The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-31 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESOAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1866.

BAZLEY, in commenting on this topic, observed
that during the last five years, India has received
from this country £100,000,000, and he com-
plained thaNso large a sum 'of money had in
reality been turned to very little ac-
count.
Lavished in speculation or em-
ployed in costly structures, the soil and
the trade of the country were little the better for
an amount of money which should surely have left
some durable traces. Mr. BAZLEY further expressed
some uneasiness as to the effect likely to be pro-
duced in India when the demand for cotton fell off,
as it inevitably would on the full renewal of the
American supply. In 1860 the consumption of
Indian cotton was a little over 3,000 bags per week,
whereas last year it averaged 20,000, so that we
can readily perceive the loss and disappointment
which the sudden collapse of such a demand would
produce in India. It might be naturally supposed
that Indian cottoii would prove a formidable rival
to American cotton, but, thanks to mismanagement
and want of enterprise, the Indian material is so
inferior that it will have no chance of holding its
ground when once America rejoins its former posi-
tion. The general feeling in the Manchester
Chamber was strongly against the Indian Govern-
ment, more especially against the Legislative
Council. One gentleman declared that the East
Indian Company had only changed its name ;
another, that to find a parallel for these
irresponsible couuciliors we must go back
to the Republic of Venice. Mr. CASSELS
very sensibly urged that the best thing to be done
was to make roads and canals for India, and leave
her to take care of herself ; and, indeed, the prevail-
ing impression evidently was that meddlesome and
obstructive legislation fettered the enterprise and
industry, of the country. The system on which
India is governed is altogether opposed to the free
trade and enlightened policy of the present day.
Manchester has good right to complain, not only
on account of the mismanagement of the cotton
supply, but of the hindrance to free commercial
enterprise, in which complaint all our manufactur-
ing and exporting cities may well join. The im-
mense extent of our Indian possessions, the natural
capacities of the soil, and the wealth of some
portions of the people, all point to India as a
source of national wealth, as well as a heavy
national responsibility, and open a profitable
market for the consumption of our manufactured
goods, as well as for a prolific source of supply of
many valuable raw materials. Instead of such being
the case we have within the last ten years heard
politicians gravely debating whetherlndia were not a
source of loss rather than of profit, and whether the
best thing we could do for ourselves would not be
to withdraw from it altogether. Even supposing
we could so lightly lay down the moral obligations
assumed towards that vast people, the folly and
shortsightedness of such a course would be so great
that it is only wonderful intelligent men should
have gravely considered it. What a field for our
superfluous energies ; what a profitable and
rational investment for our enormous wealth
there is in :sour East3rn Empire; and, as if
to show our negligence and indifference, the
more the returns, which a little exertion and enter-
prise produce, are surprisingly rapid and encourag-
ing. The success of the tea plantations on the
slopes of the hills has surprised and delighted the
experimenters, while the same story is repeated
in other parts with other products. With
great rivers flowing through the country, and
with engineering skill and science at our command,
certainly second to that of no othev. country, we
listen quietly to tales of drought and famine,
although repeated experience shows that the appli-
cation of water to the soil increases its production
fourfold. The means of communication through-
out that country arc as defective as if our own
island were not intersected by railways and canals,
and as if the shriek of the engine was not sounding all
over our metropolis. India, as Mr. BAZLEY ob-
served, has 3,000 miles of railway to show against
America's 30,000, and he might have added that
the greater part of which she has is of comparatively
recent construction. Surely it is high time that
these matters should be taken up in a more liberal and
comprehensive and enlightened spirit, that Indian
public works should be carried on and Indian policy
remodelled, not in accordance with the prejudices
of an antiquated school and the obstinacy of ob-
structive red-tarists, but in harmony with the re-
quirements of a population which is reckoned by
tens of millions, and an empire which any of the
conquerors of old might have coveted. If the Man-
chester Chamber of Commerce can succeed in in-
fusing a new spirit into the whole system of our
Indian administration they will do good service,
and effect a much-needed reform.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JA v. 31, 1866.

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The annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
was held at Manchester on Monday last, and, as is
usually the case, some very important and interest-
ing topics were discussed. The past year has been
so busy in removing men Of eminence and public
utility from our midst that the first assembling of
the gentlemen who attended the Chamber was
marked by some saddening recollections, and the
first words of the President referred to the loss
which Manchester had sustained in common with
the rest of the country by the death of Mr. COBDEN,
whose name and policy have so long been closely
associated with the city. The deaths of Lord PAL-
MERSTON and of President LINCOLN have also
marked the year and affected the policy of two
great nations ; but happily the President of the
Manchester Chamber was able to congratulate his
hearers on the position of American affairs. The
resuscitation of the cotton trade can hardly fail to
be a matter of gratification and rejoicing to the
members of the Manchester Chamber, and the ces-
sation of the civil war opens encouraging prospects
to the Lancashire manufacturer. The dreary anti-
cipations which some persons indulged in during
the first years of the war, when the cloud hung
heavily over Lancashire, have happily proved
as unfounded as they were dismal, and the
spirit and courage which carried the trade
successfully through so severe a struggle
have been rewarded by the most encouraging
prospects. Of course, there is still much to be done,
and to be gained before the height of prosperity
reached in 1860 can be once more won for Lanca-
shire, but the activity of the present, and the signs
of the future, give reasonable ground for hoping
that even greater plenty and prosperity may be in
store. Mr. BAZLEY, m.p., in remarking upon this
topic, said that already something of the old activity
had returned to ..the manufacturing districts since
the close of the American war. "In 1860 the con-
sumption of cotton in the United Kingdom amounted
to 2,500,000 bags during the year ; at the period
of the greatest distress, namely, 1862, the consump-
tion diminished to 1,000,000 bags; and last year it
had gone up to 2,000,000."
Taking into consideration, however, the •
nnpor-
tant additions recently made to the means of con.
sumino• cotton by improved machinery, and the in-
vestment of fresh capital in new works, Mr. BAZLEY
was of opinion that When cotton could be had in
plenty, not less than 3,000,000 bags ,would be re-
quired for the trade of the United Kingdom, and
that prices would be as low as previous to the con-
vulsion of 1860.

It must be confessed that the French EMPEROR
has latterly shown much discretion in dealing with
the difficult question of Mexico, and we may now
consider that the unfortunate differences that have
so long existed are in a great measure done away
with, and in a fair way of being altogether termi-
nated. The communications of M. DROUYN DE
Lnuvs, which have just been published, display
much moderation, at the same time that they reveal
a determination not to become involved in any
awkward discussion. Notwithstanding the appa-
rent respect, and the show of friendliness NI Inch
Mr. SEWARD made in his despatches, bad
not the French Minister been equal to
the occasion, and adroitly evaded this topic,
and steered clear of that danger he would
have involved himself in a very awkward affair.
On the contrary, he dexterously contrived to seize
upon those points in which the French and Ameri-
can authorities are agreed on, at all events upon
which they appear to be so, and thus we find the
following emphatic declaration, " To sum up, M.
le Marquis, the United States recognise the right
we had to make war in Mexico ; upon the other
hand, like them, we admit the principle of non-
intervention. This two-fold admission seems to
me to offer the elements of an agreement." Fol-
lowing, as a natural consequence, upon these
assertions, the next passage in M. DROUYN
DE LUUYS' despatch conveys an intimation
which will be welcome alike at Paris and at
Washington, and appreciated by all lovers of peace.
He states that it is the EMPEROR'S desire he should
declare to his Minister in Mexico, that finding their
fellow-subjects in the establishment of a regular
power, they hope the " legitimate object of their ex-
pedition will soon be attained, and they are has-
tening to make arrangements with the Emperor
MAXIMILIAN, which, while satisfying their interests
and their dignity, allow them to consider the part
of their army upon Mexican soil at an end."
It is impossible to estimate the importance and
significance of this announcement, and it is to be
hoped that the frankness of this statement will put
a stop to the insinuations of those who always take
the worst view of a question, and seek to discover
cause of dispute where none exists, and to foment
quarrels that rest :onlylupon slight foundations.
Another point upon which M. DROUYN DE LHUYS
has displayed great tact is in his scrupulous avoid-
ance of debateable questions. He states in one of
these dispatches that when the United States
Minister came to acquaint him with the opinions of
the Wallington Cabinet, he declined all controversy

In reference to the question of the cotton supply,
which naturally occupied a very prominent place in
the Alanchester discussions, a good deal was
Said about the Government of India. A
very general, and not altogether unfounded,
feeling of dissatisfaction was expressed, and
there was evidently a strong conviction that the
most had not been made of the opportunity. Mr. i

upon the acts of a foreign Power acting with full number of hippodromes was 110, and the receipts
independence, and he stated that he could only re-
from the races amounted to 1,860,950 f. Gladiatenr
ceive any communication as simple information. At
realised for his owner 493,500 f. in six prizes, three
of which were for victories gained on the English
any rate, we may congratulate the French Govern-
turf. Steeplechases continue to increase. They,
meat upon the wise decision it has come to upon in fact (says the club book), aro the only induce-
this difficult subject and it is a question of general meat to breeders to create the best saddle-
as well as of particular interest, for it would have horses. The breeding of horses in France
been very disastrous if a war had broken out at is no longer a theoretic or administrative
this period between France and the United States,
matter; It has increased, and has become an indus-
and all the nations of Europe would have found trial question. The assistance given to the State
in its efforts to develope the qualities of the French
themselves in very awkward positions. horse proves that this point is now in France, as it
is in England, a popular and national one.
The Moniteur of this evening states that the
packet-boat Vera Cruz for Martinique has arrived
at St. Nizaire, with news from Valparaiso to Dec. 10,
Lima, Dec. 21, Panama, Jan. 1, and Montenegro,
Jan 10. The Spanish Minister Plenipotentiary at
Peru, and the Spanish Consul at Callao, arc among
the passengers.
The 4i per Cents. fell 50c, to-day. The Credit
Mobilier rose 17f. 50c.

Prussia seems determined to lose no opportunity
of manifesting its utter indifference to the good
opinion of the rest of Europe, and its supreme con-
tempt for all the rights and usages of constitutional
Governments. The last news from Berlin is, that
the proposal of the State-Procurator to institute
proceedings against D eplltieSTWESTENiand FREUGEL,
for their speeches in the Diet, whieh was rejected
by the Courts of First Instance, upon the ground
that "by the Constitution members cannot be called
to account for their speeches in the Chamber," has
been acceded to by the Supreme Court. That
tribunal has decided that such a charge can be en-
tertained. Can anything be more subversive of
popular rights than this, and does not such a deci-
sion accord with the most extreme principles of
absolutism? What will be the use of the Chambers
meeting at all, if all that is done and said by inde-
pendent members must be subjected to the scrutiny
of a legal tribunal ? And how can: the people expect
that their representatives will speak out if
they are to be pounced upon by the emis-
saries of the law, and called upon to account
for their honest expressions of opinion as if they were
guilty of crimes, or, at all events, of grave offences,
against the peace and welfare of their country ?
The fact is, that the time is fast approaching
when it will be necessary for the Prussians to de-
cide if they intend to remain an independent nation,
or if they are willing to fall back some generations,
and to return to the old days of absolute will and
blighted prospects. The consequence of the war
with Denmark has been that Herr VoN BISMARCK
has proceeded with giant strides in his mis-
chievous course, and has all but subverted the
constitution of the country over which he has ruled
with such discredit to himself and such injury to
those under him. If some decided stand be not made
during this session, the Prussian representatives will
find themselves completely stultified, and perhaps by
next year the sapient and sinister Director of Public
Affairs may discover that it is idle to call the Cham-
bers together at, all, and that it is an antiquated
ceremony which may be very well done away with
altogether.

The Extradition Treaty between France

and Eng] ind.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
PARIS, January 30.
The following is the full text of the despatches
exchanged between M. Drouyn de Lhuys and the
French Ambassador in London relative to the
Extradition Treaty between France and England :

" The Minister for Foreign Affairs to Prince de la
Tour d'Auvergne.

" Paris, Nov. 29, 1865.
" Prince,---I had the honour, in February and
March last, to address to you various communica-
tions upon the subject of the repeated want of suc-
cess experienced by our demands of extradition in
Great Britain, and my last despatch of March 11th
foreshadowed the probability, and even desired you
not to leave the Cabinet of London in ignorance,
that if the ameliorate 'w were desirous of intro-
ducing into the system created by the convention of
1843 were rejected, we should probably find our-
selves obliged to give notice of the termination of
the treaty.

" You are aware, Prince, of the difficulties of
every kind in face of which our demands for extra-
dition have constantly failed. I will confine myself
to recalling the two principal ones.
" In the first place, the British Government
refuses to give up to us condemned persons, upon
the plea that the convention of 1843 only mentions
those who are accused.

Without dwelling upon the contradiction, in
our eyes, of a system which recognises the legiti-
macy of extradition with regard to individuals upon
whom weighs only a presumption of culpability, and
which rejects it as touching those who have legally
suffered a judicial sentence, we proposed an addi-
tional clause to the Treaty of 1843 to include con-
demned persons, but our offer was declined by the
Cabinet of London, which was afraid it could not
obtain the acceptance of this clause by Parliament.
" In the second place, the extradition convention,
as interpreted by the advisers of the Cro ,vn, and
consequently by the British Administration, would
consist in the obligation of having the case, in some
sort, adjudicated in England, as we have once more
been able to perceive the refusal recently given to
our demand for the extradition of a certain Seissier,
one of the pirates of the Fee„kris Arca, who, it was
supposed, might land in Calcutta. The Attorney-
General of the Indian Government and the Crown
lawyers have stated that, to authorise the arrest
and return of the fugitive to France, it would have
been necessary to append to the warant of arrest
copies of the depositions already received in evi-
dence, and whose authenticity had been attested by
the oath of persons by whom they were put in, so
that the police magistrate at Calcutta would be able
to state whether the fugitive was prima facie guilty
of the crime for which his extradition was required.
" Such requirements constitute a permanent
obstacle to the success of demands for extradition,
and differ from the practice pursued by the other
Powers of Europe. Extradition is not a measure
invented in the special interest of this or that
State ; it is the widest application of the principle
of penal repression from the point of social order,
which unites the great family of civilised nations
in one common end of mutual protection and gun-.
rantee. Its object is to restore the guilty person to
his natural judge, by depriving him of the benefit
of the right of asylum as it existed at the time
when peoples, placed with regard to one another
in a state of hostile isolation, remained indifferent
to criminal acts effected outside their territory. If
this be so—if extradition, brought back to its
true character, is at bottom only a law of in-
ternational procedure and competence ; if this
rineteuarsunrineg, at fugitive to
she Isaid above,
his
is only a means of
natural judge, the
contracting States, in such matters, should not
demand reciprocally other proofs than those in-
dispensable to verify whether the proceedings aro
serious, directed by the competent judge, and oc-
casioned by common crimes. Every treaty that
departs from this rule is devoid of real utility,
and does not present that character of reciprocity
essential in international relations. Twenty-two
years of experience have demonstrated the ineffi-
cacy of the treaty of Feb. 13, 1843, or rather
the anomaly of a situation in which the contract
is only executed by one of the parties, and which
could not be prolonged without inconvenience to
our own dignity. _ _ .

Another most shameful act of the Prussian autho-
rities has been that they have commenced new pro-
ceedings against Dr. MAY, and although the Lower
Court acquitted him on the charge of having pub-
lished articles against the King of PRUSSIA in the
Schleswig-Holstein Gazette of Altona, the Superior
Criminal Court, on the appeal of the public prose-
cutor against this decision, has resolved that
" General GABLENZ, Austrian Governor of Hol-
stein, be requested to order the arrest of Dr. MAY,
and have him transported to Berlin." This is a
test of the Austrian Government, and it is greatly
to be desired that they should stand firm and hold
their own against the subtle encroachments and
overbearing insolence of the Berlin authorities. If
the Emperor of AUSTRIA permit the General
to deliver up Dr. MAY to the tender
mercies and locus non lucendo justice of Prussian
Courts, he will expose himself to the scorn and
contempt of all the independent nations of the
world, besides doing a great injustice to the indi-
vidual in question. In every respect the delivering
up of Dr. MAY to the Superior Criminal Court of
Berlin will be a most suicidal policy, and one uni-
versally to be deplored. It seems as if Herr VON
BISMARCK'S notion now was to vent his rage and
disappointment at the failure of his Schleswig-
llolsteiu plot upon all against whom he can find a
pretext for dispute, according to the fashion of the
wolf and the lamb in the fable.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Paris, Tuesday Evening.

The Opposition papers in Paris resort to all sorts
of deception and misstatement to damage the
Ministry if they can. They have for several days
past assured their readers that the diplomatic docu-
ments relative to the Mexican question would not
be made public, because the Government are afraid
of discussing upon the policy it had adopted respect-
ing Mexico. Mark how a plain fact can demolish
the insinuation. The yellow-book, just presented
to the Chamber of Deputies, contains all these docu-
ments. The objection was, indeed, foolish and
puerile, for most of these despatches have been
published in the American and English papers. If,
upon closer examination, I should find anything
new or important, I will translate it for you.
Another electoral point of interest was dis-
cussed yesterday in the Corps Legislatif. The ques-
tion, divested of extraneous difficulty, was whether
a Deputy who bad resigned his functions as a repre-
sentative of one place, without the acceptance of
that resignation by the Chamber, could solicit the
suffrages of the electors of another place. The
candidate objected to is M. Larrabune. On the
4th of October last the Moniteur published, simul-
taneously, the convocation of the electors of the
first circonscription of the Basses Pyrenees and the
'resignation of M. Larrabune, who had represented
that department since 1852. That gentleman im-
mediately announced himself as the Government
candidate and was elected, while proof of the confi-
dence of the electors in the policy of tile Adminis-
tration was of course unpalatable to the Opposition.
hence a proceeding similar to an election petition
in the House of Commons. The result was that
the Chamber declared the election perfectly valid.
An important improvement is nearly completed
between Paris and Passy. The steep ascent called

"In this state of things the
Emperor's Govern-
ment has been obliged to occupy itself seriously
oit justified
us for
tia vfedhiicnh
with the care of relieving itself from responsibility,
in presence of the facilities offered to malefactors
for taking refuge a few hours' distance from our
coasts, and of
rt an
in impunity
point, public opinion
i
calling it to ac-
count; so long as the treaty subsists.
s, up to a certain

"Consequently, Prince, you Will have the good-
ness to make known by an official note addressed
to her Britannic Majesty's Chief Secretary of State,
privilege continued in
Art.that availing4of
the
ourselveseohvehtionof hotfFeebruary 13, 1843, we
have resolved upon giving notice of the termination
of the treaty, which will cease to be in force six
months after this declaration.
" Receive, &c.,
(Signed) " D.ROUYN DE LIWYS."

"The Ambassador of France at London to the
Minister for Foreign Affairs.

"London, Dec. 6, 1865.

" M. le Ministre—lmmediately after having re-
ceived the despatch your Excellency did me the
honour to forward on'ithe 29th November, I hastened,
agreeably to its instructions, to address to the
Queen's Chief Secretary of State.an official Note,
bringing to his knowledge that, availing itself of the
privilege contained in Art. 4 of the extradition con-
vention of Feb. 13, 1843, the Emperor's Govern-
ment had determined to give notice of the termina-
tion of the treaty, which would in consequence
cease to be in force six months after this declara-
tion. I have the honour to forward a copy of a
Note of the 4th December. I should have sent it
to your Excellency earlier if I had not hoped to be
able to append the acknowledgment of its reception
at the Foreign-office. But Earl Clarendon, whom
I recently reminded of this matter verbally, and
who considers the expiry of the treaty as notified in
due form, begged me to await his reply a short time
longer, aq he was under the necessity of agreeing
upon it with the Home Secretary.
" Be good enough to accept, &c.,
(Signed) " PRINCE DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE."

the hill of Tro-adero, where at one time it was in-
tended to build a palace for the King of Rome, son
of the first Napoleon, has been levelled to the ground.
An esplanade will be constructed, which will not
only form an agreeable promenade, but on occasions
when there may be an interesting sight in the Champ
de Mars it will prove an eligible spot for spectators.
It will command an excellent view of the Great
Exhibition Palace. _ _

The Constitutionnel, discussing the views disclosed
by the official documents published in the yellow
book respecting Mexico, says :—" The legitimate
object of the expedition will soon be attained. The
principle of non-intervention will be for us as with
the Cabinet of Washington the basis of our reci-
procal action ; and after having obtained for French
interests the guarantee required by the national
honour—for that is what France protects under
Napoleon the Third abroad and at home—ourtroops
will leave Mexico as will be becoming for a vic-
torious army which has nobly fulfilled its task."
The following details from the blue-book respect-
ing the breeding of horses in France will no doubt
interest your sporting readers. The administration of
the Havas (studs) has successively ejected all horses
except thorough-bred and half pure blood. In
1865 the number of stallions of pure blood and half
pure blood was 783, worth 746,400 f., and the
others authorised of the same spec was 99
The breeding and care of horses in France is
becoming much better understood. In 1865 the
number of breeding schools was 24, for which a sum
of 238,500 f. was devoted, to :be equally shared be-
tween them ; the sum of 87,500 f. as prizes to breeders
for the best cultivation and management of horses.
In 1860 there were only 63 hippodromes in France,
with an allowed sum of 862,700 f. In 1865 the

FENIANISM AMONG THE LIVERPOOL DOCK LA-
BOURERS.—The dock labourers have been for some time
suspected of Fenian proclivities, and as they number some
three or four thousand the authorities have been on the
alert, no doubt contemplating any confirmation of this
suspicion with a little anxiety. We understand that there
is not the slightest doubt a great number of the labourers
have become tainted with Fonian principles, and that se-
veral cases aro known in which the Fenian oath has been
administered. A Fenian meeting was to have been held
in Liverpool at the latter end of last week, but the police
were on the qui vine, and the brethren for once acted
discreetly, and the gathering did not take place. That
the dock labourers should be imbued with Fenian sym-
•pathies there need be no surprise, and less apprehension
of the potency of their eombinatiou.—Liverpool Daily Post..

LATEST INTELLIGENO

(REUTER'S TELF,otuals.)

SPAIN.

MADRID, JAN. 30 (Evening).
Two Chilian privateers have been seen off the
coast of Spain. The frigate Isabel has received
orders to pursue them.

The insurgents have almost completely disap-
peared from the provinces of Barcelona and
Tarragona.

The Government has stated in the Senate that it
was desirous of introducing economy in the Budget,
but that it would not reduce the army nor change
its organisation.

TIM BRAZILS.

LISBON, JAN. 30.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Oneida has arrived here from the Brazils, and will
leave for Southampton at 1 p.m. to-day, with 50
passengers, 2,304, bales of cotton, 953 bags of
coffee, 610 rolls of tobacco, and 190 packages of
sundries.

The Rhone, with the outward Brazil mails of the
9th instant, arrived at St. Vincent on the 2lstinat.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jan. 30.—Two o'clock.—Credit Mo-
biliers continue to absorb the almost exclusive at-
tention of speculators. The additional Shares, the
subscription to which will be opened on Thursday,
are to be issued at 516 f. 66c., and were yesterday
in active demand at a premium of from 145 f. to
150 f. The existing, or Old Shares, are to-day held
firmly at a further augmentation of 30f. The de-
port on these Shares, after varying yesterday from
115 f. to 135 f., has risen to-day to 140 f. Sellers (in
consequence of a heavy " bear" account) find them-
selves in considerable embarrassment to meet their
engagements. Immobiliere Shares likewise con-
tinue in favour, with an advance of 10f., the pre-
sent quotation being 540 f. Three per Cents. show
a fractional advance at 68f, 57kc. English Consols
are telegraphed with an advance of Three
o'clock—Realisation of profits have caused prices to
fall. The following are the last quotations:—

41 per Cents 9B Roman 69
Do. end month — Ottoman Fives —
3 per Cents. 6B 60 Mexican Loan 47 25
Do. end month 6B 571 Do. Bonds 326 25
Credit Mobilier ... 865 Russian —
Do. end month ... 862 50 Austrian
Bank Shares 3715 Spanish Threes ... 40 75
Credit Fonder Home Debt —
Italian Loan 62 30 Deferred
Do. end month 62 15

'AYS.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Cash. Acct.
- ... 855
... 1110 -
- 856 25
- ... 551 25

531 25

Romau

- ... 410
417 50
••• 182 50
226 25

- -- ... 150 -

The Jews in Persia.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN.

SlR,—Believing that the subjoined communication
from the Foreign-office will be interesting to the
friends of humanity and civilisation, I respectfully
request that you will, with your usual kindness, give
it insertion in your columns. It is evident that the
grievances of which the Jews of Persia complained,
and which are happily now about to be remedied,
were unknown to the Shah. I cannot refrain on
this occasion from expressing my gratitude to her
Majesty's Government, whose powerful intervention
has, under the blessing of the Almighty, been at-
tended with the happiest results.—l have, &c.,

MOSES MONTEFIORE.

Grosvenor-gate, Park-lane, Jan. 30.

"Foreign-office, Jan. 26.

" Sir, —I have much pleasure in informing you, by the
direction of the Earl of Clarendon, that it appears from a
report which has this day been received from her Majesty's
Minister in Persia, that in consequence of his representa-
tions with respect to your petition to the Shah, his Majesty
has addressed an autograph letter to *the Sipehsalar, in
which he signifies to his Prime Minister that it has come
to his knowledge that his subjects suffer from oppression ;
and that being contrary to his wishes, the Sipehsalar is
strictly enjoined to see that the JeWs are henceforward
treated with justice and kindness.—l am, &c.,
(Signed) " A. II: LAYARD.
"Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart., 7, Grosvenor-
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gate, Park-lane."

PHRENOLOGY.