The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN. LO DOB, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1867

CAPTURE OF FENIANS IN LIVERPOOL.

whose inviolability it is bound by treaty to respect,
as well as by the public law of nations ? These
are serious questions. Englishmen, who are natu-
rally and rightly indignant at the presence on
British soil of American Fenians plotting against
the peace and comfort of the United Kingdom,
can have no sympathy with Garibaldians not only
plotting against the peace of Rome, but actually
invading a peaceful territory and committing
brutal outrages on unarmed inhabitants. Were this
movement in reality an insurrection, would it not
have broken out in Rome itself, or in some of the
Papal cities ; or even if it had brOken out on the
extreme confines of the Papal territory border-
ing on a hostile frontier, would it not have spread
or met with sympathy or support in a small king-
dom surrounded by supporters of revolution if the
inhabitants were, as they have been described, dis-
affected to the core and ripe for rebellion ? But
what are the actual facts. No insurrection has
broken out either in Rome itself or in any part of the
Papal territories. On the extreme confines of the
kingdom bordering on the Italian frontier, close to
Orvieto, where Garibaldi landed and organized
the invasion, issued inflammatory addresses, and
assembled his redshirted Jacobins—at a place
called Orte an attack was made on the Papal gen-
darmes by armed bands of men who called them-
selves Garibaldians, and who were strangers in the
country. It is needless to enter here into further
detail. We will only mention another fact in sub-
stantiation of the real character of this disturbance
in the Papal States. At ;Acquapendente, in their
precipitate retreat before the Papal troops, the
armed band left twenty-one prisoners in the hands
of their pursuers. None of these prisoners were
natives or subjects of the Pope. The list of their
names and the places whence they came, have been
published. Eleven came from Sienna, three from
Empoli, one from Pozzuelo, three from Perousa,
one from Florence, one from Torre-Alena, and one
from Monte-Corona. This list will show, says the

LrvEnrooL, Saturday.—lmmediately after the
affair at Manchester information reached the Liver-
pool police which induced a belief that some of the
persons who had been engaged in the attack were
at that time in Liverpool. In consequence of this

belief the haunts of the Fenians in this town were
visited almost nig ltly by strong parties of the de-
tective police, and the whole of the persons suspected
to be Fenians frequenting those places became fami-
liar to the officers. After the committal of the men
for the Manchester attack it was thought desirable
that some of the officers of the Manchester police
and others (witnesses) should come over to Liver-
pool, and, in company with the Liverpool detective
officers, visit those haunts in order to see if they
could identify any of the parties who were strongly
suspected by the Liverpool police as having been
engaged in the affair at Manchester. On Thursday
last some officers and witnesses came over from
Manchester, and several places were visited by them
in company with the Liverpool police, but none of
the persons found answered the description of the
men whom they sought. Last evening the visits
were repeated, and at a house in Adlington-street,
long known to the police as a Fenian rendezvous,
six men were found leaving the house hurriedly.
They were at once arrested by the officers, and
brought to the Central Police-office. On being
seen by the Manchester officers and witnesses, one
of them was as once identified as a man who had
taken a very active part in the attack upon the van.
He was spoken to by three persons. His name is
James Chambers, and he is the head centre of Liver-
pool for the Fenian body. The witnesses, in de-
scribing the part this man took in the attack, state
that when first seen he had two revolvers, one in
each hand. Whether he had discharged the contents
of these and put them aside or not is not stated,
but he was afterwards seen actively engaged in
throwing stones at the van. Another of these men,
named Brophy—a most formidable-looking fellow,
broad-shouldered and deep-chested—is also believed
to have been in Manchester on the same occasion,
and to have joined in the attack. Two others,
M'Donough and O'Brien, were strongly suspected
of being concerned also in the outrage. These four
men were taken to the main bridewell, and kept
there until they could be conveyed to Manchester.
They were taken to the railway station in two cars
(which were well guarded inside and outside by
officers), and despatched to Manchester by the 10
p.m. train. A telegram had been previously sent to
the chief of the police at Manchester, who was
awaiting the arrival of the prisoners with the whole
of his staff ofdetective officers and others. In fact,
every precaution appears to have been taken to pre-
vent the success of any attempt at rescue. Six men
were captured altogether, but in the case of two
suspicion against them was of so slight a character
that they were at once discharged, their presence in
the house being more accidental than otherwise.
The duty of this capture was entrusted, to Inspec-
tors Horne and Carlisle, and a large staff of de
tective officers. They were all armed with revolvers,
and this fact being made known to the parties may'
to some extent account for the quiet and effective
way in which the arrest was made. The street in
which the house (a beer-horse) is situated is in the
centre of what may be called the Irish quarter of
the town. It is a densely-populated neighbour-
hood ; and it is not too much to say that the
great bulk at least of the lower order of the Irish
population who crowd there, if not actually
Fenians themselves, are sympathisers with them.
It was, therefore, more necessary that this arrest
should be effected as quietly and quickly as pos-
sible. Lest there should have been any serious at-
tempt at resistance to the detective force, Mr. Chief-
Superintendent Ride had arranged to have a reserve
of the ordinary police near at hand, so that they
might at once, if necessary, proceed to the spot.
Such arrests as these would, to ordinary agitators,
appear very d;scouraging ; whether it may turn out
to be so in this instance remains to be seen ; but
there can be little doubt that the authorities of this
town, at least, are well posted up in all the move-
ments of the body, and can at any time lay hands
on those whom it may be desirable to arrest. The
head constable, Major Greig, is constantly on the
alert, and has his force under such control that almost
any emergency can be dealt with. The house
where Chambers lives has been examined. It is a
wretched place, but no documents of importance
have been discovered, nor were any found upon the
prisoners arrested last night.

Giornale di Roma, what sort of people these in.
surgents were of whom the papers make so much
noise.

Nowhere do we hear of the Garibaldians re-
ceiving, in their discomfiture, support or sympathy.
On the contrary, the inhabitants of the invaded
districts eagerly welcome the Papal troops arriving
to their assistance. As to the character of the
movement, its origin, and the opposition that it
meets with from the vast majority of the inhabit-
ants of the Papal States, there can now be no
question. What is more difficult to discover is
the relation in which Rattazzi and the Italian
Government stand to Garibaldi and the Revolu-
tion. But after the events of 1860, as the Unita
Cattolica well observes—after the comedy which
the Italian Government played in Sicily after
the publication of Cavour's letters—after the con•
fessions of Bixio in the Chambers—after the cer-
tainty entertained, both by his friends and
enemies, that Garibaldi was secretly assisted in
1860 by the Piedmontese Government, at the very
time that he was publicly disavowed who can
have any confidence that the Italian Govern-
ment is not now secretly encouraging and assisting
the Garibaldians to cross the Roman frontier?
Who can say that the farce which in 1860 was
enacted in regard to Sicily may not now be
played in regard to Rome ? Truthfulness and
public honour, such as we expect from our public
men in England, are no more regarded by the re-
volutionary Government than is respect for the
rights and property of others. Rattazzi is as capa-
ble of public deceit and treachery as was Cavour
before him. The arrest of Garibaldi at the eleventh
hour was due (according to our most trustworthy
and well - informed Roman correspondent, to
whose letters we beg to call the attention of such as
wish to know what is going on in Rome) to the
threat of Napoleon, who gave Rattazzi forty-eight
hours' time to choose between the alternative
either of stopping Garibaldi or of seeing French
troops landed at Civita Vecchia.
This Garibaldian movement must be revolting
to those even who do not share our horror at its
sacrilegious nature, both on account of its odious,
deceitful, and unmanly character, and because it
is an attack against the oldest monarchy, and
against a Prince and Pope who has gained respect
and reverence from everyone able of appreciating
true greatness and virtue.—Westminster Gazette.

A brother of Chambers is now sustaining penal
servitude for life for taking part in Fenian outrages
in Jreland.

INVASION OF THE PAPAL STATES.

From the account which we have given from
authentic sources in our first column of this latest
attempt of the followers of Garibaldi to invade the
Papal States, it is evident—First, that it is not an
insurrection of the subjects of the Pope against his
rule, but an invasion of strangers concocted outside
the Papal territories ; and secondly, that wherever
these armed and organized disturbers of the peace
showed themselves in Roman territory, far from
being welcomed as deliverers, they were treated
as enemies ; and thirdly, that whenever they came
in contact with the Papal troops they were put to
flight.

From these facts, for such they are, the English
public ought at last to learn that the populations
of the Papal States are not, as has been so perpe-
tually asserted, both here and on the Continent,
disaffected and ready to revolt, at the first oppor-
tunity, against what is called the government of
priests. Had such been the case on the withdrawal
of the French army two years ago, when the Pope
was left face to face with his subjects, why did
they not rise to a man, as had been predicted of
them in every revolutionary paper of Europe,
against the yoke they were said to abhor? But
nothing of the kind has occurred. For two years
the populations of Rome and of the Papal States
have been exposed to the secret machinations of
the agents of revolution; they have been cajoled
and threatened by turns, but to no purpose ; they
would not revolt. The secret committees entrusted
with the getting up of an insurrection at Rome
were at loggerheads with one another at their
common ill-success ; they were both superseded by
the superior authority of the Revolution sitting in
permanence atFlorence and a committee of national
safety appointed. This committee has also failed
to incite the Romans torebellion. The revolutionary
party is enraged at what they call the apathy of
the Romans, who are reviled by the journals as a
base and spiritless people, unworthy of liberty.
The tactics of the Revolution are now changed.
It would not do to acknowledge before the world
the content and loyalty of the subjects of the Pope.
Had it not been proclaimed on the authority of
the Revolution that Rome was held down by
foreign bayonets, and that on their withdrawal the
Pope would not remain a week in Rome ? For the
credit of the Revolution there must be an insur-
rection ; there must be an excuse of some kind
invented for the intervention of the Italian army.

But since the Garibaldian party, in spite of
inflammatory proclamations, of secret bribes and
threats, and of open revilings failed to provoke a
real rising in the populations of the Papal States,
they set to work to manufacture one. Bands of
twenty and thirty, parties of five or six, and single
individuals armed and organized were placed along
the frontier of the Roman States, or were smuggled
into the Roman territory wherever it was possible.
At a given signal from the leaders, as we have
seen, these men rose against the Papal Government.
The word was passed throughout Europe that
the long-expected insurrection had at last broken
out in the Papal States. The telegrams which
arrive from Florence still speak no longer, indeed,
of the successes but of the defeat of the insurgents.
This is the point to which we wish to direct atten-
tion : Are these armed men now fighting in the
Papal States insurgents or invaders ? Is the move-
ment, such as it is, an insurrection of the subjects
of the Pope against his rule, or the lawless

inroads into a peaceful country of lawless bands
of private citizens'? Ilow is the pillage and
bloodshed which is taking place to be characterized?
Is the Italian Government guilty of a secret
connivance such illYPtili.9ll of a State

plaster mixings, which gave him the idea of
its .non-conducting powers, and the sugges-
tion of its value for fire-proof lining. About
the same time this discovery was made in
New York, and the inventor filled with the
plaster the safe he used—the first thus con-
structed—and now, as a curiosity, retained in one of
the stores of Messrs. Herring, Farrel, and Sherman.
For many years plaster of Paris held sway. But
though well adapted as a protection against fire,
experience proved that while in one way preserving
the papers it destroyed them in another. The
calcined plaster was of no use as a fire-proof
cement unless mixed with water, while the
damp compound, when thus mixed, moulded
and destroyed books and papers. Without
the water the plaster-of-Paris was no better than
sand against fire ; with the water it intrcduced a
sure process of destruction against an uncertain one,
not only rotting the papers, but rusting the iron be-
tween which it was confined. The Wilder patent of
1843 was brought to the perfection attainable, in the
hands of Silas C. Herring. But it was clear that
another fire-proof filling was necessary, and large
rewards were offered by the firm for the invention
of a better material. The Crofton water-safes
were then proposed, by which water was let on
either by the burning of a string or the melting of
a soft cement fawcet on the approach of heat.
Alum and clay were recommended, the old water
theory to produce steam being adhered to. But
the firm saw that such contrivances did not meet
the requirements. Water, under certain circum-
stances, but feeds the flames, and it was seen that
it was not the quantity of moisture, but the quality
which holds peculiar moisture the longest that was
required. " It was well known that the production
of certain atmospheres are antagonistic to heat,
and in the presence of some gases no flame can
live. The production of the Herring patent com-
position demonstrated that though it did not
secrete so much moisture, yet it was more
slowly evaporated or driven out by fire
than any other compound heretofore known, and

the safe on which he issued his challenge. This
consists of a triple safe, and a glance at the draw-
ing will give an idea that if the safe deli-
neated in Plate 16 foiled a party representing
burglars with every advantage, what chance they
would have bad if the attack had been made on the
bankers' safe. A desperate attempt was made in
New York in March, 1861, to break into the
Exchange Bank. The burglars entered the vault
through the floor by digging a tunnel some 70
feet long. Although they had from Saturday
night till Monday morning to carry on the operations
against the Herring burglar proof, they were com-
pelled to give in, abandoning their tools, and leaving
the vault in ruins. Another attempt was made on
the Kent National Bank, Ohio, where the failure
was as signal. It was necessary for the bank
to force the safe, the lock being injured; and it
required 14 hours of sledge hammers, used by
the most skilled to be procured in Cleveland,
which, with the work already accomplished by the
burglars, gave fully two days and three fresh gangs
before the safe was opened.
_ _

In the frontispiece a safe is represented which
went through the great conflagration that destroyed
the City of Portland last year. The effects of the
fire are strongly marked, but, &though the brass
work melted and the heat warped portions of the
iron-frame, the contents were extracted in good
condition ; not a leaf of the account books were in-
jured nor a word erased.

the more recent improvements which we have
secured by patents during the past two years have
proved that a fireproof filling for safes is produced
that is perfectly dry and unchangeable until the
fire attacks it, which will not damp or mould books
and papers, will not corrode or rust the iron of the
safe, and does not dry out or lose any of its fire-
proof qualities from evaporation in a warm room.
In place of boiling at 212 degs., the boiling point
of water, its fumes are noticeable at the red heat of
iron (1,000 deg.), and our fire-proof lining being a
double sulphate, produces an atmosphere in which
so long as it lasts no flame can exist." This filling,
though dry as flour when put in, fuses into a com-
pact mass on subjection to a hot fire without losing
bulk or leaving large holes or cracks like other
composition. Thus it adds to the security,
for as the fire progresses, the lining becomes
a solid firm mass, which immensely strengthens
the safe and fits it to endure the next great
ordeal, which it finds when it is precipitated
from the story on which it stands into the
cellar amid the falling ruins of iron girders,
beams, and huge stones, whose blows it then has to
resist. Silas C. Herring's attention was first at-
tracted to the manufacture of safes in 1840 by a
great fire which then broke out at the foot of the
Wall-street, New York. The leading fire-proof
chests were then all destroyed except the newly-
introduced Salamander, which was at least so far
successful as to carry off the palm of victory.
" Previous to his embarking in the enterprise the
history of the Salamander had been one of misfor-
tune, owing to the want of means and ability of
those having it in charge, and the natural slowness
of the public to encourage new productions. The
destruction wrought by the Coffee House Slip fire
demonstrated the insecurity of what were then
termed safes, and induced the public better to receive
the efforts made to introduce a more efficient con-
struction. When Mr. Herring commenced, his stock
of safes was stored in a little room 20 by 40 feet, each
ranging in value from $4O to $250. This building
was turned into the manufaetory—the basement being
the blacksmith's shop, or forge and filling room.
The first floor was the sales and safe room, the two
upper storeys were occupied by the iron workers,
who cut the iron and framed the safes, and the one
solitary blacksmith, who could furnish all the locks
as fast as the safes were ready for them. It was
not till 1845, a year of great fires, that the value of
his work came prominently before the public. The
offices of the Tribune and 400 buildings were
destroyed in the City of New York on the 19th
July, when from £1,500,000 to £2,000,000 sterling
worth of property was consumed. From the midst
of the ruins of the Tribune establishment the Her-
ring's Safe was taken, where it had lain red hot for
36 hours in its fiery bed, when, to the astonishment
of all beholders, the contents were extracted unin-
jured. From a merchant's office one of these patent
safes was taken after an exposure of 60 hours in the
same way, every line of the books being perfectly
legible. These, with numerous other instances, at
once stamped with the seal of security the Patent
Safes manufactured by the firm, while the
old-fashioned fireproofs were false to their profes-
sions, and even solid vaults of stone and brick
yielded to. the fiery adversary, in the great trial
of 1845. Since then, in the single city of
New York, nearly 100 Herring safes have passed
through this ordeal, in every instance pre-
serving their contents, amounting to millions
in value. The confidence inspired created an
era in this branch of domestic manufacture. Steam
power and machinery were brought into requisition,
and the little shop of 26 years ago, in which two
or three safes a week were produced, has given place
to a magnificent establishment where 300 hands are
constantly employed and vaults valued at $20,000
are manufactured.
The book contains 130 closely-printed pages of
letters received by the firm from all parts of Ame-
rica, giving accounts of great fires, and of the
triumph of the safes. One-tenth the number would
have carried conviction to any mind. As a sample
of these, we may quote a passage from a letter from
Weeks and Prescott, as the fire described was in a
distillery, and the heat therefore must have
been seven times intensified. Writing from Buffalo,
December 14, 1854, they say :—" We roasted a Her-
ring last night, and notwithstanding we started the
scales freely it came out triumphant. The safe
was one of Herring's patent, and was in Truscott's
distillery, which was burnt and made a hot fire."
The editor of the Daily Republic went to look at it.
"It was so warped and sprung," he wrote, " by the
action of the intense heat that it was impossible to
unlock it. It was cut into,lwhen, much to the
surprise and delight of the owners, the contents,
consisting of a set of account-books, bonds, and
mortgages, policies of insurance, notes, bank-
bills, specie, &c., were found to be in a per-
fect state of preservation (the editor vouches
for what he saw), not the slightest sign of
any unusual heat being visible in any part
thereof." It is not till close to the end of the
work that burglars are even touched on. "We are
often asked the question, ' Are these safes burglar-
proof ?' and invariably answer, that they are as
much a protection against the burglar as the price
will admit. This is the most that can be said of
any safe. Nothing is made by man that
man cannot unmake, and a safe made for
books and papers only as a fire-proof pro-
tection, is not a fit receptacle for coupon bonds,
Government Securities, or large amounts of money."
The firm here allude to the combined fire and bur-
glar safe, the one built within the other, the outer
to protect from fire, the inner from burglars.
Against burglars, the inner safe has the advantage
that it cannot be operated on with the same facility,
as it is enclosed and protected by the outer or fire-
proof safe. This was the principle which enabled
Mr. Herring to defeat, with a third-class safe, the
best efforts: of so celebrated a maker as Mr. Chat-
wood in the. recent trial. Plate 16 gives the illustra-
tion of the F afe tested, which is a common construc-
tion with tb is firm. The upper portion is framed for
books, witi- I. pigeon-holes above for papers, while the
lower port; .on shows another safe imbedded with the
formidable door which foiled for so lengthened a
period a
.e most skilful workmen of Lancashire.
Turning t o Plate 27, we come to Herring's Patent
Bankers' safe,
and in Plate 28 is seen the design of

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

:From Correspondent of the Anglo-American Times.)

PARIS, October 10.

I promised last week to continue my un-
finished sketch of St. Cloud, a promise which
has been impressed upon my memory by a circum-
stance similar to that which happened to King
George of blessed memory, when he had to pay so
many florins for a dinner of eggs. Eggs, said mine
host gravely, are not scarce, but Kings are, and so
I presume must be the case at St. Cloud as regards
haricots (the French or kidney bean) and visitors.
The fresh air and the long walk from Paris to St.
Cloud, followed by a stroll iu the Park, had pro-
vided me with a very respectable appetite, so I
determined to enjoy my modest luncheon and half
bottle of wine al fresco on oue of the many tables
set forth for the wayfarer on the outside of a restau-
rant of promising appearance. Everything was
proceeding most happily ; the cutlet was done to a
turn ; the bread (the usual French roll) excellent,
and the half bottle of yin ordinaire equally unex-
ceptionable; but, alas ! what mortal knows when
he is well off, or can leave that well alone ; in an
evil hour I took a fancy to ask for vegetables ;
there were only haricot verts ; I ordered a portion.
Now be it known to the reader that these aforesaid
haricots are sold in Paris at the rate of I.d. to 2d.
per pound, and if ordered at the best restaurant
therein at their first coming never by any chance
exceed fivepenc• for one person. I ordered the
bill. Haricots, lfr., the third part of the cost of
the luncheon. Now if there be anything I par-
ticularly dislike it is what is called in France being
" rolled," or, in plain language, " taken in." How-
ever, all was of no use, for some reason unknown
this vegetable, so cheap and plentiful at Paris, be-
comes so comparatively dear at the short distance
of five or six miles that nothing was left for it but
to console myself with the conviction that mine
host would surely be punished for it sooner or
later—

The President is said to be preparing his reasons
for dismissing Secretary Stanton, to be submitted
to Congress in November, in compliance with the

law which makes it incumbent on the head of the

Executive, fully to inform the Senate why offi-
cers were removed during the recess. Mr. Stan-

Raro antecedenteur scellestum,
Deseruit pania pede claudo justitia,
and with the ability of rendering my readers the
very serviceable advice never to order haricots at
St. Cloud. After leaving the restaurant I strolled
towards the Palace, the external appearance of which
from the circumstance of the various alterations and

ton is, we believe, accused among other offences
with unlawful appropriation of public property,
and with conspiring with railway authorities to
make undue charges against the Government for

he transfer of men and material. Such charges

improvements made by its respective possessors,
having been made to satisfy an immediate want
or caprice, lacks the finished ensemble possessed by
similar edifices completed on one original plan.
One enters by what is termed the Vestibule of the

are too often trumped up by political opponents in
the States to serve party purposes and to give vent

:o spleen.

General Grant is winning golden opinions by the

unsparing retrenchment he has introduced into the
War Department. The military expenses have

been most retnorsely cut down, superfluous servants
discharged, and reforms effected in the expenditure

of those retained. Some idea may be formed of
what he has accomplished in this direction, when

we state that between 200 or 300 clerks have been

removed from the Quartermaster's and Adjutant-

General's Departments. Since he assumed control

of the War-office the expenses have been reduced
by nearly $200,000 a month.
General Pope, who ordered the empannelling of
negro juries, has come into coll'sion with Judge
Reece on this point, who refused to carry out the
order. The General called upon the Judge to re-
sign, which the latter refused to do. General Pope
has protested against the rehearing of General
Fitz-John Porter's case, who was cashiered in 1863.

He was tried for treason and disobedience of orders.

and the principal witness against him was General

Pope.

Accounts from Mexico of the 20th ult. state that
Admiral Tegethoff, having failed in obtaining the
body of Maximilian, had determined to withdraw
without it. He was attempting to effect the release

Emperor, remarking on the staircase a painting by
Rouget, the subject being the presentation to Napo-
leon Bonaparte the decree of the Senate by which

he is proclaimed Emperor. The decree is being
presented by Cambaceres and Lebrun, whilst the
future Empress Josephine, her daughter, afterwards

Queen Hortense, Eugene de Beauharnais, Murat;
Massena, Kellerman, Talleyrand, and a group of

Senators, assist at the ceremony. At the top of the
staircase is the vestibule of the grand apartments,
to the left the door which gives access to the theatre,

to the right that which opens on the Saloon of Mars.
The series of apartments thrown open to the public

are the Saloons of Mars, Diana, Venus, Truth,
Mercury, Aurora, and the Gallery of Apollo. It is
scarcely possible to describe the magnificent appear-

ance of these various apartments, which take their
names from the principal portraits exhibited
therein. These paintings are mostly by Mig-

nard, the sides of the apartments, as well
as the ♦aulted ceilings, seem to resemble a

collection of paintings of every size and shape,
the gold groined arches forming, as it were, the
frames or setting. But it is not alone by the brush

of the artist that these splendid reproductions of
history are conveyed to the visitor; the loom hath

its part ; and to give the reader an idea of what the
Goblein tapestry is like, I will only mention the re-

mark made to me by a lady who stood by. " How
exquisitely," said she, " that picture is painted,"
poiuting at the same time to one almost within

reach of her hand. "Do you think that is a paint-
ing?" said I. " Look a little closer, and you will

find that the needle, and not the brush, has accom

plished that matchless piece of tapestry, which, un

,ess on the minutest inspection, bears every indica-

tion of being a painting emanating from a master•

hand." Another most remarkable item in connection
with these tapestries (with which also, by the way,
the enamelled and gilded chairs, sofas, &c.,
are also covered) is a number of immense vases of
the celebrated Sevres porcelain, exquisitely
painted and enamelled, amongst them being four,
representing the Four Seasons, which have been
highly appreciated at the Exposition, of which they
lately formed a part. The gallery of Apollo, the
theatre of the splendid fetes offered to Louis
Quatorze by his mother, and subsequently those
offered by the Regent to the Czar Peter and others,

was consecrated under the Directory to the sittings
of the Council of the Ancients. The ceiling repre-

sents Apollo in his chariot, and amongst the other
grand tableaux Circe Clymeire, daughter of the
Ocean ; the Fall of Icarus, Apollo and Tau,
Apollo and Marsyas ; whilst Philippe d'Orleans,
Monsieur Duke of Orleans, Charlotte of Bavaria,
Anne of Austria, Marie Theresa of Austria, Louis
XIV., the Dauphin, all accompanied with the
devices of the personages they represent, and
affording to the visitor by the mere effort of the
coup d'ceil are trospective chronologic record of most
of the principal events relating to the French
Dynasty. Below the gallery lies the chapel,
plainly fitted up in white marble, panelling the
numerous doors of the gallery of Apollo, opening
on it so as to enable the Court to attend the
religious services without leaving the apartment.
A description of the other saloons would be but a
repetition of the foregoing, coupled with the titles
of the paintings and their distinguished artists. I
will content myself with noticing, in conclusion, a
very magnificent architectural work placed on the
summit of a verdant amphitheatre, which has re-
ceived the name of the " Lanthorn of Diogenes."
It consists of a truncated obelisk crowned with a
copy of a very pretty choragic monument, with
which Lysierates had adorned Athens to consecrate
the souvenir of the prize which he had carried off
from all his rivals. But I exceed my limits. Ac-
cording to the Moniteur, the establishment of a
French trans-Atlantic cable is finally resolved upon.
The cable, according to authorised permission, will
be carried from Brest to St. Pierre Miquelon. These
two points are admirably chosen ; the space which
separates having been through all its length the object
of recent hydrographic labours, by means of which it
has been ascertained that the depth was fathomable,
and that its disposition consisted of a vast tele-
graphic plateau, on which the cable could be ex-
tended in the most advantageous manner. A new
model of a cable has been adopted, for the perfection
of which the very latest improvements of science
and industry have been called into action, the basis
of the system reposing upon the complete system,
which has obtained the principal gold medal at the
Exposition Universelle. Despatches direct between
Europe and North America, already very consider-
able, increase every day. The greatest part of these,
it is said, are assured to the French cable. The line
from Antilles to Cuba is about to be inaugurated.
The Anglo-Indian Telegraph, and the telegraph
from Rio Janeiro, which will place the whole of
Asia and the whole of South America in communi-
cation with Europe, will be executed before long.
Their despatches, in accordance with recent arrange-
ments, will arrive by the French cable, which will
be in operation about the month of August,
1868. It is probable thus that France, from
her advantageous geographical position, will
be called upon to centralise by the inter-
mediary of the French cable the telegraphic
despatches of the whole m orld. From communica-
tions to the Gironde from Biarritz it appears that
the Empress Eugenie and the Prince Imperial have
had a very narrow escape in visiting St. Jean de
Luz in the Imperial yacht, the Chamois. The
evening of the day had come in dark and rainy,
and it became necessary to make a long tack to-
wards the Spanish coast before approaching the
dangerous coast of St. Jean de Luz. The debarka-
tion was being effected in the boats of the yacht
when by some oversight of the pilot Larretche,
who was, nevertheless, perfectly acquainted with the
coast, the Imperial boat struck on a shoal when
near tho shore and was swamped, All, howeyer,

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEw YORE., Wednesday, Sept. 25,

were happily happily saved, with the exception of the pilot. first of the month, though there is still but little activity
On Friday last the Emperor and Empress paid a and prices are without marked variation.
personal visit to the poor widow. United States Securities have varied but little.
We quote the issue of 1862
The Imperial Commissioners have appointed a Ditto 1865
saloon at the Exposition for the sale, by auction or (The quotation for 1865's is for the issues bearing cou-
otherwise, of the articles exposed. pons payable May and November. Those due January
and July are not saleable on our market).
The Route closes at 6B 30
Tho Italian closes at
Exchange on London 25 15

(From Afessrs.Belding, Keith, and Co.'s Circular.)
80, Lombard-street, E.C., Thursday, Oct. 10.
During the past week American Securities have under-
gone a considerable amount of fluctuation, owing to the
double causo at work, viz.—gold in the United States, ar_-.1
the tendency to follow the decline of Securities on the
Continent caused by the warlike rumours lately current.
With regard to 5-20's of both issues this tendency has
been downwards, the 1862's having touched 711 on Tues-
day, when the 65's were at 69, showing a wider dif-
ference than usual. This took place on the receipt of the
New York telegram, quoting gold at the high figure of
145 i. A t the close, however, there was a revival, and
we quote 1862's 71i 721, and 1865's 69i 70, showing an
improvement of s per cent. in the one, and i per cent. in
the other on the closing prices of last Thursday. Illinois
shares have been tolerably steady, ranging between
76? sellers and 78 buyers. This evening, however, they
close i per cent. higher, viz., 774 781 ; Eries have followed
pretty regularly, the price of gold, with, however, the large
margin of 2 per cent. occasionally. They close at 431 44,
having touched 40 to 41 last Friday. Atlantic and Con-
solidated Mortgage Bonds remain unaltered. They close
at 20,1,- to 21k.

(From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, Oct. 9.)
Our advices from New York, per the China, are to the
23rd ult. The Money Market remained tight, which cre-
ated some uneasiness. The demand, however, was a very
legitimate one, being for moving the large Western crops.
The influence of this business was beginning to be felt on
the railroads, most of which are showing increased re-
ceipts for the first two weeks of September.
ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN.
The report of the Committee of investigation into
the affairs of this company has at length been issued
and circulated amongst the bond and shareholders,
and from its perusal we conclude that a searching
examination has been made, and that the worst is
known. We are certainly much disappointed to find that
so great a delay in resuming payment of coupons is pro-
posed, and we can only attribute this to the desire in ar-
ranging the company's affairs at this juncture, not to make
any propositions which are not only feasible, but which
there is almost the certainty of being able to carry out.
We were not at all prepared to find that so large a sum
as is stated was required to put the road in good running
order. In the autumn of 1865 we know that, with a smull
exception, the track was in excellent running condition,
and surely, if the money raised early in 1866 had been
spent upon the road and equipment, which we had every
reason to believe would be the case, no such sums as those
set down could now be required.
We observe that the committee has convened a meeting
for the 22d instant, this date being fixed in order to give
ample time for the consideration of the details of the
report. Now it appears to us that [parties interested
would have been much better able to form a judgment
on what course they should pursue had a statement
been made as to what the receiver has done dar-
ing the six months he has had the management
of the concern, and what actual profit he has earned.
The traffic returns are steadily less as compared with last
year's take ; but, as to whether the line is being worked
to more or less profit, we have no information. It would
further be interesting to know whether it is intended the
line shall continue to be worked by the receiver, or whether
the administration is to revert to the old channel.
Notwithstanding the unsatisfactory state of affairs dis-
closed, we are disposed to think that probably no better
plan for the future can be struck out than that proposed by
the committee, especially as it can be carried on without
asking for more money to be subscribed, and without in-
creasing legal expenses or legal troubles.
Since our last the London market for United States
Bonds has been entirely influenced by Continental
news, and during the week in sympathy with the panic
on the Paris Bourse 5-20 Bonds were sold as low as
its, and the 1865 issue at 69-1-, but from this point there
has been a rally, and the market to-day is steady at
quotations.
The chief feature in shares has been a rise in Eries of
$2, while Illinois on good buying close nearly $1 higher.

of the Emperor's confessor, whom Maximilian had
authorised to publish his entire correspondence with
the Emperor Napoleon and the Marshal Bazaine.
The news then received alleges that Porfirio Diaz,
instead of withdrawing from the contest, as before
asserted, had accepted the nomination for the Presi-
dency, and his adherents were organising themselves
for a furious campaign.
Governor Brownlow keeps Tennessee in a state
of ferment. A new cause of quarrel has arisen, and
bloodshed was only averted by the Conservatives
withdrawing their candidates from the contest.
The Governor has a corps of officers appointed by
himself for registration. The City Councils have
also appointed officers for that purpose. The
Governor issued a proclamation against the local
registrars, and the municipal authorities in turn
issued proclamations against Brownlow. Federal
and State troops were concentrated in the cities,
and special constables sworn in, both sides preparing
for a fight. A consultation was held by the Presi-
dent with the Commander-in-Chief, which re-
sulted in General Grant ordering Major-General
Thomas, in command of the department, to
make every preparation at Nashville to suppress in-
surrection, adding that if more troops were wanted
they would be despatchel at his call. On the muni-
cipal side it is alleged, on the authority of several
State Judges, that the existing laws grant charters
to cities directing local elections to be controlled by
local authorities. The Governor, however, claims
that the franchise law passed by the State Legisla-
ture gives negroes the power to vote, and as his
officers have disfranchised nearly all the white
citizens of Tennessee, he has thus secured the success
of his own nominees. The question hinged on the
action of General Thomas, in command of the Federal
troops, and as that General would not interfere the
power remained with Governor Brownlow, the
Democrats withdrawing their opposition, and thus a
collision was averted. The Radical ticket was
elected without opposition at Nashville and the
officers quietly installed ; but the other side applied
for an injunction on the ground that the election
was illegal.
A message from New York, dated 6 p.m., Oct. 9,
says :—" The Democrats have carried the elections
in Pennsylvania, and the Republicans in lowa. In
the latter State the Republican majority was greatly
reduced. The result of the Ohio elections is
doubtful." This shows that the tide is at last
turning in the United States. The long lease
of power held by the Republican party is now
about to be disputed. Pennsylvania, more than
any other State, is an indicator of the drift of
public opinion in America. The parties in that
great State have always been pretty evenly bal-
anced, and elections there are considered a sure sign
of the bent of the popular mind. The population is
so large, the interest so vast and varied, that one
man cannot produce preponderating influence, and
the State is not therefore swayed by sudden im-
pulses. To whatever cause it may be due, the fact
is now certain that the rule of the Republican
party will cease to derive the great strength it
has hitherto exerted from the national sympathy
with its objects. It is probable that this change
would have occurred sooner had it not been for the
President's mad tour of last year. A strong oppo-
sition is productive of great good, and we have
no doubt that the checks now received will have a
wholesome effect on the extreme Radicals. The
feeling is general that the negro party are pushing
their reforms beyond the bounds of reason, and it
will be well for the country if a strong reaction
does not follow. The last number of ',rank
Leslie gives forcible expression to this in an
illustration, in which negroes are sketched transact-
ing business, with all their peculiar type of figure and
face developed to an exaggeration, and still true to
life. A glance at once suggests the question to the
mind, which must have been the idea of the
artist—Are these to be the future legislators and
rulers of the Southern States? Even in Louisiana
the Republicans are said to be apprehensive of
defeat in the election of delegates.
Prussia has addressed invitations to Bavaria,
Wurtemburg, Baden, Luxemburg, and Austria to
send representatives to a conference in Berlin to
consider the questions of the postal system and of
a postal convention between Austria and Germany.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

NORWICH-SATURDAT.

White wheat (weighing 631 b), 75s to 78s ; red aitto ,
(weighing 631 b), 66s to 72s per qr. Flour, 49s Od to Ms Od
por sack. New barley, 42s to 4,1 s per qr.

NOTTINGUAM-SATURDA.Y.

Money has lately become more stringent, and is in ac-
tive demand at 7 per cent. Second-rate paper is selling at
Bto 10. Gold is also higher, the fluctuations being con-
siderable. It closed at 144, after selling at 1421.

Old white wheat, 76s to 81s ; old red, 70s to 73s ; new
white, 76s to 83s ; new red, 68s to 74s per 36 stone. Oats,
old, 34s to 38s ; new, 27s to 33s per 24 stone. Beans, old,
48s to 52s ; new, 46s to 52s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 50s
to 52s per sack.

Exchange is quoted as follows :—London, 60 days, 1091
to 109} ; sight, 110} to 1101; Paris, long, 5.16; ; do.,
short, 5.13*; Antwerp, 5.18* to 5.171; Swiss, 5.18; to
5.17 i ; Hamburg, 36; Amsterdam, 41; Frankfort, 40/ to
41; Bremen, 781; Berlin, 711 to 72.
For the week ending to-day the following have been the
exports from New York to foreign ports, as well as the
returns for this year, compared with those of 1865 and
1866, excluding specie :-
1865. 1866. 1867.
For the week 53,705,475 $3,335,610 $3,425,523
Previously reported„ 111,201,359 139,950,607 130,146,817

Since January 1 $114,903,834 143,286,217 133,572,310
The transactions at the Sub-Treasury wore—Receipts
for customs, $656,000 ; receipts for gold notes, $74,000;
total ieceipts, $2,697,506 53c. Total payments, $1,324,487
83c.; balance, $122,029,649 570.
The market for Government Stocks is steady, and a fair
amount of business transacted ; and this may be also said
of States Stocks. The miscellaneous market is excited, a
considerable rise having taken place to-day. The crowd
followed the operations of some leading " bulls," and the
" bears" were caught by the rise, which they helped by
their endeavours to buy back. Michigan Southern was
especially active ; reports being in circulation that the
price was controlled by a few strong buyers. Much busi-
ness Was done in Erie, which closed at 621. The market
was not so strong at the close of the day, though still re-
maining excited. Money has become tighter at Chicago,
though still abundant. The best paper is done at 10 per
cent., but the "street" prices for discount are at 1 to 11 per
cent. per month. At Cincinnati the money market is
steady, the rates ranging from 9to 12 per cant. The fol-
lowing are among the last prices of the leading stocks:—
New York Central, 1081 to 1081, Erie 621 to 621, Reading
1011 to 102, Michigan Southern, 831 to 84, Cleveland and
Pittsburgh 80, Rock Island 1011 to 1011, North-Western
Common 411 to 411, North-Western Preferred 651 to 66,
Fort Wayne 102.

(From Messrs. Bowles, Brevet, and Co.'s Circular.)
Paris, Oct. 11, 1867.
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