The Sun. — London, England, 1856-06-21 00:00:00

THE GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1837. Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament. 62, Sing William street, London. Capital, 1,000,0001. DIRECTORS. ... _ George Bousfield, Esq. Chas. Dindley, Esq., M.P. IN T. Challis, Esq., Alderman, M.P. illiam punter, Esq., Aldrrman. Jacob Geo. Cope, Esq. James Pilkingten. Esq., M.P. Joseph Dawson, Esq. Th mas Piper, Esq. John Dixon. Esq. Thomas B. Simpson, Esq. Benjamin Edgington, Esq. The Right Eon. Chas. P. Villiers, John T. Fletcher, Esq. M.P. Edward Wilson, Esq. The MIDSUMMER Fire Renewal Receipts are now ready, and May be bad on application at the Head-081es of the Company, or of any of its agents throughout the country. Losses by Explosion of Gas made good b" the Company. In the LIFE DEPARTMENT FOUR-FIFTHS of the PROFITS divisible by the Company's Deed of Settlement, allowed to Assurers; and the Company transacts all business relating to Life Assarances, Deferred Annuities, or Family Endowments. on the most liberal terms consistent with sound principles and public security. No charge for Stamps on Life Assurance Policies. LOANS granted on personal security, and the deposit of a Life Policy to be effected by the borrower. To all Agents, Solicitors, Auctioneers, and Surveyors, a liberal allowance is made. By order of the Board. THOMAS PRICE, Secretary. 11 E R MAJES.TY'S THEATRE. Madllo. PICCOLOMINI. THIS EVENING (Saturcliy), June 21, will be repeated Verdi's highly successful Opera, LA TRAVIATA. Violetta, Mdlle. Piecolonaiui ; Alfredo, Signer Calzolari ; Barone Dauphol, Signor Vairo ; Dottore Grenvil, Signor Baillon ; and Germont Giorgio, Signor B-neventano. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement by M. Paul Taglioni. Grand Pas de Deux, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni and M. Charles; Grand Pas de Deux, Mdlle. Boschetti and M. Vandris ; La Stguidilla"—Mdlle. Mario Taglioni (her last appearance but one) and M. Charles. On Thursday next, June 26, Grand Extra night, in which) Madlle. Piccolomini will appear. On Friday next, June 27, for the Benefit of Mario Taglioni, LA FIGLIA. DEL REGGIMENTO ; Marie, Madlle Piccolo - mini. With a Divertissement, entitled LS BOUQUETAIN. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. T:IXATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. F. T. Smith. ENGLISH OPERA. THIS EvENING will be produced THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. After wbfeh, The Fourth Act of LUCIA DI L 131.1iEWAI0011. To conclude with 'I he Last Act of FRA DIAVOLO. THRATRE ROYAL, FIAYMARILET. Under the Management of Mr. 13neketone. THII EVENING, MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER. Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. After which PEREI NENT.I and the Spanish Dancers will appear. To conclude with THE RIGHT:?, AND WRONGS OF WOMAN. TOYA.L PRtNCERS'S THEATRE, OM gORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHAIM; LEAN. THt EvENING, A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. After which, T'IE WINTER'S TALE. ROYAL TELEATRE ADELPEIL Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS 1011 7 ,NING. THE FLYING DITTCH3iA.7. Followed by A BOTTLE OF SMOKE. To conclude with lIRGEN r PRIVATE AFFAIRS. ROYAL OLYMPIC TREATRE. Lessee and Manazer. Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIB EVENING A EASCIgATING DTDIVIDUAL. After which. RETIITBU :lON. To conclude with CATCEIPTG A SCEItIitID. ROYAL SI7ItHEY TriEkTRE. Lessees. Messrs. Sthepheri 'tnd Creswick. THIS EVENING, 2d Act of YORIIA, After which LUCIIEZIA BOIIGTA. To conclude with A BALLET rI,SEMEN ASTLErS ROYAL AMPEEITIIKATRE. Lessee snri Vans7;er. Kr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, The I t°Mantie 4 Pectacte, THE HORSE OF THE CAVERN, or th• Ittnunteit Rrigands of the Abruzzi, with Mr. W. Cooke's Stud of beautiful horses, trained by him. After 'which, The EQUE9lfitt Ex.zrt. • ISFA in the CIRCLE. The GER MAN RitOrilEßS, ai the Donbie Itevolvinz Athletx, &c. To conclaae with The New Drama, VIE FESTIVAL OF PEACE; or Honour t , the Brave. N.ll.—Morning Perform tnces will Leo. place on Monday, Jun , 231 and 32th, at Two e'clock. Boa-office open fr F even tid Four. Sta•:e Manager, Mr. W West. Equeltrian Director. 3lr. Coke, MGR WATER. AT LONDON" BIUDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 37 min. aft. 3 —Evening 59 min. aft. T -,iIORROW—Morn. 21 min. aft. 4 —Evening 43 min. aft, 4 • THE WEATHER—SuN OFFICE, JUNE 21. TilitlnlMlßTElt, IN TtlK SUADZ. 65 -highest since, noon yesterday. 55 -lowecit this morning and during the night. 67 —this day st noon. FIAROVRI'Ieit-20 . 15—a rise of nearly three quarters o' an inch since yesterday. WIND—S. W.—Light, with fine sunshiny weather. ) , , r !c_,--es.,„-:,.:-__:;___-__!•% , , I . t 1 ~ ,tcf t7,— s , ....... 14 -,.! : ; (, t:Aey -' - t'l ,-....'----Z;.0.;. ' . i '' A ',---.::.,'-'..—.l', 1111, LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1856. The poor and the oppressed have earthly, t , say nothing of other, consolations of which nothinr can deprive them. All that breathe are in sub jection to one regime —Emperor and peasant— they who rule and they who endure are alik , mortal, and must at some unknown hour bow th head to the inexorable stroke of Death. Here a. least is a standing point of equality, from wbicl no gendaernerie can remove them. Further, in thi juxtaposition the latter have generally the advan tage, so far at least as the prospects of their de scendants are concerned. Having themselves been cast far the worst they can look forward with rea sonable hope to the condition of their issue being improved, and so looking mitigatf the anxieties that precede dissolution. Your Emperor or Kaiser has no such ,consolation, though most eager for it. On the topmost round of the ladder himself, the chances are that hi:- descendants shall topple downward rather that , occupy his place, and the reflection occasions him much anxiety. The future of an absolute Monarch is his dynasty, and of its perpetuity he can have no certainty. There may be none fitted to suc ceed one him • or, if giving promise of bei ng so , himself may die before that promise be f I can - filled. Hence his constant endeavour is to take a bond of fate, and in that bargain he, for ob vious reasons, is sometimes unsuccessful. These general reflections must serve to preface a few remarks on a question now uppermost at tht- Court of France. The Emperor NAPOLIION, it will be seen, is looking forward with anxiety t„ the future. The dynastic fever is on him and permeates through his veins. As he gazes on the Imperial heir, the long years that must elapse before that tiny hand can wield the sceptre pass before his mind's eye, and the thought again and again occurs with increasing force " What if I am cut off by the hand of fate ere he can grasp the sceptre I hold, is likely to become of it ? Must the house I have buildecl topple to pieces, or is there any means whereby that catastrophe may be averted ?" The parvenu has taken of late to the perusal of the regal records of legitimacy, and having'aped the ceremonial of the kings of France is 114 above imitating their measures of precau tion. ' In former times a "child of France " was dowered with the contingent protection of a re gency. Why, should not the young NAPOLEON ? A regency iS decided on, and being nominated, will doubtless, when decreed, be regarded as another band taken of fate. For our part we take no ex ception to the measure. It is a prudent act, but by i itself will amount to little. The best protection the 3 - oung NAPOLEON could have, the surest ground work for the perpetuation of the Napoleonic dy nasty, would be the gratitude and respect of the French people for worthy service nobly rendered. The EMPEROR has already done much for France, but the French people have a right to lo )1c for much more at his hands. It is not enough that he saved France from anarchy—that he is converting the Parisian brick into marble—that he has advanced the glory of the French arms, and has manifested sympathy with a portion of the people on an occasion of calamity. The dy .nasty of a civilised people nowadays must have better grounds of support. He has played the Emperor, let him play the man. His subjects are as much entitled to a well-ordered liberty as he or his can be to the imperial sceptre. Their aspirations, the dignity of their being, their wel fare, their position in the rank of nations, are deserving of all the consideration the noblest and wisest can accord them. At present his position Ind prospects remind us of the address of BURNS to the poor mouse : " Bat, mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain : The best-laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gly, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promis'd joy." So little reason do we perceive for any well grounded hope on his part for the future, and we could readily imagine him apostrophising some similar object and exclaiming— " Still thou art blest compared wi'mel The present only toucheth thee : But, oh ! I backward cast my e'e, On prospects drear ! And forward, though I canna see, I guess and fear." All human schemes undoubtedly are uncertain, tnd darkness shrouds all human prospects ; but the redemption of the past and the establishment of that future he loves to contemplate would best be assured' by a liberated France enjoying, under !onstitutional forms, the advantages his energy and sagacity are so well calculated to insure it. this may not be the language of a courtier, but it is the language a discreet friend would utter, Ind the Emperor will do well to lay it to heart. There is no general desire on this side of the channel to see the Napoleonic dynasty subverted, provided it be associated with justice to France. On the contrary, the people generally would be delighted to witness the crown one great man won and another recovered worn in perpetuity ')3T their descendants. That, however, they will never be able to do, save on the conditions which ye have stated. Let but the Emperor be laid .tside, and we would confidently challenge the judgment of the third NAPOLEON to the correct ness of our conclusions. The Napoleonic dynasty zan only be perpetuated while associated with the initnpaired dignity and growing welfare of France, and without liberty France is abased and cannot prosper. Lord PALMERSTON has promised that all the papers relating to the American question, includ ing the answer of Lord CLARENDON to Mr. &ere tary MA.RCY'S despatch announcing the dismissal of the British Minister, shall be placed before Parliament during, the ensuing week, and, he h.opes, at an early day in that week. We must lerefore be contented to await the convenience )f Ministers on this all-important subject.. In private affairs such a communication should be replied to by return of post, or at latest on the following day. A party who took ten days or a fortnight to decide on the manner in which he lould reply to an insult would be considered to have waived his claim to redress. Such procras tinating indifference would prove, bey ,nd the possibility of doubt, that he could not oa very sensitive, on the score of ho lour, who allowed so much time to elaps.) ,vithout attempting its vindication. He would, herefore, according to the old gentlemanly code, ne considered as placed loyond the bounds that entitled him to demand satisfaction. It is a wholesome doctrine, that the same laws which dfect individuals are also binding on flagons ; laid although the days of "small swords and hair riggers" have happily passed away, wa cannot .00k upon " bowie knives and revolvers" as an improvement. In either case, however absurd he length to which matters were pushed, cher • is 30 doubt that the preliminary regulations were founded on right principles, and that any person who fancied his honour aggrieved should nit slum oer on the complaint. More than a week has already passed since he receipt of the objectionable despatch, or, n other wmls, since the castigation has been administered. Surely any man of ordinary cap a :ity could have framed a suitable reply within ►alt a dozen hours—and the decision of th& Cabinet might be taken thereon without a mo ment's unnecessary delay. The pressure of other natters could not be received as a valid excuse, for there is no other foreign, question that is not )f secondary importance to that which so greatly affects the state of our future relations with our transatlantic brethren, and the prestige and honour of the Unitel Kingdom. It may, perhaps, be considered desirable in some quarters to procrastinate matters until the PIERCE•MARCY Cabinet have seen the utter fail ure of the "(lodges" which they attempted. That has, however, already been accomplished. There is now no prospect of the re-election of General PIERCE —and we can scarcely conceive that he would without motive involve his country in such a conflict as that which, if at all, must occur between the United Kingdom and the United States. In such a case there could be "no little war." It must be a combat a l'outrance, in which the resources of both must be taxed to the very utmost. We hope, and believe, that such a con test cannot take place. But it is beyond all things essential that " the vessel of State" should not be suffered to drift on the quicksand. Apathy and negligence may occasion a hundredfold greater mischief than the greatest mistake that could be made—as Major A— says of whist, even a vicious principle is far better than none at all—the one may be corrected, the other never Can. The " enlistment" question, although still awaiting the answer of the English Govern meat, was virtually terminated by the z e jection of G enera l P IERC E . M r. B UCHANAN, when Mi n i s t er at this Court, had exprersed his satisfacti on at the explanations offered. Had his ad vice been taken there would have been no further difficulty or 'annoyance, n aondexipt u i l s si q o u n it o e f c t l h ea e r E tli ng at_ there would have.b een ish Representatives. But on the Central Ame rican questions it is quit© the other way. There he has committed himself to the extreme view of the case—has , declared that there is nothing whereon to arbitrate, and pressed the PIERCE-MAICCY view of the points in dispute to the very uttermost. The Manifesto published by the Cincinnati Conference will also render any withdrawal on his part more difficult. Stii:i be is a very decided improvement on General PIERCE ; and the recognition by the Democratic party of more moderate principles than those pro fess)ed by th 3 present Government is a matter of vas t importance to the welfare and prosperity of both countries. - ,itut although the cliancJ of General PIERCE Ila 3 been annihilated, it is 1y no means certain that Mr. BUCHANAN will ultimately achieve the object of his legitimate ambition. There are many other important interests to be regarded. There are other Conventions whose views have not yet been expressed whose candidates have nob yet been selected. A severe contest for the high honour is still on the cards, and the reaction occasioned by the Kansas disturbances, the outrage on Mr. SUMNER, and other domestic questions, may render the ultimate triumph of Mr BUCHANAN very problematical. All that we can desire is, that the new President may not be committed against Great Britain in any of the topics. We only want a fair and impartial deci sion. We care nothing about the Belize, the Bay of Islands, or the Mosquito Points ; we would gladly grant them as a present to any applicant, but we cannot surrender them to a bullying appli cation that presses its claim with a scarcely dis guised intimation of the consequence of a refusal. We refuse to do on compulsion, what would not cause a moment's hesitation to answer to a friendly request. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO BERLIN. The Pc arse Gazette of Berlin, of the 17th says :—" A visit of the Queen of England to the Court of Berlin, and one of the Prince and Princess of Prussia to London, have long been the subject of conversation, and it is now said that these reciprocal visits will cer tainly take place. The Prince and Princess of Prussia will probably leave for London at the end of July, and remain there for a week ; and it is thought that Queen Victoria will come to Berlin in September." THE MOTHER OF THE LATE MAJOR THOMPSON. THE SON - LONDON, SATUtia4Y EVENIvG, JUNE 21, 1A56 LATEST i E WS. AUSTRALIA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIT.) LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING. The Marco Polo, from Melbourne, is off the port, with 68,000 ounces of gold, and 40,000 in specie, in all 300,000/. Her dates to the 28th of March have been anticipated by Overland Mail. BERLIN, JUNE 19, Advices from St. Petersburg aunounce that the entrance into the Crimea has just been interdicted to all persons, except the inhabitants, on account of the scarcity and dearness of provisions, and the sickness which prevails there. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. The Moniteur says that the Commission, which has had the means of already ascertaining, in part at least, through the facts that have been commu nicated to it, the serious nature of the disasters for which it is urgent to provide a remedy, and the causes of which have not yet ceased, feels it neces sary to make a new and earnest appeal to private charity in favour of the sufferers by the inunda tions. The Prince Regent of Baden is expected to arrive here to-morrow. On ThurSday the Emperor received at the Palace of St. Cloud, Count Lewascheff, aide-de-camp of his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Michael of Russia, charged by the Emperor Alexander to pre sent to his Imperial Majesty a " model of a cannon, formed upon the system invented by his Majesty, and which has been adopted in the Russian artil lery." The count was presented to the Emperor by Baron Brunow, envoy extraordinary of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias. General Dabormida, commandant of the Sardi nian artillery, likewise had the honour of being presented to his Imperial Majesty by the Marquis of Villamarina, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Sardinia. The total damage done by the inundations in France is estimated as nearly as possible at 200,000,000 f. A A decree in the Moniteur confers the military medal on 74 non-commissioned officers and privates of different regiments. Ali Talib, the revg.ked sheriff, at the head of 40,000 men, refuses to resign his post, notwithstanding the orders of the Sultan. He maintains that the latter is not free, but that he is placed under the influ , nce of the giaours who have forced him to issue the Hattihumayoun. The sheriff has gone the length of refusing to receive the Sare-Ewini or holy caravan from Constantinople. Mohamed Ihei-Naun, the new sheriff, has lost all hope of forcing Ali Talib to withdraw and has retired to the frontier. It is said the Viceroy of Egypt was to act against him, but that the Divan has made opposition, on the ground of the ground of conse quences which might result from such a step." A letter from Darmstadt of the 17th, in the Moniteur, says : " The Elector of Hesse came here from Cassel last week on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the birthday of the Grand Duke to offer his con gratulations to his august relative. A grand dinner was given at the palace, at which the Ministers, the diplomatic body, and the high dignitaries of the State were present. On the following day the court celebrated the fete en famille at the Chateau of Auerbach, near Darmstadt. The Grand Duchess is at present on a visit to her father, King Louis, in Rhenish Bavaria." The Moniteur contains a decree, founded on a report from the Minister of War, making different modifications in the organisation of the Corps de l'lntendance Militaire. The report states that, although the new arrangement will lead to an in creased expense of 146,000 francs a year, yet from the reductions which will be made in the effective strength of the Intendance Militaire, the actual expense of that corps will be reduced by about 80,520 f. a year. Subscriptions for the sufferers from the inunda tions in France continue. The provincial council of Lomellina has voted I,ooof. for its share, and other councils are about to follow its example. THE BOURSE, June 19.—The following were the closing quotations : Cash. fr. a. End of Month. 4i per Cents 93 —f. —c. 3 per Cents 7O 40 70 55 New Loan 7O 80 The German Journal of Frankfort states that a subscription, limited to three kreutzers (about 15 centimes) each person, has been opened at Worms for the construction of a Gothic chapel in that town, in honour of Luther, a n d o f hi s pro test to the Diet of Worms. PORTUGAL. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING. By the Frankfort steamer we have received our correspondent's letter to the 14th of June. Bank Shares 4,025 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,530 Austrian Belgian Fives 97 Spanish Threes 46 Piedmonteae(s) . 92 Home Debt ..., 4la RAILWAYS-708 CASH. The transport-steamer Khersonese, from Malta and Gibraltar, was coaling at Lisbon, with the 94th Regiment, and reports all well on board. Our correspondent writes—. " The political position of the Loule•Sanches Cabinet remains much the same as last reported, the department of Finance and Public Works being' still without permanent Ministers. " When M. Julio Sanches agreed to take office, I stated it probable that the Ministry would en deavour to carry out the arrangements made be tween M. Fontes and Mr. Thornton respecting the quotation of Portuguese Bonds upon the Stock Exchange, and I am now assured the Ministers in timated this to be their intention. IF. c. fr. o Or/ear s 1,335 Western !Vorthern Lyons_. ' ..... 1,445 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,650 Grand Central Lyons Geneva 7BO Teste "At a private meeting of the majority of the Deputies, the desire was expressed to make some alteration in the stipulations respecting the extra 1 per cent. to be paid upon the old Portuguese bonds when the revenues of the country will allow it, and the Ministers also intimated their intention to apply to the Cortes for authority to raise a loan of 1,500 contos (about 335,000/.) for the continua 'ion of the railroad and other public works, until the meeting of the new Legislature in January, 1857. (lett° - 760 Austrian C0rn....... 885 " A bill has been brought in to extend the ad mission of foreign grain until the 30th of June, 1857, at a nominal duty of about ld. per 100 This measure has become urgent in consequence of the undoubted short wheat and barley crop in Portugal and in part of Spain. Indian corn may still yield a fair crop if the showers in the northern provinces become general. Nothing was said to day in the Cortes respecting the new loan of 335,0001., but the Ministers intend to propose it ; as respects the Stock Exchange question, they wait Mr. Thornton's reply to modifications suggested or negotiated here by his agent, since the fall of the late Cabinet." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Thursday.—The Emperor received yes terday, at an audience of leave, the Austrian bishops assembled at Vienna for the execution of the Concordat. In his reply to the bishops the Emperor guaran teed the execution of the Concordat, and promised to appreciate the wishes of the episcopacy as far as possible. His Majesty ended by expressing his hope that his people would possess temporal wealth without peril to their eternal salvation. This afternoon Baron de Bourqueney was re ceiv9d in state by the Emperor, to present his credentials. The Grand Vizier Aali Paella has had. his audi• ence of the Emperor. The official journal of the Netherlands an. nounces that the King has definitely accepted the resignation of Baron Von Hall as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and, in doing so, expressed his thanks for the numerous and important services rendered by him to his Majesty and the country. Baron Von Hall, however, remains charged with the administration of affairs until his successor shall be appointed. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, June 18.—The Prussian 111 oniteur an nounces the departure of the Prussian flotilla from Dantzic. It is commanded by Prince Adalbert, and part of it will proceed to the mouths of the Danube. The difficulties which stood in the way of the German monetary union have been over come. Colonel Schultz, who was an authority on military science, has just died. -04 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Allow me, as one of the ❑earest relations of Mrs. Thompson, in answer to your article of to-day (June 20), to assure you that Mrs. Thompson, feeling most deeply the kindness and consideration that dictated the article, and fully aware of the consideration and sym pathy of an always kind-hearted and generous public, has, in addition to that sympathy, received, within four and-twenty hours of the death of her son, so kind, so sympathising, so nobly and generously expressed a letter on the part of her most gracious Maj,-sty and Sovereign, that, if anything could alleviate the bitternes4 of the loss she has sustained, the condclenee of that noble-minded lady would go far to render the blow legs afflicting. Under such circum stances, on her part, I can but express the gratitude of the family in general for the condolence so ably and so feelingly offered in your article of to-day.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, London, June 20. ONE OF THE FAMILY. REDUCTION OF POSTAGE IN LETTERS TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA. On and from the Ist July next, the postage upon let ters conveyed either by packet or by private ship, be tween the United Kingdom and Western Anytralia, will be reduced to a combined British and Colonial rate of— For a letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight Oa. 6d. For a letter exceeding half an ounce and not ex- _ _ needing one ounce For a letter exceeding one ounce and not exceed- ing two ounces v 2s. OJ. and so on, increasing one shilling for every additional ounce or fraction of an ounce. The postage of letters to Western Australia may be paid in advance, or the letters may be forwarded unpaid, at the option of the sender. By command of the Postmaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, Secy. General Post-office, 18th June, 1856. BAMPSTRAD HEATH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I was much pleased with your remarks about Hampstead-heath in last night's paper. A thought has struck me that a public subscription might be got up, and funds sufficient to purchase t h e heath would soon be raised. I would willingly give 51. as soon as a pro per place is appointed to receive subscriptions. Camden-town, June 17, 1856. S—. I enclose my address. Sta,—Permit me to call your attention to an error in the remarks this day published by you upon the de sirald,ness of securing to the public the enjoyment of this beautiful spot Y.,u have stated—"ln point of fact, it is the only hh of open country within many uiles not exposed to the charge of being a reservoir of inure or less magnitude for malaria, and to be deprived of it would be a sourec, of much regret and no little evil." It is thus evident you are not aware that there is now in the centre of the heath a !aro, pond, be longing to the flampatead Waterworks Company, and that the colour of its water, and the stench arising from Vie ,ame, can only be accounted for by the present and past in p .urings of the sewage of thousands living in an i visiting the neighbourhood.—Your obedient ser vant, HEATHER. June 18, 1850. We ars authorised to contradict a paragraph that ap iy.ared a few days since announcing the arrival at Folke -t,ne of the ex-king of Oude, accompanied by Edward Leee EN. It was; hie Highne=s Meer Alt Moo ral Khan Sa!poor, of Khyupoor, Scinde, who landed, a , :companied by Mr. C4fey, his secretary and inter preter, and with a numerous suite. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT OF BADEN.—The Prince Regert of Baden and suite arrived at Birmingham's Royal Ship Hote►, Dover, laßt even ing, at seven o'clock, by the South-Eastern Railway frown London. His Royal Highness dined, and after wards embarked for Calais, en route for Germany. ARRIVAL OF PRINCE NAPOLEON IN EDINBURGH.— Two French vessels of war arrived on Thur:day in Leith Roads, bringing Prince Napoleon and suite. His Imperial Highnees immediately landed in Leith, and came up to Edinburgh by the Gra , ,ton Railway, and was employed during the day, which unfortunately was rainy, in visiting some of our princip I buildings, in cluding the Advocates' Library.—North British Daily Mail. The Lincoln Town C iuncil have taken up a proposal for a monument to Sir John Franklin and his comrades. The water of the Jordan, used for the baptism of the Imperial Prince, was brought from Palestine by the Baron de Saint Julien, the step-son of M. Charles Dupin. Captain Gambier, Governor of the Millbank Prison, has been appointed a director of convict prisons ; and Captain Bromley, deputy governor of Millbank, has been appointed the governor of that prison. The German journals announce that Baron Marie de Weber, son of the great composer, possesses the mann script.of an opera by his father which has never been publiehed. It is entitled " Peter SChnoll." THE LATE SUICIDE ON LONDON BRlDGE.—Yester. day morning the friends of the deceased man identified him as Egules Breton, aged 84 years, who had worked for Mr. Charles Frodshana, Watchmaker, 84, Strand. No cause is assigned for the rash act. A fire broke out on Sunday night in the roof of the palace of the Legislative Body, at Paris, caused by the remains of a rocket falling on the canvas with which the windows were covered. It was discovered by hearing the windows cracking from the flames. Firemen were promptly sent for, and it was soon got under. ANOTHER. TRAGEDY IN MELTON. —Yesterday afternoon Mr. Thomas Clarke went into the house of Mr. Shoulet, auctioneer, and shot him in the breast. Tile wound ie not fatal. The police proceeded to apprehend Mr. Clarke, who was about to commit suicide, and had slightly cut his throat, VISIT OF LIVERPOOL MERCHANTS TO THE GRIMSBY DoCKS.—On Tuesday a number of !he leading merchants and other gentlemen, connected with the port of Liver pool, visited the extensive docks at Great Grimsby. on the invitation of the directors of the Manchester, Shef field, and Lincolnshire Railway Company. THE AUSTRALIAN .M AILS. —Liverpool, June 20— The Australian royal mail packet.ship Golden Era, Captain Brown, belonging t . . Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson's White Star line, left the Mersey to-day, at noon, for Melbourne, with the bi monthly mails. She takes out 400 passengers and a very large and valuable general cargo. The Emperor of Russia has ordered that only those tradesmen who supply the Imperial couple shall in future be permitted to place the imperial coat of arms over their doors, whilst those who furnish the grand dukes and other members of the reitoing family are only to mount a shieol containing the initials of such member, surmounted by a crown. COTTON IN NICARAGUA..—We were favoured yester• day (says the New Orleans True Delta), by a gentleman from Nicaragua, who has travelled a good deal through that garden spot of Central America, with a specimen of the wild cotton that grows there spontane3usly. The colour is fine, and the texture nearly equal to our sea island. The curious in such matters can see the sample at our office. A STATION MASTER KILLED.—A fatal accident took place at Baschurcb, near Shrewsbury, on Wed,,esday, by which Mr. Pitclifoid, station master, lost his life. The last up train from Chester, calls at Baschurch, about 9'40, and on Wednesday evening, a gentleman from Shrewsbury took a ticket to go by this train. After giving the ticket, there being no other passengers, Mr. Pitchford went out of the station for the pur pose of crossing to the other side, to be ready for the up train, which would be soon due. It is presumed that this fact must have been for the moment forgotten by the unfortunate man, for no sooner had be stepped on the line to cross over, than the express train dashed by, and the buffers of the engine striking him, be was instantly dashed to pieces. An inquest was held on Thursday, and a verdict of accidental death had re. tucued,—Shrewsbury Chronicle. PARMA. The Opii)ione of Turin of the 17th says : " If we are well informed, the dispute which had arisen at Parma between the Austrian command ant and the local authorities has received an un expected solution. The Austrian military com mandant insisted upon extending his inquiries and condemnations to facts anterior to those which had caused the state of siege ; the local authorities, supported by the Duchess, refused their assent ; whereupon Count Crenneville declared that he would not protect the Government any longer, but would leave it to its own resources. He has been taken at his word, and the Government has imme diately opened the State (prisons. 'What will be the result of this step we do not know.' ITALY. A letter dated Genoa, June 17, says—" The only concession the Papal Court seems as yet dis posed to make is to agree to the departure of the French and Austrian troops, and the substitution of a pontifical army, if Gen. Farina can contrive to form one. Cardinal Antonelli has instructed the curates to pick out those among their penitents who are, by their years and physical constitution, best qualified for military service, and to bring the influence of the confessional to bear upon them in order that they may be prevailed upon to become soldiers. But the experience of 1848 has shown that even pontifical troops may be easily induced to side with the revolutionary party. The Holy See would for this reason prefer Swiss to natives ; but the English, French, and Neapolitan levies in the Helvetic cantons have exhausted the disposable recruits of Switzerland. An application has, there fore, been made to France, not to allow her two regiments to remain at Civita Vecchia, for the car dinals have little affection for the generals sent them by Napoleon 111., but to band over to the Pope the Helvetic Legion raised during the war, and stationed at present at Dijon. The reply of the Emperor to this application is unknown. True, the Legion has received orders to hold itself in readiness to march to Marseilles ; but it is quite uncertain whether its destination is to be Algiers or Civita Vecchia. TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople of the 9th in the Plessager du, Midi says : " The Circassian deputation, composed of 220 persons, which has been at Constantinople for some time past, left on the sth on board the• Ottoman steam-frigate the Mouhbiri-Sorour, which is to transport them to Anapa. The munitions of war in the latter place are to fall, it is said, to the share of the Cirlassians. Etch member of the commis sion received from the Porte a sum equivalent to ten pounds sterling. A circumstance has just occurred here which has caused a great sensation. Two days ago three or four Tuni sian soldiers got into a boat to proceed a little distance down the shore. Some dispute arose be tween them and the boatman concerning the fare, and they drew their swords on the man. He, in terror, took refuge on board a neighbouring vessel, and the Tunisians followed him and were about to treat him ill, when the crew of the vessel repulsed them with vigour, and one of the assailants had his arm broken. They then returned to land, and endeavoured to excite the populace against the crew of the vessel, but finding that they could not do anything, they were on the point of withdraw ing when a Greek sailor landed, and they imme diately rushed on him, declaring that he was one of the men who had ill-treated them ; he denied the fact most energetically, but his protestations were all in vain, and they seized him, beat him, and tied his hands together. At that moment, a Tunisian captain came up, and on hearing.what had occurred drew his sword and very coolly stabbed the sailor several times until this latter was dead. He then retired without any one attempting to arrest him, the soldiers of a neighbouring Turkish fort refusing to interfere, declaring that they had received orders not to interfere with the Tunisians. The Greek Legation, however, has taken the matter up most warmly, and the captain has been arrested, and will be inimed s ia t t h e e ly f b ol r l o o u w g i h n t g . cLtrial." The same lettercontain RIOTS 1N ARABIA. The Osservatore Triestino quotes the following from Arabia :—" Agitation is on the increase here. _ LITERATURE. California, its Gold and its Inhabitants. By the Author of " Seven years on the Slave Coast of Africa." 2 vols. Newby. These volumes present an entertaining panorama of the first gold diggings, though it does not leave a very favourable impression on the reader's mind as to the morals and manners of the inhabitants. It is true that the writer informs us that since the period he refers to matters have in some degree improved, and that in speaking of the American, it must be remembered that he is represented as he appears in California, where, of course, the re straints of law and civilisation are but little felt. The work before us is compiled from a journal kept by the author in 1852, during his residence in California. He begins his records at San Fran cisco with the arrival of the European and Atlantic mails. On these occasions crowds of people rush to the Post-office and take their stand in single file. Two or three hundred wait sometimes in this man ner, the first comer having the first place. Some times a Yankee who expects no letters secures a good place early and sells his place in the line to an impatient later corner. The characteristic shrewdness and sharpness in striking bar gains of the Americans, is frequently alluded to. " There is no childhood in the American children," he says further on ; " here chil dren are sententious, crude, and premature." The recklessness with which human life is de stroyed is somewhat startling to more orderly so cieties. If a man rushes into a tavern and stabs another to death, or shoots him in the street, the jury do not consider the crime itself, but the in ducement to it. "It is not whether he killed a man or not ; it is whether they think he had a right to kill or not." In speaking of shooting he gives us an account of the singular way in which General Ross met his death before Baltimore, in the last war with America. Three boys, the eldest only sixteen, went out to see the soldiers, after the retreat of the Americans into the city. They crept along ',in the brushwood fearing to be taken pri s mers. The eldest carried a rifle as most Ameri can boys do. They heard the tramp of horses, and, looking out from their place of concealment, saw three officers riding up an open space in the wood. They were General Ross, Admiral Cock burn, and Colonel Mullins. They fired the rifle and the general fell. They immediately stole back to Baltimore quite frightened at what they had done till praised for it. There is a curious account of the first discovery of gold at Captain Sutler's fort, near Sacramento, with the main facts of which our readers are doubtless familiar. During the three months of March, April, and May, 20,923 emigrants arrived at San Francisco. The imports of bullion during the same period were 10,120,828 dollars, the exports 9,533,970. When it is re membered that it has now been a city less than three years these statisti cs are somew h a t remark able. Few persons, however, would feel tempted to try their fortune among such desperadoes, the descriptions of the murders, robberies, and execu tions in the second volume being really frightful. However, the volumes contain some pleasant light reading, and give us a picture of California life as it was a few years since, and doubtless to a great extent it is still the same. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS AND. PRO MOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. The Foreign Department.—The office of minister plenipotentiary at Hanover hal become vacant by the retirement of the Hon. J. D. Bligh. The consulship of Buffalo, U.S., has become vacant by the promotion of Mr, R. L. Swif`. Prisons Department.—Captain C. R. Knight has resigned his appointment as director of Irish c 'nvict prisons, an i has been succeeded by Captain J. S. Whitty, director of English convict prisons. A director. ship of convict i.,risons, England has been rcndered vacant, by the promotio❑ of Captain J. S. Whitty. East India Company. —The Rev. Dr. Au4us has been appointed an examiner in English literature and history of candidates for the civil service of the East India Company. Bank of England. —A vacancy has been caused in the Bank Stock Three per Cent. Reduced Transfer Office by the death of Mr. F. V. Elmer. A clerkship in the Three per Cent. Transfer Office has been rendered vacant by the death of Mr. T. W. Duff. The Board of Trade.— Mr. W. Singleton has been appointed office keeper in the department of the registrar general of seamen. Cus toms.—The office of comptroller at the port of Belfast has been rendered vacant by the death of Mr. J. W. Tr nisdell. Mr. J.'Hoar has been promoted from third to second class of searchers in London. Mr. T. L. Wil liams has been promoted from fourth to third class of searchers in London. Mr. J. H. Shanklin has been promoted from second to first class of searchers at Li verpool. Mr. E. Glover has been promoted from third to second olass of searchers at Liverpool. Ireland. — Mr. J. Owen, architect to the Board of Works, has re tired on superannuation of 1,000/. per annum, his full salary. Mr. J. 11. Owen (eon of Mr. J. Owen), unior clerk of works, has been appointed architect to the Board of Works at a salary of SOO/. There is a vacancy in the office of junior clerk of works by the promotion. of Mr. J. H. 0 wen.— Civil Service Gazette. rgWe hear that the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, having teen recommended to take German waters, has gone to Carlsbad.— Wiltshire Independent. THE MAILS.—SOUTIIAMPTON, June 20.--The Penin• solar and Oriental Company's screw steam-ship Ava, Captain Field, sailed this afternoon for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria, with the India and Medi zerranean mails, 20 passengers, 180,3051. in specie for India, 10,0001. for Alexandria, and an average cargo. The Tagus, Captain Christian, with the malls from Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo, is expected about Tuesday next. The Sultan, Captain Cook, will convey the out ward Peninsular mails of the 27th. Till REGENCY QUESTION IN FRIA GE. Yesterday's Ifoniteur contains the project of a Senatus Consultas concerning the Regency of the Empire, and a preamble, expose des motifs. Both documents are subjoined : Messieurs les Senateurs,—The constitution of a mo narchy founded on the hereditary principla can only be considered complete when it comprehends a system of regency wisely organised in case of minority on the part of the sovereign. History teaches us how many difficulties, how many dangers even, may be engendered by the want of precise egislation on so grave a point, and of what importance t is, amidst the embarrassments of a minority, that the action of the Government should be secured by constitu tional measures of sufficient strength to overrule all pas sions and all interests. Providence, in giving a son to the Emperor, and in vouchsafing this joy to his heart, has imposed upon him the duty of filling up the void that still exists with re spect to the regency in the organic institutions of the empire. It is with this view that a bill has been pre pared by his orders, and that we come to propose it for your sanction, hoping firmly with yourselves, Messieurs les Senateurs, that the application of its provisions will be postponed to a most remote period. Different systems have been followed or proposed for the choice of delegates t' perform duties so important, difficult, and august, as those vested in a regency. The regency, during the minority of a sovereign, may be confided by the law to certain persons designated by it, or have been conferred by the preceding monarch, or lastly, be subjected to an election under various forms and conditions. The regency, conferred before hand by the legislator, may itself be regulated in conformity with different principles ; and the right of the heirs presumptive to the throne has often been confronted with that of the Em presses or Queen-mothers. If we consult the precedents of our national history, we see that, by a custom coeval with our monarchy, the regency hae in most instances, b een c o n f erre d on th e Queen-mothers, and it is right to add that some of these regencies have been for the country not unaccompanied by glory or utility, It is this form of the regency, combined with the re striction proceeding from the paternal choice, and with the principle of election itself, in a subsidiary hypothesis, which the government of the Emperor has the honour to propose for your adoption. The regency of the Empress-mother, to which we would at the present moment be led by a profound sen timent of respect, combine, moreover, in our eye, the powerful guarantee of the natural affections, the great majority of historical precedents, and finally the tradi tions of the Imprial dynasty, consecrated by a Senatus Consultus, which the wisdom of your predecessors adopted, on the sth February, 1813, after it had been prepared under the personal inspirations of the Emperor Napoleon himself. However, the rights of the mother, which, even in ordinary guardianships may be modified by the will of the father, ought to be, a fortiori, subordinated to this sovereign and enlightened will, when it is no longer mere private interests that are to be considered, but public interests linked by the very principle of the monarchy to those of the dynasty. "The interest orthe state," said the Count Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, on presenting the Senatus Conna te. of 1813 to the Senate, "demands, moreover, that the Emperor, in those circumstances which pse.general views of the law can neither define nor foresee, may, according to the experience of events, the situation of a ff a irs, the knowledge of persons, apply such modifications to the general rule as are dictated by wisdom, and inspired by the interest of his successors and his subjects." "Our kings," added the learned reporter of the Senate, Count de Pastoret, on the same occasion, " had always the right to dispose of the regency either by will or by let ters patent." Of course the exercise of his right reserved to the Emperor, is subjected to a condition of the Senatus Con sultus, which we have the honour to present to you. It has seemed proper that the individual—whether prince or citizen—who might enjoy such confidence, so great and of so exceptional a oharacter as to supersede, by the choice of the Sovereign, the Regent designated by the law—should be invested under the eye of the nation, as it were, by an act of the Emperor published before his death. Beiides, it is necessary that in so grave a cage, it should be impossible to raise any doubt as to the will of the Sovereign, and that all the world should know be foreha9d to whose hands the reins of government were to be entrusted. Failing the Empress mother, or a Regent nominated by the Emperor; the draft of the Senatus Consultus pro• poses that the French prince who is next in the order of succession to the crown, shall be called to the Regency. If the French Prince is of sufficient age to exercise the regency, the sth article of the projet calls upon the Senate to support the Regent. Thus all eventualities, even the most remote, will be found to be provided for beforehand, in terms which will, we hope, meet with your approbation. The Regency is to terminate on the Sovereign's attain. ing his majority, which we propose should be fixed by you at the age already consecrated by several legislative enactments, which have, in our age and country, fixed this important point of national law, that is at eighteen years. The It egency has never been confounded with the per sonal custody of the Monarch while a minor. This do mestic guardianship is regulated by the 15th article of the draft of the Senates Consultus, and is, sAs a matter of course, confided to the mother of the Emperor during his minority. You will find, MM. Senators, in the formula of the oath proposed for the guardian o f the Regency, the chief elements of that which was drawn up under the empire of Napoleon 1., and marked in the Senatus Consultus of 1813. We have only omitted in this formula all that appertains either to passing circumstances, or to points which the progress of time has removed from discussion, and which the public sentiment would be astonished to see specially signalised, when they are profoundly conse crated by manners and the public conscience. While admitting that the Regency draws with it the plenitude of the exercise of the Imperial authority, it has seemed convenient that certain acts of the Govern- ment of an exceptional gravity, should be submitted to the deliberation of the Council of the Regency. The questions relative to the marriage of the Emperor, the organised Senates Consultus, the treaties of peace, of alliance, or commerce, have appeared to merit this spe cial guarantee. The cunplsition of the Council of the Regbncy, is, by Article 18 of the project, put in harmony with the prin ciples which have directed the designation of the Regent himself. The French princes, and a few personages cli psen by the Emperor or by the Senate, will form the Counci!, which can only be convoked and presided over by the Empress-Regent, the Regent, or their delegates. Such, MM. Senators, are the principal features of the organic legislation which, in the name of the govern ment, we submit for your deliberation. You will recognise in it numerous resemblances to the Senatus Consultus of February 5, 1813. The principles are the same, MM. Senators, the two redactions are similar—but, let us hasten to say, it has pleased Pro vidence that the attending circumstances shall be, for the happiness of the Emperor and the country, pro foundly different. It is not on the eve of a final contest, in which the genius of the sovereign and exhausted France were about to contend against adverse fortune by heroic efforts, that the august representative of the imperial dynasty submits to your examination measures destined to secure against every eventuality the future well-being of his son and that of the country. It is the day subsequent to a glorious peace for France and her allies, in the midst of a prosperous country, notwithstanding some very painful trials, it is then when the Emperor is only engaged in combatting a destructive scourge with the arms of beneficence and of a devotion meriting both the admiration and gratitude of all ; it is, in short, under circumstances the most propitious for calm and profound deliberation that the Government of the Emperor makes an appeal to your patriotism and exalted reason to com plete on so important a point the work of the Imperial constitution. The act resulting from your deliberations will be wor.hy of the greatness of the subject, worthy of the country whose future weal it will guarantee, worthy in fine of the noble assembly that shalt have sanctioned it by their suffrages. The President of the Council of State, J. BAROCHE. The Vice-President of the Council of State, 4 E. DE PARIEII. Councilor of State, E. DE ROYER. ORGANIC BILL OF SENATUS CONSULTUM ON THE REGENCY. FIRST SECTION.-ON THE REGENCY. Art. 1. The Emperor is a minor till the age of 18 years completed. Art. 2. Should the Emperor, being a minor, ascend the throne without the Emperor his father Is tying by an act made public before his decease regulated the regency of the Empire, the Empres—Mother shall be regent, and have the guardianship of her son during his minority. Art. 3. The Empress-Regent cannot construct second nuptials. Art. 4. In default of the Empress, the regency, if the Emperor has not otherwise settled it by a pu bli c or se cret act, shall appertain to the first French prince, and, in default of him, to one of the other French princes ka the order of succession to the Crown. Art. 5. Should there exist no French prince capable of exercising the regency, the Senate, convoked by the Council of Regency, and on the proposition of the latter, shall appoint the Regent. In the case where the Coun cil of Regency should not have been appointed by the Emperor, the convocation and proposition shall be made by the Ministers in Council, with the assistance of the virtual presidents of the senate, legislative corps, and council of state. Until the moment the Regent is ap pointed, the affairs of the State shall be carried on by the Ministers in office, who shall meet in council and deliberate by majority of votes. Art. 6. The Regent and the members of the Council of Regency must be French, and fully 21 years of age. Art. 7. The public act by which the Emperor con stitutes the Regency shall be addressed to the Senate and deposited in its archives. Art. 8. All the acts of the Regency shall be in the name of the Emperor still a minor. Art. P. Until th e Emperor's majority, the Empress- Regentor the (Prince) Regent will exercise for the Em peror, still a minor, the Imperial authority in all its entirety, with the exception of the right vested in the Council of Regency. All the Legislative enactments protecting the person of the Emperor shall be in force for the Empress-Regent and the Regent, Art, 10. The functions of the Emprem•Regent or of the Regent commenca at the motneut of the Emperor's dectue. Art. 11. Should the Emperor die in his minority, leavii , g a brother, heir to the throne, the Regency 01 the Empress or that of the Regent continues without any fresh formality. Art. 12. The Regency of the Empress ceases if the or ler of succession calls to the throne a Prince not her son. Provision ih is made in this case for the RegetoY , in conformity w Atticle 4or Article 5 of the present Senatus Consultura. Ar. 13. If the Emperor shall die during his minority, leaving the Crown to an infant Emperor of another branch, the Regent continues in office until the new Ent" peror attains his majority. "Art. 14. No French Prince who may have been pre vented for want of age or for other cause from exercising the Regency at the time of the Emperor's death shall be capable, on the disability ceasing, of being summoned t° the Regency. The active Regent remains such until the Emperor attains his majority. Art. 15. No Regency, except that of the EmPre es ' confers any rights over the person of the Infant Ee" . ror. The guardianship of the Infant Emperor, the eo n ' trol of his bousehold, the care of his education, are en, trusted to his mother. F a ili ng th e mo th er , or anY, the son designated by th e E m p eror , th e guardianship °f Infant Emperor is entru s t e d t o th e nominee o f the LAI: o om cil of Regency. N e ith er th e R egen t nor his d ants may be named or designated. ve Art. 16. lithe Empress-Regent, or the 'Regent , - e ir , not taken the oath i n th e lif e ti me o f t h e E m p er or, ton e in , the exercise of the Regency, they will take it, ulr he the ' Gospel, before the infant Emperor seated nn u " rs throne, supported by the French princes, the Ene mu n e f i. of the Council of Regency, the Ministers, the greak " ina cers of the Crown, and of the grand cross of the L i e fC:,. - ve of honour , in presence of the Senate, the LegiV i— b e Body, and the Council of State. The oath may ai ee ts „ r i made to the infant Emperor in presence of the Enemm,_ — i s thy ' case the Council of Regency and of the Ministers. case the taking of the oath is made public by a P reela'' mation of the Empress-Regent or of the Regent. t or Art. 17. The oath take n by th e E m p ress -Regen the Regent is in these words : " I swear fidelity t° " - Emperor. I swear to gover n according to the constitu. tiun, to the Sendtus Consulta, and the laws of the em' pire ; to maintain uni m p a i re d th e r i g h ts o f the na'f be and those of the Imp er i a l di gn ity ; t o consu lt, in ",„ exercise of my authority, nothing but my devotion to the Emperor and to France, and to surrender to the Emperor, at the moment he attains his majority , th e power which has been entrusted to me." The proses verbal of such taking of the oath is drawn up by the nisters of Stale. The document (acte) is signed by t , Empress. Regent, or the Regent, by the princes of tn: Imperial family, by the members of the Council of Ite gency, and by the Ministers. SECTION lI.—THE COUNCIL OF THE REGENCY. for Art. 18. A council o f th e regency i s constitute's i t the whole duration of the minority of the Emperor• the is composed first of th e F renc h pr i nces ; se cond of t persons named by the Emperor by public or private 0 0 If the Emperor has n ame d no one t h e S ena t e names f ly persons to make part of the Council of the Regency. Art. 19. No member of the Council of the Regecolt can be deprived of his functions by tho Empress-Reg s° or the Regent. Art. 20. The Council of the Regency is convoked so ` presided over by the Emp ress -R e gent or the Regent' The Empress-Regent or the Regent can delegate to prei side in their place one of the French princes, or one the members of the Council of the Regency. Art. 21. The Council of the Regency necessarily de liberates, and by th e a b so l u t e ma j or it y o f vo i ce s decid es —let, upon the marriage of the Emperor ; 2d, upon the declarations of war, the signature to the treaties of pelt' alliance, or commercce ; 3d, upon t h e pro j e cts of . organic &flatus Consults. I n case o f equa li t y of vole" the voice of the Empress-Regent or of the Regent as" tides. If the presid enc y i s exerc i se d b y d e l ega tion & t he Empress-Regent or the Regent decides. Art. 22. The Council of the Regency has only ac o sultive voice upon all th e o th er ques ti ons w hich are so milted to it by the Empress-Regent or Regent. SECTION m.—PROVISIONS DIVERSE. Art. 23. During the Regency the administratio °f the dotatif nof the crown continues according to ie established ordinances. The employ of the reven ue determined according to accustomed forms, under the Empress-Regent or the Regent. Art. 24. The personal expenses of the Emprea l-IP. gent, or the Regent, and the maint e n a nco of their 13 tablishment, form part of the budget of the crown. T:00 amount is fixed by the Council of the Regency. the Art. 25. 'ln case of the absence of the Regent at , e a commencement of a minority, unless otherwise provid for by the Emperor before his decease, the afirairs of the state are governed, until the arrival of the Regent, colli formably with the dispositions of the last parAgraP l 4 ° article ,5 of the present Senatus Consultant. The Prpsident of the Council of State, J. BAROcLIS. E. DE PAR 11l N. E. DE ROTkV SIR EDMUND LYONS. Sir Edmund Lyons, whose immediate elevati on to ,tb°, peerage we announced in our columns yesterday, is 0 ' West Indian extraction, his father and grandfatlaer having been settled during the last century on an estate calltat Lyons, in the island of Antigua. His father, 'oho is Ale" scribed by Burke' as " John Lyons, Esq., of 'Lyons, is Antigua, and of St. Austin's, Hants, and who •was a ma' jor in the Christchurch Volunteer Artillery tturing war with France, married .a daughter of Mr. Jf. M. g r a' rond; of Mountrath, Devon, by whom be hai i three sons and three daughters. His sister married the ft .they of Ad'. miral. Walcott, the present M.P. ter Christcl iurch. Edmund, the second son of the above Mr. sliohn Ly oo6 , was born at White Hayes, a mansion in eats hamlet of Burton, near Christchurch, Hampshire,' (ea the 2 1 " November, 1790. At an early age Edam id Lyons ass sent to llEyde Abbey School, near Wireahester, th e° under Dr. Richards, who could boast atn ong his puPil the names of George Canning, Dean. Gaisford, a s Wolfe; the author of the " Ode on the Burial of Sir Moore." Here, however, Edmund Lyon.s did-not•renn gli long. In June, 1801, at the age of 10, he entered Or navy, under the late Admiral Sir Harry Burrard Neajet on board the Royal Charlotte, and in th e following 1„1: : joined the Maidstone, C a pt. R. Mowb ra y .. I n 1807 vie"l biro serving in the Active, in the Dardantilleg, un der Sir '• T. Duckworth, and engaged in th e sum! ,eful attac k on Ow redoubt of Point Pesquies on the Asia.ti o shore. In Ne v i 1800, he became lieutenant in th e B ar racou ta bfig, in the following year he was one of the storming Pa r l wile attacked the Castle o f B e l g i ca ,, i n the island e t Banda Neira, during a mid n i g ht s t ort n , an ac hievemeg! • which added another Dutch colony to our possessions I n the Indian seas. In 1811 he was serviing on the was! o f : Java, but was forced to r e t urn h ome inshattered best..,"' soon after he had•stormed an d cap t ure d t h e stron g fortresx' of Marrack. In 1812 he was appointed to the Rinel in which vessel he conve y e d L ou i s XVIII . to France end brought the allied Sovereigns to England. He obtains • post rank in 1814, but does not appea.r to have been •sr tively employed between that d a t e an d 1828, when, 1. command of the Blonde, he bl oc k a d e d N ava rino, an, superintended the naval expedition in aid of the Frenel r investment of the Castle of the Morea, the last hold , the Sultan, in the Pelopon ne s us . F or t we l ve days 0 11 nights he was continually in the trenches; and, on the. cessation of hostilities, his cour t eous b earing , s kit!, an d bravery obtained for him th e or d ers o f St. Louis , France and of the Redeemer of Greece. In 1829 'I conveyed the British Ambassado r , Si r R. Gordon , t.,.`" Constantinople in the Blonde, an d i n 1831 t oo k Sir d• Malcolm to Alexandria. It is not a little singular that the Blonde was the first British vessel that entered the Black Sea ; and in her Captain Lyons 'visited both ; Odessa and Sebastopol nearly 25 years ago. In 1.8 32, • in the Madagascar, he was an eye-witness of the bow • bardment of Acre by Ibrahim Pasha, and in the follow' . ing year he escorted King Otho and the Bavarian Em, bassy from Trieste to Greece. He paid el' the Made gascar in January, 1835, and in the st see month was knighted and received the insignia of aICO H . groin JUly, 1835, to February, 1849, he filled the post of All" nister Plenipotentiary and Amba s sad or E xtraor di na ry a' the Court of Athens ; from 1849 to 1851 he held the same appointment in Switzerland • and from 1851 to the end of 1853 at Stockholm. The latter appointment " resigned when the war with Russia became imminent, in order to take the post of second in command in the Black Sea under Admiral J. W. D. Dundas, on "'h es° resignation be became Commander in-Chief of the Blee lg Sea fleet, in January, 1855. He was created alaarone t for his civil services in 1840, and honoured with th e Grand Cross of the Bath in 1844. In 1855 he receive d from the Sultan of Turkey th e di gn i ty o f a M e djidie a the first class. The rest of the story of Sir Edlu en Lyons's cat eer is too fresh i n our rea d ers ' memories to need detailing here. Sir Edmnnd Lyons married, in 1814, A ugus taecon d daughter of the late Captain J os i as R ogers , R . N. R: b/ whom, who died at Stockhol m i n 1852, he ha d two 0 "i and two daughters. One of th e l a tt er i s th e preeen..,,. Duchess of Norfolk, the other is married to a Germ o "" nobleman, the Count Philip von Wurtzbiirg. Of his tan sons, the elder, Richard Bickerton (so named after b 4 father's early friend and patron, the late Sir Rich e Bickerton), is attach 6 at Florence and resident at Roe 4; his Younger son, the late Captain Mowbray Lyons,. Itp s - having swept the Sea of Azoff, in the Mira n d a , and . b e ing bombarded Arabat, Genitchi, and Taganrog, v i d severely wounded off the harbour of. Sebastopol, died on the 23d June last in the hospital at Ther a P le ; Ouereaders will not have forgotten the testimony h er : to the character of that gallant of fi cer by her Mkjee , r f in the autograph which she addressed o n that melanch e occasion to Sir Edmund Lyons. DARING BURGLARY.—At about three o'clock ° II Tuesday morning, Prestonfield House, near Edinburgh) the seat of Si r W . Di c k C unyng h am, was e ntered b y three men, who had evidently obtained acco s by breaking a window in the portico, and, through it, opening the front door. In ranging through the house, their movements started one of the ladies, who, in t he reflection o f a m i rror on her toilet table, o bserved o ne f them come and carry off a gold watch, which sve u ei lying on a table in 'an ant , chamber. The lady 'wit' remarkable presence of mind, arose quickly and dresseld, and, finding assistance no nearer at hand the 11338 inmates of the house being from home—proceeded to the house of the coachman, and, returning with hlw' they observed one of the thieves leave the house. The coachman immediately grappled him ; but, taking a life preserver from his breast, the burglar struck Oi l so severely on the face that be was obliged to let n 8 g c i his hold, and the delinquent having g iven the outer , to his associates, they all escaped. One of the was pursued by the but ler, when he sna pp ed a pistol in his face. 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