The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-11 00:00:00

THE STUN, `'LONDON,` TITESOAY EVENING; JUNE IT, 1861.

sington of one of the FOUR vacant seats left at
the disposal of the Legislature by reason of the
bribery and corruption proved years ago against
the notorious boroughs of St. Albans and Sud-
bury, followed also years ago by their ignominious
disfranchisement. Against this proposition rose
the amendment, which triumphed so remarkably
last evening, when a clear majority of 103 in a
House numbering altogether (Tellers, Speaker, and
Chairman of Committee all included) 453-275
voting distinctly for the amendment and 172
against it.
So that a general taboo has been pronounced
in the House of Commons after due de-
liberation—a formal taboo, at any rate for the
time being, against the formation into a borough of
the populous, wealthy, and in very many respects
it is not extravagant to say, important and en-
lightened suburbs of Chelsea and Kensington. No
matter that the estimated rental of these parishes
showed a total of £657,830. No matter that
according to the last census the inhabitants of
Chelsea number as many as 63,000, while
the inhabitants of Kensington number no less than
70,000—showing a total population for the two
parishes of 133,000. No matter that the sum contri-
buted by that population to the general and local
taxation is shown to have attained an aggregate
of £1,000,000. All the arguments advanced by
Sir GEORGE LEWIS and his supporters utterly
failed in convincing the Committee of the advisa-
bility of according a member to those important
parishes of Chelsea and Kensington. The Opposition
haughtily swept aside any argument in favour of
this suggested appropriation of one, of merely one
of the FOUR vacant seats now in course of distribu-
tion. And a hope consequently dawns at last upon
the University of London that that seat of learning
shall henceforth, in ilts turn, yield a seat in the
House of Commons to some chosen representative.
The right hon. baronet the member for Carlisle
acted fairly enough, we cannot but think, in the
course pursued by him between the conflicting
claims held forth—for that one vacant seat by Chel-
sea and Kensington on the one hand, and on the
other by the University of London. Between these
two suggested constituencies, though one of them
(the latter) was put down to be suggested—(suppos-
ing the opportunity should offer) by himself—be-
tween the two, Sir JAMES GRAHAM almost avowed
that he stood as bewildered, let us say, as Captain
MACHEATH himself between the rival
charms of POLLY PEACHUM and LUCY
LOCKIT. With a perference in his own mind for
the latter, that is for the University of London, the
right hon. baronet yet voted with Government for
the enfranchisement of Chelsea and Kensington !
Announcing, at the same time, that, in the event of
Ministers being unable to realize their intentions in
that way, he should consider the ground creared
before him for his own reserved proposition—
namely for the enfranchisement of the London
University. Things begin to look more propitious
indeed for that proposition. Of course there are
plenty of other rival propositions on the cards as
well, almost as many as, if not more than, the
number of horses running for the last Derby. But
the political odds now show (now, i. e., that
" Chelsea and Kensington" has been scratched)—
that the "London University" heads the list as
Favourite. Some outsider, not yet thought of as a
winner, may yet win, it is true, after the
fashion of Kettledrum. But the Dundee of the
hour is certainly as yet the London University.
On Thursday the winning or losing of the coveted
prime will be decided, so far as the awarding
of the seat itself is concerned. But—supposing the
University of London really to be endowed with
the electoral franchise for the returning of one re.
presentative—the contest will then and there be
localised as in each of the other localities empowered
to send a member to the House of Commons—the
contest will then and there be localised into
a struggle between the supporters of the
rival candidates of Liberalism and Conservatism.
Remembering which simple matter-of-fact conse-
quence of the coming award—supposing it to be
announced on Monday next as in favour of the Uni-
versity of London—the Conservative party, we can-
not but remember this also, with a qualm, would
enter upon that contest having in their favour the
prestige of having cleared the way before Sir J.
GRAHAM, so that he had the opportunity (which
he could never have otherwise possessed) of securing
to the University of London the boon of its
enfranchisement.

WESLEY'S Hymn-book did ten times more for the
people's souls than the prayer-book, and that the
circuit preacher warmed his heart, while the clergy-
man froze it. And the two landlords, in politer
language, would differ equally about the religious
and social advantages of the worship they preferred.
In fact, honest religious liberty, and much more,
equality, are utterly inconsistent with powers of

taxing conferred on one section of religionists and
not on another. Mr. ESTCOTJRT'S whole
plan, however, flies in the face of Mr. BERES-
FORD HOPE'S resolution, carried by the
Church institution this day week. It was then
and there agreed that worship and fabric should not
be separated in the rate, and the " rural deans"
were referred to as the judges in the matter.
But the truth is no law is needed if churchmen
desire merely to bring themselves under legal obli-
gation to pay a Church-rate proportioned to their
poor-rate. It is the simplest thing in the world.
Any lawyer's head clerk would do it for them in a
few minutes. He would get a half-crown stamp, and
draw up an agreement between the Churchwardens
and all who signed the agreement that they bound
themselves to raise the sum required, it, the pro-
portion of their poor-rate assessment. Let, there-
fore, those who want coercion put themselves volun-
tarily under it—but let them not assume that all the
parishioners deserve coercion if they do not take
the trouble, or forget, to protest against Church-
rate handcuffs.

A magnificent enterprize has now been adven-
tured upon, in the chartering of the Great Eastern
as a troop ship, by her MAJESTY'S Government.
So that this leviathan of the deep after all will
assume to itself a position, will be enabled to dis-
charge duties, of national importance. It is a
matter of regret that poor BRUNEL could not have
lived to see the day when his masterpiece should
thus have been stamped by the timbre of
approval of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government.
It is by reason of the doubtful, if not in some re-
spects alarming, state of things in America, along
the Southern boundary line of our own possessions,
that the Great Eastern is to be at length chartered
thus for the conveyance to the coast of Canada
forthwith of three entire regiments ! But that the
dimensions of the Great Eastern are now familiar
to the general multitude, the mere mentioning of
that simple fact would read very much like an ex-
travagance. A vessel capable of carrying across
the Atlantic in one voyage three whole regiments
of infantry, one would, but a very few years since,
have expected to read of only in the pages of some
aquatic Baron MUNCHAUSEN. As it is, recollect that
it is the Great Eastern [by the way, now, a really
preposterous misnomer under the circumstances !] re-
collecting that it is The Great Eastern that is an-
nounced as about to carry at one passage across the
Ocean Three Regiments and a corresponding force of
Artillery, bag and baggage, horses and all the requi-
site materials—wonderful though this account is in
itself, it is yet one marked on the very face of it by
its perfect credibility. We cannot but rejoice at
this intelligence for very many reasons—for the
sake of the national interests, here at home, and
yonder in Canada—for the sake of the long dubious
fortunes of the Great Eastern herself—for the com-
fort of our troops while upon their sea-voyaging—.

and even, we will say, for the honour of the
Government that has decided upon entering on
this novel adventure.

Accounts from British Columbia mention a great
rush to some new gold discoveries at a place called the
Carriboo region, on the Fraser River. Considerable
amounts of gold had arrived thence at Victoria.
On Saturday a small party of the 3d Cheshire
Rifles (Captain Chambers, Wallasey) went to the shore
between the Red Noses and Leasowe, for the purpose of
ball practice, the rifles used being the long Enfield. Mr.
Richard Cooper, landlord of the Ship Inn, was engaged to
mark, and his son George, a boy about nine years of age,
was employed to carry a danger signal flag. During the
firing the poor boy was shot dead.
FALL FROM A HEIGHT OF 250 FEET.—The
Northern .Ensign says :—" A. most extraordinary escape
from instant death, though attended with serious results,
took place at Freswick on Saturday. Donald Mowat,
fisherman, aged twenty-nine, went to the rockhead to
shift a horse that was grazing, and from some cause yet
unexplained, fell over the rock, and was precipitated a
distance of from 250 to 300 feet. Some hours thereafter
his mother was surprised it his absence, and looking in the
direction where he had gone, found he he had disappeared.
Alarmed, she ran to the locality, in company with the
family dog, which led the anxious mother to the exact spot
where he had fallen, and looking over the cliff she observed
him lying at the bottom of the precipice, quite motionless.
The rock being inaccessible a boat was speedily manned,
with the view of taking home, as was believed, the mangled
body of the unfortunate man. He was found, however,
alive, but speechless, and strange to say, no marks were
-
Mr, S. ESTCOURT has not lost much time in pre
found on any part of his body except his legs On being
a a
taken home Dr. Stobbie, from Keiss, was sent for, and
senting all concerned with the draft of a Bill on promptly attended,and has hopes of the poor man's recovery.
fknrd wl,haic distance
h tance of
must abouth
Church Rates ; a bill from which he augured such
e
Oh
stthsetrluoceakloity where Movat fell it was found
good results that he called on Sir JOHN TRELAW- tntehxamhindinfig
60 feet from the top of therock, grass
after
ave
NY to postpone the third reading of his bill for a fallen a height of about 200 feet. Should Mowat recover,
fortnight, that the Church-rate-paying world might his escape will be one cf the most extraordinary ever re-
corded.
have a sight of it. Well, what have we ? First, SUSPECTED POISONING NEAR LEEK.--Thomas
an owners' rate, for there pair of the fabric and its Gould, a man of rather weak intellect, residd at Shaw-
appurtenances, payable by the tenants, to be de- cross, near Leek, in a house adjoining that of his brother-
ducted from rent. Secondly, an occupiers' rate to ino-slaaw,weCehkarulnesderMhiliwafrtdh.er, Gouldll vas in the receipt of
s
be paid by all who are members of the Oburch had been allowed to go in a
conwdiltio9nbillotfiflothrysoams
teotaimtterahoet
vestry. The members of vestry are defined to be the attention of his neighbours. Mr. Heaton, of Leek,
all, briefly, who do not exempt themselves by hand-
cibuyirdeirienettoionthofe e a
case, but
went on Friday to in-
in gin a notice that they decline to be members of Gould had died on, the hisprevious day. danyrivaNi sheintfiomuantdionthaotf
the vestry. This vote is to be made for any pur- this fact had been given to the polies, and on Saturday
poses pertaining to the worship which the vestry
contrary
trcaoriTysetowtahse interred withouttleir knowledge, and
may think good. The assessment is to be that of the residing at Hartington. esThoe
suaddbernactehsesrofofthtehdeedatehceaasnedd
poor-rate, and the mode of enforcing it the same. the rapidity with which it was followed by the interment,
It seems to us to require little political sagacity hexacditmedadseusappicoisotnm, aonrdtetmheebody.wats. exhufmthed.h—Mr. r.
anHeaton
re-
to predict that these proposals will fall through. ported that there were traces of disease such as
might alone
With all their professed zeal for the Church, the have accounted for death, but that he found much irrita-
owners in great numbers will not relish being made
was the t.hne pthreoxiin
stomataechcaaunsde. inntesetinel twhich,hin his opinion,.o
the actual payers of the rate. Indeed, a large part at a positive conclusion without an analysis of theve parts so
of them will tell their tenants, could such a proposal
oaffetctedts. Tfhthee intquiryhwhas cohnsequfentlyraddjdoturnmed,
Land the
avebe carried, that they paid the rate before, and if
of Stafford, for analysis. In the house of Milward a paper
they refuse to do it now, why, it will come to a has been discovered containing arsenic.— Stay'ordshire
quarrel, or they will add it to the rent. The dis- Advertiser.
senting owners of property, if not so numerous, are ACCIDENT TO THE MARQUIS OF DONEGAL.—On
yet numerous, and for them there is no exemption
Saturday evening,
o
hisab about u
regiment,
e 6,
imo'
o'clock, the
Marquisßoyal Irish of
Ish
Donegal
was at the head Volun-
from contributing to a fabric rate, when the fabric teers, as they were marching out of the square at Somerset-
is one, perhaps, which, if they are hot nonconfor-
thho u sset fordthhe.sSlatrudrdh7,safthernoon drill. d Upon tnurtndionlgvninotno
mists, they would rather treat as CROMWELL'S
its side, unseating its rider aarngde rthrowing
and
him violently on
troopers did in their time. Churchmen who are the pavement. He soon recovered himself, however, and
owners will not like the plan, and owners who are
declining the assistance of the crowd by whom he was im-
mediately surrounded, he remounted, and was again at the
not Churchmen have good reason to protest. head of his regiment, beforo the rear-guard was aware of the
Then the occupiers' rate. Here we have, in fact, accident.
the exploded ticketing system ; though we will do CORRY V CREMORNE.—This case is appointed for
Mr. ESTCOURT the justice to acknowledge that it hearing in Dublin
to-day. Tho petitioner, Mrs. Mary
is in its mildest form; but the objections will al- Steuart
of Corry,R o
widow
ckcorr y o f
Castle, thee
oti
latent
of ThomasCharlesMonaghan,
p r Steuartefers
a
Cony,
ways be valid against marking off the people by law claim for dower against Lord Cremyorne out of certain lands
into sectarian sections. Why, too, the Dissenter sold to the respondent by her husband in the year 1631. A
may ask, am Itobe at the trouble of doing what I ivsea:glareragteianmteeruesett ofas mheoina:yg tihs involvedgeidn tkheis cy
taosea,nwohthich
er
may easily forget, and so make myself unwillingly action—of ejectment on the title,e
whichSUPo is pending, brought
liable ? Why am Ito be held liable unless I pro- against Lord Cremorne by Dr. T. C. S. Corry, of Victoria-
street, Belfast, and which involves a sum of upwards of
test annually, any more than the Churchman is to
£lOO,OOO mesne rents, in addition to the possession of the
be held liable for my worship unless he protest estates in the county of Monaghan. For the first trial,
prior to my collection day ? Indeed, why on this to-day, there have been retained the following eminent
question is he to have a prima facie claim on all counsel:—Forßerkeleycic ,tßheraid)etitcliocner, Messrs. Whiteside, Q.C.,
parishioners while I am not to have the same ? the respondent, the dilticitor.-
GaeanedraJiamseesr,Tehaaomt pssaolnliv; Sullivan,
The Bill does not get rid of the old sore. It is a Messrs. Brewster, Q.C., and Tudor.
felt injustice that the Churchman should have REV. ......R lkr. S
PURGEON.--A certain elderly minis-
How ter from the country called upon Mr. Spurgeon and con-
wer to tax his neighbour by law at all.
Po Frdatulated.him upon his success, but said it was a pity ho
can the Church landlord, or the Church blacksmith, mmulegfed in eccentricities, and so on—in short, gave him
look the Dissenting landlord or the Dissenting spoatiemaetheorlay
tandivsicoee,ewh.ich Mr. S. seldom receives with
blackimith in the face, and tell him that his religion pocket and said : on
"Dr. B the
hetooote
khtrhrdeaey Ipence from his
an-
is so much the better of the two that the law with noyed by an organ-grinder that I gave the man threepence
to go away. Now, will you andtake the same sum, or shall I
all its mighty penalties must uphold the one
make it sixpence?" The doctor immediately brought his
leave the other to shift for itself. The MeakodiA jecture to a conclusion, and now relate,s the story with
knight of the #nvil Would contend that JOHN great glee.

LATEST NE W,

PARIS, JUNE 10,

There is every reason to believe that the death of
Count Cavour will hasten the recognition of the
new kingdom of Italy on the part of France.

PARIS, JUNE 11.
The lfloniteur of today publishes the following
official declaration :

" The Emperor, considering the peaceful relations
existing between France and the United States, is
determined to maintain a strict neutrality in the
conflict between the Government of the Union and
the States which pretend to form a separate con-
federation."

The Ifloniteer also publishes several articles
specifying the measures of neutrality which French
subjects are to observe.

TURIN, JUNE 10.

The new Ministry has not yet been constituted.
A report is current that Baron Ricasoli will assume
the Presidency and the portfolio for Foreign Af-
fairs, and Signor Menabrea of the Marine.

It is said that Signors Fanti, Cassinis, and Natoli
will quit the Ministry, and that the other Ministers
will remain in office.

General Desparviere will, it is asserted, accept
the portfolio for War, Signor Lissouri that of Jus-
tice, and Signor Sella that of Agriculture.
The municipality of Florence will erect a mauso-
leum to Count Cavour at Santa Croce.

PARIS, JUNE 10.
A telegram dated Constantinople, yesterday, has
been received here, announcing that the Interna-
tional Conference, in its sitting of Friday last, re-
solved that the Governor of the Lebanon should be
appointed for three years, and that he could not be
dismissed without a previous understanding between
the Porte and the Great Powers.

At the end of the three years the Porte is to come
to a fresh understanding with the Powers respect-
ing the government of the Lebanon.

The Conference also unanimously resolved that
the Governor of the Lebanon might be chosen
without distinction from among the Christian sub-
jects of the Sultan in any province of the empire.
The same telegram asserts that this settlement of
the question is a definitive one.

PARIS, JUNE 10.
The Gazette de France of to-day publishes a tele-
gram stating that in the recent fight between the
Turks and the insurgents in the Herzegovina the
former were defeated. Dervish Pacha was march-
ing with 4,000 men against the insurgents, by
whom his vanguard had been beaten. His troops
were discouraged.

The Begs or sub-governors of the provinces had
refused to recognise the concessions made to the
Christians by Omer Pacha's proclamation, as being
in opposition to the dogmas of the Koran.

PARIS, JUNE 10,

The discussion on the budget for the Ministry of
the Interior was continued to-day in the Corps
Legislatiff.
M. 011ivier, opposition member, refuted the as-
sertion made by M. Keller in the previous sitting.
M. Baroche likewise replied to M. Keller, in the
name of the government.

M. Darimon explained his amendment in favour
of the suppression of the laws for general security,
which was, however, rejected.
The budgets for the Ministries of the Interior and
Finance were then adopted.

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 11.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ellora, Captain Joy, with the heavy portion
of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings
123 passengers.

The Mohawk sailed from Malta for Corfu on the
Ist inst. The St. Jean d'Acre and Cockatrice sailed
from Gibraltar for Tangiers on the sth inst.

Muley Abbas had addressed a letter to Spain
praying for an extension of the time for paying the
indemnity, and explaining the circumstances which
placed it out of the power of the Sultan to make
the stipulated payment in May.

Mogador will, it is said, be given to Spain as a
material guarantee.

At Gibraltar exchange on London was quoted
501 for 90 days' sight ; on Paris, 529 ; on Genoa,
530; on Madrid, eight days, par: Freights un-
altered.

THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, JUNE 11.
The African mail steamer Cleopatra has arrived.
Her dates are —Benin, 24th April ; Fernando Po,
29th ; Cameroons, Ist May ; Old Calabar, 4th ;
Brass River, 7th ; Nun River, 7th ; Bonny, 7th ;
Lagos, 10th; Accra, 12th: Cape Coast, 14th;
Palmas, 16th; Sierra Leone, 21st ; Bathurst, 25th;
Teneriffe, 31st ; Madeira, 2d June.
She brings 2,195 ounces of gold dust, £2,500 in
specie, 47 passengers, and a full cargo of palm oil,
ivory, &c.
The United States steamer Saratoga had cap-
tured, near Congo River, the vessel Nightingale,
from Liverpool (England), with 960 slaves on board,
and ready to carry 1,600 in all.
Trade was brisk at Fernando Po. There was a
decrease in the exports of palm oil at Bonny.
Prices were high.
The Liverpool ship Arabian was lost, with cargo,
off Nun River, on the 19th of April.
The Niger expdition was at the mouth of the
Nun River, and was to proceed in July.
Trade at Lagos was dull. War was being carried
on between the King and the British. Portonova
had been bombarded and was captured on the 26th
of April.
The British war steamer Torch captured a slave
schooner on the 10th of May at Debreeka.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, June 10,—The market remains inani-
mate, but prices have been maintained at the clos-
ing-rates of Saturday. Threes, for the Account,
are now at 67f 60c. Railway shares quiet, and
quotations firm. The following are the last quota-
tions :--

4f per per Cents ... 96 351 Credit Fonder
Do end month.... Belgian 4}
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 60 ; Roman .......... 71 50
Bank Shares 2895 Austrian ........ 73
Credit Mobilier 691 25 Spanish Threes....
Do. Account 692 50 ; Home Debt ...... 48 50
RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1353 75 .. 1353 75
Northern
New ditto B9O 75 .. 888 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 932 50 .. 935
Geneva 407 50 .. 408 75
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 577 50 ..
Austrian
Lombard

Mr. D. A. Lange, the English representative of
the Suez Canal Company, sailed in the last Peninsular and
Oriental steamer for Alexandria, with a view to examine
the actual condition of that project, and to report faith-
fully the material and political results thus far observable.
It is not certain, however, that Mr. Lange will be permitted
to learn more than is convenient, and at the same time he is
perhaps likely to be biassed by the influence of a long per-
tonal friondship for M, do Losseps.