The Sun. — London, England, 1854-09-23 00:00:00

HOW TO SUBDUE SMOKE : being Popular Information on various Practic .ble Means; with Compara tive itesn'ts, and a Few Words about Fuel• l`nc:itding an examination of the respective systems adopted by JUCEES, BAZELDINE, PRIDEAUX, BBISTOW and ArrWOOD, CRANTER, LEE SrEvris, Roasursorc, and JARRARD. • London: Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange; Edward Stan ' 1 07 4, 6, Charing -Cross. Price Sixpence; and remitted by post on receipt ofeight postage-stamps. • rpHEATRE ROYAL, DitURY-LA,NE. Mr. E. T. SMITH respectfully informs his friends and the Pubic admirers of Mr. V. BROOKE that he has engaged that eminent artiste to perform fcr Seven Nights only, prior to his depar ture for Australia. Mr. O. V. BROOKE will appear on Monday, October 2d, in VIROINIUS. Tuesday, 3d, in THE STRANGER. Wednesday, 4th, in RICHARD THE THIRD. Thursday, sth, in THE LADY OF LYONS. Friday, 6th, in OTHELLO. Saturday, 7th, in HAMLET. And Monday, 9th, in MACBETH ; being positively his last appearance. Mr. S3IITH has also engaged Mr. E. WRIGHT, the public favourite and celebrated Comedian, to appear in his original Farces every Evening after Mr. G. V. Brooks's performance. The Box-office is open for booking places daily, from Ten to Five. In consequence of numerous inquiries, early application is solicited. LAST SEVEN NIGHTS. LYCEUM THEATRE.-HENRY RUSSELL, THIS EVENING (the 24th time), September 23d, and every Evecing. Many friends having expressed a wish that Mr. Eu.ssell she aid appear again previous to finally withdrawing his Entertainment, he has, in compliance with their request, made arrangements to appear ever; evening. at r. RUSSELL will present THE FAR WEST; or, THE PROGRESS of the EMIGRANT from the OLD WORLD to the NEW. Mr. Russell will relate his anecdotes, and sing several new songs, " Cheer, Boys, cheer," " Far, far upon the sea," " Sunshine atter Rain," " Land I Land ! Land !" " The Falls of Niagara," " Long have we been parted," " Afloat: , " many changes have I see n," " The Icebergs" (descriptive song), "Newfoundland Dog," "The Gambler's Wife," &c. The Second Fart of the Entertainment will corsist of a Series et Sketches, entitled NEGRO LIFE in Freedom and Slavery. is.; Gallery, 6d. Dress Circle, 2s. 63. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, TLIEA.TBS UOYAL IIAYSIARKET. untie: , tile management of Mr. Unekstone. TiIIS EVEIiECG, SEPT. 23, Will be performed THE IRISH AIIIBASSA.DOR. Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Chippendale, Howe, Rogers, and Calleword ; Miss lteynolds and Mrs. Buckingham. , Followed by the SPANISH DANCERS iu a NEW BALLET. To be allowed by THE IRISH LIO i. Principal character by Mr. La.:son. After which, the Spanish Dancers In a New Ballet. To conclude with A ITSII OUT OF WATER. . THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Dtreetress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 23, *ill b performed the polniler t of TILE DISCARDED I. Prinel),lchanteters nv Messrs. Se.;by, Mur‘ay, Beif,,rd, and Keeley; Mrs. Keeiex, and Miss Woolgar. Ana: which,. 310131E13 R. JACQUES. To cm:hide with NORAA. Ptnclyd cha'acttir by Mr. Paal 134.4f0n1., STRAND THEITRF., S 4.3 Lessee Mr. F. W. Allc:Wt. VHS EVENING, Sspr. 23, Wig be perforated EIAR.D T*txt tollowed:by TilE NEW WAGS OF NVINDAOR. To conetuie with NEVEit 'CAS CE IVIN;.; AC CAE DOOMS, .44 Les, 43.; 1331c0n, 2s. 6 ; Pit, I. 4. ; oid.; ,e , LI 16 ohe httt of Mr. A3 , 3r01t. 15. Nei tre,ll.l-vtrA.n. A I' ILOYA.% A 3{P if aI.:A t Letif , a in! Manalor. NIL Fifth a n,ar•mre of those celebrated Equesleans from Paris, N. raim.r an:: ibe Carolule. Tars EVENING, Tto inter:n:lw; trian Sx.ctacle, THE WOOD- Tall'. KNIGilr. After w:t!ch, ilia Graphic 13C 11NT7.4 in th • , ThI.CLE, in which Mr. (7,)0V! will illiro , l'.lo.l tIL - "Stulllest horse Woeld." :Miss Emily w it appe tr, M. l'a!lnc_rr, and Caroline. The reolk , ; to c. - m.chtle, iNith thg Equestrian Buries Tic; (campreii , )3 into one ac. , ), 'Liil OF' Ta.:)Y; TUE GIANT 11 JIt.SF.. iv., front F2e ven trl rem._ Atap! Actia.< MAnager, Mr. \V U. Cooke. Equestrian 1111'w:tor, Sir. ',Val. Ccoke,jull. H VIA.T.FIR AT LONDON BKIDGI'... Tats D --Mnrnin7 32 min.after 2 Fveaing 47 min.nft. 2 To ' . .nRACW • l'ilora nag 3 Inin,sfter 3 1 Evening 19 tula.zdt. 3 THE WFATHEIL—SuN Orricra, Sr. 23. THEENIONETNE, IN TilE SRAM 64 —highest since noon yesterday. 4i -lowest this morning and during the night. 6.;-4his day at noon. B&ROURTZE, 30 . 33. WIND, W.—Dull cloudy welther. TT! • 403, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1854. Th 3 autumnal campaign in the Crimea bas fairly commenced. We have no longer to depend on the intellectual skill of political gladiators, or the hackneyed wiles of diplomacy. The old adage, " ceclant arena togce," is reversed, and bone and muscle, thews and sinews, are now the, arbiters of coming events. The skill of the chosen Gene rals and Admirals of France and England, and the " pluck" and energy of their gallant troops, must now decide the all-important questions at issue. The " day of grace" has gone by— " the light cloud" has passed from the lunar disc. The fate of i‘TICROLAS is sealed. He must now endure the consequences, of his own arro gance and cupidity—must expiate his unwarrant able violation of the jus gentium. A short time since he might, at least to a great extent, have escaped from the formidable consequences of his outrageous proceedings. Every possible loop-hole was afforded, but he hardened his heart against every prudent counsel. He had so long persisted in a course of arrogant mendacity that, at length, he half credited the fictions he had invented, and fondly imagined that the same prestige would cling to his name, the same obedience accorded to his vapouring intnaces as before the exposure of his cow parati ve weakness. He has, however, continued too long in the same reckless course. Like the boy in the fab!e, lie has, alike disregarded the "fair words" of diplomacy and the "grass-clinging" of an idie fleet, and an inactive army. Now, that the amount of "virtue in stones" is to be ascertained, he may be inclined to change hie tone, and to yield to the fortator in re what he refused to the suaviter in mode. But it is now too late. The fiat has gone forth. The handwriting has appeared, on the wall, and no simulated negotiation, no 1 pretences of being " ready to treat on the baais . of the four conditions," can arrest the progress of events, or prevent the deep humiliation and seri ous diminution of power occasioned by the de struction of the Rusian fleets and arsenals in the Euxine, and the overthrow of the Russian autho rity in the Crimea. The expedition having sailed, nay, more, having entered on the enemy's terri tory, there can be no retrograde movement, nulla vestigia retrorsum. The Allied Forces must achieve the important object on which they have engaged, or pet WI in the attempt. we are by no means disposed to underrate the difficulties to be encountered—to depreciate the honours that will fairly be due to the victorious army and navy, for both branches of the service will have their work to perform, and doubtless . they will do it well. According to the latest in telligence we had nearly sixty thousand men ac at Eupatoria, of wh om twenty-five tually landed thousand might be regarded as the c ut e of the British army, and an equal number of the c h osen troops of France. Fifty thousand such men, ac tuated by a friendly emulation, an honourable rivalry—each feeling it impossible to quail or hang back in the presence of the others—would be more, than a match for double the number of the wretched serfs by whom they are opposed. In addition to these, there was a reserve of fifteen thousand disciplined French soldiers, who, in all human probability, have ere this rejoined their comrades, their ardour only heightened by a de lay for which they could readily account. A further detachment of Turkish troops, men of approved valour, is also co-operating. And what has such a force to fear from a body of Elusions numerically inferior ? for the most san- Pline calculations tiy': have been made do not more than sixty or sixty-five thousand men o f all classes, sailors as well as soldiers, to oppose c lo g' ; and it would be quite impossible to brill son . all these simultaneously into the field, without leaving Sebastopol ungarrisoned, and the fleet skulking beneath its batteries unmanned, to fall an easy prey to our ships and seamen. They may annoy and harass our troops, but it is scarcely possible that they will hazard a decisive contest, at least until they come to the fortified lines on the heights above Sebastopol. , We may be de layed, but we cannot, humanly speaking—for the issue of all such ordeals rests with a higher Power —be effectually resisted. Time is all that is want ing, and, although that be limited, we are satisfied that it will be sufficient for the purpose. The redoubts and trenches will speedily be captured. The cannon will probably be turned against them selves, while the combined Navies will at the same time keep up the sanguinary game from the seaward. We may anxiously, but at the same time " hopefully," await further authentic intelligence, and our anxiety will be more for the friends engaged, and the lessening of the bloodshed that must ensue to all sides, than from any doubts as to the results, which we fairly believe will be fatal to the undue pretensions of the CZAR. Probably few of our readers perused the whole of the remarkable document, itself but an extract from a Chinese tract, which we inserted in our columns last Thursday. It was nothing, to be sure, about Sebastopol, nor even about Kars or Tiflis ; it was actually information from the Celes tial Empire, whose insurrectionary matters we have almost forgotten in the nearer East. It was, moreover, religious information—an authentic document on the hitherto mysterious tenets of the rebels who are almost certainly subverting the old Tartar rule, and the character of whose move ments are intimately connected with their reli gious speculations. Had we not been engaged in war with- another semi-theocratic and semi-bar barian empire, , the one which stretches from the very confines of China to those of Prussia and Austria, we should all be, glad to have the kernel at least of such A curious piece of news. While our SPOONERS are rusticating, and the holy war of Parliamentary debate is suspended, something trust worthy respecting a religious creed which is over throwing the civil government of 300,000,000 of cur fellow-creatures would be really a pleasing exchange fur bigoted tirades about themes old to all of us. Mr. MEDIWEST'S translation of the revelations vouchsafed to the . ;nilitary and royal apostle of the great Chinese rebellion is at least a novelty, a study for us in quite a fresh vein, and not a ten thousandth iteration of the hatefulness of Popery, the aggressions of the Man of Sin, and the ruin which lowers from Maynooth over the fated British Empire. It has been the singular *fate. of Monotheism to be the origin, or the animating watchword, in more wars than Polytheism. Pagans were con tent.to let each God do his best for his own dis trict ; but when the human mind has - pretty firmly grasped the idea. of a Supreme Being, the step appears 4o have been an easy one to believe in a real or a pretended messenger from Him ; belief in the probability of some revelation being apparently one of the most general instincts of our nature. Hence, from the time of MOSES and his real mission there have seldom been wanting, at considerable intervals, those who have summoned armed thousands to conquest by a professed mis sion from HEAVEN. Zeal for the LORD OF HOSTS has thought itself commissioned to overthrow idolatry and disbelief by the sword. MAHOMET, PETER the Hermit, and others less conspicuous, were not necessarily impostors ; they may have believed themselves inspired. And strange, and even profane as are the statements of the tract alluded to, we should not at once conclude that they are 'wilfully so. The blasphemy and pro fanity of a CZAR, who chants Te Dennis for but cheries and frauds, pretends religious motives to cover the meanest ambition, and seeks to inflame the superstition of the most ignorant race in Europe for his own selfish purposes, are infinitely more culpable. The whole paper is so thoroughly in the Oriental style of thought and language, that even with Mr. MEnnußsr's notes it is not easy to trace clearly the relations of the dramatis personce, for religious drama it seems to be. Four elder brothers appear upon the stage. The eldest of these is JESUS ; the others, besides their Chinese names, are designated by the terms, the Eastern, the Northern, and the Celestial Princes.. The Heavenly Father desce,nds and gives, some partly puerile and ceremonial, and partly humaneinstruc tions, through female Chamberlains of the Court; and again descends possessing the person of the Eastern Prilice, and speaking through him. Again the instructions are of the same mingled puerile r4nd humane character ; it is not easy from the part yet translated to perceive the relation of the first elder brother, JESUS, in this modern legend. The closing extract, however, exhibits a singular coincidence with MAHOAIET'S giving him self out for " the Comforter" promised by JESUS. The Eastern Prince, adverting to this promise, adds that " considering what YANG-SEW-TSING (the younger brother and rebel leader)had reported to him, he had no doubt of his being the pro mised. Comforter." Hence, the leader of the in surgents, has both appended this designation to his name, and also requires his name to be in cluded in the Doxology which is addressed to the Heavenly Father. It is, of course, abundantly clear how groundless is any claim for the rebels to the name of Coris tianB. Indeed, they probably do not make it cheingel7es. That they have had access to the Scriptures, in whole or in part, and are familiar with their personages—that they believe in one GOD, and in JESUS CHRIST, in some sense-and that they have perceived that humanity and mercy are the main features of our LORD'S moral instructions, is all clear. But they certainly con sider the rebel leader as completing the revela tions of JESUS, and would probably, like Maho metans, comprise the essentials of their theology in two sentences—" There is one Gov, and, Yang- Sew-Tsing is his apostle." They do indeed de molish the idols everywhere, and must be regarded as Monotheists, itself a great advance upon the childish idolatry of the Chinese ; but their ideas of the SUPREMR BEING'S procedure are painfully dr,grading ; and the leader of the movement places himself on an equality with JESUS. Indeed, as the last and most perfect revealer of the Divine Mind, he constitutes himself his instructor and .superior ! It is evident that the insurgents nave received ideas which may furnish a basis for Christianising the Empire, The success of such an attempt from without, in connection with this movement, must, however, depend upon two con ditions—on the docility of YANG-SEW-Tsirro and his followers, and .on some Christian teacher ap pearing.on the scene, adapted to gain their con fidence. It is not easy to suppose that " the Comforter" woul't like to renounce his place in - the Doxology, (Jr that he would condescend to :receive instrurtion from a mortal who professed to no inspiratif i n. Without some such aid, however, their Clyzi.stianity must remain below the level even of that of Russia itself. A. FATHER KILLED BY 1113 SON.—The Lauderdale (Mississippi) Republica n records another deed of blood in Kemper_ county. Mr. L oo kl a i r , a man w h o was g ener a4N4Yek killed resp respected by his own son. byhvisneighboure while sober, was last , o p v o i t ,, w it i o th ra st nd 1/lAI:JOUR/al On T nesA __ , r o b s OF THE MELBOURNE ATHEN/EIJM.— i ng desig u l d: e Y ,i t the Melbourne Athenwinn, the build- Was opened, with Several I. Stevens, Esq., architect, of Derby, , the day, irlg festive associations. During in the b eautiful hall I cumber occasional showers, a goodly and townspeople enjoyed themselves gardens, and on the lake and :slots, rind fife IYLncl from Derby. to the inusie of tb:,,,; iecluding the temperance drum was sexred in the lower room ln the evening tea :C-terwaril ,4 addresses' appro priat o e f the new building, and to the occasion were delivered i' a the upper room, which was filled with a re yectali re audience of nearly - dO4. The chair was occupier', by the Rev. J. Deane, the vicar,'the and speake cs were F. F. Fox, Esq., agent for the Melbourne esiatN s ; T. Madeley, Eeq., Mayor of Derby - Dr. T .,SPei,cer Hall, M.A., author of "The Peak and the . P .ain ;" and the Rev. Watts Lethbridge, Indep en d ent ' .O1:1;st,r, of Melbourne. The building is designed for a ficet-fold purpose—that ef ran Infant school, Mechanics' r Institution, and Savings Bank, and is in many respects a useful, as well as ornamental, addition to the town.— Derby Advertieer. • • ' i COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, Szn. 21. Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince walked out yesterday morning in the neighbourhood Of.Balmoral. In the afternoon his Royal Highness went out deer stalking. The Chancellor of the Eichequer and km. Gladstone left town yesterday,, on a visit to Lord Braybrooke, at Audley End, Saffron Walden. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office, yes terday, to the Governor-General of Canada, and to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. The Duke of Wellington has returned to Belgrav street, from a short visit to Brighton. . The Duke of Devonshire continues at Chiswick, but his residence' at Kemp Town is kept in readiness to re= ceive him on the shortest notice. His grace has recently purchased the adjoining house, with a view of enlarging his elegant marine abode. The Marquis of Anglesey, who arrived at Uxbridge House early in the week, from Worthing, has since loft town for Beaudesert, near Lichfield. The Countess Dowager and Lady Georgiana Grey have left Eaton-square for Brighton. The Earl of Elgin, Governor-General of Canada, returns to this country by the next mail steamer from Halifax. The Earl of Ellenborough entertained a large party at S'o e uthani Park, on Tuesday, on the occasion of his lordship's annual rustic fete to the Southam schools. His Serene Highness the reigning Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar is expected to 4arrive in London early in the ensuing week from visiting his illustrious relatives the King and Queen of Holland, at the Hague. The Marquis and Marchioness of Tinnily and family arrived at Douglas's Hotel here on Monday, from Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire. They leave this morning by ex press train for the - south.—Edinburgh, Courant. The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford and suite have left Curraghmore for Ford Castle, his lord ship's seat in Northumberland, where they purpose re maining for a month. The Marquis of Stafford, who has been entertaining a succession of visitors at Tarbert House, Inverness shire, has embarked on a cruise in his lordship's yacht, the Online, off the Scottish coast. Lord Lichfield, who has been enjoying the sports of the field with the mar gals, has left for the south. The Marquis of Breadalbane has returned to his shoot ing: quarters, Forest Lodge, Argyllshire, from Tay month Castle, Perthshire. THE PREMIEH.—On Saturday last orders were re ceived at Haddo House to prepare for the reception of the noble earl.—North, British Mail. The Earl of Desart has left town for Desart Castle, Kilkenny. Tho countess leaves Lord and Lady New port's mansion in Wilton-crescent to-day for the Royal ScottiFll Palace of Balmoral, where the countess succeeds the Duchess of Wellington as Lady in Waiting on the Queen. Lord and Lady Blantyre are entertaining company at Erskine House, Renfrewshire,•N.Bl Lord Valentia has arrived'on a visit to his son-in-law, Captain Robinson, at Roseneath House, near Limerick. Lord Bfankley, Lord Henry Thynne, Lord Dalkeith, Lo:%1 party, Who are st3ying at Lord Caw does, Ca,wdor. Castle, have had abundant sport during the last week on the noble lord's moors. Mr. and Lady A':nes Duff are entertaining a large party at C , Jmintyre, Banffshire, Sir William and Lady Moieswortb have been amongst the guests. Monsell, -Esq., M.P., and. Lady Anna Mon sell, have returned to Torvoo, from Miltown Malbay.' Ancsistus Stafford, E;q., sm.p., left Cartloe Wood for England, on Tuesday. The widow of the Bcigalier Hore, who was shot in Februnry at Sarago - va, is to receive the pension due to the widow of 6: Major-General. •Gorxral Josd Concha touched at the Canaries on the 3d inst., on his way to Cuba. - JEDEDIALI STRUTT, ESQ.—We are happy to say that this t - tintleinan . is considerably improved in health, though he is still a great invalid.--Derby Reporter. MISS STI:ICKLAND.—The authoress of the "Lives of the Queens of Eneand and Scotland",is at present on a visit to Lady Murray Thriepland and family, at Fingask Castle. Tam ELMTON ESTATE.—The Elmton estate has been purchased by the Duke of POI-demi for 80,0001. Lieutenant-Colonel Forster, assistant adjutant general at Edinburgh, is to be deputy adjutant general at the 'Royal Hospital, Dublin, vice. Major General Eden pro moted: Colonel Blair, M.P. for Ayrshire, has addressed a letter to his constituents, stating that ho has been ordered to join the first battalion of the Fusilier. Guards, now serving in the East, and expressing a hope that his absence may not prove detrimental to the interests corn= mitted to his charge. The gallant colonel was expected to sail yesterday from Liverpool by the. British Queen . steam-ship.—Edinburylt Courant. DEATH OF THE lox. CAPTAIN ROBERT GORE, RN. —This gallant man, whose death took place at Monte Video, where he was acting as our charge d'affaires, on the 4th ultimo, suddenly, was in his 45th year, and was brother to the present Earl of Arran and to tho Hon. Charles A. Gore. He was promoted to post rank in 1846, was M.P. for New Ross from 1341 to 1847, and was raised to the rank of an earl's son by Royal warrant in 1837. THE LATE MR. E. T. CEAFEE, OF THE TREASURY.—A vacancy has been created in the Treasury, by the decease of Mr. Ed win T. Crafer, who died from cholera, on Saturday morning last. Mr. Crafer was at the head of the class of assistant•clerks, on the Treasury establish ment, and for the last 15 years and upwards held the office of private secretary to the successive patronage secretaries. He was one of four brothers on the Treasury establishment, sons of the late Thomas Crafer, Esq., who for. many years held the important office of prin cipal clerk of that department. By Mr. E. Crater's death a junior clerkship is now vacant in the Treasury, and also the appointment of private secretary to Mr. Hayter. • THE ACOOIINTANT-GENERAL OF THE NAVY.—The honour of Companionship of the Bath, conferred on this eminent civil servant, has given general satisfaction to persons in all ranks of the service. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.—Friday next has been fixed for the election of a Lord Mayor, in succession to Alderman Sidney, whose term of office will expire on the Bth of November. In the event of the ordinary course being adhered to, the two senior aldermen below the chair- e -viz., Mr. F. G. Moon and Mr. David Salo mons— will be returned to the Court of Aldermen, who will select Mr. Moon for the mayoralty next year. At the next election, supposing no change to be made in the usual customs, a Jew will be elected for the first time to the chief magistracy of the city of London. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—An expla natory report of the mode of conducting the works of the commissioners in building and repairing sewers and covering open sewers, the ordinary precautions taken for the prevention of nuisance and danger to the public health, and the special precautions taken at the present time, hes been prepared in obedience to an order of the general committee by Mr. llazalgette. THE COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT IN THE EAST.— The. Lords of the Treasury have communicated with the Cuetoinis authorities on the subject of certain officers of the department pt-ueeeding to the East in aid of the cemenissariat department, and stating that their lord slops bad accepted the services of the selected parties, it being understood that they will be permitted to return to the Customs service after the war is over without pre judice to their prospects, but that they are not to receive any pay from the Customs during their absence. THE EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION.—A meeting in support of this association was held yesterday, at Bur lington-hall, Saville-row, G. Rice, Esq., in the chair. The chairman stated that much yet remained to be done at the \Vest-end for the extension of the early closing movement, and he hoped that the young men there would so act as to ieduce those employers who still kept open late to close their shops at an earlier hour. Reso lutions were agreed to, expressive of rejoicing at the progress in the early closing cause, which had been effected by the association during the past year, and pledging tho meeting to co-operate with the Early Clos ing Association, and render it, diming the coming season, every possible support, both of a pecuniary and personal character. A local committee was than formed, and the meeting separated. BURIALS IN THE METROPOLIS.—ST. ANDREW'S, HOL BORN.—WiII you inquire what the Board of Health are about in allowing, as I resume they must, the interments to continue, and at a frightful rate, too, in the burial gt'ound attached to St. Andrew's, Holborn ? I think not less than forty per week for the last twelve months have been interred, and they still continue. To-day fresh ground is opened. It cannot be that pecuniary reasons influence the authorities, as the living is returned at 1,3001. per annum ; and there is a freehold estate for the church purposes, producing a like amount. The rector has been absent for many weeks, no doubt to keep out of harm's way.—Correspondent of the Builder. THE EDINBURGH ACADEMY. We understand that the vacancy in the rectorship of the Edinburgh Aca demy, occasioned by the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Hannah, has been filled up by the appoint ment of the Rev. James Stephen Hodson, M.A., of Bailie] and Merton Colleges, Oxford, who will enter upon the duties of the office when the school meets on Monday, the 2d of October. Mr. Hodson is son of the Very Rev. the Archdeacon of Stafford. His career at Oxford was a very distinguished one, and he has since had great experience in tuition ; se that there is every reason to expect that, under his superintendence, the high character which the academy has so long held will be fully maintained.—Edinburgls Courant. o n , e c z l c o Et c k , aYfierset broke erday o a u f t t e o r n n o t o h n e , .- t m FIREse e e s n two No. l N a n H 3 d three o ° ll Dosundsditch, in the occupation of Messrs. Solomon and Co., general factors, importers, and manufacturers of watches and clocks. The building was of considerable extent, comprising several well stocked warehouses. The fire commenced in what was termed the packing-warehouse, filled with goods of various descriptions. One of the workmen dis covered a quantity of straw on fire ; and though the firemen were in immediate attendance from Jeffrey , square with an engine, the flames continued to spread, and six or seven additional engines bad to be brought into play. After three boars, the fire was extin guished ; but not until a large amount of property was ! destroyed ! belonging to the Messrs. Solomons, and con ; siderable damage done to some of the houses adjoining. The Messrs. Soh - miens were insured in the Manchester, and Legal, and Commercial Offices, The other sufferers I were also insured. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 185 4. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR. THE EXPEDITION IN THE CRIMEA. The following telegraphic despatch has been re received this morning : VIENNA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 22. .From Russian sources I learn that the Russians did not oppose the landing, of th© English and French troops, because their entire force in the Crimea numbers only 38,000 men besides the garrison of Sebastopol, 12,000 strong—viz., 8,000 cavalry between Eupatoria and Simpheropol, and on the heights from St. Crimea to Sebastopol 30,000 men and 43 guns. The Russians will defend their heights to the uttermost. The Austrian Government sent a despatch yes terday to Baron Hess, ordering him to concede the occupation of Galatz and Ibraila to the Turks, if Omer Pacha desired it.' ,Thus all differences are handsomely settled. troops i i men, es n , VARNA, SEPT. 17. Th e second embarkation of 15,000 (F renc h) proceeding. understoods that P r i nce M ensc hik o ff, w ith 35, otcto is drawn from BatschtSerai and Simphc ropol, with all the disposable force from Sebastopol, were assembled on the heights near Balaklava, pre pared to oppose the landing of the allied forces ! JASSY, SEPT. 18. Prince Gortschakoffleft on the 16th for Skulani. Jassy is completely evacuated. The bridge over the Pruth is to be removed to-morrow. PARIS, SATURDAY, SEPT. 23. The illoniteur publishes the following despatch, under date of Constantinople, 15th inst. It does not bring later intelligence " Lord Raglan wrote on the 12th that the coast was not seriously defended. ".On the 13th, three regiments had landed, and taken possession of Enpatoria without striking a blow. " The landing of the whole army was to take place on the following day, at twenty miles south of that town. "The weather was magnificent." . The Einancipcitidn; of Brussels has the fol lowing, dated Vienna, Wednesday evening : "Our news of the expedition is favourable. The Russian fleet, which had left Sebastopol to oppose the landing, has been 'compelled to re-enter the harbour in disorder. The, batteries on shore were completely destroyed in the space of a few hours." THE PRINCIPALITIES. It is related that the Russian force quitting Mol- davia and Wallachia does not amount to mare than 80,900 or 9),000 men, and, if this be the case, Prince Gortschakoff must either have lost one-third of his army by sickness and the sword, or a large body of troops must have been sent across the Pruth before the regular evacuation of the Principalities began. On the 10th General Budberg had an in terview with the Austrian Consul-General at Jassy, and requested him to protect the Russian subjects after the departure of the troops, which Baron Testa (the consul) is said to have promised to do. Advices from Bucharest state that the recall of Prince Stirbey, for the resumption of his functions as' llospodar of Wallachia, was decided upon at Constantinop!e against the concurrence of Omer Pacha, who, we are told, is much annoyed thereat. It seems that the Ottoman Generalissimo entirely diapproved of the invitation sent hither by Dervish Pacha, the Ottoman Civil Commissioner, to Prince Stirbey, for the latter's immediate return to Bucharest. A special negotiation had also be come necessary in order to induce Omer Pacha to delay his occupation of Ibraila for about ten' days longer, as by that time the Austrian troops would be enabled to reach that place, and do the needful duty there. But notwithstanding these undeniable and by no means unimportant differences, it is confidently expected that a good understanding and perfect harmony will be maintained between the Austrian and Ottoman military authorities. It is added that Omer Pacha appears willing to withdraw apart of his troops to Bulgaria, whence they may probably be sent to reinforce the Asiatic army, if they are not wanted as reserves for the allied expedition against the Crimea. Finally, we learn from Bucharest that above fifty Austrian soldiers have already fallen victims to the ravages of the cholera in Wallachia. CONSTANTINOPLE. The Moniteor publishes the following letter from Constantinople :—" It has already been said that • the two civilising influences which must save and regenerate the Ottoman empire acted. simul taneously, and that any one could follow with his eye at the same time the humiliation of Russia and the progressive movements of reforming ideas at Constantinople. Whilst the expedition of the Crimea sets sail in order to strike a great blow against the Muscovite power in the Black Sea, the Sultan, by the Imperial hatti-scheriff of tho 7th in stant, strikes on hie part a decisive blow against inequalities and abuses. Is it possible to have a better proof of the result of the noble policy of the Western Powers towards the Ottoman empire than in the grand spectacle given the civilised world by a Sultan who, of his own accord, anticipating the wAslies of his allies, and only consulting the instinct of his generous na ture, takes in the face of•his empire andof the whole of Europe irrevocable engagements with civilisation and progress ? Nothing can be done in Turkey with the rapidity of the political evolutions of the west. After the violent destruction, the cruel op pressions practised by the Sultan Mahmoud, came the era of more pacific progress.. It was at the com mencement of the reign of the Sultan Abd-ul-Med jid that the tanzimat, so violently attacked by the enemies of Turkey, was given to his empire by the young sovereign of a principle, the consequences of which were to be the workof his whole reign. Every one knows in what painful situation Turkey was placed up to the time when the politi cal influences which contended either openly or secretly on diplomatic ground at Constantinople, changing into a military struggle, the Sultan, sure of Ins allies as of his enemies, was able to enter on a more candid path, and relying on the armed co-operation of the two most powerful nations of the West, to brave at once both the Rus sian arms and the secret intrigues of the old fanatic party. The Ottoman Empire had to support, it is true, in this violent state of things, very heavy sacrifices, but those sacrifices secured the future, and traced out in an unequivocal manner the road to political reform. The time is at length come when the general principles contained in, the Tanzi mat must receive their full and complete develop ment, and nothing can henceforth impede Turkey in the fruitful though slow and laborious work of political regeneration. Some astonishment will perhaps be felt at seeing the question of corrup tion play such an important part in the last Impe rial hatti-scheriff. It is not sufficiently well known in the West to 'what an extent pecuniary abuses in Turkey have become precedents, and. how much they have become governmental habits. It is not many years ago that the majority of the functiona ries in Turkey received no salaries, and were paid by the public, as was the practice in Europe dur ing the middle ages, and even up to modern times. Even now the salary of a groat number of the func tionaries in the provinces of the Ottoman Empire, more particularly among the judicial authorities, is so small that it appears impossible not to shut the eyes to certain abuses. The custom of presents made by inferiors to all whose influence might be useful to them had therefore as it were instilled it self into the veins of the Ottoman Empire. It was necessary, however, to have ddno with this sad re mains of the past, and it is this which Resehid Paella pointed out with the greatest energy in the speech that he delivered before the Grand Council. A veil will bo thrown over the past, but for the future the most severe punishment • will be inflicted, without consideration of rank or position, ou any functionary who shall forget that it is the State alone which has a right ' to accept remuneration for its services, and that his services are gratuitously due to the public. This new act of reform of the Sultan, Abd-ul- Medjid, has produced a deep impression at Coustan tmople on all classes of the people. It is known I what matters will engage the attention of the Coun cil, which has just been formed, and it may be said. that the points on which it will specially have to decide have been already discussed and solved - in public opinion: - The name of Reschid Pacha, al ready associated with the proclamation• of the tan zlinat in 1839, will be again associated in 1854, with 'the promulgation of the Imperial hatti- Echerif, which ratifies the developments of it. It is a real historical glory for that statesman to be always the instrument in the hands of the Sultan for accomplishing good. The great act, the bear ing of which we have just appreciated has worthily inaugurated the resumption of political affairs, which had been for some days interrupted by the fetes of the Courbam Beiram." THE BLACK SEA. RUSSIAN FORCES IN THE CRIMEA. A letter from Kalisch, in the Lloyd of Vienna, says : " Very little is known of the Russian forces in the Crimea, and all that has been said on the subject is hypothetical. Only the troops sent to the Crimea in the spring are known, namely, the troops of the 17th division, which' with their cavalry and artillery, amount to 30,000 men. The question then is asked— What was the original garrison of the peninsula, and what the reinforcements which have since arrived?. But these troops cannot be very consider able, as if they were their march could not have been a secret. If it be borne in mind that all these troops, including the soldiers of the marine, cannot be estimated at more than 50,000, and-that they are necessarily distributed on several points, it follows that the allies will be in preponderating force on whatever side .they go. The Russians have for them only the advantage of the positions, which may compensate for the superiority of number." The Lloyd of Vienna says :—" A letter from Odessa of the 12th states that some Russian ves sels had left the port of Sebastopol. to make a reconnaissance. Prince Menschikoff's reason for thus risking part of his fleet was no doubt the uncertainty in which the Russians were as to the point at which the allied expedition would ?isembark. Ordinarily the Russians are kept well- informed by their spies, but - this time it was not possible for them to gain information, the orders relattve to the disembarkati6n having only been given in the open sea. It is not pro bable that the vessels went out with any other object than to ascertain the point towards which the allies were proceeding." The Kalisch correspondent of the Lloyd, speak ing of the probable strength, of the Russians in the Crimea, says .that not above 30,000 men were sent .there in spring. To these troops must be added • the original garrisons and any forces which may have recently marched into the Crimea. • THE BALTIC. . , We have news from Stockholm.up to , the 14th inst., informing us that the fleets have left Aland, Tut without giving further particulars at present. The destruction of the forts at Botuarsund showed that it wits not intended to occupy Aland as a mi litary post thig winter, and now, thndeparture of the fleets seems to justify the assumption that this archipelago is not to be made into a naval station for the present at any rate. In every way the people exhibit their sympathy for the Western Powers, and it is evident that the Gov,ernment waits only for them to undertake seriously the w crippling of the Rus sian naval poer in the Baltic to hold different language than it has hitherto done. As long as there is;a powerful fleet enclosed within the moles of Sweaborg and Cronstadt, and capable of passin4 out when Napier and ice permit, the Swedish Go- Vernment would not be justiii.ed in exposing its coasts to the tender mercies of its unneighbourly neighbours. A telegraphic despatch informs us that Austria advised Sweden on the 14th, that, now Russia had withdrawn 'from the Danubian Principalities, and the mouths of the Salina wore open again, she did not feel herself called upon to give up her neutral position. The Royal message, read closing the Storthing by the Stadthalter, was as follows : "Good gentlemen and' Norwe g ian men,—l regret that the present state of political affairs has admitted neither of my own nor the Queen's coronation in this year, • nor of my closing your session in person. The advantageous position which I have succeeded in at-. taining for the united kingdom, in the midst -of the complications which disturb our quarter of-the world has enabled the Storthing, by ample Votes, to meet my wishes for the material . development of the country. While I fully recognise and appreciate the public spirit which these votes have exhibited, I could have wished that the Storthing had granted the sums I desired for the necessary development of our system, of defence in its entire extent. May Providence now and hence forth stretch out its protecting hand over Norway and her stanch inhabitants. After having accom plished your mission and task, you return now to your homes and occupations. I hope and trust that all hap piness may attend you, and remain, good gentlemen and Norwegian men, in all Royal grace and favottr, well affected to you all in general, and to each in particular." RUSSIA. The Austrian Soldaten Freund has the , following from Tirasopol, opposite to Bender, dated Sep tember 9 : " The appearance off the Saline and Dniester mouth of some enemy's ships was signalised to Odessa on the Ist inst. On the night of the 31st August a Russian st earner arrived at Odessa from Sebastopol with despa tches from Prince Menschikoff, and returned after a st ay of only two hours. On the 4th and sth of Septembtir six enemy's vessels anchored in the bight of Lust dorf. This they do always when they pay Odessa a visit. :Row many other vessels had arrived there since was not kt town at Odessa. Half the population of the latter town have already come to Tirasopol, and no doubt is entert: Lined that the enemy's armada will commence operations by the conquest of that city. The new field works on the heights which command the sea fortifications and harbour of Sebastopol amphitheatrically, and are destined to op pose the first rush of the enemy upon these positions, are finished and completely armed. People think tiiat if the Turks could maintain themselves at Kalafat a. nd Silistria, the Russians will not abandon the fortified places in the Crimean Peninsula without a struggle; and the Russians appear prepared at every point for this struggle, "They have had from thirty to forty years' time for this • (but only commenced the circle of land defences of Se'bas topol within the last three months), and have greatly rein forced all points of defence. We aro assured that a sp , fetal corps of cavalry, with an excellent body of horse artill cry, to the amount of 15,000 men, has been concentrated with in the last fortnight in the Crimea. One thing is cert.: tin, that the forces in the Crimea do not consist of the is ast effective, but of the choicest Russian troops." A letter from St. Petersburg, in the Berlin .7.1 7- a- Coital, says that the efforts made by the Govern ment to supply the place of the immense number of hands drained from tho agricultural population, which during the last eighteen months alone has amounted to more than 300,000, exclusive of re serves, by colonising Jeivs in the Steppes, luLve succeeded to a certain extent in the Government of Elialerenastaff, near the Dnieper. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Sept. 20.—The New Prussian Journal, organ of A party whose devotion to Russian sulpre macy can only be surpassed by its bitter animosity to England, and all that is English, has the fol lowing upon what it terms the Prussian "point of view" : ."Prussia," it says, "has no interest as a great Euro pean Power in strengthening and giving increased in- licence to England and France, at the expense of Russia, and the less so in proportion as the alliance between the Western Powers becomes more earnest. Prussia ;has no interest, as a great European Power, in seeking to complete the autocracy • of England at sea, by the n'e struction of the Russian Black Sea fleet, whereby Eng land's rear (!) would be covered. Prussia has no interest, as a great European power, in augmenting the over weight of French continental power by helping to destroy Russia's armies. Prussia has no interest, as a great Euro pean Power, in expending her blood and money to pro mote the plans and objects of France and England in the East: Prussia has no interest, as a great European Power, in mixing in a war wherein it has neither directly nor indirectly participated hitherto, and wherefrom those who have participated cau scarcely venture to increase their power and influence—that is, if their assurances to maintain intact the integrity and sovereignty of the Porte be seriously intended. What remains, therefore, for Prussia's European point of view ? French progress and English civilisation—'the rainbow of liberty.' The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, under date of Berlin, 19th, says :—" We have received some details relative to the negotiations pending between Austria and Prussia. The first point for the two States is to come to an understanding as to the obligations which they .have contracted by the treaty of 20th April. The negotiations appeared at first to take a turn favourable to the Prussian point of view. It is, however, said that for some days past Austria has resumed a more reserved attitude, and that she again insists on the necessity of putting a part of the Federal contingent on a war footing. Another circular despatch has been addressed by Austria to the German Courts on this subject. Prussia has also made insinuations on equitable propositions which might be offered to Russia for the resumption of negotiations. It appears that these negotiations are not yet very active. Accounts from Vienna are anxiously expected, as a provisional decision is hoped for. If this decision be obtained, M. do Bis mark Schcenhausen, who is at Berlin, and whose departure for Frankfort is not yet fixed on, will go to Vienna with fresh instructions to continue ne gotiations there, and to take part in the communi cations which Prussia and Austria will make in concert to the Diet on this subject. Prussia on the 6th sent to Paris and London a note, explana „ tory of her attitude in the present phase of the question, and. in this note she particularly insists 'on her desire to contribute to peace, and expresses the opinion that the Western Powers will conk scientiously examine the ulterior propositions which may be made for the re-establishment of it." The Augsburg Gazette has a letter from St. Peters burg on the subject of the well-known four condi tions, which is interesting, inasmuch as it gives an idea of the point of view in which things are seen in Russia. It is affirmed that Russia shed her blood in order to obtain from the Porte the privi leges which the Principalities now enjoy. If she, had not done so, those provinces would, like Bul-, garia, he now groaning under the oppressive yoke of the Pashas, the people would be obliged to pay haratch (poll-tax) like the rayahs, " and their houses be infested by Asiatic soldateska" (a con temptuous expression for soldiery). According to the St. Petersburg writer, it is "as 'natural for Russia to protect the Danubian Principalities, as t would be for Austria to interfere in Bosnia and the .Herzegowina in defence of the Christians." Austria is told that it would be a rdost short sighted policy should she consent to a general pro tectorate in the Principalities, and she is reminded that England is always meddling in the internal affairs of other States," and that one of her Minis ters is named Palmerston, &c. The Catholic clergy of Austria, has, says a Vienna letter in the Augsburg Gazette, subscribed 15,561,161 florins in the recent loan. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Sept. 19.—Every now and then the Copirt Zeitung's Correspondenz, or some other equally well misinformed Austrian organ of the press, assures us that Austrian influence is likely to prevail in the Bund ; but the German Powers has resolved not to prepare for war until they are literally forced to do so. Perhaps the only Court on which Austria can implicitly de pend is Hesse Cassel, the least respectable, per haps, in Germany, but still, from its geogra phical position, an important ally. The Austrian organs of the press, which were formerly most violent against England, " because she was so ego tistical," now openly declare that no State can be powerful whose policy is not so. The Presse this morning says :—" Austria has not made such exertions in vain, and she will at some future time demand her reward. She has never at tempted to conceal that such is her intention, and this, by her gainsayers, is branded as egotism." The Vienna paper does not consider it advisable to state what the reward is to be, but every corre spondent who is capable of connecting two ideas must know what is meant. Austrian politicians have visions of the future, in which Moldavia and Wallachia figure as part and parcel of this empire. Their idea seems to be, that if the allies obtain possession of the Crimea that peninsula will be given to Turkey, instead of the suzerainte over Moldavia and Wallachia, which is to fall to Aus tria! If asked what reason there is for supposing the belligerent PoWers will display such extraor dinhry disinterestedness, these patriots are na turally . at a loss for an answer. FRANCE. Most of our Paris contemporaries give, with out comment, the ,news of the landing of the expedition in the Crimea. They wait fir the details, without which they are unable to form an opinion as to the cause of no resistance having been offered by the Russians to this first grand step of the allied forces. The _Mats thinks that the non-re sistance of the Russians was owing to the diversions practised by the fleet on different parts of the coast of the Crimea to mislead them, and to compel them to divide their forces. Be this as it may, the land ing has been effected without loss ; and in the opinion of Napoleon I. a gdod landing is half a victory. The Messager de Bayonne has the following ac count of the departure of the Empress from Biar riti :—" The Empress arrived shortly before nine o'clock in the morning at Bayonne, and was saluted by the guns of the citadel and by those of the Am tralie. Her Majesty was in an open carriage, and was accompanied by her mother the Countess de Montijo, by her sister the Duchess de Alba, and by M. ;Laity, Prefect of the Basses-PyrenCes. Three carriages followed containing the suite. The general commanding the division, and inspector-general Guillabert rode by the side of her Majesty's carriage, whigh was escorted by a squadron of hussars. The 35th and 11th Regiments were drawn up in lines on the road taken by the Empress. Large crowds assembled on the Place d'Armes and the .Place de Grammont to see her Majesty for the last lime. The Imperial cortege stopped at the mairie to change horses. The authorities were here as sembled, as were also a number of ladies, who had the honour to be received by her Majesty at C'Trammont. The former took a respectful leave of Ole Empress, and the ladies were presented to her by the general commanding the division. One of the b bdies, Mme. Bisson, wife of a general of brigade, ex p ressed in the name of all th eir regret at her Majesty's departure, and their gratitude for the kindness she had shown them. Mine. Bisson then offered her Ma jesty a magnificent bouquet, and the Empress re ceived it with a warm expression of thanks. At length the Empress drove off, saying, " Av. revoir ! Next year I" and the acclamations of the crowd accompanied her for some distance. At Saint- Elienne, the cortege stopped, and the Empress dis missed her escort. Her Majesty then took leave of her mother and sister. The Duchess de Bassano and the Countess de Pierres afterwards took their seats in her Majesty's carriage, which drove. rapidly towards Bordeaux. The Empress left her private secretary at Biarritz, in order to distribute her final donations amongst the poor." The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 74f. 95e. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a- Half per Cents., at 98f. 90c. ; and the New Loan, at 75f. 10c. ; Orleans Raiway Shares, 1,240 f. Rouen, 972 f. 50c. ; Havre, 590 f. ; Great Northern, 860 f. ; Strasburg ; 820 f. ; New Shares, 645 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 993 f. 50c. ; Lyons and the Mediterranean, 865 f. ; Western of France, 667 E 50c. ; Bordeaux, and Cette, 618 f. 75c. ; Great Central of France, 518 f. 75c.; Lyons and Geneva, 540 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 742 f. 50c. SPAIN. Advices from Madrid of the 18th state that the Government had published an order forbidding any- other than electors to take part in election meet ings, and limiting their discussions to electoral matters. On the 18th the Three per Cents. closed at 34. ITALY. The Italia a Poplo, a Radical Genoa paper, was seized by the police on the 16th, for an article in sulting to the Piedmontese Government. MISCELLANEO US. It is related that Prince Woronzow, who has been drinking tho waters at Carlsbad, will return to Tiflis at the end of this month. The last ukase relative to the new conscription has produced an indescribable sensation in Russia. If 200,000 men are raised, and each serf is valued but at 500 silver roubles, it will give an enormous sum. There have been four such conscriptions in two years. What has the war already cost the nobles ? The tribunal of Lorrach (Baden) has summoned the notorious Hecker to appear before it within four weeks, to answer to charges of high treason in connection with the Baden revolution of 1848-9. His property has meantime been sequestered. In case of non-appearance, judgment will go by de fault. Baron Thile, Prussian envoy at Athens, and now on leave, will, says the Kr eutz Zeitung, be appointed to Rome. Leipsic autumn fair has commenced, and it is expected that considerable business will be trans acted with the Danubian provinces, whose mer chants were prevented attending at the last two fairs by the Russian occupants. Field-Marshal-Lieutenant Mertens has been ap pointed Military and Civil Governor of Trieste. , The cholera is less violent at Rustchuk, but it rages fearfully among the Egyptians at Giurgevo. The Berlin Silesian Aid Committee has been enabled to transmit 26,000 'dollars to the sufferers by the late inundation, including a magnificent donation of 10,000 dollars from the Aix-la-Chapelle In surance- office. English engineers are occupied in taking ad measurements between Kostendje and Rassova, •" the Porte having given its consent to the con s traction of a canal which is to be navigable for merchantmen between the Danube and the Black Sea." A Prague journal estimates the present expenses of the Austrian army at 800,000 florins daily, or 25 millions (2i millions sterling) monthly. This is evidently an enormous exaggeration. The Prussian Minister fur Foreign Affairs has given a diplomatic dinner in honour of Kiamil Effendi, the new Turkish envoy. The last number of the Prussian Wochen, Blatt, the organ of the so-called Bethmann Holweg, or Moderate Opposition and anti-Russian party, has, it is said, been confiscated by the police. A letter in the Tribnno gives an account of a terrible and extraordinary catastrophe that has oc curred at Daroca, a small town in Arragon, situate in a rich and fertile valley, abounding in corn and wine. The loss has been incalculable; in the vaults water has replaced wino, the contents of the shops are spoiled, and many houses are crumbling away. From Moscow a heavy failure has been an p.ounced, the firm being that of Lakin and. Skura toff, cotton manufacturers, with liabilities for 100,0001. A new telescopic comet was discovered on the 12th by M. Bruhns, at the'observatory of Berlin. The Spanish tx-Minister of War, General Blaser, and Count Vista Hermoso, who have 1 een staying some days in London as political refugees, have gone to Paris, where the Count de San Luis, ,ex President of the Council, accompanied by his nephew, the Chevalier D'Andrade, late • secretary Of embassy at Turin, has arrived from Madrid.- In a lefter from St. Petersburg, which appears in the Allgemeine Zeitung, we read—" The loss of the Aland Islands is of no consequence to Russia. They were always looked upon as an exposed post, which would have to be abandoned at the first at tack. They were only of importance in a war with Sweden • in a war with any other power their mi litary value is nil ; and these barren islands can have no value except as a military position." The two admirals of the combined fleets have issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of the Aland Isles, prohibiting them from holding any in tercourse with the Russians.. The Swedish Government has appointed Baron Hochschild, the present Swedish Minister in Berlin, to represent it in London, in the place of Rear- Admiral Virgin, who has at his own request been recalled. The naval officers attached to the port of Wax holm have lately given a brilliant banquet to the officers of the French man-of-war Austerlitz, lying there ; and this has been returned by the latter in a no loss enthusiastic manner. • AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPB.) SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The United States' mail steamship Washington, Captain Lines, with dates from New York to the 9th instant, arrived off Cowes at half-past 9 this morning, on her way to Bremen. LORD DUNDONALD AND T lIE BALTIC FLEET. With characteristic and sailor-like frankness, Lord Dundonald has hastened to contradict the groundless as sertion that he had been offered the command of the • Baltic fleet, and bad declined it on account of the condi tions with which it was coupled. " I have never," says Lord .Dundonald, "been honoured with any conversa tion or communication with Lord Aberdeen relative to the command in the Baltic, or in regard to operations to be coeducted in that or any other quarter." On this flat contradiction our brother of the press who first let loose the canard in question coolly remarks, " The only real discrepancy between our statement and this explanation (what a nice soft name for a contradiction !) lies in the offer of command to Lord Dundonald." The only differ ence here admitted would by_ most people be considered glide enough but it is not the only one. Lord Dundonald has also explained that ho had no communication from Lord Aberdeen respecting the propoied operations in the Baltic ; in other words, there was no proposal to ham Par his free agency as commander, which was part of the story that has elicited his denial. Our contemporall consoles himself for having been detected in disseminat - . ing an unfounded story by saying that had the offer been made to Lord Dundonald, "it would certainly have reflected honour on Lord'Aberdeen." Was it, then, to do honour to Lord Aberdeen that our contemporary gave currency to the story ? The same journalist, andt a morning contemporary who echoes hint as usual, fall back upon Lord Dundonald's secret and mysterious " one means " of putting ships and stone batteries on an equal footing. One of these writers complain s that Government has " neglected " Lord Dun don ald' s communication, and the other that Government has nut " adopted" his plan. Did the Government " neglec t the communication ? Is it not, indeed, the fact, that the Admiralty took Lord Dundonald's crotchet into serious consideration ? Nay more, did they not refer it • to a select committee of naval Officers ? Did not this committee declate it impracticable.? Would our owl' temporaries have Government adopt an impracticable Scheme ? It is true naval officers are not 'infallible ; is true_they are sometimes prejudiced against what is new ; but all who know Lord Dundonald and Ws • career will be prepared to believe the Admiralty and the committee have justly appreciated his " one means. Lord Dundonald i 5 not better known for his indomitable valour than for his visionary turn of mind and sad lack of judgment. He started in life by allowing himself to be led, by sheer love of frolic and excitement we honistly believe, into a grave collision with the laws of his coun ,try,. At the time of the Burdett riots he had almost peesuaded the popu larit-huntiaronet to pursue f!: course that would , infallibly have b led to a great 30 aimless loss of life. For years he. went about boring everybody with an impossible rotatory steam-egine. The presumption is, that having now passed his fourscore years his play for putting a speedy end to the war has a strong family likeness to all his earlier plans. By the bye, he himself describes it as the means of placing the. belli gerents "on an equal footing." Now, as on the whole the allies have rather had the' better" of Russia in the present campaign, we suspect the public . would have owed Government small thanks for adopting a plan that was to place Russia " on an equal footing with the allies."— Daily News. ACCIDENT AT THE HOLYHEAD BREAK WATER. A correspondent, writing from Bangor on the 19th inst., says :—About half-past ten a.m., a fearful occur rence, though fortunately not attended with the loss of life, took place at the new pier or breakwater at Holyhead. The pier in its present form extends fully a mile into the sea, and at its extreme point has five lines of rails on 18-inch timber, all braced with crossed timbers double and treble under the which are placed under each line of rails, and are 3 ' feet apart. I was standing at the extreme end of the pier on the centre lino (having obtained an order to view the works), waiting to see a train deposit its load in the sea, and observing the carpenters extending the pier, each working with a life-buoy upon him. Whilst admiring this precaution, as they have only the width of the tim• ber used to put the rails upon, three waggons and an engine came down the centre line on which I was stationed Three other waggons with two breaksmeu were runn in g on the next parallel g line of rails; and had reached the third pile from the end when an immense crash took place, shaking the whole fabric in a terrible viers ner. Almost immediately I saw the enormous tim bers from the inner line of rails rising up from the eX treme end, and following the train loaded with stone, which with two carpenters and a breaksman had been precipitated far below into the sea. Fortunately it n e ,. high tide, and the men, who fell into a great de All of water, not rise to the surface till n early the timbers had fallen. Many workmen soon cong re i gated on the spot, and by the aid of a life beat an d buoys, and the daring gallantry of a man who lower% +him elf by a rope to the fallen timbers, the thre e In n s were rescued from the water and placed on the , t e t r t , work, some distance off, and ultimately conveyed to r shore uninjured. It seems that the supporters of the in ht line of rails had broken down under th e i m mense we r i r, of the locomotive and the three wa g gons. a'w wards observed blocks of stone on s om e o f the wagg— fien (besides a full load of smaller stones) of several te a i weight, and I was informed by the m en that it is SO fee from the top of the rails to the foundation in the s e a ' and that although the piles are 18-i nc h b a lks, they a c . of very indifferent white pi ne , an d th a t m ore fearfu l s e ; cidents may be anticipated. A pile supporting °ro d, beams under each line of rails in the centre of the 10 yards apart, with a depth of 80 feet to the f oun " - a tion, cannot be sufficient to bear the oscillations e, n , li weight of locomotive trains loaded to the utmo st stone. The Government and also the contractor ougp to have their immediate attention drawn to it. .--' IMPUDENT ROBBERY AT SPONDON.—On Sunday m orn ing last a most impudent robbery was committed et the residence of Henry Morley, Esq., Spondon. It apPe °ll , ' that between twelve and ens o'clock that day , the 50- vant laid the cloth for dinner, in the front dining-0 0 d and placed the plate on the table. !Mr. Morley ret ai l, from church shortly afterwards, and went upstairs• about tea minutes afterwards it was discovered that tm following silver goods had been stolen :--Two large table-spoons, one dessert-spoon, ono gravy-spoon, a d : salt-spoon ; there was a crest upon them, with a tig e ' head and cap upon it. Afterwards they discovered that a ‘ number of silver tea-spoons had been taro away ; they were marked with the letter " There is reason to believe that the robbery was CO mitted by a woman tramping about the country' about the time of the robbery the neighbours oea woman coming out of Mr. Morley's house in a con °lllO state, and as if she was carrying something. but t he he has yet been obtained as to her whereabouts, but police are on the lert. —Derby Advertiser. MONUMENT TO a SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN LIVERPOOD.; After the learned and eloquent address delivered n.rsii• Wednesday evening by the noble president of the Br" 10,3 Association, in the course of which he more than 011 t alluded to the debt which the best interests of this ge l ' s commercial city owe to the researches of the illustriour Newton, we hail with satisfaction and delight the opP° ir Utility afforded our fellow-townsmen of recording the„, names in the list of those who are about to do he phi , to themselves by erecting a monument to-the great Pr o losopher at the place of his early education, and close.it the spot which gave him birth. We venture toprecliner that our merchants and our shipowners, as well as (;"", men of science, will not be found ranting in this (sha nl , be it said) the first public tribute of resp ect to the Ply mory of the world's greatest philosopher. Mercury. morn' Germeuv.—On opening Clee church on Su nda y ing last for Divine service, it was found impossible .° 1 sm remain there in consequence of a very offensive elt which pervaded the whole church. The cler gy man once proceeded to Cleethorpes, and held the service in hat on the school-room. It has since been discovered t digging a large grave, which contains 16 corpses brought from Cleethorpes during the late sev ere visitation cholera, a small underground drain whi ch communicated a family vault inside the church had been brokent into, and that the offensive gases given out had founrd. vent through the drain into the church. Several peui sons were at the time much affected by the s mell, b ., nothing of a more serious nature has resulted front ) 5 ! t.--Stamford Merouryt;