The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-24 00:00:00

THE SUN,' LONDON! SATURDAY EV %NING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1859.

GLADSTONE, will offer better than this—proposals,
too, which the Lords would have, of course, accepted
from their own party. If nothing better is offered,
we are losers, so far as Parliamentary Reform is
concerned, by the change of Government. If more
is offered, what will be the fate of such a bill sent
up to the Lords by a paltry majority ? The autumn
session was, of course, a mere piece of claptrap ; and
though the Chinese war would be of itself a suffi-
cient reason for one, we may be certain that that,
and Reform together, will not induce our Whig
leaders to place themselves under the supervision
of the country. No questions can now be asked
till next February, and they have not forgotten the
example they learned when schoolboys—fuge per-
contatonein—which means, let Mr. ROEBUCK have
no chance of putting questions. For four long
months they, no doubt, will " take the good the
gods provide them."

There is actually a reasonable prospect now
opened, or at any rate opening, of an end being at
length put to this deplorable Strike, for the
furtherance of what is known as the Nine Hours'
Movement. The small end of the wedge has been
inserted. Negotiations have been commenced.
There is a talk about a compromise—of the only
compromise that could be dreamt of under the cir-
cumstance—one in its character mutually honourable
—honourible at once to masters and to workmen.
Heaven send that the hopes thus kindled of speedy,
and let us also trust permanent, reconciliation may
really prove to be now in a fair way of being
realised. The credit of inaugurating this move-
ment towards a reconciliation is due apparently, in
the first idea of it, to Mr. POMEROY, a confidential
foreman in the employ of Mr. MYERS, the eminent
master builder in the York-road, Lambeth. A
communication written by this foreman of Mr.
MvEits—a letter written by Mr. POMEROY, it
should be observed, entirely, "of his own notion
and unknown to his employer"—was addressed
somewhere about the middle of last week to Mr.
RICHARD HARNOTT, well known and respected
among his fellows in the west country as the Secre-
tary of the Central Committee of Operative Masons,
at Bristol. It occurred to Mr. POMEROY that this
Secretary to the Central Committee of the Opera-
tive Masons at Bristol was the very person to un-
dertake, with the happiest chance of success, th•
delicate and responsible duties devolving upon any
one who should attempt to negotiate a reconcilia-
tion. Mr. HARNOTT once before had tried his hand
very happily—it was in terminating a strike among
the masons down at Netley Abbey—in the
work of conciliation. Mr. POMEROY knew this,
and knowing it urged the proposed mediator to
make a similar, though a much greater, attempt
in regard to the closing, if possible, of this
far more formidable, and in many ways already
most disastrous, strike among the building ope-
ratives of the metropolis. The appeal was
happily not made in vain. Mr. HARNOTT
hastened up from Bristol to London by railway, bent
upon an attempt at least at this most desirable
work of reconciliation.

In the detailed and interesting narrative given
elsewhere in another part of our impression of this
evening, descriptive of the progress of these pro-
ceeding, there is mentioned an incident in con-
nection with Mr. HARNOTT'S visit to Lon-
don which certainly does, as the report
observes, " afford a curious illustration of the dis-
trustful feelings imported into this particular
strike, and of the tyrannical restraint which a
trade society often imposes upon its own members."
In regard to this incident, we learn that " The
Paviors' Arms Committee were early apprised of
this circumstance [the journey from Bristol], and
when Mr. HARNOTT reached the Paddington sta-
tion on Monday morning he was met by several of
the London masons on strike, who were awaiting
his arrival, and whisked away in a cab to a com-
mittee-room of one of their lodges at the Sun
Tavern in Lambeth, in sight of Mr. POMEROY, who
had gone to meet him. Two of them slept in the
same room with him, and the surveillance over him
during the day has been equally systematic.'
Since then we rejoice to know that this
feeling of jealousy has diminished—has by this time
pretty well faded out. That Mr. HARNOTT has con-
quered the good opinion of his fellow operatives,
and that matters are, in many respects, really and
truly, in a fair way towards a satisfactory read-
justment.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, Srvr. 21

Her Majesty drove out yesterday, accompanied by the
Princess Alice, and attended by Lady Churchill and the
Hon. Emily Cathcart.
The Prince Consort went out deer-stalking.
The Prince of Wales and the Count de Flandres went
out shooting.

Her Majesty's dinner party included the Princess Alice,
the Prince of Wales, and the Count de Flandres.

SEPT. 22,

Her Majesty yesterday drove to the Girnoe, accompanied
by tho Princess Alice, the Prince of Wales, and Prince
Arthur, and attended by the Hen. Emily Cathcart.

The Prince Consort went out deer-stalking.
The Count de Flandres went out deer-stalking.

Her Majesty's dinner party included the Prince of Wales,
the Princess Alice, the Earl of Elgin, Lord John Russell,
Mr. and Mrs. William Russell, the Hon. Elliott, Dr.
Robertson, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting.

Viscount Palmerston arrived in London yesterday
from his seat, Broadlands, Hants. _ .

Despatches for the Governors of the North Ame•
rican Provinces, and also of the settlements on the West
Coast of Africa, were sent yesterday from the Colonial-
office.

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His Highness Prince Lieven accompanied by his
family and suite, has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn-streot, from the Isle of Wight.
The Duchess Dowager of Clevel and has arrived
in Grosvenor-square from her villa near Twickenham, is
route for her grace's seat in Yorkshire.
The Earl of Radnor is receiving company at his
seat in Berkshire. The Right lion. Edward and the Hon.
Mrs. Bouverie, and General Buckley, M.P., and the Lady
Catherine Buckley, are among his lordship's guests.

Baron de Lampiere and Baron de Carayon la
Tour, have arrived at the Oatlands Hotel, Weybridge.
Mr. Hastings Russell, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth
Russell passed through town on Thursday, on their way
to Woburn Abbey, on a visit to the Duke of Bedford.
VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO WALES.—It is ru-
moured in Bangor that the Queen purposes honouring Col.
Pennant, of Penrhyn Castle, Menai Strait, with a visit on
her return from the Highlands, and will take the opportu-
nity to inspect the Great Eastern at Holyhead.
A report that the visit of the Great Eastern to
America is to be delayed for twelve months, during which
she is to be exhibited at the various seaports of the United
Kingdom, is positively contradicted at the office of the
company.
THE RED SEA TELEGRAPH.—The steamers Im-
pArador and Imperatriz are expected to leave the Mersey on
Friday next, the 30th inst., with the remainder of the Red
Sea Telegraph cable.
FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF ABERDEEN TO LORD
JOHN RUSSELL.—The Lord Provost of Aberdeen, a few
days ago, received the following communication from Lord
John Russell :—" Abergeldie, Sept. 15, 1859. Sir,—l am
much gratified by the intelligence you gave me of the vote
of the magistrates and town council of the city of Aber-
deen, resolving to confer upon me the freedom of the city.
I regret that I should have been prevented by indisposition
from receiving the honour at the present time, but if the
28th instant would suit the magistrates and town council,
I propose to be in Aberdeen on that day.—l have the honour
to be, my Lord Provost, your obedient servant, J. RUSSELL.
—The Lord Provost, Aberdeen."—The ceremony will,
therefore, take place on the 28th, in the Music Hall..
REWARD TO A FIRE-ESCAPE CONDUCTOR.—It iS
announced that the gold medal subscribed for by the in-
habitants of the Ward of Cheap, with the money also sub-
scribed will be publicly presented to Fire-escape Conductor
George Low, at a meeting to be held in BoW Church vestry,
next Monday, at three o'clock. The rector will occupy the
chair. The gold medal lies for public inspection at the
maker's, Mr. John Bennett, watchmaker, 65, Che
"apside,
and bears on one side the following inscription : —Medal
of Honour, Cheap Ward, City of London, On the
other side is engraved—" Presented by the inhabitants of
the Ward of Cheap, in the city of London, to conductor
George Low, as a memorial of their appreciation or his con-
duct in saving 14 lives, on the occasion of a fire in Cheap-
side, 18th July, 1859.".

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, SEPT. 24.

The King of the Belgians was to leave Biarritz
last night for Geneva, via Marseilles, where, it is
said, he will confer with several important person-
ages. It is supposed that the jottrney of his Ma-
jesty is in some way connected with the proposal
of a congress at Brussels.
The report of the foundation of a Kingdom of
Central Italy, under the rule of tho Count of Flan-
ders, has been positively denied, and declared to be
without foundation.

ST. PETERSBURG, FRIDAY NIGHT.

The interest on monies deposited with the bank
is reduced from 3 to 2 per cent., instead of increased
from 2 to 3 per cent., as stated in the previous
telegram.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING,
The Patric of this evening contains the follow-

in g :

" According to a message received at Paris the
Archduke Maximilian is about to be appointed
Governor of Venetia, with extraordinary powers,
and a Congress for the settlement of Italian affairs
is to be held at Brussels, under the presidency of
the King of the Belgians."

No official or other announcement confirms the
statement of the Patne.

MUNICH, SEPT. 22.

The Conferences between the Ministers for
Foreign Affairs of Bavaria, Saxony, and Wurtem-
berg are ended.
The Ministers are completely agreed upon the
question of the Reform of the Diet.

It is also supposed that the cgteition of the Hesse
Cassel Constitution was one of the subjects discussed
at the Conferences.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, SEPT. 23.

The Director of The Police has refused to sanction
the publication of the Statutes of the National So-
ciety established for the purpose of promulgating
the reform of the Diet.

Upon this the society has appealed to the
Senate.

ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 23.
The Gazette of the Senate publishes an Imperial
ukase, ordering :

" 1. The concentration of all institutions of
credit under the Ministry of Finance.
"2. The issue of 5 per cent. bank-notes in ex-
change for those at present in circulation, the draw-
ing to take place every year, commencing with the
year 1861, and to last for 37 years.
" 3. That all moneys deposited with the Bank
are to return 3 per cent. interest, instead of 2 per
cent., as heretofore.
" 4. The term of service in the army to be 15
years, and in the navy 14 years."

TRIESTE, SEPT. 22.

The Austrian Lloyd's steamer, just arrived,
brings adviees from Constantinople to the 17th
inst.

Derviseh Pasha and Riza Bey are appointed
Ambassadors to St. Petersburg and Teheran.
Two steam frigates have taken fresh draughts of
troops to Crete.

The statutes of the new Bank have been sanc-
tioned by the Government.
Two cases of plague have occurred at Beyrout,
and have caused strict sanitary measures of precau-
tion to be taken.
The concession for the railroad to Varna and
Rutschuk has been granted to the Turkish Consul
at Antwerp.

The telegraph cable between Chios and Smyrna
is broken.

MARSEILLES, SEPT. 23.

Adviccs have been received from Constantinople
to the 14th inst. The garrison of Constantinople
has been considerably iicreasid. The issue of
bonds of the Turkish Treasury has been postponed.
There was a downward tendency of exchanges.

Amicable relations had been established between
Turkey and Persia.
Schaniyl was betrayed and delivered up a pri-
soner to the Russians for a bribe of 6,000,000
roubles. The Circassians continue the war against
Russia.

Matters in Candia were assuming a serious
aspect, and the Turkish Government has de-
spatched numerous troops to make a vigorous
movement.

FRAN CE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

Tho 111oniteur publishes the following :
" Considering Art. 19 of the organic decree of
the 17th Feb., 1852, the following communicated
note has been addressed to the Opinion Nationale :
" The Opinion Nationale, in its number of the
21st inst., published an article which contains the
following paragraph :
" I suppose that to-morrow, if in my soul and
conscience, and for the interest of the country, I
should consider it my duty to discuss, not the form
or the principle of the Government, nor the eter-
nal laws of morality and society, but simply an act
of the Minister of the Interior, or even less than
that, a detail of the organisation of the press for
instance, or a simple measure adopted in error
by a sous-chef-de-bureau of that all powerful
administration which holds in its hands the life
and death of the journals, I must be either a
hero for my courage, or I must be very sure that
the functionary whose acts I am about to criticise
is himself a hero of justice and abnegation, a Cato,
a Brutus, or an Aristides. If he is only a simple
mortal accessible to the counsels of human weakness,
it is clear that I am nothing but a madman, and
that my journal has lost by my imprudence 50 per
cent. of its value.'

" It is to be regretted that serious writers should
allow themselves to be led away to interpretations
which completely pervert the legislation which they
attack, by setting at nought the respect due to the
law. The Opinion Nationale very well knows that
the journals have a right to discuss the acts of
the Government, and that they make use of
it every day without any risk. It also knows that
the high responsibility of the Minister of the Int*.
rior is directly involved in all decisions connected
with the application of the decree of 17th Feb.,
1852, and that for the smallest details, as well as
for the whole, his solicitude is everywhere present
as a guarantee for every interest."
The official journal also publishes the following
article, also relative to the press:—
" Considering Art. 19 of the organic decree of
the 17th Feb., 1852, the following 'communicated'
note has been addressed to the Journal des Villes et
des Compagnes :
," Your journal, in its number of the 20th, ex-
presses itself as follows with regard to the lafe acts
of the Government on the law of the press:—

We asked for a law, whatever it might be,
because a law is liberty.'
However strange that application may he, the Go-
vernment thinks it right to reply by re-pointing to
the fact that the decree of the 17th Feb., 1852, is
an organic law which had precisely for object to re-
gulate the liberty of the press. The same journal
adds:—

" "rhat it only requires a momentary want of
thought or an error committed by a subordinate

clerk to, if not compromise, at least disturb, the
existence of a journal.'
"To that allegation made in bad faith it will suffice
to reply that Art. 32 of the abovenamed decree
states that a journal cannot receive a warning, ex-
cept by a ministerial decision, or be supported in
certain cases determined by the law, except by an
Imperial decree."
The King of the Belgians, accompanied by the
persons of his suite, took an excursion three days
ago across the French frontier, and after having
visited Irun and Fonterabia returned in the even-
ing to Biarritz.
A Paris letter in the Nord says :—" Prince de
de Metternich, if I am well-informed, conveys
to Biarritz propositions which differ from those
addressed by Lord John Russell to the Cabi-
net of Vienna in favour of the principle of non-
intervention in the affairs of Italy. Austri t con-
sents to admit that principle, but on condition that
it shall be applied to Piedmont, as well as to-every
other foreign State, in case that power should en-
deavour to repel an attempt of the Italian princes
to re-establish their authority. If Piedmont were
to intervene, Austria, it is stated, would exercise
the same right, and her troops would cross the
Mincio. You perceive that this new phase of the
negotiations is a delicate one, and may eventually
lead to a resumption of hostilities in Italy. Ido
not yet know what will be the reply of the Em-
peror of the French, but it is not doubtful that if
the Archdukes attack the present government in
Tuscany and Modena, the Piemontese army could
not look quietly on, and then war would recom-
mence. This is said to be the hope of a certain
party at Vienna.. It is true that the policy of
peace triumphs at this moment at that court, but
it is strongly opposed by some persons, and espe-
cially by the generals."

Dovnsz, Oupt. 23.—The market has been firm.
Threes, after having been done at 69f. 5c., im-
proved to 69f. 20c. ; Mobilier varied from 792 f.
50c. to 807 f. 50c; Lyons, 893 f. 75c. to 900 f. ;
Orleans, 1,387 f. 50c. to 1,395 f. ; Northern, 930 f.
to 935 f.; Eastern, 662 f. 50c. to 665 f.; Southern,
512 f. 50c. to 515 f.; Austrian, 550 f. to 552 f. 50c. ;
Lombard, 553 f. to 557 f. 50c. The following were
the last quotations :

41 per Cents. .... 95 75 I Credit Fonder
Do. end month .. I Belgian 41 99 25
3 per Cents 69 15 Piedmonteso (5) .. 85 50
Do. end month — Roman B5 75
Bank Shares 2845 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 805 Spanish Threes
Do. Account