The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-09 00:00:00

tants wish to be again placed under the dominion
of Denmark.

- s-

The papers are remarkably barren of news or in-
formation. Their attention is still centred upon
the elections to the general councils.

The robbery of jewels from the Swedish portion '
of the Exhibition was effected in this way : A well-
dressed gentleman walked up to the glass case while
many persons were about, took off the globe under
which the ornaments were kept, and wrapped them
up carefully in tissue paper, and put them in his
pocket. This he did in such a business-like way,
without any concealment, that no one had a sus-
picion, as the gentleman was supposed to be one of
the Swedish Commissioners. It may be well to
explain that many stands are left the greater part
of the day without any one being in attendance to
look after them. Some of the proprietors of articles
only:come once a week, although, as a general prin-
ciple, there is a representative of the owner. The
most curious part of the affair seems to be that,
although this stand inclosed such valuable jewellery,
the window was not under lock and key.
It is stated from Rome that, although the depar-

,ure of the Pope for Castel-Gardolfo was fixed for

this day, it is the intention of his Holiness to remain
in the former city until the cholera shall have en-

tirely disappeared. The cases of cholera have very
much diminished, and the disease is now in such a
mild form that a cure is generally effected. At
Palermo, however, on the second day after the
disease manifested itself there were no less than 80
deaths. M. Rattazzi intends very shortly to put up
for sale ecclesiastical property to the amount of 200

millions_
Strange stories are told about a doctor who re
sides on the Faubourg St. Antoine, where he gives
consultations in a little room on the second floor.
The landlord allows the doctor to live rent free in
consequence of the good done by him to society.
He never goes to the house of a patient. All his
patients visit him. lie literally gives advice, for he
will never accept money, although he effects mar-
vellous cures. His treatment is a perfect mystery.
Some say he cures simply by his presence. Ile does
not allow any patient to come a second time, be-
cause, lie says, if he can cure at all he can cure in
one visit. The crowd of patients is so great that it
is necessary to give numbered tickets, and they go in
their turn. Sixteen hundred tickets were given some
time ago, and about thirty patients were admitted
daily. The doctor, whose name is Jacob, is a man
nearly 40, of middle height, and a very intelligent
countenance. He is a soldier, that is to say he is a
musician in a regiment of Zouaves of the Guard.
When interrogated the other day relative to the
wonderful cures he is said to have made, and asked
how he was enabled to effect them, he said he did
not know. Some attributed the cures to spiritualism,
some to mesmerism, and some to charlatanism. The
doctors, he said, called him a quack, but that did not
give him any uneasiness. When asked if his pa-
tients were really ill, he replied that they said so,
and that he did them good, and that was all he
cared for. " Some come," he added, " who can't
move, but when I tell them to stir, they do so.
Above all things, I tell them not to drug themselves
and to take no physic." Mysterious as this may
seem, it is quite certain that there is always a
crowd of patients about the house. Among
them are lame, blind, and paralytic, and what-
ever the disease the visitors all seem confident
of obtaining relief. When the doctor is in garrison
at Versailles he gives consultations there,which are
as much frequented as his consultations in Paris.
lie says he has never studied medicine, but when
a patient comes to see him he tells him instantly
what disease he labours under.
The King of Sweden has been several times to the
theatre since he has been in Paris, but he goes in
private without the least ceremony.
A railway line has been commenced to connect
Switzerland with Italy. The ceremonyoflayionng
the first rail took place at Sion (Switzerland),
Tuesday. It was performed by the President of
the Council of the State of the Valais.
is Lamartine
Big
one
ethe o advice
Switzerland
of
his
The weather is inclined towards storm, hisand th It e
wind is rather violent. It was very dull and cloudy
in the morning, but it became bright in the after-
for physicians,tl i benefit o d
f e

THE SULTAN'S RETURN TO TURKE

The Sultan arrived by the Danube at Rastschuck
on
v Sundayin t evening, and left on Tuesday morning,
Varna at four o'clock in the afternoon.
arriving a
His Majesty was highly pleased with the arrange-
ments made and his journey over the Varna line.
This is the first railway which has had the honour
of conveying his Imperial Majesty in his own
dominions.
We learn from the Levant herald that the Sul-
tanieh and Pertavi Piale had left Constantinople
for Varna to await his Majesty. Great preparations
are being made everywhere for his reception with
an éclat excelling that with which he was received
on his return from Egypt. The preparations alone
at the principal yalis on the Bosphorus, from
Tophaneh to Buyukdere, were a sight iu themselves ;
conspicuous amongst them were the palaces of the
Viceroy and of the Persian Minister at Emirghian ;
and the illuminations promised to be marvelously
varied and beautiful. In Pera, too, carpenters,
lampists, and decorators were busy, and a very
handsome triumphal arch was being erected at the.
Taxim. It was understood that the illuminations
on the Bosphorus would take place on the first night
after his Majesty's arrival ; that the second night
would be devoted to the illuminations in Pera; and
that at an early date a fete of unusual brilliancy
would be given by A'ali Pasha ia the beautiful
grounds of his villa at Bebek.
The Sultan is stated to have given 25,0001 r. for
the poor of Vienna, to which is to be added a sum
of 150,000 fr. of which he made a gift to the charit-
able institutions of the two Turkish communities
established in that city ; one belonging to the Greek
rite and the other to the Jewish religion. The ser-
vants placed at the orders of Abdul Aziz and his
suite received a sum of 50,000 fr. The Grand
Equerry, Count Crenneville, the Grand Master of
the Court, Prince de Hohenlohe, the Grand Master
of the Ceremonies, Landgrave Furstenbcrg, and
the Grand Cupbearer, Count SVratislaw, were deco-
rated with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the
Medjidie, and received snuff-boxes with the Sultan's
initials in diamonds. The Chancellor of the Empire
Baron de Beast, received the Grand Cordon of the
Medjidie in diamonds ; and in return, the Emperor
of Austria conferred on Fuad Pasha the Grand
Cross of the Order of St. Stephen, also in diamonds.,
Haidar Effendi, Ambassador of the Porte at Vienna,
was decorated by the Sultan with the Grand Cor-
don of the Medjidie, and by the Emperor with the
Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold. During the
Sultan's stay at Vienna, Mgr. Facinelli Antonucci,
Papal Nuncio at the Court of Austria, was received
in private audience by his Majesty, to whom he
presented an autograph letter from the Pope, in
which his Holiness thanked his Majesty for the
protection afforded in his States to Christians be-
,onging to the Catholic Church."

SUDDEN DEATH OF A REPORTEIL—We regret to
announce the death of Mr. James Brooke, who for nearly
40 years has acted as one of the principal reporters for this
paper. The department specially confided to his care was
that of the meetings and public proceedings arising out of
the railway system; and the lucidity and correctness of his
reports gained for him not only the approval of his em-
ployers, but the respect and esteem of the railway interest.
Mr. Brooke, who was in his G 3,1 year, died very suddenly.
lie had attended the meeting of the MetropJlitan Railway
on IVednysday in the discharge of his ordinary duties, and
although complaining of fatigue retired to rest apparently
in his usual health. Yesterday morning, however, ho was
found lifeless in his hal, having died froth au attack of
epilepsy. his loss will be deeply felt by his colleagues
and a large circle of friends.—herald.
RELICS or THE PAST.—Upon lifting one of the
flooring deals in an old house about to be pulled down and
rebuilt at Linlithgow, paintings of a remarkable and inte-
resting kind were discovered on the under side of the floor
and across the oaken joists. The names of " Lord
Fleming," " Erlo Amlaz," Lord Lotoun," " Erlo de
Argyle," &c., have been found apparently in connection
with their coats of arms. The house, whose walls are
above four feet in thickness, is said to have been a great
resort of the nobility in the time of Qunen Mary ; and tra-
dition has it that each nobl,:mau sat under his coat of arms
before proceeding ill a body to the palace.

WHAT HAS LORD DERBY DONE ? e LATEST INTELLIGENCE
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—Many years have indeed passed since I first
learned the Latin grammar as a little boy at school.
I, however, full well remember when I did
do so that I began learning the imperfect
and past, or rather the preterperfect tenses
before I began to learn the future. In my
correspondence with you six months ago I
began with the future, and am going to end with
the preterite or past tense. I began at the com-
mencement of the present session with the inquiry,
" What will Lord Derby do?" I will now end my
correspondence with the simple question of " What
has Lord Derby done?" My answer to the ques-
tion at the commencement of the session was, of
course, vague and problematical, as the future is for
some wise and good end bidden from our view; but
I have a good, full, and substantial answer to my
question, at the end of the session, and that is where
I ask, " What has Lord Derby done?" In good
truth, I can say, a vast deal. lie has accomplished
far more than has been done at any time
since the ever-memorable year 1832, thirty-five
years ago; and it must be owned he has shown
the same amount of energy and talent in carrying
the Reform Bill of 1867 that he did in giving birth
to its great ancestor of 1832. Thus in somewhat
less than forty years has he completely been the
means of revolutionising our ancient electoral
system. Forty years is but a brief period,
historically speaking; and just this time forty
years ago Reform was described by the
late Earl Grey (the very individual who only five
short years afterwards actually carried the great
bill itself) to be in a sad, hopeless, drooping, and
despairing plight. What things have we not seen
accomplished since 1832 ! Our gigantic railway
system, which now spreads over the whole length
and breadth of theland, was then little more than
a foetus, or at most a baby in arms. The electric
telegraph was wholly unknown, and had any
one even in those days been soothsayer
enough to predict its present wonderful
powers, he would have been laughed to scorn as a
fool or a madman. Our police force was then in its
infancy, having been introduced only three years
previously by a Minister whom all England feels
so justly proud of—l mean the immortal Sir R.
Peel—and whose untimely end the country has'
daily fresh cause to deplore. Omnibuses were a
mere novelty, and it was even so late as this very
year 1832 said that it would be at least ten years
before the London and Birmingham Railway would
be completed. But so little are we ever permitted
to know the future, that in less than five years
every coach between London and Birmingham was
off the road. Pursuing my theme still further, I
may remark the old of 1832 are gone, those then
in their prime are either in extreme old age, dying,
or dead. The undergraduates of those days, as
also the sixth-form boys in our public schools,
are now converted by old Father Time,
the greatest pantomimist, into the grey, elderly
man. The little boy of those days is now middle-
aged, and in many cases become a grandpapa.
The youthful Princess Victoria, the heiress pre-
sumptive to the British throne of those days, who
at that time was regarded by the people of Eng-
land with feeble and uncertain hopes as their
future Queen (remembering, as we all did,
the melancholy tragedy of the death in direct suc-
cession to the throne of two generations of British
princes only a few' short years previously) is
now, and has been for a whole generation, our
Queen, and is the mother of a large and numerous
family of children and grandchildren, from whom
we look forward to a line of illustrious kings ;
and, in fact, in good truth it can be
said thdt Queen Victoria has commenced
a new dy nasty to the British throne, an d
has been the means of severing Old England
from her continental dominions, which, as we all
know, have lately become merged in another
foreign Power, now connected by marriage with the
Queen of England. Before I quit this part of my
subject, I will observe that the present line of suc-
cession to the English throne is wholly and
entirely without precedent in the history of Eng-
land. Queens Regnant, as well as Princes of %Vales,
have flourished before, but never until within the
last 30 years have we been governed by a Queen
Regnant, with an heir apparent in succession.
The stage coach, with all its numerous appen-
dages, which at the time of the passing of the old
Reform Bill was said to have only just arrived at
perfection, is now, in 1867, as much a creature of
the past as the Heptarchy, and, in fact, may
be said to form one of the curiosities of the Arclitto •
logical Society. Indeed, the locomotion of those
days is what the rising generation of the present
time have but an abstract idea of. To return,
however, to the thread of my argument, again, I
ask, what has Lord Derby done? Why, more in
six short months than his predecessors did in seven
long years. The only advantage England gained
by turning out the Conservatives in 1859 has
been that of causing Parliamentary Reform to be
placed on the shelf for eight long years, and so
causing England to be deprived for several years of
a useful body of electors. Pray, why did the late
Government postpone Parliamentary Reform for
so many years ? Why, when they thought proper
to turn out the Government of Lord Derby in
the summer of 1859, on their then Reform
Bill, because, according to their idea of
things it did not go far enough ? Why, again,
do I ask, with all humility, did they allow the whole
subject to go to sleep for seven years? Why, if a
Reform Bill were so necessary in 1859, was it not
considered necessary until 1866? The answer is
by no means a difficult one. All the soi-disant
Liberals wanted was to get into office. This feat
they accomplished, I have not the least hesitation in
asserting, to the great injury of the country; and
when once fairly installed in office they were glad
enough to send Parliamentary Reform to the winds.
I might cry out with Juvenal, " Quis emir salvia
infamia nummis," which might fairly be the motto
of the late Government. Let us, however, be thank-
ful for our bountiful harvest of new Parliamen-
tary Reform. It cannot, and indeed it is not to
be denied that no Reform Bill has ever
reached manhood unless our present most
illustrious Premier, happens to be a member of the
Cabinet. He has carried the bill of 1867, as he did
its great ancestor in 1832, only 35 short years ago,
for 35 years is but a brief period, historically
speaking, however long it may be for other pur-
poses. I am glad the country has taken my advice
and given the present Ministry a fair trial. I trust
the present Reform Bill will be the law of the land
before we are any of us a fortnight older.—l remain,
Sir, your faithful servant,
A LOVER AND OBSERVER OF HISTORICAL
DATES AND FACTS.

ARRIVAL OF THE CUBA.

NEW YORK, JULY 30.

In consequence of apprehensions of serious elec-
tion riots in Tennessee Federal troops are being
distributed to preserve order, and Brownlow's
militia are ordered to be under arms. The citizens
also are generally armed. It is reported that the
negroes in some counties will be intimidated from
voting. .

President Johnson has, it is stated, poaitively
decided to remove General Sheridan.
The Connecticut Legislature has rejected the
Female Suffrage Bill.

Fifty deaths from cholera occur daily at Memphis,
chiefly among the negroes. Cholera is also raging
among the garrisons of the forts on the Western

VOLUNTEER COURT OF IsQuiny.—The Duke of
Somerset having issued a commission, a court has
been hold to inquire into the conudct of Lieutenant Clarke,
of the Ist (Exeter) Devon Volunteer Rifles. Sir Arthur
Chichester was the president of the court. The allegation
against the defendant was that, having made a certain
statement against. Major Moore, with regard to his dealing
with the money of the corps unknown to the members,
and charging his personal expenses when others paid theirs
out of their own pockets, he retracted and apologised for
having used such language at a committee meeting of ofil-
, ears held on the 15th February last, but that a short time
after he repeated the calumny, well knowing at the time
that it was a falsehood. The whole of the evidence taken,
with the opinion of the court, will be laid before the Lord
Lieutenant for his decision.

TIIE RECKLESSNESS OF A CORNISH MINER.—
The 300 men employed in Condurrow mine, Camborue,
were informed a few days ago that 801110 amongst their
number had been ";paled" (fined) to the amount of £8 or
£9 for riding iu a skip; that the dangerous practice was
strictly prohibited ; and that any man injured in the for-
bidden anu hazardous enterprise would receivs no benefit
from the mine club. Yet, on Thursday, four or five men
got into the skip 220 fathoms from the surface, and, as it
actually moved off, John Cock attempted to jump in. As
the skip ascended ho fell back, his head was caught by the
partition of the shaft, and the poor fellow was killed on
the spot.—Cornish. Telegraph.
MINE DIVIDENDS.--During the mouth of July
the aggregate dividends declared amounted to £16,821.
Of this total, Devon Great Consols paid £7,168, South
Caradon £3,072, Whitewell £1,500, Marke Valley £1,350,
East Pool £ulo, East Caradon £614, East Darren £6OO,
South Darren £450, and Australian £l,OOO.

plains.
Advices from Brownsville to the 20th inst. state
that all imperial prefects in Mexico had been exiled
for six years. The Bishop of Jalapa had been
arrested on a charge of aiding the empire.
A general confiscation of Imperialist property
bad commenced.
Foreign prisoners are alleged to have been marched
through the streets of Queretaro. Lopez, the be-
trayer of Maximilian, had been arrested at Oajaca
by the Governor, and ordered to be tried by court-
martial for excesses committed by him whilst an
Imperial officer.
Escobedo had announced his candidature for the
Presidency, and proclaimed his policy to be to ex-
terminate or drive all foreigners from Mexico.
The royal mail steamship Cuba from New York
arrived at Queenstown at 5.50 a.m. to-day (August
9), with 150 cabin passengers, and $121,100 in
specie. She landed 14 sacks of mails, 19 passengers,
and proceeded for Liverpool at 6 a.m. All well.
She was detained at Halifax nine hours by fog.
QUEBEC, August 6.
The Allans steamer Nestorian arrived here to day.