The Express. — London, England, 1855-08-03 00:00:00

gbe exancoo. TO 00311,118T01DENTEL MselOmmiskilorlelke"llio Isprir," Lamar Swabs paps; saut be oar Ono. 1% Ilinsubdr•se. by Tim Vika Cla the 11. of paillimilm. HIGH WATIR AT LONDON BRIDOIL Two DAT Mr ea --Akins" Ch. M. To.moisow —IWO& lb. iim—......llluslise. 1116 LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3. Mssairrr's Ministers stand in a very peculiar relation to the House of Commons: they are at once its masters and its servant.. They are liable to be deposed by it if they displease it, and yet they are required to guide it. Though their existence is de termined by a vote of the house, they are expected to prescribe the course of its proceedings. Except uit resolves to turn them out or keep them in, they regulate and prescribe most of its business. The Ministers, therefore, are in a great measure responsible—as the whole press finds out at the close of every session, when necessary legislation has been neglected—for the faults of the Parliament and any loss of character it suffers. They take the initiative in all its proceedings, they stop such as they dislike, and when a session closes—as the present is about to close—in great disappoint ment, they are to blame. This is a serious matter for Ministers ; for session after session the Parliament is becoming less and lees respected. It bus lately become a question whether it be not in the way, sad if we go on in this downward coarse, to successive Ministers will be properly attributed the destruction of the constitution. To stay such an evil, to prevent each a misfortune, we want something more than ea ad ministrative reform—an examination of boys for public offices, or a selection of superior clerks—we want a better-informed, a higher-minded, • more re solute class of statesmen, who comprehend the exigen cies of their position, and whose express business it is to make rules and not to submit to routine . ; and it we c•asot get such statesmen, the Parliament must want guide*, the national business must go wrong, and dis turbances and convulsions are likely to follow. These remarks are justified by what has happened in Parliament this week. The real power of the House of Commons depends on its control over the public purse. To it especially the people look to bargain with the executive, or to curb its expenses ; and the House is fairly choased out of its power by the Ministers, degraded still more in the eyes of the public, when they submit to it the balk, or even a large part, of the Estimates, at so late a period of the session that there is no time to discuss them, and no alternative but to vote them or break up the Govern ment. Some cunning men in office may plume themselves on having quietly brought about such a contingency, but it tends to degrade the Parliament and destroy the Government. Even if such a peso tice were common, which it is not, enlightened states men, with a high-minded consciousness that their deeds would bear inspection, would break through such a routine for the sake of preserving the power and the character of the House; would subm.t to it all the Estimates, and ask for its votes at the earliest period. At • time of war the Ministers are not to be blamed for bringing forward at the close of the session supplemental estimates for three or four millions. At Wet we blame them not for this want of prescience. But we blame them for having at the same time to bring forward • large part of the ordinary Estimates for the year, by which they have effectually pre cluded the House of Commons from scrutinising either class of Estimates, and have substantially set aside its power of controlling either the ordinary or the extraordinary expenditure. They have known for weeks and months that they would require sup plemental Estimates, and it was their business to sub mit the ordinary Estimates to the House in good time, in order to enable it to exercise its great con stitutional function. They have done the contrary, and if this course were cunningly devised to give them selves ease, it has inflicted another blow on the stag gering constitution. On Monday Lord PALMERSTON informed the House that it would be necessary to prorogue in about a fortnight ; and on Monday the bulk of the Estimates for the civil services were required to be voted. They are, we believe, now all voted at two or three sittings, and, with the supplemental Estimates, also voted, they amount together to a sum not far short of 10,000,0001. Though the supplemental Estimates occasioned most discussion, we have nothing to say about them, but to wish that the money may be as well applied as it was cheerfully voted. The Estimates for the civil service are all dated " Whitehall, March 27," and though the date is misleading—for one of the Esti mates so dated contains a letter dated July 7, 1866 —yet as the bulk of them were then prepared, the Ministers ought to have submitted them to the House before the beginning of August. The amount of them is 6,556,9631. They consist of a great number of items, some of them, like the vote for the Cape of Good Hope, to which we called atten tion on Tuesday, of at least a questionable character, initiating a new and costly system, and, therefore, very deserving of being examined before being voted. Nay, they are of such a description that to vote them unexamined is to derogate from the character of the House of Commons. Others, again, such as the votes for consular establishments at home and abroad, and the votes for science and art, are the founda tions of great systems, which just now have an intense interest for the public, and ought not to have been passed over as matters of coarse without explanation. In the vote for public instruction and the encouragement of art the national character is involved ; and the Ministers themselves should have been glad, did time serve, to take the opportu nity of giving such an explanation as might have re deemed the nation from the unfounded reproaches of our own and foreign journalists. But it is plain that neither the Ministers nor the House of Com mons, nor even the subordinate offieials at the Treasury, have had time or takeo the pains to examine the Es timates which the House was required by the Minis ters hurriedly to vote. We say this from seeing in the Eatimates facts which should make both the pro- posing Ministers and the assenting House of °com mons ashamed of their work. The Estimates consist of seven different classes, with a General Abstract of the whole, and we have a right to expect that the Abstract should accord with the Estimates in each class. With the first clam it agrees, and the sum required for public works and buildings is put down in the Estimate and in the Abstract at 816,82 W. for 1854, and 748,7601. for 1866. So it is with the third class, the fifth class, and the sixth elms, in all of which the Estimates and the Abstract agree. But the figures of the second class, the fourth class, and the seventh class, in the Estimates, vary from those of the Abstract. The sum required for 1864 in the Estimate for class 2 is 1,423,1881., and the net decrease in 1866, 108,7981.; in the Abstract the figures are 1,419,7231. and 10!,3331. In the Estimate of class 4, the sum re quired for 1864 in 723,41 W.; for 1866, THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1855. LATEST FROM ABROAD. VIINNA. Avows 1. The Amnia& latt sirens that General Laden' hooljeartere have been tranatemed to Odom. 818,3234 sad the net inseam, 92,9181. In. the Abstract the figures under the same heads are 721,4041., 848,8704 and 125,2881. We are aware that there was an additional Estimate for 1810001., bat that will not reconcile the disseepaciee Weems the Estimates of elms 4 and the Abstract. be. the Estimates of clam 7 the ems pat down fit! 1864 is 702,1591.; for 1856, i 768,1691., and the net in crease 64,0101.; while.m the Abeteeet the Irmo are 708,5764 768,1894 and 49,6941. Abstract and Esti mates all bear the same date, yet in 21 manses of figures standing for the same things in the Estimates and the Abstract, 7 of the muses differ in the respective documents. We blame no individuals for these dis crepancies ; the documeats are put forth by the Trea sury, and passed over by the House of Commons. We have, however, seen no explanations of them, and they show, we think, in what a hurried, slovenlyt scandalous manner the financial concerns of this great nation are managed by the Ministers and the Parliament. Tilz inquiry into the disturbances in Hyde•park hes terminated. But Mr. WORTLEY announced, at the clone of yesterday's sitting, that, "in consequence of the volume of the evidence, and the duties he and his colleagues had to discharge, some time must elapse before they could make a report." In other w .eds, no opportunity will be afforded to Parliament pronouncing an opinion on the proceedings in Hyde-park before the prorogation. Was this in the calculation of Government when the Recorders of our three moat important municipalities were selected to preside over the inquiry P The conduct of the corn miosioners has throughout given unbounded satiefao tion ; and it is no fault of theirs that they have other duties to discharge which they cannot neglect; but if Government intended that the inquiry should lead to any practical results, men ought to have been selected who could give their whole time to it. The evidence produced before the Commissioners on behalf of the police leaves the statements of the 80 accusers, describing the main incidents of the day, uncontradisted in all essential points. There may have been mistaken identity; there may have been mistakes of facts and circumstances which were witnessed from different points of view ; but there is no mistake u to the abuse of power of which certain members of every grade of the force have been guilty, from the Chief Commissioner down to 370 A. Whatever the decision of the Inquiring Commis sioners may be, the investigation will have one good effect. Directing attention to the special manage ment of the police force, it has shown the tendency of that body to travel beyond its legitimate sphere, and to exercise powers it does not legi timately possess, and which it would be daogerou for it to possess. The ambition of its chief to incorporate himself into the ministerial system of this realm, and to invest his department with political functions, will be extin guished. The inquiry will possibly induce the Home-office to place the police commission on its proper footing, and will restore to Captain HAY that share of activity and responsibility which his col league appears to have very much repressed. It will make Captain LABALmoNDIEBE something more than an ornamental appendage to sta►e processions, and will, let us hope, bring those talents for the realities of his office into play which it is impossible at pre sent either to assert or to deny that he possesses. Above all, it will confine the operations of the Metro politan Polioe to the metropolis, unless in cases of special requisition from the Court, or from provincial authorities, when the QUEEN is travelling, or on other lextraordinary occasions. CV Court. OSBORNE, AIIOUST 2. Her Majesty walked in the grounds yesterday. Prince Albert left Osborne today for the camp at Alder show. The royal dinner party included Lientenant-General Biz George Brown, the Hon. Captain Denman, aad Lord Burghenh, who arrised on a visit to her Majeety. A deputation on matters conaected with Prince Edward's Island had an interview with Sir William Molitsworth yes• terday, at the Colonial-office. The deputation consisted of Lord fildville, Sir George Seymour, Ifir. Cunard, Mr. Ravi land, and Mr. HoiL A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com mission for the Eahibition of 18.51 was held yesterday at the Council-oalee. Present—Earl Granville (chairman), Sir William Cabitt, Mr. Coulson, Q.C., and Mr. Edgar Bow ting (secretary). Mr. Williams, financial officer to the committee, was also in attendance. Despatches were received at eke Colonial-office yester day from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and from the Governor of South Australia. His Royal Highness Prince Albert and suite landed in the Southampton-docks, yesterday afternoon. _ . from the royal steam yacht Fairy, for the purpose of visiting Aldenhott camp. He was received by Messrs. Hedger, Watkins, end Levy, officials belonging to the Southampton docks and South Western Railway, and took his departure for Farnborough station in the state railway carriage, which was drawn up dos* to where the Prince landed. The royal carriage, with throe other carriages, formed a spacial train, which started at 3.15 p.m. __ The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, accompanied by the Hereditary Grarid Duke and Grant Duchess of will, at the close of the month, honour Sir Wm. and the Hon. Lsdy Middleton with a visit at Shrubland Park, Suffolk. • Prince Ismael Pasha has arrived at Claridge's Rotel, from the But. The Duke of Devonshire has arriv-d at Devon shire House, and is in excellent health. The noble doko will go to Chatsworth shcztly to receive a large party of visitors. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry have arrived at Powerecoart Castle, from town. The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, and Lady Blanche Buenos, ban left Bridgewater House for Wonky Hall, Lancashire. The Earl of Eglintoun has arrived at Eglintona Castle, Aynhire, from town, and will shortly entertain • sneetasion of friends at that hospitable seat. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bernatorff have returned to the Premien Lega tion, in Carlton•houss-terrace, from visiting the Countess (Prances) Waldegrave, sad Mr. 0. G. V. Harcourt, M.P., at Manahan Park, oast Oxford. Visoount and Viscountess Ingestre have left St. James's-square for Imestre Hall, Staffordshire. Lord Blantyre has left town for the baths at Carlsbad. Lady Blantyre is staying with the Duchess of Sutherland, at Staff)rd House. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Smyth Venter have left town for Ireland. Lieutenant•Oeneral Sir George Brown returned to town yesterday evening from visiting her Majesty at Osborne. The yllant General leaves to-morrow for Leam ington Spa. - . In consequence of the late arrival of Mdlle. Roes Bocheur's picture of the Horse Fair, the French Exhibition of Fine Arta wiU remain open for another month. Several influential Arab chiefs have recently ar rived in Paris, accompanied by French officers. The Imperial Commission, on the proposition of the French Exhibition False. Company, Ms decided on the following changes in the rates of admisaion, commencing from the Ist of the present month. The price on Monday is now to ►e 20e. ; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thunday, Satur day, and Sunday, lfr.; and Friday, 2fr... _ _ The Emperor Napoleon le described ma taking an active part in the arrangements for the Mee which are to celebrate Queen Victoria's visit to the Imperial Court. In addition to the National Gaud, 6,000 cavalry will line the straits on the day of her Majesty's arrival. We (Herald) hear from Port Royal that Commo dore Headersea, the mood is commend of the West India station, has mot to the Admiralty his assignation is tore- queue of 'caftans ill-lisaltb. RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS FROM SEBASTOPOL. PRINGII GORTCHJ:KOFIPS JOURNAL. A despatch from Prince Goetokakoff, ,datad Mon day last says, "Nothing striking has occurred at SebastopoL Tha enemy continua his partial can nonade', and we reply with energy." A supplement to the Invalids Roue of July 28— received this day—contains the following NEWS FROM THE CRIMEA. -. To complete Aide-de-Camp General Priam Gortchakee's talegraphie despatehas of July 11, 12, 14 and 16, we give the following details taken from his journal of operation, and extendiag from July 10 to July 17 : "Throughout this period the enemy, limiting himself to the usual esanonade, sad to the Bre of his skirmishes. against oar line of defuses, at certain masseats hu genesis trated his she upon special points of this line, and at night his thrown shells into the city sad upon th. roadstead. The losses of the garrison have been moderate. " Our artillery has suouesfally responded to the enemy, dientouating his pious, sad impeding his approadres—at some polite completely stopping them. Our laboars to wards suengthesing some of the weeks sad providiag for the interior dohs°. of Sebastopol have bees Related, in spite of the proximity of the easay's 11re of musketry sad' grape shot." To the above general sketch Priam Gostr.hakoff adds some wielder details respeetiag the more reatukable opera tions at different points: " JOLT 10.—To-day the enemy has vigorously eunenaded Bastion No. 3 and the left front of Bastion No. 4. These works have actively retorted. The works of the besieges. *Guist in widening sad deepening their trenches sad em bankment. against the Korniloff Bastion. . . " ATLI 11.—On our side we have repaired the dismiss received by Bastions No. 3 and 4, and oonstrnotei new traverses and blindaga. The enemy labours at his :snails before Bastion No. 4, Lengthening his Such before Bastion No. 2, constructing a new embankment in the quarry above the ravine of the Docks, and endeavouring to iiaish his trench before Bastion No. 6, Bastion Norniloff, and upon the declivity of the hiantelan Yes. The lire from our works constantly interrupts these operations. " .Itliv 12.—The enemy has actively contianed his can nonade, sad in the night threw a great quantity of shell. into the city and the roadstead. He labours also with great assiduity i• the approaches nearest the line of defence, where he constructs a new 'embankment against Bastioa Kor niloft, and pushes from Careening Bey his approaches to- wards Bastion No. 2. We remarked that they carried con-1 siderable quantities of artillery munition to all the batteries, and especially to those raised against Bastion No. 4. "JULY 13.—During the day, the enemy's fire MS very violent, and at night he, as before, threw shells and incen diary rockets. The enemy's embankments upon the left flank of the advanced trench against the Manakin Yen were a little raised, and something was added to their thickness and elevation. Our covert. before Bastion No. 2 were again occupied by the enemy. The fire of the batteries of the phi°e was directed against the enemy's batteries at Careening By before Button No. 1, and upon the farmer redoubts fielenghinak end Volhynie. We moreover kept up an uninterrupted fire from all the bastions and batteries of the line of defence against his nearest trenches. " Jaf.T 14.—The enemy fired more than usual, but without occasioning anion; injury to our works. Towards noon he especially iIICZMIIi his cannonade against Bution No. 4, but the concentrated fire of our batteries silenced the French artillery. In the day they sprung seine shafts and three mines against the projecting angle of Bution No. 4, but without jointing us. The enemy's works were con fined to increasing the thickness of the parapet of his ad vanced trenches. " In the night of the 14th three companies of the Sew& infantry regiment, preceded by volunteers and some Greeks, commanded by Major Lvoff, made a sortie from the Kornis loft* Bastion against the usury and the embankment raised by the enemy in its neighbourhood. Although the French, who occupied this part of the trenehee, possessed field artillery and fired grape shot, our compeaies, by a vigorous attack, drove them frost the parapets, levelling the latter, anti bringing off three prisoners. " JULT _ the enemy's fire was heavier then n the previous deys. At evening and during the night, the cannonade became exceedingly vigorous, and an immense quantity of projectiles was showered upon the city aad the works. We have not remarked any works calling for notice on the part of the besiegers. "Jolt 16.—A sharp cannonade was directed by the enemy against Bastions Noe. 1,2, and 3, and against the Nikonoff Battery. Oa our side the artillery, over whisk Major•Oeneral Seheidentann superintended, succeeded in blowing up a powder magazine situated beyond the Chino sew. At 11 o'clock at night we lasi the camoullet with success from the mining galleries before Bastion No. 4, and towards midnight the volunteers, who formed the chain before Nation No. 2, end were under the command of Capt. Gorliaoff, of the Krementehoug regiment of Chuseurs, threw themselves upon the embankments occupied by the enemy on the night of the 13th, and compelled the French to retire in all haste to their back trenches, from whence the latter commenced a lively fusillade. In spite of this our bold volunteers destroyed a part of the works, and in falling back upon our works brought away two prisoners." From our left wing we hear that on Icily 10 the enemy's cavalry, numbering ten squadrons, appeared near the vil lage of Savatki. A portion of these troops camped near Bald., and some squadrons approached Begha. On July 11 the cavalry and some infantry columns went from Baida to Onrkousts, where, after climbing the mountain, they de scended in the direction of the page of the village of Hon koulous. At daybreak on July 14 the enemy, four squadrons in number, with a chain of carabineer skirmisher, supported by two companies, left the valley of Baida for the village of Onunbaschik, the cavalry being followed by two infantry ►attalions. The picquet of Cossacks who were at the pass of the mountain fell back, skirmishing, upon the mere; and the enemy, after reaching the orchards of Ousenbuebik, and after halting there for some time, resumed the route to his camp. Four Cossacks were wounded in the skirmish which took place at this point On July 16 we made a reconnaissance, in order to inspect the enemy's position in the Valley of Balder, and also , the roads which lead there. Some Cossack., supported by some dragoons, approached the villages Oarkouta and Ougen baechik. The enemy, who occupied Ourkonsta and Bagha with three squadrons, retired towards his camp upon the the left bank of the Tabernaia, where he appeared to have from 4,000 to 5,000 infantry and cavalry. On the 16th he re-occupied the two last-named villages. _ _ Theinvalide Busse also publishes some additional details respecting the attack upon Ghenitchi. The account ends with saying that Prince Gortchakoff has sent considerable reinforcements, under the command of Lieutenant-General Ityjoff, to that place. To the detachment commanded by the latter officer, are added some Cossacks of the Bea of Asoff, commanded by Colonel Barakhovitch, and some Cos sack troops of the Bea of Mot "well known," says the Russian journal, " by their boldness and intre pidity as seamen." BANE OF NORTH GERMANY. HAMBURG, THURSDAY. The Senate has refused to grant a charter for the establishment of the new Bank of North Germany, according to prospectus already published. AFRICAN COAST. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY. Her Majesty's screw steamer Pluto, Commander Clavering, arrived this morning from Sierra Leone, which she left Jane 20. She brings home Commander Nicholas, R.N., of her Majesty's ship Toner, with despatches relative to the unfortunate attack at Mal- 1 laghes ; Mr. Stevens, a clerk, of the Ferret; and four , seamen, invalided. The Britomart wu ordered to the South Coast, whence she will sail for England. The Ferret has been on shore, and had afterwards gone to Ascension for repairs. The Pluto will coal, and proceed to Woolwich. THE WAR. We find the report of General Bastion's murder repeated in various telegraphic despatches in foreign journals. As, however, they are all traceable to the original Constantinople despatch of the 26th, vie Vienna, they do not confirm the report, but leave us free at least to hops that the general may yet be in safety. It was rumoured in Constantinople, on the 23rd that Schamyl (whom the Noniteur lately reported deed) had made a descent upon Tiflis and induced the Russians to retreat from before Lars. A fact so important as the relief of Lars would not, it is rea sonable to suppose, have remained ten days without confirmation. A letter from Yenikale of the 17th ult., in the Prom cr Orient,says: The allies are actively envied in completing the works of defence, which, when finished, will be very formidable. The arrival of Colonel Osmond, as governor, has given fresh activity to the work., and it is expected that in a very few days the Saes will be in a condition to defy any attack. His anneal bee also been of material service in producing as imyroeseneat is the gegasiesties fee supplying the troops with nadir Miens labia bad sat bees properly carried on, astilad sassed the edam samiterianing. The Turks at Kern* having essiimand their pllloglag es the few in habitants that remained them. Oakeesi Omisend has caused SOON Severe measures to be adeatal S. plat as sod to each • state of things. A few days sgs Cabinet Ceatead. his aide de-camp, an English colossi, sad IL. Bust, who eesnmands the Pomona frigate, went to Tamar, on the oust of Ana tolia, in the English gunboat Yin. They landed with a dig of truce. A Cossack officer awaited their arrival at the beach, and, before allowing them to set foot on shore, told them that if they suss with hostile intentions they bad better return, as the garrison were reedy to defend them selves. Tamar is a regular Cossack tows, completely in dependent of Russia, and in just the same position as the Hanastowns in Europe. Colonel Osmond replied that Tamar had nothing to fear on the part of the allies; that they had no intention to attack it, but only wished to open amicable relations with the inhabitants, and te purchase their cattle and productions at proper prices. The governor of the town, on the report of the officer, gave Colonel o:nnad and his companions the most flattering reception, showed them over the town, which is well fortified, and Agreed upon the signals which should be made to the vat s& at anchor off Yenikale wh bullocks and other provisions were ready for them at Tamar. The governor and All his officers spoke very goad French, and conducted themselves with the utmost courtesy. THE BASHI BAZOUKS UNDER GENERAL BEATSON. TO THE IDITOIL 07 VIZ DAILY NEWS. Bta,—Various reports having appeared in the Daily News of a revolt, &a, having taken place amongst the Irregular Cavalry collected at the Dardanelles by Major-General Beatson, I hope that, in justice to that gallant officer, you will have the kindness to insert in your paper the following extracts of letters re ceived from General Beatson, by the dates of which it will appear that there is reason to hope any dis turbances that may have taken place have been trifling. I am, &c., A. G. (Bltract ) DAILDANILLIS, JULY 20. We have had some desertions lately, bat, on the whole , the men behave admirably. The alone all live in the line; with the men. DAHDANILLIB, JULY 22. We had some dominions the other day, of which most ' exaggerated accounts have gone forth. To give you as idea how false the report. were, I may tell you that a story appeared in a Constantinople paper that the deserters had taken the flag from my tent and trampled it on the ground ; the truth being, that, on the day the desertions took place, I changed my headquarters, and a volunte , r working party from one of the Albanian regiments assisted in digging up the flagstaff: so that, so far from being discredit.ble to the men, it showed their readiness to do anything they were raked. The men will be easily enough managed if we have I fair play, and I doubt not in the end we shall make a drat rate corps. A FRESH SAMPLE OF RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN AUSTRIA. BRESLAU, JULY 29. About a year ago the Baroness von B—, after duly fulfilling all the conditions imposed by law on a change of religion in the dominions of Austria, ab jured the errors of the catholic religion from conscien tious motives, and. after a course of instruction and examination in the tenets and dogmas of the protes tant creed, was admitted a member of the Lutheran congregation at Znaim, in Austrian Silesia. Not long after this event, the Baroness, a lady of inde pendent property, still in her best years, became the purchaser of a small landed estate in the Prussian village of Ratibor, near Troppau, and close to the frontiers. A short time after taking possession of her new purchase, she received a series of letters from the Catholic Prince-Archbishop of Ohnutz, requir ing her categorically to abjure her " heresy," return to the bosom of "the only church that leads to salva tion," and do penance for the past. These demands not being complied with, the ecclesiastical authorities ordered the Baroness to be excommunicated. But in the meantime she had quitted Ratibor to escape the persecutions of her enemies, and had taken refuge at Zauditz, near Troppau, where one of her brothers resided. Scarcely was her arrival there become known when the reading of the sentence of excom munication was ordered to take place the following Sunday, and was duly performed. The inhabitants of the place, who bad hitherto been kindly disposed towards the poor Baroness, now withdrew, and, fearing to draw npoa themselves the anger of the church, refused to hold any com munication with her, and declined to supply her with provisions. In this unfortunate dilemma she claimed the protection of the Austrian civil governor of Trop pan, who befriended her in a manner worthy of public acknowledgment, and by the influence of his rank and position saved her from the risk of receiving personal insults and injury. In the meantime the delicate female organisation of the Baroness bad suffered so severely from the coarse and brutal persecutions of her enemies that her health was seriously impaired, and she fell a prey to a long and harassing illness. When only half recovered she removed to Troppau to be within reach of the medical advice of an eminent physician residing there, but at first had considerable difficulty in finding a lodging, so great was the dread of the inhabitants to incur the anger of the church by taking in an excommunicated person. When at length she had succeeded, the lady received a visit from a Popish priest, who was evidently sent by his superiors, and who, after referring to the letters from the archbishop, recommended her to abjure pro- testantism, do penance, and return to the Roman catholic church, promising her absolution and forget fulness of the past. As the lady remained faithful to her protestant convictions, the visit of the priest was succeeded by one from an agent of the secret police, from whom the valetudinarian received a gentle hint to quit the town, if possible the following day, as on the next Sunday bee excommunication was to be read publicly , in all the churches, which it was feared might lead to a disturbance of the peace. But the Baroness, still confined to her bed by illness, was unable to follow this well-meant advice. Some disinterested friends now interfered, and reporting the case to Vienna, ob tained from the Cardinal Primate his consent to limit the reading of the sentence of excommunication to:one single church, and at the early morning mass, when but few devotees are usually present. This was accordingly done, and, as it was not publicly known beforehand, it went off without any demonstration. It is understood that the lady has since quitted Troppau and taken up her residence on the estate of her father, an octogenarian, where she has at length found a refuge—at least for the present—from the persecutions she has had to endure for conscience' sake ;" but it is added that her health has in conse quence become so shattered that she cannot long sur vive the merciless persecution she has received from the catholic church during the last few months. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 29th ult. states that according to the most correct calculation, the half of the loan of 30 millions of thalers voted last year has been swallowed up by the military expenses caused by the Eastern question. Up to the end of the year 1854 the additional expenses caused by the partial mobilisation amounted to 4,135,724 thalers, since which there has been expended on the same account 1,686,000 theists a month, which makes about 10 millions of thalers in six months, without reckoning other extraordinary expenses. The cavalry and artillery are to remain at their meat strength. !THE CAMP OF THE FOREIGN LEGION AT SHORNECLIFFE. (r 201( ♦ COILIMPONDINT). Allol7lll' 2. Travelling westward from Folkestone, a walk of less than half an hour brought me to the little town of Sandgate. There are two roads leading there, one a carriage road close to the beach, and another, a footpath, high above, that follows the windings •if the cliffs. I preferred the latter. It wu still very early when I left Folkestone. The tide was out, and the air quiet and heavy ; but as I walked on, the tide turned, and a smart sea-breeze sprang up that brought with it a dense mist from the sus hoe of the Channel. So thick wu the fog that I could see it rising up around the cliffs, like smoke curling up from a oottage chimney. The subdued roar of the waves began to make itself heard in the distance; it seemed as though the sea were sending its "good morrow" to the shore. None seemed abroad at that early hour, besides myself and a lady, who was eagerly gather ing sprigs of the wild convolvulus that abounds among the cliffs. I sat down upon a stile made out of the axle-tree of an old cart, to await the clearing, for I could hardly see where my path lay. The mist soon passed overhead to settle down upon the hills beyond, and the atmosphere became so transparent that I could distinctly see the shores of France. Before descending into the town of Sandgate, I passed one of the numerous Martell* towers that grew up in 1803 under our fear of French invasion, but the walls of which the en tente cordial. has allowed to crack and burst with impunity, while the fosse is turned into a kitchen garden for the benefit of some pen sioner who holds the sinecure of watching the building. Sandgate itself seems chiefly remarkable, as far as I was enabled to judge, for its number of desolate looking empty houses, from whose dirty windows large weird placards are constantly, bat unsuccess fully, enticing the unwary passer-by to "apply over the way for farther particulars." The town was last year rather severely visited by cholera, which cir cumstance, together with the proximity of the camp, hu made it lose caste in the eyes of the sea-shore visitors. Another characteristic—not of the nature of the place, but of the times—ia presented by the toy, stationery, sweetmeat, and millinery shop and poet-office, where sundry English grammars for Germans, and German and English Dictionaries are awaiting purchasers, while an advertisement in a large, firm Saxon hand, states that within English is taught upon the newest and most approved prin ciples, and terms of the utmost moderation. Leaving the beach at Sandgate, a shady lane between parks and fields, leads up to the extensive poesy plateau upon the cliffs, where the Foreign Legion is encamped in rows of wooden and iron huts, forming three sides of a parallelogram, the fourth unoccupied side being the westward one. The huts are not visible from below, so that the first sign of the vicinity of the camp is given by the dark out line of a sentry standing out boldly against the blue sky above, as he paces backward and forward on the ridge of the hill. It was a rifleman, in his plain dark dress and Albert hat, with a true open German face, sunburnt and bearded. The whole place is now surrounded by a cordon of sentries, to guard against desertion, which was not the case when I was here last ; but the fact that no case could be made out at the Maidstone Assizes against the man Hills, although it is noto rious that he induced several men to desert, coupled with the other fact, that there is still skulking about the camp another fellow, suspected of similar prac tices, and understood to be an agent of Hills, but against whom they cannot as yet prove anything, has put the authorities on their guard. Strict dis cipline is kept, and no man is allowed to leave the camp. Measures of such doubtful policy natu rally excite a good deal of murmuring, but they are only the natural consequence of the manner in which some of these men have been enlisted. As your correspondent justly remarks, if we give a premium for desertion we can not expect that the deserter will be true to us. The innocent suffer with the culprits. The Rifles will tell you with pride that they have lost no one by desertion, except a half crazy student of theology, who has already returned voluntarily. But they have a great advantage over the other regiments. They are almost all from the same part of Germany, Hanover and North Prussia, most of them are tried soldiers, who have seen war under the same officers who command them now; submission to camp discip line falls, therefore, less heavily upon them. The north side of the camp is occupied, going from east to west, by the artillery, the cavalry, and the Rifles. The artillery corps left yesterday morning, it is said for London, and it is not known whether they will return. The cavalry consists at present, I am told, of about three hundred men, only one hun dred of whom are in uniform, in consequence, I am informed, of 100 of the suits sent down having been found too small. The others exercise in blouses, dress-coats, and smock-frocks, and every description of hat, from a Gibus down to a wide-awake. The men naturally wonder how it is that in this country, of whose enormous riches, and of whose skilful menu lecturers they have heard so much, it takes such an enormous time to make three hundred suits of clothes, and that in the end they turn out too small. But the most amusing—or perhaps I should say the most scandalous—part of their story is, that their sabres are not yet provided with the necessary straps and buckles, so that the men go through their exer cises with their sabre in one hand and the sheath in the other. The reason for this extraordinary delay I have not been able to discover—perhaps there is no reason. The whole of the Legion stationed here were on parade when I arrived; they amount at present to somewhat over two thousand, and are oertainly a fin*. looking body of men. The drill was hardly over, and the men might have been half an hour in their hate, when suddenly the call sounded "to arms in marching order." After a good deal of hurry and bustle, and scolding and swearing, the men were at last ready, the order to march was given, and the whole Legion set out towards a high steep hill about two miles from the shore, half-way between Folkestone and Sandgate, known as COMA Camp. Part of the Legion were to defend this hill, the real to attack and take it. It was all very fine and rather nonsen sical; to take men who had only received their arms a week ago away from the drilling they so much require to attack and defend a position made almost unassailable by nature alone, seemed rather mis placed activity ; and the disorder that prevailed throughout, in spite of the efforts of the aides de-camp who carried messages indiscriminately to friend and foe, did not tend to in mew the benefit the soldiers were intended to derive from this manoeuvre. Unfortunately, the display was attended by an accident of a serious nature. Major Rodowitz, a highly esteemed officer, fell with his horse on the uneven ground, broke his foot, and received besides a bad wound in the head. A good deal of powder was blazed away, and the men returned to camp at a late hour of the evening. Owing to the circumstance of the field-day, I had not, of course, much opportunity of seeing the in ternal management of the Legion, but in my next I hope to be able to give you some interesting infor mation. SPAIN. The Gazette of the 27th ult. publishes the budget for 1855. The expenses of the state, ordinary and extraordinary, are set down at 1,498,240,373 reels; the receipts ordinary and extraordinary at 1,335,921,300 reale ; and it is declared that the deficit of 162,319,073 reale shall be provided for by a special law oat of the proceeds of the sale of the national and ecclesiastical property. A letter of the 28th ult., received in ad vance of the regular mail, says: The Superior Junta for superintending the sale of the national and ecclesiastical property was installed yesterday. Sales are to be made with all despatch, and there is reason to believe that there will be a good many purchasers. The Gazette contains a royal order to the governors of provinces, to the effect that, in order to facilitate subscriptions to the loan of 230,000,000 Teals authorised by the Cortes, the acknowledgments of it shall be received In payment of pur chases of certain descriptions of the national property. There is no news of insurgent bands which still hold out in Catalonia, but they are closely pressed by the Queen's troops, and when they shall be put down the insurrection may be sons:dared at an end." MADRID, JULY 31.—General Zabel& will be back this evening, his prompt return being caused by the Emperor Napoleon having quitted Bayonne before the general arrived there. Religious difficulties have °sued the marriage of Prince Attalbert of Bavaria to be put off. FRANCE. (MMON OWL OWN coansarommxv.) PARIS, TNCRIDLY Ev e , The following news of a very favourable can, &Mon, from Asiatic Turkey, is contained in i despatch dated Trieste, August 1: iscoonnta from Constantinople of the 23rd 'Wt. ono that Schansyl, having made a diversion in Georgia wldek brought him near Tiflis, the majority of the Russia Imps in Asia, under General Mourawieff, *ere obliged t o n . nouneAs the attack on Kan, and make • movement to pre. test Tiflis. Despatches from Trebisond of the 20th id le state that the Russians have suspended their operations, sad have confined themselves to naming governors in the villec ot which they occupy in the province of Kars. Ten pleas 0( heavy artillery have been sent from Trebisond to the gee• neon of Kan, the defence of which has been completed hy 16,000 armed inhabitants. It is to be observed, however, that ,the above is, having regard to the date, very probably nothing more than another version of the same news aboat Schamyes proceedings, which we have already had in the form of rumour. Constantinople despatch" of the 26th were received two days ago. It is pro. bable that if anything decisive had been known oft the 23rd, we should have had reports before this in s more definite shape. The Bourse has been very animated. The Beat e rose 65c., closing at 67fr. 66c. Credit Mobilier was in greater favour than ever, and rose 40fr. In all th e railways there was a considerable improvement. Orleans rose 22fr. 50c., Lyons and Mediterranean 20fr., and Lyons, 17fr. 60c. It was thought that be fore the end of the week the proportions of the loan to which subscribers will be entitled will be mod e known. It is probable that the interest on Treasury Bonds will be reduced per cent. The decree is expect e d to appear in to•morrow's Moniteur. The statement in a southern journal that the Em- peror and Empress would return to Biarritz this year, is contradicted by the Constitulionnel, which says the Emperor has ordered works to be executed in the Villa Eugenie which will render it uoinhabit able for some time to come. On the 26th of July last there was a considerable gathering at Arras of members of the old republican party, on the occasion of the inauguration of a mono merit to the late M. Frederic Degeorge, for many years redacteur en chef of the Pas de Calais. M. Degouve Denuncques, M. Lenglet, M. Ravin (of the Siecte) and M. Gamier Pages (the ex-Member of the Provisional Government) made speeches over the grave. The Pas de Calais, which contained reports of what they had said, was aimed. The seizure has, however, now been annulled, in consequence of private orders from the Emperor with whom M. Degeorge had at one time intimate relations. M. Degeorge it was who published many of the writings of the prisoner of Ham. The Steele contains a re port of M. Havin's speech, in which, atter paying a tribute to M. Degeorge's courage as a jour nalist in difficult times, he said, "Here, over this tomb, I take the solemn engagement not indeed to surpass or even equal Degeorge, but to follow his example, and to defend liberty up to my last hour, and I make this engagement, not only for myself, but in the name of the redacteurs of the journal which I have the honour to direct." The report adds, that the speech was received with " pro found sensation." THE UNITED STATES. The United States steamer, North Star, arrived at Cowes yesterday, on her way to Havre; she left New York on the 21st ult. ; she brought 17 pawn. gees for England, who were landed at Southamp• ton. ..,_. The Canard steamship, Canada, from Liverpool, arrived at Boston at 4 o'clock in the morning of the 20th ult. . The wheat crop throughout the great corn produc ing states is reported on in a most satisfactory man• ner. The Cincinnati Price Current gives the following comparative table of the wheat crop of 1849, as shown in the United States census of 1830, and the esti• mated crop of 1855 : 1849. 1855. Ohio, bushels Pennsylvania Virginia 11,212,000 12,000,000 New York 13,121,00) 15,000.000 Alabama Illinois Indiana lowa Kentucky Maryland Michigan Miuourl 2,981,000 4,000,000 I'enons' Wisconsin 4,286,000 7,000,000 Totals 91,086,000 114,500,000 The New York Herald gives reasons for considering that in the above estimate the increase is very much underrated. lts figures show an aggregate of nearly one hundred and fitty-seven million bushels of wheat as the estimated product of the crop in 1855 in four teen States, which is an increase over the pr oduction: of 1849 of over sixty-two and a halt millions of Ihnshels. _ . . Going beyond the fourteen States in the previous . table, the same paper says : If we continue our figures for the balance of the States and territories we shall be able to form some estimate of the entire crop of the country. We put them down as follows : Bushels of Wheat. 1849. 1855. Arkansu California 17,000 150,000 District of Columbia 17,000 20,000 Connecticut Delaware Florida l,OOO 2,000 Georgia Geog 1,088,000 1,200,000 Longiana Maine Musaehtuietto Misantippi New Hampehirs New Jersey North Carolina Rhode Island booth Carolina Texas 41,000 100,000 Vermont Minnesota New Bleelee Or 107,000 p 1 500,000 600,000 Eames — 200,000 Nebraska — 200,000 Total 8.382,000 114 . 2,000 14 States in previous table 1 Grand total 100,468,000 168 172,000 By the above it will be seen that our estimates make one hundred and sixty-eight and a half mil- lion bushels of wheat as the total yield of the present season, which is 68 million bushels over that of 1849. The value of the wheat crop in that year is put down in the census report at 100,000,000 dollars. If we value the present crop at a dollar and a quarter a bushel—which will probably be its average price— it will be worth an aggregate of more than two hundred and ten and a half millions of dollars. The "National Council of Coloured Americans" have called a convention of free negroes, to meet at Philadelphia in October. The council say Years of well-intended efforts have been espended for the especial freedom of the slave, while the elevation of the free coloured man as au inseparable priority to the same, has been entirely overlooked. But to every true friend of freedom it must now be too obvious that the whole process of operation against ill" huge and diabolical system of op pression and wrong has been shorn of more than half its strength and efficacy, because of this neglect of the interests of the free people of colour—interests so vital that we dare net longer permit them to remain in a state of neglect. If nothing else, then, these years of esperience have taught every true friend of liberty that the elevation of the free man is inseparable from, and lies at the very threshold of, the great work of the slave's restoration to freedom, and equally essential to the highest well being of our own com mon country. It is equally °below! that since the work of elevation of the free people of eol:Jur is (•o to speak) the lever by which the whole mutt rise, that work must now receive a vigorous and heart.; support from all of those epos whom it has a claim. Among the objects which toe convention is to con• eider are the educe!donal statue and facilities of free negroes in Am;:rica, their business and industrial relations, agrimdture, and the attainment of political rights. COMMERC 'AL INTELLIGENCE. Naw You, Inv N. Rums Oremar—Ths market br Western and State Sour has NO I even way Wean prig sod rastress being somewhat endue ti Beau ea prig miss; prism bate &Wood fully IR. pa bbLi