The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, IGONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1861.

Allied Expedition went out thither to China, not
for purposes of conquest, not with any view what-
ever to their own territorial aggrandisement at the
expense of their cruel and treacherous antagonists,
but solely and exclusively to punish the latter for
their cruelty and treachery, and in the next place
(having punished them) to establish, if possible,
permanent relations of amity between Western
Europe and the Chinese. " The object I have
had in view," he said yesterday in so many
words—" Tie object I had in view in the provi-
sions of both the treaty of Tien•tain and the treaty
of Pekin has been to lay the foundation of per-
manent peace and good understanding with the
Empire of China ; but it rests with her Majesty's
representative I have left in that country to com-
plete that important work." Adding, "He will
have great difficulties to contend with, because the
habits of prepossession and prejudice in an
Oriental people are not to be removed in a day.
But I am satisfied he merits your confidence, and I
trust he will receive from the people of this coun-
try a large share of that indulgence and confi-
dence so liberally bestowed on myself, which your
reception of me today so significantly and gracefully
manifests." That reliance, that forbearance Eng-
land will certainly not fail to accord to Lord ELGIN'S
brother, now that he is left at Pekin under circum-
stances of such delicate and peculiar responsibility.
The confidence and indulgence asked for by Lord
ELGIN in behalf of his fraternal successor as her
MAJESTY'S Ambassador to the Chinese Government,
would have been his, we may rest satisfied, had not
the author of the treaty of Tien-tsin, and
the still more remarkable treaty of Pekin,
besought them from the magnanimity of
his fellow countrymen. But they are now
doubly his Excellency's, after the earnest
appeal made thus for fair play in his regard yester-
day afternoon by the Earl of ELGIN and KINCAR-
DINE. Nothing could well have been more graceful,
or in some respects more appropriate, than the tribute
offered at the close of his remarks yesterday, ad-
dressed to the men of Dover, among whose company
appeared the Dover (Bth Cinque Ports) Rifle
Volunteers—the earnest and impressive tribute
offered by Lord ELGIN to the promoters of and
participators in the Volunteer movement. After
expressing his lively sense of gratification at their
complimentary attendance yesterday upon the oc-
casion of his welcome home to England immediately
after his landing, Lord ELGIN remarked, " I wish to
say to them and to the volunteers generally that it
was a great consolation to us while defending and
maintaining the interests of our eountry in remote
regions of the earth to know that thousands of
gallant men were enrolling themselves here to pro-
tect the homes of England from injury and insult
should occasion for their services arise !" That is
another and assuredly a noble and an instantly
appreciable advantage gained to the country through
this volunteer movement. It was a common say-
ing during the mighty wars of NAPOLEON that
the presence of that, the greatest of all tile world's
great Captains upon the field of battle, that the
mere fact of his presence there was equivalent to
to forty-thousand men. Without specifying any
distinct proportion of strength gained to the armies
of England (when abroad fighting her battles) by
the mere fact of their old island home being guarded
by the Rifle Volunteers—it must be comprehensible
to every one upon the instant that the knowledge
of that fact must (as Lord ELGIN intimates)
tend perceptibly to hearten the British
soldiers upon a foreign battle-field in their struggle
with opposing difficulties. The knowledge already
is nothing less remarkable than that England
during a period of profound peace has witnessed
the spontaneous enrolment in her defence of
170,000 Volunteers. At the first signal of danger
that Army of 170,000 would be at the very least
doubled, if it did not at once expand into a body
of half a million Riflemen.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
residence of Viscount Palmerston in Piccadilly. The
Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, Earl Gran-
ville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord
John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Herbert, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the
Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, Lord
Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and
the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.
EAST INDIA-HOUSE.--A Court of Directors of the
East India Company was held at the East India-house on
the 11th inst., when Colonel Sykes, M.P., was elected
chairman for the year ensuing.
ACCIDENT TO A LARGE COTTON SHTP, NEAR
LlVERPOOL.—Yesterday morning, while the American ship
Marquette, bound from New Orleans to Liverpool, was
being towed into the Mersey, she took the ground on the
tongue of the Burbo, and, notwithstanding that four
steamers tugged at her for a considerable period, she re-
mained hard and fast, and was deep in the sand when the
tide receded. Fortunately theweather was fine, otherwise,
with a bad sea on and a heavy wind, the chances are the
vessel would have gone to pieces. As it is, should the
weather become tempestuous, and the vessel still remain
stranded, there is no doubt whatever but that she will
break up, as she lies in a very critical part of the Great
Burbo Bank. The Marquette is a fine American-built ship,
and was towed to sea from New Orleans on the 26th of
February last. She has on board an immense cargo of cot-
ton, viz., 4,026 bales. At the time the vessel grounded she
was in charge of a pilot. Attempts will be made, it is said,
to discharge her as she lies, and then, if possible, float her
on a high tide.
THE STRIKE IN THE COTTON DISTRICTS.—Large
meetings of the operatives on strike are held almost daily
at Ashton and other towns of that neighbourhood. A formal
resolution has been adopted, to continue the strike for
another week at all events. On Wednesday next the hands
expect to hear from the masters what standard list of prices
they may agree upon at their adjourned conference in Man-
chester, to be held on Tuesday. It is very doubtful whether
the terms then proposed will be accepted by the men, unless
accompanied by something like a guarantee to raise the
rates again when trade revives. Much distress is being
borne in silence, both by the weavers and the smaller shop-
keepers, whose customers they are. The men propose an
arbitration, which the masters reject as " dictation."
HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND MURDER. —Yesterday
afternoon an inquest was held at the Bull's-head, Dark-
house-lane, Co: eley, before Mr. W. H. Phillips,
deputy-coroner for the Wolverhampton district, respect-
ing the death of an aged man, named Walter Piper,
a boatman, who had died near that house the day
before from injuries he had received in the same
district from highwaymen. The deceased was a
single man, and lodged with George Wooton, a shoe-
maker. He left home on the morning of the 25th of
March last, saying he was going with a boat for his
master to Birchhills, near Walsall. His master was
Samuel Willcox, of Darkhouse-lane. The deceased
was accustomed to go to Bilston.market, about one mile
away, every Monday evening. On the evening of the 25th
of March, at about 9 o'clock, a witness heard that the de-
ceased had been injured and robbed. He found him in
the house of a neighbour, bleeding from a severe wound in
the forehead; the skull was driven in. Witness took him
home and sent for a surgeon, but he did not come. The
next morning he sent for another surgeon, who came, and
the deceased received surgical aid up to the time of his death.
Before he became insensible he said that he was coming
through the Blue-button Leasowe, a field not far from his
lodgings, when two men sprang out of the hedge close by the
pathway, one of whom clutched him by the throat and the
other dragged him out of the footpath and under the hedge,
where he rifled his pockets of a brass tobacco-box contain-
ing 3s. 6d., a bag, 11b. of bacon, lib. of cheese, two loaves
of bread, and some meat. Ho was a very quiet man, and
witness never knew him to quarrel with any one. His
friends lived at Bagley. After several witnesses had been
examined, the inquest was adjourned. The coroner said
that no doubt a vcrdict of " Wilful Murder" would even-
tually be returned against some one,

SCOTTISH COMMERCE.—There has been more
activity in the Scotch pig iron trade during the last fort-
night, the shipments within that period having reached a
total of 2:1,161 tons as compared with 1),620 tons last year.
Since the commencement of the year the shipments had ex-
hibited great dulness, but a better state of things may pro-
bably ba now anticipated. The reduction in the rate of
discount is beginning to exercise a beneficial influence on
the wool-market. Prices have not exhibited any change,
but holders are firm, and consumers are operating rather
mere freely. A limited liability company has been formed
for the purpose of establishing a line of steamers between
Newcastle and Dundee.

LATEST .NEW WB.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
THE BANK OF FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Moniteur of to-day contains the usual
monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows
the following results, compared with the March
account :

DECREASE.

Cash

Advances.

18i millions.
/ million.'

INCREASE.
Bills discounted, not yet due..... 9 1-6 millions,
Bank-notes 7l millions,
Treasury balance 1 2-5 millions

THORN, APRIL 12,

The number of persons who fell at Warsaw
amounts to at least 30. There were several hun-
dred wounded.

The corpses of the victims were carried to the
citadel, and were buried within the fortifieations.
The individuals who have been arrested are to
pass their term of imprisonment within the king-
dom.

Last night numerous arrests were made.
The Municipality has been dissolved.

PRAGUE, FRIDAY,

The Bohemian Diet has sent a deputation to the
Emperor to request his Majesty to come to Prague
for the purpose of being crowned King of Bohemia

VIENNA, THURSDAY,

The conflict in the Herzogovina still continues,
Several places have proclaimed the Prince of Mon.

tenegro.

BELGRADE, APRIL 11

Yesterday 91 Bulgarian families, numbering 568
persons, emigrated to Servia with numerous flocks.
The Turks stopped their passage, and inflicted
punishment upon 160 of them.
The agitation is increasing on the frontiers.

PARIS, APRIL 11

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
says:—" I learn, on good authority, that Prince
Gortschakoff has been recalled from Warsaw, and
that General Mouravieff of (Kars) has been
appointed in his place.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Tagus, Captain Roskill, with the Peninsular mails,
has arrived here.

She brings 31 passengers, £1,785 in specie, and
763 packages of cargo.
Among the passengers were the master, the mate,
and 12 seamen of the Maria, No. 5,463, of South
Shields, which had been abandoned at sea in a
sinking condition. They were landed at Lisbon by
a Dutch galliot.

On the 7th inst. the Tagus passed a steamer, sup-
posed to be the Ceylon, and on the 10th exchanged
signals with the French ship Bretagne.
On the 11 th inst. she passed a vessel of about
400 tons, bottom uppermost, not coppered, about
30 miles from the Start.

The British barque Trafalgar, of London, was a

Vigo.

At Lisbon, on the 7th inst., exchange on Lon-
don, three months, was quoted 54-7,-; Paris, 526 :
Amsterdam, 421; Hamburg, 481 ; Genoa, 523 ;
Rentes, Three-per Cents., 48 ; Coupons, 471 ; De-
ferred., 39; Bank of Portugal Shares, 570; Com-
mercial Bank of Oporto, 256; Mercantile Bank of
Oporto, 256 milreis.

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.

The Royal Mail Company's steamer Atrato,
Captain Woolley, with the West India and Pacific
mails, arrived off the Needles at 10.20 a.m. to-day.

SPECIE FOR INDIA.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 12.

The Ikeninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ellora, saiiing to-day for Bombay, takes out in bar
silver £68,635, in silver coin £32,000, in bar gold
£40,100, in sovereigns £5,800, in emeralds £4OO,
mock pearls £B6, and jewellery £534 7s.

portant duties and a responsibility, the weight of
which is further increased by the profound corn -
plications of the present epoch. It is with good
reason that the Archduchy of Austria is considered
as the heart of our great empire. That heart has
ever beaten vigorously for whatever is great, noble,
and beautiful, for the prosperity, power, and honour
of the monarchy, for the glory of our legitimate
sovereign family. That heart has not spared its
blood when called upon to show its fidelity to the
prince and country. The population of Southern
Austria, animated with these sentiments, trustfully
expects that the men it has chosen with confidence
for its representatives will be, in all circumstances,
the faithful and zealous interpreters of these loyal
sentiments, and will resolutely and enegetically
defend the just rights of all Austria and of its
dynasty, and assuredly the country will not be
disappointed in its firm confidence. May the bless-
ing of the Almighty descend on the labours of this
high Assembly, and assure beneficial results to its
patriotic efforts. As the representative of the Go-
vernment, I have further to give the assurance that
its organs will consider it as a sacred duty and feel
it an honour to promote, with their most earnest
efforts, the object of this high national Assembly,
which object, moreover, is also that of the Go-
vernment.