The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-14 00:00:00

[EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.].

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

The steam ship La Plata, Captain Weller, has
arrived. She left St. Thomas at 8 p.m. on the 31st

The Atrato, hence, arrived at St. Thomas at
seven a.m. on the 31st : all well.

The La Plata brings 516,547 dols in specie ;
jewellery and platina, value 4,053 dols., and a
general cargo. She has 174 passengers, including
Lieut. Scott, officers, and crew of the late gunboat,
Jaseur, lost on a shoal 150 miles south-west of
Jamaica.

Her Majesty's ships Omar and Diadem were at
Greytown ; Imaum and Valorous, at Jamaica ;
Devastation, Tartar, Arachne, and Jasper, at Vera
Cruz.

A large Spanish squadron was at Havannah.
A French frigate and two brigs of war were at
Vera Cruz, also an American frigate and a war
sloop. _ _ _

The La Plata spoke the British brig Teazer on
the 12th inst. in latitude 49 N., longitude 10.15
W., standing to the northward.
Produce was scarce at Jamaica. No pimento,
very little sugar and coffee offering. Fair sugar
had sold at from 20s. to 20s. 6d. per 100 lb., dark
withdrawn at 165., and some sold at 19s. Freights
very low, and supplied with great difficulty.
The half-yearly report of the Jamaica Bank to
the 7th of March had been published. The bank
had suffered by two heavy failures, but the surplus
profit for six months, after paying a dividend of
seven per cent., would cover all losses and leave
the reserve fund untouched.

Weather fine. Sickness still prevalent.
The sugar crop at Barbadoes was about the ave-
rage. Prices 4.25 to 4.80 per barrel. Rum, 60c.
the gallon. Young canes look healthy. Weather
showery.

From Trinidad the shipments of cocoa were above
the average. Weather fine, and young crops wear
a favourable aspect.
Sugar•making progressing satisfactorily at St.
Vincent. Fever abated, and the island reported
healthy.
The island of St. Thomas continued healthy.
Yellow fever had not appeared, and the deaths
from diphtheria had materially diminished.
Everything is reported tranquil at Hayti, the
Government being actively engaged in organising

affairs.

Quiet was restored at Valparaiso, after the late
abortive outbreak.
Everything was quiet at Coquimbo.
Don Pedro Leon Gallo was 14 leagues distant,
with 1,200 men. Government had 1,000 soldiers to
meet the rebels. No battle was expected. Caldera
Copiape, and Huasco were the only places held by
the rebels. Caldera was blockaded by the Chile
brig Ancud, no vessels being allowed to enter. It
was generally believed that in a month'the country
would be as quiet as ever.
Business was in a bad state at Peru.
Exchange on England, 42 dols., 90 days, nominal.
No business doing at Valparaiso.
It is expected that about 2,000,000 dols. will be
shipped from Mexico about the middle of April,
per her Majesty's ship Alert.

Minister, had not arrived at New York.
A commission of naval officers had been appointed
by the Secretary of the Navy to visit the various
yards and investigate abuses existing in that branch
of the public service, with the view of applying a
remedy.
The New York Daily Times of the 2d says that
the export of bullion would be increased by the
Arago, which was to leave that day, as the under-
writers were taking the risk a fraction lower after
the Ist of April. The engagements of gold bars, of
which the last California steamer brought about
1,000,000 dols., amounted to about 800,000 dols.,
though this sum included some Mexican silver, re-
ceived early in the week from New Orleans.
Exchange closed 1091 on London ; sf. 122 e on
Paris ; bankers, 1092 to 1092, and sf. 15c merchant
bills.

The stock-market evinced more steadiness. The
business in'Government and State stocks continued
to be large) and prices were fully maintained.
Freights were unchanged to English ports, while
engagements were moderate. There was more
doing for Antwerp and Rotterdam, while rates to
Havre were unchanged.
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 1.
Stocks steady. Pennsylvania State Fives, 931;
Reading Railroad, 251 ; Morris Canal, 591 ; Long
Island Railroad, 11 ; Pennsylvania Railroad, 44.
Flour dull. Wheat buoyant and advanced ; white,
1 dol. 65e. to 1 dol. 80c. ; red, 1 dol. 54c. to 1 dol.
58c. Corn declining. Whisky steady at 28c. to
29c.

MOBILE, MARCH 31.
Cotton quiet; sales, 3,000 bales; middling, 12c.
,o 121 c.

SAVANNAH, APRIL 1.
Cotton declined lc. ; sales to-day, 1,000 bales ;
the market closing unsettled.
CHARLESTON, APRIL 1.

Cotton market very much depressed, and de-
clined ::`c. to •' sales to-day, 900 hales ; the re-
ceipts of the week foot up 12,000. bales, and the
sales, 7,000; stock, 66,500 bales.
BALTIMORE, APRIL 1.

Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat dull. Corn
unchanged. Provisions dull and unchanged
Whisky dull.

CINCINNATI, APRIL 1.
Flour nominal ; sales, 500 barrels, for delivery in
May, at 5 dots. 50c., and 2,000 barrels offered at
this rate on the spot and refused. Whisky dull at
24c. Provisions nominal; no sales. Mess pork,
17 dolls.

TEE CURRENCY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin, I am very glad to see by this day's Sun
that Sir Archibald Alison has at last ventured to
oppose our present Currency Laws, which were
passed by, and for the benefit of, monopolists, who
have wallowed in luxury during the present century
at the expense of the million. Peel, like all
his class, was not a practical man of business—a
mere theorist ; and when pressed by interested
parties to return to cash payments, in his bewilder-
ment he was advised to consult the City oracles,
whose interests are diametrically opposed to those
of the people. David Ricardo, who was said to
have made his million by merely watching the
turn of the market, was supposed to be the fittest
person to be examined by the committee of the
House of Commons. This gentleman was asked if
he had paid particular attention to the Currency
question, and to what extent prices would be
affected by a return to cash payments. He said,
after considering the•question in all its bearings
on the subject, he found that it would not affect
prices more than 3 or 31, or 4 per cent. at most ;
that he was most positive of. Well, then, said
Canning, with his usual flippantness, since that is
the case, let us pass the Bill unanimously, and set
the question at rest for ever ! He added, the
Currency is a question I never could understand !
A pretty admission, truly, for a first-rate statesman
—a fair sample of England's rulers since the days
of Pitt, Fox, Liverpool, and Huskisson.
Peel, I believe, was haunted by the mighty
blunder he had been led into by the great capi-
talist in 1816, in opposition to the advice of his
own father, who had been a man of business all his
life. thie of the bank directors was asked by the
committee if the bank could bear to return to cash
payments (his answer was a piercing one), he said,
yes, the bank could bear it if the country could
bear it ! _ _ _

We are much obliged to Monsieur Guizot
for giving us the private opinion of the late Sir
Robert Peel on the subject. " There is, he often
said, too much suffering and too much perplexity in
the condition of the working classes. It is a dis-
grace as well as a danger to our civilisation. It is
absolutely necessary to render their condition less
hard and precarious. We cannot do every thing,
far from it, but we can do something, and it is our
d'ity to do all we can."—Extract from Monsieur
Guizot's " Memoirs of Sir Robert Peel." He well
knew what he suffered from his own class in his
most strenuous attempts to get the corn laws re.
pealed. He was taunted by Disraeli by being
told that it was an " organised hypocrisy." In
one year he repealed the duty on at least 300 ar-
ticles, and no doubt would have gone much further
if the House, of Common's would have supported
him.—Your most obedient servant, B. C.
41, Chapel-street, Paddington, April 13.

THE BALLOT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—" Who wants the ballot" ? for the twen-
tieth time asks your anxious contemporary the
Times.
I will supply him with an example of the man
whose acquaintance he appears so sincerely to
desire to make, and now that he is found, and made
a note of, hope that this anxious inquirer will make
the most of him.
I pledge my word as to the strict accuracy of the
following circumstance. A few years since a
reverend gentleman, a visitor to our town, entered
my shop, and after a few inquiries on local matters.
requested me to recommend him some tradespeople
with whom he could safely deal. I did so, con-
scientiously, and without entertaining the remotest
political partiality towards any of the individuals
I nominated, but simply selecting those persons'
(irrespective of their politics) who had the reputa-
tion of being the best tradespeople in the place.
My reverend visitor, however, did not appear
entirely satisfied, and hesitatingly, requested me to
lend lima the poll-book of the last borough election,
and from that too plain speaking record of political
faith, he ticked of the tradespeople he designed to
patronize with his illiberal favouritism. I men-
tioned this circumstance to my neighbour, a cautious
but conscientious trader, and his remark was
that that circumstance would be enough to

induce him never to record his vote - again
under the present system of open voting.
To your abler pen and more talented strictures I
must leave the facts of this case for comment. It
has left an impression upon my mind as to the cruel
injustice done to the striving tradesman in many
cases where open voting imperils his very liveli-
hood, that will never abate, and confirms me in the
opinion that all reforms are " trifles light as air"
compared with that measure of safety which is to
secure to the honest voter the only present effectual
safeguard in the expression of his real sentiments,
and preserve to him at the same time the opportunity
of earning his bread in unquestioned security.
It is hafilly to be expected that the man who has
raised this question through the Times' leader will
venture to take cognisance of the facts I have nar-
rated—facts so completely answering, not his
expectations, but his beseeching cry for this
" coming man ;" but I will venture to assert, that
in the 'whole round of political profligacy and in-
timidation with which this country will shortly be
plagued, he will not find a case that shall more
entirely satisfy him, or your readers, th
at his ques-
tion as to " who wants the ballot ?" is answered,
than in the case of the man whose rather natural
reluctance to vote I have described above.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
W. A. S.

Frances Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt,
M.P., will leave town on Friday for their villa residence at
Twickenham, for the Easter holidays,
An instalment of 12 per cent. on the Chilian loan
Only 10 per cent. will then re • to be 'd
of £1,554,800, contracted in November last, falls due on
Friday.
A private letter from Concepcion, at
Valparaiso with the Government d 13th
pinciaomn, receipvae'd
despatches,' dated the
of February, gives an account of a battle which had taken
place there, and in which therevolutionistslost between
driven
150 and 200 men, and were m the city. They
located themselves on the rrdfrao
and were headed by
Juan Alemparte. £l2s,ooo,npart co oaaf,
the new loan which
arrived from England, was still on board the steamer Lima,
the authorities being afraid to land it lest the revolutionists
should attempt its seizure.
NECESSITY FOR TRAINING IN RIFLE PRACTICE.
—When. the British army invaded Franco from the Pyre-
flees, ill:. 1814, under the late Duke of Wellington, the
p_epulatiop. of tho put of France being Attached to the
Bourbon interest, wen kindly disposed to the Mithh troops,
affording them every assistance ; and as the Frenchmen
were all trained in military knowledge, their assistance was
of great value. I have seen them with alacrity form loop-
hplea in. their houses, that our men Might firy with greaters_cprity and etreet 011 t14.1?,_ pli@nly!,:Arre,spoedent' of the
.i4dverttser,
Among the passengers who arrived at South-
.
amp r,ton in the India mail packet Ripon, on the 4th instant,
was a I‘lajor Harriett, whom no one on board seemed to
know.
was taken ill at Malta, and died in Southamp-
ton two fiqys 4fter he landed there, There was no clue as
tO Wl3.e he was, and his refatives were advertir ed for 14 the
toiicton new: pii3ers:" His *hew saW'the Owl; isement,
R.E4 came to 'Squth4mpton. the major turiled Lilt to be
oPti4 cif 01 iluitle§ VittP 111T§idqd at theWO. of the King of
Delhi, end ARIQA6st his baggage waspropertyto the amount
of £30,000. Ile Was about 48 years of age# and helm died
I 1T944 41°°;°Ni ..,*

The following is a copy of a note from Count
Buol-Schamenstein to M. de Balabine, dated Vienna,
the 23d of March, 1859.
" The undersigned, &c., has hastened to submit
to the Emperor his august master the proposal
(l'ouverture) which M. de Balabine, &c., has made
to him in the name of his Court, by communicating
to him a telegram from Prince Gortschakoff, under
date of 21st (9th) d. c. (21st of March), in which it
is said that the Emperor Alexander, desiring by a
supreme effort, to save (sauvegarder) the mainte-
nance of peace, proposes the meeting of a Congress
of the great Powers, which should endeavour to
smooth (aplanir) the Italian complications, and
that that proposition has been already accepted by
the Governments of France, Great Britain, and.
Prussia.

"In execution of the orders of his Imperial Ma-
jesty, the undersigned has the honour to make known
to M. de Balabine the following reply, which he
requests him to bring to the cognizance of his
Court : .

" Appreciating at their just value the sentiments
which have inspired to His Imperial Majesty the
Emperor of All the Russias the overture he has•
made him make, and desiring to lend his concur-
rence to a work which must sanction anew the
engagements consigned in treaties, and the totality
of rights deriving therefrom, the Emperor Francis
Joseph accepts on his part the proposition in
question.

"In the opinion of the Imperial Cabinet, the
whole difficulty resides in the political system which.
Sardinia follows in her foreign relations. To put
an end to this state of things, which alarms Europe,
and to prevent its return, such appears to be the
task reserved to the Powers called upon in the first
rank to uphold social order.
" If, however, beside this question, which the
undersigned considers as the only one essentially
important for the moral pacification of Italy, it
should enter into the intentions of the Powers to
bring forward others for discussion, it would be
necessary that they should be exactly stated before-
hand, and, insomuch as they should touch upon. the
internal regime of other Sovereign States, the
undersigned could not dispense with insisting above
all things that the mode of proceeding in this ease
should be conformable to the rules formulated by
the protocol of Aix-la-Chapelle, under date of the
15th of November, 1818. '

" In conclusion, the undersigned must lay stress
on a last consideration. To wish to open peaceful
deliberations in presence of the clang of arms and
of the preparations for war would be not only
materially dangerous, but morally impossible. It
is therefore indispenable, according to the opinion
of the Imperial Cabinet, which the underslg ned
does not doubt will be shared by all the Powers,
that previously to all conference Sardinia must dis-
arm.
" The undersigned remains, &c."

The following is a copy of a note to Lord. A.
Loftus, under date of Vienna, March 31 :
The undersigned, &c., hastens to acknowledge
the receipt of the note which Lord A. Loftus
has done him the honour to address to him under
date of the 28th inst., and which contains the con-
ditions upon which the Government of her Bri-
tannic Majesty is ready to accept the proposal of a
Congress of the Great Powers which would take
into consideration the complications which have
arisen in Italy.

" The Britannic Government having, moreover,
expressed the desire to see the Imperial Govern-
ment acquiesce in those propositions, the under-
signed has taken on this subject the orders of the
Emperor his august master.
" He finds himself to-day authorized to inform
Lorcl A. Loftus that the Imperial Government,
appreciating highly the motives which guide the
British Cabinet and the sentiments of frank friend-
ship by which it is animated towards Austria, ac-
cepts in the measure stated in the sheet hereto
annexed the bases of discussion proposed by the
note of his Lordship.
" A fifth point of deliberation which he has
thought fit to add, that of an agreement on a simul-
taneous disarming of the Great Powers, will, he
does not doubt, be accepted by all the Powers as a
new proof of the pacific intentions of Austria.
" It results, again, from the note of Lord A.
Loftus, that if the Imperial Government accepts,
on the conditions mentioned above, the proposal of
a Congress, the British Government will invite that
of France in a pressing manner to insist, in common
with it, that Sardinia shall disarm at once, and to
give it a collective guarantee for the fulfilment of
the engagements taken towards it.
" This step which the British Cabinet proposes
to take in concert with the French Government is
the more conformable to the general interests, as it
would be morally impossible, as the Imperial Go—
vernment has already shown by its note addressed
to M. de Balabine, bearing date the 23d inst., to
carry on pacific deliberations in presence of the
clang of arms. The undersigned must the more
eagerly desire that these united efforts shall have
full and entire effect as Austria could not present
herself at the Congress until Sardinia shall have
completed her disarmament, and shall have pro-
ceeded to the disbandment of the corps francs.
These conditions, fulfilled and executed, the Im-
perial Government declares itself ready to give in
the most formal manner the assurance that Austria
will not attack Sardinia pending the duration of
the Congress, as long as the latter shall respect the
Imperial territory and that of its allies.
" In requesting Lord A. Loftus to bring the con-
tents of this note to the knowledge of his Govern-
ment the undersigned takes advantage of," &c.

"ENGLISH PROPOSITIONS. " OBSERVATIONS OF THE
CABINET OF VIENNA.
" Means of assuring the The Congress shall es-
maintenance of peace be- amine the means of bringing
tween Austria and Sardinia. back Sardinia to the fulfil-
went of her international
duties, and shall consider
the measures to be taken to
avoid the return of the Pre"
sent complication.
TT

c, Evacuation of the Ito- "The question of the
_6o'
man States by the foreign cuation of the Pontifical
corps of occupation, and a States may be discussea•
taking into consideration of The Congress will leave the
the reforms in the Italian details of its execution to the
States, three Powers directly We'
rested. The question of the
administrative reforms m'
be debated. An understands'
ing may be come to on the
advice to be given, but *it.
definitive adoption remains
subordinate to the decisione
of the States directly into'
rested.

111.

" A combination to be " The validity of our
substituted for the special treaties cannot be questioned
treaties between Austria and —but if all the Powers re•
;he Italian States, presented at the Congress
agree among them to pro•
duce their political treaties
with the Italian States, Aug'
tria, on her part, will do the
same. She will come to so
understanding with the Go-
vernments co-interested, t°
be able to present their c°_lll-
mon treaties to the Congrom
and to examine in what Ines'
sure their revision might be
recognised as useful.

IV.
ci Terri torial arrangements
"Perfectly agreed that
and the treaties of 1815 shall neither existing territorial
not be touched.
of 1815, nor those concluded
in execution of those act*
shall be touched.

gl An understanding for
simultaneous disarming 01
the Great Powers."

THE DISPOLUTION.—It is, we believe, intended
that Parliament shall be prorogued on Tuesday and dig"
solved on Thursday next. In this case the writs will be
proclaimed on the following Saturday, and the Bormigli
Elections would take place on the Wednesday in Easter
week, and those for the Counties on the following Monde',
May 2.
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.—At a meeting of tbe
Court of Directors of the East India Company, held at the
India House, on the 13th inst,, Colonel W. H. Sykes'
M.P., was unanimously elected chairman for the Year
ensuing.

The India Council, to prevent the ineonvenievc!,
which would have been sustained from some of the intent:
arrangements for their forthcoming loan, have changed Pi,
day for receiving tenders from the 19th to the 21st 11i25
They have also lowered the first instalment from 50 to
per cent., and extended the day for its payment from the 'll
to the 6th of May. The subsequent instalments, haste.%
of being two of 25 per cent., payable respectively on the
of
of June and the 19th of July, will now consist of tlirc'eth'S
that amount, the last of the number being deferred to
•
16th of August, from which period the bonds will cis'
The deposit to accompany the tenders is still only 2sPue o,
cent., although 15 days are to elapse before a further yjr
is to be required, and strong possibilities will exist of hos
fluctuations from political causes during that interval. t
OOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government
emigrant ship Lady Elma Bruce, 966 tons, Captain iiicovf
son, sailed from Liverpool on the 7th inst. for Sydney,
South Wales, with 317 emimrants, under charge of SurCti..
Superintendent William Donaldson. Her Majesty's :0
gration Commissioners have given notice of their int xT
~,
to receive tenders to-morrow (Thursday) for a ship toPf;:e
ceep to Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, to be ready for
recoptiOn of Passenrs on such day as the Commissi_on!e.
may appoint,,P INen Betweens”
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