The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1861

there, cherishing to the last a confident expectation
of Better Times for his Fatherland. When these
happier days shall come, as come they will, for
Poland—among the most devoted of her sons in
her past century of tribulation there will ever be
cherished in the national memory, with sentiments
of affection and admiration, the venerable and
honoured name of his Highness Prince ADAM
CZARTORTSKI.

Why is Austria so afraid of Englishmen—of
respectable, recognised Englishmen, such as Mr.
DUNLOP—in Hungary. No reasonable account
was ever given of Mr. DUNLOP'S withdrawal from
Pesth. Austria wished it—and she said, Lord
JOHN RUSSELL tells us, that " it was not deemed
desirable to give any encouragement to any dis-
affected parties in Hungary." Now, Mr. DUNLOP
had been sent to Pesth by the English Embassy at
Vienna, he was responsible for acting as became a
member of the Embassy to Vienna, and it strikes
us that Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S reply ought to have
been a request for the evidence that Mr. DUNLOP
had taken a part in the political struggles of Hun-
gary with the Austrian Government, which justified
the Austrian demand. Our Government ought to be
kept well informed of what is doing at Pesth ; and
it is surely better that our ambassador at Vienna
should be able to send home authentic intelligence,
received through his responsible servant, than that
he should derive his information from the irrespon-
sible persons, Hungarians and Germans, with whom
he could converse in Vienna.

Mr. DUNCOMBE revived last night the subject
brought to notice by the recal of Mr. DUNLOP in
the form of asking for the appointment of an Eng-
lish Consul at Pesth. Many Englishmen, it seems,
are now resident there. We have also a consider-
able number employed as engineers in steamboats on
the river. The city, too, of Buda-Pesth, for they
stand in the same relation as Southwark and Lon-
don, or Manchester and Salford, contains 300,000
inhabitants, and is increasing every year. While,
therefore, we have consuls at places at which there
is really nothing for them to do, as at Jaffa, Mr.
DUNCOMBE might well say that "why there should
be a consul at Jaffa and not at Pesth he could not
understand." We have consuls in a hundred insig-
nificant places Englishmen care little or nothing
about, but at Buda-Pestb, where, both for com-
mercial and public reasons, they would like to have
one, Lord JOHN RUSSELL "did not think this was
the exact time for appointing one."
Of course not. We all understand why it is
not. Austria would like to keep every Englishman
out of Hungary if she dare. She wants no specta-
tors there to tell the world the real state and sen-
timents of the people. That is the whole case, if
Lord JOHN RUSSELL had dared to tell the true state
of the matter last night. We own, too, that, like
Mr. DUNCOMBE, we are mystified about the
advice said to have been given by our Ambassa-
dor to reject the first Hungarian address, unless
the Diet would recognise him in it as KING.
It seems unaccountable how the story should have
gained such credence in Paris and Turin, too, if, as
Lord JOHN says, there is not a word of truth in it.
We incline to thinking that the mystery is solved
by the distinction of official and personal acts. Our
ambassador, doubtless, has not said " a word"
which Parliament will find in a Blue-book if it

asks for one ; but we can all understand how our
Goyernment could use willing instruments to com-
municate its own wishes informally; and how an
ambassador who knew his master's mind could do
it without committing himself or them. Diplomacy
in certain cases is like bribery—that is, when it
is the interest of all parties that none should blab

It is known that in connection with the forth-
coming Exhibition of 1862, there will be temporary
homes and haunts secured within the all-embracing
compass of that new Palace of Art, and Science,
and Industry, of manufactures, and of agricul-
ture for Painting as well as for Sculp-
ture: The omission of paintings altogether from
the scheme of 1851 led, a few years afterwards,
to the magnificent Exhibition of Pictures at Man-
chester. There is yet another hiatus still left in
the outline of the new enterprise—of this enlarged
enterprise for 1862—the project of an International
Exhibition, comprising within its walls the crown-
ing glory of a noble picture-gallery. There is yet
one conspicuous omission remaining still—
but even that omission is to be made good
by an independent effort which we are glad to
'know has been already commenced: There is a
project in fact now afoot for securing " a display
of music" during the period of the approaching
Exhibition by means of an International Concert
Room to be erected forthwith to this end at
Kensington. The visitors to the Exhibition of
1862 will thereby have adequately brought
before them another of the Fine Arts hitherto over-
looked, save as a merely occasional accessory to
some of the ceremonials connected with the inau-
guration or the close of these same microcosmic
Exhibitions. Let this projected Internationl Concert
Room be but erected, as it is now actually proposed
it shall be, at Kensington, and the public will be
enabled for the first time to judge more vividly
than ever as to the difference observable among
the various contrasting styles of English and Con-
tinental music. The Concert Room which is
thus about to be constructed according to the
plans of its projectors will afford accommodation to
an audience amounting to no less than 12,000, as well
as comprising within it an orchestra of 500 perfor-
We very heartily wish success to the

mars.
enterprize.

THE REPRESENTATION OF LONDON.—Yesterday
the political parties on both sides were engaged in active
preparation for the coming election of a member for the City
of London, in anticipation of Lord John Russell being
summoned to the House of Peers, though down to last
evening Lord John had issued no valedictory address to
the constituency. In the course of the afternoon a number
of influential electors, chiefly Conservatives, held a meeting
at the London Tavern, with the view to concert measures
for the return of the Lord Mayor, in the event of the right
hon. gentleman allowing himself to be put in nomination.
The meeting was presided over by Mr Hubbard, M.P., and
among the gentlemen present were—Mr. Thomas Baring,
M.P., Mr. R. N. Fowler (the banker), Mr. Osgood Han•
bury (banker), Mr. Alderman Rose, Mr. Coleridge Ken-
nard, Mr. Hrrtridge, and several other merchants and
bankers. Before separating a requisition was prepared and
signed by the gentlemen present, and by many more sub-
sequently. So far no gentleman has been put forward by
INSURANCE
s yesterday
the Liberal party, nor has any one presented himself. The
subject, however, is under consideration by them.
FlcßoEta
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creased scale of terms they have deemed I necessary to
adopt since their losses at the
wharfs at L ondo bridg
In many cases the new charges are more than threeil timees.
as high as those hitherto in use, the rate for each of the
docks, for instance, having been raised from 3s. fid. to lOs ,
for waterside warehouses (specific insurances) from 3s. to
10s., and for general floating poliCies from 10s. 6d. to 355.
per cent. These terms, however, are subject to reductions
ranging from 30 to 50 per cent. in the event of certain re-
quirements being complied with for the improvement of
risks, and which are modelled very much on those which in
the year 1844 were rendered compulsory at Liverpool by
Act of Parliament, and which are said to have caused that
town, formerly one of the most dangerous, to become one of
the most safe. London is understood to be the worst in the
kingdom, and the companies assert that according to the
experience of a leading office during the past eleven years,
while the average of premiums on dock and warehouse
policies has been ss. 6d. per cent. (from which about le.
must be deducted for expenses), the average of losses has
been 12s. Bd. per cent. The new tariff includes a scale of
charges for floating policies, limited to two but not exceed-
ing four specified wharfs. There is also a new and in-
creased scale for ships in the port of London. The whole
of the present rates are to apply to all new insurances from
and including the 24th of June last, and to all existing
policies for which the renewed notices had not been issued
on that day. A

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, JULY 5.
(Per Anglo-Saxon, via Londonderry.)

Congress met yesterday (4th inst.), Mr. Grow,
of Pennsylvania, was elected Speaker.
The President's Message was delivered to-day ;
but full particulars have not been received here,
owing to the wires between Troy and New York
having been burned.
A great fire has taken place at Nickerson's
wharf, Boston. A salt warehouse, salt mills, tin
(ten ?) vessels, 400 hhds. of molasses, a large
quantity of marine stores, and 70 dwelling-houses
were destroyed. The loss is estimated at
1,000,000 dols.

QUEBEC, luLT 6.
The elections at Montreal and Toronto have ter-
minated in favour of the Ministry.

LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.
NEU YORK, JULY 6 (Evening).
The President's Message is strongly warlike.
It calls on Congress for 400,000 men and
400,000,000 dols.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in his report,
recommends a heavy duty on coffee, sugar, and
molasses ; a light direct taxation, and loans to the
amount of 240,000,000 dols.
A minor division cf the rebels have been routed
in Western Virginia.
Large bodies of Federal troops are still crossing
the Potomac.
A battle is imminent unless the rebels retreat.
The Great Eastern arrived at New York to-day.

LONDONDERRY, JULY 17.

Among the passengers who arrived here to-day
in the Canadian serer steamer Anglo-Saxon was
Mr. Rose.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Exchange and stocks steady; Erie, 224 ; New
York Central) 73i; Illinois, 65k. Cotton advanc-
ing ; middling Upland, 151 c, ; sales to-diy 2,000
bales. Breadstuffs declining. Provisions.

TURIN, JULY 17.

The Official Gazette of to-day announces that the
provinces of Avellino End Basilicata are tranquil,
and that flying columrs have been despatched to
the district of Marino.

Count Fleury has been received by Baron
Ricasoli.

The King, who is nov absent, will most likely
receive him on Saturday next.

NAPLES, JUNE 16.

General Cialdini has published an order of the
day, in which he expresses hope of being able to
re-establish tranquillity in tie Neapolitan provinces
by purging them of the bsnds of assassins. He
reckons on the co-operation of the army and the
liberal and popular sections )f the country.
Some persons who had excited the peasants near
Naples to revolt have been arrested.
The Governor of Catanzar) has demanded rein-
forcements.

Many officers, formerly belonging to the Bourbon
army, who had been acknowledged by the Italian
Government, are gravely compromised.

VIENNA, JULY 17,

The Oat-Deutsche Post of to-day says :
" Baron Vay, Chancellor for Hungary, has defi-
nitively tendered his resignation, which has been
accepted by the Emperor."

PARIS, JULY 17.

A despatch has been received here, dated Con-
stantinople, the 16th inst., announcing that the
Sultan had commuted a great number of punish-
ments, and that great economies had been effected
in the War Budget.
According to the same despatch, Aali Pasha had
been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs, and
Fuad Pasha, President of the Councils of Justice,
and of the Tanzimah, for the elaboration of laws,
for the administration of the Interior, and the re-
vision of judicial sentences.
It is also stated that Saffeli Pasha had been dis-
missed. Marloum Bey had been appointed Minister
of the Civil List in place of Hassib Pasha. Signor
Durando and the Marquis de Lavalette had left
Constantinople.

TURIN, JULY 16.

Count Fleury has arrived here.

The Official Gazette of this evening announces
the acceptance of Count San Martino's resignation
by the King, and the appointment of General Cial-
dini as Lieutenant-General of Naples.

VIENNA, JULY 16:

Up to the present moment all that is known re-
specting the Conference between the Government
and the Hungarian Deputation is, that the for-
mer demands that the Pragmatic Sanction should
form the basis of the relations between Austria and
Hungary ; that the Constitution contained in the
Imperial decrees of February should be considered
as unalterable ; and that Hungary should be
urgently requested to send her representatives to
the Council of the Empire as soon as possible.
It was reported to-day in the Lower House that
the Hungarian Ministers, Baron Vay and Count
Szechen, had resigned. Both Ministers, are, how-
ever, still in office.

BADEN-BADEN, JULY 16.

The King of Prussia has passed a good night.
The state of his Majesty both in regard to the
local injury he has sustained and his general health
is, under the circumstances, very satisfactory.

The Crown Prince of Prussia arrived hero last
night.

BERLIN, JULY 16.

The Kreuz Zeitung of this evening say :

" The resignation of Baron Yon Schleinitz, Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs, and the appointment of
Count de Bernstorff as his successor, are expected
in a few days."

MADRID, JULY 16.

The Queen received yesterday the Ambassadors
of England and America, and afterwards left for
Santander.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY.
Prince Adam Czartoriski died yesterday evening.
The Emperor has addressed a letter to the King
of Prussia on account of the attempted assassina-
tion of his Majesty.
Count Simeon has lodged an appeal against the
"
judgment of the Court of Correctional Police.
The Presse of this evening says, Count Vimer-
cati will return to Turin tomorrow."
BOURSE, July 16.—The market has been firm,
with a slight improvement in quotations ; business,
however, remaining very limited in amount. For

the Account, Threes are now at 67f ,70c.
Rail-
way shares quiet, but firm.
The following were the last quotations :-
4t per per Cents ... 97 50 , Credit Foncier lllB 75
Do end month.... 97 55 Belgian 4f
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 75 Roman
Bank Shares 2860 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 665 I Spanish Threes 47 25
Do. Account 667 50) Home Debt .. 4l 25

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1375 1376 25
Northern .
New ditto BB7 50 .. 886 25
Lyons and Mediterranean 965 .. 967 50
Geneva
Southern 567 50 .. 568 75
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Low bard 503 75 .. 505