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London, England, 1857-06-22 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONPON, MONDAY EV NIT. G, JUNE 22, 1557

preservation—may at once be secured perma-
nently to the inhabi ants of the metropolis. How ?
The reply is explicit and comprehensible enough—
By consenting to give certain pecuniary compensa-
tions ! That would remove the danger at once
and for ever—effectually. Consent to this,
and Hampstead Heath is from that time
forth in its entirety de jure as well as de
facto the property of the L'mdilners. " But"
—the more timorous and parsimonious object—
"it may cost as much as 100,0001." Granted—
" it may"—but the question then is—ls Hamp-
stead Heath worth 100,0001. ?--Is the preserva-
tion of it worth that amount to the toiling world
of Londoners f The answer, we take it, is ob-
vious. And the responsibility of acting upon it
devolves necessarily and undeniably either upon
the Metropolitan thud of Work 4, or upon the
Imperial Legislature. The public look for the
settlement,at last, the satisfactory and conclusive
settlement of this long " vexed question" by the
Board or by Parliament.

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refused their sanction. Lord Palmerston had been
written to on the subject.
G neral Jcse Mocagas had renounced his title of
General-in-Chief, and resolved not t recignise tl
new General .of G..wernmeA. Great exci:ement
prevail 0.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

CONziTANTINOPLE, JUNE 21.

At New York trade continued dull. There was
move activity in the mousy market, though rates
were not malerially changed. High grade paper
went at 7to 8 per cent., according t) maturity,
and for which the dereand exceeded the supply;
fair names were current at 10 to 12 and 15 pr cen►.
The Bank statement was favourable. Stocks
wore feverish and excited, the "Bears" havi-g
the control of all the speculative descriptions, and
a decline from day to day was the consequmce.
Bank insurance Federal and State Securities, how-
ey:r, were firm._ _ _ .

His Imperial Majesty the Sultan left to-day at
half-past one, for Eqnid, by the Imperial steam-
frigate the Taiki-Chadi. His Imperial Majesty
will return in two days. The Grand Vizier, the
Mini:-Lr of Marine, and the Se:aAcier, accompanied
his Imperial Majesty.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY MORNING.

The elections commenced to-day, as officially an-
nounced, but a stranger in Paris would not have
discovered the slightest signs of so important a
political event. There was no excitement, no flags,
or mobs in the stree, or meetings at taverns, no
furious driving of cabs, or indications of an indul-
gence in Bacchic hilarity. A constant drizzling
rain caused the streets to look more vacant than
usual.

Exchange on London, 9if to 94. Cotton was at
a stand still, holders refusing to sell at the price
offered. The grain crops are reported to promise
abundance. Wheat was firm. Flour was unchanged,
iron quiet, tobacco firm. Freights continued dull.
Telegraph accounts from New Orleans to the 9th
of June report that day's sale of cotton 1,100 bales,
receipts 540 bales • middling quo'ed at 13,i cents.
The decrease in the receipts, as compared with the
same date last year, is 237,000 bales at that port,
while at all the southern ports it foots up 547,000
bales. Freights are stagnant. Sterling exchange
10i prem.

It has been raining ever since sun-rise, and there
is every prospect of a wet day. This weather is not
displeasing to the opposition party, for they intend,
as far as possible to reserve their votes till to-mor-
row, not feeling easy about tho safe custody of the
ba'lot boxes during the night. On the second day
the poll closes at four o'clock, and the boxes will
be opened immediately in public, so that thew will
be no possibility of tampering with them then. An
electioneering manifesto by Ledru Rollin, dated
London, June 15, is circulating pr;vately in Paris.
The Constitutiomnel, which probably gets its infor-
mation from the police, says that it- contains the
following► passages :
What we want above all things is to make a breach.
Let us not forget the banquets of 1847, so timidly com-
menced, and their triumphant issue. * * * Let us
have in each arrondissement one, and one only, legal and
constitutional candidate—the one whose name offers the
greatest chance of success, and let us vote for him as one
man.

In another part of our impression will be found 1
an article extracted from the Examiner, on " The
Imaginary Cotton Crisis." We have given it
because we believe that truth is always benefitted
by free discussion, and the most extensive pub-
licity. We cannot, however, altogether agree
with our talented contemporary, or believe that
the prevailing alarm is so completely without
foundation, as argued. The cotton imported into
this country last year exceeded a thousand million
of pound, of which America supplied the
greatest share, receiving in return more than
20,000,0001. sterling in hard cash, or equally
acceptable equivalenti. Without the aid of Ame-
rica, the most important of our national manufac-
tures would be paralysed, mills and factories
would be closed, and a Large proportion of our
industrial dazes reduced to a state of destitution.
It is with our money that "LEGREE" is sustained,
for us that uncle Toar is tortured. It is for want
of an independent supply that we are forced to swal-
low the most unsavoury leeks, at the dictation of
transatlantic Fluellens. We are pelted with bales
of Yankee cotton, and dare not resent insults, or
claim redress for serious injury. And yet we
possess the means of rendering ourselves perfectly
independent—of casting off the shackles of slavery,
and despising the " bluster and bunkum " of
Uncle SAM. We have British colonies and settle-
ments, the soil and climate whereof are eminently
qualified for the culture of the cotton plant, and
where labour, even cheaper than that of negroes,
ca❑ be obtained. Under judicious management, the

We learn by telegraph that the American steam-
ship Glasgow arrived at Greenock on Saturday.
She left New York ou the 6th int-t , and has
brought 130 passengers and a full cargo.
By the Arabia we have advius to the 10th inst

All hope of a fusion of the two opposition lists is
abandoned. An angry correspondence is published
between M. Gamier Pages and M. Emile Olivier,
the rival democratic candidates in the 4th circum-
scription.
The Pressc seems to think that the opposition
candidates, if elected, will take the oath. At all
events it recommends them to do so, for it says it
has not combated abstention on the pa•t of the
electors to advocate abstention on the part of the
elect.

The Minister of the Interior has just addressed
to the prefects the following circular :
" Monsieur le Pref4t—lt is not enough that universal
suffrage should be free, it is requisite that it should be
enlightened. The law, in granting to the new candi
dates, during the twenty days that precede the ballot,
exceptional facilities for presenting themselves and ex-
plaining themseves freely, intended that the country
should thus be enabled to form its decision with a full
knowledge of the state of the case. We are approach-
ing the limit of this period of instruction and discussion.
The administration has scrupulously watched over the
maintenance in their integrity of every one's privileges.
Some persons have tried to abuse them, and, under the
pretext of distributing the voting tickets, have wished
to revive among the masses the leaven of the old
demagogic passions. The Government, which if it were
necessary would well know how to show that it has
lost nothing of its strength, or of its energetic will for
the maintenance of the public peace, has taken no
notice of these impotent follies. It has not wished

whole of the British demand for cotton could be

supplied at reasonable rates from the Anglo-
Indian territories. The cultivators would realise

handsome profits, while the consumers would be

to give even the slight?st pretext for persons of bad
faith to calumniate the liberty which our laws secure in
the electoral contest. Candidates, journalists, instiga-
tors or propagators of candidatesh:ps—all have written

guarded against formidable dangers. Even sup-
posing that the contingencies referred to by the

parties now agitating on the subject were merely
visionary, or that they cauld be completely
averted, it would be well worth while to produce

and acted freely. It is now for the country to collect
itself and give its vote. Every one has expressed his
opinion ; the government is bound to do the same, and
charges you, Monsieur le Prefet, to make it properly
known throughout all your communes.
In the midst of this great calm in men's minds, a
calm produced and maintained by th , vigour of the im-
perial power, by the absolute confidence which
the people have in the Emperoro; in presence of the
general measure which proposed, for re-election, all
the deputies whose loyal participation in the pub is
cause offered, in the past, a guarantee for the fu-
ture, it appeared, that with the exception of a few
individual claims of no political import, no serious
disagreement would agitate the scrutiny. But a small
number of men, planting themselves as democrats
against a government resting on the most democratic
basis that has ever existed, have thought fit to enter into
the contest. Sheltering themselves under a formula of
liberalism so vague, that its elasticity may save them
from the danger of their own differences, they have en-
deavoured to make up for their paucity of numbers by
activity, and have made unheard-of efforts for the put,
p is° everywhere of raising up opposition candidates.
But what, then, is the object of this opposition! It is
necessary. that the country should know it ; it is requi-
site, Monsieur le Prefet, that you ,should cause it to be
thoroughly understood by the people.
The reajority of these candidates who have thus been
brought forward professed formerly republ can or social-
istic ideas, and assuredly not one of them would de-
clare at the present day that he has repudiated them ?
What, then, do they want ? To present anew the ques-
tion of the republic to universal sung, which thrice has
solemn'y condemned it? That they cannot seriously
mean. To swear fealty to the Empire and submitting to
the constitution, fulfil loyaly their mission as deputies ?
No one will believe it. What then remains? To endeavour
to sow disorder and agitation, to embarrass the move-
ments of the Emperor and weaken at home and abroad
the sentiment which all Europe entertains with regard
to his power, and tbeprestige with which during 6 years
he has dune so much for the glary and pro: erity of the
country. But they will not succeed in this, their efforts
will be broken by collision with the electoral masses, whose
good sense and patriotism have foundei the Empire; it will
suffice for this to encounter them at the ballot. Ex-
plain well, M. le Prefet, how they have put the ques-
tion. One of their journals has sail that it would be
solved by the country centralised at Paris ; Paris wll
disappoint their hope, and the 350,000 electors of the
department of the Seine will not separate themselves
from the nine millions of electors inscribed in the 85
other departments.
R 'mind those who have possessions of the security the
Empire has restored to them ; those who labour, of the
marvellous condition of activity it has created for them;
those who suffer, of the incessant cares of the Emperor
for the sufferings of the people ; remind all of the glori-
ous and re,pected position to which he has restored our
country. Let them all come, then, to utter their feeling
respecting affairs which are their own. Tuey kno F well
that the Empire returns to them with usury in glory and
prosperity what they confer upon it in confidence arid
devotedness. . _

such a competition as would ensure an adequate
supply, and avert those fluctuations in prices, so
very prejudicial to the manufacturing interests ;
and this great desideratum can only bo worn-
plished by due attention to the natural capabili-
ties of our own dependencies. Indian cotton is
said not to be as available as that of America,
in consequence of improper packing—the
dirt being mixed up with the material. But
a little care and judicious management
would remove this ev:l, and render it fully equal
to the best American. It is certainly well worth
an effort to accomplish, and we earnesly wish
success to those who are now striving to ensure
the certainty and cheapness of the cotton supply.

FOETHCOMING FETIVITIES AT
ENVILLE-HALL.

The Earl and Countess or Stamford have left town for
Euville-hall, Staffordshire, where a cricket match wiil
take place on the 2d, 3d, and 4th of July, between ten
officers of the Household Brigade, with two bowlers,
against ten gentlemen and two bowlers selected by Lord
Stamford. On this occasion, we understand, a fete on a
scale of great magnificence will be given. T bands
have been engaged by his lordship expressly from Lon ;
don ; the gardens and grounds are to be brilliantly illu-
minated w th lamps and variegated lanterns ; and a
grand display of fireworks will be given on on© of the
evenings.

A Cabinet Cauncil was held on SAturday afternoon
at the official residence of the Fir.it Lard of the Trea
sury, in Dawning•street. It was attended by all the
Ministers.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE VICTORIA CROSS,—A grand
and imposing ceremony wilt take p'ace in Hyde-park on
Friday next, the 20th inst. The Victoria Cross will be
distributed to those deemed worthy of the di,tinction.
Her Majesty will grace the rcene with her presence, at-
tended by an an array of officers of rank. There will be
present a portion of the Royal Artillery, under the com-
mand of Maj n--General Sir W. F. Williams, K.C.B. ; a
punion of the Royal Engineer, the I.rt and 2.1 Life
Guards, the 6th Enniskillen Dragoons, and the 11th
Hussars, also three battalions of Foot Guards, com-
mandel by Lord Rokeby ; one battalion of Marin:s, the
70th Highlaudere, and a battalion of the Rifle Brigade.
The whob.! will be under the command of Lieut.-General
Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.B. Toe i,roopi' are to be formed
in continuous columns facing Park-lane, by 10 o'clock,
and upon the arrival of the Queen the officers, non-com-
missioned officers, and privates who are to receive the
cross will file past her Majesty, and after receiving the
cross from the Qu'A!in they will form in lino opposite her
Majesty, when the whole of the troops on the ground
will march past in slow and quick time.—United Service
Gazette.

Repeat to them, Monsieur le Priftt, that their duty,
as well as their interest, owls them to the balit. Toe
gathering of their votes will prove that if the enemies of
the empire have hoped to find a fulcrum in the electoral
urn, they have mistaken occe more the power of the
bonds that unite the Emperor with the people, and have
calumniated universal suffrage.
Receive, Monsieur le Prdfet, the assurance of my mcst
distingui,hed consideration.
The Minister of the Interior,
This 19th of June, 1857.
At the Bourse the Rents was in an uncertain
oscillating *tat. all day.

BILLAULT.

The Duke do Nemours arrived on Saturday morning
at Plymouth, where he waits to receive the Duke and
Duchess of Mon tpeusier, expected from Spain.
It is with great regret that we have to announce the
decease of Viscountess Eversley, the wife of the late
Speaker. The melancholy event took place at an early
hour on Saturday morning, at his lordship's new house,
69, Eaton-place. The noble lady bad been in her usual
health and strength till the beginning of this week. About
four days ago she caught a severe cold, attended with
sore throat, from the effects of which she died very sud-
denly.
Archbishop M'llale has arrived in town in pursuance
of the warrant from the Speaker, directing his attend.
ance before the Mayo committee. He is staying at the
residence of Cardinal Wiseman, and is accompanied by
a large body of the Tuam priests, who are to give evi-
denc9 ou this interesting inqui:y.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INS-ROAD.—The num-
ber of patients relieved at this hospital during the week
ending June 20, is 2,748 of which 750 were new cases.
CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE
CHEST, VIOToBIA-PARS.— We are happy to hear that this
useful institution has just received a legacy of 5001.
Three per Cent. Annuities, under the will of the late
Rev. Thomas Halford, of Hanover-square. More than
1,000 patients now obtain relief at the hospital every
week.
THE QUEEN'S YACHT.—The Victoria and Albert en-
tered the Mersey on Friday, and remained at anchor off
Rock Ferry, until Saturday evening, when she pro-
ceeded to Milford Haven. During her stay, Capt. Den-
maa gave a carte blanche to the public for inspection,
and on Saturday the royal yacht was literallly besiegei
with boatload after boatload of visitors, and several acci-
dente occurred. One lady bad her leg broken, and others
were much crushed. The beautiful trim and model of the
royal yacht elicited general aamiration.
THE POOR MAN'S EXCURSION.—This morning the
poor of both sexes were treated with an excursion to
Richmond by the South Western Railway trains. This
is an annual affair obtained for the poor man through
the liberality and exertions of that benevolent gentleman,
the Rev. J. Brown, rector of Christ Church, Surrey,
assisted by the wealthy and Christian hearted inhabit-
ants. The scene on the platform from the many gladdened
hearts present was a pleasing sight, and such was the
excellent management of the inspectors and constables
of the company, that although many hundred were in
the trains, not the least accident or anything unpleasant
were heard of the rev. gentleman's plan is well worthy
of imitation.

THE LAST NEW 66 WONDER OF THE WORLD."—A.
popular account of The Great Eastern, Steam-skip has
just been published. The letter-pre,s description of
this 999th " Wonler of the World"—the "last" but (in
both senses of the word) not by any means the "least"
—a description written (the title-p,,ge tells us) by W.
11. Webb—is admirable at once for its lucidity and its
elaboration or minuteness. It is issued to the public by
Messrs. Marshall and Sons, in the form of a sixpenny
pamphlet of pp. 31, Bvo., embellished with explanatory
illustrations.