The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-02 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1858.

WIDOWA in respectable ciicumstances wished
to take charge of TWO CUILDREN under SIX years of
age. The most satisfactory references will be given.— Address It ,
Nbt 2, Gunton-place, Peckham-rye. t

R AT 'WESTERN RAILWAY.—
G WIN
DSOR and BACK for 2s. 6d., from Paddington. Week
Days at 8.45 and a.m:., returning ,at 6.35 and 8 5 p.m. On
Sundays, from Paddington at 9 a m., returning at 7 p.m.
TAPLOW and -BACK. on Sundays, for 2s. Gd., franrCiaddington
at 9 a.m., returning at 6.57 p.m. .
HENLEY and BACK for 3s. from Paddington at 9 a.m., return-
at 8.55 p.m.
•
WEYMOUTH and CHANNEL ISLANDS
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY (Limited) —DAYrFAS-
SAGES to GUERNSEY and JERSEY.—The CYGNUS or AQUILA
every. -TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, at 8.0 a.m.,
ftom WEYMOc Tti HAREOU,t ; and on MONDAY. WEDNES-
DAY, and FRIpAY. at .6 30 a.m., from JERSEY (calling at
guernsey); with Goods and Passengers.

FARES.
' .
From Paddington, Ist class.... 315.-2nd class.... 21s.
From wermouth _,, . .. • . lis. „ .... 123..
Steward's fees ~ .... 2s. „ .. • • Is.
Through lkokhig from all the principal stations on the Great
Western Railway. ' - .
JOSEPH MAUNDERS, Manager and Secretary.
20th May, 1851.- -

CONTRACTS FOX LINSEED oir,ARD TALLOW.
Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy,
F SOMenet-plage, Ist July lasB.
THE Commissioners for eiecutillg the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
,nd Ireland do Hereby Give Npticc. that. on TUESDAr, the' 21th
instant, at Two o'clock, they will' be ready to treat with such
persons as may be willing to contract for supplying her Majesty's
Dockyards with!
'
LINSEED OIL,
and
RUSSIA or 'EI(IGLITSH • T ALLOW.

Distilbutions ,of the articles, and forms of the tenders may be seen
at the said °nice. 1 o tender will he received after Two o'clock on
thaday of treaty, nor will any be noticed unify" the party attends,
or au:a:ant fbr him duly authorised in wrl'ing.
Every tender must heAddressed to the Secretrn of the Admiralty,.
.art 4 bear in the left-hand—corner the *ords, "Tender for
and must be delivered at Soorierset-place, accompanied by a letter
signed by two responsible persons, engaging to, become 'oound with
the person tendering in the sum of • 251. per cent on the `value
tor the due performance of each of the Contracti.

FOR, THE EA SIDE.
ANGOLA SUITS, 15s.
Excellence with Economy.
GEORGE HOBSON, Lpmbard-street.
ESTABLISHED 1796.

" dAUR OWN CORRESPOND ENT " says
Twatty-one Million l'ounds of Tea have been released by
the Possession of Canton.—The EST INDIA TEA COMPANY
anticipate 'the arrival of this, and have reduced the price of their
61t) bag of Sound Tea to.2s. 2d. per lb., and Coffee in the Berry to I Id.
—Warehouses, 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate.

THE MAIN DRAINAGE QUESTION.

DEPUTATION TO TTIE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.

Yesterday afternoOn deputation.frook the Erich and
Gravesend comtnittee for protecting the Thatnes from
the introduction nI the London eewaue above Gravesend,
consisting of C. W. Martin, El., M.P. for ►Vest Kent ;
James Whatman, Big , Sir culling E. Eardley,
Bart., and other gentlera'ent waited upon-the Chancellor
of the Exchequer in referen6 to the pinposed plan of
making the outfall of :the metropolitan 'sewage near
Ed' h. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Mar:in,

Sir C. EAEDLEY reminded the liancel!or of the Ex-
chequer that io Decernh?r, 1854, a committee had been
formed to oppose the plan. That ,committee had, em-
ployed men of professional skill to investigate the matter,
and they had given it as their opinion that the proposed
()titian at Erith was objectionable because it would not
prevent the sewage from returning within the metro'
baunddry; Would injure the lieaith of the district,
and would prcbably be prejudicial to the navigation.
The War-office, as interested in the health of theitowo
ana neighbourhood of Woolwich had contributed to the
committee's tunds,-and had now an additional reaun
for objecting to" the plan, inasmuch as it had just pur-
chased 45Cracres of land as practice-ground for troops
and cadets, and the proposed on fall would, be exactly
in:the centre of it- They trwiti-d that akt Government
would riot corcient to the plan. .

Tbe' CHANCELLOR of the txcinQuEß said, the question
was the 4uestlou -the day. lie should see some of his
colleagues that day, and eh:,uld not fail to give due
weight to al that bad been urged.

INTERNATIONAL. DECIMAL 4SSOCIA-
, TiOv.

The following paper, by Professor Alexander, the
American c inago commis•ionerr was read before this
society on Friday evening, at the rooms of the Society of
Art, . „

Gentlemen,—l regret that I cannot acknowledge
otherwise than in writing the compliment you have paid
me in inviting me, through your hon. secretary, to meet
you on the evening of the 25th inst. Certain pre•
existieg •arrangements over which I have not now the
control, will require my being absent from the City at
and bef. re that time.

But as I understood from the hon. secretary that some
particulars in retard to the public obj.-ct whici2 it has
been my business here to further, would not be unac-
ceptable t,) you. I prolong this communicati3n f•ir the
purpose of bri,fly presenting such details as I presume
would be interesting to you and to the members of the
associatior..

:I have been commissioned, then, by the United States
Government, to inquire in its behalf whether her Ma-
jesty's Government would be disposed to concur in some
mutual plan whereby the.unitary monies of account—
the pound sterling and the dollar=shoull beclibe here-
after symmetrical and respectively and even multiple
and as a:iquot part, one or the other. In the event of
such disposition, I am. authoriied to c nfer with the
prop,r authoriti,,s as to swine suitable Plan, which, if
thus far acceptab'eoni be laid before and receive the
sanction of t-ie legi.litive authorities of the two coun-
tries. Such is the diplomatic position of the suggestion.
What folio we here in relation to it, sr iil, of course, be
taken merely as the expression of my individual opinions.
The suggestion itself has no cootie, ton with the deci-
melisa ion of :he British coinage.. Oa' such a topic of
purely domestic import, it would be mar,itestly inappro-
priate for anyone nation, (it'd isast of "all tee United
States, which has always adheNd to a doctrine of no: .
interVentior.),-sriontaneously to interiere in any measure
with the discussion or determination of any oilier.
At tie same time, it is only candid t.i say that the
fact of such discussions and of their possible termina-
tion in a change to sortie extent of the coinage of Great
Britain; has been. probably no: without inti,tentie on tt,e
epc;ch of the present suggestion ; m •difications contem-
plated by winch would of course be move conyenientiv
considered, acid perhaps adopted also with other
alterations. In other regards, - and until the n-
Tnr was withdrawn, and the proviso was
agreed to as was also clause 13. .

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALLS'.-THUESDAY.

Only the follawiag bets were laid :-4,0 to 1 agst Re-
aad 50 to 1 agst the ProtuisA Land, fur the
D,gby.