The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-05 00:00:00

THE SUN_ LONLIvs). SATUR OA Y EVENING, OCTOBER 5, V 67.

bad been a very considerable decrease. On the

whole, the reports in the newspapers were much
exaggerated.
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said he had not seen any
report in the papers, and until the communication
was made to him he did not know that there was
anything to be complained of.
Mr. NEWTON said it should not be lost sight of
there was always a very serious deposit in the river
above bridge which was removed by dredging, but
since the outfall had been removed to Crossness and

Abbey-mills, from the numerous openings up of the
river, the necessity for that dredging had ceased. It
was just possible that some deposit had been removed
lower down the river, but it was also a question
whether the Conservancy had not saved money
by it.

The Engineer said it was a fact that the sewage

that used to be discharged between this place and
London-bridge was now taken lower down the

river.

Mr. S. TAYLOR regretted that the matter had
been publicly brought forward, as the committee
had gone very fully into the subject, and ordered
the engineer to report upon it.
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Mr. WESTERTON said he bad seen the article
alluded to, but there was something else at the end
of it, to the effect that the Essex Reclamation Com-
pany would soon have all the solid deposit put upon
the Maplin Sands, and what had previously been a
desert would become soon a complete Garden of
Eden. Now, it, seemed to him that this was merely
a ruse on the part of the Essex Reclamation Com-
pany to float some of their shares.

Mr. DIXON, as an old long shoreman, could say
that there had been an accumulation of mud in cer-
tain places ever since the steamboats commenced
running, while in other places the accumulations
that had previously existed were removed. In his
opinion that state of things would always exist.
The subject then dropped.
TILE PROGRESS OF THE THAMES EMBANKMENT
WORKS, &C.

The Chief Engineer made the following report on
the Thames Embankment and other works :
" North Side of the River.

" Thames Embankment between Westminster and
Waterloo Bridges.—The whole of the dams have
been completed, and portions thereof have subse-
quently been removed from such of the work as is
sufficiently advanced for the purpose ; 3,335 ft. of
the low level sewer, 3,244 ft. of the subway, 2,925 ft.
of the smaller sewer, for intersecting the several
drains discharging on the foreshore, and 284 ft. of
the flushing culvert are also complete. The West-
minster Steamboat Pier is, with slight exceptions,
completed, as also is the river wall adjoining for a
length of 670 ft., and of which wall a further length
of 50ft. is brought to a height of Wt. above Trinity
high water mark, 100 ft. of the York-gate substruc-
ture is brought to the same height; 333 ft. of the
adjoining wall is completed, and a further length of
390 ft. is constructed to a height of 344 ft. above the
Trinity mark; 45ft. of the Charing-cross steamboat
pier is also brought to that height, and for the re-
mainder of this pier works of concreting, brickwork,
and masonry are brought to levels varying from
lift. to 27ift. below Trinity datum. Of the adjoin-
ing river wall 302 ft. is constructed to a height vary-.
ing from lft. to PIN above that datum. The works
to the Adelphi landing stairs and 398 ft. of the river
wall adjoining are brought to levels of from lft.
below to nit. above Trinity, and 50ft. in length out
of the outer capping is fixed. In the Waterloo
steamboat pier works up to the junction with the
works of No. 2 contract, the main screen, return,
and face walls have been brought to heights varying
from Ift. below to 31 ft. above the Trinity high water
mark. Filling behind the embankment wall and in
the works generally has been carried out to the
extent of about half a million cubic yards. There
have also been constructed the new outlets from
the Victoria and Regent-street sewers, including the
diversion of a portion of those sewers and the finishing
of a part of the pneumatic tube for the purposes of
the Waterloo and Whitehall Railway Company.
The approximate cost of the whole of these works,
including £21,930 for materials upon the ground,
amounts to about £411,000, of which £lO,BOO re-
presents the progrsss made in the past two months.

" Contract between Waterloo bridge and Temple-
gardens—Since the date of my last report 4,855
cubic feet of granite has been bedded in the Temple
steamboat pier, lamp pedestals, and parapet walls,
13. rods of brickwork has been laid, and 1,900 cubic
rods of brick and other good material filled in. The
dam in front of the pier and of the wall generally,
with the exception of a length of about 150 ft., has
been entirely removed, and thus leaves the face of
the embankment open to view from the river for a
length of 1,820 ft. The approximate value of the
whole of the works completed, including 2,866 for
materials upon the ground, is £211,617, of which
the sum of £3,127 represents the progress made in
the past two months.
"Abbey-mills Pumping Station—The works in
connection with the several buildings comprising
this station have satisfactorily progressed during the
past two months, 219 rods of brickwork having been
laid, 11,890 cubic feet of Portland stone bedded in
the cornices, doorway, and window mouldings, para-
pets, &c., 1,900 superficial feet of York stone bedded
in landings, 323 cubic yards of concrete deposited,
and 170 tons of iron used in girders, tubes, centre
bearers, tie beams, &c. The total estimated value of
the whole of the completed works is £142,807, of
which £14,933 is due to the progress made within
the past two weeks.
" Low Level Sewer —The work remaining to com-
plete this contract is in active progress. The girders
for carrying the iron tubular sewer over the East
London Railway at Shadwell are erected, and three
lengths of the tube are jointed and fixed. The value
of the work done during the past two weeks is esti-
mated at £4,133. The works for carrying the Isle
of Dogs branch of this sewerpast the dock entrances
in the river are progressing as fast as the difficult
nature of the work will permit. The two dams at
the ends of the iron pipes which are being laid along
the foreshore are complete, and the penstock-house
at the coalwharf is also finished. The total estimated
value of the work completed under the contract for
this branch sewer is £76,320, of which the sum of
£4,350 represents
,the progress made therewith
during the last two months.
" South side of the River.

" Thames Embankment.—About 2,370 ft. of the
dam and staging has been constructed between
Westminster and Lambeth-bridges, and a length of
about 450 ft. of the single pile dams has been con-
structed above the latter bridge. Within the com-
pleted dam, a length of about 2,300 ft. of the river
wall has been brought to heights varying from 34 ft.
to 7ift. above Trinity high water mark. In the
construction of this wall, and the works connected
therewith, about 87,000 cubic yards of earth
have been excavated, 30,000 yards filled in,
22,500 yards concrete deposited, 580 rods of brick-
work laid, and 126,500 cubic feet of stone bedded.
The approximate cost of the whole of these works,
including £23,870 for materials upon the ground,
is £139,780, of which the sum of £8,500 represents
the progress made in the past two months.
"J. W. BAZALGETTE, Engineer."
The report was received and ordered to be entered
on the minutes.

The rest of the business was disposed of and the
Board adjourned.

MURDER 1N FRANKFORT-ON-THE-

MAINE.

A strike occurred this week at the Gas Fabr:ck,
Frankfort-on-the-Maine, and the police were unable
to quell the e'nzeute. The Prussian soldiers were
called in, and quieted matters. An unfortunate
event, however, happened in connection .with it.
One of the workmen taunted some Prussian
soldiers, calling them hard names, when a soldier
at once thrust his bayonet through the body of the
man, penetrating his heart, and killing him
instantly. The workman leaves a wife and family.
The abuse of the soldier was deemed a justification
for the murder, and it is said that he has not been
arrested, and that he will not be punished.

Synods appear to be the rage. A congress of
German bishops is announced for the 15th of October at
Fulda, in Hesse Cassel. The Bishop of Salzburg has
originated the meeting.

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

(From Correspondent of the Anglo-American Times.)

PARIS, Oct. 3.
The•29th of September ended the fetes and fes

vities of the great Fair of St. Cloud, after the
duration of a month, and dividing with the Exposi-
tion the attention of the good folks of Paris—l say
dividing, but I ought rather to say eclipsing, for the
latter has certainly gone down to No. 2 on the
occasion, that is, if one may judge from the com-
parative number of visitors in each case. It sounds
strangely to the foreigner to hear so much said
about a fair, but he is not aware that in France
these exhibitions are under the immediate protection
of the Government, and form part of its machinery,
adding enormously to its resources in the shape of
indirect taxation, and reflowing through a thousand
other channels, to the advantage of commerce and
industry. In the days of the Valois these fetes were
paid for with the money arising from an overtaxed
people by an unscrupulous Minister of Finance ; to-
day the people themselves provide the fête, being
indebted only to the Sovereign for the full and free
use of the royal park and pleasure grounds ; and
with all this difference, I question if—not-
withstanding the millions of francs lavished by
the Orleans family—l question if ever more
brilliant fetes took place at St. Cloud than those
now offered by the people themselves in their ame-
liorated condition. But the fair of St. Cloud bears
a far more ancient date than the Chateau or Palace,
as it is recorded that a bridge spanned the Seine at
St. Cloud as early as 811, for at that period we
learn that Charles the Bald encamped his army be-
tween St. Cloud and St. Denis to prevent the pas-
sage over the bridge in question of the army of his
brother Lothaire ; and at that period so numerous
were the people who resorted to the fair from Paris
in boats, at a time when boats were little else than
mere compositions of wood and pitch, and the river
the only route that soldiers were stationed to pre-
vent the entrance of more than 16 persons into each.
The famous "Filets de Saint Cloud," which have
formed the subject of more than one romance and
melodrama, were hung up at the arches of the
bridge in question, not merely for the reception of
the renowned eels of the Seine, but of the various
articles drifted by the current down from Paris,
amidst which, at .that remote period, corpses formed
no inconsiderable proportion. St. Cloud, which,
since the building of the Palace in 1658, has inva-
riably been the favourite summer residence of the
royalty of France, has evidently been selected from
the great natural beauty of its position, for, whilst
erected on the slope of a hill, at a bend of the Seine,
where the river is the widest, it commands au ex-
quisite view of river and woodland, Paris at the
same time lies spread out before it like a map. It
possesses also three methods of communication with
Paris—first, the broad direct mad from Paris to
Versailles ; secondly, the omnibus steamers on the
river ; and lastly, the Railway of the Ceinture. The
Palace was built in 1658 by Louis the 14th, who
purchased for that purpose various lands and pro-
perties, the principal one being the House of Geroine
Goudi, an Italian banker, who had often received
there Catherine de Medicis. This house is also
noted for its connection with the murder of Henry
the Third. The King, who had purchased these
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properties with the intention of building thereon a
palace for his brother, the Duke of Orleans, ap-
pointed the artist Lenotre to design the park and
gardens. The palace itself was built after the
plans of Lepaute. The gallery and saloons
were painted by the celebrated Mignard. After
being in the possession of the Orleans family
for more than a century, and being noted for the
magnificent fetes given by Monsieur to his brother,
King Louis, which have become a matter of history,
for the death also of Monsieur himself and his queen,
the charming Henrietta of England, the palace em-
bellished to the utmost by the gorgeous taste in the
fine arts, which characterised the reign of Louis.
Quatorze, was purchased of the then Duke of
Orleans by the unfortunate Marie Antoinette,
whose architect, Micque, effected notable altera-
tions, to be altered in turn by Napoleon 1., Louis
XVIII., Charles IX., and Louis Philippe, who suc-
cessively elected St. Chrio as their summer resi-
dence par excellence. The latter, commencing the
railway at present in action between Paris and

Versailles, and, of course, through St. Cloud and
Sevres, so celebrated for its manufactory of porce-
lain, St. Cloud still continues to preserve its charm,
being much in favour with the present Emperor and his
family, who, however, with characteristic liberality,
affords on every occasion an opportunity to the
stranger and the public of beholding those rare
relics of the fine arts, which are nowhere to be

found in greater beauty and excellence. But lam
getting ahead of my subject. Back to the fair—
this fair, which enjoys the singular title of the Fair
wade from a piece of hollow wood,
of the Mirlitons, the mirliton being a kind of primi-
gth from a quarter to three or four
vt iavrey
nagg eionl elte,
yards, covered with a brilliant paper envelope. The
perfect simplicity of this contrivance, too, affords
an additional testimony in favour of the extreme
antiquity of the fair. It lasts about a month, and
takes place in the magnificent Royal pleasure
grounds of the park, immediately underneath the
Chateau. Let the reader figure to himself an
encampment of baraques, or little ships, ex-
tending in three long lines through the broad
glades of the park, wherein are sold every
production or merchandise of France, jewellery,
porcelain of Sevres, nonnettes (sweet cakes) from
Dijon, &c., whilst mixed with them are billiard
tables, shooting galleries, swings, remarkable either
for their powerful or their musical machinery ;
cuses, shows, pavilions of every description, cum
multis aliis, which it would take much too long to
describe. In the midst of all this rise the grand
cascades and fountains, the play of the waters
forming such an attraction on all occasions for the
Parisian, the beautiful designs of which have been
executed by Lepaute and Mansarde. Flowing
down under a double triumphal arch, crowned with
statues, over a slope cut into stone steps, adorned
with vases of flowers, the water passing under the
roadway, falls into a series of semicircular basins
expanding in gentle waves, and spouting from the
mouths of numerous bronze monsters which adorn
the several ledges. But lam exceeding my limits
and excluding general news. La suite a demain,
then, as the French journalists say ; or, in other
words, I promise to finish my sketch next week,
and not to omit the description of the Palace
of the Bal des Canotiers after the regatta, or
of the grotesque Retraite aux Flambeaux by the
Voltigeurs of the Imperial Guard quartered at St.
Cloud. A very able review of the external policy
of France appears this week in the Siecle,.written
in consequence of the recent episode in Italy by
Garibaldi. The writer endeavours to prove the
inefficiency alike of violent interference on behalf of
Poland and the Crimean campaign to limit effectually
the power of Russia, which, be argues, would be more
effectively done in raising up Poland as a barrier,
and, at the same time, in concentrating and taking
the lead with the slave States. In regard to the
affairs of Italy, the writer argues that the prestige
which would otherwise have accrued to France in
the Italian war was in a great measure lost by the
leaving of Venice still in chains, thus necessitating
her deliverance by other hands, whilst the fact of
France interfering for the support of the temporal
power of the Pope tends still further to lessen her
influence amongst the patriots of Italy. Ile con-
cludes his article with an allusion to the war of
1866, endeavouring to show that the mediation of
France has had, as it were, the effect of dividing
Germany into two parts, north and south, thus afford-
ing to. M. Bismark the opportunity of representing
her as interfering to prevent the treaty so evidently
desired by the German patriots. I merely, however,
present these remarks as the rescind of a French
opinion upon French politics, endorsing it in no
point of view. A curious commentary on the free-
dom of desert life, so beautifully pictured by
Byron—

" In the wilds of starry climes ho made himself a home,
And hie s)ul drank their sunbeams ;

By his side stood camels grazing. And a man

Clad in a flowing garb did watch the while."

And in connection with the advancing progress
of civilisation, is contained in an Algerian newspaper
which I received this morning. A caravan of fifty
camels, under the conduct of a large number of

Arabs, had stopped to pasture in the olive grounds
of a colonist named Burck. As these animals me-
naced the greatest destruction to the olives, Bunk,
who had received notice of the fact, came hastily on
the ground, followed by the Garde Champetre, and
attempted to turn out the camels and their guardians;
this, however, the Arabs sturdily resisted, alleging
the free right of the desert to pasture their beasts
where they pleased, and upon the Garde Champetre
attempting to seize one of the camels as a guarantee
for the expenses, the Arabs presented the muzzles
of their guns as a counter argument. The colonist,
however, having fired in the air as a signal, a strong
reinforcement of colonists came up, whereupon the
intruders took to flight upon their arrival. At the
neighbouring village of Boaffarick they laid a com-
plaint against M. Burck before the Juge de Pair
of that place, but an investigation of the circum-
stances turned the scale, and a lodgment in the
prison of Blidah afforded to the sons of the Desert
time to reflect upon the advantages of civilisation
as applied to Desert life. A most interesting re-
union took place on Sunday last at Montmartre,
of young persons, deaf and dumb, of both sexes
coming from the special institutions in Paris. The
house selected was the scene of the primitive labours
of the celebrated Abbe del Epee, the originator of
these institutions in France ; the day selected being
the Feast of St. Michael, the patron saint of
the Abbe. The saloon was decorated with various
pictures, sculptures, &c., executed by deaf and
dumb artists. The arrival at Paris of the Emperor
and Empress of Austria is said to be fixed for the
20th. Louis the Third, of Bavaria, will leave for
Nice on the 24th, where he will pass the winter.
The Duke of Rutland has arrived from England.
He is about to visit the south of France. American
personal news in Paris is dull. Several of our
friends, however, have requested me, when occa-
sionally speaking of the Exposition, to notice some
of the most remarkable of the American inventions
and products comparatively with those of others.
I shall be only too happy to oblige, expressing at the
same time a strong opinion that, although late in
the field in the Exposition Comparative Examination,
will in very many points not find her behindhand.

Wherever civilised soldiers are opposed to savages
who are at all successful they conceive the ides
that the savages are led by traitors, either from
their own ranks or from some gther civilised race.
A. report has gained currency that white men direct
the operations of the Red Indians. On the 13th
Sept. five stage stations between Hays City and
'Fort Wallace, in Kansas, were attacked, 40 mules
and horses captured, one man killed, and several
wounded. On the 15th, two days after, the Indians
seized a train of 40 waggons east of Hays City,
killing the two drivers, and appropriating 30
animals. On the 17th an attack was made on the
grading parties on the Eastern Division Pacific
Railroad, and seven men were killed. On the 21st the
Peace Commissioners had decided on leaving Omaha
for the North Platte, where they were to meet
Spotted Tail. Thence they were to proceed to Fort
Laramie to propose the terms. The Indians lay it
down as an essential condition of peace that the
whites should abandon the Smoky Hill route, along
which the Eastern Division of the Pacific Railway
is being carried, coupling with this the withdrawal
of the United States troops from the Powder River
country. An officer lately from Big Horn River
estimates the hostile Indians in the North at 22,000
men ; most of whom are under Red Cloud, chief
of the Upper Brule Sioux, who is reported to have
said, when at peace we are poor, when at war
rich. Several hostile tribes are gathered on the
northern slope of the Rocky Mountains, be-
tween Forts Philip Kearney, and C. F. Smith.

Numbers of Indians are awaiting the Peace Com-
missioners at Fort Rice, and a counsel had been
held between some Federal officers and the chief of
the Kiowas on the 10th ult., at Ford Lamed, when
some satisfactory resolutions were arrived at.
The negro majority in the Southern States will
probably be curtailed by a difficulty as amusing as
it is unexpected. When giving their surnames as
Pompey, Caesar, Solomon, Sambo, Friday, they
were required to add Christian names, as the simple
surnames, each embracing a host, was not suffi-
ciently distinctive for registration purposes. This
puzzled " darkie," who in his perplexity adopted

the suggestion of the man at his elbow. Before
Sambo reached home he had forgotten the name he
had given, and a considerable number of votes will
in consequence be thrown out. Two hundred were
rejected at Richmond on the Railroad Aid ques-
tion, and it is possible that a large number will
be lost from a similar cause in future elections.

The Indianapolis Journal has an on dit that the
worthy sheriff of Butler County, Ohio, tendered the
M'Coole-Jones party the freedom of his bailiwick, and
told them they might fight in tho Court-house if they
wanted to. All he asked was a front seat and a free
ticket.

The Taunton Republican says Hon. Oakes Ames,
of North Easton, has contracted to build nearly the whole
of the remaining portion of the Union Pacific Railroad— some
six hundred miles, passing through the Rocky Mountain
region—receiving therefor over forty-seven millions of
dollars. This is believed to be the largest contract ever
entered into by one man.

A company, which has been formed in New
Jersey for the purpose ot applying the pneumatic prin-
ciple to the transmission of parcels and mails, propose to
erect an experimental line between Jersey City and
Newark. They have decided to build a wooden tube,

,hree feet in diameter, resting on the ground or elevated,

through which cars with packages will be driven, by an
American patent, at the rate of ono hundred miles an
hour. The tube will cost about $lO,OOO per mile.

A private dinner was given to Gen. Beauregard
on Thursday, Sept. 19, at the New York Hotel, by about
a hundred friends residing in New York. He made a
speech to the effect, that the talk of another re-
bellion was sheer nonsense. It was utterly impossible for
a generation. We shculd now bend our energies towards
again building up ours Union to that magnificent status
among the nations of th'e world to which its destiny evi-
dently points. He urged them to give the Government
their united support.

The annual exhibition of the Hampden Agricul-
cultural Society was to be held in Springfield on the first
two days of October.

The American frigate Minnesota left Lisbon for
Cadiz on October 3.

The troop-ship Hinzalayah, with the 4th battalion
of the 60th Royal Rifles on board, has been detained in
quarantine at Quebec, cholera having broke out on board.
The tallow tree of China has been transplanted
in the Punjaub with great success. Dr. Jameson has pre-
pared hundredweights of grease from it, and has forwarded
on trial a portion of it to the Punjaub Railway, to have its
qualities tested as a lubricant. The grease thuS obtained,
it is said, forms an excellent tallow, burning with a clear,
brilliant, and white light, emitting no unpleasant odour or
smoke.

The Tribune " special despatch" from Constanti-
nople, ten days ago, announcing tho presentation of an
"ultimatum" to the Porto by the Russian Ambassador, and
demanding the cession of Candle to Greece and the equa-
lity of the Christians, gave that journal " the satisfaction
of being the first to announce a movement, on the part of
Russia, which probably assures the speedy dissolutioa of
the Turkish empire, and may be the signal of a general
European war"—turns out, as we predicted last week, to
be just three-fourths fiction. The Constantinople corre-
spondent furnished us on Wednesday morning with
a full proof of his wildness and excitability. The

"ultimatum" is neither more nor less than an
elaborate plan of reform, drawn from the Russian
Government by a visit of Fuad Pasha to the Czar, and by
ct personal request for advice addressed to General Ignatief
by the Sultan himself, "recommending" the cession of
Candia to Greece, and "proposing" certain internal re-
forms. The only pretext for calling it an " ultimatum" is
General Ignatief's saying that if this advice was not taken,
his master " would not be responsible for the conse-
quences." The correspondent then unblushingly adds
" I do not think Russia is ready to follow up this ultimatum
now; but it is evident she is preparing to strike as soon as
war breaks out in Europe." Our advice to the Tribune is
to instruct this gentleman in the meaning of "ultimatum,"
and to add to his " special despatches" a caution to the pub-
lic.—The Nation.

GEN. SICKLES'S SPEECH IN NEW YORK.—NEW
Youx, Sept. 14.—Gen. Sickles concluded his speech to the
serenaders last night, amid loud, long-continued cheers,
as follows :—" Much remains to be done before our
country can enjoy the repose and security you won
for her at Gettysburg, at Atlanta, at Spottsyl-
vania, Winchester, and Richmond. The enemies
who surrendered to Grant, and Sherman, and Sheridan—
(loud cheers)—are now on their parole of honour to obey
the laws of the land, and I believe their parole will be
kept whenever the Government, in all its departments, is
agreed on the duty to be performed. The will of the
people who put down the rebellion must be executed.
(Applause.) Then, and not till then, shall we have peace.
Let us have faith in the future. Let no one take counsel
of the timid. Whoever may be tried and found wanting,

the army of to-day, the armies of 1865, the citizen soldiers
of the Republic and Grant—(loud cheers)—their invincible
leader, will never falter, never fail."

A singular curiosity in Martin county, Indiana,
is thus described :—lt stands alone in the dense forest, a
gigantic stone jug about 50 feet in height, about 5 feet in
diameter at the base, 8 feet midship, and 2 feet at the top,
upon which rests a broad, flat rock about 10 by 15 feet,
covered with bushes and wild ivy, and some 3 feet from
the centre stands a small tree. The rock is a great curi-
osity, and a view of it should never be lost sight of by the
traveller passing that way.—Baltimore Weekly Commercial.