The Sun. — London, England, 1854-04-21 00:00:00

TELE_ TtivrES ASSURANCE COMPANY, 32, LUnGATE-HILL, LONDON. 'Established for every description of FIRE :INCE and the ASSURANCe; of PLATE GLAS.i of every description against acci dental breakage... FOTI CE IS "HEREBY GIVEN, That on and after the 24th inst., interest at the rate of Mx per cent. per annum will be payable upon the p all-up capital of this Conn any at the Chief office, a, Ludgate lOU, between the hours of 10 and 3. H. B. SHERIDIN, Manager. Active Agents wanted for Plate Glass Assurance.—Apply as above. THEA LEE ROYAL DRURY Ltis.i.E. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Arlen. 21, • Will be performed NORMA. Principal characters by Madame Carador!. Madame Sedatzek, and Madame Souoheim; Signor Pa- Eignor &anti, aid Signor Arnoldi. • rollosnd by a B ILLET DIVERTISSEMENT. CoaduCtor, Herr Lindpaintner ; Retlsseur, Herr Formes. Stalls, 7s; Dress Circle, ss; Boxes, 31; Pit, 2s; GaUery, Is. Private Boxes, One, Two, and Three Guineas. may be had, and places secured, at the Box-aloe daily from Ten to Sly; and of all intudesellers and librarians. THEI,TBE ROYAL HAYMARKET. 'Under the management of Mr. huckstone. , THIS EVENING. APILII 21, Will be performed SPEED TUE PLOUGH. Characters by Messg. Vandenhoff. Compton, Rogers, and Chippendale; Miss E. Chaplin, Miss Louisa Howard, and x i ,. g a m ey. After which. the entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled MR. RIICKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND TEIE GLOBE (IN LEI CESTER-SQUARE), written by J. R. Planche , ESQ. [TinePal c haracters by Mr. Buckstone. Mr. W. Farrell, Mr. Clark, Mr. J. Marshall, Mr. H. Marshall; Mrs. Fltzwilliatn,a Morris, and Miss Mrs. Caulfield, Miss E. Grey. Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss La Ur Featherstone. Fo'lowed by WIVLIKIND AND HYS DINAH. Supported by , Messrs. Bucketone and Corti; Miss Louisa Howard, Mrs. Fitzvril liam, and Mrs. Caulfield. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHAZLIS UAL THIS worziovich Arun 21, Xllbe performed THE 'MARRIED UNMARRIED. ChanCters by , * ism. w. Lacy. syder, and Cathcart; and Misses Reath and Sturikr. Fotlowed by FAUS T MATIGCrERITE. Characters by m ean . C. Kean and Dav:d Fisher ; Mrs. Winstabley and min C. laidercxi. To moc inAa with A STORM IN A TEA - CITP. princip a l e t, radars by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. ----- THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL proprietor. Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.. THIS EVENING, APRIL 21, will be performed TWO LOVES .0/130 A LIFE. Supported by Messrs. C. Selby, Leigh Murray, Benjamin Webster, Keeley, and 0. s m ith ; Miss Woolgar and Madame Celeste. Vollowed by THE OVERL VICO .thrTRNEY TO CON'STANTI igopLE, A 3 UNDERTAKEN BY LORD BA.TEVAti. WITH INTICILEBTING PARrICULAR3 OF THE FAIR hOPHIA. “CEIIM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestria. THIS EVENING, .Aram 21, Will be performed A CHARMING WIDOW. Principal chara.c. tore by Mr. C. Mathews ; Miss Talbot and Miss Oliver. • To be followed by GIVE A DOG AN ILL NAME. Principal characters by Ma'am C. Mathews and F. Matthews. After which, NUMBER ONE BOUND THE CORNER. Concluding with A HOUSE OUT OF WINDOWS. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING. Avast. 21, Will be Derfermed THE HAPPIEST DAY O LeslieF MY LIFE. Ctn.. ?actors by Messrs. F. Robson, ~ H White, , and Vincent; Mrs. Chatterley, Miss F. Horton, and Miss Marston. - To be followed by TO OBLIGE BENSON. Supported by Messrs. Emery, Robson, and Leslie; Mrs. Stirling and Miss Wyndham. To conelude with the Farce of THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jens Beggs. Mr. F. Robson. STRAND THEATRE. See LONGS ?Qr. F. W. Alleroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, THIS EVENING, APRIL 21, Will be performed TELE ENCHANTED L AKE. Followed by AN ADVERTISEMENT—" WANTED, WIVES AND HUSBANDS." Concluding with it new burlesque on RICHARD THE THIRD. stroll, Ss.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 11. 6d; Oallery, 40. ; Private ltoxes, $1 lis. 6d., :o be bad of Mr. Alleroft, 13, New Bond-street. , hTLP.MS EUROPE'S 'NAT iO>TA L AtifPiiITIIEA.TRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. William Cooke. Great attraction and powerful Novelties for the Easter Holidays. THIS EVENING, APRIL 21. And during the week, a now Braid \Tattiest and Equestrian spec• • tacle., embodying n vet and extraordinary effects (wri•t';n by Mr. Meson Lea), entitled A TALE OF THE SPA SISH WAR; or, The Horse of the Wreck. Th 3 horses expressly trained by Mr. W. Cooke. Followed by an entire change of the Scenesof the CIRCLE. intro ducing less Kate Cooke, %Hsi) Emily Cooke, Mr. %Wel Cooke, and the most talented Equestrian ani liyinnastic Artistes in Europe. Concluding with the new Farce of DALRYMeLE versus TUBBS. Box-ollice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Ten DAY I Morning 15 min.after 8 Evening 2 min.aft. 9 Te•Mossow—lforning 50 min.after 9 Evening 35 min.ait. 10 Recollect—to the friends of the CzA.B., and the enemies of the Turkish Government. yr Remember, moreover, the extraordinary cir cular addressed towards the close of last month, dated, in'fact, the 29th of March, to all t-e Eng lish Consuls in the Levant by her Britannic MAJESTY'S Ambassador at Constantinople ! A document viewing with "indignant sorrow and reprobation" [these are the very expressions of Lord STRATFOED DE REDOLIPPE] "a movement which operates only in favour of 'Russia, while it has not even the merit of being spontaneous." Bear those last, few syllables especially in remem brance ! Recollect, moreover, that eight days after that circular was penned at Constantinople by our Ambassador, Lord JOHN RUSSELL declared, in the House of Commons, in the sitting to which we have already made more than one referenc., that the movement regarded by her MAJESTY'S representative at the Sublime Porte as being " only in favour of Russia," and as not having " even the merit of being spontaneous," was in reality strongly encouraged, if it were not actually originated, by the infatuated Greek Sove reigns. I Let it not be forgotten that these are formid able imputations cast by no obscure hand, but by that of a leading Minister of the Crown of Eng land, against King 01110, some time [in 1832] Prince of Bavaria, and against his Queen, some time [in 1836] Princess AMSLIA of Oldenburg. The " numerous PROOFS" of the criminal con nivance of the KING and Quxes of Greece with these insurgents in the cause of the Russian AUTOCRAT—the proofs spoken of so confidently on the 6th instant by the Noble Lord the Leader of the House of Commons—have yet, of course, to be adduced in justification of the charge, and thereupon, in the Substantial form of a blue-book, laid upon the table of the Imperial Legislature. Nevertheless, although that promised blue-book has yet to be printed, or at any rate has yet to be published—may we not already perceive in various events which have actually transpired strong confirmation of the truth of the very grave charges directed against the Court of Athens by the Noble Leader of the House of Commons speaking in the name of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government ? Can we ? It is a rather serious question. Can we not already discover that these bold asser tions from the lips of Lord Joax RUSSELL have been accompanied by events somewhat remarkable in the way of corroboration or enforcement Can we not perceive this not merely in the abrupt dismissal by the Sublime Porte of the Greek Ambassador to the Court of the SULTAN, but also, peremptorily, of the various Greek sub jects hitherto resident at Constantiuople ? Above all, is there not powerful and direct con firmation of every syllable uttered on the 6th of April, in the House of Commons, by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in the circumstance notified by U 3 in our impression of last Monday, that, by a curious coin cidence, on that same 6th of April, at Athens, the English, Austrian, French, and .Swedish Ministers did not attend at the solemn Te Deum, there and then chaunted before King OTrio and Queen AN GELIA ?—that memorable 6th being the day when the anniversary of the independence of Greece was celebrated ! Observe that announcement—for just now it is especially significant. The English Minister was not present. The French Minister was not pre sent. Neither was the Swedish nor the Austrian ! Somewhat propitious, we take it, that latter inti mation. Not a word about the Russian or— mark this particularly !—about the Prussian Am bassador ! Consequently, the obvious deduction from the silence preserved in regard to them is, that they were both present at the Te Thum from which not only the English and the French, but even the Austrian and Swedish Ministers absented themselves. Naturally, of course, the Russian Ambassador was present after the movement made [we quote half from Lord Jowl . RUSSELL and half from Lord STZATFOILD DE REDOLTPRE/ in favour of the Czsit at the instigation, or at least with the encouragement, of the Greek Sovereigns. But the ' PrussianAmbasstvior t There' a the iub. Verily the straw thrown up at Athens, shows more pointedly the direction of the wind (for Prussia) than -even the Berlin weathercock. Verily, too—And the reflection is just now yet more worthy of remark—the day of reckoning is fast approaching for the infatuated Greek Go• vernment. We know nothing whatever of Mr. MATTHEW, of Heywood, who lectured the turnouts of Stock port last week on the political economy of their position, but certainly if such balderdash can be passed off to the poor men as irrefutable argu ment, material will never be wanting for persuad ing them that they are grievously wronged, and do well to be angry. Mr. MATTHEW may be, and we suppose is, a respectable man, and endowed with the requisite faculties for addressing an open air meeting ; and perhaps a superior thinker, with inferior tact and physical powers, would have come off but second beat, mill-lasses being judges, in an encounter with an orator pleading against masters, and for the idolised ten per cent. We would fain hope, how ever, that there were among the shrewd over lookers, and other long-headed Lancashire men present, many who had learned enough at Mecha nics' Institutes, or by their mother wit, to shrug their shoulders at arguments which elicited loud plaudits from the younger portion of the audience. Mr. MATTHEW began with an imposing nega tive : "be denied that capital and labour were identical in their interests." The wealthy mas ters and their needy operatives, he wished it to be understood, were natural enemies, and it was as glorious for poverty to do battle against wealth as for the Turks to resist the Russians. We fancy 1 we see some long-headed, and, perhaps, smutty ' I faced operative, ready to exclaim, though I repressed by fear of hisses, " A'weel, Mr. MATTHEW, may be most masters get us to work as cheap as they can, but how could they put us to work at all if they had na' capital to - pay our wages with till the brass came in from the cloth we had made ?" In the Gospel according to this MATTHEW, however, the capitalist is the arch enemy of the poor man—the fiend from whom he must pray to be delivered ; and all be eause he does what the poor man himself does, that is, gets his work done as Cheap - as he can. We should like to know whether Mr. MATTHEW, or any man of his audience, would not get his shoes mended by the cheapest hand that would work for him ; nay, whether any one of all his numerous female hearers would not rush to the shop which sold the very gowns their own hands had weaved to save a farthing a yard ; that is, whether these patriotic ladies would not endeavour to get the mill work done for a farthing a yard less, since if raw material and other thinei remain at the same average, or rise to a higher one, all the cheapness must come out of cheapened labour. Not to travel to foreign countries, let Mr. MATTHEW explain to his hear ers, why, .hitherto, Irish wretchedness has not been notoriously least, wherever capital has, as in Ulster, been , most secure and plentiful ; and whe ther of late years it has not diminished just in the proportion that property has been attracted to that unhappy laud ? In the hope that these lines may meet the eye of some Stockport operatives, we would re p ea t w h a t mos t o f our rea d ers well know, that, indirectly of course, the very money saved by reductions reduction, returns is nota of wages, supposing that the ga a in to merethe w p rec aution orkm en . against sometimes, ruinous o indeed, employs another more commonly the wealthy manufacturer larges his mill, or builds a new one, and thus in creases the demand la new hands, or prevents the growing population 41115 m pressing upon each other ; but whichever i it produce, wages are either raised or kept forli falling. The an tagonism of capital and labour is only one of the many cases in which the pressure on ea ch other of seemingly opposite interests sup ports , the whole fabric of society ; indeed, identity is stagnation, and antagonism is life and act i v ity. To the antagonism of chemical elements we owe all the invaluable compounds of t he labo ratory an— fl° f nature i to the au ta,gonism of the mag- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1854. netic and _of the electric carrents, the space anni hilating ; nay, to the natural antagonism of fire and water we owe the very power which makes Stockport and Preston what they have been, and what we trust they will yet be ; and to .what, in this sense, may be called the antagonism of capital and labour, we owe, in great part, the existence, the support, and the increase of all our great manufactures. _ _ Mr. MATTELEV considered that " the power of masters to put up a notice in their mills to take away their wages, showed that there was a power that should not exist." We are bold to affirm that not only is it absurd to deny a man the right to pay what wages he pleases ; but that without this power, manufactures never could have been begun ; never been carried on ; and that if carried on, masters would be bankrupts, and men beggars. The state of the markets presses on the master, the pressure on the master naturally propagates itself to the men, and if this natural cause of things be rudely stopped, injury to both must be the eventual result. Mr. MATTHEW actuallydeprecated foreign trade ! " The working classes did not want to clothe the backs of people across the seas." We do not doubt the limited range of Mr. MATTHZW'S bene volence, and we must own that those misers, the capitalists, are probably as indifferent to the con dition of Chinese, Brazilian, or American backs as Mr. M. and the operatives are ; but (perhaps through our stupidity or perversity) we cannot for the life of us comprehend the orator's doctrine about the depreciation of the prices of our manu factures by a foreign demand for them. "Every inch a ship sailed from our shores the cloths on board of her depreciated in value :'he could not walk to the other end of the platform with so little depreciation as if 'he walked to the middle only, and so of our cloths sent abroad." 'We have no doubt of Mr. MATTHEW'S depreciation in value from venturing uhto the Stockport platform, but how any of our manufacturers could be induced to send their goods to the very Antipodes, unless theygot fully as much for them as at home, leaving, their customers abroad to pay all charges of trans port, we are entirely unable to comprehend. Or how sending goods out of the country should have any other effect than that of making them dearer at home, and sustaining, therefore, home wages, is to us equally unintelligible. But we : suspect that our operative hearer, before referred to, must have sadly longed to shout out, "Na-a-y, Master MATTHEW, that 'ont do ; I only wish I was sure of some thumping ordersin from 'the dig gins, or Brazil, or anywhere else, and they'd soon give us our ten per cent." If, indeed, the speaker were addressing some old " Strikers" they would tell him that a time when large orders were in, home or foreign, it mattered not which, was just the time that they chose, if they could, for demanding increased wages. Mr. MATTHEW summed up by the emphatic declaration, that the impoverishment of the workman was in propor tion to the extent of our exportation I We will not insult the understanding of a Stockport opera tive by attempting to refute the doctrine that the more there is fur him to do the worse he is paid. He has felt too often, practically, the difference between a busy and a slack time, to need a ward in refutation of so monstrous an assertion. Mr. COWELL, we see, did not endorse the rea sonings of him of Heywood, though, of course, too polite to contradict them. He mentioned, however, as the reason for their absurd demand of a uniform 10 per cent., that the " time was come for the people to reap a portion of the bene fits and profits of Free Trade." Away, there fore, in one breath, he blew the whole of Mr. MArrunw's laborious nonsense ; for what the pro fits of Free Trade should be, but profits on our exportations, as well as our importations, Mr. MATTHEW himself could not tell us. If the benefits of Free Trade be the basis of the demand for ten per cent., assuredly our profits most have resulted from " clothing the backs of people across the seas." We hope Mr. M. will not essay political economy to operatives again. We surmise that had , he been at some good school, and yet in his teems, such an essay on the sub ject would have - endangered his undergoing 'an operation` the opposite of " clothing the back, and bringing down upon him the only arguments by which certain persons can be enlightened. ONE V- NIA R.K E,T AND COMIII.ERCIAL LNTELLIGENUE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. - The sales Of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at from 6,000 to 7,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were taken on speculation. The market closed firmly at previous rates. The sales comprised' 200 Pernam and Maranham, at 50. to 7id. ; 100 Bahia, at sid, to 6241. ; 500 Egyptian, at 6cl. to 9d. ; 700 Surat, at 20. to 4kl. ; 40 Sea Island at ls. to is. 3d.. per lb., and the remainder American. Railway shares were steady. The market for Colonial Produce reopened on W e d nes day. The quantity offered has been limited. A steady inquiry for sugar and coffee exists for home use. In tea a fair business has' been done ; tallow has fallen, and Jute is about 20s. lower. In spices there has been a decline. Cotton is quiet, but saltpetre is rather dearer. Accounts from Canada state, in alluding to the prosperity of the colony, that "Those who ate familiar with the varied resources, and have closely observed the onward progress of the British colonies in America during the last few years, cannot fail to be impressed with the attractions they afford for extensive emigration. The recent reports l i made by the Governor-General of Canada, and Lieut.- Governor of Nova Scotia, and the financial reports from the other colonies, afford a glowing exhibition of the healthy condition of trade and commerce in the respective provinces. With ._these official docu ments before us, and incontrovertible evidence of vast invaluable resources and healthy prOsperity, may we not bid the honest and industrious emigrant and his family a hearty welcome from their contracted fields and crowded workshops to our Wad acres and labour seeking public works, in the full assurance of his enjoying a competency as the reward of industry. It would re quire no laboured . argument to show the yeomanry of England, Scotland,. and Ireland, that throughout the vast and varied British colonial possessions, there is no colony so. full of promise to the industrious emigrants as British North America. Within twelve days sail of their own native homes, the climate is kiseavn and acknow ledged to be more favourable to health and longevity than that of the SOuthern or Western States. Land is cheitp, and the soil is superior. Wages are high and labour every where In demand. The Free School system is becoming popular, and will soon be universally adopted. Churches of all evangelical denominations are numerous. Taxes are light, and the Government is as free; as liberal, and as progressive as any well-disciplined mind could desire. Never was there a more encouraging prospect for the British emigrant to cross the Atlantic than at present. The farmer, with his little savings in his pocket, cannot fail to select a homestead, which, by frugal industry, would very soon afford him all the comforts of a happy rural life. The mechanic is equally sure of employment and large rewards for his skill, whilst 'the yak. railroad operations, and other public and private enterprises, guarantee to the labourer high wages for many years to come. But, notwithstanding all that has been written on this subject, these facts a.re notgenerally known among the emigrating classes throughout the rural and manufactur ing districts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Let, them be impressed on the minds of the people, discus sed in public meetings, talked about in the family circle, and the result would be that a large portion of the emi gration now going on from the mother country' to the United States, Australia, &c., would be attracted to the shores of British North America." The Chamber of Commerce of New York have passed resolutions heartily concurring with the movement made in the British Houie of Commons by Mr. Gibson, praying her Majesty to give special instructions to the officers commanding vessels of war not to interfere with neutral vessels ; that a memorial be presented to the President and Con gress praying for the passage of a law to put a stop to privateermg ; and that Government should give notice that any attempt _ to renew. the right of search for British seamen in our vessels, or pro perty belonging to individuals on board of the same, shall be considered good cause for war. The New York accounts state that American dew rotted hemp was held at $195 to $2lO per ton. The last sale of water rotted was made at $275. There was no Russian on hand, except that held by manufacturers. It is said the crop to come for ward from Kentucky will be deficient, while that from Missouri will be so large as to counterbalance the falling off in the former State. The winter had been unfavourable for the rotting of hemp iu Mis souri, and a considerable portion of the crop, it was said, would be stacked out, and remain over with out rotting until the next season. Heavy snows produce the -best rotted and bleached hemp. • The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have received the, following letter from his Serene High ness the President of Mexico : (Translation.) " Mexico March 14, 1854. " reply to your letter of the Ist ult., in which in your own name, as wail as on behalf of your constitu ents, the HeAican Bondholders, you are pleased to felicitate me on the vote of. confidence with which my country has honoured Me, I feel it . ti duty,to return you. and the bond holders my hest thanks for thw very courteous terms in which that communglation is conveyed. " I certainly consider your claim to have the overdue dividends paid perfectly j ust, and I am also well aware of the good effects which must result from the demands of the bondhelders being completely satisfied. I, there fore, am using my best efforts to acquit myself of these sacred obligations, and, if I have not as yet been as success ful as the bondholders and I myself could desire, I have, nevertheless, shown some earnest of it in promoting the payment of a dividend a few months ago, notwithstanding that at my accession to the Supreme Governmmt I found myself without resources to provide for even the most pressing wants for the public service, while it was also found indispensably necessary to form an army for the defence of the country against attacks both from within and from without. : L 146 IN /41:44 X . , LI " However, I am happy to say that the public revenue is new so much improving in all its branches that I have now better founded hop4s of fulfilling the engagements of the country towards the bondholders, to whom you may in my name declare that their just expectations shall not be disappointed , and that their forbe arance an d th e consi derate manner in which they have hitherto behaved to wards the Republic will be found to have been duly ap preciated. I am, Sir, your faithful servant, "A. L. DE SANTA ANNA. " Charles M`Garel, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Committee of Mexican Bondholders." The order to the Customs prohibiting the expor tation of iron to the Continent, is understood to be merely preliminary, and will be modified so as to act as little as possible in restricting trade, and yet not allow the enemy to be supplied with the material of war. • - THREE VICTORIES GAINED BY THE TURKS. A report from Omer Pacha, says the Morning Post in a- second edition of to-day, confirms the fact that there had been three glorious actions at the passage of the Danube, but that, in pur suance of orders, .the troops had retreated in the line of liarasou. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. The news has just been received of war having been declared by Russia against !England and France. It is reported, that the Bank of England weekly return will show a further considerable de crease in the bullion, according to some versions, of about half a million, but a portion of this must be ascribed to the dividends, although spec i e e ven up to this time is taken for exportation. The Stock Market has been rather variable again. At the openiug,prices were firm, Consols being 87t to 88, but they went back afterwards upon money sales, stated to be for the Savings' Banks, possibly in connection with an exchange of funded for unfunded securities, to 871, Th e l ates t bargains have been at 871 to and since at 87g, A. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 871 to 88, and, the Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 86g to 86k. Bank Stock is 211. Yesterday afternoon, before the close of the market, it dropped from 212 to 209, owing probably to the idea that the renewed char ter will not be so favourable to the Corporation, although there is much doubt whether Govern ment, at this time, will give any inkling of its in tentions. Exchequer ls are par to 4s. premium, and India Bonds SS. discount. Foreign Securities have been quiet, with the ex ception of Spanish, which have been dealt in at an improvement to 361 and 37, and the New Deferred have been steady at 174. Peruvian 41 per Cents. are about 11 per cent. higher, being 60, and the 3 per Cents. are marked 43 to 44. Russian 41 per Cents. are dull, but firm at 80. Dutch 2i per Cents. are 57k to 571. Railway Shares are decidedly weaker. Caledo nian have receded about 10s.; Great Northern, 10s.; and Great Western also, 10s. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, and .York and North idland, each 11. The others in the same proportion. Mining Shares are firmer, Bank Shares dull, and Land Companies' neglected. CONCLUSION OF AN OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE TREATY. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( From the Offlaiat List.) Business done. Bat* Stock ... .. . d . - . 211 Re i per Cent. duce Annuities B6l 1 3 per Cent COMO I .O Annuities BB 7 1 i i New 34 per Cent. Annuities B7j 8 7i 1 1 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Dittc 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 4 7-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 2 5 5 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO .... .. ~...... ..... Consols for Account 11th May BB 74 Exchequer Bills, 2d. £lOOO .....• ..par 4 p £5OO par 4 p Small ' ' PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds, 4. per Cent. 6O ritto 3 per Cent ........ .. - ..... ..... . Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St — Ditto 44 per Cent BO Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 36i 7 64 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. ... - - 171 IWO:lends on the above payable in. London Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gull 574 4 HALF-PAST TWO. A telegraphic despatch, dated Berlin, this _morning says that—" Yesterday an offensive and defensive allianCe between Austria and Prussia was signed by Baron Manteuffel on the , one side and Baron Hess and Count Thun on the other." Consols B7 Ditto May Account TEE STEAM.SUIP TWINING.— Letter; from Gibraltar mention that the North of Europe Steam Company's vessel Tonning. had arrived at that p lace after a passage four d a y s and 20 hoUrs, believed to be the shortest on record; she had on board Sir Colis, Campbell and a portion of Lord Raglan's staff, together with some troops and 60 horses. The steam-ship City of Norwich, be longing to the same company, sailed from the Tower on Saturday, the Bth, and arrived at Ilanik vrgh iu 39 hours. THE WEAVHEIL—Suu Orion, Ann 21. • Taiuutomins, ffi TES BRAD& ' Zo—Mahe et since noon yesterday. • 55—Lowest this morning and during the night. 67—thia day at noon. BMIONICTIFS, 29•54. WIND, S.W.—Light airs ' and fine. summer, cloudy weather—inclining to rain. some slight rain fell in the night and yesterday evening. THREE O'CLOCK.—Wind changed to S.E.—heavy clouds and threatening a thunderstorm. DAILY WEATBER TABLE. FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1854. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. FOLKESTONE—E., calm—cloudless. TUNBRIDGE—E., gentle breeze—cloudless. GREENWICH—E., gentle breeze—cloudless. arROOD—E., gentle breeze—cloudless. SWINDON—S.E., fresh breeze—cloudless. BIRMINGHAM—N.E., calm—cloudless. SHAP—S.E., calm—overcast. tbz SAm. LONDON, FRIDAY. APRIL 21, 1854. A fatality, if one might so speak, has long seemed to hang over the Greek Government. As to the precise nature of the evil-influence latterly guiding the councils of the Athenian Cabinet--of that we can only as yet judge by hearsay, by put ting (as the saying is) two and two together, in other words, by the juata-position of facts, many of which have by this time become sufficiently notorious. Regarding the policy carried out for some time past in that direction, we can already, by the light of these facts, recognise an amount of turpitude which has rapidly led to the estrange ment from Greece, one after another, of the ma jority Of the more powerful States of Christendom. A faithlessness on the part of the reigning dynasty so flagrant, so enormous, so undeniable, that it has led, we repeat, to the estrangement f rom it of the majority of the great EarOpean Govern ments. It cannot La forgotten how very recently, in reply to a question pat to her MAJESTY'S Ministers 'by the hon. gentleman the member for Pontefract —it cannot be forgotten how, on the evening o f Thursday, the 6th of this present month of April, -Lord. JaliN RUSSELL declared to the Hollis of Commons his firm conviction that the recent iiis turbances in the Greek provinces had been got up designedly, foi the purpose of weakening the au thority of the Sultan, and that there were nume rous proofs—[mark these words ! and remember they are words uttered by a Minister of the Crown, by the Leader of the House of Commons, and, as such, by one of the principal members of her Britannic MAJEsry's Government]—" that there were numerous ritoops - of the King and Queen of Greece harin g g i ven the greatest en- I eouragement to the insurrectionists !" The na tnre of those proofs has as yet to be learnt. It can only be known precisely on the publication o f o fficial documents relating to these mysterious transactions. Fortunately, such a publication, iu the substantial form of a blue-book, may be now very speedily anticipated. It has, in a manner, romised, and that promi se must been formal) ? P soon be redeemed. Nothing hav in g as yet appeared, however, i n the nature of any such authoritative or detailed statement, we are left, as we have before remarked, to form merely ccrilec j t u ral opinions, from facts already known, fr°lll i nc idents already observed, from occurrences already notorious, in regard to the presumed culpability of the Greek Govern- ment.l Consider, for a moment, a few of the more prominent of these facts, or incidents, or occur- , renew, or whatever else they may be designated. Compare them with one another, place them side by side, blend them together—and you will arrive at the same natural and inevitable deduction, under each arid every one of these circumstances. Remember the startling declaration already referred to---the declaration made by Lord Joull Russsaa. on the 6th instant, in the House of Commons,._ to the effect that the greatest encou- rageinent had been given to the insurrectionists by the Greek Sovereigns ! That there are " numerous PEAX)F3 " of the KING and QUEEN of )flthateacourajerneht—to whom? greecehaviaggiv4 M COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, APRIL 20. The dinner party at the Castle yesterday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Belgian Min ister and Madame Van de Weyer, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Colonel the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, the Baroness de Speth, and Colonel the Right Hon. C. Forester (commanding officer, Royal Horse Guards). The band of the 97th Regiment attended during din ner, and played the following selection : Overture, " Haydee" • .' Auber. Aria. " Inveir col gesso" (L'Ajo) Donizetti. Daetto, " Deh conte" (Norma) Bellini. Waltz Summer Flo wen Tinney . Introduziene, " Il Barbiere" Rossini. Galop, L'Eclair ..... , D'Albere. • Her Majesty's private band was in'attendance in the evening, and performed the following music : Overture, " Egmont " Beethoven. Priere, Barcarolle, Air, and Chceur (L'Etoile • du Nord) Meyerbeer. The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, rode out on horseback yes terday afternoon, attended by the Countess of Desart, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieutenant• Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Princess Royal and Princess Alice took a carriage drive. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington, on their return from the French capital, will take possession of Apsley House for the season, which celebrated mansion will not, however, be complete in its embellishments until the end of the year. The Eirlof Cawdor has left South Audley-street for Paris. The countess has left town on a visit to the venerable Lady Grenville, at Dropmore. The Earl and Countess of Harrowby return to Gros venor-square at the end of next week, from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire, for the season. Toe Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, who have been passing the holidays in Paris, are expected to arrive in Whitehall-gardens at the close of the ensuing week for the season. •The Viscount and Viscountess Canning have left Grosvenor-square, on a visit to Mr. Henry and the Lady Harriet Drummond, at Albury Park, where the hon. member for Surrey is entertaining a select party during the recess. BANQUET TO TEX: ptral ol.lp4uPoia.—The Society of Merchants of B . List;Orintend . gi , iing a grand banquet to his Grace the Duke' : Of Beaufort, who has recently succeeded to the title and estates, on Wednesday, the 7th of June. DEATEI or COLONEL ACTON, LATE M.P.—We have to record the demise of this high-minded gentleman, who for so many years represented the county of Wicklow on Conservative principles. He died at his beautiful seat, West Aston, on the 10th inst. Colonel Acton's olipo nentgenerally was the Right lion. dames Grattan, son of the celebrated statesman of that name. The contests in Wicklow involving so many petitions cost him up wards of 30,0001. THE DAY OF RUMILIATION.-7Owing to a want of precision in the proclamation issued for the observance of Wednesday next as a holyday, the merchants and bankers throughout the United Kingdom are in a state of complete uncertainty whether that day can legally be regarded in the same light as Sundays, Christmas-day, and Good Friday, with respect to the payment of bills of exchange. According to the act of the 7th and Bth of George IV., the occasions on which public holydays can be declared by proclamation are limited to "solemn fasts, or days of thanksgiving," while, in the present instance, the proclamation is worded for."a day of general humiliation and prayer." It is therefore evi dent that, under a literal interpretation of the law, no exemption will exist on Wednesday next from any of the common legal liabilities of ordinary days. In this state of affairs application has been made to the Govern. ment, in order that the matter ' may be immediately cleared up. PROHIBITION OF THE EXPORT OF IRON TO THE CON TINENT.—Sudden inconvenience, of a serious character, has just been experienced by, the, London firms, in the iron trade from a resolution conveyed to them through the Customs the day before yesterday, prohibiting the exportation of all kinds of iron to the Continent of Europe. Many shipments have thus been stopped to Hamburg and Rostock, and other ports in the Baltic, which, inasmuch as they were in execution of orders, cannot be suspended without loss or difficulty. It is to presumed fauiii tattehtahtes continuanceomeregnlatio o n f s w the il r l e b g e ulart forthwithtrade, issued such restrictions and securities as may be deemed suffi cient ; but unless these are of a simple nature, and are issued pi omptly, great damage will be inflicted iu many quarters. TuE COLONY OF VICTORIA.—Tbe revenue of the colony of Victoria in the year 1853 amounted to 3 ,302,249/., being more than double the revenue of the previous year. The proceeds of the gold licenses rose frG m' 399 sl3B/ , in 1852, to (60,8331. in 1853 ; the Cus toms (bity on spirits imported, from 186,4911. to 561,3171. ; the proceeds. of the sal of land, from 703,355/. to 1,396,713/. The population at the close of the year was estimated at 233,000. RUSSIA. We have received copies of the Journal of ,St. _Petersburg, of 31st March (12th April), and of the tat (13th) April. A supplement to the latter contains the follow ing important document : " DECLARATION. " France and Great Britain have at last openly left the system of disguised hostility which they had adopted to wards Russia, especially by the entrance of their fleets into the Black Sea. " The result of the explanations which they have given of that measure was of a nature to lead to a rupture of reciprocal relations between them, and the Imperial Cabinet. " This last fact was shortly followed by a communica tion in which the two Cabinets, through their respective consuls, invited the Imperial Government to evacuate the Danubian Principalities within a given term, which England fixed at the 33th April, and France, still more petemptorily, at the 15th of the same month. " With what riot did the two Powers thus pretend to ex•lct everything from one of the two belligerent parties, without demanding anything from therother ? This is what they have not thought fit to explain to the Imperial Cabi net. • To evacuate the principalities, without even a sha dow of a fulfilment, by the Ottoman Government, of the Conditions to which the Emperor made the cessation of that temporary occupatiod subordinate—to evacuate them in the brunt of a war which the latter'was the first to de clare, whilst it is actively carrying on offensive operations, when its own troops occupied a fortified point of Russian territory—was already acondition inadmissible in substance. The two Powers wished that in form it should become still more unacceptable. They fixed a term of six days for the adhesion of the Imperial Cabinet, at the expiration of a refusal, or the absence of any reply whatever, was to be by them regarded as equivalent to a declaration of war. " To a summons so partial in its tenonr, as practically in excusable as it was insulting in its terms, silence was the only reply compatible with the dignity of the Emperor. "Consequently, the two Governments have just publicly made known that Russia, by .her refusal to accede to their demand, has constituted herself towards them in a state of war, the entire responsibility of which will rest upon her. "In the presence of such declarations it only remains for the Emperor to accept the situation which has been made him, reserving to himself to employ all the means which Providence has put in his hands to defend with energy and constancy the honour, independence, and safety of his empire. _ • _ _ _ _ _ _ _ " ludepe s ndently of the message by which the Cabinet of London announces its resolution to the two Houses of Par liament, it has, in a supplementary declaration, explained the motives which induce it to take up arms, and has reca pitulated the origin and the incidents of the question. The Imperial Government thinks it superfluous td return to a discussion on this subject. All its preceding docu ments seem to it to have exhausted the polemic. The recent memorandum of the 18th Feb., publisheu on the occasion of the rupture of diplomatic relations, and which contains up to that point the v7hole historical exposition of the question, will have sufficed to demonstrate to whom, ,whe ther to Russia or to the two maritime - Powe s, belongs the initiative of the provocations, and what disastrous (funeste) chain of circumstances the false position in which their first steps placed the two Cabinets, led them on by degrees to take others still more provoking. Unprejuliced minds will have been able to discover there all the successive concessions made by Russia for the maintenance of peace, llefore as well as after the Vienna note, whilst the increas ing exactions of the two Courts engaged them daily more and more still further in the path of a war with us. " The occupation of the Principalities, which is taken now aprs coup, as a pretext for this war, did not prevent the opening of negotiations. It would not have any more prevented their continuation, or rather these ne gotiations would have led to something long since, if the Powers had not suddenly, without any good reason, cJmpletely changed the bases which they them selves had laid - down in the first note concerted at Vienna. The objections made by the Porte to certain passages cf that note were not sufficient either to nul lify the rest. The essential substance remained intact, an I the Imperial Government had the right to regard all the points which the Ottoman Porte had not contested as acquired for any ulterior proposition. Stich was not done. An attempt was male to impose entirely new conditions upon us ; what had hitherto been admitted was declared inadmissr.le ; the complaints of Russia were ignored,' as also any claim on its part to an equitable reparation, and all its counter-propositions rejected without discussion. At the same time, measures contrary to its rights as a belligerent Power coincident in the Black Sea with the conditions transmitted from Vienna, were adopted, as if to impress a character of compulsion to any adhesion on its part. Finally, all honourable retreat was cleverly cut off from it by an imperious summons, such as Russia never before received within the whole period of its history, even at the time when a conqueror at the head of armed Europe invaded its territory - . "Not being able to close their eyes upon the insuffi ciency of the motives for a dissstrous war and upon the want of proportion which exists between its effects and . its cause, the two Powers are obliged to exaggerate its object by bringing the most vague aceusations against Russia. "They allege that their honour and material intere'sts have been hurt—projects on our side of aggrandisement and conquest in Turkey—the independence of the Porte, and even that of other States; finally, the balance of power in Earope, which, according to them, is threatened by our excessive preponderance. " All these general imputations rest upon no foundation whatever. We have never attacked the honour of the two Courts. If that honour has been placed in jeopardy, it has been done !by themselves. From the very onset they have adopted a system of intimidation, which would naturally fail. They made it a point of amour propre to oblige Russia to bend to them ; and because Russia would not consedt to her own humiliation, they say that they are hurt in their moral dignity. "Materially, their interests have not been hurt by us either. They can only be so by the war which they wish gratuitously to wage against us. On the contrary, it is they who hurt our interests much more seriously by at tacking us in the north and in the south, iu our ports, and on different points of our coasts. " The policy of aggrandisement and conquest which they attribute to Russia has been refuted by all her acts since 1815. Of her neighbours in Germany and in :he North, is there one which, (luring the last forty years, have had to complain of an attack, or even of in attempt at an at tack, upon the integrity of his possessions ? "As regards Turkey, although we have been at war with her, the peace of Adrianople exists to attest the in° ierate use we have made of our BIACCO. , B ; and since then, at two intervals, the Ottoman empire has been saved by us from imminent ruin. "The desire of possessing Constantinople, if, that empire should fail—the intention of forming a permanent esta blishment'there —have been too publicly, to dolemuly dis avowed, for any doubts to be entertained on that subject that do not originate in a distrust which nothing can cure. " Events will shortly show whether the Powers or Austria? (Ilussia) have struck the most fatal blow, not only against the independence, but against the very existence of Turkey. As a price for the interested services given to her, "she has already renounced by treaty the distinguishing privilege of every independent Power—that of making peace, or declaring war, at its own free will, at the moment. and on the conditions it may itself deem most advisable. She will be forced to subscribe to an . engagement which will give equality of civil and religious rights to all her sub jects. Russia will sincerely applaud so important a gua rantee, obtained in favour of all the Christians in Turke . s , it it succeed in assuring it to them in a really efficacious manner. But in presence of a revolution which would so profoundly alter all the constituent bases of the Ottoman Government, Russia has the right to be surprised that an engagement by which the Salt in confined himself to con firm religious privileges already 'existing, and emanating from our treaties with him, should have oeen declared an attempt against his sovereignty and his independence. "It is for t Eurve—not for the two powers—to decide if the general equilibrium really runs the risks which are at tributed to it from the suppossed.excessive preponderance of Russia. It is for it to examine which weighs heaviest to-day upon the freedom of action of states—Russia lett to herself, or a formidable alliance, tLie pressure of which alarms every neutrality, and uses by turns caresses or threats, to compel them to follow in its wake. Europe will ' also decide if, during the last years, it is from Russia that have come pretensions the most hostile to the rights of sovereignty, and to the independence of feeble states ; if in Greece, in Sicily, in Naples, in Tuscany, it is for or against those rights that she has de clred ; whether in Germany between the great Govern ments she has sought to sow discord, or to re-establish union ; whether, morally in Lombardy and materially in Hungary, her e ff or t s h ave not been consecrated to t h e maintenance of equilib r i um, and whether the blows that are pregaring aga i nst h er, the isolationin which it i s h ope d to place her, by handing over the political world to a far differentsort of preponderance, will not rath.e• be the an nihilation of that equilibrium. " We thus see to what the vague generalities urged against Russia are reduced. But the last especially of these grounds of accusation suffices to understand the true motive of a war for which, ju.lged by its apparent grounds there is no reason ; and it is contrary to the,moral, indus trial, and comtherehal interests of the entire world, that it Will really accelerate the ruin of the very empire which it made the pretext to save from an imaginary peril. The true motive was publicly proclaimed by the English Ministers, when they asserted before Parliament.that the moment had arrived at last when it wise necessary to abate the influence of Russia. " 4is to defend that influence, not less necessary to the Russian nation than it is essential to the maintenance of the order and the security of other States—it is to sustain the independence and territorial integrity which are the, bases of it—that the Emperor, obliged in spite of himself to embark iu this contest, is about to devote all the means of resistance which are furnished by the devotion and the patriotism of his people. He trusts that God, who has so often protected Russia in the 'day of trial, will assist him once more in this formidable struggle. He sincerely laments the infinite evils which are about to fall on huma nity ; but at the same time he feels it to be his duty to protest solemnly aeaiust the arbitrary pretensions laid down by the two 1 7 owers, which throw upou him alone all the resp ons ibi i it of them. They are free, without doubt, y to adopt against Russia anal nies,snres as may be conve nient to them P • but it does not belong to them to lay the consequences to his. charge. The reepoueibility of the 04- bwli'ieg of a. wir b ,ng to th.. Paver which de(Aare3 it Wimih i)os:L i "" Sc. Yetersbur,;, ALach 1654." THE CONFIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE. The nutnber of the .31st of March (12th of April) contains the following article :-- "The British Ministry has just published all the confi dential correspondence to which the article in the Journal de St. Petersburg alluded 91.1 the 13th of February No. 336). In adthtion to these ductLuents, it has deemed it' ayrcrpos to introluc e no t on ly th e C a bi net papers (piec es 'detiabinet) 'exchanged between' thu Imperial Court and that of England, but even the secret reports which Sir H. Seythour made to his GOvernMent:of leis private conversa tions with his Majesty the Emperor. " It was natttral that public curiosity should be drawn to these private conversations. Without examining at what . point the English euvoy' had left them, influenced, by the opinions and prejudices . which' governed him, party spirit and bad faith have not been wanting to draw . from his relations the most haiardous consequences and the most false interpretations. Misled by - etpreisiona of which, the reporter himself avows he was not.'always certain of having exactly retained the precise- Meaningt-deceived by swim fugitive ideas thrown out:by chance in the warmth :and the abandon of a conversation without constraint—he thought he.saW in the.words of the Emperor, such as they have been reported, the proof of objects determined_laefore hand, of-territorial arrange ents at' the expense of Turkey —in one word, of:a 'plan of - partitien which his Majesty had proposed to England, without the participatiens, and to the exclusion of other Courts. • "However; on several occasions - , in - the , course of his discussions with the English representative; -the Emperor did not cease to rep ea t th a t h e did not wish to conclude either treaty M. protocol with Eng land ; that it was not the question of a plan by which the two Cabinets Might dispose, without the concurrence of, and without respect to, the other Powers, of the provinces governed by the Sultan; that in his idea the question was one of an understanding, perfectly general, upon certain eventualities that each .of the two parties should arrive at as soon as possible ;- lastly, of a simple exchange of ideas upon the word of a - gentleman (d'une parole de genti . homme), in order to engage - both, with the intention of avoiding political conibivatiens that might be contrary to their mutual interests. These assurances. are , contained, under a form, and in terms not less positive, in - the -memo randum which the Emperor caused to be prepared by his Cabinet, in reply to the written cominuetcations which the reports of Sir H Seymour had provoked on the part .of the British Ministry. - . . " It is, then, supremely unjust, not to say dishonourable (daoya/), to endeavour to seek in the motive witichin duced the Emperor to open with England a correspondence (pourpariers) on this subject, the intention to -get that Power to dispose of, with himself, beforehand, the posses sions of _Turkey. Nothing waslurthet from the ideas of his. Majesty than like notion of a partition. and of a parti tion effected by anticipation. The expectations of the Em peror related to the future, not to the present ; his views were quite eventual.- The design of his Majesty in explain, rag himself so frankly, woe solely to avoid a-iy incident of 'a nature to affect the intimacy which he desired to main tain in his relations' with England ; to prevent all diffe-- rences, all misunderstandings, anti any kiud of divergence which events' uncertain,' but possible, might suddenly bring about between Great Britain and himself, if they nad been 'left.eutirely out of their reciprocal foresight. "The two Courts might have differed its opinions upon the greater or less imminence of the catastrophe which was foreseen ; but, in the event of that catastrophe, what were the views expressed by the Emperor? He disavowed ex• pressly, for himself, any desire or intention of possessing Constantinople. He made beforehaoti au engagement not. _to establish himself there L. a permanent manner. This dis avowal, this engagement is confirmed by the Cabinet papers. Is it conceivable after this, that in the' face of vernal and written declarations--deol.tratious so formal alio so nbliga tory that the English Ministers would have had the courage to accuse his Majesty, in their places in Parliament, of am bitious purpo , es, and of projects of conquest upon the ca pital of the Ottoman empire ? Such a forgetfulness of the word of the ,Emperor, added to that, of all propriety in lan guage, which they have eMploye i towards his august per son, was assuredly intended in order to authorise the luu perial Government to address a direct upped to their con science; referring to the assurances (confilences) which so evidently attest the disinterestedness and the purity of the political-views f his Majesty. " Not oily have the character and the motive of his over tures been iuteutioually uiisunderst ,oil' and flisrep resented (envenimes), but it has even ueen sought to use them as a means or attempting to persuade other Powers that if the Etrseror, on this occasion; ad iressed himself more parti laxly to England, it was only because he paid no regard to their opinions or their interests. We content ourselves with remarking' that the subject of those discussions was brought confidentially to the knowledge of the Sovereigns of Austria and a Prussia. And, as far as concerns Prance, it is essential to remember that the epoch -at which they were brought about was precisely that - in which that Power created at Constantinople, in respect to-the plsses siou of the Holy Places, the difficulties which successively have produced the present crisis, and in which its ambas sador in Turkey has just employed all his energy to sup plant our influence tuere. "In such circumstances, and later, .at the moment when France - did everything' to drag England into an hostile attitude agaiust us, it was. quite natural that - the Emperor should not deem it opportune to put the Cabinet of the. Tuileries partially in - possessi-m of its intimate epanchenterds with the British GovernMent, unless it intended to prevent any Understanding as to the eventual fate of the East, since, - as has bean shown, the question was not of o partition of Turkey, - nor even of concluding any transactions whatever, under the form of a protocol or treaty. " These short observatinna will suffice to reduce to its just value all that falsehood and exaggeration which male volence has attributed to the - language of his Majesty. In the eyes of impartial mein, the puelication whica has just been made will prove only one thing—the abuse of is gene rous confidence, Which has been appreciated, and , the in justice of ;tuipicions which have been m a d e the- pretext of a disastrous war, •for which; had it not been for them, there would have been no cause." - . ‘‘-' 4 Govt:rou.n:tit 'vas issued a declaration L.O rights an d d ut i es of 8 wedisb subjects with regard to the contending Powers. It forbids privateers, -dm, and-defiees contraband of war .to be " cannons, mortars,. all kinds Of arms; bombs,. grenades, balls, flints, matches, powder, saltpetre, brimstone harness, spears, sword-b e lt s , cartride boxes, saddles,..and bridles, and anything of this kind useful in war ;" exclusive, however, of .what may be reqiiired by the crew for its own use. This document is in 13 sections. :.War now being. de clared; King Oscar has - ordered the harbours_ for bidden by the neutrality to be closed .to all foreign ships of war.. • But in this announcement no moil tioia is made of the secret article agreed , oninfaier of Russia. THE WEATHER IN THE_BALTIC. Suhjoined are the latest advices relative to till° state oldie navigation in the Baltic BOLDRRAA, April - 11 (Noon).`—As a heavy drift, of lee in the river is likely to t a k e pl ace s h ort l y, the.ies sels that have wintered' here are now being hauled into the Winter. Harbour._ In conseqneace of the heavy fall Of snow, there is nothing to be been seawards. The sea channel is still firm, and the ice appears to lie on the ground.--12th, a.m. : -- Thisinornitig there were several vessels in the ice close off this port, amongst them some loaded Norwegian jachts and sloops. The Gulf is cow' pletely covered with large masses of ice, and the ice is the Sea Channel, has everywhere heaped itself till it lies on .the ground ; 20 vessels in sight of the harbout. Wind N.N.-W. Temperature 5 deg. of frost. Depth of water in the Sea Channel 13 feet DuLeh.—(Alternoon The ice lies as far as the Tiefe, . heaped: up together to the extent of 15 to 20 feet, and there must be a strung land wind to get it free. THE BALTIC. COPENHAGEN, April 20. —The Alban left our Roads this afternoon to pilot five French ships through the Belt to Copenhagen. - By the< new captures the number of -Russian vessels taken has been increased to ten. , COPEgIIAGEN, April 17.—The Triinine frigate, Captain Carnegie, arrived here yesterday afternoon with 65 to 70 prisoners taken from the Russian and Finnish merchant vessels captured. One vessel was captured off. Dago Island, four between Goth land and Riga, and another near Bornholm ; all of them Finnishiships. The first was taken on the 9 th,a couple more on the 11th, and the remainder on the 13th inst. The cargoes • consisted principally of salt, olive oil, and a little wine. The crews are exceedingly fine-looking men. The Tribune passed the fleet on its way to Guttski Sound, near the Fare Islands. There was still some ice in the Gulf of Finland, but not enough to interfere with• the cruising off the frigates watching the Russian move ments. HAMBURG, April 17.—The British Minister at Copenhagen has just announced officially to the Government that Sir Charles Napier,. having en tered the Baltic, has orders to employ 'all necessary means for enforcing a strict and effective blockade of the Russian ports in that sea, and in the Gulf of Finland. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has announced this important fact to the mercantile eminnunity, recommending them to avoid tile dangers to which they would be exposed by infringing the regulations established by the British Admiral. More than once statements have bean made that all was not right with King Oscar's declaration of neutrality, and that a secret clause only permitted four armed ships at once to visit any fortified Swedo-Norwegian harbour. These statements however were considered exaggerated. It was thought impossible that ' the son should re peat the crime committed by • his father, namely, sell Finland. to Sweden's enemy for money. It now appears that this shameful accu sation is true. Besides the Swedo•Norwegiaii- Danish declaration of neutrality—issued with such cowardly haste, and so decidedly favourable to Russia, but which was at once and magnanimously acknowledged by the Western Powers—a-secret agreement has been entered into with Russia, by which an obsolete enactment, forbidding more than four ships at once to enter a harbour, has been restored, and the sate g extended also to Norway. This act is not only base treachery to England and France, but it is illegal in Sweden, and doubly so in Norway. It treats the Swedish Parliament with contempt butrit *lees- more for Norway—it treats that whole country as a mere province of Sweden. Tile manner of execaiting this notable manoeuvre has been as 'mean as the trick itself. There has been a regular shuffle of cards. The very Norwegian - Ministry has been duped and deceived. All this-has of course excited great alarm in Chris tiania. Fortunately the Parliament is sitting, and this has saved Norway and the North from ruin. Ilarbitz, the president of the Storthing, deter mined to-ascertain the truth of the rumours he had heard, and applied to the,members of the Norwe gian Cabinet for information. It now 'became evi dent that the illegal engageMent had been entered into, and that the necessary orders had b een sent to the commandants of the several ports and for tresses, among the rest to Christiansand and Flek kero; although these two harbours were not even mentioned in the declaration of neutrality. On these facts being thus ascertained, the Norwegian Parliament hold a secret meeting on Saturday, the Bth, when Ueland brought th e is hole affair under discussion. This meeting was adjourned till the fol lowing Monday, when Ueland demanded that •the house should summon before it in private State- Couucillor Bloch, through whom the obnoxious J i orders had been given. After six hours of stormy debate, a majority of 54 to 52 decided that the question should be again adjourned till the fourth day i n E aster. The large minority;minority;was entirely of th e op i n i on of the majority as to the facts, but they would give more time, for on the preceding Saturday the Norwegian Ministry itself had petitioned his Majesty for a satisfac tory explanation of this mysterious circumstance. The Western Powers must act in this case'with energy and rapidity. All these •crowned slaves of Russia must be comp,llecl to declare them selves. Prince Oscar has visited Carlskrona. After examining the arsenals, docks, &c., in com pany - with the B e l g ian Minister (Beaulieu), he repaired to the - fortress of Kingsimolnien. Major -General von Essen has been sent out on a secret mi ss i o n to Vienna. Time publi c g is told that he is to congratulate the Emperor on his apigoaaing marria e. T 124 , CONSTA.NTINOPLE. VONSTANTINOLE, Aran, 10.—The. arrival Of British...-troopi . ,on Turkish ground. to defend -the -8 ul tan and his dominions against unj ust aggression, ends the first af:t of - this. eVeritrul drama: A batta lion of Rifles, -and the gre,ater.-part . - ef-the 4 401 Regiment; reached Gallipoli in the ,Golden Fleece, and hardly a - day will - now pass without..wite nessing some addition to the ranks .of an al - nib as well equipped and disciplined, if not As numerous, as any •that ever - l e f t t h e shores 01 , England. The FrenCh are also arriving in large numbers,, and are making every exertion to av couiinodate the large reinforceineuts which are their way or prepared to embark. Some differences appear to have, arisen between General Canrolferb and Rustem Pasha with respect to the provisiiea made for thetreception of the allied troops. It complained. that no‘thin„o- has been prepared - 40! either officers or men, and the General has expellee!, the dervishes from their c onven t f ur th e purpose a converting the building into an hospital. This step has been., blamed by, some • as.likely to- offend the feelings of the people ; but o f that there is llt7 probability. Tile dervishes do not stand high: ll' any one's opinion' but th4-ir own, and. are looked" upon with dislike by all- but; a few - fanatics. The want off - efficient interpreters _in the afill will be very great. Scores of men might indeedb° picked up capable of conducting the correspondence between Turks and Englishmen ; but it is needles¢ to say that these cannot be depended upon. Tbef al i o to a man partisans ' o f th e enemy ; .and evpri movement of our, troops would probably be know ( ' to the Russian Gonerals. It is, perhaps, too late t 9 recommend the study of Turkish to those about to take part in the pres en t war , brit • those capable o , Mastering the langu ag e wi t hi n a f ew mont h ain i g hl find ex cAlelit employinent for their aequisition, render great service to their country. It is out of the question- to. attempt. t o • read the characteg ( 1 t first ; in lead , such a coursie would be like thi t t o f a foreignerlearning English and commencing With short-hand. LOrd Caritsle arrived on the sth by the French steamer, and left two days after for Varna. Niger sailed for the same plaCe on . the evening o t .i.• the:7th, but m us t h ave met w i t h very Ivo r weather, as all that night it blew a perfect giot The weather is now beautifully fine, not a cloud 7 to be seen, and the sun's heat at-midday is oppre,s: give in the extreme.. In a fortnight . we shall 0• 13 R, venture out in th e evening, and - for three mout h . English visitors will have to ,support a- climate A L ' most tropical. - . • The following is extracted from another ConsPo r tinople letter of the 10th inst. :--- • • • ":The'neWs of the declaratien of war with Riffigo by England and Franee - whielf had been he re I- ir some Ann has now been officia lly. communicated•to the British's% 'French residents at Constantinople. In this wear t'i smaller Powers must t a k e t h e i r cho i ce. Who is: 0° , with us is against us. The grand struggle between der tern progress and civilisation and northern bail:444, has commenced, and will outweigh all 'other Vonsider k kions. The Greek populatioc of - Thessaly arid Epirut and -indeed - the Christi an - i n h a bi tants of - Turkey general, • have much' and good reaso n t o cornpini!; They are an . opp resse d' peop l e . I t has been W., endeavour -of . E. gland for years to ame li orate thel condition ; and just at the most propitious niernen" for the realisation of these views, which have alt Vo ls been uppermost in the - mind of the enlightened rePr r ., sentatives of Great Brit a i n at t h e Sultan ' s Court, tlitki, take advanta ge o f t h e war with 'Russia to rise in rebe l lion, -The Greek insurrerition is worth more than , army to Russia, and:it w ill -have- to be put d ow n. 1 - ; cannot be said, that the Turks will-be, abl e t o do . of then - Pelves. It is. very probable that the insrarr°r, turn • will spread to Thrace and -Bulg ar ia. Th e 'Tar:" ish Government is evidently afraid of disorders Thro"; ing out at Constantinople, and the strictest mcsastuls have been adopt e d by the polic e . P atro l s of 03a. !entry and cavalry perambulate the streetii„' afl every person has to be at, home by - eleven o'cloolt at night. It - is to be haped that the B itish.and FreD e armies- will soon be here in 'tote. They are Lai 1 1 ; riving at the Dardanelles. They will have enough do. It will reqoire , a ve r y l arge f orce to oppose t he advance of the Russians •by occupying' Bulgaria ;' a n there is no use disguisi“g the fact th at t h e insurront'°,, : of the Greek . population of the Turkish mripire is a. 1 11 °' - mi-rions 'natter, with a -R uss i an army of from 60,0100 ,5 _,"" 60,000 men on this side of th e D anu b e. They ' already masters of the Dobretscha, that piece of W bordered by th e Bl ac k S e n , and, as it were. cut off bf A, bend in the Danube. If the army under Omer 1?n ° "; is defeated, th e consequences will, be very serio°",; Unless an Angl o - Freucli force, is already.stationed,at ,,, foot of the Balkans to stop the progress of the Ru ssist; what will do so ? It i s , however, ;,o be hop e d . tlllO will at any rate benble to hold out until the .11108 1 " French armies have arrived. e 4 " Omer l'acha was at SiJstria ' when h e meelY,s the first news' o f th e passage of the Danube 5 Galatz. . Some 'partial fights 'took place at differr points on the Danube, at Potbaehi, Matschin, Tults°ll and Tehatun B ournou . Ta ese were evidently attem pt by the Russians in order to mask the passage. at latz. Omer Pacha was un d er t h e 'impression t h at Rus4ans purposed advancing quickly on the cerotre tbf , h - a ' his line, and b rea ki ng - i t. H e. therefore, ordered "0 army f the Dohrut sc h a to ret i re-and .con centiri3oor the Kerassu, he himself retreating upon Schuialrf; leaving strong garrisons at Silistria and Rustchu!lc. • n t, . "Tim Russians held th e D o b rutscha at this io olB l 6 , My private lett ers reac h to the 3d April, from S chn° 3 : c f.. and do net ment i on any engagement or furtawr I:4s vance of the R uss i ans. I therefore no not 'Alice SID confidence in the report that is generally circll'ie about Constantinopl e of a • defeat of the I.'lll°oo the Dabriitscha. The T ur k s a d m i t a l oss of about vim, men in the different engagements tha t took•plase on to Danube. Th e D o b rutsch may be said to he. re 1)70 abandoned by the Turks for reasons of strategy, 01 Bey was wounded in one of the engagements.. - , 4 1 "Three tthousand of the Egyptia n t roo p s that aro: 4 ta here the other day have been sent as a reinforce anent the garrison at Varna. Redgeb Bey cowma n xis tb force. F ,"The occup a ti on of-Kalifat by a la rge f orce oaf -r eel o f 25,000 to 30,000 men gr ea tly weaken-4 the Aral re which Omer Pacha. has the command ; and We ti,t told from a good sourc e th a t t h e greater part of 3"8‘). force will be_withArawn fretu thence, and concentroi t iv at Subunits. From what we le .rn here, from Toi r „ e jab quarters, it i s ev i dent that the Ottoman. trof's t o the Dobrutseha h ave suf f ered a defeat. We ref r; o say that the Bazi-bozouks (irregular horsemen) b 0 „, 0 been gr ea tly m i s b ehaving themselves everywhere, cially In the Dobrutscha. These men are of no use, to commit the greatest excesses. The little town of -re" t y teudje has been sacked by these marauders, and. Pe r ve l burnt. A letter of the Bth, from Varna, which , 1 1 ,/ just been shown me, says,— The horrors committeu ke , the Tartars of the Dobrutscha and the .bazi-h4vzeti„ee ann the advance of the Russians, Cathie great disphese" here.' ‘4A considerable depot of arms and gunpowder s re :e discovered here last wee k, in a Gre e k house, and. og re many arrests have been made in consequence. "The publication of toe private corresponthence'tho which the secret views of Ru ss i a _ with regard'. t° e Turkish empire are exposed, h as not failed to create great deal of consternation a mongst the most in taproot' class of the Greeks. It will not, however, materisoy iiifleence the masses who ha ve r i sen against their h e do ditary antagonist and conqueror, the Turk, and . eih e ot s- , not much trouble them se l ves a b out the project e d e off blislim.mt of a 13)zantilie empire, provided they their odd score of enmity. be .‘ The Sultan h as or d ered a house at. Theraptia t 0 erg placed at the disposal of the British engineer 04. 7 01 0 here. He has likewise ordered two larg f, e litlil l4l at Bechik•Tash t o b e prepared for the Duke of est bridge and the Piinee Napoleon. lam informed 10,000 Briti-h t roops will cone to Constanti no ple, 19 .' 4 •to be quartered at the barracks of Doud Pacha, fa similar nu m b er over at Scutari, in the great barrac'44% fr Asia, The c omm i ssariat officers are very busy ma et • cootracts for the necessary supplies-10,000 meat and bread have been ordered for , even' 0 1 Reschid Pachl h:is deniaoded that either a British o f French force should be sent to Varna. Tb:ie alter the destination of the forces ; indeed, ev „i pt t change so every day, 'that it is impossible - to re' t , with certainty upou how the armies will be r di s tribo t o- I regret t o say that Reschid Paeha, theTurkishlog ulster for For e i gn Aff a i rs, has of late been puffer so''' from iedi sposition , . He is, h owever , muc h b e t te r ; p ad "tiWeditesday l as t, Lord •-'tratford de Redeldfe ; General B araguay d ' Heliers had a very long 11 Ap ed VOW with him at hie private yesidence. a l l 0 1 that the treaty a 4ilis t ee, bowevu wurkeY " • c Was "T Pacba ana l 0 oeived svantii (decor Lone] Baron You ; GL L 4 0 9111 e `:Pot she fa . them dtc., drove compf Lad s Rifles steam d'Orlf The • to enc intent °facia c Atance Ils4ed long 1 Prusa The itga 1 the aL bassad Peter Perini .Prii •, 16th i Al Vienn the fo Bu bj et ,dieresi They corn ] lunatic them ' that if be trai BER . M 4 B uPpol. The s their Place Vern al Pael la • n nnabt town , 111 1fsaia flag l 3 that f has be of the Aossibl A le ,Of th e Duke Austi i 'Which aot of lee & b y letter th an h to mat troy r."- The The