The Sun. — London, England, 1856-08-19 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Tinder the Management of Mr. BnokstOne. TIII3 EVENING, SECOND LOVE. After which, TAB Sp anish Dancers. Followed by TUE LITTLE TEEASURE. To conzlwie with TKZ SPANISH SERJEANT. ROYAL THEI.TRE ADELPRI. Traprlator and ktavager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, IRELAND AS IT IS. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. To conclude with IRISH ASSITRINCE AND YANKEE MODESTY. ROYAL PREICII,SB'4 TFIFAT,tr,, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Matuuremont of qr. CIZAILLES Kram. TUB EvENDTO, MUSIC H I.TH CHARMS. After whim, TITS WINTER'S TALE. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manazer, Mr. Alfre4 Wigan. THIS EVENING TUE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. Atter which. MEDEA. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. AsTrzrs ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manarer, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING . ICING RICHARD Tflv. THIRD, compressed into 3 acts. Eques trian effects—Death of White Surrey—" Rattle of Bosworth Field"— Introduction of Mr. W. Cooke's stud of trained horses —Hippodramatic tableau never yet attempted. After which. The attractive ACTS of HORSEMANSHIP in the ARENA. To conclude with a popular ani Risible Farce. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke. Jun. HIGH. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 53 min. aft. 3—Evening 14 min. aft. 4 Th.MOBBOW—Morn.3S min. aft. 4—Evening 56 min. aft. 4 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 19. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 63 —highest sins° noon yesterday. sT—lowest this morning and during the night, 62 —this day at noon. BAROMETER-29 . 51-59. WIND, N.B.—Moderate, with rainy weather. Yeater. day afternoon was rather stormy, with strong gusts. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Latest Edition of The Sum, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from half past 5 till 7 o'clock every evening. Subscribers in the Country will please to observe that the heading " THIRD EDITION" is always to be seen on the papers containing the latest news. If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Edition, a communication to The Sur. Office will remedy it. Sun Office, 112, Strand. g u , n , LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1856. As we long since anticipated the Government of the United States have distinctly and positively refused to sanction the four principles of the declaration so improvidently and unnecessarily made, or rather participated in, by the Earl of CLARENDON, as British Plenipotentiary at the Parisian Conferences. As this declaration should be accepted or rejected in its integrity, without change or modification, this decision of the Prznon-MAncv CAbinet is tantamount to a direct refusal to be bound by these propositions. The Pri►ateering system is that which the President will not consent to abolish, under any circum- stances short of the complete exemption of the property of the subjects or citizens of a bellige rent on the high seas, except it be contraband. He still clings to the piratical practices by which persons may engage in a quarrel in which they are in no degree concerned, for the sole purpose of plundering peaceful and unarmed vessels. The practice is so much in accordance with 'Yankee taste that it could not be surrendered unless England were also to relinquish the power of crippling RR enemy's commerce—the last remaining point that can maintain her pre stige or rank in the scale of nations. It is almost needless to say that such a pro position cannot for a moment be accepted. Even the present Government could net listen to or discuss the suggestion. They have already gone to the utmost length of their tether, in criminally and wantonly surrendering the chief sources of our maritime supremacy which have been termed by our jurists " incmlestable rights ;" anti which our most distinguished Admiral de clared we would " sacrifice onr last ship, our last seaman, and our last shilling," rather than relinquish. Not satisfied, however, with this extraordinary disinterestedness on our parts, General PIERCE goes still further, and, like the dog in the fable, surrenders the substance in grasping at the shadow, which he can never seriously hope to obtain. The despatch of Mr. MARCY in reference to those points will be found in another part of this day's impression. It is a lengthy document, drawn up in strict ,accordance with Yankee logic —that is to say, with a total disregard of every principle of equity and justice when opposed to American interests. What is favourable to itself —what it fruitlessly struggled to attain in bygone days, when there were really British Statesmen and British officers, it willingly accepts. But it will give no consideration therefor—will not yield a single particle of what may put money into the pockeks of its own citizens who may choose to engage in speculations based on robbery of the worst description. This right it declares to be essential to "the freedom of the sea." As well might it be said that highway rob bery is essential to the liberty of the road. Of course, if belligerent Powers are engaged' in hostilities, the vessels of the one ma y capture or destroy the vessels of the other, and the right of so doing may be the most efficient means of bringing the opponent to reason. But filibusters or sympathisers, who look only to X, s. d., and the value of the booty they may attain, without regard to the equity or justice of the operation, are the common enemies of mankind, and should be cut off on all occasions as pirates and robbers of the worst description. Indeed the line of demarcation between piracy and privateering is so very slight, and so lightly regarded, that the successful crews are generally ready to mount the black flag, and to place friends and foes in the same category whenever they can do so with a prospect of impunity—a matter which is generally accomplished by the wholesale removal of every witness, according to old buccaneering maxim, that " dead men tell no tales." It would not be an American document if a slight touch of bravado were wanting. Mr. MARCY acoordingly indulges a little in the accus tomed vein, by an implied menace to all ,Powers who shall not treat privateers visiting their ports with the utmost consideration and forbearance. They must be treated, even by the Powell who THE SUN, LONDON, TtEFIDAN I RVEN LNG AUGUST 10, i 866: have adopted the four points, in the same manner as before the attempted modification by the Parisian Congress. This is, as already stated, exactly what we anticipated, and the opportunity afforded to America of repudiating the engagement to which others were bound points out in the strongest manner the folly and fatuity of the reckless and hasty acceptance, by Lord CLARENDON, of the insidious proposition put forward by Count WALEVISKI. We fully concur with our contem porary, the Morning Advertiser, in the opinion that, while the United States stands aloof, there can be no utility in the other Powers attempting to carry out that provision of the Precious Treaty. It is palpable that we have got ourselves into a scrape, or, in Yankee parlance, are regularly " cornered," by the undue haste and reckless precipitation manifested by the British Plenipo- tentiary ; and it is his bounden duty to extricate us from the dilemma in the best manner pessible. The despatch of Mr. MARCY affords the oppor tunity of so doing, and it should not be neglected or misapplied. Not unnaturally a Peace that established for Russia the prestige of having baffled the best efforts of the picked troops of England, France, and Sardinia at Sebastopol—Won from Turkey the key of Asia Minor at Kars, and mocked the prowess of the Allied Fleets at Odessa, Revel, Sweaborg, and Cronstadt, has been inaugurated by Russian treachery at all points, and stultified by Russian influence in localities to which for- bearance was more especially shown. barbarian, pure or demicivilised, generally mea sures the strength of his antagonist rather by what he has done than by what it was in his power to do, and laughs, as at a bit of rhodomon tade, at the notion of a forbearance having been shown him of which he knows himself to be in capable. Why should Russia be scrupulous towards Powers she believes would have destroyed her if they could, and why respectful towards their subjects when Russia alone has proved her title to unusual respect ? To be sure, your half barbarian is insolent "by instinct," but he can also be civil through fear ; and it is not trespass ing beyond the bounds of truth when we say that we should not have had to call the attention of our readers to the instances of official insolence and oppression at Odessa, recorded in another column, had the War been carried out with be coming vigour, andßussia been taught thoroughly the lesson the War was intended to inculcate. Your As a fitting pendant to the treatment of cer tain French merchants at Kertch, who have been compelled by the Russian officers to make a voyage to Constantinople and back, a distance of 1,000 miles, in order to obtain leave to dispose of their stock in hand, the reader will perceive another, the scene of which is laid at Odessa, and the victims subjects of the British Crown. A Mr. DARNLEY STUART, who for nearly the last two years has resided in the capacity of a British mer chant in the Crimea, arrives at Constantinople in the Vigilant, and armed with a passport, obtained from the proper British officer before the evacua tion of the Crimea, sails for Odessa in the Ewald, s Hanoverian schooner. On his arrival he finds no quarantine established, and is duly passed through the Quarantine Office. The next thing he does is to present himself before the Russian chief passport officer, a Mr. CARRUTHERS, who " takes his likeness" in the usual fashion. This being done, he is ordered on board the Ewald. Three days elapse, and no communication from the Russian authorities reaches him. The reason at last leaks out—the Governor will - not admit him nor the other passengers into Odessa because their passports were not vise as they ought to be—the fact being that, on making application at Balaklava, Mr. STUART was distinctly informed by the Russian authorities no such process was required. One passenger has a Foreign-office passport. He is, on the third day, permitted to land—but only on giving a guarantee that he bas no political purpose in view, and will advertise his departure a week before hand ! Two days after, quarantine is esta blished at Odessa. Straightway Mr. STUART and three of the passengers—an English servant, and a Turk and an Austrian subject—all of whom were passed as uninfected on their arrival, are clapped into a lazzaretto, herded together in one room, without table, chair, or eating or washing utensils, and left in the matter of food to shift for themselves. Provisions are not to be had save at a ship chandler's, and in excessive quantities ; and to these grievances are added others too numerous to mention. Mr. STUART grows tired of this maltreatment, and offers to give a bond in the penalty of 3,000/. not to leave the Vigilant, if permitted to go on board that vessel at one.). A merchant of Odess I offers to become his gua rantee. The application is refused. Two mere days in the lazaretto, and two English captains, hearing of and pitying his case, address the authorities and off3r to take him on beard to jain their mess. The Russian authorities hesitate, and at last consent. He may join one of them, pro vided his return to the lazaretto at three o'clock on the day of the ship's sailing is guaranteed. A t four the Vigilant is expected to sail. Mr. STUART and his fellow-prisoners are embarked in—of all boats in the world—the Tiger's launch ! and, after being kept lying off the Vigilant for two and a-half hours, relanded, and again been taken off to the ship, is at last, on the cap tain's entreaty, permitted to step on board, having been detained for eight or nine days with out any opportunity of transacting the business which brought him to Odessa being allowed him ! All this while the British fleet is in the Black Sea ! Knowing this the authorities dared so to use British subjects ! See what comes of sparing Odessa. Our fleet could have blown it into the air during the War. Knowing this, or not know ing it, the authorities supplied the garrison of l Sebastopol with food. Knowing this the Allied fleet still spared Odessa ; and now that peace is proclaimed, where but at Odessa, and in what presence but that of a British fleet, shall British subjects be first imprisoned and treated as felons in all the Russias I Not a stone of Odessa but is stained by the blood of Englishmen spilt before Sebastopol. Not a building in it but is a monu meat of the exceeding folly of our rulers! His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer have returned to their residence in Windsor Park, from visiting Mr. Harcourt and tho Countess Frances Waldegrave, at Nuneham, near Ox ford. Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has arrived in town from Nuneham-park, where her ladyship has been stay ing on a vi.it to Mr. Harcourt, M.P., and Francei Countess Waldegrave. The Earl of Malmesbury left Heron Court, near Christ= church, last week, to visit the Earl of Lansdale, Low. ther Castle, Cumberland. The Earl of Lovelace left yesterday for Germany on a tour, and purposes to go to Ita l y for the winter. Lady A. king w ill s tay with her grandmother, Lady Noel Byron (widow of the great poet) during the absence of the noble earl abroad. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P. and M rs . Herbert, have left Wilton House, near Salisbury, for a tour of visits in Ireland, and to visit the right hon. gen tleman's estates in that country. The Right Hon. Sir James Graham, M.P., and Lady aid Misses Graham are staying at Netherby Park, Cumberland. The right hon. baronet shortly goes to Scotland to make a series of visits. Madame Cabel has returned to the Opera Comique, and wade her entry bait week with all the honours. LATEST NEWS, BERLIN, AUG. 18. T; io Russian Government has nominated the comr aission which is to watch over the restoration of tyke statu quo in Asia. It will meet the Turk ish commissioners, who are already reported to be, at Erzeroum. G eneral Belerstorf replaces General Baryatinski in tie command of the Caucasus. The latter is to r( retain at St. Petersburg. The Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres have not proceeded to England ; they left Ham burg direct from Eisenach. M. Thiers alone went ove7c. The Journal of Constantinople announces that Sir Houston Stewart, who is cruising in the Black Sea, has appeared off Odessa. General Scogonoff, Governor of that town, after demanding instructions from his Government by telegraph, acquainted Sir H. Stewart that orders had been given for the evacuation of Kars, of Ismail, of Reni, and of Kilia, and that the evacu ation would be completed before the expiration of the term of six months fixed by the Treaty of Paris. Letters of the Bth state that the English Ad miral has left Odessa for Trebizond, to see to the restitution of Kars. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY MOANING. The Walmer Castle, Captain Daniell, from Port- Phillip, for London, arrived in the Channel yester day, and landed 62 passengers and a mail, consist ing of four bags and one box. She sailed May 18, and having experienced strong contrary winds did not round Cape Horn until the 6th of July. She crossed the fine on the 16th, and sighted the Island of Flores on the Bth inst. The Walmer Castle brings 160 passengers, 61,000 ounces of gold, and a partial cargo of wool. Spoke, south of the line, the Costrello, bound to Cape Palmas for oil, and the barque Silistria, of Boston. Her news is anticipated by the Royal Charter,. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Ina% perial are to leave to-morrow for Biarritz. " Amongst the late arrivals at Vichy," says the Gazette de Lyon, " were MM. Baroche, Delangle, and Magne, Councillor of State ; the Princess Bel giojoso, and the Bishop of Cahors." BOURSE, Aug. 18.—The following were the last quotations : _ _ Cash. ff. s. End of Month. 46 per Cents 95 50 —f. —a. 3 per Cents 7O 85 71 New Loan 7l Bank 5hare5......... 4,150 Roman BB Credit Mobilier 1,690 Austrian Belgian Fives. ..... .. 99 Spanish Threes 44 l'iodnsontese (5) 9l Home Debt ~....... 39i RAILWAYS-70R CASH. ft. C. fr. 0 . Orleans 1,422 50 Western 975 Northern .. 1,070 Strasburg Lyons.. .«...1,435 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,835 Grand Central 695 Lyons Geneva Bl5 Testa Cette BlO Austrian Com.. ..... 891 75 SPAIN. Although we are still without any official decla ration as to the future Government of Spain, it is generally understood that the Queen's advisers have resolved :- 1. The present Cortes to be-dissolved. 2. To be again reassembled according to the Constitution of 1845. 3. A complete new municipal organisation. 4. The National Guard throughout the country to be disarmed. Tintitzv. (Front Correvondenl of the Morning Beam.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 7.—You will see by the Journal de Constantinople of to-day a report of the troy ble and inconvenience occasioned to certain French merchants at Kertch by the Russian autho rities, who have compelled them to make thence a voyage to Constantinople and back (1000 miles), in order that, by presentation and appearance at the Russian Chancellerie in the Turkish capital, all documentary formalities might he carried out with punctilio which the dignity of Ramie (unbribed) requires, before a foreigner may venture to sell at Kertch, or export therefrom even a little fragrant to baoco or cordial gin or other his own property, which the allies failed to consume during the war, and which therefore remains on the merchants' hands. To this Kertch case of hardship I could add more than one in connection with Odessa, but one may suffice. I have taken care to see two of the parties mixed up in the following affair, which spesks for itself, and is a pretty sample of the civility Englishmen meet with in the " City of Corn" (query, " City of Chaff ?") which the Downing-street Government were fools enough to spare, though the British fleet could have blown it to atoms, and have de stroyed those supplies which, forwarded to Sebas• topol, alone enabled that city to hold out so long. Now for the Odessa case just referred to. Mr. Darnley Stuart arrived at Constantinople in the Vigilant, as an English merchant who during the last 21 months has lived in the Crimea. Before the English abandoned that peninsula, Mr. Stuart ob tained from Captain McAlester, the proper British officer, a passport from Balaklava to Odessa, and be to passage in the Hanoverian schooner Ewald, which re tched Odess% on or about the 22d July, aid there he remained ei;ht or nine days. Before leaving Balaklava Mr. Stuart applied to the Rus sian Commandant, by Mr. Borkolm, with whom he was connected tnereantilely, and who had to :ipply for other vim for Odessa—four in all—when the Conatrandant (Stamati) stated that no vise was necessary at all ! This was five days after the English had left. When the Ewald arrived at Odessa there was no quarantine. Mr. Stuart and her other passengers duly passed through the exa mination at the quarantine office, and then went before a Mr. Carruthers, the chief passp o rt offi cer for the Russians, where the usual signalement was taken as to height of forehead, length of nose, Ic. Ordered again on board the Ewald, Mr. Stuart received no communication from the passport office for three days, so that his desire to enter Odessa on business was not gratified. One passenger, a Turkish subject, had the vise of Sta mati, but with it or without it all the passports were declared not in order, and the go- ernor would not allow Mr. Carruthers to permit Mr. Stuart and his companions to enter the city. One of the passengers,' however, had a Foreign-office passport, and he, at the end of the third day, was permitted to leave the Ewald and land, on giving a guarantee that he visited Odessa for no political purpose, and that he would adver tise his intended departure one week before he wished to leave Odessa ! The governor would not recognise Capt. McAlester's Crimean passports, and a guardino was placed on board the Ewald. Two days afterwards quarantine was established at Odessa, whereupon Mr. Stuart and three of the passengers, an,English servant, and a Turk, and an Austrian subject, were carried to the lazaretto, and pat altogether in a room, without table, chair, or bed, or eating or washing utensils ; and, as to performing their ablutions, I may at once mention that their only ohance was going down to the sea shore, which they did. The commandant pointed out a sort of ship-chandler's, on the Mole, as the only place where they could get provisions ; but these were to be sold in quantities too large, fit only for ships' crew; and then, " How about the cook ing?" It would be an endless job to go into fur ther detail as to these grievances, and the inatten tion experienced. So great were they that Mr. Stuart offered to give a bond in the penalty of three thousand pounds not to leave the Vigilant —a ship bound to Constantinople—if allowed to go on board that vessel at once. But this was refused, though guaranteed by a merchant in Odessa. He remained, therefore, two days more in the lazaretto. There was a coffee-shop on the Mole, but scarcely anything could be obtained there but a dram of vodki. At last two English captains heard of Mr. Stuart's case, and addressed the authorities, and offered to take him on board to join their mess, or to bring him food from their ships, and ultimately ho was allowed to join one of them, on a guarantee to return to the lazeretto at three o'clock on the day appointed for the ship's sailing. At four the Vigilant was ex pected to sail ; Mr. Stuart and " other prisoners" were thereupon embarked in the poor .. Tiger's launch (as if purposely to wound his feelings as an Englishman) ; he was kept lying off the ship 2i hours, reslanded, again taken off to the ship, and ul timately (ou her captain's entreaty) permitted' to Step on board. Such are the annoyances the civilised Russians; shower on English merchants, even when a British fleet is yet necessarily detained in the Black Sea in consequence of Russian non-compli ance with the recent treaty of Paris ! One of the parties whose passport was refused (although he had taken service at Odessa in an English house) had also to come on to Constantii nople in the Vigilant, there to obtain a passport for Odessa from Lord Stratford, making altogether a trip of 1,000 miles 1 You will hear of worse cases than this. Every opportunity seems to be taken by the Russians to humiliate En gli dimen. Answer of the King of Naples to the Remonstrance of France and England. A correspondence iu the Cologne Gaulle gives the following as a faithful analysis, if not the text itself, of the answer of the King of Naples, which the Moniteur described as "negative in substance and offensive in form." " King Ferdinand formally declines to stiffer any intromission of the Western Powers in the affairs of his kingdom. He repudiates interference as being contrary to all the rules of international right and derogatory to the independence and dig nity of his crown. Relying upon the principle of eternal justice which prescribes that you should not do unto others what you would not have others do unto you, he asks, 'What would Lord Palmerston say if the Neapolitan Government were to presume to sit in judgment on the admi nistrative acts of the British Cabinet, and to re commend a modification in its internal policy, or for instance the adoption of more liberal measures towards unhappy Ireland, and more humane ones in regard to its subjects in the East Indies ? What would be his answer to any power that should thus dare to intermeddle with the Queen's Govern ment t He would reply as the Court of Naples now does—that he acknowledged no right and no power in any one whatever to dictate rules of con duct to him, or to indulge in offensive remon strances. Or rather, not so. Lord Palmerston would not even have taken the trouble to answer, but he would have at once sent passports to the representative of the power that should have so acted. Has not then the King of Naples an equal right with Great Britain to show himself jealous of his own honour, and careful of that of his people ? He may, indeed, by way of showing the neighbourly respect and good feeling with which he is animated, listen to overtures made with the object of consoli dating public order iu Europe. But even these should be laid before him with all that delicacy and reserve which is due to a free Sovereign ; and iu any event, he alone must be the judge of the effi cacy of the measures which he may be recommended to adopt, and above all must be left absolutely free to choose the moment which may seem best to him self for their application. The King is better able than any one else to appreciate the exigencies of his position and the necessities resulting from it. It is alleged that this situation requires certain modifications, certain reforms. It is argued. that the revolution no longer attacks the Government of the Two Sicilies by physical force. Admitting that to be so, it is a proof that the regime so loudly complained of has not been so useless or so harm ful as some people would have it believed. But it is added, this regime has ceased to be necessary. The King is not of that opinion, and his will can not be constrained unless material force be erected into a principle, and then what becomes of the principle of the royal authority ? And what would be the value of accomplished under external pressure? Undelach circumstances any conces sion, hswever legitimate, would be alike devoid of merit and efficacy. His Majesty King Ferdinand is, therefore, entirely ig the truth of the situation when he maintains his prerogatives, and when he asserts his right to be the sole judge both of what is to be done and when is the opportune moment to do it. This moment he desires to see with all his heart ; but it is impossible to deny that the violent and systematic attacks of the English press, and the provocations thrown out in Parliamentary speeches, are calculated to postpone the opportunity for some time yet. Is it supposed that the bad passions of a country still imbued with the revolu tionary doctrines of 1848 are to be calmed by such means I It cannot be forgotten that not long ago the " Central General Committee of Italy" laid down the principle that political homicide is not a crime, especially when a powerful enemy is to be got rid of, &c., &a., or that this same committee int a price upon the head of ;the King of Naples and promised a reward of a hundred thousand ducats to whoever should deliver Italy from this monster ! In presence of such facts ' so near to us, it is more than a right, it i s a duty, for his Majesty the King of the Two Siollies to act with the greatest circumspection, and not lightly to depart from the system of government which he deemed it expe dient to adopt quite as much for the good of his subjects as for his own safety. " It is insinuated and attempted to be proved, that the constitution of 1848, under the empire of which the horrible principles above mentioned were openly propagated, is the law of the land in the kingdom of Naples. But it is forgotten that when the constitution was proposed to the rebel Sicilians they contemptuously rejected it and called for that of 1812. TI - ie only effect of the concessions which Ferdinand 11. then made was to stimulate the de- mands of the revolutionists all over Italy, and the movements which broke out in Naples and Paler mo were the signal for insurrections in Sardinia, Rome, Lombardy, arc. It is desired in mere wan tonness to see a repetition of this bloody cycle of crimes and catastrophes in which unhappy Italy was before precipitated T The constitution of 1848 would be marvellously adapted to bring about such a result. " Such cannot be the real intention of the Cabinets of London and Paris, which must desire to maintain peace, and so the dearly-bought repose of Europe. Such, above all, cannot be the inten tion of the Frensh Government, which, after having displayed such energetic efforts to vanquish the revolution at home, cannot design to encourage it in Italy. That would be to act in flagrant contra diction to the wise and able policy which it has itself practised with so much success. " France and England should remember that they engaged in the Eastern war for the express purpose of preventing a foreign power from inter fering in the affairs of Turkey. Any analogous in tervention iu the kingdom of the Two Sicilies would be a strange and unhe trd-of anomaly. King Fer dinand cannot and will not believe that any such thing can bo intended. He relies with entire con fidence upon the fact that the courts of Paris and London have in the most public manner recognised this principle, namely, that every free state, how ever inferior its strength may he to that of the power which pretends to offer advice to it, has the indisputable right to reject the advice when it comes in the form of a threat and an attack upon its in dependence. " The King intends to abide by all that has just been said. If, which it is impossible to suppose, it shall be attempted to constrain his will, he will then, confiding in the justice of his cause, make an appeal to the national feelin g , as well as to his brave and faithful army, and prepare himself to repulse force by force." JOURNALISM-THE EMPEROR AND EMPBESS OF RUSSIA. STOCKHOLM, Aug. I.—Considerable surprise has been created here by the announcement that Col. Hazelius, formerly a distinguished officer in the Swedish army and many years personal aide-de-camp of the late King, and at present the talented chief editor of the Sioenclska Tid fling. retires from that post, and will be succeeded by a Mr. J. Horner, for many years connected with that semi-official organ, and now sub-editor for the foreign department. As far back as last year the above pro- Russian journal had great difficulty in making its way and keeping afloat, and would in all probability have foundered long ago if it had not been so fortunate as to find powerful and wealthy auxiliaries abroad. The public are now curious to learn on what principles this otherwise well-conducted and splendidly-printed news paper will be carried on, now that the literary Colonel has retired. Many people suppose, and it is far from im probable, that it will be bought by one of our four estates in the new Storthing, in order to have an organ of its own party. But it is not likely that the estates of the peasants or the burghars will take such a step, and therefore, if done at all, it must be undertaken either by the aristocratical or the ecclesiastical estate. Our Dagbladet states that the new schooner Maria Sophia, Captain Benin, from Stromstadt to Copenhagen, with a cargo of grain, was run into on the night of the 30th of July in the Gulf of Finland by a Russian man of-war steamer, which had the Emperor and Empress on board when the colliiion tO6k place. After the accident their Majesties quitted the steamer and repaired on board another which acompanied them, the Emperor giving orders to take the damaged steamer in tow and carry her into a Russian tort for repairs at his expense. Fortunately no loss of lire took place, and the vessel was safely towed into the port of Helsingfors, where Rhe is undergoing the necessary repairs. From the above it would appear that some tross neglect is to be ascribed to the officers of the Russian steamer. News has arrived that the Russians have reoccupied A nape. It is stated that there is a probability of the entire fleet of the General Screw Steam Shipping Company being purchased at once b 7 the Russian Government. A lady writes from Nevport, an American watering place :—" We have to cress about nine times a day here. First, we put on a dress to dress in. Then we are ready for breakfast. After that we dress for the beach, then for the bath, len for dinner, then for the drive, then for the ball, and then for the bed. If that isn't being put through a regular course of dimity and diamonds, then I am no judge of such performances.", LITERATURE. Shakspere's Englanc ; or; Sketches of c4ttr S i ociat History in the Iteir!:n d f Elizabeth. By G. W. Thorubtirys. 2 vols. Longman. The name of this work is very attractive, and its contents fully realise the pleasant anticipations raised by its title. t' hatispere's England "—.the England of the eventful sixteenth century —of Raleigh and Burleigh, of Bacon and Jenson, of Essex and Leicester, of Drake and the Armada— an age which stands out in brilliant relief from the gloomy and contentious period that so soon fol lowed it—an age in which a comfortable feeling of self-satisfaction seems to have been prevalent among the good citizens of London, but in which, notwithstanding, they seem never to have surmised that the greatest name that should adorn the Eng lish literature was that of the manager of the Globe Theatre in Southwark. To lead the reador " a long, rambling, gossiping walk through Lud- Bate, up Cheap, and into Paul's, then away to the ear Garden in Southwark, and the Globe, where As you Like it' is acting—anon past the old cross at Charing to the Presence-chamber at Greenwich or Richmond and back, to make a night of it at the Devil Tavern, where the players and poets meet, just under the chimes of St. Dunstan," is the professed object of our author, and a very judicious, entertaining, and pleasantly learned guide he proves himself to be. He begins with au introductory chapter, in which he warns us that this world of the sixteenth century is by no means a world whose scenes and actors have vanished from among us, but that we shall meet many an old friend, and recognise many a familiar locality, among its passengers and streets. It requires, how ever, some exercise of the imaginative faculty for a denizen of the modern Babyloa to picture to himself the metropolis of those days, with " Oxford-street a muddy country road leading to Tyburn, Hyde park bare and open, Islington a village, and Mary lebene a suburb ;" with noblemen living in Drury lane and Alderagate, and Spitalfields a grassy open space. Still more singular does it appear to the Londoner of the nineteenth century to read of the cheerful little stream known by the name of Fleet, the sparkling Clerken Well, the windmills in Fins bury fields, and the herbalist gathering his stores in the ditches of our modern Piccadilly ! Mr. Thornbury's magical pages soon bring this strange city and all its attributes before our eyes, its gay processions, its public punishments, its street fights and 'prentice riots, its pageants of the city guilds, its fashionable promenade at St. Paul's, its barbers' and apothecaries' shops, whose contents might puzzle the wisest, its Fleet-street shows, its Bear gardens, and Bartholomew Fair—its quaint and gothic looking buildings, which have given the name of the Maiden Queen to their style of archi tecture. The actors in these scenes are as plainly held up before us, and the cheats and serving men of that day might be honoured did they know how faithfully their doings and misdoings are chronicled nearly three centuries later. They, in common with so many worthies or unworthies of their age, may thank the light of that wonderful genius which has not only proved a beacon to all posterity, but has raised the meanest things surrounding it from their natural obscurity. The plays of Shakspere, it is remarked, are full of invectives against servants, " with the exception of the faithful steward of Timon, and Orlando's trusty Adam, his serving men, always drawn from the age, are generally witty, quibbling, foolish domestics." The sketches of the whole tribe of retainers given by our author entirely cor responds to this description. The list of household fines is amusing. A servant for uttering au oath was find ld. ; for leaving a door open, the same ; a fine of 2d. for all in bed after six, or out of it after ten. The jester was the dread of the kitchen and the wit of the dinner table. Elizabeth herself kept two. The description of robes and fashions might astonish a modern milliner. Queen Elizabeth, whom rumour accuses of being by no means indifferent to this department of feminine vanity, possessed the moderate allowance of 99 robes, 126 kirtles, 269 gowns, 96 cloaks, and many other articles. The chapter on the interesting class of "cheats, thieves and beggars " is the longest in the book. This, however, is not from the greater wickedness of those days, or the pecu liar interest of the writer on the subject, but from the greater picturesqueness of their roguery and the abundance of the materials left for our edifica tion. They appear to have possessed a degree of effrontery which eclipses their successors of these days. The business-like manner in which they conducted their operations is really amusing at this distance of time, though the victims of that day might not be so easily amused. If they heard of a youth coming into a large sum of money they met, in solemn council, and discussed how best to circumvent him. scouts were sent to discover his lodgings and places of resort. The wit of the band was chosen to scrape acquaintance with him, and the usual tricks of gambling soon transferred die new inheritance. The fashionable tricks of that day, which were generally practised on coun trymen newly arrived in town, will afford amusement to many. As is usually the case the prevalence of crime kept pace with Vie severity of punishment. In this age, when thieves slipped into a shop with a bag of meal, flung the dust into the shoprnan's eyes and walked off with a bale of goods ; when cheats and gipsies lurked in every corner, " a thirteen-penny felony" brought the culprit's head to the axe ; sheepstealers had their hands cut off, and poisoners were boiled to death ! Yet innkeepers were constantly in combi nation with highwaymen, and it was dangerous to let an ostler touch your bag. Villagers refused to leave their work and assist in chasing a thief, but would say stolidly, "God restore your loss ; I have other business." Hawking and hunting, of course, find a place, and the peculiarities of the ancient spurt may be found entertaining by the sportsman of our day. The public amusements of the lower sort do not merit the praise that our author be stows on all connected with his favourite epoch. The amusement of whipping a blind bear was a brutal one, all must admit. The second volume opens with ch tpter with a most interesting title, " The Theatre." Only seven existed in Queen Elizabeth's time, and in only two were Shakspere's plays acted. The manners of that time were not very encouraging to the performers, as the height of fashion was to appear quite indifferent ; and a fashionable lounger who wished to attract atten tion had resort to the most extraordinary expe dients to excite the wonder of the denizens of the pit, such as whistling at the songs, finding fault with the manager, and aiming at talking and laugh ing so loud that the eyes of the house should be drawn upon him, that the poets might be provoked into writing au epigram, or the players point him out in the street. One plan of the devotees of this lofty ambition was to turn away in the saddest scenes of Lear or Othello, " as if he had seen the thing before at Court." A discriminating audience, certainly 1 Of one point of the life of the great dramatist the author takes a somewha t gloomy view. It is difficult to imagine Shak spere regarding with such melancholy con tempt that stage which he has ennobled and glorified with the brilliancy of his comedy and the splendour of his tragic muse. To fancy him regarding the profession so congenial to his genius as one that could " taint his name " is too in compatible with all our associations with his Imemory to be very acceptable. The vitality of his characters is attested by the following passage : " Shakspere ' though he ruled over all the worlds of thought and held many planets in subjection, was a liver in the Elizabethan age ; his characters are Elizabethan characters, and their manners Elizabethan manners. Trinculo and Stephano were men to be met any day in Paul's, their clothes long since dry from the surges of the Bermoothes and their skins quite healed from the lashes of the boatswain ; quibbling Speed and Lance and his dog might have lived at Charlecote ; Robin, Simple, and Rugby have been seen running up Bucklersbury ; Malvolio gaping at the prisoners looking out of the grat ing at Ludgate ; and Lancelot, tricksome, at Bartholo mew's Fair intent on tawdry ribbons as a present for the sprightly Maria, Sir Toby Belch's widow, who is ex pectantly waiting at a roast-pig stall. " Sir Toby Belch in his disreputable boots, good enough for drinking in,' and Sir John Falstaff, wittiest of the sinners, might, we dare venture to say, have been found quaffing burnt sack cosily together on the snug bench of some alehouse at Hogsden. Abhorsoa and Bernardine were common inmates of the Counter, with Shoe-tie the great traveller, and Half-can who stabbed Pots. Costard and Bottom might have been rustics of Stafford, and Sir Nathaniel arid Sir Oliver Martext hedge priests not a mile from Warwick. "In the Tempest we find him talking of the Dead Indian,' and such penny shows as were to be seen any day in Fleet-street or the Strand, and somewhat akin to that motion of the Prodigious Son' that Autolycus once compassed ; the serenades in the Two Gentlemen of Verona and Cymbeline were strains heard at a hun dred terrace windows any bright morning of the Eliza bethan year ; the porter in Macbeth is just such a por ter as whipped out Lance's dog, when - he misbehaved himself in the Duke's chamber ; Madam Silvia wears the Elizabethan fardingale, just as the ladies mentioned by Bassano wear wigs as Shakspere's noble mistress herself did ; the Shrew has ruffs, and cuffs, and scarfs, and fans, and beads, and amber bracelets, like any lady that swam down the terraces of Windsor, swan-like in white satin ; Hero's wedding-dress, cloth of gold laced with silver, set with pearls, and underlaid with bluish tinsel, would have become Elizabeth herself ; Slender brags of his feats at hear-beating, and how he took Saccarson by his chain ; Henry VI. is full of allusions from the scenes in the Paris Garden adjoining Shakspere's Theatre ; Slender the simpleton is cunning of face like Mercutio ; and Sir Andrew Aguecheek uses the phrases of Saviolo and the fencing masters of the day." A chapter on the Alche mists of that day affords some curious insight into their credulity and their tricks. The author claims for them the right, notwithstanding, of being deco thinkers and great observers, and considers that tlough they searched in rain themselves they prepared the ground fdt ttthers3 Witchcraft was another grand decep tion, and an elaborate account of a trial which, ended in the execution of three persons, affords a painful testimony to the wilful blindness of some of the wisest of that age in this respect. The author professes a fervent admiration for Queen Elizabeth, 31' limo failings he admits, but whose moral and political greatness he insists upon. He tells us of the perils she encountered, the enemies she subdued, the victories her leaders achieved— " When that great fleet, invincible, Against her bore in vain, The richest spoils of Mexico, The stoutest hearts in Spain." _ _ And fit), after a chapter of miscellaneous infor mation, nor author closes his pleasant volumes with the following observations : " And here we must conclude, and let the curtain fall on the great and golden age, amid whose scenes we have long led our reader. We have been to the theatre and the bear garden, the tavern, and the cow t. We have stared into crystal phials, with blear eyed alchemists ; listened at trials to witches confessions, and mixed with thieves and gipsies. We have seen bullies trapaur and gallants talk Euphuism, seen the child at his horn book, and the scrivener at his parchments ; the street tumbler of the day, the comedian, the tooth drawer, and the juggler, hava all passed before us. We have gaped at white satin revellers, and footed a measure at the mark ; we have seen the mountebank selling his drugs, and the tobacconist adulterating his medicines. In some places, for want of room, we have been brief ; in other pages, perhaps, wrung from want of judgment. For being brief we may be pardoned, for being tedious we must claim forgiveness. To photograph an age, to fix on paper perfect images, not merely of its street crowds, but of the children at the hearth, and the guests at the alehouse, is, however, an undertaking so difficult, that one success may, we tru , t, compens4te for a thousand failures." Adventurous though the attempt may be, and the more so from the very fact of the life-like portraits on the great dramatist's pages, the author has proved himself fully equal to the task, and has shown, as though in au extended panorama, all the varieties of metropolitan existence in that gay and stirring age. Those who desire to study our national existence as it was in the Shaksperian era, will find in these pages informa tion and amusement, research and description, wit and wisdom, most pleasantly and profitably mingled. The Poetical Fr orks of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. R. A. - VVillmott. Routledge. The complete works of the author of " The Cottar's Saturday Night" are collected in this volume, edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Wilmott, who has superintended the publication of several volumes of poetry. A compendious memoir is pre fixed to the poems, and tha notes which are placed at the foot of the page are likely to be of great assistance to a reader unacquainted with the pecu liarities of the language. A glossary is appended, which will also prove of service. The volume is handsomely bound, and illustrated by John Gil bert with numero us engravings. THE DAiVUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. (From the Times' Correspondent.) SUNDAY, 6 P.M. The commissioners appointed by the seven Pow ers to investigate the condition and requirements of the Danubian Principalities, and to suggest the best mode Of re-organising them, will soon be as sembled at Constantinople, whither several of them are already on their way, and where it is said that their first conferences are to be held ; and it is not improbable that the commencements of their deli berations may revive the interest of the European public in the fate of those provinces—an interest that at one time was lively, but which latterly ap pears to have died away. Independently of the political importance they derive from their situa tion, and from the conflicting pretensions of which they have been, and, in fact, still are, the object, those principalities will not be considered—at least, not by persons who have had oppor tunity of becoming personally acquainted with them—as undeserving of interest, and even of sympathy. It has been rather too much the fashion of late to pass a sweeping condemna tion upon the Moldo-Wallachiau—to depict the lower classes as irretrievably idle, ignorant, and sottish, and the higher orders as, without excep tion, dissolute and corrupt. There is exaggeration in this view, especially as regards the peasantry ; and, moreover, sufficient allowance has never been made for the depressing and corrupting influence of domestic tyranny and foreign occupation. Freed from the presence of a foreign soldiery, and endowed with a just and honest Government, there is no reason why the natural advantages of those pro vinces should not be developed, and the moral standard of their population raised. Relieve the peasant from the feudal exactions which, nomi nally abolished, in reality press upon him to this very day ; lift him out of the misery which often drives him to seek oblivion in drink ; let him feel that the result of his labour will be a bene fit to himself, and not to some wealthy pro prietor or grasping middleman, and there is no reason or precedent for saying that ho will not work willingly and improve his habits. As re gards the higher classes, and especially the aris tocracy of the provinces, it is, unfortunately, too true that, as a body, their moral character is very bad. But there are honourable exceptions to this rule ; and the example of corruption has been set for many years, and especially latterly in Wallachia, by a Government which unblushingly, and almost openly, resorted to the basest means of maintaining a power the object of which was not the welfare of the many, but the gratification of the cupidity and ambition of a few. The extent of the powers with which the com missioners from the seven Governments are invested has not, I believe been positively defined, or at least it is not publicly known. It is understood, however, and generally believed, that, notwithstand ing the high diplomatic rank of some of the dele gates, which would seem to imply a capacity for the final and complete adjustment of the question, their duties will be limited to investigation and report, and that upon these the Paris Conference will re assemble to deliberate, from its judgment, and fix the bases of the re-organisation. It is to be hoped, and, indeed, can scarcely be doubted, that in the very first place the extremely defective organic code in force since 1831, the imperfect and ambi guous wording of which has opened the door to abuses which its framers perhaps did not contem plate, will be entirely remodelled, if another be not substituted for it. A complete revision of the pre sent territorial arrangements and of the relations between the landholder and the peasant is urgently called for, and will doubtless be strongly recom mended by the commissioners. Taking this fur granted, we come to another question, which has lately assumed great prominence, and which ex cites the strongest interest in the Principalities— namely, their union under an hereditary reignine. Prince. This idea, which does not appear to be of very ancient origin, has been eagerly embraced in Moldo-Wallachia, where it has found numerous and enthusiastic partisans, and where, indeed, it has so engrossed the public mind as to throw into the shade other proposed changes which are certainly equallti . desirable. Carried away by visions of future independence and augmented power, some of its advocates seem to imagine that such a union, especially if under a foreign Prince, would necessarily entail the amendment of every abuse and the immediate prosperity of the country. Some of these ardent imaginations appear to have beheld in the realisation of their darling project the sudden transformation of the ill-cultivated, road less, war-blasted Principalities into an Eastern Belgium, a model for surrounding nations. This is going too fast. The union of Moldavia and Wallachia would, I admit and believe, be beneficial to both ; but, should it not be conceded, much might still be done for their good, and they might become prosperous although still divided. A let ter from Galati in a German newspaper has just informed us of a new political party iu Wallachia, which adopts as its programme-Ist, the union of the Principalities under the suzerainte of the Porte —that suzerainte to be exercised in conformity with the ancient privileges of the province ; 2d, a foreign Prince as ruler ; 3d, a national assembly without property qualification ; 4th, Ministerial responsibi lity ; stb, liberty of the press. This can hardly be considered a now party, for the differences aro but slight between its principles and those of the Liberal or Rouman National party, which for some time has been numerous and popular in Wallachia. The chief difference is in the 3d article. The Na tional party in Wallachia has, I think, hitherto in clined to a property qualification, not only for can didates but for electors, but the question has scarcely been seriously discussed among them, any more than that of one or two representative Cham bers. A few young men, most of them of demo cratic leanings, may have prematurely busied themselves with these questions, but the majority have postponed them for future consideration. Ministerial responsibility is considered, by all but a small corrupt clique, as quite indispensable, and a free press is warmly desired. But the union of the provinces is the great change most anxiously coveted and loudly clamoured for, and the most in tense anxiety is felt to know whether the European Powers will grant it. The views of the seven Powers on this question are now, with one exception, no secret to the world. France, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia are favourable to the union. Turkey and Austria strougly oppose it. England alone preserves an undecided attitude, at the expense, unqueetion I ably, of a diminution of her prestige in Moldo- Wailachia. On the other hand, France may be said to have assumed the lead in the unionist move ment. I pointed out, in a recent letter, that the attitude of the diplomatic agents of England and. France at Bucharest, during the excitement occa sioned there by the idea of the union, coincided exactly with that of their governmeuts. M. Beclard openly declared that his sudden conversion, his un expectedly warm partisanship of the union under a foreign prince, was a consequence of orders re ceived from Paris, while Mr. Colquhoun's reserve was in strict conformity with that of the British Ministry. A few months ago the eyes of the Mol do-Wallachians were fixed hopefully upon England, but lately their glances have been directed Esther towards France. This is not very importoit. There can he but surmises at present as to the course England will advocate with re spect to those provinces, and there is cer tainly no reason to suppose that Lord Pal merston's Government, although it may have thought fit to abstain from an unneces sarily early declaration of its views, will be found wanting in sympathy with a people striving after liberty and improvement, or backward in assisting it to obtain such changes as may be really for its advantage. It is to be, observed, also, that the question of union or no union is not to be settled by a majority of votes,, and that prior to its deci sion an inquiry is to take place which may possibly modify some of the opinions at present entertained. It is not a question that should be prejudged, since it was expressly laid down at the Paris Con gress that the wishes of those most interested should be carefully ascertained, and due weight given to them. Subordinate to the main point of the union, but still very important, is the question whether the Danubian provinces should be ruled by a foreign or a native prince. Their inhabitants are strongly in favour of the former, upon the ground that a Mol davian Prince would be unacceptable to the Walla chians, and a Wallachian to the Moldavians, and that, in either case, the nobleman selected for so great an elevation as that of hereditary ruler, would be harassed and impeded in his rule by the jealousy and intrigues of the other Boyards ; in short, that such an arrangement would lead to constant diffi culties and disputes, perhaps even to conspiracies: and subversive attempts, and that, after a time, Europe would find it necessary to revise what it had done, and, finally, to give the country a foreign Sovereign. These objections are not un founded, and deserve consideration. On the other hand, to make it a sine qua non that the prince regnant should be of a foreign dynasty might endanger the whole project of the union, since the views of the seven Powers might be expected to he conflicting as to the person to be selected. But it is, perhaps, premature to busy ourselves with this branch of the subject, the minute discussion of which would lead me far beyond the ordinary limits of a latter. According to the last accounts from the Princi palities the Austrians ware sending away their heavy baggage, and there were some hopes that they themselves would soon follow it. But still they fondly linger, clinging tenaciously to the country where they are so universally detested ; and so often has `their departure been announced that none will now venture to fix a date for it. If they are to remain until the Russians evacuate the part of Bessarabia ceded to Moldavia they may yet be there some time, for the latest advices speak of dis agreement among the boundary commissioners, with whom that unlucky Bolgrad, misplaced upon Muscovite maps, is a bone of contention. The Austrians seem steady to the last in their system of vexation and injustice towards the inha bitants of the country they were sent to protect. You will remember that a short time ago Prince C. Soutzo, entering his own courtyard, was cut down by a drunken corporal, and dangerously wounded in the head. The case was as nearly as possible one of murder. A letter from Bucharest informs me that the corporal has been tried and sentenced to receive 40 lashes, and to be degraded to the ranks for three months. The disproportion between the offence and punishment needs no comment, but is not be wondered at, since in cases of actual murder, of which very many have occurred during the Aus trian occupation, a similarly shameful lenity was shown to the criminals, and capital punishment was never once inflicted. TIM SOUND DUES. COPENHAGEN, August 14.—1 t cannot be denied that the report of the special committee of the British House of Commons on the Sound Dues gives on the whole a correct view of the case, and affords a proof of impartiality tile Danes are not accustomed to find in others. This is the general impression the Blue Book has made here. It is not to be wondered at that the inhab: tants of Elsi nore, and especially the merchants and numerous ship agents, are most violently opposed to any change of system, and particularly to the capitali sation of the duty, as they live by it, and, in tact, make such good pickings out of it that their profits, in many instances, are equal to the amouDt received by the Danish exchequer. A sort of counr ter-statement, or protest, has been lately drawn up and published at Elsinore, in which they invite the Danish press to republish it in their colums. But, independently of the arguments used being extreme ly weak, the Danish journalists, with but few excep tions, have sufficient tact to see that the Sound Dues are doomed to destruction, and that it would be► the most infatuated Don-Quixoteism to take up the cudgels at this time of day in defence of a system virtually defunct. It is not impossible that some of the witnesses examined have exaggerated the sums stated as the maximum amounts charged by the ship agents at Elsinore, or rounded them of too high into English money; but even this would not justify the attack made by the Elsinore people, in their pamphlet, against the committee and the British envoy at this court. It is perfectly true, as stated in the report, that the merchants of Elsinore often sell to passing captains articles of stpres and ship chandlery of inferior quality at 10 per cent. higher prices than they could obtain on shore from anybody else. lam even able to state that this is BO notorious that many Government officials are in the habit of obtaining their articles of daily con sumption by the steamers going to Elsinore from this city every morning, as they get them in this way better and cheaper. But if the mercantile spirit of the Elsinore people were to be directed into a pro per channel, there would be no reason to entertain any fears of their reason, seated as they are in a most favourable position for carrying on an extensive commerce with other countries, at the entrance of one of the great water-roads to an unbounded field for active operations, and surrounded as they are by a well-cultivated and fertile district densely populated by wealthy inhabitants. The new dry dock for ships of war, for the lock gates of which the King will lay the foundation stone most likely to-morrow, will not be finished for more than a year, and even then it will require some time to deepen the channel outside so as to make it accessible at every state of the tide. The whole undertaking is a colossal submarine work, which has several times had to be suspended on account of the water oozing through, besides other technical difficulties which had to be overcome by our enguieers. The dock itself is 250 feet long and the entrance lock is 58 feet wide. The depth is 29ft. 6in. The plans were made by Mr. A Geddes, an engineer of London, and executed. under his superintendence by Captain Tuxen, of the Danish Engineers. The granite blocks for the inner face of the basin and locks were brought at a very great expense from the quarries on the coast of Scotland. The whole of the work has been contracted for to the tune of three millions of rix-dollars banco: PXPBCTED ARRIVAL OF Tril3 QUEEN DOWAGER OP OUDE. SOUTIWIPTON, Monday.—The Peninsular and Orien tal Company's steam-ship Indus, Capt. Brooks, which left Alexandria on the 6th, and Malta on the 10th inst., has on board the following distinguished personages : The Queen of Oude, with nine ladies and one eunuch ; the Heir Apparent of the King of Oude, Mirza Wallee Ahud Babadoor, and nine native gentlemen ; General Sicunda Hushinah, the King of Oude's brother, and eight native gentlemen ; Moulve Musseeordeen Khan Baliadoor, Equerry to his Majesty the King of Oude ; Moon bee Mahomed Rufee, Secretary ; Jallescod Dow lah Syed Allee Khan Babadoor, aide-de-camp to his Majesty the King of Oude, 67 followers ; Capt. J. R. Brandon, interpreter to her Majesty and the Princesses of Oude ; Newab Nazier Mahomed, Jovreet Allee Khan, Meer Turzand Allee Khan, Harmusjee Berzerjee Moo dee, &c., principal officers and ladies in attendance on her Majesty. Ten native servants in attendance. The Indus may be expected on the 20th inst. CO WES, ISLE OF WIGHT.--Aug, 18. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ROYAL RURAL FETE.—The annual treat given by the Queen to the establishment at Osborne, the tenants of the estate, and the crews of the Royal yachts, is to take pace on Friday next. RIME REGATTA.—The rain and wind has cast a damp on the pleasures of the day. Few could muster courage enough to face the pitiless pelting they found themselves subject to on the pier; still there was a fine breeze for the yachts, and the Arrow and Mosquito started for the club prize of 501. The Arrow had fur some time the advantage, but unfortunately carried away her mast by the deck, and was towed in by the Mosquito. The Earl and Countess Stanhope are entertaining a select circle of friends . &t their geat,Chevening-park, near Sevenoaks.