The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-16 00:00:00

THE NEW GOVERNMENT
LOAN.

heart. The cheers of England will be strength-
ened by the "cead mille failthe" of Ireland, while
the voice of " bonnie Scotland" will not be the
less sonorous, from the knowledge that the blood
of one of her most ancient and distinguished fa-
milies circulates in the veins of the Imperial
EUGENIE.

The Vienna Conference can hardly fail to do
mischief. It is next to impossible to push pre-
parations with the same vigour for a war which
may any day be suspended by the pen as for one
which could only be terminated by the sword.
At home also our people are embarrassed as to
what they would press on their Government. The
universal sentiment is war in earnest—war with-
out mercy till the enemy strikes. Yet every
public meeting assembles under the apprehension
that all its demands are but too likely to be in
process of nullification by aristocratic representa-
tives at the Conference. We note, indeed, with
hope, certain indications of vigorous designs ; the
powerful Baltic fleet, the departure of the Guards,
the loan, and a few other things ; but there
are also well.known symptoms of an op-
posite character ; none stronger than the
construction of a Cabinet of so little competency,
and of such insultingly aristocratic character, by
the man whom the nation demanded to rectify all
that kind of thing. The leaving out Mr. L.IYARD,
a man who for the War would have made the best
Prime Minister himself, and who ought at least to
have been War Minister, was the first great false
step of Lord PALMERSTON. Since that misdeed
he has hardly done anything worthy of his post.
The long Easter holidays, the desertion of the
War-office, and the general want of life and spirit
in the Cabinet, seem to us indications of views
the opposite of those cherished by the nation.
There are mysterious rumours, too, from the Crimea
of the bombardment being suspended on tele-
graphic messages from Vienna ! We all knclw
that Odessa still remains untouched. It will
turn out, we fear, should we escape peace, that
War all the winter has been conducted under the
hope that very strenuous efforts might be unneces-
sary. Russia will have defended Sebastopol, War-
saw, and Cronstadt most successfully at Vienna.
Diplomacy there will have deadened our fire more
effectually than gabions and earthworks at Sebas-
topol.

The public in this country will, however, some-
times utter its feelings pretty strongly. So far
as we understand them, it desires chiefly two
things: first, as we are now engaged in that work,
the demolition of Sebastopol, and next the re-estab-
lishment of Poland. On these main points hang,
in general opinion, much more. The Black Sea,
the Asiatic and Danubian provinces, and the Baltic
would be dealt with pretty easily if the two
great points were gained. On Thursday evening
last an eloquent peace lecturer at Newcastle only
obtained by his efforts a complimentary vote of
thanks to himself, and a resolution " reprobating
the management of the War, declaring it right to
resist wrong, and the War therefore just and ne-
cessary ; repudiating the Vienna Conference, and
demanding the restitution of Poland !" At Wol-
verhampton a crowded public meeting, after lis-
tening with enthusiasm to an admirable address
from M. ZA,BA, unanimously carried a strong r -
solution in favour of Polish independence as the
only reasonable safeguard of Europe, and also a
memorial to Prince CZARTORYSKI. Wherever the
popular sentiments have been tested they are the
same. A lecture against the War, or one on
behalf of Poland, only brings out the same reso-
lutions. The country knows its mind. The country
does not halt between two opinions. The country
does not vacillate between the whispered wishes
of a Court and the stern demands of duty.

The meeting at the Treasury this morn-
ing was very fully attended by the lead-
ing capitalists in the City. Among those
present were—the Governor and Deputy-
Governor of the Bank of England, Baron Lionel
Rothschild, M.P., and Baron Meyer Roths-
child, Baron Goldsmid, Richard Thornton, Esq.,
Mr. Hutchinson, of the Stock Exchange, Alder-
man Salomons, Messrs. R. and S. Cohen, Hamond,
Esq., Trotter, Esq., Laurence, Esq., and others.

SoOn after one o'clock the Chancellor of the
Exchequer entered the room, attended by Mr.
Wilson, and accompanied by Lord Palmerston
and Sir Alexander Spearman.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer then read the

following statement :

PARTICULARS OF ISE PROPOSED LOAN.

1. The loan to be for the sum of sixteen million
pounds.
2. For every 1001. subscribed in money, the con-
tractors to have 1001. 3 per cent. Consolidated Annuities
and a terminable annuity for 30 years, ending on sth of
April, 1885.
The biddings to be made in the terminable annuity.
3. The interest on the 3 per Cent. Consolidated An-
nuWes to commence from the sth January, 1855, and
the terminable annuity to commence from the sth April,
1855.

4. The days of payment, and the proportions of the
contributions to be paid to be as follows :

On Tuesday, April 24, 1855, deposit of 101. per cent.
„ May 22, „ payment of 151. „
„ June 19, „ „ 10/. „
„ July 17, „ „ 151. „
„ August 21, „ „ 101. „
„ Sept. 18, „ „ 10/. „
„ October 18, „ „ 10/. „
7) 9 f Nov. 20, „ 10/. „
„ Dec. 18, „ „ 10/. „

5. For each instalment after the deposit, a propor-
tionil amount of stock to be created for the contributors.

The stock payable on the deposit to be created
at the same time with that which will be due on
the last instalment, when the terminable annuity
a's.i written in to the contributors' names in the
books of the Bank of En land.
6. The biddings to be made at the Treasury, on
Friday morning, the 20th April, 1555, at ten o'clock.

Mr. HAMMOND asked if any discount would be
allowed.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said there
would not.

A long and somewhat desultory conversation
then ensued, in which Baron Rothschild, Alder-
man Salomons, and others, took part, the main
facts elicited being these :
First,—That as far as the Government can at
present determine there will be no further loan
until the present is completed.
Second,—That tenders for the entire amount
only will be received.
Third,—That Corporations will not be allowed.
to bid for portions against the contractors.
Fourth,—That the tenders will be received on
Friday, April 20, at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Fifth, That Government will not sell any more
Stock, except for actual withdrawal of deposits by
the Savings' Banks.
Sixth,---,That application will be made to
Parliament for power to issue 3,000,0001. Ex-
chequer-bills, but that this will not be exercised
unless in case of need.
In further conversatim the Chancellor of the
Exchequer eras unable precisely to state whether,
if another loan were brought out before the
present one was entirely paid up any allowance
would be made to the holders of the scrip, but the
Chancellor appeared to think there would. He
anticipated that this loan would fully provide
for the present year, it being understood that
he did not answer that foreign loans would, not
be introduced by States in alliance with Eng-
land or otherwise.

At the WOlverhampton meeting M. ZABI very
successfully met the ungenerous calumnies by
which some have unworthily endeavoured to ex-
tenuate Russian guilt in the partition and absorp-
tion of his country, and to lessen hope of her
capability for independent action. It is worth
while for all who have been imposed on by such
misrepresentations to read the interesting sketch
given by him in his speech (see The Sun of the
13th) of the way in which Russia always seized
the occasion of subtantial improvements in Poland
as the time for her fraudulent or savage
attacks. The very same course, in fact, as
she was just now pursuing with Turkey ;
in which the spread of Protestantism,
and advancement of real liberty were, as Lord
SHAFTESBURY pointed out, the real causes of the
MENSCHIKOFY mission. In all these cases religion
—the propagation of the orthodox faith has been
the pretext. CZARS, indeed, have always got up
a character for being very religious. It was re-
ported of the Emperor ALEXANDER that he was a
very pious man. We have seen somewhere that
the remark was made to the celebrated Dissenting
preacher ROBERT HALL—" Yes, yes ;" was the
reply of the divine, " very pious—very pious. No
doubt he said grace before he swallowed Poland."
The piety of NICHOLAS was of a still higher
order he was going to swallow Turkey
whole, and all for the good of the Orthodox
Church and the glory of GOD ; and o do
him justice ALEXANDER 11. appears to tread
in the pious footsteps of his fatherand. grandfather.
It is just possible our Cabinet may have arranged
plans for aiding Poland from the Baltic, or of
destroying Sweaborg, Helsingfors, and Cronstadt.
If so, we shall not censure them. Otherwise, it
does appear to us that a fleet sufficient to shut up,
as last summer, the Russian navy, and the rest
of our strength thrown into the Black Sea, would
have been the better plan. The Agamemnon
which got so near Fort Constantine, both did in-
comparably the greatest damage and suffered
least injury herself. A fleet of powerful gun-
boats would get much nearer, almost within breach-
ing distance, and it would be almost impossible
for the gunners of the forts to hit them. Their.
hulls would be lower than the range of
the lowest tier of the guns of the
fort. How serviceable, therefore, they might
have been when the bombardment does at last
begin. They would hardly be of less value at
Odessa, and at Nicholaieff they could with ease
ascend the river, and probably do great damage.
We suppose they could even have entered the
Danube while swollen by the melting snow. Of
course we write with the dffi diffidence of
hotfcait withvi the
civilians on
these subjects, but to us it appears
otuurrnseltvheis asngs have takenpowsseiboleugiuht
thtee have made
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contest.

No near Stock is to be issued, the present loan
being incorporated with the existing Three per
Cent. Console.

DEATH or Sra HENRY DE LA BEM, F.R.S.—
This well known and respected gentleman died suddenly
on Friday, in the 59th year of his age. The deceased
was son of the late CAonel De La Beebe, and was the
member of an old family, one of whose members filled
the office of Constable of the Tower in the reign of Ed•
ward 111., and subsequently that of Seneschal of
Gascony.
NEW HOUSES or PARLIAMENT.—Great preparations
are being made in anticipation of a visit from the Em-
peror and Empress of the French, accompanied by her
Majesty and Prince Albert. The new brass gates under
the Victoria Tower are completed, and it is expected
that her Majesty and her august visitors will there alight.
DEPARTURE OF THE AMERICAN MAILS.—The British
and North American R .yal Mail steam-ship Africa,
Capt. Win. Harrison, sailed from the Mersey on Satur-
day morning, at ten o'clock, for B )stun and Halifax,
with the usual mails for the United States arid British
North American possessions, 160 passengers, and a full
cargo of freight.
THE REINFORCEMENTS.—Within the last two months
so less than ten whole companies of artillery have sailed
for the Crimea, and many of them have alrea ly arrived
at the seat of war. Last week no less than 5,000 in-
fantry left the shores of the United Kingdom to rein-
force our battalions in the Crimea. Early in May there
will be full 6,000 British Cavalry at the seat of war.
Observer.
The total of specie received during last week was
250,000/ , almost entirely in gold. The exports were
under 100,0001.
THE LATE COMMISSARIAT REMONSTRANCE.--A ''q.
morons writer, in a recent number of Bausch-old MI cl 3,
says, "If I were a flea, I would, I am sure, protest
against being cracked." It reminds one, we can't help
thinking, of a letter with which the public have lately
become acquainted.
THE RUSSIAN PRISONERS AT LEWES.—The prisoners
who are confined in the war prison in this town are taken
out on the South Down! almost every morning in de•
tachmente of about 200, under the personal charge of
Lieutenant Mann, the governor, and escorted by a
guard of pensioners and warders, When they arrive on
the Downs they are permitted to enjoy themselves at
leapfrog and other athletic amusements. The appear-
ance of the prisoners has wonderfully altered since they
have been in Lewes ; on their first arrival they were,
almost without exception, thin, sallow, and dispirited ;
now they are fat, rosy, and full of life and animation—a
proof of the beneficial effects or good diet, including a
liberal proportion of animal food.
BARNUM'S "BABY SEtow."—A baby show is to take
place at Barnum's, on the sth of June. The premiums
ranee from 250 dols. down to 10 dole, A committee of
ladies has been appointed to act as judges. The "finest
baby under five years of age" will receive 100 dole. for
being so flied. The "finest" twins, 50 dole. ; the
" finest" teeirilet, 50 dole. ; the " finest" quatern (four
at a birth), 250 dols. The fattest child, 50 dols. These
are inducements. Barnum says, "Two triplets and one
renatern are already engaged, and we expect the woman
from Ohio with five at 'a birth."—/Veto York Daily Times.
MEETING AT BRISTOL AGAINST THE 'SUNDAY BEER
BILL.—On Saturday a meeting of delegates from a num-
ber of the trade societies of Bristol assembled for the
purpose of considering the operations of the Sunday
Beer Act, passed during the last session of Parliament.
The chair was taken by Mr. Rogers, of the Carpenters'
Union. The bill was strongly condemned by the several
speakers, as unwise and unjust, because liable to different
and opposite constructions by the magistrates or different
localities. What was deemed legal in one county was
punished in another. Several instances were given of
. oppressive and contradictory decisions ; and the foot
was especially nmmented upon, that the bill bore
with pertketslar severity upon the working classes,
while weelthy persons were not affected by its pro-
visions, they being able to fall back on their well-
stocleed cellare. It was denied that the act had been
eaned for by any increase of drunkenness among the
operative class. The following resolution was then cor-
dially adopted :—"That a petition be addreeneei from
this meeting to the Commons' House of Parliament,
praying for au abolition of the Sunday Beer Act, and
On Wednesday, the 11th ins ~
thTatfieench.,pctifi,on be signed by the delegates on behalf
of their respective trade", for the purpose of strength.
cuing made from the separate trades."
LrEtt COMPANY IN PARIS.—We read in
m-/ er •—" Mr. Webster, the indefati-
ening Lho4.Dagn
wail held at the East India:no-11:e, H. Wilson I Gal,:gnant sif &5,,, y .
tor of the Adelphi, is in Paris, having, ac-
ReeveB 1 gable proprietor
to custom, taken advantage of a few nights of
Boma". wa
hCeonu.Nritr.of D irect. ors 1 . .
to see if there be anythingto pick up.
The at •
—ralitration badvertised for , leisure to run over
t' for to bring over the
Commissioners have
" appointed Provisional Member of Council at i
vessels to. e go 13 i
during the but nothing is
12th of June ' troupe
7 for passengers between the sth and Adelphi
cordings
ad
each to -be "7 emigrants to Adelaide and Melbourne, ( There is some rumour of a ne
Exhibition,
Some arriv'el:c.fiflay be hereafter determined. 3 e settledhearWfethwhich
'speculation o
turday, arectuutiefttlifnm Australia took place on Sa- I Mr. Mitchell s
since in the London journals."
samenothni nothing
ufruer,t her of
being 1,600 ounne„,. and=l:6oi., the respective quantities , 'wast
and 9.570 ounces by the :—" The visit of Mlle. Rachel
nab, from Sydney ; 7,050,800 aovereignp, by the Han- And in the same journal
Mr. Mitchell, an.
repo rteodns
othmee subject.tirne
The Hon. Henry Percy, of the Port Philip,
to have been laid
°cunhe7l,3bttey the Abirfoyle, and to London, un -ler the auspices of 1 • .
Anne, both from nnitheed some little time back, appears .
aside, at least nothing has lair ly been .
the
youngest son of the Earl of Beveerl° --
r''''
_edter Guards, jecte We do not -know whether his having given up
Saturday-aliening for pane on
.hia_eZ. "It. London on 1 French Theatre is considered any loss by the London
Mr. Percy has recovered his health, and ta-t:lseu:iza.-I,obsilitcivoebcuatiawmeict:nafely affirm that one part- of the public
jassasid in the su b.
of his WQII3OB during ins abort mown,* ?"11-th* effects 'of P • Ithe - -at. consider it a i
uOE, aris, name y, actors an
"1214 pays 0 0 awceirie.s

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(TILTS DAY).

COURT OF CHANCERY.

This wa,4 the first day of Easter Term, and, ace-rdinc,r
to usage, the Lord Chancellor entertained the judges.,
Masters in Chancery, and Queen's Counsel, to breakfast,
at his lordship's residence ; after which, accompanied
by his learned guests, his lordship proceeded in state to
open the Courts at Westminster.

The Lord Chancellor, on taking his seat at two o'clock,
was accompanied by the Master of the Rolls, the Lord-
Justice Turner, and the Vice-Chancellors Kindersley,
Stuart, and Wood. His lordship, after disposing of the
appeal of Woodgate v. Archer, proceeded to hear mo-
tions. Westminster-hall was crowded, as usual, on
these occasions ; but the expected visit of the Emperor
of the French and the fineness of the day appeared to
have increased the number of visitors.

HURRAH ! FOR THE NOBLE ALLIANCE I

[We extract the following patriotic lines from a
musical proof publishing by Mr. Charles Sheard,
of 192, Holborn, who seems to have caught the
spirit of the present auspicious visit of the Emperor
and Empress of the French.]
Hurrah ! for the Noble Alliance,
Hurrah ! fpi our brothers in fight ;
What foeman shall bid us; defiance !
While the Rose and the Lily unite ?
The sons of fair Gaul are beside us,
The " Standard" and " Tri-colour" blend ;
Never more may a Faction divide us,
But each look on each as a friend.
Long, long may the two be united
The cause of "THE RIGHT" to advance ;
Lon;, long may the Lion of England
Agree with the Eagle of France.
Our past days of laurel-marked glory
Have had worthy comrades in fame ;
And when History tells our proud story,
She echoes forth Erin's loud name.
Old Scotia's brave heart is undying—
The first and the last in the field ;
And the sons of the South are now vieing
With ranks that will drop ere they yield.
Long, long may the "Four" be united
The cause of "THE RIGHT" to advance ;
May the Shamrock, the Rose, and the Thistle
Be twined with the Lily of France.
Success to the'Noble Alliance !
Come fill up a bumper to those
Who can fling down the gage of defiance,
And laugh at a legion of foes !
Despite our delusions of Error,
May the record of Irikerman tell
That a despot remember:; with terror
. Where the blood of our "THREE HUNDRED" fell.
Though sluggards great duties have slighted,
Never doubt that the cause will advance,
While the Shamrock, the Rose, and the Thistle
Are twined with the Lily of France.