The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1863.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN,
THE SPANISH ELECTIONS.

MADRID, SET'''. 4.
A denial has been given to the rumours of a
Ministerial crisis.
It is said that Senor Olozaga is opposed to the
policy of abstaining from voting at the elections.

PRANCE.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE
PRIVATEER FLORIDA.

PARIS, SEPT. 4.
The Moni!eur of this morning says :—" The pri-
vateer Florida, sailing under the Confederate flag,
has entered Brest to repair damages. Her recep-
tion was in accordance with the ordinary principles
of international law. At the opening of the war
the Emperor's Government, in accord with other
Powers, recognised the Confederates in the cha•
racter of belligerents, and declared its intention of
observing a strict neutrality between the two
parties. In like cases it is the right as well as the
duty of neutrals to permit the vessels of belligerents
to procure themselves means, not for fighting pur-
poses, but for navigation. It has, therefore, been
decided that the Florida could be rermitted to pro-
cure all that was indispensable to maintain her in
a good and navigable state, without being able to
make purchases tending to recruit her armament of
war."

BOURSE, Sept. 2.--The market has again be-
come buoyant, and a good amount of business has
been done at improved quotations, Threes, for the
Account, being new firm at 69r. sc. The Railway
Share Market has been equally
prices are up to this time generally higher. The
market closed as follows : well supported, and

11 per Cents .. 98
Do. end nionth ~
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 05
Credit Mobilier 1218 75
Do. end month 1217 5U
Bank Shares 3385
Credit k outer l4OO

RAIL'

Italian Loan 74 05
Do. end month 74 10
New ditto
Do. end month.... 71
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Rome Debt

'AYB.

Cash. Account.
Orleans ................ 1040 1045
N ortheni . ............. 996 25 .. 1000
New ditto
Lyons and Meditmanean 1047 50 .. 1050
Geneva ................ 493 75 • •
Southern ........ 750 745
WWestern ........ 535 537 50
Easteni •• ............ 515 515
Sardinian .......... 428 75 425
Austrian .............. 427 50 .. 430
Lon.bard .............. 570 567 50
North of Spain ........ 565 • • 565
Saragossa .. ....... 687 50 .. 690
Ditto to Barcelona • .
—• •

LORD CLARENDON.

Mersey.

A LADLE-FULL OF PUNCH.

Lord Russell and the Steam-rams in the

The following answer to the memorial on the
subject of the steam•rams'n the Mersey, addressed
by the Emancipation Society to Earl Russell, was
received last evening :
" Foreign. office, Aug. 31, 1863.

" Gentlemen,—l have received your letter, calling my
attention to a subject of very grave and pressing importance
—namely, the fitting out and equipping, of two powerful
iron-plated steam-rams, which you are informed are in-
tended to commit hostilities against tho Government and
people of the United States of America.
"My attention has long been directed to this subject.
Both the Treasury end the home Department have, at my
request, made the most anxious inquiries upon the subject
of these steam-rams.

"You are aware that, by the Foreign Enlistment Act, a
ship is liable to be detained, and its owners are subject to
penalties, when the ship is armed or equipped for purposes
of war, and it, owners intend to use it against some State or
community in friendship with her Majesty. Jr is necessary
to prove both the equipment and the intention. But in
order to prove the equipment and the intention it is neces-
sary for conviction in a British court of justice to have the
evidence of credible witnesses. I was in hopes, when I began
to read your memorial, that you would propose to furnish
me with evidence to prove that the steam-rams in question
were intended to carry on hostilities against the Govern-
ment and people of the United States of America ; but you
make no proposal of the sort, and only tell me that you are
informed' so and so, and ' it is believed' so and so.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

" You must be aware, however, that, according to British
law, prosecutions cannot be set on foot upon the ground of
the violation of the Foreign Enlistment Act without affida-
vits of credible witnesses, as in other cases of important
misdemeanours and crimes.
"Such, likewise, is the law in the United States of
America.

THE NAVY.

" I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most obedient
humble servant, RUSSELL.
"Messrs. Evans, Taylor, Malleson, and Chesson."

The following vessels have been chartered by the
Government for the conveyance of troops and stores
to India and the colonies, namely the Canning, 923
tons, and the Percy Douglas, 781 tons, for Bombay;
the Saladin, 865 tons, for Calcutta ; the John Ban-
field, 508 tons, for Hong Kong ; the Fontubelle,
537 tons, for the Cape of Good, Hope ; and the
Frances, 310 tons, for Trincomalee.

The French Imperial screw yacht Jerome Napo-
leon, Captain Da I3oisson, at anchor off Ryde, Isle
of Wight, hcid her steam up at sexen p.m. yester-
day, in readiness to convey his highness Prince
Napoleon over to Havre or Cherbourg. The Prince
was expected to embalk from Ilydo last evening.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander Chas. A. J.
V. Rubinson, Inspecting-Commander of the Coast-
guard, to the Ajax ; Commander John Murray,
Inspecting-Commander of the Coastguard, to the
Cornwallis; Thomas IL Hayman, master, to the
Indus for the Royalist; and Friend Stow, chief
engineer, to the Indus for special service.

Apropos to the last " JOB at the Foreign Office," says
Punch, "And so fir James Hudson is choked off to be
superseded by an Elliot ! It is a wonder that Earl Russell
is not tired of finding places for the Elliots, of whom there
are so many. He must be very patient. The continual
task of placing out those Elliots is enough to tire the patience
of Jon."

THE ARMY.

A Curious Equestrian Feat—is gravely thus announced :
"A well-known licensed victualler the other day seen can-
te.ing up Rotton •row upon one of his owl,. Screws.' "
Under the head of "Hydrostatics; How to move a body
of Water," we are told, " go out into y, ur garden, and drag
the pond from one end to the other I "
"RATTIER A KITCIIENY WAY OF PUTTING IT."—John
Leech funnily illustrates, in reference to this underground
confabulation :—" housemaid.-' Oh—but it couldn't a bin
'er ' "—" Cook.—‘ I tell yer it were—she called upon missus
this morning, and she 'ad on a Pork Pie 'at, and half a
pheasant stuck in it.' "

As many days mly not elapse before her Majesty
returns to England, and there appears to be some
probability that the disembarkation will take place
at Woolwich Arsenal, it may be satisfactory tostate
that the publicity given to the late absurd order
promulgated by the Woolwich officials has had the
effect of directing the attention of the Secretary of
State to the subject. He has given instructions
that all local orders shall be transmitted for his
inspection before being issued. Accordingly, should
the Royal family land, as anticipated, on Woolwich
pier, there is little danger of a repetition of the
scene which greeted her Majesty on her last visit.
Her Majesty is said to have asked " what had be-
come of the labourers formerly so numerous 9" A
portion of the order by the heads of departments
has already been published in the Sun. The fol-
lowing, which has not found its way into the public
press, is another portion :
" No person is to be upon any road in the Arsenal under
any circumstances whatever, on Tuesday, the 11th inst.,
after half-past 4 o'clock, until her Majesty has left the
Arsenal. Any person, of whatever rank, will immediately
be taken into custody if found in the roads between these
times, and will be discharged without any appeal. Every
person leaving the Arsenal after 2 o'clock on that day must
go out by the Plumstead gate. Any one attempting to leave
by the main gate will be discharged. No one is, under any
circumstances, to attempt to view the embarkation from any
door or window in any way in the Royal' Arsenal. Any
Person infringing these instructions, either in the letter or
in the spirit, or attempting in any way to intrude upon the
strict privacy which it is her Majesty's wish should be
observed, will be summarily discharged."

The new garrison church at Woolwich, ordered
to be erected by the late Lord Herbert,
when Secretary of State for War is fast ap-
proaching completion, and, will be consecrated
for Divine service, in the month of October
next, by the Bishop of London. The architecture,
which is 13yzantine, has been much admired. The
building was commenced in February, 1862, under
a contract for £14,000, with £2,000 extras. The
organ has bee❑ purchased by a general subscrip-
tion among the officers in the Royal Artillery for
the sum of £4OO, and will probably be in its place
to-morrow. Ten of the stained glass windows have
been fitted in.

Sir William Gomm, who has been appointed to
the Colonelcy of the Coldstream Guards as the suc-
cessor to Lord Clyde, entered the army in 1794, and
served in Spain, Portugal, and subsequently in
Flanders. He became Colonel of the 13th Foot in
1846. and General in 1854. He received a cross
and one clasp for his services as Assist-Quarter-
master-General at Badajos, Salamanca, Vittoria,
Sebastian, and Nive. He was at Waterloo, and
for his services at that battle he received the order
of St. Anne, second class. He was Governor and
Commander-in-Chief at the Mauritius from June,
1842, to February, 1849, and was appointed Com-
mander-in• Chief of the East India Company's forces
and an extraordinary member of Council in India
in September, 1850. He received his G.C.B. in
1859.