The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-31 00:00:00

IU. IL WAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern 956 25 .. 047 50
New ditto
Lyons and Muditerrauerui 912 50 .. 910
Geneva 467 50 .. 467 50
Southern
Western 592 597 50

Eaetern
Sardiniaß 405 410
Austrian
Lombard
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. lle.; money,
25f. 81e. ; three mouths, paper, 24f. 871 e. ; money, 24f 85c. .

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH .31.
The Royal mail steamer Parana, Capt. Sawyer,
with the above mail, has arrived here. She brings
95 passengers, 2,849,710 doh". in specie, and 858
packages of cargo.
She left St. Thomas's on the 16th inst.
'rue islands were generally healthy.
The brig Rosalie,of Liverpool, reached Aspinwall
on the 25th ult.
Her Majesty's ship of-war Alert left Panama on
the 7th for Realego.
Peru was again on the verge of war.
It was reported that President Castilla would at
once march with the entire expedition against
Bolivia.
No trace of the murderers of Captain Lambert
had been discovered.
Eighty ships were loading at the Chincha
Islands.
The Senate of Guatemala had approved the treaty
Of limits made by the British Minister at Chili.
Congress was expected to hold a special session
this month.
A revolution had been attempted in Arequipa in
favour of Echenique, but was suppressed.
• Callao. exchange 42d. premium. English gold
20 per cent. premium.• Freights 50s.
At Barbadoes the crops were proceeding
vigorously. The canes were unmature, and yields
unsatigfactorily. The sugar, however,' was supe-
rior in quality, and, several ships had sailed with
cargoes. Sugar was quoted 4 dols. to 4 dols. 25c.,
with little offering. Exchange on London, 30 days,
485 dols. ; 99 days, 480 do's. ; private bills, 90 days,
475 dols.
The ships Shah and Johan had arrived at Deme-
rara with upwards of 300 emigrants, from Calcutta.
Nine deaths occurred on the voyage.
Weather rather favourable for growing crops.
Markets dull. Large stocks of provisions on
hand. Sugar easier. No molasses for sale.
Freights tending upward.
The ship Tyburnia had arrived at Canada with
300 emigrants from Calcutta. She made the pas-
sage from the Hooghly in 76 days ; 24 deaths
occurred during the voyage. - The- Tyburnia called
at St. Helena and received 78 young boys, part of
a cargo of 820 slaves captured from a slaver, off
Fernando Po, by her Majesty's steamer Triton.
The Jamaica 13.6nk had declared a dividend of
7 per cent., leaving a surplus on the half-year's
business.
At Jamaica business was dull. The supply of
coffee was small ; quotations were 41 to 44. Pi-
mento little offering. Sngarg as la;St quoted, fair
quality, 20s, per 10011 i. Increased crops were ex-
pected.
Exchange on London 90 days, 1 per dent.; 60
days, 11; 'per cent:; 39 days, 2 per cent. prem.
Merchants' bills, 90 days,l•prem. to par.
THE BRAZILIAN MAIL.
LISBON, MARCH 30.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Tyne has arrived here with the above mails. She
will leave this evening for Southampton„ with 214
passengers and £7,000 in specie: .

THE ANNEXATION OF SAVOY AND
NICK TO FRANCE.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the text of
the treaty between France and Sardinia respecting
the annexation of Savoy and Nice to France. It is
as follows :
"In the name of the• Most Holy and indivisible
Trinity, .
" His Majesty the Emperor of the French having
explained the considerations which, in consequence
of the changes made in the territorial relationships
between France and Sardinia, made hini desire the
annexation (reunion) of SA•Voy and of the arrondis-
sement of Nice (eircondario di .2Vizza) to France,
and his Majesty the King of Sardinia having shown
himself disposed to accede thereunto, their said.
Majesties have decided to conclude a treaty to that
effect, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries,

viz. : •
" His Majesty the Emperor of the, French, Baron,
de Talleyrand Perigord, &V., .and M: Bene-,
detti, &c. ; •
" And his Majesty the King of Sardinia,.his Ex-
cellency Count Camille Benso de Cavour, ; and.
his Excellency the Chevalier Clihrles• Louis Fa-.

rini, &c. ;
" Who, having exchanged their- All powers in
due form, have agreed upon the following,
articles :
" Art. 1. His Majesty the King of Sardinia con-
sents to the annexation of Savoy .and 'of the
arrondissement of Nice to France, and renounces;
for himself and all his descendants and s.tic-1
cessors his rights and claims to the said terri-
tories. It is agreed between their Majesties that
this reunion shall be effected without any con-
straint upon the wishes of the populationx; aifd that,
the Governments of the Emperor of the Erench'and
of the King of Sardinia shall concert together as,
soon as possible on the best means of appreciating
and taking note of (constater) the manifestations of
those wishes.
"Art. 2. It is also understood that his,,Majestyi
the King of Sardinia cannot transfer theaidu-
tralised portions of Savoy except upon 14 con:
ditions upon which he himself possesses thqntund
that it will appertain to his Majesty the Emperor
of the French to come to an understanding Op that,
subject as well with the Powers represcnted'ut4he'
Congress of Vienna as with the Helvetic Confedre-'
ration, and to give them the guarantees which re-:
suit from the stipulations alluded to in the present
article.

" Art. 3. A mixedcommission will determinQ,
in a spirit of eqUity, the frontiers of the two States,
taking into account the configuration of the mokif-:
tains and the necessity of defence, • . I
" Art. 4. One or more mixed commissions wil!,
be charged to examine and to resolve, within a brie
delay, the divers incidental questions to which flit'
annexation will give rise—rsuch as the decision
the contribution of Savoy and of th© arrondissel
went of Nice to the public debt of Sardinia, andt
the execution of the obligations resulting from con-,
tracts entered into with the Sardinian Government,
which, however, engages to terminate itself the
works commenced for cutting a tunnel through the
Alps (Mont Cetus).
" 5. The French Governthent will take into ac-
count, as regards functionaries of the civil and mili-
tary order, belonging by their birth to the province
of Savoy, or to the arrondissenzent of Nice, and who
will become French subjects, the rights which they
have acquired by services rendered to the Sardinian
Government; they will especially enjoy the bone- •
fits of life appointments in the magistrature and of
the guarantees assured to the army. •
" Art. 6. Sardinian subjects originally of Savoy,
or of the arrondissement of Nice, or domiciled ac-
tually in those provinces, who would wish to main-
tain the Sardinian nationality, will enjoy during
the period of one year, dating from the exchange
of the ratifications, and in virtue of a previous de-
claration made to the competent authorities, the
faculty of removing their domicile to Italy, and
settling there, in which case their qualifications as
Sardinian citizens will remain to them.
"They will be at liberty to keep their landed
property situate on the territory annexed to France.
" Art. 7. For Sardinia the present treaty will
become law as soon as the necessary legislative
sanction has been given by the Parliament.
" Art. 8, The present treaty shall be ratified and
the ratifications exchanged at Turin within the de-
lay of ten days, or earlier if possible.
" In faith of which the respective Plenir,cten-
tiaries have signed it and affixed their seals ttere-

unto.
"Done in duplicate at Turin the 24th day the
month of March of the year of grace 1860.
" TALLEYRANDv
6 BENEDETTI,
" CAYOUR.
" FARINI."

BURRyIDON COLLIERY EXPLOSI9N.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUNt

SIR.,—We would feel obliged by your alltwing
us space in your journal to state that Messrs Bar-
clay, Bevan, and Co. have kindly consentedto re-
ceive the subscriptions of those who may de;ire
contribute to the fund now forming for the relief
of the widows, orphans, and others, who suffered by
the recent explosion at Burradon Colliery.

From the investigations of the exec-utiv?, com-
mittee, it has been ascertained that the widows
number 32, and the orphans (boys under 11, and
girls under 15 years of age), 72, not to speak of old
and infirm people, all' of whom have been :eft in
great destitution by this very painful calamity.—
We are, Sir, your obedient servants,

W. S. DAGLISH,
} Hon Se, 3•s
•
RD. ROWELL,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, March 30,

2IIASON JONES ON LORD MA CAUL AY.

On Saturday night, in the Free-trade Hall, Man-
chester, Mr. Mason Jones delivered his oration on
the late Lord Macaulay. The oration was an-
nounced to commence at half-past seven ; but long
before that time the hall was crowded in every
part, many both in the galleries and on the ground-
floor standing the whole of the evening. There
could not have been less than 4,000 persons pre-
sent. The funeral of the great historian was the
exordium of the oration, and this was described in
a manner which seemed at once to arrest attention,
and solemnise every heart. The noble Abbey, the
throng of celebrities, the tolling of the passing
bell, the hush as the funeral procession passed
along, the pealing of the organ, the read-
ing of the sublime burial service, the hol-
low sound as the earth struck upon the
coffin lid, and the gush of friendly sor-
row, composed a passage of word- painting the
creation only of a master mind. A rapid outline of
Lord Macaulay's life from boyhood, through college
career and Parliamentary history, then followed.
Lord Macaulay's literary labours were next ad-
verted to, a selection of his essays was made, and
these were happily termed " representative papers ;"
they included those on Milton, Gladstone, Robert
Montgomery, Clive, and Hastings. Macaulay's
skill as a literary artist was most justly praised,
while the wit, ingenuity, logical skill, and pictorial
powers which his essays displayed, were highly
lauded ; essay writing was evidently Macaulay's
forte. The most powerful and effective part of the
oration was an eloquent and impassioned vindica-
tion of the Platonic philosophy from the strictures
passed upon it by Macaulay in his famous essay
on Lord Bacon. The picture of the Baconian
philosopher listening to the " Sermon on the
Mount" will not soon be forgotten by those
who had the pleasure of hearing it; it was
replete with logic, irony, sarcasm, and felici-
tous and appropriate quotations of Scripture, and
thrilled the audience. We were amused with the
contrast between the Highlander of Glencoe, in
King William's time, and his descendants shut up
in a Glasgow cotton mill. In a literary and artistic
point of view, we were most pleased with the de-
scription of the two girls, one of them in a Man-
chester drawing room, and the other in Carthage,
while Scipio and his leoiOns were thundering at
her gates, which, though not very complimentary
to our present mode of life, was full of beauty, and
delivered with intense dramatic power. Equally
fine were the parallels drawn between Macaulay,
Carlyle, and Edmund Burke. As an original thinker,
Macaulay was not awarded the highest praise; he
was a reprcducer, and not a creator ; he avoided dis-
cussing the great religious and moral problems of the
age—did not aim at being a prophet and a teacher,
and had not placed us under the highest obliga-
tions. Macaulay's conversational powers were then
descanted upon, and numerous anecdotes were told
of that wonderful memory, which was his greatest
gift : he read everything and forgot nothing ; his
memory was wax to receive and marble to retain.
His history was designated as a splendid monu-
ment of intellectual labour ; the extent of his
knowledge, the minuteness of his information, the
grasp of his mind, eminently fitted him to be a
great historian ; too great brilliancy was, however,
declared the fault of the history—it wanted shad-
ing, simplicity, and repose. As a politician he
could not be compared with Canning, Peel, Glad-
stone, or Bright. (Loud cheers.) As an orator
he was vividly contrasted with Fox, Brougham,
Chalmers, O'Connell, and Sheil, of whose power as
orators most effective instances were given. The
anecdote of O'Connell at an anti-slavery meeting
in Exeter Hall was wonderfully effective, while
the recitation of Shiel's splendid burst of rhe-
toric in reply to Lord Lyndhurst was listened
to in breathless attention, and was greeted with
enthusiastic cheers. As a poet Macaulay did not
rank with the great demigods of song ; his poetry
did not spring from the inner life of the singer ;
he had not touched the deeper passions, to the
glory-smitten summits of the poetic mountain he
had not attained. His ballads were highly praised
for their force and passion, their nervous style, the
cumulative method of illustration—every sentence
contained a thought and every word was a felicity.
Selections from the Lays closed an oration which
was a great intellectual treat, remarkable for the
careful study which had been devoted to it, the
generous desire fully to recognise Macaulay's
genius, the great services he had rendered to
liberty, to weigh his merits and to stamp his
claims. Mr. Jones was enthusiastically cheered
throughout, and at the close was compelled to re-
turn to the platform to bow his acknowledgment
of the cheers with which he was rewarded.-11/an-
ehester Examiner.