The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING-, FEBRUARY 25►, 1853.

presbytery and county of Ayr, vacant by the death of the
Rev. James 31`31aster. _ .

INDIA AND CHINA.

entered the port of Rio Janeiro in the course of
last year, besides 44 Spanish vessels.
The Three per Cents. were at 41.1.

WAR OFFICE, FEB. 25.
Ist Regiment of Dragoons—Lieutenant Michael Stocks
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bartellot Bartellot, who
retires • Cornet Walter John Coney to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Stocks, Feb. 25.
40th Foot—Ensign Arthur Marquhard Moller, from the
96th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Ellis, appointed to the 22d
Foot, Feb. 25.

The steam-ship Adria arrived from Alexandria
at Trieste at 2 p.m. yesterday, after a passage of
140 hours.

GERMANY.

Two shocks of earthquake were felt at Bacherach,
Rhenish Prussia, on the 18th, one at six o'clock in
the morning, the other at ten minutes to eleven.
The oscillations only lasted a moment, and after
that the air became serene. The inhabitants of the
houses nearest to the Rhine heard a noise resem-
bling the fall of chimney pieces, or furniture in the
upper rooms. The steamer Hermann, which was
ascending the Rhine at six o'clock, felt the first
shock.

She left Alexandria on the 18th inst., and brings
the following news from India :
The Burmese occupy the Aeng with a large force.

46th Foot—Ensign John William De Lisle Evans has
been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his
commission, Feb. 25.
71st Foot—Ensign Charles George Wingfield, from the
55th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Cubitt, appointed to the 60th
Foot, Feb. 25.
77th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Harold Meade, from
half.pay 13th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Ronalds, whose
supersession was announce in the Gazette of 18th Feb.,
1853 ; Ensign Henry Edward Chawner, to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Meade, who retires, Feb. 25.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant Frederick Jesse
Hills, from Paymaster 3d West India Regiment, to be
Lieutenant, vice Coen, appointed to the Royal Newfound-
land Companies ; Ensign Wm. Henry Penoyre Fitz Morris
Strachan, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hill, who
retires, Feb. 25.
PROVISIONAL BATTALION AT CHATHAM. - Ensign
James Menzies, from the 96th Foot, to be Quartermaster,
Feb. 25.

Pegu (the province, we suppose) has been again
occupied by a large force of Burmese. They raised
the siege on the Bth and 9th of January, and
marched to the defence of Ichoygt, up(in learning
that General Steel was advancing upon that place.

The Burmese have retired from Prome and from
Meadami.

The Vienna journals of the 22d state that Le-
bemji has been interrogated by the magistrates ap-
pointed to investigate the late attempt on the Em-
peror of Austria. He declared that "he had been
pondering over the necessity of assassinating the
Emperor for the last two years." He- is described
as being violent in his demeanour to the examining
magistrates. He is vulgar in his bearing and totally
without education. His face is small, sickly-
looking, and lie has long hair. .He appears to have
been abandoned to himself from his infancy. His
interrogatory lasted the whole night. In the
course of it he fell into frequent contradictions,
and he made furious declamations against the state
of things in Hungary, and especially against the
gendarmerie. At first he did not give his real
name. He wore a Hungarian hat and was decently.
diessed. It has been ascertained that he has al-
ways displayed a great aversion for work, and has
never lived long with the same master.
Letters from Stettin to the 15th of the present
month, received by the Minister of Marine, state
that the frost had led to the suspension of all navi-
gation in that place and the other ports of the Bal-
tic. Snow had fallen in large quantities and very
generally in the north, particularly in Further Po-
merania, Silesia, the Prussian Provinces, and the
frontiers of Poland and Russia. The average depth
of the snow was computed at the lowest to be two
feet, and in some places it was as deep as eight or
ten feet. The railway trains had been much im-
peded by the snow, particularly to the north of
Berlin.

It is said that a revolution has taken place at
Ava, by which the old King has been deposed and
driven out, and that the new King has recalled the
troops to Ava, and desires peace.
Fever and diarrhoea prevail among our troops,
and were increasing.
Trade in India was languid.
Exchange was firm at 2s. Id. in Calcutta.
The insurrection in China caused considerable
devastation.

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HOSPITAL STAFF.—lnspector-General Andrew Smith,
M.D., Superintendent of the Army Medical Department,
to be Director-General of the Army and Ordnance Medical
Departments ; Charles Benjamin Mosse, Gent., to be As-
sistant Surgeon to the Forces, vice Alexander Robertson,
M.D., who resigns, Feb. 25.
UNATTACHED. Lieutenant Charles John Bourchier,
from the Bth Hussars, to be Captain, by purchase, Feb.l2s.
MEMORANDUM.—Captain Edward James Taylor, Unat-
tached, has been permitted to retire from the Army by the
sale of his Commission, he being about to become a settler
in Canada, Feb. 25.
COMMISSARIAT.—Deputy Assistant Commissary-Gene-
ral John Ramsay McCulloch has been permitted to resign,
from Jan. 21. _

The Pottinger has brought (to Suez) 21 boxes of
gold dust from Australia.

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday
in due course.

All the heads of the administration of the city
o f Paris, and of the department of the Seine, have
taken the oath of fidelity to the Emperor and the
Constitution, befor& M. Merreau, the Secretary-
General, at the Rotel de Ville.
By a decree of the Emperor, M. de Lacour,
Freach Minister at Vienna, has been appointed
ambassador to the Sublime Porte, in the room of
the Marquis de Lavalette, who returns to France
at his own request. Baron de Bourqueney isk to
replace M. de Lacour at the Court of Vienna.

The King of Prussia, immediately after receiving
the news .of the attempted assassination of the Em-
peror of Austria, sent one of his aides-de-camp to
Vienna, with an autograph letter of condolence.

M.
Rouland, Procureur-General of the Cour
Imperial of Paris, has been named Councillor of
State, unattached to any particular section.
The Moniteur, under the head of Erratum,
states that, instead of saying that M. Fremy has
be en charged with the general direction of the Mi-
nistry of the Interior, it should be said, "is charged
temporarily, &c."
The Emperor has just decided that out of the 10
millions appropriated by the decree of 22d Janu-
ary to the improvement of the habitations of the
working classes, three millions shall be immediately
placed at the disposal of the Minister of the Inte-
rior. The proprietors of houses inhabited by per-
sons of the working classes may at present address
their demands for aid and submit their propositions
to the Prefect of the Seine.

IMP (WANT POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS FOR
THE EARLY _DELIVERY OF LETTERS. &c.

The following new regulations respecting the early
delivery of letters and newspapers within the London
district will come into operation on and after the 28th
inst., when the time for posting letters at the receiving-
houses in London will be extended from 8 p.m. to 10
p.m. In the morning, commencing on Tuesday next,
the Ist of March, the receiving-houses throughout the
I metropolis will be cleared at 9 and 11 a.m., instead of at
7.45 and 10 a.m. At the following places in the neighbour-
hood of London, the time for posting letters at night will
be extended to 9.30 p.m., and they will be dispatched the
same night to the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-
Grand, instead of at 7.30 on the following morning, as
at present—viz., Camberwell, Camden-town, Hackney,
Holloway, Islington, Kennington, Kent-road, Kentish-
town, Kingsland, Newington-butts, Somers-town, South
Lambetli, Vauxhall, and Walworth. Letters and news-
papers intended for dispatch by the morning mails, if taken
to the receiving-offices' must be posted the previous night,
before the hours named above ; but if taken to the chief
or branch offices, they may be posted on the morning
of dispatch up to the following hours :—For the day
mails, which leave Euston-square, if posted at
Charing-cross, Old Cavendish-street, or Borough branch
offices, newspapers at 6.45 a.m., letters 7.15 a.m. ;
at the chief office and Lombard-street branch office,
newspapers at 7 a.m., and letters 7.45 a.m. ; for
the other day mails, as at present, viz., newspapers at
7.30 a.m., and letters at 8 a.m., at the branch offices,
and at the chief office and Lombard-street, newspapers
at 7.45 a.m., and letters 8.30 a.m. Letters and news-
papers for London and the neighbourhood intended
for the 8 a.m. dispatch, if taken to the receiving
offices, must be posted the previous night, but if taken
to the London District Office, St. Martin's-le-Grand,
they may be posted on the morning of dispatch at the
following hours :—Newspapers up to 7 a.m., letters
7.45 a.m.

The Emperor, on the proposition of the Minister
of Justice, has exempted 158 individuals from the
police surveillance, to which they had been sub-
jected by the Mixed Commissions of the Depart-
ments and the Commission of Revision.

The Emperor has presented the Bishop 61 Nancy
with a sum of 3,000 f. for the poor of his diocese.
The Minister of the Interior, M. Persigny, has
addressed a circular to the Prefects throughout
France, relative to the privileges of the Credit
foncier Company, requiring information as to the
various engagements or mortgages in each depart-
ment.

The bill lately presented to the Legislative
Body, concerning foundlings, proposes some
marked changes in the system now in force. The
new measure authorises tho Government to in-
troduce such changes as experience may have
shown to be indispensable. To the absolute
obligation of having a turning-basket at each
hospital, the bill allows the Government to sup-
press or establish such a mode of reception as it '
may deem most advisable. It also permits it
to adopt such general measures as may appear
best, either to lessen the number of children re-
ceived, or to regulate their mode of admission.
Another modification relates to the yearly Rum
for each child. Hitherto it was paid up to the age
of 12 years only, the law presuming that children
could be usefully placed out at that age. Ex_
perience, however, has proved that this limit was
too narrow, and that 15 years must be considered
as the youngest period at which a child could be
provided for with advantage. All the enactments
contained in the old law relative to the property
which foundling children might be left by will are
preserved. The situation of the children when
bound to trades is made the object of special enact-
ments, the prefect being ordered to take note by
frequent inquiries of the manner in which each
child is treated. The new bill allows the prefect
to authorise, on the sole condition of paying the
expense incurred, the delivery of the children
claimed by their parents. This reduction of the
cost to the parents will, it is thought, tend to lessen
the number of children thrown on society. The
bill fixes penalties for the repetition of the offence
of abandoning children, such a practice being
evidently contrary to the law of nature.

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p.m., as heretofore, and letters and newspapers to be
forwarded by it can be posted at the London receiving-
houses up to 11 a.m., or at the windows of the chief
office up to 11.45 a.m. It must be understood that the
letter-receivers will not be required to keep their houses
open after 8 p.m. for the sale of postage stamps, nor for
the receipt of registered letters nor foreign paid letters.

The Minister of Police has authorised the crea-
tion at Paris of a Society of Regattas, on the same
plan as those which exist in different sea ports, the
object being to encourage the navigation of the
Seine.

The Presse says that Monsieur V. Verneuil, a
literary character, has proposed to the Minister of
Police to make a change in the ordinary travelling
passport, which will prevent many of the frauds at
present practised by thieves and other bad charac-
ters, who frequently commit robberies and even
murders to possess themselves of a passport, un-
der which to screen themselves from detection.
The change will consist of the likeness of the person
named in the passport, taken by the daguerreotype,
and placed beside the signature. An artist has
already offered to the Minister to execute the like-
ness at a cheap rate, and a chymist has undertaken
to render the likeness indelible. With this im-
provement it Kill be impossible for any but the
person named in the passport to make use of it.
The Minister of Police has taken the proposition of
M. Verneuill into his serious consideration.
Yesterday there was more fluctuation and excite-
ment on the Bourse than for a week past. Very
unfavourable rumours were prevalent relative to
misunderstandings with Austria, which had the
effect of depressing the Rentes, until the 41. per
Cents. fell 80c. below the quotations of yesterday,
closing at 105 f. 10c. for cash ; Bank Stock also was
called five francs lower, leaving off at 2,800 f. The
Three per Cents., on the other hand, left off at an
improvement, the last price being 80f. 85c. Very
little business was done in railway shares, and no
improvement was observable in prices. Foreign
funds altogether neglected.