The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-29 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS' ADDRESS TO

Q 1 R TERLY RETURN OF MARRIAGES, underground kitchens standing seven or eight inches
Blli7llS, AND DEA7IIS 1N ENGLAND. under water and liquid filth, has been referred to
in previous reports, and, notwithstanding the sani-
tary improvements instituted by the newly ap-
pointed health committee, zymotic diseases have
been fatally prevalent ; in the All Saints' sub-dis-
trict, out of 229 deaths registered during the quar-
ter, no less than 147 were those of children not
exceeding five years of age ; the hard-working
poor are described as crowding together, and
in want of proper house accommodation ;
diseased generated in these localities spread among
all classes of the population. The local authorities
of this important town will probably see the neces-
sity of appointing a permanent medical officer of
health.
Salisbury continues to furnish an instance of the
advantages resulting from good hygienic arrange-
ments ; it is more than six years since the census was
taken, and the present population of towns can only
be approximately estimated, but, assuming that
Salisbury has increased in population since 1861 in
the same annual ratio as in the previous 10 years,
then the mortality during the quarter has been at the
low rate of 10 per 1,000 annually, a result as credit-
able to the authorities as it is satisfactory to the
citizens,whose years of life are prolonged ; that the
healthiness of this city is mainly owing to the sani-
tary system now in operation, and not chiefly to
advantages of situation, is proved by the fact that
during the 10 years 1841-50 the average annual
number of deaths was 28 per 1,000 living, and in
the following 10 years it was 24 per 1,000; it also
suffered severely from epidemic cholera in 1849.
The registrar of the Lockwood sub-district of
Huddersfield states that " The health of the inha-
bitants is very much improved by the local govern-
ment boards of Lockwood and Linthwaite partially
carrying out the beneficial provisions of the Local
Government Act, 1858, and other acts incorporated
therewith. This quarter there have been no cases
of smallpox, measles, scarlatina,or whooping-cough."
This gratifying result should incite the authorities
of other towns to endeavour to place the inhabitants
beyond the reach of epidemic diseases.
Of the 11 great divisions of England the rate of
mortality during the latter quar;;er was lowest
(15.9 per 1,009) in the south-western counties, and
highest (23.8 per 1,000) in Cheshire and Lancashire.

The registers of the United Kingdom show that
the births of 25.2,370 children, and the deaths of
142,150 persons of both sexes, were registered in
the three months ending on Sept. 30. The recorded
natural increase was 110,220 ; the native emigrants
were 45,278.

The registered marriages of the United Kingdom
in the quarter ending June 30, 1867, were 56,239.
The death-rate of the United Kingdom differs
little from that prevailing in England and Wales.
The several facts concerning the other divisions of
the kingdom are set forth in the quarterly reports of
the Registrar-General of Scotland and the Regis-
trar-General of Ireland.

The resident population of the United Kingdom
in the middle of 1867 is estimated at 30,157.239 ;
that of England and Wales amounting to 21,429,508,
of Scotland to 3,170,769, and of Ireland to
5,556,962. The corrected death-rate of the quarter
is 1.952 per cent ; the birth-rate 3.470; the mar-
riage rate for the previous quarter 1.542.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

SMYRNA AND CASSABA.

The half-yearly general meeting of this company
was held yesterday at the offices, Old Jewry—Mr.
J. W. Larking, the chairman, presided.
Mr. G. A. CAPE, the secretary read the report,
which stated that the railway was at present in a
perfectly satisfactory condition, and in the future
that its prospects were highly encouraging. The
entire railway comprised in the concession had been
made and equipped for the estimated capital, to the
satisfaction not only of the directors, but also of the
Turkish Government, who had passed the accounts,
and signified their formal approval of the line. The
traffic manager reported "that the permanent way
and rolling stock were in good working order, and
the trade of the line was carried on with regularity,
and gave general satisfaction to the Government
and the public." The receipts, which at first, from
the unwillingness of the camel-carriers to part with
their trade, were somewhat restricted, had
gradually and continuously, as the facilities
and convenience of the railway had become mani-
fest, increased, until they had reached a point which
afforded every assurance that the line would be self-
supporting and altogether independent of the Go-
vernment guarantee, and the railway would at an
earlier date than perhaps could reasonably have been
anticipated realise the large expectations upon
which it was established. The receipts' on the line
for the 13 weeks ending the 6th inst. amounted to
£21,417, against £11,252 for the corresponding 13
weeks last year, showing, with the same mileage, an
increase of £10,164, or about 90 per cent. ; and
the last week's receipts, ending the 6th of October
inst., which were the largest, amounted to £2,167,
or £35 18s. 6d. per mile per week—a large figure
for a line which had cost for construction and
equipment £14,000 per mile. There was reason to
anticipate that these receipts would be augmented.
The rates for merchandise, which, to meet competi-
tion, were necessarily low on the opening of the
line, had been considerably increased ; the new tariff
was to commence on the 13th of the present month.
The directors had arranged with Mr. La Fontaine,
the director of the Smyrna branch of the Imperial
Ottoman Bank (with the sanction of the directors
of that establishment) to represent the company in
Smyrna, to take part in auditing the accounts, and
generally to supervise the company's affairs for a
moderate consideration. The accounts showed that
the net earnings of the line for the half-year were
£10,904, and that £9,096 was due from the Ottoman
Government under the guarantee. The interest of
the debenture debt had absorbed £8,050, leaving
£11,950. The Imperial commissioner having certi-
fied the accuracy of the company's claim, the amount
which would be available for interest and preference
dividend would admit of a distribution among the
ordinary shareholders for the half-year at the rate
of 3 per cent. per annum. The directors could not
conclude without expressing their sense of the readi-
ness and fairness with which the Government had
received and adjusted the claim of the company
under the guarantee.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said the traffic receipts were increasing
steadily, in spite of the competition of the camel-
drivers. This increase had taken place during a
period of great commercial depression, and he there-
fore thought there were hopes that the traffic would
continue to increase until it realised all the expec-
tations of those interested in its success. The in-
crease of traffic had been chiefly derived from agri-
cultural development, which had been heretofore
retarded, owing to the difficulty of transport. The
establishment of the railway would cause a greater
breadth of land to be cultivated. It traversed one of
the richest provinces of Asia Minor, teeming with
wealth, but capital was required to develope it, and
above all a good government. He thought that great
progress had been made by the present Turkish
Government, in spite of delays and prejudices. Ile
had known Turkey for 35 years, and on looking
back he saw that great improvements had been in-
troduced, and he believed that the aspiration of the
Government was directed to the removal of all re-
strictions on trade and commerce. He felt that the
time was not far distant when Turkey would have
a strong and good Government. The Turkish Go-
vernment now knew that there was nothing like
railways for developing the resources of the country.
He had been informed that Fuad Pasha had said
that it was quite a consolation to think that the
concession- granted to their company had been car-
ried out for the Government without any difficulty
whatever, and that he considered the Cassaba Com-
pany were entitled to great consideration for so
doing. The appointment of M. La Fontaine, of
Smyrna, to represent the company there, he thought,
would result in great advantage to the company.
Another favourable matter was that the Government
had allowed the company the privilege of building a
custom-house at their station, and thus save the
cartage of goods to the Custom-house in Smyrna.
This would be of great importance to the company
in respect of goods traffic. (Hear.)
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Mr. GILPIN, M.P., seconded the motion, and it
was carried unanimously.
Mr. ASIIIIWIY said it was a great source of satis-
faction that the contractor had so far carried out the
undertaking satisfactorily. Ile believed that when
the trafik, was developed on the line it would become
one of the best railway investments.
Mr. BURCIIF.LL said he was well satisfied with the
progress of the traffic ; and considering the moderate
cost of construction, the line could not fail before
long to yield them remunerative dividends on the
ordinary shares. He hoped it would be the begin-
ning of such useful undertakings in Asia Minor,
that would not only develope the resources of that
country, but tend to increase their trade with
England.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
to the chairman and directors.

D UNABERG AND WITEPSK (LIMITED).
The traffic receipts on this company's line for the
month of September amounted to 102,601 roubles,
making the total receipts from the Ist of January to
the end of September 614,964 roubles.

M. RATTAZZI.

The following extracts are from a letter of Mgr.
Dupanloup to Signor Rattazzi, dated 15th Sept. :
Monsieur le Commandeur,—Since the year '64,
and the Convention of which this day is the anni-
versary, two great coincidences strike us as the
effect of the progress of modern principles during
this lapse of time. I will just cite them. One is
the proposed statue to M. Billault, the Minister
who solemnly pronounced—" It is impossible that
we should abandon Rome." The other is the Peace
Congress at Geneva, where Garibaldi has pro-
nounced with an oath, and that not the first, that
he will overthrow the Papacy. The erection of a
statue to a barrister raised to be Prime Minister is
not an event. The adventure of Geneva is an
event. The year 1867 will see and judge of,this—
Kings in Paris, bishops in Rome, and demagogues
in Geneva.

After some good remarks on the utility of assem-
blies (generally peaceful and innocent enough),
where persons able and fitted to do so may discuss
in freedom subjects of enlightenment, with a view
to disseminate knowledge and science, he expresses
his surprise that the inhabitants of a free country
like Switzerland, who have everything to lose iu
case of a revolution, should encourage and har-
bour the most dangerous of revolutionists, when
even avowed democrats (well advised) made excuses
and thought better not to show themselves at the
above Congress.

Let us, he continues, try to forget persons and
incidents, and dsaw from these objects some useful
lessons. Among many, there is one which above
all strikes us. It was already certain, and now it
is notorious and evident, that a declaration of
war to the King of Rome is a challenge to every
other crowned head, and that, under a change of
circumstances, it is an aim taken at the King of
Italy as well as at the Emperor of the French, at
the King of Prussia, and at the Emperor of all
the Russias. There exists in Europe an interna-
tional confederation for the purpose of pulling
down Kings. Its venom is not to be mistaken. It
refuses—under the name of a mock free (political
economy—to listen to the most natural and moral
ameliorations for the advantage of the lower
classes.

It offers to its votaries immunities which carry
on their very face the truth of its mendacity. Its
approach reveals war, vengeance, and terror, while
on its lips hang the endearing names of peace, love,
and liberty. Its heroism comes before the world
in quite a new form, for it chooses for its victim
the weakest and least formidable of sovereigns. I
do not pretend to say that you are responsible for
all this, nor for all that this ridiculous and boast-
ing assembly has said, of its being the living repre-
sentative of peace, philosophy, and democracy.
Peace, with a revolver in the hand ; philosophy,
strutting about in a scarlet shirt; and democracy
riding in a coach-and-four.
No ; of all these demonstrations—some full of
folly, some of madness, some dangerous, some
guilty--but all of them instructive, and in this
latter sense it is very well the world should know a
little of that fermentation which is going on
silently in the undercurrents of society, for such
meetings as those of Geneva and Lausanne, like
the ribald demonstration of the young men of
Liege, force even the blind to see. But it is not
only of this that I come to speak with you—not
merely of Garibaldi's speeches at Genoa, but of
his enterprise in Italy. As an orator, he may do
his worst. No one need fear him. As a rioter, I
will not deny he is dangerous. He has just asse-
verated in the hearing of a host of turbulent fellows
from all the quarters of Europe, that he would
dethrone the Pope ! It is on this audacious protest
that I fix my eyes, and it is on this fact that I
have the intention and the right to summon you
to/answer, for it compromises your responsibility.
We will leave this part of my argument, and go
back farther and higher than the mere discussions
of the press, or those of illegal assemblies (the
assemblage of more than twenty persons in a room
is illegal in France), let us take our stand upon the
solid ground of principle and duty.

You are at the head of the Government of a
nation which calls itself orderly, which is recog-
nized by the Powers of Europe, which has its
laws, its army, its alliances, and more than this, it
boasts that it obeys the principles of all other
civilized nations.

Now, there are men in your army who bear
the name of general—that name which even the
great Bonaparte was proud to bear—that name
which is so honourably borne among you by Gen.
Menabrea, and among us by the M'Mahons, the
Trochus, the Ladmirault, and so many others.
Well, I say there is a man—a general, he is called
who entices men to enlist themselves, and forms
from these an irregular army, collected together
under your own eyes, and destined to carry on a
war which has never been declared by your King.
There is in your assemblies a queer kind of
deputy, who despises the usual and honourable
mode of voting, who scorns straight and direct
means, who mistakes the streejtor the market-place
for the Chamber of Parliament, and there harangues
the mob with cries of " Rome, or death !" " Down
with the priests !" and this man carries agitation
along with him from town to town, convokes meet-
ings :at Turin, at Treviso, at Bologna, and makes
the eternal cry of " War to the Pope "in each.
He opens a loan for this nefarious war, and it is
announced in all your journals ! Now you have
signed a treaty which I condemn, because it seems
to me to place the lamb at the mercy of the wolf ;
but still it is a treaty which binds Italy to respect
Rome.

You signed it in conjunction with France, to
which Power you yourself owe Milan, which she
took for you; Venice, which she gave you; and all
you have, you have it only because she allowed you
to take it. Now, France's Emperor is Napoleon
111. Well, this soi disant general—this queer deputy
—caused the cry of Death to Napoleon" to re-
sound upon the open place without once recurring
in thought to the fate of Orsini.

Italy is a religious country, grateful and faithful
to the Catholic belief. The priests are men—citi-
zens like each of you. Their goods are theirs as
yours are yours. You are not content with covet-
ing their goods, merely because you want money ;
but you tolerate the cry of " Death to the priests;"
you continue these threats after confiscating their
property. These priests and these Catholics of
Italy have a Catholic chief—the Vicar of God on
earth—the Sovereign Pontiff—acknowledged and
recognized as such by Italy, France, Ireland, Spain,
Portugal, Germany, and by the whole of the New
World. This Divine authority, committed to the
pure hands of Pius IX., is called by Garibaldi the
plague-spot and the pestilence. He gives the
name of good to evil ; he pronounces, with unre-
buked insolence, that he, whom you by your
solemn treaty have declared free and in un-
disputed possession, is little better than dethroned.
A man—by name Garibaldi, dares to pronounce
of Pius IX. that he is a monster.

And you, sir—you remain unmoved—and I add
that never was the like heard or seen in a civilized
country, and among a polished people.

Suppose, for example, that a committee, working
publicly, in the very sight of the Government, rais-
ing loans, and advertising these loans openly in our
journals for the purpose of revolutionizing Ire-
land ? Why, not a day would pass before the
whole would be seized, and the members impri-
soned, and the newspapers fined.

Just imagine a French general going either to
Lyons or Besancon, calling together men and arms,
giving them rations and ammunition, and exercise
on parade, and all this with the barefaced inten-
tion of taking Neufchatel. Wlg, not an hour
would elapse before the police would have put
their hands on such indignities, and have arrested
the so-called general who, by the simple act,
proved himself wholly unworthy of that appella-

tion.
We have been spectators of all this in Italy
for more than twelve months, and in the teeth
of ithese startling truths the Italian Government,
over which you preside, sir, sit with crossed arms.
Well, at least we in France know what to do,
and how to act with those who displease the Go-
vernment.
1)o you think a man would be able to assemble