The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-26 00:00:00

THE WHITE SEA.

We read the following in the Christiania Co
tier of the 11th :

" During the whole of the blockade maintained
in 1855 by the allied fleets of the Russiand ports
in the White Sea not a single neutral vessel has
appeared in that sea, but many Russian vessels
attempted to pass over to Norway by favour of the
night or of fogs, but nearly all, that is to say
about sixty vessels, have been captured by the
squadrons. The inhabitants of many of the little
towns on the White Sea sold provisions to the
fleets, but were at once menaced by the Russian
Government with Siberia if that act should be re-
peated. At the same time the same Government
excited the fanaticism of the inhabitants by distri-
buting medals, or rather a species of amulet, which
they were informed would preserve them from the
arms of the unbelievers, as are termed the Allies.
It is impossible to believe the injury inflicted on
Russian commerce by this blockade of the White
Sea, where there formerly entered each year above
600 vessels of the combined bulk of 120,000 tons,
independently of Norwegian and national vessels."

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING

The United States Mail steamer Arago, Captain
Lines, arrived off Cowes en route to Havre early
this morning. with the French and English mails,
about 50 passengers, 15,000 dollars in specie, and
a cargo of flour and wheat, and dates from Kew
York to the rth inst.
The weather was intensely cold at New York,
and large quantities of ice had formed in the liar- '
boar.

The Canada arrived out on the 11th inst., after
' a voyage of 20 days from Liverpool.
The steam-sbip Prometheus, from California,
arrived at New Orleans on the 10th, with dates to
the 20th ult. The intelligence is not important.
Affairs in Nicaragua were progressin:t favourably.
There were reports of another Filibustering expe
dition having landed in Lower California. The
San Francisco markets were dull. Several battles
had been fought between the Whites and Indians,
and numbers killed on both sides. General Wool,
however, was making arrangements for a vigorous
campaign against the Indians.
The voting for Speaker was being continued ;
on the last ballot Odell received 45 votes ; Pren-
dergast, 34 ; Bailey, 26. There was no symptom
of a surrender on either side. The Texas Debt
Bill had been rejected by a majority of six.
Five persons were accidentally killed on the
Terrehaute and Alton Railroad on the 10th inst.
A destructive fire had occurred in a warehouse
at Charleston, containing cotton and rice, and pro-
perty to the value of $,75,000 destroyed.
The schooner Pacific, of Washington, North
Carolina, laden with tar and turpentine, got ashore
on the Long Beach. All hands except the captain
and mate perished.

The barque Duque de Braganza had also gone to
pieces, and it was supposed all hands were lost.
Several railroad accidents were reported. Three
persons were killed, and 22 frightfully wounded, on
the Hudson River Railroad, by one train running
into another.

The Washington correspondents of the Now York
papers agree in announcing the rumoured retire-
ment of Mr. Crampton, and it was asserted that
he was arranging his affairs preparatory to his re-
turn to England. It was further rumoured that
the American Government had notified to Great
Britain that Mr. Crampton would not be allowed
to remain ; and it was also stated, that, in the
event ofhis dismissal, the British Government will
have no further diplomatic intercourse with the
Unitel States, and that Mr. Buchanan will be pre-
sented his passport.
A despatch from Washington states that news
from Nicaragua had been received to the effect
that the Walker Government was in danger of
being overthrown by a revolutionary party, and
that Walker had been twice repulsed in conflicts.
The Ohio Legislature. had elected Teleon H. Van
Vooris, a black Republican, as Speaker.
A very severe snowstorm had visited the whole
of the Atlantic coast from Virginia to Halifax,
which lasted several hours.

At Boston the mails were detained, and at Ne
York the railroads were completely blocked up.
News from Cuba had been received to the 28th
ult. Havaanah was very gay. Another batch of
Africans had been landed, and another lot of po-
litical prisoners exiled.
Intelligence from Mexico states Cult robberies,
murder, and discontent prevailed all over the Re-
public. The measure of Alvarez for doing away
with the clergy and army exemptions was giving
great dissatisfaction in Puebla. When the military
were posting the proclamations they were attacked
by the people, and many were killed on both sides.
General Comonfort had ordered 2,500 men to
march on Puebla and subdue it.

It was thought that Vera Cruz would soon pro-
nounce in favour of Robles.
In the New York money market the transactions
were limited. Exchange on England was quoted
at 1081 ; Paris, sf. 20c. to sf. 220.
The cotton market was firm. Flour was in fair
demand. Wheat was quiet. Corn was in mode-
rate request. Pork firm and beef dull. Sugars
also were quiet.
Freights were steady for English ports, and
pretty free. Engagements for flour and grain were
made for Liverpool at full rates.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, .—Last night Handel's
oratorio, " Judas Maccabeus, ' was given by the above
society, for the first time this season, and with great
success.
MADAME TUSSADD'S EXHIBITION.—This most excel-
lent establishment still continues most successful, pro-
gressing from its first formation, and is the o!dest in
Europe, having been 52 years in England and 30 years
in France nine thousand six hundred successive days
and eveninv, certainly a most unprecedented period of
success. The Messrs. Tussaud have achieved a brilliant
career during the long period owing chiefly no doubt to
their good judgment and untiring industry in catering
or the publio ardtliezftent and instruction. I

AUSTRALIA.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.
The Royal mail packet ship Champion of the seas
has arrived, with advices from Melbourne to the

27th of October, 188 passengers, and 124,000 ozs.
of gold on freight. She also brings a large cargo,
which includes 1,185 halos of wool, 13 bales of
sheepskins, 40 casks of tallow, 382 packages of
tin ore, 3,120 bags of copper 3 casks of oil (the
produce of New Zealand), &c.
The packet ship James Baines, with the mails of
the sth of August, arrived at Melbourne after a
passage of 77 (lays from Liverpool.
The electoral lists for the mining districts had
been issued. The polling was fixed for the 15th of
November.
The Argus says : . _

"We were already feviing impatient, and we think
not without just grounds, at the prorogation of the 6th
of-November. The new constitution is now here, and
for many reasons it is most desirable that it should
be brought into operation as soon as possible."
A public meeting was held in Melbourne on the
15th of October to consider the conduct of Sir 11.
Young, the Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania, in
endeavouring (to use the words of the Melbourne
_Herald), first, to " browbeat the Legislature of
that colony, and, failing in his attempt, to thwart
further proceedings by a sudden and ill-advised
prorogation." The meeting was presided over by
the chief magistrate. The following resolutions
were adopted :
"1. That the power recently claimed and asserted by
the Legislative Council of Tasmania to' compel the
attendance of witnesses to be examined before select com-
mittees of the said Council is indispensable to the due
exercise of one of the most important functions of a
legislative assembly.
"2. That the arbitrary conduct of H. Fox Young,
the Governor of Tasmania, in suddenly proroguing the
Council for the purpose of forcibly suppressing inquiry
into the conduct of certain officers of the convict depart.
went of the colony, charged with the grossest inalversa-
tion of their respective offices, and the unprecedented
T node of prorogation adopted by him in going into the
Council at a late hour of the night, in the mi'lst of a
debate, without the usual formal not c,., is an abu.e of
the powers confided to him by her most gracious Ma-
jesty, which is calculated to bring her name and autho-
rity into contempt, and which would, if successful, he
utterly destructive of the independence of the Legisla-
ture.

"3. That thin meeting sympathises with the Legisla-
tive Council of Tasmania in their conflict with an arbi-
trary and irresponsible Executive, and tenders t the
said Council the assurance of its cordial support in main-
taining inviolate their right o iagnire into abuses affect-
ing the welfare of the colony, and thereby maintaining
the rights and liberties of the peOple whom they repre-
sent.

" 4. That the right worshipful the chairman be re•
quested to forward copies of the resolutions passed at
this meeting to the Hon. the Speaker of the Legislative
Council of Tasmania, to his Excellency Sir Henry Fox
Young, the Governor of that colony, and to his Excel-
lency Sir Charles Hocharn, K C 8., Governor of Vic-
toria, with a request that his Excellency will he pleased
to transmit tbe same to her most gracious Majesty."
A similar meeting was held at Glamorgan, Tas-
mania, at which the following resolutions were

passed
"'That it is the opinion of this meeting that the pro-
ceedings of his Excellency the Governor and Executive
Council, since the last meeting of the Legislative Assem-
bly, have been rash, hasty, and unconstisutional, in
thwarting the endeavours of the select committee in the
investigation of the convict department for the gross
neglect charged against it, even to enormous loss of life.
" That this meeting is of opinion that the antago-
nistic position in which the Executiie and Legislature
ate pla, ed with regard to the mode of carrying out
the inquiry into the abuses existing in the Imperial
convict department is detrimental to the interests
and welfare of the community, and calculated to im-
pair that confidence in, and respect for, the legislative
and executive bodies which are essential to the peace and
good government of the colony. That, regarding the
presence of any Imperial department having interests
conflicting with those of the colony, and administered
by officers not under under the control of the local Legis-
lature, as utterly incompatible with the beneficial ex-
istence of free institutions, this meeting is of opinion
that the Executive and Legislature should strenuously
urge upon the Imperial Government the absolute neces-
sity of at once transferring the control of the Imperial
Government repaying to the colonial treasury the cost
accruing to the colony from the presence of Imperial
convicts until the same shall have become free, and cease
to be a charge o❑ the colonial revenue. That this meet-
ing is further of opinion that the examination of Dr.
Hampton or any of his department at the bar of the
house is not indispensable, or even necessary, to the
efficient prosecution of the inquiry into the abuses coin-
mitted by those officials ; and that such inquiry should
be conducted in a manner which will not necessitate a
renewal of the collision with the Executive at the re-
assembling of the Legislative Council, at which time
this meeting is of opinion the representatives will best
serve the interests of their constituents and the welfare
of the community generally by proceeding with the
many important measures now before the Council, mere
especially that of bringing into operation the new consti-
tution.

"That it is the opinion of this meeting that the course
which has been pursued by the majority of the Council is
at the same time constitutional, tempt-ra,6e, and requi-ite
for the due mair ten,ince of the riehte, liberties, a d pri
yileges of the inhabitants, not only if this colony, but
of the whole the depend-ncies of Great Britain."

Accounts from the Ovens report a very large
yield of gold. A lump of 11b. weight hail been
picked up by a miner, and one party took out, in a
week 501 b. weight. There were about 3,000 miners
at these diggings.
With reference to the issue of Government de-
bentures, under the act of Council, 18 Victoria,
Ne. 40, the following notice had been published in
the Gazette

"Colonial Secretrirv'e-office, Melbourne,
Oct. 25, 1855.

"His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the
Executive Council, has been pleased to notify that 1,000
deb.nfures, redeemable in equll proportions on the I,t
day of January in each of the years 1868„1869, 1870,
1871, and 1872, are now open for purchase by the pub-
lic, under tha provisions of the act of Council, 18 Vic.,
No. 40.

" The debentures are transeerable by delivery, and are
for the sum of 1001. each, bearing interest at the rate of
6 per cert. per annum, payable half-yearly, on the Ist
day of Jan. and the Ist day of July, the first half-yearly
dividend bein, due and payable on the I,t. of Jan., 1856
"The principal and interest of each debenture will be
payable, at the option of the holder for the time beieg,
either in Melbourne or London ; any change which it
may be desired to make in this respect being previously
notified, net later than the last dividend-day, and regis-
tered at the Colonial Treasury in Melbourne, and in the
office of the agent for Victoria in London (for the pre-
sent Edward Barnard, E3q., No. 5, Cannon-row, West-
minster), and endorsed upon the debentures.
"Tenders for the purchase of the above debentures
will be received at the Treasury until 12 o'clock on Mon-
day, the 29th inst., and on every succeeding Monday
morning until further notice, and will be opened at
half-
past 12 on the same day,
" The tenders must be sealed and addressed to the
Colonial Treasurer, superscribed Tender for Govern.
ment Debentures.'

"The tenders will be for the value of the stock, or
principal of the debentures only, irrespective of interest.
"If a tender be accepted, the amsunt tendered, tc-
gether with the interest accrued since the Ist of July
last, must be paid in cash.
"By his Excellency's command.
" WILLIAM C. HAINES."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
MELBOURNE, Ocr. 27.

The gold market remains at 3/. 15s. al. per oz., buy.
ers. There was little doing to-day. Duty was paid at
the Customs on 3,433 oz.-2,933 oz. for Liverpool by
the Champion of the Seas, and 500 oz. for Sydney by
the City of Sydney. Tne total quantity Shipped by the
Champion of the Seas for Liverpool amounts to 123,400
oz., of which the banks shipped the following :_pank of
Australasia, 26,000 oz. ; Bank of New South Wales,
20,000 oz.; London Chartered Banl., 15,000 oz.; Bank
of Victoria, 10,000 oz.; Oriental Bank, 6,240 oz.;Union
Bank, 6,128 oz. ; English, Scottish, and Australian
Chartered Bank, 2,500_0z.

Messrs. Fraser and Cohen sold at their rooms—Sar-
dines, half-boxes, 13s. per dozen ; quarter boxes, Bs.,
Bs. 6d. ; 21b. salmon, ls. 6cl. per lb. : fresh herrings,
81d. to ls. 2d. per tin ; quart pickles, 10s. 6.1. per doz.;
half-pound mustards, Bs. 3d. ; capers, 9s 6.1. ; marma-
lades, lls. ; bottled fruits, 13s. 6d. ; colonial jam, 81,1. •
-
Belmont candles, yellow, in proportios, 3's, 4's. and'
00. to is. l 1. ; Sydney soap, 451. per ton ;
Clotizeau's brandy, 225. 6d., in bond ; yellow wax
candles, 3's, is.

Mr. A. G. Gilbert, cold at th,e Mall of Commerce, 40
Marett's dark bra, dv, at 12w. per gallon ; 100
caes Martell's brandy, at 19.. ; medium p rt, 23.. per
doz. ; Sydney candles, at 6d. per lb. ; and sundry other
goods at fair prices.
The sale of Crown lands at the auction rooms of
Messrs. W. M. Tennent and Co.. yesterday was more
numerously attended than on any of the previous days.
The competition among the bidders was more spirited,
especially for the lots at Elstern wick, all of which were
sold at a considerable advance on the upset price. The
amount realised by the day's sale was 3,0721.
The escorts from Mount Alexander and Ballarat ar-
rived at the Gold,office yesterday at the appointed hour,
and brought the following returns, viz.:-- Number
Quantity.
Gold. Cash. of last
Name of Gold Field. oz. dwts. £ s„ Receipt.
Castlemaine - 0 ... 4,113 0 •••
.. Sandhurst 11,463 0
... 3,485 0 . 30,120*
Heathcote
Ballarat 13,819 5 ... 2,524 0 ... 2,905*
... Avoca
Creswick's Creek .. 2,372 10
1,341*
Mount Franklyn
• '• 910*
Amherst
...
Maryborough 3,234 10 ••• 1,922 0 ... 2,640*
Total .

42,510 1 16,198 0

The price of labfiur remains nearly the same as last
week, but the demand for men is on the increase ; few
need be unemployed if they would take ...oe current

* This includes all gold and cash deposited for escort to
the 224 Lasts

wages now offered, but they seem inclined to wait for an
ad% The hay crops are very heavy, and there will
be a great demand for mowers shortly, if the weather
keeps fine. Shearers scarce. The labour market gene-
rally is in a buoyant state, except for skilled artizans,
which is dull in the extreme. Women plentiful, but
really first-rate services were scarce. Seamen's wages
much the same, and the market well supplied.
With Rations.-Married couples, without families,
601. to 651. ; ditto, with familes, 451. to 501. ; gardeners,
50/. to 52/. ; grooms, 451. ; stockkeepers, per annum,
451. t't 501. ; shepherds, 301. to 351. ; butkeepers, per
annum, 261. to 281. ; ploughmen, 20-. to 25.. per week;
farm labourers, 20s. do. ; shearers, 17s. to 20s. per 100;
sheep-washers, 20s. per week ; mowers, ss. to 6s. per
acre ; bullock drivers for roads, 30s. per week ; do., for
farms, 208. to 255. do. ; horse team-drivers for roads,
255. do. ; haycutters and trussers, 30s. do., or 4s. per
ton ; male cooks, 20s. to 455. do. ; waiters, 20s. to 265.
do. ; blacksmiths, 50s. to 60s. per week.
,Without Rations.-Blacksmiths, 41. to 41. 10s. per
week ; carpenters, 10s. to 12s. per day ; masons, 10.. to
19s. per day ; bricklayers, 12s. per day ; plasterers, 12e.
to 14s. per day ; quarrymen, 10a. to 12s. per day ; la-
bourers, 7s. to Bs. per day ; stonebreakers, 58. to 6s. per
yard ; compositors, is. 4d per thousand ; pressmen, 41.
to 51. per week. Female domestics.-Thorough servants,
261. to 301. ; housemaids, 201. to 241. ; laundresses, 261.
to 301. ; cooks, 261. to 301. ; nursemaids, 121. to 20/. ;
needlewomen, 201. to 251.

SYDNEY, OCT. 25.
In our import•markets (premising that continued dul-
ness prevails, the consequence of the stoppage of pay-
ment of some large firms, whose liabilities are great) we
may, in our chief markets report the following prices :
Breadstuffs—ln flour, fine has risen suddenly from 401.
to 451. The price of seconds is merely nominal, as
scarcely any parcels are in the . market, and stocks of
fine are reported to be low. For Van Diemen's Land
wheat the price is 18s. ; for Chilian wheat from 17s. 6d.
to 18s. There seems to be a general impression that,
from advices as to shipments to these colonies, the high
prices now quoted will not long be sustained.
BALLARAT, OCT. 25.
Flour, best Adelaide, 561. per ton ; ditto, Chili, 551.
per ton ; potatoes, 381. per ton ; bay, 201. per ton ;
Para rice, 401. per ton ; sugar, best Mauritius, 421. per
t ; do,, No. 1, Cossipore, 561. per ton ; butter, Cork,
ls. 9d. per lb. ; candles, Belmont, No. 1, ls. 10d, per
lb. ; oats, c9knial, lls. per bushel ; bran, ditto, 4s. 6d.
per bushel.

Cartage from Geelong, 151. a-ton ; ditto from Mel-
bourne, 18/. per ton.

THE POISONINGS AT M.ANCHIISTER.

Mr. Bradlaugh, of London, is still pursuing his inves-
tigation of the charge against Dunn, Monaghan, and
Barry, for poisoning Monaghan's father, and proper
steps have been taken to obtain the exhumation of Mo-
naghan's body, that it may be subjected to a post
mortem examination. The search for the body, how-
ever, has so far proved abortive. He was buried in the
ground attached to St. Wilfred's Catholic Chapel,Hulme,
which, though only a comparatively new place of sepul-
ture, is sufficiently crowded to throw many obstacles in
the way of the search. On Thursday it is said that up-
wards of a dozen bodies had been removed without
finding the right one, nor had the search been more
successful up a late hour yesterday. In the ex-
amination of Mr. Holland, surgeon, on Wednesday, some
portions of his evidence were rejected by the Court, be-
cause one of the accused parties (Dunn) was not present,
rat-inents criminating an absent person not being ad-
missible under such circumstances. The evidence so
excluded was to the effect that Dunn had said that the
monthly payments were made in shares, and that it was
agreed, when the money should be obtained from the
Diadem Assurance Company, they (meaning James
Monaghan, George Barry, and Dunn himself) should
" hook it " to Australia. When the prisoner James
Monaghan and Dunn went together to Mr. Holland's
house Monaghan was dressed in black, and on the owe.-
sion, according to the evidence of Mr. Holland, when
he first heard from James Monaghan of his father's
death, they both said that dysentery had caused his
death. Mr. Holland asked James Monaghan to "prove
it," and he produced a certificate signed by Mr. Hatton,
surgeon, stating the cause of death to be " chronic
dysentery." This, Mr. Holland thought, would be
about September. At this point Mr. Bradlaugh asked,
" What did he say had been given to him The wit-
ness replied, " Dunn said he had given a few grains of
acetate of lead to him." This was said in the surgery ;
and James Monaghan was in the parlour at the time.
Dunn also said afterwards, in the presence of Monaghan,
that a glass of whisky was given to John Monaghan
when he was upstairs ; but the witness did not think
that the prisoner James Monaghan heard this, or that
James Monaghan said anything about it. Question—
On your oath, did James Monaghan say anything to
you about what was done in the bed-room ? Answer—
He said there had been a glass of whisky given to old
Monaghan; and Dunn corroborated it. He said they
had given him a glass of whisky, and Monaghan said
they had dosed it ; but I don't think he knew there was
anything in it. The witness's reason for tkinking so
was that Monaghan never mentioned it. The witness
had a book called the Medical Almanac. It contained
a description of all kinds of poisons. He never showed
it to James Monaghan. He kad shown it to Dunn
once. James Monaghan was not there then ; and the
witness and Dunn were all who were in the place. The
witness thought at the time Dunn had a large dog he
wanted to do something with. He thought so because
Dunn's wife had been bitten by a dog, and she herself
had stat-d that she would poison it. This the'witnese
thought was towards the latter end of the year. Mr.
Bradlaugh, we may add, is still continuing his investiga-
tion of the case.

RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS IN

PA RLIAMENT.

Yesterday the examining barristers, Messrs. Smith
and May, appointed by the Houses of Lords and Com-
mons to inquire into and decide upon the compliance
with the standing orders of Parliament, met for the firet
time. The bills before the learned gentlemen are lees
numerous than in previous sessions, and, what is termed
the opp,sition to them, far less considerable. The stand
ing orders were declared to have been complied with in
the following cases :

EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.—TO attach further advan-
tages to certain porti,ms of the company's oapital, with
p,,wer to borrow 83,00 Ci
LOWESTOFT AND BEOCLES RAILWAY.—FIr making a
railway from Lowestoft to join the East Suffolk Rail-
way at Becctes ; proposed capital 26,5001., and power
to borrow one-half.

WORCESTER AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.—TO abandon
portion of line between Malvern and Hereford and
branches, to reduce the capital to 248,0001., and to
change the company's name to that of the " Worcester
and rvlalVErn Railway Company,"and to limit the amount
to he borrowed to 82,8001. The only informality was a
dekot in a notice to one of the landowners.
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE (Sandbach to War td--
To extend the line Sandbach to near Mocfr W ie,'iither
purposes. Partly heard.
The other bills of a general character were-aIN ich
Union Life Insurance, Cheltenham Gas, G 1011404 all,
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Coventry (City) Gas, Lancaster Gas, Heysta _ as,
North of Europe Steam Navigation (opposed . „pail-fax
and Huddersfield Road, Prisoners Discharge Society,
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