The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-07 00:00:00

The President of the Chamber, in presenting a
report on the bill relative to the loan of
750,000,000 f., said :
"Gentlemen,--Your Committee assembled immedi-
ately after its. iromination, in order to enable you to
reply as promptly as possible, to the appeal which had
been made to you, and to preve, once more, that the
public powers will always show themselves in presence
of the enemies of France, united in their devotedness

to the sovereign and to the interests of the country.
Bet your Committee has thought that an adhesion
seriously reflected on would be still more honourable
and more flattering for the Government, than a
blind and enthusiastic sentiment, and it thought it its
duty to proceed to a conscientious examination of the
present financial and political state of affairs. During
the last six months 'facts have taken place which have
been the object of great pre-occupation in the public
mind, and without going beyond the limit of its attri-
butions, the committee has thought that it might ex-
amine some of these facts by itself, and demand on the
subject of some others explanations from the organs of
the Government. Since the last session, conferences have
taken place on the general bases adopted in principle,
by all the contracting Powers, and which appeared
calculated to lead to peace ; these conferences, how-
ever, have only led to the continuation of hostilities.
Has too much jealousy of the honour of the country
been shown, or has its permanent interest been sacri-
ficed to an exaggerated susceptibility ? These were
certainly questions which it was our right and our duty
to ask, but every one of us is convinced that the Emperor
has replied to them beforehand by one of those clear
and simple statements by which he is in the habit of
laying before the whole country •the diplomatic and
military conduct of his affairs. It is evident that
a prisclan4c4overnment should, above all things, think
of 'the result of its acts. Certainly, peace would
have, rejoiced every heart; labour would have again
received the greatest impulse, families would have
again had the happiness of seeing their children ;
but these first feelings past, if that peace had not
been honourable, if such great sacrifices had only ob-
tained moderate results and doubtful guarantees, na-
tional susceptibility would soon have reacted, and
our humiliated arms would have demanded an ac-
count from diplomacy for • all the blood which had
been shed. We are therefore confident that the Em-
peror is as jealous of the honour of France as he is
the careful guardian of her interests, and that with
the aid of Providence, which seconds him, he will
find a solution which may satisfy at the same
time the legitimate pride of. the country and restore to
Europe a durable peace. Your committee has also
wished to inquire into the financial state of affairs, and
it eagerly renders to you an account of the information
which the President of the Council of State had com-
municated to it in the name of the Government. It
feels the more happiness in transmitting it to you,
as, sharing in the uneasiness expressed in some of the
bureaux, it thought that a part of the new loan was al-
ready absorbed, and although it well knew that your pa-
triotism would not hesitate at any sacrifice, it saw in per-
spective with a certain degree of apprehension the neces-
sity of a fresh loan at the commencement of the next year.
This is what has been affirmed to us :—Of the last loan
there remains a little more than 100,000,000 to be re-
ceived. These 100,000,000, although not yet expended,
are destined to meet expenses which have been incurred,
and which will carry on the war until about the month
of October. No part of the 750,000,000 which is now
demanded has as yet been touched ; in short, to express
the thing more clearly, if the war should be stopped
suddenly the new loan would be unm esssary, and ac-
cording to the calculations of the Government, these
750,000,000 must largely suffice to the end of 1855
and the whole of 1856 for all the wants of the Depart-
ments of War and the Navy. Your committee has
carried its questions still further ; it has wished to
know whether among the foreseen expenses was included
the supply of our arsenals and the reconstitution of our
materiel which the war has exhausted. The Presi-
dent of the Council of State has declared to us in
the most positive manner that the Ministers of
War and Marine had included in their calculations
the supply of the arsenals, as well as the renewal of
all the necessary materiel. It is not necessary to tell
you with what lively satisfaction that declaration was re-
ceived by your committee, and we have no doubt that
the Chamber and the country will learn these details
with a deep feeling of faith in the future. When the
former loan was brought forward, I had the honour of
observing:-to you, in my• report at that pericd, that
`the committee was convinced that the loan would be
filled up with even greater enthusiasm than the first
one.' but we were far from thinking that a sub-
scription of more than two milliards would be given.
That success we have a right again to hope tor,
first, because the country has confidence in a Govern-
ment of which the basis is universal suffrage, whose
principles are just and humane, and to whom the
country feels it is indebted for ;he change effected in
its situation abroad ; next, on account of the system
adopted, the plan of a loan being the least onerous, inas-
much as it knocks at the door of him who possesses, in
place of weighing indiscriminately like taxation, on every
one, even on him who has only just enough to provide for
his daily wants ' • and, lastly, in the mode of effecting
the loan, which has been made a national affair. In our
last report gentlemen, we said that there was not any
sacrifice that ought not to be made to enable the Emperor
to continue his care and solicitude for oursoldiers, and that
reason still subsists in all itsforcc. That valiant army, so
perfectly disciplined in a foreign land, so resigned in the
midst of so many privations, so brave in the midst
of dangers, will always find in a French Chamber the
tribute of admiration and the proofs of sympathy that
are its due, as well as the funds which it may require.
To sum up—from all these considerations, your commit-
tee charges me, unanimously, to propose to you to
adopt the bill."
The address was received with loud acclamations
at various passages.

THE "SIX-POUNDERS" SPEECH OF

LAST NIGHT.

Mr. G. Dundas—one of the name of the Admiral who
did not deal too severely with the Russians either with
six or sixty-eight pounders—recommended last night,
in the House of Commons, a few six pounders to
tranqaillise the mob next Sunday. He also called those
who were in the Park last Sunday, canaille. The
six-pounders should be bung round the legs of the
man who could degrade the House of Commons by
making such a proposition, and he do penance with
them, bad we our will, in Hyde-Park, exposed to
the derision of the populace. Let Mr. Dundas and
all who applaud or excuse his sentiments beware. The
angry passions of the people are already sufficiently
aroused. The friends and supporters of the Sunday
Trading Bill have, it is true, yielded, and we leave
them to repent at leisure of the storm which they
have excited, the ill-feeling they have aroused, the
injustice they have caused, the injuries that have
been inflicted, and the blood that may still be
shed. The original exciting cause of the demonstra-
tion is at an eud, and we may safely assert that—
but for the incomparable folly in letting loose a
police force, trained in tyranny and drilled in false swear-
ing and the use of the truncheon, upon an unoffending
and well-disposed assemblage of Englishmen and Eng-
lishwomen—no harm would have accrued or mischief
have been done. Now, bow does the matter stand ? None
can tell whether or not London may not be under mar-
tial law, or no law at all, next Monday. Much—nay, ail
—depends upon the good sense and discretion of the
authorities. We most sincerely hope that they will refrain
from sending a policeman into the Park on Sunday, and
leave the people to themselves. In such case, we venture
to say that the citizens will possibly exercise their lungs
a little, and then disperse quietly. No gates should be
shut, and nothing done. A calm, sensible, and tempe-
rate proclamation might be posted to-day stating that
the cause of the demonstration is removed, and that for
the rest justice will be done. As for Mr. Dundas, we
cannot trust ourselves to add to Mr. Roebuck's remarks,
'urther than to say, that canaille have ere now taught a
,esson to canaille infinitely baser than themselves.
_ _

•
Where, in the name of ilaynau and Bomba, was this
gentleman "raised 1" Was it in Naples, Austria, Kafir•
land, the Feejee Islands, or Hango-Udde l—Morning
Advertiser.

ICE,FOR THE CRIMEA.—It has suggested itself to
some enterprising shipping houses in the city, amongst
others the Messrs. H. J. Smith, Crane and Co., of 30,
Great St. Helen's, that as'daily advises state how much
ice is needed in the Crimea, it would be yet more ac-
ceptable about that period which a vessel despatched at
once from London would get out to Balaklava. With
this object, particulars of the quantity sufficient to
supply the army, and to sell the ice there at a price mo-
derate even here, has been obtained from the Wenham
Lake Ice Company, and a provisional agreement for its
due supply, entered into with that well-known firm.
The Messrs. Smith, Crane, and Co., and others, have
made the affair a semi-commercial matter, and seek a
few shareholders of 1001. each, to complete the sum of
3,5001., which, it is calculated, after making due allow-
ance for extraordinary expenses and waste, will leave. ae
;if tits
very handsome profit. Setting aside the novelty h
speculation, there is so much of pure usefu
blements that we cheerfully give the facts pubo 'V .
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they have been made known to us.
MAILS FOR SIERRA LEONE.—The
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was brought to its conclu-
must be paid in advancee;eh.
CRICKET.—The WIWI, ylebone Club and Ground
Los's, ,
sion, at _0„
~ when the following score
indicated the st_atedt the
- game :—Marylebone, 118 and
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REENOCK.—There certainly could not be finer
weather for forwarding the crops than that which we
have enjoyed for the last week. It is the opinion of
men well skilled in such matters that we shall not suf-
fer at all from the late spring. The crops everywhere
look most vigorous. On every arrival of the Dublin
steamer we have ample evidence of the forward state
of vegetation on the other side of the Channel. Ln-
Mense crates and other packages of vegetables crowd
the deck on their: way to the Glasgow mariet,
while not a small quantity of these are landed for
our local market. To supplement this supply

the gardens cf our own growers are looking lull
and luxuriant, and an extensive strawberry grower
in the neighbourhood, who largely supplies the Glasgow
market, expects to open that trade during the present
week. Ibid.
We have had another week of warm, dry, and de-
lightful weather, varied by occasional refreshing rains.
Saturday was somewhat cold, but yesterday opened
with a shower, and afterwards broke into a day of sun-
shine. The change in the appearance of the country in the
last fortnight is quite magical. The crops,' both white
and green, give most satisfactory promise, and are
rapidly making up the leeway caused by the backwarl
spring. On warm and early soils the wheat is in ear,
but as yet this is the exception in the west country.
The general accounts from England and Ireland as to
harvest prospects are of the most pleasing kind,—Glas-
gow Herald.
FARINGDON.—The hay harvest has now become gene-
ral in this neighbourhood, arid with a continuance of
fine weather much good hay will be made. Except on
some of the light soils the crop will be a fair one.
Berkshire Chronicle.

For several days the weather has been all that the
most anxious agriculturist could desire—a hot forcing
sun hastening the ripening process, and th© absence of
those storms which frequently affect harvest prospects
and theefirmers' gains. The reports of the crops are
e: 7 conflicting. On some situations they are mot
prorniCaig, both of wheat and barley ; on others a thin
and scanty plant is observable. The general conc7,-sion
from a wide range of observation is, that the result will
be a good, if not an abundant, yield ; but it is too early
to be confident, and the present state of the weather has
hardly bad time to produce great effects. • Potatoes and
vegetables generally are backward, scarce, and dear ;
but there will soon be a plentiful quantity.—lbid.
Summer has at last set in with "unusual severity,"
and East Indian clothing and cooling drinks are in
universal demand. During the whole of the week the
sun has shone forth in true midsummer splendour, and
the nights have been deliciously mild and moonlight, for
the imaginative to walk abroad and watch the trial for
the 'mastery between the pale rays of the scarcely-con-
cealed sun in the northern horizon and the bright moon
in the south, soon to be unmistakeably decided by the
glorious dawn of another long summer day. The crops,
from all we heat', are looking extremely strong and pro-
mising. The wheat is in most places coming into ear,
and the scent of newly-mown hay in many a field
greets the sense with its familiar sweetness.—Gloucester
Journal.

THE BRITISH BARQUE ASHLEY DESTROYED BY FIRE.
—SOUTHAMPTON, July 6.—lntelligence has been receive d
at this port, by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship Euxine, of the total destruction by fire of the
British barque Ashley, of Bristol, which put into Gib-
raltar Bay on the 24th nit., from Liverpool, with about
800 tons of coal on board, for Constantinople. The 'ves-
sel was discovered to be on fire at four in the morning of
the 30th ult., and every means was immediately used to
extinguish the flames. About half-pest five the alarm
guns from the upper signal station were fired, but al-
though assistance was plentiful and most promptly ren-
dered, it was without the slightest favourable result.
Finding that from the rapidity with which the flames
extended all hopes of saving the vessel were lost, the
Government steam-tug took her in tow and grounded
her beyond the Quarantine anchorage, where she was
shortly afterwards scuttled. The vessel was burnt to the
water's edge.
PUBLIC PETITIONS.—The 50th report, issued on Wed-
nesday, includes 1,587 petitions for the abolition of
church-rates, signed by 148,339 persons ; 279 in favour
of the Marriage Law Amendment Bill, signed by 74,403
persons ; 1,681 for the repeal of the Maynooth Endow-
ment Act, signed by 308,108 persons ; 70 against the
(now defunct) Sunday Trading Bill of Lord R. Gros-
venor, signed by 31,469 persons ; 22 in favour of the
Bleaching Works Bill, signed by 4,651 persons; 474
against the Education (Scotland) Bill, signed by 33,142
persons ; 65 for prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beve-
rages, signed by 3,542 persons ; 508 for prohibiting their
sale on Sundays only, signed by 128,907 persons ; and
267 for the repeal of the Beer Act of 1854, signed by
398,052 persons. •
FATAL EXPLOSION OP FIRE-DAMP.—The Cumberland
Pa.cquct reports a fatal explosion of fire-damp, which
took place last Thursday, in a portion of the workings of
Croft-pit Colliery, belonging to the Earl of Lonedale.
Five lives were lost. The jury found that the accident
was caused through a door having been improperly left
open, by which the proper ventilation was impeded, but
to whom the irregularity in question was due there was
no evidence to prove.
BOMBAY AND BARODA RAILWAY.—Copies of minutes
and correspondence relative to the progress of railway
undertakings in India, have just been laid before the
House of Commons. t appears from this return that his
Excellency the Earl of Dalhousie, the Governor-General
of India has strongly recommended to the Government
of India the line proposed by Lieutenant-Colonel Ken-
nedy, from Bombay to I3aroda. His Excellency trusts
that the Court will not hesitate to sanction the entire
section from Bombay to Baroda. It also appears that
the whole of the members ofthe Court ai e favourable to
the project. These facts will prove highly gratifying to
the shareholders. The company is now completely re-
gistered.—Herapaa's Journal.
THE DECIMAL ASSOCIATION AND THE PREMIER.—
Yesterday morning, a numerous deputation from the
'Decimal Association, including about a dozen members
of Parliament and several leading men in the commercial
and banking circles, attended by appointment at the
Prime Minister's official residence, in Downinsestreet,
for the purpose of stating their views as to what course
should be taken to give effect to the resolutions of the
House of Commons, carried on the 12th ult. by 135
to 56, declaring that "the initiation of the decimal
system of coinage by the issue of the florin has been
eminently successful and satisfactory," and that its
"further extension will be of great public advan-
tage." The hour originally fixed for the interview
being twelve o'clock, many gentlemen were in attendance
before it arrived ; but it ultimately appeared that there
had been a subsequent 'appointment for half-past twelve,
end shortly before that time about forty gentlemen had
assembled in a room in which it was supposed the inter-
view was to take place. Here the deputation waited
till a quarter past one without seeing the Premier, or
receiving any message from him. Their patience being
then exhausted—indeed, several had already lelt—after
some discussion it was determined to retire ; Mr. W.
Brown, M.P., having previously undertaken to see
Lord Palmerston, and endeavour to obtain another ap-
pcintment, and at the same time to express the disap-
pointment of those who had en that occasion attended
in vain.
NEWS FROM EUROPE IN SIX DAYS.—The New Yorl-,
Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Company have
made a contract with Messrs. Husted and Kroehl, sub-
marine engineers, of this city, to remove the Merlin
Rock, lying in the centre of the entrance to the harbour
of St. John's, Newfoundland, which is the only obstruc-
tion to the entrance of the Collins and other large
steamers into that port. There is now eighteen feet of
'
water upon the rock at low tide - but as the Collins
steamers draw ttooeuty-three feet of water when loaded,
the Telegraph Company have contracted to reduce the
Merlin Rock to twenty-seven feet below mean low water.
When this obstacle is removed, it is probable that most .
of the European steamers will make St. John's a stop-
in place, as it lies directly on their route, and abou
one-third of the distance from New York to Liverpool,
m
so that a steamer from Europe, at St. John's York
foundland, ay have her news telegraphed to New
from
within six days from the date of her departur
Liverpool.—New York Herald.
A letter from St. Potersburmogno
yr:zus
ted here that
Post of Vienna says :—" It is exi
-)eecdition again t
the Allies will undertake an e p
ore importantace
ro thante ct
Nicolaieff in the government
which is to a certain deglraecce
Sebastopol. The latter p
the Black Sea, but the
the Russian naval force
ift that n
former is the birth-place of advy. It is at Nico-
laieff that the great. building
_yar s are situated and
where supplies of timbero,e d stores are collected, •
and which could n t again procured for several
If the allies were to succeed in destroying
years. they would
these supplies have a material guarantee
that the Russians could not increase their naval
theehro
vr
seoos sntt
oape
utle
force for ton years to Come. Such an expedition
entail sacrifices, for the Bug is
covered with obstacles of all kinds ; batteries have
been
erected on the coast, &c. The earth rampart
whichwol d surroundscertaniy the town has it is said been lately
fortified;and there is a strong garrison in the place.
Nevertheless there is not much confidence felt here
in the strength of the resistance that could be made,
and it is not considered by any means impregnable,
'particularly since the affair of Kertch."
A letter from Frankfort of the 30th ult. says :
"We were surprised to learn that Baron de Bru-
now, formerly minister of Russia at London, was
appointed as envoy extraordinary to the Ger-
manic Confederation. The choice of so distin-
guished a diplomatist for such a post as that of
Frankfort shows how great a value the cabi-
net of St. Petersburg attaches to the maintenance
and development of its relations with central Ger-
many. It is not yet certain that M. de Brunow
will reside here, or whether, through deference for
the grand ducal court, and its family relations with
the new Empress of Russia, he may not go to fix
himself at Darmstadt, which place is not more than
half an hour's distance by railway from this city."