The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-06 00:00:00

THE ARMY•

The following general order has been issued from
the Horse Guards :

" The Queen has been graciously pleased to com-
mand that the undermentioned Assistant-Surgeons
of her Majesty's Indian army be promoted to the
brevet rank of Surgeon, from the 7th of Sept., 1858,
in consideration of their services during the siege
ofLucknow :—Assist.-Surgs. Joshua Frayrer,M.D.,
Samuel Bowen Partridge, Henry Martineau Green-
how, Robert Bird.
" By command of his Royal Highness the Gene-
ral Commanding in Chief.

"W. F. FORSTER, Deputy-Adjt.-General."

The Under-Secretary of State for War, Sir Ben-
jamin Hawes, K.C.8., has, by the direction of the
Right Hon. S. Herbert, issued a circular to the
Adjutants of militia regiments directing " that all
volunteers who may be re-enrolled for a further ser-
vice shall receive a new number, retaining the ori-
ginal underneath the new number."
A circular has been issued from the War Depart-
ment in reference to the Royal Ai tillery, of which
the following is a copy :
"A paymaster having been appointed to each
brigade of the Royal Artillery in consequence of
the reorganization of that corps from the Ist of
July last, all such reports and other documents as
have hitherto passed between district and other
paymasters and the divisional paymasters and bat-
talion officers at Woolwich should in future be for-

'PRICE 4P. STAMPED. 51-).

warded to the head-quarters of the brigades on
home service, and to the depot brigade at Woolwich
in regard to those on foreign service. The present
head-quarter stations of brigades are as follow
Horse brigade, Woolwich ; Ist brigade, ditto ; 2d
brigade, Dover ; 3d brigade, Devouport ; 4th bri-
gade, Woolwich ; Oth brigade, Gibraltar ; 6th bri-
gede, Malta ; ith brigade:, Canada ; Bth brigade,
Portsmouth ; 9th brigade, Dublin ; 10th brigade,
Guernsey ; 11 t h brigade, Bengal ; 12th brigade, the
Mauritius ; • 13th brigade, Bombay ; 14th, Bengal.
Such communications only as relate to periods prior
to the Ist of July should continue to be addressed
to the late divisional paymasters."

The annexed circular memorandum addressed to
officers commanding regiments aid depots on home
stations has been issued :

" Horse-Guards, S.W., Aug. 31.
" In consequence of the numerous claims from
private practitioners for medical attendance upon
soldiers labouring under chronic diseases who are
employed on recruiting service and other duties
away from their regiments, the General Command-
ing-in-Chief desires that every soldier shall be sub-
jected to a careful medical examination on the day
before or the day on which he leaves his regiment
or depot for detached duty of any kind. His Royal
Highness likewise desires that before granting sick
furloughs commanding officers will obtain from
medical officers a distinct opinion as to whether the
casas are likely to be benefited by the removal of
the patients to another locality ; and further, that
they will take steps for ascertaining that the men's
friends are in a situation to afford them such aid as

the nature of their ailments may require. Much
needless suffering must result if soldiers labouring
under chronic diseases are allowed• to visit friends
who are unable to provide them with the necessary
accommodation and comforts.

" By command,
"W. F. FORSTER, Deputy-Adjt.-General."
Major-Gen. Sir it. Dacres, commanding the gar-
rison of Woolwich, yesterday went through the

half-yearly inspection of the Royal Artiilery on
Woolwich-common. The appearance of the men

under arms was extremely satisfactory. A gunner
of the corps, convicted of desertion and making
away with his kit, underwent corporal punishment
yesterday at daybreak, by sentence of regimental
court-martial held on Saturday.

The 2d battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards and
6th Regiment will march from the Curragh Camp

on the 13th inst. to Blessington, where they will

encamp for the night, and on the following day con-
tinue their journey to Dublin, there to be stationed.
On their arrival at Dublin the Guards will occupy

the Royal Barracks until the end of September,
when they will embark for London, and be relieved

by the 3d battalion of Grenadier Guards from the

atter place. The 76th Regiment will take up quar-

tern in Richmond barracks.
On the 13th inst. the 2d battalion of the 20th
Foot and 30th Regiment will march from Dublin
to the Chrragh Camp via Blessington, whore they
will encamp for the night. Blessington will then
form the rendezvous for the moving army, consist-
ing of the 2d battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards,
and 20th, 30th, and 76th Foot ; and on the morn-
ing of the 14th inst. the regiments will take the
different directions to their destinations.

Yesterday orders were received at Chatham gar-
rison for the following reinforcements to embark

at Gravesend this day on board the hired troopship
Barham, 1,200 tons, Capt. A. Consitt, for Madras,

viz. :—Major Thomas Nisbet, Captain Joseph E.

Edlmann:and 62 non-commissioned officers and

men of the Ist (the King's) Dragoon Guards, from
Canterbury ; 60 non-commissioned officers and men

of the Royal Artillery, from Woolwich; and one
staff-sergeant of the 3d battalion 60th Royal Rifles,

'rom Winchester. The Alfred, 1,400 tons, Capt.

W. H. Pope, will embark the following officers and
troops at Gravesend to-morrow for Calcutta :—En-
sign W. Trocke, 2 non-commissioned officers, and
20 men of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment, from
Chatham; Capt. E. 11. B. Barnes, Ensign F. 0.
Sargeant, Ensign If. Bullen, and 199 men of all
ranks of the 37th, from Colchester. The following
troops will embark on Thursday in the chartered
ship Tiptree, 1,650 tons, Capt. J. Pinel, for Bom-
bay : —Cornet E. Brett and 13 men of the 3d (Prince
of Wales's) Dragoon Guards ; Lieut. G. C. Ross and
19 men of the Bth Hussars; Lieut. A. J. Billing,
Cornet J. I. Fraser, and 70 non-commissioned offi-
cers and men of the 17th Lancers, from Canterbury;
95 non-commissioned officers and men of the 6th
Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), from Maidstone; 1
officer of the Ist battalion --18th Royal Irish, from
Buttevant ; 3 officers and 120 men of all ranks of
the 31st, from Pembroke; Ensign T. 1). Sullivan,
Ensign A. It. Heyland, Ensign J. L. Watt, 2.drum-
mers, and 65 men of the 65th, from Colchester.
The whole of the ships chartered by the Hon. Coun-
cil for India will be inspected at Gravesend by
Major-Gen. Eyre, the commandant at Chatham,
before the troops are allowed to embark.
To-day (Tuesday) a detachment of troops several
hundred strong will leave the camp at Colchester
for service in India. The draught, which will leave
in a special train at 9 15 a.m., comprises S rank and
file of the Ist battalion Ist Royals ; 89 of the Ist
battalion sth Fusiliers; 248 of the Ist battalion
6th Regiment ; 7 of the 34th ; 200 of the 37th ;
424 of the 77th ; 46 of the 88th (Connaught Ran-
gers) ; and 2 of the 97th. The officers iu charge are
Col. Gray, Lieut. Mason, and Lieut. Miles, sth Fu-
siliers ; Capt. Parkinson, Lieut. Whyte, and Lieut.
Simpson, Ist. battalion 6th Foot ; Capt. Barnes,
Ensign Bullen, and Ensign Sargeant, 37th Foot ;
and Ensigns Heyland and Watt, 56th Foot.
A general order has been issued from the Horse

Guards, and addressed to all officers in charge of
recruiting parties, directing that any soldier who,
after the date of his 12 years' service shall have ex-
pired, does not re-enlist within 12 moihs will, in-
stead of receiving the usual bounty, reef ive only 30s.
Any soldier may re-enlist two years atter he has
been discharged.
Yesterday morning 70 non-commissioned officers
and men of various cavalay and infantry regiments
who arrived at St. Mary's Invalid depot, Chatham,
on Thursday, from India, were marched to Fort Pitt
Hospital to be medically inspected, in order to ascer-
tain the number fit for further service. The result
of the inspection showed that with but few excep-
tions nearly all the men will have to be discharged.
Some changes have taken place in the staff of Col-
chester camp, chiefly in the medical department. Mr.
Thomas Lonkmore, from the East Indies, has been
appointed as head of the hospital and medical de-
partment in the place of Dr. Taylor, who has been
removed to Montreal. Dr. Bain, staff surgeon of
the 10th depot battalion, having received an appoint-
ment in the West Indies, has been succeeded as
staff-surgeon to the battalion by Dr. Daniel Mac-
queen. Deputy-Assistant Commissariat-General C.
Napier, from Bermuda, has succeeded Mr. I. M.
Lindsay as head of the Commissariat, Mr. Lindsay
having received an appointment at Sierra Leone.
Recruiting for the Woolwich division of Royal
Marines has been excessively dull for some time
past. Yesterday a batch of 10 promising young
men, raised by Lieut. Joe Drury Bottomley, of the
3d West York Light Infantry Militia Regiment,
were forwarded from Doncaster by Capt. Ellis to
head quarters, Woolwich. The number of recruits
raised by Lieut. Bottomley entitling him to a com-
mission in the cores of Royal Marines is nearly
complete.
A detachment of the 33d Regiment of Royal
Wiltshire Militia arrived at 'Woolwich yesterday for
garrison duty from Aldershot, and are quartered at
the Royal Marine Barracks. The detachment
consists of Capt. Charles Kyd Skeete, Paymaster
of the depot, in command ; Capt. Nathaniel W.
Sloper, Adjutant of depot ; Capts. Bartholomew
Mahon , and David Archer ; Lieuts. Thomas
E. Pinkett, Dakyne, and Nelson ; Ensigns and
Renson ; and 221 non-commissioned officers and
men.
The names of Lieut. H. L. Brownrigg and of
Lieut. Williams, of the 84th Regiment, were acci-
dentally omitted in our Friday's impression. from
the list of arrivals per the Tudor, from Calcutta.
The Royal Carnarvon Rifles, under the command

of Lieut.-Col. J. M'Donald eonun,
for 21 days' training at Carnarva
The actual effective strength of
cording to its muster-roil, is about
7 the permanent staff, and out
"I° men were present on the day .
of .alU.SlTn't on the first day a considerable num-
ber have since arrived. More than half the num-
ber comprising the regiment have been enroEed
since the last training in 1858.
A most wonderful long-range cannon, invented
by Mr. Jeffries, patentee of the well-known marine
glue, is in course of being mounted in the
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, for experiments
at Shoeburyness. Its range or flight of
shot is spoken of as certain to eclipse every
other weapon hit he. to known. The gun, with its
present bore—namely, a three-inch diameter
weighs seven tons, and presents an appearance
(with the exception of the preset* calibre) similar
to one of our 68-pounders. The charge will con-
sist of 161 b. of powder, and a conically-shaped shot,
weighted with lead to 91b., and hollowed, similarly
to the Mink, bullet, which it is presumed will be
propelled 15 or 20 miles. Mr. Jeffries, it is stated,
has asserted his conviction that it would carry from
Dover to Calais. It is the intention of the authori-
ties to carry out a varied and complicated course of
experiments under the inspection of the Select
Committee of Woolwich Arsenal. After being
satisfied of its power in its present form, the bore
will be progressively increased to a 68-pounder. To
enable the gunners to point the gun, the trunnions
will be fitted with a couple of telescopes, to assist
the eye over the enormous range predicted.

LIBERAL. DEMONSTRATION AT
CIiELMSFORD.

Yesterday, a grand demonstration of the Refor-
mers of South Essex, and the friends and suppor-
ters of Mr. R. B. Baker, the former Liberal mem-
ber for that division of the county, took pace at
Chelmsford, which town, thrcug'sfout the day, pre-
sented an unusual appearanctt,: of animation -and
gp,icty in consequence o€::*, numerous banners
exhibited, and the triumphal; 'arelleaereeted over
some of the leading thorougVares. The chair was
occupied by Mr. IL. Tindal Atkinson, and imme-
diately behind the hon. and learned gentleman
were displayed the famous lines :
" Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd from bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft is over won."

The vice-chair was occupied by Mr. James Par-
ker, and the appearance of Mr. Baker, accompa-
nied by Mr. J. A. Hardcastle, M.P. for Bury, and
Mr. T. S. Western, M.P. for Maldon, was greeted
with repeated rounds of applause.
To the toast, " The House of Commons,"
Mr. J. A. HARDCASTLE, M.P. .for Bury, in re-
sponding, observed that a large proportion of those
present were non-electors, and he thanked them
heartily for the manner in which they had received
the toast, inasmuch as it afforded a proof that they
felt some amount of confidence in the House of
Commons, although not enabled to participate in
electoral rights. A Reform Bill had of late years
been often promised, but never obtained, and if he
attempted to describe what that bill would be when
it was submitted next session he should probably
prove a false prophet. He would, however, state
that in order to satisfy the people it must contain
provisions for a considerable extension of the
suffrage, and the admission of a large amount of
unrepresented intelligence to constitutional pri-
vileges. The enfranchisement of the working
classes was a very common popular phrase, but he
scarcely liked it, as it appeared to be an asser-
tion that those who at present possessed the
franchise did not belong to the working classes.
He contended, however, that those who laboured
mentally equally ranked with those who
laboured physically, so far as regarded
their right to be considered as a compo-
nent portion of the working classes. He
trusted that the promised Reform Bill, when it did
appear, would prove a comprehensive measure, and
if otherwise it should not receive his support.
Mr. BAKER said the country expected a real mea-
sure of Reform from the present Government, and
no Reform Bill would satisfy the people unless the
suffrage was largely extended, and purity of elec•
tion promoted. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. WESTERN, M.P. for Maldon, said it had been
a favourite assertion with anti-reformers, that the
people were apathetic, and did not care for Reform.
Such meetings as the present were a practical
denial to this opinion. It was impossible to put off
the question of Reform much longer. The country
had now the advantage of possessing a Ministry
which contained in its ranks earnest and true Re-
formers, such as Lord J. Russell and Mr. M. Gib-
son—(cheers)—and therefore they had a right to
expect an instalment of Reform, not of a niggardly
nature, but commensurate with the advanced edu-
cation and intelligence of the age, and which would
not exclude from the suffrage large masses of the
people now unenfranchised.
The remaining toasts were " The Ballot," " The
Non-Electors' Committee," " The Press," " The
Chairman," and " Vice-Chairman ;" and the com-
pany separated at nine o'clock.

GENESEE FALLS CROSSED ON A
TVE7' CORD.

The great feat of crossing the Genesee river and
falls upon a rope was successfully accomplished
yesterday afternoon in the presence of the largest
array of spectators that we have ever seen congre-
gated for a single object in this city: Delave made
his bow to the audience, took up his pole and walked
boldly but cautiously forward: He had not gone
far before it was apparent that he laboured under
disadvantages. The rope was imperfectly stayed,
not drawn as tight as it should have been ; and his
balancing pole was so limber that it frequently
caught in the guys ; and what is more, the rope was
wet. But Delavemoved on, balancing himselfagainst
the swaying of the rope with so much skill as to
satisfy all that he had confidence in himself. As he
approached the sheet of falling water over which the
rope passes at the west end it was thought by many
that he would falter, but he did not, and passed
safely to the roof of the sawmill. His arrival on
the west side was greeted with cheers that rent the
air and echoed along the chasm of the river below.
After remaining about fur minutes upon the west
side, Delave again took up his pole for his return.
He walked steadily forward to the centre of the
river, and there seated himself, throwing his
pole across the guys. He then laid himself upon
the rope lengthwise, first backward then forward.
After proceeding a little further he stopped, and
resting first upon one foot and then upon another
bowed very low to the audience in Falls-field. He
next walked rapidly to the place of starting, mak-
ing long strides as he ascended to the east bank of
the river. His landing was the signal for immense
cheering, and the successful adventurer was seized
by his friends and borne away in triumph. The
audience then speedily withdrew, all satisfied that
Delave had successfully performed all that he had
promised to do, and he performed it under great
disadvantages. The rope was wet and not pro-
perly stayed. Those who have seen Blondin walk
at Niagara all agree that this feat of Delave was
more perilous. Blondin's rope is firm, and does
not yield beneath his feet ; neithere is there a side
motion. The guys are so arranged that his weight
tends to make them tighter. But the reverse was
the case yesterday with Delave. Some of his guys
were slackened by the depression, and the rope had
i
a great deal of side way, far more than t would
have had if the stays had been perfectly adjusted.
On the whole it was a great triumph for Delave.
Blondin was present, and we are told that he said
a few minutes before Delave went upon the rope
that it was not in a safe or suitable condition for a
man to walk on. Delave will walk again next
Tuesday. .Rochester Union, August 11.

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THEATRE-ROYAL, HAY M ARKET
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
VIE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
With THE CONTESTED ELECTION.
Followed by HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR.
And HALLOWE'EN.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS.
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.

this means they learn the degrees of distinctness with which
the details of a man's features and form can be distinguished
at different distances. Judging distance, therefore, does not
require the use of a rifle, for it is not necessary to bnock
over a man with a ball to show that you know the distance
he is off. There are, moreover, many instruments gradu-
ated to the average height of a man which are used for the
purpose, and which in actual warfare the captain and
officers of a company would do well to carry.
Nothing could be clearer or better defined than
this. Then as to the dress—that of the Knicker-
bocker is preferred as possessing all the advantages
of the kilt as regards freedom of limb, without any
of its disadvantages. " Moreover," he says, "the
Knickerbocker legging and laced ankle-boot have
this additional recommendation, that they re-
semble in a great measure the dress of our own
peasantry. They might, indeed, be almost said to
constitute an existing national costume—for the
English peasantry generally wear breeches, leg-
gin gs, and laced ankle-boots ; and the Irish peasantry
wear breeches. The main difference between the two
is this: the Englishman buttons his breeches and the
Irishman habitually wears them unbuttoned."
Then, as to the colour of the dress, it should be
grey, light or Austrian grey, the material Tweed.
The worst colour for riflemen is the invisible green,
which actually appears' perfectly black. He gays
that red is the most fatal colour, while the least
fatal is Austrian grey. The proportions are—red,
12 ; rifle green, 7 ; brown, 6 ; Austrian bluish grey,
5. This is curious and instructive, if true. Now
we suppose it must be true, for the Austrians are
on the point of changing their military uniform of
white to grey ! There is a capital woodcut of a
rifleman prefixed to this speech, which looks all
that a practical soldier at ease should be.
Major-General HAY has endorsed Lord ELaro's
proposals in the appendix to this speech, and is
Well worthy of perusal.

Matter-of-fact and prosaic to the last degree
though the Right Hon. JAMES WasoN undoubt-
edly is, he nevertheless afforded, upon the first of
this present month of September, the liveliest illus-
tration of one of the most amusing among the
earlier sketches of Mr. THACKERAY. This was upon
the occasion of The Cutlers' Feast down at Sheffield,
a full report of the elocutionary proceedings at the
close of which banquet appeared .in our impression
of Saturday evening. It will probably have been
remarked by many of our readers how, in the exor-
dium of the otherwise singularly rational and argu-
mentative oration delivered upon that festive night

by the right hon. gentleman, lately M.P. for Devon-
port, previously M.P. for Westbury, and now, as
we may style him pretty correctly, her Britannic
MAJESTY'S Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer,
indulged himself and his hearers, in a piquant
manner, with a variation of the customary after-
dinner hyperbole. If that was not precisely the
happiest evening of Mr. WILSON'S life—it was all
but that acme of human felicity. Observe the very
opening words of the harangue—when the right.
hon. gentleman rose in the midst of "loud cheering"
to articulate his grateful acknowledgments. " I
am sure," quoth he, " every gentleman will well
understand what must be my feelings, almost a
stranger in your town, after you have received me
in so kind and indulgent a manner, to have to ac-
knowledge it." A little incoherent, by the way,
but no matter—the right hon. gentleman thus con-
tinues to articulate his thanks in emotional lan-
" I rise," he says, "as well as 1 am able"
—giving one a lively notion, in that one brief sen-
tence, of the relief and refreshment it would pro-
bably have been to his delicate and agitated nervous
system to have taken at that moment a timely swift
at a bottle of salts, or a vinaigrette. However, in the
absence of any such opportune reviver, Mr. WIL-
SON has to gird up his loins and brace himself to
the encounter of the rhetorical difficulty as best he
might under the circumstances. And it is in these
words he continues—and it is here that we find the
apt and vivid illustration (already alluded to) of
that humorous sketch from the pen of Mr.
THACKERAY :—" I assure you," he says impres-
sively, " I assure you the observations of the gen-
tleman who proposed it (viz., his health), and the
manner in which you have received it e., the
toast), have made on me the deepest impression, I
say without exaggeration, THAT I EVER EXPE-
RIENCED IN MY LlFE—(loud cheers—and no
wonder)—the deepest impression not only from the
kindness of your reception, et cetera, et cetera, et
cetera." Pretty tall talking, that ! or, as the
Yankees would otherwise express it—Piling it up
rather mountainously ! Blatherum-skate ! accord-
ing to some Irishmen—or precisely what that
facetious Patlander startled Mr. Secretary PEEL
with at the Lord-Lieutenant's table, when de-
scribing the rhetorical arts of the oiliest of Advo-
cates—" First of all he butthers them up, and then
he slithers them down!" To indicate the same
thing more epigramatically—what the French call
"blague !" and we, in our more homely vernacular,
" bosh !" But the Sheffield people liked it.
The Master Cutler sat in the chair—and
the cutlers generally, or the pick of them,
sat round their own hospitable board, after the best
possible use of all cutlery in the shape of knives
and forks, drinking in the seductive flatteries of
their honoured guest, and—" listening delighted."
It was only a sample of human nature—and
" Natur'," as we all know, is " a rum un'," accord-
ing to the celebrated Mr. SQUEERS, the Yorkshire
schoolmaster.

guage.

So true is it to human nature, indeed, that we
have read the whole thing years ago, or, at any
rate, have enjoyed the opportunity of so doing, if
we cared for it, almost word for word in SPEC'S
report of " A Dinnei in the City "—to be found in
Vol. 11. of Mr. TIIACKERAY'S republished " Mis•
cellanies." There we read. at page 334, as follows
—in the course of the after dinner speechification :
—" Then the ,secretary of the Tape and Sealing-
wax Office [Mr. WILSON to a T], rose to return
thanks for the blessings which we begged upon
the Ministry [read for " Ministry" " Himself," and
the cases are precisely analogous]. He was," he
said, "a humble—the humblest member of that
body.. The suffrages which that body had received
from the nation were gratifying ; but the most
gratifying testimonial of all was the approval
of the Bellows Menders' Company. (Immense
applause.) Yes, among the most enlightened
of the mighty corporations of the City, the most
enlightened was the Bellows-Menders. Yes; he
might say, in consonance with their motto, and in
defiance of illiberality, Affiavet veritas et dissipati
vent. (Enormous applause.) Yes, the thanks and
pride that were boiling with emotion in his bosom,
trembled to find utterance at his lip. Yes, the
proudest moment of his life, the crown of his am-
bition, the meed of his early hopes, and struggles,
and aspirations, was at that moment won in the
approbation of the Bellows-Menders. Yes, his
children should know that he too had attended at
those great, those nobles those joyous, those ancient
festivals, and that he too, the humble individual
who, from his heart, pledged the assembled com-
pany in a bumper—that he too was a Bellows-
Mender." That—perhaps with a little more florid
eloquence—is really and truly the English of it all,
the right-down, plain English of all the hyperboli-
cal flummery addressed to the Cutlers of Sheffield
by Mr. JAMES WILSON upon the first of September.
It is Mr. THACKERAY'S anticipative ironical cora-

mentary upon such assurances addressed to a Com-
pany of Cutlers by a right hon. gentleman, as—" I
assure you that so-and-so, and so-and-so, your com-
pliments, your approval, your approbation have
made on me the deepest impression, I say, without
exaggeration, TIIAT I EVER EXPERIENCED IN MY
LIFE !" and so forth. There is but one lexicographer
who can afford authority for any such language,
and (we need scarcely add) he is obviously—
WALKER.

Most of our readers will have read with surprise
and regret the new style of public amusement that
has been introduced in America. We allnde to the
extraordinary and foolhardy achievement of cross-
ing Niagara upon a cord. Not content with this
daring feat M. BLONDIN, the adventurer in question
thought proper to risk another life as well as his
own, and on the 17th of August he crossed the falls
on a tight rope, carrying his agent, Mr. CONCORD,
a man weighing 136 lbs. on his back! The excite-
ment created by the announcement of this perform-

ante is described as something surprising. Ex
cursion trains were run upon all the roads leading
to the falls and every train was crowded. Two
steamers each took down about twelve hundred
persons, and a very large number went down in
their own carriages, making in all, we are told,
" probably the largest crowd ever assembled at
Niagara Falls." The ordinary feats of M. BLONDIN
are, one would think, sufficiently perilous without
his undertaking to carry a man over. Here is the
description of his crossing alone :—" After proceeding
about 100 feet he stopped, swung one foot and then the
other, and then, walking along 15 or 20 feet, stopped
and stood upon his head, resting on the balancing
pole which lay across the rope, the ends supported
upon the guy rope. He then ran along the rope,
stood upon his head, sat down, turned somersaults
backwards and forwards, and proceeded to the
middle of the river where there are no guys. He
here lay down on the rope on his back at full
length, stood on his head, laid his balancing pole
across the rope and stood upon it with one foot, and
balanced it with the other foot, his hands lying by
his side. He then passed along the rope to where
the guys on the Canada side were fastened, and
laid down his balancing pole. He now returned
with his body suspended beneath the rope, running
along with his hands and feet, as an ape, to the
middle of the rope, between the guys. He here
went through all the feats attempted by tight-rope
performers, such as hanging by one foot, then the
other, by one hand, then dropping his body down
full length below the rope and whirling round,
resting his breast upon the rope, and with arms
and legs extended, as if in the act of swimming.
He hung by both arms, and then passed his body
between his arms and the rope, and in fact per-'
formed all the feats ever accomplished by the most
agile tight-rope performers. He then returned to
where his balancing-pole was, took it up, and
crossed to the Canada bank, stopping several times
to turn somersaults, stand upon his head, upon
one foot, and to lie down upon the rope."
M. Blondin occupied something over half an
hour in crossing, most of the time being spent
in his performance on the rope." As might be
expected, the excitement occasioned by this feat
induced another adventurer, whose heels are more
gifted than his head, to make a similar attempt.
The Rochester Union tells US that a man named
Delave crossed the Genesee river and falls upon a
rope with safety and success, all the more marvel-
lous that the rope was wet and not properly
tightened. On this occasion, too, the crowd was
immense, being " the largest array of spectators
ever seen congregated for a single object in this
city." It is with great regret that we witness the
encouragement and continuance of such foolhardi-
ness. Our transatlantic cousins are thought
to be somewhat too careless of human
life as it is, and such exhibitions as
these are certainly not calculated to increase
their respect for it. Were there any possible
object to be attained by the display, were there
any public good, or even scientific advantage, to
be derived from it, recklessness would rise into
heroism, and we should regard with admiration
as a noble courage what we can now only look
upon as a contemptuous disregard of the respon-
sibilities of a human being. These American ad-
venturers should be warned by the fate of the
poor acrobat at Waterloo-bridge, who lost his life
under such melancholy circumstances. Human
life is surely something more than a mere
toy, that the fact of a man running
an imminent risk is to be considered as a
fitting public exhibition. We believe such
aimless achievements have gone out of fashion
on this side of the Atlantic, and we trust to the
good sense and humanity of our people to discou-
sage their revival. Our " go-a-head" cousins do
not display their civilisation to advantage in en-
couraging these reckless proceedings, stimulating
the acrobats to continue their foolhardy exploits,
and tempting excitement on the verge of eternity.

Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Leiningen have left Howchin's Hotel on a tour through
Switzerland.

His Excellency Baron Bentinek has left town ox
a tour of visits in Yorkshire.

Viscount and Viscount Palmerston left town yes-
terday for Broadlands, Hants.
Sir G. C. Lewis left town yesterday for Harpton
Court, Kinston, Herefordshire.
DEATH OF THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP CARR.—
The Right Rev. Bishop Carr, rector of Bath, and formerly
Bishop of Bombay, died yesterday morning at a quarter to
eight o'clock at his residence in Lansdowne-crescent, Bath.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews are about to re-
turn to the United States, intending, it is said, a theatrical
tour there. They will go by the Great Eastern.
OPENING OF THE ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY IN
TILE WOKING NECROPOLIS.—Yesterday forenoon a large
number of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, Manchester Unity, left London by the South Western
Railway, for the purpose of being present at the inaugura-
tion of the Odd Fellows' Cemetery, a portion of the Necro-
polis at Woking. The members walked in procession from
the station to the ground, and assembled in the chapel,.
where the chaplain, the Rev. R. Le Make, made a dis-
course, founding his remarks on the 133 d Psalm. They
then went to the ground, where an address was delivered
by Dr. Pettigrew, who stated that there were in Middlesex
no less than 54,710 members of the society, and in Surrey
nearly 2,000.
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PARIS, Sept. 4.—The Emperor does not relax in
his warlike preparations. A foundry for cannon is about
to be established at Bourges, and the town is to be strongly
fortified. The number of iron-bound ships of the line
which are ordered to be laid down is raised from 10 to 20 ;
and since the Admiralty workshops do not suffice for the
Completion of the engines, &c., the Creusot Company has
received orders to keep their forges at the disposal of the
Government. This order has been given in consequence of
the successful issue of the experiments which you were re-
cently informed were about to be made at the Hyeres isles,
on some iron-sheathed gunbiats.

IMMIGRATION.—The number of emigrants who
returned to the United Kingdom in 1858 was 23,704, of
whom there came from America 18,841, and from Australia
and New Zealand, 4,863. The return of emigrants from
America is attributable to the commercial distress which
during last year prevailed in the United States and British
North 'America, and paralysed the usual means of employ-
ment. The smaller number who returne I from Australia
consists, probably of persons who, having acquired pro-
perty, have come back to enjoy it in the mother country.
M'MAIION AT MAGENTA.—TIic Nation, which we
suppose is an authority upon everything relating to Mar-
shal M'Mahon, says that the following passage is extracted
from a letter scut by the marshal to Gen. Changarnier, and
concludes that it proves the nnwenient by which the fortune
of the day was retrieved by the French army to have been
undertaken by the successful general on his own responsi-
bility, and contrary to the orders he had received :—" I
had orders to operate in a given sense. But' having heard
the sound'of cannon, and learned the danger which threa-
tened the army, I tore up my orders, and did the reverse
of what I was commanded. I succeeded, inasmuch as I
have been made a duke and marshal of France. But is it
your oninion that I failed in my duty as a soldier and in
discipline ? I feel the necessity of having the decision of
such a man as you."
The bar silver by the Mexican steamer has been
disposed of at 61d., it being a decline of id. from the price
realised by the preceding packet. The dollars are still
unsold.