The Sun. — London, England, 1854-06-23 00:00:00

TII.EITRIC ROYAL DRURY LANE: • • Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Fifty-liftli and Fifty-sixth Representations—Fifth and Sixth Nights - . of the New Saisecription. The 'first Representation in London this season of Les Huguenots. THIS EVENING, JUNE 23, (And TO-3IORROW, SATURDAY, JUNE 24) will be performed (first time) Meyerbeer's Opera LES HUGUE NOTS. Characters by Madame Rudersdorff, Madame Caradori, Janold (her first appearance in England), Herr Reichardt, Mr. Hamilton Braham, Herr °ratan, Herr Zapb, Herr Haase, Herr Pecz, and Itcrr Formes. Composer, bireetor of the Music, and Conductor, Herr Anchuez. Prices—Stalls, 7s; Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25. ; Gallery, Is.; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Fr Guineas. Th e e Box-ofilee Opel daily from Ten tillwhere places ay secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and Cock. 63, New Bond-street. Notice.—Doors open at Half-past Seven. Pereormance commences at Eight. Ha f-price at Half-pa,t ii.e. • THE .tTRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. trader the management of Mr. Backstone. THIS EVENING, Jutsz 23, Wlli be performed the Drama of THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. characters b Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, G. Vandenhoff, Farren, a Compton , and Buckstone ; Mi ss Reynolds, Min E. Grey, and Mrs. Fltzwilliam. Eoilowed by RURAL FELICITY. Characters by Messrsea- . W Ferree. E. Fillers, and Buckstone; Mrs. Fitz william and Sties F therstoae. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Cusa.T.E.3 Ka This EVENING, JUNE 23, Will be performed FROM Fish e rE GTO COURT Principal characters by Messrs. Harley, and Cathcart ; M isses Mur fay, Heath, and VI, ash. Followed by F Ausp AND mARDuE RITE D . aly, and Miss c. Characters by Messrs. C. Kean and Ditrid Fisher ; and Urs. le.clercq. To conclude with A STOR M IN A T EA-CUP. Principal cha. ra Acre by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the management of Madame VestrlS. TILIS EVENING, JUNE 23, Will be performed ACH ARMING WIDOW. Principal charac ters by Mr. C. Mathews and Miss Talbot. Followed b pew Drama, entitled SUNSHINE THROUGH THE CLOUDS. a aracters by Messrs. Rosiere, Gladstone, F. Matthews; madame Vestris, Miss Hughes, and Miss Oliver. To conclude with BEFORE BREAKFAST. Characters by Mr. Mathews, Messrs. F. Matthews and Baker; Miss Walham, &c. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, JUNE 23, • Wlll be performed THE 3IARBLE HEART; or, The Sculptor's Dream. Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford, L. Murray, Ben. Web ster, and C. Selby; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss E. ardlng. • • • - After which will be presented the New Extravaganza, entitled A MOVING "CALF, supported by Mr. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude wi.h the popular Nautical Drama of the C XBIN BOY. Julien (her original character), gadain 3 Celeste. Tickets, Places, and Private Dose^ to be had at the theatre. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, JUNE 23, Will be — performed the Comic Drama called HUM MONEY. Characters by Messrs. F Robson, Emery. White, and Vincent ; Mie3 Dormer, and Mrs. A. Wigan. Followed by A MODEL OF A WIFE. To conc'ude with the Farce of THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bans, Mr. F. Robson. STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. A.llcroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs - THIS EVENING, JUNE 23, Will be performed the Tragedy of HAMLET. Principal charac ter by Mr. Barry Sullivan. After which, THE PETS OF THE BALLET. To conclude with MY FELLOW-CLERK. Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, Is. 61; Gallery, 6d.; Private Mikes, £1 lis. 6d., to be had of Mr. Allcroft. 15, New Bond-street. • A.STLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL A.MPUITLIEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. THIS EVENING. RINE 23. Win be presented the new Grand Historical Mi itary spectacle, en titled THE COSSACKS ; or, Viva la France. Followed by a series of Chef d'Ouvres of Art, or Equitation DE LA HAUTE ECOLE deve'nped in the S^ones in the CIRCLE, the whole arranged and conducted by Mr. William Cooke. To conclude with (sth time) a Comic Ballet, called THE RIVAL ARTISANS. Box-ottice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICIL GARDgNS. Open for the Season. THIS EVENING, JCNE 23, Will be repeated an entirely NEW and BRILLIANT PIECE I,f FIREWORK on a gigantic scale, representing the British Lion and 'Gallic Cock Trampling on the Russian Eagle. All the numerous att:actlonsof the gardens as dtual;including the beautinfi Panorama of Chusan, by Danson—the extensive aril interesting Menagerie— Vocal and Instrumental Concert': Miss Poole, Miss Ransford, and r. Manvers, &c. Concluding with the attack of the British Fleet on Chusan—Explosion of the Batteries and Ships, and final Grand Display of Fireworks, by Southity. Feeding the animal., Half-past Five. Concert, Half-past Six. Fireworks, Quarter to Ten. Ad mission to the whole, Is: HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau DAT —Morning 19 min.after 12 Evening 41 inin.aft. 12 To•MoNtow—Morning 5 min.after 1 1 Evening 25 min.aft. 1 -• Tali W [LATH ER.—Bult Orrion„ Raft 23. TiIIIBIILOMILTZB, IN TNN SHADE. 73—highest since noon yesterday. 62—lowest this morning and daring the night. 75- 7 this day, at noon. The highest this season. BARONETER, 30'23. WIND, Westerly.—Light, pleasant breeze, and fine. -•-,.; , :e, ,, , , ,) , ..,„ § -,,,‘,A-:, , ,, 4 _ - `043 t A,. - un, G\ LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1854. Another of her MAJESTY'S Ministers—not the Earl of ABERDEEN, but Sir GEORGE GREY—Lhas been recently whining over the Evil of War. As if England were to be frightened into a craven Peace;through the fear lest, in fighting the Battles of Humanity, she might be weighed down by the remorse of blood-guiltiness ! The occasion se lected by the newly-appointed Colonial Secretary for the utterance of those drivelling lamen tation's over the Horrors of War--was the occasion of his re-election, on the 17th in stant, by the burgesses of Morpeth as their representative in Parliament. " War itself," said Sir GEORGE GREY, "is not a light evil : nay, I may say," he added, "that it is the greatest evil with which the human race can be afflicted." These are the words addressed by a Minister of the Crown to the people of England, by way, we presume, of inspititing them in that course of Justice, of Right, and of Honour, upon the vin dication of which they have at length, after mature .deliberation, • adventured. Is this lan guage befitting the lips of a British Statesman, called to the administration of the affairs of the forty colonies of England during the crisis of a war with that gigantic and despotic Empire whose Ruler, is the mightiest of the champions of Bar barism, and, as such, the most formidable of all the living foes of Liberty and Civilisation ? It is surely somewhat anomalous, in regard to the pre sent Cabinet, that while Sir GEORGE GREY is moan ing over the Horrors of War, and the Earl of ABER DEEN is babbling about the blessings of Peace—as if any man in his right senses could doubt for a moment either the one or the Other—either that Peace is fraught with Blessings and War with Horrors—Lord JOHN RUSSELL is declaring that the. only pacification that can now be looked for must be one that is " durable, and solid, and honourable ;" and the Earl of CLAENDON is ItiaiSting that " safety can alone be sought f c u r tailing a P ower w hi c h menaces the peace o Europ e tion I" and th e cause of progress and civilisa- Literally, other words, Sir GEORGE GREY is blowing cold while Lord JOHN RUSSELL is blowing hot— th Earl . of e Earl of CLARE DON is blow ing hot while the A.BERDEEN is blowing The Foreign Secretary and the Colonial cold ! Secretary pull in opposite directions. The North and the South, the East and the West, the nadir and the zenith, ourselves and our antipodes are not more opposed than, in this matter of the , war the Noble Lord th e p with Russia, ar e resident of the Noble Ea r l 01e p• the Council, and First Lord d Noboy questio ns of the Treasury.that war is dreadful—but lo ! here c omes Sir GEORGE GREY to proclaim its sinfuln ess to the men of Morp eth, and through the men of Morpeth to the people of the United Kingdom. Nobody again doubts for an instant that Peace is holy, and pure, and in every respect most the desirable —but lo ! Earl of ABERDEEN must avail himself of every imaginable opportunity to harp upon the neces sity of clinging to it at all hazard, and of repur chasing it, if once lost, by any sacrifice. Ob viously both Sir GEORGE GREY and my Lord ABERDEEN, both the Colonial Secretary and the Prime Minister, speak as they have spoken for the Purpose of damping the ardour with which the country is disposed to carry on the struggle with the mighty legions of the AUTOCRAT. It cannot be that they wish to convince any one of the evil of war and of the good of peace—because nobody denies either the one or the other, as we have alzpa,dy observed. Yet at the very time when /We taunfortunate Ministers of the Crown— ' • s4rft unhappily the nominal head of the 4 4 ~ T;;;Wr i ific y n, are endeavouring to allay the war -‘,4444 -*th %Amon which the men of England are 'zf' , .6secLio,bilpport her MAJESTY'S Government 11, 4,11111 . 11 w in carrying on the war against the Emperor NICHOLAS, and in conjunction with the Emperor NAPOLEON, others of their more sagacious, more chivalrous, and more patriotic colleagues are in citing the population to yet greater fervour in abetting the warlike measures adopted by the Administration. The world has been told by ONE whose words are the words of adorable Truth and Divine Wisdom, that " a house divided against itself' can never stand ! Are not these contradic tions, and divisions, and inconsistencies within the Cabinet tokens, very visible and undeniable tokens, of the instability of the present Government ? The claims of the unfortunate and deeply in jured Baron DE BODE have once more been brought before the House of Commons. Another appeal has bßei made to the chosen repres en t a ti ves o f the British people for justice t o th a t ill-used ren gen tleman. Tedious as have been the delays, and vexatious the procrastinations to which father and son have been subjected, it was hoped that a nation which boasts of its honour and integrity would even at the eleventh hour vindicate its title to these characteristics ; that, although hope had been so long deferred, a certain, if a tardy re compense would have been bestowed for the pro tracted sufferings of sixty years. This anticipa tion has, however, like every other indulged in by the ill-fated applicant, been bitterly disap pointed. Nothwithstanding the various - decisions that have been pronounced—notwithstanding the clear and unequivocal report of the Lords' Commit tee, the deliberate judgment of Lords LYNDHURST, BROUGHAM, and. TRURO, and the able speeches of Messrs. CHAMBERS, BOWYER, WALPOLE, and MaraNs—the motion brought forward by the Honourable and Learned Gentleman the Member for Greenwich was rejected by a majority of 15, there being 82 Members ofj Parliament who thought that the national good faith did not re quire the satisfaction of claims established after such long protracted investigation, while only 67 voted for rendering that satisfaction. Another illustration is thus afforded of the maxim, that men will, collectively, commit injustice of which individually they would be grievously ashamed. The division of responsibility, and perhaps the motives facetiously assigned by SYDNEY SMITH to corporations, has influenced the English House of Commons, and the nation must again submit to a well-founded imputation on its good faith, and the sufferer to a further trial of his patience for an indefinite period. The argument of Mr. WALPOLE must have con vinced any unprejudiced person. The Right Honourable Gentleman may be said to have re presented on the occasion Lord LYNDHURST— " the distinguished man who"—to use the ap propriate language of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer—" at an age beyond that ordinarily as signed to human life, had applied to the con sideration of this case the powers of an intelli gence so keen and bright that it seemed as if no extremity of old age could dim its lustre." The points were so simply and intelligibly put for ward that the most obtuse individual could follow the argument, perceive how it was sustained by the admitted facts, and see that it disposed of the entire issue. There were three questions to be determined. Ist. Was Baron CLEMENT DE BODE, the father of the present claimant, a British subject ? 2nd. Did the property which constituted the subject of the claim belong to him ? 3d. Was that property unduly confiscated within the terms of the convention ? If these interrogatories should respectively be answered in the affirmative, the claimant is entitled to the relief he claims—and the honour of the British nation is involved in the prompt and satisfactory settlement of his demand. As to the first point, we find that Baron CLE MENT, whose rights are now vested in the present claimant, was the son of Baron CHARLES, an officer in the German regiment of Nassau, in which no Frenchman could hold a commission. This Baron CHARLES married an English lady, Miss KYN NERBLEY, of liocksley Park, Staffordshire, and his son CLEMENT was born at his mother's domi- cite in 1777, and shortly afterwards baptised at the neighbouring town of Uttoxeter. Under these cir cumstances, born in England of au English mother, he was to all intents and purposes an Englishman. One, who, if he took up arms against Great Britain, would to all intents and purposes have been guilty of an act of high treason, for which his life would be justly forfeited. The opinion of Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY was decisive on this point. There was, it is true, an error in the first instance. The Due de RICHELIEU conceived that, as the father of the claimant, Earon CHARLES, had been a German, he himself must also be a German. This palpable error led to a delay in registering his claim—a delay, however, for which he was not in any degree . responsible. The mistake was that of one of the French Commissioners ; and in asmuch as it was not in any degree ascribable to the suitor himself, its consequences should not be visited on him—more especially as others, who could put forward no such excuse, had their demands satisfied. Besides, such as it was, it was rectified, and the objection waived nearly 38 years since. The claim being received, no difficulty on that part of the case remains. But it is now said that Baron CLEMENT had a mixed character, that he was a French as well as an Eng lish subject, and that the forfeiture was made in the former capacity. It is certainly rather late to put forward this novel argument. It would be • easy to show how difficult it would be to prove that a man born in England, the issue of a Ger man father by an English motht.r, was a French subject ; and even were it the case, this unques• tioned English nationality would undoubtedly be sufficient to sustain his claim, and entitle him to the justice which he demands. The next point was as to the validity of the cession of the property from Baron CHARLES to his son, the first claimant. We say as to the validity of the cession, because there was no denial that the father was possessed of the property. There was no decided opinion against the validity. It was merely doubted. Now, the mere facts of the case would go far to support it, for it was made for the very purpose of obtaining British protection, and no perscn was, or could, in consequence be defrauded by the surrender by a father of his life-interest in favour of his son and heir. The opinion of the various advocates who were examined as to the state of the French law were also decisive on the point. The only remaining point was as to the justice of the confiscation. It has been insisted that to entitle him to compensation it must have been " because he was an English subject." But that fallacy has long since been disposed of. The de cisions of Sir W. GRANT and Lord STOWELL on that part of the case were incontrovertible. We trust, then, that the several constituencies will call on their representatives to discard quib bles—scarcely worthy of an Old Bailey practi tioner, and to render simple justice to a deeply injured man—without reference to the amount of the demand, or the question as to where the money to satisfy it is to come from. VISIT OF THE RING OF PORTUGAL TO PORTSMOUTH.— of Portugal and hi s brother, the Duke of The Oporto, visited visited P or t smou th yesterday, and were re cyeairvde,dawusipthurtd. ue honours at the Cla rence Victualling -413y great They were condu c t e d over th e establish ment, which they examined minut e ly, express i ng t h e Pleasure Which in naval e, experienced in the insp ec ti on o f th e storehouse, His M a j es ty an d t h e D uke then embarkednl Albert steam yacht, and also the Vic tory. Captain RaTvhceornducted his Majesty over the p ejelson fell. The K;ng and Portsmouth dockyard minutely, Vic ship, and showed his brother examined luncheon at the Admiralty and afterwards partook of au i d iec i l li by Sir Thomas and house, where they Were entertained tyo Londeonn soon had a: brother expressed at Gosport and Lady Cochrane. The King after four thei r satisfaction Portsmouth, andw with returned te under a Royal salute. The Duchess of Buccleuch, we regret to learn, is suffering from v er y delicate health atMontagunous Whitehall-gardens. Her Grace. we believe, has note quitted the family mansion in Whitehall -garden s • 8111C8 her arrival from Scotland. The noble Duke and Lord Dalkeith dined with their relatives,' the Earl and Coun tess of Cawdor, in South:Audley-street, on Wednesday evening. REPRESENTATION AT MALDoN.—The new writ for Maidon, it is expected, W ill : he issued in the c o urse o f the ensuing month. The candidates adopted by the Conservative pai ty are Mr. Quintin Dick and Mr. Pea cock. 'her isno doubt of their success. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 10,000 bales, including 3,000 American taken for export and on speculation. The market closed firm at an advance of 1-16 d. per lb. for American. Surats were also dearer, other kinds without alteration. The sales comprised 8,500 American, 400 Perna,m, and Maranham at 6- i ' ; (1. to 71d., 200 Bahia at GAd. to 6gd., 400 Egyptian at 51d. to Div., 1,500 Surat at 2 3 / 4 d. to 3td. per lb. Railway Shares were steady. In Colonial produce a moderate business has been done this week, and prices have not undergone much variation. Sugar has been in request at full prices. Tea has gone off very heavily, and at rather lower rates. Spices have been cheaper, except pepper and pimento. Rice has been rather lower. Saltpetre firm, and in cotton there has been more doing. In hemp there has been a limited business only. Tallow has rather im proved. A letter from Messrs. T. J. Stewart and Co., of New York, dated the 10th instant, gives some useful information upon the subject of the cotton trade, and notices the circumstance, so much to be regretted, of the Brokers' Association having de cided to discontinue the publication of the daily statement of public sales. The plea that it is diffi cult to ascertain these appears to us wholly unte nable, for at least some guide would be preferable to none. The letter states : "After the receipt of both the Asia's and Niagara's advises, a depressed effect was apparent, which subse quently, in a measure, wore off. The quotation of sd. for Middling Uplands, brought by the steamer of 27th ult., was lower than shippers had calculated on, and which holders are indisposed to accede to, as cot ton similar to our standard samples can only be bought at the quotation in mixed lists. As our association have found it impracticable to procure and embody the cor rect daily statement of sales, it has been suspended ; but the principal firms meet weekly, as before, and after frank discussions, alter the quotations to the last sales. The business of the last fortnight has been variously estimated ; we think 1,200 bales daily for the first week, and 700 daily since, excluding shipments from first handy, would give the probable amount of transactions. We regard the market as closing steadier last evening. A new loan for Turkey is spoken of, and the attempt will probably again be made to obtain it its London. The treasury at Constantinople has been already paying 10 per cent. for loans upon local notes. - - - The firm of Davidson and Gordon has suspended, having heavy liabilities. They were produce and metal brokers, and had suffered by a firm that be came involved some time ago. A West India house has likewise stopped this morning, and a wholesale grocer's firm at Birmingham has stopped. The English funds opened buoyantly, although the speculative transactions have not been large. Consols were 94k, and have since been 931 3. In the New 31 per Cents. there have been numerous transactions at 931 to 94k, and in the Threes at 9n- to 91. Exchequer Bills are 2s. discount to 2s. premium. The A Bonds are s to h premium, and the B to l premium. A moderate business is doing in some of the foreign stocks, and generally at full rates. Equador Bonds have advanced to 31 and 4, Russian 5 per Cents. to 971, and the 41 per Cents. to 86 and 86g, the latter being fto z per cent. better. Sar dinian have improved 1 per cent., being 85 and 86. Belgian 4l per Cents. are quoted 91, and Dutch 4 per Cents. have risen to 90k to 901. Mexican are steady at 24} g. Railway Shares are about per cent. under yes terdav's highest rates. In Mining Shares there have been several trans actions, without particular variation in price. Joint-stock Bank Shares are very dull, but South Australia have got up 21. Land Shares are inactive, Crystal Palace quiet, and Peninsular and Oriental 2/. higher again. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. From the Oliciat List.) Busine.Ranne. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 931 4 3i Si per Cent. Annuities uousols for Opening 19th July Exchequer Bills, 24d. £1000 £5OO 4l p Small _ _ Exchequer Bonds Scrip A............ Ditto B P PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Equador Bonds Mexican 3 per Cent. Peruvian Bonds, 44 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 97 Ditto 43 per Cent B6' 6 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent... Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 2OA 20 Divldenli on the above payable in London. Belgian Bonds 4 por Cent. ex. 25 fr Dutch Exchange, 2,1 per Cent. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates..,..~, THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Opening 19th July 93a 4 x d Two FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCES—Tins DAY. This morning about eight o'clock an accident of a frightful and fatal character occurred to a tad named Samuel Joseph Thorp, aged 13 years, in the service of Messrs. Mare and Co., the extensive steam-ship builders, Or chard-house, Blackwall. It appears that the deceased was employed on board an unfinished vessel, lying in the dry dock this morning, and while in the act of jumping from the gunwale on to a temporary platform, for the purpose of going to breakfast, his foot slipped, and he was precipitated a distance of thirty-five feet, and fell upon a beam, striking his bead with such fearful violence that several portions of the skull were forced into the brain, which escaped from the wound. The poor fellow was picked up by his companions and carried to the nearest surgeon, but the injuries he had sustained were of such a serious nature that it was deemed advisable to canvey him in a cart to the accident ward of the London Hospital, where Mr. Curling and Mr. Greenwood, the house surgeons, rendered every possible aid, but the deceased ex pired shortly after his admission. Another fatal accident happened to a child, named John Deveraux, aged three years, whose parents reside at 5, Johnson-street, Old Gravel-lane, St. George's-in-the East; The child was amusing himself by playing at the front window on the first floor, and during the momentary absence of the mother he got upon the sill, and fell head foremost on to the pavement in the street. He was picked up by a female and carried to the house of a sur geon close by, but the deceased had received a fracture of the skull and concussion of the brain. He was taken to the London Hospital in a cab, but died at ten o'clock this morning from the effects of the injuries. The bodies await inqueAt. SUSPENSION.--.The suspension was announced yester day of Messrs. Davidson and Gordon, produce brokers and metal agents. The liabilities are understood to be large, and the assets doubtful. A petition in bank ruptcy has been already opened against the firm. Two other failures were also announced, but they were not of sufficient importance for particular notice. ROBBERY OF COLONEL SlBTHORP.—Yesterday John Davy Robinson, a man who had been in the service of Colonel Sibthorp, but had been discharged, was examined before the magistrates at Grantham, charged with having stolen bank notes from the Colonel to the amount of 1,1001. Several witnesses were examined, from whose evidence it appeared that the money had been taken from a cash-box deposited at the Angel at Grantham, the bead quarters of the Colonel's regiment. More pro perty belonging to Colonel Sibthorp was found upon the prisoner, including 13 silk handkerchiefs. The prisoner was remanded till Monday. ROYAL HIGHLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY.—The Arch bishop of Canterbury is to preach in Portman Chapel, Baker-street, next Sunday morning, on behalf of the funds of the society. Among the large family of cha ritable institutions which are the glory of this metro polis, there is not one more deserving of support than the Royal Highland School Society. Its funds are administered with the greatest judgment and the strictest regard to economy ; and the amount of good it achieves with its limited means is incredibly great. THE ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO POISON A FAMILY AT MAN CHESTER. —On Thursday the woman, Cecilia Knoll, charged with this offence, was again placed before the magistrates at the Manchester city police-court. Mrs. M'Donald is still in a very dangerous state, and confined to the -bed from the effects of the poison. Professor Calvert, to whom the matter ejected from the stomachs of the sufferers had been sent for analysis, was absent from Manchester, and consequently no report from him was presented ; but one of his assistants attended to say that so far as the analysis had proceeded no traces of poison had been detected. The police since Tuesday, having made inquiries, had traced the prisoner to several drug gists' shops in the neighbourhood of Oxford-road, but none of them could fix the date at which she dealt with them, nor could they say that what they sold her was of a poisonous nature. One of them, however, Mr. Jos. Hall, residing in Oxford-road, said that on the Wednesday week (the day on which Mrs. M'Donald was taken ill), he sold a packet of Battle's vermin killer, an article which con tains a large quantity of strychnine, but he could not say to whom. Superintendent Taylor said two bottles of Gowland's extract of lead had been found in the house, and that there was a leaden cistern containing water for scullery purposes. Mr. Maude said the water in the cistern should he analysed. He thought it right to caution the prisoner in the usual form, for at pre sent the only evidence against her was the threat she was said to have uttered. He was far from saying that such a threat implied that she would commit the crime alleged against her, but still it was a threat of a very grave nature, and one that raised great suspicion against her. The prisoner denied that she had attempted to poison, and sought to lay the blame of Mrs. M'Donald's illness on the nurse, Mrs. Stewart, who s a id s h e h a d g i ven h er a spoonful o f some thing wrong as medicine. She reiterated her charges against her master of ill-treatment, and alleged that her quarrels with him were on account of his overbearing conduct. Th e case was aga i n reman d e d un til T ues d ay, to anon till2o OS the completion of the analysis. _ _ THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1854, LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(THIS DAY). QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Lord Campbell and a Common Jury.) THE QUEEN V. BOSWORTII, OTHERWISE ELLIOTT. This was a criminal indictment against the defendant for selling indecent prints. Mr. Clarkson appeared to support the prosecution, which had been instigated by the Society for the Sup- pression of Vice. It appeared that two officers had, at the instigation of the society, gone to the defendant's shop in Holywell street, and asked the price of a book in the window. The defendant came out from the back parlour, and, after some conversation, brought out a book of a most infamous description, for which they paid 11. is. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Lord Campbell passed the sentence of three years imprisonment and hard labour, The defendant did not appear. COMMON PLEAS. Before Lord Chief Justice Jervis and a Special Jury. LIBEL.-HAKEWELL V. INGRAM. This was an action for a falseandii;alicious libel published by the defendant. Mr. Serjeant Wilkins and Mr. Brown were for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Montague Chambers for the defendant. Defendant is proprietor and publisher of the Ladies Newspaper, and the libel complained of was an article published in March of last year In that paper. It was a leading article upon Mr. Fitzroy's bill for the protec tion of women, and the plaintiff's name had been brought into the article, in consequence ofsome proceed. ings which had taken place between him and his wife. She having, it appeared, sued for a restitution of conjuga•, rights, and after returning home to plaintiffs house, had to apply to a police magistrate i❑ consequence of his con duct, and the libel complained of stated that her miseries had been increased by the proceedings of the court which restored her to her husband's home. Mr. Montague Chambers, in an eloquent speech upon the liberty of the Press, denied that anything more than a fair discussion upon a report of plaintiff's case, which had appeared in the daily papers, could be attributed to the article in question. His Lordship having summed up, The jury found for the plaintiff; damages one farthing. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before Baron Pollock and a Special Jury.) MOORE V. DRURY. ' This was an action to recover 5001. upon a bill of ex chAng,e. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Hawkins were for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Sergeant Shee for the defendant. The plaintiff is a Liverpool merchant of high stand ing, and the defendant a builder, and the amount had been secured upon some household property at Brigh ton. The plea set up was, that an illegal and usurious in• terest had been charged upon the plaintiff. After the defendant had been partly examined a ver• dict was taken by consent, the jury unanimously stat• ing that they entirely freed plaintiff from any imputa• tion of usurious or illegal conduct. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fx THE LYCEUM THEATRE-IN RE C. J. MATHEWS. This bankrupt is the well-known comedian, and late lessee of the Lyceum Theatre, and to-day came up on his application for his certificate. _ - The accounts, prepared by Mr. Thomas, accountant, of Basinghall-street, who had bad the management of the affairs, under the proposed arrangement between the bankrupt, and subsequently under the bankruptcy, have already been fully published ; it is therefore, only neces sary to state that the debts under the bankruptcy amount to about 23,000/., and the assets nil. Mr. Lawrance appeared for the bankrupt, -and Mr. Hare for the assignees, and did not offer any opposi tion. Mr. Lawrance said be did not feel it necessary to en ter into any lengthened detail, as this case had been fully before his Honour, who not only had information and a full knowledge of the circumstances under - the pro ceedings in bankruptcy, but under tbe deed of arrangement in 1851. He (Mr. Lawrance) was aware of his Honour's opinion that arrangements ought not to be entered into by which old debts from which a trader was discharged by law should be revised, but in this case he (Mr. Law rance) conceived the bankrupt acted with the best faith to his creditors, and 18,000/. out of 20,0001. bad sent in a requisition for the consideration of the Court, that an immediate certificate of a high class should be granted, and there was not the slightest opposition. His Honour reserved his judginent until Saturday, July Ist. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE J. J. WELLS. This bankrupt was described as of Coventry, draper, and to-day was appointed for his last examination. The petition had been removed from the district court to London, in consequence of the greater number of the creditors residing in the city. An application was made for an adjournment, as in consequence of the illness of the bankrupt,- Mr. Lea, Queen-street, the accountant to the estate, had not been able to file the balance sheet. From the preliminary statement prepared by Mr. Lea, it appears that the ' debts are between 7,001. and 8,001., and the assets be tween 5001. and 600/. IN RE ASHTON AND SPRIGGS. These bankrupts were described as of Aldermanbury, warehousemen, and this was a meeting for declaring a final dividend. It will probably be remembered that Spriggs absconded to Australia, having taken with him considerable property, which, however, was, after great exertion, recovered. Spriggs was apprehended, tried, and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. The amount of the dividend will be declared in the course of a few days. IN RE ROPER. This bankrupt was described as of Hackney, chemist and druggist, and to-day came up for his certificate, sup ported by Mr. J. B. Duncan. The to!leiter to the assignees said they did not oppose; they wished to call the attention of the Court that the debts amounted to 1,5861., and the assets about 1001. Mr. Dunean contended, very forcibly, that the losses had been, to a great extent, unadvoidable. His Honour granted a certificate of the second class, after adjournment for four mouths. IN BE COTTINGHAL OUTLAWRY.—This bankrupt was described as late of Argyll-place, Regent-street, engineer and architect, and to-day was appointed for the last examination, but he did not surrender. Mr. J. B. Duncan, as counsel, and Mr. Daniels, ap peared on behalf of the bankrupt, praying for an exten sion of the time to surrender, as the bankrupt was in Paris. Mr. Dupree, for the assignee, submitted that the Court had no power to make the order have any effect, unless applied for six days before the day appointed for the meeting. The application was refused, and the bankrupt de clared outlawed in the usual form. RATHER TOO BROAD. The Russian journal in London has of late become extremely zealous for the capture of Sebastopol and the occupation of the Crimea. The portentous iteration with which it has returned day after day to this theme has astonished many. Some simpletons have ever given the Russian organ credit for having turned against Russia. But it is now apparent—as many more wary heads all alungsuspected —that thig new-born zeal for the demolition of Sebastopol is nothing more than a ruse to serve the Czar. Yesterday the Times, after again expatiating on the importance of occupying the Crimea, proceeded to enlarge on the impossibility of doing more than blockading the Russian ports on the Baltic ; and this additional piece of doctrine was followed up by an "ergo"- --that therefore a part of the Baltic should be withdrawn and sent to strengthen Admirals Hamelin and Dundas in the Euxine. The importance of striking a home blow in the Crimea need not be underrated. We pro posed it months a g o ; but the Crimea is remote from Moscow, and still more remote from St. Petersburg. The Russian Cockneys of either capital cannot be easily made to realise the damage and disgrace that would be sustained by their Emperor's arms were the Crimea to be taken from him. But the St. Petersburgers can re alise the confessed weakness of their Emperor, when an Anglo-French fleet prevents the approach of ! any mer chant vessels to their city, burns the imperial arsenals, and laughs to scorn the imperial forts. And yet his boasted men-of-war lie skulking at Cronstadt, not daring to face the insolent foe. The operations of Napier in the Baltic make the Russians feel themselves defeated with a far more lively sense than any operations in the Euxine can ; and therefore the Times recommends that Sir Charles' fleet should be weakened. A day or two ago the Times headed its "Latest Intelligence" with " From a Russian Source ;" the tail of its yesterday's I ,, ader might with equal justice have born this inscrip tion for assuredly its object is to give the Czar a chance of persuading his subjects that he is not afraid to face the allied fleets on the open sea. There are French, English, and Turkish ships enough in the Black Sea to blockade Sebastopol and the Danube, aid the Circass sians, and capture Russian merchantmen. The only doubt that suspends the fate of Sebastopol is as to whether an attack from the sea alone is expedient, or whether land troops ought not to be brought simultaneously into play ; and thereupon the Tames recommends, not to send more soldiers to the East, but to detach ships from the Baltic. The device is too gross and clumsy to de lude the veriest dabbler in politics. The Times sees the Czar held fast by the throat at St. Petersburg—hears his gasping, spluttering, and wheezing— and affectionately hastens to his rescue by seeking to cajole his assailants into relaxing their grasp. —Daily News. NOVEL ENGLISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION. "The English have taken Tornea"—says the teleg graph. Hitherto the courage and enterprise of England have been confined, in the Arctic regions, to the pur suits of science and the whale -fishery. Now, however, they seem destined to display themselves in these icy regions by feats of arms. Tornea has been occupied, and if common fame say true, is about to be fortified and made a station for British troops. The town of Tornea is rot itself within the Arctic circle—though at midsummer the sun can be seen from its church steeple at midnight ; but the greater part of the mark or dis trict, of which Tornea is the capital, is within the Arctic circle. Englishmen are now promised a chance of being enabled to decide, experimentally, whether hunting, star g:l,4lng, or fighting, are the best preservatives against Arctic cold. But for six months of the year they will have to fight by the light of the moon, or stars, or Aurora Borealis, LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. ADVANCE OF SIR CHARLES NAPIER TO CRONSTADT. FIFTY - FIVE SEAMEN KILLED OR MISSING. A despatch from Dantzic, dated as late as this (Friday) morning, says : The Driver arrived here on the 22d. She left the fleet off Baro Sound on the 20th. The Vulture lost a paddle-box and boat in the Gulf of Bothnia. Lieutenant Barrington (Qy. Carrington) and Montague, mate, were killed. Fifty-five seamen killed or missing. Sir Charles Napier was to advance towards Cronstadt on the 21st, with screw-ships. Admiral Plumridge was to join him on the 20th. THE BALTIC. TORNEA. TAKEN BY THE BRITISH. STOCKHOLM, June 16.—The British took pos session of Tornea on the Bth inst. unopposed. Admiral Plumridge conducted the landing per sonally. Tcrnea, it is reported, is about to be fortified, and made a station for British troops. Tornea is a small town, having a population of about 1,000 souls, situate at the mouth of the river of the same name, and is the most northerly coast town in the Gulf of Bothnia. It bas an active trade in stock-fish, rein-deer skins,- and salmon. LOSS OF ENGLISH SEAMEN IN THE GULF OF BOTHNIA. We published yesterday a despatch from Copen hagen giving some details respecting the affair at Gumla Kurleby. It stated that the 1,500 men landed by the Odin and Vulture were attacked by sharpshooters in ambuscade, and by a masked bat tery of five guns. The result of which was that Lieut. Barrington, 6, midshipman, a mate, and three men fell ; 2 officers and 14. men were wounded. One boat was lost. 28 men and 1 mate were taken by the Russians, whose com mander was killed. it now appears, from another despatch; that the lieutenants name was Carrington, and that the commander of the place was killed. A further despatch gives the English loss only three officers killed, and two officers and fourteen sailors wounded, while the Russians lost 28 killed, besides their wounded. On the other hand, the Brussels Independance makes the English loss 33 killed, a great number wounded, and 41 prisoners. The Odin, an 18-gun steam frigate, is commanded by Captain F. Scott. The Vulture is a steam frigate of six guns, and is commanded by Captain H. H. Glasse. RUSSIAN REPORT OF THE AFFAIR. The St. .Petersburg Journal, of the 15th of June, announces that, at 11 p.m., on the 9th, an English expedition of nine boats attempted to, force the passage to the town of Gumla Kurleby. They were opposed by two companies of the Finnish Regiment of the Line No. 12, and by 100 volunteers of the town, with two light field pieces. In the conflict which ensued, and which lasted an hour, the English were worsted and forced to retire, having lost a great many in killed and wounded, and being obliged to tow two boats disabled from want of men to row them. One boat, with 22 men, remained prisoners in the hands o the Russians. Four of these prisoners were wounded, and in the boat were five corpses, among which was the body of an officer. The pri soners asserted that many dead had been thrown overboard. A gun of heavy calibre was also taken with the boat, besides muskets and other munitions of war. The loss of the Russians was inconsiderable, amounting only to four men slightly wounded. JUNCTION OF THE ANGLO-FRENCH FLEETS. The Moniteur says :—" A despatch from Ad miral Parseval-Deschenes, dated from Barosund, June 13, announces to the Minister of Marine that the French squadron of the Baltic has just operated its junction with Admiral Napier. The French admiral, as soon as he perceived the squau ron of our allies, saluted his colleague's flag with 15 guns, and hoisted the British colours at the mainmast of all his vessels, as a mark of satisfac tion at this happy meeting." A GREAT NAVAL COMBAT IMMINENT. A letter from Lubeck of the 18th, in Von's Gazette of Berlin, says :—" According to letters which have .zrrived this day from Helsingfors, it was supposed that there would soon be a naval combat, for the Russian fleet, anchored in that port, had put to sea. It is, however, possible that its object is merely to go and protect the fortress of Sweaborg." MORE ABOUT BRAHESTAD AND ULEA BORG. • The following is from a Berlin letter :—When the Basilisk left Sir Charles Napier at Baro Sound on the 13th, there was nothing known there of Admiral Plumridge's doings up at the top of the Gulf of Bothnia. It appears that on the 30th May three steam-frigates anchored in the roads of Brahestaclt in the afternoon, and sent about 300 men on shore in boats, who succeeded in burning the shipbuilding yards, with five vessels of 1,000 lasts, the stock of timber lying about, the tar, depot containing 12,000 barrels of pitch and tar, and everything afloat or that might be construed into connexion with floating craft. The damage at this spot is estimated at about 350,000 silverroubles. On the following day the said 3 frigates proceeded further northward and paid a visit to Uleaborg. On the first occasion they captured a schooner and some smaller craft and put out to sea again. On the Ist of June, however, they returned, now numbering four frigates, and late in the evening set on fire all the ship-building works and all the Government buildings, eight vessels nearly completed. four vessels somewhat aged, 18,000 barrels of tar, and all the stock of timber. The damage here is esti mated at 400,000 silver roubles (63,0001.) On Ad miral Plumridge's approaching the town, four mer chants went out to meet him, under a flag of truce, and begged him to spare the town ; they were given to understand that all private property would be spared, and that only Government buildings and stores would be sacrificed, which was accord ingly done. Admiral Plumridge seems to have issued a proclamation to the following effect : " The English Admiral will neither injure private property nor individuals. It is his sole intention to destroy fortifications and works of defence, and the property of the Emperor. As long as the inhabitants remain peacefully in their houses they shall be protected, but if they should side with the Russian tioops, they will be treated as enemies. The English Admiral de sires the women and children may be sent out of the town. " On board her Britannic Majesty's ship Leopard, IJleaborg, June 1, 1854. " HENRY PLUMEIDGE, Vice• Admiral." Accounts from Abo, in the Swedish Aftonbladet state that it was not till after Brahestadt had been summoned, without result, to surrender the gun boats, that the English lauded and took them. A Swedish brig, Kaleva, was amongst others burned at Brahestadt. The Swedish Consul protested against Swedish property being injured, but was answered, six weeks time had been given for neutrals to clear out, and uow it was too late. Gamla-Karle by, where it was understood that 1,000 men infantry and Cossacks were stationed, was represented in these accounts as the next place to. be visited. The Kreuz Zeitung tells us, however, that the English, on hearing of this amount of garrison, turned back and left Gamla-Karleby unmolested. Our coun trymen have since been to Ijo, and have sent boats up the river to reconnoitre it, but neither here nor at Tornea has any damage been done to the enemy. The following is the official Russian notification of the capture of Brahestad. and Uleaborg, given in the Finnish Gazette of the Bth : " BRAHESTAD.—On the 30th of May, at 9.10 a.m., the English steam-frigates Leopard, Odin, and Tribune arrived, each carrying from 16 to 11 guns. After enter ing the roads, a force of from 80 to 100 men landed, in ten or twelve boats, some of them armed with cannon, and set on fire the ship-wharf, the tar depot, and the vessels lying in the harbour. The enemy, with an officer at their head, examined all the magazines, and announced that the town itself had nothing to fear, but that every thing comprehended under the term contraband of war should be destroyed, as the wharf and tar had been. The fire still continued at half past six p.m., when this intelligence was sent oft. The Crown corn magazines were still uninjured, and it was hoped that the flames would not spread. The foe bad retired. " ULEABORG.—At ten in the evening, on the Ist of June, four English steamers anchored in our roads, and at twelve a number of men wero landed by seventeen boats. After remaining on land till one in the morning, the enemy set fire to seven vessels which were building, and several others which were lying at anchor, as also the tar-depot, containing a large quantity of that ma terial, together with a great mass of timber, planks, deals, beams, &c., partly for ship-building, and partly, for exportation. At hall-past two in the morning the fire was not quite extinguished, and the foe was still in the roads." Up to the 28th of May no attack had been made against the coast. Major-General Moller had caused some English earthworks on the Moskar, abandoned by them, to be destroyed. They con tained no cannon. Th 9 Walphemous prayer* for the mom of the Czar in his wicked war, and for the universal spread of the Greek religion, are read in all the Lutheran churches. COPENHAGEN, June 17.—The " Royal Swedish College of Commerce" has now been pleased to de clare LiMerick and. the other Irish harbours free from cholera, with th 3 exception of all the ports in Cork and Waterford. The cholera has never yet left Stockholm, and this the King and his " Royal Swedish College of Commerce " know well enough. The proposed abolition of the liberty of the press by the present reactionary Swedish Government has produced an immense and most melancholy sensation all over the country. In the Gulf of Bothnia, Lapmark, &c., there is now full spring, or rather full summer, which has arrived a fort night earlier than usual. The steam-corvette Oradd will leave Carlskrona, in full trim, in a day or two. The fortifications of Enholmen, the little island which protects Slitey harbour, in Gotland, are ra pidly proceeding. The bastion is quite ready, and is armed with six 7-inch bomb cannon, and twenty four 24-pounders. The two casemated strand bat teries are being proceeded with, and, when finished, each of them will receive 12 bomb cannon. The fleet which carried King Oscar to Gothlaud consisted of the liners Carl XIII., Gefle, and Prince Oscar ; the frigates Eugenie, Desiree Desideria, and Freja ; the steam-corvettes Thor, iTidaros, and Valkyrian ; the corvettes Ellida and ordstjernan ; and the cutter-brig Norden-Skiold. It is 230 years 4uce Gothland was visited by a crowned head, and it was then under Denmark ; it had the honour of receiving the Danish King Christian IV. On the Ist inst. the Pigmy came into Farey Sound, and left for the fleet on the 2d. On the 2d, the steam-frigate Cruiser, Captain Douglas, came in from the fleet, and returned on the 4th ; as also the steam-corvette Rosamond, Captain Woodhare, which returned on the 3d, and came back to Farey on the sth. On the same day three prizes were brought in—the Norwegian schooner Nornen, Captain Dahl, bound to Bergen, with rye and hemp ; the Dutch koff Jeane Marie, Captain Hallo, homeward-bound, with rye and hemp ; and the Dutch koff Junge Alberts, Captain Wandezee, homeward-bound, with timber and hemp ; all three from Riga. On the sth, the Royal George, Captain Cod rington ; the Rosamond ; the frigate Nile, Captain Martin ; and the frigate James Watt, Captain Elliot, 'arrived here. They rejoined the fleet on the 6th, after having coaled. The Rosamond also took 40 live oxen. On the 7th, the Magicienne, to fetch 60 living oxen ; the Ajax, Captain Warden ; and the Ma jestic, Captain Hope, arrived at this place. ST. PETERSBURG. Private letters from the Russian capital state that, in his intercourse with his aides-de-camp and chief military officers, the Czar gives full scope to his feelings of irritation and disappointment, and renews the bitter reflections on the character of Russian functionaries which were so common in the mouth of the late Emperor Alexander. To others, however, the Czar assumes a tone more confident than ever, speaks of the noble spectacle of calm, majestic self-reliance which Russia is about to present to the world, and promises the most glorious results for the Russian arms. The National Gazette of Berlin has the following from St. Petersburg, 11th : " For some days the troops are being withdrawn from the Narwa, and concentrating themselves round St. Petersburg. It is said that Hogiand is occupied by Russian troops. The rich inhabitants of the Russian capital have been lately making excursions as far as Helsingfors and Ekness, and even as far as Revel and Ballisch port in order to obtain information as to the operations of the Anglo-French fleet. This curiosity has given rise to very severe observations on the part of the police. In addition to the division of the guard, there are also at St. Petersburg and neighbourhood the re serve of the light artillery, the third and fourth batta lions of the reserve, and the fifth and sixth battalions of the grenadiers, of whom two divisions are in Poland. Two divisions of the Russian Baltic fleet are at Cron stadt, and one division near Sweaborg. Tho Gulf of Finland is' full of small vessels of war. The troops sta tioned on the southern coast as far as Baltic-port, and on the northern coast as far as Helsingfors, are ready to march at the first call." WHAT AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA WILL DEMAND FROM RUSSIA. A letter from Vienna of the 17th, in the Breslau Gazette, says : "It is remarkable that, although the reply of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg to the Austrian note has not yet arrived, rumours are spread here that the Czar will be disposed to make concessions, which have for their object to sound official circles as to whether the Vienna Cabinet will not content itself with the evacu ation of the Principalities and with not exacting guar antees for the future. Thus the report is spread to-day that Prince Paskiewitsch has received from St, Peters burg orders to cause his army to retire to the Russian ter ritory, under shelter of the frontier fortresSes. Those per sons, however, who spread these rumours may convince themselves that the Cabinet of Vienna, in accord with the Cabinet of Berlin, will not content itself with a simple evacuation of the Principalities ; but that it will require with the Western Powers that those provinces. shall cease to be under the arbitrary power of Russian policy, and shall be placed under the protection and guarantee of a European treaty. They might also con vince themselves that the question of the expenses of the war will be of difficult solutiOn, as the Western Powers persist in making it one of the first demands on Russia. We are assured, besides, from a good source, that even the complete evacuation of the Principalities will not embarrass Austria, for she has come to an understanding oa this eventuality both with Prussia and the Western Powers ; and the communications on the subject in the interview at Teschen were satisfactory." STATE OF THE CRIMEA. Respecting the object of sending reinforcements to the Crimea, we learn by letters from Odessa that the season concurs with the pressure of the war to excite a feeling of discontent among the Tartar population of that peninsula. The spring, which usually arrives there in February, had hardly commenced in the middle of M.ty. The trees put forth leaves, but no blossoms. The vines were destroyed by the late frosts. Cattle and sheep were perishing of disease. One stock pro prietor lost all but twelve of a flock of 3,000. The Tartars who lose their oxen impute their misfor tune to the indignation of Mahomet, offended with the priests who have lent themselves to the Russians to stir up the Nogais to fight against the Sultan. THE DANUBE. VIENNA, 21.—A report was current yesterday that the siege of Silistria was raised. This news is not confirmed. It is positively stated that the evacuation of Wallachia by the Russians will shortly take place. The report that Prince Paskiewitsch is going to Odessa acquires consistency. HOSTILITY OF NAPLES TO ENGLAND AND FRANCE. A French agent has arrived in Naples, and pro ceeded to the provinces for the purpose of purchas ing cattle, to supply the army in the East. The Government having learnt this fact, has published a decree, which forbids the exportation of cattle from the Two Sicilies. This is an offensive act towards France and England. The King has provisioned Gatea, and retired there for the summer. The fortifications are in creased daily. GREECE. ATHENS, June 16.—Papa Kosta has returned. Of the insurgent chiefs, Hadji-Petros alone remains in Thessaly at the head of about 500 or 600 volun teers, with Capt. Lacca and some insignificant offi cers. Kara-Tasso has quitted Macedonia, with all his followers. • The Solon touched at Chalcis yes terday. The Triton arrived in the night, with a demi-battalion of the 23d French Regiment. Prince Mavrocordato, Greek Minister in Paris, is about to take his departure for Athens on leave. TRIESTE, June 21.—The three Fren c h, E ng li s h , and Greekoemmissioners who had been sent into Thessaly to persuade the insurgents to submit, have not succeeded.. Kartassos alone has yielded, and has been taken with the corps under his com mand to Negropont. Maurocordatos refused. Hadji, with 8,000 men, is marching towards La rissa. Philoretas has, it is said, defoated a Turkish column coming from Volo. M. St. Mare - Girardin,yesterdaY, in the Journal des Debats, takes up the defence of Greece against the English journals, and argues that there is in Greece a future which ought not to be slighted. It was said by many at the time of the war of inde pendence that the Greeks were the commencement of a great people. That certainly does not appcar to be the case at present ; and the late attempt must have shown the Greeks how vain would be the support of Russia, even if any reliance could be placed in that' support. The writer in the Journal des Debats remarks that England can only gain by the prosperity of Greece, which, he observes, is the sole obstacle that Russia can meet with in the East —the sole moral force cambia of resisting the material power of Russia. " That truth," says the _Mats, " which will every day become more ap parent both is England and in Greece, will draw the two countries, the greater and the less, closer together—the less, iu showing it where are its real protectors ; and the greater, in proving to it what ought to be the real instruments of its power in the East. As to France, it has nothing to do in that union but to maintain its ancient part of a. sincere and disinterested friend of Greece. France always desired the prosperity and future welfare cof Greece; she. has only, moral and political interests in Greece ; she has no territorial interest . . And all the moral and political interests of France and Greece—that is to say, the resurrection of the East, and its re-entrance into the circle and into the movement of Western civilisation, are in harmony with the future of Greece." • AUSTRIA. Austria has ordered an extraordinary levy of men in her Italian provinces. We have announced (says the Moniteur) from a Vienna letter, the conclusion of an arrangement between Austria and the Porte, for the eventual occupation of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia by an Austrian corps d'armee. jVe learn by a despatch from Constantinople that that convention was signed on the evening of the 14th. During the last month there has been splendid growing weather in Austria, and there is every prospect of an excellent harvest. FRANCE. • We read in the Memorial de Vaucluse :—" Th a corn harvest is coming on under the most favour able auspices. In this part of the country the stalks are bending beneath the weight of the care' A few days' hot sun has suffieed to restore vigour to the corn, which had been checked by the pre viousi cold. We - are informed that in the neigh bourhood of Avignon several farmers have already commenced cutting wheat. In the vineyards t he plants are full of fruit, and the olive trees promise a good crop. Everything leads us to hope for an abundance." The historical eulogium on the acts of his own Administration drawn up by M. de PersignY, in the shape of a report addressed to the Emperor, and published in the Moniteur, is clearly a prelini nary to the retirement of that personage from th e high position which he has occupied for two yea rs and a half. It has for some time been arranged that g Baroche is to be the successor of M. de Persigny . Various circumstances have till now prevented t he realisation of the plan, and even now there a re some difficulties which have not been got complete l y over. M. de Persigny left Paris yesterday for hi e country seat, but merely en conge, M. Baroch e , n' 9 " taking his place as Minister of the Interior, permanently, but merely ad interim. M. Billa u.lt is to succeed M. Baroche as President of the Council of State, and it appears that it is this appointraerit which creates the hitch, it appearingthat M. Bill s ult is not particularly popular among the Councillors of State. The place of President of the Legislative Corps, rendered vacant by the removal of M. Bi l ; lault, is still offered to the Count -de Morny, it is doubtful if that gentleman will accept it. The retirement of M. de Persigny is not a subject of re gret in any quarter. The adversaries of the Irri" perial Government have always held him in detes tation as the principal confident of Louis Napoleo n i and the person under whose advice the war aga ins the Legislative Assembly was conducted, and that , the coup d'etat of the 2d December, which ann ulled that assembly and converted the Republic into an empire, was carried into effect; his colleagues have always been jealous of the influence M. de per signy exercised over the Emperor, and his over bearing attitude towards themselves ; even in h l , l own office he was not liked, for while he exa cts ' an extraordinary amount of labour from those below him, he was particularly careful not to over; exert himself; his apparent want of energy yea however constitutional, and he could not help 1 " . ; He was incapable of any steady or lengtheneu... application to business, which appeared to con fes ' him, and his talents as an administrator are g ene rally considered as below mediocrity. His g reat merit was his fidelity and devotion to his master, and the perfect confidence he inspired in the En i ..; peror's mind. It was this quality which raised hid` to the high position which he attained as first 3 11 - 1 " • nister of France. The only papers which make a l l allusion to the report of M. do Persigny are th t. Constitutionnel and Pays, both of which, as a ter of course, .are filled with enthusiasm far tli document and the man. Most of the other pairei r publish the report, but without a single wo rd ° • comment. It is rumoured that. Persigny is about to g et s promotion in the Napoleoniau aristocracy ; he already been made a count by the Emperor, an ducal coronet is said to be in store for him. Letters from Vienna give some important in;; formation as to the attitude Prussia is beginnin assume, in consequence of the determination v_h ero Austria to make common cause with the west Powers in preventing the Russian army advanciiiig_ into Bulgaria, or retaining possession of -Alcuif davia and Wallachia. It would appear as the Russian army were decidedly to retreat frouL - the provinces, and that the Emperor was de termined, in imitation of the policy of the Erere ror Alexander in 1812, to concentrate all his force: • exclusively for the defence of his territories. is in consequence of this new system that Mare ° Paskiewitscli is said to have gone suddenly t e s Odes3a. By this defensive policy the Czar h o p still to keep Prussia and Austria neutral if net ~, e attach these Powers more exclusively to his caes,-• It is impossible, however, that England and Fran e . can accept such a solution of the affair. If P osis, t is left.in possession of the power of doing mise hie t she will use it on the first favourable opportnel f,' o . By the by, it is evident, from the rapidity of t movements of Marshal Pastiewitsch, t h a t the con tusion which he received was not so serious as ry ci presented by the French Government papers b ; 1 1 9 11 , that there is no truth in the report got up Y, ;g Pattie, that the Prince had had a fit of para l Y 3 ,l which deprived him of the use of his left arm an leg. The following changes and appointments 1i 0. 3 , 17 , just taken place among the Prefects :—M. Leno e :, Prefect of the Meuse, has been transferred to to Meurthe, in place of M. de Sivry, made Senator M. Chadenet is transferred from the Loir - et -01 40 to the Meuse ; M. de Soubeyran from Pyrenees-Orientales to the Loir-et-Cher ; t` de Lassus St. Genies, S üb-Prefect of Dieppe) s . the place so left vacant in the Pyrenees-Orientale. An Imperial decree appears in the gonite_t3' regulating the position of the inspectors - g ener of the Ponts-et-Chaussees; ano ther decree 3 ' r o i proves of certain modifications in the statutes. n_ the Lyons Railway Company ; a third decr ee stitutes the office of inspectors-general to railwq . lines ; a fourth appoints to fill such f unc tions, f ort Sylvain Blot, ex-inspector-general of police ; Belot Frossard, ex-inspector-general of police ; M. To il d e and , M. Riviere, ex-prefeots, and Viscou nt Ruolz, inspector of railways. ter The French Funds were rather heavy Y es r . day, and prices are somewhat lower. The Fl o and-a-Half per Cents. have fallen 60c., al! d o t se . Three per Cents. 20c., at 97f. 90c. an 7 21 . %b. The various Bank Shares are unaltered. Spa n , l ' e r Home Debt has fallen e, and Roman : 1 ; the a d o Foreign Funds are unchanged. Railway S i. ha n r cs s were firm, and show but little alteration. Ellen') on London (short), 25f., money ; ditto (90 0 . 1 3 24f. 70c., money. ITALY. The Parlainento of Turin, of the 16th inst., au' tains the following, dated Piacenza, 13th : "In the afternoon of the 12th, the Instructi n g' Gabbi Gabbi was stabbed with a poniard in the streets d Parma. Having extracted the weapon from th e we n; he ran after the assassin, but before lie could over'3,a him ho encountered one of his accomplices , who inti;ici-811 on him five other stabs with a stiletto. M. Gabu` t he senseless on the pavement. One of his wounds ill abdomen was considered very dangerous." The Duchess of Parma had appointed Comm and ° Jo pseh Cattani Minister of the Interior. first A recent publication in the Gazette de Mild n A - rs t produced a great sensation at Turin. In article the official Italian organ of the Alls' v g Government attacks Russia in a very stro b o manner ; - and, what is not less remarkable) I'd attack was made some days after the ar riv3 bib Marshal Radetzky in Italy, on his return fro m itb journey to Vienna, where he had an interview' hag the Emperor. The Austrian Governmen t WO ordered an extraordinary levy in Italy ; th e n c u se and the rich are very much annoyed at it, f o p s , b they cannot provide substitutes. Some c,ey nevertheless, that by making sacrifices of ra they will be able to obtain exemptions. SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION' OF TUE GOSP...- FOREIGN PARTS. —Yesterday the 153 d annill on e py festival of this society was celebrated under the " of St. Paul's Cathedral. There was a full choral fiery; in which the members of her Majesty's Chapel fter e , '6 of St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey,, and St. Ge °rg h - e il Chapel, Windsor, assisted. The sermon was Pre ge- r th by his grace the Archbishop of Dublin, from the fe.,° it h chapter of the Epistle to the Philippians, and the 11 . 0 , verse. The attendance -- was unusually large, ar ld ,:of chided the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bisb °l t ha London, Oxford, and their colonial brethren in the episcopate of New Zealand and Graham's Town, a° W as the Lord Mayor and Shers. THE BELGIUM LOAN.—The iff loan at Brussels has h i , o ,c e° concluded with Messrs. Rothschild Brothers, the tional Bank, and the Socidtd Generale . The smal l ' 0 .- 27 millions of francs, at 41 per cent., at the rate of 9 a It is guaranteed from any conversion . until 186 1 ) 4 ° e the interest runs from the Ist May las t - payment of instalments is divided over a terra,'s " 18 months, f ro the Ist July next to the 31st from- cember, 1855, one -t en th a t eac h of the fell°11; be ing dates : -I s t J u l y , I s t A ugus t, an d 15th Noveni_.! 1854 ; Ist Februa r y, Ist M a y, Ist August, I st s°° ll7e ber, and Ist December, and the two last tenths ee „, s t 31st December, 1855. The anticipation of the ili a , / 'which reckbns on the whole amount from th e ist last is equivalent for the contractors to 3 per cell Bank which reduces the nett rate of the loan to 87. The _,, of Belgium has, it is said, obtained a part of the 10‘—' and Aye millions of it will be offered to the puIAA 7:11 `~--.. 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