The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-11 00:00:00

IHE SUN, LON' ON, THURSDAY E V ENING, OCTOBER 11, 1866.7

LONDON, THURSDAI, OCT. 11, 1866.

It will be with a feeling something akin to regret
that the public will learn that the Social Science
Congress has, for the present, terminated its labours.
At this dull season of the year the details of the
speeches, lectures, &c., that take place there are
very welcome, and apart from this they serve a
useful end, in improving our acquaintance with
some important matters which are apt to be passed
over in the excitement of politics and the whirl of
passing events. The speech of Lord SHAFTESBURY
in itself was enough to impart a value to the
affair, and many might appropriately study it
to their own advantage and for the benefit
of others. It was an admirable exposition of
what might be accomplished by this Congress, and
also an excellent explanation of what does not come
directly under its province. The last business in
connection with the departments was the paper
read by Mr. WEBSTER, on "The Arrangement and
Construction of Courts of Justice, as illustrated
by the Manchester New Assize Courts." In the
course of this Mr.WEBSTER alluded to the proposed
scheme now entertained of erecting a Palace of
Justice in London, so that all the courts now dis-
tributed through the metropolis might be concen-
trated. Those who have the management of
matters have resolved to take for a type the Man-
chester Assize Courts, which is incalculably a
tribute to their merits, and proves the high opinion
that is entertained of their style. Mr. WEBSTER
spoke of their merits in the highest terms of praise.
One feature, he particularly dilated on, was the
large hall and the barristers' corridor, from both
of which access can be had to the principal courts.
In pursuing his theme further he remarked very
truly that the great object which they ought to
have in view was to separate the general public,
and judge counsel, &c., and any who had business
to transact; and hence they ought to make the
entrances more distinct for each than they were
in the Manchester courts. An interesting dis-
cussion ensued after the reading
of this
paper,
in which various plans for improving the position
of the witness-box, &c., were detailed, and a vote
of thanks was passed to Mr. WEBSTER. At the
concluding meeting a numerous assembly attended,
under the Presidency of the Earl of SHAFFESBUY.
Mr. HASTINGS, the Secretary, read the report of the
Council, and gave a resume of the proceedings which
had taken place in all the departments, and he
stated that this meeting had been the most satis-
factory that had been held. It is, indeed, satis-
factory to dwell upon the details here presented,
and they show in an unmistakeable manner that
those persons were mistaken who thought that this
undertaking would not answer in the end, but
would infallibly dwindle away. " The number of
members and associates present was 1,815, the

papers and discussions had been more than ordi-
narily valuable and interesting, and the noble
edifice in which they had assembled had afforded
them peculiar facilities for the accommodation' of
members and the transaction of business." The
Council returned its thanks to all who had aided
materially in the prosecution of its task, and thus
everything passed off in the most agreeable manner
respecting details. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY
made a few remarks in conclusion, which were
very interesting. He observed, in alluding to the
Working Meu's Meeting in the Free Trade
Hall, that it was " a spectacle closely ap-
proaching to the sublime." The noble lord went on
to declare that those were quite mistaken who had
presumed to call this a "patronising meeting" Of
all unjust expressions this was the most so. We
think that Mr. BRIGHT and some others might with
great advantage peruse these remarks of Lord
SHAFTESBURY'S, and ponder over them. He con-
fessed that "he regarded with something like ab-
horrence the man who would set class against class,
and who would not, in this world of sin and conten-
tion, do all he could to reconcile differences, and to
see what was good, and not what was evil, in each
other." We fully concur in all that was said by the
noble lord, and more especially in his declaration that
he knew the working classes well. No man in
England has a better right to say so than he has,
and no one has done more to deserve their esteem
and respect. As he truly observed, he had passed a
great number of years among them, and he must say
that the working classes did not require patronage,
but they did desire sympathy. As for talking of
patronising the working-classes of Manchester it is
indeed most idle, and we wonder that persons can
be so absurd. The fact is, that the chief difficulty
of getting class in communion with class lies in
the habit that some have of making use of such
terms and expressions as these, that we are glad
that one so well qualified to judge, as Lord
SHAFTESBURY most undoubtedly is, should have
administered so effective a rebuke in so dignified
and impressive a manner, and it is to be hoped that
his remarks will have due effect in producing a
beneficial change.

Among the many valuable and interesting papers
and addresses which the Social Science Congress of
1866 has given to the public, the speech of the
Right Hon. AUSTIN BRUCE, as President of the
Education Department, must not be overlooked.
The subject with which it dealt is one of the
highest national importance, since education is the
great distinction between civilisation and barbarism,
and it is vain to hope for the social elevation or
political enfranchisement of the masses unless
we take care that they shall have at least
its rudiments. So much has of late years
been said and written about national education that
the arguments in its favour have become almost
truisms, and many persons are probably vaguely
satisfied with the impression that a great deal is be-
ing done without inquiring too closely into the sta-
tistics. Those who have made such inquiries, however,
stand aghast at the result ; and it is very evident
that we must lay aside our religious discussions, our
local jealousies, our prevalent indifference if we
intend the rising generation to be intelligent and
Christian men and women. It is high time to
awake out of sleep when we have distinct informa-
tion from one of our great cities that " of every 100
children above three years of age living with their
parents or guardians, and not at work, there are 40 at
school and 60 not at school." Such is the statement of
the Manchester and Salford Education Aid Society,
which' has rendered au important public ser-
fvice by its careful inquiries into this subject.
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doubt that its population are above the average in
intelligence and natural ability. They are not likely
to underrate the advantages of education more than
others. It might easily be supposed that the temp-
tations of mills and factories and workshops might
in the large manufacturing cities offer serious ob-
stacles to the education of the children, and there
is good reason to believe that such is the case.
But this explanation does not account for the large
number of children neither at school nor at work.
"Of 11,086 children, bet Ween 3 and 12, there were
762 at work, 4,537 at school, and 5,787 neither at
school nor work. Neither can this anomaly be ex-
plained by the poverty of the parents, since the
excellent society to which we have referred has
made arrangements to bear part of the expenses of
the fees for children whose parents are too poor
to pay all, and to aid free schools for the chil-
dren of those who are too poor to pay at
all. This practical test has shown that
of 5,787 children, neither at school nor at work,
2,175 had parents able to pay for them, 3,612 were
the children of parents unable to afford the expen-
diture. In other words, out of 19 children absent
from school, 7 were so by the wilful negligence, 12
by the poverty, of their parents." And this, it must
be remembered, is not in the most degraded parts
of the city, the committee having hitherto shrunk
from visiting some of the worst and most populous
districts in Manchester and Salford, because so large
a proportion were below the reach of their in-
fluence. What sort of hold then will the legislators
and philanthropists of the next generation have
upon the children when they get to manhood and
womanhood ? The evil perpetuates itself, because
the ignorant and degraded parent cares little for
the most part for the education of the child, and we
are, in fact, reaping the fruits of the neglect of
former years in the numbers of untrained children
around us. One of the great problems which per-
plex the thoughtful and earnest advocates of
! national education is how are these children
to be got at. The Education Society in Man-
chester frankly acknowledges this difficulty, since it
would be highly undesirable to pay for those children
whose parents can afford to pay for them themselves.
Some persons have suggested a compulsory system
of rudimentary instruction; but we think, with Mr.
BRUCE, that would be impracticable in this country.
The action of the Legislature is another perplexing
matter. Mr. BRUCE, though highly approving of
the manner in which the money already expended
has been laid out, thinks that the provision made
is totally inadequate.
The great principles of the educational question
were very ably discussed by Mr. BRUCE, and the
arguments of the advocates of the voluntary system
and of the public rate were fairly and impartially
stated. For his own part, he would maintain the
present system where it works well; but wherever
satisfactory evidence is given that the provi-
F'inn of education fails short of the wants
of the population he would supply the deficiency
by an education rate. This would be a
rational settlement of the difficulty, and cn all the
various problems connected with the question Mr.
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important question to his able and graphic picture
of the wants of our population, and his considera-
tion as to the best means of supplying them.

The Working Men's Conservative Association at
Reading held its first annversary last Tuebday, and
the affair was very interesting. The Chairman said
it was very gratifying to see such a 2 assemblage of

working men who had " come together from their
own will and judgment, and had not been cajoled
into attendance by the aid of torches and bands of
music." This is very true, and attests the progress
which is being made among those in the lower
grades of society just now on all sides, and in every
direction the march of mind is being made ; and,
although no doubt much remains to be done, we
must reflect with satisfaction upon what has been
done. In these " days of menace," as the chair-
man said, it required some degree of courage to
form a working man's Conservative Association at
all, for men were " urged to acts of violence if cer-
tain theories were not conceded, though contrary
to the opinions of the wisest and the cleverest states-
men." Ile also added that he would like to ask
JOAN BRIGHT, if he were really so much the friend
of the working classes as he affected to be, if so,
why did he set class against class ? " Actions
speak more than words, and he would ask JOHN
BRIGHT how it was, if he was such a great friend
of the working man, that he opposed the Ten
Hours' Bill ?" Further on he added, that when the
terrible distress overtook the manufacturing dis-
tricts we did not see Mr. BRIGHT'S subscription when
the working man and his family really wanted re-
lief. These are home-thrusts which are not likely
to be very welcome to the outrageous orator of Bir-
mingham, but they are nevertheless true, and may
sink deeply into the minds of the working classes
with good effect. The more the working men
throughout the country organise associations the
better it will be for them, and the more likely will they
be to see the truth of public affairs, and arrive at
the motives of public men.

CORRESPONDENCE FRO2I PARIS.

(FRODI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Wednesday Evening.

The Moniteur says :—" On the same day that
the patent was published in Hanover authorising
the incorporation of that kingdom with the Prussian
Monarchy, King George released from their oaths
of fidelity to him the magistrates, the ecclesiastics,
and all the persons holding Government situations
of whatever kind. This wise measure has enabled
.several thousand persons to preserve with dignity
functions, the remuneration for which formed their
principal mode of existence. We hear from Frank-
fort that the patent legalising the taking possession
of that city and surrounding territory, as well as the
proclamation addressed upon the occasion to the in-
habitants by King William 1., were read publicly
yesterday at the Ilmner by M. de Patow, Royal
Governor, who was assisted by M. de Maday, Civil
Commissioner." [The .Moniteur publishes the text
of the documents, but it is not necessary to trans-
late them, as they only recapitulate known facts.]

An unfortunate incident has taken place at
Verona. A dispute between the Austrian soldiers
and the inhabitants ended in a fight. An Austrian
was killed and two others were wounded by his side.
The military commandant issued a proclamation
declaring the city in a state of siege. Similar
events, but not of such a serious character, had
taken place at Mantua and at Chioggia. The
prompt evacuation of the fortresses by the Austrian
troops will put an end to these lamentable transac-
tions, and there is a general desire in Italy for a
" consummation so devouCly to be wished."
Some of the Paris papers, which have a marvel-
lous gift of ascertaining secrets of the Cabinet which
cannot possibly be known, have indulged in various
speculations, more or less foolish, in regard to a
visit paid at Athens by the Marquis de Moustier to
the King of Greece during a very short stay there
on his return to Paris to assume the duties of Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs. The real feet is, as lam
informed, that the visit was paid at the request of
the King. There was nothing political in the visit.
It, was merely one of courtesy.

The death is announced of M. Auguste Polo, one
of the editors of La France, whose articles were
signed "A. Polin." lle belonged to gnv oSOe first
0.3 fi

Some very interesting statistics, prepared by the
municipal authorities, have just been issued. Dur-
ing the month of May last the number of births at
Paris was 4,611-2,333 boys and 2,278 girls. The
number of deaths was 3,806-1,948 males and 1,858
females. The excess of births over deaths was 805.
During the same mouth there were 17 rainy days.
The quantity of water delivered in the city was 5
milliards 22 millions of quarts from the Seine, the
wells of Grenelle, the Dhuys, and the Marne. In
the month of June the number of births was 4,386
2,222 boys and 2,164 girls. The number of
deaths was 3,396-1,758 males and 1,638 females.
The excess of births over deaths was therefore 990.
During the month of June the number of rainy
days in Paris was exactly the same as in May, viz.,
17. The quantity of water delivered in the city by
the water carriers, during the month of June, was 5
milliards 185,627,000 litres.
Count d'llondetot, who was formerly aide-de-
camp to Louis Philippe, has just died in his 75th
year. The death is also announced of the Princess
Philippine de Reuss-Schleiz, in her 85th year. She
was the last surviving sister of Prince de Reuss, now
reigning.

We are again under the sway of winter. It has
been very cold, and so foggy all day that the light
was very obscure without gas. It was necessary to
light the gas in some of the shops and cafes. Once
it was thought that England had the exclusive mo-
nopoly of fog, but for the last three weeks there has
been more or less fog in Paris and the surrounding
country almost every day. There is an Englishman
in Paris now whom I really must denounce. The
conversation in a café to-day having turned upon
the fog, he said there was a peculiarity about. a fog.
When it came it was mist, but if it did not come it
would never be missed.

The Moniteur of this evening says that the Mexi-
can Legation at Paris has received the following
telegraphic despatch from the Emperor Maximi-
lian :

"Valentia, Oct. 9.

"To General Almonte, at Paris.—You will com-
municate to your legations that an excellent spirit
exists amongst all classes. The Ministry is defini-
tively constituted. The best understanding exists
with our allies. The Apizaro Railway has been
opened. "MAXIMILIAN."

To this news from Mexico 1 may add that a
melancholy report, which has been in circulation
at Paris for some days; is confirmed. The Empress
of Mexico has lost her senses, and is quite mad.
Some cases of cattle disease having suddenly
manifested themselves in Switzerland, the French
Government has withdrawn from operation the re-
lations announced in the recent circular of the Minis-
ter of Agriculture, so far as regards the frontiers of
Germany and Switzerland.
In consequence of the treaty of peace between
Italy and Austria, Wurtemburg intends to send a
representative to Florence, as Wurtemburg now
forms a portion of the Confederation of the Southern
States of Germany.

ExploEion of i Farm Steam-Engine.

An account has already been given of an explosion of.a
farm-engine at South Hanningtield, Essex, by which au
engine-driver, named John Saunders, lost his life, and two
others were seriously injured.
An inquest was hold at the farm-house on Monday, be-
fore Mr. 0. C. Lewis, coroner, on the body of Saunders—
Mr. Edward Thomas, owner of the farm, being foreman of
the jury.

kr. Jeffrey Ambrose, occupier of Little' Cleydon's farm,
deposed to seeing deceased and several men, all of whom
were strangers to witness, coming on to the farm on Friday
afternoon about two o'clock with a steam threshing machine
for the purpose of threshing some peas. Theyplaced the ma-
chine in the yard against the barn, filled the boiler, lit the
fire, and got the steam up; it was ready for work about four
o'clock. When they started the machine the strap came off
the fly-wheel. Deceased and the feeder were putting the
strap on again, when the boiler burst, and deceased was
thrown into the shed opposite, a distance of about 17 yards.
The engine was broken into pieces, and thrown into the
barn, a distance of four or five yards. Witness saw deceased
was dead, but he did not go up to him, as he was so shocked
at the injuries of the other men. Very shortly after de-
ceased's body was removed into one of the outbuildings
and thence into the brewhouse, where it then lay..
After some further evidence the jury returned a verdict
of " Accidcrktal Death•"

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.

THE RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY OF

PEACE.

VIENNA, Oct. 11.

The ratification of the Treaty of Peace between
Austria and Italy will be exchanged to-day at the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
It is believed that the Iron Crown of Lombardy
will, at the same time, be handed over to General
Menabrea.

ITALY.
FLORENCE, OCt. 10.

The losses sustained by the Royal troops during
the recent disturbances at Palermo are officially
stated to have been as follows :-7 officers killed
and wounded, and 332 soldiers killed and wounded.

TURKEY.
TRIESTE, OCt. 10.

According to advices received here from Corfu,
dated Bth inst., it was believed in that city that a
rising of the Christian inhabitants of Epirus and
Thessaly was imminent.

DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
BUCHAREST, Oct. 10.

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Constantinople
on the part of the Porte to his recognition as ins-
podar of the Danubian Principalities. It is stated
that the obstacle is not of an important character.
The date of his departure for Constantinople is
not yet fixed.

MALTA.
MALTA, OCt. 10.

The quarantine hitherto in force against arrivals
from the Archipelago and the Turkish coast between
Alexandria and the Dardanelles is abolished, and
that imposed on arrivals from Alexandria is reduced
to 15 days.

maintenance of law and the increase of the common
welfare, even under the new order of things under
which the impenetrable degree of God has placed us.
" May God the Lord also continue to our c3untry
in the future the rich blessings which He has hitherto
vouchsafed unto it. May He give joy and consola-
tion to his Majesty King George and his Royal
House under the heavy misfortune which has just
stricken them.

" The Secretaries-General of the Royal Ministries,
" VON SEEBACH.
HEINRICHS.
BRUEL.
FRANKEN.
HARTMANN.

" Hanover, Oct, 6, 1866."

PHRENOLOGY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,— I am glad to find from the note of Dr. Donovan,
published in The Sun, last evening, that the officials now
connected with prisons, &c., are disposed to regard favour-
ably the phrenological science, and to assist its professors
It is not generally known that so long ago as the year
1836, eighty certificates, signed by various medical and
scientific men, including the late Dr. Whately, Archbishop
of Dublin, the then Governor of Hanwell Asylum, Dr.
Elliotson, F.R.S., &c., were presented by the late Sir Geo.
Mackenzie to the late Lord Glenelg, and by his lordship
transferred to Lord John Russell, who then managed our
domestic business, and I believe that these documents, re-
commending the Government to test the theory with re-
spect to criminals, aro still extant in some Government
office. Since that time the supposed science of cerebral
physiology has advanced greatly in public opinion, and
there can be no doubt that many able medical men more
or less believe in it. Haydn, in his " Dictionary of Dates,"
Mr. Charles Knight, in his Cyclopaadia, and the Messrs.
Chambers, of Edinburgh, in their useful books, have advo-
cated its principles.
Early in the year 1849 I accompanied Dr. Conolly
through the wards of Hanwell Asylum, when I asked him
whether the principles of celebral physiology wore useful
in the treatment of lunatics. He replied to the effect that
they were beneficial, and that some medical men made
use of them accordingly ; but he hinted that, in a
public institution, medical mon must in some measure
conform to the opinions of the authorities for the time be-
ing; and at that time, owing probably to the indiscreet
conduct of some phrenological writers, there was much
pr,judice against the science.
It is gratifying to find that such public prejudice has de-
creased, and that the science is now likely to have the fair
play which it merits.
I was surprised to find in the Museum in Gothenburg, in
Sweden, a collection of casts, including those of Burke,
Eustache, &c., carefully labelled.
It appears that only ono execution, or public strangling,
as it was termed by the late Mr. Jerrold, has taken place at
Newgate during the present year—a pleasant change since
the year 1785, when, upon one occasion, twenty human
beings were hanged there, chiefly for trivial offences !
Earl Russell hinted recently that, ere long, these sense-
less and discreditable sights will cease entirely. The re-
cent exhibition has confirmed the statement made in my
" Curiosities of Occult Literature" respecting the inutility
of hanging as a punishment so far as example is concerned,
and the case of the criminal Jeffreys has proved that intem-
perance produces cruelty, and cruelty leads to crime, in
this case barbarous and shocking.—l am, sir, yours obe-
diently, Cult. COOKE.
London, Oct. 11, 1866.

MARKE TS. --This Day.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

Our market to-day was moderately supplied with beasts
chiefly in middling condition. Primo breeds moved off
steadily, at full quotations, but inferior stock was dull, and
rather cheaper. The top figure was 5s 4d per 81bs. Sheep,
the supply of which was rather limited, were in fair re-
quest, at fully late rates. The beat Downs and half-breds
realised 6s 4d per 81bs. There was a steady sale for calves,
at Monday's currency—viz., from 4s 6d to 5s 6d per Sibs.
The demand for pigs was steady, at very full prices.

Per 81b to sink the offal.

s ds d
Crse & inf. beasts... 3 6 3 10
Second quality do ..4 0 4
Prime large oxeu —I 8 5 0
Prime Scuts, ac.... 5 2 5 4
Crse. and int. s!ieep.3 10 4 2
Second quality du ..4 4 5 2

sded
Pmecrs-wool sheep 5 0 5 10
Prime a'thdown a 0.6 0 6 4
Large coarse calves. 4 6 5 0
Prime small d0......5 2 5 6
Large hugs ....4 0 4 8
Small porkers 4 10 5 2
Lamb....Us Ud to 0 Od.

Suckling calves, 21s to 235; and quarter-old store pigs, 31s
ti 31s each. _ _

Head of stock on sale.

Total supply. Foreign supply.
Beasts l,r 9J Beasts ..... . 512
Cows. — C0w5.....
Sheep .1111 6mbs 5.200 Sheep awl 1 .mbs 1 S 0
Calves 3 0 Ca yes .
figs 3OO , Pigs 9J

MEAT.

NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL.—The supplies of meat are
moderate, and the demand is steady, as follows :—Beef
and pork; 14s (Rao 5s t3d per 81b by the carcase.

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to .£5 5s ; clover,
£5 Os to 16 6s Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 108 per load.
A fair demand.

CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 5s Od; clover,
,C 5 Os to £6 6s ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 103 per load.
Supply only moderate.
_ _

WHirrEcuArni..—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 5s ; clover,
£5 Os to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 lOs per load.
Trade inactive.

AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY.—About one o'clock
this morning, a constable arrested two sailors on
Donegal Quay for being drunk and disorderly. On bring-
ing them to the police-office, they each gave their names
as Jack Stitt, father and son, the alleged parent being ap-
parently about 40, and the son 22 years of age. Head-con-
stable Lamb, while entering the charges, scrutinised the
prisoners closely, aud, with the keenness•of a practised
officer, detected something in the appearance of the
younger prisoner which induced him to subject the
young sailor to an examination by the female searcher.
Her report confirmed the head-constable's suspicion,
that the jolly young tar was a female. Denial of
her sex was no longer possible, but she still stoutly
maintained that her companion was her father, an assertion
hoe ever, which there is good and sufficient reason for dis-
crediting. They report that the name of their vessel is the
Liberty, of Ayr, which was to sail early this morning from
Whitehouse. The younger prisoner's" make-up" as a sailor
in dress and figure, and cut and disposition of the hair; is
remarkably good. But her voice, which has a strong Scotch
accent, has a feminine tone, which, in conjunction with
certain other peculiarities, would lead a shrewd observer
like the head-constable to suspect her sex. The prisoners
will be brought up at the police-court to-day.—Northera
Whig,
An incident - which has just occurred at St.
Pancras workhouse shows the need of some further reform
there. A man who gave his name as Hymus lately applied
at the workhouse to see his wife, who, he stated, was con-
fined in the insane ward. He was told there was no such
woman there, and was shown the book containing the
names of the inmates to convince him of thd fact. He
was, however, still unconvinced, and was so very importu-
nate that an officer took him into the insane ward to show
him there was no such woman there. The scene that took
place, however, on his entering the ward convinced the
officer that the man's story was true. It appeared that the
woman was admitted in February last, on an order of Dr.
Saul, but there was no record on the books of her admis-
sion or name, although a few months ago the guardians
made a call of the house.

SOMNAMBULISM.—On Tuesday night last a boy
named Alger, about 14 years of age, son'of Mr.
Alger, dealer, of Brandon, narrowly escaped injury through
an unfortunale propensity for sleep walking. He had come
to Bury with his uncle on Tuesday evening, in order to be
in readiness for the market on the following day, and
stayed at the Tollgate Inn, Northgate-road. lie went
to bed at ten o'clock, and his uncle remained up some
two or three hours later, and then got into the same
bed in which the lad was lying sound asleep. All remained
quiet until about two o'clock in the morning, when it was
found that the boy had transferred himself from the bed to
the road below. Some of the inmates of the house having
been aroused, he was let in, and on an examination
being made into the circumstances, it seemed that he
had got up unnoticed by his uncle, removed the look-
ing-glass from the dressing table to the bed, then
mounted the table, drawn down the upper sash,
and leaped into the road, from a height of some 16 or 18
feet. All this was done in his sleep, but he was rather
unceremoniously awakened by the shock occasioned by
coming somewhat violently in contact with the ground.
Ho alighted upon his feet, and did not appear to have suf-
fered much injury, though he was no doubt severely
shaken. It seems that he is rather given to fits of som-
nambulism, and hail ou a previous occasion performed a
similar feat.—Bury and Norwich Post.
THE EITLANTIC CABLES—MESSAGE FROM PRESI-
DENT JOHNSON.—At the Liverpool banquet to the
layers of the Atlantic cables a congratulatory message was
forwarded from the chairman to the President of the
United States. Yesterday, at a meeting of the council of
the Liverpool. Chamber of Commerce, the following reply
was read from President Johnson : —" The President of
the United States reciprocrates the friendly congratula-
tions of the banquet at Liverpool, and trusts that the people
of Great Britain aud America may henceforth and for ever
remember that, in the progress of human progress, they
will be held to have been, not alien and hostile Powers,
but kindred nations springing from one root, portions of
one race, extending the common principles of liberty and
humanity." The message was sent from Washington by
Mr. Seward to Capt. Hamilton. During a discussion on
this subject, Mr. Paterson pointed out that, so far, Ame-
rica reaped the chief benefit of the telegraphic communica-
tion, for while news or information from America cost large
sums to obtain, the American papers contained daily tele-
grams Of European AVM.

LITERATURE.

Dame Perkins and her Grey Mare•

Illustrated by " Phiz." Sampson Low, and Co.
Pbiz is himself again ! With a comic pencil not
unworthy of his reputation of old, his humorous
fancy here fairly flies helter-skelter over ditch and
over dale, " thorough brake, thorough briar," in pur-
suit of that very delightful old lady whose adven-
tures are here celebrated, in congenial rhyme, by
Mr. Lindon Meadows. Dame Perkins, thanks to
Lindon Meadows's pen and Hablot Browne's pen-
cil, emulates, in a wonderful manner, but with a
trifle more of credit to herself, both in the superior
strength of her bridle-hand and in the greater excel-
lence and tenacity of her seat, the perilous feats
performed in the saddle by that immortal citizen of
London town, John Gilpin the Haberdasher. As the
frontispiece of this most amusing volume, Dame
Perkins is pourtrayed just as he she is about to start
from her farm-house door—little dreaming that she
is bent unconsciously on "running such a rig" as the
sequel shows her to have done, and that, too, trium-
phantly. Black-bonneted, red-cloaked, market
basket on arm, forth sets the old lady, mounted on
her old grey mare, Sal, who soon, while jogging along,
comfortably drops asleep—jogging on still in spite
of her slumbers ! Presently, however, up wakes
the old mare with a vengeance ! Rat-tail rampant
—eggs flying out of basket—red cloak like a banner
—the old mare is on her hindlegs, and the old dame
on her mettle as a horsewoman ! A turn of the leaf,
however, and the cry is fairly " Hark, Forward I'
Or as that "ridiculous fellow" Eugene Rayburn
would say, " With a Heyho chivey--and like-
wise with a harkforward, harkforward tantivy !"
—the oldmare well up to her work, and the
old Dame, too, for that matter : but otherwise
the black bonnet and red cloak rather in the
way, and the eggs of the market basket just
nowhere ! Our next view of them all is illus-
trative—rampantly—flyingly,of "The First Jump."
Our next—drenchingly, ildraggledly—of their suc-
cessful passage through the " The Brook." Next
—et la Turpin in his ride to York—the old lady is
seen (her bonnet half off her head, one stocking
rather visible) flying the garter over the five-
barred turnpike gate, to the indignation
and amazement of the toll-taker. To crown
all and to perfect all completely in this humor-
ous record of the " strange eventful history" of
Old Dame Perkins and her grey mare, the old girl
comes splendidly in at the death in her own farm-
yard, where we behold the huntsman presenting her
with the brush as an honour well won and nobly
well deserved. As to a table-book of merry rhymes
and brightly coloured illustrations in Hablot
Browne'slightest but happiest manner, commend us
to this laughter-moving ditty about Dame Perkins,
who is a sort of a homely Mazeppa and Gilpin and
Turpin of the feminine gender all rolled into one,
and sent out a-hunting on the back of an old gray
mare.

MUDIE'S LIST OF NEW BOOKS is as sure a guide
to the Current Literature of the age as Bradshaw
is to the rail way traffic of the month, or Murray to
the chequered routes of the continental tourists.
Mudie's List, however, is so far better than Brad-
shaw's Guide that it is comprehensible upon the
instant, affording the reader who consults it a bird's-
eye view, almost at a glance, over a prospect which
is at once immense and wonderfully picturesque.
A catalogue more suggestive, who could wish for?
It goes directly to the point aimed at. It tells us
what the new books are—good, bad, and indifferent.
But no—the bad will be looked for in vain there ;
for instance, no mention at all being made of Mr.
Swinburne's suppressed volume of libidinous verse.
It catalogues the works, therein mentioned, more-
over, under two heads—under their titles respec-
tively, and under the names of their authors, when-
ever those author's names are not concealed under
the anonymous. And though Mudie's List, after
all, is, to all intents and purposes, no more than a
mere Catalogue, it is one that has about it the very
flavour and aroma of literature.

COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.—" Naval Affairs
during the last Seven Years" is resumed, and, we
.imr,ose. finished in this number. The urguinentfi
are much the same, though the writer cannot, and
indeed does not attempt to, escape from the admis-
sion, thz t if much has been done much more has
been left undone by the late " Liberal " Board of
Admiralty. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord,
and Lord Clarence Paget, as Secretary, had much
their own way. The one dictated and the other
justified that, " whatever is, is right." It is an old
saying among sailors that there is no Sunday in seven
fathoms water, and it was the rule or at least the
practice at the Admiralty that the Board could do
no wrong. So that many-coloured maxim passed
from the Board to the Dockyard, and iu due time
got well seasoned into the system. So much was
this the case, that an " Old Salt" bet his week's grog
—the most precious item in his mind's eye—that the
foreman of the dockyard could not tell a bit of
British oak from a piece of old junk, nor could the
First Lord, for, though the High Admiral of seamen,
he was but a landsman after all. And the Old
Salt won his bet and saved his grog, for he con-
densed a piece of salt beef into so hard a substance
that it required a chisel to discern the grain of the
wood which the foreman mistook for English oak,
for he could not tell one from the other. So it is
with the system of the Board. " My Lords" have so
ingrained their habit of irresponsibility into the old
ship that every successive board becomes a chip of the
block, and the omnipoteLt will of the board is a com-
mand not to be questioned, however common sense
may hesitate a doubt as to the soundness of all the
Ship's timbers. Our present advocate takes shelter
under some plausible truths, and does his best to
shield the doings of the Board, with a pardonable
success. But the same high-handed management,
whether it were right or wrong, carried the day
throughout, and the good of the service was always
set up as a never-failing justification. No doubt the
transition from wood to iron has bothered the heads
of the Board, as it has partly upset " the hands" of
the fleet. But we cannot excuse the obstinacy of
men who would not see what all the world beside ob-
served and believed. Yet their eyes were opened at
the last moment, as a sudden catastrophe is said to
bring people to reason, just in time to note that
the plank is ready for them to walk ; and so what
might have been done years ago to the great saving
of cost was attempted at last at more cost. The
success of the experiment on the Royal Sovereign's
turret covered the unbelievers with confusion. Now
we have a new Board, which we hope will conde-
scend to think and learn for the good of the service
and the satisfaction of the country. The honour and
safety of England should be paramount to all
party, be its denomination ever so pretentious or ex-
clusive. " The French Navy" is discussed at some
length, but rather in too much of the bombastic
style, for no abuse of our neighbours can add to our
glory. The French build good ships and invent
many things whieh we might copy to our profit, but
their iron-clads are as yet more fitted for fresh
water than for the storms of an unruly Atlantic. In
fact iron ships are but in their " teens." It will take
time to make a good man-of-war out of them.
" Modifications in War caused by Railways and
Breech-loading Rifles," by Capt. W. W. litiollys,
93d Sutherland Highlanders, is a good paper, show-
ing the obvious changes that must take place con-
sequent on the new inventions in military matters.
He illustrates his positions by ingenious diagrams.
" On the Organisation of a British Landwehr," or
universal militia, inscribing a half a million of men
from 18 to 30 on a ballotlistsomewhat after the Prus-
sian model, is a bold, and, we must add, a very good
idea. The exposure of our present system is well timed,
and will, we hope, be of service. We commend this
paper to the especial attention of GenerO Peel and
the Horse Guards. But we have no faith in the ac-
ceptance of any plan that will supersede the present
stiff-necked and unnatural system. Red tape is the
prevailing curse of the day, be it in the army or
navy. Nothing but a national calamity will uproot
the system which has cost so much and achieved so
little for the last half a century. There are several
excellent articles which we have not room to specify
more particularly, such as " The Wounds of Rifle
Bullets in Battle," " Notes on British Light Drill,"
" Adventures of Edmund Leigh," " Recollections
of Sandhurst," and " A Journey, or Voyage, from

*P.P.."'

London to Tonghoo, Burmah," inwhich—there f
much to interest or surprise.
MACMILLAN.—Henry Kingsley's story, " Silcote
of Silcotes" is continued in its accustomed strain,
growing perhaps more weird and singular as it pro-
ceeds. The Rev. Archer Gurney contributes some
" Reminiscences of Vienna," which are very well
worth reading at this juncture. " Anaateurship" is
the title of a pleasant-enough paper, containing some
sensible remarks on the different degrees of study
necessary for success in art. " Hints on the Organi-
sation of Girls' Schools" treat of some of the diffi-
culties of education. Among the best of the re-
maining Mrs. Norton's story of " Old Sir Douglas"
proceeds at some length, but it is not certainly a
pleasing story, notwithstanding its undoubted talent.
There are several other papers, among the best being
a biographical sketch of Henry Hudson, the navi-
gator, who gave his name to Hudson's Bay.
TIIE ST. JAMES'S.—Miss Braddon's novel having
reached its last chapters in the September number,
a new story is commenced in this part. It would
be as yet premature to judge " A Life's Mystery,"
but we very much doubt whether it will equal its
predecessor in ability or interest. " Out of Charity"
is continued, and the fair Eva is allowed to hope
that the whole story of her birth and parentage is an
error. "The Great Composers of the Last Century"
form the subject of a readable paper, especially
attractive to musicians. " Across Ross-shire" gives
a pleasant and graphic account of some wanderings
in the Highlands. " Christ Church, Oxford : its
Past, Present, and Prospective Changes," is the
title of a paper which traces the history of that dis-
tinguished college.
THE VICTORIA NIAGAZINE.—The continuation of
the memoir of Madame de Stael contains some in-
teresting extracts from her miscellaneous writings,
and affords some idea of their extent and variety.
" The Propriety of establishing a Female College
of Midwifery" is very ably discussed, and the
portance of the study of the English language, as
mental training for the young student, is the subject
of a useful and suggestive paper by Mr. Crompton.
The instalment of M. Laboulaye's treatise on the
Civil and Political Status of the Female Sex, is this
month less dry than usual, since it carries us into
the arena of history, and shows us how the right of
succession to several European thrones was affected •
by the laws concerning women.
THE SIXPENNY MAGAZINE.—The usual miscel-
laneous collection of tales, poems, sketches, .and
other articles presents itself in this magazine, the
number being, on the whole, somewhat above the
average. " A Walk from Sheffield to Manchester,
and " Language" are among the best of the papers/
being good subjects, and well treated.
THE DAY OF REST.—" The Path of Thorne is
finished in a satisfactory manner, and the heroine's
unfortunate course is exchanged for a brighter road.
Some entertaining line sketches are met with 011
the events of domestic life. " Brompton Cemetery,,
figures in the pencillings of suburban cemeteries, and
is interestingly described. " Women of the Bible''
contains a chronicle of Queen Esther. " The Philo-
sophy of an Hour-Glass" is a good sketch.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Tuesday.
The Queen went out in the morning, accompanied
by Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Mar"
chioness of Ely, and drove in the afternoon, acconr
panied by Princess Christian.
The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale dined with do
Queen and Royal Family.

Ms Excellency the Austrian Ambassador auu
the Austrian Embassy have removed from Chandos House
to 18, Belgrave-square.
The Earl and Countess of Listowel's infant Soo
and heir was baptised on Tuesday last, on which occa!ou
a select family party assembled at Kingston House!
Knightsbridge.

„flie Earl Brownlow will leave town on Saturday
next for Mentone.

The Dowager Countess of Lichfield has arrived
at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Tunbrido
Wells.

The Lord Chancellor will give his customal
breakfast to the judges and leading members of the bar oa
the 2d proximo, the first day of Michaelmas Term, at th°
noble and learned lord's residence in Eaton-square'
Previously to the reception of the several judges thi°
Lord Chancellor will receive the Lord Mayor elect as
the leading civic authorities, when his lordship will sig.'
nify the Queen's approbation of the choice made by til°
'citizens of London of their chief magistrate for the car.
suing year.

Lord and Lady Elcho, since leaving Tunbridge
Wells, have been visiting in Scotland. Lord Bleb°, in
consequence of a slight accident, was prevented going !°
Brussels to be present with the volunteers, as ho fully
intended to have done.

Major-General Lord George Paget, the inspector'
general of cavalry, is at present in Ireland on a tour °I
inspection.

The Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villier°
have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Middleton
Park.

Colonel the Hon. Richard and Lady Margaret
Charteris have arrived at their residence in Bruton-street,
from their seat in Suffolk.

Sir Alexander Malet is shortly expected to return
home from Frankfort.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Jay, Mr. and 1‘11.5.
John Jay, and the Misses Jay, of New York, have arm
rived at the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, Will
Paris.

THE NEW ACT FOR THE PURIFICATION OF 1115
THA3lES.—Yesterday was issued a local act, passeol
in the recent session, for the purification of the give
Thames, by the diversion therefrom of the sewage of O 1;,
ford, Abingdon, Reading, Kingston, Richmond, Twicken;
and
utilisation Isleworth, and Brentford, and for the collection "`:.
utilisation of the sewage. The preamble recites that, nude-
existing arrangements, the sewage of towns situate on the
River Thames above the metropolis is carried into tha°
river, and thereby the waters of the river are polluted, sn
the health and comfort of the inhabitants of the valley oft
river below these towns are affected, and that it would P"
of great local and public advantage if the sewage was di-
verted from the river. Hence the present act, of 68 'ee-
tions, pointing out the mode and manner of its opersti°n
;
There are provisions as to the disturbance of the river, ~-
depths of the main pipe, also protection to the railways n°,
waterworks that maybe interfered with in carrying out th
act to purify the Thames.
COMMITTAL OF FENIANS FOR STEALING GOAr°4'
MENT STORES.—Yesterday the Liverpool magistrates cow;
mitted for trial at the assizes the four Fenians charged Or
stealing arms from various Government and voluntee„
depots. Some curious evidence was given as to the ni°a .0
in which the prisoners communicated with each other 1
gaol, and took a room in a warehouse for the storing. c'd
the cases of arms, representing that the room was require
for the manufacture of gaspiping. Ono of the prisons
had given a false name, was identified as havifipr
once been a member of the Liverpool Irish Volunte'
Brigade.
I+
A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.—The following k
copy of a report found in a bottle by Mr. Edo.°l t
Spencer, on the beach at Freshwater, and now lylogiiji
the office of Messrs. Long and Son, ship agents, Yarmeu ,s
I.W. :—" May 3d, 1866, on our way home. The coviln
is gone. We are a complete wreck. - Have seen DO ttiftr
for 72 days. Despair has taken possession of us. Wo
of hope, but lam resigned to my lot.. I dare say wo hno.
many kind sympathisers on shore. Good bye to the 'Or
We have experienced a fearful gale.—Captain Pondersent:
first mate, J. Depanzie ; second mate, R. P. Marleot°,,ig
American ship Virgin Mary. P.S.—lf the finder of
could find the family—Mrs. Ponderson and five childrent./.,
he or she would greatly oblige me by telling her our W
1- ,
and furniture is in the hands of Mr. Jaiseleu, 54, I°lll''
ton-street, Massachusetts, N.A." the
A case of some importance was hear 3 a- e.d
Liverpool Police Court, on Saturday. On the last veYa;,
to New York of the National Steam Navigation 'C°3l.a
pany's ship Virginia, several of the able seamen al b° of
were directed to remove some coals for the purpeseoo;
trimming the vessel. The men refused to do the 'ctio
on the plea that it did not come within the range °f
d. to
duties which they, as able seamen, had been engaged to
perform. The consequence was that the captain hall do.
pay steerage passengers for removing the coals, and Iwt.a,
ducted the cost of the wages of the seamen. The queS
however, was of larger importance than might be suPP: „.as
for it seems that on previous occasions the men en
the Virginia and other steamers had been ordered to rev', qie
coals, and that a combination bad been entered into tgiv'ed
men to refuse to do such work in future. They also de6l
to submit to the deduction of their wages as made I'loo
captain of the Virginia, and one man summoned the °sloe!,
to recover his full pay. The court decided that able seA with
were bound to perform all reasonable duties conneetey, .1,00
the navigation of the ship, and that the removal of CO
work which they ought to do if requested.