The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-26 00:00:00

BANKING DE:

Proprietors' capital .. 14,b53,000
Rest ......
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and

Dividend At:Counts) 3,354, 272
Other deposits ...... 12,230,7 71
Seven Day and other
Bills ........ ... . 991.720

i31,304,bG3 )

£34.3'4 OG3
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 2 lth day of May, 1855.

The Average Puce of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, COM-
pntod fritna tale raf-urnm made in tho week etulink.: May 22,
1855. exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon, oa the importation thereof into Great Britain :
AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
From the British Possessions in America 225. 3d.
4IS ,s Mauritius 2os. 9d.
Ir t ~ East Indies 2ls. Old.
The average price of the three foregoing descriptions of
Sugar, computed as above, is 225. 2,d. per cwt. J

THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

(Front last Night's Gazette.)

The Queen has been pleased to order letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, revoking the letters patent of
the Master-General, Lieutenant-General, and Principal Store-
keeper of the Ordnance. Her Majesty has likewise been
pleased to order letters patent to be passed under the Great
Seal, vesting the civil administration of the Army and Ord-
nance in the hands of Fox Baron Panmure, one of her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

FREE PASSPORTS FOR THE PARIS
EXHIBITION.

( From last Night's Gazette. )
Foreign-office, May 25, 1555

It is hereby notified that the Earl 0f Clarendon has received,
through her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, an assurance from
the French Government that all British workmen desirous of
visiting the Paris Industrial Exhibition who shall be furnished
with Foreign-office passports, in a form agreed upon, shall be
allowed to land in France and proceed on their journey to
Paris without any hindrance whatever. In order to carry
into effect this arrangement, her Majesty's Government have
decided upon granting passports to all such persons, without
payment of the usual stamp duty and fee, according to the
following regulations :

The mayors of towns, and other municipal and local au-
thorities, will, under instructions from the Home Depart-
ment, send to the Foreign-office lists of the workmen resid-
ing in their neighbourhood who may wish to visit the Exhi-
bition ; and passports will then be prepared and transmitted
to the respective local authorities for distribution.
Within the metropolitan police district, application for
passports referred to in this notice are to be delivered at the
nearest metropolitan police station, arrangements having
been made for such application being forwarded through the
Chief Commissioner to the Foreign-office, and the passports
will thereafter be delivered to the applicants at the station
where the application was made.
The several local authorities will forward applications for
these passports to the Foreign-office, with a list according to
the annexed form,

Local authority applying.
Date of application.
Name of workman to be inserted in the passport.

CREMORNE GARDENS.

Although these gardens have been open for some
weeks to the public, the entertainments have been on a
coup for
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limited scale, the intention being to reserve grand
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and novelties which have been some months.attractovans.
tion, and which render them as a whole superTorPrteePaany-
thing of the kind in the world, a new ballet will be
presented, of which report speaks very highly, abound-
ing as it does with a variety of comic incidents, choreo-
graphic display, and effectively worked scenery, and in
aeronautic allegory of the goddess Flora, which the bois-
terous state of the wind, on Easter Monday last, pre-
vented from being carried into effect. In a former no-
-2 which
multifarious commence the
no-
tice of Cremorne public attention was drawn by us to the
Turco-French Illuminative Arch, which was projected
the latter end of last season to carry out the intended
French fetes, and which is now painted in a very beau-
tiful but varied style, bearing illusions by mottoes
as well as characters to the course of events which must
arise from the action of the combined European Powers
against the Russian aggressor. The subject is allegori-
cally treated in the inferior arches, while the superior
arch displays the standards of the five united countries,
England, France, Austria, Turkey, and Sardinia, and
when illuminated the structure presents spirited and
striking likenesses of Victoria, Louis Napoleon, and the
Pasha, supported by the arms of their separate countries,
while the figures, fruit, fish, and birds represented upon
the columns distinctly point out the four quarters of the
world, its elements, and its productions. But while
describing this brilliant feature, we would not pays
lightly over another proof of artistic merit which is pre-
sented in the elaborate model of a Turkish mosque,
termed the "Temple of Mehemet the Second," de-
signed and painted by Jones, to answer the double pur-
pose of masking the Bowling Saloon, and increasing the
brilliancy of the pyrotechnic displays. To these who are
acquainted with the peculiar style of Eastern architec-
ture, this splendid Oriental picture will be regarded as
an object of great interest ; to those who are not its ter-
raced minarets and its lofty dome will be regarded with
surprise, and by all will be looked upon nightly and
daily as an artistic triumph not easily achieved. Many
minor minor improvements and alterations will be recognised
by the future visitors as deserving of commendation
but where everything is in good order and good taste,
it is unnecessary to allude to more than the leading
features which will this season be brought out not only
witha
tolibtehs liberal, but ahty, lavish
tehand and if the public re-
spond proprietor will be able to
boast that 1855 will be the most successful one he has
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