The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-21 00:00:00

LONDON, MO DAY EVENING, APRIL 21 1856.

GAME LIS P.-LONDON, MIDDLESEX,
and WES rmissfEß.
THIRD PUBLICATION for 1855.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

LIST of PERSONS who have taken out GENER I.L G t ME CER-
TIFICATES at :l. Os. 10d. each, including the additional duty of
10 per cent. under, the act of the 3 Vie., cap. 17. (Schedule D.)
Baynes, Walter Francis, Esq., 18, Mansfield-street, Portland-place
Bridport, the Et. Hon. Lord, 12, Wlmpole-street, Cavendish-Square
C 8., ltuier Temple
Child, Robert, Edgware
Child, Harvey, Edgware
Clifton, Captain A. Ar., 46, Grosvenor-street ,
Denison, Stephen C., Esq., 20, Upper Harley-street, Cavendish-Square
Dyke, Francis Hart, Esq , Tilney-street
aukey, Thomson, Jon., IL P.; 7, Mincing-lane
Jones, Inglis, Regent's-;ark Barracks
Jelin, William, 91, Cheapside
Liddell, Charles, Abingdon-street
Martyr', Colonel, 17, Charles-street, Berkeley.square
Milne, Captain, Admiralty
Murchison, Sir Roderick, 16, Belgrave-square
Powell, George Henry, 80, Eaton square
Ridley, Colonel William, 10, Arlington-street
Strange, William, 9, Mincing-lane
Verschoyle, Captain Henry, 116, Eaton-square
Wigram, William, Esq , 15A, Grosvenor-,quare
Wood, :'olonel Thomas 35, Charles-street, Berkeley-Square.
:',IIRCHARGED IN DOUBLE DU 81. Is. lid., FOR SPORTING
WI MOUT •A CERTIFICATE.
Dunham, Daniel, 11, ndon.
PERSONS LIOENSW TO DEAL IN GAME.
Baxter, Edward, 87, College-street, Camden-town
Bowron, William, Churto,street, Westminster
Brown, Kenry James, Brompton
Chappell, John, Hungerford- market
Charles; Thomas, 9. Arabella-row
Charles, John, 23, Queen's-terrace, St. John's-Wood '
Donovan, Geo. Henry, Leadent•all• market
Errington. olatthew,.BB, High-street, 1 arylebone • •
Fenn, William, 3, High-street, Ma7ylebone
Gibson, Thomas, 17, urosvenor- street West
Gosden, Francis, Brompton
rill, John, Hunirerfor -market •
Hird, William, 69, Fore-street
• •
Lowe, John, .s, orthamoton-place, 'Upper Volloway
Marshall, John, 90, Crawford-street, Maryle4one
Partridge, Henry, 8, Queen's-terrace, St. J ohn's-Wood
Richardson, William, 23, Holmes-terrace, Kentish-town
Made up to April 5, 1806.
By order of the Board.
T. KEOGH, Secretary.
Inland Revenue Office, -omerset House.

The Canada has arrived from Boston with dates
_to the 9th inst., and via Halifax from New York
to the 10th inst.

She brings 01,943 dole. and 3001. sterling in
silver on freight. .

In the Sea—ate, on the 7th, Mr. Mason, from the
Committee on Foreign relations, reported a rrso•
lution to the effect that no further legislation was
necessary in order to put an end to the treaty with
Denmark regulating the Sound Dues, and the sub-
jectwas made a special order for discussion.

Mr. Seyer, as the sole representative of the State
of Missouri, referring to-the Kansas discussion, said
that the circuni,tances under which the debate was
inaugurated seemed to indicate a purpose to make
political capital out of the Kansas disturbances,
with a view of controlling the coming national and
State elections. In such a controversy he had no
disposition to engage ;. it was, however, his duty to
defend his constituents against the grave and seri-
ous charges brought against them. He then pro-
cee led to consider the constitutional aspect of the
slavery 'question, contending that the power. of
Congre;s to make all needful vules'and regulations
in reg, r 1 to the territories and other property of
the United Statei extends to the public domain
only, and not to the domesticaffairs or institutions
of the territory. _ _

In the Hoose of Repre4eutiqii,ii.lgr. Hngbston
earnestly condemned theNi4ation of she -1118sonri
restrictions, and expressed as his opinion that the
rights of the people of Kansan had been usurped by
invaders.

Mr. Boyce argued that Great Britain bad violated
their neutrality in the enlistment case ; they should
insist by negotiation on reparation, which would be
forthcoming when a future British Administration
attained power, for the present one could not make
reparation without condemning itself He objected
to Great Britain's pretence to the Mosquito pro-
tectorate and occupation of Balaton. War was not
a means for the settlement of the question, their
policy being peace.
On the motien of Mr. Humphrey Marshall, the
Committee on Foreign Affairs was instructed to in-
quire into the expediency of declaring the engage-
ment of American vessels in the Chinese coolie trade
to be illegal and a sufficient cause of forfeiture to
the captors of the ship engaged therein.
It was resolved on this subject, on the motion of
Mr Pringle, of New York, that the President be
requested to com tiunicatewhat information be may
possess in regard to citizens of the United States
being engaged in the slave trade or the transporta-
tion in American ships of coolies from China to
Cuba and other countries with the intention of
placing or contitaning them in a state of slavery or
servitude, and whether such traffic is not, in his
opinion, a violation of the spirit of existing treaties,
rendering those engaged in it liable to indictment
for piracy, and especially that he be requested to
communicate to the House the facts and circum-
stances attending the shipment from China of some
50) coolies in the Sea Witch, of New York, a ves-
sel bit-31y wrecked on the coast of Cuba.

The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald says :—" I understand that the English
and French Ministers declare that troops will be
landed from their respective squadrons off Central
America to aid Costa Rica against General Walker.
Mr. Mason apprehends that such action would
arouse a Filibustering spirit which perhaps even
he could not control."

At New York the new steam-ship for the Collins

line, the Adriatic, had been launched amid general
rejoicing; after the launch Mr. Collins and Mr.
Steers gave a dinner, at which some speeches were
made of an entirely unpolitical character.
In the Disttict Court Judge Ingersoll had con-
demned the schooner Falmouth, together with her
cargo, to be sold as a slaver.
Two hundred thousand dollars' worth of property
had been destroyed by fire at Baltimore.
Dates from Havannah are to the 31st ult. There
is no political or commercial news.
At Toronto a vote of want of confidence in the
Ministry had been rejected.
At Montreal the ice was breaking up. The gas-
works had been blown up.
The money-market was active. Exchange upon
London, 109 to 1091, ar►d sf. 18:1c. on Paris.
Cotton had advanced ic. to lc. on receipt of
Southern advices as to the backwardness of the
season.
Flour had given way 25c. to 50c. per barrel, the
market closing dull.
Mess pork was inactive, at $l6 to 621 c. to $l6
75c.
Beef in moderate demand, but meats in favour
of buyers.
Cheese quiet.
Spirits of turpentine at 38c. ; tar dull ; resin
better. Iron dull and heavy ; Scotch pig $36, six
months. Tobacco firm. Freights easier and more
active.

Latest dates by telegraph via Halifax :
NEW YORK, TIitIRSDAY EirENING, APRIL 10.
The money market to-day continued buoyant.
Cotton is to ie. dearer. Sales to-day, 12,000
bales. •

Spirit of the Public Journals.

(From the Times of this day.)
The Treasury presents its Estimates to the
House of Commons as a small tradesman presents
his little bills. In a country town a good customer
never knows what he has to pay ; there is always
something‘additional. The account once opened,
it becomes a sort of: wound which it would be un-
safe to close ; the door once opened to the village
carpenter or builder, he haunts the house for ever,
like a rat or a ghost ; your morning slumbers are
disturbed by. the noise of falling tiles, and you eat
your dinner to the sound of eternal hammering.
The job is always half-done and when in a fit of
disgust you tell John to get that man's bill and
dismiss him, he can't get it, and be can't dismiss
him ; the man has something still on hand, and
before he makes up his account he has to wait for
the account of some other man, of name unknown,
whom he employed in some incomprehensible work
of detail—a lock or a pipe, or nobody knows what.
So it fared with the celebrated Mr. Briggs, and so
it happeni to the House of Commons. There is
no end to the bill, and the house that votes mil-
lions upon millions without a grudge is asked for a
few thousands more, in the same peddling spirit
with wh:oh a -petty tradesman, whose yearly bill
has just been paid in full, as was fondly imagined,
bothers one about 35., bid. for extra work. There
was. a good deal of confusion in the Estimates,
as we have vne over them already, but we were
not prepared for the further c .nfusion in the series
of Estimates, No. VII., which are devoted to "Mis-
cellaneous, Special,,and Temporary Obj f3C s," Rua
are to come before the house to-night. From these
it would appear that the public accounts are like
a lady's letter—a series of postscripts stretch-
ing to infinity, small by degrees and beautifully
less. It was bad enough that we should have the
Post-office accounts mixed up in three -different
series of e3timates—first of all, in these of the r, ve-
nue dep irtinents, then in those of the navy, lastly,
in those of the public dep Ttnients generally ; and
perhaps out read rs will nut be able to comprehend
by what strange process these accountsshould come
to be so divided. It must therefore be explained
that in the first vote we have an estimate fur the
working of the Post-office, in the second an esti-
mate for the packet service, while iu the third we
have a separate estimate of the sum required for
the postages of the navy and oiler public depart-
ments. There is something in this last item that
shows a genitfs for confuion in the Treasury, the
cost of postage for the navy being charged neither
to the debit of the Admiralty nor to the credit of
the Post-office, but to a third account, called
" General Expenses." And then there is a fourth
account still required for • the superannuation al-
lowances of the Post-office, while in the report of
the Postmaster-General and in the accounts of
public income we have a fifth statement of postal
returns.

All this is very absurd, and the worst of it is
that the same vicious system pervades all the Esti-
mates. If we take up any one item at random, it is
impossible to state what is the total sum which is
devoted tb it, and in how many different papers it
is stated. The army and navy medals, for example
—who shall compare the Estimates of last year with
those of the present year, and tell whether we shall
discover the final vote for it under the head of the
Army or of the Navy, of the Mint, or of the
" Temporary Objects" which have given rise to
these remarks ?

The sum which is demanded in these Estimates
amounts to 450,0001. The various charges that ga
to makeup this total are paltry enough, but' the
more trifling these charges are the greater right
have we to complain that they were not included
in the orignal accounts. They are the last feathers
that break the public patience ; they illustrate a
system which, when it comes to these details, is too
ridiculous and too troublesome to be borne. Here,
for instance, are a number of votes asked for vari-
ous commissions—for Statute Law, for Common
.Law, for Chancery, for County Courts, for Civil Se-
rvice, for Lunacy in Scotland, for Endwed Schools
in Ireland. Common sense surely requires that the
expenses of these c )mmissions should be classed
under the exp,nvs of the Public Departments, and
the EndowedScho&s Commission under the E Luca-
catioual grant. Who can tell us what is voted
annually for Education and Science ? We have just
mentioned one item ; there is a further sum in the
present estimates for Professors at C onbridge, in
the Army Estimates we bear of so much for Wool-
wich, in the Navy Estimates of so much for the
Greenwich Observatory, and so on, a few pounds
here and a few pounds there. Here, again, we are
asked for 5001. for the Lunacy Commission in Scot-
laud ; in the Estimates No. If., for the " Public
Departments," 1,3101. is asked for the " contingent
exoenses of the Commissioners in Lunacy," and
ten times that sum is paid, besides, out of the Con-
solidated Fund. Is it monstrous to expect that all
these sums suould be classed together, and that we
should know at once what is required under any one
head of service? Here, too, we nave sums demande'd
for Battersea Park, for Chelsea embankment, for
Windsor improvements; for Einbassy-houses, for
Consulate buildings, for Lighthouses, for the Irish
National Gallery. It is difficult to understand why
these votes are not classed under the head of
" Public Works," or something else more appro-
priate than the stupid heading of "Temporary
Objects." For the police at Aldershott 7,5001. is
asked ; why was not this asked under the head
either of " Police" or of the " Army ?" It will
be observed that we object principally to the man-
ner of stating the account, but we have equally
good grounds for objecting to some of the charges
themselves. What, for instance, is the meaning of
this 7,5001. for the police at Aldershott ? Cannot
the soldiers be made to take care of themselves ?
The heroes of discipline, the creatures of drill, re-
quire a lot of policemen to keep them in order !
It is a specimen of how all our public departments
are managed, not one of them being self-sufficient,
but every one reqdiring to be patched up by auxi-
liary departments and reported upon by extempore
commissions. Throughout these Estimates we
find the same absurd want of unity, and the same
wasteful expenditure. Under the Patent Law
Amendment Act, it is stated that 8,4001. is re-
quired for " fees to law officers of the Crown in
England." The sum is enormous, and, even were
it reasonable, it surely belongs to a different page
of the national ledger. It will be further found.
that under the same act 4,5221. is to be voted for
" compensations." The Patent Clerk to the At-
torney and Solicitor-General gets under this head
8501.—a sum greater than the half-pay of an Admi-
ral, double that of the general clerk of the Encum-
bered Estates Commission, and equal to the com-
pensation allowed to the Lord-Advocate for Scot-
land. The Attorney-General and Solicitor-Gene-
ral for Ireland get between them 2,0001., and we
are puzzled to knew why these gentlemen, together
with the Lord-Advocate, should not receive suffi-
cient salaries, stated once for all, and whether
these "compensations" are to he continued to the
subsequent holders of..thAr offices? We are very
sure that the public will not long endure to have
its financial statements in such inextricable
confusion. It would be a disgrace to the
petty tradesman whose transactions seldom get
beyond the column of shillings, or to the publican
who chronicles small beer in chalk on the back of
a shutter, if his accounts were thus involved in con-
fusion. It is not simply a disgrace—it is criminal,
that in the first mercantile country in the world
the accounts of a Government which expends
nearly 100,000,009/. a-year—a sum easily written
in figures, but which no imagination can grasp—
should be kept in such a manner as to make it im-
possible to discover what is our expenditure, and
to expose the country most certainly to all the
evils ofjobbery and peculation.

(From the Morning Herald of this day.)
The naval review at Spithead, on Wednesday
next, will he an event remai kable in the annals of
naval displays. We are not surprised that it should
challenge so much interest ; that Lords and Com-
mons vie for the means of bing present at it, with
an anxiety and emulation apparently proportionate
to the show itself, although foreign to our national
gravity. It is not merely that the sight of so many
ships of war thus brought together is imposing,
nor that the spectacle will he graced by the pre-
sence of Majesty and set off with the splendour
of rank and genius, nor yet tht&there will be ex-
hibited to the world, to those who hate and those
who love us, our resources for defence and annoy-
ance, but that this is the winding up of a great
war. We are but clumsy exhibitors by land ; the
most costly pageant we can contrive degenerates
to the tinsel dignity of a Lord Mayor's show ; but
on the sea we are in our element ; the commonest
regatta charms and excites us ; and grave states-
men watch and sour journalists chronicle the events
of an Oxford and Cambridge boat-race with the
same ease and interest as they would the disputes
of two rival orators on the contending benches cf
the House of Commons. Perhaps, as the perilous
leaps at a fox-hunt or'a si'eeplechase give a piqu-
ance to those specially national amusements, the
skill and presence of mind required in exhibitions
on the sea exempt the slightest displays of this
kind from the heavy and safe dignity of gilded
coaches, furs, maces, flunkies, and hair-powder.
But whatever may be the can=e, such is the fact—
and the grandest of all naval sights which our sight-
loving and sea-loving countrymen can witness is
reserved for Wednesday next.
Happy the man that day " whose paternal acres"
supply him—not as the Roman poet exclaims—he
who called the ocean unsociable—with bread and a
salad, but with something more substantial ; at
least a peer's ticket for the privileged steamer, or a
Minister's order for the narrow ac co mmodations of
the Perseverance. Then a bead,
or rather a sto-
mach, which can stand the dangers of the seas, and
(Prom the Morning Advertiser of this day.) the waves and the qualms, ,‘ when the stormy
The month of May, the chosen season of sonnets winds do blow," will be a possession more valuable
and soft vows, being at hand, this country, yet than the most fluent rhetoric, or the stoicism and
shaking from the rude blasts of war, is to be treated the phlegm which are immovable on terra
firma.
with beholding a wooing in high places. The old Then Jack, with his imperturbable smile and his
walls of Windsor are to witness a gay betrothal. A. perturbable quid, will be more looked up to for ad-
young Prince, of the " chivalrous and most consti- vice and consolation than the leaders of tbe Trea-
tutional dynasty of Hohenzollern," comes a-court- sury or opposition benches ; and the wheel which
ing the Princess Royal of England. How full of turns others down will turn him up. But a truce
joy to overflowing must be the heart of every to these reflections ; they will undoubtedly occur
Englishman on this auspicious occasion ! Who to those of our readers whose lot it may be to wit
more welcome to Great Britain, in the interesting ness this imposing spectacle, if they have not oc-
character of a suitor, than the youthful nephew of curred already. The chance of seeing for once in
so trusty and well-beloved an Ally as the renowned their lives—for once, as never such an occasion may
King Oliqunt The delightful possibility, especi- happen again in this generation—the means which
ally—the thought, enchanting for a patriot, that this country commands for a naval war, will un-
through this intended marriage, the sceptre of questionably allure every one who can by force,
Great Britain might, perchance, on some future favour, importunity, or pay, steal a sight from
day, pass into the hands of a Hohenzollern—this Spithead. Sir Charles Wood stated that from
idea is so overwhelming that we may well be ex- members of the House of Commons alone and from
cused if, in the fulness of our feelings on this sub- those who had some claim upon the Admiralty ap-
ject, we are enabled to set forth, in proper terms, plications had been made in such numbers, that
the claims the Prussian Prince has to our esteem he doubted whether the whole of the unemployed
and admiration. ships in her Majesty's navy would suffice for their
His claims, in fact, are of the most various and accomittodffltiena. If the sightseeing propensities of
.the choicest description. Whether we look it, the Cabinet Ministers, grave. Peers, learned senators,
satisfactory political condition of the kingdom this and all the assembled staidness and sobriety of
young Prince expects hereafter .t 0 rule ;or whether England have been, -this quickened at the. pro-
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