The Sun. — London, England, 1855-07-26 00:00:00

ROYAL OPERA, DRURY .1 ASE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith TAS EVENING, will be performed T E BOH MIk.N GIRT, Characters by ',taws. H. Brah on, J. Honore!, H. Corsi, and Eliot Gales ; and Lucy Elliot. To be followed by a Ballet. Prices of admission :—To the two galleries, 61; second circle o 1 boxes and pit, Is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; stals, 45.; private boxes to Admit tWO persons, 10s. 6d.; four persons, one guinea. Box-office open from 10 to 6 daily. TaZATNE ROYAL SeSMAIMET. Under the management of Mr. BuCkstonn; THIS EVENING. Will be presented THE SECRET AGENT. Principal' characters by Mr. Buckstone and Miss E. Chaplin. After which, the Ballet of the TWO PRETTY WO AEIT. To be followed IT AS LIKE AS TWO PEAS. After which, TIIE GALICI AN' FETE. To conclude with I DACGIITER TO MARRY. Kul' AL PRINCESzei OKFORD-nREET. Under the Management cf Mr. Cu KILN. THIS EVENING, Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING. To conclude with KING HENRY THE Er. IGHTH. Queen Ka. M tharine, Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Dlrectreas, Mcdnme Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Characters by Mr. L. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Keeley. Bc.c. After which, FRATERNISATION. To conclude with OPEN SESAME ; or, A Night with the Forty Thieves. Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford and Keeley; Misses Woolgiv, Cuthbert, Wyndham, M. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE: Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. W:gan; THIS EVENING, w in be performed THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Characters by Messrs. Robson, A. Wigan, G. Vining ; Mrs. A. Wigan, &c. To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bags , Mr. f. Robson. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE MAID OF CROISSET ; or, Theresa's row. Followed by TUE FLITCH OF BACON. After whtcb, THE SPA Nl S , l DANCERS To conclude with MARRIED DAUGHTERS AND YOUNG HUSBANDS. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Tremendous and unexampled hit ! THIS EVENING, Lord firron's MAZF.PPA ; or, the Wild Horse. now first acted under Mr. William Cooke's manat:emen . , and with his super!, 3fazeppa h'ghly-trained horses, Whose docility and tractability hays created a perfect furore in this magnificent spectacle. To conclurie with EQuEsTRI&N FEATS in the ARENA of ART s. by Artistes of first-class celebrity. Rexoftice o pen iro;n .:1e en -nil Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W - Wat. Actimr Manager, Mr. Nelsen Lee. Equestrian Director M. W. Coolie, nton WATER AT LONDON T LAY 52 ilin.:vf;A: 10 Ev wing 30min. art. I Ma...- . - 1; 0 min. after 0 i Tlvenir::g 3 min. aft. 1 Orrice, July 26. TriraPOKT.TEllt, TIT TEN SAADI. Gs 'best since noon yesterday. 57 ,-- - o , .vePt this morning and during the night. 6:3 —thf , day, at Dona. tikaowsrm, 29'84. 7.riln, S. to S.W.—Light, with continuous rain. i . YI?! 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This charge mnsi Still be made to those in remote places, unless the Postmaster-General have ti.: magnanimity to forego such a paltry source of revenue. S , ln-office, 112, Stranfl, London, 9th July, 18Z.5. / 7 7 : 3 1 :v ' k LONDON, THUEZSDAT, JULY 26, 1855. "Nothing new from the Crimea !" That nm. appears a stereotyped paragraph in every journal We must not, however, suppose that the time i wasted, or that our gallant soldiers indulge in an:, unnecessary inactivity. No ; although no dt cisive action has been attempted since the info: - tuna.te attack of the 18th June, neither officer , nor men of the Allied Armies have been idl They have been steadily and laboriously pre paring for a repetition of the onslaught under mon favourable auspices. They now know the rea' difficulties they have to encounter ; and, while they can rely ou their own prowess and resolu tion, they will yet take care that no obsttuctim, which can ho got rid of shall remain. I , m ay be all very well to be prodigal of hums' life when any great object is to be achieved. A n a pparent prodigality may be true ec onom y ; but a reckless disregard of life, where it c an b spared, is anything but true bravery. A Judi. cious General will always have to consider many conflicting points. He must be competent t o balance the advantages belonging to different promptly and correctly on courses, and to decide that which combines the greatest number. The climate, the supplies, the health of his army, the quantity of work, and the time within which it elements in the must be accomplished, are al l calculation—to each of which due weight must be accorded, and without full and accurate know ledge of all the premises it is difficult to criticiE , the existing state of affairs. The time has not, as we have stated, by any means been wasted or misspent. Not only have our approaches been carried close to the points of attack, but our men have acquired much valuable experience respecting, the Russian tactice. We now know the necessity of promptitude against such a any success must be rapidly fol lowed up, and that there must not be the slightest . rest afforded to such inil 2 f a ti gable labourers, who. rev e rsing the conduct aP F-z•rELoPE, have invari ablyrepair durin g contrived to the night the damage o f the day. The result of th e 18th Juno i might have been very different had th en© been a I. few hours' cannonading in the morning before tha actual assault, and had the enemy been driven into confusion by the fire of the Allies before the escalade was attempted. We, have had a severe lesson not to undervalue the adversary, and we a re co nvinced that it will not - se= disregarded on the next 7 occasion, whic'e, may arrive more speedily than we have notion of. Indeed it sh ou ld not at all surim'in us if we heard that the failure of the 18th Jun.; lead 1 een signally avenged during the current on th, Tha conduct of the Russian war steamers which iflicted such serious damage on the Allied ranks is also taught us tho necessity of silencing their lire on the next occasion. There are ample means JZ doing so, and we believe that they will not ,lotv be disregarded. The Russian navy has been reduced, and it requires but steady determination io complete the work commenced by their own hands, and to bring the Black Sea Fleet vithin narrower limits than those suggested by the French and English Plenipotentiaries at the Conferences of Vienna. This can and must ie accomplished ; and it will not only greatly :'Acilitate the chief object in view, viz.—the cap tire or destruction of Sebastopol, but it will, aken per se, be a very important achievement, which. will materially add to the stability and , ecurity of the Ottoman empire. Many well-informed and sound-judging persons tssert, and with much apparent reason, that the very difficulties we have experienced during the siege will be productive of beneficial results, and go far to reduce the Russian Power, and to change the policy inaugurated by PETER, and steadily - - kept in view by CATHERINE, by NICHOLAS, and the two ALEXANDERS. They say that had Sebas topol been captured by a coup de main imme diately after the victory of the Alma, it would, in pursuance of the ABERDEEN policy, have been restored uninjured to Russia, and that our then Government would have acted on the dan gerous and injudicious principle of " saving the honour of Russia," and of patching up a peace which, if not inglorious, would be transitory, Affording no permanent or binding security to Turkey or Europe. The successes so easily Achieved might have been undervalued, and the restoration of a fortress, the capture whereof was so speedily effected, might be looked on as a mat ter of comparatively trivial importance. Now we know better. We can form a more correct esti mate of its great value to Russia, and of the magnitude of the perpetually impending menace to Constantinople. Palma non sine pulvere is A sound principle, and the blood and treasure already expended will not be thrown away, if we Ire thereby induced to keep what we have so la boriously attained. All matters, too, are looking Wore favourable for our aims. The climate is rather better than was expected, and the disease and sickness are already dying away. Oa the whole there is no reason for repining, or sup posing that we shall not accomplish that on which we have set our hearts—the complete destruction of Sebastopol, arid the annihilation of the Russian Fleet in the Ermine, so that they will be com pelled for the best possible reasons to assent to he complete neutrality of the Black Sea, and its becoming, so far as they are concerned—a " mere commercial lake." We wish for nothing unreasonable ; nothing which, in the slang of the Treasury benches, vould be "inconvenient," or " detrimental to he public service." There are, however, very strong grounds for thinking that a distinct tvowal by our Government of what they aim ►t by the War would be of the greatest ad vantage to the public service. The pleasures of autumn will soon part even those attached friends, our Cabinet and its Parliament, and hitherto we have had nothing yet more explicit than those elastic words, "a safe and honourable peace.'' The Vienna Conferences have but too plainly shown how those convenient words may be twisted to any meaning which sophistry and subserviency to Austria and the COBURGS may wish. The Treaty of December 2d proved that it was con sidered secure and honourable for us to be bound to help Austria while she might evade helping us ; but the Four Points proved that a peace which no one now considers, to use the language of Lord LYNDHURST, worth the paper its terms would be written on, was capable of being thought by a whole English Cabinet safe and honourable ! peace of paper securities against hereditary bar barism, perfidy, and violence combined—against the most remorseless and shameless ambition which ever sacrificed its own slaves to make slaves of other countries. We believe our countrymen now almost shudder to think of the ignominy which they have mercifully escaped. Far better for our reputation with posterity to have sustained great military and naval reverses, and to have made peace on disadvantageous terms, because fairly beaten in the field, than thus, with a vast army in the Crimea, and omnipotent in the Baltic and Euxine, to have signed a cowardly treaty on the basis of the Four Points. - Well may W.) be alarmed at the idea of leaving for six months the interpretation of this cant phrase in such con victed hands. We cannot, moreover, forget that Lord JouN RUSSELL was betrayed yet farther. He could think it both a secure and honourable peace if Russia were allowed to muster for another Sinope, with a proviso fcr its prevention abGut as good as that which we possessed at the moment of that perfidious massacre. Nor was Lord JOHN done ; other British statesmen of mark, some not just now in power, but others it is to be feared, intriguing under shelter of leaders, who know better how to adapt their language to the views of the nation, concur with him. A secure and honourable peace, therefore, may, in the Ger manised conceptions of men in high positions, be understood in a sense the very reverse of that in which the nation understands it. Had Parlia ment not been sitting this spring, we think it quite within the range of probability that an Austro- Coburg peace might have been patched up for us by secret diplomacy, which we could only have cen sured afte rwar d s , b u t b een p rac ti ca lly p ower l ess t o alter. - We much fear, however, that suspici on o f the se cret cause of such mean and un-English policy would have shaken the security of the Throne, and would c er t a i nly have entirely destroyed its popularity, really tend er her ile rw ST r u ' s s t b ad e v c is a r e e r fl t a o s mtahieny tain her throne on the basis .of English, not of German, sentiments. With. these facts before 1 - 13 , then, we think it would be most advantageous to th e pu bli c service for her MAJESTY'S Minist ers voluntarily, or by compulsion, to declare in some definite expressions what they think will be a safe honourable a i l peace. The country has rejected lvit of humiliation what has been offered in th ' - nam e of England and h 9 r Alli es—iu t he name of irre sistible naval power, Im Nvh d a u t u h ii a i s ui o te u r r l G mi j l v it e a r r n y ol,t and pecuniary resources. learned by the nation's contempt? Are they pre pared to give ns real securities instead of Russian bonds ? We believe this is the kernel of the question. Russia, for her villanous purpcmes, fully understands this. When she wanted the SULTAN to sign a suicidal treaty or note, she took the real security of the Provinces. Russia is a sound and safe political banker fur her own Fur obtaining the - P fo o r se i s i , ol: d t t e li n e d c s om t : tt on oi s i en w s h e o ieli f England nu approves sareliedl ends of her ambition. The cause of our ill-su cce s s hitherto has been our infirmity of prirpose. o t f o ~,hi ni t r i , i : ,,,n i, intimidate Rnueastatobybian Our C . °BU RG Cabinets have thought fit a pa h rade of soldiers and ar Ly paper bonds. - - - THE SUN, LONDON, TH 1 jRSDA y EVENING, JULY 26, 1855. Before Parliament disbands we want to know how' far they have advanced beyond these views. It. the War to be " curied on with vigour," to get a treaty of German paper manufacturing, or to wrest for ever froth Russia territories and fortresses which she has stolen or built for the subjugation of Turkey and the East, and the mediatising of all Germany ? To know this is essential to that confidence in the Government, which is necessary to the success ful administration of affairs. It is useless to vapour about the danger of telling the enemy our projects ; the danger lies in concealing them. No one wishes any Lord JOHN to give Russia notice a second time of the particular place we mean to attack at a particular time ; it is mere affectation or disingenuousness to confound things so totally distinct. If we now, on the contrary, publicly disavow Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S conceited, yet fatal, j declaration, of wishing to leave the Russian terr 4 e. tories undiminished, if we avow that we will e'in quer from her, and keep from her, everything we can, from the gulf of Finland to the Blarik Sea, that we will continue to fight for red securities till we get sufficient, or till Russia strikes, not only would the people of this country be reassured, and rendered cordial in their support of the Go vernment, but Russia, not knowing where she would be attacked, would be compelled to divide her army while she increased its numbers, at the same time exhausting her resources and diminishing her strength in each locality. We hold it, therefore, to be the duty of our House of Commons in some way to declare its own view, or rather that of the nation, on this all-important question, and to require the Go vernment to do the same. Such a course will save us at home six months' suspicion and dis trust ; will encourage the country, the army, and the navy; will distract and intimidate the enemy; will bring Austria, Prussia, and all Germany to their senses ; and, as we believe, will materially shorten the War. Without such a pledge we shall be draggled along another six months at the tail of Austria. The alarm sounded by Professor FARADAY, re specting the dangerous condition of the Thames, has not been without some effect. The Lord Mayor, it is well known, responded to the Professor with becoming alacrity, and straight way instituted an inquiry into the cause of the extraordinary pollution complained of. Further revelations as to the state of the river have fol lowed, and the public had the strongest corrobo rative testimony given to the absolute correctness of the Professor's statement. A tidal river like the Thames, receiving the ermice of two millions and a half of people, and depositing mud a foot in depth, at a short distance, every week, to be turned up at each successive tide, could hardly fail to be in the con dition described. Among the results of the inquiry so far, would appear to be the discovery that ono great aggravation of the evil of late has arisen from encroachments made on the bed of the river, and Sir JOHN APISTEIL, who has called attention to this fact, suggests a measure of a reme dial nature. Starting with the conviction that the greater the volume of water carried up with the tide, the greater will be the scour on its return, Sir Joiirt recommends that the tidal river above the bridges should be enlarged and widened, and that reservoirs should be formed for the penning of the clear water, and letting it come down afterwards, when the tide is out. Granting the correctness of hi s theory, and supposing its being immediately put into practice, there can be no reasonable hope of an amelioration which will supersede the necessity for a more thorough and costly measure. Sir JOHN'S recommendation may be worth carryinc, out, but cannot be made to do what is wanted. There, however, the evil exists, and something must be adopted to remedy it, great and threaten ing as it is. Accordingly, the disemboguement of the sewerage of the Metropolis into the Thames being confessedly the prime cause of its pollution, we find a large minority of the Commissioners of Sewers have come to the conclusion that the best thing to be done is to put a l imit to the quantity of sewage admitted into t he river . This, of cours e , won't answer ; indeed i t woul d most probably involve i g n r t e r z o tt cl e t r ic e t v io i li might now turn olt t a the still rl, use of cess pools, reservoirs whos e p ois onous exhalati ons might assail the population with deadlier force from being more concentrated than, to. the ma jority of the population, those of the Thames can well be. Nor can we feel satisfied with the prospect of having the sewage entirely diverted from the Thames, according to Sir B. lIALL's pr o p osa l , at the termination of six years. Supposing the public could afford to wait, which they cannot, until that time, what provision would then be found for the carrying away of the sewage ? It is all very well to know that at a given and not very remote period a noble stream, worthy an im perial city, will have a chance of rescuing itself from the condition of a sewer, but the satisfaction to le derived from this assurance must be seriously di minished when there is no reason held out to be lieve that that which has poisoned the Thames, and rendered its exhalations noxious, will not le suffered to collect and breed malaria at our very doors. With nothing less, in short, can we le satisfied, for nothing less will suffice than the finding a substitute for the Thames, laying down a great main sewer into which all the sewage of the Metropolis. may flow, to be discharged therefrom at a convenient distance into suitable reservoirs, and afterwards converted into saleable manure. To this the public must come at last, and while we would thoroughly approve of every necessary step being taken to give, as we may say, the river fair play, by removing encroachments on its bed, which, apart from the question of sewage, are seriously injuring the tideway, we would seriously urge the propriety of immediate steps being taken to carry out the above, or some other equally efficient plan, which, whatever it may be, cannot be in operation too soon. The credit, as well as the health, of two millions and a half of people, calls for the greatest promptitude com patible with the magnitude of the undertaking. LATEST NEWS. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. WAR DEPARTMENT, JULY 26. Dird Panmure has received the following cora ran nication from the Crimea, dated the 25th of J:uiy, 5 p.m. Cholera has lot increased since my last report, And the army continues in satisfactory health. increased, and its inaligtiity is such that most of the cases prove fatal. The inhabitants, who hitherto ap peared to view with in .ifference the ravages of the scourge, are now in the greete.t terror of it. Count de Villa Real, a Portuguese Lieut.-General, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary of the King of Portugal to the Court of Russia, arrived this morning from Lisbon, and will leave after to• morrow for St. Peteriburgh," COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, JULY 25. Her Royal Highness Princess Alice is going on favour. ably. All queen and Prince embarked in the Victoria and ye,ter.lay afternoon, and cruised to the Needles. Sir Joh n Yill arrived from London yesterday on a visit, ani had the honour of dining with her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchesi of Glocester left London on Tuesday for his residence at Richmond. Mr. Roath nod Mr. Bird had an interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley and the Right Hon. E. P. Bonverie yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade, on the subject of the restrictions imposed iron. on tho exportati on o f Mr. C Chapma n , an d M r. ri i‘r Ulal.. J. C. Evart,dut l‘.P deputation from the American Chamber of Commerce, had au interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley yesterday at the Board of Trade relative to the f oßthiill. T i :hue°. Judicial includedding BCommittee the of hearingthe n a )p eaeat fromy s ter , fa", an Wai2.s, "Doe, deal De7iD.,f, V. Wilson tad NevejSouth SWEDEN. The following letter proceeds from a well-informed person, and we believe it faithfully interprets on the present occasion the feelings of the King of Sweden and of his people :- 44 STOCKHOLM, July 20.—Though the military ardour excited at the close of the Vienna Conferences has now 'n some measure subsided, yet we are here watching with breathless anxiety the movements of the allied fleets in the Baltic, and still hoping that the ensuing month of August may see some greater result than that of last year, the tall of Botnarsund. It is neither owing to the indifference of this nation for the cause of civilisation against barbarism, nor to the sympathies of our Government for the Russian Autocrat, that the flag of Sweden does not already float beside the united standards of England and France, but so long as the pending question is called and considered merely Eastern, so long as endless protocold on the four points' appear to be the only object of the great Powers, no one possessed of ordinary judgment can require of our rulers to expose the youth of Sweden to the horrors of war, and her growing prosperity to a sudden and in evitable check. What, in truth, matters it to Sweden that the Bosphorus is closed while the Baltic is under Rus sion domination, and the port of Cronstadt cmitait.s a formidable and increasing fleet ? Though the nation is warlike, yet a feeling of approbation of the King's conduct pervades all classes. We fully appreciate the line he has taken up, namely, to maintain a strict neutrality until the Governments of England and France shall have given positive proof that they mean to oppose a boundary to the encroachments of Russia in the north as well as in the south. The future of Scandinavia should most particularly interest England, for if Russia succeeds in obtaining the mastery of the Sound, she will be so power ful in the German Ocean as to be able to set Europe at defiance. Both the coasts of Sweden and Norway possess deep and spacious ports wholly free fr,,m ice, or freezing only for a couple of months in the severest winter. The principal are Carlscrona, Lands rona, Norten (in the bay of Christiania), Christiansand, Bergen, Trondheim, and the bay of Varangen ; the last-mentioned has already excited the grasping spirit of our neighbour. Any one of these ports is capable of growing into another Sebastopol, within a hundred geographical miles of the British coast. Our forests afford inexhaustible materials for ship-building ; the inhabitants are either skilful carpenters or fearless mariners. The population of the coasts furnishes at least 100,000 fishermen or pilots inured to hardships, and familiar from their childhood with all the details of navigation in these difficult seas. It is easy to draw a conclusion from this simple array of facts. "I most firmly believe that if theallies do not seriously grapple with this difficulty they will entail on posterity endless broils, and leave Russia, more powerful and still nearer than ever." ITALY. A good deal has lately been said of a manifesto of Mazzini, intended to excite the Italians to revolt- Accordiug to a letter from Genoa, this document concludes as follows : "The hour is come ! Austria, by breaking the treaty of the 2d December, by reducing her army in order to render service to the Czar, and to enable him to concen trate his forces to the preju lice of the Allies, has lost all right to the support of France and England. She is alone ! If the Italians do not rise, they will be admit ting to Europe—' We are not able to rise against an enemy whom we are not certain of being able to con quer, we have no faith in our right ; in order to awaken us, and to be like men, we must have a Pope and a King who will murmur words of liberty in our ears in order to betray us." SPAIN. MADRID, July 24.—The Mexican Government positively refuses to receive M. Zayas as Spanish Minister. The faction of the Brothers Hierros has been put to the rout in the neighbourhood of Burgos. Its remnants have taken refuge in France. Tranquillity is general. Cholera is making great ravages in Spain. At Granada, from the 27th ult. to the 14th inst., not fewer than 1,617 persons had died of it; and on the 15th 84 more also died, but that number was less than on previous days. At Burgos it was making great havoc. A letter of the 20th, which has arrived in advance of the ordinary mail, says : "The Government has ordered public prayers to be offered up in all the churches for a cePsation of the tri bulations which afflict Spin. A grave conflict has taken place at Avila between the governor and the bishop ; the latter issued a circular to his clergy, direct ing them not to give up the ecclesiastical property ; the former ordered the circular to be seized, but it could not be found anywhere, and it was necessary to cause the police to search the episcopal palace to obtain a copy of it." The Government is about to abolish several foreign legations, from motives of economy. AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE RED JACKET. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The White Star clipper-ship Red Jacket, Capt. M. M. Milward, belonging to Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson, of this pert, arrived in the Mersey this evening from Melbourne, with 270 passengers on boar I. The Red Jacket sailed from Melbourne on the 2d of May, in company with the Eagle, for Liver pool, and the George Marshall, for London. She spoke on the 17th July the John Grog, Penang to Loudon, lat. 53 N. ; 100. 33 W. July 20, Fatima, lat. 45 N., len. 26 W. ; July 21, schooner Flying Fish, lat. 48 N., lon. 20 W. ; July 22, Ottawa, Quebec to Glasgow, out 23 days ; July 23, Consul, 71 miles south of Cape Clear. Between July 20 and 24 passed 52 ships. The Red Jacket had to put into Rio Janeiro for fresh provisions, and sailed from that port June 20. Tho American ship Sea Witch had put into Rio Janeiro with her captain (Fraser) found dead with a severe wound on his forehead—the mate of the vessel strongly suspected guilty of the act. On Saturday the Red Jacket was in collision with the ship Emerald Isle, hence to New York, which is putting back. The former had trifling damage. VICTORIA. The general condition of the country may be pro nounced prosperous. The accounts from the vari ous new gold fields are, upon the whole, favourable, but they could not be fairly tested until the rainy season sets in. The rain had commenced at Mel bourne, and it was thought that, if it reached the gold fields, very favourable accounts would he re ceived. Two new fields were reported, called Yan doit and New Bendigo, but their value had not been ascertained. There was an excellent opening for a large American tri de, the markets being exceedingly bare. The gold duty was to come into operation on the Ist of May. The Public Education Bill was abandoned, after having been read a second time, on a clause it contained being modified so as to re quire that at each day's sitting of the schools under the superintendence of the board four hours should be devoted to literary instruction only, during which no religious teaching was to be obtruded upon the scholars. The first term of the Melbourne University was opened in due form on the 13th of April. The annual endowment is 9,0001. At Bal larat a movement has been commenced for organis ing a voluntary association for the defence of pro perty. In other mines Lynch law had been resorted to. A committee of the Legislative Council had been pursuing its laborious inquiry into the liquor traffic. SYDNEY. APRIL 26.—Since the departure of the Lightning nothing of importance has occurred. The discontinuance of the mail-steam packets is loudly complained of. The substitution of the Liverpool clippers and the excellent passages which have been made by the James Baines and the Light ning, although producing a temporary lull in the excitement, is not looked upon with much confi dence, as they are not expected to prove so regular as the Peninsularand Oriental Company's steamers. The patriotic fund is daily increasing. Nearly 41,000. has been actually received by the trea surers. This amount is expected very shortly to be made up to 50,0001. - The abstract of the revenue of the colony of New South Wales in the quarters ended March 31, 1854 and 1855, presents an unfavourable aspect. The formor quarter, in its receipts, showed an increase on the first quarter of 1853, amounting to 126,3081.; but the quarter just ended shows a decrease from the corresponding quarter of 1854 of 62,5021. The decrease is on every item save tea in the Customs duties. The gross totals of both revenues are—for the first quarter of 1854, 271,260/ ; and for that of 1855, 208,6681. There is a large falling off in the sales of land, which the Auditor-General, iu a note, explains that for the convenience of closing the accounts and re turns, a regulation was acted upon last year that no sales should he held in December, and the re venue in the first quarter of the present year is thus largely reduced. The falling off in the revenue created consider able commotion, and a report was started by some interested parties that Sir Wm. Denison had deter mined to increase the import duties forthwith. The agents of the Magnetic Telegraph Company, for connecting Melbourne with this city, have ar rived here, and are exhibiting the apparatus. There is every chance of the scheme being carried out. During the week ending the 16th inst. 1,446 im migrants arrived at Port Jackson. Some difficulties experienced by the Government in raising the means for taking over the property of the Sydney and Hunter River Railway Companies have been overcome, and the whcile arrangement will he perfected in a very short time. The Sydney Railway is progressing favourably. The works are so far advanced as to permit of the line being opened in a few months. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. MELBOURNE, MAY 1. The gold market has been very animated, but sellers had to submit to a reduction of 2s. 6d. per ounce, pending the export duty. The exports from the diggings have again shown a great increase—the quantity being greatest from the oldest fields—Ballarat taking prece dence, and Bendigo following very closely. Gold has ranged from 775. 6,1. to 775. 9d. per ounce. Exchange banks draw on England at 1 per cent. pre iniuin, and negotiate drafts against gold and produce at 1 per cent. discount. Local bills at 7 per cent, for 95 days, and 8 for longer dates, The wool season is almost closed. The quantity shipped from Melbourne to April 21, from October 11, amounted to 13,388.618 lh., or 83,816 bales, being an increase of 2,288,488 lbs., or 8,159 bales over the entire of the previous year. The prices current were as follow —Superior flocks, ls. 3d. to is. sd. ; middling to good, is. 2d. to is. 3d. ; inferior fleece, is. to ls. ld. ; washed slipe, is. to ls. 2d. ; and scoured, ls. 2d. to ls. 4id. In tallow there was little doing. The demand for co lonial use, however, having increased, advanced rates are demanded. SYDNEY, Ar4IL 26. The demand for gold has been brisk and prices firm. Very little gold dust has been offered for sale. Good prices have been realised. The quotations are a shade higher. The escorts Western and Southern, brought this morning to the treasury 2,547 oz. Prices—Bal larat gold 3/. 18s. to 3/. 18s. 3d. ; Port Philip, Bendigo, and other diggings 3/. 17s. 6d. to 3/ 17s. 9d. The re ports generally are satisfactory from the gold districts. In the wool market a better feeling has prevailed. The ratr! of freight, is. 2d., operates against a rise until later advices from England are received. The tallow market has been better supplied with beef and mixed tallow, which caused a deg line of Si. or 61. per ton on previous prices. Hides and sheep4kins without alteration. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Royal Bank of New South Wales was held today, when the report of the directors was unanimously carried. A dividend at the rate of 16 per cent. per annum was carried. LAUNCESTON, APRIL 28. The provision market is are. Butter, 3‘. per lb. ; bacon, is. 6d. to is. 101. ; cheese, is. 6d. to 2.. p.-r lb. ; eggs, 4.. per dozen ; broad, is. 61. per four pound loaf ; wheat, 134. to 13s. 61. per bushel ; fine flour, 381. to 39/. ; seconds, 351. to 361. ; beef, 4d. to Bd. ; mutton, sd. to 61. THE DESTRUCTION OF OIiAMOUSIX BY FIR •••• The Echo de Mont Blanc, of the 20th, states that on the 19th instant a fire at Chamounix burnt down 25 houses and three hotels. On the same subject we are favoured with the following com munication by Mr. Albert Smith : E-.4yptiail Hall, Wednesday Evening. TEe following distressing intelligence has been re ceived by Mr. Albeit Smith, from Geneva, this after- noon " On Friday morning, at three o'clock, the fire broke nut in the H. , tel d'Angleterre, and, despite every exer tion, 22 houses had been con- unied, " d'A rigleterre, de Londres, and de la Couronne are burnt down, besides 19 houses belonging to the poorer inhabitants. " The old Hotel d' Union has been saved by saturating it with water, which renders it for the present uninha bitable. The new Hotel Royal de l'Union has become the refuge of every one, as also the small Hotel du Nord. No lives have been lost, but the. e have been sad accidents. An ness describes the scene as ago- Half bile village, including part of the church, lam been burnt, and a great amount of property de stroyed. " A subscription has been already set on foot by the English chaplain, Mr. Ferryman, and by Dr. Malan, who was at Chainnunix at the time. These gentlemen were very active in giving relief to the wretched sufferers, and i❑ aiding to extingui , h the fire. The wind was very high, and a storm was raging all the time." !3' FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Emperor left Paris this morning for the Pyre nees. His Majesty will dine at Bordeaux. ". Queen Victoria," says the Constitutionnel, 'will make her entrance into Paris by the tenni aus of the Strasburg Railway and by the Boulevard de Strasbourg. Arrangements are being made which will allow the Royal train to pass without stopping from the Northern to the Strasburg line." A letter from Ostend, of Monday evening, an nounces that the King of the Belgians and his party, on board the Topaze, entered that port at half-past eight, amidst the fire of two salutes of 21 guns each. A letter from Toulon, of the 21st, says :—" We are every moment expecting the arrival here of an Austrian squadron from Trieste, under the com mand of an Archduke. Orders have, it is said, been already given for the salute proper on the occasion. The reception will be a brilliant one, for there are at this moment in the roadstead more than 30 ships of war, 10 of which are line-of-battle ships, and several others are expected every hour from the Black Sea." A letter from Odessa, of the 14th, in the Salut Public of Lyons, says :—" In the apprehension of a speedy attack from the vessels in the Sea of AzQff, the Russians are actively fortifying Ro .stow, at the mouth of the Don. The channel has been obstructed by large stones, which have been thrown in to prevent the river from being navig able, The town is filled with Cossacks." A despatch from Marseilles says : "One hundred artillerymen sent by Engla n d were beginning to arrive in the Black Sea, for the purpose of acting against the coasts of the Sea of Azoff, the Putrid Sea, and the mouth of the Don. The latest intelligence from Constantinople confirms, in according it even a treater degree of importance, the revolt of the 13ashi- Bazouks formed into regiment s by E ng li s h o ffi cers, and encamped in the Dardanelles." The _Passe d' Orient adds : "These Bashi-Bazouks have committed monstrous excesses, and have openly insulted the flag of Great Britain. A. steamer, the guns of which had been brought to bear, had commenced firing on them. The greater number had dispersed through the adjoining country, and were committing acts of brigandage. The French army in the Crimea were putting the last hand to the fortifications of the Bay of Kamiesch. The division of General Canrohert is now performing service in the entrenchments." BOURSE, JULY 25 . —CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4 por Cents 93 25 93f. 150. 3 per Ceuta 66 10 6(l 20 Credit 31obilier 1037 50 Roman Credit Foncior 527 50 Austrian Belgian Fives.. — Spanish Threes — Piet hnontese 35 Home Debt RAIAWA Y 8-POR CASH, !r. c. tr. o hies,ns ............... 1202 50 Lyons Western 765 Roller., date 650 Strasburg Nlediterrauean:...... 1275 Havre 651 50 gorthern ...,,, 892 50 Cherburg TURKEY. - A letter from Varna, in the German Journal of 'Frankfort, says :—" It now appears positive that French corps will land here about the end of July. Preparations for their reception are being made both here and at Baltchick, and a camp is being marked out on the surrounding heights. The French hospital has been also considerably en larged. We have here only about 2,000 men ; the remainder of our garrison, about 6,000 men in number, have left for the Dobrudscha via Silistria, the heat not allowing any other road to be taken. Our town presents a very animated appearance ; numerous Armenians, French, Italians, and Ger mans have arrived, in order to open shops near the camp." A letter from Vienna of the LSth,rin the Dresden Gazette, says : "The project of cutting a navigable canal for vessels of smsiderable size between Rassova and Kustendje, in or der to render the navigation of the lower Danube quite independent of all foreign influence, is being actively pur sued, especially through the influence of England, who, acting in concert with France and Austria, will apply to the Porte for permission to construct this canal. The work is to be conceded to a company, which will never theless act under the direction of the three powers. A minimum of interest is to be secured to the company. The persons stated to be entrusted with powers for the purpose are—for France, Count de Morny ; for Eng land, Mr. Wilson ; and for Austria, Count Breda. It is believed that the Porte will grant a belt of land of the breadth of a league to the company on each side of the canal, for the purposes of colonisation. Two f-trong forts are to be built at Kustendje to protect the canal." THE WAR IN ASIA. We find in the Indepenclance Beige the following letter from Vienna, dated the 20th inst. Whilst the Allies are tiscussing the expediency of a diversion on the Lower Danube, the Russians are exe cuting one in Asia, which appears to be much more serious and more menacing in its consequences. The last accounts from Constantinople confirm my previous statement that Kars and Erzeroum were in the greatest danger, and that the Russiah troops were gaining ground in the Ottoman provinces of Asia Minor. General Mouravieff, at the head of 36,000 men, is blockading Kars, , whilst other detached corps are marching upon Erzeroum and lla , san Kai& The Turkish army, which should have retra,ted on Erzeroum, was driven into the fortress of Kars, now invested by General Nirod. Should Kars fall, into the hands of the Russians, the army of Anatolia will either lay down its arms or be an nihilated. The garrison of Erzerouni does not exceed 2,000 men. The Russian forces in Asia, although not imposing, since they barely amount to 50,000 men , are , evertheless, sufficient to inspire serious uneasines.,, when the inefficient state of the Ottoman army in the country is considered. Neither the solicitu le of the new Minister of - War, nor the strenuous exertions of Gent r +1 Williams, could succeed in placing it on a respectab e ‘ooting. A successful campaign of the Russians in Asia "Minor would be sadly prejudicial to the Crimean expedi -ion, since it would ()bilge the allies to send to the relief ..f Erzeroum the reinforcements indispensable to the army besieging Sebastripol. Now, everybody knows ~ hat the allies themselves have demanded fresh troops to undertake, with some chanc, of success, an enterprise which would compensate for the failure of their attack on the 18th of June. But the Russians, on their side, are not idle, and from what has transpired of their new order of battle, they have not less tban 19 divisions of infan try echeloned from north to south. The Ist and 3.1 divisions are in Poland, and the 24 in Courland. Nine divisions, the 6th, Bth, 9tb, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 17th, are in the Crimea, where they will shortly be joined by the 4th, sth, and 7th. Bessarabia is defended at this moment by the 15th division. The 13th and 18th are operating in Asia, and the 19th, 20th, and 21st, which no longer belong to the active army, are likewise stationed in Asia, and constitute the special corps of the Caucasus. Every division of infan try is provided with cavalry and artillery. In addition to these are the Guards, who have hitherto preserved a passive attitude. The first division of the corps of Gre nadiers is employed in Finland, and the 2d and 3d are now marchint , to the Crimea. If to the above be added the reserves of the corps of Grenadiers and of the Guard, as well as those of the active army and the militia, it will be found, that Russia can oppose on every point a respec table force to her enemies." PRUSSIA. The Vienna journals positively deny that, as has been reported, the King ofPrussia and the Emperor of Austria are to have an interview , on the frontiers of their respective States: The King, however, it is said, intends to accompany the Queen to Dresden from Erdmannsdorf, and io stop there for a day or two before returning to Berlin. A letter from Berlin, of the 18th, in the Danube of Vienna, says—c , The reply of Count Buol to the last note of M. de 11Ianteuffel has been received here, it is said, to he dated the 15th. The Presi dent of the Council is at present absent from Berlin, and the document must there have been sent to him, and it is consequently very doubtful whether the contents are known in political circles as it is pretended they are. All that it is mentioned must therefore be founded rather on suppositions than ou precise information. It is said that the original propositions of Austria have only undergone very slight modifications which are not likely to satisfy Prussia, as they bear only on the form and not on the principle of the question." RUSSIA. The Independance Beige publishes the following, dated Warsaw, 20th inst. " The Grand Duke Nicholas is expected here either this evening or to-morrow morning. It appears that the Prince will not this time make a long stay in our city, being obliged, as chief of the engineering department of the Western Army, to visit in succession all the fortresses situate within the points occupied by that army. He will afterwards continue to reside at head-quarters, and the Castle of Belvidera, near War saw, has been fitted up for his reception. We bad hoped that cholera would soon disappear in our city, in consequence of the diminution in the number of e-av Zs. But, for the last_thrra days, the ePlierai°-1228 UNIVER6I I Y IN TELLIGENCE. OXFORD, July 25.—The election for demies at Mag dalen College has ended in favour of the following Alington. from Rugby school ; Ev(red, from Magdalen-hall ; Tanner, from Queen's College ; and rhorold, from Worcester College. 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, the Duke of Argyll, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir William Moleswortb, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Vie. Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. The council sat two hours and three-quarters. THE QUEEN'S AUTUMN VISIT TO BALMORAL.—The Queen is expected to pay her annual visit to Balmoral about the middle of September, and to remain until the 10th or 12th of October. A portion of the new pa'ace will be ready for her Majesty, and will be occupied dust ing the present visit. There is some expectation that the Queen will pay a visit to Lord Panmure, whose principal sett, near Arbroath, is within half-a-day's journey of Balmoral. FHB CHIEF CLERKSHIP AT GUILDHALL POLICE COURT.—Yesterday, at aC ,urt of Aldermen, Mr. Ge , rge ;Worth , ' the second clerk of the justice room at the Man sion-house, was unanimously elected chief clerk of the justice room at Guildhall, in the room of Mr. Thomas Wood. The vacant office of second clerk at the Man sionehonse is to be filled up on Monday next. THE LATE GREAT ROBBERY IN THE ClTY.—Yesterday notice of the loss of Mr. A. Barber, goldsmith and jeweller, Cheapside, was issued by the police, and a re ward of 5001. for conviction of the thieves is offered. The robbery consists of 400 gold rings; set in diamonds, emeralds, and rubies, diamond necklaces, 158 gold watches, 43 silver watches, 100 and upwards of gold Albert and brequet chains, 50 gold pins, diamond studs, gold brooches, &c. MADRID, July 21.—The most important event of the present moment here is the rupture of relations between this Government and the Pope. The Nuncio, Mon sig nor Franchi, has not only left in consequence of express orders received from Rome, but his Secretary anti the other members of his legation have also left with him. SALE OF Sairs.—The first sale by public auction of ships at the newly-opened brokers sale-room' of Messrs. Cunard, Brett, and Austen, Leadenhall-street, took place yesterday afternoon, and was well attended. The ship Hebrides, 512 tons, built at Greenock in 1841, 110 , 71 lying in the West India Decks, realised 1,3751. The other ships, Lady Raglan, Elizabeth Brown, Henrietta, Nepaulese Ambassador, and the Retriever, were bought in. TURIN, July 21.—The Official Gazette contradicts the mischievous report of an engagement between the Sar dinians and the Russians, on the Tchernat a, wherein the former were defeated, as well as another emanating from the same source, to the effect that General della Marmora had been attacked with cholera, of which the General himself bad never made mention ; in fact, in his last written despatch (of the 7th inst., from Kadikiii) the Sardinian General-ie-Chief distinctly says the cholera may be considered to have ceased. PERILOUS FLOOD IN THE FLEET SEWER.—Yesterday (Wednesday), about two o'clock p.m., a torrent of water broke suddenly into the works now in progress for deepening and rebuilding the Fleet sewer, opposite Cierkenwell. A temporary c trial had been cut from a point a hundred yards up the stream to carry the water past the position of working to a peint 50 yards below. A weir eight feet high has been constructed to turn the stream into the temporary channel. This bad been da maged by the floods two weeks ago, but was now strongly piled and buttressed. Before it could overflow it turned aside a body of water which ran on a descent six feet deep, by twelve or fourteen wide, and this torrent rolled over a fail of several feet into the former bed of the sewer. It rolled in such a body yesterday about two o'clock. The rains of the present week had swollen the ancient Fleet rivulet, but np to the instant of peril no danger was ap prehended. Either an unusual discharge from the Hamp stead and Highgate, or other reservoirs, or heavier rains than fell about Clerkenwell, had fallen within the area of the north-west drainage, and sent down an unexpected flood. From 30 to 40 bricklayers, with other labour ers, were in the dry channel, building piers for the arches, or digging foundations, carrying materials on narrow ladders and planks—men tibove men, in the in tricately busy working hive—no means of escape hut by one or two narrow ladders ; when suddenly the labour ers highest on the planks cried that the flood had risen above the weir. It rolled over, brought down a portion of the side works, and came roaring and crashing down the dry channel. The men rushed to the ladders, or leaped upon their fresh and frail walls, or clung to planks, helping one another, or crying frantically for heap. The open archway was within a few yards, and the next outlet was into the Thames, two-thirds of a mile distant. The roaring torrent dashed underneath the clinging workmen into the black throat of this sewer, nod every man knew that should the weir give way and the pent-up waters which were lodged back ward towards King's-cross follow its fall, they would be swept with all they clung to irrecoverably to de struction. The imminence of danger for a brief space produced confu ion, but presently courage and coolness overcame the panic. The weir did not give way. The men above assisted the mei, below, aid they stood in safety with many strangers, attracted by their cries for help, to see the flood washing away the new brick- work, but otherwise doing no harm. CAPTAIN ELLISON, 47TH REGIIIENT.—This gallant officer, aide-de-camp to General Penn e f a th er ( w i t h w h om he has returned to England on account of the impaired health of the lilac!), paid a visit to Lincoln on Mooney, en route to B niltham-hall, the residence of his father, Colonel Ellison. At the Great Northern Railway sta tion he was met by thousands of the neighbouring gen try and citizens, including the Mayor and town council, who presented to him an address of cordial congratula tion on his safe return from the seat of war. A cortege was then formed, c ons i st i ng o f t hi rty carr i a ges, bands of music, banners, &c , to escort the gallant c a p tain to Boulthaitehall Th e crow d were p l en teously regaled at the park, and the day terminated both at Lincoln and B iultham-hall in general rejoicing Captain Ellison has been through the whole campaign, and his military cap is pitied with bullete. • ~_~--y THE G EICMAN LEGION• someto Fh K lE d L e ' ta j i ls the English recruiting agents have been 0 s .l. f totl different countries of Europe, and it would a s pn eter most casual observer that some blame must t ni tar tn ite; f to the agents in question, or to the Gever, n _ foe lol July 2 t 0 - thlei frequency e public qcy p( the e h a s v rr e e : tt ai , Every one seems aware of the existence of tel t yet no one appears to be able to say whef e e t h e pet ) consequently little progre , s can be made dt o reform. I have hapened to meet my of these gent a rather lengthened journey o an n the continental been enabled to judge on the spot of the ad °O O OO%, of the system at present in force both h i _ e rso l . Prussia, and Switzerland. The hist or y of 01 . 1 . / ing agent is pretty accurately the hist or y of alj / 00 therefere trace the course of one of them, as,b,refo reader the task of drawing his own inferences' 00 About three weeks since an officer of the m ell i Legion then stationed at Hull received big r ee :d el 0 9 : , arrival at head-quarters was directed to rect . r ot!, to the frontiers of Germany, there to establish off ing district, within given limits. lie r i d tb it an d to . 0 the necessary funds for the journey, further arrangements would be made for hiy 3 e, eetti o leave him perfectly at liberty to org,anise 111 0 1414 6 i, The name of an agent was given him Who e „r e to o4 4o and forward his recruits from Paris- -vi e - to 0 11 obedience to his orders, proceeded, hopitig 0 e OA necessary letters, &c., which had been prO lie .0 1r Paris. He arrived, but found himself forgotten. 1_ Se to lose time, he at once went on to his destieste4l burg, where he immediately set to work. 1 1 0 14 0 1 object known, fixed the amount of pregl ien3 end per man, empowered his agents to receiveloo Jt' s in recruits, and then reported what he e ase es , through the Paris agent. Germany fiftyoeires re, the call, and a few days saw him with% ette t i; and every prospect of rapidly adding to tbe et e9 But he was without friends or the required Pod —in fact, he was proceeding at his own t k r eilet t el in every way, as were his subordinates elau e ee ' 11 0 was not accredited to the French Governonoltlio they of necessity ignored his presence ; O r i leets A ll ply for barrack room for his men, dog n o plenty at his service in the town. For the P t , et the railway officials could not carry his usual price, namely, half third-class fare; a s &As i r* he to do? He wrote again and again for fa ll . 0 • le, help, and, awaiting the reply, placed his 01 1 ie 1 0 0 ine-house, boarding them at the rate of ell w eielL v i, day—et sum moderate enough in itself, bri e ,. ntl( mounted up to a goodly total. The me'. to I f idle, and discontented—entreated b to , 0 1 land, claiming it, indeed, as a right, th e J liOet ceived the promise to that effect on their ° vi e 00 The neighbourhood they occupied was neae ss6r 0 4 el one ; continual disputes arose between that:l3;4A lodging-house keeper, and they in their turt' the recruiting officer, who represented hw s , 0 1 5. 4 writing letter after letter. The far-off age" - eiee s e ei their authorisations to enlist, andthe r ecr lo- f was as yet without one himself, so that r l ' ire fb.a .o o reel 0011 sonment to them at least was imminent..DOeeeper/ naturally deserted; and at last, driven t°,: e - eg ° s o il he managed to procure the necessary w - le eoc i fe own personal security, sent off his e thus relieved himself for the moment Ferr o / presented his situation by means of a th ir 01 3 0e 0 i for he could not leave his post, and lettersol useless—to the agent to whom he bad be e f / fl oe" at Paris. This gentleman's answer wass'-00J1 rence to a third, and more influential WV' rt. the right man was found—the case laid before ble. P" i< tremendous and perfectly -unnecessary eXclesser,il out—and the reply received was this : that reol6 od quirt' had been made respecting the recruit, e OS , poeition at Strasbourg—that it was fella' eV? well-known there—and that, therefore, hf e lei* had not thought it advisable to place fonds an - 0 0/ 11 It must be borne in mind that this roan bed Miele for this duty without any seeking for it 0 0 P .- 1 00 r e / been sent to a town in which he was a col o P' t, ger, and where consequently he could 0 4 1 and where, as a recruiting agent unaccrew .0/ French Government, it was his duty to r ee e Bible unknown eave to his subordinates ; this disadvantage, and crippled as to toet - ln, h rrwee e eca l r p rieiu e si d etth , stu u hisen naided, he had actually forwarded " - b e ;JO rt a erwu v t e ah r r y doe s fd h o tah r n t ids spice picture, acknowledged. eb t time e e di t ; . 5 0 4 0.00, 1 el strictly fact. be 1, Any reasonable numb er o f recru it s could - e ertera, on the German frontier, and that, too, at t k e ., ore lower cost than is imagined, or th a n is novl ' s teit f ell such pettifogging proceedings. As a proof 'OO to the admirable working of the Swiss et e e ° osr, which acts directly under the orders of u OO O regularly enrolling and transmitting itS be k d el by week, properly fed, drilled, and el e h t e fe,eo, on their way to England. Compare tm A - pfeel, o which works with mechanical regularity aeieler, with the picture I have drawn—or as I 811 0 1 1 ' 0 more propriety far underdrawn—of the 0 )1 ' 1e eoe,if, the German Legion, and can the public tha n o eota the mistakes and faults committed ? Z vi the Government manage its own recruiting • - e , its own commission ? It would be far more tbf A lif and far more saving to the public purse e t l r te rbe i jt tract entered into with Baron Von so„, -- asr, t w h h e ic G h er h m e a s n lm ii p e ly gi e o n ng esto find . ten tlla te u e n - Po_ trtv ew receiving return e e man head money, and which sum is such one as to cover all the insane expensed and l' e . - ,eor pointed out above. The total expense 0f t o or each recruit from the German fro t' frontier —` et' or Strasburg—to Dover, will average n ler— twea r l4l .,ef„ lings a mate and in this sum is inclded fiP4.IOOT the price of the railway journey to Paris. " er e o l o deuhted, I will give each separate item il l : e el" this sum must be added five francs head, ra° l lll f if, the subordinate who brings in the recruit* e ll esr a total expense under thirty shillings. Wer e -set' t ment to organise a German commission on P oo 4 same system as the Swiss, offering 61. per 1 %, and adding to that offer a promise of land i 0 at the expiration of a certain term—say fi ge d ere and faithful service—recruits would flock 03 , - 0 0 0 / 1/ „ such depots, and not only would plenty , 13 % • rb Al cured, but they might be picked men, an e - e Ito would cost the public puree 71. 10s. in lieu i0; 4 01 41 . 1 difference of which sum now floods its /fr ee 0 ,e/r pockets of mercenary German agents, or 01 ;eie away in consequence of a total wane of 0 014 concerted plan. i 0 ,0 REPRESENTATION OF MARY . '" V .a. 0 o fd o pds,J Last evening a public meeting of elector od e r bone was held at the Coliseum Hotel, pore?, il. 0 the purpose of supporting the reelection o f old as member for the borough. Mr. W. Field, churchwarden of 11Iarylebli".4 eight o'clock called to the chair, and a Dile O rr t‘e infleential electors were present. I to L-i 0 0 o #o The CHAIRMAN said they had assemble. a t for the securing the re election of a gentle° 3- 00 0 well known to them as member for their beldel,pla alluded to their late well.known and long:trLclev to: 4 1 tatiee, Sir 13. Hall. (Hear, hear.) The 1° 1056 Sir B. Hall into the Government showed "" se e t liv tors of Marylebone had exercised a sound ste ad b° intelligence in having elected him, and he "400 doubt they would do so again most triteol":, e D O A Dr. JOSEPH, in moving the first resolutioweilin that as long ago as 1836, he was one of a d °9 o 9lo l j l l l , r o the then Mr. Hall, to present a requisition' : to stand as a candidate for that borough, eof that no one of his constituents who bad 010 ,i o .i had ever any reason to regret that vote. be t i n e they might say with regard to Sir B. Ha l l' t reo , been found to be the right man in the rig. i de. re!i i* his votes had always been on the right 8 . 0 0,: 00 1 . the New Public Health Act was brougb t , o o# po , meet, it had the interest of the poorer 001 ! 6° ,i and the Government male a wise eb ote de 4 ill, Sir Benjatnin Hall at the head of tha t te r, P b eL —(hear, hear)—and he would ask any el ate bi t 1 :$ local interests had been at all iropa,. o. " - eodgerd ceptance of office under the Crown ? 02' 0 0 0 - &i 4. 11 0 he (Dr. Joseph) would say that, haviogli d eopti while holding office, as efficient a lePp, vp that great borough as he was before he a Cbi l v o ot i ie e Of could see no reason why, by accepting _ lie o 0 missionership of Public Works, he would °les coos, that particular juncture he (Dr. Josell e ple4e9 larly satisfied that this election was to ta. t y 0 0 , e otly had afforded Sir B. Hall a public opportef l t he 'fp 00 ine his opinion upon the method in whi" el or o oV v rt, to be carried on. (Hear.) From the G a l a be' O o p o address of the right hon. baronet there I ,if Pe ell that he was in favour of a determined sou eroosiery secution of the war, so as to insure a Poll° e t vi t e honourable peace. (Cheers.) After theLve -9001)§1 duct of Lord J. Russell in conducting tascereejoi s I ferences, these elections now taking pl ace d eoaooo9/ portant and significant. (Hear.) He he a 'e ke .' te e , Sir B. Ball would remain as good an ba d v - t i t 4 ./ member of the House of Commons as be eoO o ed tinuing to defend the local interests 0 ' a fee o l aaorets second to none in the empire. (Cheers.) t eenlrei "That this meeting has learnt with gr e o l e sei ll fe eee#: the appointment of the Right Hon. Sir De 009 0 02 Chief Commissioner of the Board of 'Wane° ( r tb e ; ( l r t i in it a practical testimony on the part (i w eien e et 4 o,s, to the Wiling ability and industry wit h reeiwer tri hon. baronet has discharged the duties et i oeeed , o ll ) Board of Health. The acceptance of Ois e % bovl ee teo involving the resignation of his seat for V is r ex , uo t! d''.o tio ses.( meeting cordially pledges itse3f to s ecure . every moans in its power." (Cheers.) lat ieel tie e oote e Mr. S. J. STEPHENS seconded there st tee te e o testimony to the great zeal, ability, ae, oc el le eb ge , which Sir B. Hall bad attended to the ' 0 t otea i f te 4 fe the' borough. It had been stated that l i en t so /jet f• cepted patronage could be so free an g oe soe oo s ll , maieed free from patrorag,e from the 0 10 1 OA 01 Stepheee) felt that the Government, il.l iet atbr , 0 0 _,e Hall to preside over the Board of 13 boe etl' or er made a wise choice, but conferred aped ll de borough, an honour which he conceiv i ther by the second appointment. (Hear.) _ipete" A vote of thanks to the chairman taw ceedings. Ate if f warding --"--"-------------It---------------- _,litikt• do v"porip NEWSPAPER PARCELS.—In order to fo''" 0°, 4 . 0 0 'o adhe 6 he l pro... o'lo t , f newspaper parcels, tickets several of the railway stations. Tb,e„seavitbe 0410 attached to parcels of newspapers, ' 4 ""` - si bol es pvo pais through the parcel offices at the d oe , sod without requiring to be entered ag ° , r ba/ i m r3 7o o usually are. Thus, newspaper paroles', it 3 +' tickets may be received up to Within a the starting of a train. 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