The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-28 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

The royal mail ship Oliver Lang, Capt. Mondell,
arrived in the Mersey yesterday forenoon, from
Melbourne, with advices to the 2d of May, 260 pas-
sengers, and 60,000 ounces of gold. She had also
on board 500 bales of wool and.sBo tons of copper
ore.
The mail ships Sardinian and Joseph Tarrant
had arrived at Melbourne from Liverpool, and the
Ilil.ja from Greenock at Sydney.
The Royal Charter was to sail for Liverpool May
25, and was expected to carry an unusually large
amount of specie. The Walmer Castle was to sail
from Melbourne for London May 15.
Increased productiveness was the characteristic
feature of the gold. field. Progress and good order
were prevalent at all the gold districts. The
weeklylaverage of the receipts of gold at Melbourne
was Lie.rlv 60,000 ounces. Gold at Melbourne
was worth 31. 16s. 3d. per ounce.
The Melbourne Markets have been steady, with-
out much change in prices. In some articles there
has been a good deal of speculation owing to the
news of the peace negotiations—indeed many per-
sons look forward to another glut and another crisis
at no distant date.
Inquiries for agricultural and for all kinds of
unskilled labour have been on the increase, and the
numbers offering have not been anything like equal
to the demand. Female servants scarce, and
much wanted.
Wool was advancing in value, owing to the fa-
vourable accounts of prices from England per
Royal Charter.
The tallow market was flat, and prices nominal.
Freights nominal, there being but little export
trade.

GENBRAL BhATSUN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE IUN.

SIR,—I request you will do me the favour to publish
the accompanying letters, in the hope that the Minister
for War, and those who act under his guidance, may
profit by the opinions of two of the ablest officers in the
Britisn army.—l am sir, your obedient servant,
W. F. BEATSON, Lieut.• General.
4, Lower Grosvenor•place, July 26, 1856.

" 112, Eaton-square, July 25, 1856.
" My dear Beatson—The enclosed letter was addressed
to me, as you will see by the signature, by one of the
noblest of spirits, as well as one of the mast experienced
and brilliantly distinguished of our war officers.
" Should you give publicity to the sentiments therein
expressed, and any person or persons alluded to be de-
sirous to know the name of my gallant friend, I shall be
happy to communicate it to him or them.
" I hold it to be undeniable that no man of honour
can make or forward a ()barge morally affecting an offi-
cer, without, at the same time, affording him an oppor-
tunity of immediately refuting it in case he may have it
in his power to disprove the imputation. Honour and
hcnesty, therefore, demand that no tune should be lost in
transmitting to the accused a copy of the charges, toge-
ther with the name of his accuser.
" Acting on the above principle, l addressed the as-
sembled officers of a corps I commanded, and in which
the present War Minister was serving under my orders,
to the following effect :
"'You are aware, gentlemen, that a commanding
officer is required confidentially to report at the halt-
yearly inspections regarding the efficiency and condect
of the officers of the regiment ; but I beg you may rest
assured that I never shall make a report in any manner
unfavourable to an officer without us, pr.vinuely: Waeing
a copy of it in his hands ; and no oue shall know any-
thing of it from me except the person to whom I may
report and the officer against whom I may make a re
port.'
"Such is the principle on which all honourable men
act ; and in regard to the accusations of anonymous
cowardly assassins, men of honour either commit them
to the flames or hand them over to the person accused,
on the chance of hii being able to detect and drag the
vile miscreant from the lurking den of slander in which
the wretch of a coward shelters himself.
" Ever, my dear Beatson,
"Your truly sincere,
"D. M‘DouGALL."

(Signed)

(Copy.)
" ' My dear Sir Duncan,—lt is difficult to express
the disgust with which I read the debate, and still more
the votes, in the house, on Beatson's case.
" But it appears to me that his friends did not suffi-
ciently tackle the quibbling of Peel and Palmerston
about the anonymous malice of the accusation.
" General Shirley was not the accu;er, but the re-
porter of the accusations. The real accuser is still
anonymous. Why was he not brought out !
" The Government is even now proceeding on anony-
mous information. General Beatson does not know who
his accuser is
" The Minister of War should have been pinned to

this course.
"'General Vivian received an accusation, not anony-
mous for him, but anonymous for Lord Panmure. The
latter rhould then have demanded the name, and in-
stantly told Beatson of the accusation and the name of
his accuser. Inquiry could then have been made for

further proceedings Honestly.
" But with such a House of Commons our lives and
honour are no more safe than with the Venetian
Council." gg

"Cardinal Wiseman (gays n letter from Vichy), yield-
ing to the solicitations of a Lumber of ecclesiastics col-
lected here at present, as well as of the Bishop of Moulins,
consented to deliver an address on the occasion of the
fete of St. Vincent de Paul. He spoke on Saturday
laiit before upwards of 2,000 persons assembled in the
court of the ho-pital, and produced a great effect. He
pronounced the panegyric of the great apostle of France,
and represented him as the greatest reformer of society
of modern times, and the roost intelligent interpreter of
the doctrines of Christianity. For an hour and a half
the cardinal held the crowd absorbed by his words, and
at the end WAS loudly applauded.",