The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WtDNESDAY Ev

Yesterday was the birthday of his Royal High-
ness Prince Arthur. It was kept privately at Buckingham

Palace, owing to tho mourning for the late Prince of Ho-

henlohe-Langenbourg.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Alice,
Prince Alfred, and the Princesses Helena and Louisa, at-
tended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Caroline Barring-
ton, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Major Cowell, honoured the

performance at the Haymarket Theatre last evening with

their presence.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and
Prince Leopold, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Ponsonby
and Major Elphinstone, honoured the performance at the
Olympic Theatre with their presence last evening.
The Countess Dowager of Glasgow and Miss
Catherine Sinclair have arrived at 18, Chesham-place, for

the season. The lion. George Frederick and Mrs. Boyle
are staying with the countess.
Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for as-
semblies on Saturday next, and on Saturday, the 12th in-
stant.

Viscount and Viscoftntess Combermere are ex-
pected to arrive in Belgrave-square, to-day, from Comber-

mere Abbey.

Sir James and Lady Alpe Mackenzie have left
Claridge's Hotel for Sherborne Lodge, near Aldershot.

General Inglis arrived at the Pavilion Hotel,
Folkestone, on Monday, from Paris.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The house was well
attended last evening. In the Queen's box we observed
Lcrd and Lady Cremorne, Mr. E. Stanley, Mr. Stanley, and
Miss Stanley. Among the distinguished visitors were the
Marquis of Bath, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl of
Wilton and party, the Earl and Countess of Cardigan,
Lord and Lady Astley, Lord and Lady John Russell, Lord
and Lady Mountcharles, Lord and Lady Mary Craven,
Lord Chelsea, Lord Stracey, Lord Hardwicke, the Dowager
Countess of Harrington, the Countess of Waldegrave,
Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, Viscount Sydney, the
Hon. Otway Toler, Sir George Bowes, Sir John Lowther,
Colonel and Mrs. M'Donald, Colonel Tyrwhitt, Colonel
and Mrs. Freestun, Major Pole, Major Blake, Mr. Hunter
Blair, Captain Craycroft, Mr. and Miss Robarts, Harman
Grieswood, Esq., Mr. and Mrs. &beteley, the Rajah Du-
leap Sing, Mrs. Gardiner, A. Hook, Esq., Begrez, Esq.,
Josephs, Esq„ Mr. Posns, Mr. Joel, F. Cooper, Mrs.
Julian. PaLmuefole, Mrs. Graham Smith, R. Knightly,
Esq., Mrs. Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lewis, Mr.
Sergeant Ballantine,
WHITTINGTON CLUB.—A grand volunteer ball
under the patronage of Viscount Ranelagh, colonel of the
South Middlesex Volunteers, and other distinguished
officers, was given last evening at the Whittington Club.
The arrangements were excellent, and as a consequence the
affair went off in a spirited manner. Upwards of 300 visitors
joined in the exercises of the ball-room, and indemnified
themselves with an excellent supper. Every metropolitan
corps was represented on the occasion, and the variety of
uniforms, augmented by a few of the " regulars," gave a
general liveliness to the scene, while it afforded means of
comparative criticism to the on-looker. The festivities did
not terminate until that late hour which is indefinitely de-
scribed as rather an early hour.
DEATH OF LADY GEORGE BERESFORD.—This
ladydied a few days since at Gillingham Hall, near Beccles.
Her ladyship was daughter of the late Mr. Schutz, and mar•
ried, in 1808, Lord George T. Beresford, G.C.H., son of
the first Marquis of Waterford, who died in 1839.
The mortal remains of Baron de Bruck lay in
state on the 25th, and the two following days, in an open
coffin in the principal Protestant church at Vienna. It was
dressed in his minister's uniform, and all his decorations
were placed on two cushions at the foot of the coffin. An
immense crowd of persons walked in the deepest silence
rottnd the catafalque.
General de Failly has arrived in Paris. He is
the first of the generals of the army of Italy who hats re-
tuned to France; tie others are expected shortly to follow.
The son of the unfortunate General Ortega,
after having petitioned in vain for his father's life, has left
Spain for Rome, to take service under Gen. Lamoriciere.
The Pays mentions as a rumour, 'which has
created a great sensation, a proposal said to have been
made by the Count de Montemolin and his brother, Don
Ferdinand, to renounce their legitimist pretensions, and to
recognise Queen Isabella as the lawful sovereign of Spain.
Mr. MASON JONES.—The young Irish orator,
whose lectures excited great attention last season, is an-
nounced to give an oration on the late Lord Macaulay, the
Essayist, Historian, Orator, and Poet, at Willis's Rooms,
on Monday evening next, May 7.
There is a talk of a journal in the French lan-
guage being brought out in Rome, with M. Louis Veuillot
for
THE POPE'S IRISH TRIBUTE.—The collection in
Cork yesterday realised £1,050, odd shillings and pence,
which, added to the sum posted on the day of the prelimi-
nary meeting, makes a grand total of about £2,500 from the
capital of Munster.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government
emigrant vessel Tudor, 1,064 tons, Capt. H. Armstrong,
belonging to Mr. T. Teighe, of London, which sailed from
Southampton on the 3d Dec, arrived at Algoa Bay, Cape
of Good Hope, on the 22d Feb., with 36 married couples,
114 single men, 74 single women, 18 boys between the ages
of one and 12, 19 girls between the same ages, three male
and three female infants—making a total of 303 souls, equal
to 278 statute adults, under charge of Surgeon-Superinten-
dent Wm. Campbell. Three births and 16 deaths (children)
occurred during the voyage.
THE FIRE AT THE SAILORS' HOME.—INQWEBT.-•-.
A THIRD DEATH.-LIVERPOOT, Tuesday.—Yesterday an
inquest was held before the Borough Coroner on the bcelies
of the two men, Robert llardiker and Joseph Clarke, the
victims of the disastrous fire at the Sailors' Home. Nothing
not already known was elicited from the witnesses exa-
mined, and the jury returned a verdict of accidental death
in both instances. Late last evening Mr. Williams, super-
intendent of the Home, was informed of the death of John
Gillis, mate of the ship Bennet, who assisted the superin-
tendent materially on the morning of the fire, and was
considerably burnt.
SAD AFFAIR IN VIRGINIA.—A letter to the
Richmond .Despatch from Harrisonburg, Virginia, states
that a Mr. Sites was married in that county a few nights
ago to a Miss Devier, and that a party of young men at:
tempted to serenade the new couple with tin pans, bells, &c.
James Devier, a brother of the bride, went out and remon-
strated, when the serenaders took to their heels ; he, how-
ever, pursued them, when one of them, named Smallwood,
shot him dead.
In the Chamber of Deputies at Nassau a few days
days ago the report of the committee on petitions for and
against the Concordat was presented, and gave rise to a very
animated discussion. The Chamber eventually adopted
unanimously, with the exception of five votes, a resolution
propoied by the committee requesting the government-1,
to abstain from concluding a concordat or any convention
of the kind with the Holy See • 2, to regulate the relations
between the Roman catholic churchi and the state by means
of a bill according the widest liberty of conscience ; and 3,
to examine the question whether it would not be desirable
to come to a provisional arrangement with Nome respecting
the nomination to vacant catholic parishes.
SWALLOWS IN PARIS.—A number of persons
assembled a few days since near the new square of the In-
nocents, at Paris, watching the movements of a flock of
swallows that were flying about apparently in great hewn-
dement, and uttering cries of distress. Since their flight
at the beginnicg of the winter in search of a more genial
clime, all the wooden sheds which formed the old market,
and under the eaves of which they had been in the habit
of finding shelter, have been demolished, and the poor tra-
vellers on arriving were at a loss where to pitch on other
cenvenient quarters,
THE WEATHER.— LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—A
most beneficent change has taken place in the weather in
this town and neighbourhood. The cold, hard atmosphere
that has existed for weeks past and checked vegetation very
seriously, has been gradually giving way for the last two or
three days, and the heart of the husbandman, florist, and
all who have a patch of ground in which they take an in-
terest in cultivating, must have been gladdened by the
rainfall of Sunday, the geniality of yesterday, and the bright
sunshine and warmth. May has opened beautifully. A
few days like the present, and the scarcity of vegetables
and consequent dearness which excludes them from the table
of the poor man will soca give place to plenty and cheap-
ness. The improvement in the weather has already caused
pr ices in our corn market to recede a trifle.
LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE.—A meeting of the
council was held at headquarters yesterday—the Lord
Mayor in the chair. The chairman announced that his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Honorary Colonel
to the London Rifle Brigade, had fixed Saturday next, at
five p.m., for an inspection of the regiment eta the Parade-
ground, Horse Guards. It is expected that this corps,which
numbers above 1,600 members, will muster as many as
1,200 strong at the inspection. Lord Grosvenor, Lieut.-
Col. Commandant of the Queen's Westminster Volunteer
Corps, has kindly consented to keep the ground. The coun-
cil recommended Major Vera Close for nomination to her
Majesty's Court of Lieutenancy as Lieut.-Colonel of the
second battalion.
SOCIETY OF ARTS CONVER,SAZIONE.—The first
conversazione of this session took place on Saturday even-
ing at the house of the Society of Arts in John-street,
Adelphi. The principal attraction of the evening was a col-
lection of upwards of 200 miniatures and drawings by the
late Sir William Ross, t?...A. which were hung round the
walls of the great room This collection is now open for
public exhibition. In the model-room were collected a
variety of new and ingenious inventions, and there was an
extensive display of bronzes and other ornamental works
lent by Messrs. Elkington and Messrs. Jackson and
Graham. Several of the tables were covered with the
microscopes of Messrs. Ross, Baker, Pillischer, and Varley,
and the stereoscopes of Messrs. Murray and Heath, in
which some objects of unusual interest were shown; and
Messrs. Mapple and Co. exhibited an electric clock on a
novel principle. Seine photographs burnt in on glass and
porcelain were contributed by M. Joubert ; and some re-
markable specimens of copper ore and malachite from
Australia by Professor Tennant. At intervals during the
evening Mr. Charles T. Jones exhibited an exyhydrogen
apparatus, with a series of beautiful photographic views of
Egypt.

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LORD PALMERSTON AND TOM SAYERS.—The
Spoiting Life says—lf rumour speak true (and we would
not have even one of her hundred tongues prove false in tho
case) the ever-young and jaunty Premier recently gave way
to an honest, open-hearted, and generous ebullition of feel-
ing when the name of the gallant little English champion
was mentioned. It is said that while the Home Secretary
was assur.ng the house, in heavy phrase, of the illegality of
prize-fighting, a gallant sporting member was busily en-
gaged in the Library collecting a " purse " for the cham
pion. Lord PahntrAun, happening to come in, was in-
stantly accosted by the amateur collector with " I want a
sovereign for Tem Sayers." " A sovereign for Sayers!
splendid fellow'. I'll give you five." He was, however, told
that the sub criptioa was limi.od to one sovereign each,
which he paid with a sort of subdued alacrity, observing—
" I have great pleasure in giving it, but I wish you would
let toe make it five."
BENGAL ARMY.—The officers of the Bengal army
are now employed in the following manner :-202 on fur-
lough, 56 on civil and political employ, 21 on the military
staff, 104 serving with regular regiments; 22 doing duty
with her Majesty's European regiments, 7 doing duty with
other corps of the Bengal army, 9 on duty with discharged
soldiers proceeding to England, 1:5 with police corps, 10
with Commissariat and stud, 25 with public works,surveys,
Szc., 264 doing duty, miscellaneous 10, giving a total of 794.
The number of officers wanting to complete the eseablish-
went on the Ist of October, 1859, was 131,

tN(. MAY 2, 1860.

LA T E
S N E

The following telegrams were received at Mr.

Reuter's office :

PARIS, MAY 2.

The lloniteur of this morning publishes a note
of M. Thouvencl, of April 7, relative to the neutra-
lisation of Savoy. In this note M. Thouvenel con•
tests the pretensions of Switzerland, and declares
that France fully accepts the execution of article
92 of the final act of Vienna.

The Monitew• also announces the publication to-
morrow of another note of a later date than that

above-mentioned.

MARSEILLES, APRIL 30.

Letters from Naples to the 28th inst. confirm that
Carini had been taken by assault after three days'
fighting. The town had suffered greatly. The
Government states that only a few hundred insur-
gents remained to be pursued. Letters affirm, how-
ever, that the supplies of provisions to the towns
had been often intercepted. The recent struggles
had caused great excitement. The details are still
contradictory.

GENOA, MAY 1.

Advices have been received from Naples to the
28th ult., which state that the Ellecttico has
arrived at Naples from Palermo, bringing families
of the military. The insurgents were meditating
an attempt on Palermo. A column, which left
Messina on the 20th April, was engaged in serious
combats with the insurgents on the 21st and 22d
at Galati, which town was destroyed. The royal
troops fell back upon Messina. Another column,
under the command of General Letizia, had left
Palermo in order to pursue Trapani. It was sup-
ported by two frigates.

MARSEILLES, MAY 1.

Letters from Naples to the 24th state that news
of a peaceful character had been received from
Sicily, contradicting that which had arrived by
way of Turin.

ROME, APRIL 28.

Prince Chigi, Colonel of the Papal Guard, has
tendered his resignation, in order to take service as
a simple gunner. General de Lamoriciere will re-
turn to Rome on the 2d of May.

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 30.

The Journal de Constantinople officially denies a
statement which has appeared in the Gazette de
Genoa, to the effect that steps have been taken by
Piedmont to obtain from the Porte the recognition
of the annexation of Central Italy.
The Duke of Brabant left to-day for Venice in
an English steamer which was offered to him by
Sir Henry Bulwer.

VIENNA, MAT 2.
The 'Wiener Zeitung of to-day contains an auto-
graph letter of the Emperor, dated the 26th ult.,
decreeing that the ecclesiastical affairs of the evan-
gelical portion of the army shall be under the ma-
nagement of military chaplains of both the Augs-
burg and Helvetic confessions. In each of the mili-
tary stations of Vienna, Verona, Ofen, Lemberg,
Prague, and Hermannstadt two military chaplains,
one of the Augsburg and one of the Helvetic con-
fessions, are to be appointed, who will occasionally
have to inspect the surrounding districts. In time
of war two evangelical military chaplains are to be
added to the clerical establishment in the hospitals
of the operating armies.

VIENNA, MAY 1.

The Wiener Zeitung of to-day publishes an auto-
graph letter of the Emperor, dated the 29th ult.,
containing the following appointments :—To the
dignity of Extraordinary Councillors of State for
life; Archbishop Rauscher, Prince Adolph Schwar-
zenberg, General Francis Prince von Lichtenstein,
Prince Vincenz von Auersberg, Count Hartig,
General Haller, Count Apponyi, Field-Marshal-
Lieutenant Degenfeld, and Baron Sokesevits.
The Emperor's letter also contains 38 appoint-
ments of Extraordinary Temporary Councillors of
State, among which are the following Hungarian
gentlemen :—Vay, Mayloth, Somsich, Burgomaster
Topercer ; also the following Bohemian gentlemen:
—Clam, Martinez, Albert Nastitz, and the Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce, Trenkler ; and
the following Lombardo-Venetian gentlemen—
Count Moncenigo and Baron Zigno. The same
journal also publishes an imperial decree, dated the
22d ult., in execution of paragraph 4 of the imperial
patent for the settlement of Hungarian Protestant
affairs. This decree orders that the branch of the
Ministry of Public Worship, which is to consist of
Evangelical co-religionists, shall be established
immediately. All questions relating to Protestant
religions and scholastic matters in other provinces
are also to be referred to this branch of the Minis-
try, which will provisionally consist of three coun-
cillors, who are already appiinted.

HANOVER, MAY 2.

In yesterday's sitting of the Hanoverian Diet
the Military Committee moved that the plan pro-
posed by Government for the fortification of the
coast should be rejected, and the necessary supplies
refused.

PRUSSIA.

A letter from Berlin, dated April 27, says :

The same uncertainty prevails here in politics.
The negotiations between the different Cabinets
continue. A wish is shown to settle the Swiss
affair amicably if possible, but they do not know
exactly how to set about it. Prussia and England
wish the proposed conference to be held at Brussels.
However, you may be sure that Switzerland will
not conclude a separate treaty with France. If
such a project ever was entertained it has been
abandoned.

Since yesterday the suicide of Baron Bruck is
the exclusive topic of conversation. This tragic
event throws a sad light upon the deplorable con-
dition of Austria ; and Prussia has been told to link
her destinies to that Empire, falling into decay !
Youth and hope linked to decrepitude and the past !
We are asked to perform the part in Vexetia which
Russia performed in Hungary, to her cost. Every
true Prussian would blush with shame if he
thought his Government capable of concluding
such a bargain. Nevertheless Austria strives to
obtain, with that tenacity which is peculiar to her,
an alliance and reciprocal guarantees—refusals do
not discourage her, in the same way that she fancies
that Prussia, which received a blow from her, will
reply by good services.
The Middle States, moreover, are beginning to
reflect ; when a ship is about to sink the rats leave
it. When the question of the Federal military re-
form comes on a change will be visible.

A great battle has been waging in the Chambers
since yesterday on the land tax. It is said that the
Government will be defeated. The proposed taxes
meet with the strongest opposition from the landed
propri,tors and towns.
Petitions for a reduction of the Rhine tolls are
being numerously signed. The Prussian Govern-
ment can, however, do nothing in the matter with-
out the consent of the other Riverain States. How-
ever, some hope of attaining the object exists in
consequence of the international service of the Bel.
gian railways, the Great Luxembourg Company,
and the French Eastern Railway, which, by a
reduced tariff, threatens to exclude the competition
of the Antwerp, Cologne, and May once line as re-
gards the traffic to Switzerland, so that Prussia has

already taken steps, with Hesse and Baden, for re-
moving the tolls.
Conjecture is afloat respecting a visit paid yes-
terday to Sans Souci by the Archduchess Sophia of
Austria, accompanied by the Queen Dowager and
Queen of Saxony. They arrived quite privately
yesterday morning, and left the same night for
Dresden. Tne Prince Regent did not meet them
at Sans Souci, but has gone there to-day.

AMERICA.

Q,UEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY.

The Canadian mail steamship Anglo-Saxon,
Captain Ballantine, which left Portland, Maine, on
the 21st ult., has arrived.
The steamers North American and America, both
from Liverpool, had arrived out.
A resolution had been passed in the Senate at
Washington for inquiring into the expediency of
raising the Sardinian mission to one of the first
class.

The Attorney-General, Mr. Black, had received
and declined a challenge from ex-Governor Walker.

The Charleston Democratic Convention was the
topic which absorbed public attention.
The treaty which had been concluded with Spain
provides for the ascertainment and settlement of all
pending claims.

Tornadoes in the west had done much damage to
property. Several persons were also injured.
The steamer Raonke will land the Japanese
Embassy at New York.
A Japanese servant of the British Minister at
Jeddo was murdered shortly before the Puwhattan

left. The Minister took no official notice of the
deed.

The town of Sorisburg had been entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
The Bank of Tennessee had suspended payment.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, APRIL 21.

The stock market is active, at lower prices.
New York Ceitral, 801 s. 10 ; Erie Third Bonds,
851 b. 60. Cotton unchanged. Sales 700 bales.
Middling Upland, 111 c. Ashes unchanged. Flour,
State and Western, drooping. Wheat, oats, tallow,
and rice, dull. Corn and pork firm. Sugar has
advanced Ic. on the lowest prices of the week.
Molasses unaltered. Coffee, leather, and oils quiet.
NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 20.

The cotton market is dull. The sales to-day
amount to 7,000 bales. Middling, 101 c. to lie.
Sales of the week, 44,000 bales ; receipts of the
week, 21,000 bales. Freights for cotton to Liver-
pool, 1. Sugar firm. Exchange unaltered.