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TICS DAT —lierninc 13 mtn.after 1 Yvening 3Rmin. aft. 1 ro-Yoasoirt-Morning 0 ren.after 2 Evoling . "2omin. att. .2 THE WEATHRR.- - ites Orir, July 13. THERMOMETER, IN Triß SPADE. 75 —highest since neon yesteran.y. 62---lowest this morning and during the night. 75 —this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 3010—rising rapidly. WIND, S.W.—Light, with fine summer weather. GREAT REDUCTION IN TILE 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, contain'tng 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., can now be had for Fourpence, being a saving of nearly one-third. • Hitherto the price of the paper wa s 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. . •iv',.... \ ..... 4 4. „ lez. l ':, -, '-` 1 t , .... ..., , L A x--,- e-:-.1 , , 77 - ,t,,, ~,-,--=.!-._•., , - , 14°N1)q-N, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1855. Well, the day is fixed—the lists are prepared — the contest must inevitably take place at the ap pointed time. Th ree ob tained by those who days' respite has been oh have certainly exhibited " no stomach for the fight," but who, driven into a corner, had no alternative but to meet the de fiance, or make the huinble submission, accom panied by an exhibition of the virtue least to their taste—viz./ that of " resignation." A plausible excuse w as forthcoming fo r t h e further procrastination. Th e nominal Premier desired that every member shouhi have the opportunity • of perusing and maturely considering the papers relating to the Austrian propositions which he Lad just laid on the table. He could thus put off " the evil day." But he did not do so with a good grace, or as if " eager for the fray." Had there been a less vigorous ad versq!ir, lie might have " drifted on" for another week by virtue of his "dilatory plea." He did not himself even surest a ti me for the discus sion. All he stated in the first instance was that " beyond to-morrow (this day)he would offer no impediment to any arrangement which the Hon. Baronet may have made with re gar d t o his motion." This was simply a repetition of the taunt to Mr. LA.YA.RD "to find a day for him self." There was no proposition to surrender a Government day for the virtual impeachment of Ministers. They would " offer no impediment," but they supplied no facility. Perhaps they thought that the paltry quibbling of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, unworthy of an Old Bailey pettifogger, might have allayed the storm of indignation, and induced the House to wait patiently for the next regular supply day—viz., the 20th instant. In this respect they " reckoned without their host." The Right Honourable Gentleman the Member for Bucks seized on the weak point, and left them not a leg to stand on. He showed that the long-delayed papers—the latest whereof was dated the 19th June, and all practicably bearing on the question, more than two months old—could but little affect the issue before the House and the country. They might, in fact, add to the guilt, but they could not exonerate the ex-Pleni potentiary from the grave charges of which he has been convicted on his own confession. They might bring others into the scrape, but they could not acquit the chief culprit, whose whining con fession and promise to be a. better boy for the future only aggravates his offence. Lord PALMERSTON, then, was compelled to strike, with a faint attempt at jocularity. He exhibited the feeling of some criminals who have . isted even en route to the scaffold. He attempted a joke about the Right Honourable Gentleman having made ",much ado about nothing," but the sickly attempt at wit was peculiarly infelicitous. It laid him open to the blow so vigorously admi nistered by Sir E. B. LYTTON as to " Much Ado about Nothing " coming immediately after " the Comedy of Errors ;" and but for the serious consequences to the nation these would be a comedy highly ridiculous. There was the figuring of the twin Dromios in the first instance, where there was a distinction without a difference, and no perceptible mark by which the people could distinguish the one from the other. There was, indeed, the Comedy of Errors fully per sonated, not merely at Vienna, but in England. But what was the " Much Ado about Nothing" by which it was succeeded ? It was the story of a deceitful traitor, who, by the most infamous fraud, succeeded in hood-winking the nation, and bringing discredit on a person of irreproachable character. He was instigated by a false Prince, who fled from the consequences of his detected treachery, detected through the inconside rate babbling of his weak-minded tool. Had Lord PALMEN,STON reflected he would hardly have exposed himself to the retort respecting " the Comedy of Errors," or the plot of " Much Ado about Nothing." As to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S attempted expla nations they are perfectly futile. Like a clerk detected in plundering his too-indulgent masters, lie offers, if forgiven, to lead an exemplary life for the future, and to make up the full amount of his ill-gotten gains. "It has .been inferred and supposed," says the Noble Lord, " that because, at the end of April and beginning of May, I thought those propositions might have been assented to, that I think now those propositions may form the foundation of peace. Such an opinion would be totally erro neous." He then declares that, retaining his opinion as to what might have been done, he be lieves that " nothing but a vigorous pro secution of the War will obtain terms on which peace can be concluded." Why, what paltry equivocation is hero what barefaced duplicity. On Friday last, after as extrting that " the Austrian plan of conuterpul,o might be a mode of concluding the War with honour to the Allied Powers, and that it would give, if not the' certainty, a very fair prospect of peace," he emphatically added—" Sir, I have not changed that opinion l" But now he comes for ward with his whining and vague generalities about " the vigorous prosecution of the War alone obtaining terms on which peace can be concluded." He thus renders himself no less detestable, but far more contemptible than before. No disinterested man cau be taken in by the spe cious sophistry—nothing can revive the confi dence so badly forfeited. The reputation of Lord JOHN RUSSELL: as a public man, and we only deal with him in that capa city, is irretrievably damaged. Nothing can replace him on the pinnacle from which he has wilfully cast himself, or resuscitate political vita lity in him who has deliberately committed politi cal suicide. We shall only add, that Monday is the day fixed for the contest, and that "England expects that every man that day will do his duty !" Mr. FOLLETT certainly made the best of his brief on Friday night, as counsel for Church Rates. We are glad lie did, for, after all, what do his arguments amount to ? The one on which lie relied for impression, which he worked out in detail, which he raked up all his quotations from "Hansard" to prove, was neither more nor less than the notorious fact that the more active Dissenters desire not only to abolish Church Rates, but all State interference with religion, whether in the shape of pay, patronage, or control. Who doubts • it ? The Voluntaries have been no secret associ ation of late years, and it cannot be denied that the Anti-Corn-law and Free-trade discussions have disposed the minds of thousands to regard State protection in religion much as they have come to regard protection for agriculture and commerce. It is of no use to ignore the fact, the parallel may exist or not ; but it is undeniable that vast num bers of persons who would have scouted Volun taryism in religion a few years ago now look upon it with no reluctance. The splendid success of throwing agriculture and trade on their own re sources has generated a conviction of the inutility of artificial support, and the power of spontaneous off :rt, which few of us formerly held so strongly as we do now. We used to turn from the Voluntaries as dr eamers . N one of us do that 1 now. We allow our antagonist to be a real power, and even Lord JOHN in his last haughty attack on Lord STANLEY, in the de bate on Church Rates, was compe ll e d to own Voluntaryism to be an opinion which, though not his, had yet its unquestionable status. We learn, therefore, from the elaboration of 1 Mr. FOLLETT, what all with open eyes knew so w e ll before, that there is a large, active, and „ row i n g party who think that religion can go alone erlio also think (would that bishops and clergy did not doall they could to prove them right) that a State supported Church is a political - nui -1 sance—that it stands in the way of every liberal \ measure, from free sepulture for' our dead to free ' dom of marriage with those whom COD and nature I Point us to as best fitted oftentimes to supply 1 their place—that it even grudges me n the libert y to meet together more than twenty at a time to worship COD ! Voluntaries are likely to be nume . Tons ;chile V. ITI---a - L - ; tsuops show themselves such precious ler!,islator s . W e l l, hut what is the pertinence of the ultimate obj ec t o f the Voluntaries to the ftlmni7- ' ' rent which proposes that Sir W. CLAY'S 13111 be ' committed this day three months ? Why, that if you give them an inch they will take an ell. The stereotyped defence of every abus e I Wh en that comes to be the grand argument we may safely congratulate those against whom it is used. It was plied most vigorously against Catholic Eman cipation, against humanity to negroes, against Free-trade demands, against everything, in short, that has been done worth the doing within modern memory. Nothing can teach some of the pursy venerables, or some of the lean bigots, that resis tance till they are compelled to yield is the sure way to lose double what would have satisfied at first. If the repeal of Church Rates be now re fused, it will ere long be Church Rates and some thing more to boot. The secularities of the Epis copate are a tolerably tempting subject. The truth is the statesittan has to consider how each demand stands in the public estimation. Nothing can be plainer than that Church Rates are felt by all men of common sense to be an Ec clesiastical nuisance which must be abated. If Voluntaryism be one extreme, Church Rates are the other extreme. All moderate men agree in this. The great majority who wish Church Rates extinguished are not prepared to leave all to Voluntaryism ; but neither, on the other hand, are they disposed to stickle for the other extreme, and to fancy that Voluntaryism cannot put a slate on a church roof or wash a surplice. They leav,e it, with Lord STAZTLEY, to the next generation to say whether all shall be done by Voluntary effort; but they know that, for themselves, if the nation will find them churches to worship in, they can at least keep them in repair, and if it Will pay their Minister they can wash his sacerdotals and purchase the sacramental wine. They are ashamed, in truth, of its being even supposed that such things are beyond the zeal of those whom the Reformed English Church has disciplined ever since the days of HENRY VIII. and ELIZABETH. They think, with the Attorney-General, that if the maintenance of the fabric of the Church were thrown on those who use it, " those who now sheltered their meanness under the objection of law, could not, in common decency, refuse to contribute to it." Between this moral compul sion of the mean, and the ready offerings of the willing, we are ourselves confident that money would be forthcoming abundantly. Mr. FOLLETT endorsed all the Eldonism of Lord JOHN RUSSELL about the connection between Church Rates and the stability of the Monarchy. No doubt he rejoiced to utter in the name of Lord JOHN what oven his Toryism would have hesitated to affirm, as its own invention. But Lord JOHN blushes at nothing, not even when his country is blushing for him. 'lt is curious that Mr. FOLLETT, and other high and dry Churchmen, professed willingness even to make the tremendous sacrifice of Church Rates, if thereby they could hope to promote peace and goodwill between Churchmen and Dissenters, but they mournfully dcclared their conviction that it would be rather throwing away the scabbard than sheathing the sword. Now t it is obvious that it would, at least, remove the most frequent occa sion of personal and parish quarrels between Dissenters and Churchmen. We never hear of Tithe quarrels, as we do of Church-Rate quarrels. The reason is obvious. Tithes are recognised as national property, assigned by the National Parliament to Episcopalians. Church Rates, on the contrary, are the direct infliction of a man's own neighbours, and he can but bitterly resent a Churchman's availing himself of antique laws to parade his legal superiority. In however small a minority he may be he only feels the more wronged that the numerous and the wealthy com bine to force him to pay a peppercorn rent as a tribute to a detested superiority. How the &b011ti...,,r ti...,,r .ucu au (mous range 01 slavery u. tut, ...a hand, and ecclesiastical dominance on the other, C. 1.11 do otherwise than conduce to peace, no man in his calm senses can well imagine. A few rectors, vicars, and churchwardens may be mor tified tolose the right of knouting Dissenters, but that feeling will soon subside, and be more than recompensed by the conscious dignity of paying their own bills out of their own pockets. Sion. A not over-creditable attempt is now being made to steal a march on the public and insure the enclosure of Hampstead Heath. A bill bear ing the specious title of " An Act to facilitate Leases and Sales of Settled Estates," and in which there is not a word about the Heath, has been brought forward with that object, and, having passed the Lords, comes on to-night in the Com mons for a second reading. The bill, which is a public one, is based on the assumption that the expense of Parliamentary proceedings is so heavy that tenants for life have a reasonable claim to be enabled to procure the necessary powers at a less costly tribunal-- to wit, the Court of Chancery ! Plausible enough, but unless members take care the transference of the jurisdiction of Parliament in these matters will result in positive wrong and injury to the public. At present the latter have sufficient notice of such unwarrantable attempts as that to enclose the Heath to enable it to defeat them, but unless special provision is made Sir T. M. WissoN would be enabled by the bill to smuggle his measure through the Court of Chan cery, and the public none the wiser until the pro oesses of enclosure and of building were commenced. flow monstrous, how thoroughly disgraceful, it would be if such a measure, condemned by all the judges, and rejected over and over again by Par liament, were at last imposed on the ptiblic after a fashion like this. A measure to sanction the perversion of a testator's deliberate and clearly expressed intention, and to deprive the public by law of a legal right to wander unrestrained over a fragrant heath, and, pallid with the unwhole some atmosphere of the close streets and alleys of the metropolis, inhale throughout its wide ex panse the pure and life-renovating breeze. A measure of twofold wrong and spoliation to gra tify one man's cupidity ! Hon. Members, it is to be hoped, will simplify matters by kicking out the bill, as they would a mendicant appealing to them for alms under false pretences, and at the same time show how little sympathy they have with the would-be oppressors of the people, and how spiritedly they are disposed to protect their rights. Tho first and most indispensable step in th e cause of Administrative Reform, without which there is no possible chance of finding the right men for the right places, is to free the represen ta tives of popular constituencies from the degrading applications of their constituents, and the neces sity of becoming humble suitors to the patronage secretary, or " whipper in" as he is generally termed—for the means of satisfying the demands of voracious applicants, who flatter themselves that they do not exercise the franchise corruptly because they do not accept pecuniary bribes. It is the vile system that has been so long in operation which has produced the deplor able deficiencies in our public departments, and led to the complaints which have been so general throughout the length and. breadth of ti/P land. 6ir PEEL thice told the .uittioil " that th e battle of the Constitution must be fought in the Registration Courts." We may, in like manner, venture to assert that the cause of Administrative Reform can only be achieved by abolishing the ! system of patronage heretofore exercised by pri vate members, who barter their support for places to bestow upon their more pressing constituents. It is unhappily but too notorious that there is a certain department of the Treasury in which a regular account is kept of the votes given by Hotourable Gentlemen, and the equiva lents which they have received in the shape of places for relatives, friends, or supporters, that sometimes their credit stands high, so that they confidently draw their cheque for a new situation, while at another period their claims are exhausted, and they must work hard before they can venture to ask for the most partly prefer ' went. This is the real evil to be assailed, the fountain and origin from whence all others flow. Now, Mr. V. SCULLY has judiciously lighted on the very point. His remedy is simple, but it would prove effectual. While there is any Minis terial nomination to vacant places, Ministers and Ministerial members will be assailed by almost intolerable importunities, and dishonest votes will be given, not only at the hustings, but in the Parliament itself. If there be the possibility of obtaining employment under Government, in dividual members will have no ease. The appli cations will 'be put forward in every form, and under every possible pretext. The candidates are invariably meritorious—all that could be desired for the public service. The member, in pushing forward their claims, is only doing what he ought to do, in obtaining for the nation such highly qualified men. If he refuse, he cannot hope again to obtain the disinterested support of men on whom he has cast so serious a slight ! Thus is he stimu lated on to apply to the dispenser of patronage, and he soon learns what is expected in return— that he must give a quid pro quo on every occa- What a farce, then, it is to speak of purity of election, or to exhibit virtuous indignation against the man who barters his suffrage for a few sovereigns,. while this gigantic system of corruption is in operation. By rendering the admission to the public service dependent on a competitive examination, open to every man whose antecedents will bear investigation, you not only adopt the best possible test as to his efficiency, but you strike off the feral() source of corruption that has arrived at so fearful a pitch. We believe, with Mr. V. SCULLY, that every in dependent, member—every man anxious to dis charge his duty to his country, would rejoice to be relieved from the annoyances to which he is at present subjected. Even under the existing system, for one scarcely contented, nine must be sent away dissatisfied. One grumbler, who does not think what he has obtained at all suited to his merits, is succeeded by nine who rail in round terms .at the ingratitude and misconduct of the unfortunate member, although he has perhaps voted against his conscience, or kept out of the way when he should have been present, in order to promote their wishes. Let, then, the Administrative Reformers support the efficacious but simple mode suggested by the Hon. Member for the county of Cork, and they will achieve greater progress in the course which they profess to be desirous of following than by the most elaborate plans framed by Ministers, who are not willing to relinquish the approved mode of capturing doubtful votes, and rewarding the servility of men who seek to make a trade of HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO PARIS. Her Majesty's -visit to Paris, which bad at first been ti euuen to take plane on the 2d of August, is now deft• nitively fixed for the 17th. Parliament will, of course, be prorogued before her Majesty's departure. COWES, ISLE OF WIGIIT.-July 12. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. —Arrivals— July 6. Shark, schooner, Wm. Curling, Esq., from Lon don River ; Wildfire, schooner, Sir Percy Shelley, Bart., London River ; Dryad, cutter, Earl of Cardigan, South ampton ; Beatrix, sch ooner , Sir W. P. Carew, Bart., Portsmouth ; Columbine, schooner, Captain Smith Barry, Cowes Harbour. 11. lone, schooner, Sir H. Oglandor, Bart., Mediterranean. Sailings—July 6. Gipsy Queen, schooner, Sir H. B. Houghton, Bart., for Liverpool. 8. Julia, cutter, Captain W. Peareth, Dub lin. 9. Beatrix, schooner, Sir W. P. Carew, Bart., Plymouth ; Sultan; yawl, Lord Colville, West of Scot land. 10. Minx, yawl, Lord Londesborough, Scar borough. 12. Columbine, schooner, Captain Smith Barry, Plymouth and Pembroke. Yachts at and about the Station—Resolution, Gloriana Titania, Leda, Wild fire, Alafm, lone, Aurora, Spider, Dream, Caprice, Dryad. The Commodore's yacht is still fitting out. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and their Royal guests embarked in the Queen's new yacht this afternoon, and proceeded round by Portsmouth and Ryde, the Fairy and and return e d thi s even i ng . I n a trial tirfiipn in company,yesterdaythe Victoria and Albert made 161 knots. The Royal family are expected to remain in the Isle of Wight until October. FREEDOM OF RELromus WORSHIP. Yesterday a public meeting o f f r i en d s o f re li g i ous liberty was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen street, with the view to suppo r t th e e ff or ts m a d e by Lord Shaftesbury in the House of Lords to procure the passing of the bill for secu r i ng th e lib er t y o f re li g i ous worship. Rear-Admiral Vernon presided. The CHAIRMAN having opened the proceedings, Lord EBRINGTON, M.P., moved the first resolution, which recognised the right of every Englishman to wor ship God according to his own consc i ence , as we ll w ithi n i his own dwelling as n public, as the fundamental prin ciple of all civil and religious liberty, and guaranteed by British laws. Mr. JOSIAH CORDER seconded the resolution. The resolution was put and carried unanimously. Mr. ALEXANDER HALDANE moved the next resolution to the effect that penalties originally imposed against religious assemblies on political grounds were no longer to be justified, and since they were now used to repress meetings for public worship and retard the progress of religion, they ought to be repealed. The resolution was seconded by the Rev. WM. ARTHUR, and carried nemine contradieente. Mr. R. C. L. BEVAN moved the third resolution, which pledged the meeting to support the bill for securing the liberty of religious worship, which has passed the House of Common', and was now under the charge of the Earl of Shaftesbury in the House of Lords. The motion was seconded by the Rev. W. BROCK, rector of Bishop Waltham, in an effective speech, and also carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. R. BAXTER, a petition to the House of Lords was agreed to in support of the Reli gious Worship Bill, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester and her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambidge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, yes terday, at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent leaves town today on a visit to her Majesty the Queen at Osborne, Isle of Wight. Viscountess Palmerston has left town for Brockett Hall, where the ceremony of celebrating the majority of Viscount Fordwich takes place this week. The Lady Palmerston has cards out for an assembly on Wednes• day next. The Duke and Duchess of Montpensier arrived at Milan on the 3d, under the incognito of Count and Countess of Villarnarinque. Lord Haddo, M.P., is residing with Lady Eaddo and family at the Ranger's Lodge, Blac kheath, the res:dence of the E ar l o f Ab er d een . His lordship continues in a very delic a t e s t a t e o f h ea lth, and is quite unable to at tend to his duties in the House of Commons. REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY.—We understand that a movement is now being made, with the view of get ting up a requisition, calling on Lord John Russell and Baron Rothschild to resign their seats for the City. Da. DICE.—A pension of 501. a year has just been granted by the Government, from the Civil List, to the well known and popular author of many works of Chris tian philosophy and literature, Dr. Dick. THE CROPS.—A large portion of the hay in this dis trict has been cut and carried, and rick thatching is be gun on many farms. Upland and meadow shears are tolerably good, but clovers are not so prolific, all things con=idered. Turnips and other roots look well. We shall haeol an abundant wheat crop, if the harvest weather be not detrimental ; the fields already assume tho golden tinge which is but the incipient stage of ripe- Ih:tbout thr ee w ee k- some forward voehee of s neighbourh oo d will be ready for the sickle. wheat in tl!i Tile stra , ,v is strong and wiry, and well calculated to up hold the ears of grain which are now groaning with weight, and almost bursting with luxuriance,--Taunton Courier LATEST NEWS. DANTSIC, JULY 12. The Geyser has arrived with mails. Admiral Baynes's squadron has left Nargen to join Admiral Dundas off Cronstadt. The fleet is healthy. There is no news. A telegraphic despatch from Barcelona, dated the 11th inst., announces that order reigns in that city. Some of the manufactories have resumed work. The culprits who have been arrested will be punished. A letter from Trebizond of the 24th ult., in the Moniteur, states that the news of the death of the celebrated Caucasian chief Schamyl ap peared to be positively true. The Spanish Cortes have adopted the bill for a loan of 230,000,000 reals, at first to be voluntary, but a month afterwards forced. THE CRIMEA. A letter from Warsaw of the sth, in the Condi tutionnel, says :—" The Councillor of State de Kotzebue arrived here yesterday from Sebastopol, and immediately had an audience of Prince Paskie witch, to whom he delivered letters from General Gortschakoff. The picture which M. do Kotzebue) draws of the state of the Crimea is far from satis factory. General Gortschakoff, it is said, complains that the reinforcements both of cavalry and infantry, and supplies of provisions passing through Perekop were advancing but very slowly, but in consequence of the want of water in the steppes where tho ther mometer at times stood at 34 Reaumur (93 Fah renheit.) It was necessary to have the troops fel lowed by an immense number of vehicles carrying water. These reinforcements were decimated by disease on their march, and the remainder, on arriv ing at Sebastopol, only served to fill the hospitals. Simferopol and Bakshi-Serai are so full of sick that it has been found necessary to establish ambulances under tents. The mortality, owing to, the extreme heat, is described as frightful. The town of Sebas topol is said to be in a desperate state • not a house but has suffered from the shot and shell of the al lies. The Russian army at Sebdstopol has been weakened by 10,000 men by the affairs of the 7th and 18th June, without reckoning those who have died from cholera and other diseases. The allies have rendered their position between Balak lava and Inkerman impregnable, so that, in case of an assault, General Gortschakoff cannot assist the garrison by making any diversion on that side. It is supposed that the garrison will blow up all the public buildings, and only leave to the assailants a heap of ruins. All the articles of value belonging to the Crown have been removed to Perekop. The account of the death of Lord Rag lan has been given to-day in the official journal. Another journal points out the losses of the Russian army. Its best generals, Korniloff, Gotomir, Timoflejeff, Soimonoff, Schilder, Orbelian, and several others, have been ; and Woronzoff, Menschikoff, and Dannenberg have retired. More than 500 officers of all ranks have been already lost by this war. It is said that Ge neral Gortschakoff is urgent for officers, and that he has written on this subject to Prince Paskie witch. The object of the visit of the Grand Duke Michael to this city is the subject of general con versation. He was, it is said, charged to sound the feelings of Prince Paskiewitch as to his taking the command of the army of the Crimea, but the Prince is said to have refused on the plea of his health, and the promise of repose made to him by the late Emperor. The cholera is daily carrying off from 18 to 20 persons here, and it is extending its ravages along the Vistula as far as Cracow. At Cracow 371 fatal cases occurred in four weeks. Reports are current here of some disturbances in the country of the Dnieper. Six regiments of Cos sacks are being formed for the defence of the em pire in the. government of Poltawa and Tscherni goff." THE BALTIC FLEET. OFF CRONSTADT, July 2.—There has been very little to communicate. On Tuesday we were hoping to have had a brush with the Russian gun boats. Some six or seven of them came out and steamed up in the direction of the Dragon, but as soon as they perceived that our gun-boats were under weigh they thought that " discretion was the better part of valour," and so retired. The Bull dog, on Tuesday evening, fired shot and shell at some troops that she perceived lying in the wood at the point nearest to Cronstadt. We do not know whether they killed any of them or not. However, this had the effect of making them run. On Thursday, the Cressy and James Watt were ordered to get under weigh; they proceeded down the gulf for a few miles, when the James Watt perceived some small coasting craft anchored in under the north shore, which circumstance she sig nalled, and the admiral directed that she should stand in and see what they were ; he also sent three gun-boats—the Pelter, Magpie, and Snake— down. There is a small village about a mile inland and opposite to.where these craft were lying ; there is also a telegraph erected on the shore. The•boats of the James Watt and the gun-boats towed all the small craft out, twelve iu number to the fleet ; they fired some few shot at a number of Cossacks, who were galloping about the strand, but did not strike any of them. Captain Elliott desired that the telegraph should not be knocked down, other wise its destruction would have been inevitable. The crews of the variousgun-boats are picked men, and first-rate shots they are. Most of the boats con tained nothing but stones ; some of them had wood for firing ; and one had a cargo of cartridge paper and felt, evidently for government. The James Watt still remains at anchor where she captured the boats. The [Cressy returned to the fleet the same evening. On Friday the Russian Admiralty tender came out of Cronstadt with a flag of truce. On her being stopped by the Royal George, off Tolbeacon Lighthouse, she said she wished to communicate with the admiral in person. She therefore was sent on. When she approached the Duke of Wellington, that ship sent a boat on board of her, and brought back a letter to the admiral. Report says that the communication was about flags of truce, and for the future no flag of truce will be taken notice of unless sent into either to Revel, Helsingfors, or Cronstadt. This is, of course, caused by that melancholy and brutal mur ' der perpetrated on the boat's crew of the Cossack at Hango. We haie authentic notice that only four of those unfortunate men are dead. She gave out a repOrt that in an attack on Sebastopol, made by the French, they (the French) had lost an im mense amount of men—something like 17,000, Our admiral communicated with the French ad miral before he gave his answer. On Saturday the Princess Alice was sent into Cronstadt with a flag of truce ; what the purport of it was I cannot say. Two deserters were picked up on Saturday morning ; they are Poles, and they say that there are 10,000 more of their country men ready to desert at the first opportunity. The news of the defeat of our army before Sebastopol has thrown a great gloom over all here. Admiral Baynes ha 3 not yet joined us, but he is at Nargen, where he has been for some time. The Tartar arrived on Friday evening. The fleet generally feel very desponding at their inability to do any thing up here. They are like hunters anxious for the reins to be slacked. Every one you meet asks " When are we to do anything ?" The reply is, " When we have an army sufficiently large to march on St. Petersburg." This system of blockading is most tiresome and dispiriting ; how ever, it must be endured, so there is no use in complaining. lam happy to say that the health of the fleet is excellent. The weather is fine, but by no means so warm as it was this time last year. THE BALTIC. A Hamburg letter, of the 6th inst., in the Inde pendance Beige, says,— " The French steam corvette Aigle, having in tow two sailing mortar vessels, arrived to-day at Kiel, where the steam corvettes Tonnerre and Pelican, four mortar vessels and two gunboats were lying at anchor. All those vessels are taking in six weeks' provisions and coal, and will soon be ready to join Rear-Admiral Pe nand's squadron in the Baltic. Several other French light war vessels and gun-boats are expected at Kiel. Our merchants have received letters from Archangel of the 26th June. The foreign vessels in that port had suc ceeded in clearing out with their cargoes before the noti fication of the blockade. Among those vessels were several belonging to the United States, which after land- Inz their cargoes proceeded eastward. Since the arrival of four English war steamers and a French vessel in the White Sea the blockade is strictly enforced. Neverthe less, down to the 26th of June, no English ship of war had as yet appeared at the mouth of the Dvvina, where the military engineers have erected several batteries. This passage must be forced, in order to enter the small gulf at the bottom of which Archang el is situate. The navi gation of that gulf has been, moreover, rendered iraprac ticable for ships of war. A certain number of light ves sels and gun-boats will consequently be indispensable on that point to approach and cannonade the city. Arch angel is now in a respectable state of defence. Its former fortifications have been repaired, and others have been constructed on both sides of the town, which are said to be armed with 82 guns. There are in the neigh bourhood a large force of infantry, two field batteries of artillery, two pulks of Cossacks, and a regiment of light cavalry quartered in the villages acljoinincr the coast. The merchants of the place appear little apprehensive of the consequences of a bombardment or attack of that port by the allied cruisers. We have also received re cent intelligence from Libau. Since the capture of a steamer off that coast by the flying squadron of Commo dore Watson ' who satisfied himself that not a single ves sel remained in the port, no ship of war has appeared the:e. The coast is everywhere accessible, but the sur rounding villages are occupied by nunierous corps of Russian infantry and artillery." RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 26th ult., in. the Wanderer of Vienna, says It is generally rumoured that the Emperor is to start very shortly for the south, but it is not known whether be is going . to visit the Crimea or some other part of the coast of the Black Sea. It is also stated that the Grand Duke Nicholas is to visit those parts imme diately after his return from the Baltic. Prince Michael is to go to Warsaw again, they say, to assume the Government of Poland, Prince Paskie witch only retaining the supreme command of the army. Prince Gortschakoff is spoken of as likely to be recalled from the Crimea, and entrusted with the portfolio of War, while that of the police is to be given to Prince Dolga rouski ; and Count Orloff is to have the presidency of the Council of Ministers. Numerous other changes, both in the machinery of the administra . . tion and in the list of functionaries, are contem plated. The present relations with Prussia appear to be so intimate that an offensive and defensive alliance is spoken of as having been concluded be tween the two powers, all contingemies having been therein duly fOreseen. Perhaps these ru mours have no other foundation than the following words of Alexander 11. The King of Prussia has always been an excellent brother to us, and my father loved him as such.' This' rumour, besides, is not in accordance with the note of Baron Man teuffel of the Gth, in which mention is made of the obligations of Prussia towards Austria and of the first points of guarantee." A letter from Vienna of „the sth, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" The Danish Ambassador, Count Brille Brahe, is to leave this city the day after to morrow, for Copenhagen, where he will make some stay. Prince Gortschakoff leaves for Stutgard on the 14th, and during his absence, M. de Fonton will direct the affairs of the embassy. The Portu guese Charge-d'Affaires M. de Soares de Leal, has just left for Portugal, his place being filled by M. de Silva." A letter from Berlin of the 7th says :—" The Russian Prince Woronzow, who is at present at Dresden, for the benefit of his health, is shortly expected at Berlin. Some German newspapers announce, no doubt at his request, that he possesses neither chateau nor estate in the Crimea, and that consequently the English cannot have spared either, as has been reported." AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE UNION. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The United States packet Union has arrived, on her way to Havre. She left New York on the 30th ult. A fire had taken place at Toronto, which had caused damage to the amount of 50,000 dollars. The Crescent City had arrived at Now Orleans from Havanna. There is no political news of importance. The markets for sugars were firm. Freights were a shade lower. A terrible rain storm in Canada had destroyed . the crops of corn and oats. The Baltic's news had caused a depression in the cotton market at New Orleans. At New York cotton had declined, flour was dull ; cotton and corn were to a fair extent shipped to Liverpool. Yellow fever prevailed at St. Thomas and. Havanna. THE CAPE OF GOOD 'TOPE. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. Her Majesty's brig Penguin, 6, Commander Etheridge, from the Cape of Good Hope, May 16, arrived here this afternoon. The colony is tranquil. His Excellency the Governor, Sir George Grey, was about to proceed in the Hydra to Natal, for the purpose, it is said, of adding Delagoa-bay to the Natal colony. The copper mines of Namaqualand continue pro ductive, but the difficulty of conveyance for ship ping still exists. The Frolic, 16, Commander Nolloth ; the paddle wheel steam-vessel Hydra, Commander H. Morris; and the depot Seriugapatam, were in Table-bay. The Dart, 3, sailed for a week's cruise on the 15th of May. The brig Nerbudda,h, 12, Commander Kerr, was expected daily from Mozambique. The Penguin touched at St. Helena May 26, and spoke on the 2d of July, off the Western Islands, the troop-ship Earl of Balcarres, 99 days from Cal cutta, with invalids, and supplied her with provi sions. Saw her again on Wednesday evening in the Channel. VIENNA CONFERENCES. The papers 'respecting the Austrian proposals for a settlement of the Eastern question have now been laid before Parliament. The subjoined despatch from Count Buol to the Aus trian Minister at London is that which bears more im mediately on the subject COUNT EUOL TO COUNT COLLOREDO.—(COMMUNICATED TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON BY COUNT COLLOREDO. Vienna, May 20, 1855. M. le Comte—Lord Westmoreland has obeyed the orders of his Court iu reading to me a despatch which Lord Claren don addressed to him on the Bth instant, and in which was enclosed another despatch that his lordship had written to Lord Cowley, dated the sth inst. It is with a feeling of sincere regret that we have observed from these documents, of the contents of which your Excel lency's report of the Bth instant had already made us cogni sant that the Government of her Britannic Majesty has not thought it possible to agree to our'final propositions, whose aim was to obtain the development of the third guarantee. Lord Clarendon having made the remark that the details of these propositions, as fully explained in my despatch of the 13th of April, and which your Excellency read to his lord ship, had never reached him in a formal shape, we hold to proving that M. Drouyn de l'Huys, who, on his arrival hare, after having had an interview with the Ministers of her Britannic Majesty, was the interpreter to us of the opi nion common to both Cabinets, undertook also when he left us to explain both to his own Government and to that of Great Britain our project of an ultimatum ' the result, moreover, of confidential deliberations, in which that states man, as well as Lord J. Russell, had constantly taken part. With the view of not anticipating the report of this Minister of her Britannic Majesty, nor the overtures which we knew were to reach London from Paris, we refrained from communicating directly to the Cabinet of St. James's the definitive summary of our propositions, copies of which I transmit herewith. These propositions, of which the first comprises five Articles, and the second six, would have bee* presented under the form of an ultimatum for the choice of Rulsia. You will also find herewith enclosed a copy of ft project of treaty between Austria, France, and Groat Britain, which was intended to serve as a complement to our plan, and which fixed as a cases MU every aggresion on the part of Russia of such a nature as to endanger the inde pendence and territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, as well as the excessive increase of the naval' forces of Russia in the Euxine. _ . Lord Clarendon does not attach much practical value to this latter stipulation, since he says Austria has already de clared that she could not admit that the question of peace or war should turn upon eight or ten ships. But we may be permitted to remind his lordship of the immense difference that exists between our attitude in the actual state of affaairs, while we are still free to determine as to the question of war, and the contrary position in which we should be placed were the case of war once clearly defined and stipulated by treaty. In this contingency no one can doubt that Austria would scrupulously act up to the engage ments she contracted. Lord Clarendon is of opinion that the time has arrived for Great Britain and France to invite Austria to concert with them, in pursuance of her engagements, upon the measures for giving effect to the treaty of the 2d December. Here, however, and first in order, the question presents itself, what is the object of the-alliance ? It is none other than the re-establishment of peace upon the basis of tho four common principles. The first two of these principles have already obtained a complete development in the Peace Con ferences. As to the third, we have proposed to our allies, at the same time binding ourselves, in case of need, to support it by force of arms, a solution which it is our firm conviction would be effectual, complete, and agreeable to European in terests. • I cannot do better, M. lo Comte, in order to make you ac quainted with all the reasonp that we have to bring forward to strengthen this view of the question, than to transmit to you herewith copies of the communications which I have made to Baron Hubner uponthis matter, and which you will have the goodness also to place before Lord Clarendon. If R uss ia, being placed in a position to agree to one or other of these propositions of the ultimatum, had rejected both of them, we should then have had proof that she will decidedly not give her assistance to the complete realisation of the third guarantee, in so far as its object is to put an end to Russian preponderance in the Black Sea. It bding impossible, therefore, to do else than consider as ex hausted the means of conciliation for bringing about such a peace as the interests of Europe, and our own in particula r, require, the Emperor, our august master, decided to have re course to arms as a means of obtaining this peace, the want of which is" so generally felt, and which would miscarry under the resistance of ono Power alone. On the other hand, long as an absence or assistance on the part• of our allies Puts obstacles in the way of this last and decisive proof, our impartial estimation does not allow us to make the responsi bility of the failure of the negotiations fall exclusively upon Russia. We are most anxious that the remarks made in this and the annexed despatch should be of a nature . to modify the impression that our plan in the first instance has produced upon the Government of her Britannic Majesty. • If, however, despite our wishes, such were not the case, we could only earnestly desire that the chances of war, to which our allies have determined to leave the task of effecting the cessation of Russian preponderance in the Black Sea, may soon take such a turn as to attain this end in a manner that would appear to them more on a par with their sacrifices than the solution that we have proposed to them. To insist upon an international engagement, imp using upon Russia terms for the permanent limitation of her naval forces in the Black Sea, is—and we are far from net recognizing it—a right that belongs to the belligerents, sinc e they have especially reserved to themselves the power of lilt' posing, over and above the four guarantees, such particular conditions as the continuance of hostilities might render ne cessary. But we maintain that this mode of solution, brought forward absolutely and to the exclusion of every other method, were it . equally efficacious, cannot authorise out allies to appeal, as regards us, to the stipulations of treaty of the 2d of December, and can only be included among such conditions of peace as are alluded to above , and which the protocol of the 28th of December, when defining the third guarantee, makes expressly to depend 0 11 the events of the war. Faithful to our engagements, and attaching, moreover, the greatest value to the ties that unite us to England, we shall firmly maintain our present policy, and await the turn that events may take, and the propitious moment for re' 'Dewing negotiations for peate, in which we will not, under any circumstances, take part, except with an unchangeable determination that they shall lead to a positive and efficacio us development of the four guarantees. The language which we propose to hold to Russia , and which, when held, we will faithfully make known to t he Government of her Britannic Majesty, will be conceived in the same spirit. Your Exoellency is instructed to read this despatch an d , its annexes to Lord Clarendon, and to give him a cog of them. Receive, &c., BUOL. PROPOSITIONS. FIRST PROPOSITION. Article I. The High Contracting Parties being desirous that the Sublime Porte should participate in the advantages of the good understanding established by the Law of Nations among the various States of Europe, severally engage to re' spec. the independence and territorial integrity of the Otto' man Empire, guarantee in common the strict observance of this engagement, and will in consequence consider every act and every event which would be of a nature to endanger it es 3 question of European interest. If a difference should aris ° between the Porte and one <A' the Contracting Powers, those two States, before resorting to arms, should place the other Powers in a position to obviate this contingency by Wi ne means. Art. 2. The Russian Plenipotentiaries and those of the Sublime Porte will propose in common to the Conferenc e the equal effective force of the naval armaments which the two sea-bordering Powers will maintain in the Black Sea, an d which must not exceed the amount of Russian vessels at pr'e• sent afloat in that sea. The arrangement which they shall have made in this re• spect shall form an integral part of the General Treaty. There shall also be inserted in the Treaty the measures which the said Plenipotentiaries shall have agreed to, with $ view to enforce the precise and constant observance of the stipulations of the present Article. Art. 3. The rule respecting the' closing of the Straits o f the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, established by the Treaty or July 13, 1841, shall remain in force, with the exceptios S specified in the following Articles. Art. 4. Each of the Contracting Powers which has no es' tablishment in the Black Sea will be authorised by a firmas from his Highness to send into and station in that sea two frigates or vessels of smaller force. Art. 5. In the event (which God forbid !) of the Sultan being menaced with aggression, he reserves to himself the right of opening the Straits to all the naval forces of 10 .....vV SECOND PROPOSITION. Article 1. The High Contracting Powers being desirous that the Sublime Poite should participate in the advantag e . ° of the good understanding established by the Law of I' tions among the various States of Europe, severally engag e to respect the independence and territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, guarantee in common the strict observance of this engagement, and will, in consequence, consider evert act and every event which would be of a nature to endan" ger it as a question of European interest. If a difference should arise between the Porte and one of the C on tracting Powers, those two States, before resorting to arms, sho d( ' place the other Powers in a position to obviate this contia' gency by pac'fic means. Art. 2. The rule respecting the closing of the Straits o f 'the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, established by the Treat/ of July 13, 1841., shall continue in force, with the exceptio ns specified in the following Articles : Art. 3. Each of the Contracting Powers which has no establishment in the Black Sea, will be authorized by a f t ': man from his his Highness to send into the station in it t vly frigates or vessels of smaller force, in order to protect their commerce, and to exercise the necessary inspection. Art. 4. If Russia should increase the amount of her naval forces at present afloat, as duly defined, the contracti n g Powers who do not possess au establishment in the Black Se * would be authorised by .a firman of his Highness, by givingt previous warning of five days, to send respectively into O, sea an additional number of vessels of the same class, eerw' to one-half of the naval forces of Russia. - Art. 5. At no time will ships of war of foreign nations b e allowed to anchor in the Golden Horn, with the exception of the small vessels hitherto admitted belonging to the Embassies ; and in time of peace the number of ships of tlr . line of the Contracting Powers which have no es tablishrae n ! in the Black Sea, must never exceed four at a time 1: 101 °': Constantinople, on their way from the Dardanelles io ' Black Sea, and 1.10 from the Black Sea to the Dardanelles. Art. 6. In the event (which God forbid 1) of the Snide menaced with aggression, he reserves to hiron elf f t he right of opening the Straits to all the naval force s ° . Allies. BOS sia•Ti After tho ree.ding of 'the six Articles on- Plenipotentiaries would be gotta sidering the reservation made by them in he interpretation of the first article, which declines the engagement to enfor ce the observance of the independence and i •itorial integr it y of the Ottoman Empire ; considering, moreover, their re fusal to agree to any limitation of the Russian forces in tbo Black Sea ; Austria, France, and Great Britain, whilst re' specting the sovereign rights of Russia, will avail themselvel of the same rights by agreeing among themselves by a forOa L document— ist. To enforce the observance of the principle establish e in the Ist article, in the event of the violation o f the i_ _ pendence and territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire II Russia. 2dly. To consider as a cases belli the increase of th : amount or strength of the' Russian naval force in the 81-3` Sea as regards its effective force at the beginning of thew ar... If Russia should herself engage not to exceed that nun:the!! the three Powers would consent not to give publicity to the Convention. PROJECT OF TREATY. of Their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the Empero r t the,French, and the Queen of the United Kingdom of GOA Britain and Ireland, desirous of securing the indepen denc e, and territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and beil l i respec tively desirous of carrying into effect the engagen le % stipulated in the article of the treaty concluded the between a have nave- a th e ir Plenipotentiaries, &c., who having exanli i t their full powers -, have agreed upon the follovii°' articles : 1 — of . The High Contractin, Part'-- ;cl. 'n calL Art. 1. _ te High _Lies engaged, in -- th e need, to employ their armies and fleets in order to attain object above specified. Art. 2. If, therefore, one of the Powers to commit an ag ig p et owei.swhich tbe s ned said treaty of the were on the Ottoman Empire of a nature to endanger one or oth of the two principles established in the preamble of the P i re o i sent treaty, the' high contracting parties, on the aPP e t r a• the Sultan, would proportionally join in defending that P e a pire in a manner to be mutually determined and agte upon. w 5/3 0 Art. 3. An excessive increase of the naval forces in 1 14 .. v o , in the Euxine would be considered as an act of aggre v calling for the application of Articles 1 and 2. Art. 4. Ratifications. ;RET ARTICLES: SEC _ Article 1. In the event of Russia augmenting the ara oo or the strength of her naval forces in the Black Sea s 0 to reach its effective amount at the commencement a t v ue war, according to the statement hereto annexed, and if t he remonstrances addressed in common to Russia, as well sa y e presence of the allied fleets in the Black Sea, were to P lO 'f fruitless, the High Contracting Powers agree to consider ; ‘ ,l O fact as giving rise to the application of the third AO' e of the Treaty of this day. Consequently they would cow d 4 the existence of such effective force as a casue belli , °P ie would immediately employ their land and naval forces A i, order to compel that Power to conform again to those co n of tions of equilibrium which are necessary to the lateral° Europe. Art. 2. Ratifications. ARMY COMMISSIONS.—A return moved for by Con e d Dunne, M.P., gives the names of all gentlemen appo ll . l :4, to commissions in the army by purchase from Joon) , 1853, to March, 1855, and the names of gentlemen sioned without purchase, specifying those promoted 11— •, • the ranks. The list of purchased commissions coati ,p. space of seven pages, and the number of gentleme°, o o pointed by purchase appears to have amounted to 04/ 800 in round numbers. The total amount rea lissoio the Government on account of the commissions so ld er 1853 and 1854 was 62,9701. The number of g entlew d cadets from the Royal Military College appointed t o 0 f signcies without purchase, after a public examiptto amounted to 46. The list of gentlemen appointen, of arm y commissions without purchase occupies a spa n five pages. Lastly, the number of non-commisoino officers commissioned without purchase amnunteu some 95. of H , Adv' Cape, CAPE OF _.OOD _OPE.-- vices from the Good Hope'to the 7th of May describe no alterationo the condition of commercial or mining businesSl te lf state that the extraordinary epid em i c w hi c h has la e 3 visited the cattle and horses of the colony had thereto, to a degree which* had caused general and severe i t oo The exports of wool this y ear w ill, it i s th oug ht, ac 1 ,,, ° 04 to nearly 10,000,0001 b., b u t t rans p or t was diffietn A ll vet expensive. Freight, however, had declined to lb. ; and, as there was now a fair supply of sh i Pl there was reason to hope there would be no return il l unprecedent e dly hi g h ra t e re cently reached. Thes e A d was commencing for the shipment of copper ore,,,die acme small lots were in course of arrival from Nan of land. O n th e news of the stoppage in January i ii bi• the London house of Home, Eager, and Co., wit,. ll osV lities for 130,0001., the affairs of their Cape obi' TV ment had been placed under trust for liquidatio n • ill partners still intimated a belief that they would P tbs full, but it was not generally supposed that more joel, 10s. in the pound would be obtained. It is niec/ a ioil, that their books had not been made up to a later,..l:oo. than 1853, and yet that they bad been largely by the banks. About a year back, when they w e ev ero' derstood to be in temporary embarrassmen t, % l oan; parties came forward to uphold their credit by a o , o o l °' t e e, and these are now lik e ly t o b e l os ers. TheY " be eo however, have lost more if th e h ou se bad th e % tbo o allowed to fall. With regar d t o politics , it is stater 01 the new Governor continues to be n and a lar. T l i f e er e e eti ti o be an increase of duties on imports, and pal 4 duties are t o b e a b o li s h e d. Tobacco, which i lree"' 20s per cwt, i s t o b e ra i se d t o 56 s ; and spirits _oval" p,r gallo n t o Various public works long % 0 c oo; I , l:ttLil we re lik c l y t. ) rece i ve atte"tion, including sltteoP, etruction of a breakwater in Table Bay and an be to improve Algoa Bay. The subscriptions to, t o , fag° triotic Fund had exceeded 5,0001., and /tut u were ail' coming in. Lr Siinony Vexation co Miss Whip \lO] COai The Cot Closed stew , he sales which wer erhain an 6 1d• t o sd S ea. Isla n d, with r, sling tcaintaineci Th e d eal aced ver ~ y lorward P as n as be en. ci wee d offered. r w e'k's pri( offered. T and tallow P r ogress e d, Outante fo: ra,tes. I\ lessrs. far alter —4 00433 10 _, Placein s ot i ) ? the A li , elatr a l ,i '-' u'ing tt n i, t_.nite4ed Stat e a 14t°ek St c7YOric. - Pt ! , ' 4 diuset, N'i qlail d 5 Virg gl n niZ 5 pi Can k i a 6 P e i i lta t t l'eal 6 Neal ea lu eite r Port e e°4tit ta il D. t o , THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, .itTLY 13, 1.855 ......m. .......,...