The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-23 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

We have received by way of Constantinople the
I,llowing message from our correspondent iu Alex-
andria :

" ALEXANDRIA, JULY 14.

"The Simla arrived at Suez on the 12th of J uly,
with dates from Sydney of May 25 Melbourne,
May 30 ; Ceylon, June 23.
"She has 33 passengers and gold to the valua of
40,0001.

" Her mails are despatched to Malta to-day per
Scamander, whence they wilt he conveyed to Mar-
seilles European and Australian Royal Mail
Company's steamer Cambria. They will probably
reach Marseilles on the 24th or 25th inst.

" The Great Britiin left Melbourne on the 21st
of May with 101,600 ounces of gold.

"At Melbourne money was plentiful and seen-
ities high ; flour at 22/. ; gold for escort, 100,000/.
per month less than last year.
" The O'Shauassy Ministry has resigned in'cor-
segnence of being defeatel in the Assembly. Mr.
Haines was Chief Secretary.

" Sydney share-market firm ; wool, ls. 10d. to
23. for superior clips."

LIVERPOOL, JULY 22.
Messrs. D. and C. Wfver havefavoured. us with
the following advicee from Australia, received by
them this afternoon by telegraph from Constanti-
nople
"The' Simla arrived at Suez on the 12th inst.
with 33 passengers, 14 boxes of gold, valued'at
40,5811. and 43 packages of cargo.
" She arrived at Sydney on the 9th of May and
left Melbourne on the 30th of May ; King George's
Sound, the 6th of June ; and Ceylon, the 2d of
July.
" The mails ex Simla are forwarded to Malta by
tht: Scamander, by the Consuls authority.
The Oneida left Sydney on the' sth of May and
the Columbian loft Galle on the 15th of June, and
Vie European left King George's Sound on the Ist
of June,
"Sailed from Melbourne for London.—The In-
domitable and Swiftsure, with 116,486 ounces of
gold.
For Liverpool.--The James Baines (arrived),
the Lightning the 3unamer Cloud, tine Sardinian;
and the Gre t ritim (May
with 112,482 ouhlce4'
20) with ]01,647 ouLlee'?'
" Arrivals from tiv.
Dunsandle, the Dee, the
th.e Morning
Talern, and the Pomona.",

rpool.—The Indian. the
'Broughton, the David
'-e Montuion,nr.,y, the

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

The European and American Company's steam-
ship Jason, Captain Britton, with 168 passengers,
and dates limn New York to the Bth inst., and the
Vanderbilt steamer North Star, Captain Lefevre,
with advices from New York to the 11th, arrived
off Cowes this evening.
The Jason proceeded on to Bremen, calling at
the Victoria Docks in the Thames to land her pas
sengers, 185,000 dollars in specie, and cargo, of
which she has 1,000 tons. On the 21st instant she
exchanged signals with the Dutch ship Dagger
Bank, in long. 1.0 deg., lat. 49 deg. 30 min. She
had fine weather throughout the voyage.
The North St'ir has 165 passengers. She pro-
ceeded on to Bremen.

There is scarcely any news since the list arrival.

Froth Washington we learn that Mr. Mandeville,
formerly of New York, has been appoir►te I Sur-
vey. r-Geueral of California, in place of Colonel
Heys, who has been appointed the Surveyor-Gene-
ral .of Utah.

Mr. H. E. B. Stowe, son of Professor Stowe,
was drowned in the Connecticut river on the 10th.
He was a student at the Dartmouth College.
Judge Leavitt, on the 10th instant, discharged the
United States' Deputy Marshal and his assistant;
from the custody of the sheriff of Clarke County,
Ohio.
The Marshal's offence was connected with the
arre4 of an alleged fugitive slave.
The New York street commissioners' dase is in a
_more complicated state than ever. Two more vic-
tims, of the riot of July 4 were recorded on the llth
—viz., Thomas Sparks, appointed a policeman on
the 3d, and John Myers ; the former was clubbed,
and the latter shot.

The British officers who took home the Panchita
as a slaver from the Coast of Africa were arrested
on the 10th at the suit of Mr. 3; P: Weeks, and
held to bail in 15,000 dollars. The owners of the
bark were confident they can prove a wrongful sei-
zure.

The rumoured massacre of Colonel Sumner's
command received no credence at the War Depart-
ment at Washington.
The New York stock market on the 10th was
untie tied, and prices variable. Tennessee Sixes
declined ; and Ca'ifornia Sevens, 2' • New York
Central Sevens rose 1 ; Delaware and Hudson rose
; Pennsylvania Coal, ; Erie declined & ; Read-
ing advanced 2 per cent.; Michigan and Southern
Old, 1 per cent. • and Cleveland and Toledo, 1 ;
Milwaukie and cent.;
el- dined 5 ; and La
Croix, 1.
Money was easy, and grew more abundant daily.
The cotton market was exceedingly firm and
business re3tricted in consequence. Middling Up-
Lnds were quoted 14ic.; Mobile, 14/c ; and New
Orleans, 15c.
Flour had again slightly declined. Corn-meal
dull.

The market for pork was 10c. better in mess, but
prices of other descriptions were without material
alt ration. Demand dull.

The sugar market was scarcely as arm, though
there WAS no abatement in prices. •
Freights fiat, with no immediate prospect of
abatement.

TIM Ex-ROYAL FAMILY OF FRANCE.—FETE CHAM-
PETRE AT ORLEANS HOUSE.—The Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale gave a fete champetre yesterday afternoon, at
()deans House, Twickenham, on which occasion there
was a rdunion of the members of the ea• Royal family of
France.

The second ordinary general meeting of the share-
hqlders •f the,Bank of London is called for the 6th of
August.
" Letters have been received from Sir James Brooke
(ways the Bury and Norwich Post) by his Norfolk friends,
in which be states that tranquillity had been restored to
Labuan. and speaks of its reviving prospects."
The King of Naples, emulous of the French Govern
ment, has been doing a little bit of tra Ns in the slave
liar s', Alt xuldria. According to the Presse d'Orient,
the Ne►poli.an consul there lately purchased 40 negroes
to sent into Europe, for a pious purpose, as ho said.
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.—The twenty-third
report of the directors states that the d:rectnrs
recom-
mend a dividend at the rate of 41. per cent. per annum,
leaving a balance to carry forward of 3,2431. 6s.

JUMPING ON A TRAIN IN MOTION.—On Monday, at
the Wakefield Petty Sessions, Mr. Christopher Elliot, a
farmer near Barnsley, was charged with having jumped
on to one of the Lancashire and Yorkshire trains, which
was leaving for Barnsley. lie was fined U. 10s.
Creditors of the Timber Preserving Company are re-
el to prove thelr claims bef)re Vice-Chancellor
W d, who proposes on the 6th of August to api.oint an
official manager. _ _ _

Akclounts from Vienna state that a line of packets
from Trieste to American ports is about to be established
by the Austrian Lloyd. _ _

A Parliamentary piper, published yesterday morning
informs us that a further sum of 400,000/ will have to be
voted this year towards the reimbursement to the Elst
India Company of a moiety of the expenses of the war
with Persia.

From a Parliamentary paper, printed yesterday morn-
ing, it appear,* that the amount of prize money realised
by the seizure of Russian ships during the war was
• 72,0001., of which upwards of 41,0001. was distributed
in the nancial year 1356-57, leaving 30,3301. balance
on the let of April la,t.
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN THE QUEEN'S
PRISON —At the Southwark police-court, yesterday,
thez Gower and Authoni Salvi, the two persons who
stand charged with the above crime, were again brought
up on remand, before Mr. Combe, the sitting magistrate,
f re-examination. They were again remanded.
NAVAL PRIZ IC-MONEY.—The receipt of naval prize,
bounty, salvage, and other moneys, during the year
ended the 31st of March last amounted to 88,9511, and
the payments to 48 2701., leaving a balance of 40,6811.
The amount distributed or paid away in the year
1856-57 on account of captures made under the "Prize
Act (Russia)" amounted to 72,0551., and the balance on
the Ist of April last was 30,330.
BESSEMER'S PATENT. —Tne Scientific Arceriecia states
that Mr. Bessemer's American patent for those im-
provements in the manufacture of iron and steel which
attract d so much attention on their announcement a
year ago, has been set aside by the Paten:-office,.it
having been held as proved teat the patentee was an-
ticipated in the invention by Mr. W. Kelly, of the
Suraune Iron Works, Kentucky.
RAILWAYS. —lt is stated that amicable arrangements
have been resumed between the Eastern Counties and
Blackwell Railways, by which the public and proprietors
will be beirefited. A new railway called the Devon
Valley Rarlway is proposed for the county of Kirross.
Arrangements are being made for the construction of the
long projected railway f x'ension from Hungerford west-
ward. The first turf of the Vale of Clwyd Rtlway is
to be turned on the 7th of August. The foundation
Stone of the docks at Stlloth Bay is to be laid on the
4h of August; the jetty of 1,000 feet is already com-
pleted.
TEIE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, Ju'y 22.—The
United States Mail Steamship Company's steamer Erics-
son-left the Mersey, for New York, this afternoon, at
one o'clock, with toe usual mails, a lull cargo, and 14
passengers.
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.—The European and
American Company's steamship Argo, Captain Benson,
sai'e I hence this afternoon for New York, with 360 pas-
sengers and 400 tons cf freight. The screw steamer
Teutonia, Capt. Gm le, arrived last night from Hamburg,
and leaves on Friday with ship-letter mails, passeng
and cargo for Lisbon and the 13r ziis The Ji.SOl7l, belong•
ing to the European and American Germany, Captain
Britton, arrived off C .wes this evening from New York,
which she left on the Bth rust., and her aivicee have
consequently been aeticipated by the Persia. She has
a very large cargo, principaly composed of sugar for
London and about 200 passengers.
SALE OF MDLLE. RACHEL'S FURNITURE, &c.—The ,
admirers of Mdile. Rachel wilt shortly have an oppor-
tunity of testifying their enthusiasm, and of renewing,
in another place and in a different manner, those ova-
ti )ns of which they have always been so prodigal. The
great actress is, we aro informed, about to dispose of
her costly furniture, which will be sold by auction cn
the 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th July, under the direction
of M. Haynaux du Tilly. The multitude of articles
which crowd her apartments will become souvenirs--
relics w hose possession will doubtless be warmly dis-
puted; while the works of art, whose value has been
enhanced by their sojourn in the Hotel de la Rue
Trudon, will be werthily appreciated by amateurs.
SALE OF AN ISLAND.—Yesterday, at the auction
matt, Mears. Dowers ()tiered for sale Branksea Island,
the property of Colonel Waugh, whose name has for
some time been before the public in connexion with the
London and Eastern Banking Company. The property
comprises the entire island of Branksea, situated in the
harbour of Poole, 'Dorsetshire, and containing about
750 acres of freehold land, with the castle, dwelling-
houses, farm buildings, and a church. It abounds in
clay fit for pottery, china, and bricks, in sand grit and
other minerals, and manufacturing premises. The bid-
dings reached 118,0001., but the property was bought
in at 119,000/.

THE FIRST VOYAGE OF THE SHANNON.—The Shannon,
51, screw frigate, Captain Peel, made her passage to the
Cape in 52 days under sail, having experienced fine
weather all the way. She made 302 milas the last 24
hours ;
force of wind 8, and north ; and sailed 15 knots
without pressing her, wind abeam. Two fatal accidents
occurred on hoard during the passage—Mr. Cuaker,
master' assistant, fell from aloft, struck t;le fore chains,
and fell deal into the water; and the other, George
Brown, a boy of the first-class, who fell from aloft in-
board, and was killed. But for the admirable facility
afforded by Clifford's plan of lowering boats, with which
rho frigate was fitted, the body of the unfortunate young
officer c mild not have been recovered, nor the life of
another boy, who fell overboard, have been saved. On
both occasions the vessel was going at from 11 to 12
knots under all sail, not withstanding which the boat was
manned and lowered in little more than a minute. The
boats were 30 feet cutters, the largest hung from man-
of-war's davits,' and carrying from 17 to 20 men eacb,
and weighing. with gear complete, from two to three
tons.

BELFAST CHAMBRE OF COMMERCE.

The half-yearly meeting of the members of the
Chamber or Commerce was held on Wednesday—
Robert Grimshaw, Esq., in the chair.

THE CURRENCY.
Mr. SEED remarked that the currency question
ws one of such importance that he would again
press its consideration upon the notice of the Cham-
ber, F, nd would take leave to move the following re-
solution, addressed as a memorial to the House of
Cominons :—" That this Chamber, believing that
the ft equent fluctuations in the state of the money
market arise from an imperfect monetary system,
respectfully request your Honourable House will
appoint a commis tee for the purpose of considering
do question in its entirety."
Mr. BRISTOW stated that this motion was un-
called for, as a committee on the question was
air, ady sitting in the House of Commons.
Mr. SEED reminded Mr. Bristow that the com-
mit•ee he alluded to was confined to the investiga-
-ion of the "Bank ChArter," which was only one
branch of the great monetary question to which he
was calling their attention. He went on to say—
Every increase of 1 per cent. in discounts is a
loss to the trade profits of the nation of 6,000,000/.
per annum, as the average gilculation of bills of
exchange is reckoned at 600;000,000/. sterling:
This amount, discounted at 6 per

cent., is
and at 4 per cent.,

- £36,000,000
...... 24,000,000

leaving a difference in favour of trade
of no less than 12,000,000
The Bank Charter curtails the circulation, and
aauses the Bank to advance its rate of discount
when the supply of geld dimin.shes, and expands
it when gold incteases, thus acting •in an inverse
ratio to the requirements of commerce. It deprives
the Bank of England note of legal tender in
Ire-
land, and the Bank of Ireland note of legal tender
in Great Britain ; thus crippling the circulating
medium t') an important extent. It restrictsthe
issue of notes in England below 51., thus offering a
prerhium to the people to hoard up gold to an
enormous extent, to the great lessening of the
supply in the coffers of the parent bank. The Bank
Charter thus obliges an immense a,maunt of gold to
lie idle and unproductive, to the great detriment
of every branch of industry. The Bank Charter
prohibits the establishment of additional banks of
issue, under any circumstan, es, even if 40s. in the
pound in hard specie were deposited in lieu of
every paper note issued. The restrictive circula-
tion now existing was framed to suit the trade of
1844, when the value of the imports and exports
of the country alone was 80 per cent. less than it
is now—thus assuming that a circulation of
38,000,0001. to 40,000,000/, sterling will suit a
trade valued by imports and exports alone at
250,000,000/. sterling, as well as it did one of
only 140,000,000/. The following amendments
were suggested ,by Mr. Seed as primarily neces-
sary, in order to bring this charter more
into unison with " Free Trade" principles:
—" Ist. That all restrictions upon the quantity`.
and value of the notes issued be rescinded,
leaving them to be regulated by the natural law of
supply and demand, the convertibility of the notes
being retake.' as at present, founded upon a basis
of one-half or three-fourths of the amount being,
lodged with Government, either in specie or other
approved negotiable security. 2d. That the Bank
of England and Bank of Ireland notes be made
legal tender throughout the United Kingdom. 3d.
That the possibility of a deficiency of the legi;;
tender arising be provided for by the Government.
Mr. JOSIAS CUNNINGHAM remarked that it would
be much bettersto allow matters to remain as they
are, than to give unrestricted permission to the
issue of notes, as Mr. Seed proposed, as it would,
lead to a great increase of " kiting," and greatly
increase the risks of commerce.
Mr. SEED stated that Mr. Cunningham had quite
mistaken his proposition. He (Mr. Seed) W
quite as much against kiting as Mr. Cunningbao
was, but he was quite prepared to leave that to the
bankers themselves, as their own interests would.
prevent them from discounting illegitimate paper,'
and the system he proposed bound the bankers
themselves to deposit a security with the Govern
ment for every note they issued, so that there
could be no danger of undue acoommodation, e's•
Mr. Cunningham apprehended.
Mr. WORKMAN stated that he hoped the tines'',
tion raised by Mr. Seed would not be allowed tol:
drop, as it was one of the most important that conic'
te brought before them, involving frs it did the.
great commercial interests of the kingdom. fle
would suggest that a committee be appointed to,
examine into, and report upon the matter to the,
Council of the Ch imber.
After s ime conversation, it was finally arranged,:
privately, that Messrs. James Kennedy, Johl
Workman, Wm. Evart, jun. ; James Barnett, and'
John Seed, should form themselves into a commit-
tee, and report to the Chamber at a future meet'
ing on the subject. The meeting then separated*