The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1868.

in the Conservative policy has been its advocacy of '
th 3 Factory Bill and the Ten Hours' Bill, which
were, it will be remembered, vehemently opposed
by the Liberals, or the greater part of them at any
rate. To go about talking of their devotion to
the cause of the poor, and then to strive
to defeat the measures calculated to relieve
them seems most inconsistent, to say the
least of it ; and it seems strange how
their admirers can reconcile it to themselves. One
of thesequeries may be well put to the Gladstoneites
in the fair expectation of posing them--" Who
were twenty-five years in office and did not reform
the Irish Church ? ' Expenditure is not left out in
this category, and accordingly we learn that the
Income Tax was fivepence in the pound in one year
of the Conservatives' Administration, and tenpence
in the year of the GLADSTONE rule of the Exchequer;
and that while the same wise management got the
country's expenditure in one year to seventy-three
millions, the skill of his opponents reduced it to
sixty-four millions. It may be said, in summing
up this matter, that, looking back to the period re-
ferred to in this list, the most efficient work has
been done by those who made the least parade.
Promises and professions have been rife among the
Liberal leaders in Opposition, but the burden of
office prevented them from fulfilling their pledges,
and after all their opponents had to enact the part
of performance.

magnificent rent roll. So far as we can accept the
indications of the present somewhat trying ordeal,
the young marquis is likely to do honour to his
lineage and his order. At the working men's
impromptu dinner to which he was invited on
visiting Cardiff, Lord BUTE delivered a short ad-
dress in returning thanks for his health, which gave
evidence of a deep sense of the responsibilities
entailed upon him by his vast wealth and exalted
position. When he came into that great town, he
said, ho saw the number of families nourished
by its prosperity, and considered the hopes
which they had formed of him, and the regard
in which they held him for his father's
sake, when he thought of his power for doing good
or evil to many of them, and his own inexperience
and weakness, he felt the weight of responsibility
upon him to be almost crushing. He was, however,
determined to do his best, and he hoped the men of
Cardiff would help him. They must all work to-
gether, not only for the increase of wealth and
power, and for success in the enterprise which had
been begun, but for the increase of knowledge and
purity, the amelioration of the misery, crime, and sin
which surrounded them. The hearty cheers which
greeted this appeal proved that the working men of
Cardiff were ready, under such leadership, to do
their part, and we trust that the same cordial re-
lations will be maintained between the young lord
and his neighbours during their future intercourse.

LATEST INTELLMENCE.

(REUTER'S
.TELEORA3IS.)

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Sept. 18.

The King will leave for the camp of Fojano to-
morrow morning, accompanied by General Mena-
brea and the Minister of War, in order to be pre-
sent at the mano3uvre3 of the troops and some trials
of new field artillery.

MALTA.

VALETTA, Sept. 18.

H.M.S. Endymion has arrived here. She re-
ports that the British squadron, consisting of the
Caledonia, Lord Warden, Prince Consort, Arethusa,
and Rapid was at Angusta Bay on the 16th inst.

Lord Clarence Paget has determined not to can-
vass Anglesey preparatory to the general election,
but will remain to complete the term of his command
in the Mediterranean.

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 19.

The National Steamship Company's steamship
Virginia, from New York, arrived off here at seven
o'clock this morning. Hiving landed passengers
she proceeded for Liverpool. All well.

THE INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.

MALTA, Sept. 18.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Pera, from Southampton on the sth inst., arrived
on the 14th at 7 a.m., and at 7 p.m. left for Alex-
andria.

The Tanjore leaves at 4 p.m. to-day for South-
ampton, where she may be looked for about the
27th inst.

HUNGARY.

PESTI', Sept. 18 (Evening).

A delegation of the 'Tribunal of Pesth will
shortly proceed to Semlin, taking with them Prince
Karageorwiwich and his alleged accomplices in the
murder of Prince Michael Orenowich, there to be
confronted with the witnesses for the prosecution
from Servia.

PLY3IOUTII, Sept. 19.

The brig Hannah, of Shields, has arrived here
with the shipwrecked crew of the brig Sunbeam,
of Newport, which was lost in the Bay of Biscay
on the 11th instant.

LO'4I3,ESEONIVINQE FROM PO4O

(FROM OUR OWN . CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, FRIDAY, Septembei 18.

The interview between the Queen of Spain and the
Emperor Napoleon is finally settled. There will, in fact,
be two interviews ; the Emperor will visit San Sebastian,
and the Queen will visit Biarritz. The Queen has thus
triumphed over all opposition, but not without much
humiliation. In fact, she succeeded in securing the desired
interview only by proposing herself to go to Biarritz a
second time —a proposition which left the Emperor no
choice. He has been forced both to receive the Queen and
to return her visit. But what benefit her Majesty may
hope from this loss of dignity it is difficult to say.
She throws away the last chance, if there was any chance,
of conciliating her subjects at home. And it is impossible
that the Emperor, who has shewn his repugnance to this
interview by every means which etiquette permitted, can
consent to promise the Queen the assistance she noto-
riously seeks. It is impossible to predict the issue of such
a meeting, except that it is pretty certain to end in disap-
pointment to one sovereign and annoyance to the other.
Some of the papers here are full of the wildest rumours
respecting the purpose of these interviews, but they are all
alike worthless. That the Queen has important objects in
view cannot be doubted—she would not otherwise degrade
herself in the eyes of the Spaniards by seeking Imperial
patronage—but that the Emperor can be made a party to
her views is altogether a different question.
The Emperor does not find much retirement at Biarritz.
Shortly after the Imperial party arrived, the Emperor,
family, and attendants traversed the whole town, in order
to view the works of the new port. A large crowd assem-
bled at the Imperial villa at the time of starting, and the
walk through the town was accomplished through a double
line of spectators. On the return to the villa all the
bathers left the water in their grotesque costumes to gaze
upon the " lions." The illustrious visitors mingle freely
with the general public.
The Bourse has fully recovered from the effect of the
King of Prussia's speech, and the public is rapidly coming
round. The journals still continue to make the most of
the King's ambiguous sentences, but in this they are not
assisted by the German papers, which are at present very
pacific in tone. It is further stated, in an authoritative
quarter, that the Prussian Charg6 d'Affaires has had
" several interviews" with the Marquis de Moustier,
and has protested against any defiant interpretation
being attached to the King's speech. Herr Solms
repeated that the Prussian Government was still
animated with the most friendly feeling towards
its neighbour, and that King William had not purpose.
lessly affirmed that he saw nothing which could threaten
the peace of Europe. It is further said that several of the
Emperor's councillors were opposed to the review which
has just taken place at Launemezan, for fear that the
enthusiasm of the soldiers might produce some effect which
would be construed as an answer to the speech at Kiel.
The review has, however, taken place, and though the
soldiers were enthusiastic enough, no incident of the kind
referred to occurred.

The note which MM. Magne, Pinard, and De Moustier
sent to the Bourse, explaining the pacific interpretation
which might he placed upon the Kiel speech, does not
appear in the Moniteur. It is generally considered that
this procedure on the part of the Ministers was very ill-
judged.

The officials take matters very quietly. More of them
have departed en cantle, and, as far as diplomacy is con-
cerned, France is rapidly becoming a desert.
The new warlike engine, the mitrailleuse, is kept a pro-
found secret. These weapons are constructed by several
workmen on the division-of-labour principle. It is thus
impossible for any artisan to become acquainted with the
whole. The officers who conduct the experiments with
these weapons are commanded to take every precaution
against the possibility of one falling into unauthorised
hands.

A. dreadful explosion has just taken place in a cartridge
manufactory at Metz. It appears that some 109 persons
were at work in two contiguous rooms, the majority
being women. One of the women threw a pair of
scissors at a companion ; the scissors struck a per-
cussion cap and exploded it. Several cartridges
that were at hand took fire, then more caught,
and finally an explosion ensued which killed about twenty
persons, and wounded eighty-two oth3rs, most of them
very severely. Another account says th tt more work-
people were in the manufactory, and that sixteen women
and several men were killed, and eighty women and thirty
men wounded. As soon as the intelligence le tched Paris
the Minister of the Interior placed £4OO at the disposal of
the Prefect of the Moselle for the relief of the sufferers,
The Emperor has also announced by telegraph that
abundant relief would be sent.

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.