The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-24 00:00:00

fillE SUN, LONDON' MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1859

him outgof office ; be it was, however, who deplored
the% the old landmarks were effaced; that there

were in reality not two parties now; that Conser-

vatives in office turned Liberals,and even passed the

measures of those they had formerly opposed, while
the Whigs really behaved better than might be

expected when they took their turn. We must
confess our agreement with the staunch out
and out Conservative in this ; we are as much dis-

posed to complain as he is, only in the opposite
direction; and we agree in the opinion that had
Lord DERBY retained office, we thorough-going
Liberals should have got more from him than we
now shall from the two Whig Lords. We are
pretty confident that real Liberals can now succeed
only by the utmost indifference to the solicitations
of the two great parties. The " Independents"
hold the scales in their own hands, and it is for
them not to trouble themselves about which party
is in or out, but which will give them most for

their votes.
Mr. Du CANE naturally adapts his course more
to things as they are ; he, too, could not see much
practical difference between the two parties, indeed,
when the present Government had ejected the late
one, he could but recal the verses he had learned in
his childhood---
"' What did they kill each other for '
' Nay, that I do not know,' quoth he,
' But t' was a glorious victory.' "

He was for giving a fair trial to the present minis-
try; he, indeed, believed it to be a Conservative
policy to inaugurate changes in accordance with
the advancing civilisation of the day,—" But how
any Cabinet in which Lord JOHN RUSSELL formed
the link between that ardent democrat Lord PAL-
MERSTON, and that sound constitutionalist Mr.
MILNER, GIBSON, could concur in the provisions of a
Reform Bill, might be a matter for curious
speculation." We await with quite as much
curiosity as Mr. DU CANE the result of
Cabinet councils, on the New Reform
Bill. If we may speculate without being laughed
at, on such a matter of chance, we should say, that
it will give us scarcely any more—if any more—
Reform than Lord DERBY offered; only it will be
dished up in a little different form. It will not
enlarge the constituency more than Mr. DISRAELI
proposed to do, and it will not any more than he,
propose to make the farmers of ,the Hinckford
Club politically independent of their landlords.
But, Lord RAIN'S Reform Bill, whatever it gives,
will not give liberty to farm tenants ; whatever it
takes away, it will not take away the power of the
wealthy to coerce and bribe electors. It may give
us sham extensions, for every extension will be a
sham which does not give the electors it creates full
freedom from all unfair influence.

,n Spain

recovery.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Countess de Persigny have arrived at St. Leonard's-on-
Sea, from Tunbridge Wells.
His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the
Countess Bernstorff and family arrived at the Prussian
Legation, Carlton House-terrace, on Saturday, from Tun-
bridge Wells.
His Excellency the Count d'Apponyi arrived at
the Austrian Legation, at Chandos House, on Saturday,
from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury at
Hatfield House, Herts.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyle and family are
expected at their residence on Campden-hill to-morrow,
from Inverary Castle, N.B.
Lord and Lady Carbery have arrived at Cox's
Hotel, from the Continent.
The Baron and the Baroness de la Ronciere le
Noury have arrived at the Brunswick, Jermyn-street.
The Hon. P. Campbell Scarlett, her Majesty's
Envoy in Tuscany, and family have left the Brunswick
Hotel, Jermyn-street, on a visit to Lord Abinger at Abin-
ger Hall.
The Marchioness of Bath and Lady Louisa
Thynne have left town for Gosport.
The marriage of the Earl of Dalkeith with Lady
Louisa Hamilton is fixed to take place on the 10th proximo.
The Countess of Kenmare has arrived at Far-
ranee's Hotel, Belgravia, from Great Malvern.
Lord Seymour, who, after his lengthened tour in
the East Indies, and on his way home, visited the scenes of
the late war in Italy, has been suffering from a low fever,
but is, we are happy to learn, much better.
Colonel and Mrs. St. Quentin have arrived at
the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.
Mr. Henry B. Baring, M.P., and Mrs. Baring
have left Farrance's Hotel, Belgravia, on a visit to Mr. B.
Simpson at Babworth Hall, near Retford.
Mr. Robert St. Aubin, R.N., is appointed her
Majesty's Consul to the Society Islands, resident at Raiatea.
CARDINAL WisEmAN.—We are enabled to state
that the health of his eminence is improving, but is still
such as to render the most complete rest imperatively neces-
sary. The cardinal' %medical advisers hope that a continu-
ance of complete rest will enable his eminence to undertake
the journey to Rome, as originally intended, without risk
of over fatigue.—Weekly Register.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON BOARD H.M.S. ROGUE.
—On Friday morning, a lad named Guilford, while em-
ployed aloft on board this vessel at the Tail of the Bank,
Greenock, fell from the foretop on-to the deck, a depth of
upwards of 50 feet, and sustained severe injuries on the
head, and both arms broken. He was attended by the
medical officer of the ship, and hopes are entertained of his
recovery.
AMERICAN MAILS.—On Saturday last the British
and North American Royal Mail steamer America sailed
from the Mersey for Halifax and Boston with the United
States and North American mails and 145 passengers. On
Wednesday next the steam ship North American will be
despatched from Liverpool for Quebec and Montreal with
the Canadian mails. The box at the Liverpool Post-office
will be open on that day till 9.15 a.m., and on the landing-
stage till 10 a.m.
THE WEATHER IN LIVERPOOL.—The tempera-
ture at Liverpool, which had been very moderate for some
time past, took a sudden change on Friday, when it became
excessively cold for the season, and it seemed as thougla
winter had commenced. The morning was ushered in by
a frost, which continued throughout the day. Snow and
hail fell in considerable quantities during the night, and at
intervals on Saturday, followed by a thunderstom at night,
accompanied by vivid flashes of lightning.
MAZZINI AND THE GARIBALDI FUND.—Mazzini
has subscribed 200 f. to the Garibaldi fund for purchasing of
a million muskets ; his subscription was accompanied by
the following, letter :—I send 200 f. as my contribution to
General Garibaldi's fund, to which I feel sure that all who
share my political faith will hasten to subscribe. The name
of Garibaldi is a guarantee that these arms will not be em-
ployed merely in the defence of Cattolica and the Mincio.
The sacred unity of our country, violated by every idea
which does not embrace the whole of Italy, from the heights
of the Tyrol to the Sicilian Sea, is an article of faith for him
as well as for us. The arm's, then, are to be used for us. It
is essential that, rapidly fraternising in this subscription,
Italians should display a manly resolution, and separate
themselves finally from that unseemly collection of opti-
mist cowards who look for liberty and nationality from
hypothetical conferences between foreign sovereigns.—
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI.
NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.—It would appear that for
the conveyance of newspapers the steam packet companies
cannot compete with the Post-office, and we are afraid that
the charges of the former are on too high a scale. As an in-
stance, we may mention that we received this week an open
package containing 237 copies of the Melbourne Argus.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's charge fur its
transmission to Melbourne amounted to 305., but had the
same number of papers been forwarded through the Post-
office via Southampton, the cost would only have amounted
to 19s. 9d. Newspapers and periodicals are, according to
the company's tariff, professedly conveyed at a greatly re-
duced rate.—Australian and New Zealand Gazette.
A strange death took place yesterday in the Rue
do Rambuteau. A boy named Julien L—, fourteen years
of age, apprentice to a confectioner, who had always been
of a remarkably cheerful character, had to go into the
cellar for some bottles, and was heard singing gaily in de-
scending. As be did not appear for some time, another ap-
prentice went down after him, and found him hanging by
the neck by his pocket handkerchief to a nail, and quite
dead I As he could have no motive for suicide, it is sup-
posed that he had tied himself by the neck to see what the
sensation of hanging might be, an I that by accident the
stool on which he stood upset, and left him suspended. .
AN EXTRAORDINARY CABLE.—Messrs. Brown,
Lennox, and Co., of Millwall, the manufacturers of anchors
and cables for the Admiralty, has just completed upwards
of 40 fathoms of what is probably the largest cable that ever
was made. It is to be used for mooring the large floating
coalship in Malta hasbour, and is of sufficient strength to
hold it with a line-of-battle steamship lashed on each side
of it in the roughest weather. The employment of this
cable will therefore enable the largest ships of war to come
up to the depot and coal without casting anchor, and steam
away to gi,, e place to others directly they have taken in their
supplies. This facility would be very valuable in time of
war. The cable is formed of 41 inch iron, with links
27 inches long, each link weighing no less than
2 cwt. 3 qrs. On Wednesday last wo attended the
works and saw this enormous cable tested under
the supervision of Mr. Willcocks, the master smith of
her Majes'y's dockyard, Woolwich ; Mr. G. Cotsell, the
master smith of Chatham dockyard, being also present. By
an admirable arrangement of combined steam and hydrau •
lie apparatus, devised by Mr. W. Roberts, the foreman
of the works, the pressure was run up to the maximum
testing strain of 1871 tons in a very few minutes, the cable
sustaining it without affording even the slightest evidence
that it was being subjected to such a high degree of ten-
sion. This, however satisfactory, was not surprising, inas-
much as the cable is supposed to be capableof bearing twice
the test-strain without injury. The small steam engine
which works the hydraulic apparatus is so arranged as to
do all the heavy work of pulling the cables on to and off
the testing platform, and afterwards to run them out to the
wharf for shipment.-41eckanice Magazine.

LATEST NE WS.

The following telegrams have been received at

Mr. Reuter's office :

MADRID, OCT. 23.

The Correspondencia Autografa announces that
the corps Warm° destined for operations in Africa
will be most likely organised about th?, middle of
this week, when General O'Donnell will-take his
departure.

The same correspondence says, we do not yet
know if the Spanish Consul at Tangiers has arrived

MADRID, OCT. 22.

Government has declared to the Cortes, in the
sitting of to-day, that it was going to declare war
with Morocco. This declaration was received with

great enthusiasm.
All political parties, the Senate and the Congress,
have offered their support to the Ministry.

The articles of the newspapers express the same

patriotic feeling.

OCT. 21.

General O'Donnell announced at the sitting of
the Cortes today that the Spanish Government had
ordered its representative at Tangiers to take his
departure. It is expected that Government will
communicate to-morrow to the Cortes that war has
been declared with Morocco.

BRESLAU, OCT. 22.

It is asserted that the Emperor of Russia will
not proceed to the Austrian froxtier, and likewise
that his Majesty will not have an interview with
the Emperor of Austria. His Royal Highness the
Prince Regent of Prussia and the other Royal
Princes proceed early to-morrow morning to Ohlau
to meet the Emperor Alexander.

ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. 20.

The news of an intended interview between the
Czar and the Emperor of Austria is without

bundation.

ROME, OCT. 20.

His Holiness the Pope returned to Rome this
morning. A great crowd was assembled on his
passage through the city.

ZURICH, OCT. 21.

Count Colloredo has not been restored to con-
sciousness. His physicians have lost all hopes of his

VIENNA, OCT. 22.

The Austrian Gazette says :—" Baron von Hub-
ner, Minister of Police, has tendered his resigna-
tion, and the same has been accepted. Baron
Thierry, ministerial councillor in the Department
for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed Minister of
Police in his place. The new Minister has sum
moned the editors of the different newspapers to
his office, anit has notified to them in a friendly
manner that the Ministerial programme of August
last has been modified.
The retirement of General and Aide-de-Camp
Count Grunne is also announced.

MARSEILLES, OCT. 22.
News from Alexandria to the 19th inst. has been

received.

After the• Viceroy had communicated to the con-
suls the resolution respecting the Suez Canal, they
resolved upon notifying to their countrymen who
are employed on the works at Suez to leave the
place before the Ist of NoVember, the Porte hence-
forth assuming the responsibility of the undertak-
ing towards Europe.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SATURDAY,

The Emperor will receive to-morrow M. de Les-
seps and the board of management of the Suez
Canal.

It is said that the editor of one of the semi-
official papers has received orders to prepare a lead-
ing article, in which the object of the Emperor of
the French in demanding a European Congress
will be fully explained. That object is to have the
article in the Treaty of 1815 rescinded which ex-
cludes the Bonaparte family from all power in

France. The production has been two or three
times revised and corrected, and is expected to up-

pear before long.
Gen. Dabormida has left Paris far from satisfied,
it is said, with the French Government. Previous
to his departure he had an "animated" discussion
with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who is re-
ported to have observed that, to carry out his pre-
tensions, he should first have 300,000 men to make
war on Austria.

People in Paris who are always looking out for an
event which might cause a disagreement between the
Governments of England and France have to-day
pictured a serious dispute which is to take place in
the Straits of Gibraltar. Because Spain is unable to
obtain satisfaction from the Moors, and because
there are two squadrons near at hand (English and
French), it is concluded that some difficulties must
arise which are to end in nothing short of war
between England and France ! Now the fact is that
England and France have both used their good offices
to prevent hostilities, and take the same views re-
garding the dispute. According to official tele-
graphic despatches the Spanish Government has
informed the Foreign Ministers at the Court of
Madrid that Spain is about to commence hostilities
with Morocco, final negotiations having failed.
Morocco, or Merakach, the ancient capital of the
empire, having been ruined by disastrous wars and
depopulated by the plague, is now only the shadow
of what it formerly was. Leon l'Africain says that
" it is a city larger than Paris, where the King has
his palace, which is more sumptuous and more mag-
nificent than any other in the world." At the com-
mencement of the 17th century Morocco had a po-
pulation of 600,000, it now scarcely reaches 30,000.
The city was founded in'lo73. Its walls, which
attest its former splendour, embrace a circumference
of six miles, and are pierced by 11 double gates
flanked by towers. Gardens and ruins fill up the
greater part of the ground within the walls. The
modern city is similar with regard to its architec-
ture to the other cities of the empire. Its streets
are narrow and irregular. The houses are composed
of a court with galleries round it, which lead to
long narrow rooms, the windows of which rarely
look into the street. Many of the houses are built
of stone, but the great majority are constructed of
a kind of mortar composed of sand, lime, and
earth, which is beaten hard together between
planks placed on each side of the wall as it is being
built. There are several large open squares or
market-places in Morocco, but like the streets
they are neither paved nor sanded. There are
several mosques, the principal ones being that of El
Koutoubia, El Mouzin, that of the Bentons, and
that of Sidi Belabess, the patron of the city. The
palace of the Sultan is outside the walls of the city.
It consists of a group of vast buildings surrounded
by pleasure and kitchen gardens. There is also a
mosque, and large courts where the Sultan gives his
public audiences. Like Hue, the capital of Cochin
China, all the buildings form a complete labyrinth
of walls. The Jews are not well treated in the
empire. At Morocco they occupy a special quarter,
which is surrounded by a wall, the gate of which
is closed at night and during the whole cf Satur-
emreeinseantdhetaitlroardsesin
eAflosrhoececnto.akTeih.se, INclaoropresnotenil.sy,
Satur-
day and guarded by a kaid. The Jews are the only
tin
men
blacksmiths, and weavers of haiks and
gondouras."

BOURSE, Oct. 22.—The market has been steady,
but_with little business doing. It is reported that

Ceunt Colloredo is dead, and that the signature of
the two last treaties will of necessity be postponed
for a fortnight. Threes opened at 691. 40e., and
rallied to 69f'. 55c. ; Mobilicr varied from 7731.
75c. to 7801.; Austrian, 515 f. to 517 f. 50c. ; Lom-
bard, 551 f. 25c. to 553 f. 75c. ; Lyons, 906 f. 25c. to
'310f.; Orleans, 1,3621. 50c. to 1,367 f.. There
were rather more offers towards the close, as a tele-
gram from Madrid announced that the declaration
of war with Morocco was to be notified to the
Cortes this day. The following were the last

quotations :-
11 per Cents. .... 95 I
Credit Poneier --'—
Do. end month .. Belgitm 4f —
3 per Cent 5....... 69 501Piedmonteso (6) . , 55
Do. end month ... . 69 50 Roman b I
Bank Shares 2825 Austrian -
Credit Mobilier .. 780 Spanish Tkneea - - -
Do. Account ..... 778 75 Home Debt 42.