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

ROYAL OPERA, DRITRY•IANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, win be performed THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Characters by Messrs 11. Brahsm, J. Halford, H. Cori, and Elliot Galer ; and Lucy Elliot. To be followed by a Ballet. Prices of admission :—To the two galleries. Gd.; second circle of boxes and pit, Is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; stalls, 4sgthnea . • private boxes Box-office to admit two persons, 10 s. 6 d.; four persaas, one . open from 10 to 6 daily. THKATEE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buckateno; THIS EVENING. Will be presented THE SECRET AGENT. Principal' characters by Mr. Backstone and Miss E. Chaplir. After which, the Ballet of the TWO PRETTY WOMEN. To be foliowed by AS LIRE AS TVO PEAS. After which, THE GALICI AN FEM. To conclude with A DAUGHTER 70 MARRY. KOYAL PRINCEAS'S THEATIE, OXFORD-RTREET. Underthe Management of kr. CusaLts KEAN. THIS EVENING, Will be performed HOW STOUT Imraz GETTING. To conclude with KING HENRY M E EIGHTH. Queen Ka tharine, Mrp. C. Kean ; Cardinal Woloy, Mr. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI: Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Dtectress, biLdsune CCloSta. THIS EVETING, Will be performed THE SERICUS FAMILY. Characters by Mr L. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Kee Sto. After which, FRATERNISATIOT. To conclude with OP EN SEA NAZI ; or, A Night with the Forty Thieves. Characters by Messrs. P y Bedford and Keeley ; misses Woolgar, Cuthbert , Wyndham, M. Beele, and Mrs. Keeley. ROYAL oLymrn THEATRE: Lessee and Manage'. Mr. A. Wigan; THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE SCIICKL FOR SCAND AL. Characters by Messrs. Robson, A. Wigan, G. Vining ; Mrs. A. Wigan, &c. To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bags, Mr• I. Robson. ROYAL sTusri) TREAT. Cruder the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS tVENING, wlll be performed THE MAID OF CROISSET ; or, Theresa's Vow. Followe,d by THE FLITCH OF BACON. After which, THE SP. , ..NISH DANCERS To conclude with MARRIED DAUGHTERS AND YOUNG BUStANDS. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Tremendous and unexampled hit ! THIS EVENING, Lord Byron's MAZEPPA ; or, the Wild Horse, now first acted under Mr. William Cooke's management. and with his superb Mazeppa highly-trained horses, whose docility and tractability have created a perfect furore in this magnificent spectacle. To conclu6le with EQUESTRIAN FEATS in the ARENA of ARTS, by Artistes of first-class celebrity. Fox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. W2st. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TI s PAY —Morning 52 min.after 10 I Evening 30 min. aft. 11 g ›.:•r osn ow Morning,o min. after 0 Evening 3 min. aft. 12 SEIB V77.,I4.THEP..—SUN Orria, July 26. TammomETED, IN THB SHADIL f%—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 63—this day, at noon. BAROMRTEB, 29'84. WIND, S. to S.W.—Light, with continuous rain. (MEAT REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF "THE SUN," FROM FIVEPENCE-HALFPENNY FOURPENCF. fOR THE THIRD OR LATEST EDITION. In consequence of the abolition of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers the public in all large cities and towns to which parcels are forwarded by the News-Agents, The Sun, which formerly cost Fivepence-half penny for the Latest Edition, containing Parliamentary Debates of the same even ing, together with the List of Army and Navy Promotions in the London Gazette, with Official Despatches from the Seat of War, the Latest Sporting, and all other Commercial News, List of Bankrupts, &c., &c., can now be had for Fourpence, being a saving of nearly one-third. Hitherto the price of the paper was nomi nally Fivepence, but all Late Editions posted after six o'clock were charged a fee of One Halfpenny by the Post-office, which made the price to the Subscriber Fivepence-Halfpenny. This charge must still be made to those in remote places, unless the Postmaster-General have the magnanimity to forego such a paltry source of revenue. San-office, 112, Strand, London, 9th July, 1855. r" LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1855. had been signally avenged during the current month. The conduct of the Russian war steamers which inflicted such serious damage on the Allied ranks has also taught us the necessity of silencing their fire on the next occasion. There are ample means of doing so, and we believe that they will not now be disregarded. The Russian navy has been reduced, and it requires but steady determination to complete the work commenced by their own hands, and to bring the Black Sea Fleet within narrower limits than those suggested by the French and English Plenipotentiaries at the Conferences of Vienna. This can and must be accomplished ; and it will not only greatly facilitate the chief object in view, viz.—the cap ture or destruction of Sebastopol, but it will, taken per se, be a very important achievement, which will materially add to the stability and security of the Ottoman empire. Many well-informed and sound-judging persons assert, and with much apparent reason, that the very difficulties we have experienced during the siege will be productive of beneficial results, and go far to reduce the Russian Power, and to change the policy inaugurated by PETER, and steadily kept in view by CATHERINE, by NICHOLAS, and the two ALEXANDERS. They say that had Sebas topol been captured by a coup de main imme diately after the victory of the Alma, it would, in pursuance of the ABERDEEN policy, have been restored uninjured to Russia, and that our then Government would have acted on the dan gerous and injudicious principle of " saving the honour of Russia," and of patching up a peace which, if not inglorious, would be transitory, affording no permanent or binding security to Turkey or Europe. The successes so easily achieved might have been undervalued, and the restoration of a fortress, the capture whereof was so speedily effected, might be looked on as a mat ter of comparatively trivial importance. Now we know better. We can form a more correct esti mate of its great value to Russia, and of the magnitude of the perpetually impending menace to Constantinople. Palma non sine pulvere is a sound principle, and the blood and treasure already expended will not be thrown away, if we are thereby induced to keep what we have so la boriously attained. All matters, too, are looking more favourable for our aims. The climate is rather better than was expected, and the disease and sickness are already dying away. On the whole there is no reason for repining, or sup posing that we shall not accomplish that on which we have set our hearts—the complete destruction of Sebastopol, and the annihilation of the Russian Fleet in the Engine, so that they will be com pelled for the best possible reasons to assent to the complete neutrality of the Black Sea, and its becoming, so far as they are concerned—a " mere commercial lake." Before Parliament disbands we want to know h ow far they have advanced beyond these views. Is the War to be " carried on with vigour," to get a treaty of German paper manufacturing, or to wrest for ever from Russia territories and fortresses which she has stolen or built for the subjugation of Turkey and the East, and the mediatising of all Germany ? To know this is essential to that confidence in the Government, which is necessary to the succesu ful administration of affairs. It is useless to vapour about the danger of telling the enemy our projects ; the danger lies in concealing them. No one wishes any Lord JOHN to give Russia notice a second time of the particular place we mean to attack at a particular time ; it is mere affectation or disingenuousness to confound things so totally distinct. If we now, on the contrary, publicly disavow Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S conceited, yet fatal, declaration, of wishing to leave the Russian terri tories undiminished, if we avow that we will con quer from her, and keep from her, everytYng we , can, from the gulf of Finland to the Black Sea, that we will continue to fight for real securities till we get sufficient, or till Russia strikes, not only would the people of this country be reassured, and rendered cordial in their support of the Go vernment, but Russia, not knowing where she would be attacked, would be compelled to divide her army while she increased its numbers, at the same time exhausting her resources and diminishing her strength in each locality. We hold it, therefore, to be the duty of our House of Commons in some way to declare its own view, or rather that of the nation, on this all-important question, and to require the Go vernment to do the same. Such a course will save us at home six months' suspicion and dis trust ; will encourage the country, the army, and the navy; will distract and intimidate the enemy; will bring Austria, Prussia, and all Germany to their senses ; and, as we believe, will materially shorten the War. Without such a pledge we shall be draggled along another six months at the , tail of Austria. We wish for nothing unreasonable ; nothing which, in the slang of the Treasury benches, would be "inconvenient," or " detrimental to the public service." There are, however, very strong grounds for thinking that a distinct avowal by our Government of what they aim at by the War would be of the greatest ad vantage to the public service. The pleasures of autumn will soon part even those attached friends, our Cabinet and its Parliament, and hitherto we have had nothing yet more explicit than those elastic words, " a safe and honourable peace.'' The Vienna Conferences have but too plainly shown how those convenient words may be twisted to any meaning which sophistry and subserviency to Austria and the Co linos may wish. The Treaty of December 2d proved that it was con sidered secure and honourable for us to be bound to help Austria while she might evade helping us ; but the/ Four Points proved that a peace which no one now considers, to use the language of Lord LYNDHURST, worth the paper its terms would be written on, was capable of being thought by a whole English Cabinet safe and honourable ! peace of paper securities against hereditary bar barism, perfidy, and violence combined—against the most remorseless and shameless ambition which ever sacrificed its own slaves to make slaves of other countries. We believe our countrymen now almost shudder to think of the ignominy which they have mercifully escaped. Far better for our reputation with posterity to have sustained great military and naval reverses, and to have made peace on disadvantageous terms, because fairly beaten in the field, than thus, with a vast army in the Crimea, and omnipotent in the Baltic and Euxine, to have signed a cowardly treaty on the basis of the Four Points. Well may we be alarmed at the idea of leaving for six months the interpretation of this cant phrase in such con victed hands. "Nothing new from the Crimea !" That now appears a stereotyped paragraph in every journal. We must not, however, suppose that the time is wasted, or that our gallant soldiers indulge in any unnecessary - inactivity. No ; although no de cisive action has been attempted since the unfor tunate attack of the 18th June, neither officers nor men of the Allied Armies have been idle. They have been steadily and laboriously pre paring for a repetition of the onslaught under more favourable auspices. They now know the real , difficulties they have to encounter ; and, while they can rely on their own prowess and resolu tion, they will yet take care that no obstruction which can be got rid of shall remain. It may be all very well to be prodigal of human life when any great object is to be achieved. An apparent prodigality may be true eco nomy but a reckless disregard of life, where it can spared, i s anything but true bravery. A judi cious General will always have to consider many conflicting points. He must be competent to balance the advantages belonging to different courses, and to decide promptly and correctly on that which combines the greatest number. The climate, the supplies, the health of his army, the quantity of work, and the time within which it must be accomplished, are all elements in the calculation—to each of which due weight must be accorded, and without full and accurate know ledge of all the premises it is difficult to criticise the existing state of affairs. The time has not, as we have stated, by any means been wasted or misspent. Not only have our approaches been carried close to the points of attack, but our men have acquired much valuable experience respecting the Russian tactics. We now know the necessity of promptitude against suc h a f oe —that any success must be rapidly fol lowed up, and that there m us t not be the slightest rest afforded to such indefatigable labourers, who, reversing the conduct of PENELOPE, hal o invari ably contrived to repair durin g th e night the damage of the day. The result of the 18th June might have been very different had there bee* a few hours' c annona ding in the morning b e f ore the actual assault, and had the enemy been drive n into confusion by the fire of the Allies before the escalade was attempted.- We have had a severe lesson not to undervalue the adversary, and we are convinced that it will not be disregarded on the next occasion, which may' arrive more speedily than we have any notion of. Indeed it should not at all surprise us if we heard that the failure of the 18th Jung We cannot, moreover, forget that Lord JOHN RUSSELL was betrayed yet farther. He could think it both a secure and honourable peace if Russia were allowed to muster for another Sinope, with a proviso for its prevention about as good as that which we possessed at the moment of that perfidious massacre. Nor was Lord JOHN alone ; other British statesmen of mark, some not just now in power, but others it is to be feared, intriguing under shelter of leaders, who know better how to adapt their language to the views of the nation, concur with hitn. A secure and honourable peace, therefore, may, in the Ger-. manised conceptions of men in high positions, be understood in a sense the very reverse of that in which the nation understands it. Htd Parlia ment not been sitting this spring, we think it quite within the range of probability that au Austro- Coburg peace might have been patched up for us by secret diplomacy, which we could only have cen sured aft erwar d s , b u t b een p rac ti ca lly p ower l ess t o alter. We much fear, however, that suspicion of the secret cause of suc h m ean and un-English policy would have shaken the security of the Throne, and would certainly have entirely destroyed its popularity. Ber MAJESTY'S advisers, as they really tender her welfare, must be careful to main tain her throne en the basis of English, not of German, sentiments. The alarm sounded by Professor FARADAY, re specting the dangerous condition of the Thames, has not been without some effect. The Lord Mayor, it is well known, responded to the Professor with becoming alacrity, and straight way instituted an inquiry into the cause of the extraordinary pollution complained of. Further revelations as to the state of the river have fol lowed, and the public had the strongest corrobo rative testimony given to the absolute correctness of the Professor's statement. A tidal river like the Thames, receiving the exuvice of two millions and a half of people, and depositing mud a foot in depth, at a short distance, every week, to be turned up at each successive tide, could hardly fail to be in the con dition described. Among the results of the inquiry so far, would appear to be the discovery that ono great aggravation of the evil of late has arisen from encroachments made on the bed of the river, and Sir JOHN MWEIL, who has called attention to this fact, suggests a measure of a reme dial nature. Starting with the conviction that the greater the volume of water carried up with the tide, the greater will be the scour on its return, Sir JOHN recommends that the tidal river above the bridges should be enlarged and widened, and that reservoirs should be formed for the penning of the clear water, and ; letting it come down afterwards, when the , tide is out. Granting the correctness of his theory, and supposing its being immediately put into practice, there can be no reasonable hope o f an amelioration which will supersede the necessity for a more thorough and costly measure. Sir JOHN'S recommendation may be worth carrying out, but cannot be made to do what is wanted. There, however, the evil exists, and something must be adopted to remedy it, great and threaten ing as it is. Accordingly, the disemboguement of the sewerage of the Metropolis into the Thames 1 being confessedly the prime cause of its pollution, we find a large minority of the Commissioners of Sewers have come to the conclusion that the best thing to be done is to put a limit to the quantity of sewage admitted into the river. This, of course, won't answer ; indeed it would most probably involve the re-introduction of what mi g ht now turn out a still greater evil, viz., the use of cess pools, reservoirs whose poisonous exhalations might assail the population with deadlier force from being more concentrated than, to the ma jority of the population, those of the Thames can well be. Nor can we feel satisfied with the prospect of having the sewage entirely diverted from the which they ppos cannot, ng at Thames, according to Sir B. HALL'S proposal, years. supposing the p the b i t c e c r o n i tl n d a t until that time, what provision would th en b e a io ff n ord of to six wai found for the carrying away of the sewage ? It is all very well to know that at a given and not very remote period a noble stream, worthy an im perial city, will have a chance of rescuing itself from the condition of a sewer, but the satisfaction to he derived from this assurance must be seriously di minished when there is no reason held out to be lieve that that which has poisoned the Thames, and rendered its exhalations noxious, will not be suffered to collect and breed malaria at our very doors. With nothing less, in short, can we be satisfied, for nothing less will suffice than tbe finding a substitute for the Thames, laying down a great main sewer into which all the sewage of th e Metropolis may flow, to be discharged therefrom at a convenient distance into suitable reservoirs, and afterwards converted into saleable manure. To this the public must come at last, and while we would thoroughly approve of every necessary step being taken to give, as we may say, the river fair play, by removing encroachments on its bed, which, apart from the question of sewage, are seriously injuring the tideway, we would seriously urge the propriety of immediate steps being taken to carry out the above, or some other equally efficient plan, which, whatever it may be, cannot be in operation too soon. The credit, as well as the health, of two millions and a half of people, calls for the greatest promptitude com patible with the magnitude of the undertaking. With these facts before us, then, we think it would be most advantageous to the p u bli c serv i ce for her MAiESTY'S Ministers voluntarily, or by definite expression s com p u lsion, to declare in some what they think will be a safe and honourable peace. The country has rejected with a feeling of humiliation what has been offered in the name of England and her Allies---in the name of irre sistible naval power, and unlimited military aad pecuniary resources. What has our Governm en t learned by the nation's contempt' Are they pre pared to give us real securities instead of Russian bonds ? We believe this is the kernel of the question.. Russia, for her villanous purposes, fully understands this. When she wanted the SULTAN to sign a suicidal treaty or note, she took the real security of the Provinces. Russia is a sound and safe political banker for her own pure . poses, and the comm on sens e of England a pproves for honest h ends th a t on w h ic h R uss i a r elied for obtaining:the ends of heraas been mbition. our cause i 'f afi he rmi ty o of f our ill-success hitherto . purpose. - n —ur.e ° l3 tAG Cabinets have thought fit to intimidate Rus s i a by of ships, and Next ' to bi n d her • a parade of soldiers an d by paper bends. THE SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 26. 1855. increased, and its malignity is such that most of the cases prove fatal. The inhabitants, who hitherto ap peared to view with indifference the ravages of the scourge, are now in the greatest terror of it. Count de Villa Real, a Portuguese Lieut.-General, Envoy- Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary of the King of Portugal to the Court of Russia, arrived this morning from Lisbon, and will leave after to- morrow for St. Petersburgh." COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, JULY 25. Her Royal Highness Princess Alice is going on favour*, ably. The Queen and Prince embarked in the Victoria and Albert yesterday afternoon, and cruised to the Needles. Sir John M'lNTeill arrived from London yesterday on a visit, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glocester left London on Tuesday for his residence at Richmond. Mr. Roath and Mr. Bird bad an interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley and the Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade, on the subject of the restrictions imposed on the exportation of iron. Mr. J. Ca.(Eiewpaurtat,tiMon.Pf.r,olkmirt.hile.ACmCerhicaapirioacnh,aamnbdeMr orf. had an interview w ith Lord Stanley of A eSci‘ i ) , u' i ' e jaun r r i e H eY y r'e y e 'esterda . y at the Board of T ra d e relative to the Bills of La‘ling of h e t h a r e Privy ng of Council appeal sa t f y r o e s n New South others." Wales, "Doe, dem Devine, v. W thou and c i ai n cluded Committee the t e r 7 , 11 a h y e , Judicial LATEST NEWS. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. WAR DEPARTMENT, JULY 26. Lord Panmure has received the following com munication from the Crimea, dated the 25th of July, 5 p.m.:-- Cholera has not increased since my last report, and the army continues in satisfactory health. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Emperor left Paris this morning for the Pyrenees. His Majesty will dine at Bordeaux. " Queen Victoria," says the Constitutionnel, " will make her entrance into Paris by the termi nus of the Strasburg Railway and by the Boulevard de Strasbourg. Arrangements are being made which will allow the Royal train to pass without stopping from the Northern to the Strasburg line." A letter from. Ostend, of Monday evening, an nounces that the King of the Belgians and his party, on board the Topaze, entered that port at half-past eight, amidst the fire of two salutes of 21 guns each. A letter from Toulon, of the 21st, says :—" We are every moment expecting the arrival here of an Austrian squadron from Trieste, under the com mand of an Archduke. Orders have, it is said, been already given for the salute proper on the occasion. The reception will be a brilliant one, for there are at this moment in the roadstead more than 30 ships of war, 10 .f which are line-of-battle ships, and several others are expected every hour from the Black Sea." A letter from Odessa, of the 14th, in the Salut Public of Lyons, says :—" In the apprehension of a speedy attack from the vessels in the Sea of Azoff, the Russians are actively fortifying Ro stow, at the mouth of the Don. The channel has ,"been obstructed by large stones, which have been thrown in to prevent the river from being navig able. The town is filled with Cossacks." • A. despatch from Marseilles says : "One hundred artillerymen sent by England were beginning to arrive in the Black Sea, for the purpose of acting against the coasts of the Sea of Azoff, the Putrid Sea, and the mouth of the Don. The latest intelligence from Constantinople confirms, in according it even a greater degree of importance, the revolt of the Bashi- Bazouks, formed into regiments by English officers, an d encamped in the Dardanelles." The Presse d' Orient adds : " These Bashi-Bazouks have committed monstrous excesses, and have openly insulted the flag of Great Britain. A steamer, the guns of which had been brought to bear, had commenced firing on them. The greater number had dispersed through the adjoining country, and were committing acts of brigandage. The French army in the Crimea were putting the last hand to the fortifications of the Bay of Kamiesch. The division of General Canrobert is now performing service in the entrenchments." BOURSE, JULY 25.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4? per Cents 93 25 93f. 150. 3 per Cents 66 10 66 20 Credit Mobilier 1037 50 Roman Credit Foncier...... 527 50 Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes — Piedmontese B5 Home Debt — RAUFWAYS—POR CASH. fr. c. fr. c. Orleans Western 765 RoueL (lett° Uediterranean: 1275 Havro 65.! 50 gorthern TURKEY. A letter from Varna, in the German Journal of [ Frankfort, says :--" It now appears positive that French corps will land here about the end of July. Preparations for their reception are being made both here and at Baltchick, and a camp is being marked out on the surrounding heights. The French hospital has been also considerably en larged... We have here only about 2,000 men ; the remainder of our garrison, about 6,000 men in number,' have left for the Dobrudscha via Silistria, the heat not allowing any other road to be taken. ' Our town presents a very animated appearance ; numerous Armenians, French, Italians, and Ger mans have arrived, in order to open shops near the camp." A letter from Vienna of the 18tly,in the Dresden Gazette, says : The project of cutting a navigable canal for vessels of #nsiderable size between Rassova and Kustendje, in or der to render the navigation of the lower Danube quite independent of all foreign influence, is being actively pur sued, especially through the influence of England, who, acting in concert with France and Austria, will apply to the Porte for permission to construct this canal. The work is to be conceded to a company, which will never theless act under the direction of the three powers. A minimum of interest is to be secured to the company. The persons stated 'to be entrusted with powers for the purpose are—for France, Count de Morny ; for Eng land, Mr. Wilson ; and for Austria, Count Breda. It is believed that the Porte will grant a belt of land of the breadth of a league to the company on each side of the canal, for the purposes of colonisation. Two strong forts are to be built at Kustendie to protect the canal." Wayikes..=-. THE WAR IN ASIA. We find in the Independence Beige the following letter from Vienna, dated the 20th inst. "Whilst the Allies are discussing the expediency of a diversion on the Lower Danube, the Russians are exe cuting one in Asia, which appears to be much more serious in its consequences. The last accounts andcoun more sfroorme menacing Constantinople confirm my previous statement that Kars and Erzeroum were in the greatest danger, and that the Russian troops were gaining ground in the Ottoman provinces of Asia Minor. General Mouravieff, at the head of 36,000 men, is blockading Kars, whilst other detached corps are marching upon Erzeroum and Hassan Kal6. The Turkish army, which should have retreated on Erzeroum, was driven into the fortress of Kars, now invested by General Nirod. Should Kars fall into the hands of the Russians, the army of Anatolia will either lay down its arms or be an nihilated. The garrison of Erzeroum does not exceed 2,000 men. The Russian forces in Asia, although not Imposing, since they barely amount to 50,000 men, are, nevertheess, sufficient to inspire serious uneasiness, when the inefficient state of the Ottoman army in the country is considered. Neither the solicituie of the new Minister of War, nor the strenuous exertions of General Williams, could succeed in placing it on a respectable Footing. A successful campaign of the Russians in Asia Minor would be sadly prejudicial to the Crimean expedi tion, since it would oblige the allies to send to the relief ~ f Erzeroum the reinforcements indispensable to the army besieging Sebastopol. Now, everybody knows :hat the allies themselves have demanded fresh troops to undertake, with some chance of success, an enterprise which would compensate for the failure of their attack on the 18th of June. But the Russians, on their side, are net idle, and from what has transpired of their new order of battle, they have not less than 19 divisions of infan try echeloned from north to south. The Ist and 3d divisions are in Poland, and the 21 in Courland. Nine divisions, the 6th, Bth, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 17th, are in the Crimea, where they will shortly be joined by the 4th, sth, and 7th. Bessarabia is defended at this moment by the 15th division. The 13th and 18th are operating in Asia, and the 19th, 20th, and 21st, which no longer belong to the active army, are likewise stationed in Asia, and constitute the special corps of the Caucasus. Every division of infan try is provided with cavalry and artillery. In addition to these are the Guards, who have hitherto preserved a passive attitude. The first division of the corps of Gre nadiers is employed in Finland, and the 2d and 3d are now marching to the Crimea. If to the above be added the reserves of the corps of Grenadiers'and of the Guard, as well as those of the active army and the militia, it will be found that Russia can oppose on every point a respec table force to her enemies." PRUSSIA• The Vienna journals positively deny that, as has been reported, the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria are to have an interview on the frontiers of their respective States. The Xing, however, it is said, intends to accompany the Queen to Dresden from Erdmannsdorf, and to stop there for a day or two before returning to Berlin. A letter from Berlin, of the 18th, in the Danube of Vienna, says—" The reply of Count Buol to the last note of M. de Manteuffel has been received here, it is said, to be dated the 15th. The Presi dent of the Council is at present absent from Berlin, and the document must there have been sent to him, and it is consequently very doubtful whether the contents are known in political circles as it is pretended they are. All that it is mentioned must therefore be founded rather on suppositions than on precise information. It is said that the original propositions of Austria have only undergone very slight modifications which are not likely to satisfy Prussia, as they bear only on the form and, not on the principle of the question." RUSSIA. The Independance - Beige publishes the following, dated Warsaw, 20th inst. : " The Grand Duke Nicholas is expected here either this evening or to-morrow morning. It appears that the Prince will not this time mae a long stay in our city, being obliged, as chief of the engineering department of the Western Army, to visit in succession all the fortresses situate within the points occupied by that army. He will afterwards continue to reside at head-quarters, and the Castle of Belvidera, near War saw, has been fitted up for his reception. We had hoped that cholera would soon disappear in our city, in consequence of the diminution in the number of oases. But, for the last three dap, the epidemic has SWEDEN. The following letter proceeds from a well-informed person, and we believe it faithfully interprets on the present occasion the feelings of the King of Sweden and of his people : " STOCKHOLM', July 20 —Though the military ardour excited at the close of the Vienna Conferences has now in some measure subsided, yet we are here watching with breathless anxiety the movements of the allied fleets in the Baltic, and still hoping that the ensuing month of August may see some greater result than that of last year, the fall of Bomarsund. It is neither owing to the indifference of this nation for the cause of civilisation against barbarism, nor to the sympathies of our Government for the Russian Autocrat, that the flag of Sweden does not already float beside the united standards of England and France, but so long as the pending question is called and considered merely Eastern, so long as endless protocols on the ' four points' appear to be the only object of the great Powers, no one possessed of ordinary judgment can require of our rulers to expose Use youth of Sweden to the horrors of war, and her growing prosperity to a sudden and in evitable check. What, in truth, matters it to Sweden that the Bosphorus is closed while the Baltic is under Rus sian domination, and the port of Cronstadt contains a formidable and increasing fleet ? Though the nation is warlike, yet a feeling of approbation of the King's conduct pervades all classes. We fully appreciate the line he has taken up, namely, to maintain a strict neutrality until the Governments of England and France shall have given positive proof that they mean to oppose a boundary to the encroachments of Russia in the north as well as in the south. The future of Scandinavia should most particularly interest England, for if Russia succeeds in obtaining the mastery of the Sound, she will be so power ful in the German Ocean as to be able to set Europe at defiance. Both the coasts of Sweden 'and Norway possess deep and spacious ports wholly free fr,m ice, or freezing only for -a couple of months in the severest winter. The principal are Carlscrona, Lands crona, Carlstien, Norten (in the bay of Christiania), Christiansand, Bergen, Trondheim, and the bay of Varangen ; the last-mentioned has already excited the grasping spirit of our neighbour. Any one of these ports is capable of growing into another Sebastopol, within a hundred geographical miles of the British coast. Our forests afford inexhaustible materials for ship-building ; the inhabitants are either skilful carpenters or fearless mariners. The population of the coasts furnishes at least 100,000 fishermen or pilots inured to hardships, and familiar from their childhood with all the details of navigation in these difficult seas. It is easy to draw a conclusion from this simple array of facts. "I most firmly believe that if the allies do not seriously grapple with this difficulty they will entail on posterity endless broils, and leave Russia more powerful and still nearer than ever." ITALY. A good deal has lately been said of a manifesto of Mazzini, intended to excite the Italians to revolt According to a letter from Genoa, this document concludes as follows : "The hour is come ! Austria, by breaking the treaty of the 2d December, by reducing her army in order to render service to the Czar, and to enable him to concen trate his forces to the prejudice of the Allies, has lost all right to the support of France and England. She is alone ! If the Italians do not rise, they will be admit ting to Europe—' We are not able to rise against an enemy whom we are not certain of being able to con quer, we have no faith in our right ; in order to awaken us, and to be like men, we must have a Pope and King who will murmur words of liberty in our ears in order to betray us." SPAIN. MADRID, July 24.—The Mexican Government positively refuses to receive M. Zayas as Spanish Minister. The faction of the Brothers Hierros has been put to the rout in the neighbourhood of Burgos. Its remnants have taken refuge in France. Tranquillity is general. Cholera is making great ravages in Spain. At Granada, from the 27th ult. to the 14th inst., not fewer than 1,617 persons had died of it ; and on the 15th 84 more also died, but that number was less than on previous days. At Burgos it was making great havoc. A letter of the 20th, which has arrived in advance of the ordinary mail, says : "The government has ordered public prayers to be offered up in all the churches for a cessation of the tri bulations which afflict Spain. A grave conflict has taken place at Avila between the governor and the bishop ; the latter issued a circular to his clergy, direct ing them not to give up the ecclesiastical property ; the former ordered the circular to be seized, but it could not be found anywhere, and it was necessary to cause the police to search the episcopal palace to obtain a copy of it." The Government is about to abolish several foreign legations, from motives of economy. AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE RED JACKET. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The White Star clipper-ship Red Jacket, Capt. M. M. Milward, belonging to Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson, of this port, arrived in the Mersey this evening from Melbourne, with 270 passengers on boar 1. The Red Jacket sailed from Melbourne on the 2d of May, in company with the Eagle, for Liver pool, and the George Marshall, for London. She spoke on the 17th July the John Grog, Penang to London, lat. 53 N. lon. 33 W. • July 20, Fatima, lat. 45 N., lOn. 26 1 W. ; July 21, schooner Flying Fish, lat. 48 N., lon. 20 W. ; July 22, Ottawa, Quebec to Glasgow, out 23 days ' • July 23, Consul, 71 miles south of Cape Clear. Between July 20 and 24 passed 52 ships. The Red Jacket had to put into Rio Janeiro for fresh provisions, and sailed from that port June 20. The American ship Sea Witch had put into Rio Janeiro with her captain (Fraser) found dead with a severe wound on his forehead—the mate of the vessel strongly suspected guilty of the act. On Saturday the Red Jacket was in collision with the ship Emerald Isle, hence to New York, which is putting back. The former had trifling damage. VICTORIA. The general condition of the country may be pro nounced prosperous. The accounts from the vari ous new gold fields are, upon the whole, favourable, but they could not be fairly tested until the rainy season sets in. The rain had commenced at Mel bourne, and it was thought that, if it reached the gold fields, very favourable accounts would be re ceived. Two new fields were reported, called Yan doit and New Bendigo, but their value had not been ascertained. There was an excellent opening for a large American trade, themarketsbeing exceedingly bare. The gold duty was to come into operation on the Ist of May. The Public Education Bill was abandoned, after having been read a second time, on a clause it contained being modified so as to re quire that at each day's sitting of the schools under the superintendence of the board four hours should be devoted to literary instruction only, during which no religious teaching was to be obtruded upon the scholars. The first term of the Melbourne University was opened in due form on the 13th of April. The annual endowment is 9,0001. At Bal larat a movement has been commenced for organis ing a voluntary association for the defence of pro perty. In other mines Lynch law had been resorted to. A committao of the Legislative Council had boou pursuing its laborious inquiry into the liquor traffic. SYDNEY. APRIL 26.—Since the departure of the Lightning nothing of importance has occurred. The discontinuance of the mail-steam packets is loudly complained of. The substitution of the Liverpool clippers and the excellent passages which have been made by the James Baines and the Light ning, although producing a temporary lull in the excitement, is not looked upon with much confi dence, as they are not expected to prove so regular as the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers. The patriotic fund is daily increasing. Nearly 41,000. has been actually received by the trea surers. This amount is expected very shortly to be made up to 50,0001. The abstract of the revenue of the colony of New South Wales in the quarters ended March 31, 1854 arid 1855, presents an unfavourable aspect. The former quarter, in its receipts, showed an increase on the first quarter of 1853, amounting to 126,3081.; but the quarter just ended shows a decrease from the corresponding quarter of 1854 of 62,5021. The decrease is on every item save tea in the Customs duties. The gross totals of both revenues are—for the first quarter of 1854, 271,2601. ; and for that of 1855, 208,668/. There is a large falling off in the sales of land, which the Auditor-General, in a note, explains that for the convenience of closing the accounts and re turns, a regulation was acted upon last year that no sales should be held in December, and the re venue in the first quarter of the present year is thus largely reduced. The falling off in the revenue created consider able commotion, and a report was started by some interested parties that Sir Wm. Denison had deter mined to increase the import duties forthwith. The agents of the Magnetic Telegraph Company, for connecting Melbourne with this city, have ar rived here, and are exhibiting the apparatus. There is every chance of the scheme being carried out. During the we e k e nding the 16th inst. 1,446 im migrants arrived at Port Jackson. Sortie dilficultiop experienced by the Government in raising the means for taking over the property of the Sydney and Hunter River Railway Companies have been overcome, and the whole arrangement will be perfected in a very short time. The Sydney Railway is progressing favourably. The works are so far advanced as to permit of the line being opened in a few months. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. MELBOURNE, MAY 1 The gold market has been very animated, but sellers had to submit to a reduction of 2s. 6d. per ounce, pending the export duty. The exports from the diggings have again shown a great increase—the quantity being greatest from the oldest fields—Ballarat taking prece• deuce, and Bendigo following very closely. Gold has ranged from 775. 6d. to 775. 9d. per ounce. Exchange banks draw on England at 1 per cent. pre mium, and negotiate drafts against gold and produce at 1 per cent. discount. Local bills at 7 per cent. for 95 days, and 8 for longer dates. The wool season is almost closed. The quantity shipped from Melbourne to April 21, from October 11, amounted to 13,388,618 lb., or 83,816 bales, being an increase of 2,288,488 lbs., or 8,159 bales over the entire of the previous year. The prices current were as follow : —Superior flocks, is. 3d. to is. sd. ; middling to good, Is. 2d. to ls. 3d. ; inferior fleece, is. to is. ld. ; washed slipe, is. to ls. 2d. ; and scoured, is. 2d. to ls. 43d. In tallow there was little doing. The demand for co lonial use, however, having increased, advanced rates are demanded. SYDNEY, APRIL 26. The demand for gold has been brisk and prices firm. Very little gold dust has been offered for sale. Good prices have been realised. The quotations are a shade higher. The escorts Western and Southern, brought this morning to the treasury 2,547 oz. Prices—Bal larat gold 3/. 18s. to 3/. 18s. 3d. ; Port Philip, Bendigo, and other diggings 3/. 17s. 6d. to 3/. 17s. 9d. The re ports generally are satisfactory from the gold districts. In the wool market a better feeling has prevailed. The rat:, of freight, is. 2d., operates against a rise until later advices from England are received. The tallow market has been better supplied with beef and mixed tallow, which caused a decline of 5/. or 61. per ton on previous prices. Hides and sheepskins without alteration. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Royal Bank of New South Wales was held to-day, when the report of the directors was unanimously carried. A dividend at the rate of 16 per cent. per annum was carried. LAUNCESTON, APRIL 28. The provision market is bare. Butter, 31. per lb. ; bacon, ls. 6d. to is. 10d. ; cheese, Is. 6d. to 24. per lb. ; eggs, 44. per dozen ; bread, is. 6d. per four pound loaf ; wheat, 13s. to 13s. 6d. per bushel ; fine flour, 381. to 391. ; seconds, 351. to 361. ; beef, 4d. to Bd. ; mutton, sd. to 6d. THE DESTRUCTION OF CIiAMOUYIX BY FllO. The Echo de Mont Blanc, of the 20th, states that on the 19th instant a fire at Chamounix burnt down 25 houses and three hotels. On the same subject we are favoured with the following com munication by Mr. Albert Smith : Egyptian Hall, Wednesday Evening. The following distressing intelligence has been re ceived by Mr. Albert Smitb, from Geneva, this after- noon : __"On Friday morning, at three o'clook, the fire broke out in the Hotel d'Ang!eterre, and, despite every exer tion, 22 houses had been con umed. " The Hotels d'A ngleterre, de Londres, and de la Couronne are burnt down, besides 19 houses belonging to the poorer inhabitants. " The old Hotel d' Union bas been saved by saturating it with water, which renders it for the present uninha bitable. The new Hotel Royal de l'Union has become the refuge of every one, as also the small Hotel du Nord. " No lives have been lost, but the, e have been sad accidents. As eye-wi'ness describes the scene as ago nising. Half the village; including part of the church, has been burnt, and a great amount of property de stroyed. " A subscription has been already set on foot by the Engli9h chaplain, Mr. Ferryman, and by Dr. Malan, who was at Chamounix at the time. These gentlemen were very active in giving relief to the wretched sufferers, and i❑ aiding to extinguish the fire. The wind was very high, and a storm was raging all the time." UNIVERSI'T'Y INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, July 25.—The election for demies at Mag dalen College has ended in favour of the following :--- Me~-ra. from Rugby school ; Evered, from Magdalen-hall ; Tanner, from Queen's College ; and rhorohl, from Worcester CAlege. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. • The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston ' the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans downe, the Duke of Argyll, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir William Molesworth, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Vie. Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. The council sat two hours and three-quarters. THE QUEEN'S AUTUMN VISIT TO BALISIOBAL.—The Queen is expected to pay her annual visit to Balmoral about the middle of September, and to remain until the 10th or 12th of October. A portion of the new palace will be ready for her Majesty, and will be occupied dott ing the present visit. There is some expectation that the Queen will pay a visit to Lord Panmure, whose principal seat, near Arbroath, is within half-a-day's journey of Balmoral. /THE CHIEF CLERKSHIP AT GUILDHALL POLICE CoußT.—Yesterday, at a Court of Aldermen, Mr. George Martie, the second clerk of the justice room at the Man sion-house, was unanimously elected chief clerk of the justice room at Guildhall, in the room of Mr. Thomas Wood. The vacant office of second clerk at the Man sion-house is to be filled up on Monday next. THE LATE GREAT ROBBERY IN THE ClTY.—Yesterday notice of the loss of Mr. A. Barber, goldsmith and jeweller, Cheapside, was issued by the police, and a re ward of 5001. for conviction of the thieves is offered. The robbery consists of 400 gold rings, set in diamonds, emeralds, and rubies, diamond necklaces, 158 gold watches, 43 silver watches, 10') and upwards of gold Albert and brequet chains, 50 gold pins, diamond studs, gold brooches, &c. MADRID, July 21.—The most important event of the present moment here is the rupture of relations between this Government and the Pope. The Nuncio, Monsig nor Franchi, has not only left in consequence of express orders received from Rome, but his Secretary and the other members of his legation have also left with him. SALE OF SHIPS.—The first sale by public auction of ships at the newly-opened brokers' sale-rooms of Messrs. Cunard, Brett, and Austen, Leadenhall-street, took place yesterday afternoon, and was well attended. The ship Hebrides, 512 tons, built at Greenock in 1841, now lying in the West India Docks, realised 1,3751. The other ships, Lady Raglan, Elizabeth Brown, Henrietta, Nepaulese Ambassador, and the Retriever, were bought in. TURIN, July 21.—The Official Gazette contradicts the mischievous report of an engagement between the Sar dinians and the Russians, on the Tchernaya, wherein the former were defeated, as well as another emanating from the same source, to the effect that General della Marmora had been attacked with cholera, of which the General himself bad never made mention ; in fact, in his last written despatch (of the 7th inst., from Kadikoi) the Sardinian General-in-Chief distinctly says the cholera may be considered to have ceased. PERILOUS FLOOD IN THE FLEET SEWER.—Yesterday bWednesday), about two o 'c lock p.m. , a torrent of water roke suddenly into the works now in progress for deepening and rebuilding the Fleet sewer, opposite Clerkenwell. A temporary canal had been cut from a point a hundred yards up the stream to carry the water past the position of working to a point 50 yards below. A weir eight feet high has been constructed to turn the stream into the temporary channel. This had been da maged by the floods two weeks ago, but was now strongly piled and buttressed. Before it could overflow it turned aside a body of water which ran on a descent six feet deep, by twelve or fourteen wide, and this torrent rolled over a fall of several feet into the former bed of the sewer. It rollod in auoh a body yesterday about two o'clock. The rains of the present week had swollen the ancient Fleet rivulet, but up to the instant of peril no danger was ap prehended. Either an unusual discharge from the Hamp stead and Highgate, or other reservoirs, or heavier rains than fell about Clerkenwell, had fallen within the area of the north-west drainage, and sent down an unexpected flood. From 30 to 40 bricklayers, with other labour ers, were in the dry channel, building piers for the arches, or digging foundations, carrying materials on narrow ladders and planks—men above men, in the in tricately busy working hive—no means of escape but by one or two narrow ladders ; when suddenly the labour ers highest on the planks cried that the flood had risen above the weir. It rolled over, brought down a portion of the side works, and came roaring and crashing down the dry channel. The men rushed to the ladders, or leaped upon their fresh and frail walls, or clung to planks, helping one another, or crying frantically for help. The op en ar ch w ay was within a few yards, and the next outlet was into the Thames, two-thirds of a mile distant. The roaring torrent dashed underneath the clinging workmen into the black throat of this sewer, ar'd every man knew that should the weir give way and the pent-up waters which were lodged back ward towards King's-cross follow its fall, they would be swept with all they clung to irrecoverably to de struction. The imminence of danger for a brief space produced confusion, but presently courage and coolness overcame the panic. The weir did not give way. The men above assisted the men below, and they stood in safety with many strangers, attracted by their cries for help, to see the flood washing away the new brick-work, but otherwise doing no harm. CAPTAIN ELLisoN, 47TH REGIMENT. —This gallant officer, aide-de-camp to General Pennefather (with whom he has returned to England on account of the impaired health of the latter), paid a visit to Lincoln on Monday, en route to Boulthain-hall, the r es id ence o f hi s f at h er, Colonel Ellison. At the Great Northern Railway sta tion be was tz les: to n y h m t l u h d o ai u nn e g a a n (ti d dh s er e o ms f s a t oy h fo e re n oa e rn i d g di ha townlbi i c u o r n u ga tguei council,na try who an p d res c e it n i tion on his safe return from the seat of war. A cortege was then formed, consisting of thirty carriages, bands of music, banners, &c to escort the ga ll ant ca ptain to Boultham-hall. The crowd wer e plenteously regaled at the park, and the day terminated both at Lincoln and B in general rejoicing Captain Ellison has been through the whole campaign, and his military cap is pierced with bullets, THE GERMAN LEGIalt ices KIEL, July 22.- The public prints have Web' k i th some details as to the frequency of the arrests to " I _ o 4 ec t 7 the English recruiting agents have been subj different countries of Europe, and it would appear the t _.,ber most casual observer that some blame must attach !in f. to the agents in question, or to the Gevernment.!isb'ut Every one seems aware of the existence of the faulL _.,d yet no one appears to be able to say where shelie,r of consequently little progress can be made in paw reform. isduring I have happened t o mee t many of these agents b a re a rather lengthe ne d j ourne y on the continent, eld been ing enabled to jud ge ou th e s pot of the act ua te r al , of the system at p resen t i n force both in eln,raie p rusia, and Switzerland. The history of ene ing agent is pretty accura t e ly the history of all. e the therefore, trace th e course o f on e of them, and fee l° a l, reader the task of d raw i ng hi s o wn inferences therefreo About three weeks since an officer of the Ge rri d l o u Legion then stationed at Hull received hie recall, ° n o arrival at head-quarters was directed to proceed re 4 ;lite to the frontiers of Germany, there to establi sh a jet ing district, within given limits He wan fur nished w al l the necessary funds for the jou . rney, and told t o t to further arrangements would be made for him, i; leave him perfectly at lib er ty to organise h is u ' li c eirs The name of an agent was g i ven him who would r e a . " is and forward his recruits from Paris. fie p o d an ' e lse obedience to his orders, proceeded, hoping to fi„ - ", st necessary letter,, &c., which bad been promised hire, Paris. He arrived, but found himself forgotten ; c e s oe to lose time, he at once went on to his destitution, 4 h ie burg, where he immediately set to work. Ne 11111 10 object known, fixed the amount of premium to be g o d per man, empowered his agents to receive an i d de e in recruits , and then reported what he he% red through the Paris agent. Germany at once e ce , t e iee the call, and a few days saw him with fifty-fire r e ;,:bee and every prospect of rapidly aiding to the or►t ies But he was without friends or the required aut -in fact, he was proceeding at his own risk end PIP in every way, as were his subordinates under hir e ' that WN3 not accredited to the French Government, se b a ir they of necessity ignored his presence ; nor cou ld - ° eels thec a e ) . ply for barrack room for his men, though plenty at his service in the town. For the sam e re ,7 the the railway officials could not carry his recruits ' t Ass usual h price, namely, half third-class fare; and wi ie n d for h e l to do! fie wrote again and again for funds ' - odr. ing house, awaiting the reply, placed his men i n ° ed. boarding them at the rate of about le., 00 day-es sum moderate enou g h i n it se lf, but ishic'ber' eel mounted up to a goodly t o t a l. The men-' o idle, and discontented -entreated to be sent en gor land, claiming it, indeed, as a right, they bt / 7„;ent , ceived the promise to that effect on their &T i e "; elf The neighbourhood they occupied was neeesser' l l n - a the, one ; continual disputes arose between them ; t a nte° lodging-house keeper, and they in their turn, for d r oops the recruiting officer, who represented his tcji:grie-o.etimpfl: writing letter after letter. The far-off agents as oeer their authorisations to enlist, and the recrui was as yet without one himself, so that the risk of sonment to them at least was imminent. Maul efb a he igbout naturally deserted; and at last, driven to de s P e- „n managed to procure the necessary fund - 0 4 own personal security, sent off his incli.t' rr Ithus relieved himself for the moment. Ile 13 ;001 presented his situation by means of a third P e ', tel for he could not leave his post, and letters ePLAese useless-to the agent to whom he had been ecl uj- r efr at Paris. This gentleman's answer was sin:10)10ff react to a third, and more influential party. Ev. ell- ,tb s , the right man was found-the case laid before 1 0 .00 tremendous and perfectly unnecessary expense , P a te lu ' out-and the reply received was this : that Pr" - fee: quiry had been made respecting the recruiting • a poi po,ition at Strasbourg-that it was found he W- 00 1) well-known there-and that, therefore, he 0 11 1.70 0 , 1 1 ' had not thought it advisable to place funds at his v- ecfel It must be borne in mind that this man had been o,ll' lied for this duty without any seeking for it on his Pe";treir been sent to a town in which he was a comple le ,;oo , ger, and where consequently he could not be ee" tie and where, as a recruiting agent unaccredited ! f :P p 0 French Government, it was his duty to-remain Bible unknown gave to his subordinates ; and 3 1 P 'for, Phis disadvantage, and crippled as to means, e e ; er helped, unaided, he had actually forwarded to i )e ;ffor l4 recruits w in a very short space of time • a nd hi s st d 14 A realise thus rewarded and ackaowled etc It ie literally the truth of this picture, but i; is strictly fact. Any reasonable numb er o f recru it s cou ld be P r t ireti esh on the German frontier, an d th a t , too , at a very b 1 lower cost than is imagined, or th an i s ' now incta fd Llefr such pettifogging proceedings. A s a proof of tu7 s #ol to the admirable working of the Swiss cere l3 2; o - 60 1 ► which acts directly under the orders of Go.— ee , regularly enrolling and transmitting its In e rt 11 10 by week, properly fed, drilled, and clothe,' r ili f le* on their way to England. Compare this 118 ,140 0, which works with mechanical regularity and Pr e , - with the picture I have drawn-or as I should :P A more propriety far uuderdrawn-of the mode lin e r o h ' }he German Legion, and can the public then wc e i v d 0 01 the mistakes and faults committed Why sh oes, fa° the Government manage its own recruiting ser f ',abi e t its own commissiose! It would be far more resP e k c 0 00 and far more saving to the public purse than W e 14 tract entered into with Baron Von Statferheir e ' fet which he simply engages to find ten thousand 03Allipif the or German anaenahsetaod cmo Legion, voenreayfl atnh and receiving iwnshaicnhe esux tr i e s t s u u r e n bda t e i L l ea i nr e7v:s t - e pt ) fr o APS pointed out above. The total expense Pense6 an d tra il / P : 6 ) , each recruit from the German frontier- say sa -; Pings Strasburg-to Dover, will average twenty-ii a man, and in this sum is included fifteen ebia the price of the railway journey to Paris. Shoule be doubted, I will give each separate item in Pr e°f. o l4 this sum must be added five francs head money g', , er e the subordinate who brings in the ramie, and 1Z :0 1 r a total expense under thirty shillings. Were the ni ment to organise a German commission on Preelhetinjoiti same system as the Swiss, offering 61. per man and adding to that offer a promise of land in the v";°,,or r e b at the expiration of a certain term-say five y ep b ete and faithful service-recruits would flock in m ere es such depots, and not only would plenty of nie",. e e'S . '; cured, but they might be picked men,and eae n ,:i would cost the public purse 7/. 10s. in lieu of difference of which sum now finds its w a y i l 3 ;de rr i pockets of mercenary German agents, o r is sei l %t es" away in consequence of a total want of arrang e° , concerted plan. REPRESENTATION OF MA.RYLI- 10 - - 07 ° f for Last evening a public meeting of electors 0 , - . e rll f jl bone was held at the Coliseum Hotel, Portlanal Pr the purpose of supporting the re-election Of as member for the borough. eia 9 o ( Mr. W. Field, churchwarden of Marylebonef e or eight o'clock called to th e c h a ir, and a large °II- „ 0 / ibiliential electors were present. t .1 "or The CHAIRMAN said they had assembled to „,bo ,f for the securing the re-election of a gentlemall well known to them as member for their b o rong eon . e a alluded to their late well-known and long-tried r voi d , tative, Sir B. Hall. (Hear, hear.) The intr e cl u t c he iti Sir B. Hall into the Government showed that j r t i, tors of Marylebone had exercised a sound sena ° D ' h - g t Ut intelligence in having elected him, and he had ;i f doubt they would do so again most triuroPba n 'i,er f Dr. JOSEPH, in moving the first resolution' ° ,„ti0 0 , 4 1 that as long ago as 1836, he was one of a deell fr il o g P', 4 l the then Mr. Hall, to present a requisition,, a , l . 3 ”heli 6 :o to stand as a candidate for that borough, and for "Ail that no one of his constituents who had Y°. a te . 01 011° I ll had ever any reason to regret that vote. a'w h ,cl e dl they might say with regard to Sir B. Hall, h e i been found to he the right man in the right 11.1' his votes had always been on the right sit' i 6r ja ie the New Public Health Act was brought i 0 " - 1 0 fr io l ment, it had the interest of the poorer °last and the Government male a wise choicetotltit Sir Benjamin Hall at the head of that coP 0 Ivo. —(bear, hear)—and he would ask any elector' , hlo local interests had bees at all impaired b.' o ) ceptance of office under the Crown (No, ° hie', a he (Dr. Joseph) would say that, having shoifiltetirrlif while holding office, as efficient a represelled that great borough as he was before he 9 ,0 ° ° ,1 1 .,1ef v could see no reason why, by accepting the 00'vcr missionership of Public Works, he would be ;°: err, tt that particular juncture he (Dr. Joseph) floe' 'Or, larly satisfied that this election was to take P fee, had afforded Sir B. Hall a public opportunity °,00°0,1 ing his opinion upon the method in which the a, is be to be carried on. (Hear.) From the few sc r , ~° „ 1 .0 0 address of the right hon. baronet there coula."„ - r oo°,, that he was in favour of a determined and lig - 3 ,00, secution of the war, so as to insure a pe r i r l i honourable peace. (Cheers. After , the va°,,-; e pna,io: duct of Lord J. Russell in conducting 2 the " ,coPoo' ferences, these elections now taking place w ere c lootot P portant and significant. (Hear.) He had 0° e fforetr Sir B. Hall would remain as good and al he oPoof member of the House of Commons as he h ad vi tit°, A / tinning to defend the local interests of j ° o o o- t io o second to none in the empire. (Cheers.) •L' e ms tisfile, " That this meeting has learnt with grel t „,7o 9 :l l 3i r i the appointment of the Right Hon. Sir Bee e — , 1 0 0° 0 0 0 ; Chief Commissioner of the Board of Works. 9..,% 0 0 4 1) ; in it a practical testimony on the part of the i;" W e l / tit to the untiring ability and industry with 0' 131° 00. 6 6 hon. baronet has discharged tho duties of I" 3 " e eeer, 0 4 Board of Health. Thi, acceptance of this erar nre egt' n 'elP) involving the resignation of his seat for the R - e leet l " meeting cordially pledges itself to secure his r e ' h OO ea every means in its power." (Cheers.) testimonylll r.S.J t . O S t T h E e Pli g E re N a S t s z ec ea o l n , d a e b d il t i h ty e , f e a S n O d lti s t t i ° r :,:t t il i e o re o o : l o o ? which Sir B. Hall had attended to the 10 0 ' vir e ro' the borough. It bad been stated that 0° man, ottr . cepted patronage could be so free an age° v 8 . 'pained free from patronage from the Cref ec iog S t l o olf Stephens) felt that the Government, in ael h 0° tb 4 alt 0 11 Hall to preside over the Board of ri e .of ele ee made a wise choice, but conferred an . crwriae- finer borough, an honour which he conceive crr by the second appointment. a 06 ' A vote of thanks to the chairman terral y r cee dings. fo .4.41 -0 NEWSPAPER PARCELS. —ln order to facili tat. o ;;P i'F' o warding of newspaper parcels, adhesive r l3 o cOr e d ci vii tickets (similar to postage stamps) maY b e . P i , - e ts, severa of the railway stations. These tiel t be.' oo o attached to parcels of newspapers, win ena b ' e , ot o , l o lo pass through the parcel ffic at the ab °v 0 6 ' Ain fo ° without requiring to be entered as or , — ° v ia usually are. Thu•, newspaper parcels 10'plipute tickets may be received up to within ft f ey° the starting of a train. ~..--~~ "IC o„,„, Nth