The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

THE FRENCH FLEET.

" The Mediterranean squadron, under the command
of Admiral Trehouart," says the Toulonnais of the Ist,
"is still in our roadstead. The crews had been forbidden
for some days to leave their vessels, which circumstance
gave birth to the rumour that they only waited a tele-
graphic notice to sail for Naples. That interdiction has
now been taken off, and nothing leads to the supposition
that any speedy departure is in contemplation."

Her Majesty was to have Opened the new' bridge at'
the Linn of Dee on Tuesday last, but the unfavourable
weather caused a postponement of the ceremony.
The Prince of Wales is travelling incog. with his
tutor and servant in the south-western counties. On
Wednesday week his royal highness was at Wimbourn,
in Dorsetshire, and visited the famous remains of a
Roman encampment there. On Saturday and Sunday
the Prince was at Weymouth. The inhabitants of
Wimbourn and Weymouth were not aware of the rank
of their visitor until after his royal highness had left
their respective towns.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent leaves
Abergeldie Castle on the Bth October, via Ballater
Aboyne, and Banchory Railway.
M. de Kisselef is expected soon in Paris with a letter
from the Czar to the Emperor.

TEWKESBURY.-111r. Cox, who contested this borough
at the last election, has announced his intention to offer
himself again whenever an election shall take place.
The preparations making at Milan for the reception
cf the Emperor of Austria continue with activity.
His Majesty is expected to arrive there towards the
middle of November.

A letter from Munich says that the King and
Queen of Prussia are to arrive in that capital on the
7th, and remain to the 9th.

The Prince of Orange has rejoined his mother, the
Queen of the Netherlands, at the court of Wurtem-
berg, where the Duke Bernard of Saxe.Weimar is
also at present on a visit.

The Rev. William Henry Milman, M.A., student o
Christ Church, Oxford, and son of the Dean of St.
Paul's, has just been elected librarian of Sion Col-
lege, London.

The conference at Vienna, convened to prepare the
bases of a new monetary system for the whole of Ger-
many, has concluded its labours, and the results have
been transmitted to the various governments represented.
On the 31st of August the Russians at Sebastopol ce-
lebrated with much pomp the inauguration of a monu-
ment erected upon the tomb of Nakhimoff, Korailoff,
and Istomine.

Admiral Trshouart, the commander of the Mediter-
ranean fleet, has been called up to Paris, no doubt to
meet the Emperor before any decisive step is taken on
the Neapolitan question.
At the fete with which the University at Moscow ce-
lebrated the coronation, a great number of essays and
poems in the Russian, Greek, and Latin languages were
read.

An annular eclipse of the sun took place on Monday,
but was visible only in. the north of Asia and America.
On the 231 inst. there will be a partial eclipse of ,the
moon, commencing at half-past 9 at night.
A curious phenomenon has recently been observed in
Greece. The Lake of Copais has completely dried up.
An immense tract of fertile land is thus rendered avail-
able for the purposes of agriculture.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The operations of this
society will be resumed for the season by the recom-
mencement of the rehearsals in the large ball, Exeter-
hall, this evening (Friday), at 8 o'clock.
A portrait model has just been executed and placed
in the room appropriated f,r criminals at Madame
Tassaud's exhibition. It represents Dove, lately exe-
cuted for the murder of his wife. This figure is placed
by the side of William Palmer, to whom he was an imi-
tator in the use of deadly drugs. The portrait is a
faithful likene,s, and will, no doubt, be viewed with
curiosity by many of the visitors.
Out of 38 candidates for the office of chief constable of
the Dorset county police, a committee of magistrates
have selected the following six gentlemen, from which
the appointment will be made at the ensuing quarter
sessions :—Captain Carden, late 60th Rifles ; Colonel
Cox, late 56th Regiment ; Mr. Inspector Grant, of the
metropolitan police ; Captain Harston, late commander
of Coast Guard ; Captain Ord, late Turkish Contingent ;
Major Verner, of the Antrim Rifles. Of the 38 candi-
dates who applied, no less than 23 bad been officers of
the army or navy.
A NOBLE ENGINE-DRIVER.—The other day Lord Wil-
loughby d'Eresby performed his first journey upon the
Crieff Junction Railway. His lorcHaip did not travel in
the saloon carriage of the company, but upon the engine,
which he himself drove, having learned this accomplish-
ment upo❑ the railway which, as a liberal and intelligent
landlord, ha has made at his own cost, for the use of one
of his English estates. Like a steady engine-driver, the
" Hereditary Great Chamberlain of England" performed
the down and up journey within the appointed time ;
and, like a noble engine•driver, sent the su:n of 3/. to
be divided among the enginemen and porters of the
company, in remembrance of his first appearance among
them in this new character.

MORE POISONINGS BY MISTAKE. —An inquest was
nbyam Mr.ed P\aVsble Ayl, aheld at Walworth, near Doncaster, on Tuesday afternoon
rwrahtot,hacaordoineedr,onontittehe
Fridaybod previouslyy ofachild
from an overdose of laudanum. It appeared that the
mother of the boy went to a small shop in the village,
kept by a person named Gregory, and inquired for a
pennyworth of paregoric, instead of which she was sup-
plied with laudanum, and this being administered to the
child caused its death. A verdict in accordance with
these facts was returned, the jury at the same time ex-
pressing their dissatisfaction at the loose and incautious
manner in which the laudanum was dispensed.
How TO HAMPER A BEQUEST.—Dr. Tread well's legacy
to Harvard College (1,200,000) is encumbered with con-
ditions which render its acceptance by the Colleg,) doubt-
ful. The person who shall hold the Professorship is to
be compelled to deliver 60 lectures a.year, half an hour
in length, without notes, and to pursue no other occu-
pation. He is not to lecture at the Lowell Institute,
and if ha attends the lectures there must never take
his seat upon the platform, but always among the
audience. At his examination everybody, wise and ig-
norant alike, is permitted to attend and put questions.
If the conditions are not complied with the bequest goes
to the Massachusetts General Hospital, without con-
ditions.

ROTAL BRITISH BANS. -On Wednesday night a
meeting of the representative committee of depositors of
the Royal British Bank took place in the Board-room of
the Trade Protection Society, 13, Old Bond-etreet, for
the purpose of considering the peculiar position in which
the depositors stood, owing to the recent proceedings in
Chancery, and to adopt such measures as might be
deemed most advisable. Mr. Wyld having taken the
chair, a very lengthened discussion then ensued between
the members of the committee as to the course that it
would be most advisable to pursue. Ultimately it was
agreed, on the motion of Dr. Wakley, seconded by Mr.
R. Taylor, that an aggregate meeting of the depositors
should be convened for Monday evening next, at seven
o'clock, at St. Martin's-hall. The committee then pro-
ceeded to consider a series of important resolutions tend-
ing to protect and secure the interests of the depositors
in the forthcoming struggle with the directors and share-
holders, which they proposed to submit to the meeting
on Monday, and which with various corrections were
agreed to.

-THE LATE MR. T. H. HALL.—We regret to announce
the death of Thomas Henry Hall, Esq., late chairman
of the City of London Improvement Committee. This
respected and useful member of the corporation of the
City of London, and of the Metropolitan Boatel of
Works, expired yesterday morning at his residence in
Finsbury-square, after a short but severe illness. He
was in the 65th year of his ago. He entered the cor-
poration in 1529, for the ward of Coleman-street, which
he repre,ented for 27 years. He became chairman of
several of the committees of the corporation, and upon
each occasion he received the thanks of his fellow-citizens,
as well as some substantial marks of their favour. On
the 27th January, 1848, he was elected by the Common
Council the chairman of the Improvement Committee,
one of the most important of all the corporation commit-
tees, and during his time some most important works
have taken place, such as the formation of Cannon-street
West, and the extension of the New Farringdon-street
to C}erkenwell. On the 12th December last, Mr. Hall
was chosen a representative of the City at the Board of
Works, with Deputy Harrison and Mr. H. L. Taylor. 1

LA' rEsT tvEws.

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INDIAY CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA.

DE LIESTE, WEDNESDAY,

The steamer Bombay arrived here this day at
p.m., having made the passage in 135 hours
front Alexandria, which port she left on the 25th

of September.
The Indian mail was t o leave Alexandria on the

same day with intelliget we from Calcutta to the
22d of August, from Bombay to the 29th of
August, and. from Hong Kong to the 9th of
August, from Shanghai to the Ist of August.
Preparations are being made at Bombay for a
military demonstration in the Persian Gulf.
Cholera prevails in the Punjaub.

At Bombay the import business is quiet, the
produce market is stea ily, and the money market

is easy ; freights haves advanced. Exchange is
at 2s. lid.
Several parts of Chbaa are in a very distracted
state. Great losses both of property and life have
been caused at Canton 1)y floods.

Exchange at Canton is at 4s. nid. ; a
Shanghai,. 7s. 3d.

The Persia had arrii red at Ceylon with advices
from Sydney to the Bth of July, and from Mel-
bourne to the 30th of June.

The m9.rketß are quiet, but the progress of the
Australian colonies continues steady.
At Melbourne the price of gold is 3L 16s. per
The exports of gold for six months in 1856
amounted to 66 tons.

Gold explorations are b® ing actively pursued in

Tasmania.
At Moreton Bay the Phoebe Pimbar had gone
on shore.

PARIS, FRIDAY, Om 3, 8 A.M.

The Emperor and Empress arrived at Paris at
eight o'clock last night, and immediately left for
St. Cloud.

BERLIN, SErr. 29.

An official account has just been received that
Russia consents to the cession of Bolgrad. It
was in consequence of the mission of Baron de
Bulow at Vienna and at Berlin having failed that
the Danish Ministers resigned.
The King having summoned M. de Manteuffel
to join him at Carlsruhe he has set off for that
place this evening. His Majesty is to proceed
from Carlsruhe to the Principalities of Hohen-
tiollern. Political motives are attributed to this
journey of the President of the Council. The
commission on the navigation of the Danube will
hold its sittings during the winter.

VIENNA, SEPT. 2.

The Austrian Gazette contains a rumour which
had been current, that the Marquis Petrulla, the
Neapolitan Ambassador to the Court of Austria,
has again tendered his resignation. Baron de
Hubner arrived yesterday at Trieste, and will
very shortly arrive here.
The Fremdenblatt states that the King oPNaples
has caused all his most valuable property to be
removed to Gaeta, and that the population of the
capital are in a very excited state. The result of
the mission confided to General Martini, the
Austrian Ambassador at Naples, is considered as
very doubtful.

NAPLES, SEPT. 29.

The arrival of the Allied squadrons is expected
daily. The English fleet has arrived at Ajaccio,
the appointed rendezvous.
The Russian circular is generally known here.
It is reported here that Prussia approves of its
sentiments. This declaration, however, has pro-
duced rather a moral than a material agitation.

The preparation of the batteries and defences
goes on ; the King, at Gaeta, busying himself in
superintending the armament of the works.

The Minister has offered a pardon to Poerio
and Settembrini, if they will solicit it at his hands.
They have refused to do so.

King Ferdinand has proposed a Customs-Union.
with Austria, but difficulties as to the superin-

tendenee have stopped the project.

HAMBURG, OCT. 1.

Baron Dierckinck Hohnfeld, Danish Minister
here, has been named Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, in the room of
Count Moltke.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second

edition) says :

"In my letter of yesterday I stated that it was
on Monday Baron de Brunow read the circular-
despatch of Prince Gortschakoff to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs. This is an error ; I am now
informed that the communication was made ten
days ago. The paper, we are told, has acquired
its chief, if not its only, importance from the fact
of its publication, which it appears was owing
to indiscretion on the part of somebody.
Such indiscretions,' however, are not un-
familiar to the Russian Governments, and
rather please it than otherwise. But it was
not through the circular-despatch that the Rus-
sian Government first expressed its feelings on
the questions of which it treats. It is rumoured
that a letter from the Czar himself, now some
weeks ago, entered fully into the same subject.
The private communication was, perhaps, couched
in more modified terms, was more friendly in
form, and in all probability more flattering.
The writer is said to have dwelt on the diffi-
culties which lay in the•way of peace, the great
efforts made to obtain it, the confident hopes to
which it gave rise of the duration of the tran-
quillity, and prosperity, and intermeddling with
the internal affairs of independent Govern-
ments, and the difficulty of maintaining pub'
lic tranquillity, if such a system were followed.
The letter is said to terminate with assurances of
the greatest confidence in the prudence and mode-
ration of the Emperor of the French.
"Is is still believed in some quarters that the
King of Naples will, when matters come to a
point, consent to make, if not all, at least some
of, the concessions demanded of him. The King
well knows the unwillingness of the Earperor
of the French to take any step that would
lead to a revolutionary outbreak. Once the
storm raised, who shall say what direction it
may take, and what destruction it may scat-
ter ? That a movement beginning in the south
of Italy would soon run through the Italian
peninsula is almost certain, and, safe as France I
may be, such a convulsion would hardly pass

without her feeling the effects more or less sen-
sibly. Who dreamed that the Reform banquets
of February were to lead to the establishment of
an Empire with a Bonaparte at its head ? And
who can say what a revolution begun in Calabria
may not lead to ? Be this as it may, it is certain
that the courier who was to take his last instruc-
tions to the French Minister at Naples has not
yet set out from Paris, and the repeated messages
from the Foreign-office to Biarritz have remained
without a reply."

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Fos,
(2d edition) says :

" Six p.m.—A variety of gossip concerning the
affairs of Naples has reached Paris to-day in the
German journals. But most of the statements
are incorrect and not worth repeating. There is
nothing new to report, nor will there be until the
Emperor, whose return is to take place this even-
ing, has communicated his final orders. Some
French, journals declare to-day that a change has
taken place in the views of the Governments of
England and France on the Neapolitan question.
I do not believe there is any foundation in this
report."