The Sun. — London, England, 1854-07-12 00:00:00

To conclude with THE HALT OF THE BALLET. 0. MR. LEE STEVENS'S PATENT FUR NACES. —Copies of official and other reports, and of testi monials In favour of the invention, as applied to Steam Rollers, Brewery Coppers, Stills, Chemists', Dyers', and Confectioners' Pans, Coal Ovens, Soc., with information respecting Licences to manufac lure or use the PATENT SIIOKEE. , :SS FURNACES, given by Mr. JOHN LEE STEVENS, the Patentee, at the Offices, 1, Fish street-hill, City, London, where references are obtained to Fi!ms in London and elewhere on whose premise s the invention is in daily operation. HOUSEHOLD WORDS on SMOK E.— "Mr. LEE STEVENS'S plan has the great advantage of requiring no machinery ; so that no Inattention or unskilfulness of the stoker can affect its action. We have witnessed and tested its efficacy at the office of the TIMES newspaper, at the famous black ing mart of DAY and MARTEN, and at the great sweetmeat factory of MILL and JONES."—Dickens's Household Words. DR. DE JONGH'S LIGHT BROWN COD LIVER OlL.—The most effectual remedy for CONSUMP TION, BRONCHITIS, AST El SiA, GOUT, RHEUMATISM, and all SCROFULOUS COMPLAINTS. Pure and unadulterated, contain ing all its most active ant essential principles —effecting a cure much more rapidly than any other kind. Prescribed by the most eminent medical men, and supplied to the leading hospitals of Europe. Half pint bottles,2s. 6d.; pints, 43. 9(1., IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wholesale and Retail depot, ANS AR, HARFORD, and CO., 77, Strand. THEA.rItE TOTAL DRURY LASE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Buts 12, Will be performed NORM A. Principal characters by Madame ca-vort. Madame Sedlazek, Madame Heinrich; and Signors Pa vest, Sant!, and Arnold!. To conclude with the popular Ballet, entitl&l USE FETE EN OLY M PE. rtem __st a ns, 7s; Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, la. ; and Private Boxes, Oae, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The Box-010e ope n daily from Tee till Six, where places may be sectawl. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and Cock 63, New Bond-street. Notice.—Doors open at Half-past Seven. Per'ormance commences at Eight. Hal-price at Half-past THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, JuLT 12, WM be performed the Drama of THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. Characters by- Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, G. Vandenholf, W. /Tanen, Compton, and Buckstone ; Miss Reynolds, Miss E. Grey, and Mrs. Fltzwilliam. Followed by AS LIKE AS TWO PEAS. To conclude with THE SCAPEGOAT. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHAII.LZEI gs►x. THIS EVENING, Juror 12, Will be performed FROM VILLAGE TO COURT. Principal characters by Messrs. Harley, Fisher, and Cathcart ; Misses Mur ray. Heath, and lrivash. After which, THE COURIER OF LYONS. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Kean, L. Vining, Addison, Graham, David Fishe - , Cathcart, and Baker; Misses C. Leclerq, Heath, Ternan, and K. Terry. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPD.I. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Jinx 12, Will be performed the popular Drama of THE DISCARDED PION. Principal characters by Messrs. Selby, Murray, Bedford, and Keeley ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Miss F. Maskell. 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 Lovirrayx, ARCADE IN A RAINY DAY. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEXTRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. For the BENEFIT of Mr. A. WIGAN. THIS EVENING, Jul.! 12, Will be performed PERFECT CONFIDENCE. Characters by Messrs. Robson, Emery, and Robinson; Misses Marston, E. Or mende, and Miss E. Turner. To be followed by THE JEALOUS WIFE. After which, the popular Comedietta, c tied READS OR TAILS. Characters by Mr Emery and Miss Marston, &e. STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. T. W. Aileron. THIS EVENING, Jut! 12, Will be presented THE UNITED SERVICE CF FRANCE AND ENGLAND. After whieh, OPPOSITE NEIGHBOURS. Followed by FOR .THE BENEFIT OF THE PLAYFUL CRO CODILE. To conclude with THE OMNIBUS. StAllYs, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, IF. Gd; Gallery, Gd.; Private Box s £1 I is. 6d., to be had of Mr. Allcroft. 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL ANIPIIITIIEATICE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. Tremendous and most Successful Hit THIS EVENING, JULY 12, A Grand Historical Equestrian spectacle. called THE COSSACKS; or, Vire la Franca. Atter whith a Series of Mo - ceaux Choisis (le PAreie, or Scenes In the Circle, in which Miss Emily Cooke ant William Cooke, jan., will appear. Ihe Brothers Francisco will perform their wondrous feat of L.. PERCHE. Th , German Bro thers wi 1 exhibit heir skill on the DOULILE TR iPEZ E. The whole to conclude with Mr. W. T. Simpson's Burlesque, =MIA AGAINST TIMKEY. Box-oatco open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. V. West. ROYA.L SURREY ZOOLOGICAL OA.RDENS. Open for the Season. • .tinder the Patronage of his Excellency Count WALEWSIC.I, the Trench Ambassador, TUEEE GE IND UNION Cl I.LAS, In honour Of the cordial and happy allance between France and England, will take place THIS DAY, and TO-MORROW. The Bands of the 'ld Life Guards, conducted by Mr. G. Cooke, and the Coldstream Guard', conducted by Mr. Godfrey, will atten4 each day. Lieut. Chambers will make an ASCENT in Ills new BALLOON on Thursday. To-day (Wednesday) the Royal South London Floricuttardl Soc'ety will hold a GRAND FLOWER 5110 W; and on Thursday a BALL will be given in a spacious Pavilion erected for the purpose. A full Quadrille Band is engaged. Mr. Flexmore, Conclabllng each night with a "Great Exhibition" of FIREWORKS, by Southby, who will on this occasion ecdpse as his former efforts. Also each evening a VOCAL and INSTItUIIEN CAL CONCERT, in which Miss Foale, Miss Itanetord, and Mr. Mdnvers will sing several national aid patriotic songs. Thy Gardens will he brillianay decomed alei illuminated by proficient artistes.—D;ors open each day at Two. Admission, es usual, is. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tun DAT —Morning 7 min.after 3 I Evening 34 min.aft. 3 ro•lsfeasow—Morning 58 min.after 3 Evening 23 min.aft. 4 THB WEATHER.—Strzf Orrica, Ail 12. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67 highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night. 59—this day, at noon. LIAROMETIEB ' 29'89—felling. . WIND, N. N.W.—Rather fresh, with dull, cloudy weather, and att'al rain. Afternoon—heavy rain. ~~~0 , t 1 t 4 1) g LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1854. While England and France are making active preparations for carrying on the war with vigour —Austria and Prussia are using every exertion to set on foot a series of fresh negotiations. France is about to send a powerful body of troops into the Ratio. England is about to convey them in her own war transport-ships to their destination in the GUlf of Finland. Precisely at which time, diplomatic agents are being despatched from Berlin here to London, and there to St. Petersburg. It appears, according to advices from the Prussian capital to the Bth inst., that upon the evening of that day the Comte DE IK.OZNIGSMARIC was about to set out with secret instructions to the Russian metropolis. In telligence simultaneously arrives to the effect, that in all likelihood our own capital is about to be visited from that sam e good city of Berlin by an emissary no less itnportant than a relative of the chief of the Prussian Government, to say nothing of the mysterious CABINET Stranger, Count PAULEN. Colonel AzyncuFFEL is said to have b een entrusted • with the som ew h a t very delicate, an d certainly picion . s, mission pOi of conciliati ng , if possible theuso it is fea re d at the Courtof pntloll which has recently Charlo ttenburg begun to s h ow i tself at the C St. James's ag a i ns t t h e notion of an the y reneowura,l of f n of negotiations. A cco mpanying moor which sinister mission comes the no le sinister intimation th a t t h e AUTOCRAT w ould s : in the event of a n y suc h renewal being a to at St. James's or the Tuileries, ;racioueseldy show himself not ave rse t o a tardy abandonment of the line of the Sereth, and a withdrawal of his army within the boundaries of his own territory of Bessarabia. Now, we would here most earnestly warn the English public to be watchful of events at the present very singular and mo mentous conjuncture of circumstances. We con sider it, to say the least of it, rather provocative of anxiety, not to add of actual suspicion as to the designs of Austria, and of Prussia, and of Rassia—that exactly at the very juncture when England and France are preparing in earnest to carry out vigorous warlike ope rations both in the Euxine and in the Baltic —these specious hints, innuendoes, and even distinct suggestions should come creeping over to Paris and London front the CZAR and through Ge rmany! Rather suspicious, we say, the coinci dence is, a ll t hi ngs considered—somewhat sinister and rather suspicious ! -Will this ambidextrous proceeding on the part of the Prussian Cabinet, acting as it does on the part and in behalf of the Councils of St. Petersburg, be tolerated by the French and British Governments ? We cannot induce ourselves to believe so notwithstanding all that has occurred hitherto, and although the Earl ABEADEEN, the "forty -years' friend" of the Em - - per or-NkaoLas, still unhappily remains at the head of the British Administration. It is scarcely proba ble, even although the "dear" and "excellent" still continues the farce of nominally holding the post of First Loral of the Treasury, it is scarcely pro bable, even with Lord ABERDEEN still Prime Minister of England, that a cordial reception will be granted to any such proposition as the one above e xplained—in the event of its being actually brought hither by Cal. MANTEUFFEL or any other Plenipotentiary. Especially now that a powerful military force is about to be supplied by France, to be carried out totheßaltic inthe war vessels of Eng land. Now, when the EMPEROR of the French is about to review the troops destined for this expe dition, and when it is not altogether improbable that the QUEEN of England may herself visit the fleet by which they are to be conveyed to the Gulf of Finland prior to its departure. The visit of the Emperor NAPOLEON to Calais, St. Omer, and Boilogns—constitutes in this respect a guarantee that there is little chance of the CZAR succeed ing through Prussia in bringing about any fatal renewal of these merely illusory negotiations. Happily, moreover, at the very time when the EMPEROR of France is about to review his army, and when the QUEEN of England may be probably about to review her fleet—immediately anterior to their departure on their Baltic destination—the principal organ of the policy of delay for the pur poses of diplomacy veers suddenly and entirely round, openly avowing at last the same views which, from the outset, we ourselves have per tinaciously, and, we venture to say, consistently and unflinchingly advocated. Insomuch that the opinions expressed to-day by the chief of our morning contemporaries are in a great measure iden tical with those proclaimed by us in these columns from day to day, from week to week, from month to month, throughout. These things should not be overlooked or forgotten by the community. They should not be allowed to pass unnoticed by ourselves through any feeling of mock modesty, or affected reservation. They are facts, simple facts, but facts not altogether, we conceive, with out peculiar significance. Another "innocent" has been immolated. Another effort has been made to bring the session nearer to its termination, and to allow the excellent ABERDEEN to negotiate with his " friend of forty-years' standing," without the interference of Parliament Yesterday had its appropriate victim. The Divorce and Matri monial Causes - Bill was surrendered without a struggle. Surrendered after it had virtually passed the Upper House, and been fully and ma turely considered by their lordships. Whether it was that the influence of the select family party at " Doctors' " Commons, so greatly predominated in the " People's" Commons, that any inva sion of their snug monopolies could not be carried, or that it was known that considerable time must necessarily be occupied in the discus sion on its various provisions, every movement of which would occasion terror and anxiety to the Premier, it is unnecessary to say. It is sufficient that Doctors' Commons remains unscathed by any of the various shafts aimed at it since the meeting of Parliament, and that the period of prorogation has been pro tanto advanced by the postponemen t— perhaps we should rather say the unconditional with drawal of the measure now under notice. Be it so ! We shall feel greatly surprised if the Ecclesiastical prove any exception to the general rule ; and as the preservation of the Franchise to East Retford led to the disfranchisement of many other rotten boroughs, it is by no means improbable that the temporary impunity obtained by these obnoxious tribunals during the present session may lead to their total and unconditional abolition at no very distant date. We confess that we cannot very greatly refire the postponement of the Divorce Bill ; for al though it was unquestionably a step in the right direction, it by no means went far enough, and, had it passed in the form in which it was intro duced, some time must, have elapsed before a further instalment of justice could reasonably have been anticipated. Now we may look forward with hope, if not with confidence, to a general revision of the matrimonial code, in which some of the chief anomalies now in operation may be removed, and the " rights," or we should rather say the " wrongs," of women dealt with in a fairer and more equitable spirit, while all disputes be tween married persons may be cheaply, expedi tiously, and effectually adjudicated on. With the abolition of the Ecclesiastical Courts the fiction on which marriage with a deceased wife's sister was prohibited will be entirely disposed of. It is unnecessary here to repeat the arguments by which we have repeatedly proved that there was no Divine in junction against such contracts, and that the ob jection thereto, if any, rested solely on some doubtful canons of the Church —canons, the in terpretation whereof was disputed by some of the most distinguished and zealous bishop ministers and lay members of the Establishment. Before 1835 these marriages were not void, but merely voidable. Should any intrusive person institute a suit, the Ecclesiastical Court might dissolve the marriage ! But on what ground ? Pro salute anim'e, for the soul's health of the party whom it thought proper to censure. From the very rea son assigned for the decree, and on which alone it could rest, it must be obvious that none but Churchmen could be affected thereby, and that the judgment could not apply to those who de spised Ecclesiastical censures, and did not subscribe to the canons to which undue force and meaning was attributed. A straightforward and sturdy Dissenter, who repudiated every species of Eccle siastical domination, would rest as easy under the Church censure for a marriage which in his soul and conscience lie believed to be right and proper as he would under a condemnation for the WM, payment of Church Rates, and we can scarcely imagine that any attempt would be made against ' such a person. And as from the avowed object —" for the soul's health "—no proceedings could be taken after the death of either party, there could be no subsequent attempt at impeaching the legitimacy, or interfering with the rights of the issue. Such was the state of affairs when the Bill of 1835 was introduced--a bill which was apparently a remedial measure ; but which, by an artfully contrived, but hastily and recklessly accepted, " amendment " (amendment, forsooth !)—was converted into one of persecution. A serious and most unwarrantable invasion of civil and religious liberty of the subject, an attack on the most sacred privilege of those who conscientiously and hone3tly dissented from the dogmas of the Church by law established. The bill was, as we have said, introduced as a remedial measure. It was for the/ benefit of the Noble Marquis, the heir to a Dukedom, that the ancient titles and wide spread, domains of the family might not be di verted from the direct line. A private Act could not be obt a i ne d, and therefore for the sake of one hi gh - born and wealthy nobleman indulgence was to b© giien to the thousands, aye, the my riads of l ess in a similar Position. persons who were placed r Position. A g eneral measure then was introduced, purposes at ).l render all such nuptials previously contracted, to all intents and A. clause was valid last t d binding. moment, declaring that for ridges should, not the future these mar theretofore, be merely voidable, but abse a l u s t j t e h c e t e d Legislature,i n the Co Commons. This was carziecl in el t y li Lords, but re void ab initio. s e b popular branch of subsequently Ynactment yielded rather than prevent theerPTashesil'insgequefi many, and that gave assurance and security - to of so we have seen the result of that weakness. one in a thousand of s i t c h cases was Not P terfered with. Although the law' wasolislyloioutinn-a. satisfactory condition, it was looked n more a s a mere brutnnt fulmen- than as a real evil. But it, speedily became a substantial grievance of the most onerous and vexatious description, and ono that has hitherto been enforced with the most perverse and desperate tenacity. Every attempt to get rid of the obnoxious, and, so far as the Dissenters are concerned, most unjustifiable and vexatious enactment, has been foiled, and it has still been maintained, a blot on the nationalstatute-book --- rendering the law of _ . _; England different from that of every Protes tant country in Europe, aye in the world. The abolition of the spiritual jurisdiction in mar riage cases, must lead to that of the objectionable law that sprung directly therefrom, and hence there is another cogent reason for the total de struction of the Ecclesiastical Courts, which we earnestly hope and firmly believe will follow, fr3m the postponement of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, and of the Testamentary Jurisdiction Bill. Most unexpectedly the Lords have proved more Ministerial than the Commons, and quite as liberal. They not only agreed without a division to the abolition of the Matriculation Oath, which excluded Dissenters—not only sustained by a large majority the clause permitting them to take the Bachelor's degree without signing the Thirty-nine Articles, but they even restored to its integrity the Ministerial clause for the election of the Weekly Council (our readers will forgive our dropping the uncouth word Hebdomadal), which is pretty fairly compared to the second house in po litical legislation. Ministers originally proposed that this important body should be ' elected in certain proportions from the several Academic officials by " Congregation," a body to con sist, as of old, of the effective force, or work ing staff, of the University. The Commons carried an alteration that the different classes should each elect their own members of council. The heads of Houses, who are the parallel of Old Toryism in politics, were to elect six heads of Houses, the Pro fessors as many professors, and so forth ; a plan which seemed likely not only to insure an eternal war of classes, but, as matters stand at Oxford, to insure also an overwhelmingly predominant clerical influence in the management of the Uni versity. It is this clause, on which Ministers laid much stress, and the defeat on which Mr. GLADSTONE appeared to feel keenly, that the Lords have restored to its primary form. Indeed, they have passed all the meritorious parts of the bill, either by large majorities or without dividing. Thus far Ministers have triumphed ; but we hope they will not forget the severe rebuke prac tically administered by the Lords in not even dividing on the admission of Dissenters. It fully sustains our repeated observation', on the manner in which the Coalition has courted defeat. Lord JOHN RUSSELL will, just for the nonce, give a less liberal vote on a question of religious liberty than the Earl of DERBY, or the Bishop of Oxford ! He sells a national demand to fear of the Lords and the Bishops, and the House of Commons re fuses to betray the nation, and the Lords coolly declare, that they too will not be dragged through the dirt of bigotry. We only hope the warning will be taken, and that mea sures worth offering to the nation will hence forth be the rule and not the exception. A very foolish and maudlin tenderness was affected towards the Established Church by many of the noble speakers. Their fear seemed very great of doing anything to touch the close and holy alliance between the University and the Church of England. As Church of England men, we cannot thank them for what, to us, savours too much of cant. We have always argued honestly and openly for the free ad mission of all classes to the National Universities, and we scorn on every ground to accompany the concession of a right with puling speeches for the National Church. We do not wish Dissenters to come to Oxford and be told, as it were, that they must not breathe freely, that they must speak with bated breath ; and perhaps, even put their shoes from off their feet, for the place on which they stand is holy to the Church ; but still more do we object to such a tone of speaking for the credit of the Church itself. The Church of England is no baby now. It does nut want a nursery where it can be kept out of harm's way. It has come of age centuries ago, and has cer tainly not yet reverted to second childhood. Why, then, all this silly twaddle about hoping to do her no injury by a possible Dissenting Private Hall or two among her numerous rich and wealthy colleges ? Really if we snared the fears of some Noble Lords, we should be ashamed to give utterance to them. If the Church were actually in danger from the admission of Dissent ers even on the most equal terms, we should think that, as an ecclesiastical system, she deserved to fall. Dissenters of every class will, we hope, avail themselves of the opening now afforded them. After the decisive votes of both Houses of Parlia ment, Oxford, reforming itself in detail under the guidance of the Commissioners appointed for that purpose, can hardly venture ou obstruct ing the obvious will of the nation. If it does, the Legislature will certainly not be ap pealed to in vain. We wish Dissenters to do their part not only for their own sakes, but because on no point do we feel more strongly than on the value of honourable and friendly associa tion in early years as the means of abating secta rian bigotry and rancour ; and of generating also mutual understanding and respect, where separa tion now originates mutual ignorance and antipathy. In the Commons some remarks were made about the impossibility of separating Catholics and other Dissenters, and Mr. LUCAS thought Catholics would not come to Oxford. What harm in the world could they do them? They could never surpass Pu,seyism- as a maker of proselytes for Rome ; and probably Mr. SrooNEr. and Dr. MAC HALE would both have been better men had a common education taught them to appreciate each other better. At all events it is now settled that our Universities must more and more every year deserve the character of National Institutions. We invite the attention of the Admiralty to a letter on " Gun-boats," in The Sun of this day, signed R. B. Feather. The subject has been fre quently canvassed by ourselves; and we cannot help wondering that no prompt step has yet been taken to remedy the grievance, so naval and so national. What has been done goes for nothing for all practical purposes. KING OF PORTFIGAL.—At Brussels on the Bth—A. grand review was held here in honour of the King of Por tugal. 8,000 men of the garrison of Brussels and the neighbouring towns were assembled. At noon, King Leopold, with the King of Portugal on his left hand, and accompanied by the Princes his sons, and the Duke of Oporto, passed the troops in review. The King, Don Pedro, and the Duke of Oporto will be present at the annual fête of Malines, and will con tinue their tour through the principal towns of Bel gium. DEATH OF LADY MARIANNE STURT.—We have to record the demise of Lady Marianne Sturt, at the ad vanced age of 88. Her ladyship was daughter of the fourth Earl of Shaftesbury, the grandmother of Mr. Gerard Sturt, M.P., and was therefore connected with the noble houses of Cardigan, Lucan, and Shaftesbury, CRYSTAL PALACE. TUESDAY (SHILLING DAY). — Number of season tickets sold to this date, 20,370. Ad mission at the doors, 13,699 ; admission by season tickets, 1,058-14,757. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Yesterday, the first of a series of grand galas, under the patronage of Count Walowski, the French Ambassador, in cele bration of the union between France and England, was given at these gardens. In addition to the many Cll3- tonary attractions of the Surrey Zoological Gardens, the visitors on this occasion was treated to the rather unusual display here of a balloon ascent, which was very cleverly and prettily effected under the able ieronautship of Lieutenant Chambers, in his elegant new balloon. There was also a double band, consiiting of the band of the 2d Life Guards, under Mr. Grattan Cooke, and that of the Coldstreams, under Mr. Godfrey. The pyrotech nic display was on an extraordinary magnificent scale, comprising a huge bouquet of five hundred rockets. The gardens were tastefully decorated with emblematic devices in coloured lamps, and the attendance of visitors was numerous and fa4hionable. PRICE OF GOLD. — The quotation of gold at Paris is about 4 mille discount (according to the last tariff), which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per oz. for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.07 ; and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.00, it follows that gold is about 0.28 per cent dealer in Paris than in London. By adviees from Hamburg the price of gold is 422! 2 per mark, which at the English t li a i:t ,, p o r ld ice is o o f .o 3l 6 . p l e 7 r s c . e l n O t l . -d. per oz. for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 31 ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on London at short being 13.31, it follows in 109 23.40 per cent., Landbon The course of exchange at New York on no minally 0.17 per cent,Th London for bills at 60 days' sight iS 109 3 per cent., and, between dearer in Hamburg rg than . making allowance for cltarges of transport the par of exchange. 4 England and America being fellows ' a m ; favour r t h o a f t of interest, the present rate leaves a small lratna exchange ci,r otafii ni profit on irnse afterthenn c o 3 - importation of gold from the United States. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY 14::VENING, JULY 12, 185 4, MONEY MARKET AND CO2IIIIIEBCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at from 5,000 to 6,000 hales, in cluding 2,000 American taken for export and on speculation. The market closed very quietly, without change in prices. The sales comprised 500 Surat at 3d to 31d. ; 30 Sea Island at is. Id. to Is. 5d., and the remainder American. Railway Shares were very flat. The report upon the indigo auctions, as furnished by Messrs. H. W. Jewesbury and Co., is as follows " The quarterly sales of indigo commenced this day, consisting of 13,925 chests (including 4,185 chests of old goods, bought in at or withdrawn from former sales, and 1,090 chests in second hands), comprising the following, viz. :—Catalogues A 9,322 chests Bengal, Oude, &c. ; 1,373 Madras, 1,311 Kurpah, 56 Bimlipatam, 21 Sa lem, 71 Pondicherry, 24 Java ; 480 withdrawn. 177 lots warehouse sweeping -4, 12,835 chests, Catalogue B 1,090 chesti', various, in second hands. Total 13,925 chests. The qualities of Bengal are about one-third good and fine, and two thirds middling and ordinary ; the Madras one-fourth good and fine, and three-fourths middling and ordinary ; the Kurpah one fourth good and fine, and three-fourths mid dling and ordinary ; the Bimlipatam chiefly ordinary, with one or two chests of good ; the Java good and fine ; the Oude, three-fourths middling and ordinary, and one-fourth good and fine. After the announcement of 248 chests being withdrawn, the sales opened with a parcel of good middling ordinary Madras, which sold with fair spirit, the lower qualities at barely last sale's prices, but the better sorts a t a n advance of 2d. to 3d. per lb. Bengal qualities have ruled from last sale's rates to 2d. per lb. under, the fall being upon the finer qualities. For Kurpah of good and fine quulity, there was strong competition, and an advance of from 2d. to 4d. per lb. was realised ; but the in ferior sorts were not in demand, and prices were rather easier. " We quote fine Bengal 2d. lower, middling and or dinary about last sales. Madras, good ord fine 2d. to 3d. higher, ordinary sorts about par ; Kurpal, good and fine 2d. to 4d. higher, ordinary sorts barely last sale's rates. The room presented a fair attendance, and the sales have opened much better than was expected. 1,228 chests have passed to-day, of which 385 were withdrawn, 212 bought in, and 631 sold." Accounts from France state that one-fifth more wheat has been sown there this season as compared With last. There was a slight decline yesterday afternoon in the rates for Bills of Exchange upon some of the Continental cities. Hamburg, 90 days, was not higher than 13 51- to si, and Paris was 25 22i to 27-i. Amsterdam was at 11 17 to 171. Frank fort was at 118 a to 1181. Trieste was higher, being 13 to 13 10. Tlie annual accounts of the Union Bank of Lon don was held this day, Sir Peter Laurie in the chair. The profits of the year ending 30th June last was 84,6311. lls. 2d., from which a dividend, after the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was re commended, with a bonus of 5 per cent., making 15 per cent. for the past year, clear of income-tax. The sale of the reserved shares would raise the reserve fund to 126,0001., and clear off the prelimi-. nary expenses. The report was adopted. The following are the principal passages in the report : "The fifteenth annual report, which affords the most satisfactory evidence that the progress of the business in every department, and the prosperity of the bank during the past year, have not been exceeded in any period since the establishment of the company. " The profits of the year ending the 30th of June last, amount to 84,6311. lls. 2d., after allowing for all current charges, and for the sum of 107,739 17s. sd. interest paid and due to customers on their current and deposit accounts. "On a careful consideration of the accounts on the 31st December last, the Directors felt justified in raising the dividend from 8 to 10 per cent. per annum, for the half-year then ended ; the profits of the last six months have fully equalled their expectations, and the Direc tors have now the satisfaction not only of declaring a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, but of adding a bonus of 5 per cent., making together 15 per cent. for the past year, clear of income-tax. "After payment of the dividend for the year, and the bonus amounting to the sum of 63,4351., and the usual appropriation of 5001. in reduction of the preliminary expenses, there will remain an unappropriated surplus profit of 20,6961. lls. 2d., to be carried to the credit of profit and loss New Account. "The directors are of opinion that the time has now arrived when the reserved shares may be appropriated with benefit to the Bank and advantage to the proprie tors ; they have, therefore, resolved (in pursuance of the powers prescribed by the deed of settlement) to issue them to the:present proprietors, in the proportion of two additional sfiares for every five shares now held, at a premium of Si. per share. The details of this arrange ment will be read to the meeting at the close of the report, and subsequently communicated by a circular letter to each proprietor. The paid-up capital will then amount to 600,0001., which the directors feel convinced has be come desirable from the magnitude of the business, and will extend the influence and augment the prosperity of the Pank. " The premiums thus receivable on the reserved s bares will be appropriated, first, to raise the reserved fund' to 120,0001., being 20 per cent. of the paid-up capital, beyond which amount it is not at present intended to increase that fund ; and next, to the entire liquidation of the preliminary expenses, which have been hitherto in course of repayment by annual instalments. " The appropriation of the reserved shares will leave 794 undisposed of, and affords an opportunity which the directors have long desired, of expressing in some substantial manner that entire and cordial approbation which the proprietors have so frequently recorded of the eminent services of Mr. W. W. Scrimgeour, the general manager, as well as of other valuable officers of the company. " It would be an agreeable duty to the directors to enlarge upon the m inanner in which Mr. Scrimgeour has discharged his arduous and most responsible duties, but the present position of the Bank best attests his un wearied zeal and tried ability, which have so materially contributed to that result, and the directors feel assured of the hearty concurrence of the proprietors in the pro position to appropriate the residuary shares at par, to Mr. -Scritngeour ; as well as to Mr. Barton, the assist ant manager ; , I\ a l in their several v t a h l t e e r manager Laurie,o the t f e departments, secretary,wlle e Regent street e en titled street branch ; Mr. Wight, the man ager o f th e Charing etwirtholeosdshtabhvreaenniecsahecll-1; es to the respect and confidence of the proprietors. . _ - - A. crude report has been circulated that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is negotiating for a new loan.. The English Stock-market has been further de pressed, and there is still a fair supply of stock. Consols have been 90k to 91k and are now 91k 1. The operations connected with speculative opera tions, according as parties have the "call" or "put" available, partly influence prices, but the poli tical uncertainty, together with the absence of sunny weather, are also acting upon the quotations. The value of Bank Stock is higher again, being at 210. Exchequer Bills are par to 2s. premium. The Exchequer Bonds of 1859 have been done at k premium. East India Stock is at 228. The New 3f per Cents. have realised 94, and since are 91i 1. Foreign Securities have been heavy. Grenada Stock has been done at 16, and Mexican at 24. Spanish 3 per Cents. have been firmer at 37 to 37, ex dividend. Russian 5 per Cents. have been at 96/, being still heavy. In Dutch 24 per Cents. there have been several transactions at 58-4.. to 59k, ex dividend, and in the 4 per Cents. at 89i to 901-. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds Gi to 6-i, Mexi can 231 to 24, Peruvian 65 to 67, ditto 3 per Cents. 50 t o 52, Portuguese 4 per Cents. 39 to 41, Russian 5 p er C en t s. 96 t o 98, ditt o 4i p e r C en t s . 80 to 82, Spanish New Deferred 18 3 / 4 to 19, ditto 3 per Cent s . 37 t o 38 , ditt o C er tifi ca t e s 4 t o 41, ditto Passive 4 to 41. The Railway - Market is influenced by the decline in the English stocks, and although there is no material pressure of sales, the disposition is rather to part with shares. Great Western, however, and Great Northern A stock are better supported than others. Brighton are down, and the North British also. Franch Shares are neglected. Mining Shares are inactive. Banks flat, and Land Shares though dull are steady. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.' ( Front the Oficial List. ) Business done. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities . 914 14 1 3 per Cent. Con Sols Annuities 9l 901 1i New 32 per Cent. Annuities 9IJ, i i Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 -16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan.,1860 4i India Stock Consols for Opening 19th July Exchequei Bills, 24(1. £l000 £5OO 2 p par • S aaall 4 2 p Exchequer Bonds, 1858 Ditto Scrip, 1859 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Grenada Bonds, li per Cent Mexican 3 per Cent. Russian Bond; 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 9:;i Spanish Bonds,'3 per Cent 37i 7 x d Dividends on the above payab!s in London. Belgian Bonds ,I. per Cent. ex. 25 fr Dutch Exchange, 2,i per Cent. 12 Guil - x d Ditto 4 per Cent. , Certificates ..,. lIALF-PAST T WO. Consols for Opening 19th July 1 91i 4 x cl LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. __, THE WAR. WITHDRAWAL OF THE FLEET FROM CRONSTADT. Telegraphic despatches from Dantzic announce that Admiral Sir Charles Napier, after spending above a fortnight before Cronstadt, endeavouring to tempt the Russians into action, has returned with his ships to Barosound. The cholera was raging at Cronstadt, and the Admiral was un willing to keep his men unnecessarily in its neigh bourhood. The fleets retired from reconnoitring Cronstadt on the 6th. THE D ANUBE. The Oesterreichische Corresporbdenz of yesterday contains the following :—" On the Bth, after a long struggle, the Turks got possession of the islands of Mokan and Olneika, and subsequently of Giurgevo. The Russians were then totally defeated on the Wallachian territory." Prince Gortschakoff is forming a camp of 30,000 men between Bucharest and the Danube. The same journal gives it to be understood that the Russians will not withdraw from Wallachia, and that the Austrian troops will not pass the frontier. Other despatches confirm generally the staie meat of the defeat of the Russians, but they differ as to the day when the engagement took place. One says : " A smart action took place on the Danube on the sth. The Russians lost 160 killed, and 800 wounded. Everything implies a defence of Bucharest." Another, dated Belgrade, July 11, is to this effect : " On the morning of the 7th, the Turks crossed the Danube at Rutschuk, with 40,000 men. At 11 o'clock they were masters of Giurgevo. 900 men of General. Seymonoff's army were killed or wounded. " Prince Gortschakoff was to take up a position on the Bth, four miles in front of Bucharest, but has "only 30,000 men with him." The Presse mentions that Osten-Sacken is ex pected at the Russian camp. According to a letter of the 3d from Bucharest, the Russian transports and gun-boats that have arrived at Galatz from their station off Silistria, where they were employed, are having their arma ments taken out. This seems to be the commence ment of what has become necessary, the entire breaking up of the Russian flotilla on the Danube. This subject is at this moment most seriously occu pying Prince Gortschakoff's attention, and it is thought by no means impossible that the ships will be burned. The mouths of the Danube are block aded by the allied fleets, and the Russian vessels have no longer an escape that way. A letter from Schumla of the 28th ult. states that the Turkish army of the Balkan is continuing its movement on the Dobrudscha ; detachments of the auxiliary army are expected to arrive at Pra vadi on the 24th inst. Kustendji is occupied by the Turks, and the Egyptian regiments of the gar rison of Varna are marching on Bazardschick. There now only remains at Varna a garrison of French and English troops. The Duke of Cam bridge has left for Schumla. An expedition against the mouths of the Danube and the Crimea is spoken of as certain. Omer Pacha was to leave Schumla on the Ist for Silistria and Rustchuck. A letter from Orsova, of the 7th, mentions that the Arpad steamer which was to convey to Rust chuck the suite of Colonel Kalick, had not been able to pass Sistowa ; on her return the Russians fired at her when near Nicopolis. The Russians occupy the left bank of the Danube from the Aluta. Consequently these positions have not been eva cuated, as }vas alleged. THE BRITISH CAMP, NEAR VARNA. We extract the following from a letter, dated "Camp at Aladyn, near Varna, Bulgaria, Monday, June 26.—0 n Saturday a Tatar with an escort rode past the camp by the Shamla, road, at full speed for Varna, and, on arriving there, at once repaired to the quarters of Marshal St. Arnaud and Lord Raglan, with despatches from Omer Pacha. The two Commanders-in-Chief held a conference, at which several of the French and English generals were present, and on the same evening two steamers left the port of Varna with despatches, one for Constantinople, and the other for the Admirals at Baits chik. Another messenger passed through the camp the previous Friday from the Turkish generals, and it was generally believed that he carried important tidings re specting the progress of the siege of Silistria. Of course, the rumours which flew from camp to camp were various and contradictory. Some said that Omer Pasha had sent for assistance in urgent terms, and re presented the immediate fall of Liilistria as all but inevita ble, unless speedy relief was given by the allied army ; others that he expressed himself in terms of the highest confidence with regard to the defence ; and others, again, that he merely recorded the operations of his troops, respecting which nothing whatever was known here. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday the noise of a distant cannonade ha I been heard at intervals by the officers and men of the outlying pickets from the direction of Silistria, and hypothesis and conjecture were busy hatching canards, which flew about the tents in ever-varying plumage and form. But on Saturday the great fact was known at Varna, and it soon travelled out here, that the siege of Silistria was raised, and that the Russians were in full retreat from the scene of their discomfiture. Late on Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning, Lord Burghersh passed the camp of Aladyn, on his way to the advance post of cavalry under Lord Cardigan, which had already established its quarters about five miles beyond Devno (or 16 miles from this), and was sweeping all the country up to ' wards Shumla and Silistria. Lord Burghersh is sup posed to be the bearer of despatches commanding the Earl of Cardigan to push on with all possible speed, so as to reconnoitre the country towards the Danube, and to ascertain, if possible, the route taken by the Russians. It would seem that the garrison at Silistria had scarcely any cavalry, and that the Russians had retired so pre cipitately after their last defeat that their route could not be accurately ascertained. Parties of the sth Dra goon Guards, 17th Lancers, and 13th Light Dragoons were immediately advanced, and are now extending their files by Yeni Bazaar and to the eastward of the plains of Shumla towards H.adschi Oghlu. _ " It may readily be believed that this news, which no one doubts, has made a profound sensation here. The prominent feeling among the men is one of disa,ppoint ment, that they may lose the chance, " after coming so far, of having one brush with the Russians." Sir D. L. Evans is said to have addressed his division in order to soothe their spirits on this point. Beyond this pardon able military enthusiasm there is a great desire to escape from the strenuous inaction of camp life, its toilsome parades, and the relaxing effects of the climate. The Generals-in-Chief are in conference again to-day, but no orders have as yet been issued to any of the divisions which indicate a move of any kind. A. large proportion of men-of-war and transports is still retained, however, in Varna Bay. "The sickness and diarrhoea in the camp here are greatly on the decline, but sore lips among men and officers are common, principally from exposure to the sun. The Duke's division seem to be growing beards with impunity. His Royal Highness, who lives out close to his division under canvas, having abandoned his quarters in Varna within a few days after he got into them, has his men's parades And field-days before nine o'clock. The Brigadiers here prefer the hours between 9 and noon, under the impression that the sun is not so powerful then, on account 5f the forenoon breezes, as it is earlier in the morning. We have a thunderstorm almost every day, and very grateful ft is, for the tem perature is always lowered 10 or 12 degrees by the rain and electrical discharges. The commissariat are doing their duty manfully. The quality of the meat is really very good, though the doctors think a pound a-day is not enough for each man in such a climate, especially as the meat is rather deficient in gelatine and in nutri tious quality. " Two French soldiers have been shot at Varna for insubordination. Another is to be shot to-morrow for stabbing a Voltigeur. He is a Zouave, and in an alter cation with his countryman he drew his bayonet and thrust it through the body of his opponent, at the same time exclaiming that he desired to be shot, a wish which a colonel who rode up assured him should be speedily gratified. We have not been without our share of offenses. Several men have been flogged for breaking into the village of Kojuk, close at hand, for theft, and other crimes against law and order. " Some Turkish troops marched past yesterday on their road to Shumla. They had no baggage of any kind. The flight of the araba-drivers continues. They hate the service, and will escape from it at any risk. One of the Bulgarians drew his knife on the soldier who was taking him off with his cart for the use of the surgeon of the Rifles last Friday, and, when he was disarmed, he broke up his cart and burnt it, out of spite and mor tification. We have little ‘skrimmages of this kind every day. A soldier and a Turk the other day had a dispute near the commissariat stores. The Turk drew his pistol from his belt, but the soldier rushed in on him, wrested it from him, and fired it off. The ball went near Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, who hap pened to be riding the bush to visit the camp, and the soldier was arrested for discharging a weapon so carelessly. "No order for marching has arrived from bead-quar ters. The Light Division would be sure to move first, if any movement were to be made. Sutlers are beginning to appear, and hams at 3s. 6d. a pound, and preserved meats at large prices are to be had now and then. Bad brandy is 3s. 6d. a bottle. The first supplies came up to day. THE BLACK SEA FLEET. Tho following is an extract from a private letter received from an officer in one of the ships in the Black Sea, dated Baljik, June 29 : "I hear that the combined fleet—French, Turkish, and our own—goes to sea in a few days, for the blockade of Sebastopol. Now that the troops have landed at Varna, our ships there will rejoin the admiral. The Bellerophon has been there all the time. She has pre- eminently kept up the good name of the service by her hospitality to our gallant red-coated brethren. Her captain, Lord George Paulet, is never more happy than when presiding at a capital dinner, with the accompani ment of his splendid band. The Firebrand and Vesu vius have been doing something in a small way up the coast, at the north of the Sulina mouth of the Danube —burning military stations and dispersing their little gar isons, cutting down telegraph posts, and so on. The Sans pareil returned from the Circassian coast a few days ago, leaving the Firebrand and Sampson there, at Soukoum or Redout or Kale. These are to be relieved soon, it is said, by the Sidon and Inflexible. I dare say you have heard that the Sanspareil arrived at Redout Kale just in the nick of time. The Russians, who had been dislodged by Sir Edmund Lyons' squadron, were just returning in force, and would have made small bones of the Turkish garrison, when she hove in sight. The Muscovites thought better of it, exercised their discre tion, and retired. Now, I believe, both places are capable of defence, guns being mounted again in the former, and the fort of the latter having been insulated and otherwise strengthened. The Banshee brought up' word yesterday that Lord Raglan had returned from a visit to the banks of the Danube, and that he confirmed the report of the Russian retreat. It is said that Lord Cardigan with some light cavalry has been pushed on in the direction of Kustendje. If he has fallen in with any of the Cossacks said to have been seen by the Inflexible on her way down from the Sulina mouth some days ag ,, , that roving rabble will have had cause to rue the meet ing. how beautifully the Greeks have been checkmated —or rather, I should say, how Master Nicholas has been brought sharp up in Greece by the combined occupation of the Piraeus When the Inflexible was there two or three months ago, recruiting (volunteering) was going on openly for the affair i❑ Epirus, within three minutes' walk of King Otho's abode." REPLY OF ADMIRAL HAMELIN TO THE RUSSIAN VERSION. BOMBARDMENT OF ODESSA. Admiral Hamelin, commanding the French fleet in the Black Sea, has addressed to his government a second report on the results of the bombardment of Odessa. His statement appears to have Leen evoked by the mendacious reports on the event which have been published under official authority at St. Petersburg. The Admiral writes : " VILLE DE PARIS, June 29, 1854.—Monsieur le Ministre.—When I had the honour of reporting to you the losses which the Russian Government must have sustained through the bombardment of the imperial port at Odessa by the steamers of the combined squadron, I was only able to mention such as were visible from the decks of our vessels. Your excellency will readily un derstand the difficulty of appreciating exactly whether from the ships engaged, or from vessels witnessing the action, the destruction caused by our projectiles in the midst of the enemy's ranks, or in the arsenal itself. " We plainly saw and heard a powder magazine blow up ; saw the ships on fire in the midst of this arsenal ; saw the burning barracks and magazine successively fall in, and the guns and carriages lying about dismounted on the molehead. For three consecutive nights the flames did not cease. These general results were all that we were then able to ascertain. " This is no longer the case ; and thanks to informa tion proceeding from a person worthy of belief,.who was at Odessa during the attack, and who remained there afterwards, I am able to give your excellency the details as requested in the despatch of May 24. The following then is the damage sustained at the imperial fort of Odessa, in consequence of the attack of Api il 22. " Among the ten pieces of ordnance that defended, some the entrance, others the head of the mole, these last were completely dismantled ; this was the work which our steamers had particularly in view, and the accomplishment of which permitted them to approach the imperial port, in order to destroy the Russian ma gazines and vessels. "The powder magazine, erected for supplying the mole battery, blew up ; the explosion killed or wounded nearly all the troops that manned this battery. The Government magazine, that contained all the stores re quired by the steam-packets of the State in the Black Sea, was entirely consumed. A barrack built for the Cossacks, shared the same fate, entailing the destruction of a great many horsemen and horses : it was the same with a. large store-house of corn, straw, and hay. "The mole itself, struck by a great number of balls, was seriousiy damaged. In short, the field battery of four guns, which had ventured to cope with the guns of our frigates, was almost entirely destroyed, with men and horses. "The imperial port contained 53 sailing vessels, three steamers, and five dredging machines. Of the three steamers, one, the Dneister, an iron boat of 40-horse power, the property of the Government, having received several balls in its hull and keel, filled in five minutes and went down. They endeavoured in vain to raise it again. Another iron steamer, the Luba, sank after re ceiving 16 shots ; is tliongbt impossible to make her float again. A third steamer, of 90-horse power, the Claudia, went down also, but it seems she has been since raised. " Of the five floating dredging machines, the newest was entirely destroyed ; it sank the first day, and there is no chance of its being made seaworthy ; the . four others experienced more or less injury. " Of the 53 sailing vessels in the port of Odessa, one, Nicholas 1., of about 600 tons, was destroyed by fire : • two brigs were entirely burned, as also a collier full of Newcastle coals, and bound for Ismail. The i est of these vessels, which were Russian coasters of different sizes, were more or less damaged by the balls, the greater part foundered. "As for the enemy's loss in men, in order to esti ' mate it it was requisite to have recourse to private sources, the Russian government having abstained from publishing the numbers officially. It results from this information that the number of killed and wounded was not less than 200. "Your excellency did not stand in need of these details to be convinced beforehand that the documents contained in my previous reports were rather below than above the truth. Perhaps the same cannot be said respecting those of the enemy's general, especially in what concerns the crippling of I don't know how many of our steam fri gates at the close of this engagement. Your excellency is aware that not one of our steam frigates or steam cor vettes, receiving as they did not a single shot in their machinery or boilers, was prevented from following the squadrons ; and, strange to say, not one of our men was killed or wounded by the projectiles of the enemy, whilst ours was making havoc in his ranks, his flotilla, and his arsenal. " As for the confusion prevailin g in the arsenal at the beginning of the action, I have been again assured of its having been the case ; this explains why, as I al ready have had the honour of writing to your excellency, the authorities of Odessa fought without a flag ; and yet the Russian colours were hoisted often-enough on the custom-house and the quarantine buildings.—l am, &c., " Vice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief of the "Black Sea Squadron, HAMELIN." THE CREW OF THE TIGER. An officer serving with the Black Sea fleet writes to his friends : " BALJICK, June 18.—The First Lieutenant of the Tiger has been summoned to St. Petersburg. Her crew has been divided into two or three portions, one of which is, I hear, immediately to proceed inland to at tend some Russian college. They are enjoying them selves exceedingly, though prisoners. They are allowed seats at the opera, and carriages to go about in." ST. PETERSBURG. We read in a letter from Hamburg of the Bth : "The Russian Government has recently adopted a new measure, showing how anxious it is to avail itself of every military resource which it can dispose of. There exist in Russia, and particularly at St. Petersburg and Moscow, several military schools, where a great nu m b er of pupils receive an excellent education in everything relating to their intended profession. In the end, after severe examinations, they are granted commissions in the army. At present, in consequence of the continual augmentation of new battalions, all the pupils h ave been withdrawn by the Emperor from the schools, and placed as officers in the battalion of the guard and line. In the last list of decorations granted by the Emperor of Russia, the names of seve ra l Austrian officers are to be seen. Information has been received that the merchant-vessels which have en tered the White Sea to take on board cargoes of corn have not been molested by the English cruisers. They have even received from the English - commander autho risation to return without hindrance to the neutral ports for which their cargoes are destined." A letter from Berlin of the Bth, in the Cologne Gazette, says:—" Count Koenigsmark, commander of the fortress of Rheinsberg, is to be charged with a mission for St. Petersburg. He is to present a letter of felicitation from the King on the occasion of the anniversary of the Empress's birthday." The National Gazette of Berlin has the follow ing from Warsaw, dated the 4th :—The reserve battalions of the 3d division have left for Lublin : there are now not more than 20,000 men here. The authorities of the governments of Radom i nd Kalisch have received orders to put the roads in a state to bear artillery. The troops are in general proceeding towards Podolia and Ybraez. The officers have been ordered to wear cloaks like those of the common soldiers, in order not to be so much exposed to the aim of the enemy. The Czar him self wears one of these cloaks. The Russian journals publish a report of Prince Menschikoff, Governor of Sebastopol, giving an account of the affair of the 15th June: The Prince admits that the two steamers Gromonassetz and Vladimir had suffered from the fire of the enemy, and had had 20 officers and as many non-commis sioned officers wounded, and several killed. Ho then adds in a triumphant manner that the enemy fled, and that the victorious Russian flotilla re entered Sebastopol. Those journals are completely silent respecting the siege of Silistria, but they an nounce with emphasis that, on the 3d instant., the Emperor caused a Te Drum to be sung in the Church of the Winter Palace, on the occasion of the glorious victory gained by General Andronikoff in Asia. RUSSIA AND THE GERMAN POWERS. According to Jetters from Berlin, of the Bth, the Comte deXoenigsmark was to set out on the even ing of that day fur St. Petersburg. Colonel Manteuffel, it was said, was to leave Berlin on this day for London, on a mission, of which the object is to conciliate the opposition that has shown itself to a renewal of negotiations. It is added that the Czar, if a renewal should be agreed to, would even abandon the lice of the Sereth, and withdraw the Russian troop 3 into his o ivn territory. It is stated from Hermanstadt, under the date of the Ist, that in the two previous days great in terruption had taken place in the transport of mer chandise between Moldavia and Transylvania. The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, under date of Vienna, 7th, says—" Various reports are in cir culation as to the contents of the autograph lett er from the Emperor o f R uss i a , - delivered to the Em peror of Austria by Prince Gortschakoff, and as to the mission of the latter. I can announce to you, in the most positive manner, that at St. Peters burg the Austrian summons relative to the eva cuation of Moldavia has not been taken into con sideration on the conditions proposed by Austria. It is positively stated that Prince Gortschakoff is authorised to make entirely new propositions to the Austrian Cabinet, but it is not thought that they are of a nature to lead to diplomatic negotia tions, our Government being firmly decided on maintaining the summons in every respect." STATE OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY. The Vienna papers are informed from the Prin cipalities that from 9,000 to 10,000 sick and wounded are now on the road from Bucharest to the Sereth. The Warsaw correspondent of the Presse affirms that the demoralisation of the Rus sian army is complete. The soldiers before Silistria loudly complained that they had been led to the shambles. The front ranks of the storming par ties before Silistria refused to advance towards the Turkish works. Prince Paskewitch ordered two Greek priests, bearing the sacred pictures, to place themselves at the head of the men, and when even this powerful stimul f us failed, the veteran left his saddle and, seizing a flag, led on the men him self. The loss of officers has been tremendous. Russian officers who have recently joined the army relate that the Emperor is indisposed, and suffers from depression of spirits. When his Majesty ap pears in public he always wears a large Greek cross, the symbol of his spiritual sovereignty. LETTER FROM ABD-EL-KADER TO OMER PACHA. Omer Pacha has lately received the following letter from Abd-al-Kader, dated Broussa, the 18th : "My very -dear Brother--The gates of Paradise opened themselves for me, when I had a conversation with the only prophet in a dream on the eve of the Ist Ramazan. I heard all the great and holy souls who re pose in Abraham's bosom proclaim your name with shouts of joy, and I saw a large rainbow extend across the striking ranks of the holy suu's when they called you by name. God is with you, my brothe r . Wh erever you go glory and victory will attend you. I envy you. Carry off the camps of your enemy by your troops. May my blessing accompany you. The enemies will fly be fore you like jackals, and our children's children will glorify your name. Do not draw back,..but march your troops forward. The Prophet wills it. The day of ex piation is arrived for the giaours of Moscow. Blessings on you ; my brother. " ABD-EL-KADER." FR A.NCE. ARRIVAL OF THE EMPEROR AT BOULOGNE. The Emperor left Paris yesterday afternoon for Boulogne, to review the troops which are about to depart for the Baltic. He arrived at Boulogne in the evening, and took up his quarters at the Hotel du Nord. It is understood that his Majesty will be present at the embarkation of General Baraguay d'Hilliers' division. The Emperor on leaving Paris drove along the Boulevards in an open carriage, absolutely without an escort of any kind, and with only one person with him in the Carriage —probably one of the chamberlains. Both were in plain clothes. There was a complete absence, not only of military, but of , any state whatever. A considerable number of per sons had previously assembled at, the Northern Rail way Station when the carriage arrived. The Empe-- ror descended and passed through the crowd, who. received him with every mark of respect. Flags and other such ornaments usual on the occasion had been placed at the entrance, but they were removed, as well as every other mark, of distinction, as it was understood to be the Emperor's wish that no dis tinctive ornaments should be employed. The ground was kept clear by a squadron of Sergens de Ville. The Emperor was received at the sta tion by some members of the Administration, and in a few minutes was at full speed on his way to Boulogne. The Emperor will be met at Boulogne by Count Walewski, the French Ambassador, who has been at Calais since Sunday, and by Admiral Lapierre, who is to superintend the embarkation of the troops. 9,000 men will be embarked at Calais on hoard the English ships ; and 3,000 men, with siege artillery and 100 lice see will emberk on board French sailing ships, which will arrive at that port two days later. The English ships are expected on the 13th ; they will anchor a mile and a half from the shore, fitted up as transports. The troops will also arrive the same day, a part on foot from Bou logne, and a part by railway from St. Omer. Fif teen French steamers will be ranged along the Calais quays in order to convey the troops from the shore to the English ships. The embarkation will begin on the morning of the 14th ; and so ad mirably has every arrangement been mode, and so well does every man know his place, that it is ex pected the operation will be over at mid-day, or very soon after. The 9,000 men will be embarked in one operation, and the rest w ill b e t a k en a d a y or two after on board French sailing vessels. The total force that will proceed to the Baltic in subse quent detachments will be about 30,000 men. Several regiments have within the last few days been sent off by the Northern Railway for Calais and Boulogne. At the station crowds were as sembled to see them leave, and greeted them with loud acclamations. Several departures took place, and each one gave rise to a demonstration of the popular enthusiasm. At about nine in the evening a detachment marched up, and there were loud cries from the crowd, which was very numerous, of " Vivo l'Enapereur !"—cries in which the soldiers joined. There were also amongst the people cries of " Viva l'Angleterre " which were probably raised in the belief that the troops were part of those who are about to be embarked on board English vessels for the Baltic. Some ar tillerymen of Vincennes have gone to Douai to take possession of siege artillery, and they are to convey it to Calais. The sth company of the ou vriers d'administration, consisting of butchers, bakers, and carpenters, has arrived at Lille from Metz, and is to proceed to Boulogne to form part of the Baltic army. The public 'in Paris is rather surprised, not to say disquieted, by the continued silence of the Moniteur respecting the reply of the Emperor of RusSa. to the note of the Austrian Cabinet ; and as it is pretty certain that they are acquainted with its tenour, but that they observe the most profound secrecy on it, the inference is that they are not sa tisfied with it. It is also remarked that the Moniteur has recently been most communicative when Austria was concerned, and when there was good news to tell, or anything which resembled good news. Hence there is a certain degree of dissatisfaction, which is unfounded no doubt, but which is not to be wondered at under the circum stances, particularly, when the Austrian occupation of Wallachia announced as a fait accompli some days since, has not yet taken place. The funeral of M. Emmanuel de Las Cases took place T esterday at Passy. The Emperor was re presented at the ceremony by. one of his chamber lains, the Duke de Tarente. The corners of the pall were borne by General Ricard, Aid-de-Camp of King Jerome ; Baron do Heckeren, Senator ; a colonel of Polish Lancers, who followed Napoleon I. to St. Helena ; and N. Boulay, de la Meurthe, ex-Vice-President of the Republic. Among the other distinguished persons present were General d'Hautpoul, the Duke of Padua, and Messrs. Pierron and Archambault, who were with the de ceased at St. Helena. The Bourse continued heavy yesterday. The Three per Cents, opened at 72f. 25c., rose to 72f. 40c., and fell to 71f. 85c., the closing price for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 97f. 75e. ; and the New Loan at 72f. 20c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,155 f. ; Rouen, 1,015 f. ; Havre, 555 f. ; G rea t N or th ern , 820 f. ; Strasburg, 780 f. ; New Shares, 621 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 925 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 840 f. ; Western of France, 645 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 600 f. ; Great Central of France, 495 f. ; Lyons and Geneva, 502 f. 50c. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 710 f. SPAIN. The Moniteur contains a despatch dated Madrid July,lo, stating that the insurgents continue their march towards Andalusia, by Valdepenas, in a state of extreme discouragement. Other accounts are in opposition to this, and it is certain that the insurrection continues. MADRID, July 7—On the sth their main body was at Mauzanares, and their rear guard at Puerto La Biche. On the same day the column of Royal troops arrived at Tembleque. ST. PETERSBURG.—The St. Petersburg advices yester day are to the 4th of July, and state that on Sunday, the 2d, the allied fleets had sailed, and were out of sight of Cronstadt. General depression prevailed in business, although some considerable quantities of produce were still being sent overland to Memel. In imported goods, in which great firmness might have been expected from the effects of the blockade, extreme dulness prevailed, and the quotations fur indigo especially were such as to indicate a degree of caution and apathy on the part of the great manufacturers which can only be attributed to their knowledge of the internal distress of the country.