The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-12 00:00:00

Commence at 7 o'clock:

VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The
whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced
for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts
being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN-
TERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
EIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evcx
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.
They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi-
tion to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.—Surr OFFICE, At GC ST 12.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
60—lowest this morning and during the night.
73—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.07.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, with fine warm weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, .lh. 14m.—Afternoon, lh. 35m.
To-Moßßow-Morning, .111. 55m.—Afternoon, 2h. 13m.

THE SUN.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1869.

A short bill, for a new description of copper coin,
introduted by Mr. GLADSTONE, is quietly passing
through Parliament. This measure is entitled,

" A Bill to Extend the Enactments relative to the
Copper Coin to Coin of Mixed Metal." The
preamble states that, " whereas her MAJESTY may
think fit, for the public convenience, to cause to be
issued coins of :bronze or mixed metal, instead of
copper moneys, or for the purposes of the like
payments for which copper moneys have been made
current, be it enacted that such coin of bronze or
mixed metal shall be placed in the same legal
position as the current copper coin, and all enact-

ments whatever where current copper coin is men

tioned or referred to, shall be construed and take
effect as if, in addition to current coin, current coin
of bronze or mixed metal had been also in every
such case mentioned or referred to."
In taking a vote of £lO,OOO only for this new
coinage, Mr. GLADSTONE mentioned some curious
facts. " The whole value," he said, "of the copper
coinage was £BOO,OOO, and the quantity of copper
was 3,500 tans. Taking the copper at £lO7 10s.

per ton, the actual value was only £379,000, so that
the copper coin was a pure token, the intrinsic
value being less than one-half of the nominal
or apparent value," " A part of it was coun-
terfeit, and another part foreign coins, and
another injured and battered—one-third required

renewal." Now observe what Mr. GLADSTONE.
under these circumstances, proposes. The copper
coin at present is, in fact, a pure token. Mr.
GLADSTONE proposes to make it a pure token. by

law. "If it were renewed such as it now was he
should be obliged to ask for a vote for £40,000,"
but he recommends that we should follow the ex-
ample set by France, and the plan which has been

tried in Canada and Nova Scotia—and he might
have added in the United States—and substituted
brogue and mixed metal tokens for our copper
coinage. " The new coins would be much lighter
than. those in present use, the change of metal would
enable them to be made much thinner in proportion

to their superficies, and their intrinsic value would

not be more than half that of the present coins.
The quantity of copper now coined into 26 of the
old pence would make 45 of the new ones. If the
3,500 tons of the old copper were called in and re-
coined, the profit would be about £92,000 ; but if
there w ere an increased demand for the new coin,
to the amount of 25 or 30 per cent., that would
leave a considerable profit on the operation." " The

French," lie says, " had paid for the expense of
converting the coin, and realised from the reduction
of weight a. profit not far short of £500,000." In
France, however, the copper average being larger
than ours, the profit would be greater.
We think Mr. GLADSTONE quite right in this
measure. By it he departs from the principle of
the Bullionists and Peelites, and adopts that of
common sense and sound monetary science. Lord
LIVERPOOL was the founder of the Bullionist
School. The Bullion Committee and PEEL adopted
the errors of their teacher. Now what principle
did 'Lord LINERPOOL adopt when GEORGE 111., in
1798, in recommending a new copper coinage,
appointed a committee to consider the state of the
coin of this kingdom ? "Money," said Lord LIVER-
POOL, "is not only the standard measure by which
the value of all things, bought and sold, is regu-
lated and ascertained," but "it is itself, at the
same time, the value, or equivalent, for which
goods are exchanged, and in which contracts are
generally made payable." He admits that these
two
qualities can never be brought perfectly to
agree. Money is made of any material, as gold,
silver, or copper, subject to fluctuations in the
market, and " fails on that account in the quality of
a :standard, or measure, and will not continue to be
perfectly uniform, and at all times the same."
Lord LIVERPOOL nevertheless adopted this im-

perfect principle of making money of intrinsic
value. He might have learned how mistaken he
was in adopting it by what happened with the
:new copper coinage. These coins were made by
%tr. BOULTON, on the principle "that the nominal
v, glue of each piece should be equal to the value of
th, 3 metal it contained, and the price of the work-
mai ship employed in making it ; these new coins,
then 'fore, were of more intrinsic value than any
coins of that metal which had hitherto been
issued. " How did they succeed ?
says hi " It is singular,"
s lordship, with the most candid simplicity,
" that fe tse .of the new copper coins ever made their
appearani .e, either in London or its neighbourhood,
though to mY knowledge great numbers were sent
thither." He fancies that the people may have
been " ,iesh ous of retaining" these copper coins,
and that the may " have them still in their pos-
session;". the l 'lain fact being that, from a rise in
the price of cc. ,pper, it became profitable to melt
the new copper e oins, and melted they accordingly
Were; the expense of the coinage being, conse

quently, thrown away, and the object of providing
new copper money entirely defeated. The only
parties benefited were the copper merchants, who,
being practical men, melted down the fine new
copper coins, put the money in their pockets, and
laughed at Lord LIVERPOOL and his theories. We
see, then, how completely Mr. GLADSTONE departs
in principle and practice from the head of the
Bullionist School. Instead of restoring the copper
coinage to its intrinsic and " equivalent" value, he
lowers what has become a pure token still lower,
and tells us that the intrinsic value of the new
bronze tokens will not be "more than half that of
the present coins." And Mr. GLADSTONE is quite
right. The new bronze money will neither be
bronzed, melted, nor exported. It will remain,
what it was intended to be, MONEY. It will
circulate from hand to hand, facilitating
the exchange of commodities, and thus answering
for many years the purposes for which it was
made.

Our amiable CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER tells us that this " pure token " will be
" very convenient, very nice in appearance, and a
most agreeable coin to handle." It will also, he
assures us, smell better—non olet. It will be hard,
cheap, durable; but it will be something much
better than all this—it will be in fact, and in law,
a " pure token."

Observe that the poor man will by law be com-
pelled to take twelve of these tokens, not worth
more than sixpence, for a shilling. But will he be
injured? Not in the least. He can discharge a
shilling's worth of indebtedness with his tokens
and he can pay Mr. GLADSTONE back in his own
coin for his taxes.

But why should Mr. GLADSTONE stop here ?
Why not have silver tokens as well as copper
tokens—why not have gold tokens as well as silver
tokens ? Mr. GLADSTONE is, like MICHAEL CAS-
H°, a great arithmetician. Will he work out this
sum for us ? If by the issue of copper tokens the
country gains £92,000, how many millions sterling
would it gain by the issue of silver tokens, and
how many tens of millions sterling would it gain
by the issue of gold tokens ?
Lord LIVERPOOL, indeed, affirmed that " coins
should be made of metals more or less valuable, in
proportion to the wealth and commerce of the
country in which they are to be the measure of
property." But this was a mere affirmation,
unsupported by a shadow of argument. He
might as well have said that the rails
on a railway should be made of metal
more or less valuable in proportion
to the wealth and traffic of the line. The whole of
PEEL'S monetary system is based on this absurd
assumption. As the wealth and commerce of a
country expand, we should have the most conve-
nient, the cheapest, the least fluctuating, the
steadiest circulating medium. We then require
money not to be hoarded, melted, or separated ;
money for the use of which we do not give 2
per cent. one day and 20 per cent. another. Will
Mr. GLADSTONE tell us who would be inconve-
nienced by the adoption of cheap gold tokens, or
paper pound notes, any more than by the adoption
of bronze penny tokens ? If he will not, we will
tell him. The goldsmith, or gold chainmaker, who
at present melts down, as the Act of 1844 allows
him to do, new sovereigns from the Mint, would be
slightly inconvenienced. He would then have to
assay and weigh the gold he bought for manufac-
turing purposes. This would no longer be done
here at the national expense. The foreigner would
have to deal with the bullion merchant for gold re-
quired for exportation, or with the Bank in the
character of a bullion merchant, instead of export-
ing our coined money. But the persons princi-
pally inconvenienced would be the hard calculator
and the usurer. Gold tokens would not be ex-
ported, the whole basis of our circulating medium
would not be violently contracted, the hard calcu-
lator would not buy his commodities, every now
and then, 30 per cent. below cost price, nor would
the usurer gain his £lOO,OOO bya panic.

We will further tell Mr. GLADSTONE who would
benefit by cheap gold tokens, or national paper
money. First, the people of England. They would
retain the money necessary for the circulation of
commodities from hand to hand, and for free and
honest remuneration of their labour. Their money
would not, as now, be one day depreciated by a glut
of gold for which the Bank is obliged to issue out
bank-notes where they are not wanted, thereby
engendering unwholesome speculation, nor could it
be subject to irregular and violent contractions by
which commerce is paralysed and labour starved.

The whole commercial class would benefit imme-
diately and largely by money at a settled and
equitable rate of discount, and a freedom from the
ruinous disasters of periodically recurring monetary
panics. And last, not least, we can assure Mr.
GLADSTONE that that inestimable functionary, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, would be a prosperous
and a popular man. Give the country a steady
and unfluctuating circulating medium, and the
talent, energy, and industry of the people will have
fair play. Uncertainty, commercial depression,
and panics lie at the root of all our financial diffi-
culties. And commercial depression, speculative
over-trading, and monetary crises have been proved
by sad experience to be the inevitable attendants
on the unsuccessful attempts to carry out Lord
LIVERPOOL'S system of money of intrinsic value.
Mr. GLADSTONE dislikes loans, and so do we. But
with a well-regulated monetary system the re-
sources of the country would not only be found
sufficient for ordinary, but even for extraordinary
requirements. In time of peace the great incubus
of the country —the National Debt—might be
rapidly reduced. In time of war a revenue might
be raised adequate to the necessary expenditure.
Mr. GLADSTONE has already thrown overboard the
bullionist theory of money of intrinsic value.
Let him go boldly on in the course of Cur-
rency Reform, and he will restore permanent
prosperity to his country, and enable England once
more to take her proper position among the nations
of Europe.

When Doctors disagree—but the proverb's some-
what musty. Mr. STEPHENSON is in favour of
the experimental project for cleansing (?) the Ser-
pentine by means of filtration. Sir JOSEPH PAX-
TON is against it. Mr. FITZROY is still infatuated
with the notion that this is the very wisest plan
of cleansing the waters of a stagnant pool that the
ingenuity of engineering ever yet bit up. It is so
extremely simple—don't you mee ?—this charming
little scheme of Mr. HAWKSLEY'S contrivance. All
that will be required to carry it out will be simply
this—to erect an ornamental building at the Bays-
water end of the Serpentine ! To put together in
that building a couple of stationary engines for the
purpose of pumping up the polluted water from the
other extremity of the Serpentine ! To subject this
polluted water (when pumped up) to the process of
filtration ! And then—to let it run off—Whither 9
Why," bock again" into the old dirty bed of the Ser-
pentine ! And so to go on perpetually—pumping,
and draining, and running the water back again
"to the place from whence it came," there to be
passed out once more, and refiltered, and returned
in a never-ending circle of wishy washy dabblings
between dirt and cleanliness!
The engines will only be of two horse power each

—the building hiding them from view will prevent
the possibility. of their being an eyesore—the whole
puffing and swilling process will be accomplished,
sub rosa, but, alas it must be added sub naso of
every frequenter of the Ring and the Row, as well
as of every inhabitant of that aristocratic, but un-

fortunate, neighbourhood. True, a certain area in
the vicinity of the ornamental home of the sta-
tionary engines will be required for the purpose of
filtering every day 2,000,000 gallons of this abomi-
nable water, pumped out and immediately after-
wards washed back again into the Serpentine.
But that, Mr. FITZROY tells us, will be the
merest trifle—just three-fourths of an acre, or
thereabouts. What a sweet, charming, melliffious
picture to be sure ! Three-fourths of an acre of
stench arising from alternately dry and liquid
abominations in a continual sequence of stir and
stagnation! Why, a bed of heliotropes in full
bloom with a south breeze fluttering over them is
nothing to it. No wonder that Sir JOSEPH
PAXTON, that later KENT—that king among land-
scape gardeners—shrunk with dismay from the
notion of such a stretch of perpetuated effluvia,
reeking, and sweltering, and steaming over the
surface of three-fourths of an acre in the midst of
the verdent sweep of Hyde-park, on the banks
of the Serpentine, in close contiguity to that
highly-favoured (soon also, at this rate, to be
highly flavoured), but really most unoffending
Bayswater.

Mr. STEPHENSON'S argument in direct advocacy
of the pet project of Mr. FITZROY this (bright idea
of Mr. HAWKSLEY about filtration and refiltration)
is really when one comes to examine it rationally, the
result of one of the oddest non-sequiturs imaginable.
Mr. STEPHENSON maintains energetically (not to
say dogmatically) that the Serpentine is already
as sweet and pure as any reasonable man could
wish it to be. He speaks from experience, he re-
minds the House—having to pass and repass the
Serpentine always twice, occasionally four times
a day. While, to almost every one else, the
offence of the Serpentine, like that of the King in
HAMLET—

is rank,
And smells to Heaven! "

to the olfactory nerves of our eminent engineer, it is
really and truly, if we understand him rightly,
about as free from anything disagreeable as the
balmy and aromatic breath of Araby the blest. Mr.
STEPHENSON'S nasal organ must be about as case-
hardened, we should imagine, as the palate, in the
first instance, and the stomach afterwards, of that
lover of strong waters, the Humane Society's drags-
man, who told that correspondent of the Times the
other day, that whenever he was thirsty he drank
the water of the Serpentine ! And smacked his
lips after it, we suppose, with a relish ! However
this may be—the Humane Society's man (himself
humane apparently to everybody but himself)
drinks and likes the water of the Serpentine—
while Mr. STEPHENSON, in the same spirit of com-
placent satisfaction with things as they are,
sniffs and likes the atmosphere wafted by
every passing breeze from those same waters
of the Serpentine. Yet it gives one rather a qualm,
by the way, to hear Mr. STEPHENSON at the very
same time observing, that, " as one of the Commis-
sioners of Sewers, he had devoted a good deal of
attention to the exclusion from the Serpentine of
the sewage of Bayswater, which some years age was
conveyed into it, and the exclusion of that sewage
had undoubtedly, to a very considerable extent, led
to the purification of the river"—meaning, more
correctly, not the river, but the stagnant lake of
the Serpentine. So—that only a few years ago
the sewage of Bayswater was poured into the bed
of that stagnant Serpentine. It was poured in thus
for many years previously. Since it has been directed
from its course elsewhere, we are not aware that the
bed of that same stagnant pool (into which the
sewage had been pouring so long and so abundantly)
has ever once to this day been: cleaned out even
partially. It has never in fact been cleaned out at
all. It is this very cleaning out that we are now
arguing for, as a piece of cleanliness imperatively
demanded. There the sewage has been allowed to
settle down as a substratum to this pellucid lake of
liquid crystal at whose Hygeian spring the
Humane Society's man quaffs with such a relish—
and by whose ambrosial banks Mr. STEPHENSON
umbels his cob day after day with a sense of such
ineffable satisfaction. We commend the memory
of all that sewage to the dragsman, and to the
honourable gentleman the member for Whitby,
as calculated possibly to impart (by the
mere thought of it) an extra relish
to the tonic cup of health drunk by the one, and
to the daily zephyr inhaled by the other. Testi-
mony like that of Mr. STEPHENSON must have been
" nuts" to Mr. FITZROY. He also, as might have
been expected, can regard the reputed abomination
of the Serpentine somewhat in the vein of Sir Chas.
Coldstream—protesting that there's Nothing in it!
Yet—and here is the non sequitur of Mr. STEPHEN-
SON'S argument—while the First Commissioner of
Public Works and the honourable member for
Whitby, and others who think with them, people
who have particularly strong noses, or who
have no noses at all—while they maintain
that the Serpentine is not by an 3 means so'foul as
it is stated to be ; on the contrary, that it is rather
delicious and refreshing than otherwise—yet, at
the same time, most inconsistently suggest that it
shall be elaborately cleansed and re-cleansed over
and over again by one of the most preposterously
complicated arrangements that engineer ever yet
thought of, for the simple purpose of cleaning out
a dirty piece of water. One would suppose that
about the most obviously rational course that any
one could pursue in regard to a stagnant lake like
the Serpentine would be preciesly the very course
we are insisting upon as the one of manifest neces-
sity—namely, to drain the whole of the water now
in it away—to lay the bed of its channel
bare—to clear away the whole of the filth there
discovered—to fill up the dangerous holes in which,
year after year, so many people are drowxed acci-
dentally—to reduce all to one uniform level, sloping
up to the margin—to line the whole bed of the
Serpentine with concrete, and then to brim it up
again—but this time with really pure, fresh
sparkling water. Common sense tells one that
this would be immeasurably better than all this
puddling, and draining, and messing, and filtering
of the old dirty bed and the old dirty water just as
it is—with an ornamental building to hide the
nasty process—with two steam engines pumping
and wheezzing there in affected secrecy—and with
an area of three-fourths of an acre, permanently
supplying the neighbourhood with stench, for
£l7,ooo,the vaguely estimated cost of this absurd
scheme of filtration.

It is recorded among the sayings of the Great
NAPOLEON that he once whimsically observed
(speaking of course as a physiognomist)—" Give
me a man with plenty of Nose !" It is remarked,
however, of the EMPEROR, that he closed his own
career only upon the very occasion when he himself at
last encountered a man with just perhaps a little too
much nose. However this may be, we certainly
trust that the next PREMIER will, if only in consi-
deration of the Serpentine, take that saying of
NAPOLEON'S as his guiding principle—,, Give the a

man with plenty of nose"—when making a select ion
of the most fitting administrator to fill the office of
First Commissioner of Public Works.

The adage says " Time is money," therefore the
quicker you go the more you save or make. On
this principle the bill which has just received
the Royal assent, in very spite of the so-called guar-
dians of St. Thomas's Hospital, will be a great
boon to that portion of the public at the West-end
who want to go by the Brighton or South-Eastern
Railways, from the Grand Terminus, near London-
bridge. We can speak from personal inconve-
nience, too frequently experienced in going to the
station either by cab or 'bus, no Matter which, for
both are doomed to pay a heavy toll (of time)
on London - bridge before arriving just too late
for the train ! Why, it often takes as
long from the Strand to London-bridge Station
as from the station to Brighton or perhaps Dover !
Thanks to that spirited directors of the South
Eastern Railway and others, this torpid incon-
venience will soon be remedied by a branch from
head-quarters right away to tlie Waterloo-station of
the South-Western, and crossing the Thames, pitch
its tent at what now is Hungerford-market. The
statue at Charing-cross will begin to be wide-
' awake, while the Church of St. Martin's will be
greater than St. Paul's, or even St. Peter's at
Rome. Time changes everything else, but stands
stock-still itself ! There's the marvel which has
puzzled the philosopher, and will yet puzzle our
wise legislators, who are never tired of mak-
ing amendments upon amendments, but
always forgetting to amend themselves.
They say that charity begins at home, but few can
believe it for our charity chiefly walks abroad, as
in the golden age when small change was scarce.
Well, with one improvement upon another we
may hope to do by and by without either doctors
or lawyers, which will indeed be a blessing as yet
unhoped for. But good times are coming, and the
sooner one can shake them by the hand the better.
To be in London at one, and in Brighton,
Tunbridge Wells, or Dover at two, seems
to be too good to be true ; but so it will
be, and we hope our travellers will become all the
wiser for their speed. Really the people of Bel-
gravia will henceforth be the very elect of tra-
vellers, and may exult in the happy cognomen of
wise men of the West—not West-enders, for place
and circumstance have undergone a change, and
all for the better. Thanks, say we, to the spirited
promoters of this rapid accommodation to the
metropolis, which will prove beneficial to the
over-crowded streets and to the people at large.

Our foreign news seems to be " all at sea."
Italy is in a blaze of excitement—hoping for the
best yet evidently preparing for the worst—come
what will. It is said the Red Republic has been
proclaimed at Parma, and the Piedmontese driven
from the city. We must wait for more reliable
news. While the Conference is talking at Zurich,
the Italians are arming to obtain a better and
more general peace. Half measures will not do,
as Villafranca can bear witness.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council at Osborne
to-day. After the Council her Majesty and his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort will embark on board the
Victoria and Albert royal yacht, for an excursion for a few
days at sea. In all probability her Majesty and her illus•
trious Consort will, during the cruise, visit the Channel
Islands.

We have reason to believe that the Grand Duke
Constantine, on leaving Ryde, will pay a visit to the Em-
peror Napoleon at Biarritz.

The foundation stone of the Metropolitan Taber-
nacle at Newington for Mr. Spurgeon's congregation will
be laid on Tuesday next by Sir S. M. Peto, Bart., M.P.
It is stated in letters from Berlin that a Prussian
expedition will sail in October for Japan.
The report of the directors of the Mid-Kent Rail-
way recommends a half-yearly dividend at the rate of 3 per
cent. per annum.

The Diritto of Turin reports, on the authority of
letters from Venice, that 200,000 Austrians will remain in
the Venetian country during the winter.

Accoants from Batavia state that M. Teengs,
president of the factory of the Dutch Commercial Company
at that place, had been murdered by one of his clerks.

The Piedmontese Gazette contains a royal de-
cree authorising the concession to Messrs. Peto and Wag-
stf.ff of a railway to be constructed between Voltri and
Savona in Piedmont.

The steam-ship Ellora arrived yesterday at
Southampton from Marseilles. On Tuesday she passed an
American frigate in the Bay of Biscay, standing to the
westward.

The opening of the shooting season in the de-
partments of the Seine, Seine et Oise, Seine et Marne,
Seine Inferieure, and the Somme, is fixed for the Ist of
September.

We understand that a telegraphic cable, intended
for submersion between -Marseilles and Oran, in Algeria, is
now in course of manufacture in this country. It will
probably be laid down in November next.
The half-yearly dividend on the shares of the
Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway Company is officially
announced at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, being the
same as that paid for the corresponding period of 1858.
A letter from St. Petersburg mentions !that an
account had been received of a fire having broken out at
Moscow. When the intelligence was sent off, 50 houses
had been destroyed, and the fire was then burning with
great violence.

The Quebec Morning Chronicle says : " The
youngster Young, who wanted Blondin to carry him over
the Niagara river on a rope, went to the Falls, but Blondin
demanded the payment of 500 'ols in advance for the trip.
Young thought the fare too high, and wasn't carried."
DEVON PORT ELEMION.—Mr. Ferrand, who was
unsuccessful against Sir Michael Seymour on Tuesday, has
determined to contest with Sir Arthur Buller the seat va-
cated by the promotion of Mr. Wilson. It is probable that
the nomination will take place on Tuesday, and the election
on Wednesday next.
DEATH OF SIR GEORGE STALINTON.—We have
to record the death of Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart.,
which occurred on Wednesday at his town residence, No.
yCollete, Cambridge.
17, Devonshire-street, Portland-place. The deceased
baronet was born at Milfcrd House, near Salisbury, in 1781,
father,the first baronet, in 1810, and was
andeducated c
WIFE MURDER II BEDFORDSHIRE.—The in-
e succeeded eTdr
ihniist
in-
habitants of the usually qtiet town of Luton, in Bedford-
shire, were on Tuesday grAtly shocked by the intelligence
that a murder had been committed in broad daylight on a
public footpath near the rLias of Summeries Castle, about
one mile from the town. The facts appear to be that the
unfortunate victim was tie wife of George Castle, who
previous to the murder md been working in a malting
at Ware. In consequence of a domestic quarrel on the
previous day she left he. husband and went for pro-
tection to her parents, wto reside at Luton. The hus-
band followed, and being denied access to his wife,
would seem to have then cecided on his deadly revenge.
On the following morning. having provided himself with
a knife, and his mother-ii-law being obliged to leave
home, he got into the house and persuaded his wife to re-
turn with him to Ware, for which place they left ; but in
about two hours afterwards her dead body was found by the
roadside with her throat fearfully cut, the ground bearing
marks of a desperate struggle having taken place. Infor-
mation was iminediaoly given to the police at Luton, who
at once instituted an active pursuit, in which they were as-
sisted
by several gen lemen and inhabitants of the town and
neighbourhood. Aftcr a long search the prisoner was traced
going through seven' woods to Welwyn, where he gave
himself into custody s few minutes before the arrival of the
Luton inspector of police. The unfortunate deceased was
only 21 years of age, and had been married only six months.
THE MURDER ;I' DURSLEY.—The following are
more detailed particulars of this horrible crime briefly re-
ferred to in The Sun yesterday. The deceased, Thomas
Rutter, was 36 years )Id, and followed the trade of a jour-
neyman blacksmith. His wife Ellen, the murderess, is a
few yearsyounger, and is his second wife. Bya former wife
the deceased had a son, now a young man, who was still
living at his father's }pus°. On Saturday evening last his
father gave him nione, to procure meat for Sunday's dinner,
and he was about leaving the house when his mother-in-law
stopped him, and waned to know the reason she was not to
be intrusted with the honey. This circumstance was the
origin of a quarrel b-Aween the deceased and his wife,
who since their marritti;e have lived very unhappily toge-
the. Late the same Saturday) evening they were both
at the Star publichoue, and drinking, Mrs. Rutter sit •
ting with other men, and not with her husband. Of this
conduct he complained o her, and said he married her in
order that she might writ upon him. The woman, how-
ever, with an oath, dcliNi, the marriage, and used several
filthy expressions towads her husband. Later in the even-
ing; she told the man, b, whom she was sitting of her deter-
mination to " go home tnd cut Tom's throat," being at the
same time in a very exited state. She also subsequently
said, on being remonsthted with, that "if 20 people per-
suaded her she'd go and do it." A woman named Wood
accompanied Mrs. Ruter part of the way home, and by that
time she promised not 5 carry out her previous determina-
tion with regard to herhusband. Early on Sunday morn-
ing, however, she knoeed up a neighbour named Hancock,
and said, " Tom has mae away with himself," adding, " and
see how he has servq me," her sleeve and dress being
covered with blood. Hancock and his son afterwards
went to Rutter's rouse, and found the deceased
bleeding profusely fmn two wounds on his face,
and a frightful one in the throat. Hancock said
"Who did this ?" and Ellen Rutter replied, " I did." At
Gloucester yesterday tie judge commented on this case in
his charge to the granija,
L".), and said lie was afraid they
could come to no othe decision than that of a " bill for
wilful murder." The trial is expected
to take place on
Saturday.

LATEST NEWS.

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

FLORENCE, AUG. 11.
OFFICIAL DESPATCH.

The Ministers and Deputies went this morning
to the cathedral to implore Heavenly benediction.
They were cheered at the opening of the Assem-
bly. A great number of the population were pre-
sent.

The opening message of Signor Ricasoli was
much applauded. The Assembly was occupied
with the examination of the elections of the mem-
bers.

The whole town is covered with placards ending
with the words, " Viva Vittore Emmanele it nostre
Re."

ZURICH, AUG. 12.

The diplomatic banquet has taken place here.
Speeches were made by the President of the Go-
vernment, M. Dubs, Count Colloredo, and the
Federal Vice-President.

M. de Bourquency has invited the diplomatic
corps to a grand banquet for the 15th inst. The
Grand Duke of Baden will be present at the open-
ing of the railway of Waldshut, and will arrive at
Zurich on Tuesday next.

VIENNA, AUG. 11.

The official Austrian Correspondence of this even-
ing contains private intelligence, dated Parma, the
9th instant, stating that the Piedmontese had been
driven from the city. The red republic had been
proclaimed. Property holders and the friends of
order were taking flight.

TURIN, AUG. 11.

Advices received from Bologna state that a decree
of the Government has convoked an assembly to be
elected by the inhabitants, in order to express the
wishes of the population.
Several agents of Mazzini had been arrested and
expelled.
It is asserted that the conference of Zurich has
prolonged the armistice indefinitely.
The French troops have suspended their depar-
ture from Italy.

BERNE, AUG. 11.

According to news received from Zurich, M. de
Bourqueney had to-day a conference with M. de
Desambrais. At three o'clock p.m. another con-
ference took place between M. de Bourqueney and
Count Colloredo.

Marquis de Turgot, French Ambassador at Berne,
has issued numerous invitations for celebrating the
fete of Napoleon on the sth inst.

BERNE, AUG. 11.

Yesterday there was no sitting of the Conference
at Zurich. At the sitting of the day before yester-
day the representative of Sardinia was not present.
Baron Meysenburg has departed for Vienna.

The Vice-President of the Confederation of Swit-
zerland and the Councillor Cioda assisted this even-
ing at the diplomatic banquet.

TRIESTE, AUG. 11.
Advices have been received from Constantinople
to the 6th inst.

The Sultan has returned from his journey. He
has sanctioned the double election of Prince Couza
with the condition that Prince Couza is to come to
Constantinople to render homage to the Sultan.
M. de Thouvenel has arrived here.
It is confirmed that the town of Erzeroum has
been entirely destroyed by a fresh earthquake.

News from Smyrna of the sth inst. announces
the death of the General Governor.

HAMBURG, THURSDAY.

To-day the citizens of Hamburg representing all
the parishes voted for the modification of the con-
stitution as proposed by the Senate, which was
adopted by 578 against 153.

PARIS, AUG. 12.

The Moniteur of this morning contains a decree
ordering a medal to be struck in commemoration
of the Italian campaign, which is to be awarded to
all those soldiers and sailors who have taken part
in the said campaign.

The Moniteur also contains the usual monthly
return of the Bank of France, which shows the
following result as compared with the July ac-

count :

INCREASE.

Cash
Notes
Treasury balance

671 millions.
lf
ft

DECREASE. •
Bills discounted not yet due 681 „
Advances
Current accounts
7,4-

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

Letters from Toulon confirm the intelligence that
the experimental squadron stationed at that port is
about to be reduced to a peace footing—four ships
of the line and two frigates. Similar arrangements
have been made for the Atlantic squadron at Brest,
under the command of Rear-Admiral Fournichon.

"Owing to the interest excited by the entrance
of the troops on Sunday," says the Sport, "several
persons have hired windows of houses on the line
of march to relet to spectators. Some of these per-
sons have, it is said, already gained largo sums ;
one of them, for example, hired 3,000 windows at
an average price of 30f.—thereby making a clear
profit of 90,0001'. The number of honsow on tho
line to be taken by the troops is 843, and they have
about 16,160 windows in all; supposing that each
window be occupied by only six spectators, there
will be in those houses 101,160 persons."
At the battle of Solferino the battalion of Rifle-
men of the Guard, which formed the head of the
column of light infantry, distinguished itself so
much, capturing a flag and several pieces of artillery,
that the Emperor gave it the gross of the Legion
of Honour to be attached to its colours. When the
battalion arrived at Milan, Marshal Regnaud de
Saint Jean d'Angeley resolved to present it him-
self with the cross, and, having assembled the bat-
talion, he spoke as follows :

" Riflemen of the Guard—The Emperor, desir-
ing to revive an ancient and noble custom, has
decreed that a cross of the Legion of Honour
shall be suspended to the eagles of all the regi-
ments which take a colour from the enemy. This
glorious exploit you accomplished on the great
day of Solferino, and I now, in the name of his
Majesty, attach a decoration to this eagle, the glo-
rious symbol of courage, discipline, and military
devotedness. May this flag, decc,rated in recom-
pense of your bravery, become still dearer to you!
May each of you understand that this Cross of
Honour, which will henceforth be carried at your
head, and the rays of which will be reflected on the
whole battalion, is the object to which he ought to
aspire, and France, our dear country, happy at your
return, will salute in you children of whom she can
be proud. Vive l'Empereur!'

Pmt.'s BOURSE, Aug. 11.--The market still con-
tinues in the same heavy state. Threes declined
from 69f. 55c. to 69f. 30e. ; Mobilier from 847 f.
50c. to 832 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,372 f. 50c. to 1,367 f.
50c. ; Lyons, 872 f. 50c. to 867. 50c. ; Southern,
517 f. 30c. to 512 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 567 f. 50c. to
503 f. 75c.; Lombards, 562 f. 50c. to 558 f. 75c.

A sudden rally took place towards the close, when
the following were the quotations :-
4?; per Cents. .... 96 65 ; Credit Foncier 660
Do. end month ——l Belgian 41 —
3 per Cents 69 35 Piedmontese (5) 86
Do. end month 69 70 Roman B6 50
Bank Shares 2825 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 837 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 847 50 Home Debt —

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