The Sun. — London, England, 1855-04-26 00:00:00

THE SUN ) LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1855, COMPLETInN OF THE ELECTRIC TELE GRAPH BETWEEN LONDON AN D BAUR-LAVA. (From the Morning Herald's Special Correspondent.) BALAKLAVA, April 13.—Amidst all our warlike preparations I must not omit to mention the corn pletion of a design which is now likely to rank as high as a valuable auxiliary in war as it formerly did as a triumph of peaceful and scientific industry —I mean the submarine electric telegraph, which was this day completed between the shore at St. George's Monastery and Cape Kaliacra, near Varna. To Captain Spratt, of the Spit fire, belongs all the honour of the completion of this most arduous undertaking. The wire, to the length of 377 miles, was stowed away on board the Argus ; the Terrible attended to give assistance ; and Capt. Spratt, in the Spitfire, commanded the whole affair. The vessels left Cape Kaliacra on the afternoon of the 10th, and, keeping over the bank which crosses the Black Sea, dropped the wire in 70 fathoms. They passed Sebastopol yesterday night, and brought the.electric cable safely to land at St. Georges Monastery early this morning, having payed out, out on the passage 301 miles of the te lectraph without the slightest accident. This sub marine telegraph is longer by upwards of 200 miles than any other in existence. The wire from Ka liacra to Varna, a distance of 20 miles, is not yet laid. It will also be submarine, and completed in the course of another week. Even now messages from the allied head-quarters will reach Paris or London in four hours, and, when the wire is all laid, in something less than a second. The telegraph will to-morrow becarried into head quarters, where one to the trenches is already laid down, so that the field-officer in command during the night will at the same moment announce a sortie to Lord Raglan and to the Prime Minister in Down in ;g-street. After this I think a correspondent's occupation's gone. The first message was sant from Kaliacra, and contained the important intelligence that " Corporal Somebody was not well, and had just taken a dose of castor-oil." The reply from the Monastery was—" Hope it may do him good. Our bombardment is going on most suc cessfully." Before I conclude this subject I may just mention a singular phenomenon, which will puzzle electricians to account for. When the Argus left Kaliacra she had the coil of 370 miles of wire stowed away in her hold. As she moved to sea, messages were repeatedly sent down from the old castle on the heights of Kaliacra, where the end of the wire was secured ; but though the wire was in perfect connection and in good order, as was proved by the messages a'l reaching the Argus, it was impossible to transmit an answer back to the shore. As the ship increased her distance from land, the wire gradually gave faint intimation of its returning powers ; and at last, when 100 miles of it had been laid down, the messages were easily sent backwards and forwards. The scientific gentlemen sent out in charge of the telegraph were utterly linable to account for this phenomenon. A LIMY PT: !,', P. 7 ` 7l Ti.;.-1 M.: f,:; MITTLE.-(THIS DAY.) The Committee re-assembled this morning at the usual hour. The first witness called was Mr. Richard Potter, of the firm of Price and Potter, of Gloucester. He stated that on the 2d November he made an application to Sir Charles Trevelyan, with a view to ascertain the proper de partment of the Government to apply to in reference to a proposal he had to make for a supply of wooden huts, for the use of the troops in the Crimea, similar in construc tion to those they had made and shipped for Australia. He was referred to Mr. Roberts, the secretary to the Duke of Newcastle, with whom he had some com munications on the subject. He had several interviews with the authorities at the Horse Guards and-the Go vernment, relative to the plans he submitted, and after making some alterations in them, in accordance with the suggestions thrown out by them, he was on the 17th of November commissioned to construct 500 of these huts to be delivered within 10 days. On the next day, however, an inspector was sent down who disapproved of the form of the roof and the materials, and the works were suspended accordingly. The work was, however, afterwards resumed, but on the following Monday he received an order to stop altogether. Sir F. Smith telegraphed on the 21-1, telling him to proceed with the constriction. of 300 of the huts. On the next day he left for Paris with letters of introduction, with a view of submitting the plans for the huts to the Em peror. At that time he understood that the orders of the Government were to make 300 huts on the Glouces ter plan, and 200 on the Portsmouth plan of roof ; but in the latter case no definite determination was arrived at for some time afterwards. On the 29th of Novem ber the first order was given to load a number of the huts for transmission to Southampton. The con tract was completed about the 10th or 11th of Decem ber. The whole of the dela), which occurred arose from the indecision of the Government authorities. The Eel peror entered into a contract with him immediately f 500 huts, which were completed and sent in in 5 weeks. By Mr. Drummond—A box of mils was sent out with each li,use constructed for the English Government. The st , ,ry about the want of nails so far as his know ledge went was untrue. Mr. Layard—He had an interview with the gentlenisii sent out in charge of the huts, and g lye him full in-truc tions as to how the huts were to be erected. From the reports he had received relative to the utility of these houses—he was convinced that the Gloucester torn of roof • was far more adapted to the purpose than the P,Ttsmouth General Peel—Yon had no previou , t dealings ith the Ordnance and the Government authotities to enable you to know the proper quarter to apply to ? Witness—No, never before. The Chairman—And I eare f-ay you h,ve no desire tc have any communication with them again ? (Laughter.) By Mr. Drummond—He experienced some difficulty in obtaining payment after the completion of his con trayt. It was paid in three instalments, but he did not get the last, about which there was some rnisunder-tand ing, until the end of February, when it was obtained for him by Mr. Hayter. By Lord Seymour—His estimate was 251. per house ; each house weighing about 48 cwt. Mr. Layard—Were you ever told by the Ordnance authorities that your communications were not regular ? Witness—The Ordnance never replied to any of my communications at all. My correspondence was princi pally with Sir F. Smith. Mr. Layard—Supposing Mr. Hayter had not suc ceeded in obtaining the last instalment of your money for you what should you have done ? Witness—l should have sued the Government for " goods sold and delivered." (Laughter.) Mr. Layard—Should you have done so ? Witness—l should have tried at all events. (Laughter.) Deputy Commissary-General Smith was next called, and was cross-examined by Lord Seymour. He stated that on his arrival at Constantinople in March last year he received instructions for the recep tion of a military force. He had never been there before, and was totally unacquainted with the language. He was furnistael by Lord Strat ford de RedcliFfe with credentials, on whom he waited the first day of his arrival. He promised him every assistance and co-operation. After spending some few days in making particular inquiries amongst persons to whom the Ambassador recommended him, he made a re port to the Commissary-General as to the resources of the country. (The witness here put in that report at the request of Mr. Layard.) It was part of his duty to examine into the means of land transport, hut not to pro vide barracks. He received no instructions as to where the troops would be quartered ; and when, in April, he heard of their arrival he prevailed on Lord Stratford to secure the barracks at Scutari. He visited aern, and found them in a better condition than might have been expected. He saw nothing.about them which led him to think that they were unfit for quarters for English troops, or that they were not a lapted for hospital purposes. A supplyof tents was sent down by the Turkish Government, as well as some soldiers to assist the troops in making the preliminary arrangements. He had an inter preter granted to him by the Turkish Government. He visited Gallipoli, and there entered into a series of contracts for army supplies with persons who were recommended to him for that p&p - we —and ho saw no reason at the time why they should not work properly. This was the first t , me he had ever tried the contract system in Tii,key. He contracted also fur the transport eervica. He admitted that there were s tme difficulties connected with this department, but they were unavoidable. He contracted for a supply of fresh meat---in the proportion of beef fly.- days a week, and mutt )n 2 days 3 week. It was of inferior quality, hut it was the very best the country could afford. The other snail, s were some what inferior, but that cull not be helvl. lie also contracted for a supply-of forage. It waz true at one tine there was only a very inadequate quantity in the depot, but that arose from circumstance. which were not fore sees, and the difficulty was immed , ately remedied. Stores were established at Constintioopl,-, and two granaries were also there ; and he thought these must have escaped the notice of those Englishmen who haul visited the locality. One of the granaries was three miles out of the town. The stores contained Tzrage, rum, salt meat, and other supplie- , . He never experienced any inconvenience from the forms which had to be signed, and which were found in the book of instructions. He could nut suggest ally forms of a win r chatacter. kt-r the arrival of the troops at Scutari c.)ffee was not a< first supplied to them. It was not eupwie,l until July, when it was served out as a ration. In the meanwhile it had been sent out in a raw state for sale at cost price to the men. He had a large store of cr , ffee, which was given out as an additional ration, and not as .a subst . tote for anything else. When the army was at Varna he was engaged to supply the means of land tran=port—at least he purchased the baggage animals under the direc tion of Lord Raglan. In August he was informed that the army was about to move—though he did not know to what destination—and he acted under the orders of the Commissary-General in making the necessary provi sion of all kinds. The hurricaae of the 15th November very materially damaged tho resources of the commis sariat. [LEFT BITTING.] LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(T1IIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. The Lord Chancellor did not sit to-day. • (Before the Lord-Justices of Appeal.) NICKELLS V. HANCOCK. The Solicitor-General resumed and concluded his argu ments to-day in the case which came before their lord ships upon appeal from the Vice• Chancellor Wood, dis cussing a bill praying the specific performance of an award made by a gentleman of the name of Carpmell, in pursuance of a deed of submission to arbitration. The ground on which the Vice Chancellor Wood dis missed the bill was that the arbitrator had exceeded his power 3, Thequestion in the cam related to certain patents relative to gotta percha. Mr. Wilcox followed the Solicitor• General, and occu pied the Court the whole morning. (Before Vice• Chancellor Stuart.) WINTOSH V. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Sir Fitzroy Kelly resumed and concluded his argu ments to-,lay in this important and extremely heavy case on behalf of the plaintiff. The bill is filed by the plain tiff for the purpose of establishing a claim for no less a sum than a quarter of a million of money against th, defendants the Great e-tarn Railway Comphny The claim of the plaintiff arises under contrasts entered into between the plaintiff and the defendants for the exe , mtion 13.,' the former of certain parts of the main line of the Great Western Railway. Tile plaintiff according to the statement of Sir F Kel'y, a i d the r-cita's in the hill, completed the several portions of the line he had c , nt meted to execute, but the Great Western C impany by their answer and eviden , ;e assert, that as these con t,a,:tts were not completed within the time specified the plaintiff had incurred penalties which they were entitled to set off against his claim. In answer to this defence the plaintiff asserted that the delays arose entirely from the faults of the defen dants, who, by throwing impediments in the way of the plaintiff, had occasioned hire great loss, for which he was entitled to cAmperisation. Tne pleadings on the case are enormously bulky, and the tees. to counsel almost vie A w t i t t w h o t ol h7 t green minortehethwaen probableil kiow veil - i v. meats will last six or seven days. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. THE QUEEN' V. COOKERY. In this cage, 'which it will be recollezted was of a somewhat extraordinary nature a charge against a medical man, Mr. J. A. Cooksey, of Chipping, Ca•np den, of having circulated a false and scanclalou4 report against a lady whom he attended professionally —Sir Frederick Thesiger this morning said :—ln this case, which was a rule for a criminal information, affidavits have been filed on the part of tho defendant, and my friend and myself have looked anxiously at the affidavits, and we aro satisfied, recording to the practice of the court, that under the circumstances this court would certainly not make the rule eti al absolute, lfinncbedes,t dbta b iost u ed : tiash w eregh o aep u drr l g d aecwt d tii hictshee charge it ; we are therefore compelled to submit to the rule iL e obbreedienncg, Campbell—The s np c db h e a erl r l g —s e u t r i rc , ifi and circumstances, m w ws rule with costs, we must submit to that order. costs. The Lady Louisa Babe, whose death at Bath is an nounced, was a daughter of the late Lord Listowel, and married i❑ 1817 John Bushe, Esq., eldest son of the late Chief Justice Bushe, ing her engagement, or that there is still some ' notion of patching up a peace—a dishonourable and transitory peace—with Russia. Either branch of the alternative requires the instant attention of both Houses of Parliament. The country suf fered enough last year from their indifference. It will no longer consent to leave matters in the bands of Ministers. After the specimen we have just had of the proceedings at the Conference, it must be completely disgusted with secret diplo macy, and determined that henceforward there must be a more vigorous and decided action on the part of the Government, or a complete and radical change both of men and measures. " While Rome was burning, NERO fiddled.' The Representatives of the British people seem to consider such apathy not merely justifiable, but even laudable. Never was there a greater neces sity for energy and zeal on the part of the Mem bers of either House of Parliament. Never has there been a more flagrant squandering of the public time, or a more profound indifference to the exigencies of the country. Exclusive of the winter session, chiefly consumed in passing an Act that has been suffered to remain a dead letter, three months have elapsed since the meeting of Parliament, and yet nothing, literally nothing, in the way of legislation, has been accomplished. There has, on one pretext or another, been a suc cession of holidays. Much time was con sumed respecting Ministerial arrangements, and when they were completed, ten days more were lost in waiting for the re-election of the Premier and the then Home Secretary ; for although the Cabinet could get on very well during the absence of the Colonial Minister at Vienna they could not venture to meet Parliament until the election of Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT had been secured. It was well known that the Right Hon. Gentleman had no contest to dread, that he would have a mere " walk over" the course. He was in daily attendance at Downing-street, to afford his advice to his colleagues on any doubtful points. . But a week was thrown away in order that he might take his seat, and his first speech was an ex planation of his complicity with GLADSTONE and GRAHAM in the attempt to upset the Ministerial Coach. Then came the prolonged vacation at Easter, followed by the week of comparative idle ness, for which the Imperial Visit was a fair apology. But, surely, after all these excuses had been tendered and accepted, it was time that a little diligence should at length be displayed. And yet we find Tuesday rendered memorable by a " count-out," and that, too, when questions of vital consequence to the national welfare were about to be brought forward. We shall not at present speak of the Bill, by Mr. LOCKE KING, for better settling the estates of intestates, or that of Mr. MALINS, to enable infants, with the approba tion of the Court of Chancery, to make binding settlements of their real and personal estates on marriage—although both are subjects of consi derable importance, which must receive conside ration, and were vested in competent hands, who would be able to bring forward the cases in an attractive form. But there were two other topics of paramount interest, under the existing circum stances of the country, which nevertheless failed to keep a House—the public service yielding to the enjoyments of the table. Captain SCOBELL had given notice that he would move for a Select Committee " to inquire into the government of the navy, relat ing to the lists of officers, patronage, promotion, and the efficiency of the service in all the grades belonging to it ; to report and recommend such changes and modifications, if any, as the Committee may deem wise, salutary, and just." Sir ERSICINZ PERRY was also to call for the appointment of a Select Committee "to consider and inquire how the Army of India may be made most available for the War in Europe, and to inquire into the steps ne cessary to be taken, if it should be deemed expe dient, to constitute the army of the East India Company a Royal army." To these matters the public attention has been especially directed. The just and reasonable com plaints 'respecting the system of promotion in the arniy have been met, or rather attempted to be met, by assertions that it is no worse than that in operation in the other branch of the service. It is, of course, desirable that the public should know if there is any weight to be at tached to the "tu-quoque" argument, which some favoured Guardsmen are so fond of bringing for ward ; and, if so, what are the causes of such flagrant abuses ? Under such circumstances a gallant officer of great experience, and a general favourite on all sides of the House, undertakes the subject. The public anxiously await the revela tions that may reasonably be anticipated, and con fidently relyon obtaining considerable information, if no other benefit. Sed dis aliter visum. The whipper-in reverses his operations. He whips out the patient waiters on PROVIDENCE, and they readily hasten to their soup and fish, leaving Captain SCOBELL and his motion to be disposed of by a count-out. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1855. The Representatives of the Western Powers —whether in deference to " Germanism" or of their own free will .we leave our readers to judge —seem to have displayed an extraordinary degree of courtesy towards Russia at the recent Confer ences. There should, of course, have been po liteness of demeanour and a spirit of conciliation exhibited, such as gentlemen will always evince towards those with whom they may chance to be brought in contact. But it should not be carried to an exaggerated pitch, more especially when the duty of the parties is to demand adequate redress for gross and unwarrantable conduct. It now appears that when the Third Point came on for discussion no definite suggestion was offered on behalf of the Allies, but it was proposed that the Russian representatives themselves should take the initiative as to the means by which they would give effect to the principle of that proposi tion. The result is known, and it could scarcely have been different. Had it been the object of the Western Plenipotentiaries to defeat the pend ing negotiations and to bring them to a ridicu lous and abortive conclusion, a more effectual mode could not have been devised for the pur pose. Experience has shown that Russian Minis ters are incapable of appreciating such high-toned and over-fastidious delicacy. They could not conceive that men were really in earnest when displaying so great consideration for the feelings (!) of those from whom they were demanding conces sions. The conduct of Prince MENSCRIKOFF, 011 his mission to Constantinople, before the invasion of the Danubian Principalities, they could under stand, but not such extraordinary forbearance. It is by no means improbable that this has been the cause of the total failure of the Confer ence. It is, indeed, but part and parcel of the same disastrous policy which, inaugurated by " the dear and excellent" ABERDEEN, completely deceived the late CZAR, and induced him to press his unwarrantable demands by still more unjusti fiable aggressions. Until the last moment, when the victory of the Alma had been achieved, and the assault on Sebastopol actually commenced, the AUTOCRAT never supposed that we would really take the field against his cohorts, or fancied that there was more than a mere colourable resistance to his ukase, sufficient to save the credit of the ABERDEEN' Government. He thought that, how ever emphatic might be our protests, we would be sati sfied with mere remonstrances, until we submitted to what had been fait accompli, and could therefore no longer be averted. The unanimous spirit of the British nation, and the inflexible resolution of our gallant Ally, however, enforced a more vigorous policy than the senile twaddler then at the head of the British Cabinet anticipated ; and to his own surprise, as well as that of the CZAR, the Earl of ABERDEEN was obliged to assent to the invasion of the dominions of " his friend of forty years' standing," and the attack on the Russian stronghold in the Euxine, " the standing menace to Europe," and more espe cially to Constantinop le I We find that our re presentatives, however, s till pursu© the same course, still induce Russia to hope that she may avoid the disagreeable consequences of her own aggressive policy. It will also be seen from the answer of the Earl o f PH ILHARMONIC ❑ id So f ci t E h Ty. e ff —The third c on cer t pdietdal ' . of th C er oens was ump a - CLARENDON to Lord HARDWICKE , on Tues. w-3.45-Eglv P veii last . can Lion at Brompton g hlr . The hall was crow 4a y evening, th a t n o distinct statement be made as to the course likely to be adopted splendid programme, and on the whole a fine perform byAustria in anc'. must reference to the War. We ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITErTION.— Yesterday, by totally • Y dissent from the views taken by the well-timed invitation of Mr. Pepper, the resident the Noble Se cret , director, the boys of the Royal Military Asylum at time had not Yet fir' for Foreign Affairs, that the Chelsea visited this institution, and cheerfully returned called on to compliment of w in t a A r c , li ia h l a a d ir b s ee m n o p o a h id t t o o t t h h e e them delight perform concert rin the concartrived when Austria could be the .t stipulations contained. glenures for carrying the in s g ne a ral y company. cember into execution. The the Treaty of the 2d De- _ROYAL GALLERY OF ,. t I b LIX e ~S TE R ATIt O N.s f — ti D l u e v i n g thear" i as that conclusion, by stating that Noble Earl justified 1 Paso w ben vi e s e i l te t d h b e y D t i h '' e r l 'D o t a t o w ing peace not being concluded ,o it was only on 1 —The Duke of Leeds and party, the Marchioness the Four Points that Austria was boundthe basis of the Londonderry and h party, the Countess h 6 Glen surely surely when the negotiation s en t, e4 t i o . act* But Cviointnatnedssp andparty,aorftyN°theuCrYounteso of Kinnoull and party, E .r 1 High express instance of the Cabinet of Vienna at the - Home, the Countess of Listowell i t and E pa i rt3 j. , , his nHiagnhd been broken up—when the Plen ip , otent n i a ar k ave n pa cs r s ty the hi N s a E wa x u ee b li o e f ne S y nn t a h t e an p e ru s s u s i :an , imbassajor and France and England have departed from Vi ies en family, Madame Muslims and party, the Countess ien na ot Cardigan and party, the Earl of Wicklow, Lord on their homeward route—when Russia h as Done Lord Vis coun t Chelsea as and party, the and Part Lady Hatherton and party, Lady Walls peremptorily rejected the demands of all the other court and Powers, and refused to submit any counter pro taVe part lder y i y Frances Hi and gg ns p o n art a y n , Lord d party, positions, there no longer exists the slightest pre- VaL es t Zl'errt.aond party y , Lady Duncan and party, Lady text far further procrastination if Austria desires ix„arctoyn, Lady ad l x s a n r l t i y d , G an e d neral t a v nd L L d ady G Ch a a h r t lo a t n i d e to act faithfully in accordance with the spirit of and party ; Y G M en e e Y r r a le s b s !ad party, p th r e - iion. llrs. Liddell her en gagetuent. Surely it would bave been of -COnlgoenresltse Church, irDe Lacy Evans, Taylor, Lovell, great importance(and ownlo w (a _g,Y, Perry, .and Torrens ; that these terms should combe arty), Edvi (and Party), Richmond, Dun have been settled while Smth Fawcett, T ardes, Forbe ynte, and B Cust, Daubigny, Lord JOHN' RUSSELL , Barnett, Lawrell, 'Wilson, T a lour M. DROuy N DE; Majors Irving, JuuYS were on the spot, and Dr. Buckland and part t he a nd Ki rby • the Rev. p the R e , E Y , the absence of any• 1 -t i n r d a M L rs a . w Fo a r n d d and t p ar t y , M rs. 1-1 Alexa.nd merson, Mr. authentic information on such - topic only proves 'either that Austria is shirk- Canfield, Shirty,l 3 l.!. 3', Mrs. Adair and er and party, D'Oraay, &c. Party ; Messrs. The state of the Indian army was a topic of equal interest. The country saw with disgust the mode in which the services of Brigadier MAYNE were lost to the nation. A remedy was anxiously sought for. Sir ERSKINE PERRY, whose protracted residence in India rendered him thoroughly competent to the task—undertook the duty—and his reward was a " count-out." What will the several consti.tuencies think of this ? Will they consider the men who lent themselves to such a trick again worthy of their confidence? These matters will be remembered on the hustings, where retributive justice awaits those who now smile at the transaction as an un commonly good joke, but who, at the next gene ral electi )n, will, probably, to plagiarise a vulgar, but significant, expression, "laugh at the wrong side of their mouths." BANKERS' CHEQUES. The following letter regarding the proposed penny stamp en bankers' cheques suggests that the objection founded on the probability of its leading to an absorption of coin and notes in small pa.yrnen's where cheques are Low used might be met by rendering the measure appli cahle only to cheques for 301. and upward. The proper minimum, however, would be that to which the penny receipt stamp is now applicable—namely, 21. At all evEnts 51. would be a reasonable point. It may be said that even then evasions would take place by persons drawing several small cheques when they wanted a larger sum, but a system of that kind would be discountenanced by every banking establishment, and would soon be found impracticable : " Sir,—A 'London Banker' addressed yon yesterday on the subject of the proposed penny stamp on bankers' draughts, and justly thinks that the aggregate amount of money retained in cash boxes to meet petty disbursements now made by small cheques will withdraw an important amount from circulation. The penny stamp will probably only be considered and evaded in small transactions, and I therefore suggest that no stamp be :equire.l on draughts under 5(1. or even 301. value. This would prevent hoard ing, always prejudicial to commerce, and not impair the anticipated revenue.—Your obedient servant, " T. P. L. " Liverpool and London Chambers, Bucklersbury, April2s." Another suggestion on this subject has been marle, to the effect that checks might be allowed to be drawn sithout a stamp, but that a stamp should be required to be affixed to them before they could be paid. In this way the expense would always fall upon the re ceiver, and, as the stamp, with the rec!iver's name across it, would carry a legal acknowledgment, the induce ment to make payments in coin would be increased, and banking business would be proportionably stimulated.— Times City Article. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and attended by the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon. Flora Mac donald, and Lord Charles Fitzroy, went to Gloucester house yesterday morning, and paid a visit of congratula tion to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester or. the auspicious return of her birthday. Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, rode on horseback, attended by Colonel Seymour, and also paid a congratulatory visit to the Royal Duchess at Glouces ter-h ..use. Her Royal - Highness the Duches4 of Kent visited the Queen, and afterwards, accompanied by the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg, and the Princess Adelaide, and the Prince of Lciningen, went to pay a congratulatory visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester in the forenoon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took a drive in an open landau and four, in the afternoon, accompanied by the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg and the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe. The equerries in waiting at tEnded on horseback. Mr. Daniell, of Bond-street, had the honour of sub mitting " The Imperial Dessert Service,' manufactured for the Fre-ich Exhibition, to the inspection of her Ma jesty aid his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The Earl of Clarendon had an audience of her Majesty. The Queen and Prince Albert visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester in the evening, ac companied by the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, the Princess Hohenlohe Langenburg, and the Princesses Ade!aide and Feodore of Hohenlohe, the Prince of Leiningen, and Prince Victor of Hohenlohe. The Royal -uite consisted of the Countess of Desart, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel Seymour. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Lady Fanny Howard, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, last evening. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge, paid visits of congratulation to the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. A meeting of the Oxford University Commission was Lehi on Tuesday, at No. 18, Great Queen-street, West minaer. The Commissioners present were—The Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of Ripon, Mr. Justice Coleridge, the Dean of Wells, and Sr John Awdry, with the Secretaries. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, and the Ilaaritius. THE APARTMENTS OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH AT WINDSOR CASTLE. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. Her Majesty the Queen having ben graciously pleased to command that the suite of apartments occupied by his Imperial Majesty Napoleon 111. and the Empress Eu genie, during their late auspicious visit, should be shown to the public under the same restrictions and regulations Ev the private apartments of the Castle, it may be useful t 3 state that no person can obtain admission without an order from the Lord Chamberlain, which order can be obtained only at the office of his lordship in London, and in every instance a written application must be made. Up to the present time no (lay has been named for the issue of the Lord Chamberlain 'a orders ; nor is it known over how long a period such issue will extend. The state apartments will remain closed against ordinary orders until due notice of their opening has appeared in the London Gazette. The work of re-decorating Ilnd furnishing the apart ments clinmenced in November last, when it was first rum mred that the Emperor and Empress of the French were about to visit her Majesty and the Prince Consort at Windsor Castle. _ _ _ Both lines of railway on Monday morning brought an immense number of highly-respectable visitors, who were under the impression that they could procure tickets for almission to the State and Imperial apartments by mak ing application at the Winchester Tower. Yesterday and to-day the arrivals for the same purpose have been equally numerous, and the most iiitense anxitty is evinced to view the apartments occupied by the Empe ror and Empress. The proposed arrangement with re spect to the issue of tickets is looked upon as being too exclusive. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by i Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Lady Fanny Ho ward, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou ces'ter, at Gloucester House, la , t evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Prii-cess Mary and the Duke of Cambridge, paid visits of congratulation to the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. The Earl and Cou❑te€s of Bective have arrived at their mansion in Eaton-square for the season. THE PAPIS EXHIBIT.roAr. - Workmen have already commenced the construction of the supplementary gallery which is to unite the main building of the Exhibition Palace to the additional buildings, in passing by the rotunda of the Panorama- La,nglois. The rotunda will be principally appropriated to the reception of clocks and other such articles. The Palais des Beaux Arts, of the Avenue Montaigne, has been increased by an important building erected at the corner of the Rue Bizet and the Rue Marbceuf, to 'the extent of from 500 to 600 metres. This part is intended to receive the beautiful productions of the Gobelins and Beauvais, Sevres porcelain, and a Chinese museum. Mr. Wittering, secretary of the Royal Academy of the Liberal Arts at- Amsterdam, has been appointed as deputy commissioner for the Netherlands to M. J. G. Pescatore, to the Universal Exhibition. The Civil Tribunal, on Saturday, gave judgment in the case relative to the right to produce views of the Exhibition Palace. It was to the effect that the preten sion of the company who built the palace to possess that right exclusively in virtue of its having bought the de sign of the architect, and of the edifice being for a num ber of years its private property, could not be admitted, inasmuch as the palace, having been built on a site be longing to the State, and under the direction of the Go vernment, being besides set apart for public purposes, and destined, on the expiration of the concession, to be come the exclusive property of the State, must be con sidered a public building, and as such may be repro duced by everybody and in any way, suhj-ct to the re strictions which the State may impose." The tribunal, therefore, dismissed the action brought against Messrs. Goupil and M. Masson, printsellets, to prevent them from selling views of the palace; but, under the circumstances, it ordered that each party should pay its own costs. In the last visitation of the cholera in Paris, the sisters of the Maison de Charite, in the Rue de l'Epee de Bois, distinguished themselves greatly by their care of the indigent sufferers. On the application of the municipal authorities, the Government conferred the cross of the Legion of Honour on Sister Rosalie, directress of the establishment, as an acknowledgment of the services of the little community, and of her own in particular. Some time after, Mdlle. Amanda Fougere, an artist of merit, was allowed, at her own request, to paint the porti ait of Sister Rosalie, wearing her cross. The s i s t ers were so pleased with the portrait that they requested to be al lowed to keep it ; and Mdlle. Fougere having con sented, they made her a present of the value of 200 f A short time tack Mdlle. Fougere obtained the por trait from the sisters to make a few improvements in it, and to varnish it ; but, instead of returning it, she sent it to the Universal Exhibition, and as its merit was undouLted it was declared worthy of ad mission. She then applied to the sisters for permi4 sion to have it exhibited, but they, from motives of ha mility, refused 'to grant it. She, however, still neglected to return the picture, and in consequence on Saturday the sisters applied to the President of the Civil Tri bunal, sitting in chambers, for an order to oblige the artist to restore the picture without delay. Mdlle. Fougere represented that it would be very hard on her not to permit her to exhibit a favourable specimen of her artistic talent, and she offered not to mention the name of Sister Rosalie in the catalogue. The President decided that, as the painting was the property of the sisters, it could not be exhibited without their consent, and erdered: it at once to be restored. The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza Fitzalan Howard have arrived in St. James's-square from Arundel Castle. Lord and Lady Edward Fitzalan Howard have arrived at their residence at Rutland, gate, Hyde-park. The Marchioness of Hastings arrived at her residence in Palace Gardens, on Tuesday, from the country for the season. The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., Sir Culling Yard ley, and Mr. Wheatley had an interview with Sir Gee. Grey yesterday, at the Home-office, on the subject of Roman Catholic priests demanding access to all Roman Catholics in confinement at Brixton Gaol. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP EARL OF DURHAM.— PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The steam-ship Earl of Dur ham, from the Crimea, for Sunderland, put in here this evening for criers. This vessel, which has been em ployed in the transport of materials for the railway at Balaklava, brings home only one passenger, -namely, Sergeant Nerry, Royal Artillery. Her dates are— Balaklava, March 25 ; Constantinople, 30 ; Malta, April 7 ; and Gibraltar, 18. On the 19th of April, 100 miles east of Cape St. Vincent, she spoke the barque Bride, Government transport, bound from Malta to London. THE LATE VISIT OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE FRENOH.—During the late visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French to this country a singularly ap prepriate article was introduced to the notice of his Im perial Majesty by the Messrs. Nicoll, of - Regent-street, his Majesty having been a patron of their establishment. It consisted of a registered design of a new garment, called the Emperor's Redingcote, and is composed of a material made expressly for the purpose, the colour re sembling the well-known historical gris, or blueish mix ture, which is engraved in the hearts of every adherent of the house of Bonaparte, being the favourite colour of Napoleon I. both in the field and in the palace. While the form is somewhat adapted to modern taste, the old , characteristics are preserved, thus being both a useful article and a memento of the visit of their Imperial Majesties. ST. MARK'S HOSPITAL.- , -The 19th armi,rersary festi val of St. 111 ark's Hospital (in the City-road), for the cure of fistula and diseases of the rectum, was held at, the Lon lon Tavern last evening. The Lord Mayor, Sir Francis G. Moon, Bart., presided on the occasion, and was supported by Mr. Sheriff Crlsley, Mr. Under Sheriff Farrar, Mr. J. Masterrnan, M.P., and other gen tlemen. The utility of this institution, and the wonderful cures effected by its skilful surgeon, Mr. Salmon, are not perhaps so generally known as they deserve to be, from the very peculiar nature of the diseases which are treated, and'we may therefore safely re-echo the conviction ex pressed by the committee that there are thousands of charitable individuals who, if acquainted with the exist ence of the institution, and the invaluable benefits which it confers on the suffering poor, would feel it a privilege; as well as a duty, to co-operate in so u ,, eful a w or k. ti This is now the more necessary, we regret to find, inns much as the committee have lately sold out funded capi tal to pay all existing liabilities, and thrown themselves on the friends of the hospital and the benevolence of th public fer the income required to maintain the charit3 with its present compliment of 20 beds. rho intere,t of the institution were yesterday evening most ably advo cated by the lord Mayor, and the amount of the sub scriptions rained was about 1,400/, The mu-ical ar rangements were under the direction of Mr. Francis, as sisted by Mr. Lockey, Mr. G. Buckland, arid Mr. Hut ton. The music included many gems of the English vocal school, and a song by Mr. Francis, " Fill high the sparkling glass," especially 'written for the occasion. Mr. Higgs officiated as tua-tmaeter. PROPOSED PROHIBITION OF SUNDAY TRALING.—ThO new bill brought in by Lord R. Grosvenor, Lord Ehring ton, and Mr. M. Chambers proposes "to prevent trading on Eutidays within the metropolitan police diArict and city of London, and the liberties thereof." It enacts that all persons selling, offering, or exposing for sale, or causing to be sold or exposed for sale (on ,Sundays) any goods, chattels, effects, or things whatsoever, shall, on summary conviction thereof, be fined 55., and on a second conviction this fine may be increased to 40s. The act will not apply to the sale of medicines or drugs, nor to the selling or crying of milk or cream before 9 a.m. or after 1 p.m , nor to the selling or offering of any news paper or periodical after 10 a.m., nor to the sale of fruit. cooked victuals, or any unfermented beverage before 10 a.m. and after 1 p.m., nor to the sale of meat, poultry, fish, or game before 9 a.m. from the 31st of May to the let of October in each year, nor to the exer cise of the orilieary business of a licensed victualler or innkeeper. Butchers end others, delivering meat, fish, or game after 9 a.m. on Sundays will be liable to the penalties already mentioned. Nor will that useful class of the community, the barbars and hairdressers, be ex 'empted, if they presume to "do business" after 10 o'clock on Sunday mornings, in which case they may be fined 55., and 20s. for a second offence. It appears, however, that the payment of one penalty will protect the offending barber from any further fine on the same day. Clause 6 saves servants from the operation of the act, and visits their disobedienco on their masters or mistresses. The police are requited to enforce the pro visions of the act. Penalties for cost may be levied by distress, end imprisonment may be inflicted in default of payment for 14 days in the common gaol or house of correction. The penalties will be appropriated to the expenses of the police force. No information's are to be quashed for informality, or to be removed by cer t iorari into the Court of Queen's Bench. The act (is) to corn ' mence (if passed) on the Ist day of November, or "All , Saints' Day," 1855. I3IPORTANT SALES OF THE MARQUIS OF EXETER'S I ESTATES —Yesterday afternoon Mr. Alderman Fare brother (firm of Farebrother, Clark, and Ly, ) eulenitted some most important freehold property to public compe tition by order of the M rquis ut Exeter, part of whose estates the property comprised. The property was situ ated in the Strand, Exeter-street, Wellington street North, Catherine-street, and Exeter-change, and esti mated to be worth between 60,0001. and 70,0001 The worthy alderman went with great minuteness ovr r the particulars of the sale, and stated the value of the property, comprising the first lot—viz., eleven hou.re, in the Exeter-change, only one of which was let, the remainder being on hand, the whale of the arcade (which runs from Catherine-street to Wellington-street North) being of the estimated annual value of 3611.; a dwelling, No. 17, Wellington-street, and forming No. 12, Exeter change, producing 1101. per annum ; dwelling and shop, No. 4, Catherine-street, and forming No. 7, Exeter change, in hand, annual value 1001. ; No. 5, Catherine street, value 601. ; Exeter-change coffee house, No. 6, same street, let at 70/. ; the Fountain Tavern, let for 1501. (this includes the 'White Hart Tavern), No. 40, Exeter-street, let at 451., and Nos. 36 and 37, groun,!. rent 20/., and No. 345, Strand, being the Engineers, &c., Life Office, annual value 375/ , together with the reversions, estimated in all to produce 1,3501. This lot was knocked down, after a spirited competition, at 21,8001. The second lot comprised 16, Wellington street, let at 100/. ; No. 2, Exeter-street, let at 621. 10s.; the Bell Tavern, at the corner, annual value 2001. ; Nos. 3,4, 5,6, 7, 10, and 11, Exeter-street, producing 2131. 7s. ; and the Boar's Head Tavern at the top of Burleigh-street, annual value 1501. This lot was sold for 10,5001. The third and last lot comprised Nos. 343 and 344, Strand, of the annual value (and nearly all let) of 3101. ; No. 1, Catherine-street, let at 90/. ; No. 2 (office of the Courier de l'Europe newspa per), let at 751.: and No. 3 (office of the Era newspaper), let at 125/. 44. 10d. p er annum . This lot was so ld f or 10,5001. It will be seen that this important freehold property, worth nearly 3,0001. a year, realised under the hammer, 51,8001. The room was densely crowded during the sale THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Wader the management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, Will be performed FRA DIAVOLO. Characters by Messrs. Sims Reeves, Weiss blanvers, J. T. Haines, Farquharson, and W. Farren; Mrs. S,I4RO4VeS, and Madame Weiss. After which. a new .Extravaganza. called THE NEW HAY MARKET SPRING MEETING, 1855, To conclude with. POPPING THE QUESTION. * ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under thiLlainagement of Mr. Cuanza Bras. THIS EVENING, Will be performed AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. To be felowed by THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. ren ci P hi oharacter by Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with (13th time) a Romance, in two acts, entitled THE MULETEER OF TOLEDO; or, King, Queen, and Rnave. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will is. Performed the Drama entitled TIIE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. To conclude with A NEW EDITION OF THE FAIRY TALES OF MOTHER GOOSE, with numerous highly-coloured Illustrations. ROYAL OLY3IFIO THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING. Will be performed Comedietta, called LAW FOR L %DIE?, Characters by A. Messrs. Wigan, G. Vining, H. Cooper, Lanveis and Miss Casteton. After which, KILL OR CURE. psi Character by Messrs. Robson, Emery, and F. Vin in g ; Mrs. A. Wigan and ss Bromley. To be followed by the Fairy Extravaganza, called THE YELLOW DWARF A.ND TIM KING OF THE GOLD MINES. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs, THIS EVENING, c. Will be performed Donizetti's Opera of THE DAUGHTER OF TUE REGIMENT. After which, KING QUEER AND HIS DAUGHTERS THREE. To conclude with THE WA.TERMAX. ASTLEY'S ROYAL 21.31PHITIMATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Great and Glorious success ! Novel Performances of the Dwarf Elephants. ' THIS EVENING. An Interesting Eqnidrama called, TIIE FIELD AGAINST.THE AVO URITE ! After which, the matchless SCENES in the ARENA., in which Iliss Emily Cooke will appear. To conclude with a lively Afterpiece. A new Military Act Drop, painted by Fenton, his been added to the Embellishments. Box-oflice open from Eleven till Fonr. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manazer„ M Mr. W. Cook e , Jun. r. W. H. Cooke. EqUeStriali Director, HIGH WATER AT LONDON mir GK. Tate DAT —Morning 30 caln.sfter 9 1 Eveninglo min. 2.'1.10 To-loamy -Morning 50 min.after 10 1 Eveniog 23 min. att.ll 'FHB WEATHER.-13u -Orson, April. 26. THERMOYEITB, lif TEN SZADz. 53—highest since noon yesterday. 48—lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30.30. WIND, N.N.E.—Light, with fine cold weather and ann• shine. ~~j ~~ '.~~~ ~~. LATEST. NEWS. VIENNA, THURSDAY, 9 A.I. M. Drouyn de I'Huys was to have left yester day, but his departure is postponed. Negotiations there are none. FRANCE. - - We extract the following from (Jalignani's Mes senger of yesterday : " MARSEILLES, 24th.— General Bizot, of the En gineers, has not been killed, as at first reported ; but he received a severe wound in the neck in an en:gage ment. in front of the Flagstaff Battery. .1,200 French, who were cutting a trench there, bad to support four furious charges 'of the Russians, aided by cannon, and they repulsed them all. In this affair we have had 150 men put hors de combat, and G i enerr.l Bizot and two commandants wounded. Nothing of importance has since occurred. The losses of the Allies from the fire of the place are about a hundred killed and wounded per day. The front of the Quarantine Fort is dehtroyed, and all the works are da maged. The enemy has been able to repair only part in the night. The heavy rains have rendEsed the works very laborious. Great difficulties were experienced in making the trenches of the fourth parallel, but they were boldly and admirably executed. It was reported on the 14th that the troops under Omer Pleha and General Bosquet were about to operate against Gen. Liprandi." The Government has received the two following telegraphic despatches : ‘‘ KAMIESH, April 17. The fire of our batteries maintains its superiority. We have become masters of a series of ambuscades in front of the central tower, and these works, where we are established, are now com prised in our lines. We have crowned in that direction a ravine which runs along the fortifications of the to mn where the enemy formerly kept their reserves in saf-ey Before the Flag-staff bastion we have very successfuly blasted about 50 metres of rock, and this has given us a new parallel, which has been tinitA to the others. From the 12th to the 14th, n3twithstanding the offensive operations of the Russians, we have only had 300 men put hors de combat. " BaiiAT." The Charge-d'Affaires to the Minister of Foreign Affair'. " PERA, 214.-1" learn by the Asmodee, which left the Crimea on the 10th, that the besiegers were still ad vancing, and that their podtinn was becoming consoli dated. The enemy made a strong sortie in the night of the 18th, but it was promptly repulsed." We ha've received the following private telegra phic despatches KqNIGSBERG, 23d.— Bessarabia, the governments of Kiew and Kerson and Podolia have been placed under military jurisdiction. The command of the army of the South is given to General Luders. General Annenkoff has been recalled, and is to go on an extraordinary mis sion into Tauris." " VIENNA, 24TH.—In consequence of the indefinite suspensioh of the Conferences, and a very general belief that they will not. be resumed, speculators have taken alarm, and securities of all kiwis have fallen. The 5 per Cent. Metallics have declined 1j per cent." " VIENNA, 24TH, EvENINc —The Austrian Gazette announces the rupture of the conferences, in conse quence of Russia having categorically refused to limit h..,r naval forces in the Black 'Sea. Lord J. Russell has left, and a report is current that the military convention with Austria has been signed." " VIENNA, 25th.—Yestenlay afternoon Ole members of the conference met in order to sign the minutes of the twelve preceding sittings. There was no further con ference.' " Tuani, 24th,—The English steamer Crams, one of the vessels intended for the conveyance of the Pied montese troops to the East, left Genoa this morning with 37 officers, 250 soldiers, and a quantity of provi sions, on board. When at a distance of 11 miles from Genoa, a fire broke out on board, and the vessel was de stroyed. All on boar 1, with the exception of as men, were saved. The fire is attributed to the engine." MADRID, 24th.—At the Cortes to-day, the report on the bin presented by the Government relative to the creation of Protestant cemeteries was presented and read. It is favourable to the measure. Some advan tages have been granted to the foreign import trade in Spain, and some of the Consular formalities have been simplified." The Emperor and Empress on Tuesday visited the Palace of the' Exhibition of the Beaux Arts (paintings, &c.); all the arrangements of which are nearly completed. The Moniteur continues to give the text of ad dresses presented to the Emperor during his late visit to England. Vicomte d'Uruguay, formerly Minister of Fo reign Affairs of the Emperor of Brazil, arrived in Paris on Tuesday on a special mission to the French Government. The Chevalier Marques Lisboa, Mi nister of Brazil in Paris, and all the personnel of the legation went to the •etation of the Northern railway to receive his Excellency. BOURSE; APRIL 25.—CLOSING PRICER. Cash. fr. c. End of Month, 4 per Cents 93 25 93f. 25c. 3 per Cents 6B 30 63 30 Credit nobilier 776 25 Roman Credit Fonder 540 Austrian Belgian Five 5........ Spanish Threes 35 Piedinontese B5 75 Rome Debt 3oi RAILW 9 YB-POR CASH, kr. C. tr. C . Orleans - 1135 Lyons ..._ 1080 Western.... ....... .... 612 50 Rouen Mediterranean 97> Havre- , 542 50 Northern .. 865 Cherburg AUSTRIA. A lettet from Vienna of the 21st, in the Consti tutionnel, It is certain that the Russian counter-project, deve loped by Prince Gortschakuff in the 10th sitting of the Congress on the 17th, turns on the system cf opening the straits by the abolition of the stipulations of the treaty of the 13th July, which relate to them—that is to say, pro poses to declare that vessels of all nations may freely pro ceed from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, and vice versa, without-previously obtaining the authorisation of the Divan. The system has been unanimously rejected by the plenipotentiaries of the Powers who signed the alliance of the -2d December: Their declaration was made in the sitting of the day before yesterday with clearness and precision, although in the most moderate terms. Lord J. Russell and Lord Westmoreland expressed themselves on the subject with the same firmness as the plenipotentiaries of FranCe and Austria. It would not require long argu ments to show that the system of the Russian counter-project deserved to be rejected both for legal and political reasons. It is henceforth an axiom of in ternational law that the maritime territory of any State extends to ports; roadsteds, bays, gulfs, mouths of rivers, and any part of the sea confined within land. In apply isg these principles, which Wheatston, one of the cham• pions of the seas, admits to be absolute, it results that the Porte must be the sole judge of the opportuneness of opening or closing the passage of the straits ; be cause its sovereign right of jurisdiction over the two straits cannot be contested by any one, as not only are the two straits within the Turkish territory, but they are commanded by the •batteries of the fortresses which the Porte has built on the coast to defepd the passage. To force the Porte to open the straits, against its will, would be to openly infringe the sovereign rights of the Sultan. Apart from the legal question there are powerful political reasons which must make the Russian Cabinet understand that neither Austria nor the Western Powers can dully consent to facilitate to Russian vessels the entrance into the Mediterranean and the Adriatic. It is no longer a secret in the diplomatic world that Russia has long cast her eyes on a maritime position, justly considered as the key of the Adriatic. This positiori, the importance of a hich will be seen by a glance at the map, is the ni ruths of the Cattaro, which, from their excellent hydra graphical conditicn-r, unite for Russia the immense advantage of touching Montenegro, a country which every one knows is devoted to the Co verninent of the Czars. The only power that can prevent the Muscovite forces from crossing the Danube and the Pruth and marching on Constantinople, is Austria. Let us suppose that Russia, under the pretext of interveninirg in behalf of Montenegro, the protec torship of which she claims, should conoentrate squadron at the months of the Cattaro, and that then at a given signal she should cause all insur rection to break opt in Servia. which is so near -to Montenegro ; if Austria were to show a disposition to check the revolutionary movement in Servia, the Russian fleet would quit the anchorage of the mouths of the Cattaro, to menace Trieste and the other ports of Asistria in the Adriatic. Russia would then have a splendid opportunity of taking her revenge in the Danubian principalities for her present, disappoint ments. It is hot necessary to c ntinue these arauinents, to convince any one whose e% es aro not closed against the light, that those who maintain that the Tibet ty ,of the n ivigation of the Bosph-rus may be the salvation of Turkey, and the sole denouement of thq. Bast , rn ques tion are in error." A letter from Vienna, in the Gernvln Journal of Frankfort, says :—" Some journals have been speaking of a reduction in the Austrian army, and declaring that it is to be placed on a peace footing, with the exception of two corps d'armee. We are able to give the most complete contradiction to that statement. Not only has Austria no idea of reducing her army, but everything indicates that most probably a fresh levy will be ordered by her in the month of. May." CONSTANTIN OPLE. The supplement of the Constantinople Journal of the 16th, contains the following : " The mail which arrived this morning from the Crimea brings accounts down to 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 14th. The following is a su mmary o f our correspon dence :—After lasting the whole of the 11th, the fire grew slack towards evening.; in the night the cannon ade was-resumed with ardour on the left, particularly against the Southern Bastion. At 6 o'clock a.m. on the 12th, the fire slackened by degrees, and ulti mately subsided, when th ere was a sor t of truce for a few hours. The Malakhoff Tower and its batteries, of ...•••••••••••••••!••••••••••...........................". c w o h m ic p h let :T y re observed to' be in a ruined sta'ef We re silent. At 10 o'clock a.m. the W er e completely recommenced, and lasted the whole day ; at nig h o however, it was feebly kept . up. On the 130, 0 8 2.1; f the Quarrntine, in the right of the city, was awn extingui,hed. The Southern Bastion Catherine,silent all, greatly damaged. Forts Constintine, an, Stuarantize showed no sign of life. Towards eve,: ing we only 'fined occasional shots. The Ottoirep. Division has left, with Omer Pacba, for Bitiall; On the 14th the batteries re-opened•upon the place' To Egyptian Division is gone to join Omer Pasha. ~1 French companies d'elite, which were assembled ill fib of the Malakhoff Tower, carried, during the ni g lit ' 3 e the ambuscades on the left, after a most obstinate rd: T tance. All the Russian batteries are greatly deelagete The fleet is echeloned along the coast, and will c ° ' °Per3 *hen the assault takes place." The following letter has been received f ro m C° ll ' stantinople, dated the 16th : " I have received accounts from jLarniesh of the 14 ,, b .; which, though interesting, afford not much inatter.r,t and day, The bombardment is g ob g on - iii t i l ' s walls- are thrown down, and our projecyoels set fi d r a e h to the city in various laces. Th h e e : 1 0 1 ; 0 3 sl ini scarcely reply to our fire. The momentP fora cannot therefore be far distant. The fleet W e nOt ib e e opened. Such is the summary of the situation]. ed, Generals appear satisfied with the results as yet ohtsT t thehardly know how to explain the silence_ffotba: o Russians.re ttne m t C u a t n ba i t t a b i e len th e e e l l osses they have sustain.- . 1 _ "The camp isi in a state of complete organisation, The hardly a day passes without fresh troops a rriv_ n in oi ls, movement of the navy is very active. The b ar ked y es who passed the winter at Daoud-Pasha • ennhArite,toptil terday for the Crimea. Another l etter from Set 04 says ; --' The fire continued the whole of the 1 1 t" , 1 10 still with the saute energy. At 6 o'clock Pin. j it :doot ened, but it recommenced at night with reneweuf,it the particularly to the left of the town, and 14 8 : ° ,; 0 bip Flagstaff Bastion . In the mean time the Ru'e l° o - out anchored in the port constantly poured obeli ° -I s i o c• batteries. At 6 a.m. on the 12th, the lire A coed on both s ths. One would have sai l ", ;o il b truce had been agreed oil between the besiegeu.:ere si e l :iegers. Toe Mal khoff Tower and the batteries:'s 0 0,:ot ; but, they were in a very bad condition. all dyy .L.ck the'canlionade recoil) d and lot da 9 e 'rev a ,.d meht, but will' less %In•irrnere..' A reO rt d -i tb o let :.I that the Russians had Attacked Eapat , iiiti 12 r o! otner Pasha was t.. succour the to A n ; but it nsd t u o rt ( out to be false'. On 'he 1-th, the fire ceased oo tb.%. e d, A ti,; Russians ; t h e y ~,, •,,,, • . much OP oc l agstaii B ai l" n' was 8 ' ' lice I . The North Fort, the Quarestiligelac Cath,rine For: s gave no sign of life. We ale ° - fittl ened , our fir.. - . We no to ger fire more the n t i tbf shots each piece. Omer Pasha left that to 11 1,,,,,r0l 0, tortini, division br Balak ava DI order 1 0 r ,!,; o st i ° the English. Our fleets are drawn uP 5- , u4P fiont 4.1 . .....A bastopol. It is probab e they will !II 00 pal tno the affair. During the night of t,,, be t „ l e e 4 0 aulP"lie4 w ere "eta against the Malakbeff . 0-- :gbiinli succe,d..d in Witt , g off the Russian annuuseelee, connected the to A or with the toy , n," AMERICA. Vs lllll6. SOUTHAMPTON, WZDNESDAY . r •- . 00 Or The United States mail steamship unlit?,rlto.l3 tain Adams, has arrived. S left New ' au tiev the 9th inst. Her news has herefore beell 0 0° ° pated by the arrival of the Asia. The Union brings 62 specie for Havre. 2 n 3 "th th e g' On the 12th inst. she signalled with , Pl' I passengers and s' l°° ' can ship Forbes, bound eastward, lat. 41 ; 3 0 1 62 50 60 ; in lat. ' 47 30, long. 45 20, passe': 3 51: icebergs. On the 18th, in lat. 50, 149n g t he ive% passed the steamship St. Louis, bound t9. t0 1 ° ward. The Union also passed the Uniy-01c, mail steamship Hermann, bound to N ell/ the Needles. sein tre Al/1 2106 THE EASTER FAIR AT -L.- - a s' LEIPSIC, April 20.—From the cemP licat ? 0 13cer of European politics, and the cons ec i tien :re olll4 tainty as to peace or war, as well as the lo va b l e of prices iu provisions of every descripti,°e_'s of t .l was led to form any sanguine expectat,onriypercl result of our Easter fair. Still at averY e d 3 here fr °,6 a considerable number of Greeks arriv e O ry ei Moldavia and -Wallachia, who wa de Tout ern' purchases during the Easter week, in ttber e3 o generally, and. especially in silk goode• i - a - gleke f o r s ji time, tho number of purchasers an — torn f: other parts continued to arrive veri 1311 Thv ell : 55 so that the fair may be said to bet vn tended. Up to the present raoinen th'r Anci cloth done in our two great -articles of leatli e geo of i e • was exceedingly brisk. The suPPoei3of fa, former, with the exception of some. P ii !,,,rioe o to leather, were all sold immediately, nrrosPefi:ers equal to those of the last fair. O rl 7 w orial cloths and woollen manufactures la ttr o ote u l ,'" to was a very good assortmentof bucket et% r v lar fancy stuffs, thouuh the quati",;',,f hi" the fair was perhaps inferior to - t c s i `L't which may be ascribed to the high O lit : e , 11 t 0 of wool, inducing many manuCtetlir e `i the amount of their produce to sra . .' " The prostration of this branch of on'„ors - America caused the number of putt L i - tts tl i o the United States to be much less t u „;: r tain;; , and this was not without exercising " - h od Jr ' fluence on the trade. On the other "so , , ,i ' t r o number of large purchasers from Ita i /Lail land, Bavaria, Frankfort-on-the-Maine, -wits burg, and the north of Europe generally faotory, and most of the large depots ar e , o or c e4 some few large purchasers have hitherto.;hero, it was more for the purpose of depressing., 0, 1 11 than because they do not want to b l-l J e kit r tio there-fore not improbable that the cin t p t a l i h o - cis o t ;o not be finished till next week. - 1 '• 8 r- 10,° 9- prices I may add that an advance of 00 3 9 00 05 0 two dollars per piece on those descriptilo thoci the piece, and 21 newgroschens per el „'i o eik:ir", sold in that way, was freely paid f ore - for v ' fi c s , from 3 to 4 newgroschens per ell go r & tb fr s and other fashionable sorts of g the last autumn fair. rai A '4l/E GOVERNORS OF COLO Nia "" ' THEIR SALARIES. ' he oov The following is a list of the names of the w ith and Lieutenant-Governors of our colonleot toe° pa salaries, as shown in a recently 6sued ,OC I , paper : Sir E. W. Head, Governor of Canada ... • ............... 5,P1 Coleuel Sir G. Le Merchant, Lieutenant -Gore'" ""me of Nova Scotia ... ...... . " ..... .... 31 " Hon. J. H. T. Manners Sutton ... .. . LietV:enan .p.Ge° nor of New Brunswick. .. .......... Mr. D. Daly, Lieutenant-Gove r nor .............. Prince ward's Island ................ . ............... *.. ti,7 i 1 Mr. C. Darliug, Governor ot . : .... Newfoundland... Colonel Murray, Governor of Bermuda .... Mr. Douglas, Governor of Vancouver's by the Iludsou's Bay Company) .......... . ..... „ Sir H. Balk 13", K.C.13., Governor of Jan:mi ce ' Mr. Inglis, President of the Council o f G teire .. went of the Turks of Caicos 151and5............ „ Ai ,10 Mr. Stevenson, Superintendent of Sondo rr° 0 1 Mr. O. H. J. Cuyler, Presiding Magistrate a' Bay Islands ........ ........................... an, Governor of the Baha 01 Sir A. Ban nerm vosll pg o Sir W. M. G..Colebrooke, Cll.,tioVernor n . ~... 140 badoes and the Windward Islands ...... . ..... _..,,, I'3VO Mr. Mr. E. J. Eyre, Governor of St. Vincent ••••"' ...• 1. 3 4 Mr. Keate, Lieutenant-Governor of,Grenstl9'.... •• 1/ Mr. Shortland, Lieutenant-Governor of Tebl ° . ..; 0 01 Mr. Power, Lieutenant-Governor of St. Li l t ;O . ' $6O) Mr. Kor B. Hamilton, Governor of Antig ua ••••' the Leeward Is'arels ............................ ••' . ,e• 1, 6 00 Mr. Rushworth, Governor of Montserrat ••,,.••'it . ts." ' iO O Mr. Robinson, Lieutenant-Governor of St. "" ~...• $ Ol/ Mr. Seymour, Governor of Nevis ......... •• •.. - f • ....... , 0 0 Mr. C. Kortright, Governor of the Virgin ' ••• d .•••• Major Blackall, Governor of Dominica ... : . ad ' 0. .." $ 0 00 Mr. Wodehouse, GOvernor of Guiana (1 3 ; 1t 7 - ' ''' 6 '60 1) Captain Elliott, R.N., Governor of T i inidai', o ; i • ••• if General sir R Gardiner Governor of Gibriugoito , 0 0 Colonel Sir W. Reid, K.C.B , Governor of f th ° 4 , ` Sir J. •Yeune, Lord High Commissioner °..., ••i 00 lonien Islards, ........... • .............. .„......iteoe') 6•0" Sir G. Grey, K.C.8., Governor of the CePe ° ~.••• leoo Hope ........... ' .................... . .................... , ..• Lieutenant-Governor General Jackson, .. ;.„ 1 " ..... •"' Mr. Pine, the Lieutenant-Governor of .S ...... ... ••• r Mr. Hay, the Governor of St. Helena, ....... ••ei e ' . o o /vel Lieutenant-Colonel Hill, Governor of . •''' 11 109 ° Le0ne......................... ........ "eli; ',.. , Lieut. Colonel O'Connor, Governor . of Gaol — ••• oPi The Governor of_ the Gold Coast (vacant) ••••40.1e. Sir W. T. Denison, Governor of New soth ' ' ~.. 6 00 (to •be increesed, as proposed, to 7,C• 0 ° 1 'L1e .. 0 3.. ° 131 4' Sir H. E. F. Young, Governor of Van e" -- •'' ' ••''. til so' o ,o Lend Sir R. G. 311.`Donnell, C.B , Governor 0 ..•• 0 Australia . ... ._.••• "•;.. •'' X' Captain Sir. G. Hatharn, Governor of Ne s te Victor l.. e o I,' Mr. A. E. Kennely, Governor of ...•,'' 01,. / Australia ........................ . Colenel Gore T. Browne, C.B . , Governor o .„. eo l Zealand .......................... : .................. ' O lO CV Mr. J. Macaulay Higginson, C. 8., Governor .....• // Mauritius .............. . ................ '' . .....'i Sir H. G. Ward, Governor of Ceylon .. f.: ........... ° Lieetenant-Colonel Caine, Lieutenant-Uove; ooff Hong Kong, 2,000/: (the Governor, Sir "dot ° ring, receives 4,0001. as Chief Superinten .„.•• s oil Trade in China)............... ..........................., 000 Mr. J. Scott, Lieutenant-Governor of Labl it i s iell Mr. G. Rennie, Governor of the Falklar- 1 , ; , 0 10 3 , Captain Sir J.Hindlnarsh, Governor of Il e " s'' - J 1 T ing Dl 4r t (P:i4; PACKET SERVICE OF THE POST OFF-_, 4 --- 081 )- jo i , r he estimate for the Post-office dell e cl l e " OP O' ser ice) for the year 1855-56 was publishvoted or .eit' It shows that the sure required in t he be f e d YID ° 755,2391., against 812,8261. voted ior a 0 0 . pd a IfelY bele teo P C r o J 55. The packet service between stown costs' 25,000/. ; between Sou tb4l3)P r 11°4 01, / : , Channel Islands, 4.0001. ; between Pl e por t ), 1 0 1.; and, Ostend, 15,500/. ; for the service o etw eet i o $ l , lO l , Gibraltar, •20,5001. ; for the service b k, 1 1 0 0/. to° pool, Halifax,' Boston, and New .5°r 940, ° ,0 .11 .10 0 for the service to , the West Indies , , to f 3 : 0 0 1 111,. the extension of the West Indies contract' o ot i e) Buenos . Ayres, 30,0001. ; fur the conveYar.o. solo the west coast of South America, 25,00001 to weer., coast'of Africa, 22,0001. ; for the OOl5 An-tralian service, 145,4141. ; and fora, mails between Men and Bombay, 24 " . • ill