The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER, 28, 1867.

speech of considerable length. He maintained that
the interests of England would be especially pro-
moted by the security sought to be given to com-
merce by the Birmingham Chamber. He instanced
the case of the Alabama as illustrative of the capa-
city of a small Power to inflict incalculable injury
on the commercial interests of a stronger Power,
and as England had no longer supremacy on the
sea, and would never again occupy that position, he
thought it was desirable that the state of things
of which he complained should be altered.
The MAYOR of Southampton, in the course of
same remarks, characterised the speech of the hon.
member for Birmingham as un-English. lie had
still implicit faith in the power of " Old England."
Mr. MUNDELLA (Nottingham) said the question
was an exceedingly grave one, and he hoped it
would be postponed. He, however, wished to dis-
claim all sympathy with the foolish old-fashioned
belief in " Rule Britannia" which influenced the
last speaker, and expressed his intention to support
the Birmingham motion in the event of its being
pressed to a division.
The representative of Hull moved " the previous
question," which, upon a division, was carried by a
majority of 19 to 16.

The conference was then adjourned till this
morning.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

A general regimental order, signed by Col. H.
Keane, Deputy-Adjt.-Gen., Royal Engineers, has
been issued by command of his Royal Highness the
Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, announcing
that with- reference to the second paragraph of
Corps' General Order, No. 462, dated the Ist of
1862, which directs " officers of the Royal Engi-
neers, desirous of serving in India to transmit
their names to theDeputy-Adjt.-Gen., Royal Engi-
neers, Horse Guards, by whom a special roster of
officers volunteering for Indian service will be kept,"
his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-
in-Chief has been pleased to desire that officers ex-
changing for service in India must proceed thither
within two months from the date of exchange. It
is also notified, for information, that from the date
of exchange until arrival in India officers will re-
ceive the pay of their rank from the India-office.

A detachment of 48 non-commissioned officers
and gunners of the Royal Artillery is ordered to
join the head-quarters of the Ist division of the
Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, in readiness for
embarkation with the reinforcements ordered to
embark for India.

Yesterday au order was received at the head-
quarters of the Royal Engineer establishment,
Chatham, directing a detachment of 18 non-com-
missioned officers and sappers of the Royal Engi-
neers to be held in readiness to embark for service
at Gibraltar, and a party of 11 non-commissioned
office:a and men to proceed to Malta, to beattached
to the company of Royal Engineers at that station.
The order likewise directs a party of 27 non-com-
missioned officers and sapp4s to be held in readiness
to proceed from Chatham to Bermuda. The Royal
Engineers for Gibraltar and Malta are to be in
readiness to embark on Tuesday next, but the date
for the departure of the draught for Bermuda has
not been fixed.

Capt. H. C. Seddon has been appointed assist.-
instructor in architectural and military drawing at
the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham. By
direction of the Duke of Cambridge the following
officers have been attached to the Royal Engineer
establishment for service at head quarters :—Capt.
C. R. T. Davidson, Capt. G. Newmarch, Lieut.
H. F. Blair, Lieut. J. P. Westmoreland, and Lieut.
J. Fellowes.

A notification has been received at the Royal
Engineer establishment, Chatham, announcing that
volunteer non-commissioned officers and sappers are
required for the Public Works' Department in India.
The volunteers for this service are required to have
passed through the curriculum of Royal Engineer
instruction a' carried out at_ the establishment,
Chatham, and to be in all respects conversant with
the nature of the duties in which they will be em-
ployed. From information received at he ad-
quarters it would appear that the non-commissioned
officers and sappers of the Royal Engißeers
despatched from Chatham to India some short time
since fur employment on the public works have
been very successful, one of the non-commissioned
officers having attained to the position of principal
engineer, and three others to that of sub-engineer.

The officers of the Ordnance Select Committee of
Woolwich Arsenal were yesterday engaged in test-
ing an improved system of sling carriage for the
removal of the heavy guns iu competition with the
old and unwieldy wooden carriage hitherto in use,
together with a more available method of dragging
the wheels when proceeding down a decline. The
hind wheels of the old carriage are lift. in diameter,
and weigh 29cw t. each, the fore wheels weigh
scwt. each, and the total weight of the carriage is 3
tons. The new carriage, the body and hoisting
gear of which are of iron, is considerably less weighty
and the breaks, instead of being worked by lever and
lanyards, are adjusted by means of easily worked
screws, ordered to be removed from the front, as at
present, to the back of the wheels, beyond the reach
of danger. Each carriage was loaded with a 9-inch
12-ton gun, having eight and 12 horses attached
respectively, and was paraded through the principal
thoroughfare of the arsenal and across Beresford-
square in the to wn. The new carriage was pro-
nounced a decided improvement.
The armour-plated screw steamship Royal Oak,
35, Capt. the Hon. George D. Keane, from Lisbon,
which arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morn-
ing, put to sea from the Tagus on the 20th in com-
pany with other ships belonging to the Channel
squadron, and parted company with them on the
23d, when they were left cruising. The Royal Oak
experienced very heavy weather on the 24th. She
brings mails from various ships of war, and 50 in-
valid and time-expired men, but whether they will
be landed at Plymouth or be taken on in her to
Portsmouth was unknown when our despatch left.
When the squadron left the Tagus it was accom-
panied by the United States frigate Franklin, under
supreme command of Admiral Farragut, before whom
the ships went through several evolutions under
steam and under canvas and their crews were exer-
cised aloft. In the evening the Admiral, having been
joined by his tender, the gunboat Frolic, proceeded
for Gibraltar.

The iron screw steamer Buffalo, 2, 80-horse power,
has arrived alongside the dockyard at Chatham,
having on hoard the boats, models, and -other
articles sent from Chatham for exhibition at Paris.
The Buffalo has also on board a few articles which
were sent for exhibition from Woolwich dockyard.
The floating sheers in Chatham harbour have been
removed to Sheerness dockyard, in tow of the Locust
and Sheerness, to be employed in lifting the roasting
sheers at the latter establishment for the purpose of
being repaired.

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THE LATE ELECTIONS.

(From the Springfield Republican.)

The result of the elections last Tuesday is a
second edition of the verdict of October, or rather
a still stronger expression of the popular disgust at
the management of national politics, and dissatis-
faction with the Congressional policy of reconstruc-
tion at the South. New York has gone Democratic
by 40,000 majority, overcoming a Republican ma-
jority of 13,789 last year, and 27,857 the year
before ; New Jersey has gone the same way, elect-
ing a Democratic Legislature in place of a Repub-
lican one ; Maryland is still more so, of course, and
in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, while
the Republicans still hold the reins of power, the
Democrats have got the whip and come unplea-
santly near getting full control of the team. The
lesson this result offers is obvious, its warning timely.
Congress, so soon to meet, will do well to heed both ;
and if the politicians do not trim their sails accordingly
for the presidential election, it must be because they
have lost, or never had, the instinct of self-preser-
vation.-1n Massachusetts Governor Bullock and
the full Republican State ticket is re-elected by a
vote of about 95,000, against 90,000 last year, but
with a majority of from' 25,000 to 30,000 only,
against 65,000 the year before, the Democratic vote
coming up from 26,000 to nearly 70,000. But the
most noteworthy, though expected, feature of the
election is the change of die Legislature from pro-
hibition to license, the popular verdict against
sumptuary laws and the State constabulary. While
remaining two-thirds Republican, the general court
is three-fourths license in both branches, and before
grass grows again the occupation of the State con-
stabulary will be gone, and the constables too. Even
the western counties, relied on as the stronghold of
the prohibitionists, join heartily in this result,
and return a majority of license favouring Sena-
tors and Representatives. The most exciting
local contests, for Councillor in the eighth district
and Senator in the Eastern Hampden district,
resulted in the just defeat of Mr. Johnson of
Adams, but the election of Mr. Alexander by De-
mocratic and P. L. L. help, but with a vote against
him .that expressed unmistakeably the popular cen-
sure of his political trickery. in New York the
highest officer on the State ticket chosen this year
was Secretary of State, Gov. Fenton holding over,
and the Democratic majority in the State is about
40,000 ; in New York city 59,818, the registration
being 6,000 larger than last year, but the vote 3,000
less. The members of the State ticket elected are
as follows :—Giving Gov. Fenton a complete De-
mocratic " cabinet ;" Secretary of State, Homer A.
Nelson ; controller, IVilliam F. Allen ; treasurer,
Wheeler H. Bristol; attorney-general, Marshall
B. ChamplAin ; State engineer, Van Rensselaer
Richmond ; canal commissioner, John D. Fay ;
inspector of State prison, Solomon Schea. Mar-
tin Grover, Democrat, was elected judge of the
Coart of Appeals, and of the Supreme Court
judges the Democrats have three and the Republi-
cans five. The Democrats will have a majority of
the Lower-. Douse of the Legislature, and at least 15
of the 32 senators.—New Jersey elected six sena-
tors aukl a house of representatives entire, and the
democrats, with a large majority on the popular
vote, have both houses of the Legislature by con-
siderable majorities.—ln Maryland, Odin Bowie,
democrat, was elected governor over Hugh L. Bond,
and the democrats swept everything else in the
State by a large majority,—over 17,000 in Balti-
more alone.—ln Wisconsin, Gov. L. Fairchild, re-
pulican, is re-elected by a majority of 3000 or
4,000 over J. J. Tallmadge, the democrats gaining
six or eight members of the Assembly and three
or four senators, with about 2,000 on the popular
vote. The Legislature remains strongly republi-
can, however.—ln Miuesota, W. R. Marshall,
republican, is elected governor over C. E. Flandrau
by about 4,000 majority. The Legislature is
doubtful, and the constitutional amendment
granting negro suffrage is probably de-
feated.—Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, and Mis-
souri also held elections on Tuesday, but
for local officers only, and the returns yet
are neither full nor definite. The vote in Kans ,s
is made interesting and important, by the fact
that both woman and negro suffrage were to be de-
cided by it, and probably both are defeated, the
first by from 8,000 to 10,000 majority. This will
be a hard blow to the advocates of woman suffrage,
who had counted on Kansas going for them, sure ;
but the negro can afford to wait, knowing that his
rights to the ballot must soon be acknowledged and
granted in Kansas and every where else.—The
charter election of Detroit, Michigan, resulted in the
choice of Mr. Wheaton, a democrat, for mayor, by
360 majority, the city council remaining a tie, as at
present. The State has undoubtedly gone republi-
can, and so has Illinois. In Chicago about a two-
thirds vote only was polled, and the Republican
majority for General Osborne, for county treasurer,
was about 4,000.—In the third congressional dis-
trict of Missouri, James B. M'Cormack, Democrat,
was elected to fill the vacancy causA by the death
of Thomas E. Noell, by 1,000 majority over James
H. Chase.—Alexander 11. Bailey of Rome, Repub-
lican, is elicited in the Urica (New York) district
to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of Ros-
coe Conkling to the Senate.

THE WAR IN THE RIVER PLATE.

The FrencNpacket Navarre, arrived at Bordeaux,
brought a fortnight later news from the Brazils and
the River Plate. War still rages in these beauti-
ful countries, and peace, so anxiously expected, is
slow to come, as all the allies are so situated that a
defeat will not only be a defeat on the battle-field,
but also a defeat at home—i.e., will carry with it
a change of Government. If Brazil does not come
off victorious, the Emperor, it is said, will abdicate
in favour—of whom ? and Brazil will be the prey
of ambitious men, and Demagogues declare for a
Republic, and will split in a dozen. If Brazil
cannot maintain any longer a large force at Monte
Video, the rebel Flores will have to run away, and
make place to the legitimate voted Government,
which he, with the help of Brazil and Buenos Ayres,
has upset ; if victory does not crown Gen. Mitre,
whose term of office as President of the Argentine
Confederation will expire in a year, he will have
to make place probably to Gen. Urquiza, the friend
of the soldiers, of peace, and Paraguay. Very
different it is with Paraguay. Lopez there is sus-
tained by the will of a people whose patrictism has
shown itself in a three-years' war, and even if he
was inclined to peace, without having all his de-
mands satisfied, his people would not allow it.
Paraguay will fight to the last, and even if Hu-
maita and Curupaity should be taken, the Allies
are as far from having conquered Paraguay
as they are this day, where their fleet is still
beleaguered between the fortresses of Curupaity
and Humaita, and their army kept in check
at Tuju-cue. The peace proposals of Mr.
Gould, her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of Lega-
tion at Buenos Ayres, made in the name of the
Allies, and not accepted by Paraguay, has been
read in the order of the day to the Paraguayan
army, and was received with shouts of derision.
The Paraguayan army declared they would not allow
their General and President, even if he was willing,
to leave the country, but that they would conquer or
die before falling a prey to the hateful Brazilian in-
vader. Mr. Gould seems to have pl Lyed adoublegamo
in Paraguay, which Gen. Lopez soon saw through,
and had all the documents, relative to Mr. Gould's
mission to Paq)-Pueu, publiihed, which it seems
made Mr. Gould very furious ; besides this he con-
siders that Marshal Lopez did not treat him accord-
ing to his rank, and had shown him less civilities
than were shown to the English officers of the gun.
boat the Dotterel, to whom opportunity was offered
to visit the different camps and fortifications.
Consequently Mr. Gould, on his arrival at Buenos
Ayres, represented Paraguay in the last stage of
exhaustion, and that two months more would finish
the war. The officers of gunboat, which
arrived at Monte River, tell to every one who
likes to listen quite the contrary ; that not only
Paraguay was very well provided, but also able
to resist any forces the Allies would be able
to bring into the field for a long time to come.
Mr. Gould is said to have threatened to report
to his Government the behaviour of the Paraguayan
Government towards his person ; but it being

known that the Legation at Buenos Ayres is natu-
rally, though not rightly, influenced through the
Argentine Government—a very interested party in
the matter—no great attention will be paid to the
complaints of Mr. Gould by the Office of Foreign
Affairs.

A large encounter took place on the 24th of Sep-
tember between a Brazilian force of nearly 4,000,
which was escorting a very large convoy to
Tujuti, in which the Brazilians sustained a regu-
lar defeat. The Tribune, of Buenos Ayres, calling
it the battle of the Convoy, states that this was
the first victory Lopez had gained since the allied
army did move to Tuju-cue. The Brazilians ap-
pear to have fought well, but were no match for the
Paraguayans, who followed the Brazilians almost
up to their lines of Tujuti. A great many officers
were killed and taken prisoners, and the commander,
Brigadier Carvalho, seriously wounded. This affair
has so much more added to the ill-feeling and dis-
satisfaction iu the allied camp, as cholera of a very
malignant character has again made its appearance
in the camp. On the 3d of October a large force of
the allies attacked a Paraguayan outpost, and were
so happy to kill a few and to force the Para-
guayans to retire in good order, but so scarce are the
good news from the Allies that it was proclaimed a
great victory. It is on all hands acknowledged
that the allies, with the resources at their command,
are unable to hold out much longer in the position
they are, and that it would take twice their number
to attack Lopez even with a faint hope of success.
This is also the opinion of officers of H.M. gunboat
Dotterel, and has been published in several of the
native journals. Monte Video is very quiet under
the military rule of General Flores, who himself
is under command of the Brazilians. The pro-
vinces of the Confederation are still in open re-
bellion, and are aided by Chili. The Buenos
Ayres Standard is of opinion that before
long the war in the provinces will put
into the shade the war in Paraguay. General
Mitre, it was reported, was willing to make peace
with Marshal Lopez; but Brazil sands out, and
Mitre was only awaiting the first opportunity to
shake off this allianct, make peace with Paraguay,
and through this, probably secure his re-election.
At Rio de Janeiro the Ministry would have been
forced to retire if not for the promise to furnish a
new army of 20,000 men to Paraguay, but how
this was to be accomplished with an empty trea-
sury no one knows.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

The following items are from the Reese River
&mine :
WHITE PINE DISTRICT.—We learn from Thomas
Robinson, who has just arrived in this city from the
Inite Pine District, that the greater portion of the
miners who left the " Goose Creek" gold mines had
returned and were working their claitn9. R )binson
and others are the owners of three. large and appa-
rently good ledges, of which we have hitherto made
mention, named the Uncle Sam, Philadelphia, and
Vanderbilt. The Uncle Sam is declared to be 12
feet wide by the tape line, both fir.: head wall and
the foot wall have been uncovered ; and while the
vein generally carries a good quality of mineral,
there is lying upon the foot wall a stratum two
feet thick of extra ore. The Philadelphia is also of
great size, nearly as well developed, and exhibits
a different but a high grade of . mineral. The
Vanderbilt is of less size than either of the above,
appears to be well defined, and produces fine-look-
ing ore. These ledges are only slightly opened, but
they present many of the best indications of good
veins. The Monte Christ() Company was working
one of its mines called the Mohawk with consider-
able vigour. The machinery and nearly all the ma-
terials for its five-stamp mill had been on the ground
some time, and workmen were rapidly giving them
the form of a practicable mill.
SUCCESSFUL PROSPECTING.—Joe Williams, one
of.the most successful prospectors in the State, re-
turned yesterday afternoon from a tour to the
southward after an absence of about thirty days.
lie discovered and, locatel eight ledges of silver
and gold bearing ore, samples of which he brought
into town for assay. Mr. Williams thinks the
locations were made upon the boundary line of the
State, in which they are situated, as well as in
California. He pronounces the ledges, as far as
size and general appearance is concerned, to be
the very best he has yet discovered ; which
is saying a great deal for one of his experience.
Several of the samples of quartz exhibited free gold.
Williams and party skirted what is generally called
Death Valley, and found an abundance of good
grass. They saw no Indians during the trip. On
his return, Mr. Williams stopped at the Silver Peak
District, where he saw J. E. Clayton,. the Superin-
tendent of the splendid mining property of the
Silver Peak and Red Mountain Gold and Silver
Nlining Company, and whose operations will be
conducted upon a tnaguificent scale. The machin-
ery for mill and motive power had arrived, and it
was the. opinion of Mr. "Clayton that a battery of
twenty stamps would be completed and running in
four months: ,Williams stopped also at the district
. of. San Antonio, avhere .Rigby was pushing work on
' the Liberty. Mine to great advantage. His small
mill had been repaired and was running, but was
to be replaced Bhortly by one of greater capacity.
Williams thinks highly of the prospects of the dis-
trict:

WASHINGToN' DlSTRlCT.—Considerable activity
prevails now in this long neglected district, and
there are favourable indications that its mining pro-
perty will soon receive some measure of the atten-
tion that it deserves. We were shown last evening
by Colonel James Fitton a diagram of that part of
San Juan Canyon in which the veins of the Silver
Hill Tunnel Company are located, and also the pro-
minent objects on the adjacent hills. The claim of
the company embraces ten ledges, named as follows :
Reality, Franklin, Field, Morse, Raleigh, Cass, Bis-
marck, Spenser, Chaucer, and Bacon. The ledges
were located at an early day, and have received
more or less work. We were shown a box of speci-
mens taken from the Reality Ledge, which exhibits
the characteristic mineral of the district. It
is distinct from that produced by the greater
number of the districts of Eastern Nevada, and
is mainly an argentiferous galena quite rich in
silver. One 07. this character appears to be in-
exhaustible in quantity. The veins are generally
large and regular in their formation, and vary from
4ft. to 15ft. in width. Several attempts have been
made to reduce the ores of the district, but they
failed through the lack of skill of the operators.
The ore exists in immense masses, and it is the
judgment of competent authority that it could be
readily and economically smelted, or reduced in a
furnace of the proper construction. Timber of an
excellent quality is abundant throughout the dis-
trict, and fuel will bear only a nominal price for
years. The riches and advantages of Washington
District are indisputable, and it must sooner
or later receive the earnest attention of capitalists.
We are informed by Colonel Fitton that the ten
ledg.s of the group of the Silver Hill Tunnel Com-
pany are so happily situated that they may be cut
by a tunnel not to exceed four hundred feet in
length. There is a good prospect that work will
soon be undertaken, as we learn that overtures
have bean made by substantial parties for a con-
lerable interest in the handsome property of the
company. The first suecass, of which there would
seem to be no doubt, will place Washington in the
van of silver-producing districts in the region.

The Bangor Whig says that an explosion of the
dangerous combustible known as nitro-glycerine took
place at the silver mine in Guildford, Maine, on Monday
morning, the 26th October. It seems that a box contain-
ing about fifteen pounds of the combustible was set on the
forge in the shanty where the tools were prepared, and
where the men were in the habit of warming themselves.
At about eight o'clock on Monday morning, four of the
men stood in the shanty together, and ono of them sat on
the b3x containing the glycerine. About five minutes
after they left the shanty—two of them going to work in
the drift and the other two going home—a most terrific
explosion took place, tearing everything in the vici-
nity into shreds, breaking the steel drills into pieces,
and cutting pieces out of them as if they had been bitten
out, and stunning the men, who were one hundred and
twenty feet into the drift. Had the men remained five
minutes longer in the shanty all must have inevitably met
with instant death !