The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-08 00:00:00

vl (ADA Y EVENING, JAIN UARY 8, IRO.

from day to day. Associations for insurance are thoroughfares which are the grand centre of busi- T A TEST LirELLltt„this
HOUSES.—Messrs. TORUS and ROBERTS
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have numerous furnished and unfurnished TOWN, advocated by the right honourable gentleman, and ness during the busiest hours of the day. To the ''‘j
bunurban, and Country RESIDENCES to LET or SELL.
which will diminish the difficulty of uncertainty. occupier of a cab or a brougham every minute
Pardeulars forwarded for three stamps, upon stating exact
may (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
requirements bud rental. Offices, 2. conduit-street,Regent-
Then there are claims upon the landlord for help, be of im
street, and South Kensington, lacing the Museum.

portance, but the " vehicle with more than
four horses," to which twelve or two o'clock in the S P A I N.
day is a matter of perfect indifference, and whose MADRID, JAN. 6, (Evening.)
driver rises superior to the trifling considerations of The latest despatches received here state that
foreign mails and banking hours, may hopelessly tranquillity prevails throughout the kingdom.
mar his progress with that happy vis inerthe which The Government announces that Prim is in full
defies anything less solid. There is another '
retreat. He appears to be moving towards Anda-
clause which subjects to a penalty any lusia, or the mountains of Toledo. General Zabala
is in pursuit, and another column under the Mar-
one who shall wilfully prevent another person
pt the free 1
quis Duero is manoeuvring to cut off the retreat of
from passing him, or in any way interrupt
the insurgents. It is believed that the insurrection
passage. The hawkers and print sellers, &c., are
will be promptly suppressed. Yesterday evening
not to be suffered to carry on their obstructive
p.m., ' the insurgents, under Prim, were at Tembleque.
trades between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6
though the little shoeblacks and commissionaires
The insurgent garrison of Avila were at a short dis-
are to pursue their callings unmolested. There is tance from the frontiers of Portugal, and were
also a prohibition against allowing empty hampers, harassed by several columns of the Royal troops.
cases, or barrels to encumber the street or footway, Marshal O'Donnell has stated in the Senate that
the circumstances of the military revolt are serious.
and against suffering coal or fuel being an un-
necessary time in being housed or removed. It is A vast conspiracy existed, having ramifications
throughout Spain. Public order had, however,
evident that the gentlemen who framed this I
o measure knew the City grievances by heart, having!nly been disturbed in Aranjuez, Ocana, and Avila.
He hoped that order would be re-established, and
probably suffered from them pretty often them-
the state of siege raised in Madrid within two days.
selves. At any rate they have directed them to the
practical redressing of the evils, and if their recom-
Marshal O'Donnell added that the insurgents were
mendations are fairly carried out, we may hope to endeavouring to enter Portugal.
see a considerable improvement. Espartero remains as usual at his residence at
With regard to the danger to foot passengers it Logrono.
Martial law has been proclaimed in New Castile.
is quite time that something was done. The Re-
gistrar General's Report for the last week in the BAYONNE, JAN. 6.
Intelligence received here from Madrid up to noon
year chronicles no less than seven deaths from
on the sth inst. confirms the news that Gen. Prim
carriage accidents in the streets of London.
" Knocked down by an omnibus, run over by a is at the head of the insurgents, who to the number
a cart, fell from a cart, run over by a waggon," so of 600 were marching towards Tarrancon. The
garrison of Avila, consisting of 300 men, revolted,
runs the melancholy catalogue, and week after
and marched upon Zamora, but the garrison of that
week it goes on the same. " The total number of
persons," says the same report, " killed by carriage place remained faithful to the Government, and
prevented them from entering the town. The Avila
accidents in the streets of London in the
garrison then proceeded in the direction of Bona-
year 1865 is 232." Such an aggregate of
death and suffering is really serious, and vente.
it is a risk which the most selfish or Madrid was perfectly tranquil.
coldhearted cannot afford to despise, for it is con-
The Illoniteur du Soir states, upon the authority
of a letter from St. Sebastian, dated sth inst., that
stantly incurred by all of us. The bye-laws pro-
posed by the Corporation very wisely enact that no no insurrectionary movement had taken place in
Guipuscoa. The Captain-General of that province,
one under a certain age shall be suffered to drive at
This is who hacl proceeded to Madrid to attend the sittings
all, or even be left in charge of a vehicle.
o
an important precaution, but it is not enough to of the Senate, had returned to his post. General
meet the necessities of foot passengers, and accord-
Pferrard, who was arrested at. Valladolid, has been
ingly the Act includes powers to erect bridges across sent to the fortress of St. Sebastian. His brother,
a colonel of carabineers, has also been arrested
the streets or subways under them. The latter, as
we have often said, would be the best and most
permanent, and surely in these days of under-
ground railways neither trouble nor cost need be
thought of. Light bridges similar to those in use at
wayside railway stations would be very well at
certain distances, but at the crushing corners, where
accidents are so frequent, the subway would be by
far the best. Some improvement of this kind
must very speedily be carried out, and the Corpo-
ration of the City of London have the credit of
having been the first to take up the matter in real
earnest, and try to improve a state of things at
which every one has been grumbling for years.

UTH KENSIN GT ON, HYDE-PARK,
k. 3 Queen's, and Rutland Gates, Queen's-gate and Peters-
ham Terraces, Queen's-gate, Cornwall, and Princes Gardens,
Elvaston-place, Cromwell-road, Onslow and T hurloe Squares,
Boltons. &c. Messrs TOPLI4 and ROBERTS have EE
DENCES to SELL and LET in these and surrounding
localities. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-street, and
south Kensington, facing the Museum.

according to the peculiar circumstances of the case.
" Then there is the resource," very properly puts
Mr. GLADSTONE, " should the evil greatly grow,
of public subscription, in which, I hope, we should
find classes that have received benefit in other
great visitations willing to return it." This is a
very forcible argument, and, it is to be trusted,
that it will meet the attention and respect which
it deserves. The people of this country have never
been slow to act or niggardly to bestow when
any great call for exertion or case of disaster
arises, and if this unfortunate plague continues to
increase, as it threatens to do, it will be high,time to
adopt Some remedy of this description.
Mr. GLADSTONE shows his discernment in stating
that the first of all duties is to study in every way
the " subject of prevention." In consequence of
the pressure of this calamity the public will now
submit to further restrictions than would at first
have been tolerated. There are many measures,
however, which can be adopted by each man for
himself ; but which, as has been stated by the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, appear to have been less
considered. The two chief objects to keep in view
are correctly said to be to neutralise the poison and
improve the air. Thus the tone of health in the
accounts will be raised, and that fatal predisposition
may be removed or diminished which is called a
low state or tone of body. Among other hints given
for preservation, it is advised to keep the stock
within walls, because the agencies it is desirable to
employ cannot take effect in the open air. It is
worthy of remark that in Scotland far greater suc-
cess has attended the measures adopted, and Mr.
GLADSTONE thus furnishes the leading particulars of
the matter :—" The recoveries in all England are
to the deaths as one to eight. In Forfarshire, where
the numbers attacked are larger than in any county
except York, they are two to seven."
On Saturday a committee met at Windsor, com-
posed of landowners and agriculturists from Berks,
Bucks, and Middlesex, for the purpose of passing
rules for a mutual cattle association, the benefits of
which are to extend to all places within a ten-miles
radius of that town. Several letters were read, and
the Secretary read a communication which had been
received from Mr. DISRAELI, in which the right
hon. gentleman expressed the gratification which
he felt at co-operating with his constituents,
but observed that he entertained doubts as
to the power of the association to bear the pressure
which would be put upon it, "if the pestilence
should fall upon the heads of its members." The
right hon. gentleman truly observed, that at the
outset of this calamity the county of Bucks should
have had an insurance association established upon
the principle of limited liability, the suggestion of
this scheme to be based upon sound commercial
principles. " Premiums would be received, a divi-
dend shared, and shares distributed, and the
amount of premiums being considerable there
would be a large and efficient capital
for purposes of compensation." No doubt
if these plans had been adopted at an
earlier period great benefits would now accrue from
them, but, as Mr. DISRAELI adds, most unfortu-
nately the graziers and farmers in the Vale believed
Government would interfere. The meeting sepa-
rated after confirming their rules. Mr. DISRAELI
had the prescience to propose the holding a county
meeting to consider the plan of an assurance asso-
ciation some time ago, and it is curious to notice
that Mr. GLADSTONE also advocates the adoption of
these societies, which, of course, are the more bene-
ficial in their workings the longer they are esta-
blished, and the Jess amount of evil they Have to
contend against at their outset.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms
of the past year the National Lifeb4at Institution, by
its Lifeboats and other means, contributed to the savin: of
707 persons from different wrecks on out coasts. The Insti-
tution also expended £21,374 in the same periA on its life-
boat es tablishme.its, in addition to grantihg £3,950 for re-
wards for savin& life and exer3ising the lifeboats.
The Committee" of the Institution e,rnestly A PPEAL to
the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the
continued lieLvy demands on the Institution's 150 lifeboat
stations.
Contributions are received by the Lond9n and country
bankers; and by the secretary, itichard Lewis, Esq., at the
Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi,

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jan. 6, Two o'clock.—The market is
heavy, and sales having hitherto predominated,
quotations have again given way. The following
coupons have been detached to-day—viz., Italian
Fives, 2f. 50c. ; Credit kobilier, 25f.-; Spanish
Mobilier, 30f.; Credit Foncier, 11f. 59c.; Southern,
20f. ; Austrian, 12f. 50c. ; and Immobiliero, 12f.
Spanish Mobilier, in consequence of the present dis-
turbed state of Spain, are offered at a further re-
duction of Bf. 75c., viz., 422 f. 50c. (ex div.) French
Three per Cents. show a decline of 7fc., at 68f. 25c.,
and Italian Fives of 15c., at 63fr. 15c. (ex div.)
i The shares of the Credit Mobilier are 2f. 50c. lower,
the quotation being 770 f. (ex div.) Three o'clock.
—The closing prices are as follows :-
4-1 per Cents 9B Roman —
Do. end month — Ottoman Fives 42 10
3 per Cents. 6B 25 Mexican Loan —
Do. end month 6B 271 Do. Bonds —
Credit Mobilier ... 765 Russian — Do. end month ... 772 50 Austrian
Bank Shares 3670 Spanish Threes ...
Credit Foncier — Home Debt —
Italian Loan 62 50 Deferred
Do. end month 63 10

Mr. Disraeli, M.P., on the Cattle Plague.

On Saturday afternoon a committee of landowners
and agriculturists from Berks, Bucks, and Middle-
sex, assembled at the Castle Hotel, High-street,
Windsor, for the purpose of framing rules for a
mutual cattle association, the benefits of which are
to extend to all places within a ten mile radius of
that town. Major-General Seymour, Equerry in
Ordinary to her Majesty, was to have presided, but
did not reach Windsor till about two hours after
the meeting had commenced, and Mr. R. B. Harvey,
M.P. for Bucks, was consequently called to the
chair. Mr. F. Buckland, the hon. secretary, read
a letter from Maier-General Seymour, alga onpfroin
Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, approving of
the resolutions passed at the previous meeting. He
then read a communication which had been received
from Mr. Disraeli, M.P. for Bucks, dated " Hugh-
enden Manor, Jan. 3." In this Mr. Disraeli, after
expressing the gratification he always felt in co-
operating with his constituents in any measure for
the public welfare, observed that he had great doubts
as to whether the mutual association proposed would
be able to bear the burden of the pressure which
would be put upon it if the pestilence should fall on
the heads of its members. The county of Buck-
ingham ought to have established at the outset an
assurance association upon the principle of limited
liability, with a capital of £50,000, in 5,000 shares,
£1 to be paid on each share. Every owner of stock
ought to pay a regular premium on his policy, and
take shares to the amount of 25 per cent. on the
sum insured. These conditions would ensure pru-
dence. Thus the landed proprietors might takeany
number of shares they liked, the £1 per share paid
being an immediate contribution to the fund, while
the policies would represent their amount of gua-
rantee to the community. Again, 50 shares
would represent an immediate subscription of £5O,
and a guarantee of £450. These suggestions
were based upon sound commercial principles.
Premiums would be received, a dividend
shared, and shares distributed, and the amount
of premiums being considerable, there would be
a large and efficient capital for purposes of com-
pensation. When the nature of the calamity was
first known he proposed to hold a county meeting,
when he would have brought forward to adopt some
plan of the kind ; but, unfortunately, the graziers
and the farmers in the Vale with whom he com-
municated believed for a time that the Government
would interfere. The letter concluded with some
other observations upon the subject of local mutual
assurance associations. Communications from Lord
Enfield, Sir H. A. Hoare. M.P. for this borough ;
Mr. Benyon, M.P.; the High Sheriff of Bucks;
Mr. Farrard, &c., were also read to the meeting. It
was then resolved that the association should be
called " The Windsor Mutual Cattle Insurance
Association," and that its limits should extend to
any place within a ten mile radius of Windsor. Mr.
Simpson, the inspector, tendered a statement to the
meeting with respect to the prevailing amount of
disease within the proposed districts of the associa-
tion. He had made inquiries of different inspectors,
and found that in the county of Bucks there were

Acct.

... 847 50

- - 1117 50
- - 852 50
- - 551 25

... 550

- - 525 -
- 200 -
- - 443 75
430 -

- - ... 177 50
- - ... 210 ----

Among the many bills to be brought before Par-
ament during the ensuing Session there will be
none of more daily domestic concern to the vast
population of this metropolis than the measure pro-
posed by the Corporation of the City of London for
the better regulation of their increasing and over-
whelming traffic. The Corporation of the City has
from time to time come in for its share of abuse and
ridicule like many another ancient body. It has
been supposed to cherish prejudices, to look upon all
reforms as undesirable innovations, and otherwise
be inclined to obstruct the path of progress rather
than to aim at advance and improvement. In this
important particular, however, they are exhibiting
a very different example, and one which it is to be
hoped that some of their satirists will imitate.
They have dealt with a very difficult question boldly
and practically, and have really applied themselves
to redress, with promptitude and efficiency, a griev-
ance that is rapidly becoming intolerable. In spite
of railways and new streets, the pressure in the City
thoroughfares shows no reduction. In fact, the City is
and must continue to be, the great focus and centre
of our.busy commercial life ; and the thousand and
one trains which are daily whirling past us are oc-
cupied in a great measure in adding to the crowds
which blockade that wonderful eastern world
which rivals the fabled wealth of the veritable East.
The Metropolitan Railway carries a good many
persons who would formerly have walked or ridden,
but if it sets them down in Farringdon-street or
Finsbury they add to the City throngs. It is rea-
sonable topresume that they have business eastward,
and no new system of conveyance or locomotion
will greatly relieve the City streets. In fact we can
neither hope nor wish to see the traffic considerably
reduced, for if it were it would augur ill for our
commercial fortunes. A shopkeeper may find his
shop inconveniently crowded, but he is not likely
to wish the inconvenience removed lest his profits
should go with it. Even so our merchants
and wholesale dealers, and all the heads of the
countless offices that make up the wealth and
Power and influence of the good City of London,
se
e
would find the ebbing of the now flowing tide an
unwelcome
relief. On the contrary, as far as we at
present
we may rather hope for still greater
activity with the new markets opening in all quar-
ters of the globe for our products and our manufac-
tures,ot in the increasing wealth and growing impor-
tance of our colonies, whose natural impulse is to
turn to the another cof commercial ountry, in the unfailing spirit
enterprise and manufacturing in-
dustry which characterise our people. No sane
man, west or east, can seriously wish to see the
busy life of the City grow less importunate and
exacting; and every Englishman, however he may
abuse a stoppage or anathematise a barricade,
really prides himself on the bustle of those
highways and byeways which are lined, if not
paved, with gold. Since we cannot ' h
the traffic, then,:the s
how
next thing is to consider
we may lessen its drawbacks and dangers, and
two evils immediately present themselves for re-
dress. One is the inconvenient and often ruinous
loss of time, the other is the imminent risk to life.
Both these questions are very happily dealt with by
the Corporation, who propose to classify the traffic
by enacting that locomotives, heavy waggons with
more than four horses, &c., shall not be allowed to
pass through the streets in business hours. Before

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two cases at Wraysbury, in the hundred of Stoke,
while Burnham was free. In Middlesex and Staines
Moor there were two cases. There was a case at
Chobham, in Surrey, and also at Winkfield-park,
in the Maidenhead division of the county of Berks.
The borough of Windsor, Windsor county division,
and Maidenhead borough were free from the plague.
The rules of the new association having been con-
firmed, the meeting separated.

`THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS."—A Lon-
don journalist recently asked how it came to pass
that all the living giants seemed starting up here at once
—Chang, Anak, the interesting young lady from Cali-
fornia, said to weigh more than GOOlbs, and a Russian
youth just arrived, who, in the language of statuaries,
has "not yet been unveiled ?" No answer, we believe,
has yet been returned to the question ;• but some extraor-
dinary intelligence of a race of old giants comes to us from
the neighbourhood of the Rocky Mountains. It appears that
en Meagher's Bar, opposite Nevada, there have recently
been discovered fossils which go to show that thispart of the
world was once peopled by a race of men 10 and 12 feet high.
They were embedded about eight feet, in what might be
termed a close diluvial deposit, and in what the configura-
tion of the country indicates was once the eddy of a river.
A jawbone dug up is double the size of an ordinary human
jawbone, the width being fully five inches. It is in a per-
fect state of preservation ; so perfect that, had it been of
ordinary size, one would have supposed that its owner had
not made his (or her) exit from the vale of tears more than
15 or 20 years ago. The enamel of the teeth still remains
bright and uninjured by the action of fire, water, or air.
Not a tooth is lost. The discoverer considers, from a mea-
surement of ribs and other bones, that the possessor must
have been at least 12 feet high. lu the Montana Post aro
many more particulars of this wonderful discovery, with
the assurance that the bones described may be seen for a
Lew days in the muting-re= 9# the Poet.

nine and after six they may go where and how

.•
they please, but there can certainly be no necessity
103' Atich ponder= vehicles blocking up tboo

The Military Revolt in Spain,

PARIS, Jan. 7.
A letter received here from Madrid, dated 4th
inst., contains the following account of the insurrec-
tionary movement which has broken out in Spain :
" The disquietude prevalent during the last few
days was not unfounded. In fact, Government was
apprised early yesterday morning that at daybreak
part of the two regiments of cavalry, the Bailen and
Calatrava Hussars, stationed at Aranjuez and
Ocana, had revolted. These two corps, commanded
by Colonels Heredia and Aldama, formed a brigade
of instruction under Brigadier Conrado. In order
to draw the Calatrava regiment from their quarters
atAranjuez, several soldiers, armed with muskets and
led by a subaltern, surprised the lieutenant of the
guard, bound him with cords, and placed him in a
cell with the trumpeter and the quartermaster. Mas-
ters of the barrack gate, the insurgents went out in
a body shouting ' Viva la Constitution,' Viva el
Genoral Prim.' The regiment has more than forty
officers, of whom only eight joined the mutineers, a
commandant, a captain, adjutant-major, two lieu-
tenants, and three sub-lieutenants.
" In the Bailen regiment the movement was led
by Capt. Terrones and a very small number of
officers. The insurgents twice unsuccessfully at-
tempted to get possession of the telegraph station
at Aranjuez. In this town twenty civilians who
arrived the previous evening from Madrid by the
railway joined the insurgents.
" The person who appeared to be the leader of the
movement, Commandant Bastos, formerly served in
the Cuban army, and in 1853 entered the Mexican
service under Santa Anna. Some years after-
wards he returned to Spain, and was reincorporated
in the Spanish cavalry with the grade of cap-
tain. He was at Valencia in the spring of last
year, when disturbances were expected in that
city. Captain-General Villalonga, entertaining some
suspicions of this officer, sent him to Madrid to
await the orders of the Minister of War. He was
in the capital when he was appointed commander of
a squadron by seniority, and only joined his regi-
ment 11 days before he put himself at the head of
the present revolt.
" Yesterday morning, about 11 o'clock, the in-
surgents arrived at Arganda del Rey ; but finding
they were ill received by the people, they withdrew
to Villare de Salvanes. Here they were met by the
officers of the two regiments who remained faithful
to the Government, under Col. Adoma, who, after a
few shots had been exchanged, endeavoured to in-
duce the soldiers to return to their duty. The mili-
tary chest of the corps was restored to him by the
hussars who escorted it. Disorder then commenced
to manifest itself among the squadrons, and several
detachments surrendered themselves to the alcades
of the neighbouring villages. The civil guard, who
were ordered out, have already picked up arms and
caught horses at different points. The insurgents,
fatigued by a forced march, and short of forage and
provisions, could not go very far. Some of to-day's
papers, usually well informed, state, however, that
two telegrams had been received announcing that
Gen. Prim had put himself at the head of the insur-
rection, and that a battalion of infantry of the Al-
mansa Regiment, 18th of the line, had left Avila,
under the command of a major, by railway, for
Valladolid, in order to propagate the insurrection at
that point. Gen. Otero, who commands in the latter
city, has taken measures to repulse the insurgents.
With respect to Gen. Prim it appears certain that
an officer from the Ministry of War proceeded to his
residence yesterday in order to request him to call
upon the Minister. He was informed, however, that
the general had left the previous evening in a light
carriage with several friends, upon a hunting excur-
sion in the Sierra de Toledo.
" Immediately the Government were informed of
the direction taken by the insurgents towards the
province of Cuenca, the Ministers remained perma-
nently in council. 'The Minister of Marine, General
Zavala, organised a division of 1,000 cavalry and
4,000 infantry, with which he set out yesterday at
three o'clock in the afternoon in the direction of the
bridge of Fuento-duena on the Tagus. At four
o'clock another column, preceded by a body of
scouts, and composed of a battalion of engineers, a
battalion of Chasseurs of Cuidad Rodrigo, two bat-
teries of artillery, and four squadrons of cuirassiers,
took the road to Valencia via Arganda and the river
Jarama. The cavalry brigade, underßrigadier Vera,
has arrived from A]cala de Henares, and the garri-
son of Madrid, comprising, besides two regiments
of engineers, three of artillery, presents an effective
force, considerably exceeding 6,000 men. On receipt
of the first intelligence Marshal O'Donnell made a
careful inspection of all the barracks.

" Marshal Serrano commands one part of the gar-
rison, and Marshal Narvaez was the first to wait
upon the Minister to receive his orders after the
news reached Madrid. This example was followed
by all the general, superior, and other officers stay-
ing in Madrid.

" Tranquillity has not been for a moment dis-
turbed. The theatres are open, and the prome-
nades frequented as usual. The Government yes-
terday proclaimed martial law in the military
district of New Castile, and the Governor of
Madrid has prohibited, until further orders, all
meetings in casinos or clubs. The telegraph works
throughout the Peninsula announce the fidelity of
the provinces to the Government. The Minister
of War yesterday gave orders for the arrest of
General la Torre at Badajoz.

Theatricals at Exeter.
W. H. C. Nation, Esq., gave a bespeak on Wed-
nesday. The theatre was full, and the audience
was generally fashionable. The pantomime came
first, and proved a merry Christmas entertainment,
at the close of which

Mr. G. B. ELLIS appeared before the curtain and
said—Ladies and gentlemen, it is with extreme
pleasure that I have to offer, on behalf of Mr. and
Mrs. Belton, thanks to Mr. Nation for his kind
patronage of the theatre this evening. It is not for
me to remind an Exeter audience of that gentleman's
hereditary predilection for the drama. Mr. Nation
needs no eulogy from me for the great kindness he
has always bestowed upon the theatrical profession.
(Applause). But I may perhaps be permitted
to state that Mr. Nation's name is well known in
the theatrical world, and is held high in the esteem
of every actor far beyond the walls of old Semper
Fidelis, for the deep and earnest interest he takes in I
the profession, and the

" The prompt and energetic measures taken by
the Cabinet afford every ground to expect that
the military revolt will be speedily suppressed.
In yesterday's sitting of the Congress Senor Posada
Herrera, Minister of the Interior, gave explana-
tions to the house on the subject ; and the Presi-
dent, Senor Rios Rosas, pointed out the necessity
for the Chamber to expedite the examination of
the elections, and constitute itself as soon as pos-
sible."

The Brute Element.

In close juxtaposition to an account of the high civili-
sation which distinguished Tom Sayers' funeral, we
published a few days ago a singularly cool comment from
the London Times on the negro outbreak in Jamaica. The
Times is an advocate of speedy justice in disturbances like
this. It argues that between a very hot climate and the
natural excitement of the moment, the officers of her
Majesty the Queen,who hung and shot some two thousand
negroes in a matter of forty-eight hours, were quite excus-
able for the rapidity of their action. It regrets "that the
tone of the despatches had not been more guarded," but is
willing to forgive the too lively description of shootings
and hangings, in view of the fact that shootings and
hangings were the right thing in the right place. In
anoi her article of the same date the London Times piously
sets up the King of Dahomey as the type and "very
moral" of the sudden outburst of the brute element in
human (or negro) nature in Jamaica. After some decades
of political liberty, it reasons, these unlucky sons of Ham
all at once develope the Dahomey type of barbarism, and
run-a-muck of murder and rapine. Occasional fits of blood-
thirstiness, it asserts, aro inseparable from the negro
organism; and, civilise them as we may, once in a while
they are sure to sharpen their knives and go in for a general
throat-cutting. In some manner the doctrine of immersion
seems to be peculiarly connected with this idiosyncrasy,
inasmuch as Gordon, the leader of the recent revolt, and
one Rev. Wm. Knibb, who was seriously implicated in the
rebellion of 1831-2, were both preachers of the Baptist per-
suasion. The Times is not very explicit on this mysterious
relationship between Baptists and bloodthirstiness, and we
leave the further discussion of the matter to Sir Morton
Peto, in his capacity as Treasurer of the Baptist Missionary
Society. Now, if the London Times is correct in saying
of the negroes that "the remote descendants of the King of
Dahomey's subjects show themselves in a moment the
very moral' of their African forefathers," that "they are
as treacherous and as ready for deeds of blood, hideous and
ridiculous, as when they could slay their thousands to fill a
trench with human gore"—then we, of the free and glorious
United States of America, are in a piteous pickle. We have
no less than four millions of this same race upon our hands,
and who knows when the Dahomey fever may attack
them ? But, as it happens, we have already tested that
question pretty well. Wo have gone through four years
of a war which was not without its instances of insane
ferocity. There was a stormy outbreak of the brute ele-
ment at Fort Pillow in 1864 ; Anlersonville only lacked
dramatic effect, while in intensity of plot it was quite up
to the Dahomey school. With examples like this before
them, with just that kind of power in their hands that
would tempt weak natures to crime, these Southern slaves
went through it all with a Christ-like gentleness and for-
giveness that has no parallel in the history of oppressed
peoples.—New York Times.

- oor
That struts and frets his hour uponplayer the stage
And then is heard no more,
may well be proud of the kind friend obtained in
Mr. Nation, whose heart is thrown open to every
one, whose hand is ever ready to encourage the
actor in the arduous profession he has chosen to
follow. For this and for the brilliant assemblage I
see before me this evening, permit me, on behalf of
Mr. and Mrs. Belton, to return sincere thanks.
(Applause.)
Mr. W. H. C. NATION then rose amid much cheering,
and spoke as follows :—On the last occasion when
I was present at this theatre, 1 had the pleasure
of thanking a brilliant, and what to me is ten times
better than brilliant, a warm-hearted audience, for
the kind and enthusiastic manner in which they
welcomed me. I have again that pleasing duty to
perform to-night--to ask you now, as I asked the
audience then--to receive my sincerest and most
grateful thanks. (Applause.) Ladies and gentle-
men, you may remember that on the occasion to
which I refer, Mr. Belton made some allusion to
the friendship which existed between my grandfather
and that great actor Edmund Kean. I feel pleased
that he made that allusion, because I have seen it
publicly stated that while ample justice was done to
the kindness shown by the late Dr. Drury, of Cock-
wood, to Edmund Kean, leas mention has been
made than ought to have been made of my grand-
father's generous assistance to him. lam glad that
on this occasion I am afforded the opportunity of
quoting what I may be allowed to call the noble
language in which my grandfather always alluded
to his connection with Edmund Kean. He said,
" I remember my own struggles, what a hard fight
I had, how many tried to keep me down ; and shall
I look on genius like that of that man who is
battling upwards, and look on unmoved ?"
And he did not look on unmoved, but
helped the struggling actor, whose merit
deserved it, to rise into fame. When Edmund Kean
became eminent and prosperous on the London
stage, he must always have remembered with grati-
tude his excellent friend William Nation. (Ap-
plause.) However much my grandfather must have
admired Edmund Kean for his great and high dra-
matic talent, he must, I am sure, have much
more admired him for his manly and indepen-
dent spirit, which formed so prominent a fea-
ture in the great actor's character. It is re-
corded of Edmund Kean that when quite a child,
and on staying at the house of a lady who
had been very kind to him, it was proposed that
all the party should go to the theatre. "0 !"
drawled out a stupid gentleman, " then, I suppose,
little Edmund Kean does not sit with us !" upon
which the boy Kean, bursting with indignation, rose
from his seat, rushed out of the house, and never
returned to it. It is recorded that on another oc-
casion Edmund Kean, when playing in this very
city, had the bespeak of a country squire. On the
afternoon preceding the bespeak the squire's butler
called on Mr. Kean and said, " Well, Mr. Kean,
you will be sure to have a full house to-night, be-
cause my master patronises you." To which Edmund
Kean replied, " If I knew that people came to the
theatre only because a squire patronises it, and not
because of the acting, I would not sell a single tie-
kut. " Edmund Kean played at a London theatre
on an occasion when the then Lord Essex hap-
pened to be present. On his return from the
theatre his 's ife said to him, " Well, how did Lord
Essex like your acting ?" Kean replied, a little in-
dependently, and, perhaps, not politely, "
Lord Essex ! the pit rose to me." Ladies and gen-
tlemen,—This manly and independent spirit com-
mands my sincerest admiration. (Applause.) I
like to see it generally cultivated by the actor of the

present day. Let the actor remember that his is an
intellectual profession ; let him zemember that he

is the exponent of a noble art ; let him remember
that although he is a

- poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more,
we are all poor players strutting and fretting our
hours upon the stage of life ; let him not covet the
favour or distinction of noble lords and right hon-
ourable gentlemen; but rather look for the esteem
and approbation of intellectual men of every rank
and every grade. (Cheers.)

After renewed cheering for Mr. Nation, the
National Anthem was played.

The after-piece, "A Sheep in Wolf's clothing,"
was capitally played. Mr. Fuller's Colonel Percy
Kirke was well conceived ; Mr. Watson's Kestor
Chidozy was racy and good ; Master Jasper Carew
was a character which Mr. Ellis acted in a skilful
and masterly manner ; Miss E. Brunton as Anne
Carew carried the house with her, the interviews
with Colonel Kirke and her husband were admirably
rendered. The little that Mrs. Williams had to do
as Dame Carew was natural, dignified, and effective.
The audience applauded heartily. We must not
omit to give a word of praise to that clever actress,
Miss Annie Taylor, who personated Keziah Maple-
toft. This piece had additional interest to the
audience, as the scene, Sedgmoor, being in the
neighbouring county, is well known. The house
was the most crowded and brilliant/ for rank and
fashion that we have witnessed since the opening
of the season.— Western Times.

There is a great drought in the Rhine district,
and in the river itself there is so little water that several
YOAVI4 have been Stranded near Dueolderff.

Congress and the President.

We have no disposition to disguise the deep concern
with which we regard the recent apparent divergence
between the Executive and Congress on the question of
reconstruction. It has long been feared by thinking men
among the Republicans, and of course it is hailed with
extreme delight by those who did everything they could
to embarrass the Government during its suppression of
the rebellion. But the crisis, in any event, is a trifling
one compared with the many which the sound and patriotic
masses of this country have been called to face, and to
triumph over, during the last four years. We have no doubt
that it will be settled, like the war before it, without any
undue satisfaction to traitors at the South or their abettors
at the North.
The question simply stands thus :—the Executive, con-
vinced that most of the seceded States are in a fit con-
dition for restoration to the Union, has done what belongs
to its own department toward thus restoring those States,
and it now invites Congress to perfect the process ; and
this, Congress as a co-ordinate branch of the Govern-
ment, endowed with vital powers of rejection or admission,
is now to consider and decide upon. It is to carry on the
investigation for itself. It has before it the President's
brief, calm recommendations, which will be accorded the
weight they are felt to deserve. It has the report of Gen.
Grant, sincere and important, undoubtedly, but not very
explicit, and not based on any very extended examina-
tion. It will have Gen. Schurz's broader and fuller re-
port; and, finally, it will have the bast information that
can be obtained from all sources, perhaps including a
special committee of investigation. Its members will act,
not in passion or prejudice, but from a sense of their
great responsibility and their matured convictions of duty.
They may reach a substantial agreement with the Exe-
cutive, or they may decide to withhold yet from the
seceded States that crowning privilege of the Union, a re-
presentation in Congress, without which a State can have
no real vitality.
In the meantime a still more powerful and decisive
process will be going on—the making up of the public
opinion of the country. It was the people that rose as
one man to resent and avenge the fall of Fort Sumter.
It was the people who kept the Government up to its
duties through all the darkest hour of the war, sustaining
the military arm, leading the way to emancipation, and
sealing the final victories. Let the people now examine
this question in all earnestness, pronouncing their voice
through the press, through public meetings, and all other
channela.of influence, and their will is sure to prevail in the
end, no matter how Presidents and Congresses may have
thought to act.—Boston Journal.