The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDO.N. SATURDAY EVELSING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1867.

which ire volve disagreeable effluvia, and if this
result ca uld be attained without oppression or ruin
to hones. t workers long established it would be well
to imit ate so excellent an example. At present
Madam e de la Cretaz, the proprietor of a large
candlo manufactory at Vaugirard, a suburb of Paris,
is colnplaining that the new system of octroi has
ruined a business which has been established 37
years. Her son, who carried it on, having died,
the works were let to a company, who paid Madame
de la Cretaz 800 a year for rent of the building and
plant. The new system of octroi was introduced on
the Ist January of the present year. The ob•
ject wan to drive from Paris all objectionable
manufactures by imposing on the raw and offensive
materials a prohibitory tax, while no drawback is
allowed when the manufactures are exported across
the octroi line. By this means all the raw materials
for Madame de la Cretaz's candles were heavily
taxed, while the company were unable to reimburse
themselves on the candles when perfected. The
result was that after an eight months' struggle, it
was found impossible to carry on the work ; and on
the 28th August Madame de la Cretaz received
a judicial summons to appear before the tribunal
to hear the new association declared in a
state of dissolution :—" Inasmuch as an increase
of more than 100,000 fr. on the annual imposts
with which the manufactory is burdened renders
it impossible to carry it on, and already a very
serious loss bas been incurred by the associa-
tion." The subject is a difficult one to deal with
wisely and fairly to all parties. But one thing is
clear, that in the formation of all new towns, and
before "vested rights" can assert their claims, it is
the bounden duty of all municipal bodies to prohibit
within the boundaries of a town, all works which
nauseate and affect the health, comfort, and plea-
sure of the inhabitants. Complaints are heard from
California that scant justice was shown to their
wines on exhibition at Paris. It is objected that
the wines were ranged on shelves, corks up, and
within six feet of the chimneys of the great restau-
rant. The corks were in consequence continually
flying from the bottles, or bottles bursting every day,
and in this condition they were allowed to 'ass to
the test of the French jurors.
It is said that Count Bismarck is suffering in
health from the cares and responsibilities of the last
three years, and that in consequence he meditates
retirement from public affairs, which all believe will
be only temporary, and will not effect any change
in the policy of the Prussian Government. The
Marquis de Moustier, it is rumoured, will also with-
draw from his post. M. de Lavalette and M.
Drouyn de Lhuys are both mentioned as probable
successors.

The Jardin d'Acclimatation of Paris has just re-
ceived five fine young lions from England. They
were brought by way of Dieppe in a large cage, and
were placed in the goods warehouse of the railway
station until one of the persons belonging to the
Jardin came to claim them. A strange packet to
consign " per goods' train !" The Emperor has
always taken a lively interest in the acclimatation
of animals and plants ; and the garden in Paris is
one of the most successful in the world. Horace
Greeley, who lately astonished every one by
proposing himself as bail for Mr. Davis, has
now caused additional surprise by confessing that
he is opposed to Woman Suffrage. He was uni.
versally supposed to be in favour of extending the
privilege of voting to women, but he now declares
that he has arrived at the conclusion that women do
not care to vote. I believe he is in the right. There
are some women—but they are the minority—who
would avail themselves of the power, if they had it ;
but the majority—the modest and retiring daughters
and mothers in civilised countries—care not for
political contests, and would shrink from the
publicity which personal agitation in popular ques-
tions would involve. It will always be found that
the higher the civilisation the greater the tendency
to make home the centre and the theatre of woman's
empire. And, indeed, if properly and fully dis-
charged, the duties and occupations of the home-
world are quite enough for her time and strength.
Picture the calls upon an educated woman as head
of a family. The education, culture, training of
her children, the duties of society, the discharge of
hospitality, efforts to help others in an unobtrusive
.way, correspondence, &c., &c., and say, if all this,
and a judicious, vigilant superintendence of all under
her roof-tree, is not enough for one who may not
be at all times strong.
The Californian elections have unexpectedly re-
sulted in a great Democratic triumph, for in the last
elections the majority for the Republican ticket was
18,000. The following despatch to the President,
dated San Francisco, September 6, shows how
stupidly the Republicans have managed matters in
that State :

"We have carried the State by 10,000, electing our
whole ticket, two members of Congress, and a majority of
the Legislature. This is purely a triumph of the policy of
your administration, condemning distinctly Congressional
reconstruction and negro suffrage, North and South.

" THOMAS J. HENLEY.
" Joux P. M'CAULEY."
The Radicals nominated a most obnoxious ticket
against an excellent selection of the Democrats for
Governor, Mr. Charles Haight, and not only split
their party, but caused defections so numerous as to
result in a total defeat. The Democratic candidate
was elected Governor by a majority of 3,000.
The New Free :tress says :—" In response to re-
peated requests from Greece to act as mediator in
the Cretan question, the United States have ordered
the American Minister at Athens to declare that
any intervention in the conflict between Turkey
and Greece does not come within the province of
the United States." An answer dictated by com-
mon sense, for the Government at Washington
could commit no greater folly than in allowing the
nation to drift into these European complications.
The Springfield Republican states that a well-
informed Republican of Ohio writes to Washington
" that the state ticket will be elected by from 30,000
to 40,000 majority, and the Republicans will carry
the Legislature, but that negro suffrage will be de-
feated by from 40,000 to 50,000. This will be
worse than outright defeat. It will convict the
party of dishonesty and meanness in forcing equal
suffrage upon the South and rejecting it at home,
and the disgrace of the fact will attach to the party
everywhere, will tell against us in the other fall
elections, and will have more influence against
proper reconstruction in the South than anything
the President can do. We will not believe that the
Republicanism of Ohio is made of such worthless
material."

News from Berlin states that the Federal postal
law at present before the Council received its
definitive form last Saturday, and will now be
speedily disposed of by the Imperial Diet. That
law chiefly asserts three points—viz., the rela-
tions of the postal system towards the North
German Confederacy; (2) the reforms of the postal
system ; and (3) the postage. In framing the
Federal postal budget, great difficulties arose from
the circumstance that it was necessary to frame
estimates for a territory within which there were
various postal systems. In general the principle
was acted upon that the estimates ought to corre-
spond to the respective populations. The postal
receipts have been estimated at 22,965,560 thalers,
and the expenditure at 20,544,060 thalers.

The news from Mexico is via Havannah to Ist
September. It is denied that the body of the
Emperor Maximilian was mutilated, nor has it
arrived at Vera Cruz. Admiral Tegethoff was at
that city on the 26th August, en route for the capi-
tal. Santa Anna was still confined in the castle of
San Juan d'Ulloa. His son was organising an ex-
pedition at Havannah to invade Mexico for the
purpose of liberating his father. All Generals con-
demned at Queretaro have been pardoned. Juarez
has asked the Mexicans to hold the election for
President.

The hydra, surveying steamer, left for Bombay
last Sunday morning to sound up to Men, for
laying the Anglo-Indian cable.
The Peace Congress at Geneva adopted a resolu-
tion before separating, which is now placarded over
the town. The preamble states that the Govern-
ments of the great States of Europe have proved
themselves incapable of preserving peace and insur-
ing development, increasing standing armies, a
course, incompatible with the progress and welfare of
alkelazses, particularly of the working classes. There-

fore, after proposing certain measures, they deter-
mined to found a Franco-German journal, to be
published at Bale, called the United States of
Europe, the subscription to which is to be 10c. a
month, or lf. 20c. a year. How they intend to
circulate such a journal in France and Germany is
not shown, but the Governments attacked are not
likely to lend the aid of their postal arrangements
to propagate the doctrines which the United States
of Europe will advocate.
The Telegraphic Conference of representatives
from the French, Austrian, Turkish, and Swiss
Governments, at Berne, has determined to reduce,
by one-third, telegraphic charges for passing over
their territories of messages between England and
India ; and between London and Austria, provided
that this reduction should be ratified by their re-
spective Governments.
The American squadron off Cadiz has sailed for
Greece. The steam yacht Quaker City measures 1,600
tons, and has been freighted for five months for $90,000.
Every passenger has his own cabin.

On Sunday last the United States squadron, under
the command of Admiral Farragut, arrived in the Copen-
hagen Roads, having come through the Great Belt and the
Cattegat.

The American Legation in Rome has been closed,
and the mission of the United States to the Papal Govern-
ment discontinued.

A large poultry establishment is about to be esta-
blished in the immediate vicinity of Now York city. Such
establishments have never yet succeeded except in France.
The present undertaking will test the practicability of
such an enterprise in America.

been frequently done by political aspirants when address-
ing Western audiences, and hence ceasing to have much,
if any weight, it is especially to be regretted that
any clique in the States should be found willing to
jeopardise the credit and good faith of the Government merely
to answer some party political end. It is true that there
is nothing either in the acts of Congress authorising the
issue of the bonds in question, or on the face of the bonds
themselves rendering it compulsory on the Treasury to
redeem them at maturity in gold ; but they have been so
largely taken both hero and in Europe generally on the
repeated assurance of the United States Government that
they would be paid off in gold that it would be almost
tantamount to repudiation to assert now that they aro to
be redeemed in currency. We think it would be a wise
policy on the part of Congress to set this vexed question
at rest by a short supplementary act, declaring that this
portion of the debt in all particulars, both as to interest and
principal, is a specie obligation, as we feel assured it would
inspire great additional confidence to investors on this side
of the Atlantic.

The old issue of 5-20 Bonds close 721 to 73, and the
1865's 701 Erie Shares have been dull and neglected,
but Illinois have been in sound request, and were taken
early in the week at 78, but leave off slightly easier, the
last price being 77 to 77i. Atlantic and Great Western
Debentures are last quoted 251 to 361, and Consolidated
Bonds 22 to 23.

THE PAN-ANGLICAN CONFERENCE.

(From the London Standard of Friday, Sept. 20.)

Seven o'clock in the morning is rather an-early
hour at which to hope to gather together a congrea
gation in a City church, especially when it is re-
membered that few Londoners reside within three
or four miles of their places of business. At St.
Lawrence's Church, Gresham-street, yesterday there
was, however, a very fair average congregation at
the early celebration of the Holy Communion. The
Rev. B. M. Cowie, the vicar, was the celebrant.
The choir numbered upwards of 50, and several
clergy were among the congregation.
The Bishop of Arkansas, United States, took his
place at the north side of the altar, and Bishop Tozer
at the south side. This former prelate advanced to the
altar rails and gave out as his text St. John, chap.
vi., v. 8-9, " One of His disciples saith unto Him,
There is a lad here which hath five barley loaves and
two small fishes ; but what are they among so many ?"
The bishop alluded to the difficulty of our realising
at the present day the scene depicted in the
parable from which the text was taken. That, out-
wardly, referred to personal wants alone ; but it
depicted the Church even in the present day ; it
pointed to the vast multitudes growing up around
us on every side in ignorance and sin, and about
whom we could not fail to hear, in the still small
voice of conscience, our Lord's saying, " I have
compassion on the multitude." The bishop then
alluded to the Church in the United States, and re-
marked that, although in the States the number of
clergy was much smaller than in this country, the
number of bishops was proportionately very much
greater, and there was the great distinction also
that in the States there were more bishops than dio-
ccses-34 dioceses and 42 bishops. Some of these
were assistant bishops and some missionary bishops,
several of the latter being in charge of upwards of
200,000 square miles of country, of regions still in-
habited by the Indian, and almost inaccessible.
They laboured from Oregon, in the north, adjoin-
ing the Russian territory, to Mexico, in the south.
The bishop then gave some details of the work of
the venerable Bishop of Wisconsin, the first mis-
sionary bishop of the United States, who was con-
secrated in 1835, and whose whole energies had
been devoted to the work, who bad been gratified to
see in his lifetime 5 missionary bishops within the
sphere of his original diocese, each having an aver-
age of 43 clergy, or 200 in all. But the offertory
of the morning would be devoted to the new
missionary diocese of Montana, Idaho, and Utah,
to which the young but devoted Bishop Tuttle was
last year appointed, and whose pioneer had under-
gone so much danger and hardship. He asked for
the prayers and sympathies of those present, assur-
ing them that they would go on in the fear and
the faith of God, trusting that in his own good time
He would be pleased to grant them the result for
which they laboured. The Bishop then, with uplifted
hands, feelingly recitei the invocation.
The choir sang the hymn, " Bread of heaven on
thee we feed." Bishop Tozer pronounced the
absolution. About 60 persons communicated, be-
sides the choir and officiating ministers. The Bishop
of Arkansas, with uplifted hands, pronounced the
benediction, and so ended one of the most interesting
services of the series, cementing the bond of union
between the Church of this country and her
daughter Church of the United States.
The offertory amounted to over £lO.
At one o'clock the church was so crowded that
great inconvenience must have been sustained by
the worshippers, who, however, carefully attended
to the service, and evinced their interest in it even
to the conclusion. The choir sung the usual pro-
cessional hymn. The "Te Deum" having been
sung, and the hymn, " To thee, 0 dear, dear coun-
try," the Bishop of Rhode Island, U.S. (the Right
Rev. Dr. Clark), delivered an address. The right
rev. prelate dispensed with a text, and gave an
account of the past and present history of the Ame-
rican Church, from the time when the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel established its first
mission on the shores of New England, in 1702,
when the population of the North American colo-
nies was computed at 250,000 by Colonel Dudley,
the then governor, to the present time, when it ex-
ceeds twenty millions. The early missionaries in
North America laboured single-handed amid mani
fold difficulties, and did all that men so situated
could accomplish. In later times there has been
more perfect organisation and resources have in-
creased, but there is everywhere the cry for help,
and thus a work of surpassing importance was com-
mitted to the Church. The bishop very carefully
avoided any political -allusions, and his address
throughout was that of a Churchman speaking for
the sake of his God and for his fellow-Christians
throughout the world.

The Bishop of North Carolina (Dr. Atkinson)
pronounced the blessing. The recessional hymn
was " 0, Paradise." In addition to the home clergy
present we noticed the Bishop of Jamaica, the
Bishop of Arkansas (U.S.), the Bishop of lowa
(U.S.), the Bishop-designate (by the Church) of
Pieter - Maritzburgh, the Rev. M. D. 'Walker, of
New York (U.S.), &c. ; and amongst the congre-
gation were Philip Cazenove, Esq., and many well-
known " City" men. The offertory amounted to
upwards of £3O. There was so great a crowd out-
side the church, and unable to gain admission, that
it really must be a matter of regret that the metro-
politan cathedral is not opened for such services.
, The rector of a City church undertaking the work
(we presume at considerable private expense) is
entitled to the best thanks of all who are privileged
to join in any one of the services.
Long before the time for opening the doors for
the eight o'clock service the approaches to the church
were thronged, and the few remaining citizens who
consider it expedient to reside and to sleep within
easy distance of " Old Cheape" were quite asto-
nished at the great influx of strangers to the regions
of business, and the more so because the aforesaid
strangers were on devotional and not on business
purposes intent. Within a few minutes after the
doors were opened every seat was occupied, although
a large amount of extra accommodation had been
provided. The procession entered headed by the
choir singing the usual hymn, and among the clergy
who followed were the Rev. Dr. Evans, Rev. J.
Trew, Rev. W. R. Scott, Rev. G. P. Pownall, Rev.
R. Sanders, Rev. J. V. Walters, Rev. W. Panck-
ridge, Rev. Dr. Finch, Rev. W. W. Roberts, Bishop
Tozer, of the Central African Mission. The preacher
of the evening was another prelate of the United
States, the Right Rev. Dr. 11. W. Lee, of lowa,
who selected for his text, St. Matthew xiii., verses
31, 32—" The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain
of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in
his field ; which indeed is the least of all seeds : but
when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs,
and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come
and lodge in the branches thereof." It would, per-
haps, be difficult to select any more appropriate text
for a discourse on missionary work, and it was cer-
tainly treated in a most masterly manner. The
preacher has the advantage of a fine voice and great
eloquence. Every word was heard in which he exem-
plified the parable, and showed how the mustard-seed
represented the word of God. At first it was minute
and almost; imperceptible, but it gradually grew

and expanded like the tree of the parable—a single
conversation, the quotation of a single text of the
inspired writ, had in numerous instances effected
the most wonderful results, and thus it was with the
great missionary enterprise of the Church, com-
mencing with the feeble and almost insignificant
efforts of the pioneers of the faith in the earlier
stages of missionary enterprise. The bishop's dis-
course was remarkably good, and was listened to
with the most commendable patience when the
great length to which it extended is taken into con-
sideration.

The offertory was, at the desire of the preacher,
devoted in moieties to the Society for the Propaga-
tion of the Gospel and the Church Missionary
Society.

Some of our contemporaries have persisted in
stating that the Rev. Francis Lyne, better known
as Father Ignatius, has taken part in these services.
Without reference to other considerations it is only
fair to state that the statement is entirely without
foundation. Mr. Lyne has not officiated at either
of the services.

BURGLARY AND ATTEMPT TO BLOW

UP A MUSIC LIALL.

On Sunday morning a daring burglary was per-
petrated at the Alhambra Music Hall, Dundee, and
a most diabolical attempt made to blow up the
building. One of the property men employed at
the Alhambra, and whose special duty it is to visit
the place on Sunday morning by daylight to see
that all is right, was startled, on entering at nine
o'clock last Sunday morning, to find the whole
place pervaded with a suffocating smell of
gas. He advanced, however, as far as the
stage ; but there he found matters in such
a plight that he hurried off immediately
to the proprietor (Mr. W. M'Farland) with the
startling intelligence that the Alhambra had been
broken into and the gas turned on. Mr. M'Farland
lost no time in communicating with the police, and,
having procured the attendance of several officers,
proceeded to the Alhambra. On entering the smell
of gas was found so intolerable that some of the
party had to seek the fresh air in order to recover
themselves. It was found on examination that above
20 of the gas taps had been turned on. These
are situated at the right wing of the stage. On
descending under the stage, it was found that the
whole of the meters and " feeders" had also been
turned on. By this means gas had been made to
flow from every pipe in the establishment, quite as
much as if the hall had been completely illuminated
for an evening performance. It was exceedingly
fortunate that, by a wise arrangement for the
better ventilation of the hall, means were afforded
for allowing free egress to the immense volumes of
gas which must have been collected. As soon as
the hall had been cleared of the gas sufficiently to
admit of an examination being made, it was dis-
covered that the place had been broken into through
a window in the " flies." The frame of the latter
had been completely smashed in, five large paving
stones found under the stage showing how the work
had been done. Outside the window a piece of
timber had been reared against the wall as if to
enable the burglar or burglars to gain access, and
the adjoining bricks were sprinkled with blood, as
if some hurts bad been sustained. The interior of
the hall was found to have been completely ran-
sacked. Behind the scenes, at the " wings," in th e
dressing-rooms, under the stage, and in the proprie-
tor's private office, the spirit of mischief had been hard
at work. Every locked trunk and box about the
place had been forced open, the locks rendered
utterly useless, and the contents strewn heedlessly
about the floor. The extensive wardrobe belonging
to the proprietor, as well as private wardrobes of
the various artistes engaged by him, had all received
some share of attention, and costly garments of
every description lay scattered about in " the most
admired confusion." Several articles of dress and
jewellery had been abstracted, but these bore so
small a proportion to the sum total of the goods
which might easily have been turned into "hard
cash," that there is some difficulty in believing the
sole motive of the depredators to have been that of
securing plunder. Among other articles belonging
to the " professionals," which wero appropriated,
were a pair of new boots, for which the thief had
kindly substituted a couple of worthless Bluchers.
Mr. M'Farland's private office (near the public en-
trance) had also been entered, and a number of pri-
vate letters belonging the artistes torn open
and read, and afterwards thrown upon the floor.
Several half-burned matches were discovered in
various places, indicating that the burglars had
entered in the dark. We may mention that this is
not the first occasion on which the Alhambra has
been subjected to the tender mercies of midnight
prowlers. A fortnight ago the place was forcibly
entered, several valuable suits of apparel belonging
to the artistes stolen, and a number of locks
wrenched open by violence.—Dundee Courier.