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THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buebtene. THIS EVENING. - Will be performed RING RENE'S DAUGHTER. Followed by A MOVING TALE. First act of FLYING COLOURS. Second act of THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE. WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY. Followed by BOX AND COX. To conclude with a Ballet. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STRERT. Under the Management of Mr. Munn EnAn. THIS EVENING, Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING. To conalade with KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Ka tharine, Mn. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI: Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directrese, MAdome Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed A MOVING TALE. Followed by A NOVEL EXPEDIENT. After which, FRATERNISATION. To conclude with OPEN SESAME ; or, A Night with the Forty Thieves. Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford and Keeley; Misses Woolgar, Cuthbert, Wyndham, if. Keeley. and Mrs. Keeley. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE• Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan; THIS EVENING, Will be Performed PERFECT CONFIDENCE and . Characters b y y Messrs. F. Robson and G. Vining; Miss Marston Miss Bromle Followed by PLOT AND PASSION. Characters by Mr. F. Robson, and Mr. A. Wigan Mrs. Stirling, and Miss Bromley. To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bags, Mr. F. Robson. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. MR. FLEXMORE and MLLE. AURIOL'S GRAND NIGHT, And their last appearance for the provincpes), in London (revious to their departure On WEDNESDAY, July 18, The performances will commence with the popular Comedy of TIME TRIES ALL. After which, the Cavatina from Bellini's Opera of NORMA. To be succeeded by the Operetta of the WATERMAN. To be followed by a Petite Ballet from Flexrnore's MENO- ItELLA. After which the popular Farce of JOHN JONES. In the course of the evening a variety of other Entertainments. To conclude with the celebrated Serio•comic Pantomime of DON JUAN- ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS. AND EVERY EVENING, In compliance with the universal wish expressed, the interesting Spectacle. Lord Byron's MAZEPPA ; or, the Wild Horse, in which Mr. William Cooke's highly-trained horses will appear for the first time. The piece will exhibit all the original thrillingly electric effects ! To conclude with the SCENES in the CIRCLE, by Equestrians of high repute. Box-office open from Eleven till roar. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, Jun. HUM WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tom DAT —Morning lgia'n.a:ter 3 I Evening 35min. aft. 3 I'a-lOssow - Mornint. 54 min.after 3 1 Evening 10min. aft. 4 THE WEATHER.-Sun Owe', July 15. THERMOMETER, Ilf sae BEAM 76—highest since noon yesterday. 62—lowest this morning and during the night. 73—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 36'05. Wnvn, S.W.—Fresh, with fine summer weather and heavy clouds, indicating the advent of St. Swithin, which begins to•day. 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Sun-office, 112, Strand, London, 9th July, 1855. 4 tr"- , - - cg s tr: 2 § 1131 + I `, „ • ." LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1855. Lord JonN RUSSELL'S resignation has been ac cepted ! The ex-Plenipotentiary has yielded to a " hint" scarcely less significant than that given to the Irishman who left the room because he was " kicked down stairs." In the Noble Lord's case the " kicking" had not actually taken place, but there was a distinct and positive intimation--not merely from political opponents, but from sub ordinate members of the Ministry, and indepen dent representatives, belonging to the party of which for many years the vacillating Statesman had been the recognised leader—that on this day they would join in the unpleasant but well merited demonstration ; and the experienced "whipper-in" h a d declared that th ere cou ld b e no doubt as to the result, which would involve the rest of the Cabinet in the painful conse quences of the tergiversation and duplicity o f one of their number. Up t o that p eri od he had been encouraged by the rest of his colleagues in the Cabinet to meet the conflict—the strenuous support which he received from many Ministers preventing the others from insisting on his expub Sion. It might have been anticipated that those who, with him , 'were willing to patch up a dis honourable and transitory peace on terms which he himself admitted in his despatch of the 18th of April to be but " an i mper f ec t secur ity for Turkey and for Europe,,, would sustain and de fend him against attacks to which they must have felt themselves equally liable, and they were willing to do so until the threatened withdrawal an d the absolute certainty of support,y that they would be left in a disgraceful minority, taught them that " discretion was the better part of valour," an d " sauve quz peat" became the order of th e d a y. The " political Jo run " was then readily flung overboard, in the hop e that the storm would be thereby allayed, and that the remainder of the crew could for some time longer navigate the vessel of the State in the old style. But will the sacrifice be sufficient ? Will the people be contented to confide the management of affairs at so vitally important a crisis when Parliament is about to separate for six months, and the Government may act as it thinks proper, without let or hindrance, or even remonstrance, to an Administration, nearly one-half of the members whereof were willing to accept that which Lord GLARENDON declared to be "both inadequate and impracticable," and Lord JOHN RUSSELL hin self more delicately declared t• be "an imperfect security for Turkey and for Europe ? " Will they consent to persons who thus itruckled to " Germanism " re maining in office, with the power of, at any moment, striking a fatal blow against the honour and security of the country ? We think not ! And should the independent Members con sent to do so, it will only furnish additional and conclusive evidence that the nation is not fairly represented in that which is termed " the popular branch of the Legislature." The questions to be decided are of a peculiarly momentous character, on the result whereof far more depends than the possession of office by any man or set of men. It is not a mere party triumph that is sought—but the safety, honour, and welfare of the British nation, and the permanency and cordiality of our alliance with our nearest neighbours, who have proved themselves strictly faithful in the dis charge of all their obligations, express or implied, to be able and willing to perform their engage , ments, not only to the letter, but according to the spirit, and true intent and meaning. Yes, peace with Russia on terms affording but an imperfect security to Turkey and to Europe would be, to use Lord CLARENDON'S own words, " as dishonourable as it would be hollow and un safe." It would not only enable the AUTOCRAT to carry out the traditional and avowed policy of Russia, which he has pledged himself under all circumstances steadily to keep in sight, to accom plish the wishes and views of PETER, of CATHE RINE, Of ALEXANDER, and of NICHOLAS ; but it would confirm the Muscovite ascendancy and alienate the friendship of France, compelling us at some future and not very remote period to re new the contest under much more unfavourable circumstances. We will not say that " peace with Russia would be war with France," but it would for ever terminate the entente cor diale with that chivalrous nation, and place England in the same catagory with Austria, Prussia, and other selfish and time-serving and double-dealing States, which have proved them selves to be utterly unworthy of a position among the first-class Powers of Europe. This is the issue raised by the motion of Sir E. B. LYTTON, and the grand inquest of the country must return a decisive and intelligible verdict. Lord J. RUSSELL has pleaded "guilty," but there are others whose complicity in his de signs is more than hinted, by whom he was aided and abetted in his projects, and who have merited the like punishment. The names of Sir GEORGE GREY, Sir G. C. Lnwis, Sir CHARLES WooD, and Mr. VERNON SMITH are openly spoken ef, besides at least two Noble Members of the Government. Should these Right Hon. Gentle men, or any of them, be able to exonerate them selves, well ! They will have every reasonable opportunity of being heard in their own defence. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has shown that Cabinet secrets need not be respected, and that subsequent permission to reveal them may be obtained when the exigency is pressing. At all events full infor mation must be given, and the Cabinet purged of the Peace party, and all who are not prepared to pledge themselves that no terms shall be accepted which do not effectually prevent the possibility of future aggressions on the part of Russia. The cashiering of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in de ference to the decided war policy of the nation, ought to inaugurate the commencement of what we have so long demanded, war in earnest. Hitherto we have had nothing of the kind. By war in earnest we have always meant an unspar ing destruction of everything which could aid Russia, directly or indirectly, in carrying on the war—the cordial acceptance of help from every quarter—the determination to regain from Russia as much as possible of those usurped territories, through which alone she menaces the liberties of Turkey and of all Europe—and the unstinted use of money, men, and military munitions of every kind, from the commencement of the contest to its close. The strength of Russia is her border fortresses, erected, all of them, on stolen soil. Sweaborgandthe Baltic fortresses, Warsaw and the Polish fortresses, Sebastopol and those of the Black Sea, and we might add those of Georgia also---all of them built to keep down the conquered nations on whose soil they stand, and to threaten the nations whom she inteilds to enslave next—these are her strength. Into these she collects from her scanty population the flower of her peasantry and turns them into soldiers ; to fill these with troops she dispeoples her huge territory, and leaves her richest plains uncultivated ; in a word, to satiate the ambition which aims to make her barbarous CZAR the god of Europe and of the civilised world, she sacrifices the wealth which a million nearly of men in the prime of life might produce—expends the wealth of the residue in their maintenance, and perpetuates the reign of comparative solitude throughout the interior of her vast domains. Naturalists tell us that shell fish differ from the higher animals in having their bones outside. Such is the difference between Russia and the more civilised states of the world. She must be dealt with accordingly. Break the offensive defence she has accumulated around her, and she has no internal strength to support her ambitious schemes. The Peelites notoriously deferred war while Russia _was preparing it, in hope of purchasing peace by ignominious concession ; they next car ried on a parado war, and when that could no longer be endured they sold themselves, the un fortunate provinces, and our soldiers' blood to Aus tria. The Whigs came in ; but, as we again aid again insisted, they retained the man who had done more than all others to embolden Russia, while his language was the most irritating to her of any ; the man who madly guaranteed the enemy all his territory, come what would, and who thus showed more than any one that, however big his words, he was not for war in earnest. At tacked on Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S principle Russia must have been an idiot not to fight to the last. She might cause the Allies vast loss and expense, yet even if ever so successful this conceited statesman promised her that what she cared most for--her posts of aggression —should all be restored to her ! Heads we lose, tails you win. The author of this mad declaration is no longer a member of the Gove rn . ment. May he never be again ! at least while the war lasts ; which, conducted on his prin ciples, would certainly be for his lifetime. We have never had a thorough War Ministry yet. It remains to be in the unm an a ge able nature seen secret A fault the ustr be o. . Cobuig influence, or in the sympathy of our aristocracy with Russia and the Continental ' despots. The nation will nct, however, long endure a half-hearted Cabinet, be the cause what it will. Here W e are, nearing the brink of five or six months of irresponsible Government, and as yet we have nothing better to rely on than men who consented to negotiate on the basis of the four points, who have been gulled by Austria, and by Russia through Austria, till this hour, men who sent no troops or gun-boats to the Baltic in the first campaign, none to Kertch the feeder of Sebastopol, none to the Danube to this day, and who have left Odessa, Nicolaieff, and Khersou laughing at us. Men who have thrown away the aid of Poland to please one of her infernal oppressors. Who has been the cause of this unmanly, this scandalous policy ? Who has left the historian such a record of English littleness ? Is Court or Cabinet, or are both, to blame that our children and grandchildren are to regard us as the hood winked tools of a petty German Prince, or if not that, as a nation we were afraid to bid de fiance to the bully Austria ? The next move ought to show. Lord PALMERSTON has now the chance of completing a Cabinet who will be in earnest, who will take up the magni ficent resources of England, who will use them as Englishmen wish him, who will care not a straw whether Austria is pleased or displeased, who will tell her to stand aside, to in termeddle at her peril, to let those who have done the work finish it, and to remember that the next negotiations for peace must be conducted if not in a conquered Warsaw or Petersburg, at least in Paris or London. We shall regard two things in our foreign policy, as testing its earnestness, and the independence of our Cabinet. First, the utter casting off of Aus tria ; requiring her to leave the Principalities to their own Government and to us, and taking back her Croat barbarians to her own domains. The second, which is but a sequel to the other, the constitution of a Polish legion. That most invaluable of, all aid has been refused hitherto, merely to please the evader of the Treaty of the 2d of December. She slinks by equivocations, which would be a disgrace to Old Bailey, out of her own engagements to fight. No Minister deserves the name who does not at once raise the Polish standard, enlist recruits from that ill-used nation wherever they can be found, give a bounty to any Polish deserter from the enemy, lead the patriots face to face with their hitherto exulting oppressors, and bid them fight for the liberation of the nations ; and last not least, if they fought sucessfully, to fight for their fatherland. With Austria, as an honest Ally, we ought to have the help of a Polish Legion ; but, if Austria refuse to fight herself, the Minister must be as base as she is who does not at once put the white eagle in the hands of a Polish standard-bearer. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1855 LATEST NEWS. REPULSE OF THE RUSSIANS BY THE ALLIES. WAR DEPARTMENT, JULY 16. Lord Panmure has received information that a Russian sortie took place against the French rifle pits, in front of the Malakhoff, on Saturday night, which was gallantly repulsed. The army is healthy. MARSEILLES, SATURDAY, JULY 14. The Caire which left Constantinople on the sth instant, has arrived. Despatches leave at 8 p.m. The news from the Crimea is to the 4th. It was announced _that 40,000 Russians were advancing on Baidar. The Paris papers of yesterday publish the fol lowing telegraphic despatches, confirmatory of the intelligence we published on Saturday : "An authentic report announces that on the sth inst. the English bombarded and set fire to Lovisa, a small town in the duchy of Finland, on the gulf of the same name, situated at about 60 kilometres from llelsingfors. The town was completely de stroyed." HAMBURG, JULY 14. The town of Lovisa, in Finland, was born barded and destroyed by the English on the sth instant." THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. (From a Correspondent of the Times.) LIGHT DIVISION, BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, July 3. Since my communication of the 30th ult., the siege operations have tardily progressed in their usual monotonous and wearying routine; all the in formation, therefore, I can give you will consist principally of the arrangements consequent on the death of Lord Raglan and the other casualties that have recently occurred here. Major-General Barnard succeeds General Penn e father in the command of the Second Division. Major-General Codrington gets the Light Divi sion, vice Sir George Brown. Colonel Van Straubenze (the Buffs) takes com mand of the First Brigade, Light Division. Colonel the Hon. A. Spencer, 44th Regiment, takes command of the First Brigade, Fourth Divi sion, with the pay and allowance of colonel on the staff, until her Majesty's pleasure is known. Colonel Barlow, 14th Regiment, will for the pre sent take command of the First Brigade, Third Division. The 3d and 31st Regiments join the Second Division. The 72d joins the First Division. The 13th Regiment is attached to the Fourth Division, but will for the present remain for duty at Balaklava. Captain R. Luard, 77th Regiment, is placed on the staff of the army to act as Deputy-Assistant- Adjutant-General or Deputy-Assistant-Quarter master-General, as his services may be' required. He is, for the present, attached to head-quarters. The following officers proceed to England on the recommendation of a medical board :—Major Pack and Lieutenant Malan, 7th Fusiliers ; Captain Quayle, 33(1 Regiment ; Lieutenant Chamberlayne, 13th Light Dragoons; and Lieutenant Stewart, 3d Regiment ; and the undermentioned have also ob tained leave to return home on their private affairs —Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. S. Jocelyn, Scots Fusi lier Guards ; Lieutenants Johnstone, 33d Regt., and Lukin, 17th ; and Veterinary-Surgeon Withers, R.A. The following are the most interesting portions of the General Orders that were published last night : "Head-quarters, before Sebastopol, July 2. " The funeral procession of the late Field Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.13., will move from head-quarters to Kazatch-bay at 4 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, the 3d July. "The Brigade of Guards will furnish a guard of honour of 100 men with regimental colour at head-quarters. Detachments of 50 men in review order, with one field officer, one captain, and one subaltern from each regi ment, will line the road from the British to the French head-quarters. "Toe detachments from each division will be cora manded by a Bvigadier-General. " The cavalry division will furnish guards of honour of two squadrons on the right and left of the line. " Two field-pieces will be stationed as a guard of honour on the left of the line. "A salute of 19 guns will be fired when the proces sion moves off. "The troops not on duty will be under arms at 4 o'clock p.m., and will remain in camp under the command of a B rigadier-General of each division, with whom one Major of Brigade and one divisional staff officer at at least will remain. " The troop s and staff at Balaklava will remain at their posts. "The escort to Saititch will consist of four squadrons of Cavalry, one troop of Horse Artillery and a field battery, the whole under tl4e command of Lieet.-Colonel R.H.A., and of detachments of the allied forces who hare offered to attend. "The mourners to take place in the p rocess i on w ill b e r elatives and friends of the late Field Marshal, general I, officers of divisions with their staffs, staff at head-quart• ers ; 0:20 officer from each regiment of infanty and cavalry and film the Royal Engineers and Land Trans port Corps, two from the Naval Brigade, Roy ;1 Marines, Medical and Commissariat Staff, and three from Royal Artillery," " MORNING GENERAL ORDER. "The Lieutenant-General Commanding the Forces hastens to publish to the army the following telegraphic despatch, receivedilast night from the Minister of War:— " I conveyed your sad intelligence to the Queen. Her Majesty received it with profound grief. Inform the army that her Majesty has learned with the deepest sorrow this great misfortune which has befallen the army in the loss of its late distinguished Commander-in-Chief. " The country has been deprived of a brave and ac complished soldier, a true and devoted patriot, and an honourable and disinterested subject. " L. PAKENHAM, Lieut.-Col., D.A.A.G.' THE WAR IN ASIA. We have received the St. Petersburg journals of the 7th of July. The Invalide .Russe publishes the following : "Aide-de-Camp General Mouravieff has sent the fol lowing details, dated sth (17th) June, from the camp, near the village of Adja-Kala, on the river Karstchai. " The result of the advance of General Kovalevsky on Ardahan was, that the Turkish Militia, estimated at about 9,000 men, who were assembling in the neighbouring Sand jaks, dispersed and returned to their homes. Two regi ments of regular cavalry which were quartered in the village of Deltan, near that fortress, left it shortly be fore the arrival of General Kovalevsky, and rejoined the main body of the Turkish army at Kars. As regards the irregular infantry which had remained at Ardahan, it withdrew from the Pasha, and has proceeded, it is said, I to 0 lta. "To enable them to carry away more easily the pro vision stores and other things from Ardaban, the Turks had taken all the carts in the neighbouring villages be fore our arrival, so that during the march of General Kovalevski from Ardahan to Zaim there were no beasts of burden. "oGrdeenresr,al I o va v s s') with the detachm en t un d er his of k the inf an t r y reg i ment Ri azan consisting and the \Vilna Chasseurs, with 12 p i eces of artillery and 1 e five sotnias of the Doa Cossacks, rejoined on the 3d (15th) of June, at Zairs, the avant-garde of the corps of operation, as also the detachment of Major-General 13ak lanoff. " Yesterday, the 4th (16th) of June I made a recon naisance with a portion of ‘the troops in the direction of Kara-Dagh, during which a sotnia of our mounted militia opened a fusillade with the Turkish irregular cavalry, behind which we could see two regiments of Turkish Lancers drawn up in columns. The e - demy on the flank was driven back by six sotnias of tf , , e 2d Regi ment of the Cossacks of the Caucasus under the command of Colonel Kamkoff, whom i supported with four squadrons of Dragoons and fv, ar p artillery. The remaind er o f the ',;coops w ic e e re e sof horse artillery. rawno up e in order of battle at four verst'ds from Kara-Dagh. The enemy had scarcely become `Aware of the movement di rected against them, wheya the Bashi•Baznuks dispersed, and the regular Turkish, cavalry commenced retreating slowly, pursued by t;:le Cossacks. They soon got into a trot, the last rrAtik only returning our fire. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Colonel Kamkoff charged with his Cossacks and penetrated into the centre of the enemy's column. The Grehenskaia sotnia, and two from Stavropol, charged at a galop the last close ranks of the enemy ; the sotnias of the Cau casus, of the Kuban, and of the mountains, pursued the enemy and sabred them without mercy ; the Turkish horsemen left,theirhorses by dozens to conceal themselves in the high grass. Carried on by the rapdity of the pur suit, the Cossacks paid no attention to the fire opened upon them by the batteries of Kara-Dagh, and they only stopped in front of the battery of the retrenched camp, situate near the town, behind which the Turkish Infantry formed, and the fugitives found support. Emboldened by the vicinity of their main body, the Turks attempted to take the offensive, but two rounds of rockets from the cavalry detachment, under Lieutenart Oussoff, stopped them. I then ordered Count Nyrod to advance with the cavalry reserve, and to call t',,gether the different de tachments in advance, who re 4 ,,tirned in excellent order. " Our loss consisted in 4 Cossacks killed, 1 Cossack officer 10 Cossacks, and militiamen wounded. Despite the brisk cannonade f.roin the town only two of o u r m en were hit. The Co'dsacks brought back seven prisoners, two of whom w ere Lancers, and they brought away all their killed . o d wounded, with the exception of a subal tern, who, h ad gone too far, and was cut down in the very ce,nt re o f th e co l umn, c l ose to the camp. A great nurn!Jer of Turkish killed and wounded were left on the fi':id of battle, but as they were under cover of . their oatteries, it w as i mposs ib le to count t h em. To judge, however, from the Humber of horses, weapons, and clothes carried off, and by the blood-stained swords of the Cossacks and militiamen, the loss of Turks may be estimated at 60 men, which estimation was confirmed on the sth (17th) by spies, who informed us that the Turks' loss was 55 killed and 67 wounded. "During the combat a small detachment of the enemy made its appearance on our right flank, bat wasimine diately repulsed. 'We afterwards learned th a t it was commanded by an Engli , h officer. " In this affair the Cossacks of the Line, whom the Turks call Cir cassians (Tcherkesses), displayed great in trepidity. Six sotnias pursued, sword in hand, 103 Bashi-Bazouks and two regiments of regular cavalry under the fire of the enemy's artillery, driving them back almost into their camp. " During this reconnaissance a special detachment had been sent to the Mount Maly6 Ya,4ny, from which point the officers of the Staff took without hindrance a tTo graphical plan of the localities. About 2 p.m. the troops returned to camp." THE BALTIC FLEET. DANTSIC, July 13.—The steam-sloop Geyser, Commander R. Dew, arrived off this port yester day morning, at 12 o'clock, with mails from the fleet. She made the passage from Cronstadt to this anchorage, a distance of above 600 miles, in 59 hours. There is little news of importance to communi cate this week. Admiral Dundas went up on the 7th, in the Merlin, to reconnoitre Fort Risbank, and while so occupied was fired upon several times by the batteries ; the vessel, however, being out of range, all the shot fell short. As the Geyser was coming down from the fleet to Dantsic she met on the 10th Admiral Baynes in the Retribution, with the Colossus, Hogue, Edin burg, and four gunboats, going up to join the Com mander-in-Chief at Cronstadt. The following ves sels, which form the other part of his squadron, remain at Nargen :—the Hawke, Pembroke, Hast ings, Russell, together with some gunboats and mortar vessels. On the same evening, the Geyser passed the Imperieuse, with three mortar vessels in tow, off Dago Ort. _ _ On the 3d instant the Geyser, while blockading the coast about six miles north of the fleet, success fully shelled a body of Russian troops, attempting to occupy some large buildings in the vicinity of Incomeni Point, and caused them to retire ; on the following morning the same vessel destroyed, with red hot shot, a large schooner which was being built a little higher up the coast. It is not at all improbable that the whole of the fleet will very shortly leave the present anchorage before Cronstadt, and take up a position lower down the Gulf of Finland. What the exact object of this move may be it is of course impossible to say ; still, however, " coming events cast their shadows before them," as the old proverb runs. In this instance, however, it is to be hoped that " coming events" will also cc clear off" those shadows which have hitherto shrouded in darkness the aim and intentions of the Baltic Fleet. The corn trade is, at the present moment quite at a stand-still. The dull accounts from England exercise a great influence on the minds of pur chasers, who will not come forward except a mate rial reduction in former prices be made by holders ; this, however, the latter do not feel inclined to ac cede to, and prefer taking their supplies to granary rather than submit to a sacrifice. Freights continue beady the same as last week, 20s. to London, and proportionate rates to other ports. In the timber trade several large purchases have been made here, at rather high prices, from the supplies just arrived from Poland. The export trade consists principally of goods for railway pur poses, and for the Government. Considerable sup plies also continue to be shipped for the French Government. A Hamburg letter of the llth ult., in the Inde pendance Belge, says " Last evening the French flotilla which was lying for some days at Kiel cleared out for the Baltic, to join the squadron of Rear-Admiral Penaud, in the Gulf of Fin land, before Cronstadt. The corvette Aigle had left Kiel three days before with two bomb-vessels. The remaining five, which sailed yesterday, were towed by three other steam corvettes. The steam-sloopTernpete had postponed her departure o w i ng t o de necessity of repairing damages sustained by her engines, Other French ships of war are shortly expected a t Ki e l, Stockholm letters and j ourna l s of ra t v h ern e : t n b d , e blraesutghetvebnlgt, make no mention o f th e he Gauthiod, which en t ere d T bombardment a n d d es tr ic tion of Nystadt, in Fi n l an d, by an English squadron. That statement was circulated by the captain of a small ve,o , el coming from th e G u lf , and the Swedish telegraph immediately forwarded it in all directions. Today the event appears to be unfound ed, and the Swedish journals themselves admit it. Let ters from Helsingfors of the 28th ult., received at Stock holm on the 3d, re f er to th e great difficulty of commu nicating with Sweden. No intercourse was possible between Abo and th e I s l es o f Aland, on account of th e continual presence of English vessels, which find means to penetrat e the narrowest creeks of our islands. After the affair of Hangc-ljdde the English considerably increased the n um b er of their war vessels in the Gulf of Bothnia. There are at present no less than 22 English ships of war of all sizes cruising in that gulf, where no. thing important h a d occurred up to the morning of the 29th. The attention of the English cruisers is particu larly directed to the telegraphs along the Finnish coast, half a dozen of which were destroyed by them in the month of June. O n th e 18th th e y cannonaded and levelled with the ground the telegraph of Porkkaland After bombarding to no purpose the fort of Slava they set fire to the neighbouring houses, and, having re turned to the charge on the 20th, they completely destroyed the telegraph. On the 21st, having re ceived a reinforcement of ships of war, the English re-opened fire on the fort, and compelled the garrison to evacuate it. The commander, however, in com pliance with his instructions, blew it up to prevent its occupation by the Eaglish. The fortified pi - orliontory at Kotka, between Frederikshamm and Lovisa, was attacked on the 20th, by English gun-boats detached from the squadron. They bombarded it for several hours, and succeeded in setting on fire a number of private dwellings, several commercial stores, and two barracks. On the approach of the English ships the entire population of Kotka abandoned the place, carry ing with them their most valuable property into the interior. The English continue to supply themselves at Elsinore with the cattle necessary for the consumption of the fleet in the two gulfs. On Saturday last one of their vessels sailed thence with 78 live oxen on board." AUSTRIA. A i letter from Vienna of the 7th, in the Dres den Gazette, says—" It is known that in the last meeting of the conference of Vienna, the Russian Pienipotentiaries declared that they would refer to their Government the project of mediation pro posed by Austria on the third point, and which had been rejected by the Western Powers. It is stated that the reply of the Russian Government has just been received in the form of a note addressed to Prince Gortschakoff, and it is rumoured in well informed circles that the cabinet of - Vienna consi ders the contents of this note as satisfactory." A letter from Vienna, in Voss's Gazette of Ber lin, says :—" The official reports of the situation of Italy are far from favourable. The state of the puhlic mind in the Roman provinces, in particu lar, excites great uneasiness. It is less the proceed ings of the Mazzini party that create alarm than the increasing distress of the working classes in various towns, and it is that circumstance which has caused Marshal Radetsky to ask for a reinforce ment of 40,000 men. It is now thought that the Emperor and Empress of Austria will not go to Italy, as at first intended, but to Ischl, with the Archduke Charles and the Archduchess Sophia." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the Bth have arrived. They certain news from Barcelona to the sth, and it was to the effect that though the workmen continued to abstain from work they were committing no excesses. The Espana says that Marshal Espartero had sent a despatch to Barcelona to the effect that he was disgusted at seeing his name mixed up in the recent dis turbances, and that he would be the very first to draw his sword to defend the constitutional throne of Queen Isabella. In the Cortes, the Mi nister of the Interior had declared that the Govern ment was determined to support the tribunals of Barcelona, and that a prosecution of the murderers of M. Sol y Padris had been commenced. He an nounced also that in the questions pending between masters and workmen in Catalonia, it is the inten tion of Government to allow the most complete li berty to both parties. The Gazette says that the reinforcements sent from Madrid to Catalonia are not so large as stated in the newspapers—that, in fact, only one regiment has been sent off; it says also that it is not true, as has been stated, that all the vessels of war have received orders to assemble in the waters of Valencia and Alicante to convey troops to that province. The same journal like wise states that it is not true, as asserted in some of the journals, that extraordinary powers have been given to General Zapatero at Barcelona, b u t that his powers are neither more nor less than what are usually exercised by a Captain-General during a state of siege. MALTA. MALTA, JULY 10. Yesterday the Simoom arrived, with 62 Russian prisoners, principally sailors, and 30 pieces of Rus sian ordnance from Kertch, fine large guns, 20 of them very handsome pieces of brass. She has also on board Mrs. Platts, an English lady settled at Kertch, and her eight children. Her husband, an en 6 iuebr, is on board the Royal Albert. The Alps arrived yesterday, with a number of officers, and proceeded on to England last night. The Caradoc arrived this morning, with the body of Lord Raglan. The vessel in every part is painted black, and everything denotes the deepest mourning. On the body being embarked at Ka miesch the French lined the road for six miles, and the funeral procession was conducted with the greatest respect and decorum, and was received by Admiral Stewart and a large number of boats, forming a funeral procession. The respect shown by the French was somewhat beautiful, and en deared them to the friends of Lord Raglan. At Constantinople Lord de Redcliffe and suite paid a visit of ceremony to the vessel, and on her arrival here the Union Jack was hoisted half-mast high, and every demonstration made. The Caradoc proceeds at 12 a.m. with the body to England. Commander Derriman takes her home, having been in close attendance ou Lord Raglan since he has been in the East, and on his promotion for his personal gallantry at Alma he was kept in command of the Caradoc at Lord Raglan's particu lar request. He lately greatly distinguished him self in joining the French in their assault on the Mamelon, and was so far a-head that the French took him for a Russian, and he was sent to the rear as a Russian prisoner. H. M. S. Fury and Inflexible are both ordered to England. One of Lord Raglan's horses has been presented to General Marmora, commandingthe Piedmontese. The Colombo, Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's steamer, like most of the steamers lately sent to England, has a large quantity of plunder on board from Kertch. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, JULY 6. The India mail arrived at Suez on the 3d - inst., and proceeds this day to Malta and Southampton by the steamer Indus. Cholera has almost entirely disappeared at Cairo, but here it still prevails, particularly among the military, of whom about a hundred die daily from this disease. Said Pasha, the Viceroy, had taken a large number on the coast to the west ward, but the fatigue of marching and the exposure to the sun in this hot section aggravated the dis ease, so that his Highness brought them back at once, and is now talking of taking them to Cairo. The Archduke Maximilian, brother to the Em peror of Austria, arrived here yesterday from the coast of Syria, and he is now visiting the Viceroy under the salute of guns and with military state. To-morrow the Archduke, nothing daunted by the heat, the lowness of the Nile, and the prevalence of cholera, proceeds to Cairo, and thence perhaps to Upper Egypt. His arival in Alexandria was preceded by the entrance into the harbour of three corvettes, three frigates, six brigs, and three steam frigates, constituting almost the entire Austrian navy, and the object- of this visit is no doubt cal culated for some political purpose. The Nile is now at its very lowest point, and may begin to rise perceptibly in a few days. The railway works are progressing favourably, and by September or October the line to Cairo may be opened for traffic. One class of people who will de rive much benefit from the railway are the thou sonds of hadjis or Mohammedan pilgrims, on the way to Mecca, who at this season of the year, some times occupy three weeks or a month in reaching Cairo in native boats by the river • the cholera has committed great ravages among them at Cairo. Trade in Egypt very dull, there being little or no produce for shipment. Freights 4s. 6d. per quarter. Exchange on London, 98? piastres per £ sterling. The irregular cavalry collected by Colonel Wal pole in Syria for the Turkish contingent were at Beyrout, about 500 in number, awaiting the arri val of steamers to take them on to the seat of war. The men were giving Colonel Walpole much trouble from their iusubbordinate conduct, and there were daily attempts at desertion. Yesdaskeer Bey, the Koordish Chief, and his at tendants, were still living at the British Consulate at Mosul. The Turks are anxious to get these men into their hands, and a new rebellion is expected to break out in the mountains, all because of the Turkish authorities. M. Rassam, the Vice-Consul at Mosul, has been ordered to equip and to send to the seat of war 500 mules and 500 Bashibazouks. An insurrection has taken place among the Koords in the Hakkari Mountains. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, JULY 15. By the arrival from Boston, via Halifax, this morning of the Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Lott commander, we are in receipt of advices from New York to the 3d, Boston the 4th, and Halifax the 6th inst. The Asia was detained by fog for 12 hours outside the harbour of Halifax. She brought 218 passengers and $884,157 in specie on freight. There are no political advices of the least interest. The President and his lady had left Washington for the benefit of her health. Mr. Crampton, our Minister to the United States, is reported to have taken offence at the official prevention of tho de parture of recruits for the Crimea. - Upwards of 10,000 persons attended a meeting for opposing th e new pro hibit ory Li quor L a w, in the Park, at New York. All the speakers de nounced the law as fanatical, unconstitutional, and totally inadequate to promote the cause of tempe rance, or other useful purpose ; while, on the other hand, it would destroy millions' worth of property, and blast the prospects of their felloy-citizens. They passed resolutions accordingly. The Hon. Abbott Lawrence, late American Minister at London, was dangerously ill. - - Suicides and deaths from sunstrokes had become of frequent occurrence at Xew cork; One of the , fohner case; caused a great deal of ecitekneilt. A young man and a young woman, who formerly be longed to Cheshire, but who had fallen from the paths of virtue, were found dead, locked in each other's arms, in an open balcony ; they had taken prussic acid. The parents of the young man hav ing sent the goring woman's body to the deadhouso the populace made a demonstration opposite their dwelling. The Panama Railroad Company had. declared a semi-annual dividend of 6 per cent. A gingham establishment at South Hadley Falls, Springfield, known as the Glasgow Mills, had been destroyed lay fire ; one man was killed ; and two were injured.. The loss is estimated at from $200,000 to $250,000. The Illinois Central Railroad Company has dis covered coal on its lands. Advices from Utah valley speak of every pro spect of a good harvest. In Salt Lake Yalley great excitement on the subject of gold found on the Sweet Water was ma-• nifested, and numbers were leaving for the dig gings. A good deal of anxiety was also manifested about the w•ld discovered on the head waters of the Red River, in the territory of Arkansas, and many were awaiting the return of messengers pre vious to starting. A. movement in North Carolina is soon to be sub- I mitted to the Legislature of that State to render legal the institution of marriage among the slaves, to preserve sacred the relations between parents and their young children, and to repeal the laws prohibitinc , the education of slaves. It is stated 6 the main features of the movement have been adopted in practice during many years by all classes in the South, and the effect has been so salutary that it is now deemed expedient to in corporate the system into a legal form and to make it as universal as possible. in the United States' Circuit Court at Boston, Judge Curtis had decided, in the case of the brig Porpoise, that a vessel which bad acted as a tender to slavers, and had carried merchandise which was used for the purchase of slaves, and had otherwise aided in slave transportation, although she had not actually a single slave on board, was guilty of being engaged in the slave trade, within the meaning of the statute ; the brig was consequently declared forfeited. Donald IVPlCay's model cf the new steamship Cradle of Liberty, intended for the new line between New York and this port, had been placed in the Exchange newsroom for exhibition. The steamer is 325 feet long, 45 feet broad, and 31 feet deep. A meeting of the merchants and all others interested in the new line was to be held at the exchange ix a few days. The New York money-market is inactive. Loans on call were offered on easier terms, and there was an increased supply of capital seeking investment. In the stock-market prices were well supported, the rates of exchange on England were in rather extensive demand at 109! I to 110 and 1101 per cent. Bills on France sf. 12ic. to sf. 15c. The cotton market was steady without anitna tion. The letters received from the Atlantic States were less favourable in regard to the growing crops, complaints being very general that too much rain was falling. The flour market was dull, with a reduction of 25c. to 50c. during the past week. The provision market was steady, with moderate sales. Iron was firm at $2B, cash. In freights no particular change. The following has been received by electric tele graph, via Halifax : " New York (evening), July s.—Stocks to-day dull ; money unchanged. Cotton unsettled ; accu rate quotations cannot be given. Flour further advanced slightly. Wheat and corn unchanged. " New Orleans, July 3, 3 p.m.—The cotton market is still dull and declining." BAILW AY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FUR THE PAST WEEK. Miles Receipts. opened, NAME OF RAILWAY. 1854. 1855. 1855. --.- BRITISH. X £ 7 2 % Aberdeen ...• ••......••••••.. 1,850 2,335 37% Belfast and Ballymena .• ...... • • 660 238 17 Belfast and County D0wn............. - • • • • • • • • • • - - 32 Birkenhead, Lancashire, anti Cheshire 2,689 2,634 26% Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• • • - - 1 0 :31,i Bristol and Exeter • • .... • • ......... 6 ,446 6,702 189 4 Caledonian. - ........ „ „ .........: 11,534 11,778 944 Chester and Holyhead 5,1167 5. 11 67 1,948 61 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •• •• •• 383 219 20 Cork and Bandon .. • • ...... • • • • • • • • 223 262 56 Dublin and Belfast Junction •• .. • • 9 ,7 1,074 63 Dublin and Drogheda.. ••••••• • • • • •• 1,500 1,702 7 2 4 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • • 1,172 1,419 164 Dundee and Arbroath ••••••• • • • • • • • 544 605 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 935 1,09 25 Dundalk and Enniskillen.... • • • • • • • • 225 271 68 East Anglian.... •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 882 864 81 % East Lancashire 5, 6 88 5 913 417 I Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. •• .. 22,827 24,917 1 Eastern Union • • • • • • • • • - • • .. • • • • • • 3 142 Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... .. •• • 5.243 4,681 78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dune ee .. .. • 3,123 3,407 6 Exeter and Creditors.. • • .... • • • • • • • • - - 22 Furness Railway •• • •••.••• • • • • • • • - - 183 Glasgow, and South-Weston - •••• • • • • 5,689 6,368 2°3 Great Northern and E. L. ••••• • .. • • 18,252 20.656 188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 , 5 3 3 6,819 312 Great Western .• ••••••••• • • • • • • • •• 23,792 26,060 25 Irish South Eastern • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • - - 90 Lancaster and Carlisle •••• • • • • 260 Lancashire and Yorkshire.. .. - Leeds Northern .. • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • - 16k Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport 331 335 553% London and North Western .• •• • • ... 56,965 59,791 534 London and Blackwall.• •••••• •• • . .. 1,763 1,792 174 London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 15,5 7 15,761 267 London and South We5tern......... 15,017 16,887 60 Londonderry and Enniskillen • • • • • • • • - - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - - 171 3 % Manchester, Sheffileld,and Lincolnshire 8,694 9,171 91,', Manchester and South Junction...... 721 897 28 Maryport and Carlisle •••• • • • • ...... 1,016 065 498.74 Midland ..... ••••• • •• ............ 27, 4 42 27 , 867 126% Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 3,164 3,209 37 Monklands • . • • • • • • .. • • • • • - • • • • • • • • - - 78% Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • .. ..... ... - - 149 North British ••..••• . • • • • .......... 4,303 5 326 - North Staffordshire •• • • .... •• • • .• • • - - 46% North-Western ••.. •• • •• • - •• 1,038 1,063 821 Scottish Central .• ••••• • • • • • ........ 2,335 2,819 32 Scottish Midland -••-• • • • - ..., .. 783 1,046 29% Slirewabnry and Birmingham ••.• .. 1,043 1,428 48 Shrewsbury and Chester •. •.••• • .. .. 2,121 2,5 9 30 Shropshire Union .. •••••••• • . . . . . .• 857 970 57 3 .4 South Devon- • • •... . ...... •• • • .... 2,483 2,937 231 South Eastern.• ••••••••• • - - . • • • •• 19 . 463 2 0 ,725 162% South Wales .. ••..•• • • • • •••• ••• • • • 5,065 5 , 745 97 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 1,721 1,672 38 Taff Vale .. ••••••••••.•• • • • • • •• • • •• 3,474 3,8 9 36 Ulster . ... ...... ....... ••• • • • 77 Waterford and Limerick • • • • • • • • • • • • 732 925 25 West Cornwall ••• • • • •• • • •••• • • • 543 660 12 Whitehaven Junction . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3G2 3:8 682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick Sc York and North Midland & Leeds - - FOREIGN. 57 Dutch Rhenish --•••••••• •• •• •• •• 1,6 8 6 1,777 262 Lyons and Mediterranean • • • • • • •• • • - - 63 Montereau and Troyes •••• .• - - • • - - 63 Namur and Liege .. •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • - - 445 Northern of France ••••• • • • • • 697 Orleans and Central * .. - - 240 Paris and Lyons .• .• • - - 82 Paris and Rouen. • • ..• • • •• • • • • • • •• .• - - 392 Paris and Strasburgh ..........., .. - - 59 Rouen and Havre • • ... ...... • - • ,„ - - 157 Western of France •• •••• .• •• - - The editor of the Bi(fia/o Advertiser has made himself immortal by the publication of an infallible means of keeping babies perfectly quiet, the modus operandi of which is as follows :—As soon as the child wakes and begins to squall, prop it up with pillows and smear its fingers with thick treacle, sticking feathers into the hands, and thus afford the youngster the employment of picking the feathers from the one band and the other, which will keep him still until lie falls asleep again. The Univers publishes a sonnet to the Virgin, com posed by Gent.ral Verg6, who, it appears, made a vow at the moment when he was leading his brigade to the assault of the Mamelon Vert, that if he escaped death that day, he would openly acknowledge the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. A letter from his wife, received just before he went into action, in which she said, " Promise me to make a vow to the Virgin," was the cause of the gallant General making the vow which ke row faithfully and publicly accnmplishes. FIRE AT HIINGERFORD•MARKET.—Last evening (Sun day) considerable alarm was caused in the vicinity of Hungerford-market in consequence of a fire breaking out on the wharf of the market, occasioned by some boys accidentally emptying their pipes on a waggon laden with straw. On the sudden outbreak messengers latere despatched for the Chandos-street, Watling-street, West of England, and various other engines, which promptly arrived, and speedily got to work, with a good supply of water from the mains of the New River. The wind blowing strongly the flames spread with amazing ra pidity, and five carts and one waggon belonging to Mr. Milligan, hay and strawdealer, opposite the booking office, on the wharf, as well as Mr. T. Henderson's carts, speedily ignited. The firemen worked most strenuously, and by dint or great perseverance the flames were sub dued, but not until the straw and carts were nearly de stroyed. SWEETS, OR MADE WINES.—A return moved for by Mr. Masterman, M.P., shows that there were imported into England from Scotland in the year 1854, 17,4711 gallons of sweets, or made wines, at V l d. per gallon, 1,767 at 31d. per gallon, and 29,761 gallons at 2d. per gallon, 145 gallons of ether, at rates varying from 45.7 d. 7s. 11d. per gallon, 1, 4 7 1 gallons of sweet spirits of nitre, at rates varying from 2s. 9d. to 4s. 9d. per gallon, and 2111 gallons of tinctures, at rates varying from is. 10d. to 3s. 2d. per gallon. The number of gallons imported from Ireland was 2,9191 gallons of sweets or made wines at 6.1 d., 6,853 of the same at 52d,, 791 gal lons of ether at lls. 3d., 82 gallons of ether at 9s. 7d.. 643 i gallons of sweet spirits of nitre at 68. 9d„ 7171 gallons of the same at ss. 9d., and 7 gallons of tinctures at from 3s. 10d. to 4s. 6d per gallon. A list of sweets or made wines, &c., seized by the Excise and Customs, 'is appended to the foregoing statistics. NAVAL PAYMENTS.—Her Majesty, on the 26th of June, 1855, was pleased to approve the following recom mendations of the . Lords of the Ad m i ra l ty relat i ve to n aval payments,. viz.,-1, that all bills be issued or drawn at the uniform term of seven days ; 2, that navy bills issued for supplies of provisions, victualling, medi cal, and naval stores, freights, and generally for all con tract works and supplies, be made out payable at seven days after date ; and 3, that all bills of exchange drawn on the Accountant-G encra l o f the N avy , an d accepted by him, payable in the bill account of the Paymaster- General at the Bank of England ' be drawn at seven days after sight, in s t ea d o f three' days, as prescribed by Act 2, William IV.; cap. 40. These regulations are to come into operation on the let of October neat. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, JULY 15. Princess Louisa and Prince Arthur have been at tacked with scarlatina. Their royal highnesses are going on very favourably. The same disease has declared itself in Prince Lea' pold, who was left at Buckingham Palacein consequence of a slight accident. Prince Albert, accompanied by the King o f the 1 3 a 1 ' gians and the Count of Flanders, embarked in the royal • yacht Victoria and Albeit on Friday a fternoon, a° went towards the Needles. Her Majesty, with th e Princess Charlotte of Belgium and the Princess Royal, cruised in the Fairy. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fal °l Howard, arrived on a visit to her Majesty on Friday'. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal' Princess Alice, the Duchess of Kent, and Princess Charlotte of Belgium, drove out in an open carriage Y e°• tcr,lay afternoon. Prince Albert and the Count of Flanders rode a ° horseback. ging The royal dinner party yesterday included the of of the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent, the Count of Flanders, the Princess Royal, the Princess Cha rlotte Belgium, Lady Fanny Howard, the Countess de 800 , the Baronne de Bowe, Colonel de Moerkerke, Slr Robert Carswell, Captain Burnell, and Sir James Clark. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon a: the Foreign-office, Downing-street. It was attendeu by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the 3 01 ' quis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Duke of A r g r ' Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, LorJu ba Russell, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Excb 6 : quer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vern°" Smith, Sir William Moleswortb, Viscount Canning , an Earl of Harrowby. The council !Sat three hours and a half. Meetings of the Oxford University Commission wee ° held at No. 18, Great Queen-street, Westminster, °llt Thursday and Friday last. The Commissioners p rese rr: were the Earl of Ellesmere, the Dean of Wells, and PP' John Wither Awdry, with the secretaries. 0; The Committee on Education of the Lords of her 1‘ jesty's Most Hon. Privy Council had a meeting o Saturday, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall. T i ff sent : The Lord President, the Chancellor of th e chequer, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines.' A deputation from the Waltham Holy Cross 14°, call , i , Board of Health had an interview, on Saturday, s'i"" the President of the General Board of Health, at office, whitehall, with reference to the Public 110 1 t Bill. The deputation consisted of the Rev. J. F. Shat. man, Mr. Carr, Mr. Read, and Mr. dessopp, clerk to the local board. • THE MINISTRY.—After the separation of the Cabine t Council on Saturday evening, Lord John Russell le° town for Pembroke Lodge, Richmond. Viscount Pal' merston did not leave town, but dined with the 1. 01.. quis and Marchioness of Londonderry. The only Ow munication from the noble viscount to the Queen ivfil conveyed by one of the ordinary Treasury messenger s ' IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE CONSERVATITE Pale' —A meeting of the Conservative members of the Heal of Commons took place on Saturday at the residence oci Mr. Disraeli. The attendance was very numerous, never was the feeling of the party more cordial and no ir nimous as to the course to be pursued by it. SUCCESSOR TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL AS COLONIC SECRETARY.—As we have elsewhere observed, the nay °s of Sir Wm. Molesworth and Mr. Vernon Smith are MeV tioned as probable to be submitted as Colonial Ser e. tary ; the name of Lord Harrowby has also been In° tioned. —Morning llcrald. Lord Derby has written to Sir J. H. Maxwell, toga,' that "Parliamentary business" will prevent him troll being present at the approaching Great Agricu lture' Meeting at Carlisle. The band of the Ist Life Guards have eonarnen—,,, playing in the Kensington Gardens selections from t'"" most favourite composers, every Tuesday and FridaP. from four to six o'clock, and will continue to do so &It in.- the months of July and August, weather permit ting ' 'During the week, preliminary arrangements have bee el made in forming an association to promote the obserf : „' tion and classification of meteorological phenomena Scotland. The Duke of Argyle has been nominated 1" president, the Marquis of Tweeddale as vice-president' and Mr. A. K. Johnston as honorary secretary, with tb numerous council. Mr. Arnaud, the collector of Customs at Liverpool, who succeeded Mr. Swainson in that office upwards t lf thirty years ago, has just retired, it is stated, upo n tb. large superannuation allowance of 2,2001. a year.'" Shipping Gazette. Captain John M‘Dougall, R.N., has been appoint e ti Aj.imiralty superintendent of the Southampton Plag packet station. This officer was made capt ain in 1.80,1, and will probably be an admiral before long , when 0 ° will ceasa to hold his appointment.. nlO SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND THE GRAND C ROSS OF BATH. —Sir Charles Napier received a summons to tend at Court for the purpose of being installed. Ile: however, declined the proffered boon. The reason signed by the gallant Admiral, if not officially g iven c l ; well known to his friends. "I have been, he "J"' "censured and degraded, and have been denied the op portunity of clearing my reputation. Yet I vf offered a G.C.B."—United Service Gazette. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—His Roy a l Hig h ness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the performances at the Royal Italian Opera with his presence on Saturdefi evening. The Queen's box was occupied by the Ba l l and Countess of Listowel an d Lad y Emil y Hare, 1-07, and Lady Macdonald, and Mr. and Lady August °. Proby. LIDLLE. RACHEL.--It is definitively settled that this eminent tragedienne will leave Europe for Anaeri: early in August, but before her departure she will giY four performances at the St. James's Theatre, CO mencing on the 28th or 30th inst. •n• THE MOUNTGARRETT PEERAGE. — The Hon. -rlelo Somerset Butler, the p th laintiff.in the above memorou,,, case, applied on Thursday for his discharge, under 00 Insolvent Debtors' Act. After some opposition, Court granted the application. General Jomini, the well-known military writer, .497111. superintended the military education of the late -bre, peror Nicholas and afterwards became his first aide.l°,B camp, has, says the Austrian Gazette, obtained from Emperor Alexander permission to retire to Brussr v i and is to take up his residence in that city at the b e g in of October. The General is 77 years of age• t tb e immense preparations are said to be making o Porte St. Martin for the new drama intended to e brace the history of Paris. t he CHELTENHAM ELECTION.—The following were nu mbers at the close of the poll on Saturday :--- Berkeley 76g Ridler Majority for Berkeley THE FOREIGN LEGION—We are very happy tO nonce° that his Royal Highness the Duke of Oof bridge is to be immediately appointed Generalissim o the Foreign Legion.—United Service Gazette. OA% Lady Theresa Lewis had a soiree on Saturday ol uhe at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Eltn'' efli quer, in Downing-street. Above 300 persons, chi A members of the Peers and Commons, attended her 01; ship's assembly. The Right Hon. Vernon Smith vi . b e the only member of the Cabinet present, except Premier. THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—DIVIDEND AND RE p O o r —lt has been estimated that the dividend of this 0 .4 %, pany will be about 18s. 6d. per share for the ellr' m half-year, or 4s. 6d. per share, or at the rate of 180. "-tog per cent:less for the year. This corresponds to 0 , , 0 ° 4 20,000/. less profit on the half-year. The gross Wow are about 11,0001. less. —Herapath,. t oot STATISTICAL SOCIETY.—We understand that at t oy ing of the council of the Statistical Society, held of evening, Mr. Scargill was appointed to the offic e assistant-secretary, vacant by the :retirement of i „ t 'i Cheshire. The fact that Mr. Scargill took a WranC,o degree in 1849 sufficiently speaks for his qualifiest7 for the appointment. In reference to the retireni el3 " P Mr. Cheshire the council passed the following oso so' tion .—" That the council of the Statistical Socieqbeif cept with extreme reluctance the resignation e t „ 1 00' assistant-secretary, Mr. Cheshire, and take this opr_ o os nity of expressing to him their high sense of the tbe advantages which have accrued to the society f r O $ l 3 O zeal and ability with which he has discharged sal duties of his office." r 01f THE THUNDERSTORM OF SATURDAY.—ShortIy a'"tite l o'clock on Saturday morning the metropolis was "/", - rlf by a violent thunderstorm, which continued for 138 08 an hour. The lightning was of a vivid character. tithe rain fell in torrents, and many of the small streets PTO east end of London were flooded for several hours- ic or market gardeners' grounds were also inundated, and At siderable damage was done by the great fall of rai, l3 ', l oll' Bristol the storm took place an hour or two previ ° ,;jitt It commenced about half-past 3 o'clock, and excenbs° violence anything of the kind that has occurred 1 0 city for the last 30 years. The thunder was fold tb o lent, and the lightning so vivid that the captains " he is; African and Indian ships in the port describe it 0:00 the nearest approach to a tropical tornado that thei pidg witnessed in this country. Considerable darnalr ii till s done by the hail, whi c h b ea t th e w h ea t down 11 ; e 6 surrounding country, an d broke thousands of P E ttr" glass ; and at St. G eorg e'q, Glocestershire, the e' -° 0; fluid struck a h ouse near the Don John's-ere/5°,00 stroyed the chimneys, and split the house frool t he to the basement storey. 13%‘ The Turkish Government have granted % 0 38 elusive c onces sio n for a submarine telegraph „ fr n g - 00 0/d be Dardanelles to Alexandria. The cost will be 120 'nbt and the line could be completed in twelve 91-13eitirt An annual subsidy of 4 , 5001 . for twenty 0' is to he paid by Turkey for the t r ansmis s ' ° fros s official messages ; and, as the communications 10 India will be accelerated from five to six days , 136 , 1 P tiel and the general system of telegraphs now confo r-° ,ol o ` in European Turkey shall have been completed, ehlia-pre' tional revenue of 10,4001. is calculated upon hY t o so, l° moters from that source. At the same time Prv`,o l 7' ar e on foot for extending the project to India 1 1 " e bee h P ing the communication via Suez and Aden toltor ra t pit" at the mouth of the Indus, where it would conoec'trec' the lines already in operation, or in course of tout the Lion, by the E as t I n d ia C om pany througloih v various presidenci es . Th e t o t a l l e ngth fromthe ot o nelles to Kurrachee is about 4,ooomiles, and the quirecl for the whole (including the submarine line beeo Alexandria), would be 850,000/. Application he%fo,t3 made to the India-house for support, in the shell 0 tie., 13 annual allowance of 30 , 0001. a-year, subject to re:.:101* in proportion to the ultimate success of the un der, L Thu entire line to India may, it is estimated, by plated in two years. 0 The Cc Clos e d a t e aal es wer( to,,.mprisin 7id 'i and R ailway I.ICe S Wei Wheat, Iter quart Acc eun C 11 1] , plyi n th e winte Le Beryi, coj 114 kr c i p h t‘i •ow