The Sun. — London, England, 1855-08-02 00:00:00

yr:.tl; . 7 ARDENNES RAILWAY COMPANY.- The Directors have the honour to inform the Shareholders that a Call of Isof. (61.) is made upon each share The Call will be pay,hie from the 1 1 th to the 28th August next, in Paris, at the Offl.-es of the Cum ,any, Ituo. de r...vvne, 70 ; in Lo t don, at Mess's. C. Devaux and Co., 62, King Wiilia.rn-street, City. -harehoiders will have the option of eferring the payment o the aforc-mid Call until the Ist November, 1855, by paying the interest of 4 per cent. from the -Bth August. In default of payment of the Call on or before the Ist November, 1855, the provisions of article 13th of the statutes will come into force. On payment of this Call, Certificates of Shares to bearer will be delivered to the shareholders, in exchange for the bankers' receipt of the deposit. London, 30th July, 1855. ROYAL OPERA, DRITRYLANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE BOREMIAN GIRL. Characters by Messrs. H. Brahsm, J. Halford, H. Corrl, and Elliot Galer ; and Lucy Elliot. To be followed by a Ballet. Prices of admission :—To the two galleries, 6d.; second circle of boxes and pit, is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; eta Is, 4s. ; private boxes to :Limit two persons, 10s. 6d. ; f our p ersons , one guinea* Box-office open from 10 to 6 daily. THEATRE ROYAL HATItAftKI.: I % Under the management of Mr. B=1[140110; THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE BUSY BODY. Marplot, Mr. Back. tone; Miranda, Miss Reynolds. After which, THE ABBE IN LOVE, by the Spanish Dancers. To be followed by ONLY A HALFPENNY. To which will be added VILLAGE FESTIVAL. To conclude with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES Max. THIS EVENING, Will be performed HOW STOUT "YOU'RE GETTING. To conclude with KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Ka tharine, Mrs. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Diroctreas. lisalame Ceuta. THIS EVENING, will be performed PAUL PRY. Characters by Messrs. C. Selby, Garden, Parselle, and Wright; Misses Wyndham, Laidlaw, Mary Keeley, Woolgar, and Mrs. L. Murray. After which, FRATERNISATION; To conclude with MY PRECIOUS BETSY. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan: THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Characters by Messrs. Robson, A. Wigan, G. Vining ; Mrs. A. Wigan, &c. To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. je m Blgs, Mr. F. Robson. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Payne. THIS EVENING, Will be performed BROKEN TOYS. Followed by TILE BUMP OF BENEVOLENCE. After which, THE SPJ_NISH DANCERS. To conclude with THE FLITCH OF BACON. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. The Mazeppa Horse, one of the wonders of the age, THIS EVENING, Lord Tivron's MAZEPPA c or, the Wild Horse, revived by Mr. William Cooke, introducing h's highly-trained Mazeppa horses. This thrilling spectacle is of intense and all-absorbing interest. To conclude with the EQUESTtIIAN FE ATS in the CIRQUE DU MANEGE, by talented Artistes, with alternately Miss Kate and Miss Emily Cooke. Couluding with the Dramatic Dialogue entitled, VERY SUS PIC lOUS, in which Mr. Oeorge Wild and Miss Fanny Williams, of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, will appear. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West, Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 'l l 'l% DAT —Morning 44 min. after 4 I Evening Bmin. aft. 5 raZoanow Morning 32 min.after 5 I Evenings 3 min. aft. 5 THE WEATHER.--Sum Onw*, Aug. 2. THERMOMETER, IN THZ SHAD& 73 —highest since noon yesterday. 60—lowest this morning and during the night. 73—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29'91. WIND, S.W.—Light, with sunshine and clouds. GREAT REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF "THE SUN," FROM FIVEPENCE-HALFPENNY FOURPENCE. FOR THE THIRD OR LATEST EDITION. In consequence of the abolition of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers the public in all large cities and towns to which parcels are forwarded by the News-Agents, The Sun, which formerly cost Fivepence-half penny for the Latest Edition, containing Parliamentary Debates of the same even ing, together with the List of Army and Navy Promotions in the London Gazette, with Official Despatches from the Seat of War, the Latest Sporting, and all other Commercial News, List of Bankrupts, &c., &c., can now be had for Fourpence, being a saving of nearly one-third. Hitherto the price of the paper was nomi nally Fivepence, but all Late Editions posted after six o'clock were charged a fee of One Halfpenny by the Post-office, -which made the price to the Subscriber Fivepence-Halfpenny. This charge must still be made to those in remote places, unless the Postmaster-General have the magnanimity to forego such a paltry source of revenue. Sun-office, 112, Strand, London ) 9th July, 1855. , • WO- LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1855. Of the guilty complicity of Austria with Russia -probably no one now entertains a shadow of doubt. The thanks of Count NESSELROD E to Count BUOL must have dispelled all the dreams of Lord CLARENDON, and almost have made Lord JOHN regret his easy diplomatic virtue. His superlatively silly pretext for not telling the }reuse of Commons of the intention of Austria not to fight—as if Russia did not know that long before Lord JOHN did, or as if every man not blinded by office did not know it without telling—we should think he can now hardly remember without a blush. Even the Times actually sees at last what we proved and prophesied from the beginning of the war ; and, indeed, before it broke out. Surely Lord PALMERSTON, and Prince ALBERT himself, are by this time satisfied of our whereabouts with Austria. Worthy Lord CLARENDON, whose de , -spatches are so much bepraised, who must be kept 'n the Government come what would, because he alone had the clue "to the admirably conducted negotiations with Austria "—b-he, too, must see, if not blinded with German dust, that he has been c ompletely Wooled. Two years of much lauded protocolling = what have they ended in ?—in leaving Austria and Russia billing and cooing before the European public, and Austria's armies occupying and oppressing the provinces, where OXER PACHA and his Turks, with a few legions of Poles, ought to have been holding the Russi ans in check, or threatening them in Bessarabia. Russia declares herself well-pleased to have Austria in the Principalities ! declares she would have accepted the terms which Austria and Lord JOHN would have forced on this country—(What then have we esc a p e d !) and assures Austria that a Russian army never could have marched against her, but may again have to march to her aid ! Lord CLAIMMON's glorious diplomacy has issued in rendering almost futile two costly cam paigns, and in converting Austria from the secret into the open , ally of Russia. Let, then, Lord PALMERSTON and the Foreign Secretary confess their position. Let them openly allow, or at least acknol fledge by their actions, that they have been imposed upon, either by German influence at home, or by the duplicity of the Government at L'ielll C Li 111: and we shall acecept it as the omen of au altered policy. Every one of our political prophesies in regard to the conduct of the war have been veri fied ; they were scorned by tho magnates of the press and the Legislature at first, were visions, dreams, revolution, and all that ; they are not scorned, but adopted now. Few will now have the hardihood to defend our first supplications to Prussia, our admission of Austria into the Prin cipalities, and our effeminate yielding to her self evident wiles. Never were DELILAH and SAMP SON better enacted in the political world. Twice already, while England was reposing in the lap of Austria, has she bid the Russians be upon us; once at Inkerman, and once at Vienna. Well for us if we do not betray to her the secret of our strength, and find ourselves made to grind at last in sub servience to Russian ambition. We will once more remind our readers of the true cause of all our disappointments. It is, as we have ever contended, not so much an Admi nistrative as a political one. Efficient Adminis tration would have been quickly secured, had the political aims been honest and earnest. The truth is, Our Court and our Cabinets have played the country false. The people went to war to humble Russia, and to rescue the oppressed nations from her cruel and enslaving gripe. They were out of all patience with her everlasting perfidy and her ever active ambition ; and they wanted to see Circas sia, the Black Sea coasts, the Danubian terri tories, and above all Poland, restored to liberty again. They hated the Russian despot, and any other despot, but our Cabinet felt very tenderly for Czars and absolute Emperors, and loathed the idea of restored nationalities. A mean, a paltry, a concealed, an unrighteous, political end has guided all our Governments. To uphold on their thrones the perjured beings whose existence challenges the vengeance of HEAVEN itself, and to prevent the nations groaning beneath their merce nary soldiers from breathing the air of freedom —this was their real aim. They found it neces sary not to let the Tartar despot swallow up the Teutonic despots, and reduce England and France to insignificance ; but they wanted still to pre serve what they called the honour and dignity of the Czaa, and of his subordinates ! to let down the Lord of the Calmuc3 and Cossacks very gently; and to keep unhappy Poland well crushed under him, and Hungary and Lombardy becomingly trodden beneath the feet of the boy of Hapsburg. We do not, therefore, and we cannot, trust our Court and Cabinet. They wickedly refuse to in scribe the righteous cause on their banners, and therefore debar themselves from the energetic ac tion and the efficient means which would have settled the business before now, and which even now would settle it ten years sooner than it would otherwise be settled. Consideration for guilty crowned heads, which had better have rolled in the dust ten times over than the bodies of our noble and innocent soldiers, will protract the war for ever. Consideration of the rights of Poland, Hungary, and Lombardy would compel the despots to yield a peace on any terms, or the result would be a war which would send them to political perdition, if to no other ; and who among us would not rejoice to see it ? Europe, since 1815, has been arranged on a system of such villanous disregard of human rights that nothing but a political thunderstorm can clear the political atmosphere. Nations were treated like so much property, and exchanged and bartered amongst a set of creatures who talked of rights in the said property as if nations were made for the aggran dizement and pleasure of a few families of mortals, and mortals who, to say the very best of them, were no better than their fellows. They have continued to disgust all the unfortunate nations they thus appro priated, to drive them ever and anon to an assertion of their liberties (called by Lords J. RUSSELL and PALMERSTON rebellion), and b this hour, after forty years' °pi, ntunity, the rulers of Austria, Russia, and Prussia are cordially a.nd bitterly hated by a very large portion of their subjects. trate" and required to find substantial bail that I wip, will be forthcoming to meet the cherge to be ; , referred against her at the suit of the victimised bondholders; nor can we het thc excolleut agents who obtained cash for the all-but-repudiated bonds into the witness-box. We can only sum mon the defaulting State of Buenos Ayres to the bar of public opinion, and subpoena the leviathan firm, that ranks amongst the highest class of " merchant princes," to give evidence in the case. That Buenos Ayres received all the money cannot now be questioned. Her agents, ROBERT soN and CASTRO, 'received a highly respectable introduction to the money market. Before Messrs. BARING consented to act, they must for their own security have strictly scrutinised the credentials of these gentlemen, and ascertained that they were warranted in giving the sanction of their names to the transaction ! They deliberately and ad visedly became the endorsers of the bill which the Government of Buenos Ayres had drawn on British credulity, and were bound not to remain altogether indifferent to its liquidation. They had ample notice of its dishonour, and should have taken energetic steps to bring the defaulters to reason. If they could not make them honest, there should, at least, have been the semblance or appearance of honesty. It was the prestige attached to the name of BARING and Co. that induced the English capi talists to subscribe for the loan at so high a figure —to give 861. for each 1001. bond. Had the referees been at all ques tionable—could the slightest doubt have been hazarded as to the position of BARING and Co., Buenos Ayres could not have humbugged her creditors for 31 years, or persuaded them to re main contented with the specious pretexts that she chose to put forward, under the head of the war with Brazil, or the blockade ordered by Lord ABERDEEN. We have stated our deliberate opinion that the Foreign Secretary is bound to interfere ; hut there are others on whom the obligation is even more imperative. It was the name of Messrs. BARING and Co. that brought many of the bondholders into the scrape. It is Messrs. BARING and Co. that should take measures to extricate them. Although thirty-one years have elapsed, the trans action has not yet been washed in the waters of oblivion, nor has the repudiating state or its " highly respectable" agents been quite exonerated from all liability. Nor will the payment of a paltry instalment of little more than 1 per cent. every 15 or 16 months be regarded as a reason able effort to discharge the claim on Buenos Ayres " honour and honesty"—if such elements be admissible into the calculation. sutor ultra crepidant. The wisdom of this saying was strikingly exemplified the other day at Leamington. On the presentation of an ad dress of congratulation from some of the principal inhabitants to Sir GEORGE BROWN, recently re turned from the Crimea, that gallant General most unexpectedly deviated from an expression of thanks into a discourteous lecture, as uncalled for as unbecoming to the press and the public in general, on the deserts of the officers of the British army in the Crimea, and the system under which they hold their com missions. The first, he would have it, were maligned, and the second so perfect that an attempt to amend it would be next to sacrilege, at all events would compromise the safety of the empire. Yet there was as little truth in the allegation as wisdom in the opinion—in other words, none at all. The people of England do not thick, and never did think, that British officers generally have not done their duty, and have been inattentive to the wants of their men ; their censure has applied mainly, almost exclusively, to the staff, many of which have not only shown themselves deplorably inefficient, which possibly they could not help, but inattentive also, which they could, while they have come in for the lion's share of promotion and other good things going. Nor has there ever been, nor is there any in tention in the public mind, or in the mind of army reformers, which amounts to pretty much the same thing, to exclude gentlemen from the army. The public never indulged in any such folly ; what they desire is to have in the service men likely to be most efficient and useful to their country, and to secure an adequate supply of such men without lowering the " tone " of the army ; but the reverse—they are persuaded the abolition of the purchase system is necessary. In this opinion Sir GEORGE does not concur, but the prolonged siege operations in which he has taken part ought to have had a different result. None know better than he does that two of the ablest Russian officers who have contributed beyond all others to the defence of Sebastopol —viz., General TODLEBEN and Admiral NACHIMOFF—were not offshoots of the Russian aristocracy, but mere " common fellows;" and really Sir GEORGE should have remembered that his own name smacks more of the plebeian than the patrician. But the gallant General seems to have had a "fit " of misrepresentation ; for not only did he misrepresent the opinions of the public in relation to the officers, but he ap peared to have made au erroneous interpretation of their opinion with regard to the conduct of the men. The reader will smile to think Sir GEORGE deemed it necessary to hold up the conduct of our soldiers in the Crimea to public admiration, as if the great heart of England had not throbbed in deepest pulsation with gratitude and admiration for the heroic deeds and indomitable fortitude of her noble defenders. This hatred is our strength. To use it would be a simple act of justice to the oppressed. It would be worth more than hundreds of millions of money, and would save thousands of French and English lives. We shall soon now see xhether Government is cajoling us or not. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH'S talk of striking a body blow at Russia, and the summons hither of Count LAMOYSKI, ought to mean SOlTlO thing. A short time will prove whether all this k done to hoax this country or to un-Germanise our policy, and to strike a blow at Russia which ought to have been one of the first, but which even now would give our Government such strength at home as none has had for many a long year, and such strength abroad as would make all the despots from the Rhine to the Volga tremble for their very existence. Of one thing we are confident—the enthusiasm infused into the war by declaring for a great and righteous prin ciple, the cordiality it would create between our Government and the people, the inspiration it would impart to the generals and our Ministers, would make them all new mon. There seems, hitherto, to have been a wonderful lack of genius, but if there be one thing which can supply its place, one thing which has a hundred times over in the world's history created it, that thing is a high, a holy, and a righteous cause. Battle for the liberty of the crushed would regenerate all. The " Modern Babylon" exhibits many phases of roguery. Those who do not mince matters, and call things by their right names, speak of " theft" or " s windling" —others more euphreis tically term it "appropriation," or follow the precedent of the immortal "ancient" who said— "a wever Convey, the re vi e it te call." the same They all, however, iwise applicable proceedings—to the various modes by which in genious, but not very moral, persons fill their purses at the expense of their innocent neigh bours, who chance to have more money than wit, and offer themselves as willing victim s to the spoilers. Ring-dropping and other time-honoured forms of " appropriation" prevail, notwithstand ing the unsparing denunciations of the pub lic journalists. We still hear of " yokels" who yield implicit credence to the benevolent-looki ng man who is desirous of applying his loose cash to the best purposes, and wishes to ob tain the valuable services of his "verdant" friend as an agent in the distribution. Some " security " is, however, necessary, and the kind hearted man so far resembles the late AUTOCRAT as to prefer a "material guarantee"—a bond fide deposit of hard cash—as the test of respectability ! We shall not speak of " skittle sharps," or of other talented "conveyancers." Even the higher flights of cb • ~ among genius shall remain unnoticed. We aim at the • • very highest of all—at a Govern ment (GOD save the mark !) represented by a first-class firm--one that would have nothing to do with anything less than six places of figures, i n w hi c h " hundreds of thousands," if not mil lions, of pounds were involved. Buenos Ayres cannot be brought up before a " worthy Magis- But enough of this ill-judged and impertinent speech. The gallant General would seem to have more " pluck" than head, more courage than dis cretion ; and, though admirably fitted to lead on his men to the charge, to be wholly incompetent to lecture his countrymen at home. Sir GEORGE may be trusted on furlough with almost anything but his tongue, and that ho should have left be hind him, to resume on the first field-day for the encouragement of his division ; for a few such exhibitions as that at Leamington, and adieu to his popularity. za- P ' Mh oart:orit ahfroegrre THE CAITSE OF POLAND.—The Council of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland advertised " a meeting in favour of the employment of a Polish Legion as the most effectual auxiliary for carrying on the war, and the restoration of Poland as the only means of secur ing a durable peace," to be held yesterday evening at St. Martin's-hall, Long-acre—General Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P., in the chair. It was also stated in the circular convening, the meeting that the cause of Poland would be °' supported by the Marquis of Breadal bane, the Earl 1 of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Harrington, the Earl of Yar borough, Visco,un_t Ebrington, : M.P., Sir John Villiers Captain Townshend, • R.N., Shelley, Bart, R.N., M.P., William Tite,lll.s.PC,aptAalira. Arthur Otway, M.P., meeting building, SAc.obenll., would whenmn ue holdingnmoi b btt e e w r rb. s taehos oeti held. etpl P i dem persons meeting sa r o l i intimated ds b(n3l: y placard,aea3ni'besiegedfat- the.(half-past s tot Long police I so. whichePi doors 'lonra beforethat no t ' od o'clock), thei of e otmanytl)hkthe e) following on the door :—" Poland.—ln consequence of the sudden indisposition of General Sir De Lacy Evans, the meet inn intended to be held this evening on the subject of the restoration of Poland is unavoidably postponed for a few days. " This notification appeared t o occas i on some disappointment among the crowd, many of whom hinted that the hon. an d g allant g entleman's indisposi tion, however much i: w as to be de p lored, was sc arcely a sufficient reason for postponing the restoration of one ing the peace of another. kingdom, and the adoption of the only means of sem- COURT CIRCULAR. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EiTENINC4, AUGUST OSP.ORNE, AUG. y. Prinrit•iT, Tue Queen arc Prince, a:iconiriaai,d by ine Pri;;c,:- of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princes:, proceeded from the Admiralty-house, Portsmouth, yesterday, to visit the Military Hospital. Several wounded officers, lately returned from the Crimea, had the honour of being presented to her Ma jesty, who afterwards minutely inspected large detach ments of wounded and invalided soldiers, and subse quently went round the wards of the hospital, where the Queen personally inquired into the condition of the patients. The Royal party re-embarked in the Fairy about 4 o'clock, and returned to Osborne. Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown arrived on a visit to her Majesty. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes terday. The blockade case., "The Franciska" (part heard) and "The Johanna Maria," were resumed. THE COMMAND OF THE ARMY IN THE EAST. There have been many rumours lately in circulation of the recall of the present Commander-in-Chief of the Eng lish army in the Crimea. These rumours, we are able to state, are without foundation, as not only has General Simpson not been recalled, but there is no reason to sus pect the slightest intention of recalling him. At the same time, it is proper to state that General Simpeon's health is not of the strongest, and that, there fore, it will excite but little surprise if he find himself unable to cope for a protracted period with the vast la bours and incessant anxieties of the chief command. It is not probable, in the event of General Simpson's coming home, that a new Commander in-Chief will be sent out from England, as Lord Raglan was almost the only one of the veterans of our last great war that was really fit for service. Beatson. A GERMAN CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH CABINET. tan yesterday. The following (says the Morning" Advertiser) is a trans lation of a very clever German squib, which has been circulated in high circles, to the amusement, sub rosa, of many. It professes to be a supplement to the well known, steady-going, Tory Almanac de Gotha, but, nevertheless, contrives to give a sly hit at the Coburgs of that ilk, carrying the sting, scorpion-like, in its tail. Of course recent changes in our Governmental body have disarranged some of the writer's office, but the classifica tion is still apt, and defines, as nearly as can be, the true character of our Ministers, past and present,—be sides having the further advantage of giving us a slight insight into what are the real views of the 6erman people on the war, as contradistinguished from the German Governments : MINISTERS OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF GREAT ~G.V.•d'....--- 9, 1855, • I foreign commissioners, has commenced a series of 174, -T-Trl lc - lE7cl visits which he proposes to make. in sue , .;esion to _ . LA T 7 :12% 24. \ t ti 0. 6 tli , )(:liffe!e " . The Courier de Marseilles announces that the French Government have chartered 9'r steamers for river navigation, each to carry 500 men. The flotilla is to make a trial trip before leaving for the Crimea. CAIRO, JULY 21. The Viceroy of Egypt is in negotiation with the Bedouins to serve in the Climes. ST. PETERSBURG, JULY 28. .General Prince Gortschakuff writes from the Crimea, on th© 28th ult., that, on the previous day, the Allies opened fire on the Russian battery No. 4. The cannonade lasted for ten hours and a half, and was vigorously returned by the Russians. KAMIESCH, JULY 29. This port and Balaklava are crowded with ves sels lately come from France and England. A grand expedition is preparing. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 2G. The Bashi-Bazouks have murdered General M. Thouvenel had his first audience of the Sul- TRIESTE, Alla. 1. Accounts of the 23d, through Constantinople, state that Schamyl had effected a diversion in Georgia, which brought him near Tiflis. The Russians had Illandoned the attack on Kars. l ( l4erd Cerleto en4;sie c , a ow , of a clespL - tteli Ly id Peomitle from General Simpson, expresslng that officer's deep regret at the death o f Li eu t.-C o l one l Vi co, attached 'as French Commissioner to the head-quarters 9f the English army in the Crimea. The Minister of the Interior has addressed a re port to the Emperor on the subject of the advance in the salaries of Prefects, as limed by the decree of March 27, 1852, without necessitating their re moval from the department, where it is desirable that they should remain. As that decree fixed an immediate advance of 10,000 fr. in their salaries, the large expense, says the report, which would be entailed on the State would allow it to be carried into execution only in rare instances, and therefore in order to remedy that inconvenience the Minister proposes that the increase should be limited to 5,000 fr., to be further augmented to 10,000 fr. after 5 years' further residence in the same department. The Moniteur contains au Imperial decree carrying out the recommendations of the report. The Narval steamer arrived at Toulon on the 31st ult. from the Pirmus, with Admiral Lebarbier de Tinan on board. The Canada steamer-frigate arrived there on the same day, bringing troops from Civita Vecchia. The screw transport La Meurthe, of 1,f,03 tons, left Brest on the 31st ult., for the Black Sea. Mouravieff is supposed to be retiring. TREBIZOND, JULY 20. The Russians have suspended operations, and confined themselves to naming governors for the BOURSE, AUG. I.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4? per Cents 94 —f. —c. 3 per Cents 66 70 66 90 Creldit Mobilior lo7o Roman — Credit Foncier — , Austrian Belgian Fives — Spathe& Threes — Piedmontesa B4 90 Home Debt 3Ol villages in the province of Kars. Ten guns have been sent to Erzeroum, which is now defended by 15,000 men. MADRID, JULY 31. General Zabala will be back this evening, his prompt return being caused by the Emperor Napoleon having quitted Bayonne before the General arrived there. It is religious difficulties which have caused the marriage of Prince Adal bert of Bavaria to be put off. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JULY 21 Our approaches on the side of the Malakhoff ad vance considerably. We now touch the place. Everythirg is prepared for a general action in about 15 days. I send you the last order of the day of General Pelissier, as follows : BRITAIN-CABINET OF JULY 1, 1855. FOR TETE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA. Viscount Palmerston First Lord of the Treasury. The Earl of Clarendon Lord Panmnre The Marquis of Lansdowne In the Cabinet, without office. FOR PEACE AT ANY PRICE. Lord John Russell Secretary for the Colonies. Earl Granville President of the Council. The Duke of Argyll The Earl of Harrowby Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Cran worth Lord Chancellor. Viscount Canning Sir Charles Wood First Lord of the Admiralty. Sir George Grey Home Secretary. Sir G. C. Lewis Mr. Vernon Smith President of Board of Control. MIISICO-RADICAL. Sir William Molesworth, President of the Board of Works, will give his vote for or against, according to circumstances, and palatial and domestic orders. The Radical party in the Briti , ,h Parliament, including the Irish Catholic priest party—Mr. Roebuck always excepted—is completely sold, either to the Russell- Whig party, or to the Minister, and that in spite of the constituencies. For the War For Peace at any Price The Country Party. Frankfort, July 10, 1855. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office, The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans downe, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir William Molesworth, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Vis count Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. The Council sat two hours and a quarter. The Ministerial Whitebait dinner is fixed to take place on Wednesday next, the Bth inst., at the Trafalgar, Greenwich. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India-house, when the Right Hon. Viscount Canning was sworn in as Governor-General of India. The half-yearly meeting of the Electric Telegraph Company was held ,on Tuesday, when a dividend was declared at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum. The Earl of Cardigan was expected on Monday at Brighton to inspect the cavalry depots of the 17th Lan cers and the 4th Light Dragoon, but he was unfurtu ❑ately prevented from attending. THE PEEL MONUMENT IN THE ClTY.—Yesterday the committee assembled, Sir Peter Laurie in the chair, and came to the unanimous resolution that the following Oval be the inscription upon the pedastal of the statue of Sir Robert Peal, by Behnes, at the top of Cheapside: "Peel, born sth Feb., 1783, died 2d July, 1850." THE MUSEUM OP ORNAMENTAL ART, AT MARLBO ROUGH TIOUSE.—The numbers attending, &c., during the month of July, were as follows :-6 860 persons on the publiC days, and admitted free ; 587 persons on the students' days and admitted as students on the payment of 6d. each, besides the registered students of the classes and schools. MAILS FOR Via BRITISH HOSPITALS AT ABYDOS AND TIENKIOI, NEAR THE DARDANELLES.—GENERAL POST OFFICE, July 1355.—Letters and newspaperS addressed to the British hospitals at Abydos and Rthikioi, will, in future, he despatched from this country through France, and by French packet, via Marseilles, twice a week, in stead of once a week, as heretofore. These mails will be made up in London every Tuesday morning, and every Saturday evening. AUSTRALIAN POSTAGE —From a return issued yester day, it appears that in 1854 the estimated postage of letters and. newspapers to the Australian colonies was 21,4011. by packet, and 2,2821. 128. 4,1. by private ship; while the postage inward from the same colonies was 16,3791. by packet, and 13,9891. 10s. 6d. by private ship ; the four items makir ' s together a total for the year of 54,0521. 2s. 10d. The letters and newspapers sent out to the colonies filled 170 boxes, 3,850 bags, and weighed 145 tons 3 cwt. ; the letters and newspapers received from the colonies occupied 540 bags, 1,870 boxes, and weighed 81 tons, 16 cwt., 3s i rs., and 201bs. The estimated receipts for portages to and from the colonies amount to 3,2301. per month. SUICIDE OF A GIRL IN VICTORIA-PARK.---Yesterday morning, shortly after 7 o'clock, one of the constables was on duty in Victoria-park, Bonner's-fields, and dis covered the body of a female, about 14 years of age, floating in. the ornamental water of the enclosure. There were marks on the face, and her eyes were blackened from external violence. The police of the K division have made inquiry, and, from information they have re ceived, the deceased is alleged to have been grossly ill treated and neglected. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE ROYAL BREWERY, BRENT FORD.--OR Tuesday evening a fatal accident occurred at the Royal Brewery, Brentford, owing to the fall of a portion of a wall enclosing a piece of waste ground ad joining the brewery. Outside the wall an alley runs down to the Thames, and of five or six children who were playing there two were killed. A third was buried beneath the rubbish, but was sheltered in some way, and crawled out uninjured. The accident was caused by the fall of some recently built arches which rested against the wall. DOGGETT'S COAT AND BADGE.---The annual contest from London-bridge to Chelsea for Doggett's Coat and Badge took place yesterday, and was one of the best races seen for many years past. The start was well ar ranged, and after a spirited contest, Henry Jas. White, of Mill Stairs, Bermondsey, was declared the winner of the principal prize by nearly 100 yards. Thos. Adcock, St. George's Stairs (second), and William Ling, Tower Stairs (third), received respectively 41. 10s. and 21. 14s. from a fund provided for the purpose. The other com petitors also received small sums from the Fishmongers' Company, who, in addition, after the race, regaled the whole of the men with a substantial repast. THE CITY OF LONDON BURIAL BOARD.—Yesterday, at a court of the City Commission of Sewers, a discus. sion took place upon the memorial of the Archdeacon of London, and certain of the clergy, to be placed upon the Burial Board of the said city. The question had been referred to the commission by the Court of Com mon Council, and the commissioners, who form the Burial Board, seemed to consider that the application came late, seeing that they had been in existence as such for three years, and it was rather extraardinary that, just as they had completed all the works of the ceme- . tery, the memorialists should, for the first time, ex pre i a wish to become members of the lioard. For these and other reasons, the commissioners came to a unanimous resoultion not to comply with the application of the memerialists. A special meeting of the company of Copper fliners in England was held yesterday, to elect a governor in the place of Sir John Dean Paul, who has resigned. The deputy-governor, Sir J. H. Pelly, was unanimously appointed to fill the vacancy, several of the proprietors taking the opportunity of adverting to the services he has rendered the undertaking, especially in its re-organ isation. Mr. George Gay was subsequently elected deputy-governor, and Mr. G. 11. Pownall, one of the assistants, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the ele vation of Mr. Gay. It was mentioned, in reference to the failure of Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Bates, that the claim of the company against the estate does not exceed 1,0171. The Court of Assistants hold possession of some shares, the private property of Sir John Dean Paul, but a doubt is entertained if they constitute a security available against the firm. The general prospects of the company aro stated to be favourable, the advance in iron having given an impetus to their works. With regard to the circulation of the accounts previously to the periodical meetings, it was stated that the directors will give the question their best consideration, and en deavour to comply, if possible, with the wishes of the proprietors. " GENERAL ORDER; "The enemy, closely invested in the place, make, for several days past, efforts, by means of sorties, to fnter rupt our works before the Malakhoff. They have com pletely failed in their two attempts. On the night of the 14th of July a Russian column of several battalions debouched by the ravine of Karabelnaia, and rushed on the gabionades of the extreme left of this attack, but re ceived with a well sustained fire of musketry by a battalion of the 86th and 91st, the enemy had to abandon the en terprise and retreated carrying off their dead and wounded. They left, however, some dead bodies on the field. That engagement does honour to the Motterouge division ; it has shown great intrepidity. Lieutenant-Colonel Chabron and Major Tinier ' who ably carried out the plans of General 'Much, who commanded at the/ trenches, have given proofs of capacity and vigour. Two nights after, Gen. Vinoy commanding the trenches, the Russians, after having made one demonstration on our extreme right, which did not disturb the sappers of the engineers nor the workmen of the 52d, again made a vigorous attempt on the same point, but were again gallantly repulsed. It was in vain that their attacking column, which was supported by nume rous reserves, redo'ibled its assault on the three ambus cades which cover our works. A company of Zouaves of the Guard and a company of the 20th of the Line resisted these repeated attempts with a solidity which nothing could weaken. Many Russian bodies remained on the ground. The greatest praise is due to Captain Dufaur, of the 28th, and to Lieutenant Chazottee, of the Zouaves of the Guard, who has been wounded. The conduct of Major Cardouw, who commanded on that point during that night which was so honourable to the Canrohert division, and of Captain Segretain, of the En gineer?, have been equally noticed by me. These com bats, sustained with coolness, and resolution, are a severe lesson which our guardians of the trenches will give to the Russians whenever they try by means of sorties to arrest the irrisistible march of our works against the place. . _ " PELISSIER, General-in-Chief, &c." YENIKALE. A letter from Yenikale, of the 17th ult., in the Press d' Orient, says : " The Allies are actively engaged in completing the works of defence which, when finished, will be very formidable. The arrival of Colonel Osmond, as Gover nor, has Oven fresh activity to the works, and it is ex pected that in a very few days the place will he, in a con dition to defy any attack. His arrival has also been of material service in producing an improvement in the or ganisation for supplying the troops with regular rations which had not been properly carried on, aed had caused the soldiers much suffering. The Turks at Kertch hav ing continued their pillaging on the few inhabitants that remained there, Colonel Osmond has caused some severe measures to be adopted to put an end to such a state of things. A few days ago, Colonel Osmond, his aide-de camp, an English colonel, and M. Bouet, who com mands the Ponaoce frigate, went to Tamar, on the coast of Anatolia, in the English gunboat Mira. They landed with a flag 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 came with hostile intentions, they had better return, as the garrison were ready to defend themselves. Tamar is a regular Cossack town, completely independent of Russia, and in just the same position as the ida,rise Towns 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 ami cable relations with the inhabitants, and to purchase their cattle and productions at proper prices. The go vernor of the town, on the report of the officer, gave Colonel Ormond 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 vessels at anchor off Yenikale whenever bullocks and other provisions were ready for them at Tamar. The governor and all his officers spoke very good French, and conducted themselves with the utmost courtesy." TURKEY. We have received the Constantinople letters and journals, of the 23d, brought by the Gango. The report, mentioned in the accounts by the last mail, that the object of the visit of Omer Paella to the Turkish capital was to give the Government some advice as to the manner of carrying on the war in Asia, appears to be now confirmed by the fact that since his arrival he has been present at all the Councils which have been held at the Imperial Palace, at the Porte, and at the Ministry of War, where the principal subject under consideration has been the movements of the Russians on the coast of Asia and the situation of the Ottoman army in that quarter. On the 22d, the Generalissimo and the Turkish Minister of War went to the English Embassy, where they had a long confer ence with Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and General Vivian, who commands the Turkish contingent, and on leaving the English Embassy they went to visit the camp occupied by these troops. Accord ing to letters of the 7th, received from Kars via Trebizond, the situation of that place is not so pre carious as was at first supposed. These letters state, on the faith of some merchants who had ar rived at the latter place, (what we have already announced as a report by telegraph), that Schamyl was advancing in force against Tiflis, and that the Russian General Mourawieff, having been informed of the fact, had raised the siege of Kars, and marched with his army to protect Tiflis. The Bashi-Bazouks still continue in the most complete state of disorganisation at the Dardanelles, setting , all their officers at defiance, and committing out rages and plundering in every direction. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Emperor and Empress will, it is said, take up their residence at the ChMeau of Villeneuve l'Etang, while awaiting the arrival of the Queen of England. Prince Napoleon, accompanied by several of the RAILWAYS -FOR CASH. fr. c. fr. c. Oi'leans Western 770 Rouen Cette Mediterranean: 1340 Havre — - Northern .. 895 Cherburg AUSTRIA. M. Saleman, the Russian consul, left Vienna on the 28th for St. Petersburg, being the bearer of important despatches relative, it is said, to the last decision of the Germanic Diet. A letter from Vienna of the 28th ult., in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" A very warlike order of the day has been published by the Muschir Ismail Paella, who commands on the Danube. The Pacha compliMents the troops on their past conduct, and promises them approaching victories over the Rus sians. Baron de Bourqueney had a long con ference with Count Buol yesterday, at which he read to hima note which he had received from Count Walewski. M. d'Oubril, attached to the Russian Legation, also had an interview of the President of the Council, in which he assured the latter that, in consequence of the reduction of the Austrian army, no more troops would be concentrated in Poland, where only the ordinary garrisons would be kept up. Most of the re g iments, which had been on th e i r march for Poland from the interior of Russia, have rezeived orders to march on the southern pro vinces." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin states that the Ministers of France and England, the Marquis de Moustier and Lord Bloomfield, have obtained leave of absence from their respective Governments, and are about to quit that city. 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 1,685,000 thalers a-month, which makes about 10 millions of thalers in six months, without reckoning other extraordinary expenses. The ca valry and artillery are to remain at their present strength. MURDER OF GENERAL BEATSON. A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople, which we publish in another column, informs us that the Bashi- Bazouk4 ' who had been for a long time under the com mand of General Beatson, have fi!led the measure of tneir iniquities by murdering their general. We have no certitude of the accuracy of this tele graphic message, but we are led to fear that the melan choly catastrophe which it so curtly communicates is but too true. From information that has reached us from other sources, we are in a position to lay before our readers the latast authentic intelligence relative to the wild bands under the command of cur unfortunate countryman. It will be recollected that, at the outset of the war, the celebrated French General Yusouf and our General Beatson undertook the disciplining of the fierce levies known as the Bashi-Bazouks. General Yus.ouf, who had tamed the wild Arabs of the Desert and disciplined the tribes of Algeria, soon found that all his experience, his patience, and his firmness were utterly unavailing, and he gave up the attempt in despair. Our gallant countryman, however,, persevered, and we had hoped his endeavours would be crowned with success. Latterly, a great body of the Rishi-Bazouks have been encamped under his command on the further shore of the Dardanelles. Amongst these men, we regret to say, frequent signs of insubordiration were manifest, and, about a fortnight ago, an act of atrocious violence was committed, which led to further mischief. Two officers of the corps were walking with their wives in the neighbouring c , .untry, when a party of Bashi- Bazouks fell upon, and assaulted, and outraged the ladies. The moment the General heard of this villany, he ordered the miscreants under arrest. A great portion of their rascally comrades, however, sympathised with them, and, proceeding to the General's house in open mutiny, struck .;:heir yataghans into the ground, and, piling up combustible materials, threatened, and that in the most fearful earnest, that, unless their comrades were instantly released from arrest, they would set fire to the houe, and bur❑ the General alive, with his wife and children. General Beateon had no alternative, and liberated the men, who, with their cotnra les, paraded about with every demonstration of triumph, and fiLally set out f , r Brousra, laying no tender hands upon the prop er ty o f the inhabitants, and with apparent intentions of pillag ing in every direction. This was the last thing heard of them. Since that we receive the sad but too probable news that we pub lish in another part of our paper, and which indicates a too cruel termination to a distinguished and honourable career.—M orning Post. THE NATIONAL GALLERY. The copy of a Treasury minute, issued on the 27th of March last, and referred to in the House of Commons on Monday night, was issued yesterday. My Lords, having before them the report of the select committee of the House of Comm/is on the National Gallery, and having duly considered its recommendations, lay down certain rules and regulations for the future manage ment of the Gallery, with the object not only to meet the existing requirements of the Gallery, but to promote the development of the institution and to make it more worthy of the country and the advanced position of art. My Lords are not pre pared to abolish entirely the system of trustees ; they propose to continue the present Board of Trustees (ex cepting the ex officio members), if the members thereof will continue to act, and to limit the number to six. My Lords then propose to appoint a " director" of the Na tional Gallery, with a salary of 1,0001. per annum for five years, re-eligible, but liable at any time to be dis missed by the Treasury. Sir C. Eastlake has been ap pointed the first director. The conjoint duties of the trustees and the director are then precisely defined. The chief duties of the director will be the purchase, or re commendation for purchase, of pictures for the National Gallery, and the arrangement, description, and conser vation of the collection. One of his most important duties will be to compile a correct history of every picture in the collection, including its repa:Te, and de scribing its present condition. As a general rule, my lords opine that pictures should be selected at sales abroad, and that preference should be awarded to " good specimens of the Italian schools," including the works of the earlier masters. In the estimate for the Gallery, my lords will annually insert a sum expressly for the purchase of pictures, to be expended or to accumulate, as may be thought proper. For the present, no loan or temporary deposit of pictures in the gallery will be per mitted ; and the sanction of my lords must be obtained be fore any picture can be lent or removed. A "travelling agent" will be appointed, with 3001. a-year salary, to visit private collections abraad and report sales. Th e officer next in rank to the director will be the " keeper and secretary" (the recommendation of the com mittee for the abolition of the former office having been rejected), with a salary of 7501. a-year. This officer will reside in the building, and will be required , to discharge most important and onerous duties, including, above all, theconapilation of a catalogue raisonne of the masters (as recommended in the appendix to the report of the committee), under the supervision of the director, to whom he will be in all things sub ordinate. His other duties will he to attend meetings o f the board, draw up the minutes, and conduct the correspondence. No special accountant is to be appointed, but an experienced Treasury officer will do the duty. As regards the "attendants," my lords are pleased to name ten in Trafalgar-square (in cluding three curator;), and six at Marlborough house (including two curators). My lords have re quested the following noblemen and gentl , men to continue to act as trustees under the new system, viz. : —the Earls of Ripon and Aberdeen, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Mr. Samuel Rogers, the Duke of Suther land, th e E irl of Ellesmere, Lord Monteagle, Sir Jas. Graham, Lord Overstone, Lord Ashburton, Me. Wm. Russell, and Mr. Thos. Baring-. Sir Charles Eastlake has accepted the post of director. Mr. Wornum has been appointed keeper and secretary, end Mr, Otto Diundler, travelling agent. BOW-STREET.-(TBI' DAY.) T , ITE CASE OF STRAB A.N, PAUL, CO. of tho firm of Los is Lewi,ElY.Pl36 in . •a, priy) , e fur W. Strohm:, of the firm of Strohm:, POO' Cu., the bankers, agreeably to the terms demancleg Mr. Jardine,. Mr. Humphries attended on the part of the prosect tor. Mr. Strahan having been placed at the bar, ~,,; Mr. T. B ea d on , th e mag i s trate of Wandsw orthPg' court, was then sworn. be I / Mr. Hu m ph r i es as k e d hi m whether he would 1)v the possessio n o f proper ty t o the amount bilitof 3,.". after the payment of all his just debts and lea ty~t and whether he was willing to become security amount for the appe arance of William Stra han on " nesday next at this court? Mr. Beadon answered in the affirmative. A A Dr. Gordon, of D or ki ng , wa s then s worn, an'• lar question having bee n p u t to him by Mr. 0 1211/11 : 1 0' to which he likewise answered,. the i r su reties Wer" cepi ed. take° tb l\l. p S lac r e alzn ir t o h n e t n o l f e t ft he th d e o b k ar, and baying usual , o de 4 The clerk read ove r th e :Mount of bail uelr L i t o namely, William St ra h an hi mse lf in 6,00 0 /.; auci w;:„11: dr sureties for 3,0001. each ; and all parties w ere 40 sired to be in attend ance a t this court on Wed° next for the renewal of the bail. 0 0 : THE RENTERS' RIGHTS OF THE ROYAL ITALIC 00' It will be recollected that on Thursday last so e ats appeared in The Sun detailing the proceedings etoit police-court, of an assault committed by . a g e t named Temperley upon one of the officers a the t h tsi vi upon his attempting to g a in admittance to the ot ii the Italian Opera, he (Temperley) holding r.e.meth admission which he bad purchased at one of tbe and by which he contended he had a right t o °ter part of the theatre before the curtain. Mr. Ballantine appeared for Mr. Temperley Fel On the case being called on to-day a pers °l/ ,:p t r eP * into the witness-box, and on beino. asked Gye was present,' said he thought the only be gone into to-day was the assault. Mr. GP / vu present. / 1 0 Mr. Hall said he remanded the case on 0 1°11 v -11 0 0 mainly for the attendance of Mr. Gye and gr• gef Mr. Fentum was present, and he thought the c't"- tleman should also have been here. tel id°l l Mr. Ballantine said the part of the case be 31 10 0 , .. to proceed with was the right of Mr. TemPern p ll . mission to any part of the theatre before the a r "%coll t. holding a renter's admission. He thou g ht it O s bu tt teous behaviour on the part of Mr. Gye n° t .47 been present. Mr. Hall said, as the case was an importanw ab° thought the best course to pursue was to send to the Quarter Sessions. It was then arranged that a message be selt t 4 p(11° theatre to know whether any person would at' contest the right of Mr. Temperley. On the messenger returning, he informed t ile r ,. tot * trate that Mr. Surman, the solicitor for the P ri t e i, and Mr. Gye had been sent for, and both wou ld ' tendance presently. " b if f Mr. Baliantine said he thought it was unge ll a tie el" on the part of Mr. Gye, after he had been c lir : - :0 014 ,, the magistrate of this court, not to be in st „ ji b e- r Under the circumstances, he suggested that T ,0 , r .. 0 0 : perley be discharged for the assault, and nn °t `ct o ° mons could be granted if the solicitors on the theatre intended to contest the; ri,Yht of atlmis 9 i °ll. 4 bi l/ A gentleman in court said that he :ItLende d ol d grounds, and handed to Mr. Ballantlno one debentures of Drury-lane Theatre for P erusal• to Mr. Ballantine—Th era can b e no ques tion right. Mr. Inspector Durkin s a id th a t M r . Gye til° 0 140 :, was a matter concerning the proprietors ovir' himself, and he thought they wo u ld se nd their fr" Mr. Hall said the best course to pursue Wag t° the suggestion of Mr. Ballantine. O. Mr. Ballantine said he had stated the rents tot too brca,dly ; what he should have said vou 4 4 - renters, or their nominees, had a legitimate ';O,, admission to any part of the theatre before lb ° with the exception of the private boxes. The course suggested was then adopte d ' parties left the court. TEE WAR WITH RUSSIA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. g Sin,—Just before the lat e v i s it t o Engl ° ,. oft, Belgian King, and father-in-law of the Emper°"o9 tria's cousin, appeared in the London daily ° .gge statement that H.R.H. the Duke of Cam brl n pr accepted the command of the Foreign Legion frip eo of ing at the expense of this country to conlb s .o ambition. Just as the same inauspicious visi b appeared the counter-statement that H.R.1 1 enter upon that command. Was the sinister v'to way connected with the cancelling an appoietnieof OF! welcome to English patriotism, and whieb' than a week, the silence of H.R.H. appeared On another matter, Sir, and descending f t r e f il e si l tritons to the minnows : Dr. Hall affirms, is to his famed report, " that the hospital at Se o , - j, for nothing ;" and he limits the application ° '` hd r port to some few days in the month of Oet ° " f er Did Dr. _Flail not know, or ought he not to 13 %0 seen when he made his report, that the hosPi t le o , moment comparatively empty, would short l y with victims, and that scarcity of every kind 1.: 0 lfoi would then arise ? He is defended by a Dr. Y- e llo t y of whom all we know is that he (Dr. D.) P ll° ,3sY heal cf this charn e l-h ouse , ra th er th a n h l ff i l :name Dr. Lawson wh om th e muc h co ndonit l - g o ti o , General-in-Chief bad reproved and just before s e e j o f 'd from Balaklava for cruel neglect of the wound„, kerman placed under his care. Truly, Sir, t tuilitary doctors seem worthy of each o ther. I am, Sir, your daily reader, August 1. ARE WE IN EARNEST? Al> TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I have read with much pleasure 91 1. 0 11f :of urgingvivorous prosecution of the war, an .ater, dition ti to the weakest part of Russia (Poland)'g men and money at Cronstadt and S eb : B wsli 1 ou say, with justice, that "the sparing ' T 0° has hitherto been the saving of Sebastopol. of eacherous conduct still prevails. 1. A humble apology is made for the b °lll f ak, Lovisa. A „stf t/ ' 2. At Nystad, " a battery was c mpleteli 0 11 0 it burnt. a largo amount of timber used in the coas till ef e c 10 Immense piles of wood and lanic 17- 0; Burgomaster different parts of the harbour and islands;P bet, had declared it was all rivrte ti ro it was not destroyed." Doea any onePdoubtlit;r4 wood and plank will be employed in F eu " po t battery ? 3. In your paper of last night Sou quote tbec:; of the attack on the battery of you correspondent there says, "The town of ' e re tdf i rt sham could have been destroyed with the g r : cility, but strict orders were gr'ven to :r i e _ Up oa only." Why ? How is peace to be ma de factory terms unless we show the Russian War is a losing game ? And how is this to we constantly spare their property ? ,o 0 itggt # It is currently reported that the MinistrY a• - t t i koo Jr at least are not in earnest, and wish to hollow peace during the recess of Parlielne°4;# examples I have given above strong l 9 Car°b :: t o 4 . 4 current reports. I shall never believe that we are in en_ ra ,,. e s st tro -f i lefe: march into Poland, and "sink, burn, an d a '. thing Russian."—your obedient servant, August 1, 1855. t.lO tp UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE OF IPI t he 6t C oo general meeting of the proprietors, held O n of the jr an addition was made to the capital st ock e le ttee 0 11 pany, at the rate of 30=. per share. rol t ADULTERATION OF FOOD, &C.-The Cl i s e ro bO OO. O tually met yesterday, and Mr. Thoma s D ols c opt l d had been 45 years in business as a sv A h e o l a rea ,in / ty y and druggist, was first examined, 1 and a • s ted t e yerbe his opinion the adulteration of drugs nlOOOOl4 to, o g great extent. Opium was a drug which oug u to pP l e got pure. He thought that no Inedicine a o f sold except in a pure state. The only 1 0 ,0. artlfd, adulteration was to give p o wer to some io e th` oti oc e o f and talent to walk into any shop, exl 3 :o c ong d oc o and seize those which were too bad to be pr ° AttObe Mr. Simons, the author of a work on o olln4 t oe the vegetable kingdom, submitted to the c 0 calculation of the loss sustained ' by t -he ruevniPjc.offee; 2 3 3 0 2 0 :5 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 : ; adulteration , of various articles of col, 003 coff e e; estimated that the revenue lost ana011.900.1.:,:4; sugar, 550,000/. ; 500/. ; nutmegs, 500/. ; toba ; eocoa r : 3l/ : ; el 6 v 8d spices, 2,250/. wire, 357,500/ ; foreign spirits, 2 0 ‘! , ate , c P c e o , P 2 P 2 e r , 19 ti v r ; ( IP?. ; I : 0 131' altogether, 2,194,200/. Mr. John Post_g tion ofb o c o% o , Birmingham, gave evidence in confir!!' n ' ess es, i tio p o lo o tcratioi,s, spoken to by previous wi',.. ra ) c?n! lee of flour, bread, and other articles of gen7 pu blie ffe le ; c ler r l o af he recommended the appointment el o f O Ao o and prosecutors, and the punishroenb_ittee sou imprisoment and hard labour. The cola at half-past four, until Friday PeEt. 1111 Least 1 , ,. 1; 4tto e q i ii,