The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-26 00:00:00

- THE SUN LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING,
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COUNTER CLOTHS FOR LICENCED place, and rail it in as a private grave. A com- with the'progress "of education. Cruelty is often
.es
VICTUALLERS. miteee has been formed for the purpose of erecting traceable to ignorance as much as to intention, and
'FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
rI I E only article really suitable for that purpose, a tablet with a suitable inscription, and it may be the thoughtless boy who from want of sympathy :‘,:
_ PARIS, TUESDAY, August Z.
-A- ss. 6d. per dozen, hemmed, ready for use. Address .
mice and flies is only the
105, Fleet-street, and 5, The Pavement, Clapham. said that the best possible arrangements appear to and tenderness tortures
The holiday of some of the royal personages who are
- -- ' have been made under the afflicting circumstances prototype of the grown man who pursues his sport
now seeking rest and relaxation in various parts of the
GLAS!,- CLOTHS SUITABLE FOR LICENCED
of the affair. Had 1,. been possible to identify one thinking only of his present amusement, Continent is drawing to a close. The Queen will not, in
VICTUALLERS, 7s. 9d. PER DOZEN.
body, and to have given it separate interment, the heedless of the pain he is the means of inflicting. all probability, spend more than a fortnight longer in
IATILLIAM HOLDICH and CO., No. 105, Switzerland. The King of Prussia will return to Berlin
V V Fleet-street, foot of Ludgate hill ; and No. 5, effect would only have been more painful to the rest Unfortunately the class who delight in the posses-
on Friday. The rumour of an interview between the
The Pavement, Clapham-common.
of the mourners, and .the plan which has been sion of a gun, and go out shooting for a day's holi-
Emperors of Austria and Russia at Kissengen are con-
.
• FABLE CLOTHS, in every Width and Length, adopted is the most suitable. The sad ceremony day, are not exactly the sort of people who are likely tradicted simply by the departure of the Czar.
Meanwhile. the reports of a marriage between the King of
expressly for Licenced Victuallers. Damask Napkins I
for Tray Cloths, Drills for Bar Aprons and Towellings of over, and the last efforts having been made that to attend a scientific meeting. We can only hope
Bavaria and the daughter of the Emperor of Russia are
every description. Patterns gratis and post free. public opinion, and in
human desires can approach to show respect to influence them through still kept up with more than pristine vigour.
to the dead, the next duty to be per- this way Mr. NEWTON'S essay on the " Zoological Politics here consist of nothing but rumours, and even
CARDIGAN JACKETS made expressly for Bar formed bthose the s
use, Warm and Elastic, from ss. 6d. each, for y on pot will be Aspect of the Game Laws," read a few days since these now give some trouble to the ingenuity of fabri-
ators.Sovereigns and statesmen quietly enjoying the
'..,adies' and Gentlemen's use. WILLIAM lIOLDICH Norwich meeting, may do good service to his c m-
ascertain all the circumstances connected with the at the
selves at watering-places or country estates can furnish
and CO., LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, 105, Fleet- beautiful feathered clients. lt is not the first time but a limited amount of speculation, and this is
street, City, and No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common. deplorable event, and to seek to remedy any errors
— ---- of arrangement that may have taken place. The task that we have been told by mon of science that we based chiefly on the reality or possibility of interviews.
XV, ILLIAM HOLDICII anti Co.,_ LicEss ED There is much talk here at present of frequent communica-
V I VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, Established 1812, at 105, will be a difficult one, and, unfortunately, it seems are acting wrongly and foolishly in permitting the
lion between Lord Stanley and Prince Gortschakoff. The
Fleet-street, City; Southern Branch—No. 5, The Pave- wholesale destruction of birds. We shall find it
anent, Clapham-common. Patterns gratis and post free, likely to be rendered still more awkward by the two statesmen are said to have a pacific policy in view, and
with Price List, intervention of unnecessary forms and regulations. considerably easier in this case, as in many others, are actively engaged in elaborating a scheme which is to
The Coroner, doubtless, with the best intentions, to destroy than to create, and we have the warning be submitted to all the European States. The result of
TO LICENCED VICTUALLERS. this rumour may be guessed without much difficulty. The
constantly before our eyes. In France the ra- . . .
ESTABLISHED 184'2. has announced his determination to proceed on a Continent, reasonably or not, will soon be invaded by spe-
WILLIA.M HOLDICH and C 0., 'system,' but this mode of action has confused many, wages of insects have during the last year or two culation upon a European Congress.
LICENCED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, No. and occasioned some differences of opinion. Surely, a, greatly increased, while among ourselves the same The press has had very bad time of it during the last
105, Float-street, corner of Farringdon-street ; and at No. is to be perceptible. The excep- week. The number of small prosecutions, such as prohi-
5, The Pavement. Clapham-common (Southern Branch). in a case of such importance, it would be better to result beginning
bition of sale on the public way, and other administrative
tional heat of the weather this summer has accele-proceed in the simplest manner, which is generallyvexation; has been very numerous. Amongst greater
TII EAT R E It() YA L, ADELPIII. the most effectual in the long run, and, to avoid rated the progress of the evil, and every one who occurrences, the Liberal de Se:ne et• Oise has been con-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. owns even a garden has been made aware of the damned, the judgment against the Reveil has been con-
these vexatious debates, which defeat their own
of Mr. y. firmed, the Lanterne has been seized, &c. So far there
THIS EVENING, the Benefit
at 7, A ROUGHAshIe DIA %TO:W. Messrs. purpose by wasting ...time and creating unnecessary rapid development of insect life among his shrubs
has been no raid of functionaries against any
G. tlelmore, Ashley; Mrs. Billington, and Miss Lennox Gray. and flowers. But the havoc still goes on, and while
discussions. newspaper this week •; but then this is only Tuesday,
At a quarter to Eight, THE FLYING SCUD. Messrs, 0,
Belmure, Bitlington, Ashley, J. G. Taylor, C. 11. Stephenson, - our colonists are taking great pains and going and, as one journal jocosely ram: rks Var.; is no need 0
C. J. Smith; kliss Charlotte Saunders, Miss Louisa Moore, Miss
Maria Harris, and Miss Lennox Grey. Parliament is to be dissolved on the 9th of to considerable expense to transport English despair yet.
After which Mrs. Billington will recite, in character, Tenny- November, and the end of that month will see the There was a semen hat
~ . serious a rita"on at the publics
son's Poem, "The Grandmother." small birds across the ocean and to domicile them
meeting held at Vaux Hall last night. The attendance
To conclude with TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Mr. general election over, so that by the middle of among themselves, we are permitting the formation at these gatherings is generally in excess of the capacity
G Belmore, Mr. Ashley, and Miss C. Saunders. December or a little earlier the new Parliament can of clubs and associations organised for the express of the room. Last night the number admitted was alto-
R OYA.L PRINCESS'S THEATRE. assemble. By this arrangement there will be plenty purpose of wholesale slaughter. In Australia and gether too great,and the crushed and stifled publicnaturally
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. of time for the Opposition to try its strength in and speedily became very irritable. The law of June
THIS EVENING, at 7, A CHARMING PAIR. in America the English sparrow is a personage of
6, 1868, which directs that all meetings shall be held in
After which (at it o'clock), Dion Boucicault's new drama, in the debate on the Address to the CROWN, and it •
four acts, entitled AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life. importance, while in England sparrow clubs and covered rooms with closed doors, greatly contributes to the
Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray, H. J. Montague, cannot be said that the Government has not given
J. (i. Shore ; Miss Tressy Marston, and Miss Rose Leclereq.
Entirely new Scenery by Mr, F. Lloyds and assistants. them fair play and every possible chance which they street boys are on the watch to destroy them. Nor discomfort of overcrowded audiences, and the excessive
crush last night soon led to riotous consequences. The
To conclude with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. is this anxiety on the part of the American and
president set fire to the powder by an unlucky pro-
Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open can reasonablyidemand or desire. This will put an
daily from 10 till 5. Australian altogether a matter of sentiment. In posal. Seeing that the speakers were, r. s , pea ten wi 1, to s-
end to the insinuations of some to the effect that New York, where the citizens carry most things fining themselves to rnatteri which had been saidhalf a dozen
ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. after all the House would not meet until the usual which they undertake to a successful issue, they times over by the preceding orators, or there wan erin; into
Sole l,essee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. time after Christmas, and that all most interested forbidden ground, he expi essecl an of n:on that th 3
T illS EVENING, at 7.30, SISTERLY SERVICE. Messrs.
Belford, Harcourt; Miss Sheridan have succeeded in establishing a colony of sparrows
1 general discussion bad been pretty well exhausted, and
After which, THE FIELD OF TIIE CLOTH OF GOLD. in the matter would be kept in suspense for some
Messrs. '('.tome, James, and Robson; 3lesdames Sheridan, considerable period. It cannot be said that there and these sparrows have within a short time ridded that it was time to abandon it. But some thirty speakers
G... 0 'all. Hughes, Newton, &c.
To conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. has been any real foundation for this as- the city of an established nuisance, the presence of who had been set down for the general (liscuss'on com-
-1 kindof caterpillar in their public
a arge worm orplained grievously of this premature termination, and
' I.L AMPHITHEA FRE AND CIRCUS sertion, but as it has been put forth it cried out for " Lib( rty " witli one accoal. A
great disturbance loth wed, and part of the audi.
11°1i HOLBORN. ' is as well that its contradiction should gardens. These worms had increased in such gum-
this proposed
Additional Novelties and Attractions.-The Sensation of Lon- berg that they held absolute possession of the place, ence seemed to sympathise ise
also appear, and the country should recognise. thirty, but
don.-The most brilliant success ever achieved by any artiste.
ONRA, every evening, in his Flying Trapeze Act, as performed calm was at length restored. 'When the excited multitude
before their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales that no advantage has been taken to put off and a reward was offered for their destruction. invasion of the rights of the unhappy y,
That reward was earned by the sparrows, who
amidst the most deafening applause. the day of decision. It is, however, so much the came to its senses, or found that the disturbance increased
OKRA'S Terrific Flights on Two Bars. the temperature, the proposition of the president was
o .ItA.'s Incredible Somersaults and Pirouettes. fashion on these occasions for one side to disparape cleared the grounds of the intruders, and who will,
ONRA, the most wonderful and perfect performer ever . we hope, be better protected in New York than in unanimously accepted !
witnassed• the other that little or no surprise can be felt at
The incomparable Scenes in the Arena as usual, including M.
Samwell's wonderful performing Dogs. any exagg The sweet singers eration of statement that takes place, and London. But it is not the sparrow only who has
THE WEATHER TABLE.—THIS DAY.
Open at half-past Seven, commence at Eight. Morning Per-
formance, Wednesday and Saturday, at Half-past Two. Children all that can be done is to rectify errors and put reason to complain. irs who lend
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un ler ten, half-price to morning performance only. our hedge-rows and woodlands half their charm in METEOROLOGICAL RETORTS.
mistakes right. The candidates for election do not the summer mornings, even the lark, which the Extreme Sea
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN seem in any undue haste to come forward, but here
sr_ei R. GLENIE, of the Sporting Library, poet tells us the colonist must regret among the Tudgnuest aft B. pi tt W iFt.O F. D. wR.I to
and there speeches are made and addresses put 44
• 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, London, W., begs to 8 a.m. 12 9
tuneless birds" of his new home, all alike fall victims
ai.orin hie customers, and the Licensed Victuallers in general,
forward which show that the work is progressing. - - -
that he has been appointed Agent for the above-named paper in to the wanton sport of those who belong most cer- Aberdeenlr
edition to his agency for the Sporting Edition of " Tits SeN,"
The tug of war is as yet far off, and we can only thinly.
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and can supply the same on Friday evening, if required, in town kleiletilids
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ar country.
what will be the extent of its fury and to WORDSWORTH'S matter-of-fact primrose
G. R. G. begs to inform the Trade that he is Agent for the surmise Scarborough 30'01s. 58 54 W.Q.W. 4 4 W.N.W. r. e. - 4
Yarmouth 3o'l6r. 56 53 S.W. 2 3 W.N.W. o•o• - 2
!LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN," and can supply it earlier the excitement of • its course. Mr. SAM UDA gazer, and to whom a living thing, however beau-
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rtion. No connection with any other persons. Taily'i; Reties M.P. for Tavistock, has appeared as a
7 tif al or inoffensive, can never be anything more
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bright's, and M'Call's Guides. All the Daily Papers, Maga: now Ardrossan - 29'89f. 57 55 S.W. 4 6 S.W. r.0.,0'17 5
sines, and Periodicals as soon as published. Agent fur the Juiat candidate for the Tower Hamlets, and last night than an object to fire at ! Greencastle 29 79f. 58 55 S.W. 3 6 N.W. r.co o'o3
;tuck Coal Company. Orders by post attended to.ay 6 5 W. cr. 'o'o3 _
It would seem, according to Mr. NEWTON'S IWlrhpea : : 33Vgrf: 58 57 s.k„.• 2 3 W. s.e.l_ 1
delivered his opinions to a meeting of the electors Valenti& .... 7.29'91f. 60 58 W.S.W. 7 8 S.W. c•r• 0'23 6
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I[IHE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " at Poplar. Ile certainly did not mince mattersaccount, that these bird murderers have not con-
Roche'. Pt. 29'98f. 58 58 S.W. 6 6 S.W. kr. 010 4
supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W. or tented themselves with depopulating the land, but Penzance .. 30'20f. 60 57 S.W. 4 4 N•w• C. 1 - 3
ALEXI, DER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, IN°. 4, Old underrate the importance of the work before theW.N.W.l 3 N.M. c.m o'o3
Cavendish-street, Oxford-street. have been busy also at sea. For the most part, Veymmoeutaiii;* icArs: 1(7) 55 isc*. 3 3 W. c.o. - i
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new Parliament, for he declared that the issues to Portsmouth 30•22 r. 58 55 W.
London -.. 302er. 56 53 W.S.W. 4 3 W.N.W. be. - -
WH O'S GRAIN G E R, LICENSED be decided now were more momentous than on any hy
however, the slaughterers of the sea gull are actuated
C'peGris Nez 30'02f. 59 54 S.W. 4 I n6,/t.,. F. s
gain, and are stimulated by the Brest . . 30'28r. 59 57 S. S. W. 1 5 l',.'iii.,v W. b.C. L- 1
VICTUALLERS' TOBACCONIST, SHEPHERD'S-BUSH. the desire of
L'Orient. .. 30'27r. 55 53 E.
N.W 5 5 N.W. b. - 1
The SPORTING EDI HO 4of "TH ta SUP " can be seen at occasion since 1832. Four questions stood out pro- demand of the plumassier for the beautiful white Merl Biarritz t: : V3:1: 59 g 79 NN. . 4 - - f• - 2
JR a I NGER'S Establishment, as above, every evening by Eight - - - - -
clerk. minently. The fiscal relations of the country,
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I I[IIIE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN" Res 'Lyons pecting these he spoke very decidedly, being in 4 W-S
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• SPORTING INTELLIGENC le, by II lAT HARRIS, favour of some amendment of the law of Trades'
Newspaper Agent, 4, Blackfriars-road, London, S.need not wonder that Mr. NEWTON is in fear tent (4 ta.
local timem) 30'335. 51 50 S. 1i 1 S. o.b. - 3
--Unions, the principle of which was good; and as for of the seagull being driven from our coasts alto-
EXPLANATION.
f VILE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN." education he was an advocate of the compulsory gether, if not entirely exterminated. The worst Bare ter corrected and reduced to 32 deg. a sea level. The letter
I_ J. IaJLMES begs to inform his friends and the public r., rising; f., falling; s., steady-indicate dlrectirai of motion of tot
greic rally that he supplies 'the LATEST EDITION of " THE System, believing that the measure would reduce of the matter is, that each bird so destroyed repre- mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed In shade.
LT .N " as soon as published.-No. 10, Hampstead-road, N. W.
crime. The spread of knowledge would doubtless tend sents the destruction of many more, for the men, Extreme Force with its Ihrectiou during last 24 hours, Z.-calm
Weather : b.-blue sky ; e.-clouds. detached ; f.-fog ;h. hail:
"111 E "SUN" NEWSPAPER.—G, It. GLENIE to improve the social condition of the community, anxious to secure them, spread their nets on the 1.-lightniEg : Tn.-misty, hazy : 0.-ove:(ast, dull ; r.- rains.- snow;
delivars the Lt TE EDITION at Chelsea, 7 40. Kilburn,
8; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.10; -Watford, rock ant catch them while rearing their young,
9.15.5 ea disturbance.
s,ysteal of compulsion, and those who are anxious nEssanics.
- who are thus left to die of starvation. It is at the
THE THIRD EDITION OF " TIIE SUN,,, to try this plan will find out that it cannot answer. bie2eding season that they come especially tc., our On the Irish coast a decrease in barometrical pre stir.: is shewn
whilst on our E. and S.E. coasts there has been a rise of equal
--1- giving all the PSISOTING NEWS of the day, may be seen -Mr. REED, at Hanbury, made a spirited speech, ill
at TENI YNE % NTO a house, " Fire Swan and Horse Shoe,"shores, and thus the direct mischief done by shooting extent: in other districts readings are generally higher by about one-
....ittle Britain, City, E.C. tenth of an inch. The lowest pressure is in the north of Scotland,
which he edified his hearers by drawing delightful
or snaring them is as nothing to that indirectly
and is exceeded by that at Brest by
viiE"SUN" NE WSPAPER.—G. It. GLENIE, pictures of the new state of things when Mr. GLAD- effected by depriving the young birds of their is generally higher. Strong winds f a. T.
from the sIN blew yesterday in
the south of Ireland. This morning the wind is generally south-
n_ Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgew-are-mad, STONE, at the head of a hundreti majority, and
delivers the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN "at the ea'cliest ~. parents. The fickle goddess Fsshion is to westerly, and is fresh on the Irish coast, but =federate in the English
possible. moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver ,1 OIIN BRI Gler not far from him, would send Mr. blame for this wholesale slaughter, since the now Channel. Rain has fallen in Ireland. The weather is generally
James in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country cloudy.
at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 41) miles by DISRAELI to the Upper House, or to th.e Opposition ; .----------________
nine o'clock prevalent custom of wearing bird-plumes in ladies' --------
Criers by post punctually attended to. at any rate the interests of the people would be hats has given risen to the present extraordinary A fresh invasion of Bulgaria by insurgent bands is
looked after, and " the miserable sham Reform Bill spoken of. Intelligence from Vienna states that the pre-
ril HE LATEST' EDITION of " THE SUN "to demand. A lady, Miss BECKER, of Manchester,
.1- be seen Every Evening by 8.10 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCIC put to rights." This has the advantage of being herself a contributor to the essays read at Norwich ions are openly made, and are all but directly aided
Partitions .
s,
Britannia, Kensal New-town ' by the Roumanian authorities. A conflict between the
_ somewhat original at any rate, after the ordinary entered her protest on behalf of the lady plume Turks and the Roumans is considered inevitable.
,PORTING.—JOHN ROBERTS supplies. the mode of election discourses, and it is entertaining wearers on the ground of ignorance, and thus The theory that gold is to be found in abundance all
L ATES r EDITION of "THE SUN " as soon :as pub-
lishe,l.-4. Bath-street. Citv-road. E.C. also. niss+ssted her favourite doctrine of the deficiencies over the 'world is borne out in some measure by the nume-

It would seem, according to Mr. NEWTON'S
account, that these bird murderers have not con-
tented themselves with depopulating the land, but
have been busy also at sea. For the most part,
however, the slaughterers of the sea gull are actuated
by the desire of gain, and are stimulated by the
demand of the plumassier for the beautiful white
plumes of the gull. When we are told that
one house in London has given an order
for ten thousand birds in one season, we
need not wonder that Mr. NEWTON is in fear
of the seagull being driven from our coasts alto-
gether, if not entirely exterminated. The worst
of the matter is, that each bird so destroyed repre-
sents the destruction of many more, for the men,
anxious to secure them, spread their nets on the
rock an I catch them while rearing their young,
who are thus left to die of starvation. It is at the
breeding seaion that they come especially to our
shores, and thus the direct mischief done by shooting
or snaring them is as nothing to that indirectly
effected by depriving the young birds of their
parents. The fickle goddess F,,shion is to
blame for this wholesale slaughter, since the now
prevalent custom of wearing bird-plumes in ladies'
hats has given risen to the present extraordinary
demand. A lady, Miss BECKER, of Manchester,
herself a contributor to the essays read at Norwich,
entered her protest on behalf of the lady plume
wearers on the ground of ignorance, and thus
illustrated her favourite doctrine of the deficiencies
of feminine education. No lady, she said, would
willingly wear the feather of a bird that was de-
stroyed in the act of feeding its young, and we
hope that, now the facts of the case are made
known, fashion will seek its adornments elsewhere,
and leave the poor sea fowl in peace.
These birds are not without their utility.
They guide the fishermen to shoals of
fish ; they consume the fish offal, thus preserving
the health of our shores, and, best of all, in dan-
gerous rocky coasts their incessant cry is an invalu-
able warning to the mariner. Off Anglesey, where
there is a colony of these birds, the firing of the
signal gun has been abandoned by order of the Tri-
nity House, for fear it should disturb the birds, who
are surer and more audible guides in the frequent
thick and hazy weather. At the Isle of Man laws
have been passel for their preservation, and a
penalty is inflicted on those who destroy them.
Mr. NEWTON showed by many illustrations that we
often made serious mistakes and defeated our own
objects by exterminating whole orders of creatures,
which each had their specified place in nature, and
served to preserve the balance of things by keeping
others in check. At the last meeting of the associa-
tion a similar discussion was opened by Mr. TRIS-
TRAM, who declared that " birds of prey were the
sanitary police of nature," and man is never wiser
than nature without discovering too late that his
wisdom is something very like folly.

THE Tiirß,D EDITION OF " THE SUN,"
f.rivin,L; ail the SPORTING NT EWS of the day, may he seen
at TEM YM‘N TO \'S house, " The Swan and Horse Shoe,"
Britain, City, E.C.

SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE,
ft Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-mad,
delivers the LAT E EDITION of " THE SUN " at the ezycliest
possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver
a)pies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country
at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by
nine o'clock

THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " to
be seen Every Evening by 8.10 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCVS,
Britannia, Kensal New-town.

PORTING.—JOHN ROBERTS supplies. the
ki-7 TATES 1' EDITION of "THE SUN " as soon 3a pub-
Bath-street, City-road, E.C.

The theory that gold is to be found in abundance all
over the world is borne out in some measure by the mime.
rous discoveries which have recently been made. Gold
has been found in the Celestial Empire, and the rumours
of, large deposits in the mysterious region of Thibet have
gained greater strength and consistency of late years. In
Auckland, New Zealand, the goldfields are reported to be
very productive. The Southern CroB3 says that week
after week comes fresh news of fresh " leaders "
being struck and splendid results obtained. In some cases
the yield is marvellous, over 1,000 ounces from two tons
being the result of the last crushing of picked stone at one
claim. " That the Thames goldfields will take their stand
diggings in the world is, we
think,
noinc
beyond
e richestuestio question."
. reefing

For some time past great fires have been of extraordinary
frequency in Russia. It has been thought that the Poles
were the cause of these conflagrations, seeking by this
mode the retalisation which would otherwise be impossible.
Public opinion in St. Petersburg now points to a society of
criminals, whether Poles or otherwise is not stated, formed
for the purpose of spreading terror by fire and pillage. A
circular, purporting to be a manifests from the cc mmittee
at the head of this society. has been distributed in great
numbers. It states that very many prisoners who have
been illegally condemned and ruined by their condemnation,
still remain in Russian prisons. The many who have suf-
fered from the same cause and have been released have
resolved to revenge every innocent prisoner by the de-
struction of some dwelling. The members of the society
are permitted to pillage to recompense themselves for the
losses they have suffered, and to pay the expenses of the
society. These facts have caused great general terror in
Russia. The document does not appear to us at this dis-
tance very genuine, but the fact of the fires is incon-
testable. - _

There appears in the Times a letter from General
Codrington, complaining of the injustice of " the Reviewer"
of Mr. Kinglake's " Invasion of the Crimea." The
"Reviewer" having spoken of an " unsoldierly and
slovenly flank march," and of the " army wandering for
miles in broken straggling columns close to the enemy,"
the General says : " Those who were present, and
those of your readers who value the credit of
the army, may be allowed to feel somewhat
indignant at the use of these expressions, and require
some better proof to justify the publication of them."
He adds : " History will record that 27,000 English and
25,000 French troops were landed in hostility on an
enemy's coast to attack his stronghold ; that this ar ny
had a hostile force a'm st in its presence, in the
neighbourhood of which it disembarked, bivouacked,
and marched with every warlike precaution, from the
14th to the 25th of September. This hostile march was,
indeed, magnificent to those who looked upon its
columns of infantry and artillery as they covered the
face of the country in advancing masses, open enough
for ease of march and dep'oyment, yet close enough for
defence, and with every preparation for fight:ng. This
army victoriously stormed the intrenchcd position on the
Alma by an attack o 7 which the English bore the brunt.
It again advanced, crossing the plains and rivers between
it and t':ebastopol, biv.aracking with every precaution
a(:taii,st an enemy. Ar iving on the north side of Sebas-
topol, it was ordered on a bold and difficult—p laaps
haza:- 'ou ;--- fl Lilt march, in ord, r to seize the pert of
Pala .'avo, and occupy the plateau south of the fortress."
The General inquires whether this army deso.rves the depre-
ciatory expressions of the " Reviewer." He v:ndicat :a
Lord Raglan ; and considers the "expressions to be as
unjust towards the rest of. the army as they are proved and
acknowledged to be towat ds one portion of it—the Light
Division—which formed the advance of the army on
the Tchernaya." Old soldiers like the criticisms of
civilians no better than Hotspur liked the remarks of " The
Fop." They have every right to complain when these
criticisms are unjust, and almost a right to be angry. The
outside public can hardly settle the matter, and must in a
great measure judge of the «eight of military opinions by
the standing of the men who give them.

A painting of great merit has just been received
at the Vatican, says L' Univers, to commemorate
the centenary of S. Peter, executed by the coma
mand of the Holy Father, and from his own idea,
by M. Seitz, a German, residing in Rome. S. Peter
is seated in cathedra, in that Chair of his which is
preserved in the Basilica ; with his right hand he
raises the keys to touch a heavenly orb supported
by an angel—a symbolic treatment of Giotto's.
Two angels approach the Chair—one holding tha
reversed Cross, and the other the chains, two
emblems to which the attacks on the holy See
have of late given special interest. Two other
angels support the Chair, at the foot of which, on
the right, we see Pius IX. kneeling, having behind
him the Angel of History, who registers the
eighteenth centenary. The holy Father is recom
mending the Church to S. Peter. On the left is
a group of three kneeling figures—Faith, in the
person of S. Helen holding the Cross ; Charity, in
the person of S. Agnes with her lamb ; and Hope,
as the daughter of Noah, with the dove and the
raven (Y) In the distance a rock rises out of the
sea on which the Church is built, represented by
the Vatican Basilica, in to which a long procession
of bishops is entering ; they issue from a vessel
steered by angels, and having the image of the
Immaculate Virgin on its pennon. At the half
distance an angel, seated on the shore, holds in
one hand the anchor of the boat and in the other
a flaming sword. At the right extremity on the
lower plain, three armed angels are turning back
the flood thrown out by the dragon, two of whose
heads are already wounded. The painting has all
the good qualities of the German school, without
its dryness.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1868.

SPIRIT OF.TRE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times confesses that it is no longer possible to enter:
tain the slightest hope that the letter purporting to be sent
by Mr. Stuart Wortley from Lowestoft was authentic.
We have naturally clung to the delusion as long as we
could. It is unpleasant-to acknowledge that we have been
hoaxed, and yet we are bound to confess that the letter is
a forgery. It is equally unpleasant to relinquish the
belief in a pleasing dream, and there was something
so simple, so direct, and, moreover, so exalted about
the Lowestoft letter that it is with the utmost
reluctance we recognise it as a hoax. But there is no
escape from the conclusion. It is possible we ought not to
have believed for a moment the letter from Lowestoft tc
be genuine. It is true it bore all-external marks of authen•
ticity, and was so well concocted that it was as like truth
as it could be. But we now see there was internal evi-
dence which ought to have disturbed our credulity.
The date from the Royal Hotel, Lowestoft, should
have shaken our faith. We believe •many persons go
to Lowestoft at this season of the year, and that it has, in
fact, become a favourite watering-place for the inhabi-
tants of the Eastern Counties ; but the ex-governor of the
Credit Foncier of England could not be conceived to be
among them. Not even the thought that Lowestoft is in
some s at the creation of the kindred genius of Sir Morton
Pcto could draw Mr. Stuart Wortley there. In one of
the most " screaming " farces ever written, the
arrival of a real Quaker of this classic name is anti-
cipated by a counterfeit friend, who gets an introduc-
tion into a most respectable Quaker family, and secures
the daughter of the house by pretending to be the ex-
pected visitor. But it has been remarked that the pseudo
Friend is with great art made to overdo his part. His
Quakerism is too pronounced, his " thees" and " thous"
too frequent. His unction is excessive. The Quakers ought
to have detected the too pious imposter. We cannot help
applying the parable to ourselves. Reading, then, again
by the light of experience the letter from Lowestoft,
we feel that this is not the real Simon Pure.
There is one gleam of sunshine in this matter of the Credit
Foncier. The letter of Mr. R. Stuart Lane is not yet
withdrawn. Mr. Lane does not offer to repay £lB,OOO as
soon as the necessary pecuniary arrangements can
be perfected; but he states the sum he received
as director's commission--£4,126 15s. 9d. ; and he
declares that he holds it ready to repay all or any
part should it appear that the calculations of profits
made by the Credit Foncier, and therefore of
commission received by the directors, were based on unfair
valuations of the assets of the company. We believe this
offer amounts to little more than a submission to what a
court of equity would enforce ; but there is an immense
difference between a spontaneous readiness to make resti-
tution and necessary obedience to a decree of the Court of
Chancery. Mr. Lane's offer proves it was not, after all,.
absolutely impossible, though excessively unlikely, that
Mr. Stuart Wortley should have written us such a letter
as the one by which we were deceived.

The Daily News says Astrea, has not re-descended to
earth, nor so much as thought of doing so ; and the
return of the golden age is indefinitely postponed. The
news published by the Times on Monday was too good to be
true, and our contemporary has since been informed by Mr.
Stuart Wortley that the letter purporting to bear Ms name
is a forgery. The public has learned this intelligence,
we suspect, with more regret than surprise. The
announcement on Monday did not, we believe, greatly
affect the market value of Credit Fouler shares. The
whole aspect of the latter was irregular. Mr. Stuart
Wortley has done nothing so unhandsome as " peaching "
upon his colleagues. The shareholders are but where they
were—no better and no worse than before the publication
of this letter ; and the same may be said of Mr. Albert
Grant.

The Standard sympathises deeply with those of its con-
temporaries who, fired by a sublime enthusiasm in the
cause of virtue, hal rushed into the eulogy of Mr.
Wortley and his grand example. Their disappointment
can scarcely be less poignant than that of the writer of
the leading article which was supposed to have wrought
this great miracle. We began to form a higher ideal of
the City director. We had long been perplexed by doubts
as to what kind of man it was who returns conscience-
money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Here
at last, we said, was the type of that noble creature.
It is lamentable to think that we have been deceived, and
that the elaborate eulogies which have been uttered of
Mr. Wortley's conduct have all to be unwritten. Perhaps
the best joke— supposing that it were possible to indulge
in any vein of levity on so rad an occasion is, that
another director of the Credit Foncier, Mr. Stuart Lane,
moved by the powerful homilies of the Times, or fired by
Mr. Wortley's generous example, has actually offered to
make restitution of his share of the directors' remunera-
tion. We 1 re3ume that sufficient care has been taken to
guard us aganst a second forgery, and that Mr. Stuart
Lane's offer to m: k .) restitution is no hcax.

The Post thinks that Mr. Childers, who addressed his
constituents on Monday last, has certainly given us the
best electioneering Fp e cli which has yet come from any of
the candidates who are now before the country, and one
which deserves and will repay the most careful study as a
complete and exhaustive review of the principal subjects
now agitating the public mind. Taking us back only three
years, be recalls the state of popular opinion upon such of
these stil i:cts as Lad then attracted the greatest
attention, and remarks that the comparison of
the views then held with those now entertained
is encuh to make us " feel as if we had made
a leap from somewhere about the middle ages."
Though Le claims the Reform Bill for the Liberal party,
he pays a tribute to the sincerity of the Government in
the support it has given to the complementary measure for
the prevention of corrupt practices at elections, as to which
he frankly admits that it is " doubtful whether without
the aid of the Government it would have been carried."
He declares there are still important amendments required
in the Reform Bill, and that the "right principle which
in the end must be applied will be simply this, that
besides lodger classes and all other exceptional classes who
should be admitted to the suffrage, every occupant of a
rated house ought to be an elector," and that without
being pestered by any such checks and counter-
poises as now disfigure the franchise. The Post
believes that before the end of the next Parliament
the Act will be so remodelled as to keep that pro-
mise to the hope which it now only keeps to the ear.
Upon the Irish Church Mr. Childers has made a most
admirable and exhaustive essay, in which he has condensed
and compared all that is really pertinent to be said about
it, and has worked his way all through by incontrovertible
steps to the demonstration that the only thing to be done
with it is to abolish together all its public, attributes and
advantages, having regard only to existing interests.
Mr. Childers goes at length into the financial history of
the last few years, and draws most startling conclusions
from them. To these we shall recur ; but we may say that
they are as instructive and as well worked out as the rest
of his speech, the whole of which is to be recommended as
a study to the politicians who are now making such a stir
throughout the country.

The Herald wishes to know since when the cardinal
doctrine of America and the French Retolution has been
accepted. Lord Elcho must have noticed the new shibbo-
leth which Mr. Gladstone and his immediate friends are
striving to get their followers to adopt; for, in Hadding-
tonshire the other day, he thus expressed himself : "I
cannot, under our existing Protestant Constitution, admit
the principle of religious equality as between Protestants
and Roman Catholics." Whereupon, to our infinite amaze-
ment we confess, a Radical journal thus falls foul of him :
" Lord Elcho merits admiration for the boldness of a
declaration which hardly any avowed Tory would dare to
make in words of equal plainness." We beg to assure our
contemporary that no Tory would dream of declaring any
else. We should also like to see the man in the
flesh who would have the courage to declare the opposite.
Will our Radical contemporary ? Will it admit the
principle of religious equality between Protestants and
Roman Catholics ? If it will, it is of course prepared to
act upon the principle. Then how about the succession
to the throne ? May a Roman Catholic wear the crown
of England? Assuredly he may, and must—supposing
him to become one—if the principle of religious equality
is to be acknowledged. Perhaps our contemporary
would say that it should not have the slightest objection
to a Roman Catholic sovereign. We shall be infinitely
obliged to it if it will say so, for then there will no longer
be any doubt upon the point. It thinks so ;or else in
attacking Lord Elcho it has written egregious nonsense.
We have not been quoting from the Times, but the
Times, either in a covert or a careless fashion, is
pretty nearly as inaccurate and wide of the mark.
" The Roman Catholics," it says, " are part of ourselves,
with equal rights in the same Constitution, " under the
same sovereign and the same laws." We utterly deny it,
and are surprised to meet with such reckless assertions.
As we have already pointed out, our Roman Catholic
fellow-subjects have not tl.e i-ame rights in the same Con-
stitution. It forbids them to occupy the Throne, to say
nothing of other posts. Neither are the Roman Catholics
under the same sovereign as ourselves ; since Pro-
testants are wholly under Queen Victoria, and
they are partly under Queen Victoria and partly
under Pius IX. Religious equality is confounded with
" religious liberty." We must, therefore, beg that "
gious equality "be no more heard of. " Religious liberty"
is intelligible, and already exists wherever England has
dominion. " Ecclesiastical equality " is also perfectly in
telligible ; but it does not exist according to the Englisb
Constitution, and, to raise no other difficulty, it never
can until the throne of England may be filled by a
sovereign without any regard to his or her theological
faith.