The Sun. — London, England, 1854-04-28 00:00:00

Aminmaimamwm... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LINE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. First appearance of 3ldlle. Bury and Signor _Realm. 11113 EVENING, APRIL 28, Will be performed Bell:Jars Opera of LA SONNAIIBULA. Cha meters by lidlle. Bury, Signor 'lethal, and Signor Arnold'. Followed by a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. Priers;—Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, 3.1 ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. Tile Box-office open daily from Ten till Six, where places may be secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and Cook, 63, New Bond-street. TfiMATRE ROYAL HAYMA.RICET. tinder the management of Mr. Enckstone. THIS EVENDTG, Mau. 28, Will be performed SPEED THE PLOUGH. Characters by Messrs. Vandenholf, Compton, Rogers. and Chippendale ; Miss E. 3llss Louisa Howard, and Mrs. Stanley. After which, the entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled MR. IiCCKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI CESTER.SQUARE), written by J. R. Planche, Esq. Principal characters by Mr. Buck-atone, Mr. W. Farrell, Mr. Clark, Mr. J. Marsiv,ll, Mr. H. Marqhall : Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Airs. Caulfield, Miss IC. Grey. Miss Lydia Thorapsca, Miss Laura Morris, and Miss FeatLerstone. Fa:lowed by WILLIE:IND AND FITS DINAH. Supported by Mesorrs. Buck-stone and Corr' ; Miss Louisa Howard, Mrs. Fitzwil liarci, and Mrs. Caulfield. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES SEAI. TIII3 EVENING, APRIL 28, Will be performed T/IE MARRIED UNMARRIED. Characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, Ryder, and Cathcart ; and Misses Heath and Mti rray. Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Characters by Messrs. C. Kean and Day.d Fisher ; Mrs. WLnstanley and .Nllss C. Lectercq. -- To conclude with A STORM IN A TEA-CUP. Principal cha , racters by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor. Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS tvrxnzek, Aram 28, Will be performed TWO LOVES AND A LIFE. Supported by Mtwara. C. Selby. Leigh Murray, Benjamin Webster, Keeley, and 0. Smith ; Mao Woolga.r and Madame Celeste. Followed by TILE MOUSTACHE MOVEMENT. Principal cha meters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Keeley, and Parselle ; Mrs. Kegley, and Miss Mary Keeley. Followed by THE OVERL kND JOCRNEY TO CONST kNTI- N'OPLE, AA UNDERTAKEN BY LORD B &TEMA - V . , - WITH ENT ERESTING PARTICULARS Of THE FAIR SOP-IHA. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame VestrLs. THIS EVENING, Apart, 28, Will be performed A CHARMING WIDOW. Principal claarac ters by Mr. C. Mathews; Miss Talbot and Miss Oliver. After which, USED UP. To be followed by GIVE A DOG AN ILL NAME. Principal characters by Mews. C. Mathews and P. Matthews. Concluding with A HOUSE OUT OF WINDOWS. LOYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING. Aram S. 'Will be performed THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Cha racters by Messrs. F. Robson, J. 11. White, Leslie, and Vincent; Mrs. Chatterley, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Marston. To be followed by TO OBLIGE BENSON. Supported by Messrs. Emery, Robson, and Leslie; Mrs. Stirling and Miss Wyndham. To conclude with the Farce of THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Baggs, Mr. F. Robson. STRAND TIMATRE. Bole Lessee Mr. F. W. Alleroft.—Direetress, Miss Itebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING, APRIL 28, Will be performed Tli& ENCHANTED LAKE. After which, TAE BLUE JACKETS. To be followed by WIVES BY ADVERTISEMENT. Concluding with the new burlesque on RICHARD THE THIRD. qualsi. se. ; &nes, 34.; Pit, 14. 641; Gallery, td.; Private tioaes, XI Ila. 6d., to be had of Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. William Cooke. Great attraction and powerful Novelties for the Easter Holidays. THIS EVENING, Aram 25, Will be presented the new grand Nautical and Equestrian spec tacle, embodying navel and extraordinary effects (written by Mr. Nelson Lee), entitled A TAM'. OF THE SPANISH WAR; or, The Horse of the Wreck. Ths horses expressly trained by Mr. W. Cooke. Followed by an entire change of the Scenes of the CIRCLE. intro ducing Miss Kate Cooke, Miss Emily Coote, Mr. Alfred Cooke, and the most talented Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes in Europe. Concluding with a popular FARCE. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 'NH DAT —Morning 38 min.after 2 j Evening 50 rain.aft. 2 Te•Noasow--Morning 7 min.after 3 1 Evening 23 cein.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.—Sus Ornal, APRIL 28. TESEIIMOMETIM, IN THE SHADE. 55--hichest since noon yesterday. 44 -lowest this morning and during the night. 53—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 4 20 . 95—rising. WIND, N.W.—Strong breeze, and dull, cold weather. fl, centration of the Muscovite forces hitherto scat- ( tered about the Principalities. Together with which accounts, moreover, we receive others, to the effect that the soldiers of the AUTOCRAT, already conducted across the Danube, are strongly foltifying themselves in the Dobrudscha. There is, in fact, an evident system and a manifest consist ency so far in the tactics of Prince GORTSCHABOFF and PASKIEWITCH. But Europe has yet to recognise anything but confusion and inconsistency, and dilatoriness and indecision, in the curious plans process of being carried f o o u r t a b ea y milligninowßAGLAN in and Marshal St. ARNAUD. Where, too ? In Roumelia, and not in Bulgaria! Not anywhere near the seat of war along the , banks of the Danube or in advance of the Balkan Mountains ; but, with head-quarters at Adrianople, and camps at Buyukdere, on the Bosphorus, and at Gallipoli on the Darda nelles ! It is insisted, of course, that time ought to be allowed before judging o f th e t ac ti cs o f th e I allied Commanders-in-Chief. But that is just it. Time enough and to spare has already been con ceded, and as yet we are only, as it were, at the commencement of our military preparations. Our maritime preparations have long since been com pleted, and that, too, on a scale, it must be allowed, adequate for almost any emer gency, and altogether magnificent. Whereas, we repeat it, we are only now at the commence ment of our military preparations. The French contingent is to be increased to 150,000 men in the aggregate. Ours must be increased in like manner proportionately. As yet England has only arranged to send out to the East, against the gigantic hordes of the Russian AUTOCRAT, from 25,000 to 30,000 soldiers. France as yet has merely undertaken to supply 50,000 to 60,000 altogether. Of these-25,000 French and 10,000 English have already been dis embarked at Gallipoli. Now, it is quite ob vious, even to the non-professional observer, that this system is altogether inadequate to the emer gency. The contingents sent from the Western Allies of the SULTAN to his aid in his own dominions must—there is no doubt whatever of this, if we really intend to vanquish the enormous forces of the Russian AUTOCRAT —be increased, and that, too, very con siderably. The French army of the East must be increased, as we are told it is actually going to be increased from 50,000 or 60,000 to 150,000 men altogether. The English army in the East ought, in proportion, therefore, to be increased in its turn from 25,000 or 30,000 to an aggregate of 70,000 or 80,000. While, instead of landing them at Gallipoli, or at Buyukdere, we ought to disembark these troops at some point of the Turk ish coast, from which the actual scene of fighting would be more accessible than from an out-of-the way seaport on the Bosphorus or the Dardanelles. The day of humiliation and prayer has been generally observed throughout the country. In every church and chapel, not merely those belong ing to the Anglican Church, but of every sect and denomination, supplications have been addressed to the CREATOR and PRESERVER of Mankind for his aid and protection throughout the contest in which we have reluctantly been involved. The nation has prostrated itself before the ALMIGHTY ; and whatever differences of substance or of form might ' exist in other respects, the tenour and effect of the general prayer was the same—for His omnipotent help and assistance so long as we had truth and justice on our side. It was a great and solemn observance !—one deserving of the highest praise, or of unmitigated censure. It was truly laudable, if as a nation we were resolved to use all earthly means to bring the war to a speedy and honourable termination, and to remove the causes by which it has been occasioned. But if otherwise—if we neglect the obvious precautions demanded by the existing cir cumstances—it has been but a hypocritical mock ery, which had far better been omitted. The admirable letter of Lord PALMERSTON, in which he pointed out the necessity of cleansing and purifying our towns—of removing the pre disposing causes of cholera—before we ventured on a day of national humiliation and prayer for the purpose of imploring the DEITY to avert a scourge which we had reason to believe was to a great degree, if not altogether, under our own power and control, is peculiarly applicable to, and might have been written for, the occasion now referred to. Let us profit by the instructive lesson ! Let us look to the original causes of the hostilities in which we are now engaged, and see whether we are indeed giving proofs of our sincerity by striving to remove or mitigate these causes. Have we as yet exhibited the energy and -activity necessary to convince the AUTOCRAT that we are really in ear nest, and that ample retribution will be exacted for the evils occasioned by his overweening ambi tion and grasping cupidity? Do we not still tolerate at the head of our Administration the AUTOCRAT'S " friend of forty years' standing," the man with whom "he could settle everything in ten minutes' conversation ?" How can we, while Lord ABER DEEN is Premier, guiding the helm of the vessel of State, dare to ask the interposition of the GOD HEAD ? While the real power rests in the hands of the popular representatives, and while the voice of public opinion so loudly and unequivocally pro claims the true state of the national feeling, we do nothing to remove the incubus that has para lysed our efforts, and rendered war inevitable. It is absurd to say that a change in the Cabinet would prove prejudicial to the interests of the British empire, or of our faithful and deeply injured ally, the SULTAN. Has not Lord ABER: DEEN, ever since the declaration of war on the part of England, declared, in his place in the House of Peers, that he considered that " the apprehensions of the Emperor (NICHOLAS) were well founded?" Has he not, in his very last official speech, announced that, like the ancient Covenanter, he would, even while buckling on his armour, continue to murmur " Peace, peace !" What will be the effect on NICHOLAS when read ing these "sayings," which are so totally different from our " doings ?" Unfortunately for himself, and the myriads of serfs who humble themselves before his footstool, he does not understand the power of " the pressure from without," and the irresistible influence of the popular feeling. He conceives the Minister of the day all-powerful ; and, when he sees that we still maintain our mo netary code with unabated stringency, and lay down the principle that, while we do so, we will not only compel the present generation to bear the entire expenses of the war, but even make them liquidate the debts contracted in a past cen tury, he must think that the advisers of the Crown are only practising the deception in which he is himself so skilful an adept. The war has been occasioned by the vacillation and timidity of Lord ABERDEEN—the war will be protracted, and its horrors aggravated, by the same causes ; and if we would avert these evils and deserve the Divine aid, which we have so earnestly implored, we should with equal unanimity demand the re moval of Lord ABERDEEN from the place for which he is disqualified by his Russian predilec tions. If we remember right, it was the Times itself which, after doing its best to force Lord JOHN RUSSELL to give up his Reform Bill, kindly ad vised him to adopt all such particular reforms as might be carried in virtue of their individual merits, or which at least were not of a nature to imperil the existence of a Cabinet. Our contem porary was not always of this opinion. He was accustomed to bid working reforraers wait L, - )rd JOl 'S time. Now he has adopted it, we hope Ile will urge it with his wonted pertinacity and vigoi 1 For ourselves it has always been our creed, th at any g,eol reform proposal ought to be vigorously sustained by all honest reformers ; and we h ave, i n our own judgment, tested the sincerity of libe -1 ral professions verymuch by the contempt of those t Iwho made them for the customary shuffles by t which the double-faced endeavour to vote with the Tories, and to call themselves at work uLp?n a useful era Liberals. .The topicalt - t orn ey-Generalisno re f or m, useful if the means beat the all commensurate eoestiteeeeei with the object, the re form of abridge he has jut re bejinesep:ocbed.a by the ) Commissioners.. From m ch olialaevoef fTeb LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1854. There is an evident determination on the part of the Russians to concentrate, as quickly as possible, the enormous forces hitherto scattered over the Principalities. .In proof of this we learn of late simultaneously that the troops before Kalafat are retiring southwards, and that those which had already crossed the Danube lower down were strongly fortifying their position in the Dobrudscha. It is what has been long anti cipated. It is the movement against which, moreover, the Turks and their allies, whether British, French, or Egyptians, ought by this time to have been fully prepared. But are they ? We question it. Firstly, the Turks themselves have their must powerful body of soldiers strongly placed not far from the hard-fought ground of Citate, in Lesser Wallachia. Then it must be remembered that the union of the Turkish army near Kalafat with the other division of the soldiers of the SULTAN omfronting the Muscovite invaders of the Do brudecha, will require some considerable time, comparatively speaking, for its completion. Then, again, England and France are both—we all know that—deplorably, we might almost venture to say disgracefully, behind hand with their con tingents. As we observed in our remarks upon this subject yesterday—there is a camp already formed for the allied armies at Gallipoli, in the Dardanelles---there is another camp about to be formed at Buyukdere, in the Bosphorus—and there is the talk of head-quarters being established at Adrianople, half-way between the range of the 33alkan mountains and the city of Constanti nople. Now, We ask any rational man, taking these facts into account, and placing the map of the seat of war before him, and considering for five minutes the relative situation of Kalafat, of Bucharest, and of the Dobrudscha on the one side, and of Gallipoli, of Buyukdere, and of Adrianopleon the other—we ask any rational man, we say, taking all these things into consideration, whether he believes that by land Turkey, with her allies front Egypt, France, and England, is pre pared for the probable result of a sudden coucen ru2oll of the Russi an armi es un d er P r i nce ltTacitaisoe e and Prince PASKIEWITCH ? For our Part, we candidly avow, that we do not think they are Prepared on land for any such movemen t . At seanothi ng all thing s considered, could have be en b e tt er arrange d , considered, than the whole of our vast and rapid preparations. Considering the powerf u l fl ee t s which are now actually in the Black S ea an d i nn the Baltic, we think the highest credit is re flected upon the ma r i ne o cie erti Partment of both the French and En g li s h G overnments. nts. Upon thi s matter we have alr ea d y ventured to Admiralty, express our deliberate conviction th a t the Board of presided over by Sir 'TABUS Gaesteat, has di sp l aye d throughout a capacity, an efficiency, and a patriot ism deserving of the fullest approbation of t h e community. Not so, however, has it been w i t i l the Horse Guards. There, no kindred energy and promptitude have been manifested. Instead of all which, indeed, we have an extraor dinary parade reviews, and banquets, an d what not, all expressive of eagerness. to place the land forces of the empire In a. position in which they might be speedily em ibled to do credit to theinselveA, to afford effectual a seist ance to the Turks and Ruptiiiiii.s and in U nick, moreover, they might vindicate the glory of their righteous cause by fighting bravely under the ban -111'".13 of their Sovereign. ';otwithstand in g all h ch tumult of prel)aration—we can onl' r . 1101 v, towards the close of the April of 1854, .1; nn of the disembarking of only 8,000 of our trc fops at Gallipoli, not witl •an a brief interval of the actue./ seat of war, but at Gallipoli, an obscure 3ea port in a secluded part of the coast in the D, dandles ! Yet the same intelligence brings us news iof th e rapid withdrawal of the Russian troops before ' Kalafat, evidently with 4 view to the rapid cou• THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 185 4. ceived a lesson, which we know that he, personally, is not unwilling to adopt ; we only request of him to enforce it on his colleagues_in office, and on the House of Commons. A meeting was held last week by the liberal electors to decide which from amongst four claim ants for their suffrages they would select for the candidates of their party. The Hon. Mr. CA3IP BELL, by letter, Mr. ADATR, Mr. Mow,ITT, and Mr. EDWIN JAMES, Q.C., personally, laid their views before the electors. The latter gentleman's name is well known to all our readers by its fre quent recurrence in the proceedings of Election Committees of the House of Commons ; indeed, he referred to his exertions in unseating twenty six Members of Parliament against whom corrupt proceedings had been proved, as evidence that his exertions might have been of some use in staying corruption at Cambridge itself. It is this gentle man's statement to which we would invite the at tention of Sir ALEXANDER COCKBURN, and his leader Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Were the question one of general or European statesmanship, we might allow Lord JOHN'S claim to superior infor mation and knowledge, but it is just of that prac tical kind in which a man like Mr. JAMES, whose chief business has lain in investigating and scruti nising the details of so many cases, must know better than our most justly valued statesman. Now he, like Mr. COPPOCK, to the great value of whose opinion we have before adverted, is fully satisfied that the ballot is indispensable to complete the pacification of constituencies, even should pecuni ary bribery be to a great extent repressed. He tells us that he has been consulted, from his posi tion as counsel, as to the best means of making the intimidator as responsible for his conduct as the person who gave a pecuniary bribe ; but it was a practical difficulty never to be overcome, that conviction of intimidation was almost im possible ; the nod, the look, the hint, or even the known wish, is sufficient. Who, for instance, could compel a customer to say why he deserted one shop and went to another ? He might reply with SHVLOCK, " I shall not answer that ; it is my humour." " I have," said Mr. JAMES, " well considered the subject, and can see no way in which the voter can be really and practically pro tected but by the ballot." A conclusion which was received with loud cheering, cheering which would be consistently followed, byapetition to grant the ballot to Cambridge at least. As the learned gentleman further observed, it was not properly a party question, but a social one, and that if we gift a man with the franchise, it is our plain duty to give the means of exercising it freely and con scientiously. We do not wish to bore our readers with reiteration of arguments but too well known, for they have never been refuted, and must there fore be insisted on till they are ; but we call the attention of the large class of plain, common-sense men, with whom the names of practical persons naturally weigh so much, and perhaps go farther than argument, to the fact that, not only have the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General ex pressed themselves favourably in regard to the Ballot, but the two leading working Liberal lawyers in election matters have now avowed it as the result of experience and honest reflection, that the ballot is the only practical remedy for bribery and intimidation. We must think that impartial men will attach . more weight to such testimony than to the scoffs of even the "leading journal." We may just add, that the course pursued by the Liberal party in Cambridge, and which has been successfully pursued elsewhere, is one most important for Liberals to follow throughout the kingdom. Except during the protection contro versy, the Conservatives have been a tolerably united party, and hung well together, notwith standing their party squabbles. Not so the Libe rals. They always contain a very large propor tion of Radical Reformers, and the Whigs have been but too apt to give their more zealous allies the cold shoulder, squeezing them out at elections, and refusing them, unless they wished to give them a quietus, all the sweets and advantages of office. Too many seats have in this way been lost to the Liberals. Nothing can be more fair that when in any place the Liberal party consists, as it generally does, of Radicals and Whigs, whose union is essential to success, the two members should represent the different degrees of Liberalism existing in the constituency. The Cambridge people ratified their declarations in favour of the ballot, by a resolu tion to adopt it at the adjourned meeting, when they were to determine which of the four candi dates they should combine to support. Is it not clear that if a vote of electors of the same party was confessedly best taken in this way, a fortiori the votes at an election contested between rival and angry parties were better taken in the same manner ? MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 5,000 bales, all to the trade. The market closed heavily with very little change in prices. The sales comprised 3,500 American, 90 Pernam and Maranham at 60. to 7d., 80 Bahia at cid., 600 Egyptian at 52d. to 10 d., 700 Surat at 3d. to 40., and 20 Sea Island at Is.lld. to 2s. 2d. per lb. Railway Shares were very quiet. Not much has been . done in col on i a l p ro d uce this week, —sugar, coffee, and spices being quiet. Russian staples are rather dearer, but more caution is exercised by speculators. The Corn Market is dull this morning, the arri vals being large. The ship Vimeira has arrived from New South Wales, which she left Jan. 24. She is stated to have on board about 30,000 ounces of gold. The Joshua, from Port Philip, with dates of Jan. 27, has also gold. The letters and papers by the Overland Mail, delivered yesterday afternoon, do not repres en t business as being brisk for imports either in India or China, but except that money was dearer in Bombay, no important change seems to have oc curred. The Bank of England not having advanced its minimum rate of discount yesterday, as many anticipated, there seems to be a better tone in the money market this morning, and the large bullion arrivals prove a sensible relief, and will counterbalance the shipments. The Bank returns to last Saturday, however, will, as we stated three days since, exhibit a marked reduction in the amount of specie, and it is only a continu ance of the Australian arrivals which can prevent a decline probably of another million or two. The success of the Chancellor of the Exchequer de pends, to a certain extent, upon the course of events between this and Tuesday next, although whatever temporary buoyancy might arise, persons tendering would look to the future also, and not expose them , selves to a loss within: a short time after they had subscribed. If the great insurance offices take up a portion of the Bonds, and the Bank of England views them in a favourable light, it would be no difficult matter to absorb an amount that would pave the way for the more general acceptance of the security hereafter. As we have before re marked, anything novel, however good intrinsi cally, is charily participated in by the monied in terest during periods of uncertainty. The markt for English stocks has been quiet, but firm. Consols bring 871 to i for transfer, and svg for account. The New 3i per Cents, have been 871 to and the 3 per Cents. 864 to 1. Bank Stock has been very heavy at 2051. Exchequer Bills have been 2s. discount to 2s premium, and hadia Bonds Gs. discount. In Foreign Securities there is an almost entire absence of business. Peruvian are not quite so good, having been 59i, to 60. Mexican aro de pressed at 2311. The settlement of the account is in progress, and is very light. For Railway Shares the inquiry is restricted. Great Northern have been rather firmer, Great Western a shade lower, Midland at an advance of and South Eastern and Caledonian supported. The French lines are ) steady but dull. In the Mining Share Market, prices are about the same. Australian Consols are still purchased freely for investment, and are scarce. The Joint-Stock Bank Shares are a shade firmer. The Land Companies' Shares are quiet. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (Front the Official List.) Bank Stock Business done. ...... ....... ..... 2034 per Cent. Reduced Au - Tait:es 864 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities B7 New 34 per Cent. Annuities 8 73 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 4 7-16 India Bonds, £lOOO ' Consols for Account 11th May 874 Exchequer Bills, 2d. £l000 £5OO 2 d 2 p Small 3 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. \lexicon 3 por Cent. Peruvian Bonds, 44 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. HALF,PAST TWO. Consols 874 Ditto May Account MORE RUSSIAN PRIZES. PORTSMOUTH, Thursday.—At 11 a.m. this day, her Majesty's revenue cutter Peterel, Mr. John Hughes, deputation officer of the revenue service, in command, captured the Russian bark Fama, of Vasa, laden with salt, from Sardinia, John Ostman, master, said by those on board to be bound to some port in Russia, then to Elsinore, and, afterwards, that they were ❑ot bound to any particular place—they were going where they thought proper. She is a fine ship of nearly 500 tons English measurement, and has more than 600 tons of salt on board, with a crew of 14 stout hands. The Peterel had 13 hands in all on board. At noon to day she safely anchored her prize at Spithead, with out the assistance of either pilot or steamer, wind blowing fresh from W. N. W., weather squally. She was boarded by Mr. Hughes in the Channel, St. Catharine Point bearing N. by E. five or six leagues. Messrs. Garrett and Gibbon, agents to Lloyd's at this port, being the receivers of droits of Admiralty, have the possession of this prize for the Crown. She will be brought into harbour to-morrow. The Port-Admiral's cutter, Fanny, Mr. Scarlett, second master in charge, returned from her cruising ground this evenino. at 5 o'clock, bringing the intelli gence that she had taken a fine barque of 400 tons, laden with salt, yesterday at noon. Flag-Lieutenant Hankey (who specially commanded the Fanny on this occasion) remains in the prize with part of the Fanny's crew, and is navigating her to this port. She will be in to-morrow morning. The. Fanny brought in a por tion of the captured prize's crew. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. THE WAR. The Moniteur of this morning announces that, according to a telegraphic despatch from Belgrade, of the 27th, the Russians had experienced a con siderable check at Chernawoda, in the Dobruscha, and that they had evacuated Lesser Wallachia. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 17. -- The steamers Cambria and Indus have arrived, with the 49th, 73d, 41st, and 33d Regiments. _ _ Another English steamer arrived to-day. THE DOBRUDSCHA. It is now evident, says a letter dated Shumla, April 8, that if Omer Pasha ever had any idea of acting on the offensive, he has abandoned it for the present at least, and resolved to collect all his available forces and make a stand within the in trenchinents of Shumla until the arrival of the allied army ; and, although this delay will give the enemy an opportunity of bringing up a greater number of troops, it is the most judicious and politic measure the Turkish General could adopt. The re ports that have been current imputing to him a feeling of jealousy towards the French and English generals have been very much exaggerated, and arose, probably, from his having expressed himself in confident and sanguine terms as to the result of the ensuing campaign, naturally enough identifying himself with it. He is fully aware of his inability with the force now at his disposal (about 40,000) to contend successfully against even that portion of the Russian army which occupies the Dobrudscha, as well as of the great disadvantages he labours under in the absence of a well-organised staff, efficient cavalry, and the deficiency among the great body of his officers of that energy and those chivalrous feelings which are found in individuals forming a similar class in the armies of Western Europe. Typhus fever is making frightful ravages among the troops at Kalafat. From 30 to 40 deaths a day are reported, and if its course is not speedily checked it will prove as formidable a foe as the Russians. The cavalry of that garrison are en route for Shumla, and may be expected here in a few days. Several English officers who have lately taken service in the Turkish army have arrived here within the last few days. Among the number are Colonel R. Cannon ; Capt. Hyde, of the Bengal Native Infantry ; and Mr. Balfour Ogilvie, late of the Madras Native Infantry. The presence of a large force is beginning to be felt in rather an irksome manner by the inhabitants. Grain, pro visions, and carriage are more than doubled in price, and sometimes not procurable. This state of things exists with 40,000 men. What will be the case when that number is doubled ? ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The engagement of Mdlle. Sophie Cruvelli commenced last night. This clever and original artiste had not before appeared at the Royal Italian Opera, and her debut was consequently looked for with interest. Her triumphs at Paris, where she has for some months past been in extraordinary vogue, have invested her name with additional prestige, and she is destined, we hope, to do honour to the flag under which she now serves. Her engagements with Mr. Lumley, during the last year or two of the reign of that gentleman, disclosed her merits and demerits pretty widely. We need hardly say she is one of those earnest ar ti s t es w h o enter heart and soul into the spirit of everything she undertakes. Her impetuousness at times produces very striking results, while her vocalisation is always broad and forcible. The house was brilliantly filled to witness the first appearance of this celebrated artiste, the Queen and the Prince being among the auditory. The general characteristics of Mdlle. Cruvelli since her last visit to this country do not appear to have un dergone any change. Her vocalism is of the bold class it ever was—her impulsiveness, when exerted, just as dramatic. The audience at the outset of the opera were not in the most encouraging mood, but they waxed in warmth as the evening advanced, and the singing of Cruvelli in the finale to the second act—when, repulsed by both husband and father the hapless Desdemona knows not where to look for succour—wrought them into enthusiasm. The persona. tion altogether was effective. Mdlle. Cruvelli has achieved a genuine triumph. She was called for at the close of the second act, and with enthusiasm at that of the third. The opera was magnificently acted. Tamberlik was never in more brilliant voice, or sang with greater energy. The same, in his own way, may be said of Ronconi, who looked a perfect fiend in the scene in which he pours his calumnies in Othello's ears ; while Tagliafico gave the father with all his artistic ability. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The first performance of the German troupe, which forms part of the Royal Opera Company, took place last night, and may be considered the most complete repre sentation which has yet been given. The Freischutz of Weber was well chosen to introduce Formes, whose Caspar is ono of his finest personations. Reichardt, too, is a very efficient and more than ordinarily good Max, while Madame Caradori is an Agatha not to be sur passed. In addition to this excellent triad of artistes, there war Mdlle. Sedlatzek to fill the interesting little part of Annchen. With such a cast as this, as regarded the principal personages a performance of no mean excellence was to be looked for. Nor were the expectations of the patrons of the theatre disappointed. We have seldom ,heard the chef d'ceuvre of Weber performed with so perfect and striking an ensemble. Formes was received with the enthusiasm that is only exhibited when the object is at the loftiest point of the popular favour. The great German basso has managed to ingratiate himself vastly with the Eng lish people, and the tumult of delight with which he is greeted whenever he makes his appearanoe is only second, and hardly that, to the fervid pleasure which glows in the public bosom at the sight of Sims Reeves. His Caspar is a well-known effort. He never sang and acted this famous part more carefully and more effectively than on the present occasion. It would be impossible to imagine a more vigorous and im posing delivery of the " Vengeance " song which terminates the first act. He rendered it superbly. But wo need not particularise. He displayed his usual ability throughout, and it is superfluous to say a word in addition. Reichardt sang steadily and energetically. .Aithough somewhat hard in voice, like most of the Teutonic tenors, this gentleman's superior qualities as an artiste are very perceptible, and he invariably sings with the purity and honesty of the true musician. The Agatha of Madame Caradori was inimitable. This accomplished vocalist was animated by the same zeal as her coadjutors, and her singing was exquisite. Mdlle. Sedlatzek was an agreeable and unaffected Atinchen, and executed the music very prettily. The spectators, who filled the theatre to the ceiling, were in the most genial of tempers. They applauded loudly, and encored the overture, the drinking song, and the huntsman's chorus. Herr Lind painter conducted. NAVAL CADETS.—Mr. Baillie, o• the meeting of par liament, is to call the attention of the House of Corn- MOll3 to the manner in which cadets are appointed to the Royal Nary. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-.April 27. (FROM OuR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENOE.—The an nual general meeting of the members of the squadron takes place at the Thatched-house Tavern on Friday, the 12th of May, when there are seven members to be bal loted for. Mr. Woodhouse has sold his yacht (the Gondola) to the Earl of Lichfield. A. fine clipper barque, built for Messrs. Edmond J. Wheeler and Co., was launched this day from the Messrs. White's building-yard. She was named the Charlotte Ann. The beautiful schooner yacht Hornet, of 140 tons, building by Ratsey for John Naylor, Esq., of Liverpool, is to be launched on Saturday. THE OVERLAND MAIL.—The commercial accounts by the overland mail are regarded as favourable. At Bombay there had been increased transactions in im ported goods, with a tendency to higher prices, while at Calcutta, although business had been interfered with by native holidays, there was a prospect of its reopening at an improvement. In China the extent of purchases had been moderate, but a further advance had been estab lished. RIISSIA.--Advices have been received from St. Pe tersburg, Odessa, and Riga. At St. Petersburg there had been some mitigation of the financial distrust, but only to a very slight extent, the quotation of exchange being 341 d. From Odessa the letters are to the 14th, and the telegraphic accounts to the 21st, at which date the allied fleets had anchored in the The Riga intelligence is to the 20th, and the river was then nearly clear of ice, the weather having become warm and extremely fine. Twelve of the vessels that had been frozen up in the bay had arrived, and 24 still remained. MR. FORREST, THE TRAGEDIAN.—The Trenton True American, is pained to learn that Mr. Edward Forrest, the American tragedian, has become a convert to the belief in spiritual manifestations. This gentleman is a constant visitor upon the Foxes, and most credulously insists upon the correctness of the developments com municated by the rappers from " Cother side of Jordan." Hereafter it is to be presumed that an improvement will be introduced into Mr. Forrest's personation of Hamlet; the ghost of that prince's father will be required to rap out communications instead of delivering them in person. RAILWAY ARCHES WATERLOO STATION AND NECRO POLIS COMPANY.—In consequence of the recent com plaint by a deputation from the parish of Lambeth against the conversion of nine of the arches at the Waterloo•station into depositories for the dead of parishes and unions to be taken to the Necropolis at Woking, a memorandum and protest, on behalf of the projectors, has been placed in the hands of the directors of the South Western Railway Company, drawing their attention to the arrangement for the removal of bodies to the Necropolis, and the conveya nce of mo urners, which was settled and concluded in November, 1849, and pro testing against the said directors entering into any ar rangements of a contrary nature with the parties ad vertising themselves us directors and officers of the Necropolis Company, on the ground that steps are now being taken to set asid e a ll th e i r ac ts and proceedings in that assumed and disallowed capacity. Under the sub sisting, agreement with the projectors, which the Necro polis Company are bound to enforce, two arches only are to be used fur the mere purpose of receiving bodies in transitu to the inert chapels at Woking ; the charge fur taking down a hearse-carriage, capable of holding fifty coffins, in separate compartments, to be V. each time, whereas the substituted arrangement of the m pseudo-man age ent contemplates depositing the dead in 9 arches, whilst it is reported the conveyance charge is to be in creased to no less an extent than 400 per cent. for paupers, 900 per cent. for artisans, and 3,900 per cent. for all other ranks. CORE AND BANDON RAILWAY.—Traffio return for the week ending April 22, 1854 3:!200 1 5 Corresponding week last year lB5 4 1 THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—Traffio return for the week ending April 16, 1854 £16,437 12 9 Corresponding week last year , 15,225 15 ►. T ~~ THE BALTIC. COPENHAGEN, April 26.—The Tribune has just brought in two Russian prizes. The fleet is off Gostergam, in Gothland. A letter from Stockholm, 19th, says :—Yesterday the Prince Royal and Prince Augustus returned from inspecting the fortifications of the fortress of Wanholm. The blockade of the Russian ports by Admiral Napier has been officially notified to our Government." COPENHAGEN, April 22.—Abo roads, and its river, the Aura, are now open. A vast number of new Russian orders and decorations are again be ing distributed in Finland. This weapon is not so ineffective as some might conceive ; and it is used unsparingly, both in Russia and its provinces, and in all the surrounding countries. In Denmark there are a numbei of people who are thus deco rated, and they have nearly all become Russianisers. The roads of Hangey and Utey are free from ice, and several Finnish vessels have sailed in. Many others are beating up to Finnish harbours. One or two are frozen in the coast of Lifland. Troops continue to arrive in Gotland from the Swedish main. The English fleet has now passed Gotland, sailing to the nort-east. Another illegality has been committed by the Swedish authorities. On the 9th two paddle-wheel steamers put into the outer harbour of Slite, which is open, by the law of nations, to all ships, and which is distinctly recognised as fully accessible, by the treaty of neutrality, for the purpose of procuring fresh water. They were, however, in stantly warned off by the master-pilot. This officer (Major Stevenij) declared that he acted in accordance with the oral and written orders given him by his chiefs. One of these vessels—the Hecla—afterwards got water at Sandon, and then Made her way to Ljugarn. This strange proceed ing has excited , great sensation, and the local English vice-consul has lodged a protest. - Five English colliers have reached Fahrosund with coals for the fleet, and this place will be a Gotland depot for that purpose. A large number of English ships have passed north of Stockholm. To judge by the movements of the English ships, some of the prizes must by this time have reached you. One of them—the Libertas, Captain H. Raas, of Jacobstad, in Finland—has slipped through our fingers capitally. The crew, which was left on board, made the English sailors by whom they were guarded quite drunk, hoisted sail, and got away to Ystad, on the opposite Swedish coast. This is only one of the many instances given by our naval population of the alarming extent of this beastly vice. If not checked ' it will lead to worse consequences than the loss of a fine merchant ves sel. We now seldom see any English armed ships, and the French have not come this way. There has been a report that a French fleet of thirty sail has been seen near Gotland, but this must be pre mature. Allow me to contradict the assertion of some papers, that the present Cabinet continues because the King could find no successors. A new Ministry was ready, and has been so for many weeks. There is a long article in the Debats on the force of Russia in the Baltic, and particularly on thr question as to whether Cronstadt is or is not im pregnable. The details, however, can only be ii.- teresting to military men. Our contemporar) draws a terrible picture of the force of Cronstadt, and appears to think that no attack upon it can succeed without the aid of a land force ; and even then almost insurmountable difficulties are talked of. In concluding its article, the Debats says : " The taking of Cronstadt, if Cronstadt be not im pregnable, would inflict a blow on the Russian Empire more terrible than the loss of ton provinces, since it would thereby lose its navy. St. Peters burg would soon find itself besieged at the entrance of the Neva, and bombarded by a flotilla which would be supported by the fleet in possession of Cronstadt. This danger is not, perhaps, imagi nary. It is for this reason that the Russian Go vernment has collected together round that port the most formidable means of defence. Peter the Great, in founding his capital, also founded Cron stadt, in which his genius must be admired, for it must be seen that without Cronstadt, Petersburg the Superb, with its eight feet of water, would only be a small coasting port, that might be blockaded and bombarded by gun-boats." THE WEATHER IN THE BALTIC. Subjoined are the latest advices received in re ference to the state of the navigation in the Baltic : PITEA, April B.—lt blew a heavy gale at west in the night of the 6th April, which damaged the ice, already not strong, very considerably. ABO, April 7.—The ice between the bridges has partly broken up, and the ice at sea is expected to disappear earlier than usual, to which the gale and rain of last night will contribute exceedingly. REVEL, April 14.—There is no change in the state of the roadstead, but the ice is very rotten, and, should a favourable wind spring up, will soon drift away. Wind to-day W.N.W. light, temperature 2 degs. warmth. BOLDEAA-1, April 20, a.m.—As an open sp ace h as formed in the i ce in the roadstead, it is expected, with a continuance of the westerly wind, that the ships in the ice v ill get free. Twelve vessels have arrived, and 24 are still in the ice. Wind W.S.W., Noon.—The greater part of the vess e l s i n t h e i ce are now at a dis tance of four miles, and fast therein, and only a few have got free. P.m.—During the night the sea channel has broken through. The vessels are still fast in the ice, and have all drifted far from the roads, with the excep tion of the Caroline. PILLAU, April 2 1. —The summer sea marks were laid out yesterday. THE BLACK SEA. ODEssA, April 14.—Two British and one French war steamers have been in the roads since yester day. The following is from the letter of an officer dated April 14 : _ "These R uss i ans tell us that there are 50,00 0 artil lerymen at Sebastopol, and that they are p ra ctising at a target in th e harbour day and night, in h o urly expecta tion of seeing us there. Of course, it would be mad ness to lead the ships into such certain destruction. They say, also, that there are 60,000 soldiers at Odessa, and that they are placing heavy guns in the mole battery, and otherwise there.itle Thus,risewor kine. hard at strengthening the bat t:.iriciE;tiiiieirshtt (appare"tly but 12 or 14 of th e line) won'tore ou S e b a stopol, it is not easy to see what there is for the fleets to do. The posts still held on the coast of Circassia are sufficiently formidable to give trouble. I see by Chesney that Anapa resisted 8 Rus sian line-of -battle ships, 5 frigates, and 11 smaller vessels, with a land force of 6,000 men and a reinforcement from the army of the Caucasus, from the 18th of May to the Bth of June, 1828. Souchoum-Kale is also said to be formidable. Therefore, if we cripple six or seven of our large ships by exposing them to a contest with powerful land forts, we lose our numerical superiority, and in these days that is no trifle. Modern improve ments in gunnery tend to equalise mtt p e l r e s, o a f nd En to g i r e, e u n ci der mere bravery lees decisive. The p will be impatient if something is not done, but without being in the counsels of the Admirals I don't see what they can do. If I had the management I would show the whole force all along the Circassian coast, in the hopes of exciting the mountaineers to action ; en passant r would take anything tolerably easy, but I would not be decoyed into anything very serious, or likely to cripple large ships. I would then extend a stoic; blockade from Sebastopol towards Odessa, keep ing a few flying steamers about the mouths of the Danube, and about Kaffa, and Kertch, in the Crimea. Thus, the Russians would be completely shut up, and unable to communicate with their armies 01 forts on either side by sea. They made so much use of the sea in 1828 and 1829 that it is pretty clear they can not now safely cross the Balkan deprived of that advan tage. They even seem to have great hesitation in ad vancing on the right bank of the Danube; for they do net appear to have advanced for the last ten days beyond their first landing places in the Dubrudscha, Toultscha, Matschin, and Isakcha. Thus, the presence of the fleet, is invaluable, even if they never have the chance of firing .t shot, and are reduced to tedious blockading. The Rus sian frigates at Sebastopol got under way with uncom mon smartness (just while the Fury was laying out her hawser), and sailed beautifully ; so that it won't du to hold the enemy too cheap, and to be outnumbered by crippling your ships, and corning down to or under their number." THE DANUBE. We read in the Moniteur :—" A letter from the frontiers of Transylvania, of the I;th, says—' Mar shal Paskiewitch arrived to-day at Jassy, and it is stated that he will in the course of the day continue his journey towards Bucharest. Count Sacker, several Ministers, and some Boyards waited for him for three days at Scouleni, on the Pruth. All the Boyards, whether functionaries or private indi viduals, hare been invited to assemble at the palace to pay their homage to the Prince of Warsaw. Various reports have been in circulation here dur ing the last week on the subject of the small band of volunteers which left Jassy on the 3d. Some pretend that the Monk Courtandinos (an lonian subject), who commanded them, has disappeared with a sum of 2,000 ducats, which had been sub scribed for the cause in which he had engaged, while others say that he has arrived at Fockani with only ten followers, all the others having dispersed. There must be some truth in these rumours, for the authorities have taken no sieps to contradict them ; all accounts agree on the subject of the disorders and depredations committed by these volunteers on their route. Nothing positive is known here as to the operations of the Russian army in the province of the Do brudscha. The accounts which circulate on this subject are very contradictory, but they all agree on one point, namely, that the taking of Toultcha cost the Russians 1,800 men." The Press of Vienna contains a letter from Bel grade, of the 19th, which says :—" Prince Alexan der arrived hero six days ago in a most mysteriout. manner. It is not known how long he is to re main amongst us. The day before yesterday the Turkish bands in the fortre.s were playing all day. Many persons thought that this was for some vic tory gained on the Danube. The Russians are pressing Silistria sharply, but it is believed that it will hold out until the arrival of French troops, on the 24th. Prince Napoleon will arrive at Con stantinople on the 20th or 22d. He will pass the troops in review, and then they will embark for Varna. The Russians who occupy our frontier from Kraguwatz to Czernez do not seem to intend withdrawing." _ _ The Ost beutche Post of Vienna of the 23d says : —" We have received intelligence from Bucharest to the 16th, which states that for a week before all the Russian troops of the 3d, 4th, and 6th corps were being directed from that town towards Giur gevo and Krajowa." Letters from the Danube of the 11th inst. state that the Russians were still nearly in the same position on the right bank, and actively employed in raising works and fortifying their camp at Raba dagh. Their force at present amounts, it is und2r stood, to about 30,000 men. The Turks have com pletely evacuated the northern tract of the Do brudscha—the regulars marching to head-quarter:- at Shumla, ; the bashi bazouks in the direction of the Balkans, by order of the Commander-in-Chief. Sortie of these lawless recruits have been committing excesses on their march, and numbers detected is, flagrante delicto have been shot without much cere mony, conformably with the positive commands transmitted by Omer Pacha. The Constitutionnel purports to show that the Russian Government is absolutely unable to send very large armies into the field. It is possible, nay very probable, that the military resources of that Power have been much exaggerated in some of the accounts given, but the estimate of the Constitu tionnel seem rather low indeed. It says : " One of the pretensions of Russia is to possess at: effective military force - of at least 800,000 men, and which, according to some official returns, would even reach the figure of 1,200,000 men. It can easily be conceived with what idea the Russian Government puts into circulation such figures. But if history be considered, it will be at once seen that this force never existed except on paper. At the period when Russia wa , attacked on her own territory, when her nationality was It stake in 1812, she had scarcely 200,000 men on foot In 1813, she had great difficulty in sending 150,000 men into Geraisny; and in 1815 all the Russian troops that had passed the Rhine, concentrated at the Camp of Vertus, only gave 120,000 men. It is, therefore, only under the force of the gravest circumstances that Russia, for the last half-century, succeeded in once getting into the field '200,000 men ; and even then, as we have said, it was when she was attacked in the very heart of her territory. In her enterprises abroad she has never disposed of more than 150,000 men. That is about the number, we believe, of the army charged to act in Turkey, and to meet events or, the shores of the Black Sea ; and as Russia is obliged to defend herself beyond the Caucasus and on the Baltic, at the same time that she is obliged to augment her forces in Poland, we doubt that the army of the Danube can easily repair its losses. Let no one consequently be deceived by the exaggerations of a Government which is colossal only in the extent of its territory, and which is on that very account obliged to scatter its forces on various points to resist Powers who dispose of the sea." ST. PETERSBURG. The Russian Government has just published ukases for the formation of a fleet of armed row boats for the defence of the coast of the Gulf of Finland. They are to be manned by volunteers in the governments of Petersburg, Novogorod, Olonetz, and Twer. From the day of their enrol ment they will receive pay at the rate of 8 silver roubles (about 32f.) a month : they will be supplied with provisions the same as other sailors in the navy ; they will be dressed as peasants, and they will be permitted to wear their beards and hair as peasants ; the term of service is to expire on the Ist of November, 1854 ; those who distinguish themselves will be rewarded in the same manner as the other troops ; in case of their destroying any of the enemy's vessels they will come in for the prize-money fixed by the government, in case they are wounded they will enjoy all the rights granted to soldiers and sailors ; the families of volunteers, during their absence, will be confided to the care of the local authorities and corporations. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 16th says : " Some time ago a ukase appeared, which declared that all Jews travelling in the interior must be supplied with passports ; that a Jew met without one might be immediately arrested, if the informer should require it ; and that on being thus taken, he should be compelled to serve as a substitute in the army for the informer or one of his relatives. Owing to this ukase, everybody endeavours to meet a Jew travelling without a passport. It even sometimes happens that passports are taken from the Jews, in order that they may be accused of being without any, and be punished accordingly. CONSTANTINOPLE. The following is from a letter dated Constan tinople, April 13 : " The prospects of accommodation forourlttro,oapssbeaerne excellent, so far as this place le concern ed. mentioned that the barracks at Daoud Pacha are set own me n will be apart for the French, while our sta tioned at Scutari, in the vastnnrnraEctsarzreucitethdeinßuthyaalt suburb some years since. d C a a y' to inspect the place, and Engineers, found it supweraisorsetuot s_tteheaar,ttheioyuld have been expected. I situate on a slope The range of building, s 13 over looking the Bosphorus, is capable of containing with ease 8,000 men. When t h e extensive passages and halls a re u tilised no doubUtenlo,ooo will be able to find accom modation. The Seraskier deputed Osma n P as h a to accompany the English officer in his i ns p ec ti on, and to receive his suggestions. Already h a lf t h e bar racks have been emptied of their former occupants, and are now clean and ready for the reception of their new guests. Mate are to be laid down through the whole extent of the building, and the place will be excellently adapted for the winter quarters of the army, or an hospital for the sick and woun •ed in the ensuing campaign. The Pasha also announced that the entire upper floor in the great hospital was ready for the sick among the English troops, and that the extensive range of stables between the barrack and the Bosphorus was also at our service. Wood has been cut and piled up for the use of the troops in sufficient quantities to last a month, and ample preparations are made for cooking, washing, and such necessities. "Not only are the comforts of the private soldier provided for, but the notables who will accompany the expedition may expect a magnificent welcome. The Green Palhce at Kuaratscliesints, on the Bos ; phorus, has b een se t part f or t h e r eception of the :wore distnigui,hed officers. Probably the n y urgent nature of military duties will not allovy inui vidual t o ava il h imse lf f or an y time residence, but as there will be ac o constant t this pleasing ant stream of travellers passing to and fro on the vas duties of the service, the advantages afforded by such various a place of rest will be very great. The town is now densely crowded, and where the new arrivals are to find room is a won der to all. As the streets have non . ames and the houses no numbers, it is a difficult thing to diseoyer the habitation of one's acquaintance, and peo pl e are often locking after each other in the wretched alleys, which are called streets, in this dreary town. "The latest accounts from the fleet are to the effect that a visit to Odessa was probable, the object of which would be to bring away the consuls, who, it was sup" posed, were detained. However, the consuls have ar rived here in safety, and there is no reason to believe that such an outrage as their detention was ever con t. mplated. " Tarte. of the Zouaves at Gallipoli were shot yester day, pursuant to the sentence of a regimental court martial. Shortly after landing they had proceeded to pay their' addresses to some Turkish women, a proceed ing calculated to excite the anger of the Mussulman lation. Two of the officers interfered and commanded them to desist, when the privates either struck or ,vounded them. Teey were at once brought to a court martial, and the sentence of death Rased upon thel n vas immediately executed. ‘. The 93d Highlanders arrived on the 11th, and are regarded by the Turks with wonder and admiration. ['he Osmanli is, I believe, a little scandalised at their personal appearance, for the garb of old Gaul is not con sonant with the notions of Oriental dignity. On the arrival of the 93d at Gallipoli, while they were yet or! the noble steamer which brought them, a smaller yeses' came alongside. On the deck was a Pasha, or other Turkish dignitary, with the ladies of his household. The Highlanders, eager to salute their Eastern allies, mounted time paddle-box of their steamer, and from .exalted position c h eere d th e l a di es b e l ow th e m. in the smalier craft. The horror of the Pasha may be iota: dined, and the a ugur i es h e d rew as to th e habits an d manners of the Franks. " The price of coal is now a matter of the deepest im portance. It is selling here at 655. a ton, and the con' sequence is that th e steamers on the Bosphorus Are to stop plying in 10 d a y s , as t h e enormous cost of fuel ren ders the enterprise a losing one. One cause of the CO' sauced cost is that there are at present no back freights' "Another spell of bad weather has commenced ; to day it is snowing, and the troops will be much incour moded in their temporary quarters. "APRIL 15.—01 d inhabitants declare that the presen t season is unexampled within the last few years. A clottv less sky, tropical heat, dusty roads, and the Bosphorus crowded with caiques, have been succeeded by weather of northern severity. To-day it has almost snowed in ' cessantly, and c.oud s o f sleet are driven by the cutt in g north-east gale into th e f aces o f the passengers, f v are forced by busine s s t o venture out into the ruu"" streets, or to trust themselves to the stormy bosom of the Golden Horn. Such a visitation in the middle of AP,ri l is something like a p e r tur b ation i n nature, and the ele ments themselves seem to s h are in t h e convu l s i on s an d troubles of mankind. THE CAMP AT GALLIPOLI. The Malta Mail of the 21st says " The privations to which the troops at Gallipoli 1 13 ve . been exposed, the intensely co ld weat h er they Ilays.bel, perienced, the shameful n eg l ect on th e part of the cities, by which medical st o r es h a d not reached Gall? ) li uefore the troops, are current topics of conversatl°l3' Encamped at a distance from the town, formerly large: now almost deserted, wat e r h as t o a very great ext ent fallen short—and much of wh a t th ere is has b een foil°d . so aimbracish as to render its being boiled prior to its i!i s sii used atter of necessity. Sickness, too, has visi t a the Rifles. Two cases of small-pox have been reports '2.00 men of that brigade were, by the last advises, 1111 _, up, but happily their complaints present no appearas7 Jenne danger. Toe medicines, however (for they wers . d e pnt on regimental supplies alone), were fast failing; and the hospital supplies were looked fur with much anxiety. A scene of the wildest enthusiasm was • -'ented on the arrival of the 93d Highlanders at ( 1 'poll. The Zouaves, a fine body of men forming aco n• portion of th e F rench cont i ngent, men Who nave been employ ed th roug h ou t t h e campa i gn i n Algle'; • and whose resting-pl ace f or some months has been ,in ~he open air, received their brother mountaineers such demonstrations of welcome as defies deseriptioo: With such troops by o ur s id e , say t h ey, w h o shall„,n% quer us ? A frightful t rage dy h as b een enacte d. men of the Zouaves have been tried by court-snart.is and sentenced to d ea th, which senten ce was carried lo t ° immediate execution. Th e examp l e was per h a ps nee° .ary, in order to repress the further commission of crov ej of which the unf ortuna t e f el l ows had b een gu ilty, a ll which must, if unp un i s h e d, h ave l ed to a ser i ous rupture' Their offence was o f a d emora li s i ng character, t h e wanto n and forcible violation o f th e T ur ki sh women. " The Malta Mail conclude s by s t a ti ng , on the , a 1 1; thority of its private correspon d ence, t h a t it been resolved to land no more t roops at GalliPo,7 tact to send them all on direct to Constantillor • FRANCE. Letters from Toulon of the 24th state that el 4th division of the army of the East, comman d by by General Forey, was reviewed that day by At - shal St. Arnaud. The review took place at rwr lay, on the glacis of the town. Th e men were full marching order and presented a most martiol appearance. The Commander-in-Chief passed be fore the ranks and minutely inspected the equiP; men ts, arms, and necessari e s o f every kind, an ,xpressed himself much satisfied with all the de tails, and declared his high satiefaction to the Generals and commanding officers of regiments. After the defile the division formed in square, and the Marshal placing himself in the centre, with Generals F orey, d ' Aurilles, an d de Lourmel at his side, sp o k e i n a Strong and sustained to ne of voice to the foll ow i ng efforts. " Soldiers !—ln a few days you will leave for the army of the East. Side by side with the English , yo ur allies, and with th e Russians before you, you will carry hig h the fl ag o f France, as you have done everywhere. r).., not disd a i n th e enemy you are about to combat, an ever follow th e counsels and the example of y ilour chiefs. Remember the deeds of your fathers against the sa"' enemy, and you will hav e other victories to recount 0- your mothers and your sisters, when peace shall have r ! stored you to your homes. Above all, remember thzo when the first cannon shot is fired our first duty is to ? , on . quer or to die, to the shout of • Vive l'Empereur These words, it appeared, produced much effee! ou the army and the people and were resp onded to by the same cry with which the Marshal e ° , 1 . 1 ,; eluded his brief address. The cries were renevir" when General Forey replied in a few words ou half of his division. MARSEILLES, April 25.—The weather has be?,. so boisterous for several days that none of the site ing vessels laden with troops and stores, during tt. last eight days, have been able to quit the h arbour Some of those which had sailed have been con?" pelled to return, and others have been forced tf. take shelter in Toulon. A private letter from for . ,,' Vendres states that a vessel laden with troops fr°t: Algeria, and bound to Gallipoli, had been driveuu; there by stress of weather. In the meau tim e tr°4 are arriving here every day for erobarkatil; Phe Bishop of Marseilles offered up Pra of the the cathedral on Sund a y l as t f or th e success of t . French arms. The ceremony was attended Generals Rostolan an d Faucheux the Prefect, and the Municipal C ounc il , toget h er with all the ei " and military functionaries, The bands of the 0 1 2, Regiment and o f th e 19 t h b a t ta li o n of Magog': played duri ng th e serv i ce . Nothwithstanding.'"_ violent st orm w hi c h preva il e d during the nightsk__ Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer letta arrived here to-day, with the Indian ma '' , She brought private letters from Constantin o p le the 15th in t., which state that there were at that date 25,000 French and 8,000 British troop o at The Gallßo urse was dull yester da y , but prices main' tained themselves. The Thr ee p er Cents. closed at 63f. 30c. for the end of the month ; the Four and-a-Half per Cents. at 90f. ; Shares ,1,042 f. New Loan. at 64f. 10c. ; Orleans Railway S _ t . . 50e. ; Rouen, 840 E; Havre, 410 f. ; Great Northern, 735 f.; New to the Shares, 533 f. 75c.; LyonsStrasburg, 727 f. 50 C. ; 50c. Paris to Lyons, 802 f. Medi terranean, 666 f. 25c. ; Western of France, 552 1 • ~ 50c. ; Bordeaux to Cette, 505 f.; Great Central o f f France, 400 f. ; Lyons to Geneva, 420 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 495 f. • AU6TRIA. Voss ' s Gazette of Berlin, un d er d a t e o f Vienn a, 21st, says : " The circumstance that Baron de Meyendor not cn during the last 15 days had any conference with ha unt , Buol 6 chauebstein, whilst the other ambassadors iniad frequent interviews, contributes to inspire the ideatie public mind that the diplomatic relations .be d t a veen Russia and Austria are at present confined to in dispensable matters. It appears to be understood a. t. Petersburg that it is impossible to change the doror e ror nant opinion at Vienna. It is certain that the EmP Nicholas wished to send another of his diplorna tists e,„,n here, but his Maje , ty reno u n ced the idea in consequ,.,.ce of advi ces received f ro m Baron de Meyen dorff. c Russian genera l sen t to Vienna is only ch ar g ed to on; vey to th e E m p ero r the congratulations of the Czar o .ou his marriage. There has been no questi on of a missi similar to that given to Count Orloff." trian A Frankfort journal states tha t the Aus a Government has prohibited the exportation el: number of anchors which had been ordered by tv` Russian Government. t The Vienna Gazette of the 23d, contains severe decrees by which the Emperor accor ds a full pail; don to 336 political prisoners, who had been co demned to confinement in a fortress. There was a rumour current at Vienna, on t he 27th, that Austria and Prussia are disposed to 11 111 ' their military forces near the Polish frontier. Letters from Lewbero , state that Austria is tioning a third corps d'armee and eight field Ito° pitals on the Galician frontier. SWITZERLAND. A letter from Lugano, in the farlante44o of Turin, mentions another violation of the Sy"' night of the 19th a Lombard territory by Austrian soldiers. It says that on the frontier near Chiasso, with a load of soap, withou answering the challenge of the Austrian sentinel smuggler crossed the stationed there ; whereupon the latter fired upon. him, though he was already o n the territory / Tieino, and killed him. Tuere being nobody er, a few Austrian soldier* went over quietly, and car' ried off of soap followii the fact A wo Shores,' name n the tale of these that We they ar ?umber It his bi Our The: eireulal i kat th Itoy a i tight I Christi 110 8001 lialliui Furze Zight~ El o i se to %Pia. Tui (dead' eaßße