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NOTICE.--The Nobility and Gentry are re quested to take notice that the MEETING of the SUB SCRIBEILS to the SURREY CORNER SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS w;11 take place on SATURDAY, the 15th lost. (end 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 London brdges. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. — Mr. E. C. SMITH, Lessee, has the honour to announce that he has placed the above-named National Establishment at the ser vice of the FUND in AID of the FAMILIES of the EXPEDITION ARY ARMY. In pursuance of this desirable object, a FANCY 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 Cambridge The Right Hon. the Lady Mayoress Her Grace the Duc'iess of Hamilton Her Grace the Duc:.ess of Beaufort Her Grace the Duchess of Montrose Her Grve the Duchess of 'lnverness Her Grace the Due - less of Somerset Her Grace the Duchess of RichmoT: ' The Most Noble the Mnrchioness Of Londonderry The Most Noble the Marchioness of IllAndt , ra . Tue Nost .:.`•Gble the M archioness of Aviestury The Right 11 , ,n. the d ountess of ches..idrfleld The tig,f,t Hon. the Countess of Kintioul The RI ht Hon the Countess of Gle:gall the Right Hon. the Countess of Besoborough The Right lion. the Countess of Heins , The Right !on. the Countess of Shelburne The Right Hon. the Countess of Wilton The tight Hon. the Conntess of I)esart The Right Hon. the Countess of Donoughmore The Right. lion. the Viscountess Palmerston The Right Hon, the Viscountess Maidstone The Bight lion. the Viscountess Newport Lady Sophia Des-Vcetts Lady Colville Lady Raglan The lion. Miss Anson Mrs. Disraeli Mrs. J. Stanley. E ve ry appointment and appearance of the Theatre will be called into requisition on this important and interesting occasion ; decora tions are preparing. The pit will be covered for promenade, and an efficient band provkled for the execution of choice and new original music. Ladies desirous of aiding by their presence this benevolent demonstration are respectfully reminded that they should make early application for stalls. A boo:: is now open in the lobby of the grand entrance to receive contributions in t h e s h ape of art i cles inten d e d for sale on the occasion. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Great Attraction for the Million.—SMlTH'S PROMENADE CO si C ERTS. Passion Week.—FOß ONE NIGHT ONLY : THIS EVEN ING, Thursday, April 13.—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 -104 a vast Arena for the Visitors. Among a host of talent, the following eminent artistes will have the honour of appearing : Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss Susannah Lowe , Miss Ransford, Miss Featherstone ; Mr. Elliot Galer, Mr. Ransford, and Mr. Henri Drayton. Instrumentalists —Messrs. Distil), the celebrated performers on the Sax Horns. Pianoforte—Herr Carl Wohlfson. Concertina—Mr. It. Blagrove. Flute—Mr. R. S. Pratton. Conduc tor of the Vocal Music —Mr. J. F. Duggan. The Orchestra will be most powerful and complete, consisting of 70 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 success:al opera of Leconie. Pit promenade and upper boxes, le. ; dress boxes, 2s. 6d. ; private boxes, 11. ls.. 155., and 10s. Doors will open at half-past 7, and commence at 8. THEATRE ROYAh HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Ruckstone. T'lls week being Passion Week, the Theatre will be Closed, and will Re-open on Easter Monday, April 17, with a Comedy. Atter woich, an entirely new an.l original extravaganza, enti led Mr. BUCKsITONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE, GLOBE (IN LEI:CES TEP.•SQCARE). written by J. R. Planche, Esq., Author of Mr. Buckstone's Ascent of Mount Parna•su., and which will he produced with entirely *IeNV scen - ry, ma , h'nery, dress,s, and a:-po , ntments. Trine pal characters by Mr. Ituckitone, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Clark, Mr. J. Marshall, Mr H. Marshall : Mr'. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Caultleid, Miss E. ey, .Miss Lt die Thompson, Miss Laura Morris, and Miss Featherstone, who is re-engaged at this theatre. With other En tertamments, The box-office will be opened on Saturday next, the 13th inst._ STR AND THEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Allcr At.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, THIS EVENING, APRIL 13, Mr. G. Hodson's 'Entertainment of P.IDDY'S PORTFOLI Atter which, ..ons. Delavine and his two sms at their ctria zated Drawing-Room Entertainment. To be Followed by a Mus;cal Melange, entitle i THE GIPSY HAUNT. T o which will be added Mons. Delavin , on the Revo'v:ng Globe. To conclude with Mr. Con's Dissolving Views. AtiTLEY'S Etilic/Pr...4 NA `.t Lessee miff Manager. Mr. W , The Public are res , ectmity Wormed, th , t .ixrar meta will RE-OPEN 'r Ea: ter Nlogdav, tent 17, with In entire - i new Grand Nan:leg Equestrian sly etacte, wraten ex•?resily 17 Mr Nelson Lee. Various Novelti,s are in prep .ratLy? for the :;cones t,f the Circle. Arrangements ate pendinA for the appearance of ktill nent Continental Eqm-stian Artistes. The Rot-office w 11 he opened on Tnursday, the 13th insitant.frorn Eleven tili Your. ;mill WATER AT LONDON BRlThie Taint Der —Morning 0 min.after 2 1 Evening 17 mithaft. 2 To-Moznew—Morning 35 min.after 2 1 Evening 51 mia.aft. 2 THE WEATHER.—Sux Orptaa , APRIL 13. THERNONETEB, IN THE SHADIC. 60 —highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 58—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30 . 43. WIND, E.S.E.—Light breeze, with fine, sunshiny weather. ~` ~~V^~~ Nl,j T 7 ,e LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1854. It is seriously and earnestly to be hoped —we repeat it—that Austria and Prussia may withdraw betimes from the cause of the Western Powers, 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 avowal. Better, therefore, we once more assert—better that we should be opposed than that we should be joined by the two great German Govern ments. Associated with the councils of Vienna 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 sway over the imperial Cabinet at Sahoenbrunn, 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 ultimate;.' sub - v - ertal—..;nere is not a momen..'s doubt about di.) reality of its ex istence. No more doubt, indee 1, than There is as to the circumstance of the H mg:lrian War ef Inch peudence having been crushed oat, taller the feet of the Cusaack3 p aired down upeu the ranks of the Magyars under the banners of the Princ3 PASKIEWITCH ! NO more doubt than there is as to the reality of that Prussian Princess, MARIA CHARLOTTE, sister of Ri ng F REDERICK WILLIAM IV., being identically the same with that Rus sian Empress, ALEXANDRA pEODOROWNA, wife of the Czar NICHOLAS ! No —A ustr i a i s ustria 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 O ppose the Northern AUTOCRAT, it W ill only be in compliance with his secret suggestion—t o throw off the mask at a more perilous moment for E ng _ 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 than 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 tones 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 i s a vacillation that must he at last, in one direction or another, ter. urinated. Let it be terminated now—and even if a new difficulty be created, a still greater , one will have been averted. Decision in this par- 1 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 be 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 eff,:ctcd for the advantage of its more civilised population. er ly of the analysiseffect s ee t ofs ome a eof Free Tradem ong d the u rj e g more t h e remarkable Arna 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 circumstance , , 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 of land 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 an 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— "l 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 shot 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 cn 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 he maintained would aff )rd 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 wish 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 e.itablish ment of a regular system of agricultural organia 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, naturally enough, 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 ports under 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 COME ! TV. And the nearly doubling of our TEA ! Patting 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, statei in bushels of wheat S' , N , tr in lb, Cnif,,, In ounce 4 Tea in ounces 1833. 1843. 1853. 8 8 10i 18 16 30 14 16 2)1 2 19 22 34 -- So that, literally, uu:ler Free Trade, the British people eat nearly a third more bread than they did before, under Protection ! They ea t, double the quantity of Sugar ! They drink ,a third more Coffee ! Thy 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 mass 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. If it be the prime merit of a Government mea sure to pass a second reading, like the response to the QIINEN'S Speech, without a division, then the Oxford U n i versity Bill must rank as highly as could be desired. We are so used, however, to a vote on the principles of every important mea sure, that the absence of it almost provoke 3 sus picion. We are tempted to inquire whether such a bill, like the address 'to the Throne, is much more than the echo 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 hardly thanks a Governme n t f or what has not oa pug nacity t i eost 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 oppo s iti on . We must candidly confess, however, that this last eazon has united its force with the less noble one firs: suggested. The actual system of govern- meld at Oxford is so utterly bad, so at variance with the best antiquity, so opposed to the repro ' sentative and constitutional forms which pervade 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 for ever. NERO and Sir CHARLES WOOD allowed wealthy citizens and East India Directors to immolate themselves, but 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. ILEA THCOTE, 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 vei y firm against the insidious proposal to permit ea cli sec tion of the new Council to be elected by the own class. This would truly be, as Mr. GriAlusToNz observed, to fix and perpetuate class distinctions to the end of time. The Congregation, iich is to elect the Council, ought to be as coinpre'h•eosive as possible of all the elective 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 nit, at its discretion. The least which could he done was to :place their election iu the hands of a general 1> idy, and thus to insure as far as possible that ;such Heads of Houses . as were placed on the Col should be the best and the most liberal mind e d of their class. As might be expected from the name of Mr. GLADSTONE on the back of the bill, it its of the most complicated character. Mr. BLACKI TT pointed out how its most liberal clauses were n e u tralised by others, prohibiting with one hand the free exercise of those powers by the Commission ers which it gave them with the other. And thka re can be no doubt that it was this balancing a,l d temporising adjustment throughout which secur ed its walking the course, so far as principle was co a cerned. None had all they wanted, but all ha tl 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. 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 unforeseeu events perverting in reality the arrangements of the genercus benefactor. It will ever remain competent to the supreme L-gislature of a nation to look to the adniinistration 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 bun., beds of years after they had mouldered to dust, of ' con trolling against the will of their country's Pz trlia,- ment the property which they had quitted for ever. This were, indeed, a rule of mortinaim—of tha dead hand over the living mind. Those large minded friends of learning and education w. however, have been the last to plead for so ab surd a power. They, could they have foreseen the August of 1854, would have felt rather honoured than otherwise, that the Legislature of the con u 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 pe.rsist ing in this exclusive policy. As a plain nn titer of fact, a large part of the colleges were four. tded by those whose religion is now denounced in the Thirty-nine Articles which all must sign who en ter Oxford. Small respect this for founders' wilfai ! Moreover, it seems intolerable that those wip.o comprise one-half the worshippers in the country. should be excluded from the National University. Wnat 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 enli,ghlen us. He may get votes enow no doubt, but we expect more ingenious sophistry than h()nest argument. THE ICE IN THE BALTIC. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUY. SlR,—Please insert the following account of the 'open ing of the navigation at Cronstadt for the last 11 yt p.rs ; it will probably be interesting to your readers. four correspondents have been rather premature in their elec tric telegraphic despatches. A RUSSIAN MERCHANT London, April 11, 1854. 1842—First ship came in 10th May, N.S. 1813 32 22 1Btl 1815 24th 1846 1817 1848 1849 1810 1851 - 2d 29 PP 1852 1853 .„ COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, .4 PR IL 12. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wale, the Princes. Royal. the Pri ices • Alio., :old the young,:qr members of the Ro).al family, a !id at tended by the Ladies arid Ge,,tiemen in Waiting, a rrived at the Castle about half-past 4 o'clock this alto, -noon from town. Iler Royal Highness the liuehes.s of Kent an rived yester•:?ay at her residence, Frogmore, from London . The (been will hold a Privy Council on Satur, clay next. the 1.5t.h lost., at 'Windsor Castle. Her Majesty and H R.H. Prince Albert left Buckin.,.g ham Palace at 25 minutes before 4 o'clock yesterday a, - - ternoon for Windsor Castle. The Queen and Prinve were accompanied by their Ropal Highnesses the Prince of Wale. , , 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 the& carriage by the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord George Lennox, and Colonel Wylde. The Royal pa r ty qu i tted the Palace in seven of the Queen's carriages, escorted by a detachment of Carbi neers, for the terminus of the Great Western Ra.ilway at Paddington, and travelled by a special tr 2 in to Windsor. The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's counsel, &c., on Wednesday next, the first da y of Easter Term, at his lordship' s res id ence i n Upper Brook-street, at 12 o'clock. CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held mt the Foreign-oflice,.Downing-street, y ester d ay afternoon. The Ministers present were—the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Marquis of L ans d owne, 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 MANNERS.—The demise of the youthful Lady John Manners is -one of the most lamentable deprivations which society,has sustained for -some time past. Her ladyship was beloved and respected in every relation in life, and her early r death will be, uni versally lamented. DINNER To THE EARL OF BEAuctimmr.—A public dinner is to be given to the Earl of Beancliainp at the Shirehali, Worcester, on Saturday, the 2211 inst., on which occasion the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Bart., - MP., has consented to preside. LATEST FOREIGN 24; E S. THE WAR. OPERATIONS IN THE DOBRUDSOHA. 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 Tschernawoda, 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 Trajau'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 te'te 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 that the Russians had crossed the wall of Trajan, and were iu 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 23c1, 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, uot, however, from the Principalities, so as to weaken I the army there, but from Bessarabia. The 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 Ilirsova, and Wallachia has been secured by means of a pontoon bridge across the Danube. Six Turkish transport ships, which were stationed in the St. George's Canal, and mailagea to escape from the Russians, have reached Kasteadjee. From Kalarasch it is stated that 40,000 men and 130 guns are preparing to attack ilistria. General :3childer was on the spot directing the operations. The heavy siege guns anal 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 241, says : " The Emperor yesterday evening received from General Prince Gortschakoff an account of a new glut y acquired by his Maje-ty's arm. On the 23:1 ult., our troops rendered theinse!ves masters in a most brilliant rnahner on the right bank of the Danube. They effected the passage of the river on three points ; from Galatz under the command of General de Luders, commanding the sth corps of infantry ; from forail under the corn niand of Prince Gr,rt, , ich.ikoff in person. and from Cape Tchetaia under the commatid of Lieut.-General Ouc-clia koff, chief of the 7th division of infantry. On the last named point the combat wa4' .yery ont. not - witbstanOing the desperate resistance of the enemy, our brave regiments carriedseveral strong redoubts by assault and took 9 pieces of artillery and made 150 prisoners. On the other points, the Turks astonished at our bold attempt, took to flight, an ! did not even dare to defend themselves either at Toultcha or at Matchin, places which, surrounded by strong fortifications and contain ing garrisons of 15,000 men, mL4-lit have cost us con siderable sacrifices. The.ie 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 th,l 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 SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, APRIL 13, 1854. THE BALTIC. GOTHLAND, April 2.—A Russian squadron is re ported to be off Faroe. COPENHAGEN . , April 11.—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'aringe, with SO guns, is reported to be stationed between Memel and Suwalka. THE HANSE 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 Lube , 3k 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, dunked by six steamers.. Further east, are ten line-of battle shii , s (English), with six steamers on their flank. The Russians have crossed the Danube at Gala!z with 39,000 men, without opptisition. All the marines from the fLets are to be landed to protect Vorna. Th e F ur y, A polio, and Cyclops arrived a, K.,,- varna on the 28th. The Cyclops brings news that the T ur k s express l y left a free passago to Hirseva, 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 wore 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 Admi ra l D un d as 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 Moniteur 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 up on fourteen or fifteen individuals, tried and condemned for high treason committed in the revolutionary era of 1848 a n d'lB49. It is but, a bare act o f jus tice tothe .Emperor of Austria to state that his Majesty has been graciously pleased to pardon all these unhappy wretches, by commuting their punishments to different terms of imprisonment, varying fromsight to twelve years. Those who choose to doubt the correctness of this information are invited to refer to the Imperial ordinance here- I unto relating, as contained in the official Vi2i,/ta Gazette of the 29th of last mouth. If nbw 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 surg,on 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 81,000 men, referring doubtless to the corps at \Valarasch and in the Dobrudscha. He incidentally mentions that the hospitals are all crowded, a large proportion of their tenants being wounded. v . The garrison of Kalafat, acc:)rding to intelli gence which has reached Vienna, made a sally on the 30th ult. 10,600 foot, 2,0j0 hone, and GO guns advanced against the Russians, who were posted in force at Skrlpeiz. After a sanguinary engagement, which lasted four hours, the latter were routed and pursued to a considerable distance. The loss of the Turks is given at 200, and that of their adversaries at 600 men. From the 28 of Alarci up t,3 the 2:1 of April there were engagements of greater or less severity. CONSTANTI \COPLE. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 3.—The Porte has or dered the expulsion of the Greeks within 15 days, The effect is sensiiile 0,1 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 a,Vienn ci wrespondent, who quotes letters from Constantinople to the 3il 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 continental powers to enter into new negotiations, but that he 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 Germaa 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 .A.rzndulze William, who a few. days beforc,, wt consilered re h e at the last extremity, was more favoura,ble. 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 Mant - uffel. announced publicly in the discussion on the loan that he had addressed to Count d'Arnim the necessary instruc tions to sign a new pi•otocol decided on by the con , ference of Vienna. Information, in which I have full confidence, enabies me to mention to you the essential points of this document to wh ch present eircuoistances impart a particular gravity. I ant assure,; that the Four Powers declare in the first Lsce that the changes which have arisen in their respective sktiations. in consequence of the declaration of war, which two of them have addressed to IttiSmia, impose it on them as a duty to a, 4- rni anew that their principles in what re gards the affairs of the East remain the same, and they u. consequence refer on the point to the protocols of Dec. 5, 1853, and January 13, 1854. Bat they wou!d mention once more with even inure precision than pre viously the fundament 1 idea on which their accord is founded. It is declared that the maintenance of the Otto man Empire in its integrity shall remain their obj,,t, awl that the evacuation of the principaiities 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 b,,i;lg more and more 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 ()dental question. We hear also that M. de Man teuffel has tendered his resignation, but that it is . Still doubtful whether the 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 Aug tria and Prussia are upon the eve of being broken Off. The position of Austria will be thereby greatly elubarrasscl. Nevertheless the sympathies of thy: great majority of all German States are against Riissia 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, Wurtem • berg, Baden, Hesse-Cassel, Hanover, and Saxony, will support the ancient head of the Germanic empire ; and, with such- support as this, Austria ~ ill boldly go forward with the Western Powers, awl win the "golden 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, Itimover 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 in her cause, and strong in her 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 b civen to the Western Powers. I believe lam par ticularly well informed when I state that his Ma jesty the Emperor has already given orders that an a rmy 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 insurgents have been repulsed. Hussein Pacha and uad Effendi went with the troops to Mezzovo, 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. PATRIOTISM IN PRUSSIA. IThe 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. do 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, do 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 not true that he has acted. with perfidy. He has always said what he de,ired, and he has now attempted what he desired. He addressed England, whom he respected most. Since his accession to the throne, he has been as- . rested neither' by romantic sentiments nor by bonds of relationship. He has been guided alone by the consi deration of what the grandeur and power of his country called for, and in that respect he has certainly distin 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 opm•ising 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 cast defend your weakness. Russia is the most powerful neighbour m.d Prussia, and her territory runs into ours. Fur a length of time Russia covets our Eastern provinces ; mean whiio she is cutting into the veins of our commerce. Russia was against us in the Seven Years' War. In 1313, she wanted to have the Eastern provinces swear allegiance to her. In 1850 she menaced us with war. It is known that an influential party in Russia wants the Vistula for frontier. Remetnlier the saying of the Great Frederick—'lf the Ru,siatis are at Coa st ',at-Mot:de, in a week after they will be seen KoseigS berg. Tee ties of relationship have been spoken of, but I think too well of our monarch to admit that he can 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 ,natter, but every one now knows, since the Anglo-Rus sian correspondence has been published, that the real question is the inheritance of the 'sick man.' B es id es , 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 sysioni 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 tit 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 ca led 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 orderto 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 our good old 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 c rngratulatiou that the magnanimous Em peror of Austria has at length resolved on drawing the sword. The Prussian g•ivernment, while it professes not to confine itself to itoutrasity, fieds itself, in fact, in that condition, and csslesi the centitry to powerless mess. France and England cannot in the end recognise Prussian neutrality. It will end by involving us in a war with these two Po w e rs , an d, sus p os i ng it tobes, suc cessful one, it ail: only tun' to the aivantase of Russia, which will, notwithstanding, never pardon the little sympathy that has been shown towards her by Prussia." • FRANCE. REVIEW IN HONOUR OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. The grand review in honour of the Duke of Cambridge took place yesterday (Wednesday - ) in . the Champ tie Mars. The time was one o'clock ; but long before multitudes, longing to witness a spectacle which Frenchmen always love so much, but which possessed the al letional novelty of the presence of n English Prince, thronged, for two or three hours previously, to the Lug familiar Spot. At half-past eleven o'clock the troops were in movemeet. Along the Boulevard, and quays on both sides of the river, thedeands of military music, and the rolling of artillery carriages were heard as the various regiments successively paSsed on. The manufactories and tie 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 fro m ever y l ane and street, drew up at each side, and, accompanied with measured step, in serried rank, the military cortefe3. 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, f orm i ng 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, eige it of Cuirassiers, eight of Carabineers, and three of tile 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 Feray, Gado, M ar i on ; an d th e Duke de,Moutebello, Generals of Brigade. B e t ween th e left' of the In fantry and the right Of the Cavalry, in one single* line, with the Ecole Maitaire to the rear and front ing the bridge of • Jena, were stationed seven bat teries of Artillery, six foot, and one horse,' with 42 , ius under the orders of Brigadi e r General An vity. The total of the force under anus might be about 25,000 men. At half-past 12 o'clock the EMpress issued from the gates of the Tuileries in au open carriage, preceded by outriders, ac , !onipanied by the of the Court, and followed by another open carriage, with the officers of her hoeseholil, 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, w:wre she and her attendants took their places. At 1 o'clock the Eire .'•l'Qf made his appearance at the bridge of Jena. he had on his right baud the Duke of Cain bridge, and on the left Lord Raglan, followed by a numerous staff composed of English and French offiCers, all iu _lult,dress e As they male their appearance on the Champ de Mars the drums beat to arms, and the hands struck up " God seve the Qaeen," and' " Partant pour la Syria," which were alternately played ; and cries of " Vive l'Empereur l" and "Vive lee Anglais !" were heard. The Emperor and the Duke of Cambridge rode in front of the line, the former occasionally conversing with his Royal Highness, and the attention of the foreign officers apparently engaged in exLimining, not perhaps without admiration, the gallant appearance of the troops so long th e r i va l s o f t h e E ng li s h, 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 an d f orme d i n co l umns o f battalions, with their right on the bridge of Jena. The line of, cavalry, forming into squadrons, took position to the rear of the artillery, and 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, to witness the defiling of the troops. The infantry opened the march and the cavalry closed it. No thing could be finer than the appearance of the Hussars, the Guides, the Cuirassiers, and the Cara bineers, as they swept in long order from the bridge diff erent to the Ecole Militaire, and as the ° corps passed where the Imperial and princely commanders were stationed, each chief made his'siaual ofcourtesy. The soldiers seemed inspired b y t h e cousciousness of United strength; they sat erect in their saddles, and ground with horses themselves app eare d to tread the with pride. They d as h e d cn, squadron after squa dron, troop after troop, with the banners waving, an d plumes dancing, in long perspective ; and they passed before th e I mperial pavilion with the cry of " Vive riiimpereur P' The defiling lasted reoro than an hour and a half. When it was over, the troops resumed the positions they first occupied on the groeed, aqc Whee the Emperor passed on his return, to the Tuileries, the infantry on the right and the cavalry 04 die left presented arms to his Majesty. At about a quarter to four the whale were oie their return to their respetive quarters. - 4bout half-pket 11 cl'eleck rain began to fall, but soon cleared. - It again fell at 12, and continned at intervals until half-past two. It qlMV•eel 1 1,P, again, however, and contiThiaci with a cloudy t wo 411 w%.1,s (Aver, l'the troops had quitted the ground. moneuee crowds fill e d th e sloping eualean t lxrents en both si4.is of the Champ do Mars, and in front of the Ecole 1+:1111 aire Th e quays on both sides of the river were also covered with spectators, and the carriages of every descrip tion on the ground were numerous. Tickets had previously been issued by the Grand Master of the Ceremonies for the stands, from which a maguifi" cent coup crceil might be obtained. We have not heard of any accident occurring. The Champ de Mara has been the scene of mall a display. In the centre of that , immense s pace between the Military School and the Seine, the " Altar of the Country" rose in 179), on which it was vainly hoped that all jealousy and hatred were sacritiee , l, !to) in pres:nee of which the King of re generated France solemnly swore to observe the zrea; in,titut.ons Wiich had abolished the tyranny' 01 centuries and when hi s en th us i ast i c people ratified th e vow, an intoxicated with joy at their diseir thralment, appealed to Heaven -for the sincerity al la duration of their loya:ty to their constitutional Sovereign. The sloping embankments which stir. partially enclose that space, are the work of the population of Paris, and which more than 60,00 C persons, of both sexes and of every rank, felt it an hono,,r to be employed in. Those vows were? on one side at least, soon forgotten or disregarded. 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 grape, which, mow e d d own th e populae so lately full Uf enthusiastic devotion to. their Monarch, but who now were furious for his blood. Something ominous seemed to be connected with the Champ de Mare. The Feast of Federatio n , w'aich was t o o pen 0; new era, was b u t the prelude to the horrors 0 1 the Revolution. The solemn inauguration of the A etc additionnel, when Napoleon in the presence of the deputations of the Electoral Colleges of France, and. the army, guaranteed the constitution of the Empire, found a speedy close on the bloody field. of Waterloo. There, too, in 1830, the colours were distributed by Louis Philippe to the National Guards of France, and the R evo l u ti on o f 1848 was the terminati on o f a reign so favourably inaugu rated. It was there,_ too, that th e I mper i a l eag l e s 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 haa.. now passed away for ever, and that the object of the military spectacle which the Champ d e 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 is received with all the honours due to his exalted. rank, by the nephew of the man who waged a wsc so desperate and so long against the country whic is ruled over by that Prince's family. The spectaolo France most loves to behold is displayed before 'nig 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 t 0 the inure terrible one in which the hosts of France and Eugla,nd will soon be engaged for a common. o bject, and in which the banner of St. George - and the 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 visi to the Grand Duchess of Baden, and afterwards to the Princess Mathild.e.- In the afternoon Prince Jerome, accompanied by two aides-de-camp, turned the visit of his Royal Highness. In the even - , ing, the whole party, iueluding their- Excellencies. Lord and Lady Cowley, dined with their ni,jesi,iest.. Tile distinguished travellers went to the Tuileries, in the State carriages as iu the Morning. After the breakitirr 111) of the party, the of Cam . bridge and _Lord- Ri.qlati, accompanied by their • aides-de.canip, proceeded to the Opera COlll4l O l where they occupied the E m p eror ' s b ox. The Iloyal Duke wore the Order of the Garter, and the General the Order of the Bath, but the whole partf were in plain clothes. The 174resence of the dis tinguished visitors appeared to ba quite unknowns except to a few English :who happened to witness tiieir arrival. The Pays mentiems 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, iu the ladepen,dence . of Brussels, states that M. de Montalembert had received 'summons to appear before the Tribunal of Corree" tional Polipe, and that M. Dupin has been sub!' poeuaed as a witness. Little business was done 'yesterday on the;, Bourse. Tate - Three par Cents, closed at 63f. 200- • for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 891. 60c . ,;. and the N ew L oan , a t 15c. ; Orleans Railway. Shares, 1,042 f. 5Uc. ; Rouen, ; Havre, ; Gr&A Northern, 732 f. 50c. ; Strasburg, 712 f. 50c. ; Now Stnires, 52(1. 50c.; Paris to Lyons, 79)1.; :Lyons to the Mediterr anean , 6551. ; Western o f F rance, 555 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 5101. ; Great Central of France, 4021. 50c.; Lyons to Geneva, 425 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, , .I.> ; 3f. 75c. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 7th contain nothing of po;itical interest. The new Minister to the United States, M. Caeto,had ltft.for his post. It was said that the Marquis Turgot, the French ambassador, would not resign his embassy, as had been asserted, even if he should be obliged to absent himself to proceed to a bathing place. The news from Barcelona was satisfactory: The city had as' sumed its usual peaceable aspect ; but the author' ties continued to adopt military precautions. great number of the persons arrested had been set at liberty, but the chiefs were to be prosecuted: . Everythinj that had been discovered confirmed' what had been at first suspected that the move - went 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, th e d eposits in the Savings BA"' ,, had greatly diminished, and the theatres liad been deserted. ATairs continue in the same state at Barcelona that is to say, the proclamations and menaces 0 '• the Captain-General have no effect in inducing the peopl.e to return to work. The . Gazette give ° What • professes to be the substance of a de spatch from General La Aoult, of the Ist inst., together with the proclamation of that date, and jo which the workmen were given till two p.m. to re - , aurae work, and th rea t ene d that all who disobeye d this injunction should be treated as rebels; and Gene ral La Richa expresses his expectation that the prO clatilation will have th' desired eXect. At the same titn; he was cducentrating tro , ps there, and getting rcady Lvauto war steamer, in case a nav4l force should b e requ i red. But thei occurrences n? to tu afternoon of the 21 are best sh own by the fo!low ing private letter of that date : " B Aril 2. "Yesterday was one of the most painful arcelona, days p t4at we have . pissed. It is troe that there were no personal disasters to lament, but the state of mind was very sea and afflicting. " It was hoped that by the publication of martial laws . which took pla2eat half-past 1 p.m., the groups of civiliang would dissolve themselves ; ' but it was not so. Their pas sive and resin attitude disarmed the troops, who were surprised to find in front of them enemies without even intserable stick, and with ,their hands in their trousers :pockets. Onti , one firing took place, about thre e o ' c l oc k, in the Tr aves i a d e L ancas t er , i n consequence of a flower - - pot having been thrown into the street from a n azo tea on a strong patrol which was passing ; but, as the insult Was not rep.2ated, the troops continued their march with great pre.mution. "14'i.oin two to three p.m. 1,200 prisoners were made an el t..lien to the fork of At trazanay and of the citadel- Some of them were set at liberty as soon as they vvel able to certify, by the sunple,,t their honesty an d good conduct. The troops retired to their barracks at six, leaving the city quite tranquil. There only remained solo° strong pickets in the po:iitions of the theatres, a nd the Plaza - de is Constitucion." The writer adds, that on that day (Sunda/ there was no sign 'Of_ disturbance occurring, an that people w ere walking about as usual. De'',. Jose Palau, a canon, and director of the. associa tion called La Escuela de la Virtud, had boa' arrested, a n d th e assoc i at i on dissolved ;- and a' noted Absolutist, named Riera, who was printer to the Jesuits at Barcelona, had also been taken'. up. It was b e li eve d t h at the Captain-Genera awaited the arrival of reinforcements in order t° undertake more rigorous measures. The following are the prices of Stocks :—Tllre e , per Cents., 30 ; ditto Def erre d , 16 5 ; Redeemable Debt, Ist class, 7 50; ditt o , 2d ditto, 4. Exchang e on London, 51 65. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. - -Yesterday a Parliarveri' tary paper was printed containing the)':,Structionsissue A S to the commanders o f her Majestv's ships now engag e in the arctic regi ons i n search for Sir John Franklin' They are to leave i n the ,sunimer of 1855, an d not t ° wait the winter of that year. Should England be en gaged in hostilities with any other power, they are to take no part i n i t, i t being toe established practice of 3 "' civilised nations to consid,.r vessels en ;aged in scientific I,kliscoveries as exempt from the operation of war. STOPPAGE OF THE INDIA AND CAPE MAILS.—YeSt er : day th e P ostma ster -General gav e no ti ce that, in CO' s "; (pence of no p ac k e t having been provided to conv ey th e mail s of the e vening of the 14th instant to the Cape of Gnotl Dope, letters for the colony must be sent by private ship. The following veFsel.s have been taken uP to convey ship Ittior bags to the Cape :—The Adven turet 'And Dik,niond, now lying in the London Docks,,,_ . sail the 14th inst. ; and the John Knox, in the bt . ' ,Katliarine'm Docks, to sail on the 13th instant. Lettei.a, fOr the East Indies and Ceylon may be sent viA, EgYP,,v_ SOUTHAMPTON ELECTlON.—Ye,terhsy Sir A. Coc k . burn was for the si,ch time electtd one of the represen tatives of Southampton. No opposition was ike offered, and the electi on passed off without the let exeittouleo ,