The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DgCEMi3Eit 5, 1867.

the more so that, like Protestants, they put the
Church before the State. (Cheers.)

Mr. WooDWARD seconded the resolution. Chal-
lenged by the chairman to tell the meeting why he
did so, he said that he was the father of two
Zouaves. (Loud cheers, the audience rising.) His
eldest boy left him on his 16th birthday to be at the
battle of Castelfidardo. (A Voice—" God bless
him !") In conclusion, he denied reports of atroci-
ties said to have been committed by the Papal
troops at Mentana, on the authority of persons who
were present and who had returned to this country.
Sir G. BOWYER moved, and Mr. HERBERT, of
Clythe, seconded the fifth resolution, as follows :
" That an address embodying the sentiments to
which we as Catholics and Englishmen, bound to
the successor of St. Peter by every tie of duty and
gratitude, have given utterance, be adopted, and
that his Grace the Archbishop be requested to for-
ward the same to his Holiness."

The address read by the Earl of DENBIGH, and
adopted by the meeting, was in the following
terms:—

" Most Holy Father,—ln a spirit of filial vene-
ration, we, the clergy and laity of the dioceses
of Westminster and Southwark, lay at the
steps of your throne a united profession of fide-
lity and devotedness towards your sacted person,
and of profound sympathy with the prolonged
sufferings which your Holiness has had to endure at

the hands of an anti-Christian revolution. In the

impious and dastardly outrages against religion
and social order committed in the late invasion of
the States of the Church we but too plainly detect
the identical spirit of lawlessness and immorality
which dictated the horrors of the first French Re-
volution, which, often repressed and often revived,
has of late years concentrated all its preternatural
energy against your temporal throne. But the at-
tacks levelled against your temporal sovereignty aim
avowedly at, the direct overthrow of your spiritual
power, and at the destruction of Christian society.
Both the European Revolution and Catholic Christ-
endom agree in regarding your temporal sovereignty
as the citadel of Christian society, on the safety of
which depend the free exercise of your spiritual au-
thority, the preservation of the rights of religion in
every nation, and the maintenance of social order in
Europe. In your sacred person, in a word, are at-
tacked religion, government, and law. Enough for
us, moreover, is it to know that your voice has de-
clared your temporal sovereignty to be a necessary
condition for the in lependence of your spiritual au-
thority. This alone suffices to constrain us, your
devoted and obedient children, ever to hold the ene-
mies of your temporal sovereignty as the enemies of
the Christian world. It is superfluous, therefore,
for us to express our abhorrence at an invasion of
your territories so lawless and outrageous in its cha-
racter, since so flagrant a violation of public law and
of the independent sovereignty of .the Church can
find favour nowhere but with a revolutionary press
and a perverted public opinion. But however great
are the evils which afflict Italy, it is at least a con-
solation, and of a kind peculiarly dear to your
paternal heart, holy Father, to witne.,s the
unshaken fidelity of your own subjects, so
publicly displayed in the recent invasion be-
fore the face of Europe. Another consola-
tion, of a wider character, is offered to your
Holiness in the expression of devoted fidelity
towards your sacred person and of unswerving
loyalty to your temporal sovereignty, which come
day by day from the ends of the earth to the centre
of Christendom. By the attacks against your in-
violable rights the whole of Catholic Christendom
feels itself outraged ; with one voice it condemns the
_lawless designs of your enemies. We, also, your
dutiful children, deny to any nation the right of
disposing of Rome, which is the inheritance of the
whole of Catholic Christendom, and which God has
bestowed for the protection of the spiritual power in
the successors of St. Peter. We deny, too, to the
Italian Kingdom the right, under the plea of na-
tional unity, of claiming Rome as its capital, or of
absorbing any portion whatsoever of the patrimony
of St. Peter. The determination of Catholic
Christendom to resit the lawless enemies of your
temporal sovereignty ise made manifest by the nal
which sends forth, from every nation, valiant de-
fenders to the walls of Rome, and makes Catholic
France rally once again to the defence of rights
sacred to every Catholic heart. We, too,Thi spirit
and in desire, range ourselves round your temporal
throne, and take our part according to the measure
of our strength—as we have so often done in the
triumph of your glorious Pontificate, so now also in
the prolonged martyrdom which the enemies of God
are inflicting on your paternal heart. We take cou-
rage, Holy Father, from the calmness and Christian
fortitude which you so nobly display in the presence
of enemies who seek to crown the triumph of evil in
the overthrow of your spiritual authority, and of the
prerogatives which you have received from the hand
of God himself, but we have a confidence, which no
power on earth can disturb, that the hand which
struck off the chains from Peter, and which for more
than a thousand years has upheld the temporal so
vereignty for the Papacy, will deliver you from the
hands of your enemies, and give back to the See of
Peter security, peace, and the full possession of all
its rights."

In acknowledging a vote of thanks, moved by Mr.
Charles Langdale, and seconded by Sir Joseph
M'Kenna, M.P.,

The Rev. Dr. MANNING said he thanked the
audience for this demonstration. He trusted that
the meeting would be only the first, and that they
would steadily, resolutely, and energetically prsc-
vere in the enunciation of the same principles all
their lives. (Cheers.)
The meeting terminated at half-past 11 o'clock,
having lasted four hours and a half.

MINING REVIEW.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SUMMARY.

Under this heading the Commercial Herald and
Market Review makes the following interesting and
truthful remarks upon the material progress and
growing resources of the Pacific Coast.

A review of our Agricultural Market for the first
nine months of the present year exhibits a progress
as wondrous as it is gratifying. Our exports of
flour and wheat are enormous in comparison with
all former years, as will be seen by the following
figures :—To New York we have sent 209,791
barrels of flour more than during the same period
last year, and also 357,104 more sacks of wheat.
Great Britain has taken 2,291,080 sacks of wheat
than in the first nine months of 1866, equal to
$4,530,000 at two cents the pound. No account is
made of flour, of which she has taken 38,761 barrels
so far this year. Our breadstuffs trade with China
and Japan has decreased considerably, but there is
every reason to predict a revival during next quarter.
Most of the breadstuffs shipped to those countries
last year were exported during the last quarter of the
year. South America is rapidly opening her mar-
kets to our wheat and flour, the exports being
62,391 barrels of flour and 11,049 sacks of wheat
this year, against nothing during a corresponding
period last year. Our trade with British Columbia,
in the same articles, has almost reached zero. This
is accounted for principally by the great decrease
in population in that quarter of the globe. Aus-
tralia and Mexico also exhibit a decline in the same
trade, while with all other countries we are rapidly
gaining ground. The total amounts of flour shipped
up to the Ist of October, 1866, was 241,413 barrels,
while the quantity shipped the present year is
434,274 barrels, an increase of 193,861 barrels. The
whole number of sacks of wheat shipped during the
same period last year was 1,333,697, and this year
it has reached 3,506,574, or 2,162,877 more. The
flour this year expressed in wheat would equal
1,302,832 sacks, being an increase of 578,493 sacks
over last year. The combined value of the flour
and wheat shipped this year in excess of 1866
reaches $5,212,740. These facts speak for them-
selves, and require no comment.
Quite recently, efforts last year inaugurated have
been resumed for aiding iu opening up the Colorado
River to navigation. Many of our leading mer-
chants having subscribed liberally towards that pur-
pose, it is now thought that freights will soon go
forward through that channel with less delay and
at lower charges than heretofore. Railroad trans-
portation is also beginning to tell with beneficial

effect upon the carriage of goods over local routes
and to certain points in the more distant interior.
The road of the Central Pacific Company, pene-
trating one of the great mining regions of the State,
and extending thence across the Sierra Nevada, is
especially felt in the transmission of freights to
points along and near its line ; and cannot fail, by
establi,llng winter communications with Nevada,
to greatly relieve the trade and business of that
State, and of such points beyond as receive
supplies through that channel. In concluding
our remarks on the material progress and growing
resources of the coast, it may be observed that we
are fast becoming self-sustaining in many of the
staples of manufacture and the prime necessities of
life, enabling us to retain for home investment large
sums heretofore sent abroad for the purchase of
these commodities. Among the articles most en-
titled to notice in this connection are salted meats,
more particularly pork, bacon, and hams, supplies of
which, as well also as of lard, have hitherto been
obtained chiefly from the Eastern States. The
large number of swine now in the country, and the
facility with which these animals can be raised and
fattened, renders it probable that this will be the
last year that we shall be even in part dependent
on sources outside our own limits for anything in
this line of provision.

The business of mining during the past three
months, constituting the third quarter of the cur-
rent year, without being signalised by any marked
discoveries or unwonted excitement, has been gene-
rally prosperous and progressive. This interest, as
has been justly observed, is now in a sort of transi-
tion state on this coast, passing gradually from the
precarious, fluctuating, and transitory, but often
largely remunerative business of stream-work or
alluvial washing to the more difficult and expen-
sive, but, at the same time, more permanent and
certain pursuits of cement and vein mining,
calling for the employment of a greater amount of
capital and skilled labour, and attended generally
with larger and more certain but less immediate re-
turns. Even the former branch of the business, as
at present conducted, is much more costly and com-
plicated than during its earlier stages, when the
rudest implements and the simplest manipulations
sufficed to segregate from its associate materials and
to secure the granulated gold, the only metal then
sought for. The pan, the torn, and the rocker of
the pioneer gold digger, have, except in a few loca-
lities, been long since superseded by the sluicing,
hydraulic, and other improvdd modes of washing,
whereby immense masses of earth are readily broken
down and deprived of their auriferous contents. The
placer miner instead of pursuing his calling along
the gravelly bars and in the beds of the rivers and
alluvial gulches, where the most shallow excava-
tions answered every purpose, now engages more
extensively in deep explorations, sinking his
shafts far down, and driving his tunnels into
the deeply buried cement and gravel beds ;
or penetrating the superincumbent ruins of former
geological systems, drifts along the auriferous chan-
nels of ancient rivers, richer, by far, than those
more modern streams that supplied the earlier fields
of mining industry. Vast banks of earth are shat-
tered with powder and sluiced away ; huge piles of
tailings are annually washed and rewashed, every
year bringing with it some valuable invention and
material advancanent or marked change in the im-
plements used and modes employed in this depart-
ment of mining. But it is in the other branch of
the business—in the working of quartz or vein
mining—that the greatest progress is being made,
and the most vital gains achieved. As in this de-
partment the difficulties to be encountered were
more formidable, so here the improvements made
have been most signal and important, involving in
their conseluences questions economical, chemical,
and mechanical. As to the best methods of attacking
and exploriag the ore channels much has been learned,
resulting in a greater economy, security and system,
than had before been attained. A more careful and
conservative policy is being observed in the conduct
of leading mines, looking to their preservation and
permanent productiveness rather than immediate
and excessive profits. Improvements are constantly
being made in the construction of machinery and
the application of steam, some of which promise to
effect a great saving of labour and propulsive
power. The great problem of the successful treat-
ment of the sulphureted ores of the precious metals
makes gratifying progress ; several large chlorina-
tion works erected in different parts of the State now

being operated with results that promise for it an
early and satisfactory solution. Other works have
also been put up for treating these sulphurets by a
cheaper and, as is claimed, more effectual process,
while many of the more obdurate silver-bearing
ores are being successfully reduced by means of
smelting or such other modes as varied and per-
sistent experiment has established as best. New
explosive compounds are about being substituted for
gunpowder, whereby it is thought a saving of at
least one-half the present cost of blasting can be
effected, while the completion of railroad communica-
tion with many of the great mining centres of the State
and its early extension to or near others, still further
in the interior, cannot fail to impart to this branch
of business an activity and insure for it a prosperity
greater than it has ever yet experienced. The al-
most entire cessation of Indian hostilities in the
earlier settled portions of the mineral regions has
told favourably on the progress of many of the more
out-lying districts, some of which had previously
been much retarded by this cause. At present all-
the older Pacific States and Territories are nearly
exempt from the depredations of the native tribes,
though the latter still continue by their attacks of
menaces to prevent exploration and defeat mining
operations in many parts of Montana, Utah, and
Arizona ; certain sections of which can neither be
settled nor even prospected until these savages are
destroyed or effectually subjugated. Another ele-
ment of thrift in the more inland mining districts is
the extent to which they are becoming able to sup-
ply all feedzstuffs, flour, and other staples of sub-
sistence by products of local growth. Even in the
more remote and desert sections of country a suffi-
ciency of these commodities has been raised to meet
every home requirement ; the capacities of Arizona,
the vast regions east of the Cascade Range and
those lying between the Sierra Nevada and the
great Central Cordillera of the continent, proving,
in this respect, much greater than had hitherto been
supposed.
Since the issue of our last semi-annual review the
commissioner for the collection of mining statistics
on the Pacific coast has completed his labours and
transmitted the same to Washington. His report,
the material for which has been collected with the
utmost diligence and care, is comprehensive, volu-
minous, and beyond all question one of the most
useful and instructive papers ever compiled upon
the resources and industries of this or perhaps any
other country. It seems to cover the whole field
ably and fully—nothing appears to have been for-
gotten, slighted, or overlooked. Questions of
finance, agriculture, transportation, manufactures,
and commerce—of private interest and public po-
licy—are all considered with reference to then
bearings on the subject of mines and mining. The
work is eminently practical and utilitarian, abound-
ing in facts and figures drawn from the most intel-
ligent and authentic sources ; it having been the
aim of the commi-sioner to make it so thoroughly
reliable that it could safely be adopted as the
basis of legislative action as well as of extended busi-
ness operations.

DESPATCH OF AMERICAN MAILS.—SOLITHAMPTON,
Monday.—Th , Royal Mail Co.'s steamer Atrato, Captain
Jellicoc, sailtal this afternoon with mails for the British
and foreign West Indies, Mexico, the Pacific, California,
Central America, Australia, and New Zealand. She took
128 passages and a largo cargo ; silver coin, £B4O ; gold
coin, £5OO ; English jewellery, £2,600 ; French jewellery,
£B,lll ; and 350 bottles quicksilver, value £2,.150.
"Sirs,—l Lave been a great sufferer from indigestion
and violent sick headaches for upwards of four years, for
which I have consulted many physicians, and got no relief
from any source till I tried Perry Davis's Pain Killer,
which I sin ha, py to state has entirely relieved me.—ESTER
BRIGGS, Little Bolton, June 2, 1859." " Gentlemen,—This
is to certify that after having been long troubled with
rheumatism or neuralgia in my face and gums, in conse-
quence of which I have had nearly all my teeth extracted,
1 made use of your excellent Pain Killer, since which I
have never had a pain in my face or gums.—Yours, &c.,
G. J. ASIITON, Manchester, June 6, 1859.—Messrs. Perry
Davis and Sou." Sold by all chemists. Wholesale depot.
17, Southampton-row, Holborn (W.C.) The genuine has
always the words PAIN KILLER, on the Civirerlllllent
stump. (41)1,7.)

CONSERVATIVE MEETING A 7 MALDON.

The Maldon Conservative Club held its anniversary
meeting on Tuesday evening, Mr, H. J. Selwyn-Ibbetson,
M.P., presiding. There were also present Mr. G. 'W.
M. Sandford, M.P. for the borough, and Lord Eustace
Cecil, M.P. Mr. Earle, M.P., the other sitting
member for Maldon, was not present. The borough
will in future parliaments return only one mem-
ber. Mr. Sandford, in addressing the meeting, said
his principles were the same in 1867 as in
1854, when Le was first returned for the borough.
He had always considered that one of the great defects of
the old Reform Bill was the monotony of suffrage which
it introduced ; and he feared that we had now substituted
one monotony of suffrage for another. What he should
have desired would have been some systerit of representa-
tion by which the interests ,of a greater variety of classes
would been secured. It would be no use to make a con-
cession of alpopular suffrage if it was not followed up
by popular measures, and he was prepared for his own
part to support a popular and progressive policy. The
chairman said he had always been one of those who
thought that, from the increase of population and the ex-
tension of education, the time had come for a measure of
Reform; and he had therefore approved the policy pursued
by the Government. Whether for good or evil, the Reform
Bill of last session was an accomplished fact, and he would
ask all parties not to pass judgment upon it too hastily,
but to rely on the good feeling, the common sense, and
the love of order and good government which charac-
terised English men. The education question would now
demand attention. He believed we were far behind other
countries in the amount of education offered to the people.
At the same time, we must avoid the risk of over-edu-
cating the people into dissatisfaction with their lot in life.
Lord E. Cecil, who was suffering from indisposition,
responded to the toast " The Conservative Members
present." After touching upon Reform, the state of
Ireland, &c., the noble lord said the new constitutional
party, whether composed of Conservatives or moderate
Liberals, would have to open its arms wide, and throw
aside all narrow prejudices. So only would it be able to
resist violent and revolutionary changes, and reconcile the
old state of things with the new.

THE HURRICANE AT TORTOLA.

We have been favoured with the following despatch,
which was received on Wednesday at the Colonial Office :
Tortola, Nov. 12, 1867.

Sir,—With reference to my despatch, separate, of 31st
October, I have now the honour to report that in the town
of Road Town, consisting of 123 houses, 60 have been
entirely destroyed, besides all the public buildings, with
exception of the one hired for public offices ; 24 are
severely, and 39 partially, damaged.
In the country parts of Tortola most of the dwellings
of the labouring population have been swept off the face
of the land; all the sugar works except two are destroyed,
all the crops are blighted ; the only country residence that
was left in Tortola, Joe's Hill, is entirely carried away.
Thirty-seven persons have perished, viz., 23 in Road
Town, 6 in the country districts of Tortola, 6 in Spanish
Town, and 2 in Peter's Island.
After the cessation of the hurricane the face of nature,
as by a miracle, was transformed ; it appeared as if
winter had visited the tropics, for the few trees that stood,
and all vegetation, were withered by the desolating blast.
Anegada has escaped with little or no damage; and
forms an exception to the tale of woe.
I hoped to be able to visit the different islands on Cap-
tain Vesy's return from St. Thomas in her Majesty's .ship
Doris, but an overwhelming pressure of business has kept
me in Tortola. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Potter, has
been of the greatest help to me, but all the other officials
are old and infirm, and there are few persons of intelli-
gence on whom I can call for assistance in such a crisis.
and my presence has, therefore, been indispensable.
About one hundred houses are reported as being de-
stroyed in Virgin Gorda, and considerable destitution pre-
vails there. I had not a boat at my disposal to send sup-
plies immediately after the arrival of the schooner sent to
our relief by your Excellency ; and as Mr. H. R. Semper,
the Scripture reader, and only resident magistrate of
Virgin Gorda, reported to me in Privy Council that there
was no immediate occasion for despatch of provisions, I
prepared a supply to be forwarded by him on his way back
from St. Thomas. Captain Vesy, however, arrived be-
fore Mr. Semper's return, and I arranged with him that
he should proceed thither at once and give temporary
assistance.

At Jost Van Dyke 25 houses are said to have been de-
stroyed, according to a statement which was furnished to
Captain Vesy by some of the inhabitants. I very much
regret that the impossibility of procuring a boat caused
some delay in supplying them with provisions ; hut it was
reported to me that some of their boats had escaped, and
kept running to St. Thomas instead of coming here. It
was evident that relief was not urgently rewired there.
I have sent a supply since they received the stores from
her Majesty's ship Doris ; and yesterday I again sent off
a fresh one ; but the boat returned, having been unable
to communicate with the shore on account of the heavy
ground swell. The obstacles which I have to encounter
in the transmission of supplies, &c., are innumerable, and
the most exorbitant charges are demanded for their con-
veyance.
I feel most profoundly the misery of so many individuals
and families ; but I am sure that your Excellency will
recognise the utter impossibility of immediately applying
a remedy. I have no desire to avert the exercise of just
or generous sympathy, but every one acquainted with the
West Indies must know what gross fabrications the negro
will make where he entertains the hope of gaining bread
without exertion. Many who are not losers by the
huricane, and who were content to eke out an existence in
a hovel rather than to labour for a honest livelihood, rush
forward now with a specious tale of woe, and succeed in
imposing on those who are unacquainted with their true
positions and real extent of their loss.

I have so far endeavoured to acquaint your Excellency
as to the damage sustained ; I shall now report the
measures taken to alleviate it. I have, in conjunction
with the clergymen and Wesleyan ministers, the Colonial
Secretary, the Queen's counsel, and the treasurer, issued
weekly tickets of relief for food and also for clothing to
the extent to which our impoverished circumstances
admit.

The poor-house is destroyed, and as a temporary mea-
sure the paupers have been placed in the cells of the gaol.
The prisoners were too numerous to occupy the cells with
any degree of regard for their health, but as the paupers
could be placed in them with the doors open, the same
objection as to ventilation did not exist. I have put the
prisoners, in charge of the turnkey, in a fire-proof store.
Two gangs have been employed to cleanse the streets
and burn the offal ; also to clear away the remains of the
ruined houses and to replace others, which had been re-
moved many yards from their original foundation, in their
former position.

The church and Wesleyan chapel have been cleared out,
and sails erected over the remaining walls, so that Divine
service has not been interrupted.
In all cases I have endeavoured to shew an example,

as in the removal of the paupers, who were some little
distance from the town, both Mr. Porter and myself help•
ing to transport those who required assistance. Equally
with regard to the corpses, we have not hesitated to help
to place them in their coffins.
I entertain the hope that what has been done under
circumstances of great difficulty will meet with your
Excellency's approval. I have the honour to be, sir, your
Excellency's most obedient, humble servant,
(Signed) ARTHUR RUMBOLD.
P. S.—Since closing the despatch a boat has arrived from
Jost Van Dyke, and a man was called up before the relief
committee. He states that three boats were saved, two
were damaged, but one kept going to St. Thomas. He
cannot say why they did not come here for provisions.
(Signed) ARTHUR RUMBOLD.
His Excellency Governor Hill, C. 8., &c., Antigua.

A terrible railroad accident has occurred in Ohio.
Owing to a collision near Cincinnati, a train of passenger
carriages was set on fire and five persons burnt to death,
while several others were injured seriously.

VEsuvws.—The eruption of Vesuvius continues
and increases. On the 25th ult. the shocks at Torre del
Greco were so violent that the population were in trem-
bling expectation of a renewal of the disasters of 18G1.
In Resina on the night following the staircase of a house
was thrown down and another houso opened in the
middle, so that the inhabitants of that street fled. The
spectacle as it is witnessed from Naples has now become
magnificent, as a vast stream of lava is flowing down.
Strangers are coming in daily to see this rare and grand
demonstration of Vesuvius.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday night, about
half-past six o'clock, a goods train was due at the Rainhill
level crossing of the London and North Western Rail-
way, near Liverpool. Just before this the pointsman,
named Johnson, who had been in the company's service
twenty years, permitted a string of carts to pass, but,
fearing an accident, he rushed to the head of the last
horse and endeavoured to back it off the line. Just then
a waggonette, containing Mr. Ackerley, auctioneer, of
Liverpool, and some ladies, came from an opposite direc-
tion. At the moment the two horses came in a line the
goods train dashed up, killed the pointsman and the
two horses, and dragged the carriage some distance up
the line. Mr. Ackerley was thrown out insensible, and
the driver (Denby) was severely hurt, but the ladies
escaped with a severe shaking. Mr. Ackerley soon re-
covered. The body of Johnson was found in thirteen
pieces,