The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-02 00:00:00

THE Ii4VEL9CK MTMORIAL.

Yesterday a deputation from th% Committee of
the Havelock Memorial Fund had an interview
with Viscount Palmerston. Tbere were present
—The E irl of Shaftesbury, the Right. Hon. H. U.
Addington, the Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P., Sir Ed-
ward Hulse, Bart., Sir James Duke, Bart., Gen.
Sir Harry smith, Bart., G.C. B.' Sir S. Morton
Peto, Bart., General Sir William F. Williams, of
Kars, K.C.13., Admiral Sir Baldwin W.. Walker,
Bart., K. C. 8., M.P., Sir James Grant, C. 8.,
LG-.H., Col. Sir Duncan M'Dougall, Sir John
Logan, Sir Macdonald Stephenson, Mr. Samuel
Gregson, M.P., Mr. George Moffatt, M P., Mr. P.
F. Robertson, M.P., Mr. W. Roupell, M.P., Mr.
Henry B. Sheridan, M.P., Lieut.-General de la
Mote, C. 8., Major-General Duncan Sim, Major
Adair, Cipt. Adair, Lapt. Morrison, R.A.C., Mr.
Christopher Rawgion, andoMr. Alexander Wilson.
The deputation requested permission to. have a
site in Trafalgar-square set apart for the purposes
of the committee, with a view to the erection of a
monument to the gallant hero, Sir Henry Havelock;
the monument to be supported by a base broad
enough to record the names of the officers who ac-
eompanied the deceased along the "path of fire"
which ended in the relief of Cawnpore and Luckuow,
together with a full reference to the regiments so
honourably associated with these events.
L trd Palmerston replied to 'the deputation by
expressing his warm sympathy with the object of
the committee, and said that although, there were
certain conventionalities that prevented a definite
reply to the reque,t of the committee at once, still
he would confer with the proper person': and com-
municate with the deputation in two or three days.
The deputation, which was introduced by the Earl
of Shaftesbury aid the Hon. A. Kiunaird, M.P.,
having acknowledged the satisfactory reception
given to them by the noble lord, retired.

THE LINEN TRADE.—AIter a season of rare inertion
and dulness, the market for white goods begins to stir
up and some very fair orders for the foreign trade
have been revived by the chief houses. The anxiety
felt about the accumulation of white goods may be
said to be quieted now that the turning point has been
gained, and that the prospects of a moderate demand
are more fully confirmed. Brown linens at the public
markets were pretty freely supplied this week. The
quantities of that class of goods in the bands of
makers are much below the usual range from the fact
that holders have bad large lots bleached during the
winter. Stooks of brown linens are, therefore much
below the average of the same period of last year. Yarns
-ell in large parcel., with however little advance in
value. High counts are very firm in all qualities. Flax
eel's at about the rates of last week—say, ss. 6d. to
Is 3d. per stone for hand-scutched, and 7p. 3d. to 12s.
for milted. Flaxseed quiet.— Übter Banner. .
THE GRAVEYARDS OF THE is not gene.
rally known that the Emperor of Russia, immediately
after the evecuation of the Crimea by the allied troops,
directed an elaborate ground plan, upon a large scale, to
be made of all the localities which had been used by them
as cemeteries. This plan was prepared with the utmost
care by Russian officers of engineers, and accompanied
by nn album, in which the inscription on every
grave was entered at full I'-ngth, with reference
to the plan. At the same time, the Emperor issued
an ukase that no grave should be interfered with.
This was particularly necessary, as some of the spots
selected for interment were in the heart of valuable
vineyards. This ukase had been strictly complied with
down to the time when our informant visited the Crimea,
where the plan and album we have referred to were
exhibited to him by the officers who had prepared them;
and we httva no doubt the same generous feeling which
dictated the formation of so effectoal a check upon any
desecration of these burial grounds will take eve ry pre-
caution for their future protection.—Lit..rary Gazette.
PROSECUTION FOR SEDITION.—On Saturday Jahn F.
Nu4erit, printer and publisher, 35, Cook-stri,et,
appeared before the magistrates at the head police-office
in that city, to answer a summons to show cause why
information should not be taken against him for publish.
ing "Nugent's Correct and Genuine Moore's Mercantile,
Weather, and Proptietic Sheet Almanac for 1858," being
a paper of a seditious a :(1 libellous nature, and intended
to create alarm, discontent, and disaffection in the minds
of her Majesty's subjects, and to bring religion and the
laws and Government of the country into hAred and
disrepute. Mr. Cline. Barry, with Mr. Geo. Keogh, ap-
peared to sustain the prosecution on behalf of the Police
C tnimis.ioners. Mr. J. A., Curran and Mr. Coffey, with
Mr. C. Fitzgerald,,sen, were concerned for the defendant.
The proceedings disclosed the character of the publica-
tion only iu a very general manner, The prosecution
disavowed a desire to press for severe penalties, and the
defendant, prorni•iog to suppress the sheet, was bound
over in his own recognisance in a sum of 3001. to keep
the peace and be of good behaviour for seven years.

BIRMLNOHEI AM AND THE ROYAL

MARRIAGE.

The spirit and liberality of the Mayor of Bir-
mingham, Mr. John Ratcliff, have been evinced in
an unexampled form on the occasion of the re-
joicings in celebration of the marriage of the
Princess Royal. The specimens of Birmingham
manufactures prepared for presentation to the
Princess Royal have been received with so much
iileasure'An I satisfaction, and have been acknow-
ledged in such a gracious manner, as fully to justify
the kindness and the wisdom of the originator and
proinotr of the undertaking. Upwards of a month
ago Mr. Ratcliff, the- chief magistrate of the
borough, with whom this gift on the part of the in-
' habitauis originated, put himself in communication
with the authorities at Buckingham Palace with
the view to ascertain whether they wou!d have
the approbat.on of her Majesty and the Prince
Consort in tendering a present worthy of themselves
and of the joyous event to the Princess Royal oi
her marriage. The desired permission was at once
accorded in flattering terms to the proper municipal
authority, and Mr. Ratcliff immediately entered
upon the necessary arrangements for giving full
effect to the generous in which he received
toe most cordial co-operation of the chief inhabi-
tants.

On Saturday last a large and influential deputa-
tion from the Corp.‘ration of Birmingham, headed
by Mr. John Ratcliff, the Mayor, and accompanied
among other gentlemen, by a considerable number
of the principal inhabitants represEnting the manu-
facturing interest of that town, had the honour of
an interview with the Prince and Princess Fre-
derick William of Prussia, for the purpose of pre-
senting to their Royal ighnesses an address of
cor,gratulation on their auspicious marriage.
They also brought with them an interesting col-
lection of specimens of their native manufactures
and works of art, prepared expressly for the occa-
sion, of the aggregate value of 2,0001., which they
presented to the Princess, as tokens of their affec-
tionate respect and admiration towards her Royal
Highness, and of loyalty to the Throne.
Mr. Scholefield introduced the deputation to
their Royal Highnesses, mentioning Mr. Ratcliff
by name, and saying that they were the bearers of
an address from the corporation, which Mr. Stan-
bridge, the town-clerk, would read. The town-
clerk then produced an elegantly ornamented copy
of the address, and read as follows
To THEIR ROYAL HIG FINESSES PRINCE FREDERICE
WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL OW
EN GLAND.

" We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the
borough of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, in
Council assembled, participating in the general joy
which pervades all classes of her Majesty's sutjectss
respectfully offer to your Royal Highnesses our sincere
congratulations upon your auspicious marriage.
"In humble testimony of the affectionate regard we
bear towards your Royal Highnesses, we offer for your
gracious acceptance some specimens of the manufactures
of our borough, at the same time expressing our sincere
and earnest hope that the union of your Royal High-
nesses may not only be the source of continued happiness
to yourselves, but the means of cementing in still closer
union with Great Britain the kingdom over which you
may hereafter be called upon to reign.
"Given under our coroerate common seal," &c., Sce.
Af, er reading the address, Mr. Stanbridge handed
it to the mayor, who then stepped forward to pre-
sent it to the Prince-s. She, however, with a
plea-ant snide, turned towards her husband, inti-
mating that he, as head of the family, should receive
the a idies3. The graceful manner in which this
little bye-play was performed made it perhaps the
most interesting feature of the day. The address
having been presented to the Prince, he received
from an attendant a paper, from which he read the
following reply :
" Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,—Accept on behalf of
myself and toe Ptincses, our warmest thanks for your
congratulations, and Isr year beautiful and interesting
present, which is a most worthy representation of the
manufactures of one of the vast centres of British indus-
try. Your gift will ever remain to us a precious token
of the affectionate sympathy of the corporation and the
manufacturers of Birmingham. With you I hope that
this union, the source of the greatest happiness to
myself, may at the same time prove the means of increas-
ing the friendly relations which so happily subsist
between the two countries."
At the conclusion of the reply the mayor again
stepped forward to present a catalogue of the con"
ttibution.l, beautifully written and illuminated, and
handsomely bound. In doing this Mr. Ratchet said
"It affords me great pleasure to hand to your Royal
Highness a catalogue of the articles which you have
honoured the town of Birmingham and its manufacture°
by graciously accepting. They are offered not as works
of art, but as a humble and affectionate expression 0f
loyalty to the Crswn, of devotedness to the beloved
Sovereign of this vast empire, and in testimony of our
participation in the general happiness to which your
union has given rise. On the part of the inhabitants of
trio important borough which I have the honour to re-
present, allow me to hope that on leaving the shores of
your native country, and on arriving in that of your.
adoption, it may please Providence to grant you and
your Royal husband every happiness and felicity."
The Princess said that she had examined the pre-
sents in company with the Queen, and that they
were highly pleased. She should always regard
them 28 coming from the people of BirminghaL%
and should retain a lively recollection both of the
gifts and of the kind terms in which they had been
presented. She hoped the mayor would couve,i
this expression of her regard and her pleasure to
the burgesses.
The Prince said that some years ago he had visited
some of the manufactories of Birmingham, and the
presents that day received recalled to his mind the
pleasure which he had felt at that visit. He as-
sured the mayor that be should ever highly esteem
this t'tken of sympathy and goodwill of the people
of Birmnghttm.
Their Royal Highnesses then graciously bowed
to the deputation, who withdrew.
The deputation was accompanied by Mr. &hole'
field, M.P., Mr. Spooner, M.P., Rev. Dia
Speener, and Mr. Charles 11ttcliff.