The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-02 00:00:00

HE LONDON,- 'PItiITAYrIi:VEN

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
George Robertson, contractor, Plains of Thornton, near
Glammiss, Forfarshire.
John Ure and Son, calenderers, Glasgow.
David Bakie, merchant, Thurso.
Alexander Purdie, innkeeper, Ardrishaig, Argyllshire.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday tho 27th day of May, 1854,

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
£
Notes issued ...• .... 26,012,250

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities ...... 2,944,900
Gold coin and bullion 12,012,230
Silver bullion .. •.

426,012,250

Dated the Ist day of Jane, 185

£25,012, 250
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

BANKING D 1
X
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest .....• • . . ....... 3,227,015
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 2,489,944
Other deposits ... • •. 10,283,180
Seven Day and o•ber
Bills ........ •. • . 1,026,415 ,

'AIT3fENT.

Government securities
(includg.Dead Weight
Annuity) •• • 9.856,309
Other securitles...... 15,441,9 6
Notes •••• • • . • 5,552,710
Gold and silver coin .. 728,599

X 31,579,584

X 31,579,584
:. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the Ist day of June, 1854

PRICE OF SUGAR,
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending the 30th day of
May, 1854, is 235. 34d. per hundredweight, exclusive of
the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

'COURSE OF E.XCJ
Amsterdam 11 16
Ditto, three months .. 11 17%
Rotterdam ..
Antwerp .......• • • •... 25 25
Brussels . 25 25
llamburgh ..... 13 •7
Alton • • ••
Paris • . 25 0
Ditto, three months .• 25 30
Marseilles.. ...... • • • • .. 25 30
Bourdeaux • • •
. Frankfort-on-Maine .... 118%
Vienna .................13 40
Trieste ........ •• •• • • .. 13 45
Petersburg!,.. •• • • ......
sfadrld
Barcelona..

'ANGE—Tare DAT.
'Gibraltar ...........• • • --
Leghorn .........• •• .. 30 50
Genoa . 25 371
...............,4
Milan ................
Venice . .
..............
(Naples ................ 42
(Palermo 156 N
Messina .... • 127
(Lisbon .......... ..... . 52&
Oporto ...........• • • ..
:Rio Janeiro . ......
Buenos Ayres ..........
'New York, 60 days' sight
Philadelphia .......... --
PRICES Or BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold In Bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 1
New Dollars 0 0
iiilver in bars ...• 0 5 111

4 9 Ti
. . 5 0 I,i

EPSOM RACES

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.)
RAILWAY PLATE.

Thirteen ran.
FOAL STARES,

VISITORS' PLATE.

Eight ran.
DERBY AND OAKS.
Child of the Mist .......................
Vaultress ......

Nine ran.
Child of the Mist objected to.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(Front the London New Price Current of this day.)
SUGAR.—To-clay the British Plantation Sugar market
closed with a dull appearance, and the prices accepted were
6d per cwt. under last Friday for both grocery and refining
sorts. Oerations were 329, making 1,828 hhds. &c., for
the week. The sugar market will be closed on Tuesday on
account of the holidays, but large public sales are declared
for the following days.
REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar was operated in with
caution for home trade purposes, and rates rather declined,
brown lumps selling at 46s Gd to 475, and low to fine
grocery 47s to 51s. A large business doing in Dutch
Crushed Sugar for exportation, chiefly at 268 3d to 275.
COFFEE.—Today operations in Native Ceylon were on
a more extended scale privately at 42s Gd for good ord.
Plantation also met with more attention, and realised full
term. None of any sort was submitted to public sale.
MOLASSES.—To-day several purchases were made in
Molasses, Antigua 17s 3d, and St. Kitts 15s per cwt.
TEA.—The currency is for low to good ord sound with a
prompt Did to lli, rather blackish to blackish leaf 11id
to ls 31d, and strong to Pekoe flavour is 4d to 2s Gd per
lb. There has been more activity in the market for Green
and prices are well supported.
SPICES.—There is more desire to operate in pepper, only
a moderate quantity is now offered, and prices have be-
come firm.
TALLOW.—For consumption and on speculation pur-
chases have been on a limited scale during the week, and
prices continue unsteady. The closing currency for first
sort Pale Yellow Candle on the spot Gls to Gls 3d, and
62s 3d to 62s Gd August delivery. Of home melted pro-
duction increase, and dealers not being much inclined to
operate, there are sellers at 58s 6d to 59s cash.
In other sorts of tallow transactions are limited—
Australian mutton at 55s to 603; beef, 53s to 56s ;
and South American 55s to 69s per cwt. At auction
the quantity offered this afternoon was 500 casks, etc.
There is a greater stock than last year by 13,000 casks, and
deliveries show a decrease of 11,000, still prices rule above
that time.

vice Halahan; Assistant-Surgeon Wm. Henry Mackintosh
to be Surgeon, vice Parratt, promoted ; April 1. Tempo-
rary Assistant-Surgeon Robert Win. Cockerill to be Assis-
tant-Surgeon, vice Mackintosh, May 21.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Royal Gloucestershire Regiment of Hussar Yeomanry—
Major George William Blathwayt to bo Lieut.-Colonel,
vice Browne, deceased, May 29.
Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry—The Honourable
Edward Chandos Leigh to be Cornet, May 27.
Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Hugh Alexander Baring,
Gent., to be Cornet ; Alfred Bonham Carter, Gent., to be
Cornet, May 29.
Hampshire Militia Artillery—Edward Rodney, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant, May 31.
Northumberland Regiment of Militia—Edward Charles
Charleton, Gent., to be Lieutenant, May 27.
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Charles
Samuel Lindsell to be Captain, vice Macnamara, resigned.
May 25 ; Ensign Henry Meux Smith to be Lieutenant,
vice Lindsell, promoted, May 26.
Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham-
lets Militia—Grenville Macleod Andrews to be Lieutenant,
vice Exlam, resigned, May 8.
Royal Bucks or King's Own Regiment of Militia—Law-
rence Robert Hall, Gent., to be Ensign, April 8 ; Ensign
William James Voules, to be Lieutenant ; Ensign Isaac
King, to be Lieutenant, May 27.
[This article is substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazette of Friday, May 26.]
4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia.—
William Elias Taunton, Gent., to be Lieutenant, May 15.
BANKRUPTS.
Richard George Prentice, grocer, Pimlico, to surrender, June 13, and July 12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Wilde, Rees, Humphrey, and
Wilde, College-hill, City.
Edward Pateson, draper and hosier, Preston, June 19,
and July 7, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthing-
ton, and Shipman, Manchester.
Joseph Wormald, shoe maker, Glossop, Derby, June 14,
and July 6, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthing-
ton, and Shipman, Manchester.
James Palmer Shapcott, wool-dealer, Preston Plucknett,
Somersetshire, June 8 and July 6, at one, at the Exeter
District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Slade
and Vining, Yeovil
James Howard, grocer, Levenshnlme, near Manchester,
June 19 and July 12, at twelve, at Manchester District
Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Dawson,
Manchester.
George Edmund Shuttleworth, Mark Hodgson Shuttle-
worth, and George Edmund Suttleworth the younger,
auctioneers, Poultry, June 14 and July 12, at 2, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Crowder
and Maynard, Coleman-street.
George James Rollason, brasssounder, Warwick, June
14 and July 13, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham; Part-
ridge, Birmingham.

PRISONERS REMOVAL BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
THE TICKET OF LEAVE SYSTEM.
Lord St. LEONARDS moved for certain returns re-
sting to tickets of leave.—Agreed to.
LETTERS FOR THE BALTIC AND BLACK SEA
FLEETS.
Lord BEAUMONT wished, before the house rose, to
put a question to his noble friend the Postmaster-Ge-
neral with regard to the transmission of letters to the
officers and seamen serving in the British fleets in the
Baltic and the Black Sea. He understood that many
letters written by the friends and relations of persons
who were serving in those fleets, and sent through the
post, had been delayed and that others had not reached
their destination at all. This might be owing, in some
degree to their being erroneously directed, for he found
that many persons had directed their letters to the
Post-office of the capital or town nearest which the
fleets were supposed to be, as Copenhagen, or Stock-
holm, and as the postmasters at those places had no
instructions to forward them on, the letters would thus
be delayed. But he understood that there was some
further delay in the distribution of letters even after
they reached the admiral's ship. He believed that
the usual course was to send all letters directed to
persons serving in the fleet to the admiral's ship, and
when they reached that vessel, and were sorted, a
signal was made for the other ships to send their
boats for letters, and thus the distribution was made
through the fleet. He did not know, but it might
be worth consideration, whether it would not save
time, and insure a more accurate delivery of
the letters, supposing them to be properly addressed,
and the name of the ship for which they were intended,
was placed upon them, were assoi ted at the Post office
here before they were sent out. The questions he wished
to put to his noble friend were, first, in what manner
the Post-office wished, for their own convenience, the
letters to be addressed ? secondly, whether means had
been taken by the Postmaster to effect a regular trans-
mission of letters intended for the fleets ? and, thirdly,
whether it was within the jurisdiction of the Post-office
to make such arrangements, or whether the transmis-
sion depended entirely upon the chance of ships going
out, or upon the admirals being able to despatch a
steamer or a boat to the port near which the fleet might
happen to be for letters ! He also wished to ask his
noble friend whether, supposing the troops should make
any forward movement towards the seat of war, any
means had been taken for sending letters to this country.
He would suggest that it might, perhaps, bo most con-
venient to send letters through Austria rather than
despatch them via Constantinople.
Viscount CANNING was much obliged to his noble
friend for the opportunity which be gave him of explain-
ing this subject, as it was one of much importance and
also of some difficulty, considering the means of trans-
port at disposal of the Post-office. With regard to the
Baltic fleet the arrangements were these. Upon the
Tuesday in every week a mail was made up in London
and despatched by Belgium and Prussia to Dantzic.
The admiral in command had received instructions from
the Admiralty to send a steamer from the fleet every
week to meet the mail at Dantzic, and convey it
thence for distribution. The same steamer of course
brought letters from the fleet, to be returned to
England by the same channel as the mail from
tAis country. In regard to postage, by a convention en-
tered into by Great Britain, a postage of Bd. was payable
able on letters to Dantzic, and thus, being under engage-
ru en' to Belgium and Prussia, England could not reduce
th,s amount of postage below Bd. on officers' letters. As
reg arced seamen's letters, her Majesty's Government had
mao'e arrangements whereby the postage would be re-
duceti to sd. Newspapers could not be conveyed by the
Damaic route, because according to the arrangement
with the Prussian Government there was no means of
prepaying newspapers to Prussia, and the papers could
not le aye Dantzie until the postage upon them was paid.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
PROVISION FOR THE EMBARKATION AND
DISEMBARKATION OF TROOPS IN THE
EAST.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH rose to request from
the Government some explanation of a correspondence
which appeared in the Morning Chronicle relative to the
embarkation of our troops at Gallipoli.
The Earl of WICKLOW rose to order, The time had
arrived for reading the order of the day.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH expressed his wil-
lingness to ask his question to-morrow, but at the same
time if a peer was to be precluded from asking questions
upon matters of pressing interest by the rule to which
the noble earl adverted, it would be necessary for their
lordships to alter the rule. (Hear, and cries of" Go on.")
It being the wish of their lordships that he should pro-
ceed, he would do so. The newspaper to which he bad
referred contained a letter from General Brown to Lord
Raglan, giving an account of important assistance given
by the French on the embarkation of our troops at Galli-
poli for their removal to Scutari. The letter was in the
following terms :

" utari M 7, 185.
" My Lord, —ln communicatinCo you, thea sy afe arrival
in this port of the 93d Regiment, and of the second brigade
of the Rifles, I should fail altogether in my duty if I did
not inform your lordship of the prompt and efficient assist-
ance which I received for the embarkation of these troops
from Admiral Bruat, General Canrobert, and all the French
authorities residing at Gallipoli.
" Not having on the spot any English vessel of war, and
finding myself without any other means of establishing a
communication with the steamers or transports but the
very defective aid of the boats of the locality furnished by
the commissariat, it would have been impossible for me to
effect that embarkation without a considerable loss of time
had it not been for the aid of our allies.
"In such circumstances I did not hesitate to apply t the French admiral and general, whose readiness to lend
assistance to the troops of her Majesty had been already
appreciated by me on previous occasions. General Can-
robert at once placed at my orders all the flat-bottomed
boats which he could dispose of, and Admiral Bruat was
kind enough to employ all the boats of his squadron both
in towing the others and in carrying troops, until all the
men wore placed on board.
" The result of this prompt and friendly co-operation
was, that the two regiments, which had already marched
eight miles from their lines at Gallipoli, of which the em-
barkation did not in consequence commence until 1 in the
afternoon, were all on board, with upwards of 100 horses,
by sunset, so that it was possible to weigh anchor before
nightfall.
"I am deeply impressed with the feeling that, owing so
much personally to these distinguished officers for the
kind co-operation which they afforded me on this occasion,
as, indeed. on many others, I should be most ungrateful
were I not to seize on the very first occasion to express
the obligations under which they have placed me from the
first moment that I have been acting in concert with I
them.
" I have the honour to be, my lord, your very obedient
humble servant,

" T. BROWN, Lieutenant-General."
That letter completely confirmed the apprehension he
had frequently given expression to, that the transports
and steamers in which our troops had been conveyed to
Turkey were not provided with a sufficient number of
suitable boats for the rapid embarkation and disembarka-
tion of the soldiers. (Hear, hear.) It must be unneces-
sary to impress upon their lordships the extreme import.
ance of attaching to every vessel employed to convey
troops as many boats fitted for the embarkation and dis-
embarkation of troops as could be given consistently
with the demands of other departments of the public
service. It was impossible to say how much the success
of our operations would depend upon the rapidity with
which a large number of troops could be thrown ashore.
Suppose only a portion of a force to be landed, a sea
might arise which would render it impossible to land
more, and in that.case the troops already landed would
be exposed to attack from the enemy which they would
not have strength to resist. Again, an officer, in order
to gain sufficient time for, disembarkation, might be
obliged to select an unfavourable instead of a favourable
spot for that operation. This subject attracted atten-
tion eight years ago, and it was then thought expedient
that all vessels employed for the conveyance of troops
should be provided not only with a sufficient number of
flat-bottomed boats, but also with one large boat with
an amount of steam power sufficient to enable it to tow
the other boats. Should this system be adopted, troops
could be disembarked with great rapidity.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE admitted the letter which
the noble earl had read to be perfectly authentic, and he
was happy to be able to assure their lordships that the
troops serving in the East were provided with ample
means of embarking and disembarking. The noble earl
must be aware that in consequence of the necessity which
existed for sending from this country two of the largest
fleets that ever left our shores, it was deemed advisal,le
that the large land force which had gone to the East
should be conveyed, not in vessels of war, but in vessels
hired for the purpose, which had been previously em-
ployed in commerce. These vessels, of course, had not
flat bottomed boats, which were necessary for the dis-
embarkation of troops engaged in military operations.
The French troops had been conveyed chiefly in vessels
of war, which were provided with flat-bottomed boats,
and upon the occasion referred to in General Brown's
letter the French authorities very courteously placed
some of them at our disposal. Their lordships,
however, might rely upon it that ample provision
was made for the embarkation and disembarkation
of our troops in cases of emergency in the Black
Sea. This was a matter which had been ma-
turely considered, and only this day a letter had
been received from Admiral Boxer, under whose corn
mand the transport service had been placed, stating that
every necessary provision had been made for the safe and
rapid disembarkation of troops on any given point.
The Earl of EL LENBOROUGII said, it appeared to
be the case that the Government did not wake any
arrangement with the persons to whom these transports
and steamers belonged, in order that the vessels should
have, on this particular occasion, when they were to con-
vey troops, a larger number of boats—and boats, too, of
a larger kind, than they were accustomed to carry. In
point of fact, if the troops had depended on the boats
belonging to the transports, they could not have disem-
barked without the greatest inconvenience and delay.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE observed, that any
arrangement such as the noble earl adverted to could not
possibly have been made. When such ♦essels as the
Himalaya and Orinoco were taken up at a fortnight or
three weeks' notice, did the noble earl suppose that the
Government were in a position to call on the parties to
whom the vessels belonged to supply flat-bottomed boats
for the embarkation and disembarkation of the troops ?
No company could have made such a preparation with-
out three months' instead of three weeks' notice. What
the Government did was to take care that, when the
transports arrived in the Bosphorus, sufficient means
should there be provided for disembarkation.
The Consolidated Fund (8,000,000/. No. 2) Bill was
read a second time.
The Bills of Exchange Bill was read a third time.
The reports of the amendments in the Railway and
Canal Traffic Regulation Bill was, after some discussion,
agreed to.