The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-13 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1858.

BANK OF ENGLAND, March 9, 1853.
THE Court of Directors of the Governor and
Company of the BANK of ENGLAND GIVE NOTICE, That
a GENERAL COURT will be held at the Bank on THURSDAY,
the 18th inst., at Twelve o'clock precisely, to consider of a Dividend.
Also, that another General Court will be held at the Bank, on
TUESDAY, the 6th April next, from ten o'clock in the forenoon till
four in the afternoon, for the Election of a Governor and Depaty
G..vernor for the year ensuinr (which will be declared that evening);
and the same Court will be continued, by adjournment, and held at
the same place, and during the same hours, on WednesdAy, the 7th
April next, for the election of twenty-four Directors (which will
also be one of the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the char-
ter) ; and the election of the twenty-four Directors will be declared
as soon as the scrutiny is over.

Printed hits of the proprietors having votes wi'l be ready to be
delivered at the Bank, on Tuesday, the 23d March.

JON BENTLEY, Secretary.
N.B. By an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of George
3d, no person will be entitled to vote at the said election who shall
not have been six calendar months possessed, in his own right, of the
stock for which he shall there give his vote, unless the said stock shall
have been acquired, or shall have come by bequest, or by marriage,
or by succession to an intestate's estate, or by the custom of the city
of London, or by any deel of settlement after the death of any person
shall have been entitled for life to dividends of such stock.

THE RHINE AND GERMANY.—The
Shortest and Cheapest Route, via Rotterdam, to the Rhine
and Germany, is by THE DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY.
Through Trains, in conjunction with those of the Cologne-Minden
Company, start three times a day.
Fifty pounds of Luggage allowed free for each passenger.
Further particulars forwarded, post free, on application to the
Company's London Agent, Mr. JOAN C. JANSON, 61, Gracechurch-
treet.

LONDON & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY,
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.

RETURN TICKETS at a SINGLE FARE for the DOUBLE
JOURNEY will be issued on the 13th, 14th, and 15th March (to
retti-n on the 15th), front all Stations on this Railway to rILIS-
WORTH (the best situation for viewing this phenomenon), Brack-
ley, Northampton, Oundle, or Peterborough.
N.l3.—From Liverpool, Birkenhead, Preston, Wigan, Chester,
Warrington, and Manchester, the Special ,teturn Tickets at 12s 6d.
and 215., available for seven days, will be acknowledged at either of
the above-named stations instead of to London.—By order.
Euston :•tatlon, London, March 9, 1658.

LIVERPOOL, BIRKENHEAD, CHESTER,
WARRING lON, PRESTON, WIGAN, AIANC RESTER.,
STOCKPORT, STALEYBRIDGE, GREENFIELD, OLDHAM,
HUDDERSFD, LD, DE SBURY, BATLEY, and BIRS[AL.—
Reduction of Fares by London and North-Western Railway.—
Return. Tickets b, all Trains, according to Class, are now issued to
or from Euston-station and any of the above stations.
2d Class. Ist Class.
Availab'e for Seven Days ......... 12s. 641.
Available ,or Twenty Eight Days.. 17d. Od.
For further particula,s, see hand-bills.
Euston-station, Ist March, 1858.

By Order.

I OND ON AND SOUTH-WESTERN
4 PER CENT. DEBENTURE STOCK
The Directors of the London and south-We,tern Railway Com-
pany are prepared to receive applications for the issue of portion; of
the Company's Perpetual 4 per Cent. Debenture Preferential Stock,
to be inscribed in the books of the Company in the names of appli-
cants, without payment of stamp duty or other like expense.
', his stock wilt be issued under the authority of the " South-
West rn Railway Capital and %Yorks Act, 1855," and of a resolu-
tion of a special general meeting of the Company held in conformity
there .‘ ith, on the 7th August, 1856.
The amount thus raised will be exclusively applied in reduction of
the debenture debt of the Company, and it will be entitled to the
same priority against the pr 'perty and income of the Company as
the debenture debt, in substitution for which it is created.
It will therefore rank before all this Company's stock and
share capital, repres,amtin; upwards of Seven Millions, on which,
in the year 1857, the aggregate amount of dividend (atter payment
of interest on all debenture) was 35°,0001. and upwards.
The fixed dividend or interest will continence from the time of
payment and will be paid half-yearly.
Forms of application may be obtained by letter, addressed to the
undersigned.

By Order of the Directors.
ALFRED MORGAN, Treasurer.
Waterloo Station, London S, March 11, 185 S.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS
for ORPHAN and NECESSITOUS CHILDREN.
At a SPECIAL MEE PING of the Board of _Management of this
Institution, held at 81, Cheapside, March le, 1858, THOMAS RO-
BERTS, Esq., in the chair, for the purpo,e of considering the most
appropriate method of testifying its high appreciation of the valu-
able labours of the late Mr. J. It. Cuffiey in regard to this Institution
and of expressing its sympathy with Mrs. Cuioey under the painful
bereavement she has experienced; it was unanimously resolved
That this Board has received the melancholy intelligence of the
death of Mr. Conley, the originator of, and first subscriber to, the
Commercial Travellers' Schoo:s, with deep sorrow and regret, and
unanimously desire to record its high appreciation of his unwearied
zeal and sacces,ful efforts in originating and carryingout the design
of the Institution from its foundation in 1845, up to the date of his
death, 20th February, 1858.
That in the unanimous opinion of this Board the subscribers at
large the entire commercial body, the orphan children, and their stir:,
viving parents and friends, are deeply indebted to the late Mr. Cuf-
fley for his unabate I zeal and anxiety for the interests of the schools
to the welfare of which the whole energies of his mind were success-
fully directed, and it may be truly said that from first to last he was
the untiring ardent friend and benefactor ot the Institution, and that
in his great anxiety for its success he allowed no difficulties to im-
pede his progress, and that even increasing years and failing health
seemed to have no power to damp his energies, or to limit the ex-
tent of his labours.
This Board also desires in all sincerity to offer to Mrs. Cuflley its
heartfelt eondience on the melancholy and sudden bereavement
with which it has pleased the Almighty Disposer of Events to visit
her.

The Board also avails itself of the opportunity of expressing on
behalf of the Institution its deep feeling of gratitude to Mrs. I. tilley
for her great liberality and continued unwearied personal exertions
for the benefit of that Institution.
That, with a view to perpetuate the untiring exertions or the fat•
Mr. J. It. euilley in connexion with these schools, contributions be
raised for the purpose of 'securing a portrait of Mr. CuMey, to be
placed in the Institution in Pinner : any sum remaining over to be
invested in the names of trustees for the purpose of founding a
scholarship, to be called the " Conley Scholarship," the boy holding
the same to be called " Tho Carney Scholar."
1 hat the foregoing resolutions be handsomely engrossed on ♦ellum,
signed by the Chairman of the Board of Management on behalf of
the Beard, and preserved to Mrs. Cuttley.
That George Moore, Esq., be requested to act as treasurer, and
Jenkin Jones, Esq., as honorary secretary, and that contributions
for the above-named object be at once received, the subscriptions to
be limited to sums not exceeding one guinea.
JENKIN JONES, Honorary Secretary.
27, Poultry, Marsh 11, 18)8.
N.B.—Subscriptions will be received by any member of the Board
Of Management, or by the Honorary Secretary.

Miles
opened.
1,05.7

RAIL WAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
OF THE FRENCH EMPEROR.

FINAL EXAMINATION OF M. BERNARD
AT BOW-STREET.
This afternoon the final examination of Simon Bernard,
who stands charged with being concerned in the late
attempfed assassination of the Emperor Napoleon on
the 14th of January last, took place at Bow-street.
The announcement made by Mr. Bodkin at the close
of the examinatio❑ on Thursday last, that he intended
to state his reason why he should call upon the magis-
trate to commit the prisoner for trial on the capital
charge of murder, accessory before the fact, caused a
very large number of persons to assemble outside the
court, and the greatest interest was manifested to learn
the termination of this long inquiry. Notwithstanding
the threat of Mr. Jardine that he would conduct the in-
vestigation with closed doors a limited numberof the public
were admitted into the body of the court, and at 3 o'clock
the proceedings were commenced in the ordinary
manner.

Sir R. Mayne, Chief Commissioner of Police, who has
attended the whole of the former examinations, occupied
his usual seat on the bench.
Mr. Bodkin appeared to conduct the prosecution on
the part of the Treasury, and Mr. Sleigh defended the
prisoner.
The intimation of Mr. Bodkin, which so seriously
affects the prisoner, has had no effect on Bernard. He
took his place at the bar with his usual coolness and self-
pouesion.
[To be continued in our last edition.]

From the :ondon Gazette of Last Night.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FRB. 26.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry John
Chetwynd, Earl Talbot, to be Captain of her Majesty's
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, in the room of
Thomas Henry, Lord Foley, resigned.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FRB. 23.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Claudius Francis
Du Pasquier, Esq., to he Apothecary in Ordinary to her
Majesty's Household (jointly with John Nussey, Esq.), in
the room of Charles Craddock, Esq., deceased.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 12.
The Qseon has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great seal, granting the dignity of a
Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto Richard Dry, Eq., late Speaker of the Legisla-
tire Council of Tasmania.

WHITEHALL, MARCri 12.
The Queen has been ple Wied to appoint the Right Hon.
Charles Bowyer Adderley to be Vice-President of the
Committee of Council on Education.

CROWN-OFFICE, XARCH 10.
31E1.113ERS RETURNED TO r-ERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
_ .

County of Salop—Southern Division.—The Right
Honourable Orlando George Charles Bridgeman, aocatnonly
called Viscount Newport, Vice-Chamberlain of her Ma-
jesty's Household.

MARCH 11.
Borough of Enniskillon—James Whiteside,
joy-square, Dublin, Esq., her Majesty's Attorney-Generalfor Ireland. of Mount

MARKET NEWS.--(This Day.)

COVENT GARDEN.
The supplies were limited, and an average business was
doing, as follows :

Filberts, per 1001 b 30s to Os
Cobs., p. 100 lbs. Os to es
Almonds, p. lb. Os Od to 00d
Walnuts, per 100 Oa to Os Od
Figs, per doz Os to Os Od
Strawberries, per
pottle
Gooseberries, per
half sieve ....Os Od to Os Od
Currants, p. h. sv. Os 01 to Os
Plums, per do. Os Od to Os 01
Greengages, per h.sv.Os to Os
Raspberries, p.potl. Od to Od
TABLES.

Shallots, per lb 6d to 8d
Horseraddish, p. b. Is6d to 4s
Parsley, per do. ...6d to 10d
Celery, per do is Od to is 6d
Beet, per doz. is 0,1 to 2a Od
Parsnips, per do. Od to Os Od
Small salad, p. pun. Od to Od
34ushrooms, p.ptl.lsOdto2s Od
Artichokes, each od to Od
Lettuces, per scr. Os Od Os Od
Endive, per scr. 2s 6d to 3s
Radishes, p.d.bun. Oa to 080,1
Tomatoes, per hsv.Os to Os Od
Walnuts per 100 ...0d to Od
Chillies, per 1001 s 6d to 2s Od
Capsicums, per 100 Os Od to Os
Rhubarb, p. b. is Od to is Gd
Asparagus, per bond 5s to Si
Seakail,perpun.2s 0,1 to 38 Od
Turnip greens, per
bush Os 0,1 to Os Od

NEVTGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Turkeys, 4s Od to 8s Od ; Poults, Os Od to Os Od; Geese,
5s Ocl to 8s Od each ; Goslings, 5s Od to 8s Od ; Duck-
lings, 2s Od to 4s Od •, tame rabbits, is 3d to 2s Od each;
wild do., 10d to is 2d ; Pigeons, Od to Is each ; large
Surrey Fowls, 6s to Os; barn-door do., 4s Od to 6s Od; Chick-
ens, 5s Od to 1s Od per couple; Capons, Os Od to Os; Hares,
3a 0,1 to 4s Od ; Grouse, Os Od to Os Od each ; Pheasants,
Os 01 to Os P
; Partridges, Os Od to Os Od • Woodcocks, 3s
6,1 to 4s ; Snipes, is 61 to 4s 0.1; Teal, 1s M to 2s; Wild
Ducks, 2s 0.1 to 3s Od; Widgeons, is 6d to 2s Od; Plovers, is
to la 2d each ; Guinea Fowls, Os to Os Od; Roasting pigs, 4s
Od to 8s Od each. Ostend fresh butter, —s to —s Od ;
English do,, is al to is 3d per lb. ; English eggs, Ts
G 1 to 8s 01; French do., 65 6d to 7s Od per 120; Leverets,
3s Od to 4s Od each.

(Prom the Times.)
The despatch of Count Walewski, dated January
20, 1858, which was the subject of the late vote in
the House of Commons, was not the only document
addressed on that day to a foreign Power by the
Government of the French Emperor. On the very
ddeayptelrisaitgnCyount Walewski signed his letter to M.
he signed another to the Minister of
France at Berne. To this latter production we
must draw the attention of our readers. We are
now told on authority that the missive of the French
Government to thia country was not insulting or
meant to be insulting, that the French Govern-
ment contented itself with pointing out a deficiency
in our institutions, and left it to our own good
sense to propose a remedy. It is allowable, how-
ever, to explain one document by another that is
contemporary, and to interpret ambiguous phrases
by a comparison with others of the same writer.
Lot us, then, observe how the statesman who de-
' scribes himself as a model of moderation and pro-
priety addresses the Swiss Republic, where, in
former days, his master found a refuge.
It is indeed a most astonishing document. Not
only is every form of courtesy thrown aside, not
only is the insolence of superior strength displayed
throughcee, not only is the opinion of other.
European States made of no account, but Switzer-
land
is in the plainest terms threatened, unless she
instantly comply with the French demands. The
Emperor's government requires the removal of all
refugees from cantons in the neighbourhood of the
French frontier, and thus addresses. its Envoy—
"ln spite of your zeal and activity in the matter
we have, up to the present time, obtained only dila-
tory and evasive replies." The refugees, belong-
ing to the Italian emigration are those of which the
French Government wishes chiefly to be rid, audit
desires that these especially shall not be allowed to
live in Geneva or the Wes-ern Cantons. It is im-
possible that any honest man, says M. Walewski,
can avoid sharing the impressions of the Emperor's
Government, and he trusts that when the French
Minister repeats his requests "he will find on the
part. of the Federal authorities a greater readiness
to do thew justice." The Government of the Ern
peror knows not how to remain indifferent to the
voice of public opinion, which "demands how it is
that neighbouring and friendly countries protect
with a complacent hospitality men who openly con
spire against the life of the Emperor.
It is then asserted that in demanding the exnnl-
sion of the refugees, bath French and Italian, from
certain parts of Switzerland, the Emperor's Go-
vernment only teak-s use of the law of legitimate
defence, and invokes the principle of the rights of
nations. This doctrine, which of course applies to
other countries than to Switz-rand, is worthy of
notice, as furnishing a key to M. Walewski'slanguage
to ourselves. Then the despatch rises into a tone
of menace. " The Federal Government will disre-
gsrd the conditions of the Helvetic neutrality, and
will deceive itself as to the nature of its privileges,
if it telieves it can invoke them in order to avoid
giving satisfaction to our grievances. To tolerate
--even by silence and inaction—that refugees
should abuse hospitality to attack a neighbouring
Government by their writings or their plots—that,
without doubt, is not to preserve neutrality. I
pray, you, then, M. le Comto, to insist upon it
that measures be taken without delay, in order that
refugees notoriously known as disposed to take part
in criminal enterprises, especially those organized
into societies in the Canton of Geneva, be deposited
far from our frontiers." This unprecedented docu-
ment concludes thus :—"fn the event of the
Helvetic Government not consulting upon the
means of satisfying our just requirements, it will
incur a grave responsibility, and will only have to
take to itself the consequences which its determi-
nation may entail."
We will sly nothing more on the intolerable
arrogance of this production, or the ingratitude
for former hospitality which it displays. But we
would, in the first place, use it as a commentary
on the despatch which was sent to us. Every one
must be convinced that the mere punishment of
convicted plotters of murder, was not all that
Count Walewski wanted. It was all that they
could induce Lord Palmerston to grant, and so he
accepted it ; but a general surveillance of refugees
and a suppression of their meetings were the real
objects of the turbul, nt znanifestatienst of himself,
his colleagues, and the military aspirants whom
they control. The matter is made plain by an
examination of this Swiss note. We have already
spoken of the demand on Austria regarding the
Viennese press ; similar instances, we find from
correspondence, have been made at Berlin, and to
the little Republic of Central Europe the whole
demands of France are unfolded. Now, it must
be remembered that international law makes no
distinction of strong and weak, that every Sove-
reign State has equal rights, and that, if France is
enitled to ask anything of Switzerland, she is
equdly entitled to ask it of our own country.
What is it, then, which France considers so much
her right that she demands it " without delay,"
without any more " dilatory or evatire replies'
demands it in injurious language, and with the
threat of invasion ? It is not merely that assassins
shall be punished, but teat refugees of no nation
shall be allowed to inhanit certain partsof the Swiss
territory. .An Italian who has never b-en the
subject of the French Emperor, or a French-
man who fled when the Republic fell, men
whose business may lie in the town of Genev,l,
who may have married there, who may have
their children at school there, who may be per-
forming all the duties of citizens in the place,
are at the demand of a foreign potentate to be
driven from their habitations, and "internes" in
seine mountain canton. Now, if this be a just de-
mand on Switzerland, it is a just demand on En-
laud. Tile French Foreign Secretary expressly tells
us that to " expel dangerous men" and to "place
them at more distant parts" are measures which
the Emperor demands on the strength of the law
of nations. Are the English people prepared toe
acquiesce in this doctrine, and to transports And,
th
London refugees to the Scotch H
inquire Highlands
ire how far
if they are not, may they not well
Count Walewski's despatch to them isto be • ter-
pretei by that which he addressed on the same
day to another State 1
But what are the acts which make a refugee dan•
gercus, which deprive him of his legitimate claim
to hospitality, which justify the Emperor in de-
manding that ho shall be deprived of his liberty of
residing where he chooses ? This is clearly stated.
If " refugees who have received an asylum on a
territory abuse that hospitality to attack a neigh-
bouring Government by their writings or their
plots," their expulsion may be legitimately de-
manded. Here, again, is a point of interest for our-
selves. We now know that to write against the Napo-
leonic Government divests the exile of his right of
asylum. Any man who has fallen in the struggle
where Imperialism triumphed must remain perfectly
passive ever after. If we allow refugees to remain
among us we must look to their newspapers and
their debating clubs ; we must decline in what
plotting against a Government consists, what words
and acts are a sufficient proof of it ; in short, we
must fulfil certain unceasing duties of police to-
wards those who are thrown among us. It is also
worth notice that in the opinion of the French
Government there exists in Switzerland, and con-
sequently in England also, a partiality for assaesnsdinta;
tion. France, it appears, demands from onen
airst the life
ftrirendoltyhecrOun"trhioews protectit that
th
men who openly conspire
neighbouring ei
complacentgah,bo uri gel
hos-
pitalityid
come to the proof of
of the Emperor." Lastlyw
Government thinks suffi-
cientguilt which the Imperial
l. M. le
Comte is requested _etxop "insist
oruproenmiotv,a,
to authorise
" notoriously known as disposed
mea-
sures be taken without delay inordteor thattake refugeespart it;
cr• 'nal enterprises " be proceeded against.
known as disposed to take part ; "
laisblYeen nothing like t us since the " moral
LtNiiiterhio°af Fouquier Tiuville's tribunal. These few
proofs"words are the key to all that M. Walewski has
written
to the neighbouring Powers, England in-
cluded. Switzerland is weak, and so she is openly
and officially threatened. England is strong, so the
menaces are put into the mouths of military
bravoes, and are disowned now that they are
found inconvenient. But the object is every
where the same,—to extort from the authorities of
neighbouring countries measures of unc eaf sroi:nirngweth-tilogeiiinr-
lance and repression against the
he,undlrlajepny m
htheerAceosi. ivu,l,sTioensteolferEattie rope h
more or less directly, even
by silence or inaction," the writing or plotting of
refugees is the crime for which Switzerland is
openly, and for which we are indirectly, threat-
ened.

ePainot but gee with pain that the Govern-
ment of a ssiverf ign with EO high a reputation for
sagacity as the French Emperor should have per-
mitted to itself the enunciation of such doctrine
and the uttering of such threats. As to the
.neu-
trality of Switzerland, it is.
appears __a matter of more e
portauca than M. Walewoliz to paaa m