The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-17 00:00:00

TIM

belonging to wealthy and aristocratic families,
who could bring strong influence to bear at head`
quarters; and that within the last tmo years it has
averaged half a million per annum. Of that amount
a certain proportion was unquestionably merited.
All the promotions from the ranks had been fairly
earned, and many had claims, either through
superior qualifications displayed at the examina-
tions, or from the services °a mount
fatherseven .
to Bua
t
even supposing that these a
moiety of the whole, there would be half a million
literally given away, within two years, without
any possible reason, abstracted from the pockets
of the heavily burdened tax-payers, to gratify per-
sons
who had no possible claim to such a favour
or gratuity, as it may properly be designated.
It is time that this should be changed—that
the promotions should be made with or without
purchase--that they should really be given to
persons possessing the requisite qualifications,
proved by competitive examinations or otherwise,
as may be decided, or that all but the children
of gallant officers, or other distinguished public
servants, should be.compelled to pay the stipu-

&TEST NEWS.

greater than those of railways in France or Ger-
many. Thus, in France, in 1806, the receipts per
per day per kilometre were 132 fr., and in 1857,
124 fr. ; in Germany, 87fr. in 1856, and 89fr. in
1857 ; whilst the line of Moscow produced 129 fr.
in 1856, and 132 fr. in 1857. It must, however, be
remembered that in Russia these figures represent
the produce of a single railway uniting two great
capitals, whilst in France they are an average of all
the railways, amongst which necessarily are some
less advantageous than others. Nor must it be
forgotten that the comparison is of gross receipts,
and that if the nett receipts were taken into ac-
count it would be much less advantageous to us ;
in fact, it is notoi ions that the receipts of the Mos-
cow line are hardly sufficient to cover the expense,
to say nothing of interest on the capital."
A letter from Stockholm of the Bth says :
" According to accounts from Hammerfest, the last
Norwegian port at the entrance to the White Sea,
several Russian vessels of war have passed on their
way to Archangel, which the Emperor Alex-
ander is al-,out to visit. It is known that
in compliance with the recommendations
of his brother, the Grand Duke Constantine,
the Emperor has resolved to give a large develop-
ment to the dockyards of the White Sea. Last
year four vessels were constructed there ; this year
six vessels, all screws, are being built there ; and
it is hoped that before the closing of the navigation
they can be sent on some distant expedition. From
the new arrangements now being made at Arch-
angel, not only small vessels but ships of the line
and frigates can henceforth be built there."

AMERICA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING.
The screw steam-ship City of Washington has
arrived with New York ad vices to the sth instant,
and $98,590 in specie.
From the 6th to the 9th inst. she experienced
hazy weather and dense fog. On the latter day
she passed an iceberg ; on the 4th signalled the
Hamburg barque Alliance, steering south ; and on
the 15th the ship Charles Holmes, steering west.
A bill for placing the military and naval forces,
and 10,000,000 dollars, with 50,000 volunteers, at
the disposal of the President, to resist the preten-
sions of Great Britain, and authorise him to send
a special ambassador to England if necessary, had
been introduced in the Senate.
The House of Representatives by a large majo-
rity had suspended the rules and received a propo-
sition, which it referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations, requiring the President to issue
orders for the arrest of the offenders connected
with the act, of the British cruisers.
Permission had been refused to introduce a Bill
authorizing the construction of 10 propeller sloops
of war, &c. Notice of an amendment increasing
;he number to 30 had been given.
Both Houses of Congress had resolved to extend
the session.
The New Orleans resolution had ended in the
triumph of the Vigilance Committee. 1,000 men
had been appointed to maintain order and protect
the polls on the day of election, the 7th.
Despatches somewhat confirmatory of Governor
Cumming's expulsion from the Mormon capital had
been received.
Advices from Havannah to the 30th ult. report
sugar rather active, and prices well sustained.
Stock, Matansas included, 290,000 boxes ; freights
duller and declining ; exchange on London 11/ to
to 111 pm.
New York money-market easy, but trade unu-
sually dull. Prime paper 4to 6 per cent., and 3.
to 4 per cent. on call. Sterling exchange easier,
owing to a large supply of Southern and Canada
bills. London, 9to9a ; France, sf. 12ic. to sf.
15c.; Hamburg, 363/410 362.
i.Stock market irregular, and not quite so firm,
closed as follows :—United States Sixes, 1867,
81.15 ; Ohio Sixes, 1886, 104 ; Kentucky Sixes,
1031 ; Indiana Fives, 83 ; Pennsylvania Fives,
89 ; Virginia Sixes, 93i ; California Sevens, 1870,
853 ; Georgia Sixes, 100 ; North Carolina Sixes,
95 ; Missouri Sixes, 841 ; Louisiana Sixes, 92 ;
Tennessee Sixes, 9/. Miscellaneous Securities.—
Erie Railroad Sevens, 1859, 92 ; Erie Bonds, 1875,
44 ; Erie Convertibles, 1871, 403/4 ; Hudson River
Railroad, first mortgage, 1013/4 ; Panama Railroad
Bonds, 100 ; Illinois Central Sevens, 871 ; New
' York Cextral Sixes, 89; Canton Company's Shares,
[ 191 ; Pennsylvania Coal, 72 ; Cumberland Coal,
15 ; Delaware and Hudson Canal, 108 ; Lacrosse
Land Grants, 321 ; Pacific Mail Steam-ship, 703/4.
Railway Shares—New York Central, 84/ ; New
York and Erie, 191- ; Haarlem, 11/ ; Reading, 441 ;
Hudson, 28; ; Michigan Central, 60 ; Michigan
Southern, 22i , Panama, 108 k ; Baltimore and
Ohio, 58 ; Illinois Central, 89 ; Cleveland and
Toledo, 35; ; Chicago and R. 1., '74i; Milwaukie
and Mississippi, 26 ; Galena and Chicago, 87± ;
Lacrosse, 63/4.
Cotton dull, prices ic. to /c. lower, and closed
nominally ; State and Western flour unchanged ;
Canada declined about 5c., closing steady at the
re auction ; Southern dull ; corn meal steady ; wheat
buoyant for good qualities of red, but dull for in-
ferior, business mainly for export ; barley dull
and nominal ; corn in fair demand ; oats dull.
Mess pork 25c. to 50c. lower, and dull ; beef dull ;
quotations for all-descriptions nominal ; other pro-
visions ditto. Lard steady, demand moderate.
Crude turpentine advanced to it. 3 75c. per 280 lbs.,
with sales ; stock, a few hundred barrels. Spirits
also advanced. Common resin, in the absence of
arrivals, higher for lots on the spot ; white and
pale declining. Tar very dull. Sugar buoyan'
Freights lower.

lated price I
Lord BURGHLEY has given notice that he wi
ask a question on the subject, the answer to which
will be eagerly looked for. It has, however, been
already twice postponed, and it is possible that it
may be altogether withdrawn. If, however,
the Noble Lord should not satisfy the public
expectation, there will be many others
ready and willing to occupy the posi-
tion he had abdicated, and to press for a
straightforward response to a direct and simple
interrogatory. The Commander-in-Chief must
surely have the power to dispose of these new
commissions for the public benefit ; and, if so, it
was an imperative duty to exercise that power,
and thus to provide a fund which might partially
liquidate the additional expenses caused by the
recent augmentations.
Whatever may be the result, it would be well
that some recognised course should be adopted.
If purchase is to be retained, let it be universal,
save for irresistible claims; or, better still, let it be
universally abolished, and the nation, for ever,
relinquish such a questionable source of revenue.

What was once " the silver winding Thames,
a forcing itself, in a very unpleasant manner, on
the public attention. It has gradually become
the cloaca maxima of the British metropolis—
a source of pestilence and death to our fellom -
citiuens, whose avocations subject them to the
refined stenches and unsavoury smells developed
by the extraordinary heat of the weather. That
which with judicious management might be ren-
dered a source of national wealth, increasing the
fertility, and doubling the produce of the soil, is
not merely wasted, but is rendered a deleterious
agent, poisoning the atmosphere, and wafting
disease to all classes, rich and poor ! And yet
the required improvements would fully pay their
own expenses. Were we to look at the ques-
tion merely as one of .£ e. d., as a mode
of obtaining a first rate manure—without resort-
ing to the Guano Islands—and thus making two
blades of grass, or ears of corn grow, when one
only could previously be obtained, the matter
should be carried out. It would give the 5 per
cent., so dear to the hearts of capitalists, be a
very good safe investment for superfluous funds,
and enable the shareholders to exult the patri-
i otic character of their undertaking.
But it possesses higher claims than that of a
mere speculative project. There is an abominable
nuisance to be abated. A nuisance disgraceful
to the British Empire, and which has lad to the
sacrifice of many valuable lives. A proper em-
bankment would exclude the reeking mud that
swelters in the sun, give valuable sites for building,
purposes, and materially add to the beauty and
salubrity of the metropolis. The interception of the
sewage material, would not only purify the river
from the horrible polution to which it is sub-
jected, which renders the water, once most valu-
able for sea-going vessels and breweries, a horrible
dose, but would preserve a vast quantity of
manure, the utility whereof would be recognised
by every farmer throughout the length and breadth
of the land, and which would increase the rental
of every landowner and the profits of every agri-
culturist in the metropolitan counties.
Many remedies have been suggested—any of
of which would be a vast improvement on the
present state of affairs. We shall not, at present,
enter on a consideration of the advantages that
may result from the rival projects, but surely
nothing could more properly attract the legislative
, attention, and whatever course was decided on
should be forthwith commenced. "If 'twere done
well, 'twere well, it were done quickly."

CHARLESTON, JUNE 3.
Cotton quiet. Sales 1,000 bales, at extremes of
91c. to 12fic.
The Ocean Monarch, City of Brooklyn, Endy-
miou, Matilda, and Kathleen, hence ; Beaver,
from Glasgow ; Cornelius Grinnell, from London
and Portsmouth ; Lane, from Falmouth ; Ama-
ranth, from Rotterdam ; Adam Lodge, from New-
castle—at New York.
The Legal, hence, and Ann L incoln, from Ant-
werp, at Havannah.
The T. B. Wales, from Bremen, at Baltimore.
The Rescue, from Troon, at Providence.
The Elizabeth Hamilton, which arrived at New
Orleans, reports that on the 26th ult. saw the hull
of a large ship ashore on Minerva Shoal, north
side of Cuba. On the 17th saw a ship, apparently
English, ashore at Sagua La Grande. The three
lower masts standing.
The Golden Star hence, at New Orleans ; Charles
Sprague, from Havre, for Mobile ; Schiller,
from Baltimore, for Bremen, which was re-
ported ashore at James Point, was hauled off Ist
inst. and proceedel. Circe, which sailed from
Mobile for Toulon, returned leaky with eight feet
of water in her hold.

The screw steamer North American has also ar-
rived, with advices from Quebec to the sth instant.
They are unimportant.
With the exception of oak, large and good quali-
ties of which were scarce, the timber trade was in-
active ; a few rafts of inferior and ordinary quality
had arrived. Staves shipping largely. Small
parcels of all pipes, 501. to 521. 10s.
Freights to London, 31. 10s. to 41. ; to Liver-
pool, 225. 6d. to 235.
The North American passed the following vessels
in the St. Lawrence, on the sth :—Off St. Law-
rence Point, Alcyone, bound in ; Taglioni, off
Goose Island, bound in ; Chieftain, and West-
moreland, off Traverse, bound down ; Gipsy
Queen, off Kamourasca, bound in ; Egeria, off
Cacona, bound down ; and Meteor, off Green
Island, born l in.
The Marion, BallentinP, hence, at Montreal.
The Arthur, hence, at Quebec, after being ashore
at Point Original.

RETURN of the COURT to BUCKINGHAM
PALACE.

Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort left Stoneleigh Abbey at one o'clock p.m.
yesterday, for Warwick Castle, to honour the Earl and
Countess of Warwick with a visit. Luncheon was
served at the Castle to the royal party.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness drove, between
4 and 5 o'clock through the town of Leamington, and
then travelled by a special train on the Great Western
Railway to the Paddington terminus, from whence her
Majesty proceeded to Buckingham Palace, escorted by
a detachment of 11th Hussars.
The Queen and Prince arrived at the Palaca at 20
minutes before eight o'clock, attended by the Duchess
Of Atholl, Hon. Horatia Stopford, Earl Delawarr, the
Marquis of Abercoro, Col. the Hon. Sir Charles B.
Phipps, Major-Gen. Bouverie, and Col. F. H. Seymour.
Mr. Secretary Walpole attended the Queen to L,indon.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort were received
at Buckingham Palace by Viscount Newport, Lord G.
Lennox, Lord Colville, and Major-Gen. Berkeley
Drummond. _ .

CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 14.

Lord Crofton and Major-Gen. Berkeley Drummond
have succeeded Lord Byron and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore,
as the Lord and Groom in waiting to the Queen.

The insurrection of Candia has been appeased:'
The insurgents 'bade a formal statement of their
grievances to the Turkish commissioners, and then
withdrew to their homes.

HAMBURG, JUNE 15.

The result of the elections at Copenhagen gives
five Ministerial deputies, and four to the Oppo-

sition.

HAMBURG, JUNE 16.

The result of the elections in the Danish pro-
vinces is entirely favourable to the national
Liberal party, who wish to maintain existing con-
stitutions. The party of the peasants has mot
with a decided defeat.

RUSSIA.
A letter from St. Petersburg of the 76, in the
Nord, says :
"I am able to 'state that a t' way of commerce
hetwken Maisie and Belgium has been agreed to
daily:el r
eTmhae i
idi
se pfia
xr teadl ref
for
rf
teeih e
and is to be signed in the course o two or thie't
24itintt .13 e rTo
hr e f
Empress
rm Ap
rrecshs :
it is slid, will only accompany his Majesty as far
as Tikhvine, a town situated iu the government
of Novogorud, and in great renown as a place of
pilgrimage. It is believed that on his return the
Emperor will pass some time at Warsaw. The
consecral ion of the Cathedral of St. Isaac is to take
place here on the 11th with considerable pomp,
that day being bath the fete day of St. Isaac, the
Dalmatian, and the anniversary of the birth of
Peter the Great. Tire Czar Peter was the first to
build a church to St. Isaac, and since his time it
has been demolished and reouilt several times.
w
At last the present edifice as raised, and in spite
of some imperfections, it is really a noble edifice.
Several of our journals draw attention to the fact
that the gross receipts of the Moscow railway are

LONDON, THURSDAY EV EiNINIG, JUNE 17, 859.
.111 TUE GliE-

TEE RISING 41fS IN TEE
ISLAND OF CANDIA.

We have dates from this island, through Malta,
to the Ist of June, at which time matters threat-
ened a very serious turn ; but consular despatches
are said to have leached Admiral Lord Lyons of
one or two days' later date, announcing that,

through the activity of the Ottoman Government
in responding to the demands for considerable re-
inforcements from various points of Turkey, made
by Vely Pasha, the insurrection may be looked
upon as entirely suppressed and put down. On
this occasion Vely Pasha, a Cretan by birth, and
enjoying a well-earned popularity, has shown him-
self as discreet as he is known to be brave, and
only the loss of one or two lives has to be de-
plored, although at one time the fate of Scio, at
the commencement of the Greek revolution,
seemed to threaten the Ottoman population.
Three proclamations of the Governor-General
and one of the Metropolitan, although couched
in the most conciliatory tone and spirit, failed in
restoring order, and, seeing this, the population
not only of the town of Canea, but likewise of
that of Candia, volunteered to assist the regular
armed force against the insurgents, who seem to
have been led on to the outbreak by one or more
influential Greeks, possibiy at the instigation of
emissaries from a Powerful Northern Power, ever
ready to raise questions in the East to give her
a chance of playing out that deep game which has
been ever uppermost in the thoughts of her So-
vereigns, even to the hour of their last breath.
On the 29th of May two Greeks, without the
least provocation, attacked an unoffending Moslem
and mortally wounded him, justly incensed at
which the Ottoman population rose en masse, and
proceeding to the palace of the Caimacan Bey
clamorously demanded arms to revenge themselves
upon the Greeks. Bedrihan Pasha, however, suc-
ceeded after a while in calming the infuriated
Ottomans, who can scarcely show themselves be-
yond the protection of the authorities in the towns,
for the mountain passes are studded with armed
Greeks, who at Nerocuro are said to have mus-
tered so strong as to dictate to the authorities a 10
days' armistice. On the 29th and 30th of May a
regiment of carbineers, another of infantry, with a
body of artillery, bringing mountain ordnance and
ammunition, arrived at Canea in the Kars and
Silistria steamers, from Constantinople, to act
under Ali Pasha against the insurgents, and on the
last-mentioned day 500 Bashi-Bazouks, or irregular
troops, arrived from Salonica in another steamer,
the Umai Tefik, which immediately after landing
them returned for 500 Albanians. The garrison
of Canea already numbered 6,000 regulars and
irregulars, but with the reinforcements on the way
would be brought up to 12,000. A species of
authority has been established by the insurgents
on the mountains, whence emissaries have been
despatched to the plains and rural districts to for-
cibly enlist the peasantry to join the standard of
revolt. A cave or dry well in one of the mountain
passes is said to have been converted into a sub-
terraneous dungeon for the refractory, who, if
caught acting treacherously, are, with any other
Ottomans that may be taken fighting against the
insurgent Greeks, to be branded 'in the forehead
with the words " Anti-Christo." In the town of
Candia the artillery has been turned and planted
so as to bear upon the town, which has had the
effect of causing some 1,400 out of 1,500 Greeks
and other Christian families, fearing a general mas-
sacre, to flee—some to the mountains and interior,
others have embarked in ships and small craft, with
scarcely means of subsistence and no predetermined
destination. The shops are closed, trade completely
suspended, and universal distress and misery pre-
vail. An Ottoman brig of war is cruising in the
offing, and the Kars, Silistria, Vasilei, Tidjaret,
and Sheri Hair steamers are in the arbour of
Canea, but only one foreign ship of war is to be
seen, the Solon, French steamer.

FENCE.