The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-25 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern 978 75 • • 977 50
New ditto 865 865
Lyons and Maditerranean 865 .. 865
Geneva 4lO .. 410
Southern
Western 565 .. 563 75
Eastern
Sardinian 415 .. 412 50
Austrian
Lombard 505 .. 503 75
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 14c.; money,
25f. 13e.; three months, parer, 24f. 90c. ; money, 241 87c.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 25.

The Canadian mail steamer, North Briton, from
Quebec the 12th inst., which touched yesterday at
Queenstown, has arrived.
LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH, VIA
FATHER POINT.
NEW YORK, MAY 12.
The Baltimore Union Convention had nominated
Bell and Everett as candidates.

The House of Representatives had passed the
Tariff Bill.

According to Mexican advices Niramon had
accepted the basis for adjustment as proposed by
the English and French Ministers.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK.

Cotton advancing. Middling upland 111 to 11Z-
higher. Breadstuffs showed a declining tendency
Corn steady. Provisions steady. Stocks higher.
NEW ORLEANS, MAY 11.

Cotton steady, market unchanged. Sales of the
week, 45,000 bales. Receipts of the week, 9,000.
Receipts ahead of last year, 775,000 bales.

CAPE OF GOOD ROPE.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 24.
6 The Cape mail steamer Athens, Captain Clark,
arrived here this afternoon. Her dates are—Cape,
21st ; St. Helena, 30th ult. ; and Ascension, 4th
inst. She brings eight passengers.

Lieutenant-Governor Scott was on leave 9f
absence, in order to make arrangements for im-
proving Natal Harbour.
Sir George Grey was expected daily.
The vote for the emigration estimates would
probably be repealed.

Government would bring in a Convict Exclusion
Bill, inflicting heavy penalties on captains bring-
ing, and persons harbouring, convicts. The latter
would be condemned to renewed penal servitude.
The Government would also bring in a Census Bill
and a Crown Lands Bill. A bill proposing a rail-
way from Port Elizabeth to Graham's Town was
strongly opposed among the eastern province
members.

A bill would be brought in for the construction
of a breakwater in Table Bay, the estimated ex-
penses of which are £400,000.
No sales of wines had taken place, as, the prices
offered being lower, farmers declined selling.

MR. CLARKSON' S` LECTURES ON ANCIENT

EGYPT.

Mr. Clarkson, on Tuesday, May 22, gave a lecture at the
Grange-road Lecture-hall and Institute (Hampstead Toad),
on the most recent acquisitions of antiquarian research and
discovery in Egypt ; and announces a second on the tools,
looms, factories, and trades of Ancient Egypt. On Tuesday,
after touching on several extraordinary recent discoveries,
the lecturer proceeded to show that not only were many of
our choicest arts well known to the ancient Egyptians, but
that to them we are indebted for the sources of many of our
political and social institutions. Some questions, he ar-
gued, growing out of the inquiry, deserved Government
commissions ; for instance,—lst. Are there any records
extant of contemporary monuments of the 17th dynasty of
the Jewish nation in Egypt? 2d. Are there any records
extant of the contemporary monuments of the Pharoali
Amenoph (18th dynasty) of Josephus ; of the erode,
and of the circumstances preceding and accompanying
that event ? Mr. Clarkson affirmed that there were.
He said that he had always maintained that the subject, if
popularised as it should be, comprised in itself the two
great desiderata of the present time—" Entertaining and
Useful Knowledge." But if it was not useful only, it was
important. The trades and manufactures of Egypt would
comprise an interesting volume. Illustrations drawn from
the tombs give us a complete insight into the Egyptian
workshops, storehouses, looms, laboratories, trades, and
factories. To the trades naturally succeeded the tools
employed therein. Many of them are painted truly of
copper colour. The question of hardening copper so as to
cut granite, led Mr. C. to that of " Lost Arts" generally,
and to the extent of the chemical and scientific knowledge
of the Egyptians; affirming that the Egyptian men of
science were familiar with the artesian well, the prin-
ciple of the railroad, and with steam power. In the last
inference he said he was supported by a great autho-
rity, Arago. He could, indeed, employ a stronger phrase
than useful in referring to the inquiry—he would say it
was important. It embraced important views of the foun-
dation of society and the origin and progress of civilisation.
It was the pastoral family, which the 18th dynasty super-
seded, which besides the relics of their p2culiar architecture
—pyramids, cairns, torliths—left with Them wherever they
wandered—republics, embracing the widest extent of
human freedom, in most cases being associated with com-
mon tables, common labour, common education ; and in
some cases with community of goods. It was from then]
that Sparta derived its public education; Carthage its free
guilds; and Athens its vote by ballot, universal suffrage,
and annual parliaments (or senates)! and from Athens,
through Rome, the British Constitution is derived. If,
Mr. Clarkson urged, the above details attested the serious
import, as well as practical utility of the subject, the
startling and often laughable analogy which the customs
and manners of ancient Thebes bore to modern manners
and customs demonstrated its inexhaustible fund of amuse-
ment and entertainment; concluding by quoting the pro-
verbial dictum—" The thing which has been is the thing
which shall be, and there is nothing new under the sun."

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Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Langdon have arrived at
Fenton's Hotel from the United States.
At an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders
in the London Joint-Stock Bank, held yesterday, Mr. F.
J. Delafosse was elected a director, in the place of the late
Mr. G. Meek.
An extraordinary meeting of the Sittingbourne
and Sheerness Railway Company is called for the 11th of
Juue, " to increase the powers of the directors with re-
ference to the issue of the new stock or share c.ipital," au-
thorised to-be raised by the company's Act of 1859.
The first report of the directors of the East India
Steam Navigation Company (limited) states that a steamer
and two barges have been elected, and will be ready for
shipment during the month of June. Plans of them have
been forwarded to India and favourably reported upon.
The directors express their regret that the shares have not
been so freely taken up as they might have desired, in con-
sequer se of which it may become necessary to make another
pall of £'3 10s. ; yet they expeess a belief that a groundwork
has been laid for a successful business.
At an extraordinary general meeting of the In-
tereolonial Royal Mail Steam-packet Company (limited),
held yesterday, Admiral Lord George Paulet, U. 8., in the
chair, the report of the directors was unanimously adopted,
and a dividend was declared at the rate of 71 per cent. per
annum free of income-tax, for the five months ending
Dec. 31, 1859. The amendments in the articles of associa-
tion rencltrecl necessary by the recent increase of capital
were carried without dissent. Lord George Paulet ex-
plained to the meeting that he was compelled by ill-health
to resign the chairmanship, retaining a seat at the board,
and the Right Ilon. Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., was
elected in his stead. . _ _

EMIGRATION IN 1859.—The Statistical Abstrac
states that 120,432 persons emigrated from the United
Kingdom in 1859, of whom 31,013 went to Australia and
New Zealand, 70,303 to the United States, 6,689 to the
North American Colonies, and 12,427 to other places. This
last number is very much greater than in previous years;
but the whole emigration is the smallest of the last 14
years, with the exception of that of 1858 (which was rather
less still) awl it is not quite a thitl of the emigration of
1852,