The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1866

evident desire displayed to afford a genial
welcome and a hearty hospitality to the visi-
Many entertainments are in course of
progress, and although the KING will not be able to
do all he proposed, in consequence of the lamented
illness of his sister, yet there will be ample oppor-
tunities of mirth and rejoicing, and Lbundant proofs
afforded of the mutual goodwill that exists. The
Burgomaster's address was a characteristic one, and
full of spirit and enthusiasm. Ile welcomed to the
old " Brabancan city" those wise citizens armed for
the protection of their native hearths. He declared
that the city of Brussels was proved to be the
" trysting-place of neighbouring nations, and of fore-
seeing in the noble rivalries of these tournays ' a
glorious promise for the future. Col. LOYD LINDSAY
replied in an appropriate style, and testified his pride
at being the commandant of the corps before them.
Ile added that never before had so considerable a
force been assembled on a foreign territory with so
peaceful "an object." The commandant of the
French also made a suitable address, and proposed
the cry of Vice la Belgique, which was very warmly
responded to. We hope these peaceful arrays will
be all Belgium will witness for many a long year ;
that this generation at any rate may not see the
downfall of the little kingdom which has always
been a source of interest to us in this country.

:ors.

The Australian mail gives us a satisfactory account
of the position of affairs. The colonies seem to be
prosperous and contented, and are occupying them-
selves chiefly in matters of useful legislation. At
Melbourne the chief event of interest has been the
arrival of the new Governor, Sir JOIIN MANNERS
SUTTON, who arrived on the 13th of August, and
was very well received by all parties, notwithstand-
ing the fierce political warfare that preceded the
departure of his predecessor. All parties seem to
have agreed upon receiving the new Governor with
. respect, and, accordingly his levee, held within a
week after his arrival, was very largely attended.
It is customary in the Democratic city of Mel-
bourne to admit every one to such assemblies who
presents himself in evening dress, and the new
Governor, who in the plenitude of his satisfaction
began shaking hands with all his visitors, soon
found he had enough to do. It is a pretty sure
sign that there is not much stirring in Victoria
that this unwonted condescension on the part
of the new dignitary has occasioned a good deal of
speculation, some gravely asserting that it was a sign
of American sympathies, while others demurred to
any such serious construction. The Ministerial
elections for the Assembly have all resulted in
favour of the Government. Mr. MILLER, the new
Minister of Railways, has, however, lost his seat in
the Council, leaving the Government totally unre-
presented in the Upper House. This is an awk-
ward state of things, for though it is not in
Victoria considered indispensable to have Ministerial
representatives in both Houses it is very difficult to
get on without them. The new Land Act still works
well, and there are hopes of other useful measures.

PARIS, Sunday Evening.
The Moniteur states that the ratifications of the
,reaty of peace concluded between Austria and
-taly were exchanged at Vienna on Friday. Tele-
graphic despatches have been received in Paris an-
nouncing that the towns of Mantua and Peschiera
had been completely evacuated by the Austrian
troops. The military authorities placed them under
the orders of General Lebceuf, who immediately

In New South Wales the session had begun
quietly enough, and several very good measures
relating to the internal administration of affairs
have already been passed. The Ministry has wisely
refrained from opening the old vexed party
questions, and are occupying themselves with
workhouses, cattle stealing, reformatories, and
industrial schools. Our Australian colonies,
like all other rapidly increasing communities, have
plenty of such social difficulties to deal with, and it
is high time the political combatants laid aside some
of their keen contests for their consideration and
settlement. Unfortunately party feeling runs high,
and these matters are less exciting though more
really urgent.

sent them to their respective homes. The same
operation will take place in regard to the other

strong places of Venetia.
An official contradiction is given to the report
published in some of the journals that the Roman
Legion formed at Antibes under the sanction of the
Pope, and placed at the disposal of his Holiness,
wears the French tri-coloured cockade. The new

Legion, like the other Corps of the Pontifical Army,
hoists the cockade and flag of the Holy Father.

The following is from the Moniteur :—" Thanks
to the efforts of the French Embassy at Constanti-

nople the difference which existed between the
Ottoman Government and the Principality of

Montenegro seems likely to be definitively arranged•
The lines of blockade constructed by the Turks in

Montenegro, which obstructed the communication,
in the interior have been destroyed. Patrons of

territory to which the Porte had for a long time
made claim have been given up by it to the Govern-
ment of Montenegro. There is, therefore, every
reason to believe that pacified relations will be re-
established between the Ottoman Government and
the Principality of Montenegro."

The Memorial Diplomatique announces confi-
dently that Austria has taken a decisive step with
a view to reconciliation with Hungary, and that at
the meeting of the Diet in November next the
ancient Constitution will be restored in its
integrity.
It appears, from the official tables of the compara-
tive receipts of direct and indirect taxes of the '
years 1864-64-65, that the results up to the month
of March are satisfactory. The produce of the in-
direct taxes, excluding the amount upon sugar for
the first three months of 1866, present an increase
of 37,647,000 f., as compared with the correspond-
ing period of 1865. The month of September alone
exhibits a decrease in the receipts. The inundations
were no doubt the cause of this decrease. It is
hoped that the tax upon sugars, estimated in the
budget as 107 millions, will have entirely reached
its usual amount by the end of the year. The
Treasury has already received 79,482,000 f. under
this head. The produce of direct taxes was much
the same as in 1865•

An eccentric character, a Baroness X--, resid-

ing near the Place -Vendome, has just been found
dead in her bed. Tbe place was miserable in the
extreme. There was scarcely any furniture in it,
and the bed was not fit for a human being. The
apartment appeared as if no one had lived in it for
a long time, but the Baroness had occupied it for
25 years. She paid an annual rent of about £6O
sterling, and it has been ascertained that she had
money in the funds which produced £2,000 per
annum. Yet this woman always went out dressed
like a beggar, and indeed she has been seen begging
in the streets. She lived upon bread and refuse
which she picked up in the streets or obtained from
charitable persons. The body was almost like a
skeleton, and a doctor, who was called in, gave his
opinion that death was caused by exhaustion, pro-
duced from the want of proper nourishment. On
Saturday, the 6th inst., she returned home about
ten o'clock at night, and in passing the porter's
lodge she fell down from weakness. The por-
ter offered her some assistance, which she
refused, it is fully believed, because she feared she
should be compelled to remunerate him. After sit-
ting down in the lodge for a few minutes she was
ordered and went up stairs. She was never again
seen alive. Some lodgers in the house, not having
seen the Baroness for several days, the Commissary
of Police was sent for, and, on the door being
broken open, the emaciated body was found. She
was about 75. She had several rooms, but they
contained little else than dusty, worm-eaten papers.
The windows had evidently not been cleaned for
years.
Some handsome new pieces of lfr. and 2fr. have
recently been struck at the Mint. On one side is
the head of the Emperor crowned with laurel, with
the words " Napoleon 111., Emperor." On the re-
verse are the arms of France and the figures 1 or 2
to indicate the value of the coin. It is a curious
fact that the centime, the rifth part of a sou or a
halfpenny, has in all times been more scarce than
the franc. When the decimal coinage was first in-
troduced the French Republic coined 50 million
centime pieces, that is to say to the value of 500,000 fr.
In 30 years afterwards they had nearly all dis-
appeared. They were bought up by the metal but-
ton manufacturers and cutlers. There formerly
existed a liard, the fourth part of a sou. This coin
has entirely disappeared. It was at all times scarce,
but it was used in reckoning. For instance, a minor
article, say an apple, of the value of a sou and a
half, was reckQued at the price oL 54 hard% Tho

shocking crime. The culprit, Mathurin Chaneau, Hard was like a thin piece of tin, and had an inscrip-
suffered death for outraging and murdering a girl tion. The centime is a beautiful little coin, and,
12 years of age. The crowd began to assemble at when new, so resembles a gold sfr. piece that it has
8 o'clock in the evening, although the execution did often been mistaken for one. It is more chiefly
not take place till 6in the morning. used by bakers. To pay for a pound of the best
Rather a smart saying is related of the celebrated bread at the present price you require four sous and
German battle-painter, Fritz Lallemand, who died a fractional part of a sou. Tradesmen who deal
a few days ago. He was at the head-quarters of in articles of small value amounting to sous only are
General Benedek during the late campaign in above the ideas of centimes where the amount is to
Bohemia. After the terrible defeat at Sadowa be divided into two, but they take advantage of the
Lallemand went to the Commander of the Austrian difference, and thus to pay the half of anything
Forces, and reauested permission to return to which costs, say, nine sous, they charge you five
Vienna. " Were you not engaged for the whole sous. Centimes are sometimes required at the Post-
time of the war ?" asked Benedek. " Certainly, office to pay for the postage of printed matter. The
your Excellency," replied lialletnand ; I was en- postage charged for the circulation of The Sun sent
gaged as a painter of battles, and not as a painter to any part of Paris is five centimes.
of routed armies." An extraordinary work is iu preparation and will
If Rome were saved by geese (says the (Currier be published at the opening of the Great Exhibition
d'Orient), the Quarter of Brigdournia, at Pancaldi, —" Paris par ses Illustrations." Victor Hugo is
has just been saved by a cock. Last Tuesday night, engaged to write the preface. The work will be
during a frightful storm which raged over the town, divided into three parts, arts, science, life. M.
the lightning struck an outhouse which was used as 'Tiers is to write the history of the Legislative Body ;
a shelter for carts. It was soon in flames. The M. Michelet that of the College of France ; M.
vivid fire alarmed a cock which was in the outhouse Gautier will describe the Louvre and its treasures ;
with his family of hens, and his fears for them M. Paul de St. Victor will treat of the architecture
made him crow loudly and incessantly. The noise of celebrated hotels ; M. de St. Beuve will write
alarmed the carter, who procured assistance, and about the French Aca,dmy ; M. Roqueplan, about
the flames were extinguished. Had it not been for theatres ; and M. Varquerie about the Drama in
the warnings of the cock the flames would undoubt- general. Madame George Sand will have her say
edly have reached the houses close to the building, about the Bois de Boulogne. The artists engaged
to which the lightning had set fire. for the illustrations are Meissonnier, Gavarni, and
The weather continues as per last—foggy, very Gustave Dore. The work will be got up with great
cold, aad almost "as dark as Erebus." For two splendour, and will probably be worthy of the
days there has been a total eclipse of the sun all occasion.
day, not foretold by astronomers. The weather The Grand Duchess Maria of Russia has left
prophets, like the coachmen, have lately been out Paris for Italy by way of St. Gothard.
in r,ll weathers, but who could have foretold severe It appears from the official statistical tables that,
winter weather in autumn. The coal and wood from the Ist of April to the Ist of July last, there
dealers have taken advantage of the cold, and have were born in Paris 13,405 children, and that the
raised the price of both. number of males exceeded by 263 that of females.
A young sculptor who frequented the Cabaret de Of these of 13,405 children, 9,601 were legitimate,
la Mere Rigault, an establishment frequented by and no less than 3,854 illegitimate. Of the latter
artists, has fallen desperately in love with the hand- 960 were acknowledged. During the same period
some and attractive young widow who now keeps the number of marriages contracted was 4,877.
that establishment. A day or two ago she received The deaths during those three months were 11,114,
a letter from the sculptor in these terms :—" Divine of whom 5,608 were males. Of the total number
Pebble,—lf you were guided by the mallet of fide- 5,139 were born in Paris, and 5,975 out of Paris.
lity, I should have made some impression upon you. The average number of deaths was 122 a day. The
I, who have moulded into form the hardest mate- consumption of food and drink during this period
rials, had hoped that with the compass of reason and was as follows :-810,643 hectolitres of wine in
the saw of constancy, the sweet file of friendship, barrels, 5,134 hectolitres in bottle, 20,780 hectolitres
and the polish of speech, thought I should have of spirits and liqueurs, 47,906 hectolitres of beer,
made of you one of the most beautiful statues in 162,199 of oil. Nearly 20 millions of kilogrammes
the world. But, alas ! 3on are as insensible as (a kilogramme is 21b.) of meat, beaf, veal, and
stone ; and yet you have fired my soul, although mutton, and 457,000 kilogrammes of pork, 144,500
you are as cold as marble. Have pity on me. I dozen of oysters, 980,000 kilogrammes of butter.
know not what lam about. lamso in love that if A marriage has been celebrated at Soissons under
I had to sculpture a dragon, I believe that in mis- singular circumstances. A washerwoman and a
take I should form a Cupid. Dear column of my soldier, after a courtship of ten years, were to be
hopes, pedestal of my happiness, cornice of my joy, married more than a month ago. Unfortunately
if you will make me happy I will raise statues and the intended bride committed some offence for
pyramids to you. I shall come to-morrow for your which she was sentenced to imprisonment. The
answer.—AUGUSTE." The lady considered the soldier, getting impatient, petitioned the authorities
letter as a pleasant joke, and she and some friends to allow her out for a day to be married. The
were laughing over it the next day, when Auguste request was granted. Accompanied by the gaoler
happened to present himself for the answer. He the loving pair went to the Maire, and from there
was enraged and furious, and threatened to murder to the Cathedral, where the marriage ceremony was
the lady. The police were sent for, and Auguste performed. The lady was then conducted back to
is now in a lunatic asylum. Love has driven him prison, and the soldier went home. Last Sunday,
mad ! The sculptor relied too much upon the effect however, the term of imprisonment expired, and
of " sermons in stones." there was tremendous rejoicing at Soissons upon the
occasion.

One of the most eminent surgeons of Paris, M.
Jobert de Lamballe has just died. He was born at
Lamballe (Cotes du Nord) in 1799. He was a
member of the Academy of Sciences. M. Lamballe
had a great reputation for performing difficult
operations. He was the author of various medical
works.
Madame Menotti Garibaldi, daughter-in-law of
the General, is now in Paris. She has come to con-
sult Dr. Nelaton respecting a disease of the lungs.
There is a great improvement in the weather to-
day. The fog has been but trifling, the sun ap-
peared for a short time, and it was much warmer.
Yesterday was a complete December day.

LATEST INTEL LIGENUE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

DARMSTADT, Oct. 15.

It is stated that the Convention between the Go-
vernment of Hesse-Darmstadt and the Archbishop
of Mentz has been annulled. During several years
this convention has given rise to conticual attacks
upon the Government.

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 14.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tasmanian,
with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings
66 passengers, $697,165 in specie, and 1,163
packages of cargo, chiefly consisting of bark, rubber,
cocoa, and cochineal.
The Tasmanian left St. Thomas on the Ist of Octo-
ber, and experienced heavy rains during six days.
A hurricane visited the West India islands on the
29th of September. The West India and Pacific
Navigation Company's wharf at St. Thomas was
cut through by a coal ship and demolished. Several
ships went ashore. The St. Thomas dock escaped
injury.
Her Majesty's ship Buzzard left for England on
the 28th.

Yellow fever and smallpox still lingered at St.
Thomas. Two cases of yellow fever occurred on
board the Tasmanian, both proving fatal.

Nothing had been done at Jamaica towards the
inauguration of the new Government. The Mili-
tary Commission has arrived out. Fine weather
prevailed, but business was dull. The coffee crop
was expected to be scarce. Exchange, 90 days, 2
per cent.
At Grenada the cocoa-picking had commenced,
and the prospects were cheering. The corn crop
was abundant, and trade was dull.
Guadeloupe continued healthy.
At Barbadoes the weather was fine, and planta-
tion prospects were encouraging, but dysentery and
fever prevailed.
At Demerara the weather was fine, but trade was
dull. Tonnage was abundant and freights were de-
clining. Sugar, 15d. to 18d.
The other islands were healthy.
Senor Perez had been proclaimed President of
Chili. The country still demanded the vigorous
prosecution of the war against Spain. Powerful
batteries, which will be defended with 150 cannon,
were being erected at Valparaiso.
The freight engagements at Valparaiso were ex-
tensive. Exchange on London, 45d. to 45id. ;
on
Paris, 70e. to 75c. Bar silver, per mare, $lO 50c.
In Peru business continued active, and the cot-
ton growing was increasing.

Bo URSE, Oct. 13.—Three o'clock.—The market
became decidedly heavy, and remained so till the
close, which was as follows :-
41 per Cents 97 Bank Shares
Do. end month — Italian Loan 55 15
3 per Cents. 6B 70 Do. end month 55 10
Do. end month 6B 80 Mexican Loan —
Credit Mobilier ... 632 50 Do. Bonds —
Do. end month ... 632 50 Spanish Threes
Credit Foucier — Home Debt
Do. end month 13C0 Deferred
ILAILW ALYS.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1165
Lyons and Mediterranean 897 50
Southern 576 25
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard ..................
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

545 -

377 50
412 50

136 25

SIIEIL'S TRAGEDY, " EVADNE j OR, THE STATUE,"
is in preparation at Sadler's Well's, for Miss Marriott, who
is to play the principal part, one of the few original crea-
tions of Miss O'Neil, who had rare play- fellows with her
in the same piece—Young,Macready, and Charles Kemble.
REFRESHING READING.—A literary announcement
from Leipzig runs thus : —" Our readers will be obliged to
us for drawing their attention to some Sanscrit works
which will shortly appear. We have not read the books
ourselves, but, if their contents are as interesting as their
titles, their perusal must be the acme of delight. The
titles are : Swapautschakschavinthamantrastotra,'

Triguuatmikakalikastotra," Upaugalalitavratodyapana,
Sankarchtatschaturthivratodyapana,' and Auautatschse

turdarivratakatha.' "

THE ROMAN LEGION.—The Moniteur of yesterday

says :—" Certain jonruals have announced that the Roman
Legion formed at Antibes by the efforts of the French Go-
vernment, and placed by it at the disposition of the Pope,
bore the French tricolour cockade. This information is

quite incorrect. The new legion, like all the other corps
of the Pontifical army, displayed the cockade and the flag

of the Holy Father."
DEATH OF THE DEAN OF NORWICH.—We regret
to announce the death of the Hon. and Very Rev.
George Pellew, Dean of Norwich, of Great Chart Rectory,
Kent, on Saturday, after some months of failing health.
The deceased Dean was the third son of Admiral Sir
Edward Pellew, afterwards Viscount Exmouth, and was
born at Torquay, Cornwall, in 1793. Educated at Eton
and Corpus Christi College; Oxford (8.D., 1815 ; M.A.
1818 ; D.D., 1828), he received holy orders in 1817, and in
1823 became a Canon of Canterbury, where be resided
until his appointment to the Deanery of Norwich in 1829,
He was an accomplished scholar, and published, among
other works, " Life of Lord Sidmouth" and several volumes
of sermons. In 1820 ho married the Hon. Frances Adding-
ton, who survives him. The Dean leaves one son, Mr. IL
E. Pellew, well known as an active member in all Church
movements) and three, daughters—Viscountess Sidmouth,
Mrs.. Ogle, and Mrs. Arkwright.
THE GUARDS' EIGIIT-OAR RACE ON THE THAMES.
—On Friday afternoon this exciting match for a
silver cup, valued at £5O, given by Capt. Williams, of the
Royal Horse Guards (Blue) for competition between crews
picked from members of that regiment and the Scots Fusi-
lier Guards, new quartered at Windsor, took place on the
Thames, over a course about a mile and a quarter in length,
between the pleasant village of Bray and Maidenhead-
bridge., The Royal Horse Guards' boat was steered by
Capt. Whitmore, Capt. Harford acting as coxswain to the
Scots Fusiliers' crow. The starter was Capt. Adair, late
of the Coldstream Guards, Mr. Ford acting as judge. There
was a large number of spectators on the river side. The
company included the Marquis of Worcester, the Hon. C.
R. Carrington, Capt. Fuller, Capt. Winkfield, Col. Ewart,
Lieut. Wombwell, Ridiugmaster Boswell, Mrs. Boswell,&c.;
while about half the members of each regiment were on the
ground. An excellent start was made by Capt. Adair a few
minutes after 4 o'clock, the Fusiliers at first getting the
lead. During the rowing the crows kept nearly together
till near the railway bridge, where the Fusiliers made a
spurt, but were finally distanced by the Royal Horse Guards
crew, who won by about half a boat's length on reaching
the winnning post near Maidenhead-bridge. The cup, a
very splendid one, was manufactured by Messrs. Thomas,
of Bond-street. Both regiments aro indebted to Captain
Williams for the pleasant excitement afforded by the match,
and which was agreeably terminated by a dinner given in
the evening at the Spital Barracks by the non-commissioned
officers of the Scots Fusiliers to their brethren of the Royal
Horse Guards.— Windsor and Eton News.

LEECH, DOYLE, AND TENNIEL.—Leech, Doyle, and
Tenniel are our last triad of workmen in black and white.
The first was supreme in observation and correct rapidity.
The second combines originality with high refinement,
and wonderful power of seizing and exaggerating the lead-
ing feature of a face. This probably is great part of the
reason why his works always make one laugh so much.
He is the inventor,we rather think, of mediaeval burlesque
caricature (lately revived by others with the greatest spirit
in the " Ballad of Brauninghindis" in Punch.) His " Con-
tinental Tour of Brown, Jones, and Robinson" showed
great power over national expressions of face,; and his
Derby and Brighton crowds seem to us a good deal better
than Mr. Frith's, at a much cheaper rate. Mr. Tenniel
is in many respects the most accomplished charact
draughtsman who is left to us. Like John Lewis, he
seems to have learned very much from careful study of
animals, at some early period of his career in the way of
subtle expression ; and as Punch is in the bands of all
adults and " Alice's Adventures" are the delight of all
children (and parents), the illustrator of both those works
needs little comment from us. It is hard to say how great
a loss we have sustained by Leech's early death. Had he
been honoured as well as paid—had he been recognised by
the Academy as the head of our modern school of domestic
character drawing in black and white, he would not have
passed away, as he seems to have done, unaware of his great
powers and their possible influence for good. We may be
said to have lost in him the man of all the world who pro-
duced the greatest amount of beauty with the least amount
of trouble ; who showed the greatest rapidity and the
greatest subtlety ; who could create without seeming to
know it ; who could draw a woman in her beauty, a man
in his strength, a horse in his stride ; who could treat
degrading subjects without being degraded, and often lift
things out of vulgarity or imbecility by humour, or tender-
ness, or pathos, or righteous indignation, or even sublimity
—or by inextinguishable laughter; whose range of feeling
was never ascertained or spanned, who drew and delighted
ola, young, and middle-aged, and never gave a hint of
, evil pleasure ; and yet who seems to have had no notion
but that it was good for him to illustrate the adventures of
' Mr. Soapy lElponge.—Contemporary Aevicw, October num-
-1 bor.