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

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 186 S

COUNTER CLOTHS FOR LICENCED place, --
and rail it in as a private grave. A corn- with. the:progress of education. Cruelty is often CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS.
VICTUALLERS. miteee has been formed for the purpose of erecting traHable to ignorance as much as to intention, and ....--...----..
1 FROM O'l7R OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
riTE only art:cle really suitable for that purpose, a tablet with a suitable inscription, and it may be the -thoughtless boy who from want of sympathy ~.._
A- ss. 6d. per dozen, hemmed, ready for use. Address PARIS, TUESDAY, August-n
said that the best possible arrangements appear to and tenderness tortures mice and flies is only the
135, Fleet-street, and 5, The Pave tent, Clapham. The holiday of some of the royal personages who are
-- have been made under the afflicting circumstances prototype lof the grown man who pursues his sport
-- now seeking rest and relaxation in various parts of the
GLAS; vuvrtis SUITABLE FOR LICENCED of the affair. Had it been possible to identify one thinking only of his present amusement, Continent is drawing to a close. The Queen will not, in
VICTUALLERS, 75. Od. PER DOZEN.
WILLIAM HOLDIC(I and CO.,Fleet-street, foot ofLudgate No. 103,
hill ; and No. 5, 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
effect would only have been more painful to the rest Unfortunately the class who delight in the posses- Switzerland. The King of Prussia will return to Berlin
on Friday. The rumour of an interview between the
The Pavement, Clapham-corn:non. 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-
e
FABLE CLOTHS, in every Width and Length, adopted is the most suitable. The sad ceremony day, aro -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 of
.1 expressly for Licenced Victuallers.
,Damask Nwapkins
over, and the last efforts having been made that to attend a scientific meeting. We can only hope . King
for Tray Cloths, Drills for Bar Aprons and "'owe ings of Bavaria and the daughter of the Emperor of Russia are
human desires can approach to show respect to influence them through public opinion, and in
still kept up with more than pristine vigour.
_wary description. Patterns gratis and post free.
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 by those on the spot will be Aspect of the Game Laws," read a few days since these now give some trouble to the ingenuity of fabri-
use, Warm and Elastic, from Sc. 6d. each, for
,adios' and Gentlemen's use. WILLIAM lIOLDICII ascertain all the circumstances connected with the at the Norwich meeting, may do good service to his cators. Sovereigns and statesmen quietly enjoying them-
and LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, 105, Fleet-
errors beautiful feathered clients. It is not the first time selves at watering-places or country estates can furnish
street, Co.,ity, and No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common. deplorable event, and to seek to remedy any but a limited amount of speculation, and this is
ILLIA.M HOLDICH and Co., LICENSED of arrangement that may have taken place. The task that we have been told by men of science that we based chiefly on the reality or possibility of interviews.
/V VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, Established 1842, at 105, will be a difficult one, and, unfortunately, it seems are acting wrongly and foolishly in permitting the There is much talk here at present of frequent communica-
Fleet-street, City; Southern Branch-No. 5, The Pave-
wholesale destruction of birds. We shall find it tion between Lord Stanley and Prince Gorlschakoff. The
Aleut, Claphatn-cournon. Patterns gratis and post free, likely to be rendered still more awkward by the
considerably easier in this case, as in many others, two statesmen are said to have a pacific policy in view, and
are actively engaged in elaborating a scheme which is to
with Price List. intervention of unnecessary forms and regulations.
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
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TO TJCENCED VICTUALLERS. has announced his determination to proceed on .a constantly before our eyes. In France the ra- this rumour may be guessed 'e ithout much difficulty. The
cages of insects have during the last year or two
ESTABLISHED 1842. Continent, reasonably or rot, will soon be invaded by sne-
cuTlahtieopnruespsohnaas Europeanh Congress.
WILLIAM II OLDICH and C 0., 'system,' but this mode of action has confused. many,
greatly increased, while among ourselves the same
LICENCED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, No. and occasioned some differences of opinion. Surely,
result is beginning to be perceptible. The excep- had a very bad time of it during the last
week. The number of small prosecutions, such as prohi-
-105, Fleet-street, corner of Farringdon-street ; and at No.
5, The Pavement, Clapham-common (Southern Branch). in a case of such importance, it would be better to
i tional heat of the weather this summer has accele- bition of sale on the public way, and other administrative
proceed in the simplest manner, which is general y
vexation; has been very numerous. Amongst greater
TIIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPH I. 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-
Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. owns even a garden has been made aware of the demned, the judgment against the Revell has been con-
Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. these vexatious debates, which defeat their own
rapid development of insect life among his shrubs
For he Benefit of Mr. Aley. firmed, the Lanterne has been seized, &,.... So far there
wasting,time and creating unnecessary
THIS EVENING, t
at 7, A ROUGHsh DIA WONT). Messrs. purpose by
G. delmore, Ashley; Mrs. Billing,ton, and Miss Lennox Gray.
discussions. and flowers. But the havoc still goes on, and while has been no raid of functionaries against any
At a quarter to Eight, THE FLYING SCUD. Messrs. G.
our colonists are taking great pains and going newspaper this week ; but then this is only Tuesday,
and, as one journal jocosely ram; ries Var.: is no need tb
Behnore, Bidington, Ashley, J. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson,
C. J. Smith; Miss Charlotte Saunders, Miss Louisa Moore, miss Parliament is to be dissolved on the 9th of
Maria Harris, and Miss Lennox Grey. to considerable expense to transport English despair yet.
After which Mrs. Billiugton will recite, in character, Tenny- November, and the end of that month will see the small birds across the ocean and to domicile them There was a smell hat serious a;ifa' 'on at the public
sou's Poem, "The Grandmother." meeting held at Vaux Hall last night. The attendance
To c,mclude 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 Belmorc, 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-
ROYAL 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 public naturally
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. of time for the Opposition to try its strength in in America the English sparrow is a personage of and speedily became very irritable. The law of June
THIS EVENING, at 7, A CHARMING PAIR. 6, 1868, which directs that all meetings shall be held in
covered rooms with closed doors, greatly contributes to the
After which (at 8 o'clock), Dion Boucicanit's new drama, in the debate on the Address to the CROWN, and'it importance, while in England sparrow clubs and
four acts, entitled AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life.
Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray, 11. J. Montague, cannot be said that the Government has not given street boys are on the watch to destroy them. Nor discomfort of overcrowded audiences, and the excessive
J. G Shore; 31198 Tressy Marston, and Miss Rose Leclereq.
them fair play and every possible chance which they crush last night soon led to riotous consequences. The
.Entirely new Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds and assistants. is this anxiety on the, part of the American and
To cone; ale with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. president set fire to the powder by an unlucky pro-
Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open can reasonahlyldemancl or desire. This will put an Australian altogether a matter of sentiment. In - - . - '
daily front 10 till 5. end to the insinuations of some to the effect that posal. Seeing that the speakers were, es ,pea,cers wi 1, , o 1-
New York, where the citizens carry most things finingthemselves to a atten whichhad beensaidhalf A do:en
R OYAL 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 were wan; erin ;into
Se!e Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanboreugh. time after Christmas, and that all most interested forbidden ground, he expiessed an op:nion that th;
'DVS EVENING, at 7.10. SISTERLY SERVICE. Messrs. have succeeded in establishing a colony of sparrows -
Belford, Harcourt; Miss Sheridan in the matter would be kept in suspense for some general discussion had been pretty well exhausted, and
After which, THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. and these sparrows have within a short time ridded that it was time to abandon it. Thlt some tWrty spea'i.ers
Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson; mesdames Sheridan, considerable period. It cannot be said that there •
Goo lad. Hughes, Newton, &e. the city of an established nuisatic?, the presence of who had been set down for the general i:iscuss'on com-
To conclude gith MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. has been any real foundation for this as- plained grievously of this premature terminatio 1, and
a large kind of worm or caterpillar in their public
sertion, but as it has been put forth it cried out for " Lib( rty " with one acco:d. A
ROIAL AMPHITHEA ERE AND CIRCUS, gardens. These worms had increased in such num-
great disturbance folltw.d, fled rant of th aT,Ii-
HOLBORN. is as well that its contradiction should bers that they held absolute possession of the place) ence seemed to sympathise with this proposed
Ad litienal Novelties and Attractions.-The Sensation of Lon-
also appear, and the country should recognise
don.-The most brilliant success ever achieved by any artiste. and a reward was offered for their destruction, invasion of the rights of the unhappy thirty, but
be(f)oNr eit theiry every
Royal Highnesses ins
his
the it": Trapezece ttnd Preincaess performedof Wales that no advantage has been taken to put off calm was at length restored. When the excited multitude
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
ONRA'S Terrific Flights on Two Bars. cleared the grounds of the intruders, and who will, the temperature, the proposition of the president was
O NRA'.3 Incredible Somersaults and Pirouettes, fashion on these occasions for one side to disparage
ONES,, the most wonderful and perfect performer ever we hope, be better protected in New York than in unanimously accepted !
wito
ed the other that little or no surprise can be felt at
The3se. incomparable Scenes in the Arena as usual, including M.London. But it is not the sparrow only who has
Samwcll's wonderful performing Dogs. any exaggeration of statement that takes place, and THE WEATHER TABLE.—THIS DAY.
0:r-a at half-past Seven, commence at Eight. Morning Per- reason to complain. The sweet singers who lend
for wince, Wednesday and Saturday, at Half-past Two. Children all that can be done is to rectify errors and put ___ _..._ _—
under ten, half-price to morning performance only, our hedge-rows and woodlands half their charm in METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS.
mistakes right. The candidates for election do not the summer mornings, even the lark, which the
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN seem in any undue haste to come forward, but here Extreme Sea
0 R. GLENIE, of the Sporting f,ibrary,
and there speeches are made and addresses put Poet tells us the colonist must regret among the Wednesday, It'll i
rito F. D. W It. to
ALA. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, London, W., begs to tuneless birds" of his new home, all alike fall victims AuSizinxt 26, B. T. 1,...f,:l W.
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murnt his customers, and the Licensed Victuallers in general, forward which show that the work is progressing.
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that he has been appointed Agent for the above-named paper in to the wanton sport of those who belong most cer- Nairn - 2
ddition to his agency for the Sporting Edition of " THE SUN," The tug of war is as yet far off, and we can only thinly Aberdeen
tail can supply the came on Friday evening, if required, in town to Womoswormi's matter-of-fact primrose Leith - _
Ir country. surmise what will be the extent of its fury and Shields - 3
G. R. G. begs to inform the Trade that he is Agent for the gazer, and to whom a living thing, however beau- c3e9aarb°oruotrh .. 58 54 W. ''
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LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN," and can supply it earlier the excitement of its course. Mr. SAM U DA, ti Helder . - - 30'16r.
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11itiun. No connection with any other persons. Baily's, Ruff's, now M.P. for Tavistock, has appeared as a
Greencastle 29 791. 58 55 S.W.
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'right's, and M'Call's Guides. All the Daily Papers, Maga• than an object to fire at!
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titles, and Periodicals as soon as published. Agent fur the Joint candidate for the Tower Hamlets, and last night HA rocllyr
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delivered his opinions to a meeting of the electors Liverpool .. 30•05 f. 58 54 8. L', 2 3 W. c.o. - 1
account, that these bird murderers have not con- Valentia.... ?29'91f. 60 58 W.S.W. 7 8 S.W. c.r. 0'23 a
THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " at Poplar. He certainly did not mince matters or Cape Clear.. - --- - - - - -
tented themselves with depopulating the land, but Roche's
enzan Pt. 29'98f. 58 58 S.W. 6 6 S.W. b.r. o'lo 4
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Brest ...... 30'28r. 59 57 S.S.W. 4 4 S.S.W. b. - 3
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The SPORTING EDI nos of -THE SUN " can be seen at demand of the plumassier for the beautiful white Rochefort... 30'28r. 59 57 N.W. 5 5 N.W. b. - 1
3-It SINGER'S Establishment, as above, every evening by Eight minently. The fiscal relations of the country, Biarritz .... 30'235. 59 59 N. 4 - - f. - 2
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111 HE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " Respecting these he spoke very decidedly, being in one house in London has given an order Paris - - - - - - -- -
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I_ supplied as soon as published, containing all the LATEST for ten thousand birds in one season, we Toulon - 72- S.W. 1 4 W.S.IV. f.c. - 4
NEWS and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H W HARRIS, favour of some amendment of the law of Trades' Heart'. Con-
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Newspaper Agent, 4, Blackfriars-road, London, S. need not wonder that Mr. NEWTON is in fear tent (3 a.m.
Unions, the principle of which was good; and as forlocal time) 30'335. 51 50 S.
of the seagull being driven from our coasts alto-
THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN." education he was an advocate of the compulsory ExmaxarioN.
gether, if not entirely exterminated. The worst Baro ter corrected and reduced to 32 deg. a sea level. The letter
J. L.OLMES begs to inform his friends and the public
System, believing that the measure would reduce
gmerally that he supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE r., rising; f., falling; s., steady-indicate direction of motion of tilt
of the matter is, that each bird so destroyed repro-
a C'N "as soon as published.-No. 10, Hampstead-road, N.W. crime. The spread of knowledge would doubtlesstend mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade.
- ^ sents the destruction of many more, for the men, Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.-calm
VHF. "SUN" NEWSPAPER.—G. R. GLENIE to improve the social condition of the community, anxious to secure them, spread their nets on the Weather: b.-blue sky; e.-clouds. detached; f.-fog; h.- hail'
E deliv2rs the L 5, TE EDITION at Chelsea, 7AO; Kilburn, but it cannot be brought about by the un-English 1.-lightning ; m.-raisty. hazy : 0.-overcast, dull; r.-rain; s.- snow;
8; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30 ; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, rock and catch them while rearing their young, t.—thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail (melted) during last 24 hours,
9.15. system of compulsion, and those who are anxious Sea disturbance.
who are thus left to die of starvation. It is at the REMARKS,
t:irt.r."l:s, plan will find out that it cannot answer.
THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," breeding season that they come especially to our On the Irish coast a decrease in barometrical pre' sure is shewn,
giving all the SPORTING ES of the day, may be seen at Hanbury, made a spirited speech, in whilst on our E. and S.E. coasts there has been a rise of equal
isnut-theennthosr.th
TofemSpctatunrde,
at JF,M 0 Y .II t NTON'S house, "The Swan and Horse Shoe," shores, and thus the direct mischief done by shooting extent: in other districts readings are generally higher by about one-
-Attie Britain, City, E.C. which he edified his hearers by drawing delightful or snaring them is as nothing to that indirectly
andtenth i s ofe exceeded
eidneedh.by Tthhactlaowt
Besrtesptrebsysmmeairsly
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lIIHE "SUN" NE WSPAPER.—G. R. GLENIE, pictures of the new state of things when Mr. GLAD-
effected depriving the young birds of their Is generally higher. Strong winds from the S.W. blew yesterday la
ll_ Sporting Library, 4, Conna.ug,l4-terrace, Edgeways-road, STONE, at the head of a hundred majority, and the south of Ireland. This morning the wind is generally south-
westerly, and is frcsh on the Irish coast. but nyderate in the English
delivers the LATE EDITION of " THE SUN "at the earliest parents. The fickle goddess Fashion is to
The weather is generally
possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver JOAN BRIGHT not far from him, would send Mr. blame for this wholesale slaughter, since the now
05pies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country i,
at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by "'ISRAELI to the Upper House, or to the Opposition; prevalent custom of wearing bird-plumes in ladies' l. Rain has fallen in Ireland.
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nine o'clock cloudy.Channe
Orders 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 Vienna states that the pre-
THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " to
Put to rights." This has the advantage of being
demand. A lady, Miss BECKER, of Manchester, spoken of. Intelligence from Vien
be seen Every Evening by 8.10 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCK'S, herself a contributor to the essays read at Norwich, parations are openly made, and are all but directly aided
Britannia, Mensal New-town somewhat original at any rate, after the ordinary by the Roumanian authorities. A conflict between the
entered her protest on behalf of the lady plume Turks and the Roumans is considered inevitable.
mode of election discourses, and it is entertaining PORTING.—JOHN B4OBERTS supplies the wearers on the ground of ignorance, and thus The theory that gold is to be found in abundance all
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poet tells us the colonist must regret among the
" tuneless birds" of his new home, all alike fall victims
to the wanton sport of those who belong most cer-
tainly to W ORDSWORTH'S matter-of-fact primrose
gazer, and to whom a living thing, however beau-
tiful or inoffensive, cau never be anything more
than an object to fire at!
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 gullare 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 and catch them while rearing their young,
who are thus left to die of starvation. It is at the
breeding season 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 Fashion 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 passed 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 bad 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 THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,"
giving all the SPORTING NEWS of the day, may be seen
at JEM Y M NTON'S house, " The Swan and Horse Shoe,"
-.Attie Britain, City, E.C.

lirillE"SUN" NE IVSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE,
Sporting Library. 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road,
delivers the LATE EDITION of "TIDE SUN " at the earliest
possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver
Copies 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

A fresh invasion of Bulgaria by insurgent bands is
spoken of. Intelligence from Vienna states that the pre-
parations are openly made, and are all but directly aided
by the Roumanian authorities. A conflict between the
Turks and the Roumans is considered inevitable.
The theory that gold is to be found in abundance all
over the world is borne out in some measure by the nume-
rous discoveries which have recently been made. Gold
Empire, and the rumours
of bas
l large dfeopuonsdi tsi in
the
they Celestiale region of Thibet have
us
i n
gained greater strength and consistency of late years. In
mysterious
s t e
Auckland, New Zealand, the goldfields are reported to be
very productive. The Southern Cross 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
as one of the richest reefing diggings in the world is, we
think, beyond question."

TILE LATEST EDITION of " TILE SUN" to
be seen Every Evening by 8.10 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCICS,
Britannia, Mensal New-town.

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lished.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C.

r HE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN "at
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Stn./11

The intelligence which the City of Baltimore
brings us from the United States is not altogether
satisfactory. The disorganised condition of the
Southern States, more especially of the Carolinas,
is becoming painfully visible, and there are some
grounds for apprehending that the differences exist-
ing between rival parties and races will not be con-
fined to words. At Raleigh, North Carolina, a
Democratic State Convention has been held, at-
tended by a large number of negro Democrats, who
were threatened witbviolence by the Radical negroes.
Order was, however, preserved by the military. In
South Carolina the aspect of affairs is still more
threatening. The negroes in the interior of the
State are incensed at the action of Governor Scorr
in vetoing certain Radical members of the Legisla-
ture. They are reported to be arming and
threatening the Democratic whites and negroes. A
collision between the rival parties of negroes is very
much to be deprecated, as it would probably lead
to further complications. If the dominant party in
Congress had nGt so obstinately perpetuated the
disorganisation of the South we should
have less reason to apprehend an out-
break. They have disheartened the well-
disposed among the educated classes, who
might have exerted themselves to restore order and
to reconcile the people to the restoration of the old
form of Government. They have flattered and
excited the blacks, who needed to be:sobered down
after the great change which they bad unlergone ;
and, worse than all, the policy of the Radicals ren-
dered the Southern States the area for the action of
designing agitators who make politics a trade, and
with whom the public interest is always subservient
to their own personal aggrandisement or temporary
advantage.
The Southern States have lost one of their
most resolute and bitterest foes, and the
new session of Congress will meet without one
of the best-known figures in the capital. The
funeral of 'THADDEUS STEVENS has been celebrated
in Washington, though his remains are to be in-
terred in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with which State
his name is most associated. 'We can hardly hope
that BUTLER will have learned moderation, but he
has not the weight with his party which STEVENS
had, and therefore there are grounds for the belief
or expectation that henceforward a more conciliatory
policy may be adopted towards the ex-Confederate
States, and that their " reconstruction" may be no
longer so completely a matter of form.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1868.

It must be a relief to the friends and relatives of
the victims of the recent railway catastrophe
that their remains have been consigned to
the grave, for it was only painful to defer
the ceremony any longer amid the harrowing cir-
cumstances of the case. The sad event of yester-
day was attended with the most impressive demon-
strations, and everywhere people vied with each
other to show respect to the memory of the dead,
and regard for the feelings of the living. The
unostentatious signs of sympathy that were made
were the most fitting for the occasion, and must
have Leen most in accordance with the feel-
ings of the mourners. Many came by early
trains to witness the sad ceremony, and by
ten o'clock the mournful party assembled.
The coffins were removed from the church and
conveyed to the grave prepared for them. The
behaviour of the Welsh peasantry was much to
their credit, and they seemed so impressed with
the sadness of the scene before them that they
forbore to disturb the sad group before them by
any interruptions on their part. The beautiful
service for the burial of the dead has never been
read on a more solemn occasion, and one that more
fully revealed the shortness:and uncertainty of life,
and the nothingness of rank and grandeur in the
momentous close of existence.

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 com•
mand of the Holy Father, and from his own idea,
by M. Seitz, a German, residing in Rome. S. Peter
is seated in cathedni, 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 the
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 (:') 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.

A long line of mourners followed the re-
verend gentleman who performed the ceremony,
the Reverend JAMES MEREDITH, the Rector,
whose sympathy for the mourners has elicited so
much gratitude, and the Rev. J. TAYLOR, who is a
mourner himself by the sad event. Thirty-two
coffins were placed in one grave, and covered with
black cloth, with no inserip;ions. The vast grave
was surrounded by mourners, and the concluding
portions of the service were read with deep emotion
by the Rector, and the responses given amid over-
pwering grief. A more painful scene could never
have taken place in any churchyard, and no more
agonising circumstances could have surrounded the
diparture of friends and relatives from the
stirring scenes of every-day life. It was intimated
to tho mourners after the sad ceremony w-,s
over that the railway company would pur-
chase the ground in which the burials took

Among the many living things likely to be bene-
fited by the extension of knowledge, we hope
henceforward to be able to reckon the seagull.
Science often demands its victims, and the prose-
cutors of scientific inquiry have not always been as
numerous as they have been intelligent and obser-
,7ant ; nevertheless, we find that the sense of
humanity on the whole has marvellously developed

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.
ernw°isw points to a society of
e is not stated, formed
ePrlimbliincaolps,inwhether
S rt.
ePleesteorrsbetuhrg
for the purpose of spreading terror by fire and pillage. A
circular, purporting to be a manifesto from the committee
distributed in great
um many prisoners who have
natthherehs.ead
Itof
states society,tshissthat very has been
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, lettew from General
Codrington, coinplainirg of the injustice of " the Reviewer"
of Mr. Kinglake's "Invasion ( f 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 jus' ify 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 fly
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 deployment, yet close enough for
defence, and with every preparation for fighting. This
army victoriously stormed the intrenched position on the
Alma by an attack of which the English bore the brunt.
It again advanced, crossing the plains and rivers between
it and Sebastopol, bivouacking with every precaution
against an enemy. Arriving on the north side of Sebas-
topol, it was ordered on a bold and difficult—perhaps
hazarCouf—flAnk march, in order to seize the port of
Pala :lava and occupy the plateau south of the fortress."
The General inquires whether this army deserves the depre-
ciatory expressions of the "Reviewer." He vindicates
Lord Raglan ; and considers the "expressions to be as
unjust towards the rest of the army as they are proved and
acknowledged to be towards 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 xight 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 v eight of military opiniono IDY
the amain et the men wile givc blew,

SPIRIT OF►'THE PUBLIC JOURNALS;

The Tintei confases 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 nc
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
a•nong them. Not even the thought that Lowestoft is in
some s nt the creation of the kindred genius of Sir Morton
Peto 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-24,126 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 spontaneoui 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 his 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 Foncier shares. The
whole aspect of the latter was irregular. Mr. Stuart
Wortley has done nothing so unhandsome as " pea,ching "
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, had 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 sad an occasion is, that
another director of the Credit Foncier, 11Ir. 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 presume that sufficient care has been taken to
guard us against a second forgery, and that Mr. Stuart
Lane's offer to mak; restitution is no hoax.

The Post thinks that Mr. Childers, who addressed his
constituents on Monday last, has certainly given us the
best electioneering speech 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, he recalls the state of popular opinion upon such of
these subjects as had then attracted the greatest
attention, and remarks that the comparison of
the views then held with those now entertained
is enough to make us " feel as if we had made
a leap from somewhere about the middle ages."
Though he 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 Revolution 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-
thing else. We should also like to see the man in the
flesh who would hive 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 the same 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 " reli-
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 English
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,

LATEST INTELL EGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

INDIA.

CALCUTTA, Aug 1 (via Brindisi).

The Government inspection of 24 pergunnahs
shows that the crops over a large extent of country
have been totally destroyed by floods.

The Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal has urgently
recommended the extension of the Eastern Bengal
Railway to Darjeeling.

Accounts from the indigo districts represent the
prospects of the crop as better, although a mode.
rate crop only is expected.

BOMBAY, Aug. 4.
It is stated tbat Sir Alexander Grant leaves India
in October.

The sittings of the Bombay Bank Commission
Mr. Premchund Moyochund is to be

continue.

examined to-morrow.

It is stated that the Shah of Persia has resolved
to occupy Mero (?).

Intelligence from Affghanistan to July 23d
announces that Jellalabad is in a state of anarchy
and insurrection. Azim Khau has fallen back upon
CAbool. Ghuzni is being besieged by Yakoole
Khan.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Aug. 26.

The well-known dramatic authoress and actress
Madame Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer died at noon yes-
terday, in consequence of an apoplectic stroke.