The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

has invariably been in the nuse of hear tless
Despots ! It has seldom, if ever, been made on
telialf of oppressed and suffering Nationalities.
When a Monarch shocks every feeling o. huma-
nity, he is simply left to his fate ; v.ut if be
offers the most trivial and merely colot:rable con-
cessions, he is still sustained and supported. The
measure now taken should have long since been
adopted ; but it was not until the -whole
body of Sovereigns were compelled to pro-
nounce the conduct of their brother Mo-
narch too bad that he was at length
:,..bandoned to his fate. If, however, there be a
general rule against only meddling with mis-
government, however palpable, the principle
should be extended so as to provide against any
annt:d assistance to a Sovereign against whom his
:-.lll,jects have felt it necessary to rise.

lasting ascendancy—surely the North will not
decline the battle. The territory on which the
teeming population of the Free States would na•
turally pour itself forth, which is theirs by posi,.
tion, by the sh-Amefully abrogated Missouri com-
promise, and by political necessity, is now sought
to be wrested from them by the most barefaced
perfidy and outrage. If the Free States will sub-
mit to this they will submit to anything. We
will hardly suppose that they would not rather
renounce the Union, and bid the slaveholders
settle it with their slaves as they best could.
The issue would not long be doubtful. ' The
truth is, the South dare not quit the North. The
threat of dissolving the connection would bring
them to their knees.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(Prom the Mining Journal of this day.)

Mining business continues in a very active state, and
the increase of share transactions is daily perceptible.
There have been within the last week or two some very
important improvements and discoveries in a few pro
gressive mines, which have caused a great influx of
buyers in the market, as well as a rise in value in
many st)cks equal to 100 and 200 per cent. Added
to this, the satisfactory state of the metal trsde, to
which we alluded last week, has given greater confidence
in mines in general. We confidently look forward,
therefore, to even a far greater increase in mining trans-
actions, and are of opinion that before long other mines
we might mention may cause as much excitement in the
market as Great Alfred has done : shares in this mine rose
as high as 16, and then became flatter, not from any fall-
ing (If in the mine, for it continues to improve, but from
the price inducing many parties who purchased before
the rise to realise their gains, which in some cases have
been very considerable ; the shares left off at 14 to 14:3.
United Mine shares have been enquired after at 140 to
150, and an improvement may be looked for in the mine.
Porkellis, as a tin mine, is holding out great prospects,
and at the present price, 11/, per share, are considered
cheap. At East Trefusis, there is a very fine gossan
lode, and shares in request at 2} to 3. At Grambler and
St. A übyn, the lode in the 24 east has improved to 201.
per fin. South Frances, 360 to 365 ; Basset, 285 to
290 ; Great Devon, 400, ex div. of 101. per share de-
clared on Wednesday ; after paying this dividend, about
5,0001. are added to the balance in hand, and the divi•
dead at the next bi-monthly meeting is expected to be
12/. per share. Alfred Consols have been sought after,
and have risen to 153, 16 ; Grenvilles have advanced,
with a good demand, from 15 to 2f, 21 ; the lode in
Newton shaft is daily improving, and should a course of
ore come in shares will go to a high price ; altogether,
24,0001. bare been expended on the mine, and from its
immediately adjoining South Frances, and on the ran
of the Basset lodes, the progress of it is watched
with great interest. Any discovery in Grenville
would also cause a demand for West Grenviile and
South Condurrow, shares in both of which are now at
mere nominal prices. East Pool have been enquired
for at 275, but there are few sellers. Great South
Tolgus, another good progressive mine, likely soon to
pay dividends, has been enquired for, at 10 to 104 ;
Holmbush, 2 to 21 ; Tamar Consols, I to 1i ; South
Tamar, I ; West Basset, 30 to 31 ; North Basset, 38 ;
Uny, 4f to 4f ; Mary Ann, 38 ; Hender, 4f to 4# ;
Sortridge Console, 2i to 2f ; Gonarnena, 27. Wheal
Buller, owing to a reported improvement in the eastern
levels, rese from 295 to 250, but left off at 330, sellers ;
the next dividend, it is reported, will not be more than
Si. per share. North Frances, 10 to 10; ; Treleigh (old
scrip), #to ; North Downs, 2i to 2i ; South Tolgus,
150. •

Paella, has arrived here.

But in this great affair literature, and the lite-
rature of fiction too, has done and will do its part.
"Uncle Tom" and "Dred" have opened the eyes of
millions to see what they never saw before. Genius
has indelibly fixed in tho minds of all freemen the
inevitable wickedness, cruelty, oppression, degra
dation of whites as well as blacks, and corruption
of Christianity itself, inherent in, or attendant
on, American slavery. Politicians may wish to
ignore the power of a woman, but the power of
genius and truth c mibined, whether put forth
by man or woman, transcends that of the calcu-
lating politician. It can sap his intrenchments and
baffle his calculations ; and, little as FRANKLIN
PIERCE may like to acknowledge it, he may
greatly thank the thrilling pages of HARRIET
BEECHER STOW-E for consigning his mediocrity to
ignominious oblivion. His own misdeeds have
compelled him to flight, but a woman has struck
the fatal blow. At the vary worst, should Kan-
sas fall for the present, should BUCHANAN and
slavery triumph, we should yet believe, till we
saw to the contrary, that in four years more the
North would, be victors.

We announced iu our impression of yesterday
that there was no longer any hope of an amicable
::rrangement of the Neapolitan difficulty. Fur-
her advices confirm the accuracy of the intelli-
gence, and show the full extent of the difficulty
in which the incarnation of the Bourbom spirit is
~ew placed. We can easily anticipate that there
.viii be whining remonstrances and servile apolo-
,ies offered now that it is seen that
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die foundations of the throne have been
;11aken, and that the very sceptre itself is falling
fr.An his relaxed and paralysed grasp. But the
last chance of redemption has passed from his
imbecile hands. It is now too late for leniency.
We must be merciful to the people, or at least
permit them to work out their own safety. Every-
thing practicable has already been tried, but in
vain. He would not allow us to save him, and having
wi[lidrawn in disgust from the fruitless effort,
we cannot again hold the aegis of protection be-
tween him and his indignant subjects. It cannot
be said that this decided step has been taken
without ample warning. He will now only have
himself to blame for the results whatever they
may be. We shall await the next accounts with
some anxiety, although we cannot entertain any
serious doubts as to the result, which must even..
tuate in the triumph of the popular side.

American Slavery has long been the great scan-
dal of civil and religious freedom. All the des-
pots and autocrats of Europe point across the
Atlantic, and defame Liberty through thu deeds
of its unworthy children. But is the. disgrace
precisely what has been represented ? All the
States are guilty of having admitted, contrary to
the intention of the founder of the Republic, ad-
. litional Slave States into the Union ; all are guilty
of the Missouri compromise ; all guilty of its re-
peal after slaveholders had gained all they wanted
from it ; and when its repeal opened Kansas and
Nebraska to slavery ; and all are guilty of the
atrocious Fugitive Slave Law ; but the depth of
the disgrace is the conversion of the Republic into
an oligarchy of tyrants. America has been a Re-
public in little more than name. Tenice was so
termed under its lordly oligarchy, and so may the
States be—but the fact is, that three hundred and
fifty thousand slaveholders are an absolute oligar-
chy, both in the North and South, to the extent
of their wishes, over twenty-seven millions of
people ! In their own States the slaves, and, we
may add, the non-slaveholders, are wholly
in their power, with the latter they can do every-
thing but flog them ; and in the North, where
they do not reside, and where they desire nothing
more, they are as absolute, politically, as Austria
in her subject provinces. The burning dis-
grace of the North is, that it is the Lom-
bardy to the Smith- NAw York, Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts, and all the free and
populous States of the North, have been
hiClerto but the subject provinces of the three
hundred and fifty thousand slaveholders. Some
twenty millions of freemen bear the yoke of some
five or six millions of whites and slaves together.
The ignominy is the greater because they could eman-
cipate themselves at once. At the next election
for Congress they could do it; and at the impend-
ing presidential election they could make a great
-tep towards it. With an anti-slavery President,
And a large majority in the Souse, it would be
practicable to bring the Senate to obedience be-
fore the slaveholding senators could be exchanged
for men who refused to hold property in human
beings. We repeat, then, that America is by its
own disgraceful cowardice, not a republic, but an
,)ligarchy. And what an 'oligarchy--not of
le,:cent, of title, of education, not even of purse,
hut of negro slaves ! Possession of negro slaves,
America, raises men to the dignity of Lords of
the land. To lack slaves is to be at the mercy,
politically, of those who have them. Nobility is
conferred at the patent office of the slave pen
or the slave auction, and the HALEYS are the :
Kings-at-Arms. 1 ;

The precise amount of the specie shipments by the
Peninsular and Oriental steamer Colombo is 435,0351.,
of which 8,5001. is gold for Alexandria and Madras, and
426,5351. silver for B imbay, Madras, and Calcutta.
The bar silver brought by the last West India steamer
has been sold at 620. per ounce, being an advance of
id. on the price realised for that by the preceding packet.
In some instances a slightly higher rate was paid in the
early part of the week. 16
Yesterday was issued the report from the select com-
mittee on contracts for public departments. The com-
mittee having entered upon the inquiry late in the ses-
sion, have confined themselves to simply reporting the
evidence, and recommending the re-appointment of the
committee nest session. '
Late yesterday afternoon it was rumoured that some
irregularities, involving a considerable sum, have been
discovered in the transfer of a certain number of Crystal
Palace shares. The shares, which left off on Thursday at
2 to 21, were quoted yesterday 11 to 2, and closed with
great heaviness.
CANDIDATES FOR EXAMINERSHIPS, INLAND REVENUE.
—The following gentlemen successfully passed their
examination at Somerset-house on Wednesday, the 10th
instant, for promotion to the rank of Examiner :—Mr.
Edward S. White, of Dewsbury ; Mr. Philip T. Evans,
of Pimlico; Mr. Edward T. Crabb, of Bromley; Mr.
Thomas Peacock, of Sunbury ; Mr. John Mullany, of
Islay ; Mr. William Young, of Retford.—Civil Service
Gazette.

A company called the Australian Auxiliary Steam
Clipper Company has been formed, with a capital of
250,0001., in 251. shares, to establish a direct communi-
cation with Melbourne. They have already purchased
three vessels,—one of 1,470 tons and 100. horse power ;
one of 1,170 tons, 80-horse power ; and one of 1,400
tons, 60-horse power. The first will leave London on
the 10th of November, touching at Plymouth for pas-
sengers. The directors assert that, although their vessels
will cost only half the amount of those lately employed
on the route, and will consume only a ninth part of the
fuel, they will carry thrice as much cargo and make the
passage in the same, if not in less, time.
THE ANNITERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE AL3fl.
This day (Saturday) being the anniversary of the glo-
rious victory at Alma, will be especially celebrated at
the camp at Aldershot. Among the various preparations
have been the erection of a large marquee by Benjamin
Edgington, of Duke-street, Tooley-street, in which a
splendid banquet will be given by the officers of the 7th
Fusiliers to those of the 231 Welsh Fusiliers and the 2d
battalion of the Rifle Brigade. The foregoing troops, it
may be remembered, in conjunction with the 33d Foot,
at present in Ireland, formed a portion of the Light
division, and came under the command of General Sir
W. Codrington, at that great triumph, the battle of the
Alma.
ROYAL BRITISH BANK.-..The announcement that a
sum of 200,0001. will be required to make up the defici-
ency in the assets of the Royal British Bank was re-
ceived yesterday without much surprise. This will in-
♦olve calls amounting to 661. 13s. 4d. upon each share,
even assuming that the whole of the proprietary respond;
but there can be no doubt that a large number will be
found wholly unable to pay anything. The loss to be
sustained by those who have property that can be at-
tached will therefore be proportionately increased. In
addition they must also prepare to meet the flagrant
expense which invariably attends a winding-up in the
Court of Chancery, and which in this instance likely
to come up to any one of the worst examples.
THE BAST INDIA CIVIL SERVICE.—The Governor-
General has came to a decision regarding the transfer of
the Punjaub offices of audit and accounts from Agra.
They are to be made over to the Chief Commissioner of
Lahore, from the Ist of May, 1857. An uncovenanted
auditor and accountant are to be anpointed, each upon
a salary of 700 rupees a month. It is stated that the
Indian Government has found it necessary to withhold
from several civil servants permission to proceed tci-
Europe on special leave or on furlough, in consequence
of the number absent making it difficult to fill up va-
cant offices. It has even been suggested not to allow
any exten-ion of leave except on medical certificate.
LOSSES OF A RUSSIAN VESSEL AND SEVEN LIVES.—
LIVERPOOL, Friday.—lntelligence was received here this
afternoon of the total wreck of the Ru-sia❑ barque Ahta,
of Wasa (Finland), which left this port on the 9th inst.
for Wasa with a cargo consisting of salt, anchors, chains,
molasses, cotton, rum, and gin. The calamity occurred
at a place called Hain, about five miles east of Thurso,
in the Pentland Frith, on the 16th inst. She was com-
manded by Capt. Jarvelin, a Russian, who, with his
wife and five of his crew, met a watery grave, amongst
whom was an Englishman, said to have been shipped at
this port. Two of the crew were saved, one of whom,
named John Lundstra'n, can speak very good English,
and a Russian called Bruckman, who speaks no English.
THE WAY TO RUSSIA.— Preface.— About a fortnight
ago Brown met Jones at his own door in Tyburnia.
Jones had his hands full of stone jars and tin cases.
They have not met since they had the following conver-
sation :—Brown : Hallo, Jones, whatever are you going
to do with that tremendous bundle of putted meats and
preserves?—Jones : Why, you see me on the point of
starting for Russia. I haven't a minute to spare. I leave
you to send away the servants—lock up the house—
close the shutters—shut myself up in a back bed-room
—light the catnphine—and leave word with the char-
woman to tell all visitors for the next month—" If you
please, Sir, master's gone to Moskey, to see the Hem-
peror crowned." These little things are the provisions
to last me on the journey. Goodbye, my boy ; I'm off.—
Punch.

It has long been the wonder as well as the grief
' ,f England to witness year after year the growing
:unniiiations put upon the American Lembardy.
ro the European one, the presence of lityonets
)y tire hundred thousand, removes the disgrace
,f submission ; but in America there has been
tiol,hing but servility. in Eagland, with universal
iuffcage, and members apportioned to population,
.ve should like to see the oligarchy which could
flake our Parliament pass laws at its bidding.
-;Ve hope, however, the tide is turned. We re-
•ognise the magnitude of the defeat in the late
surrender of the restriction imposed by the Lower
f-lou3e on a treacherous President. It was an
igurnninious surrender on the part of those who
vcre able last spring to return their Speaker,
ind who had before them all tile villanies
perpetrated and perpetrating by the President
and the border ruffians in Kansas. Still we hope
!t is but the larger wave in a falling tide, and that
it will reach thus far no more. It ought not
to discourage Freesoilers, but to arouse and pro-
voke them to yet greater efforts ; and we may
!lope that it will. If so, BUCHANAN and human
slavery will meet their deserts in—the political
)ottatniess pit. The gain would be great, in the
present state of things, to add one more to the
'our non-slaveholding Presidents, and to prevent
the addition of one more to the thirteen slave-
holders who have filled the office.. Moreover,
La changes made, down to the lov.-est officer,
orhen a new party accedes to office, makes tile
administration of the American Executive a very
powerful political engine. Now every office is
til!ed by pro-slavery men..

THE EFFECT OF LITERARY GARBIGE.—At the Shef-
field Police-court on Thursday a fork-grinder, named W.
M‘Dermott, aged 17 years, was charged on remand from
the previous Tuesday, with attempting to shoot and rob
Mr. B. Moxon, a cutler, reeident at the village of Crookes,
near Sheffield. Mr. Moxon was going home with his
wife about half-past 11 o'clock on Saturday night, and
when passing along a newly formed road leading into
Leavy-greave, a suburb, was met by the prisoner, who
presented a pistol at his head, demanding "Your
money or your life—I'm hard np." Mrs. Moxon, in
great trepidation, implored her husband to give up his
money, but the latter suddenly struck the fellow's
hand with his walkingstick. The pistol went ell with-
out doing
poitiugrsauned b
y harm, and the prisoner immediately ran
away,anyd Ms
soundly
nd lybelaboured h
Moxon, who caughthim
tohn
the
Glossop-road
the
walking-stick. Prisoner escaped, but was almost imme-
diately recaptured and given in charge to a policeman.
When asked his trade prisoner replied " What I've
been doing to-night ;" and on being requested to give
up his " tools" produced from his trousers-pocket a
pistol, saying, "This is the little boy that has done the
job." He afterwards said he had committed the offence
" for a living," and because he had " nothing to take
to." The latter statement was subsequently found to be
untruel(the prisoner having during the evening given
his mother, with whom he resides, 9a. as his earnings,
and paid 2s. 6d, for the pistol, besides 3d, for powder
and shot), and a very different cause for the daring act
was assigned. Froro a statement made by his brother '
it appeared that the prisoner has recently been reading
some literary garbage obtained at a circulating library,
purporting to narrate the adventures of " Claude Du
Val, or the Dashing Highwayman," and has been
gre Alv excited by the " brilliant exploits" of the redoubt-
able Claude. The story so wrought upon his youthful
imagination as to lead him to purchase powder, shot,
and pistol, and attempt to become a humble imitator of
the fabulous highwayman. The prisoner had previ'ously
said he was sorry for the offence, but smiled when his
brother revealed the secret of his strange conduct, and
appeared rather to pride himself on what he had done.
He was committed to take his trial at the ensuing assizes
at York.

We have also great hope that Kansas will yet
:)o refused admission as a Free State. PIERCE
will, of course, more or less openly aid the border
rufli tns, and enable them in November to return
411(A.lier L?gislature by means of the atrocious
,vs enacted by the present fictitious one.
13;it two thing 3 may yet vanquish him
one, the Northern min, short as the time
ceding the 3,000 armed and provisioned

nwn, (leinanded by the late Governor REEDER,
fijilt 01It with the slavery marawlers the righti

)f the genuine residents. The other, that should
.'e,tud aril violence triumph technically in Kansas,

Cetigress e.,ln still refa3e the application of a

Legislature, constituted by such frauds, for ad-

oission as a Stave State. The North must see

;hat to prevent the consummation of this atr..

cious job demands all their energies and firranois.

The South has now dared the North to resist its

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVE NC, SEPrEMBER 20, 1856

LATEST NEWS

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 12,

The Naib Chief of the Cireassians, sent by Sefer

Sefer Pacha, who is at the head of 30,000
men, has issued a proclamation, calling on all the

Circassians to fight the Russians with energy.

The Emperor of Russia has granted charters to

three steam-navigation companies. One in the
Black Sea will ply between all the important ports
of the Black, Mediterranean, and Adriatic Seas.

The inhabitants of Leghorn have sent 1,509

francs, the result of small contributions, to the
royal treasury of Turin, as their subscription to

the 100 guns of Alessandria.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
A decree in the M oniteur puts an end to the ad
interim, administration of,the Ministry of State by
M. Abbatucci, M. Foulu having resumed his func-
tions.

The Moniteur publishes the official return of the
customs revenue for the month of August, which
amounted to 14,070,134 fr., being a decrease of
3, 972, 696 fr. as compared with the corresponding
mouth of last year. The receipts of the first eight
mouths of the present year amounted to 114,592,525
francs, being 24,671,685 fr. less than in the cor-
responding period of 1855. Among the articles
which during the eight months have shown the
principal falling off are coffee, 6,004,674 fr. ;
raw wool, 4,516,662 fr. ; foreign colonial sugar,
15,848,617 fr. ; potable liquors, 1,145,416 fr. ;
olive oil, 400,352 f. Those articles which have
given the most improved receipts are corn,
1,293,137 f. ; French colonial sugar, 1,129,448 f. ;
raw cotton, 889,089 f. ; coal, 503,441 f. ; bar iron,
457,884 f. ; sesame seed, 190,356 f.
The Marquis de Turgot, French ambassador at
Madrid, has arrived in Paris from Bayonne.
Count do Rayneval, French ambassador at Rome,
and who on account of the state of his health bad
been forced to temporarily quit his post, left Paris
yesterday to resume his functions.
BOURSE, Sept. 19.—The following were the last
quotations

Cash. fr. a.
4} per Cents (ad) 9O 50
3 per Cents 7O 45
New Loan 7O 50
Rank Shares 4,125 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,710 Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes.--
eiedmontese (5) 9l Home Debt .......,..

End of Month.
--f. —ea
70 60

RAILWAYS—NOB CASs.
fr. c. fr.
Orleans 1,352 50 Western 940
Northern - Strasburg
Lyons
Mediterranean 1,802 50 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva 785 Tests
Cette 730 Austrian Corn...-. 867 50