The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-30 00:00:00

LAW INT. LLIGENCE—(Ihis Day.)

IRELAND.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-APPEAL.
%OPEN AND ANOTHER V. HARLEY.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.
THE GREAT ANNUAL CATTLE SHOW.

This appeal was appointed for further hearing this
morning at half-past ten o'clock. The hearing of tbis
cause will probably occupy their ln.dships the whole of
the day.

The ye-arly;;;Ti; show of the Royal Irish Agri-
cultural S,iciety came off yestei day with consider-
able eclat, and was followed in the evening by the
usual reunion.. Lord Eglinton was pres nt, and
delivered an admirable speech, in the course of
which his Excellency touched. upon several topics
of general interest, preluding his address with a
graceful tribute to the merits of his predecessors in
the office of Viceroy :

" I cannot but feel (said his Excellency) that it was
in this building I first addressed an assemblage of Irish-
men, when I was invested with the office which I now
hold by favour of her Majesty, and I rejoice that I should
have again the opportunity of, for the first time, address-
ing a public assemblage in the same place on my return
to Ireland. (Applause.) Pleasing as these occasions
are, I cannot but feel that on both occasions I have
been placed in a certain position of difficulty and dis-
hdvantage, in spite of the kindness which I have experi-
enced at your hands then as I do now. Then I came en-
tirely new to official life. I came to fiLd myself the suc-
cessor of a man of distinguished ability and of long-tried
official experience—one wlso had conducted the affairs of
this country through difficult circumstances with that
ability which distinguished him then, before, and since.
(Hear.) I now find myself in a rather—a more than
rather disagreeable position, of succeeding Lord Callisle
—one who by his amiable disposition and his unwearied
courtesy won all hearts, and by the accomplishment of
his mind adorned the office which he held, and by his
eloquence shed a brilliancy over the driest subjects on
which be touched. But, though I must acknowledge,
with deep humility, my inferiority to those noble lords,
either in official knowledge, in talent, in eloquence, or
in accomplishments, yet I am not afraid to undertake
the duties of the office. (Loud applause.) 1 did when
I came here before fear I might be unequal to the task.
I doubted, because I was not acquainted with the Irish
character. (Hear.) I ought to have known, as I know
now, that you would accord me a fair trial, and give me
a hearty welcome (loud applause), and that so long as I
do my duty by the people of this country they will
extend to me their kindness and consideration. (Ap-
plause.) Six years have gone past since I last sat in this
chair—and what changes have occurred since then !
These years have been years of strife and bloodshed —of
an European war, of the Indian mutiny, of national
calamity and national glory. But I rejoice to say they
have been years of steadily-increasing prosperity for
Ireland. (Cheers.) In these few year's agriculture has
spread itself over the country—farming, in every way,
has improved—capital has been expended—crime has
diminished. I rejoice to say that on coming back here
I find Ireland in a condition of prosperity such as I did
not think it possible that it could obtain when I last ad-
dressed a meeting of this society. I then remarked—and
I remember almost the very words—the turning point
of Ireland's misfortunes was at hand, and that the
darkness which had so long brooded over it would soon
break up into sunshine. I think lam completely jus-
tified in saying that that turning point has not only
been reached, but has been long since passed—that the
sunshine has broken through the clouds, and that Ire-
land is now rapidly arriving at that position which her
best friends would wials her to reach. (Applause.) I
think that I may not be called too sanguine if I predict
a happy and a glorious future for Ireland—a country
which by its fertility and richness, by its position and
beauty, and by the talents and ready wit of its people,
nature seems to have intended to be the brightest gem
of the British crown. (Loud applause.)"

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

CORN EXCII NGE.

The supply of English wheat on sale in to-day's market,
coastwise and by land carriage, was limited. On the part
of the factors, shown to accept lower prices ; but the trade
was in a sluggish state, and millers purchased with much
caution, on former terms.
Upwards of 10,000 quarters of foreign wheat have come
to hand this week, and most kinds moved off slowly, at
nonday'a currency.
Floating cargoes of grain sold on former terms.
The imports of foreign barley being large, that article
sold slowly, but we have no change to notice in value.
In malt, about an average business was doing, on former
terms.
We had a good demand for oats, and fine corn was the
,urn dearer.
Beaus, peas, and flour sold at full quotations.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt.
2,010 120 2,980

English

Oats.
1,270
2,750

Flour.
750

[riii-li

Foreign I 10,880 1 11,940

12,410 890 skm.
13510 brls

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Prime beef, mutton, lamb, and veal sold steadily at very
full prices. Other kinds of meat moved off slowly on
former terms.

Per Bibs by the carcase.
s. d. s. d. s. 4. s.
Beef, interior 2 g 3 0! Mutton, Inferior 210 3 2
Do., middling 3 2 3 4 Do., middling 3 4 3 8
Do. prime large.. 3 4 3 6 j Do., prime..„ 3 10 4 2
Do., do. small ....3 6 3 8 Veal 4 0 4 10
Pork, large .2 10 3 Q Pork. small 38 4 2

Lamb, 53 4d to 6s 4d. •

BOROUGH HOP.

We continue to have a fair demand for good and fine
hops, at full prices. All other kinds on a slow sale, but
not cheaper. The supply of hops on offer is extensive.
New Mid and East Kent Pockets, 70s to 112 s ; Weald ol
Kent do., 54s to 66s ; New Sussex do., 503 to 66s ; Year-
lings, 21s to 50s.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—The public sales of this article went off heavily,
but without showing sny important reduction in prices.
15,008 packages were offered, of which only about 2,000
were sold. Gmamon Congou is quoted 12d. per lb.
&MAX.—The market remains steady at previous rates,
and a fair business has been transacted iu most qualities.
In the Refined market there is little alteration to report
either as respects demand or prices.
COFFEE.---The market is rather flat, the only transac-
tions being in Plantation Ceylon, which realise barely pre-
vious quotations.
RlOE.—There is rather more activity in the demand for
this article, and at public sale former rates were fully
supported.
SALTPETRE.—There has been rather active inquiry for
most qualities, and prices are rather firmer.
TALLOW.—The market is steady. P.T.C. on the spot
is quoted 55s 3d, May and Juno 555, and last three
months 52s per cwt.
GREIF( FRUIT.—The market for all kinds has improved.
Oranges sustain their price; two parcels, ez Stock and
Prospero, of St. Michaels, sold by Keeling and Hunt,
went at the same figure as obtained last week. Lemons
in better demand at an advance of is. to 2P. por case.
Barcelona nuts are in request, the stock in first bands
being limited. Black Spanish and Brazil nuts remain
without alteration.

FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1858.

M 'I?S.

A PH.

The Moniteur of yestet day contains the follow-
ing semi-off-lei:a statement :—" A. meeting, took
place yesterday at the Foreign-office for the pur-
pose of examining a proposal made on b-half of Ds.
Morse, a citizen of the United States of Ante- ica,
to whom is due the system of telegraphic comine-
nication which has received his name. No doubt
the discovery of the principles npon which that sys-
tem is founded does not belong to Dr. Morse, but
he was the first to transfer that d:scov ry from
the region of speculative science MO that of prac-
tical application. It is owing to his libour and to
investigations, the honour of which is incontestably
due to him, that electrical communication, which
before his time was but a mere fact assested by
science, has become a reality, and one of the most
useful acquisitions which our age has made, and has
to bequeath to posterity. The important service
which Mr. Morse has rendered to the whole woilil,
to governments as well as to individuals, is attes: ed by
the admiration which his systen, when applied, has
universally excited, and by the use which his
been made of it throughout both csntinents. In
almost all the countries where the electric telagraph
is used, it is his apparatus which we find at work.
Dr. Morse being unable, meanwhille, to obtain a
patent for his invention in E ...trope, as in;the United
States, has thereby found himself deprived of the
profits which he ought to have derived from the
working of it, and which would have afforded him
a legitimate recompense for his labours and his
pecuniary sacrifices. It thence appesrs that it
would be an injustice if all the countries which
now profit by the application of his system should
not now take this state of the case into their con-
sideration, and directly grant to Mr. Morse, a col-
lective remuneration. With this conviction, he
has thought himself entitled to appeal to their
sense of equity. The Emperor's govet ment, think-
ing that such a request had a right to a sympathetic
reception, has not hesitated to support it with the
other governments which make use as it does itsslf
of the Morse system. This measure has been re-
ceived with the same feeling as that with which it
was made. In Austria, in Belgium, in the Nether-
lands, in Piedmont, in Russia, in the States of the
Holy See, in Sweden, in Tuscany, and in Turkey,
this apparatus is employed as it is in France ; the
governments of these different countries have ad-
hered then to the proposal of the Emperor's govern
ment, to examine in what manner they could evince
their gratitude to Mr. Morse, and it was in conse-
quence of this generous determination that their
representatives met at the Foreign Office yesterday.
Their first sitting gives us reason to believe that
they will easily be enala!ed to agree upon a measure
of remuneration, the honour of bestowing which
will be shared by all .the governments in whose
generosity Mr. Morse has placed his confidence."

THE WAR 1N CHINA.

(From the limes.)
We have not hitherto been very sanguine as to
the result of diplomacy with the Chinese Empire,
but at least our negotiators have now made a step
in advance. They have so far trampled Chinese
etiquette under foot as to communicate directly
with the higher authorities. The four Commis-
sioners have succeeded in delivering their creden-
tials to the provincial Governor of Soutchou-fuu,
who is in direct and easy relations with the Imperial
Court at Pekin. The result is that the real state
of the case is brought under the notice of the
Emperor, who, but for this bold step, might for
years to come have remained in ignorance of tae
real nature of the late operations at Canton. 'lke
Emperor has at once superseded, or rather degraded,
Yell, and has appointed in his place as Governor-
General of " Kwangtung and Kwangsi" a certain
Hwang Tsunghai, who is favourably known as a
person of superior enlightenment and liberality
of opinion. This proves that the Emperor and
his immediate advisers are beginning to appreciate
the momentous character of the questions which
they are now called upon to discuss will the
outer world. They will appoint, as it is said,
without delay, a Commissioner on their part to
negotiate with the Commissioners of the Four
Powers at Shanghai. We can scarcely antici-
pate that the Chinese Commissioner will be pre-
pared to accede to the demands which will be
made upon his Government, but for this we must
be prepared. All the usual machinery of trickery,
evasion, and dilatoriness will surely be tried again ;
its rests only with the four Commissioners to frus-
trate these designs, and to insist upon an imme-
diate solution of the questions at issue. We must
not permit ourselves for one momint to be the
dupes of the idle forms and ceremonies in which the
Chinese delight, but go at once to the mark what-
ever it may be. No answer or a delayed answer is
a refusal. It operates as such, and as such it should
be understood. Firmness and decision in negotia-
tion, backed by immediate action, when necessary,
constitute on our side the only elements of success in
our negotiations with these semi-barbarians, who'
seem in their own persons to unite the rude cun-
ning of the savage with the polished craft of the
civilised man.
We shall be much surprised if it does not even-
tually turn out that such intercourse with the
Chinese as we require is a matter far less com-
plicated than, from the blunders of the last 150
years, one might presume it to be. Mr. Oliphant
and M. de Contades, who conveyed the notes of
the Four Powers to Sou-tchou-fou, although un-
guarded, experienced no incivility or violence from
the Chinese in the course of their passage to and
fro. They passed along canals for two days, and
at last they reached the great city of Sou-tchou-
fou, which they describe as being about the size
of London. The Governor's palace stands in the
centre of the city, and to this spot they were
conducted along streets crowded with spectators
for a length of miles. Much interest, and
something of wonder, might be discerned on the
faces of this mighty crowd, but there was perfect
silence and orderly behaviour. The Governor re-
ceived the emissaries with salutes, placed them in
seats of honour, and feasted them with Chinese
delicacies. The next day he returned their visit,
when they plied him with champagne and other
good things. In due course they took their leave,
and departed on their return to Shanghai, having
been completely successful as to the object of their
mission. If the same bold policy which has cha-
racterised these preliminary measures be carried
out in more essential matters, we should have good
hopes of a speedy and satisfactory result. The
Chinese people themselve a are probably well-dis-
posed enough to enter into commercial relations
with us. The real obstructions arise from the
officials, who see, or fancy they see, their profit in
our exclusion. Before concluding these few re-
, marks, we would call attention to an extract from
that well-informed French journal the Univers,
which we transfer into our columns this day.
Rome and Opium are the two pivots—so we are
told—on which the present contest turns, France
representing the religion, and England the drug.
We are, therefore, necessarily antagonistic to each
other, for the religion must kill the drug, or the
drug the religion. It is in France, in the year
1851, that a public writer can put such trash upon
paper, and find even a don's readers !

THE NEW DEPARTMENT IN THE INDIAN GOVERN-
MENT.—We are indebted to the Calcutta Englishman
for a paper of some official importance. It is a reso-
lution by the Governor-General in Council, re-
organising the departments of account and audit
throughout the empire. Hitherto those depart-
ments have been included among the offices
open to all civilians. A clever collector might hope to
be Accountant-General. An over-severe commissioner
might be made exceedingly useful as sub-treasurer. A
young civilian wko hated examinations, but bad some
brain for business, might secure in the Treasury full work
and exemption from the vernaculars. As a matter of
course, although the work was not badly done, no one in
the department bad any special qualifications. The
chiefs were compelled to rely on their subordinate., and
the real business of account is perhaps almost as com-
pletely in the hands of clerks as it is in England,
It became necessary to introduce a more scientific ar-
rangement, and after a long correspondence the follow-
ing schisKze has been finally adopted :—The five Trea-
suries of the three presidencies are thrown into one
department. No civilian can enter until he has passed
five years in the Mofussil, and once entered he remains
for life. He is promcted in the department, and in the
department alone, shifting every two years from pre
sidency to presidency. He will thus before he reaches
the higher grades have acquired experience is every parthe
of India. In order to insure him fair promotion the
pay is a little better than in the ordinary bralnocoOr. a
the service, and no salary is to be less ihr
one.s
It
month. The plan is by no means an unskilful I
its logical
carries the principle of centralisation
presidency
result, in a department where centralisation is the first
requisite of success. The tranls err f
ge the
to presidency must greatly experience
of individual officers, and
them somewhat more
dasrenmaodern reforms con-
sist in imitations must render
ymitation of promotion
frequent and complee. which springs from
promises at least thatthe
thorough devotion of each man to
habit, and secures
his workAbovea
it assures us that the nominal
Above be also rea head, our
head of each division
slongerhalldepend onits thel exertionsthat of ir-
accounts shall no
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responsi

AraiNa•
A YANKEE JUDGE.—The other day a little boy was
before the Court for stealing a ball of thread. "
chargelhim," said Judge Brownell ; " it is to fly a kite
with, I suppose." A man was brought for stealing fat
from a bullock. Ile alleged that he stole it to greasehis
boots with. " Well, then," said the judge indsgnantly,
" Why couldn't you cut it out of the kidney, inetead of
spoiling a whole quarter. There was plenty of loose fat
lying around to grease your boots with, without Toiling
a quarter. Guilty—Penitentiary two months."—
Xnickfriocker.