The Express. — London, England, 1853-07-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1853 He hoped in the government bill the principle of popular representation would be fully and fairly carried out. (Hear.) The motion was then agrerd to ;and the order for the committee on the bill wee discharged. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. SEAMEN'S SAVINGS BANKS BILL. ROUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESIMT, JULY 13. The bow* met at noon. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lards' Amendments to the Norwich and Spalding Railway Bill and Electric Telegraph Company of Irelaud bill were considered and agree . to. Teter/ READINOS.—Life Association of Scotland Bill, Limerick Improvement Bill, and Chard Railway Bill. 11111% reported from S- leer C immures, and ordered to he read a third time : Cestlemaine Estuary Reclamation ; Im penal Continental Gas (No. 2); South Wales Railway (Monmouth); Bills PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Tau OOTINNIIENI BMA AMIN BILL.—By Mr. L. BEI WORTH, from Tavistock, Barleston, Godshaw, 0cc , 1.1, SufTtlk ; Mr. 11ILLIGAN, from Wieners and imagers of the Sabbath School College Chapel, Bradford ; against. OPINING or THE CItTsTAL PALACE ON SUNDAY* By Mr. MOODY, front Horstield, theuessterehire, Trinity St. Philip.. Bristol, and Brumley an I B•w in Middlesex ; Mr. SPOONER, front w irkin s tmen of Ilrenttord and vicinity,. Bi. Jade, Botha 11 grimy, Greenham, Berks, in habitants of Christchurch, Everton, and two other places to Wilts ; sestina. SALT IN INDIA.—By Mr. H. BERKELEY, from the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, objecting to the monopoly *lsiah by the East India Compsoy, and prayin,g the house, in the bill relating to the East India Company's charter, to attends its great injustice hi StiteilL Barony! —By Mr. 11. BERKELEY, trees the membersof the medica l profession M the city a pima calling to the recohectios of the house the resolution In 1310 in favour of Adjutant-Soto-nil in the Royal Hamad and praying the house to carry at into of et, and to Sego Anemias. medical utficers in the navy on an equality as In r ink and pay with the owe clam in the army. Itrateritsriiix lii AssusitScas BILL —By Mr. L. GOWER, from Building and Inv. stalest Society in Sat. fordsbire, against Registration of Assurances Bill ; Goa trusters and 'stammers of the Potteries' Central Saris. Bank. Staff irdshire. for certain amendments in that hill. 0i akg PENNT POSTAGE —By Mr. L. HEYWORTM e from 11l emigrant. on board the emigrant ship Lady Man taught, in favour of. Pt MLR: Houma tSCGTLAND) BILL.—By Mr. W. LOCK HART, from the Venerable the General Asiembly of tie Church of Scotland, in favour of. Ixersirrius or Nusgannts.—By Mr. LOCKHART, fro.s the Venerable the General Assembly of the Church a Scotland, and from the Kirk &ssiims of Carlisle and Hama ten . Mr. CROSSLEY, from members of the church sad cangrotation of Wesleyan Methodists at Market Hare borough; Mr. F. Dt:NDAS, from the Free Church Press bytery in Orkney ; in favour of. NATIoNAL Mart taill.—By Sir 0. STRICK LAND, from Preston, signed by 542, praying that all national disputes may he referred to arbitration. SAUK Or INTOXICATING LIQUORS ON SUNDATIL—By Mr. MILLIGAN, from the inhabitants of Thornton in public meeting assembled; Mr. L. HEY WORTH (4), from Louth, against. LONDON DRAINAOI BILL —By Mr. EVELYN, Ilea Mr. Morewood, • promoter of the Great London Drainage Bill, and that it be recommitted. METROPOLITAN BRIDGES. Mr. OLIVEIRA renewed his notice tut a committee as metropolitan bridges, dropped by the count out last night, for Tuesday next, the 19th inst. SAVINGS BANKS. Mr. OLIVEIRA gave notice that tomorrow he would ask the Chaecellor of the Exchequer when it is intended to proceed with the Savings Books Bill; if the government intend to carry that measure as now air ended, or whether any alterations will be made in those clauses which relate to the liability of trustees, rate of interest to be allowed to depositors, and some other points to which Mr. Oliveira has called the attention of the right hon. gentleman. IMPROVEMENTS IN NAVIGATION. Sir R. INOLIS wished to put a question to the hon. sad gallant gentleman who, in the absence of the right hes. baronet the First Lord, represents I the Admiralty Dian,. ment. It would be known to many hon. gentlemen that about two years ago Lieut. Minium, of the United States navy, devised a great improvement in navigation by his dia. reveries and observations he made as to the depths, clan rents, and temper.ture of the ocean, and by mew of which voyages bad been reduced by one-half. Lieut. Mon. say's invention had been adopted by the United States navy, and the government of that country had remelt mended it to the consideration of the government of this, and to those of other maritime nations. The question he had to ask was, whether the government, having re ferred this plan to the Royal Society, and having received from the council of that body • strong recommendation in favour of its adoption, and having been made acquainted with the fact that the British Anon elation bad simultineously concurred in a similar recess. mendation, were ptcpared to adopt the suggestion of the United States' government, end to co-operate with them in carrying out the invention ? No doubt it, ai'option would involve some expense. but, compared with the important objects to be gained, that expense would be so trifling as to be scarcely worth consideration. (Hear, hear.) Admiral BERKELEY, in reply to his hon. friend's question, begged to state that the government were quite prepared to take their part in env well devised plan to carry out the object in view. And, with regard to the royal navy, most of the observations required as to the state of the cur rents, depths, and temperature of the ocean had already been directed to be ma e. But, as to the merchant service, there were great doubts and difficulties on the subjegg, and when he mad that in thermometers alone the adoffion of the proposed plan would occasion an expenditure of 3,500!., sad that after the thermometers were issued there were great doubts if they would be of much avail, he thought there was no very great prospect of i a being generally adopted, at least for the present. COUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE BILL. Mr. M. OIBSON wished before the order of the day for smumiag the committee on this bill was read, to put a question to the noble lord the Home Secretary urea the subject. He observed that as usual when this bill stood upon the paper, there were a great number of hon. gentle- men on the beaches opposite who had come down doubtlew to assist him in making this bill as perfect as possible— (" hear, later," and a laugh)—but before they pro *NNW* le Motitier the clauses, he should like to hear from OM Retie Med whether there was any truth in a rumour tact had seeded him, that the government, being in favour alas of the measure ' would, if it were deferred te aaetle meden, be prepared themselves to bring in • bill thegmy ewe that pdmigple, and devise such machinery so might ho wasessisy Sur that purpose. (Hear, hear.) If Heat wideor um son heeded, and he had an assurance of that kind hem de wide herd, it might then be proper to change Ma MUM Si de bedams set down for the day. Inn* PALMIUTOOII eirtaisly thought that although Isl a :Att he.. Mad idled kis friends , the hon. gentlemen WILLIAM WHEELER . late. R YELP, aged 53 , was y Shure sin Wedmieday to • inn of coarerrasione, gise r- X —t ssesdege were wet dimly to be attended with any indicted for feloniously forging and uttering various ewe& ia the pnseat maims. ("Hear," sad • receipts, purporting to be acknowledgments on the q l . 1 ) 11 Tbseellate he • obliged to his right boa. friend Ise Whasalen that be would postpone issuing tumulus part of depositors in the Savings Bank at Newport, of them he the Mare. (Hear, hear.) Aid he thought he Isle of Wight, for sums of money ; also, as the regal was Is a psdies se enable his right bon. friend to do so on lie mew dram. (Hear, bear) The house having more tells us, for stealirg certain sums of money frank** the. waft Ahmed the principle of popular representation, funds of the bank. The total sum of the prise:an larsiled t° the "lull rates,►and the reetemeet having defalcations, which had extended over a period el Ilm desired *key aimed is that ptincip e, hewn prepared, Inds right w frirall shsught fit to drop this bill, to say, years, amounted to upwards of 8,0001. Here, dila, er a die Pere of the Sengemakthal is II" neat eeseles the y is the cue of a man, placed in his pen would propose to parliemsd sob • measure as they might think fit le reemmewd, amid apes the principle of liar position by the agency of trustees, making a represswiesies In sagest le meaty item (Cheers.) luxurious living out of the poor persons whose in- M SIB wakeless. siemmostawsw e when the seder a the dap was sailed es. be emit gag* dist it be tenet he was supposed to represent. The poor cot reed, la order that it might b• andisel=rar); tiger who brought his five shillings weekly to the —ma the warm* that tko gewsewmeas & s t a k es ee b e i ng i n a bill es eb e m oj ectmit ma i m y as ' bank, and thought himself lucky in being enabled Os the action that the eider be read and diddierged, to find so trustworthy a guardian for his money as Sir J. PAK INGTOM was glad to boar that they were Mr. Yeda, little thought that the deposit would be wet again le be brought dews se take part in these Wed nesday sesmorseisfause dab beers duration, sad which at applied to the purchase of a bottle of port for the se this Period of the tilhila dald hardly be Thiastied as other twin's table : 8004 a year did this functionary extract sestee tile. a r a possibly t "49 % 4 hs i le ini sli b a l : e t t h i ry . eo isaum uld wh resul u t in t any " treat the h ardy earned savin g s of P eer Men, womi lis nederial magma Wag sleds with the bill. (Deer, hear.) and children. Poor mothers deprived themselves d He was else fled le hoar from the answer of the noble little articles of luxury or comfort, fathers of the lord that he bed wire of the mutton of the Foreign OS.. late the of domestic affairs, and that be means of relaxation with boon companions, whole bed guarded his prendee with that reserve which was a& families of a certain portion of ease or gratification, elesee7 t h at w h a e t i Z eli i i : i ii i i m eleallelleseee ... p,,,. li p...d e had .4.1 always contended in order that Mr. Y ELP should enjoy all the luxuries imagist*, have tin_ infest and authority of t of life. It would be curious to know how many seaesioe, sad be tbesight even his right hon. friend (Ms. families have contributed to make u the Gibson) muss haw heeeme onaviseed by this time haw p hopeless ix wee heap, bagepeagest member se p en e l ees ese e amount of eight hundred pounds per annum, e/ mesh mlinkedle as this was through the house. (Rehr) which the actuary has expended on his private Bat he holed as she sole lord bad consented (and, under all the eiresumbeasee, wisely consented) to take up the nib- enjoyment. It would be as distressing as curious jut ia seeder asesioe, that he would not hold it to be se- to know what necessaries of life have been sacrificed semi yse prescribe fee all Ilaglaad • measure founded daring a period of ten years in order that Mr. YELP apes the ems el Laseeehire only, and that he would set repose mi=generally a remedy, which, however ap. might be able to obtain "all the delicacies of the I h e t° one past of the system, would be in - season." Thousands were toiling that this man We la_wpsw tb • whole. He was eonvineed the noble - . gr imsuid Sad the subject one or considerable difficulty I might lap Inoue luxuries.The range of o ences lf in 1 • Thu he awes te deal with the details, and he hoped he may contain examples of a more atrocious nature than 'meld egmftasl it with that caution which he had ea ' I this, but none of more thorough heartlessness. The hibited in mower tinday. Mr. FBISHIPIELD exorcised a hope that the noble I man for a period of ten years was robbing the most bed wadi wet overlook the difference between the ad- helpless portion of his countrymen in order that he 1 releimsdell et ilia county rates and interference with the I himself might obtain his guilty and infamous gratia system. Mr. V. SCULLY suggested that the proposed bill should i I cations. be applicable so Ireland; and dwelt upon the inconvenience I But while we look with a just horror upon the and waste of time consequent upon having separate bills for 1 carrying out the same objects in England and Itelabd. I conduct of the criminal, it is scarcely possible to re- Captain SCOBELL also thought that a great waste of i Praia from passing a heavy verdict upon the conduct time was occasioned by bringing forward separate bills for lof those whose business it was to keep Op WON the three kingdoms upon the same subject. With re- . gird to the suggestion of the right hon. baronet (Sir 1. : sort of supervision over his deeds or raisdooda. P•hillittoo), that the noble lord should use caution in deal- 1 Ten years is a long time for an unchal-, ing with this subject, be would, on the contrary, recom mend boldness, and urge upon the nobl e l or d no t to deal , lenged impunity in the commission of crimes with it in a niggardly spirit—(bear, hear)—but that he The Grecian princes required no more than ten years would endeavour to do justice to those who paid the rates as well as to those who administered the Stade. (Hear.) to take Troy, and although they had their hand. Mr. BARROW trusted that the noble lord when he re. full of business during the whole time, it is not to moved from the statute book the anomalies which now ehe- be supposed that they would have allowed them -scanned the county rates, would do so fully and fairly, and all au" the meatus • mere mockery, ( lese, beer.) H e selves to be made the victims of a dishonest treasurer weld est agree that Laneashire alone was iaterasted an the during one-half of that period. What were the Mews of the present system, nor could he undentead whY aa 'modernly that extended to ell England should be treated Trustees about during the time that Mr. YELP was as bade, reference only to a giggle county. (Hear, hear.) living at free quarters upon the poor and needy, ~....—.. . The order for the — committee on this bill havias been read, Captain SCOUELL said his name had lam placed on the back of the bill, together with the Melee of tan other hos. members who were nut present, bee be know nothing about the contents, end had received se directions. Mr. W. COWPER said under thew eircumstanees he I moved that the bill be committed that day thros months. The bill ass altogether nnueceseary as its object was fully petrel& d for by the act 4 and 5 Wm IV., under which sea- men might remit to the ikecountant-Onseral of the Navy such ..utos as they desired to invest from time to time, which he deposited for them. . _ The amendment was plat and carried, and the bill nega tived. er43 reOL TO CORONSPONDKNTa. A -wed Italian of " The Ewer," contaising the same Ovenintr. " neraite."l. published *eery Tuseiey and Friday sight, is time ler pee. n ivettisegmesinesulsd he "The Repreas," Lefties Reviling paper, ewe he at the OSs., 10, Deuserleetzset, S; No o'clock on the lay of Willman. 1101 WATIR AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tyr Dae—Nono!os. 711.11............ t e05ramm. ri.!!m. ii. - iiii: ~a.17 LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 14. whose interests they themselves had taken in charge? The learned Judge in pawing sentence upon the pri soner took a very peculiar view of the guilty relation in which the Actuary stood towards the Trustees, while he neglected altogether the consideration of the duties which the Trustees owed to the prisoner and the depositors. " The trustees of the bank," said the learned Judge, " had naturally placed full cpnfideuce in such a person as the prisoner, for he was appointed solely to relieve them from anxiety and trouble." Surely this is not the true statement of the case. The Actuary was appointed to his situation on account of his presumed capability of discharging functions which, it is no disparagement to the Trus tees to suppose them incapable of performing, even had they been willing to do so. At the same time the duty of the Trustees to the public was to see that the officer performed his duty properly, and that every facility of peculation was removed out of his way. The Trus:ees sin against the public by taking upon themselves a responsibility which they never feel. They sin against the prisoner, by refraining from the exercise of those acts of superintendence which might have kept him within the line of his duty, by banishing the temptation to peculation by the certainty of discovery. But if close supervision could not have prevented the peculation altogether. it might surely have detected the thief before he had stolen 8,000!. of the moneys of the poor. Trustees incur a very heavy moral responsibility in cases like the present. They entice the poor, by the prestige of their names, to entrust their savings to their care, and then—to make use of the words of the Judge—" to relieve themselves from anxiety and trouble," they transfer their duties to • man who may be unable to resist the temptations to which he is exposed by being left entirely to his own devices. The poor who place their money in • Savings Bank, under the impression that the list of trustees is a sufficient guarantee that their deposits will be safe, are in reality tricked out of their money under false pretences. Their whole safety lies in the honesty of an officer, who has the least possible in ducement to remain honest. That officer him self has to plead in mitigation of his crime the unlimited temptations thrown in his way. The practice of the English courts, whether right or wrong, is to admit this plea, to a certain extent. It is not long ago that a magistrate denied the right of a shopkeeper to complain of depredations commit ted upon property exposed to sale outside the shop. The temptation, it was urged, made the thief. Whatever validity there may be in this plea, might be urged in benefit of the prisoner in the case under discussion. The Trustees surely allowed temptation to be thrown in his way, by the neglect of their duty, and although this does not remove any of the guilt from the shoulders of the criminal, or form any reason for the slightest mitigation of his sen tence, it renders the Inds :s in some degree morally responsible for the injury inflicted. We are glad to see that a meeting of the represen tatives of Savings Banks is announced to take place to-day in the vestry of St. Clement Danes to petition Parliament against the objectionable clauses in the Government Savings Banks Bill. We trust that the result of the discussion will produce some reform in a l direction where it is so obviously required. We need a thorough reformation of our present Savings Beak system. abuse of the powers vested in the Russian dathorities by the convention already referred to. for maintaining on the northern bank of the river a rigid and inflexible system of quarantine. Under the stupid pretence of guarding the regions adjacent to the Principalities from the perils of the plague, regulations have been established by which not only all vessels coming from Asia Minor, but every English, French, and Italian ship which may have touched at Constantinople, is subjected to all the vexatious and expensive delays connected with the most antiquated quarantine regulations. It is of no consequence that the vessel may have obtained a clean bill of health before quitting the Dardanelles, and she has subsequently put into no port until her arrival at Galatz. There she must undergo all the most wearisome and waste ful processes of fumigation of her cargo, her rigging, and crew's clothing. No assurance or demonstration that she has had no symptoms of tho plague on board, and no urgency either of business or of health can obtain the relaxation of the senseless rules of the Russian lazaretto; for Russian it is in all respects, although the town is called a free port, and is situated in a Turkish province, but a province subject to the baleful influence of Muscovite protection. Every bale of manufac tured goods, no matter how liable to damage from the state of the weather, must be conveyed in a lighter from the ship to the quarantine wharf, where it must lie for so many days and nights before it can be removed to the merchant's stores. The additional port charges thus heaped on every article of importation are well known to merchants engaged in the Danubian aide : but what is less generally understood is the monstrous fact that the same wanton and perverse hindrance to industrial intercourse is enforced against all commerce from the Bulgarian side of the river. Added to this,, and inspired but too obviously by the same withering policy, a Customs Convention in Moldavia and Wallachia, prohibits absolutely the introduction of wheat, maize, salt, and other articles into either of the Principalities. I Thus the vast resources of Bulgaria are kept without development, and her prolific plains remain par tially untilled. The people have for centuries borne the character of being peculiarly given to agri culture, and the climate and soil enable them to grow without difficulty more corn, in pro portion to the population, than any other province of European Turkey. Had they a good shipping port on their own side of the river, or were they per mitted freely to send their produce for exportation to Wallachia or Moldavia, to the towns of Galatz and Ibrail, they would ;row ten times as many 1 , quarters of wheat as their fellow-subjects of the l'rincipalities are able to produce. But that ' would not suit the commercial and politi cal jealousy of the CZAR. The Danubian trade in corn and other agricultural products would then fairly compete with that of Odessa. As things now stand, " it is calculated," says an intelli gent English writer on the subject, who, from per sonal observation, has made himself master of all the details, " that the restrictive system thus imposed upon the commerce of the Danube is equivalent to a differential duty of three shillings a quarter in fa vour of Odessa and other Russian ports." Such are the means by which the resources of the Ottoman Empire are crushed and destroyed by the " forbearance and magnanimity" of which the Cabinet of St. Peters burg has the effrontery to boast. WE had recently occasion to revert to the memo rable words of Count NESSELRODE, in which, several years ago, be described the standing policy of Russia with regard to Turkey. In a confidential despatch _ . _ . _ LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT. addressed to the Grind Duke CONSTANTINE: the Minister for Foreign Affairs delineates the motives RUSSIA AND TURKEY. TURIN, JeLY 11. and advantages of a system of forbearance which, under the specious show of magnanimity, would in reality reduce the Ottoman Empire in Europe to a condition of complete dependence on the will and subserviency to the interests of Mus covy. " The object of our relations with Tur key is that which we have proposed to This government denies that its consul at Smyrna granted to the Austrian consul authority to appre hend M. Costa, said to have been concealed in the house of a Sardinian. M. Costa was arrested in a Greek coffee-house, and the Sardinian consul had nothing to do with the affair. ourselves by the treaty of Adrianople, and by the re establishment of peace with the Grand Seignior. It ODESSA, Rixi 28. only depended on us to march to Constantinople, and to overturn the Turkish Empire. No • immediate danger would have menaced us if we had given the last blow to the Ottoman monarchy in Europe. But, in the opinion of the EMPEROR, that monarchy, re• The merchants of this port are ordered to confine themselves in their letters to matters of business and friendship, and not to communicate information re specting pestling events to their correspondents abroad. doced to exist only under the protection of Russia, RUSSIA AND TURKEY. and merely execute henceforward her desires, suited better our political and commercial interests than any Lette . rs . from . Paris an d Brussels state that only one and o o p: e ngi ar yi ng en e tzr a t ra ai t ed er res pecting T o t u in n if the insolent in new combination which would have forced us either to extend too far our domains by conquest, or to last circular note. According to our correspondents, substitute for the Ottoman Empire states which before this opinion is by no means a second thought, cor long would have become our rivals in power, civilisa- recting a previous fahe impression ; and if certain tion, manufactures, and wealth." Let us now see how organs, whose conductors have hitherto professed to guarantee of i n every warlike word Russia uses her oppressive predominance in the ordi- see nd a ac a t evr of the Czar, declare t hat public opinion is nary councils of the Porte ; and by what means she tranquillised by this last manifesto from St. Peters seeks to secure herself against her rivalry in civilise- burg, they only carry out the system by which the tion or commerce in those regions which have not as Russian cabinet seeks to amuse and deceive Europe. yet been annexed to her imperial domain. The French government has, of course, applied to the English cabinet to ascertain its views respecting The treaties entered into subsequent to that of the new manifesto, and it is said that the question is Adrianople have frequently of late been quoted as actually put whether the moment has not come for illustrating the desire for political ascendancy. But England and France to make an energetic demon there hero likewise been conventions made from stration—such, probably, as sending orders to the time to time with special reference to matters fleets to enter the Dardanelles. of trade and intercourse, the provisions of which, General Worouzow, who brought the Russian to leave for S cir cu L Petersburg to and still more the manner in which those provi- day,lar to Paris, was sloes have been executed, demonstrate if possible It is understood that before the arrival of Count more clearly the unsleeping malignity with which Nesselrode's note the governments of France and the Cabinet of St. Petersburg pursues its fatal pur- England had agreed upon various forms of a note pose of destroying its neighbour. Its policy towards which they considered the Sultan might, with propriety, be asked to address to Russia and sign, and Turkey may be truly said to be the policy of slow that these had been remitted to the Czar for his accept poison. Every hope of renovation is watched in sure, either directly or through the medium of the order that it may be blighted; every new develop- Austrian government. These propositions will test meat of industry is observed in order that it may be the sincerity with which the Russian Emperor pro checked and counteracted. This, of course, cannot fesses his desire to maintain the peace of Europe. be done openly and avowedly. The same hand that We have correspondence from Constantinople of the 30th ult. The lawless seizure of M. Cats by the penned the memorable words we have above given, Austrians had excited great indignation there, and so fatally indicative of the true purpose of his the peremptory tone assumed by M. de Bruck in de- court, has never failed to indict assurances in- manding satisfaction for the outbreak which was its tended for the perusal of Europe, that " the natural conseguence was thought to augur unfavour prosperity of the Turkish Empire was an object dear ably for the friendly dispositions of the Austrian minis otefr.AliMineltuctki,teneol satisfied with o t f h; m def n o e tt a i n oa to his imperial muter." The convention exacted from the Porte in 1840 respecting the conservancy the Sultes's a 'brother-in-law g° , has demanded the ex and trade of the Danube aptly illustrates the dupli- pulsion of all the refugees now in the Turkish city of the public professions and the inveteracy of dominions. It was feared that the Porte would the confidential counsels of the Russian Government. feel itself compelled to comply with this demand By the terms of that convention, the care of the na- under all the circumstances. The surrender of the vigation of the river from the Austrian fronti er to iaipants in the attack on the o ffi cers was also demanded, but it was understood that the American the sea was assumed by the CZAR. As minister at Constantinople would oppose compliable the greater portion of the trade must pass with this request and support his objection if noose through the Sulina branch of the stream, special co- sary by a display of force. venants provided that a certain depth of water should Recent telegraphic despatches state that the Ru be kept at all times on the bar. How systematically iniasncdrPolf o 2 f 6 oe tn cra u tion hz ill consist of 80 , 000 several these stipulations have been set at nought, and how journals. Considering that the 4th and sth Russian greatly the trade of the Turkish provinces on both sides corps d'armee number 120,000 men who can be of the river has been thereby injured, the recent obser- moved abross the Pruth without difficulty, it seems rations of Lord PAtmzesros in the House of Commons hardly worth while to ask on which side the river sufficiently explained. It has been asked, indeed, they stand for the moment, now that the Turkish how it comes to pass that Austria should look on territory has been violated. Although there was no truth in the announcement passively while the navigation of the Lower of a contemporary, that the Austrians had invaded Danube is every year deliberately rendered more Bosnia, the accounts which arrive from the banks of difficult, dangerous, and costly. But the an- the Save make it desirable that the movements of ewer is easy and plain. The produce of Hun- thet power should be watched. The strong rein sesonutt h t o o f P t zt e er r z n ar n d b e e in, ar e e eSxclavot:itiumtoft gary Ands a readier and cheaper exit by the port of t fo re.s la to en th a e Fiume, on the Adriatic; and hence Austria looks useful in some way ; certainly they are not for the I with indiNrence on the silent struggle that is now 0 ; , -fence of the frontier against Turkey. It is not for going on b,'tween Bulgarian and Wallachian in- the. first time in the course of the Russian dispute with duatry and its insidious oppressor. the forte that we have had to notice the departure of Other means, however, beside those directly i n - f immerses_rontier, w hen the importance of the fact convoys of auditions to points near the r ur ki, l l2 terfering with the nevi lion, have been resort e d t o , ' was not Properly a pp re c i ated I for the accomplishment of Muscovite purposes. Of From a ccounts received from Belgrade, it appearej these, perhaps the most remarkable is the that the Atatrien garrisons immediately on the Bos- PROBATES OF WI Ll,s AND GRANTS OF ADMINISTRA I lON BILL. On the motion to resuming the &dimmed debate on the second reading td this bill, ' Mr. HADFIELD observed that kis object in proposing this bill we, to make ass probate serve for the whole of the United Kingdom, but he had been told that the govern ment would take up the subject, and that it would be d. all with in a larger meaner. to be brought forward by th. So licitor Gene ral, in reference to the ecclesiastical courts; if the noble lord would any that goverument had it in con templation to bring in a measure which should provide, amongst other thing., that one probate should be made to serve for the whole if the United Kingdom, he would with draw Os present bill. Lord PALMERSTON admitted that the object to which the ball related wee one of great importance and of great public interest; but as his hon. friend must be ■ware it formi d part of the greater and larger subject which his hon. and I d friend, the Sulicitur•O 1, had announced' his intention to deal with by the bill for regulating the jurisdiction of the Ecelesiastical Courts. He (Lord Palmer _ item) stated the other night the reason 'why no such measure had been brought in thin session, and the hope and the intention of the government to be prepared with some bill on this subject in the early pert of nest session, and he must now submit to his hon. friend the propriety of with drawing this partial measure, and leave the subject to be dealt with in the general one. (Hear, hear.) And though he could not, in answer to his hon. friend's question, give any specific pledge as to the details of the government measure, he could confidently assure him that the present subject would be dealt with by the government, and that a measure would be iutrodueed by them at an early period of the ensuing session. (Hear.) Mr. lIADFIELD would like to be assured that the go vernment me.asure would include the particular object of his bill. Lord PALMERSTON—Of course, any measure having rrferenee to the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts will, it is to be apprehended, relate to probates of wills. Mr. KINNAIRD was understand to express a hope that the government measure would apply to Scotland. The order of the day for the committee was then read, and discharged. SIMONY LAW AMENDMENT BILL. On the order for the adjourned debate on the second reading, Lord GODERICH in the absence of Mr. R. J. Philli more, moved the second reading. He called upon the house to pass this bill as a measure that would remedy • great and crying evil, prevent malversatious in a moat sacred trust, remove a great scandal from our church and our common faith, and ensure to the people that which they had a right to demand, viz., that the property of the church of England, which had been set apart for their spiritual benefit, should be applied to that purpose alone, and not be made subservient to the pecuniary advantage of individuals. Mr. 0. M. BUTT moved that the bill be read a second time that day three months. Sir G. GREY opposed the bill as unnecessary. (Divide, divide.) Viscount GODERIC 11, in the absence of bit hon. and turned friend (Mr. K. Phi Mature), would not give the house the trouble to divide. but would withdraw the bill. The amendment w..a put and carried. ELECTIONS BILL. The house went Intireono;ittaeoiTtiis Mr. Guerin, in the absence of Mr. Bouverie, in the chair. The whole of the clauses were agreed to, with amend• meats, the bill was reported, and the house resumed. JUVENILE OFFENDERS. Mr. ADDERLEY obtained leave to bring In a bill for the better care and reformation of juvenile offender'. Its object waa stated to be the establishment of reformatory schools for young persons summarily convicted of offences— an object which wu already attempted to he carried out by magistrates ►nd private individuals throughout the country. DRAINAGE OF LANDS (IRELAND). Mr. WILSON ootained leave to bring in a bill to amend the sets for promoting the drainage of lands and improve ments in eonnemon therewith in Irf land. PLYMOUTH ELECTION. On the motion of Kr. AOLIONDIT, the minutes of evi-. denee taken before the Plymouth Election Committee of In quiry was ordered to be printed. MORNING SITTINGS. Si J. GRAHAM, on the part ot Lord Palmerton, post poned a bill which was fined for Monday neat, at 12 o'clock. until Tuesday at 12 o'clock, stating that it would not be convenient to the bones to have a morning sitting on Monday. The house then adjourned at 10 minutes to 2 o'clock. . Dian frontier, and which are already of considerable i attength, are receiving considerable reinforcements. On the 30th of June, a steamer, which had come down the Danube, passed Belgrade, going up the Soave ' and towing five large lighters, which were heavily freighted with munitions of war. On board of these vessels were two companies of the Regiment of Parma, and one of the Frontier Regiment of , Peterwerdein. When passing before the town, the soldiers went down into the holds of the lighters. The Prussian Gazette contains a letter from Vienna of the Bth, which says:—" We understand that the Porte intends publishing a manifesto in an swer to that of the Emperor of Russia, and that it will expose in it all the injustice which it has suffered from Russia during the past century. The Porte will also express its determination to oppose Russia ener getically, and will make her responsible for whatever consequences may arise to Europe from the rupture of peace. On the Ist July General d'Ozcroff (not the diplomatist of the same name) was despatched by General Gortschakoff to Constantinople on a mission, whick is supposed to have been to announce to the Porte the approaching entrance of the Russian troops into the Principalities." A letter from Smyrna of the 29th ult. states, that the American Ambassador at Constantinople has claimed Costa, who was still on board the Austrian brig of war. His demand is based on his having delivered to him a passport at Constantinople. The American brig has laid herself by the side of the Austrian brig, to prevent her from carrying off Costa. A letter from Vienna states that Costa is charged by the Austrian government with having assisted in hiding the Regalia of Hungary. The Augsburg Gazette publishes an article on the Czar's manifesto, which will excite considerable at tention in Germany, appearing in a journal hitherto obsequious to Russia. The writer considers that the Czar has given to the occupation of the Princi palities a character greatly to be deplored. So long es the Czar complained that his offeuded dignity re quired satisfaction, it was easy for a third power to make an offer of good offices. But the address of Nicholas to his subjects alters the case. In proclaim ing a crusade for the " Russo Greek" religiou, the Czar isolates himself, and makes it impossible for the powers best disposed towards his throne to support his policy. Austria (continues the writer), as a great catholic power, cannot and will not do anything to unite the various sections of the Greek church under the primacy of the mightiest potentate in the world. Although this article does not pretend to any official character, it is impossible that the considera tions which it suggests have not counted for some thing in the councils of the Emperor of Austria. THE GERMAN PAPERS ON THE EASTERN QUESTION. The friends of peace, among whom we take a pride in numbering ourselves, found the most cheering hopes upon the representations which have been made to Russia by a power friendly to Prussia, and by the sending the Austrian general, Count Giulay, to St. Petersburg.— rimes of Berlin. We learn that the object of sending Count Giulay to St. Petersburg is to come to an understanding with the Rus sian government, in the event of war resulting from the eastern question.—Priustan Gazette. The Count de Bruck, the Austrian Internuncio, has ar rived at Constantinople. The presence of this diplomatist was anxiously desired by all interested in the maintenance of peace. Count de Bruek immediately put himself in communication with the Grand Vizier, to whom he gay, the most satisfactory assurances of the friendly attitude of Austria.—Postal Gazette. On arriving at Constantinople Count de Bruck had a long interview with the Orand Vizier. Austria demands from Turkey the payment without delay of a stale claim of five millions of piastres and the cession of two ports on the Albanian court.—lV•tnderer of Vienna. The cotry of the troops into the Moldo-Wallachi►n pm. eintfes is not ►n act of war. The Emperor of Russia clearly affirms this in hie manifesto. We are sure that no one will be found in Europe to doubt the sincerity and gool faith of the Czar.-- You Gazette. The entry of the Russians is a sort of execution inflicted AT the Czar upon a power inferior to him.—Allgemeine Zettung. Nobjidy doubts for en instant of the pacific solution of the Eastern question. Subject to some concessions in point of form, Turkey will accept the Russian ultimatum, and Russia will do all in her power to bring to a happy termi nation a dispute which alarms so many interests. The Czar has given too many proofs of his ardent desire to maintain peace for it to be possible to believe that he will do other wise than continue the same policy.—Franl.fort Jeerers:. The Emperor has said it. He will defend the orthodox church. Words such as these are not spoken in vain. They admit of no species of retractation. The Czar having pro nounced these words, cannot give up the slightest particle of what he has asked for in their name. He must persist in exacting the literal and absolute fulfilment of his de mands.— Times, of Berlin. That Russia is in the wrong is indisputable, but it is evident that she is a power not to be humiliated. Russia is therefore wrong for not being in the right, but she must have her way because she is in the wrong.—Austrian Lloyd's. FRANCE. PARIS WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Journal des Di , bate says the date of M. de Nesselrode's circular, June 20, has been erroneously supposed to be the old style, and therefore July 2 of the present calendar, whereas it was really dated on the 20th of last month, and was communicated to Lord Clarendon by Baron Brunnow on the 3rd or 4th of July, four or five days before Lord Palmerston asked Mr. Layard to withdraw his motion. fhe De ituste, therefore, draws the inference that the document must not be considered a new and unexpected element of the situation. In making this assertion, the Debate has fallen into an extraordinary error. It is evident that the date of the last circular must have been according to the Greek calendar, for we know that the rejection of the ultimatum by the Porte to which it m.kes allusion, was not known in St. Petersburg until June 25. Moreover, Lord John Russell's statement in the House of Commons on Monday night excludes the possibility of the circular having been communicated to Lord Clarendon at the beginning of the month, for, had this document been brought to his attention at a cabinet council, Lord John could never have denied that it made the withdrawal of the fleets a condition precedent to the evacuation of the Danubian Princi palities. The .lloniteur does not publish the circular or make any allusion to it. The official journal, while abstaining from the expression of any opinion of its own, makes extracts of unprecedented length from the English papers. Every day all the most important articles bearing upon the Turkish question arc reproduced, precedence being always given to the most energetic. An article by Grimier de Caseagnac, in the Constitati9nnel,hal made a great sensation to day. It begins as follows : We heartily wish we could share the confidence which the last note of the cabinet of St. Petersburg seems to have inspired in the financial world. Wo can form no judgment of the various reports more or less re-assaring, upon which men of business rely, because we are unacquo'nted with them. Our judg ment is based upon the actual situation, and not upon private letters, and the last Russian note aroma to us to dispel the serious hopes Ma definitive peaceable settlement, which were founded upon the good offices of one power, and the moderation of all. After exposing the fallacious reasoning and impu dent pretensions of the note, he says: — If, as M. de Nesse'rode says, this note, or in other words this abdication uf the Sultan, is the "sole and true reparation which the Ca a can accept," if such an act is " indispersible" for the maintenance of peace, then every manlof sense:must consider war as already declared. Russia was the first to speak of war and invasion, and the whole responsibility of it will fall on her, and if God so please, the effects also. There is no confirmation of the report of Austria j having claimed from Turkey five millions of piastres, ! and the two ports in the Adriatic; but we learn to ' day, that, in consequence of the affair at Smyrna, Baron de Bruck has demanded the expulsion of all the Austrian refugees in the Ottoman empire. It is confirmed that the American captain has re quired M. Costa to be given up to him. The Imperial Council of Public Instruction has I been convoked fur the 20th July, the session to close on the 11th of August next. A telegraphic despatch from Brest announces that a grand banquet had been given to the Minister of Marine, who was to embark last night for Lorient. At the Bourse to-day the market has been dull, with a downward tendency in prices. The Three per Cents. fell 45c., and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 60c., both for cash ; whilst for the account the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. declined 50c., and the Three per Cents. 30c. In Bank of France shares there was a fall of 51. The final quotations were : For money : Three per Cents., 761. 25c. ; Four-and a-Half per Cents., 10If. For the end of the month: Three per Cents., 76f. 25c. ; Fonr-and-a-Half per Cents., 10If. Bank Stock, 2,655 f. _,..• In the railway share market to day but a limit e d amount of business was transacted, at a general decline on yesterday's final quotations, although es. cepting in ‘Vestern of France share., which expo. rienced a fall of 101., the amount of depreciation izt no case exceeded sf. Closing prices :—Northerns,B4s i Paris and Orleans, 1,0t35 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 869; Paris and Lyons, 890. SPAIN. According to the Espana of the 7th, an under. standing has been come to between the Spanish and French authorities us to the boundary line between the two countries near Navarre, and eonsequently the troops, which were stationed on both sides the frontier to defend the respective rights of both countries, have received orders to rt turn to their former quarters. The Herald° complains that the payment of the interest of the Three per Cent. stock, which ought to have taken plaze on the Ist, has b een postponed to the end of August. SOUTH AMERICAN MAII,s, The Royal Brazilian Mail Company's steamer, Tay, arrived at Southampton yesterd iy. lhr dates! are: Buenos Ayres, June 3; Itio de Janeiro, June 14. Pernambuco, Junw 211; Lisbon, July 9. She ha brought 137 passengers. At Buenos Ayres the political state of affiirs wag much the same as when the last mail left : an amicable settlement appears as remote as ever. Crquiza was still blockading the town on all sides, as well as by water. llis squadron consists of three steamers and a number of small schooners, quite sufficient to maintain the blockade. Small quad. ties of provisions were occasionally intnxluced iatO the town during the night time. but every consum. able article was frightfully dear, and the foreign families were fast abandoning the city. Two hundred and eighty persons left Buenos Ayres in the mail steamer on her last trip. MONTE VIDEO, .ItNE The negociation spoken of in the last mail was actually carried on under the mediation and presi. dency of the Brazilian and Bolivian ministers. The provincial (Buenos Ayrcan) government refused to make those modifications in the treaty which the Director of the Confederation judged to be necessary as a guarantee that tranquillity Emil civil order would not be again wantonly broken. The gcuments published in the official organ of the Buenos Ayrean government show that the resist.. unce of the latter is no longer inspired by the hope of ultimate success, but has become a desperate struggle. Urquiza will now make no peace with the revolutionary administration of Buenos Ayres. Thirty-five British merchants hive addressed a protest to the Hcn. Mr. Gore, H.B. Majesty's minis. ter at Buenos Ayres, against the blockade. Mr. Gore replied that, however much he regretted the inconvenience to commerce entailed by the blockade, it was impossible to deny belligerent rights to the government of the Argentine confederation. The deputies of all the States assembled in Con gress at Santa Fe have accepted the new federal constitution. Colonel Lagos has signed for the pro. vince of Buenos Ayres, the administration within the city being ignored. The confederation being thus pledged to the resto. ration of order in Buenos Ayres, and the refractory city being at its last gasp, we may hope for a speedy return of peace. A stable government, hitherto im. possible, still then be installed, and according to all appearances, a noble future will be opened to all the provinces. Money Market—Doubloons a shade lower. Ex change on England a shade higher, from 695. to ills. The ship Condor, from Melbourne, was burnt at sea. Crew and passengers were saved, with 22,000 ounces of gold. RIO DE JANEIRO, Ju 13. _ . The continued pressure in the money market has caused other business to be almost entirely neglected. Exchange opened for the pa ket at 29d., but ease. quently rose to 291 d.; 30,0001. were taken by the government at 29d., payable at 4 months, at 6 per cent. interest. To-day this market is much flatter, and some business has been done at 29d. Discounts are ruling at 9; to 10 per cent. We estimate the sales of coffee, from the departure of the Teviot to the end of the past month at 42,000 bags, and this mouth so far at 56,000, thus making • total transactions from packet to packet, 100,0011 bags, of which about 40,000 were for Europe, aed 60,000 for the States. In ordinary coffees a slight decline may perhaps be noted, but good qualities, notwith standing the increased rate of exchange and pressure in the money market, have fully main. tained their prices. To those causes, however, we have to attribute the falling off in the extent of the business done. On account of the badness of the roads in the interior, the supply has scarcely exceeded the demand, and our stock at market Las remained almost stationary at 120,000 bags. New coffee arrives very slowly, and the partial failure is now more fully confirmed; yet we are still of the opinion that the surplus of the old crop will fully counterbalance the deficiency of the new. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. COPFEE.—Superior,4,loo to 4,200; American assortments, 3,8,50 to 4,000; Ist, Good, 3,&30 to 3,900. Stock this day, 125,000 bags. Shipments this month, 67,300 balm _ . Si:osno. - -White, 2,500 to 2,600; brown, 1,000 to 2,000; stock, 1,000 cases._ _ _ _ EXCHANGEB.—London, 29 to 291; Path, 330 to 336; Hamburg, 620; sovereigns, 8,700 to 8,800 ; dollars, 1,900 to 1,940 ; stock, six per cent., 100; shares all nominal. BAHIA, JUNE 17. The British brig Verbena, H. Elwes, master, from Bahia, for Falmouth, with sugar, put into St. Michael's on the 11th of June, from insuls.rdination of thecrcw. Eight Portuguese seamen were received there for the rrotectlon of the master, cargo, and vessel ; flve Portii..uew soldiers, to convey the brig to this port, arrived on the ith July. The l'ortugueso crew and guard of soldiers have been put on hoard the quarantine guard ship Lazarett. The brig will proceed in a few Lays with a fresh crew. WEST AFRICAN MAIL. (BY ELECTUIC TELEGRAPH.) PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The African Mail Company's screw steamer, Hope, Captain William Henry Bowen, arrived here at three o'clock this afternoon. Her homeward dates are :—Fernando Po, May 31 : Lagos, June 4 ; Accra, June 6 ; Cape Coast Castle, June 7; Morrovia, June, 11; Sierra Leone, June 15 ; Bathurst and Gorse, June 10; Teneriffe, July 4; and Madeira, June 6. She has had head winds to contend w ith ever since she left the Gambia, and when within four hundred miles of Teneriffi, found there was not sufficient coals, and bore yp for St. Vincent, to take supply, which caused a detention of seven days. She brings a full general cargo, consisting of palm oil, ivory, camwood, gum, cochineal, fruit, a small quantity of gold dust, seven bales of cotton, being the first shipped from the slave station, Lagos, and fifty-two passengers, including two distressed Bri. fish subjects. Position of her Majesty's ships:—At Fernando Po, May 31, Polyphemus; St. Vincent, June 28, Firefly; Madeira, July 0, Bloodhound. Vessels spoken with :—Spanish brig Irene, July 10, lat. 42.3 N., lon. 11.22 W. ; Thetis, from Galatr, for Peterhaven, July 11, in lat. 45 N., lon. 10.18 W.; same day, barque Acastis, bound to Madras. Passed this morning, about 10 o'clock, just outside, the Duke of Wellington and the three frigates, steering westward. The Carshalton Park, Foster, master, laden with I timber; belonging to Ns port, got on shore, 16th I May, while beating out of Sierra Leone, homeward bound, and became a wreck. The wind was light at the time and ship unmanageable; she was sold for the benefit of underwriters. The coast was in a very healthy and prosperous state, but the rainy season had commenced with great violence. The slave trade had dwindled to little or nothing, and the different tribes were all quiet. REPRESENTATION OF NORTH DERBYSAIRE.-Sir John Harper Crewe, Bart., the high sheriff, has fixed Saturday neat, the 16th, for the election of a member for the northern division of the county, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. Evans. The only candidate at present in the field is Mr. 'F. W. Evans, son of the late member, who expresses great confidence in her Majesty's present government. their measures having, in hisopinion, proved them to be wise, liberal, and enlightened statesmen. The nomination will take place at Bakewell.