The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

THE CIVIL SARVICE.

Mr. Buchan has been appointed a junior clerk in the
Treasury, Whitehall, vice E. T. Crafer, deceased.
Mr. George Pett, Ordnance storekeeper at Trincoma-
lee, has been appointed Ordnance storekeeper, Cape
Town, vice Robert Cooper, retired —5501. per annum.
Mr. William H. Trant, Ordnance storekeeper at Co-
lombo, has been appointed deputy Ordnance storekeeper
at Trincomalee-350/, per annum.
Mr. W. H. G. Johnstone, denty storekeeper at Fort
George, has been appointed storekeeper at Colombo-
-550/2 per annum.

WoOlwich Arsenal--Mr Francis Pellatt, clerk in
charge, has been appointed civil -superintendent of 'the
Royal Carriage Department.
Mr. J. F. Fullom has been a 0' ted first clerk, vice
pp. in
Pellatt.
Messrs. Manifold and St. Clark have been appointed
established clerks from the temporary list.
Mr. T. A. G. Satch well, clerk in charge, has been
appointed evil superintendent and accountant in the,
Royal Laboratory Department. •
Messrs. Knight, Eagle, and Hillier have been ap-
pointed established clerks from tic temporary list.
Mr. Pett has been appointed temporary clerk, vice
Bennett.
Mr. William Bennett, temporary clerk at Woolwich,
has been appointed clerk on the establishment at the
storekeeper's department, Malta, vice Barlow.
Mr. Bake, senior temporarY clerk, has been promoted
to be first clerk.
The appointment of deputy ordnance store-keeper at
Malta is vacant-3001. per annum.
The appointment of fourth-class clerk is vacant in her
Majesty's Stationery-office, caused by the decease of Mr.
George H. Hodges, third-class clerk.
Mr. Thomas Th waites, senior clerk, has been ap-
pointed postmaster of Durham, vice W. Caldcleugh, de-
ceased.
There are two appointments vacant at the New Con-
vict Prison at Chatham, viz., that of governor, salary
500/ , and deputy-governor, 2001. per annum.
We understand that it is not the intention of Govern-
ment to fill up the vacancy in the Audit Board caused
by the death of Sir A. Grant.
Customs—Mr. A. C. Fraser, senior clerk of the first
class to the inspector-general of imports and exports, has
been pi omoted to be assistant inspector-general in
London,
Messrs. Bernard, J. Johnston, and J. Warren have
been promoted from the first class of clerks to the class
of principal clerks to the inspector-general of imports
and exports in London.
Messrs. Hume, P. Lack, G. S. Cobb n, and 0.
Southee have been promoted from the second to the
first class of clerks to the inspector-general of. imports
and exports in London. -
Mr. 0. Hitrbord has been promoted from the second
to the first class of landing-waiters in London.
Mr. F. Napier has been promoted from the third to
the second class of landing-waiters in London.
Mr. T. Clements has been promoted from the fourth
to the third class of landing-waiters in London.
Mr. Carleton Baynes has been appointed to the Go-
vernment surveyorship of Honduras, vacant by the pro-
tion of Mr. Harvey to the surveyorship of the Ber-
mudas.—Civil Service Gazette.

THE JAMES BAINES.—The Royal mail clipper James
Baines, Capt. 1111 Donnell, the largest and newest of the
celebrated Black 13a11 fleet, sails with the snails to Aus-
tralia this day, under a penalty to deliver her mails in
05 days. In spite of the stormy weather the James
Baines was towed on Wednesday into the river by the
steam-tu.:s Independence, Constitution, and Vesta. Sho
has on !mard 1,400 tons of cargo, upwards of 200 tons
having been shut out, and she cairns one of the largest
mails ever despatched to the golden regions. The own-
ers have received 320 sacks of letters and newspapers
from London alone. She also conveys about 700 pas-
sengers. To feed this vast multitude there are, in addi-
tion to the usuil stores, 75 sheep, 25 of which are pre-
served in ice ; 86 pigs, G of which are in ice ; 100
dozen of fowls, 30 dortus of which are in ice ; the live
stock being reserved fir use after the vessel has crossed
the line. A. bullock is also on board, which will be killed
to provide a portion of the old English Christmas din-
ner. The provisions will be cooked in Grant's Condens-
ing Cooking Galley, which is used on board the line-of-
battle ships in the Royal navy; and nothing that experi
ence or liberality can procnre has been omitted which
can in any way tend to the comfort of the passengers.
The James Baines is the largest and most valuable ves-
sel which ever yet sailed from this port.--Liverpool
Times.

" Berlin, Nov. 15.
"Thanks to the kindnesi of Count de Baal, your
Excellency is already acquainted with the reply of the
Imperial Cabinet to our overtures of the 30Th of last
month. Count Esterhazy has since communicated to me
the despatches addressed to him on. the sth instant, of
which 1 annex a copy to complete the archives of the
royal mission.

We felt great satisfa.ct iJn in finding that the Austrian
Cabinet apprtolated the sincere desire of an entente
which directed our propositions uf the 30th October.
Onr sat'sfaction in this respect was the greater, as in the
ensemble of the impression which the observations made
in reply by the Austrian Cabinet produced upon us, 'we
found the desired and hoped-for conviction that the two
high Courts are sufficiently agreed upon the means, and
upon the object of their common position as regards the
great questions is connection with the Eastern question,
to make shortly and equally in common ulterior propo-
sitions to their other allies at the Federal Assembly
" Animated by the desire that this may take place
within the shortest possible delay, we have examined, in
the most scrupulous manner, the reasons which in a gene-
ral orspecial manner, Austria has:thought fit in its point of
view, to oppose to the eventual federal resolution previously
formulated by us, In acting thus we have taken the
largest account orthe considerations resulting for Aus-
tria from her European position, and from the obligations
resulting therefrom.

"Wet—think we may pass over the special reas?ns in
silence. I must, however, iR a general manner, point
out, as resting on a misunderstanding, the supposition
that It was our wish to declare thefour points exclusively
and under all circumstances, obligatory for us and for
our allies, and, consequently, to bind Austria within
this circle.

"Art. 3 anticipated in a general manner the case in
which new demands might be put in the interest of the
union of the Central States of Europe, and only stipulated
for this case a preliminary resolution taken in common.
We maintain that Austria, by declaring herself willing
to accept this stipulltiou under the form of a resohition
of the Diet, would only be acting in the spirit of the
treaty of the 20th April.

" However, and as we have observed above, we ap—
preciate the objections raised by the Court of Vienna
and we hare endeavoured, as far as the maintenance of
our own conviction would allow us, to put aside from
the new project annexed to this, and of which .his Majesty
the King approves entirely, anything which might be in
contradiction with the Austrian interpretation ; to intro-
duce, on the contrary, nearly word for word the three
points such as Austria formulates them herself in the
draft of instructions for the Imperial envoy to the Diet
--a draftof which hes been communicated to us—in such
manner that we think we may confidently count upon it
that Baron Prekesch will be authorised to pronounce
himself in the committee in favour of the, adoption of the
project.
"His Majestythe King in deigning, as 1 have already
observed, to approve of such a decision by the Diet, is,
nevertheless, penetrated with the conviction that to avoid
discussions and dissentient votes, it can only be adopted
when it shall have keen preceded by the conclusion of an
additional article to formulate the obligation of the pro-
tection to be accorded to Austria in te Principalities,
obligations which the Austrian Cabinet itself allows to
go beyond the primitive principle of the treaty of the
20th April. His Majesty has also ordained that in draw-
ing up this additional article everything should be avoided
of a nature to retard an entente. To this dominant con-
sideration is due the annexed project, also approved of
by his Majesty, and which your Excellency will commu-
nicate to Count fuel, with the observation that, if it is
approved of by his Majesty the Emperor of Austria,
your Excellency is authorised to sign it without foss of
time, with Count Buol. If at Vienna they should pre-
fer that it should be signed here, Prince Esterhazy might
easily be authorised, by a telegraphic despatch, to sign
it with me. The formalities relative to thb full powers
might be completed afterwards.
" Nevertheleis, if the signing the additional article
takes place, it ought to be immediately communicated as
well to our German allies as to our representatives at
Frankfurt ; and its unanimous adoption not only would
not cause any new delay, but would considerably sim-
plify the labours of the committee apoointsd thereon, as
the latter would only have to time:ate its propositions
by referring to the adfitional ar icle, arid tho_se pror,sl-
- if based upon a project agreed up,in between Prus.ia
and Austria, alight certainly collat upon unanimous
adoption, as well by the extunittee as by the Federal
Assembly itself.
" Your Excellency will communicate the present de-
spstJii and documents annex id witho it delayito the Im-
perial Cabinet. His Majesty the King is very anxious
that this important .a 'air, relative to which his Majesty
is moved by the most profound solicitude for the Prussian
and German interests, as also for the general interests of
Europe, should attain a prompt solution in the sense
indicated above ; and in this ho counts confidently upon
the active and decisive concurrence of his august ally, his
Majessy the Emperor of Austria. I await, with the
greatest interest, the reports. of your Excellency upon
the result of these measures.

"I am, &c., (Signed) "DE MANTEUFFEL."

STATE OF TRADE.

NOTTINGHAM, Dec. B.—The usual anticipations in the
lace trade lead us to expect the transaction of a fair busi-
ness at this season, with an additional stimulus towards
the end of January. But the current season exhibits a
total and almost unaccountable cessation of business.
Half time has is many instances been introduced, and
quarter time is spoken of. Materials, however, continue
firm, for although wrought silks may be procurable at
old rates, raw materials are only negotiable at the ad-
vance—it being known that the arrivals for the next
four months will only average 2,000 tons a mouth,
whereas the deliveries for the last ten months have been
at the rate of 4,000. Thus if only 3,000 tons a month
should be demanded for consumption, the inroad upon
stocks would be very considerable.
In hosiery there is no alteration and no improvement
to report. The continued accounts from Australia sug-
gest doubts of the stability of many of the colonial firms
unless they can be assisted over their difficulties ; and
there are this morning rumours of two very considerable
failures of wholesale houses in London which have ex-
ercised afurther depressing influence on trade. —Notting-
hamshire Guardian.
LEICESTER, Dec. 7.--Business continues active in the
departments preparing goods for the East, and produces
a beneficial influence in alter branches by engaging
surplus labour, which otherwise would be unoccupied at
this season of the year. Prices of wool and yarn remain
firm.
BRADFORD, Dec. 7.—Wool—There have been more
lookers during the week, but the business doing is very
limited, and prices without change in bright-haired
wools. Other kinds continue in favour of the buyer.
Noils and brokes are sought after, and with only a small
quantity making. Yarns—There. is somewhat more
confidence in the yarn trade, arisirg from the very di-
minished production and the unwillingness of spinners to
produce yarns at the present prices. All seem satisfied
that yarns have seen the lowest point, and any change
must be upward to induce the machinery now idle to be
put in motion. Pieces—The business doing is limited,
and may be expected to continue su till the turn of the
year. The stocks of finished goods held hy the mer-
chants is much less than has been for many years at this
period, and of grey or undyed stock they bad none ;
whereas they have in previous seasons bought largely
for the spring. All is yet to do, and the stocks held by
the manufacturers aro unusually light, and but few
making ; and, with more than forty less spinners and
manufacturers than at the close of the year, it is reason-
able to expect a return of activity.—Bradford Observer.
LEEDS, Dec. s.—We have no improvement to report
of the state of the woollen trade. Both on Saturday
and to-day the business done at the cloth halls was to a
very trifling amount ; very little has also been done out
of the market. Prices rule steady, and the stocks mo-
derate, but in the present state of the demand the manu-
facturers are lesseoiws' the production, and, in conse-
quence, the mills are becoming less actively employed.
Business has been dull in the warehouses since this day
week, and, in the absence of the usual demand for ship.
ping, little is expected by way of improvement for some
time.
HUDDERSFIELD, Dec, s.—ln some departments of the
market there has been a trifle more doilies but genera`ly
there have been no sales of moment. No one seems in-
clined to P peculate, and job lots appear almost a drug.
The yarn spinners, who have usually been busy at this
Iperiod, are, like the rest, very fiat.

THE INVESTIGATION AT LAMBETH woßKriousr,._
Yesterday Messrs. Austell and C Ire met ag sin ill the
Board•room Of Leimbeth Workhouse, for the purpose of
hearing the defence of the officials affeett.l by the
evidence taken on the previous occasions. The wholo
of the sitting was occupied with the ex:tmination on
oath of Mr. Joseph Piercy, the master, who at great
length entered into the various charges brought against
himself, denying some, and offering explanations on
others. Headmitted having confined the woman Mailes
in the surgery adjoining the dead-house, but stated that
when giving the order it had not occurred to him that
it was not a proper place. Goldsmith had been told not
to paint, but said he preferred it. With respect to the
man who lay in bed so long because he had no clothe.,
he (the master) ordered them to be supplied directly he
heard of it, and severely censured Hyde for not having
provided them long before. The inquiry was further
adjourned.

The following letter has been addressed by M.
Kossuth to the editor of The Times :-
" Sir,—ln your columns of to-day two of your corres-
pondents come forward to comment on and to oppose
the opinions I expressed in my speech at the Polish
anniversary.
" 1 have not the intenti(,n to enter into polemics in
corroliorwion of my own view,. I advanced opinions
which, upon mature reflecti,m, I, in conscience, took
awl take it to be just, correct, and well-I ,unded, and
leave it to public opinion to wuigh my argu,nents and
the arguments of my opponents, and then to judge as
they think to be right.
"All I desire is to rectify an historical fict, the mis-
representation of which is calculs. el un justly to injure
the honour of my nation.
" Your Anglo-Parisian' correspondent ventures on
the reproach that the Hungaria.l nation did not assist
the Poles in IS3O, but remained a quiescent spectator of
their heroic struggle.
" That is utterly false. Quits the reverse is the fact.
The behaviour of the. Hungarian nation in that emer-
gency fills a bright page in our history; and well deserves
the appreciation of all just men.

" Hungary had be at that time undisturbed in her
tranquillity, and unshaken by heartrevolting Royal per-
jury in her royal allegiance to the house of Austria. She
was, in a word, not in a revolutionary condition, like as
she is now, and will continue to be as long as she is not
delivered of the Hapsburgs, who are no more the rulers
of Hungary by law, or by a 'national compact, re-con-
firmed by a coronation oath, but simply by the right of
Russian bayonets. Then the Hapsburgs were our legi-
timate Kings, often violating our laws, but still reigning
under the prestige of legitimacy. 'We had painful griev-
ances ; still we had a national existence • hact-pur-con-
stitution, had the invaluable institutions Of our country
Assemblies and .raunietiaaiities, astir had—alse-enr Parlia-
ment, all in full opet4tion, to protect our national exist-
ence and to redress our grievances. There was no im-
perious necessity for, therefore no adequate cause to
justify, a revolutionary rising; consequently neither an
occasion nor a possibility for a revolution. A revolution
is never possible except when it is an absolute necessity.
"Such has been the condition of Hungary, then ; and
between us and that Poland (Russian Poland) which
rose in 1830 there was Gallicia, which was unable to take
part in the Polish insurrection, guarded as Gallicia was
by a numerous Austrian army, and the house of Aus-
tria, then our legitimate sovereign, yet with whom we
were at peace, had its armies drawn up on the frontiers
of Gallicia and Poland in the attitude of armed neutrality.
"Now, in such a position and under such circum-
stances, what was it the Hungarian nation did in regard
to Poland ?

"The first news about the rising at Warsaw shook the
Hungarian nation like an electric shock. Innumerable
committees were instantly formed all over the land,—not
foe expressing verbal sympathy, but for affording every
possible assistance to the Polish patriots. Every
warlike implement that could have been hunted up
in the kingdom, and clothing, and provisions, wine,
brandy, medicaments, surgery apparatus, money, col-
lected all over the land ;—we risked prosecution and
braved the resentment of our Government, and did
with the utmost energy for the Polish patriots all your
nation is just doing for your own braves. The ladies of
Hungary were day and night at work to make charpie
(lint, I believe, is the word for it); the palaces of the rich
and the huts of the poor had been converted into store-
houses filled with materials in aid of struggling Poland,
and large convoys were seen day and night winding up
the roads in the Carpathian Mountains, in defiance of
Austrian police, Austrian military cordons, and Aus-
tiian vigilance. Nay, more, hundreds and hundreds of

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the noble-hearted youth of Hungary, braving the danger
of being captured and shot in crossing the double mili-
tary cordon on both the frontiers (several have been
actually captured and shot), left their homes and their
fortunes and went to join the ranks of the struggling
Polish patriots. Our comitals (counties), the assemblies
of which have not to be confounded with your public
meeting, they having been the most effective and the
most essential official organs of the nation's constitutional
rights—our contitats, I say, 5 as they were in number,
almost without exception were at once assembled extra-
ordinarily, and forwarded the expression of the national
will in representations to the Emperor-King, urging on
him to declare in favour of Poland, to give up Gallicia
(which the Hapsburgs pretended to hold by right inherent
to the kingly crown of Hungary), and to redress the in-
ju;tice of. Poland's partition by assisting the restoration
of the indep"ndence of the Polish nation ; and, in order
to show the earnestness of Hur, ,ary in this determina-
tion, the coinitats assured the King solemnly and officialy
that the nation stoo 1 prepared to undergo whatever
sacrifices to assist him in that noble task, and infinmed
him that the representative:: of the nation in Parliament
shall be instructed not to shriA from granting every
supply in me-1 gad mlney which may be required for
enablinz the Kin, to carry the aim of restdring• Poland.
The Hungarian Parlianioot soon afterwards met, and
took up the clue of the provincial manifestations ; the
halls of our National Assoliblv resounded with the

noblest and boldest declarations ()f the national determi-
nation to undergo even the risk of a bloody and sumptuous
war in support of Poland ; the Hluse of Representatives
framed representations to the Sovereign aecording'y,
and up to 1343 not once ha I the Hungarian Parliament
met without persistently resuming its efforts in favour
of Poland.

" And when Poland succumbed, when the Govern-
ment we were subject to issued orders for not admitting
the Polish refugees to cross the frontiers of Hungary,
we smuggled them, at the risk of our lives, to our
homes ; we gave them not much of thundering cheers
(that's not in our national character, being rather a
silent people). but we,took them to our firesides, placed
them at our right, and held them as members of our
own family for years and years. without even asking for
their names or inquiring whether they were aristocrats
or democrats.

" That is, sir, what Hungary did ; and then up starts
in your paper an anonymous pen, perverting truth, fal-
sifying history, and insulting a noLle, generous, unfortu-
nate nation, by saying that Hungary remained a quies-
cent spectator of the heroic struggle of Poland ?'
" In regard to myself, I never asked your favour or
even appealed to your sense of justice, nor ever
will ; but, when I see an attempt made to insult the
honour of my nation, I hope to be justified in the esti-
mation of all good men for requesting you to give room
to this rectification of facts, which I give, not from tra-
ditional reports, but from personal experience.
" With this I will leave your readers to judge whether,
with these facts for antecedents,—whether now, after
the Hapsburgs have torn to pieces the national compact
between themselves and Hungary ; 'after they have
driven Hungary to a revolution, too much envenomed
by treachery, perjury, murder, blood, and the gallows to
allow of any reconciliation for all eternity—a revolution
only suspended de facto by Russian bayonets, but not
subdued—after we have seen the armies of the Czar
come down upon us to crush our national existence,
with no pretext at all to excuse that foul encroach-
ment on the laws of nations, with not even so much
of a pretext as he is putting forth for his aggression on
Turkey—l leave it to your readers to judge whether
I was justified in saying that Hungary will stand by
reviving Poland, because our enemies are the same and
our cause is identical.'

"One more tribute to truth, if you please. Your
correspondent is guilty of a deliberate anachronism in
taunting me that I would advise to attack, with
12,000 French, Poland, garrisoned by 300,000 Ra-
gians. The fact is that Poland is now garrisoned by
300,000 men precisely because six months ago it has
rot been attacked by landing a Polish expedition,
backed by the 12,000 French who made the prome-
nade to the Baltic. Poland bad then not a garrison
of 300,000 men, but some 60,000 only, chiefly raw
recruits and invalids, which force could not have
been much increased at that time, with St. Peters-
durg and Finland in danger from your Baltic fleet,
and from the possibility of Sweden joining you upon
the condition of Poland being called to arms, and on the
other hand, with the Russian army on the Danube
beaten, and the Anglo-French-Turkish force 220,000
strong, pushing up Bessarabia after the beaten Russians.
Now there are 300,000 men in Poland ; but that is an
argument in favour of my views as expressed first at
Sheffield, June the sth, and last at St. Martin's-hall.
That is precisely the fact which justifies my saying that
Poland will be your Sybillino books ; that three of them
are already lost ; and that you will be brought to pay
for the last three the full price at which you could have
purchased all the nine some months ago.—l have the
honour to be, Sir, your humble servant,

. L. KOSSUTH.
21, Alpba•road, Regent's•park, Dec. 6.

DREADFUL MURDER IN TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.—
Between the hours of eight and nine o'clock last evening
a Mr. Moore, ginger-beer manufacturer, Warren-street,
Tottenham-court-road, was shot dead, and Mr. Collard,
some time since a policeman of the E division, was mor-
tally wounded by a man whose dress is respectable, but
who refuses to give his name, and is at present unknown.
He is, however, now firmly • secured in the E division
Peliee•sta.tion. Clark's-puddings, George street, St.
Giles's, As far as the terrter could ascertain at the
police-station and at the University Hospital, when
Cunard now lies after having had a ball extracted from
his body, the murderer at to be about thiity years
of age, of about five feet six inches in height, of a swarthy
complexion, and seemingly a Frenchman. He refuses
to answer any questions put to him. On his person at
the time or his arrest were found a case of pistols awl
twenty rounds of hail cartridge. Mr. Superintendent
Faxall, after receiving information from Mr.
Inspector
Clements,
Clements, proceeded to the University .
pool Collard, who is F aid to be now dying,
Moore, the dead man, is in his own house, within
yards of where he was shot, in Warren-street, and near
the residence of Collard, who was a
Ar. Moore after
greengrocer,i and
,
went to the rescue, as he thought, of
hearing the report of the murderer's shot, and stopped
the murderer as he was running away after firing. In
consequence of the complete silence of the perpetrator of
1 these fearful acts the cause of them is unknown. •