The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-11 00:00:00

ment not to disregard the arguments which have
led so many competent. and honourable men to
feel that our country's honour is not satisfied,
whilst a mystery which has excited the sympathy
of the civilised world remains uncleared." Yes—
that is the point, after all—that is a most eloquent
and persuasive argument in favour of another effort
in the way of further Arctic researches in the
track of Sir J. FRANKLIN and his heroic comrades.
The mystery of their fate remains to this very day
unsolved Notwithstanding Dr. RA.E and his cruel
rumour of Cannabalism, and the astounding reward
of that same cruel rumour by the recompence of
10,0001. by order of the Government ! Lady
FRANKLIN therefore argues with reason in favour
of the equipment of yet another Arctic vessel of
research, " that she may bring back from the
Arctic seas, if not some living remnant of
our long-lost countrymen, yet at least the
proofs that they have nobly perished."
What a pathos there is in the yearning of this
brave and gentle heart, for proofs that her hus-
band and his companions (supposing them to have
perished at all) have perished nobly ! What a
pathos in those two words from such a source—
rreummeomurb, applying to a portion at least of the 135ering that vague and unauthenticated
officers and men of the Erebus and Terror, the
hideous charge of Cannabalism. "I need not add,"
says Lady FRANKLIN in her appeal to Lord PAL-
MERSTON, "that we have as yet no proof, whatever
may be our melancholy forebodings." A second
edition of this impressive Appeal* to the Prime
Minister of England appeared by the way
simultaneously with the formal announcement of
the First Lord of the Admiralty that no decision
of any kind has even yet been arrived at, towards
the middle of the month of February, by Lord
PALMERSTON'S Government. " Hope deferred'
—alas ! We all know the rest. And how sick
at heart must be that brave and dauntless woman
who has been pleading so long in vain—hardly
so much for further aid as for some definite deci-
sion (adverse or favourable it scarcely matters
which) at the hands of the Ministers of the
Crown 1 Cannot an answer be vouchsafed to her
at last—an answer of some kind, of any kind, an
answer given by those Ministers in the name of
their country and of their SOVEREIGN ?

* A Letter to Viscount Palmerston, K.G. From
Lady Franklin. With an Appendix. Second Edition.
Bvo. pp. 36. Ridgway : London, 1857.

THE BANK CHARTER ACTS.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice last
night that the committee to be appointed on Thursday
next on the Bank Charter Acts be a committee of secrecy,
and consist of twenty-two members, viz. :—The Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Disraeli, Sir J. Graham,
Mr. Spooner, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr.
Cardwell, Mr. Mathis, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Hildyard, Mr.
Glyn, Mr. Beckett, Mr. Hankey, Mr. Stirling, Mr. P.
Urquhart, Mr. J. L. R►cardo, Sir C. Wood, Mr. Cayley,
Sir F. Baring, Mr. M. T. Smith, Mr. Wilkinson, and
Mr. Fergus.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

day morning.

SIB,—As there has been so much agitation respecting
the income tax, perhaps you will have the kindness to
insert the subjoined statement in your next publication,
.
and you will confer an obligation on, sir, your obedient
servant, A SUBSCRIBER.

NATIONAL REVENUE, AS BY PARLIAMEN.
TARY STATEMENT, 1842.
Customs £23,515,374 12 Oi
Excise
Miscellaneous 11,420,402 9 41
Post•office
Land tax on lauds and
tenements

Land Tax. Other Taxes.
France. £23,200,000 ~. £17,500,000
Russia 3,990,000 ... 3,667,000
Austria
England

Baron Alphonse Rothschild has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel from Paris. The marriage of the Baron with his
cousin, Miss Rothschild, daughter of Baron Lionel de
Rothschild, will take place at Gunnerebury on the 4th
proximo.
The Speaker's first Parliamentary dinner will take
place on Saturday next.
The Hon. P. S. P:errepont and Mrs. Pierrepont have
arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Evenley Hall, near
Brackley. Mrs. Phillimore has left the same establish-
ment for Brighton.
Sir Henry Cotterell bas arrived in Stratton•street for
the season.

Mr. B. S. Holford, M.P., and Mrs. Holford have left
lford Houle, for their seat Westonbirt, near Tetbury,
in Gloucestershire.

The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh and Lady Susan
and Lady Charlotte Innes-Ker have lett the Clarendon
for Broxmouth Park, Dunbar, N.B.

The Duke and Duchess of Grafton are entertaining a
succession of company at Wakefield Lodge, Northamp-
tonshire.

The Earl of Eglinton and the Misses Cockerell have
arrived in town for the season.

The Earl of Harewood remains in much the same con
dition. His lordship wa3 somewhat better on Monday.
Viscountess Jocelyn and her youthful family are 6 till
staying at St. Leonards-on-Sea. Her ladyship will not
come to town until after Easter.

Lord and Lady Colville have arrived in town. The
noble lord and her lAlyship have been absent from Eng-
land some months on a yachting excursion in the Medi-
terranean.

Lord Broughton arrived at his residence in Berkeley-
square v
a fieowLEdT.Ta—yssihue ub
fromces, ssubscription
pEtiron in aid of
:es. tokeParkt„he Wilts.fuid
THE
in
course of collection for the relief of the sufferers by the
loss of the Violet now reaches over 2,oool.—Dover
ChronicleEA.— —The arrival is announced of the Virginia, from
Foo-chow-foe, and the Southern Cross from Hong Kong.
The former vessel has 916,000 lb., and the latter
709,200 lb. of tea on freight.
THE EUPHRATES VALLEY RAILWAY.—His Excellency
M. Musuras, the Turkish Ambassador, having received
the firman of the Sultan, granting the concession for the
Euphrates Valley Railway, Major-General Chesney and
Mr. Andrew had an interview yesterday with his Excel-
lency with reference thereto.
VISIT OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA TO THE EMPEROR
NAPOLEON.—A letter from Berlin, in the Post Ampt
Gazette, says :--"A piece of news, which was only at
first a simple rumour, has since acquired more consis-
tency. We now learn, from
April.
fromgood authority, that the
ral7ll:oulThe will of the late Richard
Lee, journey of the Emperor of Russia will not be confined
to visiting the Empress Dowager at Nice, but that his
Emperor of
h
f theas Fbreeennchpraot
proved
Paris,
in
ENORMOUS
Majesty
Ryemmclowouilutl will visit
ovrfoi sfEi
‘ot thezay
Rr7th p
Doctors'-commons as ender 600,0001. The bulk of this
large property is settled by the testator upon the family
of the late David Bevan,
q• (who married a sister of
the testator), and their children after them. The exe-
cuters named in the will are R. C. L. Bevan, Esq., the
banker ; Richard Lee Bevan, Esq., and Augustus Henry
Esq., of the firm of Bosanquet and Naghten.'
The folio wing pap. rs were
of Oude ; Report of the Board of Trade on
Itur Statistfcs of Scotland p of the
tißehsFueeeAAdeßglyerileclest:t'e4rfaYAß:lPC'AirPEreasPBO—ndence relative to the Go-
vernmentlnspectors of Factories for the half early ending 31st
October, 1856.
THE NEUCHATEL COEFERENcE.—The delay which
has taken place in the meeting of the Congress for the
definite settlement of the affair of Neuchatel is attri-
buted by the Bourse Gazette of Berlin to a serious illness
i.x3fuerldn,4ithseays Prussian:—iihAe mobb
jaztadoefroaet
doef Ciloalonel de Manteuffel, Aide-de-Camp to
F:gua,nr
itsis
said to Le connected with the afftir of
NeuchateI."ATTEMPTED MURDER AT DARTMOOR PRISON.—It
will be recollected that we reported in The Sun, a short
hthee stale! of a lad named Riley, at Exeter, for
tov
hfi
visit
th the
oCi
tePitmmsa.pgtoi to murder Alexander Carrick with a spade at
Dartmoor Convict Prison. A similar case has just oc•
named Lewis Francis, having been committed to the
Devon County Gaol for striking Henry Brown, one of
tchuerrd wearadt the
e:mho
aprsispoand, a young man aged only 19,
spade,
him.
with intent to murderlt appears that the prisoner has long been a profes-
sional thief, and during the last four years has been con-
victed
of several offences in different parts of the country.
He was convicted at Liverpool of picking pockets, and
sentenced to four years' penal servitude. He has been
at Dartmoor for a period of 23 months, and his conduct
during the whole of that time has been of the worst
description. It is reported that while engaged in out-
door work he struck the warder with considerable
violence with the spade which he was min, and loth°.
ink NeriQUl 912 the officer

tion) says :

LATEST NEWS,

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEORAPB.)
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

This day, at 7.30 a.m., the Royal mail steam
ship America, which was to leave Boston on the
28th ult., arrived off Holyhead, and is expected
in the River about noon.

She has been anxiously looked for since Mon-

MARSEILLES, FEB. 10.

In Persia General Buhlar has been sent to the
theatre of war, but he has left Herat and Canda-
har in a good state of defence.
The Persians were very much excited by the
English invasion.
A great agitation prevailed in the Province of
Ourwiha.
There had been received a confirmation of a
revolt at Maraca. The insurgents had sacked the

town.
Fifteen English ships were anchored before
Bender-Abbas.

The news received from Naples shows no im.
provement.

The King remains shut up at Caserta, and the
police seems to be the only organ of Government.

We have advices from Athens of the sth Feb.,
and Constantinople of the 3d.
The Greek papers state that the Allied cow•
wanders have received the order for departure.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (2d ed:

" The recent declaration of the Moniteur
on the subject of the union of the PriticipalitieF,
which seems to have taken most people by sur-
prise, has once more attracted attention to it. Why,
it is asked, does France persist so in going against
Austria, Turkey, and England. Is there any
secret cause which has not, and which probably can-
not, lbe avowed as yet, but which will appear in
good time ? This question I cannot answer. I
merely observe that a good deal of whispering is
heard, which for aught I know may have very little
foundation. There was a rumour at one time that a
certain high functionary, who no doubt thinks he
is the best judge of his own deserts, bad cast his
eye on the Moldo-Wallachian crown—even if the
crown were some degrees below a royal one. The
rumour was no doubt an absurd one, and it may
therefore be dismissed. There is, however, now in
Paris one of those petty Princes who roam about,
like wandering stars, in the political horizon. The
Duke of Nassau has, it seems, come highly recom-
mended by the Queen of Holland to some members
of the Imperial family, as well as to the Emperor
himself. Her Dutch Majesty is reported. to have
said, or written, in a charming off-hand sort of way,
alluding to the Principalities:--' Voyons ; est-ce
qu-on ne peut pas faire quelque chose pour ce
pauvre petit Nassau ?" The Duke would probably
as robasbulyy
make as good a Prince of Moldo-Wallachia
of Leuchtenberg, a niece of
the Emperor of Russia, and cousin of the Emperor
donauegehltseer, aonfdthifeitDbuekterue that he is betrothed to a
of the French, Russiawould
France pronounce himineligible,
the Principalities being united and a foreign Prince
placed
not anyiu me
o event
su than
t of
dover
onthetmh.e
subject
ject of the union. The firman of h
con-
cludes with these words, which are alike an order
.Z52,248;594 16 3i and a menace :
conclusive the
Sultan
. lt seems

" 'The Sublime Porte expects from the Divan,
that knowing how to penetrate itself with the sen-
timent of its duties and its fidelity, it will not fail
to keep its discussions within proper bounds, and
will spare U 3 the displeasure of having recourse to
measures of protection against any attack on our
august rights of suzerainte.' "

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

" Count Mortier," says the Moniteur, "has ten-
dered his resignation of the functions of first cham-
berlain to Prince Jerome, which has been accept6d
with great regret by his imperial Highness."
The Moniteur publishes the official return of the
gross receipts of the French railways for 1856, which
amounted to 281,150,263 f., being an increase of
22,152,934 f. on those of 1855.
BOURSE, Feb. 10.—The following were the last
quotations :
Cash. fr. e.
4i per Cents
3_per Cents 6B 15

End of Month.
-fr. -c.
68 30

89
89.4
39i
36i

New Loan —
Bank Shares 4,075 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,340 Austrian
Belgian Fives ...... .. 991 Spaniph Threes
Piedmontese (5) 9O Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOR CASE,
}r. c. fr c
Orleans 1,365 Western
Northern 922 50 Strasburg
Lyons 1,365 New Ditto
Mediterranean 1,742 50 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva
Cotte - Austrian Com.

AUSTRIA.
A.letter from Vienna of the 6th, in the Cologne
Gw;eZte, says :—" Baron de Koller, Austrian mem-
ber of the Commission of the Principalities, who
lately arrived at Trieste, will proceed to Milan,
and then return to this capital with Count Bud.
As the commission is not to assemble until the3oth
March, Baron de Koller will remain here long
enough to be able to carry back with him to
Bucharest all the necessary instructions for his
conduct."
The Berlin, Correspondence says :—" We learn
that negotiations have been going on for some time
between Prussia and Austria, on a proposition to
be made by them in common to the German Diet,
relative to the Danish question. The reply of the
Cabinet of Copenhagen to the last notes of the
German powers has not yet arrived, but it is well
known what the purport of it will be."

PRUSSIA.
A letter from Berlin of the 7th says :—" The
bill relative to the employment of the loan of
30,000,000 thalers states that the first half of the
loan, negotiated in 1854 at 93, produced 13,950,000
thalers, and the second half, negotiated in 1855 at
98k, 14,775,000 thalers—total, 28,725,000 thalers.
Of that sum 4,350,000 thalers were disbursed in
1854, and 9,370,000 thalers in 1855, for the military
preparations necessitated by the eastern war.
In 1856, peace not being concluded, some new
expenses were incurred, which carried the total
disbursements to 14,000,000 thalers. Of the
14,000,000 thalers odd remaining the govern-
ment demands a credit of 8,199,000 tbalers for
extraordinary expenses, for making up deficits
of previous budgets, and the expenses caused
by the triennial contingents called out for service,
&c. ; and it proposes thnt the remainder shall be
employed, in accordance with the law- of the 6th
May, 1856, in the construction of the railways from
Kreutz to Frankfort, from Treves to Saarbruck,
and to the frontier of Luxemburg."