The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1867.

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Domestic troubles are now adays rising into con-
spicuous prominence. Housekeepers' bills were
sup posed of old to be purely private matters, about
which only old-fashioned chatelaines compared notes
for lack of anything better to talk of. At the present
moment, however, they are talked over by grey-
beaded men openly and unreservedly, and we see
long controversies and suggestions side by side in
the columns of the public press with exciting
political news or foreign correspondence of
the deepest interest. The fact is that the price
of food has become a serious matter,
as every householder in London will acknowledge,
and with bread at 10d. the quarter!' loaf, and beef
and mutton at fabulous prices, very few can afford
to despise or disregard the effects upon their yearly
income. The larger and more costly a man's
household the more heavily is he taxed in propor-
tion, while the poor, having almost given up think-
ing of butchers' meat, are now watching in alarm
the gradual rise of the household loaf. It is not a
pleasant state of things, and although it suits very
well with our English habits to grumble and put
up with such evils, it is very desirable that we
should now shake off a little of our lethargy,
and see whether something cannot be done
in the public interest. The butchers' and bakers'
prices exercise a sensible influence over a very wide
range. Our country cloth markets are dull and
depressed, because, says the report, the high prices
paid by our home consumers for provisions absorb
too much of their incomes to allow any briskness
in the clothing trade. We profess to have free
trade in everything, yet we suffer from mono-
poly. A ready cure is suggested in the use of
Australian beef and mutton, and since the
squatters are absolutely at a loss how to dispose of
their sheep, it is a pity but what some comprehensive
arrangement could be made for its importation. No
doubt it could be done much better than it has
hitherto been done if there were a prospect of a
large sale. We have had Australian herrings long
enough, and dried meats and preserved fruits from
all parts of the globe. It would surely be possible
to bring our butchers to a more moderate scale by
such an experiment, and if they believed it was
going to be adopted in earnest we should no longer
read of such discrepancies in prices as the fines
joints of mutton selling in one part of England a.
7d. per lb., while in London itself they are 10d
and ls.

R. CHARLES DICKENS

A PUBLIC DINNER will be given to Mr. CHARLES
DICKENS, on the occasion of his departure for the United
States, on SATURDAY, November 2, 1t467, at FREEMAtioNS'
HALL, Great Queen-street.

In spite of the unfriendliness of the weather,
which, as usual in English festivities, played the
part of Marplot, the ceremony of last Monday at
Coventry was an interesting and a successful one.
The Industrial Exhibition, which was opened in all
due form by Earl GRANVILLE in June last, was
brought to a close on Monday last, in the presence
of Lord LEIGH, the president of the committee, and
the Earl of CLARENDON, who delivered the closing
address. It is gratifying to find from the report
of the managers that the success of the exhibition
has not been questionable. It has been visited since
its opening by 98,569 persons, exclusive of schools,
which are estimated at 6,000 more. The number
of exhibitors were 311, of whom 137 were residents
in Coventry, 66 in Birmingham, 13 from Leaming-
ton, and 91 from other towns. The industry of the
Black Country has therefore been very fairly repre-
sented, and among the exhibitors have been several
of the nobility and gentry of the district, who were
anxious to give every encouragement to an under-
taking that afforded so valuable a stimulus to the
various industries for which "Warwickshire is
famous.

Lord CLARENDON'S valedictory address was
sensible and appropriate. He referred to
the circumstance of the New Market Hall
having been selected for the place of exhi-
bition, and said he thought it a happy thought
that it should be made the instrument of supplying
the mental wants of the inhabitants before it was
put to its ultimate purpose of supplying their physi-
cal wants. The results of the Exhibition could not
be thought of otherwise than good. in a lesser
degree they would be the same as ho had witnessed
at Paris, where he had seen numbers of his fellow-
countrymen observing, inquiring, and studying.
There must have been hundreds of workmen who had
returned from that wonderful display with au entire
stock of new ideas of the working of the trade to which
they individually belonged, and at the same time
that they saw their own efficiency they perceived
that the Brithh artisan must fight for his position.
" Englishmen," said the noble lord, " must not
deceive themselves. Flattery, which was always
injurious, was at the present time most deceitful.
At a period when competition is so active and uni-
versal, if we intend to keep our position among our
competitors—and what is more, to win—we must
improve." It is this fact which, amidst the disputes
between labour and capital, the trade jealousies and
monopolies, our artisans and workmen of every
class have been losing sight of. Exhibitions do
great good not only in the way of encouragement,
but of repression. They not only give a hopeful
stimulus to the patient and industrious worker by
showing what great results have been attained in
his handicraft, but they check the self-sufficiency
and presumption of those who are apt to think their
position is so secure that they need fear no rivalry.
The more our working men can extend their area
of observation, the more they can bo brought to
understand and to acknowledge the rapid strides
which Continental countries have made of late
years in all industrial arts, and the less they will be
disposed to be believe that by the mere cessation of
their own labour they can bring the world to their
terms. Lord CLARENDON, in touching briefly upon
the present relations of trade, said that he admitted
the benefits of association, and he did not deny the
legitimate rights of combination, but that he firmly
believed that if the working man were a freer man,
and his employer too, division of profits between
capital and labour would be more equitable, and
the funds really available for the remuneration of
labour would bo more abundant than under the
system which had hitherto prevailed. The
noble earl dwelt strongly upon the import-
ance of education for the working classes,
pointing out how a man without friends or money,
or any other advantages, could rise in the world by
the potent aid of education, whereas, no man, what-
ever his wealth or position, could afford in these
days to be illiterate. The address was listened to
throughout with interest and attention, and a vote
of thanks concluded the proceedings. We hope the
successful career of the Coventry Industlial Exhi-
bition will afford encouragement to the promoters
of those useful undertakings which we should like
to see more frequently in our midland counties, as
tending to dissipate prejudices and encourage emu-
lation.

The Gazette de France says :—" The young Duke
de Chevreuse, grandson of tho Duke do Luynes, ono of
the richost landowners in France, heir to the fortune of his
father, and on the point of marriage with Ile. Yolanda
do Larochefoucauld, daughter of the Duke do I3isaccia, has
just quitted his chateau, family, and betrothed, to go to
Rome. An officer in the Pontifical Zouaves, ho had re-
signed in the month of July, and it is as a simple soldier
that ho returns to take his post of honour iu the midst of
his former comrades."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE ROMAN QUESTION.

PARIS, Oct. 22 (Evening).
The Etendard of this evening states that Gari-
baldi landed at Leghorn and then disappeared, and
that in all probability he is now in Pontifical ter-
ritory.

The France says :—" Great excitement prevails
in Italy, and fears are entertained that the party of
action will attempt another movement. The Italian
Government, however, is fully resolved to repress
every revolutionary enterprise."
The Liberte asserts that, in the event of dis-
orders arising, General Cialdini would effect a
coup d'etat.

The Putrie states that the Foreign Ministers in
Rome have congratulated the Pope's Government
upon the firm attitude of the Pontifical troops.
The same journal says :—" It appears certain
that Garibaldi is now on the mainland. There is
even a rumour that he has penetrated into the
Roman States."

The Patric also denies that there was ever any
question in this capital of submitting the Roman
question to a European congress.

FLORENCE, Oct. 22, 3 p.m.
Telegraphic communication with Rome has been
nterrupted since yesterday.

The rumour that Signor Rattazzi might probably
retain the Presidency of the Ministry with General
Cialdini as Minister for Foreign Affairs is denied.
It is confirmed that the Garibaldian bands have
retired to the frontier and abandoned all offensive
movements.

The official Gazette of to-clay says The
Ministry tendered its resignation on Saturday, and
the King then charged General Cialdini to form
a new Cabinet. The General, after vainly seek-
ing a solution which might permit the present
Ministers to preserve their portfolios, will promptly
proceed to constitute a new Administration. The
serious difficulties of the moment will be speedily
dispelled if mutual confidence does not de-
crease. The threat of French interven-
tion has disappeared. The Italian Govern-
ment will remain faithful to the traditions of
Italian policy, and no real and important
interest of the country will suffer injury.
Let the nation become collected, calm, and pru-
dent ; let it have confidence in the institutions by
which we are ruled, in the spirit which animates,
the Government, in the well-known loyalty of the
King, who has bound up his fortunes with the for-
tunes of Italy. The fact of having safely sur-
mounted so many past dangers secures and guaran-
tees the Italian people against the fear that any of
the elements of her resurrection may now suffer any

telegraphed on English Consols is of one-half per
cent.

Three o'clock.—Threes have gained a little for
the clos3, which has taken place as follows :-
4/ per Cent.
End of month... Italian Loan
3 per Cent
End of mouth— 68 22/ Mexican Loan 10
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 185 Spanish Threos
Credit Foucier —.1265 Homo Debt —
End of m0nth...1265 Deferred ...... 29
RAILWAYS. Account.
Orleans
Northern 1135
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 5234
Western
Eastern
• . 542-k
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman..

4771
350

Parliament of Tasmania.

The Parliament of Tasmania was opened by the
Governor in person on the 20th of August. Having
in his speech announced the intended visit of his
Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, and ex-
pressed confidence that he would receive a loyal and
patriotic welcome, the Governor proceeded to recog-
nise a power which is felt at the antipodes :—" It
was intended to call you together in the early part of
last month, but I deemed it expedient to postpone
the meeting of Parliament until the value of our
securities on the Stock Exchange should be more
fully ascertained, in order that the financial position
and prospects of the colony might be more clearly
placed before you, and that the action of Parliament
might be in accordance with our monetary condition.
Measures have been taken for placing Tasmanian
securities on the Stock Exchange list, where hitherto
they have been unknown ; and I entertain no doubt
that, when English capitalists become acquainted
with them, Our debentures will command as high a
price as the securities of the other Australian colonies.
I am happy to inform you that here, where they are
known, Tasmanian Government debentures main-
tain satisfactory prices, a large amount having been
sold at par within the last eight months." Tho
Governor proceeded to state that considerable re-
ductions had been made in the public expenditure,
and that the income for the current year promises to
be sufficient for the ordinary expenditure. He
acquainted the Houses that a commission had been
appointed to consider the state of education, and
another to inquire into the condition of the Volun-
teer force, and the attention of the Parliament would
be invited to the state of the colonial defences. A
large sum had already been expended, but to render
Hobart-town secure against an attack even by a
small cruiser a considerable further expenditure
would be required. The Governor had the pleasure
to state that there is now no doubt that the salmon
has been successfully introduced and acclimatised in
Tasmanian waters, and that the fisheries of Tasmania
will become considerable sources of wealth to the
people. He recommended the repeal of the Succes-
sion Duties Act, the produce having proved dispro-
portioned to the heavy charges imposed on those who
are subjected to its operation. Other topics of local
interest were also adverted to. Both Houses then
proceeded to business, the only peculiarity noticed
being that in the Upper House, the Legislative
Council, Mr. Wedge moved that the Session be
opened with the Lord's Prayer, and, the motion
being carried, the President read the prayer accord
ingly.