The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-23 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Advices from Madrid of the 18th state that the
Government had published an order forbidding any-
other than electors to take part in election meet-
ings, and limiting their discussions to electoral
matters.

On the 18th the Three per Cents. closed at 34.

ITALY.

The Italia a Poplo, a Radical Genoa paper, was
seized by the police on the 16th, for an article in-
sulting to the Piedmontese Government.

MISCELLANEO US.

It is related that Prince Woronzow, who has
been drinking tho waters at Carlsbad, will return
to Tiflis at the end of this month.

The last ukase relative to the new conscription
has produced an indescribable sensation in Russia.
If 200,000 men are raised, and each serf is valued
but at 500 silver roubles, it will give an enormous
sum. There have been four such conscriptions in
two years. What has the war already cost the
nobles ?

The tribunal of Lorrach (Baden) has summoned
the notorious Hecker to appear before it within
four weeks, to answer to charges of high treason in
connection with the Baden revolution of 1848-9.
His property has meantime been sequestered. In
case of non-appearance, judgment will go by de-
fault.
Baron Thile, Prussian envoy at Athens, and now
on leave, will, says the Kr eutz Zeitung, be appointed
to Rome.
Leipsic autumn fair has commenced, and it is
expected that considerable business will be trans-
acted with the Danubian provinces, whose mer-
chants were prevented attending at the last two
fairs by the Russian occupants.
Field-Marshal-Lieutenant Mertens has been ap-
pointed Military and Civil Governor of Trieste. ,
The cholera is less violent at Rustchuk, but it
rages fearfully among the Egyptians at Giurgevo.
The Berlin Silesian Aid Committee has been
enabled to transmit 26,000 'dollars to the sufferers
by the late inundation, including a magnificent
donation of 10,000 dollars from the Aix-la-Chapelle
In surance- office.
English engineers are occupied in taking ad-
measurements between Kostendje and Rassova,
•" the Porte having given its consent to the con-
s traction of a canal which is to be navigable for
merchantmen between the Danube and the Black
Sea."

A Prague journal estimates the present expenses
of the Austrian army at 800,000 florins daily, or
25 millions (2i millions sterling) monthly. This is
evidently an enormous exaggeration.
The Prussian Minister fur Foreign Affairs has
given a diplomatic dinner in honour of Kiamil
Effendi, the new Turkish envoy.
The last number of the Prussian Wochen, Blatt,
the organ of the so-called Bethmann Holweg, or
Moderate Opposition and anti-Russian party, has,
it is said, been confiscated by the police.
A letter in the Tribnno gives an account of a
terrible and extraordinary catastrophe that has oc-
curred at Daroca, a small town in Arragon, situate
in a rich and fertile valley, abounding in corn and
wine. The loss has been incalculable; in the vaults
water has replaced wino, the contents of the shops
are spoiled, and many houses are crumbling away.
From Moscow a heavy failure has been an-
p.ounced, the firm being that of Lakin and. Skura-

toff, cotton manufacturers, with liabilities for
100,0001.
A new telescopic comet was discovered on the
12th by M. Bruhns, at the'observatory of Berlin.
The Spanish tx-Minister of War, General Blaser,
and Count Vista Hermoso, who have 1 een staying
some days in London as political refugees, have
gone to Paris, where the Count de San Luis,
,ex
President of the Council, accompanied by his
nephew, the Chevalier D'Andrade, late • secretary
Of embassy at Turin, has arrived from Madrid.-

In a lefter from St. Petersburg, which appears
in the Allgemeine Zeitung, we read—" The loss of
the Aland Islands is of no consequence to Russia.
They were always looked upon as an exposed post,
which would have to be abandoned at the first at-
tack. They were only of importance in a war with
Sweden • in a war with any other power their
mi-
litary value is nil ; and these barren islands can
have no value except as a military position."
The two admirals of the combined fleets have
issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of the
Aland Isles, prohibiting them from holding any in-
tercourse with the Russians..

The Swedish Government has appointed Baron
Hochschild, the present Swedish Minister in Berlin,
to represent it in London, in the place of Rear-
Admiral Virgin, who has at his own request been
recalled.

The naval officers attached to the port of Wax-
holm have lately given a brilliant banquet to the
officers of the French man-of-war Austerlitz, lying
there ; and this has been returned by the latter in
a no loss enthusiastic manner. •

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPB.)

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.

The United States' mail steamship Washington,
Captain Lines, with dates from New York to the
9th instant, arrived off Cowes at half-past 9 this
morning, on her way to Bremen.

LORD DUNDONALD AND T lIE BALTIC

FLEET.

With characteristic and sailor-like frankness, Lord
Dundonald has hastened to contradict the groundless as-
sertion that he had been offered the command of the •
Baltic fleet, and bad declined it on account of the condi-
tions with which it was coupled. " I have never," says
Lord .Dundonald, "been honoured with any conversa-
tion or communication with Lord Aberdeen relative to
the command in the Baltic, or in regard to operations to
be coeducted in that or any other quarter." On this flat
contradiction our brother of the press who first let loose
the canard in question coolly remarks, " The only real
discrepancy between our statement and this explanation
(what a nice soft name for a contradiction !) lies in the
offer of command to Lord Dundonald." The only differ-
ence here admitted would by_ most people be considered
glide enough but it is not the only one. Lord Dundonald
has also explained that ho had no communication from
Lord Aberdeen respecting the propoied operations in the
Baltic ; in other words, there was no proposal to ham Par
his free agency as commander, which was part of the
story that has elicited his denial. Our contemporall
consoles himself for having been detected in disseminat-.
ing an unfounded story by saying that had the offer
been made to Lord Dundonald, "it would certainly
have reflected honour on Lord'Aberdeen." Was it, then,
to do honour to Lord Aberdeen that our contemporary
gave currency to the story ? The same journalist, andt
a morning contemporary who echoes hint as usual, fall
back upon Lord Dundonald's secret and mysterious
" one means " of putting ships and stone batteries
on an equal footing. One of these writers complains
that Government has " neglected " Lord Dun don ald's
communication, and the other that Government has nut
" adopted" his plan. Did the Government " neglect
the communication ? Is it not, indeed, the fact, that
the Admiralty took Lord Dundonald's crotchet into
serious consideration ? Nay more, did they not refer it •
to a select committee of naval Officers ? Did not this
committee declate it impracticable.? Would our owl'
temporaries have Government adopt an impracticable
Scheme ? It is true naval officers are not 'infallible ;
is true_they are sometimes prejudiced against what is
new ; but all who know Lord Dundonald and Ws •
career will be prepared to believe the Admiralty and
the committee have justly appreciated his " one means.
Lord Dundonald i 5 not better known for his indomitable
valour than for his visionary turn of mind and sad lack
of judgment. He started in life by allowing himself to
be led, by sheer love of frolic and excitement we honistly
believe, into a grave collision with the laws of his coun-
,try,. At the time of the Burdett riots he had almost
peesuaded the popu larit-huntiaronet to pursue f!:
course that would ,infallibly haveb led to a great 30
aimless loss of life. For years he. went about boring
everybody with an impossible rotatory steam-egine. The
presumption is, that having now passed his fourscore years
his play for putting a speedy end to the war has a strong
family likeness to all his earlier plans. By the bye, he
himself describes it as the means of placing the. belli-
gerents "on an equal footing." Now, as on the whole
the allies have rather had the' better" of Russia in the
present campaign, we suspect the public. would have owed
Government small thanks for adopting a plan that was
to place Russia " on an equal footing with the allies."—
Daily News.

ACCIDENT AT THE HOLYHEAD BREAK

WATER.

A correspondent, writing from Bangor on the 19th
inst., says :—About half-past ten a.m., a fearful occur-
rence, though fortunately not attended with the loss of
life, took place at the new pier or breakwater at
Holyhead. The pier in its present form extends fully
a mile into the sea, and at its extreme point has five
lines of rails on 18-inch timber, all braced with
crossed timbers double and treble under the
which are placed under each line of rails, and are 3'
feet apart. I was standing at the extreme end of the pier
on the centre lino (having obtained an order to view the
works), waiting to see a train deposit its load in the sea,
and observing the carpenters extending the pier, each
working with a life-buoy upon him. Whilst admiring
this precaution, as they have only the width of the tim•
ber used to put the rails upon, three waggons and an
engine came down the centre line on which I was stationed
Three other waggons with two breaksmeu were running
on the next parallelg line of rails; and had reached the
third pile from the end when an immense crash
took place, shaking the whole fabric in a terrible
viers
ner. Almost immediately I saw the enormous timbers
from the inner line of rails rising up from the eX-
treme end, and following the train loaded with stone,
which with two carpenters and a breaksman had been
precipitated far below into the sea. Fortunately it ne,.
high tide, and the men, who fell into a great de All
of water, not rise to the surface till nearly
the timbers had fallen. Many workmen soon congrei
gated on the spot, and by the aid of a life beat and
buoys, and the daring gallantry of a man who lower%
+him elf by a rope to the fallen timbers, the three Inns
were rescued from the water and placed on the ,tetrt,
work, some distance off, and ultimately conveyed to r
shore uninjured. It seems that the supporters of the in ht
line of rails had broken down under the immense werir,
of the locomotive and the three waggons. a'w-
wards observed blocks of stone on some of the wagg—
fien
(besides a full load of smaller stones) of several teai
weight, and I was informed by the men that it is SO fee
from the top of the rails to the foundation in the sea'
and that although the piles are 18-inch balks, they a
c.
of very indifferent white pine, and that more fearful se;
cidents may be anticipated. A pile supporting °ro d,
beams under each line of rails in the centre of the
10 yards apart, with a depth of 80 feet to the foun"-a
tion, cannot be sufficient to bear the oscillations e,n,li
weight of locomotive trains loaded to the utmost
stone. The Government and also the contractor ougp
to have their immediate attention drawn to it.

.--'

IMPUDENT ROBBERY AT SPONDON.—On Sunday
morn
ing last a most impudent robbery was committed et the
residence of Henry Morley, Esq., Spondon. It apPe°ll,'
that between twelve and ens o'clock that day, the 50-
vant laid the cloth for dinner, in the front dining-00d
and placed the plate on the table. !Mr. Morley retail,
from church shortly afterwards, and went upstairs•
about tea minutes afterwards it was discovered that tm-
following silver goods had been stolen :--Two large
table-spoons, one dessert-spoon, ono gravy-spoon, ad:
salt-spoon ; there was a crest upon them, with a tige'
head and cap upon it. Afterwards they discovered
that a
‘number of silver tea-spoons had been taro
away ; they were marked with the letter "
There is reason to believe that the robbery was CO
mitted by a woman tramping about the country'
about the time of the robbery the neighbours oea
woman coming out of Mr. Morley's house in a con
°lllO
state, and as if she was carrying something. but the
he
has yet been obtained as to her whereabouts, but
police are on the lert. —Derby Advertiser.
MONUMENT TOa
SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN LIVERPOOD.;
After the learned and eloquent address delivered n.rsii•
Wednesday evening by the noble president of the Br" 10,3
Association, in the course of which he more than 011 t
alluded to the debt which the best interests of this gel's
commercial city owe to the researches of the illustriour
Newton, we hail with satisfaction and delight the opP°ir
Utility afforded our fellow-townsmen of recording the„,
names in the list of those who are about to do he phi,
to themselves by erecting a monument to-the great Pro
losopher at the place of his early education, and close.it
the spot which gave him birth. We venture toprecliner
that our merchants and our shipowners, as well as (;"",
men of science, will not be found ranting in this (shanl,
be it said) the first public tribute of respect to the
Ply
mory of the world's greatest philosopher.
Mercury. morn'
Germeuv.—On opening Clee church on Sunday
ing last for Divine service, it was found impossible .°1
sm
remain there in consequence of a very offensive elt
which pervaded the whole church. The clergyman
once proceeded to Cleethorpes, and held the service in
hat
on
the school-room. It has since been discovered t
digging a large grave, which contains 16 corpses brought
from Cleethorpes during the late severe visitation
cholera, a small underground drain which communicated
a family vault inside the church had been brokent
into, and that the offensive gases given out had founrd.
vent through the drain into the church. Several peui
sons were at the time much affected by the smell, b.,
nothing of a more serious nature has resulted front )5!
t.--Stamford Merouryt;

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated. at 7,000 bales, including 1,000
taken for export and on speculation. The market
was steady, but dull. Railway shares were very
heavy at a reduction of to per cent.
The changes that occurred last week in the finan-
cial position of the Bank of England were not of
any moment in regard to the two principal items,
viz., the bullion and note circulation. Many
would have anticipated, however, an increase in
the former, owing to the large arrivals, but if the
exports have not kept pace with them, much of the
gold from Australia has only been paid into. the
Bank Within the last two or three days, and
will be brought' into a future account. It
may even be affirmed that the return now
before us would have exhibited •an increase
but for the extra amount of specie ordinarily
required about this, period to meet harvest
disbursements. The public deposits are below the
sum that might be wished air this advanced period
01 the quarter, having- been about six millions
sterling on the 17th September, 1853. There will,
however, be three weeks' return yet before the
maximum is attained, and the question to be solved
is whether the receipts will amount to two millions
additional. The increase in the other securities is
proof of the continued demand for money, the pre-
vailing mistrust being an inducement to many of
our merchants to provide themselves with cash be-
yond what they may actually require. Compared
with the previous week the changes were as follows:
Active circulation £19,583,385
Decrease 38,565
Bullion 13,279,370
Decrease 42,449
3,703,852
9,038
4,985,233

Rest

Increase
Public Deposits

In crease
Other Deposits
Increase'
Seven-Day and other Bills

642,527
9,780,712
14,467
1,023;575

-Jay 4._
Decrease 35,976
Government Securities 10,996,955
Other Securities 15,353,432
Increase
Notes un Cillployed 7,049,425
lacrease 41,265
The supply of bills upon the Continent was
larger yesterday afternoon, and higher rates were
consequently given for the pound sterling. Paris,
90 days, was at 25 272 to 30 ; Amsterdam, at 11
17A to 4; Hamburgh, at 13 61. to 64 ; Frankfort,
at 118- to ; and Trieste, at 11 38 to 44. The
increased demand for money had naturally the
effect of inducing parties to draw more freely at
three months, in order to obtain the pro-
' eeeds, and loan the same if not required
for their own . business purposes. Money
*was particularly in request yesterday in the Stock
Xxchange because of the instalment on the Turk-
ish Loan, but in discount circles it will doubtless
vcintinue to lie tightly held, while there is any ap-
. Prehension of failures. Gold is not now in de-
wand for remittance to the Continent, owing to

the improvement in the rate of exchange.

The directors of the Devonshire Great Consoli-
dated. Mining Company, at their Board Meeting
sc old this day, declared a dividend of 9,2161., being
9/. Per share, out of profits from sales of copper
ores, sampled in the months of May and June last.
-After payment of the same, there remains in hand
a balance of 25,2561.125. 9d. in cash. Ore bills not at
maturity, and reserved fund applicable to the gene-
ral purposes of the company.
The amonnt• of gold exported from London di-
rect during the week to Thursday last was 26,953
ounces, and of silver 97,440, ounces, all except
480 ounces of silver going to the Continent. From
the outports a good deal has been sent away.
The Stock market is flat, and there has been less
doing, The foreign- political news is not of a cha-
racter to stimulate speculation either for a rise or
fall, and the demand for money has more influence.
Consuls have been 95 to 951 for transfer, and 951
to
,for account. Exchequer Bills have been 6s.
to gs., premium.
In Foreign Securities there is no animation..
he Turkish Scrip has been dealt in at 34- to 31-
Premium, and the Spanish Passive at 4/. Sardi-
rlian Bonds have been 88i, and •Dutch 2 per
Cents., 62. These have been the only bargains.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 to 6/ ;
Mexican, 241 to 25 ; Peruvian, 70 to 72 ; ditto
3 per Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents.,
40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 98 to 100 ; ditto
4 per Cents., 87 to 89 ; Spanish New Deferred,.
1811 to 18i ; ditto .3 per Cents., 374 to 3Fr; ditto
Certificated, 5 to 5i ; ditto Passive, 4 to 41.
Railway Shares have been declining again, and
are more abundantly supplied. The principal-
transactions have been in Midland, North-Western,
Bouth-Eastern, and South-Western. There have
been lower rates accepted for French shares also.
The Mines are nominal, the Banks firm, Crystal
Nue lower again, and the Australian Agricul-
tural barely so good.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the (*cid List.)
Bu•iness done.
3 Per Cent. Consols Annuities 95 15
Consols for Account 17th Oct. 93i
't 'lacquer Bills, 2id.
X5OO 6 p
Small 6 9 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Hardin.
lan Bonds, 5 per Cent.. ......
-",
Ditto Passive (Converted)
,kish Scrip
Ditto for the Account 3 a p
th,,, Dividends on the above payable in London.
"'oh Exchange, Di per Cent. 12 Gail 62
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols 95
Ditto October Account

TAT, in,
THE AILLIRE OF MESSRS. DAVID SCOTT, RICHMOND,
—l'ln Co.—There was a meeting of creditors at Man-
chester,
esterday morning, at which Mr. Broome, ac-
countantexhibited a statement of liabilities and assets.
From this it appears that the liabilities are as follow :
Amount of book debts owing by the firm, 42,9241.75. id.;
tLiabilities on bills in the hands of third parties, 150,3701.
468- 11d. • total, 193,295/. 4s. Assets—book debts
rutog to the firm, 47,8841. 16s. ld. ; accounts drawn for
not discounted, 27,472/. 16s. 3d. ; goods in the hands
of e°llsignees, 8,688/. Os. 10d. ; goods, fixtures, and
uiscellancous stock in warehouse, 5,4111. 17s. ld. ; mis-
cellan
"ug property, 4801. • bills and cash in hand,
.412/. 166. id. ; securities:2,ooo/. ; total, 95,3411. 16s.
4d.
1,„0 apparent assets, to meet liabilities amounting to
,295/ 4s. The current statements out of doors were
that the liabilities are between 450,0001. and 500,0001. ;
Out this is explained by the fact that the house is in the
commission trade, and having power to draw upon the
I)ararties for whom they have bought goods, their names
4" a large amount of paper—say 245,0001.—0 n sol 7
4111.! Parties, for money owing, and which will probably
= ue
"• A resolution was passed by the meeting ap-
P_ °luting a committee to further investigate the accounts
consider the best means of proceeding under the
circumstances. The meeting was then adjourned to the
c
131.11 October. We learn that the private estate of the
15,nocoloPta1 partner would not realise more than 10,000/. to
urI:LIE WITA.LE FISHERY.—The Sarah and Elizabeth
art`
at Vidlon Voe on the 18th inst., with 3,650 seals,
Beahorses, 4 large whales, 5 unicorns, and 9 bears,
kivr
neduchlg about 104 imperial tons of oil, and about 31
1 whalebone. On the 27th of May, she became
le in IVide Bay by a large iceberg setting down upon
r; and it was feared she would be lost. A great part
°f the crew's clothes were got out on to the ice, the pro-
:lliglens were taken out of the hold, and all were ready
O leave the ship ;'but ultimately the berg elided clear
her, 'without any serious damage having been done.
„`3 got at libert on the 14th of June.--Eastern
,-(ott.
zeB Herald.
''I'ORTANT IMPROVEMENT IN FISHING NETS.—A
important improvement has lately been introduced,
tV" the best effect, in the manufacture of fishing-nets in
i s quarter, by using cotton material in place of hemp.
Several of these cotton nets have been used during the
Past season on the fishings of the Tay, and have answered
e_verY expectation. They are lighter and softer, and
consequently easier to draw than the common hemp
seta, and are cap able of being dried more perfectly, be-
sides possessing
other good qualities which recommend
teaul
tto the general use of' fishers. 'We have little doubt
t hf 3 improvement will soon be extensively adopted.
--Perthshire Courier.
tI•!4T OF SALMON FISIIINGS.--The salmon fi,hings in
80%1 river Tay, belonging to Sir John Stewart Richard-
,,o of Pitfour, .Bart., were let by public
mum in the
-tt
Royal George Hotel, on Friday afternoon last, for the
ensuing fishing season, 1855. The room was crowded
piiL
tflinlir
salmon fishers, and, after a keen competition, the
fishings were knocked down to the previous
Inac(snien 7101., being an advance on last year's rent
1435061. The fishing of Poldrait, on the North Inch,
w
let at 1241. The last year's rent was 1301. For
the three fourths of the ships fishing there were no
bidders above last year's rent, and it was withdrawn, it
being intimated at the same time that private offers
would be received for the ship} fishing.—Pert4 Paper.

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