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PUBLICATIONS. Jut ready in post Svo.. VIE BALTIC ; Its Gates, Shores, and Cities : With a Notice of the Wnite Sea. Er..c. By the Rev. T. MILNER, M.A., F.R.G Si. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. Just ready, in post Bvo., with Illustrations printed in Colours, G LEANINGS from PICCADILLY to PERA. By J. W. OLDMIXON, Commander, R.N. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. ' _ 30th Thousas 4 , Pest Av.., 74. Gd. cloth, leVered. Ci iik OYEß'S MODERN HOUSEWIFE: 11,7 An entirely New, Enlarged, and Illustrated Edition. All theve who have food to cook ought to buy this book. Al.o, the 4'21 edition of "The GASTRONO nIC REGENER kTOR ;" including Econt,,Mical Receipts for the Author's Kitchen at home. Landon : Simplthi„ Marshall, a.:4 Co. _ __ ____ B RE TERM, COPPER, AND OTHER ruRNA E:-1. .. "The Brewery. L i c hfield, 9th kugnst, 1854. aratus qnte bears "Dear Sir,—We are gla .l to say that your app out the assurance you Save us that it wont 4 answer our purpose. "The doubt we had as to its adaptation t , furnaces with defective draught is en•irelr removed. Our liquor copper now boils quite at soon as. the wort copper, and with both there is a diminution in the consumption of fuel. "The,experiment we wies ed at Messrs.o ITARINGTON, HEAD, and CO.'S, as to smoke prevention, we thought at the time perfectly success: u 1 and this impression we are happy to confirm front actual experience. .. I t w ill g ive ns pleasure to reply to inquiries that may be made b any Brewery FirMS at Burton-on-Tren*, hut should suggest that it y may probably be more satis , actory to those gentlemen to judge for themselves by seeing the furnaces at work, and this they Can de any time. at “ We remain, dear sir, 1, Yours, very traly, "JOHN AND ARfIiUR GRIFFITH. 44 J. Lee Stevens, Fscl c op ies of official and other reports, and of testimonials In favour of the invention, as applied to -team hollers, Brewery Coppers, Stills, Chem sts' , Dy ers ' , and Contectioners' Pan 4 Coal Ovens, &c., with intorma, inn respecting Licences to manufacture or use this well stahlished system of , moke Prevent! , n and Be , nom: - of Fuel continues to I4e given by Wr. JOHN - LEE STF.V ENS. the Patentee, the offices, N o. I, Fish•street-hil!, City, London. TUEArRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith- The Subscribers, Noblity, Gentry, and the Public are respect - ully informed_ that Hi • PE i• OR N! .:-VCEi will be RESUMED on SATURDAY sExr, Attru.t 12. Ross Ilrs : , emireuni (Semira m.de Madame 'at, ad and Han lePs Acts and tialatea (Polyphe mus. Herr brmes, will be amon{ the e irliest productions. Theatre Ho} al, Drn 7-lace, August 11, 1854. THEXTRE ROYAL ELAYJIAHKET. Under the management of Mr. Vackatone. TIII3 EVENING, AUGUST ii, Wlll be performed THE OLD CII tTE W. Characters by Messrs Howe. Rogers, EL. Marston, and Buckstone; Mrs. Fitzwidiam, and Miss Reynolds. Followed by the SPANrSG DANCERS in a GRAND BALLET. The new Farce AS LIRE AS TWO PEAS. • * • ROYAL OLYMPIC TRE,,TuE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. TIII3 EVENING, Acocsr Will be performed TO ORLI' ;E BENIsON - i. mPorted by r Messr, miss Dor- Emery, Itobson, and Leslie; Miss Marston, and Miss E To be followed by VIE ruts(' NEWLY. Characters by Mes , r.. Alfred Wnrsn, Le+die. Harwood Cooper, and Vincent ; ton, and Miss Emily Onn To cone ude with the Farce of THE WANDERING MINSTRE►. Jam Daggs, Me. F. Hobson. STRAND THEATRE. - 1.4 d Iv' Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Allcroft. THIS EVENING, ArGcsT 11, * Wilt Diperformed TLIE MILLER'S MAID. Followed by FAUST A D MARGUERITE. Mephistopheles, Mr. Haliord; Faust, Nis? G. Hodson; Marguerite, Goiduu To conclude with rOMBASPEi FM:L./SO. Stalls, 45.; Boxes, 24. 6d.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, Cd.; Private .i.IA 11 Is. to be had of Mr. Allcruft. 15, sew finn I -street ROT.IL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GAADENS. "This place fills up an hiatus which the Crystal Palace leaves wanting. Vocal and instru.nvital m•isie of the 11 - st order, and - i display of fireworks which excee•is all imaAlnation, are a fitting close to a day at the Crystal Palaze." DINSON'S COLOS;AL PANORAMA of CHIJSAN. splendid end Extensive Menagerie and Marine Aquarium—Unri valled Military Band. VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT, In which Miss Poole, M(35 Ransford. and Mr. Manvers sing several National and Patriotic Songs—Ml the Amusing Novelties at the Gardens in succession, concluding with the " Feast of Lan terns," and a most intgaillz.ent display of Fireworks by Southby Admission Ole Sharing. A splendid Pavilion for Dancing has been erected. Full Quadrille Band, &.c. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPEIT LIE A.T Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. The popular 'fees, the Cossacks, whose career has been most suc cessful, will shortly be withdrawn, to admit the production of a Grand Military Spectacle, embracing many of the principal events of the present War between It issia and Turkey ! • Enthnsiastic reception of the new-Eqtrestrian lisliet d'Action, the poetry of motion ! TIIIS EVENING, Arczet 11, And during the week, THE CO-ASACKA; or, Vive la France. After which, LES PREUYES DU GENIE, or S nes 'n the Circle, Invented and arranzed by Mr. William Cooke, who, in the course of the evening, will exhibit (u„on his hand) a horse whose height is only 15 inches. HERR. CHRISTOFF, the first Rope Dancer in the universe. To conclude with the new Equestrian Ballet d'Actton, by Mrs. S. G. Healey, calle I THE KNIGLI r AND TUE WATER LILY ; or, Love among the Mermaids. Boa-office open trom Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. 111GE1 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tim DAY —Morning 45 , nin.after 3 Evening 7 n2in.aft. 4 TO-Voltow—Mornini., , 26 min.a 7 ter 4 Evening 43 width. 4 THE WEATHER.—SuN °mos, Aca. 11. THERMOMETER, IX VIZ SHADE 74—highest since noon on Saturday. 56—lowest this morning and during the night. 68—this day, at noon. 3AROMITIM, 3(; • o3—riAinz. WrxD, W. to W.N.W.—Light, with fine sunshiny weather. ~~,~~~~ . a.)A131. Qw „Tri ) LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1854. The Sovereigns of Europe don't appear to be getting on so very well latterly. There was the King of PRussil the other day, scarcely recovered from the effects of knocking his head against a tree in the royal garden at twilight, must needs go tumbling down and nearly breaking his neck in another fit of champagne. The poor King of SAXONY, we learn to-day, was killed suddenly a few hours since by a kick from one of his horses, in consequence of an overturn in his carriage on leaving Munich to return to Dresden. The King of GREECE has but just saved his crown from being forfeited, by au odious complicity with the designs of the Russian AUTOCRAT, by listening, just in time before it was absolutely too late, to the sagacious councils of Mr. WYsg and his French colleague at -the Court of Athens, M. le Baron de ROUEN—backed as the advice coming to OTHO from those two able diplomatists fortunately was, by the arrival at the Pirmus of a small body of troops otherwise destined to swell the ranks of the Anglo-French contingents sent out to the aid of the Sultan ABD-UL-MEDJID. The Queen of SPAIN too—we have all seen how nearly her Most Catholic MAJESTY was (about a week or so back) running her head, not as with the roystering KOENIG FRITZ WILHELM against the branch of an apple-tree at sun down —but at broad noonday against the stone wall of a Rev o lu tion. by th e A not inapt meta phor,way, for a barricade ! As for her luckless parent the Dowager Queen CHRISTINA —we have yet to learn whether she has contrived t o escape with her MUNOZ "Mood) scot-free from the bands ofthe Spanish people, as well as from the more gentle ones of the leaders of the trium phant insurrection. We were told the other morning, in a somewh a t startling manner, cer tainly, of the Eacrwaoit of all th e Russias aving been within an ace of making a voyage down th e Baltic as a prisoner of war on board an English s t eam er, for ultimate incarceration in one o f th e historic chambers of the Tower of London, It appears, however, on inquiry, that the whole st ory is what our Yankee cousins ou the other side o f in the that little fishing - p ond the Atlantic are habit of calling monosyllabically a "barn "— an d what we are accustomed here at home to term in the vernacular rather more periphrastically, a tale about a Cock and Ball ! However this may be, the Czar NICHOLAS is just now manifestly in any thing but an agreeable predicament. Confronted, whether he looks to the Baltic or to the Black Sea, by the mighty fleets and armies of France and England ! With his own legions driven back from the mud walls of beaten in every encounter by the Turks he af fected to despise—with his ablest commanders lulled,- or wounded, or out-generalled—and his trOpp 4.oo mPellO s\ lvith the loss of nearly 50,000 (me% tic - Aittirel,vieilly in the direction of Besse ;.' ra,bi5..7.7-Ar*is.t.,;.llael himself, in fact, to say the , A.rivl.k ri al l vi i I .7 lout ofiti , - , 43A a Qtand.a.ri't B4wombilatit ri 0 4 : :" )iad all the while the witty axiom (if we recollect rightly of Prince TALLEYRAND), that the "natural death" of a Russian Exrsaon is—not fever, not apoplexy, not bronchitis, not any of the cu tom ary ills that " flesh is heir to," but simply in one word—assassination I Really, when the calamities that have lately gathered about the crowned heads cf Europe, here enumerated, are borne in recollection— their imperial and royal contemporaries, more wise, or less unfortunate, have each we cannot but think great reason, indeed, for gratitude to GOD and for earnest self-gratulation. His MAJESTY of Sweden and Norway, listening in his palace at Stockholm to the distant booming of the bombardment in the direction of Bomar sund ! His MAJESTY of Denmark giving audience to the General BARAGUAY D'HIL LIERS, on his way to conduct 10,000 of the heroic soldiers of France to the aid (by laud) of the combined fleets sent out for the capture or destruction of St. Petersburg ! Or, again, the stripling King of PORTUGAL, still on his gay tour from court to court among the less agitated countries of the European Continent ! While his Majesty of SAXONY is being killed by a kick from a horse on the Munich highway, the King of the BELGIANS is happily presiding undis turbed over his Constitutional Government—the King of SARDINIA. endeavouring in some man ner to carry out by a pacific policy what his gal lant and lamented predecessor vainly strove to effect by warlike means, namely, the advancement of his own subjects, and the regeneration, if pos sible, of the whole Italian peninsula. The youth ful Emperor of AUSTRIA meanwhile consoling him self for the close of the honeymoon by exult ing 'over the success of the new loan which in any way empowers him to act as prudence may seem to dictate in any emergency—deferring still, as long as possible, the inevitable day of action, when there must at length be an end of this long wire-drawn coil of diplomatic nego tiation. Passing over the lesser potentates of Europe, unnecessary here to be individually particularised, and looking nearer at hand—to the august rulers of the two great allied nations of the West, the c:llefs of the world and the champions of civili sation—we find them of all the most happily situated, while surrounding Monarchs are struck, one by one, by calamitous death, by agonising suspense, or by the thunderbolts of revolution. The Queen of ENGLAND, in her Royal yacht, passing a summer's holiday iu a pleasant cruise among the Channel Islands ! The Emperor of FRANCE, whiling away in domestic seclusion at his . imperial retreat at Biaritz, the hours not ne cessarily dedicated to the gigantic labour of directing every movement, the least and the mightiest, of his immense and magnifi cent Government ! VICTORIA and NAPOLEON— united in purpose by the bonds of a cordial alliance have, indeed, ample reason to exult with profound emotions over their own tranquil happiness now, when, with misery apparent as the lot of so many of their con temporary Sovereigns, they are sending forth their enormous armaments to the ends of the world, in the cause of civilisation and in the interests of humanity, not for selfish conquest, but for the re-establishment of the peace of Christendom. At length, after a delay of nearly four weeks, the decision of the first Court-martial on Lieu tenant PERRY has been officially promulgated. Fortunately, it was essential that the entire pro ceedings should be considered by a fair and impar tial officer (the Right Hon. C. P. VILLIERS, Judge- Advocate, or his deputy), and by him submitted to our most gracious SOVEREIGN for approval before the sentence could be carried into execu tion, or the practical jests of the officers of the gallant 46th brought to their appropriate termi nation by the dismissal of their unfortunate butt from her MaJEsTv's service. Had it been otherwise, the ruin of the victim would have been accomplished ; his name would be stigma ' tised for the remainder of his life, and the career on which he had entered brought to a premature and most untoward conclusion. The finding of the Court substantially was, that Lieut. PERRY was guilty of the charge preferred against him, and he was thereupon sentenced to be tlisna issed from her MAJEsTy's service. He was, how ever, unanimously recommended to mercy, on ac count of the great provocation which he had received. The ill-used young man was, however, a suitor for justice—not for mercy. The recommenda- fon of the Court would probably have procured him the purchase-money of his commission, the sum which he himself had actually paid for the privilege of being bullied and maltr6ated, addressed in the most opprobrious language, and subjected to personal violence by the "officers and gentlemen" ~f the 46th Regiment. But for that indulgence, he should have consented to rest under the re proach of an unfavourable decision of a military tribunal—of having been guilty of " conduct un becoming an officer and a gentleman, and to the prejudice of good order and military discipline." From this opprobrium he has, however, been saved. The disgrace has been transferred from his character to officers of far greater experience, and holding much higher rank in the service. The Judge-Advocate-General hav ing carefully perused the proceedings of the Court, discovered that it had been guilty of sins both of commission and of omission—that it had admitted evidence against the prisoner which ought to have been rejected, while it had refused evidence in his favour that ought to have been received. Under such circumstances there was no alternative but to advise her MAJESTY to refuse the necessary confirmation of the sentence. This has been done, and the entire proceedings have accordingly fallen to the ground. Although it could scarcely be supposed that the Court would have convicted Lieutenant PERRY for an act not merely committed under great provo cation, but what was palpably one of self-defence, it was quite clear that the refusal to abide by any authority was in itself sufficient to vitiate the proceedings. When the cross interrogatories put by the accused for the purpose of eliciting the cause of the quarrel were suppressed,. and he was told that " he must confine himself to the shaking of the evidence of the witness," with the addition that he should " have an opportunity of bringing these things forward when called on for his de fence"—when also the authority of the standard work on military tribunals (Simmons on Courts martial) was contumeliously repudiated, and the extraordinary doctrine put forward, that " the only auth"ority for the court was the Mutiny Act" (!), the gross illegality of the whole pro ceedings became too painfully apparent that there could be no hope of an impartial and equitable adjudication. Everything that could bear against the prisoner was admitted, however inap plicable—everything in his favour rejected. He might, if he pleased, traverse what could not be justification,denied,bt and he should not venture to set up a prove it out of the "matterhemouth for so r f i h ii i s s addevfeenrsacer;i,esfoc t w ha h t i , ci f l o he raooth, wa should bringe license forward hostile witnesse s , an d not be allowedD necessarily granted on a cross-examination. spite all the objection s o ff ere d , and what Colonel GARRETT termed the animus exhibited, the in- tended victim passed triumphantly through the ordeal, and the barbed shafts aimed against him have recoiled with telling effect against his perse cutors. Yes--the loose system of discipline—the unfair 4nd partial favouritism practised in the corp s have been brought to light despite every obstacle. Even the strange and unaccountable oblivion that h d ,s , oppressed the faculties of the great majority ci , i _ t a o . o ff ik cga. a thize 4604 hay failed. to auvid these extraordinary transactions in mystery. The public have learned quite enough of the every day, or it might be more ap,;ropriately termed the every-night-proceedings of the officers, sanc tioned and connived at by some, if nut all, of their seniors. There is no longer any possibility of concealing the discreditable revelations—and if such conduct be suffered to prevail by the mili tary authorities, it is some satisfaction to know that it is properly estimated by the community at large, and that the voice of public opinion has plainly and unequivocally proclaimed the general feeling on the subject. The decision on the first trial must be conclu sive on that now pending. It was for protesting against decisions such as those which have now been proved to be erroneous that Lieutenant PERRY has been subjected to the last accusation. The prejudice and bias of the Court now sitting has been even more palpable than of that whose decision has not been confirmed. In like manner they have refused permission to the prisoner to ask most pertinent and proper questions on cross examination. In like manner they have ad mitted that which should not have been received, determined, like the Irish jury, who convicted a man of murder because he had stolen, or rather was supposed to have stolen, a colt from the fore man, that he should not escape under any circum stances. If his protest was erroneous, the QUEEN and the Judge-Advocate-General have fallen into a similar mistake. If it was correct, it should not be made a ground for victimising him. He has already been subjected to a ruinous expense, sufficient to accomplish the desired object, of crushing a young man, who deemed it more correct to live within slender means than to incur debts which he had no reasonable prospect of being enabled to discharge. We must, how ever, await the conclusion of the proceedings before we can speak more fully on this part of the case. We believe, however, that the public will not permit the unfortunate accused to be crushed by the costs. As he has escaped one of the conse quences of the persecution, he must be protected from another no less fatal to his future prospects. LATE)T NEWS. THE WAR. AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. The Moniteur of this (Friday) morning publishes a despatch from the Austrian Government de manding the evacuation of the principalities, with the reply of Russia. TIIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST n, 1854; COURT CIRCULAR. AIIGIJST S. The Queen and the Prince, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Princes Alfred and Arthur, and the Princess lielen , t, arrived in the harbour of S.;. Mary's, in the island of Alderney, at about half-past six this evening, in the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. The yacht was npanied by her Majesty's yachts Fairy and the Bla , k E tgle, and ELM S. Dasher, Captain Lefevre. Shortly after the royal yacht had anchored, Colonel Le Mesurier, the officer in command in the island. waited upon her Maj,siy, as did also Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, who was at the island on a tour of inspection. The Prince, with the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfre I, landed and visited the new works and the break water. Vice-A dmiral Sir Thomas Cochrane and Colonel Le 3le*urier had the honour of dining with her Maje.4y. AUGUST 9. This morning, Mr. J. Gaudion, Judge of Alderney, with the principal authorities of the inland, came on b nird and presented a dutiful and loyal address to her Maje. ty. Shortly after, the Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Helena, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely, the Hon. Mary Bulteel, 111 ijor-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. C, Phipps, Captain Du Plat, and Mr. Gibbs, landed and proceeded to visit the principal ob jects of interest in the island. Her Majesty, with the Prince and R'yal Family, at tended by the suite, re-embarked at about 12 o'clock, and the royal yacht, accompanied as before, made a circuit of the island, and then proceeded direct for the Needles. The yacht had anchored at Hurst Castle, at S o'clock; p.m. OSBORNE, Auousr 10. The royal yacht arrived off the pier this morning, soon after nine o'clock. Tile Queen and Prince Albert, with the royal family, and suite, shortly afterwards disem barked, and proceeded to Osborne. ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY THIS DAY.—This morning her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert, left Osborne House and embarked on board the Fairy royal steam yacht, crossed to Gosport, and travelled to London by special train of the London and South-Western Railway, and arrived at the new station erected for her especial use, in the Wandsworth-road, shortly before one o'clock. Her Majesty proceeded, with the royal suite, in four carriages, to Buckingham Palace. THE Fisit DINNER.—The following members of the Ministry were present at the fish dinner at Greenwich on Weddesday evening :—Lord J. Russell, Duke of Argyll, Earl Granville, Duke of Newcastle, Viscount Palmerston, Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, Bart., Right Hon. Sid ney Herbert, Viscount Canning, Viscount Sydney, Lord IVodetiouse, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Right Hon. W. G. Hal ter, Right Hon. Lord Ernest Bruce, Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Right Hon. Earl of Mulgrave, Right Hon. Sir John Young, Mr. Grenville Berkeley, the Solicitor-General, Major-General Buckley, Mr. Colchester Furtescue, Lord Alfred Hervey, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Mousell, Mr. Frederick Peel, and Mr. James Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Sykes had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at his official resi dence in Downing street. A meeting of the governors of the Wellington College was held yesterday at the new Palace of Westminster. Taere were present Viscount Hardinge, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Howard Douglas, Mr. H. Cox, Mr. P. R. Hoare, and Mr. Chalice, a ting secretary. Sir James Graham has, we regret to say, been suffering from an attack of pleurisy. He was a little better yes terday evening, but is still confined to his bed. The labour of his office has of late been very severe. Major-General Chatterton, K H., has received from her Majesty the pension for distinguished services in the army. Earl Jermyn has left England for the Continent. The Earl of Mansfiel , l has left the Dowager Countess of Mansfield's, in Larighain-place, for his shooting quar ter. in the Highlands. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington, after the proro gation, will leave Beigrave street, on a visit to the Mar quis and Marchioness of Tweeddale, en route to the Hi Man ls. Viscount and Viscountess Combermere have returned to Belgrave-square, from Buxton, where they have been pas-ung some weeks. The viscount has come to town to officiate as "Gold Stick," at the prorogation of Parlia ment by her Majesty oil Saturday. Lord Brougham left Grafton-street on Wednesday for Brougham-ball, near Peurith. Lady Brougham will leave town in a few days, for Frankfurt, on a visit to Sir Alexander and Lady Malet, en route for the German baths. The Emperor and Empress of France have been joined at Biarritz by the Countess de Montijo and the Duchess de Alba, her Majesty's mother and sister. Both their Majesties continue to enjoy excellent health ; the Em press in particular appears to have derived great benefit from the climate and from sea bathing. Their Majesties are now able to walk or drive out without being fol lowed by crowds as on their arrival. The Empress often drives herself in a small carriage by the sea side, attended only by a lady of honour. The Emperor oc cupies himself with the plan of his future residence. M. de Persigny, who arrived in Paris from Switzer land, started on Wednesday for Biarritz, on a visit to the Emperor. His Excellency Count Walewski, the French Minister at our Court, with the countess, arrived at Florence, from Milan, on the 2ml instant. TILE LONG VACATION.—The long vacation of the common law courts commenced yesterday, and will ter minate on the 24th of October. In the interval plead ings remain in abeyance. Last year there were 72,514 actions brought in the superior common law courts -22,994 in the Queen's Snitch, 16,106 in the Common Pleas, and 33,414 in the Exchequer. In the County Courts there were 434,946 plaints entered. UNIVERSITY FOR WALES.—Under the title of "The University fur Wales," it has been proposed to unite and incorporate the College of St. David's at Lampeter, the Llandovery Institution, the Brecon College, and the various endowed grammar-schools in the Principality, and that students from all the above shall be admissible for degrees in arts and divinity. The want of a central institution of this description has long been felt, and it has often been urged that a strong necessity existed for the establishment of a university where Welshmen could receive a large and comprehensive education and good mental training without being obliged to incur heavy expenses to obtain them. The idea . has been mooted by the Anglo-Welsh clergymen. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—The proposed plan for the erection of a temporary wooden bridge at Westminster, during the building of the permanent structure, has been abandoned. It is now intended to construct one side, or half of the bridge, from shore to shore, in the first instance, next to the houses of Parliament. The breadth of this will lie about 50 feet 4 inches, the width of the present bridge. On its completion, that will be opened for traffic, and the demolition of the old briige com mence, to complete the remaining half of the new bridge. By this arrangement considerable expense is saved, and no interruption occasioned to public traffic. MADAME TUSSAL:D'S EXHIBITIONS.—Among the por trait models of emollient men of ad countries, we observed an admirable likeness of Espartero, who now holds again the destinies of Spain. Tins distinguished cfficer Is represented in the uniform of a Spanish general, deco rated with numerous military orders, the reward of his gallant conduct in many a well-fought field. This figure excites great curiosity, in consequence of the groat events 111 progress through the Spanish Peninsular. A RELIGION TLIAT NO ONE OWNS.--The worst thing that can be said against Pus ' eyism is hat you never by Puseyite. Surely that must be e a nly strrng any accident hear any one op religion that even its followers, avow that he is a who practise it =Lit are asharaed to C P l4 4s. theY , b6loE.' t • A...ranch. . - • THE DANUBE. The Presse of Vienna, of yesterday, has the following : " General Prim has arrived at Orsova. The same ship brought several English and French officers and commissariat officers for the purchase of forage in Hungary. " The officers say that the Allies will first attack Anapa. There are 36,000 Turks and French, but no Eng lish, in the Dobrudscha. " The Turks occupy Babadagh. The Turks will probably attack Tultscha—the French Galatz." BELGBADE, August 9.—The Prince of Servia has imposed a new tax of one ducat per taxpayer as an extraordinary levy—half to be paid at once, and half in October. Despite orders from the Porte, military excesses in the interior still continue. THE BALTIC. NYBORG, August 9.—The French sailing line-of battle ship Donanwerth, 90, Captain Darigot, and the French steam corvette Laplace, Captain Labo neau, passed the Great Belt to-day. Both are new ships, and carry troops and stores. The following despatch is dated Stockholm, Aug. 5 :—" In consequence of General Baraguay d'Hil hers' interview with the King, orders have been sent to Carlscrona not to dismantle the fleet, which remains ready for active service." DEATH OF THE KING OF SAXONY. A telegraphic despatch received in Paris yester day from Munich conveys the melancholy intelli gence that the carriage of the King of Saxony was overturned at Brenbuchel, situated between Munich and Dresden, and that his Majesty was killed by a kick from one of the horses. His Majesty Frederick Augustus IV. was born on the 18th of May, 1797. A serious insur rection having br-ken out at Dresden, in Septem• her, 1830, against the authority of his uncle An thony, the reigning Monarch, Prince Frederic Augustus was named co-regent on the 13th of that month, and succeeded to the throne on the 6th of June, 1836, his father, Duke M:►ximilian, having waived his right thereto. His Majesty having left no issue, the crown descends to his brother, John Nepoinuo Marie Joseph, born on the 12th of Decem ber, 1801. THE WAR IN ASIA. A letter from Trebizond, published in the Moni teur, says : "All the Bashi-Bazouks have been placed under the command of Ismail Pasha (General Kinetty), who ischarged with the organisation and improvement of these irregular troops. " This measure has certainly been one of the best inspi rations of the General-in-Chief, Although entirely sepa rated from the rest of the army, Ismail Pasha has so power fully contributed to the moral elevation of the soldier by constantly obtaining the advantage in the numerous en gagements which he has undertaken with his irregular troops against the Russian Cossacks ; and, although these small engagements with outposts, are apparently insignifi cant, they nevertheless produce an excellent effect up on th e spirit of the army. Besides this, Ismail Pasha has com pletely succeeded in r pressing the turbulence and pillage to which the Bashi-Bazouks were too much addicted. " The ascendancy which Ismail Pasha has been able to acquire over his troops forms a very remarkable fact. This general has made himself at once feared and re spected. These irregular troops have now the most un limited confidence in the capacity of their chief. They blindly obey him, are guided by him, and are always read to expose themselves to the greatest dangers with the most admirable courage and intrepidity. Recently, a strong division of Cossacks, supported by cavalry and two pieces of cannon, after having passed Arpa-Tchai, came to forage on the Turkish territory near the left bank of the Kars-Tchai. Ismail Pasha was at the time upon the right bank of that river with 200 of his irregulars. It was impossible for him to attack the Cossacks with this handful of men ; but, upon an intima tion which he contrived to send immediately to Hadji Denivah, who was encamped about a league and a half from the Kars-Tchai, that chief instantly came up with 1,500 Bashi-Bazouks. " Ismail Pasha then crossed the Kars-Tchai and attacked the enemy with such impetuosity that he instantly took to flight in spite of the great inferiority of numbers. The 3ashi-Bazonki pursued the Russians, lance in hand, and the latter were obliged to use their guns to protect their retreat.' THE CZAR DISHEARTENED. A correspondent of the Vienna Wanderer, writ ing from Bucharest, the 27th July, says : " On the 24th General Adlerberg brought the order to evacuate Wallachia by the sth of August;' nothing, however, was said of Mol davia. The Czar was so disheartened by the in telligence from the prince that he left St. Peters burg, it is said, for three days, and admitted no one to his presence. It is reported that on re ceiving the intelligence, he sorrowfully exclaimed I can understand the defeat at Silistria, but to be forced, with so great a loss, by a horde of wild, half-naked Turks, from positions which have been occupied and fortified for a year—that these Turks should first sustain an engagement, then storm the islands fortified by us, au I, lastly, have paid in blood fur every inch of ground gained on the left bank of the Dahubo—all this I cannot understand.' Four or five days later, the Emperor sent by General Adlerberg the order for the evacua tion of Wallachia,." The Moniteur Algerien, of the sth, publishes an order of the day from G%meral Randon, announcing that the Emperor had decided on making up from his privy purse the pension of every soldier who had lost a limb in the expedition of Djurjura to the extent of 400 f. a year. ARREST OF PIRATES IN THE MEDI TERRANEAN. A letter from Samos, of the in the Impur eniaegti iroefSculYrna'say s :- 4, I n consequence of the measures adopted by the local authorities and by the French and English vessels of war, eight pirates have been arrested in the island, and amongst them the three brothers Condouri, whose bad renown iu these latitudes dates from some years back. After that capture, a certain Yauni Macri came forward of his own accord to surrender to the local authorities, confessing that he had been the head of the band who had assassinated the crew of the English schooner the Harriett. This individual was put on board the English frigate the Leander, and taken to Syra to be there confronted with other pirates who had been arrested there. On the 15th, the Chaptal, French screw-steamer, coming from Syra, brought back the said Macri, proved to have committed 19 murders, and who still imagines that he will obtain his pardon in consequence of his confession and f orce d su bmission. The Chaptal again put out to sea on the 21 st to s eek for the famous Moro, w h o, w ith a band of 28 pirates, was infesthrgth e wa t ers b etween Amorgos and Stanchio, whilst anoth er p i rate name d Nicociara went to join him in anoth er vessel w ith 22, well•- Other letters from Samoa of the same date announce that the Chaptal returned on the evening of the 24th, after having captured 27 persons, who were forwarded to Constantinople by an Ottoman steamer. THE BRITISH EXPEDITION. MONASTIR, July 26.—The change made b y th e Light Division from Devno to this place has been attended by some benefit, but the cholera still con tinues to prevail. They started on Tuesday, and, after a hot march, arrived in the neighbourhood of this vill age. S evera l of the men were taken ill on the way. Th e di se ase seems to have lost some of its ori g i na l v i ru l ence , and to be less fatal in its attacks tha n w h en it first broke out. This, I be lieve, rival of scientific o r at least good bakers, ev ery is a general rule. We ar e ex p ectin g an ar day, to improveour bread, and the Army and Nav y" will take up 30 of them from Constanti nople. This is not before they were wanted, and badly wanted, too. The remoter causes of the epidemic which rages at Varna and in the camps may be beyond our ken, but assuredly there is no difficulty in discovering the fi n _ merliate physical predisposing conditions of its existence, if medical authority is of any value. I n the first place, the men were left too long in the same encampments. It is the practice of the French as a general rule to change their ground onc e every ten days, even in healthier climates. They seem to have paid the penalty on this occasion of their breach of a rule recommended by experiew e and founded on common sense. Our men, in spite of all orders to the contrary, persisted in throwin g offal, heads and entrails of fowls, bones, and skins into the bush and brkisliwood around the camps. In the broiling sun all these various animal mat ters speedily become putrescent, and myriads of flies hover around them, and buzz about into the Win wit 4 cargoes of corruption. Alth oug ~. soldiers are constantly employed parrying a* ay offal a Wearing the ground, occupied by horses and Aes, nothing can pi . event acts of carlessness and ,stiness en the part of the men. Now at .kladyn the smell from the thickets in the rear of the camp when the Light Division ]eft it was , /most intolerable. The Guards and Highlanders are, however, marched up to within a comparatively short distance of this abandoned camp, and pitch their tents at a distance which subjects them, I should think, to the influence of its tainted atmosphere. And where do the Light Divi .ion go to ? They march to Devno, which is said o bear a proverbial name for its unhealthiness, and they remain in a spot which I understand the prin cipal medical officer of the army, Dr. Hall, autho ritatively conderiined after his recent inspection of it. The condition of the atmosphere of the camps outside Varna must be worst of all, from the long continued encampment of troops there, and from the larger masses of troops, Turkish, Egyptian, Bashi-Bazouk, English, and French, congregated there. Sir D. Evans's division seems to have been placed in the most healthy and favourable spot, and I believe tl►e returns from the various divisions will be found to support the view taken of the comparative healthiness of the sites of the various camps. Another cause of the ill ness which prevails may be the long morning drills and lengthened exposure to the rays of a broiling sun at a time when the men are little able to resist its effects, owing to insufficient meals. Oftentimes they have gone out to a four hours' drill without anything more substantial to work upon than a cup of coffee. Sometimes they have not had even that. Why should the officers escape almost with impunity ? The fact of the men sleeping 15 in a single tent, while the officers have tents to them selves, or a tent between two, has no doubt some thing to do with this difference ; but the better feeling of the officers has, I suspect, a far greater influence. The pork ration which is sometimes issued is decidedly unwholesome. Mr. Warren was seized with illness after a meal of pork, and several persons have complained that they are never well after it. Perhaps Mahomet was a better physiolo gist than we think, and found that swine flesh in these climates is essentially unwholesome. It cer tainly should be washed down with something stronger than lukewarm river water. Our gene rals, who were so anxious to get their men into good working order, to, make them hardy, to render them temperate, to wean them from the luxuries of the malt-tub, will feel some what astonished if they should find—which God forbid !—• that this .splendid army is withered by sickness and decimated by a plague which might have been prevented, humanly speak ing, if the precautions which were pointed out and insisted on had been taken. Whatever else caused the cholera, neither porter nor spirits had anything to do with it. The wine sold in the canteens of the regiments was not so cheap as to be commonly drunk in quantities by the men, nor so had as to be delete rious. It was examined again and again by the doctors, at the command of the authorities, when they found diarrhea% increasing, and the doctors shook their heads and talked about increase of ra tions and better supplies of rice, &c., as being more germane to the matter. Apricots, which the peo ple here eat in enormous quantities long ere they ripen, wore sold without let or hindrance to the me►, in the camps, nor were juicy pumpkins and crisp cucumbers wanting. Toe Turks and Greeks eat them abundantly, and yet Varna is not a place where cholera is at all common—on the contrary, it is generally very healthy, and is not at all sub ject to the attacks of this terrible pestilence. In complance with the request of our authorities the Turks have ordered all offal to be buried with quick lime. RUSSIAN NEWS FROM THE WHITE SEA. The Invalide Russe says :--On the 6th (18th) of July, between three and four o'clock on the after noon, two of the enemy's steamers, ono of which was the Miranda, having approached the monas tery of Solovetsky, began to fire balls and shells at it. Between four and five o'clock the cannonade ceased, and the bearer of a flag of truce presented himself before the monastery to demand its uncon ditional surrender, as well as that of the garrison. The superior of the monastery, the Archimandrite Alexander, refused to obey this summons of the enemy, and the next . day; 'at eight o'clock, the steamers recommenced the bombardment, which they continued incessantly until five o'clock in the afternoon. In spite of this bombardment of nine hours, nobody was either killed or wounded in the interior of the monastery ; the only injury was, that the wooden inn situated without the walls was pierced with several shot. As to the edifice situated in the interior of the ancient walls of the monastery they did not sustain any injury. After having ceased their fire the steamers weighed anchor and sailed for the cape in the Bay of Onega, where they arrived on the Bth (20th) of July, near the village of Liamitskaia, and on the 9th the crew landed on the island of Kyi (15 versts from Onega), sot fire to the Custom-house and several adjacent buildings, and entered the monas tery, whence they carried away a bronze bell, which they took on board the Miranda, as well as S3veral articles which they found at the Custom house. SPAIN. The Tribune makes out a small account of 71 millions of reals against the Queen Christina, on the three following heads alone. It says : "Dona Maria Christina de Borbon is debtor to the State—Twenty-four millions, which she received unlaw fully as Reina Gobernadora, from 1831 to 1840, having married a second time shortly after the death of her first husband ; twelve millions, which were paid to her on her return from France for the three years which she passed out of the country ; and thirty-five millions, the difference between the money of Spain and America, for the ten years that she has drawn her pension on the treasury of Cuba ; making a total of seventy-one millions of reals." A letter of the 6th says :—The fruitless efforts of the Givernment to convey Queen Christina and her family away from -M tdrid, while they have shown weakness on the part of the former, have greatly irritated the people in a. ms here, who now amount to upwards of 10,000 men. It seems to have been forgotten by the constituted powers, for a moment, that we are in a state of revolution, anh that the gieen-Mother is the chief object t h tu e against which the long-pent-up popular indigna the lower windows of her palace, on the sides i h s e e d h i r e e t c o t p e l d o . y e d T f l o iu r s d bricklayers n and n ck m i g s i s ) towards the Calle de las Rajas and Plaza de los Ministerios, as if it were a question of saving the furniture left there from further depredation, while the question really at stake is one of life and death, of dynasty or no dynasty. We are threat ened with a renewal of popular disturbances ; and the night before last a body of Bucetas men, o a f r i‘ t eiraeddr theid, eam b e a r o r u a c t o o f t San he A u l t a n t h e e o r , in f tw l l :s l(3l o o , nao t r o rethciu the Home-office, in the Puerto del Sol, where the junta sit, uttering various revolutionary cries, and frightening the people in the streets, who ran off in all directions. The fact is, that the people of Madrid, who have now got arms in their hands—which is the most serious part of the mat ter—we determined that Queen Christina shall not escape from them without disgorging what she has been robbing, in their estimation, for so many years ; and so strong is this feeling that the Go vernment have been obliged to yield to it. The it acion of this morning announces this fact. It says : -" Last night, a commission from all the districts of Ma drid presented itself to the Junta of Safety, soliciting its concourse, in order to press on her M jesty's Government the adoption of a measure, which we ourselves have had the satisfaction to be the first to call for, as ~n indispensable not of high political morality, as a just and solemn repara tion which the country demands in- the name of its dignity and its decorum. The - representatives of that people, vic tims till now of the most repugnant tyranny —of that gene rous and great people —came last night to corroborate our words, expressing to the junta the necessity that Donna Maria Christina, ex-tutoress of her Majesty, should not leave Spain without first having been examined (re sidentiada) by the Cortes. The Junta of Safety una nimously adopted this idea, and some of its members, in union with the delegates of the districts, went to see the Duke de la Victoria, in order t o express to hi m t h e i r desires—the desire of the country. The President of the Council of Ministers received them with thegreatest benevo lence, assuring them that the Cabinet should meet imme diately, in order to deliberate on so grave and important a subject, and that its determination should be communi cated to them. At one in the morning they were informed that the will of the people of Madrid was already satisfied, and that the Duchess of Riansares should not leave the Court, neither by day nor by night, nor by stealth." This is perhaps the best resolution that could be taken under the circumstances, though the presence of the Queen-Mother here must be very embar rassing to the Government. It must be remembered that we have very few troops here, no police, and 10,000 armed people flushed with their recent vic tory, about 1,000 of whom, chiefly from the Barrios Bajos, are in the neighbourhood watching in all directions to intercept Queen Christina if she at tempts to leave. A crow I of persons, mostly armed, assembled last night iii the vicinity of the Calle do las Huertas, round a house where it was thought that the Count of San Luis was concealed ; it was entered at last, and searched throughout, but he was not found. It is supposed he is in the palace. The junta have contrived to disarm the people of - the Cuartel de San Mateo. A deputation went there, stating that there was a general order. to send all the arm s t o th e barrack of San Fraucisc;o, and two cartloads were taken there. It is probable that Constituent Cortes will be convoked under the electoral law of the constitu .ticm le„Tr, whigia does not go near the leDaili of __ universal suffrage, but is much more liberal than the one in force of late years. The Clamor Publico declares that it will he satisfied with this limitation of the suffrage for the present. The Nacion urges the Government to decree a new electoral law. The Madrid journals of the sth have arrived in due course. A royal decree suppresses the " Di rector-General of Military Administration," and re-establishes the old commissariat administration. It announces some dismissals and new appoint ments of high functionaries in the department of Finance. The Espana says that in addition to the diplomatic nominations already announced, it is intended to appoint M. Antonio Gon zalez Minist6 at London, M. Rios Rosas at Lisbon, and General Infante at Rome. The Duke de la Victoria, after stopping at the palace till a late hour in the night of the 3d, was taken ill, and had to be bled, but he had entirely recovered. The Duke de Soto Mayor has been ap pointed Major-domo of the Palace. The new Mi nister of Public Works, M. Lugan, and the new Minister of the Interior, M. Santa Cruz, had ar rived. General Blaser and General Vista Hermosa had arrived at Gibraltar. General Manuel de la Concha was concentrating at Barcelona all the troops disseminated in Catalonia, and had already collected twenty-two battalions. FRANCE. It is stated that accounts reached Paris yester day announcing that the expeditionary troops have landed in Perekop, the isthmus which joins the Crimea to the main land. The probability of such an event was spoken of some days ago as the best means of intercepting the communications of the Russians with the Crimea. The article in the Moniteur, announcing the ad hesion of Austria to the views of England and France, produced a favourable impression on the Bourse yesterday. The 3 per Cents. closed at 72f. 20c. for the end of the month ; the 4i per Cents. at 99f. ; and the New Loan at 72f.; Orleans Rail way Shares, 1,190 f.; Rouen, 976 f. 25c. ; Havre, 572 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 835 f. ; Strasburg, 780 f. ; New Shares, 622 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 951 f. 25c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 860 f. ; Western of France, 650 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 615 f. ; Great Central of France, 496 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Geneva, 505 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 7001. ITALY. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 7th inst. an nounces the arrival at Turin of Count Gustave de Reizet, who was First Secretary of the French Embassy at St. Petersburg, when . diplomatic rela tions were broken off between France and Russia. PARMA, August o.—Yesterday three guards of the Treasury and two shopkeepers, taken with arms in their hands during the revolt of the 22d ult., were shot. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, 10.30 A.M. The screw steamer Ottawa arrived this morning in 11i days from Quebec, with dates from New York to the 28th July. The Africa arrived at New York on the 27th, and the Cleopatra at Quebec on the 25th. It was reported at New York, that in addition to the treaty of neutrality agreed upon by the United States and Russia, is one that the latter Power proposes to transfer to the former the Island of Sitka in the Pacific Ocean, on the west coast of North America. Middling and good grades of flour had advanced 12c. at New York. AUSTRALIA. (BY ELECTRIC, iLLAGRAPFL) PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY MORNING. The ship Marlborough, Captain Young, 89 days, from Melbourne, with 64,000 oz. gold, 11,000 sovereigns in specie, and 100 passengers, landed mails at Plymouth yesterday. The Marlborough called at Fernando Noranha 7th, and Flories 27th of July. ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S-PARK.—Yes terday the fifteenth annual meeting of the above society was held in the society's garden's, Regent's-park ; Col. Hammer, K.H., in the chair. The council's report spoke most favourably of the su'cess of the society dur ing the past year, including 1853 and the past months of 1854. The number of fellows elected during the year had been 161, which was nine over the fellows elected during the preceding year. The total number of visi tors, including extra and promenade days, was 149,256. Great alterations had taken place in the arrangements of the gardens, a capacious marquee having been erected, under which the whole of the annual show could be in spected at one view, without the trouble of going from tent to tent ; while an extensive refreshment saloon had been built in place of the old one, which was found too small to give accommodation to the vast number of visi tors who daily thronged the grounds. In conclusion the council congratulated the fellows on the great profits de rived from the gardens, which had enabled them to pro cure a great reduction in the loan and redemption fund. The treasurer's accounts showed the receipts, includ. ing general subscriptions and a balance in hand of 4,6581. ls. 4d., to be 15,2001. 16s. 10d., while the payments figured 11,4071. 19s. 7d., exclusive of a sum of 2,0151. 16s. Bd., which, together with the purchase of Exchequer-bills and a balance in hand, made up the total amount previous to expenditure of 1,5201. 16s. 10d. Sir H. Willoughby moved, and Mr. J. Bentley seconded, the adoption of the council's and treasurer's reports, which was unanimously carried ; after a hich the secretary's and the curator's reports were read, which spoke also most satisfactorily of the pro ceedings of the society. The gardens were become well attended by students, both ladies and gentlemen , and were indeed a grand adjunct to the study of botany. The plants and flowers were all in a flourishing condition, with the exception of the Victoria lily, which had be come rather weakened, through, as it was supposed, a change of soil. The secretary's and curator's reports having been also adopted, thanks were voted to the president. the Duke of Norfolk, the vice-presidents, and the officers for the past year, which, together with the election of fellows and a warm vote of thanks to the gallant chairman, closed.the proceedings. THE NEW BEER AOT.—The new act for regulating the sale of beer and other liquors on the Lord's Day will Some into force on Sunday next. It is enacted that it shall not be lawful for any licensed victualler or person licensed to sell beer by retail, to be drunk on the pre mises or not to be drunk on the premises, or any person licensed or authorised to sell any fermented or distilled liquors, or any person who, by reason of the freedom of the mystery or craft of vintner of the City of London, or of any right or privilege shall claim to he entitled to sell wine by retail, to he drunk or consumed On the premises, in any part of England or Wales, to open or to keep open his house for the sale of or to sell beer, or wine, or spirits, or any other fermented or distilled liquor, be tween half-past two o'clock and six o'clock, or after ten o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday, or on Christmas Day, or Good Friday, or any day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving, or before four o'clock in the morn ing of the day following, except as refreshments to a boud fide traveller, or a lodger therein. NOTTINGHAM STATE OF TRADE.—With June, specula tive lace business of all kinds invariably expires ; and during July buyers are cautiously studying the demands of the season and fashion and transacting accordingly ; in the present month even these limited transactions ex perience a cessation, and the various houses in the trade are .:sually engaged in sorting up their goods, with the expectation of doing very little business before Septem ber. The present season has been, and continues to be, quite in accordance with these remarks. In hosiery, business has on the whole experienced this week a perceptible depression, in the hand-to-mouth trade which has been going on. Still the manufacturers feel it impossible to complain, there being, upon the whole, enough doing to keep them busy. There are numbers of foreign purchasers about; and the retrospect of the Benson is found to be a far more agreeable one than its prospects once portended. With regard to the comparative activity of the different branches ; although the glove trade continues to be much depressed, the Sutton branch is in good employment and the hands disinclined to stand any reduction—one house attempt ing it having been met with a strike immediately. —Not tinghamshire Guardian. OPENING OF THE GALWAY HERRING FISHERY.—The Galway Packet says :—" On Wednesday evening, for the first time this season, the hardy fishermen of the Claddagh commenced to fish for herrings in the Bay of Galway, and were fortunate enough to be rewarded with a most abundant take, several of the boats having got full cargoes, to the value of from 151. to 201." Suspicious !---BRISTOL, August 9.—A water logged' and abandoned brig, timber-laden, of about 300 tons, apparently American built, painted green, stripped of everything moveable, including rope, sails, stores, &c., and had been fired int o , as t h e h o l es i n her hull, other wise good, appeared to have been made by shot from 32- pounders, was boarded in 33 N. and 18 W. on the 14th of June, by the Crouch Brothers, bound to Melbourne. The derelict had a white house on deck, supported by stanchions only, the sides having been washed in, both masts gone above board, and bowsprit standing. A MISERLY CHIEF JUSTIOE.—JekyI said that Ken yon died of eating apple-pie crust at breakfast, to save the expense of muffins ; and that Lord Ellenborough, who succeeded to the Chief Justiceship in consequence, al ways bowed with great reverence to apple-pie, " which," said Jekyl, "we used to call apple pie-ty." The prin cesses also told of how " the King used to play tricks on Kenyon, sending the despatch box to him at a quarter past seven, when he knew Kenyon was snug in bed ; being accustomed to go to bed at that hour, to save can dle-ligh t."—Moore's Diary. SINGULAR FACT.—Soine time since some grains cf wheat, which had been taken from an old Egyptian sar cophagus at Cairo, were given to a member of the Agri cultural Society of Compeigne, by whom they were sown, and the most 'surprising result has occurred. The stems which have risen from this seed are as large as a reed, the leaves are rather more than an inch in breadth, and the ears have each 100 grains cf very large size, so that several of the original seeds have mul -2000-fold. It is thought the seed dates as far back as Sesostris or at least Cloopstra....Gaiignani. - BOW-STREET-(THIS DA Y. ) THE LATE CASE OF STABBING.-77077V18 Sheer, who stood charged with stabbing police-constable Barnard Corrie, was this day brought before Mr. Henry, and re madided for further examination. Inspector Dodd stated that the officer was still lying at King's College Hospital, but the medical attendants were of opinion that he is slowly recovering, and might therefore be able at a future day to appear a:;ainst the prisoner. The prisoner said he was glad to hear this statement. TEE THREATENED DUEL. Captain De Villa presented himself before Mr. ger ham yesterday at Marlborough-street Police-office, to enter into sureties to keen the peace, he having bees challenged to fight a duel by a Mr. O'Connell. It woe understood that the quarrel had reference to a female. Mr. Bingham required Captain De Villa to enter into his own recognisances in 1001., and one surety in the like amount, to keep the peace. Captain De Villa procured bail, and was discharged• The challenger did not make his appearance. THE IiARYEST. THE PoTATei DISEASE.---WORCES TER, Wednesday.—The weather this week has been glorious, and the harvest has already partially commenced in fa' vourable situation in this county and in Gloucester shire. Next week, with continued fine weather, wheat and barley cutting will become general. Th e potatoe disease, I am sorry to report, i has made ts appearance, and is extending its ravages. P ot " toes are cheap, and will continue so, as many pa rties are getting up the root and disposing of the m es fast as they can. Dr. Turley, of Worcester, who p e r a great deal of attention to meteorological subjects, and has occupied some time in investigating the racter of the potato failure, reports that the p otato bearing a haulm of the darkest green colour, is being consequently of the greatest specific gravity, .15 the only kind that will sustain the shuck of the Ole' ease. He considers the term disease as a misnom er, for that is merely an absence of vitality, in the bl ood or sap of the plant, which, failing to receive its nece ssary amount of electricity from the. air, constituted ns it no w is AO deficient of that quality, returns to the tuber as Wel t or poisonous matter, and .he vitality of the tuber thus unsupported perishes. lie deems toe only possible re medy to lie in the arresting of the downward progress of the sap before it reaches the tuber, either by lining,' diately pulling up the haulms, or cutting them off close to the earth. This remedy is not a new one ; Man; parties state that they have tried it and not succeed On ; but it will be found that in all cases where the haulms have been cut and the tubers have afterwards proved to be diseased, the fault lay in the delay of the application of the remedy: The moment that the haulm show symptoms of being affected, they should he cut off before the vitiated sap can reach the tuber. 17 this means Dr. Turley maintains that millions of poop weight of this valuable esculent may be saved to the potato growers in his own neighbourhood. Til STATE OF THE CROPS.--Gardeners Chroniclecon' tains tabular returns of the api, qrancci ~f the crops fro,laili. correspondents, in most parts of the kingdom. 7; hs result of these returns, Luc G.ziv ene es' Chrow . c t gives the foitowing summary ;—" It will be see n the f there is unusual promise of an abundant proil ba tte r wheat, and that oats and barley are good, much bette. than the very dry cold seed time led most of us t o anticllt pate—that beans are very generally injured by g g , and fly in the south—that the hay crop is unusly i __J„ light, and much of it badly harvested—that the gre; crops generally promise well—and that there ig al t a general and earlier complaint of the potato disea! , t"'" there has been for several past ye %rs. A rapid journheie northwards from Lond o n and through several °f t • e ,stern counties of Sc o tla n d enable us to add our test:: many to that of correspondents in Fufeshire, th e 14 o f t•iians, and Berwickshire, as to the magnificent crops a'l kinds which cover the ground. The turnip s alrestal; very generally hide the land ; the wheat is fine, end nil oats and barley are very good. Crops, too, ar e m i re forward as to ripeness in the Lothians and in Fires, than in the northern and central counties of Englan d. .. WESTMORELAND.--rhe reports of growing crops c° -; tin le satisfactory. In this district the wes;her has b e en broken during the last few days, but there have be lutes vela of sunshine.— Kendal Mercury. MARKET NE WS-(THIS DAY•) CORN EXCHANGE. Very moderate supplies of English wheat having e o t r o to hand this week coastwise and by land carrisgelted. show of samples of that grain here to-day was The demand, however, owing to the prevailing fin e " 40 . ther, was in a very sluggish state, and Monday's were barely supported... The supply of foreign wheat was good. A ll descriPtit met a dull inquiry, and the quotations were the turn favour of buyers. Barley, the supply of which was good, moved off he*Y il l t at barely late rates. In malt very little was doing, on former terms. . We had a fair supply of oats, in which a steady bus- We was doing, at late rates. Beans, peas, and flour were dull, but riot lower. The ' 1112 ports of the latter are good. rote. 230 Wheat. 830 ARRIVALS THIS WILIK. Barley. I Malt. Oats. 50 i 1,390 840 110 1,350 k 16,640 I 8,890 :6,950 I 2,130 , " 5,990 914 GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the week ended Aug. 3, 1854, made up from the Returns of tt' In,pectors in the differedt Cities and Towns in England and *AI" English .. Irish •. • • Foreign .. . _ per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I RYE. BEANS. I PE' A 64$ 8a 35a 91 2,s lid g 43.. 51 47s 41 41$ '' TILE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE. WHEAT. PARLEY. I OATS. I 1 BYE. BEANS. I OA.' c 72s 6d 1 36s 7d 30s 2d 47s 4d 1 48s 5d 4.' 9d DUTIES UN FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. I BARLEY. I i. OATS. I RYE. BEANS. ?BO' Od Is Od is Od is Od Is Od Is Od I• - QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. _,,,,, Wheat, 31,184; Bar'ey, 1,F97; Oats , 3 897 ; R y e, 33 ; 13"'" 1,385; Peas, .94 quarters. To-day's market was weII SMITHFIE suppliedLD. w ith beasts, wabld•eb • moved off slowly, at barely Monday's prices. We bad good inquiry for prime sheep, at full currencies' *h b,nt v/ 00 wools met a slow sal e . L am b s —the supply of ie •of good—moved off b eav i'y, a t a d ec li ne i n the quotationrica 2d per Sibs. The inquiry for calves was heavy, an d nuns' fell from 2d to, in some i ns t ances , 4 4 1 per 8 lbs. Tb e a st• ° ber was extensiv e . In pips, so little was doing , th rates were almost nominal. eseb' Mitch cows mov e d o ff h eav il y , a t f ro m 141 to 1 9 1 including their small calf. s. d. fi k 0 PrimeSouthdown 410 6 ; 0 Large ers4. calves 3 2 g Prime small d 0... 2 Large hogs ......... 4 3 Small porkers 4 4 1 9 ..... e iucklingcalves. —22 u i s 0 Quarter old pig 3 21 0 " 4s 2d to 58 4d. FOREIGN WO' • Per Slbs to sink the offals. s. d. s. Inferior Beasts.... 3 6to 3 8 Second quality.... 3 10 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8 Prime Scots, dm. 4 10 -6 0 Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 8, Second quality ...3 181 4 0, Prime erse.-wlled.4 2 4 8 Lambs..., TOTAL SUPPLY. • s o .• .* 6130 Reads 1,n75 „.... ..... •..... 9,750 L:alves 706 Pigs ..•• .......... •• •••• 440 Sheep .. • • • • ...• : .. Calves., • • •••• • ... NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL. as fel' There was less activity in the •demand. Prices low : dg Per 81bs by the carcase.o , s. d. s. d. gq. d. : Beef, inferior 3 4 3 6) Mutton, Inferior - ~0 4 , Do., middling 3 8 3 10 I Do., middling ..... 3 -`,, 4 Do., prime large 4 0 4 2 Do, prime .......• 4 ; 4 : Do., do. small 44 4 6 Vea . l ....... 3 4 ° .......... Pork, large 344 0, Pork, small ....... . 4 Lamb 4B Od to 58 J. BOROUGH HOP. or itbiel The plantation accounts are considered more f i ta 1 9 ; yet the duty, is called only from 50,0001. to 6 ° ,vu- 4 08 - business doing is limited, and our quotations Ar e lOW nominal. This week's imports are 259 bales fro°, froo burgh, 74 from Rotterdam, 286 from Ostend, an 16/. Os; Boulogne.. Mid and East Kent pockets, 12/. Os t' e .,„ ditteo Weald of Kent ditto, 11/. Os to 141. 108 ; S ues"' 11/. Os to 131. 135 per cwt. ') LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS D AY -... Wilt LONDON, Aug. 11.—Wind this day at Noon , S./Cr' .; 10a" brreze, and fine. , so Jr PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 10.—Wind, N. to W,.. bait' Sutlej, for Calcutta ; Franz, Grenada. Pal , -- r , iiir maica, Quebec, with crew mutinous. go d , v- „,0 PLYMOUTH, Aug. 10.—Wind,- N;W. ~T rPI; cordia, from Lyme, for Rio. Sailed—Duchess of .o ° . CP C4 berland, for Australia ; Derwentwater, melbaulne' Quebec. „ I,o o ' FALMOUTH, Aug. 10.—Wind, N. Sailed- - P'' / J oll a * for Melbourne. Off Port—Camden, from Siena for Pembroke. • : R d Ca rl° SHIELDS, Aug. 10.7-Tin,d, §.W. S iled----• for New Yolk. - '' . a SUNDERLAND, Aug. 10.—Wind, S. - 11 Ss' sa -ilaPbr36 for Bombay. A 0 ' 0. HuLL, Aug. 10.—Wi n d, N. A rr ived— 44. 0 , from Miramichi. Tb e 0 4 GooLE, Aug. 10.—Wind, N.W. Arrived-- $a .,,, river's Hope , from Havre (teazles) ; Aurora, frlried ll.4 (teazles) ; Henrietta, Tara t ( 1 h Memel (timber)• n s (sulphur); p ur); A .....;ved---.Alidt°' GRIMSBY, Aug. 10.—Wind, N.E. j ij e . . mache, from Richibucto. nos bel FLEETWOOD, Aug. 10.—Sailed—Cleopatra,. fo r , _„."` /1,11: 0 " BELFAST, Aug 9.—Wind, S.W. Arriv e ' i o, from Barbadoes. Sailed—Cambria, for Queb e f . 0.01 0 `._4. Gusta v QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 9.—Wind, W. Arriven--- , per , . jrom Porto Rico ; Bella Antona, Matanzas ; Jelin /or 111°11 ton, Cardenas ; Her Majesty (s), from the Clyde, at treal. -- -0" be LIMERICK, Aug. 9.—Wind, W. Rrri ved 11 0 , 1 ) ' Tavlim, from Barbadoes. ELSINORE, Aug. 6.—The Johannes (lianov° l.lllll r f lbe a l. ; from flail or Memel, was struck by lightniogr %OM' inst., off the Scaw, took fire, and was totally ct'' crew saved by the Charlotte, arrived here. '(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) 10 46 A lt ' el Orleans; 6; Ottawa Dreadnought, (s s) , LIVERPOOL, Friday, --' Wind, W. N. ; fr es h, e Vi la ' f a ro n sm d evwme.rtyynotfilr,ikelea;.l hompoe:_i,ssiicciiiiiief:t Ne A w rr o iv r The new steamer City of Philadelphia, v".•,„ ,t, t o/ Greenock yesterday inornin , ;, was otf Port ratrt'ogos(f o'clock the same day, returning under canvas to .9 1 0 ho t' owing to slight derangement of machinery from t a I , dal ing of the crank shaft. The delay Al 11c1 t eleee w 1 or two. pg.) 14. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TE LEGSA- 10 16 5 • D E AL, FridaY, a• Wind NT -,-,-,•••NAV ; light and fine. .8 lefa j; Tassed Shoodi . ac, for Quebec ; Hesperag , - - ,,, i( n dov• Comely, Newport ; Hastings, Calcutta—all from If or Co' Anchored—Eliza, 115 transport, from London, ' laic ; Orynthia, Sierra Leone, for Sunderland. 0 ..,,bic"; 7 Coming down—Planet, from Lozdop, 1.0: J OW • :Ma LiondoD, for :Saw - Wu* _ _..... -