The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-23 00:00:00

ROME.

The Journal de Borne of the 18th states that on
that day a solemn service had been celebrated, by
order of the Pope, in the Church of S. Andrea
della Valle, for the soul of Victor Oudinot, Dake
of Reggio, " who, as General-in-Chief of the French
army, conquered the revolutionary hordes banded
together at Rome against religion and civilization,'
regained peace and liberty to the citizens, Ea,
restored the eternal city to the hands of the Sove-
reign Pontiff, Pius IX. His Holiness was repre-
sented at the service by Cardinal Paces, his Grand
Chamberlain, accompanied by Cardinal 111 erode,
Monsignor T&lhot, End co her dignitaries.

Hudson's Bay Monopoly and its Proposed
RenewaL

By the extinction of the East India Company all
monopolies, sovereignties, and exclusive privileges
have been withdrawn from private companies, ex-
cept that of the Hudson's Bay, which the present
Government is about renewing, unless prevented by
Parliament, the public, and Canada. The Govern.
meat of Lord Derby, when in power, would not
renew the company's lease in the Pacific, but esta-
bished there the flourishing colony of British Colum-
bia, and intended withdrawing from the company
the vast and fertile districts between Canada and it,
forming them into new colonies. It was reserved
for a Liberal Administration, professing the
principles of Adam Smith, to propose to renew
what, according to the Hudson's Bay Company's
prospectus, will give them territories exceed-
ing in extent more than half of Europe,
with the most fertile lands,double the size of France.
Mr. Fortescue, in reply to Mr. Wyld, stating they
did so, agreeing with the opinion of the law officers
of the crown (the opposite of that of Lord Brougham
and their pedeceesors), and that Canada did not com-
plain. Now, Canada was scarcely aware of the sale
of the Hudson's Bay Company's stock to the Inter-
national Financial Society—a branch of the Credit
Mobilier Company of Paris, Lord Taunton in the
Lords opposing the sale as transferring these vast
powers to Americans and foreigners. Canada did
think that any British Government would consent
to barter away the rights of the crown, the
people, and her own claims to the country in ques-
tion, while Mr. Fortescue knew very well that, in
1858,Canadadeputed Chief Justice Draper to cometo
England, and declare her opinions against the rights
and exclusive privileges of the Hudson's Bay Corn.
pany demanding a portion of this territory as her
own, and the opening of the rest as new colonies,
with equal rights to all, and exclusive privileges to
none. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, the Colonial
Secretary, being of the same opinion, which the
Liberal Duke of Newcastle, one of the free trade
school of the late Robert Peel, does not approve
of by attempting to renew the lease—or make a
grant of, the grea'est and most baneful monopoly
that ever existed—that has proved an incubus to
the improvement of British America.
On behalf of the crown, the people, and Canada,
we have raised our voice against any such renewal
or grant. knowing that it is illegal, unjust, and
unconstitutional--knowing that it may cause great
commotion and trouble in Canada, and probably
lead to severance of those districts from British
connexion as the Red River inhabitants, to get
clear of the reign of the company, wished to be
annexed to the United State s, if not joined to Canada,
or formed into a new colony. We implore the
Colonial Office to pause before they renew this
gigantic monopole, the granting of whip will be
the only strain on Lord Palmerston's Government,
differing no much from the principles of free trade,
professed and hitherto carried out by the Premier.
Oar Chambers ot Commerce, Boards of Trade, and
the public should at once petition against so gross
an injustice.—Cork _Reporter.

ROYAL COLOSSEUM, REGENT'S - PARK. Mr.
David Fisher, with his most amusing entertainment,
entitled Facts and Fancies," causes the theatre at this
establishment to be crowded nightly; and amongst the
many other attractions of this fa.vr.urile place of amusement
the characteristic chansonettes of Madlle, Johanna Clauesen
are received with great Amur,

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 22.
The Queen and royal family walked and drove
in the grounds this mormirg.

Foreign Courts.

PARIS, July 21.
A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at
St. Cloud, the Empress presiding.
The Count de Morny, who has been at Trouvilie
for a week past, arrived in Paris yesterday morn-
ing, and went to St. Cloud in the course of the
day.

Count de I(isseleff, Russian Ambassador at Rome,
arrived at Marseilles the day before yesterday by
thb Vesuvio steamer from Civita Vecchia.

Their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess
Edward of Saxe-Weimar will entertain a distinguished
circle at the Duke of Richmond's late residence, near Good-
wood, during the ensuing week, for the races.
The Prince Serge Obolensky has arrived at
Claridge's Hotel from Germany.
The Prince and Princess Banditti have left
Claridge's Hotel for Paris.

The Duchess of Manchester had a select evening
party yesterday, at her residence in Stanhope-street,
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne and
family are at present staying at Spa, in Belgium, The
noble marquis, who repaired there for the benefit of the
waters, has derived great advantage from them. In all
probability the noble marquis and marchioness will return
home early in the ensuing month.

Toe EAT' de Grey, Secretary of State for War,
left Carlton-gardens yesterday for Osborne, on a visit to her
Majesty.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough leave
town early next week for Brocklesby Hall, Lincolnshire.

The Countess (Dowager) of Morton and Lady
Alice Dcurlas leave town at the close of the week to visit
the Hon. Mr. and Laay Gertrude Rolle in Devonshire,
before leaving for Scotland for the autumn.

The Count de Giorgi has arrived at Fenton's
hotel from Verona.

Lord George and Lady Adelin. Manners intend
to leave Cheverley Park, Newmarket, at the end of the
month for Windsor, where his lordship's regiment is sta-
tioned on duty.

Lacy Charles Wellesley and family left town on
Tuesday for Conholt Park, Hants, for the autumn.

Lord Loodesberough has left Thomas's Hotel,
Berkeley-Fquare, to attend the regatta at Hull.

The Count and Countess Nostelv have left Mau.
rigy's Hotel for St. Petersburg.
Lord and Ludy „lermont have arrived at Cie.
ridge's Hotel for Leland.

The Hon. Mrs. Vanneck and the Countess Anna
de Gersdorff have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley -square,
for the Isle of Wight.

Lady Macdonald Lockhart and the Misses Mac-
donald Lockhart have left Farrance's Hotel for Lee Castle,
Lanarkshire, N,B.

The Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel
entertained a select circle at dinner last evening, at their
house in Whitehall-gardens.

The young Marquis of Hastings, whose coming
of age at Donington Park, next week, is to be
celebrated with the greatest magnificence, directed his
steward to invite all the labourers employed in his mines
to the interesting ceremony. "At a rough calculation,"
remarked the man of business," it will cost £lO,OOO to bring
them up." " It' it costs double,' responded the youthful
heir, " they shall come."

Well-informed persons (says the Court Journal)
pretend to know that Lord Derby has the intention
of proposing Lord Grey as his successor in the leadership
of the Conservative party. May the day be far distant, say
we, when the country loses the services of Lord Derby I And
so say all true and loyal Englishmen.
Horace Walpole, who loved mischief, never did
a more mischievous act (says the Saturday Review)
than when he recorded, for the torment of posterity, the
alleged remark of his quondam friend Gray, " that if any
man were to form a book of what he had seen and heard
himself, it must, in whatever hands, prove a useful and
entertaining one,"

The Dramatic College Fancy Fair at the Crystal
Palace, on the 25th and 27th of July, promises to be a
great success. Among the novelties of the occasion, Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Paul have had presented to them a slice
of the Prince of Wales's wedding cake. This is to be
divided into small portions, and cold as souvenirs of the
fete at the stall over which Mrs, Paul will preside.

NAVAL FORCES OF RUSSIA.4—The .Europe of
Frankfort gives the following as the naval forces of Russia :
—She has in the Baltic. Armor River, White, Caspian, and
Black Seas and Lake Aral, 122 vessels, nine being ships of
the line and 13 frigatus ; the whole mounting 2,246 guns,
and are manned by 355 officers, 453 sub-officers, and 20,485
seamen.

THE KITCHEN AND REFRESHMENT ROOMS OF
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—The select committee
have just agreed to a fourth report, in which they say they
have agreed that the wines and spirits shall bo provided by
wine merchants approved of by the committee, and in com-
pensation for the consequent loss to the keeper of the re-
freshment-rooms, they have applied for an increased allow-
ance from the commissioners of the fee fund. To facilitate
and improve the attendance they propose to increase the
width of the room, and recommend that smaller dining-
tables should be introduced into the room. With respect
to the future management of the rooms, it is proposed that
the following charge tor dinners shall be charged next ses-
sion; Cold meat, including table, &c., 2s. 6d. each; and
hot mews, including table, &c, 3s. each, For dinners with
fish, entrees, &c., a written notice of at least half an hour
must be given, the price for which will be regulated by a
printed tariff. This, they hope, will obviate the confusion
and discontent which the present siys‘em necessarily in-
volves. Mr. Barry states that the proposed alterations in
the rooms can be completed before February next, pro-
vided that the necessary orders are given at once.
THE ASSISTANT MESSENGERS IN THE BANK-
RUPTCY COURT.—A petition to Parliament is in
the hands of an hon. member, praying that the assistant
messengers of the Court of Bankruptcy may be placed on
a similar footing with the service officers of the Insolvency
Court, who were deprived of their situations by the aboli-
tion of that court, The assistants in the Bankruptcy Court
having no provision made for them by the new Bankruptcy
Act, although. their duties were very onerous, having the
charge of a vast amount of property and fre-
quently managing large estates for months for the
benefit of the credit,,rs, and also recovering a
considerable amount of property which had been concealed,
they pray that, as now they will be but casually employed,
they should be allowed £4O a year each, with the usual
allowance when on duty ; and taking into consideration the
20 per cent. deducted formerly, charged by the messengers
for " risk" in employing assistants, but now not charged,
as the messengers, whose salaries are now fixed, scarcely
ever take poseseion, won d only entail a charge of about
£l,OOO a year on the funds of the court, the equivalent
being a much greater benefit by avoiding forced sales.
ALLEGED MURDER OF A MAN IN LEATHER-
LANE.—Yesterday morning a man was found lying
in Leather-lane by Police-constable Smith, 209 G, and was
taken by him at once to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-
inn-road, where the house surgeon pronounced him dead.
From what has come to the knowledge of the police there
can be no doubt but that the unfortunate man was knocked
down by one or two men, who at once decamped, Inquiries
were instituted by Inspector Allen, of the G division, and
it was ascertained that the unfortunate man is named Wil-
liam Housdon, agei 40, a working man, residing at 33,
College-street, Carudcn•town. It would appear that the
men suspected were seen to attack the deceased, and to
knock him down, and although hr lay on the pavement in-
sensible, no one attempted to assist him, nor were the police
informed of the fact» until after they had returned from
conveying the man to the work'a use. Information hasbeen
forwarded to the different police-stations, with the descrip-
tion of the supposed murderers ; but, up to the time we
write, they have managed to evade being apprehended. The
deceased is represented as having been a vary steady man,
and has left a wife and family to deplore his untimely
loss.

THE SEWING MACHINE AND THE DRESS-
MAKERS' TRUE FRIEND.—The Merest mention 01
the money .saving to any country by the sewing machine
suffices to show the absurdity of any resistance to its use.
In the United States, five yvais since, the annual money-
value of the necessary sewing which could be done by the
machine was estimated at X 58,000,000. On the clothing of
men and boys the saving at that time made in the city o;
New York alone was a million and a half (not dolle.rs, but
pounds sterling) annually—and Massachusetts. saved as
much on her great manufacture of shoes and boots. Be-
sides creating new branches of manufacture, the machine
had revolutionised forty already ea•sting. This is not an
invention which can be opposed or neglected. One of the
industrial branches which it is clearly destined to revolu-
tionise is that of making ladies' dresses; and it seems to
me that Mary Ann Walkley's dying bequest to society,
and to every one of us in it, is the duty of seeing the con-
dition of the dressmaker ameliorated by the due application
of this most cffec:nal means.—Once a Week.

NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—A gentle-
man under the initials of A. 8., residing in Chelterthqzn, has
presented £3OO to this institution, to enable it' to establish
a lifeboat on the ccast in memory of his deceased wife,
after whom the boat is to be named.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The. Alocrity, 6, screw despatch-vessel, Comman-
der J. K. E. BAIA, arrived at Spitbead on Tues-
day from tie Mediterranean, having left Gibraltar
on the evening of the Bth inst. She received orders
soon after arrival to proceed round to Sheerness to
pay out cf commission.

The floating batteries .Etna, 200-horse power,
and Thunderbolt, 16, 200-horse power, which have
been stationed in the Thames for several months
past to protect the passage of the river during the
dismantling of the batteries at Shornmead and Coal-
house Point, have been withdrawn from the posi-
tion they have hitherto occupied, and are now
stationed at the entrance to Chatham harbour
where they are to be kept fully manned and.
equipped, with all their armament, shot, shell, &e.,
on board, to assist in the protection of the entrances
to the Thames and Medway. The reconstruction
of the two forts on the Kent and Essex Blanes of
the Thames is to be immediately proceeded with.
Her Majesty's steam storeship Dee, Master
Commander Raymond, recently commissioned, after
thorough repairs, was yesterday inspected by the
Commodore Superintendent, Sir Frederick Nichol-
son, C,8., at Woolwich, when the crew were
mustered, and put through the usual course of exer-
cise. The Commodore expressed his approval of
their aptitude and clean appearance.
Two hundred tons of armour-plates are now be-
ing delivered at Portsmouth Dockyard by vessels
from France, the manufacturers being Messrs.
Patin, Gaudet, and Co., the makers of the armour-
plates for the frigate La Gloire, and other iron-clads
in the French Imperial Marine. 100 tons are of
and have been purchased by our Admiralty at
£45 per ton. The remaining 100 tons are of
51in., the price being £6O per ton. Like all other
French plates which have been supplied to the
English Government, these from Petin, Gaudet,
and Cu. hive a very rough, blistered, and un-
finished appearance; but this may not detract at
ell from their cohesiveness or shot-resisting power.
They are, however, such plates as the Admiralty
would not receive on any terms from English manu-
facturers. The latter, indeed, are loud in their com-
plaints, and have been now for some time past, of
the restrictions the Admiralty place upon them in
compelling them to give their plates such a perfectly
even surface, and to bestow upon them such an im-
mense amount of " trimming and polishing. They
say that the plate is ruined in its defensive quality
as ships' armour, and that they therefore do not
compete with the French makers on equal terms.
In the previous trials of plates at Portsmouth, fur-
nished by Messrs. Petin, Gaudet, and Co., and M.
Cchencking, of Toulon, the plates themselves,
although roughly manufactured, showed ar extra-
ordinary degree of re-istieg power to the 68ib eolid
shot at 200 yards range, and the metal of which
they were composed was evidently of a very supe-
rior quality.

THE ARMY.
The Newcastle, Indiam an, one of Messrs. Green's
vessels, yesterday embarked at Portsmouth Dock-
yard the following troops for Calcutta, under the
superintendence of Capt. Loch, the embarkation
officer to the Hon. Council for India-sth Lancers.
—1419.10 r W. Massey ; Capte. Cbaffey end Theek-
well ; Lients. St. Aubin, Fox, and Blake ; Cornets
Carmichael, Han bury, and Foster ; Assist. -Surgeon
Atkinson, Riding-master Rant and Mrs. Rant; 17
sergeants, 14 corporals, 217 privates, 34 women, and
35 children. In the afternoon, Major-Gen. Lord
W. Paulet, C. 8,, the general officer commanding
the district, accompanied by Cols. Somerset, C. 8.,
and Thackwell, Deputy Assist.-Quartermaster and
Adjt.-Gens., paid a visit to the ship. The Newcastle
is expected to sail for Calcutta this morning.
The non-:commissioned officers and men of the
Royal Engineers selected from the depot companies
at headquarters, Chatham, to augment the 22d com-
pany, which embarks to-morrow for China, left
Brompton Barracks yesterday morning for Ports-
mouth, the detachment having been previously iu-
spected by Col. Browne, C.B. The 22d company
will embark in the Louisa, and will relieve the Bth
company, which latter returns from China to
Chatham.

The entire establishments of Woolwich Arsenal
and Dockyard, ' including the contractor's and
builder's departments, will be closed the whole of
to-day, for the purpose of allowing the men so dis-
posed to attend the volunteers' review to be held at
Chatham. The reception of stores, both by land
and water, will be totally suspended. The time
has been made up by the men working over hours.
The following detachments of troops were em-
barked on boatel the St. Lawrence, Indiaman, at
Spithead, on Monday and Tuesday for passage to
Calcutta, under the inspection of Captain Loch,
embarkation officer to the Hon. Council of India-
-2d battalion, 20th Regiment—Captain W. L. D.
Mt)ares, Lieutenant C. H. Webster, Ensign H. E.
Beecher, Assistant-Surgeon R. A. Hyde, 4 ser-
geants, 3 drummers, 4 corporals, 79 privates, 11
women and 11 children. 2d battalion, Rifle Bri-
gade-9 men, 1 woman, and 1 child. 3d battalion,
Rifle Brigade—Ensign Kerr and 10 men.