The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1862.

what no man of honour would do to take any other
post in the national service. Lord EBUBY proposes
that the declaration of conformity which clergymen
already make shall be sufficient, and that declaration
of belief in some hundreds of dogmas, all of which
no single mind can believe, shall not be required.
If we mistake not, we shall see the Lords, under
Lord DUNGANNON'S leadership, voting briskly to
uphold clerical unveracity.
Sir JOEIN TRELAWNY will also test the Commons
on the subject of oaths. His object is a very simple
and reasonable one. By the inconceivable perver-
sity of our common law manufacturers, the judges,
although they have most of them heard of BEN-
THAM, they object to r3ceive evidence unless it be
given according to their own religious notions.
Granted that it may show some mental perversity
not to believe in the existence of the DEITY, it
does not follow that the man is therefore a liar.
Indeed the fact that he avows his unpopular be•
lief in Court, and frequently at the hazard of losing
justice for himself, or for others in whom he feels in-
terested, shows that he is a truthful man. But the
great folly is in refusing any evidence. Let all
come forward. Let its worth be weighed by the
judge and the jury, but let nothing be declined
which may afford a hint or clue in the investigation
of truth. If we take the evidence of men and
women accused of adultery in a Divorce Court, it
is surely mere legal prudery to refuse that of a wit-
ness whose error is at the worst an intellectual one.
However, the members for the University of Cam-
bridge, perhaps it may be Mr. DISRAELI himself,
in his new line of Wednesday intolerance, will pro-
bably bid the Conservative hosts reject the measure.
And then the Ballot—why, of course, that is to
be tipped off without remorse. A funny speech
from Mr. BERKELEY—an unmistakeable eagerness
for dinner—a suppression of all debate—and then
a coalition of Whigs and Tories will soon vote the
contemned measure down. The members are all
pretty well agreed that they would rather be able
to buy and influence votes, as they now do. Many
of their constituencies desire them to support the
Ballot, and they do so ; but the number
who can confide its deserts with confi-
dence to a really independent constituency is
is very small. Nevertheless the really earnest
members, in connection with the numerons earnest
constituencies, could, if they would, easily bring
about a very different state of things in the Govern-
ment and in the house. We shall see to-night how
the motion for free and independent voting fares,
in a House the majority of which must have been
elected by bribery and unfair influence, in all their
indefinable shapes and forms.

LATEST NEWS.

ROME, MAI 24 (via MARSEILLES).

A note from M. Thouvenel has been communi•
cated to Cardinal Antonelli, stating that France
does not intend to effect any change in the present
state of the Roman question, ane, recommending
the Pope to place more confidence in the Emperor's
Government.

On Thursday last 156 cardinals and bishops
voted in favour of the canonisation of the Japanese
martyrs.

This morning the number of car einals and
bishops voting to the same effect ariounted to 189.
The King of Portugal has prohibited the Portu-
guese Bishops from going to Rome

FLORENCE, MAX' 26.

The Constituzione of to-day announces the dis-
covery of a great depot of firearms. 44 chests full
were seized.
Some arrests have been made.

LISBON, MAY 26.

The Chamber of Depufies has approved of the
Government Bill relative to the teaching of the
Sisters of Charity.

The troubles at Oporto have bee; suppressed by

force.

FRANCE.

Under the head of " Latest Intelligence," La
Presse publishes the following :

" It is announced that M. le Marquis do Lavalette will
not return to Rome. The report is again current that
Marshal Niel will be invested with full powers, both politi-
cal and military, in the holy city.•'

La Presse also says :

" It appears that the Government is inclined to withdraw
the proposed tax upon salt. The resources which it would
have given to the Treasury will be prochred by a reduction
of 30,000 men of the land forces. This aeduction would be
on all the divisions. Consequently, there would be a re-
duction of 2,000 men in the Borps of Occupation at Rome."

BOURSE, Alay 26.—Business has been rather
limited in amount, and the market has been gene-
rally heavy, but the prices of Saturday have been
pretty well maintained, Threes, for the Account,
being now utivaried at 70f. 30c. The Railway
Share Market has been also quiet, but prices re-
main at about previous quotations. The market
continued dull to the close, and left off as follows :

4i per per Cents 97 50
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 20
New 3 per Cants
Do. end month 69 45
Credit Mobilier 826 25
Do. end month 826 25
RAIL'

Bank Shares 3140
Credit Fancier l5BO
Belgian 41
Piedmontesc Fives 7l 20
Italian Loan 7O 0
Austrian
Spanish Threes..
Home Debt

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1322 50 .. 1320
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1112 60 .. 1112 50
Geneva 370 .. 372 50
Southern 845 • • 842 50
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lowbard

AMERICA.

(PER NIAGARA, BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX AND
via QUEENSTOWN,)

NEW YORK, MAY 15.

According to the Baltimore American, prisoners
returned from Richmond report that the evacuation
of that place was merely a matter of time.
The Confederate Government officials declared
they would resist to the last, but it was believed
they were secretly preparing for an evacuation.
Some Confederate troops have been sent north-
wards to check M‘Do well's advance. The most
violent Confederates in Richmond stated that it was
intended to throw their whole army on to Wash.
ington, but the Union men believed this to be a ruse
to deceive people.

A New York ?Imes despatch states that Governor
Sprague, who has just returned from M'Clellan's
advance, reports that the Federal loss in the battle
at Williamsburg will amount to 2,000, and that the
Confederate loss was not less. Governor Sprague
says the battle at West Point was much more
severe than has been reported, and that at least 500
Federals were taken prisoners, the Confederates
taking advantage of the landing of the Federals.
The Federal gunboats arrived in good time, and
saved Franklin from suffering severe disaster.
Governor Sprague speaks in the highest terms of
General Freeman, who has commanded the Federal
advance since the evacuation of Yorktown.

Another despatch, addressed to the same journal
from Falmouth, in the department of the Rappa-
hannock, says the Confederate lines are maintained
as formerly, and it seems to be definitely established
that they are throwing up earthworks, but these are
supposed to be merely to protect pickets, as it is not
anticipated that they intend to preserve an isolated
line in that vicinity.
The Uonrederate and Federal
uutpuoth are only
100 rods distant from each other.

Mr. Edward Stanley, of San Francisco, has been
appointed Military Governor of North Carolina.
A despatch from Pittsburg Landing, dated the
14th inst., announces that General Halleck would
on that day move his camp four miles to the front.
The Federal forces are at an average distance of
two and a•half to three miles from the Confederate
entrenchments at Corinth.

The Federal army advances slowly, because of the
nature of the ground necessitating the building of
corduroy roads and bridges.
It is generally understood that an engagement at
Corinth will come off this week.

General Mitchell is reported to have formed a
junction with General Pope.

Mitchell's division now forms the extreme left of
the Federal lines.

Beauregard is fortifying Grand Junction, evi-
dently with the intention of falling back there if
beaten at Corinth.

The number of troops under Beauregard is esti-
mated at General Halleck's head-quarters at from
120,000 to 170,000 men.

In the Federal Congress, Senator Trumbull has
offered a resolution, that the President should, if it
were consistent with public interests, communicate
to the Senate any information he may have of any
design on the part of any foreign Power to inter-
vene in the contest now existing, and should also
state whether any, foreign nation had made any
arrangements with the insurgents, or had it contem-
plated to do so ?

The New Orleans Delta of May 1 contains a copy
of the protest of Commander Clouet, of the French
steamer Milan, opposite New Orleans, addressed to
the commander of the Federal fleet.
In this protest Commander Clouet states that he
is at New Orleans to protect 30,000 French inhabi-
tants, and regrets to learn that only 48 hours had
been accorded for the evacuation of the city by the
women and children, and continues,—
" This short delay is ridiculous. It you are re-
solved to bombard the city, you will have to account
for this barbarous act to the French Gcvernment.
In any event I demand 60 days for the evacuation."
A copy of the vote of thanks of the House of
Representatives has been forwarded by special
messenger to General M'Clellan,
The House of Representatives has passed tI
Army Bill, appropriating 421,000,000 dols. for the
year ending June, 1863. In addition to this
208,000,000 dols. have been voted during the pre-
sent session for current army expenses and de-
ficiencies for the present year.
The 11 ew York World says that Secretary Stanton
has issued an order that newspaper correspondents
shall not be permitted to telegraph any account of
the approaching battle at Corinth after it has taken
place until the report is first revised by the military
censor at Cairo.

The New York Tribune has a special Washington
despatch, stating that the French Minister had r&
ceived intelligence from the French Consul at Rich-
mond that the Confederate Government had notified
to him that, if it were found necessary to evacuate
Richmond, the French tobacco must be destroyed
with the rest, the Confederates offering at the same
time to pay for it.
The Federal General Hunter, commanding the
Military Department of -Georgia, Florida, and
South Carolina, has issued a proclamation declaring
martial law in those States ; and as martial law and
slavery are incompatible, all slaves in Georgia,
Florida, and South Carolina are declared for ever
free.

The steam-ship Champion, from Aspinwall, ar-
rived at New York with 484,000 dohs, in specie.
The question of the admission of Edwin James to
the New York bar is being canvassed, both sides
having strong advocates. Edwin James has soli-
cited a meeting of the New York bar for Saturdays
when he intends to state his case, taking the ground
that he is still a member of the English bar, and
that his diploma has never been avoided or re-
voked. Should the committee report unfavour-
ably, Mr. James has retained Mr. J. T. Brady as
his counsel.

THE LATE C,4LANI7Y 11V HOLLAND,

UTRECHT, SUNDAY.

The fearful calamity which has recently occurred
to Enschede can now be estimated at its real im-
portance. Seventeen-twentieths of the town have
become a mass of ruins, and about 4,000 persons
are homeless and penniless, A great portion of the
property destroyed was uninsured, but the ma-
chinery employed in the manufactories was chiefly
insured in English offices. The distress of the
burned-out operatives is very great, but liberal sub-
scriptions of money uutl contributions of clothing
are being sent in. A vast number of tents have
been erected' in the adjoining fields for the tempo-
rary accommodation of the homeless. The report
that the fire was caused by lightning is incorrect ;
it is believed to have been the work of an incen-
diary. In any case, a man has been arrested on
grave suspicion of having set fire to his own house
for some ulterior purpose. Only one manufactory
has escaped destruction, and the damage is esti-
mated at upwards of a million sterling. Almost
all the books and papers of value have been de-
stroyed, owing to the worthlessness of the fire-proof
safes employed. Several persons are missing, and
it is feared they have been suffocated in the smoke.
One hundred thousand guilders have been for-
warded to the relief committee from the sub-com-
mittees formed in the different cities of the kingdom.

LAW OF PARTNERSIIIP.—The bill which Mr.
Scholefield has just introduced into the House of Commons
proposes to allow persons lending money to traders on the
terms of receiving a share of profits as interest, and regis-
tering the transaction at the Joint Stock Companies' Re-
gistration-office not to become general partners, but only
limited partners. Only the general partners will bo liable
to bankruptcy, but in case of such bankruptcy limited part-
ners are not to be paid till after the other creditors ; and in
case of bankruptcy within 12 months after their ceasing to
be limited partners, they are liable to refund money repaid
to them within that twelvemonth for satisfaction of the
claims of creditors who were such while these persons were
limited partners. The bill also proposes that the names of
the partners in a firm are to be registered if the title of the
firm does not contain them all, or contains the name of a
person not really in the business.

We understand that a petition in bankruptcy
was, on Saturday, died against Mr. G. V. Brooke, the
tragedian, who is now a prisoner in Warwick County Gaol,
under a ca, se. It is reported that he will be released on
Wednesday next.-13irmingham Post,

THE NATIONAL BANK.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The National Bank held its annual meeting to-
day. Mr. M. Usborne in the chair. The report
stated that—

" On no occasion since the foundation of the society in
1835 have the directors had such substantial results whereon
to congratulate the shareholders concerning the progress
of the company. The greatly increased profits of the
bank are to some extent duo to the prevalence of
high rates of interest during a great portion of
the year 1861 They. are, however, also due to an
actual augmentation of the business of the bank both in
England and in Ireland. The balance-sheet at the close of
1861 exhibits a total of assets of above six millions, being
the highest figure ever reached by the bank at the close of
any year since its establishment. Since these accounts
wore made up, a dividend at the rate of £8 per cent. per
annum, and a bonus of 15s. per share, amounting
together to £35,000, were paid in February last. The
amount of undivided profits after payment of the bonus
and dividend therefore stood at 4199,050 14s. 6d. this year,
as compared with £146,93155. 5d., the amount of undivided
profits after payment of the February dividends in 1861.
The directors desire now to recall the attention of the pro-
prietors to the fact that in May, 1857, the paid-up capital
of the bank was augmented out of accumulated profits
from £450,000 to £500,000, since which date the divi-
dends of the bank have been declared rateably on
the larger sum—the rest or unappropriated profit
then commencing at £70,534 9s. 4d. after that
operation. The directors have referred to the augmenta-
tion of the capital in 1857, because they now propose that
the paid-up capital of the bank shall be further increased
from £500,000 to £6oo,ooo—by a present allocation of £5
per share on 20,000 shares, making together £loo,ooo—out
of the undivided profits, after which proposed addition to
paid-up capital the rest or undivided profits will be
£99,050 14s. 6d., and each £5O share will stand as £3O
paid-up. When the dividend shall be declared next August
it is proposed that it shall be at the rate of 8 per cent, per
annum on the paid-up capital of £600,000, and that the
bonus or extra dividend shall be 16s. per share."
The Chairman proposed the adoption of the re-
port, and stated that the progress of the Bank
was exceedingly stltiofrintory. He stated that,
after paying £70,000 last year for a dividend and
a bonus, there was left £52,000 to be carried to the
profit and loss account, the profit for the year be-
ing 24f per cent. on the capital. The new
branches in England and Ireland, which num-
bered eighteen, had not cost more than £1,250
each, while the head building, in which
they were then assembled represented an expense
of £29,500. The average amount of divideza and
bonus paid during the last three years to the pro-
prietors was about £2O 13s. per share. In conclu-
sion the Chairman again alluded to the prosperous
condition of the bank and its increasing business,
and condemned in very strong terms the writer of
an anonymous letter, who was supposed to be a dis-
charged official of the establishment. The 'report
wes carried by acclamation, and the returning
officers re-elected.

An alteration was made yesterday in one of the
rules of the Stock Exchange, but it is only of interest to
the members. The time for payment on foreign stocks or
scrip shares is altered from three o'clock to half-past two
o'clock on account days only. On other days the regula-
tions stand as before.

THE EMILIE ST. PIERRE.--The Morning Post
has the following :—lt will be remembered that an English
vessel of this name recently arrived at Liverpool, in charge
of her master, steward, and cook, who had recaptured her
from an American crew. She had attempted to run the
blockade, and was fairly and lawfully seized by the Federal
blockading squadron, and then sent for adjudication in
charge of a prize crew. By dint of clever stratagem and no
small pluck, the three Englishmen succeeded in regaining
possession of the ship, and in navigating her to Liverpool.
The American Government has now requested her surrender
back to them. We understand, however, that this demand
cannot be complied with, as there is no municipal law that
takes covisauce of the act cf these three men as an offence,
or indeed recognises such an injury suffered by a belligerent.
Had an American cruiser met the Emilie St. Pierre on the
high seas she might have seized her, and the fact of the
rescue would have condemned her in international law. But
there is no municipal law which can warrant the English
Government in delivering her up to that of America, with
whose request it is therefore bound to refuse compliance.
FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS.—Yesterday morn-
ing, at an early hour, a fire broke out in the premises be-
longing to Mr. C. R. Smith, licensed victualler and pro-
prietor of the White Horse Tavern, situate No. 105, Long-
acre, but the firemen managed to confine the fire to the
basement. The loss will fall upon th. Stu °Ca.:o. A firo,
attended with great loss of property, happened in the pre-
mises belonging to Mr. A. March, an ostrich feather-
dresser, carrying on business at No. 128, Cannon-street-
road East. It was arrested in its progress just as it was
attacking the premises of Mr. E. Bell, No. 126, and those
of Mrs. E. Beaumont, No. 130, in the same street. The
firemen were unable to get the flames extinguished until
the premises of Mr. March were nearly destroyed, and those
of Mr. Bell and Mrs. Beaumont severely injured. Mr.
March was insured in the Alliance Fire-office; Mr. Bell
was insured in the Emperor-office; but Mrs. Beaumont
was not insured. Another fire also took place in the pre-
mises of Mr. J. Bartlett, No. 12, South-street, Bethnal-
green-road. Considerable damage was done. The sufferer
was uninsured.

THE BALLOT SOCIETY.—The weekly meeting
of the Executive Committee was held on Monday, at the
Offices 5, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, Mr. J. F.
Bontems (in the chair), Mr. Sydenham Nodes, Mr.White-
hurst, Mr. Man, &c., were present. A letter from Lord
Teynham was read, regretting hls inability to attend the
recent meeting at the Whittington Club, but expressing
his "undiminished attachment to the objects sought by
the society." The committee were engaged in consi-
dering the notice of motion for a bill to allow the
votes of municipal electors to be taken by way of ballot, in
all places where the Town Council shall so think fit— and
unanimously agreed to the following resolution —" That
this committee earnestly and respectfully solicits the Par-
liamentary friends of the ballot to support the motion of
which notice has been given by Mr. Augustus Smith, M.P.,
for the adoption of the ballot in municipal elections."
FROM THE OCEAN.—Last week, a bottle was
picked up on the shore, near Culzean, containing a slip of
paper, on which was written, with pencil, the following:—
Ship, Crescent of the Wave, 23d June, 1856. Lost sight
of Cape Clear on Wednesday-12 days out. Stiff breeze
blowing from the Atlantic. Two births on board and ono
death since leaving. Except this all are well. Any per-
son finding this will please intimate to John Smith, Large„
that his on Tom is well.—T. S." Six years, it will be
seen, has the bottle been sailing on the boisterous waves
without being broken.—Ayr shit e Advertiser.

A correspondent of the Lahore Chronicle gives
an account of the marriage of the son of the Maharajah of
Cashmere with the daughter of the Rajah of Chumba. The
Cashmere chief came to the wedding with his whole court,
and 10,000 followers. The marriage presents were nunaer ous
and costly. According to the Rajpoot custom, cach chief
on becoming a guest received a present of a bag of money,
and on being dismissed by the Maharajah a handsome
khillut with another bag of money. During the hours of
the night the nuptial knot was tied, a form which is litter-
ally performed according to Rindoo custom, by tying the
garments of the bride and bridegroom together, while the
incantations are read. The bridegroom is a boy of nine,
the bride an infant. The marriage ceremonies are said to
have cost the Rajah 70,000 rupees and the Maharajah
about 15 lakhs.

THE JAPANESE AT HOME—To every one who
has seen or hoard of our adventurous Asiatic visitors, the
question will naturally occur, " What will they think of
their own countrymen when they get back again
on comparing the state of things Japanese with what they
have witnessed in Europe ? How will they, at first, recon-
cile themselves to the absence of railways, gas, telegraphs,
postage stamps, carriages, and operatic spectacles ? What
impression are they likely themselves to receive, on re-
turning to give an account of their mission to the authori-
ties who sent them hither ?" For experience teaches the
traveller that not until he revisits his native land can he fully
appreciate what he has seen elsewhere in relation to what
he left at home. The Dutchman has no idea how wonder-
fully flat Holland is, until he takes his rest, after a tour in
Switzerland, in his own country-house on the banks of a
currentless canal. The varied beauties of landscape scenery
are never so thoroughly felt, as after the monotony of a
long sea voyage. How heartily do Arctic discoverers enjoy
the luxurious influence of a temperate climate I How
couriers, who have been posting night after night,
le-
vel in the comfort of a pair of sheets in an unjog
sleeping-place I The rustic who returns to his village,
m age,
after a first visit to London town, never before knew how
small was that village; how noiseless, grass-grown, and
thinly populated. And it is likely that the Japanese am•
bassadors, until they set foot once more in Japan, will
hardly suspect what a singular place is Japan, and what a
singular people are the Japanese.
AN IMPERIAL SPY.—Espionage throughout Japan
is open, habitual, legal,i andar
part of
thecial
G. Io
Government
erises to the
machinery.he
One height o fapolitical
halfoftheprinc iple;tis p
people of Japan are spies over the other
half. During the conferences with Baren Gros, one of the
Japanese plenipotentiaries, named Kamai Sakio Kami, was
taciturn, never uttering a word, not even in the midst of
the most earnest discussions. His business seemed to be to
listen, and not to talk ; and no favourable idea of his intel-
lect was formed. One day the embassy was astonished at
learning the real nature and importance of his functions.
They beheld on his visiting•eard the noble title, IMFERIA.L
SPY.—Dickens's " All tile Year Round."
ROYAL, FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—
The number of patients relieved at this hospital, during the
week ending May 24, was 2,891, of wb,ioll 814 were new
05550.