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

THE SUN, LONEON, 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 supp3rt 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.

We are glad to find that those who held aloof I
during the heat of the contest, and while the
battle was yet undecided, are now joining the
winning aide. 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 are 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,
illustrate this popular weakness of our 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
'twere done, 'twere well it were done quickly."

We earnestly invite public attention to a letter
from a respected correspondent, on the all-im-
portant subject of the currency. The suggestion
of issuing Exchequer Bills for 11. 21. 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 t. 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 !

The adoption of "J. 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 him by
others, without demur or deduction. Even if he
did not require it for his own tax collect3rs, whose
visits, however, unlike those of angels, are "nei-
ther few nor far between," he may be certsin that
isome of his neighbours are less favourably cir-
cumstanced, and will gladly accept at his hands
the means of defraying their contributions to the
national treasury, 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
tclerable, 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
_industry of the
United Kingdom is paralysed and deprived of
vitality.

RETURN OF TILE 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 Bouveria, Lieut.-Col. Ponsonby, and
Lieut. Cowell.

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

Her Majesty and the Prince travelled from Gorport
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
Camoys, Lord George Lennox, Major-General B. Drum-
mond, and Major-General Wylie.
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
roycl highness returned to London last evening.
The Duchess of St. Albans, accompanied by the Duke
of .St. Albans and Lady Diana Beauclerk, has left
Prin.ce's Gate for a prolonged tour on the Continent.
Via count and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at their
resides ►ce, Cambridge House, Piccadilly, yesterday, from
Broadjands, Hants. _ _

The Viscountess Combermere will have an assembly
thin evening at the fawily mansion in Belgrave-Nuare.

LATEST NEWS.

Intelligence has been received from Constantinople
to the 25th, by the Alexandre. Naib Emin, who
was sowing dissension, and who bad refused to lend
assistance to Sefer Pasha, has been expelled from
C.rcassia.

FRANCE•

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

Marshal Vaillant, Minister of War, has received
from Marshal Bandon, Governor-General of Al-
geria, the following telegraphic despatch :
" Tizi Ouzou, 29th May, half-past
six, evening.
" The Beni-Fraoucens, Beni-Khelilis, and Beni-
Chaibs have made their submi,sion. I was to have
quitted to-day my camp of El-Hadj-Aly for Souck-
el-Arba, but the boisterous state of the weather
detained me. Everything is going on well."
The Pays, Ministerial journal, contradicts a
statement in a Belgian paper that Feruk Khan
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 Glance in the treaty grants to
the Brit;sh Government 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.

Count de Morny, previous to his departure from
St. Petersburg, which is to take place about the
23th of the present month, will sign the treaty of
commerce between the French and Russian Go-
vernments, of which the clauses arc already
arranged and agreed upon.
Tue Siecle publishes two rather curious letters
exchanged between the prefect of the Gironde
and M. David lately deputy in the Legislative
Body of the arrondissement of Libournr, in that
department. The Prefec.'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 ; and it
accordingly requests M.'David to "give a new proof
of his devotedness to the Emperor and the coun-
try by generouqy 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 he 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
not allow him to take a copy of them, a declaration
whiclt, says M. David, amounts t u a restriction on
universal suff, age, in opposition to the just and
liberal ideas of the Emperor.
A Paris letter in the .Nord of Brussels says

"Dr. Kern, on leaving Paris, carried with him
some information relative to the dispute which has
exis'ed since 1815 between France and Switzerland
on the subject of the valley of the Deppos, in the
Jura. This valley, which is kept by France, is
claimed by Switzerland. Fresh negotiations have
teen opened for concluding the affair."
The official notice given to the press of certain
departments to abstain from discussing the elec
toral question has, 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 :antic° 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 Veriailles, and returned to
Paris at half-past six. His Majesty dined with
the Baron de Wendland, the Bavarian Minister,
and in th• evening honoured the Theatre of the
Porte St. Martin with his presence.
Bouusz, June 2.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. fr. o. End of month.
44 per Cents
3 per Cents 6B 85 69 20
Bank Shares 4,450 Credit Fonder —
Credit Mobilier 1,200 -- Roman
Do. Account 1,207 Austrian
Belgian 41 . Spanish Threes 4l
Piedinontese (5) 9l 25 Home Debt
KAILIVAYS—FOB CASS.

fr. c. it c
Orleans 1,400 Western 4—
Northern }—
Lyons 1,475 -- New Ditto
Mediterranean 1,865 Grand Central
Geneva
Midi -

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 6th of April, and crcssed the
Line on the 3d of May.
The Sussex is laded with wool and copper ore,
and ha 4 137 passengers, of whom eight mechanics
landed here. They state that their wages varied
from. 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 mere 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.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

The Walmer Castle, Captain Daniel, 78 dqya
from Melbourne, was off the Start this morning.
She has 150 tons of copper ore, a ful 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, Tau RSDAY.
The clipper ship Oliver Lang. one of the Black
Ball line of packetq, has arrived with advices from
Wellington, New Zealand, to the 28th of Marcb,
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 hst 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

the use of the general and provincial Legislatures
had 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 ex' ent bad been discovered in
Nelson province. Ern:grants had been freely ab-
sorbed in the districts within easy distances from
Wellington.
The Colonial Government had offered handsome
rewards for the invention of means for rendering
flax and other fibrous plants of Now 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.
Porter was very scarce. Drapery, soft wood,
and hardware of all kinds dull of sale, the supply
being excessive. London soaps were sailing at a
profit. The season's wool was nc..t 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 wore rising.
The following vessels had arrived at Wellington :
—The Rose of Sharon, the Indian Quesn, the
Myrtle, and the Monsoon.
The Phillip Laing and the Belisapa from Lon-
don, had 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.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

SOU I'HAMPTON, JUNE 4.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Pent, 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 Matta, she met
with 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.
This steamer brings 144 passengers. On freight
she has three packages of specie, value 6,700/., and
a cargo consisting of 3,244 bales of silk, 68 bales of
wool, 63 bags of coffer, 116 cases of s;lk, 35 I:arrels
of gum, and 222 packages of general merchandise.
The Turkish screw steam-frigate Gyvan Barhv,
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 ult , 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,"
The engines, by Napier, worked well, and the
vessel steamed at the rate of eight to nine kno's,
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
st e liner Adelaide wi' h the 47th Regiment on board,
on the same day, for Gibraltar.
The Sydney, steam-transport, arrived at Gibral-
tar from Malta on the 28:h, with the right wing of
the Ist Royals (2d ba.taliou), under the command
of Lieut.-Colonel Edmund Haytitorn e. 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.
Tue 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, 50i ; Paris, do.
sf. 380. • Marseilles, do , sf. 39e. ; Genoa, do., sf.
42c. ; Madrid, 8 days' sight, 11 die. ; Cadiz, do.,
dis. ; Malaga, do., f dis. ; SJville, do., dis. ;
Alicante, dis. ; Valencia, do., dis. ; Barcelona,
dis. Spanish pillared dollars, 4 per cent. prem.