The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-10 00:00:00

the Minister of roreign Affairs, under date of Sept. 19,
nh of leiil note) reiterating a request for the OotiVocation
of a Conference, consisting of the representatives of all
the contracting Powers.
"Agreeing to this request the Minister of Foreign
Affairs in the name of his Government, has invited the
other Cabinets to decide by common accord all the
points which have hitherto remained in suspense.
" So as to give to this diplomatic meeting the cha-
racter and the merit of a final solution of all the questions
in dispute, Count Walewski asked Baron Brunow
whether the Court of Russia, participating in this deli-
beration, was decided to abide by a majority of votes.
"To this question, transmitted by telegraph to St.
Petersburg, the Imperial Cabinet sent back an imme-
diate reply in the affirmative."
The Memorandum concludes by expressing the
hope that these two points of minor importance of
detail will be satisfactorily settled.

GENERAL ?TALKER AND .HIS AGENT.

M. Goicuria, ex-agent of Walker, the Filibuster,
has published the following statement :
" Mr. William Walker, now President of Nica-
ragua, has done me an act of injustice in a dis-
courteous and brutal manner, and his underlings
here have the folly and insolence to charge me
with treachery to the cause of Nicaragua. My
reply is brief, and I think will be satisfactory—
at least as far as my personal honour is concerned,
and that is all that I care now to protect. I make
this statement from no mean motives of revenge,
but simply and solely to guard my reputation from
an unmerited accusation.
" It is well known that I have been for years,
heart and soul, life and fortune, devoted to the
cause of Cuban annexation to the United States.
I may be called a Filibuster, and base motives
may be applied to me. I care nothing about it.
Only those who know as I do the atrocities of Spa-
nish Colonial Government—only those who feel
as I do the capabilities of the Island of Cuba under
a free and good Government like that of the Union,
can rightly judge of my conduct or my motives.
I have no defence on this head to make. My heart,
my blood, my property, are all vowed to the cause
of Cuba.
" Nicaragua was with me a secondary object, a
more stepping stone to Cuba. Of course, 1 re-
joiced to see a beautiful country rescued from a
miserable imbecile Government ; and as long as I
considered Mr. William Walker an honest and
sagacious man I was not less rejoiced to see the
power in his hands. But my object first and
last was Cuba, and with this view I sent an
agent in the winter of 1855 and '56 to Nicara-
gua ; and he there, on the 11th of January,
1856, concluded the following treaty with Mr.
Walker, binding him, as soon as the Government
of Nicaragua was established, to devote himself
to the Emancipation of Cuba. This is the conven-
tion entered into between us :
" CONTRACT.
" General William Walker, commander-in-chief
of the army of Nicaragua, is willing to form, the
following agreement with Captain F. A. Laine,
appointed agent of St. Domingo de Goicuria, sole
holder and repository of the goods and chattels
belonging to the cause of Cuba, consisting in
money, a vessel, and munitions of war.
" ' 1. General William Walker pledges his word
of honour that be will assist and co-operate with
his person and with his various resources—such as
men and others—in the cause of Cuba, and in
favour of her liberty, after having consolidated the
peace and government of the Republic of Nica-
ragua.
" 2. General William Walker proposes and ad-
mits the understanding that the material and pe-
cuniary resources of Nicaragua, as well as those
which are in the possession of the revolutionary
party of Cuba, shall be amalgamated together,
making common cause together for the purpose of
overthrowing the Spanish tyranny in the island,
and of insuring the prosperity of Central America,
identifying thereby the interests of both countries.
" '3. General Walker requires a full exposition,
manifestation, and explanation of the resources be-
longing to the cause of Cuba, as likewise a detailed
statement and list of the military and maritime
forces, as well as the remaining resources of the
Spanish Government in the island of Cuba.
" 4. Captain F. A. Laine, having taken into
consideration the contents of the three foregoing
articles, agrees to and accepts the contents of the
said three articles only as a preamble of a contract
to be made upon a more solid basis by the parties
interested ; and therefore binds himself by his
word of honour to keep this agreement until he
shall have fuller powers forlits final arrangement.
And having drawn out two papers of the same
tenour, in corroboration of this, we affix our signa-
tures, in the Independent State and Republic of
Nicaragua, this day, Jan. 11, 1856.
" t WM. WALKER.
" F. A. LAINE!
" When this was done—when I had secured the
word, and, as I thought, the co-operation of
Walker—l went myself to Nicaragua in March last,
and there entered with all the energy of my nature
into the cause of that country. Whatever language
Mr. Walker may now choose to employ, he has
heretofore been only too glad to acknowledge the
value and extent of my services.
"Bat my views in enteringinto the operations of
Walker are to be found in the above contract, in
the obligations that it imposes on him, and in the
aid I expected to derive from him.
" I remained in Nicaragua till the 21st of June,
1856, when I left there and came to this country,
where I arrived on the 13th of July, at Now Orleans.
It was then thought that I could be useful as
Minister to England, but there was some difficulty
in the Rivas Cabinet, and in August I received a
letter from Walker, dated the 25th of July, which
is of no consequence, except that in it he desired
me to wait till I received my credentials. At
length, in the latter part of August, rec. eivhed
from Mr. Walker my credentials, accompanied
the following letter :
"My dear General,—I send Y°l
‘" Granada, Tuesday, Aug. Ic2;eleBnst6i.als
They are
for Great Britain by General Coatz without result.
ample, and will be, I hope,
object. It will be a
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nothing in comparison
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commercial confsnerqcueences of this p •
results.
44 With your versatility and, if I may use the
term adaptability, I expect much to be done in
England. You call do more than any American
could possibly accomplish, because you can make
the British Cabinet see that we are not engaged in
any scheme for annexation. You can make them
seethat the only way to cut the expanding and
expansive Democracy of the North is by
apowerful
and compact Southern federation, based on military
principles.
" The sooner you get to England the better it
will bo for us. If possible, the treaty should be
made before the middle of November. By that
time the rainy season will be over, and we can open
the next campaign. We must have all our rela-
tions with Central America fixed before the last of
April, and nothing will so much facilitate us as
the settlement of the Mosquito question. Above
all, this port is necessary for the work we have in
hand after our Central American affairs are settled.
" It is needless for me to impress you with the
importance of this mission, for you, no doubt, feel
it as deeply as I do.
"I hope to hear from you every mail. Can you
not make write me a letter ? Tell —he
must send me the news, and let me know whether
Cuba must and shall be free'—but not for the
Yankees. Oh no ! that fine country is not meant
for those barbarous Yankees I What would such a
psalm-singing set do in the island ?
" Remember me to your family, and ve
belie me
yours sincerely, WM. WALKER.
" General D. De Goicuria."'
" This letter put a new face on matters alto-
gether. It revealed to me for the first time Mr.
Walker's hostility to the Democratic principles of
America, and his design to establish a Southern
despotism as a counter-balance to the Unite 1 States.
It entered into no part of my plans to forward any
such scheme as this, and I very plainly perceived
ihat Mr. Walker gave me credit for an. adapta-
bthilieiln'nwexhaicthioul doof
Cnuothapotsesestsh.elut
iwiitaesdesviitdaetenst that
very far from Mr. Walhkaetesl ipdaeuasse.d,latncdandiiidotnboet
considered lvonderful t
Walker was to revive
instantly
nextstar t
and that I heard of in Octo-
sftosrpEtankgelanndhy.
further to dissatisfy me. It
shlearv.eryTinnisNwiceanrtagsutiall,
is quite unnecessary for me,to deny the chargelof any
pseudo-philanthropy in regard .•o the black ;,but the
revival f slavery at this particalar crisis of Mr.
Walker'so affairs seems to my mind preposterously
stupid.
" 1 had already argued with Mr. Walker. He
ceived my suggestions with rudeness and disdain.
I remonstrated again. He has replied by a gross
and most unmerited insult. Re has done all that
in him lies to cover me with infamy. His course
leaves me no option. I thought I had to dio with
a man of honour. I find I was dealing with a man
utterly regardless of the most sacred oligations.
" As long as I believed Mr. Walker was a man
of faith and honour and ordinary sagacity I
ad-
hered steadfastly to his cause ; so long a3l thought
he was true to the cause of Cuba and America
was his devoted friend. If he had not forfeited
ghlt
every claim to confidence and to a reputation for
ooramoa sense r would still adhere to him. I

would burn my hand off before I would make these
papers public if there was a shadow of a hope that..
he would keep his pledged word, or if there was
the least ground to believe that he would adhere
to the principles he professed.
" For some reason or other, best known to him-
self, he chooses to violate his engagements with me;
and to inform me in language too plain to be mis. -
understood that he will not keep his faith either .
with me or with Cuba. He openly avows prin.
eiples directly hostile to the growth and grandeur of
his country. He covertly insinuates, and his subor-
dinates openly charge, that I am treacherous and
false, when they and he know that my conduct has
been pure and irreproachable, and the whole is
crowned by an outrageous insult.
"As to Mr. Walker's pretending to put his
breach with me on the ground of his suspicions of
my want of faith, it is a mereletch to get rid of my
well-founded objections to his absurd operations in
regard to the Transit Company, and his revival of
slavery and the slave trade. It is only a new in-
stance of his want of honour and of his bull-headed
obstinacy. Any sane man can see for himself who
in these matters is right. When Mr. Walker's first
necessity was to have a steady and regular com-
munication with the United States, in order to
receive men and munition, he arrested and broke
up the Transit line ; now that he wants the moral
and financial support of England and France he
restores slavery and the slave trade. And this he
expected to pass current for ability and statesman-
ship.
I can expect nothing, therefore, from him--
Cuba can expect nothing. Her gallant sons, who
for years have longed and languished can expect
nothing—the people of the United States can expect
nothing from Mr. Walker. They can expect from
him as little service or assistance as they can good
faith or common sagacity. It would be criminal
weakness in me, therefore, to remain silent undier
the base and unfounded accusations brought against
me, or to hesitate to expose his profligate and
stupid conduct. Idoitas an act of duty, both to
the peor le of Cuba and to that of the United
States.
" I therefore denounce Mr. Walker as a man
wanting in the first element of every kind of
ability, viz.,—good faith ; I denounce him as
wanting in ordinary sagacity and discretion ; I
I denounce him as false to the interests as well of
Cuba as of the United States. As to the charge,
of my ever having been an agent of Mr. Vander-
bilt, it is absurd. It is merely a distortion of the
fact that I was in favour of accepting his propo-
sitions.
" As to the El Dorado and Mr. J. P. Heiss's
brilliant idea that I, a foreigner by birth, was rais-
ing a thousand Americans to fight Americans in
Nicaragua, it argues an estimate of my influence
with the gallant people of this country that I can-
not quite accept, complimentary as it is. If that
tools of Walker were not as dull as they are insolent
they could see with half an eye for what the NI.
Dorado was meant. A man of honour does not
abandon the fixed purpose of his life, even because
friends on whom he has depended prove false all
faithless. It is too late now, unhappily, for OIL
avowal to be a matter of consequence. But Whab
I have to say on this head I am not afraid to
Cu s.a!
to the world. The El Dorado was meant for Lt
But I do not give Mr. Walker's understrapPef,
credit for such uncommon stupidity. They kun
very well for what the El Dorado was meant ; an
they prevented her from going from a me all
.9:l`_`:
malicious design to injure me. To accomplish tol_i;
they ware willing to defeat my efforts to ann, a.
Cuba to the United States. Let the public Pa'
who are the traitors !

" D. DE GOICITEII.

" New York, Nov. 22."

ART TREASURES EXH IBiTIOIC_

The following is a list of the sculpture prowled t.
the Exhibition of Art Treasures at Manchester:
MODERN.
Sculptor.. Subject. Contributor.
Raphael
Psyche
Canova,J. W. Blun
Roubillacnat.
Prometheuschained
George RigbY Astle
Sir R. Westmacott Euphrosine ..... ... Duke of New tt
J. S. Westmacott Peri (Lalla Rookh) J. S. Westooe°
John Gibson Narcissus
W. C. Marshall ... Paul and Virginia Earl of El
leonerel
John Thomas Boadicea
B. E. Spence Highland Mary ... Henry Bail
B. E. Spence
Ingles
Wyatt Water Nymph Richard Fort.
Wyatt lnfant Bacchus A. H. Novell- ..,
Watt Statue Robert Opel:ohs:0
y
W Robert Opee'll 0
Hiryamatt Power The Fisher Boy ... Robert Steven
Obin Il Penseroso
Fischer
The
poPleroanyil7 .
...... .. .... Richard
eof ltriL""-*
Unknown Italian Boy and Eagle ...... George itigbY ft
The work b Raphael will attract much Dub,
has never been seen in England, but it wasattention in the
lin Exhibition of 1853.

ANTIQUE.
--8 19°11.
t.. r emu ausvrating
(after Praxiteles), Satyr,: ;rid Sarcopbbag Far'
usuil
the story of Ceres and Bacchus ; contributed by the
of Pembroke.
Apollo Sauroctunes, Minerva (small statue), The
chirroe, Theseus, Roman Figure in a toga ; A-13°11'
(pedestals with alto-relievo subjects), and Venus ; cor
tributed by J. W. Blundell.
Bacchus and Bacchante, Disk bas-relief of Fauns, X"
Boy treading Grapes, Faun on an "Ass, Ganymeclet
Medallion of Menauder, Female Statuette th Vase, Tod
of a Thrower, and Bacchante wearing Nebris ; CO.
tributed by J. Smith Barry.
By an error we formerly gave the name of the Vie'
ancellor of the University of Oxford as Dr. Cottoo•
Ch
It should have been Dr. Williams.

The advices from Australia by the True Bfital e;
terday are to the 12th of September, being aboiPii
musly received. Ilea of
fortnight later than those
rains still interfered with bus'
gold by escort were proportionately
gregate returns for the last and the receipts
..
nately reduced. Vie
,I:egci
to keep up to the increase i.
w manifestedeek weeks,
it therefore, e rtebfeo rpe;
pre
flain'eiotiti:
part of the year, the amount havin been 2,250,°yK6
against 2,400,000/. in
With the resumption of active
the correspondingeotnmunieawtieueuk:sboofvicileSvilo:ri
large totals were
excitementm had been likely to be brought down. oreef
ine at a place called caused by the discovery 0' ii,o,
Dunolly, north-west of Beoetobo,
According to the circular of Messrs. Miles, lingsiott
and Co., the wool market
ld. per pound, o . had experienced ;moot), st
reduction of 11d. at owing
to the arrival of advices '
the London May sales.
THE MAILS, SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday. ---'-"e
.it-. ftorl
Mail Company's Of
4- ',I Re" f
steam-ship Avon, Cap 03- i itife-
sailed this afternoon'', inw-sihthiP the Brazilian and 15,0
Plate mails, 101 passengers (among Whirs.ar,e
ftett,
d'Arssen, Colonel Greenwood, Dr. and P3' 0);
Dr. Baylis, Captain Robley, and Captain 'Pei: s,°o ,
jewellery value 25,400/., specie value 166,0001., °-1318
fill cargo. The Peninsular and Oriental Concaia•
solar
steamer Tagus, which sailed yesterday with the Otith
_ mails, was compelled to bring up in -"rii: e,
Roads last night by the violent gale and 1001 se- pi'
the to
and was there riding safely at anchor when
!patch, from the Channel Islands, passed on her rig'
Southampton. She was to leave this morning a" bave
light, if the weather moderated. Counter-ordes olis
tot day been received in reference to the e:teredetel
'uxiiie steamer to bin g home the Cando, A° coo'
graphic instructions have been forwarded to her,t, is
mander, Captain Powell, to sail the Candia from -1-_:i3ef
to Malta, there to be repaired, or to come hone en,,oh
canvass, as eircrimstances may warrant. The pit
steamer Barcelona, which sailed yesterday morniag! et
back into dock last' night from some interruption of 0
machine
found that
machinery. On examirnation by divers
.to-day, it 0
she had picked uP of
el"
several times round the screw ; this has been g. ~;0
a warp, which w4s coiled
and she is expected to proceed on her voyage ?mans ttli's
evening or early to-morrow morning, as so
.n.ch to
y gale wt.ll
gale moderates. The southwesterl with lit is
been blowing for the last three or four
days nd there 15
or no intermission continues very violent, a ti Tbs
every appearance of another very rough r"g capoill
United States' mail steam-ship Washington,,,b'ult.,
Cavendy, with dates from New York to the "" ,f 013
r, ,e .
is expected off Cowes on Friday or SaturdaY -
her way to Bremen. itii. ti, CO
Tees EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN RoTAri J'`A„ croV/
PANY.--SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—This carnPanY'" sower,
steamer European, of 2,350 tons and 530 -horse 1:soge•
arrived to-day from the Clyde, after a sterni9 Poorar4
She is to leave this on Friday with the next ofto/ he
Australian_ mails. The North British Daily 31.5“,eisf"li
2' th ult. says :—" The European had a most shuoto o
trial trp on Thursday last. She steamed at Woo Vert
54 revolatitotaeo
11 miles an hour, the engines making
minuto under a pressure of 161 b. The al 14131/0
inspector was on board, and expressed himsedetee t
satisfied with the result. The shiP bas tin bi bet'
thoroug,h overhaul, both in bull and enachier9,oo
builders, Messrs. Scott and Co., ;.nd Nlessrs• '/;poreclt`:,
and Clark, engineers, and no expense ha.% been set pp,-,
make her perfectly efficient in every respOctr firotowiii
seuger accommodation, which is altogether for it, lead
passengers, is admirable. The saloon is 60 ft-'e iy Ot 0
and upwards of 30 in breadth, and is handsoo. °
fling. 4,•5
in bird's-eye maple, with rosewood poe,-,, Daitl.t;ogo
decorations consist of beautiful papier naac''''-',lttoodstra
alternated with mirrors. The sleeping Ace° fitteuier
is most ample and comfortable, the whole belhg ~, elio.
two berthed state-rooms. The -European 8 .„,,n()enoe
the camniand of Captain Parfitt, late of the g - tie. ,;
and Oriental Company, and an officer of great eP:01;0',1
Her former commander, Captain Cabitt, reniaiLlorauP,'
to superintend the vessels now building for the c° oaf',"
ELECTION OP A MEMBER Op TLIE 1:1103DOISIADA01.
CU), OXFORD.—The election of an Hebdomadal Cooiliec,
to )10%00;
for in the room of the late Professor IEIIO6O
yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, and during the
,ritere°
polling, from two to three o'clock, consider '3100;10f
was manifested as to the result. The principal S. Cylrl'o'
Palau Hall (Dr. Macbride), and the l'•e • 1 0014;
Pr:elector of .Logic and Fallow ot 13allio . a liee,_
were the only candidates. Other gentlemen, n% vie ,',
mentioned, but we believe none but the alor. 0003;1
voted for, as they had all declined being put is virP,'
nation previous to the poll commencing. lN.jir."
.1\ 41;
was tho candidate of the high church, the
bride that of the low church party. At ciloir. .s.°,lcrai'llt
poll the numbers were—Dr. fide, 87 ;•P
0. Majority, 18.