The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1859.

ASCOT RACES, 16th and 17th June.
—GREAT WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Carriages and
Horses will be taken to Windsor on this line by any of
the regular Trains on each day of the Races. The Trains
leave Paddington for Windsor at 6 a.m., 7 15 a.m., 8 45 a.m.,
10 a.m., 10 30 a m., 11 a.m., 12 noon, and return from Windsor
at 4 35 p.m., 5 50 p'm., 6 20 p.m., 6 40 p.m., B_s p.m., 9 35 p.m.,
and 1.015 p.m.
. _ _

In addition to the above, on THURSDAY, the 16th June,
A SPECIAL TRAIN will leave Paddington at 11 45 a.m.,
direct for Windsor, returning from thence at 7 p.m.
Fares to Windsor and Back :—First Class, 6s 6d ; Second
Class, 4s Gd ; and by 8 45 a.m. and 10 a.m. Down Trains, re-
turning from Windsor at 6 40 p.m. and 8.5 p.m., 2s Gd.
A large number of London Pleasure Vans will run from
Windsor to the Course and Back for 2s 6d. Omnibuses will
also be provided.

THE LONDON.—The attention of Gentlemen
is especially drawn to the advantages offered in these
elegant and spacious Saloons, which fulfil all the require-
ments of a West-end club of the most aristocratic and exclu-
sive character.

Won trouve dans la Salle de Lecture non seulemeut les
meilleurs journeaux Anglais, mats aussi Allemand, Francais,
et Beige.

F. SAWYER, Proprietor, 191, Fleet-street.

THE LONDON.—S AW Y E R'S famous
LONDON DINNER, consisting of two soups, two
fish, two entrees, joints, two sweets, cheese, and salad, at a
fixed charge of 2s. 6d. (attendance, 3d.), is served from Two
till Eight in the spacious Saloon.
In the Coffee-room, Dinners from the joint, with vegetables,
cheese, and salad, is. 6d. (attendance 3d.), and soup, fish, en-
trées, &c., a la carte, are served from One till Nine o'clock.
Ladies' Private Rooms and Dining Saloons. Spacious and
well-ventilated Wine, Coffee, and Smoking Saloon.
An extensive and carefully selected stock of Rhenish, Mo-
selle, and other Wines, imported expressly for the London
Dinner. Open on Sundays from Four till Nine.

F. -SAWYER, Proprietor, loiTileet-street.

WHAT are the Wild Waves saying P Keep
up your Channel Fleet, and buy your Teas of the
East India Tea Company, where sound Tea, Black, Green, or
Mixed, can be bought, in 6lb bags, at 2s. 4d. per lb., and Coffee,
in the Berry, at Mi.—Warehouse, 9 Great St. Ilelen's-eliurch-
yard, Bishopsgate.

V.PPS'S COCOA.—Epps, homoeopathic chemist,
London.—This excellent preparation, originally pro-
duced specially for the use of homeopathic patients, having
been adopted by the reneral public, can now be had of the
principal grocers. Each packet is labelled James Epps,
homoeopathic chemist, London.

WHY NOT PRESERVE YOUR HAY?
BENJAMIN E DGINGTON respectfully informs the
Nobility and Gentry that they can be supplied on the best
terms with RICK CLOTHS, with Poles complete.
Early application should be made for SECOND-HAND
RICK CLOTHS. MARQUEES, TENTS, and FLAGS. A.
great variety of Marquees and Tents may be seen erected on
the premises. A quantity of SECOND-HAND TENTS from
the Crimea at a greatly reduced price.
West End Establishment, 32, Charing-cross, S.W.
An Illustrated Catalogue sent free per post.
Address—BENJAMIN EDGINGTON 2, Duke-street, Lon-
don-bridge, S.E.

HART'S PATENT ECONOMISING GAS
BURNER, the great desideratum of the age to all con-
sumers of Gas. By its use the objections to the introduction
of Gas into private dwellings are removed, inasmuch as every
particle of gas, on reachinz the orifice of the burner, is fairly
consumed, and thus the diffusion of those noxious vapours so
injurious to health, and destructive to works of art, bindings
of books, &c., is entirely prevented.
The burner can be fitted by the most inexperienced hand to
any chandelier or bracket.

London Depot, 69, Fleet-street; Birmingham, Castle-
Buildings, High-street.

Price Two Shillings each : one sent on receipt of 30 post-
age stamps.

HOUSE FURNISHING.—DRUCE and. CO.'S
SHOW ROOMS and GALLERIES are the largest in
London. The varied stock to select from is immense ; the
prices are marked in plain figures, and a warranty is given.
Purchasers, before deciding, should visit this establishment,
and,effect a saving of one-third on the best description of
Cabinet and Upholstery Goods. N.B.—Unequalled Dining-
room Chairs, 19s. each ; Iron Bedsteads, Bs. 6d. each ; Car-
pets, is per yard under the usual charge. 500 Easy Chairs and
Settees, also 100 Wardrobes to select from. Luxuriant
Down Quilts, from ss. 6d. each.-68, 69, and 58, Baker-street.
Illustrated Books post-free.

171 E NETV LORD CHANCELLOR.

(From the .4fornuaq Post.)

Lord Campbell has accepted the office of Lord
Chancellor. This appointment will place 'at the
disposal of the new Ministay the important and
dignified post of Lord. Chief Justice of England--7a
post which Lord Campbell for many years has
filled with eminent advantage to the public and
with unmixed satisfaction to the profession. His
successor will be Sir Alexander Cockburn, the pre-
sent Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas,
and thus a second piece of valuable preferment will
fall to the lot of her Majesty's Ministers. It is
believed that Sir William Erie will be promOted to
the Chief Justiceship which is now about to be-
come vacant , and that Sir Henry Keating, who for
a short time held the office of Solicitor-General
under Lord Palmerston's former Administration,
will be appointed a puisne . judge. Sir Alexander
Cockburn, who is to receive a peerage, will once
more have an opportunity of displaying in a worthy
arena that. splendid eloquence which before his
promotion to the judicial bench Made him by
universal consent one of the greatest and most suc-
cessful of living orators. His presence in the House
of Lords will, moreover, add strength to the deli-
berations and decisions of-the most august tribunal
in the empire; and therefore, without hesitation,
we congratulate the public upon the elevation of
Sir Alexander Cockburn to a position in which his
great and varied talents will have a larger
sphere of action and of usefulness. Sir William
Erie, a most accomplished and learned lawyer, has
well earned the promotion which he is about to re-
ceive, and the same observation with equal force
Applies to §,irHenrySeatintv, .
Lord Campbell, the new Lord Chancellor, whose
appointment will naturally and excusably excite
some surprise—though more than a week ago his
venerable and learned friend Lord Lyndhurst cor-
rectly anticipated his promotion to the woolsack—
has for many years held high judicial and political
office. He has been Chancellor of Ireland, Chan-
cellor of the Duchy of —Lancaster, and Lord Chief
Justice of England. A man profoundly versed in
the common law—a statesman accustomed to the
deliberation of Cabinets—a great and popular judge,
and an author whose works have long and de-
servedly taken a high place in the standard litera-
ture of the law, may well, at the close of a long, meri-
torious, and distinguished career, claim the only re-
maining honour still reserved to him of adding his
own biography to the lives of the Chancellors and_
the Lords Chief Justices. Lord Campbell, according
to the infallible Dad, was born in the year 1779, and
was called to the bar early in the present
.century.
Time happily has not impaired either his mental or
bodily powers ; and considering his vast experience,
his intellectual activity, and his insatiable love of
labour, new laurels may yet be won by him in the
difficult and, at first sight, repulsive fields of Chan-
ceryprocedure. In these days ofadmiuistrative reform
it may, however, be doubted whether the administra-
tion of a mostimportant and technical branch ofjUris-
prudence.ought to be entrusted to a judge, who, able
industrious, and energetic, has still in the eightieth
year of his age to learn the first principles of Equity
and of Chancery practice.
Sir Richard Bethell, the undoubted leader of the
English ba.r,has consented to return to the position
of Attorney-General. As the first law officer of the
Crown, under the former Palmerston Administra-
he was justly entitled to claim the honour and
dignity of th 2 woolsack. But his presence in the
House of Commons is in some sort a political neces-
sity. Who 'is there in that assembly who could
worthily fill his place? But a great prineiple—far
beyond-that of personal ambition or of illustrious
merits, however universally admitted—was involved
in the decision of the honourable and learned gen-
tleman. The bar might have had just reason to
complain if Sir Richard Bethell had permitted that
rule to be departed from which virtually declares
that the Chancellorship is a great political office,
the reward of those who have zealously and ably
laboured as law officers of the Crown in the House
of Commons, and who by their position at the bar
have been admitted to be fully competent for the
duties of that high and distinguished office. Lord
Campbell having long ago accepted a seat upon
rho juuieial -4...4,,,,,i—hav-tng retired ffom the
arena of party politics, had no right, to aspire to the
Chancellorship. The privileges of the bar were, how-
.ever, perfectly safe in the keeping of Sir Richard
Bethell. Ife could not have refused to serve under
Lord Cranworth, his former legal superior; but the
question having arisen, he is understood to haVe taken
the advice of four of the most distinguished of the
law lords—Lord Brougham, Lord Cranworth, Lord
Wensleydale and Lord Kingsdown, and upon their
unanimous opinion he decided, considered the emi-
nent position which Lord Campbell has long occu-
pied, that the rights of the bar would not be injured
if he waived his own personal claims, and agreed
to serve in the subordinate but still highly respon-
sible office of Attorney-General. The public may
regret that so great a lawyer and. so able, consis-
tent, and enlightened a law reformer should be
compelled temporarily to stand aside from the high-
est prize of the profession simply because the Libe-
ral party possesses no other member so worthy to
fill the office of Attorney-General. The constitution
of a strong; Government is the great present neces-
sity, and to this end Sir Richard Bethell has con-
tributed with equal honour to himself and benefit
to the country.

rjsed to be proceeded with—viz., the line from
Negapatam to Trichinopoly). Rate of Interest
Guaranteed-5 per cent."

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC

MAILS.

The Royal West India Mail packet La Plata
arrived at Southampton yesterday, bringing 258
passengers, and specie consisting of 2,052,324 dol-
lars' value in silver, and 594,099 dollars' value in
gold. Her dates are—Greytown, May 17 ; Panama,
27 ; Demerara, 25 ; Jamaica, 27 ; Barbadoes, 27;
St. Thomas, June 1.
At Demerara the Combined Court had closed its
annual session. The estimated expenditure for the
current year is 1,251,304.26 dols. ; and the Ways
and Means are estimated at 1,252,298.84 dols. The
only alteration in the tariff of import duties is the
reduction of the duty on matches to 1 dollar per
gross.
The following bills have been ,introduced into the
Court of Policy, and read a first time :
A bill to repeal Ordinance No. 14, of the year
1858, intituled "An Ordinance to empower the
Demerara Railway Company to raise a sum of
£165,000 ; to guarantee payment of the intereAt
thereon for a period of 45 years ; and to extend,
alter, and amend certain provisions in the ordinances
relating to the said Company," and to make other
provisions in lieu thereof.
A bill to guarantee to Mr. Charles Matheson a
sum of one hundred and. fifty pounds per annum.
A bill to regulate irthnigration from Madeira,
the Azores, and the Canary Islands.
A bill to legalise the paymentof bounty to Indian
immigrants who may have arrived, or who shall
arrive in the colony, at any time during or after
the month of December, 1859, on certain conditions.
A ball for raising a loan for payment of bounty
to Indian immigrants.
A bill to provide for the maintenance of minis-
ters of the Christian religion in the colony of
British Guiana.
The weather during the fortnight has been wet,
with intervals of sunshine_ The cane plants are
thriving under its genial influence. The exports
since the last mail have been 1,341 hhds., 96 trcs.,
77 brls. ' • rum, 463 puns., 7 brls. ; timber, 30,402 ft.
charcoal, 670 brls. • cocoanuts, 5,400. Trade- con-
tinues.to be very dull.
At Jamaica, notwithstanding a few partial rains,
and every appearance of heavy weather, the May
seasons had not yet set in. The heat was most
oppressive, and there was a good deal of sickness
about—fever, ague, and colds. Business had been
very dull during ttie last fortnight; the banks had
been exceedingly stringent, particularly so since
the arrival of the last English mail, and transac-
.l
tions had been restricted in consequence.
Exchanges on lon don :—Colonial Bank-90 days,
per cent. prem. ; GO days, 1 per cent, prem. ; 30
days, 14 per cent. prem. Jamaica Bank-90 days,
per cent. prem. ; 00 days, 1 per cent. prem. ; 30
days, 14 per cent. prem. Commissariat, 30 days, ;1,-
per cent. prem. Merchants' bills par. ,
In Antigua the weather was very dry, and the
heat intolerable. Planters were hurrying on manu-
facturing operations as rapidly as possible.
From the Central American republic there is no
news of importance.
In Costa Rica, President Mora has been re-elected
without any opposition for ten years longer, and it
is expected that he will use this period more for
public than for private good. His trip down to
Nicaragua has not turned out as anticipated, as his
reception was rather cool, but at all events the
Martinez-Mora-Belly treaty has been ratified.
After Mora's return a grand ball was given to him
by the Costa Rican officers. The coffee crop has
been very good, and is .calculated at upwards of
130,000 cwt. From Nicaragua there is nothing
particular to report; the Belly enterprise is the
only talk of the day ; but, with the exception of a
few excited Frenchmen, there is nobody who
believse in the possibility of that gigantic work,
although Belly's people assure us that all has been
subscribed and that no actions are to be expected.
The French_ engineora ore now- levelling-the river
San Juan and the land between Virgin Bay and.
Salinas, so we may have their return as to the pos-
sibility of the canal in about two months. The
rainy season has commenced, which will make hard
times for them. The second engineer, Mr. Mulot,
died sonic days ago of fever, or rather was killed by
a mistake of a French coloured hotel-keeper, who
instead of two grains (a dose) gave him 12 doses,
or 12 grains of tartar emetic. The Virgin (lake
steamer) was wrecked the other day, and Mr. Belly,
who was on board, narrowly escaped drowning.
Mr. Scott, agent for Mr. Vanderbilt, intended to
sell in public sale the remainder of the Vanderbilt
Company's goods, but as the Costa Rican comman-
der, Parla de Castilla, protested against the sale
of all the legal prizes of war, as guns, ammunition,
&c., the commander of her Britannic Majesty's
squadron at Greytown protested also, and only the
buildings and machinery were sold at 2,800 dollars.
Dates from Valparaiso are to the Ist of May.
The revolutionary army, numbering about 2,000
strong, under the command of Don Nicolas Tira-
pegui, had been defeated by Colonel Pinto, after an
action of five hours'. duration, in which many were
killed on both sides, and 300 prisoners taken, the
rebels losing all their artillery and ammunition.
The remains of Tirapegui's force was subsequently,
attacked and routed near Los Angelos by the In-
tendente. Bands of revolutionists were still hang-
ing round Talca and other points.
From the south of Chili there is no news of im-
portance, everything is in a tranquil state. Ex-
change on England 461 d., 90 days. Business is
very bad, nothing doing.
Dates from Lima are to May 12th. In Lima
and Callao, as regards political affairs, everything
is quiet, but the government of Peru continues very
much disorganised. It appears that although the
New Granadian Minister was received by Castilla,
he has not been very courteously treated by him
since his reception.
It is reported that Echenique has invaded the
Peruvian territory with a Bolivian force, but it is
thought that President Castilla is a party to this
move for the object of strengthening his command.
He has asked for a loan of five millions, and autho-
rity to increase the army to 20,000 men. This the
Congress has refused, however.
Exchange on England, 42d., 90 days, nominal.
From Ecuador we learn that the interior towns
had pronounced against the Robles Government,
and had proclaimed as chief magistrates of the
country Messrs. Gabriel Garcia Moreno, Pacifico
Chiriboga, and Jeronimo Carrion (Vice-President) ;
these three will become candidates for the Presi-
dency by and by in all probability.
It is thought that the blockade of Guayaquil
will shortly be removed, in anticipation of which
large stocks of flour and other articles are lying in
the neighbourhood and at Paita in order to be sent
up the river at the earliest opportunity.