The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-27 00:00:00

HAMBURGH MAIL.

FRONTIERS OF SERvIA, JUNE 12.—Alarming re-
ports are spread that Prince Michael has suddenly bee❑
taken ill, having caught cold when out in a hunting
party. He issued an order, enjo'ning all Councillors
and Senators who remain at Belgrade to repair to
Kragcinuoez.

BERLIN, JUNE 26.—1 t is officially announced to-day
that" his Majesty, according to the custom hitherto ob-
served i❑ the Royal Family, has been pleased to order
that his Royal Highness Prince William, his Majesty's
brother, shall bear the title of Prince of Prussia."
HANOVER, JUNE 20.—His Majesty the King arrived
this morning at tea o'clock from Dessau, which he left
yesterday evening. His Majesty has resolved to send
to Berlin a detachment of the Hussar Regiment of
Guards, to be present at the hundredth anniversary of
the Prussian Guards. It is not •Jelieved that the death
of the King of Prussia will cause any change in the re-
lation of our Court to that of Berlin.

VIENNA, JUNE 11.—If the disasters of the Russian
expedition to China as well as in Circassia were at first
perhaps exaggerated, it is certain that the worst account
has -been far from the truth. No signs are made of
any new movement, and it is propable that the main
strength of the expedition has been delayed by the in-
clemency of the winter. Russian officers of distinc-
tion do not dissemble that the plan of Count Perow.,..ky.
was badly calculated, since it was strictly founded on
the notion of procuring water on the arid steppes by
meltit.g snow in the winter, while too little regard was
paid to all other consequences. It is certain that the
new expedition, which the honour of the Russian arm%
seems imperativLly to require, will be carried en, ac-
cordingly, to a different place ; yet anxious doubts are
entertained at St. Petersburgh ; and it is not likely that
anyth'og will be carried into effect till the autumn.—
Hamburgh Paper, June 22. -

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/IA MBURG BOUSENHALLE, JUNE 13.
Bills. Money,
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank shares
An 10-ltussian Loa., l, i 4 lop%
Russia' 3 per Cent. ~st series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Se. ics — 10.;%
Rusiian 5 per Cent. Hop: and Lo. 3d and 4th
Set ics - 9i%
Ditto in Certificates
• Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pc Cent " s*4 V.%
Ditto 5 per Cell' • 99
Polish Bonds -
Ncw ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan; 3 per Ceti. . 75% '75%
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Lt-nt.... l(2
Spanish, New .1 per Cents. 21% -
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
Hamacita, JUNE 23.-13. 6—Two months, 13 VA.
CI3RIsTIANIA, JUNE 13.—Three months, 4 91.
STOCKHOLM, JUNE M.—Seventy-five days, 12. 0.
L Elem, JUNE 19.—Two mo .ths, 6. 121.

Ti) THE RIGHT HON. RICHARD
MORE O'FERRALL.

Town of Leeds News Room, June 20.

DEAR Sin,—ln the London papers of Saturday last,
which I found on the table in this magnificent room,
perceive under.the head " West India Mails" that ••ou
have conveyed instructions from the Lords of the Ad-
miralty (" in consequence of a proposition made to
their Lordships by the Chairman of the Royal Mal
Steam Packet Company, that Southampton be fixed
upon for embarking and landing the mails to and from
the West Indies) to Rear Admiral S'r James Got dun,
K.C.8., to act as Chairmain of a Committee to exa-
mine into the claims of the different ports in the Bri-
tish Channel, and to report which may be considered
most eligible for the purpose with regard to facility of
access at all times, and with reference to the internal
arrangement of the Post-office for despatch in the trans-
mission of the mails. My Lords wish the Committee in

the first instance to call on the Directors of the Royal
Steam Packet Company, to place before them the rea-
sons for the selection of Southampton, and then to con•
sidcr the memorials from any ports in the English Chan-
nel (notice of the inquiry being previously given to each
port), and if deemed necessary, to call before them any
individuals who may wish to be examinAl as to the
points set forth in such memorials.
" The Committee are also to examine into the advan-
tage of selecting any other port in the English Channel
other than those which shall have come before them by
memorial, and for such purpose shall give notice as they
shall think necessary, and shall examine evidence as they
shall think fit. The principal points for consideration,
after having ascertained the draft of water of the vessels
to be employed in the service, will have reference to fa-
cility of access at all times of the tide, and safe moarine
of vessels in the harbour, as also the prevalence cf.
winds and current at all periods of the year, along the
-coast adjacent to the harbour. The facility of trans-
mitting letters by land to the point of departure is an
important advantage, which, if combined with naval se-
curity, sllcuM considerably influence the decision of the
Committee, but the safety and regularity of the set-% ice
will much more depend on naval •considerations ; the
Committee will give particular attention to tire latter
object. The Report of the Committee will decide
where the mails shall be taken on board, the Company
Flavin,* the power to start the vessels from any port ap-
pointed on the hours agreed on.
(S'gned) "R. MORE O'FERR ALL.
" Rear-Admiral Sir James Gordon, K.C.8."
Upon reading this minute from the Lords of the Ad-
miralty, I felt astonished that aftur all the discusion
upon Irish Harbours and Irish Railroads not one word
is mentioned of St. George's Channel. 1 therefore
now beg to put in the claim which Cork has over all'
other ports to meet the terms of the foregoing minute.
Make Cork the centre from which railroads, and other
road:, will radiate to the different parts of the United
Kingelom, then take either Southampton, Falmouth, or
Bristol, and try the difference of snaking any of them
your centre. Let Scotland look to this question, so
vital a one to her interest. Let Liverpool, Manchester,
Birmingham, and Leeds, look to it ; also, Belfast,
Dublin, Waterford, and above ull, let Cork look to it.
I purposely abstain from reaming any port on the West
of Ireland, as the Railway Commissioners did not name
them at all, though I have strong opinions favourable to
them ; but I do claim for Cork as a tried habour
(having, as I conceive, the advantage of all
other ports in the English or St. George's Chap-
nel) to be included in this minute, and I call on
our Irish Members to insist on this addition. I am
taking to London a petition for Government Railways
across Ireland more numerously and respectably signed
(by men of all parties, Poor-law Guardians, Grand
Jurors of counties and cities, as also by many of our
most influential landed proprietors, and the first nobility
in the land) than has ever before been presented on the
subject of Irish Railroads.
The last time I raw the lamented Mr. Drummond,
during that sickness which unfortunately for Ireland
terminated in the death of that lamented gentleman,
he advised me strongly to press on the petition, and to
get one line either to Limerick or Cork in the first in-
stance, and then other lines will be sure to follow. I
hope his advice will have that might with the Legisla-
ture which his known ability and patriotism deserve it
should have.

We shall soon have a railroad from London to Holy-
head, then the journey will be performed in ten hours,
whilst the passage from Holyhead to Dublin will not
occupy more than six hours. When the railroad to
Cork is made, a distance of 166 miles, this journey will
be accomplished in six hours by the mails ; thus, in
four-and-twenty-hours the mails may be transmitted
from London to Cork, ready for embarkation to
all our Colonies, and to North and South America,
West India Islands included. By this route also the
Mails from the Midland Counties of England can be
taken up at Birmingham, whilst at Liverpool all the
Scotch and North of England Mails will be taken up ;
at Dublin those from the North and East of Ireland,
and at Maryborough all the West of Ireland ; and at
Cork all the South-West—and all this can be effected
without costing the Government one farthing. The
Report of the Irish Railway Commissioners shows that
the line to Cork will repay by traffic on it the advance
necessary for making 168 English Miles of railroad, at
10,0001. per mile, or under two millions sterling ; but
should this anticipation not be realized, all Ireland is
ready to come forward and make up, by an as;essmcnt,
the difference, should there be any deficit on the portion
to be mac aerosa Ireland.
Being a strenuous advocate for the consolidation of
the Union, not its dissolution, I am the more anxious
that the ground should be taken from under the feet of
all repeaters, by showing, in all her acts, a desire on
the part of England to consider Ireland as an integral
part of the British Empire. Without this is done in
rea'hy, it is idle to suppose that Ireland and Irishmen
will be contented, and that they will tamely submit to
be treated in any manner different from England. Let
justice, then, in this instance, as well as in all others,
be done to Ireland, and where her position and natural
advantages gain her an evident advantage over Eng-
land, let not any feeling of jealousy rob my country of
that advantage.

I hope to be in London by the end of this month
(at 23, Dover-street), when I will be glad to co ope-
rate with the friends of Ireland, and of the Connection
of the countries, in following up this matter, so as at
one and the same time to determine on the best port in
the EngliA and St. George's Channel, to make the
station from which mails shall be transmitted between
the British dominions and its colonies, and the United
States of America, and one making the railroad from
Dublin to Cork, not doubting but that Cork will be
considered far the best for that purpose.—l have the
honour to be,
Your obedient humble servant,
THOS. BIRMINGHAM,
Chairman of the Irish Railway Committe,
Curamana, Kilconnel.

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The late Earl Duce has left three sons—namely,
the present Earl, the late Lord Moreton ; the Hon. Augus-
tus Henry Moreton, M.P. ; and the Hon. Percy Moreton, late
Lieutenant in the 10th Hussars; and six daughters, the late
Countess of Denbigh, Lady Julia Langston, Lady Charlotte
Berkeley, and the Ladies Emily and Catherine Moreton, un-
married.
APOTHECARIES' MALL.—Names of Gentle-
men to whom the Court of Examiners granted certificates of
qualification on Thursday :—John Ramsay Brush ; William
Thorntett, London; Henry Woodroffe Hare, Worcestershire ;
Dayrell Joseph Thackwell Francis, London ; James Powell ;
Henry George Noyes, Newport, Isle of Wight ; and James
1 homas Metcalfe, Masham, Yorkshire.