The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-17 00:00:00

weather experienced since the beginning of the
week. Reaping has been proceeding vigorously in
all parts of the country, and, with the exception of
wheat, the greater part of the white crops has
already fallen before the sickle, and secured under
" thack and rape." The wheat is slowly being
reaped, but it will require another three weeks at
least before it is all secured in the barn-yard.—
Courier.

The front is also much scorched and blistered, and
one or two of the ancient carved wooden monuments
have been completely burned off the wall at the eastern
side of the grand organ. The cushions and hassacs
in most parts of the ancient chapel have also been
greatly damaged by water, and have been obliged
to be taken from the respective seats, but it is
hoped they will not be irretrievably damaged, and
that by drying and dressing they may be in a fit
condition to be used again at Divine Service.
It is hardly necessary to state that Divine Ser-
vice was suspended yesterday, but it is in contem-
plation to call a meeting of the inhabitants in a day
or two, and to make application to Royalty for as-
sistance, which no doubt will be granted, so that
there is strong ground for concluding that, in the
course of a few weeks, if not restored to its primi-
tive state, it will be so far repaired as to be able to
be used again for public worship.
One very fortunate circumstance is, that large and
lofty as the chapel was, it had no galleries ; if it
had there is not a shadow of doubt entertained by
those competent to form an accurate opinion, that
the flames would have quickly entered the windows
of the bell tower, and have traversed the galleries
and• roof until this splendid place would have been
reduced, including the remains of some of our great-
est men in science and literature of past centuries,
to ashes.

B ER wicx.—We have been favoured with another
week of excellent weather, there having been in
the course of that period not a single shower of
rain, while the atmosphere has been clear, with a
powerful sunshine at the period of noonday. But
the mornings and evenings have been cold, excep-
tions which have been considerable drawbacks to
the otherwise favourable weather. The harvest
has consequently progressed as rapidly as possible,
and the corn cut down is now the greater portion
of the crop.—Berwick Advertiser.
AYRSHIRE.-With a few more dry days, a con-
siderable proportion of the earliest wheat and oats
will be secured in the lower districts of Ayrshire,
and hopes are entertained that the quality will be
pretty good. But a great proportion of our cereal
crops are so late that the general quality, however
steady the weather may be, must be inferior.—Ayr
Advertiser.

GALASHIELS.—We are now in the very midst of
harvest operations in this neighbourhood, and we
are glad to report that the weather has been highly
favourable and dry since our last, although a little
more sunshine is desirable.—Border Advertiser.
ELGIN.—The Courier reports :—" A good deal of
the crop in this neighbourhood is now cut down,
and the latter portion have made considerable ad-
vancement during the last fortnight."
ABERDEEN.—The Free Frets says :—" A great
proportion of the barley has been reaped, and on
Wednesday (the early part of which was fine both
for winning and ripening) a good deal of the earlier
cut was carried. The cutting of oats has been going
on for some days past in the earlier districts, but
oat harvest will not be general till the middle or end
of next week. The crop is in general bulky, but
no reliable opinion Gan be formed of the yield or
weight of the grain till thrashing commence. Po-
tatoes continue in the main free from disease in this
locality."

Great praise is due to the firemen, and also the
police, under Mr. Superintendent Durkin, for re-
moving and taking charge of the communion plate,
as well as for keeping the doors closed.
• An immense number of persons applied during
the morning for permission to enter the chapel to
see the amount of damage done, but Mr. Durkin
and also Mr. Fogo very properly refused to allow
any one to enter unless they had business to tran-
sact in connection with the sacred edifice.
For the gratification of our readers at a distance,
it ought to be stated that not one of the beautifully
sculptured monuments at the north end of the
chapel has received the slightest injury, except by
smoke and water, and they can be cleaned at little
expense, but those onward, at the side of the Royal
organ, have been consumed, not to vestige being left
behind.

INTE RNEss.—Although very cold, the weather
has been favourable to the progress of the harvest
until Wednesday evening. A serious storm of
wind and rain then commenced about eight o'clock,
and continued to rage with great violence through-
out the whole of the night and morning. The rain
has now ceased, and the wind has lulled, but things
look cheerless enough overhead. A large portion
of the grain crops in the Highlands has been cut
and partially secured uuder more favourable cir-
cumstances, and in better condition, than could have
been expected.— Courier.

TILE WITHDRAWAL OF THE FRENCH
MINISTER FROM TURIN.

The announcement of the withdrawal of the
French Minister from Turin naturally perplexed
Europe with the fear of new complications. The
Emperor of the French is such a subtle player that
the lookers-on draw a long breath when any unex-
pected move discovers some new opening in his game.
A feeling of uncomfortable suspense and apprehen-
sion always follows. Napoleon and Victor Emma-
nuel had beaten the coverts of Piedmont and Lom-
bardy together. Napoleon had afterwards kept the
passes for his weaker comrade, while he stretched
away over a great deal of ground beyond the fron-
tier of their common manor. While Victor Emma-
- nuel drove the Duchies, walked over Tuscany, and
Yesterday (Sunday) morning, between six and followed his game into the Romagna, Napoleon pre-
seven o'clock, a most disastrous fire—which quickly tended not to see what his friend was about, but
reduced to ruins the splendid organ presented by kept watch at a distance. Even when his enterpris-
his late Majesty George IV.—happened in that ing friend sent his dogs into the standing corn,
venerable edifice, the Savoy Chapel Royal, situate keeping close by to secure the game as soon as it was
in Savoy-street, between the houses in the Strand driven out, Napoleon winked hard and would not
and Waterloo-bridge. This t acred. place is, with see how very irregular such conduct was. Suddenly,
the exception of the Abbey, the oldest ecclesiasti- however, a double shot is heard across the little
cal building in the city of Westminster. It appears stream of the Tronto and on the road to Ancona. It
that about 20 minutes past six o'clock Sergeant was not a much greater trespass than had been be-
Burcher, 2 F division, had his attention directed to fore ventured and tacitly approved—although M.
the chapel by seeing smoke issuing from the roof Grandguillot would not persuade us that this was a
and also through the windows, which had been left cause of desaceord between the two companions.
open. Knowing that the Rev. H. White, the The Romagnas, where Victor Emmanuel had hunted
chaplain, had entered the chapel at five o'clock to as openly as Earl Percy upon the Cheviots, were
dress the communion table, he at once became ap- just as much off the proper beat and belonged to
preheneive that there were some doubts as to the the same proprietor. Yet this report seems to
safety of the rev, gentleman. He at once opened have suddenly wounded the conscience of the
ono of the doors, but finding the fire was progress- old comrade who watched and guarded. Napo-
ing, he very judiciously closed it again, and sent leon was shocked and angry that Victor Emma-
for the fire escapes, brigade, and parish engines, nuel should have poached upon this particular
and in a short space of time the parish engines of farm, and made demonstrations of calling together
the various precincts attended, two of the Royal his dogs and keepers and going off in dudgeon,
Society's escapes, and the brigade engines—two leaving his companion to the wild mercy of the an-
from Chandos-street Station, and others from King- cient owners of these wide free warrens. It was
street, Golden-square, Crown-street,Watling-street, a formal quarrel—division, severance of interests,
Holborn, Waterloo-road, Southwark-bridge-road, and renunciation of all companionship. " Mere dis-
and many other depots. The fire-escape conduc- accord," says M. Grandguillot, " was now changed
tors, upon arriving, were advised by the police not into complete disavowal." What did it mean, and
to again open the doors, as it would be the means, where would it end ? Was the adventurous poacher
if they did, of cawing the fire to extend. to be left to reckon alone for all his irregularities ?
Having received that information, they did not Was his game bag to be emptied and himself
attempt to open the doors or windows, and much smartly fined ? and were the ancient rights to be
property was thereby saved which must otherwise re-established upon every foot of land over which
have been consumed. he had carried his unlawful gun P If so, what was
The Rev. H. White, the chaplain, had had the the consideration for which France had so suddenly
communion-table dressed out with the plate, wine, returned to a reverence for the old franchises of
and bread for the early sacrament to take place at free warren, and had so suddenly renounced her
8 o'clock in the morning. The fires were then complicity in this great European poaching party ?
lighted in the furnaces for warming the chapel, and There were perilous possibilities in this last specu-
when Mr. White left, a little after 6 o'clock, he did lation which set the world wondering, and it was a
not detect the least appearance of smoke or the smell kind act to hasten M. Grandguillot's pen, and to
of fire, and he left the chapel feeling fully confident formulate an assurance that when France with-
that all was perfectly safe. A short time after that draws her Minister from the capital of Sardinia she
gentleman had left, the sergeant above alluded to is by no means in earnest anger. It is welcome in-
saw the first appearance of the fire, and in the course formation that " a disavowal is far from meaning
of a few minutes Mr. Superintendent Durkin, of the a rupture ;" and that France only means what a
F division, and Inspector Felton arrived with a body lady means by a gentle tap of her fan, or what a
of police. Mr. Durkin gave instructions for the disinterested passer-by means when he sees a ruddy
communion plate to be removed by some of his urchin up a tree in an orchard and calls him a
officers to a place of safety. This was accomplished daring young scamp and walks on. This diplomatic
by Sergeant Butt, 13 F, Cox 4, and Sergeant Rogers demonstration is a simple sacrifice to propriety.
17. The plate and wine having been conveyed to a Her friend was shooting indecently near to the
place of safety, during that time the fire continued proprietor's manor-house, and France was bound to
to spread, and at length the whole organ, bellows, appear scandalised, but they are just as good
pipes, and beautiful appointments, :became enve- friends as ever; and, as to the game which they
loped iu flame. From that valuable Royal gift the bagged when in company, France is ready to main-
flames extended to the magnificent roof—one which taro its possession in spite of Squire Hapsburg and
is not surpassed in grandeur except by that of the all his game laws.
Chapel Royal at Whitehall. The fire next seized We believe that for once M. Grandguillot is
upon some of the stalls at the side of the organ, and well informed as to the immediate intentions of his
two or three were quickly in flames. master. For the present, at least, Napoleon 111.
At this conjuncture, nothing short of the destruc- is satisfied to let the revolution in Italy flow or ebb
tion of the whole of the venerable structure could as its mood may sway it, so that it does not
be apprehended ; but the firemen under Mr. Fogo, trench upon the fixed precincts of that Holy
the foreman, and sundry engineers, including Paul City where the Head of one of the largest sects of
Girard, Perryer, Wilkinson, Holloway, and several Christians sits enthroned beside the mouldering
others, a good supply of the New River Company's glories of Heathendom, and awaits the slow advance
water having been obtained, went to work of those pestilential influences which must some
in their usual praiseworthy and intrepid manner, day make the Quirinal as entirely a museum as
but as the water was thrown upon the great is the Via Sacra. The Emperor considers it indis-
organ, the barrels continued to burst like the pensable that this matter should be left to the ope-
di-charge of small fire-arms. The men, how- ration of Nature. Remembering that other great
ever, nothing daunted, kept to their work, nzetropoles have been peacefully blotted out by ad-
although the flames were raging over their heads, vancing sands, and observing that Rome, if left
but they were unable to get the fire subdued alone to the inertness of an ecclesiastical rule, must
until the roof was destroyed at the south end of the at no very distant time be as quietly stifled by
Such has been the rapidity of harvest work dur chapel, ` the beautiful organ nearly destroyed, some miasma, he sees no reason to set religious frenzies
ing the last fortnight, that fully two-thirds of the
- of the pews totally destroyed, and several severely flaming in order to contend for a place which Na-
wheat crop have now been carried. Another ten damaged by fire, and the rest of the extensive
edifice ture herself seems to have destined for a vast mau-
damaged by water and heat. soleum of dominion. So that this city and its port
days of fine weather will nearly complete the har-
vest in this country. In Scotland large quantities The origin of the fire has been traced to the over- are left untouched the Emperor will only gravely
of produce have been secured in reference to the ood condition, heating of the stove used for warming the chapel. shake his head at anything in reason that may be
and the accounts from thence in re
At present it is impossible to ascertain whether or done outside it. If we are well informed, the Em-
potato crop are very favourable. The growth a not the building was insured. peror has good reason for this non-interfering po-
pears to be unusually large, and of excellent qua- least I' No one, without having seen them, could foam the hey. When the Emperor was at Nice all that has
ot
lity. The demand for wheat, and nearly all her conception of the beauty of the internal deeora- since happened at Naples could be as clearly fore-
kinds of produce, has been much restricted, and tions of ceiling, and the splendid monuments. His seen as it can now be told. That Garibaldi would
prices generally have had a droo ing tendenc Royal Highness the Prince Consort, who paid a absorb the South of Italy without effective resist-
y.
In Ireland the bulk of the cropps has been carried, visit after the recent alterations and decorations mace had become like a future fact in the calendar.
were made, expressed the greatest admiration. As to Naples the course of events was easy ; Naples
but our advises state that disease is general amongst
the potatoes. The corn trade has been devoid of On the western external wall is a large slab, on would be absorbed quietly into the kingdom of
which is the following inscription : Italy. But when Garibaldi advanced to the Roman
animation, and prices generally have had a droop-
ing tendency. Very few shipments have been " This chapel was repaired and improved at the States, as a few days later he certainly would, the
to England. expense of his Majesty King George IV. in the year case would be much altered. There would be divi-
madelB26 and 1830." sions oficounsels. Moderate men would advocate
Throughout the north of Europe harvest work is
The following cannot fail to be read with interest, moderate revolution, but there would certainly be
progressing steadily ; but most accounts agree in
showing the many reminiscences connected with the found a party of fanatical Unitarians who would
stating that the yield of the new wheat is only sacred edifice, obtained from authentic sources ;____ insist upon going through with their scheme of
moderate. The trade for most articles has fallen
off, and prices have not been supported. Letters The proceedings published by the Archaeological unity. It was no secret that insurrections had
Society of London and Middlesex state that Henry already been planned in the city of Rome. A
from America continue to confirm the statements
previously transmitted, that the yield of the crops 111. granted it to Peter of Savoy, from whom it Mazzini party was again arising under the appre-
took its name. He was uncle to Queen Eleanor, hension of Rome being left alone. There was some
generally is very large. Immense quantities of
and the grant was singular, being all the houses on probability that the small French garrison might
wheat, maize, and flour continue to be shipped to the Thames where this building stood, on condition be overpowered, and a Red Republican Govern-
this country.—Economist.
of rendering to the Exchequer three barbed arrows. ment, such as that of Mazzini, Saffi, and Avezzana,
HAMPSHIRE.—The continued fine weather dur- The history of the palace states that, in the year again established. All this was stated to the
ing the past week has enabled the farmers to push
on their harvest operations with increased vigour. 1381, Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, and William Wran French Emperor at Nice by Cialdini and Farini,
Of the quality of the grain the accounts con-
tinue to be most favourable, and the general plundered the Borough of Southwark, broke open and he was induced to believe that Garibaldi
the Marsh alsea and King's Bench, and induced the might either of his own accord take the extreme
opinion, with which actual examination to some ex- prisoners to join them to effect the destruction of Unitarian policy, or might be forced into it by
tent agrees, is that the yield will exceed that of last the Savoy Palace, or castle, as it was then called. his followers and by the populace of Rome.
year, and the weight and quality nearly equal. The e
They alleged that their only object was to punish It was made plain to him, also, that the only
traitors of the realm." The Duke of Lancaster course open to defeat the intentions of the
having been pointed out as one of the most obnoxi-
potato crop is, we fear, much injured ; here and
there a glimpse of hope appears in reports of par- ous on account of his then recent quarrels with the army should anticipate the arrival of the Garibaldi
tialefreedom from blight, but that much damage is
the Savoy, which, in external and internal elegance,
citizens, they ran with one accord to his palace at levies, and occupy in force that part of the Papal
Mazzini party 'would be that the Sardinian
dene there can be no doubt, though not up to the
extent reported. The turnips, swedes, and man- surpassed all others in the kingdom except the informed that under the pressure of these represen-
gold wurtzel are looking well. The plants are thin Kin 's al They wouldnot then allow single tt. the Emperor acknowledged the difficulty
indivgidupal to enrich himself with the jewels, plate,
Palaces.
States which the French do not garrison. We are
ions
and healthy, but blackened. It will require a pro-
of his
tracted continuation of fine growing weather to
l disapprove
them altogether, and the palatine residence to the
or other valuables there found, but they consigned intimated that, while he
.must.grave y
both own position and that of Sardinia, and
give a weight of roots equal to that of last ear.—y
Rants Independent.
they must
sume were thrown into the -river Thames. One of
flames, and such things as the flames could not con- ing State, the circumstances were so exceptional
so irregular an act as the invasion of a nerghbour-
YORKSHIRE.—The weather has been all that
P- their party, however, could not resist the tempta
could be desired this week for the harvest, and rev that he would not actively interfere to prevent it.
tion of taking a piece of valuable plate, which he
. France, therefore, disapproves, but does not oppose,
ing has been carried on with great vigour. The
placed in his bosom ; but being detected, his come She leaves Sardinia alone to take the risk and re-
reports of the crops are now generally of a favour-
. sponsibility of the act. If Lamoriciere can beat
able character, and should there be a continuance of panions cast both him and the silver into the flames,
up any other enemies who should drive them out of
Cialdini and Garibaldi, or if these last should stir
fine weather for a few weeks longer, the cereal par- for which they excused themselves by saying they
vest, both
lass to yield and quality, will prove not to were zealous for truth and justice, and were not Florence, and Naples, and the Duchies,
be much e below an average than was antici- thieves. The duke's cellars contained much choice expect no aid from France. France will continue
pated at the beginning of the present month.—
e, wineeand 32 of these depredators,having entered
to guarantee Lombardy, but Sardinia has placed all
Leeds Intelligencer.
them, drank to such an extent that they were the rest by this act enjeu.
LANCASHIRE.—The fine weather of the last ten buried beneath the ruins of the house before they This explanation at Nice makes the immediate
days has completely allayed the fears of those who could be got out. Their voices and cries could be meaning of the present events more clear than
were watching the harvest, except the speculators, heard for seven days, but they all perished. French policy in Italy has usually been. Rome is
who hoped to reap their own harvest out of the The sacred edifice having been. transferred in and strengthened by two regiments and the presence of
misery of the people. Corn is being cut and car- for the purpose above-named, it will be learned with Gen. Goyon, and Cialdini is running a race to con-
ried in-all directions, and, to the surprise of every satisfaction, by all lovers of antiquities, that the quer the Papal States before Garibaldi arrives in
one who examines it, it appears to be of first-rate
quality, and very little injured by the continuous church will be able to he restored. The damage force. Up to this moment every march has been a
done, however, by fire andwater ' '
is very consider-triumph, and the city of Perugia has been once
rain of the summer. Preston Chronicle.
able, and, judging from the appearance of the roof, again swept clear of the forein cutthroats of the
SCOTLAND.
•there must be something like 40 square feet of the great Christian Pontiff. Larnoriciere's mercenaries
HADDINGTON.—A slight check was experienced I medallions of the ceiling totally destroyed, to say do not seem to fight. Perhaps he has hardly had
towards the end of last weekin the cutting of the crop, I nothing of the damage done by heat and smoke to time to flog his scamps and runagates into soldiers;
but this has been more than made up by the fine other parts of the splendid ceiling, and also the pews. • and even brave men require confidence in their

DISASTROUS FIRE AT THE SAroy
CHAPEL ROYAL.