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London, England, 1855-03-31 00:00:00

THE SUN; LONDON, SATURDAY EVEMNG, MARCH 31, 1855.

in pilfering. Law ought to be a sacred thing ;in
the case of Church Rates it is regarded as the selfish
instrument of sectarianism, bigotry, and aristo-
cratic pride. Let Mr. W IGRAM remember, too,
that Dissenting worshippers, quite equal in num-
ber to Church worshippers, may turn his own
argument, if it were worth turning, against him.
They might tell him that Dissenters and Catho-
lics built their chapels and supported their ser-
vices for the " good of the whole community,"
that they educated 3,000,000 children with the
same object in view, and that, therefore,
Mr. WronAm should cheerfully consent to
be rated to the support of the worship of
Methodists, Baptists, Independents, &c., and to
the repair of their chapels. We are almost
ashamed, however, to waste our space upon argu-
ments replete with such dull and hardened
bigotry. The discussion, moreover, is deferred
till the second reading.

The grand thing now is for real Liberals, both
in the House and out of it, to unite to settle this
question. Au able circular, which has been sent us
on this subject, shows that the House of Commons
is really quite ripe for decided action. Last year,
despite the Torified opposition of Lord J. RUSSELL,
the second reading of the bill was lost by a mino-
rity of 27 only, while on that occasion one hun-
dred and forty Liberals were absent ! They feared,
in all probability, embarrassing the Government,
yet could not prevail on themselves to vote against
the bill. There aro also many known conversions
since. in such a state of things nothing is needed
but public meetings and petitions, and especially
that the abolitionists amongst the electors should
personally write to the members fur whom they
have hitherto voted, informing them that the time
for action is now decidedly cane ; and that they
now must demand the fulfilment of their
Liberal pledges. They may especially re-
mind them that they can no longer put
up with paltry excuses when a member in
Lord STANLEY'S position declares that abolition of
Church Rates is " a rinc3tion not merely of policy,
not ;nerdy of expediency, but of justice and right,"
and that " the change is doubly important, as it
will afford the first trial of that principle of self-
support in religious matters which is likely, per-
hap certain, to be the principle of the next gene-
ration." Abolitionist electors cannot do better
than to remind professed Liberals of the speech
delivered, to his constituency at Lynn, by the heir
of Lord DERBY.

ARRIVAL OF SICK A AND WOUNDED

FROM ThE EAST.

(Ey Electric Telcgrapk.)

PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY MORNING:
Her Majesty's screw steam-ship Sanspareil, 70,
Commander Gordon, arrived this morning.
She left Sebastopol February 4, Constantinople
February 10, Malta March 3, and Gibraltar,
March 18.

She has on bcard from different ships in the fleet
34 seamen and marines, and from Gibraltar six in-
valided and wounded soldiersoriz.—one each 11th
Hussars, 30th, 33d, 47th, 63d, and 9.5 th Regiments.
She conveyed from Constantinople 100 sick sea-
men and marines to Maltato recruit their health ; all
the marines of the Sanspareil, 125, in command of
Captain Simpson, who have been on the heights
since September, were left there ' • 120 of her crew
were turned ever to the Royal Albert and other

Spoke the Trafalgar, 120, off Cape Fiuisterre,
March 22, steaming N. ; and the Bellerophon, 78,
in Mt. 46.8 N., long. 10.24 W., March 27, homc-
ward bound.

LATEST NEWS.

Count Nesselrode will not fail to attend la
Vienna Conference, and take part in the is-
cussiou of the third point.
The Russian pleniptentaries refuse to amit
that, in accepting the third point as interpted
in the aide-memoire of Dec. 28, they have ackoir-
ledged the principle of a diminution of Rusin

power in the Black Sea. They assert tha the
demand for a reduction of the Russian ket is
contrary to the dignity and sovereign rigts of
the Empire. The fourth point is under disc3sion.
The question of the expenses of the war is not
been mooted.

THE VIENNA CON FERF2CE.
VIENNA, March 26.—Up to yesterday Leming
the Allied Powers had not been able to acre as to
the means to be employed for putting anend to
the preponderance of Russia in the Black Sa, but
in the afternoon they conferred together fr some
hours at the Foreign-office. Naturally nching is
known of what took place, but it is much fared in
Austrian official circles that France, if not hgland,
will consider the razing of Sebastopol a ine qua
non. Not quite a year ago the signature ofPrussia
was affixed to a document, in which the fur great
Powers pledged themselves to maintain thentegrity
of Turkey, and yesterday Count Arnim was seen
walking backwards and forwards for a full hour
near the palace in which the representatves of the
Western Powers were then closeted iith Count
Buol and Baron Prokesch. Direct], after the
English and French Ministers had left be Foreign-
office Prince Gortschakoff and M. dc Titoff ap-
peared, and, after conversing a couple of minutes
with their disconsolate Prussian colleague, they
ascended the great staircase leading tothe Austrian
Minister's apartments. "What twk place between
the statesmen no one but themselves can positively
say, but it is presumed that Count Buol made
known to them -,ho conditions which the Western
PoWers wil -day propose.

FRANCE:
FROM i)t.TR • OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The departure of M. Drouyn do I'Huys for Lon-
don, and the antouncement that he will afterwards
visit Vienna to ;alio part in fle Conference?, has
inspired some little hope in tFe minds of specull-
t )rs that such an event woud not have taken place
unless the Government entethined favourable ex-
pectations with regud to the resrdt of the Confer-
ence. Under this iimesrion the market has been
rather buoyant, and a fair amount of business has
been done at nnproval quotations, although the
advance which marked the op3ning was not main-
tained to the close.

The Moniteur publisies the following letter from
Copenhagen, dated Ilfreh 21 :
" A thew has set in. fhe ice has broken up between
the Swedish coast and to island of Seciand, and the
sea is clear. The port ofeopenbagen is only frozen as
far as the Three Crown :lattery. The passage of the
Great Belt is improved. The mails are, nevertheless,
bebind•hand."

The Journal des Rafts of yesterday publishes
a leading article on the Vienna Conferences. We
extract the followin,g
" The official discussior of the third point commenced
in the sitting of the 26th rf March ; but it was known
beforehand that different combinations would be pro-
posed to the Conferoncs to solve this difficulty ; and
perhaps we may be allowtd to observe that we were en-
abled to indicate some cfthem more than a month since,
from information we received from Vienna.

" One of those combiretions consists in demanding a
considerable diminutionof the naval forces of Russia ;
it is proposed to retitle) those forces t.) a limit which
Russia, under no preext, should exceed, while the
Western Powers shouk not be allowed to introduce or
_maintain in the Black Sea a naval force superior to that
of Russia. In another hypothesis the Powers might,
with the consent of Vurkey, erect .Dn the southern
coast of the B'ack Set—for instance, at Sinope and
Bourgas, maritime establishments, capable of keep-
ing in check those possessed by Russia on the
coast of the Crivne-. Eussia would have to submit to
the natural consequences of the abolition of the conven-
tion of the Dardanelles (treaty of the 13th of July, 1841),
and, as the Black Sea would be thrown open to men of
war of all nations, those vessels would be received in all
Russian ports without distinction. The port of Bala-
klava would become a free port, and all the Powers
would be authorised to have Consuls at Sebastopol. In
other words, every precaution authorised by the law of
nations would be taken against Russia. Hitherto Russia,
thanks to her exceptional position, was We to evade
the obligations of that law. She would have to submit
to them. The great Powers would thus, obtain ali the
guarantees of common law, and the power of Russia in
the Black Sea would be honourably reduced to the just
proportions which the tranquillity and security of Europe
demand.

" The opinion prevails at Vienna that the Conference
will not depart fro►n this order of ideas, except to de-
velope it more or less, according to circumstances, and
that the Plenipotentiaries will succeed in conciliating the
interest of all parties. Good will is not wanting, and
that is, we think, an important point. If all adhere to
it, the peace of Europe will be reestablished."
On the intended visit of their Imperial Majesties
to London, the Pays remarks :
"No more signal testimony could be given of the
cordial friendship which now unites France and Eng-
land. In this point of view the visit of their Imperial
Majesties is an event of high significance, and the satis-
faction which public opinion will derive from it cannot
but be increased if, as it is permitted to hope, her gra-
cious Majesty the Queen of England shall come in her
turn to visit France, where she will be received with the
most lively sentiments of respectfal esteem and sym-
pathy."
M. Guibert, the shipbuilder of Nantes, who is
charged with the construction of the French gun-
boats for the Baltic, was three days back summoned
to Paris by telegraph, and yesterday had an inter-
view with the Minister of Marine. Some changes,
it is believed, are to l-..e effected in the build of
those vessels, for the purpose of rendering thorn
still more effective.

The steam-frigate Orenoque and the steam-cor-
vette Chaptal left Toulon on the 28th for Kamiesch,
the former with 500, and the latter with 300 sol-
diers on board. Both of these vessels have also
horses on board.

"Of the four regiments cf the Chasseurs
d'Afrique in the;French army,' says the Salta
" two are already in tie East. We have
just seen a letter from an officerof rank, which an-
nounces that the two others ha-re received orders
to' sot out there also without de:ay. They will be
replaced in Africa by two Hnsnr regiments."

BOURSE, KvacH 30.—Q,091NG PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. En,' of Month.
4i per Cents 92) 9lf. 55.3.
3 per Cents 69 65 69f. 75c.
Credit Mobilier BO7 50 Ronan
Credit Foncier 540 AuFtrian
Belgian Fives. ..... .. 91 Spnaiah Throes 36
Piedmontese B5 75 Hone Debt —

RAILWAYS—ICE CASH.
fr. c. ir. c.
Orleans
Western 660 Rouen
Cette 620 Strasburg
Mediterranean 9SO Havre 570
Northern

demand of the Government a modification of the
Ministry favourable to the democratic party. Mar-
shal EApartero gave them no eneouragenict, but dis-
played great Firmness. A bill forbidding the national
militia to deliberate on politics was presented last
evening to the Cortes. Madrid i 5 tranquil. On
the 24th great disorder was manifested iu the Cortes
upon the question whether M. Heros, intendant of
the palace, should be required to produce the will
of Ferdinand VII. before the committee to inquire
into the conduct of Queen Christina. Deputies in-
sulted ono another. The President made several
attempts to establish order, but the tumult con-
tinued to increase. At length he ordered the pub-
lic to be removed from the tribunes, and suspended
the sitting. The public resisted the officers, but
were finally removed. The Queen left Madrid yes-
terday for Aranjuez.

The Archduke William of Austria arrived at
Vienna in the morning of the 26th on his return
from St. Petersburg, and was immediately after
received by the Eaipror.

It is stated in a letter from Vienna of the 26th,
that the Archduchess Mary Dorothy, the mother
of the Duchess of Brabant, who had been getting
better, has had a relapse, and that, in obedience to
a telegraphic summons, the Archduke Joseph had
left for Pesth to see her.

A letter in the Independence of Brussels an-
nounces that the new Grand Council of Ticino has
decided that all political trials and those for high
treason, now pending, shall be abandoned. This
decision is equivalent to a general amnesty.

The Giornale di Roma states that, on the 23d,
the Pope held a secret consistory, in which he
announced the death of the Patriarch of the Maro-
nitcs of Syria, and the election of Mgr. Massad,
archbishop of Tharsus "in partibus intidelium," in
his stead.

The Genoa Gazette states from Modena, that the
fresh recurrence of premeditated murders and in-
fliction of wounds in the district of Cariara has
obliged the Government again to declare it in a
state of siege ; for which purpose Lieut.-Colonel
Casoni has been invested with full powers. From
the 22d all public places are closed an hour after
sunset, and nobody is allowed to be out in the
streets after that hour.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

INDIA.

We have received our de;Tatches in anticipation of
the Overland Mail, a summary of which appeared in our
edition of Thur,day. The dates are :—Cialcuttn, Feb.
24 ; Madrap, 2S ; Galle, March 3 ; 13:pnbay, March 5 ;
Shanghai, Feb. V ; it Kong, 15 ; Singapore, 2:3 ;
Sydney, Jan. 27 ; Melbourne, 31 ; Adelaide, Feb. 3 ;
MaurltinF, 13. _ _ _

The following is from the summary of the BonCay.
cf March 5 :--

India continues tranquil throughout, with the excep-
tion of some slight ,:e.i.lrauding on our frintier. On the
9th ultimo a robtery was committed by about 200
hill men near Peshawur, on a cauln close by a
police station, where some thirty people lost their 1ive...,"
the rubLeri ezcapine•.—Oade and the N:zam's dominians
continue filled with disorder.—The education despatch
arrangements ari beginning to be put in force, and forty
thousand a year will, it is said, henceforth be allowed for
the sup3rvision of an educational system which has never
hitherto cost more than eighty thousand altogether.—
The Calcutta Military Board has been extinguished, and
those of the oe her Presidencies are about to encounter
time same fate ; a sepat ate department for public works
is to be brought into exi'.-t ;nee in their room. The Secre-
taryship in the Revenue Department is about to be abo-
lished, and the department itself is to be conducted by
three commissioners. Mr. Henry Young, the late Com-
missioner of Customs, has been appointed for the pre-
sent revenue secretary, in succession to the late Mr.
Go!dsmid, with a view to his becoming Commissioner.
A large body of reforms are in process or in contempla-
tion in the rural police, of which there is a force of
70,000 in the Bombay .Presidency, in the Land Re-
venue, and the Customs and other departments. The
first of the transports with troops from Bombay for the
Crimea left us on the 10th of January, "and reached
Suez en the Bth of February, occupying 29 days on the
way. The last of the 10th Hussars having been de-
spatched, steamers and transpoits left Bombay on the 24th
to carry the 12th Lancers from Mangalore, and as they
have no such conveniences for shipment there as we
have here, they can scarcely well have got embarked
and be ready for sea earlier than the 10th inst., reach-
ing Suez on the 14th proximo, and Constantinople, at
the rate assigned, about the 7th of May, or about a
month later than by the Cape. The orders for troops
through Egypt reached India early in November, and
considering the immense amount of tonnage at this sea-
son always at our command, every man that could have
been spared might have been embarked by New Year's-
day, and 90 days on the voyage to Gibraltar would have
greatly exceeded the average of time taken. With
steamers in readiness to receive them on the Ist of
March, the whole of the troops might have been
in the Crimea by the Ist of April. The horses
just despa,telisd Egypt are undersized for
home service, they are unfitted for the climate of the
Crimea, and will have cost the country 2001. a piece
by the time they reach their destination. No blame
attaches to any one in India for these blunders ; the
orders from home were peremptory.—The nomination of
Sir Henry Somerset to the Commander-in-Chiefship of
Bombay, now daily expected, is a popular one.
The Governor-General has left Calcutta for the Neilg-
berry Hills, and is said to have asked permission to
return to Eoglarid next year from this Sanitarium with-
out revisiting Bengal. Lords Harris and Elphinstone
are at their respective seats -ot Government, both in
the enjoyment of good health. Mr. P. W. Le Geyt left
Bombay yesterday for Calcutta, to take up the appoint-
ment of Bombay Member of the Legislative Council in
succession to Mr. A. Malet, who goes into the Bombay
Council in place of Mr. Warden, Trade dull, and
freights low.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

CASUALTY BY DEATH IN INDIA SINCE THE DEPABTUE

OF THE MAIL ON THE 16TH FEB., 1855.

HER MAJESTY'S noors.—Captain and Paymaster E.
Lee, 10th Foot, of apoplexy, on the river near Seram-
pore. _ _ _

MADRAS.—Major (Bt. Lieut.-Col.) G. J. Richardson,
31st Regt. Light Infantry, at Madras, on the 11th Feb.
BENGAL.—Lieut. Glasgow, 53,1 Native Infantry, shot
by one of his own men while on detachment duty, on
the 7th Feb,, near Cuttack.