The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-11 00:00:00

TURKEY.

From Constantinople, news to the 30th of April
has arrived at Paris. The banking project of Mr.
Wilkin is said to have been definitively set aside ;
and some other projects of English capitalists are
said to have been either rejected or much restricted
in their scope. The native bankers have made
some proposals to the Government, which, how-
ever, were not acceptable.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

F.ruk Khan, the Persian Ambassacior, declared
yesterday at the Foreign-office that he not only had
not received any confirmation of the report that the
treaty of peace with Great Britain had not been
ratified, but what rendered such a fact highly im-
ptobable is that since the treaty was signed he had
received despatches from the Court of Teheran di-
recting him to insist on certain terms which he had
already introduced into the treaty.
BOURSE, May 9.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. fr. c.
4. per Cants ...... —. 9.1
3 per Cents 69 10
Bank Shares 4 300
,_

End of Month.
92fr. --c.
69 20

Credit Mobilier 1,290 Roman
Do. Account Augtri an

Belgian 4
Pied montese (5) 9O 25 Home Debt

RAILWAYS-FOB CASH.

fr. c. it c.
Orleans 1,475 Western -
Northern
Lyons 1,475 New Ditto 745 -
Mediterranean 1,990 Grand Central
Geneva
Ilidi . 803 i— Austrian Cum....... -

M.ACDOUGALL OF THE ROYAL TAR-
TAN WAREHOUSE.

We have great Pleasure in referring our readers
to the report, in another column, of the presenta-
tion of plate and public dinner given to Mr.
Macdougall, Inverness, by some of the leading mer-
chants in Glasgow. Busine,s was not always so
prosperous at the Royal Tartan Warehouse as,
we are glad to see, it has been of late ; and in 1837,
from a variety of unfavourable circumstances, Mr.
Macdougall had to place,his affairs in the hands of
his creditors. His liabilities were large but the
composition offered was accepted, and Mr. Mac-
dougall received a full discharge of the bilance,
amounting to neatly 6,0001. This sum he has
voluntarily repaid—an act which he modestly
refers to as simply one of duty, but such cases
are unhappily so rare that it has ^led to the flatter-
ing testimonial accorded to our townsman by the
merchant princes of Glasgow. Mr. Macdougall
has evidently long premeditated this step. Nearly
a dozen years ago his Inverness creditors received
the sums which they had cancelled, and it is grati-
fying to all his friends that circumstances have
favoured the complete execution of a most honour-
able resolution, conceived, probably, when matters
looked gloomy enough around the Tartan Ware-
howe, and adhered to through a most persistent
career of activity, enterprise, and usefulness. Mr.
Macdougall has largely extended the business
connection of Inverness, especially in the depart-
ment which be has made peculiarly his own ;
and we are glad to think that the same exer-
tions which have enabled him to perform so
princely OR act towards his former creditors, have
greatly benefitted his native town, and his coun-
trymen in many a Highland glen. The plate pre-
sented by Sir James Campbell is of the value of
330/. After the purchase of the plate, a surplus of
about 401. of the money subscribed remained, and
this the committee very handsomely appropriated
to the purchase of a gold watch for each of Mr.
Maedougall's two daughters; Oa " the whole there
has rarely been an incident in the commercial
world which, in all its circumstances and accom-
paniments, has been so honourable to all the par-
ties concerned, and we cordially congratulate Mr.
Macdougall on the highly-gratifying. result —ln-
verness Courier. [And so do we most cordially.—
Sun.]

The stay of the Qaeen at Osborne will be for a longer
period than was at tirstintended, most probably for about
three weeks.--Court Journal.

Baron Gros, who has just been appointed to proceed
A) China, wa4 charged with a minsion to La Plata In

1847. In 1850, he filled the functions of commissioner
mediator, to setle the differences which had arisen be-

tween England and Greece ; and, lastly he negotiated
as one of the plenipotentiaries of the Emperor, the
treaty recently concluded between France and Spain,
for settling the important question of the frontiers of the
two cluntries.

The Princess Amelia. of Hohenlobe-Schillingfurst was
married a few days ago at Herbeslenben, in the Duchy
of Gatha, to M. Lauchert, an artist of Sigmaringen. The
Princess being a protestant, the marriage took place ac-

cording to the protes ant form, but as M. Lauchert is a
Roman catholic, a catholic marriage was also to be cele-

brated. The Princess is the second sister of Prince
Chloiwig of Hohenlohe, and was born in 1821.
THE LATE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER.—His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge is acting as chief
executor to the late Duchess of Gloucester, with the
Earl of Verulam, Mr. Vincent (the Queen's reme,rn-
brancer), and Mr. Drummond, the banker, as col-
leagues. Though rather early to speak of sucb matters,
it is understood that -the bulk of the property goes to
the family of the late Duke of Cambridge, the house in
Park-lane devolving to the present duke. The Princess
Alice, a god-child of the late Duchess, has not been
forgotten, nor the other members of the royal family.
Pensions have been left to two old servants—one of
50/. a year, and one of 251. a year, with a gratuity of.
a year's wages to the rest of the household. Discussions
having arisen as to the chief mournership, and the claims
of rank, precedence, and family consanguinity having
formed a complete puzzle, the Gordian knot was cut
by the Crown becoming chief mourner, and her Ma-
jesty was therefore represented at the funeral by the
Duchets of At hole, one of her principal ladies in waiting.
Court Journal. •
DEATH OF LORD WILLIAM FlTZROY.—lntelligence of

the death of this nobleman has been received in London
on Friday. Lord William was the third son of the third
Duke of Grafton, by the daughter of the late Rev. Sir
Richard Wrottesley, Bart. He was born in 1782, and
married in 1816 the second daughter of the late Thos.
Raikes, Esq. His lordship entered the navy in 1794
commanded the Eolus frigate in Sir Richard Strachan'
action in 1805, at the reduction of Martinique. In 1809
he was appointed to the Macedonia frigate on the Lis
b:ei station, and in April, 1811, was dismissed the ser-
vice for having put the master of the ship in irons.
This man was subsequently tried for contempt of his
lordship, dismissed the navy, and rendered incapable of
serving again; while in August, I.BIT, Lord William
was restored to his rank, and became Admiral of the
Blue in 1853.
DEATH OF MR. COULTON, EDITOR OF THE "Pause."
—English jouroali:m has just lost in the late David
Trevena Ceulton one of its briehtest ornaments. A more
sagacious politician and forcible writer has rarely been
met with. He was the founder of the Britannia news •
paper, and for the last three years has been editor of the
Press. He was a contributor to the Quarterly Review,
and was also known as the author of the novel " For-
tune," a work indicating the possession of no ordinary
imaginative power. Mr. Coulton was indefatigable in
his literary labours, both as a political essayist and a
critic. Independently of his claim for consideration as
an int-llectual contributor to our periodical literature, he
was eminently distinguished for his high sense of honour
and his thorough independence and conscientious impar-
tiality. He was just in the prime of life, in his 46th
year, when ho was removed from this world's cares,
after three weeks' illness at Brighton. Bronchitis was
the first attack, but it is feared that the shock to the
system from his having to go down to Macclesfield
within the last month, to be present at the deathbed of
his brother, arriving juet an hour too late, mainly con-
tributed to the fatal termination. He has left a widow
aed two children and a sister, the last survivor of a
family, the mortality in which has been rapid within a
few years.
Mrs. Anderson, the Queen's pianist, has announced
an annual morning concert at her Majesty's Theatre,
for the 18th inst. She will be supported as usual
by the full orchestra and chorus of the theatre, and the
catalogue of solo singers comprises all the names which
have become familiar to the frequenters of the opera d tiring
the present season. The new prime donne Spezia, Orto-
lard, and the charming Piccolomini, will be there. Alboni
also will take part In the performance, and Claralloveilo
will be added to the operatic company. Of the male
voices Giugiini will perhaps be the greatest attraction ;
but 13,11etti, Beneventano, Vialetti, and Charles Braham
will be very important auxiliaries. M. Remenyi, her
Majesty's violinist, and Pezzi, the first violoncello of
Signor Bonetti's band, are among the solo instrumental-
ists, and Mrs. Anderson herself, Mrs. Jewsom, and Mrs.
Gains will undertake the pianoforte performances.
The pleasure of hearing and seeing the celebrities of the
stage apart from their accustomed trappings always
give an especial interest to these morning concerts ; and,
to judge by the strong list of names which has been
published, the concert of 1857 may be expected to
equal, if not to surpass, the best of Mrs. Anderson's
seek-remembered enter ainments.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Amongst the distin-
guished visitors honourifig the performances of her Ma-
jesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening
Were the following :—The Duchess of Wellington and
Lady Julia Hay, the Duchess of Montrose, the Duke of
C:eveland and Lady Augusta Paulet, the Duke of Mon-
trose, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marchioness of
Clanricarde, Countess Stanhope, the Countess of' Ear-
riogtote the Earl of Glengall, the Ceuntess of Glengall
tied the L Lilies E. aod M. Butler; the Countess Dowager
of Harrington, the Earl and Countess of Macclesfisld, the
Earl of Bradford, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of
Wilton, the Earl of Coventry, the Earl of Mulgrave, the
Countess of Esser, the Baron de Rothschild, Mr. Hel-
her; his Excellency the Brazilian Minister, the Earl of
Sefton, the Earl of Mountcharlss, Count Delacour, Vis-
count Elmley, Viscount Powerscourt, Viscount Curzon,
Viscount Canterbury, Vistount Mahon, Viscount Ex-
mouth, Lady Pakington, Lord George Gordon Lennox,
Lard Wm. Lennox, Lord and LadyOolville, Lord Nor-
bury, the Right Hon. Lord Ravensworth, Lord Sandys,
Ledy Pigott, Lady Clara De Burgh, Lord Denman and
party, Lady Georgina Codrington, Lord Grey de Wil-
ton, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, the Hon. Mr. Graven,
the Hon. Mr. Egerton, the Hon. Otway Toler, the Hon.
Walter Harbord, the Hon. F. Baring, M.P., Sir Frede-
rick Pottinger, Bart., Sir Henry Meux, Bart., and Lady
Meux, Colonel the lion. Percy Herbert, Major-General
Van Straubenzee, C. 8., the Hon. Mrs. Pnipps, Gen.
the Hon. H. Cavendish, the Hon. Mrs. Cost, Major-
General Mackintosh, Sir Charles Morgan, Bert.,_ the
Hon. C. Hanbury, Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Lady
Colville and the Hon. Miss Anson, Lady Barnard, the
Solicitor General for Scotland, Sir Proby Cautley,
K.C.8., Sir John Bayley, Bart, Sir John Thorold,
Bart., and Lady There'd, Captain Hogge, Captain and
Elaabeth De Roe, Colonel De Horsey, Mr. Willough-
by, Admiral the Hon. C. Duncombe, Sir John Lowther,
Bart., Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, Rear Ad-
miralßyder Burton, K.H., Miss and Mr. Do Horsey,
Geceral Avery, Col. Wildman, Capt. the Hon. C. Eger-
ton, Hon. E. Pepys, the Hon. Manners Sutton, Major
Wombwell and party, Mr. Howard, Capt. Bateson, Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Hey wood, Colonel Torrens, Mr. Harvey
Lewis, Mrs. Willoughby, Mrs. Beauclerk, Captain W.
H. Megan, M.P., Mr. Maclean, Mr. W. H. Sands, Mr.
A. J. B. Hope, M.P., Colonel Fitzgerald, Mrs. Ben-
tinck, Captain Bates, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Wheeler,
Mrs, Neville, Mr. Bell, Mrs. Andrew Arcedeckne,
Mr, Gordon Ives, Mr. H. Barrett Leonard, Major
Deering, Mr, William Delafield, Colonel White,
Mr. and Mrs. Baillie Cochrane, Mr. Circle, Mr.
Fr ank Fuller, Qolonel and Mrs. Watson, Capt. and Mrs.
Lucas, Mr. J. Bewley, Capt. Wynne, Capt. Palmer,
Capt. Marshall, Cap'. Remnant, Colonel and Mrs. Ram-
say, Mr. Robert Dick, Major Poole, &c.
TORSED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.-0a Saturday
information was received at the various metropolitan
police-stations of die successful passing of several forged
101. Bank of England notes by a man about 40 years
of age, 5 feet 10 inches in height, and apparently afflicted
with aithma. His plan of operation appears to be to
visit the different water-places for the assumed purpose
of benefiting his health, and offering as an excuse for
being without luggage that it has been carried by rail to
a wrong place.

LITERATURE.

Littla Dorrit. No. XVII. By Charles Dickens.
Arthur Clennam still a prisoner for debt in the
old room in the old Marshalsea ! And this the last
monthly issue, but one, of Little Dorrit! For the
next number will, of course, be the double number
bringing the story to its conclusion ! A Prisoner
in the Marshalsea, Arthur Clennam throughout -
this seventeenth number, maybe described as hold-
ing a kind of levee, in the course of which there
appear before him, either one by one, or occasion-
ally in motley groups, very many of the now
familiar characters associated with that noble
hearted hero of Mr. Dickens's last great composite
fiction. Ms' Chivery tie Turnkey pokes his head
in at the door a very lietle way with one ear"
upon Arthur " instead of both eyes !" The histo-
rian of the Dorrits adding to this, by way of
explanation : " This was native delicacy in
Mr. Chivery—true politeness ; though his
exterior had very much of the Turnkey about it,
and not the least of a gentleman." Young John,
in regard to whom quoth that Paterfamilias On-
the-lock, " My son has a art, and my son's art is
in the right place ; me and his mother knows where
to find it, and we find it sitiwated correct"—he
looks in several times, off and on, afterwards.
Then come excellent Mr. and Mrs. Plornish; arm
in arm, upon a visit of condolence, eminently cha-
racteristic of them both throughout. Witness this,
the following record :
" Mr. Plornish amiably growled, in his philosophical
but not lucid manner, that there was ups, you see, and
there was downs. It was in wain to ask why ups, why
downs ; there they was, you, know. He had heard it
given for a truth that accordin' as the world went round,
which round it did rewolve undoubted, even the best of
gentlemen must take his turn of standing with his ed
side down and alt his ar a eying the wrong way into
what you might call Space. Wery ..veil then. What
Mr. Plornish said wae, wery well then. That gentle-
man's ed would come up'ards when his turn come, that
gentleman's air would be a pleasure to look upon being
all smooth again, and wery well then !"
Mrs. Plornish not a jot less delightful in her way,
chatters on quite as garrulously as ever about "Fa-
ther" (little old Mr. Nandy), and in talking of Mr.
Baptist's exertions in Arthur's behest, winds up
her account of there. " in the Italian manner" by
declaring "it really do, as I say to him Mooshat-
tonisha Padrona !" Then, again, Ferdinand Bar-
nacle, the easy, gay, vivacious, light-in-hand,
touch-and-go—pays Arthur a no leas characteristic
visit in his way I And afterwards Mr. Rugg,
another in his Later on, stream in upon the
saddened prisoner, all together—Bigaud, other-
wise Blandois, with the diabolical nose and mou-
stache, accompanied by Paucks, fresher than ever
from the coals, and his hair more " prongy" even
than of yore, and close upon their heels little
chirrupping Jean Baptiste Cavaletto, wasting upon
them, as he himself expresses it, " patientissa-
mentally." Old Flintwinch (still screwing at
everybody with his neckcloth awry), having been
sent for to the House upon Crutches, drops in upon
this agreeable little parti carree not long afteii-
wards. When they have all at length taken their
departure, Somebody Else comes too ! Who ?
Who but—Little Dorrit ! Arthur has previously
had his eyes opened to the fact of her loving him,
to his wonder and bewilderment, by honest-hearted
John Chivery. Yet in spite of this—in spite of
Little Dorrit herself being just for all the world the
same as she has been all through the book (even to
her old dress, which she has donned for her
visit of gratitude mid affection to Arthur in his new
abode in the old familiar Marshalsea)—in spite of
himself, of herself, of their mutual tenderness, their
fortunes are still, at the close of the number,
.divided, though their hearts are not by any means
estranged. We are left to the very last quite du-
bious as to what may be the result of the plot with
all its marvellous complications. Will Little
Dorrit and her brother find themselves ruined by
the treacherous Merdle Quicksand ? Fanny and
and Sparkler, we already knovv, must have been
beggared by the suicide of the wholesale Speculator.
Will Doyce return, having made his fortune to
release Arthur from the Marshalsea—and to prove,
to the astonishment of the very scales and scoop
belonging to Mr. Merdle, that the mere child, in
matters of business, is no such child after all ?
How will it all end ? We close the seventeeth num-
s
ber on the tiptoe of expectation.
•

PLANS OF THE NEW OFFICES.—The designs for the
new Government offices have now been visited by thou-
sands during the week, and it is universally admitted
that of its kind it is the most extraordinary collection
that has fur many years been brought before the public.
Now that the public have bad an opportunity to view
the designs, the names of the commissioners selected to
act as judges are given, and it will be generally admit-
ted that a better or a fairer selection could not have
been made. The judges are—The Duke of Buccleuch ;
Mr. Stirling, M.P. for Perthshire; Lord Eversley, late
Speaker of the House of Commons ; Earl Stanhope,
president of the Royal Society of Architects ; Mr. D.
Roberta, R.A., Mr. Burn, R.A., and Mr.'Brunel, the
eminent engineer. The Duke of Buccleuch is reckoned
among the best judges of architecture in the kingdom.
He will represent the House of Lords. Mr. Stirling,
the selected of the HouPe.of Commons, is well known
for his proficiency in ail that appertains to architec-
ture. Lord Eversley has been chosen from his long
official knowledge, which will enable him to judge
what are the principal requisites for Government offices.
Earl Stanhope, as president of the Royal College of Ar-
chitects, should be considered as being one of the best
qualified to give a sound opinion. Mr. David Roberts
is an artist of great eminence. Mr. Burn is a Scotch
architect of high standing, and a member of the Insti-
tute of Architects; and Mr. Brunel is, well known as
being one of the first civil engineers of any country.--
°between

NOT CHINE- THE LEAD.—LIVERPOOL, May B.—About
a fortnight since au inquiry, instituted by the Board of
Trade was held in St. George's-hall before Mr. J, S.
Mansfield, the stipendary magistrate, and Capt. Walker,
R.N., into the circumstances attending the total loss of
the barque Emperor, Capt. Mitchell, and the grounding
of the ship Lady Ebringcon, Capt. Hulman, on the 29th
March, on the Blackwater Baok, on the coast of Ire-
laud. In neither case had the lead been used between
the time the vessels lest Liverpool, on the 28th March,
and a few minutes before they struck on the bank.
Capt. Holman, however, succeeded in getting his ship
off the bank with the next tide, while the barque was a
total wreck. At the termination of the inquiries the
masters' certificates were withdrawn from Capt. Holman
and Capt. Mitchell, for the purpose of being forwarded
to the Board of Trade. To-day, at the police-court, Mr;
Mansfield, addressing Mr. Clarke Aspinall, the solicitor
for Capt. Holman, said their Lordships the ComroiF-
sioners of the Board of Trade, considering the successful
efforts made by Capt. Hulimn to save his ship, bad
thought that the justice of the case bad been met by the
temporary withdray.,al of his certificate which was novi
returned. As to the case of the Lady hbriegton, hovc.
ever, he said (addresing Mr. Bremner, the solicitor for
Capt. Mitchell) their lordships felt compelled to suspend
the ci-rtificate for six months.

MYSTERIOUS CASE OF POISONING.—An extraordinaxf
case of poisoning, wnicla placed in jeopardy the lives of
six persons, took place in Cornwall a few days ago. It
appears that a servant in the employ of Mr. Fra• cis Luggo
sen., cabinetmaker, of Penzance, named Catherine
Richards, purchased 81b. of flour of Mrs. King, and some
yeast of Ann Brewer, who had procured it at Treaver'S,
brewery. The flour and yeast were put into a pantry,
and shortly afterwards the servant converted it into
loaves of bread. Mr. Lugg and a female assistant named
Trevelyan, ate a small portion of the bread for dinner,
and were immediately afterwards taken ill, but not seri.
ously. For tea, Mr. Lugg, his son, Mr. Francis Legg,
Miss Trevelyan, and the servant, Catherine Richards,
ate a large quantity of the bread, and soon afterwards
all four of them were seized with violent pains in their
stomach, followed •by vomiting. A medical man was
:tared in and medicines were administered, which bad
the desired effect. Some of the bread was submitted to
Dr. Montgomery, who analysed it. In the meantime
a workman in the employ of Mr. Lueg, and one of his
apprentices tasted the bread, and suffered severely ict
their temerity. Dr. Montgomery found the whole of
the bread highly charged with arsenic, but it appeared
that the largeness of the dose caused a speedy vomit"
and thus saved the six lives which might otherwise hoy!
been sacrificed. Flour from the same sack and yeast
from the same vessel were sold to other chstomers, who
used it without any inconvenience or injury. Eyed
exertion has been used to find a clue to this dreadful oc"
cident or crime, but. without effect.
FIRES YESTERDAY AND SATURDAY. —Yesterday raerFf:
ing, between two and three o'clock, a fire took place 1,7
the premises belonging to Mr. C. Sparrow, shell flew
monger, and fruiterer, No. 10, Middle-row, Holberei
forming the corner house of Staples-inn-buildings.
cif
police officer first discovered the fire, which had alrertilo
cut off all means of egress 'by the regular way. --'l3(,
Royal Society's escape attended, and the inmates, vi lot
had previously wrapped up a child only seven monthseo
in a shawl, and had attempted to put it down the Wry.. e
bagging of the escape, by some unfortunate circurastarit
dropped the poor child at the side of the escape, snap)
fell upon the stone flags beneath, a distance of nearlYl_.4
feet, by which it received such injuries that not the
hope can be entertained of its recovery. The rest of Ire
inmates were safely brought down the escape. The 1:110.
.
could not be subdued until the premises were nearlYistir '
stroyed and the contents consumed. The premises of b 3,
G. Day, laceman, No. 11, have also received.datnosB,oo
water and smoke.. Mr. Sparrow was insured in the the
Fire-office, but Mr. Day was uninsured. As t° ou
origin of the fire, nothing that could be depended oP
terdoi
could be arned.— Another fire took place Yes VA
in the premises of Mr. J. Smith, leather cutter,n the
Bethnal-green-told. The disaster commenced
.Ibe so.
second floor front, but from what cause could
"the Pre.
certained. Considerable damage was done to ror
mines and their contents by fir© and water. The sued on
was insured in the Sun Fire-office.---A fire haPPrit 0 of
Saturday evening in the premises in the oeeeP`,,,so. 781
Mr. A. Longley, a hosier and shirt maker
,e
Borough. It was caused from 0131„ee
lighting the gas, dropping a srark atnongs the sad
light
tuferesrerr 0,0
fabrics in the shop windows. The stock in
windows was considerably i.amaged. The bn
insured.