The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-06 00:00:00

to elect him, and many of whom have suffered all
sorts of persecutions on his account, declining the
honour of going to the poll at the next election. The

Minister of Fomento (Public Works) is, it is said, pre-
paring a number of decrees relative to public works,
all of which works are to be done by contract,
" the confidence of capitalists in the stability of the
Government being such," says a Ministerial
organ, " that all the contracts lately made are
very advantageous to the country, and contrast
strongly with the scandals of other times."
The treaty with Portugal concerning interna-
tional communications had been modified, and was
about to be ratified. At Albacete, the Liberal party
had, like the same party at Valencia and in some
other places, signed an address declaring confidence
in the present Administration. The Queen had
conferred the grand cross of the Order of Charles

111. on the Pope's Nuncio. The Queen and King
had received the Prince de Partona, Sicilian
Minister, who presented to their Majesties, in the
name of the King of the Two Sicilies, the grand
cross of the Royal Order of Merit of Naples for
the Prince of the Asturias. The Progressist com-
mittee on the elections had published an ad-
dress to the electors, in which, whilst abstain-
ing from any eulogium on the existing Cabinet,
they exhorted them to examine its various acts with

impartiality. The Peninsular Correspondence
contains the following :—" The Supreme Court of
Justice is much occupied just now with appeal
cases concerning the rectification of the election
lists, which cases are not fewer than 17,000 in
number, and though a great many of them are so
exactly alike that they may be soon despatched
after a first judgment can serve as a precedent, yet
it would have been impossible to gat through them
all by the 10th of this month, the day fixed
for the election, had not the Supreme Court
appointed a sufficient number of supplemen-
tary tribunals, and called on the deputy
fiscals and crown barristers to help to for-
ward the business. Many of the objections to
votes are founded on legal subtleties, and in these
cases the Minister's orders will be carried out, that
is to say, the spirit of the law will be attended to
rather than its letter. Nor are these matters the
only things that will afford work to the gentlemen
of the long robe. During the incessant personal
warfare which has lately been carried on by the
newspapers it has been impossible to avoid many
a libel. The Ministerial organ, the Diario Es-
panol, has entered an action against the four news-
papers, which, as has been stated, have solemnly
excommunicated it from newspaper communion.
They in their turn have had recourse to the tri-
bunals for alleged libels against them. Some of the
absolutist journals have legal accounts to settle
with the tribunals on account of Crown prose-
cutions, and one or two are under prosecution for
libel. As if there were not journals enough already,
we are threatened with the appearance of another,
which I suspect is to be very aggressive, for I have
observed these last days in the advertising sheet,
the Peru, an advertisement in the largest type,
Wanted urgently, a responsible editor'—a func-
tionary in these days not easy to be found. It is to
be observed, too, that though there are so many daily
journals there are no two of them that are of the same
opinion. Thus of the absolutist journals, one advo-
cates as openly as the public prosecutor will allow
the advent of Don Carlos's son with a sort of monar -
chico-theolocratical government ; another, the Mo-
narquia (a paper written with much elegance of style)
pleads in favour of absolute monarchy with Isabella
11., and as a sort of palliative the fueros or ancient
privileges of the provinces to vote their own taxes.
Of the progressista prints the most violent is that
which is edited by a devout apothecary named
Calvo Asensio, a man of some reputation in science,
who wrote himself into celebrity during the last
six months of the San Luis administration, and
who, as member of the first Parliament chosen
during Espartero's rule, gave proofs of talent that
raised him to the first rank amongst parliamentary
orators. As his opinions were much too advanced
for him to have a place in the Administration,
he has commenced a system of personal
attacks which have at least the merit of being
amusing. Pursuant to the tendency among Span-
ish writers there is scarcely a ministry or a section
of political men that has not some nickname.
Thus in 1854, Collantes and San Luis' partisans
were called the Polacos or Poles, and Calvo Asensio
has given the present Government the nickname of
the 'lrish Ministry,' probably with a view of ex-
citing a feeling of nationality amongst the Spanish
people, who are proverbially jealous of foreigners.
The nickname, however, appears thus far to have no
adhesive property, for though it has been repeatedly
applied by the ex-pharmacologist's daily journal,
and though it has been eagerly repeated by his
contemporaries, the public cannot somehow or
other connect the designation Irishman' with
anything detrimental to their rights or contrary
to their prosperity.

The Indipendente of Turin declares the visit of
Prince Napoleon to Warsaw to be an event of great
political importance, as being, it thinks, the prelude
to an alliance between France, Russia, and Pied-
mont, hostile to Austria. The Indipendente regards
the intention manifested by the Emperor Alexan-
der 11. to visit Paris, the facilities accorded by the
Sardinian Government to a Russian company, and
the augmentation of the French garrison at Rome,
as proofs that such an alliance is in contemplation.

GREAT GLOBE, LEICESTER-SQUAI?E.

Certainly the most attractive, and at the same
time the most instructive lessons in geography, are
those which are daily given at the exhibition in
Leicester-square. No incident or discovery occurs
in any part of the world of general interest but
Mr. Wyld's indefatigable agents immediately for-
ward accurate drawings of the locality, with such
minute descriptions as enable the talented ar-
tists who are employed at home to present them
presently, depicted in all the vividness of form
and colour, as additions to the dioramic views which
have for some years past formed so valuable a
supplement to the popular exhibition of the "Great
Globe itself." In this way we have been made ac-
quainted with the actual features of the most pro-
minent scenes of the Indian mutiny. We have wit-
nessed the sieFe of Delhi, we have sailed up the
Hooghly—visited the city of palaces, pushed on into
the interior—take a peep within the walls of Be-
flares, Allahabad, and Agra, and paid a visit to
those palaces which must henceforth be replete with
interest, as the arenas of British suffering and
British triumphs, Cawnpore and Lucknow. The
- conclusion of the treaty of Tien-tsin, which has
opened a new field for European enterprise, has, at
the same time, afforded a new field for the display
of Mr. Wyld's indefatigability in increasing the
interests of his museum, and of the talents of his
artists. In addition to the views of Hong Kong,
Canton, the Bocca Tigris, &c., he has opened a series
of views of the less known portions of China, to
which Europeans and Americans are henceforward
to be freely admitted. These new views, which are
exceedingly well painted, consist of the Port of
Amoy and the Ankoi hills, Foo Chow Foo and its
harbour Ningpo Chusan, with the town of Tinghai,
Shanghai, Nankin,
the Gulf of Pichele, and the ter-
mination of the great wall, the outside wall of
Pekin, and a sort of bird's eye view of the interior
of Pekin, as seen from the palace of the chief man-
darin, which, by an ingenious arrangement of the
lights, is presented at sunset, twilight, and moon-
light. These views are, like those of India, accom-
panied by an instructive lecture, in which Mr.
Livingston, the able lecturer, gives a lucid descrip-
tion of the most marked natural characteristics,
works of art, and historical occurrences which are
connected with each scene as it is brought under
the eye of the spectator.
Another feature of importance in this exhibition
appropriate to the present moment is the marking
out on the Great Globe model the course of all the
existing and proposed courses of telegraphic com-
munication, Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian,
and the discoveries of Dr. Livingstone, which also
form the subject of a most interesting lecture.

REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.—On Friday, Sept.
20, 1754, the Earl of Drumlanrig, eldest son of the Duke of
Queensberry, was on his journey from Scotland with the
Duke (his father) in one post-chaise, and the Duchess (his
mother) with Lady Drumlamig in another, and being tired
with riding in the chaise, got on horseback. Soon after-
wards his pistol accidentally went off, and killed him on the
spot.—London Magazine, xxiii. 477. On Friday, August
6, 1858, the Marquis of Queensberry, at his seat, Kinmount,
Dumfriesshire, went out with his gun to shoot rabbits, and
was found dead from his gun having gone off, and shot
him from the left breast through to the back.—Notes and
Queries,

FINE ARTS.

Portrait qf ILB,H, the Prince of Walee Photo-
graphed by Lake Price. Lithographed by R. J.
Lane, &c. Mitchell.

An admirable and life-like portraiture of the heir
to the throne has recently been published by Mr.
Mitchell, the eminent Bond-street bookseller and
print-publisher. It is copied from a photograph
taken by special permission, from the life, at
Windsor Castle, in 1857, by Mr. Lake Price, one of
the most skilled and brilliant of living photogra-
phers. A lithographic plate, precisely the size of
the original photograph, has been produced by the
united ability of Mr. R. J. Lane, A.E.R.A., of Mr.
J. H. Lynch, and of Mr. W. Gauci—the printing
of the impressions having been judiciously entrusted
to M. and N. Hanhart. The dimensions of the
engraving are 16 inches by 11. The production
has been dedicated to her Majesty, by her Majesty's
gracious permission. As a work of art, it is exqui-
sitely finished. As a transcript from nature, it is
scrupulously faithful. It represents the young
Prince in Highland costume—a dead bird in one
hand, a fowling-piece in the other, the chieftain's
feather in his glengarry. Altogether, it is not the
least morsel in the world like that familiar repre-
sentation of H.R.H. as he appeared when a child
of five or six, dressed like a sailor. But then a
dozen years have elapsed since that charming por-
trait was taken—the Prince of Wales being by this
time very nearly seventeen.

THE WESTERN BANK OF SCOTLAND.

Last Monday week Mr. Buchanan, the member
for Glasgow, at a meeting of his constituents, de-
nounced the terms of unjustifiable severity with
which Scotch banking and Scotch trading have been
alluded to during the present year in the House of
Commons and elsewhere, and concluded his oration,
in the style of Sir Archibald Alison when touching
on the same subject, by a proud declaration that,
considering its extensive commerce, Glasgow should
congratulate herself on the triumphant manner in
which she had come out of the late crisis. This
afternoon a copy has been received of the report
made yesterday to the shareholders of the 'Western
Bank. Mr. Buchanan, being a merchant of Glas-
gow, must, while he was delivering the address in
question, have had some reason to apprehend the
state of things that would be unfolded by this
document, and an abstract of its contents will ac-
cordingly enable the public to estimate the true
characteristics of the picture which can be contem-
plated with so much complacency. The paid-up
capital of the Western Bank of Scotland was
£1,500,000, and after its stoppage it was found
that, in addition to the loss of the whole of this
amount, the shareholders would have to provide a
further heavy sum, the deficiency estimated being
£304,692. The amount paid on each share was
£5O, and the liquidators made an additional call of
£25, one half of which fell due in March, and the
other half in June last. Thus every holder of
£l,OOO in the concern, in addition to the loss of
the whole of his investment, was required almost
immediately to provide a further sum of £5OO. Of
course a number of the shareholders were reduced
to destitution by the first blow, and could, there-
fore, make no answer to the demand, but on the
whole it resulted in drawing in, for the purposes of
the liquidation, £440,000, and is expected to yield
about £65,000 more. But this aggregate of
£505,000 now proves altogether inadequate. The
original estimate of the deficiency was incor-
rect, and, instead of £304,692, it has reached
£1,421,948. Another call is consequently announced,
and this time to the extent of £lOO per share.
That is to say, every holder of £l,OOO, in addition
to the loss of his investment and the subsequent
payment of £5OO, is now required to furnish a fur-
ther sum of £2,000. This payment, moreover, is to
be made promptly, the time allowed for the whole
being only to the Ist of next month. The calcu-
lation is that, out of the 1,300 families represented
by the share list, the utter and irretrievable ruin of
nme-tenths will be sealed by this new compulsion.
And the charges which have led to the increased
gloom of the affair are such as to prove that all
that has been said of the gang who were using the
funds of the deluded shareholders to figure as great
merchants and demoralise the entire trade of the
country, has fallen short of the actual facts. The
liquidators now announce that the loss "sustained
through four firms alone—John Monteith and Co.,
D. and J. Macdonald and Co., Godfrey Pattison and
Co., and J. and W. Wallace—will be £833,163, in-
stead of £608,203, as first estimated. In addition,
other insolvents figure also for largely increased
amounts. Watson, Kinnear, and 130,548 ;
William Smith and Co., £34,861 ; Co.,Virm. Brown
and Co., £31,458 ; and Sohn Macvicar, £27,671.
The losses at the branches have also swollen from
£505,333, 01,585,026, and that on American ac-
count froml6o,ooo to £lOO,OOO. It is a mortify-
ing fact at the same time that, owing to the ad-
vance made by the Edinburgh banks in October
having been through sales of Consols, on the con-
dition that the stock should be ultimately replaced,
the subsequent recovery in the prices of the funds
will make an adverse difference of £43,000.
Nothing, therefore, could be more complete than
the misery that has fallen' upon all concerned.
There is scarcely a respectable home in Glasgow,
where either directly or indirectly some trace of the
affair is not felt, and its sting is greater from the
fact that, while the dream of villany and pro-
fusion was running its course, the mercantile
character of the entire city was exposed to a
degree of corruption which will leave its taint
for many years. Of the disgrace it brought upon
the nation at large every One is aware, as well ag of
the fact that it was the principal cause of the con-
vulsion that led to the violation of the currency
laws of the kingdom. The directors, moreover,
encouraged by the mutual toadying between the
aristocracy and merchant princes of the' district,
even from the first met the difficulty defiantly by
threatening the shareholders' and have since been
upheld by the Government. But the worst feature
of the history remains, and it lies in the fact, that
all the infamy that has been encouraged and all the
sufferings that have been brought on innocent heads
can serve to some minds as food for self-satisfied
congratulation, and that there are audiences like
that at Glasgow which attended on Mr. Buchanan
ready to cheer their heartless and unconscientious
egotism.— Times.

THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND.

BALMORAL, OCT. 3

Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, accompanied by the Ladies and Gentlemen
in Waiting, attended Divine service in the parish church,
Crathie.
The service was performed by the Rev. Dr. Macleod.

The Silesian Gazette states that in returning from War-
saw the Prince of Prussia met Prince Napoleon at Granitza,
a station on the Prussian frontier. The two Princes break-
fasted together, and afterwards remained in conference
about three-quarters of an hour.

Advices from Vienna state that the Empress of Austria
had so far recovered from her recent confinement that her
Majesty has commenced taking carriage exercise ; also that
the health of the little Imperial Prince is everything that
could be desired.

The Archduke Charles Louis, Governor of the Tyrol,
and youngest brother of the Emperor of Austria, has been
so much affected by the death of his wife, the Archduchess
Margeurite, that he intends, a Vienna letter states, to enter
a monastery.

Prince George of Prussia arrived at Venice on the 29th
ult. from Milan.

The Duke and Duchess of Modena arrived at Bologna on
the 27th ult., on their way to Rome and Lorreto.
The King of the Belgians went from Brussels to Antwerp
on Saturday to visit the Exhibition of Fine Arts, returning
in the afternoon. His Majesty was received by the
governor of the province, the local authorities, and the
members of the municipality, and they attended his Ma-
jesty to the railway station on his departura.

The Lord Chancellor's rectory of Hillmartin,
near Calne, Wiltshire, has become vacant by the death of
the Rev. F. Fisher, M.A. The benefice is worth about
£5OO a-year.
CHURCH CONSECRATION AT SOUTHAMPTON.—On
Monday morning the Bishop of Winchester consecrated the
church of St. James, Southampton, in the presence of the
Ven. Archdeacon Wigram, M.A., rector of St. Mary's, the
Rev. H. Carey, rector of All-Saints, the Rev. Canon Nel-
son, vicar of Holy Rood, the Rev. John Langley, incum-
bent of St. Peter's, and a large body of the arochial
clergy. The sermon was preached by the bishop. The ltev.
W. H. White, 'B.A., formerly curate of Trinity Church,
Southampton, is the incumbent of St. James's.
THE CLOCK AT THE WESTMINSTER PALACE.—On
Monday the monster bell, known, as " Big Ben," which is
to sound the hours in the clock tower attached to the West-
minister Palace, was removed from- the beam by which it
been suspended for some months, under the superintendence
of Mr. Quorn, chief clerk of the works, and was safely placed
upon a " cradle" for the purpose of being passed to the base
of the tower, up the shaft of which it will be raised, to be
fixed to the machinery of the clock.
TIIE COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—The Chief Re-
gistrarship of the Court of Bankruptcy has become vacant
by the death of Mr. John Campbell. The appointment is
worth upwards of £2,000 a-year.
FALMOUTH.—The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic
Society held its autumnal exhibition and its 26th annual
meeting at the hall of the institution in this town, on
Wednesday last and three followings days. Sir Chas
Lemon, the president, occupied the chair, and a large assem-
blage of the gentry and other inhabitants of the county and
beyond attended, as usual, on the occasion. The display
of models and inventions in the mining and miscellaneous
departments, and of pictures and other contributions in art
and science, both domestic and foreign, were very choice
and numerous, and elicited marked commendation from the
judges of the several sections, who awarded a goodly num-
ber of money prizes and of the silver-and bronze medals of_
the society.