The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1868.

are in the habit of thinking and talking about

affairs of imperial interest, and discussing the con-
cerns of the civilised globe, are less likely to believe
their own views on matters which immediately concern
themselves, the only ones which an honest man can
possibly hold. Our great manufacturing and com-
mercial centres like Manchester, Birmingham, or
Bristol may be, indeed, centres of intellect and
intelligence as well as of industry ; but there are
too many districts throughout the country in which
the predominant industry is the only thing which
occupies men's minds and faculties. Local associa-
tions and annual gatherings, whatever their parti-
cular character, be it political, agricultural, or
charitable, do good service in breaking through the
routine, and rubbing off the mental rust: that na-
turally accumulates from too exclusive devotion to
one object. Let us hope, then, that the Bed worth
Association will not be the last of its kind, and that
its grand demonstration of Tuesday will be the
precursor of many similar festivals.

Yesterday the promised visit of his Royal High-
ness the Prince of WALES to the grand Horse Show
at Islington took place, and, to the great gratifica-
tion of all present, he was accompanied by the
Princess of WALES and her brother, the Crown
Prince of DENMARK. The appearance of the
Princess ou such occasions is doubly gratifying, be-
cause those present are not only able to gratify their
loyalty by giving her a cordial greeting, but they
are sensible that her visit gives satisfactory evidence
of her return to health. Yeeterday evening, more-
over, her Royal Highness gave her first ball at
Marlborough House since her long and severe ill-
ness, and therefore her trip to Islington
in the afternoon showed that she felt
strong enough to riqk a little extra ex-
ertion. A special box had been prepared
for the Royal visitors, who were of course warmly
cheered by the throngs who assembled in the vast
hall, and they remained for about an hour and a
half, evidently feeling much interested in the display
of beautiful and valuable animals, and in the speci-
mens of horsemanship, sometimes more quaint than
scientific, which they witnessed. One of the cle-
verest riders was a boy of about 14, who rode a
little piebald pony, which, with its rider, succeeded
iu eclipsing many more pretentious rivals at the
leaps. One Arab pony, " Pearl," possessed an his-
torical interest, having carried General Sir HOPE
GRANT through the whole of the Indian mutiny.
He is said to have seen more military service than
perhaps any other horse, and has attained the age
of 18 years. He attracted a good deal of notice.
Altogether the scene was a brilliant and entertain-
ing one, and the Show keeps up its attractions.

LATEST INTELL IGENCE.

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THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.
Secretary Sir Stafford Northcote has received the
following telegrams from Sir Robert Napier :

May 10.

The son of Theodore is a child ; his life would
not be safe in Abyssinia. I solicit permission to
carry him and his mother, should they desire it, to
Bombay, on the part of Government, and to entrust
the child to the Rev. Dr. Wil6on to be educated.
No prospect has been held out to mother but that
of comfortable maintenance. Mother at present ill;
recovery doubtful. _ _ _

CAW HAIKIIULLUT7 May 16.

In continuation of my telegram, dated the 10th
inst., I regret to say that the widowed Queen of
Theodore died last night in my camp. The surgeon
who attended her reports her death to have resulted
from disease of the lungs of long standing. Every
comfort that we could procure was supplied her,
and her every wish attended to during her illness.
Her remains will be buried this morning in the
church of Citelicat. An escort of our troops accom-
panied the funeral procession beyond our pickets.
The rearguard of the force moved yesterday from
Antal°, and is about to march to Doug°lo. All
is well.

ADIGERAT, May 21.

I propose to leave at Zoulla for the present
the Madras and Bombay Sappers, the 3d and
25th Regiments Native Infantry, the Army Works
Carps, and the Bengal Coolie Corps. All other
troops will have embarked by June the Ist. Troops
quickly.hleuanvdinregdnatives drowse
o‘nFloode i in Sooroo defile. Six
; some mules also. No
apprehension of force being delayed. Health of
troops excellent.

No Date.
Her Majesty's most gracious message has been
most enthusiastically received by the troops.
Colonel Milward leaves by the mail steamer of
the 22d inst. Carries the crown, robe, and State
seal of Theodore, in the hope that her Majesty
Queen Victoria may be graciously pleased to ac-
cept them as a tribute of respectful duty and
affectionate loyalty from her Majesty's army in
Abyssinia.
The following telegram has also been received
at the India-office from Colonel Milward :
SUEZ, June 1.

I have been detained four days by ship strand-
ing on a reef in Red Sea. Will proceed by next
mail, or earlier if possible, with dapatches.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
SOUTHAMPTON, June 4.

The North German Lloyd's steamer Berlin sailed
this morning for Baltimore direct, with 512 passen-
gers, and a very large cargo.

BOURSE, June 3.—Thl
closed as follows :

.ee o'clock.—The market

4j per Cent. lOO 25
End of month
3 per Cent
End of month 7O
Credit Mobilier 287 50
End of month 287 50
Credit Fonder 1535
End of month —

Bank Shares
Ital4an Loan —
End of month —
Mexican Loan
Do, Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
Cash
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean ................... 19221761
Southern.... 590
Western ....................................... 561.-}
Eastern
• .................
Sardinian ..... . .............................. 45
Austrian ....................................... 552 i
Lombard ....................................... 383
North of Spain 66
Saragossa
Roman

RAILWAY

A SINGULAR CUSTOIIL—In a paper recently read
before the Birmingham Architectural Society, by
Mr. J. R. Veall, of Wolverhampton, the following
occurs :—" I must mention an ancient office which
still exists—i.e., the dog whipper, whom in some
village churches it used to be necessary to appoint.
At Trysull, near Wolverhampton, John Rudge, by
his will, gave ss. a quarter to a poor man to go
about the pa ish church during sermon to keep
people awake—rather a poor compliment to the
clergyman—and keep dogs out of the church. The
sum is still paid for that purpose. Richard Dovey,
of Farincote, Shropshire, in the year 1659, left Bs.
per annum to some poor man of the parish of
Claverley who should undertake to awaken sleepers
and whip dogs from the church ; 10s. per annum
is still paid for that purpose. In one of the Lin-
colnshire village churches, a short time since, I
counted no fewer than five sheep dogs present
during Divine service. I could not ascertain,
however, that a dog whipper had ever held the
office."

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, June 3:

There is something exceedingly comic in the telegrams
which keep us advised of Prince Napoleon's movements.
After stating that his Imperial Highness on arriving at any
capital was received by the ambassadors and other high
officials, was lodged in a palace, and dined in state with
the sovereign, dipionsatic body, and great functionaries,
they wind up by the announcement that the Prince is
travelling incognito, and that his journey has no political
object. Of course the various kings whom he visits quite
know what is meant by this. They understand that while
it suits the Emperor to announce beforehand that be is
not responsible for his cousin's movements, in order that
be! may not be damaged in the public estimation by the
very probable contingency of his cousin's failure, it is
quite intended that the Prince shall be received with im-
perial honours. So we learn from Constantinople that the
Sultan has been " officially " informed of the Prince's
approaching visit, and that the Father of the Faithful is
preparing his Palace on the Sweet Waters for the reception
of his guest.

The Tunisian difficulty is over at last. The Bey has
signed the convention with this country, and diplomatic
relations have been restored between France and Tunis.
All's well that ends well, I suppose ; but I suspect that
the Bey would be inclined to dispute the minor in this
syllogism.

The Mediterranean ironclad squadron is gone from
Toulon to Saint Florent, Corsica. It will pass the summer
in the neighbourhood of that island, making occasional ex-
perimental trips. It will take part in the great fetes of
August 15, when the centenary of the annexation of the
island to France will be observed. Ott the 19th the 99th
anniversary of the birth of Napoleon I. will be celebrated,
and it is probable that his successor will be present and
make a speech. If he do, you may be sure that it will be
considerably more discreet than that which was made by
his cousin some three years ago.
M. Greasier has presented the report of the Commission
Upon the Loan, in which the commissioners state that
while they fixed the loan at 400 millions, " the Council of
State persists in fixing it at 440 millions. But the com-
mission maintains its amendments. It is right, in our
opinion, for our financial position imperiously requires
economy." The report concludes with a review of the
position of France, and the causes which have made the
loan necessary. The commissioners admit that there
was last year a danger of collision, and that
it was necessary to spend a large sum of money in
developing the military resources of the country ; but,
say they, that contingency is " now far off, and France is
sufficiently strong not to fear any attack, sufficiently
penetrated with its true interests not to wish any aggres-
sion, and to be able to give itself up without any pre-occu-
pation—at least, of this sort—to works of commerce, indus-
try, and agriculture." Still stronger language follows. It
declares that the Corps Ugislatif must "show itself severe
with regard to an increase of its expenses ;" that every
Minister ought to aid the Minist( r of Finance in economising;
that "each Ministerought to be the Finance Minister of his
own department, and the most energetic controller of its
expenses ; that he ought to abandon that regrettable habit
of proposing every year a fresh increase, and that he ought
to have this truth constantly present to his mind—only
good finance can ensure prosperity at home and power
abroad." Weighty words these, which can scarcely
fail to have an effect. I presume it is in order
to counteract them that the semi-official journals are just
now renewing their complaints against the hostile attitude
of the German press. The Patrie especially has bitterly
complained of a certain article in Bismarck's organ. The
article certainly was not particularly friendly ; but the
Patrie has not mended matters by warning Prussia that
serious consequences will be likely to follow a repetitionof
this kind of writing.

The France publishes a private telegram from Copen-
hagen to the effect that the Danish Government is expect.
ing immediately an ultimatum from Berlin respecting the
Schleswig question, and it is feared that the resolution
taken by Prussia leaves no hope of conciliation between
that Government and Denmark. The same journal
mentions that the Courts of Sweden and Denmark are
to visit each other as soon as the Crown Prince of Den-
mark returns from England. It is not stated when his
marriage with the Princes of Sweden takes place.
A few days ago 4,000 persons agreed to meet in the
gardens of the Od6on, at Hanover, in order to celebrate
the birthday of their former king. When some 1,500 of
them had assembled, the police appeared and invited them
to leave. As the invitation was not accepted, the police pro-
ceeded to clear the garden. Thin had the effect of collecting a
still larger crowd in the streets, not a little excited by their
forcible ejectment. A large number of them then went to
the George Park ; they were not allowed to remain there, but
were told that this was a continuation of the political
manifestation which could not be permitted. Then they went
to a woad outside the town ; and here they danced and
shouted "Hoch ! " to their hearts' content, and were just
about to let off some fireworks when once more the police
appeared and stopped the display. The people then
thought it was time to go home, and passing the old
Royal Palace of llerrenhausen on the way, they chanted
Luther's" Ein, feste Burg ist unser Gott," and wound up
with three cheers for King George. This maid ftstation partly
explains Bismarck's extreme carefulness not to wound
French susceptibilities by a premature admission of South
Germany to the North German Confederation. It is clear
that King William is not yet so firmly seated in the affec-
tions of his newly-annexed Hanoverian subjects as to
render it certain that a foreign war would not be attended
by internal insurrection.

Baron von Beust's difficulties are not all surmounted
yet. The Czechs of Bohemia are daily crying out more
ane more loudly for a separate Constitution and Parlia-
ment such as have been given to Hungary. Nor is this
all. The Transylvanians want to separate from Hungary.
In fact, there seems to be a general disintegration of what
is known as the Austrian Empire. With Venetia altogether
escaped from Imperial control, and Hungary partly so,
every
one of dice innumerable nationalities which consti-
tute the empire is forgoverning itself after its own fashion.
Of course there is a limit to this, and while it was wise to
make concessions to Hungary—by far the largest province
under the Kaiser's rule—it is not to be expected that the
small provinces will obtain autonomy.
The heat in Italy has been something terrible. On the
28th ult. the thermometer at Florence was 95 deg. in the
shade, and on the following morning 79 deg. at 8 a.m.
An ginglish gentleman residing in Lungarno has disco-
vered an admirable means of keeping himself cool in this
tropical climate. His study is walled and floored with
zinc, being in fact a large tank filled breast-high
with water. A few articles of furniture, as a writing-
table, a chair or two, and a well•stored book-
case, raised high and dry upon cast-iron supports, and
kept fast to their moorings by means of screws, complete
the simple arrangements. In this retreat—his aquarium,
he calls it—our ingenious countryman passes the hot hours
of the day, receiving his friends and writing his letters,
with the occasional variety of a dip beneath the surface.
His habits are those of a student, and it is delightful to see
him striking out every now and then with hands and feet
in the direction of his dictionary or other books of reii-
rence spread open for use upon a sloping bank or ledge
above watermark.

Ismail Pasha, Viceroy, or, since the firman of May 11,
1867, King of Egypt, is said by the' Elmlard to be
seriously ill with a diseased throat. Ismail is 52 years
old.

The first anniversary dinner of the Bedsworth Conserva-
tive Association has given the two members for North
Warwickshire an opportunity of addressing their consti-
tuents. The chair was occupied by Mr. Sampson Lloyd,
the defeated candidate at the last Birmingham election,
who made a characteristic speech in proposing "'Tie
health of her Majesty's Ministers." He thought
the Ministry was composed of men of integrity,
and therefore deserved the thanks of the country ; praised
the firmness with which the Home Secretary had dealt
with the Fenians ; and contended that the Ministry had
done what no Government for fifteen years past could do
—settled the Reform question. Mr. Bromley Davenport
made an attack on Earl Russell for his recent conduct
in the House of Lords ; for although he had
brought forward charges against the present holders of
office which comprised every iniquity it was possible to
commit, he had forgotten to allude *,o the successful termi-
nation of the Abyssinian campaign, and other matters
favourable to them. Mr. Davenport added that he had
at first regretted that the Government did not resign, but
he now considered that they were perfectly right to remain
in power, in order "to defeat the machinations of the
Opposition." In replying to the toast of " The County
Members," Mr.- Newdegate announced his intention to
support the present Government—as he did every Govern-
ment—until they did wrong. He had felt it his duty to
oppose them at the commencement of the year, when they
proposed to make over to Cardinal (Mien and his
hierarchy a university for Ireland, and to endow
it. But he was glad that they had found
that they must not submit the education of the
higher classes in Ireland to the Pope's nominee.
The speaker ridiculed the cry of religious equality its
emanating from Archbishop Manning and Cardinal
Cullen, the representatives of the Pope, who claimed to
be the centre of the only true religion, and would not
allow free expression to any other religion where he could
prevent it. In conclusion, Mr. Newdegate said tin,
would have to govern Ireland as Cromwell governed it
by the sword—if they lost the only means by which terry
could approach at once the conscience intelligence Of
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