The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-13 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS:

SIR,—As we have a Prince Arthur in honour of Welling-
ton and the army, I think the country would be highly
gratified was the young prince to be named "Horatio," in
commemoration of the heroic Nelson, whose gallant deeds
were so instrumental in preserving the throne to the
Brunswick family. lam sure, Sir, the British navy would
hail with pleasure this honour done to the " darling son of
Britannia.."—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,

AN ENGLISHMA.N.

April 12

METROPOLITAN COMNISSION OF SEWERS.—A special
court of sewers was held yesterday at the branch-office,
Great Alie-street, Goodrnan's-fields. Present—Mr. R.
IJebb, in the chair ; Mr. L. Redhead, Sir C. Fellows,
Mr. G. F. Smith, Mr. G. Baker; Mr. T. F. Gibson, and
Colonel Dawson. Estimates were received previous to
notice Win.- given of the intention of the commissioners
to make district sewers rates of 6d. in the pound on the
Ranelagh district, the Richmond district, and the Fins-
bury division. For the Ranelagh district, the estimate
stated that a rate of 6d. in the pound would produce
about 24,5001.; cash credit, 7,3801.; total, 81,8801.
Estimate of the expenses in respect of which the rate is
now required in respect of works, 1,5731. ; surveys,
2.7391.; total, 4,3121. Prospective expenses for work in
course of construction, ordered and under consideration,
20,9531.; surveys, 5001,; management, 1,5001.; general
work and repairs, 5,0001.; making in all 32,265/. Rich-
mond district estimate—A rate on the district of 6d. in
the pound will produce about 1,0501., the estimate of the
probable expenses for which the rate is now required.
State of the- account : Cash overdrawn, 8751. ; survey,
&c ~975/. ; in respect of works, 6551.: total,
1,6301. Finsbury district : A rate on this district at 6d.
in the pound will produce about 24,000/. ; cash credit,
2,730/. ; uncollected rates, recoverable, 8001.: total,
27,5301., estimate of the probable expenses for which
the rate is now required for this division. State of the
account :liabilities in respect of works, 2,587/. ; surveys,
2,6591.: total, 5,2461. Prospective expenses : works in
course of construction, ordered and under consideration,
17,043/. 4s. 7d. ; surveys, 500/. ; management, 1,200/. ;
general works, repairs, &c., 4,000/. ; making in all
28,0191. In all of these districts it was intimated that
it would also probably be necessary to provide for other
works and contingencies during the period for which
the rate is made, and not enumerated in the estimates.
The court then proceeded to hear summonses against
defaulters, but no case of any interest was brought be-
fore them. Summonses were also ordered against de-
faulters in the Spitalfields, Greenwich, Ravensbourne,
Poplar, and Blackwall districts. The remaining busi-
ness being merely formal, the court then adjourned.
CAPTURE OF AN EXTENSIVE SWINDLER,—A young
man of respectable connections, whose name is John
Steeple Kitchen, is in custody in Sheffield on a charge
of having obtained 300/. from Messrs. Eyre, Ward, and
Co., of that town, merchants, by means of a forged
letter. The prisoner is only nineteen years old, but he
is an adept at fraud. Sometime ago he was a clerk in
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and
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merchants,
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lative of the junior partner of that firm. Some months
ago he drew 610/. at the Royal Bank of Liverpool, in
the name of his late employers, by a forged cheque, but
escaped pursuit, until last week, when he called upon
Messrs. Sanderson, Sandiman, and Co„ the extensive
bill-brokers, of King William-street, London, stating
that he had received that morning a letter from
his employers, instructing him to draw the three
hundred pounds in question. He was asked to show the
letter, and he said he would go to his hotel and fetch it.
He returned in a short time with the pretended letter
of instructions, but it was discovered, on examination,
from the appearance of the ink, that the letter was newly
written. Finding himself detected, he confessed that he
had forged the letter for the purpose of fraud, and im-
plored to be set at
:u—liinbTee,hr liberty. The
received
purporting
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Shef-
field firm was-effected on the 10th o
i n following
a l manner
respects ge n
Duncan and Kitchen, of Liverpool, stating that youn Mr. Kitchen would call upon them for an advance g
on
their account of 300/. to facilitate certain business
trans-
actions
in Sheffield. Young Kitchen presented himself
a few hours after the letter was received, and Mr. Eyre
immediately
recognised him from a close family re-
semblance, and gave him a cheque for 3001, Mr. Eyre
afterwards wrote to Liverpool with reference to the
3001. transaction, and received a prompt answer inform-
ing him that the letter requesting him to advance the
money was a forgery.
TEIE ROBBERY OF MR. HOWARD'S SHOP AT MAN-
CHESTER.—The three men who have been in •custody on
suspicion of being concerned in the late robbery of Mr.
Howard's shop, in Market-street, Manchester, were
again brought before the magistrates yesterday. Mr.
Beswick, the chief superintendent of -police, stated that
he had no further evidence to offer, and 3/Mahon and
Hesseltine were accordingly discharged. Robinson, who
was seen outside the shop whilst the robbery was taking
place, driving people away from the window, and after-
wards seen to get into a cab with the man who ' was
taking up the jewellery inside the shop, was committed
to the assizes.

A LUCKY PRINTKR.—A young man who served his
apprenticeship as a printer, in the office of the Liveipool
Courier, but who was bitten by the Australian maggot,
and who, therefore, took his departure for that country
with a stock of gold diggers' tools, has written home to
say that he had given up that scheme, having got work
upon the Melbourne Argus, and was making the respect-
able sum of ten guineas per week. No doubt this will
stimulate others, and many printers will try on the game
of " follow the leader,"

'HE FR.

EMPIRE

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday,
but their leading columns are directed to the dis-
cussion of topics of a purely local interest.
The city of Nantes has voted an unlimited credit
for the purpose of defraying the expenses of giving
a worthy reception to the Emperor, in the event of
his Majesty visiting that part of Brittany.
At the Bourse yesterday the market for public
securities was dull, and the business transacted was
at a decline on yesterday's quotations, with a down-
ward tendency in prices at its close. The Three and
the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for Cash fell 50c.,
and for the Account 50c. each. Bank Stock re-
mained unchanged. The following are the closing
prices :—For cash—Three per Cents., 80f. 25c. ;
Four-and-a-Half per Cents, 103 f. 25c. For the Ac-
count—Three per Cents., 80f. 45c. ' • Four-and-a-
Half per Cents., 103 f. 45c. ; Bank Stock, 2,735.
In the Railway Share Market, with the exception
of Western of France and Paris and Rouen, the
former of which advanced 10f., and the latter 5f.,
all the leading lines declined in value, and closed
heavily. Last quotations : Northern, 005 f. ;
Orleans, 1,048 f. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 850 f. 25c.;
Paris and Lyons, 947 f. 50c ; Paris and Rouen,
1,062 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 807 f.
50c. ; Western of France, 765 f. ; Rouen and Havre,
513 f. Credit Foncier advanced 17f., and closed at
919 f. ; and Credit Mobilier declined 11f., closing at
930 f.

SPAIN.

The Spanish Senate on the 6th was occupied
with the report of the committee on the railway
question. Although the report was not opposed, a
good deal of warm discussion took place relative to
recent concessions of lines. In the course of it, the
Marquis del Duero declared that some of the con-
cessions had been obtained by extra-legal influence.
The President of the Council energetically pro-
tested against any supposition derogatory to the
dignity of the Government, and declared that the
Government had never recognised any other in-
fluence than that of the Crown. In the Chamber
of Deputies, the Count de Reus made a vigorous
attack on the conduct of different Ministries in
elections, especially of that of M. Bravo Murillo,
and he even intimated that the Progressist party
entertained some intention of proposing the im-
peachment of the latter. On the 7th, the discus-
sion of election matters was resumed by the Cham-
ber, and it was expected that it would become very
animated. The Government was represented to
be very much annoyed at the spirit manifested
both M the Senate and the Chamber. Queen
Christina and her family had left for Aranjuez.
The following has been received from Madrid by
express, dated the Bth :-." The President of the
Council this day communicated to the Chamber of
Deputies a royal decree suspending the sittings of
the Cortes for the session. This measure has been
caused by the stormy character of the debates in
the last sitting of the Senate. There is a talk of a
modification of the Cabinet, and of its being recon-
structed with Count de Alcoy, M. Llorente, and
M. Benavides. The position of things seems a
difficult one."

The Morning Post, in a third edition, by sub-
marine telegrapli, publishes the following :

RESIGNATION OF THE SPANISH CABINET,

MADRID, SATURDAY.—The Ministry have pre-
sented their resignations to the Queen, who is to
decide whether she accepts it in 24 hours.

GERMANY.
Madame de Rothschild, wife of Baron Charles
Meyer de Rothschild, died at Frankfort on the 9th,
aged 53 years.

-The Government of Brunswick has just adopted
new regulations for public gratuitous education.
The State will make grants to the communes, and
will give pensions to the widows of teachers.
A letter from Berlin announces that, in conse-
quence of the renewal of the Zollverein, negotia-
tions will be shortly opened with France by the
Prussian Government in order to regulate the na-
vigation dues on the Rhine, and to change into a
definitive treaty the provisional arrangement of the
Ist October, 18M.
We learn from Berlin, under date of the 9th,
that a journal called The People's Gazette had been
started to replace The Gazette of Primary Electors;
but the first number of this new journal has been
seized by the police.
The Prussian Ambassador at the Court of Vienna
—Count d'Arnim, has received the Grand Cross of
the Order of Leopold, as a reward for his efforts in
restoring good intelligence between Austria and
Prussia.

A Vienna letter of the Bth, states that there is
great stagnation of trade there, that three large
manufactories have been closed, and that an im-
mense number of workmen are without employ-
ment.

TURKEY.

Letters have arrived from Constantinople via
Trieste, to the 23th ult., three days later than
those received yesterday. The Russian Ambassador
had not presented his projected convention ; and
all that was new in political affairs was, that the
Sultan had signified to his Ministers his pleasure
that he should be kept daily acquainted with the
progress of all pending affairs, especially of diplo-
mati3 negotiations—and for that purpose Rifaat
Pacha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, had received
authorisation to go to the palace as often as he
should think fit. This resolution was said to have
been caused by the pretensions of Russia, and it is
represented to have produced a good effect.
Amongst the rumours that were current was one
that the dispatches carried out by the English
frigate the Tiger, for the English Embassy, were
of great interest, and most reassuring for the
Porte. The affair of the Bank had been defi-
nitively settled. An Imperial fir man authorising
the creation of the Bank, was promulgated on
the 26th. Intrigues, it is said, were employed
to prevent the Sultan from signing it. The re-
presentative of the English firm of Stanley and
Co., who managed the Matter, and had left for
London, in order to send the portion of capital it
had stipulated to supply ; and during his absence,
which was expected to be a month or six weeks,
the administration was to be organised, so that
operations would be commenced on his arrival.
The founders of the new Bank, who were ten in
number, had been increased to twelve, namely—
Messrs. Miran Duz, Abraham Alaverdi, Boghoo
Duz, Ovanes Thinghir, Derair, Bedros laglisian,
J. B. Belisikdji, Maksout,Armenian bankers :
Psichari, a Greek ; Hanson, an Englishman ;
David Glavany, a Frenchman ; and Zarifi, a
Russian. It was believed that M. Miran Duz
would be nominated director of the Bank, but
under the control of a board, consisting of the
founders, and of a certain number of members
nominated by the shareholders. It is said that
the statutes provide fully for the proper manage-
ment of the Bank, and for the interests of the
shareholders. Amongst the measures employed to
prevent the establishment of the Bank was, it is
alleged, the offer of a loan by Russia, without con-
dition; but the Sultan considered it too favour-
able to be accepted.
The Patrie says :—" A recent dispatch from the
Levant gives some fresh details which have not yet
been mentioned. On the 27th ult. there was in the
port of Constantinople an English war-steamer of
450-horse power ; three Russian dispatch vessels,
and the French steam-frigate the Chaptal. The
Turkish squadron was at anchor at the Golden
Horn, and they appeared to be making arrange-
ments for a start in a few days. The news of the
approaching arrival of M. de Lacour, the new
b rench Ambassador, was current in the city, and
had produced an excellent effect, and the news in
circulation in the best informed circles was of a
very tranquillising character. Another dispatch
from Egypt announces that two Turkish vessels of
war, a sailing frigate of 60 pins, and a brig of 16
guns, were at anchor off Alexandretta."
The Breslau Gazette has the following from
Odessa, dated the 25th ult. :—" The rumours of
war have not ceased. The armaments continue
actively, and by the Ist of April all the troops will
be ready to march. Armaments are also going on
in Great Russia, and on the `Volga there are eight
Kerts
steamersch." in readiness to convey the troops to
A letter from Damascus of the 10th ult., in the
Breslan e
Gazette, states that three tribes of .14auran
have solicited the intervention of France in their
application to be freed from furnisli_ieng recruits, on
pay ment of annual tribute of
Turkish
piastres. The Seraskier, Mahomed l'a'cuha, has been
recalled to Constantinople, and is replaced by Sassif
.Pacha.