The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVP.ININbi, NOVEMBER 6, 1861.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6, 1861.

Austria has thrown off the mask, Mr. ROEBUCK
must pay another vi-it to Vienna, and see her as
she is. Better, perhaps, if he extended his trip to
Pesth, or to the City of the venerable Cardinal
Primate, Gran, and then he would see the handi-
work of his blessed constitution maker. And what
would that work be ? Military rule, occupation of
the country, unmitigated and unqualified. And
why ? Have there been riots ? Has there been
bloodshed ? Does violence appear in any shape ?
Nothing whatever of the kind, except as practised
by the EMPEROR and his military agents. No;
this is the punishment, not of disobedience to law,
but of adherence to it ; not of turbulence, but of
peace and quiet. A monarch quarters an army on
Otis people, because they will not depart from strict
legality. He garrisons his kingdom, not against
211 enemy, but against itself.
A military Governor is appointed instead of the
Monarch submitting to a lawful coronation and
taking the oaths, without which he cannot be law-
ful KING. Military men are put in the place of
tihe legal Lords-Lieutenants of the counties, and
the County Municipalities, the Comitats, are dis-
solved ; their assemblies are forbidden, and military
tribunals established throughout the country ! A
kingdom of 15,000,000 of people are to be
governed by Austrian courts-martial or some-
thing very similar to it. And this is the best
resource of the Austrian statesmen, of whom we
„are frequently told that they are such able men.
Able they are at flattering and cajoling English
statesmen and English senators—but with what
contempt would a genuine statesman like CAVOUR
have regarded such mechanical, brute force
politicians as these. " Martial law," he
would exclaim, "No, any fool can govern
in that way." Austria is beggared evidently
in all respects. Her military genius is the genius
for being always beaten, even by Hungarians
armed with scythes, unless Russians came to her
-heirs Her financial genius is bankruptcy, till she
van get a loan by force only. Her political genius
is" the genius of the stick and the bayonet.
And this is the
country which a Radi-
cal member of our Parliament praises for a
Con Btitntion more liberal than our own, and old
Whig statesmen pet and pat on the back as the
strength of Southern and Eastern Europe !
We do hope our Ministers and Austria-loving
. members of Parliament will now awaken from their
dreams. It is time for them to recognise
:that bad faith, illegality, and despotic
revolutions and crimes are weaknesses; ; and that
rational, unanimous, love of an old and free consti-
tution, with national love of law and order, is
strenath. Hungary is strong morally. Once let
:her get her confessed rights, and she will bestrong
:physically—but strong Austria can never be, for
free HUT gary
she can never be just and true.
sought to be the end and aim of BAritish statesman-
-ship. Hungary strong, Italy strong, and Poland
regaining her own, is, despite all the finessee of
diplomatists, the only basis of a quiet Europe—
the only security against Czars and Cossacks.
Lot the nations have their independence and
Aiberties worth fighting for, and Czars, both
Eastern and Western, will think it best to let
Ahem alone.

-rEulco's misfortune is England's opportunity.
.41:1—tice versa. THAT used to, be regarded,
solutelY, as one of the wiliest axioms of political
phi 1?"13113c have happily long rid ourselTeop

however, of any and of every delusion of the kind.
Free Trade has taught us better. We have learnt
a profounder wisdom than that from the beneficent
principles advanced step by step in the onward
march of civilisation, under the influence of Mas-
ters in the science of Political Economy no less
distinguished in their way than ADAM SMITH and
WILLIAM HUSKISSON. How effectually the annual
1 motions submitted to the House of Commons by
CHARLES VILLIERS led to the development of the
great policy of Sir ROBERT PEEL for the subversion
of the Protective system of the monopolists, history
has already related. It is an old story, even by
this time : and yet it is one—who shall deny it ?
that is ever both profoundly interesting and
wondrously instructive to revert to. Perhaps
there is no pleasanter reading anywhere to be
found than that delightful blending of wit and
logic sparkling luminously over every page of
General THOMPSON'S famous Corn Law Cate-
chisms. There are certainly not discoverable,
either in BURNS or in BERANGER, any more
spirit-stirring appeals to the hopes and aspi•
rations of a great people than can be in-
stanced by selections from the ditties
chaunted by that modern Tyrtceus of the Farm and
the Workshop, EBENEZER ELLIOTT, the Corn Law
Rhymer. For the accumulation of abundant speci-
mens of every kind of rhetorical artifice—for the
collection of the very happiest examples of oratori-
cal genius, whether pathetic, persuasive, or impas-
sioned, we could go nowhere more securely than to
those pages upon which have been recorded the
speeches delivered both within and without the
walls of Parliament by the leading members of the
ever-memorable Anti-Corn Law League ! Particu-
larly will this be borne in mind, in connection with
the still vivid remembrance of the florid elocution
of JOHNSON FOX, of the resplendent rhetoric of
JOHN BRIGHT, and of those all but perfect master-
pieces of manly eloquence in whose utterance we
seemed almost to be listening to the Genius of Com-
mon Sense embodied in the person of RICHARD
COBDEN.

Although the three distinguished men last men-
tioned are still happily in their prime, have still,
let us hope, many years before them in which to
evidence anew their rare capacities and aptitude as
champions of the popular cause, and promoters of
the national interests—the enterprise with which
above all other enterprises their names have long
since come to be so very intimately associated
is as much a thing of the past as though it had
occurred in some long-vanished generation. Yet
is it, as we have said, no less interesting than instruc-
tive to revert to it upon occasion. Familiar though
that story is of the final and glorious triumph of the
great Free Trade Principles, occasions certainly
do arise at intervals, when it becomes in a manner
imperative to recall the reality of that triumph to
the recollection of the multitude at large. And
this, if for no other reason, in obedience to the
simple dictates of gratitude. Besides—there are
moments when it is wise above all things to in-
dulge for a while in these passing retrospections.
However often they may have been taken, it some-
times comes to pass that it is about the most
judicious course to take these same backward
glances yet once more. And the present juncture
is precisely one of these same standing-points. It
is from the 'vantage-ground of our Free Trade
policy—thanks to the labours:of SMITH, Hu siei ssoN,
Fox, BRIGHT,THOMPSON, VILLIERS, COBDEN, and
PEEL—that we can recognize the FOLLY and the
INFAMY of that detestable axiom with which we
set out, an axiom not so very long since actually
believed in upon both sides of the English Channel,
to wit, that the misfortunes of one country are the
opportunity of another !
France is understood, at this particular epoch in
her wonderfully chequered history, to be threatened
with a very perilous crisis of a financial character.
Her destinies are again said to be trembling in the
balance. The calamity of an insufficient
harvest has but just now come to fill up the
measure of her embarrassments—embarrassments
already formidable enough in themselves by
reason of—how many sources of a deficiency !
By reason of her extravagant armaments, both by
sea and by land, during a period of profound peace!
By reason of her prodigal, almost, one might call
it, profligate-expenditure upon public works, par-
ticularly in the reconstruction of what was already
the most splendid capital of Europe, its Palladian
reconstruction, in many parts, upon a scale of
hitherto unparalleled magnificence! Because of
these and other kindred reasons the financial cup
of embarrassment held to the lips of France—a
chalice of misfortune long since filled up to the brim,
and, though honeyed upon its edge like the cup
of TASSO, containing (like that famous similitude)
many most bitter dregs within it—this financial
cup of embarrassment, we say, already brimmed up
by the reckless policy of the Lower Empire, ap-
pears to threaten now a disastrous overflow by the
perilous casualty of an inadequate harvest.
NAPOLEON will, in all human probability, recog-
nize now in this crisis in the history of his govern-
ment, supposing, that is to say, that he has not
already come to recognise it in veritable earnest,
that the only security, both political and financial,
is to be found in those great Free Trade principles
towards which he has recently been tending
under the guidance of Mr. COBDEN, along the bye-
path of reciprocity. Whatever may be in store for
our Imperial ally in his now darkening future,
France will not fail (weTmay rest perfectly well
assured of this) to derive a salutary lesson from
the bearing of England towards her in the midst
of her political anxieties and financial
embarrassments. She cannot, by any accident
whatever, " come what may," she cannot, we main-
tain, but recognise that it is the grand and benefi-
cent and Christian policy of Free Trade that has
scattered to the winds and scouted as only worthy
of detestation that most infamous doctrine which
proclaimed that the opportunity of England was to
be found in the misfortunes of any neighbouring
race. O'CONNELL applied the execrable dogma to
Ireland. We all remember that. But it was in an
hour of demagogic hallucination. That odious
belief was more widely acted upon and more
flagrantly proclaimed farther back in our own his-
tory and in the history, generally speaking, of
Christendom. Free Trade Principles have—on this
side of the Channel at least—succeeded in dissipat-
ing it. It will be well for France, even at the risk
of her passing through another financial crisis, it
will be well indeed for France if she too learn the
same salutary lesson. A reciprocity treaty may
then ripen into a Free Trade Policy—the accept-
, ance of which frankly and in earnest by France
would tend more certainly and securely than any-
thing else to ensure the Dermanen t 0 Y
thy houfmtahne
two great arbiters of the destinies
race—Fran..93 and England. Never again, then,
could any Tribune of the People dare to 'assert, as
a great Poet did not shrink from asserting, in 1848,
from the tribune of the National Assembly—it was
M. VICTOR HUGO who said it, that frightful un-
truth, Paris is in agonies London
rejoices
ejoic tl,, es

The present ministry ask the support of the
country, if we may judge by the speeches of their
friends, much more on the merits of their foreign

than of their domestic policy. At home, indeed,
the two great Autocrat ig parties differ little in the
measures they willingly support. The majority of
the Whigs are no more partial to Mr. GLADSTONE'S
financial measures, or to the Wednesday bills which
they vote for only with a view to the hustings, than
the Tories themselves. Abroad, we are told, all is
different. What would have become of English
moral support for Italy had Lord MALMESBURY
been the amanuensis of the Foreign Office for Lord
DERBY? Indeed, even in regard to Foreign policy,
the Tories loudly proclaim that there is no diffe-
rence—both parties agree that it must be a policy
of non-intervention. The Liberals reply, true—
but non-intervention itself may be worked in two
ways—in the interest of despots, or in the interest
of peoples. In the present continental struggles it
makes all the difference, whether the non-inter-
vening bystanders hail the successes of patriots, or
those of their oppressors ; and, it is alleged, Tories
in office would smile on the monarchs, Whigs on the
nations.

All we have to say is, if it be so, let us see it.
We did see it, in the case of Italy. It was felt in
Italy to its great advantage, and it was acknow-
leged at home, that with the exception of an aristo-
cratic trip or two Earl RUSSELL did support the cause
which was dear to the people of England. But
there is much more yet to do in this direction.
Rome and Venetia are still withheld from Italy, the
former by a selfish and dictatorial friend, the latter
by an avowed foe. Hungary, whose cause is vir-
tually bound up with that of Italy, is now proving
what a disarmed nation, inspired by English love of
freedom, and deprived by revolutionary despotism
of any vestige of its constitution, can do, by appeal-
ing to right against violence. And lastly, there is
Poland, the long and patient sufferer under the
atrocious crimes of Prussia, Austria, and Russia,
showing itself more than ever a nation, and sus-
taining a living martyrdom on behalf of its national
rights.
In this state of things, one likely to last yet a
long while, England certainly expects her Liberal
ministers to do their duty, She expects them to
exhibit, practically, the liberal animus with
which they adopt non-intervention as their own
policy, and demand the same of others. When we
have representatives at all the despotic courts,
which are oppressing Italy, Hungary, and Poland,
it must be easy for our ministers to make known
to foreign ministers the sentiments of the English
nation. We quite well know that there are unoffi-
cial, as well as official conversations between our am-
bassadors and even monarchs abroad. One between
an English Ambassador and a Czar, respectivg a
sick man, will not soon be forgotten. Foreign
ambassadors also have free as well as formal inter-
course with our Governors here; and between the
two, pretty strong representations might reach the
crowned heads abroad if English Ministers do but
feel with the people. Our public speaking and our
press, no doubt, tell for much, but if despots find
that English Ministers and English Ambassadors
lean rather to them than to their own people,
and to the victims of foreign oppression, they
will snap their fingers at all our public meet-
ings and newspapers, and go on with their cruel
work without fear. We have a right to ask of our
Liberal ministers, then, that they should avail
themselves of all the less formal means, to discourage
French and Austrian despotism in Italy ; Austrian
despotism in Hungary; and Prussian Austrian and
Russian despotism in Poland.
The last is now becoming the scene of a; struggle
second to that going on in Hungary in one point
only, the character and antiquity of its constitution.
For the rest, the rights of the Poles to nationality
are clear; and their treaty rights which date from
1815, are not only clear, but it is binding in honour
on the States of Europe to maintain them. A much
reduced kingdom of Poland was then handed over to
the CZAR on definite conditions, all of which have been
successively violated, to the extent of endeavouring
to amalgamate civilised Poland with semi-barbarous
Russia. What that most selfish and relentless of
despots, NICHOLAS, did in Poland, England looking
on, and Prussia, of course, helping him, need not
be recounted. No Asiatic ever surpassed him in
gloomy ferocity, and hellish vengeance. The
nobler, the more refined, the more tender his vic-
tims, the more he strove to glut himself • with
degradations, tortures, and heartbreaking humilia-
tions. We mention it only to point out what the
Poles have to look from his son. That son, re-
puted not to inherit all his father's cruelty was
welcomed by the Poles so heartily, that he could
but thank them for the cheers their hopes had called
forth. They were soon undeceived. Europe, as
well as Poland, however, remembers the cruel words
which followed—" No dreams, however, gentlemen,
no drsanzs—all-my father did was well done !" It
was the death knell of Poland's hope in another
CZAR.

And yet Lord ELLENBOROUGH, in a speech full
of generosity towards Poland, delivered in the
House of Lords in July last, seems to calculate on
generous advances towards Poland on the part of
Russia, and exhorts the Poles frankly to receive

them. The noble statesman seems unable to com-
prehend how Russia could overlook the vast advan-
tage she might derive from a well-governed and
well-affected Poland, and the paralysis she suffers
from its present disaffection. His lordship for-
warded a copy of his speech to the Polish patriot,
General Count ZAMOYSKI, and has thus drawn from
the Count a reply in a pamphlet (published by
RIDGWAY), in which the Count shows at length
that the Poles had never failed, on their part, to
receive every advance with frankness, but that
since the Treaty of Vienna, they had received from
Russia nothing but the contrary. Attack after
attack on their national rights and liberties, tho last
effort being to crush out their nationality itself, is
the history of Poland for the last forty-six years.

But the Count shows also that Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH is mistaken in supposing that Poland
can willingly become the " vanguard of barbarism"
—the supporter of Russia in attempts to gain in-
fluence over Western Europe. He maintains that
Polish freedom and independence are the interest of
Germany especially, and of Europe too. Ho main-
tains also, that Russia as a nation, though not her
Government according to its present notions, would
be a gainer, when despotic rule in Poland was no
longer an excuse for a Government of universal
repression at home.
The Count does not ask much of England. The
French people are, he observes, from tradition and
sentiment, disposed to a man to do justice to
Poland. England's aid alone is needed, and that in
a very easy way :—" Let Great Britain, on her
part, give proof that she now fully comprehends-
-Ist, that the suppression of Poland is not, as was
thought by her Statesmen in the last century, ' an
object of little interest to the commerce of England;'
2d, that the safety of Europe does not make it
is
t:lt l Polandobject
o should
o paramount
d
desirable that Russia should be able at any time to
atdhvatan.ce beyond the Vistula, but, on the contrary,
again be importancem made,
de,
Europe
what
during many centuries shevras, the barrier against
any invasion from the East into the heart of
Europe." Again :—" Let the present attitude and
conduct of the Polish people serve indication
of an
of the manner in which their cause may be best pro

moted :—Moral force, the pressure of public opinion

as represented by sovereigns and people, by
governments, national assemblies, meetings, and
the press; the uncompromising condemnation
of the infringer of public law, and of every wrong-
doer ; the no less positive acknowledgment of the
right and the wronged, and the cheering encourage-
ment to the latter to persevere in their passive re-
sistance and faith in the ultimate triumph of jus-
tice. Such, to the best of my judgment, are the
means by which Poland may and must, under GOD,
and in His own good time, retrieve her national
existence."

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, OCT. 25,
(Per North American, via Londonderry.)

At the battle which was fought near Leesburg,
on the 21st instant, between the advance column of
the Federal troops under General Stone and a body
of Confederates under General Evans, the former
were eventually compelled to abandon the field
and fall back across the Potomac, with the loss of
600 men, including General Baker, killed. The
Confederate loss was unknown. The Federal
troops were subsequently reinforced, and marched
upon Leesburg, but on the approach of two strong
columns of Confederates again retreated into Mary-
land.

Some alarm is felt at Washington with regard to
the supplies of forage, &c., which were formerly
brought up the Potomac.
The Pacific telegraph line to San Francisco was
completed on the 25th inst.
The City of Washington passed Cape Race on the
evening of the 25th inst.

LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.

NEW YORK, OCT. 26 (Evening).

A naval expedition composed of 80 vessels, carry-
ing 500 guns and between 30,000 and 40,000 men,
will sail from Hampton to-morrow.
It is reported that Messrs. Mason and Sliddell,
the Confederate Commissioners to England and
France, have arrived at Cardenas.

The Confederate account of the engagement at
New Orleans was exaggerated.

The Confederates retreated to Santa Rosa after
having suffered heavy loss.
General Price is reported to be still retreating.
CANADA.

QUEBEC, OCT. 26.

Lord Monek was sworn in here yesterday as
Administrator of Canada, his full powers not having
arrived.

Sir E. Head and family will leave for England by
next Wednesday's steamer.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, OCT. 26 (Evening).

Exchange—Bankers' bills, 1071. Stocks steady.
New York Central, 771. Illinois, 651. Erie, 311.
Cotton firm. Breadstuffs firm, and in good de-
mand. Provisions quiet. •

iPRINCE ALFRED.—It may be remembered that
his Royal Highness Prince Alfred went out as one of the
passengers on board the British and North American Royal
Mail steamship Niagara. On arriving at Halifax the Prince
expressed the high satisfaction he felt at the accommoda-
tion, and also the courteous attention he had met with on
the voyage; and, in token of the appreciation in which he
held them, he presented Captain Moodie, commander cf
the Niagara, with a valuable diamond ring and his portrait,
i
together with his autograph.
GALLANT LIFEBOAT SERVICE.—GREAT YAR
MOUTH, Tuesdriy.—During a terrific gale of wind yester-
day, the smack Adventure, of Harwich, with ten hands on
board, parted her cable, and came on the North Sand. Her
perilous position having been observed, the Yarmouth life-
boat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, imme-
diately proceeded to her resue, and, amidst the greatest
danger, succeeded in snatching the ten poor fellows from
an inevitable death. It is stated by the officer of Coast-
guard and others, that this was one of the most gallant
services ever performed by this lifeloat, which has, ere
now, been instrumental in rescuing scores of shipwrecked
persons.

A GAMEKEEPER SHOT BY A POACHER, NEAR
BRADFORD.—About seven o'clock yesterday morning Wm.
Smith, alias Davies, a gamekeeper in the service of Timothy
Horsfall, of Hawksworth, was shot by a poacher named
James Waller, in Hawksworth Springwood, between Brad-
ford and 0 du. Davies encountered Waller in the wood ;
Waller ran and Davies followed him towards his own house,
and when he had reached about 100 yards of it, Waller
turned round and discharged the contents of a double-bar-
relled gun into the chest and abdomen of Davies, who lived
till about half-past eleven and then expired. As soon as
he had shot the man Waller ran to his own house, deposited
his gun there, and then returned to where he had left
Davies. Several persons had got up to him. Waller went
up and said, " Who had done it ?" Davies said, "It is
thee, Jem." Waller then ran off, and has not been seen
since. The police are in pursuit of him. The dying man
made a statement to Mr. Horsfall, the magistrate, substan-
tially like the above.

LANDSLIP ON A RAILWAY CUTTlNG.—Yesterday
Mr. Sergeant Payne, the coroner, held an inquest in the
Board-room of St. Thomas's Hospital respecting the death
of John Smith, aged 27, a railway labourer. It appeared
that the deceased and several other labourers were at work
on the branch line of railway in course of construction be-
tween Streatham and Croydon. About half-past 3 o'clock
on Monday week they were engaged in a cutting the
banks of which had been incautiously undermined, With-
out the slightest warning, however, an immense body of
earth suddenly detached itself and rolled down the bank.
The other men managed to escape, but before the deceased
could got out of the way he was buried under more than
five tons of earth. With the utmost difficulty the poor
fellow was extricated and conveyed to the hospital, where
he expired on Friday last from the frightful injuries he had
received. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

DEATHS ON RAILWAYS.—A very painful feeling
has been caused in commercial circles in Newcastle and
this town to-day by a melancholy and fatal accident which
occurred to Mr. John Arundale, cashier to Messrs. Lamb-
ton and Co.'s Bank, last night. Mr. Arundale, whose wife
was staying at Tynemouth, in precarious health, was wait-
ing at the Manors station, Newcastle, last evening, for the
six :o'clock train down to that place. As the train ap-
proached the station and was about to come to a stand the
unfortunate gentleman was observed to raise his hands
above his body, as if seized with a fit. Almost immediately
afterwards he staggered forward, and fell from the plat-
form between two carriages. The result was that the head
of the poor gentleman was all but severed from his body,
and in this condition he was removed to the goods station,
life being extinct. The deceased gentleman was only 33
years of age. On Saturday evening a man named Henry
Wild, belonging to Sunderland, was picked up on the
North-Eastern Railway, at the Gateshead Fall Station,
having staggered on the line while drunk.. He had been
ran over by a train, and was dreadfully mutilated. He
died yesterday morning.
THE MAILS, &C.—SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 4.--The
outward Mediterranean, East India, and China mails were
despatched hence to-day by the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamship Indus, Capt. J. Weeks, which takes
out 79 first and 45 second-class passengers, a full cargo, and
112 boxes of specie, jewelry, &c., value £31,664 14s.—viz. :
—For Alexandria—sovereigns, £lOO. For Madras—gold
coin, £628 ; gold thread, watches, &c., £2,382 10s. For
Calcutta—bar silver, £2,040 ; watches, medals, and jewelry,
£6,664 4s. For Singapore—gold thread and jewelry, £3lO.
For Hongkong—bar silver and dollars, £5,106; watches,
£219. For Foochowfoo— dollars, £1,300. For Shanghai
dollars, £12,915. Among the passengers are the Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort, two children, and five servants, for
Malta ; Rev. R. Elmhirst, for Alexandria ; Rev. W. Row-
lands, for Ceylon ; Rev. T. Foulkes, for Madras ; Capt. and
Mrs. Nicolla, Lieut. C. G. and Mrs. Rowcroft, Lieut. E.
Sadler, Dr. White, and Lieut. Owen, for Calcutta; Capt.
' A. F. M'Nair and Dr. Treacher, for Singapore ; Capt.
Brine and Lieut. Maud, for Hongkong. The corresponding
Marseilles steamer has 75 passengers, among whom are the
Hon. E. and Mrs. Drummond and daughter, Lady Mont-
gomery and child, Captain J. Crofton, Captain W. N. Lees,
' Dr. and Mrs. Macrae, Captain F. Bishop, and Colonel de
Sausmarez, for Calcutta. The Union Company's new screw
steamer Briton, Captain Clark, also sailed this afternoon
for Ascension, St. Helena, and the Cape of Good Hope,
taking a full general cargo, jewelry value £2,000, and 68
passengers, among whom are Captain Corrie, R.N., Assis-
tant-Surgeon Tucker, Dr. and Mrs. Ebden, EnsignsHand-
ley and Tow nsend. She w:11 embark the mails at Plymouth.
The screw steamer Jenny Jones, Captain David Howe, ar-
rived here this morning from St. Brieux, with a cargo of
cattle, pigs, poultry, end eggs, being the pioneer of a new
trading connection about to be opened up between this port
and St. Biieux.

THE DUBLIN HEROINE .-11 Lucretia had been an
able-bodied hish lady Tarquin would not have had his vil-
lanous name in history. Miss Jolly does not in the least
resemble the heroines of whom we read in romances. When
she found herself out of her way in a strange and lonesome
road she was not alarmed, not overwhelmed with vague ap-
prehensions of impending danger. When dragged out of
the cab by the hair of her head she did not spend her breath
in screams nor lose her courage, and when thrown on her
back by her ruffianly assailant she turned her very position
to the advantage of giving him a vigorous kick, which
repulsed the miscreant, and enabled her to make her
first escape. Her next step was of strategic science.
Being the weaker belligerent in the open field she availed
herself of earthworks for her defence, and forthwith en-
trenched herself, taking up her position in a ditch up to her
waist in water. No heroine of romance would have done
this for any consideration in the world ; she would rather
have rent the air with her cries and appeals to Heaven. But
Miss Jolly took to water as naturally as a duck, or a deer
at bay. She was thus mistress of the situation, unpleasant
as that situation in the ditch unquestionably was. The
miscreant Curran had decided objections to the ditch, and
commenced a treacherous parley, offering a safe-conduct if
the lady would leave her place in the ditch and return to
the cab; she temporised, and while the issue was in doubt
the cab horse happily moved, and the scoundrel left his in-
tended prey to secure the animal. And here we have to
observe a fortunate and saving instinct of horse preserva-
tion. The time when the sons of Erin loved honour and
virtue more than woman and gold is gono, but to make up
for that, the very worst of Erin's sons values his horse more
than any other possession. The miscreant Curran had his
choice of the lady in the ditch or his cab horse on the road.
Each was for an escape. If he stuck to the lady the horse
would bolt. If he secured the horse the lady would escape
from him. In this dilemma the man did not hesitate an
instant. " The world well lost, or all for woman 1" might
be the sentiment of an Antony, but in modem days what
would be a Cleopatra without her barge, in a wet ditch,
compared with a cab and horse ? The choice was made at
once, the cab not lost, and Miss Jolly saved. Curran's
horse was a friend to Nirtue, and had by a single motion
made up for the deficiencies of Erin's degenerate sons.
What the maiden smile of Moore's lady did for her in safely
lighting her through the green isle, the cab horse did • for
Miss Jolly in carrying her safely through the Bloody-fields.
The cab horse was the saving machine of the epic, clignies
vindice nodus.—Examiner.

WIIALES IN CAPTIVITY.—I have received a copy
of the .Arational Intel11:mon Washington, Sept. 26, in
which is an account of the Boston Zoological Gardens. It
appears from the following that our American brother
naturalists have a tame whale and a pet dolphin; for we
read :—" In the same tank with the white whale are two
sturgeons, seven fee tin length; likewise a fine specimen of
a shark. There aro also 50 other tanks, filled with fresh
and salt water fish of the choicest specimens. Six hundred
gallons of pure sea water pass through the entire building
every minute. The pipes for conveying the water are laid
down through the streets of the city the same as ordinary
water pipes. Eight hundred and sixty-four thousand gal-
lons of this water passes through the central tank (which
has a circumference of 79 feet) a day." Subjoined to this
is a letter from Professor Agassia, which determines the
species of the dolphin. This is, I believe, the first instance
of any of the whale tribe living in captivity.—..E. T. .Buck-
land in Field.

MR, RAREY.—Mr. Rarey has taken the head
prize with Cruiser at the only fair at which ho has been
shown, and forty to fifty foals by him are expected next
season. Thet's, the mare which he purchased at Rawcliffe,
won three first prizes at th' Ohio States fair, and two
other more strictly local ones; but, unfortunately, her colt
foal by Newminster died at the end of forty-eight hours.
The numberless visitors who went to see Cruiser at Grove
Port, end offered him every encouragement to get into "a
Carnation rage," spread such reports of his fighting powers,
that people were all of a shake when Mr. Rarey announced
an exhibition at the Madison township fair; but the two
just tumbled over each other, and played, as usual, to the
great surprise• of the cargoes of the waggons and buggies.
Mr. Rarey, who intends to bo over again at our World's
Fair, has been having "a very quiet happy time of it" this
summer at Grove Port, and has purchased the old family
mansion and lands. He hopes to make it, both in point of
stock and agriculture, the model farm of Ohio, Which
in the eyes of many, quite the heart and garden Of the
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FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND.
PARIS, Nov. 6.

The Monitcur, in its bulletin of to-day, says :

" The foreign press having made numerous com-
ments on the subject of the appearance of a few
French gendarmes and soldiers in the village of
Cressonnieres, belonging to the Valley of Dappes,
it is of importance to reduce the facts to their real
value.

"We have as yet no exact information with re-
gard to the incident, but we aro able to affirm
that the Government of the Emperor has never
had the idea of determining, by force, by means
of a military occupation, the territorial question
pending between France and Switzerland.

" Since 1815 there has existed a kind of neu-
tralization of the contested territory, against
which the Canton of Vaud recently made an
attempt, by proceeding to arrest some persons.
" The Government of the Emperor protested
against this alteration of the status quo, intimating
that if the gendarmes of Vaud recommenced such
proceedings it should be compelled to oppose them.
The tribunal of Nyon having pronounced sentence
against a Frenchman residing in that territory, the
Government of the Emperor simply wished to pre-
vent his arrest.

" The affair, therefore, has not the importance
that some would attribute to it.

" We do not doubt that frank explanations with
the Federal Council will reduce the affair to its real
proportions, and, perhaps, lead to the conclusion of
an arrangement destined to put an end to the
conflicts which could not fail to arise from an ill-
defined state of things."

BERLIN, Nov. 6.

The National Zoltan, of to-day says :
" We learn that the prospects of a favourable
conclusion of a treaty of commerce between France
and Prussia have diminished to such an extent
that the French Commissioner will return to Paris
in the course of this week.

" It is said, France does not appear inclined to
agree to the new programme submitted by Prussia.'

THE MEXICAN QUESTION.

La Patrie publishes the following as the chief
dispositions of the Convention relative to the affairs
of Mexico :

" Me three Powers have the right to send the
same naval strength.

" The importance of the troops that are to be
landed is to be in proportion to the number of sub-
jects which each of the Powers owns in Mexico, and
in this respect Spain claims precedeice.
" The troops will occupy Vera Cruz and the other
cities on the coast where custom-houses are esta-
blished. If, after a given delay, the Government
of General Juarez has not paid up the money it owes,
an advance will be made on the capital, and, should
such a step lead to complications or unforeseen
events, an agreement will be come to in common on
the line of conduct to be followed in presence of
those eventualities.

" The Convention will be notified to the Cabinet
at Washington, which will be invited to join the
intervening Powers.
" It will be left optional to the Government of
President Lincoln to send such number of ships
and troops as he may deem advisable under the
circumstances."

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