The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-14 00:00:00

VENING, JULY

The measure of success already attained is indeed
wonderful. In the cotton trade of the north,
employing a population of 2,000,000, the Satur-
day half-holiday is universal ; even the large rail-
way companies have adopted it as far as praclic-
able, by liberating half their clerks alternate
weeks, and express themselves pleased with the
result. The Post-office acts on the same principle,
respectable Assurance Companies have also acted
upon it, and even large retail traders have found
that, by withdrawing part of their staff, they
could give a holiday once in two or three weeks.
For candid and satisfactory answers to all objec-
tions of any weight we must refer our readers
to the report of the 'meting in Friday's San.
Lord STANLEY is not the man to pass over any
objection that deserves attention ; all the speak-
ing was, however, good, and the meeting can
hardly fail to promote the objects of the Society,
which are defined to be—Early closing of shops
and earlier cessation of all kinds of industrial
labour ; the attainment, where practicable, of a
Saturday half-holiday, and the payment of wages
on Friday, or at least early on Saturday.

Among the many projects now appearing for the
improvement of the country in its manifold neces-
sities at home, there are others based on enlarged
and liberal views for developing our commercial
interests abroad. Of these the Calcutta and South-
Eastern Railroad Company takes a prominent po-
sition for laudable enterprise and profitable ad-
venture. Nautical men well know the dangers of
the Hooghly navigation to Calcutta, as well as the
exorbitant charges of pilotage and consequent risk
incidental to arrival at and departure from that
port. We believe that the loss incurred in making
Calcutta, after a voyage of some sixteen thou-
sand miles, safely, would exceed by tenfold the
money now about being embarked in the
Calcutta and South-Eastern Railway. The River
Mutlah, forming one of the mouths of the Ganges,
lies about 26 miles to the southeast of Calcutta,
possessing deep water (four fathoms or 24 feet) even
at low spring tides, with a rise of 14 feet, which
would give 38 feet at full tide. It possesses, be-
sides, the advantage of safe anchorage, with no
bore, as in the Hooghly—which has swamped many
a hapless craft, destroying life and cargo
together. This undertaking has obtained the
Sanction of parties high in Indian office, and
promises to become a national source of profit,
and mutual advantage to all parties interested.
Eventually it is proposed to extend' the line to
Chittagong, Arracan, and the principal places in
the Burmese territories along the Eastern shores
of the Bay of Bengal. The completion of such a
project will do more to subdue and civilise the
savage people in these re ions than an army of
countless numbers ; so thaT, politically as well as
commercially, it will prove the happy pioneer of
improvement and civilisation in the far, far East.

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VIENNA, JULY 12.

This morning, at thirty-five minutes past six,
the Empress of Austria was safely delivered of a

female child.

VIENNA, SUNDAY.

The baptism of tho Princess Imperial took

place to. day at twa o'clock in the afternoon.

On this occasion an amnesty has been granted

by the Emperor for a great number of political

offences.

The estates confiscated, in pursuance of the
rights of war, from the Hungarians, are restored,
and numerous other boons have been conceded.

TURIN, JULY 13.

The Government has asked for a credit of
1,000,000 lire for the erection of fortifications on
the eastern frontier. This is represented as

urgent.

The Caire arrived at Marseilles on Saturday
with advices from Constantinople of the 3d, and
from the Crimea of the Ist inst.

The steam-frigate Isly, which left Constant!.
nople on the 4th inst., has arrived.

The English steamer Cosmopolitan, which left
Kamiesh on the 29th, has also arrived.

When the Isly left there were only 15,000
French troops at Constantinople.
The Journal de Constantinople of the 3d instant
contains a proclamation ordering Sefer Pacha to
cease from carrying on war against Russia, and
enjoining him to return or quit the Ottoman ser-

vice.

The Pacha of Aleppo has caused the Cadi of
Marash, and 150 inhabitants of the town, to be
arrested for the murder of the English agent. A
groat many of the residents have fled, and people
await with impatience the arrival of troops in
Syria, in the hope that they will prevent new
insurrections.

The Austrian Lloyds has established a direct
service from Constantinople to Galatz, and from

Odessa to Vienna.

Russia has re-appointed three of its former

Consuls in Turkey.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.
The Moniteur of to-day, beyond some Imperial
decrees relating to the Guadaloupe and Martinique,
and the confirmation of a projet de loi concerning
the ceases des retraites pour la vieillesse, has no ar-
ticle of general interest. Six columns of the cere-
monial at the funeral of M. Fortoul, at the church
of St. Thomas Aquinas ; the speeches of Marshal
Valliant, M. Dumas, and M. Ravaissou, at the
tomb of the deceased Minister.
The Debats comments on the loss of the Russian
277,000 men, as a set-off for the French loss of
66,000. The same journal, in its impression of
Sunday, comments on the defeat of Ministers on
the question of life peerages. It also tells us that
the departure of Count Morny is the best answer
that can be given to the sinister rumours that a
French Ambassador would not be present at the
coronation of the Czar.

The following private telegraphic despatch has
been received :

" VIENNA, July 12.—Despatches from Bucharest of
July 9 announce that Prince Stirbey, Hospodar of Wal•
Ischia, bad abdicated his government."
[The despatch alludes to the provisional commission to
govern ea attendant the instalment of the Caintacan.
His powers hospodar had already expired.]
BOURSE, July 12, Two o'Clock.—The market has
been dull. Threes have fallen from 71fr. 65c., the
opening price, to 71fr. 60c. All other securities
dull and little doing.