The Sun. — London, England, 1854-09-23 00:00:00

TO SUBDUE SMOKE : being Popular 11 Information on various Practicable Means; with Compara tive Results, and a Few Words about Fuel. Inclading an examination of the respective systems adopted by JLTKES, HAZELDINE, PRIDEAUX, 13RISTOW and Arrwooo, CualvrE,B, LEE STEVENS, ROBERTSON, and JABRAB.D. London: Effingham Wilson, 11. Royal Exchange ; Edward Stan ford, 6, Charing-Cross. Price Sixpence ; and remitted by post on receipt of eight postage-stamps. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.- Mr. E. T. SMITH respectfully informs his friends and the Public admirers of Mr. G. V. BROOKE that he has engaged that eminent artiste to perform for Seven Nights only, prior to ills depar ture for Australia. Mr. G. V. BROOKE will appear on Monday, October 2d, in VIRGINIUS. Tuesday, 3d, in THE STRANGER. Wednesday, 4th, in RICHARD THE THIRD. Thursday, sth, in THE LADY OF LYONS. Friday, 6th, in OTHELLO. Saturday, 7th, in HAMLET. And Monday, 9th, in MACBETH; being positively his last appearance. Mr. smiril has also engaged Mr. E. WRIGHT. the public favourite and celebrated Comedian, to appear in his original Farces every Evening after Mr. G. V. Brooke's performance. The Box-office is open for booking places daily, from Ten to Five. In consequence of numerous inquiries, early application is solicited. LAST SEVEN NIGEITS. LYCEUM THEATRE.-HENRY RUSSELL, THIS EVENING (the 24th time), September 23d, and every Eveeirg. Many friends having expressed a wi,ll that Mr. Russell shcald appear again previous to finally withdrawing his Entertainit.cnt, lii has, in compliance with their request, made arrangements to appear every evening. )ir. RUSSELL will present THE FAR WEST; or, TILE PROGRESS of the EMI6,RANT from. the OLD WOitLD to the NEW. Mr. Russell will relate his anecdotes, and sing several new songs, " Cheer, Boy', c h eer, " .` Far, far upon the Sea," " Sunshine atter Rain," "Land ! Land! Land !" " The Falls of Niagara." "Long have we been parted," " Fin Afloat," " Many changes have I seen, "The Icebergs" (descriptive sung), " Newfoundland Dog," " Toe Gambler's Wile," &c. The Second Part of the Entertainment will consist of a Series of Sketches, entitled NEGRO LIFE m Freedom and Slavery. Dress Circle, 25. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, 13.63. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Ruckstone. THIS EVENING, Sarr. 23, Will be performed THE IRISH AMBASSADOR. Characters by Nlessrs. Hudson, Chippendale, Howe, Rogers, and Cullentord ; Miss Reynolds and Mrs. Buckingham. Followed by the SPANISH DANCERS in a NEW BALLET. To be followed by THE IRISH LION. Principal character by Mr. Hudson. After which, the Spanish Dancers in a New Ballet. To conclude with A FISII OUT OF WATER. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI, Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. TIIIS EVENING, SEPT. 23, Will be performed the popular Drama of THE DISCARDED SON. Principal characters by Messrs. Selby, Murray, Bedford, and Keeley; Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Woolgar. After which, MONSIEUK JACQUES. To conclude with NORM A. Principal character by Mr. Paul Bedford. STRAND THEATRE. S )1e Lessee Mr. F. W. Aileron. THIS EVENING, S. 23, Will be performed HARD TIMES. To be followed by TILE NEW WAGS OF WINDSOR. To conclude with NEVER TAsrE WINE AT THE DOCKS. Stills, 4i.; Boxes, 2e. Si.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d.; Private tiox,s £1 Is , obe had of Mr. Alleroft, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPIIITEIEATaE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. Fifth appearance of those celebrated Equestrians from Paris, M. Palmer and Mlle. Caroline. THIS EVENING, The thrilling and interesting Eque-trian Spectacle, THE WOOD -31 A N'S HORSE; or, THE FALSE KNIGHT. After which, the Graphic SCENES in till CIRCLE, in which Mr. William Cooke will introduce the "Smallest Horse in he World." Miss Emily Cooke w.ll appear, 31. Palmer, and Mlle. Caroline. The whole to conclude with the Equestrian Burlesque (compressed Into one act), THE SIEGE OF TROY ; or, THE GIANT HORSE. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manazer. W.,st. Acting Manager, Mr. W 11. Cooke. Equestrian Director, Mr. Wm. Cooke, jun. TGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tati DAY —3forning 32 min.after 2 Evening 47 min.aft. 2 To , loaaow -Morning 3 min.aftor 3 Evening 19 una.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.---SUM OPFICI, SEPT. 23. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. G 4 —.highest since noon yesterday. 46—Lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'30. WIND, W.-Dull cloudy weather. 4 te4l., (,( 4.11„ LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1854. The autumnal campaign in the Crimea Las fairly commenced. We have no longer to depend on the intellectual skill of political gladiators, or the hackneyed wiles of diplomacy. The old adage, "•cedant anna togw," is reversed, and bone and muscle, thews and sinews, are now the arbiters of coming events. The skill of the chosen Gene rals and Admirals of Franca and England, and the " pluck" and energy of their gallant troops, must now decide the all-important questions at issue. The " day of gracJ" has gone by— " the light cloud" has passed from the lunar disc. The fate of NICHOLAS is sealed. He must now endure the consequences of his own arro gance and cupidity—must expiate his unwarrant able violation of the jus gentium. A short time since he might, at least to a great extent, have escaped from the formidable consequences of his outrageous proceedings. Every possible loop-hole was afforded, but he hardened his heart against every prudent counsel. He had so long persisted in a course of arrogant mendacity that, at length, he half credited the fictions he had invented, and fondly imagined that the same prestige would cling to his name, the same obedience accorded to his vapouring menaces as before the exposure of his comparative weakness. He has, however, continued too long in the same reckless course. Like the boy in the fable, he has alike disregarded the " fair words" of diplomacy and the " grass-flinging" of an idle fleet, and an inactive army. Now, that the amount of " virtue in stones" is to be ascertained, he may be inclined to change his tone, and to yield to the fortator in re what he refused to the suariter in modo. But it is now too late. The fiat has gone forth. The handwriting has appeared on the wall, and no simulated negotiation, no pretences of being " ready to treat on the basis of the four conditions," can arrest the progress of events, or prevent the deep humiliation and seri ous diminution of power occasioned by the de struction of the Rusian fleets and arsenals in the Euxtne, and the overthrow of the Russian autho rity i n the Crimea. The expedition having sailed, nay, more, having entered on the enemy's terri tory, there can 'be no retrograde movement, nulla vestigia retrorsum. The Allied Forces must achieve the important object on which they have engaged, or perish in the attempt. We are by no means disposed to underrate the difficulties to be encountered—to depreciate the honours that will fairly be due to the victorious forboth bra nc h es army and navy,of the service will have their wor k to p erfo rm, and doubtless they will do it well. According to the latest in telligence we had nearly sixty thousand men ac tually landed at Eupatoria, of whom twent y _fi ye thousand might be regard ed as the elite o f the British army, and an equal number of the chosen troops of France. Fifty thousand such men, ac tuated by a friendly emulation, an honourable rivalry—each feeling it impossible to quail or hang back in the presence of the others—would be more than a match for double the number of the wretched serfs by whom they are opposed. In addition to these, there was a. reserve of fifteen thousand. disciplined French soldiers, who, in all human probability, have ere this rejoined their comrades, their ardour only heightened by a de lay for which they could readily account. A further detachment of Turkish troops, men of approved valour, is also co-operating. And what has such a force to fear from a body of Russians numerically inferior ? for the most san guine calculations that have been made do not show more than sixty or sixty-five thousand men of all classes, sailors as well as soldiers, to oppose them ; and it would be quite impossible to bring all these simultaneously into the field, without leaving Sebastopol ungarrisoned, and the fleet skulking beneath its batteries unmanned, to fall an easy prey to our ships and seamen. They may annoy and harass our troops, but it is scarcely possible that they will hazard a decisive contest, at least until they come to the fortified lines on the heights above Sebastopol. We may be de layed, but we cannot, humanly speaking—for the issue of all such ordeals rests with a higher Power —be effectually resisted. Time is all that is want ing, and, although that be limited, we are satisfied that it will be sufficient for the purpose. The redoubts and trenches will speedily be captured. The cannon will probably be turned against them selves, while the combined Navies will at the same time keep up the sanguinary game from the seaward. We may anxiously, but at the same time "hopefully," await further authentic intelligence, and our anxiety will be more for the friends engaged, and the lessening of the bloodshed that must ensue to all sides, than from any doubts an to the results, which we fairly believe will be fatal to the undue pretensions of the CZAR. Probably few of our readers perused the whole of the remarkable document, itself but an extract from a Chinese tract, which we inserted in our columns last Thursday. It was nothing, to be sure, about Sebastopol, nor even about Kars or Tiflis ; it was actually information from the Celes tial Empire, whose insurrectionary matters we have almost forgotten in the nearer East. It was, moreover, religious information—an authentic document on the hitherto mysterious tenets of the rebels who are almost certainly subverting the old Tartar rule, and the character of whose move ments are intimately connected with their reli gious speculations. Had we not been engaged in war with another semi-theocratic and semi-bar barian empire, the one which stretches from the very confines of China to those of Prussia and Austria, we should all be glad to have the kernel at least of such a curious piece of news. While our SPOONERS are rusticating, and the holy war of Parliamentary debate is suspended, something trust worthy respecting a religious creed which is over throwing the civil government of 300,000,000 of our fellow-creatures would be really a pleasing exchange for bigoted tirades about themes old to all of us. Mr. MEDHURST'S translation of the revelations vouchsafed to the military and royal apostle of the great Chinese rebellion is at least a novelty, a study for us in quite a fresh vein, and not a ten thousandth iteration of the hatefulness of Popery, the aggressions of the Man of Sin, and the ruin which lowers from Maynooth over the fated British Empire. It has been the singular fate of Monotheism to be the origin, or the animating watchword, in more wars than Polytheism. Pagans were con tent to let each God do his best for his own dis trict ; but when the human mind has pretty firmly grasped the idea of a Supreme Being, the step appears to have been an easy one to believe in a real or a pretended messenger from Him ; belief in the probability of some revelation being apparently one of the most general instincts of our nature. Hence, from the time of MOSES and his real mission there have seldom been wanting, at considerable intervals, those who have summoned armed thousands to conquest by a professed mis sion from HEAVEN. Zeal for the LORD OF HOSTS has thought itself commissioned to overthrow idolatry and disbelief by the sword. MAHOMET, PETER the Hermit, and others less conspicuous, were not necessarily impostors ; they may have believed themselves inspired. And strange, and even profane as are the statements of the tract alluded to, we should not at once conclude that they are wilfully so. The blasphemy and pro fanity of a CZA.R, who chants Te Deums for but cheries and frauds, pretends religious motives to cover the meanest ambition, and seeks to inflame the superstition of the most ignorant race in Europe for his own selfish purposes, are infinitely more culpable. The whole paper is so thoroughly in the Oriental style of thought and language, that even with Mr. MEDHURST'S notes it is not easy to trace clearly the relations of the dramatis personce, for religious drama it seems to be. Four elder brothers appear upon the stage. The eldest of these is JESUS ; the others, besides their Chinese names, are designated by the terms, the Eastern, the Northern, and the Celestial Princes. The Heavenly Father descends and gives, some partly puerile and ceremonial, and partly humane instruc tions, through female Chamberlains of the Court; and again descends possessing the person of the Eastern Prince, and speaking through him. Again the instructions are of the same mingled puerile and humane character ; it is not easy from the part yet translated to perceive the relation of the first elder brother, JESUS, in this modern legend. The closing extract, however, exhibits a singular coincidence with MAHOMET'S giving him self out for " the Comforter " promised by JESUS. The Eastern Prince, adverting to this promise, adds that " considering what YANG-SEw-TsING (the younger brother and rebel leader) had reported to him, he had no doubt of his being the pro mised Comforter." Hence, the leader of the in surgents, has both appended this designation to his name, and also requires his name to be in cluded in the Doxology which is addressed to the Heavenly Father. It is, of course, abundantly clear how groundless is any claim for the rebels to the name of Chris tians. Indeed, they probably do not make it themsel7es. That they have had access to the Scriptures, in whole or in part, and are familiar with their personages—that they believe in one GOD, and in JESUS CHRIST, in some sense—and that they have perceived that humanity and mercy are the main features of our LORD'S moral instructions, is all clear. But they certainly con sider the rebel leader as completing the revela tions of JESUS, and would probably, like Maho metans, comprise the essentials of their theology in two sentefices—" There is one GOD, and Yang- Sew-Tsing is his apostle." They do indeed de molish the idols everywhere, and must be regarded as Monotheists, itself a great advance upon the childish idolatry of the Chinese ; but their ideas of the SUPREME BEING'S procedure are painfully degrading ; and the leader of the movement places himself on an equality with JESUS. Indeed, as the last and most perfect revealer of the Divine Mind, he constitutes himself his instructor and superior ! It is evident that the insurgents have received ideas which may furnish a basis for Christianising the Empire. The success of such an attempt from without, in connection with this movement, must, however, depend upon two con ditions—on the docility of YANG-SEW-TSING and his followers, and on some Christian teacher ap pearing on the scene, adapted to gain their con fidence. It is not easy to suppose that " the Comforter" would like to renounce his place in the Doxology, or that he would condescend to receive instruction from a mortal who professed to no inspiration. Without some such aid, however, their Christianity must remain below the level even of that of Russia itself. A. FATHER KILLED BY HIS SON.—The Lauderdale (Mississippi) Republican records another deed of blood in Kemper county. Mr. Looklair, a man who was gener ally respected by his neighbours while sober, was last week killed by his own son. INAUGUEATION OF THF, MELBOURNE A.THENZEU3I. On Tuesday last the Melbourne Athenmum, the build ing designed by R. I. Stevens, Esq., architect, of Derby, was opened with several festive associations. During the day, notwithstanding, occasional showers, a goodly number of visitors and townspeople enjoyed themselves in the beautiful hall gardens, and on the lake and islets, to the music of three bands, including the temperance drum and fife band from Derby. In the evening tea was served in the lower room of the new building, and afterwards addresses appropriate to the occasion were delivered respectable audience of nearly 300. The chair was the V•ev. J. Deanes, the vicar, and the y Foir L Eq., agent for the Melbourne Mayor of Derby ; Dr. T. - - N d 1 ' Esq., Spencer d 3 wbeayri el ' F. R lle' e :e y " . estates te C : U tes ; author of "The Peak and the H A • Plain ;" and the Watts Lethbridge, Independent an Infant School, Mechanics' minister, s Bank, and is in many respects Institution, and Saving ornamental, addition to the town , — a useful, as well as ornarne opfurpurpose—that Melbourne. ose tha The building is designed for a threefold of Derby Advertiser. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SErr. 21. Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince walked out yesterday morning inthe neighbourhood of Balmoral. In the afternoon his Royal Highness went out deer stalking. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone left town yesterday, on a visit to Lord Braybrooke, at Audley End, Saffron Walden. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office, yes terday, to the Governor-General of Canada, and to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. The Duke of Wellington has returned to Belgrave• street, from a short visit to Brighton. The Duke of Devonshire continues at Chiswick, but his residence at Kemp Town is kept in readiness to re cei ye him on the shortest notice. His grace has recently purchased the adjoining house, with a view of enlarging him elegant marine abode. The Marquis of Anglesey, who arrived at Uxbridge House early in tho week, from Worthing, has since let town for Beaudesert, near Lichfield. The Countess Dowager and Lady Georgians, Grey have left Eaton-square for Brighton. The Earl of Elgin, Governor-General of Canada, returns to this country by the next mail steamer from Halifax. The Earl of Ellenborough entertained a large party at Southatu Park, on Tuesday, on the occasion of his lordship's annual rustic fete to the Southam schools. His Serene Highness the reigning Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar is expected to arrive in London early in the ensuing week from visiting his illustrious relatives the King and Queea of Holland, at the Hague. The Marquis and Marchioness of Huntly and family arrived at Douglas's Hotel here on Monday, from Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire. They leave this morning by ex press train for the south.—Edinburgk Courant. The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford and suite have left Curraghmore for Ford Castle, his lord ship's seat in Northumberland, where they purpose re maining for a month. The Marquis of Stafford, who has been entertaining a succession of visitors at Tarbert House, Inverness shire, has embarked on a cruise in his lordship's yacht, the Ondise, off the Scottish coast. Lord Lichfield, who has been enjoying the sports of the field with the mar quis, has left for the south. The Marquis of Breadalbane has returned to his shoot ing quarters, Forest Lodge, Argyllshire, from Tay month Castle, Perthshire. THE PREMIEE.—On Saturday last orders were re ceived at Haddo House to prepare for the reception of the noble earl.—North British, Mail. The Earl of Desart has left town for Desart Castle, Kilkenny. The countess leaves Lord and Lady New port's mansion in Wilton-crescent to-day for the Royal Scottish Palace of Balmoral, where the countess succeeds the Duchess of Wellington as Lady in Waiting on the Queen. Lord and Lady Blantyre are entertaining company at Erskine House, Renfrewshire, N.B. Lard Valentin has arrived on a visit to his son-in-law, Captain Robinson, at Roseneath House, near Limerick. Lord Brackley, Lord Henry Thynne, Lord Dalkeith, Lord Emlyn, and party, who are staying at Lord Caw dor's, Cawdor Castle, N. 8., have had abundant sport during the last week on the noble lord's moors. Mr. and Lady Agnes Duff are entertaining a large party at Comintyre, Banffshire. Sir William and Lady Molesworth have been amongst the guests. William Monsell, Esq., M.P., and Lady Anna Mon sell, have returned to Tervoe, from Miltown Malbay. Augustus Stafford, Esq., M.P., loft Cartloe Wood for England, on Tuesday. The widow of the Brigadier Hore, who was shot in February at Saragossa, 14 to receive the pension duo to the widow of a Major-General. General Jos6 Concha touched at the Canaries on the 3d inst., on his way to Cuba. JEDEDIAH STRUTT, ESQ.—We are happy to Bay that this gentleman is considerably improved in health, though he is still a great invalid.--Derby Reporter. MISS STEICKLAND.—The authoress of the " Lives of the Queens of England and Scotland" is at present on a visit to Lady Murray Thriepland and family, at Fingask Castle. THE ELNITON ESTATE.—Tite Elmton estate has been purchased by the Duke of Portland for 80,0001. Lieutenant-Colonel Forster, assistant adjutant general at Edinburgh, is to be deputy adjutant general at the Royal Hospital, Dablin, vice Major General Eden pro moted. Colonel Blair, M.P. for Ayrshire, has addressed a letter to his constituents, stating that he has been ordered to join the first battalion of the Fusilier Guerds, now serving in the East, and expressing a hope that his absence may not prove detrimental to the interests coin• mitted to his charge. The gallant colonel was expected to sail yesterday from Liverpool by the British Queen steam-ship.—Edinburgh. Courant. DEATH OF THR HON. CAPTAIN ROBERT GORE, R.N. —This gallant man, whose death took plaoo at Monte Video, where he was acting as our chargé d'affaires, on the 4th ultimo, suddenly, was in his 45th year, and was brother to the present Earl of Arran and to the Hon. Charles A. Gore. He was promoted to post rank in 180, way M.P. for New Ross from 1841 to 1847, and was raised to the rank of an earl's son by Royal warrant I I in 1837. 1 THE LATE MR. E. T; CRAFEP., OF TEE TREASURY.—A vacancy has been created in the Treasury, by the decease of Mr. Edwin T. Crafer, who died from cholera, on Saturday morning last. Mr. Crafer was at the head of the class of assistant•clerks, on the Treasury establish ment, and for the last 15 years and upwards held the office of private secretary to the successive patronage secretaries. He was one of four brothers on the Treasury establishment, sons of the late Thomas Crafer, Esq., who for many years held the important office of prin cipal clerk of that department. By Mr. E. Crater's death a junior clerkship is now vacant in the Treasury, and also the appointment of private secretary to Mr. Hayter. THE ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL OF THE NAVY.—The honour of Companionship of the Bath, conferred on this eminent civil servant, has given general satisfaction to persons in all ranks of the service. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.—Friday next has been fixed for the election of a Lord Mayor, in succession to Alderman Sidney, whose term of office will expire on the Sth of November. In the event of the ordinary course being adhered to, the two senior aldermen below the chair—viz., Mr. F. G. Moon and Mr. David Salo mons— will be returned to the Court of Aldermen, who will select Mr. Moon for the mayoralty next year. At the next election, supposing no change to be made in the usual customs, a Jew will be elected for the first time to the chief magistracy of the city of London. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—An expla natory report of the mode of conducting the works of the commissioners in building and repairing sewers and covering open sewers, the ordinary precautions taken for the prevention of nuisance and danger to the public health, and the special precautions taken at the present time, has been prepared in obedience to an order of the general committee by Mr. Bazalgette. THE COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT IN THE EAST.— The Lords of the Treasury have communicated with the Customs authorities on the subject of certain officers of the department proceeding to the East in aid of the commissariat department, and stating that their lord ships had accepted the services of the selected parties, it being understood that they will be permitted to return to the Customs service after the war is over without pre judice to their prospects, but that they are not to receive any pay from the Customs during their absence. NEEARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION.—A meeting in support of this association was held yesterday, at Bur lington-ha.ll, Saville-row, G. Rice, Esq., in the chair. The chairman stated that much yet remained to be done at the West-end for the extension of the early closing movement, and he hoped that the young men there would so act as to induce those employers who still kept open late to close their shops at an earlier hour. Reso lutions were agreed to, expressive of rejoicing at the progress in the early closing cause, which had been effected by the association during the past year, and pledging the meeting to co-operate with the Early Clos ing Association, and render it, during the coming season, every possible support, both of a pecuniary and personal character. A local committee was then formed, and the meeting separated. BURIALS IN THE METROPOLIS.—ST. ANDREW'S, HOL BORN.—WiII you inquire what the Board of Health are about in allowing, as I presume they must, the interments to continue, and at a frightful rate, too, in the burial ground attached to St. Andrew's, Holborn ? I think not less than forty per week for the last twelve months have been interred, and they still continue. To-day fresh ground is opened. It cannot be that pecuniary reasons influence the authorities, as the living is returned at 1,3001. per annum ; and there is a freehold estate for the church purposes, producing a like amount. The rector has been absent for many weeks, no doubt to keep out of harm's way.—Corre..yondent of the Builder. THE EDINBURGH ACADEMY. —We understand that the vacancy in the rectorship of the Edinburgh Aca demy, occasioned by the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Hannah, has been filled up by the appoint. ment of the Rev. James Stephen Hodson, M.A., o f Balliol and Merton Colleges, Oxford, who will enter upon the duties of the office when the school meets on Monday, the 2d of October. Mr. Hodson is son of the Very Rev. the Archdeacon of Stafford. His career at Oxford was a very distinguished one, and he has since had great experience in tuition ; so that there is every reason to expect that, under his superintendence, the high character which the academy has so long held will be fully maintained.—Edtinburgh. Courant. FIRE IN HOUNDSDITCH,—Yesterday afternoon, be tween two and three o'clock, a fire broke out on the pre mises, No. 30, Houndsditch, in the occupation of Neste. Solomon and Co., general factors, importers, and manufacturers of watches and clocks. The building was of considerable extent, comprising several well stocked warehouses. The fire commenced in what was termed the packing-warehouse, filled with goods of various descriptions. One of the workmen dis covered a quantity of straw on fire ; and though the firemen were in immediate attendance from Jeffrey square with an engine, the flames continued to spread, and six or seven additional engines bad to be brought into play. After three hoari, the fire was extin guished ; but not until a large amount of property was destroyed belonging to the Messrs. Solomons, and con siderable damage done to some of the houses adjoining. The Messrs. Solomons were insured is the Manchester, and Legal, and Commercial Offices. The other sufferers were also insured. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1854. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR. THE EXPEDITION IN THE CRIMEA. The following telegraphic despatch has been re received this morning : VIENNA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 22. From Russian sources I learn that the Russians did not oppose the landing of the English and French troops, because their entire force in the Crimea numbers only 38,000 men besides the garrison of Sebastopol, 12,000 strong—viz., 8,000 cavalry between Eupatoria and Simpheropol, and on thk: heights from St. Crimea to Sebastopol 30,000 men and 48 guns. The Russians will defend their heights to the uttermost. The Austrian Government sent a despatch yes terday to Baron Hess, ordering him to concede the oequpation of Galatz and Ibraila to the Turks, if Omer Paella desired it. Thus all differences are handsomely settled. VARNA, SEPT. 17. Tho second embarkation of 15,000 (French) troops is proceeding. It is understood that Prince Menschikoff, with 35,000 men, drawn from Batschi-Serai and Simphe ropol, with all the disposable force from Sebastopol, were assembled on the heights near Balaklava, pre pared to oppose the landing of the allied forces ! JASSY, SEPT. 18. Prince Gortschakoff left on the 16th for Skulani. Jassy is completely evamated. The bridge over the Pruth is to be removed to-morrow. PARIS, SATURDAY, SEPT. 23. The Moniteur publishes the following despatch, under date of Constantinople, 15th inst. It does not bring later intelligence : " Lord Raglan wrote on the 12th that the coast was not seriously defended. " On the 13th, three regiments had landed, and taken possession of Eupatoria without striking a blow. " The landing of the whole army was to take place on the following day, at twenty miles south of that town. " The weather was magnificent." The Emancipation of Brussels has the fol lowing, dated Vienna, Wednesday evening : "Our news of the expedition is favourable. The Russian fleet, which had left Sebastopol to oppose the landing, has been compelled to re-enter the harbour in disorder. The batteries on shore were completely destroyed in the space of a few hours." THE PRINCIPALITIES. It is related that the Russian force quitting Mol davia and Wallachia does not amount to more than 80,000 or 90,000 men, and, if this be the case, Prince Gortschakoff must either have lost one-third of his army by sickness and the sword, or a large body of troops must have been sent across the Pruth before the regular evacuation of the Principalities began. On the 10th General Budberg had an in terview with the Austrian Consul-General at Jassy, and requested him to protect the Russian subjects after the departure of the troops, which Baron Testa (the consul) is said to have promised to do. Advices from Bucharest state that the recall of Prince Stirbey, for the resumption of his functions as Hospodar of Wallachia, was decided upon at Constantinople against the concurrence of Omer Paella, who, we are told, is much annoyed thereat. It seems that the Ottoman Generalissimo entirely diapproved of the invitation sent hither by Dervish Pacha, the Ottoman Civil Commissioner, to Prince Stirbey, for the latter's immediate return to Bucharest. A special negotiation had also be come necessary in order to induce Omer Paella to delay his occupation of Ibraila for about ten days longer, as by that time the Austrian troops would be enabled to reach that V-ace, and do the needful duty there. But notwithstanding these undeniable and by no means unimportant differences, it is confidently expected that a good understanding and perfect harmony will be maintained between the Austrian and Ottoman military authorities. It is added that Omer Paella appears willing to withdraw a part of his troops to Bulgaria, whence they may probably be sent to reinforce the Asiatic army, if they are not wanted as reserves for the allied expedition against the Crimea. Finally, we learn from Bucharest that above fifty Austrian soldiers have already fallen victims to the ravages of the cholera in Wallachia. CONSTANTINOPLE. The Moniteur publishes the following letter from Constantinople :---" It has already been said that the two civilising influences which must save and regenerate the Ottoman empire acted simul taneously, and that any one could follow with his eye at the same time the humiliation of Russia and the progressive movements of reforming ideas at Constantinople. Whilst the expedition of the Crimea sets sail in order to strike a great blow against the Muscovite power in the Black Sea, the Sultan, by the Imperial hatti-scheriff of the 7th in stant, strikes on his part a decisive blow against inequalities and abuses. Is it possible to have a better proof of the result of the noble policy of the Western Powers towards the Ottoman empire than in the grand spectacle given the civilised world by a Sultan who, of his own accord, anticipating the wishes of his allies, and only consulting the instinct of his generous na ture, takes in the face of his empire and of the whole of Europe irrevocable engagements with civilisation and progress? Nothi ng can b e d one i u Tu r k e y with the rapidity of the political evolutions of the west. After the violent destruction, the cruel op pressions practised by the Sultan Mahmoud, came the era of more pacific progress. It was at the com mencement of the reign of the Sultan Abd-ul-Med jid that the tanzimat, so violently attacked by the enemies of Turkey, was given to his empire by the young sovereign of a principle, the consequences of which were to be the workof his whole reign. Every one knows in what painful situation Turkey was placed up to the time when the politi cal influences which contended either openly or secretly on diplomatic ground at Constantinople, changing into a military struggle, the Sultan, sure of his allies as of his enemies, was able to enter on a more candid path, and relying on the armed co-operation of the two most powerful nations of the West, to brave at once both the Rus sian arms and the secret intrigues of the old fanatic party. The Ottoman Empire had to support, it is true, in this violent state of things, very heavy sacrifices, but these sacrifices secured the future, and traced out in an unequivocal manner the road to political reform. Tho time is at length come when the general principles contained in. the Tanzi , mat must receive their full and complete develop ' ment, and nothing can henceforth impede Turkey in the fruitful though slow and laborious work of political regeneration. Some astonishment will perhaps be felt at seeing the question of corrup tion play such an important part in the last Impe rial hatti-scheriff. It is not sufficiently well known in the West to what an extent pecuniary abuses in Turkey have become precedents, and how much they have become governmental habits. It is not many years ago that the majority of the functiona ries in Turkey received no salaries, and were paid by the public, as was the practice in Europe dur ing the middle ages, and oven up to modern times. Even now the salary of a great number of the func tionaries in the provinces of the Ottoman Empire,, more particularly among the judicial authorities, is so small that it appears impossible not to shut the eyes to certain abuses. The custom of presents made by inferiors to all whose influence might bo useful to thorn had therefore as it were instilled it self into the veins of the Ottoman Empire. It was necessary, however, to have done with this sad re mains of the past, and it is this which Roschid Paella pointed out with the greatest energy in the speech that he delivered before the Grand Council. A veil will be thrown over the past, but for the future the most severe punishment will be inflicted, without consideration of rank or position, on any functionary who shall forget that it is the State alone which has a right to accept remuneration for its services, and that his services are gratuitously due to the public. This new act of reform of the Sultan, Abd-ul- Medjid, has produced e. deep impression at Constan tinople on all classes of the people. It is known what matters will engage the attention of the Coun cil, which has just been formed, and it may be said that the points on which it will specially havo to decide have been already discussed and solved in public opinion. The name of Reschid Pacha, al ready associated with the proclamation of the tan zimat in 1839, will be again associated in 1854, with the promulgation of the Imperial hatti soherif, which ratifies the developments of it. It is a real historical glory for that statesman to be always the instrument in the hands of the Sultan for accomplishing good. The great act, the bear ing of which we have just appreciated has worthily inaugurated the resumption of political affairs, which had been for some days interrupted by the fetes of the Courbam Beiram." THE BLACK SEA. RUSSIAN FORCES IN THE CRIMEA; A letter from Kalisch, in the Lloyd of Vienna, says :—" Very little is known of the Russian forces in the Crimea, and all that has been said on the subject is hypothetical. Only the troops sent to the Crimea in the spring are known, namely, the troops of the 17th division, which with their cavalry and artillery, amount to 30,000 mon. The question then is asked— What was the original garrison of the peninsula, and what the reinforcements which have since arrived? But these troops cannot be very consider able, as if they were their march could not have been a secret. If it be borne in mind that all these troops, including the soldiers of the marine, cannot be estimated at more than 50,000, and that they are necessarily distributed on several points, it follows that the allies will be in preponderating force on whatever side they go. The Russians have for them only the advantage of the positions, which may compensate for the superiority of number." The Lloyd of Vienna says :—" A letter from. Odessa of the 12th states that some Russian ves sels had left the port of Sebastopol to make a reconnaissance. Prince Menschikoff's reason for thus risking part of his fleet was no doubt the uncertainty in which the Russians were as to the point at which the allied expedition would disembark. Ordinarily the Russians are kept well informed by their spies, but this time it was not possible for them to gain information, the orders relative to the disembarkation having only been given in the open sea. It is not pro bable that the vessels went out with any other object than to ascertain the point towards which the allies were proceeding." The Kalisch correspondent of the Lloyd; speak ing of the probable strength of the Russians in the Crimea, says that not above 30,000 men were sent there in spring. To these troops must be added the original garrisons and any forces which may have recently marched into the Crimea. THE BALTIC. We have news from Stockholm up to the 14th inst., informing us that the fleets have left Aland, but without giving further particulars at present. The destruction of the forts at Bomarsund showed that it was not intended to occupy Aland as a mi litary post this winter, and now the departure of the fleets seems to justify the assumption that this archipelago is not to be made into a naval station for the present at any rate. In every way the people exhibit their sympathy for the Western Powers, and it is evident that the Government waits only for them to undertake seriously the crippling of the Rus sian naval power in the Baltic to hold different language than it has hitherto done. As long as there is a powerful fleet enclosed within the moles of Swoaborg and Cronstadt, and capable of passing out when Napier and ice permit, the Swedish Go vernment would not be justified in exposing its coasts to the tender mercies of its unneighbourly neighbours. A telegraphic despatch informs us that Austria advised Sweden on the 14th, that, now Russia had withdrawn from the Danubian Principalities, and the mouths of the Sulina were open again, she did not feel herself called upon to give up her neutral position. The Royal message, read closing the Storthing by the Stadthalter, was as, follows : "Good gentlemen and Norwegian men,—l regret that the present state of political affairs has admitted neither of my own nor the Queen's coronation in this year, nor of my closing your session in person. The advantageous position which I have succeeded in at taining for the united kingdom, in the midst of the complications which disturb our quarter of the world has enabled the Storthing, by ample votes, to meet my wishes for the material development of the country. While I fully recognise and appreciate the public spirit which these votes have exhibited, I could have wished that the Storthing had granted the sums I desired for the necessary development of our system of defence in its entire extent. May Providence now and hence forth stretch out its protecting hand over Norway and her stanch inhabitants. Atter having accom plished your mission and task, you return now to your homes and occupations. I hope and trust that all hap piness may attend you, and remain, good gentlemen and Norwegian men, in all Royal grace and favour, well affected to you all in general, and to each in particular." RUSSIA. The Austrian Soldaten Freund has the following from Tirasopol, opposite to Bender, dated Sep tember 9 : "The appearance off the Suline and Dniester mouth of some enemy's ships was signalised to Odessa on the Ist inst. On the night of the 31st August a Russian steamer arrived at Odessa from Sebastopol with despatches front Prince Menschikoff, and returned after a stay of only two hours. On the 4th and sth of September six enemy's vessels anchored in the bight of Lustdorf. This they do always when they pay Odessa a visit. How many other vessels had arrived there since was not known at Odessa. Half the population of the latter town have already come to Tirasopol, and no doubt is entertained that the enemy's armada will commence operations by the conquest of that city. The new field works on the heights which command the sea fortifications and harbour of Sebastopol amphitheatrically, and are destined to op pose the first rush of the enemy upon these positions, are finished and completely armed. People think that if the Turks could maintain themselves at Kalafat and Silistria, the Russians will not abandon the fortified places in the Orimean Peninsula without a struggle; and the Russians appear prepared at every point for this struggle. "They have had from thirty to forty years' time for this (but only commenced the circle of land defences of Sebas topol within the last three months), and have greatly rein forced all points of defence. We are assured that a special corps of cavalry, with an excellent body of horse artillery, to the amount of 15,000 men, has been concentrated with in the last fortnight in the Crimea. Ono thing is certain, that the forces in the Crimea do not consist of the least effective, but of the choicest Russian troops." A letter from St. Petersburg, in the Berlin Na tional, says that the efforts made by tho Govern ment to supply the place of the immense number of hands drained from the agricultural population, which during the last eighteen months alone has amounted to more than 300,000, exclusive of re serves, by colonising Jews in the Steppes, h ave succeeded to a certain extent in the Government of Ekalerenastaff, near the Dnieper. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Sept. 20.—The New Prussian Journal, organ of a party whose devotion to Russian supre macy can only be surpassed by its bitter animosity to England, and all that is English, has the fol lowing upon what it terms the Prussian "point of view" : "Prussia," it says, "has no interest as a great Euro pean Power in strengthening and giving increased in fluence to England and France, at the expense of Russia, and the less so in proportion as the alliance between the Western Powers becomes more earnest. Prussia has no interest, as a great European Power, in seeking to complete the autocracy of England at sea, by the de struction of the Russian Black Sea fleet, whereby Eng land's rear (!) would be covered. Prussia has no interest, as a great European power, in augmenting the over weight of French continental power by helping to destroy Russia's armies. Prussi a h as no i nterest, as a great Euro pean Power, in expending her blood and money to pro mote the plans and objects of France and England in the East. Prussia has so interest, as a great European Power, in mixing in a war wherein it has neither directly nor indirectly participated hitherto, and wherefrom those who have participated can scarcely venture to increase their power and influence—that is, if their assurances to maintain intact the integrity' and sovereignty of the Porte be seriously intended. What remains, therefore, for Prussia's European point of view ? French progress and English civilisation—'the rainbow of liberty.' " The Post Ampt Ga ze tt e o f F ran kf or t, un d er date of Berlin, 19th, says :—" We have received some details relative to the negotiations pending between Austria and Prussia. The first point for the two States is to come to an understanding as to the obligations which they have contracted by the treaty of 20th April. The negotiations appeared at first to take a turn favourable to the Prussian point of view. It is, however, said that for some days past Austria has resumed a more reserved attitude, and that she again insists on the necessity of putting a part of the Federal contingent on a war footing. Another circular despatch has been addressed by Austria to the German Courts on this subject. Prussia has also made insinuations on equitable propositions which might be offered to Russia for the resumption of negotiations. It appears that these negotiations are not yet very active. Accounts from Vienna aro anxiously expected, as a provisional decisi on i s hoped for. If this decision be obtained, AL de Bis mark Schcenhausen, who is at Berlin, and whose departure for Frankfort is not yet fixed on, w ill go to Vienna with fresh instructions to continu e ne gotiations there, and to take partin the communi cations which Prussia and Austria will m a k e i n concert to the Diet on this subject. Prussia on the 6th sent to Paris and London a note, explana tory of her attitude in the present phase of the question, and in this note she particularly insists on her desire to contribute to peace, and expresses the opinion that the Western Powers will con scientiously examine the ulterior propositions which may be made for the re-establishment of it." TheAugsburg Gazette has aletter from St. Peters burg on the subject of the well-known four condi tions, which is interesting, inasmuch as it gives an idea of the point of view in which things are seen in Russia. It is affirmed that Russia shed her blood in order to obtain from the Porte the privi leges which the Principalities now enjoy. If she had not done so, those provinces would, like Bul garia, be now groaning under the oppressive yoke of the Pashas, the people would be obliged to pay haratch (poll-tax) like the rayahs, " and their houses be infested by Asiatic soldateska" (a con temptuous expression for soldiery). According to the St. Petersburg writer, it is "as natural for Russia to protect the Danubian Principalities, as it would be for Austria to interfere in Bosnia and the Herzegowina in defence of the Christians." Austria is told that it would be a most short sighted policy should she consent to a general pro tectorate in the Principalities, and she is reminded that England is " always meddling in the internal affairs of other States," and that one of her Minis ters is named Palmerston, &c. The Catholic clergy of Austria, has, says . a Vienna letter in the Augsburg Gazette, subscribed 15,564,164 florins in the recent loan. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Sept. 19.—Every now and then the Copirt Zeitung's Correspondenz, or some other equally well misinformed Austrian organ of the press, assures us that Austrian influence is likely to prevail in the Bund ; but the German Powers has resolved not to prepare for war until they are literally forced to do so. Perhaps the only Court on which Austria can implicitly de pea(' is Hesse• Cassel, the least respectable, per haps, in Germany, but still, from its geogra phical position, an important ally. The Austrian organs of the press, which were formerly most violent against England, " because she was so ego tistical," now openly declare that no State can be powerful whose policy is not so. The Presse this morning says :—" Austria has not made such exertions in vain, and she will at some future time demand her reward. She has never at tempted to conceal that such is her intention, awl this, by her gainsayers, is branded as egotism." The Vienna paper does not consider it advisable to state what the reward is to be, but every corre spondent who is capable of connecting two ideas must know what is meant. Austrian politicians have visions of the future, in which Moldavia and Wallachia figure as part and parcel of this empire. Their idea seems to be, that if the allies obtain possession of the Crimea that peninsula will be given to Turkey, instead of the suzerainte over Moldavia and Wallachia, which is to fall to Aus tria! If asked what reason there is for supposing the belligerent Powers will display such extraor dinary disinterestedness, these patriots are na turally at a loss for an answer. FRANCE. Most of our Paris contemporaries give, with out comment, the news of the landing of the expedition in the Crimea. They wait for the details, without which they are unable to form an opinion as to the cause of no resistance having been offered by the Russians to this first grand step of the allied forces. The Debats thinks that the non-re sistance of the Russians was owing to the diversions practised by . the fleet on different parts of the coast of the Crimea to mislead them, and to compel them to divide their forces. Be this as it may, the land ing has been effected without loss ; and in the opinion of Napoleon I. a good landing is half a victory. The Messager de Bayonne has the following ac count of the departure of the Empress from Biar ritz :—" The Empress arrived shortly before nine o'clock in the morning at Bayonne, and was saluted by the guns of the citadel and by those of the Aus tralie. Her Majesty was in an open carriage, and was accompanied by her mother the Countess de Montijo, by her sister the Duchess de Alba, and by M. Laity, Prefect of the Basses-Pyrenees. Three carriages followed containing the suite. The general commanding the division, and inspector-general Guillabert rode by the side of her Majesty's carriage, which was escorted by a squadron of hussars. The 35th and 11th Regiments were drawn up in lines on the road taken by the Empress. Large crowds assembled on the Place d'Armes and the Place de Grammont to see her Majesty for the last time. The Imperial cortege stopped at the mairie to change horses. The authorities were here as sembled, as were also a number of ladies, who had the honour to be received by her Majesty at Grammont. The former took a respectful leave of the Empress, and the ladies were presented to her by the general commanding the division. One of the ladies, Mine. Bisson, wife of a general of brigade, ex pressed in the name of all their regret at her Majesty's departure, and their gratitude for the kindness she had shown them. Mme. Bisson then offered her Ma jesty a magnificent bouquet, and the Empress re ceived it with a warm expression of thanks. At length the Empress drove off, saying, " Au revoir ! Next year !" and the acclamations of the crowd accompanied her for some distance. At Saint- Elienne, the cortege stopped, and the Empress dis missed her escort. Her Majesty then took leave of her mother and sister. The Duchess de Bassano and the Countess de Pierres afterwards took their seats in her Majesty's carriage, which drove rapidly towards Bordeaux. The Empress left her private secretary at Biarritz, in order to distribute her final donations amongst the poor." The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 74f. 95c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a- Half per Cents., at 98f. 90c. ; and the New Loan, at 75f. 10c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,240 f. Rouen, 972 f. 50c. ; Havre, 590 f. ; Great Northern, 860 f. ; Strasburg, 820 f. ; New Shares, 645 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 993 f. 50c. ; Lyons and the Mediterranean, 865 f. ; Western of France, 667 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 618 f. 75c. ; Great Central of France, 518 f. 75c.; Lyons and Geneva, 540 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 742 f. 50c. SPAIN. Advices from Madrid of the 18th state that the Government had published an order forbidding any other than electors to take part in election meet ings, and limiting their discussions to electoral matters. On the 18th the Three per Cents. closed at 34. ITALY. The _ltalia e Poplo, a Radical Genoa paper, was seized by the police on the 16th, for an article in sulting to the Piedmontese Government. MISCELLANEO US. It is related that Prince Woronzow, who has been drinking the waters at Carlsbad, will return to Tiflis at the end of this month. The last ukase relative to the new conscription has produced an indescribable sensation in Russia. If 200,000 men are raised, and each serf is valued but at 500 silver roubles, it will give an enormous sum. There have been four such conscriptions in two years. What has the war already cost the nobles ? The tribunal of Lorrach (Baden) has summoned the notorious Hecker to appear before it within four weeks, to answer to charges of high treason in connection with the Baden revolution of 1848-9. His property has meantime been sequestered. In case of non-appearance, judgment will go by de fault. . _ Baron Thile, Prussian envoy at Athens, and now on leave, will, says the Kreutz Zeitung, be appointed to Rome. Leipsic autumn fair has commenced, and it is expected that considerable business will be trans acted, with the Danubian provinces, whose mer chants were prevented attending at the last two fairs by the Russian occupants. Field-Marshal-Lieutenant Mertens has been ap pointed Military and Civil Governor of Trieste. The cholera is less violent at Rustchuk, but it rages fearfully among the E g y p ti ans at Gi urgevo. The Berlin Silesian Aid Committee has been enabled to transmit 26,000 d o ll ars t o th e sufferers by the late inundation, including a magnificent donation of 10,000 dollars from the Aix-la-Chapelle Insurance-office. English engineers are occupied in taking ad measurements between Kostendje and Rassova, " the Porte having given its consent to the con struction of a canal which is to ba navigable for merchantmen between the Danube and the Black Sea." A Prague journal estimates the present expenses of tho Austrian army a t 800,000 florins daily, or 2e millions (2i millions st er li ng ) mon thly. Thi s i s evidently an enormous exaggeration. The Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs has given a diplomatic dinner in honour of Kiamil Effendi, the new Turkish envoy. The last number of the Prussian Woehen Blatt, the organ of the so-called Bethmann Holweg, or Moderate Opposition and anti-Russian party, has, it is said, been confiscated by the police. A letter in the Tribune gives an account of a terrible and extraordinary catastrophe that has oc curred at Daroca, a small town in Arragon, situate in a rich and fertile valley, abounding . in corn and wine. The loss has been incalculable; in the vaults water has replaced wine, the contents of the shops are spoiled, and many houses are crumbling away. From Moscow a- heavy failure has been an nounced, the firm being that of Lukin and Skura toff, cotton manufacturers, with liabilities for 100,0001. A new telescopic comet was discovered on the 12th by M. Bruhn s , a t th e o b serva t or y o f Berlin. The Spanish ex-Minister of War, General Blaser, and Count Vista Hermoso, who have 1 een staying some days in London as political refugees, 1)W gone to Paris, where the Count de San Luis, ex President of the Council, accompanied by his nephew, the Chevalier D'Andrade, late secretary of embassy at Turin, has arrived from Madrid. In a letter from St. Petersburg, which appears in the Allgemeine Zeitung, we read—" The loss of the Aland Islands is of no consequence t o Russia. They were always looked upon as an exposed post, which would have to be abandoned at the first at tack. They were only of importance in a war with Sweden ; in a war with any other power their mi litary value is nil ; and these barren islands call have no value except as a military position." The two admirals of the combined fleets have issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of the Aland Isles, prohibiting them from holding any in tercourse with the Russians. The Swedish Government has appointed Baron Rothschild, the present Swedish Minister in Berlin, to represent it in London, in the place of Rear - Admiral Virgin, who has at his own request been recalled. The naval officers attached to the port of Wax' holm have lately given a brilliant banquet to the officers of the French man-of-war Austerlitz, lying there ; and this has been returned by the latter 11 1 a no less enthusiastic manner. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.) SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The United States' mail steamship Washington , Captain Lines, with dates from New York to the 9th instant, arrived off Cowes at half-past 9 this morning, on her way to Bremen. LORD DUNDONALD AND THE BALTIC FLEET. With characteristic and sailor-like frankness, Lor d Dundonald has hastened to contradict the groundless as' sertion that he had been offered the command of the Baltic fleet, and bad declined it on account of the condi. tions with which it was coupled. " I have never," sar i Lord Dundonald, "been honoured with any converse' tion or communication with Lord Aberdeen relative t° the command in the Baltic, or in regard to operations t° be conducted in that or any other quarter." On this flat contradiction our brother of the press who first let loose the canard in question coolly remarks, " The only real discrepancy between our statement and this explanation (what a nice soft name for a contradi c ti on !) lies in the offer of command to Lord Dundonald." The on ly differ; ence here admitted would by most people be consider s 9. quite enough: but it is not the only one. Lord Dundonald has also explained that he had no communication fro m Lord Aberdeen respecting the proposed operations in th e Baltic ; in other words, there was no proposal to hamp er his free agency as commander, which was part of t he story that has elicited his denial. Our conternpor ar i consoles himself for having been detected in disseminat' ing an unfounded story by saying that had the offer been made to Lord Dundonald, "it would certainu have reflected honour on Lord Aberdeen." Was it, then? to do honour to Lord Aberdeen that our con ternporl gave currency to the story ? The same j ourn alist, O n a morning contemporary who echoes him as usual, fa back upon Lord Dundonald's secret and mysteri ouS one means " of putting ships and stone batte n on an equal footing. One of these writers ComPla,l l , that Government has " neglected " L o rd Dun donal u communication, and the other that Government has 11 °,; " adopted" his plan. Did the Government " neglect the communication ! Is it not, indeed, the fact, O a the Admiralty took Lord Dundonald's crotchet int?, serious consideration ? Nay more, did they not refe r to a select committee of naval officers ? Did not tblo committee declai e it impracticable I Would our con' temporaries have Government adopt an impracticable scheme ? It is true naval officers are not infallible ; _ is true they are sometimes prejudiced against what r s new ; bat all who know Lord Dundonald -and 131 A career will be prepared to believe the Admiralty 0;, the committee have justly appreciated his " one means! Lord Dundonald is not better known for his indornitable valour than for his visionary turn of mind and sad lack of judgment. He started in life by allowing himself to be led, by sheer love of frolic and excitement we honestll believe, into a graye collision with the laws of his coup', try. At the time of the Burdett riots he had alm osb persuaded the popularity-hunting baronet to pursue course that would infallibly have led to a great 3 U ( ' aimless loss of life. For years he went about boring everybody with an impossible rotatory steam-egine. The presumption is, that having now passed his fourscore year s his plan for putting a speedy end to the war has a strong family likeness to all his earlier plans. By the bye, be himself describes it as the means of placing the belli' gerents "on an equal footing." Now, as on the whole ' the allies have rather had the better of Russia in the present calipaln, we suspect the public would have owed Government small thanks for adopting a plan that was to place Russia " on au equal footing with the Daily Sews. ACCIDENT AT THE HOLYHEAD BREAK" WATER. A correspondent, writing from Bangor on the 1 9 t h inst., says :—About half-past ten a.m., a fearful occur; rence, though fortunately not attended with the loss °, f . life, took place at th e ne w pi er or breakwater at Holyhead. The pier in its present form extends full,' a mile into the sea, and at its extreme point has five lines of rails on 18-inch ti m b er a ll braced with crossed timbers double and treble under the piled which are placed under each line of rails, and are feet apart. I was standing at the extreme end of the pj er on the centre line (ha v i ng obtained an order to view t'" works), waiting to see a train deposit its load in the SI, and observing the carpent ers ex t en di ng the pier, ,r ang working with a life-buoy upo n hi m . Whilst admiring this precaution, as they have only the width of the ti ll/, ber used to put the rails upon, three waggons and al l en g ine came down the centre line on which I was statio ne Three other waggons with two breaksmen were ruu n l e on the next parallel line of rails, and had reached t h third pile from the end wh en an i m mense e ras „ took place, shaking the whole fabric in a terrible n 3 O l . ner. Almost immediately I s aw th e enor mous tim he x , from the inner line of rail s r i s i ng up from the e e '; treme end, and following the t ra i n loaded with s tall which with two carpenters and a breaksman had bee 4''':' precipitated far below into th e s e a . Fortunately it tyl high tide, and the men, who f e ll i n t o a great d e lll of water, not rise to the surface till nearly s e . the timbers had fallen. Many workmen soon nong r a gated on the spot, and by the aid o f a l i fe beat and buoys, and the daring gallantry of a man who lowe re en him: elf by a rope to the fallen timbers, the three a were rescued from the water and laced on the 4. B—n a work, some distance off, and ultimately conveyed ter shore uninjured. It seems that the supp rters of the i n a t line of rails had broken down under the ° immense we' rt g; of the locomotive and the three waggons. I 3— , 1 0 wards observed blocks of stone on some of the wagg",, l3 o (besides a full load of smaller stones) of several tf - et weight, and I was informed by the men that it is 80 fee from the top of the rails to the foundation in the e e ; and that although the piles are 18-inch balks, thel, of very indifferent white pine, and that more fearful ac' cidents may be anticipated. A pile supporting er°° ,l beams under each line of rails in the centre of the 1„! 10 yards apart, with a depth of 80 feet to the fou rs nd tion, cannot be sufficient to bear the oscillation s a . th weight of locomotive trains loaded to the utmost w i b t stone. The Government and also the contractor 04 to have their immediate attention drawn to it. IMPUDENT ROBBERY AT SPONDON.—On Sunday in °rc. ing last a most impudent robbery was committed a t the residence of Henry Morley, Esq., Spondon. It aPP eer3 that between twelve :and one o'clock that day, the ser vent laid the cloth for dinner, in the front Morley dining . r oolu i and placed the plate on the table. M r . r eturu in ci " from church shortly afterwards, and went about ten minutes afterwards it was discovered that the following silver goods had b een s t o l en :—.Two lar table-spoons, one dessert-spoon, one gravy-spoon, salt-spoon ; •there was a crest upon them, w ith a tige r s head and cap upon if. Afterwards they disc °vere a that a number of silver tea-spoons had been yalits,, away ; they were marked with the letter P o ; There is reason to believe that the robbery wag cc a; witted by a woman tramping about the country' about the time of the robbery the neighbours sa y/ a woman coming out of Mr. Morley's house in a confur state, and as if she was carrying something. IC ° has yet been obtained as to her whereabouts, but t police are on the alert —Derby Advertiser. MONUMENT TO SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN LIVEBPOOD.; After.the learned and eloquent address delivered 0 1 ) % Wednesday evening by the noble president of the Britt% Association, in the course of which he more than c ric ,,t alluded to the debt which the best interests of this gre: o commercial city owe to the researches of the illustric"r, Newton, we bail with satisfaction and delight the °Pri x . tuna) , reat afforded our fellow-townsmen of recording tue,,. names in the list of those who are about to do huli, to themselves by erecting a monument to the g P losnpher at the place of his early education, and close the spot which gave him birth. We venture t o P rel„c r that our merchants and our shipowners, as well as c-0 me n of science, will not be found wanting in this (ial be it said) the first public tribute of respect to the to o , mory of the world's greatest philosopher. Mercury. GRIMSBT. — On opening Clee church on Sunday hi nts' big last for Divine service, it was found impossible 11°, remain there in consequence of a very offensive Foe t which pervaded the whole church. The clergyma n once proceeded to Cleethorpes, and held the service _ the school-room. It has &ince been discovered that in digging a large grave, which contains 16 corpses brougaT; from Cleethorpes during the late severe visitation. 0(1 cholera, a small underground drain which commuttici!ren with a family vault inside the church had been broane, into, and that the offensive gases given out had foil ; vent through the drain into the church. Several r ot sons were at the time much affected by—iiverpo the 'smell, u. t nothing of a more serious nature lass resulted frora t.—,Stamford Mercuryii • j