The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-04 00:00:00

liament during the reign of the present Sovereign.
empowering the Corporation of London to borrow
£300,000 for City improvements—the Chamber-
lain of the Corporation showed in round numbers the
manner in which the annual expenditure of the Cor- 1
poration has been distributed. That expenditure
amounts it is calculated within the year to the ample
sum of £Bo,ooo—a total thus apportioned : to the
magistrates £7,ooo—to the police force from £9,000
to £lO,OOO (one quarter only, however, of this being
disbursed by the City, the remaining three-fourths
being drawn from the Consolidated Fund)—to the
the prisons generally £6,ooo—to Holloway prison
in particular, £5,700—t0 the Debtors Prison,
£5,400—to the Coroner, £Boo—for printing, sta-
tionery, and other incidental expenses of a miscel-
laneous kind, £s,ooo—for carrying out the
administration of criminal justice, £B,OOO.
Altogether, as before intimated showing
an annual expenditure of some £BO,OOO
on the part of the Corporation. In addi-
tion to all which, it is satisfactory to note that, as
the City Chamberlain demonstrated yesterday be-
fore the Parliamentary Committee—large sums of
money have been all the while laid out by the
Corporation in the inauguration or development of
divers metropolitan improvements. For example,
there is set down in this way in the City accounts
the goodly sum of £92,000 for the new prison at
Holloway—and another sum for the Debtors'Prison
of £B,ooo—besides the apportionment in all proba-
bility for the new civil courts of an additional sum
of £lO,OOO. An extra sum of £11,600 per annum
being set apart, moreover, for metropolitan im-
provements generally. Beyond which, is there not
on record the contribution to the fund for the con-
struction of the Metropolitan Railway of no less
princely a sum than £200,000 by the City Corpo-
ration ? A contribution proportionately munificent
from the same source we now look for, if only out
of the merest motives of self-interest, in aid of this
grand and in many respects most desirable of all
metropolitan improvements, the project of the
Thames Embankment.

We deeply regret to see that on board the
steamers of the Cunard Line a distinction is still
made among first - class passengers educated
and cultivated ladies, too, founded on the colour of
their skin. How can this be ? Mr. Com-
missioner HILL, the Recorder of Birmingham,
and his friend, Mr. CHAPMAN, have done
well to bring these painful facts before
the British public. When there was general in-
dignation at the manner in which Mr. FREDERIC
DOUGLAS was treated by a captain of the Cunard
line, Sir SAMUEL promised that such thoroughly un-
English practices should never occur again—yet it
seems Mrs. PUTNAM, a name well-known even
on this side the water, with her whole
party of four, after having taken a first class ticket,
were not allowed by the captain to dine with the
rest of the passengers, but compelled to go into a
small room by themselves !
The American agent offered to refund them their
money if they did not like it ! but circumstances
compelled them to proceed. We almost question
whether the captain and the agent would not be
held legally bound to furnish like accommoda-
tion to all—that they were morally bound no
one can doubt. The subject ought to be men-
tioned in the House of Commons. Sir S.
CUNARD is now receiving from the national exche-
quer an enormous subsidy for a service which others
would undertake without a subsidy at all. His
vessels sail also under an official flag. Is it fair
that to gratify the prejudices of Americans in re-
gard to colour—prejudices so disgusting we may
truly say to all England, - the receiver of such a
large amount of public money should please

Americans to the grief and shame of the
nation which pays him. All English ships
are, legally, a "part of the territory" of the coun-
try they sail from, and in that country the slave who
steps ashore is free, and the coloured man is treated
as an equal—as a man and a brother. Especialty
must all the world look on ships in the Govern-
ment service as part of English territory—and
England may reasonably expect that the noblest
privileges of the country shall be respected there.
We trust Sir SAMUEL CUNARD will no longer
allow his country to be dishonoured by truckling
to bullying, slavery men, in the otherwise noble
line of ships which he has created.

PORTRAIT OF IT.R.H. TIIE PRINCE OF WALES.

Mr. John Watkins, the eminent photographer, of Par-
liament-street, had the honour of attending at Buckingham
Palace this morning, and taking several sittings of his
Royal Highness the Prince of IN ales, prior to his departure
for Canada.

Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce, Governor of the
Prince of Wales, also sat to Mr. Watkins, by whom por-
traits of Earl St. Germans an 3 Major Teesdale, C. 8., had
been previously taken ; thus completing a series of photo.
graphs of the gentlemen who will officially accompany the
Prince of Wales on his visit to the United States.