The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMfiER 11, 1858.

must be confessed that his not yieldin,g a jot of his

peace crotchet, on account of its unpopularity, makes
it very certain that he' will not yield to blandish-
ments in high quarters, when he has undertaken a
confessedly popular cause.
Mr. BRIGHT does not enter upon his task as one of
the easiest. He is fully aware of difficulties with-
out and of difficulties within the House of Com-
mons. He quite sees that what is a hard task for a
Minister with a pledged majority at his back, and
the patronage of office in his hands, must be a task
indeed, for an independent member—one so little
pliant by nature as himself, and so liable to be
thwarted by the diverse opinions of gentlemen who
have as good a right to act independently as him-
self, and by the less worthy opposition of others who
may yield to petty envy or jealousy. Mr. BRIGHT,
as at Birmingham, is disposed to a measure Of com-
promise rather than of permanency. He thinks that
extreme Radicals, like himself, ought to consent to
some modification of their demands for the comfort
of the nervous and the propitiation of the hostile.
No one will attribute this in JOHN BRIGHT to any
unworthy motive. It is but too well known that
he would prefer to be as pugnacious for his own
views ou the suffrage as he is for peace-at-any-
price. We accept it, therefore, rather as an
evidence of his intention to put his bill in a shape
in 'which it can be carried. A sort of semi-official
position in this matter has made Mr. BRIGHT him-
self half a moderate already.

But what effect will the announcement of Air-
mingham Bill have on the constituencies and on
our Ministry ? On the latter its influence will be
very much in proportion to its influence on, the
former. If the towns, seeing a prospect of ibp;r
wishes being presented in a working form to Par-
liament,, and presented by a man whom nobody
can affect to despise as an advocate of a popular
cause—if they should bestir themselves, and should
insist on the main points of his bill being enacted
as law—we do not see how any Government can
resist. Members cannot defy their constituents,
and Ministers cannot defy Members. A dissolution
on a popular Bill would only bring it back again
with yet more stringent provisions.
All that a Ministry could gain by a dissolution
would be time, but it would certainly be time for
which full interest would be exacted. Meantime the
country would be kept in a state of needless excite-
ment. Questions would be raised which the Aris-
tocracy and the Church would prefer to see
dormant. Both would be in danger of sinking
into the almost contempt into which they fell
during the first Reform Bill battle, and that of the
Corn Laws, and all for no purpose. The elec-
tors must be masters at last.
As to the Lords, they must give way, or raise a
commotion on the greater question, whether
they are longer to be indulged with anti-
quated privileges, ought to wield them against
the people. They may enjoy their name
and nominal rights in peace for many a day if they
are as prudent as Mr. RAREY, and do not acquaint the
people too much with the secret of their own strength.
We see but little difficulty with them if the people
but choose to signify their will. Parchments and
coats of arms would soon appear to disadvan-
tage if they once began a conflict with reason
and popular feeling. We thoroughly respect all
such of our Lords as have shown themselves worthy
of participation in the affairs of the nation ; we
have no wish to set them aside just yet. Another
generation may view the subject more logically
but we would rather reform their practice only a
little, and at once ; we would abolish, for instance
the pernicious privilege of voting by proxy ; and'
compel those who vote on the nation's business to
hear the arguments on it, and we might not be very

secular duties ; but, dam bene se gesserint, the Lords
may live on for generations to come for all that we
care. The longer the better. The mode in which
most of them became legislators is indeed the
climax of logical absurdity ; but we are used to it,
and if these hereditary legislators understand that
they are revisors of national work, not masters of
the nation, we may all of us, long jog on com-
fortably enough together.

THE COURT.

WINDSOR, Nov. 10,

Het' Majesty's dinner party yesterday comprised the
Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Alice, the Princess Mary of Cambridge,
the Duke of Cambridge, the Princess of Leiningen, the
Prince of Leiningen,'thei,Marquis and Marchioness of Aber-
corn and Ladies Louisa and Georgiana Hamilton, Lady
Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Geraldine Somerset, Colonel
the Hon. R. Bruce, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Col.
the Hon. Sir Charles Phipps, Sir James Clark, Sir George
Cooper, Lieutenant-Colonel Purees, Colonel the Hon. Jas.
Macdonald, the Rev. C. F. Tarver, Mr. Gibbs, and Major
Teesdale, R. A.
The following had the honour of receiving invitations
after dinner —The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de
Weyer, Miss and Mr. Victor Van de Weyer, Colonel the
Hon. N. and Lady Mary Hood, Miss and Mr. Arthur
Hood, Colonel F. H. and Lady Emily Seymour, Miss
Horatia Seymour, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, the Hon. Mrs.
Wellesley, the Hon. Lady and Miss Phipps, Captain and
Mrs. F. Sayer, the Hon. Mrs. Biddulph, Lady and Miss
Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. G. Cooper, the Hon. T. Stanley,
and Viscount Mahon.

The -band of the 2d Life Guards played before dinner,
and her Majesty's private band attended in the Drawing-
room after.

The Queen, with Princess Alice, walked in the Home
Park this morning, and visited the Duchess of Kent at
Frogrno re. _ _ _ _ _

The Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of Wales
and the Duke of Cambridge, went out shooting.

The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary took leave
of her Majesty, and left the Castle in the forenoon, attended
by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Lieut.-Colonel Purves.
The Prince of Leiningen also took leave of the Queen,
and left Windsor for Portsmouth. The Princess of Lein-
ingen quitted the Castle for Frogmore House, on a visit to
the Duchess of Kent.
The Duke of Cambridge returned to London in the aft&-
noon, attended by Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and Ladies
Louisa and Georgiana Hamilton have taken their depar-
ture.

A Cabinet Connell was held yesterday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were—The Earl
of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr.
Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir E. Bulwer
Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington,
the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners.
The Canadian Ministers, the lion. Mr. Cartier
and Mr. Inspector-General Galt, accompanied by Mr.
Bates, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer at his official residence in Downing-street.
A deputation from the guardians of the Roch-
dale 'Union, introduced by Sir Alex. Ramsay, Bart., M.P.,
and Mr. John Bright, M.P., and consisting of Mr. Heap
(chairman), and Mr. Alderman Livescy, together with Mr.
John Holgate, the clerk, had an interview with the Right
Hon. T. Sotheron Estcourt, M.P., yesterday, at the office
of the Poor-law Board.

Although State reasonsprevent her Majesty from
reapbnding to the unanimous desire of the North American
provinces that she should visit that portion of her dominions,
her 3111k:sty, with her usual courtesy, has seized the occa-
sion of the presence of seTeral of the Canadian Ministers to
acknowledge the loyalty of her North American subjects by
paying marked honours to their representatives. The Hon.
Mr. Cartier, on a special invitation, joined the royal circle
at Windsor Castle on Saturday and remained until Monday.
We are sure that this proof of the interest which the Queen
takes in British North America and the courtesy shown to
her Ministers will be heartily appreciated by Canadians.—
Canadian _Yews.

..... _ _
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary returned to Cambridge Cot-
tage, Kew, yesterday afternoon, from visiting her Majesty
at Windsor Castle.

We regret to learn that a great affliction has
fallen upon tho Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fitzroy, in the
sudden death of one of their sons. The Baron Rothschild
Was prevented being present at the Lord Mayor's lassiqvit
by thin Bad event,

LATEST NEWS.

INDIA AND -iHINA MAILS.

The Euxine, with tht mails from Calcutta and
China, arrived at Alarseths at,7 o'clock this (Thurs-

day) morning.

The mails were to lease for London at 10.
The passengers arc chained in. quarantine until
Friday afternoon.

BEYROUT, OCT. 27.

" The packet boat frot Alexandria has brought
news of general agitatin which is reigning in
Asiatic Turkey. Insurrctions have taken place at
several places, Omar Paha maintaining himself at
Bagdad with difficulty.
" The tribes living b‘ween Tripoli and Aleppo
have revolted.

" The communication is interrupted between the
Libanus and Tripoli, ant between Alexandria and
Aleppo. The garrison if Beyrout have been sent
against the insurgents.

" The disorders in fin Libanus have been ap-
peased by the bishop, Joeph Jahiol."

OPENING OF THE BELGIAN
CHANBERS.
THE KINCS SPEECH.
The Belgian Legislative Chambers were opened
on Tuesday for the sesion of 1858-59 by his
Majesty in person. Haling taken his scat on the
Throne, King Leopold Addressed the members of
both houses as follows :
" Gentlemen—l am Lappy to find myself again
surrounded by the repregontatives of the nation
under circumstances enatoly .favourable to our
country, in the double view of bur internal situation
and of our relations withloreigii countries.

" Those relations, founded -on sentiments of
reciprocal confidence, continue to strengthen as
they are developed. Several treaties will be laid
before you. One of them will have the effect of
relieving literary productions from all impediments
at the frontier of the two contracting countries.
'We arc endeavouring, besides, by a new law to
guarantee the rights of authors and artists in a
more complete and efficacious manner.
" Penetrated by the duties incumbent on it for
the moral and intellectual development of the coun-
try, the Government consecrates all its cares to the
prosperity of public instruction.
" The primary teachers received last session a
manifest pledge of its solicitude, and the youth of
our schools, assembled with their masters, testified
sentiments towards me' at a recent solemnity of
which I shall treasure the reminiscence.
" The edifices for our primary schools being re-
cognised as insufficient in a great number of the
communes, a fresh credit will be asked for to aid
their administrations in providing for that popular
necessity.
" The questions connected with the exercise of
public charity will be settled after an inquiry into
the situation of the indigent classes, and into the
efficacy of the means employed to relieve them.
My Government has not thought it right to defer
the presentation of a bill intended to put an end to
the differences of opinion for which the wording of
art. 84 of the communal law has left room.
" In spite of. a commercial crisis that severely,
tried very many countries, the material interests of
the land have continued to develop with remarkable
energy. Our national railway, which for nearly five-
and-twenty years has largely contributed to that
improvement, has just been extended and, so to say,
completed by the Luxembourg line, which creates
for our territory a new transit route of the most im-
portant kind, and links to us an interesting pro-
vince by opening to it fresh sources of prosperity.
The people have a lively sense of this, and I was
pleased at associating myself in presence as well as
feeling to their satisfaction and their hopes.
" The progress of the public wealth exercises a
happy influence on the situation of the Treasury.
The ordinary receipts present an excess relatively

floating debt.
" The cost of boatmen's licences has for a long
time given rise to well-founded complaints. A bill
will be laid before you for reducing that impost.
" A bill will also be submitted to you for ensur-
ing a better apportionment of the land-tax.
My Government will call your attention to
measures destined to favour trade and manufactures,
by facilitating loans on merchandise and the pub-
lic sale of the colonial produce and the raw materials
that mainly employ our maritime commerce.
" The means' likely to inspire a habit of saving
among the labouring classes ought to be an object
of anxiety to the public authorities. Proposals will
be made to you to introduce into the Annuity
Fund such modifications as are indicated by expe-
rience, and to institute a good system of savings-
banks on large bases.
" The improvement of country roads and of the
public health will receive a further impulse from
your co-operation.
" You will have to decide at an early period of
the session on the law in reference to personal re-
straint, and. on the reform of the Penal Code,
N IVohi hu
rt the
complete.prese n present Chamber will hold it a point of
In
"A law on the judicial organisation will be sub-
mitted for your deliberation.
" The Civic Guard and the Army continue to
show themselves worthy of our common solicitude
and animated by the same spirit of patriotism.
" My Government is occupied with reforms that
are to be introduced into the Militia Law.
" The last decennial census has established an
augmentation in the population, one of the conse-
quences of which must be an increase in the number
of the national representatives.
" Such, gentlemen, is the sum of the work that
will occupy you during this session. I have the
conviction that your patriotism will not recoil be-
fore the completion of thatliborious task, and that
I may look for that loyal and active support from
the national representatives as will permit my
Government to impart to the public business a rate
of progress both rezular and productive of results.',

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY,

It is announced that a Commission, composed of
three persons appointed by the Minister of Algeria
and the Colonies, is about to set out for the coast of
Africa to examine on the spot the question of immi-
gration.
The signed a decree appointing
Captain
ELmpro
deafoenrh
Ladebat,as on the proposition of the
Minister of Marine and the Colonies, to be a mem-
ber of the Council on Marine Works, in place of
Captain Paris, appointed Vice-Admiral.
_ _

Vice-Admiral Charnier has been continued in the
position of President of the same Council.
The last despatclun received from China an-
nounce itigault, after having taken
possession
tlint
of A
the l
ta
blishments at Tourane, had
dnirea establishments
immediately marched on the city of Hue, the
capital of Cochin Chita, and of the entire empire
of Annam. _

According to the aspect of the political world we
might expect a period of dull tranquillity for some
time to come. On all sides no immediate difficulty
presents itself. Spain will probably be contented
with the O'Donnell poicv. France will not invade
England this year; therefore each country had better
take to reform domestic abuses.

According to late lespatches from Lisbon the
Portuguese Cabinet *erns disposed to accept the
friendly and conciliatcry feeling of France.

M. Paira is expeetetin Paris on the 15th of this
month.

The Marquis Villanarina, Piedmontese Ambas-
sador, has been requested by his Sovereign to pre-
sent the municipality of Paris with ti bust of his
Majesty, in remembrance Qf his visit to Paris.
Despatches from RAMC record the death of Count
Mastai, brother of thE Pope. The same communi-
cation adds :—" Sevcril distinguished Russians are
here expected this wi'iter, as well as Queen Chris-
tina, the Marquis andMarehioneEs of Londonderry,

Lord Granville, and Lord and Lady Stratford
Canning."

BOURSE, Nov. 10.—The market was buoyant at
the opening, but afterwards slackened. Threes
varied from 73f. 90c., to 73f. 70c. ; Mobilier 975 f.
to 967 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 877 f. 50c. to 8751. ; Orleans,
1,370 f. to 1,365 f. ; Southern, 573 f. 75c. to 572 f.
50c.; Northern, 990 f. to 990 f. ; and Austrian, 657 f.
50c. to 656 f. 25c. The following are .the last
quotations :

11 per Cents. 96 25 Credit Fonder.... 662 50
Do. end month 96 50 Belgian 41 . 99 73
3 per Cents
Do. end month 73 90 Roman 95
Bank Shares 3160 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 977 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 977 50 Home Debt —

RAILWAYS.

Cash.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto B3O

Account.
.. 1380 ,
.. 997 50
.. 840

Lyons and Mediterranean. 877 50 .. 880
New ditto
Geneva
Midi

630 --
••

Southorn

573 75 .. 580

Western

617 50 .. 615 -

Eastern

Grand Central

Sardinian
Austrian

Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money,
25f 7c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 95c. ; money, 24f.
92jc.

DENMARK.

The following three ordonnances were published
at Copenhagen on theirth inst. :
" We, Frederick, &c., make known—
" 1. The German Diet having declared in its re-
solution of 11th of February, 1858, that it could
not recognise as having the force of constitutional
law the constitutionifer the common affairs of the
monarchy, inasmuch as applicable to the Duchies
of Holstein and Lauenburg, we have resolved,
conformably to the 23d Article of the common
Constitution, to, abrogate the constitution of hol-
stein and Lauenburg, Reserving to ourselves the
right to take the necessary measures to reattach
the two duchies to the rest of the Monarchy, we
ordain as follows:

" The common Constitution is abrogated as
regards Holstein and Lauenburg.
" The Common Ministry, as regards Holstein, is
responsible to us alone.
" 11. We, Frederick, &c., make known—
" Whereas the German Diet declared, by its resolu-
tion of the 11th of. February, 1858, that it could not/
recognise as having the force of constitutional liw
either the decree of the 11th of June, 1854, con-
cerning the Constitution of Holstein, insomuch as
the dispositions of that law were not submitted to
the deliberations of the Provincial Estates of the
said Duchy, or the letter patent of the 23d of June,
1856, concerning the designation of the special
affairs of the Duchy, we have resolved and
ordain :

" The abrogation of Articles 1 to 6 of the. Or-
donnance of the 11th of June, 1854, relative to the
Constitution of Holstein, as also the above-men-
tioned letter patent relative to the designation of
the special affairs of the Duchy."
The third decree, convoking the Estates of
Holstein for the 3d of January next, concludes as
follows :

" We recommend particularly to the conscientious
examination of the Estates the propositions which
we have thought fit to make consequent upon the
abrogation conformably to the federal resolution of
the llth of February, 1858, of the first six articles
of the Holstein Constitution, of the letter patent of
the 23d of 1npt,.1856, and of the Common Consti-
tution of the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg.

" Those propositions will give the Estates an op-
portunity of expressing their wishes and proposals
relative to the regulation of the Constitutional po-
sition of Holstein in the common Monarchy
on the bases of the letter patent of the 28th of
January, 1852. For the remainder we refer to the
tenour of the ordonnance of the 11th January,
1854, and its annexes, and we hope that the
Estates, aware of the paternal intentions which led

to the institution of the Provincial Estates and an

extension of their powers, will endeavour, as much
as in them lies, to realize those intentions and to
respond to the confidence placed in them."

PROPOSED RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BE
GREENWICH AND WOOLWICH.

Yesterday morning a deputation, consisting of
Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, and
Messrs. John Roberts, T. IV. Tanner, Bristow, and
W. G. Smith, waited on the directors of the South-
Eastern Railway Company, with a memorial, signed
by upwards of 500 of the leading residents and
tradesmen of the town of Greenwich, having for its
object the securing of railway communication be-
tween Greenwich and Woolwich by means of a
junction line from the terminus of the Greenwich
Railway and the Charlton station of the North
Kent line.

- Mr. CARTTAR explained to the board the result
of the labours of a committee appointed at a public
meeting of the inhabitants since the deputation had
the honour of an interview in June last. Resolu
tions had been unanimously passed in four of such
a line of railway, and memorials, numerously
signed, had been prepared both to the Government
and the South-Eastern Railway Company to secure
the line being made.
Mr. Rim, one of the directors, remarked that in
1846 a bill had passed through a committee of the
House of Commons, but was thrown out of Parlia-
ment, although the company had obtained an
opinion;from Professor Airy, the Astronomer Royal,
in support of the proposed line, which would pass
through Greenwich Park.
Mr. W. G. SMITH reminded the directors that
many nervous persons objected to passing through
the Blackheath tunnel of the North Kent Railway,
and that consequently this traffic was lost to the
company.
The directors held out hopes to the deputation
that if an independent line could be constructed,
the South Eastern Railway Company would assist
in promoting and leasing the undertaking.
Mr. CARTTAR explained that the committee had
not prepared estimates, neither had it any particu-
lar line in view. All the committee had done was
to labour to obtain a strong feeling among the in-
habitants to render assistance to any company pro-
moting a bill which would give them the commu-
nication required.
The deputation then withdrew.
The memorial to the Government, for permission
to pass through Greenwich Park, will be presented
in a few days.