The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-21 00:00:00

liams has arrived at St. Petersburg, and will
shortly return to England. Workmen are stib
employed on the fortifications of Revel. At
Archangel, the sailors of the fleet of Sebastopol
were received with enthusiasm by the people.

HAMBURG, MAY 19.

The Minister Burkall is to accompany the Eni

peror of Russia to Warsaw.

It is expected i

Poland that there will be a general amnesty, that
the University will be re-aitablished, and instruc-
tion in the Polish language permitted, and that' a
Polish guard of 8,000 men will be formed.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY.

The Moniteur publishes the official return of the
customs revenue for the month of April, which
amounted to 14,039,172 f., being a decrease of
1,437,006 f. as compared with the corresponding
mouth of last year. The articles contained in this
return which show the greatest decrease are coffee,
296,401 f. ; raw cotton, 292,259 f. ; wool, 361,7111 ;
foreign sugar, 791,02.3f._; sundries, 44,956 f. Tho,e
which have increased the most are Frencli colonial
sugar, 384,023 F.; pepper, 85,965 f.; lead, 37, 711 f.;
bar iron, 91,816 g. ; cocoa, 13,634 f.
A Paris letter, in the I2o'ep3nclance Beige,
says :—" The Empress has definitively decided or,
carrying into execution a most useful idea. Ado
cree will shortly appear in the ill oniteur, declaring
the creches (asylums for young children) to he
public establishments, and assimilating them to
the regulations of hospitals. The Empress thu:
enlarges the circle of charitable influence of which
she is the originatressoand the centre. She
already the protectress of establishments for the
education of children,. of maternity, of the deaf
and dumb, and of the blind institutions ; and now
she will likewise be patroness of the creches."
BOURSE, May 20.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. fr. e.
4A per Cents 94 --
.3 por Coats 75 20
New Loan 75 50

End of Month.
—f. —O.
75 55

Bank Shares 4,005 LI Roman
•Jredit Mobilier 1,9i7 5) Austrian
Belgian Five 5........ 97 Spanish Threes
Piedmontese(s) . 94 Home Debt .....

RAILWAYS-708 CASH.

fr. c. fr. o
*Years ... ..... , ...... 1,455 Western 985
qortharn
Gynex
liediterransan ..ad 1,700 Grand Central 730
Lyon:, ti.uuta .... 0.1.4 50 Teate

AUSTRIA.
•
The semi-official journal, the Dusseldorf Gazette,
has the following under date of Vienna, 15th :
"Austria is now endeavouring to effect a reform
of the Germanic Confederation, and one of such a
kind that the different sovereigns would renounce
a part of their power, although it certainly is not
through that Austria will make the same abandon-
ment for her German possessions. Austria an-
nounces that theZollverein will terminate in 1860,
iu order that Germany may be confounded with
the Austrian monarchy, and an empire of central
Europe be thus prepared by degrees. Austria
has brought over to her cause a number of the
organs of the press, not only in Austria, but in
Paris and at Frankfort. The future condition of
Germany will not be decided on without some
41ifficulty, for when the voice not only of Prussia,
hut of the rest of Germany, shall be heard, it will
ho by a positive negative that the projects of
Austria will be replied to. Germany will not allow
herself to be absorbed in an empire of central
Europe. That would he a backward step in the
spontaneous development of nations, and the loss
of th- great intellectual liberty of Germany."
A letter from Vienna, of the 14th, in
the Swabian Mercury, says " The notes
exchanged between the Caoiuets of Vienna and
Paris on Italian affairs have had a satisfactory
result, and the two States have agreed on the
policy to be followed in Italy, The memorandum
which Austria and France are on the point of
sending collectively to Rome is the best proof of
this. It contains several proposals relative to the
reforms to he wrought in Rome, which are based
on the secularisation of the administration. Count
de Buol has had several conferences with the Papal
nuncio, Cardinal Viale Prela, on the subject ; but
it would appear that the overtures made by this
prelate have not given complete satisfaction, for
they inspire doubt with respect to the goodwill of
the Roman court to effect the secularisation of the
government."

SERVICES OF LlgUr.-GEVERIL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Can any of your readers enlighten me as to the
services of Lieutendrit-General Vivian (luring the late
war with his corps of Turks ? or were his actions so ad-
vantageous to the country on the banks of the Bos-
phorus as to entitle him to be appointed a Government
Director of the East India Company, under the recent
act, at a salary of 1,2001. per annum, and the usual
patronage? Sir Colin Campbell, Sir De Lacy -Evans,
Sir Richard England, and other general officers who
have served in the Crimea, must hide their diminished
heads for the future when the gallant services of this
child of Fortune, a lieutenant-general, are placed in the
scale against them. Perhaps another lucky general ap-
pointed under him to command a division may have had
a band in it—the son-in-law of Lord Hardioge. There
is an old vulgar saying, trite but true, " Scratch rue,"
&c. However, I dial anxiously look out in your
journal for the war services of Vivian in India and the
Crimea to show forth the career that entitled him to the
above munificent reward. Those services must have
had him to dinner, &c., late)? at Buckingham Palace.
He may be a dashing officer ; but whoever reads the sup-
plementary paper recently issued on the fall of Kars
may form their own conclusion on that point, and may
bless their stars that they were not like the brave Gen.
Williams, depending on such a general to afford relief,
when it could have been so if there was the wish How
he hero of Kars must feel when he peruses the said
document, and the obstacles thrown in the way by those
who ought to have been the fir-t to have •olunte (Tad to
relieve him. Such a mass of special pleading, at the in-
stigation of others, it has never been my fate to have
read, and unworthy of a Thitish officer. It is In (lied
on by tnilitary men and the public, and those with the
slightest feeling of honour or soldier-like feeling, •with
the most infinite contempt.—l remain, Sir, your obe-
dient servant,

A SOLDIER WITO HAS SERVED.
Army and Navy Club, May 19, 1856.

DEATH OF SIR GEORGE BURRARD, BART.--We have
to record the death of the Rev. Sir George- Burrard,
Bart., which took place on Saturday last, at IV: blhampton
House, Hants. He was son of Colonel Wm, Burrard,
by his second marriage with the daughter of iqr Josh.
Pearce. The deceased barons-t was born 6th April, 1769.
DEATH OF SIR FREDERICK G. FOWEE, BAR? —We
regret to announce the death of Sir Fredfirkk Gid..tavu,
Fowke, Dart., which took place on Saturday li,st at
Lea.oington Spa. The deceased baronet was born 29th
January, 1782, and was son of Sir Thomas Fowke, I(t
by the second (laughter and coheir of Sir Isaac Wool-
fasten, Bart. Ho was created a baronet iu February, 1811,,