The Sun. — London, England, 1854-05-10 00:00:00

UNION BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND. Many influential persons connected with the arts, sciences, manu factures, commerce, and trade of this country, having expressed a desire to celebrate, by a Public Festival, the Union which now happily exists between France and England, and also of seeing established a free and uninterrupted commercial and friendly inter course between the two nations, and thereby promote the peace and prosperity cf both, the following suggestions are submitted for con sideration, as likely to effect the above inestimable o'Aects, alike valuable to England and France, That a Festival be held in Londdn, to which shall be invited a certain number of distinguished individuals, holding Government, municipal, and other public offices in France, and connected with the arts, sciences, manufactures, and commerce in that country. That the Expenses of the Entertainments to be given be (to make it national) defrayed by voluntary subscriptions, to be open to per sons resident in all parts of the United Kingdom, as well as in L )n -don, and by the issuing of tickets at a price to be; fixed by a Cam-' mittee. That an endeavour be made to open to the visitors (free of charge) all Public Buildings, and Private Depositories of Art, Science, and Manufacture. That after one hundred persons have testified their approval of such a Festival, a Meeting be called, and a Committee appointed for carrying the same into effect. Among other Entertainments proposed to be given are, a Banquet in tne Guildhall (for which application will be made), a Public Fete, at the Crystal Palace, and a Festival upon the River Thames ; but these, with the time for holding the Festival, and the plans and de t ails, are left for futare consideration and approval. Persons approving of the above suggestions tvill be pleased to 00 mmunicate the same be JAMES ANDERTON. 20, New Bridge-street, Blacktriars. THEATRE ROYAL DRI7RY LANE• Lesue, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, MAT 10, Will be performed Bellini's Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Cha racters by Signor Bettini, Signor Arnoldi, and Mdlle. Bury. Followed by a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT . Prices—Stalls, 7s; Dress Circle, s a.i Boxes, 3s. ; PR, 2s. ;Gallery, Is. ; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The Box-olllce open daily from Ten till Six, where places may be secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leade r and Cock, 63, New Bond-street. TriEA.TRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buckatone. THIS EVENDM, MIT 10, Will be performed TOWN AND COUNTRY. Characters by Messrs. Compton. Chippendale, George Vandenhoff, and Buckstone ; Miss Featherstone and Miss Reynolds. After which. the ent irel y new and orluinal extravaganza, entitled MR. BIiCKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI- C ESTY. R . SQ UARE), written by J. R. Planche, Esq. Principal characters by Mr. Buckstcne. Mr. W. Farren, 31r. Clark. Mr. J. Marshall, Mr. H. Marshall; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Caulfield, Miss E. Grey, Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Laura Morris, and hUss Featherstone. To be followed by POPPING THE QUESTION. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Cruder the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN. THIS EVENLNG, MAT 10, Will be performed THE MARRIED UNMARRIED. Characters by ;Mesas. W. Lacy, Ryder, and Cathcart; and Misses Heath and Murray. Followed by FAU3r AND MARGUERITE. Character; by Messrs. C. Kean and David Fisher ; Mrs. Winstanley and Miss C. Leclercq. To conclude with A STORM IN A TEA-CUP. Principal cha acters by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Mat 10, Will be performed TWO LOVES AND A LIFE. Supported by Mewls. C. Selby, Leigh Murray, Benjamin Webster, Keeley, and U. Smith; Miss woolgar and Ma lame Celeste. Followed by THE MOUSTACHE MOVEMENT. Principal cha racters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Keeley, and Parselle ; Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Mary Keeley. After which, THE OVERL I.ND JOURNEY TO CONiTANTI. NOPLE. AS UNDERTAKEN BY LORD BATEMAN, WITH INTERESTING PARTICULARS OF THE FAIR SOPHIA. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEA.TRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING. MAY 10. Will be performed TEIE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Cha racters by Messrs. F. Robson, J. H. Waite, 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 THEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Alicroft.—Directress, Miss Bebeeca Isaacs THIS EVENING, Mix 10, Will be performed NELL GWYNNE. The ZULU KAFIRS, as they appeared at St. George's Gallery. After which, SUMMER FLOWERS, in which the French Batlet Troupe will appear. THE THREE TURKISH RAZOR GRINDERS. Stalls, ss. ' • Boxes, 35.; Pit, Is. 6d; Gallery, 6d.; Private Boxes, £1 Us. 6d., to be had of Mr. Allsroft, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL A SIPIIITHEA.TRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. THIS EVENING, MAY 10, WRY be presented the new grand Nautical and Equestrian spec. tacle, embodying is wet and extraordinary effects (written by Mr. Nelson Lea), entitled A TALE OF THE SPANISH WAR; or, The Horse or the Wreck. Th ; horses expressly trained by Mr. W. Cooke. Followed by an entire change of the Scenes of the CIRCLE, intro ducing Miss Emily Cooke. Mdlle. Blanche, the celebrated , Continental Artiste, on the TIGHT ROPE. To conclude with a Grand Ballet, entitled THE STAR OF THE 11. HINE. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tai DAT —Morning 2 min.after 12 I Evening 23 min.a ft . 12 Ta4loaaow—Morning min.a ft er 12 I Evening 5 min.aft. 1 THB WEATHER.—Su pt Orrm, May 10. THEIRMOMETER, 111 THII SHAD . 56 —highest since noon yesterday. 43 —lowest this morning and during the night. 57—this day at noon. B.s.uouvrzß, 30.09—a great rise. WIND, N.N.W. to N.—Light breeze, with dull weather. vt.ke Tr i rs ~~1~,. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1854. Au energetic blow must be struck by the allies of Turkey both in the Black Sea and in the Baltic, and that promptly, and, as far as it is at all practicable, simultaneously. There is no doubt whatever that such a course of proceeding has become at last imperatively requisite, if the enemies of Russia really and seriously wish to bring the war to anything approaching to a satis factory termination. Unless this combination of promptitude and decision be at length displayed by France and England, the consequences cannot fail to be most disastrous. Further delays must inevitably tend to magnify the perils and to mul tiply the difficulties in the way of anything like a successful or decisive achievement. As far as Russia, the aggressor, is concerned-- a continuance of this dilatory policy on the part of her antagonists cannot but materiallystrengthen her position along her frontiers, and enable her to concentrate, at pleasure, her gigantic forces, both military and maritime. As far as Turkey, the aggressed, is concerned— the obstinate pursuance of the policy hitherto carried out by her Western supporters must un avoidably, and by necessity, militate against her financial interests, while it cannot but tax to the very uttermost, all the, even now, severely tried energies of the no longer despised war department of her administration. It is true that OMER Riau, in a spirit of determined reliance upon his followers worthy of that able and heroic com mander-in-chief, has recently intimated that Silis tria, for example (one of the most critically situ ated of all the Turkish strongholds in Bulgaria) is capable of holding out 'for two months longer without assistance ! Yet with all the self-sus taining courage of the soldiers, and all the incom parable abilities of the commander of the victori u_u.a array --conquerors Successively at Oltenit za , a t ( Mate, and in the Dobrudscha—there cannot be a doubt that the gallant attitude of defence, so long and up to the present moment so successfully maintained by the Ottoman Government, has re quired from first to last an unnatural strain upon the capacities both, o f its financial and military departments. Everything, in short, combines to prove logi i - cally the absolute and mperative need for a prompt, bold blow being s t ruck at the might of the Russian AvrocaAT—at once in the North and in the East, in the Euxine an d in the Baltic, under the walls of bronitadt and under th ose of Sebastopol. This twofold display of resolution, in fact positively necessary — on the D ' i art s n ecessary—is of France and England, if only with a T i e ; -- to shield from ignominy the re p uta t i on of thei r Allied Governments. A series of brilliant victories are eagerly expected, are confidently looked for by the people of Fran ce and of Great Britain. They must be achieved, or discredit must inevitably fall upoh the exist ing Administrations. It is the nature of the situation at which matters have at length arrived. It is the difficulty which has to be encountered. France confidingly awaits the advent of this 'triumphant close of the struggle which has now commenced. She believes implicitly in the valour of her troops, in the povier of her maritime arma ments, in the genius of her EMPEROR, in the pres tige of her eagles, of her tricolour, and of the glorious nam e o f N APOLEON. It is the reliance Qth"J'... h iliken upon all these surities of success which has impelled them to come forward so readily with their contributioni to the voluntary loan of 250,000,000 francs. It is this reliance which will prompt them no less readily to advance another 250,000,000 francs, whenever that sup plementaryloan may be demanded by the Imperial Government. • England, in like manner, is prepared for nothing short of a brilliant close to the bloody contest upon which the nations of the earth have again adventured. Victory at all times requisite, has become more than ever essential now than it can alone be obtained ender an intolerable pressure of additional taxation. With the Income Tax, the most unpopular of all taxes, doubled so long as the war continues—Peace must before long be arranged on some terms, gold, bad, or indifferent. Especially must this be the case, if, to a doubled Income Tax, be added an enormous increase of the duty (from 2s. 9d. to 4s. per bushel) upon Malt, a hasty, and therefore to many an un avoidably injurious adjustment of the im posts levied upon Sugar, and a large increase of the Spirit Duty to the amount of Bd, per gallon in Ireland and of Is. per gallon in Scotland. Encumbered with this additional burthen of taxation, amounting, as Mr. GLAD STONE himself calculates, to an increase of the annual revenue by upwards of 10,000,0001. — the people of England will assuredly become vo ciferous for a conclusion being brought to the war, supposing this war be allowed to " drag its slow length along," like its prototypes, the wounded snake or the feeble alexandrine. Can Ministers be counting on this ? Can they be calculating upon a release from their present difficulties through the medium of this inevitable impatience of the population ? Satisfied that the doubled Income Tax (the Income Tax doubled so long as the war continues), and the increased Malt Tax, and the increased Spirit Duty, and the other new war burthens proposed by Mr. GLADSTONE'S third Budget, will render the country so restive under the goad of these supplementary extortions by the taxgatherer that a Peace-of any kind may be accepted as a relief from evils otherwise threat ening to be almost interminable. Can it be that my Lord ABERDEEN and his sympathisers have this odious scheme for a disgraceful com promise among the number of their hidden cal culations ? However this may be—if England and France be really desirous of bringing the war to a speedy and glorious close, they can only accomplish this, we repeat, by striking a series of resolute and daring blows at Russia through the medium of their combined fleets in the Baltic and in the Euxine, as far as possible, simultaneously. After the bombardment of Odessa, with some half-dozen of frigates, the combined fleets in the Black Sea, it will be remembered, proceeded across those waters directly to Sebastopol. It is known with no less certainty that the combined fleets in the Baltic have, with equally warlike intentions, quitted Elfsnaben. The ultimate destination of the maritime force under Admirals NAPIER and DESCHENES may, wheresoever it shall proceed be forehand, be at once confidently anticipated. That destination, obviously, is the inner part of the Gulf of Finland, the vicinity of the island of Cronstadt, the well-guarded channels leading to the capital—St. Petersburg. Supposing Cronstadt to be taken, and its batteries destroyed, have our fleets the capacity of pushing onward to the Rus sian metropolis ? Inquiries virtually amounting to this were addressed last evening to the First Lord of the Admiralty by the hon. gentleman the member for Louth—inquiries having reference to the queition whether Sir CHARLES NAPIER is to be supplied with gun-boats fit for the requisite shoal-water navigation. We do not by auy means quarrel with the manner in which Sir JAMES GRAHAM objected to enter into particulars in matters of such extreme delicacy as those in volved in the interrogation. Nevertheless, while we conceive that the First Lord of the Admiralty was more than simply justified in refusing to ex plain any such matters at any such crisis, we cannot at the same time but sympathise most earnestly with the solicitude evidently felt by Mr, KENNEDY in re gard to the notorious want of proper gun-boats in the Baltic, gun-boats drawing so little water, even when heavily armed, as to be suited to the shal low navigation of the Neva. The necessity in this particular, we believe, is most urgent and imperative. So urgent and so imperative, that we shall not scruple to direct public attention to the subject later on and more in detail—saving and excepting in the event that due regard shall ap pear to have been paid to the matter by the mem bers of her MAJESTY'S Government. Upon the proceedings taken by the Admiralty authorities in this matter of proper gun-boats for the Baltic fleet, we shall keep our eyes directed with vigilant and unwinking watchfulness. Since Mr. GLADSTONE has thought proper to defend his capacity at the expense of his integrity —since he has deemed it expedient to resort to the specious fallacy put forward by the Times, a quibble unworthy of the ,lowest' class of Old Bailey practitioners, it becomes necessary to com pare his statement of the 6th of March with that of the Bth of May, and to ascertain how far the statements of the one are consistent with those of the other, and whether, 'looking to the former by the additional light we have since obtained, the charge of the Right Honourable Gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire, that it was a de luding estimate, and a deceptive Budget, has not been fully and completely -substantiated. Nay, more, we fear that we must now add, that the error did not arise through mistake or misap prehension, but that the object was to delude the public—to induce the people to believe that which was not the whole truth, and to per suade their representatives in Parliament to give their assent to , propositions which they might have rejected had the real facts of the case been candidly placed before them, without evasion or mental reservation. These are serious charges, very damaging to the character of a public man, and it is therefore necessary that they should be thoroughly proved, on unquestionable testimony. We shall do so. Out of his own mouth shall we gather the mate rials of his condemnation. We do not wish in this censure to be understood as uttering a single syllable against Mr. GLADSTONE apart from his official position and his official proceedings. We believe that in private life he is an upright, ami able, and honourable man, a gentleman in the broadest sense of the designation —a title more honourable than any that the proudest Monarch of this world could confer. Against Mr. GLAD STONE, the individual, we have nothing to say inconsistent with the highest respect. Against the Chancellor of the Exchequer we are reluctantly compelled to put for ward a charge of suppressio .veri, if not a suggestio falsi, which proves him to be unworthy of confidence in his official capacity—prevents any reliance from being placed in his financial mea sures, and disqualifies him from discharging, with credit to himself . or advantage to the nation, the arduous and important duties of his high position. Nothing could be more inconvenient—nothing could be more impolitic, or more discreditable, than being obliged to search for concealed or dis guised meanings in an elaborate statement. And on the part of the community, we feel bound to protest against the laxity of official morality that tolerates such conduct. Mr. GLADSTONE himself protests against it in others. He even denounces the system in operation. In ico. 3 Budget, the latest, and th ere f ore th e one w hi ch he will stand by until it may b e conven i ent to repudiate the views put f orwar d therein, he says—" The Hon. Gentlem an was deluded, a n d w hy ? B ecause we have a f i ctitto * us sta tement bf accounts--a state ment of accounts wri tten mysteryif and m a d e ou t as for the n purpose of mystery.. He adds, finance e T e h e e r n e e are ef peo plethe who thinkgreatest virtues. That is not eur an opinion whi c h he ous that I entertain, b u t I am notC it m may not be held in som e d egree by the perese Comptroller of the Exchequer." While, then, thus others, he must look t o hi s own conduct, and take heed lest, when condemning the mete in his brother's eye, he disregard the beam in his own I On Monday evening Mr. GLADSTONE spoke of the expenditure) sanctioned on the 6th o f M arch as a mere imporary Roviisiop am made f or the purpose of meeting the expenses that had been incurred by the Government in sending an expedition to the East !" He follows the argument of the Times, that "the financial scheme provided for the cost of preparations, and no more !" That it was a " temporary provision"—for the expenses of the Eastern Expedition ! Now the largest por tion of the Supplemental Estimates consists of freight and charges connected with the transport service under this head. No less than 3,096,700/. Was demanded and granted, all of which, as well as other charges contained in the various esti mates, were included in the costs of the Expedi tion to the East which was under orders, and a part of which had actually sailed at the very time. Mr. GLADSTONE must, therefore, have known, if not the exact accounts, at least that very large sums would be required .on these ac counts. And one charge is that, with that distinct knowledge, he not only refrained from giving the slightest intimation of the true state of facts, but, on the contrary, led the people to believe that the doubling of the Income Tax for six months would meet all the expenses that might fairly be antici pated, and, unless something unforeseen occurred, provide for the vigorous "prosecution" of the war for twelve months. He not only spoke of what had been done, and what he was then announc ing as "looking like an intention to carry on war with vigour," but he also says —we quote from his own organ, that there may be no dispute as to the authenticity of the pas sage :---".I WISH THE COMMITTEE TO UNDERSTAND IT IS OUR BELIEF, THAT THE FUNDS FOR WHICH WE NOW ASK WILL NOT SUFFICE TO CARRY ON THE ACTIVE OPERATIONS OP WAR BEYOND TWELVE MONTHS ! ! !" Now, we ask any person of ordinary capacity, what is the meaning of that passage ? What can it be, but that the expenditure then referred to would suffice, unless something unexpected should happen, to carry on the active operations of war. This was the sense in which he intended it to be received. This' was the sense in which it was received by the House and the country. Nay, more, he explained the reason why he demanded the whole increase of the Income Tax on the first six months, instead of spreading it over the entire year, in these words—" It is only, therefore, by laying the increase of the Income Tax on the first moiety of the year that we shall be able to levy it within the year !" It is true that he also declared that it was desirable to leave open the question as to the augmentation of taxes, in the event of the duration of the war rendering such a proceeding necessary. But he permitted, nay, more, induced the House to believe that unless something unexpected should happen there would be no further demand. How then, we ask, is it possible to believe that his present statement is a particle more binding or conclusive than either of those by which it was preceded ? or, that if the Income Tax be permanently doubled, and the duties on Spirits, Malt, and Sugar increased in accordance with his proposition, he may not again come within a few weeks or months, and ask for the addition of ten or twelve millions more to our expenditure, and the restoration of the various indirect imposts which have happily been got rid of during the last quarter of a century. When no reliance can be placed on the veracity of the Mi nister, very grave suspicions must naturally be entertained, and the consequences may be ex ceedingly prejudicial to the public service. But this is not• all. We shall not at present refer to his opinions in March as to the impolicy of indirect taxation, which he unhesi atingly adopts to the extent of 3,600,000/. in the begin ning of May. We cannot forego the charge that the Right Hon. Gentleman pledged himself on the 6th of March that there should be no early loan—a pledge virtually repeated and confirmed on the 11th of April, and violated on the 21st of the same month. The Right Hon. Gentleman designates it as a charge of "a most gratuitous and a most foolish character !" We emphatically repeat it, however, notwithstanding his denial. He says there was "no war on the 21st of April !" that it was merely "a provision for the tempo rary raising of money !1" Why, what pitiful ,casuistry what contemptible equivocation— what special pleading is here ! He asks to borrow six millions for terms of four, five, and six years. If he did not succeed in that object— if it proved a total and very humiliating failure— it was not the will that was wanting, but his utter incompetence to manage the transaction. Hear it, ye expectant heirs, who are desirous of anticipating the period of enjoyment ! Rear it, ye spendthrift youths, who are rapidly alienating the provisions secured by the prudence of your ancestors ! You may safely resort to your bill discounters, for the money raised on bonds or bills for from five or six years is " not a loan at all, but a provision for the temporary raising of money !" This is a refinement beyond the com prehension of ordinary men—a refinement which plain men of business will not sanction or tole rate. Mr. GLADSTONE has himself laid down the principle, " that a period'of war is the last when that important trust (the Ministership of Finance) should be committed to hands that have been dis credited in the view of the House and the coun try." Acquiescing to the fullest extent in that view, we leave our readers to draw the obvious conclusion, asking whether he should be continued in a station for which he is disqualified on even graver grounds than those of financial incompe tence. ROY AL ,- MALIAN OPERA. IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. We have never seen a more magnificent performance of Barbiere than we witnessed last night at this opera. The vocalism, acting, and instrumentation were all perfect, auc( the cast, as it ought to be, was also perfect. It was as fol lows—Rosina, Mdlle. Bosio ; Bertha, Mdlle. Cotti ; Count Almaviva, Signor Mario, mho, of course, experienced a mag nificent reception, as did, and rather indeed in a greater de gree, the old favourite, Signor Lablache. Signor Ronconi was the barber, and Signor Tagliafico, Basilio. , Jt. vuuld be, of course, ridiculous to enter into anything approaching detail in au opera perhaps the most familiar to the public of any of Rossiui's. We shall content ourselves with pointing out the prominent features of the different per formers, beginning, of course, with the ladies. Mdlle. Bosio improves every day. We never heard a more delightful Rosina, with the exception of the queen of all Rosinas. In everything she had to do she was perfect. Her voice is strengthening, her vocalisation is more facile and brilliant, and her intonation correct. She sang the exceed ingly dif f icult " Rode's Variations," originally intended for the violin in the music lesson; with perfect facility. Her bearing on the stage is also improving as her experience in creases, and she is now altogether one of the most promis ing of our prime donne. Mdlle. Cotti is also one of the im- • provers. She sang the rapid air describing the hubbub iu the house remarkably well, and she is taking a considerably higher place than we remember her heretofore as holding. Signor Mario's voice appeared to us at first rather husky and restrained, but it brightened up as he advanced in his part, and he acted capitally in the development of the charac tersof count, drunken officer, and music master. Of Lablache, we have tosay that he was as young, and as gambolsome, and as waddling in his gait, as ever. His mag nificent voice appears to have improved by rest, and in the music lesson he sang the song that the Caffarelli sang with all the vast power of his organ. Of course he was as frolicsome as ever, keeping the house in a continued roar when he was on the stage, as he was wont to do in the days of yore. Ronconi's barber is well known, and he played it to per fection. His powerful voice came out strongly in the con certed parts. Tagliafico made up in the most dismal fashion, and sang the calumniating and hypocritical aria, in which he instils these amiable qualities into the ear of Dr. Bartel°, in the most masterly fashion. Altogether, we repeat that the performance was eminently complete in all the departments of the opera. The house was brilliantly crowded, and her Majesty and the Prince were present for a part of the evening. The youthful Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, nephew to her Majesty, and the Duchess of Kent's grandson, who is serving in our navy as midshipman, has embarked, via Copenhagen, to join the Cumberland ship-of-the-line, one of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier's squadron. Mr. Freshfieid, M.P. for Falmouth and Penryn, has been unable to attend to his parliamentary duties since the recess in consequence of an attack of inflammation. The hon. gentleman is slowly recovering. ARRIVAL OF THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR FROM PARIS. —ln consequence of bad weather Lord Cowley did not leave Boulogne in-the Dover Royal mail service packet Violet until yesterday morning. His lordship on arrival at Dover, breakfasted at Birmingham's Ship Hotel, and came up to London by the 9.15 express train. THE AUSTRIAN FRIGATE RADETZKY.—SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.—This fine screw-ship, which was laid down under orders received from the Austrian Government, and built by the Messrs. Wigram, of Northam, left the dock this evening for London, for the purpose of receiv ing her machinery. It will be remembered that a few weeks since we noticed the launch, which took place at the premises of her builders, since which time she has been lying in the Southampton docks, where she has been rigged, and a great portion of her interior fittings placed on board. She is being assisted to London by two steam-tugs, which arrived from the Thames this MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 7,000 bales, including 1,000 American taken for export. The market closed very steadily at previous rates. The sales comprised 4,300 American, 1,400 Pernam and Maranham at 70. to 71d., 300 Bahia at 6jd., 200 Egyptian at 6d. to 7td., 700 Surat at 2id. to 4d., and 40 Sea Island at ls. to ls. 4d. per lb. Railway shares were firm at an advance of 1 per cent. The following report is furnished by Messrs. W. H. Jewesbury and Co. :-- "The quarterly sales of indigo commenced this day, consisting of 11,180 chests (including 6,197 chests of old good;, bought in at, or withdrawn from, former sales, and 1,191 chests in second hands), comprising the fol lowing, viz.:—Catalogue A : 6,358 chests Bengal, Oude, &c., 1,871 Madras, 1,336 Kurpah, 5 Bemhpatam, 39 Calcutta Fig., 83 Pondecherry, 3 samples, 173 with drawn and not printed, 121 lots warehouse sweepings -9,989 chests. Catalogue B: 1,191 chests. Various in second hands. Total, 11,180 chests. The qualities of Bengal are about two-thirds middling and ordinary, and one-third good and fine ; the Madras, three-fourths or dinary and very ordinary, and one-fourth middling and good, with a few chests fine ; the Kurpah, two-thirds middling and ordinary, and one-third good and fine ; the Oude, two-thirds ordinary and very ordinary, and one-third middling and good ; the Bemlipatam, ordi nary. The sales opened with a parcel of middling and good Ouaes, which mostly sold with moderate spirit at a reduction of 4d. to 6d. per lb. upon last February prices ; several parcels of ordinary to good Madras followed, but were mostly withdrawn or bought in at last sale's rates, a few lots only of the g ood fi n di ng buyers—subsequently ordinary Madras sold at 3d. to 4d. per lb. discount. The greatest reduction has been upon the good Bengal qualities, which were in limited demand, at a decline of 6d. per lb., upon the finer de scriptions the fall was even greater, in some instances fully 9d. to is. per lb ; for Kurpah the demand was rather better, and good qualities realised about 3d. per lb. below last sale's rates. The attendance of both home and foreign buyers was small, and the sales have opened very flatly ; we quote good and fine Bengal 4d. to 6d. lower ; Kurpah, good, 2d. to 3d. lower ; ordinary 6d. to 9d. lower ; Madras, good, par to 2d. lower ; or dinary 4d. per lb. lower. 1,212 chests have passed to day, of which 398 were withdrawn, 347 bought in, and 460 sold." There was an improvement yesterday afternoon in, the rates of exchange upon some of the Conti nental cities. Paris, 90 days, was negotiated at 25 25 to 24, Ilambirgh at 13 41 to 41, Amster dam at 11 15 to 151, and Trieste at 13 50 to 55. At Paris money is so abundant that a reduction in the Bank of France rate' of discount to 4 per cent. seems to be expected. The New Austrian Loan, of which we wrote last week, is stated to have been taken by the firm of Rothschild, at Vienna, we presume, in conjunc tion with the other firms of the same name at Frankfort, Paris, and Amsterdam. The amount is 35,000,000 florins, of which 10,000,000 florins are to be emitted at 75 1 - per cent. in Zollverein florins at Frankfort, and 25,000,000 florins at 712' in Dutch florins at Amsterdam. The payments are to be in 10 monthly instalments, with right of anticipation, and the, interest is to be 5 per cent., payable at Frankfort, Amsterdam, and Paris, and commencing from the Ist of July next. One per cent. is to be set aside for the sinking fund, and the Austrian Government takes the right of buying in the open market, but of suspending its pur chases when the quotation is above par. The India mail is not expected here until the 15th inst., as the Ripon steamer was three days behind time at Malta. The Government is still exceedingly active in its preparations for the war. An immense num ber of guns are being made, and 32-pounders are the favorites. Tenders are this morning invited for a steamer of 800 to 1,000 tons, for the convey ance of cattle, and to be for six months certain. The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have issued a very interesting report, and the conclu sion is warranted that Mexico could pay nearly 3 per cent., even out of existing revenues. Stocks opened very buoyantly this morning, Consols having advanced to 88i 1, but there h as since been a sale to seine amount by an influen tial party which has caused a reaction for money to 88 to The settlement of the account takes place to-morrow, and occupies preliminarily, the attention of the jobbers and brokers, who complain, however, of having had very little to do recently. Money appears to be easy, and should the Bears not already have closed or arranged to " carry over" their operations there will be a further rise in prices probably. The foreign news this morning is not of a nature particularly to influence prices. The New 3 1 'per Cents. have been up to ssi ' and are now 87i. The 3 per Cents. have been 871 to Bank Stock has been at 202 to 205, and India Stock at 233 to 237. Exchequer-bills are ls. dis count to 2s. premium, and India Bonds have been Ss. discount. The New Exchequer Bonds have been at to premium. Foreign Stocks are quiet, but firm generally. Mexican are steady at 231, Brazilian Small Bonds at 94, and Spanish 3 per Cents. at 36. Russian 5 per Cents., after being at 93i-, rose to 944, and the 41- per Cents. are 80. Dutch 2i per Cents. have declined to 58. In a few of the principal Railway Shares there have been several transactions ; but the general business was not large. Great Western rose ss. to 10S. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire 10s. to 1/. ; Midland, 10s. to 11. ; North Stafford, 5s ; and York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 10 s . t o 1/. rench Shares wet° also firmer. Paris and Lyons were 10s., and Paris and Strasbourg ss. to 10s. better. Mining shares were dull, and rather lower. Bank Shares remained steady. Land Companies' shares were neglected. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (Front the Official List.) Business done. Bank Stock .....•••••••••••••.... 205 2 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B7l 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities BBl 1 8 New 31 per Cent. Annuities BBl 8 / 71 , India Stock • 3 India Bonds, £ l O OO ...... ' d Consols for Account 1 1th May BB4 a Exchequer Bills, 2d. £l000 Small 2 p Bonds Scrip P PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 6razilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Small Vexican 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 93A 4} Ditto 4i per Cent BO • Spanish linuds, 3 per Cent 351 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull 5B HALF-PAST TWO. Consols BB A Ditto May Account AUSTRIA IN WANT OP MORE MONEY.—The Austrian Government has opened a subscription at Frankfort and Amsterdam for three millons and a half sterling. THE EARL OF ELGIN.—We have reason to believe that the Earl of Elgin is charged with a special mission to the Government of the United States, in reference to questions arising out of the present war. For this pur pose his lordship will proceed to Washington on his re turn to his governMent in Canada. TENDERS FOR HEMP.—The Navy Board yesterday did not accept any of the offers made for hemp, but simply stated that they would write to the several parties by Whom tenders bad been seat in. MAURITIUS. —Advices from Mauritius to the 16th of March had been received. The weather was favourable for plantation operations, and the prospects of the crop were satisfactory. The total quantity of sugar returned for 1853-54 was 190,000,0001 b., of' which 130,038,3221 b. had been shipped to the United Kingdom. The prices of the finer qualities ranged from $4 50c. to $5 40c. Tonnage having become scarce, the rates of freight had advanced from 2/. 15s. to 3/. Treasury-bills, at 30 days' sight, were 1 per cent. pm. ; private bills, three months' sight, 2 to 3 per cent. dis. THE CLEARING-HOUSE.--It has not yet been defini. tively settled when the joint-stock banking establish. ments of London are to be admitted to the privileges of the Clearing-house, but it is believed that . the 24th of June next will be the day appointed. In consequence of the large amount of extra business which will then be transacted, the place of business will be removed to the Hall of Commerce. THE CHARGE OF CORRUPTION AGAINST IRISH MEM BERS.—The select committee appointed to investigate this charge re-assembled yesterday, for the purpose of hearing further evidence. The proceedings took place with closed doors, and we were given to understand that the remainder of the investigation would be in private. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN IN ONE OP THE CARRIAGES UPON THE GREENWICH RAILWAY.— Yesterday morning a most painful instance of the un certainty of human life occurred to a gentleman, about 50 years of age, named Adams, of Morden-terrace, Lewisham-road, in one of the first-class carriages be longing to the above-mentioned line of railway. It appeared that the deceased gentleman had walked some what sharply from his residence, which is but a short distance from the Greenwich Railway, and had scarcely taken his seat in the carriage when he was observed to turn pale, and his head fall back. He was instantly lifted from the carriage, and taken into the first-class waiting room, and a medical gentleman living opposite, who was at that moment just leaving home, instantly hurried across, but found that he was dead, and that the event must havebeen most instantaneous, and it was sup posed arose from disease of the heart. Later in the day, Mr. Carter, the coroner, held an inquest at the station upon the body, and a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony was returned. The affair, as may be supposed, has created a most painful sensation amongst a large circle of gentlemen, to whom he was known by travelling with them almost daily upon this line of railway, . . AMERICA. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) ARRIVAL OF THE ARCTIC. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The United States mail steam-ship Arctic, which was to leave New York on the 29th ult., arrived off Holyhead at 11 o'clock this morning. She will bring four days' later Intelligence than that con veyed by the America on Monday last. It is expected she will arrive in the Mersey in time for the evening mail, and first delivery in London on Thursdiy morning. CITY OF GLASGOW STEAMER. (BY ELECTRICTELEGRA.PB.) LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, 10.20 a.m.—Messre. Richardson, Brothers, of this town, have just re ceived the following telegraphic despatch from Queenstown, it being thought that the steamer seen was the missing City of Glasgow. The Captain of the Baldaur, arrived at Queens town, reports as follows :—April 21, lat. 45.30, long. 32.54, two miles distant, saw a large steamer, hull and funnel black, inside painted drab, paddle boxes yellow, fore and fore top mast, sail yard and top, nothing on the mainmast ; great beam, and strong list to port. Saw no people nor smoke. She was headed north, but altered course towards the Baldaur, and immediately dis appeared. The Baldaur steered there ; saw large quantities of biscuits and boxes. When first ob served a barque was alongside the steamer, but she steered away south. The above description applies to the City of Glasgow, with the exception of paddle boxes, and it is thought that the captain of the Baldaur might have taken the houses on deck, which are painted yellow, for paddle boxes: THE OVERLAND MAIL. BY SUBMAIUXE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH. TRIESTE, Tuesday, May 9.—The steamer Calcutta arrived here this morning, at 11.30 a.m., in 113 hours from Alexandria. ALEXANDRIA, May 4. The Indian mail has arrived at Alexandria, with advices from Calcutta to the Gth April ; Madras, 10th April ; Shanghai, 15th March ; Manilla, 21st March ; Hong Kong, 27th March ; Singapore, 4th April ; and Bombay, 14th April. Burin - ah continues in a disturbed state. The electric telegraph between Agra and Calcutta, a distance of 800 miles, is completed. Business fair. Indigo neglected. Exchange at Calcutta, 2s. ld.; Shanghai, ss. Bd.; Canton, ss. 2d. The Russian fleet left Manilla on the 18th March for Batavia. The English steamer has not yet arrived at Alex. andria. ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROYAL HIGH LAND SCHOOL SOCIETY. The usual anniversary festival of this valuable society is fixed to take place on Saturday, May 27, at the Lon don Tavern ; his Grace the Duke of Montrose has con sented to preside. As officers are " particularly re quested" to appear in uniform, and Scottish gentlemen in Highland garb, the scene at the dinner will probably be a very brilliant one. The secretary, Mr. Mackie, whose exertions on behalf of the society have not only been unremitting, but eminently successful, we regret to find retires from his office this year, being about to re ide in Scotland. He now appeals, and we hope not without receiving a warm response, to his friends and countrymen to give him their support on the occasion, in order that his last official effort in aid of "the children of the north" may be made with eclat. The anniversary sermon of the society will be preached on the forenoon of Sunday, June 25, by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Portman Chapel, Baker-street. It having been stated that the Crystal Palace would be opened on the 27th May, the managers bAhought themselves of changing the day for the festival, but on communicating with Sir Joseph Paxton, the secretary received a reply to the effect that the day had not been appointed for the opening. THE PROPOSED POLISH LEGION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir, —Will you allow me to present a few observations on the question, "A Polish Legion to be formed in Turkey," and which has been spoken of at the last meet ing of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland? Considering the endeavours of the Association, the principal feeling, of course, is that of gratitude for its efforts in behalf of Poland and the Polish exiles. One of the most striking facts is, certainly, the journey the President of the Society, Lord Dudley Stuart, under took in Turkey, and his endeavours there, now crowned with success, that a Polish Legion might be formed. • The members of the Association engaged the exiles to join this Legion. Now, Sir, wherever an armed and organised number of Poles is established, there the na tional cause of Poland is represented, and this was the principal idea which had conducted them in the year 1848-49 to all the fields of battle. Considering those feelings, a Legion in Turkey was certainly very desira ble, so much the more, as it is intended to struggle against Russia. the principal enemy of Poland. But since England and France have joined the war, the situation has become quite different. The Black Sea is open, and a trace of its Polish shores quite free. The Poles have now at hand what a little time ago they were obliged to seek for in the east. It occurs to me that the friends of the Polish cause in this country in general, and particularly the Literary Association, should turn their attention towards that very important circumstance, and that they should impress upon the Government the necessity of sending an organised Polish corps, under the protection cf the Allied Powers, to the shores of Samagitia. I perfectly understand that the united Powers are placed in a difficult situation in regard to Austria and Prussia, but if Turkey is allowed to organise a Polish Legion, which will certainly march into Poland if it ap proaches the frontiers, I- see no reason why Eng land • and France being now at war with Russia, should not send at once the Polish patriots to Samagitia. If the Allied Powers are desirous to put a final check to Russian encroachments, they must at once put forward freely and openly the question of Poland's independence, otherwise the struggle will be found more difficult than it was anticipated. Russian trade might be destroyed, its industry ruined ; but it will not be so easy to subdue an empire where the sun never sets, and the population of which is accustomed to every privation and hardship in life. There is still another consideration. Things are now coming to such a point that there is but little choice left to the Poles between degradation by becomingßussians, and entire destruction. A known Russian general lately said inWarsaw, "Should the French and English ever enter Poland they shall find nothing but ruins." And in reality they are at work. The sons of the country are driven away by thousands to fight the battles of the foe, and those who remain are ruined by every possible exaction. What have the Poles, then, to lose, in attempting to throw, off the yoke ? But it would be extremely desirable that any possible outbreak should be guided by the Allied Powers, which after all is very easy, the way to Sama gitia being shorter than that to Constantinople, The Birnam Wood Sir Charles Napier is carrying on his men-of-war approaches fast to St. Petersburg, re minding its modern Macbeth of his downfall. I hope the Polish banner shall wave under its shade, and that , the Polish wsrriors will soon be carried by your fleets to the shores of their own country, to fight the decisive battle for liberty and independence.—l am, sir, yours, &c. JOSEPH REITZENHEDI, May 9, 1854. Polish Officer. • COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Society of Painters in Water Colours with a visit yesterday morning, at their gallery, in Pall-mall East. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness wero accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the - Princess Alice, and were attended by the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Colonel Bon !clic, and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode on horseback, atten ded by his equerry in waiting. The Princesses Helena and Louisa visited the Zoological Gardens, in the Rege n t' s -p ar k. The uke and Duchess of Nemours visited the Queen yes terday. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the Royal Italian Opera with their presence last evening. The Royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Joselyn, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon. Flora Mac donald, Lord Rivers, Colonel Bouverie, and Captain the Hon. Dudley do Ros. The Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the Countess of Charlemout as the lady in waiting to the Queen. Lord Rivers and Sir Frederic Stovin have relieved Lord Do Tabley and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood as the lord and groom in waiting. The Duke and Duchess do Nemours visited her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent yesterday; at her residence, Clarence house, St. James's. A deputation consisting of Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P. for Manchester, Mr. H. Gore Langton, M.P. for Bristol, Mr. Charles Forster, M.P. for Walsall, Mr. Cheetham, M.P. for South Lancashire, Mr. Hindley, M.P. for Ashton, Mr. Had field, M.P. for Sheffield ; Messrs. J. Daly, H. Turfy, J. An derson, and J. Halton (Manchester), Messrs. Robert Bards- Icy, J. Mallinson, and J. T. Kerrisou (Ashton-under-Lyne and neighbourhood), Messrs. J. Marshall and J. Hyde (Staley bridge), Mr. G. Candelet (Hyde), Messrs. H. Thompson, T. Briggs, W. Jenkins, and J. Huddart (Liverpool), Mr. W. P. Roberts (Stockport), Messrs. Hawksvrorth and Stafford (Shef field), Mr. Ball (on behalf of the National Independent Order of Odd Fellows), and Mr. E. Brooke (secretary to the Con ference of Delegates), had an interview with Viscount Pal merston yesterday at the Home-office. Colonel Kemeys Tynte, M.P., had an interview with Vis count Palmerston yesterday. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the governors of the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, and St, Helena. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS THE WAR. THE BOMBARDMENT OF ODESSA. The following is from the special corresponden of thegimes " BRITISH FLEET, OFF ODESSA, APrtir, 25. " The English official declaration of war reached the fleet, then anchored at Baltshik - Bay, near Varna, on the 9thof April, upon which the steamer Furious was sent to Odessa to bring away the English Consul. With a flag of truce flying at her masthead she hove to, and sentin, a boat, also carry ing a flag of truce, to demand the Consul. There was some delay in returning an answer, and the Lieu tenant in command of the boat thought it right to re turn to the Furious, upbn which the Russians opened a fire upon the boat and in the direction of the steamer. Six or seven shots were fired, but for tunately without effect. On the 17th (the French official declaration of war having arrived, without which Admiral Hamelin was naturally unwilling to• proceed to extremities,) both fleets 'sailed for Odessa, before which place they anchored on the afternoon of the 20th. Au explanation was de manded of General Osten-Sacken, the Military Governor here, as to his reasons for outraging a flag of truce, always held sacred by all nations pretend-, ing to civilisation. This demand was also sent in under a flag of truce, but the• boat when backed by the fleets, was not molested. The General returned an unsatisfactory and untrue answer, declaring that he did not fire upon the boat, but upon the Furious, which, not heeding customary signals, was steaming up the Bay for the purpose of examin-, ing it, whereas she was motionless. Upon this the admirals sent in a demand for the delivery of all the shipping in the port, and, in the event of no answer arriving before sunset on the 21st, declared that they would punish this outrage on the law of nations. On the morning of the 22d the steamers of the combined fleets attacked the Imperial Mole at Odessa, "and during the day completely destroyed it and most of the (Russian) shipping within it. Here it is necessary to endeavour to give the reader some idea of Odessa. It has often been compared in gene ral aspect to Brighton, but the line of cliffs on which the town stands has a slight curve inwards, forming , a shallow bay, with a radius of 'some three miles. These cliffs face the north-east, and towards the north they sink into low sandy mounds and flat endless steppes. Stretching out from below them, at the lower or south-easterly end of the town, runs a long fortified mole, at the end of which was a lighthouse. This is called the quarantine mole, and shelters a great crowd of ships of all nations. Their crews are never permitted to go into the town, but are strictly imprisoned within a small walled-in and strictly-guarded quarantine district at the foot of the cliffs, even if they should happen tobe detained there for six months. at a time. Under pretence of preseiving themselves from disease the Russians have made the quarantine a hateful political tyranny. At the time of our visit this mer cantile prison of all nations was very crowded, and on the 'morning of the 22d each vessel had her colours at her mast-head, as if appeal ing for succour, and protesting against cannon balls intended, fot the Russians. The attacking force had orders to give this mole as wide a berth as possible, in order to be out of reach of its fire and so to avoid the necessity of returning the fire and injuring any of the neutrals within. The folloWing was the attacking force 4—(French), Mogador, Vauban, Descartes, Caton ; (English), Sampson, Terrible, Tiger, Retribution, Furious, and a de tachment of rocket boats ;under Commander Dixon. The Sanspareil and Highflyer acted as reserve. The force proceeded to another simi larmole at the northern extremity of the cliffs, called the Imperial Mole, enclosing a mass of Russian ships of all sorts, and some large .stores or barracks. Both moles had a formidable array of embrasures, and there was a battery between them at the foot of the cliffs, but, as far as we could learn, they were badly off for guns. We counted over '7O embrasures.- The steamers had orders to go as far as possible in -shore, so as to rake and destroy the Imperial Mole and shipping, but to avoid firing upon any part of the town or upon the shipping in the Quarantine Mole. About 20 minutes to 7 they began, the Sampson leading in most gal lantly. From the large ships, about 31 miles off, it was a most curious sight. When within about 2,000 yards each steamer delivered the fire of her enormous guns, then wheeled round in a circje of about half a mile in diameter, each taking up the fire in succession. Thus they kept wheeling and twisting about like so many waltzers, without ever touching or 'getting into scrapes. The guns in the mole answered steadily, and in the course of an hour the Vauban came towards the fleets on fire from red-hot shot,, and riddled in several places. Happily the fire was got under, and she returned to her post. For a long time the terrific fire 'from the steamers did not silence the mole. At length it became slow, though regular, ' answering about once ever y two mi nutes, and towards 1 o'clock a shed at the back of the tongue battery caught fire, and in a few minutes the whole of that part blew up. The steamers continued plying the ships with shot and shell, and they were sinking, and on fire through out the mole, when suddenly from behind some sheds on the low sandy shore near them a bat tery of six horse artillery guns opened out upon the rocket boats, which were at, the moment within musket shot. clappily nobody was hurt, though a perfect shower of balls fell around them, knocking the oars about and plowing up the water all around them. Upon this the rocket boats and steamers opened upon them, and soon sent them scampering. A few minutes after the sheds behind which they sheltered themselves burst out into a furious fire. The steamers kept up their fire till about five o'clock. In the early part of the day, while they were so engaged, her Majesty's steam frigate Arethusa was ordered to attack the southern side of the Quarantine Mole battery as' a diver sion,.for its guns had frequently been very trouble wne. Nothing could be prettier than the way in which she stood in, hove to, and delivered her fire, filled, tacked, and again delivered her broad , side. Shortly after the breeze freshend and she deli berately reefed her topsails, though under fire, and was then recalled by the Admiral. During the fire several English merchantmen slipped out of the Qua rantine Mole and escaped. The poor fellows are very , thankful to have escaped. Altogether the punishment was severe but appropriate. Russian property was destroyed and much of it must have belonged to Go vernment. The town and neutral ships were spared, though completely in our power, and it cannot be contended that a place with so many batteries on the sea-board was defenceless. Some of the steam ers are a little damaged, but nothing of any conse quence. But one F r nglishman was killed, and eight or nine wounded, none of them severely. , No officer has been laid up. " it is delightful to observe what a good feeling there is in the fleet, and wha& complete cordiality exists between the two nations. Notwithstanding all the sneers of Pera politicians and ignorant writers, the Admirals have acted in so prudent and wise a manner, that their respective Governments seem to place full confidence in them, and their conduct so far has completely checkmated Nicholas, who undoubtedly hoped that winter weather or mutual jealousy would, by weakening them, render them less formidable." THE BALTIC. COPENHAGEN, Tuesday, May 9.—The French fleet, consisting of eleven sail, has reached Elfs nabben, or its immediate neighbourhood. The Austerlitz, French liner, is already there. The British fleet has been reinforced by Prince Regent 90, and Cumberland 70, both just arrived from England. The French squadron did not anchor in Wingo Sound, but proceeded immediately up the Baltic to join the British fleet. A letter from Helsingfors, 28th ult., states that the works of reconstruction of the town of Wasa, which was destroyed by fire about two years since, have been suddenly suspended by order of the Government. This town, which stood on the Strait of Quarken, which unites the Gulf of Bothnia to the sea', of that name, is now to be rebuilt on another site at a greater distance from the coast. The following is an extract of a letter received from an officer on board the Duke of Wellington, flag-ship, dated Stockholm, May 2 : "The Austerlitz joined us yesterday, and saluted with 17 guns. She is a very fine-looking ship, of immense beam, and has an enormous gilt figure-head ofNapoleon, copied from his statue in Paris. Her stern is pretty, but fantastical; in the centre there is an eagle, with out stretched wings, and on each quarter a figure of Fame, with flowing drapery, blowing a long trumpet. She steamed completely round and round the fleet before coming to an anchor, and did it very well. Her rudder is very much exposed, and is rather too conspicuous a mark, lam sorry to say the small-pox is growing worse. The Cumberland has arrived at Kioge Bay. We were to have sailed yesterday, but the fog would not let us ; and we are detained from the same cause to-day. I think the admiral is only waiting for the French to commence proceedings ; and now they have appeared we think we shall begin. Where can all our letters be ? We have had none now for more than a month. It is rumoured with some confidence that we may expect to return in October next for the winter." CONSTANTINOPLE. Letters from Constantinople state that the ex pulsion of Greek subjects from the country had be come a source of serious difficulty for the Ministry of the Sultan. The Greek Catholics, to the num ber of about 1,000, had den3anded to be excepted from the general measure, founding their request on their well-known sentiments, which they thought ought certainly to exempt them from any suspicion of taking any'part in the insurrection, and which even guaranteed their being opposed to the rising in Epirus and in Thessaly. In favour of the ex ception which they solicited, they had obtained . the intervention •of several influential personages in the diplomatic _corps, and it appears that at first Reschid Pacha replied in an encouraging manner to the overtures which were made to him on the subject. When, however, it was submitted to the consideration of the Divan, the opinion was almost unanimous against granting the demand. Reschid Pacha was , therefore, compelled to dis - 4 pal the hopes which he had at first given rise to. The conseqUence of this was said to have been some rather warm discussions with a cer tain number of members of the diplomatic corps. Advices bad been received from the head-quarters of Omer Pacha to the Ist lilt. which stated that the Generalissimo had c om pl e t e d his movement of con' centrati on on Schumla, where the whole of his righ t wing was collected, reinforced by the last troops which were sent from Constantinople, and by those which he had been - able without risk to withdraw from certain points of the Danube, which were not at that time menaced. This part of the Balkans is therefore sufficiently provided to check the march of the enemy, and even to gain some successes in the event of being attacked. As to the Russians their position was still apparently the same ; theY were every day receiving fresh re-inforcemeuts, but they did not show any inclination to advance. They, appeared to be waiting for more troops in order to advance against Omer Pacha with a very considerable force, immense superiority in num' bers being for them the only means of balancing the chance of arms. They calcul a t e on d o i ng by lanu what was done by sea at Siuope ; the position, bow' ever, is not the same, and they are expected by the 'Turks with confidence. On the 24th ult., the body of au English soldier was found lying in the street, at Scutari, having been killed by a stab with a knife in the abdomen. The murderer had not been. discovered, but it was suspected that the crime bad been Committed by some wretched fanatic. As" counts had been received from Adrianople to the 20th ult. Some French officers were there making arrangements for establishing the head-quarters e' the allied - corps &armee which was marching to' wards that city. Several large Turkish, Greek, and Armenian houses had been fitted up for the reception of 'the French and-English officers, an d " quarters were ready for the troops. The Presse of Vienna has the following from Constantinople, of the 24th ult. :—" The police has just discovered a new plot, in which are 00 01. promised some Poles seduced by Russian gold; - also, 300 Greeks are implicated in this conspiracy' Three Poles have been arrested, and in their papere proofs have been found of intelligence with person° near the person of the Czar. The conspiracy vol e to burst out on the 26th, but the police was aware of what what was going on,- and the conspirator s were arrested when holding their last meeting." The Lloyd of Vienna of the 4th says :—" Omer Pasha has sent a courier to Constantinople to assn . ,re, the Government that Silistria cou ld hold, out watt' the arrival of the allied troops, even were they to be delayed for two months. Gen. de Schilder is at Kalaradsch. On April 28; he caused Silistria to be bombarded, but without success. The Russian s have 150 guns. Austria strongly insists on the Porte proceedin g against the Mont enegr i ns as re" bels, as appears from a correspondence between Count de Leiningen and the Ministers o f the Porte." The following is •from the correspondent Of the Morning Chronicle, dated Constantinople , April 27 " The heights between Scutari and Eadi-Kiew are 0 present a sight such as has never before been known au the Bosphorus. Four British regiments are there en: camped, whilst some 5,000 or 6,000 men are quartere d in the adjacent barracks. The 77th and 95th, th ai ° Fusiliers, and the 88th (Co nnaug ht R angers ) ar e oP under canvas. Every day, from nine in the moral until' two, this undulating plain is covered by•tbe Fe" ments going through their exercise, with bands playing and drums rattli ng . A s th e eye rests upon this field °: green, dotted with the white tents of the different rego ments, and spotted with several thousand red-coats, 3 7°° can scarcely imagine that you are in Turkey: The pieta° is too British —English is spoken all around—and were it not for Constantinople, which rises to your right, with it hundred minaret s , an d f or the presence of motley grail' of Turks and Turkish women in their Eastern CO tumes, you might well imagine that you were assisting at a camp in Old England. Yesterday a great n umber of Circassians were on th e ground, in huge ye ll°" A picked fur caps, and their oth erw i se pecul i ar and com b costume, to the great amusement of the soldiers. Blob' . bazouk horsemen—those independent irregular rri a• rauders, who, Sin the plea of fighting the Russians, hay ° been ravaging Balgaria—gallop about occasionally a n wretched scraggy ponies, whirling about their lance and indulging in sundry br agga d oc i os . Th ese men or_ the pest of every country -th e y p ass th roug h. Sony 15,000 to 20,000 of them are at the present moment is Bulgaria. Omer, Pacha does not know what to do wit h them. They will not fight, and they misbehaVe then'- selves everywhere, and in every way. He has hangeo some of them, and had others severely beaten, but all to . . no purpose. ,-. Though I have already announced to you the several arrivals of the different regiments, it will be a° well to give some history of , the British force in Asia Minor, from their first embarkation to this date. The first ship which arrived was the Himalaya, Peninsula r ..nd Oriental steamer, which cast anchor at Scutari on the 14th of April; but she arrived in stormy weather, ominous of her stormy mission . It was difficult t ° Communicate with her from the shore, and the unforttr nate staff officers who had to go to Scutari to prepar; quarters and provi s i ons , an d suc h lik e, had no small difficulty in getti ng across th e B osphorus. It rained and snowed alternately the whole' day, and the air vra ° bitter cold. These unfortunates found it impossible td get back from Scutari ; and wet clothes, cabobs, a° the floor of a kha n were th e i r f ate for the night. "The troops continued to arrive in the following 191 ; der :—By the Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s steame r Himalaya, on 14th April, the 33d and 41st Regiments' on 'Tuesday, 16th, by the Indus, towed by the Cambria, the 49th Regiment ; and by the Sultan, the 47th R°S t d On the 18th inst. the Giorgiana arrived with horses an mules, and the Apollo, towed by the Sultan, with tb° 47th Regiment on board. On the 19th, the 88th Rek t arrived by the Niag ara . O n the Ist the Orinoco brough t the 7th Royal Fusiliers. On the 23d the City of Londo l c i arrived, with Major-Gen era l Si r D e L acy E vans an d staff, with 36 horses, • the property of himself, staff, a° assistant quartermaster-general ; Lieutenant- Colon el Herbert, Lieutenant-C o l one l C unn i ng h ame, A ss i s tant Adjutant-General Lieutenant-Col. Greene, Sir Richar`: England and staff; als o , th e h orses o f hi s EDP' Highness the Duke of Cambridge. On Monday, th e 24th, the Emperor arrived, w ith one company o f h 19th Regiment, and the horses of Lord Raglan and staff and baggage. " Commissary-General Filder, who arrived on tb ° , 23d, remains at Pera. The commissariat arrangetneor have been very good, and the regiments, as they p o ur 1 5 ' one after the other, are fed and rationed as regularly °I in a garrison. Assistant-Commissary Strickland has 1 0 ' 4 ` the, entire management of thi s t ru l y arduous task, a nd he has well fulfilled the honour conferred upon him of being the first commissariat officer to ration a British force in Asia Minor, with the assistance of a large staff of officers serving under him. The medical departmen t i too, is well org an i se d , un d er Deputy Inspector Gener a of Hospitals Dumbrich. A host of surgeons and assistant' surgeons have arrived, but have, I am happy to og' nothing to do as yet." GREECE. AUSTRIAN INTERVENTION IN GREECE' The Moniteur of this day, publishes intelligenc e from Trieste, stating that two Austrian ships-of war have received orders to proceed to Prevesa/ and to come to an understanding with the cons' manders of the French and English ships. General Mamula, commanding in Dalmatia, i g charged to concert measures with the Pacha of Sou' taxi, and to place the Austrian troops at his disp os ' tion, for the repression of the disturbances in nia, and the incursions of the Montenegrins. GRIVAS KILLING HIS OWN MEN. When Grivas was reduced to extremities he foul . '" he must cut his way through the Turks. • But he had 100 wounded with him, and these, of c ourse , would fall into the hands of the Sultan's trooPs' He therefore preferred to kill them himself before hand. He administered to them all the last sacra meat, and he then gave his sound men orders to shoot them every one. This was done in the even' ing of the 10th of April. On the following nig, he got through, and escaped with his handful ° followers to the Agrapha hills, but incessantly Pu t ' sued by the Turks. Utterly destitute, he is novt, it is said, on the eve of returning to Greece. The New Prussian Gazette says :—" At last t he blockade of Greece has been officially announced to the Greek Government, and it is said th a t it w ell commence in the course of this week. The 'alubl„ s*. sadors of the Western Powers have officially 7 ; dared to the Government that the admiral of squadron at anchor in the waters of Dalmatia bf... received orders to detain the three Russian men war that were bought by the Greeks at Trieste, and which are shortly expected there." ,11)- The following from Greece, 28th ult., is P i ." - be lished in the Arouvelliste of Marseilles :—" 111 ;; ri evening of the 25th, a Turkish steamer arrive' a . the Piraeus from Constantinople with a n ote a ir dressed by the Sublime Porte to the Greek Gev e , r ve ment, in which it is announced that, days the Greek Government did not give a 83 1 1 factory reply to the demands made by the Ott would Du Minister before he left Athens, Turkey The compelled to declare war against Greece. an , within n: ti9 _ French and English Ministers are said to have a_ t flounced their intention to quit Greece in the even t of a rupture with Turkey." We read in the Trieste Observer:— t o n 31Y "A Council of Ministers and Generals was re- cony the sten, Au Th tin adi ,by sin In, and lisp the nor 4 1 1 . (