The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-13 00:00:00

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Stage Manager, Mr. Leclercq.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Open for the Season,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Last Week but One of Mons. JULLIEN'S Concerts d'Ete on the
same scale of splendour as at Drury-lane Theatre.
Promenade Concert conducted by M. Jullien.
Engagement of that eminent cantatrice Miss Cicely 2.srott.
Exhibition of Danson's Colossal Daylight View of MOUNT
ETNA and the CAVES of VULCAN and the CYCLOPS—Splendid
and interesting Menagerie—Promenade Concert by Godfrey's un-
rivalled Military Band—Various Amusing Novelties—Concluding at
Dusk with a Grand Pyrotechnic Exhibition by Messrs. Southby,
representing the Interior of the Mountain (the Pandemonium of the
Ancients), with the Caverns and Forges of Vulcan and his Cyclops,
the whole terminating with the Eruption of Mount Etna and a
Grand Tableau on the Lake of Thetis, and the Nereiads receiving the
Armour of Achilles.
The menagerie now consists of several hundred specimens, in-
cluding three elephants, two giraffs, four ostriches, two camels,
lions, &c. - •

13oorsopen from Nine A.M. Feeding the Animals at Five. COD
cart at Half-past Sir. Fireworks about Ten.
ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Tam DAT —morning 54 rain. after 10 I Evening 25 mar. altar 11
To-Moaaow—Morning 0 min. after 0 Evening 54 intr. utter 11

THE WEATHER.--Son OFFICE, Jur.r 13.
THERMOMETER, LN THE SHADE.
69 —bigtest /since noon yesterday.
55 —!owest this morning and daring the night.
74—th:e day, at noon.

BABOXIXTES, 30.19.
WECD S.E.—good breeze and fine sunshiny weather.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE,

citate of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
I:Ousa at Nine o'clock yesterlay morning.—The citations
arc. Arranged ire order of latitude.
Ptimot-m—Win,3 E., gentle breeze —partially cloudy.
„e(3) •g —Wind N.E.. gentle breeze—partially C 10110.37.
DELMIITON—Winti N., calm—partially cloudy.
114-Trmos—Wind N.E., fresh breeze—cloudless.
•••-otrrEtalatv-rox—Wind S E., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
Fou"sTe'mr—Wind N.E., light breeze—overcast.
TrnifaraDok—Wind N,E , strong breeze--partially cloudy.
GREENWICH—Wind gentle breeze—overcast.
Srzoon--Wind N.E.,,calm—overcast.
SwtxDox—Wind E., gentle breeze--partially cloudy.
(3°LCRESTrit—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
CANBRIDGE— Calm—overcast.
YARMOUTH—Wind N.E., strong breeze—cloudless.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Saturday
morning at nine
o'clock

LAM H•roN—Wind N.E., calm—very fine.
BpArrocK—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless.

latter gentleman. The Tower Hamlets, again,
evinced but little appreciation of the rhetorical
powers of Mr. GEORGE TnomrsoN—of those extra-
ordinary powers which the ex-Member had so fre-
qmently employed to the popular advantage, and
which, by their splendour, had extorted the panegyric
of a renowned and fastidious orator like Lord
BROUGHAM—when it ousted him the other day from
his post as a metropolitan representative. Maccles-
field has, with equal indelicacy, forgotten the labours
of Mr. Joan.: WILLIAMS, and L ambeth the prolonged
career of a veteran Liberal like the Right lion
CHARLES TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT. After deserting
the cause of Mr. ROEBUCK, Bath has lost a re-
membrance of the claims upon its gratitude of
Lord DUNCAN, and those claims, although they
ought to have been recognised throughout the United
Kingdom at any rate in reference to the abolition of
the tax upon windows, were yet more flagrantly dis-
allowed by the constituents of Bury in Lancashire.
While the electors of Penryn appeared to become un-
accountably indifferent to the re appearance upon the
local hustings of Mr. FRANCIS MowATT, its ex-
Member, and Bodmin appeared no less careless as to
the return to its locality as a Liberal candidate of
Mr. JAMES WYLD, its former Representative—
s more marked rejection of their abilities
was manifested towards Mr. WYLD by the electors
of Finsbury and towards Mr. MOW ATT by the elec-
tors of Cambridge. Derby, in like manner, seems to
have forgotten the good services of Mr. LAWRENCE
HEY WORTH, and Ludlow those of Colonel SALWE Y,
and Cockermouth those of Mr. HORSMAN, and
Devonport those of Sir JOHN RolelLLY—although
the two last mentioned especially had acted
nobly in behalf of the general interests of the
community—ROMlLLY as a legal and lIOESMAN as an
ecclesiastical reformer.

Amongst all these evidences of popular ingratitude,
perhaps, however, the most flagrant is that afforded
by the Liberal electors of Bradford. The men of
Bradford, we cannot but say it, plainly enough have
disgraced themselves by their conduct towards their
late gallant and distinguished representative. Set-
dom has man had stronger claims upon the support
of a constituency than Colonel PEYRONNET THOMPSON
had upon the Liberal voters of Bradford. Returned
in 1835 by a majority of 1,428 as Member
for Kingston-upon-Hull, the gallant Reformer testi-
fied during that Parliament his capacity as a legis-
lator, but especially in regard to that assiduity in the
discharge of his Parliamentary duties, in which he is
altogether, we believe, unequalled. Since the time
of his election as the representative of Bradford, in
1847, Colonel THOMPSON has sedulously been in at-
tecdance at every sitting that has taken place in the
various sessions of the late Parliament. Insomuch ea as
nix industry and application to the business of the House
of Commons worthy of remark in this particular, that
it was observed by the SPEAKER that the name of the
Member for Bradford did not appear upon one occa-
sion upon the division-list, and then, not in conse-
quence so much of his absence as of the absence of
mind of the printer !—the circumstance being duly
notified afterwards in an erratum. -let it
is this energetic and intelligent Liberal
that the constituency of Bradford have re-
jected in preference for the untried illiberality of
idr. WICKHAM. Honour at least to the 1,153 voters
who polled the other day for Colonel THOMPSON.
Honour to those men who, aware of his high claims
upon their respect, have resolved at any rate
to liquidate themselves all the expenses
incurred in -the course of the recent unsuccessful
election ! It were but right that the Liberals else-
where should evince a similar appreciation of the ser-
vices of Colonel PEYRONNET THOMPSON, and that an-
other opportunity should be afforded this distinguished
Reformer of re-entering the House of Commons as
one of the newly-elected representatives. It were
strange indeed if, in this thoroughly Free-trade
Parliament, the author of the witty and celebrated
Catechism of the Corn-laws should be omitted.
Perhaps we should not be wrong in designating
Colonel Tuosirsoia the Father of Free Trade, and
as such, surely, at this juncture it were but reason-
ably grateful that he should be empowered once more
to enter the Legislature as one of the most eminent
among the Liberal representatives.

Example should, we repeat, be taken by those
constituencies who have still reposing upon them the
responsibility of selecting between the rival candi-
dates-30 that no further seats should be lost to the
Liberal cause through the influence of this same
culpable over-confidence. In England, at least,
those constituencies are now exclusively county
constituencies, and it becomes imperative upon them
that the voters there should use every imaginable
energy to maintain in their position such Reformers
as Mr. BERNAL 0313ORNE--than whom a more
throughly independent man, perhaps, never trod
the floor of the House of Commons—and Lord
ROBERT GROS VENOR, and oust such ultra-Tories as
Mr. CHARLES NE WDEGATE and Mr. RICHARD
SPOONER from their positions in North Warwickshire.
Among the county contests now fast approaching
must not be overlooked, that which is certain
to take 'place in East Surrey, and where, doubt-
less, if the Liberal electors are true to them-
selves, Mr. LoCKE KING and Mr. THOMAS
ALCOCK will resume their position as the
Liberal representatives of this constituency. For
ourselves, we would now, as a closing remark to
this running commentary on the general election,
adjure the electors of Middlesex with all earnestness
to rally round their tried and distinguished ex-
Members—Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE and Lord ROBERT
GROSVENOR—and thereby to secure, through their
triumph over the Marquis of BLANDFORD, another
and a signal disappointment to the Tory Admi-
nistration.

The magnificent
general meeting of the
project,' brought forward yester-
day at the extraordinary
Citv. A direct steam
excited a deep sensation in the -
Eastern Steam Navigation Company has naturally
communication with India would have been hailed
as a boon of no ordinary magnitude by all per-
sons in any degree connected with our Eastern
empire. If the annoyances inseparable from the
~
transit of the Desert—if the horrors of the passage i
down the Red Sea could be avoided without a vast
additional expenditure of time and money, a load of
anxiety would be removed from the mind
of every Indian traveller. Hitherto, however,
there has been no intermediate mode of commu-
nication between the overland route and the
long sea voyage by sailing vessels. Those
who had sufficient leisure to spend an additional six
weeks or two months on the journey unanimously
preferred the latter course, which, though more te-
dious, was in many respects preferable to the former,
passengers, when once embarked,
iwnearsemeuncshblaesclttlio eretain possession of their comfortable,
cabins, until their arrival at their destination.
ro()Theirrny luggage, too, remained undisturbed, in place of
being transhipped on the arrival in Egypt, carried on ca.
mels across the
Desert,andagain put onboardthe steamer
at the Red Sea, matters, it is almost superfluous to
say, entailing much trouble and expense to the hapless
owners. Time, -0 -
h wever, is money, and a saving in
peculiarly that respect is s°
important to persons
Ea tern merchant princes,
Government, to our 3
f It the , that the
holding official situations under the Anglo-Indian
and others obliged to undertake .
heavy
become exceedingly
submitted t
-0, until the vessels were so crowded as to
outlay and the serious inconveniences were
passengers, and the freight of light packages (no
others could n Mil-.
' °--"IY be sent) was so enormous " as to
be almost prohibitory."
injurious to the health of the
It may be asked why the obvious expedient of
sending steam-vessels round the Cape has not long
since been adopted? The answer, hwe ver is very
simple. Any of the vessels heretoforeo '
constructed
would have stopped at various stations for the pur-
pose of taking in coal, the expense and delay whereof
would in a great degree have neutralized
he advan-
tages that would otherwise have been derivedfrom
the establishment of the new line. The idea
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sending vessels direct, from port to port,
without
coaling en route, appeared to be too chime-
rical to enter into man's imagination. yes,
sels of enormous bulk woull be required to carry
the necessary supplies of coal, and of extraordinary
speed to accomplish the distance within the time oe.
cupied in tho overland journey. It was reserved for
ithe Eastern Steam Navigation co,pany, under the
advice and with the assistance of the great engineer
I who solved the Transatlantic steam problem, to

overcome the difficulty hitherto considered insuper-
able. Mr. BRUNEL saw that without the adoption of
any new principle, but merely by the judicious ap-
plication of those which have been for some time in
operation, and fully and completely tested, it was
perfectly practicable to construct vessels of sufficient
power and capacity to perform the voyage from
Plymouth to Calcutta without stopping to take in
coal by the way. There would be a saving of at
least 30s. per ton on the coal, a very important item
in the expenditure of steam-vessels. His great ex-
perience told him that, with increased size, more par-
ticularly increased length, a greatly superior
speed could be obtained, so that seventeen or
eighteen miles per hour could be achieved
by vessels carrying sufficient fuel for the entire
journey, and in that opinion he was corroborated
by those of the most eminent engineers and ship-
builders. Indeed the most sceptical would have
been convinced by the clear and explicit state-
ments of that distinguished engineer and of Mr.
SCOTT RUSSELL. The very interesting speeches of
these gentlemen were received with the utmost en-
thusiasm. It was shown that more than eighteen
miles per hour is regularly accomplished by the
Holyhead vessels, notwithstanding the short cross
seas, more injurious to speed than any to which the
vessels to India would be exposed on the average of
their passages. Sixteen or seventeen knots an hour
might, therefore, be confidently anticipated,
and that
would achieve far more than could b 3 required to
render the new line by far the most eligible to India*
Even in the improved state of the overland route,
for which the Peninsular and Oriental Company have
contracted, the passage to India will take at least
thirty-five days. It is ascertained that
the journey
from Plymouth to Calcutta will be performed in
thirty-two days, if an average of fifteen miles per
hour be attained ; at sixteen miles per hour, in
per hour,
thirty days ; or, at seventeen miles
in twenty-eight days. It is almost a cer-
tainty that the latter will be about the
mark, so that thirty days, a single calendar month,
will be rather above the average.
here'
that there will be a saving of at least five days in
point of time, of two-fifths, if not one-half in point of
expense, and a total avoidance of transhipment of
then,
.e
luggage, or change of vessel, to say nothing
w
of
the
Desert and the Red Sea.
be an
found in sal-
that passengers and freight would be
reroune-
oui
Under such circumstances, can there y.
doubt
Under i
cient numbers to render the concern
rative ? We should thick not. The denaan
be afforded,
exceed any accommodation that could
themselves
and crowds would hasten to avail
which
won
of advantages hitherto unknown, d wouldld stilln
merely greatly enhance the existing, but almost
create a new traffic. Mr. BauNEL might well hesitate
the
kind give any expression as to the probable profits cif the
concern, which promise to exceed anything of
kind heretofore known. They will be such as to more
than satisfy the most sanguine.
We heartily congratulate, then, the directors and
shareholders in this important undertaking on the
auspicious prospects before them.
What they re-
garded as a serious injury, the deprival of the
Government contract, has turned out a most fortunate
occurrence. They may rely on the same zeal
and attention that has heretofore characterised the
management of
their affairs and which will success-
fully carry
them over all the impediments that may
obstruct their way.
se_
,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday They contain no leading articles of great importance.
.
The Constitutionnel has a long article on the .
ia-
portence of keeping accurate statistical tables through-
out the country, as lately ordered by
the Govern-
ment. The Journal des Debats makes some remarks
on the English elections.
The Pays contains the following observations on
the resignation of the Belgian Ministry
The retirement of the Ministry appeared inevitable,
after the conflicts and results of the last elections, and
after different other circumstances which had morally
and very painfully affected the Cabinet of which the
two MM. Rogier and M. Fesch were the moot liberal
and most important members. It is not doubted that
the resignation will be accepted by the King. The only
question is whether the whole Ministry will retire, or
whether the three ninisters more essentially political,
will alone do so. A Catholic Ministry generally appear .a im-
possib'e, and it is nearly certain that a Ministry of mode-
rate Liberals will be established. Amongst the names
pronounced to form part of the new Cabinet is that of M.
Lehon. Every body considers the change which is
about to t..ke place as favourable to the maintenance of
good relations between France and Belgium, and it is
not doubted that the desire which the Belgian Govern-
ment certainly has of maintaining these relations will
have some influence on the composition of the new Ca-
binet. M. Firmin Rogier, who owed his post of Minis.
ter Plenipotentiary in France to the high position of his
brother, will very probably be replaced. It is said here
that he will bo called tea diplomatic post of less import-
ance or to the government of a province in Belgium."
The Moniteur continues to promulgate the mea-
sures lately adopted by the Legislative Body, and
since then approved of by the Senate. It gives (yes-
terday) the Bill granting 34,463 f. to pay credits due
on the estimates of the years 1848, 1849, and 1850 ;
also that interdicting suspicious characters to reside
in the department of the Seine and in the Lyons dis-
trict; that concerning the purchase of the Hotels
Sebastiani and Castellane ; and that relating to the
majorat of the Duke DE BELLUNE.
The Patric states a strong demagogical feeling
still exists in the Allier, but at the same time ex-
presses no alarm on the subject, as the energy and
firmness of the Government will always enable it to
baffle any of the senseless attempts of that party.
On Sunday morning Prince JEROME, accompanied
by the staff, reviewed the 2d Regiment of the line
in garrison at Havre. After going through several
evolutions the regiment marched past in review
order. A large crowd was present, and testified the
greatest respect for the illustrious brother of the Em-
FERMI. _

-
The Suisse of Berne, of the Bth inst., says that the
Federal Council has charged General DUFOUR and Dr.
KERN to represent it at the inauguration fête of the
railway from Paris to Strasbourg, and to congratu-
late Louis NAPOLEON on the prompt completion of
that line, which opens to Switzerland a rapid commu-
nication with the sea.
The PRINCE PRESIDENT of the Republic has just
granted a full pardon to 91 persons condemned to
various punishments by the mixed commission of the,
1-16rault.
We read in a Paris letter in the Emancipation of
Brussels—" M. PROUDHON i 3 about to break the
silence which he imposed on himself in confinement,
and since his release from St. Pelagie. It is said that
he is about to publish a philosophical and political
work on the future fate of modern society. M.
PROUDHON will, it is said, endeavour to establish
that influence cannot henceforth belong either to reli-
gion as in the middle ages, or to royalty as in the
16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, or to representative
governments as in contemporary times ; and he will
show that society no longer consists of regulated
forces, but of mere individualities, and that domina-
tion must fall to one person according to the caprices
of chance, or the relative ability of the competitors."
It is announced that the plan of a new line of rail-
way is under consideration, to connect Nancy with
Dijon, and the Strasburg with the Paris and Lyons
line. It is proposed that this important section shall
commence a short distance from Nancy, cross the hill
des Corbeaux by' a tunnel, descend towards the Mo-
selle, run a branch to Epinal, continue by a tunnel
metres,
between Chaumouzy and Girancourt, touch at Con.
flans, Velorce the Valley of Saint Eloy, Vesoul,
Raze, Velexon, Gray, Essertenne, Biage, and thence
to Dijon.
the expense is estimated at 90,000,000 f.
and The distance is calculated at 250 kilo-
It will be seen, by consulting the map of France,
that independent of the advantage of connecting two
such important lines as those of Paris and Strasburg,
and Paris and Lyons, the proposed line will mate-
rially serve four manufacturing districts.
An operative blacksmith was sentenced to im-
prisonment for eight days by the police court yester-
day,last plated
ehda
medalsvingoffbereeadrinfogr
the
ele
oonowthinegl7inthscrolfptany,
" Henry V., King of France,hf 219th of -'-1-September,
1820."
The Gazette de France contradicts the announce-
ment of the Independance Beige, that Louts Nero-
LEON had purchased the Chateau of Montretout, near
St. Cloud. This magnificent residence is not for
sale. It is occupied at present by the Countess
PozZO DI BORGO.
The Bourse was remarkably firm, with a further rise
in the price of Railway Shares. The Four-and-a-Half
month;
ut sr.
per Cents. opened at 103 f. 15c., and closed at 103 f.
Paris and Strasburg,2ol.
tOhneans Railway Shares, 1,375 f.;
347 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 635 f.;
Avignon, 460 f. •
c2Rlooocus.eedpf rastt,h7oe2f.fe; nu4doaovo.rf;e
620 f.; Paris aid Lyons, 635 f.; Great Western, 570 f.;
the New Austrian Loan, 9411.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
Basle, 296 f. 25c.;
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 12.
antl g
Grand
eJiT—etiNono ofth eFrnranofcci,r4al/2nc—Northern
),133yp_er
Cent. Bon'da r
otrasbour nn 17'
171—Parts an
3% Sam!)
arm and
Meuse, 7g' 24%s—Roueu and Havre, 1 re and
.I:aria and L former] Boulogne adnduAoumeine,n3sssta—reps
West Flanders, Pi—Western of France, 85/3,

. GERMANY.
A telegraphic dispatch was received at Vienna, on
the 7th from Munich, stating that at present the king
of SAXONY did not intend proceeding to the former
capital. In consequence, the Emperor of AUSTRIA
would not, it was presumed, interrupt his tour in
Hungary, but would complete it before the King of
SAXONY returned from Dalmatia and arrived at
Vienna.
The Roman Catholic Deputies of the Second
Chamber of Hesse Cassel have declared to the Go-
vernment that they will not take the oath of fidelity
to the Constitution, unless under the reservation of the
rights of the Church.
It is stated, in a letter from Berlin of the 7th, in
the Constitutionnel, that the Danish Government has
consented to allow the loans raised by the Provisional
Governments of the Duchies, declared null as re-
gards the State, to be considered provincial debts ;
and that it is preparing Bills to that effect for
presentation to the. States of Schleswig and Holstein.
Whilst the King of PRUSSIA and the Empress of
RusslA. were at Coblentz, a butcher presented them
with a sausage thirteen feet long, containing all sorts
of saugage meat, and terminated with a pig's head.
Their .MAJESTIES laughed heartily at the strangeness
of the gift, but kindly accepted it.
The King and Queen of SWEDEN are expected to
arrive at Berlin in the course of the week, on their
way to the baths of Kissengen.
General CHANGARNIER is still at Berlin. He has
visited several of the barracks. He is shortly to
is
theirsaid respects
ctthse they intend
th the
to
Count go
proceed to Vienna, in company of Count DE FLA-
o
}V,IrGoNhY; to
sdor
ffand it
to
pay DE
CHAMBORD.

Princess LurrpoLD of Bavaria Was safely delivered
of a Princess at Munich on the 6th. The Emperor
of AUSTRIA is to act as sponsor at the baptism.
A royal ordinance interdicts Prussian soldiers from
smoking in the streets and public places, in all parts
of the monarchy.

SWITZERLAND.
The National Council of Switzerland, in its sitting
of the Bth, discussed the question of railways. By a
first vote it had been decided by 69 votes to 22 that
the lines should be constructed by companies, the Ra-
dical party voted for its being done by the State.
The discussion then commenced on the articles.
Article 1 was adopted on the following terms by a
large majority :—" The construction and working of
the railways on the Federal territory are and remain
cantonal affairs. They may be confided to private
companier." The " cantonal sovereignty has thus,"
says the Suisse, " gained the advantage over uni-
tarianism."

The Government of the Grand Duchy of Baden
have just concluded a treaty with Switzerland
for the immediate establishment of a line of
electric telegraph by means of which a diruct
communication with Milan may hereafter be ob-
tained.

M. TRIERS has put an end to the annoyances to
which M. DROUEY, the director of the Federal Police,
wished to subject him by exhibiting a French pass-
port, bearing the visa of the Swiss Charge d'Affaires
at Paris. The Suisse, in giving this fact, adds :
" M. DRouay, the director of the Federal Police, did
not confine himself to ordering the expulsion of M.
TRIERS ; it is certain that he wrote to the Government
of Argau on the subject of the Duchess of Outaaris.
He did not dare to order the expulsion of the
Princess, but it may be understood that his letter
tended to that object. The Government of Argau,
however, has not taken any notice of the letter."

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