The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1857.

men; who liberally supporting their own places of
worship, - and- providing in every way for the
worship of the DEITY in the form which they
believed to be most acceptable, felt hurt and in-
sulted,- at being compelled to support the fabric of
churches, where they would not attend, and from
which they derived no benefit. It was even more
than insult, for those who could patiently submit
thereto, felt their consciences opposed to the
paltry demands, and when that was the case they
were bold as lions, although in other respects
meek as lambs.

LATEST- .NEWS.

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING.

The Sussex, Captain Scanlan, 87 days from Mel-
bourne, with over 48,000 ounces of gold, was off
the port this morning.
She left the Heads on the 19th of March rounded
Cape Horn on the Gth of April, and crossed the
Line on the 3d of May.
The Sussex is laded with wool and copper ore,
and has 137 passengers, of whom eight mechanics
landed here. They state that their wages varied
frtim 15s. to 205., and those of labourers from 10s.
to 20s. per day, working eight hours, which is the
prevailing time.
Profits are less. Business is more steady.
The Sussex spoke, north of the Line, the South
Carolina, 102 days out from Melbourne, for Liver-
pool ; May 17, the Glorieuse, from India, with
troops, last from the Cape, out 92 days—all well ;
June 3, in the Channel, the Black Swan, out 92
days from Hobart Town.

Intelligence has beesreseived from Constantinople
to the 25th, by the Alexandre. Naib Emin, who
was sowing dissension, and who had refused to lend
assistance to Sefer Pacha, has been expelled from
Circassia.

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
Marshal Valliant, Minister of War, has received
!run Marshal Randon, Governor-General of Al-

We are glad to find that those who held aloof
during the heat of the contest, and while the
battle was yet undecided, are now joining the
winning side. The Leviathan, has at length,
unmistakeably enrolled itself under the Anti-
Church-rate banner ! It says that " there is no
country in the world, except England, where such
an extortion would be endured for a twelvemonth,
just as England is the only country under the
sun, where two hundred thousand people would
endure to be prohibited from marrying in their
own churches, and compelled to frequent one alone
for this purpose, simply and solely to make a piece
of preferment for the Dean and Canons of St.
Paul's." Emphatically adding, "we talk in this
country of emperors, of priests, of inquisitors,
of wooden idols, and other stupidities and
cruelties ; but there ars certain impostures of the
vested-interest class, which grow nowhere else to so
venerable an age, and such magnificent dimensions
as in this green old island. Church-rates, in their
present capricious, unjust, and intolerable form,
ittustrate this popular weakness of cur tax paying
race." These sentences ought to be inscribed in
letters of gold. We thank the Times for its
vigorous and just, albeit, tardy description.
If anything were required to show that this in-
equitable and vexatious impost had been doomed,
and that there was no reasonable chance either of
reprieve or respite, this energetic language, echoing
as it does the voice of public opinion, would be
conclusive. We shall, therefore, in the firm con-
viction that speedy victory is certain, do no more
than simply remind Lord PALMERSTON that "if
'there done, 'twere well it were done quickly."

geria, the following telegraphic despatch :--
" Tizi Ouzo; 29th May, half-past
six, evening.
" The Beni-Fraoucens, Beni-Khelilis, and Beni-
Chaibs hare made their submission. I was to have

quitted to-day my camp of El-Hadj-Aly for Souck-
el-Arba, but the boisterous state of the weather
detaiued me. Everything is going on well."
The Pays, Ministerial journal, contradicts a
statement in a Belgian paper that Feruk Kban
is going to London to arrange the modifications
which are to be made in the treaty of peace. The
Pays adds that the treaty of peace between Great
Britain and Persia was ratified unconditionally at
Teheran. A special clause in the treaty grants to
the British GoTernmeni the right to appoint Con-
suls in the northern provinces of the Empire. The
privileges and attributes of the Consuls are to be,
as they always are in similar cases, the subject of
a special convention independent of the treaty.
Such is the truth.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY AFTERNOOII.

The Walmer Castle, Captain Daniel, 78 days
from Melbourne, was off the Start this morning.
She has 150 - tons of copper ore, a full cargo of
Wool, 40,000 ounces of gold-dust, and 165 pas-
sengers.
The Walmer Castle left Melbourne March 15,
rounded Cape Horn April 6, and crossed the Line
May 1.
Her passage to the Horn in 22 days is said to be
the shortest ever made.
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.
The clipper ship Oliver Lang. one of the Black
Ball line of packets, has arrived with advices from
Wellington, New Zealand, to the 28th of March,
being 44 days later. She has made the passage in
68 days, and is the first direct vessel from New
Zealand for this port for the last ten years. She
brings no specie, but has 2,300 bales of wool and,
17 tons of flax, besides parcels of Oil, whale-
bone, &c.
The foundation-stone of the new buildings for

Count de Morny, previous to his departure from
St. Petersburg, which is to take place about the
25th of the present month, willifign the treaty of
commerce between the French and Russian' GO-
vern.ments, of which the, clauses are already
arranged and agreed upon.
The Siecle publishes trio rather curious letters
exchanged between the, prefect of the -Gironde
and M. David lately deputy in the Legislative
Body of the arrondissement of Libourne, in that
department. The Prefect's letter, dated the 24th
ult., stated that the Government is of opinion that
it will be right to support the candidateship of M.
Armand, one of the most eminent men of the
Gironde, and in the full force of his age ; arid it
accordingly requests M. David to "give a new proof
of his devotedness to the Emperor and the coun-
try by generously abstaining from presenting him-
self as a candidate, and thereby causing division in
the great party of the Imperial cause, which he has
always firmly supported." M. David, in his reply
dated the 26th, declares that "far from giving up
his candidateship ho will persist in it more firmly
than ever ;" and that he " owes such a line
of conduct to himself, and still more to his
arrondissement, which revolts against the prefect's
pretension.of imposing on it a candidate who does
not possess its sympathies." He adds that he shall
publish some letters relative to the affair, and
amongst them one from the sub-prefect of
Libourne, which states that though he would com-
municate to him the lists of the electors he would
nob allow him to take a copy of them, a declaration
:which, says M. David, amounts to a restriction on
universal suffrage, in opposition to the just and
'iberal ideas of the Emperor.
A Paris letter in the .Nord of Brussels says :
_

the use of the general and provincial Legislatures
bad been laid at Wellington with considerable cere-
mony.
The fourth and last session of the Provincial
Council terminated its sittings on the 20th of Fe-
bruary.
Gold to a limited extent had been discovered in
Ne'son province. Emigrants had been freely ab-
sorbed in the:districts within easy distances from

Wellington.
The Colonial Government had offered handsom•
rewards for the invention of means for rendering
flax and other fibrous plants of New Zealand avail-
able as articles of export. Business was improv-
ing, and money was becoming easier.
Several cargoes from England had been sold at
generally remunerative prices. The Customs re-
venue showed a large increase.
Perter was very scarce. Drapery, soft wood,
and hardware of all kinds dull of sale, the supply
being excessive. London soaps were selling at a
profit. The season's wool was not yet all in ;in
consequence of the high price it was fetching in
England buyers bad been anxious to purchase for
remittance, but growers preferred to take their
chance of the home market.
Provisions were much cheaper, but owing to the
increasing population rents were rising.
The following vessels had arrived at Wellington :
—The Rose of Sharon, the Indian Queen, the
Myrtle, and the Monsoon.
The Phillip Laing and the Belisana, from Lon-
don, bad arrived at Lyttleton. The Ann Wilson,
the Heroes of Alma, and the Maori, with Govern-
ment emigrants, bad not arrived out. The Mon-
soon would fill with wool.

We earnestly invite public attention to a letter
from a respected correspondent, on the all-im-
portant subject of the currency. The suggestion
of isduing Exchequer Bills for 1/. V. and 31., is
one which we put forward nearly ten years since,
in the beginning of October, 1847. There is no
legislative enactment as to the amounts for which
these bills should be issued. If Sir G. C. LEWIS,
or rather Lord MONTEAGLE, pleased, they might be
made for small and convenient amounts, which
would come within the reach of every class. At
present they suit large capitalists who pay hun-
dreds or thousands at once, in discharge of duties.
They are not available for the demands of ordi-
nary tax collection, but this, as we long since
stated, is ascribable rather to the laziness of a
former Comptroller of the Exchequer, who
established a', bad precedent, which his successors
were only too happy to follow, than to any other
cause !

"Dr. Kern, on leaving Paris, carried with him
some information relative to the dispute which has
existed since 1815 between France and Switzerland
on the subject of the valley of the Deppes, in the
Jura. This valley, which is kept by France, is
claimed by Switzerland. Fresh negotiations have
been opened for concluding the affair."
The official notice given to the press of certain
departments to abstain from discussing- the elec-
toral question ha., according to the Phare de la
Loire, been withdrawn. That journal says,:—
" The Presse will no longer doubt the correctness
of our assertions in reference to the notice addressed
to the provincial press. This notice, as we had
been led to expect by the circular of the Minister
of the Interior, has now been officially with-
drawn."
The King of Bavaria yesterday paid a second
visit to the Palace of Versailles, and returned to
Paris at half-past six. His Majesty dined with
the Baron de Wendland, the Bavarian Minister,
and in the evening honoured the Theatre of the
Porte St. Martin with his presence.
BOUBSE, June 2.—The following were the last
quotations
Cash. o. Mad of Month.
44 per Cents 9l 40 91fr. '
3 per Cents 6B 85 69 20
Bank Shares 4,450 Credit Fonder —
Credit Mobilier 1,200 Roman
Do. Account 1,207 Austrian 1—
Belgian 41 . Spanish Threes 4l
Piedmonteae (5)....,. 91 25 Home Debt ...... 381--
RAILWAYS—FOB CASB.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 4.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Pera, Captain John Soy, with the heavy por-
tion of the East India and China mails, in charge
of Lieutenant Seward, R.N., Admiralty agent,
arrived at 5.30 p.m. to-day. She left Alexandria
May 23d ; Malta, 26th ; and Gibraltar, 31st.
She has had generally fine weather throughout the
voyage. From Alexandria to Malta she ran the
distance in 68 hours. After leaving Malta she met
IWith some strong westerly winds, and, arriving at
Gibraltar after gun-fire, was detained till the even-
ing of the 31st. From Gibraltar she has bad light
winds and fine weather, with a heavy north-west
swell across the bay. She is four days and eight
hours from Gibraltar.

The adoption of ".T. C.'s" suggestion, would
not merely save the entire interest on the " un-
funded debt," a very appreciable item in the na-
tional accounts, but it would render far greater
benefit than the pecuniary saving. It would con-
stitute an unexceptionable circulating medium,
which every man would willingly receive, because_
certain that it would be received from hen by
others, without demur or deduction. Even. if be
did not require it for his own tax collectors, whose
visits, however, unlike those of angels, are " nei-
ther few nor far between," he may be certain that
some of his neighbours are less favourably cir-
cumstanced, and will gladly accept at his hands
the means of defraying their contributions to the
national traasury, and give him full value in
return. They can never be hoarded, because
they do not possess intrinsic value, nor can they
be issued in excess, because a vote of Parliament
must first be obtained, and, as we have stated,
there is an established mode of redemption, be-
cause they are based on taxation, and will be
called in and cancelled, at least, once or twice
in every year. A far larger number than
would be required for the liquidation of the un-
funded debt, and rendering the Government in-
dependent of deficiency bills and other discredit-
able methods of raising the wind, might be issued
without in the slightest degree overstocking the
market, or depreciating that which would be an
unquestionable security at all times and under
almost any circumstances, so long at least as it
was kept within reasonable limits, and that the
amount issued did not exceed the amount to be
called in within the year. It would decidedly be
one of the best, if not the very best, modes
of currency reform that could be devised ; and
although it would not get rid of the
burden of taxation, it , would render it
tolerable, for the straw would be provided
for the making of the bricks. We commend this
plan to the consideration of Mr. JAMES WILSON.
It may go far towards meeting his views, and, as
it seems to us, would immediately add to the
effective capital of the country, and to our stock
of commodities, or command over them, just as
much as if we discovered a productive gold mine
in the centre of England ; indeed more so, inas-
much as we would not find foreigners overbidding
us, in our markets, and carrying away fox a small
premium that without which the_sindustry.of the
United Kingdom is paralysed and of
vitality.

This steamer brings 144 passengers. On freight
she has three packages of. specie,
_value 6,7001., and
a cargo consisting of 3,244 bales of silk, 68 bales of
wool, 63 bags of coffee, 116 cases of silk, 35 barrels
of gum, and 222 packages of general merchandise.
The Turkish screw eam-frigate Gyvan Barhy,
42 guns, of 1,800 tons, and 550. horse power, Capt.
Mustapha Bey, arrived at Gibraltar from Ply-
mouth, in charge of Mr. Williams (Liverpool
Channel pilot), on the 30th uTt , atter a passage of
eight days. She met with a strong gale in the Bay
from S.E. to N. W., and was hove to for a couple
of days, as the Turkish crew preferred going to
prayers to making sail, which all the persuasions
of Mr. Williams could not prevail on them to do,
they saying "too much wind," "no bono," ttc.
The engines, by Napier, worked well, and the
vessel steamed at the rate of eight to nine knots,
making good weather. She would leave for Con-
stantinople in a few days.
Lord Lyons's fleet was at Malta, and was to leave
for Tunis on 31st May. Her Majesty's ship Vul-
ture left for Gibraltar on the 26th, and the screw
steamer Adelaide with the 47th Regiment on board,
on the same day, for Gibraltar.
The Sydney, steam-transport, arrived at Gibral-
tar from Malta on the 281 h, with the right wing oi
the Ist Royals (2d battalion), under the command
of Lieut. -Colonel Edmund Haythorne. They landed
on the 30th, and were to occupy that portion of the
south barracks vacated by the 15th Foot, who are
to proceed to England in the same steamer under
the command of Colonel Cole.
The left wing of the Royals, commanded by Bre-
vet Lieutenant-Colonel F. G. Urquhart, arrived at
Gibraltar on the 29th, in the Australian steam-
transport.
The French Government steamer Requin, with
the gun-boats Studente, Rafale, and Coulevrine, in
tow, left Gibraltar on the 31st for the west.
At Gibraltar, on the 31st, were her Majesty's
steamer Curlew, and the Turkish steam-frigate
Gyvan Barhy.
Gibraltar exchanges on the 30th were quoted as
under :—London, 90 days' date, 50/ ; Paris, do.
sf. 38c. ; Marseilles, do., sf. 39c. ; Genoa, do., si.
42c. ; adrid, 8 days' sight, 1i dis. ; Cadii, do.,
dis. ; Malaga, do., dis. ; Seville, do., # dis. ;
Alicante, dis. ; Valencia, do., dis. ; Barcelona,
dis. Spanish pillared dollars, 4 per cent. prem.

fr c

Orleans
.1,400
• 771 i
Northern .. 960 Strasburg
Lyons ~1,475 New Ditto
Mediterranean ......1,865 Grand Central
Geneva — 730 Sardinian
Midi ... 735 Austrian Com. ...... 672

RETURN .0.? THE COURT TO BUCKING.
HAM PALACE.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
left Osborne for London at half-past 2 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, accompanied by Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Princesses
Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and the infant Princess. The
Royal suite consisted of Lady Macdonald, the Hon.
Flora Macdonald, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey,
Major-General Bouverie, Lieut. Col. Ponsonby, and
Lieut. Cowell.

The royal party crossed in the Fairy steam yacht to
Gosport, where the Queen inspected the 93d High-
lenders.

Her Majesty and the Prince travelled from Gosport
by a special train, on the South• Western Railway, to the
private station at Vauxhall, where five of the Queen's
carriages were in readiness, which conveyed the royal
party to Buckingham Palace, escorted by a party of
Light Dragoons.
The Queen and Prince arrived at five minutes past
seven, and were received by Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord
Camoya, Lord George Lennox, Major-General B. Drum-
mond, and Major-General Wylde.
The Prince of Wales left Osborne yesterday morning
for London, and proceeded in the afternoon to Eton, to
be present at the boat-races of the scholars and the fire-
works. Colonel F. H. Seymour and Mr. Gibbs were in
attendance on his Roy al Highness.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended
by Sir G. Wetherall and Sir Richard Airey, left town
yesterday morning for Sandhurst Military College. His
royal highness returned to London last evening.
The Duchess of St. Albans, accompanied by the Duke
of St. Albans and Lady Diana Beauclerk, has left
Prince's Gate for a prolonged tour on the Continent.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at their
residence, Cambridge House, Piccadilly, yesterday, from
Broadlands, Hants.

The Viscountess Combermere will have an assembly
this evening at the family mansion in Belgrave-square.