The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1863

regard to the rumours floating about as to Minis-
terial interference or non-interference in Denmark,
Rome, America, anti Greece. Unfortu nateiy for
the Foreign Secretary, the recent receF,a has been
especially fruitful in opportunities for: despatches,
and official correspondence. "We all know," as the
in. the Commons
9Lnetai
rdiecra hoebr
served,Mi ajest
tOn.saptp otshi
et i o
noble lord ie not
Minister who passes over an opportunity of writing

a letter." We are all likewise aware of the per-
plexities into which the inconsiderate use of that
very active and mischievous pen has sometimes
led him. With regard to Denmark we must
candidly admit that it was the failure in the noble
lord's otherwise able and satisfactory vindication of
his foreign policy. We do not wonder that the
Earl of DERBY declared he had read that corres-
pondence with humiliation. The rashness, the
uncalled-for, we had almost said, the impertinent
interference of Lord RUSSELL in the vexed question
of Schleswig-Holstein, was certain to draw down
upon him the caustic wit of his brilliant antagonist.
Lord DERBY reminded the Foreign Minister of days
when both had been colleagues of Lord MELBOURNE,
and advised Lord RUSSELL to recall and to imitate the
manner in which ho disposed of any embarrassing
business, " Can't you let it alone," he used to say,
" it will do very well if you will only let it alone."
But the English Foreign Minister cannot confine
his superabundant energies to any such ignoble
inaction. "We all know," said Lord DERBY,
" what SYDNEY SMITH said of the noble lord's
readiness to undertake any difficult position; and
if any constitution is wanted for any country he is
ready at once to frame one, although the subject has
long puzzled the statesmen of that particular coun-
try. !The noble earl says, ' I will settle it all,
I will give you a new constitution, and, without the
apology that used always to be given by a noted
character. ' I hope I don't intrude,' he is ready to
prescribe a constitution for every country in the
world." As Lord DERBY jastly observed, Lord
RUSSELL, by taking this line in the face of Europe,
has grievously complicated the difficulties under
which Denmark was already labouring. Lord
RUSSELL'S defence in this particular, was, as we
have said, by no means satisfactory. We have not
heard the last of the subject, and can only hope
that the open expression of its views by the Perlis-
meat of England will in some measure neutralise the
effect of these injudicious proceedings. With re-
gard to the interference of Mr, ODO RUSSELL in
the affairs of the Papacy, Lord RUSSELL puts the
question in a new light, and certainly frees himself
from the blame that was perhaps too hastily attached
to him. The New Yolk Government will not thank
the noble lord for his views as to the difficulty of
the subjugation of the South, and the direful re
sults attending such a possibility. The time for
recognition, said the noble lord, has not yet come,
but what is the policy of the Government with
regard to America ? How comes it that the
mover of the Address in the Lower House expressed
himself warmly in admiration of Southern heroism
and declared that it was impossible not to have
same feeling of contempt for the Federal Govern-
ment, these remarks being listened to the while
in consenting silence by the ministerial benches and
greeted wit's manifest approval by the Opposition.
Is it the ministerial intention to afford the
South at least a moral support, or is it merely a
sign of that oourting of popular approval, that
determination to keep by the winning side of a
cause which has always been a distinctive
feature, of the Coalition Cabinet? The North
has deserved little enough at our hauds, but if the
Ministry are inclined to prefer their opponents, let
them candidly avow it, and not throw up a feather
to know which way the wind blows, while the most
important question of the day is only remarkable
by its absence in the speech of the First Minister of
the Crown. Lord PALMERSTON could touch on
every other topic, he could take refuge in the mise-
rable to quoque argument from the satire of the right
hon. gentleman the Member for Bucks ; he could
refer to the distress in Lancashire and Ireland, he
could uphold the Ministerial policy iv Italy and in
the Mediterranean; he could even undertake the
Quixotic attempt of defending the Danish de-
spatches, but of the moral earthquake that is shaking
to its foundations a country soclosely connected with
and all ether omissions will probe-
supplied, and the Government, hav-
ing ourselves,these
However
blv be speedily
got so far successfully through the opening of
wthieth gn
foSessrieoi affairs to attend to the reforms which,n, bad better suspend their interference
like charity, should begin at home.

The funeral of Mr. Wm. Beckett, of K irkstall
Grange, Leeds, formerly M.P. for thli borough, and
also for Ripon, took place yesterday, when the mortal re-
mains were conveyed from the residence, Brook-street, and
temporarily deposited at Kensal-green Cemetery. Among
numroue
relatives and 'friends attending the mourntui
ceremony werc.--Mr. Edmund Denison, brother of deceased;
Mr. E. B. Denison, Q.C., Mr. W. B. Denison, Colonel
Marriot, Mr. Ed. Marriot, Mr. Randolph Marriot, Admiral
, Mr. S. Beecroft,
M.P., Colonel Francis Seymour, Mr. Chas. Meynell, Mr.
Lowther,MeYileil' Bart.,Bishop
of Ripon, Colonel Charteris, Sir John
Mr. Edward Baines, .P.
Robert Tennant, and Mr. Fountayne Wilson Montagu.
The service was impressively read by the Rev. Wm. Sin-
clair, rector of Pulborough, late incumbent of St. George's
Church, Leeds. , Among the carriages which followed the
hearse were those of the Ijuke of Cambridge, the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, Lady Anne Beckett, Dowager
Countess of Essex, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord George Quin,
Colonel Waymouth, &c.

Charlotte Ede was acquitted yesterday, at the
Old Bailey, of an attempt to strangle her infant child.
Tne aged claimant, Ann Curnich, to the ruinous
houses in Stamford-street, has found bail for her appear-
ance at the Sessions, and has been released from custody.
At the Court of Common Council, held yesterday,
the Lord Mayor told the members that Sir G. Grey had
informed him that the Queen and Prince of Wales were
anxious that the citizens should testify their loyalty by giv-
ing a public entry into London to the Princess of Denmark.
A committee was appointed to arrange matters.
The surviving sufferer, Miss Hunt, remains in a
state very favourable to the hope of recovery, no adverse
symptoms having appeared.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY DIVIDEND.—The
directors of this company have determined on re-
commending the proprietors at the general meeting on
the 21st inst. to declare a dividend, for the half-year end-
ing the 31st December last, at the rate of £8 10s. per cent.
per annum on the original stock of the company, giving for
the half-year £1 bs. per cent. to the original stock, £3 per
cent. to the B stock, and £5 10s. per cent. to the A stock.
These rates will make the dividend for the whole year 1862
as follows, viz, :—L6 10s. per cent. on the original stock,
£6 per cent. on the B stock, and £7 per cent. on the A
stock.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY DIVIDEND.--The
directors of this company have decided on recommending
to the proprietors, at the ensuing half-yearly meeting, a
dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, leaving a
balance of about £17,000 to be carried forward to the next
half-year.

MIDLAND RAILWAY DIVIDEND.—The directors
of this Company have decided on recommending to the pro-
prietors a dividend on the ordinary stock of the company,
for the half-dear ending the 31st of December last, at the
rate of £G 10s. per cent. per annum.
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY DIVI-
DEN-D.—At a meeting of directors of this company, held on
Wednesday, it was decided to recommend the proprie-
tors, at their next meeting, to declare a dividend for the
half-year, out of the net revenue, at the rate of 4 per cent.
per annum, less income tax.
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY DIVIDEND.—
go Wednesday the directors of this company decided upon
recommending the proprietors at the ensuing general
meeting to declare a dividend, for the half year end ng
f)ec. 31, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, 3arryiL g
forward a balance of £2,279.
The Giant's
Guise way, from Geelong, has broujt
.£lOl,OOO in gold.
It is believed that the forthcoming dividend
South Eastern Railway stock will be at the rate of 6 per
cult, per annum,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

POLAND.
WARSAW, FEB. 5.

The Council of the Empire has received orders
from the Emperor to prepare several bills for the
purpose of introducing reforms into the administra-
tion of the kingdon of Poland.
Eighteen insurgents have been tried at Plock by
court-martial, and two of their number shot.
POSEN, FEB. 5.

T'ne Dziernik Poznanskiof to-day announces that
the Government of Warsaw has begun to stop the
conscription.

An ()icier issued by General Ramsay directs that
all persons taken for the conscription in the night
of the 26-27th January are to be released.
It is not known to what extent this order has
been executed, but the arrangements for the con-
scription in Suwolke and Petrikan remain in force.
CRACOW, FEB. 5.
Kinlee has been occupied by the military.

_ -
At Kurow the insurgents have captured a cart
containing money belonging to the public treasury.
A well organised band of insurgents is stationed
between Kurow and Kassimir.

The frontier guard near Szoce was yesterday dis-
armed by the insurgents.

BERLIN, FEB. 5.

According to intelligence received here from
Warsaw, an unsuccessful attempt has been made
to poison the Marquis Wielopolski and his family.
The Nord Deustehe Zeitung of to-day states that a
large parcel of arms destined for Warsaw has been
seized at a railway station near Thorn.

GREECE.

GOTHA, FEB. 5.

The Diet, in its sitting of to-day, unanimously
resolved to convey to the Duke the thanks and joy
of the country at his Highness's rejection of the pro-
posal for him to become a candidate for the Greek
throne.

A deputation from the Diet thereupon waited on
,he Duke, who most warmly expressed his gratifica-
ion at the interest manifested towards him by the

country.

COCHIN CHINA.
PARIS, FEB. 5.

The Pays of this evening says :
"An insurrection broke out in Cochin China on
the 17th December last.
" The natives attacked the French at Saigon. The
enemy, being twenty times more numerous than the
small expeditionary corps, succeeded in penetrating
into the interior of the fort, but were subsequently
energetically repulsed.
"At some points the combat was a hand-to-hand
one, and not a man remained unwounded.
"The Annamites fought with incredible boldness,
They left a number of killed on the field, and more
than 2,000 prisoners.
"The greater part of their wounded remained in
the hands of the French, and the Annamites re-
ceived a good lesson."
The Patrze has the following additional news :
"On the 27th December the Cochin-Chinese attacked
Fort Mytho, but were repulsed with 225 killed."

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEB. 5.

Le Constitutionnel of this morning, speaking of
the refusal of the Crown of Greece by the Duke of
Saxe Cobourg, as a fact quite positive and beyond
dispute, observes that there is really no room what-
ever to doubt it—because the Gazette de Cobourg
now announces it as a fact " officially ;" reserving
only to itself a little later the explanation
of the negotiations that have taken place
upon the subject. " This explanation," re-
marks the Constitutionnel, with, as it were,
.a sly
chuckle, while insinuating the comment, " this de-
claration comes very apropos to demonstrate that
the Morning Post is not always in the secrets
of the English Ministers ! Even now," adds
the French journal, with a sarcastic exultation
one might almost think in throwing out
the remark, "this journal (i.e. the _Morning
Post) while actually taking into account
the difficulties that subsist, expresses a hope to the
last that these difficulties will yet end by being
smoothed away. The official note of the Gazette de
Coburg effectually, however, destroys these antici-
pations !"
Referring to the possibility of a successful
mediation by the French Imperial Government,
between Poland and Russia. the Cpinione
Nationale of to-day ends a very able argument,
signed (Ad. Geroult), with these words :—" Per-
haps our mediation (that is, the mediation of France)
will be less contracted there (namely, in Poland)
than with the United States—and if she finds an
honourable means of disembarrassing Poland from
a yoke which so heavily crushes her down, and of
delivering Russia of a cancer which gnaws at her
vitals, she will have accomplished one of the grandest
triumphs that the ambition of France could well
aspire to."
Read by Commission, says the Sleek, the Queen's
Speech on the opening of the English Parliament
contains " nothing at all worthy of particular
notice !"

Yesterday at 10 o'clock, we read in Le Pays of
this mornieg, the Ministers met in council in the
Palace of the Tuileries under the presidency of the
Emperor.

PARIS, Feb. 6.

In yesterday's sitting of the Corps IsTislatif the
amendment proposed by M. Jules Fevre to para-
graph 2 of the address was rejected.
The amendment to the address in favour of
Poland, brought forward by M. Guyard Delalain,
was then discussed. ,M. Guyard. Delalain asked if
it was intended to restore to Poland the constitu-
tion granted by the Emperor Alexander.
M. Jules Favre also spoke in favour of Poland.
M. Billault, in his reply, said—" The present
moment is not opportune for entering into a dis-
cussion on the Polish question. France has not
lost her ancient sympathies for Poland ; but thinks,
and the Government is of the same opinion, that
the autonomy of Poland has more to expect from
the generous and liberal sentiments of the Emperor
of Russia than from attempts at insurrection—
efforts towards which will call down new disasters
upon that unhappy country."
M. Jules Favre then said—" This speech of the
Minister is the counterpart of the celebrated words
of Marshal Sebastiani, ' Order reigns at Warsaw.' "
M. Billault replied that he regretted speeches
should be made tending to excite vain hopes.
M. Jules Fevre then asked if France was always
to be on the side of the strongest, to which M.
Billault replied—
" The Emperor's Government has too much
sense to add by vain words fresh fuel to insurrec-
tional passions, and is too jealous of the dignity of
France to allow the repetition in the addresses for
another 15 years of futile protests against the
existing order of things."
Paragraph 2 was then adopted.
The Afoniteur of this morning publishes news
from Cochin China to the Ist January, confirming
the statement that the insurreotional movement of
the natives had been speedily suppressed.
Admiral Bonard did not doubt that a vigorous
suppression of the insurrection would have an in-
fluence upon the Government at Hue favourable to
the maintenance of peace. He had entered into
negotiations with the Annamite Minister in rc-
ferenca to the settlement of some of the details and
;he ratification of the treaty of Saigon, which will
eke place at Hue.
In to-day's sitting of
1 • '
the Corps Legislatif, M.
Baroche replied to M. 0
1 ITIt r i speech of yester-
day.

M. Baroche opposed the amendment to the Ad
dress proposed by the members of the Left, and
sought to refute the accusations brought forward
by those members against the Government in refer-
e::ce to the system pursued towards the prese, the
Ariking out of the names of ejectors from the lists,
and the modification of the electoral districts.
BOURSE, Feb. s.—The improved tone visible in
the market yesterday has continued, and a fair
csmount of business has been done at a further ad-
vance, Thrtea, for the Account, being now at

70f. 55e. Railway Shares firm, end in some cases
higher. The triarkct closed as toilows ;-
41 per Cents.
Do. end ,„ , 7530
3 per Cents
Do. end month..., 70 50 Italian Loan —
New. 3 per Cents .. Ru:,s4in - -
Do. end month,... Austrian .. B3 50
Credit M0bi1ier....1192 50 Spanish Threes 52 50
Do, end m0nth....1190 Home Debt .. —