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850 The abolition of the Duly on Advertisements eatables au to insert at the price of Th►ee Shillings the Advertisements for which we have hitherto charged Five ; used Adcer• tisers generally will receive the fall benefit of the change in the law. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A CONSERVATIVE (I.lVerpOol).—We make uo additional charge beyond the ordinary scale prioes. An advertisement of the usual length would cost three shillings. We have four agents in Liverpool—Mews. Pearson ; Willmer and Smith ; C. Willmer ; and Aylward. - Alt Irtgli+ LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1853. POSTSCRIPT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The Earl of MstmEsntnac moved for a translation of the two circulars addressed by Count Nesse'rode to the diplomatic agents of the Russian Government, and pub. halted in the .tin. Pelerabury Gazelle, and also for any answers which her Majesty's Government may have sent to the statements therein contained. The noble earl animadverted upon the course which the present Govern• ment had taken with regard to this question, contending that the crossing of the Truth by Russia was a distinct cams belli; and that Turkey ought to have been advised by this country to have considered it so; a course which, he maintained, would have obviated the present position of the question. Disclaiming anything like party motive in asking for information with regard to this dispute, he insisted upon the necessity of inthnnation in order to heal the :maple which had sprung up both in this country and *bread. The Earl of CLAENDON, Whirl' he declined to depart front the precedent set by all former Governments that in. formation with regard to still pending negotiations should he withheld by the Government, declared the anxious de. sire of the Cabinet to attain a peaceful solution of this quarrel. Wishing the maintenance of peace, the Govern ment would nevertheless base it on national honour and paid faith. He denied that there was anything in the re• lotions between this country and I:twice which could en• eoumge an aggressive policy on the part of Russia. Russia had frequently declared that she would consider the dis memberment of Turkey an European calamity. So strong had been the desire of the Government of this country to maintain peace that they had recommended Turkey not to regard the crossing of the l'ruth and the °mule& of the principalities as a declaration of war. 144011 statem..iit of the presetit state of the negation s was to the etteet that ett the occupation of the Danubian principalities by Russia, and the question becoming an European oue, the Austrian Government called together the other great powers of Europa., and, taking as a basis a note prepared by the French thwerntuent, propostsl that, with some modifica tions, it should he laid before the Porte. The note was in the first instance referred to France and England, and ap proved of. It was despatched, by means of the Russian Minister at Vienna, to St. Petersburg, and a telegraphic despatch had since lawn receivisl front Vienna announcing that the terms had been accepted by the Czar. Those terms were perfectly consistent with the independence of the Turkish empire, and as such he saw no reason why they should not be accepted by the Porte. lle did not think it consistent with his ditty to make any further titate• ment on the subject. A discussion ensued, in which Lent BEAMIONT, HARDWICKE, and Lord .Eit.Esnonortitt took part, and in the course of which Lord Clarendon . % explanation wits de scribed as unsatisfactory The Earl of Aemint:en defiluled the course which the Government had taken, and should be happy to tuna that it would result satisfactorily. Lord MALmestiettv then withdrew his motion. Lord Idomirmin.t: pmsented . a petition from eprtoin Parsee merchants, complaining of certain acts of the Government of India, and supported it in it lung Ultimately the petition was referred to the committee on Indian affairs. The Pilotage Bill wits read a second time. Several bills were advanced it stage, and the house ad. journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. The house met at tour o'clock, In reply to a question from Mr. tini-Aisox, Mr. CARDWELL explained that under the auspices of the highland Society of Scotland great progress had been made in collecting agrietiltnnd Ktatistien for that part of the king. dom, and he was prepared forthwith to lay a report on the table. Steps had also been taken to carry out the experi ment in England. On the third reading of the Transportation Bill a dis cussion. in which Mr. .1. S. WORTLEY and Mr. WAt.eoi.r. joined. took place with regard to the mode of carrying out the details of the measure to be carried out. The bill was read a third time. The Vaccination Bill passed through committee, and the house adjourned at nine o'clock. We regret to state that the Earl of Derby still labours under a serious attack of the gout, which prevents his attendance to his parliamentary duties. Herald. THE PRESS. THE GRAND NAVAL REVIEW. ON Thursday last the waters of the Solent saw the most glorious marine pageant that ever occurred in the world's history. Not all the pomp of Xerxes, as he pushed his glittering hordes across the narrow Grecian sea—nor all the splendour of Carthage, with her galleys and trireme, in her pahniest days—not the fleets of ancient Rome, nor the sea-lions of St. Mark, nor the sullen grandeur of the Armada, was ever comparable to that great spectacle when the Queen of England, clothed with all the attributes of a monarch whose empire rests on the moral feeling of her people, led out to sea, surrounded and in the sight of hun dreds of thousands of her subjects, the mightiest concen tration of the physical force of the great kingdom which she rules that we have ever vet beheld. Whatever the motives of this display, it is tolerably certain they will be misunderstood abroad ; but for that we need not care much just now, as we are tolerably used to misconstruction on such points on the part of our neighbours, especially when we have the happiness of suffering under " a talented and liberal Administration." The ships were there on the spot : they eomprised the finest vessels in the British navy ; they might at any time, if negotiations failed, be employed to the honour of (;overn ment in maintaining the honour and glory of the English nante. The Queen was at Osborne, close to hand ; the weather was fine, the Parliament nearly used up ; and — but surely there are quite reasons enough to justify the review to any perverse person who will insist on looking into the very centre of the nether millstone, and finding out the exact nature of the " demonstration." However, the review halt taken place, to the gratification and wonder and delight of all who witnessed it, notwithstanding the downright misery most of them endured to come to and return from the scene. The crush at the railway tennini was continuous ; and, as usual, the accom modation affiirded to the public was of the worst de scription. These brutal monopolies which treat men like wild beasts must be reformed or abolished. In tead of preparing for the influx of passengers, and pro viding barriers through which they could pass in order, without pressure or annoyance, and a proper iluce to en sure regard being paid to the regulations, the railway direc tors seemed to think they had dune quite enough when they let them, after hours of fighting, struggling, shouting, and yelling, in a sweltering, ill-tempered rush ut the duet, get into old ricketty carriages with rows of open " trucks," and then sent them to their destination at the rate of tern or twelve miles au hour. Had Portsmouth been turned into one vast inn it (taid not have held the thou sands and thousands who arrived there from all points. The hum of preparation sounded all night through the streets. mingled with the frequent complaints of housekss wanderers with carpet-bugs and small valises in hand, or of fastidious grumblers whose lodging was on the cold ground, or on the stair; of the hotels : and the whole place gave one the idea of a vast horde on the eve of an exodus. Early in the morning the whole world rushed off to the beach to gaze on the glorious panoratna which lay before them, from the farthest point of land at the east to the opposite extremity of the view, where the roast and the wooded undulations of the Isle of Wight 54(111 to meet anal to close the narrow waters of the Solent into a tran quil lake. Dotting the surface of the sea, from the Spit to the man-of-war moorings below Ryde, at regular inter vals rose the hulls of the squadron in two columns, their heads all pointing to the east, and their strict rigging, towering masts, and squared yards, traced clearly against the bright blue sky. Already, though it was but eight o'clock, the fine blueish vapour flitting away to leeward from the funnels showed that "steam was up," and the absence of boats alongside was to the initiated a visible sign that they were all ready to weigh the moment the word WAS given. They were ranged us follows— PORT oft Let: DIVISION. STARBOARD OR WEATHER Agateenuttaa Duke of Wellington o a Hogue s Blenheim 5cP Ajax Edinburgh I tt " Arroont Imperienso 8 Trib llightlyer 6a. Desperate Odin Encounter L eopard .1. state' aten aim Vesuvius Tenible. The waters towards the Spit seemed alive with life and motion. A cloud of canvas covered it as a smart flotilla of yachts edged slowly down with a gentle breeze to get a good offing before the action commenced ; and, with a good glass, Admiral Fanshawe's squadron—the Prince Regent, NO; the Quern, 110 ; the London, BO; the Amph ion (screw), 34 ; the Barraeoula and Pricer steam-frigates--could be just seen, beating down to windward, some miles outside to the N.E. of the Nab. The fleet thus before us consisted of twenty-six vessels, of .10;207 tons, 1,076 guns, and 9,660 horse-power. It had not its full complement of men, how ever ; for, sad to say, ,lack does not like the " smokers," particularly if he is—and what real-bred " salt" is not ? a bit of a dandy, fond of greasy love-locks, a clean shirt, 'SATURDAY, and snow-white "ducks;' and the crews, which should amount to 10,423 men, did not number much more than 9,(00. The dockyard stairs were hemmed in by swarms of men•ofwar boats, while the beach, as far as the eye could reach, was lined by those wicked " landsharks," the watermen, looking out for their prey in the shape of innocent and eager cockneys, who " rose " at their fabulous legends llf the performance of "that here craft that 'ill walk right away from all of them with this wind! See if she don't, your honour!" as a trout rushes out an artificial greendrake ; and already the streaks of black smoke, floating above the land to east and west, indicated that a host of steamers were bearing down from Southampton and coastwise to join in the multitude of ugly brethren which they boasted in their waters, from Fort Moncton to Whale island, and from thence to Ilayling Bay, all_ floundering and rolling about from side to side, with a top cargo of passengers, who covered deck, and paddle-box, and lower rigging; who sat on the bowsprits, and the windlasses, and the tarry ropes, and entered into reckless and forbidden discourse with " the man at the wheel." By bulf-past nine o'clock all that wood and iron could float of mortal man, his helpmate, and his house, was afloat and steaming away for the fleet. The Gorgon, Stromboli, fleela, Bulldog, richly freighted with the Admi ralty's " friends" and the members of the two Houses of Parliament, stood off from the dockyard, and proceeded to take up their positions to witness the approach of the Queen. The Stromboli was reserved for the peers ; though some noble lords not members of that honourable house were on board. It was hinted that the bishops were in great force on the main-deck ; and I was assured that the Bishop of Oxford kept his eye to a porthole all day, and made himself a great favourite with the tars afterwards by smoking a short pipe, and dancing a hornpipe of an eccle siastical character. Lord Palmerston was visible on the upper-deck, and was, I understood, busily engaged in teach ing the quartermaster a new way of" boxing the compass ;" while the Duke of Argyll lectured the boatswain on the use of the blowpipe in fusing the most opposite bodies into one ; and the Duke of Newcastle amused the ship's boys by composing and igniting devils" of state gunpowder. The honourable the House of Commons made a great show in the Bulldog and Gorgon. Mr. Hume, Mr. Brother ton, Cobden, Mr. Bright, and other members of the peace party, fired the salute to the royal standard at their own request ; and the admirable manner in which they used sponge and rammer was the theme of universal admiration. In the Black Eagle there was a very brilliant party, as it contained Mr. Bernal Osborne and a number of his friends, as well as Sir James Graham, some members of the Board, and Mr. Ford, the celebrated solicitor. The striking re semblance between the right hon. baronet and the eminent practitioner, us one stood at the bow and the other at the etern of the vessel, struck every one, and it was doubted which was which till Sir James went down below to attend on his Secretary Bernal, who became dreadfully seasick as soon as the steamer went out of harbour, and was confined to his berth all day. The assiduity of the right hon. baronet, and the delicacy of the petits sidles which he bestowed on his suffering colleague, deserve every commendation, though some ill-natured people say the First. Sea Lord was rather sick himself, and didn't want to be laughed at by "Jack," who would take great delight in seeing the head of the navy in that in teresting condition. Sir Baldwin Walker and Sir Hyde Parker, for some reason or other, did not accompany the Lords of the Admiralty, but went on board the Banshee, en bourgeoise. laid were of great service to the ladies by their affable explanations of all the manoeuvres which took The Fairy was placed at the disposal of the Duchess of Leuchtenberg (née Grand Duchess of Russia), and of the Crown Princess of Wurtemberg (nee the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia), and their respective consorts. She pre sented a bright stray of uniforms and flashing lace and steel, as the Royal party were attended by a numerous suite of officers in full uniforms; some with the imposing steel headpiece, and its graceful streams of horsehair, the jack boots, and richly-ornamented green frock of the Russian heavy cavalry ; others in the tight white coat and powder-blue inexpressibles in which the house of Austria delights to clothe its soldiery. It is to be hoped they marked, learned, and inwardly digested all they saw on the occasion ; and that the fair ladies who, as in duty bound, write now and then to their " dread " papas and governors, will add a postscript in their next missive, just to say how the fleet looked, and what the feeling of the people appeared to be. Well, here, we are all out on the bright waters, which sparkle gladly in the sunshine, and all a merrie company — whether in stately steamer, lowly yacht, or broken-down " dingy "—here we are a a tif ction of this great British