The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOIiDON,i SATURDAY, EYE NINO, MAY 10, 1862.

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reminded me strongly of some of them in regard if it evidences any one thing more than another, I
to its object. beyond any doubt of it, betokens that they are,
DISRAELI. You somewhat flatter me. How so ? one and all of them, men of highly-cultivated
Soc. Why, what did you mean by a policy ? minds and of very considerable enlightenment.
Dls. You can hardly have attended. Did I not As good fortune would have it, the very year of
sufficiently illustrate my meaning ? their advent amongst us is the year also of the
Soc. Pardon my slowness, but kindly tell me. Great International Exhibition. Their arrival is
Drs. Well here is one—the policy of that deep so timed, that, almost upon the morrow of their ap-
plotter and arch-banterer, our Prime Minister, who pearance in London, they were enabled to take part
sat on the other side of the House—the policy of as spectators—conspicuous by the very'simplicity of
arming heavily, not for defence, not to obtain any their rich silken raiment, among the golden and
material aggrandisement, but that " England may jewelled splendour of the corps diplomatique—in
have weight in the counsels of Europe"—the shrewd the varied and sumptuous pageantries of the cere-
old gentleman calls that "moral power." monials of the Inauguration Day down at South
Soc. Ah, I understand, It is so like what we at Kensington. Yet but a very few days after their
Athens and Sparta used to do. You must not expect participation in those Imperial pomps, the three
me to find much fault with that. It belonged to the Ambassadors from Japan, with a chosen few,
very nature of an old Athenian. You know all selected from their numerous suite of attendants,
about our plots and plans, and bloody battles too, are visiting, upon successive days set apart for that
for what we called " Hegemony." But pray, Mr. purpose—now one of our great dockyards and ar-
DISRAELI, as you insisted so much on a policy, give senals—now the sick-wards and the operating-
me another illustration by telling me what may be room, and the dispensary at one of our great
yours? London hospitals. Going to each and all of these
Drs. Oh, you can hardly doubt what that is! places, not, observe, as mere holiday sight seers,
Assuredly the one best for my native land. but—note-book in hand. Nay even with a skilled
Soc. England, you mean, I presume. You are Japanese artist in their train—one whose ever-ready
not thinking of Hebron. But you answer me with pencil is perpetually jotting down upon his tablets,
all the adroitness of your branch of the great pictorial mementoes of these (to them) outlandish
Caucasian race. But what policy now may you scenes and people, here in England, there in France,
deem the best ? storing up treasures of particularly Oriental art,
Dls. Ah, my dear Socrates, no one knows better destined in the course of time very considerably"to
than you what a wide question that is—" the best" astonish the natives" far away in Japan with the most
—shall we measure it by honour, wealth, or what eccentric notions of our European scenery and our
you yourself used so often talk of—" power to bene- European doings. The Japanese artist, of course,
fit our friends and to punish our enemies." like all his fellows in that craft, having not the
Soc. You must find some other " best policy" slightest notion in the world of such elementary
than the last, for that would be pretty much like qualifications for an illustrator as those acquired
" arming to have.aveight in the councils of Europe," by a familiarity with chiaroscuro, with fore-
What shall I say then is England's " best policy ?" shortening, and with the simplest and most obvious
Dls. You are rather hard on me. I confess to a principles of perspective. However scribbled over
great sympathy with MEPHISTOPHELES—do you with blurred and jumbled memoranda, as what they
know him ?—(Socrates nods assent)—that ever saw and heard while upon their European pilgrim-
denying, scoffing fellow. I do like negatzves, age in search of information—however grotesque
so I will say then—not Lord PALMERSTON'S policy, and exaggerated, even into caricature, their "pencil-
not TA Italy, not in France, not in Austria, not in lings by the way," while wandering from country
America, not—but, not indeed, anywhere or in to country, and from city to city, among these
anything. western nations of Christendom, we may be abso-
Soc. "By the dog," well said ; boldly said at lutely certain of this, that the Japanese Ambassa-
least. But, come now, will Mr. COBDEN'S and Mr. dors when they return homewards will carry back
BRIGHT'S do ? with them such a mass of new ideas and of hitherto
Dls. Not at all. I could say, and did say, more undreamt of knowledge, that the barrier of exclu-
for them than for PALMERSTON and his colleagues, siveness that has hitherto shut out Japan and the
who are wrong in everything—but I can't quite Japanese from the rest of the habitable globe, from
away with giving up the right of blockade, and the rest of the human race, can never be raised
cutting off our colonial expenditure, and weakening anew. Of that, at least, we may rest assured. If
our present armaments. • no further advantage result immediately from this
Soc. I thought you complained of your remarkable expedition, that most desirable
" bloated armaments." advantage of all must result from it. An
Drs. That was when I wanted to sting PALMER- impulse will be given, inevitably, through
STON, and conciliate the Manchester School. When it to Japanese civilisation, such as the Japanese
I wanted to please my supporters behind me, you philosophers have never conceived to be possi-
observe I insisted on their necessity. In fact, ble in their wildest imaginings.
SOCRATES, it was we Tories, who started with Already, it is amusing to note, what it is, here
tremendous goodwill the last arming fit. I can't and there, that has caused the greatest surprise to
tell you how many millions our PAKINGTON got out these high and mighty patrician travellers from
of the country at the hazard of irritating France Japan. What new ideas, " wrinkles" as your fast
almost to an attack on us. man calls them, have they not already picked up of
Soc. Candid fellow ! then your policy, too, is an late, now in Paris, now in London ! Notions of
arming policy. startling novelty to them, in regard to subjects, of
Drs. Yes, when it is " best for England." the most widely contrasting and incongruous cha-
Soc. No, don't come back to that again. But I ratter. Cookery ! Street Architecture! Railway
think you also said it was " best for England" to travelling ! Armouries ! Legislation! Horticulture!
keep the PoPE, Prince of Rome. And so on interminably. People who can habitu-
Drs. Why, that depends on circumstances. ally swallow their dinners with the aid, alternately,
Between ourselves there is neither better nor worse of chopsticks and fingers, washing down their food
in the matter. with copious draughts of warm water—(to us the
Soc. I don't understand. Is not a free and homeliest and most effectual of emetics !)—have
united Italy best for England, as a commercial and surely something to learn from oar menage, as seen
as a free country. We, at Athens, used to try and in the dining-room, and from the glimpses of the
spread democracy just as the Spartans did cuisine that are caught there so delightfully. From
oligarchy. the white soup and the damask napkins, to the
Dis. Well, you know we have more of the Spar- vinous enjoyment of the fruit and flowers that deco-
tan in our notions on our side of the House. At the rate the banquet from first to last, the board of the
bottom we are all vexed beyond measure to think aropean cannot but be a very world-of wonders to
of the Dukes and Kings that have had to cut and the unsophisticated palates of these Oriental
run from Italy since 1859. Though most of them Islanders. It was but a day or two ago that they
were like your old Greek tyrants—like some of the were carefully conducted all over those astonishing
worst of them too. works of a warlike character, where the giant guns
Soc. Still it puzzles me how anyone born in free of Sir
WILLIAM ARMSTRONG are being manufac-
En gland can feel for these fellows. We had an tured with the apparant facility and the exquisite
oligarchical faction even at democratical Athens, precision of so many toys. Among the other pro-
but no one would have said a word for tyrants. ceases there shown and explained to the Japanese,
Drs. Perhaps not. But you see the POPE is there was that one, for example, in which the stu-
one of them. pendous masses of solid metal are seen at the moment
Soc. And what of that ? when they are being cut and pealed off in
Drs. Didn't you hear the Irish cheers, when I iron shavings as though so much cheese-parings.
proved that he could not be turned out of Rome, f
Another while—it was but an evening or
and reside in any other country without becoming two since—the Japanese were observed in that
dependent on that country; and then all the other front gallery immediately over the clock of the
Catholic countries would be aggrieved, and there House of Commons, immediately opposite the
would be quite an upstir. 1 chair of Mr. Speaker—a gallery in which so many
Soc. But I thought he was now as dependant on t strange faces, black and tawny, red, white, brown,
the French EMPEROR as if he lived at Avignon, and and yellow, are perpetually appearing and disappear-
the other Catholic powers take it quietly ? ing ! There, while Mr. WALPOLE was exulting
Dis. Yes, yes, but it was not for me to talk of in the fact of his damaging modifications of the
that—and I knew that Irishmen would not think Revised Code, having been forced upon the un-
of it. willing acceptance of the Government—their Ja-
Soc. Oh, Irishmen!—Well then I think Ido be- panese Excellencies scanned for a while the out-
gin to see what you think " best for England," and ward aspect, at least, of the great representative
what your policy is. , branch of our Imperial Parliament. They noted
Dis. And what is that ? the general look of it, and the manners and customs
Soc. Is it not the best thing for England, that of the place—even if, as was really the case, they
Mr. BENJAMIN DISRAELI should be at the head of could not understand a single syllable—that gal-
the English GoveraMent ? lery of the House of Commons not being previously
Dls. Do not press me on that point, SOCRATES, the most suitable whispering gallery for a skilled
you know my modesty. But what can make you interpreter between English and Japanese like
think so ? Mr. MACDONALD.
SOC. Did you not say all you could without A day or two after this visit of theirs to the
offending your followers, to catch Manchester Commons House of Parliament, the three Ambas-
votes ? sadors from Japan are tracked by the reporter to a
Drs. Of course. scene of inquiry as different in its way from any
Soc. Have you not just pointed to the POPE'S they had yet visited while amongst us—King's
illogical friends in Ireland ? College Hospital. The circumstance of their hav-
Dis. You are right, SOCRATES. ing remained there within the walls of that excel-
Soc. What policy does that policy indicate—is it lent institution assiduously pursuing their inquiries
not the policy of getting all the votes you can ? the whole time, for a period of upwards of two
Drs.—Exactly so. hours, indicates beyond an instant's further doubt,
Soc.—Of getting them for whom. or for what? that the personages who have come to us from
Is.---1 must say again for the Ja-
D " best interests pan as the chiefs of this memorable embassy are
of England," and for the men to be in office who indeed, as we have already observed, men of unques-
will promote those interests. tionable enlightenment. It is among the mutual
Soc.—But as the deeds you would do would be surprises excited unexpectedly at every turn upon
so similar to these done now—as you could not alter exceptional visits like these, paid to the institutions
anything without losing some supporters—are not
of a strange land by the representatives of a
the " best interests of England.. identified with per-
people very remotely situated geographically, and
Is not change of men jin conscquence, unmistakeably foreigners
sons, rather than things.
" the best policy for England?" it is, we say, among the mutual surprises ex-
Dis,-0 SOCRATES, that is true. cited at every turn upon these occasions, that
policy precisely those very things that we should expect
Soc.—And the man is the policy, and the
would surprise those visitors the most, really appear
to surprise them the least ! And—vice versa, just
so has it very recently fallen out in both ways with
regard to the Japanese Ambassadors. At the in-
auguration of the Great Exhibition on May-Day
their Excellencies comported themselves as though
the astounding display there unfolded to view were
of no ordinary description. Yet a little more than a
week elapses,
and they are exclaiming with wonder
in the Dispensary at King's College, amazed be-
yond description
at the sight of that little grooved
machine in which
pills are rolled and divided; a
contrivance so long familiar to every apothecary in
the United Kingdom ! We cannot but feel that it is
suggestively instructive as well as singularly enter-
taining to note the comine-,
and-goings amongst us
of these men from the far East before they take
their departure from our shores. And beyond that

Right of search conceded by Americans—mutual
of course—England never asked it on any other

terms—but on these terms the Americans have,

hitherto, always refused it. We have assuredly to
thank Secession for this. We question whether Mr.
LINCOLN himself dare have signed such a treaty,

but for the present relations between the North and
the South. We may be perfectly certain that the

Senate would not have ratified it unanimously, had

;he representatives of all the slave states been in it.

The " breeding states," like Virginia, are of course

opposed to a trade which tends to depreciate the
Value of their principal article of commerce, but the
planting states naturally took quite the other view.
They wanted cheap slaves. Above all the idle

" mean whites," who constitute the majority of the
Southern " aristocracy of skin," and whose votes
returned Senators and Representatives to Congress,

were eager to reopen the slave trade ; it was their
avowed object that " niggers might be so cheap,
that every white man might be able to wallop his
own nigger." The new Southern constitution in-
deed embodied the prohibition of the slave trade ;
but it was carefully and cleverly done in the form
which should compel the Border States to join the
Confederacy. The Border States, Virginia, Ken-
tucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, were then thought
by the original seven seceding states, to be their
main bulwark—both DAVIS and LINCOLN then
bid for them. LINCOLN has conquered three out of

he four—but Virginia still remains to the South—

and the prohibition of the African slave trade in
favour of the home-bred negroes was a part of the

original purchase money.
But even with the Southern senators self-excluded
from the Congress, the vote accepting the LYON-
SEWARD Slave-Trade Treaty, as the Americans
term it, is very remarkable. It shows a prodigious
change indeed in American feeling. For two rea-
sons such a treaty would have ruined the political
prospects of its authors but a few years ago. One,
that to grant to Great Britain the right of search,

even in the most suspicious cases, would not have
been endured. It had become, in American minds,
identified with our old demand to take our sailors
out of any American ship into which they bad
escaped, or hired themselves, vi et armis. This
was, of course, folly on their part, but it had be-
come a grand national watchword. And long after
that dispute had passed away, we have endeavoured
in vain to obtain the right in regard to vessels
hoisting the American colours to cover the accused
slave-trade. Another reason which would have
made the acceptance of such a treaty by the Senate
difficult, was that the moneyed men of the North
were on the side of the slave-traders. New York
chiefly was answerable for the ships and capital
with which the trade was carried on. Religions
and polite Boston, the city of WILLIAM ELLERY
CANNING himself, took, it is said, its share also.
The feeling of the moneyed classes of the North
was shown in their strenuous efforts to save the
wretched slaver captain, whom LINCOLN exe-
cuted unrelentingly a few weeks back. Great
therefore must be the change which has sent us
the information that a Senate, composed so largely
of Northern men, unanimously passed a treaty on
the slave trade, which Mr. LATARD could declare,
in our House of Commons, to be entirely satis-
factory. We await with some interest the publi-
cation of the treaty itself, which will take place
as soon as the ratifications are exchanged.
On the whole, it will not be denied that the
North is improving its position with the haters
of slavery, which is as much as to say, with all
Englishmen. We have amongst us those who
dislike, as well as those who approve, her demo-
cracy ; we have those who could condescend to be
irritated, as much as others are amused, by American
swagger, bullying, and fire eating, in the be-
haviour of the great Republic towards other
countries, and especially towards the old monar-
chies in Europe; but all Englishmen were of one
mind respecting American slavery. We not only
abhorred the institution itself, not only could
have no fellowship with slaveholders, but we
loathed the selfishness and hypocrisy of the Free
their countenance given
iSntataensyofwtahye
toN North, in
ery—in their mean submis-
sion to slaveholding rulers—and in their
signalising their love to slavery by keeping
the district of Columbia a slave state, and treating
the free blacks in the North with even more con-
tumely than the slaveholders did their negroes in
the South.

boats.

The change in the North is, we are aware, one
of policy rather than of feeling. The truth is, the
North is becoming every day more and more con-
vinced that while the South has slaves to fight for,
fight it will ; and that it is hopeless now to think
of reuniting to the North a large body of slave
States. This was Mr. LINCOLN'S and Mr. SEWARD'S
policy as long as it seemed practicable. At length
they became convinced that consistent freedom
could be the only permanent bond between federal
republics—then LINCOLN gave the word to offer to
emancipate the Border States with compensation.
The emancipation of the district of Columbia fol-
lowed. Now we have made the Slave-trade Treaty;
and there are, at this time, a host of bills before
Congress, proposing more or less energetic action
on the subject of slavery. The South is at least
conquering the North on one point—it is driving
it to Abolitionism. When this result is fully at-
tained, then, indeed, we should not be surprised if
impatient Europe broke the blockade—broke it in
the interest at .once of commerce and of the aboli-
tion for ever of negro slavery.

What of the great war P—our readers are, per-
haps, impel iently asking. We are sorry to say that
all the last arrivals indicate no progress worth
recording. The South being on its defence only
has no progress to make. To hold its own is its
progress. The North has not, since our last notice
of its position, taken a single Southern fort or work,
or even made a move in advance. The army of the
Potomac, now in one large division before York-
town, and two smaller ones under BANKS near
Gordonsville, and M'DowELL st Fredericsburg, still
occupy their old positions. Some Federal gunboats
have ventured, notwithstanding their fear of the
Merrimac, to aid ITCLELLAN, but their shells did
no ham to the Confederates. In the West also
near and on the Mississippi, all remains yet with-
out movement. BEAUREGARD is still strengthening
himself at Corinth ; HALLECK and the Northern
generals combining and strengthening themselves
for a final effcet to drive him away, and the clever
General MITCHELL " the astronomer," whose book
is well known here, holds the hundred miles of
railway by by which he cuts off the Eastern from
the 'Western Confedergo. It is not unlikely,
however, that any day the news of an important
battle may arrive.

the man.

Ms.—Who can doubt it ?
Soc.—And one word will represent the beet
policy for England—and therefore your patriotic
policy—and that word is—DISRAELI!
Dis,—Alas that England knows it nat.!

Whatever else may come of this Japanese Em-
bassy to the Courts of Europe, it cannot but lead
to the beneficent disclosure to Japan of the marvels
of western civilisation. They are evidently no mere
cut and dried diplomatists who have come over at
last, after the lapse of so many centuries, on this
extraordinary visit of investigation. The very way
in which their inqueirie
establishments the organisa-
amine into the most minutely,
naturevtieerny o;
characterwohif
oh thet hoe yf localitieste inquiries are
ge in quest of, the
directed, the very

present instruction and that present entertainment ! VISIT OF P.RINCR 01/4'CAR OF SWEDEN,
'LATEST NEWS.,
TO BIRMINGHAM.
mutually afforded to each other by tha English peo-
ple and the Japanese Ambassadors, there opens up
to view in the perspective of the illimitable Future,
the probability, or rather, we are almost tempted to
say, now the almost inevitable certainty of new
fields being thereby secured to the Commerce of
Great Britain, and of a new and wonderful impetus
being afforded to the already high but narrow Civi-
lisation of Japan.

BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY EVENING.

His Royal Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden arrived
here from Oiford last night, a little :liter seven o'clock,
having come down by the ordinary train. He was accom-
panied by Captain Cronstadt, of the Swedish Navy, and
Colonel Kingscote, and was met at the railway station by
Mr. H. Manton, the Mayor, and Mr. G. R. Collis, the
Swedish and Norwegian Consul. His Highness went to
the Queen's Hotel, in the Consul's carriage, apartments
having been secured for him there, and in the evening the
Prince visited the Town-hall, where a bazaar is just being '
held on behalf of the Queen's Hospital; later in the even-
ing he paid a visit to the Grammar School of King Edward
VI., where he found a large company on the occasion of
an amateur concert by the pupils.
This morning his Royal Highness went to some of the
principal manufactories. Among them were Messrs. R. W.
Winfield and Son, braes-foudery ; Mr. Gillott's steel-pen
works; the Birmingham Plate-glass Company's Works at
Smethwick, where his Royal Highness witnessed the pro-
cess of manufacturing some immense sheets of plate-glass ;
also Messrs. Lloyd and Strnmerfield's glass works, where
some new processes of melting glass were explained to him.
A visit was also paid to Messrs. M'Callum and Hodgson's
papier-mache works, and to Mr. Collie's works, where the
process of electro-plating was shown. There, a comme-
morative medal was struck. On the obverse was the por-
trait of the Queen; the reverse bore the following inscrip-
tion :—" Struck in commemoration of the visit of his
Royal Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden to Birmingham,
May 9, 1562."
From Mr. Collis's, his Royal Highness returned to the
Queen's Hotel to luncheon, and shortly afterwards left by
the London and North .Western line for Crewe, where the
Prince will inspect the company's works, under the gui-
dance of Mr. Ramsbottom ; he will afterwards go on to
Bangor to see the bridges in that locality—those great
works in which the skill and genius of Telford and
Stephenson are fully displayed.
Before departing from this town his Royal Highness,
through Mr. Collis, presented Mr. Scott, of the Queen's
Hotel, with a donation of £lO in aid of the funds of the
Queen's Hospital.

His Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian
Minister had the honour of entertaining at dinner, on

Thursday,at the residence of the legation, in Stratton-street

BRUSSELS, MAY 10.

The Moniteur Beige of this morning says :
" According to a bulletin sent from the Palace
of Laeken yesterday evening, the pulmonary affec-
tion from which the King is suffering has taken a
favourable turn, and the general state of his 'Ma-
jesty is more satisfactory."

his Royal Highness Prince Oscar, his Excellency the
Danish Minister, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Russell, Lord
Clarence Paget, Sir Edward Cust, Sir Hamilton Seymour,
Admiral Washington, Captain Falbe, Colonel Kingscote,
Count Cronstedt, Lieut. Robin, Mr. Charles Dille, and Mr.
Dasent.

ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 9.
The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day pub-

lishes an imperial ukase ordering the State Bank to
exchange notes for gold and silver on and after the

3th inst.

The Marquis of Bowmont has arrived at the
Clarendon Hotel from Floors Castle, Kelso, N.B.
The Countess of Kinnoull's dancing parties are
fixed to take place on the 2d and 9th of the next month.
Viscountess Palmerston will give her second
assembly this evening at Cambridge House.

The price of specie in exchange of bank notes is
to be gradually reduced until it reaches the nomi-
nal value. For the present gold half- imperials are
to be exchanged for 570 copecks, and the silver
rouble for 110 copecks paper currency.

The Hon. Charles Murray, British Minister al
Dresden, has arrived at Claridge's Hotel.

Lady Caroline Kerrison has issued cards for an
assembly on the 20th instant at her residence in Piccadilly.
Sir James and Lady Ann Mackenzie have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel for the season.
Mr. and Madame Sabatier have left the Claren-
don Hotel for Paris.

In the month of August the price of gold is to be
560 copecks, and that of silver 108 copecks.
Further reductions in the price of bullion are to
be announced by an imperial decree.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAY 9.

Mr. and Lady Louisa Cotes have arrived at their
house in Grosvenor-street for the season.
DEATH OF Mns. TURPIN.—Mre have to announce
the death of Mrs. Sophia Anne Turpin, at the advanced
age of 88. The deceased was the mother of Mrs. Henry
John Wallack.—Era,

It is stated in the New fork Tribune that Com-
modore Vanderbilt has made Mr. Lincoln a present of his
steamer Vanderbilt, now lying at Hampton Roads, and has
offered to sell his next best steamer to the Government,
iron:clad, at a price to be fixed by its own appraisers.

The annual regatta of Cannes took place on Sun-
day. The first prize of the first category was won by the
Jeannette of Cannes, and the second by the Iris of Mar-

The Presse of this evening says—lt is reported
that the Marquis de Lavalette will postpone his
departure for Rome until the 18th inst.
The Patric of this evening states that the French
fleet will prolong its stay at Naples during the pre-
sence of Prince Napoleon in that city.
The decision of the Senate on the petition sent in
by the Archbishop of Rennes is remarked on by
several of the Paris journals; their appreciations,
of course, being a reflection of their political opi-
nions. The Constitutionnel expresses itself in these

terms :
"M. Billault examined the question from an
elevated point of view, as a statesman should do;
he firmly maintained the right of nomination
conferred by law on the first functionary of the
department. He showed the necessity of main-
taining prerogatives which have no other motive
than that of order and peace in society ; M.
Billault pointed out the evil precisely when he de-
clared that the decree- of 1852, which then served the
Government as a means of arresting disastrous en-
croachments, now enables it to oppose exorbitant
pretensions. The liberty of instruction is not in
question ; for in the commune of Sel itself there
exists a free school of religious brothers for boys,
and another held by women for girls ; that which
is demanded is consequently not liberty, for it
already exists ; it is simply the municipal subven-
tion. ' Those who fan the flame,' said the Minister,
ill understand the sacred interests which they
believe they are serving.' The effect of the speech
in the Senate was immense, as it will be through-
out the country."
BOURSE, May 9.—Business continues limited, but
the market retains its firmness, and prices remain
at the closing quotations of yesterday. For the
Account, Threes, which opened at 70f 80c., receded
for a short time to 70f. 75c., are now again at 70f.
80c. Railway share Market also firm. The mar-
ket closed as follows :

seilles. All the other priees were gained by Marseilles

4t per per Cents 9B
Do. eiad 98 25
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 80
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 80
Credit Mobilier B3B 75
Do. end month 843 75
SAIL'

Wolves are at present numerous in the forest of
Orleans. A dog and a goat belonging to a keeper were a
few nights back devoured by them ; a horse belonging to a
farmer at Chateauneuf-sur-Loire has also fallen a victim to
their ferocity, and that in a pesturage between the park wall
and the river. It is probable that this latter was attacked
by a whole band, as on the following morning nothing but
the bones and part of the skin were found.

Bank Shares 3145
Credit koncier 1555
Belgian 4i —
Piedmontese Fives 72 20
Italian Loan 72
Austrian

Spanish Threes 52 75
Home Debt .. 49i -
rAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1315 .. 1312 50
Northern
New ditto . 995 ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1116 25 .. 1116 25
Geneva..
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 385 .. 382 50
Austrian
Lowbard . 605 .. 606 25

,A2IONS.

A deputation from the executive committee of the
Social Science Association, charged with the con-
duct and management of the coming conference to
be held in London, yesterday waited upon Lord
Palmerston, at Cambridge-house, Piccadilly, to call
his attention to the existing state of quarantine and
practices in their effect upon international and cotn-
mercial intercourse. The deputation consisted of
Lord Talbot de Malahide, president of the public
health department of the association ; Dr. Milroy
Dr. Lancaster, Dr. Lewes, Mr, Stephen Cave, M.P.
and Mr. Hastings.
Lord TALBOT DE MALAHIDE introduced the
deputation, and explained its object. He stated,
that, in 1858, the committee appointed by the House
of Commons forwarded queries upon the subject of
quarantine regulations to all the principal ports of
the world—a task in which they were helped by
the Foreign end Colonial Offices. To those queries
they had, through the agency of the consuls at the
several ports, obtained a large number of replies,
' and in them a large amount of information, upon
receiving which they drew up a report, which
had been presented to the House of Commons
and ordered to be printed. In that report they
recommended that the Government should send a
commission to the Mediterranean, and to the prin-
cipal continental ports, to inquire into the actual
quarantine regulations, and the effect of them ;
and, secondly, that Government should annually

lay upon the table of the House a statement of
all the information upon the subject commu-
nicated to them by the consuls. It was the desire of
the Social Science Association that these recommen•
dations should be carried out, as they were convinced
that information would show that the quarantine
system was open to very many grave objections, and
often unnecessarily opposed the development of
international and commercial intercourse, without
affording any adequate protection to the public
health.

Mr. CANE, M.P., and other gentlemen having
similarly expressed themselves,
Lord PALMERSTON said he was quite aware of the
great inconvenience of quarantine regulations, and,
so far as this country was concerned, was de-
sirous to abolish them altogether, but foreign
Governments were not so enlightened as to allow
even of this relaxation; but were it otherwise,
they could not, he believed, attempt any such re-

form, so liable were the people of other countries,
through an ignorance of sanitary laws, to sudden
panics in respect to epidemic diseases. Some people,
however subjected to the annoyance, seemed to like
it. For instance, Mr. Frere, when he went to Spain,
was placed in the Lazaretto, under the quarantine
regulations, and immediately set to work to make
himself comfortable, and for his amusement com-
menced the translation of a Greek play. When the
days of his purification were expired, the authorities
waited on him, and announced that he was at liberty
to retire, which he refused to do until he finished
the play, which was probably the "Prometheus
Vinctus." At all events, the subjlet should have
the earnest attention of her Majesty's Government.
The deputation, having thanked his lordship,
then withdrew.