The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-13 00:00:00

his notice. It is, indeed, surprising how a man
of ordinary physical powers can, at the same time,
act as a Cabinet Minister, as Speaker of the here-
ditary branch of the Legislature, and head of the
highest judicial tribunal in the country. How
then could he undertake additional work that
would require undivided and incessant toil ? It
is clearly impossible ! But under the existing
system the Lard Chancellor must personally ap-
prove of every legal measure before it can obtain
the sanction of the Government. Thus it is that so
many admirable suggestions have proved abortive,
and that the efforts for the removal of acknow-
ledged grievances have either fallen to the ground
or been procrastinated for an almost indefinite
time.

necessarily devoted to the recruitment of his phy-
sical frame. They have discovered with regret
that preachers of the Gospel, par excellence, have,
in too many instances, won none of his re-
spect, but have set, in his opinion, no other
Gospel than that of hypocrisy and self-
seeking before him. They have witnessed with
grief and pain of heart how from removable
causes his day of rest has perforce been devoted
to animal, almost to the entire exclusion of moral
and mental, recreation. They have gazed on him
as he trudged along the footpath, lounged in the
pothouse, luxuriated over the glass, or sought
other enjoyment anywhere but at home, and have
only been gratified by the general orderliness of
his demeanour. They have asked, " Why should
this be ?" and have cast about for a remedy, and
with all the more eagerness knowing how many
behind the counter from early dawn to midnight
are hardly so well off as he. They have turned
east, turned west, turned north, and turned south
to discover some means by which the cultivation
of his moral and intellectual faculties, along with
the recreation of his physical powers, could be in
some sort insured, and the result is they found
in the British Museum, the National Gal-
lery, and similar institutions, such means at
hand institutions specially designed for
the purpose and likely to subserve it,
if opened on the Sunday, the only day when they
could be of service. True men are not to be
stayed on a mission of mercy. They asked for
the key, and shame to tell ! it was refused—re-
fused, too, in the name of the LORD, who " loveth
everything he hath made." The Pharisees of the
day were shocked at the notion of as innovation
which really breaks the letter of no existing law,
iand is in perfect harmony with the spirit
of the Gospel, and intimidated the cus-
todous of the key into retaining it. Eveey
successive application was met with contumely
and determined resistance, until the thing
got beyond a joke, and it became an obvious duty
on the part of all enlightened friends of humanity
to join in solemn league against these Pharisees
—these whited sepulchres, who, in their love of
ddath, would to all appearance neither suffer the
grass to grow, the wind to blow, nor the rivers to
flow, any more than the intelligence of the op-
pressed workman to germinate of a Sunday.
Shortly the contending parties will meet, and
may IIEAVEN defend the right ! The League
must triumph, if mercy and common sense are
not to be excluded from the Legislature.

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY, 8.10 A. M.

The Vatican has arrived, with advices from
Constantinople of the 4th, and from the Crimea

of the 2d.

Despatches leave at 2 o'clock.

A fire took place on Saturday in the barracks
occupied by a detachment of the 13th English

Dragoons.

No lives were lost.

Mr. NAPIER acts on the principle that it is
bettor at once to seek the root of the evil than to
expatiate on the numerous petty details in which
amendments are required. The codification of
the Civil and Criminal Law—the removal of the
numerous obsolete enactments that still encumber
the national statute-book—are matters of the most
urgent nature. But experience teaches that until the
objectionable system that prevents or retards these
ameliorations be changed it is vain to expect any
comprehensive measure. We must strike at the
root of the evil—introduce a radical reform that
may possibly prove effectual. The first step is
suggested by the Right Hon. Gentleman, and no
one can deny that it is in the right direction. A
Cabinet Minister able to devote his entire time to
the subject, like the head of the Poor-Law thard,
or the Board of Health, would unquestionably
make speedy progress in the important course.
All that is required is that the question should
not be shelved, as it may be, from the omission of
the words " an efficient and responsible depart-
ment of public justice." The matter is one on
which, although every allowance should be made
for the Government, no needless procrastination
can be tolerated. By the adoption of the re-
mainder of Mr. NAPIER'S motion and the practical
confession of the grievance, Ministers have
pledged themselves to afford redress, and it should
not be too long delayed or postponed.

The building, with the arms and accoutrements
it contained, was totally destroyed.

STRASBURG, TUESDAY.

Baron Brunow left here this morning for Paris,
where he is expected this evening at 10 o'clock.
Count Orloff left St. Petersburg on the 9th.
He will arrive at Berlin on Wednesday.

VIENNA, FEE. 12.
Count Buol leaves this day for Paris.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 8.30 A. M.
9 Baron Bruuow arrived here last night, at hal
past 10 o'clock, at the Russian Embassy.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1856.

and for those of the Chambers of Commerce in the
others.

BOURSE, Feb. 12.—The following were the clos-
ing quotations :

Cash. fr. e.
li per Cents 96
3 per Cents 73
New Loan 73 35
Bank Shares 3,482 50 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,575 Austrian
Belgian Fives 97 Spanish Threes ,
Piedrnontes, (5) - Home Debt

End of Month.
—f.
73 75

RAILWAYS-?0B CASH.

fr. c. fr. C.
Or!gums
Northern
Lyons... ~... 1,210 New Ditto Bl5
Mediterranean .1,375 Grand Central' (37 50
Lyons Geneva — Testo
Cette

THE BALTIC.
KIEL, Feb. 9.—The frost which came so unex-
pectedly upon us last week has as suddenly disap-
peared, and a south-west gale has completely dis-
persed the ice and melted the snow, so that we
have now quite the aspect of spring, and the com-
munications with Russia are again entirely free and
uninterrupted. A vessel arrived here two days ago
from Libau, with a cargo of Russian produce • and
the captain, reports that the imports there had been
so great that it was no longer possible to sell the
cargoes from the ship's side, and that it was no
easy matter to obtain storage for the great accumu-
lation of goods which had been received there ;
while the prices of imports had in consequence
so greatly fallen, and those of exports so much ad-
vanced, that the prospects of profit had most
materially diminished. So far as stopping the sup-
plies of warlike stores to Russia, a renewal of the
blockade would now be almost unnecessary ; but
from the great preparations at this moment making
by Russia in fitting out some of her largest and
best screw frigates, it is very desirable that the
vessels sent to the Baltic Wore an armistice is ar-
ranged should be of a class fully qualified to cope
with those of Russia now ready for sea, otherwise
some disaster may occur, the consequences of which
no opportunity might now be afforded to coun-
teract.

THE UNITED STATES.

The commercial accounts from the United States
yesterday describe an easier condition of the money-
market and a great increase of confidence with re-
gard to political relations with England. Securities
of most kinds, however, were dull, owing to the
decline reported from this side, the news of the
submission of Russia not having yet arrived out.
A week previously the aspect of foreign affairs had
been considered bad, but it had become evident
that the attempt to create a war feeling had not
been responded to by the public ; and the satisfac-
tory effect thus caused had been greatly strength-
ened by a semi-official statement in the Washington
Union, that the whole of the reports lately in cir-
culation as to the intention of the President to
adopt an offensive course were wholly without
foundation and highly injurious to the commercial
interests of the nation. The rate of discount for the
best paper. had declined to 8 per cent., and there
was a tendency to an advance in tho rate of ex-
change, which holds out the prospect that a mode-
rate resumption of specie remittances to this side
may take place in the course of a few weeks.
Erie Railroad Stock was at 531 ; Panama, 1001 ;
Reading, 851 ; and Illinois Central Bonds,
811. long period of severe weather had
retarded business, but the importation of Bri-
tish goods ' had been comparatively large, and
the transactions generally were of a healthy cha-
racter. Wheat and flour had experienced a rise
equal to about Is. Bd. per quarter. The Governor
of Mississippi had issued his message to the Legis-
lature of that State, recommending the appropria-
tion of $200,000 annually for the encouragement
of railroads, but saying nothing about its debts
either as regards the amount repudiated or the
amount acknowledged but not paid. He is accord-
ingly reminded by the 1V ew York Tribune that,
although Mississippi greatly needs railroads, she
needs common honesty-still more. From Califor-
nia later advices had been received, but they con-
tain no intelligence beyond the fact of a continued
increase in the gold production. The Mexican ac-
counts are likewise without anything of much mo-
ment ; but from Hayti a full confirmation had been
received of the utter rout of the Emperor Souloque
and his army of 30,000 men in their attempt to
subjugate the Dominican part of the island. The
portion of the expedition headed by the Emperor
in person consisted of 18,000 men, a largo number
of whom turned against him. In his flight he is
said to have wandered through woods, and at
length to have reached a place about 60 miles from
Cape Haytien with only 1,009 followers, having
lost arms, ammunition, and provisions of all kinds,
as welt as 40,0001. in money. It was doubted
whether he would ever regain his power, as in-
trigues were previously on foot for his deposition.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FEB. 7.
HARBOUR OF REFUGE, CARDIGAN BAY.
Motion made, and Question put, " That a Select Commit.
tee be appointed to inquire into the expediency and
practicability of constructing in the most advantageous
part of Cardigan Bay a Harbour of Refuge, to afford
protection against the injury to commerce, and to
avert the harrowing scenes of woe attendant on the
frequent shipwrecks which occur in Saint George's
Channel, which harbour may be constructed also to
serve as one of defence against invasion. That it be
an instruction to the said committee, to inquire into the
feasibility of employing the convicts of this country on
that work, making their employment remunerative to
the country, beneficial to themselves, and at the sane
time preserving our social condition, the security of
which at, present is so affected by the return to it of
ticket-of-leave men." The home divided—Ayes 41;
NooS 118.

AYES- 41.

Barrow, W. Ilorsfall, T. Rushout, Capt. G.
Bentinck, G. Ilume, W. Rust, James
Bignold, Sir S. King, J. Scott, F.
Blakemore, T. MacEroy, E. Sibthorp, Major
Boldero, Lt.-Col. H. G. M'Cann, J. Straccy, 11.
Brady, J. Michell, William Stuart, W.
Brantley-Moore, J. Morris, D, Tyler, Sir G.
Chelsea, Viscount Muflings, J. R. Vansittart, G.
Child, Smith Mundy, W. Walcott, Admiral.
Conch!, J. C. Newdcgate, C. Whitmore, H.
Davies, D. • North, Col. J. Williams, W.
Dunne, Colonel Parker, It. Wynn; W.
Greaves, E. ' Percy, J.
Greene, Capt. John Philipps, J. TELLERS.
Guinness, It. S. Polla-d-Ureitthart W. Davies, J.
Gwyn, lima Robertson, I'. Lisburne, Earl