The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-18 00:00:00

Course of the Exchange--Yesterday,

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 18/ 11 181
Antwerp • 25 45 25 60
Brussels _ 25 45 25 50
Hamburgh .. ..... 13 7i 13 8
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine —119 a
Vienna
11 40

Trieste _ 11_
_35 11

Pet,ersburgh —

Berlin -

Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn .— 25 521 25 60
Milan — 25 521 25 60
Genoa — 25 521 25 671
Naples
Palermo — 25 571 25 621
Messina — 25 571 25 621
Lisbon — 521 52f
-
Oporto — 52 53i

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons 0 0 0

LARGE ARRIVAL OF EMIGRANTS IN BIRMING-
HAM.—Miss Burdett Coutts, who takes a lively
interest in the success of the emigration movement, has
lately sent out at her own cost several hundred emigrants
to the Australian colonies. Last night, at nine o'clock,
about one hundred emigrants, with their wives and chil-
dren, arrived at the New-street Railway Station, en route
for Liverpool, where they will embark for Australia this
day (Friday), leaving Birmingham by an early train. The
party of emigrants was accommodated with lodgings in the
town last night, Chief Superintendent Glossop giving the
party the assistance of detective-sergeant Clarke to procure
them respectable lodgings. Miss Burdett Coutts defrays
the costs of the outfit of the emigrants to Australia.—Bir-
mingham Gazette.
DiscoVERY OF ROMAN REMAINS AT THE TOWER.
For some time past a number of men have been employed
at the Tower in making some necessary alterations for the
improvement of the citadel. A few days ago, in the course
of the excavations which were being carried out for that
purpose, near the ticket office the navies came against a
wall which was soon found to be of Romap construction, and
which was at a depth of above 12 feet from the surface.
Upon further removing the soil the wall was discovered to
be about ten feet in thickness and of a semicircular forma-

tion, in an excellent state of preservation, being composed
of ch-ilk and Kentish rag. It is situated at a distance of
about sixty feet to the west of the first stone entrance to
the Tower. It has been visited by some eminent antiqua-
rians, who are of opinion that at the original construction
of the Tower it formed a barrier to the tidal influence of
the Thames,

In the hostilities that have been for some time
carried on between the tribes there are ranged on
one side the three tribes of Zeeyda, Senate, and
Wolidzian, and on the other the tribe Medioona.
The first-named tribes are under the orders of Ben•
niasheesh. One account says that the cause of hos-
tilities was the refusal of the Medioona tribe to pay
the heavy contribution imposed on them by the
Sultan. Whether this were so, or whether the
fighting originated in a private quarrel amongst
the tribes, it is certain that now the Medioonese
are treated as enemies in revolt against the
Sultan's authority, and the three tribes fight-
ing against them have the Sultan's warrant
for their act, his officer Boabeed Sherghee,who was
sent down to arrange the matter, being in the camp
and acting in concert with their united tribes under
Benmasheesh. To understand the position of the
inhabitants of Dar-el-Baida it must be mentioned
that the Medioona tribe, being in the immediate
vicinity of the town, has furnished the chief portion
of its Moorish inhabitants. The sympathies of these
are naturally strongly excited in behalf of their
tribe, which has been maintaining a contest against
odds, and has been driven under the very walls of
the town. O❑ March 28 a contest took place just
outside the walls. The movements on both sides
could be seen from the fl At roofed houses. About
1,200 were engaged on this occasion, and the Medi-
oona tribes succeeded in driving cif their assailants.
On the 30th the inhabitants of Dar-el-Baida were
again alarmed by seeing all the neighbouring hills
covered with horsemen clustered as thick
as bees. The poor Medioonese were given
up as lost, as it seemed impossible that
they could resist the hest mustered against them.
The attack was made with great fury. The excite-
ment in the town was at the highest pitch. The
native inhabitants, from the cause we have men".
tioned, are all sympathisers with the Mediooneee,
and men and women crowded the walls cheering on
their tribe and waving handkerchiefs and flags.
The field of battle must have presented a singu-
lar appearance ; the wives of the persecuted tribe
followed their husbands up to the enemy, with their
babies slung over their backs, and beating tom-toms
to keep the warlike fury of their husbands at the
proper point of excitement. The belief that the
Medioonese must be overpowered became so general
that their friends inside got pickaxes, and were
preparing to make a hole in the wall on the side
where the battle raged, in order to let in the fugi-
tives one by one without the danger of their pur-
suers following and taking the town by a rush.
The prospect of having 2,000 or 3,000 wild Arabs
in the town, even if their pursuers were kept out
and the eight were not renewed in the
streets, degenerating into indiscriminate plun-
der and bloodshed, was sufficiently alarm
ing, but fortunately the repeated cavalry
charges were successfully resisted, and the
day ended by the assailants retreating to the hills.
As each succeeding attack seemed to press the
Medioonese more severely, and the danger of the
town was only averted for the time, but not re-
moved, the British Vice-Consul, Mr. Wooldridge,
volunteered to seek an interview with the Sultan's
officer, Boabeeb, and urge him to post-
pone all further proceedings against the
offending tribe until the result of a representation
to the Sultan should be known. A letter was
accordingly despatched to Boabeeb appointing a
place of meeting at a small river between the two
hostile camps, and on the 31st at six in the morning
the Vice-Consul proceeded to the spot under an
escort of four soldiers provided by the Laid. The
conference was a hurried one, and tot unattended
by danger, for when Boabeeb, with 30
cavalry, was seen descending to the place
of meeting, the Medioonese construing the
movement into a hostile one, sent out a body of
cavalry to meet him. Boabeeb therefore halted at
some distance from the place of meeting, and des-
patched a soldier to enquire the object of the party
which had followed the Vice Consul.

The Medioona cavalry consented to retire out of
range, but the hostile Arabs remained in sight of each
other, and Haggi Boabeeb expressed his fears
that unless the conference were a short one he
should not be able to restrain the Wolidzean from
coming on. On the return of the British Vice-
Consul to the town, the representatives of the other
European Powers hastened to learn the result of
the interview. It was understood that Boa-
beeb had declined at first to grant any
delay in executing the orders of the Sultan to chas-
tise the Medioona, but upon its being urged upon
him that he was not authorised, in the execution of
those orders, to endanger the safety of one of the
Sultan's towns and the lives and property of the
Christians and Europeans in it, thereby embroiling
his master with foreign Powers, and that he should
delay operations till further orders from the Sul-
tan, Boabeeb said he would take time to consider
and consult with Benniasheesb, and send in the
reply in the afternoon. The reply was duly re-
ceived and made known to the Europeans in Dar-
el-Baida. It was from Benniasheesh, whose autho-
rity appears to be superior to that of Boabeeb, and
was as follows :

" The Sultan has given me orders to slay, chase,
exterminate, and eat up the Medioonese ; and I will
slay, chase, exterminate, and eat up the Medioonese
until none remain, no matter what are the conse-
quences. I will not stop until I receive counter
orders from the Sultan."

Up to April 4 no further attack had been made,
but it was asserted that Benniasheesh was collecting
his forces for another fight. A formal prutest by the
consuls had been sent to him, and his reply had been
received. He had offered to suspend hostilities on
certain conditions, which the consuls could not accept.
In the meantime representations have been made to
Sir John Hay, who is now ac Morocco, transacting
business with the Sultan, and his intervention will
no doubt lead to the requisite orders being sent
to respect the safety of Dar-el-Baida. Prac-
tically the same object has been already
attained by the presence of her Majesty's steam
sloop Trident, and probably other vessels of war,
from which men would be landed in case of neces-
sity to man the walls and keep out the barbarous
tribes.

WEDDING PRESENTS TO THE PRINCE AND PRIN-
CESS OF IVALEs.—Yesterday being a students' day at the
South Kensigten Museum, the numbers admitted on the
payment of a fee of 6d. was 5,198. The amount taken was
£129 19s.

EXPENSES OF THE DOCKYARDS.—Yesterday
morning was issued the usual annual account of the
expenses incurred upon the building and repairing of ships
in her Majesty's dockyards, and by contract, in the finan •
cial year 1861-2. This account is prefaced by a report from
the Accountant-General of the Navy, setting forth the mode
in which he has carried out the instructions of the Admi •
ralty relative to the preparation of the dockyard accounts.
He states that in this account (the first which bas come
under his charge (every item is based upon vouchers for
material drawn from store, and for labour applied, signed
for by the respective shipwright and factory officers in
charge of each particular work. The accountant-general
while showing the great advantages of this account allows
that it is susceptible of great improvement He hopes
shortly to be able to submit also an account showing the
cost of manufacturing and repairing articles of store in the
several workshops and factories of the dockyards, and
another account showing the value of the stock in hand
each dockyard on the 21st of March last.
FIRES.—About one o'clock yesterday morn Larkin
a
fire bloke out on the premises of Mr. J.
as it may
Bowling green-street, Lambeth, and, stwraenreg
°not apprised
appear, the officials of the Fire Brigaed
of the outbreak until one hour and thirneeet;quarters after its
of time for the
commencement, thereby allowing
whole street to have been dens tioyedP. The inmates fortu-
nately escaped in safety,
d r
they, with the aid of the
neighbours, managed to confine the fl tmes to tho lower part
of the building, but the damage done was considerable,
Not insured. Soma time previous a fire also took place on
the premises belonging
to Mr. J. Harrison, corn merch ant.
Cain place, Kentish Town. It was caused by some children
playing with lucifers, and in the course of a few minutes
the second-floor was on fire, and it was with great difficulty
that the children could be rescued. The engines of ths
parish and London Brigade from Farringdon-street at-
tended, but the inmates and neighbours bad succeeded in
extinguishing the flames before the engines came. Con-
siderable damage wt,4 dQue
:awed.

" As she passed by the columns of St. Philips's Church,
somebody came out, and the curtain swung back, and Elly,
looking up, saw a dim, quiet interior, full of silent rays of
light falling from the yellow windows and chequering the
marble. She st pped, and went in with a sudden impulse.
One old woman was kneeling on the threshold, and Elly
felt as if she, too, wanted to fall upon her knees. What
tranquil gloom, and silence, and repose I Her own church
was only open at certain hours. Did it always happen that
precisely at eleven o'clock on Sunday mornings she was in
the exact frame of mind in which she most longed for
spiritual communion and conselal ion ? To be tightly wedged
in between two other devotees, plied with chaulereftes by
the pew•opener, forced to follow the extempore supplica-
tions of the preacher—did all this suffice to her wants ?
Here was silence, coolness, a faint, half-forgotten smell of
incense, there were long, empty rows of chairs, one or two
p€ ople kneeling at the little altars, five or six little pious
candles burning in compliment to the various saints and
deities to whom they were dedicated. The rays of the little
candles glimmered in the darkness, and the foct-falls fell
quietly along the aisle. I, for my part, do not blame this
poor foolish heart, if it offered up a humble supplication
here in the shrine of the stranger. Poor Elly was not very
eloquent ; she only prayed to be made a good girl and to be
happy. But, after all, eloquence and long weeds do not
mean any more."
_ _ _

Poor Eily is rescued for the time from her misery
and monotony, and brought home from a sick-bed,
which had nearly proved her deathbed, to be
nursed in England by dear old Miss Dampier, quite
a fairy godmother sort of old lady, benevolent, and
sympathetic, and with an old maid's ideal sympa-
thy for love and lovers. Here Elizabeth rejoices in
what no foreigner can appreciate :