The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

PRINCE ALBERT'S PRIZRS FOR MODERN

LANGUAGES.

ETON COLLEGE, Oct. 22.—The examinations for the
Italian prizes given annually to the school by his Royal
Highness Prince Albert commenced on Friday last, and
terminated this morning, aed the result, as follows, was
given out at 10 o'clock school by the head master, the
Rev. Charles Old Goodford, D.D.
Thomas, 1.
Arranged in order of merit—

1. Scott. 3. Gladstone.
2. Willis, K.S. 4. Mr. Stanley.
The number of pupils this year under the Italian mas-
ter being smaller than usual, a first-class prize was not
awarded, consequently, the second-class prize was given
to Thomas.

Examiner, Signor Fusco, who has recently succeeded
Signor Sinibaldi as the Italian master at Eton.

The Echo is reported from the Pacific with 100,000/.
in silver.
The departures from the port of London for the Aus-
tralian colonies during the past week have comprised
eight vessels—three to Port Philip, three to Adelaide,
one to Moreton Bay, and one to New Zealand—with an
aggregate capacity pf 4,899 tons. The rates of freight
exhibit scarcely any alteration.
The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and Rotter-
' dam produce markets state that business had presented
little alteration. Quotations generally were well sup-
ported, considering the cessation of speculative excite-
ment. The accounts from Rouen mention that the mar-
ket for manufactures was inactive.
According to the advices by the Marco Polo the Dal-
larat was to leave Melbourne for London on the 15th of
August with about 100,000 ounces of gold, valued at
400,0001. The Acheron and Allendale ha i sailed from
Sydney, but are not believed to have any large sums.
It appears that the amount of gold brought down by
escort from the Victoria mines during the first six
months of the present year had been 3,730,0001., against
3,718,0001. in the corresponding period of 1854. Owing
to the greater security of the roads, the quantities
brought by private hands would, if they could be ascer-
tained, probably show a larger increase. Tho total
shipped in the first half of this year had reached
4,530,0001., against 4,310,000/. in the same period of
1854

The apprehension has been realised that the greater
part of the 900,000/. in gold which arrived from Aus-
tralia on Saturday would be purchased by the Bank of
France. An impression is entertained, however, in
some quarters that about 200,000/. will be retained on
this side. The withdrawal of this amount when, if busi-
ness had been left to its natural course, it would have
gone into thn Bank of England, has creat-d considerable
disappointment ; but, as it was evident that no cessation
of the drain cln bs expected until the Bank of France
shall be sufficiently fortified to discontinue their excep-
tional proceedings, the fact of their having beer4supplied
to this extent proportionately ameliorates our future
prospects. It is still thought that about 2,000,0001.
was the additional quantity they had arranged to obtain.
The Frem,den Blatt, faithful to Russia even in her ad-
versity, thus shakes its puny fist at the Turks :—" The
first assault on Kars, like the first attack on the Mala-
khoff, was repulsed ; but we learn that the Russians,
instead of raising the siege, aro preparing for a second
attack."

RECRUITING AT COLOGNE.—Curtis, Engels, and Egener
are found "not guilty" of havinc, enlisted recruits
themselves for the English Foreign Legion, but " guilty"
of having aided and abetted others. The Consul Curtis
and the other two are condemned to pay each a fine of
50 dollars, and are sentenced each to three months' im-
prisonment.

LOST SHIPS.—ELSINORE, OCT. 17.—The Sylph, Pei).
nock, from Liverpool for Memel, cargo salt, foundered
in the North Sea, Oct. 13, 130 wiles west of the Naze of
Norway ; crew saved, and arrived here ; and the tjalk
Catharine Wilhelmioe, Peterson, of and bound for Thi-
sted, from Hartlepool, with a cargo of coals, has been
abandoned on the lloggers'nank ; crew saved, and ar-
rivesl here by the South Esk, Reid. Liverpool, Oct. 22.
—The Albion, of and for Hartlepool, from Quebec was
abandoned waterlogged, in lat. 43 N., long. 51 W. ;
crew saved,

It is rumoured that Mr. Thompson, the newly-electei
provost of Queen's College, Oxford, does not intend to
resign the rectory of All Souls, Marylebone. This will
he a strange specimen of " UniverAty Reform," to have
a gentleman at one and the same time master of an im-
portant college in Oxford, and rector of a parish of
15,000 souls in London ! Surely this will not be per-
mitted. Indeed we trust that Mr. Thompson's inten-
tions have been mistaken or misrepresented.—Morning
Herald.

THE LIVERPOOL CIISTOMS.—The Board of Commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Customs have lately had under
'their notice a revision of the classification of clerks for
general business at the port of Liverpool. The great
increase of business attached to the department has
rendered a corresponding addition to the number of
employes a matter of necessity, and a more liberal scale
of remuneration will, it is anticipated, be adopted.—
Civil Service Gazette.
THE BRITISH GERMAN LEGlON.—BrigadienGeneral
Wooldridge left Dover on Saturday last, ley the Impe-
rial packet Queen, en route direct to the seat of war in
the Crimea. Previously to the gallant officer leaving
the camp at Shornecliffe, the whole of the British Ger-
man Legion was paraded, when the brigadier received
from them a simultaneous and enthusiastic parting
cheer.

EXPECTED MEETING AT MANCHESTER. —A rumour is
current at Manchester that before the re-assembling of
Parliament Mr. Bright intends to meet his constituents
at a great meeting, to be held in the Free-Trade Hall.
The new building will be far from complete, but it is
believed that the large room in it can be temporarily
covered over and converted into a place sufficiently com-
fortable for such an assemblage.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.—We have been favoured
with the perusal of a special telegraphic despatch from
New York to Halifax, and brought by the steamer
America, which intimated that it was stated at Wash-
ington that the American Government has demarded of
the British the recall of their Minister at Washington,
in consequence of his connection with the recent move-
ment in the United States for the enlistment of men for
the service of the British army in
the Crimea, arid which
was brought out in a recent qudicial inquiry at Phila.
delphia.—Liverpool Daily Tinto.—[This report is not
credited in Liverpool.]

TEE FOOD QUESTION.

(From yesterday's Moniteur.)
The Minister of the Interior has addressed the
following circular to the prefects :

" Monsieur le Prdfet,—ln placing this day at your
disposal a part in the credit of ten millions opened by
the Imperial decree of September 22, I at the same time
must remind you of the thought which should guide you
in the employment of it.
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"As sZion as the small yield of the harvest became
known, the Emperor instantly ordained ail the measures
which might alleviate the calamity. By his orders the
prohibition on the export of corn, buck-wheat, maize,
potatoes, and chestnuts was renewed, and not one of
these products of our soil can at this moment, even is
the smallest quantity, be withdrawn from French con-
sumption. The distillation of grains has been prohibited.
The cereals of our Algeria are exclusively reserved for
us ; the most complete security has been guaranteed
to commerce, which demands of the foreign markets
their corn and flour for distribution amongst ours.
Every possible favour has been granted to these importa-
tions, and to the navigation which realises them. The
railway tariffs for the conveyance of corn to the interior
have been reduced. Severe measures are prescribed
against any stock-jobbers attempting to create a fraudu-
lent .rise in the rural districts. In a word, whatever was
possible has been done, and the comps.«-aent necessary
for our consumption of a year wil Just/tiredly be found in
the corn arriving every day F.:ien abroad, and also in the
abundance of our accee drops of potatoes,buck-wheat,
maize, &c.

" But while thus engaged in securing the general pro.
visioning of the country, the Emperor has specially re-
membered that numerous party of the population which
only lives on the toil of each day ; he has wished to mul-
tiply the works in their behalf, and where the wages
were not in proportion to the temporary dearness of the
necessaries of life, to elicit the beneficent organisation
of a helping fund. It is with this twofold object that
the credit of ten millions has been opened, the distri-
bution of which forms the subject of this circular. In
order to obtain a fruitful employment of the portion accru-
ing to your department, Monsieur le Prtffet, all your
zeal will be requisite, all your influence, a!1 your acti-
vity. You will not fix in an absolute manner the con-
tingent of each commune in proportion to the sacrifices
that it might itself be able to make ; that would be to
deprive of succour the poor or exhausted communes,
that is to say, those who stand most in need of it ; yet
you will actively rouse the municipal councils, and you
will keep an account of their efforts. You will also
make an urgent appeal to private charity ; it forms in
France an inexhaustible treasure. You will visit in
person the communes ; you will place yourself in com-
munication with every person whose devotion may be
willing to second your own ; you will give an impulse to
every work capable of being usefully organised ; you will
aid and give rise to, in case of need, every combination.
(bread doles, cards of differences, economical ovens, so-
cieties for the distribution of food, &c.) which can lighten
for the labouring classes the transitory dearness of pro-
visions. In seeing you thus employed, and with you
all worthy men the people at large will perceive how
actively and efficaciously the Emperor is occupied with
their wants. They will comprehend that if the abun-
dance of the harvests depend solely on God, those who
suffer from their inadequacy are at least sustained and
assisted by a government animated by a really paternal
anxiety in their behalf. If, notwithstanding your efforts,
a few agitators should endeavour, for the sake of their
own passions or folly, to work on the sufferings of the
people, repeat to the working classes that agitation and
disorder would not add one single grain of corn to the
harvest, bat would strike a quick and serious blow at
confidence labour, and merely aggravate their misery ;
then while lavishing on them both help and good advice
make them understand that they have an evident interest
in repelling the fomenters of disorder, and strike these
last-named with immediate and severe repression. They
must not forget that the Emperor, who is doing ler
France so many great and glorious things, will know
well at the same time how to maintain that calm and
tranquillity which his energetic: will restored to us.
" In the performance of the various duties which the
situation imposes on you, I ask of you, Monsieur le
Prefet, sustained zeal, resolution, and a vigorous initia-
tive. Give me frequently an account of your efforts, of
their results, and point out to my notice the individuals
who shall have best seconded you.
" Receive, Monsieur le Prefet, the assurance of my
most distinguished consideration.
" The Minister of the Interior,
" BILLAULT."

FORMATION OF AN ADJUTANT'S DE-
TACHMENT TO THE FIELD BAT-
TERIES AT WOOLWICH.

The Government having decided on a more systematic
ruode of instruction for non-commissioned officers and
men for the field batteries belonging to the Royal Artil-
lery, so as always to have on hand a supply of well-
drilled men to fill up any vacancy that might occur,
have resolved on forming an adjutant's detachment for
this purpose.
The greater part of the horses of the reserve battery
having been withdrawn from the public works in the
Royal Arsenal, and as the remainder will be given up
by the civil depaaments as soon as circumstances will
admit, the reserve battery is to be broken up, and the
following arrangements made for the formation of a de-
tachment to be called the Adjutant's Detachment of the
Field Batteries, for the instruction of non-commissioned
officers and men in stable duties, riding, and driv-
ing. The detachment is to consist of the sergeant-
major, quartermaster-sergeant, the drill-master of
the field batteries, three rough-riders, twenty
non-commissioned officers, and one hundred gun-
ners and drivers, six trumpeters, and one hundred
horses, with harness, sadlery, &c., for a nine-pounder
field battery of six guns, also the artificers who do not
belong to field batteries at Woolwich, and all men under
instruction for artificers.

The trumpet-major is to be considered attached to this
detachment, for the purpose of giving the trumpeters of
the field batteries and this detachment occasional prac-
tice in the sounds of the bugle and trumpet. The officer
commanding the field batteries (Colonel W. Anderson)
is to furnish to the Adjutant-General's office a list of all
the non-commissioned officers and men belonging to the
reserve, distinguishing those whom he wishes to retain
orders, and the remainder are to join their respective
battalions.

Officers commanding battalions are to send in to the
Adjutant-Generars office lists of the Dames, age, service,
and character of one non-commissioned officer from each
battalion who are recommended to be placed under in-
struction in this detachment. The individuals to be
selected for this course must be smart and intelligent,
not over ten years' service.
The non-commissioned officers and men who join this
detachment are not to take with them any arms or ac-
coutrements, and, when they have once joined for duty
with the field battery, they are not, under any circum-
stances, to be withdrawn, except by Authority from the
Adjutant-General's office.

GILLERY 01? ILLUSTRATION, REGENT-

ST REET.

The new pictures of the Capture of the Malakhoff, the
Attack on the Redan, and the Burning of Sebastopol,
which Messrs. Grieve and Telbin have just added to
their exhibition of the " Events of the War," are, it may
naturally be supposed, among the most attractive of the
whole series. Like all the rest of these dioramic views
they are not drawn from the imagination, but are bona
fide repremntations of the different scenes ; and for the
opportunity of presenting there to the public the artiste
have been indebted to the sketches made en the spot by
Major Tupper, of the Royal Horse Artillery. They bear
every appearanec of scrupulous accuracy, and form two
of the most exciting scenes which it is possible to ima.
gine. They were exhibited for the first time yesterday,
and were received by the company assembled with air
thusiastic applause. It is perhaps almost superfluous to
say that these new and most interesting pictures are
painted with the same talent that distinguishes all the
views of the "Events of the War" which compose the
present exhibition.

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