The Sun. — London, England, 1854-08-21 00:00:00

% k • • • THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. ' Under the management of Mr. Rackstone. THIS EVENDTG, AUGUST 21. pm be performed THE OLD CHATEAU. Characters by Messrand s. Howe. Rogers, H. Marston, and B nckstone; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Miss Reynolds. Followed by the SPANISH DANCERS in a NEW BALLET THE GIPSY QUEEN'. The new Farce AS LIKE AS TWO PEAS. LYCEUM THEATRE. Mr. and Mrs. SIMS REEVES' FAREWELL PERFORMANCES. Mr. ALLCROFT begs to announce that he has entered into an Engagement with Mr• and Mrs• SIMS REEVES for Two Fare well Performances previous to their departure from Londoa for the Pawn. THIS EVENING, AIIGIIST 21, (By special desire, and for One Night only) Will be presented LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Edgar, Mr. Sims Reeves ; Douglas Ashton, Mr. Weiss; Lucia, Mrs. Sims Reeves. On WEDNESDAY NEXT, August 23, on account of its great recces..Balfe's popular Opera of 'tHE BOHEMIAN GIRL. o conclude with each Evening thed Ballet entitled isted LES P AYiANNES DII NORD, supported by G a le. D'Antoine, ass by Mdlles E. Horn, Marttn, Buffton, Marie, Charles, and an effi cient Corps de Ballet. Boxes, 5s ; Ptt, 2 s. 61. ; Galler y , 7s. Private Boxes, 2 15 . , t o be had at the Box-office. STRAND THEATRE. S le Lessee Mr. F. W. Allcroft. THIS EVENDTG, AUGUST 21, Will be performed HARD TIMES. "Mks H. Gordon ' Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Mephistopheles Mr. Halford; Faust, Miss G. Hodson Marguerite, TO conclude with BOMBASTES FURIOSO. Stalls, 44.; Boxes, 23. 6d.; Pit, 13.; Gallery, 6d.; Private B ox Is. to be h ad of blr..AUcroft. lb. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. This place fills up an hiatus which the Crystal Palace leaves wan ting. 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 CHUM'S. Splendid and Extensive Menagerie and Marine Aquarium—Unri- Tailed Military Band. VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, • In which Miss Poole, Miss Bansford. and Mr. Manvers sing several National and Patriotic Songs—All the Amusing Novelties of the Gardens in succession, concluding with the " Feast of Lan terns," and a most magnificent display of Fireworks by Southby. Admission One Shilling. A splendid Pavilion for Dancing has been erected. Fall Quadrille Band, &c. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHIT FLEA. r KR. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. - - - In preparation, with entirely new scenery, and every necessary requisite, a Grand EQUESTRIAN BURLESQUE, from the pen of se a popular author. Every pains has been taken, and the most profu expense has been lavished, to render this magnificent Spectacle worthy Of the approbation of the public! THIS EVENING, For a few nights more, the War Spectacle, THE COSSACKS; or, Vlve la France. After which, the inimitable SCENES in the ARENA, invented arranged, and directed by Mr. William Cooke. HERB CHRISTOFF, whose miraculous Feats an the Tight Rope have absolutely electrified the audience, will apper. The whole to conclude with the Equestrian Ballet d'Action, by Mrs S. G. Healey, THE KNIGH r AND THE WATER LILY; or, Love among the Mermaids. Box-office oped from Eleven till Fonr. Stage Manager, Mr. W . W est. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tai DAT —Morning 25 min.after 12 Evening 50 min.aft. 12 To-Mow:kw—Morning 12 min.after 1 1 Evening 31 m i n . a ft. 1 THE WEATHER.—Sun 077102, Aue. 21. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 70—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night. 71—this day at noon. BABOMKTEB, 29'93. WIND, S.W.—Light, with dull weather. Ili ,~- ~j MT LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1854. What can be done for the peace and happiness of Spain by ESPARTERO ? Honesty may some times accomplish miracles. Perhaps the honesty of the Duke of VICTORY may—even under pre sent circumstances. It is impossible to conjec ture otherwise, however, than that ESPARTERO Will find as many bewildering difficulties before him as the situation of Greece is presenting at the same moment to MAVROCORDATO. In each in stance there is beyond the existing evil of an un popular Sovereign the more embarrassing one of a dubious succession. OTHO is bad enough. IsA BELLA is bad enough. Granted. But what is there for Greece beyond OTHO ? What for Spain beyond ISABELLA That is, in each case, the grand source of present and future bewilderment. Sui posing OTHO to be still, by a miracle, retained on the throne of the Hellenic Kingdom, who is there, when OTHO has passed away, to grasp at Athens, as his successor, the reins of constitutional govern ment ? Supposing, again, that ISABELLA can still be held firm, by no less a miracle, upon the throne of the Iberian Kingdom, who is there, in like manner, when she has disappeared from the public scene, who can contrive to grasp at Madrid, as her successor, the reins of constitutional go vernment? The position of affairs just now in the two capitals, is to a certain extent so similar that when speaking of them together we are almost driven to tautology. The similarity we have already pointed out in these columns in detail. It is unnecessary here, therefore, to reca pitulate all that might be said, all that has been said by us, as to the more striking points of re semblance. Enough that there—at Madrid and at Athens—are the two unpopular Monarchs, male and female, whose evil policy has called for the reorganisation of their respective councils here (in Spain) by an honest Statesman like ESPARTERO, here (in Greece) by an honest Statesman like MAVROCORDATO. Can either of those Statesmen extract order out of the disorder, harmony out of the discord, tranquillity out of the profound and prevailing disturbance which has thus abruptly summoned them (one from the seclusion of private life at Logrono, the other from the calm conduct of the Greek embassage at Paris) to the supreme guidance of the affairs of State, and to the re modelling of the fabric of Administration ? Can all this be successfully accomplished with the pro blem of a dubious succession still unsolved, even, let us say, to go no farther, with the State in each instance still nominally presided over by an ineffi cient and notoriously unpopular SOVEREIGN ? It is a dread responsibility—that which devolves at this juncture, in the midst of a general war among the mightier states of Europe, upon ESPARTERO and upon MAVROCORDATO! While, however, the Greek Premier has to work out the difficult problem confided to him for solution under the protective shadow of an Anglo-French occupation the Spanish Premier has to extricate his country from the " Slough of Despond" into which it has fallen, aided only by the sustaining ardour of his compatriots, and by the sympathies of the observ ant races of Christendom. Will this indirect sup port of internal ardour and external sympathies, be adequate to enable the Duke of VICTORY to reconstruet out of existing materials, and to con solidate permanently on the old foundation, the shattered and t arnished, not to say the ruined ' and polluted fane of Constitutional Government ? With Isazzaz a on leaden the of the throne--mind !—with th e triumphant le rt the insurrection, na t ura ll y 444111fth, requiring pa rticular consider a ti on at the . hAllAs of the new Government ; with NA.RvAEZ sus piciously all the whilelurking in the backg roun d , ready to appear up on the stagsatthe first favou ra bl e opportunity ; with the fain ea ntwith theghost of the C amar ill a King Consort be hind the scenes ; s till to be laid ; with th e mtrzroz brood yet unex tirpated ; with CHRISTINA still to be pond the frontiers or otherwise punished riv f e o n r her misdeeds in bringing infamy on her daughter's Government ! ESPARTERO will, indeed, be a won derful man if out of all the a pp a lling difficulties of his present situation he can contrive to deliver Spain from the calamities of a fresh and more overwhelming revolution. It is out of the question to talk of a Regency, either through a Dictator or through a Trium virate. It is absurd to think of an ORLEANS dynasty to be founded through the agency of the Due de MONTPENSIER. It is preposterous to dream of an amalgamation of the two states of the Penin sula under one crown, to be worn by the Boy-king of Portugal. The latter projeot, sometimes whis pered about, would be alike repugnant to both 1 2 ° PulatIons. Lisbon could not be reduced from the dignity of a metropolis, to the position of a second-rate city, 'without in furiating the Portuguese. The Portuguese could never ing hope to give by ive a ruler to the pride, of the e. to Madrid without whole Spanish multitude. wounding No, the situati o n re solves itself to an alternative--for for Spain is in no way fitted for a Republican Government. Eith er a patched-up compromi se for the time being, with ISABELLA still the nominal i guarda n (1) of the constitution. Or, Carlista , restored, and is that event, of course, reorganised. Here in the key to the Spanish mystery. Again we ze turn to our initial query—Can that mystery be dissipated, can the problem be solved, by ESPAR TERO ? Is the responsibility of its solution to be left for some more energetic, some less honest, but some more daring and more resolute, inter preter of the secret wishes of a population ? It seems ungrateful to grumble so soon after such a telegraphic despatch as reached the Admi ralty on Saturday, and just as the lunch, or if Ministers prefer, the first course of the dinner itself, is served, to look as sour as men whose hunger is still unsoothed. We fully share in the general pleasure ; we would not pen a word to damp it ; and if our troops and sailors can, at this eleventh hour of the military day, retrieve the errors of their masters at home, we will gladly forgive their masters—Lord ABERDEEN himself, and his great organ of the press included—all their shortcomings. In one sense, indeed, re trieval is impossible. The old saw in morals, that time lost can never be recovered, is true em phatically in military matters. The great forts in the Baltic and the Euxine, the latter especially, are doubly difficult to take compared with what they would have been ; and the time lost before starting at Malta and at Gallipoli, the time lost in babyish coaxing of Austrian selfishness and duplicity, is all lost with compound interest, to be paid for in increased Russian strength, and in creased difficulties of the season. But what has struck us most in the matter is the relation of public opinion to our Parliaments and Cabinets. We are often told of the irresist ibleness of public opinion ; and, looking at some of its triumphs, such an expression may seem almost justified. What can the Reformers of our representation want, it is asked with an air of triumph, after the first Reform Bill, the Abo lition of West Indian Slavery, and, above all, the abolition of that great aristocratic tax, the Corn Laws, followed by the inauguration of Free Trade ? And it would certainly appear that, on most great domestic questions, the voice of the people must ultimately prevail. The five points of the Charter itself would do little more than hasten the decision in their favour, which is pretty sure to be given at last, and perhaps save no small amount of waste while that decision was still pending. It is in reference to a war policy that popular opinion is at its greatest disadvantage. As in other things, the people may err about engaging in a war, or about the mode in which it should be car ried on—though it would be hard to prove that they were more liable to error than those who govern them—but their knowledge, or their in born honesty of sentiment, is, in reference to a war, of but little comparative value. Domestic questions can generally afford to wait a while ; not so the operations of a war. Even Fabian tactics must be the result of choice, and of a plan foreseen from the beginning ;* but, generally, promptitude is so all-important that "to steal a march" has grown into a proverb, one which has been pretty well illustrated to our cost this spring. In the present war, whatever partial indemnifications the autumn may furnish for the delays of the spring, history will record that the preceding remarks have been fully verified. With the exception of the Manchester School, who on this subject were in the smallest of minorities, the whole nation were almost clamorous, from the spring onwards, for speedy and decisive action. Every one was indignant at wasting time in Vienna conferences, and at polite attempts to give the detestable com pound of swindler and burglar a pleasant retreat from the position he had taken by perfidy and violence. The English people were almost furious at seeing their ships loiter at Malta and at Besika Bay, or anywhere else, when they might have been scouring the Black Sea, clearing the mouth of the Danube, opening it for an English flotilla, keeping the enemy in alarm from . Ismail to round Odessa; Sebastopol, and the Circassian forts, and have given other work to Admiral NAM:MI(3IPP than violating his master's engagements, and mas sacreing the weak at Sinope. All the ldches of this war, whether due to Ger manism, Aberdeenism, sympathy with the Rus- sianised sufferance-despots of Germany, or the absolutist leanings of half our aristocracy, would have been clearly avoided, could the wishes of the people have told more promptly upon our House of Commons, and through it upon the Court and Cabinet. Long before Parliament met the people scented the Vienna and kindred influence which guided or modified the working of our Cabinet ; and though the herring was skilfully trailed, it has not altogether lost the scent. We cannot doubt that if the people could have performed the func tions of the Administration, the CZAR would never have dared to cross the Pruth ; and that, if he had, ere this time our navy would have been riding in the waters of Sebastopol, and the Russian ninety fours have been perhaps transformed to Turkish guard-ships in the Bosphorus. The heartiness of the people was shown by the best of all tests. Never probably since 1815 has a tax been pro posed, or an augmentation of a tax, against which petitions were not presented, or which was not re sisted by the popular members in the Lower House. In the present case, millions were voted, and the most odious and unpopular of taxes doubled, without even a division, JOSEPH HUME himself consenting—urging, we should rather say, on the part of those whose watchful and con- I sistent auditor he so long has been ! Alas ! the people had no power to make their loudly-proclaimed opinions- tell promptly. The management of our diplomacy and of war was in the hands of the Russianised aristocracy of the kingdom—of men who had in their hands, what the public had not, the SEYMOUR correspondence, and who yet for long took MENSCHIKOFF lies for truth, and for longer still treated the convicted liar as a gentleman! Could JOHN BULL but have known all, and, knowing all, have brought his honesty and common sense to bear at once on the Government, he would have taught it to call im perial villains by their right names, and to serve a crowned cheat and burglar as he is accustomed to treat gentry of the same sort when they inter fere with his property at home. We are free to confess that if anything would convert us into earnest advccates of Annual Parliaments as well as of the Ballot, it would be their probable effect on the liberties of Europe. No member of a House of Commons, responsible frequently to its constituents, could afford to let a Government sacrifice the independence and freedom of other countries to the bias of a native aristocracy or the matrimonial connexions of Courts. Neither could they afford to permit an Administration to make a costly two years' work of what might by one good outlay of money and of strength have been accomplished in one. After all that has passed we shall be carefully on the watch against one possible result. We consider it quite conceivable that our managers of the war may latterly have had it in view both to save their own credit, and Russia too, as much as may be. That they would like well, for instance, to do enough this autumn in the Baltic and the Black Sea to enable them to meet the "faithful Commons" again in February with a decent story ; and enough also to make it reasonable for Russia to negotiate, and f or th em to consent to do so, without demanding that complete restoration of the c oun t r i es she has absorbed, which two effective victoriesl England and omco t Francezthemdoas r o etaml a tl e s ea k If all dFz noß: f fn os Poland, inwob be refused nr p edf that u the si laa restored tl i k e i l n i k g d e I this would be inconvenient to those who do n indeed, exactly want the CZAR. for Lord PARA: I MOUNT of Germany, but who ara well pleased that I the subjects of all the big and little Germanic Ipotentates should live in fear of somebody more divide,' and powerful than their warn hated and despise 1 rulers. U ngenerous, we shall be told, to indulge such suspicions. Well, we are sorry if it be so. Wo cannot, however, refuse to be lieve that there are those who, in our Administra tion, do not want the will to act as we have just suggested, and some assuredly who want neither the skill nor the foresight to arrange the plan. Cleve r was that device of dismissing the national represen tatives, to the tune (COO, 000 men having sailed, or being about to sail, for Sebastopol. Ably the trum peter did his part confessedly. We hear nothing more authentic, however, concerning it. We must wait, of course, patiently—it all squares, however, but too accurately with the supposition we have just reluctantly made. The New Beer Law has now been in operation two Sundays. Its vexatious restrictions have been practically experienced, and the public in dignation is strongly excited at the intolerable interference with the comforts and enjoyments of the working classes created by enactments hurried through both Houses of Parliament with indecent speed at the fag end of the Session. Nothing could, indeed, be more unfair towards the great body of the people than the contemptuous in difference displayed by both Houses of Parliament to their interests. Men who had well-stocked cellars and magnificent club-houses, available at all hours for their own use, thought nothing of reducing the time during which their less wealthy brethren could obtain refreshment for themselves and families on the only day when they could sit down to enjoy it. Having six days at their own dis posal those persons might well be contented to submit to any privation on the seventh. But, practically, it would be nothing to them if the public-houses were closed the whole day, as they are at the other side of the Tweed. When do Noble Lords or Honourable Gentlemen stop at the bar or enter the parlour of a public-house for the purpose of getting a pint of beer, or having a chat on the events of the week ? The clubs are their public-houses, where they can get their bottle of pale ale, pint of sherry, glass of brandy and soda water, or any liquid, exciseable or other wise, with which they may deem it expedient to assuage the pangs of thirst, and they find no objection to administer as many " modest quenchers" as they think proper to de mand, for each of which they will have to pay in, current coin of the realm. They can lounge in their magnificently decorated saloons during the entire day, perusing the journals and periodicals without any impertinent interference on the part of the police. But the public-house is the " club" of the labouring man. A club, too, more indispensable to his comfort than that of Pall-mall or St. James-street is to its more aristo cratic frequenter, inasmuch as he has no private store from which to draw the means of supplying his wants. That, however, is now to be closed at the very time it is most required, and the annoying restrictions are imposed almost without discussion, or opposition, by the Noble and Hon. " Clubbists." It is not the least objectionable part of the mea sure, that it was passed in deference to the wishes of a combined body of Sabbatarians and Teetotallers. Men, some of whom, if they could obtain their wishes, would shut up their fellows on the whole Sunday, not allowing them to breathe the pure air of heaven, or indulge in the most innocent amuse ment—who profess what an exemplary and truly pious minister of the Gospel designated as " the senseless, unfeeling religion of the Pharisee, which, with sepulchral voice, forbade even Mercy to lift a finger on the Sabbath, as she walked the earth amid harrowing woes ; and in its iron-souled moroseness would have men starve on that day rather than pluck an ear of corn !" The re mainder of the party are even worse. They would not be satisfied even with a Scotch, but require a " Maine" liquor law. They would not allow any person—not wealthy enough to become a wholesale purchaser—to obtain even a pint of small beer to cool his parched lips at any time. Thev would strive to enforce by law a compulsory abstinence on all not strong enough to break through the petty restrictions they would establish. These are the persons to whom the Imperial Parliament has truckled, whom it has encouraged to persevere, by the temporary success that has attended their efforts. Let it not be supposed that they will be contented therewith, that they will accept it as a final settlement of the question, or abstain from further efforts to carry out their views. The Sabbatarian still regards any dealing on Sundays with horror. The opening for even a single half-hour is a violation of principle which lie will strive to obviate with all his strength. The sale of a pint of beer at any time is hateful to the Teetotaller. They have ac cepted the provisions of the recent Act, merely as letting in the sharp end of the wedge, by which they may labour with increased power for the attainment of their ultimate objects. They should have been resisted ab initio. Every point should have been contested from that very commencement. Already too much has been con ceded, and a decided attempt should be made to win back something more than has been taken by the late statute. If the public-houses must be close during the hours of church service, why may they not be opened for a few hours in the morn ing to enable those about to start on excursions to make provision for their journey, or to satisfy their wants in their own houses ? From 7or even 8 to 10 would not interfere with public worship, nor would the attractions of the beer-shop seduce our really religious person from attending at the place where he had been accustomed to offer prayer and thanksgiving to his Heavenly FATHER. The abstraction of the half-hour at mid-day—the compulsory closing at half-past two, in place of three p.m.—is perhaps not of very much conse quence. It perhaps occasions a little hurry about dinner-time, and may lead to occasional disappoint ment. The refusal to open before six is, how ever, a more serious matter. Many thousands of persons are in the habit of dining at five, and tak ing a quiet walk with their families in the evening. These will all be interfered with -very vexatiously. They will be compelled to lay in a larger quantity to provide for any additional consumption, any probable or possible demand. More will there fore be consumed, although it may not be pur chased from the licensed victualler. We already find in Scotland that men are beginning to pro vide themselves with " pocket pistols," or port able dram-bottles. This will encourage the taste for ardent spirits, for it is manifest that beer cannot be as easily carried about. Is this what the Teetotallers desire to accom plish ? We believe not. But still they cannot feel surprised if the weapon unskilfully wielded be turned against themselves. The closing at ten o'clock practically prohibits those who . are out on excursions from getting any re freshment on their arrival. They, however, will not often be taken in, but will take care to have supplies with them, unless the just and proper interpretation of the word " traveller" should en able them to obtain what they require on the arrival of the different trains. We greatly regret the short-sighted policy that has created these difficulties ; and we earnestly exhort all persons desirous of checking further encroachments on the liberty of the subject to exert themselves zealously and energetically to obtain the repeal of the ob noxious enactments. VISIT OF PRINCE A EBERT TO THE PORT. LAND BREAKWATER. On Saturday last, his Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the works of the breakwater now hi course of con. struction at the island of Portland. His Royal Highness was met at the landing-stairs by Mr. Coode, the resident engineer, who had the honour of conducting the Prince over the breakwater ; the different operations on which were minutely examined, and espe cially the works and apparatus connected with the masonry being set under water. The Prince afterwards walked to the "Verne" Hill, and inspected the barracks recently erected for the convict guard. Mr. Buller, the deputy-governor, attended there, in the absence of Capt. Clay, the resident-governor of the convict establishment. His Royal Highness was accompanied by Captain Du Plat, Captain the Hon. J. Denman, R.N., and Captain Crispin, R.N., of the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. The Prince landed at noon, and embarked at 3 p.m., when the royal yacht steamed away for Osborne. MISS ARABELLA GODDARD.—This eminent pianiste has left London for Baden-Baden, where she is en gaged to play at some concerts. From thence she will proceed to Wisbaden, Ilamburgh, and several other German bathing-places ; and also to Munich, Frankfort, and Leipsig. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST'2I, 1854 THE AFFAIR AT BOM A RS UND Return of the killed and wounded on board H.M. ship Penelope, when under the fire of Bomarsund Fort, 10th August, 1854 : George Privitt, aged 29, Cap. main-top, killed. Thomas Barber, 22, Ordinary, killed. Wm. Robinson, aged 23, Pt. R.M., wounded. Owen Carrol, Termagant, aged 23, Ord., wounded. J. Hancock, Belleisle, aged 26, A. 8., wounded. A French seaman killed belonging to the Duperre. THE TURKISH LOAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 1, Bryanstone-square, Aug. 21, 1854. Sir,-1 shall feel greatly obliged by your inserting the enclosed communication in a prominent part of your in fluential journal, in Monday's edition.—l am, &c., C. MUSURUS. A letter of Messrs. Trouvg-Chauvel and Stanley, in serted in various Paris journals, has a tendency to ques tion the power of applying a portion of the Egyptian tribute to the guarantee of the loan in course of negotia tion in London and Paris ; these parties pretending that the said tribute is already made over for the benefit of a bank alleged to be established at Constantinople. As this pretension has evidently an aim hostile to the loan, and may induce the public into error, the Embassy of the Sublime Porte in London gives the most formal denial to this unjustifiable assertion. It is true that about two years since a contract had been passed between the Sublime Porte and some Otto man bankers at Constantinople for the formation of a bank, but the projectors of that establishment having failed to fulfil their engagements, asked themselves and obtained the cancelling of the contract ; and all engage ments on both sides became null and void. Messrs. Trouv6-Chauvel and Stanley, cannot, there fore, be furnished with powers from a society which was never constituted, and whose ci-devant members are, moreover, domiciled at Constantinople. A similar declaration to the present has also been made by the Ottoman Embassy at Paris. An official article, published .in the Journal de Con stantinople of the 14th of July last, is herewith annexed in support of the above denial : _. "Plusieurs journaux de France et d'Angleterre ont an nonce par erreur que Mons. Trouve-Chauvel etait charge d'une mission financiere par le Gouvernement Ottoman ; c'est 1k une erreur qtie nous nous hAtons de dementir de la maniere la plus formelle, en ajoutant que Mona. Trouve- Chauvel jamais ete charge d'aucune mission quel conque de la part du Gonvernement Imperiel. Pour ce qui est de la negociation d'un emprunt pour le compte du Gouvernement Ottoman, ce sont, ainsi qu'il a ete dejh ports hla connaissance du public. Messrs. Black et Durand qui ont ete designes par le Gouvernement Imperial dans ce but et qui se trouvent dans ce mo menta Paris et k Londres pour remplir cette mission. (Communique.) "1, Bryanstone-square, August 19." The Countess of Shrewsbury, with Miss Talbot, have arrived at Kingston. The Earl of Zetland will entertain a large party of noblemen and gentlemen at Aske Hall, near Richmond, during the August meeting at York, which commences on Wednesday. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cranworth have left Upper Brook-street for Holywood, Kent, for the long vacation. The Baroness de Clifford and the Hon. Miss Russell have left the St. George's Hotel for Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire. Viscount Harding° has left for South Park, Pens hurst, Kent. The Hon. Lady and Miss Doughty have left Man chester-square, for the country. TURKISH EXHIBITION.—His Excellency M. Musurua, the Turkish Minister, the Countess of Jersey, &c., visited on Saturday the Turkish Exhibition, Hyde-park corner. His Excellency expressed his satisfaction as to the correctness of the different characters represented, also was much pleased with all the minute details pour trayed in the various groups, and was wonderfully struck with the completeness of the tout ensemble. On leaving the gallery his Excellency promised the managers a second visit and his strong recommendation. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress left the Mansion-house on Saturday evening, and proceeded by special train to Stafford, the mayor of which has invited his lordship to be present at a grand banquet to be given on Tuesday next. The mayor of Bradford also entertains the Lord Mayor on Friday next, and the mayors and magistrates of the West Riding are invited to meet his lordship on the occasion. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress then proceed on a tour to the lakes, and intend returning by way of Sheffield, the Master of the Cutlers' Association having invited his lordship to their annual feast. THE FRENCH Ex-Rovit. FAMlLY.—During the past week her Majesty Queen Marie Amelia, the Duke de Nemours, the Duchess de Nemours, the Count D'Eu, the Duke d'Alencen, the Princess Margaret, Countess Mollieu, and others of the Royal suite have paid a visit to Teignmouth, a fashionable watering-place on the south coast of Devon. The Royal party were received with great enthusiasm by the inhabitants, who were honoured last year by a similar visit. FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS DOWAGER OF BEAUFORT. —The mortal remains of this venerable and estimable noble lady were removed from the seat of her son-in law, the Hon. Granville Ryder, at Westbrook Hay, Herts, on Friday, for Badinington Park, where they were interred in the family mausoleum, in the presence of the Marquis Cholmondeley, Mr. Walter R. Farquhar, the present Duke, who came express from Scotland, and other relatives. EAST INDIA COMPANY.—On Saturday a very splendid banquet was given by the, Hon. the East India Com pany, at the London Tavern. Covers were laid for 100, and the room and tables were profusely decorated with the silver-gilt plate, &c., of the establishnient. The plateaux which,embellished the tables were of the most beautiful and classical character, and the whole affair was alike worthy of the princely liberality of the com pany, and highly creditable to the taste of the proprie tor of the tavern. Among the company present, w• observed the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of th• East India Company, Col. Sir F. Abbott, Lieutenant Colonel Adams, Lieutenant Colonel Bygrave, Colonel Campbell, Colonel A. Darville, Colonel Hay, Colonel Justice, Lieutenant Colonel J. R. Pond, Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., Sir Henry Willock, Major Moore, Colonel Roberts, Sir George Pollock, Sir R. Campbell, W. J. Eastwick. Esq., W. B. Bayley, Esq., W. H. Plowden, Esq., William Dent, Esq., the Masters of the Merchant Tailors Company, the Drapers' Company, the Fishmongers' Company, &c. MILITARY APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA.—With the Par liamentary papers on Saturday was published a letter from the East India Directors to the Government of Bengal, of which the following is an extract :—"We do, whenever the necessity may arise, from your not being able to procure the servi ces o f d u l y qua lifi e d o ffi cers of the Company's army, sanction, agreeably to the re commendation in your present despatch, the employ ment as surveyors, revenue surveyors, and in thee:lepart nient of Public Works, of such well qualified officers of her Majesty's regiments as can be spared from their regiments for these purposes, provided the limitation in the number of officers to be so employed be at all times subject to such regulations as her Majesty may think fit to issue. We need not add that officers must first have passed the examination in the native languages prescribed for the general staff." OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Edward Giffard is appointed to be first class clerk, Mr. Robert Bell to be second class clerk, Hon. W. Moreton to be third class clerk, in the Admiralty, "Whitehall ' • Mr. Selby De Vera Spencer, Mr. C. G. Turne r , M r . Joseph Senior, Mr. Henry Bly tie Mr. Andrew Armstrong, and Mr. F. T. Pearsall, are appointed to the Accountant-General's de partment of the Admiralty, at Somerset-house ; Mr. J. Vivian Hampton and Mr. James Gambier are appointed to the Storekeeper-General's department of the Ad miralty, at Somerset-house ; Mr. W. F. Robson, Mr. F. A. Miles, Mr. F. S. Jerningham, Mr. Evans, Mr. John Pigou, and Mr. Henry C. Alley, are appointed to the Comptroller of Victualling's department of the Ad miralty, at Somerset-house ; Messrs. Zanti Lemaitre and Edward E. Ede are appointed to the Director-Gene ral's department of the Admiralty, Somerset-house. THE LYCETJII THEATRE.—Two more nights yet re main of the farewell performances of Mr. and Mrs. Sims Reeves, previous to their departure from London for the season, and judging from the interest which their last appearance here excited, we should say thst Mr. Allcroft will have no reason to regret his engagement with these two eminent artistes. To-night, Lucia di Lammermoor is announced, "by special desire," and on Wednesday, Balfe's fine opera, The Bohemian G irl, which was so w e ll rece ived the other evening , will be repeated. Am ong the other member s of Mr . Al lcroft's small but abl e operatic corps, are Mr. Weiss and Mr. Farquharson Smith. On each of the above evenings, the performances will conclude with the new grand ballet, entitled Les Paysannes du Nord, supported by Mdlles. D'Antonie, E. Horn, Martin, Buffton, Marie Charles, and an efficient corps de ballet. PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION OF 1855.—The fol lowing states have expressed their intention of taking part in the Universal Exhibition to be held in Paris next year :—Austria, Bavaria, Belgium, Bremen, Denmark, Frankfort, Great Britain, Greece, Hamburg, Hanover, Hesse Darmstadt, Holland, Lubeck, Morocco, Meek let:burgh Schwerin, Mexico, Naples, Peru. Portugal , Rome, Sardinia, Saxony, Saxe Coburg-Gotha, Saxe- Weimar, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Tunis, Turkey, Tuscany, and United States. The only states of any importance which do not appear on the list are Russia, and, strangely enough, Prussia. The fine arts department of the Exhibition will be held in those portions of the Louvre which are newly-completed or which are rapidly approaching completion. The en tire space at the disposal of the French commission is about 900,000 superficial feet for the industrial section, of which 150,000 superfioial feet have been allotted to Great Britain, her colonies, and dependencies. The fine arts department will consist of about 130,000 inper ficiai feet hanging space, of which about one-tenth part will be allotted to this country, together with a certain space for sculpture. LIVERPOOL, Saturday.—This afternoon, at 4 o'clock, the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Europa, Captain John Leitch, sailed front the Mersey for Boston and Halifax, with the usual mails for the United States and British possessions in North America, 160 passengers, and a full cargo of merchandise on freight. Th e Whit e St ar packet-ship Arabian, Capt a i n Ba.nnatyne, sailed for Melbourne, with 308 passengers, a large mail, sud a full cargo. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR. THE CAPTURE OF BOMARSUND. Several telegraphic despatches from Dantzic, Stockholm, and Copenhagen, announcing the taking of Bomarsund, have been received since Saturday last, but they add little to what by the kindness of the Admiralty we were enabled to publish in our first edition of that day. The following are among the latest despatches : " COPENHAGEN, Sunday.—Bomarsund was at tacked by land troops alone. Heavy artillery de stroyed two detached forts : the head fortress then hoisted a flag of truce, and capitulated. General Bodisco and the Vice-Governor Turuhielm, with the whole garrison of 2,000 men (with the materiel and provisions), were made prisoners of war, and are on board the fleet. " The loss of the Allies was 50 men." STOCKHOLM, Sunday.—Before Bomarsund fell her Majesty's ship Penelope grounded close to the fort, which kept up a terrific fire on her. The Penelope lost one killed and two wounded. Two English steam-frigates got her off in an hour with but little damage. General Baraguay d'Hilliers had a narrow escape. A cannon-ball passed between him and his aide-de camp. The Russian prisoners, it is understood, are to be sent to France in British ships. The English and French flags are flying from the towers of Bomarsund ; 1,900 prisoners have been taken. The bombardment lasted from 5 a.m. of the 15th until 2 p.m. on the 16th, when the Rus sian General surrendered. The Russians blew up a fort containing state prisoners, and also, it is said, the secreted Aland pilots. DANTZIC, Saturday.—La Reine Hortense and her Majesty's ship Basilisk have arrived from Bomar sund. The fortress has surrendered, and 2,000 Russians are made prisoners. The Russians lost 30 killed. The loss of the allies was 28 killed, of whom the greater number were officers. A private telegraphic despatch received in Paris from Dantzic, states that the casualties on the side of the allied troops were 120 killed and wounded. The group of the Aland Islands, which formerly be longed to Sweden, was acquired by Russia in 1809, and the fortress now captured by the allied armament has been erected since that time, obviously with the view of threatening Stockholm, and of extorting further conces sions whenever a convenient season and pretext might be found. The effect of excluding the ships of England and France from the Baltic Sea would be to convert all the waters inside the Sound into a Russian lake, over which the fleets at Cronstadt and Helsingfors would do mineer, as that of Sebastopol lately did upon the Black Sea. But the eagerness of the Czar's Prussian partisans is doomed to disappointment, and the speedy reduction of the Aland Islands is the first step towards securing the freedom of the Baltic. A map of the locality will show a multitude of islands of every size and shape, scattered over the greater part of the entrance •to the Gulf of Bothnia. Only a small por tion, however, of the actually existing rocks and islets are laid down in any of the charts; and the alliedcomman ders have had to supply the deficiency by exploring and sounding with ceaseless diligence—sometimes, as in the case of the Valorous, at the cost of serious damage to the vessels employed. The mingled boldness and prudence with which our ships have been handled in this unknown and intricate navigation have been so striking as to command the admiration even of the enemy. A further difficulty with which the admirals have had to contend is the sudden variations in the depth of water ; to which it may be added that the channels are, in many instances, exceedingly narrow. The Aland Islands form an archbishop's see of about eighty inhabited islands, and a vast number of rocks and islets, in the province of Abo, in the Gulf of Bothnia, at the entrance, between lat. 59 deg. 55 min., and 60 degs. 32 min. N., and long. 19 degs. and 21 mins. E. The popu lation is 15,000, and they are all of Swedish descent. Rye, barley, pot,stoes, and flax are raised sufficient for the population. The manufactures are wool and sail cloth for home use. The exports are salt beef, butter, cheese, hides, cured fish, and firewood. The imports are salt, colonial produce, and manufactured goods. These islands, taken from Sweden in 1809, are of great political and military importance to Russia, and contain several fortified ports, generally the station of a part of the Bal tic fleet. Near them Peter the Great gained his first naval battle over the Swedes in 1714. • The chief island, Aland, has an area of 28 square miles, a population of 9,000, and a good harbour (Bomarsund) on its west side. ENTRANCE OF AUSTRIAN TROOPS INTO WALLACHIA. The ilioniteur of yesterday publishes the fol lowing : " VIENNA, August 18.—The first Austrian corps destined to enter Wallachia has received by tele graph its orders to march. It is thought the fron tier will have been crossed this very day, through the Red-Tower Pass, by two brigades that set out from Hermannstadt. This movement has been combined between General Hess and Omer Pasha, in conformity with the Austro-Turkish treaty." The Russian Government has cut off the com munications on the Austrian frontier. Since the 6th, no one has been allowed to enter Austria from Russia or Russia from Austria. THE BLACK SEA. learn t rn y tb el a e t gr tb ap e h b ic gbatdvice division from ion had Varna reee of the 9th we ivedbrdersto hold itself in readiness to march on the 12th. It was supposed that an attack on the Russians, by land and sea, would be made on the 15th. A letter from Odessa of the 6th, in the Vienna Gazette, says :—" An Imperial ukase has just pro longed for three years the privilege which makes this a free port. The commerce of the place is completely paralysed : thero are only two vessels in the roadstead, one of which, an Austrian, ar rived yesterday with a cargo of sugar, coffee, km. The more wealthy inhabitants of the coasts of the Crimea are leaving their homes ; Koslow and Caffa are mentioned more particularly as being com bpleeetneleyrnaibsainngdonnnedtbseinecneastth.e T e n r n e m n p i s e s b ' a v v e e s s r e e l s e e h n a t v l y e marched from the government of Kherson into the Crimea, and, according to every indication, it ap pears that the Russian Government think an at tack ou the Crimea possible, against which they seek to be prepared." MORTALITY AMONG THE ALLIED TROOPS IN THE EAST. VIENNA, Sunday, Aug. 20.—1 t is reported that 7,000 French and 500 English have died of the cholera at Varna. General Schaffgattsche's divi sion entered Wallachia by the Rothen Thurm pass on the 18th instant. We extract the subjoined from an interesting account, given by the occasional correspondent of a contemporary, of the survey of Sebastopol by the combined fleets : " On the evening of the 21st of July, signal was made from the Admiral ' Prepare for sailing,' and in the early light of the following morning the English and French fleets got under way in a moderate breeze, the Agamem non having on board Generals Brown and Canrobert, and several engineer officers, who had arrived the previous day from Varna. By 6 o'clock all were well under way, and in capital spirits, •ur object being manifestly, not only once more to cast the glove before our friends the Moskovs ' at the entrance of their harbour (giving them even the advantage in point of numbers), but also to make a reconnaissance of the country around their stronghold preparatory to a descent thereupon by our tented brethren now at Varna. Towards afternoon a dead calm came on. " July 22. —Still steaming and towing. A fresh breeze springing up later in the day, steam was again dispensed with. " 23d (Sunday).—Stiff b reeze, i n wh i ch the ro lli ng propensities of the fleet were beautifully illustrated. "24th.—The London and Vengeance ordered to chase with the Napoleon, Jupiter, and a third French liner. The London had the advantage. During the morning 23 ships were reported in sight, causing great rejoicing at our having at last caught the Russians out of their shell, until the ships ' proved to be trees at the St. George's mouth of the Danube. "25th.—Towards evening the Fury, the Terrible, and the Cacique steamed from the fleet on to Sebas topol, carrying with them Generals Brown and Canro bert, and Admiral Lyons ; the Fury having also on board the pilots of the fleet. If these vessels are to be a lure to draw out the Sebastopol fleet, they are, at all events, pretty well baited. Meanwhile the fleet creeps along darkly in the night, under steam-power, the Agamemnon towing two liners, and the Napoleon two three-deckers and one two-decker. At noon they were 56 miles from Sebastopol. "26th.—At half-past five sighted the advanced steamers off Sebastopol and joined them, thence steered to the north-west, along the coast, to reconnoitre. Cer tainly a more beautiful country for the landing of an army to conduct operations against . Sebastopol cannot be well w i s h e d f or ; a long grassy plain, extending mil es inward, to the mountains of the Crimea, and sloping gently and gradually towards the great fortress ; cavalry and artillery will be in their glory u p on it ; it is hay making time in the Crimea, and the whole plain is covered with the small cocks ; no wonder the Generals hoisted a signal 'Perfectly satisfied' on beholding such ground. Afterwards we steamed for Sebastopol, off which we remained for some time, counting the guns at its most formidable entrance, eome of them ensconced gloomily in the embrasures of the many-tiered casemated batteries, and others blackly overtopping the white shining walls or bright grass-grown earthworks. Iturne diately commanding the entrance, I counted, on the north side, in a casemated battery of two tiers, and guns in barbette, 32 guns ; on the south side, a casemated battery of 3 tiers, containing 102 guns ; to the right of this a battery of 2 tiers and guns in barbette of 108 ; to the right of this 48 guns in a battery of 2 tiers, and guns in barbette ; to the right of this range again, 30 to 40 guns upon an earthwork ; in the rear of this, between it and the town, is a similar battery ; there is also a case• mated three-tiered battery of perhaps 18 guns, which would fire right down the entrance of the harbour. Two large encampments were visible upon the hill on the south. These guns are what we saw and counted merely at the entrance ; after this inspection we stood out to sea again. "27th.---At daylight in the morning standing towards Cape Ma, and at 10 o'clock were under the pretty little monastery of St. George, which nestles among trees on the summit of a lofty and broken cliff ; on the plateau above is a telegraph station which, judging from a greatdisplay of bunting on the occasion, duly reported our proceedings to Sebastopol. We then stood in Balaklava-bay—the Fury, Highflyer, Cacique, Monte bello, and Britannia in tow of the Retribution. The coast here is most bold and rocky ; at the entrance of Balaklava-bay, upon a lofty rock, stand the ruins of a castle of the Byzantine period ; on the low rocks were many soldiers with rifles, and upon a position command ing the entrance to the little harbour we could dis tinctly perceive a couple of rocket-tubes being planted. Towards evening stood well out to sea, the Cacique and Tribune being ordered on to look at Kaffa, and the Highflyer to remain till the following morning 30 miles from Sebastopol to meet the Firebrand. " 29th—The Highflyer rejoined the fleet at daylight and ordered to the Sulina month of the Danube ; it is said she will also look in at Odessa. " We hear that a Russian steamer (supposed to be on her way from America to Sebastopol) called at Kosloo, the coaling station, the other day, coaled, and then de stroyed two Turkish brigs there. The Firebrand is at present looking out for her. The troops, it is said, will embark from three stations—Varna, Baltchik, and Kos tenje. The fleet has been busy making breakers for them lately. The troops will occupy Eupatrio in the first place, between which and Sebastopol they will have a splendid country. " Captain Parker's loss is severely - felt by the officers of the Firebrand, and by all who, knowing him, could appreciate his public and private life. You will have heard of the circumstance connected with his ship's first visit to Kostendje some four months ago, from which place some Cossacks had just retreated, leaving behind many decided proofs of their amiability of disposition. In one hut were found the bodies of a Bulgarian man and woman, upon whose remains was stretched a child but a few months old ; its hand was extended upon its mother's breast, and through a part of his little wrist the ball had passed which had deprived her of life ; near them was a little terror-stricken boy about three years old, whose left arm was in a sad state from the effects of no less than five bullet wounds. Immediately on their discovery the two boys were sent on board the Firebrand and properly cared for, Captain Parker expressing his in tention of taking them entirely under his charge. These little fellows are still in the Firebrand, where, of course, among sailors, they find an abundance of nurses ; the eldest, a fine little intelligentßulgarian specimen, answers to the name of "Johnny Firebrand," and already speaks English ; his brother has just been weaned, by the assis tance of a goat, and is at pre-ent undergoing the painful mysteries of teething, having thereby imparted great knowledge to the unmarried officers of the ship on that subject, When the time arrives for the Firebrand to be paid off the officers will be dispersed, and there will be no home for these young Bulgarians. There is to be, I believer, a subscription in the fleets on their behalf, and lam quite sure that this will not be limited to us of the Black Sea, and that there will also be found some English charities whose funds are applicable to such a case." THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 10th notices the abandonment of Bucharest by the Russians in an extraordinary manner. The im perialist writer says : " The passage of the Danube by the Turks at Giurgevo appeared to offer a favourable occasion of inviting them to a pitched battle, in which a decisive blow might be struck. But after having vainly waited for them for a fortnight, Prince Gortschakoff, perceiving that the enemy did not quit his entrenchments, judged it necessary to continue the general movement of his army towards the north, in order to concentrate his forces in more advantageous positions, and to prepare to attack the enemy with rigour, from whatever side he might menace us. With this intention Prince Gorts chakoff gave orders to the troops which had taken up a position near Frateschi to march on the 27th of July on Bucharest and Busco ; and subsequently the other detachments also quitted the points which they occu pied. Even during this movement the enemy did not dare to follow us." A letter from Rutschuk, 3d says—" On the 31st ult. Omer Pacha sent five regiments of cavalry and two squadrons of bashi-bozouks on a reconnaisance on the road to Bucharest. Some Cassacks have been seen near Kalugereni, but they took flight on the arrival of the Turkish cavalry. The numerous Russian deserters who were concealed in the woods and in the maize fields, where they waited the ar rival of the Turks, all agree in saying that all the Russian army had passed the Argis, and were sta tioned on the heights of the right bank of the Sabar, with the exception of two squadrons, who are at Darechiti, on the Argis. The army of Omer Pacha, at Rutschuk, Slobosie, and Giurgevo, amounts at this time to 93,000 men. The bridge of boats constructed by the French and English pontonniers will be completed to-morrow. • At the request of the Austrian consul, an opening has been made for the passage of the steamers." A letter from Bucharest of the 10th, in the Bres law Gazette, states that the Russian head-quarters were about to be transferred from Busco to Fok chany. The Turkish advanced posts were march ing on the Jalonigha ; they have just been rein forced by four squadrons of cavalry. Forty squadrons had just entered Derechty. Halim Pacha, says the Cologne Gazette, in a let ter from the Danube of the 15th, enforces the most rigid discipline on the Turkish troops who have en tered Bucharest. He has issued a proclamation guaranteeing the maintenanc e of the institutions of the principalities. A part of the bashi-bozouks have been sent back to the other side of the Danube, on the interference, it is said, of M. de Laurie. The Russian subjects of Wallachia have been placed under the protection of Prussia ; the Greeks, for commercial affairs, will be under their own consul, but for political matters under the Austrian consul. General Osten Sacken, a part of whose corps occupies Galatz, has issued the following pro clamation to the inhabitants : "From strategical (not from peaceful) causes, your town will probably soon be evacuated by the Imperial Russian troops. Conduct yourselves tranquilly, and thereby prove your attachment to the Emperor. The Emperor proposes as a reward for your submission to raise Galatz into the capital of Wallachia (!). Bucharest has forfeited the Emperor's mercy. The inhabitants of that town showed themselves well disposed towards the enemy, and will meet commensurate punishment. When the enemy enters your walls, the Czar expects you will exhibit no sympathy towards them." If this document be not apocryphal, it affords strong evidence that Austria is bound in her own interest to demand guarantees against the renewal of any further attempts on the part of Russia to re-possess herself of the town menaced with pun ishment, or that promised recompense if they act as subjects of the Czar, and enemies to their legiti mate suzerain and his allies. CONSTANTINOPLE. The following private telegraphic despatches were received in Paris yesterday : " Marseilles, 18th—Constantinople, 10th.—It is said that the expedition to the Crimea is to be postponed until the end of the month, in consequence of the extreme heat. The troops are actively engaged in making fas cines, gabions, &c. Bou Mazas, the contingent of Tunis, and some reinforcements from England have arrived. 10,000 muskets have been sent by the French to Schamyl. Said Pacha is expected at Constantinople on the 25th. " Athens, 12th—King Otho persists in refusing to disband the irregulars." The Sultan lately conceded a line of electric tele graph. It is to start from Constantinople for Bel grade, where it will be in communication with all the German lines. A branch is to start from Adrianople to Schumla. This line is to be com pleted in four months. FRANCE. PARIS, Sunday Evening.—The saloons of Mar shal Vaillant, Minister of War, were crowded on Saturday evening with military men, who came to congratulate him on the taking of Bomarsund. Nearly all the generals and other superior officers in Paris were present on the occasion. It is said that the Emperorcf . the Empress will leave Biarritz on the 27th, to return to St. Cloud, where they intend passing a few clays before his Majesty takes his departure for the camp of Boulogne. Paris on Saturday, about half-past one o'clock, was thrown into commotion by the thunder of the Invalides firing a salvo of 101 guns. Every one naturally inquired what could have called forth such a demonstration, and it soon began to be supposed that some decided adv a nta g e had been gained either in the Black Sea or in the Baltic. As the latter seemed the more natural supposition, the news of the taking of Bomarsund began to be ru moured about. And this proved to be the case, as about two o'clock the following telegraphic despatch, received by the Government, was po3ted up at the Bourse : " Dantzic, Aug. 19, 25 min. past 8. " The Consul of France to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Imperial yacht the Refine Hortense has ar rived. Bomarsund has surrendered at discretion. 2,000 prisoners, and 100 pieces of cannon, aro in the power of the allies. The loss of the assailants is insignificant. (Signed) " BRUAT." This despatch was placarded in every part of Paris on Saturday evening by order of the Prefect of Police, and crowds of persons were everywhere collected round the posting-bills, reading the news and commenting in terms of the greatest satisfac tion on the success of the allied troops. The fol lowing.are some of the opinions expressed on the matter by the French journals. The Moniteur, in publishing the telegraphic despatch says : " The expeditionary corps of the Baltic seconded by the allied fleets, has commenced its operations. Only a few weeks since our soldiers left the camp of Boulogne, and after a passage as favourable as it was rapid, they only took the time to reconnoitre the ground before they marched on the enemy. In a few days they have carried the position of Bomarsund, and thus conquered the archipelago of Aland, the possession of which secures a strategic basis for the ulterior movements of our squad rons and of our troops." The Constitutionnel alludes to the capture in the following terms : "This brilliant success will be hailed as it deserves by the whole of France. This prompt result, which forms such a contrast with the check of the Russians before Silistria, shows sufficiently what a difference exists between the two armies as between the two causes. It was thought that the formidable fortress of Bomarsund would necessitate a regular siege. A con siderable materiel had in fact been landed, but the im petuous valour of our soldiers rendered long prepara tion useless. They carried the two principal towers by scaling, and soon after the garrison of Bomarsund, menaced by a general assault and unable to withstand the projec tiles of the two fleets, had no other means of safety but complete submission. This magnificent feat of arms is a worthy commencement on the part of the French troops, who 'only a few weeks back quitted Calais with the cry, a thousand times repeated, of Vive l'Empereur I , and who have already proved to the enemy that no ob stacle can arrest their daring. At the camp of Boulogne the Emperor told them that they would know how to equal in patriotism and courage their predecessors, the ' combatants of Eylau, Friedland, and La Moskowa. The event has justified that expression by this marked success, which does the greatest honour to the leaders who conceived and the soldiers who achieved it." The &Me has the following observations on this ' • matter : "We do not want to exaggerate the importance of this event, but we may certainly affirm that it will pro duce a powerful effect on the minds of the allied troops- It was already something to have forced Russia for the last three months to cease all navigation in the Baltic, where her flag used to float predominant. It is a great --- honour to have obtained such a success, the very first time that our seamen and troops have attempted a serious attack ; it is certainly a brilliant opening of the cam paign. It now remains for our brave soldiers and sailors in the Black Sea to respond to the victorious cannon of Bomarsund. The enterprise against Sebastopol is cer tainly a difficult one, but the day on which that fortress, by which is protected the unopposed victors of Sinope• shall have fallen into the hands of France and England/ ' the cause of absolutism will have undergone an irre - ' parable check. As Frenchmen, as declared enemies of despotism, we offer up our most ardent prayers that the chastisement, so richly merited by the violater of every right, shall not be long delayed." The Emperor and Empress assisted, on the 16th, at the fete offered to them by the town of Bayonne; Their Majesties arrived at the theatre, which had been converted into an immense ball room, at 10 o'clock p.m., sand were saluted with enthusiastif?, cries of " Five l'Empereur !" " Vi ve I m peratice • The Emperor wore the uniform of a general offleer, , , and. the Empress was d resse d i n w hit e , and ali covered with diamonds. The Emperor danced the first quadrille with Madame Jules Labat, the 1 61 ° of the sub-prefect, and the Empress with tile general commandin g the military division. Th eir Majesties retired at 1 o'clock. The Empress, whose health was wonderfully improved since her arrival„ at Biarritz, is to remain there until the 20th of September. The Emperor was to leave, on the 21st, for Pau, and to be absent three days. The Marquis de Molins, former Minister of Finance of Spain • M. Llorente, ex-Governor of . the Bank of San Fernando ;M. Benavides, former • Governor of Madrid ; and Colonel Luis Hurtade de Zaldivar, had arrived at Bayonne. The Princess Zanaide Charlotte Julie Bonaparte who lately died at Naples, was the eldest daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain. She tva! born in Paris on the Bth of July, 1802, and had married her cousin Prince Charles, the eldest son of Lucien Bonaparte, and gave him twelve children of whom eight are still living. She inhabited Italy, the climate of which country was deemed necessary for her health, and she generally resided at Rome, %% here her three married daughters and her eldest son, Prince de Musignano, live. She ' was a highly-educated and clever woman, speak ing Italian, German, and English equally well. Her charity was inexhaustible, and the goodness of her heart and general mental qualities rendered her society most delightful. Her early death causes a dreadful void in the circle in which she was so much beloved. An st-,.cident, which might have been attended with serious consequences, happened on Friday. et Tronville, to Prince Lucien Murat. After having taken his usual walk, on the beach, the prince had just entered his carriage with the Baron de Chas" siron, his son-in-law, and a little child, when the horses, in turning the corner of a street, suddenly started off, and the wheel coming in violent con tact with a post, the postilion was thrown OIL_ The horses, thus left to themselves, dashed at: furious pace along the quay in front of the Customs ' House, the carriage being driven against wood, barrels, &c., which flew in all directions• length aM. Pila re Hagenow, a partner in the hen . of G. H. Draper and Co., of Tronville, rushed fel ward to the head of one of the horses, and seizi l l the nose of the animal with one hand and t w n o pieces bridle with the other, stopped its progress, and t ql , -- other persons laying hold of the other horse , 03 „,' he same moment, the carriage was stopped. I Prince during the affair preserved the utmost san s r froid, constantly crying out, " Neayez pas PTA • mes amis ;it tie faut jamaise avoir pour ; chi l d, his thoughts seem e d t o b e t o p ro tect the l est whom he held close ag a i ns t hi m with the great aped anxiety. The prince and his companions es oa n d unhurt. The carriage was much damage d ,/ leg s the horses were injured about the chest an b a d • by the pieces of wood against which they struck. The receipts of the Orleans Railway during_ week ending on the 12th inst. were I,o2o,22Btdievg 137,470 f. more than during the corresp e t n e Is t week of last year. The gross receipts since of January amounted to 25,625,538 f., being a ference of 5,333,641 f. in favour of 1854. t 7 3f. The Three per Cents. opened on Saturday a for 0 ' 40c., rose to 73f. 65c., and closed at 73f- P er - the end of the month ; and th e Four-and -a - Cents. closed at 99f. 90 c . ; Orleans Rt rio f. ; Shares, 1,220 f. ; Rouen, 970 f. ; Havre) 'o2f. Great Northern, 842 f. 50c. ; Strasburg?, 50c. ; New Shares, 627 f. 50 c . ; Paris and - "• 7 8 72f. 963 f. 75c. ; Lyons and the Mediterranean, deo% 50c. ; Western of France, 647 f. 50e. ; and Cette, 628 f. 75c. ; Great Central of Ered it 505 f. ; Lyons and Geneva, 510 f, ; Bank of Mobilier, 723 f. 75c. SPAIN. A despatch from Madrid, dated the 1 6 ._t h : :: 11 ; nounces that M. Collado, the Finance 301'"-e has resigned. There were again rumours of differences betlveell Espartero and O'Donnell. tha t The Boletin of Barcelona, of the 14th, stau e- h the a 3 n O d o hr workinga 4do class,o w ff rrekdm, had, e i n n wt a ah s iet r e n e d p a m r o e ne s e t n ohf t e a a t iF? g g e o f 1 iori r, wor de men, to support the government of th e D la Victoria like w and the authorities of the cal....awe e read in a Madrid letter of the 15th : work' was t a sort of insurrection yesterday of tho 'iheir men employed in restoring the stree ts oeg ° an d" former state ; the cry was for higher 00! more time of rest. The consideration of. '",,-verel that all the streets had been unpave d In %woo: places, and the necessity of having them reSeilig as soon as possible, had led to gangs of naen soy employed, who were or we six reals a day rekeptworking w ith scarce l l on el interval. Five wa s the n ae paid by the corporation, but the m en dor° Trithd seven reals. Many went outside the tovialoacis sticks, and compelled those employed on the L i ree to to leave off work, and others pa raded the b p here. There were some hundreds 111 t"tl Atocha, but without any leader, aPPar en k l pre' fixed plan of any kind. The authorities t,, )° ,, e Dra' cautions against any serious outbreak. -Viiwerent tional Guards were summoned to their n e rs ; quarters, and turned out in respective nilT, but they patrolled the streets in various Parnvere nothing serious took place. Some workraeilworl taken up. It seems to be thought that the _d men are incited by parties who are infl political motives against the present order _ r e Thereol; a things, as was the case at Barcelona. some cries of " Down with the Gov ernment' some for the republic. fitatios The Nacion, in adverting to the 031 " - cox which went to Espartero, on Sunday last , r" the plain of says fthe that— preamble to the decree c onv Cortex,oking 'th " The Duke de la Victoria offered t o confer vi; of the colleagues, and, in effect, scarcely h a d the bautictout press terminated, when the Ministers were sic w hoa assemble in one of the rooms of t he same ecli s t , the three commissions of the provin cial deputatio /140. corporation, and the national militia presensitsa o n, selves to the government, to offe r their ad c oe piste publican d order,wi thoutof reserve, thel awof in o r theder of to sustain tht of the Ministry, and of all the conseq politi u es ° en c glorious rising of July?' ty %. Five officers of the Cordortitegilo2 - •