The Express. — London, England, 1855-08-04 00:00:00

to wavy est kin poliey. • little time sge I alleded to the right boa. redeem& is a Oahe maser, whisk, I am three who have Egli the promeative I have readied will seism The sent day he same dews, gad an adjourned debate, ia whisk he had already 4111 a Friday night ea the modes he ease% whsa you, alt, were sot la the Malt, or I ale ease yes would me have permileed it, he read lemmata itiaka • speech ha had lersterly made at Leeds, gad drillosi that his matimeste then meetly agreed milk her pineal madset. I add set ham the debt hem ad se little imilsed wee I le Wog • peillW Mearsee of this hied fermi that I wesii set have demo smolt the kedge of relsering to the sagest, but thee the right has. polkaed did net give Me a "Mae, of peados it by. It aims nee that the old eiginde _with which the gods were said ee abet Ines poetess tle Mete damnation, has assailed the eight ham sl e w 'mama INW snuff what was Ito de: wee Ito o the ABM beset i bis freedmen to game garbled eatraele. I.lhsmgM thediglet gislismee wee too rigid • logielen he a swele heft of • eepliserise. To make eat hie eseed lasi MOM. m his Leeds *web. What I wieldesk is that the rlßle Ku keel demon should be cempelled to rod the whole Laughter.) Be reed same retreats Se skew his am= ads wee esesistent with his prem. eisdnet. la 1840 we were es the Wish ea way with Frame is amenat of Tahiti; we were la alms alliance with Beeds; sad the noble laid new at the head of her Majesty's pesesseent was the sonatry late • wee. On that swiss the rights hem. Beadspartyman went dews to Leeds, sad rahis ewe , the old whige, d = . —obi In th e streets of Leeds, sad ear .1111 Nem& la his speech he took sits la mad bliolilbsat scafosaded with those wle „ ipeelt .... et ... Bel say dews el US& taking possession of Ho there latel dews a hypoiketiml ease i n len uuum a l a imu " d b, said his sposek, sad it was to that cam be awe* he bits aims gamed as his owa. Itemee a mem zed • litypetheile which he had taken care to re bores by stades that mato parties jactihatl ere by the fears of the esesegsenees that world issue IsewsMek r meades Well," said dslit geolmaa, that the calamity IN& me orpebsal ks. easmA that Buda bee taken susidea orOsedisaimie., sad that (lends's, every law • lemma Magma GM has forbidden all intereoune with • imisbat may port la the Black Bee, sad when she has eimmillaand bee power she has commenced the mode Barepaaa eivilisetioa--sePpom all this, and my *, y aboard that can be taken for greeted, as Vie seseequenco ol Kumla taglag pommel= ol Ossemedimple." The right ha. gentleman thee west ea. hi mule subsequent soma was grounded co ale All them nominees, however, of the ✓am el Russia, which the right hon. patinae§ are so utterly absurd, are bites by Lord as fasts which justified the war. I could Set dell to haw the sentiments of the right hon. gm ileums ea this heed, fee 1 remember bat in 1840, whilst he was is Reds, I was agitating and holding meetings in Man skeeter See prosisely the sum objects. 1 will venture to say that the asstimests of the right bon. gentleman precisely agreed with them which I have held until within the Ist eighties months—that is to say, for twelve mouths after he Uses* a ablest miaister. lam persuaded he cannot deny that he thee entertained precisely the same opinion as he did fi fteen 'ears ago. I don't defr uv a i :ty man the right to change his opinion. y, who discovered the circulation of the blood, said be never found say man over 40 an honest coitus to his conviction • but I will give the right boa. gentleman till 60. All I stipulate for is, that when the right hon. gentleman is to deal with a question like this, about to denounce sea for ' bolding opinions which 18 months ego were his own, be will at least ceadeseend to aanounce on what ground the change has takes place, and that the tint intimation his friends should receive of the change should not he their being due !minced as nefarious, unpatriotic, and discreditable. I will not follow this disagreeable topic any further. I have dim to the right bon. gentleman as I would be done by. never I am found holding one language to my friends in private, and then denouncing them for holding those very opinions. I shallanpect, not that they will come to remonstrate with me in private (for in such a cue all friendship must be at an end), but that they will publicl ) , in this Bouts of Com mons, the most public place in Europe, denounce me as one, in • political sense, utterly us faithful and utterly unworthy the confidence of my political party. (Chun ) Sir W. MOLESWORTH—As I am suddenly called on at this late hour to answer this mast nee:put d attack, I trust the house will "Mead their indulgence to ma for a few moments. (Hear, bear.) Toe hon. gantlets= has called as to account for a speech I delivered • few days ago to my constituents at Southwark. I cannot say, sir, that I either regret or retract one single sentiment I then uttered, for I believe I. that speech I ',pressed the opinion not only of the 11,000•Iecton of Southwark, bat of a groat proportion of the rational men of this country in reference to tU con duct of the hoc gentleman in regard to the Turkish Loan Bill. Sir, when I appeared before my constituents in Southwark, I !crud a 'lraq feeling of alarm and anxiety pervading them last the alliance with France should be disturbed and the war be brought to a disgraceful arid discretable terming don. In cedar to allay and tranquillise their alarm, I told them that if each an event should occur, it would not be brought about by my stable friend,or the government of which he wee the head. That was the opinion which I o:primed to the elsotcn of Southwark. In so doing, I denounced the throe parties who I thought had united fur the purpose of eurprisieg the government, on the Turkish loss, and I re peat that not • Wail* sentiment which I espreesed on the mueslis do I 'intact. The hon. member for the West Riding has refund to a conversation which be says took place between himself and me at the period of the formation of Lord Aberdeen's government. No doubt, air, very friendly relations had edited between the hon. guillemots and myself. I had for many ye era the honour of his GO qsaintance. Upon many subjects I agreed with him, but upon other subjects I totally and entirely dint/reed with him. I disagreed with him, as he know., on the subject of his eatraordinuy sad peculiar views with regard to the possibility of universal pesos, and so extreme did I think hi. viewa on that point, that I doubted whether his tine intellect had not become gbh, rrsnt on that subject. He W s, I told him that I was to be appointed Secretary at ar, and that I had consented to accept aim without • seat in the cabinet. I have no recollection of having made each • statement. I never war uked if I would hold that ellicet. I was offered oflice without a seat in the cabinet. I recollect talking to the Lon. gentleman before the formation of Lord Aberdeen's government, about the re lations of various parties ; and it is perfectly true that I said to him, "I ague with you perfectly in opinion on many subjects, sad it would give me very great pleasure, were there's& a combination of parties as it is generally en. moored will take plus if you were • member of the ca blast." I said, "On th e question of free trade, your opinions would urgent miss." Upon a great number of questions I have agreed with the hoe. member for the West Riding; but I never did agree with him upon the subject of sad he knows that I would never consent to join pence, the agitation with regard tO it; and I Colt' Dim I. private that I thought his views on that subject in jured his reputation with the people of this country. I received him at my hone" for a considerable period of time. There we had conversations on ail sorts of subjects ; bat I Myer made notes of those conversati:ns, and cannot now, like the how pa Osman, repeat what psuld in the freedom of coaversation. (Rear, hear.) The hon. gentlemaa has referred to an opinion which I szprersed in a speech some fifteen years ago. I have read that speech over very care fully. It is perfectly true that in fifteen years considerable change takes plus in men's opinions. It is true that in some portions of that speech I untie r. 'Olmsted the ambi tious deigns of Russia ; but I ii.SO said that if Russia had the designs attributed to hi r France and Rag. land ought to asks to prevent her from carrying them out. Now, sir, on the subjeci of the ambitious de signs of Resift, I admit that I have chaoged my opinions during the last 15 yeas', and one thing which led to that chug' is the knowledge which I acquired as a member of the government, of the secret carrin.uadence which took Minister. between the Emperor of Russia and the British Minister. (Hear, hear.) Thom were among the circus staacies which induced as to belies, that the ambitions de micas of Russia, to which I had not previously attached mach importance, were in reality. Ido not know that I have 'slitting more to say. I merely rose to say that any altoratioas which may have taken place in my opinions, are the result of careful redectiens. I have not of late ozonis ed either la this house, or to my coortituents, any opinion which I am not prepared to maintain. Sir J. GRAHAM said he was most unwilling to take past in this discumios. The right hon gentleman (Sir W. 11tewortli) having, bows er, said, with reference to his speech at the late etection, that he bad ncthiag to retract, ha rose to say that, having recent:y been a colleague of the right hos. gentleman, he had such respect for his character that he was quite sure that, when be had shown hiss that he bad unintentionally uttered an uatru:h, he would be prepared to retract • portion of his speech. He understood the right hon. gentleman to have said th 4 he considered the conduct of certain parties in that house to have been unpatriotic, discreditable, and nefarious—attempting, as the) had done. to surprise the rvernment by a teethes,- tie° of parties in the vote on the Turkish loan. New he (Sir J. Graham) happened t be sitting neat to his hon. friend the member for the P leries (Mr. Ricardo) immediately before that hon. member rose to address the house; sad he asked his hon. tele cd whether he was aware what was the intention of hon. gentlemen opposite with re spect to the vote on the loan. His hon. friend told him that be bad no knowledge whatever as to their intention; and he (Sir J. Graham) had himself riot the least idead the gown which those hoe. gentlemen meant to take. An bon member who was sitting near (as was understood), and wke was known to both of them—the bon. member for Horsham—observed that he bad reason to believe that it wee the intention of hon. gentlemen opposite to support the meths about to be made, and till that moment neither he nor his hoe. friend (Mr. Ricardo) had the slightest kaowledge' ma the subject. lie made that statement poseitively on the pert kis hoe. friead the m e mber for the Potteries and and, basing made it, the right hon. gentleman, the womb" for Southwark would, at all event', from =rime the statem en t th a t th er e was a sehebua of partite. ;Hear, hear.) 4,411 f. HOLESWORTH—By the woes "combination to =uplift the governm• eat," I certainly sever Sts ilmeribi the impressions wbleb were produeed • Vied by the events of last Friday week. Oa that mp wan surprised, not, I will say, by the pate , Waft With them there has been perpetual wed en ter—batbythe sodden opening et the ottasirtit a Xht 13011. gentleman who sit! ups Sass tang loth* beaches pied by the 18061111 ' iri t at 6 :l l 7)-4541 asides by the occ siaaltasesso eye* • ME EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1855. Vbe expireoo* agu 4 , TO I:oolWPOliDtir • ie. amtj• kiss" 110fteverl=rf sa Vergr i s g t pOlissies. HIGH W&T3R AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan o k. 42 . 1 . 1%-sissor—Mcaidag. 711.12a...—mwe0ess. U. Um. 1 elti!s eipia lisa. gallons. elipes!ts ; sad this ss*s was so abaumotiouo—tialorrapoon.) Tao SPIALIIIL—Th• rigbt boa. geallanaa Is sal Wi tted to speak. alz W.llO l about to do. Mr. 8.1 rigist bat. Hobbes, Ids deetriT , rit OIL eileadoes _ _ to hike NW bawd of ft www Übe -lallepsediaise Today ; sad be to MI the dela tose.goademen that be bed poiellhoW Islga age byorshisitiaileg to low ea& smash, lbws dew es hateemble se Mende aped ar a "sada mid *air.") WU lis ea WWI le ea ea IR mas ise s, be mammal tbst 11. deft Um deat M leei Wed be ed *rem dr bevies seed sash The &MAIM sea he veldt hove sellsit il e = wi t geatisman is order Mae bad used the Mingo la la the hoses. e l r.. R. PHILLINIORI said the did not apples to he awe that the sight Iva. adhered le ND bledollit t MI taidt great sagest ter the elm& abate hr of wag a party to ashrams hedge. l e. = 1 : 11 41 11.181 1istlat be glared veldts and soundeasgoademea abuse, Male " sad " MeaTbesigla boa. would de me sa • foams a miss to agoelat Yeasty with the Mae lakes he madosads imagism. Mr. BRIGHT wished to make es appeal as lobar tithe Odealal Beeretery. As to the speak in gaieties it wee tmlisetly irefully watt** out behrehand, aid he believed It was in the heads of the newspaper reporters berme Is wee pekoe. (Hoer, hear.) As however the right lei. NO& maa led Wes interrupted is the middle of a r eir tzt a • hoed that he would he allowed le drab the while be was main Sir W. MOLBBWdIiTH—I did met make • mendable. Mr. WALPOLR said the right Is.. dudeleall and the sweats& easermeeless Ed:a."1• 1 =1 him te wow Mesa Ida pgedllsa eiseie4 Halms th at boom woe to he eheeletely sway geodes beieght bekee them la time of Mir lam mitoses bid • sW le easels their eatable's . sad give their ease wheal Wag shamed with 'semis tato a asinine oemlamiliem hem Os =mat calla Ide scale viresamt (Paleamlea) smash Ids primal Nib% he (lir. Weigel') had asst been a party M way balsas op positions 10 Isio rverwaseat ; bat he Miasma smapied, mei never wail maple, to *sprees Ids bosses Grease aim say question wild* onto before Ma (Haar. hem) The Will which he gave os the Turkish Isla wee es loam a vats se he over gave in his iife, and he thaegist the lien hoe. gel. demean ought to do pieties* to these whom he had most lea properly, though he hoped inadvertently, us ligued. There ought to be some mimic's of apology for such expressions from a minister of the crown. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BROTHRRTON moved that the house do now adjourn. Mr. GLADSTONE confessed that he had listened with groat surprise to what had taken plata in this combination —(laughter)—bee meant conversation. it might jut as well be called a combination as the concurrence of opinion with regard to the vote on the Turkish loan. In noticing this matter he should not forget that he thought this right hon. rentleman forgot their former connection as colleagues. Notwithstanding the circumstanoes which the hon. member for Manchester mentioned, he was convinced that the right hon. gentleman used the language which he did with little consideraion. He bad said two things that night which appeared to contradict each other. He said he did not mean to retract, and at the same time declared that his intention was to describe, not the actions of others, but the impressions of his own mind. It was perfectly plain that the langssge of the right hon. gentleman, whom he hoped he might mill his right hoe. friend, did describe not insprosideas oa his mind but the actions of others. The question was, did he mega the actions of others or did he mean to describe the impressions of his own mind. If he (Mr. Gladstone) had agreed to vote with other hen. gent!y men in the question, he should not shrink from avowing He should have seen nothing improper in suck concert had it taken plus, and it bad not. When he came to the hens he did not even know of the intention of the hon. slumber for Stoke (Kr. Ricardo) to make • motion. He learned It only on the very evening while in the house. Did the hon. baronet speak of an impression as of • fact. Ol coarse, if the right hon. baronet only meant to describe the impression upon his own mind, no one would deny him the right of coming to his own conclusion. He bad as mush right to form his opinion as any old woman who might be galled—(laughter)—with tales of ghosts or otherwise. Lord PALMERSTON—Sir, my right hon. friend (Sir W. Moleswortts) is soused of having charged hon. members with a combination upon • particular quietists. ("Oh," and murmurs of dissent.) lam not talking of epithets, but of the ',whatnot* of the matter. (" No," and laughter.) Yes, it is the substance, although hon. members seemed to doubt it. My right hon. friend who has just sat down has put his complaint upon that ground, when he sake whether my right hon. friend spoke of an impression or a fact, and I am not to be turned off that meat by the " noes "of any hon. members. (Laughter.) Of course no man can state anything beyond the impression of his own mind as to • fact which has taken place, and as to the impression of my right honourable friend, all I can say is this, that, tight or wrong, it was my impression, and that it was the impression of all who did form part of that minority upon the vote in question, and moreover, I believe that it was the impression of every reasonable man in the kingdom. The combination might have been fortuitouf and without any concert, but combination it was in the strietast sense of the word, because a number of persons did combine. Whether they did so by previous arrangement or through the convictions which came to them in the course of the debate, it h for them to judge. We cannot dive into their mihds. At all events, my right hon, friend was justified in statics" his opinion that there was a combination for an object which he has stigmatised as not reflecting credit upon those mixed up in the matter. And I must say that I believe that opinion was not confined to my right hon. Mend. "iza C. HAMILTON regretted, after what had taken place, that the right hon. baronet had not honestly and fairly confessed his error. Sir W .MOLESWORTH—I can now,sir, I believe, speak upon the motion for the adjournment of the house. When I was stopped I was proceeding to state how I came to lase theta words. I wished to describe simply the effect which bad been produced= my mind. The effect upon my mind was that there had been a successfully combined minement. The right hen. gentlemen the member f.r Carlisle (Sir J. Graham) and for Oxford University (Mr. Gladstone) had declared that there was ao previous combination. I quite I believe the statemeat of the right hon. gentlemen, and I can now only suppose that it ores an accidental union of par ties for the purpose dart attack upon government. Mr. DISRAELI said, that it appeared to him that the issue had been entirely changed. Be thought when the noble lord rose, that he rose to extricate his right hon. friend and colleague from the disagreeable position into which be had placed himself. But the noble lord (Palmerston) entirely begged the question, and the right honourable gentleman rose and took advantage of that fact The isms which the noble lord raised was a false issue. They did not complain of the use of the weed combina tion," for that was a term capable of explanation—although, perhaps, takes strictly, it we. oftener applied in an odious seem then etherwhe. But it was the epithet—(cheer.)— mauled le the word which was the cause of the offence which lied bees taloa ; it we. that epithet, which the noble lord had thrown over as not being the point, which was the very matter of compplaint. He could well suppose that the feelings of a minister who had had to speak agaiast time, and who even then could hut get a bare majority, were somewhat wounded, but making allowance for that, he (Mr. Disraeli) was certainly surprised that the noble lord had not encouraged his colleague to withdraw the imputation which he h ad made. For his (Mr. Disraeli's) own part, he should not have been disposed to complain with the Mins near which had in the course of that evening been ex hibited, for he took into account the circumstance!, in which the right hon. hermit was placed. Still, after the discus sion which bad taken place, he could not but regret that the right hes. baronet had not treated the matter in a different spit it. (Hear.) The motion for adjournment was agreed to, and the house adjourned at half-past 1 o'clock. oak. • - MOLINIWOILTH—Thea I ,WeasSoly win% i -1 . pis= said it . ~, . k. "asthma had • • r , , ........ lan• ••• v•c iza also . '. la '''' ' • ' 6l "r - '*. (Majg c batt.) a a gr. names) Tiota4 la assitione midi lb en- s essrelOses k itilinbe that Os kw would Ind TER CHURCH. ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS.—The Bishop of Lon eon has presented the Rev. William Gibson Hompttry, B D., of Trinity College, Cambridge, his lordship's swami. I lag chaplain, to the vicarage of St. Martin-in-therields, reudered vacant by the preferment of the Rev. Henry Mae. keazie, M.A., to the rectory of Tydd St. Mary. Mr. Hum ph!, was liniesan Lecturer in 1850. By his appointment I the vicarage of Northolt, worth 9001. a year, becomes va cant. Mr. Mackenzie, who is about retiring, leaves the parish to the deep regret of all clames of the parishioners. DIOCESE or ellerffilt.—The Rev. John Kingsley, M.A., has been nominated to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Margaret's Church, Dunham Massey, recently soneecrated ; patron, the Earl of Stamford and Warrington. The rectory of St. Bridget with St. Martin, in the ,city of Chester, is vacant by death of the Rev. W. P. Hutton; patron, the Lord Bishop of Chester. On Thursday lest the congregation of St. Mark's Church, Hanniegton, presented to the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson, MA., curate, on the occasion of his leaving that parish, for Chaterford, Rover, an elegant silver inkstand, value 40 guineas, together with 43 vols. of valuable theologi cal works, as a tribute of esteem and admiration of the un wearied zeal with which be has ever discharged his pastoral duties, and especially for his devoted attention and kind nese to the poor daring the visitation of cholera last year. CRICHNT.—HARROW V. ETON.—The gentlemen belonging to these schools met at Lord's yesterday, and when the stumps wen drawn the gams stood as follows : Bom—lst laninp, 36; 2nd lasing*, 4 wickets down, 60 ; Barrow, let innings, 191, ACCIDENT ON THE MERSEY.—LIVERPOOL, FRI DAY.—The Iron barque &tritest, while being towed froml the Bandon to the Frines'a Dock, and when in the set of turning round opposite the Birkenhead pier, wits caught 'twill wicd and tide, and beam without ballast espeined A number of steamers at owns went to her assidenee, and succeeded In taking od all parties on board, Kemal of whom bad received °mansions from the shock. The ma fortunate barque sank is about fifteen ninnies eta IMP.MEW LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4. Ws hardly think that in the estimation of most of oar readers the speech delivered by Mr. Lsitto in the House of Commons yesterday evening will be re garded as repaying the trouble of perusal. It will be found, in point of fact, rather to answer the de scription of a dull pamphlet than an effective speech. Deficient alike in breadth of view and originality of illustration, and as low in tone of sentiment salt is bare of the ornaments of eloquence or wit, it mews to drag its slow and sordid length along for other ob jolts, and with a different purpose, than what is specifically avowed. We cannot, indeed, acme. the member for Wick of any attempt to gain attention under false pretences. Hs affects no fanatic faith in the theories of the Peace party, and no doubt as to** ability of France and England to achieve what they have undertaken, if they persevere to the end. But without the consistency of those who from the out set protested spinet all armed resistant* to Russia, or of those whose understandings are paralysed by an unnational and irrational despondency as to the for tunes of the struggle, Mr. Limo, after cool calcula tion, recommends the abandonment of the siege of Sebastopol, and the summoning of a new conference at Vienna, because he says it would be cheaper for the exchequer, and decidedly better for speculative enter prises of every kind—Austrian railways of course included. Sebastopol, he argues, wenkl not be worth keeping by us had we got it, and therefore it is not worth the trouble of taking by force of arms! The revolver of a highwayman, could you wrest it from his grasp, would not sell for a tenth part of what it costs to employ a patrol ; therefore, according to the Wick philosophy, it is better to leave ruffianism armed. Honour, dig nity, good faith, and permanent security, are imperial considerations to which Mr. LAING devotes but brief and passing consideration ; but he formally an nounces himself u the spokesman of the bankers, brokers, railway emulator'', contractors, and in short of the whole elan of money-dealers and job bers of the great cities of Europe ; and their opinion, he solemnly informs us, is against a continuance of the war. It scarcely needed any assurance from the honourable and learned gentleman to convince us of the fact : the only question it suggests is—admit ting its truth—what is its value P We fancy the public estimate thereof will differ widely from that of Mr. LAING, who by his own confession has spent a considerable portion of the present session— not in his place in Parliament, not in learning the sentiments of his own countrymen, but in listen ing to the lamentations of German capitalists and the grumbling, of other Continental jobbers at the rejeo tion of the terms of compromise offered by the Aus trian Government last May. Nor does the sell-elected member for the European stock and share markets stop short in his avowals of political sentiments and motives. Ile has in this respect made a clean breast of it. According to him the Austrian alliance is the one thing needful in our permanent foreign policy. The German courts, he regrets to say, have been alienated by the profession of sympathy made by England in 1848 and 1849, in the efforts of their subjects to extort constitutional liberty. Nothing could be more mis chievous or blameworthy in his opinion than such manifestations on our part. The true interest of England lies, according to this advocate of abso:utist alliances, in discountenancing all dreams and hopes on the part of suppressed nationalities, and conciliating the confidence of the courts of Berlin and Vienna. We congratulate Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. BRIGHT on the accession of such an advocate as this. We desire no thing better than that he should at stated intervals keep the public in mind that these are the principles whose triumph is to be inaugurated by the desertion of the cause we have hitherto espoused, and the acknowledgment that we have failed in what we undertook to do in conoert with France. Far from objecting to the confessions of Mr. Limo, we rather rejoice that they have been so nakedly made. If the spirit of the country be sound, they will do good, not harm. We cannot say as much, however, for the speech in which Sir GEOROE GREY followed, without answer ing, the learned representative of Wick. Through interminable mazes of verbiage and evasion it will be found difficult to trace any intelligible or connected clue of meaning. With emphatic feebleness the flouts SECRETARY repeated the greater part of Lord CLARENDON'S well-known despatches; but he con trived so to mix their fragments with dreary paren theses of his own, and so to smother their drift in words and phrases whose sole characteristic may be said to be negative, that we doubt if many of his hearers would have carried away any very distinct idea of what he had averred or denied, had he not in his turn been followed by that most inveterate of friends, an ex-colleague. It was just the opportunity for a master of fence like Mr. GLADSTONE, and dex terously he turned it to account. We have now, he said, got a step further In ministerial disclosures. Heretofore wehave been led to believe thatnegotiations were broken off, and Lord Joni; Russia:9 advice overruled, because the Cabinet could not renounce the demand for the limitation of Russia's naval forces in the Black Sea; but now we are told by the SECRETARY of STATE that he, for one, " does not think limitation ought to be made • an qua wow in future negotiations for peace !" Well, then, if this be the opinion of the Government, what, we would ask, is to be so regarded P One after another the objects for which the nation believed it was called upon to contend vanish like dissolving views. We were told that great things were to be done last year in the Baltic; but our magnificent fleet returned home without effecting aught which even those who sent it out could ask Parliament to pass a vote of thanks for. Then we were told that in the second campaign • great blow would be struck in the Gulf of Finland; but the second summer is passing away, and we hear of nothing doing or done. High hopes were held out of a Turkish legion and of a Foreign legion; but nobody can exactly say what chance there now is of either being in a condition to render efficient service within any assignable period; and a Polish legion, which would, in some respect., be better than either, is, we understand, still under dis cussion. We need not dwell on the di.. appointments created month after month at the waste of life and treasure in the Crimea; we know that the Cabinet took a whole week to maks up their minds not to abandon the siege for the sake of peace; and now we are told by Sir GEORGE GP= that he and hie colleagues no banger consider the condition of " limitation," on which the Vienna Oceanian arm broksa up, indispensable to the conclusion of an amiable emeprondee ! Parliament is shout to be lenrogned until November; truly it is time that it should Or a SEIM stand aside, in order that the people should the more distinctly speak out on their own behalf. Tax letter from Sir Ds Ircr Evrn, which appear, in another column, seems calculated to provoke or prolong a controversy whir& we sine ely hope will be allowed to drop. There have been mistakes and Ws understandings shout the unlocky_meeting on behalf of Poland that wee to have been heid on Wednesday, het, and personal susceptibilities have been roused by them; but it is not to be endured that a great and good cause should be placed in peril on that account. The only questions in oonnexion with that meeting, of which the English public ought to tole rate the discussion at present, are, can anything be done to promote the oases of Poland P and how can it be done! In common with the great mass of the English people, we have refused to admit that the nationality of Poland has been extinguished. We have "hoped against hope :" we have clung to the faith that the clause of the Poles will ultimately triumph. An op portnoity now presents itself of doing something that may materially promote that cause. The Polish nation may at this moment be regarded as composed of two parts—the Emigration and the Poles who remain resident in their own land. With regard to the former there can be no doubt of their eager and in eradicable desire to expel the Muscovite intruders from the soil of Poland. With regard to the latter, it is more difficult to ascertain their views and wishes. Russia has kept its frontiers so hermetically sealed against the intrusion of European inquiry, that we are left, on this moors, in a great measure to inference and conjecture. We have, indeed, scarcely the shadow of a doubt that the resident Poles writhe under the tyranny of Russia, and would gladly shake it off; but we are in no condition to say with certainty that they are able to co-operate effectively with their exiled brethren. The embodiment of a Polish Legion would afford the means of experimentally ascertaining how the Poles in Poland stand disposed. Already there are rumours of insurrections in Malorossia, and of discontent in Poland ; were a Polish Legion assem bled on the Russian frontier, it might be the torch that, in the words of the old Scottish proverb, would " met fire to the heather." For this reason it is the duty of every loyal Polish exile, and of every friend of Poland, untrammelled by official position or con nexions, to promote to the utmost of his power the enrolment of a Polish Legion. With Government the cue is somewhat different. The first duty that an English Government owes is to the English people. It has no right to tax the national resources to aid a foreign people, until it has ascertained that these foreigners are worthy and capable of being helped. We do not expect Govern ment to be influenced by the ulterior views which we entertain and proudly avow; but neither can we admit that it has any right to shrink from a measure otherwise eligible, because it may ultimately tend to promote these views. We will go farther. The suppression of the nationality of Poland is a standing reproach to the English Government, which was a party to the great European treaty which guaranteed that nationality. If reasons of state have hitherto entitled the English Go- vernment to withhold direct aid from Poland they do not exonerate it from those claims which Poland has upon its sympathies and good offices whenever time and opportunity permit. Now, in so far as the question of the enrolment of a Polish Legion is concerned, the policy of the English Go vernment seems clear. England has need of brave and trustworthy soldiers, of foreign birth, to fight under her banner in the present war. There are none more brave than the Poles; none whose hereditary sentiments, as regards Rims* entitle them to more unreserved confidence on our part. The Poles will form a more efficient corps if kept to gether than if they are mixed up with men of other races, speaking other languages, inspired by other sentiments. Viewed merely with regard to the needs of the war, the enrolment of a Polish Legion would obviously be a wise step on the part of the English Government. The apprehension that the adoption of such a measure would cause in the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, and the crippling of its means of defence, by compelling it to reserve a part of its forces to guard against internal foes, ought also to be taken into account. These considerations are sufficient to show that it is the interest and duty of the English people at this moment to urge upon their Government the enrol ment of a Polish Legion. A public demonstration in this sense will be useful, not to Poland only, but to England (as tending to accelerate a complete victory over the Russians, and the conclusion of a stable peace), and to Europe (by asserting the great prin ciple of the independence and the Indestructibility of nations). The Englishman who believes in the justice of the cause of Poland, and yet throws obstacles in the way ot such a demonstration, is a traitor to his own con victions. We speak with reference to the future, not to the past, which we have already dismissed from our memory. Row the ask would chuckle if it should turn out that, when an opportunity of materially assist ing Poland presented itself, Englishmen, who boast of their sympathy for that country, were to allow it to escape them because they were engrossed with petty personal wrangling. amongst themselves. The Arkemetent, classifying the Civil List for ten years' passions into literary and non-literary (and including in the literary section those which were given for service in art and science), arrives at the following results :-1845, Literary pensions, 7001. ; 1846, 1,0001.; 1847, 7001.; 1848, 7001.; 1849, 4901.; 1850, 8501. ; 1851, 1,0261. ; 1852,1,1001.; 1853, 1,0001 ; and finally, 1854, 1501. Thus, for the nine years previous to 1854, the amount given ri rewards for " literary exertions " was 7,565 L, or something over 8401. a-year. Last year, in Lord Aberdeen's hands, the sum dwindled down to 1601. Mdlle. Rosa Bonheues picture of " the Horse Fair " is sold to u Englishman—but not a resident in Eng- 1 - - land—for a trifle under 2,000 L Mdlle. Bonheur has painted a reduced copy for the engraver, which Is now in Mr. Thomas Landsser's bands. The second picture has been purchased by Mr. Jacob Bell. M. A. Dumas has been appointed by the French government to collect all the popular ballad poetry of the South of France. Mr. Ruskin is again at work as an illustrator of the genius of Turner. Some drawings by the great master of landscape—twelve in number, bat not equally finished— representing the Harbours of England—are in Mr. Buskin's hands for critical elucidation. The manes are crowded with boats, is in Turner's " Coast Scenery ; " and the circum stance ass supplied the commentator with an unworn and picturesque topic—the history of boat building in relation to Art in all ages. The work, we (Athenaeums) understand, II likely to app ear in the autumn. The CarliaJ. Patriot says it is folly expected that the ezlnawn of the late Exhibition there of the Royal Agricaltraal Society will be severed by the receipts. It has hitherto bees thought not so any bad if the receipts at the, Society's annual sasetiap fell below the expels's. sot more than a thousand pounds. Five hundred hate, to contain 50 men each, are to I t/a ready for despatch by the end of the present month._ . It is expected that the West-end branch of the Bank of England will ore la about three weeks. LATEST FROM ABROAD. THE BALTIC FLEET. 0111,011 017/1 OWS DANTZIC, Aram 8. The Primus Alice has arrived with mails. She left the fleet on the Slat ult. at Num. No altera tion hu taken place in the position of the squadrons, and nothing important has taken place, except the destruction of some coast batteries at /Loth& ; preparations are, however, being made to strike an important blow. - - - FAROSUND, JULY 29. The Bolleidoillerpitiel ship, Mamboed to the Gulf of Finland, preparatory to the apioisid °potations. RUSSIAN NEWS FROM THE BALTIC. --4.-- The Invalid. Rune, of Jolt' 27, contains the fol lowing: " Alde•de-Camp General de Berg, commander of the troops in Finland, states that on July 20 a frigate, a steamer, a corvette, and a gun-boat, carrying the English flag, appeared before Friedrichschamm. At 10 o'clock a.m. on the following day, these vessels, arranged in line, commenced an uninterrupted cannonade against our coast batteries, but, being re ceived by a well-sustained fire on the part of our artillery, and our oarabineer marksmen, were obliged to retire after an engagement of two hours' duration." HANOVER. HkNOVER. FRIDAT. The names of the new ministers have been putted. The King, Queen, and three children have gone to Norderney. FRANCE. (mom ova owl( col PARIS, FRIDAY BTENIXO. According to the Indipendance Beige," it is not imposible" a new effort to bring about peace may be at this moment making in " high diplomatic spheres." The foundation for this conjecture, launched by a journal which never mines an oppor tunity of throwing a wet blanket upon the war, is the story already sent to London, of General de Letang's new minion to Vienna, consequent upon an autograph letter written by the Emperor Francis Joseph, at the instigation of the Empress Dowager of Russia, to Napoleon 111. Although the Independence does not speak very confidently of the truth of its own news, and admits that the authenticity of the Empress' letter is not completely established,:and:that peace, however desirable, is not among the probabi lities of the moment, it takes the opportunity of in sinuatin ; that the chances of the great cause in which the Allies are engaged being on the point of being betrayed, are not altogether to be despised because " the good understanding between Austria and the Western Powers was never so complete as it is now, and the Italian revolutionary party has never yet been so categorically informed that it has no help to expect from the French govern ment" If any dependence may be placed on the above intimations from a decidedly hostile source, it is to be inferred that at one time there was some coquetting with the party of freedom in Italy. At any rate, it appears that communications have been frequently made to that party, since they are now " informed" more categorically than ever. The Independence says that all letters coming from the Crimea are now opened by the Provost- Marshal, in order to see that they contain no news displeasing to the military authorities, and that they arrive with the stamped mark, " Grand Prevlt of the army; opened by authority of justice." Very sum mary justice that of the Provost-Marshal, the Itule pendance observes. There has bees come considerable oscillation on the Bourse to-day, not so much in the Rents as in other securities. The Rents, after a variation of not more than 5c., closed at 67fr. 30c., with a fall of 50. But Credit Mobilier, after having been in extraor dinary demand, and quoted at 1,170 fr., ran down to 1,120 fr. for the close, which price, however, was still an improvement of Mr. upon the great advance of yesterday. It is reported that the Credit Mobilier is about to double its capital, and to issue at once 120,000 new shares of 500 f., that is to say, shares for 60 millions of capital. Each holder of two &areal to receive one new one. Further new shares to the amount of 60 millions will, according to the project, be retained by the company in its own hands. In railway shares there war great fluctuation. Orleans left off with a fall of 221 r. 50c., and Eastern. with a rise of 20fr. Lyons fell 10fr., and Lyons and Mediterranean 20 1 r. It i b confidently said that sup plementary reports of subscriptions bring the loan up to 4 milliards, instead of 3 milliarda 600 millions, which the Idoniteur announced akthe approximative amount. THE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION. (THOM OUR OWN CONNISSIONNIL) PARIS, AVOOST 2. _ _ _ Since I last addressed you some notable ameliora tions have been effected in this exhibition. Orange trees have been arranged before the grand entrance and in the gardens ; Jackson and Graham have esta blished their splendid piece of furniture in the nave (the paintings on porcelain being, you will be glad to learn, from pupils of Marlborough-house) ; cheap trains have been organised from the provincial towns; Fridays are to be made two franc days, and Mondays four sons days; Sundays being henceforth one franc days. I may also inform you that measure. are now in progress that will enable excursionists of the work ing class to enter the building any day at the cheap rate of four sous. The average attendanoe on one franc days is now 2,5,000 ; on four sons days 120,000. It is generally believed among the foreign commis. sioners that the Exhibition will be closed during three or four days, to prepare it for the visit of the Queen. SPAIN. The Madrid papers of the 28th ult. state that pro positions of a satisfactory kind have been made by certain Spanish firms for the construction of the Val ladolid and Miranda Railway, and that a bill for the purpose is shortly to be presented to the Cortes. M. te, the new Spanish minister to the United States, is to leave next week for Washington. Madrid, Aug. I.—The cholera is raging in the province of Valladolid, and is increasing at Madrid. M. Mum has been promoted to the rank of Lieut.- General. AUSTRIA. The reduction of the Austrian army has been re presented in documents signed by Count Buol as a provisional and temporary measure. The Austrian government has now, however, ordered the sale of all cavalry horses which exceed the number of the actual effective force decided upon. PIEDMONT. The Cagliari papers, of the 21st and 22nd tilt., give some account of the commencement of the operations for the suppression of the convents In virtue of the new law. At Sassari, all the monastic establishments for males opened their doors to the authorities without the slightest difficulty, notwithstanding a circular from the bishop ex horting them to resist. The nuns, on the contrary, made a good deal of resistance, and in several instances the doors had to be forced open. At the convent Santa Chian, the abbess refused to obey the summons, but an animated die cession, in a subdued toae, was heard to go on within, and two voices were at last distinctly heard to advocate obedi ence to the law, but without success; so that the authorities bad to are force to effect their object. When at lan they were enabled to begin the inventory, they found so few articles of value, that it became evident a good many mast have been removed. No popular agitation or disturbance occurred in any sue during these proceedings. THE WAR. There is no confirmation of the report of an incur. goo by fichamyl into Georgia, end Gemm e l Mouravieff 's retreat upon Tiflis. For want of saes. , don to original dates, a menage from. Trieste of th e lit has been supposed to establish this moons, the it only repeats. We learn from Vienna a la i the despatch upon which these reports are founded I commenced with the qualifying words, " aro r di ng to the reports of merchants." The 11.emelenblate asserts that General Wm' head-quarters have been transferred to Odeon. A letter from Kamiesch, in the Freese d' Or eat the 21st ult., says : " The Russians have established an entrenched camp on the line from Arabat P 3 Kerb*, supported on Argin, at four leagues f rom Arabat, and running across the road from Herta to that place and to Kaffa. General Wrangel buthe se established his heed-quarters. The troops of General Bellegarde also occupy these cantonments, as e n di Karmonch Keleji and Soticliinl, to the east of Argi l! , above and below the road from that p o i nt to Kertch , A letter from St. Petersburg in the Hamburg N ew states that the number of officers who are brought before the courts-martial, and condemned to vario us punishments, is daily increasing. Detachm.nts et troops are constantly leaviuq Poland for Bessarabia. A magnificent park of artillery, to be sent to Sebes. topol, has been formed in Volhynia. Poland, w or d. ing to this account, has very few troops now, as tho l e which leave are not replaced. GENERAL BEATSON'S IRREGULAR - - -- - - ---- CAVALRY. We hove seamivril the vteuua papers of Toes* containing the announcement of General brew ; death. The Independonee of yesterday states that the news has received a sad confirmation. We be. Here the latter statement to be incorrect. To a late hour last night no such confirmation had reached the British government. Of the same date with Gen. Beatson's letters, which we published yesterday, but in singular contradiction with them, are the detailed accounts given by the Journal de Constantinople as extracts of letters from the town of Dardanelles. A letter of the 18th, after describing the infamous conduct of a party of Bashi- Bazonks towards a Turkish lady, concludes, "Them fellows are constantly deserting—it is the best that could happen, for what can be done with such scow drels The town is returning to its normal state, but the vines unfortunately are generally considered as lost, and they were the only resource of the country. The population and the government will have lost this year nearly two million piastre by the enrolment of Bashi-Bazouks." The Journal de Constantinople of the 23rd ult., adds, as a postscript to the foregoing, We have just received a pew letter from our correspondent, announcing that things have again taken a sad torn at the Dardanelles. We are compelled to postpone the details." THE TURKISH Advice* from Constantinople report that the or. ganisation of this force is proceeding with consider. able MOBIL There are already 10,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry, the latter well mounted. The troops, both cavalry and infantry, act with the greatest alacrity, and show the utmost obedience to the com. mends of their officers. The British officers attached to the corps are already able, to a great extent, to work the men in the field in their own language. Neither the general nor the officers find it necessary to have a body guard. AUXILIARY FLEET FOR THE BLACK SEA. The Courrier de Marseille of Wednesday says: We have already stated that the government intended to purchase the Rhone steamers for use in the Black Sea operations. The fact, at first questioned, was afterwards denied in a Parisian correspondence of the Indiperldeses Bilge; but we can now affirm that the purchase has been concluded. Captain Magnan, of our port, who has long navigated the Black Sea and the Sea of Asoff; and is perfectly well acquainted with the many obstaeles attending the approach to the coasts and the entrances of the rivers emptyieg therein, particularly for our military navy, addressed some time ago to our government a memorial, in which be demonstrated the impossibility of efficaciously operating on certain important points of the Russian territory with the means at the disposal of the Allied Powers. He then ►howed the immense advantages that might accrue from the application thereto of a special asatiriel, which it was easy to borrow from our river naviga tion. M. Duces, then Minister of Marine, and Marshal Valliant, Minister of War, appointed a committee to exa mine the questions trer.ted by the writer of the memorial, and whose decision was entirely favourable to the plan euggested by Captain Magnan. Some doubts re mained as to the inconveniences that might result from a long sea pas►sge, effected by these let bottomed bo►ts. Those fears were unfounded. The paddles ensure to those boats sufficient stability in the open sea. They derive, moreover, from their light draught of water a degree of rapidity which lessens the chances of accident, on the passage, and enaules them to seek refuge in the smallest ports when menaced by a storm. The Rhone and Saone can alone supply that new fleet, numbering 97 boats, ready to proceed to the Black Sea. It is not our province to mention on what terms the different companies consented to part with that floating stock. All we can say is that the affair was settled to the satisfaction of the pie ties interested and of the government, which thus finds available unhoped for means of action. Reasons of discre tion and patriotism, which our readers will appreciate, do not permit us to divulge the plan connected with the co operation of that valuable auxiliary fleet. We will only say that on points where the allies could only appear in a few light vessels, escorted by a small number of gunboats, and Burying a few hundred men, they may now unexpectedly show themselves in our large river steamers, with 20,000, 30,000, and, if necessary, 60,000 men, ready to disembark, in spite of shoals, and without being obliged to have recourse to lighters or other landing apparatus. Our soldiers will scarcely wet their feet on quitting the deck of those boats to occupy the shore. The smallest of these vessels can easily accommodate SOO men, and mount four 18-pounders, which is fully sufficient to protect a landing without any other assistance. Those vessels will approach every Russian beach, however low it may be, and enter the month of every river, however in tricate or obstructed its channel may prove. Oar readers can torm an Idea of the extreme mobility such vessels will impart to our army, and of the fright ful rapidity with which our Geterals can tffeet diver sions or land troops where least expected by the enemy. This is all we are liberty to say with regard to the efficiency of this coasting and river squadron. Our readers will easily conceive the immense advantages out army will derive from its co-operation, and the dreadful effects of its intervention for the Russians. One of those steamers, commanded by Captain Magnan himself, has already left the Rhone, and arrived in our port, from whence she will shortly sail for the Crimea. Between the month of the Rhone and Mar seilles the Cygue, No. 10, averaged a speed of 14 knots, in a heavy sea and against a strong breeze. This trial is very satisfactory. The government will wait the report which Captain Magnan is to forward from Constantinople as to the navigable capabilities of those vessels before it lends out the entire light squadron. PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY Evaxmo. The Hibernia has arrived with the Peninsular mails, having left Lisbon on the 29th ult. She brings eighty-four passengers. Cholera has broken out at Oporto. The all-absorbing topic at Lisbon is the reception and proclamation of the King. The Foreign exchanges are dull. Bank of Lisbon notes are at one per cent. discount. Exchange on London, 30 days, 531; 90 days, 641. The Madagascar had left Gibraltar with horsy, and mules for the Crimea. Sir Richard Bambara, the British Minister, is shortly expected at Lisbon. The Prince of Orange is expected at Gibraltar. In Portugal the corn crop is abundant, and much will be exported,