The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1855.

rs. Bills on Canton, 27 per cent. dis. Sycse, $ll4 50, and
in demand. Gold, $1.59.
FREIGHTS.
To England, 41. fcrr tea, snit, W. for silk. To America,,
$lB.

CANTON MARKET, Nov. 25, 1854.
IMPORTS.

Tea.—Nothing has been done except tho settlement of
some 3,000 half-chests Canton Powehong for California, and
small purchases of the old stock in market for England.
Silk.—Raw, the market is without change, Cumehuck
re-reeled $325 to $330.
Cassia.—sl9 50e.
Exchange and Bullion.—On London, 4s. 7td. to 4s. 7id.
On India, Co.'s bills accepted 235 to 236 rs. per $lOO.

EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, JAN. 7.

The India mail has been delayed in port by a
most severe gale, such as has not been witnessed
for 15 years, since the 4th. The Indus only leaves
at three p.m. to-day. By her Lady Frederic Fitz-
clarence and daughter return to England.
During the gale the French steamer L'Avenir, a
fine screw of 300-horse power, appeared off port,
and although a steamer was placed by the Govern-
ment at the disposal of the French agency, no pilot
could be found to venture out.

The vessel then ran for Aboukir, and after two
ineffectual attempts, in consequence of the surf, to
make that bay, she ran out to sea, and is supposed
to have made for Beyrout.
Consequent upon this vessel not having been
able to enter, his Highness the Viceroy has issued
orders for the buoying off the pi incipal channel of
the port.

Much damage will doubtless be heard of along
thecoast. The Maltese vessel Dillettante has become
a total wreck at Bourlos ; crew saved.
In the port a Turkish brig, laden with fire-wood,
went to pieces ; crew also saved.
The English ships Times and Ocean's Wave, and
a brig (Sarah and Isabella), drove on shore. The
former is bilged ; the two latter will not sustain
much damage. The Norwegian barque Asterysoer
has also driven, and the English barque Agenoria
in making the port, struck en a reef, and carried
away her keel.
A small yacht (the Syren), from Cerigo, Wil-
liam Moore, Esq., proprietor, gallantly rode out
the gale.

The Hindostan, with the India mail, arrived at
Suez 28th ult.; and the Hon. Company's steam-
ship Ajdaha, with the Hon. C. A. Murray on
board, was leaving the roads at the same time.
By the Hindostan, two officers of the Bombay
staff arrived, to make arrangements for the transit
of the 10th Hussars. The Viceroy has intimated
his intention of furnishing all supplies, and has
named au officer to superintend their transit
through his territory.
The French party are still very sanguine respect-
ing the canal between the two seas, and the Vice-
roy himself, it is reported, will assist with funds.
Mr. Lesseps, accompanied by Binaat Bey, civil
engineer to the Government, has made a tour of
inspection of the entire site.

Offers have been made for the transfer of the
railway and transit, but the Government is not at
this moment disposed to their changing hands.
Exchange , 981.

THE CZAR AND THE FOUR POINTS.

The Charivari contains the following lively jeu
d'esprit:—

''Nesselrode !' ' Sire Any news to-day ?" No-
thing of importance, your Majesty,'—' Is the news of
my having accepted the four guarantees yet known ?'
Everywhere, Sire.'—' What effect has it produced at
Vienna ?" The funds have risen.'—' And at London!'
The funds have also gone np.'—' And at Paris ?" Just
the same, the funds :save risen.'—What say the English
papers ? Nothing very particular, Sire.'—' The Times?'
That it is necessary to wait.'—' And the Morning
Post ?"That no curry must be shown in the mat-
ter.'—' And the Daily News?" That he who
lives long enough will see the end of the present
affair.'—' I will not conceal from you, Nesselrode,
that I was -under ;he impression that my accepta-
tion of the four guarantees would have produced a
greater effect, and that the bait and hook would have
been more easily jumped at ; but these English are ex-
cessively tough. In France, however, I have no doubt
that the matter has been better received. Let us speak
a little of the French journals." The Moniteur is si-
lent, your Majesty.'—' Well, that is rather disquieting.'
The Constitutionnel doubts.'—' The deuce ! ' The Pays
hesitates,'—' Really ! ' The Siecle distrusts.'--' You
don't ea:- so ! ' The Journal des Deiats alone appears
tolerable satisfied.'—' Well, that is all right.' And the
Charivari? '—' The Ch,arivari, Sire, I am forced to con-
fess, dces not seem likely to place credence in the accep-
tation ef the four guarantees.'—' That certainly is a very
serious matter.' It implies that what you are doing
may be nothing whatever but a mere trick, a stratagem,
the means of lulling people to sleep, and producing
delay in order to enable you to carry out your plans.'—
' So, ben, Nesselrode, the effect on the press appears to
you tc be a failure.' I really fear so, your Majesty:—
And on the governments ?'—' Prussia appears quite
delighted.'—` Ab, very good !'—' And some of the petty
German states also.'—' Capital !—And Austria ?' She
contirues assembling her troops on the frontier:—
Anc: France ?" She is sending reinforcements to
the Crimea.'—' And England ?" She is hard at work
enlisting soldiers to reinforce her army.'—' Then is that
the whole of the effect produced by the acceptation
of tle four guarantees ?" Absolutely the whole,
Sire.'—' Then I would, perhaps, have done better
to have saved myself the trouble of accepting ;
however, everything considered, the course which I have
adopted is not so bad. The point now is to persevere,
as what does not succeed the first day sometimes suc-
ceeds the second, and what is not believed to-day ap-
pears to-morrow a sure thing. You must immediately
send a despatch to Prince Gortechakoff.' • Yes, Sire.'
—' In which you will request him to assure the Western
and Eastern powers that I still accept the four guaran-
tees—that I accept them more than ever.' ' Yes, your
Majesty.'—' Negotiations will be opened, and no matter
what any one may say, negotiations have always a
certain influence on military operations. No matter
what I gain by them, I shall still gain that much.
N'est-ce, pas, Nesselrode ?" Oui, Sire.' "

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

WAR DEPARTMENT, JAN. 15.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has received a de-
spatch, of which the following is a copy, addressed to his
Grace by Field-Marshal the Lord Baglan, G.C.B.
Before Sebastopol, Dec. 13, 1854.
My Lord Duke,—ln my despatch of the 18th of Octo-
ber, reporting the opening of our fire upon the enemy's
works, I omitted to mention the name of a highly merito-
rious Naval Officer, who had charge of a battery in the
trenches, and rendered himself conspicuous by the man-
ner in which he performed the important duty confided in
him.

The officer I allude to is Captain Moorsom, whom I beg
leavo now to recommend to the notice of your Grace. I
did not know until some time afterwards that he was em-
ployed in the trenches on the occasion in question ; but
having now been apprised of it, I avail myself of the pre-
sent opportunity to rectify an error, which might other-
wise be prejudicial-to a most deserving officer.—l have, &c.
RAGLAN.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c., &c.
DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 15.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Hampden King,
Esq., to be ono of the judges of the Assistant Court of
Appeal for the Island of Barbadoes, and T. H. Bartley,
Esq., to be a member of the Legislative Council of New
Zealand.

CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 13.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT

PARLIAMENT.

County of Fermanagh—The Honourable Henry Arthur
Cole, in the room. of Sir Arthur Brooke, Bart., deceased.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 15.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trasle and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Paris,
forwarding a French decree, dated the 6th instant, provid-
in,, that foreign vessels shall pay a fixed tonnage duty of
50 centimes per ton (Without the additional tenth) in the
Port of Gore°.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEFIALL, JAN. 15.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Stockholm,
inclosing, copy of a decree published by the College of
Commerce at Stockholm, a translation of which is sub-
joined, respecting the direction across the Sound of the
Submarine Cable connecting the Electric Telegraph at
Stockholm with that at Copenhagen.
(Translation.)
The College of Commerce makes known that, according
to his Majesty's gracious letter of the 21st ult., a subina•
rine telegraphic cable has been put down in theSound`
south of the island of boon, from Hillesborg, on the
Swedish side, to Vedbeck, on the coast of Seeland ; that,
in order to point out the position of the line, the follow-
ing small buoys have been put isp, viz., two at Vedbeck,
showing the direction of the line from there to the S. of
Hoen, being E.iN. and W.S. ; and two at Hillesborg, in
the direction of the south point of Hoon, being E. by
N. and W. by S.S.; also at the south end of Hoen,
where the lino forms an angle, is situated a larger buoy,
smaller buoys with flags indicating the line at this part.
This the Royal College has been graciously commanded
hereby to proclaim, and to give notice that any one who
injures the telegraph apparatus in any way is to bo answer-
able for the same, as, in consequence thereof, no vessels or
boats in the Sound are allowed to cast anchor in the above-
mentioned direction.
Stockholm, Dec. 12.
WAR-OFFICE, JAN. IG.

7th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Charles Errol Hope, from
the 10th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, Jan. 10.

TO BE ENSIGNS, 111" I'IIRCHASA.
9th Foot—Richard Charles Henry Germon, Gent., Jan.
16.
14th Foot—Henry Theodore Vernede, Gent., Jan. 16.
18th Foot—Alfred Cottee, Gent., Jan. 16.
21st Foot—Arthur Grey Hazlerigg, Gent., Jan. 16.
42d Foot—William Green, Gent., Jan. 16.
44th Foot—Edward Charles Pemberton Pigott, Gent.,
Jan. 16.

46th Foot —Charles John Burgess, Gent., Jan. 16.
45th Foot—Christopher Michell, Gent., Jan. 16.
50th Foot— Robert Charles Goff, Gent., Jan. 16.
55th Foot—Percy Lytton Bellamy, Gent., Jan. 16.
57th Foot—Hickman Rose Russell, Gent., Jan. 16.
63th Foot —Henry John Richard Villiers-Stua,rt,
Jan. 16.

71st Foot--Robert Lewis, Gent., Jan. 16.
77th Foot William Marmaduke Dixwell Alderson,
Gent., Jan. 16.
79th Foot—Edward Gawno, Gent., Jan. 16.
88th Foot—Lucas Clements Scott, Gent., Jan. 16.
89th Foot—Montagu Charles Browning, Gent., Jan. 14;
William Darge, Gent., Jan. 15 3 Robert Johnston, Gent.,
Jan. 16.

03d Foot Andrew FitzJamos Cunningham Rollo,
Gent., Jan. 15 ; William Gordon Alexander, Gent.,
Jan. 16.

97th Foot—Edward Mott Alderson, Gent., Jan. 15 ;
Maurice George Beaufoy Fitz Gerald, Gent., Jan. 16.

OFFICE OF' ORDNANCE, JAN. 15.

Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Second Captain Arthur
Comyn Pigou to be Captain, vice Hamilton, retired upon
fall pay ; First Lieutenant Francis Cornwallis Maude, to
be Second Captain, vice Pigou ; Second Lieutenant Fran-
cis Arthur Whinyates to Ise First Lieutenant, vice Mantle,
Dec. 27; Second Captain the Honourable David McDowall
Fraser to be Captain, •ice Brettingham, retired upon half-
pay ; First Lieutenant iEneas Clarke to be Second Captain,
vice the Honourable D. M. Fraser ; Second Lieutenant
Frederick Coulthurst Elton to be First Lieutenant, vice
Clarke, Jan. 1.
Corps of Royal Engineers.--Lieutenant-General Sir
John Fox Burgoyne, G. C. B. to be Colonel-Co m man dun t,
vice Sir Henry Goldfinch, deceased, Nor. 22.

March 5, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel,
official assignee, Exeter; Edmonds and Sons, Plymouth;
Stogdon, Exeter.

Matthias Edward Bowra india rubber manufacturer,
Old Ford, Middlesex, Jan. 26 and March 2, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Lefroy, Piccadilly.
Robert Norman, grocer and baker, Histon, Cambridge,
Jan. 30, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 27, at half-past
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee ; J. and C. Cole, Essex-street, Strand ; Christmas,
Cambridge.
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Isaac May, linen draper, Ipswich, Jan.- 26, at eleven,
and Feb. 27, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
William Harvie, cattle dealer, Auchingree.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
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J. E. Holley, Charlotte-street, Whitechapel, undertaker
—W. Cook, Fetter-lane, Holborn, butcher—J. Oliver,
Upper Norwood, Surrey, mason—H. Collett, Chepstow-
mews, Kensington, carter—T. Cosher, Seymour-place,
Bryanstone-square, corn chandler—G. Peck, Clare-hall-
place, Stepney, packing case maker—J. Galland, Hollen-
street, Soho, and Rupert-street, Haymarket, coach maker
—S. Wright, Wellington-place, Limehouse, ship smith
—F. Jackson, Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road,
fixture dealer—T. M. Taylor, Woolwich, Kent, boot maker
—T. Evans, College-street, Lambeth, boot maker—A. J.
Richold, Providence-row, Finsbury-square, coach builder—
Stevenson, Great Queen. street, Westminster, extra clerk in
Colonial Land and Emigration 01ffice—J. D. Palmer, jun.,
York-street, Lambeth, gas fitter—S. Gillham, Haymarket,
porter—F. Pritchard, Great Sutton-street, and St. John-
street, timber bender—J. W. Soar, Eastbourne-mews,
job master—G. E. Williams, Portland-road, attorney-at-
law.