The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-21 00:00:00

THE SUN_ LONDoN. IVIONoik Y EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1867.

it is to be hoped that before long he will be
secured. SAUNDERS'S wounds are dangerous, but
hopes are entertained of his recovery. The
police, as we have said, suppose that the man was
connected with a gang of burglars, who were ope-
rating on some house iu the neighbourhood, and
that he, fearing discovery and apprehension, shot
SAUNDERS in order to effect his escape. There are
some features in the case, however, which are a
little singular. It was not a very wise proceeding
if he were playing the part of scout to remain in
one particular spot so long, since he was certain to
attract the notice of any passing constable. Also
be need not have proceeded to such violent extre-
mities immediately on being questioned, and the
fact of his carrying loaded firearms showed
that the attack was not the effect of a momentary
alarm, but that it was in a measure pre-determined.
As we have said, the popular explanation is of
course Fenianism, but this may prove inaccurate.
At any rate, whoever the offender may be, it is to
be hoped that the search for him may be prosecuted
rigorously and unremittingly until it is successful,
since the recurrence of such crimes in the thorough-
fares of London speaks very ill for the safety of
life and property under present arrangements.
Meanwhile the Fenians have been bestirring them-
selves at Chester. It will be remembered that some
months ago they formed a plan for seizing the Castle
and carrying off the arms, but it was happily frus
trated before any mischief was done. Since the
Manchester attack the city authorities have been
well on their guard in protecting the Castle, and
consequently the Hibernian heroes have been forced
to try their prowess in another direction. An ex-
plosion was heard on the roof of the police station
late on Friday night, and it was discovered that a
bottle containing some substance resembling phos-
phorus had been thrown on the roof, which of
course took fire, and was with difficulty extin-
guished. Strict precautions were taken, and a care-
ful watch was kept. Later on a sentinel at the
back of the Castle observed a group of men in the
field below, who made off, however, upon an alarm
being given to the garrison. It is therefore thought,
with some show of reason, that the attack on the
police station was made for the purpose of diverting
the attention of the authorities to that part of the
town, with the view of making an attempt on the
Castle should some of the force stationed there be
withdrawn into the city. Special constables have
since been sworn in and vigorous precautions taken.
It was very fortunate that the whole affair was so
soon detected, so that no real injury was done ; but
it proves that in these suspected quarters the local
authorities cannot be too much on the qui vine until
the bubble of Fenianism has finally exploded.

The intelligence which reaches from Bombay is
chiefly interesting as concerning the Abyssinian
expedition. It is encouraging to find that the
general belief of the members of the expedition is
that everything has been well arranged, and that
they are starting full of confidence and satisfaction.
So popular, indeed, is the expedition in India,
possibly as a relief from the monotony of Anglo-
Indian existence, that the Bengal and Madras
troops are much dissatisfied, because they are not to
take part in it. The date of the news from Bom-
bay is September 29, and the advance guard, con-
sisting of 1,400 troops, and 1,000 horses and mules,
was to sail on the sth of October, and was to be fol-
lowed a month later by the rest of the expeditionary
force. General NAPIER having protested against a
division of the expedition having been sent from
Bengal, only one mountain train, one mortar
battery, the 10th and 12th Regiments of Bengal
Cavalry, and the 23d Native Infantry, have been
supplied by that Presidency. The Bombay
Government has applied for free passages home by
the Indian transports for the wives of officers pro-
ceeding to Abyssinia. A private letter received
from an officer who accompanied the advance
party, and who has considerable experience of such
expeditions, declares that the force is everything
that can be required, and could, if necessary, march
across Africa and defy all corners. THEODORE,
ho adds, had little notion what he was
bringing on himself. It is to be hoped the lesson
which we have to teach him will serve to impress a
good many other semi-cvilised dignitaries who have,
at different times, mistaken our national dislike to
unnecessary war for timidity or incapacity. We
possess a great advantage in being able to transmit
acclimatised troops from India, a fact which did not
appear to enter into King THEODORE'S calculations.
Possibly his misconduct may lead to beneficial
results, since it may, in the end, break the
yoke off his people, and, perhaps, open up his
dominions to the civilising influences of commerce.
We cannot as yet tell of what the country is ca-
pable, so that those persons who declare that we can
have nothing to gain in the present expedition are
short-sighted and hasty. Very certainly THEODORE
is not the man to develope the resources of a
country, and the energies and the wealth of his
people have been hitherto exhausted in war. We
shall at any rate learn a good deal about the nation
and its inhabitants, and it will be hard if sooner or
later we cannot turn that information to profitable

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS,

(ERO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Sunday Evening.
There was another Cabinet Council yesterday at
Si. Cloud. The Empress was present. The
Emperor, as usual, presided. The Council lasted
for several hours.
A despatch has been received from Rome an-
nouncing that after an obstinate combat Nerola has
been recaptured from the Garibaldians, who had a
great many killed. This is really all the news
received to-day which can be relied upon, but
various versions of pretended successes on the part
of the insurgents abound. One account states that
the Roman Legion, exclusively composed of emi-
grants, and commanded by Major Ghirelli, has
taken possession of Orte, a town of 6,000 inhabi-
tants, situated on the right bank of the Tiber, some
thirty miles to the east of Viterbo. Orte is 0112. of
the important railway stations on the railway from
Pelouse to Rome. The insurgents say that
Menotti Garibaldi fights like a lion. In spite of
this, however, he was compelled to aband)n his
position at Nerola, as above stated.
The Chamber of Deputies of the Grand Duchy
of Baden has adopted unanimously, with the
exception of one vote, the treaty of alliance
between the Grand Duke and the King of Prussia,
which was concluded on the 17th of July, 1866.
The conferences between Bavaria and Wurtem-
berg, relative to the citadel of Ulm, have been
commenced. Count de Taube, Under-Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, and Lieut.-Col. Arlt, com-
mandant at Ulm, will represent Wurtemberg.
In consequence of the death of King Otho, who
left Greece in consequence of the events of 1862,
the Pope has recognised King George the First as
King of the Greeks, and renewed diplomatic rela-
tions with his Government.
M. Ferdinand Langle, vice-president of the
Society of Dramatic Authors, has just died in Paris.
He was the author of a great number of dramatic
pieces, among others the " Sound," "Maitre Pathe-
lin," "La Greve des Pothers," and the " Carmande
de Lit." M. Langle leaves two sons—M. Aylic
Langle, chief of the bureau for newspapers at
the Ministry of the Interior, and M. Fernand,
Langle. Both these gentlemen are dramatic
authors of high repute. The funeral of Langle,
sen., will take place to-morrow, and will no doubt
be attended by a vast concourse of actors and lite-
rary men.

An annual fair of a curious kind is held to-day at
Jargeau, in the Department of Loiret. The col-
lection of cats is generally a very large one, and
some realise high prices.
Among the various reports published by the
Italian papers respecting the state of Italy, it is said
that a band of insurgents has occupied Salvaterra
and proclaimed a Provisional Government. An-
other band of insurgents is reported to have pene-
trated into Ceccana at break of day, and it is added
that the garrison took flight. Various skirmishes
are spoken of, for instance, at Monte Rotondo and
Vallecorsa, in which there were some killed and
wounded. The telegraphic communication between
Rome and Velletri is again interrupted.
The varied features of the Exhibition are such

that time produces additional attraction. For in-
stance, the green-houses in the reserved garden are
now seen under a new and beautiful aspect. They
contain an immense and splendid collection of all
the fruit ripened by the autumnal sun. Since the
great Exhibition of 1855 never has there been seen
such quantities of "the kindly fruits of the earth"
massed together. The grapes are particularly re-
markable, and comprise all the varieties from which
French wine of all kinds is made, including the
celebrated chapelas of Fontainebleau and all the
varieties of rich Burgundy, and what is called claret.
France is justly proud of her wine, and French his-
torians have been eloquent in their eulogies of it

from the earliest days. In the fourth century
Eumene wrote that the wines of the Cote d'Or were
the admiration of all foreigners. Two hundred
years later Gregory of Tours compared the producm
of that vintage to Falernian wine, which Martial
called immortal nectar, and which B yron speaks of
in glowing verse. The first Dukes of Bur-

Bundy highly prized the produce of their es

tates, and at that day the Volnay, Poinard,
and other varieties, ;,were as much admired by
connoisseurs as they are in this goodly year of
1867. Erasmus, in his " Correspondence," attri-
butes the restoration of his health to the wine of
Beaune. " The happy Burgundy,,, says he, in a
letter to Laurinus, dated Bale, 1522, " who de-
serves to be called the mother of men, because she
furnishes them with such beautiful milk." After
the long illness of Louis XVI., his physician, Fagon,
prescribed to him the wines of Burgundy in pre-
ference to those of Champagne. In 1665 M.
Arbinet, a member of the Faculty of Medicine,
read a learned dissertation before the Academy, in
which he argued that the wine of Beaune was the
most agreeable and the most salubrious of all wine.
V oluey was said to be the favourite wine of the
first Napoleon. Other great men have preferred
Chambertin. This collection at the Exhibition,
besides the fruit of France, includes some splendid
specimens from Germany and Belgium. As to the
French pears and apples, never before was such
fruit seen in the world.

One important feature of the Exhibition deserves
especial notice, the permanent medical service. In
of the medical
day. A young
case of acvident, or sudden illness, the best medical
assistance is instantly to be obtained. A remark-
able
department proof o thefwae
afforded
use and
efficiency
theother
woman, six months advanced in pregnancy, had an
attack of pulmonary and cerebral apoplexy, arising
from fatigue and indigestion. The pulse and beat-
ing of the heart had almost ceased. The medical
man on duty happened to have some oxygen gas,
which he used for experiments upon animals, and
made the patient inspire about 30 quarts of gas.
The result was marvellous. The pulse and respi-
ration shortly returned, and after two or three
hours the patient was able to walk home..
One horticulturist alone, M. Andre Leroy, of
Angers, sent no less than 1,078 varieties of fruit to
the above marvellous collection.

The Emperor paid a long visit to the Exhibition
on Friday, and selected several articles for purchase.
The continued interest in the Exhibition is
proved by the fact that the Paris papers continue
to devote long articles to descriptions of objects
not yet noticed, and it is a feature worthy of note
that they attach much importance to all the appre-
ciations of the English journals. Not a point seems
to escape the writers of these articles. Forinstance,
one of them, referring to the notice given in The Sun
of the immense marvellous clock from the eminent
manufactory of M. Detouzle, of theltue St. Mar-
tin, says it is important to add that there is also a
stand of that manufacturer in the clock department
in the Galerie Mobilier, which contains some ad-
mirable clocks, and the most perfect mechanism
connected with them ever seen. This is true, and
as visitors cannot fail to take great interest in them,
it may be well to state that this department is
nearly at the top of the Galerie Mobilier on the
loft band side.

The useful invention of M. Kellner, by moans of
which the door of a carriage may be opened with-
out opening the window, to which I alluded, has
attracted great attention, and is likely to be gene-
rally adopted. The magnificent carriage of that
skilful manufacturer is always au object of great
admiration, and several French papers agree in my
estimate that it is a marvellous specimen of ele-
gance, beauty, and manufacturing excellence.
Labrousse, a Republican of great note in former
days, and once a representative of the people, died
a few days ago in great indigence in the hospital of
St Jean, at Brussels.
Count Achille Papoli, husband of the popular
singer Alboni, died a day or two ago at a maison de
sante. Madame Alboni, in pursuance of a custom
prevalent in Italy, was desirous that a number of
orphan children should follow the remains to the
cemetery, and accordingly 200 poor orphans.-walked
after the coffin. A London fiver once caliel Grisi
a "singing woman," but in Paris it would be heresy
to adopt any phrase of a derisive tendency in re-
gard to such a singer as Alboni.
There was a dense fog in the environs of Paris
this morning, but the sun dispersed it in the course
of the day, and the weather became warm, bright,
and agreeable.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE,

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

TILE ROMAN QUESTION.
TOULON, Oct. 20.

Despatches from Florence state that the Italian
Government has redoubled its measures for guard-
ing the frontier.

The Opinione Nationale of this evening says that
according to despatches from Florence the Italian
troops have received orders to advance at once into
the Papal States.

No confirmation of this statement, however, has
been received.

The Patric publishes a telegram from Lyons
stating that the number of soldiers sent from that
town to Toulon is 20,000, and that another corps
will operate in another direction.
The France says :—" We learn that General
Dumont's advanced guard embarked this morning
for Civita Vecchia. It is certain that France will,
in any case, arrive at Rome before Italy. It is
stated that the Italian Government has declared
itself powerless to arrest the bands of insurgents or
effectually protect the Holy See."

FLORENCE, Oct. 19, 9 25 p.m.
Accredited rumours are current that there has
existed a Ministerial crisis since yesterday.
Signor Rattazzi is said to have tendered his resig-
nation, and General Menabrea has been summoned
to the Palace, and is generally designated as Signor
Rattazzi's successor in the event of a change of
Ministry.

Garibaldi is said to have escaped from Caprera
and to be now in Italy.
Letters from Rome of the 18th inst. state that
the garrison of that city had been reinforced. Two
Garibaldian officers bad been arrested with 10,000 f.
in gold in their possession.

It is stated that Menotti Garibaldi having left
Nerola will occupy Palombara.
The French Minister at the Papal Court has
officially notified to the Pope, in the name of the
Emperor Napoleon, that, whatever may arise, the
aid of France will not fail him.

It is announced that Orte has been re-occupied
by tho Pontifical troops.

The papers report excitement throughout the
country, owing to the threat of intervention by
France.

The Italian troops upon the frontier aro con-
stantly receiving reinforcements.
The Opinione of to-day says that the National
Bank of Italy has advanced the Government 100
millions of lire upon bonds which the Bank under-
takes to place. It is believed that the compulsory
circulation of bank-notes will continue until these
100 millions are repaid.

The Moniteur of yesterday (Sunday) publishes in
its bulletin the following paragraph :—.

" Despatches from Rome, dated the 19th, an.
nounce that on the previous day the Garibaldians,
without awaiting the attack of the Pontifical troops,
evacuated Monte Libretti and the intrenched camp
which they had fortified near that town. They had
concentrated at Nerola, where they were assaulted
by the Roman troops on the evening of that day.
After a fierce contest, the Garibaldian bands were
driven out of Nerola and completely routed, aban-
doning many of their dead and wounded, and leaving
many prisoners. Details are yet wanting of this
brilliant feat of arms of the Pontifical troops. At
Rome, and in all parts of the territory of the Holy
Seo which have not had to endure the presence of
the invaders, tranquillity continues to prevail."

PARIS, Oct. 20.

The Moniteur publishes the following news from
Rome to the 19th evening. 140 Garibaldians were
captured by the Papal troops at Nerola. On their
arrival the Garibaldians evacuated Orte and Terra-
cine, and the result is at the present moment no
point of the Papal territory is occupied by the in-
surgents.
Perfect tranquillity continues to prevail at Rome.