The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-17 00:00:00

CANADA.

1h: Nut, York Herald contains the following telegrams
from Toronto respecting the Ministerial crisis:--

" TORONTO, AUg. 2.

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" At the reassembling of the two houses this afterno:ar
there was an immense rush for places to hear the official
anutuncement of the new Ministry. The excitement out
of doors was intense, and the Speaker had no sooner taken
his seat than all the galleries were filled with anxious spec-
tators. Some routine busines having been disposed of in
the Lower H_e Ladouse, Mr. Patrick rose and stated that h
been instructed to announce to the I ouse the names of the
new Administratioa. They were as follows :—George Brown,
Inspector-Geucrul and Premier ; James Morris, Speaker of
be Leiislative Council; Michael :Foley, Postmaster General;
John S. M`Donabl, Attorney-General of Canada West ; U.
Mowatt, Provincial Secretary; Dr. Connor, Solicitor-Gem....
rid of Lower Canada; L. V. Drummond, Attorney- General of
Canada East ; G. B. Dorion, Commissioner of Crown Lands;
M. Thibaudean, Bureau of Agriculture ; M. Lemieux, Re •
ceiver- General ; L. H. Holton, Public Works; M. Laberge,
Solicitor-General of Canada East. The names of Messrs.
Drummond, Dorion, and Thibaudeau elicited loud laughter
and exclamations from the supporters of the late Ministry.
Mr. Pa•rick said that he was not
,authorised to
make any statement on that occasion of the views of
the new Government in regard to the measures before
the house, but that he hoped to be able to do so to-
morrow. On the motion that a new be issued for
Montreal, vacated by Mr. Durion's acceptance of office, Mr.
Langevin moved that the resolution be amended by adding
to it the following words :—" That this house, while
ordering the said writ, must at the same time state that
the Administration, the formation of which has created this
vacancy, does not possess the confidence of this house
and the country." The amendment gave rise to a vehe-
ment debate, in which Mr. Caucbon, the Hon. Hamilton
Merritt, Mr. Gall, Mr. Morin, Mr. Peche, and Mr. Neiman
took part. At six o'clock the house adjourned for an hour
and a-half. The debate will probablylast all night. In the
Upper House the conduct of the member.) of the new Admi-
nistration was violently assailed. In both houses it is be-
lieved that the majority against them will be large, although
immense efforts are being made by them to win over sup-
porters. The only altetnative left will be a dissolution, and
this the Governor-General is violently opposed to.

AuG. 3, 10 P.m.
"Votes of want of confidence in the Brown-Dorion
Ministry Wf re passed last night in both houses by large ma-
jorities, the vote in the Upper House being 16 to 8, and in
the lower 71 to 31. It is not improbable that there will be
a dissolution,rl.though the Governor-General is strongly op-
posed. to such a step. In the contest for West Middlesex
'tie anti-Ministerial candidate was in a majority of 125 on
the first day's poll. A❑ opposition is threa•ened to Mr.
Brown's (the Premier's) return for Toronto. The Legisla-
tive Courcil met thii morning and passed a resolu'ion de-
claring, their regret at: the vote of the Lower Ilouse on the
scat. of Government question, and deneuncing it as an ill--
suit td, her Majesty." .

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THE Irswrcn MURDER.—This (Tuesday) morning
the murderer of Susan Studd wes execu'ed at Ipswich. lie
Was only •27 years of age. Ile confessed that he was guilty
of the murder, but that he had no intention of committing
such a crime. His father, an old man of 7:2, had a painful
interview with him on Monday. The unfortunate young
man ascended the scaffold, at tended by Calcraft, who lost no
time iu performing his duty, and the criminal died without
ti struggle•

TERRIBLE THUNDER-STORM AND SHOWER OF ICE.
A thunder-storm at Coleraine hes done considerable d
mage. IQ scribiog the mischief that resulted from
violence„...llcal paper says :—" We were watching t
playitigeofeeW lightning flashes, when all at once t
heavens clave asunder, as itwere, and a ball of fire descend
with heitleitile itridity. We saw it strike one of the ri ,
which- are no, being- erected for the cupola, and ex
plode with a Tremendous rep, rt, louder and sh:rper that..
30 stands cif. aril% and which was heard over the
town, to tile teilne terror of not a few. The rib struck an t
part of the scaffolding were hurled in splinters in ever.,
direction to a considerable distance. The fluid, is its descent?
1 through the tower, split a large plank from end to end, an ri
. striking against the side of the wall, forced or shut out 4,
large stone in a solid piece of masonry about two inches on::
I of its place. Several of the workmen who were standing oni
the floor underneath were thrown down, and one or two
very much stunned. Had any of the tower given
way, the consequecces would have been frightful. At
the Coleraine station of the Ballymena and Tortrush
Railway the effect of the storm was great;y felt; and
so strongly persuaded were some of the gentlemen- on the
platform that the building had been struck and damaged,
that a porter was sent round to examine. No fracture was
perceptible, though the whole place shook after one of the
thunder peals. The train from Portrusb came in while
the storm was at its height, bringing a number of children
and young girls from Portrnsh and the White Rocks, where
they had been to enjoy a pleasure trip. The little ones were
pale with terror, and were glad to comply with the invita-
tion of Mr. Parsons to go into the waiting rooms of the station
until the force of the storm was spent. One of the porters,
named Colvin, had hisfuot severely injured by the lightning,
so much so that it is feared it will. be useless. Anotherinstance
of the destructive nature of the storm which occurred in the
village of Macosquio, may be mentioned. Towards the even-
ing a man named Campbell, who was sitting at his Own fire_
side, was struck by a current of electricity and rendered
insensible. Medical aid was at once, called in, and he is
now doing well. At the.same time, and with the same dis-
charge of the destructive fluld, two dogs which were in the
house beside Campbell were instantly killed. On the Keady
road, near " Barney's of the Mountain," some distance
from Newtownlimavady, a man named Smyth who was suit
filling a cart of bit f, and the horse in the cart, were both
instantly killed by the lightning, and the cart was consi-
derably damaged. Tee neighbourhoof of Bushmills was
also visited with the storm in all its in teneity—te the thtin-
der, lightning, and rain being added 'the more untalisi
phenomenon of a shower ef ice, many of the pieces of which
measured several inches in circumference."

MR. BAGWELL, M.P., AND THE G-WEEDORE INQUIRY.
Mr. Bsgxell, in the sultjOintd letter, acknowledges the
return of his
.subseripilon to the Gw•eedore " destitution
fund," and does not temple to express his gratification at
getting it. back :

" Mar'field, Aug. 12.
" Dear Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of £5,
being my subscription (forwarded through you) to the
Donegal Relief Committee, for which I am much obliged.
I also by the same post received from you a letter to my
address from the Rev. Mr. Doherty. It is not my intention
to enter into the subject of that letter. The evidence taken
before the select committee of the House of Commons and
the report I considered it my duty to make are now before
the public; and every individual in the community and
every journal in the country has a perkct right to criticise
them.—l have the honour t 3 remain yours very truly,
" Mr. William L. Hackett." " JOHN BAGWELL.
THE INCUMBERED ESTATES COURT.

Several petitions have been Sled in the Incumbered
Estates Court for this week, but none calling for especial
notice. The pos'irgs for sale in November nre numerous
and heavy. They include the estates of the Earls of At ran,
Kentriare, Portarlington, Col. Greville, Col. Leslie, Sir
Thigh Massey, and many others of considerable extent.

THE CAHIR TITLE.
In reference to this title a para2raph recently appeared
in the IVaterford lu ail. The statement it contained was,
however, denied by an anonymous correspondent in a
morning contemporary, and the Mail now repeats its asser-
tion more explicitly :—" The gentleman alluded to in a
paragraph which has appeared in our columns of the 3d
instant is Mr. William Butler, of Suir Lodge, County Tip-
perary, grandson of the late r. Thomas Butler, of Kilcash
and Ballvknocken, and only surviving sen of the late Mr.
William-Butler. We understand he is taking measures to
assert his claim to the barony of Cahir."

A JAPIIET IN SEARCH OF A FATHER.
At Dunmanway petty sessions, the other day, a case was
heard which excited considerable interest. Tim prosecutor
is a gentleman of great respectability, and this, added to the
curious nature of the charge he had preferred against the
prisoner, caused the court to he densely thronged. On the
bench, along with the magistrate, sat Capt. Shuldham,
A.D.C. to the Lord Lieutenant, and several other gentle-
men of station were also present.
The pr,secution wes at the suit of Mr. William O'Neil
Daunt, of Kilcasken.
The prisoner was placed at the table. He is a young man
of military appearance and bearing, and stood in an erect
posture as if on parade, and seemed, judging from his ap-
pearance, to he perfectly at ease and sure of the justice of
his claim. He gave his name in a firm and manly voice, es
Vincent O'Neill Daunt, having no certain place of residence
in this country, except Kilea-ken.
Mr. William O'Neil Daunt, swot n, deposed that the pri-
soner was an impostor and a vagrant. He never heard of
him before May last, when he received a letter having the
Quebec post-mark, which stated that the writer had seen an
advertisement in a newspaper fur him as 1,.0rd Vincent
O'Neil Daunt, and duly full... Tilling him (Mr—Daunt) that
the writer was the person. Moreover, it appeared that a
sum of X,:2,000 had been offered for information respecing
this Lord Visteent O'Neill Daunt; that this fellow (point-
log to the prisoner) came to his house last Wednesday, and
said that he was the identical person, when he.nuabe!Lbe!su
out, and desiregilikk. Loilr/V the
police and gave him is
charge.

The bench then called on the prisoner for his defence.
He seemed in no nay abashed by the evidence of Mr.
Daunt, hut proceeded in a very connected and emphatic
manner to sate as follows :—Tnat be believed that every
one in this neighbourhood was well acquainted with his
father, the presrmt Mr. O'Neil Daunt ; that he (the pri-
soner) was born before marriage, and that when taken to be
bapibed, the minister (the Rev. Mr. Neale) refused to do
so until he first married his mother. When his father con-
sented he was then baptised, and the registry was made
in the church beoks at liallytuoney and afterwards at
Desertscrges Church. That he was given out to

muse, and that his nurse substituted her own son,
who was afterwards put forward in the world by Mr.
Daunt, but the imposition was found out, and adver-
tisements were put in the newspapers for him. That he
remembered well the last time he saw his father. That he

spoke kindly to him hintand gave him half a sovet eign to pur-
chase clothes. That he enlisted in the army. That he was
stationed in Belfast with his company in the year 1813.
That while there he saw a letter in the Freeman giving an
account of the imposition referred to; and anxiously asking
for information respecting the real Vincent O'Neil Daunt.

This letter was signed by Mr. Daunt, the same gentleman
now before them, and he repeated the letter fully from
memory, until interrupted by—
The Court stated that, notwithstanding. be could prove
ell he said to be true, he ito' no light whatever to enter
forcibly the residence of Mr. Daunt.
Prisoner—l deny entering forcibly.
Court—Well, suppose we let you off this time will you
promise not to annoy Air. Daunt any more?
Prisoner—l avid not promise any such thing. I have a
claim on hire; he is my father, and I bare no other name,
and if Icalled myself Lord O'Neil Daunt, he has styled me

such in the public press. •
Court—You may have annoyed him through ignorance.
Prisoner—No, it was not through ignorance. He is my
father.
Mr. Daunt—l L's false, sir. Every word Son say is a false-
hood.
Prisoner—lt is a very bard cars between father and son.
(Laughter.) On your oath bad you ever a son called
Vincent ?
Mr. Daunt—l have only one son.
Prisoner—What was tho name of your first son?
Mr. Danny—l never had but ene Ron.
Prisoner—Who, then, is the Brodriek in the army? -
Mr. Daunt—l know nothing of him; never heard of such
a parson in the army.
Prisoner (in a coufidental tone)—Oh ! there are many
private communications between father and son which are
not proper to be spoken of in a public court.
Prisoner to Capt. Shuldhem—l landed at Passaze
WednesOrtv inst. I belonged to the G6tld ltegimuot. 1 was
eiscLarged at my own request with a gratuity of £l2, in
the year 1844. My regimental number was 1,353. I served
14 years.
The bench then appeared to have taken a new view of
the case, and sent for Dr. Hollnes' when Capt. Barry
arrived,
and baring taken a seat on 11w bench, Dr. Holtne3
was called, who, with the magistrates and Mr. Datint, held
a private conversation for a long time, of which nothing
could be heard, but it was suspec:ed to have been in refer-
ence to some reports about the town 'as to the prisoner's
•

The prisoner was then examined by Capt. Barry—Was
born at Mandl, near Duntuanway. Was away from this
country since ltl2. Is about 36 years of age. Tint is ray
father there (poiutinz to Mr. Daunt). Did not do an-jthing
about the matter when fist he saw the letter in the
.1,1 er. -
man , because be wanted to have thines• become quiet
first. Went to America. Heard there also of his ,lat ber's
wish to find him out. When he came home,
1 turned
out Itnsrttieaedd.
of being well received, be was livsitly r
out of doors, and given in charge to a policeman, and was
in gaol ever since. Cannot name any particular person
with whom he was acquainted formerly, except the woman
who nursed him. licr name was Margaret Brodriek. She
wrote to him to America to say she was still alive. When
he was stationed in Kinsale, his captain (Capt. Clarke) re-
ceived a letter from Mr. Daunt, inquiring about him. The
captain showed him that letter. His father did not want
him to go home at that time, but to get information respect-
ing him.

---The magistrates having again consulted,
Mr. Connor addressed the prisoner. You have heard al-
ready what we have to say. You had no right to entcr Mr.
O'Neil Daunt's residence forcibly. We have power to punish
you for that, but you seem to be under some strange hallu-
cination, and we will let you cif if you promise--
Prisoner (angrily)—l cannot promise. I think the
gentlemen of this court are not willing to do me justice. I
went to Mr. Daunt as my father, but--
Mr. Daunt—lf you come again, I will send for Mr.
Connor and the police, and have yen punished.
Prisoner—You may do as you p!case with me ; punish,
or shoot, or do anything else you like. You are the only
man in this ceurory who has a right to do so—you are wy
father. '
Court—We cannot bear any more about it.
elf r
myou n can
m y
prove what you say, you are going the wrong way about it,
and if you come here again charged "I'll giving Mr. Daunt
annoyance we will most certainlypumsh you.
though Pris Oner—l don't care. I cannot call any 0a
father but Mr. O;Natenilangaertimti, andu ugzhtlli m
yacz be thought
prcve it to
te,
annel
nothing of here,
you all.
The prisoner then left tt. e r
.onrt-hsuse, evidently an
object of attraction to a great number of persons, who
appeared to sympathise with him.

HOLLOWAY'SKILLS UNE
or DROI'SY.—The efficacy of (WALLED FOR TIIE CURE
Holloway's pills in dropsy are
They act with such peculiar effect
vuponcry extraordinary.t h
e system,
that
the fluids arising from this direful
disease are imperceptibly carried off, and prevented from
any further accumulation. The sufferer regains a huoyarcy
of spirits, and rejoices in a completely renovated convtitU-
tion. These admirable pills have a similarly happy effect
on many other diseases, particularly liver complaints and
chronic indigestion. They act upon the constitution gene-
rally, by purifying the blood, regulating the secretions and
-giving tone to the stomach. They are composed of rare
balsams, withsut the admixture of any noxious substance.
They are its sr‘te-as they art cflicgdous.

THE SUN.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1858.

Complete messages have at length been trans
witted from Europe to America, and repeated back
with perfect accuracy. The first was from the
Directors on this side to their transatlantic coad-
jutors, which properly gave praise to the ALMIGHTY
for the great work which He has permitted to be
accomplished. The second was from her MAJESTY
to the PRESIDENT of the United States. Another
has since been received from Mr. C. W. FIELD, at
Newfoundland, which was also clearly intelligible,
and easily read without delay or difficulty.
The Old and the New Worlds are thus at length
united. There need no longer be untoward delays
in arranging differences between the Governments,
and the state of the crops, price of produce, rate of
interest, and amount of specie in the different Banks,
can be flashed from shore to shore across the broad
Atlantic without delay or difficulty.
The great problem has been satisfactorily solved,
and the extension of electric communication through-
out the entire civilised world will henceforth be
merely a question of time. Sooner or later it must
be accomplished, and, looking to the extraordinary
stimulus that will thereby be given to commercial
affairs, we believe that it will be at an earlier period
than even the most sanguine has hitherto ventured
to predict.
Last week we pointed out the effect which the
completion of these magnificent undertakings must
exercise on absconding criminals. Henceforward
there will be no rest for the wicked—no hope of
safety or shelter, or of enjoying the large booty
which may be successfully carried off, but which
must be disgorged at the arrival of the vessel bearing
the fugitive at its destination. It will be a heavy
blow and great discouragement to the incipient ROB.
soxs and REDPATHS, and all anxious of getting
money, while heedless of the means by which it may
be attained. It will do more to promote morality
than the most stringent code that ever was devised,
inasmuch as it is notorious that the certainty of
even light punishment is far more efficacious than
the chance of one far heavier. The submarine telegraph
will be a terrible monitor, more effectually cautioning
parties from departing from the paths of rectitude
than all the sermons of priests or sentences of judges.
It will also prevent gambling in produce. No man
will henceforward be able to unduly enhance the

price of any article of everyday consumption by
buying up the stock on hand. Orders can be trans-
--.;44.4. cc. kinment's notice. The unfair conspiracy

signers.

It would require much time and space to indicate

even a small portion of the advantages to be derived
from this almost miraculous mode of communication.
The science is as yet but in its infancy, but a few

years will develop it in all its magnitude, and bestow
benefits which men still living may witness, that
never entered into the wildest conception of their

ancestors.

The discredit accruing to the East India Company
from their recent selection of Mr. CHARLES MILLS is
in striking contrast with the offer of a seat at the
new Board recently made to Mr. JOHN MILL, by the
Noble Lord her MAJESTY'S Chief Commissioner for
the Affairs of Hindostan. Mr. CHARLES MILLS is a
member of the India Board as one of the Company's
representatives. Mr. JoaN MILL is not a member of
the India Board as a representative of the QUEEN'S
Government. The former bas unfortunately just
barely enough leisure. The latterhas still more un-
fortunately not quite enough health. And so the
millionaire takes his scat among his coadjutors or
collaborateurs, and the philosopher remains se-
cluded in his home retreat as a valetudi-
Both incidents, we cannot but think,
are very sincerely to be regretted.. We could
have better spared—not a better man, because we
don't think there is a better man amongst then for
the work now to be taken instantly in hand—but we
uld have decidedly better spared almost any other
man at the India Board (saving the President) than
Mr. JOHN SreAR:F.MILL. his profound and logical in-
tellect, his comprehensive and eminently philosophic
views, his years of patient research, his perfect
familiarity with everything relating directly or indi-
rectly to the Anglo-India Government—could not
possibly have failed to throw upon the various
problems coming before the new Board for
solution the light of a vast and timely experience.
Such, however, is not to be—the failing health of
the distinguished historian, logician, and thinker
says otherwise. Lord STANLEY, at any rate, has
the credit of spontaneously proffering to Mr. Joux
MILL the acceptance of a post be could not have
filled otherwise than with remarkable credit to him- -
self and extraordinary advantage to the interests of
the empire. The fact of the noble lord having so
proffered one of the coveted, though painfully respon-
sible seats at his disposal, redounds to his honour as an
administrator whose first regard is to merit apart from
interest, to pure intellect before pounds sterling.
And again, we repeat, the contrast presented by this
mere offer to the actual nomination, on the other
hand, of the wealthy Mr. CHARLES MILLS to a simi-
lar position as one among the choice of the Company,
reflects the most signal discredit upon the latter,
while it is in the highest degree honourable to the
sagacity and magnanimity of the youngest, but not
by any
means the least gifted or the least judicious
among the Ministerial advisers of the SOVEREIGN.

narian.

In a case at Liverpool, yesterday, the Lord Chief
Baron administered a very proper rebuke to certain
magistrates, for committing parties for felonies, when
there was no possibility of a conviction for any offence
higher than a misdemeanour. Such a course is alike
prejudicial to the community and to the prisoner. It
affixes a character of crime on the district, and mate-
rially increases the expenses of the prosecutions,
which must be liquidated by the rate-payers. If the
charge were preferred for the minor offence the case
would be sent to the sessions, where it would be more
speedily and cheaply disposed of. But partly to mag-
nify their own importance, and bring their names
into notoriety, " the great unpaid" are fond of " cam-
miffing" for offences,whicli cannot, by any possibility,
be established. This, aswe have stated, affixes a stigma
0 the locality, and renders indispensable the trial of
t b accused at the Assizes, in place of at the Quarter
Sessions, where it would otherwise take place.
But the hardship to the prisoner is far greater
this any pecuniary damages could repay. He iq
wantonly and unnecessarily sent for trial, possibly

on a capital charge, or on one involving penal servi-
tude for a protracted term. Bail may be refused

unless he has the means of applying to a judge in
chambers—a costly proceeding, which few of the class
implicated can sustain. lle may then, even before trial,

endure a punishment more severe than would be
adjudged after conviction; besides, his name, fame,
and reputation will be permanently damaged. The

of roXXot will be satisfied with his committal, and,
with the usual charity displayed towards unfortunate
parties, will assume that the charge was well-founded ;
while policemen, who generally manifest a quick and
technical sense of guilt, will, in the event of his
being again in trouble, assure his Worship that the
prisoner had been charged with felony, and ac-
quitted "on a point of law"—thus creating the
greatest odium against an innocent man, and raising
in undue prejudice where there should be noihing
of the kind.

Criminal laws are established not so much for the
punishment, or even the reformation of the guilty,
hut for the protection and security of the innocent.
Where the guilty man escapes with comparatively
trivial inconvenience, the law has done no good, but
it has done no harm. It has failed in its intended
object, and that is all. But this could
scarcely be said in the case of a misde-
meanour, rendering a party liable to two or
three years' imprisonment, with hard labour. If his
offence were really serious, the judge could award a
heavy penalty that might be regarded as an adequate
expiation in almost any case. The committal for
misdemeanour, in even a doubtful case, could scarcely
be wrong. But, on the other hand, when either an

innocent man is uajustly convicted, or a party respon-
sible for a trifling offence subjected to an undue
punishment, it does the very thing it was intended to
avert. It is the scourge of the innocent, a terror
not merely to evil-doers, but to others of unblemished
reputation, and it lessens the odium attached to real
crime, when it is seen how lightly persons who have
done nothing to forfeit the sympathies of their fel-
low-men, may be inculpated through the blunders of
thick-headed J. P.'s.

Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK is entitled to the thanks
and gratitude of the community for the sound and
wholesome advice which he tendered to the provin-
cial DOGBERRYS. He has given unexceptionable
evidence as to the necessity for the appointment of
public prosecutors, duly qualified to ascertain the
real nature and extent of any charge that may be
preferred, and who will at the same time protect
the rate-payers against undue charges, and her MA-
JESTY'S subjects from frivolous and unfounded accusa-
tions, involving great annoyance and inconvenience
in the first instance, and too frequently, permanently
ruining the prospects of the party who has had the
misfortune of being brought before an ignorant or
conceited magistrate. The question is well worthy
of the consideration of the law officers of the CROWN,
and should the Attorney-General provide a suitable
remedy, he will materially add to the well-merited
reputation as a legal reformer which he has already
so deservedly attained.

The Dramatic College has a fair prospect of more
than realizing, and that very speedily, the hopes of
its generous originator. By a graceful act of Royal
munificence, her MAJESTY, in the midst of her holi-
day rambles in Germany, could spare a kindly
thought for the benevolent enterprise—intimating
her pleasure to be the Patroness of the Institution,
and forwarding from Potsdam one hundred guineas
as her first donation. Meanwhile, the members of
the profession the project is designed to benefit, have
not merely evinced a readiness to co-operate, but
have evidenced an energy in co-operation such as
augurs happily for the growth and development
of the genial idea which first suggested itself to Mr.
HENRY DODD in the present, as its very fellow had
done to Mr. EDWARD ALLEYNE in a former, genera-
tion.

It w;11 be remembered by all those who have taken
any interest whatever in the undertaking, that it
may be said to have virtually commenced, as it were,
but yesterday. Nevertheless, already the subscrip-
promofer-InZt-^^lWfka 5../.1•a110,,,, • •••
mot in their aggregate
assurance of a yearly income of £216 in the
annual contributions even now guaranted. The
managers especially have been bestirring themselves.
Mr. KEAN and Mr. SAINTON have each of them
promised houses. There is the prospect before us
of a series of benefits at four popular theatres—the
Olympic, the Surrey, the Adelphi, and the City of
London. Stone for the facing of the hall and the
houses, stone for the projected schools, has been
promised, moreover, by that excellent actor,
manager, and gentleman, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Even
the Italian singers have swelled the lists of sub-
scription. Individual benefactors not belonging to the
profession—amateurs, influenced by a fellow-feeling,
have come forward, each with thebenignant thought of
some kindly presentation—a clock, a cup of comfort,
some homely gift or some generous luxury. At this
rate the Dramatic College will soon be in a flourishing
condition. May it prove so; may our hopes in its
regard to the full be realised.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I have the pleasure to inform you that the
line from Valcntia to Newfoundland is now working
satisfactorily both ways. The following message was
despatched yesterday evening from the Directors in
England to the Directors in America :—"Europe
and America are united by telegraph. Glory to God
in the Highest; on earth peace, goodwill towards
men." This message, including the addresses of
senders and receivers, occupied 35 minutes in trans-
mission, and consisted of 31 words. Immediately I
afterwards a message from her Majesty the Queen.
to his Excellency the President of the United States,
consisting of 99 words, was received by Newfound-
land in 67 minutes. Both messages were repeated
back to Valentia to test their accuracy, and were
found to have been taken with great exactness. Of
course, unless permission were given, the contents of
her Majesty's despatch cannot be made public,
This morning we have the following message, the
last 38 words of which were received in 22 minutes
from Mr. Cyrus W. Field, who is at Newfound-
land :

" Cyrus W. Field, Newfoundland, to Directors
Atlantic Telegraph Company, London.—Newfound-
land, Monday.—Entered Trinity Bay, noon of the
sth. Landed cable on the 6th. On Thursday morn-
ing ship at once to St. John's. Two miles of shore
cable, with end ready for splicing.
" When was cable landed at Valentia ? Answer
by telegraph and forward by letters to New York."
It will thus be seen that the line is now capable of
being worked with perfect accuracy, and the com-
pany will now proceed, as rapidly as is consistent
with the establishment of a proper •yctPm_ make
tha tweacactry arrangements for opening the. com-
munication to the pectic, sn dolus which, however,
some delay must necessarily occur.

Yours truly,
GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary and Manager.
Chief-office, 22, Old Broad-street, London.

THE IMPERIAL PROGRESS IN

FRANCE.

LORIENT, AUGUST 14.

I have not, until to-day, been able to renew my
correspondence describing the files in honour of the
Emperor, which I had concluded at Cherbourg, in
the hope I should resume it at Quimper. This I
found to be impossible. On my way from Rennes
an unlooked-for interruption occurred, which I shall
describe more fully at the conclusion of this letter.
The Emperor and Empress arrived yesterday
evening at Lorient from Quimper.
From one of the most ancient towns in this land of
antiquities and traditions they reached Lorient, the
most modern, I believe, of all the cities of Europe.
Lorient is a place without a name in mediaeval geo-
graphy. Martiniere, the most ponderous, and (it may
be added) the most precise of all writers on such
matters, knew little or nothing of this place. It was
created for the East India Company of France—
flourished when the affairs of that association were
thriving, and it has dwindled away as the Company
declined in wealth, commerce, and influence.
Through its own port—Port-Louis—trade was car-
ried on, shipping despatched, and the productions of
China and India imported into France. The conse-
quence of this change in its condition is to impart to
Lorient a very peculiar aspect. It is like the poor
descendant of rich and highly respectable ancestors.
It retains all the outward show of former greatness
—has still a very new appearance, but has a sad, de-
serted look, as if the means whereby it had once
prospered had utterly vanished. The houses are
richer than their inhabitants, and both are ill-asso-
ciated together. The quays are very fine, but there
is nothing doing on them. The custom-house is good,
but the revenue officers sit with their hands in their

pockets. The streets are splendid, the squares mag-
nificent; but they seem to have got into the posses-
sion of persons who had no right to , and who
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unable to retain thew
gone down in the world; and if theE _

HI. can impart new life to its trade, render to its port the
importance that should belong to it as one of the five
great harbours of France ; if he can entice foreigners
to import, and restore to Lorient that traffic for
which it is, by position, perfectly well suited, then a
miracle will be achieved by him quite equal to any-
thing yet accomplished since, as ruler of France, he
has devoted his energies to the welfare of the people
and the prosperity of the nation.
No doubt, the Emperor has come here to see what
can be done ; and the manner in which he was re-
ceived by the inhabitants of the city, and the popu-
lation of the rural departments, was such as could
not fail to make a lasting impression upon his mind,
and to give an impulse to the desire he must enter-
tain to promote their interests.
All the city of Lorient—every house in each of its
well-arranged streets—was decorated in one way or

another to welcome the Emperor and Empress. Some
hung the tricolour flags from their windows, others
had their houses decorated with wreaths of flowers,
and all contributed to the erection of triumphal
arches.

In the programme which was published setting
forth the manner in which the Emperor was to be
received in this city, certain regulations were laid
down, and which, I may observe, were strictly ad-
hered to. I refer now to them so that you may at
once learn what occurred within the municipal pre-
cincts of Lorient.

At a quarter past four o'clock their Majesties were
received at a triumphal arch, a very beautiful object
erected at the entrance to the town—dividing the
high road from a shady avenue of trees which led
up to the first gate of the fortifications surrounding
the city. It was under this arch that the sous-
Prefect and the Maire, at the head of the Municipal
Council, presented to the Emperor the keys of the
city.

Between this triumphal arch and the outermost
barrier of the fortifications were arranged a double
line of the rural deputations, the old soldiers and
sailors of the Empire, bearing their St. Helena
medals, the pompiers, the donaniers, the scholars of
the college, and the children of the commercial
schools. Here was gathered together a most extra-
ordinary and interesting collection of persons—here
were the fishermen, sailors, and peasants of Gostel,
of Quever, of Clequet, and Pontocorff; and never
were more strange figures looked upon, nor more
outré habiliments beheld. All were in holiday garb,
and such a garb ! The old and the young men wearing
low, round crowned hats, with brims varying in breadth
from six to nine inches—all with their long, lank hair
hanging down at least half a foot on their backs.
Their coats with the gloss of newness upon them,
and yet in cut and form more quizzical, quaint, and
old-world-like than anything one can suppose to
hare been worn by the illustrious Rip Van Winkle,
when he was in all the fervour of his primal
juvenility. To have an idea of these strange coats
and how they fitted the wearers, one must suppose
that each had got a little boy's jacket on him, and
that he had widened the sleeves without lengthening
them ; and then that he had joined the skirts of a
man's coat to the body of the boy's jacket. The
effect produced was, that each appeared to have on
him something that did not belong to him—the
hands and wrists of all being bare, and the waists of
each behind appearing to begin on the broad of the
back. To impart additional lustre to such coats,
some were covered with three rows of buttons—
bright brass buttons, or snow-white broad plasters
of mother-of-pearl—some had insertions of red cloth
cut in triangular form running round the border, or
inserted at the waist ; and beneath thi3 was worn
either a little vest, or the white shirt, without any
other covering, was exposed. Around the waists of
most were scarfs of different colours, some of mere
check, others of green, others of orange, whilst the
trousers of all were singular opecimeno of the

ing art—for they were wide as if tl had bl !en mad(
for giants, and in length only ;ended for . middle-
) be withi a an inch
of theankle. Amid these curious
sized men—some reached no fartlr than a ie calf ( f
)stumes the re were
the leg—few descended so low as

xtraordinal ry com-
some that appeared to be a most
binatioo; for you could not tellhether t tic wean'
was a sailor or a farmer, as, intddition to the in-
variable broad-brimmed hat, broder than, any ever

Eland (exlcept by ag
yet worn by a Quaker in E
play-actor personating a Quaker) there w is the blue
wide jacket of a mariner, and derneatl the tight
white-cord knee breeches,black ockings and heav3

shoes of an agriculturalist. Aid this curious col-
lection of Morbihan dresses, it las, however, a spec-
tacle as interesting as it was uexpeet;ed to observe
that many bore upon their beasts the medals 01
Queen Victoria, they having ben soldiers who had
distinguished themselves by their valour in the
Crimea, or had, as sailors, bon engaged with the
English fleet in the Baltic; aid now reappeared in
their native costume, joining with their fellow-

villagers in the demonstration Of devotion and at.

tachm ent to the Emperor.

Next to these in position w(re the scholars of the
college, in their handsome bbe and gold uniform,
and headed by their grave pro'essors. On a line with
them, on one side, shadel by the high um-
brageous trees, were the boysof the Christian Bro-
thers' communal schools ; and opposite to them little

girls, in hundreds, watched ever by that order of
nuns which is known in this department by the de-

signation of " Sisters of Providence"—all, boys and
girls, well-clad, and from their looks plainly well-
fed ; and all enjoying, as children only can enjoy it,

an entire day devoted to amusement.

Through these primitive and truly happy-looking
groups of peagants, scholars, and children, carrying
of the most gorgeous colours, areen, pink,
blue, and orange, Lou lalnapreSS
the outermost barrier of the fortifications, on the
glacis of which the troops of the garrison were
drawn up.

It was here, and only here, that the line was kepi
by the troops. Outside the barriers the people them.
selves had managed everything, and maintained due
order ; but from the barrier to the Marine Imperial,
the mansion assigned for the residence of their
Majesties, the streets were lined by soldiers.
At the first barrier the commandant of the garri-
son, accompanied by his staff, presented the keys to
the Emperor. At the city gate their Majesties were
received and welcomed to Lorient by the Maritime
Prefect, accompanied by the heads of the marine and
the captains of ships ; and then, the instant the Em-
peror had passed the gate, and was within
the city, the joy-bells of all the churches began
ringing, and loud discharges of artillery were for the
first time heard.
The gate by which the Emperor entered runs in a
straight line up to the church of St. Louis. The
street through which it passes is galled the Rue de
Morbihan, and as it is about half the length of the
Strand, in London, and the ground rises by a gra-
dual ascent to the church, and as every house was
decorated with banners or adorned with flowers, and
every window and standing-place filled with joyous
spectators, to whom this day was an epoch in their
lives, so unaccustomed are they to public spectacles,
it may well be surmised how magnificent was the
coup d'ceil presented to the view of their Majesties, espe-
cially when with it was united the fact of those exhi-
lirating acclamations that rang around them, and
assured them that this part of France, which boasts
of being " more Breton than the Bretons them-
selves," was giving to them their loyalty and their
love ; their devotion, and that unflinching determi-
nation which had won for their ancestors the charac-
ter of resolute, dogged, unassailable, unimpression-
able, and unswerving olastinaey.
Upon reaching the church of St. Louis, their Ma-
jesties were received by the rector and clergy of the
parish, in their full canonicals, and by them led
within the rails of the sanctuary, where had been
erected, on that which is called "the Epistle side of
the Altar," a splendid canopy, covered with gold
and velvet, and having two throne-like chairs of
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ing, and the hymn Fac Salvum Imperatorem was
sung, the Empress was observed, as she was kneeling
to cover her face with her hands, as if shaken with
some strong emotion.
At the conclusion of prayers the imperial cortige
passed the Place Bisson, where is erected a statue to
the naval hero of Morbihan, who set fire to his vessel,
and so destroyed himself and his companions sooner
than yield himself and them prisoners of war to the
Mahomedans. From the Place Bisson the cortege
next passed through the Cours de la Bove and the
Rue du Port, and so arrived at their residence, for
the moment, the Prefecture Maritime.
On arriving the Empress was complimented by
young ladies of the first distinction in the depart-
ment, by offering to her a basket of flowers; and
then took place the presentation of the wives and
daughters of the principal functionaries to her
Majesty.
At five o'clock the Emperor received the principal
authorities of the town, religious, civil, maritime, and
military ; and at half-past seven his Majesty enter-
tained at dinner the heads of the various depart-
ments, both in the city and the harbour.

I have thus given you an account of the reception
of the Emperor in Lorient, and of the entire day's
proceedings ; but previous to their occurrence I was
an eye-witness to something which was not in ac-
cordance with the official programme, and had not
been deemed even worthy of the slightest notice in
that document. It was the manner iu which their
Majesties were welcomed into the village or hamlet
of licentreck.
The village of Kcentreck is about a mile or a
mile and a half distant from the city of Lorient,
and, judging of its prosperity by its new and splendid
church of St. Christopher, in stone as white as
marble, and decorated with several beautiful statues,
it seems to be as thriving as the city, of which it is a
suburb, seems to be the very reverse.
At this place there was erected (as in every village
I passed through) a triumphal arch. On that of
Kcentreek were these few words—" Les habitans de
Kcentreck leur Majest6s Imperiales." Here there
was not the appearance of a single soldier or Bens
d'arme, and here so admirable was the order, and so
cordial the spirit of the people, that the line was per-
fectly preserved, and a wide space in front of the
church maintained. In that space were collected
(for the purpose of forming a little procession, and
the parish priest having the opportunity of speaking
a word to the Emperor) about 20 young girls, from
seven to 14 years of age, all dressed in white, and
the younger amongst them wearing wreaths of
flowers around their hair. These children had two
standards with tlem—one a cross, composed of white
roses, and the other with a banner bearing the image
of " Our Lady of La Salette."

The moment the escort of their Majesties was
seen, the bells rung forth a clamorous peal of joy,
and at the same instant the Hussars in front, who
were riding
at a rapid pace, halted, then walked their
horses slowly; and when the Emperor's carriage
came opposite to the group I have described, he
beckoned then to advance, and at the same instant
the escort behind, as before, left the Imperial car-
riage, and thy,
with the group of maidens, came for-
ward the rector in full vestments, and the priests in
white surplicfs. The Emperor was wholly and com-
pletely in themidst of the people. I could not hear
what was saiti either by the Emperor or the rector ;
but this, I mast own, appeared to me a still more
interesting scene than any I had yet witnessed,
for there '-ere the Sovereign and the people
together—Nth manifestly greatly delighted with
each other. For full four minutes they were thus
united—witi the troops in front and rear away from
them, and wth the carriage at last on all sides sur-
rounded by the multitude shouting, with all their
heart and ocul, the phrases Which, iA describing their