The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-24 00:00:00

To commence at 7.

Especial Notice.—Three Grand Morning Representations
of the grand new Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN TOM
MOODY; or, Old Tow:er the Huntsman and the Goddess
Diana, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday
Jan. 2, IS6O, at Two o'clock each day.

OANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY

QUEEN,

And a Grand Se ection from 31eyerbeer's new opera of
DINORAII.

Comic Vocalists —Messrs. (1-eorme.., Hodson (the Trish Come-
dian and W. 'C. Critzhileid, and E. W. Mackney.

Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been. re-decorated and
beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
ROSA BON Fl EU R' S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 24.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
47—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.
BARomwren.-29.14—a fall of half an inch since yesterday.
Wnm, South-Westerly; light, with fine mild weather
—some rain it the night.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 24,4859.

Again the star of our Indian Empire is unclouded
—and, looking at it now, as the storm clouds of
revolt are rolling off and scattering into thin air
upon that far Eastern horizon, there it is still, still
manifestly in the ascendant ! If we are to believe
the statements put forward by the Bombay Times,
changes in truth of the most important character
give promise of accelerating in a remarkable man-
ner the progress throughout Hindostan of Anglo-
Indian developement. The constitution of the
Executive Council of the Viceroy—of the Cabinet,
in • other words, enabling his Excellency the
Governor-General to carry on the affairs of adminis-
tration—is forthwith to undergo a thorough and
complete reorganisation. It is not simply that
modifications are to take place there, but the whole
machinery of the Anglo-Indian Government,
having its seat at Calcutta, is to be formally taken
to pieces, as it were, and to be (ab initio) recon-
structed.

The manner of this maturely premeditated re-
construction is explained, indeed, briefly, but
adequately by our Oriental contemporary. Ac-
cording to the statements advanced by the Bombay
limes, the members of the Executive Council of the
Viceroy are in the first place to become henceforth

in name, in rank, and in reality—Secretaries of

State. In which capacity, of course, they will be
• held responsible ministerially each of them for the
conduct of public affairs in his own department.
By reason of this arrangement it becomes apparently
inevitable that the present Secretaries shall take
due rank hereafter, not as Secretaries, but as
Under-Secretaries of State. The announcement
goes further, however, than this. It proceeds to
specify who are to be the first recipients of the
supreme prerogatives and responsibilities devolving
upon the chief among our Anglo-Indian Adminis-
trators. Only in one particular are we disposed to
question the accuracy of these supplementary in-
timations. And our solitary doubt applies to the
very first name, or rather to the very earliest and
highest title in the catalogue. It is said that at
the head of the newly-organised Indian Cabinet
there will be installed as President and Secretary
of- State for Political Affairs—Lord CANNING,
otherwise the peesent Governor-General of Hindos-
tan. That the Viceroy must necessarily take pre-
codence of all the other administrators of our In-
dian Empire, is of course not for an instant to be
doubted. It is his right. It is a part of the ar-
rangement that surely requires no notification,
under any conting mey, under any change of
events, under any possible course of circumstances.
Mais cela ca sans dire. f Or, let ns add—But he
takes precedence thus not so much by right of
his permanent administration in Ifindostan—not
in his capacity as President of the Executive

Council, much less as Secretary of State, or even

ag the first and foremost among the Secretaries of
State—but simply, clearly, obviously as the Go-
vernor-General, as the Viceroy, as the rep,resenta-
tkor or alter ego of the SOYEBEION. Besides-- ,

the title apiortioned to him thus at the head of the
hypothetical list is little less than a misnomer
and an egregious incongruity. "Secretary of
State for Political Affairs"—as if the other Secre-
taries of State were not for political affairs! As
if his colleagues were to be S3cretaries of State for
ethics, or for literature, or for something altogether
removed from the atmosphere of politics. That the
Viceroy or Governor-General, or call him whatever
else you may please (saving only Secretary of State
for Political Affairs !), will ipso facto, by right of his
supreme position as the Representative of the
SOVEREIGN, preside, whenever he sits at the board,
Over the deliberations of the Council or Cabinet—
that we readily admit as not only probable, but as
certain—because simply right, and in a manner, so
to speak, a necessity. But we are not by any
means disposed to credit the intimation that his
Excellency is about to drop down into a Secretary
of State, even if it be that astonishing phenomenon,
that painted lily and gilded gold, a Secretary of
State for Political Affairs. Apart from this—
the catalogue put forward in the Bombay Times
appears to us, not merely credible, but in an emi-
nent degree the very one, under existirg circum-
stances, most to be desiderated. One of these an-
nounced appointments is, of course, already known
—is notoriously un fait accompli—that of the
Right Hon. JAMES WILSON, henceforth, it scarcely
matters under what designation the new Indian
Minister of Finance, or Chancellor of the Exche-
quer. An admirable appointment in many re-
spects—whatever his crotchets or shortcomings in
this country—a really admirable appointment, in
many respects, in the general estimation among
this eminent financier's fellow-countrymen
here at home ! But there are two others
of these recently announced administrators of
the affairs of Hindostan yet remaining to be
particularised, two of the right men rarely put into
the right places, men whose names thus associated
with their respective offices can hardly be otherwise
than hailed by the vast majority with peculiar satis-
faction. Sir JAMES OUTRAM, the preux chevalier of
India, is to be the Secretary of State for War—and
Sir BAE.TLE FRERE Secretary of State for the
Home (meaning, of course, for the whole of the
internal Anglo-Indian) Department. Under aus-
pices like these may we not reiterate confidently
what we intimated at the outset of these remarks,
that the star of our Anglo-Indian Empire is still,
still in the ascendant !

It would have been difficult for Lord ELGIN to
have acquitted himself more admirably than he
did on Thursday afternoon by the delivery of his
inaugural address as Lord Rector of the Glasgow
University. It was somewhat of an ordeal even for
one so eminent in diplomacy and in statesmanship.
The immediate predecessor of the noble Earl in that
high and honourable office of the Lord Rector of
the University of Glasgow, and the immediate com-
petitor with him for its attainment through the
recent academic contest which had resulted
in Lord ELGIN'S nomination, were men of such
mark, of such rare capacity, of such literary,
and political, and oratorical eminence, that
the contrasts necessitated might well appear,
in a great measure, really formidable : even
to the distinguished Viceroy who had so long and
so admirably conducted the Government of Canada ;
and the world-famous Plenipotentiary who had so
recently, and so signally, evidenced his diplomatic
astuteness by his wonderfully rapid and skilful ne-
gotiations with the Chinese and Japanese Govern.
ments.

Nothing could possibly, however, have
been, at once, more singularly graceful
and effective than the complimentary
allusion, rather, we should say, the noble
eulogistic tributes to Sir BULWER LYTTON and
Mr. DISRAELI, by which Lord ELGIN, in the
very exordium of his Address, at once waived the
possibility of an invidious comparison. "I know
fug well," said he, " that the office which I now so
unworthily fill has been held by a succession of
eminent men, whose high reputation and great
literary attainments have lent weight and autho-
rity to the counsels which they have proffered
from this place." The noblo lord might have
added that the last of these eminent men,
the right honourable baronet, his immediate pre-
decessor, had been so regarded, had been held in
such esteem by the University, that to him had
been vouchsafed an honour, a threefold honour
never before accorded by the Glasgo University
to any Englishman—Sir EDWARD BULWER
LYTTON having been twice re-elected by acclama-
tion, having been three consecutive years installed
into that supreme Academic Chair at Glasgow, the
Chair occupied by the Lord Rector of her Univer-
sity ! It was only, in fact, to THOMAS CA MPBELL,
the renowned Scottish poet, that a like honour
is known to have been awarded by the Univer-
sity of Glasgow. Although the present Lord
Rector (Sir EDWARD LYTTON'S successor) said
nothing of all this, save by the courteous implica-
tion of a date, the noble earl spoke thus at least
of his illustrious predecessor—spoke thus ear-
nestly and unaffectedly in the unstinted language
of admiration :—" Three years ago," said Lord
ELGIN, " w;ien your late Rector delivered his in-
augural address, I had the good fortune to be
present and to hear
,the charms of literature
pourtrayed, and the cause of learning pleaded
before sympathising listeners by one of the
greatest perhaps I might without exag-
geration say by the greatest—living master of
our language." Adding, with courtly grace, in
`reference to his competitor for the Lord Rec-
torship— ‘' And even now, gentlemen need I
confess it—what chiefly overwhelms me on the
present occasion is the reflection that during the late
contest your suffrages were claimed on behalf of a
candidate whose great natural gifts, improved by
cultivation and study, and acquirements, have
placed him on the highest eminence both in
literature and statesmanship." Thereupon,
however (encouraged by the remembrance of
his success, even over such a competitor),
Lord ELGIN proceeded at once to the delivery of
an inaugural address that—for the range of its
themes, for the eloquence of its diction, for the skill
-of its rhetorical arrangement, and for the easy
grasp within it of an affluent and abounding
knowledge—any one of the noble earl's prede-
cessors in the office might not have
disdained to have fathered. Who will hesitate to
admire that impressive epitome of the achievements
and the influences, the labours and results of the
last ten years? " What," asks Lord ELGIN,
" What is it that strikes the imagination of even
the most thoughtless and unreflecting, when they
compare—to go no farther back—the phenomena
which characterised the commencement of this
decade with those which distinguished its close ?
At the former period hymns of universal peace and
brotherhood, a palace of unprecedented dimen-
sions, of a novel and exquisite structure, raised
as if 'by enchantm2ut, to be the receptacle of
the products of the industry of the earth—such
proofs accumulated there of man's control over
the powers of nature, of the subserviency of modern
science to purposes of human utility, of the wide-
spread benefits of commercial intereheaungone,atbhieattiot
seemed hardly extravagant or unreasonable

lIALL.

Once again, once again,
Christmas wreaths are twining ;
Once again, once again,
Mistletoe is shining.
Time is marching through the land,
Decked with leaf and berry ;
He leads the Old Year in his hand,
But both the churls are merry.
He speaketh in the clanging bells,
He shouts at every portal ;
GOD speed the tidings that he tolls,—
" Good-will and peace to mortal."
Gladly welcome shall he be,
Even though he traces
Silver threads upon our heads
And wrinkles on our faces.

For once again, once again,
He brings the happy meeting,
When cynic lips may preach in vain
That life is sad and fleeting.
Christmas logs should beacon back
The wanderer from his roving ;
Leave, oh! leave the world's wide track,
And join the loved and loving.
Spirits that have dwelt apart,
Cold with pride and folly,
Bring olive in your hand and heart,
To weave with Christmas holly.

Breatbe a name above the cup,
And leave no drop remaining;
When Truth and Feeling fill it up,
'Tis always worth the draining.

Though few and short the flashes are
That break on Cares dull story,
Yet, like the midnight shooting star,
Those moments pass in glory.

Then once again, once again,
We'll tap the humming barrel :
" Good-will and peace" shall never cease
To be a wise man's carol.

All, all we love I—a health to those I
A bumper !—who won't fill it ?
A health to brave and open foes,
A bumper I—who would spill it I
And here's to him who guards our right
Upon the distant billow I
And him who sleeps in watch-fire light
Upon his knapsack pillow
If changing fate has frowned of late,
And of some joys bereft us,
Still, let us " gang a gleesome gait,"
And prizo the blessings left us.

Wisdom's helmet strapped too tight
Wearies in the bearing ;
And Folly's bells on Christmas night
Are always pleasant wearing.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

anticipate that, before the light of this resistless
demonstration, the vile passions that begat discord,
and the selfishness that checks intercourse, would,
self-abashed at their own deformity, vanish like
night spectres before the dawn." The noble lord
adding, " As a result, in too many quarters, it is to be
feared, faith in a civilisation materialistic rather than
moral, in the substitution of a cunningly-devised
social mechanism for the energy, and self-reliance,
and spiritual elevation of the individual man, in a
haven to be reached through self-indulgence rather
than self-sacrifice." Immediately after which
he goes on to say—" And what, let me ask again
—what are the phenomena which distinguish
the close of the decade ? Dark clouds overhead,
furrowed by the lightning track—below the
nations gathered together in perplexity, and
anxiously inquiring on what spot the thunderbolt
will fall—the hard-won economics of human in-
dustry, the knowledge of nature's secrets, so dearly
bought, all recklessly expended in the invention,
and fabrication, and accumulation of the instru-
ments of human destruction ; and, as a consequence
—a not unnatural consequence—a growing distrust
in many of the specious promises of the 19th cen-
tury, and an anxious groping in the dark after some
ground of confidence more stable, more sufficient,
and more secure." To the whole of this able oration,
however, given elsewhere in extenso in our impres-
sion of this evening, we would very earnestly
commend attention. It is an address delivered
before one of the most thoughtful audiences in the
land by one of the foremost of our public men, at a
juncture of great social and political importance—
the effect of the whole of which address is in a
peculiar degree impressive.

VOCAL ASSOCIATION-ST. JAMES'S

Perhaps there are few entertainments afforded
by the musical societies of this country more grati-
fying and successful than those of the Vocal Asso-
ciation. The patronage of an admiring public, and
the eulogy of a critical press, are ample proofs of
the excellence of this society, which was founded
by Mr. Benedict in 1856, having for its primary
object the performance of Glees, Madrigals, Part
Songs, and other compositions of a choral character.
The applause bestowed on the efforts of the Asso-
ciation induced the directors to extend the sphere
of operations; and, accordingly, a great variety of
first-class music has been presented from the works
of the best masters, in a manner that evoked
unqualified approbation.
The ensuing season promises a continuance of
increasing popularity, for Mr. Benedict's energy
and talent have been actively employed in the re-
vision and selection of new singers and the perfect-
ing of his orchestral arrangements, while the pro-
minent names of Clara Novello, Miss Dolby, Mrs.
Lockey, Miss Saunders ; Sims Reeves, Mr. Weiss,
and Mr. Lockey-, constitute in themselves a host of
attractions. The Subscription Concerts, consisting
of a series of six performances, commence in Janu-
ary, presenting programmes calculated to propitiate
the tastes of ail who love "sweet sounds," whether
the ear be that of the rare, fastidious professor, or
the average unskilled listener. The subscription
terms are fabulously cheap, and we most cordially
and heartily commend the Vocal Association to the
notice and patronage of the public, as possessing
solid and choice qualifications of the divine art
which it illustrates.

STANZAS FOR THE SEASON.

Then once again, once again,
Let holly crown each portal ;
And echo round the welcome sound—
" Good-will and peace to mortal S"
ELIZA COOK.

The engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews,
which has deservedly proved so attractive to the patrons of
Mr. Buckstone's theatre, was brought to a conclusion yes-
terday evening, when Sheridan's delightful comedy of
" The School for Scandal" was performed with great eclat
in the presence of a numerous and enthusiastic audience.
Mrs. Mathews appeared as Lady Tet.ldo, for the first time
in London, and played the part in spirited style, and with
a hearty earnestness of manner, which was very effective;
Mr. Mathews, as Charles Surface, was gay, graceful, and
debonnaire—" the life of pleasure and the soul of whim ;"
and Mr. Buckstone's Sir Benjamin Backbite is worthy of
the actor's reputation, an admission which implies as ouch
praise as language is capable of yielding.

A pantomime of more than ordinary brilliancy is in pre-
paration, and will be produced on boxing-night.

LATEST

FRANCE.

SUDBEN AND ALAR2IIING ILLNESS
OF MR ALBERT B.IIITIL

We much regret to announce that this well-known and
highly-popular gentleman lies in a very :precarious state.
After giving his entertainment as usual on Thursday night
he returned to his residence, North End Lodge, Fulham,
where, at an early hour yesterday morning, he was attacked
with an apoplectic fit of a severe nature. Medical assistance
was of course immediately procured, but during the after-
noon a second fit supervened, and his condition, according
to the latest accounts, was such as to cause the greatest ap-
prehension to his friends.
At noon, to-day, Mr. Smith, wo regret to say, remained
in a state of insensibility.

Throughout the day the inquiries at the Egytian Hall
have been very numerous.

THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—Three new pictures
have just been added to the National Collection, Trafalgar-
square, in addition to the six hung in October last—a fine
Ambrogio Borgognone, representing the marriage of St.
Catherine of Alexandria, the 'Virgin 7,resenting St. Cathe-
rine of Siena ; entire figures, life size. This picture was
the altarpiece of the chapel of Rebecchino, near the Cer-
tosa of Pavia, of which Borgognone was one of the archi-
tects; his paintings bear date between 1490 and 1522.
The two other additions are the Ruysdaels lately pur-
-1 chased at the sale of the collection of Count Stolberg, at
Hanover ; they are both waterfalls, in the painter's best
style, and have been engraved on a large Bede by Prestel,

RAILWAYS.

TUE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEINING,

TURIN, DEC. 23.

ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 23.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

DECEMBER 24,

NEWS.

The following telegrams have been received rat
Mr. Reuter's office :

The King signed to-day the nomination of Count
Cavour and M. Desambrois as Plenipotentiaries of
Sardinia at the Congress,

MADRID, DEc. 23.
The Moors have attacked the Spaniards on the
road to Tetuan, in order to obstruct the works.
They were victoriously repulsed.
General Prim distinguished himself by his

bravery.
The Spanish had four killed and 40 wounded.
All the works, and even the new fortlets, have
been completed.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg states that Prince
Gortschakoff has been appointed First Plenipo-
tentiary of Russia at the approaching Congress,
and that he will leave for Paris on the 31st inst.
The last Russian courier from China, who left on
the 17th Oct., announces that the Russian Embassy
at Pekin was enjoying perfect safety and liberty.
All the alarming reports to the contrary are,
therefore, unfounded.

THE BOURSE, Dec. 23.—The market had rather
an upward tendency at the commencement of busi-
ness; but it was checked by considerable sales.
Threes, after having been done at 70f. 45c., declined
to 70f. 20c., and are now at 70f. 35c. Mobilier
varied from 846 f. 25c. to 840 f. ; Austrian, 570 f, to
567 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 576 f. 25c. to 572 f. 50c ;
Lyons, 940 f. to 934 f. ; Orleans, 1,417 f. 50c. to
1,412 f. 50c, The following were the last quota-
tions :

41 per Cents. .... 96 50 Credit Fonder 72.5
Do. end month .. Belgian 4f 99 50
3 per Cents 7O 45 Piedmontese (5) .. 85 50
Do. end month 7O 51 Roman B3 75
Bank Shares 2885 i Austrian —

orTdit Mobilior 843 75 Spanish Threes
Do. Account -16 25 Home Debt 43 37

1859►.

SPAIN AND MOROCCO.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern . 975 975
New ditto 855 .. 862 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 935 .. 938 75
Genova 515 .. 542 50
Southern
Western 575 .. 572 50
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard .
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money,
25f. 90.; three months, paper, 21f. 95c. ; money, 24f. 931 c.

(Fr•om the Time's' Special Correspondent.)
CAMP OF CEUTA, DEC. 10.
We had another affair yesterday with the Moors,
who attempted a coup de main at daybreak on the
unfinished redoubt to the left of the Spanish lines,
but who were as gallantly repulsed as the attack
was daringly made, for they retired after a hard
fight, leaving a number of their dead on the glacis,
close to the very ditch of the redoubt.
Having failed in this their principal object, u
general attack was made on the whole of the lines
by a force, I should say, of from 9,000 to 10,000
men, directed, no doubt, by two of their Sheikhs,
who were easily distinguished by the colour of their
lunques, and an escort of about 150 or 200 Moros
de Rey," who accompanied them, and ultimately,
concentrating their whole force, attacked the ex-
treme right, but with as little effect as at the re-
doubt, the right being equally well defended by a
division of the 2d Cuerpo de Ejercito, under the
command of General Zabala.
The Spanish-African army is fortunate in having
the President of the Ministry (Gen. O'Donnell) as
its Commander-in-Chief, for he is, without doubt
the best general they have—cool, decisive, and with
a foresight which he was not given credit for. The
attack on the right was divined by him, and conse-
quently provided for long before the Moors gave
symptoms of their intention, and in opposition to
the opinion of the Chief of his Staff and most of the
general officers who surrounded him.
P.S.—I had almost forgotten to mention that va-
rious instances of individual pluck have been here,
on different occasion, shown by the Spanish soldiers
(mostly recruits that have never, until now, heard
the whistle of a ball), that would have done credit
to the best of the Crimean heroes.
Our loss during the day was 40 killed, 280
wounded.
CAMP BEFORE CEUTA, DEC. 12.
At daybreak this morning the 3d Corps of the
Army of Africa, under Gen. Ros de Olano, arrived
in the port of Ceuta in 16 steamers from Malaga,
and nearly the whole are disembarked at the hour
at which I write. We still await artillery and
cavalry to complete the army, but these, it is ex-
pected, willinot be long in making their appear-
ance. Some of the steamers that brought the 3d
Corps will return for artillery. I am not positively
acquainted with the strength of that corps, but it
must be somewhere about 11,000. We have now
probably between 30,000 and 35,000 effective men
in these lines. The cholera, I was happy to learn
on my return from Gibraltar, is much on the de-
' cline. For a few days the number of deaths was
sufficient to justify serious apprehensions.
We had a skirmish to-day, which began at noon
h and lasted till dark, but it was of no great import-
ance. It was upon our left, and General Prim
played the principal part in it. He went out with
two or three battalions, and soon got up a very
agreeable little fight. Other troops went out to
support. The number of Moors engaged is esti-
mated by the Spaniards at from 4,000 to 5,000.
Our loss was trifling seven killed and some
wounded. Gen. Prim is superintending and pro-
tecting the making of the road in the direction of
Tetuan, and which, it is expected, will very soon be
completed as far as Cabo Negro. Up to that point
it is not expected the Moors will give us much to
do, but after that there are plains, and it is thought
probable we may have a serious engagement,
in which the hostile cavalry will play a part. It
is reported that a very strong Moorish force is as•
serabled on the road from Tangier to Tetuan, ready
to act in either direction.
The weather has been fine and dry for the last
two days, but more or less windy, and colder than
it was. The great point, however, is, that it should
not rain ; for rain makes all the difference between
positive misery and comparative comfort. Although
the winds are high and even cold, yet the degree of
cold is not great, and is very endurable with a
moderate amount of shelter and covering. There
is no want of wood in the neighbourhood ; the
Moorish forest is at the disposal of the Spanish
soldier, who does not spare the fuel and lights
magnificent fires.
After all the bad. weather we have had—more
even than is common in this season, or, at least,
more than-occurs in some winters—we may, per-
haps, expect two or three fine weeks, and that
would be an immense thing for the army which
is still in good heart and confident, but might ulti-
mately be dispirited by a continuance of disease
and inaction.

EMBARKATION OF THE THIRD DIVISION OF THE

AFRICAN ARMY AT MALAGA, Sunday, Dec. 11.
The embarkation of this division, under the
command of the General-in-Chief, Ros de Olano,
and Generals Quesada and Turon, took place this
afternoon. It commenced about 2 p.m., and, to
the surprise of every one, at half-past four o'clock
the 12,000 men were all embarked on board 18
steamers, which got under way at five precisely,
and proceeded to Ceuta. Great credit is dud to
the staff for the admirable arrangements made by
them and their excellent management, not one single
accident, however trifling, having occurred. The day
being beautiful and clear, not a cloud to be seen,
and as mild as in the month of June, the Alameda
and Mole were crowded, all the population being
desirous to witness so unusual and really a brilliant
sight. Rich silk draperies were suspended from the
balconies, and notwithstanding the exciting music
of so many military bands the spectacle was affect-
ing.
,The military here were billeted on private
families, and there was scarcely a house either of
the rich or poor that had not one or more officers
or soldiers, the former taking their meals with the
family; and as they have been here more than a
month, and their conduct in every instance, without
one exception, has been exemplary, they were consi-
dered like relations or intimate friends rather than
strangers. This accounts for the expression of sad-
ness depicted on the countenances of the masses as
the troops marched past. The embarkation was
watched in silence, broken occasionally by sighs,
and a heartily-expressed a-Dios as an acquaintance
was recognised ; but when the gun was fired as a
signal for sailing, the report broke, as it were, the
magic spell by which all tongues were bound, and
loud and hearty vivas burst forth from thousands of
throats both ashore and afloat, the bands playing
the Royal March. One cannot resist sympathising
with these warm-hearted expressions. The soldiers
are grateful for and have'been well deserving of the
hospitality they have met with in this city, and
their behaviour during the time they have been
quartered here may serve as an example to all the
troops in Europe; not one single act of disturbance
has occurred, and, what is more, there has not been
an instance of a drunken soldier seen about the
streets. They are healthy, well provided for in every
respect, and have a very military appearance, and
their arms aro good. The wreck of the Sardinian
strainer Genova in some measure interfered with
the transit of the troopships, for, to the disgrace
and shame of the captain of the port, she was
allowed to sink at the mouth of the harbour. At
the commencement of the fire a Major of Sappers
who was a passenger boldly proceeded, with his
men and some volunteers from the shore, in boats
to cut through her iron cables with the intention
of towing her out to sea, and while perform-
ing this daring act the captain of the port or.
dered him to desist. Some days previous to the
departure of the troops some thousands of copies of
the following address were printed, with the inten-
tion of distributing them among the troops on land-
ing in Africa. It is short, pithy, and soldierlike :
" GENERAL Itos DE OLAND'S ADDRESS TO lIIS