The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-17 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

BOMBAY, March 18.—Our money market during the
last fortnight has become slightly tighter, and the banks
in consequence have not reduced their rates of interest ;
but it is generally supposed the present pressure
will be only temporary. Government Securities have
given way in value.
Imports—The demand for cotton piece goods of al-
most every description is very fair, and at prices more
favourable than have prevailed for some time past.
There is little doubt that this state of matters will be
further improved on the termination, a week hence, of
the Holee holidays.
Grey Shirtings of 40 inches have advanced 1 to 2
annas per
piece, and are in good inquiry; the same re•
marks apply to 45 in. 7f and 81b..; all other descriptions
remain at former quotations, but are in demand. Gcey
Madapollams have slightly advanced, and all descrip-
tions are in good inquiry. Grey Jacconets are also in
fair inquiry. Grey Long Cloths are in moderate inquiry,
without any improvement in prices. Grey Domestics
are very dull of sale. In Grey T Cloths all descriptions
are in good demand.
Cotton Yarns—A fair amount of business has been
done, and prices have advanced on both water and mule,
excepting on 40 of the former, and 50, and 90, and 100
of the latter, which remain at former quotations. Dyed
orange and Turkey red are both dull of sale.
Woollens—Although ladies' cloth is in moderate in-
quiry, the market generally is dull.

EXPORTS.
Cotton Wool—The market has been tolerably steady.
The arrivals of the new crop have been free, with the
exception of Broach, Surat, and Jurablsen, which are
coming in small lots. Our present quotations are—
For Broacb, Rs 99 to 100; Oomrawatte, Rs 98; Dbo

Kandeish, RS 88 ; Old Cowpta, Rs 85
Mangalore, Rs 75 to 77.
Hemp is difficult of sale. The market f6r opium is
quiet, and we may quote Rs 1,100 to Rs 1,315 per
chest.
Exchange—The rate of the day we quote 2s 2 5-16 d
to 2,2 g 1 for credits, and 23 2Ad for documents. On
China, GO days' sight, Rs 219 ; Calcutta, GO days' sight,
Rs 99A.

Freights—For cotton to Liverpool and London the
rates are 4/ 5.1 to 4/ 7s 61, and for seeds to London
4/ 17s 61 to Si per ton. A large amount of tonnage has
lately arrived, but the whole has been freely taken up.
CALCUTTA, March B.—lndigo has been in good in-
quiry, and there has been some cmpetition for snveral
lots at an advance of about 6d per lb on the October
price. Raw silk has also engaged good inquiry, conse-
quent on the news from home and China.
In imports a fair amount of business has been done in
mule twist, coloured cottons, grey shirtings, and jacco•
nets. The market continues inactive for all other de-
scriptions of cottons, woollens, and metals.
The paCific aspect of politics has made no great effect
in the money market. In the Bazar supplies are pro-
curable as reported in our last review, on more reason-
able terms than those of the Banks. Government Se-
curities have slightly improved, and are readily dis-
countable at 5 and 6 per cent. per annum. The Bank
of Bengal bas reduced 1 per cent. on discount of Go-
vernment acceptances.
Exchange.—After the departure of the last mail, the
exchange had gone up a little ; but it has since taken a
downward tendency, and it is now difficult to procure
first-class (six months) paper at better than 2i 21d to
2s 2kd ; and these rates are not likely to be maintained,
as far as we can judge from present appearances.
Freights, on the first news of peace, were for some
days almost at a stand still, but after a while some
transactions were entered into which established a de-
cline of 10s to 15s per ton. Lately some heavy arrivals
have made shippers hold back again, and at closing
business is very dull at our quotations.

EGYPT.
ALEXANDRIA, APRIL s.—Said Pasha has during
the last few days been rushing about the country
in the most fanciful manner.
His Highness first started from Alexandria at the
utmost speed of the railway to look at his new toy,
a palace on the banks of the Nile, which he has
purchased from one of his nephews for 150,0001.
sterling; thence he proceeded to the barrage of the
Nile, where he is erecting extensive fortifications,
which can never be of auy use ; then he came down
the Nile to Cafr-el-Ais, whence he summoned, by
electric telegraph from Alexandria, an accession
of troops to the 2,000 cavalry and infantry he al-
ways takes about him. At Cafr-el-Ais he expressed
his intention of going to the great fair of Tantah,
in the Delta, which was then taking place, but
changed his mind, and went down the Nile to
Atfeh, where some measures are finally to be taken
for the deepening of the canal. From Atfeh he re-
turned to Cafr-el-Ais, and went to Tantah, where
he spent a couple of days, and had the dancing
girls to perform in his presence.
Suddenly he gave orders to take down all the
tents, and, mounting on horseback, he started in
the direction of the railway station, where prepara-
tions were hurriedly made to receive his highness,
but he said he was not going by the railway, and
proceeded down the line. The train started, and
soon overtook his highness, who immediately called
out to the engine-driver to stop. The viceroy dis-
mounted, and, on the plea of unwillingness to dis-
turb the passengers, ho gets on to the locomotive,
sits on the coke, and is now in Alexandria.
The working of the railway between Alexandria
and Cairo is often interrupted by Said Pasha's
hasty movements and the constant conveyance of
his troops. Delays and disorders frequently occur,
and the only reply that his Highness makes to any
observation on the subject is, that the railroad is
entirely his own—that he must be served first, and
the transit afterwards. Several robberies of specie
and of goods have again occurred, and the com-
plaints of the lack of system and vigilance are•loud
and frequent.

The Mahmoodich Canal being closed to navi-
gation the railviay is almost the only means the
merchants have of bringing their goods to Alexan-
dria, and though the charges are enormous, no care
is taken of their property. Last weak a train that
was bringing to Alexandria 20 trucks, with 1,100
bales of cotton, caught fire, and the whole was com-
pletely destroyed, the cotton being placed on the
trucks without any precaution to save it from the
sparks of fire from the engine.
Lord Dalhousie, late Governor-General of India,
arrived at Suez, in the East India Company's
steamer Feroze, on the 2d inst., and will proceed
to Europe, on the 7th or Bth inst., in her Majesty's
steamer Caradoc.

SPAIN.

THE INSURRECTION AT VALENCIA.
The Madrid journals of the 9th and 10th of
April contain details of the insurrection at Va-
lencia.
In the morning of the 6th, whilst the munici-
pality was proceeding to draw for the conscription,
a numerous body of insurgents rushed in, crying :
" Down with the authorities l No conscription !"
and, amidst threats of death to the members of the
municipality, proceeded to break the urns. The
alcade, M. Eszeibe, who attempted to restore order,
was fired at several times, and was miraculously
preserved by a serjeant of the civil guard. The
insurgents were headed by firemen and national
guards, but were for the most part labourers from
the railway. After expelling the mayor and his
colleagues from the building, the insurgents pro-
ceeded to the Plaza San Francisco. The captain-
general, hearing of what had taken place, published
a bando, but as it produced no effect, he marched
against the insurgents at the head of a column of
200 infantry, 50 cavalry, and 4 pieces of artillery.
The insurgents, who were in the balconies and
windows, received him with a sharp fire, which
caused him some loss, and he fired his cannon
against them ; but the insurgents resisted despe-
rately, and bands of them spread over the city and
attacked several guard-houses. After three hours'
combat, in which the cavalry took part, the insur-
gents were dislodged from the houses, and were
compelled to retreat. The number of killed and
wounded on both sides was about 40 ; and it is
now said that amongst the slain were six—not, as
at first stated, three—seldiers and a lieutenant.
This account differs in some respects from the
following, given in a Barcelona paper, the Pro-
gresso, of the 10th. This paper says that the in-
surgents erected a barricade in the Calle de Carni-
ceres, and that 300 of them defended it with such
energy that it was not carried without "great loss,"
both amongst them and the troops. It says also
that their rallying cry was "Vive Espartero !
Vive liberty !" General Villalonga, the captain-
general of the city and province, published, on the
7th, an address to the National Guard, exhorting
them to co-operate with the troops in preserv-
ing order. On the Bth a military commission
wasinstituted, and 130 insurgents captured with
arms in their hands had been taken before it.
The greater part were sent to the fort of Murviedo;
the others were detained to be otherwise dealt with.
Troops arrived in' the city from Barcelona on the
9th, and others had been despatched from Madrid.
The last telegraphic accounts published in the
Gazette announced that tranquillity continued, but
that groups, displaying considerable agitation,
persisted in remaining iu the streets. The Gazette
publishes the decree, dated the 9th, which, as
stated by telegraph, removes General Villa-
longa, from the captaincy-general of Valencia;
and another which appoints General de Zebala,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the post, with the
powers of a special commissioner of the Govern-
ment, Marshal O'Donnell, Minister of War, being
charged with the administration of the foreign de-
partment during his absence. A report was cur-
rent in the capital that the troops of the garrison
of Madrid had been kept in their barracks owing
to the fear of disturbances ; but the Epoca says that
it was not true. A grand review of about 39,000
of the garrison and National Guard of Madrid had
been ordered.

ARI APRIL 15
The garrison of Valencia has beenD, reinforced..
A Council of War takes cognisance of the per.
sons who have been arrested.
The operations of the Conscription are to be
pursued tc-day without interruption.
Tranquillity is re-established.
The Cortez have approved the law on the retire-
ment of Ministers.

THE NATIONAL GA LLB RY-LO RD PAL
M ERSTON AND THE `DIVISION."

T 3 THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Among the items which on last Monday night
helped to swell the majority in support of awarding a
three-thousand-pounds' premium to jobbery and misma-
nagement at the National Gallery—for, audacious as it
may appear, our profligate and servile House of Commons
has awarded to the purchasers of the "Adoration of the
Magi," out of the taxes extorted from an oppressively taxed
people, an increase of 3,0001. above the estimates of last
year, a fact known to but few—there is ono item of that
majority, I say, upon which I wish to offer a few remarks.
That item is Mr. William Stirling, a member of the Select
Committee on the National Gallery of 1853.
Ou the 6th of May of that year the committee adjourned
from the House of Commons to the National Gallery it-
self, for the express purpose that I might be challenged to
point out in detail upon the nine pictures which, in my
public letters, I had alleged to have been injured by the
authority and with the approval of Sir C. Eastlake during
the immediately preceding vacation, the damages which I
had denounced. I was the only person thus questioned.
My attacks upon Sir C. Eastlake were not, as it has been
mendaciously intimated, "anonymous;" mendaciously, for
to affect ignorance of me on this question is mendacity. In
every instance since 1850 my attacks were authenticated by
my own proper signature and address. I reiterated them with
redoubled emphasis throughout my evidence. Wasthat evi•
dente "anonymous ?"Whether they were "un worthy" attacks
we shall presently see. Before the committee I replied un-
reservedly to upwards of five hundred questions upon the
cleaning, some of which were of so invidious, so disgrace-
ful a nature, that at last a member, prompted, perhaps,
by the manifest disgust of the public present, remembering
that there was such a virtue as decency, suggested that the
examination should assume a less questionable character.
On the 13th of May, after my second and last examina-
tion on the cleaning, the same Mr. William Stirling, who
now votes in support of Eastlake and Vandalism, Ger-
manism and daubs, accosted me near the western door of
the Rubens-room,' and volunteered the highest compliments
upon that evidence. He went so far as to say that I had
made out my case ; and to cap all, " As for old Uwins,"
said he, " he's an ass." Mr. Uwins is a Royal Academi-
cian. Nor was this the only time that Mr. Stirling so ex-
pressed himself. I may here mention, incidentally, that
my evidence on the cleaning extorted from other members
of the committee, commendation as explicit as that of Mr.
Stirling, with the same, or a similar, refrein in honour of
Uwins. Among those members were Messrs. Raikes Cur-
rie, Wm. Marshall, Lord Elcho, and Col. More, the chair-
man. Lord Elcho pronounced my evidence on the clean-
ing, but fer one exception, "perfect ;" while Col. More,
with more sedateness, as became his years, though not
less emphatically, passed a general encomium upon it ;
and, strange to relate ! seized upon Lord Elchu's " im-
perfection" as the "great toe" of that evidence. At a
later period of the inquiry, the chairman virtually, and
Lord Elcho literally, begged of me not to "kick Sir C.
Eastlake—because he was down ;" not to " kick" that
" thorough gentleman," Mr. Vernon's " gentleman above
all sordid considerations," who pockets the people's money
while conscious of being incompetent to discharge the
duties for which he receives it; but of whose "talent,"
Jupiter , or that as "mysterious influence" to whom Cupido
—not he of Jupiter and Venus—in daily orisons mumbles,
"ti bacierd clove root," has decreed it "presumptuous"
even so much as "to speak !" As though the fellow-
countrymen of Sydney, and Hampden, and Milton, and
Cromwell, were sunk so low as to accept as law a Royal
certificate of merit ! I resume Mr. Stirling.
Mr. Stirling's commendatory remarks upon my evidence
on the cleaning were uttered at the sixth meeting of the
committee. That " select" body met, publicly, 25 times.
The result-of the examinations on the cleaning was, that
out of a hundred and fifty-four decisions delivered upon
that subject, exclusive of my own and of those of the par-
ties impeached, one hundred and forty supported my
charges. Among the witnesses were seven Royal Acade-
micians. With the exception of Mr. Uwins, who main-
tained (Uwins' Evidence, 3,174-80) that "if the glazing
had been removed from the ' Rebecca' Claude, it was very
much for the benefit of the picture," and that "really
Canalette'S mode of painting water was so absurd, that if
it was all rubbed out, it would be so much the better ;"
with this solitary- exception, the Royal Academicians
examined also endorsed my charges. For even Sir
C. Eastlake himself, although, as a Trustee, he had
" resolved that the pictures evinced an improved
appearance" in consequence of the cleaning, never-
theless, as, a r.:itness, found it expedient to con-
fess (Eastlake's Evil., qq. 4,590-2, 4,718 23-4-5) that some
of them had been "ill and tastelessly cleaned," and were
"now out of harmony;" that "the softness of outline in
others might have been destroyed by over-cleaning ;" that
all " do very much want some of the dirt they had before;"
that " if you were to take a little dust and rzb over the
picture of the Annunciation,' he had no doubt it would
be much improved"—for " dirt" gives "gusto," &c. The
six other Academicians phrased their sense of their Presi-
dent's achievements thus : "injured to the extent of the
original work of the master being rubbed off ;" " rawness
and want of tone very disagreeable ;" "genial and plea-
sant warmth very much damaged ;" "distinctive attri-
butes of the master gone ;" " scumblings, and even paint
removed, so much so as to destroy the whole harmony of
the picture ;" "scrubbed to such an extent that the paint
is taken off altogether;" "no"w all raw and disjointed ;"
" nothing can ever remedy" the damage ; " features re-
membered formerly, removed by the late cleaning ;"
" very much shocked indeed at seeing the alteration th t
had taken place ;" " harmony and tone destroyed ;"
"frightful alteration ;" "tortured—must say that, speak-
ing candidly ;" "DONE FOR," &c.* I have quoted thus
freely from Royal Academicians, not that I value the
opinions of other witnesses lest, but because Royal Acade-
micians, at least, will never be suspected of prejudice in
my favour. On ono occasion Sir C. Eastlake recounted to
the Committee that he bad had "a hunt through Han•
sard." This was to fasten upon the late Mr. Hume a
mean sentiment which at a former examination it had
suited his purpose to impute to him. "It is a very labo-
rious undertaking," said Sir Charles, " to hunt
through Hansard, but I think it right to say that I have
searched in vain for anything of the kind in the papers."
(Eastlake's Evil., q. 6,575.) Equally " laborious " and
equally successfu would his search be were he "to hunt "
through my public letters for expressions more damning
to himself—more " violent," if he will—than those flung
in his teeth by his own colleagues and subordinates.
I have now established that, sebsequently to Mr. Stir-
ling's commendation of my evidence on the cleaning,
nothing occurred to warrant the slightest modification of
his opinion. A man's vote should. be the genuine reflex of
his conviction.' Under what category, then, shall we place
Mr. Stirling's vote of last Monday night ? Is it not sug-
gestive of a lamentable analogy to his friend Herr Mond-
lees " Cuireggio ?" but with this advantage on tee side of
the German, that it is less discreditable Co possess such a
" Correegio," than to have given such a vote.
With respect to Mr. Stirling's ignoble and underhand,
yet obvious attack upon me, I shall have sufficiently,
punished him by positively declaring, that, substantially
it was a direct contradiction to the sentiments which he
once expressed to mo in my own room, and which he has
repeated elsewhere. His inability to perceive how Herr
Miindler's attempt to sell U 3 a daub, at the in icebf a Cor-
reggio, should affect that "vaulting" German's eligibility
to a post of 1,000/ea-year at the National Gallery of Eng-
land ; his rebuke to Mr. Otway for the " unfair terms used
by the honourable member for Stafford, with regard to
Mr. Otto Miindler," that is, for having exposed the " Cor-
regio" imposture, and so, the aggravated character of the
Miindler job---" because" forsooth! the Mfindler "gentle-
man was not present to defend himself;" but, above all,
that he should have administered such a rebuke at the very
moment when the " hon. member for Perthshire" himself
had on his own lips an unwarrantable and " unfair," be.
cause a disingenuous attack upon another, who, though
"present," was as much debarred from making a defeece,
as could be the absent owner of the spurious Correggio—
denotes such weakness of understanding, as to afford Mr.
Academician Uwins a triumphant case for a retaliatory
to quoque. And now a word with you Lord Palmerston I
I will not degrade a noble theme by discussing with a
trifler like yourself, its mighty influences. Your brain
rankling with intrigue, your lips reeking with ribald an;l
inane jokes at the agony of a nation, agony to which you,
and such as you, had caused it to "drift," what fztcultiee
could you bring to the contemplation of a Raphael, a Mi-
chael Angelo, or a Phidias ? A joke—to raise a laugh "
from an obsequious audience. Just imagine ycorself, Lord
Palmerston, face to face with the Pediment of the Parthe-
non ! I will confine myself then to what you can under-
stand.
You can understand that on the 22d of April you asserted
in the House of Commons, that "no appointments had
hitherto taken place with respect to any offices at the Na-
tional Gallery," and that "the whole of the arrangements
were still under the consideration of the Government ;"
and you can understand that at the vary time you were
uttering those words you knew that the whole of the ar-
rangements were completed, you yourself having ordered
the " warrants" for all the appointments to be made out,
as they now stand, a month before. Your own Treasury,
Minute of the 27th of March convicts you. I might like-
wise quote your admission on last Monday night. that upon
succeeding Lord Aberdeen, you had "no hesitation in con-
curring" with that " antiquated imbecility's" " previous
determination, that Sir C. Eastlake should bo director,"
though that admission is partly false ; fcr you did " hesi-
tate" while " concurring." The consummation of a job so
audacious made even you pause.
You can also understand that, on the 22d of June, your
Secretary of the Treasury—the same who, on the first of
August, when defending your " arrangements" and " ap-
pointments" of the 27th of March, stigmatised the entire
people of the British Empire as beneath the purchaser of
the " Adoration of the Magi" in the appreciation of art,
for "undoubtedly, if any Englishman had been equally,
eligible," said he, " he would have had a prior claim ;'
you can also understand, I say, that your Secretary of the
Treasury, by your orders, again denied those appointments.
What manner of men can they be who twice thus submit
to be publicly repudiated, passes my understanding ! Your
mind may be so perverted by the prescriptive evasions of
office, as not to realise the true characters of such denials.
In Ethics, their nomenclature is short and startling. Such
denials degrade the country which, presumptively, you,
represent.
On the 27th of August, in a public letter, not " anony-
mous," which I know you read, I suggested that the " pil-
lory for Ministers who adulterate truth" should have pre-
cedence over Commissions of Inquiry into all other adultera-
tions. Your covert, buts ill-disguised, attack upon me on
Monday night, I accept as the reply to that suggestion.
That attack, again, was virtually a defiance of fact through-
out. It is farse, Lord Palmerston ! that you believe Sir
C. Eastlake " undoubtedly fit to hold the office entrusted
to him." Your "individuals with whom personal resent-
ments have greater influence than the interests of truth or
the welfare of the community," your "disappointed corn-
, petitor," was levelled at me—a slander as gross as your
"anonymous" and " unworthy attacks." Seerch the
Treasury, and show, if you can, that directly or indirectly
I have sought this Directorship. " Competitor !" I ac-
cept the term as the involuntary recognition of a debt.
The Treasury, it is said, has been beset by secret appli-
cants for that office; and I know that Germans and semi-
Germans have been the round of the town begging for tes-
timonials—even from an Eastlake—to shed a ray of light
upon their blushing merits, and I know that such testimo-
nials have been
.printed for "priefre circulation!' But
such men do not make attacks upon officialism, even " ano-
nymously." They fear detection. Secret beggars for
office, presumptively incompetent in "virtue" of their
calling, dread retribution. They bide their time. Like
the fox in the fable, they lie in wait to purloin the prize
won by nobler animals. they
man of spirit would be other
than a public candidate for a public office. A man of refine-
ment might shrink even from that, and wait to be called.
It was a compound of insincerity, vulgarity, and insolence,
to insinuate arias motive, " disappointed competitorship,"
except against 'rejected and incompetent applicants,
convicted of "anonymous attacks." Had you the feelings
of a gentleman, or the spirit of a man, where you offered
the affront, there you would make retraction. But I give
you credit for neither. I have delayed this apostrophe,
that contempt, not indignation, might speak.
Your attack on tho rrearimon the "Allennma now%

papers"—might pass for boldness, did we rot know bow
you can cringe—did we not know how you can sacrifice a
nation's interests and a nation's honour—how you can
squander a nation's treasure and a nation's blood—how
you can carry on a war of "connivance" for the extinction
of right and liberty everywhere, to propitiate " influences"
which every Englishman, not. a Germanised sycophant, re-
pudiates. Already the Czar's " Manifesto" flouts us for the
mischief and disgrace you are hatching for us. I leave it
to the Press, to the " anonymous newspapers," to settle
thefr account with you. Some of them have already taken
up the gauntlet. I trust that the rest will not be so lost
to self-respect and to their own best interests as not to fol-
low suit. To "swallow the leek," from you, were base-
ness indeed. Reflect upon this, Lord Palmerston, that
those " anonymous newspapers"—the Press of Euglantt--
which you hold so cheap, have only to issue their fiat to
hurl you from that position whence you insult and defy
both them and the nation ; and that it rests with the
" an, nyrnous newspapers" to keep you, during the brief
space that remains to you, what you have before been-
a " disappointed" intriguer for place.
27, Soho-square, April 13.

MORRIS MOORE.

* Hart, Dyce, Roberts, Stanfield, and Landseer's Evidence,
Min. of Evid. before Select Committee on the National Gal-
lery of 1853—questions 3,263.80-91, 3,496-8-9, 3,508.9,
3,6!'3-5, 4,136, &e.