The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-14 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S HALL.

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office

PARIS, JULY 14.
The Moniteur publishes a proclamation of the
Emperor, announcing to the soldiers the basis of
the peace which has been concluded:—
" The principal aim of the \ tar is obtained, and

Italy will become for the fix-st time a nation.
Venetia, it is true, remains to Austria, but will,
nevertheless, be an Italian province, forming part
of the Italian confederation. The union of Lom-
bardy with Piedmont creates fDr us a powerful
ally, who will owe to us its in dependence. The
Italian Governments which have :remained inactive,
or which have been called back into their posses-
sions, will comprehend the necessity of salutary
military reforms. Italy will he iceforth be mis•
tress of her destinies, and it will be her own fault
if she does not make progress in o rder and liberty.

" You will soon return to Francs !, and your grate-
ful fatherland will receive with de light the soldiers
who carried our arms to such e: salted glory, and
who, in two months, have freed Piedmont and
Lombardy, and only stopped because the struggle
was likely to assume proportions which were no
longer in relation with the interests which France
had in this fearful war. Be therefore proud of
your success and of the results obtained, and,
above all, be proud of being beloved children of
France, which will always be a great nation as
long as she possesses a heart to -understand noble
causes, and men like yourselves found ready to de-
fend her."

PARIS, JULY 13.

A telegraph from Turin states that Count Cavour,
in consequence of the conditions of the Peace, has
thought it his duty to tender his resignation, which
has been accepted by the King.

There is good season to believe that it was the
Emperor of Austria who refused peremptorily to
consent to the assembling of a Congress.

PARIS, JULY 13.

The /1/oniteur publishes a second warning to the
Univers on account of the article of its political
director Louis Veuillot in the number of the 10th
July.

TURIN, JULY 13.

News from Milan of to-day states that the King
of Sardinia arrived there this evening amid the
plaudits of the populace.

Ills Majesty subsequently presented himself on
the balcony of his hotel, and was greeted with
warm acclamations of " Viva it Re."

BERLIN, JULY 13.

The Prussian, Gazette, says :—ln consequence
of the completion of the treaty of peace orders
have been transmitted to the troops on march to
halt at the respective places where they may now
happen to be.
Prince Windischgratz went to Potsdam at noon
to-day to take his leave.

Although the season of the Christy's Minstrels
is approaching its termination, their power of at-
traction does not seem to be in the least diminished,
crowds still admire, in spite of the heat of July.
Unlike their blackened predecessors, they by rid
means confine-themselves to songs and humours of
the purely " Nigger kind," but cultivate ballad-
singing as an additional art, without reference to
sable joys or sorrows. Mr. J. W. Rayner, the
manager of the company, who has a sonorous bass
voice, and sings with immense feeling, has acquired
a distinctive reputation by his pathetic achieve-
ments, and a new song and chorus, called " Nelly
Gray," which has been composed for him expressly
by Mr. Balfe. now holds a prominent place in the
Christy Concerts. No pains are spared by the
Minstrels to secure variety in every form, and their
efforts are well'rewarded.

The Prince with his suite will leave to-morrow
on his return to Vienna.

NAPLES, JULY 11.
The King is at present residing at Naples.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY

THE GREAT HORSE-TAMER.

(THIS DAY).

This afternoon, between twelve and two o'clock,
Mr. RAREr enacted once more in the arena of the
Alhambra Palace, Leicester-square, the part of the
modern Alexander—having successively (among
other remarkable exemplars of his extraordinary
skill in horse-taming) the world-famous Cruiser
and the equally, if not still more formidable, King
of Oude, as his Bucephalus. It is the latter
animal that Punch describes this week as
" a terrible horse, called the King of Oude, whose
savageness was appalling, and whose scream of
rage was like that of a railway engine gone mad."
Altogether three noble quadrupeds were exhibited
to-day in the amphitheatre by the celebrated Ameri-
can trainer, and
with them one little, timorous filly.
A succession were perfectly mastered.
Il
ofthese
in
Cruiser, of course, was an old friend, already
long since introduced to Mr. Rarey, and by
Mr. Rarey to the public—a lion trans-
formed into a lamb in temper, though still

in appearance having all its leonine -charac-
teristics ! A savage but yesterday, as it were—yet
to-day perfectly civilised ! Any description of Mr.
Rarey's gentle, humane, rational, and admirably
quiet, and yet wondrously rapid system of taming,
were surely by this time, as the lovers :of long
words delight to say, a :natter of supereroga-
tion. The strap buckling up the near fore leg,
first of all—the other strap buckling up the
off fore leg afterwards—the struggle with the
horse, first upon three legs, and next upon its
two hind legs and fore knees—the prostration of it
(in some instances in three minutes, in others, and
those quite exceptional cases, at the outside in
fifteen) the unbuckling of the straps, and the throw-
ing them away at last as altogether useless—crowds
of London sightseers are already perfectly familiar
with these and other simple, but all-mastering
manoeuvres. It is impossible to listen to Mr. Rarey's
frank and most lucid explanations—to see him handle
a horse—to watch his every look and gesture—to
note above all things that his mandates are caresses,
and not to recognise the perfection of his own
mastery over his system, nay, not to acknowledge at
once that it is in truth a system commanding our
instant acceptance and winning our unaffected
admiration. The magic of Mr. Rarey's art is
simply the Magic of Kindness. And watch
him for an hour or two in his wonder-
fully cool and self-possessed manipulations, we
cease to marvel at last at results apparently,
at the commencement, both incredible and
incomprehensible ! To see him jumping backwards
and forwards over a prostrate horse that another
man, but a few minutes previously, could hardly
have dared to approach with impunity ! To watch
him sitting upon it anywhere, everywhere—kneel-
ing on it—resting one foot upon it—opening
an umbrella in its face—beating a drum upon its
back, and at last, with a roaring rub-a-dub upon
the drum-head, luring the terrible King of Oude
after him like a tame lamb triumphantly out of the
amphitheatre ! No wonder Mr. Rarey is rapidly
making his fortune, if he has not already made it
—as we swear by Martin's Act he nobly deserves
to make it ! No wonder he has already made for
himself, not merely an American, or an European,
but a world-wide—as it is also a generous and
honourable reputation.

Last night Paris was illuminated in honour of
the peace. The Boulevards looked unusually gay;
coloured lanterns and flags being universally dis-
played in all directions ; the cafés were crowded,
the public buildings lighted up, and the theatres
all flash and glitter.

At the Bourse to-day the majority looked with
dissatisfaction on the bases for peace. It was con-
cluded that fresh troubles would take place in Italy
ere long.

The French troops in Italy will, now that peace
is agreed to, be split up into fractions and stationed
apart, until ordered home, so as to avoid the in-
convenience arising from large agglomerations of
men. Their new cantonments will naturally be
placed in sheltered places and near rivers. A
good many of the relatives and friends of the offi-
cers and men are 'preparing to go to Italy to see
them ; and pleasure trains to the army are to be
organised.

PARIS BOURSE, July 13.—The market has been
heavy, and sales for realisation continue to be made.
Threes, after having been done at 69f. 80c., de-
clined to 69f. 40c. ; Mobilier varied from 755 f. to
845 f. ; Austrians, :575f. to 567 f. 50c. ; Orleans,
1,360 f. to 1,350 f.; Lyons, 880 f. to 875 f.; Southern in
good demand at from 535 f. to 540 f. The following
were the last quotations :

4% per Cents. .... 96 50
Do. end month .. 96 651

A shocking accident, which resulted in the death
of a labourer named Cornelius Irons, ag-ed 57 years, occurred
on the London and North- Western itaihvay on Saturday
morning last: The deceased, with others, was engaged in
getting the hay from the sides of the embankment of the
above line, near the Marsh Brook, Hampton-in-Arden, and
was in the act of crossing the rails, when the down express
train was heard, and deceased's attention was called to
it. In order to escape the danger, deceased stepped on
to
to
direction came upon him and struck him down, scattering
his brains in every direction, and mutilating his body in a
frightful manner. The driver of the train, who saw the clan-
' ger when too late to prevent it, instantly shuntedback to
an opposi
the up-line, when another express train from
the spot. An inquest was held upon the. body on Mbonday.
It appeared that no blame was to be attributed to any one,
and a verdict of " accidental death " was recorded.—Man-
chester Examiner,

Credit Fonder.... 660
Belgian 4f ..
Piedmontese (5) .. 87
Roman B2 50
Austrian —
Spanish Threes
IHome Debt 4O

3 per Cents 69 10
Do. end month 69 25
Bank Shares 2850

Credit Mobilier .. 810
Do. Account ..... 835

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans
1350 .. 1350
Northern . 935 . „ 937 50
New ditto B2O .. 825
Lyons and Mediterranean B7O .. 870
Geneva 545 • • 555
Southern
Western
Eastern
657 50 .. 650
Sardinian 430 .. 430
Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 11c. ; money,
25f 'lie.; three months, paper, 24f. 971c.amoney, 24f. 95c.

NAPLES.
A Naples letter of the sth says : " The Prince
of Satriano, although he had sent in his resigna-
tion, still remains in power, as his offer to withdraw
has not. been accepted. Everybody is now fully
aware that the general does not enjoy the confidence
of the Government to the extent he thought he had
a right to expect. Thwarted in his plans, and con-
sequently finding himself utterly unable to do any
good, he had evinced a desire to be relieved of the
heavy responsibility
i
imposed by the exercise of
power.
The King will find in the end that his
only plan is to
grant. the necessary amount of
power. Baron Bremer persists in maintaining a
strict reserve; he has, however, made known that
h' e thinks the retirement of General Filan-
ieri most inexpedient. Count de Salmour,
e
piedmontese Envoy, continues indisposed;
gth
and the relations between Piedmoat and the Nea-
politan Government are anything but intimate.
' By superior orders the theatre of St. Carlo was
opened again yesterday ; the reason for closing it
was solely the fear of a demonstration which was
expected on Baron Brenier's entering the house,
the authorities being apprehensive that the cry of
Viva l'ltalia ! Viva la Francia!' would be raised.
Yesterday Baron Brenier went to reside at Castel-
lamara, and all danger was thereby removed."
Another letter from Naples of the same date
The town of Messina, which remained says :—"
perfectly quiet on the passage of the French fleet,
owing to the prudent conduct of Admiral Bonet-
Williaumez, narrowly escaped becoming the scene
of a serious disturbance o i the arrival of the Sar-
dinian squadron. The inhabitants had received the
French admiral with respect and sympathy,but when
the Sardinian commodore, M. 'Fholosano, appeared
they indulged in far more ardent demonstrations.
Huzzas were uttered by the people for Italian in-
dependence and Victor Emmanuel. This last cry
seemed to express a desire for annexation, a remi-
niscence of 1848, when the crown of Sicily was
offered to Victor Emmanuel's brother. As soon as
the Sardinian sailors came on shore they echoed
the popular cry. In consequence of these manifes-
tations, which the authorities were unwilling to

interfere with during the day, as it was the festival but is soon compelled to lament the extravagance
of Corpus Christi, a considerable number of persons and coarseness which follow. Mr. West, a preacher
were arrested during the night. The next day the whose homeliness of language, and familiar illus-
Sardinian commander addressed a kind of. procla-
trations are very similar in style to Mr. Spurgeon's,
is also cited as a sample of the popular extempo-
mation to the Messiness, engaging them to await raneous school. After considering the styles of
the day of their deliverance. Happily no further preaching most likely to attract the general atten-
disturbance took place, and everything finished bon, the writer comments upon the dangers which
much better than was expected." attend any attempt to introdue a more popular
style. A paper entitled " France," takes a careful
review of the political tendencies and position of
that great nation ; the national characteristics that
have aided or retarded her advancement, and the
nature and prospects of the English alliance.
Mr. Fitzball's " Thirty-five years of a Dramatic
Author's Life" furnish an interesting paper on " The
Drama of the I)ay," which also takes a review of the
drama and dramatists of other days, and the causes
of the present decline and deterioration of the stage.
The following passage gives a list of the principal
causes which the writer considers have affected the
position of the drama :
" The change in our social habits. has borne the blame of
impairing the taste for the stage. But it is only one of the
causes that have contributed to this result. There are
many offsets of the drama that affect the parent stem. Ist.
There is what may be termed the comedy of the drawing-
room, differing from theatrical entertainments only in being
performed in a room, and by one or two actors in place of a
company. Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Paul, Mr. Woodin, and others, though deservedly
attractive, both diminish the available forces of the theatre,
by standing apart from it themselves, and draw thousands
yearly away from it by the popularity of their representa-
tions. 2ndly. Lectures OR every imaginable subject gratify
the taste for the drama without contributing to its welfare.
3dly. The influence of club-life militates no less against
the influence of tragedy and comedy than the old coffee-
houses, where wits and templars used to congregate round
Dryden and Addison, directly advanced them. From those
incommodious rooms it was agreeable to migrate, to the
comparatively spacious playhouse. Whereas gentlemen
once comfortably ensconced in well-padded sofas and arm-
chairs, and well provisioned for the evening with news-
papers, periodicals, and novels, or discussing with congenial
minds the fall of ministers or of stocks, the prospects of the
grouse season or the opera season, are reluctant to imprison
themselves in stalls and boxes, even if well-graced actors
invite them. 4thly, Be it said, with all respect to plays
and their providers, that they flourish best in times when
the spectators have fewer resources in themselves. When
the reading of a country gentleman seldom went beyond
Baker's ' Chronicle,' and the ' News Letter,' and when
linendrapers bold rarely opened a book except the Bible
and the Whole Duty of Man,' the most flimsy of farces
possessed a charm which it is almost impossible to realise
in this much-reading, if not deep-reading generation. othly-
The more general cultivation of music has materiallyaffected
the drama. Mr. Hullah and Exeter-hall, and the hun-
dred and one singing-rooms in London, are powerful diver-
sions from pit, gallery, and boxes. Music for the million'
is one of the drawbacks on his receipts on which every
manager must reckon. And the opera itself has added to
its proper attributes the further attraction of excellent
acting. The descriptions of an pera libretto, by Addison
or Thornton, in the Spectator' and Connoiseur,' are as
inapplicable to Lucrezia. Borgia; or the Huguenots; as
Hone's or Collier's account of a morality or mystery is to
play of Shakspeare or Sheridan. It is on record that Addi-
son's sketch of the lyrical drama of his day, when trans-
lated into Italian, convulsed even a pope with laughter, 50
utterly absurd were the words and sentiments which were
then married to music. But bulls and decretals are scarcely,
more serious matters than Rigoletto' or the Trovatore,
and affect an audience like The Fatal Marriage' or' Venice
Preserved.' The opera has indeed long taken its place
among the indirect opponents of the national theatres. It
is notorious-, that of the hundreds who habitually are seen
in the stalls and boxes of Covent-garden Theatre, very few
encourage the corresponding portions of the Adelphi and _
the Haymarket. It is not considered by the nobility of
this country to be one of their social duties to maintain the
English stage. To the above causes of the partial decline
of the drama in England we forbear to add one that is
usually alleged among the foremost—the religious scruples
which pervade a large class of the community. These we
believe to have always been operative ever since the re-
opening of the theatres at the Restoration, and are tbere-
fore not material to our present purpose."
Any serial making its appearance at this season
would be incomplete without a notice of the Art
Exhibitions of the year. We have accordingly ?A
article on the subject which takes a cnmprehensive
review of the chief exhibitions and exhibitors. The
opening remarks on the refining influence of a
national taste for art are correct and forcible. A
paper on the " Campaign in Italy" is written in a
spirited manner, and appropriately concludes
quarterly which reflects the topics and opinions
of the day.

AMERICA.

[BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.]
QUEENSTOWN, THURSDAY MORNING.
By the arrival of the Kangaroo we have advices
from New York of the 2d inst. She brings 19
cabin and 126 steerage passengers, and 759,935
dollars in specie.
The steamer Borussia arrived at New Yorle on
the morning of the 2d inst.
The Ocean Queen sailed on the same day, with
750,000 dols.
A large portion of the specie by the Kangaroo is
to pay the interest on American securities held
abroad.
The stock-market is dull, and prices of Railway
Stocks are depressed. New York Central shares
depressed 1.
Flour firmly held, which tended to check sales.
Wheat lower; corn firm, but less active. Pork
little doing, and less buoyant. Bacon nominal, at
94e. to 10c.
Private advices from England were more encou-
raging to the cotton trade than the published ac-
counts. The week closes at an advance of tc. to
per pound. Sales yesterday, 3,000. Advices
from New Orleans last evening show sales of 12,000
bales at 111 to 111 for middling.
Freights for Liverpool, 3s. Bd. asked. Some en-
gagements for New York at Bd.
The steamer Argo is a total wreck. It is reliably
stated that her loss was the result of false informa-
tion given by a fisherman.
The Edinburgh is ready for sea, waiting the
arrival of the Glasgow to convoy her home.
The Argo's passengers were safely landed at St.
John's, Newfoundland, with serious loss of luggage.
They will be sent on in the Glasgow.
A train from Chicago, when near South Bend,
Indiana, was precipitated into a chasm 25 feet deep
produced by recent heavy rains. Of 150 passen-
gers, 75 were killed and about 45 wounded ; 46
steerage and 10 eabin passengers landed at Queens-
town.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

The Saxonia steamer, from New York, brought
100,000 dols. for England, and 20,000 dols. for
Hamburg.
She spoke July 6th, lat. 43 25, long. 46 47, the
Hamburg barque Raleigh ; 9th, lat. 48 38, long.
22 20, the British barque Fairy ; 11th, lat. 49
20, long. 17 30, the American ship Rhine ; lat. 49
22, long. 17 0, Norwegian bark Albios, from Mi-
ramichi for Bristol ; 12th, lat. 49 30, long. 11 30,
British ship Ring ; lat. 49 30, long. 10 20, Ameri-
can ship Eliza ; lat. 49 32, long. 9 15, Dutch gal-
hot Aurora ; 13th, 15 miles E.S.E. of Lizard, screw
steamer New York, hence for New York.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF SIERRA

LEONE.

We have to record the death of the Right Bev'
Dr. J. Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone, the third
prelate of that see since its establishment in 1852.
Dr. Bowen was for some years a resident in Canada,
and having come to this country in 1842 entered as
a student of Trinity College, Dublin, where he ill
due course graduated. He was ordained by the pre-
sent Bishop of Durham, who had at that time the
episcopal supervision of the diocese of Ripon. In
1847 he went to Palestine and the East, arid returned
to England in 1851. Afterwards he visited Nine-
veh, where he formed the acquaintance of Mr. Layard
with whom he was associated during many of his
investigations. He visited the East a second time
in 1854, and came back to England again in 1856.
Through Mr. Layard, who is a relative of Lady
Huntly, Dr. Bowen received from the Marquis of
Huntly a nomination to the rectory of Orton •
Longueville, near Peterborough, to which he was
instituted by the Bishop of Ely in 1853.• The
parish having but a small population, he obtained
without difficulty a licence for non-residence, in
order that he might indulge in his Eastern travels*
This living he held up to the time he was appointed
to the bishopric of Sierra Leone, to which he Was
consecrated in the chapel of Lambeth Palace, on
the 23d of September, 1857, by the Archbishop °L
Canterbury, who was assisted by the Bishop 01,
Peterborough and the Bishop of Victoria, who holt
pened at that time to be in England. 3
On the
of December, 1857, Bishop Bowen arrived at Sierra
Leone, and on the 28th of May last he died in con-
sequence of a malignant attack of yellow fever.
Three bishops have thus been sacrificed to the tel
climate of Sierra Leone. The see was consti-
tuted in 1852, and the first bishop appointed was
the Rev. Owen Emeric Vidal, of St. John's College,
Cambridge, incumbent of Trinity Church, Arlieg;
ton, Sussex. He had not pursued his episcopal
duties many months when he sickened and cattle
back to England for the restoration of his health.
Full of hope, he determined to return to his dio-
cese, and on his passage back he died. He was ~succ-
eeded in the episcopate by the Rev. John Wills
Weeks, incumbent of St. Thomas's Church, Lsa,:
beth, who was consecrated in' Lambeth peris'
church in 1855. He died at his post early in
1857, and was succeeded by Bishop Bowen.
Upon the death of Dr. Weeks in 1857 several
gentlemen holding high positions in the Church
earnestly pressed upon the Government the de-
sirableness of appointing to the vacant episco-
pate what the Rev. Canon Stowell had .0!
short time previously designated in one of ins
speeches " a real black bishop," there being mall
coloured African gentlemen in holyorders—ordained
by the Bishops of London after satisfactory exami-
nation—who were accustomed to the climate, and
eminently qualified by their g
Christian character, e the duties of the
the native population to.di
r resentations were un-
episcopal office, but their e
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heeded. It now remains with
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Sierra Colonial
20 deg. north and 20 deg. south latitude, and more
the colonies of Sierra Leone, the Gambia,
LeSonecer,
tehspeeGcioalldlyCoast and their dependencies. The gross
income of the see is £9OO a year, being £5OO a yea;
as the bishop's allowance as colonial chaplain, and
£4OO a year from the Colonial Bishoprics' Fund.