The Sun. — London, England, 1855-08-17 00:00:00

ROYAL OPERA, DRIIRY.IANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING. WM be performed DER FREIQCFII7TZ, Character by t fesers. Formes, A. Lockesley, H. Braham, and Hodges; Misses D 3 'er and Lanza. Sto. To conclude with MIDAS. Prices of admission :—To the two galleries. 641.; second Ofrcle of 'boxes and pit, Is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; eta ls, 4s. ' • Private bonzes s tr admit two Persons, 10s, 6d.; foar persons, one guinea. Box.oi open from 10 to 6 daily. THEATRE itOYA.i. ItAYMA.ItiCf.T. tinder the management of Mr. Bnchatene; THIS EVENING, Will be performed MARRIED LIFE. After which, THE ABBE IN LOVE, by the Spanish Dancers. After which, COURT FAVOUR. To be followed by ONLY A HALFPENNY. To conclude with THE SP s_ NTS Ft DANCERS. ROYAL PRLNCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CnAsian ELU. THIS EVENING, Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING. To conclude with KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Ka tharine, Mrs. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHT. Proprietor, Sir. B. Webster.—Directrots, Ms I•snl a C alera " THIS EVENING, Win be performed THE WRITING ON THE NV V.L. Princi pal sharacters by Ve4.rs. Wright, O. Qeloy, P. Bedford, Mrs. Leigh Murray, Visa Wyndham, and Miss Woolgar. After which, FRATErtN ISA fION. To conclude with VIC SC iIOOL FOR TIGERS. ROYAL sTILAND Tit NA fßic. Under the direction of Mr. Payne. Tlll "F.VE SING, Irumernie mem; of Fenn' . 'Marco. Diaz and Senorita Anna Delia Fuente. the renowned p ni.h !Palmer., From the Haymarket Theatre. Will be performed BIiON.EN TOYS. After which EL TOREADOR. Followed by a new Farce, I HE LATCH KEY. THE GALICI %.N FETE. To conclude with G %NM. ASTLEY'S rOYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Legge(' and Manner, Mr. Wm. Cooke. progressive attraction cf Mazeppa. Mr. George Wild and Miss Fanny Williams every night. THIS EVENING, Lord Brron's MAZFPPA and the WILD HORSE, with all tin original thrilling etTer.'ts, and for which Mr. William Cooke has trained his unrivalled stud of horses. After which the first Fquestrians of the day will appear in thi- EVOLUTIO s of the CIRCL .'slso. a variety of Entertaitnents. To conclude with a Laughable Farce entitled. MY UNCLE'S CARD, in which Mr. G. Wild and Miss Fanny Williams will appear. Hoz.office open rroin Eleven Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Writ. Acting Manuer, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Directot, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T tta DAT —"kforain<32 ca)-a. tft , . , 7 4 1 Evening 43 min. aft. *44aftnir Nornior 3 min. after 51 Eveniug 17 min aft. WE3Tll7 4 lll.—liimi °MIA. Ang. 17. TIMILMONifiIM, VA TH3 SRADE. 75 h'ghest since noon yesterasy. 60 —,owest this morning and during the night. 75 —this day, at noon. rIAROM It TIM, 30 . 38. WIND, S.E.—Light, with sultry weather. §nn. - LONDON, FRIIIAY. AUGUST 17, 1855. What are our people • about that they suffer their enemies to make a mock of them, and to doubt their very existence ? We can fancy the veteran METTERNICH exclaiming, with a sneer, " Either they are talking, or pursuing, or in I, journey, or, peradventure, they sleepetl'i, and must be awakened." Never had they so favour able an opportunity for asserting their principles and manifesting their power, and never in our recollection were they so apathetic. Since this War began they seem to have lost that zeal for liberty which formerly distinguished them. They have ceased to think and act for themselves, and have, with a blind credulity, to which we know no parallel, resigned themselves to the direction of the Government of the day. We are satisfied that this apathy is but appa rent ; but to those who labour in their interest it is discouraging. The popular cause is never safe apart from open, frequent, and decisive expres sions of public opinion. The people are false to themselves when they are silent on such great questions as are laid before them. It is for them to have a policy of their own, and to insist on its adoption. What have they not lost in times past by their neglect ? They hare been powerless, because they believed themselves powerless, and have been made by turns the toys and tools of despotic power, because they would never rise to a sense of their own importance and a percep tion of their true interests., At the present day we expected, and we had a right to expect, something better. In this country their will is irresistible--there is no force that can stand against it—and for this very reason states men are weak and Governments are vacillating when the popular voice is silent, or when it is expressed with uncertainty. Ministers, of then own motion, will do no more than they can help. They fear change—they hate disturbance of any kind. They must be impelled forward by pres sure from without, or they will stand still. It is vain to hope for large views or generous senti ments from them. They are ready to catch them up when they pervade large masses of the people, and when it is tolerably certain that they must ultimately triumph in some way or other, but they will never of themselves originate a line of policy widely departing from the beaten track, and calculated to effect a revo lution in the world, though the revolution may be essential to safety, and certain to produce the most beneficial results. Therefore, we say, the question we brine. for ward is eminently a people's question. If th ey refuse to entertain it, drop it must. Professed politicians —men who push their way by small arts of jobbery and intrigue—who in a bumble station have caught some smiles of Ministerial favour, and picked up some crumbs of Ministerial patronage, and in a higher rank have dippedtheil hands deeply in the public purse and basked in the sunshine of Courts—these men will no mort take up the question of their own will than th, persecutors of GALILEO would admire his theory of the earth's revolution. Principles of policy arc important to them only as they indicate a win ning or a losing game. Let any principle be once taken up by the people in a manner which show they are determined to carry it through, and the will not want' the support of both the creature: and the leaders of party. The simple question for the people is whether they wish the War to be directed to the liheratio' of Europe, or to the rivetting of its fetters. 1 the tyranny of Austria is left untouched the Wai against Russia will avail nothing. Our viotorie, will be bootless triumphs. The despotic principlt will escape from the contest unscathed, if, it does not in the end rally, and by some daring con spiracy plot the destruction of Europeau freedom We implore our peopl e to regard the facts. Austria is next door neighbour to Russia. Austria feels that her very existence as an empire depend upon the despotism of her rule- The p o p u l a ti on of Austria Proper is set down in the ,official re ports at two millions three hundred thousand. The population of her Italian provinces is-upvvard s of five millions, of Hungary upwards of ten millions, of Austrian Poland five millions more, while slavonian and German provinces make up the remainder of the thirty-five millions she boasts. Thus Hungary, Italy, and Poland con atitute more tlr.n I;•tlf of her entire nonulation• who haL he— ' 07: •fi26 ii9r art f 524:.; with She C;lte 1-ms, by pc,paLci: ust laws have conciliated their affection ; but the day for that is past. She chose to have-slaves, not subjects. Bey reign is now a reign of terror. Between her and the races she tempo rarily keeps down by her bloody despotism an un dying animosity has been engendered. This feel ing is increasing in intensity, and Austria is so conscious of it that her vigilance grows with the danger, and her rule becomes continually more arbitrary. Is this an empire to oppose an effec tual barrier to Russian aggression ? Is it not evi dent that as respects principles of government her interests and those of Russia are the same ? Freedom in every shape must be equally hateful to both. They are allies by nature ; and while Austria guards the Russian frontier, the CZAR, ' safe from attack on the most vulnerable side of his empire —the side of Poland—will always be able to put forth enormous strength at the extre mities of his dominions. How different would be the position were Italy, Hungary, and Poland free, and Germany liberated from the dead weight of Austrian despotism. We do not speak now of the invigorating influ ences that would shoot through Europe, when the vivid genius of the Italian, and the chivalric nature of the Pole, and the highly ingenious and enterprising disposition of the Magyar, were once more animated by freedom, and were encouraged by its holy and exhilarating breath, to fertilise countries which would then be their own, to spread their language --to enhance their prosperity —to multiply their numbers—to vivify those arts and pursuits for which they have peculiar apti. tude, but which are now crushed by that prostra tion of spirit consequent on a degrading sense of brutal domination. We do not speak now of the bounding and elastic life which so great a change from bondage to liberty would diffuse through Europe—of the jealousies and restrictions it would extinguish for ever—of the new sources of trade and intercourse it would open to art—of the rellowship between States united by one great bond of free government it would produce. do not speak of these things now (though never was there a time more favourable to tue .ion of oppressed races, and to their erection into independent States, from the solid establishment Hof principles of unrestricted commerce as most conducive to national prosperity), but we want to view the question in a political light alone. Is it more for the security of Europe that the Austrian .mpire, constituted as it is, and perfiiious as it has ever proved itself, should continue to exist, or that the order of nature should be restored, and that races should be called to the inestimable We blessing of national independence, whose policy must be antagonistic to despotism, as fatal to their life; and favourable to the closest union with the free Governments of the West, as essen tial to their safety and welfare ? This is tho question for our people. Do you prefer that that immense tract of country—fertile in the richest productions of nature—now known as the Austrian empire, should be under the rule of a despotism and in alliance with Russia, or that it should be under free and national Governments, and closely connected by bonds of interest and sentiment with the Western league ? We wi not believe that our people can be indifferent on so momentous a matter, nor shall our pen cease its appeals to them till they return us some direc response. The great NAPOLEON, when pining in St. He- Lena, and standing on that threshold of both worlds, whence, according to the poet, an intel lectual view is most wide and piercing, foresaw the danger which menaced Europe, and predicted the shape it would assume, and the time when it would occur, with wonderful exactitude. in O'MEARA's " Voice from St. Helena," we find that lie said in 1817 : " In about thirty-five years the Russians will either invade India or.enter Europe with a hundred thousand Cossacks, and two hundred thousand Russians. Russia Inu,t either fall or aggrandise herself." The numbers are, perhaps, very nearly those which Russia has at present in the field against the Allies. What follows is yet more memo rable :--- "In the natural course of things, in a few years Tur key must fall to Russia. The Powers it would injure, and who would oppose it, are England, France, Prussia, and Austria, tow as to Austria, it will be very easy for Russia to engage her assistance by giving her Servia. and other provinces bordering upon the Austrian do minions, reaching near to Constantinople. " The only hypothesis that England and France may ever be allied in sincerity will bein order to prevent this.' Is not the man who could thus far foresee so ex actly the course of events entitled to some cre dence for predictions not yet fulfilled ? The :entente following that above is the most impor tant of all : " But even this alliance waned not avail. Prance, England, and Prussia united cannot prevent it. RUSSIA AND AUSThIA. CAN AT ANY TIME EFFECT IT." This is the conjuncture we have to dread. Events are fast hastening to the consummation NAPOLEON foresaw. Austria and Russia are drawing together. They calculate on the effect which a War void of decisive results, and waged on no principle, except it be to support the old status quo, and to maintain despotism unimpaired —must have in wearying the popular spirit of France and England. When this has been ac complished, then will be the time to strike the world with terror by an Austrian and Russian alliance for the partition of Turkey. The first step has been taken by Austria's military occu pation of the Principalities. Who, looking fairly at the facts, can doubt the imminence of the danger ? How is the full com pletion of NAPOLEON'S prophecy to be averted ? We answer unhesitatingly by the immediate pre sence of the - Allied flags in the harbours of Venice and Trieste, and by Austria receiving a peremp ' P-ory summons to evacuate the territories she has .:oo long usurped. The complete and speedy demolition of " the flibraltar of the N or th , " as Sweahorg has been arrogantly designated by Vluscovite writers—' the Muscovite and pro overthrow of its quasi :inpre,?,nable fortifications, without the loss of a qingle life or a single vessel to the assailants, muit prove how completely the Rus sian strongholds in he Gulf of Finland and the Baltic are at the mercy of the Allied squadrons. Our Government 'las only to will it, and the " standing menaeeA" ro the Scandinavian nations, the sources of Rum= iian influence with the Northern Powers, will be numbered with the past. Let the orders b e given, and the proper means supplied, and Helsin g f ors and Hauge, R eve l , an d even Cronstadt itself, will , hare the fate of Sweaborg ; and the Great Northern Bear will learn that with kingdoms as with individuals, " honesty is ever th e hest policy." It is now ; in the language of the P. R. " Lombard-street to a China orange," on wood versus granite ; and although much. valuable time has been wasted, sufficient still remains to enable us to profit largely from the results of the tardy but decisive ex periment. There are still six weeks during which the ope rations of the Baltic Fleet may be continued, and as Sweaborg cost only two days, we may easily nlculato bow much y may ht accomplished (L1172 ' . - Pcsiod. if Ulu pakies r.:. ti " Nv0,04, lvl ttLlb " theta only go nLitly a nd zeitiou6iy, while Cub lUalabul oi the IiICL ia -excited to the highest 'pitch by the brilliant results o f their first greet triumph o f th e , Beam; and TrIE SUN, LONDON FRE3AY EVENI..?#,ITO-, AUG! TST 17, 1855„ the enemy are depressed and panic stricken by their easy conquest, and more will bi achieved than even the most sanguine can venture to anticipate. But there must be no delay nor procrastination. The time for nego tiation has gone by, that for action—incessant. indefatigable action—has arrived. The success must he not only steadily but rapidly followed up ; and the Governments of England and France must show their unflinching determina tion to spare no efforts to support the operations of the Fleet, and to render their achievements com pletely decisive as to the War. It may not be pleasing to Prussia that we should do so. Austria may be astonished at our proceeding so rapidly while she is willing to mediate. But it is the course that will induce them really to strive to bring about a permanent and honourable settle ment of the disputed questions, however distaste ful to Russia, and diametrically opposed by the traditional policy inaugurated by PETER, and fol lowed by CATHERINE, and ALEXANDER, and NICHOLAS ! From the situation of Sweaborg it was manifest that it could only be attacked from the sea—that no land forces could possibly co-operate in the on slaught. It consisted of a number of small rocky islands, strongly fortified, and communicating by bridges or galleries the one with the other. The Russian Fleet lay in the heart of this series of forts protected on every side. That fleet was, however, transferred to Cronstadt, where it re mains as a portion of the prize for the additional work of the fleet. Sweaborg was also the defence of Helsingfors. The only channel by which the• capital of Finland, the emporium of the trade of Northern Russia, could be approached, lay directly within the range of its 800 guns of heavy calibre. So that, in fact, until Sweaborg was dis mantled, and its fire silenced, nothing could be even attempted against Helsingfors. The protec tion, however, is withdrawn. It now lies at the mercy of our Fleet. It is for the Admiral to de cide whether to strike or to spare, and we cannot for a moment doubt his determination. Tho policy that spared Odessa to be the scourge of our troops in the Crimea, to endanger their existence and the whole objects of the War, cannot he so perversely pursued, as to act as a protection to Helsingfors, now that Sweaborg has been demo lished. The course adopted towards Helsingfors will probably decide the policy of the Scandi navian Powers, and render the Swedes, Norwe gians, and Danes either firm friends and faithful allies, or worse than doubtful neutrals. It is an important element in the calculation that must decide our course of action in the Gulf of Finland. It is more than probable that Helsingfors has al ready been bombarded ; and if so, that it has been demolished. Day by day we may look for this cheering and satisfactory intelligence, which will prove the earnestness of our Government. But when that has been accomplished—what next ? There is still more to be done. The Russian fleet still skulks securely under Cronstadt. It must be destroyed in its fancied shelter. And it can be so. Sweaborg and Helsingfors will then no longer exist to threaten the Allied Fleets, in the event of any unanticipated reverse. They will be completely our own, to act as places for refit ting any casualties—a source of strength instead of weakness, a cause for confidence instead of terror. The mortar-vessels and gun-boats may, as we have already said, run down the coast of Finland, and take Cronstadt in the rear. That is the vulnerable point—the heel of the Northern Aenruns. Thence can the fleet be destroyed, while the men-of-war watch in front to deal with any sortie on which they may venture. Nor need . the bombardment be restricted to a single point. The iron shower may he hurled from every side :end on every position, perplexing and terrifying the panic-stricken foe. It is there that the co operation of land troops would be peculiarly valu able. They could land in the rear, at the " vul nerable spot," where an onslaught has never been thought of. We have seen the vast importance of I such aid at Bomarsund, but it would lead to even more astonishing results at Cronstadt—the proper point of attack being selected. A land force, with every 'facility for transit from place to place, would he of immense value. Twenty or thirty thousand men, who could be landed at any point, would create work fur five times their number of Russians, who could not tell where the impend ing blow might fall. The men could easily be found. If England could not spare them they could be obtained from France. Our faithful ally would rejoice to participate in that which would, indeed, be a " heavy blow and great discouragement to Russia." A single word to the Emperor NAPOLEON, and any num ber of trained soldiers will be forthcoming. Let that word be spoken. A golden opportunity is at hand. Our dearly-beloved SOVEREIGN will soon be accepting his hospitalities ; she will be at tended by many of her Ministers ; and the deci sion may be arrived at within a few hours which will crush the aggressive propensities of Russia, and produce a glorious and permanent peace, which it will be beyond the power of the auto cratic brigand to disturb or endanger. Whatever may be thought of the leadership of such in divid uals as Messrs. COLLETT, HART, GEORGE THOMPSON, late of Tower Hamlets, DAVID URQUHART, PA SSMORE EDWARDS, WASHINGTON WiLics, and others, most of whose names are un known beyond the precincts of the Peace Society's committee room, their tactics are worthy of atten tion. In one point they are agreed—" Down with Lord PALMERSTON ;" in another the men who chiefly pull the wires are also agreed, to put a wet blanket over the War, and to extinguish it as soon as they can. The truth, which gives plausibility to their language, is that which Mr. PUNCH has pictured ror us this week ; and if these gentlemen want a fl to to hang from their committee-room window, the best device will be the "Ministerial White bait Dinner," and the best motto that which appears beneath it, "I shay, ole Fellah— ,vhat a jolly lot of humbugs we are." We have ourselves never concealed our belief that Lord PALRMESTON is too much of an aristocrat himself, and too much at the mercy of ecret, but overbearing German inflw.nce, to carry on the War with real vigour. We have never failed to demand definition in the place of that wearisome cant Phrase ; but catch Lord PALMER STON in a. definition ! He sold Poland, to our pre. sent-e OB F2 twenty years ago; he quietly acquiesced in the Russian conquest of Hungary, only the other day, after having teased Austria a little, without meaning the least harm to the sacred cause of deSpotism; to both o f wh i ch delinquencies we owe the burdens and losses of this War. This inconvenient truth is now brought to the surface. It was whispered when P ALMERSTON first came in, but popular hopes made it useless to a ttempt working it then. Now, however, after time has shown that his Lordship can talk o f vitrour, and yet continue the old course of '',':;lair about a 3L and honour4bi c t as its basis L Four Pointy rid accept - •.`ae viii ;ti eve . A MinistJrial papers now laugh at—the It is difficult indeed, MU for us, to iD3pugu War time tibBZ)ii.the'tBh7suidebsiuo-71).°Atcvmel:RlYsTtoox.attack the. the premises A* the resolutions which were carried 'IT meetings of seven or eight thousand persons tt Birmingham, and by no despicable numbers in St. Martin's-lall. Thousands of hearty friends of the oppressednationalities were there ; the sen timents most 3nthusiastically applauded are proof of that ; in ore meeting at Kennington, both the resolution and the amendment were heartily car ried. The pace men are in this way making use of the Var men practically in favour of Russia, just As the Squires used the Chartists lgainst the Arti-Corn-Law League. The trick is t clever one. How are we to escape the dilemma they put us in? You wish Poland to be restored, they say, and you want a Polish Legion to be raised, hoping it will be the inauguration of the desired deed cf justice ; but, they ask, do you believe Lord PALMERSTON and Prince ALBERT will ever alloy the restoration of Poland ? While a German Prince must be the virtual Prime Mi nister of the day, can the constitutional Prime Minister content that Poland shall be free ? En other words, can he consent to the release of German poter.tates from the Russian Protecto rate ? and to beloved " Preussen and Oesterreich" losing their little mouthsful of Poland ? We are compelled to shake our heads. Hence they wind up Would you then raise au unhappy Polish Legion merely to shed its blood in fighting for those libertieS for others of which they are never to taste them selves ? The questioners seem to have no flaw in their arguments, yet we are satisfied they aro practically wrong. The error is precisely that against which they inveigh. Do not, they exclaim, put the Polish Legion into bands which will use it for their own purposes only ! We reply, do not, you friends of Poland, put yourselves into the hands of the friends of RusSia ! The Peace-at-any-price party, and the pro-Russian party are using you for their unworthy objects. No benefit to the Poles can re sult from the course into which the peace men would dupe you. That is certain. They do not wish it should. What care they about Poland ? She grows no cotton for Manchester, and her slavery is a great " honour " to the honourable nation, for whose undiminished honour the ABER DEENITES and RUSSELLITES are SO sensitive. Coin cidence with such men ought to make friends of Poland suspect themselves in the wrong. We hold, therefore, to thorough-going honesty. Demand distinctly all that is right for the junc ture. It is right, and acknowledged by those who have lately met, that Poland should be free ; right that it should be the bulwark of Europe against the vaunted but odious barbarism of Rus sia ; right that Poles of all men on earth should enlist under every banner unfurled against Russia or Austria ; the brave BEM and scores of noble Pules have verified this. Even if they recovered not their fatherland it would be right for them to join in every attempt to humble its wicked oppres sor ; it is right that Russia should lose the ser vices of the 200,000 Poles whom she has forced into her armies, and that the cause of European independence should have their aid. All - this is unquestionably right ; but, a second thing is also right, that this patriot aid, and the whole con duct of the War, should be in thoroughly trust worthy hands. Then demand this also. Separate not what in this contest GOD has joined together. Poland abroad, and men at.home who care for nationalities, not for crowns, are the two -things wanted. Let every meeting insist on both. If Lord PALMERSTON can't be trusted, then, in, the name of justice, . turn him out.. We, at least, shall not weep. We believe he could do all we require—if he would. That he will, or that he will boullowed, if he would, we much more than doubt. What, then, is the one thing wanted ? W e reply, for the nation to awake and do its duty. ABERDEEN and his coterie have faiIed—PALMER STON and his Whigs have failed—Lord JOHN and the visitors at Chesham-place have failed—Lord DERBY, in opposition, has failed—the House of Commons. _has failed. Are we then helpless be yond the little charmed circle ? Are there none among us who in office would " screw up their courage to the sticking-place, and would not fail ?" All England knows the contrary. The country denounces routine. Why, it is the country's own tolerance of routine in selecting a Cabinet which is the immediate cause of all that has gone wrong. Base foreign' policy, and shamefully wasteful administration are both due to this one cause. We would warn Lord PALMERSTON, meantime, that his delicacy to Austria and to Russia may be continued too long. Although cunning men are prompting the people to close the War because PALMERSTON will neither tura out nor do the people's work, that silly trick cannot mis lead honest Englishmen long. They will never consent to a shabby winding-up. They will think it infinitely more reasonable to reject . any Minister than to reject a Polish Legion. Were England pulled to-morrow for Poland or PALMER STON, the result of the ballot would shake the throne of every European despot..--PALMERSTON himself would vanish for ever. The Marchioness of Ormonde, the young marquis, Lady Mary, and Lord James Butler, returned to Kil kenny Castle from Garryricken on Monday. The Earl an , l Countess of Beshorough will join the party about for assemble at G , rdon Castle about the end of the month, to partake of, the hospitality of the Duke and Duchess of Richmond. Lord _Paget arrived. at Malta, on the 7th inst., on hie way home trom the Crimea, invalided. The lady and family of Lieut. Colonel Harrison, Roya Artillery, have left Kilkenny, for London. The Hon. Mr. Wandeßforde, Lady Carrick, family, a•id suite, have left Mount Juliet for Coolulu Lodge, Dunmore East, county Waterford, for the bathing Reagan. By the death of the Duke of Somerset, Lord Palmer ston will, for the first time, have to advise her Majesty as to the bestowal of a blue ribbon. It is reported ( ~a ys the Portsmouth, Guardian) that Sir Francis Baring is about to accept office under the present Government, and will consequently be obliged to appear &fain before big constituents. His Excellency the Bavarian Minister has taken a house at Bllghton for the season. Lord and Lady Brougham are receiving company at Brougham Hall. Sir William and Duly Molesworth have left town for their seat, Pencarrow, Cornwall. The Right Hon. Bart. returns to London in a few days, to resume his offiCial d sties . La•'y Molesworth will remain at Pencarrow till the end of September, to receive a succession of visitors. Among the recent visitors at the Royal Victoria Hotel, St. Leonards-on-the-Sea, have been the Marquis aced Marchiotiess of .Abercorn and Lady Louisa Hamil ton, Baron-ss James Rothschild, Lord and Lady Foley and the Hon. Miss Foley, Lord. Dufferin, Sir A. and Lady Agnew Sir Ejward and Lady Buxton, &c. Mr. H. Bell, one of the candidates selected for the Civil Service of the East India Company, is not, as has been stati,d, a member of Exeter Ca►llege, Oxford, but a graduate of Clare Hall, Cambridge. The Marclii,mess of Ely, who will be the Lady-in. Waiting in attendance upon her Majesty during the ap proaching Royal visit to the French Court, is supposed to have been appointed for this high duty in consequence o f her personal friendship with tie Empress of the French. KEW GARDENS.—A statement has appeared in the public papers to the effect that Kew Gardens are open the whole of Sunday. Such is not the case. They were formerly closed all that day. Sir W. Molesworth opened them to the public from two o'clock till six ; they are now kept open till seven, and will continue so •luring the few remaining Sundays before the shorter , ays commence. ENERAL O',DoNNELL, of the United Sate army, arrived -in Limerick this week from America, on 3 visit to hii iklajt,r-Getip.ral Sir Charles O'Donnell, Ka.. It is 38 sears.since the above veteran was onn - a visit to hiS n,,ar relative, the late Colonel 113nry A. ().1) ' 611 ° 11 , C• 1 3., in this city. Of thi; ..).ricient and di: - ,- anguished Celtic family there happen to be now four general officers in the service of America, Great Britain, Spain, and Anatria,--Linicrick Oliroack, A rt . . . it , p it , • drz • S „ , OFFICI AL DESPATCH FROM GEN. SIMPSON. GREA T BATTLE ON THE TCH ERNA YA, ENORIVIOUS SLAUGHTER DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS. WAR DEPARTMENT, AUG. 17. The following important telegraphs have been received from Lord Panmure : VARNA, AUG. 16, 1.30 P. M. The Russians attacked the position on the the Tchernaia this morning at dayligh in great force. The action lasted abou three hours, but they were completely repulsed by the French and Sardinians. The Russian attack of the morning was under the command of General Liprandi, with from 50,000 or 60,000 wen. Their loss is estimated between four and five thousand. About 400 prisoners have been taken, The loss on the side of the Allies is very smal Further particulars will be sent. LATEST N E WS. THE BALTIC FLEET. DANTZIC, AUGUST 16, 8 r.m. The Vulture has arrived with the mails. The Allied squadrons returned to Nargen from Sweaborg on the 13th. The success at Sweaborg is fully confirmed. No ships have been seriously injured. The casualties on the English side arc—killed, none ; two officers and about 30 men wounded. The French los, is equally trifling. PARIS, FRIDAY. The most, important item in the news from Turkey is that a strong Russian division is march ing un Erzeroum, and that all the disposable Turkish forces in Anatolia are hastening towards the same place. General Canrobert has arrived. THE INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The screw steam-transport Alster arrived at this port this morning from the Black Sea, bringing with her the heavy portion of the India mails, for some days overdue, by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Sultan. The delay of the Sultan is caused by having broken a crank pin when nearing Gibraltar, and as it required some little time to repair, the mails were forwarded by this conveyance. The Sultan was expected to leave Gibraltar for S mthampton to-day, and has on board 67 passengers, and an average, amount of cargo. Advices from Konigsberg state that when the attack on Sweaborg began the Grand Duke Con stantine, immediately informed by telegraph of the event, demanded leave to go out and attack the reduced fleet before Cronstadt. The Empe ror refused. VIENNA, AI7G. 15. Accounts from Constantinople of the 9th state that the insurrectional movement at Tripoli cruses uneasiness to the Porte. Two regiments have been embarked to put it down. THE MEDITERRANEAN. MARSEILLES, Aug. 14 —The mail steamer Indus, which sailed from ConStantinople the 6ih instant, arrived at 10 this morning. She brought Generals Canrobert and Saucier, and 200 invalids from the Crimea. Some of them were badly wound-d, and were conveyed to the military hospital on stretchers. General Canrobert remained in his private cal - iin until the few persons who assembled to see the pas sengers land had dispersed. He then stepped ashore, the Indus having beeu moored to the quay. Having declined all military honours, he drove to the Hotel des Empereurs, where he breakfasted in the public coffee-room. He appeared cheerful, and in much better health than one might expect from his loikg 'stay in the Crimea and his severe winter campaign. He sailed from Marseilles for Constan tinople in March, 1854. Nittnerous detachments of troops continues arrive daily ; among them 300 of the 3d Regiment of engineers, and 150 of the 2d of the same arm— two detachments of the 35th, 53d, and Glst in fantry. The "detachment of the 53d, 400 strong, arrived-from Auxerre, in Burgundy. They are to be incorporated with the 19th, in the Crimea. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The EmPeror yesterday, after the official re ceptions, was pleased to allow a number of foreigners of distinction to be presented to him by the Papal Nuncio, the English Am bassador, the Belgian, Neapolitan, Prussian, Austrian, Saxon, Portuguese, Sardinian, Arne rioan, Dutch,,. and Spanish Ministers, and by the Charges d'Affaires of Tuscany and Greece. 'lhe Emperor afterwards received Mr. W. Fihnore, ex-Presidefit of the United States, and also Baron de Gratty, and also Major Chevalier Bowens de Bau wens Commissioner and Deputy-Commi ss i oner at the Exhibition for the Argentine Confederation. An Imperial decree appears in the Moniteur, by which the Emperor names the following as mem bers of the Municipal Council of Paris :—MM. Count d'Argout, Governor of the Bank of France; Bayvet, auditor of the same establishment ; F. Barrot, Billaud, Boulatignier, Count do Breteuil, Chaix d'Ast-Ange, DPlangle, E. Delacroix, De- Di2vinek, Ambroise, Firmin Didot, Bubar!e, Dumas, bitilleul, Eck, Fondle, Lepelletior, Voucher, Fremen, Herman, Lamy, Le Dagre, Le aendre, :Moreau, Marquis do *Pastoret, Pecourt, Polouze, Perier, Rouland, De Royer, Segalas, Thayer, Thiba,ut, Tnierry, Tronchon, and Varin. The Moniteur contains decrees making further promotions and nominations in the Legion of tlonour, on th e occas i on of the Fete Napoleon. 4 I _..mong the form er we fi n d as C ommanders —M. Bonjean, senator ; M. Chevreau, prefect of the Loire Inferieure, and M. de Mentque, prefect of ""e Gironde ; and as officers the Count de S etur l'Aguesseamt M. do Bourgoing„ prefect of the Seine-et -Marne • eitte- et- Alarne • Baron Mercier, member of the Council-General of the Orne, and M. Verdi, the Woman's Devotion. A Novel. Hurst and Blackett. 3 1 , 015. a. in this work,.A.l. unusual degree genuine f e r e es o i f l n t e a s l s en o t f i f s ee m - l i i ii s i p g la p y e e rv.adecsr t e h: composer of the " Vepres Siciliennes," &c. The spirit of its design. Its heroine is a ;l o l t a lu rte d I t il a g ol tion—one, indeed, that is not often sti o e the pages of fiction, and, it is to be feared , _,. h o f &- number of Knights nominated amounts to 7 , L The M oniteur says :—" The Emperor, in his so- influence the. est iicitude for all that concern,: the interests of th© seldom seen to gladden and glorify the nth dull mestic life, and irradiate by its „ rot n o t army, has desired to ameliorate the position of the and dreary in the world of home. - 0 ' perfections `Dotare is an unnatural character ; her widows and orphans of those who die in combat ing ; and, in consequence, by order of his Majesty, a bill has been presented to the Council of State transcendentlyma d ht elis terce for doubling the amount of the pensions to widows and orphans of soldiers of all grades k:tled by the but the softened splendour of hePr°bssriibglive,t_ohrte:liiisee; eoutassumpaenrhifuemstaend,tonobreapreer her virtues to. is so pure and holy that a. times one ig _u_ e d by enemy, or who die in the war. The bill in ques tion will be presented to the Legislative Body at the poet as wanting she approached the semblance of those, inias its next session, but the Minister of War has been " But the adornment of bright wingt To look like heaven's inhabitants. ell , suthorised to augment provisionally such pensions with the funds of which he disposes, and which The peculiar circumstances of her position a_r u e t /r he s come from national subscriptions." devised, as those most calculated to draw f forth bet The Prefect of the Police has published au or- hidden strength. of mind, and show : 0 take s lonnance i relative to the measures of order to be gentleness of disposition at once. She was gene m) • serves lon the entry of the Queen of England. from her dearl loved solitude to a whirling the from three o'clock no carriages will he allowed to of gaiety and bustle. No wonder that a' l ines pass along any of the streets through which the sublimity of her mountain life, the harsh res er eel ~ :ortege will pass from the Strasburg terminus to of Gomer should seem strange, nor that tebesbooa St. Cloud ; the different deputations belonging to taunt and bitter sneer of envy and Ina lic ( o vice s-me city of Paris who have demanded permission jar painfully on her ears, where "ocean encoull: re join the cortege will have places assigned them ; of majesty seemed still to sound." l'e n ,, e ietea iie et deputations from the communes of the ban- ter Lady Jane, after having ue are to assemble, headed by their banners, in with one so unselfish and kind as Dr j i s raoSt been ,a 7 ., w all the grand avenue of the Champs Eiysees, where fziend. was a heavy trial. She performeu Ole places will be reserve 1 for them. The ordonnance difficult task admirably. It is easy for the Id clit' concludes with the usual interdiction against erect- nature to yield, and it is natural for the ingscalloldings, climbing on t rees or latnp posts, &c. position to be brave. One shrinks frora tnu i n the At the end of the gra n d banquet given on Toes- genial struggle, while the other gl° lle - s b i li e tll day at the Hotel de Ville, in honour of the Em welcome warfare ; but to unite and e eni an d y e " peror's fete, .when the dessert was placed on the firm and the friendly, to be consistent an ordesl, *able, M. Haussmann, the Prefect of the Seine soothing in demeanour, is an effort and 3 ter atedi proposed the health of the Emperor in the follow- the magnitude of which can scarcely be ove • r it 0 log terms:— i n tba lel SCE Had Nest, for the sake of peace, "Ge l ntlemen,—ln the name of the Municipal Body of charity, given up her own claim, and, °III : Or Paris, Eal have ... th e honour of proposing the health of the of her youth, deferred to the mature JO peror Napole .n 111. Every year that passes over would," eerns to add to the bonds of confidence and' devotedne, rience of her mother-in-law, she contrs r l e 4 fallen into a snare. On the . , an ba se 4 .1 which so closely unite the country t i the Empermm e , she listened to the plea of justice, !,, ti ldb!„ (Loud marks of assent.) As for us, gentlemen, in pro prtion as we advance in the accemplishrnent of the vast on the fulfilment of her rights, she wv et in the designs conceived by his Majesty, in order to make Paris made enmity and angry feelings perniall em on, l ot A fitting lesson is given further „ los a capital worthy of France, we are more and more deeply family penetrated with gratitude for the august initiative, the ever, of the evil effects of bad passions. l i b urgr ecr happy effects of which excite at once the pride of our likely that a your) , maiden, however gO ci 0 al? ldluw-citizens and the astoni:-hrnent of foreigners. ous her own heart might be, could at °. e . e a 1 11 (Loud applause.) Vice l'Empereur. After a - a o n r o c t h h a e n r ge he t a h r e t. evi l l l feet continued : " Geetlemems—We unite to the Emperor in our senti- that her young daughter could affect or ~,, 1 jt ot agency and a more terrible impression t h°l l ooi a m m u l st dea n d a l v y e s i b n ee ini a nirtig o l i t nients, and we never separate from him in the expression that could . have transformed and ameliorateaecisill , four wishes, her Majesty the Empress, his august and vraci , us companion, Vice l' Imperatiice." This toast, which was delivered in an emphatic by the admirable young Duke of Nmiirn, i the f t) Jane. She was exhorted by her friends, e b s e Pios; manner, was followed by unanimous cries of Vise, man ; she was implored by her son in . : l au d fil o !temente:* of youth's most urgent languag a n s l'Empereur ! Vice l'lmperatrice ! "F. r some days Tessa," says the Cottrrier de la Dronie, all the force of a paionate nature, ; ab ° , ve r f i ttOi l l "fr im 1,500 t0r.2,000 soldiers have been daily conveyed was adjured b the tranger entered o forego the evil from Lyons to Marseilles. These fr rops form part of herbs irss the contingent of from 20,000 to 30,000 men who art entreaty, nor exemole, could move before the end of the , ninth to etnharli at the Southern wish was to make Nest unhappy, an d , t s j i lotiri : f her ways. NelinthWerjje;°l3fdstg' port; f'er the East-. It is said that these troops are in- Towed to succeed. One event realiseu rayer so s terWed for the camps of Nia•dak arid of Varn , hut ever. ings of the evil spirit, and answered the pe tol o thing of course will be subordinate t, the grand military *he trns - tinot heart. The young and imp of 1 , 1 0 1 action which is every day expected at Sebastopol." Lord Gomer was struck down in the P r ", in str' he s ,‘ The casing-mills of the Don s and Jura, says an and the flower of existence. It wa s - t hat 5 '4 in P üblte of Lyons. " , re at present bu.i'y employed i prepararg a large quantity of planks fat the arty . f varnin. , *0 the wicked woman to see es 31.1 the Ea , t, probably in auticioation of a further supply of had beckoned an intruder on her son's ,P,, e s 3 t eo ' fil h •r summons had been ans wooden huts for the winter. One of the Rhone steamer carried to Marseilles on Tuesday a full cargo of plank• (lige!, not the messenger of we p r e e a d ce b , Y b t u h r" t cli li sp et7 "/ .if destruction. He came not with the $" li d 1; ready arranged to be carried out to the East. Th. same day, 1,200 barrels of gunpowder were forwardee voice to call forth his hallowed m ission,, s , to net from Lyons to Marseilles by railway, and a s mu c h s e e Away the early dead unbroken by earth s rin . t . been se• t there two (lays before. As to bombs and other unbent by life's cares. He descended 'olo.llllt prujectiles the quantities lately despatched from Lyon- storm and the whirlwind to crush and t° e s have been immense." late The spirit of N es t, th a t had bomne u P st reag t t , so many hardships, showed its intrinat e rtio stP s 1 t s by benditg to the blow. In one of the ro otl et Telexing of human assaults she had been fo otl i v and unflinching. When trouble came 1 1 re sig,,,s3 corm, she was strong in her humility' a i r ope te , tion. She acknowledged that she hau.,,, e alY„f. and attetnstol too much, and far frog' .L te (l ol ',, t mining or wildly cemplaining at the comph e eio glif? ferings that befell her, she persisted in ° l e st g r a in darkness, aed good in ill. She was at nie Y d , to see tie end so near, for time u nfortun' too thr oi m iomerhad exchan es d one state of miseryfe r 0 110 0 " The unselfish naltr of It( r character feL, mie fr tholonely and desolate feelings that ctli s ' ol et°,i her, and made her think that God, imi W oe , 7 ,,, :e4; that immortsl soul, so ripe for h e _ er ial ue t from its shattered frame. She checked ev a bt t' ef mur; she te pt herself free from every th ° t hol''o eetven and him.' It was then that N (3B o f er n reward. In the tears which sh e shed grave ( f the husband o f h er y ou th there o ks d 7d - hing bitter or ag mising. Her heart, that 1 1 01 1 2 a, ion( and riven while he was with hers Ov - f , indergone -with him the martyrdom 2,,,,,e0ttde seemed to revive as und er th e awl': io,7d . shove. She knew and felt that he w a i ,:d asrii keeping, at last he could no more be 1 0 sa t o ;my his perilous position, or b e t ur ned fr e . 0 toil e his designing mother. It was her dm-svon if P - 0 $ , that had induced her to bear so Much, ail f ee l had failed she felt that her purest progre ss feelt r . been lost, nor her earliest, freshest, faires t , rasted. She had not perverted them ill sa sbe a ings at the couch of sickness and death; hen ; i s a l / 8 ,. t they had not been buried with worldly l: le ftP , purposes, but lifted up and exalted. -.'' b o ipeT o e beloved Frank as an offerin g on the altar, in '_' o , In her trial she had been so unspottel se d . y of nature, and so zealous of good, that she T il t P P turally her mind to the consideration of r sii . 0, 4 , lom where the pure in heart shall see tf; u pia o ' 0 and where perfection is immortal. In tu e ters i g e ing of the events many distinctive char 0 1•, 3 Du ,) resented. The ardent and straightfort o ; o sel ft h of Nairn is a good instance of what amn iti ol or , and decided mind ma y accomp li s h. The, o enbe ind unpolished, but ge nui ne Stewart, ti'' to c s emus to hide his enthusiastic devotlen. i d pa S er Duke under the mask of dissatisfaction ,t 0 ett m tiliousness, are both good delineations 01 , 1 7 1 . 0 00P 0 ( getic and vigorous life. The "poor Hap v oto to . r ob , vim hailed. in the young Nest the reg 3ll o o c a the fallen fortunes of the Garners, is allied fit, sketch. Her second Frank, as she 01 . ; i ri teriig Gomer, was the centre of her cares 0. 11 - 1 of b , She was watching him all through the 3rlooovo happiness, but when the trouble came 49 . ed bi 00 come, she was crushed at his fall, she al „ es iol l _ ce , death-bed. Minnie is a warm-hearted , ?: tra, to *sill, whose career is interesting sable to' Lady Jane is a remarkable and painful l ord P r ot contemplate. The author has set horfer,o, G de d minently in the light and shade of her m i n a O uc h powers of intell ct and depth of feeling t ' oo l i , t o to mislead her. Her position watt' 4 fee m t ,oo for her, and she would not l-ein. - I °, 0 0 8 bet were shown by her after sufferings, wia° l : ii rel ) , imi late to stem the torrent she had brouSh,v t A ftt.itti home. The real and the true are sougt,', o g or d e this glimpse of life. There are the 0' 1 , 0 4 tup, ce ntell . " 6 0: !, o f 4 humanity, love, and ambition Cher. In suffering and sin the warfare v t io b, e ; to, but the lesson of life was taught at evo c1, 1 0; death, where the dreams of one were Pr_v eo ne t l i e vanity, and the daring of the other 100 0 0 spirit. It is a touching spectacle to The l o ok warning to human pride ani paA ol2 * r i i spP l , o ,9 l '`o come are not our own to make or mar asp At the tomb of their common love trot 00,0 and enthusiast were alike defeated. I d 3 of th e ° P i° devotion was not over at the thresbel i _ ohe a IL to land ; it could follow no more, but it i tt u qt 3 0 1 _, P " l tal trust to the place where ambition PI wait f°' its purest prize, and where love must harvest-scene. LITERAT UR E. BOURSE, AUG. 16 —CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4. per Cents 95 —95 f. —e. 3 per Cents 67 25 67 55 Credit &tobilier l2OO Roman — Credit Fonder 550 Austrian Belgian Fives. ..... .. 95 Spanish Threes — Piethnontese — - Home Debt — RAILWAYS--FOB CASH. tr. o. IY . e Orl - Lyons - Western B3O -- RoueL Cette 675 L . - Strasburg - Mediterranean 1320 -- HOATE, 7Ol 25 Northern - 925 -- Oheiburg ....... 701 25 1 7— CI invalidsN'tGtrn A g 1: ON a t n d 8( gni:. 1;'I:: 9;..:111bonlg eiirtl.6lBrtliitribre°6°l.l3,:ilj'ele ell:: „u T g E :d. A: 9 I w. EiR: Th C h - 1 0 e1 T LAND H :? - T S .ar, Or ' d e 40t on the Farlood Reef on the night of fur E- ee ~( w a o as m rdeias previously vvatroeveek. '.reported in The Sun), ig itib i k ei e l i :eo l°l4* the ishT Baltic, has sent information an H d Her w fu a l t l er o -t f ig w lit ate c;: n ri,Lo - y - d m sa fie i— e i t o i g e . iigj kinghave vthe f n e bu r :eel: or assistance anistehde ci to get s hkeeitrbeot Ceahlttahiern,enea to the commander of ..... , ; f posedri, h ea e eli d . Owing to this increase in height, the ' l , ll ' s s Om diwcerne• , six or seven miles farther tha ll ,. o fr 011 1, 03 possible. The Ca-ket Lights warn bier To ne, - 0 1 are of great use to vessels trading dangerous rocks which beset the Channel -!,..i3cmc10e,04 France. The person who has charge O f theni_bieb ',ll a family on the small but rugged rock on .^ l , i s rol o f stand. When the sea is smooth enough , ",_ bic tbe I P ;i1( the case, he effects a communieation viitu ,the Alderney. The Caskets are fertile, like the De; so )te e r islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and tbe liglitheisiAr has won prizes at floricultural AOWS in thol e o re ) 4,0 , COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ►SOIITII WrA"oics4 O A f if o LAND.—The long-sn-psty ed steam COrritn/ 1 f r elfin v d 't 0 between ...to re.be tween the south of Wales and the south 0 , is abifrteli Milford Haven and,the town of Waterford,. die 0 . g oo o e .., be fep'aced. The great pier at Neyland le the °S t,: to be constructed in order to accocomdate,_ ore 0' t g 1 0 to be engaged in the transit, and the veseel'sf ps el‘e t be ready for active service. When the vise °f WOO will also again running in connexion with the South v" . .. ou te, /l og Government will forward the MailS by thi g w l eg t Of rod', land a far more expeditious route for the . : . _ 000_ 0 .0 th ' - ' ' ea vf'Yege frmn Milford Ileven beinfe I a l r e F rO the distance between Bristol and Coll'' , ~T o open to the metropolis and ,iste r iii iiii i ) . oc iielP.,, ,, points of intercourse. f the ° last The eft ,, Among the medical gnduites 0 - „ t elle f 'University who obtained their diploroas_,'„tieos•oos°: ruination were a Chinese and feu* B'Jr hs the , t or Chinese graduate, Won Fun, is believed to he orities, the Celestials who has ever graduated to ' varsity, GREECE. The Trieste Gazette of' the 9th says :—" The reason why the Greek Minister Kalergi has fallen into disgrace and received the order not again to appear at Court is, that in a letter from him, pub lished in a newspaper, he expressed himself in such terms that a sovereign could not accept them from a subject. After the publication of this letter the Ambassadors of Austria, Prilssia, and Bavaria.. went in a body- to the President of the Council, and gave him to understand that if M. Kalergi re mained in the Ministry they would be obliged to interrupt their official relations with the Greek Government. M. Mavrocordato, it is said, shrived up his - shotilders, and observed that M. Kalergi's behaviour was unseemly. The Ambas sachir- - of - Austria interrupted him, saying that he used too mild a term, and that the proper word was impudent. The Bavarian Ambassador declared that if Kalergi were not removed from the Ministry he would feel it his duty, as the representative of the House of Wittelsbach, to demand satisfaction for an offence to a mem ber of that house. A steamer was immediately despatched to Stylida for the Ambassador of France, who was in the province cf Pbthyotis. The King sent word to M. Mavrocordato that M. Kalergi would not in future be allowed to cross the threshold of the palace, and that the porters had received orders to that effect." SPAIN. The Madrid journals, of the 11th, have arrived in due course. The Epoca speaks in high terms of the clergy for having in the localities invaded by the cholera remained at their posts and done al] they could to assist the sufferers, though most of the authorities, and in several places even the medical men, took to flight. The Parlamento as serts that M. Olozaga officially informed the Em peror of the French in a recent audience, granted by his Majesty, that the Spanish Government has adopted the resolution to take part in the war against Russia, and of sending an army to the East. The : Bank of Barcelona has subscrib e d 3,000.000 reals to the loan which is being raised by the Government. , (The real is worth five sous.) The last accounts from Catalonia represented every thing to be tranquil. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 12.—The Danish Chambers assembled yesterday at noon, in the Palace of Christiansborg, according to the Royal summons. They are called together in an extraordinary ses sion, for a special purpose, to consent to the pro poeal of the Crown to modify the Fundamental Law or Constitution of the Monarchy, of the 51. h of June, 1849, and to decide whether such modifica tions shall come into legal operation at the same time as the Ministerial plan of a form of Govern ment for the "whole kingdom." There was a full attendance of members, and the portion of the ball allotted to the public was crowded. The proceedings, however, were merely formal. At 1 o'clock the Ministers entered the hail in full State uniform, and, having taken their places in front of the Throne, the Premier, M. Bang, read the Royal rescript by which the Legis lature was summoned. It was a brief document, stating the purpose for which the extraordinary session is held as above given, and authorising the Minister to 'open it in the Royal name. Nine hearty cheers were then given by the members for the King, and three mo r e- for the " Constitution." The Second Chamber then proceeded to the preli minary business of choosing a president, vice-pre sidents, secretary, &c., and examining the validity of the several elections, dividing itself into four bureaux for that purpose. M. Rotwitt was elected president for a month, and M. Monrad (by whom the present constitution was drawn up) and M. Brober, vice-presidents. In this last election 82 votes were given, of which M. Monrad received 78, _.M..__Broberg. 42, --M. Schovelin 32, and M. Tscherninglo. A letter from Vienna, in the Post Ampt Gazette, says :—" In consequence of the acts of brigandage which have been renewed on the frontier of Monte negro, the Austrian Government has charged Ge neral Mamula to signify to Prince Danilo that the very first time that similar acts are repeated, Aus tria will seriously interfere. The general was to make known to the Prince that Austria was desir ous for the prosperity of Montenegro„ but that she could not see with indifference the k vessant re newal of those scenes of misconduct." A letter . from Rassowa states that the English were displaying great activity in the construction of a military road from that place to Kusteadje. It was thought that the establi,hment of this road fir:holed eanipaign of the allies on the Danube. The G allia7z Journal of Frankfort contains a loiter from Berlin, which states that, acc ording to thl! k':,e,s.t arrangements, tho Kist n12(1 Qat:on of and Prussiawere w t e o re pr t o o ce 7 d tu t rn o K t o o ui P g o s t be sd r g n ag on the 25th m on the 18 th , with a numerous __. t6D~: ~~