The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-02 00:00:00

VIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENIVG, NOVEMBER 2, 11.867

gentlemen must go ; and three of the five were
sitting at the table near him. Coming back to his
motives in leaving official life, Mr. Trollope said it
had been necessary for him to choose, and it was
not impossible that his choice had been influenced
by that sort of feeling which possesses a man who
has once earned his bread in spangled tights in the
glare of the gas. For such a man to go back to
decent, honest work was impossible. He must have
the gaslight again, and the clapping nay, the
hisses, if the clapping was not to be won. But his
friend the chairman had made him out to be a more
defunct man, with regard to the Post Office, than
he was. Like the tallow-chandler who had retired
from business, he should often feel grateful to be
let in on " melting Says." The heartiness with
which Mr. Trollope had spoken of his career and
his comrades drew forth a repetition of those
sounds at the end of his speech which had greeted
him on his rising ; and Mr. Scudamore proposed,
as an informal toast, apart from the programme,
the healths of the " Throe Old Gentlemen," who
turned out to be Mr. Boyd, Mr. Goodliffe, and Mr.
Tilley. Other toasts followed, Mr. Edmund Yates
proposing " The Visitors," in a very neat and
sprightly address, the respondent to which was
Dr. Farr.

Erskine, at Valparaiso. The screw corvette Malacca i
13, 200-horse power, arrived at Mazatlan from Van-
couver's Island on Sept. 5, leaving her Majesty's
armour-plated ship Zealous, 20, 800-horse power,
Capt. H. Dawkins, flagship of Rear-Admiral the
Hon. G. F. Hastings, C. 8., at Vancouver at that
date. The screw corvette Reindeer, 7, 200-horse
power, Commander E. Nares, left Mazatlan on Sept.
11 for San Blas, for the purpose of shipping a
large amount of specie for transmission to the Bank
of England. On reaching San Bias, and finding
no freight ready, she was ordered to proceed to
Acapulco, where she arrived on the 20th of Septem-
ber. On the following day she shipped upwards of
$480,000, with which she proceeded the same evening
to Panama, where she arrived with her freight on
the Ist ult. The Government of Mazatlan had issued
a proclamation, in which he states that the province
of Cinalon is open to the province of Xalisco. The
whole of Mexico was still very unsettled, the troops
becoming more and more demoralised daily, while
the British and other merchants were making every
effort to get their cash out of the country. Mr. B.
W. Vernon, sub-lieut. of the Reindeer, and Mr.
Stewart, warrant officer, had been invalided, and
were ordered to return to England.
An amended order from the Admiralty relative
to the new regulations for entry into the Royal
Navy having been promulgated at Chatham, a num-
ber of promising lads have been received during the
past week on board the Wellesley, 72, and the
Formidable, 26, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Bald-
win W. Walker, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at
the Nore. The Admiralty order authorising the
entry of the boys directs that they are to be between
the age of 151 and 161 years, and must possess a
good character. Boys accustomed to boats will be
preferred, and it will not be necessary for those
entered to pass through a training ship. Between
20 and 30 smart lads have joined the Royal Navy,
during the last few days, from the Chichester, 50,
training ship in the Thames for destitute boys, and
have been received on board the Formidable, which
will for the present be used as a receiving ship for
boys, a number of whom have been transferred to
her from the training ship St. Vincent, at Ports-
mouth, the latter vessel having more than her pro-
per complement on board.
A detachment of the 109th Regiment (Bombay
Infantry) has been placed under orders to proceed
from the depot at Chatham, for embarcation at
Gravesend, to join the headquarters of that regi-
ment in Bombay.
At the head-quarters.of the:Royal Engineer esta-
blishment, Chatham, great activity prevails in pre-
paring the equipment and completing the necessary
arrangements for the departure of the scientific par-
ties of the Royal Engineers, together with the 10th
company of the corps, the whole of whom will,
according to existing arrangements, leave Chatham
ou Monday next for embarkation on board
the screw steamer Mendoza for Abyssinia. Yester-
day a large supply of the apparatus for use by the
photographers, telegraphists, and others who will
form the scientific portion of the expedition, was
despatched from the Royal Engineer establishment
to the Director of Stores, at the India Department,
for shipment on board the Mendoza. Upwards of 30
boxes were forwarded from Chatham yesterday, and
the remainder will be despatched to-day. Each box
is fitted so that it may be conveniently placed on
pack saddles for being carried either by mules or
camels. A well-boring expedition has been organised,
and will be placed under the orders of Lieut. F. A.
Le Mesurier, for the purpose of boring for water
along the route to be taken by the troops. For
several days past the non-commissioned officers and
sappers forming the well-boring party have been
busily occupied in practising the well boring on the
Royal Engineer depot works, the apparatus em-
ployed being an American invention, which was
very extensively used during the late civil war. The
apparatus consists of nothing more than a series of
iron tubes, almost exactly resembling ordinary gas
pipes, the first pipe which enters the ground being
steel pointed. Each tube is then driven, in various
lengths,in to the ground by means of a monkey, which
the pipe supports, and ou water being reached a
common suction pipe is attached, and the required
quantity obtained. With this invention an unlimited
supply of water may ba obtained in two or three
huurs along the district to be traversed, the nume-
runs trials carried out at Chatham having proved
the value of the invention. During yesterday and
previous days trials were also carried out at the
Royal Engineer establishment with the new pack
saddle to be used with the mounted portion of the
Royal Engineer Train, a number of the principal
officers of the garrison, including Major-Gen. Mur-
ray and Col. Simmons, C. 8., being present on the
occasion. The object of the trials was to ascertain
whether the saddles could be adapted for conveying
the instruments and apparatus to be taken out by
the Royal Engineers, and with some slight altera-
tions and improvements in the existing pattern it
was found that the saddles would admit of their being
safely and securely packed. The 10th company of
Royal Engineers, which has been selected for service
in Abyssinia, has been completed to its full strength
from the depot companies at headquarters, and
so great is the anxiety of the non-commissioned
officers and men to join the expedition that,
should that number be required, at least 500 sappers
would at once volunteer for the service. The whole
of the non-commissioned officers and sappers form-
ing the scientific corps, as well as those of the
mounted A. troop and the 10th company, have been
awarded 50 days' pay in advance. During the time
they are absent from head-quarters they will be placed
on the pay and allowances of the Indian establish-
ment, besides receiving other advantages. A notifi-
cation has been received from the Horse Guards that
those of the officers of the Royal Engineers pro-
ceeding to Abyssinia who may be desirous of doing
so will be allowed to take their horses with them,
and au application has accordingly been made by
Lieut. Le Mesurier to be permitted to do so. The
other officers proceeding with the Royal Engineers
are Major G. D. Pritchard, in command, Lieut. J.
L. Morgan, and Lieut. A. R. Puzey.
The deaths of the following officers have been
officially reported at the War-office since Oct. 1 :
Major-Generals.—George Hildebrand Burgtnann,
Royal Engineers, and Juhn Birtwhistle. Col.—Sir
T. St. V. 11. Troubridge, C. 8., 22d Regiment.
Lieut.-Cols.—W. A. L. Maskinnon, C. 8., Royal
Artillery, and R. Handcock, 46th Regiment. Major
—Stephen Blake, paymaster, 18th Ilussars (on
passagehome from Bombay). Capts.—A. Richmond
Fullen, Royal Artillery (accidentally drowned) ;
Robert Cosens-Weir, 2d Battalion of the Ist Royals;
and John Cromne, 96th Regiment. Lieuts.—A.
C. Dobree, 16th Lancers ; William H. Balders,
18th Hussars ; John Minton Maunsell and Conway
R. Reeves, Royal Artillery ; IVm. Tulloch Whish,
Royal Engineers; Andrew Jackson, Ist Batt. of
the 3d Buffs : 1). L. Grant, 50th Queen's Own ; C.
udor, 231 Dragoons ; R. Vallancey, Ist Regt. ;
and W. Henderson, sth Fusiliers. Ensign.—Thos.
R. Martyn, Ist Battalion of the 19th Regt. Deputy -
Assist. Commissary-Gen. F. Montgomerie ; Deputy
Inspector-Gen. of Hospitals Jas. M'Gregor ; Sure,
H. S. E. Schroeder, M.D. ; Assist.-Surg., R. R.
Hogan, Staff (accidentally killed on the Nova
Scotia Railway, llalifax) ; Assist.-Superintendent
of Stores S. Wright.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
Lieutenants.—A. Anderson, to the Victory; E. L.
Trafford, to the Indus; C. R. Buckle, to be Flag-Lieutenant
to Rear-Admiral Buckle, C.B. ; Joseph S. Vivian (navi-
gating lieutenant), additional to Fisgard, for R)yalist.
Assistant Paymaster—Alexander W. Brett, in charge
to Nereus; J. H. M. Barney, to the Royal George ; Harry
Longworthy, to the Terror.

Midshipman—James R. Gow (navigating) to the Fox.

Clerks—James tr. Gordon (additional) to the Royal
Alfred ; Alfred T. T. Wise to the Cambridge, assistant-
clerk; RobJrt L. llyinott to the fOyal Alfred, engineer ;
Mr. Thomas S. Grice to the Z:alotts ; Mr. John Lawson
(qualified for charge) to the Doe; Mr. George Griffiths
(qualified for charge) to the Indus, for Cairo!).
Assistant Eugiueeers (first class).—Jaines H. Leech,
Edwin Jackson, and John Stout, to the Zealous; William
T. Puller, to the Asia, for Enchantress.

OLD SIR DOUGLAS. By the lion. Mrs Norton.
Second Edition. Three vols.—" 'Old Sir Douglas' is un
questionably 2,1 r:. Norton's greatest prose work. There
can be little doubt that in it she has attained her highest
excellence as a writer of fiction. The tale has the advan-
tage over all her other prose works in vigour of interest,
in profusion of thought and poetry, and more strikingly
still, in variety and singularity of character. It is a work
of the highest order of genius.' "—Dublin University
Magazine.

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

(Front the Anylo-American Tinter.)

Yesterday the telegrams received in London added
as much to the alarm as to the confusion at present
prevailing in the minds of the English public. The
Times, in its Second Edition, announced the arrival
in Rome of two French brigades, who were received
by the people in dead silence. The news came
from Leghorn, dated October 30, 11-5 p.m.,
a date considered to be mistaken, as a de-
spatch from Florence of November Ist said that
the French troops were still at Civita Vecchia.
the General CIALDINI has been placed at the head of
Italian army of occupation, which has taken several
posts in the Papal territory, and is advancing to
occupy Con ni argue. These troops are everywhere re-
ceived by the inhabitants with acclamation ; but it is
ominous that the Pontifical authorities withdraw
from the communes as the Italian army advances,
leaving a Provisional Government to be formed in the
name of King VICTOR EMMANUEL. The Garibaldian
bands were encamped within a short distance of the
walls of Rome—a position which had been recon-
noitred by the Papal troops, and an attack on
GARIBALDI was expected to be made yesterday. The
Italian Government bad closed the insurrectional
relief committee at Florence. The Italie denies
that the object of General LA MARMORA'S mission
to Paris was to come to an understanding
relative to a joint intervention in the Papal
States, as reported by a French paper, the
real aim being to hasten the solution of the present
difficulties, which cannot be prolonged without
serious inconvenience and peril. We can only hope
that King VICTOR EMMANUEL is acting in con-
junction with the Emperor of the FRENCH. On
this point the Moniteur has as yet been silent, and
we are left to mere conjecture as to whether
the Italian army has invaded the Papal ter-
ritory as allies or foes of France. There are
now four cocks on the ground, and others are
already crowing. Some ominous notes come from
Berlin, and the Emperor of AUSTRIA is known to
be in close alliance with NAPOLEON. The French,
too, are divided on the expediency of the inter-
vention, and two strong sections appear to be
bitterly opposed on this question. As Rome is, we
suppose, at present garrisoned by French troops,
and the Italian army within a short distance, the
end must be near. If the Papal force fought it
out with the Garibaldians, while the French and
Italian armies of occupation looked on to see fair
play, and all parties agreed to abide the
result, we could see the sword to cut
this Gordian knot. But alas ! tho days of chi-
valry are gone, flickering only in such hearts
as that of GARIBALDI, who, we doubt not, would
abide the issue, either living to see Rome
free or falling gloriously beneath its walls.
Although the trial by combat has not ceased, yet
it is in these times conducted on so gigantic a scale,
except where a Fenian with pistol assassinates
a policeman with truncheon, and the interest gene-
rally ramifies so widely, that GARIBALDI and his
volunteers are a mere match to kindle the fire
where they will be the first victims, and of so
little account as to be wholly lost sight of in the
conflagration. The position is full of danger, but
the Emperor NAPOLEON may be master, and by the
sheer force of his great power cow the unruly ele-
ments into subjection.

The Radicals have carried the Virginia and
Georgia elections.
The court-martial on Colonel Gilbert for sending
a party under Major Pierce to wreck the office of
the Constitutional Eagle, and for upholding and
justifying that act, has announced its verdict ; the
sentence beiig approved by the President and
General Grant. The colonel has been reduced from
his grade to the rank of captain, and mulcted in a
fine of $l,OOO.
A Correspondent, whose 'letter is dated Naples,
22d October, and w hose information may be relied
on, as it is not sersationa], and is written by one
intimately acquainted with Italy, says:—" Cholera
has quite ceased here, and there are no quarantines,
so that communications by sea are free. Trains
arrive from Rome, but on account of the insurrec-
tion are not allowed to run to Rome. In spite of
the flaming accounts of the Italian press, we see no
signs of enthusiasm in the masses." We hope to
receive frequent notes from the writer, particularly
during the present crisis, and that the despatches
will be so timed as to reach us on Friday evening.

The counterfeit 7-30's which have so startled
New York still remain a mystery. Although many
have been advanced, yet no satisfactory clue has
been found either of the origin or extent of the
fraud. The Treasury has circulated the report that
they came from Europe, but there are grounds for
belief that the counterfeits are copied by actual
transfer from the genuine plate. The defects of the
old issues are reproduced in the counterfeits, but not
those of the later issue. It is considered suspicious
the readiness with which the Treasury officers have
rushed into print in their endeavours to fasten the
forgery on Europe. The rumours so long prevalent
of fraudulent practices in the Treasury have now
received confirmation. Of course hints were thrown
out that there were counterfeit 5-20's also, but this
is authoritatively contradicted. The Congressional
Committee on retrenchment is investigating the
subject, and Mr. M'Culloch has prepared a report
for that committee, which it is believed will im-
mediately be published. Persons have been arrested
charged with the offence. The Secretary of the
Treasury intends to recover from the persons who
gave into the Treasury the spurious bonds, and the
brokers will be heavy losers if he succeeds, but they
are united to resist this, and no action has yet
been taken by the Government. The law allows
15 days as the time within which action must be
taken on the discovery of counterfeits, and there
appears to be a difference of opinion as to whether
the Treasury has acted within this limit. The
amount redeemed by the Treasury is $BO,OOO, but
what further issues remain behind no one knows.
We give the official report from the Treasury De-
partment, in relation to these bonds, by L. M.
Clark, chief of the printing bureau, in another
column, which will enable the counterfeits to be
detected.

Theodore Tilton, while on his journey to Boston,
met at lunch, in Springfield, Senator Wilson, Schuyler
Colfax, and several other Republican politicians. The
Senator humorously remarked that ho did not know
whether it would do for himself and the other Conserva-
tive gentleman to be seen lunching with so pronounced a
Radical as the editor of the Independent. No opportunity
:hen offering for a counter reply, Mr. Tilton quietly
waited his time. As the cars passed Natick, Mr. Wilson,
pointing out his dwelling to the party, and the cemetery,
which is on elevated ground, said, " There is whore I live,
gentlemen, and there is where my bones will lie." "I am
glad to see, Senator," quickly replied Mr. Tilton, " that
you will take higher grounds after your death than you
did during your life." A neat thing, was it not ?
Watchman and Reflector. _ _

Boston having added Roxbury's 28,426 inhabi-
tants, now has 220,750 ; and she puts out the following list
of other neighbours that she is ready to swallow :—Der-
checter 10,729, West Roxbury 6,912, Brookline 5,262,
Brighton 3,859, Cambridge 29,114, Charlestown 26,398,
Somerville 9,336, Chelsea 14,403, North Chelsea 858, Win-
throp 634 ; all of which wou:d make Boston's grand total
326,253.

SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL —The practice which cer-
tain publ:c men have fallen into of holding private con-
versations with newspaper reporters, with a view to their
publication and circulation as political or personal docu-
ments, is to say the least of it, undignified ; and when resorted
to as a means of backbit.i❑g other public men, it becomes a
serious breach of good manners. —Atlanta New Era.

COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, Saturday, Oct. 19.

The money market is active, the demand continuing
strong, more especially in Chicago, whole the rates aro
very high, being from 13 to 21 per cent. per month ; this
is, however, only temporary, and in consequence of the
equirements for removing the immense quanties of grain
.low seeking a market. Lenders prefer to advance on call,
and the supply is plentiful at short dates at 7 per cent.
The discount market, however, is dull, ranging from 7 to
9 for the best quality, and there is little inclination to take
anything else. Until the navigation closes the neces-
sities of the Western trade will press heavily on
the Eastern market. The demands, too, for money
aro expected to be largo for the fall and winter
business, so that high rates aro anticipated for at least two
months to come. Government Securities are lower, the
tendency being downwards on a predominance of sellers,
caused probably by fright on the discovery of the coun-
terfeit 7-30 notes. Sonic brokers will ho losers to amounts
varying up to $lO,OOO. What the total loss is has not yet

been ascertained, but some say it will not exceed $lOO,OOO.
Secretary M'Culloch announces that the Treasury will
give 5-20 Bonds of 1867 for 7-30's; the interest to be
charged on the Bonds; and allowed on the notes up to the
time of conversion ; the risk of forwarding the notes to
Washington as well as the expense to be borne by the sender,
while the department will take the risk and expense of the
return bends. In this the Secretary is pursuing his policy
of funding the National Debt into a uniform gold-bearing
stock, in which he will be aided by the counterfeit 7-30's
just discovered, which makes many holding such bonds
anxious to be relieved of them. The interest due Ist No-
vember, on the 5-20's, amounts to $24,900,000 in coin,
which will release a large amount of gold from the Trea-
sury. The payments will be made in the following pro-
portions: —At New York, $17,425,501; Boston, $2,910,351;
Philadelphia, $2,359,591.50; Baltimore, $552,016.50;
Washington, D. C. ; $258,439.56 ; Cincirnati, $194,752 ;
St. Louis, $94,772; Chicago, $4.28,709; Pittsburgh,
$10,422; New Orleans, $13,937; Buffalo, New York,
$9,865.50 ; Charleston, $3,058 ; San Francisco, $3,585.
In anticipation of this deluge, gold has been falling, and
some predict that after the payment the price will gobelow
140. Yesterday it closed at 1441 after some fluctuations.
It is worthy of observation that the gold payments of the
Treasury on 5-20's have not yet been followed by a fall,
but, on the contrary, have generally resulted in a rise.
Foreign exchange is very dull and lower. American
silver is in moderate request at 5 to 5i cents below gold.
Mexican dollars 1021 to 103 in gold. There is an improve-
ment in trade, though it does not equal anticipation.
Cotton is low and falling; the decline since June Ist in
the raw materials equals 7 cents a lb, which bears heavily
against Southern trade, and is felt severely by the planters.
The news from Liverpool is not encouraging. Colin Campbell
and Son, who held a first-class credit, have failed. S. and
J. Ralli and Co., also a firm of high credit, has also gone.
The latter house had a branch in New York and another in
New Orleans. Peter Buchanan and Co., of Glasgow, have
been chiefly connected with Canada, and does not affect
us. Flour and wheat keep strong, and are likely to do so
during the winter. The railway and miscellaneous mar-
ket has generally improved, though the fluctuations have
bees considerable. The improvement is owing to the
greatly increased business which the harvest has given to
the Western railways. The Illinois Central has been very
fully employed, so also has the Chicago, Burlington, and
Quincoy. The Boston, Hartford, and Erie has advanced
since the Erie Railroad election 2i, being now 16}. The
closing prices yesterday ware as fellows :

Now York Central 112 k, Erie 72k, Hudson 126, Reading
1011, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 811, Illinois
Central 1221 Cleveland and Pittsburg 821, North-Western
IQ, North-Western Preferred 67f, Canton 441, Rock Island
971, Cleveland and Toledo 1061, Fort Wayne 99f, Pacific
Mail 1461, Quicksilver 21, Western Union Telegraph 34f,
Mariposa Preferred 17, Ohio and Mississippi Certificates
261, Boston Water Power 161, Cumberland 30.