The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY' EVENING, JUNE 1, 1858

Gulf, are at length in a fair way of being carried
out in the right direction and upon the right
principle. Hitherto England has not been secur-
ing to herself what has nevertheless been all along
entirely at her option—a, perfect and absolute in-
dependence. As Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY took
occasion to remark while he was President of the
Board of Trade, this country has hitherto been in-
curring a terrible hazard in the event of war, the
risk of having abruptly cut off at any moment the
accustomed channels of intelligence. The obso-
lete semaphore was perpetually liable to the most
tantalising interruptions by reason of a fog, of a
mist, of any unexpected obscuration of the atmos-
phere. The electric wire is continually in yet
greater jeopardy of being at any instant rendered
altogether useless. Traversing as it does one after
another of the continental nations, it may be any-
where in its course snipped by the intervention
of a popular insurrection, or by a rupture with
the Government. If not destroyed it may be
turned to our own serious and immediate disad-
vantage. Through it information of the most
vital importance may be transmitted to the enemy
most inopportunely. The necessity of obviating
this liability to fatal consequences as speedily and
effectually as possible has been rapidly becoming i
more and more obvious to the whole community,
and has at length forced itself upon the recognition
of the more enterprising and intelligent. An under-
taking of the most daringly comprehensive kind,
well imaginable, has at last been set on
foot, and happily with every reasonable prospect
before it of being carried before long to the most
satisfactory conclusion. Reference is here made,
of course, to the project for the laying down, by
means of an electric cable, of a grand European and
American Telegraph—a submarine line, in fact,
not simply either European or American, not
merely both together, but one literally bringing
the ends of the earth into instantaneous commu-
nication, linking the eastern with the western
hemisphere, knitting closely with one another the
extremities of Asia and the extremities of Ame-
rica by a metallic cord running from one to the
other between the African and the European con-
tinents, namely, along the bed of the Mediter-
ranean. A preliminary meeting in furtherance of
this great object has been held in the City of
London, and a lucid explanation of the whole
scheme was then given by Mr. EDWIN CLARKE,
the eminent civil engineer, and previously by the
distinguished chairman of the occasion, Mr.
JAMES WYLD, M.P. for Bodmin, a man, whose
opinion is undoubtedly of the very highest value
and importance upon the subject—Mr. WYLD
being, as every one knows, one of the most gifted
and authoritative of all our living hydrographers.
It is proposed by the adoption of this new route
that England shall at last be rendered alto-
gether independent of the nations of the
European continent in regard to its electric
communications with Hindostan. It is in-
tended, for example, in the first instance, to
carry a line right on from Plymouth to
Alexandria by way of Gibraltar and Malta—our
own military stations—or still by a submarine
electric cable to our remote Asiatic possessions.
Turning in the opposite direction, it is suggested
that from Lisbon the cable should branch west-
wards by way of Flores, one of the Azores, ts
some point on the coast of the United States---say
to Boston or Charlestown. As to the engineer-
ing difficulties in the way of such an extraordinary
double enterprise, what are the distinct and
authoritative views most recently expressed ?
Why, Mr. WYLD has directly asserted, that " se
far as the line between Plymouth and Lisbon,
and thence to Malta was concerned, which was
the part he was anxious to see first undertaken,
there was not the slightest room for doubt
respecting the laying of the cable, as the sound-
ings of every inch of the ground were already
accurately known." The honourable gentleman
having Already rernarkod that " difficulties fully
as great as those which might be anticipated be-
tween the Azores and Boston, or Charlestown,
had been successfully overcome in the Mediter-
ranean lines, where the cable had been laid over
chasms in the bed of the sea, as deep as any that
would in all probability be encountered in the
Atlantic." Upon this point, Mr. EDWIN CLARKE
was afterwards, if possible, still mere explicit.
" From Flores to Boston," he said, " over
the Atlantic, he could only judge by analogy and
comparison. There might not be a plateau, or
there might ; but that was of no consequence,
and very little advantage. There might be chasms;
but these had been found in the Mediterranean,
and the lines had been successfully laid over them.
Dspths there were ; but these were not obstacles,
nor difficulties, they were only special circum-
stances, requiring special treatment on the part of
the engineer. Where he had found difficulties in
hying down cables—and he had submerged four
across one sea between Holland and England—he
had found no difficulty from depths, but rather
from the want of depths. The shallows, not the
depths, were troublesome." Opinions like these,
remember, are the satisfactory and reliable results
of practical experience. Than the deliberate
views thus expressed by an eminent geographer
like Mr. WYLD, and subsequently by an eminent
engineer like Mr. CLARKE, nothing, we con-
ceive, could well be more satisfactory. Every
syllable is full of encouragement. As regarded
that part from Lisbon, by the Azores to Boston,
Mr. CLARKE said "he could answer for the
space from Lisbon to Flores that there was no
engineering difficulty in submerging the cable
that came within his own knowledge." As to the
practicability of trailing the cable along the bed
of the Mediterranean—that has been already
again and again conclusively demonstrated--even,
as we have seen, to the crossing of chasms "as
deep," according to the Member for Bodmie,
"as any that would in all probability be
encountered in the Atlantic." From Flores
on to Boston we shall see soon what
the chances of success are likely to be from the
result of the new enterprise now on the eve of
being carried out in:mid-ocean for the laying down
of the transatlantic telegraph. From Alexandria
on to Hindostan the route has yet to be selected.
According to Captain PULLEN'S statement, ad-
dressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and
dated "Suez, April 15, H.M.'s steamer Cyclops,"
THE NEw INFANTRY REGIMENT.—We learn from Que-
no better route could well be chosen than that bee that between seven and eight hundred men of the
temptingly offered to us by the Red Sea, Capt. 100t,h Regiment were collected there on the 13th of
May. It was said that her Majesty's steamer Vulcan
PULLEN's words upon this subject are in every would take the 100th Re2iinent to England.
way very remarkable, and are entitled to serious Summer weather has at length set is in Paris. The
consideration. << I bee, thermometer stood, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon,
g to observe," he says, in the shade, at 84 deg. Fahrenheit.
"that I think no place can be better adapted for The Patric announces that M. de Lamartine'e
hying a telegraph cable than in the Red Sea ;
the
horses
w t o
were sold h
onis of
i‘ n
chateauSat urda Saturday last atne
iSat. Point,isshrtly
o to be
there certainly is the choice of routes, and sold to satisfy ono of his creditors.
throughout on either shore a soft bed may be got
The Viiited Sereiec Gazette understandst and
dade
thatdl
that 150
the water is des ;
officers, serving in India, have tendered their resigna-
p, though not more so, or even so tions to Gmerai Si, Colin Campbell, G.C.B.
It is reported (says the Gret•nwich Free
.Press of Sa
muel), as where other cables have been laid ' ' tnrclay) throughout the borough of C4reenwich that Mr.
except perhaps in the middle, and all we know of Townsend intends resigning next week.
that yet is certainly of a nature to cause no in- HEAD-MASTERSIIIP OF THE CHAD.TER-HOUSE.—At a
jury." Than this nothing could vet court of the governors held yesterday, which was at-
y well be more tended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of
straightforward ox more satisfactory. A company
P
is forthwith prepared with the funds necessary the
and Marquisoth ers of Lansdeicvne, the Earls of
,
Derby, Devon, and Howe, Lords Par.more, Craewortb,
the Rev. R.. Elwyn, M.A.,
for the immediate carrying out of the whole of ; jouhcncl eititeuti3,s
eitih,
late Fellow of Trinity Collrge, Cam biidge, and' senior
this magnificent enterprise—if aided only by the i
I classic of his year, wag elec:ed to efle post of Head-
master, vacant by the lamented death ,of Dr. Elder.
sympathy and the guarantee of her MAJESTY'S I THE WEXFORD MURDER.—Thomas, Cooper, charged
the recent murder of Michwl Hogan, near E MIN-
.
Government. We cannot for an instant danbt
wwohritihy, has been fully committed to;" take I trial at
that this wacouralcoment will be at once accorded. the approaching ass,izig.

EPIGRAM.

G3o(I people oft display great contrariety;
So one we know, religious to satiety,
B,gins to show a liking for variety.

London, May 31, 1858.

The enormous, indeed, we may say without exagge-
ration, the absolutely incalculable advantages
accruing from the completion of such an under-
taking, cannot by possibility be overlooked by the
Administration. Once let us realise this magni-
ficent project, and we shall be independent of
foreign nations, and whether in peace or in war
our vast and scattered dominions will be perma-
nently consolidated by means of one comprehen-
sive system of electro-telegraphic intercourse. •

The Ministerial arrangements necessitated by
the resignation of Lord ELLENBOROUGH have been
completed. Lord STANLEY is to be the President
of the India Board, and Sir E. BIILWER LYTTON
the Secretary for the Culonies. We need scarcely
repeat what we have so often declared, our deep
regret at the loss of the inestimable services of
the Noble Earl, who, with the peculiar chivalry
for which he has ever been conspicuous, offered
himself up as a voluntary sacrifice to allay the
acrimonious spite of the Opposition. Had he not
done so, the Ministerial triumph would have
been signal and complete. The " coiti-con-
fiscation," policy, which he so ably and
so nobly advocated, would have been sane-
tinned by both Houses of Parliament as it has
been by the voice of public opinion, Speaking
trumpet-tongued in his praise. At Cannon Rovi
the Earl of ELLENBOROUGUI was " the right man
in the right place." -He was peculiarly qualified
for the position. His great experience, combined
with the energy and decision indispensable, were
all that could be desired or hoped for.
It is not any disparagement to Lord STANLEY
to say, that we regret the change, although there
is no doubt that he will make an excellent Indian
Minister, second only to the Earl of ELLEN-
BOROUGH. His talents Lave been duly appre-
ciated by friends and foes. Thera has been no
Administration for several years that had not
courted his aid. He was justly looked on
as " the coming man," the incipient Statesman
who might yet be called on to direct and control
the destinies of the United Kingdom. He is
well acquainted with Indian affairs, and he did
not acquire his information by any royal road.
He travelled and encountered all the inevitable
difficulties and annoyances to which the Indian
wayfarer is exposed. But he acquired knowledge
in the only way it could be won, and perhaps,
next to Lord ELLENBOROUO; he is the very best
man for the situation.

By the death of the Duchess d'Orleans the French
budget saves 200,000 f. a year, which neither the Republic
nor the coup d'etat attempted to withdraw, it being the
national cl,wre gertl,i by France, but there is no rev,+r-
sior.a-y interest in the Count de Paris.
Toe Bard of Trade have advert Lied the co:tditiokis cf
tender for the construction of a single line of railway and
telegraph at the Cape from Capeto ovn to Wellington,
via Stellenbosch, under a guarantee from the colony,
which will also furnish the requisite land. The parties
tendering are to state the rate and duration they will
require as regards guaranteed interest, and also the
period,to be allowed them for completing and opening
tho undertaking.
OPENING OF THE LEEDS NEW TOWN HALL BY HER
MAJESTY.--LEEDS, Monday.—We have great pleasure
in announcing that her Majesty the Queen has graciously
signified her intention of being present in Leeds at the
latter end of August, for the purpose of inaugurating
the noble Town Hall of this borough.
The Hampshire Advertiser contradicts the statement
that Portsmouth is being strongly fortified, and asserts
that •` the old forts are not worth the mud they consist
of."

It was intimated yesterday to the London bankers by
the Board of Inland Revenue that, except in the mutual
arrangements between bankers, clerks presenting cheques
will not be recognised as representing their employers so
as to exempt such cheques when drawn payable to "self "
and not to bearer from the penny stamp. This decision
will be satisfactory to the public, since the other prac-
tice would have led to numerous inconvenient and petty
evasions, which in the aggregate would seriously have
interfered with the revenue expected to be derived from
the new impost.
The rate of interest on French Treasury Bonds has
been fixed at 3 per cent, for those of from 3 to 6
months, and 3t- per cent, for those of from 6 to 12
months. This involves no alteration except a reduc-
tion of a half per cero. in those having more than
11 months to run, which, duce the 18th of last March,
have carried 4 per cent.
The telegrams from Bombay describe an adverse
tendency in the market for manufactured goods. There
is some discrepancy in the quotation of the rate of ex-
change, but it is believed to be 2s lid, which would show
a further improvement of a half per cant, in our favour.
In the prices of Government Stocks there was no altera-
tion, the 5 per Cents, being at 92, and the 4 per Cents.
at 821. There has been no later intelligence from
China.
The Moniteur announces that on and after the
31st of May the interest on Bons du Tresor will be
3 per cent. for those of from three to six months,
awl 31 per cent. for those from six to twelve
months.
THE LATE HUGH MILLER.—It is perhaps not generally
known that a fund is at present being raised to secure
the permanent maintenance in this country of the valu-
able museum collected by this distinguished geologist.
Government had destined 5001. for this purpose, but the
Rum of 1,000 guineas having been offered by an Ame-
rican college, it has become necessary, in order to secure
the deposition of the collection in one of our national
institutions, that the sum offered by Government should
be supplemented by public or private contributions,
and a subscription has accordingly been commenced in
Edinburgh, under the auspices of the Lord Provost.
About 3001. are still needed to complete the purchase-
money and cover the expenses of removal . and arrange-
ment.

The whole nation will rejoice at the accession
to office of Sir E. BIILWER LYTTON. He is in-
deed a great man, capable of adding strength to
any Government, and his absence from office was
felt as a material drawback on the formation of
the present Cabinet. He is now a Secretary of
State, and we are convinced that the highly-
cultivated iutellecf, the mental power for
which he is so remarkably distinuishecl,
will be displayed to the best advantige in the
administration of the affairs of our numerous and
important colonies. We believe that the com-
munity at large will cordially concur in the opi-
nion that the new Ministerial arrangements are
the best that could be formed under the peculiar
circumstances.

DEATH OP STEPHEN COPPINOER, Est—This gentle-
man, who had been an active member of the Roman
Catholic Association, died rather suddenly yesterday.
He attended the funeral of Mr. John O'Connell, on
Friday, when he appeared in good health. Mr. Cop-
piner was a b,rrister, in the enjoyment of emolumen-
tary practice.
TRINITY MONDAY.—Yesterday being Trinity Mon-
day, a special general court was held at the Trinity
House, on Tower-hill, at which his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort was unanicnotray re-electA master,
and Captain John Shepherd deputy master, of that
ancient corporation, for the ensuing year. Court
then proceedkd to the parish church of S, Olave, in
H•rt-etreet, where Divine service was performed, and
an excel eat and appropriate sermon preached by the
Ti ix. William Curoton, M.A., canon of Westminster,
and chaplain in ordinary to the Queen.
MORE MURDERS IN TIPPERARY.—Another murder id
reported from Tipperary. Oa Sunday night an inoffen-
sive man, named Larkin, was stabbed with a knife, in
the town of L'orrisakane. His death was instantaneous.
This deed was perpetrated whilst the police were stilt
engaged dragging the river in which the body of Greene
was found, in search of the instrument used in his mur-
der.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—Three motions on this
subject are on the eve of coming under discussion in the
House cf Commons. The hilt for the abolition of the
property qualification will go into committee on Wed-
nesday, the 2d inst. ; Mr. Berkeley's ballot motion
stands for Tuesday, the fich ; and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer has granted Thursday, the 10th, to Mr.
Locke King, for his bill for the extension of the county
franchise.

BRUTAL MURDER.—A most brutal murder was com-
mitted at St. Anthony's, near Newcastle-on. Tyne, on
Sunday morning, and from such particulars as have
transpired it appears to have originated in those
unhappy differences that have existed in Tyneside
between the Irish Roman Catholics and Pro-
testants recently. On Saturday afternoon a newly-
married couple named Mearns, residing at Bill Point,
abotit four miles below Newcastle, visited that town,
where they purchased a quantity of furniture,
and late in the evening they set out for home,
carrying their purchases with them. They called
at a beerehop at St. Peter's on their stray home, where they
fell in with a man named Kane, Mrs. Mearn'e brother-
in-law, who proceeded towards their home with them,
along with two other persons. Nothing of any particu-
lar moment occurred until they were passing a public-
house where an Orange lodge is held. A group
of men were standing near this house, and from all that
can be gathered some one in the group must have fired
a pistol at Kane, for his sister and brother-in-law, who
were in advance, were startled by its report, and on
turning back saw Kane lying on the ground, and the
men who had been standing in a group attack ng him.
One of them was striking him with a kn:fe. After
killing him they fled. The unfortunate man must have
died instantaneously, for in addition to the pistol wound
he had received two or three stabs in the back and a
frightful gash on the right side of the throat. Tete Nor-
thumberland County Constabulary have apprehended
Michael Marn, John Jarvey, Patrick Brown, and Jo-
seph Johnstone, on suspicion of being concerned in the
affray, and they have been lodged in the Moot-hall,
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
BODY OF A MURDERED CIIILD FOUND IN THE
REGENT'S CANAL.-0a Sunday forenoon, as police-con-
stables 218 and 364 N, were on duty by the Haggerstone
Gas Works, Shoreditch,their attention was called to a
basket in the Regent's-canal. Upon its being taken out
of the water, the body of a child was discovered in it
much mutilated. There was a flatiron in the basket fas-
tened round the neck of the child, which was no doubt
put there to prevent the body when in a ;tate of decompo-
sitien rising, and there were also several rounds of wire
about the body with an iron hoop attached to the
handle of the flat-iron. There was also in the basket a
-sroa heldd, sairelste thatrla
y h ats
ex the
1..
black watered silk apron with lilac-coloured rows at the
bottom of it. Aninquest
Black Horse, Kingsland-road. Jae. Clark, sur-
grueionne'd the body of Acton-place,
icngthe deceased, which hi found very
much mutilated. He believed that the dectaced was
i ia6 was
about six years of age. (Some of the jury said they
thought she was older.) Toe body was that of a female ;
and had been dead about 10days. The bones of the bead,
from having been so long in the water, had bsecome
separated. There was a fracture of the temporal bones,
which in his opinion t..pk place before death. The
fr .ntal and occipital bones, as also that of the nose,
were fractured. The body presented the appearance of
having been subject to burning after death to prevent
identification. It looked as if it had been semi-roasted.
From the appearance of the body he was of opinion
that the child had been killed before it was put into the
water. Tne jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder
against some person or persons unknown."
AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS.—Farming prospects in
the north-midland counties are generally of the most
satisfactory character. A more favourable spring than
the present, both for seedling operations and cleaning
the laud, has never been known, and, as there have been
frequent showers of rain within the last month or two,
all the grain crops have come up remarkably even and
well, while the root crops give promise of unusual
weight and promise. There is no deficiency of wheat
plant anywhere ; cn the contrary, it stands much too
thickly on the ground in many places, notwithstanding
the efforts that have been made to reduce the superabun-
dance. The prevalence of cool, dull, and rather humid
weather has had the effect of turning some of the crops
yellow in places, and instances arc reported of the plant
being already laid by the rains; but a; the temperature
has now taken a higher range it may be hoped that the
crops thus deteriorated will soon recover. lithe weather
snould prove bright and warns fur the greater part of the
next two or three months there will be an abundant wheat
harvest. Barley has generally come up even and fine,
and promises to be of excellent quality generally.
Beans and peas look very healthy. Potatoes also
have a vigorous appearance. Turnips and rnongold wurt-
zsl are new generally above ground, and have come up
very satisfactorily. Orchards and fruit gardens give pro-
mise of unusal abundance. Generally speaking there
has been a large fail of lambs, but in some districts con-
siderable Fosses of ewes have been sustained. Sheep-
shearing has been rather later than useal thisyear owing
to the coldness of the weather, but on all hands a good
crop c f wcol is spoken of. The hay harvest will not now
be so late as was at one time anticipated. Both mew
down and oil pastures have a luxuriant appearance.

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LORD BROUGHAM AND GOVERNORNer,:s.—Lord
Brougham, in his speech at the meeting cf the Anti-
Slavery Society, arldtmed a fact, upon nn leniable
authority which completely explodes the statements
put forth by the opponents of West Indian emanci-
pation, that sugar cannot be cul;ivated at a re-
munerative profit without slave labour. The authority
was a let er from the Hon. F. mucks, formerly .Prime
Minister of Canada, and now Governor-Gene-
ral of the Windward Llandg and the fact referred to was,
that an estate in the ieland of Barbadooe, which was sold
in 1833, end: r the impreseion that sugar gro wing could no
• louver be successfully prosecuted,is now producing, by free
labour, three times as much sugar as it then did, and has
lately been sold at an enormously enhanced price. Stich
fasts as th«ss are held by hi.ilordeihip to prove that the re-
sults of free labour are as beneficial to the proprietor of
the coil as to the labourer, the greatly increased value
of the estate sufficiently showing that the augmented
productiveness of the estate bad not been brought about
by an expenditure which left no profit.—Liverpool
Albion,

LATEST NEW.

VIENNA, MONDAY EVENING.
On the 29th of May the two French liners left
Gravosa, but they have received orders to remain
in the Adriatic until they receive further instruc-
tions.