The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1863.

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.—On and after
the Ist of JULY the Price of SEASON TICKETS
will be REDUCED.
MONTHLY TICKETS will also be issued.
Particulars on application at the Superintendent's Office,
or at any of the Stations on the Line.

THE ENGLISH and SCOTTISH MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY (Limited) will COM-
MENCE BUSINESS at its Temporary Offices, No. 2, Royal
Exchange-buildings, on WEDNESDAY NEXT, the Ist
July.

By order,
D. MACPHERSON, Secretary.

26th June, 1E63.

A.D. 1720.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIVE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE FEMMES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.

DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
John Garrett Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Riyersdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Smiles, Esq., M.P.
Wm. Tetlow Mibbert, Esq.: William Wallace, Esq.
Jai. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
NOTICE.—The usual fifteen (lays allowed for payment of
FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Midsuinmer will expire
on .oth July.
)!'IRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
participation.
The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
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This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
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Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
Stock.
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.
The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
,n the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.

ROYAL Exc RANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The quarterly meeting was held this day at the offices in
Norfolk-street—Lord Ranelagh in the chair.
The SECRETARY (Mr. Gruneisen) read the advertise-
ment convening the meeting.
The NOBLE CHAIRMAN read the following report of
the Executive Committee :

It will be gratifying to the shareholders to find that the
Executive Committee of the Conservative Land Society
are enabled to annex the following satisfactory tabular
returns of the receipts for the three first quarters of the
eleventh financial year :
Qrs. ending Shares in Shares I Total Receipts.progress. Complete. Shares.

Shares in Shares Total
Qrs. ending Receipts.
progress. Complete. Shares.
s. d.
Dec. 24, 1862 136 67 203 15,946 15 2
March 25, 1863 2OB 24 232 15,813 19 11
June 21, 1863., 255 91 346 20,607 2 0
-- --
Three 'quarters
ending Mid-
summer,lB63.. 599 182 781 52,257 17 1
Totals to Sept
30, 1862 14,760 3,925 18,685 625,392 13 2
Grand totals to
Midsummer,'63 15,359 4,107 19,466 677,650 10 3

Compared with the receipts of the corresponding period
last year, the present returns for the three quarters show an
increase of £3,880 ss. Dd., an increase in the quarter over
the Lady-day cne of £5,083 2s. ld, and an increase on the
issue of shares of 223. The total withdrawals since the
formation of the society (September, 1852), to Midsummer,
1863, £199,348 3s. 3d. ; the total sale of land to Midsummer,
1863, £326,990 ls. 7d.

The returns of the Register of the Order of Rights are as
follow :

Completed. Drawn. Seniority, Total.
4972 3191 1681 9844
Deduct Rights exercised on estates, &c.. 7449

Unexercised Rights
The last share number on the register by seniority is No.
13,853 ; and the last share number issued to midsummer,
1863, was No. 19,466, Since the last report, a second estate
has been acquired in West Worcestershire, situated on the
Ilenwick-road, with frontage to the Ludlow-road. Com-
manding views of the Malvern hills aro obtained from this
new property, which is adjacent to many handsome villas
and grounds on the banks of the Severn, The committee
hope that they may be in a position to allot the Worcester
Estate, and also the recent purchase at Southampton, during
the current quarter. The next allotment of land will be on
Wednesday, July 8, of the Stoke Station Road Estate at
Ipswich, and the Reading Estate; and some well-secured
ground rents, on the Roman Road Estate, North Bow,
will also be offered on this occasion, The allotment will
take place at Ipswich, after a public meeting, at which
a deputation of the board will attend to explain the
society's system. The Ipswich property adjoins the Hand-
ford Hall villas, and is laid out into 48 plots, ranging in
price from £37 up to £220 per plot. A portion of the pro-
perty will be formed into a crescent, facing which will be
an open space, intended for ornamental gardens extending
to the Stoke Station Road, In addition to plots for de-
tached or semi-detached villas, land has been kept free for
close building and for business purposes, such as an inn or
hotel and shops. The Reading Estate is a portion of the
Castle Hill property formerly allotted, but as the original
site for the proposed church has been changed to another
locality, the centre of Downshire-square wi:l now be con-
verted into plots for detached and semi-detached houses of
moderate size. The committee have much pleasure in re.
porting that the Rector of Reading, the Hon, and Rev. Mr.
Cust, ie now actively engaged in raising funds for the new
church, the society having granted a site free on the estate
equal to the original one. In the new plan of allotment
there are 45 plots, ranging in price from £52 4s. 6d. up to
£lO4 9s. per plot. The executive committee have to report
that the works on the final portion of the Woodbury-
park Estate, Tunbridge-wells, and on the first allotted
portion of the Colchester Estate, are just completed, and
an inspection of these two properties will show the great
improvement in the respective localities, by the opening up
of new communications. The committee will be enabled
to announce in their next report the completion of the
works in progress on the Roehampton and Putney-Heath
estates. It is with much regret that the committee have to
report the death of John Gorham Maitland, Esq., one of the
earliest promoters of the Conservative Land Society, with
which he was connected as a member of the board, until
his appointment as Secretary of the Civil Service Commis-
sion. As the Registration Courts will be opened in
due course, the allottees whose names have not yet been
inserted on the register are reminded that their claims will
be maintained free of expense, but that it will be necessary to
forward their deeds in time o the society's solicitor, as well
as proper instructions as to the polling place in the county,
where their land is situated, they may find it most conve-
nient to vote, should they not reside in the county, The
executive committee, in conclusion, congratulate the mem-
bers that the business of the past quarter has been of a
nature to afford every promise of another successful financial
year, when it terminates at Alichaelmas,,

The Union of the lonian Islands with Greece,

Earl Russell has addressed the following despatch

o her Majesty's ambassadors at the Courts of Aus-
tria, France, Prussia, and Russia :

EARL RUSSBLL TO LORD BLOOMFIELD.
" Foreign Office, June 10.
" My Lord,—The time is at Laud when her Ma-
jesty's declaration of her readiness to consent to the

union of the lonian Islands with Greece, if the
lonian Islands should themselves desire that union,

must be followed by practical measures ; and her
Majesty's Government are anxious, before taking
further steps, to free the subject from ambiguity.

As, therefore, some unfounded notions are enter-

ained with respect to those islands, it may be use-
Ul that I should call your Excellency's attention to
he truth regarding their position, their rights, and

,heir future condition.

" The lonian Islands are not, as some persons ap-

pear to suppose, a part of the possessions of the
British Crown. They form the Republic of the
Seven Islands, placed by treaty under the protec-
tion of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, his
heirs and successors. The manner in which these

islands came under the protection of the British

Crown is well known to all those who are acquainted
with the European transactions of 1815. Provisions

relating to them were not included among the arti-

Iles of the general treaty concluded at Vienna in the
month of June of that year, but en the 4th of June

of that year the plenipotentiariesof the four Powers,
Austria, Great 144tain, Pxuasifs.:,and Russia, being
assembled, recorded in a protocol ',Oat had passed
at their conference of that days; TheVenipotentiary
of Austria declared that thattauestiod.of the posses-
sion of the lonian Islands being connected NVith the
tranquillity of Italy and of the former Venetikill pro-
vinces, the Court of Austria would ,charge itself

with the protection of these islands, anclkirould-gua-
rantee to them the maintenance of-t4ir:laws and
privileges. But the plenipotentiarisi ofikussia said
that, desiring nothing else than to assure to the in-
habitants of those islands the happlfst lot, and that
most appropriate to their situationlthdi,thought.it
their duty to promote the wish of /he; idhabitants
of those islands that theyesholuld re4ain ,ender the

protection of Great Britain.: The pltnipotentiaries
of Russia also remarked that:CountidECapodistrias,
who had been charged spleclailly with this matter,
being absent, they could 'not then I;nake any defini-
tive arrangenient, and they piopoiA an adjourn-
ment, and this propoial .was fiOallytt dopted. le is
well known that Count de Capodist • s, who aided
time enjoyed great favdur with the E eror Aleta.n,
der, was zealous in ,behalf eci the inittionality and
freedom of his countsyrnenai.nOwing that: the
lonian Islands could not stand alene as an inde-
pendent state, he wished to pitee flit '
under ihe
protection of Great:Britain; (whofie nstitutions,
framed on iirincrpfes
~t 4 Iliberiit, hey. sired ired to see
established among" aopeople4 .of Gr ' k habits and
language. These deigraa of... Count . e Capodistrins.
t
were, by the infiuenee,Of theippurtfif Russia, and
with the consent of Oreat Britain, aiicompliehed by
the treaty of Paris of ikeveAber 5t815, between
Great Britain, Austria, Rtuotitt, and russia.
" The preamble of 'ttlie ttehty 4eites 'that the
Powers concerned, ' aniinate4'k timi desire of_pro-,
scouting the negotiations adjourned ;the Congress
it;of Vienna, in order to fix thsoesti ', of• the seven
lonian Islands, and to ins 77 theAndependenee,
liberty, and happiness Orti " isl 'as by plaiino'
them and their constitution,:,.nder . he,immediate
protection of one of the great; Po rs .of. Europe,
have agreed to settle clefinipiftly , a special .act
whatever relatei to this objedi,;„Ste. he first article
of this treaty declares that 4: the is nds ,of Corfu,
Cephalonia, Zante, Santa 81kaAra, kthaca, . Cerigo,
-

and Paxo, with their dependencies, such as they
were described in the treaty between his Majesty
the Emperor of all the li.ussias and the Ottoman
Porte, of the 21st of Mir-Cl,' 1800, shall form a
single, free, and independent state, under the deno
ruination of the United States of the lonian Islands.'

The fourth article declares that `the Lord High
Commissioner of the protecting Powers shall regu-
late the forms of convocation of a legislative assem-
bly, of which he shall direct the proceedings, in
order to draw up a new constitutional charter for
the State, which his Majesty the King of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
shall be requested to ratify.' The fifth article
is as follows I❑ order to ensure without re-
striction to the inhabitants of the United States
of the lonian Islands the advantages re-
sulting from the high protection under which
these states are placed, as well as for the
exercise of the rights inherent in the said protection,
his Britannic Majesty shall have the right to occupy
the fortresses and places of those States, and to
maintain garrisons in the same.' A like provision
places under the order of the commander-in-chief
of the troops of his Britannic Majesty the military
force of the said United States.

" It appears clear from these provisions that the
intention of the high Allied Powers was to found in
the Seven Islands a free, independent State, which,
by the protection of so powerful a country as Great
Britain, might develop its resources without fear of
external aggression, or internal anarchy. It appears
also from the fifth article that the main object of the
stipulation placing the fortresses in the hands of
Great Britain was 'to insure to the inhabitants of
the United States of the lonian Islands the advan-
tages resulting from the high protection under

which the States are placed.' The constitution
established in execution of the articles of the treaty
contained in its fourth article a provision that the
established language of the States is Greek,' thus
showing conclusively that the intention of Count de
Capodistrias to create a Greek nationality was
steadily kept in view by Great Britain, as the state
entrusted with the protectorate.
" The British Government having received this
trust, have endeavoured faithfully to discharge the
duties imposed upon them by the allied Powers.
In spite of many obstacles, they have amelio-
rated in all respects the condition of the in-
habitants. With regard, however, to the exer-
cise of the constitutional functions of the Lord High
Commissioner and the legislative body, complete
harmony has seldom prevailed between them. But
the great change which took place in the condi-
tion of some of the neighbouring Turkish pro-
vinces, when the Greek people of those provinces
asserted their independence, altered materially
the politicalcondition of the inhabitants of the Seven
Islands. From that time the sympathies of the lonian
people began to turn towards Greece, and when the
Greek kingdom became a recognised State of Europe,
the wish to be politically united with men of their
own race took root among the people of the lonian
Islands. This wish has been often laid hold of as a
pretext for factious opposition; it has been expressed
since 1850, at times when Great Britain could not
listen to it without fielding to projects of ambition
very foreign from the freedom of Greece. But in its
origin and tendency there is something in this lonian
wish of union with Greece which must obtain the
respect of the British nation. A love of independence
in union with a kindred race has in itself claims to
regard from a nation which prides itself on the love
of freedom. It is thus that, with a view to strengthen
the Greek monarchy, to fulfil the original objects of
the foundation of the lonian Islands as a State, and
to comply with the wishes frequently, though irre-
gularly, expressed in the lonian Islands themselves,
her Majesty's Government have declared their readi-
ness to consent to the union of the lonian Islands
_ _ _

with Greece.
" Her Majesty's Government are not insensible of
the value of Corfu as a maritime and military sta-
tion, nor are they unaware of the apprehensions felt
in Austria and Turkey at the prospect of the aban-
donment of the lonian Islands by Great Britain. It
has been suggested in England that Corfu might be
retained, while the other islands might be given up.
But her Majesty's Government conceive that it woulc
be a perversion of the trust confided to them by Eu-

rope, and a breach of faith to wards the lonian people,
if Great Britain were to turn a portion of a single free
and independent State under her protectorate into a
part of her military possessions, and to make Corfu
an element of her European power. Her Majesty's
Government propose, therefore, now that a
King of Greece has been recognised by the protect-
ing Powers, to consult in the most formal and au-
thentic manner the wishes of the inhabitants of the
lonian Islands as to their future destiny. If those
wishes, deliberately expressed, should be in favour
of a union with Greece, her Majesty's Government
would propose that, with a view to considering the
future condition of the lonian Islands, a conference
should be assembled, to consist of the representa-
tives of the Powers who signed the treaty of 1815,
and of the protecting powers who, in 1827 and
1832, signed the treaties by which the kingdom of
Greece was constituted.—l am, &c.,

(Signed) " RUSSELL.
" P.S. You are desired to read and give a copy of
this despatch to Count Rechberg. R.

* Similar despatches were addressed to Earl Cowley, Sir
A. Buchanan, and Lord Napier.

TUX BRAZILIAN DIFFICULTY.

The following despatch from Lord Howard de
Walden, transmitting the decision of his Majesty
the King of the Belgians in the case of the officers
of the Forte, was published yesterday : _

"LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN TO EARL RUSSELL.
(Received June 24.)
"Brussels, June 22.

" My Lord—i had the honour of receiving yes-
terday,from the hands of the King the accompany-
ing portfolio, containing
,the text of the decision of
his Majesty as arbitrator in the case of the officers
of her Majesty's step Forte and the Brazilian agents.
"X expressed lb the King on behalf of her • Ma.
iesties Government their sense of his Majesty's gra_
,ciona and friendly,act in having accepted the part of
arbitripr jri this painful and troublesome affair.

` Tlie King restricts his judgment to the character
or spirit o9he prgceeding of the Brazilian agents,
Whether, ic;11 national point of view in regard to
the pritis 6aiy, it was to be deemed offensive or
not! gild
~. this his Majesty decides in the nega-
tive; tivei,-0, 4 hats,, &c.,
1. . 14` WARP DE WALDEN. ND SEAFORD."

•
' (Translation.)
"`"Wei, Leo Old, King of the Belgians, having ac-
cepted• the ill:actions of arbiter, which have been
conferred. supqp us by common consent by Great
Britain and 14:Brazil, in the differences which have
arisen between these States in the matter of the ar-
rest, on'':4tlie 1/th of June, 1862, by the guard of
'Braiiliakpoliitlposted at Tijuca, of three officers of
the, British titOiy,. and of the circumstances which
resulted after,aqd at the time of that arrest;
Animated bra sincere desire to respond by a
scrtipulous: and *partial decision to the confidence
which the said States have shown towards us ;

• " Having to thil end duly examined and maturely
weighed all the papers that have been produced by
one sideind brthte other ;
WishinfOndider to fulfil the task which we
babe accepted, to' bring to the knowledge of the
High Parties :interested the result of our examina-
tion,. as welliaelpur decision in the capacity of arbi-
uponilie question which has been submitted to
us in the fallowing' terms, namely
Whether; filth° mode in which the laws of Bra-
zil &lie been japPlied ',towards the English officers
there. has been offeuee to the British navy; .

" Considering thaot is in no way shown that the
origin.of
,that conflict, was the act of the Brazilian
agents,,who, coutd not reasonably have had motives
foi provocation, ;
" Considering that theofficers, at the time of their
.a7est, did not wear the uniform of their rank, and
'that in a port frequented by So many'foreigners they
could not expect to be believed on their mere word
when they declared that they belonged to the B ri-
tish navy, while there was no outward sign of their
rank to support their declaration ; that, conse-
quently, once arrested, they ought to have submitted
to the existing laws and regulations, and had no
right to require any treatment different to that
which would have been applied, in similar circum-
stances, to all other persons; _

" Considering that, although it is impossible to
deny that the incidents which ensued were most un-
pleasant to the English officers, and that the treat-
ment to which they were exposed must have ap-
peared to them most harsh, it is nevertheless proved
that, when by the declaration of the English Vice-
Consul, the social position of these officers had bean
duly established, measures were at once taken to
secure them special consideration, and that their
unconditional liberation was then ordered ;
" Considering that the functionary who caused
them to be released ordered their release as soon

as he possibly could, and that in acting thus he
was prompted by the desire to spare these officers
the disagreeable consequences which, in conformity
with the laws, must necessarily have entailed upon
them from any further steps taken in the matter ;
" Considering that, in his report of the 6th of
July, 1862, the Prefect of Police had not only to
make a statement of facts, but was also obliged to
render to his superior authority an account of his
conduct, and of the reasons that induced him to
treat them with consideration ;
" Considering that he was from that time, pro-
perly, and without any malicious intention being
fairly attributable to him, authorised to express
himself as he did ;
" We are of opinion that, in the mode in which
the laws of Brazil have been applied towards the
English officers, there was neither premeditation of
offence nor offence to the British navy.
"Done and given in duplicate under our Royal
Seal, at the Palace of Lachen, the 18th day of
June, 1863. " LEOPOLD I."

MEMORANDUM REGARDING THE ASSESSMINT OF COM.
PENSATION IN THE CASE OP THE PRINCE OF WALES.

On the Bth of February Earl Russell directed the
Queen's Advocate to be informed that the Govern-
ment of Brazil had instructed their representative
in England to notify to her Majesty's Government
that he was authorised to pay, under protest, what-
ever sum her Majesty's Government might demand
in the shape of compensation in the case of the ves-
sel Prince of Wales; and his lordship requested the
opinion of the Queen's Advocate as to the amount
at which that compensation should be assessed.
The Queen's Advocate was at the same time in-
formed that the responsibility of assessing compen-
satton had not been sought by her Majesty's Go-
vernment, who had, indeed, proposed through Mr.
Christie, that the question of amount should be
referred to arbitration. The course pursued by
I Brazil, had, however, left her Majesty's Govern-
ment no option in the matter. The Queen's Advo-
cate's report is to the following effect :—The Queen's
advocate states that he is of opinion that no sum
should be claimed in excess of the sum mentioned
in Mr. Christie's communications to the Brazilian
Government; that no demand should be made on
account of freight or on account of the loss of the
vessel itself ; that the demand should be founled on '
the plunder of the cargo, of the effects of the crew,
and also upon the too probable murder of some or all
of them. He estimates roughly the loss of wages
and effects at £290, and the compensation for pos-
sible murders at £4BO, to be paid to the families of
those who were wrecked. As to the cargo, he makes
allowances for probable and necessary damage, and
for salvage had the inhabitants of the coast appeared
as salvors in place of plunderers ; and he then
roughly estimates this item at £2,360. Upon these
data a sum of £3,200 was fixed by Earl Russell,
instead of £3,490, the sum total of the items esti-
mated by the Queen's Advocate. This sum was
demanded by a note of Feb. 24, addressed by Earl
Russell to M. Moreira, and was paid by M. Moreira
on Feb. 26.
Foreign-office, June 21, 1863.