The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-10 00:00:00

The Visit of Belgians to England.

The first meeting of the Belgian Reception Com-
mittee took place ;on Friday last, under the pre-
sidency of Viscount Bury.
Viscount Bury, after referring to the number of
distinguished names which had been sent to be
placed on the general committee, and to the success
which he had no doubt would attend the movement
when the organisation was complete, suggested the
adviSability of ascertaining at as early a period as
possible the number and position of the Belgians
likely to accept the invitation as our guests during
the forthcominn national Rifle Association Meeting,
at Wimbledon. As he had before observed, the re-
ception of the British volunteers in Belgium was
not merely that of the Garde Civique, but there
were a number of the military general officers, the
staff of the King, the burgomaster and municipali-
ties of Brussels, Ostend, Antwerp, _float, Bruges,
and Ghent, who also did them great honour, and
treated them with great hospitality, and to all these
invitations should be extended. (hear, h.ar.) This
rendered it necessary that our movement here should
not be merely a voluntary one, but a national one,
and they should take measures for securing the for-
mation of committees and the co-operation of the
nobility, gentry, and the general public in every
district and country in the kingdom. (Mar, hear.)
It was his idea, however, that one of their first steps
should be to acquaint the Belgian authorities of
what their organisation was, and ascertain, if pos-
sible, those who would be likely to accept our in-
vitation as guests. (Hear, hear.)
Acting upon this suggestion on the motion of
Colonel. Gregory, it was unanimously resolved,
" That Lord Bury be requested to take such steps
as he may think desirable in the way of communi-
cation with those in Belgium whom be thinks should
be invited as our guests."
A discussion took place as to whether any portion
of our Belgian visitors might or might not prefer
the novelties of an encampment at Wimbledon, and
as to communications with the national Rifle Asso-
ciation upon the subject ; but it was felt that these
were matters for after consideration, and that as
the main duties of the committee, which would ex-
pire on the 15th of February next, were at present
merely a preliminary organisation and money-col-
lecting committee, it was, therefore, resolved—
" That, with a view of carrying out these objects,
communications should be made to commanding
officers of volunteer regiments, to high sheriffs of
counties, mayors of cities and towns, members of
Parliament and others, asking them to place their
names on the general committee, and to form local
committees in aid of the movement." A vote of
thanks to Lord Bury closed the proceedings.

The Engineer reports an interesting scientific ex-
periment. Hitherto, it says, it has been found im-
possible to adopt the ordinary planing machines for
curvilinear planing, but at length this problem has
been solved by Mr. Middleton, the head of the
machinery department in Chatham dockyard, who
has succeeded in planing the whole of the curves
and angular surfaces of the iron stempiece for the
Monarch, with no other appliances than the com-
mon planing machines.
The Board of Trade returns in England for the
month of October, which have just appeared, show
a slight decrease in the number of vessels entered
in the foreign trade as compared with those of the
corresponding month of last year. But the export
trade exhibits a decided increase, indicated by the
employment of a larger number of British vessels.
Of foreign shipping entered inwards °
durino• the
above month there is, as compared with last year,
an increase of tonnage from Norway, and a decrease
from Prussia, France, Austria, and the United
States. The exports of foreign vessels during the
same time show very little alteration, except as to
France, which exhibits a decrease. During this
month 567 vessels have arrived
from, and 373 have
departed to, our British possessions, and our
com-
merce with other countries is represented by an im-
port trade of 1,094,598 and an export trade of
1,091,695 tons.

It is said that a joint commission is about to be
appointed by the British and French Governments
for the purpose of investigating and improving the
fishery laws of the two countries.
The departure of the French troops from Rome
has commenced. On Monday last the 85th Regi-
ment left the Eternal City, the officers having pre-
viously received the Pope's benediction.
SMITHFIELD CLUB SHOW, AGRICULTURAL HALL.
—The live stock for this show continued arriving
by train up to ten o'clock on Saturday night. Not one
case of disease of any kind had occurred. Indeed the
animals wero all unusually fresh and healthy, not having
been exhausted by exhibition at any other show. The
numbers fall some 30 below those of last year, the chief
falling off being in the Scotch, Irish, and long-horned
cattle classes ; but the stewards were unanimous in de-
claring that in quality of cattle and sheep the show of
1867 is the best they remember. The following is a sum-
mary of the number of the entries :—Devons, 48 ; Here-
ford; 24 ; short-horns, 57 ; Sussex, 15 ; Norfolk and Suf-
long horns, 9 ; Scotch horned, ; Scotch
cross-bred, 17 ; extra stock, 13. The Irish and
folk polled, 9 ;
polled, 9 ;
Welsh did not fill, and these classes might as well be abo-
lished. In sheep pens of three there aro Leicesters, 15;
Cotswolds, 4; Lincoln, 2 ; Kentish, 3; other long-woolleci,
5 pens. In extra stock of Leicester single sheep there are
11; other long-woolled, 9. Southdowus.—Pens of three,
22 ; Hampshire downs, 8 ; Shropshire downs, 9 ; Oxford
downs, 6 ; mountain sheep, 5 ; llyelaud, 3 ; extra stock in
downs and short-woolled sheep, 31. Single Sheep—Cross-
bred sheep, 8, in pens of three, and single sheep in extra
stock. Of pigs there are 43 entries, in pens of three, and
18 single pigs. Last night Divine service was performed
for the herdsmen and shepherds, at which the Rev. Daniel
Wilson, A.M., the vicar of Islington, officiated and.
preached. To-clay the judges will commence their duties
of inspecting the stock and making their awards, which
they are expected to complete about 2 p.m., when the show
will be opened to the members of the club and such of the
public as choose to pay an admission fee of ss. To-morrow
morning the show will open to the public at the ordinary
price of is., and at 1 o'clock that day the annual meetinr,
of the Smithfield Club will be held, under the chairman-
ship of the Duke of Richmond, this year's president. The
show will continue open from tho Tuesday until the Fri-
day night next, when it will finally close, and tho usual
dinner of the club, at which the prizes awarded will be
distributed, is appointed to take place at the Salisbury
Hotel, Salisbury-square, Fleet-street, on Wednesday even-
ing, under the presidency of the Duke of Richmond. From
the general excellence of the show there is every reason
to believe that it will be attended with its usual success.

Maria Olive, the landlady, said that on the after-
noon in question she heard a great disturbance.
Mrs. Estee called witness ant said, " I had a half-
quartern of ginger brandy and my husband drank
half of it, and called me.a bad name. Do I look
like what he called me ?" Deceased said, " She
won't believe that they stopped 3s. id. of my wages,
and that I cannot get it till Monday or Tuesday."
Witness took a quiet opportunity of expostulating
with the deceased when his wife was not present,
and said, " Remember when your wife ' broke out'
before it was through a quarrel. You have called
her a bad name, and if she breaks out now, you know
what you have to expect. She will sell your home
to get money to buy drink, as she did before." They
then went out marketing together. Witness also
went out, but on coming home at half-past 10 she
found deceased lying nearly dead on the flags in
front of the house. Witness said to Mrs. Eastee,
" You are a wicked woman! You have killed your
husband." Mrs. Eastee got a poker, and saying,
"Me a wicked woman ! I'll show you the differ.
ence !" rushed at witness and would have slain her
as well as the deceased only some persons interfered.
Deceased was carried indoors, and he died on Sun-

day morning.
Dr. 11. Tainton said that he was called in to the
deceased on Sunday morning last, and fo•ind him
quite dead. The post-mortem examination showed
an extensive fracture of the skull and consequent
injury to the brain, which had caused death. A
very heavy fall would have produced the injuries.

A witness stated that tha deceased was flung from
the top of the steps on to the flags with such force
that it seemed " as if he had been flung out of the

house in a sack."

The Coroner having summe(l up the evidence,
The Jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter
against Elizabeth Eastee for feloniously slaying
Charles Eastee, her husband."
The Coroner then issued his warrant for the de-
tention of the accused in Newgate to await her trial
at the Central Criminal Court.

The banish Government 'am just granted a con-
cession which monopolises public attention. A great
port is to be built at the northern part of Elsineur.
Elsineur commands the Sund, which is the most
easy passage from the Northern Sea to the Baltic.
The ships of every nation converge tow.trds that
point, which seems to have been marked by nature
to be the mart town for the east and the west of
the globe. To the south of Kronborg, the fort de-
fending Elsineur, and at the foot of which stands
the actual port, the sea begins to freeze. But on
the north of Kronborg, where the new port is to be
constructed, the current, which is exceedingly rapi I,
disperses the ice, and the navigation remains
open the whole year. Moreover, Elsineur is in the
way followed by the numberless goods which Eng-
land, Americ I, and France exchange for produce
from Russia, Eastern Prussia, and Sweden. From
400 to 500 ships are sometimes anchored off Kron-
borg waiting a propitious wind to enter into or to
come from the Baltic Sea, thus losing most precious
time. On the average from thirty to forty thou-
sand ships annually call at Elsineur. The new port
of Elsineur will procure the immense boon of sup-
pressing the dues levied upon unloading and re-
loading, because it will be no longer necessary to
have the warehouses in the town which foreign ship-
ping were obliged to keep. Large warehouses will
be built in the new port, and the ships from the
Neva will be able to bring their cargoes direct, thus
saving both time and money, and those cargoes will
be bought on the spot without the sellers or buyers
having to bear the double expedse of disembarking,
which they were incurring with the actual system.
The new port will cover an area of a little more
than two millions of square yards. The conces-
sionnaire, M. Carle, has concluded with Af-
Staempfli, director of the Bank of Berne,
a treaty
by which the latter has bound himself to find the
money. A company is being formed with that
view, and the works are to begin in March next.
Emi-
gration agent at LiverpooThey show a decrease
E MIGRATIONSTATISTICS. --l
illalsieiGasotvceormnmpleentted ueroeftouvrners
3foorptehre
the
same period
cmomonPtahr.ed with
with 5 49a passengers, of
26 ships under the Act,. ,
of last year. During the past. month_ there sailed
whom 386 were in the cabins. Of the steerage pas-
cpenast.t
q 4 were English, 170 Scotch, 2,058
sengers, 118- .
1,047 foreigners. Twenty-three ships,
passengers, were for the United States,
onewi ship and 133 passengers for Canada, one ship
Irish,.th 9n2dB
and 235 passengers for Victoria, and one ship and
199 passengers for Queensland. Of ships notunder
the Act 22 sailed, with 956 passengers. The total
emigration for the month was 6,451 against 9,857
in the corresponding month of last year, showing a
decrease of 3,406.

A piece of work, which is intended for exhibition
at the Paris Exposition, has just been finished. It
is a large portfolio, 48 by 35 inches, audit contains
a full set of the United States coast survey charts.
It is of Turkey morocco, green on the outside, and
lined with red, with four clasps of gold plate on
silver. The cover is arranged in panels, in the centre
one of ‘Nhich is the inscription, " United States
Charts, Coast Survey Office, Treasury Department,
Washington, 1866." In the other panels is the
finest scroll work.
A box filled with papers and parchment docu-
ments has been discovered by the workmen engaged
in digging the foundations of the Louvre. One of
the most skilful French paleontologists has been
entrusted with the task of deciphering these papers,
which belong to the 13th century.
The Minister of Education in France, M. Duruy,
has ordered people's libraries to be established in
all the mairies of Paris. Large roomshieavebeei
working
z
hired for this purpose, and they will be warmed and
lighted in the evening for the use of the
classes. _ _

The work of destruction in the Luxembourg
garden in Paris is rapidly proceeding. The cele-
brated English flower beds and the nursery hays
disappeared. The exterior of the Exhibition build-
ing in the Champ de Mars was completed on Mon-
day last, according to contract.
The commerce of France with the countries be-
yond the Cape of Good Hope amounts annually to
more than 500 millions of francs ; that is to say,
9 7
•,-) per cent less than that with the United States,
but 200 millions more than that with Central
America.
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Wrongs and Remedies.—When the safe treatment of dis-
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good results so fully known, it seems almost unnecessary
fitllible in
inflammations,c unrged
to ask the ailing to give them a trial. The ointment
gteisstiinn-
sukciinngdeisenla:regsCi hmenaltisn,g ulcers,
removing al-
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gouty, rheumatic, and scrofulous attacks, by which the
health of many is daily drained away, Holloway's ointment
and pills will afford indescribable relief, and will gradually't
if they be used as recommended in the accompanying
directions, bring about a thorough and lasting cure. Both
medicaments aro suitable for every age, sex, and condition.