The Sun. — London, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

LYCEUM THEATRE.—HENRY RUSSELL, !.be disposed to do at some future period. Of this for Thirty Nights. THIS EVENING (he 2d time), August we feel convinced, that no peace can be really 29th, and -every Evegiog. Many .friends,having .ex.pr,essed 4 wish , that Mi. Russell shonid appear again previous to finally withdraw• beneficial unless the treaty be signed at Sebas tug his Entertainment, he liaS, in compliance "Ifjth their request, made arrangements to appear ever/ evening. Mr. RUSSELL will topol, with the Crimea in the possession of the present . THE FAR WEST ; or, THE PROGRESS of the EMIGRANT I Allies. Item the Oj.D WCiRLD to the NEW. hir. Russell will relate his anecdotes, and sing several new songs, " Cheer, Boys, cheer," " Far. I far upon the Sea," " Sunshine after Rain," "Land t Land I Land !" " The Falls of Niagara," " Long parted have we been," " I'm Afloat," "Many changes have I seen," "The Icebergs"i(desorlPtive song), " Newfoundland Dog," " The Gambler's Wife," &c. The Second • Part of the Entertainment will consist of a Series of Sketches, entitled NEGRO LIFE in Freedom and Slavery. Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ;•Gallery, 6d. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Backetone. Long ago we ventured to hope that a bountiful harvest would provide us with the sinews of war. IThat hope is now in great part realised. Yester day's fall, of Bs. or 10s. per quarter, with its in fluen cp „on. ther Money Market, must h ave a power ful effect in many directions. This reduction alone, if the millers and bakers give us the corres ponding reduction in the prices of bread and flour, would, at, the ordinary reckoning of family consump tion, much more than pay the additional taxation of 10,000,0001. caused by the war. Computing that taxation at seven shillings per head, we ought on the average to be able to pay it some five or six times over in the lowered price of the quartern l loaf. But of course it does not stop there ; the Bears are destined to suffer their deserts. Stocks will go up, as they have already begun to do, with a good harvest. As a necessary consequence, neither the Bank, nor the banks, can maintain the present rate of interest ; money will be easier, trade will be yet brisker, the working classes will be better employed, their wages go further, and England will pay her ten millions per annum till she and her ally have taught the bankrupt barbarian his proper place. Not only from every part of England, but from the Continent and America, the accounts are equally cheering. The Continent appears to be more likely to export than to need further sup plies ; and at home, as the corn is housed or threshed, we hear from every quarter the most gratifying accounts both of quantity and quality. Not only from the ordinary sources of informa tion, but from plain honest farmers themselves, in the south-eastern counties, we have heard almost incredible accounts of both the yield and quality. One farmer assured us that on land where last year the wheat was given to his pigs as it stood, he has this year had the best crop he ever grew, and that the weight was 651bs. per bushel, - though he never previously exceeded 631bs. Simi lar, if not quite so remarkable, accounts reach us from the west and the north too. The crops in Monmouthshire and Herefordshire especially, and indeed in most of the midland western counties, are represented as splendid. In the ordinary course of things, such harvest prospects would gladden all our hearts, and dispose us to gratitude to the Giver of all Good ; but at the present time, when the nation, from a sense of duty, was ready to incur great sacrifices at a time of high prices, the present prospects may be almost regarded as a special mercy. It is, at least, the very one which makes the onerous duty of repressing the great oppressor of P4lrope sit much lighter on our shoulders ; and we, there foTe, owe double thanks to a kind PROVIDENCE, as well as .lie under increased obligations to do our work thoroughly. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 29, Will be performed THE OLD CHATEAU. Characters by Messrs. Flow*. Rome, H. Marston, and Backstone; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, and Maas Reynolds. Followed by the SPANISH DANCERS in a NEW BALLET THE GIPSY QUEEN. The new Farce AS LIKE AS TWO PEAS. Mr. Richards (a Barrister), Mr. Buckstone. STRAND THEATRE. S Lessee Mr. F. W. Alicroft. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 1;9, Will be performed HARD TIMES. Followed by FAUsT A vll MARGUERITE. Mephistoplia , s ' )lr. Ha:ford; Faust, Miss G. Ilodpon ; Marguerite, Miss Li Gordon. To conclude with BOMBASTES FURIOSO. Stalls, 45.; Poses, 2s. 641.; Pit, is.; Gallery, Gd.; Private ttur, a el Ir., to be had of Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond.street. To Russia herself a good harvest will, of course, be a benefit, as well as to other nations ; but she was not likely to be in want of corn, and its chief becefit, that of selling it, and of getting some ready cash for her needy taxpayers, her impove rished nobles, and her empty treasury, is now quite unattainable. Russian trade is utterly at an end, except through faithless and servile Prussia, and it is to be hoped that aiding Russian poverty through Prussian ports will not long be tolerated. It will never do to go on enriching the mean monarch of Berlin by giving him a broker's com mission on Russian produce obtained through his dominions, and at the same time contributing to the chief enemy's treasury by permitting him a somewhat roundabout commerce. When this Russo-Prussian commerce with England and Europe is stopped, Russia may have her crops indeed, and her poor peasants and soldiers may get a little better bread, but money, her great want, she will no longer get. She will want, therefore, the great means of moving, as well as raising and equipping, troops for modern warfare; indeed, driven back into her own territories, she can, no longer go on plundering the peasants as she: did in the unfortunate provinces. She must pay her own serfs in some way ; it will doubtless be, as in the Hungarian invasion, by treasury paper, to be afterwards received in payment of taxes ; but this, of course, will only still further einbarras her when she comes to receive her own. worthless paper, instead of money, a few months hence. A good harvest will do little to help Russia out of debt while the war continues and hex commerce is annihilated, and she will have the mortification of seeing England pay her way as we proceed, and our trade as active as if the CZA.R and we were at profound peace. What is a traveller ? By what e7idence is the assertion that a party is a bona fide traveller to be sustained ? These questions have recently as sumed immense importance, in consequence of the New Beer Law, and it is essential that satisfac tory answers should be returned, with the least possible delay. Nothing could be more unfair to a numerous and respectable body of persons, scat tered throughout the entire country, than to leave them exposed to pains and penalties, in conse quence of being kept in ignorance On these impor tant points. It is said that every citizen is bound to know the provisions of the law, more especially those relating to his trade or calling. It may be so, but, at the same time, that law should be clear and unequivocal, so that "he who runs may read," and that every one may distinctly learn what li e is bound to do, and what to avoid. Now we find licensed victuallers appealing to the police authorities for information, and that information withheld. However injurious to their interests, and vexatious in its application, they wish to respect the law, and to avoid any infringe ment of its provisions. But they cannot ascer tain what it really is until they appear as defend ants at the bar of a Police Court, and not only pay the costs of their own defence, but have to encounter the risk of heavy penalties, and the odium of being regarded as violaters of the law. They must not only submit to very stringent re strictions, but must bear the heavy expense and serious inconvenience of having precedents estab lished that may serve to guide the trade from the morass in which they have been plunged through hasty and improvident legislation. Cases have already been decided bearing on the points above referred to, and some magistrates at Gravesend have very judiciously and properly stated - their views of the law, so as to enable the licensed victuallers of the vicinity to determine how they are to act, and also to prevent them from being harassed by vexatious proceedings. In every one of these cases the statute has re ceived a liberal interpretation, and the summonses were dismissed by the presiding Magistrates. It is right that these decisions should be made gene rally known, inasmuch as they may serve as use- . ful precedents to other Justices. In the last of these cases the matter was more fully gone into, and: the second point respecting the necessary evidence for the defence received a decision ; we shall, therefore, refer to that, as the clearest and i mbeofmgotrresa: Lhe u tisf e a: zu t ,t or l r e. of any of the cases yet brought the proprietor of the King's Arms \Hotel, Hampton -court ,was yesterday summoned befor e the Magistrates for the county of Middle sex at the Special Sessions at Hampton. The .defendant was charged with a breach of the recent statute, in having several p ersons refreshing themsel ves at his house say, between et duringeelihalf-past the p w r t o li i o b i a t n e d hours, that i s tod The Learned Gentleman, who so ably conducted the defence, willingly admitted the facts, that these persons bad obtained refreshment after the "travellers," and it on th e ground that tr theyfor Iv ,raNl eel.o closing, , and had applied as such to Mr. Luen, who, under the law of the land, was bound to receive th em. He also showed that tt a t i o n t noticeo the hadenpublicly e x hibi ted directing n restrictive enactments, and that a attention book was kept in which every person admitted to the house affixed his name and address to a state ment that he was a bond fide traveller. From this book it appeared that these persons —from, Grand Canada from Glasgow, and fro m Cairo, from k had come from various distances ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ..This-.place fills up an hiatus which the Crystal Palace leaves wanting. vocal and instrumental music of the first order, and a display of fireworks which exceeds all imagination, are a fitting close to a day at the Crystal Palace." DANSON'S COLOSSAL PANORAMA of C}IUSAN. Splendid and Extensive Menagerie and Marine Aquarium—Unri• .vaned Military Band. VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, In which Miss Poole, Miss Bansford, and Mr. Manvers sing several National and Patriotic Songs—Ali the Amusing Novelties of the , Gardens in succession, concluding with the "Feast of Lan terns," and a most migni/Icent display of Fireworks by SouthbY. Admission' One Shilling. A splendid Pavilion for Dancing has been created. Mill Quadrille Band, &c. ASTLEY'S ROYAL ANIPHITFIEATRF:. Leasee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. GREA.T SUCCESS of the NEW EQUESTRIAN BURLESQUE. THIS EVENING. 2nd Time, an entirely new Burlesque of Equestrian character, by /fun° VAXP, Esq., called THE - SIEGE OF TROY • or, THE MISS-JUDGMENT of PARIS. After which, HERR CHRISTOFF (l'Empereur des Funambules) on the Tight Rope, with the (until now) unattempted miraculous lest of throwing a Summersault, and alighting on the rope on his leet!! The unique and elegant SCENES in the ARENA, the invention, arrangement, and under the direction of Mr. William Cooke. To conclude with Mrs. S. G. Healey's Equestrian Ballet d'Action THE KNIGHT AND THE WATER LILY; or, Love among the Meraiatial Box-ofilce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. NA , West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 111`t ' DAY —Vorning 8 min.after 5 Evening 27 min.aft. 5 10-Mozaow Morning 45 min.after 5 Evening 4 nam.aft. 6 THE WEATHER—Sum Orme, AUG. 29. TNENNOMETEB, IN THE SHADE. 78—highest since noon yesterday. 62 . —lowest this morning and during the night. 73—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'56. WIND, morning N. noon S.W.—Light bre eze , w ith glorious harvest weather. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We will notice, further, the communication of " A patient Observer " after the furnace he mentions has been examined by a competent person for us. F. .. t .,„,...0,„ , , > -:.:::.. ~4m,...‘ ~, lilt 0 , - ,T, i. -r--,_,,. _ , ,.. ri 0r...:* cq,is'4_, _,___7.,...........„.0..:,:.. - LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1854. The great object of the AUTOCRAT and his abettors is to obtain, at any sacrifice of truth and honour, a renewal of negotiations. For, this pur pose every effort will be made and the most specious pretexts resorted to. We accordingly hear signi ficant rumours of a renewal of the Vienna confer ence, and that. Prussia will take part in the pro ceedings. This is held out as a great inducement to those who have already suffered so much from the vacillation, and wavering, and undecided policy of the German Powers. France and England will not, however, a:gain be easily humbugged. They have seen the mischief occasioned by diplomatic hair-splitting the encouragement afforded to the aggressor by the notion that' the discussions were taking place not on what he should forfeit, or the securities which he should give in conse quence of his unconscientious attack, but as to what further concessions should be made by the deeply-injured Modem ; although these con ferences were managed on the assumption that it was the SULTAN who should be prepared to sacri fice a portion of his independence, and not the CZAR who should give adequate security to keep the peace towards his deeply-injured neighbour. No further discussions can, therefore, be car ried on, save at the cannon-mouth or bayonet point. NICHOLAS Will be much better prepared to enter into an equitable and permanent peace when its terms are discussed at Cronstadt or Sebastopol. Then we shall be enabled to dictate the various provisions, and he must, perforce, content himself with the conditions which his conquerors may be pleased to enunciate. At Vienna he will still practise every species of deceit and trickery, and strive, by quibbling and special pleading, to retain some portion of the privileges which he extorted at various times before he had forfeited the prestige previously attached to his name. He' is now, however, a convicted disturber of the peace—a would-be robber. His seeming mo deration has been unmasked, and be stands barefaced before the world. The war which he rendered indispensable by his infamous in vasion has abrogated all former treaties. He has no longer the slightest pretension to a pro tectorate over asy portion of the Turkish dominions, or any body of the SULTAN'S subjects. We must now deal with the various questions as if no such claims had ever existed ; and, as NICHOLAS has occasioned all the disturbance, he' must not feel surprised if his wishes are disre garded, and that those who were unwillingly corn pelled to take up arms should not sheath their swords until they have placed the rights and privileges of their ancient ally on a substan tial foundation and obtained satisfactory security —or, to use the language of the AUTOCRAT, " material guarantees" (we " thank thee, Jew, for teaching us that word") for the permanent and lasting tranquillity of Europe. It is already asserted that the modifications de manded by Prince GORTSCHASOFF (the Minister, and not the General) are— " let--That no future demands shall be made by the Western Powers e"':her for pecuniary or I territorialririfices op.the part,of Ru ss i a . 44 hat Russia shall participate i n th e pro tect nge shall orate over the Principalities, and th a t no cha be mad e in the position and leges elf the Greek Ch r i stians in Turkey.e privi- Now, theie stipulations are clearly i inadmis bl They:cannot, i n fact, be entertained for lnl s i ngle moment. If th ey were so, a d s they woul NICHOLAS and his congenial friends, D r . C a o l s7 KN H A and JON MITI:3IIEL, an opportunity for the most unblushing mendacity, and allow the former disterbing the peace' a n opportunity' of again opportunity, and when he saw a More favou ra bl e encouraging him to do so by the practical impti nitY permitted to his past crimes. If these propositions were ,at all listened, s o they would preclude the Allies from obtai n i ng the most trivial indemnity for the expenses , of the , by Turkey, France, and England must bear the he avy outlay to which they have been subjected, without seeking either a r eturn of the money they have been compelled to expend, or any species of equi valent. Could this be termed an "honourable" conclusion of the war . We fear not. On the ch the t it would be so mu con trary, it seems to us tha otheriway, that it would only invite to future l ag gression, and to even heavier den ands on our re sourceS another time. If he m a intained his fleets at S e b as t opo l, hi s es t a blishments at the mouth of the Danube—if the Euxine still re mained mare e/coh3tcm, and that there was any shadow of a prote c t ora t e over e ith er th e Princi palities or the members of the Orthodox Church, an excuse would.' never be wanting for new diffi culties and disturbances. The C ZAR would tor ture even the most • innocent acts into ieriourNirovocation. R e has already shown his powers in that resPect, and we can therefore, w ay credit; experien ce what Wore he may 017¢4. 1 ,e . 90;4 - -r, ~s', ~4fr~ ~~ ~'~ II London—the nearest of any having " travelled " a distance of fourteen miles to the place where he required to be supplied with refreshment. Under these circumstances it was decided by a majority of the Justices that the parties were travellers ; and, se.londly, that the book con taining the statement to that effect, and their names and addresses should be received as primel facie evidence thereof. The summons was therefore dismissed, to the great delight of the audience, who manifested the intense interest they took in the proceedings. This very impor tant decision, which will probably for some time at least be regarded as the " leading case" on the subject was clearly correct in every particular, both as to what constitutes a traveller, and the evi dence necessary to sustain it. We must not for get that it is a "penal" statute, and, therefore, it must receive a liberal interpretation, there being no " presumption" or intendment in its favour. No inquiry can be made as to the cause Of the travelling, - Whether it be for the purpose of business or of pleasure. It would be absurd to say that the gentlemen who had come from Cairo, Canada, or Scotland should be bound to show that they were engaged in commercial pursuits, and not of amusement or information. Few per• sons would be willing to submit to the cross exa mination of an inquisitive landlord, or to set forth his occupation and pursuits before he could obtain the dinner and wine which he required. All that is necessary to satisfy the Act is, that the party should be so far distant from his own domicile as to be unable there to obtain meat or drink. Now, who shall define the exact distance that the faint and weary man must go before he can re ceive even a drop of water to cool his weary lips ? Who shall say that a thirsty person should he bound to go two mile'§, or even one mile, without receiving the necessary refreshment ? We do not believe that a limit can be established ; and, therefore, every man, away from his own neigh bourhood, who is prepared to sign a declaration that he is a traveller, and to give his address, is entitled to receive what he demands from the licensed victualler, the hour of the Sunday, not- Irithstanding. The reception of the book in evidence was no lgss important than the definition of the term "traveller." It was quite obvious that a traveller, served on the exigeney of the moment, could not be often produced a week or ten days subsequently to speak for himself and to prove the accuracy of his representations. The landlord should at his poril receive the representations of the alleged fl travellers." He could not administer an oath, or even a declaration in lieu thereof. All he could require was that the party with whom he was not acquainted should make the representation in writing, ready to be produced before the magis trates, and this would cast the onus on the prose citors, not merely of showing that the representa tibn was untrue, but that the defendant knew that it was so. The effect of these cases will be in a great de gree to do away with the Act. The thirsty soul who requires refreshment mhy have to go a few miles from home to receive it ; but if he do so, and the licensed victuallers be only true to them selves, a coach and six may be driven through the enactments of this very vexatious and inqui sitorial statute. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Aua. 28. The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal and Princess Alice attended Divine service at Osborne yesterday, which W.'S performed by the Rev. G. Prothero. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting and the House hold were also present. The Duchess of Kent attended the service at Whip pingham Church in the afternoon. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the North American Pro vinices. re are sorry to announce the death of Major-General Bush, 1(.11., which took place from the prevailing epi. derhic, at his residence in Sloane-street on Monday even. . General Bush was at the head of the London Re. cruiting district, and was promoted to the rank of Major. General in the last Brevet. We regret exceedingly to have to announce the death, after a few days' illness, of Mr. Ralph Bernal, father of Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P. Mr. Bernal represented Rochester for many years previous to the general elec tion of 1852, and, during several Parliaments, was Chair man of Committees of the House of Commons, the onerous and delicate duties of which office he discharged in a manner that earned for him the respect of all classes of politicians. He himself was a consistent Liberal. In matters of art and taste Mr. Bernal's judgment was justly esteemed as one of the best in Eng land. On the 20th inst., at Ragaz, in Switzerland, diel Pro fessor Schelling, at the age of 79, a contemporary of Kant, Fichte, lnd Hegel, and last living representative of the great school of defunct philosophy. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT CROYDON.--INQUEST THIS DAY.—Mr. Payne held an inquest this morning at the. Town-hall. Southwark, to inquire into the circum stances touching the death of Mrs. Harrison, aged 42, who expired last night from the injuries she had re cei'ed. The house surgeon, St. Thomas's Hospital, haying proved that the cause of death was exhaustion from having the right leg amputated, and from other injuries received, the jury retureed a similar-verdict to that given yesterday, and also adding the same addenda. The inquiry then terminated. 130R0UGH OF LAMBETIL—Henry Onslow, Esq., the retfirning officer for this borough, under the provisions of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854, has ap pointed John Clutton, Esq., of 32, Ne w i ng t on - p l ace, Newington, in the county of Surrey, to be the auditor of election expenses for the borough of Lambeth for the year ensuing. LORD JOHN RUSSELL DECLINES AN INVITATION.— The Westmoreland Gazette says :—" We understand that Lord John Russell, during his late sojourn at Low Wood Hotel, was waited upon by gentlemen on behalf of the Kendal Mechanics' Institute, the Christian Institute, and the Working Men's News Room, to solicit his lord -hip to give a lecture in connection with the objects of these institutions. His lordship received the deputation most courteously, but expressed an apprehension that a compliance with the request would create a troublesome precedent, and pleaded that he required rest and retire ment rather than additional labour and excitement at this time." ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH LONDON RAILWAY.—On Sunday morning, about a quarter to 7 o'clock, John Blincoe, a fireman to the passengers' train, which came into collision with the goods' train on the night of Mon day, the 14th inst., near the Highbury Station of the North London Railway, after suffering very great agony, died at the German hospital, Dalston, in consequence of the severe injuries he received on that occasion. He had been in the service of the company nearly five years, and was a young man of very meritorious character in his department of life. He has left a widow and one child to lament his loss. His parents are very respect able tradespeople in a country town in Nottingham. ;hire. As one of the consequences of these calamitous occurrences, the mother of the young man, who was only in his 24th year, has been obliged to leave her business and her home for the last fortnight to watch at the bed side of her dying son, at an expense most inconvenient to a person in her station of life ; for although," she observed, "we are respectable, still we are very poor." An inquest on the body will be held by Mr. Baker, the coroner, on Wednesday next. DISTRESSING SUICIDE AT HOUNSLOW.—During the last week quite a gloom has been cast over the town of Hounslow, by the suicide of Mr. David Thomas Morriss, a surgeon, and. the principal visiting-assistant of Messrs. Frogley and Hall. Deceased, who was only 28 years of age, was widely known and much beloved among all classes in the locality, where he had practised for three years. He had been married about five years, and resided with his wife, two children, and a female servant, in a house contiguous to his employers. Hav ing been very severely worked of late on account of the prevailing epidemic, he went to London on Sun day, the 20th instant. During his absence a discovery had been made by his employers of an alleged improper intimacy between the female servant above named and deceased, which caused them to signify to him on his return on Monday that his engagement with them would terminate at an early date. Deceased immediately went home to his wife, and telling her he had something serious to communicate mentioned the fact of his impending dis missal, and that, having then no means of maintaining his family, lie should put an end to his existence. He then asked Mrs. Morriss to call the servant maid, and speak to her about the discovery which had been made. Durino tlie interview that followed - Mrs. Morriss became excited', and boxed the ears of the girl. Suddenly Mr. Morriss drew a phial of prussic acid from his pocket, and, exclaim ing to himself "This is trouble indeed," (frank it off in their presence, and though assistance was summoned immediately he expired in a few minutes. It was Town at the inquest, held yesterday, before Mr. \Vakley, that deceased when at any time much de- ' pressed in mind, would converse about suicide, and that lie was frequently low in spirits, thinking that he was not making his way in the world so fast as he ought to have done. His professional duties were very heavy, and Mrs. Morriss deposed that their pres sure had, she believed, tended to impair his mental powers. The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insa n ity," th e C oroner remarking that deceased was uni versally respected i n H ounslow. The f unera l, w hich took pl ace l as t evening, was attended by an immense c 3 ncourse of people. HOW TO SUBDUE SMOKE. Referring to our five preceding articles on this subject, in proof of the fact that there exists a ohoice of means for suppressing the smoke nuisance, and among them more than one that produces at the same time very important savings in the cost or consumption of fuel—which appliances, too, have been adapted to a' great variety of furnaces, from the smallest to the largest, and of every legally contemplated form for land purposes—wo proceed to inquire why it is that no such desir able result appears to have been attained on board our river steamers, and particularly those that come under the operation of the new law. Were a searching examination entered into as to the causes of failure, whether alleged, merely, or un doubtingly admitted, in such cases on shore as are exceptions to the rule, we venture to assert that the true reasons would be found in the in efficient power of the steam-boiler, the radically insufficient draught of the flue or chimney, or the obstinate or hostile feeling of the engineer or stoker having charge of the furnace. To show that such obstacles have so prevailed, one instance of each will suffice. On certain premises in the City, a boiler calculated to drive a 16-horse engine, but to which machinery was from time to time added, requiring at least twice as much motive power, had a patent furnace applied to it, which failed of giving satisfaction, simply because it was at least one half too small, and could not, with the pre-existing arrangements, be made any larger ; but more boiler power hav ing been erected—that is to say, steam-producing apparatus equal to the required work—the same invention succeeded beyond any dispute. Iu another establishment, a new boiler had that in vention applied to it, at first unsuccessfully, the draught being very bad indeed ; for some time the teal cause of mischief was sought for in vain, but at length it was discovered that the flue of the boiler furnace terminated in that of a small house chimney, the very limited aperture of which had previously done pretty well for a boiler and furnace of just one-third the size of the new one. As a matter of course, an adequate chimney was the only remedy for such an absurd condition of affairs. And at another place, the engineer, who was opposed to the invention referred to, and interested in favour of another (which other, however, failed, in despite of his unfair advocacy), tried all the tricks of his craft—we mean of the small and dishonest portion of an otherwise intel ligent and upright• calling --to effect a failure, by improper management of the water supply to the boiler—by allowing steam secretly to escape—and by loosening the bricks in the main flue, so as to permit the heat to pass off uselessly between them; but his knavery was made manifest by an unex pected trial of the quantity of water evaporated per pound, of coal (efficient smoke prevention being admitted), in the midst of "important manu facturing operations, which had already been seve ral hours on hand ; and he thus stood convicted of the fraud. We wish we could add, for the credit of his employers, that he was immediately turned out of the engine -room. It is relative to the first of the difficulties mentioned that the success of inventions of even the highest ascertained merit have mainly to depend, in ap plication to the above-bridge river steamers. Boldly, then, we lay it down as indisputable pre mises, that these steam-boats, without any excep tion of which we are aware, are not fitted with boilers of sufficient capacity ; and that their fur naces are not large enough even in proportion with the boilers ! If it were not, indeed, for their re peated stoppages to land and take in passengers, during which intervals the force and volume of steam is increased, these steam-boats would he found rapidly to fall off in speed, by the reduced number of revolutions of the engine shaft and pad dle-wheels per. minute. This may be ascertained by any observant passenger on board a steamer of this description when engaged in a long pleasure trip up or down the river. Now, with such im perfect means of producing steam power, it" is not strange that the introduction of a smoke-prevent ing apparatus into the furnace, although occupy ng but about seven or eight inches of the length of the fire-place, by still further reducing its al ready limited space, should make the balance yet more delicate iu the poise, when deciding the question of more or less steam. Add to this the consideration that at least three of the superin tendents or chief engineers of companies whose steam-boats ply above-bridge have ineffectually tried plans of their own, and it will be readily understood that it is the policy of other inventors to wait until the feeling of all parties—proprie tors, officers, engine• drivers, and stokers—sha be unequivocally and warmly in favour of their general success, or of the satisfactory preference for one or other. of the best-tested sys tems. Unfortunately, however, for the public, and we think equally so for the proprietors of those steamers, instead of the latter setting about to find means (and such means are at hand) to improve the steam production of the boilers, con currently with the use of smoke-preventing fur naces, they appear to deprecate the idea of there being a possibility of attaining such desirable re sults, and raise a grievance cry against the Go vernment, as if they were a grossly injured class of persons. For the present we must, in conse quence, expect the substituted use of Welsh for the cheaper but more bituminous and smoke evolving coals from the north, or from the mid land counties. We ought, however, to protest againstthe assumption that the alternatiVe adopted meets either the requirements of the law or the just demands of society. The existing nuisance is less offensive than before, but it is still too great for endurance ; and this part of cur exami nation would be incomplete if we were not to adduce some proof that, in marine boiler furnaces, smoke can be prevented, and fuel economised. Mr. Robert Galloway, the superintending engineer to the London and Westminster Steam-boat Com pany, tried certain experiments in the Moss Rose, c omparative effects between the ordinary furnace and th at of Lee Steven ' s, t h e to ascertain the fire-space in both honourably cases being precisely the the result of his own pe rson al trial, that, same ; and he very besides reducing th e smoke with i n t h e li m it s certified, as . _ of the Act, with West Hartley steam coals, the latter (the patented) system evaporated, within a fraction, lilbs. of water to the lib. of fuel consumed more than the other; i.e., produced correspondingly more steam than the common fur nace ! Had we data, of the same charactq re specting similar experiments on the Thames with any other inventions, we should very cheerfully publish it ; for it is in no invidious spirit that we have more than once mentioned the practical demonstrations of the efficient system of a parti cular inventor. All we have said has been in sus tainment of the proposition that smoke may be satisfactorily and econom i ca lly subdued ; and in doing justi ce in some degree to Lee Stevens, we have to thank him also for eliciting, in the pro gress of his inventio n , experiences of so much weight in ou r argument an d o f va l ue t o the p u bli c . Before w e di smiss the su bj ec t, we thi n k it m a y be of some interest to our readers to be informed why smoke-p revent i ng plans h ave to be modified when used w i th fuel of di ss i m il ar kinds ; and what are th e peculiar characteristics of di fferent description s o f fuel consume d i n manufacturing and motiv e -p ower a p p l i ances i n th e metropolis. Mon RUSSIAN F R lZES.—Yesterday public notice was given on the Royal Exchange by Evan J o n es, Esq. , High Marsh a l o f the Court of Admiralty , that within 20 days from that date the Russian ships Concordia, prize to her Majesty's steamer Conflict, likewise two schooners name unknown, also prizes to the Conflict, would be condemned and sold for the benefit of their captors ; also that within the same date the Russian ship, Cristine, seized in the port of Liverpool by the officers of Customs, would be condemned as a Crown droit, the same being the property of the Queen's ene mies. NEW ACT ON THE INCLOSURE OF LAND.—An act o Parliament has just been issued (17 and 18 Vic. c. 97) to amend and extend the acts for the enclosure , exchange, and improvement of land. By this act, which extends to 21 clauses, lands about to be enclosed may be ex changed. Common rights are to be ascertained, nd until decided the money to be paid into the Bank. The Inclosure Commissioners are to ascertain the interests of the several parties. THE Poon.LAW BOARD.—By an act pas'zed in the late session, the Poor-law Board, from the 23d July last, is continued to the 23d July, 1859, and thenceforth till the end of the session. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR. THE BALTIC. COPENHAGEN, Monday.—On the 26th inst. a motion was made in the Swedish House of Yeomen that the Chambers should petition the King to take steps to insure that Aland never again be comes Russian. Vessels belonging to Aland now sail under the French flag. Madvig persists in refusing to enter the illegal Supreme Council. The following extracts from letters from officers employed at Bomarsund have been kindly handed to us : " We got over 42 cwt. guns, by hand, five miles, on sledges made by ourselves ; our sailors hauled them. It is wonderful to see the small effect Russian shot and shell produced fired against us. We have only had one Englishman wounded of 800 who have been under tire for six days. "We got our guns into a most wonderful place. The French General said, when he was there, 'No people except English sailors would have thought it possible.' Our English engineers gave us five hours to get one gun Up from the camp; we did it in one hour and a half." THE AIISTRO-PRUSSIAN CONVENTION OF APRIL. The following telegraphic announcement has been received : VIENNA, Monday Evening.—There is a question of an additional article to the Austro-Prussian convention of April, which will perhaps place Prussia on a better footing with England, France, and Austria. BLOCKADE OF THE WHITE SEA. ARCHANGEL, Aug. 16.—Sir,—I have now to ad vise you that the ports of the White Sea have been declared in a state of blockade from the 13th inst., and that 15 days are allowed to ships for leaving the said ports.—Signed by the Agent at Lloyds. To Capt. G. N. Halstead, R.N., Secretary at Lloyd's. ODESSA. An Odessa letter of the 14th, received by the Lloyd, contains matter of considerable interest. Two Paixhan guns, belonging' to the Tiger, have been mounted and placed in an elevated part of the city. General Osten-Sacken received orders from St. Petersburg to avoid any collision with the Austrian army when advancing into Moldavia, "and, in case of extreme need, to retreat behind the Pruth." Powerful reinforcements arrive from Odessa, but they are sent onto the Crimea. " The attention of the allies is not directed to Sebastopol." The following extraordinary Russian order of the day was read to the garrison of Odessa on the 13th : " His Majesty the Czar has ordered, in his high wis dom, that the troops who had entered Wallachia and Moldavia shall withdraw from those provinces, and march to the point where there is the greatest danger. To protect the Principalities against an invasion by the Turks, the ancient ally of his Majesty the Czar (Austria) has undertaken to occupy them in the meantime. Here you will have to combat a. new enemy, who has the cul pable intention of attacking you in your own country. This enemy has been already frequently beaten and van quished by our valorous fathers ; his Majesty the Czar expects the same from you. You will vanquish and destroy the enemy by your bravery and your discipline. This new enemy is more skilful and more courageous, snd better commanded than the Turks, but your courage and strength can also vanquish this enemy, as your fathers have proved several times. Call to mind, in fighting against the French, the glorious year of 1812, when the Heavenly Father also sent his hosts against these impious and criminal men, and buried them all under the ice." VARNA. There are unmistakeable signs that the army is about to move. Ido not speak of the secret con ferences of Generals, of the hasty despatches flying between Rustchuk and Varna, and between Varna and Constantinople, of the uneasy movements of Lord Stratford de Radcliffe from Therapia to Stamboul and back again, or of the activity of aides-de-catnp, and the fussiness of the staffs ; but day after day French and English war steamers and transports arrive here with large horse boats in tow, fit for landing men, and horses ' and guns. A nu m b er o f a pecu li ar but useful kind of vessel has been constructed at Constantinople and elsewhere for our use, and sent up to Varna. Each vessel consists of two of the large Turkish boats of the Bosphorus, which are about 50 feet long and about 8 feet broad, fastened to another and planked over at top, so that there is a little kind of raft formed, not drawing more than a foot of water, and capable of landing two heavy guns and their men, or of carrying 150 or 200 men with the greatest ease. The quantity of stores com ing out is enormous, and all the large steam trans ports are ordered to supply themselves with six weeks' provisions for the number of men which each is calculated to carry. Each of the transport ships bears its distinctive flag, so as to prevent confusion, and each under the command of a naval officer. Thus, each division of the army will have a division of transports for its spe cial service and carriage, and each division of transports will be conveyed by a squadron of ships of war. This grand fleet consists of steamers of a magnitude, burden, and speed hitherto unknown in any operation of war—of such vessels as the Himalaya, the Simla, the Emeu, the Hydaspes, the Melbourne, the Victoria, the Orinoco, the Avon, the City of London, the Emperor, the Colombo, the Tonning—and of sailing vessels which would constitute a formidable navy of themselves alone. Our men-of-war steamers could probably land 20,000 men in their boats in two hours The artillery which we have out here at present, under General Cator, consists of the siege train (30 guns out), commanded by Captain Gambier (vice Flude, gone home sick) ; the Royal Horse Artillery, Colonel Strangeways ; the Artillery of the Light Division, Col. Dacres ; of the First Division, Col. Lake ; of the Second Division, Colonel Dupuis; and of the Third Division, Colonel Fitzmayer. Each division has 12 field guns attached to it, so that there are 48 field guns in all. There are, besides, 12 guns of the Royal Horse Artillery—the latter are 6 and 9 pounder guns. It is calculated that our boats will suffice to land these 56 guns at one trip ; but the facilities for landing the heavy siege guns are not so evident. The French siege train has not all arrived at Constantinople, but it is stated seine of it is lying in the Bosphorus. Relative to the great fire, a correspondent writes as follows : " I have just returned from a visit to the ruins. The scene would be grand, but that the dense clouds of smoke from burning wood quite blind and almost suffocate you. The great mass of fire is got under, though it still burns and smoulder; or bursting out into a flame as it seizes upon some abandoned house upon its precincts. About 30 houses have been destroyed in, this manner duri ng this afternoon and to night. O ne half of Varna is a heap of fiery ruins. As I have already said, it broke ont in the midst of the most thriving and busy parts of the town • every shop and store, every magazine a n d canteen , has been destroyed. " The damage is estimated at 100,000,000 of piastres, about 800,0001. sterling. This statement, I should ima sgti stores re English,mm u u s must must make ac e kh r g sa o g n md e r e a t t h e i dn Turkish, t e h n oo armyur m gh o u t s h a. e n t d o t ca Half ol theor n s s ins o as at f ir t vi the st g of the town have been reduced from comfort to beggary. They have literally lost everything they possessed in the world. "Three incendiaries, who, it is said, were taken in the act are in custody, and according to general report will be shot to-morrow ; and I have heard from 50 sources that a French serjeant of engineers captured a Greek to night while in the act of setting fire to a lumber-room in the general hospital here. It is said that he was taken out by the guard and mattered upo n th e spot. If the statement is true, the punis went was almost less than he deserved. It is complained that an immense number o robberies were committed during the fire. 4,000 of the French troops, Sappers, Engineers, Zouaves, and sol diers of the line, with a large force of English and French sailors, are to remain on duty and throw water on the still blazing ruintruntil all signs of fire are extinct. They of course have no tents, and, working hard, are relieved every 24 hours. It will be a fortnight or three weeks yet before all fire is extinguished, as in some places the mass of burning materials cover whole acres to the depth of 20 or 25 feet. " In consequence of the fire, it is believed that the in tended embarkation of the troops is postponed for the present." THE BRITISH EXPEDITION. Were it not for unmistakeable signs that the army is about to be actively employed in some quarter or other, we should all be nearly as dis contented as the French, for, indeed, officers and men are weary of this deadly inaction. The num bers of the dead diminish every day ; the admis sions into the general hospital (English) have fallen to about five a day, and the deaths to four a day ; and, taking the average proportion of deaths through the whole division, we are not losing more than 15 or 16 men a day. The conduct of many of the men, French and English, seems characterised by a recklessness which verges on insanity. You find them lying drunk in the kennels, oar in the ~,..464usit.0 ditches by the road-sides, under the blazing rays of the sun, covered with swarms of flies. You see them in stupid sobriety gravely paring the rind off cucumbers of portentous dimen sions, and eating the deadly c yli n d ers one after another to the number of six or eight, till there is no room for more—all the while sitting in groups in the fields or on the flags by the shops in the open street, and looking as if they thought they were adopting highly sanitary measures for their health's sake ; or frequently three or four of them will make a happy bargain with a Greek for a large basketful of apricots, " killjohns," scarlet pumpkins, water melons, wooden pears, and gr een "gages " and pl ums , an d then they retire beneath the shade of a tree, where they divide and eat the luscious food till nought remains but a he 'p of peel, rind, and stones. They dilute the mass of fruit with raki, or peach • brandy, and then straggle home or go to sleep as best they can. One day I saw a Zouave and a huge Grenadier staggering up the street arm in arm, each being literally laden with enormous pumpkins and cucumbers, and in the intervals of song—for one was shouting out, " Cheer, boys, cheer," in irregular spasms, and the other was chaunting some love ditty of a very lachrymose character—they were feeding each other with a cucumber. One took a bite and handed it to his friend, who did the same, and thus they were continuing their amphibian banquet till the Englishman slipped on a stone and went down into the mud, bringing his friend after him—pumpkins, cucumbers, and all. The Frenchman disengaged himself briskly, but the Grenadier at once composed himself to sleep, notwithstanding the entreaties of his companion. After dragging at him, head, legs, arms, shoulders, the Zouave found he could make uo impression on the inert mass of his friend, and regarding him in the most tragic manner possible, he clasped his hands, and exclaimed "Tu es la, done, mon ami, mou cher Jeeon ! Eh bien, je me coucherai avec toi ;" and calmly fixing a couple of cucumbers for a pillow, he lay down, and was soon snoring in the gutter in unison with his ally. I was glad to see them taken off to the Corps de Garde in about five minutes afterwards, as a lucky patrol happened to come its round through the street. The Turkish soldiers are equally careless of their diet and living. CONSTANTINOPLE. The expedition against Sebastopol, it is now said, is fixed for theist of September. By that date it is supposed that the whole of the allied and Turkish troops will embark on board the fleet of transports. The French divisions sent in the direction of Kustenje had returned to within five miles from Varna. The cholera is visibly on the decrease, both among the troops and on board the fleets. One of our transports, the Courier, No. 50, is missing since the 26th of June. It is generally supposed that she has been captured by the Russian steamer that so daringly braves the allied cruisers. The Greek spies employed at Constantinople by the Russian government, and who have access to all important secrets both here and elsewhere, have just chartered an Austrian vessel to convey des patches to Odessa or Sebastopol. On the 13th the above vessel was towed into the Black Sea by an English tug, the Punch. This is a positive fact beyond denial. Au important nomination has taken place here. Darbokor Rechid Pacha has just been placed at the head of the army of Constantinople, called the Dersaadetordon. His only recommendation is his intrigue and wealth. As already announced, Selim Pacha, in command of the army at Batoum, has been replaced by Mustapha Pacha. It is stated that Omar Pasha has received com munications from the Austrian Commander-in- Chief to the effect that the refusal by Russia of the ultimatum will be followed by an advance of the Austrian army. Omar Pasha is requested to pre pare to co-operate with the troops of Francis Joseph in such a manner as to cause the most speedy ex pulsion of the Russians. THE BLACK SEA. The Vladimir had her captain killed, as well as 16 men, in the recent brush off Sebastopol. This vessel is English-built and fitted, and is probably the best vessel of her class which Russia possesses. She is stated to have called at Odessa about the 24th ult., stayed there only a few minutes, and then departed for Nicholai (on the Bug), to which place she was understood to have gone for repairs, having suffered considerably. This intelligence having become known in our fleet, some of our cruisers were despatched to intercept her on her return, but she has not yet been seen. She carries eight guns, and possesses engines of 400-horse power. When our steamers have by any chance appeared off the coast of Odessa, all the ladies have trooped out on the Boulevards in their brightest parasols and bonnets to see, and some to sketch, the Eng lish ships. There is considerable discontent in the place, and many merchants are leaving. Some of the people are hoping, however, that the war will soon come to a close, owing to the lack of corn which will be experienced —a thoroughly Odessian idea. It is said, too, that, in consequence of the kind treatment bestowed by the English and French upon the sick occasionally discovered in deserted villages, the lower orders are beginning somewhat to lose faith in the politic assertions that we are a horde of savages, who, having no religion at all, intend to promulgate war and devastation among "the most orthodox." At Kostendje (anciently Constantia) are now the Pluton (30 days from France) and a French troop ship. On shore are 3,000 Zouaves, and also a corps of Bashi-Bazouks, commanded by French offi cers ; all are pretty well tired of their quarters. The place is a little to wn of the usual wooden houses, from which rises a solitary, forlorn-looking minaret, the • whole perched upon the summit of the cliff over hanging the sea. Near it are the remains of a for tified work, the whole looking as desirable a spot for French or English troops as their worst enemy could choose. Sulina is at present desolation personified. Since Captain Parker's death the whole of the town has been burnt, in order that it might not afford cover to the Cossacks. The lighthouse, a very fine stone s t ruc ture, and the church, a wooden building, alone r emain. There are blackened beams marking the site of the town on the south side of the mouth, and a dismantled work on the north side. B e t ween th e two oscillate and drift perpetually an enormous number of pieces of wreck and wrecked vessels, their masts forming various angles with the stream. Dogs and cats of every grade of leanness are the permanent occupants of the place, and frequently a party of Cossacks (when the coast is clear) take a survey from the summit of the lighthouse. Lower down, a meagre supply of trees rises occasionally from the low swampy-looking shore. The Wasp is in charge of Redout-Kaleh. BOMARSI7ND. The French troops at Bomarsund are suffering extremely from cholera, and will probably, in consequence, be re-embarked. News from Stock holm confirms the fact of the cholera having broken out in the Aland Isles, and the re ports had reached that capital that the for tress of Bomarsund would be blown up and aban doned. Several vessels of war had on the 21st inst. already left Led Sund, as was understood. The Basilisk and La Refine Hortense, which brought the good news of the capture of Bomarsund to Dan tzic, returned thence to the fleet on Satur day, after delivering their despatches, and on Mon day the French steamer Lucifer arrived there to wait for orders from Paris. . All the various assertions and denials of the press as to the turn that Swedish politics are taking—by some represented as en tirely in favour of the Western Powers, and by others as perfectly unmoved by the attractions of Aland and Finland—stand a fair chance of being superseded by the intervention of the cholera, should the news Isend you to-day b e we ll founded. It is mentioned in a telegraphic despatch from Stockholm, received to : day, that on Monday evening last our new Minister had an audience of the King, from which much was expected. There was also reports current there that the second French expeditionary corps would be cantoned in or near Stockholm, and that an august personage would take the command : it was added that the details of the winter campaign were set tled during the late visit of General Baraguay d'Hilliers. The terms of compact generally spoken of are, that Sweden joins the Western Powers with 40,000 men, and her combined Swedish and Norwegian fleet, in consideration of having the Aland Isles secured to her by the Western Powers. On Wednesday evening General Baraguay d'Hilliers left Bomarsund immediately after the capitulation, accompanied by the Hon. Mr. Grey, and returned to Stockholm. An Adjutant of the General was commissioned to convey certain de spatches to the King. The General was still at Bomarsund on the 21st inst. RUSSIA. The Russian Invalid, with a degree of cool effrontery commensurate with the St. Petersburg climate, already claims a sort of victory at Bomar sund, by publishing the following brief intelligence from Aland :-- "Our last news from the islands comes down to the 10th inst. On the Bth, the enemy commenced landing troops on the principal island, near the village of Mang. felt and Tran wick. On the following day they landed twelve guns from their ships, and erected a battery. They attempted to take one of the towers of the Aland fortifications by storm, but were driven back with loss." To console the St. Petersburgers for the loss of their 2,000 Dien, and their poesesacla of the jut" . . .... • • portant advanced position of Aland, the camp and other colours, taken by General Wrangel from the Turks, near Bayazid, were carried in great pomp from the winter palace, to be deposited in the church of St. Troitz ; and this on the 16th—that is, on the day of surrender at Bomarsund. We must not be surprised to hear of the Rus• sian press ascribing the surrender to treachery— that is, to the same process, whereby they noto riously obtained possession of Sweaborg in 1808, and recently attempted to possess themselves of Silistria. Indeed, according to a statement given in a report from Stockholm, addressed t o the German Allgemeine, and quoted by the Russian, Berlin organ, something of this kind is hinted at . in regard to one of the towers, in these words :-- " They (clie assailants) directed their heaviest gull* against the tower, where, it appears, it was be trayed' to th em the Russians had amassed their ammunition." The misfortune of the brave men who have been wantonly abandoned and exposed by the Emperor to inevitable death or capture is quite sufficient, without their being subjected even to a breath of such detestable suspicion as that conveyed in the above phrase. The Invalid, by a strange posthumous act, pub-: lishes on the 18th of August the Bucharest decree of Baron Budberg, of the 19th of June, relative to : neutral navigation on th e D anu b e, and this under: the head of " Intelligence from the Interior ;".lus t as if Wallachia were an internal and integral P ol7 = tion of all the Russias. The Invalid, of the 18th inst., publishes a factf however, of much greater importance and recent date, and this the capture of Bayazid "A further copy of a report, addressed by Gene"" " Wrangel to Prince Bebutoff," says t h e i nva lid. nal this day been received, announcing the capture of BA • zid. General Read (commanding-in -chief in the Canesee l / has sent to his Majesty th e k eys o f t h e two cas tles of , Bajazet, and a flag, l e ft behind. by th e T ur ks. The folk,: lowing is a copy of the report of the commander or th e Erivan division of the active army on the Turkish Cat casian frontier, dated August 1 I have the honour:7.-f report to your E xce ll ency t h at early on the 31st July , t.r..E town of Bayazid, a n d b ot h castles, were taken by the , troops under my orders, and that the whole' Sandjak? Bayazid, on the Diadin side, is in our hands. We found is Bayazid three cannon, one colour, large stores of powder and artillery munitions, more than two and a half milli J o w n.. cartridges, 1,800 stand of arms, sabres, ten largetria ln .&• nition waggons filled, me di ca l stores from English 101`•. French depots, 1,000 c h e t werts of wheat, ' 150 of 1 101 % * : 300 of rice, 1,000 of groats, 160 of barley, 300 pads 0t butter, 400 of salt, ox hides, and divers articles ofeleti ing for body and fe e t. B es id es t hi s, large quan tities barley and wheat were taken in the camps near Ars", • and Musun. In so far as I can collect from dootPle ments that have fallen into my hands at Bayazid, free s the declarations of the inhabitants, and other repor t l e ei it is evident that the Turkish corps bad been augal" th e to 15,000 m en , an d th a t 13,000 of t h ese too k par t battle on the hei g hts o f Tschengl. Of these only 2,vv , escaped, and fled in complet e confusion towards Van:1 11 11% i thousand fell in th e b a ttl e , an d t h e rema i n d er dis - petlM All the roads on the Sandjak of' Bayazid are strewn wlwf dead, wounded, arms and ammunition thrown or* broken-down carts and waggons laden with earl y ! and munitions. i n B ayaz id we found 3 0 0, an d sab about 120 wounded, who contrived to escape the field of battle, but could drag themselves no furth er '' The The rout of the T ur k s is complete ; the Bayazid no longer exists. Besides the capture of seven fit. ; pieces and twenty colours, prisoners, stores, and town of Bayazid, the result of the battle has been 2: submission of th e w h o l e Sandjak governme nt., neighbouring Kurds have evinced their respect forte: and have promised sheep for feeding our troops. cording to reports, &Um Pacha, who commande d a° fled, was plund ere d on t h e road to Van by his own ple. The troops under my command are superabtutle antly provided f or f rom t h e stores capture d from Turks, and the ammunit i o n expended i n t h e battle re': . plenished by the same means." , ' ~ j . ~, PRUSSIA. BERLIN, August 25.—The Deutsche Allg 6:oe :7;f -- Zeitung gives a version o f th e Austrian 1 0 7,,,,/ the 10th inst., which forward e d an d recomineeur o. to Russia the views of England an d France. cording to this version, the Note recapitulate! .2 events that preceded. the war, and energetica ll y refutes the statements made by Count Nesselroti.ne in his answer to the Austrian sommation• speaking of the Russian withdrawal from I' 4l ' Principalities, the Austrian Government declare/it- that it looks on it as a strategical necessitY::, as a measure of defence, and by no mea n as a concession. The note recognises the conditions of peace as put forward by the Western Powers as the only possible terms, and designates them aal fr " natural result" of the strategical advantages , gained by the adversaries of Russia. It is repro" • sented to the Russian Gov ernmen t th a t, w ith the , compulsory retreat of the invading troops from the Principalities, the protectorate over th em , as we lt , as over the Greek Christian subjects of the Sultan, has de facto been forfeited, as it would be out of the question to expect the victor to submit ail portion of his territory or his subjects to the van- quished party. AUSTRIA The Wiener Zeitung contains the following Wm' munication, dated Vienna, Aug. 23, relative to the • entry of the Danubian Principalities by the Aus trian troops : " The entrance of the Imperial Austrian troops int o the Danubian Principalities began with their march intcK Wallachia, between the 20th and 22d of this month. , The division Macchio advanced with its two brigade against Hermannstadt. Major-Gen. Burlo entered Walla' , chia with his brigade from Cronstadt. Count Coronini, the commander of the corps, though under the supreme command of the chief of the 3d and 4th army corps, he been appointed by his Majesty to the command of all the Austrian troops which may occupy the Principalities. Count Coronini directs the operations of his whole corps during its march. and while be himself advances with• . the brigades Schwarz] and Burlo towards Bucharest, which he expects to reach on the sth of Sept., the brigade Jellachich, under F. M. L. Macchio, will proceed direct to Krajova, the capital of Little Wallachia, which it will enter on the 2d of September. The three brigades will remain in Wallachia und er th e s p ec i a l command Of Baron Allernan, while Count Coronini—as a peeltifl promise bas been given that th e R uss i an army , 9 %,,m evacuate Moldavia- will, at a l a t er p er i o d, proceed occupy that province with three other brigades of hi s ' corps, which will be under the command of Count Pagr i Count Coronini will then reside a lt erna t e ly a t Buebare i and Jassy." There is a vague rumour in circulation that th e representatives of the Four P ow ers forming the - Vienna Conference will meet again in a day or , e d two, but it is not clear what object is to be attained by such a step. Hints ar e said to have b!_ e at dropped by Prince Alexand er G or t s chakoff 0 0. his Cabinet will not ab so l u t e l y re j ec t the prop sitions of the Western P owers, b u t d e mand so ns modifications. ved On' the 24th of A ugus t , a cour ier arri „ the r - from the head-quarters ofßaron Hess, as the bears of despatches for th e E mperor announc ing ,' h - j a trance of the Imp er i a l t roops into Wa lla° " without impedim en t." Prince Albert of Sax° ol . , who is on very i n ti ma t e t erms w i t h the EmP er .,t -- is now with his M a j es ty i n t h e S a lt-kamn3er-g",4 -- and it is not impos s ibl e th a t th e f ea lty of one ibe" the Bamberg Conference Slates to Russia li t* somewhat shaken, even though Baron Kollu r _ll, o -- the Saxon Minister, has gone to Ischl, whe °'!'" will remain as long as the Prince is there. rom The Press, of Vienna, has the followil?g__,' ;., Bucharest, 17th :—" Prince Gortschakoff ha s plied to the notification sent to him by mauder of the Austrian troops, of the el,litareYi pfd would latter into the Principalities„ that W ai t, Aug u st would be evacuated toward the end of A. that then Moldavia would be evacuated as Pr ° ' as possible after." BELGIUM. The whole of the Belgian Ministry have roil Pea' SPAIN. The following telegraphic despatch has: re ceived this morning : ing A ( c t c h o e un 2B ts th f ) r , om sta tay t o i n la n t e„ th d e at p d a y n e is s h ter m dn i n r s_ . entered the bureau of one of the revolution:lle journals, and prevented the distribution of paper. Senor Olozaga left Madrid on the 27th (Stind l ‘ for Paris, as ambor to F. The Three per assad Cents. were done at 34.40' the Deferred at 18.30. The accounts from Barcelona are more sai , on tory, and General Dulce published a proclaniat'elca on the 17th, by which the state of sieg e is ral re throughout Catalonia. The cholera was • P l e d thought of than politics, and emigration COntin on that account, many of the shops also continlll7 to be shut. Troops were collecting at Tortess,_'d order to occupy that place and neighbou r l a te while the investigation proceeded into the 1 . 6 outrages committed there ; forty persons ha_ .. .,c 1 , 1 1 3 0 taken up, and it was expected that six wow' shot. SARDINIA. ng auto TURIN, Aug. 21.—Th e ru i no us effects of obligi u. corporations and charit a ble institutions to 1' scribe to the national loan without referenc_e, of their respective interests, are beginning to devw ° r f themselves in Lombardy, and the savings-bank °, 'Milan being one of the most sensitive instruinen; ? of the kind for testing public confidence, has bf e a the first to show in distinct results what such i t system of financial policy must surely end in.„ its i will be recoll ec t e d that the city of Milan , ' Nit ' . to 1 160,000 inhabitantg, was held liable according f ,2 the Government calculations,' for 3,oo o , o 2 f i l di P ' the 66,000,000f1. to be raised in the 14cow`-- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1864 1