The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY EVENINO. NOVEMBER 24, 1859.

anti, the average annual export from China was
all out nine millions. 13U- t there was a vast deal of
Ct iina trade which was not represented in the
ritish returns, so that he believed the real amount
would be nearer 50 millions than 40 millions ster-
ling, and our revenue from it upwards of four
njUiens. The exports, also, had gone up wonder-
derfolly. In 1858 they were £2,876,447." And
these statistics, it is especially observed, do not
repreotmt in any way whatever either Opium or
Silver What Sir JOIIN BOWRING now says upon
Opium w n would most earnestly commend to the
consideration and the conscience (if they have any)
of all the thin-skinned MAWWORMS in the land.
The lectm.er then remarked—" It had been said
that we carried on the opium trade in violation of
our treaties with China, whilst the fact was that
the treaties made no reference to the opium trade
whatever. It was said further that it was carried
on in contempt of the wishes of the Chinese
Government. Now he had resided ten years in
China, and had had much intercourse with man-
darins, and he had never heard opium men-
tioned except when he introduced the subject
himself. There was, it was true, a warm con-
troversy constantly being carried on in the Pekin
Gazette, and hot arguments were held pro and con,
some writers arguing against the legalising of the
introduction of the drug, and others urging that a
great revenue might be derived from it. If it were
so abhorred by the Chinese as was alleged, he asked
was it possible that it should be cultivated in eight
provinces of China ; and so mach was that culti-
vation improving, that the monopoly of the India
Company was in great danger. His argument had
been Always, legalise the trade, for you could not
stop it, and the frauds committed under the present
system were monstrous. It had been said that
the Chinese perished by thousands from the use of
opium. Now, from returns he had obtained in
Hong Kong, he found that more persons perished
out of EOO British residents of delirium tremens
than among 96,000 Chinese from the use of opium.
He had stated these facts as he had found them in
returns, and had been accused of perverting them
to suit his purpose, and of concealing the fact that
the Chinese victims of opium at Hong Kong went
to the main land to die. Nothing could be more
unjust. He found that in ancient times the Chinese
people had been notorious for habits of intoxica-
tion, but now he knew that they were perhaps the
most sober people in the world. Neither did it
seem to affect their longevity, for he knew one
man, an opium smoker, who was 104 years old, and
several others of ninety !" After this, what shall
be said of the immorality of both our war and our
trade with China? Certainly Sir JOHN BOWRING
gives us a couleur de rose view of both one and the
other. Listening to him, you would hardly think
there could be anything pernicious in that
insidious drug, of the evil influences of which we
have caught glimpses so appalling through the me-
lancholy hullucinations of the poet COLERIDGE
and through the eloquent ravings of THOMAS DE
QUINCEY'S weird and impressive Experiences.
Altogether, however, the lecture is worthy of pro-
found consideration.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 23.

Tho dinner party to-day included their Royal Highnesses
Prince Frederick William of Prussia, Princess Frederick
William of Prussia (Princess Royal), Princess Alice, and
the Princess of Leiningen, his Serene Highness the Prince
of Leiningen, Earl Cowley, Countess Lynar, Countess
Hohenthal, Count Perponcher, Captain von Schwcinti,
and the visitors who arrived in the afternoon.

The first dramatic performance this season took place in
Thpfnllnwine WftE4 the Drozramnie

A comedy, -in three. acts, -by Mr. Bayle Bernard, en-

titled—

THE EVIL GENIUS.
Hill Cooley, Esq. (aretircd East Indian) Mr. Chippendale
Toni Ripstone (his old acquaintance) Mr. Buckstone
Walmslcy (his new one)
Docket (his lawyer)
• Barton (his surgeon) Mr Villiers
Toe Withers (the postman)
Parker
Bailiff
Lady Aurora Ringwood
Mrs. Montgomery
Clara Fielding
Time-1830. Scene—A Village and Park in Derbyshire.
After which a comediatta, in one act, adapted from the
French vaudeville, Un Service a Blanchard," by Mr.
Tom Taylor, entitled—
TO OBLIGE BENSON.

Mr. Benson (a barrister)
Mr. Trotter SouthdoWn. (his friend)
Mr. John Meredith (a pupil of Mr
Benson's)
Mrs. Benson
Mrs. Trotter Southdown
Time—The Present Day. Scene—Mr. Benson's House in
Thurlow-square
Under the Management of
and
__ _ _

Under the Direction of — Mr. W. B. Donne
Her Majesty's Examiner of Plays.

The Theatre arranged and the Scenery painted by Mr.
Thomas Grieve.

Shortly after eight o'cloiik the Queen and Prince Con-
sort, with the Prince and Princess Frederick William of
Prussia (Princess Royal), Princess Alice, the Prince and
Princess of Leiningen, accompanied by the dinner company,
entered the Theatre in St. George's Hall, when the per-
formance immediately commenced.
The orchestra was composed of her Majesty's Private
Band.

PREVaFSS'S THEATRE.

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A little comedy, adapted from the French, by Mr. Harris
and Mr. Williams, was produced at this theatro last night
with success. The dialogue is neatly written, and a moral
is worked out with point and piquancy.

The plot turns upon the evil propensity of gossip as in-
dulged in by a MI s. Chatterton (Mrs. Charles Young), who,
during the dull period before the announcement of dinner,
enlivens the company with a description of an interview to
which she had been witness between a celebrated belle—a
Mrs. Beresford—and an unknown gentleman, in Kensington
Gardens. The husband of Mrs. Beresford happens to be
among the company to whom this is narrated, and he immedi-
ately insists on her giving him the name of the gentleman.
She is both unwiling and unable to comply, and he deter-
mines to persecute her into satisfying him. Every day ho
calls at her'house, appears at her carriage door, follows her
into shops, always with the one phrase, "If is name,
madam ;" he even telegraphs to her the same odious phrase
and renders her life insupportable by his constant persecu-
tion. She retires to the country house of a friend, and on
her still refusing he threatens to challenge her husband.
Then, finding from her grief at this threat that her heart is
not in fault, but thather gossipping propensities are merely
the result of an evil habit, he confesses that he himself was
the gentleman who met his wife. The play was acted with
great spirit, and the applause at the fall of the curtain was
very great. The house was well attended.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF
MAN, Nov. 22.—0 n Saturday last, the 19th inst., the
barque Ohio, laden with salt, bound from Liverpool to
Stettin, was seen off Poolwash Bay (to the westward of
Castletown), with a signal for a pilot, and apparently un-
manageable. She shortly afterwards anchored ; but both
anchors dragged, and she went ashore near the centre of
the bay at 4-p.m. The wind was inshore, S.W., strong and
increasing. At the time of her striking she was under the
lee of the Carrick, a half-tide rock, and a harbour boat,
which had left Port St. Mary with a pilot was enabled to
take eight of the crew whore ; but as the title rose and the
rock became covered, the surf prevented further communi-
cation with an ordinary boat. A messenger was then sent
immediately to Castletown for the lifeboat of tho Royal
National Lifeboat Institution ; but she was fortunately
close at hand (earlier intelligence having reached the cox-
swain), and was launched at it pan., reached the wreck at
o'clock, and succeeded in rescuing the remainder of the
crew—consisting of the master, mate, and two other hands
—who were safely landed at Port St. Mary, the nearest
practicable landing place at 8 p.m. The barque, belonging
to, Prussian owners, will probably become a total wreck ;
she was in a leaky state when she struck. At the time the
lifeboat was launched it was very dark with a heavy sea.
The promptitude with which the lifeboat was on the spot
has given great satisfaction, as but an hoar elapsed between
the barque striking and the arrival of the boat, While two
miles of road, including a high and steep hill, had to be tra-
versed. This valuable lifeboat has also once or twice this
year saved shipwrecked crews. The station is in first-rate
order.

Amongst the new undertakings in respect of
which application is to_ be made for the sanction of Parlia-
ment next session is one called the Milford Haven Railway
and Docks.
THE DEATH OF PITT.—A paragraph has been
going
.the round of the papers giving a totally inaccurate
account of the death of this great statesman,- We have the
best reason for knowing that in Mr. Rose's Diary, about to
be published by Mr. Bentley, the real facts connected with
his last illness and death will for the first time be made
public,

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The following telegrams have been received al
Mr. Neuter's .office

VIENNA, TIFURSDAY,

An Imperial autograph letter orders the Millis-
ters to grant a fall amnesty to all persons compro-
mised by the part they have taken in Italian
affairs. This amnesty will apply to civil as well
as military persons. Criminal offences of no poli-
tical character are to be excepted.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 24.

It is stated from Paris, on reliable authority, that
the object of Lord Cowley's visit to London is to
lay before his Government a proposal from the
French Government for a simultaneous disarma-
ment by England and France.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

The Marquis. do Bonneville has arrived from
Zurich with the ratified treaties. On the day when
the ratifications were exchanged, M. Armand de-
livered to the Austrian Plenipotentiary a draft at
sight for twenty millions of florins. The remaining
eighty millions will be paid by four instalments
at short intervals.

It is believed that Count Rechberg, assisted by
Prince Metternich, will represent Austria at the

Congress.

The report of the departure of Marquis Antonin
for Naples is false.

NICE, Nov. 22.

General Garibaldi left this place yesterday for
Genoa. Before his departure h.J addressed the in-
habitants of Nice, and said :

" I shall be ready to assume my command when
necessary. Let us be united nnder Victor Emma-
nuel ; let us continue under arms as long as an inch
of Italian soil remains oppressed."
His Majesty the King of Sardinia is expected at
Nice to pay a visit to the Dowager Empress of
Russia.

NAPLES, Nov. 19.
The official journal announces that M. Paulin
Talabot is expected at Naples, in order to consult
with Messrs. Rothschild and Blount eoncerning
the line and works of the railway from Naples to
Tarento, of which M. Talabot is the founder.

FRANKFORT, Nov. 23.

Intelligence has been received here of the pro-
ceedings of the representatives of the minor German
States at the conference at Wurzburg.
The principal questions to be considered are the
settlement of the right of domicile ; the establish-
ment of federal courts of justice; the national
demonstration in favour of unity ; reform of the
federal laws relating to the army ; the Hesse Elec-
toral and Holstein questions; and regulations for an
uniform system of weights and measures for all
Germany.

AARSEILLES, Nov. 23.
The Algerian journals deny the rumoured death
of General Seriers.

Advices from Tunis to the 15th inst. state that
the new Bey is about to send an ambassador extra-
ordinary to Constantinople to demand a religious
investitnre from the Sultan.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

THE BOURSE, Nov. 23.—The market has been
rather more buoyant. Threes, after having been
done at 69f. 95c.. improved to 701. 15c. Mobilier
varied from 775 f. to 780 f.; Austrian, 650 f. to 653 f.
75e. ; Lombard 5-171. 50e. to 550 f. ; Lyons, 887 f.
50e. to 8901.; Northern, 9501. to 9521. 50c.; Eastern
645 f. to 6471. 50c. The following were the last
quotations :

41 per Cents. .... 95 50 I Credit Foncier 695
lio. end montk .. I Belgian 4f 99 75
3 per Cents. 7O 151 Piedmonteso (5)
Do. end month.... 70 5 , Roman B6 50
Bank Shares 2850 —lAustrian —
Craft liobilier:.. 776 25 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 777 50 Moms Debt 431

be such as, in satisfying the wants and wishes of
the Italian populations, may put an end for ever
to the danger of internal revolutions and foreign
interventions. Long delays would be fatal; any
solution not guaranteeing the independence of Italy
would only be a source of new calamities for the
Italians, of uneasiness and conflicts for Europe.

" I request you, Monsieur le Ministre, to commu•
nicate this despatch to the Government of

and to insist on an early meeting of the Congress,
Accept, &c., " DABORMIDA."

GARIBALDI.

A Turin letter says—The resignation of Garibaldi
gives rise to various comments ; but the event was
foreseen by all those who were acquainted with the
state of the relations of Garibaldi with General
Fanti. It would appear that the last cause of the
differences between those two generals was the
following :—Garibaldi wished to have a general
concentration of all the forces of the league on the
frontiers of the States still under the power of the
.Pope, and Fanti, from military motives, and pro-
bably also from political ones, energetically opposed
the measure. Those who relate these details say,
"Hence the resignation." What ought, however,
to be said is, " Hence the last drop which made
the cup run over, and led to a definitive rupture—a
rupture in which the force of events and diploma-
tic necessities must necessarily place Garibaldi in
the wrong."
A letter from Nice, of the 19th, says—General
Garibaldi has arrived here to the great astonish-
ment of everybody. Not a soul knew anything of
his coming, with the exception of Colonel Deideri,
who received a telegraphic despatch the evening
before to apprise him of it. The proclamation ad-
dressed by the general to the Italians will excite
great interest, as it throws light on what is passing
in Central Italy, and seems to explain the real state
of affairs. Garibaldi left Bologna some days ago,
passed through Turin, only staying j ust long enough
to see the King, and got here at the same time as
the Turin journals which announced his arrival in
the capital. I have seen the general ; he is in ex-
cellent health, notwithstanding all•the fatigue he
has undergone. His position here imposes on him
the strictest reserve. He is not generally very
communicative, and now he is less so thaw usual,
but his every -word betrays a profound irritation.

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING.
The screw steamer Nova Scotia has arrived from
Quebec, with dates to the 12th inst.
The steamer North American, hence, had arrived
at Quebec, and the steamer Hungarian, hence, had
put into St. John's, Newfoundland, to land 42 pas-
sengers taken from the wreck off Newfoundland of
a vessel from Labrador.

The City of Baltimore, hence, via Queenstown,
had arrived at New York.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 11

Cotton advanced lc per lb under the Hungarian's
news. Middling, 10,1 c to 11&c. Receipts of the
week, 72,000 ; exports of the week, 74,000.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.
The Royal Mail Company's steam ship Tasmanian,
Captain John H. Jellicoe, arrived, at two this after-
noon, from the West Indies, with the usual mails,
in charge of Lieutenant Charles Bolton, R.N., Ad-
miralty agent.
On her homeward voyage the Tasmanian left St.
Thomas's on the 31st October. During the night
of the 3d of November it was discovered that the
ship had made a considerable quantity of water, which
was caused by the packing of the sorew having given
way. There were 15 feet of water in the after com-
partment, and five feet in the after hold. Not being
able to repair the damage at sea, it was deemed advis-
able to proceed to Bermuda as the nearest port. The
Tasmanian arrived off there on the evening of the sth,
and anchored at Murra,y's Anchorage on the follow-
ing morning. Immediately on its being made known
to Capt. Hutton, R.N., superintendent of the Royal
Naval-yard, he despatched the Government steam-
vessel Kite, in charge of Lieut.lDyer, R.N., with the
superintending engineer, and the foreman of ship-
wrights of the dockyard, and also a diver with his
necessary apparatus, to her assistance, and we are
much pleased to add that they were enabled to make
the necessary repairs and effectually to stop the
leak. She was detained for three days at Bermuda
by 'strong easterly gales, but finally left Bermuda
on the 11th, and had favourable weather until the
16th, subsequent to which she experienced strong
north-east gales and heavy sea; in the Channel
dense fog.
ller latest dates are—Greytown, Oct. 17; Deme-
rara, 25 ; Trinidad, 25 ; Carthagena, 26 ; Barbadoes,
27 ; Porto Rico, 30 ; and St. Thomas, 31.
On proceeding on board Dr. Wiblin, F.R.C.S.,
Medical Superintendent of Quarantine at this port,
ascertained that there had been upwards of 50 cases
of yellow fever, 10 of which had proved fatal on
board, and two persons had been taken on shore at
St. Thomas's in a dying state. The names of those
who died on board are :—John Dutnz, French
waiter; John M'Lellan, waiter; Thomas Naismith,
William Franklin, A.B. ; Richard Short, waiter ;
Henry Shrimpton, master-at-arms ; James Phelan,
stoker; Wm. Fitzer, fireman ; Thos. Trelanen, quar-
termaster; Wm. Morgan, private of 41st Regiment;
and Jas. Varndell, invalided from the Teviot. Mr.
Busby, engineer, who was left at St. Thomas's by
the La Plata, died there, but his three companions
--Clapperton, Eldridge, and Stiles—have recovered.
Since the departure of the last packet nothing
has transpired in the colony worthy of even a pass-
ing remark in our summary for the mail.
JAMAICA.

Trade continues to be in a very depressed state,
a circumstance rather unusual at crop time, but
which may, in some measure, be accounted for by
the fact that the season this year is unusually late
owing to the protracted duration of the wet
weather.

Shipping is abundant, and freights are conse-
quently low.

The exports during the past fortnight have been:
—Sugar, 1,666 hhds, 146 trs, 380 brls, 1,576 bags ;
ruin, 524 pns, 155 hhds, 123 brls; molasses, 88
casks ; timber, 13,993 feet ; charooal,.l,6Bo ; cocoa-
nuts, 4,450; shingles, 210,000. -