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

h. I LYCEUM THEATRE.-HENRY Rtl SELL, for Thirty Nights. THIS EVENING ( he 2d time), Aueust 29th, aka every EVent‘g. Maly friends having expressed a wish that Mr. Russell should appear again previous to finally withdraw. ing his Entertainment, he has, in compliance with their request, made arrangements to appear Wry evening. Itr RUSSELL will preseptVHE-FAR WEST; or, TIM _PROGRESS of the EMI ‘IRAN T from the OLD WORLD to the NEW. Air. Rinsed -will relate his anecdotes, and sing several - pew songs. " Cb.peri,Boys, cheer," " Par, far uport the sea," " Sunshine after Raiii,""'' rind Ltindl Land !"_. " The Falls of Niagara," "Long parted have we'•been';2 I'm Afloat," I* Many charues have I seen," "The Icebergs" (descriptive song), !. Newfoundland Dog," " The Gambler's Wife," Scc. 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 31r. Buelcatone. THIS EVENLNG, Avocet 29, Still be rerformed THE OLD CHATEAU. Characters by Messrs. Howe, Rogers, H. Marston, and Buokstone; Mrs. litzwilliam, and Miss 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. Bnclustone. STRAND THEATRE. Sale Lessee Mr. F. W. Allcroft THIS EVENING, Auausr 29, Will be performed HARD TIMES. Failewed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Mephistopheles Mr.llalford; Faust, Miss G. Hodson; Mar g uerite, Miss H. Gordon. To conclude with BOMBASTES.FIJRIOSO. ‘Stals, 45.; Boxes, 2s. 6d.; Pit, 12.; Gallery, 6d.; Private Boxes el is., to be had of Mr. Allcroft. 15, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. "This place fills up an hiatus which the Crystal Pa!ace l e a ves wanting. Vocal and instrumcntal in , isic of the first order, and a iiisplay of fireworks which exceeds all imagination, are a fitting :lose to a day at the Crystal Pala:e." DANSON'S COLOS,•AL PANORAMA of CHUSAN. Splendid ond:Extenstve Menagerie and Marine Aquariam—Unri- Tailed Military iland. 'VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT,• in whiclf ) jtiisY Poo!e. Misi Ransford, 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 mtgnificent display of Fireworks by Sonthby. Admission One Shilling. A splendid Pavilion for Dancing has been erected. Fall Quadrille Band, &c. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPRITFIRATag. Lessee and Manager, Mr. *llllam Cooke. GREAT SUCCESS of the NEW. EQUESTRIAN BURLESQUE. THIS EVENING, 2nd Time, an entirely new Burlesque of Equestrian character, by ' Arco VAMP, Esq., called THE SIEGE 'OP TROY ; or, THE 3.11 4 5-JUDG3SENT of PARIS. After HERB CHRISTOFP (l'Enmereur des Ennarn`mles) on the Tight Rope, with the (until now) unattempted miraculous .eat of throwinga.SuinaiersauP4 and alighting on the rope on his itetl! . . • ' u );11 The um que'aml elegant SCENES In the ARENA, th invention, arran;ement, and u 'der the direction of Hr. William Coolie. To conclude with Mrs S. l fleaiey's Equestrian Ballet d'Action THE KNLGLI r AND THE' , WA lER LILY; or, Love among the Mermaids. ' . Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. u 4114E1 , WATER. AT TAKDON EMT!) , s"- TM. DAY — 4 4Qminc 8 min.:titer 5 Evening 27 inindirt. 5 o-MORRow l'ilerniDg 45 min.tqter 5 1 Evening 4 nr.v..,.z.n. 6 • 111 Z VikAtlll3ll.—Suti °mos, AUG. 29. THEBMOIKETICH, IN THE 78—highest since noon yesterday. 62 —lowest this morning and during the night. 73—this day at noon. BARoxzTr.u, 30 . 56. WIND, morning N., noon S.W.—Light breeze, with glorious harvest weather. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We will notice, fur per, the communication of "A Patient Observer " after the furnace he mentions has been examined by a competent person for us. -;e'~ ' . 7 i'~i - 113 („: _ _ ~~ LI)NDON, TUESDAr, 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, arid. that Prussia will lake 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, again 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 deely-injured Moslem ; 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 hiAdeeplyainjured 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 perinanent 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-L-a would-be robber. His seeming lno deration has been unmasked, and he 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 any :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 Nienoaas has occasioned all the disturbance, he must not feel surprised if' his wishes are disre garded„ aid that those who were unwillingly com relied to take up arms should not sheath 1 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 guaranteeenOve "thank thee, Jew, for teaching us that word") for the permanent and lasting. tranquillity of Europe. It is already asserted'thatf,tim.Odificat ions de- ! manded , -by Prince Ciorson.Az or . i. (the Minister, and no .the. General) are-- " no futliffsl denimidS l iiiall be made by the';Weatern - Powers either for territorial,S pecuniary or acrifice s On the pa=t ot,Russia. " shallvarticipate in the pro tectorate ever- the , Prin 'ties, and that no changwiliallbe m a d e i n the position and ,privi leges °C . a *. b4eek. tia .- na in Turkey." Now, :tHeSe Stipulation s are clesrl• dmissible They cannot; fact, ene Y for i n be t rtained a single ina moment. If they were so, th ey would allow NICHOtA and his cong en ial :friends, Dr. O Orr- MAN.OPPortunity for the mid JOHN MITCHm;,: as most unblushing mendacity,. ;,inc l allOW the form er an opportunity of again,, ;the when he saw a more faVOUrable•opport*a_ Y , and enc ouraging him to do so by 'the pr ac tioalim.u. :. pity perTnitted to his past ,„.. If these crimes. propositions were at all 'listened they would preclude the Allies from obtaining the most trivial iedembity for the expenses of the War ; Turkey, France, and England must bear the heavy outlay to which they have been subjected, without seeking either a return of the money they have been compelled to expend, or any species of equi valent.' Con!d this be termed an " honourable"• coneluvon of the war ? We fear no On the con trary, it seems to us that it would be not,. On so much the other way, that it would only invite to future ag gression, and to even heavier demands on our re sources another ti me . If h e maintained his fleets at Sebastopol, his establishments at the mouth of the Danube—if the Euxine still re mainect mare c/ausum, an d th a t th ere was any shadow. of . a protectorate over either the Princi palitiesor the memberaof the Orthodox Church, an excuse wtiuld never be wanting for new diffi- Galties a and disturbaaces. The CZAR would tar ' tare ticen... , te„t innocent acts into _already shown his lata‘t v ar,t 3. powers , rn I ..terefor —aa4l easily credit from experience what more he may be disposed to do at some future period. Of this we feel convinced, that no peace can be really beneficial unless the treaty be signed at Sebas topol, with the Crimea in the possession of the Allies. Long ago we ventured to hope that a bountiful harvest w.onla Trovide us with the sinews of war. That hope is now in great part realised. Yester day's fall of Bs. or 10s. per quarter, with its in fluence on the Money Market, niust baie 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 theordinary reckoning of family consump tion, much more than pay the additional taxation of 10,000;000/. 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 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 6olbs. 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 tl. 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 ono which makes the onerous duty of repressing the great oppressor of Europe sit much lighter on our shoulders ; and we, there fore, owe double thanks to a kind PROVIDENCE, as well as lie under increased obligations to do our work thoroughly. To Russia her,elf 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 be::efit, 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 Perlin by giving him a broker's com mission on Russian produce obtained through his d)rninions, and at the same time contributing to the chief enemy's treasury by permitting him a somewhat roundabout commerce. When this Russo4'russian 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 embarrass 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 her commerce is annihilated, and sh% will have the mortification of seeing England pay her way as we proceed, and our trade as active as if the CZAR and we were at profound peace. What is a traveller ? By what e7idence is the assertion that a party is's / Eh/ma fide traveller to be sustained ? These questions have recently as sumed immense impeirtance, 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 ;exposoi 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 be in 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 'a- its provisions. But .they - cannot ascer tain what it zeally 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 inconTenience of having precedents estab. lii3hed that may serve to guide the trade from the morass' in which they have been plunged through ... hasty and improvident legislation. ~ Cases u ttave 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, th erefore, refer to that, as the clearest 'and most satisfactory of any of the cases yet brought before the public. Mr. Luce, tho prop rietor of the . Hotel, Hampton - co ur t , King's Arms -was yesterday sum mone d befor e the I Vlagistrates for th sex at the Special defend ant w Sess ions e county of Middle aa at Hampton. Th e charged 'with a breach of the recent statut e in haviiiing several persons refreshing themselves at his ft_hpeastprtohwiobitentia hours, that is to re , ay°, usheetwdeuenrinhgal six o'clock ,pm., en Sunday, the 20th ir t.i - -- The Learned Gentleev-An, who so ably c o nducted these defence, - willi n g. g.ty admitted the, ' :st y facts, that donduated moment after after the, these persons had obtained ref hour for closinf:i, that they' werr, • such to Arr.. IiUCE, but justified • 44 travellers " i. on the ground who 'under the law and had applied as land, was 'ocund to re'i;eive them. - of the . Ile also show e d that a nr.,tice had been publicly exhibited directing attentifin to the restrictive e nactments, and that a book • xis .kept in which every person admitted to the louse affixed his name and address to a State ree_fe' 4 !-Jr!" - ' 1 ' s"t'.• ' - :' 1 .- . 4 : 7, 1, : . !,, Vtd it3r. • . Front titis ivok it appeared t—a.. ... A f. il lesu persons 'had, come from various distances—from Gralil 1 0 Cairo; from Canada, from Glasgow, and from 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, se3ondly, that the book con taining the statement to that effect, and their names and addresses should be received: as prime/ 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 miles, or even one mile, without receiving the necessary refreshment ? Wo 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 withstanding. The reception of the book in evidence was no less important than the definition of the term "traveller." It was quite obvious that a traveller, served on the exigency of the moment, could not be often produced a week or ten clays subsequently to sPeak for himself and to prove the accuracy of his representations. The landlord should at his peril receive the representations of the alleged " 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 eutori, not merely of showing that the representa tion 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 may 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. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29 5 1864 COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Aua. 28. The; Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales. and Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal and Princess - AliCe fatended Divine service at Osborne yesterday, which vcr,s perfornied by the Rev. G. Prothero. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting and the House hold were alto present. The - Duchess of Kent attended the service at Whip pingliim Church in the afternoon. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the North American Pro vinces. . . Weiare sorry to announce the death.of Major-Generf 1 Bush, K. 11., which took place from the prevailing epi, demic, at his re s id ence i n Sl oane - street on Monday even. ing. 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 be discha rge d in a manne r th a t earne d f or him the respect of ad 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, died Pro fessor' Schelling, at the age of 79, a contemporary of Kant, Fichte, sad Hegel, and last living representative of the' great school of defunct philosophy. TH3 LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT CROYDON.--INQUEST THIS DAY. —Mr. Payne held an inquest this morning at the Town-ball. Southwark, to inquire into the circum 'tances touching the death of Mrs. Harrison, aged 42; who expired last night from the injuries she had re ceive 1 ' The house sur geon , S t. Thomas ' s Hospital; harm proved that the cause o f death i'ai exhaustion from :wing the right le g amputated, and from other injuries received, th e j ury retureed a similar verdict to that given yesterday, and also adding the same addenda. The inquiry then terminated. BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.—Henry Onslow, Esq., the returning officer fir this borough, under the provisions of the I Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854, has ap point4.l John Ciutton, Esq., of 32, Newington -place, NewirOon, in the county of Surrey, to be the auditor of eledtion expenses for the borough of Lambeth fur the year ensuing. i Loan JOHN RUSSELL DECLINES AN INVITATION.— The Westmoreland Gazette says We understand that Lord John Russe!l, (luring 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 Rooin, to solicit his lord= :hip to give a lecture in connection with the objects of these institutons. His lordship received the deputation most courteously, but expressed an apprehension that a compliance with the request would create a trouluksoine precedent, and pleaded that he required rest and retire ment - rather than additional labour and excitement at this time." • ACCIDENT ON TEE NORTH LONDON RAILWAY.—On Sunday morning, about a quarter to 7 o'clock, John Blincfie, 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, Dalkon in consequen ce of the sever e i n j ur i es h e received on that occasion. lie had been in the service of the company nearly five years, and %Yas 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 istottingnara• shire,' As one of the conseptentes, of these calamitous occurrences, the mother vf- the young man, who was only in his 24th y ear , h as b een obliged to leaveherbusiness and her home for the last fortnight to watch at the bed - tide of her dying sQe, at an expense most inconvenient to a person in her station of life ; for although,-"'she observed, " we arerespwtable, still :we are very poor.' An ir.quest on the body will be held by Mr. Baker, the Col'oner, on Wednesday next. DISTRESSING SurotDE AT HottEsLow.—During the last week quite a gloom has been cast over the town of Hounslow, by the feticide of Mr. David Thomas Morriss, a surgeon, and the principal visiting-assistant of Messrs. Frogley and Hall. Deceased, who WWI only 28 years of age, was widely known and much beloved amobg all classe 4 in the locality, where he had practised for three. years. - He had been married about five year s , resided with his wife, two children, and a female servant, in a house contiguous to his employers. Hay ing been very severely wor k e d of late on accou n t of the prevailing epidemic, he went to London on Sun day, the 20th instant. During his absence a discovery bad 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 wogld terminate at an early date. Deceased imp home to his wife, and telling herb ;ately went - 'cad somethinging dis- serious to communicate mention the fact of his impend ''Missal, and that-. taving then no means of maintaining his farnilh could put an end to his existence. He then asker.l. Mrs. Morriss to call the servant maid, and speak to her about the discovery which had been made. During the 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," drank it off in their presence, and though assistance was summoned immediately he expired in a few minutes. It Wag 3 , l r ci a , vn at the inquest, held yesterday, before Mr. kley, that deceased when at any time much do taPhnradets s h e e d We i s n not mind, ma i that he was frequently low in spirits, thinking n w g o h u is ld wa C y oT i i:erse about suicide, he o ,had , she believel.llrdhei,, v 3,) rwr:yieFsh v Ttytoil sye ..i d eee.r n t e. His professionaltheworlddustoiesfaswteraes returned edjt(ll.7ecp.itolie,aszi.,erti:dtmd cpair irr: t ai h vs ; asm r p uuu-. took versalpliyeeerelsapsetcteevder:Liinnglfj ounatow. 'the - funeral, which was attended by an immense concourse of people.. HOW TO SUBDUE SMOKE. Referring to our five preceding articles on this subject, in proof of the fact that there exists a choice 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—we 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 muffice. 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 twiceas 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. In 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 clone 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 Loiters of suffieictit capacity ; and that their fur naces are not large enough even in proportion with the boilers ! It 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 die-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 asmoke-prevent ing apparatus into the furnace, although occupy ng but about.seion or eight inches of the length of the fire-place, by still further reducing its al ready limited space, should make the Wane() yet more delicate in the poise, when decidin4 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—shall be unequivocaly 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 cf those steamers, instead' of the latter setting about to find means .(arid ; 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 froth 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 car exami nation would be incomplete if we were iist to adduce some proof that, in marine boiler furnaces, smoke can be prevented, and fael economised. Mr. Robert Galloway, the superintending engineer to the London and Westrninster Steam-boat Com pany, tried certain .experiments in , the Moss ; Dose, to ascertain the 'comparative effects between the ordinary furnace and - that of Leo Steven's, the fire-space in both cases being. precisely the same ; and he very...honourably certified, as the result of his• -own • personal trial, that, besides, reducing - tbe"smeke - within the limits of the Act, with West Hartley steam coals, the latter (the . patented) systeal evaporated, within a fraction, lilbs. of water to the lib, of fuel consumed more than the other;'i.e., produc ed Correspondingly more steam than the common fur nace ! Had 'we . data. of .the same character re specting similar experiments on the Thames with cheerfully any other inventions, we should. very' . hat publish it ; for it is ;invidious spirit t we have more than once mentioned the practical demonstrations a raetacal parte ; - demonstrations of the e ffi c ient system has been in sus eular inventor. All we, have said.- • .subdued • and in satisfactorily and economically I • have to. thank him . also for Lee Stevens, we doing juitice .in some 'degree to L •tainment of the proposition that smoke may be eliciting, in the ce of so muc h pro gress of his invention, exper:en . to the public. weight in our argument and of value . it may Before we dismiss the subjedt, :,pink -formed be of some interest to our readers to be 1,-. „. di q ed why smoke-preventing plang have'to be mo when used with fuel of dissimilar kinds; ana what are the peculiar characteristics of different descriptions of fuel consumed ma nufactiiring ilnd motive-power appliances in the metropolis. MORE REIMAN PRIZES. —Yesterday public notice was given on the Royal Exchange by Evan. Jones, Esq., High Marshal of 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 t h e same date the Russian ship, Ckstine, seised in the port of Liverpool by the officers of Cuatoins, would be condemned .as a Cro wn droit, the'same being the property of the Queen's ene mies. NEW AOT ON THN INcLOstME 07 LAND —An act o Parliament has just been issued (17 and 18 Vic. c. 97) to amend and extend the acts for t he inclosnre, ex change, and improvement of land. 13y this act, which extends to 21 clauses, lands about to be enclosed may be 'ex changed. Common rights are to be ascertained, until decided the maney.to be paid into . the Bank. Tie Inclosure Commissiup.ers aro to a scertain tlio interests of EPY,(24l,p.irt,ie TER•POian;LAWI3O,OII —:- Br an-act liat4,kA in the late session, the , kaorAaw :from the 23d July last, la., continued tdthe 23d JOY, 1859, and thenceforth till the 1 end of the Beselon. LATEST NEWS. THE W.R. 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 againt us. We have only had one Englishman wounded of 800 who have been uncle' fire 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 'AITSTRO-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. ARCUANGEL, 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 g ulls, belonging to th e Ti ger , h ave 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 on to the Criinea. " 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 anO 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 coura!eous, snd better commanded than the Turks, but your courage and strength can also vanquish this enemy, as youi fathers have proved severaf 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. Redcliffe from Therapia to Stamboul and back again, or of the activity of aides-de-camp, 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 number of a peculiar 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. nacres ; 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 is calculated that our boats u H n o s. rse - It Artillery—the latter are 6 and 9 the pounder iloa l guns. I will suffice to land these 56 guns at one trip ; but the facilities for landing the heavy siege guns are not so evident. Toe French siege train has not all arrived at Constantinople, but it is stated some 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 smoulders, 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 during this afternoon and tonight. One half of Varna is a heap of fiery ruins. As I have already said, it broke out in the midst of the most thriving and busy parts of the town • every shop and store, every magazine and canteen, has been destroyed. "The damage is estimated at 100,000,000 of piastres, about 800,0001. sterling. Th;s statement, I should ima gine, must be exaggerated, though the total loss of the •English, French, and Turkish army and commissariat s t o fes must make something enormous. Half the natives of the town have been reduced from comfort to beggary. They have literally lost everything they possessed iu 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 massacred upon the spot. If the statement is true, the punishment was almost less than he deserved. It is complained that an immense number o k. • o bberies were committed d ur i ng t h e fi re. 4 , 000 o f th e Fre. nch troops, Sappers, Engineers, Zouaves, and sol diers o f the line, with a large force of English and French a, `hors, are to remain on duty and throw water et : the sail t :'lazing ruins until all signs of fire areextinct. rel Theyrelieved eodf ce ov vie rrys: • 1 ~.. have 4hou n r s o . I t e t nt s will, a b n e d a , w f o o r r t k n ing igh to bard, r ore three weeks yet before ~- ' l l fire is extinguished, as in some places the mass of bu . o -et to the depth of 20 or 25 I. • ire it is believed that the in - " In consequence of t r he in : oat owed for the tended embarkation of the t:"P8 is P d whole materials cover wh acres present." ditches by the road-sides, under the blazing rays of the sun, covered with swa rms o f fli es - . You see them in stupid sobriety gravely paring, the rind off cucumbers of portentous dimen sions, and eating the deadly cylinders one after another to the number of six or eight, till there is no room for more—all the while sitting in groups n the fields or on the flags by the shops in the pen street, and looking as if they thought they were adopting highly sanitary measures for heir health's sake ; or frequently three or four of hem will make a happy bargain with a Greek for a large basketful of 'apricots, " killjohns," scarlet pumpkins, water melons, wooden pears, and green "gages" and plums, and then they retire beneath the shade of a tree, where they divide and eat tle luscious food till nought remains but a he qit 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 •aw 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 cueumher. 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, ,:ueumbers, and all. The Frenchman disengaged himself briskly, but the Grenadier at once composed himself to sleep, notwithstanding the entreaties of Phis companion. After dragging at him, head, legs, arms, shoulders, the Zouave found he could make no impression on the inert mass of his friend, and regarding him in the 'most tragic manner possible-, lie clasped his hands, and exclaimed "Tu es lh, clone, mon ami, mon 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 Juno. It is generally supposed that -ha has been captured by the Russian steamer that so (bitingly 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 Dersa.adetordon. His only recommendation is his intrigue and wealth. As already announced, Selim Paella, in command of the army at Batoum, has been replaced by Mustaplia Paella. 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 altimatum, 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 'Nicliolai (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 iutercept 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 Coustantia) 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 town 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 tor 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 structure, and the church, a wooden building, alone remain. 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. Between - the 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 thelighthouse. Lower down, a meagre supply of trees .rises occasionally from the low swampy-looking shore. The Wasp is• in charge of Redout-Kaleh. BOMARSUND. 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 Reine Hortense, which brought the good news of the capture of Bomarsund to Dantzic, returned thence to the fleet on Satur dby, 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 We stern 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 I send you to-day be well founded. his mentioned in a telegraphic despatch from,Stockholm, received to-day, that on Monday last our new Minister had an audi ence of fvelng tie 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 would take the comm an d : it was a d de d e d e tails of the winter campaign were set tledth that s t t n h a e g 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. O n Wednesday evening GeUeral 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. ••••• •1 THE BRITISH EXPEDITION. RUSSIA. Were it not for unmistakeable s i g ns that the ed in some The Russian. Invalid, with a degree of cool army is about to be active l y effrontery commensurate with the St. Petersbur quarter or other, we should all em be p nearly°Yas a d u t climate, already claims a sort of vict o ry at Bomar contented as the French, for , indeed, officers The num. sund, by publishing the following brief intelligence men are weary of this deadly inaction. from Aland bars of the dead diminish over the admix- have s- " Our last news from the islands comes down to the sions into the general hospital (English) falle n 10th inst. On the Bth, the enemy commenced landing to about five a day, and the deaths d o ) four a da y l ! troops on tlic principal Wand, Lear the village of Mang and, taliingthe alveidge iiropirtion of . eatb.,.thro t ug felt and Tia laW iclc , IN the fullowini:; day they-landed the ivhol i . ) divi-iioii, we are 21 ot losing more ban : tirelvo guns from their ship, and erected a batters. la cri . 16 ynnn a clay. The condadt of many of the Thu atLantpted to take Grn, of the towers of the Aland iii:pir,'French Ina . English, seems 'characterised by fortifications by storm, but were driven back with loss." ' i reC66t aig 4hid - .A i re& ;• iii 4n. lansanity:..talni, , z To console the - St.4'o9rOurgerkfor ::thelossoof find thorn lying droa in the kennels , or in the their 2,000 men, an d their polemic% 9 1. the im7 - ' portant advanced position of Aland, the camp and ether colours, taken by General Wrangel from the Turks, near Bayazid, were carried in great pomp from the winter pal ace , t o b e d e p os it e d in tha -- - 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 Ruso 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 to the German Allgemeine , and quoted by the Russian. Berlin or gan , some thing of this kind is hinted at in regard to one of the towers, in these words :--- - " They (the assailants) directed their heaviest guns against, the tower, where, it appears, it was trayed' to them the Russians had amassed their ammunition." The misfortune of the brave men who have beell wantonly aband o n e d an d 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 - Lira/id, 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 the Danube, and this under thii head of " Intelligence from the Interior ;" just . as if Wallachia were an internal and integral por• tion of all the Russias. -- The Invalid, of the 18th inst., publishes a faott_., • however, of much greater importance and recent - date, and this the capture of Bayazid "A further copy of a report, addressed by General - Wrangel to Prince Bebutoff," says the In . valid. " hee this day been received, announcing the capture of Bays' zid. General Read (commanding-in-chief in the Caucasus} i has sent to his M a j es ty th e k eys o f t h e two cas tlas Bajazet, and a flag, left behind by the Turks. Theloi• • lowing is a copy of the report of the commander of the Erivan division of the active army on the Turkish Can' casian frontier, d a ted Augu-t 1 :—' I have the honour to , - report to your E xce ll enc y th at ear l y on the 31st Ju l y, the . town of Bayazid, and both castles, were taken by . t l l,c - -" troops under my orders, an d th at t h e whole Sand j a k Bayazid, on the Diadin side, is in our hands. We found, lo -(0 ' Bayazid three cannon, one colour, large stores of powd e, r- and artillery munitions, morethantwo - and a half cal trudges, 1,800 stand of arms, sabres, - ten largeiataliiii; nitit ri waggons filled, medical st ores f rom English ana:, French depots, 1,000 chetwerts of wheat, 150 of flour,:' 300 of rice, 1,000 of g roa t s , 160 ' o f b ar l ey, 300 pods butter, 400 of salt, ox hides; and divers articles ofclothe mg for body and feet. Besides this, large quantities-e" barley and wheat were taken in the-camps - near .Arseh : and Musun. ln so far as I can coned from doca" • • suents that have fallen into my hands at Bavazsd, frog' the declarations of the inhabitants, and other ref:lo l l,Ft' it is evident that th e T ur ki s h corps b a d b een augment to 15,000 men, and that 13,000 of these took part in thal • battle on the heights o f T sc h eng l. Of th ese on ly 2,° () ? .- escaped, and fled in complete con fusion towards Van. Three thou-and fell in the battle, and the remainder .dispersea_ All the roads o n th e S an dj a k o f B ayaz id are s t re wn with, (lead, wounded, arms and ammunition' 'thrown . avfel' broken-down carts, and waggons laden with carriage! and munitions. I n B a y az id we f oun d 300 , 'and in Ar cab about 120 wounded, who ccntrived to, escape front the field of battle, but cou ld d rag t h emse l ves no furthe r '_- The rout of the Turks i s - comp l ete ; the - Bayazid_ abrP ri * no longer exists. B es id es - the capture of seven fi eld ' pieces and twenty co l ours , prisoners, stores; and tile town of Bayazid, the result of the battle - bass b een the ,- submission of the whole Sandjak government. The neighbouring Kurds* have evinced their respect for use, t 5 4, and have promised sheep for feeding our troops. -A - 9 • 4+ cording to reports, & s lim Pacha, who commanded .and fled, was plundered on the road to Van by his own pee? . .. ple. The troops und er my command are su perabuoa antly provided for from the stores captured from the Turks, and the ammunition expended in the battle rer t plenished by the same means." • - • • PRUSSIA.- . i bn BERLIN, August 25.—The Deutsche A 11 4014 4 - Zeitunq gives a versi o n of, the Austrian Note o. the 10th inst., which forwarded and recommend ed to Russia the views of England and France. Ar• cording to this version, the Note recapitulates the events that preceded the war, and energetiealli refutes the statements made by Count Nesselrode in his answer to the Austrian sommation. _ . 1 ;• speaking of the Russian withdrawal from Principalities, the Austrian Government dielareS that it looks on it •as a stratevical • necessity, - as a measure of defence, and by no means 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 as & " natural result" of the strategical advantages gained by the adversaries of Russia. It is repro- Bente(' 'to the Russian Government that, with the compulsory retreat of the invading troops from the • , Principalities, the protectorate over them,'as well as over the reek Christian suhjects of the. Sultan, has de facto been forfeited, as it would be out of the question to expect the victor to submit any portion of his territory or his subjects to the van quished party. • AUSTRIA- The Wiener Zeitung contains the following COM' 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 into • , thi Darmbian Principalities began with their march into Wallachia, between the 20th. and 22d of this month. The division Macchio advanced with its two brigades .- 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, has. been appointed by his Majesty to the command of all the Austrian troops which may occupy the Principalitied. Count Corunini directs the operations of his whole corps • during its march. and while he himself advances with the brigades Schwarzl 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 brigade°, will remain in Wallachia ualer the special command of Baron Alleman, while Count Coronini—as a positive promise has been given that the Russian army win'. evacuate Moldavia- will, at a later period, proceed to occupy that province with three other brigades of hi s corps, which will be under the command of Count Peer. Count Coronini will then reside alternately at Bucharest and Jassy." There is a vague rumour in circulation that th e - representatives of the Four Powers forming th Vienna Conference will meet again in a day or, two, but it is not clear what object is to be atta,ineu by such a step.. Hints are said to bave,beer!, dropped by Prince Alexander Gortschakoff that his Cabinet. will not abBo2utely reject the Pr o p o " sitions of the Western Powers, but demand s one i modifications. • • : . ie( l On the 24th of _August, a courier arrl _ from the head-quarters of Baron Hem, as the bear el ' of despatches for the Emperor announcing the ea t . , trance of the Imperi a l troops into Wa lla° ' " without impediment." Prince Albert of Sa2col ! • who is on very i n ti ma t e t erms w ith the EmPerP is now with his M a j es ty i n th e . Salt-kammer-g u-1,! a . and it is not impossible that the fealty Of on e the Bamberg Conference States to Russia n ieY .i. somewhat shaken, even though Baron Kenn eri the Saxon Minister, has gone to ischl, will remain as long as the Prince is there. e __ 4 The Press, of Vienna, has; the following liv Bucharest, 17th :—" Prince Gortschakoff bag_ plied to the notification sent 'to him by the_ou d mander of the Austrian troops, of the ont r -Y_ li i, ,_ -' these latter, into the Principalities, that Walleyeoa where A T , would be evacuated toward the end of August , that then Moldavia would be evacuated as proLeP ~ as possible after." tlf BELGI UM. .A The whole of the Belgian Ministry have resign'. SPAIN. . The following telegraphic despatch has :been re',,; ceived this morning : ,„, Accounts from Bayonne, dated yesterday ing (the 28th), state. that the Spanish militia --h r entered the bureau of one of the revolutionitbee journals, and prevented the distribution of '` paper. Senor Olozaga left Madrid on the 27th (Su ndal) for Paris, as ambassador to France. A t he The Three per Cents. were done at 34 . 4, ' ; Deferred at 18.30. The accounts from Barcelona are more setisf.acTi tory, and General Dulce published a proclainetl°A on the 17th, by which the state of sieg e is ralosvr; throughout Catalonia. • The cholera was 1; " e d thought of than politics, and emigration Conti on that account, many of the shops also contiu l: to be shut. Troops were collecting at Tortnaaf _d order to occupy that place and neighbourh.oote while the investigation proceeded into the 150 outrages committed there ; forty pervons ba d,l /e b e taken up, and it was expected that six woulu shot. SARDINIA. TURIN, Aug. 21.—The ruinous effects of obligil,g, corporations and charitable institutions to Au to scribe to the national loan, w ith o ut reference their respective interests, are beginning themselves in Lombardy, and the savings-bank ; Milan being ono of the most sensitive instrunieu of the kind for teAing - public confidence, ham. b f eu t ,, the iirst to show in distinct results what sle'l t system of financial policy must surely end will be recollected that the city of Milan, itu , l 4o 160,000 inhabitants, was held. liable, actor the to develn , Government calculations, for 0000 L.d o . the • 60,000,000 A, to be raised in the Idolum7