The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-22 00:00:00

TNE SUN, LONDON, TIIURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 186(1.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

TIIE FIRE NEAR NEWPORT-MARKET.—The Rev. J.
Williams, clergyman of the district of Newport-market,
and chaplain of the Newport-market Refuge, waited upon
Mr. Knox this morning to ask his assistance with the view

of originating a subscription on behalf of the sufferers
through a fire which occurred yesterday morning in
Porter-street, Newport-market, when several poor families
had every article of furniture destroyed, and nearly all
their clothing, seven families being admitted into and still
living at that most useful institution, the Newport-market
Reiuge.

Mr. Knox said he was sorry to hear of the disaster, and
with the view of commencing a subscription on behalf of
the poor persons, ho would order £5 to be given from the
poor-box.

ASSAULT.-Mr. Win. Fletcher, of No. 4, Piccadilly, was
charged before Mr. Knox with assaulting Mary Williams,
of No. 17, Montpelier-square.

Mr. Sayer, from the office of Mr. Edward Lewis, of
Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the complainant.
The complainant said she went into Mr. Wakelin's
tavern in Tichbourne-street just before closing time, and
the defendant, who was there when she went in, made an
insulting remark, and she slapped his face. The defendant
then followed her and struck her in the eye, knocking her
down.

The defendant said that the complainant struck him in
the eye, and ho did not resent it, but on the complainant
again attempting to strike him he prevented her doing so,
and certainly did strike her. But for the provocation he
received he could not have done so, being the last man
who would strike a woman.

Mr. Knox said he believed the defendant had received
great provocation, and therefore he would not send him to
prison without the option of paying a fine. Tho defend-
ant must not knock females down.
The defendant was then fined £5,

A French Hero.
-4.

ameral Jusuf, who commanded for the last eight or ten
months the military division of Montpellier, died at Cannes
on Friday morning. There are few names, says the Times'
correspondent, when announcing the fact of General
Jusuf's demise, in the French army more remark-
able. It is not clearly known who his parents
were, nor the precise place where he was born in. I be-
lieve ho knew as little on these points as the rest of the
world. Neither is the date of his birth known, though it
probably was soon after the beginning of the century. His
own recollections, I have heard, wore vague, and the first
thing he well remembered was his living in the island of
Elba in 1810, and his having frequently seen Napoleon in
1814. He left Elba for Florence for his education about
the same period, but by whose care is not related. His
adventures began in his boyhood. The vessel in which he
was a passenger was attacked and captured by a Tunis
rover, and in the distribution of the spoil he fell to the
Bey. The Bey took an extraordinary liking to him, from
the very outset, lodged him in his own palace, and, struck
by the natural grace of manner and the quick intelligence
of the youth, bestowed as much care on his education
as was possible under the circumstances. He provided
him with masters, under whom he readily became a pro-
cient in the Turkish, Arabic, and Spanish languages.
The Bey had an only daughter about the same age
as the young captive. Au attachment sprung up between
them. An intrigue was the result. It was discovered by
a vigilant eunuch, who informed his master. The eunuch
was found dead next day, and Jusui took to flight. Ho
was pursued by a party of soldiers, four of whom were
killed in their attempt to seize him. With much difficulty
he succeeded in gaining a French ship, the Adonis, when
he was safe from further pursuit. He arrived at Toulon
and enrolled himself as a volunteer in the expedition to
Algeria in December, 1830, under the name of Jusuf
Mameluke. His energy, gallantry, pleasing manner, and
intelligence soon attracted the attention of his superior,
and in less than a year he was promoted to tho rank of
Captain in the Ist Regiment of the Chasseurs of Africa.
His knowledge of languages, which he owed to the bounty
of the Bey, was of great service to him. He was employed
in 1831 as interpreter in several most perilous missions.
His daring character was signally conspicuous in the cap-
ture of the citadel of Bona, and his conduct on that occa-
sion obtained for him his first decoration of the Legion of
Honour in 1832. In his despatch to the Minister of
War, Savary, Duke of Bevigo, who then commanded
the army of Africa, thus spoke of Jusuf :--" I know
not to what page of history to turn to find a parallel
for his daring gallantry in the taking of the Casbah of
Bona ;" and Marshal Soult declared in the Chamber of
Peers that it was the finest feat of arms that the present
century had witnessed. His promotion continued to be
rapid. He was named chef d'escadron of the Spahis of
Oran in 1833, and two years later officer of the Legion of
Honour. In 1836 he played a brilliant part in the cam-
paign of Tlemcen, and in the unsuccessful expedition of
t Marshal Clausel to Constantine, of which Jusuf hal been
somewhat Prematurely named Boy. It was in the winter
of this year that he made his first appearance in Paris,
where the romantic nature of his early adventures, his
daring in the field, and his brilliant military career had
already invested him with great interest, and his graceful
figure and noble bearing made him the hero of the day.
He soon returned to Africa with the rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel of Spahis. In 1842 Marshal Bugeaud demanded
from the Minister of War his promotion as Colonel of the
whole of the native cavalry. The Marshal, in his de-
spatch, remarked that—
. " The praise of tieutenant-Colonel Jusuf's gallantry is

in everybody's mouth. There is not an officer, not a pri-
vate soldier, of the Division of Oran who does not admire
him. No man ever displayed more dashing bravery or more
activity of mind and body. As a light cavalry officer there
are few indeed to be compared to him, and I earnesty en-
treat you to make him Colonel Commandant of the whole
of the Spahis of Algeria."
He became a naturalised Frenchman in 1839. In 1845 he
was named Major-General, andpaid a second vieit to Paris,
on which occasion he abjured the Mussulman faith, became
a Christian, and at the same time married a niece of Gene-
ral Guilleminot. Hie returned to Africa the same year,

and from that period to 1848 distinguisbed himself in the
war against Abd-el-Kader, whom he defeated and was on
the point of making prisoner. In 18(6 he was promoted
to General of Division, and in 1857 took a leading part in
the second expedition to Kabylia. In 1860 he defeated the
bands of Moorishmarauders who bad invaded the Algerian

territory. In 1864 ho was charged with putting down the
insurrection of a certain number of Arab tribes, defeated
them in every encounter, and reduced them to submission
at Laghouat. He had been named Grand Cross of the
Legion of Honour in 1860. Owing to some cause not
clearly explained Mush al M'3lahon soon after his appoint-
ment as Governor-General of Algeria is said to have
recommended that Jusuf should be relieved of his com-
mand there. Ho did not long, however, remain without
employment. He was appointed to the military division
of Montpellier, which he retained until his death.

The prospectus of the Central American Asso-
ciation (Limited) has been issued, with a capital of
£150,000, in 30,000 shares of £5 each. The object
of the company is to undertake on a more extended
scale operations similar to those which have been
so successfully conducted by the Foreign Lands and
Mineral Rights Purchase Company, now about to
be dissolved (whose shares, with £145 paid, stand
at £700), viz., to bring English capital to bear
upon the resources of, and to assist in the develop-
ment of enterprise in, Central America." The
board consists of gentlemen connected with com-
panies already in existence and standing well in the
estimation of the investing public. Mr. G. M.
Bowen, Consul for Nicaragua, and Capt. Bedford
Pim, R.N., who is the orignator of the Foreign
Lands, and the Chontales Companies as well as the
Concessionaire of the Nicaragua Transit scheme,
are on the board.
THE PUDDLERS' STRIKE IN SOUTH YORKSHIRE.
—The dispute between the puddlers employed at the ex-
tensive works of the Messrs. Dawes, at Elsecar, has termi-
nated for the present. It appears that the strike was not
for an advance of wages, but against the quality of the iron,
which did not allow them, in consequence of its great
hardness, to do their six heats per day under 13 hours,
instead of 10 or 11 The masters wished the men to re-
sume work until Easter, when stock would be taken and
an alteration made. On Monday a meeting of the men was
held at a place called Stubbin, when it was agreed to re-
sume work as requested by their employers, and to com-
mence on Tuesday evening, so that there has been a very
slight interruption to the trade.

REPRESENTATION OF WIGAN. —A vacancy has
been caused in the representation of Wigan by the resig-
nation of Major-General Lindsay, the Conservtive mem-
ber, the reason assigned for taking this step being that his
military duties in Canada, where he is at present in com-
mand, render it impossible that he can discharge his duty
to his constituents. Tho gallant general had, with a brief
interval, represented Wigan since 1845. Mr. Eckersley, a
banker, has been nominated by the Conservatives, while
the Liberals have decided to support Mr. Lancaster, the
principal proprietor in the Wigan Coal and Iron Company.
THE CANARY BIRD.—Mr. R. E. Alison, in a con-
tribution to the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture on
Teneriffe, says of the canary bird:—"When I saw it first
in its native woods I could scarcely recognise it as the
same species as our domestic yellow warbler, so much is
the latter altered by domestication and repeated crosses.
The native bird is grey on the wings, the belly is green,
and the back a very dark grey. It builds on bushy trees
or high shrubs, lays from four to six pale-blue eggs, and
sometimes hatches six times in a season. I was surprised
to find that each flock has a different song. The note is
between that of the skylark and nightingale. The natives
assert that the bird is very difficult to rear, and generally
dies in a couple of years if kept in a cage."

The Diplomatist of the Drawing-room.

(From the Lion. Grantley Berkeley's "Life and Recollections.")
About this time there arrived in England, in the dis-
tinguished position of Ambassador to the Court of St.

James's from that of Versailles, a man whose diplomatic
reputation was second to that of no player in Europe. The
astute Metternich acknowledged his skill—my ready-
witted friend, Esterhazy, held it in profound respect—and

all the most accomplished employes of the most intriguing

of Governments respected him as a master of their craft.
He had the advantage of wonderful experience, he had had
the incalculable benefit of marvellous good fortune. The
trials he bad undergone and the perils he had survived, the
difficulties he had overcome, were enough to have gained

for him the fomo of enjoying a charmed life, or, at least, of
possessing a supernatural intellect. Ho had never made a
mistake. He was invariably a winner. No matter how
the game stood, if he could not be permitted to count
honours he was sure to win by cards ; and if the result
depended on an odd trick, that trick was certain to be
his own.

Lady B. had met this celebrated man abroad more
than once—she had met him at Vienna playing his cards

with consummate skill at the round game there got up for
the entertainment of the Congress of European Powers -

she had met him in Paris when he was the host of the

Emperor Alexander of Russia, during the occupation of
the French capital by the allies, and when it is believed
that he was permitted to look at the Imperial hand and

suggest the Imperial play—she had met him on ono or two

other occasions, in one or two other places, sometimes

having the deal, sometimes shuffling till he got it —but
generally with good cards in his hand, and making the

most of his superior knowledge of the game.

He had lately turned up a king—a King of Hearts—that
is to say, of French hearts. At least, he was so considered
when he first took the title of "King of the French." A

few years afterwards he ceased to be a king, and then
some people who looked more closely at him declared him
to be a knave. The fact is, the card had been a good deal
thumbed, and appeared to have fallen into dirty hands ;
under such circumstances it is difficult to pronounce, in an

uncertain light, its true character. No matter, kings have
been found to be knaves before now, and of such we

islanders have had our share

Lady B. having learnt that the representative of this
dubious sovereign had arrived in London, for warded to
the embassy a cordial invitation, and having that forenoon

sent directions to the hall porter that she was not to be at
home till a certain hour, to any ono else, she took her ac-

customed seat in the glass room about the time usually
given to morning calls.
She was dressed with great care, but that was a matter
of course with Lady B. Her toilette, morning or evening,
was always studied; indeed she dressed as if perpetually
sitting for her portrait. She looked well, but that was also
a matter of course with Lady B. Whether going to a

drawing-room or to Almack's, preparing for dinner or
waiting for a visitor, her ladyship seemed to insist on look-
ing well, and what she insisted upon was realised to the
letter, as her loi d, who admired her immensely, as her
family, as her household, could have testified with remark-
able unanimity.

Though a matron who had already planted her nursery
pretty thickly with olive branches, Lady B. was in excel-
lent preservation. Many of her juniors envied her her
clear complexion, her rounded form, and her fine figure.
Her personal advantages were still great, and she was not
in the slightest degree inclined to hide them from credit-
able observation. She did not agree with the fact that

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most," for hor
sense of the grand was apparently dependent on her
sense of the beautiful. Consequently her dress was always
elaborately fine ; fine in fabric and fine in fashion, made in
the best way, worn in the best manner, and set off with
the costliest ornaments. The result was certainly im-

posing.
Some critics in taste might have considered her display
of diamonds for a morning toilette not commendable, but
Lady B. had finely-shaped white hands, every taper finger

which merited the three or four decorations that had been

bestowed upon it. Her well-shaped ears, her well-shaped
throat, had at least equal claims upon the foreign aid of
ornament. With such demands upon her, and with so
well-furnished a jewel-case, her ladyship must have been
more or less of a woman of fashion had she cultivated sim-

plicity of dress at any period beyond the hours devoted to

repose.
Lady 8., for the present, like her mirror, seemed to bo
exercising no other powers than those of reflection. She

sat quiet and self-absorbed, devoting herself to the consi-
deration of the subject that was uppermost in her mind.
Sko thought of the visitor she expected, she thought of
what she should say to him, and she thought of what he
was likely to say to her. Her object was to gain informa-
tion which she could not acquire through any other chan-
nel, and she was well aware that unusual skill would be
required to extract it from such a source. Her confidence
in herself was very great. She was called upon to play a
difficult game with an unrivalled player, but rested content
on the conviction that she should hold capital cards, and
was sure to play them admirably.. In short, she felt her-
self mistress of the situation.

While she was intently-cogitating on the coming man,
and the manner of her dealing with him, the outer door of
the large apartment was suddenly thrown open, and the
groom of the chambers, in a mellow, sonorous voice, com-
bining a sense of dignity with a feeling of profound re-
spect, announced—

last night at the Theatre Royal, from my box, where I
go with my suite. I see him in the role of an Irishman.
It is droll that ' Teddy the Tiler'—his acting was.
good. I notice him a little unsteady ; perhaps what you
call rollicking. But, pardon ! I cannot say I saw him off
his balance,"

Lady B. for a moment looked confounded, then detecting
the equivoque, which she belioved was accidental, laughed
a pleasant mellow laugh, in a slightly perceptible degree,
it must be added, mingled with mortification.
"It is a mistake," she said; "a miscor.ception of my
meaning. I alluded to the necessity that exists for main-
taining among the principal European slates an equili-
brium that shall prevent mischievous rivalries and dan-
gerous complications."
" Aha!" cried the veteran diplomatist, as the wrinkles
of his forehead mounted from his eyebrows to the roots of
his silvery hair.
" Pozzo di Borgo !" repeated he, in a low voice, pinching
his chin with his disengaged hand, and then allowing it to
sink into his voluminous cravat.

" Yes, Prince, Pozzo di Borgo told me - and your Excel-
lency must allow that he is likely to be well informed as to
the ideas of his Imperial master, my friend, the Autocrat of
all the Russian—" _ _

"Ah !" exclaimed the ambassador, scratching the point
of his nose with his finger.

" That he is certain there never will be peace in Europe
till the great Powers are so equal in point of material
strength that there shall remain nothing for them to desire
and nothing for them to dread."
" Good !"
" And Palmella—"

" Monsieur le Comte Palmella !" repeated the diplomatist,
and the wrinkles of his face followed each other like waves
from his eyes to his chin.
" Exactly ; the count assured me that a Holy Alliance,
to be durable, could only exist among sovereigns, when
there should be no superiority of any kind throughout the
Continent and Peninsula."
" Good !"

" On the contrary, Metternich informed me-"

"Prince Metternich—Oho !" cried the old man, peering
curiously out of his dull eyes at his companion, as he put
his chin a little deeper into his cravat.
"Informed me that it was necessary, for the security of
Europe, that Austria should dominate both in Germany
and Italy."
" Ah !"
"Now what is your Excellency's opinion ?"

Lady 8., when she undertook the task of obtaining
information from Prince Talleyrand, had evidently fancied
that the game she was venturing to play would be an easy
one. She soon found that there were difficulties in it she
had not calculated upon.

" Pardon, my lady," replied her companion, the wrinkled
parchment smiling all over, as if from an hilarious impulse
he was courteously restraining, "I cannot presume to speak
in opposition to the illustrious authorities you have been so
amiable as to name. As a matter of course, I agree with
them all."

...- -__.
" But their sentiments are conflicting," cried Lady B.
" So are mine," cried the Prince, and he again prinched

his chin.

" Their ideas c anot be made to coincide."
"Nor can mine." Then scratching his nose once more,
he added, significantly, " As ono of your popular writers
has so well observed, ' much may be said on both sides e
but as this has already been admirably expressed by your
ladyship's friends, why should I weary you with my tedi-
ous repetition ? I agree with everybody. There is no-
thing new to advance."
Her ladyship felt that she had lost a trick, though she
could not clearly understand how. She saw, however,
that she must go on with the game, and thought that the
most prudent course she could take was to finesse. She
therefore began a very confidential conversation about the
younger Bourbons, delicately intimating her desire to know
the secret machinery that had been employed to lop off the
elder branch, and leave the other flourishing in its place.
It is scarcely possible to describe how the wrinkles tra-
velled up and drown, how the chin rose and sunk, and how
the sighs and exclamations followed each other, as the great
diplomatist became aware of his hostess's meaning.
Having heard all that she seemed inclined to say on that
particular point, interspersed with confidential opinions
from various influential sources, his venerable face sud-
denly assumed an expression—his heavy features lighting
up apparently with some unusually strong feeling.
"Ah !" ho exclaimed in a kind of subdued enthusiasm,
"how you English ladies astonish me! I am amazed at
the wonderful inclination I observe in you for the c,onsi-
deration of the most difficult questior 8. Mothers and wives
forget their nurseries, forget their husbands, indeed, not
unfrequently, forget themselves, to enter into inquiries of
some profound policy that the wisest men find it almost
impossible to comprehend. Really you must excuse me ;
I am quite unprepared to discuss such delicate subjects.
But if you like, I will venture to offer some suggestions as
to the best method of administering to your charming little
family manna and magnesia, castor-oil—whatever you
please !"

Tho veteran again scratched his nose, and sunk his chin
into the bottomless pit of his cravat, with an air of mingled
simplicity and interest that defies my powers of description.
Lady B. paused—seemed puzzled—then, with true
feminine perseverance, continued the game ; but almost
every card she played passed over to the other side of the
table. She lost, as a matter of course. She need not have
averred, like the French King after the conflict at Pavia,
that all was lost except honour, for hers had never been
in jeopardy; but when the Prince rose from the unequal
contest, the result of the game ought to have satisfied her
ladyship that she was not quite the skilful player she had
thought herself.