The Sun. — London, England, 1856-06-13 00:00:00

R MAJESTY'S TH EATRE. II Madlle: PICCOLOMINI. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. THIS EVENING (Friday), June 13, will be repeated Verdi% highly successful Opera, LA TRAVIATA. ----- • - Violetta, Md lle. Piccolomini ; Alfredo, Signor Calzolari Barone Dauphol, Signor Vairo ; Dottore Grenvil, Signor Baillou ;'and Germont Giorgio, Signor B:neventano. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, by M. Paul Taglioni, Grand Pas de Deus—Mdne. Marie Taglioni, and M. Charles. Grand Pas de Deux—Mdlle. Boschetti, and M. , Vandris. "La Seguidilla"—Mdlle. Marie Taglioni and M. Charles. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. TACATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LA.NE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. ENGLISH OPERA.. THIS EVENING will be produced THE SWISS COTTAGE. After which, CINDERELLA. To conclude with MY FELLOW CLEW. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. tinder the Management of Mr. Bnekstone. VHS EVENTNG, SINGLE LIFE. Followed by THE RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF WOMAN. To conclude with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES SEAN. THIS EVENING. A PRINCE FOR AN 110ITR. After whim, TflE WINTER'S TALE. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPIII. Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EYKVING, THE FLYING DIITC LIMAN. Followed by A BOTTLE OF SMOKE. To conclude with GOOD NIGHT, SIGNOR PANTALON. ROYAL OLYWPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. Alfred Wigan. TIIIS EVENING A FASCINATING INDIVIDUAL. After which, RETRIBIT (lON. To conclude with STAY AT HOME. ROYAL SURREY TREATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Cresiviak. THIS EVENING, LITCREZIA BORGIA. To conclude with A BALLET DWERTISSEMEN". ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING Will be acted, the highly successful. new and appropriate Dramo Patriotique, the Festival of Peace. The performances will c'mmence with the Equestrian Spectacle, THE HORSE OF THE CAVERN, or the Mounted Brigands of thr: Abruzzi. . . After which, The GERMAN I3ROTIIERS, as the Doable Revolving Athletm The ACTS In the CIRCLE. To conclude with THE FESTIVAL OF PEACE ; or Honour to the Brave. Box-office open frmn F.'even ttl Fo Ir. Stage Manner, Mr. W, West. Equestrian Director, Mr. Jun. RIGEI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE,. THIS DAY—Morn. 52 min. aft. 9—Evening 25 min. aft. 10 Ta-Mcntßow—Morn. 48 min. aft.lo —Evening 16 min. aft.ll THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, JUNE 13. THERMOMETER, IN TIM SHADE. 72 —highest since noon yesterday. 61 —lowest this morning and during the night. 65 —this day at noon. BA.ROMXTER— 29.79. WIND—S. to S.W.—Rather fresh, with heavy rain. P sq., 4 4,) I , -, .., - - , A . ., , , ! •-577:---lz.:- ) :,:' , , ~...--Z,4:;4ii4,:;:: / z , ,4,,,,,,.,-_-_,_-, /~ ii' ,§mn LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1853. There has been a semi-official announcement confirmatory of the dismissal of Mr. CRAMPTON, and with him of the three English Consuls, who are alleged to have violated the spirit of the neu trality laws of the United States. Mr. DALLAS has, it is declared, communicated to Lord CLAREN DON a despatch which contains the intelligence of the final decision of the PIERCE-MARCY Cabinet, to the effect that they will hold no further diplo matic intercourse with the present Minister of England, and that the exequatur will be with drawn from the three Gentlemen whom it suits the electioneering purposes of the Candidate Presi dent also to victimise. The statements which we have recently put forward on this interesting and most important subject have been thus fully and completely verified. A wilful and deliberate in sult has been offered to the Government and people of Great Britain, and our bullying assailants must have supposed that we were gifted with an extraordinary amount of forbearance, or what they consider synonymous thereto, of paltry cowardice, if they imagined fJr a moment that the outrage could he offered with impunity. It is true that the aggression has been effec ted with complimentary expressions towards the English Government, and that it is accom panied by an intimation that Mr. DALLAS has been empowered to enter into negotiations on all points in dispute respecting Central America, and in the event of being unable to arrive at a satis factory arrangement to refer to the arbitration of an umpire jointly approved of. But we are not children to be alternately coaxed and bullied—to receive a bonbon or lump of sugar, as compensa tion for an unmerited and unjustifiable castiga tion. The doing an act of simple justice in one matter cannot be regarded as a set-off against a wanton insult in another. Whatever may be the result of the Central American difficulty, it is altogether distinct and apart from that re lating to the enlistment question. Our Cabinet repeatedly offered to submit all matters of differ ence to the arbitration of any impartial State. The just and reasonable proposition was at one time turned off with a sickly attempt at wit. At another with the arrogant declaration that there was nothing whereon to arbitrate. The Washing ton Cabinet nought to be the sole judge in its own cause, and although we may rejoice that there has been a tardy adoption of a correct course, we can not therefore submit to insult and injury on a very different question. We cannot now enter on this matter with Mr. DALLAS—which, if the PIERCE-MARey Cabinet were sincere in their professions, might lon g s i nce have been disposed of—and for a very good reason. Thd summary dismissal of Mr. CRAM P _ TON and the Consuls must lead to that of Mr. DALLAS, and the suspension of all diplomatic inter course with the present Government of the United States. Messrs. PIERCE and MARcv must have been well aware of this fact. To think otherwise would be an additional insult. The tardy offer is therefore perfectly illusory—a mere pretext to jus tify themselves for previous refusals, that must 119 condemned by every unprejudiced and right minded person on either side of the Atlantic. It has also been withheld until matters have been greatly complicated by the official recognition of the Government of the Pirate WALKER and his filibustering gang, in whose favour they have apparently suspended the neutrality laws about which they profess such extraordinary solicitude. The hollowness of the specious pretext is thus clearly and unequivocally man i fested, and reams of diplomatic correspondence cannot get rid of " the damning fact." The gross and unwarranted ineult to Mr. CRAinuroN and his Consular colleagues, and thro ugh them to the English Government, scan ds by itself, and has a prior claim to 'be disposed of. That must be settled before any other ruat'Ler can even be discussed. The Ameri can Government have recklessly and wantonly +saken tl to initiative, and they must make the antende honorable, which is absolutely indispens ' able, before we can renew our amicable relations with thos,e who have so deeply injured us. As we have already stated, the best and most efficacious mode of: redressing the grievance is by the removal from o' lee of the wrong doers. The matter rests in the hands of the electors of the United States. Let them refuse their suffrages to those who have already, for selfish and unworthy purposes; so grievously abused the sacred trusts confided to their charge. Let them select a President who possesses the feelings and can display the courtesy of a Gentleman, and who will know how to sur round himself with men of similar character. Let the notion of " whipping the Britishers" and bringing " the unnatural mother" to a sense of her situation be entirely abandoned ; or, at least, let no countenance be given to the " Hannibal Chollops " and " Waterspout Sympa thisers," who fancy that they can make the Queen of ENGLAND tremble in " her luxurious location in the Tower of London." Let them resolve to act justly themselves, and to offer no offence to others, and the friendly relations so important to both will no longer be endangered, but will even be strengthened—and, being founded on mutual advantage, rendered indissoluble. But no degree of apathy or indifference amongst the more respectable classes, no alleged friendli ness of feeling, can get over the direct acts of the Cabinet. Governments can only deal with Go vernments. We can only look to the proceedings under which we are smarting at this moment. We trust that full and satisfactory information will be afforded this evening, not only respecting what has already taken place, but of the views and intentions of the English Government. By SO doing Lord PALMERSTON will deprive the Opposition of a formidable weapon, and render unnecessary the discussion of the motion of which the Honourable Member for Inverness-shire has wiven notice. It is time that the House of Com mons aroused itself from the apathetic indifference so painfully manifested on many recent instances, and that its members should act in a manner be coming their exalted functions, and of the confi dence once reposed in them by the free and independent constituencies of the United Kingdom. The occasion is one of vital importance to the welfare and prosperity of the nation. It is one which must excite every true-hearted Englishmen into the adoption of a patriotic course, and which cannot be forgotten when the next appeal to the country brings Right Honourable and Honourable Gentlemen face to face with their respective constituencies on the hustings. The first and most important step will be the treatment of Mr. DALLAS. In this there can be no procrastination or temporising. The expulsion of Mr. CRAMPTON must be followed by his immediate dismissal. It may not altogether unreasonably be assumed there are some thorough-going Protectionists left in this country, strong-minded individuals, proof against the evidence of their senses, and nourish- ing the faith that is in them with the greater fervour because, having been rejected by every body else, they exclusively favour it. Our great naval novelist has presented the general public with a picture of a hypochondriacal old gentleman, who not the less believed himself a neglected infant because he had previously conceived him. self a balloon. And, after all, what is Protection but a species of hypochondriaism, differing from the ordinary type in the comparative fixity of de lusion it induces. In reason, Protection has no other basis than the morbid condition of those who bslieve in it, the exercise of the most ordi nary common sense sufficiently demonstrating its absurdity. Assuming then the existence of a few Protectionists among us, and giving them credit for the possession of love towards their neighbour, the tottering condition of protection in France may fairly be presutnc,l to be the sub ject to them of much anxiety and regret. By Free Traders, on the other hand, the condition in question cannot be regarded otherwise than with well warranteds atisfaction, as the prelude to a more harmonious and hopeful state of things. Unlike this country the principal monopolists in France belong to the commercial rather than the agricultural section of the community, and fur this reason—the manufacturers of France and the bourgeois class generally find most colourable motives for pinning their faith to Protection. The dread of being driven out of the markets of France by the superior energy and enter prise of their rivals in this country weighs on their minds like a nightmare, and consequently, instead of opposing energy and en terprise to energy and enterprise, they prefer confronting these qualities by an exorbitant, or rather, a prohibitory tariff—a course by no means advantageous to the growth of national prosperity. The agriculturists, or lords of the soil, on the other hand, whatever be their predilections, or in what ever way they may fancy they derive benefit from protection, are compelled to admit that it is a question to them of loss as well as of gain in which the probabilities are by no means strongly in their favour, irrespective of the knowledge they may be supposed to possess of the positive benefit the agricultural interest iu this country has hitherto derived from the introduction of Free Trade. Nothing, for instance, can well be more clear to them than that pro tection practically deprives them of the use of good agricultural implements, and compels an amount of toil not only needless fur cultivation, but also absolutely tending to restrict it. Fortu nately this class is the most numerous, and of late has met with more consideration, for obvious rea sons, than before, to which subject for congratu lation must be added the fact that in the commer cial, as well as the agricultural, world the num ber of Free-traders is gradually increasing, and already is sufficiently great to command the atten tion and influence, to some extent the decisions, of the governing power—itself supposed to be favourable to their views. The most recent proof of this, and of the totter ing condition of Protection to which we have re ferred, will be found in the Report from the Chief of the Department of Foreign Commerce just re ceived by the ; M - -nieter of Agriculture, Commerce, and Works. In this document the system of Pro tection is exploded as the relic of a past age, a system owing its present development to the lows isolation of France from this country, and. quite as mu c h intended to injure English manufacturers as to benefit French. The more immediate result of its operation was the rise of a large class o f manu factures which, it is alleged, would have perished on the return of peace had not foreign products, more especially English, been rigorously excluded. The admission is sufficiently complimentary to this country ; it may, however, be more than doubted w/aother, as wofind it urgedisour neigh bours went the right way to work. The preamble over, we arrive at the gist of the Report—namely-, a recommendation that duties be substituted for prohibition on several important products. Among the changes proposed, and which, there is good reason to believe, will be carried into effect, con sidering how affairs are now managed in France, are the admission of refined sugar (hitherto pro hibited) from the Ist of January, on payment of duties, giving an advantage to importers in French ships; also of iron chemical products, dyeing woods, soap, chicory, clay and pottery, glass, cotton and woo], raw or manufactured, silks, furs, cutlery, and hardware, at a reduced tariff. So far good. It would certainly have been more gratifying to us to have had to record a greater advance on the part of our neighbours in the development of so sound and beneficial a system as that of Free Trade ; but the process once com menced in earnest, there can be no doubt as to the ultimate result. That that will be eminently to the advantage of both countries is as certain as it will be the death-knell of Protection and the establishment of Free Trade. ARRIVAL OF THE 54TH REGIMENT FROM THE CRIMEA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The iron screw steam-ship Perseverance, Com mander John W. D. Macdonald, from Gibraltar, 7th instant, arrived in Plymouth Sound this (Friday) morning, having on board 900 men of the 54th Regiment. ARRIVAL OF THIC KING OP OUDE IN ENGLAND. His late Majesty the King of Oude landed at Folkestone yesterday evening, accompanied by his suite and E. L. Coffey, Esq. The King had arranged to sleep at the Pavilion Hotel, but hav ing had a most beautiful passage from Boulogne, his Majesty left for London by the express train of the South-Eastern Railway. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JUNE 12. In a congregation, held this afternoon, the following degrees were conferred : BAOHELOR OF DIVINITY. Rev. John M. Rice, Fellow of Magdalen College. MASTER OF ARTS. Rev. Henry Deane, 8.C.L., New College. Rev. Frederick H. Potter, Queen's. Frederick W. Walker, Scholar, Corpus. Thomas Collins, Wadham. Rev. John Hodgson, Rev. Henry J. Poole, Pembroke. Edward P. W. Baumgarten, Worcester. BACHELOR OF ARTS. John B. Medley, Exeter James B. Richey, • Sayer P. Warmoll, Lincoln. Walter Summers, Worcester. Rev. W. Prosser, Magdalen Hall. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. The vacant fellowships have been adjudged to Mr. IL Davey, of this coilege, and Mr. C. J. Faulkner, scholar, of Pembroke College. Mr. Davey obtained a double first class in moderations, and first classes in classics and mathematics, in the final examination. Mr. Faulkner obtained a mathematical first class in moderations, and first classes in mathematics and physical science, in the final examination, and also the junior and senior mathe matical scholarships. THE PRINCESS ROYAL.—A. Berlin correspondent says :—" A pretty medallion-shaped portrait of our Princess Royal, the de'tined Queen of this country, ' copied from an original photograph,' is now exposed for sale in all the print-shops, and attracts much atten tion and many purchasers. The lithograph, by Schwabe, one of the best artists here, is well executed, and ap proved of as a pleasing likeness." H.R.H. PRINCE OSCAR OF SWEDEN.—WO under. stand his Royal Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden may be expected to arrive in London on Tuesday next. A suito of apartments have been engaged for his Royal Highness at Claridge's Hotel. MONUMENT TO THE LATE KING Or PIEDMONT.—In its sitting of the 4th inst. the Senate at Turin voted unanimously the sum of 25,0001. for the monument to be et-tilted to the memory of the late King Charles Albert, the execution of which is entrusted to the emi nent sculptor Baron Marochetti. The Ammon, the first of a new line of transatlantic steamers in connexion with the city of Hamburg, arrived at Southampton yesterday. THE INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE.—Subscriptions in aid of the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the inunda tions in France are about to be made in Liverpool under the auspices of the Mayor, Mr. Stewart. THE LONDON ROWING CLUB.—AII the gentlemen who rowed at Henley as Argonauts, on the 9th and 10th inst., are members of the Lon lon Rowing Club, but were obliged to enter under the above name, as the London Rowing Club has not been in existence one year. We understand that the Attorney-General has pre sented a petition to the Lord Chancellor praying that Mr. W. W. Ward may be " exon , Tated" from his office as on© of the coroners for this county. Mr. Ward will be heard in opposition to the application in the course of a short time.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. VESSELS AND TONNAGE.—By a parliamentary return issued yesterday of the number of vessels and tonnage entered inwards and cleared nut - wards at the twelve principal ports of the United Kingdom during the year 1855, it appears that 24,006 vessels of 6,372,301 ton nage entered inwards, and 22,863 vessels of 6,426,566 tonnage cleared outwards. The Government of the canton of Grisons has resolved to demand the separation of the parish of Poschiavo, ❑otwitha,tanding the opposition of its clergy, from the bishopric of Como. The Catholic commune of Brusio, the separation of which has also been contemplated, has appealed t the Federal C suncil to prevent it, declaring that the measure shall never receive its consent. PRESENTATION OF FRENCH MEDALS TO THE BRITISH TRoors.—On the 24th of May the English army in the Cilium celebrated with much pump the anniversary of the birthday of Quee❑ Victoria. Marshal PiSlissier and the superior Stall of the French army were praent at this celebration, which derived peculiar interest from the presentation to the British troops of the military medals granted to them by the Emperor Napoleon. RUSSIAN COMMERCE.—The following paragraph ap pear in the Sieele :..."Ru:sian commerce is about, it is said, to assume unprecedented proportions. Nine of the principal merchants of St. Petersburg, Odes9a, and Moscow have just obtained permission from the Czar to establish branch houses in Paris, London, Vienna, Mai Bellies, Constantinople, Naples, New York, Lisbon, and Rio de Janeiro." UNIFORMITY OF PRACTICE IN THE CHANCERY COURTS.-At Vice•Chaneellcr's S:uart's Chambers ail summonses and orders must have the stamp impressed, not adhesive. At Vice• Chancellor Wood's Chambers, on orders, adhesive stamps only are used. At the Rolls and at Vice-Chancellor Kindersley's Chambers, either adhesive or impressed stamps may be used, but the latter are preferred. THE WELLINGTON FUNERAL CAR.—The public exhibi tion of the car used on the occasion of the funeral of the 1 ste Duke of Wellington costs the country 901. a-year. It is exhibited at Chelsea Hospital, and the sum charged is for the salary, &c., of the persons who have the care of it. The amount is not included in the civil service estimates, but in those granted for various public ser vices. It was agreed to last night. ADVIRALTY LEVEE.—Sir C. Wood, asFirst Lord, held his second levee yesterday, at the Admiralty, at which the following officers were present :—Admiral Sir Chas. Ogle, and Rear-Admiral Sir F. Pellew. Captains—J. W. Noble, W. Ellis, W. B. 011iver, J. Thompson, Wrn. J. S. Pullen, F. F. Birch, C. Edmunds, M. M. Wroat, G. F. B. Wainwright, C. J. F. Evart, W. Edmonstone. Commanders—A. N. Fairmau, J. M. Cooke, J. C. Pit man, F. A. Ellis, C. W. Bonham, J. C. Byng, W. P. Crozier, J. G. Mackenzie, T. Mitchell, and J. M. Lang try ; Lieut. E. Maunsell, and Major• General Coryton, of the Royal Marines. FATAL - ACCIDENT ON THE THAMES.—On Wednesday last a number of the Grenadier Guards' band, who are now quartered at Windsor, to play before the Court at the Castle, during the race week, had been on a rowing excursion to Magna Charter Island ; the party occu pied three boats ; on their return home, and just as they had reached that portion of the Thames which ekirts the Home park, by Albert•bridge, the last boat, in which there were only two rowers, capsized. Mr. Ingram, her Majesty's head gardener, seeing the acci dent, called to the other boats, which promptly re turned, and ono of the young men managed to cling to his boat until lie was rescued, but his companion, a fine young fellow of 18, of promising talent, not being able to swim or reach the boat, was unfortunately drowned. The name of the deceased was Bushby, that of his more fortunate companion Gay. It is only due to the party to state that they were all perfectly sober. The de- ceased will be buried with military honour, - ., when all the band will attend. ROYAL CON MISSION OF THE PATRIOTIC FUND,---In consequence of the termination of the war, and the pressure of other public business, Lord St. Leonardo tendered his resignation as a member of the Executive and Finance Committee of the Patriotic Fund. The Royal Commissioners in accepting it, passed the follow ing resolution unanimously :—" The Royal Commis sioners desire to express their regret that Lord St. Leonards is unable to continue to give them the benefit of his valuable services as chairman of the Executive and Finance Committee, and at the same time to tender to him their best thanks for the great zeal and ability with which he has hitherto discharged the duties of that office." The Right Hou. Lord Colchester having consented to act as a member of that ; rcirnittee, was duly appointed. The Executive and ina nceeornmittee, at a meeting held on the 11th inst., elected Lord Colhester as- their '6hairman, ana passed a resolution expte,sie.l their regret at losing the advan tages of the clear judgment and great experience of the Right lon. Lord St, Leonards. LATEST NEWS. BERLIN, Jum 12. The Emperor Alexander has arrived at Riga. The population of the town and the surrounding country were assembled and received his Majesty with the most enthusiastic acclamations. OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (From the Second Edition of the Times.) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, MAY 31. If the army continues healthy it is, under Heaven, owing to the great care which is taken of the men, and above all to the moderate tempera ture which has prevailed for the last week, notwith standing the sirocco, which has blown at least a hot, warm, fever-compelling, irritating-dust-driving wind from the north has lasted so long. The thermo meter has rarely risen a degree above 84, and the average may be set down at 78 deg. in the shade. Every one is anxious to get away—the infection of moving off is spreading rapidly. No wonder. The plateau is like a dirty Aldershott now that one knows every in and out of Bakshi Serai, Simphe ropol, and the south coast—has poked about every northern fort, examined every ruined battery, and counted every embrasure between Constantine and Mangup-Kale. One trace of our presence is fast disappearing— I mean the railroad, the plant of which has been sold to the Turkish Government. The rails to the Sardinian camp have been removed by the Army Works Corps, and the same body is now engaged taking up the main line from the camp. There are only 400 of them in the Crimea. A party of these are engaged in raising some fine Russian anchors at Careening Bay. The army is well drilled, and the fine weather is adapted for field days and manoeuvring and is made the most of. Lord. Gough has not yet arrived, but he was at Constantinople we hear on Thursday. I am credibly informed that the French army buried 23,000 men in the Crimea this winter alone. Exclusive of that enormous item, our losses and theirs are very nearly in proportion. Out of 200,000 men they lost more than 40,000. In our army of 97,000 men we lost upwards of 20,000. Of course neither French nor English ever bad such a number of men together at any one time ; these figures relate to the total number of men landed from time to time in the enemy's country. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The following circular has been addressed by the Minister of War to the Generals in command of the different military divisions : "Paris, 9th June. "General,—At the news of the disasters caused by the inundations subscriptions were opened for the assist ance of the sufferers. It is proper that soldiers of all ranks who may wish to unite in this generous movement should have every facility given them for so doing, but without any compulsion being exercised, or any superior authority interfering to increase the amount of the sub scriptions. It is particularly important that the soldier, whose resources are so reEtricted, should not consider himself compelled to impose p►ivations on himself. I beg you to address recommendations to this effect to the commanding officers of regiments, and .they will take such measures as they may think proper for collecting the offerings, which will be paid into the bands of the agents of the civil administration charged in each locality to centralise the subscriptions.—Accept, " VAILLANT." A circular to the same purport has been addressed by the Minister of Marine to the maritime prefects at the different ports ; and Marshal Pelissier has signified his intention to open a subscription among the army of the East, The Mouiteur says that the rumour of a loan has no foundation. The Paris Bourse will be closed to-morrow (Sa turday.) The Emperor has given 600,030 f. out of his pri vate cassette to the sufferers from the inundations of the Rhone and Loire. The Moniteur de l' Armee states that since June 1 the "army of the East" has assumed the desig nation of the " army of Paris." THE BOURSE, June 12.—The following were the closing quotations Cash. tr. e. End otAlonth. 46 per Cents 43 60 —f. —a. 3 par Cents 7O 80 71 30 New Loan 7l 23 _ _ Bank Shares 4,025 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,805 Austrian Belgian Five, 974— Spanish Threes 46 Piedmontose(s) _ 92 50 Home Debt 42 RAILWAYS-FOIL CA.Eifl. It. c. fr. 0, ortesns ........ Northern Lyons Mediterranean 1,700 Grand Central Lyons Geneva BOO Teste Cette 775 Austrian Com. 895 PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, in the Debats, states : "Much discontent is felt here at seeing Russia respond so slightly to the hopes which she had given birth to during the war. In order to facili tate the land transit during the blockade she had suppressed several obstacles prejudicial to Prussian commerce, and had gained the sympathies of Prus sia by leading to the supposition that other conces sions would follow at the conclusion of peace. Now that the war is terminated, the Russian Go vernment has entirely re-established the former status quo ; and the Russian embassy announces in the journals that people intending to travel in Poland and Russia must be supplied with certifi cates of their political morality. With the excep tion of this the relations between our court and that of Russia were never more friendly and inti mate. The two Governments Are more than ever convinced that whatever circumstances may iu future arise in Europe, they will only find a cer tain salvation in the strong alliance of Prussia and Russia." PIEDMONT. The Risorgimento of Turin, of the 9th, announces that subscriptions have been opened in every part of Piedmont for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations in France. In its sitting of the 7th the Piedmontese Senate voted the Ivrea and Chivasso Railway Bill, and another for the levy of 13,090 men on the class of 1835. NAPLES. A letter from Paris to the Augsburg Gazette con tains the following :—" I am in a measure able to inform you of the authentic contents of the note addressed by France and England to the Neapo litan government. This note has for object to prevail on the King of Naples to place some limit on the arbitrary character of his administration of penal justice since the events of 1848 ; in a word, the reforms recommended by the Wes tern Cabinets are solely those connected with judicial matters. These cabinets declare that their diplomatic intervention on this point is prompted by the necessity of preserving the tran quillity of Europe menaced by the fermentation which exists in the kingdom of Naples, and spreads over the whole peninsula. Although this note has not the character of an ultimatum, yet it clearly implies that in the event of no attention being paid to the counsels of the Western Powers, the latter may be prompted to recall their Ministers, and to replace them by chargds d'affaires. What leads to the hope that this step will prove successful is the fact that Austria approves of the measures adopted by the West ern Powers. It was in consequence of the near relationship existing between the two courts that the Austrian Cabinet did not present an iden tical note to that of France and England, although it approved the principle which theirs advocated. The Austrian Minister at Naples has received orders to urge strongly the true sentiments of the Court of Vienna without concealment ; and to add that hithert) Austria has not adopted an attitude of friendly intervention to lessen the complications between the Court of Naples and the Western Powers ; but that, if the Neapolitan Government does not facilitate the neutral position of Austria by wise concessions, the latter will be compelled to place herself on th e side of the allies." The Austrian, Correspondence states from Trieste that the adjutant of Prince Danilo has arrived there with a quantity of splendid arms destined to be offered to the Emperor Napoleon. SPAIN. The contents of the Madrid journals of the 7th are not of importance. The Gazette contains a royal decree regulating the formalities to be ob served in the issue of what are called " shares of the royal routes" to the amount of 34,000,000 reals and at 6 per cent., as authorised by the law on the budget of 25th July l a st. Gen. Serrano had taken possession of the Captaincy-General of Madrid. The King of Portugal arrived at Malaga on the 2d, and was to embark in the Mindello for Lis bon. No fewer than 4,500 men are employed on the railway from Seville to Cordon. A fall in the price of wheat ha .1 taken place in the Madrid market. A. letter says :---" The vote in the Cortes yesterday is considered a great triumph for Minis ters. The pure Progressists; and the Democrats continue to make fierce war on the Minister of War, but his presence is the ministry is considered by men of sense of all parties as a guarantee for liberty. General Alesson has been nominated civil and military governor of the Philippine Islands. The government has received information that General Almonte, who has been residing at Paris, has been nominated representative of Mexico at this court. In the Cortes to-day the government withdrew the bill for modifying the law which excludes certain placeholderes from par liament." A letter from Galatz states that the interna- tional commission to regularise the limits of Bess arabia has now completely suspended its sittings, in consequence ,of the protest of Russia against Mublis Pacha (George Stourdza). Nothing is known as to when it is to resume its labours. The Piedmontese Gazette states that on the 30th ult. General Dabormida, lately entrusted with a special mission to the Emperor of Russia, arrived at Berlin, had an interview with Baron Manteuffel, and on the following day had the honour of an au dience of the King of Prussia, who invited him to a ball for that evening at Potsdam. The new constitution of the canton of Soleure has just been adopted by 8,188 votes to 2,254. The total number of voters being 15,580, the number of those who have abstained is 5,138. The German Journal of Frankfort contains the following :—" It is affirmed that several members of the most distinguished families of Bohemia are endeavouring to come to an understanding on an addiess to be presented to the Emperor. It is intended to demand the re-establishment of the States of the Kingdom with various modifications in conformity with the spirit of the age, and of a nature to give to the country a more genuine re presentation than that offered by the purely con sultative assemblies which it is proposed to establish in the various provinces of the Austrian empire." BANK OF FRANCE. The following was the situation of the Bank on Thursday, June 12 : CR. Fr. c. Cash and ingots Cash at the branch banks Bills due yesterday to be paid to•day 563,726 19 Bills becoming due in Paris Bills in the branch banks Advances on coin and ingots Do. in the branch banks Do. on public securities of France 106,087,936 10 Do. in the branch banks Do. on railway shares and bonds 42,206,400 Do. in the branch banks Do. to the State by treaty of June 30, 1848 Advances on Treasury bills 40,000,000 Rentes of the reserve fund 12,980,750 14 Rentes of disposable funds 52,190,792 93 Hotel and furniture of the Bank Real property of branch banks Expenses of administration 2,817,942 31 Premiums on the purchase of matihres 699,423 75 Sundries 78,951 91 1,028,525,726 4 DR. Capital Reserve fund 12,980,750 14 Reserve iminobiliere 4,000,000 Notes to bearer, in circulation Do. of branch banks 77,114,150 Do. to order (Post bills) Bills payable at sight Account-current of Treasury Creditor 103,469,181 66 Various accounts-current Do. branch banks 28,739,529 -- Dividends to be paid Discount, interest, and expenses Charge for safe keeping of securities 62,519 30 Re-discounts of the last half-year Overdue bills Sundries 1,028,525,726 4 PREVIOUS MONTH'S RETURN. CR. Fr. c. Cash and ingots Cash at the branch banks 168,729,617 Bills due yesterday to be paid to•day 711,697 28 Bills becoming due in Paris Bills in the branch banks Advances on coin and ingots Do. in the branch banks Do. on public securities of France 99,850,536 10 Do. in the branch banks Do. on railway shares and bonds 40,381,400 Do. in the branch banks Do. to the State by treaty of June 30, 1848 60,000,000 Advances on Treasury bills Rentes of the reserve fund 12,980,750 14 Rentes of disposable funds 52,190,792 93 Hotel and furniture of the Bank 4,000,000 Real property of branch banks 5,232,304 Expenses of administration 1,489,795 97 Premiums on the purchase of matibres 2,345,464 61 Sundries 78,247 11 1,055,173,487 12 DR. Capital 91,250,000 Reserve fund 12,980,750 14 Reserve immobiliere Notes to bearer, in circulation Do. of branch banks 91,814,750 -- Do. to order (Post bills) Bills payable at sight . 4,269,384 Account-current of Treasury Creditor 90,956,251 39 Various accounts-current 169,666,891 33 Do. branch banks 26,047,397 -- Dividends to be paid 556,653 25 Discount, interest, and expenses Charge for safe keeping of securities 45,277 55 Re-discounts of the last half-year Overdue bills 45,569 47 Sundries 7,788,963 33 1,055,173,487 12 THE FRENCH INUNDATION RELIEF FUND. h The French Minister of Finance has issued a circular, in which he states that, although subscrip- tions to the Inundation Relief Fund may be paid in through the receivers of the revenue, it is not the intention of Government that this channel for transmitting them should be adopted to the exclu sion of others which the subscribers might prefer ; on the contrary, it will be desirable to spare the officers of the revenue department that respon sibility as much as possible. The formation of lists of the contributors' names will not imply that all who contribute must consent to make their names known ; they may, if they please, be entered as " anonymous," and the different societies or companies, which send in subscriptions collected by them, will at their own discretion either give the names of the subscribers individually, or set down the total in a lump. The subscription lists will ultimately be published in the Monitettr, on the authority of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of State. The circular, which is addressed to the receivers of revenue, concludes by expressing the minister's confident reliance upon their willing aid in promoting, by all the means in th e i r p ower , th ose b enevo l en t ef forts which cannot fail to be occasioned by circum stances so grave as the present, and by calamities so worthy of universal compassion. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TURKEY.—We find in yes- I terday's Moniteur this paragraph Imperial Majesty the Sultan has caused to be remitted to the Minister of the French empire for Foreign Affairs, through his Excellency the Turkish ambassador, the sum of 40,000 francs for the population of those districts in France which have suffered from the inundations. The Turkish ambassador and the Sultan's subjects residing at Paris have added to it the sum of 3,502 francs. AMERICA AND FRANCE. The Paris correspondent of the Times (Second Edition) in his letter dated yesterday says : " A. private letter from Washington mentions, among other thing's; that the American Government are anxious to ascertain the disposition of the French Government, or rather of the French Emperor, under these circum stances, and what part, if any, they will he likely to take in our quarrel. The Washington Cabinet is inclined to believe that France will maintain strict neutrality in the event of war breaking out ; and, in fact, that she will not draw the sword so long as the honour of France remains untouched. In truth, I believe the opi nion of that. Cabinet to be, that, even were France dis posed to do otherwise, she cannot do so. The eagerness with which she accepted peace with Russia is well known and appreciated at Washington, and the expla nation of that desire is in her comparative exhaustion from offensive warfare. The terrible catastrophe of the inundations, which ,have laid waste more than 15 departments ; the probability of scarcity occurring for the third year consecutively ; the mania of speculation which is so enormously developed in the country ; and the gigantic but unsafe projects of the Crddit Mobilier, which must inevitably lead to a fearful commercial crisis ; even the fact of the great outlay necessary to keep down the price of bread in Paris at the cost of the rest of France ; the pos'ible exigen cies of other great towns should the apprehended scarcity and consequent dearness of food be realised, and the general discontent produced by those con curring circumstances, are, I have reason to believe, duly weighed by the Cabinet of Washington in the conclusion it may draw of the impossibility of France taking an active part wits England. What weight ought to be attached to these considerations, and howithey may be justified by events, it is not for me to say ; but, for one reason or the other, it is be lieved at the other side of the Atlantic that, if battle there be we shall have to fight it by ouraelYeo.': LITERATURE. History of Europe from 1815 to 1852: from the Fail of Napoleon to the Accession of Louis Na poleon. By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., D.C.L. Vol. V. Blackwood and Sons. Another volume will bring Sir Archibald to the completion of his extraordinary undertaking. Twenty large octavos (library edition) will then re main, from that time forth, ranged in perpetuity upon the national bookshelves, as the magnificent contribution made by Alison to our treasures of historic literature. Nineteen of those volumes are already in our possession. Nineteen volumes— symmetrical and comprehensive, eloquent and pic turesque—comprising the annals of the European Family of Nations from the first outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 down to a period im mediately contemporaneous! Fourteen dedicated to the earlier and more laborious enterprise, that of recording the events succeeding the grand political " mindquake " which brought the last century to an end with such au astounding disruption at once of social order and of kingly government, down to the termination of the first Napoleonic Empire with the exile of the greatest man of modern times to a remote and miserable rock in the Atlantic. Five already devoted to the supplementary project by which Sir Archibald boldly resolved upon con , tinuina the chain of events down to a date, compa ratively speaking, but as yesterday in the annals of the E uropeanpopulation. Another volume—asabove intimated will bring to a close this voluminous and eminently remarkable publication. The penulti mate octavo of the score—but just now submitted to our scrutiny—carries us onward in the current of European history, so far as England is concerned, down to 1834, so far as France is concerned down to 1837, so far as Turkey, Greece, and Egypt are concerned down to 1841, so far as Germany is con cerned down to 1848. The particular portion of the work devoted to the historical fortunes of Great Britain closing with the downfall of Lord Grey's Administration I That referring to France, to the failure of Count Mole's Government I That relat ing to the more eastern countries, to the signing of the treaty of Adrianople ! That bearing upon the progress of the Germanic Confederation, to the last great epoch of revolutionary convulsions when de mocracy unfurled for one illusive interval the black-red-and-gold tricolor of an united Father land ! Associated with this last-mentioned divi sion of the great composite history of Sir Archi bald Alison is a very masterly section (chapter xxviii.) comprising a resume of the situation of Ger many during the first half of the present century. At the outet of this really charming and most attractive series of succinct and epitomised criticisms upon most of the great writers of Germany from Giiethe and Schiller to Grillparzer and Freiligrath it is ingeniously remarked by Alison, in extenua tion apparently of the imitative character first ob servable in German, as in every other new-born, literature that—" the Greeks themselves gifted beyond any other people that ever existed with original genius, copied in the outset from the Per sians and Egyptians," adding, " the marbles of Lycia and ecEgina preceded the Parthenon." Al though strictly speaking the "national " literature of Germany did not, as Sir Archibald himself ob serves, commence in any recognisable form until about the middle of the eighteenth century, Ger many, as he previously takes occasion to intimate, assumed, immediately upon the revival of letters, an honourable rank both in the exact sciences and in scholarship. It was the land, remember, which gave to the world the art of printing and the dis covery of gunpowder ! It was the country of Sea liger and Erasmus, and, as such, one of very con siderable importance in the records of philology ! It was the home of Kepler and 'of Leibnitz—of Leibnitz who was the competitor of Newton, and of Kepler who was the riv a l o f G a lil eo —L e ibnitz the Crichton of Natural Philosophy, and Kepler, that wonderful Kepler, who could boast without profanity, because so truthfully and so sublimely, " I may well be a century without a reader, since God Almighty has 'ken six thousand years without an observer !" Germany, moreover, has more of those elder claims upon the intellectual honour and gratitude of humanity in the circumstance that Tycho Brahe was among the number of her sons, and that to Thorn, in Prussian Poland, appertains the glory of having given birth to Copernicus. Notwithstanding all which, German Genius Pro per, or, otherwise to express it, National, did not virtually arise until, as Sir Archibald Alison re marks, somewhere about midway in the last cen tury. Then first in point of time, in regard to the Drama , came. Lessing—and in regard to Art, came Winkelman. Afterwards a mightier genius appeared in Wieland, whose " Oberon" seemed to bring him into comparison with Ariosto, whose " Don Sylvio" combined, says our author, " the delicate satire of I' Don Quixote' with the imagery of the Arabian Nights,' " and who presented to the gaze of the world a picture, "sometimes too seductive,",of the age of Cyrus the younger, of Aspasia, and of Alcibiades. A little later arose " the greatest writer of Germany," that wonder working Goethe, whose name is brought by Alison very strangely into juxtaposition with those of Homer and Shakspere—and Sir Walter Scott and Cervantes ! Hardly too much, however, could well be uttered in homage of the colossal and many-sided (rid seitig) Genius to whom mankind are indebted for the grotesque drama of " Faust," for the sensuous romance of " Werther," for the metaphysical biography of " 'Wilhelm Meister," for " Egmont," fur " Tasso," for " Ipheginia," for the exquisite idyl of "Herman and Dorothea," and for his own poetic-autobiography. Second to Goethe came Schiller—second both in the time of his advent and in the grasp of his intellect. Schiller, now the lyrist, now the dramatist, now the an nalist, but always the Poet. Elopstock has due regard paid to him by our critic-historian—whose admiration for his capacity does not preclude him, however, from declaring that the " Messiah" is heavy reading enough,' and for this reason, that it is altogether too much in nubibus ! Reference follows immediately afterwards to the most na tional, if not the most varied, of all the poets of Germany, according to Sir Archibald's opinion— Oehlenschlager. Another of the same school, Grill parzer, is described as "not less national in his feelings or graphic in his descriptions, though more modified by the ideas of Southern Europe and the literature of antiquity." En avant ! cries Alison to Frederick Salom, author of " Der Sohn der Waldniss." A bas ! saith he to the shade of Kotzebue—whose celebrity he regards as chiefly the result of mere theatrical effect and pantomime. As the direct antithesis of the last-mentioned, Werner is then particularised as a dramatist of very rare accomplishments—though one rather fitted for perusal in the closet than for representa tion upon the sta,ge, and this from his total indif ference to anything at all like coups de theatre. The Teutonic .iEsop Tieck seems to be regarded by our author with mingled sentiments of surprise and amazement, as a writer with a veritably real, though strictly fabulous, reputation ! Korner, on the other hand, is earnestly eulogised as the genuine " Tyrt:eus of Fatherland." Burger's powers as a balladrnonger, Freiligrath's cosmopolitan lyrics, Uhland's strictly domestic or home-pictures, luck &ids amatory euphuisms, liedwitz with his eigh teen editions of the "Amaranth," Kinkel with his fairy tale of "Margaret "—each is rendered the theme of appropriate and, for the most part, of appreciative commendation. Then comes a com prehensive survey of the chief prose writers of Germany beginning with Niebuhr, that arch-sceptic among historians ! lieeren, with his annals of the Assyrians, the Persians, the Egyptians, and the Carthagenians ; Miller with his history of Switzerland ; Von _Hammer with his records of the rise and development of Turkey ; herder with his disquisitions on the "Poetry of the Jews," and upon the " Philosophy of History ;" Schlosser, in some sort himself the rival of Alison, as the annalist of Europe during the recent and the present century ; Schlegel with his ingenious aesthetics and Clausewitz with his military prelec tions—all pass before us, one by one in stately pro cession. The German novelists follow--the Coun tess Hahn-Hahn, the bijou among whose writings seems to be, in Sir Archibald's estimation, her little volume " Ave Maria ; " Bak/ander, remind ing one, says Alison, of Dickens by his pathetic power and graphic descriptions, and of Bulwer " in the evolving of his story when to all appearance hopelessly complicated ;" Andersen the fairy-story teller ; and to crown all Richter, Jean Paul Rich ter, in regard to whose manifold productions, sug gests the Historian of Europe—" A work of the size of Bacon's 'Essays, containing a selection of his o bservations and apophthegms, would be of the highest interest, and, like the maxims of Laroche foucauld, acquire a universal reputation." A hint, we take it, not unworthy of the attention of Mr. Bohn, and one we would earnestly commend to his consideration. Already we have tarried so long over this most interesting disquisition, by Sir Archibald Alison upon, the genius of Germany, that we are precluded from any detailed analysis of the subsequent reference made by our author to the philosophic powers of that realm of thought as revealed in Kant, Fichte, Jacobi, and Schelling—or to its artistic powers as displayed by Kiss, Danneker, and Thorwaldsen—or to its mu sical powers as manifested magnificently in the melodious outpourings of the master minds of Beethoven,Mozart, Haydn, Handel, Spolrr, Gliick, acid Mendelssohn ! The nature of the historical portions of the volume under review, we have al ready briefly btit sufficiently indicated. Their perusal will prove them to be, in many particulars, as captivating as a poem, and as enth ra lli ng as a romance. Incidents of an extraordinary character are net wanting to lend, a churn to the xkarratiye ; and those incidents are many of them related with a thrilling and picturesque eloquence worthy of one whose muse is the muse of the Scroll and the Trumpet. In regard to Germany, there are the assassination of the diplomatic poet Kotzebue, the death of Frederick William 111. of Prussia, the death of Francis I. of Austria, contemporary sove reigns, the latter the father-in-law, of Napoleon Iu regard to France there are the revolt of the Cloister of St. Meri (June, 1832), the death of the Duke de Reichstadt, the death of Lafayette, ana the rise of Larnartine ! In regard to Englan d. the popular agitation about reform, the popular ovation of Lord Brougham, the popular assault on the Duke of 'Wellington. And so on. The volume seizes upon our attention at its commencement, and allows it to wane scarcely for an instant throughout, turning page after page to the 689th, at which it terminates. Already therefore—seeing that but one other volume has to follow—we may offer our congratulations to Sir Archibald Alison upon the proximate realisation of the magnificent and beau tiful day-dream of his ambition, that of recording, in twenty substantial octavos, the annals of the most momentous epoch in the world's history since the dawn of Christianity. Veiled Hearts. A Novel. By the Author of " The Wife's Trials." 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This story describes the minutiae of domestic life, exemplifying the harassing vexations, the thousand annoyances, and the wearing anxieties that are its greatest troubles. Mystery is shown as one of the chief evils. It is not often that any family can trace among its chronicles such depth of duplieith or such eventful circumstances as were to be seen in the circles here introduced to our notice, but the principle is the same, and the characters are likely to belong to the actions a con s ummation not always attained in the details of a plot. Gerald Blaymore is the picture of what a weak vacillating disposition may become. He had no evil inters' tions, but he perpetrated more harm than mall ill-disposed could have effected. He captivated eo within the sphere of his society, and then, without considering the consequences, he her " ried himself and them to ruin. Even 11 ! ' his conduct with regard to Minni e h e was Ow heartless in the real and true acceptation o f the term, although he deserved to be called so. it offered a striking instance of the truth that " E/L: is wrought by want of thought, as well as by wan' of heart." Although really the least sinful of the three, Edith displayed more faults of temper and real deficiencies in right feeling and sentiment, that the three others. Minnie, roused at last by th e cruel neglect she experienced, contri ve d to suppor t herself. Gerald did feel the stings of remorse and the pangs of conscience, but Edith seemed imPer" vious to all but herself and her own wounded pride and offended dignity. Her sad life and We lancholy death were proofs that she had not led an existence that fulfilled any end or answered ant purpose. The only person she really cared for wan Gerald, after her own fashion, and that was selfis h in the extreme. The most pleasing part of the story is that which relates to M a rgaret, or " Maggy," as she was called generally. Sh,e_ il a sweet and gentle character, yet truthful and fires when occasion demanded. However, as it is he r , childhood that is principally describ e d, she is 11 1 3 ," so prominent a feature in the nar r ative as Edith and Minnie. Percy Rochedale is full of promise in his spirit and generosity ; like Margaret, holt" ever, he is in early youth, and ther e f o re more is shadowed than shown. No one can doubt that the future of their careers will be very different to that of their relations, for they had principle to be their guide, instead of passion to be their influence, at they shunned the allurements of fancy, while in all sincerity they walked in the light of reason' The Clevelands are excellent persons, and fa 0 1; what good may be done with moderate means, 1 ; their possessors follow the dictates of their kin' hearts and upright minds. Miss Dunsford fur" nishes an example of the harm of bringing UP young persons too strictly, and thus preventing them from learning life in its true colours, till they rush heedlessly into all sorts of temptations, to varl the monotony of their days, when once freed fron t restraint. On the whole, " Veiled Hearts" is a fair specimen of what mieery can be occasioned by - want of sympathy, and the absence of self-contro l • It dwells on many painful scenes which are the re sults of human faults, more than the consequenc es of the dispensations of Providence. It shows the sufferings thus occasioned to be the bitterest to en dure, and it describes the painful feelings with. genuine simplicity, an earnestness, and truthful uess that render them doubly effective. BOOKS ON THE WAR. Ismeer. I. Vol. James Madden. An Epitome of the War, by Shirley Hibbard. James Black wood. A History of the Turks, by J. Gilchrist. J. Blackwood. The Camp Club, edited by Car tain Curling. Skeet. Life in the Trenches, by M ijor Whitworth Porter. Longman. Though the war has now ceased, the narratives and histories relating to it have not apparently lost their interest. Several volumes have recently been issued on various topics, all of them in some WI connected with the recent events in the Ea s t ' Though there has been no scarcity of books of his ; tory, travel, and narrative since the opening hostilities, independently of more political visalk!,l there would seem to remain something to be sa id by those who have taken a part in those events which excited so much attention at the time, a nd • have now become a matter of history. The first °f these is on a subject which is sure to arouse the interest of its readers, being a narrative of the ail department which did not excite public indigna tion by its tardiness and mismanagement. jt is entitled " Tsmeer, or Smyrna and its British -11% pital in 1855, by a Lady." The author is one tl` the band of volunteers who went to Smyrna in t he spring of 1855, and she gives us a very interesting record of her experiences. There is nothing 1 30 . f„ hips that the reader has not heard of before r - some form or another, but the little details of d all y life in the hospital and the narratives of the suff er .: ing soldiers have not lost their interest with th e t novelty. It is written in a simple and straigh t ' forward manner. There are some verses 'writ ten ' by the patients, which, considering the cirentui stances, are really meritorious. "An Epitorne o f the War from its Outbreak to its Close" is a book ° a different description and of a political c haracter' It takes a review of " the historical, geographie ai ; ',, and political facts of the whole case, and an analy sis of the strategy and acts of the belligerent powe r 7, and of the elements of the Peace." Those Wil e wish to take a complete review of the wit° eventful period, uninfluenced by party Prei e ; dices, will find a clear, concise, and intelligen_ narrative in the work before us, where the auth or does not intrude his opinions on the reader, h° contents himself with recording facts. " A 1 4 1 tory of the Turks," by John Gilchrist, is a boo k offering considerable attractions to those who d e sire to acquaint themselves with the chief event s of Turkish annals without the trouble of pertun°4 a dry or lengthy history. The author's design' informs us in the preface, has been to give e .. . 1131- pendious information as well as to produce a re t . ' able book. In few histories, he remarks, is im; ascent to power and the subsequent decline P - - easily marked, and in few histories are there Illw r „, romantic and poetic elements to give vividueo° and interest to its records. It is in a single volume in clear type, and carries the history fronc,tf: time of Othman down to the siege of Kars. 'ln Camp Club in the Crimea is a collection Stories from the Tent and Trenches," which, t b . ; ' say the truth, have very little connection with th e camp, and might easily have a more appropri a t e if a less captivating title ; nevertheless it conta ins an amusing collection for the lovers of the humeP . ous, and will no doubt furnish entertainment some among its readers. "Life in the Trenches' ~ 1 ., a work of a higher class. It is from the pen , Major in the Royal Engineers, and gives a eb°` c i and simple record of what he saw and suffer ' before Sebastopol. The publication of his vie_ r e has, he tells us, been delayed, as while the si e gf was still continuing he feared the publication ° £ his narrative might be injudicious. Now,, h ° !„,i ever, that the siege and the war have terronler ol together, the objection is removed, and he 4 ` - , furnished the public with some new and interes ting details, which have the attraction of authentic it y He hasi carefully refrained, however, frl expressing any opinion on the managenien of the war, as he considers it unbecoming in a soldier to criticise the conduct of his superio rs. However, the reader may draw his own inference; though the writer has act e d u p to his id eas of military duty and written with grea t circuresP: i, tion. The style is simple and soldierlike, ancl pn apology at the beginning th a t hi s hand has been taught to wield a swor d an d no t a pen , is not like,l.. to be required by the reader. The minor detells from the pen o f au e y e - w it ness are p ec uliarly val u b a e ble, as they have hitherto generally related t more active life in the camp and the battles, the:. fore the record of the humbler, but not less portant, toils in the trenches are not without some. novelty as well as interest. THE INDIGENT BLIND SOCIETY. —Yesterday th© 21 , 1 : nual meeting of the above institution was held at London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill ; Lord Radstock 111 the chair. The report stated that the inmates core prised 76 males and 77 females, all of whom were earl ployed in acquiring such knowledge of some eee fu trade as would enable them hereafter to earn a liveli hood, or at least save them from becoming entire bur' dens to their friends. The proceeds of goods sold to the public and received for the use of the house exceeded during the past year 1,1001. The receipts for the year had been 5,7111. and the expenditure 8,859/. The port was adopted. ?Ito 00] The 1 with a m hut not i •500 f Th e d ealers 4e eounl e tno vea rato L aticas a id C( Ausi bitt C THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EV.pNINtli JUNE 13, 1856, `..m...............