The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1859.

FIRE IN LIME-STREET, Friday, May 20.
Thos. Hubbuck and Sons' premises, in Lime-street, be-
ing destroyed by fire, the Business of the Warehouse is re-
moved back to their old premises, 115, Upper East Smithfield,
without any suspension. The counting-house continues at
157, Fenchurch-street, and the Factory at Hubbuck's Wharf,
Rateliff.

G. REAT IVESTERN RAILWAY.
TOURISTS' TICKETS are now issued ai the Paddington
Station to SOUTH WALES, enabling. Passengers to stop at
Ross, Hereford, Chepstow, Neath, Swansea, Carmarthen,
Narberth-road, and Milford Haven.
Also, at very low fares, SEASIDE FAMILY TICKETS
at Weymouth, to Dawlish, Teignmouth, and Torquay, and to
Narberth-road (for Tenby) and Milford Haven. Full particu-
lars may had on application at Padding,ton.

aBEAT WESTERN RAILWAY. The
Cl
DIRECTORS are prepared to accept TENDERS of
MONEY (in sums of not less than One hundred pounds
each) for a period of Three, Five, or Seven Years, upon
Debenture Bonds, bearing Interest at Four-and-a-Half per
Cent. per Annum, payable half-yearly, to replace Loans now
falling due.
Application may be made to the undersigned.
CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Paddington Station, 18th May, 1859.

UNITED UNIVERSITY CLUB. The
Annual GENERAL MEETING of the Members of
the United University Club will be held at the Club-house on
THURSDAY, the 26th May. The chair will be taken at 3
o'clock precisely.—By order of the Committee.
CAMILLUS FAWSSETT, Secretary.

THE UNION DISCOUNT AND AGENCY
COMPANY (Limited).
No. 3, Lothbury, London, E.C.
Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained, as above,
from the Manager.

IMPERIAL CONTINENTAL GAS
_ ASSOCIATION.

Incorporated by Act of Parliament.

Notice is Hereby Given, That the Half-yearly ORDINARY
MEETING of the Proprietors of the Imperial Continental
Gas Association will be held at the office of the Association,
No. 7, White Hart-court, Lombard-street, London, on WED
NESDAY, the 25th May, 1859, at Two o'clock in the after-
noon, precisely, when a report will be made to the Proprietors,
and a dividend declared for the half-year ending 31st De-
cember, 1858.—8 y order ofthe Board,
WILLIAM WALTON, Secretary.
Dated this 4th day of May, 1859. "

THE LONDON.—The attention of Gentlemen
is especially drawn to the advantages offered in these
elegant and spacious Saloons, which fulfil all the require-
ments of a West-end club of the most aristocratic and exclu-
sive character.
Von trouve dans la Salle de Lecture non seulement les
meilleurs journeaux Anglais, macs aussi Allemand, Francais,
et Beige.

F. SAWYER, Proprietor, 191, Fleet-street.

THE LONDON.—S AW Y E R'S famous
LONDON DINNER, consisting of two soups, two
fish, two entries, oints, two sweets, cheese, and salad, at a
fixed charge of 2s. 6d. (attendance, 3d.), is served from Two
till Eight in the spacious Saloon.
In the Coffee-room, Dinners from the joint, with vegetables,
cheese, and salad, ls. 6d. (attendance 3d.), and soup, fish, en-
trees, &c., a la carte, are served from One till Nine o'clock.
Ladies' Private Rooms and Dining Saloons. Spacious and
well-ventilated Wine, Coffee, and Smoking Saloon•.

An extensive and carefully selected stock of Rhenish, Mo-
selle, and other Wines, imported expressly for the London
Dinner. Open on Sunday's from Four till Nine.
F. SAWYER, Proprietor, 191, Fleet-street.

SP O.RTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALLS'-YESTERDAY.

The Derby favourite was firm at 9 to 4 ; 9to 2 was
taken and offered about Musjid, and 20 to 1 was
laid bar these two, Trumpeter being as good a
third favourite as anything at the close. Mario-
nette went to 33 to 1 offered, and Volcano to 50 to
1. Highwayman was at all sorts:of prices ; the final
bet booked about him was 35 to L The betting
on the Bath events was very limited. Trumpeter was backed
at 5 to 4 for the Biennial Stakes, and 6 to 1 was offered on
the field for the Somersetshire Stakes. Closing prices :---

BIENNIAL STAKES, BATH.
6to 4 against Trumpeter (taken)
7to 2 agst Highwayman (taken and offered:
sto 1 agst Cynricus (taken)
SOMF,RSETSIIIIIM STAKES.
6to 1 agst Orleans (offered)
7to 1 agst Sobersides (taken)
100 to 6 agst Hobgoblin (taken)

DERBY.
9to 4 agst Promised Land (taken)
9to 2 agst Musjid (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Trumpeter (taken)
20 to 1 agst Electric (taken)
20 to 1 agst Ticket-of-Leave (taken)
25 to 1 agst Gamester
33 to 1 agst Enfield
33 to 1 agst Marionette (offered)
35 to 1 agst Highwayman (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Volcano (taken and offered).
1000 to 15 agst Bankrupt (taken)
1000 to 5 agst King of Algiers (taken)
OAKS, ,
sto 4 offered on the field
7to 1 agst Itosabel (taken)
10 to 1 agst Summerside (taken)
10 to 1 bar two (offered)
The comparing days will be Thursday, Friday,
Saturday.

SALE OF LORD WATERFORD'S STUD.
The sale of the stud of the late Marquis of Waterford
will take place on the 24th and 25th of June, at Curragh-
more, near Waterford, instead of on the 28th of June, as
previously announced. The horses will be on view to the
public three days before the sale.

HORSES OUT OF THEIR ENGAGEMENTS.
Woodburn out of the Derby at 9 a.m. May 23. Griselda
out of the Lansdown Trial and Dyrham Handicaps at
Bath at 9 a.m. May 23; Roebuck and Barege out of the
County Members' Plate at Bath at 9 a.m. May 23, and
Tournament out of his Bath engagements at 12.30 May 23.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
The Royal Mail steamship Africa, Capt. Ander-
son, which sailed from New York on the 11th inst.,
arrived here shortly after noon to-day, bringing
174 passengers and. 1,648,975 dols. in specie.
The. steamer Anglo-Saxon, hence, arrived at Que-
bec, and the Adelaide, from Galway,.at St. John's,
Newfoundland, on the 9th inst., and the Kangaroo
and Persia, hence, reached New York on the morn-
ing of the 11th.
Except as a reflex of the warlike news from this
side there is little intelligence of importance by this
arrival.
The New 3 ark Herald of the 11th says :
" The European news created a great excitement in Wall-
street and other business streets yesterday. The,effect on
the bankers and foreign bill dealers, as well as on the pro-
duce merchants, was decidedly marked. . Francs advanced
to sf. 6e., and were difficult to be had freely at that. Bankers
showed an unwillingness to draw on London without a
material increasein rates, and especially for sight bills. It
was supposed that the Africa would take out a heavy amount
of specie, which would have been materially augmented had
time been allowed for its engagement.
"Underwriters have not as yet, we believe, proposed to
issue war policies, being disposed probably to wait for later
and more decided advices from abroad. Merchants, how-
ever, feel some hesitation in making shipments direct to
Trieste, for fear of their exclusion by an embargo, even if
free from articles contraband of war.
" The cotton market yesterday continued in a dull state,
or sort of suspended animation, and with little hope of any
arrival or movement until the details of the foreign news,
with the private advices due to-day by the Persia, can be
received. Only one or two hundred bales of cotton were
sold to spinners.
" The flour market was greatly excited, with a speCulative
movement, and the market closed at a further advance of 10
to 25 cents. per barrel. (The advance of the day before was
10 to 15 cents. per barrel.) The total sales reported yester-
day reached within the neighbourhood of 30,000 barrels,
one of the largest day's transactions of the season. "Wheat
was also in good demand, and closed at an advance of 3c. to
sc. per bushel. Corn was firm and in good demand; sales
of yellow Jersey and Southern were made at from 95c. to
9Sc. Pork exhibited more buoyancy, and especially for
prime and thin mess. New mess sold at 16 dols. 12c. to
16 dols. 25c. and old at 16 dols. Beef and lard were also
firm and in fair demand. All the saltpetre in the market
has been withdrawn to await events. Sugars and coffee
were steady. Freight engagements were moderate and
rates unchanged.
" Throughout the west, as we learn by telegraph, the war
news has created great activity in the produce markets,
with a considerable advance in prices."
A Washington telegram says:—
"Our Government has sent despatches to our Minister in
Chili with reference to the difficulties which recently oc-
curred there. They are understood to be very decided.
The Government does not claim that a consuPsibmse is a
place of refuge for political offenders, but, without approving
altogether the conduct of Consul Trevitt, they at the same
time require that his exequatur may be restored."
Another despatch from the same authority says :
"Lord Lyons had a protracted interview with the Secre-
tary of State on the 9th, in regard to Nicaraguan affairs.
The amendment made to the Nicaragua treaty by the Go-
vernment of that country, to wit, that the United States
shall execute their neutrality laws, is the same article
which Sir William Gore Ouseley has admitted into his
treaty; and the British Government object, as our Govern-
ment does, to any such provision, considering it a very
undignified stipulation to be inserted in a treaty—that a
Government should bind itself to execute its laws."

The State and War Departments at Washington
had made up their instructions for the officials in
Utah in regard to the new difficulty which has
arisen there. General Johnston is instructed to
hereafter await the orders of the Governor before
calling out the troops to 'act as a posse conzitattes to
assist the civil authorities in enforcing the laws.
A fire at Pittsburg., Pennsylvania, had destroyed
'no less than ten steamers. The loss is estimated at
155,000 dollars.
The Black River Woollen Mills, at Watertown,
Nev York, had also been destroyed by fire, involving
a loss of 40,000 dollars.
By the arrival of the overland mail at St. Louis,
and the steamship Coatzacoalcos, of the Tehauntepec
line, at New Orleans, we have news from San Fran-
cisco to the 20th ultimo, and later advices from
Oregon and the Fraser River gold regions. The
steamer which left San Francisco on the 20th had on
board 1,700,000 dols. in treasure. The accounts
froni the mines were favourable, and business was
improving. The Californian Legislature had passed
the bill forming the six lower counties of the State
into a new territory, to be called Colorado, and sent
it to the Governor for approval. 100,000 dols, in
gold had reached San Francisco from Victoria. The
news from the Upper Fraser was said to be encou-
raging, but the lower country was nearly deserted.
The advices from Vera Cruz are to the Ist inst.
Juarez had issued a general exequatur to all United
States Consuls. The English and French fleets
were to leave Sacrificios on the 2d inst. There is no
news from the capital. Advices from Acapulco to
the 27th ult. state that the Liberals had; captured
San Blas, Mazatlan, Manzanillo, and Coloma.
We have news from the republic of Honduras,
dated at Truxillo, on the 22d ult. Considerable
excitement had prevailed at Omao and Truxillo,
owing to the arrival of two Spanish vessels of war
for the purpose of demanding the release of the
Spanish -brig Franco, which had been detl:ined by
the authorities for refusing to pay certain ci:arges
and export duties. It. appears that Honduras has
a new law, by which Spanish vessels in her ports
are, liable to the same charges as are imposed on
vessels of Honduras visiting ports of Cuba. After
an exchange of notes between the Spanish naval
commander and the authorities the brig was allowed
to proceed to sea, but without a clearance, and with
a protest of her being taken away by force.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAY 11.

Stocks are unsettled, with a tendency all round to lower
prices. The European troubles strengthen the hands of the
bears, as also the generally unfavourable reports of the
railroad earnings for April. Panama and Pacific Mail
are temporarily damaged by the award of a contract for
carrying the mails by the Nicaragua route The latter
was very buoyant on Saturday last, with an advance of 5
per cent., 2 per cent. of which, however, has since been lost.
In federal securities there is not much doing at the board.
State bonds shared in the general depression. The money
market tars up under the European panic with remarkable
steadiness. Borrowers had to pay rather higher rates; at
the same time there was nothing like an approach to scar-
city, and, with a fair demand, no difficulty was experienced
in obtaining almost any amount on prime securities at 4 to
6 per cent. on call. The most noticeable features in the
Bank statement for last week were the unexpected falling
off in the specie reserves, and the equally unexpected in-
crease in the loans and discounts. The circulation item is
also materially extended. The following is the statement of
May 7 : —Loans, 129,619,905 dols ; specie, 26,086,632 dols ;
circulation, 8,804,697 dols ; net deposits, 88,872,043 dole.
The European news has unsettled the market for foreign
exchange, and the business has been at irregular prices for
the Africa, the market closing very firm. The closing rates
are as follow—On London, 91 to Wiper cent. pm.; France,
sf. Mc. to sf. 10c.

It has pleased God to close the mysterious and
afflicting spectacle which the reign of Ferdinand of
Naples. has so long offered to the world. After
exhausting the virtue of relics innumerable in a
lingering and loathsome disease, that Monarch died
on the afternoon- of Sunday, the 22d inst., having
reigned 29 years.
The reign of Ferdinand may be divided into two
parts—the period of normal Bourbon absolutism,
and the period of revenge. As for the first, the late
King himself explained its principle in a letter to
King Louis Philippe, who had counselled him to
govern' with more moderation. " Liberty," he
wrote, " is fatal to the Bourbons, and. I am deter-
mined not to incur the fate of Charles X. My
subjects do not want to think or reflect. Our family
does not belong to this century; we are ancient,
and if we adopted modern notions we should be
ridiculous." Accordingly, after a few illusory
signs of lenity, displayed at the period of his
accession, Ferdinand commenced an era of political
persecutions, proscriptions, and executions. The
infamous" Del Carretto made chief of the police,
was permitted to attach every department of the
Government to his office, while all the moral influ-
ences of the State were made over to the Jesuits
and the priests. Between 1832 and 1847 seven
attempts at insurrection were made. CrinC.nal pro-
cedure became more vigorous and cruel, the use of
torture in prison become frequent, and members of
the noblest families fled into voluntary exile to
avoid accusations which were easily made, but
which it was almost impossible to repel. In one
day Ferdinand signed the death warant of eleven
political prisoners. Urged by the events of 1848
to do something for his safety, the King proclaimed
a constitution, and sent an army and fleet to join
the Italian cause. The army was recalled just as
it reached the frontiers of Lombardy, and before it
had struck a blow in the cause of liberation ; the
Admiral of the Fleet, it is now known, had orders
to avoid any collision with the Austrians ; and the
constitution was employed as a trap to entice men
to free speech. A feline cunning pervaded the acts
of Ferdinand during the revolutionary period. He
might then be seen kissing and offering cigars to
the patriots and statesmen whom he was about to
consign in a few months to the most horrible of
dungeons, and the companionship of Murderers,
upon the evidence of men of known infamy,
suborned as accusers. Mr. Gladstone has described
for the world the kind of civil and judicial adminis-
tration which followed the overthrow of represen-
tative government. It was not mere imperfection,
corruption, or occasional severity, but incessant,
systematic, deliberate violation by the Executive of
every law, human and divine. The Government,
he told us, was "in bitter and cruel, as well as
illegal, hostility to whatever in the nation really
lives and moves, and is the mainspring of practical
improvement and progress." The consequence was
" a total inversion of all the moral and social ideas."
Men said of the Government, "This is the negation
of God erected into a system." And this Govern.
ment was no other than the personal will of the
King. For nine years has the deadly feeling of
revenge been quick and lively in the heart of that
most cruel of Monarchs ; and while he lay on his
death-bed, beseeching the blessing of the Pope,
twenty thousand of his subjects lay in prison
charged with political offences.
It is fearful enough to think of the victims of a
monarch pining in prisons while he is abroad in his
strength and pride at the head of his forces perhaps,
or announcing his pleasure to the officers of his
State ; but it is worse to think of his victims so
suffering while he is sinking into the grave, keep-
ing the locks and bars of their prison fast, using
his failing faculties in devising mental troubles for
them, and rousing his energies to evade the de-
mands of an outraged world, when they can no
longer endure the thoughts of what he has inflicted.
The cries of bereaved families, the pangs of wise
and noble men whose lives he has ruined,. the stern.
whispers of brother despots whose order he has
disgraced, the muttered curses of his own subjects,
the shout of execration from all free nations—all
these fail to make him penitent, to make him re-
morseful, to make him even human in that hour
when all men arc supposed to he alike, and the
power of each to be vanishing, like the sunshine
when the sun is disappearing below the horizon.
Not the most hardened, besotted lover of power can,
however, much relish the image of this last stage of
it. However it may be when the moment arrives,
the anticipation of a dying hour disturbed by
malignant wishes, darkened by curses, and hailed as
the close of an evil period, must be dreadful to the
most hardened despot that the world ever bore.
The cruel are, it is true, the most self-deceptive of
men; and of all cruel men, Bourbon Kings of that
character of mind are perhaps the most apt in fail-
ing to see themselves as others see them : but,
amidst all that the self-interest of relatives and the
adulation of courtiers can do, there is something
supremely horrible in the farewell which an out-
raged human race bids to a solitary pilgrim enter-
ing the dark valley. The King of Naples knew
what a part at least of the world thought of him
al-K1 his use of power. He knew what we, the
people of England, thought of his victims, and
therefore of himself. However he might fix his
mind pertinaciously on the duty of sovereigns
to override all meaner men, he was aware
what sovei•eigns and meaner men alike
thought of his way of doing it. He knew
that his death 111;c1 been long desired ; he believed,
whether truly or not, that it was constantly
sought : he was aware that when the news of his
being no more should spread from his chamber
to every point of the coopa,ss, there would arise
every conceivable sound of rejoicing—from the
half-breathed thanksgiving to Heaven, to the curi-
ous inquiry of distant tribes and nations about
the qualities of the monster of whom the world
was rid. It is an awful fate. All common tokens
of popular are trifles in comparison with
the curse which has blighted the last
odfaysof
hope
the King of Naples, and the emotions
and joy which render his funeral
peopleth haveega3rest
spectacle on which the eyes of his
ever rested.
There are some who will be wise not to struggle
against the light which this event should naturally
shed into their minds. Which of the kings of
the earth wishes that his latter end may be like
this ? And how far is it probable that any one
of them should leave the world in such a way ?
Alexander of Russia knows that a bitter cry of
grief would go up from all the serfs of his em-
pire if he were to die before he has done
what he intends for them. Let him redeem his
pledge, and live for others as well as the serfs, and
he need fear no mingling of joy in the tone with.
which his dirge will be sung. Future Kings of
Prussia may share the security of British sove-
reigns, and the privilege of being loved and
mourned for their good qualities, while they cannot
inflict the horrors which procure a nation's curse.
Austrian rulers have had too much sympathy with
those of Naples, and stand perilously .near to the
same fate. There is a bust of the late Emperor
Francis at Milan, which is a sort of fetish to the
hatred of his victims—whom he had a fancy to call
his children. This bust is inscribed " Our Father
Francis ;" and deep growls of wrath have been the
response, for many a long year, to the impudence of
this challenge. " A pretty father he was to me !"
says the Spielberg captive as he passes by. The
present Emperor is young ; but the youngest man's
deathbed is within his ken. Let the ally of King
Bombe consider now what is before his eyes, and
interpret the sounds which great his ears, Are
there sufferers within his dominions whom his
Government is making wretched—any Italians—
any Hungarians—any Protestants whom he has
delivered over to the priests ?

MR. BU.RFO.RD'S
,PANORAMA.

A picture of Benares, so celebrated as the metro-
polis of Brahminism, is now exhibited in Leicester-
square. For so many years hag-Mr. Burford gone
on producing panoramas of uniform excelle
il nce
hosen
, and
so well is his perfect execution of happ y-e
sabjects appreciated by the public, that all opinion
on each new picture might be conveyed in the brief
assertion that he is "as good as ever. The archi-
tectural details, the distances, the water, the com-
position are always admirable, and when he and
Mr. Selous advertise a fresh work everybody in
London goes to 'see it, in perfect confidence that he
will become acquainted with some interesting spot
under circumstances most favourable. However,
to utter something in the way of opinion, we would
call attention to the exquisiite finish of the pellucid
water in the last picture. The numerous objects
beside it and upon it cause it to reflect all„ sorts of
hues, but the difference between shadow and reality
is wonderfully preserved, and it is almost impossible
to divest oneself .of the belier that the painted
stream is veritably liquid:

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" Those whose duty it may be to instruct the men
should be firm, but they should also be patient and.
forbearing. The men should be taught the neces-
sity for their exercises and to take an interest in
lheent firstands steps
seamanlike towards
perfurni efficiency,an cae and
them according y. Steadiness at quarters and pre-
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clothing,
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of their divisions for the condition
of their kits.
Each man is to be at once shown
and his sleeping berth, and where
lashinghe is to stow his
bag ; and a hammock, clews' an
given him. The usages of a lower are to be
deck, the cus-
toms and routine of the
whs •
.erhvice, and the pay, pen-
sions, and badges to le seam en are entitled,
must be explained to him. He is to be told to
whom he should 1 app yin the event of his requiring
advice or information, and that if he should have a
complaint to make, he must represent it to the
officer of the watch, and if necessary, through him
to the captain of the ship.
"He should he shown how to sling and lash up
his hammock, to wash and dress himself for quar-
ters, to wash his clothes, and to scrub his hainmock,
so that they may be thoroughly cleaned ; also how
to stop them on the girt lines so that they may not
be lost.
" These things and others of the same character
are to be taught without delay to men on first
entry, in order that they may.,
adapt themselves
readily and with satisfaction to a ship of war.
"It must be understood, however, that the fore-
going instructions give no sanction to a relaxation
of that discipline which should prevail at all times,
and which is essential to the efficiency of the ser-
vice, and the comfort and well-being of the men.
" Having pointed out the spirit in which men
who for the first time join the Royal Navy are to
be treated, and having called attention "to some
details in illustration of the manner in which they
should be initiated, my Lords rely upon the officers
of the fleet to turn to good account the opportunity
that has been afforded for dispelling the aversion
for the Navy which the merchant service have
conceived from traditional misrepresentations of
the Queen's service.
"Their Lordships desire that you will direct the
commanding officers of the ships under your orders
to make known the foregoing instructions to the
executive commissioned officers and ffi
o cers in
charge: of decks, and the commanding officers
are to
take care that all the warrant
andsubordinate
officers conform themselves thereto.—l am, sir,
your most obedient servant, _ _

"W. G. ROStAIN E."
Major Williams, R.A., who embarked_ .for Ame-
rica with Sir F. Williams last Saturday, has been
appointed military:secretary to the gallant General.
The two aides-de-camp are Capt. Worsley, R.A.,
and Lieut. Grant, R.E.
Id cons: uence of the new organsation of the
Royal Artillery, the appointment of a Major-Gene-
ral to command that corps in Ireland has been dis-
continued, and the Assistant Adjutant-General will
therefore be attached to the headquarters staff, to
perform" the duties of the Artillery service, in the
same manner as the Deputy Adjutant-General of the
Artillery at the. Horse Guards.
has been
.The General Commanding-in-Chief.
of
W. C. Ilumfrey, assuming the superintendence_
• Dr. Bell,placed upon
pleased to approve of Inspector General of Hospitals
the Mullen Department; vice
half-pay.