The Sun. — London, England, 1855-05-24 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GAIMEN.-31 dame GI:ISI. The Directors of the Royal Italian Opera feel the greatest ;,,ratifi cation in having it in their power to announce that that most distin guished artiste, _lime. Giulia Grisi, will nee, appear, for a short period, on the stage of the Lyric Drama. The Directors !tieing that cireumetances had arisen to prevent Mme. Grisi retiring to her' residence at Florence, as contempleted a. the termination f her late engagement in the United States of America, and, moreover, that she woul I most probably reside in England the greater portion of "the precut year, naturally sought to induce her once more to Join the corps it the Royal Italian Opera, and were in the hope of being able to have announced their success in the pro spectus o their Reason arraneerneets. The Directors were, how ever, unable to prevail on elme. Grisi to ewer ieto the engagement, and iremediatc'y made propceitione to aeoth-r cllsenguished artiste to Undertake the repertoire width Madame t,riet has so long and SO honourably fl led. The Directors not having succeeded is these negotiations, again appbed t Mme. Grist to postpone for a short period her final retirement tr,tn the stage. Under these eircumstencee, lithe Grisi, with Ler accustomed kindness, con sented to lent the Directors her hrealietbie essistence. and d they an are now, therefore, enabled to announce that she will sing, uring ergegerner t of tan eiehte, the ptineipa: characters of her well-known repertoire. TIII3 13, 4 . Y, Thursday, May 21, will be performed (for the first time this reason) Donizetti's opera LA EAVOIIiT. e A lute. Grisi. Lceneri. lldlle. ltellinl. Ines eldees ere ................ Signor Lablache. Don Ge.s•aro .................. Signor Soldi. Alfonso Xi .................... signor Graziani (His first appearance in that enaracterin England); and Ignor Mario Fernaedo .... (His third appearance this season). Conductor - - Commence at Eight.—Boxes. Statts, arid Pit Tickets to be had at ALA i tha Box-office of the theatre, ot the prncipal musicsellers and librarians. RCYAL OPERA, DRITRY.LANE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. TO-MORRO W EVENING WII I . he perferms - -1 NORMA, in which Madame Arga, Mdlle Mag ner, Signoo Armand!, Mr Hamilton Braham, &c., will appear. To conclude with a Grand Ballet Divertissement. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. "Under the management of Mr. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING. Will be performei MONEY. Characters by Messrs B. Sullivan, Backstone, W, yarren. Compton, &c. ; Mrs C. White, Misses Rey nolds and Mrs. Griffiths. After whic% a new Extravaganza. called THE NEW HAY MARKET SPRING MEETING, 1855. To conclude with A KIS3 IN THE D K. ROYAL PRINCESTA T ATRE, OXFORD-STREET. t r ader the Management of Mr. CHARLES BEAN. TIII3 EVENING, WM be performed AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. To ccnclude with KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Ka tharine, Mrs. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster•—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the comedy of P A.O L PRY. Principal cha racters by Messrs. C. Selv and Wright ; Miss M. Keeley, ;sirs. L. Murray, and 1.11,s Woolgar. To be followed by THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS. To conclude with MY PRECIOUS BETSY. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THI3 EVENDIG, Will be performed STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. Characters by Me?srs..t. Wigan, Emery, G. Vining, Danvers, Miss Maskell sad Mrs. Melfort. To be followed by the Fairy Extravaganza. called THE YELLOW DWARF THE KING OF iIIE GOLD MINES. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. ender the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. TUIS EVENING, Will be mformed THF, LITTLE DEMOS. After wh:ch, SALL: SMART. To concluile with KING QUEER :.AND 1113 D.LITGUTERS ASTLE ROYAr. AMPVITTHEATRE. Lessee and Manner, Mr. Win. Cooke. THIS EVENING. THE 17Et.D AGAINST THE FAVOURITE ! lifter which, the SCENES in CIRCLE. r o coneh o, with !be [lslet orb: AT KE tRNEY, Mr. Coolcc announces for Whit Monday a Grand and Mag,nifiennt.Chivalt lc Spectac.ie of intense inter‘•st, to be produced on a scale of unparalieied grandeur rm.' rfncr, combining both stage and ring, unitc.d by the gigatitt• prirtab:e platform; followed by a new plbrPliant series of Scull , : Acts in the Aren,i, invented and directed ty Mr. William Cooke. - - - Rox-ofnce open Iron Eleven till ronr. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting manager, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Lqueatriau Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. IliaH WATER AT LONDON BRIDG DAY --Morning 27 cen.after 7 Evening 0 min. aft. 8 To-.ZOnaow Morning 33 nrn.after 8 j Evenkg 14min. art. 9 is so closely connected with the eminent firm which acted as the financial agents of the CZAR in the United Kingdom, and of whom it was said that " if a loan were required for the subjugation of Turkey, or the establishment of Cossack domi nation throughout Europe, BARING BROTHERS' would speedily raise an adequate loan." It may be said that the question at issue is merely one relating to party predominance, -wile- ther Lord DERBY or Lord PALMERSTON shall hold the Premiership. Appeals will be made to the Free Traders not to do anything calculated to bring back to office those who were once Protec- tionists, and who may now be desirous of impos- ing new restrictions on trade and. commerce. There is, however, far more at stake than any thing relating to the men, who may be in power. A principle is involved in which the honour, the welfare, and the stability of the British Empire is concerned, on which will depend the future tranquillity of Europe and its protection from Muscovite encroachment—the principle, in fact, of whether we shall be contented to permit all the enormous expenditure of money, all the lives of our gallant brethren to be thrown away, without the slightest beneficial result ; whether there shall be the restoration of the statics quo without the most trivial compensation for the past or guaran tee for the future It is ridiculous now to raise the bugbear of " Protection" " to fright the Isle from its pro priety." That point has been frankly and un equivocally abandoned, and unrestricted competi tion or " Free Trade" is in far greater danger from the present Ministry than from the quondam, Protectionists. Mr. DISRAELI would not have dared to have entered on the retrograde course in which Sir G. C. LEWIS made such rapid progress. He would not have proposed any addition to the duties on tea or sugar, malt or spirits. Nor would he have increased the income tax, with an ominous hint of a further addition, without some attempt at an equitable adjustment. Had he ventured to do so he would speedily have been hurled from office, and his successors could not, for some time at least, have ventured on the obnoxious experiments. We are by no means Derbyites, but seeing that the choice, at present, is restricted to the Whigs, a joint-stock of Whigs and Peelites, or Derbyites, we must say that we infinitely prefer the latter, from whom, while there would be a vigorous waging of the War, and a resistance to Germanism, we should receive more liberal measures than from the present men, while the Whigs it: Opposition would be open to conviction, to which they are now insensible. We can't get the Ballot from Lord PALMERSTON and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, any more than from Lord DERBY and Mr. Drs nAELI ; but the former would, when leaders of her MAJESTY'S Opposition, receive new inspiration, just as they did on the Corn-law question, and soon regard " the un-English practice" in a verb different point of view. So it would be on all other " Administrative Reforms," and sub jects on which the hearts of the people are ear nestly set. The truly Liberal could not lose, but might largely profit by the change. The War policy, however, is at present the main question. Everything else must yield to that, the paramount importance of which is universally conceded. Let every true hearted Englishman, then, be at his post ; let there be no desertion or vacillation. The trim mers will become marked men, in whose hands the confidence of any independent constituency can no longer be reposed. The question is in deed a momentous one for the community ; it is no less so for the reputation of those who will have to bear the brunt of the battle during this 1E1 4 : ii - KATHER.—Strs OinfEau. May. 21. TEZNPLOMMTISB, IN THE SHADE. 6'):-.).lighert since noon yesterday. F.O —lowcst, this morning and during the night. 70 —this d 2.7. at noon. BAIIOIIETIII3, 29.86. WIFIT, with fine weather. This is the hottest day this year. 1 ~„4 ~,,,,.,,,„ ......, ~ ~=.... ..,.. , ;,,..,.. -,,, - LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1855. Many sinister attempts have already been made to damage the cause of which Mr. DISRAELI has, at the eleventh hour, stepped forward as the champion. Many serious misrepresentations have been put forward by persons who profess to be animated by a thoroughly English feeling, and an earnest determination to bravo all the chances of the War rather than consent to a disgraceful and injurious peace. Many more efforts will doubtless be made to induce Hon. Gentlemen to support the amendment of Sir FRANCIS BARING, and thereby afford further time to Ministers to betray the national interests by assenting to terms dictated by Austria—terms which will leave Russia at liberty to carry out her nefarious attempts on the first favourable opportunity. We emphatically caution Hon. Gentlemen against suf fering themselves to be mystified or misled on this 'vitally important question. Mr. DISRAELI'S mo tion is practically one of " want of confidence" in the Government. It has been accepted as such, for Ministerial circulars have been seat to all their supporters, urging their attendance on that very ground. It declares that " This house cannot ad journ for the recess without expressing its dissa tiefaction with the ambiguous language and un certain conduct of her Mok;sty's Government in reference to the great question of peace or War." Now, here there is not only " the want of confidence " that will no longer trust the conduct of these affairs to a Ministry who have cautiouiy abstained from giving the full and authentic information which the House and country have a just right to demand, but also au unmitigated censure for their refusal to obtain a correct knowledge of the state of pub lic opinion on the subject of the recent negotia tions constitutionally and legitimately expressed through the representatives of independent con ititueacies. There can be no real or honest doubt as to the result. If the motion be successful Ministers must resign, and their successors will come into office pledged to a more vigorous and energetic conduct of the War, and to the imposi tion of more onerous terms on the AUTOCRAT. Should it on the other hand be rejected, the Ministers will not only remain more firmly in t heir places, but they will have obtained the Sanction of the popnl'a branch of the Legislature to a Treaty founded eaty rounded on the most trivial modification of Prin ce e 0 RTSCHAKOFF'S latest proposition, or, in other words, a restoration of the status quo, without the slightest guarantee for the protection of Turkey, or restriction of the aggressive propensi ties of its unconscientious neighbour--a peace dis graceful to the Western Powers, and which must speedily be dissolved for a fierce and more deadly con t es t, waged under auspices ranch less propitious for the opponents of despotism. On this point there "can be no mistake, and there shall be no mistake." The issue is clear and unequivocal-. It is Are we to accept or to reject the conditions tendered by the AUTOCRAT ? Now, the amendment of Sir FRANCIS BARI NG , althou g h the latter portion is couched in almost the same words as to the prosecution of the War, is really very different in its practical effect. It is an encouragement to Ministers to accept any terms suggeated by Austria, whose representative thought that the Russian proposition elements of Whi c h A ustria WOlll "contained d endeavour to avail Lerself for an undf.rAtanding." So the House must also think l*f it accepts the resolution brougllt forward by the Right H on. Baronet, who serious crisis. while those to whom it makes no difference take no pains about it, and the warm politicians of course proclaim their party. It would be just the same here. Indeed it is the same in the numerous institutions which use the Ballot in England. Mr. H. BERKELEY, who certainly has contrived to introduce his annual motion with a freshness of illustration which his opponents would be thank ful to imitate, found a specially appropriate en forcement from the war in the Crimea. Lord however, can now doubt that Russia was the guilty author of the successive partitions. The broad fact that she has got nearly the whole of the spoil is but the seal of the historical view of the case. SEYMOUR was, of course, very angry ; in his view it was a mere copy of Mosss and SONS' advertise ments. The country, however, holds with Mr. BERKELEY. It thinks our titled Administrators tiro the quacks, and thorough-going electoral re form is the honest and only competent doctor. The Administrative Reformers find themselves lriven almost at the beginning to appeal to the electors. They discover, at the outset, that the Parliament, chosen by the landlords' herds of voters, and by the pocket boroughs, is not the Parliament to contain much administrative talent, or even to compel an honest employment of the talent which it has, unless that talent be connect ed with the aristocracy. The House itself seems to take pleasure in showing that it has as little sympathy with the country as Lord PALMERSTON himself has. What mean else the counts-out on important notices, the refusal to save our army i.nd beat the Russians if it would require Indian officers and supersede the Horse Guards medio crity ; and last, not least, the " baiting" of Mr. LAYARD for involuntary errors (if, indeed, they should finally prove to be errors), and the attempt to cheer Sir J. GRAHAM'S assertion of his long-proved truthfulness and honour ? Somehow the country does not think so highly of the word of a Post office burglar, convicted of acting the spy for Austria, and of the blood of the noble brothers BANDEIRA. These things will recur to memory when the House, chosen by every species of cor ruption, assails, like bullies, the honest advocates of " the one thing needful," and permits a politi cian like Sir J. GRAHAM to appeal to his long tried integrity ! Give the People the Ballot, and verily they will soon put the LAYARDS and the GRAHAMS in their right places. We have seen in respectable journals lately, and even in some friendly to the Polish cause, an adoption of the Russo-Gorman cuckoo-cry of Polish anarchy. Every honest lover of national inde pendence will be gratified with the convincing evidence afforded in this pamphlet, that it is the calumny of the villain who made it a pretext for his villany. The tables are completely turned. • Russia is convicted of creating all the anarchy she could for her vile purposes ; but not only that, when the Poles had actually abolished the chief causes of their anarchy, viz., the elective monarchy and the Merton veto, or, as we might say, the power of a single Peer to prohibit any measure from becom ing law; when Poland had also regulated the abuses of peasant labour, and was quietly improving her self, Russia declared this emendation of her in stitutions a easus belli ! ! Russia by force pre vented the abolition of the causes of anarchy ; she viewed Polish reforms as she has lately don( Turkish reforms. It is her practice to lacerat, neighbour countries by fomenting internal com motions before she pours armed hordes upon them. Such a principle as the liberum veto enabled hex , always to purchase a treacherous noble or two ; and elective monarchy was her instrument fox compelling the choice of monarchs who should be her tools. The rage of MENSCHIKOFF and his master, in like manner, with Turkey was en tirely caused not by any injuries sustained by the. Greek Church, but by the obvious and daily in creasing superiority of the Turkish Government to their own in matters of religious and civil Among the numerous pamphlets called forth by the War, we have hardly read one more oppor- tune and instructive than that to which we alluded on Monday.* The writer, and. to some readers this may be a commendation of his work, is not guilty of enthusiasm for liberty, or for jus tice to Poland. He looks on the subject with the calculating eye of the statesman only, and altogether from the stand-point of German in terests. It is, to be sure, a% a German, and not a Russo-German, that he writes ; he would like to see Austria and Prussia two really great and independent States. He thinks the process of absorption which reduced the German petty States, originally three hundred in number, to one hundred and sixty in 1805, and to thirty-nine at the present time, a beneficial one ; and he ex pects and hopes that the amalgamation will go on till sooner or later all the petty principalities will form parts of more powerful kingdoms. He does not think it possible in the nature of things that the present small autonomous communities should resist the manifest tendency to consolidation. With some of his views, as hostile to political justice, and likely therefore to leave cause for future disturbance, we cannot coincide. For in stance, in the assertion that any Congress which restored their rights to the Poles would also give them a king and prescribe them their forms of Government ; also, that it would secure to Prus sia the seacoast of Poland on the Baltic. We admit the weight of the latter concession as a bribe to Prussia to obtain her cession of the rest of her share in the Polish robbery ; and the former one might tend to allay the conscience stricken dread of revolution which pervades all the despot Courts of Germany, and from which not even the French EMPEROR and our own aris liberty too. There is but one word which ade quately describes the conduct of Czars and Czarinas towards Poland—that word is infernal. But one which describes the conduct of Austria and Prus sia—that word is cowardice. 4 And but one thing which would heal all the disorder consequent on satanic and cowardlymachinations—it is expressed by the one word justice. Germany and all Europe have new the opportunity which, if passed by, may be long ere it recur. We earnestly invite attention to the admirable Address of the Administrative Reform Association, which will be found in another part of this day's impression. It is, indeed, an important and in teresting document ; one that indicates the course about to be adopted by a body which, although it has so recently started into existence, has already attained gigantic proportions, and pro mises fairly to be enabled ere long to cleanse the Augean stables of the public offices, and to intro duce a system by which we may have " the right Lord PALMERSTON has most justly gained a high reputation for versatility. Difficult, indeed, would it be to find any part which he could not undertake. We do not remember that he ever tried the Radical exactly. Every shade of party difference, however, from tolerably advanced Whig to uncompromising Tory has, by turns, equally suited the Noble Lord. Reformer and anti-Reformer, Tory-Whig or Whig-Tory, Corn laws Repealer and anti-Repealer ; to touch on the details of the past were, however, endless ; his Lordship has been, and can be, anything. Only the other night the Noble Lord turned saint, and in holy phrase, worthy of our Metropolitan Father in God, defended Church Rates. The defence of ecclesiastical silver and gold always seems, however, to impart especial sanctity to the language of the defenders. The advocates are ever conscious that they defend the most sacred essence of all Establishments in defending " the gold of the temple." The temple is nothing ; but the "gold of the temple makes them debtors." And then they are martyrs also. Such was Lord PALMERSTON in the Church-rate debate. Sur rounded by a majority of the profane, he devoutly maintained the poverty of the Church and her need of holy plunder. Last Tuesday night, on Mr. BERKELEY'S mo tion for the Ballot, he reappeared in an old and favourite character. It was not well done, how ever, for him. There was the old dress, it is true, but it looked the worse for wear ; nor was the acting, although his heart was in it, quite up to the mark. When he came to the vos plaudite, be seemed to make the demand more from custom than from hope. Some natural cheers he got (from the Tories), but lost them soon. PALMER STON was felt by his friends to have failed. He even said nothing whatever about "nonsense" this time ! We are almost inclined to think that ever since the Administrative Reformers dubbed him " Our jesting . War Minister," he has felt less at home in bantering any earnest opponent than he used to be. Be the cause what it may, the noble op ponent of free-voting, though ho borrowed aid from every preceding speaker, made but a poor speech himself. tocracy are probably quite free. The miserable work in which king-making has resulted in Greece, and the uneasiness caused by all the unnatural divisions of the Holy Alliance up to the present time, might teach the Western Allies a better lesson. Our author, however, is speaking per haps only of what would be, not of what ought to be. Statesmen, of course, have no concern with the latter. In the main, however, the writer takes sound as well as practical views. He fully recognises the absolute necessity of a reconstituted and efficient Poland to the independence of Germany. He shows that, sooner or later, the fate of Poland is reserved for Germany also, unless she resuscitate her prostrate neighbour. Poland, when a nation, was harmless to German independence—Poland, absorbed into Russia, not only places Germany in immediate contact with the most insatiable of aggressors, but adds immensely to his means of aggression. No part of the pamphlet can be more impressive to Germans than that in which he shows that " the dismemberment of Poland took place for the benefit of Russia alone—that Ger many, by her participation in this dismember ment, has simply become an involuntary tool of Russian ambition—that the augmentation of ter teritory acquired by Germany through means of this dismemberment could never compensate for the inconvenience arising out of it—that Germany, by her complicity in this act of violence, has linked her policy to that of Russia, and has opened the way for her to universal empire—that the Polish possessions will not re main long in the hands of Germany—that Russia, who has gradually been despoiling Germany of part of them, will ultimately seize the whole— that this is now only a question of time and oppor tunity—that the future prospects of Germany, therefore, admit of no other alternative than to cede its part to Russia, or to restore it to the legitimate possessors," He asserted, for the tenth time, that the elec tors aro trustees, that the law made them trus tees ; but the Hamlet in Hamlet was, as usual, left out ; he quoted no deed of trust, and exhi bited no document from any returning officer to prove that any persons had duly delegated a trust to them. We suppose, on the contrary, that had the Noble Lord taken the pains to canvass the non-electors, they would soon have satisfied him that they never entrusted the ten-pound house holders and landlords' serfs with their political rights ; that they would prefer to have them in their own hands, and very decidedly prefer to use them under the protection of the Ballot. With all respect for Lord PALMERSTON, his now decrepid argument had better be speedily buried under his i own favourite epitaph " nonsense." With equal ill luck he attempted a little serious oratory about the i m p ortance of public i ty i n vot i ng, res p ons ible as he h e ld his imaginary trustees to be ; yet h e immediately that extinguished his own fire by strongly asserting the Ball o t ' as in America, would hinder no one's opinion would h ic hid , about o America, from being known ! t Either he i s wrong supposing the Ballot ul er or publicity. rou g in The truth, disentangled all sophistry and f rom s pecial pleading is, that in America those who find it desirabl e to conceal their votes„ do s o , ; even in that land of relentless interrogators ; The facts by which these conclusions are 4 thoroughly sustai ne d are g i ven i n d e t a il w ith un deniable accuracy. To the infamy of the other powers of Europe, especially at the Congress of Vienna, it i isls, they proved wd t that, with tseemnelyveese to be and re luctant twills, bullied by ALEXANDER and Russia into the cession of a quarter of Poland, consisting of its German provinces, to the power which had already appro priated half ; till, for the sake of an addition of two millions of Poles, ill united to her, Germany sacrificed some sixteen millions to Russia, and erected a tremendous means of attack on German liberties on the very territory which had been their military safeguard. The plainly out spoken opinions of the first French and Ger man statesmen are quoted with great power, and show how easily the more powerful minds could foresee our present to the letter, and how they warned their weak and compromising contempo raries by the dangers and sufferings which are now pressing upon us. It is demonstrated that even FREDERICK THE GREAT only took a share because he perceived that if he did not Russia would get all ; that MARIA THERESA did so is well known. All these conspirators have, indeed, used every effort to throw the blame on each other. No one, * The Polish Question from a German Point of View. By a German Statesman. Translated from the German. London : James Ridgway. HE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1855 men in the right places." The parties who have thu3 prominently come forward have, as they truly declare, "no personal ambition to serve." Their private interests are not involved. Nothing but an imperative sense of public duty would induce them to make the sacrifices of time and money which must be sub mitted to ere a successful result can be anticipated from their exertions. They waited until the latest possible moment to see whether there was any hope of the necessary improvements from Minis terial sources, and also whether the representative , of independent constituencies would undertaki, the arduous and responsible task that more pro perly devolved upon them. And it was not until every reasonable hope of Administrative Reform was exhausted, until they saw new abuses perpe trated by or under the sanction of Government, and connived at by the Right Honourable and Honourable members of both Houses, that they at length unwillingly assumed the initiative ; and they will now persevere until they have achieved complete and unalloyed success. " The Administrative Reform Association is no mere War Association ! It has been partly oc casioned by the War, because the exigencies of the situation have more clearly developed the gross and palpable inefficiency of the several departments. " The want of forethought, the incapacity, the mismanagement, the complication of duties, the adherence to routine at the cost of human life, the thousands of brave men wasted by overwork, by exposure, by insufficiency of clothes and shelter, by unwholesome food, by hunger, by lack of me dicine and medical attendance, by starvation in the very hospitals," although they have placed matters in a clearer and stronger point of 'view, have still only been the result of evils, long known, although never sufficiently provided against. There is, however, a limit to human endurance. The Rubicon, was passed—the ex isting grievances exposed. Hence the determined and vigorous movement to abate the nuisances, to remedy the untoward state of affairs, and that not merely in the departments concerned in the mismanagement of the War, but in all where revision and reform may be required. That there are many able men engaged in the public service is certain, but their energies are fettered ; they feel " cribbed, cabined, and con fined," by tho deplorable system in operation. They speedily find that any attempt at ameliora tion brings not merely trouble, but censure—that the imputation of being a reformer is the very worst that can be attached to their names ; that it operates as an insuperable obstacle to, promo tion. They therefore speedily subside into the jog-trot course, and sink to the level of their inefficient collaborateurs. The evils could not have so long prevailed but ' for the mystery maintained in all the offices. The first step will, therefore, clearly be to obtain full and accurate information, and that important duty has been undertaken by the Association. We may, therefore, look for the publication of a series of " Administrative Reform Tracts," that will bring to light the existing abuses, and, at the same time, indicate the remedies. In this matter every possible assistance should be afforded. Every honest reformer should set his shoulder to the wheel. Every man entrusted with the elec tive franchise should exercise it as if the result depended on his individual vote. He must re collect that if the candidate has to pay dearly for hio election, he will naturally look to recom pense himself ; that if he be compelled to solicit the patronage of Ministers for any of his consti tuents he will be likely to do so on his own account, and that ho cannot attack the system when he has dabbled in the accursed thing. Let honest votes be given—let the purity of election be respected by the electors themselves —and let adequate funds be supplied to those who have assumed the onus of the conflict, and we may rest certain of speedy and ample success—of the un mitigated triumphs of " the good cause." It is stated that M. Roger, who is at present on a professional tour in Germany, has been engaged for one year by an Amerman impresario, at the rate of 8,0001. (200,000 f.) BURIAL-GROUNDS IN THE METROPOLIS.—As the Bishop of London is to make a motion on the subject this even ing in the House of Lords, it may be worth while to refer to a return just obtained by Mr. Brotherton, M.P., which shows that there still remain open, or partially open, for interment within the limits of the Metropoli tan Burials Act, 60 consecrated burial-grounds, 15 un consecrated, and 11 partly consecrated, of which 9 are cemeteries. Some of these grounds are already wholly or partly closed, saving existing rights in private graves and vaults. The total number of burials in the conse crated grounds during the year 1854 varit.l from 4 to 8,666. EPSOM RACES (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL) FOUR-YEAR-OLD STAKES. Marc Antony 1 2 3 Tarn........ Pelham Three ran. LATEST BETTING ON TIIE COURSE. OAKS. 3to 1 agst Nettle (taken) 5 to 1 agst Blooming Heather (taken) sto 1 agst Capucine (taken) 9 to 1 agst Clotilde (taken) Musquito scratched, 10.45 a.m. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MILT 23. The Queen and Prince and Royal Family arrived at Osborne yesterday evening at a quarter past six o'clock, from London. The Duchess of Kent is expected to-day on a visit to her Majesty. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, left her residence, Clarence House, St. James'e, yesterday, for Osborne, isle of Wight. Despatches for the Governors of the colonies on the west coast of Africa were sent last evening from the Colonial Office. The Duke de Saxe Coburg and Gotha has left Brussels, after one day's stay, for Gotha. The present duke, Ernest 11., who has just finished an excursion to Paris, London, and Brussels, is the nephew of King Leopold And brother of Prince Albert, the consort of our Queen. We are sorry to announce the death of Lieutenant- General Sir George C. D'Aguilar, K.C.8., and Colonel )f the 23d Royal Welch Fusiliers. His Excellen6r, the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has appointed Mrs. Spence, widow of a gallant sergeant of rhe 41st Regiment, who was killed at Inkerman, a class matron in Grargegorman. Sir R. I. Murchison has received the appointment o . . Director of the Geological Survey—the post left vacant by the death of Sir Henry de fa Beohe, and the salary o which is returned in the estimates as 800/.. The telegraphic line between Genoa and Nice was inaugurated on the 17th, and opened to the public on the following day, The rumour of the resignation of Count Nesselrode as Russian Chancellor of State, and of the appointment Of Prince Yermaloff to be his successor, proves to be un- founOed. CRYSTAL PALACE, WEDNESDAY.—ONE SHILLING DAY. -Admissions on payment, 3,573 ; ditto by season Loketg, 484; total, 4,657. - SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The last perf)rmance this season of Haydn's oratorio, The Creation , is an nounced for Friday next, the 25th inst. Clara Novello, Formes, and Sims Reeves sustain the chief parts. THE SECOND SECRETARYSHIP TO THE ADMIRALTY.- We understand that Mr. Phinn, Q.C., M.P :. for Bath, and counsel to the naval department of the High Court of Admiralty, has been appointed to succeed Rear-Ad miral W. A. B. Hamilton as Second Secretary to the Admiralty. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.—Meetings of the Electric Telegraph and the International Telegraph Companies were held on Tuesday, when resolutions were passed approving of the amalgamation of the two companies, a bill to authorise which is now before Par liament. The bill also limits the dividends to be paid on the shares of the International Company to 10 per cent., and authorises the borrowing of a sum not ex ceeding 50,0001. THE MILITIA AT ALDERSHOT.—The regiments of militia already at the camp at Aldershot are the Ist East Middlesex, Colonel Thomas Wood ; the let Surrey, Colonel W. Holme Summer ; and the Royal Berkshire. The Leicestershire march to the camp this day, and in the course of the ensuing week, the King's Own Tower Hamlets Militia proceed from Hacitney to the camp, and the Royal London from Finsbury. TAE RESERVE BATTALIONS AT MALTA.—It is in tended by the Government to reinforce the provisiona 'r reserve battalions at Malta, which consist of compa nies belonging to regiments serving in the Crimea, as Frequently as possible from the various depot companies tt home. The Commanderin-Chief at the seat of war will be thus enabled to augment the army under his command in little better than a week, should occasion require, by communicating, by telegraph, to the War Department, from whence an order will at once be for warded by telegraph to Marseilles, and thence by steamer to Malta. . . HOP INTELLIGENCE.—The hop-polling is now finished throughout the county, and tying has partially com menced. In most parishes the prospeets are favourable —the stock well set, and the hills throwing out plenty if bine—in some few others the bine looks yellow and ,ickly. A few days warm weather, and tying will be 4eneral ; the late ehowers having been of great benefit to the plant. Flea is spoken of in some districts, but , at to that extent as to create any alarm at present. — Kentish, Ckezette. , LATEST 'T , BERLIN, WEDNESDAY. The Kreuz Zeitung says that the Austrian me diatory proposal is—that Russia and Turkey settle between themselves the number of war ships in pontus by separate treaty, stipulating that Eng land and France bo permitted to have there two war ships each ; Turkey to undertake to bring thin separate treaty to the knowledge of the Allies. TRIESTE, MAY 23. Accounts from Constantinople state that the Piedmontese troops continued to arrive in the Bos phorus, and to sail immediately for the Crimea. The reception given by the Sultan to Count Castelcicala was most gracious. Counts Cavour, Tecco, and Dabormida had been decorated with the Order of Medjidie. The Sultan had received Mehemet Ali since his return from exile. ELSINORE, MAY 23. The vessels named below have just arrived at Elsinore from the Baltic ; they are all prizes which have been captured at Riga :—The Bal lance, the Otto, the Emilie, the Anion, the Bene dicty, the Anna, the Christiana, and the Dania. E 4 S 3 36 31i SwilhpierheratheeyTrriebspunecatliveallyl i tO o t n e: ., the bodies - --. . SPAIN. (1. , e . A. Royal.decree in the Gazette accepts the resl , _ __ la Portugal, and another appoints oenipoteeVe '. ll °n of M. Rios Rosas as minister 1. Fabrioter l of Escosura, deputy in the Cartes, and e-gi'l/i6., says m that the Treasury bad made sorae the Interior his successor. The Clamor Ft" , se'llts. The Minister of Finance had n ot ii Pi t ' o nted the details of his plan for a forced 100,._.,r, the naffs Committee on the Budget. One lsrge P',., o f the Ju s u de ais states that the English cloverninentbOtillery very advantageous propositions to sone a r , i t hey officershad d to take service in its army, butt h3' been declined. MONTENEGRO. of to A letter from Cettinje, in IVlontenegr% of 6th, in the Austrian Gazette, says :--- ea ter codes day,civil s and penal code was publishel bele Y ta for St. George's Day, which is a grea t ft ' n et the Sclavonians of the South. These sale were very necessary, and they con aar exceedingly , pressed, e which was an indispensable rattle,: important reforms. Divorce O re as the practice was carried to an extreme rOOBll, killedset had d er husband, while be The day before yesterdaY 3 Wdisted, who higanly. been threatened with being rep The was sleeP.._es to ha na e compelled her brother and her in the market place of her r elat.v i t the 171%, so ° I :0m old ng custom of private vengeance was 0 11 1 ,iiiilti ot sanctioned. A man, who bad been found on; t b° f s ealing a small quantity of gunpowdeir f,,r„ cam magazine of the State, was condemao '" a bell about wonc.ei for three days suspended to bi nile cle 0 four all apooohunds. The new pe co ere a t eling abolished punishments, villit%ll w barbarous and ridiculous." • il el ' •••••••• .......'w. front t The C o l o .i ~ Cologne Gazette contains a letterrotaeo _m a gtors of May 4, which says :--t The Goat if o ° I to _ to o f has just changed the name of the ancieat W the s G a into that of Nicolaistadt. Vol A fe i f en teu ee o overnment have caused so ranch e i bea f r u The town was burned down in 18521 ca onitr cw built received the name of the deceased ;,ithoat At even the the change has theeben effeetea,ribeeo local authorities or senate 133111) consulted." Stutterh • a", ••••.•••••••••••• el 'l fft ` HAMBUR elm, the commander Of ?theeth.eGerwtple in thiscity, has given fresh "ra etus a i p Ay. ments, which • are going on very favouP" .. 01 The King Loeffler -- i t he g r . e May 20.—The arrival of Co_l°Depli 0.00 of Denmark has con ifocf c_r e oss . of the Order of Dannebrog on Goli e ,„, r3 Der of ° I the same order. " Ru m ss l i d°fC and a made two other Russian tight o ° aide-decap of the -rce'rs (i and Privy Councillor von RAP - t co h orn a d t tei l rna 2 gp men are to be drafted frora et .o a 4 , The Corriere Mercantileof Gen° 4,1113ello°0179:vl, e: .—.---- of the he i n e t dm at en t t h e e se n a u rm inb y e , r in pr gr ete de is r ed te t oi t : ti l e epo Atille, theave been given for the innnedisa to the e of allmedical officers to be attaelle pedition. A letter from Venice of of —the 18th s.,3s;r,;fl'etill'l'tee Austrian squadron, under the e olll ,i e ole j ' r ,,liic e A .n re a h . cluke Ferdinand Maximilian, ot" be the riot 1 ifi ar x e ed to fe f w orm days. on as the rendezvous for all the 1 part oSfailta.7 is appears to o p t Chinese' of ti ' ° -- fro : St 110 tro- - . ' 1: , tl According th, to letters . roter3,,bhifir::,, e f t il fb e e r Russia has profited by th ..,, iooll bee, Empire to effect an easy e7ven's VietibieCl t noi: 3 1 ro o ft n ec voh a eu r nr e s towns, t tw i o s hn e i frontiers f in Southern Siberia. W3-10155-09° si r to o u c nd to induce four Mongol 1111ans,,b003,tor t the Russian empire. The .1014).001tore' 011" Khanate . s, annexed:to t 'ask i l rssa iCzar's dominion s• ,rbaeicin t e h ldit a erw t si bte t eel h gl: e uuw i lrndicitlneah rotoisutdt at s : lig h ir a i L bi lialit,s ; cc , i tlatotilee i : hope to maintain a position, of lu ,11 0 o f bare° ere late the possessions of L- - nel. She AUSTRALIA' k _____-4,-- --- 3 -'' , oel' D A t 0 , . e the a' S ' PLYMOUTH,• TfrunSciarefro ip ti' Tbe Orwell, Captain Maurice, SI- .. r ve a rop b eij ' bourne, ch with 33,000 oz. of gold, has the A _ he ir George Seymour and the C oe wh r s of tPlof:T; T master erew,and 12 passel, f eir i t t w, 0 a O O spoke the John f3elll„filoig%,ol),,il/ ampson, Captain Cobb,t_eeo br' ) to ff , burnt at sea on the 4th inst., have u. ce d tbo o tio shore .oh b . y . a fishing vessel, which recilel...lo thsship by which they we re fe e Cortagos, of and for Anasteraara. 0' .......--.- f ate{ 10 ( a 417, fle s , o PLYMOUTH NirrXi-,,,-, P' ‘itit: It The Wooloomooloo, ' 005090.-11 goo.„0005 wart, with a full cargos soil a SW : off il l ea e i f ei gold-dust, o- 88 days from ydneh, 7 0 5 ti r I* - r our t be She y, and landed a mail all broad OefloO' left Sydney on the 24th of ° . 0 a c ' ° i t,' i ho e Horn on the 27th of Mare b, 11 0 10 ° l i e l' ' ,ll . ' a line on the 27th of April. She asp an d t O , r south, the Stebonheath, ford London' 0 no t Bull, from 2 4 e s Port Philip ; an, 112 1 / Columba from "verP ° . ai ° Akyab for Li are A summary Pe el'', day's of the following aP 4s ee to ll edition. ~. NOP' CaP, d FL-ogoirrviiao, 00101 The Aberdeen clipper Maid of ioy, COOOl Marcbant, from Sydney, 24th Vet% say .d 0 Channel and was off this port ea i l boo• t l ' il e g,t 4 'o her passengers left her in a Scilly Pi'°o3 09.1,015A' here._ The Maid of Judah brought ifestioo, oil, freight of wool and copper, and a 09/o.ers :1 foot , The following is aFist of her passe Edge flO' f' r , holm, Mr. Chisholm, Mr. and Mrs. Plidreo, foi a ie , dren, Mr. and Mrs. tither and five c;ieces,,a fol9;e• Mrs. Tooting, Dr. Vallack and tl.:, ° Weil, eor 4 Fenning. The Maid of Judah hol:bicli 9 le t. 'et , notwithstanding the frequent gsiellero 10 t of i i ;li tered. On March 14, just off the t the ; i or , ol ieri,l s , ii and long. 150, at midnight, one ' cider. Vitr i o l ti storms occurred, and she split her ru ffir tbeatolgr l!, have been a very serious affair blt c i the ro cle e d d l' the captain and crew, who reP3iref the o reti", cutting holes in the encasement q c iois ow e dr the cabin, and fastening 0 0 ' 5 o co b e e t br° t° with ropes. This was intended 'to gel 0 a•P l 'to but proved to ,be sufficientiy durable,_oo ortiice. out the voyage. The ship j to s 1 ,..1 ia 1, 4 ~be en a.m. for the repairs. While P (reg• g o op SY , thermometer was never belov, 55 ,0 0. !at 04 was seen in lat. 49 41 and iongt_'iv,,fil 1 , 1 0 0 olo ct and spoke the following vess„•ls : t.'" Wo ° t be ~ ,g9 long. 28 44, sighted the clipper so l g ~ as t be t i t' a ''.' • /lit go 0 for London ; left Sydney the son o f e 4. de k.ool l , of Judah, and now met at a distal-00010;01' miles from that port. Signals we r ef t he l' ° be e°tl3rii the weather was calm the captain O. AL is t ar , ' yr came on board the Maid of Jad e th,:iis, di April 14, lat. 27 37, long. 2 4 , 91)(sst O t b A 4, tai n, 500 tons, .from Liverpool for for T.lor ito e r a se 16, spoke Hindostan from Ca11,,,3°1ip,,e, floer)erli'*o April 26, signalled Crimea and,,o.'co'o'ke'v, otst,0110f; May 2, in lat. 11 47, long. 3 4 ''' '6l (I'' )4 fr° l :oe l°l,l ander Cochrane, from Rio Graudeboolls4 t (iriesll, for Falmouth. May 18th , srlw "e' t lf ir 5 0 013 t 1 4cii eit ,fi 130 days out, for Cork. • On the ',,,i tbe ' t he e 'O l the 85th day out, the clipper sight 'lna, 0ft,,,i0e#4.1),0 passed this port yesterday. The jto3o,P o ee t e ol,; s , brings has been anticipated by the e P opo o r, P the ; 14 days before she left SydneY lartich 6ir or ie d vo ` been held at that place, over i a tO, e a 1).7 presided, when 6,000/. was s uhsc . n trib t ” as c° triotic Fund ; of this 1,000/. or Cooper, Esq., of Sydney. -- A T, - a N.S Pv THE mEDITEII,--- 0' ~ rfis to'l -----------:fpor, sO. - sou-Tio-?-10,031-0 pcbrofti°' By the Peninsularand Orientaw Ch , t t iellt.f2Ale' ship Euxine, Capt. ef.. We ek9 ' 0 of ''' s fre'F , d ' Mediterranean mails, in Clist.rg,, dategor, le-e4 R.N., Admiralty agent, we L' a- cribra' 0 rfi c o; nd rs d 49 AO snares, May 9 ; Malta, 13 ; '-assep,o'c ' 05! 9 cr e e The Euxine brings 123,103.0 s of le va o f s ill;/ r!, et,:e, specie, value not stated, 69 P: 2 '. 6 ball t0 s11 ) e 0, of parcels, 9 cases of dates , ° c lePbar't9 1 nler;00 °'rlJe of plants, 23 packages 0. e „ e eera p - P - oe, 4 of cigars, and 206 packag,es ' b 0 tbo ~ .. 0 ,01 During the homeward vo yag e ~:A, bc.39,D0, Poi! • a s ancl ' vett /be 0 rienced strong head ion silo obSer qraS "b e ; 9th inst., off Alexandria, s o l th, tb e 00'4 f ii e vi l o ship Tamaulipas • on the 1, bri(' VllOl3 O t t 1, 0 G iha,ad ; on the ' 140, 00 a th;b3r ° la e ; o 0 transport -ship Strive, all ort 1149 Ad 1 ..„0' trosP •0 ; on the 17th, the screw t Ind ia • o)r' ef j,if 0 1° , 18th, the screw transpor . s for d T l 9 iP 19th, the Tasmania. ,icouall ,st) 00 the The Alelita sailed. froM . 13 - .. _i•in, Tsroo,•iica,v,ti, t,,0 the .sth of May. The scrol; ~,Latiatta .:st. a l o p A P ? and the Austrian Lloyds v tl 0 5111 l a ' sf) ' O rr. 9th. The Etna sailed on •,' _ or iroc ‘,:yoio „, 1 0v 12th Lancers On board for tnu,,on to t• cei Scanclery Bth the Trent left for shid •e' , s - 1 .-. t for the Crimea. A/Aiest lO 04 At Malta were her wle co • and Sbear atom 1 • ea Pl c Dauntless, Cy -clops, an - 0 astes _. I,l l ' ,fl nom Gibraltar sve hsY._ left fol)iitatilleiretiot The British steamer 11+1,en'' 00 &loco, it is , of the evening of the 17W.0 _,. 0 titn their vo elelitlf ceded. to Morocco :Ili o f ep T o li ecie e it id turned, and all that is lo] v" ea t b co ° ,r O, eV 0 g rant Ivo', tb - a what they went for Was Gi bra , , 0 1,0 ru mou rs; at n 0 00 . c o was kept very see ' )1 00 ' there were many of asserted that the I:CiPeril'' ,o 0 ROYAL COLLEGE or SURGEONS.—The following gen- "lemen,Jaaving undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, were admitted members of the college at the meeting of the court of examiners on May 21 : Messrs. Thomas Young Savage, Toronto, Canada; Alfred Henry Wagstaff, Ivinghoe, Bucks ; William, Riddell Brunton, Army ; Joshua Plaskitt, Louth, Lin colnshire; John Fortnom Straker, H.E.1.C.5., Bombay; Robert Cleall, Pouncy, Glastonbury ; Robert Edmund Jackson, Whitby, Yorkshire; Hugh Granger Earnshaw, Port Faulkner, Aughrin, county of Wicklow ; and George Cowper Rose, West-square, Lambeth. THE CITY STATUE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.—Yesterday the workmen commenced breaking the ground in the centre of the open space adjoining the north-west corner of the Bank of England, at the junction of Lothbury and Princess-street, preparatory to placing there the obelisk, which now stands at the westoend of Cheapside, on the site on which the City statue of Sir Robert Peel, by Behnes, is to be placed. The contractor for the work of placing the statue in its place and removing the ,)belisk to its new site, is Mr. Chadwick, of Grosvenor wharf, Westminster. AFFAIRS OF MR. EDWARD OLIVER. LIVERPOOL, May 23.—1 t is said that efforts are being renewed to throw the affairs of Mr. Oliver into the Court of Bank ruptcy. •It will also be recollected that a short time subsequent to the declared insolvency of Mr. Oliver, whose extensive failure created such a sensation, several attempts were made to obtain a fiat of bankruptcy against him, all of which were defeated. This day (Wednesday) some proceedings of a private nature were heard before Mr. Commissioner Stevenson, in the Liver pool Bankruptcy Court, with a view, it is nudes stood, to some such object, but the exact nature of the application did. not transpire. . THE PASSENGERS BY THE JAMES BAlNES.—Liverpool, May 23.—A further investigation into the complaints made by the passengers which arrived in this ship from Melbourne, was carried on yesterday, and to-day another meeting of the . passengers was held, at which it was ra solved to institute proceedings against the owners, I Messrs. James Baines and Co., for two infractions of the Emigration -Act—viz., for selling spirits on board the ship, and for having supplied the passengers with un wholesome food. Messrs. James Baines and Co., it is -aid, maintain that the whole matter is susceptible of easy explanation. Rumours are also rife that gross morality prevailed on board the ship. THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS.—NAPLES, May 14.—Vesuvius, instead of ceasing its destructive crop has been committing daily greats-r ravages. Within the last few days a portion of the lava has diverged from the main stream, which, flowing down on Cerolu ind running to the right, has nearly reached St. Jovio. Much fine (titivated land has been covered over, and promised abundance destroyed. The loss to some indi viduals is very considerable, while the total amount must be immense. Should the eruption continue, the course of the lava will lead it over the railway into the sea. The summit of the mountain is so riddled, and the surface is presumed to be so thin, that it is feared it may fall at any time • and no person is allowed to ad vance beyond the Observatory. Indeed it would be madness to attempt it. The spectacle which the moun tain presents at night is remarkably grand. Its sides are covered with the fiery fluid, which one may imagine to he blond, oozing out from the wounded giant. THE IRON TRADE IN. SOUTH WALES.— At the present moment the iron trade throughout the whole of South Wales is in a very depressed state, and many of the works are now making iron at a loss. As a consequence, trade is slack, the ironmongers holding off from orders until the market has become more favourably established. The 10 per cent, reduction, which has now been fully carried into effect throughout the hills, has to a great extent lightened the burden for the masters. However, in consequence of some large orders which were taken some time ago, the majority of the works are occupied, though some furnaces are now out of blast. - Some idea of the enormous trade which England has being doing with foreign countries may be gathered from the fact that in the six months ending the .close of January last, upwards of 96,000 tons of Welsh made rails were shipped foreign from the three ports of Bristol, Newport, and Cardiff, being upwards of 27,000, 31,000, and 37,000 tons respectively.—Hereford Journal. DEATH OF LORD SPENCER COMPTON.—We regret to announce the sudden death of Captain ',Ord Spencer S. Compton (15th Hussars), who died on Monday morning at Exeter, in which city his lordship was stationed with his reginient. Lord Spencer Compton was taken unwell about a fortnight ago with inflaipmation of the lungs, and was considered to be progressing favourably, so much scrthat his lordship was to leave this week for Castle Ashby, in Northamptonshire, for change of air. On Monday morning, at an early hour, Lady Mari anne Alf ird, who since her brother's illness has been in attendance on him, administered a draught to him, and his lordship said he was butter, and was cheerful. At eight o'clock in the morning a heavy fall in the bed room of his lordship aroused his attendants, and on entering his chamber the gallant nobleman was found prostrate on the floor. Ile was quite unconscious, and expired in a few minutes. The deceased was third son of the late Marquis of Northampton, and brother of the present peer. He was born 6th• March, 1821. His lordship entered the 85th Regiment as lieutenant :n 1343, and subsequently removed to the 15th Hussars, his commission as captain in that gallant corps being • dated in December, 1846. The noble deceased only re turned with his regiment from the East Indies in June last. The mortal remains of his lordship were to be re- I moved yesterday from Exeter to the-ancient family seat • of the Northampton family at Castle Ashby, for inter ment. A large number of distinguished families have been placed in mourning by the demise of his lordship, FRANCE. The Moniteur of yesterday contains an article on the sanitary state of the French army in the Crimea. In substance is summed up in the following con cluding sentence :—The army enjoys as good health as could possibly have been hoped for. The num ber of men taken into the ambulances, which in the month of March was 7,585, was in April reduced to 5,600, while the number of those who left cured in the same month was 1,399, having been 1,064 in March. This has been the rmult, although, in consequence of the siege operations, the wounded were more numerous in April than in March. The army of the Crimea is, then, in good condition to fulfil its mission. _ _ _ Under date of Vienna, May 16, the Moniteur publishes the following : " The Austrian squadron ' under the command of the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, will leave Trieste in a few days. Salamis a ppears to be the meeting-place appointed for flu.) vessels of the squadron." The Duke de Cambacerbs, Grard Master of the Ceremonies, and the Marquis de Ohaumont-Quitry, Chamberlain of the Emperor, loft yesterday for Bordeaux to await the arrival of the King of Por tugal, and his brother, the Duke 'of Oporto. Baron de Paiva, the Portuguese Minister, and the staff of his Legation, have also proc , 3E:ded to Bordeaux on the occasion. The Moniteur, the Debats, tho Pays, and indeed almost every one of the Paris journals, morning and evening, with the exception of the Constitu tionnel, have fallen into a most :amusing mistake, having published as a bona fide despatch, a mysti fication which appeared in the Pierald, and which is represented by that journr ) as having been written by Lord Raglan, in exp I anation of the late expedition to Kertch. Some idtoa of the extent of the mystification may be formed. from the part that General Sir George Brown is c:i lied "a promising young officer," and that the .42d, 71st, and 93d Highland regiments are declarcx I to have been de= spatched on the service, in the. hope that "their costume would excite novel eni otions among the Russian soldiers, and tend to .nsolidate our (the English) alliance with any Cir as iisians who might see them from the coast." . . Several companies of the wi •gon-train, consist ing of 250 men and 320 horse: 3, arrived in Paris on Tuesday and the day before from the camp ,a.t Boulogne, and immediately proceeded by the Lyons railway to Marseilles i o embark for the Crimea. The following vessels have eft Marseilles with troops and stores for Constant inople within the last few days :—On the 19th t tic Clyde, of the Mes sageries Imperiales ; on the 20th the English steam-transport the Caledon is ; and on the 21st the English steam-transports tl ie Arabia, the Nor manby, and the New York:.'; and likewise the Sinai steam-packet. Gen. II( ttinck took his pas sage in this last-named steam. A certain num ber of horses were embarked on each of these vessels. "The French caravan of 4. pilgrims," says the Univers, " has happily termii 113 6ted its excursion to the Holy Land. The last letti3t s which we received had announced their departult.e . from Jerusalem for April 16. The following private telegraphic despatch has been received : " MADRID, 22d.—The law, rt lative to the sale of the Church-lands is to come in to effect on June 1." BOURSE, MAY 23.— CV >SING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4 per Cents 93 70 .' 93f. 75c. 3 per Cents 6B 80 63 80 Credit Mobilior BOO Rolm ,u Credit Foncier 530 Austi ian Belgian Fives — Spani eh Throes Piedmontese B5 Horm ) Debt RAILWAYS--1108 I DASH. fr. c. Orleans ll9O Lycna s . 1160 Western • 675 ROW a 1045 Cate ' 642 50 Strni burg Mediterranean 1103 75 Ha' 1 e 572 50 Northern ... 892 Che rl surg AUSTRI A. A letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" The reason for which the circular-de= spatch of the Austrian Cal i:inet to the German Courts was sent off only thr eye days ago, is that the acts relative to the confei 7e•nces and to "the va lidity of the treaty of Decem )er are considered as not yet being terminated. T his despatch contains a copy of the protocols of th g. conference, and the Imperial Cabinet says in it •tl iat it flatters itself that ' its high confederates w derive from them the complete conviction that ' the policy followed hitherto by Austria, and whi ct i it is to follow for the futme, was based on prop ei regard for the dig nity, position, and interests '43 f all the Germanic Confederation.' The Cabinet expresses the hope that its confederates will conseq iently, 'openly, cor dially, and more unreservedly i support Austria, in order to enable her to take up a• position significant abroad and beneficial at home. Such a position,' says the Imperial Government , can alone prove to the German nation and for sign countries that Austria and Germany support the general princi ples of European public law, as id that their union can only place a decisive balant e in the, scales of war.' " The statement of Count de Nesselrode having resigned is not confirmed. Coil. nt Tolstoi, who was secretary for diplomatic affairs :. to the present Em peror when he was heir presuri tptive, has, it ap pears, been nominated Secrets ry of State in the Department of Foreign Affairs, but this does not in any respect change the positif )n of 'the Chancel lor of the Empire. BULG A.RI A. The Pays says : _cc There - vt . -ere recently some rumours of a movement of Tur" kish troops against the Dobrudscha, but they ap pear to have been withok foundation. The llas .chir Ismail Pacha was lately at Schumla with a cc irps of froth 20,000 to 25,000 men, but no preparat ions had been com menced to cause it to be suppo sod that this corps was about to march. The rul nour was probably occasiouectby the march of a I ;mall Turkish corps of 2,500 men from Giurgevo i Rustchuck. The removal of this force reduced ti, le garrison at Giur gevo to a single battalion. Th e Turkish comman der in Wallachia, Hassan Paoli a, is to be replaced by Soliman Paella, who is at S .thumla." DENMAB K. - The ex-Ministers of Denmark who have been impeached, and who are to apn , ar before the High Court of Justice of the Kingdot n on 4th Jufie, are six in number :—M. de Tillisd i, Minister of the Interior ; Gen. de Hansen, )1 Tar ; M. Bluhme, Foreign Affairs ; Admiral Steen' -Bill, Marine ; and M. de Scheel, Justice. They an accused, first—of having ordered, without having demanded. the au thorisation of the Diet, though i t was sitting, vari ousmeasures cousing expenses n of accorded by the laws of finance; an esecondly, )1 haying illegally so licited and blamed the royal s a action for the same measures, and having ordered t:ne payment of other sums, without legal authorisa Lion. M. do Hansen is besides specially accused o f having: , disposed of sums not allowed i n th e b u d g , ii;s of 1853 and 1854. The High Court of Justice hr Al I already been COD " stituted, in accordance with I &i t. 72 of the Consti tution. It consists of sixteen judges, namely, eight members of Folksthing, and o . 7.ght members of th© 1 1 l 1 i • i i