The Sun. — London, England, 1854-06-05 00:00:00

sed, the Inople in bee and ie other, r carry ) sent to to-day us staff: rem the van who received , e ly pro o by the )rs, cavil consuls. eception in chief. simplest 61 should that the (hono- r na that q-astnytil •s of the re about )t think h o fficers 3d there, ie situa . sending , so that he intel ling 0 D eluding y, lately render r. during . ovement 00 of the duable-a attempt 3 follow' jowa occupiel y class 01 ' d for the e know n dl remain continue do injuli ity of the Vienna' a brings of 2,0 0 ° the 20th a to Slit nvioualf who I to two lea,suregf its. The ed frooz a o f the N TSB the pro - VI led to oo' .lone will Ibrudscho pation at :ClUSlYell 3n, who, Gallipoli Constan' r Varna• the Biala and frog' wing of sh troops to forts uxiliaries he result GEES ter from s in the a in ta'' I should morning the list►► rood deal r, fellows —the re• .teika Bay was very quinine; rictiou what We eputy-is' present required, iiptL. ban three a day of not come Y of the ine is eV result. rent Intl' al) rod e nnual Eis for bill onfiruned although entitled iessiong iy a vet/ hould be le otheri army (i ded with rate; e of the lent Bur -1 to bi g ce, I e. lll iority is ieir best ie, to be p or spital at without ation, rive it ja of being longer arrived el, and . d that Las cap- ays steamer is port, er, Doc( v Fahr • or five d infer mercial .he 20th i of time gitively o doubt ne Etui" inity of a taken vsvarn, ino• ,uC5 O ° 3e that 10 roca‘ ces are on the Pies for ssed in aces is 3retie / ! t of 015 in L.,b, er(iaY norir )reez ° ;re t° ;(9 the irsur ct t° r baf anle r nage; fool iron , lrned lilts, as the Russians are in thiao.ea in their forts par. Peularly strong, and they have rendeired Cronstadt tnt- Pregnable by the erection of ad.!itional heavy batteries, al!(- 1 filling up all the appmaches, :o that our advance will be conducted with caution, a. , 1 the forts must be taken in detail. Some tioie Ago it, was propused by an aficer that all the launches , and ,sat .11 steamers should Pass the Isle of Cronstadt on its nothern tace. and pro ceed to St. Petersburg (the lint-of battle ship= keeping the forts an d R uss i an 'flotilla 4 n elieck) and bombard that - C ity ; but we now find tat tlity have, whilst the' ice is covering those waters, filled the whole breadth of the Annnel with massive piles and huge blocks of granite, 3 0 that no vessel can possibly pass without running close under the range of their stupendous batteries. Yet I think as soon as the French contingent join we shall move On, and you may expect to hear soon of an attack .upon Revel or Sweaburg. The latter place is very strong, being a series of detached fortsion five islands .*--these islands form a small and secure harbour, where all the men of war are moored. There is plenty of water for any of our ships to approach these forts, but 'the channel is very intricate, yet we are gra.duatly be coming better acquainted with this sea, and ere long ' l * quite conversant with its different c,asts, rocks, and s hoals, of which there are multitudes." ST. PETERSBURG. MISERABLE ATTEMPT OF THE CZAR TO • ROUSE THE ENTHUSIASM OF HIS PEOPLE. _ We read in the Paris papers that the Emperor ej Nicholas is about to bestow invulnerability on 111 a chiefs with figure heads of saints. Under Admiral Sir Alexander Nevsky and Admiral his o wn namesake, not the wicked one, his squadrons 134 1' at least venture from behind the batteries of Sebastopol and Sveaborg. The autocratic journals (says the Presse) make a great noise about the devotedness of a certain bas Sievers, a Chamberlain of his Majesty, who as placed his yacht, the Wiborg, himself, and the ° few' at the disposal of the Grand Duke Con stantine, during the continuance of, the war. 9 1 e Emperor Nicholas is said to have autho sed the said Count to wear the uniform of the Yacht Club of. St. Petersburg, and named him chief of the Finland flotilla, under the weerior command of Vice-Admiral Jepahtchin. ma y observe en passant that the Wi borg i s nothing . more than a wretched little steamer, of 20 horse-power, running during the summer, between Wiborg and Helsingtors, and only carrying a crew of six men. At the same time that every exertion is being made to complete the equipment of the Baltic fleet, nothing is neglected which can tend to excite the religious enthusiasm of the crews. In an enthusiastic order of the day, Admiral Ricord makes known that M. Murascheff, the burgomaster of Cronstadt, has just offered , in the name of the bourgeoisie of that place, to the Grand Duke Constantine a magnificent image of St. Nicholas, the worker of miracles, to be placed at the Prow of the admiral's vessels. The Empress has also sent to General Dach, Military Governor - General of Cronstadt, four images representing St. Alexander Nevsky, St. Nicholas, St. Peter, and St. Paul, to be given to the garrisons of the forts Alexander, the First, Kronslott, Peter the First, and Paul the First—all of which Russian Empe rors and saints' namesakes are to be under the spe al protection of Heaven, so far as the forts and chips named after them are concerned ! .XTRAORDINARY PRECAUTIONS AT ST. PETERSBURG. A. letter from St. Petersburg of the 21st ult., In the Press of Vienna, says :—" All measures ne cessitated by a long and energetic war are being taken here; Both sides of the mouth of the Neva ~,are being protected . with strong defensive works. Yesterday there appeared an order of the Minister ,cf Police, preScribing what the inhabitants of St. ?etersburg are to do in the event of siege, or rath er a blockade of that city. If Cronstadt should fall i n t o - the power of the allied fleets, women, children, and old men are immediately to leave the ,capital. The troops are to be removed from the aeuses, the streets are to be unpaved, and the bells of the holy churches and the images of the saints are to be removed to Moscow. Notwithstanding all these precautions, the order expresses the as surance that the enemy's fleet will perish on the rocks, and under the cannon of Cronstadt." GREECE. ATHENS, May 28.—The new Cabinet has recalled the insurgent chiefs f it will remodel the Court, uismiss all public functionaries who may have been ,compromised, and require that Athens shall no t be occupied. Mavrocordato,is expected. Athens remains tranquil. The population is opposed to Russia. The monks of Mount Athos have repulsed the insurgents. On the 26th ult., the King invited the Ministers 9f England and Fiance to wait on him. His Hel lenic Majesty received the. two Envoys in the Throne-room, and spoke,' to them in the following terms I declare that I will faithfully observe a strict neu trality towards Turkey ; that I will without delay take ` . all the necessary measures to effect it, and that for this Object, I will call to my councils new Ministers, who by their character and their intelligence, are the best cal elilated to carry this engagement of mine into execu tion. kr. Wyse, as the senior Minister, replied— " Sire,—We shall hasten to report to our Govern. 41 ents the words which your Majesty has just addressed t 5 Us, and we doubt not that by giving your support to t he new Councillors, whom your Majesty has deigned to e4ll to your aid, we shall no longer have to trans mit to our Courts any information but what will be very satisfactory as regards Greece." FR A.NCE. The Aloniteur contains the following report to t he Emperor from the Minister of War and ap proved of by his Majesty : Sire,—Your Majesty having decided that two camps shall be formed, oue in the North, composed of three corps d'armee, and the command in chief of which your Majesty has reserved to yourself, and the other in the `outh, I have the honour to propose the nomination of the following general officers :—Camp of the North, f inder thti co mmand in chief of the Emperor ; General ,nolin, Chef d'Etat-Major-General — lst .Cor p s d'Armee : First command, General Baraguay having tinder him Generals Renault, de Gerandon, Greg, de Courtigis, d'Hugues, d'Exea, de Forton, and Gau din de Villaine 2nd Corps d'Armee : First in corn- Inand, General Guesviller, having under him , Gene rals Borelli, de Noue, Fririon, de Ladmirault, ..sterazy, de Leyritz, Grand, Ney de la Moskowa, anal Genestet de Phanhol 3rd .Corps d'Armea : First in command, General Carrelet, having under him Generals Lafontaine, Duchaussoy, de Lioux, de Laubat, de Liniers, Chapuis, Regau, de None, and Esterazy.—Camp, of the South : First in ~ectrunand, General d'Hautpoul ' • Chef d'Etat-Major ,'ireneral, General Carbuccia ; G e nerals Herbillon, de 41 0, usingen, Bisson, de Salles, Duval, Faucheux , C. eraillant, de la Motteronge. Condon, Partonneaux, ‘ 4 e Pointe, de Gevigny, and lttchmiaip.e." The Emperor has appointed Generals Levasseur a 44 Martin de Bourgon to the command, of divi• i hons of infantry ; General Korte to that of a divi liion of cavalry ; Generals Ripert oourand Marulaz, a nd Repond to brigades of infantry ;, and Generals - "upuch, Dubern, and Marion to brigades of cavalry . 1 u the newly organised army of Paris. Several of the regiments which are to form part of the camp of the North have already arrived at viraereux, near Boulogne, and are occupied in the construction of the hut barracks intended for the accommodation of the troops. • A Paris letter in the Independance of Brussels says " Admiral Bandin suffers greatly from a fall which he Made last winter in the Place la Concorde, and, as he is also affected with drops state causes great dis quietude. His intellectua l and moral faculties , however, Anfe on ago M. Ducos, have not been affected. kinister of Marine, went to hi m the par t of the Em peror to inquire after his health. The to express was pro caenznportesds my luse in his thanks. 'Be kind enough , gratitude to the Emperor,' said he ; • am so weak l' g Well, as_you are weak, ?B° an- Swered the Minister, 'you must have a baton to . Port you, and the Emperor has sent you one. Re ad nd s o sa yi n g he produced the decree b y whi ch M. Gaudio is promoted to die dignity of admiral." The Moniteur de l'ArTnee states that the indica tions published. by the journals r elative to the dis tricts where the camps of the north and south are . 19 be formed are prema t ure , no definitive t ion having yet been adopted in that respect. b The Three per Cents. opened ye sterda y on the -16 'oulevard at 73f. 75c r ose to 741. 50c., d closed at 74f. 25c " SWITZERLAND. b -A. letter from Berne of - the Ist, in a Zuri ch jour ii4) gays :—" The attempts at conciliation b etween pt l ,e Conservatives and the Radicals have f ailed. v :, (3 , Prop ti osili on of the Blacks to elect six Conser t-"ves and tree Radicals has not been accepted — °I. has any understanding been come to on the t r oPosition that it should be considered an affair of : 11 caur to. vote_for the Government in the event of le outoral difficulties. The Whites have not the unanimously resolved , to maintain the pro- T in arne of the Government. The town is tranquil. • good many people from the country .have • ITALY.- We read i n a l e tt e r published by the Parlamento 0, Turin that the regulation hitherto in force in the: m ight fre e provinces, .byAvhich any one n fre e hi mse lf f rom m ilitary service upon pay ,ent of 700 florins (1,750 f.), Irts naiNbeen abolished,. 11 d that every man must n o w either join the himselfarmy' o r find a substitute, is no easy matter at p resent. The .Pariamento of Turin having lately pub lished a letter from its Roman correspondent, in which it was alleged that the Pontifical Govern ment intended to modify it:3 policy with respect to political delinquencies, and to be more lenient to wards the refugees, Arvi. Sturbinetti, ex-Senator of Ronie, Galeotti,.ex-Minister of Justi:e, and Ma riani, ex-Minister of Police of the Roman republic, being•especially mentioned, as likely to be allowed to return, the latter has written a long letter, dated Malta; 22d ult., to that paper, declari n g that he will never accept a pardon from the Roman Pontiff, and recapitulating the arguments which have so often been urged at different times against the temporal power of the Pope. SPAIN. MADRID, MAY 28.—The total expenditure of the State for the month of June is stated at 184,283,486 reals, in which is included the sum of 77,614,480 reals for the half-year's dividend on the Consoli dated and Deferred Three per Cent. Stock. The Government have received about 30 millions of reals in Madrid on account of the new loan ; and it is said that a French house at Barcelona has offered to contract for whatever portion may re main unpaid after the period for making voluntary contributions has expired. COURT CIRCULA R. The state apartments at Windsor Castle will be closed on and after Wednesday the 7th inst. until fur ther orders. The Princesses Helena and Louisa took a drive on Saturday in an open carriage and four. Yesteday the Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Duchess of Kent, attended Divine service in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The• Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated, and administered the Holy Sacrament. The Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court and the domestic household also attended. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. The Chancellor of the. Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone left town on Saturday for Windsor. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, and the Mauritius. • - - Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Sierra Leone, the Gambia, the Gold Coast, and Gibraltar. THE GRENADIER GUARDS.—On Saturday evening ColOnel Stanhope presided at a splendid banquet of the officers of the Grenadier Guards, at the London Tavern ; his Royal Highness Prince Albert being, from the arrival of the King of Portugal, unavoidably absent. The following were among the distinguished guests : Lord Harewood, Lord Downes, Lord Stopford, Colonel Thornton, Golonel Rouse, Colonel Astell, Colonel Tor rens, Colonel Knollys, and Lieut.• Colonel Lindsay. A NEWSPAPER PIRATE. In the second edition of the Daily News of Friday were printed exclusively some despatches from the Bal tic, bearing date three days later than those of Admiral Napier. They .contained an account of the bombard ment of Hango, and of the brilliant expedition to Eck ness. These despatches were reprinted word for word in the columns of the Times of Saturday, with the head ing "From the Shipping Gazette." The attempt to de prive the Daily ACWS of the merit of being the first to publish this interesting news is as obviously unfair as it is certainly dishonest. The Times knew to what paper the first publication of the news was due, and common courtesy,, not to mention any higher motive, ought to have dictated an acknowledgment of the authorship of the informat►on. The columns of the Daily News are so often laid under contribution by the pirates of the press, that *it would be absurd to complain of an ordi nary robbery. For years past we have constantly seen in the Times and other papers articles quoted "Globe," which the Globe has previously appropriated, without acknowledgment, from the Daily News. Of these past piracies we have never before spoken. But in the pre sent case the theft of our exclusive news from Sir Charles Napier's fleet, is so extensive and so flagrant, and the at tempt to conceal the piracy so barefaced, that public justice requires us to direct attention to the fact.— -Daily News. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, June s.—Wind this day at Noon, N.N.E moderate breeze, and cloudy at times. RAMSGATE, June 4.—The Nayade, from Memel to Gloucester, was totally lost this morning in the Galloper; captain and three of crew drowned. CRO MER, June :3.—The Autumn, from Shields to Lon don, sprung a leak yesterday off Flamborough Heat and was run on shore moor ,Hasborough ; crew saved by the life-boat. PLYMOUTH, June 4.—Wincl, E.N.E. Arrived—Ash more, from London, for Now Zealand ; Pallas, from Lon don, for Labrador; Avon (s), St. Thomas, and left for Southampton. Sailed Maitland, for Hobart Town; Achilles, Port Philip. PORTSMOUTH, June 4.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived H.R.'s steamer Locust, from Monte Video, SOUTHAMPTON, June 3.—Arrived—Madrid (s), from Gibraltar. Sailed—Tantivy, for Sydney, N.S.W. WIVENHOE, June 4.—The Juno, of Shields, was wrecked on the Heaps on the Ist in.t. A collier brig was lost on the Barrows on the Lit inst. ; and another collier brig was lost on the Heaps on the 2d inst. RYE, June 4.—The Matilda, of Laurvig, from Sunder land to Algiers, foundered off' the Lemon and Owers on the 2d inst. ; crew saved by the Creolo(brig), cf Bremen, bound to the West Indies. PENZANCE, June 3.—Wind, E. Arrived—Traveller, from Boscastle, for Plymouth, towed in distnasted: SCILLY, June 2.—Wind, E.N.E. Sailed—Mindeeps, for Buenos Ayres. DUNDEE, June 3.—Wind, E.S.E. Sailed—Marchio nees of Broadalbane, for Barbadoes. CLYDE, June 3.-Wind, E.S.E. Cathcart. for Callao • Lord Sidmouth, Quebec ; Larpen, do. ; Gover nor, do. an d Montreal ; Conqueror, Valparaiso ; Eliza Bain, Berbice. NEW YORK, May 20.—The Natjve, of Yarmouth, N.S., bound to Liverpool, with 12 feet of water in herhold, etc., was spoken on the 20th April, in lat. 46, long. 35, and supplied wth canvass and tools: The Bellona (British barque) was boarded on the 21st April, in lat. 47, long. 37, had been abandoned, with 4 feet of water in her hold, and all her spars were gone. BOSTON, May 19.—The wreck of the British barque Commerce, of London, was boarded in lat. 46, long. 29. ANTIGUA, May 13.—The Orion, of London, from New port to Jamaica, ran on a reef off Barbadoes, April 27, and has been sold. AQUADILLA. (Porto Rico), May 13.—The Danish brig Harmonie has been condemiaed, and will be sold. CALLAO,' April 14.—The Emily . Taylor (American barque) put in here yesterday in distress, with her crew in a state of mutiny ; they:had bored holes in her to cause her to leak. ZLECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Monday, 10.30 a.m. Wind, S.E. ; light, and fine. Arrived—Ruthenia and Westmoreland, from Pernam buco. Sailed—David Legg, for Dordt; Melchiere, for Dordt. • (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.35 a.m. • Wind, N.E. ; tide, 14 hour's ebb ; weather, cloudy. Arrived, 4th—Dovre, from Christiania; Albert Lith, Holbeok ; Splide, Bogense ; Lina Holberg, Horsens ; Oak, Danzig ; Mentor, Memel ; Astrea, Randers ; Johanna Maria, Carolinseil ; Anna Gertrude, Fairnain •' Frau Christian, Seduestborn ; Capella, Kospermnnde; Sophia, Antwerp; Tay, Harbinge ; Naid, Memel ; Antoinetta, Rostock; Catharina ' Leer; Nagaden, Baltic (prize) ; Ge broders, Biga (prize). Arrived, sth,--Fyenoord, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Lion, steamer , ,Harlingen • Adonis, steamer, Harlingen ; Caledonia, steamer, Hamburg ; Moselle, steamer, Ant werp ; Margaretha, Leer ; Auxilliar, Akyab ; Hermina, Gothenburg; Achilles, Frederickstadt ; Mary, Antwerp; Bette Margretta, Emden ; Krona Prins Frederick, Tronde; Catharina, Pilau ; Nanny, Cronstadt ; Anne Margaretha, Molmori ; Emanuel Boakaeil. Sailed.—Egbert, for Algoa Bay; Mary, Launceston. DEAL, Monday, 9.30 a.m. Wind, N.E.,-fresh. Passed.—Resolute, from , London, for Hongkong.; Ad miral, from London, for Port Phillip ; Emma, brig, from westward, for the north; Ocean Gem, from London, for Cardiff ; Wilton, from London, for Jamaica; Wellesley, from London for Calcutta. Magnolia, from Cardiff, for London, lost an an anchor chain of the south Fore land, and has been supplied from hence. NEXT MAILS FOR THE ARMY IN THE EAST. —Today a notice was posted at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-grand, that the next mails for Constanti nople, per French steamer from Marseilles, will be made up in London on the Bth' inst:, and until further notice on the 3rd, Bth, 13th, 18th. 23rd, ,and 28th, respectively, except when the month shall contain 31 days, and then the 29th will be in time, instead of the 28th. The next mail will be made up on the 13th inst. SOUTHAMPTON, June 4.—To-day the Lady Jocelyn, Captain Bird, belonging to the General Screw Company, left with the Australian mails. She has on board about 110 passengers, 17,2581. in specie, and a very full Cargo. The Candia, belonging' to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, also left with the heavy portion of the India and China mail,' 100 passengers and 235,150/. in specie. The Candia has also taken. besides a full cargo, 600 cases of ammunition. 54 ditto of fire arms, 100 c as k s of boots, and 27 bales of biscuit bags, to be landed at . Malta for Government use. NE S SS EI . I_IE O S ti Or w A e C d C n I e D s E d N u TS I A a II st I , E3I ; N ib G O F: t O a 3i G g ß u Ci a g rt S e C r- A p lt as E t LE o S n S e . o'clock, John Payne, a town-carter, living on the Brook, Chatham, was loading • a cart with coals at one of th e wharves adjoining the Suit Pier, and in a most reprehen sible manner left his • horse and cart unattended, havim , taken off the bri dle and bit, w hich were de p os ited on the shafts. During his temporary absence the horse started at a sharp pace. When he got into the High street he ran rt full speed towards the Military -road. At the end of Globe-lane •he ran against a girl, about twelve years old, of •the name of Allen, who was crossing th e street, knocked•her down, and one of the wheels pass ing over her head cut it severely, and she now lies in a precarious state. He next ran upon the pavement, and knocked doWn Miss Butcher and a friend who was s'vkil4ing with her. One wh eel p assed over the former and broke her enhar-bone, acid it, then ran over the arm of the latter seriously inj urin g it. The owner. of the cart, in attempting to stop the horse, received heavy injuries. The cart at length came in contact with anOther vehicle, . which stopped its career before further mischiei was done. -~.::, . P r T ) 14 ' ; ." \ 7 ' THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING; JITII‘rE--_-5:- .;1 Ait r_CE -NE ',V,77•1--(T LLCS CORN .EXCHANGE - - - Most of tha country =Ants held on Saturday were very moderately supplied with wheat; nevertheless, the de mand for all kinds ruled heavy, and the quotations had a downward tendency. Spring corn, the supplies of which were comparatively small, moved off slowly, and prices were with difficulty supported. In flour very little was doing. The continental markets have been dull for most articles of grain, yet shipments to England c ontinue on a fair average scale. The supplies of wheat and flour in the United States were good at the date of our last advices. The arrivals of English grain in the port of London last week were very moderate. From abroad we received 30,274 qrs of wheat, 5,060 barley, 34,426 oats, 1,047 beans, 290 peas, 203 tares, 15,263 linseed, 1,758 rapeseed, 2,875 sacks and 4,1.27 brls of flour. The quantity of wheat received up to our market, to. day, coastwise from Essex and Kent, was only limited, but in good saleable condition:. From other quarters the arrivals were trifling. Notwithstanding that the chew of samples was small, the demand for all kinds, arising, in some measure, from the small number of buyers in attend . ance, but chiefly from the large imports of foreign grain, was in a very depressed state. So little business was transacted, that the quotations were almost nominal. The few sales concluded were riiostly at a decline in the prices of Monday last of I,s. per quarter. The show of foreign wheat was large, chiefly from the Lower Baltic ports. Very fine parcels were mostly held at full prices , but sales progressed heavily. Several damp parcels moveli off slowly, and the quotations had a down ward tender*. Since Monday last, 25 vessels, laden with gria, have arrived off the coast from the westward. To-day, there was scarcely any inquiry . for floating cargoes. BARLEY—The supply of which was moderate—was very dull, at barely late rates. The malt trade was excsedingly heavy, at late rates. We were heavily supplied with oats, in which very little was doing, at a decline in the prices of Monday last of from 6d to is per quarter. The sale for beans was heavy, on former terms. In peas next to nothing was doing. The flour trade was heavy, and American parcels were easier to' purchase. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex Sz Kent. Red .• .. new 734 to 853 Ditto.. • • ........ old 77s 893 ditto, White new 77s 88s , Ditt0........ old 80s 9gs Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 73s . 84s Ditto new • • •• 74s 114 s Bre—Old . • 518 52s New . • ...... •. 503 51s Bit-ley—Grinding ..• .. 34s 403 Malting . • • • • .... —s —s Chevalier •• .• • .. —3 —s alt —Suffolk and Nor . folk • • • • • • • • •• •• 668 71s Brown .. • ........ 603 628 ILirurston and Ware 73s -75 s Malt—Chevalier .. • . 75s to 76 Oats Yorkshire and Lincolnsk., Feed 29s 33s Potato 3ls 35. Youghal and Cork 81ack....... 29s 32' Cork, White ..... 28s 348 Scotch, Feed. •• .. 333 358 t3eans—Tick ......... 45s 543 Pigeons .....••••• 49 66, FORS—Grey ..•• •• •• •• 44s 48s Maple. •• •• 48s 53s White......... 56s 62$ Boilers ..• •• 56s 60s riour—Towu-made. •. 66s 70s • Suffolk .......... 58s 62. Btoektn & Norfolk 583 64s SMITHFIELD. Last week's imports of foreign stock into London amounted to 3,657 head. In the corresponding week in 1853 we re ceived 3,698 ; in 1852, 3,775 ; in 1851, 2,914 ; in 1850, 2,490 ; in 1849, 2,405 ; in 1848, 3,788 ; and in 1847, 3,554 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Hamburgh„ 10 ... 469 ... Rotterdam 260 ... 942 115 ... 280 Harlingen .......166 ... 865 4 ... 77 ... Antwerp Dordt .. 17 ... 65 - 25 Bromvershven Amsterdam .... 12 81 Calais — ... 13 ... Ostend Calves. Pigs. Total, ... 465 -. 2,344 _. 195 -. 653 ... The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1853 486 ... 2,450 20 601 71 1852 613 ... 2,368 215 451 28 1851 3Ol ... -2,162 19 250 212 1850 299 ... 1,673 ... 78 440 ... [849 309 ... 1,695 39 362 The show of foreign stock in to-day's market was tolera- My good. A steamer has arrived this morning from Spain, with 250 oxen on board, in fair average condition. There was a decided increase in the arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts, and we noticed a decided improvement in their general weight and quality. For all breeds we experienced a slow sale, at a decline in the prices obtained on Monday last of 2d per 81bs, and a total clearance was with difficulty effected. A few very superior Scots realised 5s 2d per 81bs. The arrivals from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cam bridgeshire amounted to 2,250 Scots and short-horns ' • from other parts of England, 500 of various breeds ; and from Scotland, 450 horned and , polled Scots. We were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied with most breeds of sheep. On the whole the mutton trade, and last week's quotations were well supported. The best old Downs realised fully 5s per 81bs. Lambs, the supply of which was good, moved off slowly, at 6d per 81bs. beneath last Monday's currency. The top quotation was 63 per 81bs. The supply of calves was extensive. A fair average business was transacted in them, at Friday decline in price. The highest figure was 5s 4d per Blbs. For pigs we had a slow sale, on former terms. • Per Sibs to sink the offals. s. d.. s. d. , s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 6to 3 8 Prime Southdown 4 8 5 0 Second quality.... 3 10 4 2 Large crse. calves 4 2 ,4 10 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Prime 'small . do... 5 0 5 4 Prime Scots, &c. 410 5 OlLarge hogs 30 4 2 Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 8 Small porkers 4 4 4 8 Second quality ...3 10 4 2,Sucklingcalves ..22 0 29 0 Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 4 61Quarter old pigs 21 0 27 0 Lambs 4s 10d to 6s Od. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .................. 4, 1 49 Sheep .•• . ..............21,590 Calves 317 Beasts..... •• . ........ . 764 Sheets ..•• •• •••.•• 1,540 Calves.. .•• • .......... •• 254 Pigs .. ............ •... 310 Pigs- • • • • - • • ' • • • • • • ... A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, June 6, 1853, and 'this day, Monday, Juno 5, 1854. Per Sibs, to sink the otfals. June 6, 1853. (June 5, 1854 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d 3 2to 3 43 6to 3 8 3 6 3 8310 4 2 .3 10 4 2,4 4 4 S 4 4 4 61 10 5 0 3 2 3 6 3 6 3 S . ... 3 8 3103 10 4 2 , 4 0 4 4 4 4 4 6 4 6 4 84 8 5 0 410 6 4 1 4 10 6 0 4 0 4 6 1 4 2 410 4 8 5 0 , 5 0 5 4 34 3 813 0 42 - • A ll • Coarse and inferior beasts ... Second quality ditto ... Mine large oxen • Prime Scots, &c Coarse and inferior sheer Second quality ditto ... - Prime coarse woolled ditto Prime Southdown ditto Largo coarse calves ... .•• •.. Prinie Small ditto ... •.. Large hogs ... ••• ••• 310 4 4 1 4 4 4 8 4,009 4,149 ... 24,000 24,590 335 317 ••• ••• 255 310 Symms ex SALE, June 7, 1852.—Beasts, 4,375 ; sheep and lambs, 28,570 ; calves, 319 ; pigs, 310. Juno 9,.lBsl.—Beasts, 3,832 ; sheep and lambs, 28,890 ; calves, 257 ; pigs, 139. Neat small porkers Beasts... Sheep Oa Pigs LITERATURE. The Three Days of Wensleydale. By W. G. M. Jones Barker. Chailes Dolman. Everybody knows Gilbert White's History of Selborne, as almost everybody nowadays knows the charming volumes upon natural history penned by Broderip and Waterton. Well—here is a grace ful work of a similar character. Mr. Jones Barker has done for the Valley of the Yore what the Rev. Gilbert White did for . the village .of .Selborne. The latter .has immortalised that previously ob scure little nook of Hampshire —his birth place and his death place. The former has celebrated the varied charms of Wensleydale, the home of his youth, the haunt of , his manhood, celebrated the wonders of its vegetable and animal life, 'its fauna and its )(Lora, its heroic memories and historical as sociations. - Several years ago, as we learn from his graceful " Prologue, ' the author announced his intention of writing a more elaborate work than the' one here issued from the press, a production andundertakingAntiquities comprehensive of t f o w eislsupplysurvey_ y . the ael ey vur d. o world the w , i , th Hisry and a t d o etailed The design has been hitherto delayed in ex ecu ti on . It h as no t, how ever, been abandoned. Th 6 vo l ume now su b m itt e d to our consideration is intended as a foretaste of the antiquarian feast which may y e t b e a nti c i pa t e d.' And assuredly, from th e mer it s o f th e s e prelimi nary or inaugurative chapt ers , d escr ipti ve o f th ree memorable days in the hi s t ory o f W ens l e yd a l e , we may be peimitted to hop e th a t, b e f ore l ong , th e intention of Mr. Barker, a t once a d reamer an d an observer, may be carried ou t t o it s comp l e t e realisa tion. Although these chapters are especially addressed to the inhabitants of that part of York shire, they possess an interest appealing indiscri minately to the hearts of all Englishmen. For, secluded as the Valley of the Yore is, that beauti ful valley called variously Torrevalle Or Yorvale, or Wensleydale, situated in 'the 'wapentake of Hang West, in Richmondshire, North York— it has become so associated with memor able events and illustrious personages, that it has long since risen -to the dignity of ..an, historical. locality. It has produced not only many distinguished knights, and barons, and earls, and abbots—not only two chief justices, and three lord chancellors, and five bishops, and four archbishops —one of these a eardinal—Lbut a Prince of Wales also, and a Queen of England. It has been at dif ferent times the residence of the renowned Earls of Brittany, and Carlisle, and Richmond, and• Salis bury. It witnessed some of the revels indulged in by the Court of Ki ng Edward IV. ,the most effeminate and yet the most 'heroic of our royal voluptuaries. 1t was the favourite abode - of King Richard beloved by him as the home of Anne Neville, and as the scene of his early love passages when ake of Gloucester.. It received among its inmates, Mary Queen of Scots, becoming invested with some of those pathetic recollections supplied by the annals of her long captivity. There, above all, in the green covert of Wensleydale is that famous home of the Marquis of Montague and of his more illus trious brother Earl Warwick the King-maker, that glorious domain of Middleham, to the memory of which we turn not without supreme emotion, whe ther as reverent listeners to the annalist, or as enthralled readers of the • romancist—whether as seen through the dramatic and pictorial narrative of Lytton or through the stately and authoritative eloquence of Lingard. Plentifully sprinkled among the letterpress are graphic woodcuts here of Low Fors as a vignette, now of Hardrow Scaur as a frontispiece—now of the Font in St. Oswald's, no w of the Saxon-cross in Hauxwell Churchyard—and besides other scenes and . structures, Middleham Castle and Deanery Jorevalle Abbey, Aygorth Force, and Lake Semerwater. Hitherto the anti quary interested in Wensleydale has been enabled to gratify his curiosity in its regard on l y b y turn ing to such illustrative volumes as Alien's " history of the County of York," as Athill's "Middleham," as Burke's "Historic Scenes," or as Whittaker's "Richmondshire" --the last mentioned work, for example, a costly folio published originally at 241. ! A more accessi ble, a more popular, and a more readable, and, let us add, an equally if not more reliable account of the history and antiquities of the memorable and beautiful valley of the Yore, has been here furnished to the general reader by the laborious and scholarly writer of " The Three Days of Wensleydale." Chapter the first, the ."Catholic Day"—chapter the second, the " Day of Change"—chapter the third, the " Present Day"—followed by a " List of Birds," by "Extracts," b the "Sanctuary Roll," and by an " Appendix." The " Prologue" already ' mentioned, being balanced as it were by " L'Envoi" —tenderly regretful at the close even for a while of a favourite study and a cherished: investigation. Grateful for the charming record here given of one of the most renowned, thopgh one of the most secluded dales of merry England, close we the volume penned by W. G. M. .T. Barker, not with out a repetition of the hope already avowed that his industry may ultimately give to the world a more elaborate work, descriptive of the annals and antiquities of his beloved Wensleydale. The Friends ; and other Poems. By Warwick Beachwood. Longman and Co. Although we learn from a foot-note to one of the minor poems introduced into this graceful little volume, that the, writer contributed as far back as the 10th of April, 1835, to the Times newspaper— from which circumstance we are inevitably led to infer (twenty years having elapsed since then, or very nearly) that Warwick Beechwood is no longer a. stripling—we cannot discover anywhere in the pages of our author the marks of careful emenda tion, of scrupulous deliberation, of cautious and punctilious premeditation. Here and there he seems to have " rushed into print" —although, as We have said, evidently (from the date mentioned at page 225 in the foot-note just now particularised) no mere boy-adventurer. ' Several of the f u g itive pieces, indeed, appear to have been dashed off " at a heat"—harutn-scarum, gay, even boisterous. " A Farewell at Flitting," par example—what can be less studied or more careless in diction, in rhythm, or in general character ?—Listen.: " Garden ! greenhouse ! cottage dear ! Where we once when young and rough Laughing, squalling, full of fear, Breaking windows far and near, Rolled about in blind-man's but" Or again, in the same half-pensive, half -bantering extravaganza— "Dining-room, alas! alas! Other hungry human creatures Now will eye the savoury mass, Clear the plate and empt the glass, — " Strangers there with unknown feature s. , " Enapt," by the way, occurs more than once as among the author's favourite abbreviations —ex pressive, but scarcely euphonious. E. gr., its re petition in that stanza of "An Epitaph, No. IL"— " None could quicker empt a glass, Aid a friend or foeman throttle, None could better woo a lass, Break a heart or crack a bottle, Than thirsty Charlay." Mr. Warwick Beechwood has displayed in his chequered verses no inconsiderable versatility. His themes are curiously diversified, and his style is adapted to them well and, this not unfrequently. Among his "Ballads and Lyrics" we have " Rosa lie" and " Sir Tristram," , 4 The. Fairy Isle," and " The Crusader's Farewell." lii one the " crimson" of the lip of Margaret is celebrated. gay another the writer quaintlY commemorates the genius and waywardness of jean Jacques Rousseau. " An Objurgatory Address -to, the; City of London" oddly contrasts in the,' same .coilection the erotic tenderness here of a S.lrenaae.and there of a Va lentine. The most lengthy and in some respects the most finished and.imeritorious pieces - iu the volume are " The Friends" and " The Lady Ade line"—the former of which has given the book its designation. As a somewhat daring introduction nowadays to the earlier of the two parts into which the poem of " The Friends" is divided, the reader will be startled by an apostrophe to the genius of Poetry, or rather by a direct Invocation, not ad dressed to all the Muses at once, after the compre hensive fashion of Pope--. , ' "Descend ye Nine l" but beginning— " Com'e, gentle breath of Yoesy divine !" How Lord Byron opens one of his cantoes o " Don Juan" with a slovenly or rather rollicking " Hail Muse, et cetera!" the readers of that wonderful production will hardly require to be- reminded. The allusion to the blithe profanity, however, will be suf ficient of itself to indicate • somewhat plainly how entirely tho age lips gone by fOr poetical exor diums in the way of invocation. By the whole scheme of the minor poein already mentioned as the ballad of " Rosalie," the visitors to the Royal Academy Exhibition for the present season will be at once reminded of Mr. Henry Holman Hunt's singular picture of "The Awakened Conscience." The moral of both poem and painting is not merely similar, but identical. At the close of the fourth and concluding part of The Lady Adeline" occurs one of the most vigorous and impassioned lines in the volume. It is where the Friar . ' pronouncing judgment on the fate of the old Knight so strangely " departed," speaks, of the lapse of time, or rather of eternity : _ " Till Purgatory's pang,3 shall at last make thee whole, And burn out the blood marks that' redden thy soul." Immediately prior to the "Notes" appended to the volume occurs " A War Hymn : 1851," preceded by eleven " Sonnets," five of them politicll (referring to Peel and O'Connell), and the rest upon subjects as suggestive as " Waiting Dreams, "The Beauty of Age," or " Sorrow and Consolation." 1854. Considerable promise of better titi l ugg eren - lhan the best of those here laid. before our admi ration, must be regarded, we believe, as dcernible in the thoughtful and ingenious " Preface," during the course (if which Mr. Beechwoe.l thus speaks of the office of the novelist, as exemplified by the con tributions made by Dickens aud by Thackeray to the treasures of our imaginative literature. Our author has just been avowing his dissent from the conclusion drawn from the scarcely dubitable fact that the novel has in a great measure superseded the pOem—the deduction drawn from that circum stance, we mean, that the Age of Poetry has gone by for ever. This inference Mr. Beechwood regards as altogether .Unnecessary and inadwissible. He adds : " The novel, it is true, is admirably adapted to supply the wants:of ordinary readers; for it is better suited , than poetry to,afford that species of mental relaxation, combined with excitement, for which recourse is usuallyhad to works of fiction. Some of the reasons for this are obvious. The novelist generally describes everything he touches with elaborate minuteness—whether it be the character, me tires, actions, or appearance of the principal personages of his story, or the scenery and environment in which they are pl .ced. This minuteness relieves the reader from the unwelcome labour of thinking. How admirably does Dickens accomplish this in all that relates to the external world ! In reading one of his works, the mind of the idlest reader, without exertion, beholds portrayed, with the utmost dis tinctness and fidelity, every town, street, house, or apart ment to which the skill of the author chooses to conduct Lim ; the appearance, dresi, and behaviour of each charac ter are given with equal elaboration ; and oven their pecu liarities of phrase or pronunciation are 'carefully distin guished. No photograph could be more faithful or exact. Thackeray, with equal success, displays similar minuteness iu all that relates to the internal world. This he has made the field of his finest efforts. Every motive and impulse of his ideal personages, and especially those of the most sordid kind, are so elaborately represented that the reader, without the necessity of any great psychological knowledge and with no strain upon his powers of apprehension, looks clearly into the inmost soul of the characters introduced, and can observe with easy, though intense enjoyment, the skill with which their principles are made to work out in action, gradually but surely, the appropriate moral result. Perhaps the extreme minuteness of these two great writers is sometimes permitted even to violate the .just rules of art, by transcending the limits-of :the agreeable, and becoming repulsive. We aro occasionally made to see, with too pain ful distinctness, the filthy alley, the pestilential dwelling, the foul intramural churchyard, the squalid poverty and degradation described by Dickens, or the mean and often hateful springs of action depicted by Thackeray, who can allow no recess, however humble, in the laboratory of hu man motives, to rest undisturbed or uninvestigated." Later on our author thus contrasts in. his " Pre face" the position of the poet and the novelist : " Unlike the novelist, the poet must in the proper exer cise of his art avoid, even in narration, the minuteness of elaborate detail. His descriptions should be general, sug gestive, and concentrated : one of his principal aims must always be that of exciting emotions through the medium of the reader's own aroused imagination. Who that has experienced can forget the delightful flutter of heart and restless activity of mind which accompany and follow the perusal of a fine poem read for the first time ? Every page teems with suggestive touches ; new thoughts, and images unknown to the author himself, rise spontaneously in the reader's mind, and mingle with the poet's own creations. Thus the fertilizing ideas of the poet, clothed in exquisite language, sink deeply into the memory of the susceptible reader, only to spring up again and bloom forth there as in a fresh soil. " Hence, poetry does not supply the reader with every thing, but requires something from him. His mind must remain passive, but must actively fill up from its own re sources that vivid outline which is all that the poet's hand can venture to trace with a few bold strokes. It follows that a man of inert and barren imagination, though he may derive considerable pleasure from a novel, can find none in a poem. Among a nation of such men poetry must neces sarily languish; for it is essential to the poet's success that his audience he `fit,' `though few. " Wherefore he regards as a happy augury what he terms " the present revival of a taste for poetry among lar g e classes of the community." With a view to the gratification of that new, or rather (adopting his opinion) that revived intellectual appetite, Warwick Beechwood has given to the world "The Friends ; and other Poems," in emu lation of so many others among his adventurous contemporaries. Gentle gales speed the little work in its passage onwards to the Future, and bring the tender hopes with which, we doubt not, it is laden, to a happy, if deserved realisation. Sunday Scenes in London and its Suburbs. By Percy Cruikshank. Reeves and Sons, Cheapside. A beautiful moral may be enforced by the most grotesque designs ever pencilled by. the hand of the caricaturist. The truth which we have here expressed has been happily illustrated by the latest product of the art of Percy Cruikshank—a volume, or quarto pamphlet, containing twelve engravings as singular suggestive embellishments. Althoug these embellishments are produced not by any means in the highest style of art, although they are roughly, and some of them even coarsely exe cuted, they at once secure for themselves our warmest and loudest commendation. The purpose of the work, indeed, extorts our praise, and com mands our admiration. It aims at no less than the removal of more than one monstrous evil from the heart and from the vicinity of the metropolis. Turning over these comical pages of letterpress and illustration, the reader will become impressed with the folly, and not buly with the folly, but with the absolute criminality of allowing matters to go on as they do every week, on the sacred day set aside by religion for repose and adoration—and while , tolerating so many disgusting abuses on the Sun day actually prohibiting the opening on that day of such innocent and intellectual places of public resort as the National Gallery, and the British Museum, and the Crystal Palace at Sydenhatn. The large folding frontispiece represents " Prim rose-tavern, Chalk-farm," as the artist saw it on Sunday afternoon, April 24, 1853—with the swing car, and the merry-go-round, and the porter drink ers, and the pipe smokers, and the reeling guards men, and the blackguard-looking donkey drivers, and all the rest of the rag-tag and bobtail, con gregated on Sundays in that classic neighbourhood. Afterwards, on May Ist, 1853, Sunday, we find ourselves introduced to the " interior of St. Peter le Poor, Old Broad-street, City," among the wil derness of otherwise empty pews, a sparsely scat tered but attentive congregation. Next comes on May Bth, 1853, Sunday—a capital view of the " fore cabin of a Gravesend steamer, Meteor," on the return to London, at six o'clock in the even ing —with a glimpse through the haze of tobacco smoke of harper, fiddler, and trumpeter. " The Sunday before Greenwich Fair, May 15, 1853," portrays a yet more deplorable rabble rout than that already seen at Chalk Farm—a crowd of loungers, ruffians, and itinerant costermongers. Percy Cruikshank appears to have obtained on the same day a peep into the Painted Hall at Green wich—one from which he has so far profited as to have derived the materials from it for another accu rate and apposite illustration. Next week his foot steps wend towards Hyde-park-corner, for under the date May 22d, 1853, we find very cleverly drawn the appearance of things on that Sunday (the Sunday before the Derby) at Tattersall s--the most characteristic and " telling" of all these twelve embellishments ! Grooms, dandies, peers, trades men—all intent upon ma king up their books. To wards the evening of the same day the artist lounges on to the entrance of " Cremorne Gardens." Another Sunday (June 5, 1853) carries us through all the, noise and riff-raff of the " New Cut, Lambeth," and by dinner hour to the porch of the " Star and Garter at Richmond." Another (July 3d, 1853) brings us to the steam-boat pier at " Hungerford ;" and towards nightfall into the " Red Cross gin shop at Barbican," where drabs and drunkards, are swill ing beer and listening to the performance of "sacred music" on the self-acting organ inside the bar I Yet another Sunday (Sept. 25th, 1853) finds the artist brought face to face with the horrible squalor visible on the ground of the Farringdon-street ex tension, Field-lane. Such are the scenes selected by Percy Cruikshank as the subjects for his twelve timely illustrations. He has significantly inscribed the subjoined on a fly leaf:—" To the Lord's-Day Observance Society, the following scenes, well worthy of their attention, drawn and described from life, are respectfully dedicated, Without Per mission." The whole production is one not less worthy of a humorous observer than of a generous philanthropist—to both which - designations the vo lume under notice proves our artist to be eminently well entitled. The Russo-Tark,ish Campaigns of 1828 and 1829 By Colonel CheBney, D.C.L., F.R.S. Se. cond. edition. , Smith, Elder, and Co. _ _ • - - - Colonel Chesney is- already' most honourably known to the world at large as the commander of the celebrated expedition undertaken a few years since for the survey of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Shortly after that memorable survey was successfully completed, the gallant officer to whose guidance the expedition had been entrusted by the Government penned a narrative of the enterprise, which even in the presence of the rich store•of Travels and Voyages with which the Englishman's bookshelves were already laden, was at once re3egnised, by the more discerning critics, as a masterpiece. The re collection of the expedition commanded by Colonel Chesney, and of the narrative of that expedition penned by him afterwards as its commander, will ' not, we believe, be very speedily lost to recollection. The undertaking was one of a character peculiar ly entitling it to the popular remembrance. It was obviously calculated from the first not merely to lead to the extension of the commerce of Turkey, but to conduce ultimately, and that moreover to the mutual benefit of the two countries, to the more intimate connection of the British and Ottoman Governments. These advantages have already, we feel satisfied, accrued to England and to Turkey consequence of Colonel Chesney 's expedition. It is not too much to assert this plainly and explicitly_ observing, as we cannot fail to' do, the rapid ad vances already made since then in the develop ment-of-the-mercantile enterprise of the Osmanli population, and in the more and more intimate association of the Councils of London and Constan tinople, which have accompanied the various stages Of that industrial development. As an observer of sagacity, therefore, and as a write r o f admitted eminence, Colonel Chesney has long before now secured to himself a high and distinguished repu tation. He needs not a syllable in the way of in troduction. His name is passport enough to the notice of the general community, particularly with reference to any work relating directlyor indirectly to the affairs of Turkey. A work precisely of this character, a work relating avowedly in its very title, not merely to Turkey, but to Turkey as opposed, in arms, to the forces of the Russian Autocrat, has recently made its appearance. It has scarcely issued from the press before the first edition has been exhausted. The second comes forth, indeed, before we have had either time or opportunity to notify in becoming terms the fact of the oricrinal publication. A success almost equal to that which has hailed the picturesqueaccount of the " Russian Shores of the Black Sea," given by the skilled hand of Lawrence Oliphant, may be anticipated for " The Russo-Turkish Cainpaigus of 1828 and 1829," penned by Colonel Chesney. If Mr. Oliphant was already favourably known as the author of the work on " Nepaul and the Nupaulese," Colonel Chesney was already, as we have intimated, honourably distinguished as the commander and as the narrator of the famous expedition undertaken for the survey of the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. He was, moreover, credit ably known as the writer of " Observations on Fire arms." He has passed no less than seven years within the frontiers of the Turkish Dominions. 'Some part of that time as commander of the before mentioned expedition, but some part also simply in his capacity as an intelligent traveller wandering to and fro in search of information. Altogether we have scarcely an Englishman amongst us better qualified to write upon a subject so intimately involving the interests of Turkey as those renowned campaigns of 1828 and 1829, during the course of which the armies of the Czar, undisturbed by the hostility of France or England, was enabled to ad vance beyond the Pruth, and beyond the Danube even to the formidable barrier of the giant chain of the Balkan Mountains. Never did a volume of this description appear more opportunely. No marvel that its publication has been noted with more than ordinary interest. No wonder a second edition has within so brief an interval from the printing of the first been already demanded. It was only very recently that we took occasion to comment, in these columns, upon the extraordi: nary interest inseparable from the contemplation of the last struggle between Russia and Turkey, now that that struggle is being repeated at the pre sent moment in precisely the same provinces, along the borders of the same river, under the walls of the same towns—to-day being the renewal, as it were, of yesterday in sieges, and marches, and pitched battles, and bombardments. This was re marked upon the occasion when we reviewed the third volume of Sir Archibald Alison's new History of Europe from 1815 to 1852, from the downfall of the Napoleon to the accession of Napoleon 111. The observation might be further enforced by re ference to the incidents making up the alluring chain of occurrences in Colonel Chesney's narrative. It were unnecessary, however, under the circum stances. Any one turning over the pages now under consideration may recognise the truth of our recent allusion almost at a glance, certainly within the limit of a very few minutes' perusal, without the necessity for any index to the comparison. Among the most attractive portions of Colonel Chesney's volumes must be particularised those in which the gallant author has endeavoured to indi cate the precise nature and extent of the resources of Turkey, as well as the possibility of the Turks continuing a defensive warfare against Russia without any extraneous assistance. Upon this latter point Colonel Chesney, in the " Preface to the Second Edition" of his annals of the last "Russo-Turkish Campaigns," has remarked, as follows : "It has been recently stated by more titan one high autho rity, that if the Sultan had declared war when his territory was first threatened, the Russian army could have marched to Constantinople without difficulty. This, however, is quite a mistake. The organisation of the Turkish army had already been in progress for more than two years, and, although it was far from being completed, and many of the fortresses were still unarmed, a respectable force was ready to take the field. On the 30th of May, 1853, Lord Strat ford de Redcliffe announced to Lord Clarendon that Omar Pasha and his army had been ordered to Schumla ; that a flying camp was to be formed between the capital and Kilia (or Kilios), near which place a Russian force might succeed in effecting a disembarkation ; and that the danger of an attack from the side of Batoum and Trebizond had attracted the attention of Redschid Pasha. His lordship added, I am informed on good authority, ' that the Porte will be able to collect about 80,000 men for the defence of its dominions in European Turkey. A part of this force will be composed of Rediff or Militia.' `lt is therefore manifest that the invading army, which, according to Consul Gardner's report, was about 80,000 men when approaching the Prnth on the 3d of July last, might have been opposed by an equal force ; and the pro posed, or some better defensive campaign, might then have been commenced with a fair prospect of success. Oa the 14th of June I ventured to submit to the Turkish Govern ment my ideas on the employment of the means at com mand. The leading suggestions were to hasten to mount the artillery on the fortresses near, as well as behind, the Danube; that the Turks s h ou ld push on towards the Pruth, in order to obstruct the enemy's advance through the Principalities ; and, without venturing upon a general engagement against a superior force of artillery and cavalry in a comparatively open country, to deprive him of the resources of that part of th 3 country. "The first position of actual resistance was to be on the right bank of the Danube ; but there, as well as subse• quently, the Turks were recommended to avoid a general action unless under the most promising circumstances. But whatever might have been the result of a campaign commenced in July instead of November, it may safely be assumed that, as the Russian as well as the Turkish forces had to march a considerable distance, the postponement of hostilities was equally advantageous ; we know that Tur key, unaided, has hitherto maintained the line of the Danube ; nor have the Russians as yet even attacked Kalafat." Nay, even since the foregoing passage was written, what changes have occurred by way of corrobora tion I Witness this the withdrawal of the Muscovite forces from before Kalafat, followed rapidly by the total Russian evacuation of Lower Wallachia. Having commented upon the resolute stand that the soldiers of the Sultan might make even if un aided [a stand which they have made, as Europe has all along marked, with admiration and sym pathy], Colonel Chesney adds : " But a brighter prospect than that of a spirited and successful defence has opened upon the Turkish people ; for the declarations of Ministers in both houses of Parlia ment, as well as the stirring and dignified speech of the Emperor Napoleon, show that two of the greatest nations of the world have united their powerful energies in the support of Turkey ; and those energies are further strength ened by the warlike skill and science of the leaders of both armies, who are about to uphold the S u lt an ' s em pi re , a nd secure the peace of Europe on some permanent basis." It is suggested by our author shortly afterwards how rapidly the Anglo-French contingent of 100,000 or 150,000 fighting men might threaten the right flank of the enemy by marching towards the invaded Principalities from the Gulf of Enos, or his left flank, by steaming di rectly round to Varna or the Dobrudscha. The allusion made to ' the employment among our soldiers of both Brown Bess and the Minie rifle is peculiarly important just now, all things considered ; and, therefore, we scruple not to extract from the same Preface the following brief quotation : " With regard Co such operations, one cannot feel alto gether free from anxiety lest the British contingent should take the field with some little disadvantage at first. Our regiments will have two kinds of arms and ammunition ; namely, the common musket, and the Minie rifle. It is understood, however, that Major W. H. Sitwell, un attached, has submitted to Lord Raglan a partial* kind of elongated ball, which, by a simple contrivance, gives the accuracy and power of the Mini& itself to the ordinary musket; consequently, if the experiments should justify expectation, this missile will be at once available for the whole of our troops." Another passage, expressive of,a hope as to the ad vantages which may possibly accrue from the pre sent struggle, will be perused we doubt not by many with satisfaction : " It is probable," says Colonel Chesney, " that the com ing hostilities will not terminate without doing more than one kind of service for our army. Ex p erience in cookingt. and hutting , or encamp in g , will be g ained by the .I.ri sh soldier ; and the superior officers will acquire ty in moving troops in the field, as well as expertness in mili tary com binations generally. The cap, and tight - fitting swallow swa llow-tailed costae, will, in all probability, be replaced by the tunic and a more suitable covering for the head." We have scarcely time to hope too, with Punch, that, together with the hideous schako, the bor. rible old black chocker may ultimately be aban doped, when lo ! it is abandoned, according to the Secretary at War's announcement, on Friday evening, in the Legislature. Turning, however, from the Preface, once more to the work itself, we may remark that the text is accompanied by some excellent maps, illustrative of the move ments described. Appropriately enough, the volume is dulicated. " To his Imperial Majesty the Sultan Abd-ul-Medjid Khan, Emperor of the Ottomans," being so inscribed with the previous cognisance of Namik Paella, his Majesty's Ambassador Extraor dinary. to the Court of St. James's. It is particu larly interesting, moreover, to observe towards the close of the Dedication a courtly and eulogistic mention, by Colonel Chesney, of " the loyal cha racter of the Turk," a tribute all the more valu able and interesting, coming as it does from one so intimately acquainted with more concealed, as wel' as with the more conspicuous qUalities, observa ble among the masses of the Osmanli population Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay. Pub lished for Colburn by Hurst and Blac kett. This Diary, whiP,li originally was announced to appear on the first of every month, is now, accord ing to general desire, being published twice a month. It has, therefore, reached the fifth volume, and as '''.C; - "( it is to be completed in seven it is tear its conclu sion. It is too well known to need recommenda tion or criticism. This number is embellished with a portrait of General D'Arblay. Lives of the Queens of _England. By Agnes Strick land. Vol. VI. Published for Co'barn by Hurst and Blackett. This series has reached the sixth volume, which " is entirely devoted to Mary Beatrice of Modena, the Queen of James the Second. Itris no narra tive of unchecked prosperity or royal luxury,. but it chronicles the troubles and vicissitudes of a romance. The two illustrations consist of a por trait of the Queen, and a picture of her esca p e w ith her infant sou under the walls of Lambeth Church. Critical and Historical Essays., By the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, M.P. Longman. Part I'V. We .are glad_ to see these admirable essays issued in a commodious form, easily attained by the poorer members of the cominunity. They have reached the fourth part, and are to be completed in seven . . At the low price of a shilling a number of these essays, whose rank as standard worlo; has long been decided, may be obtained. Tho present number contains those on Lord Bacon, Sir William Temple, and " Gladstone on Church and State." tilis people's edition will doubtless meet with anmedia.‘e and extended popularity. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The high pretensions of the salesmen have had the effect of inducing great caution ou the part of butchers in general, who have purchased for immediate wants only, at the fol lowing quotations : • Per Bibs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. s. d. 's. d. Beef, inferior 3 2 3 6 Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 310 Do., middling 3 8 4 4 Do., prime large .4 0 4 2 Do., prime 4 6 4 8 Do., do. 5ma11....4 2 4 4 1 Veal 3 8 4 10 Pork, large 364 4I Pork, small 44 4 8 Lamb 4s 8d to 5s 10d. BOROUGH HOP. The unfavourable accounts from the plantations have produced considerable firmness in our market, and prices are on the advance. Last week's imports were 6 bales from Rotterdam, and 105 from Ostend. The quotations are as follows :—Mid and - East Kent pockets, 61. 6s to 9/. 9s; Weald of Kent ' ditto, 7/. 10s to 9/. Os ; Sussex ditto, 6/. 103 to 81. 8s per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. A few old potatoes have changed hands, at from 130 s to 190 s per ton. New ones, the supply of which is moderate, are in request, at from 20s to 27s per owt. Last week's imports were 120 tons-1,005 bags from Rotterdam, 20 casks from Lisbon, 8 baskets from Guernsey, and 293 sacks from Dublin.' The new potatoes are coming to hand in excellent condition. - WOOL. The public sales were brought to a close on Thursday. The quantity sold was little short of 50,000 bales. By private contract scarcely any business is doing, Last week's imports were large—viz., 980 bales from Hobart Town, 460 from Bombay, 108 from Hatnburgh, 1,035 from Algot Bay, 2,941. from Melbourne, 32 from Moute Video, and 220 from other quarters. SEE. Although the supply of lins( mand for that article is very i little is doing. Cakes are hell business doing in them is corn, ieed is very moderate, the de• inactive. In other seeds but Ed at full quotations, but the Eparatively small. C truip,White, per bush. 144 to 2da Swede .• • • ... • • • 24s 384 custard, Brown • ....• 103 133 White; new . • • • lOs 14s rires,Wintgrnevr.. • • 9s Od 986 d Old • • ••• 7s Od 8s Od anary, , per quarter • 44a 483 1 -tye ;sass. • • • • • • • • •• 245. 28s /lover, Red En;,,'. (cwt.) —B . - a White • • • • • • • • —' -8 Foreign Red .• • • • —s White.... -3 -s trefoil, new.. • • •• •• • —3 • —a Carraway.... •••• •• 42+ 486 Coriander •• .. 103 Ihs Rempseed, per quarter 4( $ 4431 Linseed, Eng.iowing .. 74s 76 $ Crushing .. ...1 .. 6's 68s Rhltic .. ..... .1.. 66s 70s Odessa .....•.... 66. 70s Linseed Cake, pr. tett— English . 10? Os 12 Os Foreign. per ton 9/ 58 llt 5s litape Cakes, pr ton 6( 15s 715 s Rapeseed, New, pr Lit 38 'Os 40 es TALLOW. Our market has become somewhat firmer, and prices have an upward tendency. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 6:13. per cwt. Town tallow is 59s p er cw t. ne t cash; rough fat, 3s 3d Pe Blbs. 18450. 1851. , 1851. 1853 , 1--.--- ,-_,... 2 , ,95i; 36,250 40,174 24,300 1 35,592 Mock this day .• •• • • 36, 9d 37 3 6d to 37s Od lo 47s 041 ,'62.4 Od to Price of Y. C. .• • • I t, 37. Od 00s 0d ; 3 s 3d to 00. MI 00s 01 725 1,144 ' 710 1.135 923 955 1 1,i44 I 630 623 56:4 1,202 8 1 11 , 776 9,715 163 1,187 i 891 ' 77 6 1,608 155 34s 91 495 31 61s Od Delivery last week • • I litto front June 1 ... • Arrivals last week • • Dittofroin .lune 1.... Price of Town Six Oil 33A 0.1 MADAME TUSSAUD . B' YHIBITION. — In consequence of the anxiety of the public for information from our fleets now engaged in the Black . Sea and .Baltic, all naval heroes in this exhibitiOn attract great attention, that particularly of the ever.to he remembered '14or:1 Nelson, the cast hejng taken from his floe: He is represented in the uniforrii of an A.liniral, dec mated with numerous , Hers, the re:wa;rds of liis gallant •ciiidact. This figure, 'me hive beel4 iniornied.froa tn , Yse w ,ho remembered this distinguished oliar,.l.34teiedingii like 'ilia la fea.l;ac and figure. THE MAGAZINES. United Service.—The United Service commences with a memoir of the late Marquis of Anglesey with a portrait. Two papers on " Our Naval Ar maments" and. " The War iu the East," both re commend an effectual increase of troops and fleets. In the former it is observed that the officors sent to the Tyne and Wear to persuade men to+ enter her Majesty's service, have found that sailors accustomed to the merchant service have a horror of a c man-of-war. They have exaggerated ideas of the despotic rule and rigid discipline, and are, appalled at the thought of being shot to death. This, Ithe writer asserts, is from the want of a military edu cation, as the same men think nothing of the per iljt of the sea. He therefore suggests that measures should be taken to overcome this aversion, or that royal naval apprentices should be entered in large numbers, or men engaged for ten or fifteen years with a certainty of pension on discharge. The first chapter of " Excursions in the Interior of Russia" gives some information respecting the do mestic manners, &c., of the inhabitants. The ex tracts from the " Journal of the late Major Ma cready" are continued. ",,A Ramble in the Islamds of the lEgean" has many interesting details, which at this time are doubly attractive, ats showing the character of the Greeks. Amontl their singular customs is the following. " When a Greek dies he is interred for a year in a small cemetery, often within the precincts of the church. Unless, however, he is a very great man he is not suffered to sleep in peace. At the end of that time he is disinterred to make room for some one else • and the flesh having by this time turned to dust, his bones are collected by his family, tied in a bundle of c uarse c l o th, an d h ung u p outside the church ; masses are said or sung over them for a few days, and then they are flung with forgotten generations into a common charnel house. We went to see it. It was a pit holding thirty feet of the remains of the rude forefathers of the hamlet —a useful sight, a stern lesson." A topographies' sketch of Russia gives some useful geographicai information. There is a very interesting article on Scandinavia, and the belligerent Powers. At the present crisis we would especially direct atfam tion to some pointed remarks on coast defentles t suggested by a very sensible letter from Mr. Philip H. Howard, of Corby Castle, on that national si tb ject, from which we shall make an extract in a d.,11 or two. MISCELLANEOUS. Tait's Magazine commences with another instad meat of "A Stork of the Middle Classes." It is: followed by an interesting paper on the late Pro fessor Wilson. An article entitled "Literature, Genius, and Devotion" gives a criticism 011 the genius and writings of Robert Hall, by Mr. Mursell, An account of Odessa gives a sketch of its histOry.—The .National Miscellany opens wi th an article on Oxford, its past and present. It .is followed by a very interesting paper entitled " Something about Grammar," which traces the• connection between the peculiarities of language and the idyosyncracies of the people whose dialect it is.. A continuation of it is promised. It is worth noticing that two extracts of literal transla tion from the Latin and Greek, arranged word .for word as in the original, appear hopelessly uniil telligible. A memoir of Rubini, and some remark.% on Newspaper Stamps are among the chief features' of the number. We are glad to see the addition of poetry to this magazine. It is scarcely, how ever, on a level with the prose.—Sharpe's London Magazine has two pretty engravings of VieuLta and the Nile. Harry Coverdale is continued with' vigour. The biography of Henry Fielding is con cluded, and the Studies of Great Authors gives a sketch of Boccaccio. There are several tales and essays.—Hog 3 's Instructor has several papers on subjects of some importance. " Our Criminals — how shall we treat them?" is one of these, as all will admit it includes one of the most difficult and. important of questions of social economy which has not yet been satisfactorily answered. • 'ir.he plan of the writer is to establish a kind of surveillance on the offender after his pun ishment is inflicted, so as not to let hint loose upon society without a certainty of reforma tion. This is a mere outline of a plan, but we fear it would be somewhat difficult of• accomplishment. Undoubtedly, if the criminal could be thoroughly reformed, and then provided with - employment, it would be far better than dismissing him to imprison him again in a few months.—Bentley's Monthly Review has two interesting subjects, " The Last Days of Murat," and " Thomas Carlyle."— Knight's excellent Encyclopcedia is continued. —Orr's Circle of the Sciences has reached the twenty-third number, and completes the first vo lume.—The Family Friend and Twopen4 Post are two pleasing and instructive little serials. The Journal of the Statistical Society of London. has much valuable information on political subjects.-- Le Follet is as attractive as usual. • MR. G. WIGLITWICK'S DRAMATIC READING• - On Thursday last a select, and, considering the ea. tore of the circumstance, a numerous and•fashionable audience met at Willis's-rooms, •St. James's, for the purpose of welcoming, on his first attempt of the kind in the metropolis, a gentlemaowho has, we understand, earned " golden opinions" frOm an admiring public in the West of England. In addition to literary and scientific pretensions of no common order, the scholsa referred to wishes, it would seem, to contribute, by his abilities as a reader, to the improvement of public taste by giving his own views of elocution and reading 'in connection with the drama, thus enabling many who, from conscientious motives, deny themselves the entr•Se of the theatres, to enjoy the beauties of dramatic diction, without their usual concomitant, drawbacks. We are the more disposed to believe that such is the real motive which induced Mr. G. Wightwick to snlicit a hearing at the request of several persons of distinction, as we noticed among those present'several distinguished members of the church, whose object in countenancing Mr. Wightwiek's first attempt WaS obvious. For our own part we are always inclined to support and en courage such efforts, because we cannot imagine a more rational or more useful recreation than that of being initiated into the views of a man of taste as to the right conception and proper feel i ng of certain passages in our best dramatic writers, and, pre-eminently speaking , of our immortal Shakespeare, being oo b ir e y i n courseg t certainhu pa r t s , offrmt mere made eh full y arareading so cters, and situations, n h t a erddlwith g t g h w e e s h t i:c h p o m a in u c t t u s we return to Mr. G. W., gind his reading of the second pa r t o f H enry IV . We deem it no small praise to say of taking his rank, with the best readers that the new can• didate for metropolit an we ll favors approved himself worthy e w wl not ehave had say t a h b e o abo v e, good but fortune ou a p w ar hear, and that his q uiet , unassuming, gentlemanly bear ing won f or him our best sympthies. His voice, though not striking at first, is flexible and versatile, and till variety of its intonation, in different parts, met with decided approbation. He particularly succeeded in com manding the attention and interest of his audience, And received much applause for his impersonation of the lot feeling and pathetic parts in the play. His forte, hic" ever, is the comique, and his Falstaff, his Justice Shallow, his Mistress Quickly, were to the full as much likeal as his delineation of King Henry, and of the Prince, in :his more dignified moments, while his version of the Lord Chief Justice was approved of and admired. Whether or not Mr. G. Wightwick will succeed establishing that footing in London, as a dramatic reader, which he probably aspires to, we will cult presume to assert , but we look upon. him as one of those, who, in these de g enerate times ,of the drama itself. do much to save from positive negl ot . those works which are daily gaining in claeine repute, what they lose in histrionic fame, and who ,many rescue them from the fate which has awaited many a noble inspiration, being unheard, unread, uncu7tiva.-ted, except by the select few. With our , cordial conk:Tattle tions, and a sincere wish for his complete enemies, we recommend all persons who wish to combine the study of elocution with the enjoyment of our great dram %gists to p a tronise Mr. G. Wightwick's forthcoming se ptse of " Readings." ARRIVALS of SPECIE.- -The specie arrivals of the 'week have amounted to about 120,0001., exc l us i ve o f a elm 01 , 140,0007., brought by the Washington for Hay. r e.. I.on• don, and Bremen. The expor t s, w i t h th e e xc ( lptaoit of those above mentioned for China and the tiocn z the East, have been inconsiderable, and have consisted chiefly of a few small parcels of gold to Parise 3 ived ; :•-"*" 14. liene e Ie ac )olicy great `.O re! __„~ ~;~!!i