The Sun. — London, England, 1854-07-06 00:00:00

THEATRE ffOTAL DRURY LANE; Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. TIII3 EVENING, Jura 6, Will be performed Beßini's Opera of LA SONNAMBI7LA. Amine, Mdrle. Bury; Lisa, Madame Greiffenhagen; Theraea, Ma dame Heinrich; Aleseio, Si g nor Gregorlo ; Count Eodolpho, Signor Arnoldi; and Elvino, Signor Bettini. To conclude with the popular Bald, entitled LTNE FETE EN OLYMPE. ITco — Stalls. Ts; Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, la.; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The box-cfllce orel daily from Ten till six, where places may be secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and Cock, New Bond-street. Notice.—Doors open at Half-past Seven. Per`ormance commences at Eight. Hal-price at Half past. e. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. gueketone. THIS EVENING, .Ttax Will he performed the Drama of THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLrI. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, G. Vandenhoff, W. Farrell. Compton, and Buckstone ; Mies Reynolds, Mize E. is.rey, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. Followed by AS LIKE AS TWO PEAS. To conclude with THE S:',APEGOAT. RO TA.L PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CuLat.rs BEAN. THIS EVENING, Jmt 6, Will be performed THE MARRIED UNMARRIED. Characters by Aesers. W. Lacy, Ryder, and Cathcart; and Misses Heath and Murray. Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE.. Characters by Messr.s. C. Kean and Da7ld Fisher ; and Mrs. Winstanley, and .Misr. C. L clercq. 'To conclude with THE HALT OF THE BALLET. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, JULY 6, will be performed MASKS AND FACES. Characters by Messrs. B. Webster, L. Murray, Y. Bedford, &c.; Mesdames Celeste, Wool gar, &c. Followed by HOPES AND FEARS. After which will be presented the New Extravaganza, entitled A MOVING TALE, supported by Mr. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by WAITING FOR AN OMNIBUS IN THE LOWTHER ARCADE IN A RAINY DAY. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, JULY 6, Will be performed the Comedietta, caled HEADS OR TAILS. Characters by Mr Emery and Miss Marston, &,. To be followed by tha Comic Drama called HUSH MONEY. Characters , by Messrs. F Robson, Emery, White, and Vincent ; Mies Dormer, and Airs. A. Nigan. After which, THE iPPIEST DAY OF MY LIEF,. Cha racters by Messrs. F. Robson, J. H. While, Leslie, and Vincent ; Mrs. Chatterley, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Marston. STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Alleroft.. THIS EVENING, JIILT 6, Will he presented TIM GARDENER OF VERSAILLES. Cha racters by Messrs. Bedford and Sidney; and liisses Beatunent and Wharton. Atter which, THE MARBLE LOVER. To he foil .wed by MR 4 . WHITE. To conclude with THE COBBLER CONJUROR. 514. ; M):Se4, 34. ; L. >i l .allery, 4;(1.; Private itox .9, £1 Its. firt., , o be cal of Mr. Alicroft, 13, Sew Bond-gtre,tt. AsrLErs EUROPE'S NATIONAL ANIPIIIVIEArgic Lessee and Ilan:tzar, lir. William Cooke. THIS EVENTING, JOLT 6, Will be presented the new Crawl flistor'e tl lii 'tarp speetal., en tititt ram COASNenli ; or, Vive Followed by a series ot Chef d'O tvrea of Art, o•• Erin;tattoo 1 , 1.1 Lk liltrcß FM I )I , E t've"^ped in th , th 4: the whole arranged and co ifitr..,te lby \fr. Willi-.m 03oke To conclude with RA.T.SSIA. AGIENS TlTltliklY, NOW ON TRIAL. ItoN-oftlce open from Eleven till Four. Stage \tanager, - ‘l, ‘v. West. SUL'It".Y ZOOLOGIt X.L GA.itDES. Open for (he Sevian. THIS KVENI , 7G, JOLT 6 Will be repeated the entirely ).7f :.W and BRILLIANT PIECE bf FIREWi Ftg.. on a ,ig.lntie scale, representMg the ttritish Lion and aaltic Cork Trampling on the :{ussia, Ea4la. All the numerals attractions ot t`le gArdecs as uitial, including the beautiful Panorama of Ct,nman, by 11 , n70n--the extensive s.n , l ,nterestial Mena4nrle-- Vocal and Instrirnenta! C ,, ocert : Mks Poel-, Miss itanslord. and Mr. Manvers. Stc. Concluding with the attack of the British Fleet on Chusan—Explosion of the Itatt,riPs and ships, and final Grand Display of FirevrorkA, by Southby. Feeding the animals, ilalf-past Five. Concert, Iblf-past six. Fireworks, Quarter to Ten. Ad mission to the whole, Is. On Tuesday*, Wednesday, and Thursday Next, July Ilth, 12th, and 13th, THREE GR kN;) FE i . Es, under th e Patrons2e of his Excellency Count 'A ALEW. , ,KI, the -reach .trnb isiador, in ho nour of the cordial alliance between France and England. f.; TOTI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY —Horning 45 rnin.after 9 Evening 16 min. sit. 10 To•Mousow_..Morning 491nin.after 10 / Evening 22 nth,. aft. 10 THE WEATHER.—Sun °MCI, JULY 6. THERMOSIET/38, IN TI SHADE. 68—highest since noon yesterday. 55—lowest this morning and during the night. 69—this day, at noon. BABOUTEB, 29 . 70. WIND, S.W.—Light breeze, and cloudy. ...._ _.,, s v ...,.... 4 .'-..,„ LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1854. Additional victories are reported to have been gained over the Russians, by the valiant Moslem, both on the banks of the Danube and among the mountains of Circassia. The victory in European Turkey is said to have been won by MEHEMET PACHA, the successor of the heroic and lamented MussA PACHA as Governor of Silistria—a triumph achieved by him not far from the walls of that fortress, over the rear-guard of the Muscovites, 25,000 in all, 2,500 of whom are said to have fallen during the encounter. The victory in Asiatio.Tutkey is stated to have been obtained by SELIX PAanat—a triumph so complete, according to yesterday's advises from Vienna, that the whole Russian army is said to have been disperAed, leaving thirteen guns and several stands of colours, and the mai6riel of three camps, in the hands of the victors—the defeat experienced by General ANDRONIKOFF being described as alto gether overwhelming. The intelligence here re ferred to may possibly to some extent be exag gerated. It is, however, undeniable, that hitherto the invading forces have only met everywhere with discomfiture—in Lesser Wallachia and in the Dobrudscha, in Bulgaria and in the CaTtcasus. So that when it is intimated that the CZAR has consented to withdraw his army within thi boun daries of Moliavia, simply out of complaisance to Austria, people know very well how much to be lieve as to the retrograde movement being in any "Veil% so to speak, voluntary. It is pretended again that the AUTOCRAT has been induced to con centrate his forces around Jassy, more with a view to certain modifications in his scheme of the campai gn, than from merely pruden tial considerations. Of course. We may credit that also—if we s o Please! Setting altogether aside, as matters of no account whatever, the triumphs won by Turkey at Oltenitza and Citate —the fruitless struggle made b y the t Russians at Giurgevo, a n d th e utterly futiles the impregn a bl e . O f course, the of . Silistria drawal from W a ll ac hi a within' the frorti the adjacent Principality, is in no vra lle of luctant or involuntary. It ha s uothi n y g tall re" more credulous be sure of that—nothing wh et th e to do with the r e it era t e d defeat of the invadingte7" army, with the de a th o f G eneral LUD o f General &MILDER% an, with th e wounding of P r i nce GORTSCHASOFF and of Prince PASKIEWITO; with the terrible fact, that since the commencement of 'the campaign no. less than 25,000 Russian sol diers have been destroyed in the twin provinces, either by battle or by pestilence--much less with th e approach of the British contingent by way of Varna, and of the French contingent by way of Adrianople. Now, supposing the events here briefly enumerated to have nothing at all to do with the fact of the retreat of the Muscovites from Bucharest to Jassy, from Wallachia to Mol davia, from the neighbourhood of the Danube to that of the Pruth. from the boundaries of Bul- garia towards those of Bessarabia—at any rate, moving together as they do at precisely this very jUcture, they 6imstitute, at the very least, the most startling and marvellous of coincidences. About as curious a coincidence, by the way, as the fall of Louis PnziappE, the late King of the Frenoh, having bee n p receded by those revelationsin regard to M. TESTE, of Ministerial corruption, in regard to the capture of ABD-EL-KADER of most uukingly bad faith, in regard to the Spanish marriages (brought about as they werc), of falsehood, and double-dealing absolutely infamous in a civilised So vereign. It were not more idle, we main tain, literally not more i dle, to assert that these crimes had nothing whatever to do with the tumultuous rising of the people of Paris in February, than to assert now in reference to the Retreat of the Russians that it is a retrograde movement dictated by no sense of weakness from recent defeats, and by no whole some fear of the formidable array presented to the enemy by the allied armaments. Obviously, therefore, the Russian army has been driven back by the valour of the Turks, and by a terror of the soldiers of France and England now hastening to the head-quarters of the Otto . man Commander-in-Chief. Prudence has obliged the troops of the CZAR to fall back towards the Prnth. Necessity must push back his frontiers beyond the Prnth, beyond the Dniester, beyond , the Bug, to the current of the river Dnie per ! THIS is what must be secured by the Allies, as the grand result of the war forced upon them by the lawless aggression of the AUTO CRAT. Not the status quo ante bellum. In stead of that—the driving back of the Russian frontiers to the river Dnieper. Finland may be restored to Sweden—the Crimea and Circassia to the Moslem—the Steppes of Ghirghiz and the north-eastern shores of the Caspian to Tartary— the Black Sea and the Danube may be opened to the whole world's navigation, the barrier of trea ties being for ever removed from the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles—but all will be still, com paratively speaking, of no avail towards the secur ing the future tranquillity of Europe, unless, in addition to all this, neither the Pruth, nor the Dniester, nor the Bug, but the river Dnieper be appointed cite° more one of the boundary lines of the Russian do minions. " Once more," we say. For it was so once. It was so in 1689, on the accession of PETER the Great. At the period named, from the vicinity of Smolensko to that of Ekaterinoslav, the current of the Dnieper marked out in that di rection the frontier of the Russian Empire—the line of demarcation being continued in a sweep from that bend of the Dnieper to the bend in the Volga at Goradok. As the result of the pre sent war with the AUTOCRAT—more even almost than the restoration of the Crimea, and of Finland, and of Circassia to their original owners, more even almost than the opening of the Danube and of the Euxine to the world's naviga tion—the frontiers of the Russian Empire should be driven back from the Pruth to the Dnieper. More—because that advantage would involve the others —not the others it ! Therefore to it the aim of the campaign should, we conceive, be chiefly directed. It should be the paramount condition of any pacific arrangement. Insomuch do we conceive this to be advisable, as epitomising the whole purpose of the conflict adventured upon by France and England, that we would, if a watchword were desired for our diplomatists, we would suggest as the most suitable and the most significant —not the Danube, or the Crimea, or the B >sphorus, not the Aral Sea, or the Euxine, or Finland, or Circassia, but, as symbolising the whole purpose of the war, the whole project of the campaign, simply the name of the "DNIEPER," In the Post-office there is an improvement of 166,0001. on the year, and of 128,0001. on the quarter. In the Crown Lands, on the other hand, there is a deficiency of 132,8881. on the year, and of 135,8881. on the quarter; and in Miscellaneous the falling off is 26,9671. on the year, and 34,649/. on the quarter. So far for the ordinary items. As to the ex traordinary, we may briefly state that in the Im prest and other Moneys there is an increase on the year of 58,4771., but a decrease on the quar ter of 117,043/. ; while in the Repayments of Ad vances there is a deficiency on the year of 102,4701., and on the quarter of 118,6021. Till E QUARTER'S REVENUE. " Ecce iterufn Crispinus." Once more the Chancellor of the Exchequer has presented the Revenue Returns for the year and quarter ending the sth inst., awl the people have again an opp)rtunity of forming their own opinions respecting the state of the National Finances, on evidence that cannot be controverted or denied. The " facts and figures" contained in this im portant document are, so far as they go, conclu sive as to the actual bona fide receipts, and we are enabled by comparing these receipts with the corresponding quarters of former years, to form a tolerably correct estimate of the state of trade, and the amount of comforts enjoyed by the various classes. It is true that the fiscal alterations that have come into operation during the year, and some of these beginning to develope themselves, must to a certain. extent be taken into ac ' count, and that plausible excuses may be offered for some of the deficiences that are so painfully perceptible at this moment. But we cannot receive them as perfectly satisfactory, or agree with the ABERDEEN organ, in thinking that " for the revenue not to have fallen very seriously under these attacks, is equivalent to a great increase under other circumstances !" Nor can we look upon it as "an agreeable state of things," on which the country can be heartily or at all congratulated. In our judgment they prove that, notwithstanding all due allowances that can fairly be made, the tide of prosperity that turned last October is still rapidly ebbing, and, unfortu nately, we see nothing to induce us to anticipate a favourable change, so long as the quasi Na tional Bank keeps on the screw, maintaining a rate of interest so exorbitant as 5i per cent, on first-class paper, and reducing the circulating me dium to an amount far beneath the requirements of the industrial community. We may now look to the results of this long array of figures, and the various items of which it is composed. And first we find that there is a considerable deficiency on the year, and a still larger one on the quarter, that on the year amounting to 474,3691., of which 430,3761. be longs to what is termed the ordinary, and the re sidue, or 43,9931., to the extraordinary branches of the revenue ; while on the quarter the total deficiency is no less than 812,7891., of which 577,144/. is to be deducted from the ordinary, and the balance, or 235,6451., from the extraor dinary items. In the Customs we find that the deficiency of the year is 450,5241., while that of the quarter is 367,494/. This is indeed a deplorable fall ing off, particularly when we remember that last quarter there was also a decline of 106,891/., and the preceding one of 96,8061. We must, however, make allowance for the reduction in the Duties on Tea and Sugar, and many minor articles which were altogether struck out of the tariff. We should also consider the effect of the failure of the currant crop, and the increase in the first cost price of tea occasioned by the Chinese insurrec tion, which prevented the natural and ordinary consequences of the reduction from 2s. 2id. to ls. 6d. of duty from being immediately percep tible. We must also remember that the corres ponding quarter of last year was one of unusual prosperity—the increase in Customs over the similar period of 1852 being no less than 441,1731. Under these circumstances we should not, perphaps, greatly complain, although this important branch of the Revenue has not ex hibited its usual elasticity—so usual indeed, that we have come to look for it as a matter of course. In the Excise there is a deficiency on the year and quarter of 435,336/. and 171,609/. respec tively. Last quarter the deficiency was 155,2311., and the preceding 113,9701. In the allowances to be made under this head, there are items to be entered on each side of the account. On the one side are the Soap Duties, which have been altoge ther abolished, to the extent of some 1,200,0001., while the increase of the price of tallow prevented th e benefit of the abolition from being fully re alise& Ou the other hand, we have the increased SPiritiP Malt in Scotland and Ireland, and the ad ditionalt Tax th roug hout the whole of the United 'Kin g d om • . We should fancy these to be tolerabl y close e quivalents for the Soap Duties— more especially as the quarter ending sth July is e ar B r o iv ap e a ri t ute. th havoehber news ;mere ta c on deprived le t c h t eadt.t the ef manyß caannk, i therefo re, ion of the working classes year when a large propor tion than that of their ordinary comfortceen minimum rate is beginning dicially the amount of theireaorna. fle et very preju- The Stamps exhibit a favourirs. the other items. There is an a • le contrast to increase on the year and quarter, on the forimar of 48 076/ on the latter of 30,485/., and this, not *, n " -- the abolition of the Duties on Advertiswelnithsta ding the so-called reduction on Receipt 8 ent; and tamps and , others, but which really produced much larger returns than the higher rates previously attempted to be enforced, but so frequently evaded from their unfairness. We have no doubt that when the admirable measure of the Chancellor cf the Exchequer, respecting the stamps on Bills of Exchange shall receive the Legislative sanction, there will be a much larger augmentation under this bead. In the Assessed Taxes there have been defi ciencies of 33,9021. on the year, and 74,556/. on the quarter. The Property, / and Succession THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 6, )854. Taxes, which are now taken together, show improvements both on the year and quarter of 435,165/. and 48,567/. These may appear to be satisfactory, but we regret to say that the facts are very different. Not only is there the Suc cession Tax to be taken into account, but the ex tension of the burden to persons having incomes exceeding 100/. per annum in the United King dom, and to all parties possessing 100/. per an num in Ireland, besides deductions that have been made for the doubled Income Tax on sums payable within the last quarter. The whole greatly exceeding the beggarly sum of 48,567/., which, under the circumstances, may be con sidered as indicating a deplorable deficiency on the quarter. HONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,000 bales, including 500 American taken for export. The market closed heavily, with much cotton offering. Compared with Friday's rates, prices were without alteration, ex cept in American, which were 1-16 d. lower, and common Sea Island id. to ld. higher. The sales comprised 4,000 American, 400 Pernam and Ma ranham at 6d. to Bid., 200 Bahia at 6id. 62d., 250 Egyptian at 6ad. to 11d., 500 Surat at 31d. to 41d., and 300 Sea Island at lOid. to ls. Bd. per lb. Railway Shares were firm. Silk, by the general acquiescence of the trade, is to be sold at its net conditioned weight. The new sugar duties have come into operation, and the market is flat. Messrs. H. W. Lord and Co. have stopped payment. The following ships have been accepted by Go vernment for the transport service :—Clifton, Edwin Fox, Belgravia, arid Violet. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty re quire tenders to-morrow for the conveyance of 520 tons of oats to Varna, calling at Constantinople for orders from the commissariat. In a circular, dated from Melbourne, the writers state :—The European population of the Australias is estimated at 600,000, the consuming power of whom is equal at least to three times as many in England. Therefore, the wants of a population equivalent to 1,500,000 at home are to be provided for. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. ___-4, THE WAR. ATTACK ON CRONSTADT, THE FIRING OF THE FIRST SHOT. (BY ELECTRIC lELE(IRAPII.) DANTZIC, July s.—The fleet are in sight of Cron. stadt. This assertion is remarkably borne out by the facts as we gather them from the trade returns up to August last. It appears, for instance, that in round numbers, England exported to the Austra lian colonies in the first six months of 1851 (being at the dawn of the gold discovery) 3,000,000 yards of plain, and. 3,600,000 yards of printed, calicoes ; in the six months ending Aug. 1853, the amounts were nearly 7,ooo,oooyards of plain, and nearly 6,000,000 yards of printed goods of the kind, besides emigrants' outfits and stocks drawn from India and other mar kets. The hardware trade of Birmingham and Nottingham could tell a similar tale. The _Directors of the Bank of England have broken up without altering the rate of discount. The English Stock Market has been very heavy, the circumstance of the Bank not having lowered its minimum rate of discount being against prices, while most parties are so unaccustomed to a decline in the revenue, that even allowing for the reduc tion in the duties upon several articles, especially tea, they look upon the return as unfavourable. Certainly a period of war may be deemed in convenient for any reduction of income, but no one looking impartially at the return can regard it as otherwise than satisfactory under the circumstances. Consols have been 93 to 93g for special transfer, and 93i to for account. The New 31 per Cents. have realised 93g- to 932, and the Three per Cents. 93 to 93g. East India Stock has been done at 232, without the dividend. South Sea Stock has been at 114, also ex dividend. Ex chequer Bills have been at is. discount to 2s. pre mium, and India Bonds at par. There is a dull market fur Foreign Stocks gene rally, but Mexican Bonds have been firmer, at upon the passing in the United States Con gress of the bill appropriating 2,000,0001, for the Gadsden indemnity. Peruvian Three per Cents. have been marked 52. Sardinian Bonds are 86 to 861, and ex dividend. Russian 41 per Cents. have been at 83 to 831. Spanish Bonds continue flat, and there is great uncertainty respecting the issue of the insurrectionary movements that have been commenced, and with which, as against an incom petent Ministry, there is much snore sympathy than is usually felt for simple pronunciamentos got up by ambitious and needy Generals. The following are the nominal prices of foreign Stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6± to WI ; Peruvian, 67 to 69 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 99 to 101 ; Spanish New Deferred, 18/. to 19± ; ditto 3 per Cents., 37 to 381 ; ditto Certificates, 4 to 41 ; ditto Passive, 4 to 41. _ A Russian steamer has been chased by the Des• perate. The first shot fired against Cronstadt was by the Desperate. Cholera has broken out. The Gorgon has arrived. SKIRMISH WITH THE RUSSIAN FLEET NEAR SEBASTOPOL. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day are in round figures as under : We learn by telegraph, via Malta, that on the 15th of June a rencontre took place between the Terrible, Furious, and Descartes, and eight Rus sian steamers, near Sebastopol. No damage was done. A shell fell on board the Vladimir. The combined fleets were at Baldjik on the 24th June. Another telegraphic despatch from Vienna, says, some Russian ships left Sebastopol and fired upon the cruisers of the allied fleets. They occasioned some damage to the Furious, and then returned to Sebastopol... The English have taken soundings at the mouth of the Dniester, not far from Odessa, and have had some trifling skirmishes with the Cossacks. 1854. 1853. Great Western ARRIVAL AT VIENNA OF THE OFFICIAL North-Western 57,833 56,499 South-Western Brighton 16,134 11,662 Midland South-Eastern 18,688 17,851 Caledonian, and Edin. and Glasgow 16,;:35 14,427 Great Northern 18,228 15,817 Lancashire and Yorkshire 20,361 19,142 York and North Midland Newcastle and Berwick } 32,188 30,984 Leed3 Northern The Railway Share Market has been lower, and with diminished transactions. The Great nor thern have dropped in common with the London and North Western, the York and North Mid land, the Caledonian and the Midland. French Shares have been very quiet at about the previous rates. The East Indian are not quite so good. Iu the Gold Mines there have been very few bargains. Banks are dull. The Australian Agricultural Companies' Shares are lower, and Crystal Palace have been at a discount. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES (From the Ofticel List.) Rusinem. Ann -93i 3 $ i 3 93$ 3 2 i x d 3} per Cent. Annuities . 3 p p e e r , C C e en ti t t. . C Re on d s u o c l e s d A A n n nui nui ti t e i s es 93 New 2} per Cent. Annuities Annuities, k Expire sth Jan., 1860 232 par 71Ditto under £lOOO 3 p par India Stoc k S B t o o n e ds , South Sea Stock £lOOO Consols for Opening 19th July Exchequer Bills, 24d. Vl000 2500 3 p par Small. 5 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. , Lytican 3 per Cent. Peruvian 3 per Cent. e ti nt per Cent... ......... 52 Spanish:apr DittoDadriiit:t Ditto i:n4Nfi?Atelftdiulsrde, Deferred,si Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St ccount B6l 6 per Cen t .............. 37 3 per Cent,,,, ,,,,., 19 83 A x d x d x dl ~ tvi•iends on trio 4,,,ve p‘ts ante in London. Dutch Exchange, 2,1 per Cent. 12 Gull ...., 60 59k x d THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Opening 19th July THE RUSSIAN LOAN.— A letter from Berlin of the Ist, in the Moniteur, says :—" The Russian loan goes on very wretchedly. It is offered by M. Mendelsohn, who, perserbdiv, appears to have taken very little of it, at 87, which with the difference of the exchange at St. Petersburg, brings it to 93. On the other hand, the house of Hope has sent an agent to Berlin, who offers it on the spot at a lower price than M. Mendelsohn. 'The financial world is not at all favourably inclined towards Russian policy, and it is foreseen that it the war is prolonged for only some months, Russia will be 3om pelled to have recourse to a considerable issue of paper money. FOREIGN EXC HANGES. —The mercantile advicea from the Continent contain nothing of much importance. The quotation of the rate of exchange from Paris is rather less favourable, and, if there had been any Australian gold in the London market, some moderate amounts he might, probably, statements o 1 the European E xc h anges to discountenance most T all dealing in the new Ru ss i an loan has crea t e d more s a ti s f ac ti on h a the v disposition been purchased remittance. in for manifested of than surprise, s i nce from t h e fi rs t it s i n t ro du c ti on a t Amsterdam seemed a procee di ng w h o ll y i ncons i s t ent with the proper course of a neutral power. THE SILK TRADE.—The recently appointed deputation of the manufacturing portion of the silk trade called dur ing the last week on the merchants and brokers, re questing their acquiescence in the resolution agreed to by the ma nufacturers—to buy silk at conditioned weight only ; and, on the whole, were satisfactorily met. Some houses expressed themselves favourable to the settlement of the question, and were disposed to facilitate business by !consulting the wishes of their customers ; others would follow the example of other merchants ; and one of the oldest opponents to the system would fully agree to it if it were rendered general in London and in the country, adding an opinion that the practice is highly desirable for the manufacturers, although some objection might be raised to the positive declaration as to buying and selling on " condition terms" only. THE NEW A CTS ON EXCISE AND CUSTOMS DUTIES,— Yesterday two acts of Parliament, which received the royal assent on Monday, were printed, to alter certain duties of excise and customs. It is recited that towards raising the supplies to defray the expenses of the just and necessary war in which her Majesty is engaged, additional rates and duties have been freely and volun tarily given. The new duties are already well known, and were in force before the passing of the acts. As to pre-existing contracts, it is provided that every person who may before the day on which the duty under the law is payable on any articles of customs, have entered into any contract or agreement, is empowered to add to the contracted price such a sum of money as will be equi valent to the increased duty now payable. Two SISTERS DROWNED.—A very melancholy acci dent from sea-bathing occurred at Kincraig, near Elie, on Tuesday last. Misses Isabel and Mary Russell had gone down together to the beach—the latter with the intention of bathing, her sister accompanying her, the place they had selected being between two ridges of rock, and the time being high water, with a considerable swell. It is supposed that Miss Mary had mistaken the ground, which suddenly dips into deep water, or had been drawn out by the current, and her sister, seeing her danger had gone into her rescue, when both being beyond their depth, and unable to reach the shallow water, they perished together. Their bodies were found cli Si togct. er within an hour afterwards, and, although ' medical : ssistance was promptly prucured, and every 1 effort used to restore animation, all was ineffectual,— Fife lieraid. REPLY OF THE CZAR. According to a telegraphic despatch dated Vienna, last evening, Prince Gortschakoff had just arrived there as bearer of the official reply of the St. Petersburg Cabinet. It had not transpired what this answer was. The Prince was also bearer of an autograph letter from the Emperor Nicholas to the Emperor of Austria, the tenour of which is said to be, that by evacuating Wallachia and leaving the Danube free, the Emperor considers that he satis fies the reasonable demands of Austria. Moldavia will not be evacuated, as the occupation of this principality is a necessary guarantee for the conditions of a future treaty of peace. If this be correct, a war between Austria and Russia is inevitable. BLOCKADE OF THE WHITE SEA. A telegraphic despatch from Harnburgh, of the sth, says that the combined squadron intended to blockade the White Sea, and which arrived at Hammerfort on the 30th ult., is composed of one English frigate and nine steam-corvettes, and nine French steam-corvettes. THE ALLIED ARMIES' IN THE EAST.— IMPORTANT DESPATCHES. Advices from Varna, of the 23d June, state that on the 21st and 22d a cannonade was heard in the direction of Shumla. General Canrobert sent a squadron of Dragoons to reconnoitre. The allied troops were preparing to advance. The allied forces at Varna are 50,000 strong. General Bosquet's division had left Adrianople for Shumla. Advices from Constantinople, of the 26th ult., say an important movement of troops to the seat of war is taking place. One Turkish brigade is placed under French, another under English, command. Prince Napoleon and Marshal St. Arnaud have gone to Varna. A letter from Widdin, of the 30th ult., states that Omer Pacha was making arrangements to es tablish his head-quarters at Rustchuck. The communications of the Danube were kept open as far as Sistova by the Turkish flotilla. RECEPTION OF THE FRENCH AT ADRIANOPLE. ADRIANOPLE, June 22.—Sixteen thousand aux liary troops have arrived here. They are destined or Burgas. General Prim has l e ft S e h um l a . _ _ The Echo de Veson,e contains the following ex tract of a letter from a French officer, dated. Adri anople, the 14th ult.:— " The advance guard of the French army left the camp of Boula-Hir on the 3d, and arrived at Ardianople on the 9th, It was composed of the 3d battalion of foot chasseurs, and all the staff of the 2d division. Every where we were admirably received, and the entrance into Adrianople in particular was the occasion of many charming scenes between people who could only make themselves understood by signs. The whole city, con taining 100,000 inhabitants, came out to meet us, and men, women, and children kept crying out, Behold then the good French ! Praise be to God !' I cite one fact to you amongst a thousand, and which I myself witnessed. A Zouave in going through the streets stopped at a fountain to drink, but two Turks who sn w him took hold of him, and carried him off by force to their own house. where they gave him fruit, bread, and sherbet in abundance. Everywhere in the place we are most kindly treated. The doors of the mosques are open to us, even during prayers." RUSSIAN ARMY OF OCCUPATION. The Medical Journal of Vienna states, on the authority of letters which it has received, that the sick and wounded of the Russian army of the Danube are so numerous, that field hospitals had been established in every village that they occu pied, and that they were all crowded. In the re treat they were compelled to abandon a consider able number for the want of the means of transport. The mortality among the sick and wound e d was i n April 41 per cent., and in May 60 per cent. The Prussian Correspondence announces from Bucharest, J une 25, that M. de Budberg, who had been appointed by the Czar to the administration of the Danubian provinces, has declared that the Russians were about to evacuate Wallachi :, and perhaps Moldavia, from motives of strategy. BRA VERY OF THE TURKS. --- An English officer who has arrived at Constan tinople from Silistria, confirms all the accounts received respecting the astonishing bravery and heroism of the besieged Turks. No French or English soldier could have endured with equal for titude, it is asserted, the perils and privations of a continual bombardment, and au overwhelming force during so long a period. There is scarcely, perhaps, a man in the fortress, it is stated, who cannot produce some honourable mark of his valour, in the shape of a cicatrised wound, chtha er b at u ca r tie n ur s ts, , and bruises of all sorts and sizes. There is, it appears, a general deficit of fingers, ears, noses, and other appendages ; all that remains intact is enemy's o t bo the ehdtishent destiny, u fitno t hfiry h eer, ih e ewr a hea t rt, with ehon w fsm i t es e h agne o f h u ain l vt Te e aon s upn t rpei c ken o ias n orii ficsln:dvas were eiossuili occasion n e i l ee i ri n n. o s t f a reposing s duringng with it h an the occasional c hb 0 uu e respite n a s eightr f tt r h F o oe m o t. h r wac eabitheeet i kil wereled a b s y n a u chance projectile, p a r s o jec evertil ande in less s t the than smokers hour after the accident. THE WAR IN ASIA. --- The Siecle publishes the following letter from an European officer serving in the Turkish army of Asia : "According to the information which every day reaches us relative to the enemy's army, it is in a very precarious state, and morally enfeebled. The Russians have at most 20,000 men at Gumri. I saw a part of their tents in going to the advanced posts. After having evacuated the forts of the Black Sea and Onsourgheti, they concentrated themselves between Koutais and Gumm, to the number of 15,000 men. From thence they endeavoured to cover the defile of Daniel, which is the key of their communications, and which was threat ened by the mountaineers. They have also from 4,000 to 6,000 men at Akiska, and from 3,000 to 4,000 at Alkalaki, small fortified towns on the road to Tiflis. At Erivan they have from 5,000 to 6,000 men. All the accounts we receive agree in representing the population of Georgia, both Mussulman and Chris tian, as very hostile towards Russia. The Russian sects, who have been exiled to that country, share these sentiments. They only await the signal to show those who have deprived them of their independence that the remembrance of it is present in their minds. As to the Caucasians, they are at present at their post. Com munications are established by sea between the combined fleets and Schamyl. The intrepid chief is ready to be present at the campaign which is about to open, and we have a rend ezvous appointed with him on t h e roa d to Tiflis. These are not, however, the only elements which we hope to see co-operate in our undertakings. By the coast of Abasia, which has been restored to the Cauca he. sians by the p resence o f t h e A ng lo-French flag ttbßihavl the Cossack c kcj k isob S soe sfr e at a tcyh , ke w a rn e aKde c eot o ,ou m aba m nal dnl u t n sah i t n e er a do t nn e gts htl w yi et i u t aT h tt teoa t rne h e shk e oe, df C inw h s ctt t hh i o a etf n hi rt s ehy l o pe r f ri nh a t tn h vof to i have theytpb e e e ro tip ehave oa fvdespoiled. whomenloi gtißo forgotten ss T s h far e a s e t e mystified It o ih Cossacks and ddt w l tee. although enslaved oh h v u e oae gdnal dlfiruer they aboute Gr enslaved, m r i ) e ra e tey k o form the advanced guard of the armies w act against Russia." GREECE. Advices from Athens, of the 30th ult., state that the rebels have been defeated at Calambaca. Fu a d Effendi took Calambaca by assault. Hadgi Petros's band was dispersed. 1,000 were killed, and many made prisoners. The Turks sent 600 heads of the slain to Larissa. Secretary Wenciling has left on leave. Lamia has been reinforced. The rebellion in Thessaly is considered at an end. The dismissal of Greek officials continues. THE BALTIC. STOCKHOLM, Juno 29.—The Sivenska Tidning contains a letter from a merchant in Finland, who, however, is probably a better man of business than a man of war. He says the garrisons of the whole province do not exceed 3,000 men, distributed in equal strength in Abo, Wasa, and Gamla-Carleby, that there was no chance of their being reinforced, and that the oppressive heat and the extreme diffi culty of internal communication made it highly improbable that fresh troops would be sent up. It is only at Helsiugfors and Sweaborg that there are any large bodies of troops concentrated. He goes on to say that the general feeling of the inhabitants is hostile. BAR° SOUND, June 26.—We are ordered off very suddenly. The admiral has just made a signal for the captain of our ship to prepare for sea. We expect to sail for England on the 2d, so you must not be surprised at our arrival. We have been expecting it, as we are fifty men short, and all sorts of defects in the ship. The Commander-in- Chief has gone up with the screw fleet to have a look at Cronstadt. Whether he intends having an attack on the place or not I cannot say. Admiral Corry, with the sailing s hi ps , are i n compan y w ith us ; they sail for Helsingfors (about ten miles east . ward of this place), so as to prevent the Russian fleet from coming out of that place, as it is expected they will, so we hope to have ago in at them before long. We are to join them again in a day or two. The Odin, Recta, and Valorous have had a smart action at Bomarsund (the capital of the Aland Islands), and captured 100 guns, destroyed all their forts, and played the very deuce with them, and have done all this with only six wounded. We have heard news of our boat's crew that were taken prisoners. The officers and fifteen men were at Helsingfors, and are treated very well. The remainder are left behind, at the place of action, they having been wounded. It is gra tifying they are treated so well, as they complain of nothing. ADELPHI THEATRE. Madame Giradin's touching little piece, La Joie fait Peur, recently translated so well for the Lyceum Theatre, has been subjected to a similar adaptation at the Adelphi, where it was brought out last night under the title of Hopes and Fears. The yearning and heart-broken mother is here personated by Madame Celeste, who does not fail to infuse a vast amount of melodramatic tenderness into her delineation of parental anxiety and the grief which admits of less amelioration than any other—the loss of a child. Regnier's great part, the garrulous Noel, is enacted by Mr. Benjamin Webster, who enters more completely into the spirit of the French original than his contemporary, clever as he is, at the Lyceum. The amiable drivel of the old do mestic, his fond remembrances of the boyish tricks of the lost Adrion, and his simple faith in his charmed life, are depicted by Mr. Webster with a delicacy of detail which b.:longs to the highest order of dramatic personation. The picture of the good-natured old man, wh ose w h o l e happi ness ie bound itp in the welfare of the family which be serves, is, in short, replete with ability. The artless Blanche des Aubiers, the daughter of the grieving mother, is sustained by Miss Mary Keeley, whose exuberance of pleasure when she sees and embraces the lost sheep. her brother, is portrayed with much natural gaieby, and with a tino. ° e of hoydenism th a t i s no t unpleasant. The scene with Madame des Aubiers, in which she labours to break the joyful news to her without exciting her to a dangerous excess, is also a skilful piece of acting. To the character of Adrien—which is here assigned to a female performer Miss Woolgar lends a vivacity in admirable keeping with the nature of the part. The principal personages are thus carefully and effectively embodied in the present version of Madame de Gira tin's piece, which, it is probable, will en joy popularity at the Adelphi as elsewhere. the Chancellor of the Exchequer is suffering from an attack of chicken -pox, but is going on very favourably. Lieut.-General the Hun. Sir George Cathcart, K.O 8., who arrived in London on Tuesday, accompanied by his military secretary, Colonel Charles Seymour, from the seat of his late Government at the Cape, transacted Imeiness yesterday at the Horse Guards, the gallant general having been appointed to succeed Sir Geo. Brown, commanding a division of our army in Turkey, as Adjutant-General to the forces. I,rd Howden, our Minister at Madrid, is expected to arrive in town early in the ensuing week from the Coetinent. The Earl of Antrim is now quite recovered from his recent indisposition, and is enabled to enjoy a drive along the coast between Glenarm and Garron Tower. The Earl of Wilton has arrived in Grosvenor-square from the Yacht Squadron House, at Cowes. The noble earl and family leave town at the close of the month for the Isle of Wight. Mr. ALBERT SHITH.—Mr. Albert Smith has had the honour of receiving a magnificent diamond pin from her Majesty, as a mark of the gratification her Majesty de rived from her visit to his Mont Blanc entertainment last week. Col. Phipps, in transmitting this royal gift to Mr. Smith, stated that he had the Queen's commands to assure him that her Majesty had been seldom more amused and pleased than on the occasion in question. WHITEHALL, JUNE 28, 1854.—The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Right Hon. George Henry Robert Charles William Vane, Earl Vane, and to his brothers Adolphus Frederick Charles William Vane, Esq., commonly called Lord Adolphus Frederick Charles William Vraie, one of the Knights of the Shire for the northern division of the county palatine of Durham, Captain i n the Regiment of Scots Fusilier Guards, and Ernest ?'Donnell Vane, Esq., commonly called Lord Ernest M'Donnell Vane, Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards, the only sons of Charles William, Marquis of Londonderry, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, General of the Forces, and Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards, deceased, by Frances Anne, his second wife, only child and heir of Sir Henry Vane Tempest, late of Wynyard, in the said county palatine of Durham, baro net, by Anne Catherine, Countess of Antrim, his wife, both also deceased, her royal licence and authority that they may respectively take and henceforth use the sur name of Tempest, in addition to and after that of Vane, and also bear the arms of Tempest quarterly with those of Vane and Stewart, and that such surnames and arms may in like manner be taken, borne, and used by their issue respectively ; sucti arms being first duly exempli fied according to the ls.ws of arms, and reco r d e d i n t h e Herald's-offic e , o th erw i se the said royal licence and per mission to be void and of none effect. And also to com mand that the said royal concession and declaration be registered in her Majesty's College of Arms.—London Gazette. EAST INDIA 110U3E.—Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at t'ne East India House, when Lieut.-General the Hon. George Anson was appointed Commander-in- Chief of the Company's foi ces on the Fort St. George establishment, and second Member of Council at that Presidency. GENFAIAL SIR GEORGE BROWN. —The general in com mand ander Lord Raglan in the East is the son of the Provost Brown, Linkwood, nea r El g i n , an d b rother to Pete? Bro wn , Esq. He was educated at the Elgin Academy, and may be claimed as a real Moray loon. By his intrepidity and untiring perseverance, combined with uiv.iommon decision and military skill, he has attained hip present distinguished position.—Adinburgh. Courant. ENGLAND AND FRANCE.—We perceive by our adver tising columns that a series of galas, in honour of the alliance between the two countries, comes off next week at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, commencing on the Tuesday, under the patronage of his Excellency the French Ambassador. Arrangements on the most spirited style are in progress ; music, dancing, flowers, and firewerks are to unite their attractions. THE RUSSIAN FRIGATE IN THE PACIFIC.—We are in formed by the advices from San Francisco, per Pacific that the R uss i an 44-gun frigate Diana had left ,Val paraiso, and was spoken in lat. 16 S., long. 93 W., by the Isabella, from Glasgow, arrived at San Francisco, which had been 17 days in company with her. Her destination was not known, nor had the declaration of war against Russia arrived at Valparaiso before she sailed. ETON COLLEGE, Wednesday.—Yesterday evening an express arrived at the Provost's Lodge, from King's College, Cambridge, bearing a scholarship for Mr. A. H. A. Morton, captain of the school. The vacancy at King's was caused by the resignation of the Rev. M. G. D. Kirwan, M.A., Fellow of this college. Mr. Morton is son of Edward Morton, 4, Kensington -gate, Hyde park. He entered as an oppidan in February, 1851, became a King's scholar at th e E as t er f o ll ow i ng, came out captain of his year in the election trials, 1852, and succeeded Mr. Burnaby as captain of the school on the 23d of last month. His progress through the school has thus been extremely rapid, indeed the most rapid on record. It is worthy of remark, also, that Mr. Yorke, oppidan, is now the captain of th e school. The circum stance of an oppidan being captain has not occurred for many years. Mr. Evans, son of Chancellor Evans, of Norwich, is captain of the collegers. THE ROYAL LONDON MlLlTlA.—Upwards of sixty of her Majesty's Commissioner; of Lieutenancy for the city of London gave a splendid banquet at the London Tavern on Friday evening to the officers of this regi ment. The Lord Mayor presided, with General Bush (the inspecting officer) on his right, and Colonel Wilson on his left hand. Amongst the commissioners were— Mr. Masterman and Sir James Duke, members for the city of London ; Colonel Sykes, one of the directors of the East India Company; Mr. John Tooke, of the Bank of England ; Sir John Key, the Chamberlain of Lon don ; Aldermen Farncomb, Finnis, Cubitt, Rose, Ken nedy, Sheriff Elect Muggeridge, and many of the prin pcoolfoutrhse of the rTeghie orchestra, and pl a y e d bandnic penalt ofrnw eetrrhceehsarunesgtpsi of the e o f o r C o o i o i t n y p e t d h eTt the e e o during dinner. A guard of honour attended at the doors during the evening. The company separated at a late hour, after a day of remarkable conviviality. LONDON OMNIBUSES.—It is astonishing that in a co monstrous should be tolerated at all. manity an evil so untry so fond of boasting of its civilization and hu ranee. Whose gorge abominable nuisances per petuallythat there are 3,000 of the , e We can only attribut w e ou th h e i. a o p o a t tl r iy ise di a sp t ted re t ti o eo i t g io n n: o consuming horse at a rate t ascertained that the average blocking up every importhanatt twhoooroldughhefare, scarcelyeac credited, had it not been h d w u b r i a e t h i o p n os o s f es t s h e e s life asg roefat,a London "bus-horse "is under four months —New Quarterly Review for July. MADASTE TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.—This exhibition, p it re n s o o t rt in greater,he metropolis, attractions than ap pears nearly to have arrived at its acme, since the vast It has wholthe any e th er place of üblic improveme n t s l ately carried out by its enterpi i s i ng pos sessors —the su i te of rooms, en not being surpassed in size or magnifi cence, 7 th o e o feet i n l ength. E t r i rg s i being g h t a h v e i n fi g rst t he place ai d Messrs. T ussaud to blend both amusement and instruc bee epnrotmhea de constant bein instruc tion to get h er, particularly the introduction of music, h ai i mo ly f • whole. of of amuse andths ge rn hw e a n er t ma finish to the i o n t g the e c i l i a c s e s , to o improve th e general effect, n A SAILOR'S LETTER. " BARO SOUND, FINLAND, June Dear Sir—l have just read your kind letter, and I humbly beg par don to answer it at once, although it is past time at night, and I sin writing on the upper deck. Dear Sir, I must tell you we are under sailing orders for to go to sea to-morrow. We are going to blockade Revel, a port about 40 miles above here. The whole fleet is lying here, with the exception of Admiral Plumridge's squa dron. The whole fleet is the finest that was ever seen by the oldest man living. To see the implements of destruction on such a scale, it really looks something awful grand. They are the finest ships that men can build. I wish you could have the beautiful view this evening. The sun is getting low over the trees ; on shore it really is splendid. Thank God, you are not here, for this is no place for you, Sir. Here we are, like dogs tied by the neck, all ready to fight when let go. Today we have had a hard day's work. Admiral Chads had us all on shore, with our gunboats and field pieces and marines, to exercise. We have had a very hot day. What with the heat of the powder and the sun, it made us sweat pretty fair. But, thank God, we are all returned on board without any accident. To tell you, Sir, what we hear, Sir (but I don't know that it is altogether true, although we expect it every day)--..ve hear the whole fleet is going sonic day this week to engage Sweaborg, the entrance to Helsingfors. It is a very strong place to take. It has three batteries, mounting altogether 800 guns, and 12 sail of men-of war line-of-battle-ships. So you see, Sir, we have our work cut out for us to do ; but we shall do it, with the blessing of God. The Vulture is just arrived to our Admiral with the melancholy news of losing 28 men killed and a great many wounded. The Vulture and some other of Plumridge's squadron engaged the port up the Gulf. They got possession, and took some mer chant shipping out of the port without much loss, and two days after the Vulture went on shore, not far from the same place, to get some water. The men were all on shore, hard at work, and some of the steamers' paddle boats were sent to protect them, but the Russians came clown by hundreds and murdered the poor fellows like dogs. The boat went in and fired at the troops, when a Russian gunboat that had been lying in a creek with six guns, the first time she fired at our poor fellows they killed 1 lieutenant, 2 midshipmen, acd 12 men. Then they were forced to give in by being overpowered. They have lost altogether about 60 men killed, and a great many wounded. The whole fleet is raving mad to have I revenge. The whole fleet want to be at it, and settle the dispute ; but our Admiral has something in the wind that makes him so quiet. We expect he will break loose every day. We aro going to leave the fleet in the morning ; but we shalt be close to the place of action ; so it is very likely by the time you get this Sweaborg will be no more, nor any of its shipping. I hope to have the pleasure of fetching some of them to Sheerness, to show you all what we can do. But I must come to a conclusion, for I can scarce keep my eyes open, for I am very tired. But I must tell you, sir, I thought of you most of any time on Easter Sunday ; it blew a bitter gale of wind, and the snow and ice was fit to cut my poor Lae to pieces, for I was at the wheel for two hours, from six to eight in the morning. Another day was the 6th of May, a sorrowful day for us, for we lost one of our young men, off our topsail yard. Poor fellow ; I do not know, if you recollect him, but he was the young man that went with poor —'s widow to the grave when we buried him. They called him —, and a smart young man he was. I was in the greatest of danger for 30 minutes ; but thank God he spared our lives for this time, and I hope it will be a warning to us for the future. I often think of many remarks I heard you make, and many passages in the Bible I could point out. They are a very great comfort to me, particularly of a night, when walking the deck alone. That is the only time for me to meditate. I often run my thoughts as far as —, and think of days gone by. I hope and trust to God they will return. He only knows. I am afraid I shall have many ups and downs before that time. But ne ver mind, sir, I must not begin to think of home. Here we are, and we must to protect do our duty, and trust to Providence We all send our kind respects to you and Mrs. —andus. family. Most happy we was to hear the childre n w as well. I hope and trust the babes may be as good as th e father ; this is my prayer. I cannot write much about women and children, for it makes me anything but com fortable ; and so, sir, I shall conclude,! wishing y ou may be so kind as to tell my e.t.a s wife we are all well and hearty. You must excuse my writing ; I have had a very bad thumb. and I can scarce hold the pen, so I must give over and go to bed. So good night, and may God bless you and Mrs. and the children is the prayer of "Your obedient and humble servant, df * * * * ~ "The Rev. * * *." SPANISH INSURRECTION. REPORTED DEFEAT OF THE INSURGENTS. Advices from Madrid, received by way of Paris, state that on the 30th a sanguinary combat took place between the troops who remained faithful to the Royal cause and the insurgents near the village of Vicalvaro. The insurgents, it is said, three times charged the Royal troops, and were each time repulsed with loss. They were at last entirely routed, and retired upon Toledo, leaving the field of battle covered with dead and wounded and the bodies of horses. Colonel Garriaao, many officers, and a consider able number of soldiers e have been made prisoners by the Royal troops. Later advices to the 3d inst. state that a con siderable number of workmen and soldiers have abandoned the rebels, and made their submission. The news from the provinces is said to be satis factory. At the latest dates, 6 o'clock on the evening of the 4th, the Government was expecting reinforce ments from Saragossa and Valladolid, with which they hoped soon to reduce the insurgents. Madrid was said to be tranquil, and there was no rising in the provinces. Notwithstanding the favourable accounts given by the telegraphic despatches received from Madrid, the state of affairs in Spain seems to be very pre carious. The Messager de Bayonne, and private letters from Madrid, give a direct contradiction to the telegraph. They say that the Queen's troops, commanded by the Minister of War, so far from being victorious, were driven back precipitately into the city of Madrid, after having lost their ar tillery and 50 men. Half the garrison of Madrid is said to have joined the movement. Great anxiety is felt as to the part to be taken by General Narvaez and General Serano. SAN SEBASTIAN, July 2.—Although the Govern ment is doing all it can to prevent the circulation of intelligence respecting the movements of Generals O'Donnel and tulce, it is known that the present pronunciamiento will most probably lead to th e downfall of the Sartorius Cabinet, if not to changes of much greater importance. The insurgents call for the proclamation of the Constitution of 1837 ; but, depend upon it, their exigencies will not be confined to this demand. The conspiracy has ex tensive ramifications, and we are in hourly expec tation of hearing of risings at Barcelona, Saragossa, (to. ; in which case San Sebastian (where the exist ing Government is very unpopular) will soon follow their example. Much importance is attached to the fact that the Bourbon regiment is quartered here. This corps was sent to San Sebastian in dis grace after the late unsuccessful attempt at Sara gossa, and its colonel (Here) is now in prison here, whilst most of the officers have been changed ; but if anything takes place at Saragossa, and Colonel Hore is liberated, it is expected that he will find means to put himself at the head of his regiment. AUSTRIA. The Moniteur publishes the following : SERAJEVO, June 20.—The Austrian Staff-Captain Jovanovitch arrived on the 16th at Mostar, the bearer of a letter from General Mamula to Mustapha Pacha, in which that General gives the assurance that the troops concentrated in Dalmatia are only intended to guarantee the maintenance of peace and order, and that with that and he is about to take energetic steps to prevent all aggression on the part of Montenegro. He terminates in praying the Pacha to have no apprehension on the subject of military measures, which are a proof of the good intentions which animate his Government. The Constitutionnel examines at great length the present position of the Russians in the Principa lities, and concludes that the Czar, finding himself baffled by Turkey and the 'Western Powers on the one hand, and by the hostility of Austria on the other, has resolved, if passible, to avenge on the latter the mishaps which he has encountered in the• course of the present unfortunate campaign. The Constitutionnel says that the policy of Austria has always been opposed to the aggressions of Russia on Turkey, and that documents were discovered some years ago among the papers of the Grand Duke Constantine, at Warsaw, and published in the _Portfolio, which prove that in 1829 Austria was most anxious to induce the Western Powers to resist the advance of the Russian army beyond the Balkans, but that France and England refused to interfere. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs on that occasion (the Count de la Ferronays) de clared that " the King would never lend himself to any collective step respecting the Emperor of Russia to exhort him to make peace, or to inter fere in a formal manner in his affairs." And on the Austrian envoy insisting that, at all events, cfficieuses representations should be made, the same Minister replied that "he would make neither officieuses representation s nor representa tions of any other nature, if they were to assume the character of concert between the four Powers." The consequence was the treaty of Adrianople. ADDRESS OF THE AUSTRIAN COM MANDER-IN-CHIEF. General Hess, the Austrian Commander-in- Chief, has published the following order of the day, dated June 25 : " His Majesty the Emperor has deigned to confide to me, by his high decision of the 21st of June, the com mand of the 3d and 4th armies stationed near the fron tier. Endeavouring to render myself worthy of the con fidence of my Emperor and Lord by the most unlimited devotedness to his august person and to his service, and to realise his intentions according to the best of my power, and with the experience of a military life of nearly fifty years, I count, with the most entire Icon- Hence, on the ancient and inexhaustible spirit which has always animated our army—the spirit of discipline, order, bravery, and sacrifice which distinguish so glo riously the Austrian soldier and officer—as also on the intelligence and perseverance of the superior chiefs in the execution of their obligations. But I particularly count on the excellent direction which will be given to the troops by the commanders of corps—whom I see at their head with entire confidence, and who, I am convinced, will be my faithful and active supporters on all occa sions, as old and tried companions in arms and combats." FRANCE. FRENCH ARMY FOR THE BALTIC. General Baraguay d'llilliers will leave Paris to morrow (Friday). He embarks with a division of the army under his command for the Baltic. Eng land will provide vessels for transport. Yesterday it was said that the house of Messrs. Rothschild, freres of Paris, refused to discount the coupons of the Spanish debt as they have been in the habit of doing. Important news is said to have been received from Germany by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and which is said to explain the delay in the entry of the Austrian forces into Wallachia. Orders had been de spatched from Vienna in the morning, but in the afternoon these orders were counter manded, in consequence, it is said, of the arrival of a note from the Berlin Cabinet, declaring to the Austrian Cabinet that, in its opinion, Austria could not commence any warlike movement be fore the arrival of the official answer of the Czar. The Bulletin des Lois contains a decree, an nouncing that an extraordinary credit of 52,250,000 f. is opened from the budget of 1854, to the Minister of War, to provide for the most urgent expenses resulting from the augmentation of the army and the formation of the army of the East. In that sum, the pay and f oo d o f t ro ops 1 g set down for 20 millions ; clothes, equipment, and camp furniture, for 6 millions ; general remount) 8 millions ; transports, 74 millions ; artillery and engineers, each 1i million ; horse-furniture, millions ; and forage, 5 millions. The Phare de Cherbourg announces, that at the end of the present campaign a division of the Baltic fleet will pass the winter at that port. That division will be composed,,it is said, of the Do" gueschn line-of-battle ship, and the following fri gates—the Andromaque, the Semillante, the Ven geance, the Poursuivante, the Zenobie, the Vir; gime, and the Algerie ; the Beaumanoir brig ; and the following steam-corvettes—the Phlegeton, the Laplace, the Aigle, and the Milan. "It appears certain," says the above journal, " that orderS have been given to prepare in the port of Cher bourg stores of all kinds necessary to .supply these thirteen vessels, with crews amounting to 4,80 0 men." Orders hare been sent to Boulogne and other ports in the Channel for the embarkation of 10,000 of the troops now assembling to form the Bou logne camp. It is thought that they are to be sent into the Baltic to take possession of the island of Aland. Prince Charles Bonaparte, now in the ninth day since his accident, is going on most satisfactorily. Suppuration has set in without producing any movement of fever worth speaking of. No further apprehension of danger is entertained. Mr. Park, the sculptor of Manchester, member of the Royal Scottish Academy, was presented, in the early part of last week, by the Duke of Hama' ton, to the Emperor of the French, at the palace of St. Cloud, and on the occasion exhibited hi° bust of Sir Charles Napier, with which his Majesty expressed himself much gratified, being well ac quainted with the characteristic features. of th e gallant admiral. Mr. Park has been e ntrustea with the execution of a bust of the Emp e ror, tb ° first sittin g f or w hi c h took place onTb urs'daY, after which his Majesty did Mr. Park the honou r of inviting him to lunch with the Imperia I circle,' Two other s itti ngs h ave s i nce taken p l ace , and already the likeness promises to be a strikin g one*._ The Emperor has add resse d th e f o ll ow i n g letter to the Prince de la Moskowa " Palace of St. Cloud, .3 uly 3. "My dear Prince—l am one of th ose w h o n a us t take the greatest part in the cruel l oss w hi c h you :h ave just sustained. Your mother had always been the most de voted friend of mine, and the affection of her • children has never been wanting towards me. I there Fore asso ciate myself in the just and profound grief of the family with the sentiments which you know me to ha' re for her, and of which I renew to you the sincere expre rion. " NA ,OLEON• "The Empress wishes that I should also e: rpress he r sentiments on this fatal circumstance." ------- Almost all the business of yesterday N . ras centrated in Railway Shares, which were 13 general firm. In the Rente little was don),e. Th e Three per Cents, w ere sf. lower, at 73f. Ibc- ; th e Four-and-a-H a lf p er Cents. were not n ogotiate for the Account, and are unchanged for Monet. ITALY. The death of the Marquis Ludovico Pot ( mziani,, who was one of the most enli g ht ene d members 01 , the Roman aristocracy, and who made' himself conspicuous by advocating the principles of free trade, has caused among all classes feelings of sin cere regret. Marquis Potenziani belonged to the Liberal-Moderate party, and in 1848 had a seat in the Roman Parliament. Accounts from Naples say that the relations between the French envoy there, M. Dclacour, and the Neapolitan Government, are d ;Lily be coming less cordial. At Gaeta the fortiification and provisioning of the fortress contin u t o with unabated vigour, as the king looks upon G aeta a ° , his best place of refuge, in case th e much-treade d attack of French and English forces should ever occur. The Opinione of Turin states that four camps for military evolutions are to be formed a :is year in Piedmont. The Official Journal of the Two Sicilies, of the 22nd ult., publishes a decree of the Supreme Board of Health, directing that arrivals from :France?, Algeria, and C ors i ca shall undergo a quara atine ten days, voyage included, in consequence of the cholera having made its appearance at A N ignon• Vessels having passengers or merchandise cm board from that or other infected places, are to be con sidered as coming directly from them, unless it be shown that they had left such places ten days be fore they embarked. No passports are to be granted to persons having been less than ten days out of France. ILL-TREATMENT OF A CHILD BY A SCHOOLMISTRESS. —On Saturday the Brighton magistrates were occupied for some hours in investigating a charge of aggravated assault, preferred under Mr. Fitzroy's act, agaiirist Mrs. Emma Smithe, who keeps a school for childrecn at No. 10, Osborn Villas, Cliftonville-house, and -who, as alleged, had cruelly ill-treated a little girl three years old, named Browne. The evidence went to show that the little girl had offended the governess by dirty habits in bed. The governess rubbed the dirty blanlkets on the child's face and made her lips bleed. By the orders of the governess, the child was then placed naked in a coal-cellar for some time, with very little food, arid, on a succeeding day, having repeated the offence, the child was placed naked in the washhouse, and Mrs. Smithe poured four pails of water over her until her breath seemed stopped. It was also stated that Mrs. Smiths had beaten the child very severely. The magistrates ordered the defendant to be imprisoned for two months• POOR WIDOWS.— From a return just published there were, it appears, on the Ist of January last, as many 101 44,900 widows in the receipt of the poor-law relief.