The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-25 00:00:00

Frankfort on the Maine

Vienna — 13 25 13 30
Trieste — 13 20 13 30
retersburgli
629`7
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples — 26 45 26 60

A report has been issued by the committee of in-
vestigation appointed at the general meeting of
shareholders of the Buenos Ayres Great Southern
Railway Company (Limited.) They conclude with
the following :
" Your committee have carefully inquired into the pro-
bable results of the future working of the line, as, howerer
satisfactory it may be to have the Government guarantee of
7 per cent , that is not a return with which the shareholders
should rest content. The returns, up to the present time,
are of too experimental a nature to afford any sulicient basis
for calculation on this subject ; but the opinion of Mr.
Parish and the engineers is in favour of a large increase in
traffic. Already villages are beginning to spring up at
various points in its course where there were previously
mere wastes. At Chascomus, the southern terminus of the
line, 72 miles from Bucinos Ayres, building has been stimu-
lated, and the population aloiig the line aro beginning to
understand the facilities which the railway presents to
them. Your committee refer on this head to the reports
of the general manager, already submitted by the directors
to the shareholders. The duty of striving to make the
dividend to the shareholders larger than that to be derived
from the Government guarantee imposes upon all con-
cerned the obligation of the greatest economy consistent
with efficient administration—an obligation which your
committee trust will be most rigidly observed both here
and at Buenos Ayres.
"HENRY WHEELER, Chairman ; H. P. BOWRING,
ABEL BUCKLEY, SPENCER HERAPATH, THOMAS
AIOXON, Members of the Committee of In-
vestigation."

SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.--Visitolll during
the week ending Sept. 22;—On Monday, Tuesday, and
Saturday, free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 11,353; on Wed
nesday, Thursday, and Friday (admission 6d.), from 10
a.m. till 6 pan, I,26l—total, 12,614. Average of corre-
sponding week in former years, 11,606. -Total from the
opening of the Museum, 6,316,612.
A letter from Miramar, in the New Free Press of
Vienna, states that the anniversary of the independence of
Mexico was celebrated there on the 15th by the execution
of a Te Deurn, at which the Empress Charlotte was pre-
sent, followed by a State dinner and the firing of salvoes
of artillery. Don Castillo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Don
Barandiaran, Ambassador at the Court of Vienna, as well
as the persons of her Majesby's suite, were invited to the
banquet.

A deices from Stockholm state that the new poli-
tical organisation-in Sweden will soon commence working.
The Four Orders of the States-General are, it may be re-
membered, now entirely abolished, and the Parliament
will henceforth consist only of an Upper and a Lower
Chamber.

THE WEATHER IN SCOTLAND._A change highly
favourable for the , progress of harvest operations has
occurred in the weather of the past two days. Both Satur-
day and Monday were fine autumn days ; with a gentle
breeze blowing from the south-east ; whilst at night the
moon shone with full " harvest" brilliance. The weather
has some appearance of being settled.—Scotsman.
HISTORY OF A PICTURE.—Sir Edwin Landseer's
picture of "A Distinguished Member of the Humane So-
ciety," so well-known by multitudinous engravings, has
been left to the nation by the late Mr. Newman Smith, and,
on the decease of his widow, will be added to the collection
in the National Gallery. Its history ignorth the telling.
The- artist, when dining with Mr. Newman Smith, was
greatly struck with the appearance of his Newfoundland
dog, and expressed a wish to paint its likeness. The dog
was therefore sent up to London, and, lying upon a table in
Landseer's studio, patiently gave the requisite number of
sittings. The figure is life size, and the painting is in the
artist's firmest and best style. Mr. Newman Sbomknh i t gaveced
him £BO for the picture, which would not now
down by Mr. Christie for a less sum than an
extra cypher
and would probably fetch the covetable
price of ~ .
four
figures." It is ono of which any nation 4 collection ,may
well be proad.=London Review.

A SHAM SANITARY INSPECTOR.--Yesterday, at
the Bradford Borough Court, Mr. M‘Gowen, the
town clerk of Bradford, appeared to prosecute a well-
dressed young man, name John Jackson, for having, while
representing himself as an officer of the Bradford corpora-
tion, obtained from several persons money and other pro-
perty under false pretences. On the 13th inst. the prisoner
went to several lodging and other houses in Bradford,
stated that he had been brought from Manchester, where
he was last employed, by the Bradford corporation, to in-
spect the town in reference to cholera, and was allowed to
make an inspection of those houses. At two of the houses,
Mrs. Fowler and Mrs. Hutchinson, on Church-hill, he
made an inspection of the lodging-rooms and beds, and of
the former he borrowed 2s. 6d. and obtained six cigars ;
and of the latter he obtained two chickens. The money
and the cigars and chickens were given to him solely on
the strength of his false representation, and with a desire
to conciliate the good opinion of a person they supposed
to be an important public functionary. The prisoner, who
is an old thief, was committed for trial.
Three men, named Merles, Pajol, and Bose, were
tried three days back at Agen for the murder of a
Spaniard, named Gonzales. Two of the accused
were quarrelling in a low wine-shop, when Gonzales
interposed to separate them. They, however, with
the third prisoner, then turned against Gonzales,
and when the last named quitted the house at night
followed him and killed him. Merles was condemned
to hard labour for life, Pajol to eight years' hard
labour, and Bon to aye yeArs' imprisonment.