The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1858

receipt side of the national revenue balance•sheet,
only remind us that we are wasting large sums
continually in imprudent purchases. Whoever
attends these sales invariably finds a considerable
quantity of goods and articles which have never
been used at all, which arc old stores only because
some change of fashion—something frequently
merely affecting appearance—has antiquated them
all.

LATEST NEWS.

FRANCE AND PORTUGAL.

LISBON, FRIDAY, 4 P.M.
It is asserted that our Government has acceded
,o the demands of France.

We are not about, however, to take up the motto
just now that economy is our best defence. Suffice
it, that all will agree in the desirableness of having

The following telegrams were received at Mr.

Reuter's office :

all our resources in the most available state ; so,

BERLIN, OCT. 22, EVENING.

that in the event of a sudden war, we might be

able to make use of them at the shortest notice.

The First Chamber, in its sitting of this day, has
rejected by 80 votes against 76, a motion made by
Count Arnim-Boitzenburg, Prof. Stahl, Zander,
and their supporters, to send an address to the
King and the Prince Regent.

For t his purpose, as it strikes us, we might have

one element of defensive warfare in a much more

advanced state by very simple means. We refer to
skill in marksmanship. The rifle is working quite
as great an alteration in the character of our in-
fantry as steam in that of our navy. It is making
such rapid progress in both the accuracy and range
or the weapon, that it is hardly possible to say
what will be its deadly power in the course of a
In proportion, however, to the neces-

BERLIN, FRIDAY EVENING.

In the sitting of the Select Committee of both
Chambers, the resolution has been accepted to
recommend to both Chambers the necessity of re-
cognising the Regency.

The report of the committee will be printed and
delivered to the members to-day.

Monday next there will be a united sitting of
both Chambers.

AMERICA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Hudson steamer, belonging to the North
German Lloyd's, Captain G. Wenke, which left
New York on the afternoon of the 9th, put in here
this morning to coal, and will proceed on to Bremen
immediately.
She has 120 passengers and 750 tons, of cargo.

Her news is anticipated by the City of Wash.

ington.

She had strong easterly gales during the voyage.
The Hudson spoke the British brig Eagle, in lat.
47 47 N., long. 44 57 W., bound E., on the 15th
inst. ; and off Start Point, on the 22d, the Bremen
barque Virginia, bound E.—all well.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Malta, from Alexandria, passed Hurst at 9.50.
She brings the heavy portion of the Bombay
mail.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

It appears that the report of the assassination of
the consuls at Tetuan was disseminated extensively
at Tangiers, Ceuta, Melilla, and in other places on
the coast of Barbary, and even at Gibraltar. The
way in which it reached Paris seems to be this :
The Spanish Governor of Ceuta, on hearing it, sent
a small vessel to the little French port of Nemours
to announce the rumour. The Military com-
mander there transmitted the news to the authori-
ties at Tlemcen, and from that place it was sent
to Oran, from Oran to Algiers, and from Algiers,
by General MacMahon, to Paris. What gave rise
to the rumour was that two Italians were mur-
'tiered near Tetuan for the sake of robbery. It was
M. de Castillon, consul-general of France, who
ascertained the falsity of the rumour by going to
Tetuan. The Minister of Marine, on receiving the
news, made preparations for fitting out a number
of gunboats for Tetuan, but before appointing the
commander he resolved to await details.

" The Marquis de Turgot, who will shortly
set out for Berne, where he has been appointed
Minister, will," says the Paris correspondent
of the Nord; "receive very energetic instructions
relative to the refusal of the canton of. Geneva to
execute the orders of the Federal Government
relative to the refugees."
- - -

The Nord has commenced the publication of the
protocols of the Conference of Paris on the Danu-
bian Principalities ; but after the details of the
proceedings which were given whilst the Con-
ference was sitting, and the publication of the
convention agreed to, these documents possess but
little interest. _ _

BOURSE, Oct. 22.—The market has been rather
unsettled to-day. Threes, after having been done
at 73f., 10c. and 72f. 90c., are now at 73f. ; Mo-
bilier varied from 890 f. to 905 f. ; Austrian, 657 f.
50c. to 660 f. ; Orleans, 1,347 f. 50c. to 1,3501. ;
Lyons, 8701. to 872 f. 50c. ; Southern, 565 f. to
567 f. 50c. ; and Eastern, 720 f. to 722 f. 50c. The
market continued heavy to the close, when the
following were the quotations

4 per Cents. 95 ‘l,. Credit Foncier 650
1.• • •
Do. end month • . 9.5 75 Belgian 41 . _
3 per Cent 5....... 72 85 Piedmontese (5) 93
Do. end month.... 72 95 Roman 93 50
Bank Shares...... 3125 Austrian
Credit Mobilier '.. 895
Home
Threes
42 25
Do. Account ..... -- --liome Debt

British tars) spread the news of his arrival
among the English mechanics on the railroad
works. The whole city, ever agog to see new
faces, had an opportunity of admiring the beauty
and yacht costume of the bride and the horseman-
ship of the bridegroom. His lordship was fortunate
in finding in the partner of one of the principal
banking houses a man after his own tastes, and
under his auspices went over the Queen's mag-
nificent stables and the horse barracks. He was
accompanied to the latter by the Inspector of
Cavalry, General Zabala. Lady Cardigan, who
showed even a greater degree of veterinary lore
than his Lordship, accompanied her husband to
the barracks, raised the horses' legs to examine
the method of shoeing practised here, and criti-
cised the whole concern with great freedom, to
the great amusement of some of the officers who
were as familiar with the language of Shakspeare
as herself. His lordship was struck with the
beauty of the cavalry carbine, and has taken one
to show the Duke of Cambridge. He did not
seem to profess any great admiration of the horses,
which, though in good condition, were not of a
kind to remind him of those which furnished the
charge at Balaklava, but they are as patient of
hunger and thirst and as enduring of hardship and
fatigue as their swarthy riders. A feeling of great
disappointment was experienced in military circles
at the English general's going away so soon."

A letter from Belgrade of the 14th states that
the resignation offered by the Ministry to the
Prince of Servia had been accepted, but that it had
not been possible to form a new Cabinet, no senator
being willing to resign his right of voting in the
Senate by becoming a Minister, and there being
no other person of sufficient political notoriety to
name. The Prince had requested M. de Gara-
chanin to resume the Presidency of the Council,
but the latter had declined.

Prince de Lieven, adjutant of the Emperor of
Russia, arrived at Vienna on the 17th on his way
to Italy. He is not believed to be charged with
any official mission.

The Opinione of Turin announces the arrival of
the Grand Duchess Helena of Russia and her con-
sort, the Prince of Mecklenburg, at Genoa. It adds
that they passed through Coira, in order to avoid
the Austrian States.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.

The interesting ceremony of launching this magnificent
specimen of naval architecture took place this day in the
presence of a very large assemblage. In order to accom-
modate the immense number of visitors who usually at-
tend Woolwich Dockyard whenever an event of such pecu-
liar interest to Englishmen takes place, great preparations
had been made, under the able directions of the Commo-
dore Superintendent, and the result was most satisfactory.
The plan usually adopted to enable the visitors to
witness a launch was to erect booths on both sides
of the building shed, but on the present occasion
a platform was erected at the head of the noble
vessel, sufficient for the accommodation of nearly a
thousand persons, admission to which was only to be had
by ticket. In order to afford those who were not so fortu-
nate as to procure the " little bits of pasteboard," as the
tickets-were called, a large space was set apart, under the
bow of the ship, where an excellent view was to be obtained.
On the port side of the Edgar another gallery was erected
for the " special" visitors—in the upper seats of which
the band of the Royal Marines were placed.
Until a short time before the launch the arrival of visitors
continued, and at one o'clock the dockyard, the opposite
bank of the river, and the river itself presented a scene of
the greatest animation. Colour flying, bands playing, and
sailors cheering, all combined to produce a coup d'ceil of
great magnificence.
Shortly before two o'clock the excitement reached its cul-
minating point, on its being known that operations for
launching had commenced. The ceremony of christening
having been gone through, -the dog-shores were knocked
away, and the " good ship. Edgar" glided into the Thames
amidst the cheers of the spectators. _ _

About noon to•day the Liverpool, New York, and
Philadelphia grew steam-ship City of Washing-
ton, Capt. Petrie, arrived in the Mersey with the
United States mails. The City of Washington left
New York at noon on the 9th, and has brought
besides the mails 230 cabin and 75 steerage passen-
gers, and 591,242 dollars in specie on freight.
On the 12th inst. the City of Washington passed
a steamer bound west, supposed to be the Africa.
The British war-steamer Valorous, which at-
tended the Agamemnon while laying the Atlantic
cable, is hourly expected at New York, she being
detained to convey Sir William Gore Ouseley to
Central America, where he goes to attend to duties
connected with his mission.

The Edgar was laid down immediately after the launch
of the Agamemnon from the same slip, in 1854, and has been
constructed under the superintendence of Mr. W. M. Rice,
master shipwright, and Mr. J. P. Peake, assistant master
shipwright at this yard. Her armament of 91 guns is as
Mows :—On the upper deck—one 68-pounder pivot gun,
95 cwt.. and 10 feet long; 22 32-pounders, 45 cwt., 9 feet
6 inch guns. On the main deck-34 32-pounders, 58 cwt
9 feet 6 inch guns ; and on the lower deck-34 8-pounders,
45 cwt., 9 feet guns. Her burden in tons is 3,004, and her
crew will consist of 800 men. The following are her dimen-

The Secretary of State has notified the New
Granadian Minister of the determination of the
United States Government not to permit the ob-
struction of the Isthmus route to the Pacific on any
consideration, neither will it allow of tonnage dues
or a tax on the transportation of passengers and
mails ; and that in pursuance of this resolution
vessels of war have been ordered to the Isthmus.
The right of New Granada to refuse the United
States Government a naval rendezvous and coal-
ing station in the Bay of Panama is conceded by
Mr. Cass, but he considers such a refusal as
impolitic and illiberal ; more especially as Spain
at Mahon, and Sardinia at Spezzia, had granted
siwllar privileges. The rumour that the United
SMtes were negotiating a secret treaty with Russia
is said to be without foundation.

Mr. Reed, Minister to China, says in his official
despatches, received at Washington on the Bth,
that after he signed the treaty he made a :provi-
sional arrangement with the Commissioner for the
readjustment of the claims_ of American citizens
arising out of the difficulties at Canton, by which
portions of the duties at Shanghai, Foo-Chow, and
Canton are to be appropriated to that end. He
intended to visit during the summer months such
of the ports of Japan as might be accessible, and
return to the United States by way of Bombay in
November or December next.

Judge Bowlin, Commissioner to Paraguay, and
Commander Page, captain of the fleet on the Para-
guay expedition, left Washington on the afternoon
of the ith for New York. Commodore Shubrick
would receive his instructions immediately, and it
was expected he would sail in the Sabine, carrying
the commission, by the 13th.
The following is the jast New York news respec
ing the Atlantic cable :

" Trinity Bay, Oct. 8, 1858.
"Peter Cooper, Esq., New York.
" There has been no change whatever in the electrica
indications. "Da SAUTY.

At Savannah, on the 7th, the interments were
only three, including one from yellow fever.
An extraordinary case of counterfeiting the bills
of the Turkish Bank has been discovered at New
York. A Mrs. Sevesti arrived at Syra a shoit time
since, on her way from Liverpool to Constantinople.
Upon the examination of her trunks by the officer
of the customs, it was ascertained that they had
false bottoms, between which were concealed spuri-
ous notes on the Turkish Bank to an immense value.
Steps were then taken to find out where the bills
were printed, and the investigation finally resulted
in tracing their manufacture to New York. The
case was disposed of on the Bth. Mr. Harrison,
who printed the bills for Madame Sevesti, was
honourably discharged after he had made his ex-
planation of the facts of the case. Having no know-
ledge of the Turkish language, he supposed the
matter he printed to be Merely labels with Chinese
characters upon them, and to be used in Eastern
commerce. The plates and " caimes" were delivered
up to the proper authorities by Mr. Harrison.
At Waterbury, Vermont, a fire broke out on the
Bth, in the store of Wells and Arms, which was
destroyed, together with five stores, the hotel and
stable, the town-hall, the building occupied by the
bank, a dwelling-house and four barns. A large
quantity of flour was also consumed. Some of the
sufferers saved a portion of their stock and furni-
ture. Loss estimated at 25,000 dols. ; insured for
12,000 dols.
Snow has,fallen in several portions of the Union.
At Syracuse there was a slight fall on the Bth. At
Hornell's-vill, New York, on the previous night,
the ground was covered with snow to the depth of
three inches. The storm, commencing at the lakes,
extended east along the Erie Railroad as far as the
Great Bend, and snow fell at almost all the inter-
mediate places.
Advices from Oswego of the Bth state that a
strong gale of wind sprung up the-previous after-
noon, and a heavy sea was rolling all night and
that morning. The schooner Osprey, of Buffalo,
with a cargo of wheat from Racine, was driven
against the east pier, carrying away her spars, and
sank immediately. The captain's wife and child
and the mate were washed overboard and drowned.
Several vessels arrived the previous night, and
on the Bth, more or less damaged, and great fears
are entertained for the safety of those now out.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, OCT. 9.
There is a little more inquiry for money among business
men, and the regular offerings at the leading banks
show a slight increase, although without any visible
effect upon the rate of int'rest. On call, capital is
still very abundant, and borrowers whose good faith
and security are undoubted receive daily more offers of
money at even very low rates than they care to employ.
We quote—Loans on call, stock securities, 3c. to 4c. per
annum ; ditto, other good securities, 4c. to 6c. ; prime en-
dorsed bills, 60 to 90 days, 4c. to sc. ; ditto, four to six
months, 41c. to 6e. ; first class single signature, ss. to 7c. ;
other good bills, 7c. to Bc.; names less known, Bc. to 10c.
Foreign exchange is moderately active, and is more freely
offered, probablyin view of the increased business 171 cotton.
Bills at 60 days on London are quoted at 1091- to 109,1 for
commercial, lon to 110 for bankers, the latter an extreme
The stock market is again buoyant to-day for nearly
everything on the list except Pacific Mail S. S. stock and
Panama, both of which have experienced a further decline;
the former closing at the First Board at 1001 against 1021
last evening, and the latter at 1164 against 1181 last even-
ing, the decline owing to the premature reports in circula-
tion in regard to the formation of a new line via Nicaragua,
by means of the Collins' boats. New York Central Stock
advanced 1 ; Erie, I; Reading, I ; Michigan Southern,
guaranteed stock, ; Galena, ; Toledo,. , r
t and Rock
Island, I. At the Secondßoard, there was a
her gene-
ral improvement and unusual activity. Even Pacific Mail
recovered the morning decline, closing at 102.

THE YIELD OF GOLD IN AUSTRALIA.—From the
first discovery of the gold-fields in Victoria up to the end
of last year, the government escorts had brought down to
Melbourne 11,457,472 ounces of gold the value of which is
estimated at £45,830,000. During the above period the
total amount of revenue derived from the gold-fields, in-
clusive of the export duty, was nearly three millions
sterling, out of which about 11,583,000, had been expended
in making and repairing
_roads from Melbourne to the
various gold-fields.

LAUNCH OF THE EDGAR, 91, SCREW-FRIGATE I others waited about twenty yards off. They then went
AT WOOLWICH, THIS DAY. from the square into Dover-stre cA, and he there saw two of
the three go up to a door. Seein g a constable he spoke to
him and then went up and stopp, Id them and asked Lee
what he was doing about there ? He made no reply, but
let fall from his side pocket to the ground a " jemmy."
Gigg than ran away, but was stopped about 200 yards off
by a constable: On being taken to the station and searched
on Lee was found a piece of wax taper, some matches, and
a knife. He had heard that morning that Lee was a ticket-
of-leave man.
Lee denied all knowledge of the other prisoner, and said
he never saw him till brought to the station.
Gordon said he was confident about them both.
Mr. Bingham said perhaps Lee would deny having the
crowbar ?
Lee said he knew nothing about it. •
Remanded for a weak.

THAMES.

THE CASE OF THE SQLDIER'S WIDOW.—Mr. Selfe, on
taking his seat on the bench, was waited upon by Captain
Jones, Mr. W. F. Jackson, and Mr. J. Allardyce, a depu-
tation from the " Philanthropic Society, Mile-end, for the
Temporary Relief of the t.-Ack and Necessitous Manufac-
turing and Labouring Poor in London and its Vicinity,"
for the purpose of presenting a sovereign to the magistrate
for the relief of Ellen Readdy, the widow of a soldier killed
in India, who was inveigled i.lto a marriage by a scoundrel
named Samuel Spurling, a recraiting sergeant, who ill used
her on the day after the wedding, and abandoned
her, taking with him ten pounds he received on
the day of his marriage *on the committee o f
the Indian Mutiny Relief Fund, who had hitherto allowed
the widow ss. per week, besides which she was allowed
2s. 6d. per week from Lord Clive's Fund. It has been,
since ascertained that Spurling has a wife living in India,
and he has lost his situation on the rnruiting staff and
been stripped of his uniform. The magistrate, who has
taken a warm interest in the case, and thrice relieved the
ill-used woman from the poor-box fu: ad, has also recom-
mended the widow to the favourable ,consideration of the
relief fund.

This morning Mr. Selfe said he was -very happy to state
that he had received a letter, of whic; k the following is a
copy :

"Fund for the Relief of the Sufferers by the Mutiny in

India-27, Cannon-street, E.C., London , 22d Oct., 1858.
Sir,—ln continuation of my letter of the 18th inst., I have
the honour to inform you that, having received certificates
of character and of the respectability of Ellen Readdy, I
have been authorised to replace her na me upon the books
of the fund. She will receive for the present 2s. 6d. per
week until the £lO granted her in Jul?' last has been liqui-
dated from the remaining moiety of liier allowance, after
which she will receive her former pens ion of 6s. per week.
—Yours faithfully, G. B. TREMENHEE ItE, Major-General,

Hon. Sec.—To H. J. Selfe, Esq., Than les Police Court."
Mr. Selfe (addressing our reporter) mid he had received
£5 10s. this morning for the relief of Mrs. Spurling,
and he was much obliged to the Committee of the
Indian Mutiny Relief Fund for t heir merciful con-
sideration of the case. He was also much obliged to the
gentlemen of the Philanthropic Society., but as Mrs. Spur-
ling had been placed in her former position, with the excep-
tion of the pension from Lord Clive's, fund, and as there
was a tolerably large sum in his posse Ssion for her use, he
would not deprive the excellent society, with which the de-
putation was connected of any portion. of its funds, more
particularly as Mrs. Readdy's case did not come exactly
within the scope of its operations.
The deputation then withdrew.