The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1866.

groups of young girls dressed in white with blua sashes,
strewing flowers, religious confraternities with their re-
spective banners, chanting hymns ; and six priests in rich
vestments came last.

The second cortege, that of the shrine of St. Vincent de
Paul, was similarly composed.

The third, the most numerous and the most imposing of
all, was that which accompanied the Miraculous Statue
on its way from the chapel, where it had been temporarily
placed the night before, to the Throne which it was to oc-
cupy during the coronation. When this part of the cere-
mony was gone through mass was performed by the Car-
dinal Archbishop, who delivered, after the first Gospel, a
discourse on the event of the day ; and after the last Gospel
which concludes the mass the Pontifical benediction was
given by the five prelates at the same moment. A loud peal
of bells, the beating of drams, and a flourish of trumpets
announced the moment for the coronation. The Bishop
of Aire, in whose diocess the parish of Buglose is, read in
a loud voice the Papal Brief authorising the act, and then
proceeded to place two golden crowns, one on the head of
the child, and the other on the head of the Virgin, amid
salutes of artillery, the ringing of bolls, and sacred music.
The statue was then taken down and placed on a car
drawn by four oxen with gilded horns, their heads and
necks decked with flowers, and covered with blue and
white housings. When the car began to move the Or-
pheonists struck up the Ilfaiptificat, in which the whole
assemblage joined. Three hundred priests from the
diocesses of Aire, Bayonne, Puy, Tarbes, Bordeaux, and
Limoges—Carmelites, Dominicans, Jesuits, Lazarists —the
bishop in mitre and cope, the civil and military authorities,
the Mayors of many of the communes, with hundreds of
others, formed the escort of honour, which was closed by
a detachment of mounted gendarmes. On arriving at its
destination the last act of the ceremony was performed.
The statute was lifted from its triumphal car, and, while
the clergy chanted the Te Deum, was placed on its throne
over the high altar of the parish church of Buglose. At
five o'clock a sermon was preached by the Dominican Pero
Minjard, one of the provincials of the order, and the even-
ing service, vespers, and benediction were performed. As
twilight came on the multitude of pilgrims began to leave,
and before 9 o'clock the wide plains of the Landes were left
to their wonted solitude.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, Sept._ 15.—0 n Thursday information

was received here by telegraph announcing the ar-
rival of Lord Clarence Paget on the south-east coast
of Sicily. Owing to the regulation prohibiting more
than three foreign ships of war from entering an
Italian port at the same time the Admiral divided
his squadron, proceeding himself with the Victoria
(flag), the Royal Oak, and the Assurance, gun ves-
sel, to Augusta, and sending the Gibraltar and the
Prince Consort to Syracuse, where they are to re-
main for the present, but will eventually probably
extend their cruise to Palermo. As they are shut
out from most of the ports of the Mediterranean on
account of cholera, it is expected they will return to
their winter quarters earlier this year than usual. The
health of the crews of the different ships continues
excellent. Commander Bosanquet returned from
Corfu on Tuesday last and has assumed the com-
mand of the Enterprise in lieu of Captain Rowley,
lately promoted, and who proceeds home by the
next packet. The Enterprise will leave about
the 19th inst. to join the flag of the Com-
mander-in-chief. The Assurance arrived this morn-
ing from the squadron with despatches from the
Commander-in-Chief, but brings no later news.
The vessel Psyche left for the squadron at Syracuse
and Augusta after the arrival of the mail last night.
The Cruiser, unarmoured screw sloop, Commander
M. Singer, which left Spithead on the 28th ult. for
the Mediterranean, has not yet arrived here. The
Resistance, from Naples, and the Racer, from Corfu,
are now daily expected. Following the example of
Sicily fresh quarantines have been established here
during the last few days on arrivals from the Lipari
Islands, Austrian ports, and the lonian Islands, and
to-day, in consequence of the receipt of a telegraph
announcing an outbreak of cholera in Adalia (Asia
Minor), and again following the same guide, our
Government have included the Turkish Islands and
ports southwards as far as Alexandretta, and the
Turkish ports in the Adriatic in the category of
infected places, and established an uniform quaran-
tine of 15 days against them. There was some talk
of putting Leghorn and Sicily in quarantine also,
but the Government having this day received by
telegraph an official denial of the existence of cholera
in Tuscany and Palermo, where it was reported to
have made its appearance, arrivals from those coun-
tries continue to be received in pratique. The route
from England to Malta via Leghorn is, therefore,
still open to travellers. Alexandria has reduced its
quarantine on Marseilles to seven days, and pro-
mises to still further decrease it to three if favour-
able reports are received. It is consequently not
unlikely that arrivals from Alexandria, will have to
be subjected to quarantine, in order to observe a
consistent line of conduct on the principle which is
now acted on by our local sanitary authorities. As
an instance of the jealous watch kept over us by
our neighbours 1 may mention that our Consul-
Gene ral at Tunis has Just telegraphed to the Go-
vernor to say that Tunis has put us in seven days'
quarantine, and refuses to receive at all susceptible
goods from this island, because we had mated to esta-
blish a quarantine on arrivals from Sicily, the occur-
rence of cases of cholera at Palermo being suspected.
It has been reported that the captain of the Russian
frigate Grand Admiral, now at Corfu, intends to
proceed to Malta, to ride out his quarantine, having
had cholera on board. Should he arrive here he will
have to perform quarantine outside, as under the
circumstances the ship will not be permitted into
port. An English bark, the Cecrops, of St. John's,
New Brunswick, Capt. Dixon, arrived off the har-
bour this morning from Naples, with a fatal case of
cholera on board. She left Naples on the sth inst.
to load at Girgenti, where she arrived on the 14th,
but was not allowed to enter. She has now pro-
ceeded to Palermo in the hope of being admitted
there. Col. Mitford, Town-Major ; Capt. Berkeley,
29th ; Capt. Farquharson, Lieut. Ford, Bth ; Lieut.
Bridge, Bth ; Lieut. Russell, 29th ; Ensign Little-
dale, 29th, and others arrived last night in the China
from Marseilles, returning from leave. Yesterday
a telegram was received here from the Consul-
General at Alexandria stating that the insurgents in
Candia were getting the better of the Turkish
troops, and that reinforcements from Egypt were to
be sent to the island.

The Virago, 6, paddle-wheel sloop, 1,059 tons,
220-horse power, which has for some time past
been under the hands of the factory and shipwright
departments in Sheerness dockyard, was on Wed-
nesday taken to the measured mile off Maplin
Sands for the official trial of her machinery. She
was in charge of Capt. G. W. Preedy, C. 8., of the
Sheerness Steam Reserve ; Commander Polinghorne
of the Cumberland ; Mr. W. W. Williamson, in-
' Spector of machinery afloat ; Mr. G. Blaxland,
chief engineer in Sheerness dockyard ; and Mr. G.
H. Treliving, chief engineer of the ship, being like-
wise present. Six runs were made on the measured
mile, giving an average of 8.646 knots per hour,
with a maximum of 23.5, and a mean of 22 revolu-
tions of the engine
per minute. The load on the
safety-valve was 181 b. the pressure of steam in the
boilers 17.9161 b. ; vacuum condensers, 24.896 in. ;
the draught of water forward, 13ft. 3in., and aft,
15ft. 2in. Two runs were made at half-boiler
power, giving an average of 7.076 knots per hour
with a maximum of 16.5 and a minimum of
15.75 revolutions of the engines per minute. The
ship is propelled by ordinary paddle-wheels 20ft.
10in. in diameter. The engines are by Messrs.
Maudslay and Co., of London. The state of the sea
was smooth, the wind blowing with a force of four
from S.W. The vessel was fully rigged, having all
her armament on board and 250 tons of coal. The
trial was considered satisfactory.
Her Majesty's fleet of ironclad screw steam ves-
gels which have assembled in Portland harbour
during the past week from Portsmouth and Ply-
mouth is composed of the following ships :—The
Caledonia, 30 guns,
Capt. the Hon. Fitzgerald A.
C. Foley, flagship of Rear-Admiral Hastings R.
Yelverton, chief in command of the fleet ; the Lord
Clyde, 24
guns, Capt. Roderick Dew, C. 8., flag-
ship of Rear-Admiral Frederick Warden, C. 8., se-
cond in command of the fleet ; the Achilles, 26 guns,
Capt. Edward Vansittart ; Bellerophon, 14 guns,
Capt. E. Tatham ; Ocean, 23 guns, Capt. C. S.
Stanhope; Hector, 20 guns, Capt. W. G. Luard,
Pallas, 6 guns, Capt. Matthew Connolly ; Research,
4 guns, Capt. R. E. A. Scott; Wyvern (turret-ship),
4 guns, Capt. H. T. Burgoyne, V.C. ; Pigeon gun-
boat, tender to the Caledonia ; and Helicon, paddle,
despatch boat for the fleet. The squadron got up