The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-28 00:00:00

LONDON, TVERNESDAY, AUG. 28, 1867.

The Emperor NAPOLEON was likely to do his best
to keep things stirring during this dead season, and
thus chronicles of his journey and reports of his
speeches infuse animation into the details of foreign
affairs. During his journey to Lille, to appear at
the fetes held there in commemoration of the two
hundredth anniversary of its annexation to France,
he Fssed through Arras. His MAsEsTt's reply to
the address of the Mayor of that city is a charac-
teristic one, and deserves attention at this particu-
lar crisis of affairs. After which expressions of good-
will and pleasure at again meeting his fliecds in the
city, after so long an absence, the E3IPEROR goes on
to say that they are right to have confidence in the
future, and adds emphatically that "it is only weak
Governments who seek in foreign complications to
divert attention from troubles at home," which is
certainly true enough in many instances. The
greatest confidence is expressed in this speech as to
the relations which exist between the people of
France and the authorities, and the prosperity which
is likely to accrue therefrom. Some hintsare given as
to the advisability of maintaining peace if possible,
notwithstanding any inducements to pursue a con-
trary policy. " While holding aloft the national
flag, we should not allow ourselves to be drawn
away by intemperate impulses, however patriotic
they may be." These are signiScant words, and
doubtless intended to have due effect upon those
restless spirits who are never satisfied but when
they discern the prospect of hostilities, and are con-
stantly doing their utmost to fan the flame of dis-
cord. The EMPEROR seems anxious to impress upon
his hearers, wherever they may be, that his mission is
to secure the interests and work out the welfare of the
comminity as much as possible, without reference
to other countries. The policy of the Empire is
peace, he announced many years ago in a speech
that disappointed the enthusiastic and set the cap-
tious to criticie him ; but he has kept the law he
'then laid down as much as possible, nor does he
flow seem willing to depart from it. So far as the
good people of Arras are coucmwd, they will have
DO CNC;I6C for saying that any idea has ben held

out to theta of warlike doings.
At Lille the EMPEROR delivered a much fuller
reply to the authorities in that place, and entered_
more minutely into au analysis of the state of
affairs. Taking a retrospective glance, his MAJESTY
referred to the period at which he had seen the
part for the first time. Everything then was pro-
pitious ; he had espoused the EMPRESS, he had also
wedded Franc before eight millions of witnesses.
" Order was restored, political treasons were lulled
to rest, and I forcsa.w for the country a new era of
greatness and prosperity." Such were the pleasing
prospects which appeared at that time, and the

Emrsnolt does not seem disappointed when engaged
in the untoward task of comparing the then with
the now. Many of his hopes have been realised, and
great progress has been made, but he admits that dark
spots have darkened the horizon. With his in-
domitable courage and remarkable equanimity, he
declares, however, that as he has not been dazzled
by good fortune, so he will not be discouraged by
any " transient reverses." Why should he feel
despairing, he asks, when, from one end of France
to the other he sees the people greeting the EMPRESS
and himself with acclamations, and referring enthu-
siastically to their son. "I do not come," adds the
EMPEROR," among you to-day merely for the purpose
of celebrating a glorious anniversary in the capital of
ancient Flanders. I ccme to learn your wants,
to heighten the courage of some, to confirm the con-
fidence of all, and to endeavour to increase the
prosperity of this great department by still further
developing its agriculture, manufactures, and com-
merce." In the prosecution of this noble work
his MAJESTY asked for the assistance of those
around him, and earnestly impressed upon them the
conviction that nothing great or lasting could be
effected without the nation possessing the
consciousness of its own strength, and not giving
way to imaginary fears. To rely upon the Govern-
ment, and believe in its wisdom and patriotism, is
the advice which is tendered to the people of France
through the medium of this reply at Lille, and very
likely the counsel may be sound in some respects.
It is certain that no great end will be attained
so long as the nation is restless and agitated,
or presages conspiracy on the one band,
and foolish imaginings of evil on the
other. The Emperor NAPOLEON has undoubtedly
committed many errors;and he has erred in not re-
moving the restrictions on the French press, but he
has certainly been a great benefactor to France,
and under his vigorous rule the country has attained
a height of social improvement and commercial pro-
sperity such as at one time was never dreamed of by
the most sanguine. It is this which gives him the
hold he possesses on the great body of the people ;
they see order established out of chaos, and pro-
sperity dawning upon them, where before they had
cause to fear misrule and anarchy. It would be a
source of great satisfaction to those who take an in-
terest in France, although not connected with that
nation by ties of consanguinity, to find that in the
course of time a more liberal policy was inaugurated
by the Government of the EMPEROR, and that free-
dom might be more than a name in a land where
its idea is so ardently worshipped. Meanwhile
those will be the truest friends of the people who
counsel moderation and inculcate feelings of good-
will, instead of following the ordinary mode of
virtuously indignant patriots by setting one against
another. The France of to-day may not approach
the realisation of the Utopian dream S2f enthusiasts,
it may disappoint some who formed more moderate
expectations ; but it is no exaggeration to say that
the earnest endeavours of the Emperor NAPOLEON
to preserve the prosperity of the land, and to im-
prove the condition of the people, have been
crowned with success beyond what his most ardent
desires at one time could have supposed likely to
take place.

The progress which England has made in the in-
dustrial arts since 1767 might fill a good many
volumes if it were accurately recorded. The men
of that day, could they look upon our mills and
factories full of their wonder-working machinery,
would find it difficult to conceive that they were
standing in the same England which witnessed our
slow and tedious processes. In no trade or profession
would the changes be more startling than in that
calling which, in olden times, was thought least
liable to alteration of any kind. The far-
mers of a century ago, could they see our
steam plough; our thrashing, winnowing, and
chaff-cutting machines, our agricultural implements
of various kinds, to say nothing of the application
of scientific principles to the cultivation of the land,
would be probably more amazed at the transforma-
tion than the quiet hand-loom weaver as he looked
on the whirring wheels and countless bands and
straps by which in these marvellous days "a worsted
stocking gets up and knits itself." Fancy one of
the good old-fashioned farmers of GEORGE lll.'s
reign, with the traditional hatred of foreigners,
the contempt for " book-learning," and comfortable
confidence in the routine his father and his grand-
father followed before him, peeping in at the grand
centenary meeting of the Manchester and Liverpool
Agricultural Society, now being o:lebratecl with all
the honours in the former city. What should such
a visitor think as he watched a machine cutting
chaff in four different lengths for horses, cattle,
and bullocks without changing wheels ? or if he
looked at a horse-rake for hay in which the horse
lifts the rake himself ? If he brought his dame with
him in the mob cap and scarlet handkerchief be-
longing to her memory, the good woman might
have the satisfaction or the shock of seeing a ma-
chine make butter ! Thanks to the fertile invention
of our Transatlantic oiusins, such a sight is now
to be seen at Manchester, where an atmospheric
churn, worked by atmospheric pressure, actually
turns out delicious butter from new milk even in
about ten minutes' time.

And of 3,000 entries in the various departments
of the Exhibition no less than 1,000 belong to
that of machinery alone. Of course there is also
a good show of beasts of all kinds ; but the
machinery in some respects--the most interesting
and valuable part of the exhibition—has the
predominance. Such assemblies answer many good
purposes. They give a stimulus to invention and
to enterprise—they encourage an honour-
able competition, and they afford inventors
a ready means of bringing their designs
or improvements uncle; the immediate notice
of the very class for whose use they were
intended. To walk round one of these large exhi-
bitions is an education of itself ; and the farmer,
who is perhaps unable or unwilling to learn much
from books, can see for himself the practical utility
of the new improvements, and can judge of machines!
by what he actually sees them do. Prejudice has
been a great obstacle to the diffusion of a knowledge
of scientific agriculture, although, since all science
is nothing more than an adaptation of the laws of
nature, there is nothing very incongruous in applying
it to the cultivation of mother earth and her natural
products. However vast our achievements in other
directions, we cannot afford to do without agricul-
ture, and we possess many facilities for the special
development of 8.3111 C branches. More especially
may we look to it as of the highest value
in ckveleping the resources of the sister
in affording peaceable and profit-
able employment for her people, and in
improving altogether the position of the coun-
try. We are therefore glad to find that, almost
simultaneously with the grand meeting at Man-
chester, the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland
will open their annual show of cattle, sheep, and
machinery in Dublin. The particular feature of
this exhibition is that it will be held in the capital,
an event which has not occurred for many years
past. It is encouraging to find that it is expected,
notwithstanding the drawbacks of the last
twelvemonth, to be the largest and most suc-
cessful ever held in Ireland. The number of entries

is largo., the quality of the stock good, and the
general interest has been strongly awakened. The
most effectual means of getting rid of Fenianism
and all its attendant annoyance and expense will
be to render the population more occupied and more
educated, and consequently more contented. Agri-
culture offers many particular attractions to the
Irish peasantry, and the great natural resources of
the country render a return of their labours abso-
lutely certain. The dreary and hopeless lives led
by many of the Irish people would be wonderfully
brightened by cheerful and remunerative la-
bour ready at their own doors, instead of
entailing the sacrifice of home and country de-
manded from the emigrant. The crowds of Irish
labourers who cross over annually to Liverpool
might very certainly find plenty to do in their own
country if Irish agriculture were in a more thriving
condition, and it should be the aim of every well-
wisher to Ireland to assist in the development of
those natural capabilities of the country and the
people, which will infallibly remunerate all effort a
thousandfold. We are glad to find that many of
the principal English manufacturers are sending
specimens of their machinery to Dublin, so that the
Irish agriculturists will be able to profit by the
latest discoveries and adaptations in scientific know-
ledge.

CORRESPOVDErCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Tuesday Evening.

I gather from various sources all the reliable in-
formation relative to the revolution in Spain, with
the remark, however, that the Government at
Madrid issues plenty of telegrams, boasting of the
" delirious" enthusiasm of the Royal troops, and
tending to satisfy people that " order reigns iu
Spain." Nevertheless, according to private and
authentic accounts, the regiment of Navarro was
entirely beaten ; General Manso has been killed,
as already stated, and the movement has attained
the aspect of a civil war. The band of Valdrich
in Catalonia, which telegrams said was destroyed,
has obtained a signal success at Esparagnera over a
column of infantry and cavalry. In the mountains
of Priorato, in the province of Tarragona, the
Liberal Colonel Lagunero has obtained a victory
over the regiment of Toledo. The insurgents have
obtained other successes over the Royal troops in
the province of Valentia and Castellan de la Plana.
The combat, in which General Manso met his
death, took place near Ayesba, in Arragon, not far
from Saragossa. One account states that Sara-
gossa has fallen into the hands of the insurgents.
One letter from Perpignan says :

"',Colonel Valdrich, at the head of 1,500 Liberals,
has completely destroyed the regiment of Aicantara
in the province of Barcelona. General Machena,
Captain-General of Arragon, who enjoys the entire
confidence of the Queen, has been recalled and re-
placed by General Calonges, formerly Minister of
Foreign Affairs. The movement in Arragon is be-
coming general, Alicant is in insurrection. Cap-
tain-General Pesuela has left Barcelona at the head
of a considerable body of infantry, with twenty
cannon. General Prim is believed to be in Cata-
lonia, where he is conducting the movement in per-
son."

I mentioned that a Monsieur Parent took pro-
ceedings, before the Correctional Tribunal of Paris,
against M. Andre, a police officer, for an alleged
illegal arrest on the 23d of May on the Boulevard
des Italiens. There was a great crowd when the
Emperor of Russia went to the Opera, and much
excitement was created in consequence of a cry of
" Vivo la Pologne." M. Parent alleges that he
took no part in the cries or in the disorder, but the
court dismissed the complaint on the ground that
the defendant was not liable for what he did while
acting under the orders of his superiors with a view
to the preservation of the public tranquillity. Tie
arrested the plaintiff in the belief that he was aiding
and assisting in the disturbance, and what took
place was in the course of the execution of his duty.
M. Parent, it appears, was in prison for some days,
and he complains of brutal conduct on the part of
the police while in custody. This was denied
by the defendant. The Tribunal appears to
have been convinced that the complaint of the
plaintiff was not well founded, for it not only dis-
missed it, but ordered the complainant to pay the
expenses of the process.

There was a very wonderful change of weather
last night. The day was peculiarly oppressive, and
in the evening the sky was very serene, and not a
cloud was to be seen. About ten o'clock, however,
dark clouds gathered around as if by magic, and
towards midnight there was a violent storm of
thunder and lightning, with very heavy rain. The
storm lasted nearly two hours. This morning early
the wind was violent and really cold, but the tem-
perature became warmer in the course of the day.
On the morning of Tuesday last there was a terrible
thunder storm at Limours (Seine et Oise). A
farmer and his wife and a son and daughter were at
work at Cernyla Ville, when the lightning struck
the son, and he died instantly. The catastrophe
was attended by curious circumstances, which often
accompany a thunder storm. The clothes of the
young man were almost torn to pieces. Portions
of his dress, and parts of his boots particularly, were
found at a distance of some yards. On his neck
were many black spots.

In my notices of the many remarkable objects at
the Exhibition, I have always endeavoured to pre-
serve strict impartiality, and to give no eulogium
unless well merited. My principle has been to
" nothing extenuate or set down aught in malice."
It is therefore satisfactory, and may inspire confi-
dence in your readers, if they know that my appre-
ciations are confirmed by the French press. The
Moniteur, for instance, even goes further in its
eulogiums of the skill and taste of the establish-
ment of Messrs. Christofle and Co. than I did.
That paper says, " In gallery No. 3 the articles of
Messrs. Christofle and Co. shine in the first rank.
The process long sought for to gild and silver metals
is now known to the whole world, and that estab-
lishment, by substituting the process for the use of
solid silver, has rendered. a real service to industry,
which has found much more useful destination for
silver. The house has rendered a no less useful service
to art and artists by showing that it was not necessary
to employ gold or silver for the execution of the
finest work, and that copper and bronze may be
used for articles of the most delicate description
when they arc covered with the precious metal, and
may rival the most celebrated works of centuries
past. In the first houses massive silver plate was
never brought out from the drawers except upon
great occasions, and was hermetically sealed in
chests or boxes. Messrs. Christofle have found a
better use for silver. Thus we are now assured
that the articles brought to such perfection by them
will at a later period enrich our museums, and will
not disappear because melted by ignorant or covetous
hands. Among the admirable things sent to the
Exhibition by Messrs. Christofle are the table orna-
ments belonging to the Emperor, and the table or-
nament and dessert service executed for the fetes at
the Hotel de Ville." The Moniteur then gives an
elaborate account of these articles, the admiration
of all Paris, which I have before described, and con•
eludes by saying The articles which all visitors
at the Exhibition contemplate with interest make
them comprehend that this description of work
proves by its execution the application of the most
varied processes, the production of the newest and
most exquisite forms. In short., from the majestic
table ornament of the City of Paris to the smallest
vase, every article exhibits the desire of M. Chris-
tofle to arrive at perfection."
On Sunday afternoon as a gentleman was leav-
ing the Exhibition he discovered that some one had
robbed him of his purse, his pocket-book, and his
watch. lie attached much value to his watch, as
he had gained it as a prize in a gymnastic competi-
tirn of the company of Firemen, of which he was a
member. Next morning a commissioner brought
him his watch, and his pocket-book and purse, but
empty, with the following letter :—" My dear Sir,
I was skilful enough, which was not easy, to effect a
master stroke by robbing you of all that you had in

your pockets. I send you back your pocket-book
and papers, which are quite weless to me, as well
as your watch. I might have made a profit of the
latter, but I should be desperately grieved to deprive
you of it, for I see by the inscription on the case
that it was given to you as a reward, which I have
no doubt was well merited. I, therefore, think it a
duty to restore it to you. You see there are honest
people everywhere. Your servant, a French pick-
pocket."
Yesterday was the thirtieth anniversary of the
opening of the first railway in Paris, that from Paris
to Pecq on the line to St. Germain, having been
opened for traffic on the 26th of August, 1837.
The following are the dates of the opening of the
principal railways in France : —Paris to Orleans,
May 5, 1843 ; to Rouen, May 9, 1813 ; to Lille,
July 7, 1846. ; to Havre, Much 22, 1847 ; to Bor-
deaux, September 20, 1852 ; to Strasbourg, July 25,
1852 ; to Lyons, July 10, 1854.

There is now in course of demolition in the Fau-
bourg Montmartre the hcuse where Vestris, the
most celebrated dancer of the eighteenth century,
died on the 27th of September, 1808. Vestris
reigned like a sovereign at the opera for half a
century, and was familiarly called handsome Vestris.
There were no bounds to his pride and vanity. He
called himself the " god of the dance." He often
said seriously, " There have been only three men in
Europe—myself, Voltaire, and Frederick the Great."
This Vestris was, I believe, the father of the late
Madame Vestris.

The Lords of the Admiralty at Portsmouth.

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Mr. Corry and his colleagues resumed their in-
spection of this establishment yesterday morning
with a muster of the officers and men of the Steam
Reserve at the port, borne on the books of the old
sailing line-of-battle-ship Asia. The muster was
held on the ground between the office of the Admiral
Superintendent and the main line of storehouses.
the force mustered on the ground was under the
command of Capt. W. C. Chamberlain, and com-
prised Commander Wells, chief inspector of machi-
nery afloat, George Murdoch, and 19 other non-
commissioned officers, with 107 engineer officers of
all grades. The remaining numbers consisted of
154 warrant-officers, 261 stokers, 460 pensioners,
and 354 seamen, marines, and servants, &c. These
numbers include all men lent on board ships in the
harbour—such,
for instance, as the Osborne•—and
only 26 leading stokers are really available for ser-
vice, while the majority of stokers have never been
to sea. After the reserve officers and men had
passed inspection a brief examination of some pre-
servative cements for coating the bottoms of iron
ships, and other little matters in the office of the
Admiral-Superintendent, brought their lordships'
morning labours to a close.
After luncheon the turret-ship Royal Sovereign
was visited, where it is to be hoped their lordships
gained a true measure of the value of the system of
working ordnance at exceptional weight afloat.
From the Royal Sovereign the Board went on
board the boys' training ship St. Vincent, and thence
to Haslar, where they went over the Naval Hospi-
tal and the " Deserted Village" of the navy—the
gunboat yard and shipway. The hospital contains
at present 484 patients, but has beds for 1,200.
It has an admirable organisation under its
medical staff, but its government by a post-cap-
tain of the Royal Navy is as great au absurdity as
ever existed in the worst days of the great naval
hospital at Greenwich. If it is necessary to provide
some adequate rewards for naval captains or other
officers of the military branch who have done good
service in their professional career, this should be
done by any other means than by thus placing them
in command of purely medical establishments. What
can possibly be more ridiculous than to submit a
document drawn up by such men as Sir David Dens
on important medical questions to the inspection of
a captain of the navy, and for his signature, before
such document can be sent on to the chief medical
authorities at the Admiralty for submission to the
Board? Nor does the ridicule of the whole affair
end even here, for in the absence of the Captain
Superintendent, the Inspector-General of Hospitals'
document must be laid before some old—and, no
doubt, very worthy—lieutenant, who represents
temporarily his immediate chief.
The gunboat yard and shipway at llaslar, with
its 45 covered building-sheds, and its costly parallel
lines of railway and launching stages, has at pre-
sent the following number of men employed there :
—Master - Shipwright's Department —2O ship-
wrights, 40 labourers, 2 smiths. Engineers of
14 stokers
(Sttneeacihnaßri
jecss7e
4 Ds
eeapma retnn: eln t—4 engineers,warrant-officer. In the
yard there are six wood-built screw gunboats, nine
mortar floats (iron), and a number of ships' boats
boilers stored away
and remnants of machinery

under cover.
Three of the gunboats—the Wave, the Cherokee,
and the Peacock—are in frame, after rebuilding,
and have been in frame seven years. They are,
therefore, well seasoned in all their timbers, and
now it is supposed they will be planked and fitted
with their machinery again. The remaining three
it is proposed to convert to coal depot vessels to
convey fuel to ships at Spithead. They will cost
upwards of £3,000 each to make them fit for this
purpose, but it is the only duty they are now fit for,
and it would be as well to utilize them even in this
manner. Two of the mortar floats have been con-
verted into dockyard lighters ; one has been con-
verted into a receiving vessel for coastguard duty ;
one for a mud-clearing barge for COWL'S' harbour
off Trinity pier; and one for fitting at Malta as a
mooring lighter. Four remain at present unappro-
priated.
What the Board may eventually decide upon
doing with this yard would be as yet premature to
hazard any opinion upon. What it appears to be
suitable for in any adaptation of its space and capa-
bilities generally is a general boat-building-yard for
the Navy, and especially for steam launches, the
machinery of the latter being fitted and afterwards
kept in repair in the yard by the engineers
in the port belonging to the Steam Re-
serves. In addition to this kind of work there
might also be built at Haslar such small twin-
screw gunboats as would be serviceable for duty
between harbours and roadsteads, as Portsmouth
harbour and Spithead, or Hamoaze and Plymouth
Sound, and which must sooner or later supersede
the present decrepit and expensive small paddle
steamers. Machinery for such vessels can be picked
up iu plenty out of the surplus stock in the several
yards.

One thing prepared for their lordships' inspection
at Haslar Yard deserves special notice. This was
a composition for cleaning the bottoms of iron ves-
sels when placed in dock. The present method of
cleaning the bottom of an iron vessel is by the use
of metal scrapers, with one of which a man may
clean about
eight square feet per day (working
hours). With the composition he would be enabled
to clean off nearly 1,000 feet, and with this advan-
tage—all paint or composition on the face of the
iron plates would be effectually removed without
affecting the surface of the plates by scratching, as
with the scraper, and out of inequalities where the
scraper would be unable to act.
'1 he Duke of Wellington, seamen's training ship,
Capt. C. Fellowes, has been visited by their lord-
ships • during their stay at Portsmouth, and the
" Grant's" cooking (roasting, boiling, an I bread-
baking) apparatus, with other novelties under trial
experimentally on board duly examined. The Vic-
tory and other vessels have also received brief visits.
This morning the Board of Admiralty were to
leave Portsmouth as early as five o'clock for Port-
land, Dartmouth, and Devonport in their yacht En-
chantress, accompanied by the Black Eagle, and
their official visit to Portsmouth of 1867 will be
happily ended—happily ended because such formal
visits, previously announced and prepared for, are
a matter of dissatisfaction to all concerned. They
are unsatisfactory to the majority of the officials be-
longing to a yard by reason of their knowledge of
the hollowness of the affair for any permanently
useful end, and they must be unsatisfactory to the
Lords themselves from a well understood feeling
that they have neither seen matters in their normal
working condition, nor have they bad time to under-
, stand oue-huadredth part of what they have seen,

LA TEST I NTELLIGENCE.

(REUTS R'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE SPANISH INSURRECTION.

MADRID, Aug. 28.

Despatches receiired by the War Minister state
that the bands of fugitive insurgents, formerly com-
manded by Pierrad, are hiding in the mountains.
A small band of insurgents has made its appear-
ance in the province of Cuenca.
A seditious movement in Bejar has been sup-
pressed.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, August 28.

The official Gazette of to-day says :
" Certain journals, referring to the disagreeable
incident which has occurred between Italy and
France, relative to the formation of the Antibes
Legion, have spoken of occult influences, of
repeated notes on the one side, and threatening
notes upon the other. Negotiations still pending
the Government is obliged to impose upon itself the
greatest reserve, but is even now able to declare
that all such statements are entirely incorrect."

Advices from Silsa to the 26th inst. announce
that a train from Saint Michael has passed Mount
Cenis for the first time very successfully.

AMERICA.
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.
The Ville de Paris arrived here this morning.

THE BOMBAY MAIL

ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 27.
The Syria sailed at noon yesterday, and the
Bangalore leaves at the same hour to-day.
The former may be expected at Marseilles on
the Ist and the latter at Southampton about the
9th September.

POLAND.

BRESLAU, Aug. 28.

The Breslau Gazette of to-day says that one of
the points agreed upon at Salzburg by the two
Emperors was au understanding on the Polish

question.

CRACOW, August 28.

The Archduke Albrecht will in a few days make
his third tour of inspection through Galicia. As
his Highness travels incognito, there will be no
public reception.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Aug. 25.

As a proof of the pacific character of the Salzburg
interview, the semi-official Debatte of to-day says :
" According to an agreement between France and
Austria, France has counselled Denmark not to in-
sist upon the retrocession of Duppel and Alsen by
Prussia, and by such a demand render impossible an
understanding with Prussia relative to the North
Schleswig question."
Prince Lichtenstein, the aide-de-camp of the
Emperor of Austria, has left here on a special mis-
sion to Paris.

The solemn transfer of the Bohemian Crown
jewels to Prague takes place to day.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, August 27, Two o'clock.—The following
are the present quotations, which are all lower,
except Credit Fonder :—Threes, 69f. 62c. ; Italian,
491. sc. ; Credit Mobilier, 312 f. ; Credit Foncier,
1,380 f. ; Spanish Mobilier, 198 f. ; and Comptoir
d'Escompte, 710 f.
Three o'Clock.—The market closed as follows :

4; per Conts lOO
Do. end mouth —
3 per Cents. 69 70
Do. end month 69 65
Credit Mobilier 316 25
Do. end Month
Credit Foucier 1382 50
DJ. end month 1377 50
RAW

Bank Sharon 3305
Italian Loan 4B 95
Do. end month 49 10
Mexican Loan l2

Do. Bonds llO
Spanish Threoz
Homo Debt
Doforred
'AYE%

For Account.
Orleans -
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean 892 50
Southern 553 75
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 55 50
Austrian
Lombard 3BO
North of Spain
Sara?;ossa
85
Roman 55 75

DEA TIE OF PROFESSOR FARADAY.

The public will hear with sincere regret of the
death of Professor of Faraday, which took place on
Sunday, near Hampton Court.
Michael Faraday was born in 1791, in the parish
of Newington, Surrey, and, like many others who
have illustrated the page of British history, was
entirely a self-made man. After being instructed
in the mere rudiments of knowledge he was appren-
ticed to a bookseller and bookbinder, and continued
to work at his trade till 1812. During this early
period of his life, however, he showed the bent of

his genius, for in the intervals of his employment
he not only read with avidity such works on science
as fell in his way, but applied himself to the con-
struction of electric and other machines. flaying
been present at some of the last lectures delivered
by Sir 11. Davy, Faraday wrote to that distinguished
chemist, asking him for encouragement, and at the
same time enclosing notes of the lectures at which
he had been present. Sir 11. Davy answered the
request of the young aspirant promptly and kindly,
and in 1813 he was admitted in the Royal Institu-

tion as chemical assistant to Professor Braude.
Faraday soon became the favourite pupil and the
friend of his patron, whom he accompanied in
the autumn of the same year in a visit to
France, Italy, Switzerland, &c., returning to
his place in the Royal Institution in 1815. He
now pursued his investigations of nature with
great ardour, and published the results in
various scientific journals. In 1820 he discovered
the chlorides of carbon, and, the year following, the
mutual rotation of a magnetic pole and an electric
current; in 1823 the discovery of the condensation
of gases ; in 1831 and following years the develop-
ment of the induction of electric currents and the
evolution of electricity from magnetism. The esta-
blishment of the principle of definite electrolytic
action, the discovery of diamagnetism and the in-
fluence of magnetism upon light, obtained for him
in 1846 the Rumford medal and that of the Royal
Society. In 1847 he announced to the world the
magnetic character of oxygen and the magnetic re-
lations of flame and gases. When Mr. Fuller
founded the Chair of Chemistry in the Royal Insti-
tution, in 1833, Mr. Faraday was appointed first
professor. In 1835 he received a pension of £3OO
a year from Lord Melbourne's Government in re-
cognition of his important services to science. In
the following year be was appointed scientific ad-
visor on lights to the Trinity House, and was sub-
sequently nominated to a similar post under the
Board of Trade. He was chemical lecturer from

1829 to 1842 to the cadets at the Royal Military
Academy at Woolwich. In 1823 he was made a
corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences
in Paris ; in 1825 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society ; and in 1832 the honorary degree of
Doctor of Civil Laws was conferred on him by the
University of Oxford. He was a Knight of the Prus-
sian Order of Merit, of the Italian Order of St.
Maurice and Lazarus, and one of the eight Foreign
Associates of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of
Paris. Iu 1855 he was nominated an officer of the
Legion of Honour, and in 1863 he was made an
associate of the Paris Academy of Medicine.

Although the late professor chiefly confined him-
self to experimental researches, there are theoretical
views thrown out with regard to static induction,
atmospheric electricity, the lines of force, both re-
presentative and physical, which are well worthy of
consideration. His papers on the conservation of
force, and on the division of gold and other metals,
are amongst his latest productions. His lectures,
adapted for young minds, delivered at the Royal
Institution during Christmas time, will not easily
be forgotten. The ease with which he descended
from the heights of science and conveyed to the
minds of his youthful listeners the scientific prin-
ciples of " common things" was not the least of the
many gifts possessed by Dr. Faraday. But it is in
connection with electricity, and its relations with
all physical, chemical, and physiological phenomena
that his fame will principally depend. His inves-
tigations on this subject led him to the presumption
that electricity, magnetism, and light are bat one
and the same force, varying in effect according to
circumstances, but obedient to laws which will one
day be discovered.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE
EMPRESS EUG E NIE.

The correspondent of a contemporary, writing,
from Salzburg, Aug. 23, says—At eight this morn-
ing the Emperor and the Empress of the French
started from Salzburg. The travellers were very
exact, and a minute before the clock struck the
band of the regiment of Yagers drawn up close to
the waiting room played " Partant pour la Syrie,"
and at the same moment the two Empresses ap-
peared, followed by the Emperors. The Empress
Eugenie was in a plain black silk dress, with a
small dark hat and short black veil just reaching to
the chin. On nearing the carriage—" the terrace"
above described—she flung back her veil
and kissed the Empress Elizabeth on either
check. They shook hands and bid each other
adieu, and just as the Empress was about to step
into the carriage they kissed each other again in
the heartiest manner. In the whole demeanour of
the Empress Eugenie is freshness, vivacity, and—if
it is not a mistake to say so of a lady—a thorough
bonhonnie. She is delightfully natural, and the
grace of her manner is something rarely seen. On
entering the open carriage she immediately turned
and curtseyed to those she was leaving with a sweet-
ness, and, at the same time, with a dignity which
was quite beautiful to see. Her eyes were cast
down as she bowed low, but round her mouth was
an expression of gentle womanly tenderness, which
no one, I think, could see without being drawn
irresistibly towards her. As she stood she bowed
again to her host and hostess ; once more the ini-
mitably-graceful, reverential curtsey, and the train
bore her away.

It is not at all unlikely that those who read this
may think it exaggeration, and call it fulsome flat-
tery. No one, however, who was present and saw
the charming woman will think so. On the con-
trary, to him what I have said will appear
tame and insufficient, and the description
most inadequate. But I cannot find the right
words to make others understand the fulness of the
charm she unconsciously exercised ; and it seems to
me as if I were detracting from the engaging sim-
plicity of every movement when I add adjective to
adjective in trying to describe what, after all, is
indescribable. You feel—you cannot but feel—the
exquisite grace just as you cannot but feel in your
whole heart and your whole body the freshness of
the morning, but when you try to paint this
freshness you become aware how futile, how ridicu-
lously futile, all your efforts are.
On parting the Emperor Francis Joseph kissed
the hand of the Empress, and the Archduke Lewis
Victor seemed to think that parting was so sweet a
sorrow as to be willing to prolong it, and accord-
ingly performed the operation of kissing hands
several times over.

The two Emperors cordially shook hands, and
Napoleon, mounting the steps of his carriage, stood
with hat in hand, looking over the balustrade.
His face was as I ha I not seen it yet, lit up
and bright, with an expression of cheerfulness
and satisfaction. The imperturbability of the last
days was gone. His face was all alive, and he
smiled and leant over the carriage to chat with one
of the secretaries of the French Embassy. Does
not this sound odd—" Napoleon 111. leaning out of
his carriage to have a cheerful chat and a laugh
with "no matter whom ? It does, I confess,
read as though it were apocryphal, but it is not sb.
Truth, you know, is often more surprising than
fiction.

One of the secretaries of Legation brought her
Majesty, just before the train left, a splendid
nosegay ; and as she smiled her thanks I thought
such recognition worth more than the Cross of the
Legion of Honour,

THE WIFE MURDER AT LEIGII.—After the
desratch of the Liverpool parcel on Monday, the jury
found Henry Farringdon, charged with the murder of his
wife at Leigh (Lancashire), guilty, but strongly recom-
mended hint to mercy. The judge (Chief Justice Bovill)
said he would forward the recommendation to the proper
quarter, but would refrain for the present from expressing
any opinion as to the character of the offence. Sentence
of death wrote then passed.

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Aug. 27:

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian
and Princess Louise, drove out on Saturday after-
noon.

The Duke of Marlborough dined with the (Pee°
and loyal family.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Aug. 27-
A charge of an extraordinary nature has been
under investigation by the magistrates at frauk-
ford, in the King's County, for several days, and
was brought to a close on Saturday. One of tb°
constabulary stationed at Bluebell, a man named
t
M‘Loughlin, complained that on the 4th June
he found sub-constable Devine, another of the party'
tampering with a plate which had been laid for the
complainant's dinner, with the intention, as he be'
lieved, of putting poison on it. The matter Was
referred to the Inspector-General, and, after sonle
delay, was brought before the magistrates as a
ci
criminal charge. Mr. 11. G. Curran, R.M.,
Mr. M. Berry, J.P., conducted the inquiry. Alf'
Dowling, solicitor, appeared for the complainant,
and Mr. C. Molloy, barrister, instructed by Air'
Mitchell, for the accused. From the report in the
Express it appears that for a considerable time Past
the constabulary at Bluebell have been suffering
from a disease which presented symptoms of
,
poisoning—a burning sensation in the throac;
and stomach, followed by severe vomiting an
diarrhoea. This had been sometimes ascribed
to the water used at the barracks, which was very
impure. So severely had the men been attacke'
that it became necessary to remove several of thela
for medical treatment to Steeven's Hospital in this
city. M'Loughlin was examined and described what
he suffered. He did not know of any poison 1)6131
used in the barracks to destroy rats. On the 4th
June, ,n entering the day-room, he found De/i°°
11
sitting with complainant's plate in his hand. On ',,
advancing into the room Devine laid down the pia'
before himself, pushed over his own to complaia•
ant's place, and, when the cook came in, handed
the first plate. Several constables deposed that they
had frequently been attacked with the disease after
meals. Dr. O'Malley gave it as his opinion that tb°
/
symptoms might have been produced by doses c'ci
croton oil, and evidence was given that Devine ha
purchased strychnine and croton oil in Tullamere;
On the part of the accused evidence was produce
that the water was so bad that it had often to be
strained through a muslin cloth before being used;
that an outhouse where the meat was kept was 'tin;
fested with rats and dogs, and that Devine had Ina
up poison for them in presence of M‘Loughlin
other constables ; that Devine himself had been e
tacked with the disease, and that one of the P3rrg
sight;
and his own food, never letting it out of his
and yet was attacked. The cook also stated tha
on the day in question she laid Devine's plate' o
blue one, by mistake at the'place where complainant
was to sit, and that when she brought in the die%
observing Devine take over his own plate and I°°o
at it, she supposed that he thought it was not cieac,
enough, and took it away to clean it. It was ajl6ci
proved that an analysis had been made of what "0
been ejected from the stomach of one of the coed
who was ill, and that no traces of poison were fours.;
in it. At the close of the investigation the Magic),
trates received the informations, and said tb„cl
would forward them to the Attorney-General 5'
be guided by his advice.
f'
A sad accident occurred at Queenstown on ttl a
day. Two young men, one Mr. G. Scott, son e'
,s
magistrate, and a Mr. Bailey, went out for a dlO
pleasure in a small sailing boat, which carti
mainsail and jib, far too large to be safe on snei leo
day. They went to Aghadoe and thence betweeo
the forts of the harbour, and were returning, Wiif
a squall suddenly overtook them at the month th
the Carrigaliue river and capsized the boat. ll°
its occupants were drowned.
An inquiry of considerable interest to ratepalerg
t,
and Poor-law officials was commenced yesterday
Mr. Robinson, Poor-law Inspector in the Soe
Dublin Union workhouse, by direction of the ee or
missioners. The object is to test the truth of certoio
3,
charges of gross irregularities and frauds in the 'eel
nagement of the expenditure in the period betWrch
the 29th of September, 1865, and the 25th of ga
he
last. They were brought under the notice oft ,
authorities by a discharged pauper named 013flibe
who had been employed as a bookkeeper in
re
assistant master's office. In consequence of his
via
presentations a preliminary investigation was the
by the Inspector, who took stock in the house'
reported that it did not at all correspond w"-cieg,
entries in the blotting-books, that there was a but
ciency of some articles and a surplus of others' the
that in the aggregate the number of articles far
house which were not charged against the in3stee,.tly
exceeded the number on the books and not I°'
ns 00
coming. For a long time the number of persons
the relief lists has not agreed with the number o,
the admission and discharge book, or with the peed
vision check account. When the house was e°ll,ti„ber
at the end of March it was found that the ne""the
of persons relieved was less by about 214 thaass
number on the provision check account, and lel3rica
100 than the number on the diet books. ° ooe
further charged the master with irregularine.
lit"
regards his lodgments, which amounted te, ,igst
more than had been received for then t
el r
of e
irrespective of the sums realised by the sale - ofiter
iron and metal, clothing, &c. The clerk and f° ra..rdef
P-
having been called upon to explain, the fgef
replied that the multifarious duties of bis °lot,
which had been increased since his apPeill,tnt
obliged him to employ O'Brien, knowing t"-
understood workhouse accounts, but that he
of
determined in future to pay for the services
fbe
trustworthy person out of his own means- time
justification offered by the master was that att or
time of his appointment the house was in a StlictiOli
insubordination and disorder, and that by clireraiee
of the guardians he had concentrated his eac eat
upon the one object of reducing the establish,.cos
to a proper state of discipline, which he had sevototof
fully done. As regards inaccuracies in the eccpor
es
the assistant-master, who has resigned, was r Di
sible for them, and had been repeatedly cast/r ed
Tillie°
the board for the unsatisfactory manner in
re,
he kept his books. The discovery of these 'OOO
larities has come upon the public by surpriset'reradi
Guardians have the reputation of being e:c 00 id
vigilant and careful. They certainly are :IP
matters relating to the religion of the panPerc os'
a change of entry in this respect could net pkepiti°
escape detection, but the dry details of book erell
and commonplace items of account, be
Which $'
e s e
show how the money of the ratepayers has oatejo
pended, do not afford material for such no ar
discussion as Poor-law boards delight in, 3 ti°l1f.
00 O
therefore not so likely to engage their 5
„oft 0
O'Brien was examined at some length in stipr
his indictment against the officers.
assistant-master also gave evidence to t „be
.beelo dig
that he could not tell the value of the artleota 11,4,
posed of by the master, but that the lodeav, be.'efo
not been so regular as they ought to °asto
The storekeeper and other subordinate oni.,d
examined as to sales of cast clothing a:tioa
articles. The master offered an exPlanin` of ?"..,cr,
specting a charge of appropriating a stl,3 pat woo
which had been found in the possession °l'lito At re,
Ile stated that the money was given t° Rah° .iff
time by Mr. Place, one of the guardia;•o
cently died), and that he had it still.
was adjourned until Wednesday next.
If t.'l'
day
Mn. COX ELL AT NEWBURY•---,- c-s
his lA'lOO
tip)
noon Mr. Coxwell made an ascent in ono 01 or of
Al
from Newbury, on the occasion of the anDual to OD ,i 80
ooa
Horticultural Society in that town. 0 wing the btu
od
ness of the supply pipe temporarily laid dolvfni
asoot,, 0,3
was not fully inflated by the hour fixed foridirecovielloj
Captain and Mrs. NV oodgato could not join '„0, reSe'loo
this account. At a quarter-past five the baiiiwanycotO As
glided away at a good elevation over Cro°l'„odittg% oto
taking a south-easterly direction towards:ds who.iveios
show
wy
wasas ,
held,oo Opeopleand
he assembledballoon :sneetnhteagsrsoi;ea, KO'
nearly £/50 to the society's exchequer.