The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-12 00:00:00

111 E NAVY.

Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham
Dockyard &meting, the large screw frigate Ariadne,
32, 800 horse-power (nominal), now being fitted at
that establishment, to be completed for the first
division of the steam reserve squadron in the Med-
way. The screw corvette Charybdis, 21, 400 horse-
power (nominal), also fitting at Chatham. is like-
wise to be fitted for the steam reserve at that port,
where she is to be stationed. Bot these vessels are
to have their fitments completed so as to be ready
to hoist the pennant immediately the Admiralty
require them to be. placed in commission for ser-
vice at sea. The Ariadne is expected to leave the
fitting basin in the course of a few weeks.
Brevet-Col. T.Lemon, C. 8., Royal Marines, who
was severely wounded at the late attack on the
Peibo Forts, has joined the head-quarters of the
Plymouth division, and has been granted two
months' leave of absence for the re-establishment of
his health. _ _

The screw steam corvette Clio, 21, Capt. Miller,
from Poi tsmouth, bound to the Pacific, arrived at
Plymouth, on Monday with supernumeraries for
several ships at that port.
The Turkish screw steamship Shadia, 90, Capt.
Mustapha Bey, at Plymouth, got up steam on
Monday morning, and proceeded on a trial cruise.
The Defence Commissioners have recently
plied to the proper authorities at the dockyard,
Devonport, and at the Royal William Victualling-
yard, Plymouth, for the purpose of ascertaining the
strength of the battalions attached to those esta-
blishments when they were disembodied, a few
years ago.
The Virago, 6, paddle, Commander M. B. Dunn,
sailed from Spithead yesterday at 4 p.m. for Gib-
raltar, with one of the two steam-dredging vessels
in tow which have been constructed for service in
Malta harbour. The harbour gear of these vessels
has all been unshipped and stowed on their decks,
where it has been well secured for the voyage out.
Each vessel has also been fitted with two short
masts—ketch rigged—to steady them in a sea-way.
The second vessel is nearly ready for proceeding to
the same destination.
The Sphinx; 6, paddle, Commander Day, V.C.,
steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday, to
make final trial of her machinery. Everything
worked in a satisfactory manner.
In the steam basin at Portsmouth the Simoom
troopship has commenced coaling, and is otherwise
fast progressing iu her outfit.
The Flamer and Grasshopper gunboats havebeen
undocked and masted (rigging fitted). The
Mohawk, 6, Commander P. C McDougal ; Odin,
16, paddle, Capt. Lord John Hay, C. 8., and Beagle,
6, Commander Hay, are also fitting out. The
utmost exertions are being used in bringing forward
the whole of the vessels abovenamed for service in
China. The Odin goes out of harbour on trial of
her machinery to-day. The Beagle and the Royal
Sovereign, 131, screw (the latter from the Ist class
steam reserve), go out on trial to-morrow, and the
Ringdove, 6, Commander Craigie, will go out of
harbour on her commission trial on Friday.
A large number of hands have been added to Sir
W. Armstrong's establishment at Woolwich,in order
to hasten the manufacture of the rifled ordnance
ordered to be prepared for service. Among the
number engaged were about 85 experienced arti-
sans and mechanics, such as smiths, hammer-men,
braziers, &c. The Royal laboratory and carriage
departments have likewise increased their numbers
in consequence of the outstanding orders and con-
stant demands for the supply of military stores.
The returns of the total number of persons em-
ployed in the Arsenal rendered last month amounted
to 8,655, being slightly under the number given of
the preceding month, namely, 8,776, the whole of
whom were then entitled to medical attendance.
Printed notices have now been posted at the entrance
of the various departments, by order of the Secre-
tary of State for War, signifying that no foreman,
artificer, nor labourer will be granted medical as-
sistance until he shall have completed three years'
service, unless the sickness arises from injury re-
ceived in the execution of his duty.
The following officers attached to the military
store department, with which the field train de-
partment has recently been consolidated, are
ordered to hold themselves in readiness to embark
for service in the field train department in China :
—Mr. 11. Blakeney and Mr. 11. 11. R. Hewitt,
from Woolwich; Mr. Crawford, from the Tower;
and Messrs. D. Gibbons, W. Gordon, and J. Lloyd,
from Pimlico. A large amount of ammunition is
in course of preparation for China, and will be de-
spated in a few days to Southampton by the steam
storeship Balaklava, at present under slight repairs.
The military steam storeship Lord Panmure, H.
T. Moore master, sailed yesterday from Woolwich,
laden with 550 tons of war materials. The mili-
tary storeship Alma is embarking a cargo of guns
and bald goods.
The War Department have engaged the follow-
ing ships for the transport of stores from Woolwich
—namely, the Mercutio, the Prospero, the Tevipt,
the Talbot, and the Cadiz.

two.

TUESDAY.
T
Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, for two-yr-olds and-4Nettra;
the winner to be sold for 70 soya if denianded, &c. Rut-
land Stakes Course, 5 fur. 182 yards. -
Mr. R. Boyce's Creeping Kate, 2 yrs, Get 101b(Castanec) 1
Mr. Barnard's Nutfield, 3 yrs, Bst 81b (Covey) 2
Mr. T. Brown's Nereus, yrs, 9st ( kldcroft) 3
The following also ran :—Sichieus, Brown Middleton,
Little Nat, Castanette, Caliph, and Volatore.
Betting-4 to 1 each agst Little Nat, Caliph, and Cas-
tanette, 5 to 1 agst Nereus, 6 to 1 agst Sichams.
The impatience of the jockeys to get off delayed the start,
but at the fifth attempt the flag was dropped, and the lot
got away in pretty clime order. Nutfield, Little Nat and
Caliph quitted the post abreast, and Creeping Kate joined
them about two distances from home, and quitted them at
her ease, and won by three lengths; a length between the
second and third ; same distance between the third and
fourth.
The winner was claimed.
Sweepstakes of 20 soya each for two-yr-olds, colts, Sat 71b,
fillies and geldings Bst 41b. The winner to be suld fo
100 sous. Y.C. 2 far. 52 yards.
Mr. Jackson's Br to Remedy, Bst 71b (J. Osborne) 1
Mr. Saville's Herman, Bst 71b
Mr. Lowther's Brine, Bst Sib
Betting-L-5 to 4 agst Br to Remedy, 6to 4 agst Brine,
5 to 2 agst Herman.
Won by a length ; three lengths between the second and
third.
The Clearwell Slakes of 30 sous each, 20 ft, for two-yr-
olds ; colts, Est 71b ; fillies, Bst 51b ; winners extra.
T.Y.C. 5 fur. 140 yards. 30 subs.

Mr. F. Robinson's Aurora, Bst 51b (A. Day) 1
Mr. Greville's Contadina, Bst Slb (in. 31b cx.) (Fordham) '2
Mr. Merry's Thormanby, Bst 101 b (in. 31b ex.)(J. Osbcrae) 3
The following also ran—King of Diamonds, Rescued
colt, Trovaktore, Golden Dream, Tirailleur, Von Stroom, and
Elcot's dem filly.

Betting— I 1 to 6 on Thormanby, 5 to 1 agst King of Dia-
monds, 10 to 1 agst Aurora.
Trovatore on the whip hand made play with Thormanby
by his side, Contadina and Tirailleur in the middle of the
course next, Aurora lying up. They ran nearly in this order
to the New Ground, where Thormanby took up the running,
closely attended by Aurora. Half way in the cords Thor-
manby was beaten, and Aurora went on with the lead ; a fine
race between her and Contadina ended in the defeat of the
latter by a neck, Thormanby being beaten three quarters of
a length from the second ; King of Diamonds was a bad
fourth, Golden Dream fifth, and Trovatore sixth.
The Royal Stakes of 200 sous each, 120 ft, for three -yr-
olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b ; certain winners ex-
tra; the second to save his stake. A.F. 1 mile, 2 fur.
73 yards. 6 subs, two of whtnn pay 2.5 sous ft.
Duke of Bedford's Luff, Bst 71b (S. Rogers) 1
Mr. W. Craufurd's Van Diemen, Bst 71b
Won in a canter by two lengths.
The Cesarewitch Stakes, a Free Handicap of 25 sous each,
15 ft, with 200 added ; certain penalties ; the second to
receive 50 Boys out of the Stakes. Cesarewitch Course.
2 miles 2 fur. 2S yards. 93 subs.
40 Sir W. Booth's Artless, by Archy, 3 yrs, sst 21b
(carried sst 31b) (Drew )t1
18 Mr. T. Parr's Gaspard, 3 yrs, Est 91b (Challoner)t2
22 Mr. G. Lambert's Clydesdale, 4 yrs, Est 7lb (Custance) 3
30 Mr. S. Williams's Mazzini, 3 yrs, Est 21b .. (Sadler) 4
1 Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Starke, 4 yrs, Bst Illb (Plumb) 0
2 Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Prioress, 6 yrs, Bst 51b
(J. Goater) 0
3 Mr. Merry's Special Licence, 5 yrs, Bst 41b (J. Osborne) 0
4 Mr. Harlan's Des Chiles, 4 yrs, Bst
5 Sir J. Hawley's Lord Nelson, 5 yrs, Bst (Wells) 0
6 Sir C . Monck's Vanity, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b (Aldcroft) 0
7 Mr. Saxon's Defender, 3 yrs (in. 61b ex.), 7st 131 b
(L. Snowden) 0
8 Mr. J. Rig,by's Borderer, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b (Fordham) 0
9 Mr. Copeland's The Argosy, 4 yrs, 7st 91b (J. Mann) 0
10 Mr. J. Thoinpson's Tunstall Maid, 4 yrs, 7t:4 9.11?

7
(Bullock) 0
14 Lord Clifdtn's Star of the East, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (Bray) 0
L 2 Baron Rothschild's Scribbler, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (Cresswell) 0
13 Col Tevis's Yorkshire Grey, aged, 7st 41b (Charlton) 0
L 4 Mr. J. Rigby's Royal Sovereign, 4 yrs, 7st 21b
(llP)berd) 0
L 5 Mr. C. Snewing's Pole Star, aged, 7st 11b.. (Covey) 0
Lord Ailesbury's Compromise, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b
_

• , (Pritchard) 0
•
17 Mr. C. Devon's Independence, 3 yrs, Est Illb (Swift) 0
23 Mr. Craven's Marine, 3 yrs, Est 61b (Perry) 0
26 Mr. Morris's Accurate, 4 yrs, Est 41b (Lanibourn) 0
27 Mr. Blanton's Broadlands, 4 yrs, Est. 41b (Johnson) 0
29 Mr. T. Parr's Pan, 3 yrs, Est 21b .... (A. Edwards) 0
32 Mr. W Day's Petra, 3 yrs, Est 21b (J. Adams) 0
33 Mr. Mellish's Margery Daw, 3 yrs, 6sl .. (Spooner) 0
34 Count Batthyany'a Courier, 4 yrs, 6st (H. Bradley) 0
35 Mr. R. Sutton's Ambush, yrs, sst 131 b (car. 6st 21b)
(Britton) 0
36 Mr. •G. Bryan's Odd Fellow, 3 yrs, sst 61b.. (Daley) 0
37 Mr. Hargreavo's Heiress, 3 yrs, sst 51b .. (Madden) 0
38 Mr. H. E. Johnstone's Whitewall, 4 yrs, sst 51b

(Long) 0
39 Lord Londesborough's Eller, 3 yrs, sst 4113 (car.
sst 61b)
41 Mr. H. S. Hunt's Moorcock, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b (car.
sst 31b)
42 Mr. J. Wareham's Australian Maid. 3 yrs, 4st 121 b
(car. 4st 131 b)
BETTING AT STARTING.
6to 1 agst Borderer
7 to 1 agst Special Licensfa
10 to 1 agst Clydesdale
12 to 1 agst Moorcock
12 to 1 agst Polestar
14 to 1 agst Yorkshire Grey
100 to 7 agst Gaspard
100 to 6 agst Tunstall Maid
20 to 1 agst Marine
20 to 1 agst Prioress
20 to 1 agst Artless
20 to 1 agst Vanity
20 to 1 apt Petra
25 to 1 agst'Oddfellow
33 to .1 agst Heiress
40 to 1 agst Lord Nelson
40 to 1 agst Independence
40 to 1 agst Accurate
40 to 1 agst The Argosy
40 to 1 agst Star of the East
40 to 1 agst Whitewall
THE RACE.

By three o'clock (the time appointed) a white flag was
elevated on the ditch, as a signal to the spectators that the
horses had assembled at the post. On the starter's calling
them together, Accurate and Whitewall broke away, and
indulged in a short canter ; they, however, soon returned
and fell into their places. The 35 horses were now in com-
pact order, and at the word of command from Mr. Hibburd
they bounded away in a body. There was no false start,
and they quitted the post just 12 minutes after three o'clock.
They had not proceeded far before they were separated into
two lots. In the front rank were Ambush (making run-
ning), Star of the East, Petra, Pole Star, Artless, Starke,
Scribbler, Compromise, Broadlands, Mazzini, Gaspard, In-
dependence, Marine, and Yorkshire Grey. In the extreme
rear were Vanity, Royal Sovereign, Lord Nelson, and Bor-
derer. The changes, as they streamed through Choke
Jade" were unimportant, but on breasting the hill at the
ditch, Clydesdale and Tunstall Maid showed in good posi-
tions near the leaders, Ambush being still in front, attended
by a crowd of horses, the most prominent amongst which
were Gaspard, Pole Star, Artless, Star of the East, Clydes-
dale, Scribbler, Mazzini, Broadlands, Yorkshire Grey,
Starke, Prioress, and Compromise. As they crossed the
flat Compromise was beaten, and the sound of his jockey's
whip caused Scribbler to decline further share in the con -
test The other "rogue," Star of the East, also dropped
into the roar as soon as work commenced in earnest. The
pace up to this period had been very good. On nearing the
bushes hill the number of the front lot was still further re-
duced, and on reaching the top of the hill Ambush retired,
and Artless obtained the lead with Broadlands on her left,
Gaspard and Clydesdale close together, with Mazzini next
on. the whip-hand side. In their wake were Pole Star, Prioress,
Independence, and Ambush. Tho remainder of the field-
was now widely scattered. Down the hill and into the
cords went Artless, with Gaspard in close pursuit, Mazzini
dropping away beaten before reaching the cords, and
Broadlands bolting when he neared the people. At this
point the race was reduced to a match. Artless seemed
winning easily, but she tired as she rose the hill to finish,
and Gaspard gained upon her at every stride, just reached
her on the post, and the judge, unable to separate them,
pronounced a dead heat; the third was beaten threelengths
and Mazzini was the same distance from Clydesdale,
Prioress was a bad fifth, Ambush sixth, and Independence
seventh ; Des Chiles and Star of the East were the last

DECIDING HEAT.

Betting-5 to 4on Artless, who led throughout, and \von
by three lengths.

Selling Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, for two-yr-
olds and upwards. The winner to be sold for 100 soca if
demanded, &c. Last half Ab. M. 3 furlongs 217 yards,

16 subs..
Mr. Quartermaine's Amsterdam, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Fordham) 1
Mr. Blanton's Circassia, 2 yrs, Est 41b (Custance) 2
Mr. Hitchen's Swertha, 2 yrs, 6st 101 b .. (Grimshaw) 3
The fallowing also ran :—Maypole, Boundaway, Broad-
brim, Hop M,srchant, Dove, Harry, Conceit, Knayton,
Herman, VouAU.k4 and Brevet.
Betting-5 to 1 test Brevet, 6to 1 each agst Swertha,
Maypole, and Harry, 8 to 1 each agst Amsterdam and
Knayton. . . _ __ _ _

Won by a neck; a head between the second and third;
half a length botweon the third and fourth.
Match, 3QO, h ft. T .M.M. 1 mile 7 fur. 28 yards.

Lord Glasgow's filly, by Teddington, out of Maid of
Masham, 4 yrs, Set 7lb (Alderoft) 1
Duko of Bedford's Killigrew, 4 yrs, 95t.... (S. Rogers) 2

Betting-5 to 4on Killigrew.

Won by half a length.
Sweepstakes of 10 says each, for three-yr-olds ; colts, 3st
71b ; fillies, Bst 21b ; the winner to be sold for 100 sons if
demanded, &c. D.M. 7 fur. 201 yards. 3 subs.
Mr. Whittaker's Raspberry, Bst 21b (J. Osborne) 1
Count Batthyany's Coxcomb, Bst 71b ....... (Oh Wells) 2
Mr. S. Jacob's Appendix, Bst 21b aton) 3
Betting-2 to lon Raspberry.
Won by three quarters of a length ; bad third.

Brevet-Major T• V• Cooke, of the PlynitolulethLdilai-
sion of the- Royal Marines, has prepared sLven
plans of routes,. toaannddsautbtamciktsteodn
themdifferetnot import ant
places in China,cr s
Commissioners of the Admiralty.

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THE SUN.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1859.

Immediately before our going to press there
comes flashing to us a telegram dated Zurich this
12th of October, according to the terse wording of
which we are given to understand that an European
Congress may yet arise (and that very speedily)
out of these protracted and apparently quite im-
practicable Conferences. " The Conferences" says
the telegram flashed from Zurich this very forenoon
"do not draw to a close." And why ? "Austria.
otill refuses to diminish the debt of Lombardy to be
borne by Sardinia." That obstinacy on the part of
Austria is important enough in. itself—but the re-
fusal by Sardinia, but still more the refusal by
France of any concession to it, is yet more
important. " The demands of Austria,"
says the telegram, 'tare not only resisted
by Sardinia, but do not receive the
support of France which has proposed to Austria,
and Piedmont to submit the disputed point to the
arbitration of another Power." And that other
Power ? Obviously at a glance it must be England,
it can be no other of the great Powers than Eng-
land. "No answer," quoth the telegram, " has been
received to this proposition up to the present time."
No wonder : the suggestion is not calculated to be so
very welcome to the Court of Vienna—and the alter-
native, upon a point-blank refusal of it, might be
the resumption of hostilities in Northern Italy upon
the close of the protracted armistice. Whether, in
the event of the proposition being acceded to by
Austria, the arbitration of another Power
might not lead to an European Congress
as inevitable, remains, of course, yet further
problematical. Noting these sinister rumours

now beginning to be once more and that too pretty
confidently muttered about at Paris, at Turin, at
Zurich, and in London—the rumours of a possible,
nay of an intended absorption of Savoy by France
—we could almost hope that this long talked of pro •

ject of a Congress may be realized. Sardinia
must not be mulcted. Italy must not be robbed.
England must look to it. The maintenance of the
principle of neutrality by our Government does not
mean the disgraceful abnegation by England of all
• her influence in the adjustment of the sacred rights
and interests of Christendom.

By a fatal coincidence England, nay, the world
has lost within the brief compass of a month, the
two greatest among our great, Engineers It ap-
pears only the other morning that the remains
of ISAMBARD BRUNEL was followed to his
honoured and lamented grave by his sorrowing
friend and almost fraternal rival ROBERT STEPHEN-
SON. And now the latter is gone too, having
breathed his last this very afternoon. He has left
behind him, however, a reputation second to none
other in the splendid annals of engineer-
ing,. These two men, BRUNEL and STEPHEN-
SON, have, in testimony of their genius,
as sureties of the perpetuity of their fame
built up for themselves long since imperishable
monuments. For ourselves alone they have died
(both of them) prematurely. As for themselves
their work was done, and done nobly 'by sons
worthy of their sires—done in a manner worthy
(it is the sum of all enlogium in their regard)
worthy even of a BRUNEL and a STEPHENSON.

Ambrosial zephyrs are wafting to us just now
from all points of the compass rumours of Peace.
This is in the midst, of course, of all kinds of war-
like preparations upon either side of the Channel,
with a view to the steady carrying out of the
Allied expedition against the recreant Chinese
Government. Otherwise than in that particular
direction, the accounts are almost everywhere be-
coming daily more and more pacific. Yet it was
but very recently that war appeared inevitable
upon the frontiers of Morocco—that it appeared
Possible upon the shores of the little island of San

Juan, between the forces of Great Britain and
the United States—that it appeared imminent in
the River Plate between those of Buenos Ayres

and the Argentine Confederation ! We are now
cordially assured, however, that under the assuag-
ing influence of Lord J. RUSSELL'S foreign policy,
evil passions are very speedily to die out on all
sides, and the clouds that were but yesterday
looming on several parts of the horizon (some of
them considerably bigger than a man's hand), threat-
ening to darken into a tempest, are swiftly and surely
to be—if they are not already—scattered. Earnestly
do we hope, that every one of these halcyon rumours
may be verified. Heartily do we trust that Lord
JOHN may approve -himself, in every instance,
capable of exercising this benign glamour upon
African, upon North American, and upon
South American diplomacy. At this rate the
noble lord, the Foreign Secretary, rather than his
colleague, the Prime Minister, will deserve
henceforth to be dubbed in earnest, as the
noble viscount was once dubbed in jest by Lord
DERBY—"Don Pacifico !" As it is the statements we
are here alluding to are, as yet, no more than the
bruiting about of rumours full (every one of them)
of encouragement. For so much, and for no more,
we accept them—but even for so much," as mere
on Bits, we accept them, of course, gratefully.
None will rejoice more than ourselves in their ful-
filment—none will more cordially commend this
novel evidence of Lord JOHN'S signal genius as an
universal Pacificator. As agreeable statements con-
fidently made, the rumours above hinted at are at
the very least worthy of enumeration. Let them
be accepted or not, there is no reason why they
should not be particularised.
One among these acceptable assurances is to the
effect that, in the most amicable spirit, the noble
lord her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary is endea-
vouring, with every prospect of success, to main-
tain peace in the River Plate, and by mere diplo-
matic influence to reconcile the differences long
placing the Argentine Republic and Buenos Ayres
in direct antagonism.

Another amiable " it is said"—goes to the effect
that Lord JOHN is charming into silence the thun
der of the confronting guns of Spain and Morocco.

Another and a still more acceptable assurance
tends to allay the anxiety awakened in the hearts
of all true lovers of peace, but especially of peace
between England and America, by the lawless
seizure of the Island of San Juan by General HAR-
NEY, in the name of the United States Government.
It is intimated by General SCOTT, the newly-
appointed Commander-in-Chief from Washing-
`ton, who is to follow implicitly the policy marked
in 1855 distinctly enough by Secretary MARCY—
" according to which," says the originator of this
vague, but welcome rumour, the .Daily News of
this morning, "neither party is to claim exclusive
rights in the disputed territory, while the question
of territorial sovereignty remains undecided." Our
contemporary adds, in a tone that we cannot but
deem rather incomprehensible under the circum-
stances, " Thery is no doubt that the general mode-
ration and temperance of the press of both countries,
all the more conspicuous for a few exceptions, has
facilitated this desirable result. Nothing would have
been easier, and few things would have been more
wieked, than to discuss this delicate question in a
manner which would have aroused passions and
jealousies only to be quenched in blood." Certainly
the culpability in that deplorable event—namely, in
the event of an unnatural war resulting from the
seizure of San Juan by General HARNEY—would
have been a culpability devolving wholly and en-
tirely upon the United States' Government, and not
to the extent of one iota upon any English news •
paper that breathed in reference to that lawless act
the language of a perfectly justifiable indignation.
And here we would as clearly as written words can
express it, insist upon the absolute necessity of San
Juan being evacuated by the American soldiers and
by the Yankee squatters, one and all, as a sine qua
non to the pacific arrangement we are every one
of us desirous of seeing carried out. Those troops
and those squatters have no right whatever
to be there. Their being there is an outrage
to the dignity and the loyalty of England. They
must be withdrawn as an essential preliminary to
the settlement of the long-standing dispute as to
the rights of sovereignty. Unless Lord JOHN in-
sists upon their being so withdrawn (as a prelimi-
nary), he will be acting in a manner calculated to
derogate from the dignity of the British Crown
and to outrage yet further the loyalty of the British
Government.

Another magnificent oration from the lips of
Lord BROUGHAM adorns our columns this evening.
It will be read far and wide with delight and
admiration. It attests, in its way, quite as sig-
nally as the ex-Chancellor's great speech upon the
genius of NEWTON, that the intellect of Lard
BROUGHAM is as lustrous as ever, now that he
has passed the venerable age of an octogenarian.
The remarkable harangue published by us to-day is
the annual address delivered by Lord BROUGHAM
as founder of the National Association for the Pro-
motion of Social Science. Established that Asso-
ciation was in the year 187, under the auspices of
the ex-Chancellor, and Lord BROUGHAM was himself
elected President, as such occupying the chair at its
first meeting held in that year of grace 1857 at
Birmingham. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, it will be
remembered, was chosen President, and spoke and
sat and acted as President in 1858 at Liverpool.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, elected as the
President for 1859, presides in that capacity
over this third meeting held for the current
year at Bradford. As the founder of the Social
Science Congress, however, Lord BROUGHAM an-
nually delivers an address to the Association. The
present address is the third the noble and learned
lord has contributed to the records of the Society,
and the scope of it is more than ever conspicuous,
the range of its subjects is more than ever extra-
ordinary. Earnestly do ive commend the study of
this wise and eloquent Address to the consideration
of every thinking member of every educated class
in the community.

DEATH OF .ROBERT STEPHENSON;

ESQ., M•P•

We deeply regret to announce the death of the
eminent--civil engineer, Robert Stephenson, Esq.,
M.P. for Whitby, F.R.S., and F.G.S.
The mournful event took place this day at a
quarter past 12, at his town mansion, 34, Glouces-
ter-square, Hyde-park.

•
The Prince Toussoon Pacha, accompanied by Mr.
R. H. Galloway, has left the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone,
and embarked for Boulogne on his return to Egypt.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have left
Dunrobin Castle on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness
of Stafford at Tarbet, Ross-shire.
The Marquis of Salisbury has returned to town
on his way to Hatfield House, from visiting the Right Hon.
Benjamin and Mrs. Disraeli at Hughendon Manor, Bucks.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde
were to arrive at Paris to-day, from Turin. The noble
marquis and marchioness intend to sojourn about a week
in trrhheeFFreanrclh
and capital.
Countess of Hardwicke will return
to London to- morrow from Sydney Lodge. On Saturday
they will leave town for Wimpolo Hall, Cambridgeshire.
The Earl and Countess of Airlie have arrived at
Cortachy Castle, from the llighlanis.
Mr. and Lady Mary Craven have left town on a
visit to the Earl and Countess of Craven, at Ashdown Park,
Berks.

LATEST NEWS.

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

ZURICH, OCT. 11.

The Conferences do not draw to a close. Austria
still refuses to diminish the amount of the debt of
Lombardy to be borne by Sardinia. The demands
of Austria are not only resisted by Sardinia, but
do not receive the support of France, who has
proposed to Austria and Piedmont to submit the
disputed point to the arbitration of another power.
No answer has been received to this proposition up
to the present time. The French Government
wishes the arrears of the pensions of the Monte
Napoleone, and an indemnity for the cost of the
late war, to be included in the settlement of the
debt which will have to be paid by Austria and
Piedmont.

The Paris correspoudent of the Times (second
edition) says,—
" I have received a piece of intelligence of so
singular and important a nature that I should
hesitate to communicate it to you for publication
had I not great confidence in the opportunities and
veracity of my informant. It is to the effect that
-the French Government proposes to claim from
Piedmont the expenses it incurred in the late war
with Austria. We are somewhat accustomed to
unexpected and startling acts on the part of the
present Government of France, and also to hear
strange things predicated as likely to be done
by
,it; we have heard people talk of in-
vasion of England, of a march upon the Rhine,
of the establishment of French Imperial scions
in Italian kingdoms—of a host of things, in
short, more or less probable or improbable, but to
me, at least, it has not occurred to hear any-
body suggest the probability of France demand-
ing from Piedmont payment for her late ser-
vices to Italy. Such, however, I have strong
reason to believe, is the Emperor's intention ;
and, perhaps, if we do not confine ourselves
too strictly to the bare fact, but look at the
matter from another point of view, we may find the
project nearly identical with one that was long
attributed to him. Nothwithstan ding her recent ac-
quisition of a rich province, Piedmont is in no posi-
tion to meet the various heavy pecuniary claims
made upon her. In the first place, Austria demands
from her late antagonist 400,000,000 francs, and,
although this is likely to be ultimately much re-
duced—probably to 250,000,000, or thereabouts—
it will still be a severe pull on Sardinian resources.
France claims a handsome sum as indemnity for
the unpaid pensions charged on the Lombardo-
Venetian Monte fund, for the benefit of certain
dignitaries of the First Empire—pensions which have
not been paid since 1815. A portion of this sum
is claimed from Austria; the remaining and larger
part is-to fall on Piedmont, who seems expected to
pay on all sides, to allies as well as to enemies.
Now, it is no news to anybody that the Piedmontese
finances are in anything but a flourishing condition;
that the revenue has there long been exceeded by
the expenditure, that frequent loins have been con-
tracted, and that the late war has occasioned a
further great increase in the burdens of the trea-
sury. Lombardy, certainly a rich addition to the
dominions of the House of Savoy, has burdens of her
own, and, moreover, her provinces are by no means
in a uniformly flourishing state, nearly all of them
having suffered for some years past from tke vine
disease and the degeneracy of the silk worm—

Much more than from the Austrian misrule;
to which the Lombards were fond of attibuting all

heir ills and losses—while some, the Valteline for

instance, have been completely impoverished and
ruined by the same causes. All these circumstances
considered, does it not appear highly probable
that, if France makes a claim upon Piedmont
for the expenses she incurred by the late war—a
claim which, if all those expenses are to be paid,
can hardly amount to less than 300,000,000 f.
or 400,000,000 f. Piedmont may think that
the best, if not the only feasible, way of
acquitting herself will be to cede the provinces
of Savoy and Nice ? Notwithstanding all that
may have been said and written to the con-
trary, I asstire you most positively—as I have clone
before when writing from Italy—that there was
question of such cession early in the present year.
The Piedmontese Government concealed the project
as much as possible ; it felt that it was an ungra-
cious, not to say an odious, act to make over to
another Power—no matter to what Power or for
what consideration—a loyal and faithful province,
the cradle of the House of Savoy, to which its in-
habitants had ever been warmly attached subjects,
and had furnished its best soldiers. But when
Count Cavour was pressed home upon the subject
on two different occasions, once by a distinguished
Savoyard nobleman and deputy, and again
by a deputation from that province, which
had occasion to see him on, if I rightly recollect,
business of another nature, and which availed of the
opportunity to question him concerning the foun-
dation of the reports then current ; on both those
occasions, I say, the Sardinian Premier was unable
to deny the imputed project, but qualified it by
saying that it would be left to the option of the pro-
vinces referred to to remain with Piedmont or to be
transferred to France. When the idea was first
bruited, the people of Savoy showed themselves
wounded and resentful at the thought of having
their old and staunch allegiance thus cheaply held,
and indeed rejected. The unexpected termination of
the war by the convention of Villafranca, so bitterly
distasteful to Piedmont and to the Italians gene-
rally, made a change, we may naturally suppose,
in the intentions of the Sardinian Government, and
that which it would have been willing to cede for
the possession of Lombardo-Venetia was too much
to give up for the insecure tenure of little more
than half the territory—and that half continually
menaced by a formidable line of Austrian fortresses.
We have since seen Savoyard papers checked and
punished for advocating annexation to France. The
French Government, too, has caused its organs of
publicity repeatedly to protest against its supposed
intention of aggrandising France as a result of her
interference in Italy. If certainly has not declared
that it would not demand war expenses from Pied-
mont, but nobody ever suspected it of meaning thus
to annul the claim to generosity, disinterestedness,
and magnanimity which has been so loudly put for-
ward here and so largely recognized in Italy.
That there is an existing intention of making the
pecuniary demand I have already told you that my
information leaves me little doubt. If it be made
with a view of obtaining, instead of the money, the
provinces of Savoy and Nice, the world will pro-
bably say that it is but a clumsy means of attaining
a renounced object, and no one will be deceived by
he circuitous path adopted."

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The Emperor, in reply to the speech of the
Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux, part of which
alluded to the temporal power of the Pope, thanked
his Eminence for having understood the high mis-
sion of the Emperor, by endeavouring to strengthen
the confidence in his good intentions rather than
spread needless alarms.

The Emperor expressed his hope that a new era
of glory will rise for the Church on the day when
every one will share his conviction that the tem-
poral power of the Pope is not opposed to the
liberty and independence of Italy.
His Majesty further said that the Government
which Was the means of restoring the Holy Father
to the Pontifical throne, would only give utterance
to such respectful counsels as were dictated by
sincere devotedness to the interests of his Holiness ;
but his Majesty cannot but be alarmed about the
day, which is not far distant, when Rome will be
evacuated by our troops. For Europe will not allow
that the occupation of Rome by the French troops,
which has lasted for 10 years, should be prolonged
indefinitely. Wben our army shall be withdrawn,
what wilt it leave behind ? Anarchy, terror, or