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despised! If such has been the response of the
country in a time of peace—if 100,000 volunteer
riflemen have answered thus cheerily to the first
summons when no invasion whatever is being at-

tempted or even threatened—what would not be
the reply given with an electric flash from one
end of the land to the other, at the news that war
had been declared against us by any European
Power—at the filings, that an invading army had
actually landed, or had attempted to land, upon any
part of our shores ? It wouli certainly not be ex-
travagant to assert with confidence beforehand
that the force already obtained, of 100,000 volun-
teers, would at the least be doubled; that a very brief
interval would then have to elapse before the
QUEEN'S army would be strengthened by the co-
operation of a quarter of a million of riflemen !
It is not, however, what might be done in that
lamentable contingency that we have to consider ;
it is rather what has actually been accomplished in
this way in a time of peace by the enrolling thus
rapidly of 100,000 volunteers. That at any rate it is a
great fact—and one that there is no gainsaying. The
deed is done—the men are enrolled—and the vast
majority of them are already pretty well disciplined,
they are fast becoming week by week more
and more skilled in the use of that good daughter
of old Brown Bess—the rifle ! As we have inti-
mated, however, at the outset of these remarks, a
new impetus has been given to this patriotic move-
ment in the very nick of time, by the Olympic
games of competition in rifle shooting, instituted
for the 2d July, upon Wimbledon Common—in the
form of a grand prize meeting, then and there
convened by the National Rifle Association,
A noble emulation will thus be excited oppor-
tunely two months hence upon that bloodless field
of competition. During the interval of these two
months, let the crack shots of our various rifle
corps improve their aim, their keenness of eye, and
steadiness of hand to the uttermost. For the prizes
are worth winning—to say nothing of the glory
of winning them. For example, the prize set
apart by Her MAJESTY as the reward of the very best
shot of all—A, number 1 among the Riflemen—will
be £250 over and above the gold medal of the As-
sociation. This paragon-prize will be contended
for by candidates who shall have already been
successful in the other trials of skilful shooting,
the ranges in this last " bout" gradually
lengthening out in yards from 800 at first to 900,
and at last to 1,000 ! Again, among the prizes to
be set apart for all candidates without distinction, at
ranges varying from 200 yards to 1,000, the PRINCE
CONSORT has promised the prize of £lOO to the best
shot in this particular department. And so
on—the ranges altogether being six in number,
from 300 to 1,000 yards—the shooting at the first
range, (that of 300 yards) being from the shoulder,
and the other five ranges from the knee. It is a
happy thought—the institution of this Rifle Derby
for the 2d of July on Wimbledon Common by the
National Rifle Association. Let it be henceforth
regarded in a generous sense as the Annual Philippi
of our Rifle Volunteers.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to
Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to
Carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night.
r Ris EVENING the performances will commence with
a new and original comedy, entitled A FRIEND IN NEED.
F. Robinson, C. Young, &c.
After which, A LADY AND GENTLEMAN IN A PE-
CULIAR PERPLEXING PREDIC &MENT. Mr. Charles
Young and Miss Wyndham.
Followed by a new burlesque, LUC REZIA BORGIA AT
HOME AND ALL ABROAD. Mesdames Wyndham, E.
Scott, Cecilia Ranoe, Miss Clara Morgan, and the Corps de
Ballet.
Reduced Priees—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-otfloe open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform
ante commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Manager, Mr. EnwrN HUGHES.
First Appearance of Little MONONI and the celebrated
Delevant' Troupe, who are engaged at a great expense.
Great and unprecedented success of the NEW GRAND
MILITARY SPECTACLE, universally pronounced to be the
most perfect and magnificent production ever witnessed in
this Theatre.
The enthusiastic approbation bestowed upon the novel
and varied Scenes in the Cirque is the best assurance of the
unequalled talent of the eminent Equestrian Artistes who
nightly appear.
THIS EVENING, and during the Week,

To commence with the Great Military Spectacle, in Four
Acts, called "TAE HISTORY or A FLAG,' succeeded by an
incomparable programme of Scenes in the krena, supported
by the most renowned and talented Equestrian and Gymnas-
tic Artistes in Europe.
The magnificent Chan ieliers are manufactured expressly
by Messrs. Defries and Son, of Floundsditeh.
Doors open at half-past 6 o'clock, performance commence
at 7.

Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS,
THIS EVENING.
C. H. GOITNOD'S OPERA,
FAUST.
First Time in this Country.

Faust Mr. 'Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite
Conductor Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorab, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, ls, Hall, 6d.
comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Flodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critehfield, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
The gallery is open from 5 till ii on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.-.SUN OFFICE, APRIL 29, 1860,

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
54—highest since noon yesterday.
38 —lowest this morning and during the night.
59—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.43

WIND, South-Westerly; light, with very fine warm
weather, being the first warm day this year.

APRIL 30.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
43 —lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.49.

WIND, Easterly to South-Easterly, light ; with very
fine weather. The wind has veered round to W., N., and
N. E. during the night.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tnti DAY.—Morning, Bh. 54m.—Afternoon, 9h. 35m,
To-mowtow.-Morning, 10h. 12m.—Afternoon, 10h. 48m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1860

Of all the arguments yet offered for Parliamen-
tary Reform the House of Commons itself, by its
division on Thursday night, presented the strongest.
Last year the most favourable division on Church-
rate Abolition gave a majority of more than
seventy in its favour. An election takes place. Sir
JOHN TRELAWNY brings forward his bill again,
his majority on the second reading is diminished
more than one half ! The third reading is post-
poned for several weeks, when the time for it
arrives it is factiously resisted, and on Friday
morning was saved from rejection by merely a
majority of nine !
We admit that Opposition tactics had something
to do with this. For half a year petitions► had been
secretly getting up in favour of Church-rates; every
obscure parish was made to do duty in this way,
and every member was plied with letters by his
clerical constituents ; the abolitionists, on the other
hand, had supposed petitions to be unnecessary.
Hence, though their numbers at the division were
undiminished, those of the Church-rate party were
increased, and the latter obtained a partial victory.
The battle of the petitions then commenced, ending
in each party sending up about five thousand, but
the signatures obtained by the abolitionists were
more than three to one; more than 600,000 against
180,000. Again the abolitionists felt too secure. It
was not unnatural. They went into committee
with little difficulty on the strength of the over-
whelming superiority of their petitions, and they
seem to have thought that the third reading, al-
though previously kept off, would be easy work also.
Again, therefore, Opposition tactics were too clever
for them. At the eleventh hour Mr. WHITESIDE
placed on the paper a notice to read the bill a third
time that day six months, too late for the Aboli-
tionists to " whip" up their forces, while the
Church-rate party had secretly summoned theirs to
the last round in the Commons. It WAS adroitly
done, and came near to an absolute triumph. We
must admit then, that good generalship had much
to do with both divisions. In the last one the re-
sult was that while the Tories had but 10 votes
less, the Abolitionist party had 30 less. Sixty-one
who usually vote against Church-rates were absent
without pairs !

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

The National Rifle Association comes not only
most opportunely, but very nobly in aid of the
Rifle Volunteers, Within a comparatively brief
interval there has sprung into existence with a
view to the better defence of the mother country a
splendid and already disciplined army of 100,000
of these volunteers. In spite of the sneers of mem-
bers of Parliament like Sir ROBERT PEEL. In
spite of the derision of professional soldiers like
Lord MELVILLE late Commander-in-Chief of her
MAJESTY'S Forces in Scotland. Out of the
dragon's teeth of old dead and buried ani-
mosities there has started forth, fully armed,
and (after the manner of the NAP lERS)
" Ready aye Ready"-100,000 volunteer riflemen,
the National Guard of England, the British
Tirailleurs ! It is the result—remember that—
merely of the first summons. European tranquil-
lity, so far as we are concerned, is still wholly and
absolutely undisturbed. There is not yet appa-
rent anywhere even the vaguest threat of an inva-
sion. So far from this—France is yet our ally.
France that in 1798, under the regime of the Direc-
tory, was mustering her forces at the instigation
of the young Conqueror of Italy, bent then upon
crossing the Channel at the head of what was pub-
licly designated the armee d'Angleterre ! France
that, five or six years later on, under the same
mighty chieftain—then upon the eve of transforming
his Consular fasces into an Imperial sceptre—was
mustering a yet more formidable army of invasion
upon the heights of Boulogne-sur-mer! Yet, with
France—in contrast to all this—still amicably our
ally—at the very first call to arms for the National
Defence of England, upon the contingency of a yet
unthreatened invasion, there have assembled spon-
taneously in clusters, scattered far ar, d wide over
this island of ours, 100,000 rifle volunteers. Nation
of shopkeepers though we are—we rose yet at the
first summons, and that, to), in a time of profound
peace, capable of furnishing 100,000 male adults.
Ready upon the instant to leave the desk, and
the workshop, and the warehouse, to throw
aside pen and yard-measure, and all the multiform
implements of art and of industry, to be drilled
into a skilful handling of the deadliest of modern
firearms, so as to improve, as far as may be practica-
ble, at once those national defences, which, though
dictated by common sense, are yet notoriously
known to have been hitherto wholly neglected and

Be the good and bad leadership, however, what
it might, the country will look at the broad
facts only. On the second reading, Tory alarmists
had frightened up some forty members who had
kept away from such divisions before, to record
their votes in favour of Church-rates. On the third
reading they gathered together, proportionably
more—yet in the interim the petitions had demon-
strated that the country was as three to one in
favour of abolition. A few weeks had sufficed to
bring forth the enormous number of more than
600,000 names, demanding that the obnoxious im-
post should be done away with. The inference is
clear. The house of the people's representatives
does not represent the people. It must be made to
do so. It must be reformed. It has even gone
farther from, rather than nearer to the people ; and
it must be brought back and nearer to public opinion
than ever.

We are much mistaken if this will not be the
conviction of numberless Reformers and numerous
constituencies all over the Kingdom. The Church-
rate battle has ceased to be one about a penny or
twopence in the pound; it has become a struggle
to get rid of a sore and nuisance in half the parishes
of the kingdom. Reasonable men thought the
country had made up their minds that the question
was settled so far as one thing could he regarded
as settled, which awaited only the caprice of the
House of Lords. But, when they see the House of
Commons—their own house—mimicking the house
of Irresponsibles, they will feel it to be high time to
make their own representatives sensible that they at
least must be made to feel their own accountability.
Friday night has given even the " poor little Bill "

a lift with the country, though doubtless one mo-
tive for the zealous opposition was to damage a
cause which Ministers had now joined.
The debate itself called forth three speakers of
note, Mr. WHITESIDE, Mr. BRIGHT, and Mr. DIS-
RAELI ; and the speaking was not unworthy of
them. Mr. BRIGHT was not only forcible, indeed
conclusive, in his reply to Mr. WHITESIDE, but there

was a kindliness in his adYertences to the Church

whom he wisbed, so far as rates aro concerned, to
throw her on her own resources, and a conciliatory
tone towards opponents, which, if always adopted
by him,would render his brilliant orations far more
effective. The other two speakers certainly made

the best of a bad cause ; but though we
have considered their representations care-
fully we find it very difficult to extract from them
any relevant argument. They could not pretend
that the wealth of Churchmen, as compared with
Dissenters, was not abundant to meet the require-
ments of the case. The friendliness of Methodists
to Church-rates vanished under the fact that 800
petitions had been presented from them in favour
of abolition, and that there would have been more,
were not the eld body subject to an ecclesiastical
despotism called a Conference, whose rule is more
absolute than that of the POPE himself, while, like
all despots, they are almost to a man relentless
Tories, and try to make every little class-leader
Tories also.

while the directions of the Board of Works
change with every administration, and each party
in succession ignores the proceedings of its prede-
cessors ; while weak officials give credence to each
new fangled idea which is brought forward by
crotchety doctors and engineers with the alphabet
after their names, and a monomania about their own
particular theories, what advance can be expected
towards a sanatory reform. Dr. LETHEBY, to his
credit, has thrown over chemical prejudice and de-
clared his opinion that the lately entertained pro•
ject of deodorising the Thames by the infusion of
perchloride of iron into the sewers of London, in
the proportion of six grains to the gallon of liquid
sewerage, is impracticable ; that the decompos'Aion
of animal matter would be retarded, but not pre-
♦ented ; and that in the end, after vast out-
lay, the public would be as far from the desidera-•
turn sought as ever. It is far cheaper in
the long run to incur the expense neces-
sary to complete an undertaking satisfactorily
and to know that there can be no farther call upon
your purse, than to go on peddling year after year
with no result, and in the end, after large sums of
money have been frittered away, to be obliged to
do that which if done at first would have conduced
to the public comfort and to the general health of
the metropolis.
The directors of the Board of Works and of all
other public institutions should be chosen from
amongst men of talent, irrespective of party bias,
and they should be accountable to Parliament and
the public for the due performance of their duty.
But while favouritism and private interest direct
the appointments of Government officials, the
credit of Great Britain for skill and engineering
talent will rest on private enterprise, while the
abortive efforts of Government will be the jest of
the civilised world.

The grand pleas, however, were the antiquity of
Church-rates; and the hostility of Dissenters to
Church establishments. As to the first we cannot
comprehend it as an argument. In a sentimental
appeal to antiquaries, or to the fair sex it might be
of service ; but Church-rates is a matter of
parish business, and of parish strife. The
mass, transubstantiation, purgatory, indulgences,
and so forth, we would remind Mr.WHITEsiDE, lay
claim to a far higher antiquity. Shall they be re-
stored to the creeds and worship of the Churches
for which less antique Church-rates are now claimed ?
As to the ultimate wishes of Dissenters we cannot
comprehend what it has to do with the practical
question. It is surpassingly ludicrous to hear them
descanted on, as if the Lords' Committee had found
out a THISTLEWOOD conspiracy against the Church.
Public men must have been unpardonably ignorant,
if they have not always known that the great mass
of intelligent Dissenters (for the priest-ridden
Methodists must be of course excepted) were
thorough voluntaries; their practice backing their
theory. In fact all free churches must wish that
one church, not exceeding them in the number of
its worshippers, but exceeding them not only in the
wealth of its members, but in enjoying the patron-
age of the State, should be placed on a fair footing
of equality with them. The Statesman, however,
has to consider not what persons believe theoreti-
cally, but what they practically demand—and tt e
demand in this case is now practical, vigorous
action. Anti-State Churchmen have no cause
to regret that our Legislators will yet leave them a
platform in every parish, and Parliamentary Re-
formers none, that the House of Commons has
proved its own need of Representative Reform.

Any work that is remarkably clever or intensely
ridiculous will be sure to awaken public curiosity.
" Adam Bede" was a success of the former kind,
and Mr. Warren's " Lily and the Bee," of the
latter. Who can wonder, then, that a pamphlet
which demonstrates the plan of paving the bed of
the Thames should reach a third edition. The
vexed question of how to purify this noble river,
which, owing to the incapacity, indifference, and
factiousness of those whose duty it is to care for
the public health, is gradually and surely being
converted into an intolerable nuisance, replete with
malaria and disease, has occupied the attention of
many, and plans of all kinds have been proposed,
engineers vieing with each other which could bring
forward the most complicated, improbable, and
expensive scheme. But the palm of extravagance
must unquestionably be awarded to Mr. W.
WHITE, nor do we think that the most enthusi-
astic reformer, transformer, or perverter, could
wish for a more complete disorganisation of exist-
ing things than his " Plqns for the Purification of
the River Thames" would effect. Nor could the
circumlocution committee wish for more money and
time to be expended to less purpose than the
extravagant chimera before us. This grand absur-
dity, together with the fame of its promoter, will
doubtless descend to oblivion, in company with
that of Mr. HAWKSLEY and the filtering of the
Serpentine, which the Board of Public Works
had the egregious simplicity for a time to coun-
tenance.

Although Mr. WHITE'S plan would, if carried
out, entail an enormous outlay, we cannot see
what the result would be, except endangering the
safety of the bridges from the slope given to his
artificial banks and greatly obstructing the moor-
ing of barges at the wharves. He proposes to deepen
the bed of the river from 'Millbank to Blackfriars-
bridge, commencing operations on both sides at
an even low water mark, at a gradual decline of
seven feet to the centre throughout, and he states,
as a-passing remark further on, that—" To enable
the centre of the river to be deepened as proposed
it may be necessary to strengthen the founda-
tions of the piers of Waterloo and Blackfriars
Bridges; and this, it is presumed, might be easily
accomplished by paving the bed of the river under
the arches with huge blocks of granite,
causing the sides to form smooth curved
abutments, by additionally strengthening the
fronts in like manner." It is again
presumed that new Westminster and Hengerford
bridges would not require these precautions. The
gravel taken from the centre of the river is to be
placed on either side, commencing at low-water
mark and ascending to the fronts of the wharfs in
easy slopes ; and the whole of these newly-made
shores are to be paved with granite. According
to this, barges will only be able to come alongside
of the wharfs on the top of high water. But apart
from these considerations, we should like to know
what deepening and paving the river from Mill-
bank to Blackfriars will effect towards purifying
the Thames, or remedying the existing evil of
making a common sewer of the river in the midst
of the City. We admit Mr. WHITE'S scheme
for keeping the sewers of the metropolis clean by
the introduction of water from the river, and form-
ing a belt of water round London, to be sensible
and practicable enough ; and had he stopped here
it would be all very well ; but to endeavour to per-
suade the public that deepening and paving the
river for a couple of miles will cure the existing
evil is simply rediculous.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, APRIL 30.

The Royal Mail steamship Niagara, which touched
at Queenstown yesterday morning, has arrived here.
The specie in the New York banks had increased
over 1,000,000 dols. during the week. Loans had
diminished 700,000 dols.

THE BRAZILIAN MAILS.

LISBON, APRIL 30.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Magdalena has arrived here with the Brazil and
Rivor Plate mails.
She will leave this evening for Southampton
with 154 passengers and £27,100 in specie.

Prince Alfred will, it is expected, take leave of
her Majesty next week, and rejoin his ship for another
cruise.—Court Journal.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Alfred
Hudson Shadwell tote taxing master of the Court of Chan-
cery, in the room of Mr. Martineau, deceased.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF MANSFIELD.—
We regret to announce the death of the above venerable
and much-respected lady, who expired yesterday at her re-
sidence, Langham House, in her 87th year. Her ladyship,
who was the fifth daughter of the late Dr. William Mark-
ham, Archbishop of York, married in 1797, the third Earl
of Mansfield, who died in 1840.
ACCIDENT TO THE DUKE OF HAMILTON.—On
Friday night the Duke of Hamilton, after having dined
with a few friends, left his residence in Arlington-street, to
take a walk before retiring to rest. In crossing Piccadilly,
between Dover-street and Berkeley-street, in stepping on
the pavement his foot slipped, and his grace fell, and in the
fall sustained a fracture of the right leg, just above the ancle.
The noble duke was immediately conveyed to his mansion,
and Dr. Ferguson and Mr. Wm. Fergusson, the eminent
surgeon, were soon in attendance, and the extent of the in-
jury ascertaitied. His grace, we are happy to hear, is going
on favourably.

Lord Clyde has been relieved of the command in
India, and may be .mpected in England earlier than was
anticipated by those who were aware, some time ago, that
his Excellency intended to remain for another year in India.
It is probable his lordship will arrive in England next July.
—Army and Navy Gazette.
THE STAFF —Brevet-Major H. Holford Steven-
son, of the 79th Highlanders, has been appointed Aide-de-
Camp to Major. General Cameron, commanding the troops
in Scotland. Capt. C. Pemberton, Scots Fusilier Guards,
has been appointed Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-General B.
Taylor, commanding a brigade at Aldershot. —Army and
Navy Gazette.

The railway from Southall to Brentford, in con-
nection with the Great Western Railway, is to be opened
for passenger traffic on:Tuesday next.

TIIE LIVERPOOL GR ,CERS AND THE PEPPER
ADULTERATIONC—A. number of Liverpool grocers were on
Saturday fined each in £25 and costs for selling pepper
adulterated with husks of mustard and capsicum seeds.
Mr. Mason Jones, who excited much attention
last season by his lectures on Swift, Burke, Milton, &c., at
Willis's-rooms, is announced for a short series of orations,
to be given in the same locality. The first, on the late
Lord Macaulay, as essayist, historian, orator, and poet,
will be delivered on Monday evening, May 7.

THE NEW MEDICIL RELIEF BILL.—The Boards
of Guardians of the township of Manchester, of the Charl-
ton Union, and of various other unions in the neighbour-
hood, have unanimously agreed to petition against the Me-
dical Relief Bill now before Parliament, on the ground that
the bill is one that is calculated improperly to increase the
fees of medical officers, and extend the power of getting
orders in a way that would prevent anything like cheek or
control over the cost by the guardians, although the guar-
dians would have to pay all the expenses. It was said that
the bill might possibly be of some use in thinly-populated
districts, but was entirely inapplicable to large towns and
populous unions.

. .
A BOY KILLED BY A LIONESS.—The other day,
when Manders's menagerie was at Great Grimsby, a boy,
named Redman, was swinging on the ropes placed in front
of the dens, and, although previously caution.d, he ap-
proached close to the den in which the lions were kept. A
lioness immediately seized his head with her paw, and would
have crushed it to atoms, had not a lion, anxious to have a
share, pushed heavily against her, and the keeper rushing
up, caused the animal to liberate the poor lad. His head
and neck, however, were so fearfully lacerated that he has
since died from the effect of his wounds .

THE WESTMINSTER BELL.—At a recent meeting
of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Mr. S. A. Varley ex-
hibited a cracked bell, the metallic contiguity of which had
been restored by soldering the crack with tin, so that the
bell rang as perfectly as before it was injured. It was ex-
plained that tin had the property, when heated above its
melting point, to nearly a red-heat, of rapidly dissolving
copper. If, therefore, the cracked bell, after being soldered,
was kept at a dull red heat, or nearly so, for a little time, it
was suggested that the crack would become filled up with an
alloy of tin and copper, of nearly the same kind of compo-
sition as the bell itself, and in absolute metallic union with
it, and quite as sonorous as the other portions of the bell.—
Journal of the Society of Ai ts.

ANOTHER MORTARA CAsE.—There is quite a sen-
sation existing at the present time in Dublin in consequence
of the kidnapping of seven Protestant children named Sher-
wood, by some persons named O'Connor, connected with a
Roman Catholic Dormitory Institution in that city. The
mother and her friends have placed the matter before the
magistrates, but as yet the children have not been given up.
An attachment has also been issued against a Miss Aylward,
the matroness of another religious establishment in Dublin,
for an insufficient answer made to a writ of habeas corpus
to deliver up the body of a child named Mary Mathews.
The latter child was taken from its nurse in June last. Tho
lady attended the Court on Friday last, but said she would
not give up the child, and was prepared to abide the conse-
quences. Miss Aylward had entered into sureties to attend
when the interrogatories are to be administered.
SUPPOSED FATAL Loss OF FOUR SHIPS, WITH
ALL HANDS.—Among the many casualties that have been
reported during the last two or three days at Lloyd's were
four ships missing, and there appeal s, we regret to say, very
little doubt but thy have foundered, and all hands belong-
ing to them lost. The facts are briefly told. The barque
Isabella Kerr, Captain Hugh Murray master, left Demerara
for Liverpool on the 23d of last December, and nothing has
since been heard of her. The underwriters have paid the
insurance effected on the ship and cargo, having no doubt in
their minds that she is gone. She was 443 tons register, and
classed A 1 for nine years. Her crew numbered 13 haids,
most of whom belonged to the north of England. The se-
cond ship was the Lord Delaval, of North Shields. She
sailed from Constantinople for Glasgow on the 10th of last
November, and nothing has been heard of her since. She
was commanded by Captain John Hedley, whose family are
residents of London. The crew numbered 10 in all. The
third case is that of the Whim, Captain Johnstoz, which
sailed for Dublin on the 9th of March with a cargo of 2,460
cases of brandy; and the fourth missing ship is the Robert
Kelly, a liner, trading ly:tween Liverpool and New York,
neither of which has been heard of since they sailed.

London is situated at a most inconvenient part
of the river for the purposes of drainage—in fact,
at a sort of turning point, the same water travel-
ling up and down its bed with the flow and ebb of
the tide; what purification it receives from the
river water coming down is more than counter-
balanced by the sewerage of the town. Were it
situated higher up, as at Richmond, the excess of
the ebb over the flood tide would effectually re-
move the noxious matter ; or, were it situated
lower down, as at Gravesend, the large body of
water in the river would prevent any ill effect
being felt. Situated as we are there is but one
resource, which would entirely remove this in..
creasing evil, viz. (as London cannot, until the
science of engineering ha's been more developed, be
moved), to carry the sewerage down the banks of
the river below Gravesend, or further if necessary,
where, if any company think fit, they can
establish a depot for manure, or the refuse of
London. may be emptied into the salt
water for the benefit of the fishes. But

FRENCH NAVY LisT.—Let any one with ordinary
reasoning faculties glance over the French navy list, re-
marking particularly the recent dates of the construction of
most of them, no less than their formidable dimensions and
armaments—keeping in view, meanwhile, the mere require-
ments of the country, the limited extent of her colonies and
of her commerce—and then ask himself for what purpose
such a gigantic marine has been called into being. The
spate revenue of France is not so vast that millions upon
millions need be voted with such ready alacrity either for
ttihoenm_ail‘n,atevnieasnocfe
tohfenoizstLyytonyasnosr
Busk.
OFFICIAL of d estruc-
OFFICIAL PREJUDICE.—SO it is, and so it has ever
been, " not once or twice" only, in our old " island story."
The highest interests of the country have been sacrificed
over and over again to the prejudice, fatuity, or imbecility
of those in whom the public confidence has been so lament-
ably misplaced. So far from any injury having accrued from
external interference, it has happened in numerous instances
that the introduction of great improvements has been sug-
gested by civilians, and, however unquestionable the merit
of the proposal, its rejection has been over and again occa-
sioned by_ official indolence, ignorance, or petty professional
jealousy."—lbicl.

TRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING! APRIL 30, 1860.

LATEST

Tranquillity prevails.

NEWS.

The following telegrams were received at Mr
Reuter's office :

NAPLES, APRIL 24.

The Royal troops attacked the insurgents en-
trenched in the town of Carini, on the 18th inst.
The fighting was most desperate, and continued
during the 19th, 20th, and 21st. Reinforcements
having then reached the Royal troops, they com-
pelled the insurgents to retire to Parsenico, leaving
250 killed behind them. The Royal troops had 300
killed ; the number of wounded on both sides was
considerable. The town of Carini, after having
been pillaged, was set on fire. Several other per-
sons have been shot at Palermo.

PALERMO, APRIL 21.

Great misery prevails in Palermo. Since the
execution of the 13 insurgents, 26 Neapolitan
soldiers have been surprised and hanged by a
band of insurgents at Carini,which town, it is said,
has been taken and destroyed. Letters assert that
within the last twelve months successive levies have
raised the Neapolitan army to 160,000 men.

MARSEILLES, SATURDAY.

Letters from Rome to the 24th inst. state :

The bishops of the Romagna have received a pro-
hibition against taking any part in the reception of
King Victor Emmanuel.
The correspondent of the Journal des Debats,
whose expulsion from Rome had been commanded
by his Holiness, has obtained a delay of 20 days.

It is asserted that the French Minister has pro-
nounced sentence of disciplinary punishment against
two officers who were dressed in private clothes
during the popular movement of the 19th March.

NAPLES, SUNDAY.

BERNE, SATURDAY.

The Bund contains a statement to the effect that
a proposal has been made by France to Switzerland
for the latter Power to relinquish her rights in
reference to the neutralised districts of Savoy, in
consideration of an indemnity of 50,000,000 francs.

The same journal also states that the Federal
Council had received no official notification of the
assembling of a Conference at Paris after the ratifi.
cation of the treaty of Turin by the Sardinian Par-
liament.

VIENNA, SUNDAY.

The official Wiener Zeitung of to-day publishes an
Imperial decree, annulling paragraph 29 of the
civil code, according to which it was necessary for
foreigners who were the proprietors of any business
requiring a regular domicile in the country to be-
come Austrian subjects.

MADRID, SATURDAY.

The Official Gazette confirms the statement that
the treaty of peace between Spain and Morocco was
signed on the 26th inst. The Basque division re-
mains at Tetuan. Marshal O'Donnell will arrive
in Madrid to-morrow.

VIENNA, SATURDAY.

The Austrian Gazette states, on reliable autho-
rity, that the report of the destitution of Prince
Milosch is unfounded.