The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-17 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

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SIP,--With refercoico to a letter from Mr% W. P.
Andrew, which appeared in your paper of the 14th
inst., and in which be states that her Majesty's Go-
xernmeat and the Hon. the East India Company
have entered into a provisional agreement for sup-
por ing the telegraph tl India vice the Euphrates
Valley, I have to remind you that such agree-
ment does not take effect until the whole capit a of
the company is subscrib and 20 per cent. paid
up, nor unto the whole line h lid, and only con-
tinues so long as it is in working order. I have
also to remind you, that the European and Indian
Junction Telegraph Company have no concession
to lay a nide of their lire, and that it is state 1 in
th-ir prcsp?ctus "No call will be made until the
concession has bees secured by the firmau of the
Sultan, and the other arrangements contemplated
by the directzs are completed." On the other
band, the concassiwis for the M:d Sol route are ob-
tained, and no preliminary arrangements have to
be spade, as perfect ch tits and sounding exist from
Suez to urrAchee.

I feel this isaquestion of national impor'ance,
and the puldic are deeply interest .;(1 in securing the
mast pract'eal and efficient route for a telegraph
lino to India and the East.—l am, the.,
LIONEL GISBORNE, C.E.
Coheeseionaire of the Indian Telegraph,
via the Red Sea.
6, Duke-street, Adelphi, March 16.

His Excellency M. Gonzalez Bravo, the newly-op
pointed Spanish Minister at this Court, is staying at
Claridge 's Hotel.
The Marquis Camden has left town for the Wilder-
ness, his seat, near the Sevenoaks. The noble marquis
and the La lies Pratt will come •to town immediately
after Easter for the recess.
The steamship City of Washington, from' Liverpool,
arrived at New York on the 3d inst., having made the
voyage from New York, discharged and loaded, and
arrived back again in 30 days.
The son of Prince Menschikoff, a young man aged 22,
has just arrived in Paris.
The confirmation for St. Mary-le-Strand parish will be
held by the Lord Bishop of London on Thursday, April
9, at the parish church of St. James, Westminster.
At the beginning of April the French company, Mat•
thi., Magnan, Parrot, and Co., will enter into competi-
tion witlr the Austrian Danubian Company on the Lower
Danub..
ROYAL FREE llosnreri.—The number of patients re-
lieved at this hospital during the week ending March 14
was 2,693, of which 1,225 were new cases.
Tne Peninsular steamer Tagus has brought 8,0751.
specie.
The Royal Mail steamer Magdalena, to sail to-lay for
the West Indies, will take out only 4,8001., principally
silver.

Yebt:rday (Monday) the new free public library at
Norwich was opened.
I is said that after the departure of -Perak Khan from
Paris the Persian Government will be represented in
France by as Envoy Extraordinary, Minister Pienipo.
tentiar v.

CouUt Walawski has had a conference with M. de
Hatzftl It, the Prussian Minister, to whom he c arnmuni-
cat d verbally a note in very firm language, which M.
e
de Hatz'eldt transmitted by telegraph to his Court. The
same day a French courier was sent to Perlin with de-
spatches for the Marquis de Moustier, the French
Minister.
M. de Bour‘eoulon, French CisargaS d'Affaires to the
Caurt of Caine, left by the last Indian mad, which sailed
from Marseilles on the 12 h inst. He carries with him
instructions to Admiral Gc6rin and Rgault de Ge-
nouilly, who eemmand the French fleets'ia the Chinese
Seas, to clrabine in future their operations with those of
the British forces, conformably to the arraurernent cm-
eluded in Paris between Lord Cowley ancrthe French
Government.
A letter from the Crimea states that measnces have
been taken for repairing in the spring the towns which
suffered from the late war, and especially Kertch,
Eupatoria, and Sebastopol. The materials for the re-
pairs are to be obtained from Odessa and Nicolaieff.
The latter town is now the centre of different branches
of the administration of Southern Russia.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR CHINA FROM CEYLON.—We
extract the following from the Colombo Observer re-
garding the requisition of troops from Ceylon for service
in China :—"A report is current, which, however, we
cannot trace to any certain source, that a despatch went
to the Governor last night, ask ng if troops from Cey-
lon could be spared fur China. We hope when the
demand is made that the answer will be in the affirma-
tive. We are aware that the military authorities will
have many and cogent objections to offer. There are so
many detachments here and there that the duties fall
heavily on the troops ; and then the pearl fishery is
just calming on. Fifty men of the 37th would be suffi-
cient for the fishery, and detachments would be called
in. We have now a large and well organised police force
—we have the Pioneers ; and as for the Kandians, even
if any further rising were possible, the planters and their
coolies can more than deal with them. The case is one
of extremity and ought to be so dealt with. One-half of
the Ceylon Rifles ought to be sent. Look at the example
of Singapore. With a fiery population and disturbances
only quelled, the Governor has not hesitated to run the
risk of despatching the majority of the force at his dis-
posal."—Bombay Times,
GREAT STORM Ix DUBLIN.—The Freiman states that
on Friday night and Saturday mornintr Dublin was
visited by a storm, which for violence and duration has
not been equalled since 1849. A considerable amount
of damage of a miscellaneous character was done, ha";
we did not hear of any marine disaster. At Kilmaie-
ham gaol a decreasing accident °weaned. A violent
gust of wind prostrated the chimney of the governor's
apartment, and the humanise mass of brickwork crashed
through the roof and fell into the bedroom underneath,
where Mrs. Alison, the wife of the governor, happening
to be at the time, suffered the most serious injuries.
Drs. Tuffnell and Cusack are at present in attendance,
and the position of
precarious. Mrs. Alison is stated to be very
GALE IN THE CRANNEL.—FOUR MEN LOST.—BRIGH-
TON, March H.—The weather was extremely rough
and boisterous in the Channel during the latter part of
last week, and particularly so on Friday night, when
the melancholy loss of four men was the result. The
unfortunate sufferers were the crew of the Martha, of
Colchester, which it seems was about fifty miles off in
the Channel whoa she was overtaken by the
gale, and
the poor fellows were washed overboard ard lost. The
en'y one of the crew left was a lad, about 18 years of
ace, and who succeeded in bringing the smack safe into
S6storeham harbour on Saturday afternoon, having
laboured for several hours in accomplishing his perilous
and ex'raordinary task. On reaching Shoreham he was
much exhausted,
time. having been without food for a long