The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-07 00:00:00

Commence at Sever.

means of placing the institutions of this country
on a firmer basis, and that the passing of this

measure will tend to increase the loyalty
and content of a great portion of her

MAJESTY'S subjects." We hope that this cordial
_ _

expression and frank avowal on the part of Lord

DERBY will have due influence, and tend to remove
in a great measure the unfavourable impression
produced by those who have been so ready to de-
clare that the Conservatives are against all mea-
sures of Reform.

Very littie discussion took place last night, but
Lord STRATHEDEN chose a most inconvenient time

or making an extraordinary proposition. Just as
:he bill was on the point of passing, the noble

THEATRE ROYAL AI)ELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, a new Musical Drama, GA.RIBALDI
IN SICIT.Y. Miss Roden, Miss &Lily Pitt; Messrs. R.
Philli; s, J. G. Taylor. and Ashley.
Alter which, at 8, THE LA DY OF LYONS, M ssrs. 11.
Neville, Billlngton, Ashby, Steuart, and C. 11. Steoenson ;
Miss Kate Terry, Mrs. St. Henry, and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude with A sr.lcE OE LUCK. Messrs J.
Clarke, .l. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson, C. J. Smith ; Mb is
A. Seaman and Miss E. Pitt.

lord spoke at some length, and, after referring to
the chief elections that had taken place since

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
New Management.
Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster; Manager, Mr. 11. NS igan.
TO-NIGHT, SIX MONTHS AGO. Mr. Clayton, Miss M.
Palmer.
After which, THE LIAR. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews.
After which, COOL A S A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles
Matthews.
To be followed by THE CRITIC. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr.
II J. Montague, and Miss E. Farren.
Doors open at half-past Six; commence at Seven.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Vininc.r.
Under the Manarrement of Mr. Uermann Vezin.
THIS EVENING, the verformanc will commence with
TILE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Mr. E. Price and
Miss Nelly Moore.
After a hich, at 8, THE MAN 0' AMITE. :Imes Thre-
hell, Mr. Hermann Vezin ; Messrs. E. Price, H. Forrester,
&c.; Misses E. Stuart and Nelly Moore.
To conclude with THE CLOCKM.A KEEL'S HAT. Sally
Sm art, Miss Charlotte Saunde•s.
Doors open at 7 ; commend at half-past.

1832, at which popular candidates had lost their
seats, he moved that certain seats should be kept
vacant, in order that the House of Commons might
have the power of electing as representatives for
these places those whose services were important,
and yet who had been rejected. Lord DERBY, in a
few amusing remarks, showed the impossibility of
such a step being taken, and said that under the
Jewish dispensation " there were certain cities set
apart to which the manslayer fled, and be secure
from the consequences of his act," but the proposal of
the noble lord had the merit of singularity and

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Srrs. Swanborough.

TIIN EVENING, REVERSES. Messrs. S. Emery. Par
sone, F. Robson. W. Swanborough ; Mesdames Ada Swan,
borough, Johnstone, and Manders.
After whizh, the Latest Edition of FRA DIAVOLO
Messrs. Thorne ana James; Mesdames Gwynne, Newton
Ilolt, and Weathersby.
C3mmaene at half-past Seven.

NEW ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND
CIRCUS, HIGH HOLBORN.

OPEN EVERY EVENING.

COMIC BALLET, and

SCENES in the ARENA.

WGNIFICENT 'lollsEs.

UNEQUALLED RIDERS.

" run E Feats are of the Most Varied Kind, and
every one of them is executed to perfection."-- Times,
May 27.

GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE every

SATURDAY at lIALF-PAST TWO.

" THEY afford an excellent opportunity to the
friends of the rising generation to give them a treat
which the littie ones will rot fail to enjoy."—Standard,
July 3.

novelty. It is not surprising that the clause was
negatived without a division, for it was indeed a
peculiar one ; but it was not good taste to have
brought it forward at such a time. Lord RAVENS-
WORTH made some remarks on the Lodger Fran-

THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER,_
G. R. GLENIE, Sporting Library. 4, Cnunaught-
terrace, Edgware-road, d.livers the LNTE EDITION of
" T 1111: SUN " at the earliest possible moment alter leaving
the press. Ile is able to deliver copies in Town, the Suburbs
early
,
and in many parts of the Country at a comparatively
hour the same evening, say 40 miles by 9 o'clock.
Orders by Post punctually attended to.

chise, and deprecated the course taken by the
House of Lords in rescinding their vote on the
subject. The workmen, he said, were under the

power of trade unions, and had no freedom of action.
Lord RUSSELL made some observations, and it is a

satisfaction to find that the noble lord did not share
in the gloomy anticipations indulged in by some.
lie apprehended no danger to the British Constitu-
tion. We agree with the remarks of the noble
lord on this topic, and think he was quite right in
his assertion, that the majority of the people would
be the strongest safeguard to the constitution when
they shared in the electoral working, being attached
to it most sincerely. Very unnecessary were the com-
ments subsequently passed by Lord RUSSELL on the
course taken by Government, but perhaps it was
hardly to be expected that he would lose the last

opportunity for making a protest.
Ministers can, however, well afford to listen to
these strictures, for they have the proud satisfaction
of knowing that their task is accomplished, and they
have succeeded in passing through both Houses of
Parliament a measure well calculated to answer the
desired ends, and to serve the best interests
of the community. It seems really almost
incredible to think that the Reform Bill has passed
both houses of Parliament, and only awaits a few
more stages to be the law of the land. It would no
doubt afford great satisfaction to those who take a
deep interest in the question, and indeed gratify the
public generally, if her MAJESTY could prorogue
Parliament in person. It would be a gracious and
a graceful act on her part, and connect her more
immediately hnd intimately with a measure
that is in some respects the most important
political feature of her reign. The Govern-
ment of Lord DERBY has great claims on the
gratitude of the nation, for it has had an arduous
task to perform, and it has set about the task in a
right spirit, and with a generous endeavour to do
the thing as complete as possible. We do not
believe that the Liberal party, as it stands at pre-
sent, could have carried a measure that approached
this one in completeness and extent, and
hence it is the more to be rejoiced at
that the Conservatives should have come
to the rescue. The time had, indeed, arrived when
Reform could no longer be shelved with credit to
Ministers, satisfaction to Parliament, or respect to
the general feeling of the country. Under all the
circumstances of the case, we do not see that any
better measure could have been passed than that
bill which was•yesterday read a third time in the
House of Lords, and which will shortly be com-
pleted, to the great satisfaction of the country, and
the credit of all who have assisted in its passing.

IVII O'S GRANGE R? LICENSED
ICTUALLERS' TOBACCONIST, SIIE
lIE S- BUS IL
The SPORTING EDITION of "TIII SUN" can be seen
at GRANGER'S Establishment, as above, every evening by
8 o'c ocic.

THE LAST EDITION of " THE SUN
supplied as soon as l'ublished, containing all the
.N KW'S ant S ?OUT [NCI IN r I LIG IeNCE, by
11. NV. II .I.ILIttS, Newspaller Agent, 4, Blacktriars-road,
London. S.

'firlE LATEST EDITION of " TIIE SUN."
J. HOLES begs to inform his friends, and the pubic
7.•nPrally, Mg.; he supplies the LATEST EDI noN of
" SUN " as soon as published —No. 16, Ila.mpstead-
road, N.W.

" r 1711 E SUN " NEWSPAPER.—" The Mitre"
-I- Tavern, New Church-street, near the Alpha-road,
Paddington.—Mr PIZZ EY (many yeats of Church-street)
having- taken the above Business of Mr. Fred. Squires, re-
spectfully informs his friends and the public that "TILL
SUN" (Third Edition). containing the Latest Sporting News,
Results of Races Latest Parliamentary Debates, &c., can be
seen at his house, as above `All the year round."
*** A well-selected and extensive Stock of WINES,
SPIRITS. Sze.

FOR THE LATEST POLITICAL and
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE see the Late Edition
of "The Sun" at Mr. Blake's, Queen's Head, Windsor-
street, Uxbridge.

TILESUN" NEWSPAPER.-
C.R.R. GLENIE delivers the LATE EDITION al
Chase 1., 7.10 ; Kilburn, 8; Starch-green, 8; NVoolwich, 7.30
Uxbridge, 9.20 ; Watford, 8.45.

The brief but suggestive intelligence respecting
our fellow-countrymen in Abyssinia which was
yesterday received from Aden is of the highest
importance, and must give great relief to the friends
and relatives of the captives. A letter received
from Mr. Davies, the agent of the Peninsula and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company at Aden,
dated the 20th ult.—the latest date to which ad-
vices have been received—states that her Majesty's
steamer Dalhousie arrived from Massowah on the
15th—latest date ; that she reports—" Captives cut
off from the Emperor, both parties being surrounded
by the rebels ; no dancer of their falling into his
hands again." It is nothing new that the dis-
affection among the EMPEROR'S subjects has been
wide-spread and increasing for some time past.
Many powerful chiefs have fallen away from him,
and it has even been said that nothing but a kind
of superstitious belief in his power prevented a
general rising. Colonel MEREWETHER, writing on
the position of affairs in January last, says that
whereas Mr. MASSAIL accompanied the KING last
March, and saw his army to consist of 80,000
men, he had not then 15,000 with him. He
enumerates several chiefs, one
.of them having
escaped from confinement,who were in arms against
another named TisSoo GOLUZYE had an army of
20,0n0 men, and held Walkait and up to Gondar.
GOLUZYE had also a strong force, and
held nearly all Tigr6. Mr. RASSAM confirmed this
intelligence in a few lines, which he contrived to
forward to the Colonel, in which he said that no
respectable man in the country approved of TuEo-
DORE'S conduct, but that no one had the courage to
speak plainly to bim. In case of war Mr. RASSAM
advised that we should try and obtain the friend-
ship of the two' chief rebels, Ttssoo and WAR-
sum, who could be very useful to us in
stopping communication between the EMPEROR
and the coast, and in other ways. This advice.
was evidently very sound, as if the news from Aden
proves true, it is to these chieftains the captives owe
their safety. From the state of open warfare in-
dicated, it would seem that the chiefs have closed
upon the EmrEttott, or else that he has ventured at
last to attack them. In either case there is little
doubt that the long delayed vengeance for the
cruelty and oppression THEODORE has been guilty
of has at length come upon him, and that the hours
of his authority are numbered. We have
much reason to rejoice that the captives
should have escaped his hands under circum-
stances which render it extremely improbable
that he can reclaim them. We shall wait anxiously
for fuller intelligence, but it will not do to slacken
our energies on behalf of the captives. We must
not rest contented with knowing that they arc out
of the EMPEROR'S hands, and leave them to find
their way out of the country as they can. It will
be a matter fur consideration how fat it may be
desirable to join with the leading rebels in their
endeavours to free the country from the intolerable
tyranny of THEODORE, to open its cities to com-
merce, and to provide for the protection of European
travellers. In any case, the security o the prisoners

RE LATEST EDITION of " TILE SUN"
supplied, as soon as published every EveninEy, by
ALIO.AN DER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21,
Old es.vzndisit-itreet, Oxford-street.

QP 0 RTING.--301-IN ROBERTS
as soo suppalies.as pub-
the
LATEST EDITION of " PIINi SUN"
I,shed.— 4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C.

THE THIRD EDITION of " THE SUN,"
giving all the SPORTING NEWS d the day, may be
seen at JIMMY MANTON'S house, "The Swan and Horse
Shoe," 32, Little Britain, City, E.C.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.-
oLt) SAM SMITH.," late of " The Mail Coach,"
Shepherd's Bush, now of the White Hart, Acton, Middlesex,
beo-s to infor his friends and T
EDITION of "THE SUN" canneighbours be seenthat atthe hisLATE seS
a hous
above.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
rins DAY.—Morning, 6h. 55m.—Afternoon, 711. 17m.
To-Monliow.-Morning, ih. 40m.—Afternoon, Bh. 10m

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING,
_AUGUST 7, 1867

"7—
instance, in the garden there is a model washing-
house and laundry, replete with convenience and
with appliances for washing and drying linen in a
very short space of time. Linen may be well washed
and properly drained in three hours. Very dirty
linen is not suffered to come into contact with linen
which is moderately clean, and the labour is won-
derfully abridged by mechanical contrivances. The
whole process of " getting up" fine linen, as it is
called, is performed in a shorter time than even
laundresses could imagine.
The night fetes at the Exhibition, so often talked
of, will be shortly commenced. They will be on a
novel and attractive scale, including concerts, torch-
light processions, boat races, fireworks, and, in
short, spectacles aTid entertainments, which will
give to the fetes an aspect and character hitherto
unparalleled.
It was indeed but one summer's day which we
enjoyed yesterday, although the weather appeared
to have assumed a settled character. Even this
morning it was fine and very warm, but towards
midday there was a sensible diminution in the tem-
perature, and it soon afterwards became a rainy
day—at least not exactly, but a day with repeated
showers, like an April day.
A genuine and useful novelty is in course of
organisation in Paris•— a ladies' club—which will be
opened on the commencement of the next year.
Men have had their day with their clubs; why
should not the ladies have their day? The regula-
tions for admission will be on the most severe scale.
The number of members is not to be limited, but one
black ball out of six will be sufficient for exclusion.
The lady committee engaged in the arrangement
of this club includes some of the most eminent
aristocratic ladies of Paris, but for the moment I
must not mention their names. The club-room will
be a jewel in regard to magnificence and comfort.
The vestibule will be under the direction of female
servants in appropriate costume; dress of light blue
, merino, black silk apron with pockets, and cap

trimmed with blue ribbons. Each attendant wi
be furnished with attributes agreeable or useful to
ladies, say white, red, and black paint for com-
plexion or eyelids, essential salts and all artificial
assistants to beauty, in spite of the dictum of the
poet that " loveliness needs not the foreign aid of
ornament." Cards and music will be introduced
at this club for ladies, and even whist will be al-
lowed, although it is a game which requires
silence. The great difficulty with which the
framers of the regulations are occupied is
whether men shall be admitted. Ladies do not
go to clubs to look after their husbands, but
it has been proposed that husbands shall be per-
mitted to go to the club to see their wives. This is
the knotty question with which the committee are
occupied. Perhaps there may be a compromise,
and husbands will be admitted to the club by a
ticket signed by the wife. All this, however, is
matter for serious consideration.
At the rowing matches at Dieppe on Sunday all
the prizes were won by the Paris Rowing Club.
The match with two rowers was won by M. Etoile,
with four rowers (priz,3 of the Prince Imperial),
M. Gauloise, with six rowers, M. Fabrienno.
There will be matches at Dunkerque on Sunday
next, at which the Paris bowing Club will again
contend for the prizes.

BOOK

The art of book-illustration is just now passing
through a curious phase. When George Cruik -
shank or Hablot Brown, two artists whose names
are here associated solely for chronological reasons,
had to make the illustrations to a work of fiction,
it would seem to have been their practice to select as
subjects all the most dramatic situations, whether of a
comic or tragic sort, which were treated of in the
narrative. On the one hand, violent encounters,
terrible accidents, exciting adventures, crises
through which the characters, described in the
book were compelled to pass ; on the other,
situations characterised by their extreme absur-
dity, in which the persons represented were
shown in a ridiculous light, or exhibited under
laughable circumstances—these were almost in-
variably the themes chosen for illustration. Their
ambition appears to have been to put the more
remarkable scenes described by the author before the
reader's eyes rather than to display their own artistic
powers. But thisprinciple has got to be now regarded
as antiquated and obsolete. Our modern men appear
to occupy themselves less with the thing to be done
than:with the manner of doing it. Their ambition
seems to be confined to the desire of producing a
beautiful work of art. The modern illustrator,
when a book is put into his bands, proposes to him-
self—judging by results—rather to produce a set
of drawings which shall redound to his own credit
than to help the author, whose works he illustrates,
to make himself understood. The consequence
is, that he ordinarily chooses those situations
which are the tamest and least dramatic, because
they fetter him less, and lend themselves more
readily_ to his purpose of producing a complete and
agreeable picture than those more stirring situations
which both the author and the public would have liked
to see illustrated. A large proportion of the drawings
with which such works are embellished represent
scones wholly devoid of action or stir. Two or three
people seated round a table, partaking of a meal, a
couple of young fellows chatting over their wine ; a
:ady showing a picture-book to her little girl ; lovers
.n pairs, without end ; single figures, also without

end ; young ladies reading love-letters, or over-
whelmed with some piece of ill news just received.
Dickens's " All the Year Round."

FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.
An inquest inquest was held at Guildford on Tuesday
morning, before Mr. W. Bridges, deputy coroner
for West Surrey, and a respectable jury, of which
the Rev. R. B. Matthews, vicar, was foreman, in
the library of Chilworth manor-house, on the body
of Robert Alfred Godwin-Austen, aged 19, who died
on Sunday last, under the circumstances detailed in
evidence :—Edward Godwin-Austen (who was much
affected while under examination) deposed :—I am
17 years of age, and am brother to the deceased.
On Wednesday morning, the 24th of July, at about
5 o'clock, I went with my brother up St. Martha's-
hill rabbit-shooting. We both had guns, which
were loaded with small shot. Mine was a double-
barrelled gun, and only one barrel was capped. I
borrowed a cap from my brother, and put it on the
nipple. I carried the gun against my side. My
brother was standing close to me and I was looking
up a tree at a bird. In the act of doing so I turned
half round, and immediately heard a report. I did
not know that it was my gun which had gone off ;
but I saw my brother lying on the ground. I picked
him up and saw that he was shot. I tried to carry
him home, but he could not bear the pain of removal.
Robert Tugwell, footman in the service of Mr.
Godwin-Austen, J.P., deposed that on the morning
in question he went up St. Martha's-hill for a walk.
He saw the deceased fall, and en proceeding to
the spot he found both guns lying on the ground.
One barrel of Mr. Edward Austen's gun bore
symptoms of having been recently discharged.
Mr. J. R. Stedman, M.D., of Guildford, deposed
that he was called to see the deceased on Wed-
nesday, the 24th ult. He found on the upper and
inner part of the right thigh a lacerated gun-shot
wound an inch and a half long by two inches wide,
extending deeply down to the muscles of the thigh:
There was a second wound of about the same size
.on the outer &de of the thigh, and between the
two wounds an uninjured portion of skin
about two. inches wide. Witness examined the
wounds, and found the passage from one to the other
so large that to the best of his judgment the whole
charge of shot passed through it. No shot was
found in the wounds, which were quite clean,
and apparently no bones or arteries were injured.
There had been haemorrhage to a moderato degree,
but not to any great extent. Deceased progressed
satisfactorily until Saturday last, the 3d inst., when
witness detected the early symptoms of tetanus,
or lockjaw. These symptoms increased and con-
tinued from Saturday until the time of his
death on Sunday afternoon. Deceased was
constantly watched during this period either
by witness or his partner, Dr. Morton. He
was rational, and conversed freely the whole time
until he expired in convulsions. The cause of death
was tetanus, the result of a gunshot wound. The
coroner summed up, remarking upon the melan-
choly nature of the case, and pointing out in clear
and explicit terms the law bearing upon the case.
After a very brief consultation, a verdict of " Acci-
dental death" was returned. Deceased was uni-
versally beloved in the neighbourhood. The
funeral is to take place on Friday next, at Shalford
Church.

Copper in Cholera.

Dr. V. Burq, whose name we have often had
occasion to mention in connexion with cholera as
the discoverer of the prophylactic and curative
qualities of copper in that terrible disease, has just
published, under the title, " Metallotherapie di
Coivre contre le Cholera," a volume the serious
perusal of which we may safely recommend to the
professional reader. We have always advocated a
fair trial of Dr. Burg's discovery, not because of
its efficacy, which is still disputed by many, but
because, as far as we know, it is the only curative
system resting on a positive and well authenticated
fact. In 1852 Dr. Burg, who had for some years
past been engaged in investigating the therapeutic
properties of copper, accidentally visited a large
foundry of that metal, and there learnt in the course
of conversation that none of the 200 workmen and
inhabitants of the place bad ever been attacked by
cholera, even during the worst period of the
epidemic. Following up this Lint, Doctor Burq
visited a large number of establishments of the
same kind in person, wrote to others, and in a
short time collected evidence sufficient to prove that
all shops or manufactories where copper was con-
stantly handled had, almost without an exception,
enjoyed complete immunity from cholera. Hence
Dr. Burq very rationally concluded that copper
must possess a specific curative power in that
disease. He has since .administered sulphate of
copper internally, and metallic copper externally
(the latter against choleraic cramps) with great suc-
cess; although it is said the system did not succeed in
the hospitals of Paris. Was it ever sincerely trie(
there, on subjects not past recovery ? This we are
unable either to deny or to tifiirin ; but last year we
laid before our readers the note communicated to
the Academy of Sciences by Dr. Lisle, of the Lu-
natic Asylum at Marseilles, in which he stated that
he had cured 20 out of 21 patients by administering

sulphate of copper even in smaller doses than those
prescribed by Dr. Burg. We therefore persist in
affirming that a method of cure like this, founded
upon sound reasoning from facts, and confirmed by
experiment, ought to have a fair trial on a large
Galignani.

THE LIBERAL "WAIF.—The circular issued by
Mr. Glyn on behalf of the leader of the Liberal party I
runs as follows : " Special and important.—Your attend-
ance is most earnestly and most particularly requested in
the louse of Commons on Thursday, the Bth of August,
to consider the Lords amendments to the Reform Bill.
Divisiots will bo taken upon the 'voting paper clauses,'
which have been re-inserted by the Lords; upon the lodger
franchise, upon the qualification of copyholders, and upon
the representation of minorities. Your attendance is most
specially urged, as the amendments proposed by the
Lords are of the greatest importance." Since the fore-
going was issued the lodger qualification has been disposed
of ; the three other matters specified still remain to be
dealt with.