Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1855-10-10

LIE L ALL OF TOPOL.--l mere is
great rejoicing atpresent throughout France,
England and their dependencies over the So
called fall OF Sevastopol and its anticipated
consequences; but we do not perceive either
IN the event or among these sanguine antici-
pations aught over which the French or Eng
lish people have good reason to exuIt. For
instance:
We do not hear that the incubus of aristo-
cratic and oligarchic rule is likely to be lifted
thereby from the breasts of the British mill
ions. On the contrary, it seems likely that
their prestige will be strengthened and their
sway prolonged by the late successes at Sc
vastopol-that the number of tax-consumen
will be augmented and the slight check up
on them possessed by the tax-eamers weak
ened. a,s t; ..na.I
Nor do we hear that the imperial despot-
ism which brushes free speech and freedom of
action in France is to be shaken by these adj
vantages. On the contrary, we presume
workmen will still be sent to prison for months
in France for avowing themselves republicans
OF for combining in peaceful demand of
wages half so high as are paid for similar la
Dor in this country, while no thought, no word,
displeasing to Napoleonic autocracy can be
breathed without subjecting the utterer to
pecuniary ruin, if not to lifelong imprison-
ment. There are more perverse and stupid
despotsms than that of Louis Bonaparte, but
certainly none more jealous, none more per
vading. And this the storming Of the NAL
akof is not likely to mitigate.
Nor is the captivity of the Roman people,
under the pressure of French bayonets, to be
ended by this triumph. Italy, Hungary, Pc
land, Germany, will still wear the letters
which they have clanked such weary years
already. Spain must pursue her career of
reform timidly and fitfully, Drawing the Pope,
but trembling at the power Of Louis Napole-
on. In short, the shackles of the European
millions are not broken-nay, they are every
where strengthened-by this allied triumph
at Sevastopo Then why should republi-
cans rejoice over it? IN. Y. Tribune.
PRESERVING FRUIr.-A number of per-
sons who have been putting up Fruit in air.
tight cases." have stated to us that they are
losing large quantities of it by fermentation,
and enquire of us the cause of the difficulty.
This we cannot easily explain, without first
seeing the cans.
The cause may be in the imperfect man
ner of scalding and putting up the fruit, or
it may arise from the defective form in which
the cans are made.
If the cans are properly constructed, it on
ly remains to scald the fruit sufficiently, and
to fill the cans so near the top as to leave the
least possible amount of air in them, taking
care that the moisture does not rise into the
channel formed for the sealing material, and
to close the can while scalding hot.
TO do this, as we before stated, the most
expeditions and sure method is to first scald
the fruit in kettle, fill the cans and set them
into a vessel of boiling water, there to remain
until the sealing is completed.
There are many of the cans now made,
particularly those with tin caps, in which we
think it viii be difficult to preserve fruit If
the cans are filled as we have directed, when
the contents cool nearly a perfect vacuum will
be formed, causing an atmospheric pressure
of nearly Is ID to the inch of the external
surface. We think, that, on investigation,
the cause Of the fruit spelling will be found
in the improper manner Of making and clos
ing the mouth of these cans, which are not
calculated to resist the pressure. Practice,
however, is essential to success with any of
the cans, but many of those made to be Sc
cure by wax alone, will, we thiuk, fail to an
swer the purpose intended.
Spratt's Patent Cans are decidedly the
safest, having strong screw cap, under which
is an India Rubber cap, and around the whole
a channel for sealing with wax Those who
used them last year were perfectly successful.
Louisville Journal, Ky.
R. R. STooK.-J. d ID. M. Osborne, of
Hamilton, G. W., have purchased the stock
of the Municipality Of Oxford, in the Great
Western Railway, amounting to 100000.
They pay premium of 1O5 per cent on the
stock, allowing the Municipality to keep the
dividend of 4 per cent declared by the Com
pany on the 18th inst