The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-03 00:00:00

EPISCOPAL RESIDENCES.

SEES. COST.
Ripon
Lincoln
Gloucester and Bristol
Rochester
Oxford
Worcester 7,000
Exeter
Hereford

Dand aff

Manchester
Norwich

Total
Add to this the augmentation of the incomes of
Archdeacons, which have created a direct charge of
£5,270 per annum on the Common Fund of the
Commission, and we shall get a notion of the causes
which hinder the fulfilment of the intentions of
Parliament. The reason why the work of the Com-
mission has not been done is plain ; it was intrusted
to the very class who held that surplus wealth
which Parliament desired to make available for the
public good. We may add, that a sum of £3,750
will be asked for the Commission when the esti-
mates for " Miscellaneous, Special and Temporary
Objects" come to bo voted.
The complaint of the expenditure required for
putting the Wellington car once for all in a cellar
out of sight, is one we cannot sympathise with. As
a good riddance, it is cheap at the money. But the
expenses for Public Works and Buildings with
which the sum is mixed up, show an extravagance
of habit far more alarming than any single impo-
sition can be. There must be either frightful job-
bery or frightful mismanagement, we suspect the
latter, when £4,200 is slopped away between the
National Gallery and Old Palace-yard in water for
the public offices and for the fountains in Trafal-
gar-square ; when £4,770 is spent on an unoccu-
pied house at Kensington, consigned to decay ;
when a wretched den like St. James's Palace costs
above £6,000 a-year in repairs. But these items
shrink into insignificance when we approach that
most sumptuous of institutions, the South Ken-
sington Museum. This grandly unfolding scheme,
placed by the grace and condescension of the illus-
trious, far above vulgar criticism, we can only
admire with distant awe. A vote of £lO,OOO for
a little furniture, just a few chain and tables,
attracted notice on Monday : but Mr. Cowper fears
no scrutiny—the money has been spent under the
strictest regulations and the greatest economy'
The same assurance will of course be forthcoming
when the vote of £33,000 on account of this samde
South Kensington Museum is brought forsva)r„.
that the
n National
oget a
among the estimates of the Science ar.d Art I,
'eteems s:trtYe.rs littlelh
nartment. But it is quite unn
e
court suburb has got its toy, and
that the public must go out
°that
glimpse of the British pictures;
Gallery is still unbuilt, and that Turner's gifts
have no home.
The causes of the large amount of expenditure
on the London Parks are uto st mysterious. A
princely revenue, more than
will be spent
James's, this year to keep up St. the
£25,000,
Given, and
Hyde Parks. A walk is to he made near the Ser-
pentine,
to cost £2,500. -When the Chief Com-
missioner meditates a bit of mischief, the cost is
conveniently found to be next to nothing, and
pay for it. The new Lensington • 1
there is sure to be an unexpended balance avail-
ablewhich everybody is petitioning
to Itu e,
against can be
made fov a paltry five and twenty pounds, and b,z
defrayed out of a vote of last year,—Ziaay .Pews.

THE EUPHRATES ROUTE 70 INDIA.

The following relates to the question of commu-
nication with India via the Euphrates:—
" Sir,—As the chairman of the two companies which
were formed for the establishment of steam and telegraphic
communication with Indiaby the Euphrates and the Persian
Gulf, I have to thank you once more for your advocacy in
to-day's impression of plans which are now generally ad-
mitted to be at once simple and easy of execution, and of
incalculable importance both to England and India. By a
communication addressed to me some time ago a company
in Bombay were prepared to establish regular steam com-
munication between Bombay,Kurrachee, Bushire, and Bus-
sorah,if adequate encouragement had been extended to them
by Government. This,taken in conjunction with the spirited
enterprise of the Messrs. Lynch to meet the requirements
of the trade from Bagdad to Busserah, at the head of the
Persian Gulf, would bring India by steam communication
within 600 miles of the Mediterranean, that being the dis-
tance'from Bagdad via Jaber Castle, Aleppo, and Antioch
to Seleucia. I have always considered that the navigation
of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris ought to be made avail-
able pending the construction of the Euphrates railway
from sea to sea.

" According to the estimate of Sir John Macneill, a single'
line of railway, of good construction, from Seleucia to Jaber
Castle, on the Euphrates, 150 miles in length, would cost
£1,500,000. The few physical difficulties on the route are
between Seleucia and Aleppo. The navigation, however,
of the Euphrates is very inferior to that of the Tigris below
Bagdad.

" From Seleucia to Bagdad is 600 miles, and a single line
would cost £4,000,000. From Seleucia to Bussorah, at the
head of the Persian Gulf, is 800 miles, and would cost
£6,000,000. A railway from Bagdad to Seleucia, 600 milve
in length, would at once give us a new and efficient alter--
native route to India far removed from the intrigues and
interference of either our friends or enemies.

" As to the telegraph, on the 25th of March last you.
were good enough to allow me to answer objections made to
the establishment of telegraphic communication with India
through Turkish Arabia. On that occaeion I also ventured
to suggest the continuance of the telegraph from Bagdad by
a land line through Persia to Kurrachee. Since the above
date Bagdad has continued, I believe, in uninterrupto&
telegraphic communication with England, and sufficieraly
favourable reports, it is stated, have been received from
Colonel Kemball, Consul-General at Bagdad, on thr state
of the telegraph in Asia Minor and Turkish Arabia to jus—
tify the expectation of active measures being taken to carry
the telegraph onwards to Kurrachee, and thus manly ale
only link wanting in the chain of telegraphic rommunica-
tion between England and India. 1 his can either be done
by a subaqueous line from Bagdad by Kurrah, Bussorah,
and Bunder Abbas to Kurrachea, which possesses many
advantages over other subaqueous lines from the numerous,
islets and promontories along the Persian Gulf, whicim
would facilitate both the laying and maintenance of the?
cable ; or by a land line to Bunder Abbas through Persia,
and thence along the coast of Al ekran to Kurrachee, and
less than £200,000 would, it is believed, complete this latter
line.

" Those personally acquainted both with the Persian Gulf'
and the Euphrates and Tigris, as well as the region which
intervenes between Bagdad and Kurrachee, prefer the
proposed line through Persia, as it would be a land line
throughout its whole length, communicating with the great
cities of Kurmanshah, Hammadan, Korm (where it wouldl
send a branch to Teheran), Ispahan. Shiraz, and Lar. Thw
climate is good, and the country generally fertile, except
along the Mekran coast.

"The difficulties of constructing the line and keeping it in
working order would be very similar to those met with in
India and Turkey, which have been easily overcome. Persia
offers greater facilities than either as regards climate, the
Turkish line being subject to great cold in the winter and:
deep snow-drifts in the mountains, and the controlling power
of the Government of the Shah, although not so great as.
that of the Government in India, is superior to that of the
Sultan in his Asiatic dominions.

" Along the Mekran coast the line would run near the
beach, or from point to point of the coast, in short sub-
marine lengths, necessary. We know less of this part of
the route than through Persia, but the coast is dotted in
most of its little bays by fishing villages, and the line could
be easily protected along the shore.

" As stated in my former letter, the Government of the
Shah will afford every facility, as they are naturally anxious
that the telegraph between England and India should pass
through Persian territory,

"Notwithstanding dire anticipations in high places, the
hostile Arabs and Kurds, who were certain to commit depre-
dations on the wires, having hitherto proved a myth, we
have the hope by a very little exertion on our part of receives
ing intelligence from our Eastern possessions without eon'
tinning our dependence on the courtesy of the Czar.

" I am, Sir, &c.,
"W. P. ANDREW..

" London, July 1."

SUICIDE OF A Cl'! I' MERCHANT ON
_HAMPSTEAD HEATH.

An inquest was held yesterday, before Mr.
Brent, deputy-coroner for West Middlesex, at the
Royal Oak, Temple Fortune, Hampstead-heath,
upon the body of the late Mr. Peter George, an
extensive tea broker, of Fenchurch-street.
Mr. Woollett, of Chelsea, identified the body of
deceased. He last saw him alive on Saturday
morning last speaking to a gentleman in Fenchurch-
street. Shortly afterwards he received a telegraphic
message from his nephew, which induced him to go
to Hampstead, and make search for Mr. Georg°
all over the Heath, as well as to give information to
Inspector Webb, of the Heath-street Station. Wit-
ness continued the search till ten at night, and re-
sumed it again next morning, but without. success.
In the afternoon word was brought to him, that the
body of a gentleman had been found, and on his
going up in a cab he identified it as that of Mr.
George.

In.- answer to the jury, witness said he had
noticed a difference in the manner of Mr. George
for some time past. He knew of no cause for his
committing the rash act.
Charles Lucas, 142 S, deposed to finding the
body of deceased under a hedge in a field, at Gol-
der's-green. He was lying on his left side with his
throat cut, and the field for some distance was
saturated with blood. The body had evidently not
been touched, as the gold watch and other property'
was found on deceased's person.
Dr. Brown, of Heath-street, Hampstead, proved
being called to see the body of deceased. He found
him on his left side, as though asleep, with a razor
by his side, covered in blood. His right hand was
across his breast. The windpipe and principal
arteries were separated, and death had resulted
from excessive hemorrhage.
Charles George stated that he was nephew to
deceased, and clerk in his employ. He saw him at
about eleven o'clock last Saturday at the office. He
left at that time, and about two a cabman brought
a note, which ho found to contain the following:—
" Dear Charles,—My body will be found on
Hampstead-heath. Dearest, take care of your aunt;
she has never been aware of my untoward affairs.
" YOUR UNCLE."
In reply to questions from the jury, he said he
had seen a great change lately in his uncle. He had
latterly become very nervous, and unable to attend
to business. On Saturday morning he seemed verf
absent and wandering.
Another clerk in deceased's office corroborated
the last witness, and added that on Saturday morn-
ing he placed two cheques before witness, one for
£4OO and one for £lOO, and asked him to add theta
up. After he had done it, deceased asked him if it
was true that four and one make five.

Dr. Johnson, of Eaton-place South, said be had
known deceased for about 14 years, and had
noticed
a great change in his manner lately ; and at the
very time the above letter was received hinyself and
Mrs. George were in consultation as to what course
would be best to adopt with regard to his future.
After the coroner had summed up,
The jury returned a verdict,
"That de ceased de-
stroyed himself whilst labouring under 'a fit of ton'
porary insanity."

prON ELXCTION.
WOLVERHAM

CLOSE OF THE POLL.

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CHELSEA NEW BRIDGE.--.A parliamentary return
just issued states that between March 31, 1860, and Sep"
;
tember 30, of the same year, the tolls collected on Chelsea
New Bridge amounted to £2,923 10s. Bd. The expenses of
collection wele £257 ss. sd.
nance £3Bl 7s. and the repairs and mainte-
nance Prom September 30, 1860, t.• March
30, 1861, the tolls collected were £1,015 Ss. 64d. ; the
penscs were £252 7s. l4d , and the repairs, &c., £433 7s. 1Q(I'
The land disposed of since March 31, 1860, consists of threw'
quarters of an acre at the east end of Battersea-Park anti
Prince of Wales's-read, let to Mr. John Downey, as yearly
tenant from Midsummer, 1860.
RAILWAY COMMITTEES.—Yesterday, after hear-
ing the reply of Mr. Rodwell, Q.C., for the promoters, the
committee, of which Mr. Cobbett is the chairman, threg,
out the North Somerset 'Railway Bill, adding that the
committee were of opinion that some sutiia continuation of
the Radstock branch as had obtained the sanction of par-
liament should be made. The case of the Edinburgh and
Perth Railway was opened in Mr. Adair's committee, and
I that of the opposition of the Great -Western Railway
South Wales Railway committee. The following hills
were passed in the committee of ways and means :—Blahs
Valley, Devon Valley, Glasgow and Hammer:
smith, Paddington, and City Junction. Lord Llanover
committee proceeded with the consideration of the Dublin
Wate: Bill, and the bills of the Londonderry and Lough
Silly Railway. Kirkcudbright Railway, and other bill*
werg parsed in Lord lietleadale's counnittev,. in the

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