The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-08 00:00:00

gather in the corn as it ripens. For some weeks the State, then advanced and read the following rescript,
past the Government ;has been sending many written by the Shah himself In the name of the
of the unemployed men from Melbourne to Great and Almighty God : our well-beloved son, the
work on the roads up the country until they can eldest of our children, Etair-Mehemmed-Cassm-Shan,
obtain engagements in private service, and these Emir-Nizam (the Commandant-in-Chief of the regular
draughts have helped to furnish the extra number army) having been trained and brought up since hi
of bands needed to meet the requirements of the birth until the present day, by our care, instructed by
our lessens whose forehead and look express the majesty
spring ; but the numbers thus sent up are not
which is to support the throne, and at the same time
sufficient to account for the total absence of the '
the proper meekness of submission, our Majesty has
demand that usually exists iu Melbourne at thishighest degree sp
lendour
season on raising him to the
season for the services of all men capable of shear-
among our children. This is why we this year came
our eldest and well-beloved son to be successor to the
ing or mowing, or for aiding effectually in those
operations. There has lately been no inquiry throne. This is the first dignity of the empire, and we
worthy of mention, except for a few grooms hereby confer it on him. We recommend our well-
and coachmen, gardeners, or men and boys beloved son to the Almighty God, who, we hop e, will
willing to make themselves useful about a support him in all his undertakings. We confide the
house near town. Now that the preliminary
care of him to all the inhabitants of Persia, great and
measures have passed a portion of the rail-
small. The saslrazan is one of our first and of our most
ithful servants, the guardian of our secrets, and po -
way works will soon be commenced ; but, as
sessesl
all our esteem. Our well-beloved son,s
will have-
can be judged at present, these will not
every consideration for him, and for his counsels.' The
afford employment for so many men as there firman, as published in the Teheran Gazette, was then
was at one time reason to expect they would. The read, and the young prince, after receiving the congra-
amount of money available in the first instance will tulations of the grandees and of the ambassadors, returned
not allow of the works being commenced on that into the palace. The fetes, which lasted three days,
scale which the colony would be justified in adopt- passed off without the slightest disturbance."
ing were it certain that the funds necessary for
their completion could be readily obtained. Nor
is there any certainty that even the moderate
amount of work that we can offer in the first in-
stance will be continued for more than a twelve-
mouth without interruption. This will depend
on the favour with whioh our railway scheme is
entertained in England, for the colonial autho-
rities in money matters say that no more can be
raised here than will be sufficient to meet the
expenditure of one year • so, if the funds are not
forthcoming from England, we may look for-
ward to the works being stopped at the end
of that period. If an arrangement for the con-
struction of one or both of the linesshould. be entered
into with one of the large English contracting
houses, this alternative might be avoided ; but,
whatever probability of an arrangement of this sort
existed a few months back, we believe it is scarcely
to be looked for now. Tenders are to be called for,
so as to allow of competition of contractors of large
and of small means ; and the colonial contractors,
having at present little or nothing to do, will be
likely to tender at very low rates. Their ability
to perform the works they propose to undertake
will not be called in question, so we may cal-
culate on their being entrnstod with the con-
struction of the railways, as the lo west
tenders will be accepted. Leaving out of the
questions the advantages or disadvantages, in
other respects, of this mode of letting the
works, it increases the difficulty of predicting what
the prospects of the labouring classes are likely to
be a twelvemonth hence ; or, rather, it renders
these absolutely dependent on the sale of our rail-
way debentures in England. None of the colonial
contractors have sufficient capital to carry out a
large undertaking without frequent payments ; and
if the money is not forthcoming, whatever engage-
ments they may have entered into, they will be
obliged to dismiss their men. We need not point
out that a sudden stoppage of extensive works of
this nature will cause a most serious disturbance
in the labour market, and will, after a temporary
gleam of prosperity, leave this in a more unsatis-
factory state than it hat; been in of late.
" Many of our readers in England will not be
prepared for such a disheartening picture of the
present state of this so-called paradise of the work-
ing man, and such it really is to those who are for-
tunate enough to obtain constant employment at
trades or occupations which they understand, but
difficulties are looming in the distance to which our
rulers are either wilfully or foolishly blind, and the
greater the number of persons coming to our shores
with false expectations before them, the more
arduous will be the struggle that is likely to
arise. The present unpopular land system is at
the root of the evil, and the adjustment of this on a
liberal basis will not be effected without engen-
dering animosity on both sides. In the meantime
we have only the railways to look to for the em-
ployment of a large proportion of the working popu-
lation, and there is at present no certainty of these
being carried on uninterruptedly. A better sys •
tem of managing and working the gold-fields, so as
to offer more encouragement for investment of capi-
tal in productive works calculated to facilitate the
obtaining of the precious metal is much needed, and
will eventually be the means of affording employ-
ment to large numbers of men ; but our immediate
prospects are such as we have endeavoured faith-
fully to describe them. Our powers of absorbing
labour have been overtaxed of late, and until the
land and railway questions are satisfactorily and
permanently settled we cannot pretend to offer
ready employment to such numbers of people
as have flocked hither within the last few
months. Those who may think of coming to
Australia, and have friends and relatives here, will,
of course be guided by their representations ; but all
without these sources of trustworthy information
SI10111(1 ror a Uwe be very .autioua in their move-
ments. Any such who may determine on emi-
grating to Victoria, dependent solely on hired
service, should time their departure fromhome so as
to arrive here between the mouths of September
and February inclusive. Thus no one without
friends to receive him, or independent means of his
own, should leaveEnglaid for this colony during the
five or six months that will elapse after the receipt
of this intelligence, by the end of which period we
trust that our principal difficulties will be over-
come, and that all doubts as to the steadiness and
rapidity of our industrial progress will be removed.
" AGRICULTURE.
" During the past month no event of especial
importance to the agricultural interest has occurred.
There has been a downward tendency iu the prices
of most articles of produce, but this more nearly
affects importers than our own farmers, who had
mostly disposed of last season's crops before the
fall in prices commenced. We are now on the eve
of what promises to be an abundant harvest, and
there is no fear this year of any of the corn being
lost for want of hands to gather it."

The "act" for the navigation of the Danube,
drawn up by the Raverain Commission, is in 47
articles. The Nord of Brussels, which publishes
the principal portions of it, complains that all the
most important articles are worded in such a way
as to give undue advantage to the vessels of Austria.

The Emperor of Russia has just promulgated new
regulations for the government of Min grelia during
the minority of the Prince Sovereign. They enact
that the province shall be under the authority of
the Emperor's Lieutenant in the Caucasus, and that
the local 'administration shell be confided to a
Russian functionary assisted by a council of five
members—two nominated by the Russian govern-
ment, two elected by the native princes, and one
elected by the class of the Aznaoura.

A letter from Constantinople of the 25th ult.,
in the Gazette dit Midi, says :—" Reschid
Effendi has been nominated conservator of the
relics of Mecca and Medina. His predecessor
was dismissed for having abstracted some of
the sacred objects ; amongst other things, he is
accused of having sold to the Shah of Persia
for a large sum the mantle and standard of the
Prophet. A fire a few days ago in the Dardanelles
destroyed 24 houses, 16 khans, and a great mans
shops. The Government is causing to be con-
structed, under the direction of Englishmen, stewn
mills at Tetimburnu for making good bread at
cheap rate for the army. From snow and bad
weather the routes of the caravans from Erzeroura
to Trobisondb are impracticable."

The Constitutionnel says that a modification /0
about to take place in the Sardinian Cabinet by the
retirement of M. Ratazzi, Minister of the Interior•

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.
The screw steamship Anglo-Saxon, Captaill,
M`Master, has arrived with advices from Portland
to the 26th ult., and from New York, by telegraplh
to the 25th.

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY

A despatch, received here yesterday, announced
the rather serious illness of the King of Wiirtem-
burg. This morning his Majesty was somewhat
better.

The death of General Havelock has caused the
deepest regret amongst the English in Paris. The
same feeling was expressed by the Emperor and
those around his Majesty.
A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor
presided, was held yesterday at the Tuileries.
" Sir H. Bulwer and Baron de Talleyrand-
Perigord, the English and French Commissioners
in the Principalities," says a Paris letter in the
Nord, " are expected in Paris towards the middle
of the month. It will not be until after their
arrival that it will be possible to settle the bases of
the reorganisation of the Principalities and the date
of the meeting o; the conference."
BouusE, Jan. 7.—The following were the last
quotations :-
4,j per Cents 95
Do. end month — -1
3 per Cant. ..... 70 15
DJ. end month 6O 45
Bank Shares 3300
Credit Mobilier 960
Do. Account 963 50
• RAIL'
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto 823
Lyon and Mediteran. 910
Now Ditto
Geneva

Credit Fonder

B9lgian

Pieamontese (!)
Roman B7
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Rome Debt 37
NUYS.

Midi
Western 7lO
Strasburg
G rand Central 617
Sardinian
[ Austrian

THE KEIGHLEY , POISONING CASE.—On WeaVor)
last Jphn Sugar, master of the Keighley Union 0,1
house, was arraigned before .the local magistrati3tp
••,•••••••MMO
PERSIA. Keighley, on the charge of poisoning his wife. oi
I evidence was adduced, and the prisoner was real°
A letter from Teheran of the 14th Nov., in the till to-morrow.
01
Presse d'Orient, gives the following details of the 1 WILLS, &c.—The win of the Right Hon. Bard
proclamation of the heir presumptive to the throne, ' Lisle, of Millbrook, Southampton, was proved in 1!A°10
which was said by some journals to have given rise under 16,000/. personalty. Admiral Thos. Le 1481-0
to a protest on the part of Mr. Murray, the English ' , Goss
ern,
60,00
-h ilo/.
YGeorge Braithwaite Lloyk 0,1
banker, Parkl, ardley, Worcester, 30,000/. J,°oo
minister : Henry Good, Esq., Kensington Palace-green, 9°' if
F, antis Mascall, Esq., New-square, Linoo
"On the 31st of October the fetes commenced in I • 10:40
20,000/. Charles Craddock, Esq., CM Ipl a_
Kent,, celebration of the proclamation of the veliat or heir
presumptive to the crown of Persia. Invitations had
dish-square, 30,0001. John Schofield, Old Chapel-place,
f‘
been sent some time before to all the ulemas, savans,
,ii
25,0001. Miss Martin, Cambridge-terrace, IfYde'
,
and distinguished poets of the kingdom, and orders
14,000/. ; and has bequeathed to the Royal Free
had been transmitted all the governors of provinces pital 3001. ; Sailors' Home, 300/. Mendicity S°
.
to fete this important event. On the Meidan-i-Ak, 2°ol, ;
Cruelty to Animals, 2001. i
• The personal e
or large square in front of the palace, a large orchestra in England of the late Duchess de Nemours were '
was erected, which was filled by the first musicians nistered to under 12,0001.
and
singers in the capital. This erection was ar- 1
_ STRIKE AT THE MANCHESTER WORKHOUSE
~--_,,001
ranged .G.
with rich hangings and lighted by numerous Oa Wednesday there was again an outbreak of uy
lamps and candelabra. Behind the orchestra, on a ' tent among the
pauper labourers employed on the
terrace on which some pieces of cannon had been chaster Workhouse Farm at Crumpsall, and yell'll
placed, Wag a large piece of wooden framework for morning they suspended work and marched doted
letting off a brilliant display of fireworks. Lines of body to the workhouse in Bridge-street. The boftgi
seats, one over the ether, were also erected on either guardians were holding their weekly meeting, 1.1,
side of the orchestra for the accommodation of the deputation of six of the men was admitted. TheljO
principal persons of the city. The Russian and Eng. a variety of complaints, chiefly that they were of
i
lish ministers walked about the square together sad to work while snow was on the ground, that the9o
were received with marked respect. The throne room not sufficiently paid fur their labour, and that the 14ri
and two large saloons of the palace were opened to the of food given them a's relief in kind were not °oii
guests. On the diplomatic body entering the palace they value represented. Mr. C. H. Rickards, who pre
o)i
were received with the usual military honours, and were censured the men for coming down in a body,
~,.0r
met in the throne room by the sadrazan, who con- guardians would not yie:d to any attempt at int'
ducted them, with the high functionaries assembled into tion. If the men had any complaints they ought Vl'
an inner saloon, where sherbets and pipes were cffsred brought them before the committee who met
to them in the name of the Shab. When all the invited farm on the previous day. The farm bailiff 40,
guests had assembled, the political parts of the fete exercise his discretion as to when they should
1, ,
commenced. A small throne was brought into the The law did not allow payment of wages Ove,
centre of the principal court of the palace, and soon labour of paupers, and the amount of relief must a
there
was seen approaching from the royal apartments to the relief boards. Mr. Hodson, deputy-chit:BJ
a
brilliant cortege, in the midst of which was a child of stated that everything supplied to the labourers "„fl
from seven to eight years of age. This was the Prince the best quality, and was supplied at a rather lond
Emir-Mehommed-Cassim-Khan, the son of the Shah, than it could be purchased at the shops. Sataii
' who was abut to be proclaimed heir to the crown. The all the articles were produced. The itite-vieW til
diplomatic body and the min:sters immediately advanced her a considerable time, and the men ultimately re,A II
110'
to meet the young prince, and offer congratulations. The to the farm on the understanding that they 87
secretary of the palace, Miraz Taghi (a distinguished poet, their dinner given to them as usual, and must 0°
who hears the title of /icart-ta-ntou/k—the Tongue of to the rules laid down by the guardians.

She experienced very heavy weather.
The Persia arrived at New York on the 25th ult*
The President, in reply to a resolution of the
Senate, transmitted to that body the correspondence
which took place nearly a year ago in reference to
the bombardment of Greytown. Count Sartiges, sd .
appears, asked indemnity for actual losses snstaine
by the French subjects, who found it physically inv
possible to remove their goods from the conflagre;
tion caused by the movements of the commander 0'
the United States' sloop of war Cyane. Governs
Marcy, in reply, informed him that the Preside,
had not been able to find upon what principles
right, or even of equity, the reclamation could P:
sustained, and; in a long despatch, expounded i"
him the international law. Count Sartiges ackni
ledged its receipt, and said he would not fail to
Governor Mat cy's communication to the Frencl
Government. No response to the letter is embrae
in the documents. Although the resolution
for the information included any correspondent
with Great Britain, none was transmitted to tP
Senate.
The following communication from St. Louis giTei,
further particulars of the disturbance in Kansas
" A. Kansas letter to the Democrat, says that on °AI
evening of the 16th December a battle occurred at P;
Scott between the Pro-slavery and Free State 113 e
k";
Five of the former were killed, among them 131 fr
Little, a member of the Lecompton Coneenti°d,
;4
Several were wounded on both sides, and twos;
Free State men were taken prisoners, and 6/4
fined in the fort. The Missourians were assembio
a strong ftece on the border, and more fighting 10
apprehended. The difficulties grew out of the fact tello
Clark, notorious as the murderer of Barber two
since, went about, accompanied by a deputy sheriff, uav
lecting taxes of the Free State men, and seizing tlPi
property in default of payment, making prosecution 1101,1
the rebellion law. The Territorial Executive Commiboi
had issued a call for the reassembling of the dela
Convention, held at Lawrence on the 2d inst., to Vol
into consideration the beat course to pursue in O 0
quence of the Legislathre having failed to submit d
Topeka constitution to the people with the Lecon%f
instrument. The Democrat has further advices from-wal
sas, stating that the Legislature has passed an 00,
repealing the law authorising the Constitutional udi
vention. The militia law is passed over acting Gover"ri
Stanton's veto. Gen. Lane is appointed major-golle
with eight brigadiers. An adjutant has been appolliol
and a full military organisation has been formed.
report of General Lane's death was false.'
Another communication from St. Louis relrj
that despatches from the Utah expedition had ‘,
received; that the whole force, with the except:,
of Colonel Cooke and his command had ea_ j
trated at Black Fort, and were moving tonil
Fort Bridger. Their progress was very slow, ey
two or three miles a day being sometimes ratif)
The animals were " giving out" hourly, and its
thought all would perish. The supply trains 170,
all up with the military, and provisions were stut
dant. The report that two companies of infseio
had met with reverses on the route to Utab.,o
without foundation. Five companies of Col. P:lt
ner's regiment of the first cavalry had roe°
taken up their quarters at Fort R?ley.
At New York there was but little business ..`l°,oi°
in stocks, but prices generally were firmer. 60
Board f Brokers had adjourned to the ft
Money was without change and moderately actiod
Sterling exchange was dull at 109 to 1094 ; Chi
and Rock Island Railroad, 74i ; Illinois Cello
Bond., 85 ; Michigan Southern and Northern
_
diana Railroad, 20.1 ; New York Central Raili4
94 ; Reading Railroad, 52i ; Lacrosse and (00
waukie Railroad, 16i ; Erie Railroad, 17j -
land and Toledo Railroad, 41i ; Clevelan'd)
'embus, and Cincinnati Railroad, 35.
Ashes were quiet, with small sales, at 6 dolt 4
both pots and pearls. Cotton was dull, and eat?
nominal at 91 to 91 for middling Upland
101 for New Orleans. Flour was rather fil,;}
though .the receipts were large. Wheat was ,'"0
and tending in favour of the buyer.] Sugar and
lasses were steady.
A despatch from Toronto states that on the 0
a fight took place at Fergus during the electiclit
one man was shot dead and another stabbed. ji
At New Orleans on the 24th cotton wasirregvs
the highest quotation for middling was 9,1 c.
change on London, 106.