The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-27 00:00:00

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

We are requested to state that Mr. Gladstone has ac-
cepted the Lord High Commissionership of the lonian
Islands, though his tenure of that office will be of extremely
short duration. He was to open the Session of the lonian
Parliament on the 25th inst. About the beginning of the
seoond week in February he will be recalled, and his suc-
cessor appointed; so that, although this temporary accept-
ance of office vacates Mr. Gladstone's seat for the Univer-
sity of Oxford, he will be re-eligible by the time a fresh
election can take place, while the primary measures con •
netted with the better administration of the Islands will be
introduced with greater adruntage than by any successor to
his office.

The Earl and Countess of Digby will arrive in
town on Saturday for the season. The noble earl has taken
a mansion in Belgrave-square. _

The Earl and Countess of Haddington have
arrived at the Euston Hotel. .

The Countess Astelfiani has arrived at the Bruns
wick Hotel, Jormyn-street, from the Continent.

The Earl of Carlisle is expected to arrive in town
early in the ensuing week from Castle Howard, Yorkshire.

Viscount and Viscountess Combermere will arrive
in town on Monday from Combermere Abbey for the open-
ing of Parliament.

Lord and Lady Foley and the Hon. Adelaide
Foley are expected to leave Nice in the early part of next
month on their return to England.

Lord and Lady Feversham have arrived in town
from Duncombe Park for the season.

The Bishop of Chester left the Euston Hotel
yesterday for the Episcopal Palace, Chester.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. J. North have left
Fenton's Hotel for the Castle, Dublin.

Sir George and Lady Grey will return to town
on Monday next for the season.

The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons, accompanied by Lady Charlotte Denison, is ex-
pected to arrive in town from his seat in Nottinghamshire
on Tuesday next. The right hon. gentleman is invited to
dine with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the 2d

proximo.
The wife of M. de Magnus, charge-d'affaires of
Prussia at the court of Brussels, died on last Saturday
night or Sunday morning whilst giving birth to a daughter,
who survives. The deceased lady had been a resident at
Brussels for about three years, and expired at the early age
of 22 years. Madame de Magnus wasthe daughter of Baron
do Brunnow, the Russian ambassador at London.
The Archbishop, of Canterbury has fixed Wed-
nesday, the 18th of May, for the celebration of the 205th
anniversary festival of the Sons of the Clergy, at St. Paul's
Cathedral.

Sir Matthew Sausse, late Puisne Judge of the
Supreme Court of Bombay, has been promoted to the Chief
Justiceship of that Court. The vacant Puisne Judgeship
has been conferred on Mr. Arnould, of the Middle Temple
and the Home Circuit. Mr. Arnould is the author of a well-
known work, entitled " The Law of Marine Insurance."
PREPAYMENT OF INLAND LETTERS.—On the
10th February and thenceforward, the prepayment (in
stamps) of all inland letters will be compulsory ; and any
inland letters which may be posted wholly unpaid will be
returned to the writers. Insufficiently paid letters, how-
ever, will be forwarded, charged with the deficient postage
and en additional rate of one penny. By command of the
Postmaster-General,—ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. Ge-
nsral Post-office, Jan. 27.
DOCTORS IN GALORE.—One of the fancy schemes
of the Poor-law Board is to have two medical officers ap-
pointed to every parish in the Union. Carried out in the
City, this scheme would prove a costly joke, for the
ninety-eight parishes would require 196 medial men with
stipends from parochial rates, and no patients to keep them
out of mischief. Two hundred parish doctors within con-
versation distance of each other, in a city of shops and ware-
houses I In the days of the barber-surgeons, such a scheme
might have worked well, but you cannot now go to Escula-
pius for an "easy shave" and a shampooing I Capital
joke 1200 doctors and the half dozen patients flung from
one to the other to give them all a turn at useful practice !
—City Press.
CLEARANCE OF JUGDESPORE JUNGLE.—We are
told that the Government has presented a gold watch and
chain to Jummeat Ally, Gomasta of the opium factory at
Cawnpore, for his loyalty, and in recognition of the services
rendered by him to the state in protecting the Government
treasure when the factory was threatened with an attack by
the rebels. We hear that the clearance of the Jugdespore
jungle is progressing satisfactorily. The work has been
given to Mr. Burrows, of the enterprising firm of Messrs.
Burn and Co., railway contractors. The Engineers' Journal
states that 2,000 workmen are now employed in cutting and
removing the trees, and that nearly 2,500 acres, or one-
twelfth part of the jungles, have already been cut down.
The work, observes the journal, has been undertaken by
the contractor on condition that thejungle is to be cut down
at his own expense, the Government granting him the whole of
the lands rent free fora period of 99 years. If this be true, it
is a move in the right direction. If the Judgespore jungles
are soon cleared, as the Engineers' Journal is led to expect,
from the system of cutting pursued, it will be intwo months'
time, Mr. Burrows will have rendered a most substantial
service to Government, for which he would well deserve
the enjoyment of the rent-free lands of the jungles of
Judgespore. These have formed the refuge of the rebels for
months past, and it is from these retreats that Kooer Singh's
followers have given so much trouble. There are several
jungles, tracts of uncultivated land in the upper provinces,
which might be given away to enterprising speculators rent
free for limited periods. The Stmderbund grants cannot
have failed to convince the Government how much of the
woods, the aboriginal dens of wild beasts, can be converted
into fertile soils. The grant and appropriation of wild and
uncultivated lands to those who are willing to undertake
their cultivation on liberal terms must tend to develop the
resources of the country,

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegram was received at Mr.
Renter's office this morning :
PARIS, THURSDAY, Jan. 27.
The Moniteur of this day contains the follow-

ing :
" The men-of-war Napoleon and Algesiras, and
the frigate Impetuouse departed on the 26th of
Joluary from Toulon for Genoa."
The vessels are probably intended to accompany
Prince Napoleon and his bride.
The Moniteur de la Colonisation contains a Minis-
terial decree of Prince Napoleon, dated January
6th, prohibiting all recruiting of immigrants on the
eastern coast of Africa and Madagascar.

The following telegrams were received at Mr.
Renter's office last night :
MARSEILLES, SAN . 26.

The English steamer has just arrived here, bring-
ing the India and China mails, and has on board
the bearer of the treaty of commerce concluded
between France and China.
Adviees have been received from Constantinople
to the 19th inst.

Previous to the election of the Hospodar of Mol-
davia the Porte had notified to the Ambassadors
its intention of reserving its veto, but the unanimity
of the vote for A. Couza has completely disconcerted
the Porte, which also apprehends a similar check in
Wallachia.

It is asserted that the Civil List has contracted
another loan of 30 millions of piastres.

The Sultan is about to marry his daughter, the
widow of Ghalib Pasha, to his favourite, Osman
Bey, who would then replace• Rim Pasha in the
Ministry.
From Persia another victory over the Turcomans,
is reported.

In Circassia Naib has condemned Col. Ladiensk
-s) be hanged.

MADRID, JAN. 25.

Some English houses (conzpagnies Anglaises) have
bought up, at advanced prices, all the wool in stock
in Estramadura and some other provinces.

MADRID, JAN. 26

Government, suspecting a project got up in order
;o rescue the Neapolitan transported prisoners on
;heir arrival at Cadiz, have taken measures to pre-

vent it.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

M. Proudhon, the well known Socialist writer,
was, it may be remembered, some n tonths ago con-
demned by the Tribunal of Correctional Police to
three years' imprisonment and 4,000 f. fine for hay-
outraged public and religious morality, and de•
fended in his work De la justice dans la Revolution
et dans Eglise acts which the le.w describes as
crimes. Against that condemnation he appealed
to:the Imperial Court, but when the appeal came on
for hearing he did not present himself, and the
judgment was confirmed by default. He put in an
opposition to that decision, and the matter came on
yesterday anew. But when he wriF called he did
not appear, nor did any advocate appear for him.
The court accordingly rejected his opposition, and
again confirmed the judgment.
A letter from Brest says :—" The Minister of
Marine has, in a recent despatch, &fined in a clear
and preicse manner what is to bo understood by
the phrase—state of commission of -vessels in port.
The true definition is, he says, that a vessel should
be ready for sea in a very short period, and should
only have to take on board her cr e-w, the part of
her stores which had been landed for safe keeping,
her provisions and her powder, so as to be then
ready for immediate service. The order to pnt a
vessel in a state of commission therefore implies that
all the works of construction, repair s, &c., are to be
completed so that she may be at ()nee flitted out.
After giving these explanations, the Minister pre-
scribesthat the greatest activity shalL be used in bring-
ing forward such vessels as can be got ready with the
greatest expedition, and then mentions the names
of the vessels now in the port of ]?rest, which are
to be placed in the state of commisciion—that is to
say, that at the first order they may be fitted out
and be ready for sea. Those vessels are the steam

frigates Caffarelli, Panama, Descartes, Orinoque,
Danae, Amazone, d'Assas, Caton, Chimere, and
Montezuma; the screw liners Turem-ne, Duguesclin,
Breslau, Imperial, Tilsitt, 'Ulm, an a Wagram ; the
steam corvette Gassendi ; the trantsports Garonne,
Menge, and Forbin ; and the floating battery Con-
greve. Ido not speak,' says the minister in
conclusion, ' of the screw liners Lomis XIV., Tage,
Duguay-Trouin, Jean Bart, and Duquesne, nor the
steam frigate Ardente, which I consider as being
all completed as regards their hulls: and engines."
The Journal de Cherbourg says :- —"The Minister
of Marine has just informed the maritime authori-
ties in this port that the necessities of the service
require that the ships of the line Ar tole, Alexandre,
and Donawerth shall join, as quickly as possible,
the experimental squadron in the Mediterranean,
These three vessels in consequence will soon quit
Cherbourg for their destination. The steam frigate
the Sane, which was to have accompanied Prince
Napoleon to Genoa, but could not be got' ready in
time, is also under orders for Toulon. She is now
completely fitted out and is taking coal on board.
Everything leads to the belief that she will leave
before the end of the week."
BOURSE, Jan. 26.—The market has been buoy-
ant on the report that the Vienna Cabinet has
made overtures for the establishment of conferences
in order to settle the pending difficulties. Threes,
after having been done at 68f. 50c., improved to
63f. 85c. ; Mobilier varied from 777. f. 50c. to 795 f. ;
Austrian, 567 f. 50c. to 572 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,320 f.
to 1,327 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 842 f. 50c. to 847 f. 50c. ;
Northern, 937 f. 50c. to 940 f. ; Southern, 527 f. 50c.
to 532 f. 50e. ; Lombardo-Venetian, 527 f. 50c. to
535 f. The following were the last quotations:—

41 per Cents. 96. 90
Do. end month 96 85
3 per Cents 69
Do. end month 69 50
Bank Shares 2910
Cr6dit Mobilier
Do. Account
• PAW

Credit Fonder
Belgian 4i .. 99 25
Piedmontese (5) B5
Roman B7
• Austrian ...
• Spanish Threes
--
• Home Debt, 4O
MAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto Bl5 .. 812 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 845 .. 845
New ditto
Geneva
Midi — • •
Southern 525 .. 625
•
Western 6OO .. 600

562 60

Eastern
Grand Central — , .
Sardiniaa 415 417 50
Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 26f. 121 c. ; money,
25f. 10e.; three months, paper, 241. 97te.; money, 24f. 971 e.

SPAIN.
The following telegram has been received :
" MADR.LD, JAN. 25.
" Enfilish companies are buying, at high prices,
all the wool in Estremadura and other provinces.
" The health of the Infante is better."

The Madrid journals of the 22d contain no news
of political importance. It is asserted in a letter
that the reason why General Zapatero resigned the
Captaincy-general of Andalusia was that the Go-
vernment blamed him for having, in spite of his
orders, shown the Pane attentions to the Count de

The Madrid journals of the 21st publish an
official return, which shows that on the 31st Dec.
last the floating debt was 574,493,868 reals. It
was said that in March next the Qu.cen will pay a
visit of two months' duration to Andalusia. A
royal decree, in the Gazette, allows General Zapa-
tero y Navas to resign the Captaincy-General of
Andalusia, and appoints General Villalonga y Es-
calada his successor.