The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, HO.

to ordinary calculations, together with a due pro-
portion of the " native element," to the composition
of a barrel of beer. Hence our Financier
imposes a supplementary 3d. upon each
barrel of beer, as an equivalent for the
remitted hop duty. It must be remembered, how-
ever, that wh:lle this is the arrangement decided
upon by the Chancellor of the Exchequer—three-
pence hop duty is really and truly the minimum paid
by the brewer in the price of his hops. Conse-
quently, bearing that simple fact in mind, it was at
once comprehensible to all who heard him, when Mr.
GLADSTONE remarked in this part of his Financial
Statement, that when there is a difference between
the 3d. minimum duty and a greater amount of hop
duty now paid by the brewer, when—as, said Me.
GLADSTONE, with an audible relish in his tone while
the words were being uttered, "in that incompar-
able article bitter beer"—he (the brewer) uses more
than 21b. of hops—then, of course, in every instance
of that kind, the difference proposed according to
this scheme of commutation would, as a matter of
inevitable necessity,prove a dead loss to the revenue!
A loss proportioned to the quantity of hops
over and above that minimum proportion of 21b.
per barrel used in the manufacture of that same in-
comparable article—Pale Ale—whether BASS or
ALSOPP. Altogether, the estimated loss to the
revenue in this way, in spite of, or rather in one
sense, precisely because of that compensative duty
of 3d. additional on every barrel of beer, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer himself calculated would
amount annually to the sum of £45,000. As it
happens, precisely the very amount that would
have become chargeable yearly upon the
country to annuitants under the Suitors' Fund
and the Fee Fund in the Court of Chancery. Sup-
posing, that is, that those united funds, to the
gross total of £1,400,000 had been appropriated
according to the Government plan to the carrying
out of the imperial scheme of a grand centralisation
of the Courts of Justice—upon the site already
marked out for that new Palace of Justice between
Cleraent's Inn and Lincoln's Inn. Another £45,009
per annun: our financier at this part of his new Bud-
get calculated, therefore, would yet have to be made
up somehow, so as to make good the loss inevitable
upon the commutation of the Hop Duties. This in
spite of the brewers' license (just specified) on the
one hand, and, on the other hand, of the private
brewers' license, to the tune of 12s. 6d. upon occu-
pants of houses, under £2O rent—licenses that it
is anticipated will together yield—i. e., supposing
the House consents (which we doubt) to them both
eventually—.£3oo,ooo annuually. Counting upon
even which gross sum of £300,000 accruing from
the brewers' license and the private brewers' license,
Mr. GLADSTONE still has before him that loss of
£45,000 per annum, to the revenue, consequent upon
this commutation of the Hop Duties. To say no-
thing of any further sum that might have to be paid
up in the shape of drawback upon such an extra ex-
portation of hops as might take place between this
time and the 15th of September, when (it is pro•
posed) the present duty upon hops will lapse That
drawback happily Mr. GLADSTONE anticipates will
not, however, be considerable. Yet must it, in rea-
son, be taken into account as certain to be demanded
by exporters to a greater or lesser degree. And
whatever the ultimate total of it may be, it will
have to be added forthwith to the loss of £45,000
per annum already beheld clearly enough by Mr.
GLADSTONE himself, in perspective.

LIFE 130,418 AND THE INTERNA-

TIONAL _EXHIBITION_

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

London, April 10, 1862.

SIR,—It was with much pleasure that I read the
admirable letter of the Secretary of the National
Life Boat Institution in The Sun a few days since,
and 1 sincerely hope that that appeal, through the
press, will induce the Commissioners of the Inter-
natioual Exhibition to grant the necessary space
for the Institution's Life Boat and her equipments.
As the Secretary reasonably observed, carriages
and chariots of pleasure have had space allotted to
them, while the boat of humanity, of which Eng-
land, as a maritime country, should be proud, is not
to be permitted to be seen within the walls of a
building, dedicated professedly to the display of all
that is useful, nationally important, as well as beau-
tiful.

I think, however, we shall yet see the life-boat—
not a mere model—but herself, in the coming exhi-
bition.---I am, &c.,

HUMANITUS.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, APRIL 11.
The Queen drove in the grounds yesterday.
The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of her
Majesty to-day.

Mr. David Chadwick and Mr. Hugh Fraser, of Man-
chester, had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson at tho Board of Trade yesterday.
The Right Hon. W. Hutt has left London for Gibside.

DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Yesterday morning, shortly
before two o'clock, a destructive fire broke ont on the pre-
mises of Mr. Charles Holden, known as the Brunswick
Loan Fund, No. 1, Brunswick-grove, Cromer-street,
King's-cross, St. Pancras. On the alarm being raised,
Mr. Holden endeavoured to descend by the staircase, but
was driven back by the smoke and flames ; and, as the last
resort, jumped from the ffrst-floor window. The fire was
not extinguished till the house was entirely destroyed. The
cause is unknown. The loss will fall on the Imperial Fire-
office.

WIMBLEDON AND DORKING RAILWAY.— A
Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at
the office, No, 1, Poet's-corner, Westminster Abbey, Mr.
Remington in the chair, for the purpose of approving or
otherwise a bill now before Parliament entitled, " A bill
for authorising the London and South Western Railway
Company to make and maintain additional works, and for
authorising the lease or transfer to them of the Chard Rail-
way and the Wimbledon and Dorking Railway, and for
making arrangements respecting the capital, and for other
purposes." The chairman, in a few words of explanation,
moved a formal resolution declaratory of the approval of
the proposed measure, which, having been seconded, was
agreed to without discussion, and the meeting terminated.
THE NAVAL RESERVE.—Her Majesty has been
graciously pleased, upon the recommendation of the Duke
of Somerset, to confer upon Capt. J. H. Brown, R.N., Re-
gistrar-General of Seamen, the honour of Companion of the
Bath, as a recognition of the important services rendered
to the country in originating and carrying into effect the
measure for forming a Naval Reserve. To Capt. Brown
is due the credit of having solved this difficult problem of
manning the navy on an emergency, and the records of the
Admiralty testify with what unceasing perseverance he
urged the attention of successive boards to that subject.
Till now the merchant seamen have looked upon the scheme
with great suspicion, and it was only after calling the men
together at the several ports, and explaining the provisions
of the measure, that Captain Brown at length succeeded in
removing the prejudices they had against all relating to the
navy. The force now numbers nearly 12,000 picked Ab.'s, and
the country lately witnessed how readily and heartily they
tendered their services in the American crisis. Captain
Brown is one of the few survivors of the battle of Trafalgar,
having been midshipman of the Prince, 98, in that action.

Added to the proposed duty of 3d. on every
barrel of beer and to the private brewing license of
12s. 6d, per annum—as among the new "arrange-
ments" sketched out by Mr. GLADSTONE'S hand
in this his last Budget—there is the simplifi-
cation of the wine duties, upon which we have
already commented at some length. There is
the reduction of the ls. stamp duty upon every
pack of cards to a threepenny stamp duty. So
that henceforth the Ace of Spades that was,
might be represented by a whimsical carica
turist, like our incomparable GEORGE CrtUIK-
SHANK, as looking down disdainfully upon itss
diminished and impoverished successor—somewhat
as an old GEORGE 111. guinea might look drawn
upon a bran new five shilling piece of VICTORIA.
Then there is Mr. GLADSTONE'S proposed change
in the inventory duty in Scotland, a duty corres-
ponding in its way with the probate duty of Eng-
land. There is his scheme for charging (very mode-
rately it must be admitted) just one-eighth per cent.
upon foreign and colonial bonds and loans of all
descriptions whatsoever—so as to bring them within
the same, category as the loans raised in this coun- ,
try for purely English purposes, or as very
recently was decided in the instance of all loans
raised here by authority of the Government of India.
So that, in this instance, it is merely a question as
to a reasonable assimilation of all loans, &c., whe-
ther Home or Foreign, Indian or Colonial. Again,
and finally for the present, in this succinct enume-
ration of Mr. GLADSTONE'S novelties in the shape
of fresh fiscal and financial arrangements—there is
the supplementary publicans' licences for a period
of three days at fairs and similar scenes of tempo-
rary thirst and miscellaneous entertainment. A
novelty this, by the way, that is calculated to call
all the temperance people up in arms against it.
Whether this proposed change or that ether one
of the private brewing license will be carried
Ithrough the House yet remains problematical, must
still remain problematical for that matter, until
the business of the session shall be resumed after
the lapse of the Easter holidays.

ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN THE REGENT'S
CANAL.—Yesterday morning, shortly after seven o'clock,
the body of a male person of gentlemanly appearance was
found floating in the Regent's Canal, near the New Globe-,
bridge, Stepney. Mr. Horton, the divisional medical offi-
cer, examined the deceased, who had, in his opinion, been
immersed in the water nearly a week. The body bore
several marks or abrasions round the neck and front part of
the throat, as if the deceased had been garotted. The de-
ceased was about sft. sin. in height, with dark hair and
eyes, and appeared to be about 35 years of age. There is a
public footway near the spot where the deceased was found,
and this is the third mysterious discovery in the same part
of the canal within a few weeks.

THE INCREASE OF CHILD MURDER.—INQUESTS.
—Yesterday forenoon Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner
for Middlesex, held an inquest at the board-room of Mile-
end Old Town Workhouse, Bancroft-road, Stepney, respect-
ing the death of a male infant, newly born, supposed to
have been murdered, discovered on Wednesday morning
last by a police-constable in Ben Jonson's-flelds, Stepney.
Mr. James Stephenson, surgeon, said that the deceased
had been dead several days. The body was fully developed,
and the umbilical cord had not been secured. He believed
that the deceased had died from neglect at birth. The
jury, in the absence of positive evidence, returned a ver-
dict of "Found dead ; but whether born alive they had no
legal testimony to prove." A second inquiry was also gone
into at the London Hospital, respecting a female child
found, wrapped in a piece of brown paper, on the, grass in
the back garden of the London Hospital, on Wednesday
morning last. Mr. Dyte, the resident medical officer, stated
that the deceased had been born alive, and had died from
pressure or from suffocation. The Coroner having remarked
on the frightful increase of the crime of child murder, the
jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some
person or persons unknown."
A FIRE EXTINGUISHED BY CRlNOLlNE.—Yes-
terday morning an investigation was held at the Poplar
Hospital by the Middlesex coroner, touching the death of
Frederick Hayden, aged six years, who lost his life under
the following shocking circumstances :—Mrs. Mary Hay. I
den, 4, Anne-street, Plaistow, said that deceased was her
grandson. Last Wednesday she went out to purchase the
dinner, leaving the child playing about the room. She had
been absent only twenty minutes, when she was sent for,
and upon returning she found that he had been most fear-
fully burnt, the clothes having been consumed from his
body. He was removed forthwith to the hospital, where
death put an end to his sufferings. Mrs. Martha Offerd, a
lodger in the same house, said that directly after last witness
went out she heard fearful shrieks from the deceased, and
upon going upstairs she found him rushing about the room
in a body of flame. She had nothing at hand to fling over
him, so she wrapped him up in her crinoline and stifled the
fire. A juror remarked that crinoline had never been put
to so good a use before, and witness deservEd much credit
for her presence of mind. The witness stated that the poor
child was dreaifully charred, and had no doubt set himself
on fire by playing near the grate. The coroner summed
up, and the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
COURT-MARTIAL —A court-martial was held
yesterday on board the Victory, flagship, for the trial of
Edward Carol!, A. 8., of her Majesty's ship Hawke, wait
ing a passage on board the Victory to join his own ship, on
charges preferred by Commander Bonham, as prosecutor,
Ist, for striking Corporal William Poole in the execution
of his duty in endeavouring to arrest him ; 2d, for resist-
ing the naval police in the execution of their duty. The
Court was composed of Capt. Dickson, Trafalgar, president ;
Capt. Powell, Defence ; Capt. Lord Gifford, Tribune ; Com-
mander Miller, Asia; and Commander Henderson, Megana
—Eacting as officiating judge-advocate.
After Hoskins,
a greatdeEsg.i
al of evidence, which was, however, very
conflicting, the prisoner was found guilty, and the Court
sentenced him to be imprisoned with hard labour for three
months in Winchester Gaol.

It is gratifying to see that Prussians are show-
ing something like self-respect in the face of the
KING'S proceedings and those of his Ministers. In
this conntry we have known what it is for Whigs
to be caught bathing while the Tories ran away
with their clothes ; but in Prussia the Liberals
have rather been garotted by his MAJESTY and his
reactionists, and the reductions they desired to
effect taken out of their hands by violence. The
letter which was permitted to transpire, amidst
feigned indignation, does not, however, appear
to delude the country. The people see the prepa-
rations made for a temporary reduction of the army
expenditure with pleasure, but they know who are
the real authors of it.

MORMON CONFERENCE IN LONDON.—On Sunday
the 32d anniversary of the organisation of the Mormon
community in America, the Mormons of London held their
half-yearly conference gathering in St. George's Hall,
Southwark. Three of the cc apostles"—Amasa Lyman,
Charles C. Rich, and George D. Cannon—were on
the platform. The hall was crowded to excess. In the
evening at least 1,000 Mormons were present, with a stifling
crowd of curious strangers within the railings in the street.
The conference was called to order at three and 6 30, ad-
journing at 4 50, and concluding at 8 15. Elder Staines,
in giving a report of his twelve months' presidency, stated
that the conference was financially prosperous, had cleared
off
e debts a
balance, after providing for all liabilities. 177 converts
had
contain-
ing now 243 children, and 85 " saints" had emigrated
nbaptised (x 75) inherited from the previous year, and
,
schools had been founded,
to Utah. The number expected to leave this season could
not be stated. 250 were announced as ready, but fresh
accessions to the emigrant list were coming in daily, lead
ing him (Elder Staines) to think that half the conference
might go ere the season closed. Votes of confidence in the
presiding authorities in Utah, in Europe, and in the metro-
polis were taken in the afternoon, the affirmative of each
proposition being supported by a forest of right hands.
Addresses were given in the afternoon by Elder Cannon,
and in the evening by Elder Lyman.
SPECIE FOR TUE EAST.— SOUTHAMPTON, April
12.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Ellora, sailing to-day, takes out in specie—bar silver,
£43,860; bar gold, £20,000; gold, coin, £9,696; and sove-
reigns, 1,500,

Better still—the Government has openly lectured
its employes and officials of all classes on their duty
to vote for Government deputies. The adviee was
hardly veiled in seemingly forbearing language.
But, of course, the civil service of a bureaucracy
little needs information as to bow it must vote. Even
the dockyards of a constitutional monarch here gene-
rally know who mast be their man. But the Minister,
unwisely, included the Prussian Universities and
High Schcols in the list to those to whom he sent
his conge d'elire. German universities have often
shown more political spirit than German boroughs,
and the sending to them a letter, which implied
t rin
and
Royalty;
that they were in the same position as custom-
house or police officers, roused their spirit. The
Rector and Senate of the Berlin University boldly,
returned a " protest " against the circular, re-
marking that, though seven elections had occurred
since 1848, no Minister had attempted to inter-
fere with their liberties ; that they voted
as ci
ens,not as teachers ; that the present struggle
was
properly described as ono between Demo-
cracy and if it were eo, still the mode

adopted would not be the right one to decide it . LATEST NEWS
Briefly, they think they shall be most loyal in •
abiding by their own convictions, and not interfer-
ing with those of others, and they therefore decline
compliance with the circular. The middle classes
of Prussia seem to be generally alive to the crisis,
and to the tricks of the reactionary Cabinet, and
the prospect seems to be good of the people at the
new elections supporting their old representatives.

INDIA, CHINA, AND

AUSTRALIA.

We have received, in anticipation of the Calcutta
mail, files of papers from Calcutta to the Bth of
March ; Madras, 14th of March ; Hongkong, Ist of
March ; and Melbourne, 22d of February.

We take the following from the Calcutta Eng-
lishman of the Bth of March:—

" There is not much to report with regard to our
markets either for imports or exports during the past
week. There has been a decided, though slight,
improvement in the piece goods market, and for
some few days there was a fair amount of business
done. The demand has, however, now relaxed, ani
though no change of prices has been announced,
yet the market is heavy at previous quotations, and
but little business is the result. In exports it needs
but a glance at the freight list to show the falling off
in the amount of shipments. Freight for saltpetre
is quoted at £3 ; rice, £3 ss. ; jute, £3 7s. 6d ;
and linseed, £3 10s. to £3 12s. 6d. ; in fact, a fall
of from 10s, to 15s. per ton all round. Money has
been getting tight for some time past, and, though
the Bank of Bengal did not raise its rates last
Thursday, yet we believe the desire not to cause
loss and inconvenience to the public generally had
much to do with the decision of the directors.
Possibly, too, the anticipated arrival of the
bills drawn on the treasury here by the Home Go-
vernment, which would undoubtedly give greater
ease to the money market, may have, in some mea-
sure, determined them to postpone for another week
any rise in their rates. In exchange we can per-
ceive a tightness too, for the rates ruling for first-
class credit bills have throughout the week been
201. Document bills have been steady at 2.01.
Contraotod, however, with the state of commercial
affairs this time last year, we may well say—How
great a change is here! Where hundreds were then
disposed of, but tens are now sold. But we may
fairly anticipate that matters will soon mend; and
truly do the merchants here deserve a good time,
for, with but two exceptions, they have come for-
ward and voluntarily made returns to the Chamber
of Commerce of all the various piece goods con-
signed to them, and it was discovered from the
returns so sent in that the market was by no means
so overstocked as had been anticipated. Under
these circumstances, we may fairly anticipate a good
year for the importers of piece goods, which we
sincerely wish them, though we greatly fear that
the accounts which reach us by every mail, of enor-
mous shipments made from Liverpool, may tend to
keep the market in its present state, We cannot
look upon the action of home merchants in this in-
stance as otherwise than imminently suicidal. They
have a prospect of improvement in the Indian mar-
kets, and that prospect they are rapidly losing by
the way in which they are overstocking every mar-
ket in the East.

The Produce Market is not very active, but the
decline in freights has brought forward more buyers
for several articles. Stocks, too, are light, and
prices, therefore, are well maintained.
There has been very little done in Government
securities, and quotations are almost nominal.
Money continues in some demand, and is reported
to be tight in the bazaar. The Bank of Bengal
made no change this week.

Freights have declined materially since our last,
and a further decline is expected.

CHINA.

We take the following summary from the Over-
land Friend of China of the Ist March :
" The past fortnight is somewhat barren in news
of interest both as regards China and Japan.
" From Pekin there is no political intelligence;
everything appears to be going on smoothly at the
capital, and the Prince of Kung is the man of the
day. It is very satisfactory to see the Chinese
Government for the first time in the hands of a ruler
who is friendly to foreigners, but it is much to be
regretted that, notwithstanding the lapse of many
months since the new Government was settled, no
steps have been taken to prosecute the civil war with
more vigour, and to restore prosperity to many a
distracted and ruined province. It is true that
nothing has been heard of the Northern rebellion
for some time, but the likelihood is that it eats its
way still in quarters beyond our means of commu-
nication. One thing is certain, that if any victory
had been gained over the formidable bands that were
last heard of at Che-foo, it would have been duly
reported at Pekin ; instead of which, the Imperial
army has scarcely been heard of since the capture
of Nanking. The only exception to this has been
in the case of a force of Imperialists under Colonel
Ward, an American, who have lately been active in
driving away a large body of rebels from a village
in the neighbourhood of Woosung, where the latter
had barricaded themselves.

" The northern ports being still closed by ice, we
have no reports reg, rding them. Her Majesty's
gunboat Manilla (formerly Attalante) will shortly
commence running between Tien-tsin and the south,
with mails and despatches. Her Majesty's gunboat
Hesper will complete the communication to Japan.
" From Nanking reports have reached Shanghai
that the inhabitants are in great straits for want of
food, and are eating human flesh. This requires
authentication.

" Shanghai is still the centre of some alarm from
the rebel forces, who are in possession of the entire
province round about. The city continues under
foreign protection ; the Imperial forces are nearly
useless, and their employment seems to have been
abandoned ; the foreign settlement is getting into
a thorough state of defence, fortifications being
erected, and a volunteer corps of horse and foot
having been organised and got into a tolerable state
of discipline."

AUSTRALIA..
THE COLONY OF VICTORIA.

We take the following from the " Summary for
Europe " of the Melbourne ,:rgus of the 22d of
February ;
"The history of the month centres in the Land
Bill, now progressing through the Legislative As-
sembly. On the 4th inst. the second reading was
affirmed, after a keen debate of four nights, by a
majority of 38 to 26 in favour of the Government.
"It is impossible to predict what may be the
ultimate fate of the New Land Bill, but we may
venture to believe that it will not be much altered
in its progress through the two houses. And, for
the first time in our history, there is at length
something like a definite assurance that the land
question will be settled in a legal, constitutional,
and equitable manner. The passage of the bill
will afford every possible encouragement to the im-
migrant, by placing at his choice the best lands of
the colony, at R. moderate price, without competi-
tion ; and it is confidently expected that the next
year will witness another great influx of population
to our shores.

The All-Eleven of England had beaten the
Twenty-two of New South Wales by 49 runs.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, April 11.—The market continues in the
same quiet but firm state, and prices are maintained
at about the closing rates of yesterday. The Rail-
way Share Market remains firm, and quotations
well supported. The following were the last quo-
tations :-
41 per per Cents ... 98
Do. end month.... --
3 per Cents ...... 69 9 5
Do. end month.... 70 10
New 3 per Cents 69 10
Do. end month.... 69 20
Credit Mobilier.... 821 25
Do. end month.... 822 50

Bank Shares —
Credit F oncier 1525
Belgian 4f
Piedmoutese Fives. 63
Italian Loan 67 55
Austrian
Spanish Threes..
Homo Debt

RAILWAYS•

Cash.
Account.
Orleanh 1270 --.. 1265
Northern
New ditt0............
Lyons and. Mediterranean 1133
1319302
_5O
Geneva ................ 390 --Southern ............ 50 800
Western .............. 540 550
Eastern ..... °' •• • 597 50 .. 592 50
Sardinian .....•
Austrian
Lombard 573 76 .. 570

_MISS GLLN'S READING.-EUSTON

STATION INSTITUTIaiY.

This celebrated actress last night gave a reading
in the magnificent meeting room of the North-
Western Railway Station to the members of the
Library and Literary Institution of this railway.
The room was well attended, and the deepest atten-
tion was paid to the impressive and elaborate read-
ing of Miss Glyn. The play chosen was Shake-
speare's Macbeth, and all the varied grandeur and
stupendous power of the mighty drama were ably
intimated by the reader, trying and arduois as the
task is of keeping up the energetic utterance de-
manded from such a variety of impulsive characters
as the play comprises.

Of course so judicious an actress and reader as
Miss Glyn knows where to bestow her power, and
takes care to bring out into high relief the greatest
scenes. She was fine in all that related to Lady
Macbeth, that being one of her finest stage perso-
nations. In the murder scene she gave the horror
and remorse of Macbeth with great force, and sub,
dued her audience to the most intense admiration,
followed by applause of the most impulsive
kind. To sustain such a play is a very severe task,
but Miss Ellyn completely mastered it, and carried
her hearers with her to the very end, when she
received from all the complimentary admiration
and applause she had so well earned.