The Express. — London, England, 1853-06-22 00:00:00

i _ ur 1 11%1' .0 ilOlllO yOU to reetity say haw iu the cuuutry where 3ou tr•l e sufa , • to till you that these is not one to I e itatrllltlOS put forward in some j ▪ , tr . u:l Lave deltoid an extension et' territory, or a V s anat peallJa of •iur Asiatic frontier, or the right of no -91.";" a i . g me..ng the Patriarchs of Comtantinople, A I ether protectorate tending to exceed that c xera+e • • thu litionally, fitefo, and of right, in g'•-sef an t e rior treaties. You are sufliriently „„ eu,e t.:MP ~ with the fichog of the Emperor to know that et ia yeted u f av .100 1.0: desire the ruin and destruc:ion of the • p m e;re, which be has twice saved ; that, on the • s' s • he ha. always regarded, and still regards, the l bw a . the best possible combination to rivr:..ebrto.to all those European interests which world L - into conflict should a void he made ; and I t, the protection of the Green Ruseian rune In to order to watch over its intere s t s, we have no Is 7o l t . o ther rights than tho s e which are assured to us by tw a t mates, our position, the influence which results Moth rel.•aimis sympathies existing between 50,000,000 of ;he Greek rite, and the great majority of the ems of the Sultan ; an influence which bile 11Cen:esti rah; ed tje a ges, which is inevitable , because it exists in lie . an d sot is winds; an influence which the Emma, {,0.1 airs oly operating when he ascended the theme, tho • o Is he cannot renounce in deference to unjust suspi- 1 sea , w i t hout sbandouing the glorious heritage of his , pr accessory. I write to till you how little foundation there is for the • circulated on the subject of Prince Mencliikon ohch has had no other object than the arraage mrs: et the cuirstion of the holy places. It would be too long, Monsieur, were I to trace in detail Ike hot,ry of all the phases through which this has passed awe Mai yeas 1650. This question, it is satisfactory to know, esenefint raised by us. We knew too well that it was big with cosaequenoes for the peace of the East, and perhaps e lse for the peace of the world. We have not ceased front the tint to call the serious attention of the principal cabiailealle t he psalms which was preparing for us, and to the grave eventuality to which it might give rise, and the successive gen topmost which it has taken, bringing on the present sass, has only too well justified our previsions. It will gieto. for the moment to recsl to your recollection that in oesetuence of the first concessions obtained by France, in Spoor of the Latins at Jerusalem, end to the detriment of t er ancient privileges enjoyed by the Greeks, the Emperor, went each day that the evident partiality of the Porte for the Lain* lea it into concessions more and more grave for the rights and interests of the Oriental church, found him self compelled to address an amicable but serious letter to the Sultan. The result of this act was first the convocation of a committee formed esclmively of Turkish Clem's, which undertook to make an arrangement proper to coo. ciliate the various pretensions; then, afer long discussions, a responsive letter of the Sultan reached the Emperor, an wincing the solution of the question, and containing the wee solemn promises that the rights granted to the Greek smicasunities by the Porte should be maintained. A flramen., which contained the details of this arrangement was, at the woe time communicated to us. At the head of this firman sa autographic Ilatti-Sherif of the Sultan acknowledged and consecrated in the most formal manner the anterior acts granted to the Greeks at different epochs, renewed by Sauk lishmoud, and confirmed by the reigning sovereign. Mthough this letter end roman were conceived in • spirit, and in terms which departed somewhat from the strict stars pew which we were anthers to maintain, still these documents having ago Seared to the Emperor to satisfy to a certain geld his Just Kilian!' for the interests and immunities of the flusso•Greek cult at Jerusalem, • conciliatory desire in duced his majesty to accept them. Ile recognised them so as to give them the value of a definitive and solemn en gagement. la presence of these categoric documents, officially coon Maaicated, alter a long and painful negotiation the impe ril government was certainly entitled to consider clewed a debate which his moderation had prevented becoming dangerous, and which left the Latins in possession of new advastages. You know that unhappily it wax not thus far I should be led to, were I to relate here all the acts of weakness, tergiversation, and duplicity which marked the conduct of the Ottoman authorities, when the time win come to fulfil the engagements which they had contracted toward us, and to proceed to Jerusalem, according to the usual forms, to promulgate and register the execution o the fireman. Sent fur this purpose to the Holy City, ac cording to the explicit assurance given to our mission at Constantinople, the Turkish commissary, when on the spot, dared to tell our consul, who insisted on the reading and tecotration of the firman, that he knew nothing of the docu meat, sod that it was not mentioned in Ms instructions. Sub- I sequently, upon our reclamation, the firman was read and registered at Jerusalem, but then only with restrictions damaging to the oriental faith. But the dispositions of the act itself have been openly transgressed. The most flagrant infraction of it was the placing the key of the principal gate of the church at Bethlehem in the hands of the Latin patriarch. This act was contrary to the exorets words of the &inn. It profoundly wounded the clergy and all the population of the Russo-Greea rite, because, according to the ideas at:epted in l'ilestine, the possession of this key seems to imply possession of the whole temple. The go vernment of the Sultan thus proclaims in the eyes of all the supremacy which it accords to • rite which is not that of the majority of its subjects. Such forgetfulness of the most positive promises contained in the letter of the Sultan to the Emperor—such open want of faith, were certainty of • nature to autbotise our august master, wounded in his dignity, in kis friendly confidence, in his religion which is common to him with his people, to demand a signal satisfactien. He preferred, however, to obtain this satisfaction by pacific means. Ile endeavoured Once moos to enlighten the sovereign of Turkey respecting the wrongs which he was committing towards us as well as against his own interests. For this purpose he sent Prince hfenchikoff to Constantinople. Ru mission had no objects not relative to the affairs of the Holy Plates. He was first to negotiate instead of the armee, which bad been neutralised, a new arrangement, which,, without depriving the Latins of the advantages which they had gained (for be did sot wish to place the Forte in the false position towards Frown in which she had placed herself towards us), should at least explain thew concenous in a 'sinner to remove the appearance of a vie tory gained over the Greek church, and re-establish by means of legitimate compensations the equilibrium which had been disturbed. Secondly, the object of the negotiation was to corroborate this arrangement by as authentic set, which might be to us at once a reparation ter the pest and a guarantee for the This first pert of our easbasirdoes mansion, very diffi cult and thorny in itself, since it concerned the regulation of the reciprocal, but coatTedidery, rights and interests of Rsseia and Franco was conducted is an extreme spirit of conciliation, to which, we are glad to say it, the French go vernment on its part responded. After long discussions, two new firmed were obtained, with the acquiescence of tb French ambassador. But as I have just said, the question to be settled pre sented another side. To obtain an arrangement was ant a:I Without an act which should give it validity, and sae us a guarantee that the sew Simons would be executed, it is evident that thew documents could have no value is our eyes. The Emperor attached to this peculiar import acce,because, in fact, it constituted the only reparation which he demanded for ass outrage to his dignity. This Prime Ideochikoff was charged to obtain, by means of a cowed• tom whish be was to sign with the Turkish government, Ot treaty, properly so called, there was no question. The form of this convention has been loudly declaimed against, as if it attainted in some way }he sovereign right of the Sa tan, as conferring upon us, in fact, in the name of religisa, A right to intersneddle perpetually in the interior dialed Turkey. We believe that those who say so only conjure phantom of their own imagination. principle, neither • oenvention Doc even a MeV would have had anything unusual about it, sad we eadlel understand how it would have been mote ea &dant to the rights of the Sultan than the capitulations or other ads which Austria:and France already possess in Turkey. Fee In principle—that is to say, in what concerns the indepen dence of the Sultan—it matters little whether as act ap plies to a large or small number of the subjects in foveae of whom foreign protection is exercised. A guarantee by treaty assured in another state to the interests of • foreign communion, has always been customary. At the epoch of the Reformation, states, even great catholic states, have concluded treaties or conventions with other states, gua ranteeing privileges to protestant& in their own territories. But these states have not considered that their sovereign rights arid political independence are:injured by such coa /rations. Hoge much more, then, may such acts be con- I eluded with a Mussulman state, the Christian subjects of which have so often suffered in property as well as in rights As to the fact, the thing exists already, and the form of a convention each as we pcopoP.o offers nothing new is the !way ofreligious protection. The treaty of Kainardje, by !which the Porte engages constantly to protect the Christian religion, its ministry and churches in its 'Wee, implies sufficiently for us a right of illance and remonstrance. This right is again established and more clearly specified Rin the treaty of Adrianople. Thus for eighty years we have poeaeame d in writing the right which isnoW co - htebted, and which is regarded as calculated to effect a revolution in our relations with the Ottoman Porte, by conferring on us a virtual sovereignty over the majority of its subjects. Cute., during this lapse of time, if we bad been disposed to abuse the power thus given to us, tt.e occasion would not have failed, especially in later times in which Europe delivered to anarchy, the governments power less against interior discord, were sheorbed or dis tracted ►y the revolutions of the west, left us free to follow out the ambitious views which we are sup- posed to cherish. If we had entertained such intentions should we have waited until peace was re-established in Europe ? Should we have disposed of our forees so as to offer to our neighbours a material or moral support? Should we have laboured with zeal to reconcile our alike, and avoided all that could hinler the intimate union of Om powers ? Oa the contrary, we should have sought to per petuate their discord. We should have left the European governments to light out their affairs, and, profiting by their embarrassment, should have advanced without ob- stacle to the object pointed out as the ;aim of our aggressive policy. But now that social order is happily everywhere re-established, and states reassured on their foundations, are able freely to dispose of their forces, the moment would be strangely chosen for such a design. Once more, in priociple as in face, a convention with the Porte on behalf of our co-religionariis bas no novelty. It would offer us uo advantage which we have not a long time posasseed, and of which we might.nut long since have made ase had we been so inclined. If we are strong we have no need of it. If we are weak such en act would not render us formidable. This is so true that we never should have thought of making the proposition apropos of the Holy Places, if the Porte bad not compelled us by forgetting its solemn promises to attempt to bind it more narrowly to the maintenance of the status qaso of the sanctuaries in Palestine ; if, when we complained of the concessions made to our detriment it had not replied to us by way of excuse that as to the Holy Places, France had a treaty right In them and Russia bad not. Fur the rest, messieurs, we have never made a convention properly so called, a sins quo non of our accommodation with the Porte. Although the draft of a convention was remitted to Prince Menchikoff when he was sent to Constantinople full power was given to hiss not only to , modify its terms, but also to obtain the required stipula tions in any form which might be least repugnant to the susceptibilities of the Porte or the ministers of other courts. It was upon this authorisation that Prince Menchikoff, having convinced himself of the obstacles which opposed our project of a convention, confined himself to demanding, under the name of a Sened, an act more in accordance with Eastern ussgss and less conformed to the solemn ideas which the word convention ordinarily implies in European public law. Two clauses of the first project of a seised, in which we demanded, not as ha. been pretended, the right to confirm the election of the Patriarch of Constan tinople, but only the maintenance of the ecclesie astieal and temporal advantages accorded, oh an ii/110, to the four patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem, as well as to the metro• politans, bishors, and other chiefs of the Oriental church, having given rise to very grave objections Prince Malachi koff did not hesitate to suppress them entirely. A second project of a Seised resulted upon the acceptance of which he long persisted. At the lest moment, the Porte being determined to resent every kind of engagement which bete a bilateral and svotallagmatic form, our ambassador, acting in the spirit of his instructions went so far as to declare that if the I'orte would immediately accept and sign a note, such as you find subjoined to this despatch, he would con sent to he content with such a document, and consider it as a sufft ient reparation and guarantee. See then what, at the moment when,Prineeklenchikoff left Constantinople, was the real ultimatum proposed by the Inc. perial C4binet, and it was on the delay of the Porte to accept , the project in question, that our negotiator at length weighed r anchor and interrupted our relations with the Ottoman government. That which be conceded successively as to the form and substance of the propositions he also ceded as to the time in which they shinid be accepted, and although the response to his demands was to have been given on the Bth of May, it was not until the 21st that he left Constantinople. After three months of lebourious negotiation, having thus carried concession to its utmost limits, the Emperor finds hims If at last compelled to insist peremp torily upon the acceptance pure et simple of the project of note. Still, being moved, notwithstanding all, by the eon aiderations of patience and long animity which have hitherto guided him, he has given the Porte anew cpace of eight days to decide. If in vain, then, whatever effort it may cost his conciliatory disposition, he will see himself driven to find means to procure, by as attitude more pronounced, that satis faction which he has hitherto failed to obtain by pacific means. It will not be without lively and profound regret that he will adopt this attitude. But the blindness and obstinacy of some have led them to thrust him into a situation in which he cannot give way without the loss of his politica consideration. We beg of you, sir, to communicate these facts to the government to which you are accredited, bringing to its knowledge the important document annexed to the dispatch. We beg of you to give to it the greatest attention ; it is the Gordian knot of the question at this moment ; the knot which it is still our wish to loosen pacifically, but which it appears to have been endeavoured to make us cut through. By submitting our ultimatum to the imperial judgments of the cabinets, we leave it to them to decide if, after the serious wrongs of which the Ports has become culpable towards us— after it has given us No many causes of legitimate resent ment—it were possible to put up with a lesser satisfaction. The conscientious examination of our project of note will prove that, shorn of all form of treaty, or even of synal lagmatic contract, it contains nothing contrary to the rights of sovereignty of the Sultan, nothing which impasses nor part exaggerated pretensions attributed to us by &distrust as insulting to uses it is little justified by our anterior ESL. This examination will suffice, we hope, to dispel the hiss reports circulated on our haughty exactions, and ss penes that if the rejection of the hat means of conciliation whisk we propose to solve the difficulties which have bees par peaty throws in oar way, in the affair of the Holy Pb.,., should bring abost complications ifs Nature to impish, pesos, it is sot ea us that the rapsolhalty must rest b the eyes of the world. " HISSILILODII." PROJECT OF NOTE. This document, the text of which is referred to in the foregoing circular, is in the form of a declaration to be made by the Porte to the Emperor. The fol lowing is the essential passage of the proposed note, which it will be seen whatever Count Nesselrode may write, contains all that was most entangling and objectionable in the Sened:— erthodoz Oriental worship, its clergy, churches, and essorosioss, as well as its religious establishments, shall in future enjoy, without any abatement, sad under the icgis of the Sultan, the privileges and immunities which have been assured to it at* waif's°, or which have been awarded to it by imperial favour ; sad on a principle of exalted equity shall participate in the advantages awarded to other Christian rites, as well as to the foreign legations accre dited to the Sublime Porte by convention or special arrange ment. The other clauses relate to the Holy Places, but also repeat the stipulation that all the rights and immunities, secular dignities and functions, shall be secured to the Greek clergy for ever. SWITZERLAND. The Suisse, of Berne, of the 16th, says :—" Monday last, the Federal Chambre d'Axusation assembled at Olten (Soleure) decided on the case of prisoners connected with the affair of the arms seized at Poechiavo, and intended to favour the last insur rection at Milan. The prisoners were MM. Cle =multi, a merchant of Trieste ; C. Cazzola, a native of = a and formerly a judge of the tribunal of ; Count Jean Griilanzoni, of Reggio (Duchy' , ellt Modena), and now a merchant in Argau; and Ism Pole, and innkeeper of Poschiavo (Orisons). The Chamber decided that there were sufficient grounds for proceeding against Clementi, Canute, I and Orilanzoni, on the charge of assisting the insur- I rection in Lombardy, by supplying the insurgents with arms, and ordered the arrest of the last-named, who had been admitted to bail. It also decided that there were no grounds for proceedings against Jean Pole, but that he had no claim to indemnity for his imprisonment. In the case of Meeker, a Hungarian political refugee, Dioli, also a refugee, and Zanm gorio, a deserter from the Sardinian army, who had been arrested on a charge of distributing Mazzinian proclamations, the Chamber decided that the proofs were not sufficient to convict them, but that the sus • • puma against them were strong enough to do away 'with any claim to indemnity." THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1853. FRANCE. (BT SCIIMARINI TBLEGUAPU.) l' WEDNESDAY Moaniva The Meniteur publishes a decree which suppresses the Ministry of General Police. M. de Maupas is named senator. The Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce is re-established. M. Marie is appointed minister. PARIS, TrEODAT EVENING. The following is the reply of the four ambassadors at Constantinople to Reschid-Pacha, when consulted by him on the draught of the treaty which Prince Menchikoff had sent to the Divan: May 21, 18.53. The representatives of Great Britain, France, Austria, and Prussia, in reply to the desire expressed by his Excel lency Iteschid-Pecha to learn their views on the draught of a note communicated by Prince Mencbikoff, are of opi• nion that, on a question which touches so nearly the liberty of action and sovereignty of his Majesty the Sultan, his' Excellency Reschid Yacht is the beet judge of the course which ought to be adopted, and they do not consider them selves authorised, in the present circumstance, to give any advice on the subject. (Signed) Renozires, E. DE LACOVE, E. DE KLETZL, W•LDENBILUCK. A letter from Constantinople, of the 6th, states that Prince Muza-Mohammed had arrived there on the previous day from Teheran, being charged on the part of the Shah of Persia with a particular mis sion to the Ottoman government. "The Court of Persia, like the Viceroy of Egypt," says the letter, "shows itself favourable to Turkey." Two regiments are now being organised in Turkey on the plan of the Chanseurs of Vincennes. They are to be armed like them, will manoeuvre in the same manner, and will be dressed like the Zouaves. These regiments are intended to serve in the Balkans. Three Spanish merchant vessels put into Malta on the 14th. They are bound to Constantinople with cargoes of mules purchased in Spain, and intended for the field artillery of the Turkish army. The St. Petersburg journals which arrived yester day and the day before in Paris present this curious fact—that they are completely silent respecting the I affairs of Turkey. That word is not even found in them, which would seem to imply that the Russian government desires to envelope its resolutions in the most complete secresy. "Accounts from St. Petersburg of the 11th," says the Patric, "announce that Prince Menchikoff had just been named governor of the Crimea." The manoeuvres of the troops in the Camp de Satory, fixed to take place yesterday, under the orders of the Empeor, were not postponed on account of the unfavourable state of the weather. The troops were drawn up at half-past one o'clock, and were joined by the brigade of infantry from Versailles. The Emperor arrived shortly after two o'clock in an open car riage, accompanied by Prince Napoleon. His Majesty who was received by Marshal Magoon, imisieduitely got on horseback and took the mod, accompanied by the Prince, as his aide-de-camp. The infantry occupied the first line, the cavalry the rear, and the artillery, the I centre. The infantry having formed into squares, with a certain number of guns in the centre of each, kept up a sharp fire on an imaginary enemy. They afterwards formed into line, leaving spaces between the battalions for the cavalr y to act. A considerable number of evolutions were afterwards executed with admirable precision, neither the generals nor the troops knowing beforehand what orders the Emperor intended giving. The heavy state of the ground, from the incessant rain, at last rendered it necessary to desist. His Majesty in the evening gave a grand dinner at Trianon to all the generals and superior officers of the camp, and returned to St. Cloud about nine o'clock. The market for government securities was charac terised by general dulness throughout the day. A reaction, however, took place towards the termina -1 tion of business, and the closing prices show an ad vance of I per cent. in both Three per Cents. for the account and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for cash, and # per cent. in the quotation of the latter de scription of stock for the end of the month. The Three per Cents. for money declined Sc. A fall of K occurred in Bank of France shares. The follow lug were the final quotations :—For cash : Three per Cents., 76.45 ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 101.40. For ,the account : Three per Cents., 76.75; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 101.50. Bank Stock, 2,670 f. Northern, 880; Paris and Orleans, 1030 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 890; Paris and Lyons, 900; Paris and Rouen, 1,000. We have obtained from another source a transla tion of the bulletin clandestinely printed in Paris, which is supposed to lead to the recent arrests. It is understood to have been most extensively cir culated : THZ DIRICTINO COMBITTEN TO Tllll PUBLIC CONSCIENCE. No. 2. To speak to the public conscience in a country such re ours is to be assured of success. If the people allowed the tad of December and the proclamation of the empire to pass without *protest, it was because the people waited for its own day and its own hour, but it did not me with indif ference or without pain those sad days during which all those rights so dearly purchased were placed in jeopardy. It is to the conscienos of citizens that we address ourselves. well persuaded that the cry of indignation that we ra;se will find an echo in their hearts, and will find utterance from every mouth, without distinction of opinion. Scarcely any man dares to avow himself a Bonapartist, so odious are the acts of Bonaparte. Every man see. to absolve himself from any participation in the crime of December. One resigns, another shelters himself behind orders which he was bound- Is obey. a third—and tie greater number are of this class—pretends that be was deceived, and really thought society was in danger. In a word there is but one criminal, and that in Bonaparte. For a trifle his friends would deliver him up, bound band and foot. Citizens, when a Ration is in such a state as this, all that is requisite is to sound the tocsin and cry to arms ! Yes! Let the word be given, " Up," and the entire people will hear the appeal at the first signal of the directing committee. Oct le behind then, ye pammites, off-scourings, leaches of the Temple, swindlers, rubbers, all you that have been the meeemplices of Bonaparte, set, as we well know, out of love to bib, but to keep year places—away with you, for the ere. is arming to strike you in the name of human Let every masa then arm and be ready. all shades of republicanism' be blooded and gaited noise tho issivemeel lag of Liberty. Let the various smialist embeds somettnee their distinctive theories. Uses aweigh have lees sows to provide against any want efmaterials for the Dew social edifies. Let all be thoroughly =that socialism is a edema which liberty alone can el !' Let those timid Wads that usually swell the rest ranks so Move he almmod at republicans, and sod giblet a the Oasts= that love frightened them, the "Red roe for hoboes, are purely malicious inventions. glire is great, strong, generous ; it desires the well- lip i resperity of all. Take courage, then, you who hostrarabls andustry—bourgeois, as well as minor lothouneo—take courage! And you, National Guards, Illmel by power,—you who were about to be disarmed lessees it was felt already that the old leaven of liberalism was working in you, costs to us. and the empire will not weigh very heavily in the balance. Once more, watch, —and to arms at the flit signal. THE UNITED STATES . AIi:MAL OF THE ATLANTIC. (Bt *LICTBIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, TCI!DAY. The United States mail steamer Atlantic, Captain West, arrived in our river this evening, with the usual mails from the United States, about 203 pas sengers, and specie to the amount of 300,000 dole on freight. By this arrival advices have been re ceived from New York to the 11th inst., the date of the departure of the Atlantic, being three days later than those received by the Europa on Saturday last. The Atlantic reports having passed the United States mail steam ship Pacific off New York, on the 12th inst., which vessel had left this port on the Ist instant. The British and North American royal mail steam ship Africa was also passed, outward-bound, on the 19th inst., having left Liverpool the preceding day. The Leander frigate, with the Earl of Ellesmere, the royal commissioner appointed to represent the English nation at the New York Exhibition, on board, arrived at New York on the 10th inst. A further arrival of gold from California had taken place at New York, the estimated value being about 3,000,000 dole. Father Oavazzi, after having lectured to crowded audiences at New York and various other cities in the United States, has proceeded to Canada, where he has been the cause of great disturbances at Quebec and Montreal : at the latter city the assistance of the military was required to restore order, when, having been compelled to have recourse to their arms in sell defence, the result was that seven persons lost their lives, besides six others who were mortally wounded. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Business generally was reported to be is a tolerably fa vourable condition. The money market at New York continues easy, and the present rates are in favour of the borrowere, first class paper meeting with a ready discount at 6 per cent., and loans on call at 5} to 6 per cent. Prices of good dividend paving securities were generally well supported. There An been but a smal l amount of business trans acted in the market for breadstuff', and prices in general have slightly receded; in wheat, however, more firmness ' has been evinced; the quotations at present are :—Western Canal flan, 4 dole. 871 e. to 5 dole. 50e. per barrel; Genessee prime wheat, I dol. 26c. to 1 dol. 28e. per 601b5.; Indian corn, round yellow, 66e. to 68c. per bushel. Since the last report of the condition of the cotton market at New York but little variation has taken place, and only a moderate amount of business has been transacted. Prices have, however, been steadily maintained, as will be seen by the following quotations:—New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair. 12e. to 121 e. per lb.; Uplands, mid. fair to fair, 111 c. to 111 e. per lb. The unfavourable reports of the con dition of the crops still continue. The provision market was reported to be inactive at the time of the steamer's departure, but prices generally showed considerable firmness. In freights but little change had °centred, the demand still continuing limited in amount. The market for exchanges was quiet. Bills on London were quoted 1091 to 110; Paris, 5.121 to 5.15; Hamburg, 361 to 361; Bremen, 791 to 791. CO, Court. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke of Saxe Coboarg Gotha, and attended bv the Countess of Desert, Lady in Waiting, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Equerry in Waiting, and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness, left Bucking ham Pelmet at half-past 9 o'clock yesterday morning for the Military Camp at Chobham. Her Majesty and his Royal Mgliness went to the new station at Vauxhall of the London and South Western Railway, whete they were met by the King of Hanover, attended by a gentleman in waiting. Tee august party travelled by a special train to Staines, and there entered two of the Queen's carriages which were in readiness, and proceeded to the camp, escorted by a detachment of the 4th Light Dragoons. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, returned to Buckingham Palace at 20 minutes before 5 o'clock. A deputation waited, by appointment, upon Prince Albert yesterday, with a model of the new ironical flour mill, which his Royal Highness was graciously pleased to accept. The deputation consisted of Sir John V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., the Right Hon. R. A. Christopher, M.P., B B. Cabbell, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., Mr. Weatrup, the inventor Mr. Sheerman, co-patentee, Dr. D. Thomson, F.R.S.E., Mr. Slater, co-patentee, and Mr. Northouse, parliamentary manager. The Marquis of Ormonde has relieved Lord Rivers In taw duties as Lord in Waiting to the Queen. Major I Berkeley Drummond has relieved Mr. R. Ormsby Gore in his duties as Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. The Omen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke of Saxe - Coburg Gotha. and attended by the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ws, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence last evening. The Duchess of Kent, aommtpanied by the Duchess or Serve-Cobourg Gotha and the Princess Adelaide of Rohm. , lobe, and attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Sit George Cooper, and Lord James Murray, left town at a quarter past 8 o'clock yesterday morning, for the military camp at Chobham. Her Royal Highness travelled by the London and South Western Railway to Staines, and from thence proceeded to the camp. The Royal Duchess re turned to Clarence House, St. James's, shortly before 6 o'clock. Prince Edward of Sane Weimar visited the Duchess of Kent on Mon.lay, at Clarence House, St. James's. A deputation on behalf of the National Patent Steam Fuel Company, for a charter of incorporation, had an in terview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Mr. Samuel Gurney, jun., Mr. Francis Hankey, Mr. John Sanderson Rigge, Mr. John Gurney Fry, Mr. Edwin Fox, Mr. Henry Baker, Mr. Henry Welker, Mr. Charles Kemp Dyer, Mr. Thomas Wood, and Mr. Osmond Lewis (secretary). The Bishop of Antigua had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. A deputation of the Bishop's Stortford Training School had an interview with Earl Grenville (Lord President), at the Council-office, yesterday. The deputation consisted of the Rev. Lord Charles A. Hervey, the Hon. F. D. Ryder, Mr. John Archer Honblow, Mr. C. W. Puller, and the Rev. John Menet, Chaplain and Secretary. Mr. Percival Norton Johnson and Mr. James Garrard had an interview with the Right Hon. B. Cardwell, at the Board of Trade, yesterday, on the subject of Assay Offices. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office, yester , terday, from the Governor of Van Dieman's Land. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber. The Lords present were the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, Sir J. Patteeoo, and Sir E. Ryan. An appeal from Bengal, " Kadir Buksh Klima v. F'meelt-oon-liissa," was heard. INDIAN MAILS. Two Bombay mails arrived in Loudon via Mar seilles on the 20th inst., via., the mail despatched from Bombay per the Auckland on the 10th of May, duo here en the 16th inst., and the mail despatched from Bombay on . _ the 23rd of May, in advance of its time, not being due here before the 2nd of July. This circumstance has 'rim from 1 the early despatch from Bombay (thus proved to be nano. cutlery) of the mail usually sent home on the led of the month, I. anticipation of the monsoon, and the very slew passer' of the Precursor from Calcutta to Saes, by which the Bengal suffeeed long detention at Altanadria, and ena bled the Bombay mail of the 23rd of May to overtake *e mail of the 10th of May, consequently there will be as ar rival from Bombay via Marseilles with the next Ceheutta mail; nor will the nest Calcutta mail bring any later intel ligence from the Bengal Presidency, because it in a n ew. pated by the Bombay mail ; and as the nest goner el India mail will not be due in London before the 1501 of July we say be nearly a month without later intragence from India or THE " COUNT OUT." List of members present last right in the House of Commons when the " count out" took place at eight o'clock. M. Chambers Gore Langton W. Williams J. Hume Apsley Pellatt W. Coffin L. Heyworth W. Kirk Sir J. Walmeley D. Pugh Capt. Scobell Digby Seymour W. Biggs Sir E. Dering James Bell C. Cowan C. S. Butler E. R. Rice J. Ferguson L. H. Bland G. Thompson M. Dunne Sir B. Hall W. H. Barrow Lord D. Stuart Masters Smith Sir C. Wood G. M'Cartney Marquis of Blandford Lord R. Grosvenor W. Ew•art T. Kennedy G. Duncan TILE FRIENDS OF THE CLERGY. - The third annual meeting of this institution, which was established in 1849, for allowing permanent pensions mot exceeding 401. per annum to the widows and orphan unmar-;ed daughters of clergymen cf the esta blished church, sod for affording temporary assistance to necessitous clergymen and their families, took place yester day at the Hanover-square Rooms. The Earl of Cur cassynn occupied the chair ; and on the platform were the Bishops of Chester, Limerick, and Carr (Bombay), D. Wad dington, Esq., and several other friends of the in stitution. The report, read by the Secretary, expressed gratitude for the success which had attended the institution. Daring the pest year the Marquis of Salisbury had accepted the office of President. In the same period 20 pensioners had been placed on the funds-10 in November end 10 in May last. There were at present 39 pensioners, of whom 18 received 30/. ; 8, 3:31. ; end 13, 401. Temporary assistance had been granted as follows, vie:-9901. to 98 necessitous clergymen, 4691. Bs. to 55 widows, and 4401. to 60 daughters, making a total of 1,8991. Si. There had been 2,0001. invested is the public funds, and the whole funded property now amounted to 4,5301. At the festival in April last Lord John Russell had presided, and given a donation of 20 guineas. The Marquis of Salisbury had consented to take the chair at the next anniversary. The late Mr. Territt, of Tewkesbury, bad bequeathed a legacy of 5001., contingent upon the lite of an aged relative. The report, which closed with an affecting and urgent appeal, was followed by a financial statement, showing the gross receipts, including the previous balance of 479/. 3s. 3 d. to have been 7,332/. 18s. 10d., and that after making the foregoing payments and investing 2,0001., there was a balance in hand of 6491. 16s. 5d., in addition to the capital stock of 4,5301. On the motion of the Bishop of CHESTER, seconded by the Rev. Dr. Woirruisorow, the reports were WHlM mously carried. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business, and the right rev. prelates and others who spoke in the support of the remaining resolutions, concurred in pointing out the ne cessity for such an institution, on account of the very low stipends upon which the great majority of the clergy were compelled to support their families. The proceedings terminated with a cordial vote of thanks to the noble chairman, and tke benediction, pronounced by , Bishop Carr. OPENING OF A NEW PORT ON THE MERSEY. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. Some five or six miles, in a sonth-easterly Lion from Liverpool, on the Lancashire side of the m Mersey, lies what was a few years ego the quiet country village of Gersten. But since that period a great change has come over the face of affairs there ; Garston has been disinterred from the oblivion in which it had lain fur so long a period. The quiet village was found out some two or three years ago by the progressive spirit of the age—that spirit which of ►ate has been abroad over the whole land, finding out places and things before unnoticed or unthought of, and with the aid of man's genius and strong arm adapting them to the growing wants of the times. And so an advance guard of men, with measuring lines and little flags, took posses sion ol Cianton, and ran out their lines and planted their Hags on the ground be•ween the village and the river. This advance guard was followed by a main body that usually succeeds the little flags—great stalwarth men, who, in a comparatively short space of time, quite changed the aspect of the place. To the workmen themselves, and the casual on-looker, everything had the appearance of desolation and confusion ; but genius and skill presided over all the operations, and out of the hands of the workmen, so directed, hsx now proceeded a fine large dock—the water terminus of the St. Helens and Gaston Railway and Canal Company—the whole scheme being a railway to convey coal and salt from the districts of Lancashire. where these articles abound, to a suitable position on the Mersey, from whence they could with futility be exported. The able supervision of Mr. S. C. Court, civil engineer and archi tect, has now completed the undertaking so far as to allow the business of the dock to be carried on. The railway from St. Helens has been opened soma months. Altoge• ther a new era of an encouragin t t character dawns for Garston. To-day the formal ceremony of opening the dock took place, soda new port has now in reality been added to the Mersey, for the traffic to be carried on there in the export of minerals and salt will be to a large extent, and the dock is capable of being used fur other goods, should the course of trade require it, as no doubt it will. A great concourse of spectators assembled from Liverpool, Manchester, War rington, St. Helens, Ike. In the course of its construction the dock property has been considerably extended The dimensions are now as follow :—Water area, 61 acres ; width of ship entrance, 50 feet ; width of river craft lock, 20 feet ; depth of water on sills below Old Dock sill, Liverpool, 6 feet, giving, on a2O feet tide, a depth of water of 26 feet on the sills and 29 feet in the dock, the dock being excavated 3 feet below the gate sills ; length of wharf (100 feet wide), 830 yards. Thirty acres of land are set apart for a coal depot on the high level, 30 feet above the dock wharf, with coal-drops on the deck side for shipping the coal from the waggons into the ships' holds, the speed of delivery being only limited to the rate at which the coal can be stowed. The large depot of 30 acres is rendered necessary in consequence of the great number of full and empty waggons belonging to the Wigan and St. Helen collierin that will be at times collected. As it requires 200 waggons to load a ship of 1,000 tons it is contemplated that there will be constawly from 500 to 1,000 waggons in the depot, arriving, departing, and in standage. At the north end of the depot are a series of coal yards, with neat cottages for the keepers, uniformly built, all of which were taken by colliery proprietors before they were laid out and constructed. SOCIETY FOR TRE PREIENTIOX OF CRCELT3 SPAIN. The Herald° announces that General Prim, who was in Paris on leave, was to proceed to Turkey on a scientific military mission, confided to him by the Spanish government. Independently of his pay, he will be allowed 120,000 reals for his expenses. lie is to be accompanied by two aides-de-camp, MM. Delantre and Fernandez Ban Roman, brother of the Under-Secretary of State of the War Department. The general is instructed to follow the phases of the war, should hostilities break out between the Turks and tho Russians, or at least to study, in a military point of view, the events of which Constantinople may be the theatre. The Clamor Publico blames General Prim for ac cepting that mission from the government. Members of the army, who are political men and opposition deputies, should not, in the opinion of that journal, undertake such missions. DEPUTATION TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.-4DVER• TIIIIIIIINT Duty.—A memorial, numerously signed by influential citizen* of London, was presented yesterday to Lord John Russell at the Pay-ofilce, Whitehall, urging the total repeal, rather than the reduction, of the advertise. smut duty, and pointing out that all the gross inequalities of the old tax wou'd remain under the sixpenny rate, which would mntinue to cripple and extinguish cheap literature. His lordship stated that was the sole consideration for which the tax was retained, and denied any intention to control the press. THE DRAMA IN ITALY.—The Piedmontese Gazette of the 16th publishes a royal decree, establishing a prize of 1,400 fr. for the best dramatic production of from three to fin acts, represented in the Theatre Royal of Turin in the mune of h" year; another prize of I,ooofr. for the second best, of from two to fi ve acts; and • third of 600 fr. for Ithe third beat, of [roam to tiro acts. TO ANIMALS. It always gives us great pleasure to record any circumstances tending to promote or to mark any sympathy of feeling between our own country and other nations, more particularly between ourselves and the French, or the Ger mans. At the meeting held lately at the Hanover-square Rooms for the promotion of the objects of this society, after the report of the proceedings of the put year had been read, and the chiirman and Lord D. Stuart had spoken, M. Le Vim:mate deValmer,Vice-President of the Paris Society, and delegate to London from the French society, after a most interesting speech delivered in exceedingly good English, presented two medals in the name of his Royal Highness Prince Adalbert, of Bavaria, to Sir J. S. Lille, and to Mr. W. Adams Smith, the delegates from the English society at the last annual meeting of the Socistd Protectrice des Animaux, held in Paris. At the same time M. de Veinier read a letter from the Prince, being presi dent of the society at Munich, expressive of his greet anx iety for the more general dissemination of the principles of humanity towards animals, and for the most cordial union of the three associations of Paris, Munich, nod London. This letter was received by the whole company with the warmest acclamations, and on the proposition of General Buckley, it was resolved that the Prince of Bavaria should be requested to accept the title of honorary member of the London Society, and that Mr. Palter, smile councillor, and founder of the Munich Society, be elected an honorary member. We trust that the warm reception which for the second time M. de Valmer has met with In this country, aided by the influence of the His Royal Highness Prince Adalbert, in Bavaria. will be bat the precursors to the for mation of many similes sodium throughout Europe. HARWICH ELECTION.-THE POLL. TUEBDAY AFTIIIIXOON. The poll opened this morning at eight o'clock, Mr. Bagehaw taking the lead from the conuneneensent, and maintaising a majority over his opponent of from 2•i to 40 votes ; and by 12 o'clock his ♦ictory was certain. At 4 o'clock, whim this poll cloned, the numbers were declared to be— Por Begobaw For Fruer Majority for Bagshaw Both candidates afterwards addressed the electors—Mr. Bagshaw Irom the hustings, and Sir Wm. Fraser from the window of Lis hotel ; and the triumphant party afterwards walked in proOesaion through the principal streets of the town. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. The official report is as follows :—The public health is now in a more satisfactory state. The weekly deaths registered in Lesion were as the beghisiug of April above 1,309; is May they averaged more than 1,190 ; in the week that ended last Saturday the number fell to 924. In the ten weeks corresponding to last week, of the years 184353 the average number was R 96, which, if raised in prop.stios to increase of popslatios, biopsies 986. Hence it appe►se that the actual mortality of the week is less than the estimated amount by 62, a result more favourable than has been obtained during a long period. The number of fatal cases arising from typhus, con ' tin..sed, remittent fever, do., which in the previous week ading 11th June) was 59, declined last week to 35 ; thole °rom small-pox from 6to 2 ; measles decreased in the two to 20 a fro ; m pht 6 h 2 isis to (o o r cons o um n p t t h io e n) o f t sc r 163 to w s i ca lel r ks la p t f i n n e a um ro t : from 30 to 39; hoeping-cough from 68 to 67; bronchitis from 54 to 59. Viewing the fatal diseases iu the groups in which they are classified, it is seen that those affecting the respiratory organs alone, are in excess of the corrected average. But the nearly constant decrease of this class (which does not include phthisis) daring the last seven weeks is shown in the following numbers : 224, 199, 174, 162, 129, 136, and 127. Last week the births of 742 boys and 667 girls, in all 1,409 children, were registered in London. In the corres ponding weeks of the eight years 1845-52, the average number was 1,348. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.798 in. The reading of the barometer increased from 29.59 in. at the beginning of the week to 2914 in. by Oh. p.m. on the 15th ; remained at this reading nearly till 9h. p.m. on the 17th ; and de. Greased to 29.79 in. by the end of the week. The mean temperature was 58.3 deg., which is 1 deg, below the average of the same week in 38 years. The mean daily temperature was below the ge on 4 days, above it about 2 deg. on Wednesday, Thurs day, and Friday. On Monday, when the wind blew from the north-west, and 1.15 in. of rain fell, the mean tem perature was 9.1 deg. below the average. The highest tem perature occurred on Thursday, and was 74 deg. ; the lowest was on Friday, 49 7 deg. The greatest difference between the due point temperature and sir temperature was 19.5 deg., and occurred on Thursday ; the difference fell to Odeg. on Monday ; the mean difference of the week was 7.1 deg. The wind blew from the north on the first three days, and afterwards from the aonth-wit. CHATHAM ELECTION. CHATHAM, JUIIL 21. The election for this borough took place to-day., The candidates were Captait. Vernon, brother to Sir F. Smythe, and Admiral Stirling, who contested the borough with the last-named . gentleman a t the general election is 1852, and upon whose petition the c lection of Sir F. Smythe was declared void by the parliaments ry committee. Mr. ELY stood forward and propose d Admiral Stirling as a it and proper person to represent the borough of Chat. ham in parliament. Mr. TRIBE, in seconding the nomination, said he was proud to have the opportunity a second time of performing the same office, because he knew that when he was returned, as he undoubtedly would be, he would go to parlia ment determined to support a government that had the happiness, welfare, and progress of the country at heart—(" hear, hear," and cheers)—a government which might be truly described as a strong and a real govern ment, and whose acts would stand out in bold contrast with those of its predecessors. (Cheers.) Mr. Tribe con cluded by seconding the nomination of Admiral Stirling. Mr. T. WILL, jun., proposed Captain Vernon. Mr. HILLS seconded the nomination. Admiral &mums then addressed the de:ton. He said that he once more appeared before them to solicit the high honour of being returned a burgess to represent the borough of Chatham in parliament, but, before be proceeded to more important subjects, he begged to be allowed to refer to the dreams, for he could call them nothing else, of IMO of the gentlemen who had addressed them with reference to himself and the highly respectable party with which he was connected in the borough. When he came to the hustings that morning he had resolved to utter nothing that could give personal offence either to his gallant oppo nent or to any gentleman who gave him his support, and he would not be drawn from that purpose by any thing that had been said about him ; but this he would say, in his own defence, that if any act of his life, from his earliest career to the present moment, caused him a feeling of pride, it was that of coming to endeavour to vindicate the freedom of election in the borough oft:Wham. (. Ilear, hear," and cheers.) The whole of their rights and liberties depended upon that great pillar, freedom of election ; and any ono who endeavoured to invade that great principle could not be regarded :in the light of a friend of his country, and he put in peril all those great principles which had raised it to its present state of great ness. Ile did, therefore, feel a pride at having vindicated the freedom of election in this particular instance ; and he would tell them, in addition, that be . - would ever continue to do so. (Cheers.) iie did not claim their suffrage' upon any narrow personal grounds, ut on the great principles of liberty and the sound policy of the country. It was said that he was merely a nominee of Lord John Russell and the government, but he denied it, and he would tell them what lie really was. He was identi fied with the great and growing party in this country, which had brought forward and carried all the great improvements in their social system during the last thirty years, beginning with catholic emancipation and ending with free trade. (Cheers.) He was, however, of no party. lie came before them as a candidate should come. lie desired no person to Rive him his vote for any personal consideration or hopes. He avowed the same principles last year. He was then apposed by a gentlemen of whose private character he would not say one disrespectful word, but he was a supporter of the then government, and all the influence of the government was brought to bear to secure his election Ile told that gentleman on those hustings that the election bad been conducted in such a manner that it could not stand, and when the return was made, he en tered his protest against it, and declared it to be illegal. A committee of the House of Commons had declared it was not a legal election, and this showed that he was right, and he believed that the resolution of the committee, three fifths of whom were friendly to Sir F. Smythe, that the election was void, was regarded by the country to be both mild and just. With regard to the present election, he assured them that neither he nor his friends would do any thing in secret, or anything they were ashamed of, and it was for the electors to decide whether the right of election should be free and unbiassed, or whether it should be sub jected to such unfair and improper influences as had re cently been exposed. Captain VER.:os next addressed the electors, but he was received with a good deal of noise and interruption, the greater part of which, strange to say, appeared to proceed from those who wore his colours, and appeared to be his supporters. After stating that although there was a dif ference between his colour and that of bis gallant oppo nent, he said he believed there was really very little differ ence in their political opinions, but be would tell them why it was that he appeared before them on the present occa sion. He had told them that he was an independent conservative, and he would explain what that meant. Some people pretended that conservatism meant toryism ; but he wished them to understand that it was his opinion that toryism was dead and buried, and that out of the ashes of toryism had arisen the glorious phocoix con ism , and to that class of conservatism, which was perfectly inde pendent, he especially belonged. His opponents especially arrogated to themselves the term liberal ; but he could only say that, as an independent conservative, he was prepared to support the widest and most exten sively liberal measures. lie was independent by position, independent in principle, and he had no hesitation in saying that be was, to the extreme meaning of the word, a free trader. (Hear, hear.) The class to which he belonged had suffered all they could already from free trade, and he was now prepared to carry out the progressive advance of that system. In a word, he was a supporter of the princi ples of Sir Robert Peel. (Cheers.) A show of hands was then taken, which was declared to be in favour of Admiral Stirling. A poll was demanded on. behalf of Captain Vernon, which will commence this morning at 8, and finally close at 4 o'clock. THE CITY THOROUGHFARES. TO Till EDITOR OP Till EXPICIIIS. fits,—l am induced, by your admirable remarks on our streets, to send a query r to the real advantage likely to be gained by the opening of Cannon-street—a good street in itself, ►nt with very bad approaches. Although carmen dislike narrow streets, there are two things they dread more—eharp turns and awkward slopes,—and I think it will be found that our heavy traffic will take that course which is most level and most direr, even if narrow and crowded, in preference to that which is tortuous and hilly! Now, from Whitechapel and the docks—the chief sourer of our heavy traffic—there are three modes of access to this new street; Ist, by John-street or Jewry-street, Tower hill, and Tower-street; 2nd, by John-rivet, Ran -street, Mark-lane, and Tower-street; 3rd, by Fenchurch-street and Oracechurch-street. In all these way. there are either , sharp and inconvenient angles, or steep ascents and descents or both, and, in addition, there is the Tay awkward cross i ing at King William-street. I can hardly doubt that the old route by Leadenhall street and Cheapside will still be preferred. Altering one of your illustrations, Cannon-street is • pipe, wide in the centre, but with both ends narrowed. There are two modes of relieving this-Ist, by a thorough fare over Tower-hill, and widening of Tower-street ; 2nd, and more importantly, by improving Fenchurch-street, widening the east end, and making a new street from the north end of Rood-lane to London-bridge. This latter street is the only real mode of relieving Cheapaide, by effectually drawing off all the east and south traffic. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, VIATOR. 'DISCOVERY OF A PORTRAIT BY RAPHAEL.—A person at Misses had for a long time in his possession a drawing in red chalk, to which he attached so little value that it was thrown aside among some waste paper. An amateur having recently seen it, purchased it from him for 21. The purchaser having brought it to Paris showed it to some artists, who told him it was an admirable sketch, and he accordingly presented it to the director of the Musees. Soon after his return to Nimes he received a letter of thanks from an inspector of the Beau: Arts, in which it was stated that after minute investigation the drawing was found to be the portrait of La Fornarina, by Raphael, and was estimated as being worth, at the lowest, 10,0001. GREEK BANDITS.—A deputation was sent front Samoa, a abort time ago, with 100,000 piastres (15,0000, to be paid at Constantinople. On disembarking in Arlo, Minor, they were assailed by bandits, who took the money from them, and then sent back four of them to say thm, if another 110,000 piastres were not paid, the estamad.er, six in number, would be put to death. The ailkiainistsation and the Senate of Samoa were witkont,. straosuicea, and neither they nor the families of the priewaete Wyk** means of going to their relief. The brigands aroltajtpeeed ta, be I the band of Vaal-Caterdji, who acme title . Igo joipmettia 1 great excesses in the carious of Smyrea.: - . . . • ur