The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-24 00:00:00

IRE SUN, LONDON, VRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1857.

Court as a body be sincere in their professions,

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AUSTRALIA.

the trifling difficulties might easily be overcome,
and private intelligence rendered comparatively
valueless, or, at all events, the leading features
given, so as to afford elements sufficient to enable
every man to judge for himself. If "the evil be
incurable, under the present system," as asserted
by the Times, why should not a better one
be resorted to, that would reduce it to a minimum
amount.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY.
The clipper-ship Anglesea, Captain Thorn, be-
longing to Messrs. Green, from Melbourne, Feb.
2, from London, was off Pl., mouth this morning,
and has landed about 40 passengers here.
She is laden with 600 tons of copper oro and 1,266
bales of wool, and brings on freight 52,600 oz. of
gold, besides what may be in the hands of ber pas-
sengers (170), among whom are some successful co-
lonists and Lieut.-Colonel Thomas James Valiant,
40th Regt , and Lieut. W. Henry Paul, of the 12rh.
The Anglesea rounded Cape Horn in two days,
crossed the line on the Ist of April (28 days), and
in 18 days more made the Scilly Islands, on ap
proaching which she was becalmed two days.
Her mails were left at Penzance on Wednesday.
The news is anticipated by the Simla.
The barque Alexandria, which sailed from Algoa
Bay with wool and passengers Feb. 24, St. Helena
March 12, and Ascension March 19, passed up
Channel this morning, and landed a small mail
here.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.

The Alhambra, steamer, with the Peniustlar

mails, is telegraphed passing Hurst at 9.20 a,m.
She will be up here about half-past 11.

This acknowledged grievance is, however, only
a portion of what must be submitted to under our
Monetary Code. With a sounder system of cur-
rency, which would at the same time secure a
more equal supply of the circulating medium, and
retard, if it could not altogether prevent, the ex-
traordinary fluctuations in the rate of discount to

THE DANISH MINISTRY.
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 23.

The Cabinet is being reconstituted slowly. The
cause is the difficulty of bestowing the portfolio of
Foreign Affairs and that of Hol,tein, left vacant
by the retirement of M. Scheele.
M. Andrae, Minister of Finance will carry off
the Presidency of the Council over M. Hall, Mi-
nister of Public Worshfp.

which we have been subjected of late years—the
nation would not be dependent on such casualties
as the early or late arrival of a specie-
bearing vessel. The reduction of bullion, valued
at half a million sterling, could, as we have re-
peatedly stated, have no greater effect than the
loss of half a sovereign to a man worth some seven

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have arrived in
town from Broadlinds. Her ladyship will leave in a
few days for St. Leonarde-on-Sea.
Lord Broughton arrived in Berkeleysquare yesterday
from Erlestoke Park, Wilts. Colonel the Hon. Strange
and the Hon. Mrs. Jocelyn are still on the Continent,
and are not expected to return before the end of the
ensuing month.
Lady De Ros returned to town a few days since from
visiting Sir John and Lady Walsh at Warfield Park,
Berks. His lordship will return to town to-morrow
from Portsmouth.

Still, with the exception of M. Scheele, the

retention of the former Cabinet is no longer

doubtful.

or eight thousand pounds. It is indeed an
anomaly, that " the wealthiest nation in the
world," as the Times confesses England to be,

BERLIN, THURSDAY.

The Upper House has rejected paragraph 1 of
a bill imposing an additional duty on salt, by a
majority of 95 to 21. The Government there-
upon abandoned the bill, the first paragraph con-
taining the entire measure.

should suffer so severely from petty casualties—
that the industry of the country should be para-
lysed because a vessel has been delayed by contrary
winds, or an accident to her machinery. In truth
it is " currency," not "capital" that is wanting.
We can easily bear the loss of a hundred millions
by war, when we are driven to our wits' end by
the delay of less than a twentieth part of that
amount.

Lord and Lady Walsingbam will arrive in town to-
morrow from Merton Hall, Norfolk, for the season.
Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood leave town to-day
on a visit to Rear-Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford and
Lady Elizabeth Clifford, at their villa at Ryde, Isle of
Wight, and will stay till after the launch to-morrow at
Portsmouth.
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.— At the meeting on
Monday next, the 27th inst., the following papers will
be read :-1. "On China and the Chinese," by Sir J. F.
Davis, K C. 8., F.R G.S. 2. " Completion of the North
Anstrdian Expedition," by Commander A. C. Gregory.
SOUTHAMPTON DOCK COMPANY.—AA a meeting of
tire Board of Directors, hell on Wednesday, Mr.
Franc's Le Breton, of London, was elected a director
of this company, in the place of the late Mr. James
Hartley.
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday.—The Belgian Transatlantic
Royal Mail Company's steamship Leopold the First,
Capt. Michel, sailed this afternoon for New York, with
the Belgian mails, about 500 passengers (chiefly steerage),
and a very full cargo of misco;laneous goods.
MONEY ORDER OFFICES —On the let May money-
order offices will be opened at the following places :
Snettisham, in Norfolk ; \Voolpit, Suffolk ; Melbourn,
Cambridgeshire; Stainland, Yorkshire; Canonbie, Dum-
friesshire ; Newbliss, Monaghan ; and Borria-o-Leigh,
Tipperary.
LETTERS FOR SOPHIA, IN TURKEY.—Letters addressed
to Sophia (Sofia), in Turkey, forwarded through the
Austrian Post-office; vid Belgium and Prussia, may in
future be sent, either paid or unpaid, at the option of
the sender. The postage on letters for Sophia is is. Id.
when not exceeding half-ounce in weight ; 2s. 2d. when
above half-ounce and not exceeding one ounce ; and so
on, according to the scale for charging inland letters.
The above rates comprise the entire postage, British and

ATHENS, APRIL 20.

The Government has determined to oppose the
French proposition for the establishment of credit

institutions in Greece.

FRANCE.
Our usual Paris letter, dated Thursday evening,
had not arrived when we went to press.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, APRIL 21.

There has been a considerable decline in all kinds
of inclustriel stock during the last two or three days,
and it is said to have been caused by the endeavours
made by some of the concessionaries of the Russian
railroads to palm upon the leading Vienna houses a
part of their shares. The Vienna men of business
are ready enough to take a share in a speculation
when they see a fair chance of profit, but most
unwilling to do so if they fancy that nothing iv to be
gained. In short, the Aus rian hankers and mer-
chants would fain have nothing whatever to do with
the Russian railroads, but the French Credit Mobi-
lier has given some of them many shares iu several
very good speculations, and they are therefore unable
to t efuse to take a few in a vory bad one. The Ost-
Deutsche Post to-day mourns over those unfortunate
speculators who have so deliberately walked
into the trap laid for them by the Russians. The
paper in question maliciously observes, that in the
prospectus which has been issued no mouton is
made of the probable profit arising from the feathers
of those birds which fall to the earth as victims to
the mephitic exhalations of the Putrid Sea, between
Genitsshi and Arabat, on the road from. New Russia
to the Crimea. If any person who is in possession
of his five senses will take the trouble to look
at the plans of the projected Russian railroads, be
will clearly see that they are for strategic rather
than for commercial purposes, and consequently
cannot possibly pay.
The Austrian Government is trying hard to per-
suade the French to make some change in their
postal arrangements, which are totally unworthy
of such a highly civilised nation. A letter goes
from Cronstadt, in Tran-,ylvania, to Cologne, in
Pruss;a,' for 9 kreuzers (34d. English), but the post-
age of a letter from Vienna to Paris costs 29 kreuzers
English). Letters are frequently addressed
to me from various parts of France, but it rarely
happens that the proper stamps are on there. If
the stamps are oue halfpenny less than the pre-
scribed postage, the letters are here treated as if
no stamp at all was on them. Since the cheap
postage system has been introduced into Austria
the revenue of the Post-office Department has
_increased rather than diniinished. The General
Committee of the Agricultural Exhibition officially
; announces that the murrain has not spread iu
Moravia and Silesia. The complaint is sporadic,
and has only affected cattle which have been driven
into those provinces. However, to tranquillife the
exhibitors, a promise has been given that their
cattle shall be brought to VienAa on the Northern
Railroad in new waggons constructed for the pur-
pose.
There was a complete panic on 'Change to-day.

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foreign, to the place of destination. Letters fur Sophia
are forwarded v 4 Belgium and Prussia, unless otherwise
specially addressed.
LaisEarooa,'April 22.—This morning the Montreal
Olean mail steamship Indian sailed hence for Quebec
and Montreal, with 218 steerage and 107 cabin passen-
gers, and the Canadian mails. The Kangaroo, belong-
ing to the Liverpool and Philadelphia S eamship Coal-
pany, also sailed to-day for New York, having on
board a large number of passengers, including G 5 in the
cabins. Tee Revel Mail steamship Eor tpa will sail on
Saturday for Halifax and Boston, and letters and news-
papers will be received until 8 a.m., with late fees until
9 a.m.. and at the landing-stage till 10 a.m.
COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.—At a court held yester-
day the officers of the corporation of London, have given
it as their opinion that a conviction by a foreign court
is not within the meaning of the statute, and that Alder-
man Sir William Magnay is not disqualified from holding
the office of alderman by reason of the judgment of the
Appeal Court of Brussels (.1 the 27th of February last.
PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT TO MANCHESTER. —lt is
understood that the Corporation of Salford will present
an address to his Royal Highness at the Peel Para
Library, on the day following the opening of the Art
Treasures Exhibition. On the same occasion, an address
will be presented by a deputation from the lestirutional
Association of Lancashire and Cheshire, of which his
Royal Highness is the president. His Royal Highness
is to be the guest of James Watts, Esq., Mayor of
Manch-ster, at Abney-hall, Cheshire.
LIST OF DIETARIES /OR CONVICTS.—Returns of the
dietaries sanctioned by the Government for convicts at
Gibraltar, Bermuda, and the different convict establish-
ments of every class in England and Wales, and the
dietaries in the military prisons, and the county gaols of
England and Wales, have been printed by order of Par-
liament, and occupy a paper of 140 pages. The infor-
mation is interesting, but the very nature of it precludes
any detailed reference.
DESPATCH OF MILITARY STORES TO CHlNA.—Yes-
terday very great activity prevailed in the Ordnance
Storekeeper's Department, Tower, an order having been
received for the immediate despatch of a large quantity
of munitions of war. In addition to the ordinary
labourers, a strong fatigue party, furnished by the gar-
rison, were busily engaged in delivering stores, consist-
ing of arms, accoutrements, tent, &u, which were
shipped on board of lighters, for conveyance toWoolwich,
where they will be transshipped to vessels about to sail
for China, A large quantity of commissariat stores,
blankets, and clothing, was forwarded by railway to
Portsmouth, for the came destination.
THE FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT WOLVERHAMPTON.
—Five persons have been allied by the boiler explosion
at Wolverhampton, noticed in Tice Sun, of yesterday.
Benjamin Mason, the proprietor of the fire-iron polishing
machinery, to whom the boiler belonged, had always
managed the engine, employing as his stoker a man
named Joseph Cornfield, They were both killed instan-
taneously, and were frightfully mutilated. Another
workman was killed, and two children, upon whom a
portion of the malt-house fll in the street. It is sup-
posed that the explosion was occasioned by the sudden
adootssion of cold water into the boiler, parts of which
had become red hot. An inquest has been commenced
and adjourned before Mr. W. H. Philla s.
REFORMATION OF FEMALE PRISONERS.—The 20th
annual meeting of the Devon aild Exeter Refuge for Dis-
charged Prisoners was held a few days ago at Exeter; the
High Sheriff, Sir M. Lopes, in the chair. The report
stated some gratifying fact; relative to the reformation of
female prisoners through the instrumentality of this in-
stitution. During the 20 years it has been in operation,
190 discharged prisoners " have found at least a tempi-
rary refuge beneath its roof. Of these 173 have gone
away, of whom 88 have either been placed in respectable
services or have been restored to their friends." The
meeting was addressed by the Hon. W. W. Addington,
Sir J. Duckworth, Sir J. Kennaway, Mr. R S. Gard,
M.P., and other gentlemen ; and it Wfl.3 stated that the
Devon and Exeter Refuge was about to be united to the
new Female Reformatory which is now being built in
Exeter, by which arrangement much advantage to the
cause of criminal reformation in the county of Devon is
expected to accrue.
A deputation from the General Association for the
Australian Colonies
,had an interview with Mr Secre•
tary Labluchera yesterday, at the Colonial-office, to pre-
sent a memorial, requesting him to bring a bill into
Parliament giving the Australian Colonies power to form
a Federal Assembly. The deputation comprised Messrs.
W. C. Wentworth (late member of Council for the city
of Sydney, chairman of the association), James A. Youl
(honorary secretary), Sir William M'Arthur, Dr. Dubie,
and Messrs. G. F. Leslie (late members of Coun-
cil for New South Wales), Win. Nicholson (late M.L.C.
for Victoria), John Dunn (late M L.C. for Tasmania),
Edward Stephens and A. L. Elder (late M.L.C.'s for
South Australia), H. G. Ashhurst, Robert Brooks, D.
Benjamin, S. Benjamin, J. Gilchrist, G. R. Griffiths,
Dr. Learmonth, D. Laruach, F. A. Du Cruz, R. Dry,
(late Speaker of Council, Tasmania), and A.. R. Cruik-
shank (member of House of Assembly, Victorie).
MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER.—The adjourned inquest
respecting the death of John Bebbing ton, head game.
keeper to Mr. Corbett, of Tilstone, near Chester, was
held on Thursday, at the Tollernaehe Arms, Beeston,
before Mr. Henry Churton, corner for that district. It
will be recollected that Bebbington was found dead in a
field near Beeston on Friday morning last, with a gun-
shot wound in his loin, Suspicion pointed to a well-
known poacher named John Blagg, who was appre•
headed. Evidence was given, from, which it appeared
that tracts of a person beating for game were seen in the
field, sad that the tracks corresponded exactly with a
pair of hoots found in Blagg's house. The marks Lad
been made on the Thursday morning when the deceased
was shot. It was also proved that on one occasion
Blagg had said that he would shoot Bebbington the first
time he got a chance. The jury returned a verdict of
" Wilful murder" against John Dana and he was corn
mated for trial at the next assizes. On Wednesday time
prisoner was committed on a similar charge by the magis-
trates-at Four-lane-ends.
THE FRENCH IMPERIAL PRINCE, besides going most
afternoons in state, escorted by Guides, to the Bois de
Boulogne, is now taken out at eight or nine every more-
nag on the reserved terrace of the Tuileries gardens over-
' looking the Seine. Sometimes he may be seen in his Lill-
putnn goat carriage, the goats led by two little footmen,
a nurse walking on each side, and a tall lacquey behind,
This morning, I happened to be passing through the gar-
' dens when the imperial infant was returning to the palace
from his promenade. On this occasion he was not in the car-
riage, but in the arms of one of his nurses, the other be-
ing in attendance, and the tall footman close at hand. The
passers-by on the quay, near the Pont Royal, rushed to
the railing which separates the quay from the private
garden to see the hope of the Napoleon dynasty. At
the moment the Emperor, without his hat, and smoking
a cigar, was enjoying the fine morning, walking up and
down the gravel walk in front of the little private stair.
case leading into his apartments. Wten be save the
nursery cortege approaching, he advanced a few steps,
graciously bowed to the nurses, and, with a playful ex-
pression of his countenance, kissed his babe, to the
great delight of a considerable assemblage who beheld
the scene at the distance of only a few yards. The
child looks remarkably plump and well.—Letter 11'0111,