The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONIJOIS,'! THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1866.

1 3Aance him on that occasion had they
believed him guilty of the cruelty or injustice
since attributed to him. We regard this demon-
' filtration at Southampton as a most satisfactory cir-
cumstance, and it is certainly a matter of rejoicing
that so many independent parties should have come
forward to give their testimony to the merits and
public services of the late Governor of Jamaica. We
hope that this the first will not be the last tribute
offered to the character of Mr. EIRE ; and
when the people of England understand more
fully the persecutions with which he is threat-
ened, they will show yet more strongly their sense
of the injustice with which he has been treated. It
was quite enough for the Prime Minister, who ought
to have supported him, to sacrifice him to the
clamour of a faction, without that faction continu-
ing their mean and unworthy tactics after he had
been dismissed the public service. At any rate this
welcome to Mr. EYRE is a fact that cannot be gain-
said, and one the importance of which his opponents
must feel assured of, notwithstanding all the con-
tempt and scorn they have profeksed concerning it.

The meeting of the British Association is always
an interesting event, and comes appropriately to
break the dulness of the autumn. This year, un-
fortunately, we have had enough to occupy public
attention with the continental disturbances and the
ravages of the cholera ; but nevertheless men will
be glad to have their minds diverted from such
painful subjects to the more attractive fields of
scientific inquiry. The members of the British As-
sociation, in accordance with the enlightened cus-
tom of the savants of our day, do not confine
themselves to mere speculative disquisitions,
but labour to put their knowledge and their
discoveries to practical use, eliciting from
them something that shall tend to benefit mankind,
to facilitate the transaction of business, and to
preserve men from the dangers and risks which
threaten ignorance. The reports which were read
yesterday at the first assembly of the Association
referred to several practically important matters,
among them the investigation of that meteorological
science which so greatly affects many trades and
professions. There are more things not only in
heaven and earth, but in the intervening space, than
is dreamt of in our philosophy, and Mr. GLAISIIER'S
" blue mist," of painful celebrity, only gives
us an additional proof of the existence of
those mysterious agencies which influence us with-
out our knowing what they are or whence they
come. The Kew committee of the British Associa-
tion sent an interesting report to the general com-
mittee, in which they expressed their cordial acqui-
escence in the suggestion that the Kew esta-
blishment should be developed into a meteoro-

logical centre of observation. The nature of
the partial and imperfect knowledge of meteorolo-
gical laws which has been-already acquired has been
so widely recognised that there is no fear that the
study of this science will not receive every encou-
ragement and assistance. The Parliamentary Com-
mittee, however, complain that the Legislature has not
taken any step towards promoting the study of
science in our great public schools. Speaking on
this subject, Mr. GROVE, Q.C., to whose share as
President fell the important task of delivering the
inaugural address, said that " Every votary of phy-
sical science must be anxious to see it recognised by
those institutions of the country -which could in the
greatest degree promote its cultivation and reap from
it the greatest benefit. The principal educational
establishments on the one hand, and on the other
the Government in many of its departments, were,
in his opinion, the institutions which might
best fulfil those conditions." Referring to
the great advantages of early study, Mr. GnovE
remarked that little could be achieved in scientific
research without an acquaintance with it'in youth,
but added that he did not complain of the tardiness
with which science had been received at our public
schools and universities. " Those great establish-
ments had their roots in historical periods, and much
time and patient endeavour were requisite to graft a
new branch of thought with success on a stem to
which it was exotic." Nevertheless the opening has
been made, the principle admitted, and Mr.
GROVE is not the only one who sees the
inconsistency of an educated man who,
when travelling, consults his almanac for sunrise
or full moon, and knows nothing of the elementary
structure of a barometer or a steam engine, or of
the principles on which their structure is founded.
There will be no need for the sterner and more exact
sciences to displace altogether those more ornate and
classical studies which tend so much to elevate the
mind and to refine the taste. There is ample room
for both, and we hope the day is not far distant
when no youth will consider his education complete
until he knows the rudiments, at least, of those
great laws which govern not the habitable globe
alone, but the whole universe.

The key-note of Mr. GROVE'S very able and
learned address was continuity. The more they in-
vestigated, he said, the more they found that in
existing phenomena graduation from the like to the
unlike prevailed, and that gradual progress was the
course of nature. He illustrated this by the recent
discoveries in many branches of science, beginning
with the researches of astronomical discoverers.
Each fresh discovery. served to show how one
thing was linked to the other ; how a cer-
tain relationship existed between the most

apparently dissimilar landmarks. In optics,
in chemistry, and in electricity itself, he found
fresh evidence of the truth he desired to illus-

,rate, and concluded by saying that the doctrine o

continuity was not alone applicable to physical in

quiries, but that the same modes of thought which
led us to see it in the field of the microscope as in
the universe, in infinity upwards and downwards,

would lead us to see it in the history of our own

race.

The labours of the association having been thus
eloquently inaugurated, the several sections will to-
day commence their interesting labours, and will
no doubt give us some valuable information before
they have completed them.

FRENCH FENIANS.—The Illustration of Paris pub-
lishes an account purporting to come from Head
Centre Stephens of the grand dinner given to him in Paris
by tao Marquis do Boissy. A large party of senators,
general; and titled and decorated personages were invited
to meet the Fenian. Before dinner he conversed for a long
time at a bay window with Viscount du la Guerroniore, in
answer to whose questions he gave an account of his
career. When the chief butler announced " Madame la
Marquise est servie," the Marquis requested him to give
his arm to the Marchioness de Boissy to take her in to
dinner. Stephens confesses to have blushed a little at this
distinguished honour. At table he sat on the lady's right
hand, and at desert the Marquis de Boissy, getting on his
legs, introduced him to the company as the " future presi-
dent of the Irish republic."

TIIE SCOTCH AT HomE.—Edinburgh numbers
1,530 one-roomed houses, of which 825 contain each six
inmates and under, whilst no one of the remaining 705 con-
tains less than that number of occupants. In Glasgow the
state of things is still worse ; for there the number of one-
roomed houses is 2,212, of which number 1,253 shelter
seven human creatures, whilst each of the other 959 dwell-
ings has more than seven inmates. There are in all Scot-
land no fewer than 7,964 houses—if they can be called
houses—without windows! and 226,723 houses of only
one apartment ; proving that nearly one million of the
people of Scotland, or nearly one-third of the entire popu-
lation aro living in houses—places improperly so called—
in which neither the comforts nor decencies of life can bo
socurod, and which are thus totally unlit for human habi-
tation. What wonder that working men like to spend as
much of their leisure as possible in public-houses, and as
little of it As peoihic ih their liomes !—Rov. Dr. 13eg9.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Wednesday Evening.
It is stated from Berlin that the Government has
informed the Chamber that the whole of Prussia
will form part of the Confederation of the North.
The kingdom of Prussia, it may be recollected, pos-
sessed beyond its German frontiers two large pro-
vinces which did not form part of the Germanic
Confederation. They are Royal Prussia (Konigs-
berg and Dantzic), and the Polish province of
Posen. The fusion of these two countries (says a
Paris paper) may raise serious objections on the
part of the great European Powers. Posen is es-
sentially Polish. The greater part of Royal Prussia
is also Polish, or of the Sclavonian race, and the
German population forms but aver), small minority.
The:Siecle,lin refereuce to the contradiction of the
statement that the Emperor had sent a letter to the
King of the Belgians, says :—" We may deduce
from this official contradiction one point which it is
important to notice. If the fact of the Imperial
letter be inexact, the signification given to the do-
cument still remains intact. Not only France does
not in any way threaten the independence of Bel-
gium, but she does not even think of asking from
her the restoration of the strong places which were
wrested from us in 1815, and which had been left
to us by the treaty of 1814."
A letter from Berlin says that affairs have as-
sumed a sufficiently. pacific attitude to induce the
Minister of Finance to withdraw the proposed pro-
ject of law for a loan of 60 millions of dollars.
There is no truth in the report of an intended
extraordinary meeting of the Cardinals at the Vati-
can, under the presidency of the Pope, to consider
the affairs of the Roman State.
I believe the season has not arrived yet when the
newspapers teem with accounts of enormous cab-
bages and turnips, but in the meantime we have now
two accounts of wonderful vegetation. Th e first i
undoubtedly true . As for the second, your reader
must have the goodness to receive it on the autho -
rity of a serious Paris paper. At the Halle, on Mon-
day, there was sold a melon which weighed upwards
of thirty-seven pounds. It was grown at St. Denis,
and is of thespecies called cantalon. The other mar-
vel of vegetation is thus related :—A tradesman of
the Rue St. Honord has a country house at which
he passes the summer. Last summer he bought a
stick made from a tree at Arcachon, which is cele-
brated for wood for this purpose. At the end of
last summer, on the morning when he was about to
leave the country for the season, he carelessly stuck
his tree in one of the beds, intending to take it with
him. It was a favourite stick, and he had it beau-
tifully mounted in gold. Suddenly the railway bell
rang, and he had only just time to take up his hat
and cloak, forgetting his stick in the hurry of the
moment. What was his surprise on his return to
the country to see that the stick had grown into a
little tree with numerous branches, and curious to
say the gold mounting still towers at top of the tree.
It appears that the stick had been recently taken
from the tree at Arcachon, and was of green wood.
The little tree will probably be left untouched, as
the gentleman will not like to cut his stick.
At Lyons a process has been adopted for photo-
graphing upon silk, linen, and other articles, and
many persons have their portraits upon their linen
instead of having it marked with their name or
initials. In the silk-shops various articles are exhi-
bited photgraphed with names and fanciful de-
vices. The articles are not at all injured by wash-
ing. The process is easily and rapidly effected.
M. Pagaud, of la Chatre, in the department of the
Indre, recently married to a young lady of Bourges,
was among the victims at the Pont de la Concorde.
When taken home he still breathed, and there were

hopes of saving him. On Saturday, however, a
telegraphic despatch was received by the family
announcing his death. They immediately came to
Paris to endeavour to console the young widow.
M. Duranton, Professor of Law of the Faculty of
Advocates, and President of that body, has just
died in Paris, in his 84th year. From 1825 to 1837
he published, in 22 vols., Les Course of Civil
French Law, according to the Civil Code, with
analytical and exnlanatorx_E.umranrieg_
During, the thunder storm, on Sunday evening,
the electric fluid entered the house, No. 61, Rue
Aboukir, and penetrated an apartment on the sth
floor, occupied by a gentleman and his wife named
Bregeon. It struck the chimney-piece, which was
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ornamented with a glass, and knocked off a part of
the frame. It left traces of its passage on the
wall in three places, and emerged through a fissure
in the chimney.

Great disappointment has, no doubt, been caused
by a singular mistake made at the Ministry of Pub-
lic Instruction, in drawing up the lists of the per-
sons who were to receive decorations on the occa-
sion of the Emperor's fete. Among the names was
that of M. Waddington, Professor of Philosophy,
at the Lyceum of St. Louis, and member of the
Institute. It appears that there are two Messieurs
Waddington. The Professor at St. Louis is not a
member of the Institute. The other gentleman is
not a member of any educational body. The prize
is intended for M. Charles Waddington, who is not
a member, but a correspondent of the Institute-
Academy of Moral Sciences.
The death is rumoured of M. Charles Frossard,
Vice-Consul of France, at Matamoras.
Miss Ofresia de Las Cases, daughter of the Mar-
quis de Las Cases, count of the Empire and Cham-
berlain to the Emperor, granddaughter of Connt
de Las Cases, the companion of Napoleon at St.
Helena, is about to be married to Baron des
Michels, Secretary of Embassy.
Another death to mention is that of Mr. John
Francis, a gentleman, many years connected with
the London press. Mr. Francis had been ill for
several weeks.

The weather is much improved to-day. It has
been warm, genial, and agreeable, but flying clouds
indicate that the rainy season is not yet over. There
have again been showers.

At the races at Nevers, the Prix des Haras, 2,000 f.,
was won by Balancelle ; the Prix do la Societe
d'Encouragement, 2,000 f., by Atalante. The Prix
de la Ville (handicap) 6,000 f., by Willis ; Ambas-
sador was second. The Prix du Cheminde Per,

1,000 f., by La Germaine. At Cherbourg, the Prix
des Haras, 3,000 f., was won by Chantilly ; La
Menagere second. The steeplechase was won by
Blaison.

A Vienna journal states that the diplomatic re-
lations between the Pope and the King of Italy, so
long interrupted, was about to be resumed.
Unfavourable accounts have reached Paris re-
specting the vines. It is said that the wet pre-

vents the grapes from ripening properly in some
districts, and that there will be hardly any chateau
margaux this year.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN ST. GILES'S.—LYN CH-
ING A BROKER.—Yesterday afternoon a most ex-
traordinary scene was enacted in George-street, St. Giles's,
consequent on the law being put in force under a re-
straint for rent in a room at one of the notorious houses
in that notorious street. Neither rent nor possession
being obtainable from the "lady " occupier, tho brokers
were put in, and, despite strong verbal remonstrances,
the furniture was cleared out and placed on a truck for
removal. Despoiled of her tares et penates, she raised an
outcry that quickly collected a mob, and in less time than it
takes to write it the wheels were broken off the truck, the
bedstead shattered, the flock bed and pillows hurled hither
and thither, whilst the rest of the goods and chattels were
most rapidly distributed. Meanwhile the unhappy repre-
sentatives of the law were deluged from several windows
from all sorts of vessels. The whole affair only lasted a
few minutes, but a body of police on arrival quickly put an
end to the missile-hurling that prevailed, and the crowd,
amounting to some hundreds, slowly separated, leaving
George-street and a considerable part of Broad-street strewn
with the evidence of the want of respect for tho law of
landlord and tenant in that locality.
THE REIGATE ELECTION COMMISSION.----Yester-
day, Mr. Sergeant O'Brien, Mr. F. J. Smith, and Mr. J.
T. Allen, tho commissioners appointed pursuant to the
statute 15 and 16 Vict. c. 57, intituled "An Act to provide
for more effectual inquiry into the existence of corrupt
practices at elections for members to servo in Parlia-
ment," proceeded with their inquiry into the proceedings
at the last and previous elections for the borough of Rei-
gate at the Town Uall. Extensive allegations of bribery
and corruption are alleged, and a large nunlber of persons
connected with the borough have been summoned to give
evidence, so that the inquiry will probably last several
days. Mr. Albert do Retzen has been appointed to act as
secretary to the conizajoionere.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.

VIENNA, Aug. 23

• The documents relating to the resignation of
Baron von Beust, the Saxon Minister for Foreign
Affairs, have been published here. Baron von
Beust, in his letter to the King requesting to be
relieved of his functions, states as his reason for so
doing that Prussia refused to allow him to take part
personally iu the peace negotiations, whereby he
was confirmed in his supposition that he himself
might stand in the way of au understanding with
Prussia.

The King of Saxony, in replying to Baron
von Beust, expresses in cordial and flattering terms
his recognition of the services rendered by that
Minister, and only accedes to his request on account
of the important political reasons he had himself
assigned, and which demand the sacrifice of the
King's perso# wishes for the country's good. His
Majesty concludes by assuring Baron von Beust of
his lasting gratitude, affection, and esteem.

FLORENCE, Aug. 22 (Evening)

News received here from Padua states that the
Austrians continue to remove national relics and
objects of art from Venice, particularly from the
arsenal.

2,500 Italian prisoners have arrived at Udine,
having been released by the Austrians.

ROME, August 22.

Count Sartorius de San Luis had an audience of
the Pope to-day, in order to present his credentials
as Spanish ambassador to the Roman Court.

AluxicH, August 23,

The territories to be ceded by Bavaria to Prussia
comprise the districts of Orb, Gersfeld,lters, and
Thann, situated in Lower Franconia.

nese districts contain in all 40,000 inhabitants,

SWITZERLAND.

BERNE, Aug. 23

The Federal Council having received assurances
of the maintenance of peace has abolished the pro-
hibition upon the export of horses and the other
measures that had been taken to preserve Swiss
neutrality.

JAPAN.
(Via Malta.)

SHANGIIAE, July 6.

The new Japanese Convention takes effect from
the Ist July. The new tariff will come into opera-
tion at Yokohama on the same date, and at the other
open ports, on the Ist August. Bonded warehouses
arc to be established in all the open ports.
The Japanese Government is desirous of making
favourable arrangements for the exchange of foreign
into native coin.

Japanese subjects are free to buy every &scrip.
tion of shipping except war vessels.

MALTA, Aug. 22.

The prohibition upon the importation of cattle
into Malta from the Regency of Tunis has been re-

moved.

AMERICA.
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug 23.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Germania, from New York on the 11th inst.,
arrived this morning with 69 passengers, and
$4,000 in specie for Hamburg.
On the 13th she passed the steamer Bavaria, on
the 20th the ship Benin, and on the 22d off Start
Point the Hamburg bark Candor.

FRANCE.

POINT DE GALLED Aug. 10.

The Messageries Imperiales steamer Alphee left
here to-day with the inward India, China, and
Japan mails. She has on board 70 passengers and
1,700 packages of merchandise.
PARIS, Aug. 22.—Two o'clock.—Still less busi-
ness has been transacted than on the last few days,
but nevertheless the market continues firm. The
opening quotations were nearly the same as the
closing ones of yesterday. Notice of the following
discounts was posted up :-1,500f. of French Threes,
12,000 f. of Italian Fives, and 25 Comptoir d'Es-
compte. French Threes were done at 69f. 10c., or
a fall of 2ic. ; Italian Fives at 53f. 20c., or 15c.
higher ; Mobilier at 647 f. 50c., the same .price as
yesterday ; Credit Foncier at 1,312 f. 50c., an im-
provement of 2f. 50c. ; Comptoir d'Escompto at
870 f., or 3f. 75c. lower. Nothing of consequence
doing in railways.

Three o'clock.—The market was not so buoyant
at the close, prices being as follows :

41 per Cents 99
Do. and month

3 per Cents.
Do. end month 69 02-}
Credit Itobilier
Do. end month
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Credit Foncier 1305 -
Do. end month 1315

Bank Shares 3560
Italian Loan 53 35
Do. end month 53 35
Mexican Loan 29
Do. Bonds 172 50
Spanish Throes
Home Debt —
Deferred
'AYB.

For Account.
Orleans 877 50
Northern 1137 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 875
Southern . 528 75
Western —
Eastern 536 25
Sardinian —
Austrian 355
Lombard 390
North of Spain lO2 50
Saragossa .
Ditto to Barcelona •
Roman _ .....

The Fatal Collision off the Suffolk Coast.

The fears entertained that there were more pas-
sengers lost in the wreck of the Bruiser, Hull and
London steamer, off Aldborough, than the returns
represented are confirmed. A Mrs. Mendorusky,
a German, and her three children, were known to
be on board, and have not been heard of. Captain
Harty, the commander of the Bruiser, from the de-
scription given of them by their friends, has a dis-
tinct recollection of seeing the woman with ber chil-
dren on deck during Sunday. She was on her way
to her husband, who is lodging at Mr. Morris's, 7,
Hutchinson-street, Commercial-road-east. It has
also been:ascertained that a young man named Stone
was among the passengers drowned. The lady who
was picked up by the Perseverance and landed at
Yarmouth is Miss Charlotte Bewley. She was in her
nightdress only, and was much injured. Her luggage
has been washed ashore, and it was forwarded to her
last evening. The Trinity-house officials have caused
a green buoy to be moored over the spot where the
Bruiser went down, and Captain Harty has arrived
at Aldborough, in company with some expe-
rienced divers, to explore the, wreck. If the weather
continues fine to-morrow, they will commence ope-
rations at once, and it is expected they will be able
to recover most of the cargo.
The chief mate (Mr. Scott) who had charge of the
Bruiser at the time of the accident remained on the
bridge until the water commenced flowing over the
deck, when he ran aft, and along with several others
launched the jolly boat. The next moment the ship
went down. This was the only boat of the Bruiser
launched. The captain had ordered all the lashings
of the other boats on deck to be cut, which was
done, so that they might float off as the vessel sunk,
and be the means of saving life.

We are glad to be able to inform our readers that
an influential committee is in course of formation for the
collection of an "Eyre Testimonial and Defence Fund."
Several noblemen and gentlemen of distinguished position
have already expressed their approval of the movement,
and in a day or two the names of the committee will be
Publif3llol-111rning