The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-09 00:00:00

career was chiefly illustrated by two brilliant afsw
in which he took a leading part many years 41:
one in the Semillante and other in the Rensru,,
He was a member Of the committee of longitud6;
Of the two sons he leaves behind him one is seCr
tary of embassy in London. • of
A letter from Cherbourg states that the 5h113,1
the line Tilsit was shortly to go into the itcl'e
and that the brig Beaumauoir, 20 guns, and. far
steam aviso Aigle, were to leave in a few dayL,
the Baltic. Orders had been received from Pa""-r
to place immediately on the stocks a 100-gint6°;-ot.
ship, to be called La Ville de Nantes, and 3 I'll
rate frigate, l'lmperieuse.
A letter from Berlin states that the negotiation:
between Prussia and France for the establishetilij
of a direct telegraphic line between Berlin
Paris via Saarbruck, have been brought to a ciSe
to, is.
The Moniteur publishes the report made
Emperor, by M. Billault, of the labours the tegibe
lative Body, during, the last session. In •
course of that period, 219 bills were presented,
cussed, and voted, of which 180 are connected Wl'
communal and departmental interests. Lastrar„;
82 bills were passed authorising loans and extra*,
dinary impositions for a capital of 37,8002 Ds
This year, 145 bills authorised them to the exte,
of 69,187,526 f. Among the bills of general into
rest passed during the present session, are tll°so
relative to the removal of the convicts to the rech„i".
tentiary Colonies ; on the abolition of civil delta'
the extension of the amount for which debtors
be brought before the Juges-de-Paix; the bill °t,
livrets ; on the extension of the limits of the cose
ing trade ; on the increase of the telegraphic
for lowering the charge on letters; for forming" a
approaches to the Louvre and the Tuileries ; ",
lastly, the Budget of 1855.
The fall in the English Funds, coupled with tbe
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fact that to much stock had been bought during P'd
last rise, led yesterday to very considerable sales, 1).
the Rente has fallen heavily in consequence.
the
Three per Cents. have declined if. 95c. and
and/}eFour-and-a-Half per Cents. 2f. 75c., at 70f.
and 96f.

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the 3d have code to
hand. It has been settled that six steamers juste to
of four, as originally proposed, shall be sato
Cuba, which will make thirteen in all. These 0
vessels are to carry out 4,000 men, and 2,00013141
are to be sent subsequently. A despatch rece"o
from Cadiz makes known that a first detaolo3,eo
of 500 had been sent off. Some disturbances Poo
occurred at Bergara, owing to a portion of
of
population objecting to the re-establishnniev: 0
the Jesuits, and troops had been sent off I,r,°/0
Vittoria to restore order. A letter says
consequence of the financial measures adoptea, „o
the Government, the public service is assure
to the end of the year.'.'
The Three per Cents, were done at 37 ; thev-;fst
Three per Cents. at 19 60 ; the Debt of the
Class at 9 30 ; and that of the Second at 5.

PORTUGAL.
r°
The Brasilieira brings Lisbon letters and pall
of the Ist inst. The French steam sloop N0v'4,40
;$1
had returned from escorting the King of Portill'of
to Cape Finisterre, and was the only foreign ship
war in the Tagus. The debate upon the bu tit
had not commenced, nor had anything of inter:fie
taken place either in or out of the Cortes since
last dates. The leading article of the Aranto, 86116
official journal, of the Ist, sets forth, in reply to
Royalist paper Nacao, that the Portuguese Gover of
ment was not influenced by Russian sympathies it
influence in the declaration of neutrality, whicbre,
is resolved to maintain, if possible, during the P
sent war.

CHINA.
CONFLICT BETWEEN THE IMPERIALISTS
AND THE ENGLISH AND AMEBIC.'
FORCES.
The following telegraphic despatch, yid Triesteb'e
4 has been received by an eminent firm in "
city :

"HONG-KONG, April 22.—An attack made by. led
Imperialists on the foreign settlement of Shanghai 0
to the storming and destruction of their camp on the
iv
of April by the English and American forces. Two ee
men were killed and 12 wounded ; of the volunteer',
',
Mr. J. C. Brine was dangerously wounded ; Mr. Grl,
wold Grey lost a leg ; Captain Pearson, of the /Os
Standish, severely wounded ; doing well. All quiet US
the 12th inst.
" Exchange.—Shanghai, 6s. 4d. ; Canton, ss. 211 ;
Company's bills, 300 ; Canton, 247.
" Export of tea, 70,000,0001 b. ; silk, 54,000 billegi
consisting of Tsatlee, 24,000; Taysaam, 22,000; thrower
4,000 ; Canton, 3,000. Deducting losses of tea, the
excess over last year is not above 4,000,0001 b. Another
tea-ship totally lost—the Dumphreys, from
S hanghai•

THE CRYSTAL PALACE AT SYDENHAM'

The results of the extraordinary activity with which
he works at the Crystal Palace have been prosecut,.,
for the last few days were yesterday made striking'i
perceptible by the beautiful appearance of the interior:
The decorations of the industrial courts are nearly ell
plete, and in the nave of which they form the /lite
boundaries, Sir Joseph Paxton has so arranged h
ig
exotics as to give to this portion of the building the alit
pearance of a magnificent conservatory. The public I/
be rejoiced to learn that Sir Joseph has almost entirely
recovered from his indisposition, and fully expects he
complete ail his arrangements by the opening day. s'Pli
ethnological models are all grouped in their proper to
ties, and have been scrupulously draped in obedienee,l
the mandate of the Church. It is not, we regret tdal
the general opinion that their appearance has been
all improved by the grotesque and incongruous gartnel3,
in which Dr. Latham has been obliged to swat;;
them in order to remove the objections of the clergy'
As the works are going on simultaneously in every
quarter under the hands of thousands of workmen'
remarkable progress made may be noted whichever
way you turn. The refreshment tables are all arratigd
in the large and beautiful quadrangle at the south eV,
and the ovens which are to keep them supplied will
all at work to day. Tile attendants, 80 in number, wet
1 all mustered yesterday, and instructed how to forts ,
portion of the great tableau on Saturday, by appeafte
in white dresses with the distinctive badge ofa i"
ribbon. The testing of the building was repeated ei,
Wednesday, in a much more derisive:manner than ll
the first occasion. Four hundred of the metropolitilli
police were brought down by special train on the Crypt
tal Palace line, under the command of Superintendekon
Lund, and were made to march in a body round the
first and second galleries. The greatest deflexion toast
this severe test was not more than the sixteenth iart °(
an inch, while with irregular walking there was no t
flexion at all. The men subsequently collected in the
orchestra, and completely established the fact of its per:
feet security. Captain Galton, who was again preset"
expressed his entire satisfaction. Yesterday the orcheetr!,
was subjected to another test by the presence of the whole
of the instrumental performers, who attended for the Or'
pose of a rehearsal.' The. National Anthem, the• gup
dredth Psalm, and the Hallelujah Chorus were etc,tu
cessively performed, and the effect was pronounced
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Signor Costa to be perfectly satisfactory. Some of the
listeners were of opinion that in the reverberation the
piano passages were lost, but it is expected that who°,
the chorus singers add their voices to the instrumental.
music the effect of the whole will be sufficiently grand
and imposing. It is singular that while some portion!
of such a vast body of sound as the playing of the fill'
orchestra were lost, the playing of one of Collard's plena
placed in the nave could be heard all over the building'
Signor Costa was apprehensive that his immense stroll
of musicians, steal and instrumental, would convert the
Crystal Palace into a second Jericho by bringing down
its walls with their music, but Sir Joseph Paxton 132,11
given the whole choir full permission to sing their
loudest, assuring them that their harmony will escape
quite harmlessly through the louvres. The demand for
season tickets yesterday was so great as to exhaust the
printed supply at an early hour, and 10,000 more, whici;
were got up under extreme pressure, were bough t
uP the different offices in a couple of hours. ExtraordinerL
exertions are being made to meet the demand which
expected on this the last day before the opening.

SAFETY OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
Lord Palmerston has just forwarded to the director*
of the Crystal Palace Company a copy of Captal.n
Galton's report on the safety of the building. This
report is very satisfactory as to the safety of the strut'
ture. The Captain makes the following suggestions ae
to the admission of visitors on Saturday :--
" I am informed that all persons to be admitted to the
galleries will be provided with special tickets, and an
arrangement of this sort is easily made at the time of 3°'
mission, by providing tickets of different colours or nub'
bers, each colour or number representing a particular
locality, and the number of each such set of tickets belnut
limited to the number to be admitted to each part. The
policemen at the entrance would then be furnished
these tickets, to be given to all persons as they pass 10
and others of the police should be then stationed in such
manner as to prevent any person from proceeding to 0112:
other part of the building than that designated by tu"
ticket abovemeutioned with which he will have been Air'
nished."

THE IRON TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, Wednesday.--Sutit.
has been the advance in the price of pigs, and tm"
scarcity of first-rate iron-stone, combined with the c°,.°:
tinned demand for the manufactured article, that t11`"
price for bare hoops and sheets has, in the South SW-
fordshire districts, during the last few days risen 1/. Per
ton. The advance has been avoided, until the iron'
masters have been compelled by absolute necessity to
adopt it. Iron, at the present rates of the raw materisio
could not, with profit, be made at last quarter-day 001
FOREIGN RATES OF EXCHANGE.—The quotations °_
the rates of exchange from the continent generally show_
no alteration. From St. Petersburg the letters are Zua.
the Ist of June, but they merely mention that exchang,e;
and stocks were very firm, and that tallow continued
be purchased to be sent to Memel. In consequence,"o
the pressing demand for China, whence the telegraP°_l.l
quotation of the rate of exchange by the overland
is again unfavourable, the Mexican dollars brought
the last West India steamer have been sold at 61L,
per ounce, being an advance of id. The bar silver
been disposed of at the former price of OWL