The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-27 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT E 27, 1861.

favouring either side. We, of course, could aid
the Liberals only, who have, indeed, just now
the upper hand. But no one can tell what a day
will bring forth. The enormous wealth of the
clergy enables them to hire all the desperadoes
of the country to fight for a Church which can
pay them well, and promise them plenty of masses
for their souls if they are killed ; and MIRAMON
and the priests may soon be at the head again. It
is a pity that so glorious a country should be sur-
rendered to such anarchy, but nothing else seems
possible at present.

ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP OF ELY.—The Right
Rev. Dr. Turton, Bishop of Ely, has been suffering of late
from extreme debility. During his recent confirmations he
had to be supported on both sides while going through the
ceremony of laying on of hands on the candidates. Dr.
Turton is one of the oldest of our bishops. He graduated
at Cambridge in 1805, when he was senior wrangler, being
then about 22 years of age. He was successively Regius
Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, Dean of Peterborough,
and Dean of Westminster, and was raised to the Bishopric
of Ely in 1845.
SUDDEN DEATH OF SIR THOMAS BLAIKIE.—On
Wednesday morning Sir Thomas Blaikie, who was for se•
veral years Lord Provost of Aberdeen, dropped down while
on the way to his office, and died instantly. He had gone
into the shop of a friend in Union-street, and talking with
him at the moment when his head was observed to stoop,
and he immediately fell down andnever spoke. Sir Thomas
had been in indifferent health recently, suffering, it was
understood, from disease of the heart. His brother, Mr.
James Blaikie, who was also provost of Aberdeen, died in
an equally sudden manner in 1835 or 1836. The family
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elected, and also held the same office from 1853 to 1856.
His business capabilitieswere excellent, and as chairman of
a public board few could combine dispatch of work with
accurate management of details in an equal degree. In
February, 1856, the Queen, conferred the honour of
knighthood on him, in recognition, it was understood, of
his long and efficient public services. Sir Thomas Blaikie
was about 60 years of age.
THE EDUCATION MINUTE.—We are requested to
state that the Education Minute of the 29th July last will
not be put into operation till after the 31st of March, 1862.
A HARD TASK.—A pedestrian named Elson com-
menced on Monday last, at 6 a.m., the task of walking 60
miles a day for six successive days. He starts from the
Anchor Hotel every morning, and walks to a short distance
beyond the Fox Inn, at Three Bridges, and returns again
to Horsham, taking on each journey a walk through the
principal thoroughfares in the town, so as to make up 20
miles. He makes this journey three times every day, thus
making 60 miles a day.— West Sussex Gazette.
SWIMMING.—On Wednesday last, the 25th inst.,
a swimming match took place at the Lambeth Baths for a
silver medal, given by the Leander Club. Competitors—
Messrs. Haines, Loaht, Grove, and M'llabe ; when, after
an exciting race, it was won by Grove, by two yards ;
Loaht, 2d ; 3d ; Haines, 4th.
THE LATE SUMMER.—Autumn having now fairly
set in, we can form some idea of what theyear has produced
and what it has not. It gave us the severest winter and the
earliest spring on record. These were followed by the largest
quantity of bloom on the fruit trees ever remembered, but
the frosts left us with one of the shortest crops of fruit ever
known. Cherries, apples, pears, plums, and wall fruit were
alike the sport and prey of the elements, so that even common
fruits have become a luxury. The summer has produced a
fair, crop of wheat and beans, and a good crop of barley and
oats. while peas are better than at one time expected. It also
produced a good crop of potatoes, the finest for several years
past, which have been gathered in the best possible condi-
tion, a circumstance which will add greatly to our stock of
food for the ensuing winter. The summer also produced
plenty of hopbine, which gave promise of a good crop,
but it has not been realized. It is an old saying, " a good
hop year, a good nut year." If that be so we fear the con-
verse is equally true, for there is scarcely a nut to be found,
either in the hedge-rows and woods or in the nut-cultivated
grounds. As regards walnuts, it has not produced any.
Such has been the lengthened dry weather that it has not
produced any mushrooms. It has not produced many flies,
and few wasps, and frogs in the fields were never known
to be so scarce. The past year has produced a fine summer,
but it has not produced its usual concomitants. Taking it
as a whole, however, we have much cause for thankfulness.
The year has been a very healthy one, a fair crop of many
of the necessaries of life have been secured in the best pos-
sible condition, and the 'prices of food for the ensuing year
will be reasonably moderate.
CLEVER CAPTURE OF A THIEF.—On Wednesday
afternoon last, at the Town-hall, Doncaster, before Sir Isaac
Morley, chairman, and other magistrates, Samuel Water-
house, keeper of the Red Lion beerhouse, Timble -lane,
Leeds, was brought up to answer the cluirge of being con-
cerned in an extensive robbery at Mr. White's boot and
shoe establishment in Doncaster last week. The shop kept
by Mr. White was broken into and 161 pairs of beets carried
away. When the robbery was reported to Mr. Superinten-
s tho nndh neliee force. he took nromnt
sons concerned, and mr. buperintendent follard, of the
West Riding constabulary at Leeds, was, with.other super-
intendents, acquainted with the robbery, and he succeeded
in apprehending Waterhouse under the following circum-
stances :—He went to the house of a woman named Steele,
and there found two pairs of boots. He inquired from her
where she had obtained them, and from the information
given to him he suspected the prisoner. Soon after he met
the prisoner near the Golden Cross in Leeds driving a pony
and cart, and stopping him he asked him what ho had got
in the cart. Waterhouse said he had not anything ; but
Mr. Pollard, regarding this answer as an evasive one, got
on the cart and drove it and Waterhouse to the lock-up,
and on reaching there he found 136 k pairs o f boots in the
cart, in some of which were papers bearing the lame and
address of Mr. White, the person who had been robbed.
The property was brought to Doncaster on Wednesday?
when Mr. White identified every pair as belonging to him.
The prisoner was committed for trial at the next borough
sessions, bail being refused. From a letter found on him
it is expected that other parties who were accomplices in
this extensive robbery will shortly be brought to justice.
HOWDEN CELEBRATED HORSE FAlR.—This great
horse fair, famous for its production of the finest class of
young and useful cattle, was formally opened as a public
horse mart on Wednesday, and was resumed yesterday, and
will continue eluting this week. The show of horses was
extensive, and comprised animals of high fashion and value,
and fully sustained the high character which this county
(Yorkshire) has so long acquired and maintained for the
breeding of most of our best description of horses; there were
also many teams of exceedingly well-bred Irish horses
on sale. There was present a large class of persons inte-
rested in horses, many of whom previously availed them-
selves of a private view of the horses stalled for sale, and
made valuable selections from the stud. Horses of good
fashion and usefulness readily obtained buyers, and hunters
of high class and pedigree commanded sale; but seasoned
horses of various descriptions were, as is usual, in the
autuumn of the year, lower in value. 'The average selling
prices were as follow :—Horses of good breed and pedigree,
adapted for or accustomed to follow the hounds, made
figures ranging from 95 to 120 and 200 guineas, and, ditto,
of high character up to heavy weight and good limber-
jumpers, realised from 250 guineas and upwards; horses
above 16 hands high, suitable for private carriages and
double harness, 75 to 90 guineas, and well-grown upstanding
matched pairs of bays and grays, 180 to 250 guineas; colts
of this description unbroken to pair harness 50 to 60 guineas ;
compact-built, neat going cattle, quick steppers, suited for
light broughams, phaetons, &c., 50 to 65 guineas; small,
thick-set active horses for public conveyances and machine
work, were in active demand, and horse contractors for; the
army and military purposes brought this description of
horse into high competition. Well-grown handsome horses,
of high fashion, for chargers, park-riding, &c., made 140
to 200 guineas; light-bred horses, for riding and single
harness, 35 to 50 guineas ; strong-built cobs, 28 to 40
guineas; powerful young horses, adapted for van-work,
town purposes, &c,, made 35 to 45 guineas ; and cart-
horses, young, and well-timbered, and quick walkers, for
London purposes, 50 to 65 guineas; seasoned ditto, for
agricultural work, 18 to 26 guineas. Irish horses, short-
jointed and well-bred, for riding and draught purposes, 40
to:70 guineas and upwards ; brood mares of good blood, 35
to 70 guineas, according to pedigree; ponies, 12 to 20
guineas. The London division of horse-dealers and job-
misters bought largely of promising young cattle, and pro-
vincial professionals and gentlemen of the hunting-field
speculated freely in best description of Yorkshire-bred
horses, and prices generally were remunerative to breeders.
RISE IN THE RATE OF DISCOUNT OF THE BANK
OF FRANCE.—Towards four o'clock yesterday afternoon it
was announced that the Bank of France had raised its rate

of discount from sto 5f per cent. Although the he9v;
purehas9s of grain in this country and elsewhere on French

account have long b3en matter of notoriety, and could not

possibly be settled without large exports of speci s, this

announcement was not expected, the more particularly as
the rate of discount in the open market at Paris was some-
what below that of the Bank of ,France. The action taken

must therefore be held to indicate that the pressure upon
the reserves of specie in than establishment has become

heavier. The event has attracted a great deal of attention
here, because it seems t,) mark a limit to the fall in th©

value of mlney iu thii market, and even to open a prospect
of some reaction. It must be borne in mind, however,
that the object of the Bank of France upon the present
occasion is chiefly to check the flow of specie to this coun-
try, the movement hitherto having been all in our favour.
A considerable amount of French gold has been accumu-
lated in the Bank of. England during the last few months.
The movement at Paris will have a tendency to render the
exchanges less favourable for England, but whether it will
carry gold back to the tontirient is not yet clear,—Daily
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The Vienna Gazette publishes the rescript of the
Emperor, accepting the resignation of Baron Kemeny,
Chancellor of Transylvania.
The Echo A gricole says :—" For reasons which
we cannot explain, the Government has ceased, for some
months past, to publish the importations and exportations
of wheat and flour ; and yet this is the very moment at
which commerce has the greatestneed of such information."
THE EXPORT OF WHEAT TO FRANCE.—It is re-
ported that the speculative purchases made on the eastern
side of the country, which have resulted in such large ex-
ports of wheat for France, have sustained a check for the
present, and it is even stated that some of the cargoes which
have arrived in French ports have not found a ready mar-
ket. Prices have now reached a point which will render
further purchases more hazardous, hence prudence has
suggested a pause for the present, although there can be no
doubt that large deliveries will have to be made on French
account before the next harvest is gathered in. The sud-
den demand which has sprung up has had one beneficial
effect. Usually prices are depressed in September, in con-
sequence of the small farmers forcing sales, but this year
all the supplies brought forward have been eagerly taken
up at enhanced rates.
THE MOTHERWELL MYSTERY CLEARED UP.—
Mr. Dundas Simpson writes from Monkland Cottage, Air-
drie, on the 24th instant, to the editor of the North British
Mail, in the following terms :—" Sir,—l consider it a duty
incumbent on me at the earliest moment, to acquaint you,
and through you, the public, that I have received information
from an authentic and reliable source of my son William,
whose disappearance recently created so much excitement,
being still alive: For his own foolish and heartless conduct
he is alone responsible, and I beg to express the hope
that the publication of this note may now set the matter at
rest, and render any additional comments in your columns
unnecessary ; and that what has been already so publicly
expressed in regard to him and his affairs may now be con-
signed to oblivion."
Brewers and beer drinkers will be interested to
learn, on the authority of the Bavarian Hop Gazette, that
the crop of that valuable vegetable is this year somewhat
wonderful in Germany. The editor writes in perfect
ecstasy. " Hops I" he exclaims, "hops here, there, and
everywhere I There are not hands enough to be found for
the picking, and wages are rising fast. The harvest is
superior to anything that could have been imagined. Hops
of interior quality were sold at 82 florins the cwt. In
Nuremberg, Altdorfer have been sold at 70 florins, and
Holledauer at 90 florins; at Schwetzingen, from one day
to the next, there was a fall from 100 down to 70 florins ;
at Herbruck, on the 4th instant, the price was 80 to 85
florins, and a few days after sales were made at 70 to 75
florins, but in small quantities, buyers holding back in the
apparently well-grounded hope of a further fall. The re-
duction upon last year's prices is something enormous.
FIRE PROOF DOORS. The frequent occurrence of
fires in the metropolis has not failed to call forth some new
inventions, if not for their entire prevention for their limita-
tion to the premises in which they occur. Mr. W. S. Hogg,
of 19, Rotherhithe-wall, has taken out a patent for a new
fire door, and yesterday it was tested in the presence of Capt,
Shaw, the chief superintendent of the Fire Brigade in Lon-
don, and a very large body of wharfingers. The door is con-
structed partly of iron and partly of fire bricks. The first
that has been made was fitted into a recess at the works of
Messrs. Glover, Spa-road, Bermondsey. An immense fire
was built up on one side of it, which burnt for about five
hours without heating the door, though a blast was applied,
and although the cast iron blocks by the side of the door
melted. Capt. Shaw having suggested that water be thrown
on the door, it was at once done, but did not alter the state of
affairs, and the door after all the tests was as perfect as when
it was first fixed. It has the advantage of being lighter than
the iron fire-proof doors at present in use, and if anything
could buckle it, the heat to which it was exposed yesterday
must have done it. The patentee, however, has determined
to improve his present invention by exposing no iron in the
doors, and those made upon improved principles will be
subjected by him to more severe tests (if possible) hereafter.
The whole of the parties present on this oza:asion expressed
themselves highly satisfied with the results of the experi-
ments, and should this door be generally used, there is fair
ground for believing that fires will not spread with such
rapidity as they have done lately.
A strange crime was committed a few nights
back in the neighbourhood of Frankfort. A person named
Wilvonseder, steward of the Prince of Senftenberg, arrived
in a gig, accompanied by two other persons,. at the octroi
office of the village of Rehberg, and found the gate closed.
It was corns time before the octroi man, whose name is
Hautschek, presented himself, and Willvonseder reproached
him for his delay. "Ah I" cried the man, "you are tired
of waiting, are you ? Well, then, you shall wait longer ?"
and he closed the gate which he had opened, and retired to
the office. Willvonseder called to him several times, but
he returned no answer. and at length the former, getting
out of his gig, went to the office and summoned him to
open the gate. "You insist on its being opened, do you?
Take that I" said the octroi man, and he plunged a large
knife into Willvonseder's breast. The latter staggered a
few steps and fell dead. The murderer was immediately
after arrested.
A DESOLATE CITY OF THE SOUTH.—We have had
concurrent accounts from various quarters going to show
the desolation which this mad Southern rebellion has
brought upon her greatest mart of commerce—the city of
New Orleans. Trade and commerce are at a standstill ;no
inward or outward bound vessels pass the mouth of the
Mississinni. unless it be a snealzing_nrivateer or an insizni-
and sugar hogsheads are not, as in former times, piled upon
the broad levee, but are kept on the plantations, lest they
should fall into the hands of the national forces ; the streets
are so deserted that the Picayune perpetrates the dismal
joke of recommending them to the attention of some indus-
trious sithetnen ; the payment of rents is regarded as an
antiquated absurdity, and the citizens generally are quaking
in terror over the idea of a visitation from the national fleet.
New Orleans once enjoyed the reputation of being a loyal
city, and it is even still believed that the adoption of the
Ordinance of Secession by Louisiana was attained through
fraud at the ballot-boxes, and against the will of her citi-
zens. That may be or may not be so. If New Orleans had
proved equal to the high commercial position which she
held as the second p n't of the United States, no frauds or
violence perpetrated by traitors could have made her lend
herself to their objects, or adopt their thieving principles.
By doing so she brought upon herself her present desolation,
and richly deserves to suffer as she has done and is doing.
Nevertheless, we shall rejoice when the army and navy of
the United States shall have banished terror and dismay
from the minds of her citizens, when her levee shall once
more be the deposit of the products of the Mississippi valley,
and when the white-winged messengers of commerce shall
revisit her wharfs under the protection and flag of the
United States. We trust we shall not have long to wait
for that day. —New York, Herald;
THE TRIBES OF GALWAY.—If their Connaught
or Munster neighbours regarded them with no loving eyes,
it must, on the other hand, be allowed that the Tribes were
particularly careful in keeping to themselves, and scarcely
ever permitted the natives to enter their strongly-walled
property. Many amusing anecdotes are still extant, show-
ing the determined opinions that they held on this point,
one of which is related in Hardiman's " History of Gal-
way," to the effect tLat it was ordered, in 1518, " that none
of the inhabitants should admit any of the Burkos,
Kellys, or any other of their sept into their
houses, and that neither 0' nor Mac shoulde strutta
ne swagger through the streetes of Gallway." It is a
fact that the following singular inscription was formerly to
be seen over the west gate :
"From the ferocious O'Flaherties,
Good Lord, deliver us?,

And in one of their bye-laws, of the date of 1518, we find it
enacted that, "If any man should bring any Irishman to
brage or booth upon the towne, to forfeit 12d." From this
exclusive system it naturally followed that the Galwegians
formed a tolerably happy and contented community, neither
marrying nor giving in marriage save with their own
people, and keeping up a constant succession of their own
name, to inherit their riches and honours from father to
son.—Once a Week.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A WIFE.—At the Glas-
gow Circuit Court on 'Wednesday, before the Lord Justice-
Clerk, Lachlan M'Lean, a spirit-dealer, Greenock, was
tried for attempting to murder his.wile in June last. It
appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had been in-
dulging. in drink for some days, and that while in a state of
excitement he had fired a pistol at his wife, inflicting seri-
ous injuries on her face and head. 111‘Lean pleaded guilty
to assault aS common law, without intent, but his plea was
not accepted, and a number of witnesses were examined.
The prisoner's wife, in the course of her evidence, said :
‘. My husband was usually a sober-living man. I am
aware he received an injury in his head in America, by a
boiler-plate falling upon it, and I knew a change in his
temper when he got drink. This occurred some years ago.
He was always kind when in sobriety, and I do not wish
him to be punished more than he has got, as lam well now.
I thought his mind was affected at the time he was drink-
ing, as I know he would not hurt a hair of my head. Now,

my lord, and gentlemen of the jury, I" beg for mercy;
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hope you will be :as lenetive' as you can to him." Dr.
Auld and Dr. Wallace were of opinion that the woman was

in a dangerous state, and recommended her to bo removed

t i..the infirmary. About a month afterward i she was

out of danger, but her face would be considerably de-

formed from the effects of the wound. The prisoner's

deehration was then read. He stated that he had pur-
chased the pistol for the purpose of shooting rabbits while
in the Highlands, during Greenock fair ; that he had
fired it at his wife's head for the purpose of frighten-
ing her, and thereby cause her to desist from abusing him,
but with no intention of injuring her person. Mr. Shand
addressed the jury for the prosecution, and, while adhering
to the charge under the statute, he restricted the pains of
law; so that, in the event' of their returning a verdict of
guilty, his lordship would be able to impose any punish-
ment he might deem fitting, instead of sentence of death,
which was provided for by the statute. Mr. Muir then
addressed the jury for the panel, after which the Lord Jus-
tice-Clerk summed up: The jury, without retiring, re-
turned
a verdict finding the prisoner guilty as libelled. The I
Lord Justice-Clerk then sentenced the prisoner to fifteen
years' renal servitt4le.-05fekoan,

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PARIS, SErT. 27.

The 1: oniteur of to-day says :

"The French military officers who were present
at the manoeuvres of the Prussian army have re-
turned to Paris, penetrated with gratitude for the
kind reception which was given them by the King
and the Royal family, and delighted with the frank
spirit of cordiality which they met with among
the Prussian officers. The officers report most
favourably of the fine bearing, discipline, and in-
struction of the Prussian army, qualities which
are so justly attributed to it."

FRANCE.
PARIS, SEPT. 26.

By Imperial decree of the 25th the ad interim
administration of the department of Marine and
Colonies by M. Thouvenel has ceased, and Count de
Chasseloup-Laubat has resumed his functions.
BOURSE, Sept. 26. —The market has been rather
dull, with scarcely any variation in quotations.
Threes are now at 69f 30c. The announcement that
the Bank of France had raised the discount rate to
54 per cent. had a depressing effect towards the
close.

The following are the last quotations :-
41 per per Cents 96 45 Credit F oncier .... 1232 50
Do end month 96 55 Belgian 41. lOl 25
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 151 Roman
Bank Shares 2925 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 775 —I Spanish Threes —
Do. Account 777 50 ; Home Debt