The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-07 00:00:00

VIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY „EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1868.

supreme power without the sanction of the majo-
rity. Jealousy will always arise at the creation of
any new authority, but the Marshal appears to be
very successful in keeping order, and any indica-
tions of tumult have been repressed. The Avenir
National of Paris states that the Provisional Go-
vernment has determined to pronounce the enfran-
chisement of the children of negroes in the
Spanish Colonies as a preliminary to a law which
is completing the abolition of slavery. This
will be laid before the Constituent Assembly, and
the change will be one decided gain for the new
order of things which has obtained precedence at
Madrid. We may now look forward to the extinc-
tion of slavery everywhere, which is indeed a de-
lightful prospect; and speaks well for the sentiment
of the age.
If any lingering doubt should exist in the mind
of a devotee to old customs, we should think that
the perusal of the QUEEN'S proclamation must
speedily disabuse him, and reconcile him to the
change that has taken place in the country she has
left. The document in question shows nothing
more plainly than that the ex-Queen of SPAIN was
totally unfit to be a ruler, and that far from
acquiring wisdom of late years she was retrograd-
ing. The conspiracies which were ever met with
in her kingdom appear to have given her very little
concern, and she had never one doubt on the im-
portant truth, that when the confidence of a people
is withdrawn from its Sovereign all the faults can-
not be on one side. At any rate, her language on
this occasion fully explains the principle upon
which she has acted—a principle false, in every
sense of the word, to the best interests of the
nation ; and now, that it has been put to the final
test, proved most worthless and unsound. In some
respects this protest seems almost a mockery, for the
verynotion of Queen ISABELLA talking of the sacrifices
which she has made for the Spanish people is
absurd, and we should be puzzled to find in what
they consisted if a very minute search were made.
The records of the past life of the QUEEN contain
sad and strange tales, but nowhere can they indi-
cate that devotion to duty and that willingness to
give up selfish motives for which she now seems in-
clined to demand praise and acknowledgment.
Another thing she has entirely forgotten is that if
she had " sacrificed herself," as she calls it, she
would only have been doing her duty, because if a
ruler has rights, he has also responsibilities, and
cannot skake them off to suit his will and pleasure.
Perhaps the best way to account for the ignorance
displayed is by saying that QUEEN ISABELLA be-
longs to that class which will not learn, and not to
that which cannot. Tempests and trials might await
her from without, and within the citadel her most
trusted defendants waver, and falter in their alle-
giance, it was all the same to her. Never did she
yield an iota of h€r prejudices, or reform the errors
of her own private life, which now show she en-
raged the public voice of the country. Now that
she has had to resort to the last and most vexatious
expedient that a Sovereign can choose, and fly be-
fore her rebellious and indignant people, the old
leaven still remains, and from her refuge
in another land she sends her parting words
to them, and it seems she is resolved to show the
world through them that she has learned nothing,
and will learn nothing, by her fall. It is no ex-
aggeration to say that the friends of Queen
ISABELLA, if she has any, have far more cause to be
ashamed of her protest than of the disasters which
led to it ; the one might have been beyond her
control, the other was her spontaneous act. The
history of past ages has not been without instances
of sovereigns who have risen iu the estimation of
their fellow-men when they fell from their high
estate, who have been greater in adversity than in
prosperity, and adorned the dark hours of their
exile with wisdom and patience that be-
came them more than the Crown they
had lost. Such a fate does not, how-
ever, attend the last of the BOURBON line who
will probably ever hold sway in Europe. those
who would willingly pay her the tribute of respect
which belongs to adversity are precluded from so
doing by the egregious folly and arrogance she
displays, and they turn with interest to the new
creation which is springing up in Spain, rather
than with regret to her who has left it stripped of
all outward show and semblance, but still more
bereft in lacking that innate dignity which the
splendour of thrones can neither give nor take
away in their possession or loss. The scorn and
contempt which the QUEEN hurls at her rebellious
subjects shows but too plainly the feelings which
have actuated her in her dealings with them,
and out of the materials which her character con-
sists of, how can we wonder that so little good
emonated? 'We must make all proper allowances
for the faulty education and bad example which
attended her childhool ; but still something de-
pends on the individual, and she has had experience
enough had she chosen to avail herself of it.
Europe, however, can give little or no heed to her
disappointments and her follies, she has made her
choice, and must abide by it; and all we have now
to du is to congratulate her quandam subjects on
the quiet and sensible manner in which they have
made the change so much called for.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.

The Cunard steamer Java arrived here at seven
a.m., and the hamburg and American Coruppenes
steamer Hammonia at eight a.m. to-day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Closing prices :—Gold, 140 f. Sterling exchange
on London, 1081. 5-20 United States Bonds,
1882, 113 f ; ditto, 1885, 1001 ; 10-40 Bonds
1041 ; Illinois, 1461 ; Erie, 481. Cotton, mid-
dling upland, 27. Petroleum, standard white, 301.
Flour, extra state, $7 70c. to $8 30c. Corn, old
mixed, sllsc.

THE REVOLUTION IN SPAIN.
Paris, Oct. Z.

The Muniteur of this morning contains the fol-

lowing :

by uni-
" The Supreme Junta has been elected
versal suffrage, with Marshal Serrano and, General
Prim as honorary presidents ; Aguirre as acting
president ; Ribero and Vega Armigo as vice-
presidents.

A private despatch from Madrid states that
Count Girgenti arrived at Lisbon on Monday

evening.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Oct. 6 (Evening).

The subscription to the new tobacco loan was
opened here to-day. Between 9,000 to 10,000
bonds have been taken up by small subscribers.
The Spanish Minister has left for Paris.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.
GALLE, Oct. 5.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Galong, from Australia, arrived here yesterday,
and the China, from China, arrived on the 2d
inst. The Surat leaves for Suez to-morrow.
The Avoca arrived at Melbourne on the 3d anl
Sydney on the Gth September.
The Candia arrived at Galle on the 20th of
September.

MALTA, October 6.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Nyanza, from Southampton 26th Sept., arrived at
3 p.m. to-day, and leaves at 10 p.m. for Alex-
andria. All well.
Experienced bad weather.

The Ceylon left at 2 p.m. to-day for Southamp-
ton, where she may be looked for about the 15th

instant.

MARSEILLES, Oct. 6.

The Messageries Imperiales steamer Said, with
the India and China mails, arrived here at 2 p.m.

to-day.

FALMOUTH, Oct. 7.

The London, Belgium, and River Plate Royal
Mail steamer City of Brussels arrived here at seven
this morning. She landed 99 passsengers, mails,
and £3,000 in specie. Her dates are Buenos Ayres,
Sept. 1 ; Monte Video, 4th ; and Rio de Janeiro,
13th. She brings five days later dates than the
Royal Mail steamship Danube.
The City of Buenos Ayres, belonging to the same
company, arrived at Rio de Janeiro on the 10th
inst. in 22 days from Falmouth, and the steamer
Hipparchus from Liverpool on the 11th.
It was reported at Rio de Janeiro that Lopez had
been defeated and was retiring.

PLYMOUTII, OCt. 7. ;

H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, with Lieut.-
General Sir Hope Grant, Colonels Gambier and
Jervoise, and Captain Johnson, arrived here this
morning, and commences his inspection of this dis-
trict to-day.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, Oct.: 6.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

Bank Sharon 3103
HaPan Loan —
End of month -
Mexican Loan „ 231
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred — -
.YB.

41 per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of mouth 69 15
Credit Mobilier 271
End of month 275
Credit Fonder 1420
End of month — -
RAILWA

Cash
Orleans . Ile., 886
Northern ....................................... 1177
Lyons and Mediterranean ............... ,G 6.
Southern ................................. 560
Western ....................................... 587
Eastern •• 567
Sardinian

Austrian 555
Lombard 4U6
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

FIRE AT THE LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND
SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.

Between the hours of two and three o'clock this
morning, as a police-constable of the M division
was passing along his beat in the Old Kent-road,
he noticed some smoke issuing from the arches of
the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
Company. Feeling satisfied that a fire had taken
place, he at once despatched the necessary
intelligence to head engineer Medealf, at the
corner of St. Thomas's-road, in the same
locality, and telegraphic messages were despatched
to most of the other brigade stations in the district.
Although this occupied not more than three minutes
the flames shot forth with such vehemence and
rose so high into the air as to become a far more
speedier messenger of danger than even the tele-
graph, and forthwith engines were turned out
simultaneously from numerous depots of the Metro-
politan Brigade, including four land steamers by
Shand, Mason, and Co., as well as the London
Salvage Corps, under the command of Mr. Super-
intendent Swanson and Foreman Cooper. By that
time four of the arches of the railway, extending
in one direction sixty feet, and each twenty-five
feet deep, were sending forth immense sheets of
flame. These arches were tenanted by Mr.
F. G. Packer, a basket manufacturer, and
the flames seized upon immense piles of rods and
willow sticks, and also upon the fence of several
houses near, as well as a couple of houses in Cross-
street. Plenty of the Southwark Company's water
having been obtained, under the direction of In-
spector Hays the whole of the engines were called
into operation, but in spite of which the fire could
not be wholly extinguished, and not until the fol-
lowing damage was done, which is officially reported
by Captain Shaw to the insurance offices :—Mr.
Parker, basket manufacturer, 4, Arches of Rail-
way, 40 feet by 25 feet each, used as workshops,
dwelling house, and stores, burned out, offices and
stock in open yard severely damaged by fire and
removal. Cause of fire unknown. Insured in the
Royal North British and Alereantile and Sun Fire
offices. No. 887, Mr.
Danielson ; 880, Mr. Row-
land, bootmaker ; and Nos. 1 and 2, Cross-street,
are also extensively damaged by fire, water, and
removal.

Orders were received at the headquarters of the
Royal Engineers, Chatham, yesterday, directing
the volunteers from the depot companies of Royal
Engineers serving in India to be held in readiness
for embarcation to join the Royal Engineers doing
duty in the three presidencies. Volunteering for
the skeleton companies of Royal Engineers in India
is still open.
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(not OUR 9wrf conEspornEwr.)
'PARIS, TUESDAY, October 6,
hiicticw become evident that the Emperor, whatever
inay he the feeling of the Empress towards her former
sovereign, chews no inclination to trouble himself with
Queen Isabella's affairs. It has been finally announced
that France will not interfere in Spanish affairs, and the
attitude of the Government on the subject is so decisive
that it is even believed by some that the ex-Queen will
not be allowed to greatly prolong her stay in the capital.
The proclamation just published has led to the free
expression here of the opinion that if the fallen
sovereign wishes to renew the battle she had better
choose some other fighting-ground. If she wishes
to remain in France she must be quiet. It is generally
!volleyed that the Queen has taken care to comfortably
feather the nest to which it was long ago probable she
might be compelled to retire. There can be very little
doubt that a large sum of money has been sent across the
frontier. Let Isabella enjoy it ; it is certain that no sove-
reign was more utterly forsaken by her subjects. The
desertion is, perhaps, the most complete ever recorded,
rave, perhaps, that which the great Napoleon suffered
after his first abdication. When the news of the defeat of
Alcolea had Leen received, the Queen called together
the deputies of the Basque provinces, and asked
them if they would arm in her defence. They
replied that they could not do so; the general
meeting of the deputies alone could give such an
order. She asked them to consider the matter. They did
consider, and came again the next day. " Who have you
found in my antechambers ?" asked the Queen. "No
one," was the response. The deputies added that the only
promise they could give was to protect her Majesty so long
as she remained in the Basque provinces. The ex-Queen
then gave the order for departure.
The military conference of the South German States is
regarded with some jealousy both here and, I have reason
to believe, at Vienna. It is said that the treaty of offen-
sive and defensive alliance which Prussia concluded with
the South German States in 1866 will be fully interpreted
at this conference. There is, however, greater reason to
believe the conference will confine itself to its professed
object—the regulation of a common system of defence for
the South German States. But it is further evident that
the chance of a South German Confederation is becoming
less on account of the influence of Prussia in preventing
a union which might some day be turned against her.
This is not liked at Vienna, where it was hoped that a
South German Confederation might ultimately ally itself
with Austria.

The Paris press gives some attention to the question of
Consular Courts in Egypt. Most of them favour the
inquiry claimed by the Egyptian Government, and which
has, moreover, received the support of almost all the
European States. Italy and Austria only have not yet
given their consent to the inquiry.
Yesterday there was a meeting of the Ministers of the
State Council. MM. ltouher and Moustier had, besides,
a long interview.

M. Gellibert, who has just died, was not much of a
speaker, but, nevertheless, a very active man and an
influential deputy. His seat will be severely contested,
Three candidates are already spoken of.
Dr. Decausne publishes, in the Bulletin Gengrale etc
Therapeutique, some interesting observations on the
effects of the use of tobacco. He has observed thirty-
eight boys, aged from 9 to 15, who smoked more or less.
Of these, distinct symptoms were present in twenty-
seven. In twenty-two there were various disorders
of the circulation—breath-sound in the neck, palpita-
tion, disorders of digestion, slowness of intellect, and
a more or less marked taste for strong drinks.
In three the pulse was intermittent. In eight
there was found on examination, more or less, marked
diminution of the red corpuscles ; in twelve there was
rather frequent epitaxis ; ten had disturbed sleep? and
four had slight ulcerations of the mucous membrane of the
mouth, which disappeared on ceasing from the use of
tobacco for some days. In children who were very well
nourished the disorder was in general less marked. He
says there can be no doubt that upon the young, at least
the use of tobacco has a most noxious effect.

On the 3rd instant the new Government manifested
its full confidence in the success of the revolution by a
fate, the "principal ornament" of which was to be
the popular assembly. The Palace of the Congress was
adorned with arches of flowers, flags, shields, &c. ; all
the troops composing the garrison formed in battle array,
and afterwards filed before the Central Junta, who
saluted them in the name of the Revolution. Adhesions
to the new Government continue to come in, amongst the
most important being that of Senor Mon, the Spanish
ambassador at Paz is. The Italian residents in
Madrid
,have followed the example of the English,
and congratulated the Provisional Government on its
success. Count Cheste has ordered his troops to Barce-
lona, says the Diarie, in order that they may make their
pronunciamento in favour of the revolution. The Madrid
Gazette makes the curious announcement that chairs have
been established in different quarters of the city for
teaching the law of popular policy, " in order that the
people may make good use of the rights acquired by the
revolution."

The head of the Greek Cabinet, Bulgaris, has been
obliged to give way to the demands of his partisans, and
change the Ministers who hold the portfolios of Justice and
Finance. Public opinion in Athens is rapidly turning
against the President of the Council. A decisive crisis
is not improbable. Meanwhile the Government supports
its position by the most violent measures. It has dissolved
the Society of Officers of the National Guard, which was
beginning to indulge in manifestations little favourable to
the existing regime. Comoundoros, the former President
of the Council, has been outlawed, as it were, by his suc-
cessor, and has been obliged to remain in his province and
surround himself by armed partisans. This disregard of
the law by the leading men of the country naturally pro-
duces the worst effect upon the people generally.

The semi-official papers of Paris announce that no con-
firmation of the report respecting a conspiracy against the
Sultan has yet been received by the French Government.
The North-East Correspondence, however, maintains that
the plot was of the most formidable character. Its objects
were nothing less than the assassination of the Sultan and
all his Ministers, and the enthroning of the heir pre-
sumptive, Mourad-Effendi. The conspirators were
arrested on the day on which they purposed executing
their plans. Written proofs of their guilt were found.

The news from Japan is not of a peaceful character. In
numerous engagements between the troops of the north
and the south the northerners had been completely vic-
torious, but it does not appear that the civil strife
approaches termination. Meanwhile outrages on foreigners
are of daily occurrence, and another Imperial decree has
been issued against the Christians.

The New York correspondent of the Daily News gives
both sides of the dispute respecting the great riot at
Camilla, in Georgia. The Southern account is that a
" carpet-bagger " of the name of Pierce set out with a
column of 250 armed negroes, with provisions for a week,
and marched on Camilla with the intention of holding a
Radical meeting. The sheriff met them, and requested
them to go back. They refused compliance, however, and
pressed on. Shortly afterwards a white man fired a shot
at them, and then the citizens, in defence of their wives
and families, made a general attack, pursuing the negroes
for miles. The Radical account is that the negroes did
not go to hold a meeting, and that they went armed because
nobody in that region goes without arms. 'The first shot
was fired by a man who was drunk. Whilst seven negroes
were killed and thirty or forty wounded, there were only
two or three whites hurt. This does not look as if the
negroes had been very formidable even in arms. The
Daily News correspondent thinks that in this instance
there were probably faults on both sides, but that the
chances are ten to one the negroes are in the right.

The Rev. Dr. White, Presbyterian minister of Islington
Church, Liverpool, has written a letter to the Pope,
declining his Holiness's invitation to Protestants. In hi:
postscript, which is by far the most important part of his
letter, the rev, doctor says : "I sincerely congratulate
your Holiness on the improved tone of your communica•
tion. Might I venture to suggest that you should carry
out the assumed spirit a little further, so as to grant to all
the inhabitants of Rome liberty to worship God according
to the dictates of their conscience, and also to exert your
great influence to obtain the release of those who are
pining in Spanish and other dungeons in Roman Catholic
countries for reading the Word of God ?"

The Bishop of Manchester, who some two years ago
inhibited the Rev. D. Nihil for ritualist practices, ha 3
given notice to the Rev. J. E. Sedgwick, of St. Albans,
Manchester, of his determination to withdraw his license
within a certain prescribed time. His lordship is said to 1
have been led to this course in consecquence of having I
received complaints that certain .tpractices, including the '
use of candles and the confessional, have been systemati• 1

cally observed at St. Alban's. The church has never been
consecrated, and this places the power in the hands of the
bishop to revoke the license he has granted without any
intermediate proceedings. Mr. Sedgwick, in the mean-
time, has received an appointment to a rectory in the south
If England.

Madame Rattazzi is about to publish another
.omauce, called " If I were Queen."

John Saville Lumley, Esq., Minister Plenipoten.
ziary at Berne, has been appointed to succeed Lord Howard
de Walden as Envoy Extroxdinary and, Miniptc; rlenip93
intim M kw*. .