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

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1866.

that 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
has again overshadowed the prospect, and that Mr.
EASSAM 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 be. 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
have 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 proven tible causes
we may certainly include those of the victims of the
Holborn 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 wero 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.

him on his shoulders out of the crowd. After
doing this he almost immediately perceived that
while his hands were engaged and his attention was
diverted towards the child, some heartless ruffian
had robbed him of his purse and his watch.
Not the least of the celebrities of Paris is a street
astronomer, M. Dilatilt. He is generally to be
found ;n the evening in the Place Vendome, where
he fixes a splendid telescope, said to have cost a
thousand pounds. On the pavement he draws with
chalk a sort of programme of what is to be seen
dti-ing the evening. This is artistically executed in
white and black, and there is sometimes much wit
in the title he gives to the spectacle of the evening.
The price for a peep at the moon or any of the
planets is half a franc or fivepence, but, with a view
to extend a taste for science among the working
classes, he w;11 allow a poor man to look at half
price. One even;ng the Abbe Hoigno, who is
equally noted for rel'gion, science, and amiab"ity,
arrived in the Place Vendome. The announcement
on the pavement was, " This evening the comet is
visib!e." " What," said the abbe, " have you seen
a comet up there?" " Yes,Monsieur l'Abbe," said M.
Billault, " look through the telescope for yourself."
The erudite priest mounted the ladder for the pur-
pose. He saw the comet perfectly, and said, " But
the Observatory is not aware that there is a comet
in Paris. When you discovered it in your obser-
vations upon the clouds, why did you not give them
notice?" " The Observatory," replied M. Billault
with a smile, "is in competition against me." At
night M. Billault shows the moon to the Parisians
when she is to be seen, and in the day he exhibits
to them the spots in the sun. On some occasions
he makes a good deal of money, for instance
during an eclipse. He is,no vulgar man, but de-
scribes the planets scientifically and wittily. Some
of his pavementary illustrations, if I may be allowed
to coin the word, are very quaint and remarkable,
and I think a little notice of this astronomer is
not inappropriate, at all events in The Sun, upon
which he bestows so much time and attentioi.

La Liberte, remarking upon the project of law
for the annexation presented to the Prussian Cham-
ber, says in reference to the first article, which has
the words nous prenons—we take—" We take—that
is candid, that is sincere—there is nothing hypocri-
tical about it. We take. But this right of Prussia
is the right of force, and this right of force may to
morrow be that of France. What will vanquished
Prussia then have to oppose to her ? What can
she reply to France, saying in her turn, We take?"
Prince de Metternich has resigned his post as
Austrian Ambassador at Paris, and will only re-
main here until his successor shall be appointed.
Mdlle. Constance Braschi, a descendant of Pope
Pius VI., has been married at Rome to Count
Zucchini.

It is not the Prince Hohenzollern who was at
Paris last winter who has died from his wounds at
Sadowa, but Antoine de Hohenzollern, third son of
Prince Charles Antoine de Hohenzollern and the
Princess Josephine of Baden. Prince Leopold, who
was at Paris, is the eldest son.

Last evening, just after my letter was posted,
there was a storm of thunder and lightning which
lasted till about seven o'clock. It was not very vio-
lent, but the rain formed a sort of mimic torrent in
the streets and suburbs. To-day it has been warm
and agreeable, but with dark clouds and occasional
slight rain. It was a pleasant day.

The libretto of " Don Car,los" has been read at
the opera, and the rehearsal; will shortly take place
under Verdi's personal direction. It will be recol-
lected that M. Faure, who was to have played a
principal character written for him, has died since
the opera was commenced.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—On Monday, the 23d
ult., Christina Macarthur, residing with her parents at 13,
Holmsc,-oft-street, Greenock, while amusing herself on a
stair at tenement 28, Ann-street, got, unobserved, outside
of the rail, and in attempting to get over upon the roof of
a cellar fell headlong to the paved court below, a depth of
some 18ft., striking her head heavily. She was picked up
by Mrs. Vosper, a neighbour, to all appearance lifeless.
Dr. 111qtaild, who resides nearly opposite, was immediately
in attendance, and from him we gather the following par-
ticulars :—" I found the child utterly motionless and breath-
less, and to all appearances dead. Her head was twisted
beneath the left shoulder, and almost reversed on thebody.
I began to examine whether, and if so, whereabouts the
skid,/ might be fractured, when Mrs. Vosper, who had the
child in her lap, told me the neck, not the head, was broken,
and that, therefore, medical aid was useless. I saw at once
that the relation of the neck with the head was unnatural,
and, instead of waiting for a nice diagnosis, proceeded to use
means of reduction. With this object I supported the back
with the left knee, took a grasp of the head, and began to
pull gradually and pretty strong. I had not pulled much
when the patient's eyes opened, and an attempt was made at
breathing. As a physiological test of the nature of the in-
jury I ceased pulling, when immediately every phenomenon
of life ceased as before. I then pulled strongly, and the'
parts came to the natural position with a snap, exactly as
occurs after the reduction of displacements, but not so
audibly. Immediately the eyes opened, and shortly after-
wards gasping took place, and in a minute or so breathing
was established. The child was then carried upstairs, while
I continued to keep the head and neck steady. We placed
her on a hard, narrow bed, and in the best position possible,
by moans of pillows. Mrs. Vesper undertook to remain
beside her to guard against any movement of the head.
The head, however, was disturbed during the night, and
convulsions supervened, which ceased, however, as soon
as the head was kept steady by the hand. Then came
vomiting of dark matter, followed by much heat and much
disturbance. I caused the neck to bo well leeched, and a
counter irritant to bo applied to the epigastrium, on which
the convulsions disappeared. To secure rest laudanum
was administered, after which the patient slept. During
sleep heat was kept down by means of iced water applied
to .the head. Next morning tho patient appeared more
lively ; but the least movement produced distortion of the
features and a minor convulsive movement. She was quite li
sensible, but could neither articulate nor swallow. To-
wards mid-day she could articulate most words, but was
deficient in pronouncing linguals. A few hours afterwards
she could both swallow and speak. As there was much
disturbance of both cerebral and respiratory organs I gave
her ten grains of calomel, which soon settled her down.
The child's neck is still distorted to the right side, and for
this a stay support is being made ; the child is progressing
favourably ."—Nerth British Mail.

EXHIBITION OF STOLEN GOODS.—On Monday
night last a cabman was invited by his fare to take some-
thing to drink in a publichouse in the Southwark-bridge-
road. On returning to the cab the fare found that his
carpet- bag had been taken away. A police-constable was
called, and Robinson, 48 P, traced the bag to a boy named
Thomas Shea. The policeat once went to the house where
he lived, and found him. He acknowledged that he bad
taken the bag, and sold it in the Waterloo-road for 6s.
Ho went with the constable to a tobacconist's shop in the
Waterloo-road where he had sold the bag. The constable
knocked at the door and was answered by a woman, who
inquired out of the window what he wanted. The con-
stable, thinking it very strange for a tobacconist to buy pro-
perty, and having an idea that there was more inside, told
the woman he had gone there to -find a girl who had
been taken away from her parents. The woman not
knowing the real object of the constable told him there was
no girl there, and also said he might go in and see. The
constable went in and the first thing he saw was the missing
carpet-bag. He at once took the woman and a man (who
gave his name as Evans) into custody, and afterwards made
a minute search of the house, where he found an enormous
quantity of stolen goods. With the assistance of Gibbs,
345 P, the whole of it was taken to Carter-street police-sta-
tion, where it has now been arranged and remains for the
inspection of those of the public who have at various times
lost property. Some of it has been already identified, and
is said to have been stolen as long back as 18 months. A
correct list of the property has just been completed. Among
the most valuable of the articles are the following :
Four gold and 14 silver watches, 11 gold rings, one pair of
worked ear drops, six broken earrings, 14 brooches, ono
heart set with brilliants in silver, one red coral brooch,
(carved), six bracelets, 13 chains, of which three are Albert,
eight rings of various descriptions, a silver medal (soldiers)
engraved "Stephen Poletti," seven silver and a large num-
ber of electroplated spoons, sugar-tongs, tea and coffee-pots,
93 pencil cases-72 silver and 21 gold—many of which aro
set with single rows of turquoise ; 48 knives, pen and table;
12 scent-bottles (silver tops), seven pa pierm ache boxes,
three of which have a dog painted upon the lid, and
are a set of much value ; about 100 jet and imita-
tion brooches, and about 100 ladies' gilt waist buckles ;
a Chinese workbox ; a largo quantity of Berlin wool, two
dozen gilt cord hair-nets on rollers; large quantities of
dimity and carpeting, a large marble timepiece, 44 pairs of
ladies' boots, a large quantity of swiss bronze figures, 11
pieces of cotton prints, four muslin curtains, two pieces of
silk velvet, 18 pieces of Alpaca (uncut), 33 silk scarves,
33 silk neckties, ten silk handkerchiefs, two silk umbrellas,
six table-covers, 29 pockethau'dkerchiefs, 17 waistcoats, a
number of silk dresses (some apparently of Indian make),
a very costly and handsome shawl of muslin inlaid with
white satin and crotchet chain, a quantity of black silk
veils, 15 dozen unfinished habit shirts, 16 ladies' white
petticoats, a number of Prayer-books, 14 elastic shirts, and
three black silk mantles. There aro besides miscellaneous
articles too numerous to'mention, but which may be seen
on application to Inspector Dann, at the Carter-street
police btation,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.

VIENNA, Aug. 21.

The Vienna papers of this morning announce that
the settlement of the Venetian question in principle
will be effected at Vienna, and that General Mena-
brea is expected to arrive here in the capacity of
Italian plenipotentiary.

It is added that the definitive negotiations for
peace between Austria and Italy will probably also
be conducted at Vienna.

MILAN, Aug. 20.

News received here from Trent states that Genera
Kuhn, the Austrian commander of that district,
ordered the municipalities of Trent to give a public
fete on the occasion of the birthday of the Emperor
Francis Joseph.
The municipality, however, declined to obey with-
out written orders to that effect from the Austrian
authorities.

SPAIN.
MADRID, Aug. 20, Evening.

A decree of the Minister of Finance has been
published, ordering the governors of the provinces
to accelerate the alienation and liquidation of the

national property.

AMERICA.
•(BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORE, Aug. 18.
President Johnson ignores the blockade of Mata

moras.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (Evening).
Gold, 150 E; Exchange on London, 1591; 5-20
United States Bonds, 110 i ; cotton, 34k.

VALENTIA, Aug. 21.
A telegram from Newfoundland announces that
the communication on the land lines recently inter.
rupted has been restored.

FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

PARIS, August 21.

The Moniteur of this morning, alluding to the
analysis of a letter recently published, and alleged
to have been addressed by the Emperor to the
King of the Belgians, says :—" This intelligence is
erroneous. Although it is true that the French
Minister for Foreign Affairs has informed the Bri-
tish Government that France would not demand
the fortresses of Marienburg and Philippeville,
which are in the hands of a neutral Power, it is
not correct that the Emperor has written to the
King of the Belgians."

PARIS, Aug. 20.—Two o'clock.—The market
opened firmly at, in some cases, a slight advance on
Saturday's prices, and some considerable purchases
have had the effect of producing a still further im-
provement. This, however, does not apply to all
Securities, as French Threes were done at 69f. 5c.,
or sc. lower ;' Italian Fives at 52f. 90c., or a rise of
35c. ; Mobilier at 646 f. 25c., or 3f. 75e. higher ;
Comptoir d'Escompte at 870 f., or sf. lower. Credit
Foncier were unchanged at 1,302 f. 50c. A little
more animation, has been visible in the Railway
Market, more especially in Lombard.

Three o'clock.—The market has closed with
scarcely any alteration, as follows :

per ()outs 9B 50

Do. end month

3 per Cents. 69 171

D. end month 69 05

Bank Shares 3550
Italian Loan 52 70
Do. end month 52 85
Mexican Loan 2B

Credit Mobilier ... 643 75
Do. end month ... 645

Do. Bonds 172 50
Spanish Threes —.—
Homo Debt
Deferred
'AYS.

Credit Foncier 1300
Do. end month 1305

RAIL•

For Account.
872 50
1135

Orloans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean..
Southern 535
Western 560

Eastern 535
Sardinian
Austrian

Lombard 3BB 75
North of Spain lO2 50
Saragossa —
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman —

The CANNON-STREET RAILWAY STATION..—The
station, now that it is cleared, presents a very imposing ap-
pearance, with its spacious platforms and its six rows of
handsome globular lamps. The segmental roof is wider in
a single span and longer than the roof of any other building
in London. At the inner corners of the station there are to
the right the station master's offices, and adjoining them the
bullion office. At the opposite corner there are spacious
refreshment rooms, the neat booking office for local traffic,
and Messrs. Smith and Sous bookstall, at appropriate dis-
tances on the edge of the wide cross platform at the inner
end of the station. The principal booking offices and waiting
rooms, with the entrance and exit to and from the station
platforms are, as at Charing-cross, on and through the
ground floor of the hotel, which at Cannon-street is reached
by a long range of easy steps, the breasts of which are of
strong glass, by which light reaches the basement. The
nine lines in the station are reduced to five lines in
crossing the bridge. On reaching the Surrey side the
line curves to the left continuously till it reaches the
straight for London-bridge. The Charing-cross branch
strikes off to the right at the fork and describes Hogarth's
line of beauty—an easy ogee curve. The junction is close
to Barclay and Perkins' brewery, which is to the right
coming outwards, and passes close to some ancient villas,
such as a few left in Southwark were once surrounded
by orchards and lawns, in the days when the Bishop of
Winchester had his palace in the locality. At the junction
an additional line is added, giving three lines each way to
Charing-cross on the one hand, and to London-bridge on
the other. Engine-sheds, turntables for engine and tender,
sidings, and other conveniences occupy a large space near
this junction. The first rehearsal on Tuesday was superin-
tended by Mr. Eborall and Mr. Knight. The train, after
discharging its passengers on the High Level at London-
bridge, at 9 30, passed on to Cannon-street station, which
it reached in three minutes. The empties which have
hitherto run into London-bridge low level will now, until
the opening, run on for practice to Cannon-street station,
and returning to London-bridge at their appointed times
take up their passengers there.—Razlway News.
MODERN POPULAR SONGS.—The decline and fall
of the popular song has been sudden and rapid.
Less than twenty years ago we were still singing My
Pretty Jane, the Maids of Merry England, and Phillis is
my only Joy. We rarely hear songs of this character sung
now, and there are no new songs of the same class to take
their place. The successor of My Pretty Jane was.the
Itatcatcher's Daughter ; of Phillis, Naughty Jemima
BroWn. My Pretty Jane was a foolish thing to be sure,
but if we did press her to meet us—meet us in the willow
glen when the bloom was on the rye (for no par-
ticular reason, at that floral season, except that she
was "shy"), she did not outrage our feelings by
taking too much to drink and cutting away with a chap
that drives an ugly donkey-cart. Phillis was a
very different young woman from Jemima Brown. She
was faithless, it is true, like Jemima ; but she was faithless
"as the winds and seas," not as a pair of sixteen-shilling
trousers made not to sit down in. The pretty, pleasing
(though foolish) sentimental ballad has almost entirely
disappeared, and instead of celebrating woman's loveliness
and grace, we sing of her ugliness and disgrace, with
" Now, then, all together," and she stabbed herself with
the carving knife, and a right fol de riddle 10l de ray.
Murder and suicide have become exceedingly comic in
these days. The carving-knife and the waterbutt are the
modern dagger and bowl, and their mortal effects are in
variably celebrated in a chorus of jubilation.—Dickens's
" All the Year Round."

WINCHESTER COLLEGE. —An election to aFellow-
ship of this college will be holden on Thursday, Sept. 27
pros. By the ordinances of the Oxford University Com-
missioners it is provided that—" The preference given by
the original statutes to those who are or have been Fel-
lows of New College shall be extended alike to the master,
usher, and assistaht-masters of the school of Winchester
College for the time being, and to those who should have
held any of the said offices." No candidate is eligible un-
less he is iii priest's orders. _ _ _

CHOLERA.—It is important that the public should
be acquainted with the best means for preventing
the spread of this pestilence. The leading medical autho-
rities recommend the use of MCDOUGALL'S DISINFECTANTS
as the cheapest and most efficient. They combine the
good effects of Carbolic and Sulphurous Acids, the disin-
fection being permanent, and not temporary only, as is the
case with mere deodorisers, such as Chloride of Limo, tte
Messrs. MCDOUGALL will forward "Suggestions for the
Prevention of Cholera " on application at their depots:
London, 11, Arthur-street West, London-' ridge ; Man-
chester, Riga-street, Slattdehig•