The Express. — London, England, 1855-07-25 00:00:00

elite expregici. TO CORRESPONDENTS. itwevass•Haes bAsaded S. . The Ilacpme," tariso Waft papa. mast bil tit the OM" 1111. Illeaveriretreet. by Two *Wont ca the as, et pabtleaske. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tun Dar —Maniac rt. 33ra Afterneos. 10It. look To toosionr—lderalog, Ilk. An Afternoon. 111. 40.. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, J Cal' 25. As a matter of fair play we will e *dim to abstain from comment on the modest o f the polies/mu messily employed in Hyde-parl z oei the Id of July until the witnesses for the ask we have boos folly beard. Bet the monetress de cuing propounded by Sir RICHARD Maims, when amantined before the Hyde-park Commissieeers y e i s er d e y, mas t b e d e . Bounced and exposed wither at delay. Sir RICHARD said that 1... e regarded the meeting as held for the perpoessir in timidating the Legislature. He added that, hawing a rrised at this conclusion, be consulted with the Roma Department, and that the Under-Secrecuy wed Om Legal Secretary sanctioned his subsequent proceedings. Sir RICHARD there upon issued u. proclamation warning all people to keep *wee from the meeting, and marshalled his force to pat it down. Si RICHARD stated, as cerroborativeef the view he took of the meeting, that Lord Bonmat Otiose/mos withdrew his bill in coo apogees of it. This is not strictly accurate. Lord Roam withdrew his bill, not because the meeting had bees held, but os sccoust of the irritation ex cited by Sir RICHARD MATHS'S highly injudicious inter...ewe, and the consequent collision. This, however, is a secondary consideration: we take our ground upon the abstract principle that the CHIRP POLS= Conntsatostra's usurpation of authority was Use y unwarrantable. If the doctrine maintained by Sir RICHARD Maxi is to bs received as sound constitutional law, the Cu= Continuum= of Pouct in the metropolitan remembrance of broken vows and of promises of judos sad liberty forsworn comes back after years of impunity, and oasts a chilling shadow over the stability of re-action. In broad ice the poignant of the assassin is aimed at and apostolic breasts; and eves on the no confer 'ion of accomplices can be wrung Ohm deists of revenge and despair. The wiatched inn - 'who failed in his attempt upon the life of the vAn.....—DINAI, SiscartaaT of STArt paid the forfeit of his crime a few days since with calmness and constancy unmoved. What a condition of things most it be in which popular sympathy, so kr es it dares to show itself, sides with the victim of the axe, and honours the fidelity that is the hour of death refuses to reveal the least par& cedar that may serve to allay the apprehensions of those in power 1 What mutual hardening of the heart must be mooed by the revival of scenes and sestissents like them which were prevalent around the Veda= when *Rossi fell ! Anointed absolutism nevertheless totters onward, unchanged though not unmoved. Has it trot a foreign garrison to resist any general motion for going into a committee of privilegeson the part of its subjects to whom all right of inquiry or account is sow denied? And should the sword of this protec torate snap or fail, has it not built upon the ses shore a fortress whither Divine Right may retire and shelter itself until the next storm be overpaseed ? In the adjacent realm of Naples, hereditary abso lutism in the last stage of senility is distracted by doubts of the fidelity of its own body guard. It dreamed that in the island prison—where Powo and his companions in the attempt at constitutional re forms of 1848 dreg on existence like so many felons— all hopes of political change lay stifled. Bat danger in another and far more formidable shape has latterly, it is said, presented itself. King BONBA hates the name of popular rights, but he fears far more the rival name of MURAT —the shade of his chivalrous but unfortunate com petitor for the crown of the Two Sicilies still I aunts him; and cowardice or conscience bids him halt that the eon of JOACBIM, who as a child played in the royal halls of Naples, may one day return thither, 0 avenge his father's death, and all the ills which forty years of brutalising Bourbonism have inflicted on Southern Italy. Wide-spread disaffection is sap posed to prevail among the troops ; and Mantis, amspiracies are said to have been detected (or be. "sated) by the police. Several arrests of asses astailly oa duty are reported to have taken place lest multi and as there is no law to compel public trial or Immediate accusation, them objects of despotic suspi cions" likely to be no further heard of for some time to come. Meanwhile their disappearance, without canoe assigned or explanation attainable, diffuses among their comrades anger and apprehersiom Whose turn will come next ? What inducement is there to continuance in loyalty to a worthless sal priest-ridden race ? All Europe is astir. Piedmont sends its legions to the war; and the sympathies af the upper and middle claws everywhere throughout Italy are with the Allies. But so strong is the be. finenos of Austria, and eo instinctively do the priesio hood and the princes lean to the side of absolutism. that in Naples the strictest surveillance is observed over the press for the purpose of preventing all news of a kind favourable to the Western Powers appose► ing until long after it is known elsewhere, while every event favourable to Russia is blazoned forth k the servile and sacerdotal organs. We should hardly be surprised at bearing any day of serious disturb• ances in the Neapolitan dominions; and it osa hardly be doubted that in such an event the unfurling of the long faded, but unforgotten standard, under which Mt:mar led Italian troops to victory, would be hailed as an ensign of deliver- ance by all except the ebirri, the Jesuits, and the laszaroni. For constitutionalism, the prospect of districts has the power to decide what public meet ings are legal and what are not. The Metropolitan Police becomes, in this point of view, a lane kept on foot to limit and restrict the right to hold popular meetings. Sir RICHARD chose to regard the Hgde•park Meeting as a demonstration to intimidate the Legislature: be miry put the same construction tomorrow upon any open air meeting to promote parliamentary or any other reform. And he tells us that this his opinion has received the sanction of the Home Department in a Ministry whose leading members were, during the year 1831, in close confidential communication with all the in- fleential movers of the innumerable open air meetings, held in the course of that year to promote Lord Reform Bill. If the People and Parliament of England acquiesce without protest in the monstrous doctrine of Sir RICHARD. they will place their liberties at the mercy of a centralised political plias. They will woo find the Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Polies an official functionary whose powers are as dangerous and intolerable as those of the Linglessang de Police under the old French monarchy. The proceedings in Hyde-park show clearly the spirit in which such a functionary would act. All the special pleading of Sir RICHARD MAINE fail to make out that the gathering in Hyde-park was an organised meeting, with recognised leaders and a definite aim. A few went, it would appear, to tell the frequenters of the drive on Sunday what they thought of the restrictions imposed by the Legislature on similar Sabbath recreation of the middle and lower classes. But the immense majority were mere curious spectators, most of them attracted by Sir RICHARD'S own proclamation. If there was any rioting it was provoked by the uncalled-for interference of Sir RICHARD and his myrmidons. Sir RICHARD had predetermined that there should bee riot and rioters, and had given orders that every noisy and mischievous vagaband should be invested with the dignity of that charac ter. Is this, with all his energy, he signally failed. The tkown Counsel, after sitting in deliberation till near five o'clock on the Monday, could not find a single case that would warrant such a stretch of the law ; and the only fruit of Sir RICHARD'S amazing energy was as intolerable, and illegal degree of hardship imposed ea many respectable individuals, who were refused te be admitted to bail on a pretext ultimately given up as untenable. We ism hew • glaring illustration of the danger —of whisk we have often warned our readers—of a ountralind polies placed at the disposal, not of the local magistrates, but of the Imperial Government. t can at say time be used as an instrument to pro voke collisions with the people, which may be made the pretext al coseroachments an their liberties. The business of fir RICHAAD Marys is to preserve the public peace, to enforce the awards of the magis trates and the courts of law., and to protect honest men from rows. But he has usurped the authority of determining beforehand, when, wham for what purposes, and in what numbers, the potpie of Eng land may assemble ; and to carry into efi'est his own arbitrary laws. And he tells us he is booms out and supported in the exercise of this uncenstitn.tisaal au thority by the Home Department. An incidental admission made by Sir RICI UMW in the course of his examination, warrants the belief that this usurpation of authority has been earn 40 secretly end systematically for a considerable Oise. He spoke in the highest terms of Superintend 'sof Ht:oar.s, but on cross-examination he was obliged to admit that this modal officer was, thirteen years ago,. fined for entering a house without a warrant. The Superintendent had then been eleven years in the force and could not be ignorant of the law. Sir RICHARD further stated that there is a regulation to the effect that any policeman convicted before a magistrate shall be dismissed the force, except in special instances. Are we to understand that such special instances are those, in which an °Stier wantonly sets the restraints of law at defiance P There appears to be only one means of wiping host the danger of having the pollee force converted into a political instrument that may suborn the purposes of an arbitnvy Administratioa ; and that is by returning immediately to the old mastitational practice of placing the paid, of every district adder the control of the local authorities. If Sir BENJAMIN HALL'S Bill became law, this stip will be materially facilitated. for that seems gross to institute twelve Boards in the metropolis, upon whale the control of the polies in their respestive distriets might with ad rootage be devolved. We might than have through set the whole of the metropolis an available Police bine, as of cunt. and as free from ail saspidaa al being a political instrument as that of Os City. 13Yttrrows of dioqototodo begin own nom to ma nifest themselves is Italy. The fees of absolutism is troubled, for its heart is sick with fear. Beefy where save in Pisdmoot miegivinp sad ouspitions - , vhte of thaw who bear rain. 114 such a cheap may be, inde-d, but a blank ; and there are conaidentions, on which we need not dwell, which would render the re-establishment in Italy of another Bonapartean throne matter for grave reflection for the other Governments of Europe. But, as far an the in terests of civilisation, trade, education and tolerance are concerned, no disinterested man can desire the prolongation of the dark and debasing system of mis rule that now prevails. As for the Government of Na ples it has shown itself, in everything but the ability and courage, prepared to do us harm in our present straggle with the Czas; and whatever may betide, it deserves no sympathy at our hands. To the lasting shams of England, it must be re membered that our Plenipotentiaries at the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, surrendered unfor tunate Sicily—which had claimed, and obtained, the guarantee of our protection—back to the Neapoli tan Bourbons. That was the act of Lord Cantu- EZAGH. In 1848 Lord PALMERSTON re-enacted, in all but the name, a similar part. Again Sicily was free; again she sought and received assurances of British sympathy and interposition on her behalf; and again, when the tide turned in favour of legiti macy, priestcraft, and conservatism, she was aban doned to her fats and to FERDINAND. Wh another opportunity of deliverance shall arise the people of this country owe it to themselves to wipe out the stain cast upon their land by the conduct of those entrusted with the management of their foreign affairs. Nor is it in Rome or Naples only that there are at present signs of perturbation in the powers that ought not to be. Lombardy is occupied, not governed. Austria having played out the farce of a mock demonstration against Russia, and having obtained all she wanted for her own special purposes, hastens to repiessish her garrisons on the southern side of the Alps, where she had already begun to feel uneasy at the return of throbbing' symptoms in the popular pulse, which she fondly hoped was still in death. The old prescription is once more to be resorted to: more blood must be taken from the victim, lest, with recruited strength, the fever of reviving hope should return. It was but the other day that an officer of engineers was put ,`o death under a military sentence for participation in the struggle of 1848. M. Cam had served in the imperial army previous to the national ape, sing of that year. In common with the beet and I. "sweat of his countrymen who found themselves aampe.iled to choose between professional rampancy and pwrieide, he renounced the Austrian uniform, OM ackn ()triaged the paramount claim of country to en service of his sword. Throughout the contest he aught with distinction in the insurgent mass; and Mama it was irretrievably lost, he escaped beyond 4111 Moth of Me victors, and lived is security in de as 111111111 Ni pears. Lured by the ioeztingoish tiYa a Ms unhappy land, he was induced to %mare hack some months ago, and being detected kr the weds at the Austrian police, he was arrested, de g a t m glagelaien letters were said to have been a mi d upon rpm. Who knows—who now sh a ll seer w b ine w l it were not baseness to believe — w h a t th em papal wan, or whether there 1/11T11 any such discovered in his possession. It matters not. Under the repine of A estria there is no statute of limitations pleadable in bar' of absolutist vesialam Our faitipni ally, whose favors and friendship we hays been these two years past cessPiag and Malting to gain —Austria, never forgives. /IMO Find. 'UNDO CAM was eoadennted, for scatunmkon Loyalty to his country, by one of the geo,'m tribenals of Mantua, and pat to death accordingly. nen in no snaky like that of tear. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1855. TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL EIDEN° TO VIENNA. , -. • Itirwr Oficial piper has been lewd Mk c.f.s7 . I Sk . Bad k of klbrenden to Lord Jobb Rosa. e 4 6. 0 44 ~ § Foreign date, Yob. 22. illibaoses, hOWlog been plowed to mate to lost lord ' slap, in senjanedoo with the Bari of Weetworiand, the ditty of conduction on her Majesty's behalf the negotiations shoat to be opened at Vistula, I hare received her Ma. intrs osaussande to convoy to your lordship sash metal ON Pl instructions for your gaidanee as may serve to place on re seed the view, of her Majesty's Goverament with reference to this important crisis in the attain of Europe. It is • duty of no ordinary character which her Majesty has estnseted to your lordship. I. common with het Allies her Majesty meet anatously desires to see pesos restored to Europe la sub a meaner as to afford a reasoaable aussanes that it will Wag remain uninterrupted; bat this cat call be espessed if the conditions of that pesos are such as to afford a sufficient guarantee for the future security of Tar. key. If, however, suit a peace cannot be arrived at, it is her Majesty's most earnest desire to see the Great Powers of Europe arrayed La • combined effort against the spirit of eactrouthsent and wren by which the councils of Runs have been animated ; not only because such a league would most probably lead to an early termination of the existing mutest, but because an gannets, would thereby be ob. tained that the termination of the war would place on a solid and secure basis the general interests of ell Europe. As regards the subjects to come under the consideration of the Confereass, her Majesty's Government are of opinion that they must be taken in the order in which they have hitherto stood, notwithstanding that the third basis, the one, the satisfactory development of which is likely to meet the greatest obstructions; bat it will be in vain to stipulate that the Danubian provinces shall be withdrawn from the sua sive protectorate of Ramis, or that the navigation of the Danube shall be set free from the obstructions which im pede it, unless effectual preeautiess are taken to reader the Turkish Respire an integral pan of the European system, tied sefickat restraint be imposed upon the military and naval power heretofore ezereised by Russia in the Black Sea, and the overbearing influence which, by reason of that power, she has acquired over the eoencils of the Porta. But although much mey be urged in favour of making the third basis the Ant for consideration, such a course would ba open to objections of a serious nature, and her Majesty's government have reason to believe that Austria and France would both demur, although on different grounds, to force into discussion at the outset the important stipulations involved in the development of the third basis. Nevertheless, it will be for your lordship to judge whether, before entering into negotiation with the Russian Plesipo tannery or before the third basis °emulate &reunion in this Conference, it would be expedient fat the three Powers to come among themselves to some general understanding sub ject, indeed, to be modified by future circumstances as to the form which that basis should ultimately assume. The end I. view Is the formal recognition of the Turkish atropin in its character as an independent and self-existent state, as a member of the great European family, and as an on tial element of the Wawa of power in Europe. One of the means by which that end is to be accomplished Le the &bro• gation of Russian supremacy in the Black Sea. How this is to be effected with the least inconvenience to the Powers of Europe, is the problem to he solved. It might be brought about by a common agreement that the maritime Powers should maintain in the Black Sea a force adequate to counterbalance the naval forces which Russia has heretofore maintained, and, if unoontrolled, may again hereafter maintain in that sea. Bet this would be no thing more than an armed truce, liable to be interrupted at every moment by chance collisions, and entailing on the ma ritime powers a perpetual expenditure to keep up, at a dis tance from their arsenals, an efficient force m the Black Sea, while Runs, having bier arsenals at hand, and her har bours of refuge always open, would be relieved In • great measure from the oasts to which the other powers would be exposed. It may well be doubted whether, after a few years, Gnat Britain would continue such en expenditure. This object might be effected by a twofold prunes: by redacing the maritime force of Runia in the Black Sea within reasonable compass, and by opening that sea, with the coasent of Turkey, to the maritime foram of other na tions. Her Majesty's government would much regret that the Porte should be so impressed with • sense of its own comparative weakness as to be prepared to abdicate its power to defend the Turkish Empire against even • limited display of hostile force. It would be better for the nations of Europe that the Porte should be encouraged to rely on its own resources, though left at liberty to call in the aid of friendly powers to counteract the menaces of its powerful neighbour ; but the reduction of the Russians navel force in the Black Sea within such bounds as might, in co-operation' with an equal Turkish force, suffice to provide adequate protection for peaceful commerce, would have the further indirect advantage of p ing, at any future petiod, the marsh of Russian armies on Constantinople or at all events of rendering any such operation one of extreme hazard ; for, as far as present experience Intends, the sno t port of a powerful fleet, capable of co-operating with the advance of armies, and affording the meau of providing them with requisite supplies, is essential to the mouse of any movement on the Turkish capital. The imposition, therefore, of adequate restrictions ea the naval power of Russia in the Black Sea, would give to Turkey the material protection of which she stands in need; while her en:lnanition as an essential element in the baleen of power in Europe, would afford her a moral guarantee under the safeguard of which she might fearlessly carry out those plans of internal reform and asocial re-organisatiou which have been so earnestly pressed upon the Ports for many yeast. Taking the bases in the order in which they stand, the first point to be placed on record is Cie entire abrogation of all former engagements between Aussie and the Poets, in regard to the provinces of Moldavia, Wallachia, and Sonia. Not that those provinces are again to be brought into Immo- dist* subjection to the Porte, but that Russia shall no longer have to plead special treaty engagements with herself as justifying her single interference with the Sovereign Power, in regard to the relations between that Power and the esta blished authorities in the province; and that those provinces should not look to Russia as the arbitress of their destinies, and pay that court and deference to her which should be reserved for the Sultan alone. Then would be no occa sion to interfere, at lust in principle, with the system of local *elf-government established in thou provinces, or to place the;slan of the provinces in more di r rect dependinoe on the sovereign power than they now are. It may be a question for discussion whether the tribute now paid by the provinces to the Treasury of the Porte should be augmented. But the nomination of the Hospodars and the attributes of sovereignty in the Prineipslities, as far as other powers are concerned, would rest with the Sultan, and the silents appointed by foreign powers to watch over the commercial interest of their subjects would still require the formal recognilion of the &titan for the legal exercise of their several functions. Remaining thus under the suserainets of the Sultan ' the provinces would be bound by the treaty obligations of the Porte with foreign Powers, no less than the other portions of the Ottoman do minions and appeals for infraction of treaty rights would be ad o re ssed to the Porte, as they now are, by the represen tative of the aggrieved power at the Court of the Sultan, who must therefore have authority to give ndrese. Again, as regards the second bash, the abrogation of the rights of Russia to interfere with the freedom of the navi gation of the Danube might be meet effectually secured by the retrocession to Turkey, in the first instance, of the territory at the mouths of the river which she renounced at the treaty of Adrianople, subject to the condition that the retroceded territory should be plated by the Porte under the safeguard of the Great Powers of Europe, acting in eon cart with the Porte for the preservation of all the navigable channels of the river from the exclusive domination of any one Power, and for the removal of the obstructions which now impede and have long threatened to render the channel of the Danube altogether unserviceable for the purposes of commerce. A mixed commissiee, in which England and France should be regaisesnted, should be appointed to regu late all matters belonging to the navigation. But if Russia eaters upon the discussion with a sincere desire to meet the nameable wishes of the Powers most interested in the an vigatioa of the Danube, than may he ground to expect that those questions will receive a favourable solution by the es tabliahment of a syadirete authority, invested with the ne cessary powers for the destructing of the obstacles new ex isting at the mouths of the deer, or which might hereafter grow up thine. The basis which remains a be ocodamied is gee peculiarly calculated to sell into anise ibe Ompsdiloo of Christian nations, and therefore likely to he alesedied with Ma. than ordinary didleulti.e in the diseemleo end Battlement of it. Fur the object is view is to r•••• 40 sad te bring in har- mony for etivelar purposes the emegieting pastime and pre judices of Islamism and Christi's/Sy. Then again, it it almost needier to remark, muck abne gation and self-eoatrol are required oo the part of the Christian Powers in their dealings with the Porto in behalf of the Christian subjects of the Sallee. It wool , ' tend greatly to the pesos of Turkey U the Powers of Europe would mutually reaminiss all eastoriaa prejudices as applied to the subjects of the Sultan, and look upon all Christians, whatever ritual they may belong to, as entitled to an equal share in the religious privileges sad immensities which the Sultan may, at the instance of the Great Powers of Europe, consent to accord to them. It would seem desirable that the Sultan should by his owes sot, abolish all legal sal slaw distinctions between his Ka ma:titan and Chriniesnageds, and formally communicate to the powers of Europe 111111 lIMSSI by which this shall h o pe been done. h;•;, tii;oriedy toughed spa the several important w Do' which, if the Coalmines will sueoessively 6 b roug ht ben the ansubbrit tieries. The i ot i otot s setnaintawns wide! year lordship possesses w i t h t h e ea ,:0 0 0 points to whisk l bare adverted, will sup. post to you the &SW arguneenSe in support of the policy of hi t idsi es tr s p overtimes; widen is to stators pesos to Bumps is a sollt foundation. The blood and treasure which have been KV freely expended in support of that' p o li c y would hi a ltos taker thrown away, if the only result of oar efforts should Ix' • hollow trees. to ho broken whom ever a suitable opportun2/ should aril* for the attalassent of the loop cherished ot,:insts of Bud= ambition—the subjegatlea of the Ottoman weft* BoroPot sad the eatkrooesteat of a Muds& peace lo the capital el Turkey. Your lordship will soomosaiosts Me &opiate to Lord Wostroodiad, fir Ids iastroods. a*4 Vadosoo. \i iihiiiiiii_ I lib; MVO ha % LATEST FROM ABROAD. DESPATCH FROM GENERAL PELISSIER. The Nemirow of this day contains the following despatch from General Pelimier, dated July 23, 11 p.m.:— "The enemy - appears to have taken alarm last night, and opened a very brisk tire on the right and left of our lines of attack. Our batteries replied as briskly, and with success. u I bays good news from Yenikale. Everything then is going on well, under the direction of Lieu tenant-Colonel Osniont, who has taken measures to prevent any disorder at Kertch." RUSSIA. -4,-- (vaox ova owx WARSAW, MONDAY, JOLT 23. An imperial okue prohibits Jews acquiring landed property and settling henceforth in the provinces of Tcberaigov and Paltowa. The Admit In its stead Council of Poland is dissolved. Toners for the interior and for clerical and school affairs are to be appointed. They will be immediately under the Ministry at Bt. Peters burg. During the continuance of the war political misdemeanants are to be tried by courts-martial. TRH ARAB AT TRIPOLL TRIPOLI, JULY 14. The local authorities here have received news of the troops sent against the rebels, headed by the Chief Gourma, who had encountered the Turks and en gaged them in a battle, which it was said luted two days. The of the Turkish army, which has almost all fallen into the hands of the Arabs, is the result of the action. Glaurma is now at the head of fifteen thousand determised men, and fourteen pieces of cannon taken from the Turks, and intends laying siege to this city, which is without means of defence. JOLT 16. The wreckof the Turkish army which has submitted to the rebels arrived this day. The Turks are com pletely beaten, and their artillery, flags, provisions, music, and military chests are taken, and scarcely a man has escaped, except those who were not abso lutely engaged in action, and who have arrived here in flight and disarmed. After this victory the artil lery take:. in the field of battle was employed against the citadel, which surrendered ; the forme would from thence be directed against Tripoli, which is likely to surrender, there not being more than a thousand soldiers to defend it. Gourma, the Arab chief alluded to, represents the nationality of the native Arab tribes, as opposed to the existing government, which owes feudal homage to the Sultan. On account of his peculiar opinions he was held in Trebizonde for many years as a hos tage, but, escaping lately, was received with accla mations in his native land, where, taking advantage of the death of the late Pacha of Tunis, he has raised the standard of rebellion. Her Majesty's steamer Inflexible is ordered to Tripoli from Malta, no doubt to protect our subjects there. The French steamer also returns. AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE CLIPPER SHIP REI JACKET FROM MELBOURNE. (BY KAONITIO TRLRORAPR.) ()lOM OUR OWN OORRWIPONDINT.) LIVERPOOL, WIDNIIDAY. This morning, at five o'clock, the Liverpool and Australian Royal Mail-packet ship Red Jacket, arrived off the Point Lianas, and is expected in the river about 3 p.m. Her mail is to be despatched for Ant delivery in London to-morrow. She left Melbourne on the let May. THE BALTIC FLEET. ("lOW Ora OWN NARGEN, JULY 16. I transmit a journal of of the mail. ces to the departure -- July 9.—At 9 p.m. the Pelter finn-boat was ordered to look to the N.E., the night being very hazy. At 12 she returned to the fleet with a RUMWILD boat and two prisoners. On her way back she was chased by one of the enemy's gun-boats, and had to cut the boat in tow adrift, retaining the two men she had taken. July 10.—Admiral Baines's squadron joined the fleet: The Russians are bard at work increasing the fortifications on the north side. July 11.—The fleet has to-day been exercising, shifting top-sail yards, making and furling sails, &c. July 14.—At 4.30 a.m. the Euryalas took all the mortar vessels in tow, and proceeded to Nargen, and at 6.30 the whole fleet got uoder weigh. When about six miles to the westward of Tolboukin light house, the Commander-in-Chief placed the fleet, with the exception of Exmouth, Merlin, Vulture, and Princess Alice, under the orders of Admiral Baines, who parted company and anchored about flee miles westward of Tolboukin. The Tourville and Auster litz, French screw line-of-battle ships, accompanied Admiral Dundee to Nargen, where it is thought operations will commence. July 16.—The Nargen fleet has been this morning strengthened by the arrival of the Duke of Welling ton, Exmouth, Vulture, and Merlin, and French line of-battle ships Austerlitz and Tourville. We now maintain a very formidable aspect, and hope to be able to give a good account of our attack on Revel. July 16.—N0 news of any consequence. This has been the dullest week we have spent since we first entered the Baltic. Admiral Seymour, lam happy to say, has quite recovered, and is now doing duty. The Geyser arrived this morning with mails from Daotzic, which we all look anxiously forward to; and in the afternoon the Cornwallis steamed out to recon noitre and try her engines. The inspector of ma chinery, Mr. Ward, has gone in her. July 17.—The Cornwallis has this morning re turned, and is much improved. It is not yet known whether the Geyser or Vulture takes the mails; but the general opinion is that the Vulture, being a heavier and more effective vessel than the Geyser, will remain with the admiral, in case of a bombard ment, which every one expects will shortly take place. GutzzAL SliesoN.—The .Toursid di Consicusti- Ne i * gives currency to the rumour, as one prevalent in reap, that General Simpson hes expressed his wish to nsiga the chief command of the British army fa the Crimea. Our Woolwich correspondent Writes that it ia Cur rently reported in that garrison that the fourteen battalions of artillery are shortly to receive an addition of two nom ponies each, making tan companies for every battalion. TE,TPOLL—MALTA, JULY 18.—The Turk, were amen la an ambuscade; of the Arabs immune distance from Tripoli; while on the march to gain the molt. The Bashi & Dn a., 7+he soonsepoutiod the Turkish form, instantly t am ed, e el Joined the Arabs. The Turks being thus be „Hip two gm, turned and raw, leaving sin gone In the hind , of the iseurgeate thehe Turkish forme are now In vested by the .trabe in own of Tripoli ; they know not their teem exactly, es stragglers an 001111tatiti, Wain in. Thep have a pplied for unman to tin admiral here, hat h is e ses coI inn, having not even a gunboat at his diepend. Wend lisrnma, who Is hen on his way to h aw k & the vein. immediate 'y changed his !1/ 1 rim% ea f ig s evei g i cx to his pint. The irate have b m . le d sie suaghe l unch from the fellers of the mi l s . a, kws b us se m, o s sir hones and settle at a very low rale ; added le which, WY has hems envenomed to pay antra Issue to the Tuidelt VTenaillent• They are, dinkier, ea ill-mad paps. FRANCE. --..-- 1 ( SON 0171 01111 001111/PO/4111311%) PARIS, TUIIDAT ETININO. The following despatches have been received to day: __ Miusiu.ss, JULY 23. Amounts have been received from Coustentioople to the 16th. The assault on the Malaktieff Tower has been de ferred, and will be probably preceded by a bombardment. The Allies are making preparations to render permanent the blockade of all the Russian ports, and also to establish several camps both at Constantinople and on the Danube. General Iturarieff has suddenly abandoned the siege of Hare. It is supposed that he wishes to surprise ETMOWS, or that ha proposes to stuck the Turks in the open field. Resobid Pocha has published a Whir in reply to some as. outlaws of the Constautiorensti. VIINNA. JOLT 24. Despatches from Constantittoplo, of July It, announce that M. Tho I, the Franch ambassador, arrived then on the 17th. Omer Packs arrived at Constantinople on the 18th. It was generally thought that he was about to resign his poet of Commander-in• Chief of the Turkish army. Reinfureements to the army of Asia were still being sent from Constantinople. The Menitsur, in reference to the article on the results of free tr ade in England, which I noticed yesterday, says that some persons observing the words "Ministry of Commerce" at the foot of the article, had supposed it to be a document furnished by the French " Administration," and explains that the paper comes from the Board of Trade, and that the French " Administration " had nothing to do with it. This explanation in no way diminishes the importance to be attached to the iusertion of the paper in the leading columns of the Neal/ear. It is obvious, on the most cursory perusal, that the statistics cited were prepared in England, and it was a mere mistake to represent them as emanating from the Ministry of Commerce, no such ministry existing in that country. But although the French administration is a stranger to the composi tion of the arguments to whick the Moniteur gives circulation, it is clear that the French government desires to inoculate the public mind with them. The Mats and the Preen both understand the publica tion in this aense, and reproduce the entire ar ticle u a document of the highest importance. The Constttutionnel, which cannot shake off the old protectionist leaven, maintainsa significant silence on the subject, but it will no doubt to-morrow cite, with great glee, the note in to-day's Moniteur, in the hope that it may be understood as a repudiation of the doctrines of the Board of Trade. It is to be remarked that the paper in question is signed E. A. 8., initials which may very likely be known to you. More political arrests have been made at Nantes. Five or six persons were taken to prison on Saturday last. With few exceptions, those hitherto arrested belong to the working class. I hear it said that the Emperor leaves Paris to morrow for Biarritz, to spend a few days with the Empress. The Rents fell at the Bourse to-day, in consequence of sales by capitalists, who now feel persuaded that they will be able to invest in the loan, in consequence of the measures taken to avoid abuses of the privilege accorded to subscribers for 50fr. Rents and under. The Three per Cents. fell 35c., closing at 66fr. sc. Railway. 101 l a little, in sympathy with the Rente, bat Lyons and Mediterranean rose 15fr. THE CRIMEA. The Courrier de Hamill* of the 22nd inst. pub lishes the following letter, written before Sebastopol on the 10th: There is nothing new. We are constantly at work. Our engineers have surpassed themselves. Oar place d'arises before the Mslekboff Tower can already contain 5,000 men. On the day of assault our columns will be quit* cloth to the enemy's ramparts. The batteries on Carsonintbay, al though terminated, ars being strengthened and protected agatn•t the fire continually directed upon them by the . Russians. From thence our artillery, when solidly eeta• bushed, will command the whole harbour, and keep off the R an i an shipping during thenext attack upon the Malakhoff. The cannonade, pretty brisk for some days, has almoet ceased. The Russians are throwing up stupendous works, and doing their best to surprise min a dingreeable manner. But we shall be a match for them. They are not aware of the position of our new batteries, some of which are not to be unmasked until the last moment. In the meantime, we are every day gaining ground. Oar duties are becoming very painful. General Pelissier wishes to deprive the enemy of every chance, and keeps us constantly in the trenches. Notwithstanding our exertions, and the activity displayed in every direction, no decisive result can take place for at least a fortnight. The division of General Cm robin is now stationed at the most advanced position of the right attack, and the division of General Mayran has re placed it on the line of the Tchernaya. The corps on t►is river is to be reinforced by several regiments. Some regard We as the prelude of an external movement, and other* as the signal of an attack upon the Malakhoff Tower, which, in my opinion, will be delayed some time longer. The Piedmontese Gazette announces that a des patch of the 19th hu been received from General Alphoneo La Marmon, stating that the cholera has disappeared, but has been succeeded by fevers, few of which, however, have ended fatally. SWITZERLAND. The Echo de Mont Blanc, of the 20th, says:— " We learn with pain that yesterday morning a fire at Chamounix burnt down 25 houses and 3 hotels." AUSTRALIA. LIVERPOOL, TONSDAT. By way of Callao, advice. from Melbourne to April 28 have been received, brought to that port by the Liverpool ship Mooresfort. The White Star ship Annie Wilson (82 days) and Gambia, from Liverpool; Czar, from Glasgow; Rienzi, from Dublin; and Agneta, from London, had arrived at Melbourne. The Northumberland, from London, at Geelong ; and the Duke of Wellington and Hooghly, at Adelaide. The Royal Mail ship Eoomerang had not arrived out, though 78 days from LiverpooL The latest advioes from England were by the Annie Wilson, January 28. The Red Jacket was to sail for Liverpool on the lit, and the Eagle on the 23rd of May. The Boomerang, with the mails, was to sail in the same month. Au escort from the Beechworth diggings arrived at Melbourne on 24th of April with 8,000 ounces of gold. Gold at Melbourne was rather more active, but prices remained at 31. 16s. 6d. to 31. 17s. per ounce. Oa the 24th an extensive boot sale took place at Melbourne, the largest ever held. Men's stout nailed watertight., 13s. to 13s. 6d.; ditto stout kip front lace boots, Welsh bobbed, 9s. 6d. to 10.. 9d.; ditto, ditto, army Bluchers, 8.. 2d. to 9.. 5d.; ladies' cash mere and cloth boots, goloshed, ss. 9d. to 6s. 4d.; men's stout Wellingtons, 9. to 124.; children's vel vet and coloured boots, Ix. sd, to 2.. 7d. per pair. In general commercial affairs there was no par ticular change. Adelaide advice. to April 20 have been received, bet are unimportant. SPAIN. The law authorising the loan of 230,000.000 reds appears in the Madrid Gazette of the 18th last Power is given to make it a broad loan on taspayen of 500 reale and upwards, in the event of the amount not Ming voluntarily subscribed within 30 days. The Items of July had passed off quietly. The government bad received information of the disoovery of a new Carliat eonspiracy In the province of Girona. TRAGEDY ON BOARD A TTJRIEDIII JULY 12.—Tbe barque which WU wen in the Gulf of Lepanto, and which subsetmently went to the Moonshot toast, proves to be a Turkish vessel. The ETU °malted of eight Onus@ sad Dias Turks. Five of 'No latter were murdered; the remainder have been taken be the Greek authorities in the Gull of Lepanto. The vessel I s a s o w wreck. A Tory mall portion of the cargo has been saved, oonsistint of choirs, wines, and glass ware. VALUABLE PREBRNT.—At the half-yearly =sting of the members of the From' Mlewhanice' Institstiivn, a vote of thanks was given to Mr. Dowaill NiecU, lest' Sheriff of London, for a valuable sedossisa ef books, tostistiat of more than 1,000 of the best Waft of whams sad sanders wvitgrs, and deposited by bits la gist lailtildfild as INS Of Its fassabses. gpt court. OSBORNE, hay al,. The Queen and Prince, accompanied 14 Duchess of Kent, the Princess /Loyal, and Princes& drove out yesterday afternoon. Prince Albert rode on horseback. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred went out wag s attended bv Mr. Gibbs. The Dachas of Kent, attended by Lady Fancy llo vad. left Osborne to day, and crossed over to Southampton In royal yacht Fairy. Me A deputation from the Steam Shipowners consisting of Mr. Anderson (chairman), Captanttagtelt R.N., Mr. Pratt, and Mr. Morgan (secretary), had ae b , terview yesterday with Lord Stanley of Alder*, et g ia office of the Board of Trade on the subject of the Mi n i ma Shipping Act Amendment BilL The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yeti*, day, and resumed the bearing of en appeal from New go g g i Wales, "Doe dem. Device v. W i l s , n an d others." Th case was again adjourned. s THE ROYAL VISIT TO FRANCE. _ A letter from Calais saps:—" The news of this approaching arrival at Calais of her Majesty the Q at'' , 0 England, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albin and their children, is being every day more °maraud, fog preparations for their reception are accordingly every. where made. The batteries of the Fort Rohn, which will fire the royal salute, are being put in order. The railway company are repainting their station, end the work. men have received orders to have everything finished before the 15th of August. The city gates ae the seaside are also being repaired, and the municipality are finishing the footpaths along the route from the Port to the Imperial Palace. The latter is at this moment fulled workmen, who are engaged in embellishing its apartments and its delightful gardens. In word, the city of Ca* which hu already received within its walls almost all ih crowned heads of Europe, will and more sympathetic reception than that which um awaits the august ally of France." Her Majesty has sent to the General Military Hospital, Portsmouth, for distribution smoog upwards ol 30 selected sick and wounded soldiers, a number of all► pocket and neckerchiefs and neckties, hemmed by home and the ladies of the court, together with arm-slings, &e. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent trill leave Frogmore for Scotland at the Moss of the second wee► in the ensuing month. The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adelisa Fatale° Howard have left Norfolk Roue fee Arundel Castle. The unsettled health of his (Inc. has precluded the customary hospitalities this season at Norfolk House. The Earl and Countess of Roese have gone to Brighton for a few weeks, preparatory to proceeding to their family seat in Ireland (or the autumn. The Earl of Lincoln has taken his departure on a continental tear. It is undentoed his lordship will extend his travels as tar as Constaatioople sad Egypt. Lady Peel and Miss Peel have gone on a tour in France. The 2nd Regiment of Life Gaud', under the esnimand of Colonel Williams, was reviewed at Windsor, yesterday, by Major-General the Earl of Cardigan. FUNERAL OF THE LATE FIELD-MARSHAL, LORD RAGLAN. • BRISTOL, TIIVIDAY Evaxtxo. The Caradoc steamer, which has been so long and anxiously looked for, arrived hers this morning, bringing - the body and personal staff of the lets Field Marshal Lod • Raglan. The Caradoc was first sighted off Clevedon at about eight o'clock, and at twenty•six minutes past Mae o'clock she reached Kingroad. Intelligence of her arrival was at ones telegraphed to the Commercial-rooms to the Mayor, Colonel Patton, and Captain Pryce, the military and naval commandants of the district, and to the present Lord Raglan at the Whits Lion Hotel. The cannon on BnuaOte• bill was also fired, and produced quite an electrical effect upon the citizens, who rushed from their houses to the cen tral points where intelligence was likely to be obtained. Within a quarter of an hour of the receipt of the first tidings flogs half mast high were hoisted on the wine public buildings and on the ships in the harbour. Almost immediately upon his receiving the news Lord Raglan accompanied by the Hon. Col. Begot and Capt. Pryce, R N., proceeded in a small boat; for the puma* of boarding the Caractoc, which it had been intended should remain in Kingroad, the Star steamer coming down as • tender to receive the body. The Earl of Calthorpe, sad J. 8. Herford, Eiq., at whole mansion he is staying, sls• went to Shirshampton, intending to take boat with • like object at Lamplighter's Hall ferry. The coffin, bier, sad catafalque were in the meantime placed on board the Star, and the undertaker, Mr. Hooper, and Mr. Lawrence, by whom the coffin was made, proceeded on board for the pu pae of going down to Kingroad to effect the transhipment of the body. Just as the Star was getting under weigh for this purpose intelligence was received that the Caradoe was steaming op the river, and in a few minutes afterwards she made her appearance, being towed by the Atlas steam•tug. The newt of her approach spread with extraordinary rapidity, lad the sides of the river were speedily thronged by thousand& of spectators, who, notwithstanding the discomfort occuiond by a thoroughly drenching rain, which commenced fall* just as she hove in sight, remained until she had beet moored in the centre of Cumberland Basin. An official notice by the Mayor has just been posted on the C.uncil-house, Guildhall, and other public buildings, announcing that the disembarkation of the body and funeral procession will take piece to-morrow morning. A notice by the water bailiff has also been issued, ordering the removal of all impedimenta from the fl iatiug harbour, so as to facilitate the passage of the naval part of the procession. The families from the eurroarding districts are now flocking . _ in fast, and there is a rumour that Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown has arrived at Clifton, and will have a place in the precession. His presence is looked forward to with much interest. The citizens are all busied preparing the fronts of their houses for the ceremony of to-morrow, and some of the ships have commenced tiring minute guns. The following handbill has been circulated amongst the shopkeepers of St. James's parish, Westminster, by one of themselves The War.—lt is earnestly suggested that the inhabitants of this district and others should, as a mark of respect and sympathy far the relatives and friends of their gallant countrymen who have fallen in the war, close • shutter or two at convenience, from the time the late Lotd Raglan's remains are landed until he is buried." REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE. The appearance of placards announcing Sir Charles Napier as a candidate for Marylebone created some surprise yesterdsy throughout the borough, the general opinion being that his name has been used without his knowledge. Last evening a meeting of electors, convened by placards extensively circulated during the afternoon, was held at the Victoria Tavern, fdornington-road, for the purpose of securing the re-election of Sir Benjamin Hall. Mr. Thomas Smith, churchwardas of St. Pancras, presided. The meeting was addressed by the chairman, by Mr. L. R. Stockton, Mr. M.Bviley, Mr. Dyke, Mr. Clement George, (to., who expreued their determination to support Sir Benjamin Hall as a candidate, and eulogistically commented upon the right honourable I baronet's political and local services during his eighteen years' representation of the borough. A resolution pledging the nesting to use every exertion towards the right hon. baronet's re-election, having been unanimously adopted amidst general applause, a committal was appointed, and the proceedings terminated. A Mr. Hamilton has issued an address to ths electors of Southwark, dated from a newspaper °Mos in Fleet-street, in which, after denouncing the war in at measured terms, he says Electors of Southwark! on the day of nomination I shall stand side by aide with dit William Molesworth, once the illustrious advocate of peens and liberty; and I shall contest my opinion in your pre sent* against his own, convinced that, at a moment of sunk peril, you will guard the sacred right of I've debate." In an address to the electors of Tynemouth, Mr W, Linskill announces his limeades of soliciting their suf frages wb a vacancy occurs. His political principlm are L iberal Conservative." We he of the death, at Granada, Spain, front cholera, of the Rev. Henry Watson Barnard, Cams Residentiary 0 4 Wells Cathedral , and Vicar of St. Cuthbert, aged 63.