The Express. — London, England, 1856-09-30 00:00:00

egg exprtoo. Mx Court. BALMORAL, Sm. M. TO CORRESPONDENTS. erpennente intended be "The hewer," London Evenlng peps; mad tlw m e a t b the Otllee, IN Bonverie-etreet. by Two (Mock on the The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Alfa, sad 'Masud by her Orate the Duchess of Weilinilicimi the Hoc. Mazy Seymour, and Major-Olearal the Moe. C. Grey, drove yesterday to Pesach:lt Wells. The Prism Consort, with Sir G. any and Lead James Murray, west to Abergeldis Woods, which IMO driven for deer. LYCEITIL %..., lu nomm, BELPEIRGOIL Mr. and Kra C. Dilloe.—And PRA A. THE ROYAL MILKMAID. Mears. W. Brortt e Tgl o : : and C , MrS. A. Mellon Date Wm Woolgar), Min Miss Me, end Mn. R. Whitt. The Royal Cam piety included the Duchess of Lest, the Princes. Amalie of Solaralobe Bchilliagfunt, the Lady Augusta Bruce, end Lord James Murray. Despatches were received at the Colonial 011 ice, 7ester day, from the Governors of Caaada, the &hams, sad St Helena. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOIL Dav—liordsig. a. 45a..........Aftere0ce, 8.61.. TiNisemow—iforalas, R 1114L.—.....Aftsrao" 34 Ur Her Royal Highness the Dashes of Kent, at tended by Lady Augusta Bran dad Bir Gime Casper, will leave Abatisldle Castle, N. 8., on tits Bth predate, for Ediabergh, en roods to Frogaine Lodge, tine Wisdom. The Duchess de Gramont, wife of his RzosUanoy . _ LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. the Doke de Oraatoet, ?dictate; of Frame at the wart of Sardinia, was delivered of a sou, at Turin, out the 24th natant. THE circular of the Russian MtNISTEIt for FOREIGN AFFAISa is neither more nor less than a solemn declaration, haughty in tone and defiant is language, of the part that Russia intends to assume in the political transactions of Europe ; and a denun ciation but thinly veiled under the stately courtesies of diplomatic style, against the projected interference of Ibe two great Western Powers in Naples and the continued occupation of Greece. Prince Gowiscua- XOFF, not without a certain ill•conegaled irony, re minds the Powers of the West, that respect for in ternational right and regard for national independence were the avowed bases of their union, and the declared motives of their warfare. It is impossible, he intimates to suppose that these professions were merely assumed as watchwords of the conflict, and destined to be abandoned when the conflict was at an end; on the contrary, he is bound to believe that, like the Burgnon, his august master, the Western Powers regard the conclusion of the Peace as involving " the reestablishment of relations based on respect for right and the independence of Governments." This being so, the Rumba Minister proceeds to declare that in the continued occupation of Greece, and the menaced interference with Naples, it is impossible not to perceive a violation of the principles to which the adhesion of Europe was this understood to have been given in. The men pation of Greece " spinet the will of the Sove reign and the wish of the nation " is declared to be wholly unjustifiable on any grand of political meow sity or political morality. With regard to the inter ference in Naples, the expreedons used are at least equally strong. " The King of Nerus," it is declared, "is subjected to pressure, not because his MAJESTT his transgressed any of his treaty engagements with foreign Powers, hat solely because, in the exercise of Ass istoostsstabls rights of toorreirsty, he gosorns his subjoets acoordisig to his own fashion." Amicable warnings, even pressing exhortations, are allowed to be admissible in such a ease, but that the Russian Minister declares is the extreme limit of what international law allows. There never was a time we are told, when Europe could lees afford to forget the absolute equality of Sovereigns among themselves; and the endeavour to extort from the Bing of Mous, by threats or demonstrations, any cossamirms as to the internal management of his own dominions, in represented as &violent usurpation of his authority, en attempt to govern in his stead, a proclamation, without disguise, of the right of the strong over the week. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh() will enter- tain a large part, at Floors Cull., for the Kelso races. The Marquis of Granby and Lord George Manners have arrived at Chineley, nem Newmarket, fro. &leak Castle, Leicestershire. The Marchioness Dowager of Ely and the Ladies Lefts' ars goes see visiting tour In Yorkshire, which they will probably extend to Scotland. The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford and Lord and Lady John Bertsford arrived at Ford Castle, Northumberland, last week, front Curraghmore. The noble marquis aid party propose a residence of about three weeks at this ancient family ..at. Lord and Lady Brougham have, during the past week, received a noseetion of visits at Brougham Hall, Westmorelaad. The ROT. Dr. Tait (the Newly-appointed Bishop of London) has been among the guests of the noble and leaned loud. The Eight Host. J. Napier, M.P., sad Mrs. sad Mira Napier bane left Brougham Hell for Ireland. The Earl cad Coaster of Clarendon Srs expected cm a chit to the noble and:laansed lord early this week. The Earl and Countess of &tendon, on leaving Taynaosth Castle, west ea a visit to the Count sad Countess Flabault, at their seat is Perthshire, wheals they have since proceeded to Rose Castle, Cumberland, to pas a few days with the noble eerie teethes, the Bishop of Carlisle. The Earl Fortune hes left Great Malvern for Lincolnshire. The mutes* has goat into Devonshire. Viscount and Viessaatess Ebriastoa, who have elm bees staying at Gnat Malmo, have left to Castl►hW, the family east, sear Beath Molten. The sable Aeneas re nal= is such the same state. The Earl of Beverley and Lady Lades Percy have some to Terquy, when it in the noble earl's iateatioa to midi dubs the whiter. _ _ Lady Pollak gave birth to a daughter on Sunday last, at Ilse Lard Chief llama's, Gandford-strest. ' Countess d'Agli., Lady of Honour of this late Queen of Piedurst, Maria Adelaide, bad bun seat by the King to receive the Dowager Barre of Russia at Ni.., His Majesty wee to repair to Nies a fortnight before the arrival of tke Zupress. The OHMS Ormire Mereangsk announces that Lord Joh. Russell war Willy a:putted at Tuts. It is positively stated in some of the New York papers that the Hon. C. P. Villiers is to be the eneseesor of Mr. Creaptea. The Coronation Manifesto of the Emperor Alex ander is published in an extraordinary supplement to the Jennie: do IC Petersburg of the 19th, oceupyiag four pages.] ,The portions of this clamant pommels' ea We ns' for Pmelbk readers appeared In %be &pros of the 17th• Madame Elea! is performing at Brussels. We lead in the Echo Universal, published at the Bagas :—" Comeapeadame from Loudon Whims as that our Minister Plialpotaatlari at the Bestial& eourt has re ceived histamine hem the Hansa to make °tortures of a project of marriage between the hair presumptive of the Nowa of Hollsad—the Prime of Orange—with a Priames, daughter of t►e Quest sad Priam Albert. This point is connected In people's minds with the eXCEIniOII remedy made by the Priam of Orange la Beglaad." The health of Lord John Manners, M.P. for Col shelter, is, we (Essex Herald) regret to hear, in a very pre aldose stars. The Foreign Minister of ALEXANDEZ IL then proceeds is a more subdued, bet scarcely lees signi ficant style, to intimate the regret of his Imperial Muter that "the union with those who in conjunction with us have so long up held the principles on which the peace of Europe for a quarter of a century has depended, exists no longer in its ancient integrity;' he declares that the Burritos, though primarily devoted to the develop ment of the internal resources of his own dominions, cannot yet remain a stranger to the general politics of Humps; that his policy, though national, is not belated ; and that, though he regards the interests of his people as the first object, he is convinced that eves the permit of that object cannot excuse a viola tion of the rights of others. Russia, moue told. might reasonably have taken umbrage at the liimenstrue tion to which her policy has heretofore loss so jest. Her protective action on behalf of Ss dills et Oemernsimits has been perversely interimaled tees= en aspiration after universal empire the is, how ever, too magnanimous, on this sessist, to Ma into silence and inaction, eonvinsed that sash acmes (end these, reader, are ominous words) "is unworthy of a Power to whom Providence has swiped that place in Europe which is occupied by Buseia." Such is the GOIVIICHAIWIT 1111110 l nto : It ie the old Iderecnuorr haughtinees, untamed by a disastrous war and a humiliating peace. The diplomacy of the Cum has learnt nothing and forgotten nothing. Russia is still the Providence of Despotism—the mysterious and irresistible agency ever ready, where The living of the rectory of Sawbridgeworth, worth 8001. a year, has Men to the gift of the Bishop of Lealles, to which (says the Herb Goserallais) he will here the emai -1 nines preeioes to his retirement. - ITALY. DEMONSTRATION. The journals of Northern Europe state that a Russian squadron will at once enter the Meditena. nem, ostensibly as a guard of honour to the Dowager Empress, who is about to reside for a time at Nice. This statement has been made before; but the foot, were It ccallrmed, would mums a new interestoiewed in the light reflected from Prince Gortchakors circu lar. At present, however, we know nothing of this squadron but from Raadan rumours. A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles states that a squadron of eight Austrian reseals from the Adri atic had arrived before Malta. The "Wats of Sunday states that a deepateh from Marseilles announces that the vessels destined to form part of tho squadron for Naples were easembled at Toulon, awaiting the signal for departure. It adds that the news is confirmed that Piedmont will sho send a naval fore* to the Calf of Naples. The four Powers who figured at the Paria Congress, and who are most interested in the affairs of Italy, will thee appear together before Naples. there is a tyrant to uphold or a people to crush, to stretch forth that arm of destiny which has 83 long stayed the progress of the nations. They are the old doctrines maintained in the old language* Prince GORTICHAKOFF, in 18.56, is bet an echo of the Holy Alliance of 1821. The spirit of Troppan, and Layliseb, and Verona is in these paragraphs about the sacred quality of liovereigns end their absolute right to rule their subjects as best they plum. Can we forget that in the days when " that union which, for a quarter of a century, maintained the peace of Europe," was still in itsjintegrity, the de facto Go- vernments of Naples and of Spain fell before the armed interference of these hypocritical &merlon of national independence ? Are the principles of the Holy Alliance still to be maintained—are kings still to be regarded as the sole representatives of states, and the people they misrule as nothing? We trust that the Governments of the two Western Powers, relying on the awakened good sense of Europe, will give the lie to this base fiction of diplo macy. which has too long hoodwinked and coerced the world. The Law of Nations is a misnomer as long as this doctrine of the merger of the people in its government is suffered to form part of the international code. duck a law is not a Law of Ram, bat a Law of }Limp. But the Western Powers are strong on another ground. This base bad BOURBON is a public nuisance to Use commonwealth of Europe. He is an in. extinguishable centre of insurrection and disorder. If not abated or reduced, be will breed a pestilence of anarchy and tumult the limits of which nose can measure, and in the averting of which all are ion corned. This is enough. On the lower grounds of self-preservation, France and England are folly en titled to coerce this miserable monarch into some decent and safe respectability of despotism. The madness of his present tyranny Is unbearable, and the Western Powers will be forever disgraced in the estimation of Europe if they suffer themselves to be deterred from the execution of this great and right eous writ d. lunatic* ingsdrerido, by the miserable actions of the Holy Alliance and the haughty menaces of the Cast (TIDY 01711 OWN NAPLES, Barr. 26. A report has been circulating through the city for several days that things bad bees arranged hers, and that the King had only reqessted "time." Up to Tuesday nothing had been conceded, nor have I faith in any einteeesions. Any 001200111- aims without guarantees, in Naples, would be so much waste paper. The people are in legal posesesioa (not enjoyment) of everything they mu desire; the guarantees cnly are needed. There is evidently great fear sainting on the part of government, which effects much bustle and pre , partition. Thus every morning one sees Gannon taken through the streets, and powder wag gons going from the arsenal to some outlying fort; and two vessels, one called the Ensolano, laden with arms left for Sicily on Tuesday night. The arms, too, which were deposited in the Castello Nuove, are being taken into the interior to Capna. To use, however, an old English proverb, it I. nothing but a "great cry and little wool." Not a shot will be tired; and if the French and English governments I will only show themselves in thorough earnest, every concession will be made. The King will yield no thing of himself•—nay, up to the latest possible moment will be as obstinate as—as—himself; but the instinct of self-preservation will prevail at bat. His Majesty was to have left yesterday, according to the Voce Publica, for Porto d'Anso, to have another interview with his Holiness. TIIIIIN. Barr. 26. The news of an armed demonstration on the put of the Western Powers against the Hiog of the Two Sicilia, rewires now ample confirmation, and it would he difficult to conceive the sensation it ha created both in this country and throughout the whole of Italy. Frans. end England are understood to be determined to withdraw, their representatives from the Court of Naplas, and to unite a powerful firma mut in the Gulf of Aisocdo, to mil for the Bay of Naples. The po,ice of Berlin have forbidden the loose women of the taws to wear helmets, mantillas, and dream 11 OWL Of TOITIt. THE XXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1856. If the desarmetration of the Western Powers aims at a restoration of oonstitutional government in the Two Biellira, or, at least, at the re-introdactioa of ameh reformatory measure*, and at the recall into power of such man as may eventually, however gradually, lead to it, not a little will certainly have been achieved for the welfare of Italy. The govern ments of Parma and Modena have already shown some disposition to amend their wicked ways, and that of Tuscany will be made to follow in the same track. The only part of Italy that is helping!, rotten is the Roman State, and the beet part of it will most undoubtedly have to be erected into a sepa rate lay government. The chastisement of the King of Naples will have on the other Italian Prime the salutary effect of convincing them that there is something, not only in heaven but . . on earth also, above Austrian omnipotence. The moment they feel that their wonted Austrian prop is no better than a broken reed under them, the moment that they on themselves constrained to rely com pletely on their own means of coercion, they will become aware of the utter inadequacy and inefficacy of such means, and they will be too happy to base their security on concession and compromise. Nor will their subjects be too hard upon them. The Tuscans as well as the Neapolitans ask so more than was freely given them upon oath eight years ego. The two small Duchies, provided they may be associated to an honest national policy, will not even be very clamorous for constitutional franchisee. Of the na tional policy, Piedmont has taken the lead, and all I Italian hearts are now powerfully yearning to Pied mont. Italian States will find it expedient to asso ciate with Piedmont lest they should be absorbed by it. Piedmont, Naples, Tuscany, and the Duchies, and perhaps a new State of Romagna, will constitute an Italian union, for half a wore of years or so. By that time, or before, an opportunity may present it. self of settling old scores with Austria for the Lomberdo•Venetian provinces—when, may God help the right ! FRANCE. (Holt OUR owx PARIS, MONDAY Erin No. The circular note of Prince Oortahakoff has made a great sensation at Paris. The SW* in reproducing the document, amompanies it with . the following brief remarks: The Russia& minister atmeks Femme for oosupying Greece, and declares illegal any intervention at Naples. When the authenticity of this document shall be placed beyond doubt, we shall discus the doctrines set forth by Prism Ciortahakoff—doctrines which axe easy to refute when proseedieg frost a power that owes awry all its randier to nelithbourly iittersentiene. For the moment we will simply point out the singularity of tab sampected deelaraties of bad feeling thrown at tie Western Power. at Um distance of only a few months from the eonelnaion of the treats of Pert. The Patric withholds comment for the present, and is satisfied with reproducing the portions of the discussions in the Paris Congress which turned upon the affairs of Naples and Greene. The Colostitutimml, in allusion to Mr. Bessemer's new mode of manufacturing iron and steel, has a long article enumerating the vast number of oases in which discoveries, at first deemed of iMIII•1111111 value, bad turned out the source of bitter disappointment. As a corollary to its general proposition, our cot:tempo. racy mentions the fact that of 2,088 patents taken oat in France during the year 1848, only 189 remained in force in 1854, the rest having been suffered to lapse, from their inefficiency to answer the purpose for which they were designed. The same journal has an article on the contem plated railway in the valley of the Euphrates, in wtioh no very good feeling is evinced towards the enterprise in question. This journal considers the construction of a railway along the Euphrates as a *overt blow aimed at the Burr canal scheme, end it disapproves of the terms granted by.the Ottoman government to the projectors of the Asiatic line- The Otwastilsdionnel ooeoludes by stating that a rich and influential, though not anunieriiim party in Ragland directs all its efforts to obstruct the con. struation of the Bon canal, sad our contemporary inquires : How doss this party iatagrst the existiog alliance ? Is it simply is the light of a Mawr that it reeogaisse the praises of Fames la the elliesee ? It is mistaken sad has formed s vwy false Ides of Treace sad bar goveromest. Ewa la Zeeland this party will later the reprobation is spited by oedema loyalty sad by the imams interest whisk is attached to the =intimate of the animas In the Paris earn whet, during bet week, a con siderable amount of business was transacted, and prices in general slightly advanced, the four marks being held at 91fr. 500. and 92fr. the 157 kilo grammes. The reserve at the Halle is at present about 11,000 metrical quintals. Wheat advanced oa Wednesday about lfr. the hectolitre and a half, the pipe being 48fr. 75e. to 49fr. 25c. for the best kinds, and 47fr. to 47fr. 500. for superior qualities. The awe of the higher prices in the Paris market sp. pears to be the cessation of arrivals at Marseilles. The Bourse to-day we the prey of new tenors, Prince Goetchakoff's circular being the main die. turbing caws. Unfavourable reports as to the Bank of France also contributed to the prevailing de puska. The Three per Cents. closed at 67fr. 26q. for the end of the month; and the New Loan at 871 r. 70o.; Orleans Railway shares, 1,286 fr.; Great Na than, 960 fr. ; Strasburg, 876 fr.; new shares, 790 fr. ; Paris and Lyons,l,267fr. 60o.; Lyons and Mediter ranean, 1,746 fr.; Western of France, 890 fr. ; Bor deaux and Cette, 690 fr.; ditto new shares, 8951 r.; Great Central of France, 816 fr.; Lyons and Osum i 730 fr.; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 1,690 fr.; Austrian Railways, 790 fr. The Bund of the 28th publishes a new document relative to the affair of Neufchatel, in the shape of a messege from the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly. The followings the poet which may be called diplosiatic, and is the sense of it : As to the diplomatic repremaisliese of foreign power', if we map{ Penedo, sate of them have made any formal eppliessians to se es this spossiss, although several have takes whistago el &sir pesitim N tesseemesd us, either ottsisily is ims *Oddly, to tine msissadss towards the isssegaste elm we imam assist W. ea% however, fully rely a s SO BSI ratty sassed brammdty will be obeerved as lee es eleaamsMssas ea permit. If under any eirC7o2- slums dims wass 2 =ade assosistioas, they meld set is ear ea r pi re is i s = . 4 . 4 1114 4014i4 of the rosesslllan I M of the Canton of Needalsatel se ism& a foreign power. We shell emer griy rejeet rap ~tare that boo not this for its basis. st also et as that it would not be ',roper to. is ear resitioa to take the Int step in this panics's,. Jades will quietly panes its legal coerce, and in order to guarantee it from &opiates which might disturb it, and ' , to site is the bad say attempt to that effect, it -ill be seaman that the federal troops shall continue to recopy the Cassias of Neufchatel until the termination of the Th em e Gazette, of St. Gall, gives the following detail. on the subject of the trial of Neufchatel : M. G. de Petit Pierre, Covet di Wallabies, political shief of the losarmotios, ez•member of the diplomatic body is Prussia, and afterwards Councillor of State of Neufchatel, was is correspondent), with the Coen of Berlin. through Ids sonaszioa with the Comities de Waldburg-Traehseo, beloagies to a saadiatised family mid relative of the royal house. There wars fogad among his papers 44 lettere, In ' which all the plane for earryieg out the lessrreetioa ere fully detailed. Them lotion will not be published stealth' termisedoe of the trial. They have bees laid bolero the Federal CoaselL Saturday list bolsi the anniversary of the death of Itenhal dalat-Arased, a sew fro the repose of Ids soul was eslebrated Is the dispel et the huddle, nub. i THE CORONATION FETES AT MOSCOW. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CO...tiv._ THE " FES= DU PEUPLE." MOSCOW, Barr. 20. If the modern Russians be the descendants of the ancient Boythiens, there is one thing in which they do not resemble their frugal ancestors, and that is their splendid notion of hospitality. Whoever hes had patience to follow the narrative of the corona tion of the Emperor must have remarked that everything hem finished with a feast. The Emperor feasts everybody, the noblesse feast the:Emperor, the ambassadorial sojourn is one continuous dinner party, the merchants brut the soldiers, and lastly the government, in compliance with ancient Bola vonto custom, feasts the people. One cannot be always dining, but to write for ever abase dining is still worse, and, therefore, I have left several items in the coronation bill of fare unnoticed; but • select party of two hundred thousand people is a thing not to be seen every day; and to those at • distance who could not have been present in the body, a few details of the great "Pectin du People" may not prove uninteresting, the more so as it is one of the rare occasions on which the " black people," as they are emphatically called here, are allowed in approach their sovereign in convivial intercourse, is eat of his salt, and to demonstrate their loyalty under the influences which are proverbially said to give loyalty its greatest impetus. It is hardly necessary to say that the "Feetin du People " is an important item in every coronation programme since the time when Boris Ondenoff found it necessary to appeal to parron et circa's.r as a means of reconciling the people to his usurpation. It has often been a scene of riot and , moms, sometimes of disorder and confusion, and even so lately as the coronation of the Emperor Nicholas, circumstances arose which still leave unpleasant re miniscences in the minds of those who are old enough to have "assisted" on that important measles. It is just thirty years since a banquet similar to that which was celebrated to-day, was spread in the Kessnaja Ploschad, the tables laden with the good things of this world, and the square enclosed with galleries, from ; whisk the great boysrds enjoyed the prospect of their serfs enjoying an abundant banquet at least once during the term of their natural lives. The yowl Emperor, handsome as Apollo, and sur rounded with all the adjuncts of imperial splendour. presided on a thro3e erected for the occasion, and a signal from him was to have inaugurated a protracted banquet, to be gone throtfgh with all due formality, dignity, and decorum. Bat the quarter million of inujiks who had waited round the barrier. from an early hour in the morning, some of them the whole of the night before, took a different view of the cue, and, the moment the signal was given, rushed upon the feast like so many cannibals, not to eat, but to carry away; and, in the twinkling of ea eye,everythiog eatable anddrinkable had disappeared from the tables; and those who had not been strong or active enough to get portions of the good cheer, tore off the tablecloths, and broke up the tables, using the fractured lege u weapoce to make the earlier plunderers disgorge some share of their hard-won booty. It is even said that the galleries for the spectators wen torn down, and that Cashmere shawls and diamond necklace' went the way of the legs of mutton and roast chickens, to the great alarm and chsgria of the aristocratic audience in the " Beautiful Place." To prevent the recurrence of such disorders, great pains and precautions had been taken on the present occa sion, while the elements lent their aid in cooling emdik ardour and preserving the public, tranquillity. It bee been said that the most threatening scams may often be nipped in the bud by the welldireoted bees of a fire-engine, but if all the fire-engines in )rwe, and America to boot, had been brought into requisition, they could not have given the crowd so thorough a soaking as did the pitiless rain, which from "morn to dewy eve" had been saturating sheepskins, seeking through caftans, and drenching military midterms all through, in the great plain of the Kodiak', which, for the reasons above stated, had been chosen as the site of the present coronation ban quet. Having neared a carriage, no easy task at lamb a tims, when every man who has a kopeck to agars must ride to dinner, I drove out to the plain at am early hour, and all along the route found my pee my obstructed by the premonitory symptom' of the peat festival. The "black people" covered the trol l* like • plague of locusts, ten times as numerous as the many pilgrims to Greenwich fair, but look ing as serious as judges, and evidently making abstruse mental calculations as to how much et the anticipated provender would fall to *sir several shams. At the first glance, way mujik would appear to be cast in the same mould, and clad in the same monotonous costume ; but as the shepherd is said, by dint of continuous observation, to be able to distinguish the faces of all bis sheep, so the curious voyageur, by frequently gaming through the streets, and watching the people as be passes, obtains a sort of classification, and is Ate to detect grades and differences in what appeared agent one dreary, dead level of homilies equality. They were ell out to-day, gentle and simple. There was the rough mejtk of the plains in his sheepskin cost, shapeless, indescribable bat, and bearded like a patriarch. Little cares he about social or political problem,. He works when he can't help it, keeps himself as warm as he can, washes as seldom as he win, and when inclined for jollity, sings • song the harthen of which is, " Oh, don't ask me to read or write." Sturdily he trudged along with thoughts intent on qualm and vodka, and heeded nothing the teeming rain that was searching out every crevice in his woolly covering. Close behind him followed the lair partner of his joys and sorrows, looking for ell the world like a bundle of faded calico, mounted on elephantine legs, and furnished with • capacious basket tocontain the anticipetedepoils of the "Feetin." Then there was the mujik of the town, tall and slim, in well-worn caftan, and trudging along with that shuffling gait which long practice on the most abominable pavement in the world has made se coed nature. There is a restless mirky in hie eye a studied servility in his manner, that bespeaks the man who runs errand', sleeps in doorways in simmer, and in stoves, like a Salamander in winter, fringes like a spaniel when yon look at him, and Saks for " Tschi" the moment your features rela into the faintest approximation to a smile. Lastly, we had the mujik well to do, clad is Lin. min green, and with hat of unexceptionable beaver, who keeps his own drotscbki and drives a prosperous trade in the Vertskoi. He is worth his 200,000 rubles perhaps, affects diamonds, aad has his daughter learning the piano, and the leer languages. Bat the sword of Damocles hangs ever his head by a single hair, ea the rough country boyard, to whom he owes fealty, may at any time /Kneel his "pass," and fecal him to the roughest labour of rural life—or perhaps send him cff for a soldier. Hen of this class are pointed out to me every day, who have over and over again offered thousands of rubles for their freedom, but their masters are inex orable, as one of the greatest luxuries of a Russian nobleman is to be able to point to a man and say, " You see that fellow, he is my serf, and is worth a million silver rubles." On they went in a never ending stream, the poor trudging steadily through fluid mud, the well-to-do, dashing, splashing on their neat drotechkies behind horses that would rates a shout of admiration in Hyde Park. The whole of the roadway was covered with equipages for miles, every successive one of which offered some new variety of vehicular monstrosity. There WAS the Telegu of the road, like a little wooden dish set on a cumbrous gnn•carrisge, and accommodating two or three human bundles that turned their backs to the rain, and took their soaking with the moat stoical equanimity. There was the more pretentious Tarantas, the substitute for our western post cart dory shaped like a child's cradle, and capable of accommodating a whole litter of eager sightseekers. I looked upon these bone•breakers with a shudder, aa I thought of some English friends who had just started on a journey across the steppe in a vehicle of this description. Then came the aristocratic Berlin, or caleche, drawn by four horses, sometimes abreast, sometimes in a team with traces ten or twelve yards in lengtb. Through the windows of these might be seen the pow dered head and gold embroidery of veteran diplomacy, the bright eyes of fair ladies, and the rosy cheek* of chubby children all agog for the Badinka One would have thought that all the odd•looking vehicles and all the fine horses in the world had been collected for the accommodation of this leviathan dinner party. It will be easily conceived that in such a crowd our progress was anything but rapid. Sometimes we got on a little, sometimes we " poled" our leader, sometimes got poled ourselves from be hind, and then sock a mingled torrent of Russian abuse and English vociferation ! Sometimes the gendarme* ordered us to stop, sometimes per mitted us to go on, while ever and anon the horrid little cossack', like so many mounted Skye terriers, hovered, and jabbered, and galloped over people, and shook their fists at ..Ivold tchiks," and seemed as if the rain had boiled them up to a furious internal fermentation. We could not tell what it was all about ; bat fancied we had done something that might possibly doom us to Siberia or the knout. Everything, however, has au end, excep rain in Russia; and so, at last, we made our w►y to the covered gallery which had been constructed for the diplomatic bodies and their friends. A large space had been railed off, in the centre of which was a handsome pavilion for the accommo dation of the Emperor and his family, and round it, on three sides, were galleries similar to that in which we found ourselves located. For the first halt•hear we had ample amusement in watching each successive arrival in our own gallery. There were the Americans, in their blue uniforms and yellow plumes; the Austrians, in their magnificent hussar pelisse", the fur on which was worth thousands of roubles ; the Russians, in every colour under the sun and the diplomate,in blue andgold, and a painful mono tony of tight boots. Wehad also o it Persian andTark ish friends, who, it is said, are never failing in their attendance wherever there is eating and drinking going on ; and Circassian, ' in whose yellow skins and awfully hooked noses I cannot see any type ot beauty, whatever ethnologists may say to the oontrary. In strong contrast to all these parti•coloured masque riders, 1 observed a pale, dark man in clerical rubes ot black, relieved in front by the thin stripe of velvet, and wearing the tremendous shovel hat that marks the monseigneur "of the Vatican. It was the secretary to the Pope's Nuncio, who, after some ne gotiation, and many scruples to be overcome, has been duly received at the Russian court, notwith standing all the remonstrances of Patriarch or Arabi mandrite. la there not something suggestive in this little fact ?—subtle, patient Rome thus getting the small end ot the wedge into the great schism that so nearly divides with her the dominion of the Christian world ? Roman eocleeistics honoured guests un the holy city !—what next ? From our elevated position we could now see the arrangements for the least, and they were abundant and worthy of the cc cameo. Several miles of tables surrounded the en closure on every side, and on them were placed sheep roasted whole, standing bolt upright, and with their horns gilded ready for the sacrifice. With them were alternated great mountains of bread, and here and there dwarf puce trees, Irons which hung in tempting festoons the savoury sausages so dear to Sarmatian palates. Pails ot beer decorated every °inner in which there was room for them to stand, and round this tempting least the tantalised mujike clustered, impatient for the signal to begin. At the angles of each square, formed by the arrangement 01 the tables, stood the tountitius twin which wine and vodka weru to tlow—liquids which the rain front above was rapidly diluting to a most harmless amount of stimulus. For the amusement of the young people there were the Montagne& Russo, the turnabouts, and the circus—and, wonderful instance of the pursuit of pleasure under difficulties, every one of these machines had constant employment. Then there was the circus, under the royal pavilion, and the balloon, and the bands, that played with a per severance worthy of finer weather. Long before the arrival of the Emperor, the Grand Duke Constantine was on the ground, and the people, who, up to that moment had been kept at arm's length, clustered round his imperial highness, and coaxed him out of permission " just to look at the tables." They got in, and the consequence may be easily imagined. In the twinkling of an eye roast sheep, junks of beef, mountains of bread, sausage wee, and pails of beer, had al disappeared, and the mujiks were standing on the tables, with their mouths and pockets filled to bursting, and the empty beer pails on their heads for um brellas. From the table-cloths the ladies had improvised flowing mantillas, and the audience was in c , mfortable condition to cheer the Emperor and enjoy the amusements provided. As all this occurred at a considerable distance from where I stood I cannot say bow the sheep were dissected or the beef sliced, but this I know, that no knives or fork. were allowed for fear of accident, and, therefore, tho obvious conclusion is that the division was effected in a very primitive manner. We amused oureelees for some minutes speculating on the probabilities, wondered how one man had ob tained the leg of mutton that peeped out of his breeches pocket, how another had performed the decapitation that enabled him to clap a sheep's head, with gilded horns, on the top of his old hat, and at last began to look bark at tho Petroffeki Palace, and the long Mite of Leeghian guards and Circsesisns, that waited the passage of the Emperor to his pavilion. At last, about two o'clock, the impe rial cortege emerged from the chateau, the bands I struck up the esti nal hymn, the people cheered lustily, and the Emperor, followed by a brilliant but rather damp staff, rode rapidly into the enclosure. Without meaning any disrespect to the Emperor, or the closet of generals by whom ho was followed, the I best idea I can give you of the effect is by comparing it to 601110 well•got-up cavalcade in the circus with prancing horses, and riders io every variety , of showy costume. His Majesty rode rapidly 1 round the enclosure, followed by his staff, • and then dishing through an opening rode I down amongst the people, who fell back like retiring waves on each side, and shook the dens* atmosphere with their joyful recognition of this gracious proof of their sovereign's confidence in their loyalty and affection. We could see the white plumes winding sinuously through the crowd, as cheer upon cheer was taken up and prolonged through each sec tion of this vast multitude. The rain, which came dawn in a pitiless stream, was completely forgotten, and the people had a gleam of delight, the mi mory of which will sustain them until the next " Festin." Having made hie rounds, the Emperor returned to the pavilion, and the sports of the circus began with an act of equitation by a female martyr in white muslin, who was drenched to the skin long before she had leaped through her paper balloon. Then the acrobats drooped over the tops of their poles like so many drowned rats, and the " Veteran Green" of the Moscow aeronautics struggled hard to make the gas inside his vast machine produce the proper amount of distention in spite of the collapsing influence of the water outside. At last a tolerable amount of rotun dity was produced, the balloon lazily ascended, to be in a moment lost in the mist; and a signal from the imperial pavilion pronounced the sports of the " Fedi° du People" to have terminated. Then came the smashing of carriages, the kick ing over of traces, the loud neighing of the wild horses, and the frantic calls for "Ivan," and "Basil," and "Constantin," and "Alexis." Fancy the Haymarket at the close of a Jenny Lind night, and the linkboys suddenly endued with the Slavonic dialect, and the rain coming down in torrents, and the ladies waiting muffled up in the vestibule, and the gentlemen craning out to see if the carriages are coming, and throw in a handful of bootishnicke, and cossacks, and gendarmes, and you will be able to join with me in imagination in realising the picture afforded by the grand wind up of the people's dinner party in the liadinka. THE STEAM FRIGATE MERRIMAC. The United States screw steam frigate Merrimac, new lying in Southampton Water, is 300 feet long. The length of her spar deck is 281 feet. Her breadth of beam is 61} feet, and depth of hold to gun dock 26 feet 3 inches. Her capacity at load line is 4,687 tons, and draught of water 23} fest. She has two 10-inch, 24 9-inch, and 14 S-inch guna. Her 10-inch guns weigh 12,00011)a each, and the 24-inch guns 9,0001 b. each. The former would throw 130-pounden, the letter 84-pounders, and her Binch guns 64-pounder. Although Sir Howard Douglas is a great authority amongst American naval men, they differ, it appean, from him as to the comparative merits of solid shot and 'bell ; fur they intend that the Merrimac shall fight with shells. The weight of the 10-in:h shells on board the frigate when unloaded is 101Ibs. ; of the 9-inch shells, 69Ibe. ; and of the Bir ch ones, 49411 n. The weight of metal frem a broadside from the Merrimac, in solid shot, would be 1,716ibe., end in 1,3821 be. One of the peculiarities of Dahigren's guns which are on board the frigate is the enormous dis proportion between the thickness of the breech, where the ant s►ock of the eaplosiois takes plaoe, and that of the °ban of the gun. Thee the breech metal in the pivot guns is 10 inches thick, while the thickness of the chase is not above 21 lather; yet, notwithstanding this, when Dahl grea's guns are purposely put to,the extreme teat, they burst et the breech, and not at the chase, which shows that the disproportion in thickness is not too great. The local variation of nominates is counteracted on hood the /dorsi- mac by three &ingests, whose powers and position are adjusted by some caret calculation to the variable attractive powers tithe different pans of the ship. The method of calculation is the invention of an American, who has not divulged his seerot. MA adjustment has &cowered extremely well in the Merrimac. Hoisting arrangements are attached to the screw cf the frigate. The screw is 28 feet 2 inches in pitch, and 17 lest 4 inches in diameter. The frigate has a 2-rod oterple engine, with a 72-inch cylinder and a 3-foot stroke. The pressure of steam is 20145. to the square inch. The rovointlons are 30 per minute. The engine department Is furnished with independent auxiliary engine' for coaling the ship, and with four of Martin's patent vertical flue boilers, and a steam sr gine register and ihronemeter clock. The two latter are rare end cosily instru ments for an engine-room. The consumption of fuel is 35 tons a day, full steam. The chief engineer's room is fitted up with every requisite for any imaginable accident that may occur. The length of the main mast of the Merrimac 123 feet; the fore mast is 111 feet, end the Wren 1091 fret. The size of the mainsail is 51 square feet, of the foresail 40 square feet, of the maintop 45 square feet. and of the jib 24 square feet. The whole area of the Merrimac's sails is 665 square feet. In order to carry an enormous armament, and to fight the heavy ships and batteries that she would be pitted against, she has been constructed of very great strength. She has iron trersept braces 44 inches wide, and of en inch thick between the outer and inner planking intending from the cheer plank to the keel. Her knees are of prodigious strength end solidity. In war time she would wry a few more guns of the same calibre at those she bat saw on bard, and about 100 more men than she now mutters. There are many things in this frigate de serving the attention of Englishmen. Her quarters for fighting are very roomy compared wick those of English line-of-battle ships, crowded as the latter are with guns end men. Thus, in battle, there would be far less destruction of life on board the Merrimac than on bcrird an English ship. The pane ty of guns on board tl.e frigate is compensated for by their large calibre, and the frigate being more easily managed than our three-deckers, she would with her artillery—superior both in length of range acd towers of mischief—do fearful damage to the largest hoe-of-battle ship before the lamr ctuld approach her. These hen been tre reasons that !me induced the Ameri- cans to build and arm such frigate. :s the Merrimac, and the practice of a nation so shrewd, go-stead, and brave as Ame rica undoubtedly fa, ought not to be despised. Tne Merri mac took two years building. She is the smallest of 6 fri gate., built on the same plan, the names ef the other. bean the Wabash, Alioneross, Colorado, ftsavoke, and Niagara. The Merrimeo was stotioned a shyer time at Havana before she came to Sou•hampton. On Fr. day last, Ceptsin Pren dergast, her commander, and some of his calmer, dined with the Counters of Ilardwicke, nt *er beautiful sea en the banks of Southampton Water, clove U wharc the frigate is lying, and the Americans were charmed with her lady ship's graceful bespitality. The Esrl of Hirdwicke, who is a captain in the British navy, is from home• The officers are quiet, gentlemanly, and well-read men , . . . _ and, like English sailor., take great pride it their profu sion. They of nacre bslieve Americans quite equal, if cot superior, in plink, in science, and in fighting, to English men, and ayparently would not be indispose 1 to have a brush with ss. With all this, it is curious, however, to notice the deep regard they betray for Old England, sad the numerous inquiries they make as to the distance front Southampton of Stratford on-Avon, Abbotsford, sod other / A scii connected with England's peaceful worthies. The arrival of the Merrimac is a godsend for Southampton, oa account of the money the min and ofilz..-rs wilt spend in the town. Buraboate and boats laden with provisions and visitors ate continually going cif to the fig it.. Sines Mr. Croskey, the American e .nrul, br•ught the first United Slates mail packet to S , uthatuf t , n, half a million sterling has been spait in thst town in American &Aare from the various men—f-war mid mail packets belonging to the United States that h,ve called at the port. Tke King of Sardinia entertained Mehemet Djemil Bry, the Turkish ambassador, eit tits table on the 25th. Aisocg the Karst. were Sir ,1. II :Aaiun and the Due de Grammont, the Britieh and French embstrod•rs ; the Cho valise de Lamm!, minister rf lielgium ; the members of the Sardinian e .binet, and other eli.tinguiabsd per sonages. The Arri4c states that, piece the 21e', the moun tains of Secret are cos- red with I , IIOW, en I stracreinory cc , earreoce at this season of the year. The velvet., bear" thus driven from the mountains, have n.reel is the plain, de voured thirty-two sheep, and committed other serious ravages. It weuld sppear that snow boa also fallen in other parts of France, ea the Nentinelle ae Jere; says :— " Snow fell rather heavily no the 211th al g the bills near Bois d'Ament, and on the 21st a sharp 1n st took plsce la the same locality." [Advertiassment. l —AT Me. toms llt, Regent-eirea. tin 4, Loodelinhllttoest, and (17etst Mus t U. exhibited IAe faun .;e covens of Itritiph rnooefacturee,ta Dverdweases, Work-boom. Wri:stosodett, Dessiortoge, and other ankles of utility at luxury suitable for preantattoo., A trparate de. for Varier 1.4.,h 761ar. A:iet,rlV , and l'asttrile TOW% Tette dory, Moore, Odesore, Peztoiset, Plate, Cc. Shipping orders snouted. dame rims chusedat sal the ketabilsbemotse New "how Rooms at On ittitrAt-otre , t EttVioe'retitt tot toe *ale of noon rote to spool, !zees, eat a Tortltr of attest'.