The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-18 00:00:00

niE SUN, LON DON, FRIDAY EVE NIN Z 3, OCTOBER 18, 1367

:a,m,o(vit of wages. If confiued to their avowed ob-

jects of resisting oppression, Lord DERBY did not
call trades' unions illegal or illegitimate, but they
go beyond their limits when they seek to prevent
ethers from working, and to intimidate them from
doing so. " For my own part," observed the noble
earl, "looking to the public and private interests of
the members, I cannot for the life of me under-
stand how English workmen, entitled to make the
most of their own industry and science, can submit
to the tyranny under which they are groaning."
Without the least fear of being accused of exaggera-
tion, we would say that better advice than that
here tendered by Lord DERBY could not be given in
a period of emergency like this occasioned by the
complications of these Trades' Unions. It is
worthy language for a statesman to use to his fellow-
countrymen—it is a solemn truth which the Minister
of a great country tells to those in whose interests
he is so intimately concerned. How far more
patriotic than the sensation style in which certain
politicians have spoken of late, and made capital
for themselves out of the prejudices and passions of
their auditory. The noble earl concluded his
interesting speech by remarking that he had no
present intention of resigning office, as had been
asserted in some quarters, but that whenever
he did retire he trusted that he should
in no respect have " forfeited the confidence,
the good opinion, and the esteem of the great and
influential party, never more great and influential
than it is at the present moment, which it has been
his honour to lead for so many years."
Lord STANLEY made a few observations, which
met with genefal approval. lie said he looked
without alarm at what the House of Commons had
done with respect to Reform, and added some very
just remarks about the national tendencies of Eng-
land being opposed to levelling ideas. " What
Englishmen ask for is an open career and the power
to rise." Respecting foreign affairs, the noble lord
said that, so far as our interests are concerned, they
stand on a firm footing. The sky is not free from
clouds on the continent, but a "needless war" does
not seem imminent. Regarding Abyssinia, Lord
STANLEY regrets the necessity of war, but the cost
of the expedition has been greatly magnified by
reports on the subject. In most appropriate lan-
guage the noble lord explained the reasons that
had influenced the Government, and in a
few weeks he declared that they would
ask Parliament and the country if they had acted
rightly, and " without fear and doubt await the
answer of the English people." For many reasons
the affair of yesterday at Manchester is a satisfac-
tory one, and the Government cannot but feel their
hopes revived by the declarations they have met
with of confidence and regard. We are glad that
Manchester has spoken out, and that in the great
stronghold of the doctrines of Free Trade homage
and honour should have been paid to the Minister
who has done more even than that which was
achieved through the exertions of thoge days when
the League flourished. We think that the country
cannot but benefit by judging things fairly, and
seeing events clearly, in their full meaning and real
significance. Since a Conservative Government
has conferred upon the people the benefits of a
Reform Bill it is just that they should bo duly
recognised. as . benefactors, and that their light
should not' be hid under a bushel, but shine forth
in splendour in the promise and hope of the better
day of progress that has dawned upon us.

Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE is always worth listen-
ing to, and even when he touches upon the hack-
neyed subject of representative reform he is cer-
tain to command attention. He has just taken
advantage of the opportunity afforded him by a
local anniversary to express his views on the matter
very fully to his constituents. What the results of
the measure might ultimately be, it was, he said,
impossible to fertell, but he believed for his part
that all which had been done was for the best.
There were many questions of great national
importance, such as questions connected with
Irish affairs, with the relations between em-
ployer and employed, and others of a similar
character, which it was absolutely necessary should
be dealt with by a strong Government, but which
were compelled to be laid aside because the stum-
bling-block of reform prevented the existence of a
strong Government. It was a difficulty in the way
of every successive Administration, who, from being
compelled to temporise with that, found itself
obliged to temporise in everything else. Lord
DERBY'S Cabinet, on accepting office, had two
alternatives before them. Either they might
have attempted to satisfy the House and the
country that the question ought to be laid
at rest for a time, or they must have dealt with
it in a comprehensive spirit. Lord DERBY'S Go-
vernment having decide .I on the latter course felt
that it was not a question to be " nibbled at."
Had they attempted to do so they would have been
inflicting a great injury on the Conservative in-
terest. By this interest Sir S. NORTHCOTE explained
that he did mean simply the political party in the
Commons, but the large body of men throughout
the country, who, on the whole, desire to keep
England as it is ; who wish to adapt our institutions
to the circumstances of the times without a great
radical revolution. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE
himself is no inapt representative of this class. He
is liberal and enlightened in many of his views, and
is a s taunch Free-trader, but at the same time he
is averse to hasty and violent changes. He belongs
to a class of politicians who, if they existed at all
in the last century, were to be numbered by units,
but who are now a large and influential body,
checking by the moderation of their views the ex-
travagance of more extreme politicians.

Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE, in the course of his
address, spoke very strongly on electoral corrup-
tion. "If there is one danger," he said, "to which
England is exposed from the representative system,
I believe it is the danger of the prevalence of
electoral corruption." It is, as he justly observed,
of the highest importance that in revising our re-
presentative system we should endeavour, as far as
possible, to put a check upon this great evil. If
the time should come when the mere influence of
money will be the chief thing that governs elec-
tions it will be a serious evil, and the present is
the time to guard against it. Sir S. NORTIICOTE
was chairman of the select committee which last
session considered this subject and shaped the
bill, and he is, therefore, well acquainted with
the practical difficulties of the question. He has
not yet made up his mind to the only true and
effectual remedy, but wo are not without hope
that further consideration and experience will lead
him to accept, without doubt or reservation, the
grand panacea of the Ballot.

BAS-RELIEFS AS SIGNS.--The strangerin London
is greatly struck with some of these picturesque specimens
of the modeller's art. There is the Bull and Mouth at St.
Martin's-le-Grand, on the fagade of the Queen's Hotel, once
the Bull and Mouth Inn. This curious relief represents
a largo mouth and upper part of the face foreshortened,
with a bull standing across it. This grotesque sign affords
one of the most curious examples of the manner in which
phrases have become corrupted in this country. Origi-
nally the sign represented the Boulogne Mouth, otherwise,
the entrance to Boulogne harbour, which seaport town was
captured by Henry VIII. ; but in loss than a hundred
years, we are told, the original meaning became changed.
into the absurd figure that we see at St. Martin's-le-Cirand.
—Once a Week.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

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

The information I collected yesterday from various
sources as to the 46 situation " in Italy is entirely
confirmed by the latest authentic accounts received
to-day, and proves that, in spite of the collection of
a few bands in some of the provinces, there is yet
no serious ground for supposing that an attack on
Rome is imminent. Some of them cross the fron-
tier. Their officers are in uniform. The Garibal-
dians appear to be concentrated to the number of
about 3,000 between Monte Libretto, Monte Rio
Romano, Nerola, and Moricone. To show the
good feeling of the peasantry, it may be stated that
on the 15th, at Vallecorsa, on the southern frontier,
a column of volunteers with some gendarmes kept a
band of 200 Garibaldians in check. The latter had
10 killed, among whom the chief and three officers,
and had also several wounded. These volunteers
took 46 Garibaldians prisoners, and also some arms
and ammunition. It is stated, on official autho-
rity, . that throughout the whole of the Pontifical
states, the population is not only tranquil, but, in
some localities, join in manifestations against the
agitators. The Garibaldi party, it should be added,
continue their misrepresentations in spite of the
want of sympathy in their cause. Nerola, where
Menotti Garibaldi has his headquarters, is a small
town not far from the frontier, and in the moun-
tains of the Sabine, between the valley of the Tiber
and that of Teverone de Nerola, is a road leading
to Rome over Monte Libretto, MonteMaggiore, and
Motto Rotonda. The distance to Rome is less than
50 miles. The Pontifical troops, as has been already
stated, were at first repulsed by the advanced guard
of Menotti Garibaldi, and retreated temporarily to
Monte Maggiore, but Menotti's band were after-
wards repulsed, and were compelled to evacuate
Monte Librette. They then returned in order to
make their camp at Nerola as secure as possible.
The Skuptchina, or National Assembly of Servia,
was opened on Friday last at Belgrade. Prince
Michael on this occasion pronounced a speech which
was almost exclusively devoted to the internal affairs
of the Principality, and which recognised the tran-
quillity which had arisen from the wisdom of which
the Porte had afforded proof in renouncing his right
to garrison the Servian fortresses. The Prince has
expressed his gratitude for the flattering reception
he bad experienced from the Sultan, and for the
conciliatory disposition exhibited by the Turkish
Government. Ile also alluded to the proofs of
friendship which the Powers had manifested to-
wards Servia. Satisfied with its legitimate aspira-
tions, the Principality had been enabled to enter
upon a career of practical amelioration, and to oc-
cupy itself with economical and administrative
questions which deeply interested the future condi-
tion of the country. The speech was exceedingly
well received.

A very interesting ceremony will take place on
Sunday, the 27th inst., 'at the Palace of Industry
in the Champs Elysees, where there will be a dis-
tribution of the rewards offered by the Society for
the Protection of Apprentices and Children em-
ployed in Manufactories. This society merits and
enjoys the support of all who take an interest in
improving the moral and material condition of the
rising generation. The prizes will be distributed
either by the Empress or the Imperial Prince. The
number of children employed in industrial pursuits
will be at least 10,000, and the attendance of visitors
will be very numerous. The children will pass in
front of the Throne in procession before the prizes
are awarded. Previously the young apprentice
girls will be seated to the left'of her Majesty, and
the boys to her right. They were afterwards re-
galed with fruit, pastry, and confectionery. The
prizes will consist of 10 large engraved portraits of
the Empress, and 10 portraits of the young Prince,
with an inscription stating the motive of the
reward, with the autograph signature of her
Majesty and the Prince. Twenty embroidered
banners given by the Empress with her
initials. Forty gold, silver, or bronze medals, and
four " honourable mentions." Commissions wore
appointed some months ago to select the children to
whom the prizes are to bo awarded. The first Com-
mission was under the presidency of Monseigneur
Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, and the second under
that of M. Dumas, a Senator, and member of the
Institute. The Secretary-General of the society is
the Duke de Mouchy.

A statue is to be erected opposite the College of
France to Charlemagne, as the creator and protec-
tor of schools. It will be an equestrian statue.
When it is completed Paris will have four equestrian
statues—that of Henry the Fourth, on the Pont
Neuf ; Louis the Fourteenth, in the Place des Vic-
toires ; Louis the Thirteenth, in the Place Royale,
in the Marais ; and that of Charlemagne in ques-
tion.

The Imperial Exhibition Commission have given
notice that the juries will have terminated their
labours on the 25th instant relative to the classes
which were reserved (Agriculture, Horticulture,
&c.) The prizes will, therefore, be awarded at the
following dates :—The gold medals from the 15th
to the 30th of November next, the silver medals
from the sth to the 31st of December; the bronze
medals from the 15th of January to the 20th of
February, 1868. The diplomas will be given at
the same periods, and those of " the honourable
mentions" from the Ist to the 31st of March, 1868.
According to the report of the medical men, M.
Fould died from anginus pectoris, and on the morn-
ing of his death there was no symptom whatever to
indicate that there was any derangement in his
health. There was no idea of calling in medical
assistance, but M. Fould's doctor happened to call
by chance about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. About
half-past 7 o'clock M. Fould was in great pain, and
his valet de chambre vas called to rub him, to re-
lieve what was imagined to be his old disorder,
rheumatism. One of the papers gravely argues
that M. Fould's death was accelerated by smoking
a cigar between the two attacks of anginus.

The cotton factory of Messrs. Serive at Lille has
been destroyed by fire, and th 9 damage is estimated
at nearly half a million of francs. A man named
Bolydieu, who had been dismissed from the factory,
and who was heard making threats against the
establishment, • has been arrested on suspicion of
having set fire to it.
A carter, residing in the environs of Paris, had
long been on intimate terms with a young girl
named Celina P., and had promised her marriage.
As he had lately ceased 10 visit her she went to the
place where he was employed, having heard that he
was about to marry another. The man having ad-
mitted the fact, she drew a dagger from under her
dress and stabbed him in the heart. He died
instantly. She then stabbed herself with the same
weapon, and threw herself, bathed in blood, upon
her lover's corpse. The wounds are so serious that
she is not expected to survive.
A case of premature interment has taken place at
Sainte Eutrope, in the department of Finistere,
which has created considerable sensation in the
locality. A girl of 25, named Philomene Jonetue,
having died, as was supposed, from cholera, and
there being much alarm. about the disease, the
interment took place seventeen hours afterwards.
When the grave-digger oas about to throw earth
over the coffin he distinctly heard several knocks
from the interior. He immediately went to the
church for the minister, and a surgeon was also sent
for. On opening the coffin it was fount that the
cloth which bound the head was much tumblod,
from which it is supposed that the head had been
tossed about violently. The same thing occurred
with the linen which covered the feet. The heart
had not entirely ceased to beat, but the surgeon
could not restore animation, so the body was soon
afterwards reinterred. Several persons are said to
have heard the noise in the coffin. The head had
certainly moved from its position.
The second day's Autumn Races at Chantilly did
not excite much interest. The results were the
following :
Prix de Moutefontaine, 2,ooof.—Clochette, 1;
Bunshant, 2 ; Mon. Soleil, 3.
Prix d'Hallate, 2,000 f.—Fitz- C ompi eg ne, 1 ;
Palette, 2 ; Turcnne, 3.

Prix de la Table, 3,000 f, Peretie, 1; Czar, 2 ;

Canotiere, 3. Amount of the prize, 3,600 f. ; 700 f.
to the second.

Prix de Conde, 5,000 f. Lady ITemiette, 1;
Geophobe, 2. Amount of the prize, 6,950 f.
Prix du Petit Couvert, 2,000 f. Virgule, 1 ; La
Rochelle, 2. 80Cf. to the second.

There is no truth in the report of a proposed in-
terview at Baden between the Emperor of Austria
and the King cf Prussia, and consequently all the
speculations in which some of the papers have
indulged respecting it naturally falls to the ground.
The last day of the stay of the Emperor at
Bi trritz was embittered by a lamentable accident.
One of his Majesty's couriers was walking on the
rocks, when he was surprised by the rising tide and
was drowned, in spite of the efforts to save him.
His body was recovered. The Empress was, unfor-
tuately, a witness of the accident.
The Archduke Henri of Austria has just married
an actress of the theatre of Gratz, Mdlle. Hoff-
mann, upon whom the Emperor has bestowed the
title of Countess.

LA TEST IN TE L LTGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE PAPAL INVASION.

FLORENCE, Oct. 18.

Advices from the Roman frontier announce that
Menotti Garibaldi had taken up a position at Monte
Maggiore. Nicotera was at Ceccano, and was in
full communication with the bands in the moun-
tains. A few bands bad appeared at Valmonte,
and in the neighbourhood of Tivoli. The Pontifical
troops beyond Frosinone were falling back without
striking a blow. Among the insurgents there was
a complete band of 1,200 Roman emigrants under
the command of Major Ghirelli.

The Italie announces that even yesterday the
Italian Government had ordered the arrest of 70
young men about to embark for the Pontifical States.
The Italie also affirms that the number of persons
arrested for the same cause up to the present ex-
ceeds 2,000. _ _

MARSEILLES, Oct. 18.

Letters received hero from Rome, dated 15th
inst., confirm the statement that the Roman autho-
rities have seized some papers at the residences of
two Italian officers, Signori Macragoni and Casse-
lazzi, who have been arrested on the charge of
organising an insurrection in Rome. The officers
named are at present confined at St. Michel pend-
ing their trial.

According to the same letters Baron Hubner,
the Austrian Minister at the Papal Court, had re-
turned to Rome, and had urged the Pope not to
quit the capital.
As regards the insurrection, three considerable
bands appeared to threaten Viterbo. The Sabina
band, reinforced by the continual arrival of trains
full of volunteers from Naples, exceeded in number
2,000 men, whose chief camp was at Monte Car-
pignano. Other bodies of Garibaldiaus were ex-
pected to disembark from Sicily.