The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-21 00:00:00

Black Sea where cholera exists will be subject to
five days' quarantine over and above the term of 10

days imposed at Constantinople.

It is expected

that Italy will place Constantinople itself in qua-

rantine. At Malta the weather continues mild and
healthy, and it seems likely we shall be blessed with

early rains, the want of which last year was severely
felt by the population. Already there have been
some slight showers. The fresh westerly winds have
filled our port with numerous sailing vessels, chiefly
from Welsh ports and the Tyne, laden with coal,

which has become almost a drug in the market, and
has been selling at very low prices. Many thousand

tons remain yet on handon account of the difficulty
of finding store accommodation. The following no-

tice has been issued by the Malta Government :
" The officer administering the Government having

heard the opinion of the Board of Health has been
pleased to direct that all vessels sailing on and after
the Ist inst. from the ports of Cronstadt, Antwerp,
the Netherlands, Stockholm, and Stettin, and from
any port in France between Nantes and Dunkirk
inclusive, and that all vessels sailing on and after
the Bth inst., from Algiers, Tarar to, Brindisi, ports
in the Black Sea, and Constantinople, be subjected
to a quarantine of 15 full days from the day of
arrival in this port. By command, R. C. LEGIT,
Acting Chief Secretary to Government. Palace,
Valetta, Aug. 14."
The Enchantress, Admiralty yacht, Staff Com-
mander Petley, returned to Portsmouth on Sunday
evening with Rear-Admiral G. 11. Seymour, C. 8.,
and Mr. Du Cane, M.P., two of the Lords of the
Admiralty, accompanied by Lord H. G. Lennox,
First Secretary to the Admiralty, from Portland,
on their return to London.
The Gladiator, paddle, Capt. D'O. D'A. Aplin,
went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday to coal
and receive provisions and stores.
The Hector, ironclad ship, Capt. W. G. Luard,
arrived at Spithead on Sunday evening from Port-
land.
The Pallas, armour-plated screw corvette, Capt.
M. Connolly, arrived at Spithead on Sunday even-
ing from Portland.
Her Majesty's surveying vessel Nassau commis-
sioned for her first voyage to the Pacific by Captain
Richard C. Mayne, having shipped the whole of her
sea stores, yesterday went down from the dockyard
to the red buoy off Woolwich Arsenal, and received
her ammunition, shot, shell, &c. She is under
orders to perform her official trip to-day at the mea-
sured mile, and will return to Greenhithe to adjust
compasses for sea.
The War Department steam store ship Lord Pan-
inure, Mr. Spriddle, master, arrived at Woolwich
yesterday with a cargo of returned stores from
Portsmouth, after unshipping a number of powder
barrels at Purfleet ; and the Thames, Mr. E. Hornsey,
master, belonging to the same service, sailed from
Woolwich Arsenal with Tower stores for Chatham,

calling at Purfleet to fill in her magazine.
Intelligence has been received at Chatham of the
great success which has attended the ocean trial of
the two French screw steamers Ville de Paris and
the Pereire, both of which were constructed at the
Govan Works, Glasgow, by Messrs. Napier, the
same firm which is now building the iron screw
troopship Malabar, 4,173 tons, 700-horse power,
one of the large transports designed by Mr. Reed,
for the conveyance of troops to India. During the
run from Brest to New York the average speed
realized by the Ville de Paris was 13.77 knots,
while the Pereire made a run of even more extra-
ordinary quickness, the voyage from New York to
Brest, which is 26 miles further from New York
than Liverpool, and 225 miles farther than Queens-
town, being accomplished in eight days 22 hours,
giving an average speed of exactly 14 knots per
hour—a rate of ocean steaming which is believed to
be without a parallel.
The Bth Hussars, under the command of Lieut.-
Col. Macnaghten, will leave Aldershott Camp to-
morrow, and proceed as follows :—Head-quarters
and one squadron to Birmingham, and one squad-
ron to Coventry, Northampton, and Weedon re-
spectively.
A and B troops of the C Brigade Royal Horse
Artillery left headquarters, Woolwich, yesterday
morning, and commenced their march for the camp
at Aldershott. The troops were in command re-
spectively of Capt. J. R. Sladen, holding the rank
of Major in India, and Capt. and Brevet-Major H.
P. Bishop. The remainder of the officers were as
follows :—Second-Capts. M. M. Fitzgerald, A.
Rotton, G. F. Blackwood, and G. S. Harvey ;
Lieuts. E. F. Chapman, M. G. Browne, A. D.
Anderson, and A. H. Murray. The strength of
the troops consisted of 10 officers and 344 non-com-
missioned officers and privates, and were distributed
for the route in the following manner :-8 officers
and 287 men, with 286 horses, by road ; and 2
officers, 57 men, 56 women, and 60 children pro-
ceeded by rail.
The D battery, B Brigade, Royal Horse Artil-
lery, under the command of
.Lieut.-Col. Michell,
left Aldershott on Friday, and proceeded to Dor-
chester.
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and proceeded by rail to Hilsea.
The 2d and 3d batteries Ist Brigade Garrison
Artillery, headquarters Gibraltar, are under orders
for Bermuda, and batteries 4,5, and 6 of the same
brigade are ordered for departure to Halifax.
The depot companies of the 2d battalion 17th
Regiment and 106th Regiment (Bombay Light In-
fantry) arrived at Chatham garrison late on Sunday
evening from Ireland, having disembarked at Graves-
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and 110 privates, women and children
F. Churchill, and J. J. Mallandine. The
E. B. Gardyne, Lieut. C. L. Heathcote, Ensign G.
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also disembarked at Gravesend detachments of non-
commissioned officers and men belonging to the 3d
(Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards, 6th Carabi-
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number of 113 men of all ranks, for transfer to the
depots of their respective corps at Chatham, Canter-
bury, Woolwich, Maidstone, and other stations.
Yesterday Major-Gen. A. B. Stransham, the In-
spector-Gen. of Royal Marine Light Infantry, pro-
ceeded with his half-yearly inspection of the Chat-
ham division of Royal Marines Light Infantry at
head-quarters, taking it from the point completed on
Saturday. Last evening Gen. Stransham was enter-
tained at dinner by the officers of the division.
A deputation from the Sandgate
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and George.
Health, consisting of Messrs., William Pledge
Nerhaaki
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the at' bject of the drainage at Shorncliffe Camp.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1866.

The news from the Continent is now decreasing
in interest and importance, but still there are con-
stantly some details which engage attention, in
consequence of all that has to be done. The King
of PRUSSIA has received the members of the Upper
House, who came in a deputation to present the
address in reply to the speech from the Throne.
His MAJESTY has also been much engaged in
giving interviews to Foreign Ministers, no doubt
for the purpose of settling the various an-
nexations and changes that are to take place.
In the Lower house the committee on the
Bill for the elections to a German Parliament
met, and the Government informed them concern-
ing their intentions in the future. The whole
of Prussia is to belong to the new Confederation,
and a bill is to be drawn up in conjunction with the
other Confederate Governments to determine the
completing of the new Bund. The aim of the
authorities was to send the Government Commis-
sioner to bring about a material as well as personal
union of the annexed States with Prussia. It is
some satisfaction to find that the Berlin Government
have decided not to annex any portion of Hesse-
Darmstadt, which will retain all its present territory.
The provinces to the right of the Maine will,
however, form part of the North German Con-
federation. Some modification has also taken place
in the demands for territorial acquisitions of Lich-
tenfels and Culrabach. It is indeed high time that
there should be some appearance of propriety
manifested in one direction or another, for people'
had begun to wonder when and where they would
see the end of Prussian encroachments and require-
ments.

There is no doubt that the French people are
much disappointed at the turn of affairs, and
regard the result of the war as a failure. Of
course this feeling is heightened by the circumstance
that they had expected a great deal of interest and
excitement from it, but they have seen the Power
they dislike and doubt gradually advancing to the
summit of influence, and acquiring an increase of
territory far beyond what was expected or believed
to be possible in so short a time. A very discon-
tented feeling prevails in Paris respecting the course
pursued by Prussia, and the confusion that has
arisen concerning the rectification of the frontier
question has naturally tended to increase the evil.
Some day the Prussians will better appreciate all
this disfavour that they have drawn upon themselves
than they are likely to do now, elated as they are
by success, and puffed up by self-conceit until
they hardly know what they are about, and care
little or nothing for what is said of them. The
semi .official journal, the Pays, alludes to the circum-
stance of the discontent prevailing in Paris, that
Prussian arguments should be sufficient to outweigh
the wishes of the French people. it is there said
that "if the French people do entertain one fer-
vent wish at present, that wish is anything but for
peace. There can be no doubt that it would be far
easier at present for the Imperial Govern-
ment to lead the French people to war
against Germany, than to induce them to
put up quietly with the changes about to take place
there to the profit of Prussia." Those who flatter
themselves that Prussia will have all the game to
herself will eventually find themselves mistaken,
because when the great gains she has now acquired
are consolidated, she is certain to push her preten-
sions to such an extent that the French, already
most irrascible on the point, will became too indig-
na,ct to brook the matter any longer. Under the
best management we believe that it would be diffi-
cult to avoid coming into collision with France, but
as things are carried on by the Berlin Government
it seems impossible that offence should not be taken
sooner or later.

The accounts from New Zealand are, upon the
whole, encouraging, and the news brought by the
mail tells us no longer of siege and surrender, of
plot and counterplot, of flying columns and stroll..
entrenchments. If we had still the same exciting
narrative, our attention would probably be diverted
from it by the more pressing claims of European
politics, since the independence of our colonists
was never really in jeopardy. At the same time we
Cannot but feel great satisfaction at the termination
of hostilities, not only on account of the present

expense and inconvenience to the colonists, but be-
cause a war of that kind offers such formidable ob-
stacles to the social progress and internal develop-
ment of a young State. It is impossible for trade
and commerce to thrive, for industry to prosper,
for agriculture to be profitably pursued, and for any

of the arts of peace to flourish, amid the disturb-
ances and excitements of any war, more especially-
of a war :with semi-savages in a half - cultivated
State, where the suburban population have to take
refuge in the towns, and in which the great idea of
the enemy is to lay in wait and to destroy. It is
encouraging therefore to those who interest them-
selves in the future of New Zealand to learn from
Wellington that not only does the north island re-
main quiet, but that tribe after tribe continue to
send in expressions of their desire for peace. They

are sometimes unwilling to make a formal submis

sion, owing to the degradation which they consider
is involved in the admission of having been con-
quered, and it is not thought necessary to extort
this from them, but those on the spot fee] neverthe-
less confident of their future pacific intentions.
The tone of the relations between the white men
and the natives is said to be. altered, and whereas
the colonists used to complain before the war that
every one was afraid to interfere with the Maories,
who were suffered to insult and despoil them as
they liked, it is now stated that even the local
magistrates speak with authority, and insist
upon being obeyed. A strict upholding of law
and order is quite consistent with a full
regard for the rights and privileges of the
natives, only it will be necessary to guard against
further disputes respecting the tenure of land. It
should be clearly and unmistakably decided what
districts belong to the natives, and they should be
left in undisturbed possession. It would be well
for a time at least to avoid even making any offers
to purchase the land which is native property, since
by so doing the whites are apt to get involved in
wearisome disputes as to rights of ownership and
the rival claims of tribes and families. Now that the
natives have been made to feel the strength of Euro-
peans and have been forced into submission, it is
to the interest of the colonists no less than of the
Maories to preserve the hardly-earned peace. Any
mere temporary advantage in the acquisition of
land, or any other object, will be dearly bought by
the renewal of those disturbances which not only
interfere with the trade and progress of the island,
but hinder immigration and damage the reputation
of the country. Industrial and respectable me-
chanics, artisans, and agriculturists emigrating with
their families are the very people whom New Zea-
land most wants ; but it cannot be expected that
they will be likely to select a new country that is
disturbed and unsafe, in which they will be liable
to native attacks, and may be called on to bear the
expenses of a war. An interesting incident in re-
lation to this question of immigration is mentioned
in the news just received from New Zealand. Bishop
MONIZAD, formerly Prime Minister of Denmark, has
been visiting at Government House. The object of
his visit has been to settle his sons near Wellington,
and to report the advantages which the colony
offers to the many Danish families who are anxious
to avoid the results of the war in their own country.
New Zealand possesses many attractions for a quiet
pastoral people, and they would form a useful addi-
tion to the population. The colony has every pro-
spect of a fair and prosperous future, if only the
renewal of internal disturbances can be avoided,
and this we trust may be done by a wise combina-
tion of firmness and conciliation, and by strict
justice in the division of the lands.

It is quite impossible to understand the doings of
the Emperor of ABYSSINIA, but the public will learn
I with regret that the intelligence conveyed by her
MAJESTY'S steamer Victoria, on its return to Aden,
was that the Rev. Mr. STEIR and the other captives
had again been imprisoned, and that Mr. RASSA3I
had also been made a prisoner. This information
is the more distressing, because it was hoped that by
this time these much-tried men were set at liberty.
The only conclusion we can arrive at is that they
must, by some means or other, have offended the
irascible potentate who now regulates their destinies.
There is an account from the Times of India, which
records the meeting of Mr. RASSA3I with the Emperor
THEODORUS. It would seem from this that the most
favourable intentions prevailed concerning the fate
of the captives, but so false and fickle are these un-
civilised people that there is really no placing any
reliance upon their doings or sayings. They are far
more to be trusted when they make vows of ven-
geance than when they make professions of friend-
ship, and so those unfortunate captives and their
friends have found to their cost. The particulars
are not given to us of the detention of Mr. RASSAM
and the prisoners who arrived subsequently to the
meeting referred to. It seems almost incredible that
this should have taken place after the flattering
speeches and complimentary acts here recorded.
Three miles from the camp Mr. RASSA3I and his
friends received a message that his MAJESTY would
have all his officers of state to meet them, and
escort them to the court. In the interview which
subsequently took place nothing could exceed the
courteousness of the EMPEROR, who went into
details about his grievances. Exaggerated as his
statements of course were, it will readily be per-
ceived by those who dwell upon them, that great
mismanagement prevailed at the earlier stage of
this business, and that the late Government con-
trived by their conduct to exasperate the EMPEROR
until he scarcely seemed to know what he was about.
We can also see how mistaken was the course pur-
sued by Mr. CAMERON and the missionaries, in in-
censing the authorities as they did by their unwise
demeanour and excited language. The EMPEROR
dwelt particularly upon the indignation he felt at
their conduct, but Mr. RASSA3I contrived at that
time to soothe the excitable monarch. The next
day, at another interview, the EMPEROR repeated
his charges against the European prisoners, but de-
clared that he was glad to see Air. ItassAm at last.
' He also gave Mr. RASSAM a letter he had written
to the Queen of ENGLAND in reply to one which
that gentleman had brought him from her Majesty.
In this epistle he said that he had forgiven the
European prisoners, and made them over to Mr.
RAss km. The EMPEROR also received the presents
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arrival of the prisoners. During
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had an opportunity of witnessing the fierce disposi-
tion of the EMPEROR, for they passed two districts
which were to be destroyed, and left as a waste
and a warning to other places not to provoke his
wrath by their rebellion. During the conversation
they had together the EMPEROR told Mr. IZAssA3t
why he had kept him waiting so long before seeing
him. Ile wished to find out if he was different
from the other English he had known, but he
has now seen he was patient. Several presents
were made to Mr. RASSAM by the EMPEROR, and
they parted on the best terms, the former having
wisely prevented his MAJESTY from seeing the pri-
soners as he intended for fear of any altercation
taking place. A. Court was held in the tent of Mr.
11,15$Am, and all the released prisoners confessed

Chat they had done wrong, and preyed for his
MAJESTY'S forgiveness. It is a sad falling off,
after all these hopeful accounts, to find that gloom
Spas again overshadowed the prospect, and that Mr.
RASSAM himself has been made a prisoner.

The number of deaths from preventible causes
amount to a very large proportion of our annual
mortality. Even setting aside those occasioned by
typhus and other diseases directly due to defective
sanitary conditions, and taking those caused by ac-
cidents, we shall find the result to he sufficiently
startling. The railways have to answer for the un-
timely end of a good many in the course of the
year, not only from the catastrophes on the lines
when in full traffic, but from the numerous disasters
in the course of construction, and the numbers
of men who meet their deaths in crossing
the lines, shunting the carriages, repairing, plate-
laying, &c. Many of these are due to the careless-
ness or disobedience of the men themselves, as is
the case with a good many of those terrible mining
disasters which every now and then excite our pity
and horror. Sometimes, however, the accidents
arise from the faults of the owners of property,
from the habit some of them have of estimating
money above life ; or, in other words, of think-
ing it of more importance that they should save
a few pounds than that a man's life and limbs
should be preserved from needless risk. Thus
too many small shipowners send their ships
round our dangerous coasts ill-found and in-
sufficiently manned. Often they are unseaworthy,
and if the men employed venture to remonstrate
they are told that their places can easily be sup-
plied. It is not often, however, that the men are
wiser than their employers, and our wreck
register may tell the result. The disasters at
sea, however, are more often due to carelessness
than to wilful neglect. We cannot account for the
recent fearful collisions otherwise than by attribut-
ing great negligence to those whose duty it was to
hare kept the look out, since the sea was wide
enough and the weather not unfavourable. A mist
or sea fog may account for a collision, but if ships
are to run against each other on fine clear nights,
such as last Saturday, it does not say much for our
improved seamanship.
Among the list of deaths from preven tible causes
we may certainly include those of the victims of the
llolborn catastrophe. It appears from the evidence
given at the inquest that there had been great ne-
glect on the part of the landlords. They did not,
of course, anticipate a disaster like that which has
occurred, but they cannot be acquitted of the
moral responsibility, since they were bound
to see that the houses -which they owned
were at least safe to inhabit. It seems that sixteen
months ago a beam fell down which had propped
the wall of the house and that it was never replaced,
although a neighbour had repeatedly directed atten-
tion to the rotten state of the building. The house
was inhabited by very poor persons, who could
neither afford to make repairs themselves nor to
offend their landlord. How many similar cases are
there in our respectable and benevolent metropolis?
The landlords, however, get off with a mere verbal
reproof, so that the " property," which, it seems
from the evidence, ranks much higher than mere
human life, is unaffected. If the loss which chari-
table persons are subscribing to make up to the poor
homeless people were obliged to be defrayed by the
landlord of the fallen house, we should hear less of
such disasters.