, which has di-
rected Mr. BROWN'S generosity." Extraordinary
though that tribute is—one all the more extraordi-
nary as falling from the lips of Lord BROUGHA3I—it
is unnecessary to add that it is in no one particular
exaggerated ; it is the simple statement of a simple
truth—the act of generosity here spoken of is "un-
exampled in the history of human munificence."
Honour then say we to this good citizen, honour to
the fair fame of WILLIAM BROWN of Liverpool—
ESTO PERPETUA.

OFFICIAL.

HEALTH OF THE DUKE OF NORFOLK,—We are
sorry to hear that the illness of his Grace the Duke of Nor-
folk has taken an unfavourable turn, and that his recovery
is considered scarcely possible. The duke still remains at
his villa at Littlehampton, as it is not thought that he
would be able to bear being moved even so short a distance
as to Arundel Castle. He has received the last rites and
sacraments of his Church from the hands of one of the
London Oratory. The duchess is unremitting in her at-
tendance on her husband's sick bed.
THE BATTLE OF VULTURNO.—It was no unfitting
spot for the closing act of such a struggle. The prize of
victory—that fair city of Naples itself—was almost in sight
of the combatants. Close at hand, and on one edge of the
battle -field is the splendid palace of Caserta, in which the
ancestors of the young King had held royal state for more
than a century past. It is the masterpiece of Vanvitelli,
and amongst the most magnificent of Royal residences
in Europe. Those who have visited the spot will remember
the gardens with the cascades, and how the cascades
are so arranged as to represent quaint combinations of
statues and mystical emblems. . The forests of ilex be-
hind the palace swarm with game, and herein it was that
the ancestors of the young King—being themselves Kings
of Naples—used to take their pastime, and divert them-
selves with the slaughter of wild animals, when the affairs
of state no longer claimed their attention. Francis It. all
but played his last throw for empire in his own park.—
Once a Week.
THE A GAPEMONE AGAIN.—Mr. Hodder, the
fighting man of the " Abode of Love," having failed in his
mission to wrest Mrs. Price from her husband at Glaston-
bury, Mr. Charles Verriour, the resident lawyer in the in-
stitution, has been commissioned to undertake the task of
separatinc, man and wife once more. Mr. Verriour on Fri-
day visited Glastonbury, and made his way to the house
in which the Rev. Lewis Price and his captured lady
have taken up their residence. Mr. Cruse, the land-
lord of the dwelling, opened the door, and at once re-
cognised the close-shaven applicant as a follower of
Henry James Prince. As soon as the door was open, Mr.
Verriour placed his footso as to prevent its being clesal,
and asked for an interview with Mr. Price. He was told
that Mr. Price had resolved to hold no further communi-
cation with the fraternity, and that anything he wished
to say must be said through the ex-Agapemonite's
solicitor. The lawyer kept up a conversation with the
landlord outside the house for some time, hoping probably
to attract Mrs. Price's attention. Over and over again he
asserted that he only desired to see Mr. Price, and would
not avail himself of any opportunity to speak to the lady.
Mr. Cruse eventually left the Agapemonite in the street,
and in less than a minute afterwards the ambassador of
Mr. Prince was detected clandestinely conversing with Mrs.
Prince through her bedroom window. As soon as this dis-
covery was made the landlord's indignation was aroused,
and he followed the lawyer to the George Hotel, where a
phaeton and horse were waiting, and on the way thither
and at the inn exposed the man with extraordinary earnest-
ness. The foiled commissioner of the Agapemone deemed
it wise to leave Glastonbury with all haste. Our corre-
spondent states that there is no blame to be attached to
Mrs. Price in this matter, and that she is "very comfort-
able." —.Bridgewater Mercury.
BURSTING OF A LOCH KATRINE WATERPIPE.—
On Wednesday morning one of the waterpipes which convey
the water from Loch trine to Glasgow burst in the vil-
lage of Maryhill, a few miles from Glasgow. Information
was despatched to the district inspector, who was in a short
time at the scene of the accident, but he had to proceed to
Garscubc-bridge to put off the water, and the consequence
was that a considerable time elapsed before the very great
discharge of water could be stopped. The quantity of water
which escaped was, we may say, tremendous, and in a short
time flooded to the depth of three or four feet several of the
houses in two of the streets in Maryhill, much damage being
of course done. The water rushed violently down a steep
bank into the river Kelvin, making ravines and rugged
channels in the streets, and carrying off the kerbstones and
causeway indiscriminately before it. In several places the
water collected into large ponds, and a number of pigs nar-
rowly escaped drowning. Considerable (haulage was done
to gardens, avenues, and houses. A number of workmen
are busily engaged repairing the pipe.—Scotsman.
This England of ours stands out amidst conti-
nental troubles, in virtue of the fact that more than in any
other country all men are equal before the law. Every man
according to his faculties may rise by industry and per-
severance; and if genius, perseverance, and favourable cir-
cumstances meet together, a day labourer may attain to
any position under the Crown. In virtue of this conviction,
all men are contented, because the door is opened for better-
ing their position, and lord and lout dwell together in har-
mony, and the lout is content, having few aspirations.—
Once a lfieek.
A TRUE ESTIMATE,—There are people, and they
are numerous, who have an idea that inventors are a thought-
less, wasteful race, who throw away their own property and
that of their neighbours in absurd schemes. No doubt,
there are numbers of these imaginative schemers, without
judgment : but what then ? In other departments of life
we have unsuccessful merchants, and quack doctors, and
mock musicians, and mechanical poets, and pretenders of all
sorts ; and why should the realm of mechanical invention be
without them ? The fact remains the same, that this our
England waged a contest of years against the whole conti-
nent of Europe banded under the elder Napoleon, and came
off victorious, the cost being mainly contributed from
the earnings of the steam-engine, and spinning machinery,
and power looms, and other appliances. It was Watt, and.
Crompton, and Hargraves, and such men, the never weary-
ing- inventors, who were at the root of the winniibrs of this
great fight. in the service of humanity, pulling down the
false prophet who broke down old despotisms to make a
worse despotism of his own.—Once a Week.
NEW JNVENTION.—A hand-loom weaver at Dun-
fermline, named Charles Lawson, has completed the inven-
tion of a machine for weaving Brussels and velvet-pile car-
pets and tablecovers, which is likely to cause a revolution in
these britches of manufacture. The peculiarity of the
machine is that it can be applied to any plain cloth web,
raising the weft to any length, and in case of velvet-piles
cutting- the loop in process of weaving. By this process
any variety of colours can ho introduced without waste of t
material, the pattern being formed entirely of the weft,
which, instead of being shot across the whole breadth of the
web, is inserted only where shown in the pattern—thus a
dozen different colours can be woven as economically as one.
The process is described likewise as producing cloth quicker
than by any of the old machines. The inventor has taken
several years to bring his invention to a practical issue, one
great difficulty having been the fixing of the weft, so that it
will not pull out after the pile is cut, in which he has nc,w
completely stitceedod.—oscotsinctie.

_ROYAL ENGLISH- OPERA,

CO VENT-GARDEN.

Last evening the English version of Verdi's " Il
Trovatore" was performed at the above theatre for
the first time this season, for the purpose of intro-
ducing to the public three new performers. Madame
Palmieri, Mr. Alberto Lawrence, and Mr. T. Distin,
in the characters of Leonora, Count Luna, and Fer-
rando. Miss Leffler, too, appeared for the first
time in the part of Azucena, and Mr. Henry Haigh
personated Manrico. Madame Palmieri, a young
lady of considerable personal attraction, possesses
a very powerful and brilliant voice, with much dra-
matic feeling. Her version of Leonora is certainly
one of the best we have met with on the English
stage. Madame Palmieri's success was completo.
The fair debutante was unanimously applauded
throughout the opera; and the well-known " Tacea
la notte"—was redemanded with enthusiasm. Mr.
Alberto Lawrence was also very favourably re-
ceived. This gentleman has a very strong
baritone voice, and sings with genuine feeling.
Mr. Distin, although his voice sounded somewhat
too weak for so large a theatre, made a creditable
appearance as Ferrando, and Miss Leffler did her
best as Azucena ; but this very arduous part, which
requires great acting even more than good singing,
is at present quite beyond the histrionic means of
the promising young contralto, who, it should be
remembered, is a novice on the stage. Mr. Henry
Haigh, who is greatly improved as a vocalist since
last season, sang the familia? " Deserto sulla terra,"
" Ah si ben mio," and " Ah the la morte," very
sweetly and gracefully, winning for the latter air
an enthusiastic encore. The band, chorus, and mice
en scene merit the highest praise. We understand
that the Prince and Princess Leiningen have signi-
fied their intention of honouring the Royal English
Opera with their presence this evening.

THE SUN, LONDOS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1860.

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LA T •

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr, Reuter's office :

TURIN, OCT. 20.
The Ru3sian Ambassador at Turin has been re-
called.

The Sardinian Minister at St. Petersburg has
been recalled.

PARIS, OCT. 19.

The Courrier de .Dimanche publishes a lotter from
London asserting that Baron Hubner is in Paris on
a special mission to prepare the French Govern-
ment for an early intervention of Austria in Italy,
and to ascertain whether the Emperor Napoleon
would again afford assistance to Sardinia.
The Courrier de Dimanche says :
" Up to the present M. Thouvenel has not given
a decisive reply.
It is asserted, however, that Austria would only
make an attack against Sardinia in the event of
her obtaining the moral concurrence of Russia and
Prussia.

TURIN, OCT. 19.

The Chambers were closed to• day after an ad-
dress expressing homage and gratitude to the King
had been voted. A deputation from the Chamber
will present the address to his Majesty.

PERUGIA, OCT. 19.
Addresses to King Victor Emmanuel and the
Emperor Napoleon are being signed at Orvieto.
These addresses already bear several thousand
signatures.

TURIN, OCT. 19.
According to advices received here the vote of
Sicily will be taken on the 29th instant.

CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 13.

The levant _Herald says :
" Prince Conza will demand from the Porte the
removal of the Central Fokschani Commission to
Bucharest, and permission to found a Roumain
order, with power to confer decorations. The
visit of the Prince to Constantinople will last a
fortnight.

" Financial reforms will immediately be carried
out. Official salaries and the civil list are to be
reduced 200,000,000 piastres.

" The fall of RizaPasha is expected, charges of
great corruption having been made against him.
He is supported by M. de Lavalette. He recently
made a large present of diamonds to Madame
Thouvenel."

BERLIN, OCT. 19.

The Prince Regent leaves 'Warsaw to-morrow
morning. Baron Schleinitz, the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, being indisposed, will be repre-
sented by the Under Secretary of State, M.
Grunert.

AMSTERDAM, OCT. 19.

The Handels Effectenblad states that at the
meeting of the New Granada bondholders the
modified proposition of the Granada Confedera-
tion was agreed to by 57 against 51 votes.
The English counter-proposal was not submitted
to the vote.