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URREY CORNER SUBSCRIPTION, READING, and NEWS Room. The time having arrived when the above large room at my Repo sitory w ill be open to subscribers, I beg to state that those members approved of will be respectable, honourable, and responsible gentle- Then, so that the secretary can, with great confidence, transact busi ness for absent subscribers who may send him commissions to be executed. The room will be always open to memb ,, rs, the latest news will be published, and extensive information supplied. The entrance fee will be one guinea ; the future subscription, and all other matters connected with the room, will be regulated by the committee, to whose decision I shall conform. All the daily morn ing, and evening and weekly pap ers, ca l endars, gu id es , I c e., for the information of the subscribers, will be regularly filed. An early application from gentlemen desirous of becoming members will much ;bilge R. D. REA, Proprietor. J. PONSFURD, Secretary. iNTOTICE. —The Nobility and Gentry are re quested to take n3tice that the MEETING of the SUB SCRIBELtS to the SURREY CORNER SUBSCRIPTION BOOMS will take place on SATURDAY, the 15th inst. (and not on Friday, as previously advertised), at Four o'clock p.m., when all the mem bers are requested to attend. Great Central Horse and Carriage Repository, within a mile of all the Lo ndon bridges, THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.-- Mr. E. T. swarii, Lessee, has the honour to announce that be has placed the above-named Natirdial Establishment at the ser vice of the FUND in AID of the FAMILIES of the EXPEDITION ARY AitMY. In pursuance of this desirable object, a FANC Y FAIR will be held THIS DAY, the 13th of April, under the follow ing Royal and distinguished patronage:— Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glocester Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Ca mbrid g e The Right Hon. the Lady Mayoress Her Grace the Duchess of Hamilton Her Grace the Duchess of Beaufort Her Grace the Duchess of Montrose Her Grace the Duchess of Inverness Her Grace the Duchess of Somerset Her Grace the Duchess of Richmond The Most Noble the Marchioness of Londonderry The Most Noble the Marchioness of Blandford Tue Most Ncble the Marchioness of A.yleshu7 The Right Hon. the Countess of Chesterfield 'the Rigiit Hon. the Countess of Kinnoul The RiOt Hon. the Countess of Gleugail rhe Right Hon. the Countess of Bessborough The Right Lion. the Countess of Derliy .1 he Right Hon. the Countess of Shelburne The Right Hon. toe Countess of Wiltol The Right Hon. the Countess of Desert The Right Hon. the Countess of Donoughinore The Right Hon. the Viscountess Palmerston The Right Hon. the Viscountess Maidstone The Right Hon. the Viscountess Newport Lady sn, hie Des-Vceus Lady Cc lvdle Lady Raglan The Hon. Miss Anson Mrs. Disraeli Mrs. J. Stanley. Every appointment and apn , arance of the Theatre will he called Into reylialtion on this important and Interesting occasion ; decora tions are preparing. The pit will b e covered for promenade, and an efficient bard provided fa' the execution of choice and new original music. Ladies desirous of aiding by their presewe this oen,volent demonstration are respectfully reminded that thty sh•inld make early application for stalls. A hoot is now open in the lobby of the grand cntraoce to re lei vo contributions in the shape of articles intended for sale on the occasion. THEATEK ?LOYAL DRURY LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Great Attraction for the MiIIion.—SMITIPS PROMENADE ERTS. Passion Week.—FOß ONE NI HT ONLY: THIS EVEN ING, Thni..l April I3.—An Assemblage of Vocal and Instru mental Talent Unrivalled. in a Temple Decorated for the Occa sion. The Pit will be converted into a Grand Promenade, form ing a vast Arena for the Visitors. Among a host of talent, the fol lowing eminent artistes will have the honour of appearing : Vocalists --Miss Poole, Miss Susannah Lowe , Miss Ransford, Miss Featherstone ; Mr. Elliot Galer, Mr. Ran ford, and Mr. Henri Drayton. Instrumentalists — Messrs. Distin, the celebrated performers on the Sax Horns. Pianoforte—Herr Carl Wohlfson. Concertina—Mr. R. Blagrove. Flute—Mr. H. S. Pratton. Conduc tor of the Vocal Music—Mr. J. F. Duggan. The Orchestra will be most powerful and coaeplete, consisting of7o performers. Conductor of the Instrumental Music—Mr. G. Haward. The programme will comprise all the most popular selections of the day, vocal and instru mental, including the successful opera of Leonie. Pit promenade and upper boxes, Is. ; dress boxes, '2s. 6d. ; private boxes, 11. Is. 155., and 10s. Doors will open at. apast 7, and commence at S. TiIrATRE ROYAL HAYSURXET. Under the mar.agea.ent of Mr. .13aellmtone T'lis week being Palsion Weak, the Theatre will be Closed, am will Re-open on Easter _Monday, April 17, with a Comedy. Afte r which, an entirely new aiti original extravaganza, enti led M BUCKSTONTE'i VOYAGE ROUND Tile: GLOBE (IN LEIC Et ;- TER-SQUARE), written by J. R. Planehit, Esq., Author of it r. Euekstone'a As. - _ient of Mount Parnassus, and which will he produte, ad with entirely new seen,ry, maeitinery, dress s, and appolutme n is. Print pal characters 1y Mr. ituckstotia., "ir. W. Farren, Mr. Cl. Mr. J. Marshall, air H. Marshall; Mr,. Fitzwildam, Mrs. Caulf iet d, Miss E. (ley, Miss LI dia Thompson, Miss Laura Morris, and Featherstone, who is r e - engage d at this theatre. With other En tertainments. The box-oftlee will be opened on Saturday next, the 15th inst. STII TkIEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Ancrlft.—Directress. Miss Rebecca Ism( THIS EVENING, APRIL 13, Mr. G. Hodson's Entertainment of PADDY'S PORTFOLIO. After which, Mons. Delavine and his two sons in their ceishr Abed Drawing-Hoorn Entertainment. To be followed by a Muscat 3121auge, eutitla I TIE GIPSY HAUNT. To which will be added Mona. nelarine on the Rcvoiv:ng (lot e. To conclude with Mr Cox's Dissolving Views. ASTLEY'S NATIOXAL Lessee and Mana,;ar. 2fr. Will:Am Cooke. The Public are rapectally larorrnecl, thit this nopu;ar esta'o l 4 b- Merit will RE-OPEN oa Easter Nlonday, Ap:11 17, with an Cr! iri new Grand liauticil Equestrian Spectacle, written expressly by J fr. _Nelson Lee. Various Novelties are in prefriratipo for the seen es: of the Circle. Irraturepsents are pr...difu; fur the appearance of as nl neat Continen , l Equestri,n Artistes. The ftos-office w , ll ku opeued on Thursday, the 13th instant, from Eleven till our. HIGH" WATER AT LONDON BRIDOE. Tar , Dlr —Morning 0 rain.ifter 2 I Evening 17 minAf L. 2 ro.Mbatc.,w—Morrii !IL: 35 min.after 2 j Evening 51 njin.a.t, 2 THE WEATHER.--Surs OiFICN, APRIL 13 THEHMOMETAH, IN THE SHADE. 60—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 58—this day at noon. B•Romirnra, 30'43. WIND, E.S.E.—Light breeze, with fine, sunshiny werlth er. T im - 1 1411,4 LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 135 4. It is seriously and earnestly to be hoped; —we repeat it—that Austria and Prussia may with*lraw betimes from the cause of the Western Po wers, and boldly take up their position as the allies of the Russian AUTOCRAT. We have not hesitated to avow as much before this, and we do not shrink now from the reiteration of the same candid avf ewai. Better, therefore, we once more assert—better that we should be opposed than that we she:mid be joined by the two great German Govern ments. Associated with the councils of Vitpnna and Berlin, those of Paris and London would be trammelled by the notorious leaning of the Austrian and Prussian policy towards that of the supreme despotism at St. Petersburg. At heart we all of us know very well that the CZAR really and truly exercises a paramount away over the imperial Cabinet at Schoenbrunn, and over the royal Cabinet at Charlottenburg. The fact of the Emperor NICHOLAS possessing this dominant authority beyond the apparent frontier of his own enormous dominions we all know. Talk as we may about the hope of his sinister influence being gradually diminished and ultimately subverted—there is not a moment's doubt about the reality of its ex istence. No more doubt, indeel, than there is as to the circumstance of the Mitigarian War of Inde pendence lhwing been crushed out under the feet of the Cossacks poured down upon the ranks of the Magyars under the banners of the Prince PASKIEWITCH ! No more doubt than there is as to the reality of that Prussian Princess, MARIA CHARLOTTE, sister of King FREDERICK WILLIAM IV., being identically the same wiqi that Rus sian Empress, ALEXANDRA FEODOROWNA wife of the Czar NICHOLAS ! No—Austri a is bound to Russia by ties of political gratitude, Prussia is bound to Russia by the yet closer ties of dynastic relationship. If they join with the Western Powers, it will only be to betray them. If they oppose the Northern AUTOCRAT, it will only be iil comp li ance with his secret suggestion -= to throw off the mask at a more perilous moment for E nd land and France, and, with that end in view, at the first fitting opportunity. The German Courts, in fact, are, to our thinking, more dangerous as allies th an as antagonists. As antagonists, we should know at once how they required to be dealt with—as allies, they could only be regarded from first to last with a para lysing suspicion and an enervating jealousy. They have been permitted, as things go, to play fast and loose quite long enough al ready. Their intentions in regard to the contest with Russia should now be demanded forthwith in ton is and words sufficiently peremptory. Other wise the Western Powers cannot fail to be im peded in a deplorable manner by this ceaseless and sinister vacillation. It is a vacillation that must be at last, in one directio n or another, ter minated. Let it bo terminated now—and even if a new difficulty be created, a still greater 040 wilt have been averted. Decision in this par- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1854. would afford information of singular value to persons engaged in the corn trade, and, by so doing, would tend to diminish speculation, and to adjust the balance between supply and demand, thereby reducing the elements of fluctu ation in price which are so fatal to the interests of the agriculturist. Furnished with these vitally important statistics, we might not only appreciate the condition of the farmers with something like accuracy, but might even calculate within reasonable limits the probable produce of each approaching harvest. Eighteen years have elapsed since the throwing out of these very rational and comprehensible hints for the establish ment of a regular system of agricultural organisa tion. Eighteen years have elapsed since then, and two decennial censuses have been taken within the interval—that of 1841 and that of 1851 —and now, as then, we are as far as ever from the realisation of any such plan of internal improvement. What says the Edin burgh ? " While at this moment we could easily tell in any year the number of herrings caught and cured on the British coast, of the bales of cotton grown in Georgia, or of chests of indigo produced in India, no man can do more than guess the quantity or proportion of agricultural produce in his own country, or even his own parish." The acknowledgment is made, remem ber, not in the year of that Agricultural Distress Committee, from whose records we have just quoted—not in 1836, but in 1854, as we have said, nearly twenty years afterwards. Wherefore it has come to pass, naturallyenough, that those who still hanker after the revival of the dead and buried system of Protection object to the arguments, drawn from the fact of our increased im portsunder the system of Free Trade, that for every bushel that has come in from abroad a bushel less has been grown at home. How utterly this sophistical mis-statement has been demolished, may be seen by any one on reference to this impor tant contribution to the pages of our Whig quar terly contemporary. It will there be seen, more over, how between 1846 and 1853, there have actually been produced in this country, as among the prominent results of the Free Trade system— I. The addition of nearly a third to our BREAD ! 11. The nearly doubling of our• SUGAR ! 11. The addition of a third to our COFFEE ! IV. And the nearly doubling of our TEA ! Putting these facts before the world in another form, the reviewer arrives at the subjoined results in regard to the Consumption per head at the periods here specified :—. Bread, stated in bushels of wheat Sugar in Ibs Coffee, in ounce,: 1833. 1843. 18.53. 8 8 106 18 16 30 14 16 204 19 22 34 So that, literally, under Free Trade, the British people eat nearly a third more bread than they did before, under Protection ! They eat double the quantity of Sugar ! They drink a third more Coffee ! They consume nearly double the quantity of Tea ! For the present we content ourselves with this general reference to the ela borate analysis of the effects of Free Trade put forward by our Edinburgh contemporary. it ' presents a niass of statistical information, how ever, so suggestive and extraordinary, all the cir cumstances of the case considered—namely, at this remarkable conjuncture, when seven or eight years have elapsed since the passing of the measures of 1846, and when a general European war is at the instant of its commencement—that a recurrence to the arguments of the reviewer cannot but be desirable at the earliest available opportunity. lea in ounee3 If it b e th e pr i me mer i t of a Government mea sure to p ass a secon d reading, like the response to the QuEEN's Speech, without a division, then the couldOxfo be Oxford University Bill mus t ran k as hi g hl y as desired. We are so used, however, to a vote on the principles of every important mea sure, that the absence of it almost provokes sus picion. We are tempted to inquire whether such a bill, like the address to the Throne, is much more than the ec h o of the known views of those before whom it is laid ; whether conciliation has not been more attended to than principle, and whether there was much worth the country's having when no patrons of vested abuses ven tured to show determined fight. English pug nacity hardly thanks a Government for what has not cost it even a political battle, and it is very slow to believe that the good of any such measure is so great and evident as to over-awe opposition. We must candidly confess, however, that this last reason has united its force with the less noble one first suggested. The actual system of govern ment at Oxford is so utterly bad, so at variance with the best antiquity, so opposed to the repre. ! ticular, decision on the part of France and Eng land towards the Councils of Berlin and Vienna, must be allowed by the least resolute amongst us to bo at any rate very desirable. In reality, it is much more than desirable. It is ab solutely and imperatively requisite—requisite for the safety of the cause in which we have embarked, the cause not alone of Turkish Independence, but of the future tranquillity of the earth—the continued reform of its abuses, and the conservation of whatever social, political, or commercial changes may have already been effected for the advantage of its more civilised population. A masterly analysis of some among the more remarkable of the effects of Free Trade during the six or seven years which have elapsed since the period of its formal adoption in this country as the guiding principle of our commercial policy, appears in the number of the Edinburgh Review just published. It is a paper eminently worthy of perusal, and appears as the last of the eight contributions, being presented to us under the suggestive title of " Consumption of Food in the United Kingdom." Extraordinary difficulties are, of course, in the way of any one who adventures upon any calculations of the nature here indi cated. Several of the more important of these difficulties have in the present instance been adroitly overcome by the reviewer. But under no circumstances, perhaps, has there been reason for a more painful sense of the want of some reliable statistics in regard to the extent of the toil and of the fruits, in reference to the pros perity or adversity, the success or failure, the ad vance or retrogression of our own Agriculture. As matters are now, as they have been hitherto, there is no possibility of learning the amount of the cereal produce of the three kingdoms. We can not obtain even a proximate notion of the extent o f laud at any time employed in these islands in grain cultivation. Whereas, after proper attention to the subject, it were easy enough not only to learn thus much in round numbers and in the aggregate, but periodically in minute detail, so that au esti mate might be readily arrived at as to the number of acres sown with wheat, barley, and oats respectively. Information of this cha racter might be placed from time to time at the' command of the public through the Board of Trade, or of some other of the offices of Government. It was so suggested, indeed, by the Agricultural Distress Committee of 1836. It was declared before that committee by Mr. STURGE, the corn factor, that he thought it might be done at very small expense, with sufficient accuracy to be valuable as matter of reference. Nay, the Protectionist ex-member for Wakefield (Mr. SAN DERS) then and there avowed in so many words— " I cannot conceive a duty more imperative on Government than to ascertain the quantity of food that the people are likely to be supplied with." While the Right Honourable the representative of North Hants, the present Speaker of the House of Commons, intimated shoe tly afterwards in an elaborate address to his constituents his entire coincidence with the opinion that this was indeed a matter of " infinite importance"—suggesting at the same time that the scheme for collecting this accurate statistical information might be advan tageously grafted on the present division of Eng land into parochial unions, and might also be adapted to the Scotch counties and baronies in Ireland. The Speaker went further, and proposed the publication of these returns periodically in the London Gazette, returns which be maintained. Mr. WALPOLE defended to the uttermost the inviolability of the founders' wills, and throUghout the debate there was too polite a deference on the part of many speakers to this kind of folly. The public at large has little sympathy with it. It justly demands that the property left for its benefit should be so applied, and not locked up for the advantage of a useless few, by unforeseen events perverting in reality the arrangements of the generous benefactor. It will ever remain competent to the supreme Legislature of a nation to look to the administration of public trusts, and to guard them from abuse and perversion ; but more than this it never can be endured, that the dust and ashes of centuries gone by should control the deeds of a living generation. We should have small cause to thank many of the noble-minded founders of colleges, if they had really thought hundreds of years after they had mouldered to dust, of con trolling against the will of their country's Parlia ment the property which they had quitted for ever. This were, indved, a rule of mortmain—of the dead hand over the living wind. Those large winded friends of learning and education would, however, have been the last to plead for so absurd a power. They, could they have foreseen the August of 1854, would have felt rather honoured than otherwise, that the Legislature of the coun try should charge themselves with the task of giving full effect to their real wishes. Mr. BYNG, in a maiden speech which was well received, and Mr. BLACKETT, spoke strongly on the unfairness of excluding Dissenters from the benefits of the University. We can see no rea son whatever, unless it be the umbrage it might give to some whose votes are wanted, for persist ing in this exclusive policy. As a plain matter of fact, a large part of the colleges were founded by those whose religion is now denounced in the Thirty-nine Articles which all must sign who enter Oxford. Small respect this for founders' wills ! Moreover, it seems intolerable that those who comprise one-half the worshippers in the couhatry. should be excluded from the National University. What earthly reason should hinder one or more of the proposed private halls being managed by Dis senters, and what injury their listening to the Professors' lectures should do the sons of the Church, we cannot for the life of us conceive. Mr. GLADSTONE'S ingenuity is soon to enlighten us. He may get votes enow no doubt, but we expect more ingenious sophistry than honest argument. THE ICE IN THE BALTIC. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sts,—Please insert the following account of the open ing of the navigation at Cronstadt for the last 11 years ; it will probably be interesting to your readers. Your correspondents have been rather premature in their elec tric telegraphic despatches. A RUSSIAN MERCHANT. London, April 11, 1854. 1842—First ship came in 30th May, N.S. 1843 1841 1845 24th April, PP 1846 1847 l3th May, 1848 1849 1850 l2th „ „ 1851 Q d 1852 - 25th 1853 COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, A MIL 12. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the younger members of the Royal family, and at tended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, arrived at the Castle about half-past 4 o'clock this afternoon from town. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived yesterday at her residence, Frogrnore, from London. The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Saturday next, the 15th inst., at Windsor Castle. Her Majesty and H.R.H. Prince Albert left Bucking. ham Palace at 25 minutes before 4 o'clock yesterday af ternoon for Windsor Castle. The Queen and Prince were accompanied by their Ropal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, Prince Alfred. the Princesses Helena and Louisa, Prince Ar thur, and Prince Leopold. The Royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Canning, Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, the Hon. Mary Bulteel, the Earl of Listowel, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Major- General Berkeley Drummond, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Lieutenant -Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, the Hon. and Rev. Gerard Wellesley, and Mr. Gibbs. Her Majesty and the Prince were conducted to their carriage by the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord G eorge Lennox, and Colonel Wylde. The Royal party quitted the Palace in seven of the Queen's carriages, escorted by a detachment of Carbi neers, for the terminus of the Great Western Railway at Paddington, and travelled by a special train to Windsor. The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's counsel, &c., on Wednesday next, the first day of Easter Term, at his lordship's residence in Upper . Brook-street, at 12 o'clock. CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, yesterday afternoon. The Ministers present were—the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat three hours. THE LATE LADY JOHN MAN NEES .— The . demise of the y ou thf u l L a d y John Manners is one of the most lamentable deprivations which society has sustained for som e time past. Her ladyship was beloved and respected in every relation in life, and her early death will be uni- versally lamented. Shirehall, occasion Wo rcetshteer,Ro Right n DINNER TO THE E ARL OF BEAUCHAMP.— A pu bli c dinner is t o b e given to the Earl of Beauchamp at the ht Sa u tu o r n d . a s y i , r the Joh 2 n 2dinst.,on which Pakington, Bart., M.P., has consented to preside. sentative and constitutional fornis which pervaC-! both our local and general government, so wholly without defence from expediency, from its actual working or from its results, that it has not secured a solitary advocate amongst the numerous Oxonians who assisted at the debate. The Hebdomadal Board, the oligarchy of Heads of Colleges, interested in nothing but the pecuniary good plight of the Colleges, and the necessary fees of the University proper, has fallen unwept at a single blow; and fallen fur ever. NERO and Sir CHARLES WOOD allowed wealthy citizens and East India Directors to immolate themselves, hut even this last sad consolation was refused to Heads of Colleges. Whether those members who absurdly craved enabling rather than compulsory clauses, really thought the Board might be induced to commit suicide does not appear. The questions mooted by Sir W. HEATHCOTE, as to preserving intact the connexion now existing between some Schools and the Colleges, is worthy of careful consideration, which it will doubtless receive in committee ; also, that of making the fellowships prizes sufficient to stimulate active competition ; but we much hope that Mr. GLAD STONE and Lord JOHN RUSSELL will be very firm against the insidious proposal to permit each sec tion of the new Council to be elected by their own class. This would truly be, as Mr. GLADSTONE observed, to fix and perpetuate class distinctions to the end of time. The Congregation, which is to elect the Council, ought to be as comprehensive as possible of all the effective residents in the University, and, as we pointed out at the first, it ought to have been left free to elect Heads of Houses, or not, at its discretion. The least which could be done was to place their election in the hands of a general body, and thus to insure as far as possible that such Heads of Houses as were placed on the Council, should be the best and the most liberal minded of their class. As might be expected from the name of Mr. GLADSTONE on the back of the bill, it is of the most complicated character. Mr. BLACKETT pointed out how its most liberal clauses were neu tralised by others, prohibiting with one hand the free exercise of those powers by the Commissioners which it gave them with the other. And there can be no doubt that it 'vas this balancing and temporising adjustment throughout which secured its walking the course, so far as principle was con cerned. None had all they wanted, but all had something. One complained that it left the laity still to be educated by the clergy, another rejoiced that it did so, but he again had to deplore some liberal-looking clause. Of course all these minor matters will be fully ventilated iu committee, but we surmise that few important alterations will be made. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. THE WAR. OPERATIONS IN THE DOBRUDSCHA. A Vienna journal, the Ost Deutsche Post, gives the following as the last intelligence from the theatre of war " The news from Dobrudscha inform us that the Russians are still advancing. General Luders is marching at the head of three columns on Trajan's Wall. On the 31st ult. he was with his right wing before Tscheruawoda, and with his left before Kavasu. At the same time, the part of the corps ofOstenSacken, which had entered the Dobrudscha, commenced its movement towards Kustendjee. As the port can receive only small vessels, that town cannot reckon on the aid of the fleets. Mustapha Paella has taken up a position between Rassova and Karajue. The Russians have, it is said, attacked him on his crossing Trajan's Wall ; but this news, which is of April 4, merits confirma tion." A letter from Widdin of the 2nd, in a Vienna journal, says :—" No one here considers the opera tion of Prince Gortpchakoff against the Dobrudscha as purely defensive. The attack of the wall of Trajan is the sine qua non, condition of the siege of Silistria and the surrounding forts. The tete de pont of Tschernawoda was cannonaded on the 30th ult. by gun-boats, and the Russians are said to have taken possession of a small redoubt on the road leading to Hirsova. This position, therefore, which was not tenable, will be in the power of General Luders, for a report is current thdt the Russians had crossed the wall of Trajan, and were in march towards Rassova. On the same day, several French and English vessels were cruising off Mangalia, and the Rear-Admiral in command of them had put himself in communication with the gun-boats of Kustendje." It appears by a letter from Bucharest, in the Wanderer of Vienna, that the defence of the Turks at Tultscha was a very determined one. The attack was made bw the Russians on the 23d ult., and the fighting continued till the 27th. On the 23d, the Russians having succeeded with a loss of 1,500 men in getting possession of a battery, the Turks, who were only 2,000 strong, took re fuge in the citadel, where they sustained a siege until one o'clock 'in the afternoon of the 27th. There were different accounts at Bucharest re specting the fate of this brave garrison. According to some, the Turks, reduced one-fourth in number, and having no longer the means of resistance, ca pitulated ; others state that the Russians blew up the fortress, and that the garrison perished in the flames. The affair of Simnitza appears to have been disastrous for the Russians. Not less than 800 soldiers wounded in it had arrived at Bucharest. The Turkish corps at the command of Mustapha Pacha, who at the last dates stood at Karassa, con sisted of 45,000 or 50,000 men. According to the best authorities the Russian invading force was on the 23d ult. 36,000 strong, and has since been considerably reinforced, not, however, from the Principalities, so as to weaken the army there but from Bessa ra bi a . Th e reports from this last district represent it as swarming with troops, and, making allowance for the illusion pro duced on non-military observers by the aspect of large bodies of men in motion, it may be admitted that by this time the Czar has in Bessarabia a very considerable force as far as mere numbers are con cerned with which to repair his first losses. A di rect communication between the Dobrudscha, below Hirsova, and Wallachia has been secured by means of a pontoon brid, -, e across the Danube. Six Turkish transport ships, which were stationed in the St. George's Canal, and managect to escape from the Russians, have reached Kustendjee. From Kalarasch it is stated that 40,000 men and 130 guns are preparing; to attack Silist r i a . G enera l Sehilder was on the spot directing the operations. The heavy siege guns and the rocket batteries had arrived. The garrison of Silistria is stated. to be 10,000, including two Egyptian regiments. The Invalide Busse of St. Petersburg of the 2d, says : " The Emperor yesterday evening received from General Prince Gortschakoff an account of a new Only acquired by his Majesty's arms. On the 23d ult., our troops rendered themselves masters in a most brilliant manner on the right bank cf the Danube. They effected the passage of the river on three points ; from Galatz under the command of Gi,neral de Luders, commanding the sth corps of infantry ; from Thrall under the com mand of Prince Gortschakoff in person, and from Cape Tehetala under the command of Lieut.-General Oucscha koff, chief of the 7th division of infantry. On the last named point the combat was very obstinate, hut, not - withstanding the desperate resistance of the enemy, our brave regiments carried several strong redoubts by assault and took 9 pieces of artillery and made 150 prisoners. On the other points, the Turks astonished at our hold attempt, took to flight, and did not even dare to defend themselves either at Toultcha or at Matchin, places which, surrounded by strong fortification-. and contain ing garrisons of 15,000 men, might have cost us con siderable sacrifices. Thee two fortresses were aban doned by the enemy and taken possession of by our troops without firing a shot. General Prince Gortscha koff renders his testimony to the exemplary prudence,of the measures and of the brilliant valour of Generals de Luders, de Schilder, de Kotzebue, and Ouschakoff, as well as to the bravery of General-Major Doubensky, who had been attached to General de Schilder and of Colonel de Mirbach, aide-de-camp of the Emperor, who accom panied the troops of the advanced guards. Prince Gortschakoff concludes his report to the Emperor in the following terms The troops of your Imperial Majesty, from the General down to the private, are wor thy of the highest praise. They burn with ardour, and are ready to die for your glory. " The St. Petersburg journals officially announce the appointment of Prince Paskiewitsch as com mander-in-chief of the armies of the Danube. The ukase orders that Prince Gortschakoff shall act un der him as chief of the staff, except when he is not present, and then Prince Gortschakoff is to exercise the command-in-chief. THE BALTIC. GOIkILAND, April 2.—A Russian squadron is re. ported to be off Faroe. - COPENHAGEN, April 1 1.—Admiral Napier has left Kioge Bay for Gothland. HAMBURG, April 11.—The exportation of arms and ammunition from Konigsberg to Russia has been prohibited, and a corps d'arinee, with 80 guns, is reported to be stationed between Memel and Suwalka. THE HAYSE TowNs.---A decree of the Senate of Hamburg, of the 10th, prohibits the exports of arti cles contraband of war. Similar decrees have been issued at Lubeck and Bremen. A letter from Riga, of the 6th, states that the weather during the last week had been mild, but the ice still remained solid. It had begun to break up at Windaw, and it was expected that in a few weeks it would begin to do so at Riga. THE BLACK SEA. MALTA, April 7.—lmportant news has reached this island by her Majesty's steamer Cyclops, which arrived here yesterday from the fleet. It is to the following effect :—The allied fleets reached Kavarna Bay on the 26th ult. Eight line-of-battle ships (French) are at anchor in line to the east of Varna, flanked by six steamers. Further east, are ten line-of-battle ships (English), with six steamers on their flank. The Russians have crossed the Danube at Galatz with 30,000 men, without opposition. All the marines from the fleets are to be landed to protect Varna. The Fury, Apollo, and Cyclops arrived at Ka varna on the 28th. The Cyclops brings news that the'Turks expressly left a free passage to llirsova, and, having sur rounded them, after a hard fight, one half of the Russians were cut to pieces, and the remainder took to flight and retreated across the Danube. The English brig Anne, from the Danube, while in tow of the Crescent steamer, was fired on by the Russians, and both she and the steamer were damaged. A barque (English) has also been sunk by the Russians while leaving the Danube laden with grain. Her name is not known. Before the Cyclops left the fleet Admiral Dundas is reported to have made a signal " to take, burn, or destroy everything Russian." The last accounts from Odessa are to the 3d. The Banking establishment had been removed to Ebaterinoslaw. The Government was taking measures for the purchase of corn. Wheat and linseed were in demand, as was also tallow. THE DANUBE. Prince Paskiewitsch arrived at Bucharest on the sth inst. The Wallachian lifoniteur contains a decree of the General-in-Chief of the Russian army, declaring that those persons who circulate false accounts of the military operations of the Russian generals will be brought before a court-martial and pun ished with all the rigour of the law. A Vienna letter says:—Some time since it was stated, in a London contemporary journal, that a great many military executions had taken place in Transylvania, in virtue of the sentences of death passed by the court-martial at Hermanstadt upon fourteen or fifteen individuals, tried and condemned for high treason committed in the revolutionary , era of 1848 and 1849. It i s b u t a bare act o f jus tice to the E mperor o f A ustr i a t o s t a t e th a t hi s Majesty ha s b een graciously pleased to pardon all these unhappy wretches, by commuting thei r punishments t o diff eren t terms of imprisonment, varying from eight to twelve years. Those who choose to doubt the correctness of this information are invited to refer to the Imperial ordinancehere. • unto relating, as contained in the official Vienna Gazette of the 29th of last month. If now and then a military execution has of late years taken place in Hungary, the criminals, almost always lawless highwaymen, would have shared no better fate in any other civilised country. A surgeon who is With the Russian army in Wal lachia writes that the preparations for feeding and doctoring the soldiers are upon a scale unknown in previous Russian campaigns. Provisions are accumulated as if the men were going to march into a desert. The chimneys smoke day and night with the baking •of biscuits. The slaughter of cattle at Ibrail and Galatz is incessant. This wit ness mentions the left wing of the Russian army as consisting of 84,000 men, referring doubtless to the corps at Walarasch and in the Dobrudscha. He incidentally mentions that the hospitals are all crowded, a large proportion of their tenants being wounded. The garrison of Kalafat, according to intelli gence which has reached Vienna, made a sally on the 30th ult. 10,600 foot, 2,000 horse, and 60 guns advanced against the Russians, who were posted in force at Skripetz. After a sanguinary engagement, which lasted four hours, the latter were routed and pursued to a considerable distance. The loss of the rurks is given at 200, and that of their adversaries at GOO men. From the 28th of March up to the 2d of April there were engagements of greater or less severity. CONSTANTINOPLE. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 3.—The Porte has or dered the expulsion of the Greeks within 15 days. The effect is sensible on commerce. The intelligence of the recal of the Greek Mini ster, and of the expulsion from Constantinople of all Greek subjects who would not consent to place themselves under the exclusive protection of the Porte, is confirmed by aVienna correspondent, who quotes letters from Constantinople to the 3(1 inst. The expulsion of the Greeks, it is added, was de termined on by the Porte, in opposition to the ad vice of the Foreign Ministers. MONTENEGRO. A letter from Scutari, 29th, states that.on the previous day the police had seized a number of pro clamations emanating from the Greek insurgents, intended to be circulated among the Montenegrins. The Pacha of Scutari had in consequence redoubled his precautions with regard to the Montenegrins. THE GERMAN POWERS. A letter from Berlin, dated April 9th, says : " Yesterday a despatch was forwarded to St. Peters burg, announcing that the King had used every exertion to induce the contin en t a powers to enter into new negotiations, but that ho had failed, and could obtain nothing till the Russians should have evacuated the Principalities. The object of the negotiations with Baron Hess had been to deter mine the course of the two German Powers in case either of them should take part in the war. It was settled that, if the Austrian troops should pass through Bohemia, the Prussian forces should enter Galicia and Bohemia. A letter from Pesth, 6th, says :—" The Archduke Albert arrived here yesterday from Vienna, and immediately reviewed the 11th corps d'armee, which has been placed on a war footing. The corps assembled on the southern frontier is composed of the 9th, 10th, and 11th corps d'armee. A battalion of engineers has arrived from Olmutz. In a few days there will be a great movement of troops to wards the south. A report is current that Hun gary will be occupied by Prussian troops." A letter from Vienna, 10th, states that the bul letin issued that day of the state of the Archduke William, who a few days before, was considered to be at the last extremity, was more favourable. His Imperial Highness had passed a good night, his strength had increased, and the fever had disap peared. The Pays has the following from its correspond ent at Berlin : " You are aware that M. de Manteuffel announced publicly in the discussion on the loan that he bad addressed to Count d'Arnim the necessary instruc tions to sign a new protocol decided on by the con ference of Vienna. Information, in which I have full confidence, enables me to mention to you the essential points of this document to which present circumstances impart a particular gravity. lam assured that the Four Powers declare in the first place that the changes which have arisen in their respective situations, in consequence of the declaration of war, which two of them have addressed to Russia, impose it on them as a duty to affirm anew that their principles in what re gards the affairs of the East remain the same, and they in consequence refer on the point to the protocols of Dec. 5, 1853, and January 13, 1854. But they would mention once more with even more precision than pre viously the fundamental idea on which their accord is founded. It is declared that the maintenance of the Otto man Empire in its integrity shall remain their object, and that the evacuation of the principalities of the Danube shall be the condition of all and every arrangement. That is above all the reason why the new protocol is more explicit than the preceding ones. The four powers being more and inure convinced of the necessity of introducing the Ottoman empire into the family of the Europe states, undertake to co-operate for that object, and pro mise each other, whatever may happen, not to sign with Russia any act not in conformity with the principles which constitute the basis of their union. Such are said to be the principal paragraphs of the protocol. The announcement of the adhesion of Prussia to this docu ment produced in the chamber the greatest effect, and it is to that incident that the Ministry owes the uncondi tional vote of the bill concerning the loan." The Russian party at Berlin, says a Vienna letter of the Bth, is carrying on a far more successful game at this moment than the public is fully aware of. We hear that in the highest circles there difficulties are now being raised which greatly diminish the favourable prospects recently entertained of a perfect and satisfactory under standing with Austria. Not only has M. de Bun sen been recalled from London, but, if I am rightly informed, Count Arnim is also to be re called from his post at Vienna. Count Fleming, the Prussian secretary of legation, left this city for Berlin this morning. Severe altercations between the King and the Prince of Prussia are reported to have taken place, in consequence of the strong differences of opinion entertained by the royal brothers on the subject of the policy which it behoves Prussia now to pursue in the Oriental question. We hear also that M. de Man teuffel has tendered his resignation but that it is still doubtful wheth er th e King will accept it or not. Under all these circumstances (which I dis tinctly advert to as rumours, and for the correctness of which I cannot exactly vouch), I incline to the belief that the pending negotiations between Aus tria and Prussia are upon the eve of being broken off. The position of Austria will be thereby greatly embarrassed. Nevertheless the sympathies of the great majority of all German States are against Russia in the present struggle ; and if Prussia should venture to reject a close alliance with Austria, for the purpose of establishing a perfect unity of action of the Germanic Federation, Prussia will find at her cost that Bavaria, Wurtein berg, Baden, Hesse-Cassel, Hanover, and Saxony, will support the ancient head of the Germanic empire • and, with such supp or t as thi s, Austria % ill 6)14 go forward with the .Western Powers, and win the " gulden opinions" of civilised Europe. The federal army consists of 303,000 men, to which Austria furnishes a contingent of 94,000, Bavaria 37,000, Wurtemberg 13,500, Hanover 12,500, Saxony, 12,000, the Duchy of Baden 9,500, and the Electorate of Hesse 8,500. These, added together, amount to 187,000, or to nearly two-thirds of the whole federal army. With such a force as this in Germany, combined with the tenfold force of public opinion, Austria will be strong iu her cause, and strong in h er means to pursue that policy which her own territorial interests and the interests of Germany at large require. We now hear that, far from allowing her self to be taken in tow by the shilly-shallying play fair and play-foul neutrality of Prussia, Austria will manfully go forward to redeem the pledges :, oiven to the Western Powe rs . I b e li eve l am par ticularly well informed when I state that his Ma jesty the Emperor has already given orders that an army of 200,000 men are to be put in motion on the Servian frontier, and that his Imperial Royal Highness the Archduke Albrecht is forthwith to cross the Servian frontier to occupy that princi pality. This is a decided step en avant, and one which is doubtless not undertaken without the con sent of the Porte. GREECE. A telegraphic despatch, dated Trieste, April 10, states that accounts from Janina of the 3d announce that the Greek insurg ents have been repulsed. Hussein Pacha and Fuad Effendi went with the troops to IVlezzovo, in Albania, in order to re-esta blish communications. Advices from Athens, of the 7th April, state that the insurrection is making no progress. Ar miro has not been taken. Turkish reinforcements had arrived at Prevesa and Volo. do lilacs, and in front of the Ecole Militaire. The quays on both sides of the river were also covered with spectators, and the carriages of every descriP; don on the ground were numerous. Tickets had previously been issued by the Grand Master of the Ceremonies for the stands, from which a magnifi: cent coup d'ceil might be obtained. We have not heard of any accident occurring. The Champ de Mars has been the scene of manY a display. In the centre of that immense s pace between th e Mili tary School and the Seine, 09 " Altar of the Country" rose in 1790, on which it was vainly hoped that all jealousy and hatred wore sacrificed, and in presence of which the King of re generated France solemnly swore to observe the novr , nstitutions whi c h h a d a b olished the tyranny °, .;enturies : and wh en hi s ent h us i astic people ratified the vow, and, intoxicated with joy at their disen; thralment, appealed to Heaven for the sincerity and duration of their loyety to their constitutional Sovereign. The sloping embankments which stil• partially enclose that space, are the work of the .copulation of Paris, and which more than 60,00. 1 1 persons, of both s e x es an d o f every rank, fe l t it an honour to be employed in. Those vows were, on one side at least, soon forgotten or disregardeii: In twelve months and three days a far different drama was enacted there, and the banks of the Seine resounded with the cannon shot and grapes which mowed down the populate so lately full of enthusiastic devotion to their Monarch, but who now were furious for his blood. Something ominous seemed to be connected with the Champ d e Mars. The Feast of Federation, which was to open 9 ; new era, was but the prelude to the horrors of the Revolution. The solemn inauguration of the, Acte additionnel, w h en Napoleon in presence 01 the deputations of the Electoral Colleges of Franctlt and the army, guaranteed the constitution of th Empire, found a speedy close on the bloody field of Waterloo. There, too, in 1830, the colours vier listributed by Louis Philippe to the National Guards of France, and the Re vo l u ti on o f 1 848 wa s the terminatio n o f a reign so favourably inauger rated. It was there, too, that the Imperial eaglee were distributed by Louis Napoleon as the prelude to his assuming the name and style of Emperor, and completing the forms of that power which he already exercised in reality. Let us hope that the fatality which in other times hung over the spot has now passed away for ever, and that the object of the military spectacle which the Champ de Mars has this day witnessed will prosper and triumph to the end. A peculiar feature distinguishes the present re view. A Prince of the Royal blood of England received with all the honours due to his exalted rank, by the nephew of the man who waged a war' so desperate and so long against the country which is ruled over by that Prince's family. The spectacle France most loves to behold is displayed before his' eyes, and the Emperor of the French and the Prince' witness, side by side, and in peace and amity, the military display which is but the prelude to the• more terrible one in which the hosts of France and- England will soon be engaged for a common object, and in which the banner of St. George and the tri colour will meet together as they have never met before. After visiting Prince Jerome, his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge and suite paid a visit' • to the Grand Duclies.3 of Baden, and afterwards to the Princess Mathilde. In the afternoon Prince' Jerome, accompanied by two aides-de-camp, re turned the visit of his Royal Highness. In the even ing, the whole party, including their Excellencies Lord and Lady Cowley, dined with their Majesties- Tae distinguished travellers went to the Tuileries' in the State carriages as iu the morning. After the breaking up of party, the Duk3 of Caul bridge and Lord Raglan, accompanied by their' aides-de-camp, proceeded to the Opera Coiniques where they occupied the Emperor's box. The It ,yal Duke wore the Order of the Gorton, and the Goneral the Order of the Bath, but the whole party" .vere in plain clothes. Time presence of the dis-• tinguished visitors appeared to ba quite unknown, oxeopt to a few English who happened to witness' their arrival. The Pays mentions a rumour that the Duke of Cambridge was the bearer of a letter from the Queen of England to the Emperor of the French. A Paris letter, in the Independence of Brussels, states that M. do Moatalembert had received a summons to appear before the Tribunal of Correc tional Police, and that M. Dupin has been sub poenaed as a witness. Little business was done yesterday on the Bourse. The Three per Cents. I.laosed at 63f. 20c. for the end of the m on th ; the Illour-and-a-Half per Cents. at 89f. 60c. ; and th e New Loan, at 64f. 15e. ; Orl eans R a il way Sho,res 1,042 f. 50c. • Rouen, 820 f. ; Havre 410 f. ; CJrreat Northern, 732 f. 50 e . ; Strasburg, 71 2 2 f. 50e. ; New Shares, 527 f. 50c.; Paris to Lyons, 790.,f.; Lyons to the Mediterranean, Gssf. ; Western of France, 555 f. ; Bordeau x and. Cette, 510 f. ; G reat Central of France, 402 f. 50c.; Lyons to Geneva, 425 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 4S3f. 75c. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 7th contain nothing of political interest. The new Minister to the ! United States, M. Cueto had left for his post. It was said that the Marquis Turgot, the French ambassador, would not resign his emb assy, as had been ass er t e d , even i f he should be obliged to absent himself to proceed to a bathing place. The news from Barcelona was satisfactory. The city had 3 5- sumed its usual peaceable aspect ; but the writhed' ties continued to adopt military precaution:4. At great number of the persons arrested had been set at liberty, but the chiefs were to be prosecuted. Everything that had been discovered confirmed what had been at first suspected that the move ment was of a Carlist character. Although there had been no bloodshed, the affair had caused great injury to the city ; business transactions had been suspended, the deposits in the Savings Bank had greatly ditninished, and the theatres had been deserted. Affairs continue in the same state at Barcelona-- that is to say, the proclamations and menaces of the Captain-General have no effect in inducing the people to return to work. The Gazette gives what professes to be the substance of a de spatch from General La Rocha, of. the Ist inst., together with the proclamation of that date, and in which the workmen were given till two p.m. to re sume work, and threatened that all who disobeyed this injunction should be treated as rebels; and Gene ral La Rocha expresses his expectation that the pro clamation will have the desired effect. At the same time he was concentrating tro ps there, and getting ready the Lepanto was steamer, iu case a naval. force should b e requ i red. But the ' occurrences tiP to th s afternoon of the 21 are best shown by the' following private letter of that date : "arcel, Aril 2. " IT,,sterday was one o f the mostß painfulona daysthat v# 9 have passed. It is true that there were no personal disasters to lament, but the state of mind was very sad and idllicting. "It was hoped that, by the publication of martial law, which took placeat lialf-pa.,t 1 p.m., the groups of civilians; would dissolve themselve s ; but it was not so. Their pas sive and resigned attitude disarmed the troops, who we're z is , u i r n i i ) s r e is r e a d bl t e o:fi ti n e r k l , in al f i r d oi .w it it o i f i them their es d m s i e i s n rhietihr°turtoeven users pockets. Only one firing took place, about three Wel , 3clE, in the Travesia de. Lancaster, in consequence of a fib wen , pot having been thrown into the street from an a7;otea on a strung patrol which was passing ; but, as the i nsult was riot repeated, the troops continued their march. with groat precaution. "From two to three p.m. 1,200 prisoners were m ade and taken to the forts of Atarazanas and of the citadel. Some of them were set at liberty as soon as they w ere able to certify, by the simplest proofs, their honesty a nd good conduct. " The troops retired to their barracks at six, leaving the city quite traolutl. There only remained some strong the Plazakt in tile p os i t i ons of the theatres, and in ia Censtitecion." The writer adds,. that on that day (Sunday) there was no sign of disturbance occurring, and. that people were walking about as usual. Do? Jose.: Palau, a canon, an d di rector o f the assoctri tion La Escuela de la Virtud, had been arrested, and th e association dissolved ; p a ri -and. a noted Ab so l ut i st, named Riera, who was ter to the Jesuits at Barcelona, had also been taken. up. It was believed that the Captain-Ganeral awaited the arrival of reinforcements in order to undertake more rigorous measures. The following are the prices of Stocks :_....Three per Cents., 30 ; ditto Deferred, 16 5 ; Debt, Ist class, 7 50; ditt o, 2d ditto, 4. L'ichange on London, 51 65, Redeemable PATRIOTISM IN PRUSSIA. The speech which produced the greatest sensa tion in the Second Prussian Chamber on the occa• sion of the debate upon the loan was that of M. de Vincke. This gentleman was repeatedly cheered, and when he had concluded, the effect was so great that the sitting was suspended for several minutes. M. de Vincke said : " It has been said that the character of the Emperor of Russia ought to reassure us. I have the greatest esteem for his character, and I declare that it is tot true that he has acted with perfidy. He has always said what he desired, and he has now attempted what he desired. He addressed England, whom he respected . most. Since his accession to the throne, he has been ar rested neither by romantic sentiments nor by bonds of relationship. He t bas been guided alone by the consi deration of what the grandeur and power of his country called for and in that res p ec t h e h as certa i n l y distie guished himself amongst his peers. He wants to hold the key of his own house, as Peter the Great expressed it ; and no one can blame him in the Russian point of view. But we, gentlemen, have to look at our interest in a Prussian point of view. If Russia should seize on the Bosphorus and the Sound, she becomes in vincible, and you have a direct interest in opposing it. If you are an European power, you ought to oppose such projects most energetically ; if you are not, you ought the more to join those who can defend your. weakness. Russia is the most pewerful neighbour of Prussia, and her territory runs into ours. For a length of time Russia covets our Eastern provinces ; mean while she is cutting into the veins of our commerce Russia was against us in the Seven Years' War. In 1813, she wanted to have the Eastern province. swear allegiance to her. In 1850 she menaced us with war. It is known that an influential party in Russis wants the Vistula for frontier. Remember the &Lyles! of the Great Frederick—. If the Russians are at Con stantinople, in a week after they will be seen at Ticenigs berg.' The ties of relationship have been spoken of, but I think too well of our monarch to admit that he cal, sacrifice the interests of the country to considerations which have never weighed with the Emperor of Russia. The question of religion has been put forward in this matter, but every one now knows, since the Anglo-Rue sian correspondence has been published, that the real question is the inheritance of the 'sick loan.' Besides, who does not know what persecutions the dissenting sects, the Catholic and Protestant religions, have been subjected to in Russia. Imprisonment and Siberia are the fate of the Christian missionaries It is, in fact, a systeei of the most cruel into lerance that can even be imagined. Others have placed Russia in opposition to revolution. whilst it is she who has always spread revolution in neighbouring countries : in Poland, in Sweden, and at this moment in Turkey. Russia besides has herself revolutions at home. In order to have revolution, it is not necessary that kings should be killed in the open day or by the guillo tine. To represent Russia as the natural bulwark against revolution is a sophism of the specific party : it. is not the inspiration of good sense. Russia has been caled the oldest ally of Prussia. That is not the case. We have had more ancient alliances with England, with France, and with Turkey herself. And how did this old ally treat us ? In 1807 she took advantage of our misfor tunes to appropriate to herself a province. In 1815 she prevented Alsace from being again united to Germany. In 1829 she wished to give to the Bourbons the left bank of the Rhine, in order to obtain Constanti nople in exchange. In 1850 she recommended England to declare war against us, and if England, then as now full of honour, refused, it was not the fault of ou r goo d o ld ally, who in the correspondence which was lately brought to light made no mention of Prussia. And then, gentle. men, can we forget the Conferences of Warsaw which broke the heart of the man (the Count de Brandeburg), whose place the present President of the Council now fills. The true policy of Prussia should, therefore, tend to emancipate us from Russia. If the Government, before Russia had crossed the Pruth, had declared against her, we should have had peace at this moment. Protocols no longer suffice. A great power should co operate in the execution of what it regards as being the basis of right. Instead of that, Prussia has made herself the European postman, carries propositions of peace here, and propositions of peace there ; asks Austria what she intends to do, and finishes by guaranteeing to that. power her Italian possessions by extending the treaty of May 16, 1851. The state of Frederic may dispense with Austrian direction. I nevertheless consider that, at this moment, the interests of Prussia and Austria are identical, and there is reason for,congratulation that the magnanimous Em peror of Austria has at length resolved on drawing the sword. The Prussian government, while it professes not to confine itself to neutrality, finds itself, in fact, in that condition, and ceedeams the country to poxerless ness. France awl Eesslanil cannot in the end recognise Prussian neutrality. It will end by involving us in a war with these tw o P owers , and, suaosing it to be a suc cessful one, it wily only turn to the a.lvantase of Russia, which will, notwithstanding, never pardon the litt;e sympathy that has been shown towards her by Prussia." FRANCE. REVIEW IN HON , )UR OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. The grand review in honour of the Duke of Cambridge took plac 3 yesterlay (Wednesday) in the Champ de Mars. The time was . one o'clock ; hut long before multitudes, longing to witness a spectacle which Frenchmen always love so much, but which possessed the additional novelty of the presence of an English Prince, thronged, for two or three hours previously, to the long familiar spot. At half-past eleven o'clock the troops were in movement. Along the Boulevard, and quays on both sides of the river, the bands of military music, and .the rolling of artillery carriages were heard as the various regiments successively passed on. The manufactories and the workshops sent forth th*ir occupants ; for the roll of a drum or the blast of a trumpet stirs the heart of the Frenchman. As each regiment passed, , crowds continued to issue from every lane and street, drew up at each side, and, accompanied with measured step, in serried rank, the military cortege. At 12 o'clock the varied corps of the army of Paris de bouched from the Bridge of Jena, and the avenue of the Mothe-Piquet, and took up their positions on the ground. Between the bridge and the Ecole Militaire, throughout the entire length of the Champ de Mars, with the right resting on the bridge, extended five lines of infantry, forming two divisions of two brigades each, and one brigade of reserve. The whole of the infantry, counting 24 battalions, and four companies of engineers —about 18,000 men in all—were under the orders of General Levasseur, assisted by Re nault and Bourgon, Generals of Division ; and Marulay, Repond, Ripert, Esterhazy, and Courand, Generals of Brigade. Those five lines were com posed of three battalions of Chasseurs, five of light Infantry, 13 battalions of the line, and three of the Paris Guards and the Gendarmerie d'Elite. The cavalry, forming two divisions, four brigades and 45 squadrons—namely, eight of Chasseurs, four of Hussars, six of Guides, eight of Dragoons, eight of Cuirassiers, eight of Carabineers, and three of the mounted Gendarmerie--drew up in four lines in front of the Infantry, with the right resting on the Ecole Militaire, the left on the Bridge of Jena, and leaving a large open space in front of the grand stand. These 45 splendid squadrons were under the command of General Forte, assisted by Foray, Gado, Mari on , an d th e Duke deMontebello, Generals of Brigade. Between the left of the In fantry and the right of the Cavalry, in one single line, with the Ecole Militaire to the rear and front ing the bridge of Jena, were stationed seven bat teries of Artillery, six foot, and one horse, with 42 guns, under the orders of Brigadier General An vity. The total of the force under arms might be about 25,000 men. At half-past 12 o'clock the Empress issued from the gates of the Tuileries in an open carriage, preceded by outriders, accompanied by the ladies of the Court, and foll owe d o y another open carriage, w ith the officers of her household, and passed slowly along the quays of the Tuileries, and the quay Billy, to the bridge of Jena, which she crossed, and proceeded to the grand stand in the Champ de Mars, where she and her attendants took their places. At 1 o'clock the Emperor made his appearance at the bridge of Jena. He had ou his right hand the Duke of Cambridge, and on the left Lord Raglan, followed by a numerous staff composed of English and French officers, all in full dress. As they made their appearance on the Champ de Mars the drums beat to arms, and the bands struck up " God save the Queen," and " Partant pour la Syria," which were alternately played ; and cries of " Vive l'Einpercur !" and "Vive les Anglais I" were heard. The Emperor and the Duke of Cambridge rode in front of the line, j the former occasionally conversing with his Royal Highness, and the att en ti on o f t h e foreign officers apparently engaged in examining, not perhaps without admiration, the gallant appearance of the troops so lung the rivals of the English, now, and let us hope for a long time to come, their firm and faithful allies. When the cortege had completed the survey of the whole, the five lines of infantry broke up and formed in columns of battalions, with their right on the bridge of Jena. The line of cavalry, forming into squadrons, took position to the rear of th e ar till ery , an d the artillery broke up into half batteries. The Emperor and the Duke then took their stand in front of the pavilion, where the Empress, the ladies in attendance, and the officers of the household were seated, t o witness the defiling of the troops. The infantry opened the march and the cavalry closed it. N o . thing could be finer than the appearance of the Hussars, the Guides, the Cuirassiers, and the Cara bineors, as they swept in long order from the bridge to the Ecole Militaire, and as the different corps passed where the Imperi a l an d princely commanders were stationed, each chief made his signal of courtesy. The soldiers seemed inspired by the consciousness of united strength; they sat erect in their saddles, and the horses themselves appeared to tread the ground with pride. They dashed cn, squadron after squa dron, troop after troop, with the banners waving, and plumes dancing, in long perspectiveiowith theory and they passed before th e I mperial t,heor t y e o y f " Viva l'Empereur I" The defiling lasted more than an ho ur an d a half. When it was over, the troops resumed the positions they first occupied on the ground, and when the Emperor passed 0.4 return, to the Tuileries, the infantry on the right and the cava l ry on the left presented arms to his Majesty, 41 about a quarter to four the whole were on their return to their respective (pwits 3 r4, About half-p as t 11 o ' c l ock rain beganto fall, but soon cleared. It again fell at 113 1 and eontinu e d at intervals un til half-past two. It cleared up again, however, and continued fine, though with a cloudy sky, until all was over, and the troops lie, quitted tee ground. Immense crewtla fled the sloping embankments on both sides of the Champ THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. —Yesterday a Parliatnen- Ary paper was printed containing the instructions issued to the commanders of her Majesty's ships now engage , 'l in the arctic regions' in search for Sir John Franklir 1. They are to leave in the summer of 1855, and not to wait the winter of that year. &iould England be rn gaged in hostilities with any other power, they are to take no part in it, it being the established practice of la civilised nations to consider vessels engaged in seientLfit, discoveries as exempt from th e operation of war. STOPPAGE OP TLIE INDIA AND CAPE MAlLS.—YeSter' day the Pos tinkdter-Gener a l gave notice that, in conse quence of no packet having been provided to convey the mails of the evening of the 14th instant to the Cape of Good Dope, &c., letters for the colony must be sent by pinta ship. The following vessels have been taken up to convey ship letter bags to the Cape :—The Adven ture and Diamond, now lying in the London Docks, te, sail the 14th inst. ; and the John Knox, in the Si Katharine 's Docks, to sail on the 13th instant. Lette rs for the East Indies and Ceylon may be sent via Ewyr pt. SWITIIAMPTON ELECTION.-Yesterday Sir A. Co( At burn was for the sixth time elected one of the repres,ei ti tatives of Southampton. No opposition was offs rtldpd and the election pakeied off without the leaet exeitentanit.