The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-03 00:00:00

THE"SUM, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1856

more, at the first complaint an ample guarantee
that must have proved satisfactory to any parties
influenced by the feelings of gentlemen, was freely
tendered. Without disgrace, the British Govern-
ment could go no further. They have done all
that could fairly be required, and we are satisfied
that the people of America—our brethren of the
Anglo-Saxon race, speaking the same language as
ourselves—neither require, nor wish for more. At
all events we cannot yield to the insolent system of
bullying attempted. Every reasonable concession
has been made, and we must now firmly abide
the result, whatever it may be, satisfied that the
quarrel is not of our making, and that we have
truth and justice on our side.

We shall at present say nothing of the attempt
to make out a case on the evidence of witnesses
who would not be credited before any impartial
tribunal, and which would not in this country
be deemed sufficient against a previously convicted
pickpocket.

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PEERAGE AND PARLIAMENTARY
DIREOTORY FOR 1856.

Mr. Kelly, with his usual attention to the public
requirements, has lately issued a Supplement to
the Post-office London Directory, containing,
amongst other information, a Peerage and Parlia-
mentary Directory, with the Town Residences,
during the Session of 1856, and Country Seat of
every Peer and Member of the House of Commons,
with the offices held by each ; added to which there
is a complete Postal Directory, corrected to the
date of Publication, and all for one shilling. This
is !really cheap. The usefulness of this valuable
publication would be very greatly enhanced by the
addition of the excellent map of the Metropolis
which illustrates the large book of London and its
environs, even if charged extra as the map would
be found remarkably handy for reference.—Let
Mr. Kelly look to it.

THE PEACE PROCLAMATION.

THRIN, April 30.—Count de Cavour was received yes-
terday by the King and 'has been decorated with the
order of the Annundada.

The Parma Gazek officially contradicts the reports in
circulation relative to the sending of Austrian reinforce-
ments into the Duely, and concerning the resignation of
the Ministers of the Duchess-Regent."
Letters from Rigs, of the 26th of April, mention that
the navigation had opened on that day. Fourteen ships
had arrived in the port and 71 were in sight. The
weather was very varm.
DENMARK.—Prince Christian of Denmark has re-
ceived from the Emperor of the French an invitation to
visit Paris, which le has accepted, and will set out on
his journey about the middle of next month.
According to a Madrid journal, the Collar of the
Golden Fleece which has been presented to the Prince
Imperial is the same that was worn by the late Emperor
Nicholas of Russia.

ARRIVAL OF A RIISIMAN AMBASSADOR IN LONDON.

—His Excellency Baron Brunow arrived at the resi-
dence of the Russian Embassy, in Chesham•place, yes-
terday afternoon shortly before 4 o'clock.
The Mustipha Bey, the beautiful Egyptian Royal
yacht, built for a nephew of the Pacha of Egypt, and
intended to cruise en the river Nile, left Southampton
yesterday for Alexandria.
According to the circular of M. Arles Dufour, of
Lyons, the silk market during the past month has been
inactive. High prices, the progress of the approaching
crop, and unfavourable accounts as to the spring trade
in America, have contributed to this result.

By the pa ket from Buenos Ayres which arrived in
March the Government of that republic remitted to
Messrs. Baring 2,0001., being an increase of 1,0001. on
the usual monthly remittance on account of the dividend,,
and a similar gam has been received by the April packet.
THE MUSEUM OF ORNAMENTAL ART AT MARLBOROUGH
HOUSE.—The numbers attending, &c., during the month
of April were as follows :-8,990 persons on the public
days, and admitted free ; 611 persons on the students'
days, and admitted as students on the payment of 6d.
each, besides the registered students of the classes and
schools.

The Countess Spencer held a "reception " last even-
ing at Spencer HoUse—the superb saloons of which
were, on this occasion, thrown open for the first time
since the re-decoration of the mansion.
A brilliant gathering of the corps diplomatiqus and
aristocracy responded to her ladyship's invitation.
Viscount Hatdinge entertained at dinner, last evene
ing, at his mansion, in Great Stanhope-street, Vicount
Gough, Major-General Grant, Sir F. Currie, Sir H.
Rawlinson, Sir G. Pollock, Sir J. W. Hogg, Sir. F.
Smith, Gen. Vivian, Col. Oliphant, Col. Sykes, Major
Graham, Capt. Shepherd, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Kaye,
Mr. Waterfield, Mr. Melvill.
Friday next, the 9th instant, has been fixed as the
day for inaugurating the monument in honour of the
Crimean beroea, and the Peace Trophy by the Baron
Marochetti, which are now being erected in the Crystal
Palace. The Queen and Prince Albert will be present
on the occasion, with a guard of honour, composed of
soldiers who have served in the war.
HFAITH OF MR. BRIGHT, M.P.—Mr. W. Macleod states

that "all the unfavourable symptoms under which Mr.
Bright laboured have disappeared, and that his health is
now such that I have recommended him to pass the pre-
sent month in the highlands of Scotland, and the follow.
ing in Switzerland, when, I have no doubt, he will re-
turn home as capable as formerly for his arduous duties."
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following are the names
of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science
and practice of medicine, and received certificates to
practise, on Thursday, May I.—Herbert Smith Ren-
shaw, Ashton-upon-Mersey ; Edward Davies, Wrexham,
North Wales ; Edwin Parsonage, Wrexham, North
Wales ; Joseph Young, Ramsgate ; George Oldham
Siddall, Chesterfield ; Riners Mantel!, Bitton, Bt istol ;
John Jones, Swansea ; John Henry Hooper, York
House, West-square, Southwark.
LISBON, April 24.7-The. House of Deputies has at

last disposed of the Opposition motion to adjourn the
discussion of the two bills relating to the quotation of
Portuguese funds upon the Stock Exchange, and a new
loan of 3,000,0001. for public works, until the Finance
Committee should report upon the railway and other
projects for which the loan is proposed. The division
took place on Monday, when the ministers bad double
the number of opposition votes, 71 being in favour of
immediate discussion and 35 for the adjournment. The
debate upon the two bills commenced yesterday;
ISLE OF WIGHT STEAM BRIDGE FERRY.—The object
of this bill is to facilitate the access between the termi-
nus of Stokes Bay Railway and Pier at Anglesey and
Ryde, by reducing the passage from six to three miles.
The estimate of , Mr. H. H. Fulton, the engineer, is
20,0001., and, owing to an objection raised on the part
of the Admiralty to the plan of layirbev down chains
.across the Solent, it is proposed to work the ferry by
means of a screw steam-bridge, which will perform the
passage in ten minutes, and convey passengers, carriages,
horses, and other cattle, goods, &c., at all times of tide.
VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS, IN
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—War D.ipartment—Mr. Walter
Booth, of the Survey Department, Southampton, has
been appointed a clerk in her Majesty's Gun-wharf,
Portsmouth. Assistant Commissary-General A. Ed-
wards has been appointed Acting Deputy Commissary.
General in the Crimea. Deputy Assistant Commissary-
General John Murray has been appointed Acting
Assisting Commissary-General. The Admiralty—Mr.
Coghlan M'Lean M'Elardy, Extra Clerk in the Sur-
veyor of the Navy's-office, Somerset-house, been ap-
pnintati A roymnnant nlserir ;n *ha A
Service Gazette.
TESTIMONIAL OF SILVER PLATE TO THE LORD BISHOP
OF CARLISLE.—Last night a numerous meeting of the
inhabitants of the parish of St. George's, Bloomsbury,
GIPOk pi/ted at the school-room, in the Pied-bull-yard,
Little Russell-street, for the purpose of presenting a
most superb and elegant candelabrum and epergne about
three feet high, and a quantity of plate, to the Hon.
:ind Right Rev. Henry Montague Villiers, D.D., Lord
Bishop of Carlisle, late rector of the parish. The Hon.
and Right Rev. Prelate, in a very lengthy speech, re-
turned his most sincere and heartfelt thanks for the
grateful tribute.
THE MIXED COMMISSION COURTS.—The mixed com-
mission e,tablished under treaties with foreign Powers
forsappressiug the traffic in slaves now costs 11,0551.,
per annum. In Sierra Leone we have an arbi-
trator with a.salary of 1,5001,, and a registrar with
£7501. At the the Havanaah we have a judge with
5001., and an arbitrator with 5001. At the Cape we
have a commissioner with 1,2001., an arbitrator with
8001., and a registrar with 5001. At Loanda we have
a commissioner with 1,500/., and an arbitrator with
1,0001. The contingent expenses, including salaries
of clerks and minor officers of these courts, amount
to 2,5001.—Civil Service Gazette.
DEATH OF A RACEHORSE ON THE COURSE.—•A well-
known English horse, General Evans by name, ran at
the steeplechase of La Manche last Thursday, having
been recently im?orted into France. The start for the
Great Handicap was not a very good one. After 'pro-
ceeding to the turning of the chateau, Franc Picard
fell at the stiffest jump, and Flying Buck, who had been
lying second, went on with strong running, Torrent
following, but before long General Evans took the second
place. In this order they continued to the second jump
in the straight—a stiff fence, formed of a tree, nailed to
stoat posts —and against it the General struck in such a
way that he was thrown head foremost to the ground
and broke his neck ; he, of course, died instantaneously,
and his death created an immense sensation. It was
considered a sort of miracle that his rider, Rackley,
escaped without the slightest injury. Franc Picard won
the race.
MODERN SOCIETY IN ROME.—A NOVEL.—BY J. R.
BESTS, ESQ., AUTHOR OF " THE WABASH."-3 Vote.—
Under the attractive farm of a novel, this very interest-
ing and instructive work cmnveys a vivid idea of society
at Rome, and, indeed, throughout the Italian Peninsula,
particularly as it is modified by the powerful influence of
political circumstances. The incidents of the book are
of a highly romantic complexion, though strictly true in
their essential characteristics, and bring us acquainted
with all the personages of note concerned in the drama
of recent Italian politics, including the Italian Sove-
reigns, Mazzini, Garibaldi, Oudinot, Haynau, Radetsky,
and others. We are also introduced to some of the

sanguinary scenes of the period of the revolution, which
are given with considerable graphic effect. As a com-
bination of history with romance, greater success has
rarely been achieved, or has been productive of more
interest to the reader."—Morning Advertiser.
THE COST OF THE Wart.—A. correspondent of the
Independence of Brussels makes a calculation of the
sacrifioes which the war has imposed on the various
powers concerned in it. England, says the statist, de-
ducting the war budget, has thrown into the struggle
100,000,0001. in loans and additional taxes. France has
been obliged to expend 60,000,000/. over and above her
extraordinary war budget. As regards Turkey an out-
lay of only 4,800,0001. is known; but that must be but
a very small portion of her losses. It is well known that
Russia has borrowed 21,000,0001., withou: speaking of
' the exhaustion of all her financial resources. Austria,
by merely keeping up her armies on a war footing, has
expended the almost incredible sum of 40,000,0001.
Prussia thought it necessary to devote 4,000,000/. to
meet eventualities ; but she has only expended the half
of that sum. Piedmont has been obliged to sacrifice
3,200,0001. The ensemble makes a total of more than
280,000,0001.
THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.,--Yesterday
the Board of Works held its weekly meeting in the
Council Chamber, Guildhall ; Mr. Thwaites, the chair-
man, presiding. Mr. Wilkinson presented a memorial
from Messrs. George Parrott, Professor Wheatstone,
and Mr. J. W. Treeby, relative to a plan for construct-
ing metropolition subways. They propose to construct
under the new street recommended by Parliament from
Cheapside to Long-acre two subways, each containing
an up and down line of rails ; and on reaching Long-
acre to continue one line under Long-acre, Leicester-
square, and Piccadilly, to Hyde-park-corner, ; and an-
other line from Lon acre under Endell-street, High-
street, St. Giles's, and Oxford street, to Cumberland-
gate. The scheme is intended to relieve the main
thoroughfares of a great part of the traffic with which
they are now overburdened, land to facilitate Cie pas•
senger traffic from point to point. The memorial was
referred to the Committee on Works aryl Improve-
ments. The board was occupied, during the remainder
of the sitting, in the transaction of business destitute of
general interest.
MINING INTELLIGENOL—The Mine Share Market has
exhibited rather more life this week, and the low price
of shares has brought several purchasers into the field.
Mining securities have not alone been depressed,
for we hear on all sides complaints of the ab-
sence of busines, and the want of that general
activity which was so fully anticipated on the con-
clusion of peace. The chief cause of this appears to be
the demand for money, and its apparent scarcity. As
this tightness wears off, bus ness and speculation will
increase.7—XittiPg Journal of 00, day,

LATEST NEWS.

THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY MORNING.

The African Steam Navigation Company's mail
packet Retriever, Commander A. Mackintosh, ar-
rived in the night.
Her outward dates are—Madeira, Feb. 24th ;
Teneriffe, 26th ; Goree, March Ist ; Bathurst 2d ;
Sierra Leone, sth ; Liberia, oth : Cape Coast, 12th ;
Accra, 14th ; Lagos, 15th ; Bonny, 19th ; Old
Calabar, 20th ; Cameroons, 22d ; and Fernando
Po, 22d March.

Homeward her dates are :—Fernando Po, March
25th ; Old Calabar, 27th ; Lagos, 29th ; Accra,
30th ; Cape Coast, 31st; Liberia, April sth; Sierra
Leone, Bth ; Bathurst, 13th • Goree, 14th ; Tene-
rife 21st ; and Madeira, 25th.
Her cargo consists of 2,529 ounces of gold dust,
1,212 Mexican dollars, IG3 casks of palm oil, 19
bags of cotton, 2,532 b. of ivory, 5 casks of gum,
125 cases and 5 barrels of arrowroot, 425 bags of
ginger, 51 tons of camwood, 54 bags of cochineal,
4 casks of argol, and 10 hogsheads and 16 pipes of
wine, &c.
Passengers.—From Monrovia—Mr. Goedelt ;
from Sierra Leone—the Rev. L. Keay, and Capt.
Bellew ; from Bathurst—Major Ord, R.E., and
Mr. Welsh, Secretary ; Commander Phillips,
R.N. ; Lieutenant Brock, ; Captain Scott,
Lieut. Richardson, and Lieut. Hartford, West
India Regiment ; Rev. G. Meadows, Mrs. Mea-
dows, child, and servant ; and from Teneriffe—
Captain Hodson.
At Sierra Leone her Majesty's ships Scourge,
Teazer, and Phiiomel. The Myrmidon, which
left on the 22d of March, with Major Ord, for
Madeira, put back to Bathurst on the 10th of April
short of fuel. The Childers was at Lagos on the
19th of March.

The African Mail Company's steam-ship Niger
arrived at Fernando on the 23d of March, and pro-
ceeded to the Rivers.

The Ethiope arrived at Bathurst on the 9th of
April, and sailed on the 10th.
The coast is healthy._

Governor Hill left Sierra Leone on the 2d of
April in the Teazer for the Sherbro', to effect peace,
bnt the chiefs being fearful of each other did not
attend.

The chief Bilarly has destroyed several towns on
the Searcies river.

Trade is dull at Bonny and Cameroons.
A good season for oil is expected at Fernando Po
and Old Calabar.

At Lagos the natives continue hostile to the
trade. A collision has taken place between the
Missionary Society and the Wesleyans.
Major Ord after some difficulty had succeeded
in reconciling the chiefs at Accra to the establish-
ment of the poll-tax. In consequence of the con-
tinued irritation between the Christianberg and
Ningo people, the acting Governor had removed
head-quarters to Accra.
The " palaver" of the Commissioner at Cape
Coast has led to, a peaceful result, and a new King
was elected on the 13th of March.
The merchants continue dissatisfied with the
additional duties, but have placed their complaints
in the hands of the Commissioner to wait the de-
cision of the Rome Government ; all is quiet at
Liberia.

Part of the Spanish expedition for colonising
Fernando Po sailed from Tenerife on the 15th of
April. It consisted of a governor, 300 soldiers and
labourers, and 50 priests.