The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-08 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

SYDNEY, JUNE 4.

The Star of the East, with the English mail and
advices to the 9ch March, arrived at Melbourne on
Saturday, May 31. The Sydney portion was re-
ceived here on Monday light, by one of the coast-
ing steamers. This arrival is fortunately in time
to enable merchants to answer their letters by the
Walter Hood (from Melbourne), for which the
Sydney mail will be made up this evening.
The recent arrival of some assorted cargoes of
goods, in which the stocks in hand had become low,
has imparted some activity to the trade of the city ;
and as the gold diggings are still very remunerative,
and the demand for supplies in the interior con.
tinued good, there is a prospect of a favourable
state of things in all the markets shortly.
The Queen's birthday (24th ult.) was celebrated
here, as in every other portion of her Majesty's
Australian colonies, with the usual loyal demon-
strations. It is always a close holiday with us,
and the colonists took good care to enjoy it. A
royal salute was fired from the fort, and the
Governor-General held a lev4e, which was very
numerously attended, as was the State ball at
Government House on the following Tuesday.
The Governor-General opened the first session
of the parliament of New South Wales on the 23d
ult., and in a speech of some length adverted to
various topics suggestive of improvement in our
colonial affairs—among which are a comprehensive
system of public education, increased facilities fur
the acquisition of land, extension of railways, the
establishment of municipal councils throughout the
colony, and the institution of law courts at Bris-
bane for the northern district.

Mr. Daniel Cooper (the millionnaire) has been
elected Speaker of the House of Assembly, by a
majority of one, over Mr. Parker. The beaten
party ascribe his success to the prospect of the
splendid banquets which are expected to be served
up at the Speaker's table. The chief justice, Sir
Alfred Stephen, is the President of the Legislative
Council, or Upper House.
Already have the holders of seats in each house
ranged themselves in adverse parties, ministeria-
lists and opposition, or rather ins and outs, and,
ore any other business is transacted, the belliger-
ents have sturdily contested the premier pas. Para-
graphs in the address, in reply to the governor's
speech, have formed the groundwork of motions
intended to test the strength of the ministry ; and
those motions, in the shape of amendments, have
been negatived in three divisions, in favour of the
government. The members of the lower house
who have accepted office. will have to appeal to
their conAitumte, for re-etection, of 7hich there is
no reason to doubt. In the meanwhile both houses
stand adjourned for ten weeks, the interim being
required for the preparation of the estimates for
the ensuing year, the adoption of rules and regu-
lations required by the new form which the colo-
nial legislature has assumed, and other official
matters.

There being no established form of religion in
the colony, and consequently the liturgy of the
Church of England is not read, as in England, pre-
vious to the parliamentary business of the day, a
motion has been put to the rote that the Speaker
should, before the commencement of business, read
the 67th Psalm. The mover (Mr. Holt) adduced
examples of the custom of invoking the Divine
blessing among the Greeks, Romans, and Jews, as
well as Christian nations. The motion was nega-
tived by 26 to 9.
Our vicinity is now infested by a gang of burglars,
whose motions are very erratic, but uct so cleverly
contrived as to elude the vigilance of our active
police. Among other houses where nightly visita-
tions have been inflicted are those of Col. Barney,
at Northshore ; Mr. Moriarty, Lane Cove ; Mr.
Broadhurst, barrister, Pott's Point ; and Mr. Blax-
land, Newington, near Paramatta. In the last-
mentioned case, Mr. Blaxland, being alarmed by a
noise, awaited the entrance of the burglar, whom,
after watching his motions for some time, he shot
with a pistol, wounding him severely. Whilst,
however, his attention was called away by the
screams of his family, the fellow whom he had cap-
tured contrived to escape, leaving a track of blood
behind him which the dogs who were sent out un-
fortunately obliterated.
The mail from Braidwood to Goulburn was rob-
bed last week by an armed bushranger. Henry I
Hollis, the driver, was the only person in the con-
veyance at the time. The robber levelled a musket
at him, and ordered him to get out of the coach.
The fellow then entered the vehicle, and threw out !
the mail bags, which he ripped open, taking t.

some letters, leaving the registers d one. He se-
lected; as the chief part of his booty, a tlea-Vy bag
containing only newspapers, probably considering
de most Valuable portion of the despatch. The
remainder Was found on the scene of the robbery
on air b!tin• given,
We are somewhat sensitive here onthe gUbjent of
the rumoured differences between GI eat Britain
and thk_i Wnitsd States of America, on account of
our undefended position. We do not relish the
prospect of a descent upon out licrtegi and the
pillage, by the Go-aheads, of our banks and stotes.
Among the late successful findings in the gold
fialds was a solid lump of gold, weighing 644 oz.
3 dwts. (nearly 541 b.), the fortunate diggers being
three men named John Williams, John Matthews,
and George Stapleton, at the Black Creek, near
Castlemaine. About 80 oz. of small gold were found
near the ponderous nugget. A lump of 120 oz., im-
pregnated with about 5 oz. of quartz, was found
at Middleton Creek. The colonists of Tasmania
are very sanguine just now of that island being
rich in the auriferous deposit, and the search for
the hidden treasure is being actively proceeded
with.

A grand musical festival is shortly to take place
at Melbourne With a band of 200 performers, Mdme.
Anna Bishop to be the principal cantatrice.
Railway extension is making very satisfactory
progress in this colony. Of the line from Paramatta
to Liverpool three miles of the permpnent way are
laid and ready for ballasting, and it is expected that
the opening will take place in Sept. next. On the
Newcastle and Maitland line 14 miles of the per-
manent way are laid, leaving only three miles to
be completed. The rolling stock is expected to
arrive from England in time to open this portion of
the line in October.

Ships arrived from England—May 31, the Libe-
ria, Morton, 121 days, from Liverpool ; June 2,
the Rodney, Blissett, 100 days, from London.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ETNA.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

This morning the screw steam-ship Etna, Capt.
Miller, arrived in the Mersey. She sailed from
New York on the same day (viz., the 27th ult.)
that the Canada left Boston, bringing one day's
later news from the former port. She has brought
one passenger, but no specie. The Etna passed the
Asia, from hence on the 6th, on the morning of the
7th, off Ballycotton.
At the steamer's departure, money was plentiful
at New York on call at 7 per cent., more confi-
dence having been inspired by news from Nica-
ragna.

-Stocks steady.
Exchange on London and Paris dull at previous
rates.

Small sales in the cotton market ; prices unal
tered.

Wheat easier ; flour not in demand. Common
grades dull and lower.
There was no material alteration in the provision
market.

Freights remain dull.

RUSSIAN REPLY TO LORD CLARENDON'S

NOTE.

• Le _Nord publishes with the aid of its Berlin,
correspondent, the following account of a diplo-
matic note which the Russian government has
caused to bo addressed to the English Government,
and which, it says, must have come into the hands
of the latter several days ago : . .. .

This note is an answer to another note which
had been address®d by the British Government to
that of St. Petersburg, complaining of the delay
which Russia, in its opinion, apparently wished to
cause in carrying out the engagements it had con-
tracted by the treaty of Paris. Recapitulating all
the griefs of the Foreign•oflice, Prince Gortschakoff
analyses them in succession, and refutes them with
such lucidity, precision, and firmness of language
as must have proved to the cabinet of London that,
although Russia wishes to keep up friendly rela-
tions with England, she has no intention, for all
that, to use a colloquial expression, of letting her
toes be trodden on.

Prince Gortschakoff proves irrefutably that Rus-
sia, far from carrying out with a bad grace the stipu-
lations of the treaty of peace, is, on the contrary,
ready in every place to fulfil her engagements to
the very letter ; proved, for the rest, by her evacua-
tion of Kars, performed with an obliging promp-
titude and a good grace that even the journals of
Constantinople have been compelled to acknow-
ledge. As for the Isle of Serpents, Prince Gorts-
chakoff declares that Russia cannot concede to one
of the powers that signed the treaty of Paris the
right of raising by herself alone and of her own
mere motion a question that cannot be solved
unless by all these powers at one and the same
time, as the congress of Paris has clearly specified.
Besides, the demarcation of the new frontiers of
Bessarabia has to be performed and is being per-
formed by the commission appointed for that pur-
pose by the congress of Paris, and as for what
concerns the regulating the navigation of the
Danube and the Russian frontier in Asia, the
Russian commissioners have been long at their
post, where they merely wait for the other dele-
gates to arrive in order to commence their task.
Such is in sum, leaving out the c )nclu-ive argu-
ments and the unanswerable facts quoted in illus•
tration, the answer with which the Emperor
Alexander's Minister of Foreign Affairs rebuts the
accusation attempted to be foisted on Russia by
the British cabinet, with little apparent good faith,
in so unusual a manner, and so exceedingly ill-
timed.

Alfred Latham, Esq., is the gentleman recommended
by the Court of Directors of the Bank of England to fill
tne vacancy in the direction, occasioned by the decease
of Henry James Prescott, Esq.
Mr. Andrew, the Chairman of the Euphrates Valley
Railway Company, had an interview with bis Excel-
lency M. Musurus, the Turkish Ambassador, at the Em-
bassy, on Saturday the 6th inst.
THE ISLE OF MAN.—The glorious scenery of ibis
island, together with its almost uniform and highly salu-
brious climate, equal, according to Professor Dore 's ac-
count, of Berlin, to any other in the world, is attracting
the attention of the wealthy valetudinarian as well as
those who are in search of health and the picturesque.
The conversion of the magn.ficent re-ideece of the Duke
of Athol into an hotel, has chiefly contributed to make
this island known, and it is but right to say that the
" Castle Mona" is a model for seaside hotels, cunhinieg
as it does all the econornicre ,comforts of an English
home, with the requirements and luxuries,, if necessary,
of the Continent. We may also, in bearing testimony
to this establishment, draw attention to the academic
resources of the island, whicb, together with the hotel,
contrast favourably with the majority of such institu-
tions in any part of the kingdom.— United Service
Gazette.
A highly interesting portrait mcdel of his Majesty
j
the King of Naples, has just been completed and
placed in the Royal group at Madame Tussand's
exhibition. • His Majesty is represented in a military
costume, blue coat, red collar, white pantaloons, high
boots, his coat being decorated with the order of St.
Janarius. The figure is most life-like, and will no doubt
become a most interesting subject, in consequence of
the disturbed state of Italy, and particularly from the
precarious state of his own dominions.
Rumor. COLLEGE. —The Rev Thomas Huntley
Greene, M.A., of this college, and domestic chaplain to
the Bishop of London, has been presented by the Bishop
of Oxford to the rectory of Marsh Gibbon, Bucks.
MAGDALEN COLLEGE.—The Rev. Henry Linton,
M.A., of this college, vicar of Diddington. Huntingdon-
shire, has been presented by the Lord Chancellor to tLe
rectory of St. Peter le Bailey. in this city, vacant by the
resignation of the Rev. John Penson.
ATOTHEOLBLEB' HALT..—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examinations in the science and practice of
medicine, and receive certificates to practise, on Thursday
September 4, 1856 :—Henry Carnley, Hull ; Alexander
Frederick Bradshaw ; William James Daniel, Beamir, -
Ater, Dorset ; Charles Pryce, Bayswater ; Frederick
William Dunne, Islington; William Joseph Hodgson,
Snaith, Yorkshire ; Eustace John Carver, Melbourne ;
Cambridge ; Thomas Rayner, Manchester.
The Bristol Mercury announces the death, at an ad-
vanced age, of Mrs. Schimmelpennick, at her residence
in Harley-place. The deceased lady was an authoress
of some fame, to whom we are iniebted for a treetise on
the " Theory of Beauty," publ shed in 1815, " Memoirs
of Port Royal," and other works.
SIR COLIN CAMPBELL IN PRESTON.—Sir Colin Camp-
bell, G.C.B. who has recently been appointed Inspect, r-
General of infantry, visited the Preston garrison at Ful-
wood Barracks on Thursday morning, for the purpose of
inspecting the troops there stationed. The gallant
General was accompanied by Colonel Stirling, C.B , his
aide-de-camp. On entering the barrack-yard Sir Colin
found the whole of the men composing the depot of the
34th and the 97th Regiments of Foot drawn ,Up on
parade to receive him. The men were first formed into
line, and Sir Colin commenced a very minute inspection,
passing slowly from man to man until he had examined
every soldier in the battalion. This inspection completed,
the men marched past in review order, and manoeuvred,
and subsequently exhibited their kits, the whole of which
underwent a strict examination by the general. Sir
Colin expressed his admiration of the efficient state of
the battalion, and was much pleased with the cleanliness
and high discipline of the troops. At the dinner hour
he also inspected the dinner and barrack rooms, after-
wards visiting the hospital, the prison, and the schools,
of all the arrangements in which departments Sir Colin
expressed his approval. The inspection occupied up-
wards of four hours, Sir Colin being accompanied by
Col. Alves, commandant of the battaliOn, in his strict
examination of the troops. 'Sir Colin Campbell has sine
left Preston for Dublin. It is understood that Sir Colin
is prosecuting these inquiries with a view to the prepa-
ration of a report upon the battalion system, and to the
recommendation, if deemed advisable, of fixed training
schools in various parts of the kingdom for officers and
men. -

SUNDAY 178
c IN THE PARKS.

CLOSE OF THE REASON,

The Sunday Bands Committee brought the season to
a cloe yesterday in the Regent's and Victoria Parks.
In the former, in addition to the ordinary band, the
Hungarian Band, conducted by NI. Kalozdy, was et]
:-;,aged, and performed several of their most celebrated
pieces. The performances on this occasion commenced
at three and terminated at six o'clock. Half-an•hour
before the music commenced the people began to pour in
in great numbers ; and it is the opinion of those who
have been in attendance throughout the season that there
were nearly 200,000 persons in the park during the
afternoon. Notwithstanding this vast assemblage not
the slightest disturbance or inconvenience arose, but
everything passed off in the most orderly manner. At
the termination of the National Anthem, which was
admirably performed by the two bands united, a shout
of applause burst from the assembled multitude, bat was
speedily suppressed, and the people quietly dispersed.
The following is the programme performed by the
People's Subscription Band and Kalozdy'e Hungarian
Band in the Regent's Park :
Parade March Minnie Tutton.
Overture " William Tall" Rossini.
Polka Mazurka The Ladies Ruhner.
Cavatina " Nabuco" . Verdi.
Valse Fair Star
Aria Robert, toi que j'aiine Meyerbeer.
Quadrille Como D'Albert.
March From " The Prophet" Moyerbeer.
Selection " Rigoletto" Verdi.
Polka Y Piece Kalozdy,
Quadrille Bonnie Dundee D'Albert.
Overture " Zampa” Herold.
Fantasia Scotch Airs Godfrey.
March " Athalie" Mendelssolin,

Arranged by J. Weaver.
Selection " Il Trovatore " Verdi. .
Schottische .. Merry Legs G. Stahl*
Overture " Massaniello" Auber.
March Cheer up, Companions Becker.
Quadrille Miltra Kalozdy. 0
" Partant pour la Syrie" and " God save the Queen

by the united bands.
The appeal of the committee respecting the purchase
of programmes was warmly responded to by the people
yesterday, as we are assured the receipts from that
source exceeded 401.

UNFAIR TREATMENT OP THE TURKISII

CONTINGENT.

The following letter has been addressed to the
Editor of the Times :
'

Sirs—As one among many officers in the same P°2y
tion as myself, lately forming part of the Turkish CO'
tingent, allow me to make known through your colul
the circumstances of peculiar hardship under which
consider that we labour when compared with thooce'
the German and Italian Legion.
These officers in the contingent who belonged either
to the Queen's regular service, or to that of the II"'
East India Company, on the disbanding of our forces
returned, as a matter of course, to their respective ser
ments. They had been allowed to serve in Turkel,
while the war lasted, drawing regimental full paY,ll,
well as their contingent pay and allowances ; to the,
officers I do not refer, but there was another class
men who held commissions in the Turkish Contingent.--
viz., officers on half-pay or who had sold out of the see:
vice, and others who (no less than the foregoing, ED'
lishmen at heart), had served in foreign armies ;
on the declaration of war, flew from all parts of the wet
ld
to take part in the coming struggle, anxious to distill'
guish themselves, desirous of serving their country.
Many of these offiters gave up comfortable homes,
sold, I need not say at what sacrifice—the property
which bad maintained them, and received in retail
commission in the Turkish Contingent. They acteh
from honest patriotic motives, making no bargain wit
Government what pay they were to receive, how
their service was to last, or what gratuity was to
given on the disbanding of the force, many of them Dot
even stipulating what rank they were to hold ; it V'
sufficient for them to know that their services Well
required by their country, and that there was eel
prospect of their being sent on immediate active service,:
That these hopes were most bitterly disappointed
well known ; but the fault was not theirs. On vriloll3
the blame really rests they know.
They were disgusted at being prevented from takist
an active part in Asia in the autumn of 1855, amid tiro!.
stirring scenes in which they had fondly hoped to boob'',
to distinguish themselves, but still they did their dutYP
soldiers without complaint, and turned all their attentiol
during the long ensuing winter to the well-being eul
discipline of their troops, to the increasing their influence:
over the Turkish officers and men, and to the insportao_
object of getting them into the finest order possible, 0
ready for the anxiously-expected spring campaign. t
With spring came peace, and on the 15th of May lt;
the cavalry of the Turkish contingent was reviewed
the British Ambassador and the Seraskier on the heigh
of Flermendere, and handed over the same day tosses
Turkish Government. Those who saw the three brig 1'
on that day felt and expressed their surprise at their $l7,
dier like appearance, and at the ease and precision fit,
which they manoeuvred under the command of tu,e'e;
British officers, doing ample justice to the unceasing
care which Major-General Shirley had bestowed sen
them from the first day that he assumed the nominal,d'
The remainder of the troops shortly after arrived froili
K ertch, and all the officers received from her Majesty !
Government two and a half months' pay and allowance!,
as a gratuity. Now, sir, we should have made no remart
on receiving this two and a half months' pay, althougel
at the time we thought that the noble lord at
th
head of the War Department might have made it It!
round numbers three months, and we should have se
tied down "tent bien que real" into some other emPleirt
mont—certainly not a Government one, for I need nes
say that in this aristocratic republic of ours the loaf"
and fishes are not divided among the multitude, but re;
served for men with noble or official connexions. 13e
what do we find on arrival at home
We find that the officers of the German, Swiss, s,°cl
Italian Legions hal made a bargain beforehand with ere•
verument, and were to receive a year's pay as a gr 11;
tuity, but, not satisfied with this, our Government, P.;
digal to foreigners, but acting as a stepmother to its cgie
children, provides for her favoured German Legion ly
sending them out to the Cape with free grants of la° ;
arms, ration,, and supplies, wherewith to found
flourishing colony rich in future hope.
We find that in concurrence with the Minister for tbs
Argentine Republic the Italian Legion is to be sent to
British transports, officers and men, to Parana, witb
year's pay in advance as a gratuity, three months,
rations and supplies cf all sorts furnished by her lid
jesty's Government, three years' pay being guarants%
by the Argentine Republic, with a large grant of lands
one of the finest and healthiest climates in the world.
One naturally asks what have these German and ittit:
liars Legions done to deserve this favoured treatince
The answer is " Nothing." Well, the Turkish Contingell.
did quite as much, at all events. "But," say their adl3l;
rers, "they area splendid body of men, and if they had We
called into the field would have distinguished themselves'
s
A ndl answer, so would we ! And here let me expreso
my sincere regard and admiration for our pcor 13°//a
Jelinnies ;" gentle and contented in camp, brave aLA
hardy in the field, as they have always proved theeiseigef
to he, obedient and attached to their officers, fond e
their profession, there does not exist in the world better
stuff for a soldier than a Turk. This, lam aware, il3gt
nothing to do with the subject of my letter, but it burs,
from me in spite of myself while writing of our bei"
disbanded, and visions of our poor fellows now flit be•
fore my eyes, ill-dressed, half-starved, and unpaid Wheici
they joined us, happy and contented during our rule, an
now, alas ! returned to their original state of misery.
But to return to the question. Is it right that be;
cause Englishmen made no bargain with Governtneels
for their blood that they should meet with worse tern;
'
than those mercenaries who calculate on our country g
distress, and sold their swords accordingly. Would
an Englishman have the defence of the Caffre frontier
equally at heart with a German, and is an Englishnlial
a worse farmer than an Italian refugee I There are man/
officers who did good service in the contingent, wh°
sacrificed their all to join it from distant lands, and bags
now returned to their families to regret the day in whic't
they abandoned comfortable homes for a promising,
passing shadow. These would gladly emigrate to the
Cape on the same terms as the officers of the Cierron
Legion.
The genuosii.y Great BriSein is boesaess to
Foreignere, but ere, yen an Fingailnmn R;qt(; Is ;
For you there is no bounty—foe you no grants of land,
In making sacrifices to serve your country you only did
your duty ! Be satisfied ! Conscience is your best re'
ward, and " Lit patrie est reconnaissante."
London, Sept. 4.
EL MORO!

Of
HOUSE ADORNMENT.—With proper management - o
the banging and papering, nothing can be more elegfal
in a modern house than a well-selected collection °

water-colour drawings. It does not answer, however'
to mix them with prints, or with oil pictures, for one,
style of art, to a very great extent, destroys the effect of
the other. There is at present not so much of the de'
corative work of our dwellings left as in the older
time for the ladies to exert their ingenuity upon'
but even that little might be somewhat better
done. The patterns of the wrought covers of chairs and
footstools are often of anything but good design. irb,e,
large old-fashioned screens which in former days Wel'
not only very ornamental; but also very useful and COur
fortable, often possessed much artistic merit: Some
were of carved ivory, inlaid with light blue silk,
scarlet, black, &c. ; some of embossed leather, others e:
tapestry work. The smaJer kind of fire-screens might
be made to afford an opportunity for artistic diselaP
In the Gnat Exhibition of 1851, the collection of Egg'
lisp and othi r carpets suggested several ideas for the
provement of this important manufacture at home.
Those who carefully examined this portion of the Exhibi"
tion, while they are gratified at the skill shown by the
English, were at the same tune astonished at the licheess
and harmony produced in the carpets of Turkey anue
Persia. In the furnishing of a house, the choosing el
the carpets is of more consequence than is generally Bur
posed. In a room in which gorgeous pictures, by Titiavy
Rubens, and such artists are hung, and the fitting
.1
are of corresponding taste, the carpet will admit of a goo
deal of colour ; but the carpet ought always to be a se-
condary consideration, and in no instance intrude upon
the eye. It is, perhaps, a good sign of the proper ba-
lance of the interkr decoration of a house, if in passing
through it you are not led to observe what the carpeie
are.—The Builder.

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