The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TURSDA,Y

of the:debt ; but rather that which would create
additional embarrassment in a year of deficiency,
by keeping up inconvenient claims, That system,
so dear to the heart of money-lenders, found a
strenuous advocate in the ex-Chancellor of the
Exchequer. He must have closely studied the
rules of the various loan societies that abound
throughout the metropolis, and been a convert to
the principle of "prospective engagements for the
reduction of outstanding debts." This may be
all very well when the borrower cannot obtain
money on other terms ; but where he is in good
credit, where such stringent obligations are not
required, it would be madness to unduly fetter
or to sow the seeds of future difficulties.

How often has it occurred that over careful
testators have provided that their heirs should
be prevented from entering into the possession
of the properties bequeathed until they attained
some age, generally between 25 and 30. But
such provisions have almost invariably proved
fruitless. They are, indeed, worse than useless,
for, driving the expectant heir into usurious
hands, they make him incur heavier responsibili-
ties than the accumulated assets would liquidate,
while the money goes to enrich a class—the last
whom the testator would wish to profit by his
devise.

As in private, so it is in public affairs. The
effect of the compulsory payment would only be
to drive the nation into the hands of wealthy
capitalists who could make their own bargains.
The best plan is to make both ends meet, to avoid
new debt so far as practicable, and by keeping up
a moderate surplus, gradually reduce the debt
by the operation of an enactment which meets
general approbation.

The House of Lords has resolv_ea. almost by
acclamation, that the "political" or "State"
services shall be expunged from the Book of
Common-prayer. The members of the Church of
England will no longer be compelled to make
" Guys" of themselves on the sth of November ;
and it is to be hoped that when there is no longer
ecclesiastical authority for the practice, the street
demonstrations that excite so much strife, dissipa-
tion, and ill-feeling, may also cease. Thu 30th of
January, the anniversary of the execution of
CHARLES 1., and the 29th of May, that of the re-
storation of the greatest profligate that ever
grasped the British sceptre, could scarcely be
cause either fur mourning or rejoicing in the
19th century. The three events related to the
dynasty which, of all others that reigned over
Great Britain, had least claim to distinction,
and which was eventually expelled from the
throne. But there was a quasi canonisation.
There was the " ST. JAMES," of the British ca-.
lendar, succeeded by the Martyr (0 CHARLES, and
CHARLES the good (0, the pious (!), the amiable (!).
Surely their "happy reigns" should be celebrated
by the pious through all succeeding generations.
It is true that these observances were, by the
great majority of pastors, considered more honoured
in the breach than in the observance, that they
were generally skipped over by the most orthodox
divines, save when the anniversaries fell on Sun-
days. But they were still kept up in Cathedral and
Collegiate Churches and Chapel.. The latter
were, perhaps, the most objectionable of any, be-
came they were addressed to the rising genera-
tion, and taught lessons of bigotry that could
never be quite got rid of.

We are happy to find that the Archbishop of
CANTERBURY and the Bishops of LONDON and
OXFORD concurred iu the resolution ; and
although the octogenarian Bishop of BANGOR
mumbled forth a faint dissent, alleging
that the services were not obsolete, but
full of vigour and beauty, the resolution was
carried without a division. Lat the Church now
strive to reform itself—to remove the blots by
which it has been defaced—getting rid of
" vain repetitions," and relying on its sound
and pure doctrines, and the really beautiful
portions of its liturgy. Let it endeavour to win
men who could not agree with its faults, and all
will be well, and all classes of Protestants brought
within one common fold.

Several years ago, new life was suddenly im-
parted to two gigantic colonies in distant parte of
the world—the one a British colony, the other a
colony in thepossesiion of the United States. Almost
simultaneously, geld dust and gold nuggets, gold
in quartz and gold in river sands, gold here, there,
and everywhere was found yonder by the Yankees
in California, yonder by the Britishers in Austra-
lia. The discovery was—if ever a discovery may
with the strictest truth be so described—
Providential. It occurred in the very
nick of time iu regard at once to the commer-
cial, political, and social hopes and wants of two
enormous populations. According to the deliberate
verdict already pronounced upon these great events
of history, it has been observed in reference
to the Californian and Australian gold mines that
" they promise in their ultimate effects not only
to obviate many of the greatest evils under which
society Las long labourer?, but to bring about a
new balance of power in every State, and relieve
industry from the worst part of the load which
has hitherto oppressed it." The remark is that
of Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON—a remark occurring
in the masterly and comprehensive resume
preceding the introductory chapters of
his continuation of the i" History of Eu-
rope." As directly illustrative of the truth of
his observation, the annalist goes on to remark
how often, in the records of the human race,
there have appeared the like extraordinary and
wholly unanticipated events—events which have
txtricated nations from supremeemergencies, from
difficulties apparently ova whelming. Thus at
4-. he close of the fifteenth century —when the
labouring Classes througheut Etirope were more
than ever grievously oppressed by the feudal
institutions--COLUMBUS crossed the Atlantic—
America, was opened to the energies of the
old eastern hemisphere—the mines of Peru and
Mexico were discovered--wealth poured into the
exhausted coffers of Christendom. Precisely in a
like moment of peril—immediately upon the mor-
row of the monetary crash of 1848—the Ameri-
cans being driven by the very force of their finan-
cial embarrassments into a career of military
conquest, after annexing Texas, absorbed Cali-
fornia into the compass of the republican
dominions, and suddenly held within their
grasp a treasure as magical and seemingly
as inexhaustible as the purse of Fortunatur.
So too, Yet more appreciably among ourselves,
has it been with regard to Rigland and her most
opportune discovery immediately after wards of I
the gold diggings in Austral)a. The enormous
unemployed surplus of the population soon found
the desired field for indolent energies,—being
shipped away in thousands for the golden wastes
of the antipodes.

Another movement of a similar character is
now suddenly opening up to view in a totally
opposite direction, in another of our vast colonial
Possessions. The Hudson's Bay territories yield
In their turn a providential crop of gold,
and lure the adventurous gold diggers and their
beasts of burden yet again •to " fresh' lief& and

pasettAg new." The precious metal haring. been
just discovered in most unf xpected abunda:ace
both on Fraser's river and Tltompson's river—
there is a reasonable prospect at last that the
irresistible contagion of the gold fever will.,
yet empower the millions at last to break
down the obstructive barriers' hitherto raised
by the odious monopoly of the Hudson's Bay
Company—leading at last to the happy colonisa-
tion of those neglected but most fruitful pos-
sessions. It is amusing to think now in
these times of wholesale gold discoveries, north,
south, east, and west—when the dreams of El
Dorado are surpassed by the facts of San Fran-
cisco, where the romantic visions of Cathay and
Cipango are wholly eclipsed by the more radiant
realtLies Walel —it is amusing enough,
we say, to think of the old midite Jai wise.Lzre-,
wasting their time over their alchemical experi-
ments in a vain and maddening search after the
Philosopher's stone that was to turn the baser
metals into gold—when gold was all the while
squandered about in the then undiscovered regions
of the Hudson's Bay Territory, of Australia, and
of California.

Colonel and Mrs. Plunkett Burton entertained at
dinner last evening at their house in Grosvenor-square,
the Earl and Countess of Dartmouth, Earl and Countess
of Bradford, and Miss Moncrieffe, Viscount Newark,
M.P., and Viscountess Newark, Viscount Boyle, Hon.
Mr. and Lady Augusta Fiennes, Hon. Mr. and Mrs.
Bertee Percy, and Miss Percy, Hon. Frederick
Calthorpe, Hoe. Gilbert Heathcote, M.P., and Admiral
Ryder Burton.
It is said a coinage of double sovereigns is shortly to
be issued.
The Calcutta and China mails are expected to be de-
livered in London to-morrow morning.
The steamer Royal Charter, from Melbourne, with
405,0001. in gold, has now been at sea 78 days.
It is believed that the shipments of specie to Calcutta
by the steamer of the 4th July will be considerably
below the sum—viz., 202,3751., despatched by the last
ves,el for that port.
Messrs. C. A. Jonas and Co., Swedish merchants,
who failed in December last, will pay a first dividend of
3?. in the pound on the 7th July.
Captain Hyde, who so skilfully navigated the Austra-
lian mail steamer Oeeida, when she broke down last
year between King George's Sound end Ceylon, has
teen appointed to the command of the Tasmanian, the
new steamer just built for the European and Australian
Mail Company.
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS DAYLIGHT.—Last Tuesday was
the lOcgest day in the year, and during the whole 24
hours, as has been the case each day for a week or two
past, the smallest print might be read by the light of the
sun at any hour a.m. or p.m. The weather in the mean-
time continues most agreeable. —John &Groat Journal.
THE NAvY.—The following is the expense of re fitting
the undermentioned ships for reoommission in 1853, as
shown by a return from the Admiralty just issued—
viz., the Duke of Wellington, 17,6501. ; the Arrogant,
19.9131. ; the Cressy, 7,3131. ; the Nile, 13 7731. ; the.
Etiryalus, 10,8281. ; and the Exmouth, 11,9121.
BRIGHTON ATHENJEUM.-1.1.r. Edwin Jane's, Q.C.,
Recorder of Brighton, bars offered three prizes of 51. 5,.,
31. 35., and 2/. 2 .. respectively, for an eraay en the fol-
lowing subject :—" Is a constitutional form of Govern-
meet a laptel to the character ned genies of the French
nation I" The competition to be open to all members
of the Atherseum whose subscriptions commence on or
before the let of July, 1858.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Rosary is now in the highest
perfection. Hundreds cf thousands of the richest speci-
mens are in the fullest bloom and fragrance. The gera-
niums, calceolarias, retta'es, and other choice plants are
at their best, presenting a scene of gorgeous beauty
which delights:he crowd of visitors now thronging there.
and realises, as far as earth can, the fabulous Gardens
Elysian fame, where Paris spend their leisure in chasing
golden moths, and flinging flowers at each other.
ALARMING FIRE AT THE GLOUCESTER COUNTY LU-
NATIC ASYLUM.—GLOUCESTER, Monday.—Last evening
an extensive fire broke out at the Lunatic Asylum, as
above, situate at Wootton, about a mile on the east
from Gloucester, which at one time threatened .the
utter destruction of that extensive establishment, con-
taining over 500 pauper lunatic patients, but which
was fortunately kept confined to the internal destruc-
tion of the north wing, a comparatively new erection,
130 feet in length, four storeys in height, and con-
taining nearly 40 wards frr patients, lavatories, &c.
The poor inmates of that part were fortunately re-
moved safely. The entire loss is estimated at 2,0001.,
but the building is insured.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT THE ADELPIII THEATRIE.—On
Saturday morning a dreadful accident occurred to James
Brown, aged 30 years, who resided in White-street,
Bethnal-green-road, under the following circumstances :
—lt appears he was engaged with some other men iu
pulling down the Adelplai Theatre, when a pioee of tim-
ber gave way, and he fell on his head a depth of 60 feet.
be was picked up in a state of- insensibility and con-
veyed to Charing-cross Hospital, where Mr. Palmer, the
house surgeon, on examination, found his skull fractured,
besides other very extensive injuries. Not the slightest
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
According to a private telegram from Bombay the late
of excLange had receded 23. Old., being a further move-
ment oc 1 per cent. in favour of this country. Thus,
within a month the fall had been equal to 3 per cent., a
circumstance that must tend effectually to check the ex-
port of silver from England. The prneent advices also
mention an improvement of 2 per cent, in the price of
Government securities, which may ba accepted as an in-
dication that the latest military cud political news re-
ceived from the interior was not considered unsatisfac-
tory: From Shanghai there were dates two days later
—namely, to the 28th April, when the exchange had
again returned to 6 ld., showicg a favourable alters-
tien equal to about 1i pe- cent.
At a special meeting of the Port Philip and Colonial
Gold Mining Company, yesterday, Sir C. Rich. in the
chair, a statement was read by which it appeared that
the quartz-erusbing operations at Cranes on the com-
pany's estate are proving remun. retive, the total receipts
from that establishment during the month of Idarch
bring 3,2201., while the expenditure, including several
items of an exceptional character, was 1,8431. About
48 tons a-day have been crushed in the first three
months of the year, at a cost of rather less than 29e. a
tone R-ference is made to a report by Mr. Selwyn, ti e
geologist to the Colonial Government, and Mr. Thomp-
son, the company's mine agent, as to the abundance of
the veins of quartz and the good supply of water on the
property, which it is calculated will provide for a conti-
essence of prcfi able operations. The directors express a
confident hope that sufficient may be realised to enable
them to declare a dividend in January.
ASYLUM FOR FEISIALE ORPHANS, WESTMINSTER-ROAD.
--CENTENARY THANKSGIVING.—This institution, which
was established in 1758 through the praiaeworthy taxer-
tient; of Sir John Fielding, and subsequently honoured
with the patronage of her Majesty Queen Charlotte, as
also by her present Majesty, and having the late and
present Duke of Cambridge as presidents, had this morn-
ing an assemblage in the chapel of the apprentices and
those broughterp within its walls (some of the latter being
mothers and even grandmothers of the scholars now
there ; but although several are in service a considerable
number have attained a better positiOn
insetiletetYlrefolre
the purport enary
comma noration °tits establishment, His grace
bishop cf Canterbury having kindly consented to honour
the institution arrived shortly before 12 o'clock, and was
received by several of the vice-presidents, committee; and
officers, and conducted to the chapel where the thanks-
giving service appointed for this occasion was performed,
cud his Grace then addressed the past and present scho•
lane and with the roost, fervid eloquence dilated upon
the past services the institution bad rendered to society,
culegi3iree the exertions of the officers by whom it had
been conducted, and exercised hopes for its continuous
prosperity- The c orgrt gatireself‘er the honediMion had
been given by his Grace' retired from the chepel, the
greater portion attending his Grace in procession round
tei the principal entrance gates, and passing through an
elegantly draped corridor to the pavilion, the whole
erected by B. Edgingthn, cf London-',ridge, for the pur-
pose of being present at the dinner of the past and pre-
sent scholars, and the number which partook thereof
being nearly 400, comprising 150 present scholars, as
're 84 apprentices, and about 190 former pupils of
various Le- ‘;!,„!e went off with great eclat,
and highly gratifying to the freeness Arid euiee.reere cf
this admirahle charity.
HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, BROMPTON.-011 Sun-
day the claims of this valuable institution were most
ably advocated by the Lord Bishop of Limerick, who.
preached an eloquent sermon in the chapel of the hos-
pital at Brumpton. The Leau•ifal chapel was thrown
open to the public on this occasion, and a numerous
congregation attended. His lordship selected for his
text Matthew x. s—" To the peer the gospel is
preached," and detailed in glowing terms the duties cf
Christians, as exempl fied by the Lord, in assisting
their peorar and afflcted brethren. He drew a vivid
picture of the state of the poor people suffering
from the peculiar disease of consumption, au
affliction which cau -tad most patient endurance

on the part of the friends and relations of the
sufferer, to say nothing of the cxpense and iucapability
of properly tending to their wants, and calla' on his
hearers to c3nsitier the great benefits which rnu3t accrue
to the sufferers and to their relations by having then
removed to the c)mbrtable Ea hl briou wards tf tfrei

beautiful mansion under which rt,of they we; e assert:lloi
It was a matter of regret that the funds of the charity
wire .inadequate to the wants of those already in the
hospital, and prevented the possibility of admitting as
many patients as the c)mrcittee of the institution wished.
There were 80 beds which c)uld not be filled o ing to the
want of fund.,,, but it was trusted that those who wore
blessed a ith means would give what they could, and in
asking them to d 9 so it was only to give 'as it were the
crumbs frdm their tables, so that it should not be said
that any one of the portals of such a praiseworthy and
beneficial institution should be kept eosed to the nu-
merous sufferers who were clamouring f n. admission and
relief. At the conclusion of the service his lordship's
eloquent appeal was responded to by a large and liberal
collection, including the handsome donation a 501. from
John Ilardy, Esq , of Grafton-street. A sermon was
also preached at St. James's Oboist], Ylrli-street, St.
James's,: by the Rev. Thomas Bt.ar.AFe, M.A., in aid of
the funds, and a libc4al ofteetion was [Wade,

Li NTEST NEWS.

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY.
The EMperor and Einpres3 were yesterday pre-
sent at tue inauguration of the monumaut erected
by his Majesty to the memory of his mother, green
Hortense, in the church of Rueil, which also con-
tains the mausoleum of the Empress Jcsephine.
Their Majesties were received at the entrance of the
church by Marshal Magnan, the Prefect of the
Seiue-et-Oise, 'and the Mayor of Rueil, and after
hav:ng received the holy water and the incense
offered to them by the cure of the parish, were con-
ducted in procession to the seats which had been
prepared for their reception in front of the grand
altar. After Divine service, and while the
Orpheonists of Rueil were executing the 0 Salu-
t3ris, the cure, attended by his clergy, proceeded to
t!,e bottediti.in of the mausoleum. Their Majesties
then retina ad,"1.1,, acc..!rtn-lati'ms of the crowd
which had assembled.

The new Ministry of tie Prince Napoleon will,
as is known, be composed of the direction of Alge-
rian affairs, now vested in the Minister of War, and
that of Colonies, now in the Ministry of Marine.
The former consists of four bureaux, the first com-
prising the general and municipal administration of
Algeria ; the second colonisation, agriculture, and
domains ; the third mines, forests, and various
taxes; tie fourth commerce, customs, and statis-
tics. The direction of colonies also comprises
four bureaux, the first the policy and commerce
of the colonies, the second legislation and ad-
ministration, the third military services and public
functionaries, the fourth finances' and supplies.
The French colonies are divided into ten esta-
blishments :-1, MArtinique ; 2, Guadeloupe and
its dependencies; 3, the Ile Reunion (Bourbon) ;
4, Mayottes and dependencies ; 5, French Guiana ;
6, St. Pierre and Miquelon, in the Gulf of St.
Lawrenc,s ; 7, Senegsl ; 8, the Isle of Gorea and
its dependencies ; 9, the French establishments in
India, the chief place of which is Pondicherry ; 10,
the French establishments in Oceana. The expenses
of the colonies (not including Algeria) are set do Nn
in the budget of 1859 at 21,754,724 fr., and
200,000 fr. for the bureaux in Paris. The force
employed in the service of the colonies is 4,860 in-
fantry, 1,077 artillery, and 36 vessels manned by
1,000 sailors.

The lndepcndance -ef Bmssels, which has been
again admitted il:to France, places the following
very ju t► observationi at the head of its leading
c )lumn

" The happy effects of the modifications which
have of late taken place in France in the tenden-
cies of the Government are making themselves
more and more felt. Each day brings with it
symptoius of the arnelioration which may be per-
ceived in the general situation of the country.
Calm and confidence are reviving there, according
as the remembrance of the former mode of pro-
ceeding, is becoming weaker. The nominations
of M. Delangle and M. Devienne, and the appoint-
ment of Prince Napoleon—all tolerant minds with
liberal ideas, are favourable to a fair amount of
freedom—are so many pledges given to put:lic opi-
nion that. the time of severity has passed away,
and that France is about to enter on the path of
pacification, That being affirmed, it only remains
for us to hope fur analogous modifications in the
intercourse of the country with foreign powers.
As far as diplomatic agents are considered, these
relations have not been troubled, and we have eva n
seen by the speed: es delivered at the Lord Mayor's
dinner that with England in particular they are
re-established on bases of the most complete cor-
diality. But that is not sufficient; the international
discussion of the governmental press iu France with
the English and Austrian journals must calm clown
and give way to a feeling more in harmony with the
wants of Europe, which needs tranquillity and
peace."

The Belgian journal concludes by blaming the Con-
stitutionne/ for the unmeasured manner in which
it has of late attacked Lord Malmesbury and other
statesmen of England.
BOURSE, June 28.—The following were the closing
quotations :

4L, per Cents ...... ... 94 Credit Fancier
Do. end month - Belgian 41
3 per Cent. ..... ... 68 25 Piedniontese (5)
Do. end month 6B 25 Roman 9l'
Bank Shares , . ..... 3100 Austrian
Credit Mobilier ... 645 Spanish Throes
Do. Account 642 50 Home Debt 3B;
...._

' RAILWAYS.--FOR CASH. • ..
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto 765 Eastern
Lyon and Mediteran.. 775 Grand Central —
New Ditto — Sardinian
Geneva, - 620 Austrian • 670