The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1858.

LATEST NEWS.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

A Paris correspondent of the Independance of
Brussels states that the Legion of Honour is about
to enrol among the number of its members the
Emperor of China. It has, been decided, the Bel-
gian journal declares, to send the grand cordon of
the order to the sovereign of the Celestial Empire
on the occasion of the late treaty of peace. The
Shah of Persia, it may be remembered, received
the same mark of honour on a nearly similar
occasion.

BOURSE, September 22, Two o'Clock.—The mar-
ket has been rather more animated, in consequence
of an expectation of a reduction of the rate of dis-
count by the Bank of France. Threes have been
done at 72f. 75c. ; Mobilier from 930 f. to 942 f.
50c. ; Lyons, 877 f. 50c. to 884 f.; Northern, 985 f.
to 987 f, 50e. ; Eastern, 735 f., to 740 f. ; Southern,
600 f. to 605 f. ; and Orleanr.,, 1,420 f. to 1,425 f. The
following were-the last quotations :

4t per Cents. .... 95 80 Credit Fonder 670 -
Do. end month .. 96 Belgian 41 -
3 per Cents 72 60 Piedmontese (5) .. 92 -
Do. end month 72 70 Roman —
Bank Shares 3lOO Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 930 --- Spanish Threes
Do. Account f..... 935 Home Debt 4ok -

STANFORD'S MAP OF EUROPE.

A superb map of Europe has just been issued
from the establishment of Mr. Edward Stanford,
the map publisher, of Charing-cross. It is a work
of extraordinary elaboration and complete-
ness. It has been constructed by no less
distinguished a geographer than Mr. Alex-
ander Keith Johnston, author of " The Physical
Atlas," F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S., and a great many
other of the honorary letters of the alphabet
besides. The scale upon which this map has been
drawn is that of 508,235 miles to the inch, or
1:3,220,177 of Nature. It admits, therefore, of un-
usual detail in the execution. Enough will be
indicated in this way if we observe that, quite as a
matter of course, on glancing at the portion
of this remarkable work embracing our own
country, we find distinctly marked down a
little morsel of a place like Chertsey. Ex uno disce
omnes. Furthermore, it is especially deserving of
note, in regard to Mr. Stanford's Map of Europe,
that it is so carefully brought down to this present
time in every possible particular, that not merely
are the roads, the canals, and the railways, clearly
defined by distinctive marks, instantly distinguish•
able from each other—but there is that latest
triumph of the nineteenth century, the submarine
electric telegraph, delicately traced wherever it
has been trailed. From Port Patrick to Donagha-
dee ; from Dover to Ostend; from Dover to Calais ;
from the Gulf of Spezzia,•in Italy, to the north of
Corsica; from the south of Corsica to the north of
Sardinia ; from the south of Sardinia (otherwise
from Cape Spartivento), in one direction,
to Bona in Algeria; and in another, to the two
principal islands of the Maltese group, Gozo and
Valetta; and thence at a tangent to Corfu. As a
folding-map in a morocco case, as a map coiled
upon a roller, as a map hung up on a per-
manent frame, stretched .and varnished—in
any form, however mounted, displayed upon
our walls, lying upon ctur tables, thrust into
a convenient placeupon our bookshelves—this noble
production, one of the most splendid maps of
Europe ever yet placed within reach of the general
community, will be acceptable as a boon to all ranks
and classes of the population..

THE NAVY.

DEVONPORT, SEPT, 23.

The Cumberland, 70, Captain Rogers, will mov
into the Sound to-morrow, and will sail in a da
or two for the south-east coast of America.

The Donegal will be launched to-day at five
o'clock.

The Endymion' 'llamadryad, and Nemesis are to
be prepared for hospital ships ; the two former for
Liverpool, and the latter for the Clyde.
The Indiana (s.) arrived yesterday from Calcutta
with invalids, after a passage of 83 days.
MONUMENT TO THE OFFICERS AND CREW OF
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP VIRAGO.—A very hand-
some monument has been placed in the Plymouth
and Devonport Cemetery, to the memory of the
officers and crew of her Majesty's steam-sloop
Virago, who died of fever off Rio Janeiro, on the
South American station, from whence she has
recently returned to this port to be refitted.
The monument, ozi which is inscribed the names of
the deceased, has 'been erected by their fellow
shipmates.
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.—James Kelly, a pri-
vate in the Royal Marines, who was sentenced by
court-martial on Wednesday last to receive 50
lashes for using, insolent language to the senior
officer of her Majesty's ship Cambridge, underwent
punishment on the following day on board that
ship.
ADMIRALTY, Sept. 23.—APPOINTMENT.—R. T.
Warden to be naval cadet, if qualified.

THE ARMY.

The non-commissioned officers and men of the
Chatham division of. Royal Marine Light Infantry,
who had embarked in the Argus, 6, steamer, Com-
mander H. F. W. Ingram, for British Columbia,
have received orders that they are not to proceed
to that station, and they have accordingly been
disembarked. The marines selected were all volun-
teers.

Yesterday morning a large party of convalescent
troops, who have recently arrived at Chatham from
India, wounded or otherwise disabled for active
service, received their discharge at St. Mary's.in-
valid establishment, and were forwarded to their.
respective homes.

. Notwithstanding the large number of troops that
have been despatched to India from Chatham garri-
son during the summer, the three battalions of in-
fantry are still up to their strength, in consequence
of the numerous recruits that are almost daily join-
ing the East India depots. The greatest activity
prevails in the, garrison in order that the recruits
may be thoroughly instructed in their drill, and
also in the use of the Enfield rifle, previous to em-
barking to join their service companies in India.