The Sun. — London, England, 1854-04-27 00:00:00

MISS MITFORD'S NEW STORY. 'Sow ready, at all the Libraries, with Portrait of the Author, and other Illustrations, A THERTON. By MISS MITFORD, Author of " Our Village," &c. Atherton is a charming, tale, Written in a cheerful, kindly, buoyant spirit, and refreshes the reader like a drive in the country• —Athenaum. " Atherton is more in the spirit of 'Our Village' than anything beside that Miss Milford has written. It will go down to posterity as a truthful picture of rural England in our own time."—TheCritie. - Hurst and ftlackett, successors to Henry Colburn. 13, Great Marlborough•street. A SfiCOND EDITION OF THE GREAT HIGHWAY, A Story of the World's Strualeg, By S. W. FULLOM. Author of the "Marvels of Science," Will be ready To moasow. In 3 vols., with Illustrations on Steel by Luck'. London: Longman and Co. THEATRE ItOYAL DRURY LASE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, APEIL 27, Will be performed DER FREP.CBTJTZ. Characters by Madtas Caradori, and Sidlle. Sedlazek ; Herr Reichardt, and Herr Formes. Yellowed by a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FAVORITES DU SULTAN. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. 'Under the management of Mr. Buckstonc. THIS EVENLNG, Aran 21, Will be performed LONDON ASSURANCE. Supported by Messrs. Chippendale, Rogers, Howe, Vandenhoff, Compten, and ittickstone ; Miss Featherstone, and Miss L. Howard. After which, the entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled MR. isiCKSTONT'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI CESTER - SQUARES, written by J. R. Planche , Esq. Principal characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Clark, Mr. J. Marshall, Mr. H. Marshall : Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Caulfield, Miss E. Grey, Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Laura Morris, and Miss Featherstone. To conclude with THE PORTRAIT OF CERVANTES. Prin. cipal characters by Mr. Compton and Miss E. Grey. LOYAL PRINCESS'S TfIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES Klux. THIS EVENING, Aral. 27, Will b e per f or med TEIE MARRIED UNMARRIED. Characters by mewl. W. L ac y. Ryder, and Cathcart ; and Misses Heath and Murray. Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Chara c t ers b y Messrs. C. Kean and David Fisher Mrs. Winstaaley and Atiss C. Leclercq. After which. AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. Characters by M er ry, Meadows, D. Fisher, and Saker; and Misses Murray a n d Daly. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, APRIL 27, Will be performed TWO LOVES AND A LIFE. Supported by Messrs,C. Se!by, Leigh Murray, Benjamin Webster, Keeley, and O. Smith ; Miss Woolgar and Madame Celeste. Followed by THE MOUSTACHE MOVEMENT. Principal cha racters by Messrs 0. Smith, Keeley, and Parselle ; Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Mary Keeley. Followed by THE OVERLIND JOURNEY TO CON - STAN' I NOPLE, AS UNDERTAKEN I:Y LORD BATEMAN - , WITH INTERESTLNO PARTICULARS OF THE FAIR sOPIIIA. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING, AMT.. 27, Will be performed A CHARMING WIDOW. Principal charac 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 Messrs. C. Mathews and F. Matthews. Concluding with A HOUSE OUT OF WINDOWS. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, Aram 27, Will be performed THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Cha racters by Messrs. F. Robson, J. H. White, Leslie, and Vincent ; Mrs. Chatteriey, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Marston. To be followed by TO OIILIGE BENSON. Supported by Messrs. Emery, Robson, and Leslie ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss Wyndham. To conc'ude with the Farce of TIIE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Baggs, Mr. F. Robson. STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Alleroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING, APRIL 27, Will be performed THE ENCHANTED LAKE. After whicb, THE BLUE JACKETS. To be followed by WIVES BY ADVERTISEMENT. Concluding with the new burlesque on RICHARD THE THIRD. 51.; Bores, 3i.; Pit, is. +id; Gallery, +id.; Private Boxes, X 1 1 Is. Gd., to be had of Mr. Aileron. 15, New Bond-street. ASTLET'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL. AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. Great attraction and powerful _Novelties for the Easter Holiday s. THIS EVENING, APRIL 27, Will be presented the new grand Nautical and Equestrian spec tacle, embodying navel and extraordinary effects (written by Mr. Nelson Lee), entitled A TALE OF THE SPANISH WAR; or, The Horse or the Wreck. The horses expressly trained by Mr. W. Cooke. Followed by an entire change of the Scenesof the CIRCLE, Intro ducing Miss Kate Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke, 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. Tim DAY —Morning 57 min.after 1 1 Evening 15 min.aft. 2 Tc-Ifolutow--Morning min.after 2 1 Evening 50 min.aft. 2 THE WEATHICIL—Strff Orvtox, APRIL 27. THERMOMETER, IN THE SRAM!. 57—highest since noon yesterday. 48—lowest this morning and during the night. .55 —this day at noon. BAROMETEE, 29 . 90—a fall of three quarters of an inch since last evening. WIND, S.W. to W.N.W.—Light breeze and variable, with dull, cloudy weather, and fine sprinkling rain. Afternoon, heavy showers. - Tr, • ••,‘,. Zit 44---351,4! ;47 • LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1854. " GOD helps those who help themselves." It is a thought worthy of our remembrance on the morrow of the National Day of Fast and Humilia tion. England yesterday stormed Heaven with her prayers for Victory. But up to this moment have our rulers adopted adequate measures to place the warriors of the empire within reach of its achievement ? It is a question that may well be put now that so much time has elapsed since the declaration of war in the Gazette, and in the Houses of Parliament, and especially now that the solemn day has passed by which was set apart by the State for the observance of a general Fast and Humiliation. Fighting, we learn, is still continued furiously along the banks of the Danube, from Kalafat down to the Dobrudscha. And, as Marshal Sr ARNAUD justly observes in his order of the day recently published at Marseilles, " The Turks and Egyptians have been able to make head against the Russians since the commencement of the war : single-handed they have beaten them in several com bats !" Meanwhile—how has it been in regard to the English and French contingents? How is it actually at this moment in reference to the armies despatched to the East by the French and English Governments—how is it in reference to those allied forces up to the latest period of informa tion ? Why, it appears that 20,000 French, and 8,000 English troops have disembarked. But Where ? At Gallipoli ! As far away from the seat of war as could well have been con trived under the circumstances. Actually on the shores of the Dardanelles instead of on the borders of the invaded Principalities. A splendid ca mp is to be formed at Gallipoli—and in the interim the unfortunate soldiers of Egypt and Turkey are to be left to withstand the fury of all the hordes poured down upon them from the interior of Russia by the CZAR, the numerous troops and battalions 'directed against the Ottoman power by Prince GORTSCITAKOFF and Prince PAS ITEWITCH. What can , Do the meaning of all these delays on the part of England and France ? wh a t are the members of our Cabinet about ? What aro they doing all this Whil e at the Horse Guards ? Are we really in earnest in de the Russian AUT OCRAT, or are claring war aga in gt we simply assum i ng the virtues of courage, o f resolution, and of a chivalrous magnanimity ? If we are really gn i u g to war with the CZAR o f all the Russias, it is sheer madness wasting ines timable time by reviews and pageantries, and afterwards frittering away our military strength by transporting mere driblets, comparatively speak ing, towards the East, and then landing them, not on the coast of Bulgaria, near Varna, or Kustendje, but at Gallipoli, in the Dardanelles ! If we are not going to war with the AUTOCRAT, then it was literally a mockery to have set apart yesterday as a day of national Fasting and Humi liation. In either case, it appears to us, it must appear to any man of ordinary common sense, that our rulers are trifling with DIVINE PROVIDENCE. is it, we ask, in :reason to expect that the war with Russia can be vilcorously brought to a close by arrangements which, in the April of 1854, result in the landing of just 8,000 English troops and of 20,000 French troops at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles ? Twenty thousand French and eight thousand English against all the hordes brought together from all the Russias by the despotic will of the AUTOCRAT ! And even those landed so far away from the seat of action as to be utterly without use in their present position as far as concerns the actual campaign in the Danubian Principalities. Are we waiting for news of some disastrous defeat of the Turks and Egyptians before we will consent to confront our forces with their Russian antagonists ? An announcement has at last been made, we rejoice to observe, on the other side of the British Channel, to the effect that the Im perial Government of France is about to increase the contingent sent to the aid of the SULTAN by NAPOLEON 111. to 150,000 men altogether. A corresponding increase ought surely to be at once resolved upon by the British . Go vernment. For any f ur th er d e l ays i n t hi s immi t nent crisis of affairs, the people of England will, of course, from his official position, hold the Gene ral Commanding-in -Chief personally responsible. Anxiety has long been felt as to the willingness of Lord HARDINGE to expedite, to the very uttermost of his ability, the military part of our warlike pre parations. Sir JAMES GRAHAM has nobly done his share in these momentous undertakings : but if the Admiralty has acted well the Horse Guards have notoriously, for some time past, given to a large section of the observant community very considerable dissatisfaction. It is but too well understood that the influences of Aberdeenism are wonderfully enervating. But for these ma lign influences we should never have heard of merely 8,000 of our troops being landed ou the coast of Turkey up to the April of 1854, and of these 8,000 troops being disembarked, tuoreover, not near the banks of the Danube, but as far away from that river, as far away from the scenes of conflict, as a point on the borders of the Dardanelles ! However, we are told to be consoled with the knowledge that matters are not really to be left precisely in this state, as might otherwise have been conjectured. We are to have, besides the camp at Gallipoli, another camp at Buyukdere ! Nay, we are informed by advices from Constantinople down to the 15th inst., that ' General BOSQUET had then left that capital for the purpose of establishing the head-quarters already prepared for the allied armies, at Adrianople ! At Adrianople ! As if, far beyond Adrianople, there were not the formidable barriers presented against Russia by the chain of the Balkan mountains ! The apparent mismanagement in all this is really something deplorable. Wherefore we are await ing now with eager curiosity whatever consolation can be afforded by additional intelligence as to the reported bombardment of Odessa by the com bined Fleets, under Admirals DUNDAS and HAMELIN. it is from the foregoing reasons that we recall to mind, with a certain amount of com punction, the wise old proverb already quoted by us, on this the morrow of the national Day of Fast and Humiliation. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has, in one respect, followed the example afforded by the French Minister of Finance. In place of entering into a contract with any great capitalist, or asso ciated body of capitalists, for the entire amount of the loan, he has thrown the matter open to general competition, inviting tenders from every person desirous of obtaining a share of the new Government securities, contributing his propor tion to the maintenance of the national credit, and at the same time testifying his enthu siasm in the noble cause in which his coun try is now engaged. The extraordinary and de cided success of the experiment at Paris fully justified a trial in London. And we have no doubt that the result in the present instance would be equally satisfactory, if the conditions of subscription had been as judiciously devised, and if we held out equal inducements to persuade the public to come forward with their savings and available means. Unfortunately, however, Mr. GLADSTONE still suffers himself to be restricted and fettered by the trammels of "red tapism," and has totally ignored the principles which mainly conduced to the fortunate solution of the difficulty among our continental brethren. We are, therefore, once more compelled to adopt the views of LAURENCE STERNE, and to exclaim, " They manage these things better in France ! " We shall at present only refer to a few points in which the distinctions between the plans adopted in France and England are very per ceptible, and in which the advantage is certainly not on our side. If, however, it is by the minor touches that the skill of the artist is displayed, wo may appreciate the able work of the conti nental financier from these apparently trivial matters. When NAPOLEON, through his Financial Mi nister, appealed to the patriotism of his people, he did so on the broadest foundation ; none were ex cluded on account of poverty. The mite of the hard-working operative and of the small trades man was accepted as freely and willingly as the thousands of the wealthy capitalist. The amount required was 250,000,000 of francs, equivalent to 10,000,0001. sterling. Every opportunity was afforded to enable parties to enrol their names. Registers were opened not only in the metropolis, but in the chief towns of the several departments and the arrondissements of the Empire, which continued open a certain time. The subscription was, indeed, a truly national one, and nobly did the people respond to the call. Not merely was the required sum eagerly ten dered, but nearly double the amount was forth coming. NINETY-EIGHT THOUSAND Frenchmen inscribed their names for sums amounting in the aggregate to FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN MILLIONS OF FRANCS (equivalent to 18,680,0001. sterling), and of these no less than SIXTY THOU SAND persons subscribed for sums not exceeding fifty francs of ?Tides, or less than 21. annual divi dends. The total sums thus subscribed by these sixty thousand patriots was forty-nine millions of francs (equivalent to 1,960,000/. sterling), show ing that the average contribution was about eight hundred and sixteen francs, fourteen sons, or 321. 13s. 4d. each. These men were not rejected because they could not offer thousands—they were not despised because they were humble and lowly. Far from it. Their applications were granted in full. There was no deduction from their subscriptions, although the more wealthy applicants had their claims abated by no less than 52 per cent. We can form some conception of the pride and gratification of these humble men at the unequivocal acceptance of their offerings. Each felt that ho had a stake in the country—a direct interest in maintaining in violate public credit, and opposing the monetary panics that are so prejudicial to the best interests of society. We believe that the success of the financial experiment might be greatly, if not altogether, attributed to the extended basis on which it was planned. But how does Mr. GLADSTONE act on this useful precedent? Does he, too, desire to encourage small capitalists to entrust their savings to the Government ? he ac ce pt their offers' in full if not exceeding 501. or 1001. each ? No ; such is not the English system. It does not accord with the worship of the golden calf which John Bull has set up. Give preference to small bid ders Why, there is not a pert official in the Treasury or Exchequer Bill-office whose hair would not stand on end at the me re notion of admitting petty capitalists to a participation in the favours about to be dis tributed. sign-manual What ! ask Lord MONTEAGLE to affix h to any document beneath 100/. i t t h value 2 It would be an act which te Noble Lord would earnestly repudiate, and which every sub ordinate would denounce in the most unequivocal terms. But Mr. GLADSTONE will not run the risk . of these objections. The Right Hon. Gentleman, although he has slightly deviated from the beaten track, will not wander far, and will easily be lured back by the financial syrens of Capel-court. The invitation to the people, after all, is little better than a sham, which will not greatly endanger the craft of the money-changers. The GLADszoNE organ may say that " the Exchequer Bonds seem to aim at a like draw" (to that in France) "on the smaller ' accumulations of the productive classes," and in quire triumphantly " What better investment can be suggested for a poor man's hundred pounds than an Exchequer Bond, which will yield 31. 10s. a-year, be saleable or renewable at its full value in four years, and meanwhile never be liable to a greater depreciation than will just operate as an inducement not to sell hastily 1" This may be all very true, but the poor man will never get the opportunity of investing his hundred pounds, for Mr. GLADSTONE has announced that "No TENDER WILL BE RECEIVED FOR LESS THAN 1,0001." This would be decisive against the poor man's investment of his savings. Unless he has 1,000/. to spare he can have nothing to say to this loan. If he wants to place his hundred pounds on this security, he must purchase a bond through a broker, on the Stock- Exchange, at a premium of 2 or 3 per cent. ; thus sacrificing the first half-year's, or possibly the year's, interest,on the bond, as a tribute to the favoured classes, and to save a trifling amount of trouble to the officials in the Exchequer-bill office. But it may be said, that ten or a dozen persons may combine their funds and get one to bid for the whole party. It is scarcely necessary to say how much difficulty there would be in effecting such an arrangement. But Mr. GLADSTONE has guarded against the chance. In France the prices which the Financial Minister placed upon his se curities were distinctly specified. The option was given to the subscribers to take a 4i or a 3 per cent. Stock, the former at 92f. 50c., the latter at 65f. 25c. The minimum rate was thus candidly stated. There was no paltry higgling—no attempt to obtain more from the people than the actual value. Like an honest tradesman, with fixed charges, no second price was asked or accepted ; and consequently there was no heartburning or jealousy, no supposition that one had obtained a better bargain than another. Mr. GLADSTONE, however, true to official traditions, keeps the price a secret until the last moment, to take advantage of the latest turn of the market. But this will prevent the great body of the people, even of those who have the thousand pounds to invest, from bidding. There is another trivial point which may deter tke public. The bidding is " understood to be in Exchequer Bills at par." It is true that " subscribers" will be allowed the option of paying money in lieu of Exchequer Bills, upon paying ls. for every 1001. paid in money. This is a ridiculous regulation, which merely compli cates the transaction. If it had been announced that the biddings were understood to be in money or Exchequer-bills at par, it would accomplish the object which we presume the Right Honourable Gentleman had iu view ; but as it is, it will only operate to throw the matter into the hands of jobbers, and to prevent the people generally from following the noble example of their French brethren. We fear, then, that the plan will prove a failure, or, at least, that it will not have the same general acceptance as the French project for the reasons above specified ; that is to say--Ist. Be cause "no tender will be received for a less sum than 1,000/. ; 2dly. Because the price is not distinctly specified, but left uncertain and doubt ful ; and 3dly. Because the bidding is not to be in money, but in Exchequer Bills at par." Let Mr. Gz.AnsToxn look to these matters, and correct them while there is yet time, if he would not incur the disgrace of another financial abortion. TILE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1854. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE O'CLOCK. Yesterday having been a strict holiday at Liver pool, there is nothing to report of the cotton or share market there. The ship Blackwall, from Australia, brings 25,013 ounces, and the Statesman 10,300 ounces of gold. H.M.S. Portland, from the Pacific coast, has 200,000 dollars on board. The Committee of Investigation appointed by the shareholders of the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company has made a very elaborate and able report, of which, under this head, we are only enabled to give an outline. In the opinion of the committee, the additional capital of 120,0001. raised upon preference shares in the year 1850, and the 40,000/. borrowed from Government, ought amply to have sufficed for the completion of the line, and that it did not do so is attri buted to the want of personal interest appa rently felt by the Directors, the bad system pursued by them in almost every department, the heavy losses by the manner in which the contract for the works was let, the unnecessary charges for engineering, and the extravagait sums charged to land acoount, with the excessive allowances to soli tors. The liabilities are found to be so much larger than the Directors had stated, that the Committee consider it is a question for the grave consideration of the proprietors how it is to be met. The Committee recommend an entire change in the Board of Direction, although acquitting the local Director, Mr. Smithwick, who continually re monstrated against the proceeding of his colleagues. The Great Southern and Western, and the Irish South Eastern Railway Companies have given the strongest assurances of their desire to work amica bly with the Waterford and Kilkenny Company under improved management, and the Committee believe that by great exertion the line could be brought into a far more satisfactory position and secure a large increase of traffic. The present Directors have given every facility for the investi- gation. The committee appointed by the Equador Bond holders has made a draft report to its constituents, and although, as usual, in dealing with the affairs of the Spanish American republics, there is great difficulty in making sensible progress, the exertions used appear likely to bear some fruit, and Mr. Mocatta, who has returned, brings information indicative of sources for profitable enterprise. The description of the republic of Ecuador, from official data, is both interesting and encouraging, especially with reference to the Galapagos Islands. In a " Minute" the committee remark : "The important and comprehensive concessions to our association, which have been confirmed by the late decree of the Government and Legislature of the Ecuador, de mand our prompt and vigorous action. " Meanwhile, having received formal reports of sundry former concessions, now either extinct, in abeyance, or superseded in our favour, we should be glad to learn if there have been interested in such old concessions men of science, energy, and enterprise, who might be eligible co adjutors, auxiliaries, or employes, in some of our under takings. No doubt, if such there be, possessing informa tion and useful qualifications in return for which our resources might be made available, the object of all parties might be promoted harmoniously. " Moreover, if there exist other interests in other coun trios, with which our own exclusive privileges might pos sibly conflict, then the occasion to extend our relations might arise, leading to alliances and combinations advan tageous to all parties, including our numerous and influen tial subscribers in the other money-markets of Europe. "Mons. W. de Mandeville, for many years Charge d'Affaires for France, at Quito, a gentleman of large expe rience and high standing, has been the grantee of certain auriferous concessions, which he has already prosecuted to such an extent as satisfies his friends of their value. John Field, Esq., one of your committee, having satisfied him self in Paris of the good faith of the overtures made by M. de Mendeville, and enlisted a confidential and competent agent as the medium of preliminary negotiations, the Se cretary eventually proceeded to Paris, and negotiated the basis of a combination of M. de Mendeville's interest and resources with your own. Your committee trust that the principles of the proposed union will, when prepared for ratification, be found just and expedient. Meanwhile, the committee have in charge, from M. de Mandeville, cer tain very valuable and unique MS. maps of the State of Ecuador, on a large scale, besides others of the auriferous regions which have been already explored. Parcels and specimens of the gold extracted and collected during M. de Mendeville's own survey, at the points indicated in the MS. map which accompanied his report, are open for in spection.' The Bank of England has not altered its rate of discount to-day. The English Stock Market has been very in active, and prices have fluctuated but little. Con sols have been 87 to 877 for transfer, and the same for account. The New 34- per Cents. have been 86-I to 877, and the 3 per Cents. 86 to 4. There is iot expected to be much doing until nearer the 2d of May, when the Exchequer Bond scheme will be proved successful or the reverse. Exchequer Bills suffer by the greater demand for cash, and have receded to le. par and discount. Bank Stock also is worse, viz., 208, and since 205. Foreign Securities have been dull, and mostly rather flatter. Mexican are 231, and if the United States Legislature does reduce the purchase money for the purchase of the Mesilla territory to 7,000,000 dollars will probably go lower. Grenada Deferred Stock has been at si. Brazilian New 4i per Cents. have been quoted 877 to 88. Sardinian Bonds have been done at 791. Dutch 21 per Cents. are 561. Tho last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day are in round figures as under : 1854. 1853. North-Western Brighton Midland South-Eastern* Caledonian, and Edin. and Glasgow 15,814 13,126 Lancashire and Yorkshire 19,001 18,160 Yorkand North Midland,Newcastle } 28,671 25,673 and Berwick, and Leeds Northern * Easter week last year. In the railway market, the arrangements con. nected with the settlement of the account about to close have occupied the time of the jobbers, and prices have been rather fluctuating. York and Berwick are a shade better, and also Caledonian. North-Western have been lower, and South- Western are firm. French shares are nominally at fuller rates. The Mining market has been flat, the Joint Stock Bank shares are dull, and the Land Com panies' without alteration. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( Pram the Oficial List.) Business done. Bank Stock ........ 2OB 5 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B6 3 por Cent. Consols Annuities B7/ 7 New 34 per Ceut. Annuities B7i 6 74 6 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4i 11-16 Consols for Account 11th May B7i 4 7 Exchequer Bills, 2d. £.lOOO Small hr 1d pa 2 4 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Flrazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Small New Bmziliaul3ends, 1829 dr 39, 5 per Cent g7 8 Grenada Bonds, Deferred ' , lexicau 3 per Cent. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent... Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull s6i HALF-PAST TWO. Consols B7i 2 Ditto May Account COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE.-IN RE COLTER. This bankrupt was described as of High Holborn, icensed victualler, and to•day was appointed for his last ixamination. The balance sheet, prepared by Mr. Perkins, Coleman street, commencing July 1, 1853, and ending 15th March last, shows—Dr. to creditors, 2631, 16s. Bd. ; to ditto holding security, 9051. Bs. sd. ; capital, 5501. Creditor: Property given up, 1041. Bs. ; to ditto in the hands of creditors (Messrs. Whitbread, who hold the lease), 8001.; trade expenses, 3191. Bs. 9d. ; household, 2361. ; losses, 4431. The assignees opposed, on the ground of the unsatis factory state of the accounts, and asked for an adjourn ment sine die. Mr. Linklater, for the bankrupt, urged that he had not acted in any way to justify such an application. He had commenced with a large capital, which he had lost, and now gave up property. It was true that he had not kept regular accounts, but those rendered were the best he could furnish, and an adjournment sine die would have the effect of depriving the bankrupt of his certifi cate for life. His honour thought better accounts might be rendered, and adjourned the case sine die, with limited protection. IN RE BERYTHEIL. In the case of this bankrupt (formerly merchant at Natal, Africa, and Abchurch•lane, &c., London) part heard and reported last week, and adjourned till to•day, was postponed till Thursday next. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, and the Duchess of Kent, attended Divine service yes terday morning, in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The service was performed by the Bishop of Chester and the Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley. The Bishop of Chester preached the sermon. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting and the domes tic household also attended the service. LOSS OF THE ERCOLANO. Intelligence has been received from Turin, of yester day's date, which states that the steamer Ercolano has been lost off Villa Franca. Among the passengers 100 were 15 English—Mr. Thomas Halsey and family of five, Mr. Knight and family of five, Mr. Joseph Hayes and family of three, Mr. Charles Sa.nson, and Sir Robert Peel's servant. Five were saved—Mr. Edward Down. ley, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. George Wilkinson, Mr. Ed ward Knight, and Mr. Charles Boston. SOLAR RINGS AND MOCK SUNS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—An interesting phenomenon commenced at 5.45 this afternoon and lasted until 6.40. It consisted of a circle of light of 46° in diameter, which had the sun for its centre ; three mock suns were situated on this circle, the one at the apex, and the others on the east and west horizontal level of the sun. These mock suns had long tails proceeding from them in a direction diametrically opposite to the true sun. A second ring (of which about 190° of the upper half was visible) of 90° in diameter also having the sun for its centre, on which there were two other similar mock suns situated on the sun's hori zontal level, and a third ring of 45' in diameter, the centre of which was situated at the apex of the first mentioned ring, and the base of which passed through the true sun. The rings and the five mock suns were faintly tinged with prismatic colours. Cumuli clouds near the phenomenon. After sunset cloudless.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, E. J.' LOWE. Highfield-house Observatory, April 24. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.--..April 2G. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DAY OF llumiLlATioN.—The day has been kept in the strictest sense of the word ; no work nor business of any description has been done. There has been service in all the churches and chapels, and handsome collections made for the wives and children of the soldiers fighting the battle of freedom in the East. Last night the com• mittee of the Compassionate Fund distributed 150 cwt. of coals amongst the widows and other poor and destitute families i❑ this town. HUNT EXTRAORDINARY.--The majority of the juve piles and adults of this town and neighbourhood were out during the whole of Monday searching the woods and cliffs for two of the Parkhurst boys, who had broken out of prison, and bean seen soon after four a.m. in Northwood Park. Thirty shillings each having been obtained for the capture of the last blessed pair of urchins that escaped, our sailors and lubbers acquired a great taste for these " jail-birds," but they were too wide awake to be taken. During the morning they escaped over the park wall, and made to the copse between Dottens and Gurnard (the property of the National Freehold Land Society), where they remained till the evening, defying the police, the natives, and their dogs, when, being starved out, they made for'the town, and were taken by a straggler near Moore about nine p.m., to the great gratification of numerous old ladies residing in the coun try, though there was nothing very formidable in the appearance of two boys of 14 years of age, one being , only 4 feet 5 inches, and the tallest but 5 feet; still not a few of our dowagers and old maids were in no small fright, having no taste for such visitors. They are now safely located in their former cells in the Parkhurst Pe nitentiary. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and suite Lave arrived in Paris, en route front Genoa, to London and Sion lima@ for the season. The Duke and Duchess of 'Wellington have arrived in Belgrave-street from Italy, where their graces have been passing the winter. The duke will resume his duties as Master of the Horse to-day at her Majesty's second Drawing Room. Tne Earl and Countess of Jersey and the Lady Cle mentina, Villiers, who have been passing the holidays in comparative retirement at Middleton-park, return to Berkeley-square to-day. THE DUKE OF PORTLAND.—This nobleman is still labouring under severe indisposition, at Harcourt House, Cavendish-square, whither he went on account of ill health before the death of his venerable father, the late duke. His grace, who has deeply felt the severance, has not been well enough to visit Welbeck Abbey, but he has given orders that no diminution shall be made in the establishment nor amongst the various workmen employed on the estate, and it is said he intends to pen sion off the old labourers who, through age and infir mity, may b e past wor k . H e h as f ur th e r ordered that the s ame eff i c i ent measures for irrigatin-, the land on the be estato, so successf u lly carr i e d ou t by his father, shall and that enjoyedth etenanutnrayershtahlle latehave lamented e s :Pe d e Pr cake. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. THE WAR GALLIPOLI, APRIL 16.—The first division of Eng lish troops has arrived, with the exception of the artillery and cavalry. The following telegraphic despatch appears in the Lloyd newspaper : " For unknown reasons all the Russian force is retiring from before Kalafat to Krajova. "The evacuation of Lesser Wallachia has been resolved on, and the troops are retiring on Bucha rest, with their hospitals and munitions of war in 1,000 waggons." Another telegraphic despatch, dated Constanti nople, April 17, says : "A fearful storm, with snow, is raging. 1,600 Englssh troops have arrived in the Himalaya, and are quartered in the new barracks at Scutari. " The British declaration of war has been posted up by order of Lord Stratford. " Two palaces have been prepared for the recep tion of the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Napoleon. " The Furious had been fired at from Odessa. "A respite has been demanded for some of the dismissed Greeks. " There are 25,000 French and 8,000 English at Gallipoli, and provisions are ver y scarce . .. . .___ " A French regiment and a detachment of one of the Highland regiments have gone on to Adria nople. " From the army of Asia we learn that 4,000 men refused to march from Erzeroum to Kars on account of their arrears of pay. " A Firman against the excesses of the Bashi- Bazouka is expected." CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 15.—General Bosquet has left for Adrianople, to establish his head-quar ters there. The movement of troops has already commenced. One English regiment leaves Gallipoli. 20,000 French and 8,000 English troops have landed. The squadron of Admiral Bruat, with 6,000 men, was spoken, on the 14th, off Tenedos. The Himalaya arrived on the 13th at Gallipoli with Brigadier Adams, the 33d Regment, Colcnel Blake, the 41st, Colonel Carpenter, in 62 hours from Malta. General Brown ordered them on to Con stantinople, having determined not to disembark any more troops at Gallipoli. They arrived there on the following day, and took up their quarters at Scutari, where they were heartily welcomed by the population. Scutari is opposite Constantinople, on the opposite shore of the Bosphorus, and one mile from the capital. The health of the troops at Gallipoli was ex cellent. The squadron under Admiral Hamelin was at Baldchik. The Russians were not advancing. They were fortifying themselves in the Dobrudscha. Omer Pacha's retrograde movement was to concen trate his troops. Besides the camp at Gallipoli, the English are establishing one at Buyukdere, on the Bosphorus, the summer residence of the ambassadors, and not far from Constantinople. On the 14th the combined fleets were still at Kavarna. The Fury had been sent to Odessa to take away the English Consul and English subjects there. She was fired into and driven back, despite her flag of truce. The Fury captured a Russian schooner, but was chased by five Russian vessels of war from Sebastopol, and was compelled to abandon the schooner. She kept the crew as hostages. The irritation on board the fleets is extreme. There was a general illumination on the 10th, on board the vessels of the fleets, when the Banshee brought the order to commence hostilities. The departure of the fleets for Odessa was immi nent. VIENNA, Tuesday, April 25.—The bombardment of Odessa is contradicted. There has been sharp fighting at Trajan's Wall. The Russians were drawn into an ambuscade, and suffered a heavy loss in men and artillery. Another telegraph despatch from Vienna says : The Russians passed Trajan's Wall on the 7th. General Luders' head-quarters are at Muratlar, near Karassu. Cossacks had been seen at Kavarna. There is great consternation at Varna. TRIESTE, April 25.—Persia has officially declared a strict neutrality. The French steamer Caiman has been wrecked on the Abyssinian coast. ST. PETERSBURG. A letter from Berlin of the of 22d says : " Intelligence has been received here of the death of Baron Rochow, the Prussian minister at the court of St. Petersburg, which event took place in the Russian capital on the 20th." BERLIN, WEDNESDAY. —The Journal de St. Pe tersbourg contains a notice by which the Minister of Finance allows English and French vessels six weeks from the 19th of April to clear out of Rus sian ports in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff, and six weeks from the 7th of May to clear out of Russian ports in the Baltic. Enemies' property in neutral bottoms will be regarded as inviolable, and may be imported into Russia. The subjects of neutral Powers on board ene mies' ships will be unmolested. A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 15th, says : —" The Government has decided that the prisoners of war made by the Russians shall be conveyed to the governments of central Russia. Prisoners, who are renegades or refugees, are to be treated as pri vate soldiers, whatever their rank may have been in the army of the enemy. Such prisoners as are subjects of Austria are to be handed over to that power." A sharp east wind was blowing on the 13th at St. Petersburg. The Neva and the waters of Cron stadt were still frozen over, and nothing seemed to intimate that a thaw was near at hand. THE BALTIC. COPENHAGEN, Tuesday, April 25.—The English cruisers have taken the following ships, and brought them in here :—.Phonia, Biorneborg, Fidentia, Aina, Louisa, Christinenstab, Nadeschda, and Hel singfors. The two last were captured in the Cat tegat. To render the blockade of the coast of Finland effective, one division of the English fleet has gone to the Gulf of Finland, the other to the Gulf of Bothnia. HAMBUJIG, April 23.—Admiral Napier had formed his fleet into three divisions, but dispossd io such a way, and sufficiently near each other, that he can, in case of need, reunite them for battle. The first of these divisions takes up its station near the Gulf of Livonia, and is not far from the ports of Polandgen, Libau, and Windau ; the second in the same gulf, in sight of Riga Harbour, so that it can prevent all communication by sea ; and the third is placed at the entrance of the Gulf of Finland, for the sake of observation, not far from Sweaborg (Helsingfors), where the Russian Baltic squadron still keeps close. Two English steamers are cruising pretty near the latter port. A letter of the 21st says :—Since the wonder ful Court intrigue, which has resulted in the Mi nistry retaining their portfolios, in spite of both King and Parliament, n °thing material has occurred. Some of the dismissals have been kept back—it is hoped they are adjourned sine die. Those of Major- General Andres ) and Professor Hall, two of the most distinguished men in this country, are already gazetted ; as is also the appointment of Martensen to be Bishop of Sicelland. There i s also a lull in warlike affairs, the fleet having made Gothland its head-quarters. There are four merchant-ships, prizes, lying in our roads, from Kioge Bay. The crews h a ving been sent up have been sent ashore, with the exception of the. skippers. The Cumb er l an d has reached Kioge Bay. It is not yet known whether the national party will make any fresh efforts at this moment. The present Cabinet has n o t s i x suppor t ers i n b o th i houses ; t has violat e d th e C onstitution by the re vengeful dismissal of the Parliamentary chiefs who voted against it; and has taken no single step, after a lapse of two years and a half, to inform the na tion what it intends by its programme. THE BLACK SEA. THE FURY CHASED BY RUSSIAN WAR VESSELS. The Malta Mail, of April 'lpublishesthe fol lowing " On the 10th inst. H.M.S. Fury left the fleet at Baldchik, on a cruise, unaccompanied by a French steamer. On the afternoon of the 11th the western coast of the Crimea was distinctly visible, and in order not to be seen or discovered too soon, she stood off from it. During the night, and in the early part of the morning, she gradually edged in to the shore, but the brilliancy of the moon was a great drawback to her plans. On the 12th, at 3 30 a.m., she steamed ahead at full speed, and at 5 30 came in sight of Sebas topol. By this time the sun had risen, and the morning was unclouded, so that objects at a long distance were ♦isible. "Two merchant vessels were seen coming out of port, with the Russian ensign flying, one of which, the Fury, carrying a splendid breeze with her, rapidly seared. The Fury passed her, and took a survey of the harbour, at a distance of two and a half miles. Two brigs of war were under weigh, and the two frigates stationed at the mouth of the harbour were crossing gallant and royal yards. The Fury at six a.m. changed her course, hoisted Austrian colours, and bore down on the merchant ships ; and an hour after, having taken the crew on board, six in number, and made the ship fast by a hawser, she towed the schooner off at full speed. The two brigs, followed by two frigates, were then seen to leave the harbour under all plain sail, and a steamer getting up steam. Wind W. by S.—force five to six—the most favourable that could blow for them at 7.35. " It was now clear that the frigates were rapidly near ing, the Fury being three miles or more to leeward. Immediately the fore and aft sails were set, the prize cut adrift, and the steam brought to its highest pres• sure, so that she absolutely flew to windward. Still the frigates seemed to be gaining ground, and the posi tion of the Fury became highly dangerous, as now two miles were the most that separated the enemies. Tons of water were started, all except two days' re quirements, which was a considerable assistance. At B'3o one of the frigates dropped, and the two brigs ; but still the other kept in the wind's eye. At 8.54 the windward frigate and the Fury came so close as to be almost in range of the long guns of the latter, when the word "open fire" was given. Immediately steady aim was taken, the sternmost gun fired, and down dropped the shell, ayard distant from her lee bow, which seemed to many to have struck her. " She immediately replied by firing two, but the shot , did not reach half- way ; and hoisted th e R uss i an ens i gn at her main, which was responded to by reloading with rapidity, and again firing. The shot still fell a little short, and more to leeward, and again she fired 4 guns at the Fury, and another ensign was run up to the fore, for which she received another shell, but still fell shorter, as the Fury was rapidly, and at every moment, increas ing the distance. Having thus gone to windward of her, but still out of range of her guns, the idea was en tertained of engaging them with long guns, but at this time the steamer was rapidly advancing, which would tend to distract attention from them, so that it was con sidered more prudent to remain content with taking a merchant vessel and six of their countrymen prisoners, from beneath their fortifications, as the distance at that time was but a mile arid a half at most. When the Fury went alongside the schooner, she hauled down the Austrian colours, and hoisted the English ensign, which seemed to startle them a little in harbour—so to judge, at least, by their rapid movements. " The rage of the Russians must have been great, as they seemed sure of catching the Fury ; and the hoisting of three ensigns was an angry attempt to challenge a steamer of six guns to engage a fri g ate of 40, and she to windward : but they may thank the appearance of the steamer, or they would not have returned unin jured. " On the 13th, forenoon, two strange steamers were reported as being seen it: the north-east direction, and the Inflexible was ordered to get up steam ; but they soon disappeared." THE DANUBE. The last accounts from the banks of the Danube describe the Russian army in the Dobrudscha as suffering considerably from sickness. Entire com panies were daily carried off by dysentery, and the mortality was so great in several newly arrived regiments that they were ordered to recross the Danube. The Moniteur says :--- "We have received fresh intelligence relative to the passage of the Danube by the Russian troops. It con firms fully the details given by Omer Pacha in his report to the Ottoman Government. The flotilla and numerous transports, of which the Russians could dispose, enabled them to cross the river in three places, at Port-Bachi, below Matchin, at Schatal-Bournou, above Taulcha, and on a third point below that town. The Russians attacked with vigour the fortifications raised on the first points. One of their regiments sent in the first instance against the position of Tchatal-Bournou disappeared to the last man. Two battalions, afterwards sent for ward, were nearly destroyed in totality, and it was found necessary to send 15 battalions to carry the entrenchments. The Russian troops, charged to seize on Pot-Bachi, were three times repulsed at the point of the bayonet, and left 1,000 men on the ground. The Turkish battery dismounted three guns brought by the Russians. The heavy fire of the opposite bank did not allow the Turks to carry them off, and the pieces re mained until the evening on the field of battle. The Turks held their positions for 48 hours, fighting without any cessation, exposed to the fire of the gun-boats, of 25 guns of large calibre, and of two mortars, placed on the island and on the opposite bank. The Turks eva cuated the place after having fired their last cartridge, carrying off their cannons and falling back on Karassu. This movement was in conformity with the formal or ders of the general-in-chief ; but before quitting their positions in obedience to these orders, it is evident that the Turks gave the enemy new and brilliant proofs of their bravery." A letter from Bucharest, of the 15th, in the Post Anspt Gazette of Frankfort, says :—" It is stated that a slight skirmish has taken place between some Cossacks and some English marines, who had landed to give assistance to some wounded Turks. The Belgian Consul, who for some time past has been charged with the protection of French and Belgian subjects, has received orders from the Belgian Envoy at Constantinople to suspend his functions and strike his flag. The Russians have, it is said, commenced the siege of Silistria. M. Anrey, Director of the General Consulate of France, left Wallachia on the 9th, and proceeded to Cron stadt, in Transylvania. He will wait at Herr maustadt for orders from his ambassador. Mr. Grant, the director of the English consulate, and M. Johannides, the vice-consul at Giurgevo, left on the 10th. The order for, expelling the French and English was withdrawn on hearing that the Emperor of the French and Queen Victoria had permitted Russian subjects to remain in their re spective countries. General Deprandi is waiting for orders from St. Petersburg to cross the Danube near Kalafat." From Krajova, of the 10th, we learn that the Russians are fortifying the road leading from Sla tina towards the Danube, and which runs between the Badea and the Aluta at three several points. The Turks had collected an immense quantity of sailing vessels, barques, and gunboats at the ford or passage of Columenda, near Nicopoli ; and had also constructed two batteries there of guns of the heaviest calibre. The Russians had fortified the opposite side of this ford or shallow in an equally imposing manner. Cannonades were taking place daily from both sides. A field hospital for 2,000 patients had been formed at Plojeschti. News of the 14th from the seat of war (says the Lloyd) men tions that the Turks are still very actively engaged with their fortifications on the island near Nico poli ; whence people infer that they are seriously meditating a passage of the Danube at that point. Everything shows great activity at Kalafat. It is also stated as a fact that English and French troops ware landed at Varna on the 10th. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. RESIGNATION OF CHEVALIER BUNSEN. BERLIN, Monday, April 24.—1 t is thought that the resignation tendered by Chevalier Bunsen will be accepted provisionally. Count de Bernstorf, Prussian envoy at Naples, is spoken of as his even tual or temporary successor. OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE TREATY. A Paris letter of yesterday states that the fol lowing are the principal clauses of the treaty re cently entered into between Austria and Prussia : —" The treaty lays down that the operations of war undertaken by Austria must be concerted beforehand with Prussia, whose consent will be a necessity. This is the general rule, but the excep tion is made in the following case :—Austria is to have liberty of action, as far as she may con sider advisable, in the Danubian provinces ; that is to say, that the Emperor of Austria is so far master that he is empowered, without the con sent of Prussia, to make the only war that he is really likely to make in the present state of affairs, and certainly the only one that France and England could wish him to undertake ; and that, as respects Prussia, he is only to be bound to deli berate with that Power with respect to ulterior operations, of which the bearing or necessiteyvceant can not at present be calculated. For this latter n, should the necessity arise, Austria is to provide an army of 150,000 men, and Prussia is to support her with 100,000 men." If this account be correct, the policy of Prussia at the present moment appears to be) to allow Aus tria to do all she chooses p re vent Russia from taking possession of Turkey the Czar be beat en by the allies, to joinor the Danubian pro vinces ; but to be ready, should Austria in preventing the Rus sian territories from being dismembered. It will be remembered that a very short_ time since P russ i a, when asked to join the allies in guaranteeing the integrity of the Ottoman empire, refused, unless a clause was inserted guaranteeing the integrity of Russia. A letter from Berlin of the 21st says «General Hess insisted formally on the necessity of an ener getic declaration in order to put an end to the he sitations of the Prussian Cabinet. This declaration has not failed to produce a great effect, for yester day the treaty of alliance offensive and defensive was signed without any clause having been inserted which would engage Austria beforehand, or which would be favourable to Russia. The principal stipulation of the treaty states that the two high contracting parties reciprocally guarantee their possessions, whether German or non-German, and engage to lend assistance in the event of one of them being attacked. The second stipulation is to the effect that the two powers engage to act al ways in common, and on a reciprocal understand ing towards other countries. This stipulation ties as it were the hands of the two contracting parties. There is an annexis to the treaty of 13 separate ar ticles, w hi c h d eterm i nes t h e ass i s t a nce that the two powers may be called on to lend reciprocally to each other, as well as the manner in which that assist ance is to be given. A delay of four weeks has been fixed on for the ratification. As soon as the treaty shall have been ratified, it will be communi cated to the oth er G erman governmen t s , w ho will be invited to accede to it. It is said that three secret articles have been added to the treaty." The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort contains the following from Vienna, 22d :—" The Russian Coun cillor, M. de Lenz, arrived here to-day from St. Petersburg, bringing despatches for M. de Meyeu derff and for Prince Paskiewitsch. After remaining here two hours, he left for Bucharest." A letter from Berlin, in the Austrian Lloyd, of Vienna, states that the King of Prussia has sent autograph letters to London and Paris, having for object to propose his mediation to bring about peace. A document has just been published at Berlin, which is calculated to dispel any illusion Whic h may have existed as to the intentions of the Court of Prussia in the present crisis. It is the declara tion made by M. Mauteuffel to the committee of the First Prussian Chamber appointed to report on the loan, and its most intelligible passage reads thus : " Affairs having assumed a more threatening aspe ct ' the government considered it incumbent upon them to entertain a special regard for Prussian and German in terests, and to make joint efforts in the cause of peace. For this purpose a close alliance with Austria has been prepared, the treaty of which will in a ll pro• bability be shortly concluded, It is to be hoped that the remainin g f e d era l s t a t es o f G ermany w ill also joi n this alliance, so that we may calculate on our co-o Per• tion with Austria' and the rest of Germany. In this union the government recognises the securest is protection forthe unit e d G erman powers. Si multaneous l y with th more intimate union a community of action will continue to subsist between Austria and Prussia on the one part, and the West ern P owers on t h e other the b as i s of tha t community being th e C on f erence o f Vi enna . P r ussia ha t s net alienated h erse lf f rom t h e W estern P owers . l' 4"c ' h withstanding th e d en i a l put f orwar d b y t h e E n glish press, Pru ss i a ' s concert w i t h these p ower s still ell s "" . The protocol e v id encing t hi s concert has been already signed by the envoy from Berlin at Vienna, but eau' not be laid before the Chambers. The position hitherto occupied by the Four Powers in relation to each other has been firmly maintained, and efforts for the restora" tion of peace will be continued, although Powers have already had recourse to war. With re spect to Russia, more conciliatory and acceptable de" clarations have been made by her of late, which, o' h e t if they did for the moment encourage, but fee': hopes of peace, may still be found to contain points vgb, er h - , two o f these on fresh negotiations for peace may be opened. Prussian Government will to the last moment sec itself inclined to indulge in the hope of peace ; so l on g $8 the faintest gl eam o f suc h h ope rema i ns, it w ill s trive t c l attain this object, will persevere in its endeavours 31111 efforts. When th e d ec i s i ve moment f or P russ ia 5h. 1 4 1 have arrived, th en w ill th e G overnment at once a ct lvl`' all energy. It must be now fully prepared for that e meet ; Prussia's word w ill b e most influential by m being enabled to supp or t th a t wor d w i t h h e r dra w "` sword." Prince George of Mecklenburg, the Czar's ki lls, man, is not to return t o R uss i a at once , but to remain about the Court of Berlin, in order to Cu l • tivate the Russian alliance, and to oppose anY proximation on the part of Prussia to the Wes te h — Powers. GREECE. ATHENS, April 21.—The Gulf of Corinth l g guarded by French ships of war, and the comin g : nication between the con ti nen t an d th e Pelopou nessus is almost entirely cut off. The Greek GC' vernment has been informed that no Greek vol till u : teers will be a ll owe d t o en t er T urkey. The who-0.. of Southern Thessaly is in arms. The Turks 3r said to have been defeated at Mezzovo. RNNA, Tuesday, April 25.—Advices from Alt andria of the 19th inst. announce that all Greco" will be expelled from Egypt on the Ist of M a l' The Turks still hold the citadel of Arta. The town has been entirely destroyed. 15,000 insurgent s invest Janina. The whole of Epirus is up in aril's° Prevesa is tranquil. MALTA. Prince Napoleon arrived on the 20th at Malta . He had left T ou l on on t h e 17th. The passage out was rather rough. • The Prince was received on landing by the authorities with all the honours du° to his rank, and with every manifestation of welcom e by the military as well as by the population go" nerally. His Imperial Highness dined with the Governor, and went to the theatre in the evening' where he was the object of general curiosity. I I " embarked during the night of the 20th for Corr stantinople, where in all probability he has noir arrived. He went accompanied by General-Prim. The 88th, 95th, 7th, and 23d Regiments hays arrived. Generals Evans and England have taken , their departure. The Guards have embarked. for Gallipoli. Vira g , Iv an .. Viindii 1 10 pc Ilfslen F ' f •._~ VVPM,r; ar.,;;,; f iti t t *li FRANCE. From returns, proceeding from a semi-offiial source, and which may be relied on, it would appear that since the commencement of the embarkation of the French expeditionary force for the East, the War Department has freighted 354 merchant ships for the transport of troops, of which 288 were hired at Marseilles, and 66 at Genoa. The whole of these vessels are capable of carrying 6,500 horses, with 14,000 tons for stores of every kind. More than the half were engaged for four months during which.' they could maks two voyages, each occupying en!! average 50 days for the departure and return. In addition to this a certain number of vessels was ais ° freighted in Algeria. The whole of the; merchant ships were employed in the transport of the cavalrlif artillery, and stores, and the Government ship . were reserved f or th e i nfantry. Up to the 1 9 4' instant 181 ships had left, carrying 5,000 ho rse° or baggage mules, and measures have been takau to embark from 1,200 to 1,500 horses or mul es each week at Marseilles. No doubt there wer e great difficulties to be encountered in the transport of such a mass of men, horses, and stores to such s' distance ; but it is, nevertheless, the fact, that the French Government have succeeded in organising it in few er wee k s t h an i t required months f o r 0 . , similar expedition to the Morea and to Algiell• The means of transport organised on the present oc;. casion are suffi c i en t f or 10 , 000 h orses. It aPPea:O, 4 r that the Arab General, Youssouf, who command s : the native t roo p s o f the military sub-division,T - Medea, has been pl ace d a t th e di sposa l o f M. °‘" Arnaud, and is to be charged with a special 1:9 1 !". sion. Thi s s p ec i a l m i ss i on, i t is suppose d, Ja 3. : reference to th e organ i sat i on of the Ara b con -' tingents for the Sultan. The religious service appointed by the Que en's proclamation f or yesterday took place in the chair' of the British E m b assy. The morning service was performed by the Rev. Dr. Hale ; the evening b y the Rev. Mr. M arr i ott. A sermon was preached on both occasi ons : th e text of the former was from the 26th c h ap t er an d 4th Terse of Isa i a h ; that r of the latt er f rom S t. Matthew, chapter 3, Bth l and 9th verses, being the lessons specially 8 P: propriated for the service. After the sermon collection was made : that of the morning producey 789 f., and th e a ft ernoon 163 f.—total,.—t o t a l, 952 f. seems that not more than from 150 to 160 persons' can get accommodatio n i n th e t e mporary chap and and I am assu re d th a t so li ve ly w as the sympathy n ' on the occasion, that the sum abovemon tioned would hav e b een quadrupled had the aceora- N lia ve ° l dat it il away, beennot beings u ffi c i eanbt toH u fi n n d d r ds o seats.f p l e n r set li n o s - other English chapels sermons were also preached, but I believe no collection took place. The Moniteur contains the following report tor the Emperor " Sire—The Russian ports of the Baltic and the' White Sea were closed by ice at the moment at which the declaration -of war between the two countries wag made. I consequently propose to your Majeafi to decide, in conformity with the principle consecrated by your declaration of the 27th ult., that Russian vessels leaving the Russian ports of the Baltic and the White Sea before the 15th May next, bound for a port in. France or Algeria, may freely accomplish their voyage; Russian their cargoes, and afterwards return to Govsseirannmpeonrtt of not h er blockaded, Britann i o c or oa neutral Majesty port. T he ! taken an analagous decision. I the Governors of French Colon a ' so s ntor iccord p opo b s as e t o : 812112°1r" delay from the day on which yourie orders shall reach be there at that them, to all Russian vessels which may time, or which may enter within that period, to load or a month's, discharge their cargoes, and to return freely to the port s of th eir country which are not blockaded, or to neutral ports. The same facilities have been conceded to Rus sian vesse l s i n the ports of English colonies. If your _ Majesty accepts these propositions, I beg of you to kind enough to sign your approbation of this report. -L . am, with respect, Sire, y our Majesty's most hu mble most obedient servant and faithful subject. " Paris, April 15. " DSOLTYN D$ The Emperor has approved of the recommendatica. in this report. The Moniteur, in another pa . x!". l referring to the decree, says The princ l .l?,7, object of the Imperial decision is to comply NTT', applications which have been addressed to the Government of Nantes, Marseilles, and Bordeau!; ' commerce will find therein a new proof of the soli citude felt for its interests." Two cavalry horses, saddled and bridled,.axd having on all the new equipments which it is contemplation to introduce i n th e French arty, were brought on Friday morning to the Court 0 of the Tuileries were the Emperor came down, t i n ." examined them with gre a t m i nu t eness . His .1 " . A i; jesty afterwards went t o i nspec t th e works whi are being executed in the old Orangery, to convert it into stables with sleeping rooms above. An Imperial decr ee , d a t e d th e 20th, declares that " in consequence of the call into active service of the disposable contingents of the classes of 180, 1851, 1850, and 1849, the corps of cavalry have received such an increase of effective- force that the present become perfectly basuAgient tP ' ,;Gore 344 I ge - t Vei 41td hho i ~ ver - ,A I Stu.