The Sun. — London, England, 1854-05-22 00:00:00

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How many days may elapse before we hear of the investment or the fall of some fortress on Bulgarian ground it is impossible to say. The fate of the war will probably depend on the issue of the first campaign, and for a successful result we must look to the European troops, and those alone. THE DOBRIIDSCHA. The Wanderer o 1 Viennasays :—" The news from Odessa announce that the military authori ties have given orders to withdraw from all the foreign vessels in the port their sails and oars. An order of th e d a y was published in the place, declar ing that the Emperor was well satisfied with the conduct of the troops during the bombardment. Krajowa was occupied by the Turks on the 7th. The officer in command in Lesser Wallachia has no tified officially to Austria the occupation of that part of the territory by Turkish troops, and explained the reasons which led to the assemblage of forces on the Austrian frontier. The bombard ment of Silistria has not ceased an instant. The Russians have passed the Danube with boats, and the operations on the land-side have commenced under the command of General Chuleff. The Turks often make sorties, and cause considerable damage therby to the Russians. Letters from Bucharest of the 7th state that Prince Gortschakoff had given orders to all the troops in the towns and villages to leave their cantonments, and to place themselves in camps which were to be organized. Another letter from Bucharest of the Bth states that th e Russians have commenced constructin g a f or tifi e d bridge over the Danube, near Silistria." SCHUMLA. SCIIIIMLA, May 3.—The assemblage of nearly I 60,000 men here has quite enlivened Schumla, and given it more than a holiday appearance. There is really a number of military sights at present in this place which would prove attractive to people of b . otter taste than the native inhabitants. The plain front of the town is the chief point of interest. There the greater part of the field, horse artillery, cavalry, and infantry, is encamped. Early in the morning the plain is full of life. The troops are all out and in motion. Omer Pacha is keeping up the spirit of his men, and improving their soldiership, by a regular habit of drillingthem thing rather unusual with a Turkish corn blander. And nowhere can work of this sort be done to greater advantage than on the plain. There would be room for 500,000 men going through their evolutions. It is a very easy thing for a visitor to see all that is doing. In the shape of ditches, fences, stones, rocks, or trees, there is nothing to be met with. He can ride from one detachment to another more easily than he could gallop across an English nobleman's park. On the Ist We learnt that the Russians had summoned the gar rison of Silistria to surrender, and that the answer given to that had been what it ought to be—a distinct refusal. It was expected that the fortress would be attacked this week ; not, however, by the troops on the island or the opposite side of the river, but by those who were occupying the Do brudscha. They were moving in the direction of Silistria. More recent intelligence has been re ceived from the Danube. The Russians appear to ce faltering in their designs on Silistria. The in decisive character of their operations is said to be caused by the anticipated approach of the allied armies, and the news of the catastrophe at Odessa. Symptoms of fear have shown themselves among the Russian soldiers. Several of them (deserters) Yesterday arrived at the Polish or Cossack encamp ment here, giving bad accounts, not only of the spirit, but of the health of the troops. Silistria, and not Schumla, is the object of most interest at Present. The idea of the Russians planking their flag upon the fortifications of Schumla appears now to be more hopeless than ever. The Turks here form such a strong army, and the allies are mus tering,, in such numbers on the other side of t h e Balkan, that the advance of the Russians on this Place would be considered as a move only dan gerous to themselves. Silistria, however, may be attacked without such great risk. The cer tainty of any determined attempt on it has not, however, been accurately ascertained. We hear of their threatening it one day , an d showing symp toms of deserting from it on another. The vigo rous method which the allies appear to have adopted in the prosecution of the war—their firm resolution to fight out the quarrel with all their strength—may, perhaps, make the Russians think they will have enough to do to keep on the defen sive. The Ist of May was not forgotten by the English here. It was celebrated by a dinner, at Which all were present, with the exception of one gentleman, who was unwell. The toasts were quite as patriotic as any that could be given at civic feasts. The summer has now really set in, and the verdure all around the town presents something pleasing for the eye to rest upon. The elasticity of the atmosphere gives great effect to the music of the military bands. WARSAW. The Lloyd of Vienna says :—" Accounts from Warsaw of the 10th state that a third levy of troops was to be ordered towards the month of June throughout the Empire. A brigade of the garrison of Warsaw left for the southern frontier. The Government is treating with the steam-packet company on the Vistula for the conveyance of troops. The troops concentrated in the South of Poland are to be placed in two camps. Tents and stores are being sent there from Warsaw." FRANCE. A. telegraphic despatch from Malta, dated 17th, (via Marseilles), states that more than 10,000 French arrived since the Ist inst., the greater part i ttf whom have left for the East. The 14th (Eng lish) Regiment had arrived, as also det achments of the 17th Lancers. There were three candidates spoken of for the Mission to Constantinople, namely, M. Thouvenel, General Daumas, and General de Larne. It is said the choice has fallen on M. Thouvenel, and that his nomination will appear in a very few days in the Moniteur. Rumours are again afloat of efforts made by Prussia and Austria to effect, even at this late hour, an arrangement with ttussia ; but it is Said that very recently the Prussian and Austrian Ministers represented to the French Government the possibility of a settlement on the basis of the status quo ante bellum, and that the reply was that there were many things to dispose of before any proposals or an arrangement could be listened to, and among the first was that of indemnification to those who have suffered since the breaking out of the war. There the matter dropped. An arrangement on such a basis as that mentioned would be absurd. The object of tha Powers evidently is, not only to resist the en croachments of Russia on the Ottoman Empire, but also to_ prevent th ose attempts f rom being renewed hereafter ; in fact, to render Russia less formidable to the East and West • to reduce her to such limits as that she shall no longer be a cause of fear to the rest of Europe ; and to place her in such a position that she shall not at her caprice menace the tranquility of the world. To produce such a result, the basis of the status quo is not ad missible. The Black Sea must not again become a Russian lake, the power of blocking up the mouths of the Danube must not be left to Russia, the Crimea must not be left as it was before the war— and the Dardanelles must not be closed to the navies of the West. In fact these and similar modifica tions must be effected if the present war have really an object ; and if such be the case, it is sim ply absurd to talk at this date of the status quo ante bellum. The landing of a Circassian force in the Crimea is spoken of very confidently in political circles, simultaneously with an attack by sea on Sebastopol. The French steam corvette Caton and the Eng lish steam frigate Furious have captured some Russi an Russian v e ssel s in the bay, situate t o the north of Seba s t o p o l, un d er th e eyes and within range ofthe Muskets of the 1,000 or 1,200 men forming the garrison of Eupatoria. The steam aviso Heron, belonging to the divi sion of R e a r -Admiral le Barbier de Tinan, ha s sunk or destroyed, in the bay ofSt. Nicolo, two schooners and a brig, which were being fitted up for piratical purposes. The Emperor has conferred the Cross of the Legion of Honour on F. T. Abbe, master gunneron board the steam-frigate Mogador, who particularly distinguished himself at the bombardment of Odessa. Thirteen medals of honour have also been granted by the Emperor to the seamen of other ships who signalised themselves on the same occasion. The Moniteur de l' Armee announces that the Emperor had decided that General Regnault de St. Jean d , Ane-ely should assume the command of the Imperial Guard on the 21st inst. The General re viewed yeizerday the regiment of Guides, and pro claimed its admission into the Imperial Guard. A similar proclamation will take place for the regi ment of Gendarmerie, when its organisation shall have been completed by Gecueral de la Rue, who is now inspecting that corps. The screw corvette Plegaon, of 400-horse power, Captain Coupvent Desbois, left Cherbourg on the 17th, to join the French squadron in the Baltic. The Three per Cents. were done yesterday on the Boulevard at 68f, 30c. SPAIN. The 15th b e ing Monday, none of the Madrid journals except the Gazette appeared, and its con tents are not of interest. A letter says :—" It is the measles, and not the small-pox as at Erst sup posed, with which Queen Christina has been at tacked, but at her age the malady is not without a ceriain degree of gravity. It is alleged besides that her Majesty is affected by the souvenir of the death of her sister, the Infanta Luisa Carlota, wife of the Infanta Don Francisco de Paula, who died of the same complaint a few years ago. One of the Queen's daughters is also attacked with measles. To-morrow, or the day after, the publication of bulletins on her Majesty's state will commence."— The Stock Exchange was not open on the 15th, that being a holiday. MADRID, Mayl6.—The illness of Queen Christina has taken a favourable turn ; it is thought that her Majesty will soon be out of danger. Three per Cents., 55. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Mr. Planch6 has left extravaganza for awhile, to throw into a new five-act drama The Knights of the Round Table, produced at this theatre on Saturday night with complete success, much of the sparkling wit and epigrammatic point abounding in the class of enter tainment which his pen for some years past has made famous on the boards of the Haymarket and Lyceum. The scene of the drama is laid in 1740. In the opening act we learn that Leonard d'Arcy (Mr. Howe), a pro fligate young man, moving in good society, has not only squandered the small fortune left him at the death of his mother, but has approprioted and spent the larger fortune rightfully belonging to his half-sister, the offspricg of his father's ecoud marriage with a German countess. In order to possess himself of this money he treacherously causes his young sister to be brought away by a gipsey showman, who conveys her to this country, and, after the manner of Antigonus in the Winter's Tale, leaves his young charge on a moor in Cumberland, D'Arcy in the meanwhile being left under the impression that she is dead. At the card room of the Neapolitan Minister in London, D'Arcy meets Captain Cozens (Mr. G. Vandenhoff), a model swindler, who cheats him and other players to their last guinea. D'Arcy is about to denounce him, when his antagonist—a perfect Fouch6 in the possession of secret intelligence—exhibits a thorough acquaintance with all D'Arcy's affairs ; tells him, fur the first time, that his sister lives, and that by breathing a word of her existence, D'Arcy might be brought to justice for his tur pitude. The sister, five years before, had been discovered upon the moor, adopted into the family of Lady Bootle, and called Perdita (Miss Reynolds). At the period of D'Arcy's career recorded above, young Sir Ralph Bootle (Mr. W. Farren) comes up to London on his mother's death, in the possession of enormous wealth, but with scanty knowledge of the world. He seeks out D'Arcy the acquaintance of his youth—as the person best able to initiate him into the London mysteries of the period. But Sir Ralph Bootle has not seen the charms of Perdita unmoved, and to the discomfiture of his newly-found friend he acquaints him with his passion. Of course the wealth of the young baronet was to go into no other channel than the pockets of D'Arcy, Cozens, and bis confederates, the veritable Knights of the Round Table. How to prevent the union? The conspirators plot to circumvent their victim by charging him with Jacobitism, and they seek to provide a substitute for Perdita, who, having in the meantime fled to London to avoid the advances of Sir Ralph, not because she does not love him, but because a sense of honourable delicacy deters her from what, in the igno rance of her origin, she believes an unequal union, has been seen by General Grantley (Mr. Chippendale), an old gentleman, who, by the strong resemblance to her mother, to whom in former years he was himself secretly but hopelessly attached, thinks herecognises thedaughter. Various villanous contrivances are resorted to by the wretched D'Arcy and his companion to blast the charac ter of Perdita and obtain the money from Sir Ralph ; but their schemes do not arrive at maturity—one great effort at Perdita's ruin, by marrying her to one Smith (Mr. Compton), an instrument of Captain Cozens, having failed, through the medium of Tom Tittler (Mr. Buck stone), who has otherwise largely contributed in the work of frustration. The story is far advanced in the fourth act ; and in the fifth virtue prevails and vice is confounded. Perdita generously forgives her brother, who is left to remorse and amendment , and Ca p tain Cozens receives hid quietus from the professional rapier of Tom Tittler in a duel. A drama, play, or what you will, in five acts, is a for midable thing to contemplate. But what matter whether five acts or three, if the dramatist can keep the curiosity of the audience on the stretch, enlist their sympathies, or keep their risible muscles in full play for the time allotted to a theatrical representation ? In all these respects Mr. Planch6, in turn, succeeded. Capital situa tions abound in the production. Without much striving at the creation of character, the keen and pungent dia logue of Mr. Planch6 pleased the ear when it did not reach the heart ; and the comic writing for Mr. Buckstone, in particular, is eminently suited to that eccentric indi vidual. The colouring of the dialogue, and the little references to the localties and events of the epoch, show the pen of a conscientious and a finished artist. Mr. G. Vandenhoff has undoubtedly the best character in the piece, and we may accord him the praise of superiority in his portrayal of it. Before the curtain rose, this gentleman made a graceful apology on the score of hoarseness ; but despite this infirmity, which almost prevented his utterance throughout the piece, Mr. Van denhoff acted his part with consummate skill. The next is Peggy Poplin, a thorough London grisette, most pleasantly and amusingly acted by Mrs. Fitz william. Mr. Compton has a splendid little bit cut out for him. Some excellent fun also arises out of the personal history of Count Livonwitz, Baron Grieffen Klaus, le Chevalier de la Finesse (the knights of the round table), who are three (Irish, Yorkshire, and Hebrew) sharpers in disguise. Mr. W. Farren, as the young baronet, was at first sufficiently verdant to be come the foil for his designing friends, and subsequently displayed taste and judgrn, nt. Perdita is a mere sketch, intelligently—of course prettily— played by Miss Rey nolds. The other characters were adequately sustained by Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Clark, Miss Ellen Grey, and Miss Grantham. Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon the scenery, dresses, and decorations. All were in admirable keeping. The curtain fell amid loud applause—renewed upon the raising of the drop-scene displaying the whole of the company. To the general call of the audience for the name of the author, Mr. Buckstone responded by archly stating Mr. Planch6 ought to be somewhere in a private box, but be could not see him. The piece was an nounced for nightly repetition. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) ALLEGED CASE OF 011ILD-AIUBDEE AT STEPNEY. Yesterday and to-day a rumour which unfortunately turns out to be too true, has been circulated in Stepney to the effect that a female named Mary Ann Coopers had murdered her step-son, aged 7 years. It appears that the woman and her husband occupied apartments at 2, York-street, Philpot-street, Stepney, and had three children. He was a jobbing bricklayer, but both of them had led a life of great dissipation, neglecting their family and home for (lays together, frequently quarrelling and annoying their neighbours. Yesterday afternoon the lodgers heard a great noise, and about 5 o'clock one of the children was heard to cry for some minutes. The husband was from home, but shortly before six o'clock Mrs. Cooper was seen to leave the house with one of her children in her arms, covered with a shawl, and another child by her side. She then carried the deceased to the accident ward of the London Hospital, where she stated that the child had fallen down and struck its head against a stool. Mr. Greenwood,the house surgeon, immediately examined the child, and pronounced life to be quite ex tinct, but the body was still warm. Stimulants and other remedies were administered, but all efforts to restore animation were entirely useless. The woman was not sober, and appeared to be very little concerned about the death of her child, which was very emaciated, and ofsicklyappear- ance. Mr. Grimwood made an examination of the deceased, and found on one side of the head a large lacerated wound of the scalp, five inches in depth, from which blood had flowed copiously. There were also several abrasions and bruises on the face and hands, and there is no doubt the child died from external violence. The woman was allowed to leave at first, but re turned again in an hour, with the little boy with her which she represented as her eldest stepson. The medical gentlemen then present asked the boy a few questions, when he said, " Mother knocked William's head against the box." The wound was of such an exten sive character that the medical officers sent for the police and gave the woman into custody. She was accordingly taken to the station-house, where she was charged on suspicion of causing the death of her child. The police of the K division have been busily occupied in making strict inquiries, and it has been ascertained that the woman seized the child by the legs and violently struck its head against the sharp edge of a large box several times. The prisoner was brought up this morning before the magistrate at the Thames police-court, Arbour-square, and after several witnesses were examined, she was re manded for further evidence. SPORTING NOTES. BUSINESS AT BATH. The close approach of the Epsom Meeting will doubt less militate materially against the complete success of the gathering on Lansdowne, which will take place to morrow, and on the following day. St►ll, the appointed sport is sufficiently attractive to command the attention of turfites, and it is not unlikely to be marked by inci- dents of much interest and importance. The programme comprises eleven items, six for the first day, and five for the second. Although, however, on paper, the supply of sport appears to be ample, yet it is not improbable that the fields will be numerically insignificant. MARKET NE WS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Most of the country markets held on Saturday were very scantily supplied with home-grown wheats, in which a steady business was transacted, at an advance in prices of from ls. to 2s. per quarter. Barley and malt were very dull, but not cheaper. Oats, beans, peas, and flour com manded full currencies. The French markets have exhibited increased firmness, of late, and the quotations have been on tho advance. In the Baltic and Mediterranean markets wheat has com manded extreme rates. In the United States the trans actions in flour have been very moderate. The receipts of English grain up to our markets last week were small. The imports of foreign wheat were about 40,000 ; of barley, 5,000 • and of oats, 50,000 quar ters. Those of flour were 5,000 sacks and barrels. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our market to day coastwise were on a very limited scale ; whilst the receipts by land carriage were comparatively small. The show of samples of both red and white was trifling, owing to which, and the steady advance in most of the country markets, factors were firm in their demands. The amount of business doing, however, was by no means extensive. In some instances, the finest white parcels were a shade higher than on Monday last ; and the value of all other qualities was well supported. We were rather heavily supplied with foreign wheat. Importers generally were very firm in their demands, but dealers acted cautiously. Very fine wheats were the turn dearer. Low and middling kinds realised extreme rates. Very few floating cargoes have been reported off the coast from Falmouth, and they were mostly held above the views of buyers. The show of barley was good. The sale for most de scriptions was rather inactive, at last week's currency. There was very little business doing in malt, at the advance consequent upon the rise in the duty. Large supplies of oats were brought forward. A good business was doing in them, on former terms. We were but moderately supplied with beans, which changed hands at full quotations. Peas realised fall prices, but the demand was by no means active. The flour trade was steady, at extreme rates. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt--Chevalier •• • • 75s to 76s Red .... new 738 to 85a Oats Yorkshire and Ditto • • • • ........ old 778 89s Line°lnsla., Feed 303 348 Ditto, White new 77s 89s Potato ...... .... 3113 36s Ditt0........ old 80s 91s Youghal and Cork Norfolk And Lin- Black .• .. 30s 33s coin, Red, old 73s 84s Cork, White ..• .. 29s Ms Ditto new •. .. 74s 84s Scotch, Feed. • • .. 34s 36s Rye—Old • • .......... 518 52s Beans—Tick......... 45s Ms New ............ 508 51s Pigeons .... 49s 66s Barley—Grinding .• • .. 36s 38s Peas—Grey .......... 44s 48s Nfalting ... • • .... 398 41s Map1e........... 48s 53s Chevalier.. • • ... 423 44s White... ........ 56s 628 Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ......... 568 68s folk • • • • .• ...... 66s 71s Flour—Town-made... 66s 70s drown . • • • • • • ........ 603 62s Suffolk .......... Ms 62s Kingston and Ware 739 75s Stocktn & Norfolk 58s 648 The proceedings will commence with the Lansdowne Trial Stakes, which numbers seven nominations. The Reiver's chance is certainly the most entitled to conside ration. St. Spiro may be capable of winning the Bien nial Stakes for three-yrs-old. Failing him, I shall take a turn with Spinaway. The other horses worthy of notice are Mishap and Diana. The Biennial Stakes for two-yrs-old is likely to occasion an encounter of no ordi nary interest, and may "introduce" a formidable can didate for next year's Derby. Oulston has already been somewhat sp;ritedly backed fur the Great Epsom. Event for 1855, and his performance on this occasion may confirm the good opinion which I expressed as to his form and ability on his debut at Salisbury. His most formidable antagonist will be Bessie. The victory of Hercules at Shrewsbury on Friday occasioned his rapid advance to the position of leading favourite for the Somersetshire Stakes. Although that performance was not remarkable for any extraordinary display of racing power, yet it was justly calculated to excite some 'expectations of his chance for this event. Still the animals which he will encounter at Bath will be somewhat superior to those which he met at Shrews bury. Among the entries too figure the names of Epam inondas, the winner of the Chester Cup, and Coup d'Etat, the winner of the Newmarket Handicap, but the 71bs. penalty which they have incurred renders it questionable whether either of them will be capable of following up his success. Some doubts exist as to the starting of Haco, doubts which the betting seemingly indicates to be well founded. Lough Bawn has received some support, and in consideration of his running at York, I am induced to place some confidence in his chance. Rataplan, too, should he go to the post, must not be slightingly regarded. The animals, indeed, that I am inclined to " stand on" against the field are Rata plan, Lough Bawn, Coup d'Etat, and Hercules. With a fair start and no favour, I shall expect Lough Bawn to prove the winner. Ireland's Eye, Monta g ue, and King Alfred, are my selec tions for the Members' Plate, but until the " numbers are up" even a guess at the winner will be hazardous. The events " set for decision" on Tuesday may be briefly dismissed. The result of the race for the Dyrham Plate will be ma terially influenced by the running on Tuesday. At pre sent the probabilities in favour of Orinoco, Ireland's Eye, St. Faith, Lioness, and Hercules, seem strongest. Re port speaks favourably of the chance of William the Third for the Weston Stakes. Garforth and Waterfall may occupy the first and second place for the Aristocratic Handicap. The "Cup" will perhaps be carried off by Rataplan. Some expectations are, however, lam in formed, entertained of the success of Valeria, a mare bred in France, and now trained by Sherwood, at Epsom. John Scott's horses are already located at Leatherhead. They, therefore, who have bad a recent opportunity of seeing Dervish are loud in their expressions of admira tion as to his general appearance and condition. He has recovered from the temporary "depression" under which he laboured in the turf market, and is again as " buoyant" as ever. A heavy commission was, I be lieve, " out" to back him, and I am informed that at present it is only partly executed. The highest offer against him is 5 to 1 ; indeed, he seems likely to become second favourite, vice Autocrat, who is gradually receding in the betting. The cause of his down ward tendency is scarcely clear, for the facetious " General " states that Lascelles goes into fits after galloping a mile with him. The desire to " get on " King Toni is apparently undiminished. Many persons, however, still regard his pretensions with pre judice and suspicion, and significantly declare his trial, the particulars of which I stated in The Sun on Thursday last, to be " too good." The Trapper, who gave "signs of coming" last week, is now in little demand-1000 to 20 has been currently offered against him. "People who go about saying things " assert that he "makes a noise ' whilst galloping, and they who have laid against him shout in high glee the refrain of the old nursery ditty about " he shall have music wherever he goes." May 22. A FRESH MAN. LONDON, May 21—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. ; light ' breeze, and cloudy. RAMSGATE, May 21.—Wind, S.W. Sailed—Thomas Lee, for Callao. PORTSMOUTH, May 21.—Wind, S.W. to W. Arrived —Norden, frora Cardiff, for the Baltic, to repair ruder. Sailed—Hyclasres (s s), for Constantinople. COWES, May 20.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Union (s), from York, for Havre. FALMOUTH, Hay 21.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Syren, from Havanna ; Jenny, do. ; Skulda, Alexandria. ; Wave, do. Sailed—Alida, for Quebec. DARTMOUTH, May 21.—Wind, S.W. Arrived--Urania, from Stavenger, for Quebec. PLYMOUTH, May 21.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Ariel, from Hamburgh, for Bremen. Sailed—Nestor, for Port land Bay ; Thetis, Adelaide, S.A. Off Port—Sophia, from Bremen, f'or New 'fork. OFF DOVER, May 19.—Three French frigates, for the Baltic ; Elsa (Amsterdam steamer). SOUTHAMPTON, May 20.—Sailed—Colombo, for Alexan dria ; Orinoco, Candia. SHIELDS, May 20.—Wind, S.S.W. Sailed—Gratitude, for Carthagena ; Mary Mitcheson, Alaxandria. ; Huntcliff, Barcelona ; Alice Thompson, Havannah. SWANSEA May 21.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Henrietta, from St. Jago de Cuba. Sailed— Railway, for Gibraltar. MILFORD, May 2 I.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Dale Park, from Sierra Leone. QUEENSTOWN, May 20.—The Bona Dee, of and for Liverpool, for Savannah, which was abandoned off Mizen bead in February, was passed on the 18th May; 40 miles W.N. W. of the Dorsey, in tow of two pilot cutters. ILFRACOMBE, May 20. The Ace of Trumps, from Guernsey to Cardiff, which sank 12th April to the east ward of Village Point, has been weighed by the Sulsan (schooner), and taken into Watermouth. STOCKHOLM, May iS.—H.M. steamer Amphion arrived in Farosund 2d May, with two prizes, viz., the Finland schooner Najaden, of Ulaborg, from Lubeck, captured 22d April in the Gulf of Finland, and Carolina, of Riga, from St. Übes, captured iu the ice off Riga 28th April ; and on the 3d May the schooner Gebrueder, of Riga, also a prize, arrived in Farosund. All three prizes sailed sth May to the southward. Liverpool with S T p aj t li to N ot:Qb N uue . lb F we . ac , ;. May 4.- The Cleopatra ( a. s.), from ed awraoyu,ngda-lhl galley sal; kPsuatni(ni. here ats c r i t o h n s A o p n ri I b s o h t o h r t si o d f e c s r i l e s e , a a t n te d re a d f , t a e n r d la se rb ve o r a a r l d ar y ic a l r e t s e s r w b e o p a t t fr c o a m r• house,rthi e deck, having encountered very heavy weather Pith April, in let. 47, long. 31, which lasted 48 hours , and been struck by coaled, a sea ; she has since repaire • d, andsailed for her destination 26th April. The Cleopatra (s.) arrived at Portland, U.S., sth May. RACING FIXTI MI Lewes Bath 23 Royston 23 Tavistock 23 JU 5 5 (ICES FOR 1854. .Y. North Herts 23 Liverpool Hunt Spring 24 Harpenden 26 Epsom 30 TE. Hampton 2l Harrogate 23 Halifax Redditch Manchester TJenham 7 I Carlisle 26 Epping Town Coggeshall 7 I Riding 2B South well Ascot Heath. l3 Ludlow 28 Ten bury Newcastle•on-Tyne 20 Winchester 3O JULY. Newmarket Worcester 4 I Newton ... Barnstaple 6 I Knutsford 19 Lancaster 6 Nottingham 2O Odihatn 7 Great Grimsby 24 l‘lansfield ll Goodwood 25 Liverpool l2 Radcliffe Abingdon 13 Deritend Pool 3l Ipswich 13 Ripon 31 17 Stourbridge NOVE IBER. Co wbridge Hunt 8 Epsom Autumn Liverpool DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A FEMALE. Yesterday a most distressing attempt at suicide was mane by a married woman named Mary Davis, residing at No. 8, Poppin's•court. It appears she had an alter cation with her son, a youth about 15 years of age, and became highly excited. She went down stairs to the water•closet, and was shortly after discovered with her throat cut so severely that on being taken to St. Bar tholomew's Hospital little hopes were given of her re covery. The unfortunate woman had taken a carving knife to effect her dreadful intent. OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS. —Mr. Edward Thornton, secretary of legation at Mexico, is appointed her Ma. jesty's Consul-General and Chargé d Affaires at New Granada, in the place of General D. F. O'Leary, de ceased. Mr. Frederick Warre is appointed u npaid attaché to her Majesty's mission at Washington.— Observer. When the great Napoleon used to beat the Russians in pitched battles, and there was no mistake about it, the Russians always sang Te Deum, as if they had won victories. Napoleon when he heard of this, once said, " The Russians are great rogues, they not only lie to man but they lie also to God. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY /EVENING, MAY 22, 1854, (BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH) LIVERPOOL,konday, 10.45 a.m. Wind, S.W. ; moderate breeze, and cl.udy. Arrived—Christiana, from Elam or b i z a gh ; E Estafette and Hallett,A erd Amsterdam Edwa'rd nasa; l Stephen Glance, New Orleans ; Pride of the Sea, Baltimonreey,Baarld bill, Pernambuco ; Sophia, Mobile ; Petrea, Charleston ' ; Queen of the Ocean, Virginia Acadian, oston ; Den- I)GlrLi)everV, ri\eVn.dtitn' mark, Marseilles ; Gannet, Lisbon. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.40 a.m. Wind, S.W.; high water ; fresh and cloudy. Arrived—Caledonia (s), from Hamburgh ; Fyenoord. (s), Rotterdam ; Marchioness Mar. retha, Nykiobing ; dustry, Dunkirk ; Eclipse, Rouen; Atlas, Guernsey; Zenus, Tarragona ; Charles, Rouen ; Anglesey, Jamaic a ; Kate, Callao ; Marie, Wismar ; G. Gilford, Odessa ; Jong Rentie, Worcum. DEAL, Monday, 9.30 a.m. Wind, S.W., fresh, with rain. Johannes, from Constantinople for London ; Galampus, from Niarseilles, for Loudon. Anchored—Zephyr, from London for Demerara; Ken nett Kingsford, London, Port an Prince. Proceeded,—Meriwde, from Constantinople for Dun kirk. SMITHFIELD. Last week's imports of foreign stock into London were but moderate, the time of year considered, being only , 1,978 head. In the corresponding week in 1853 we re ceived 2,582 ; in 1852, 2,505 ; in 1851, 2,451; in 1850, 2,012 ; in 1849, 1,739. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Hamburgh 52 99 ... Calais .... Rotterdam 4B ... Amsterdam 11 Ostend Dordt — ••• Harlingen 242 ... Antwerp 446 ... 1 ... 276 11 ... 456 ... literature. Speaking of romance writers, it is amaz ing that he makes no adequate mention either of Charles Paul de Kock, or of Alexandre Dumas the volaininous and inexhaustible. Ref rring to the philosophers renowned as scientific men-of-letters, it is matter of astonishment that he dedicates not a page, not even a paragraph, to savans as illus trious as Arago and Leverrier. That he should overlook Juste, or minor writers of that class, cannot, of course, be in any respect surprising. A few mediocrities are (at all times and under all circumstances) amply sufficient. Okeya aXtc T oes rptotc, apices. But with all their scarcely nu merable faults, neither Dumas nor De Kock can assuredly be designated mediocrities. And assuredly, also, among the greatest of the great men who have dedicated their genius to the most sub lime of the physical sciences, may be ranked those two glorious astronomers—Arago and Le verrier. While, however, we may object to sundry faults of omission in regard to this remark able survey of French literature during and after the Restoration, we could mention among its blemishes but few faults of commission. Gratefulfor the delight which the perusal of this masterly cri ticism has yielded us, we can speak of it in terms only of unaffected admiration. It matters but little in its regard—when weighing it in the balance of judgment—it signifies comparatively nothing that we find it remarked with more familiarity of phrase than we should hare thought befitting the dignity of history, that Napoleon was always " on th e look-out" for genius in any department. We can pass by as of no account the casual straws caught up in the flow of that rushing eloquence which time will solidify and eternize into the amber current of historic narrative. Closing the volume after a perusal of this brilliant chap ter—a chapter in itself a masterpiece —we can think, not of the occasional flaws in the style, but of the exquisite taste every sentence evidences, the rhetorical power of the annalist, his extraordinary variety of knowledge, his classic erudition, his wonderful familiarity with every branch of modern literature, his eclectic en thusiasm, but, above all, his . noble and splendid magnanimity. This magnanimity he reveals at the very outset of his criticism when he is consider ing the relative merits of contemporary historians, as though he himself had no pretensions to the name of annalist. With no unstinting hand, but with words of panegyric, and with cordial fervour, Alison awards the bay garland of Clio, with more or less ample umbrage, according to their deserts, to Guizot, Sismondi, Thierry, Michaud, Barante, Salvandi, Thiers, Lamartiue. It is worthy of him —for the critic has no need of jealousy, even if his nature could harbour so vile a feeling. Another peculiarity scarcely less deserving attention may be coupled with this same magnanimity. The flowing periods, or rather the ample folds of his rhetoric, do not preclude Alison from the sparkling point of sen tences eminently epigrammatic. He says (p. 559) of Chateaubriand—" He was a man of the olden time stranded by fate on the storm-beaten shore of the Revolution." He writes magnificently of Thiers (p. 621), particularly in reference to his Histoire du Consulate et de l'Entpire—" Not only is he in genious, dramatic, and eloquent, but his writings abound in important, general, and often in just generous appreciation of individual character." He talks (p. 618) of Chateaubriand having visited the Holy Sepulchers " with the mingled feelings of a classic scholar and a devout pilgrim," and Lamartine " with the highly-wrought imagination of a poet and the brilliant conceptions of a painter," and Michaud "with the heroic spirit of a Crusader. Throughout the whole of this elaborate criticism, moreover, Alison continues to approve himself alike earnest, discriminating, genial, and magnani mous—even to the close of the chapter, when turning from letters he directs his attention to actors, painting, and architecture. Altogether his latest volume will in no way deteriorate his reputation : on the contrary, we rest assured that so far from in any respect derogating from his fame as the historian of modern Europe, it will constitute only an additional and important means towards securing its perpetuation. Calves. Pigs 2 ... - 1 ... 7 ... 55 39 Total ... 353 ... 1012 ... 3 396 8 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : 1 — Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1853 462 1,741 ~, 13 338 2 6 1852 3BO ... 1,646 „. 30 ... 435 14 1851 426 ... 1,587 45 ... 322 61 1850 227 1,428 „, 230 ... 127 1849 406 ... 976 10 ... 315 „. 2 To-day's market was very moderately supplied with foreign stock, the general quality of which was by no means first-rate. Nearly the whole changed hands, at full prices. From our own grazing districts there was a considerable falling off in the arrivals of beasts, c ompared with several previous weeks. The attendanc e of buyers being good, the beef trade was brisk, at a n advance in the prices obtained on this day se'nnight of fully 2d per 81bs, and a good clear ance was effected. A - few very superior Scots sold as high as 5s per 81bs, but the gene ral top figure for beef was 4s 10d. The quality of most breeds exhibited a falling off; hence the weight of beef here today was small. For the time of year the arrivals of beasts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire were small, viz., 1,932 Scots and short horns. From other parts of England we received 400 of various breeds, and from Scotland 420 horned and polled Scots. We were fairly supplied with most breeds of sheep, the condition of which was by no means' prime. Butchers generally complain that sheep come light to the scale. Prime Downs sold steadily at last week's currency, the top figure being 5s per 11bs ; but most other breeds moved off slowly, and, in some instances, the quotations were a shade lower than on Monday last. Lambs, the show of which was tolerably good, were in moderate request. In prices very little change took place. The supply of calves was tolers.blylgood. The trade ruled steady, at Friday's decline in the quotations. The top figure was 5s 4d per llbs. In pigs very little was doing, yet the quotations were supported. Per Blbs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Interior Beasts.... 3 6to 3 8 PrimeSouthdown 4 8 5 0 Second quality.... 3 10 4 0 Large crso. calves 4 2 410 Prime largo oxen 4 2 4 6 Prime small d 0... 5 0 5 4 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 410 Large hogs 3 0 4 2 Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 8 Small porkers 4 4 4 8 Second quality ...3 10 4 2 Sucklingealves ..22 0 29 0 Prime crso.-wlled.4 4 4 6 Quarter old pigs 21 0 27 0 Lambs ss 2d to 6s Bd. FOREIGN strpriAr. Beasts .. •• • • .... ........ 3,510 ) 8ea5t5.......... .. ..... . . 498 Sheep .•• .. ....... ... ....21,140 Sheep .. ••• • • • ............ 1,450 Calves .. ••.. • • .... ...... 200 Calves.. ••—• • • • ........ 157 A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, May 23, 1853, and this day, Monday, May 22, 1854. Per Blbs, to sink the offals. May 23, 1853. May 22,1854 s. d. s. d. i s. d. s. d Coarse and inferior beasts ... ... 3 oto 3 2'3 6to 3 8 Second quality ditto ... ... ... 3 4 3 6'3 10 4 0 Prime large oxen ... ... ... ... 3 II 3 1014 2 4 6 Prime Scots, ctte ... ... ... ... 4 0 4 4 4 8 410 Coarse and inferior sheep ... ... 3 8 3 10,3 6 3 8 Second quality ditto ... . ... 4 0 4 213 10 4 2 Prime coarse woolled ditto .... ... 4 2 4 414 4 4 6 Prime Southdown ditto .. .. 4 6 4 8 4 8 5 0 Lambs ... ... _. ... ' ..: 5 0 6 4 5 2 6 8 Large coarse calves ••• ... 4 0 4 64 2 410 Prime small ditto ... ::• •• ... 4 8 5 015 0 5 4 Large hogs ... ... •••. ••• ... 3 4 3 83 0 4 2 Neat smal ß l e p a o s i t • s k . e . r . s ... ...•••... .3 10 4 4 4 4 4 8 ... ... ... 3,510 .. , 27,140 5he01 , ... ••. ..• ... .., 22 , 740 Calves._ ... ... .."•• —• 237 200 280 r l P a r m L i b E s S , Pigs ••• ... ... ~,, ~, ... 330 S t ° J S,I S I A O T4 7 , ca M lv a e y s, 24 2 , 2l; 185 p 2 i . g; 13 4 4 e 5 a , 5 8 0. 4,869 27,140 3,681 ; sheep May 26, 1851.—Beasts, 3,835 ; sheep and lambs , 27,070 ; and calves, 247 ; pigs, 490. TOTAL SUPPLY. NEWGATE AND LEADENHA.L L. The supplies of country-killed meat continue seasonably good, but those slaughtered in the metropolis are but mo derate. For most kinds we have a fair demand at our quotations. Per B'lbs by the carcase. s. d. a. d. 0. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 210 3 4 Mutton, Inferior 3 8 310 Do., middling 3 6 3 8 1 Do., middling ..... 4 0 4 4 Do., prime large 3 8 3 10 Do , prime ......... 4 6 4 8 Do., do. small 3lO 4 4 Vea1....... ........ 310 5 0 Pork, large 344 0) Pork, small ... .. 42 4 8 Lamb ss Od to 6e .... BOROUGH HOP. We continue to have a steady demand for most kinds of hops, the prices of which are fairly supported. We have had an arrival of 18 bales from Ostend. The quotations are as follow and East Kent pockets, 5/. 5s to 81. Os; Weald of Kent ditto, 51. Os to 61. 10s; Susses ditto, 5/. 5s to 61. 6s per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALTEL DS. Our markets are but moderately suppfled with all kinds of potatoes, yet the demand is in a v era inactive state. Last week's imports were 2 baskets 311 bags from Rotter dam, and 374 bags from Belfast. Yort Regents, 145 s to 185 s ; Scotch ditto, 125 s to 155 s ; ditto cups, 110 to 135 s ; and foreign, 110 to 120 s per ton. ..18 Tarnip,Whi te, per bush. 14s to 20' i Swede .. • • 24s 380 1 Nius.ard, 13 town •• • ... lOs 13s White, new •• .• lOs 143 Tarel,Win' yar,new.... 9s Od 9s 6d Old•• • •• • 73 Od 88 Od Canary, pi a . quarter • 445 48s Rye ,crass .• •.• •• 245 28s Clover, Re 4 Eng. (cwt.) 58e 643 White •• • • 545 823 Forel; p / Red.. •• .. 46s 563 White.... 66s 80s Trefoil, n if.. .. • • 183 243 18a0. 1851. I 1853 1e453„ 1 1554. WOOL. Although the public sales continue ft° be well attended by buyers, the biddings since our last have been inactive, and prices have ruled from a halfpenny to lid per lb be neath the previous auctions. Ths following rates have been paid ;—Po rt Philip—Clean sheep's, raised 2d to is 6d • tegs, is 8d to is 9d ; scoured, 18 2d to I;6d- ; mixed, 11(. 9 1 to is 2d ; damaged, Od to is 2d; h o ggetts, la 2d to is 7d; lambs', is 7d to 2s CV ; pieces, lid to is 7d ; grease, 9d to lid. Cape—Scoured sheep's, 10d to is 2d ; ("Imaged, Bid to 11d; black, 7d to lid ; handwashed, lld to is ld; damaaged, 8d to 10d. Sydney—Clean sheep's ls 3d to is scoured, is 4d to Is 7d. New Zealand—!Clean cheeps', is 2d to is Gd. Sot tthAustralian—Clean sheep's, is 4d to is 4d ; lambs, is 2d to is Gd ; grease, 7d to 10c1. Van Diemen's Land—C l 4ean sheep's, is 2d to is 6d ; skin, is to is 7d ; handwas hed, is to la 5d : grease , 7d to 9 d per lb. In the private contract market scarcely any b•asiness is doing. Last week's imports were 31 bales from llamburgb, 1,350 from Port Philip, 9 from Antwerp, and 61 from Odessa: The prices of English wool remain as follow :—South-down teas and half-bred hogs, is Oid to is id, South-down ewes, clothing, e is iii to is 151 d, do. combing fleeces, is ld, Kent fleeces, 1 s ld to is 3d, combing skin, lid to is, flannel wool, lid to is 3d, blanket wool, 7d to is id, Leicester fleeces, is to is Id per lb. SEEDS. The m. I.Tket for linseed conti nues steady, but the busi ness doin ginitis by no means extensive. Bombay on the spot has changed hands at 68s ; Odessa, 66s per quarter. Rapeseed and cakes are quite as dear as last week; but all other arti cies command very little attention. Carraway •• .. 42s 48s Coriander.... .. •.• • • • lOs 15s llempseed, per quarter 4( , 5 44s Linseed, Eng.iowing.. 745 76s Crushing • 6,5 68s Baltic ••••.. •• .. 66s 70s Odessa ••••• • • • .. 66s 70s Linseed Cake, pr. ton— English . 101 Os 12s Os Foreign, per ton 915 s 111 5s gape Cakes, pr ton 6115 s 715 s Rapeseed, New, pr Ist 3810 s 40100 TALLOW. Our r. mrket is in a very inactive state, and prices con tinue to, decline. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 61s, ar 0 for forward delivery, 62s Gd to 63s 6d per cwt. Town thllow is 58s Gd per cwt. net cash. Rough fat, 3s 3d per 8 lbs. Stock : this day 24,611 36, 8 48 42.054 23,935 35,975 T. C. •• • • t,363s4doci 37s s fid od •.o i 3 3 7 7s 0d 0d o 0 47 0 5 0, 0 0 c1 a 6 0 1 ;3 011 Prig Deli rears last week ••• 1,147 7 66 956 766 539 Ditt ,from June I. 93,3,5 8q,942 , 102,M 101,249 92,066 Arr ,als last week.. 1,376 , 2,610 709 324 1,190 DI tt ofrom June 92,445 101,272 107,802 84,556 104,726 $ Q. of Town ...... I 395 Od ; 383 Od 356 9d 498 ad 615 Od LITBRATURE. Ristory of Europe : from the Fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in 1852. By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., D.C.L. Vol. 111. Blackwood and Sons. Our distinguished annalist is indeed indefatigable. His daring design is now rapidly approaching the term of its complete accomplishment. That extra ordinary and apparently most hazardous enterprise, it will be remembered, was nothing less than the continuation of his voluminous and brilliant nar rative of the History of Europe since the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, from the period at which it closed, namely, from 1815, the date of the Battle of Waterloo, down to a time almost im mediately contemporary. In these supple mentary volumes Sir Archibald Alison pro posed to recount the different events of note which have occurred in Europe during the interval of nearly four decades, extending back from the accession of Napoleon 111. to the downfall of the mighty founder of his dynasty, the Caesar of Gaul, the modern Charlemagne, the later and greater Alexander, the Sesostris o civilisation. It was an undertaking, the astonishing difficulties of which might well have deterred any man gifted even with a more than ordinary amount of courage, industry, and determination. They were altogether insufficient, however, to repel Sir Archibald Alison from an enterprise so peculiarly vast and adventurous. The intention of the his torian was scarcely intimated to the world through advertisement when the first volume of his work was announced for publication. It had barely made its appearance when it was followed by another more ample in theme and more mi nute in elaboration. The project was forth with recognised as at once making speedy ' progress towards its satisfactory realisation. In somuch that we have already arrived at the third instalment—five, if we recollect rightly, being the proposed limit of the undertaking. In this volume, a substantial book of 7 54 pages octa vo, divided into seven chapters, and these again sub divided into no less than 803 sections, each section with an explanatory heading, the dates and autho rities throughout being given, moreover, with scrupulous exactitude by marginal reference—in this volume the annals of Europe are brought down to the close of the first quarter of the present century. The portion relating to Turkey, indeed, is carried on as far as to 1829, namely, to the rati fication of the treaty of Adrianople. While that referring to the domestic history of France, con ducts us even to the summer of 1830, to the final expulsion of the elder branch of the House of Bourbon by the Revolution. But, saving with exceptions like these, the volume before us may be said to be restricted on the whole in point of time to the first five Wares of the nineteenth century—the account here given of the progress of events in England, for example, ending in 1825 with the monetary crisis of December. Perhaps of all the volumes yet given to the public from the pen of Alison, the one actually under consider ation is the most timely in regard to the coinci dence of the date of its original appearance. For to it we are indebted at this wonderful juncture, when the great nations of the earth are becoming again embroiled with each other in a war that threatens to be terrible beyond example, either in its rapid violence or in its disastrous prolongation —to this singularly apposite addition to our his toric literature we are indebted for a timely record of the last notable struggle between Russia and Turkey. The fifteenth chapter, in fact, is alto gether so curious as a reference to scenes and localities, with the names of which the masses generally are just now becoming once more strangely familiarised, that we cannot but think it would be a boon to the community at large if it were issued from the press by the Messrs. Blackwood in the form of a separate pub lication. As a pamphlet printed at a cheap rate it could not but be peculiarly acceptable to the multitude. This would not, moreover, militate in any way from the interest of the more costly work from which the chapter here specified, would be, for an occasion and a purpose, excerpted. Prof ferred to the reading public in the manner we have indicated, it would acquaint the population with matters especially interesting and especially in structive also, everything considered—the chief incidents here recounted being discovered at this critical moment to be in a most wonderful way re peating themselves. To understand this on the instant, as it were, and at a merely superficial glance, it is only necessary to revert foe a while to the description given by Sir A. Alison of the con temporary history of Russia and Turkey, from 1825 to 1829, from the accession of Nicholas to the Peace of Adrianople. It will there be perceived how the rupture between the Muscovites and the Mussulmans began simultaneously with the commencement of the reign of the brother and successor of Alexander. Starting from the date of that rupture and from the earlier successes gained by Russia over the Persians immediately afterwards it will be perceived how oddly the subsequent an nals read to a certain extent like the annals of events now transpiring in the same quarter of the globe—along the banks of the Danube, between the forces of the Sultan and the forces of the Au tocrat—with this immense difference, however, that all the while, in the former war, for the most part, England and France looked on from a dis tance as mere spectators, or interfered only be tween the belligerents diplomatically through their plenipotentiaries. If the ruler of the Ottoman Empire in 1828 and 1829 was other than the one at present reigning over 35,350,000 souls, as Commander of the Faithful, if the Sultan was then the father Mahmoud and not the son Abd-ul-Medjid the Czar of all the Russias was still the same daring and audacious potentate, against whose lawless aggressions on his weaker neighbours the chief nations of the earth are rising from London to Ispahan. Examine the narrative of his earlier and somewhat similar pro ceedings towards the Sublime Porte—turn over the pages of this luminous and impartial record of the former war adventured upon against Turkey by the Emperor Nicholas—and the very cities and per sons, the very provinces and commanders men tioned in it, sound like echoes from the diurnal annals of our current newspapers. Read this fifteenth chapter in the third volume of the " His tory of Europe," penned by Sir Archibald Ali son in continuation of his former masterpiece, and you might almost imagine at times—[wo do not presume to arrogate the notion of any resemblance in "style," but simply refer to an obvious similarity in " fact"]—you might almost imagine that you are reading the latest news in The Sun, or in La Patric, in the Times, or in the Moniteur, and not of events long past and now inscribed upon imperishable tablets with the fluent hand, but the weighty authority, of the annalist of the Europeans. Read—and you will hear of the passage of the Pruth, p. 265 ; of the advance of the Russians beyond the Danube, p. 270 ; of the fall of Kus tendji, p. 271 ; of the blockade of Sohumla, p. 279 ; of the warlike measures adopted at Odessa, p. 280 ; of the siege of Varna, p. 287 ; of the operations before Widdin, p. 292 ; of the retreat from Silistria, p. 293 ; or, again, at p. 302, of the plan of attack proposed by Prince Paskiewitch. The whole of this portion of the narrative, in truth, is a political curiosity—a curiosity which will be found, particularly nowadays, at once instructive and interesting. Altogether Sir Archibald Alison's narrative fur nishes about the most lucid and dispassionate ac count yet (riven to the world of the campaigns of 1828 and 1829 in the principalities, and, beyond all manner of doubt, gives, of it, an account the most masterly in condensation. Elsewhere, moreover, in the present volume, our historian has recounted events scarcely less attrac tive than those we have just particularised, scarcely less attractive, we repeat, during the momentous period recently arrived at by his immediate contem poraries. Alison relates, for instance, in one chapter, the nature of the progress made by Asia Minor and Greece, socially, politically, and statistically, and, in another, gives a detailed record of the Greek Revolution, including a description of the battle of Navarino, and a statement of the circumstances under which Hellenic independence became estab lished under a quadruple protectorate. What is here said by our historian, in especial reference to the internal course of events in France, brings us down to the fall of Charles X., as we have already taken occasion to observe. It extends over the 16th and 17th chapters, the former dating from the death of Louis XVIII. to the accession of the Polignac Administration, the latter from the ac cession of the Polignac Ministry to the July Re volution. In one we read of the coronation of the King at Rheims, in the other of his flight through Cherbourg. It is, as ever with France during the lives and reigns of the later Bourbous—a series of dazzling and affecting vicissitudes. A mos moving and attractive tale w hen told by any one, even by those least gifted with sensibility or im agination, but one which, as here recounted with all the pictorial vividness and oratorical eloquence of Alison, becomes invested with an irresistible and pathetic fascination. A subsequent chapter in the volume before us should be particularly referred to as among the most remarkable criticisms penned by Sir Archi bald Alison—a writer already almost as dis tinguished as an essayist as an historian. It re lates to, and indeed is entitled, " Literature of France during and after the Restoration." Treat ing successively of annalists, military histo rians, memoir writers, travellers, philosophers, poets, and novelists, Alison takes an ample and com prehensive survey of the whole of modern French The London. Pulpit. By James Ewing Ritchie Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Mr. Ritchie's pen-and-ink sketches of the popular preachers of London are as life-like as they are brilliant and delightful—occasionally blotted with personality and sometimes exaggerated into cari cature. The thought of producing them was a happy one, and has been carried out, in the volume before us, with much agreeable animation. The collection of silhouettes herein presented to our contemplation will be especially acceptable, we conjecture, to our country cousins as a guile among the more generally known of the metropolitan ecclesiastics. It will be perceived at a glance that the writer has familiarised himself with the sub ject before undertaking its treatment. He has sat at the feet of more than ono Gamaliel. He has drunk in the wisdom, and eloquence, and fervour, and verbosity, and affectation of the Bossuets, and Knoxes, and Irvings, and Praise-God-Bare-Bones, of London and Westminster. And listening to them one and all he has " taken down" each, not in short-hand notes, as a stenographer, but rather we might say in vivid profile, or full face, or three quarters as a photographer. Chapter after chapter brings the popular preachers of the capital before our mind's eye in a sort of stately clerical proces sion. Here, for example, is THE REV. THOMAS DALE. "All eyes are turned in the direction of the pulpit. We look there as well, and see a man rather below the average height, with fresh complexion, mild grey eyes beneath light-coloured eyebrows, with a common-place forehead, and a figure presenting altogether rather a pedantic appear ance. This is the Rev. Thomas Dale, D.D. He looks as if the world had gone easy with him ; and truly it has, for he is a popular Evangelical preacher—perhaps, next to Mr. Melville, the most popular preacher in the English Church. He is a popular poet—he is Vicar of St. Pancras, and Canon of St. Paul's." Here, the expelled Professor of King's College— THE REV. F. D. MAURICE. " Mr. Maurice has the true appearance of the professor — short dark hair, sallow face, precise manner ; all indicate the man of study and thought. His voice is clear and agreeable, though not strong. His reading is very rapid, but, at the same time, emphatic. As to action, he has none. He aims more at what ho says, than how he says it ; and, if you listen, you will find food for thought in every phrase." Here, one of the most popular pulpit orators of all in the metropolis— THE REV. HENRY MELVILLE. Tall, of dark complexion, with black hair and blue eyes, with a face lit up with genius—the most brilliant preacher iu the English Church : such is Henry Melville. His action is simple and singular. When he commences scarcely any is observable. Then as he flies along, and warms as he proceeds, the head is dropped with a convulsive jerk, and the right hand is raised, and the climax is ejaculated (for so rapid is his delivery it can scarcely be called preach ing) with a corresponding emphasis. No sooner is the text enunciated than ho plunges at once into his subject, deve loping and illustrating his meaning with a brilliancy and rapidity unparalleled in the pulpit at the present day. You arc kept in breathless attention." The sketch, half critical, half biographical, given immediately afterwards, of the Rev. Robert Mont gomery, is one of those portions of the volume already alluded to as blurred by personality, and distorted into caricature. The author depicts iu a more genial and kindly spirit his next subject— THE HON. AND REV. MR. VILLIERS. " His figure is prepossessing—a great thing in a public speaker. Weak, stunted, deformed, wretched -looking men have no business in the pulpit. A man should have a portly presence there. He should also have a fine voice, and Mr. Villiers is singularly happy in this respect. In the Church there is not a man who can read its stately service with more effect. And that service, well read to the hearer in a fitting mood, is a sermon itself. Nor does Mr. Villiers' merit end here. He is no dull drone when the service is over and the sermon has begun. With downcast eye he reads no moral essay that touches no conscience and fires no heart. On the contrary, he is exceedingly active and energetic in the pulpit. He looks his congregation in the face--ho directs his discourse to them. He takes care that not a single word shall lose its aim." After these five popular preachers of the Church of England, come six of the Independent De John Rev. Thom as Binney, the Rev. John Campbell, the Rev. John Leifchild, the Rev. Thomas Lynch, the Rev. Samuel Martin, and, last of all, one from the delineation of whom we shall indulge our readers with a brief extract— EDWARD MIALL, ESQ., M.P. " Place Miall in the pulpit, and a :glance will tell you the man, you can see be has been brought up in a divinity c ollege ; he ha s all the p rim and unfashionable air of youthreared in such secluded spots. His pale face tells of thought. You see in his small clear eye that thought cr ystallises in his brain. His clenched hand, his determined teeth, his shrugged-up shoulders, prepare you f or th e tena city with which ho clings to what thoughts come to him. In the House of Commons and elsewhere, Allan is the sam e—not elated when applauded, not depressed when re viled ; unbending, imperturbable, mild in demeanour, yet inflexible in purpose." Having thus depicted the editor of the NO?1CO21- fOrMiSt, Mr. Ritchie " pencils off" three popular preachers of the Baptist Denomination—the Rev. William Brock, the Rev. J. Howard Hinton, and I thus also— THE HON. AND REV. BAPTIST NOEL. " Immediately he rises in the pulpit you feel that you have that undefinable mystery, a gentleman before you. Few, indeed, aro the gentlemen who surpass him in ele gance of appearance, or urbanity of manner. He is about fifty-five years of ago, tall, and of a fine figure ; his hair is of a light brown co l o ur, hi s complexion is fair and pale, , his face long, and his features handsome. He has a high 1 forehead, deep set blue eyes, a long and rather aquiline nose, and an expressive mouth. His voice is rich and silvery, not `harsh and crabbed,' but " ' Musical as is Apollo's lute ;' and indeed it ought, for Baptist Noel rarely concludes his sermons within an hour. If his eloquence be compared to that of a stream, it must be that of no mountain country, ' but of peaceful plains, of one of which it may be said that Through delicious m eads, _ The murmuring stream its winding water leacls.' He is remarkably fluent ; his sentences. are particularly • smooth and well cozotruotod, and laio Tom_ gently =dn.. vesseett, fated _; of action he can be . said scarcetly to have 1617; 111 4 1 tist Noel is a thorough En g li s hman in this respe ' Asa companion picture to this we give the fol lowing mention by our author of the " 'shining light" of the Presbyterians : THE REV. JOHN CUMMING. D r . Cumming himself looks not a large man, but a sturdy, determined man, with good intellectual powers and that power well cultivated, but all in the dry Scotch way; though so little does the Doctor's speech betray him, that you would scarcely notice that his pronuncia tion was that of a native of the Land of Cakes.' He is young-looking, his hair is dark, and his com plexion is brown. As he wears spectacles, of course I can say nothing about his eyes; or, as he wears a gown and bands, as to the robustness of his frame. Ho looks agile and well set ; strong in the faith, and master of t sate innumerable wherewith to support that faith. A polished, graceful, self-contained, and self-satisfied man. He may be a man of large heart and sympathies, but he has not the appearance of one. He rather seems a man great in small things, tediously proper and scrupulously correct — a great gun I imagine, at an Evangelical tea - ta ble—and, with his ultra-Protestantism she is a countryman of Miss Cunninghame's, and every Scotchmau hates Popery as a certain personage does holy water), he is a tremendous favourite at Exeter Hall. Indeed, Ido not know that there is at this time a more popular performer on those hoards, and he is a favourite with people whose favour pecuniarily is worth something —with people w No can afford to buy his books. Hence, also, he is one of the me tt. copious religious writers of our day." Another Presbyterian is described in the' person of the Rev. James Hamilton, and then come sun dry pages devoted respectively to Johannes W9nge, the Rev. William Forster, and the Rev. B. enrY lerson, classed together lacier the vague head' of the m i sce llaneous. A curious supplement relating', as its title intimates, to the cathedrals of the capl . • tal, introduces the reader successively to St. Paul's,' to St. George's, to the Irvingite, and to the old. Abbey at Westminster. Murray's Hand-book to Turkey. Third. edition. Murray. As timely a reissue of one of Mr. Murray's world famous hand-books as we have ever marked among this class of publications. Doubtless, had the volume appeared yet a little earlier, it would have been advantageous for its circulation. But , everything considerd, it must be obvious to those who have examined the pages under notice, that the rapidity with which the information contained in them, has been collected and arranged together ac cording to the accustomed plan—a plan admirably adapted for affording facilities for instant reference —is really, in a remarkable degree, extraordinary. Transmitted, as, we doubt not, many a o Hand-book will inevitably be by thefriecnNsy of (left at at home) of our brave soldiers now encamped at Scu tari or Gallipoli, it cannot fail to be accepted by them with all eagerness as a more useful companion than the travelling Englishman would find in France or Belgium in the courier, in Italy in the cicerone, or in Turkey itself in the most skilled and faithful dragoman. Accompanied with new maps and plans, revised and greatly augmented, this the third edition of the " Handbook to Turkey" will be found on examination to supply the traveller with a fund of valuable information in regard to Constantinople, European Turkey, Asia Minor, Armenia, and Mesopotamia. Sections relating to passports, firmans, Turkish money, Turkish weights and measures, the Mahommedan year, and a Turkish Vocabulary, are comprised in a very read able and gossippiug General Introduction. OPENING' OF CANNON-STREET W EST, This day, at one o'clock, the entire line of the New Cannon•street, from the stat ue of King 'William, at Eastcheap, to St. Paul's Churchyard, was formally opened to the public for carriage traffic by the Improve ment Committee connected with the Corporation of the City or London. The boarding round the plot of ground recently - cleared will be taken down, for the purpose of furnishing to the Committee and the public a full opportunity of viewing the south front of the cathedral, the object specially being to determine what steps are to be taken ultimately as to throwing the site into the public way. Mr. 'Lite, the Chairman of the Royal Society of British Architects, with several of the members, were in attendance at the architect's view. We understand that, in consequence of the movement made in the matter by the press, and from other causes, the improvement Committee have agreed to recommend a plan which will give to the public a large portion of the space. The suggestions made to-day by the Col , poration, to the Royal Society of Architects, we hear to be as follows :—They propose to cover that por tion of the present street called " Old Change," lying between the intersection of it by Cannon-street West and Watling-street, on the north, by a rounded frontage, facing St. Paul's church, and looking westward. By doing this the ground now forming the roadway of that part of the Old Change would be made available for building purposes, a finish given to the new street, a useless bit of thoroughfare profitably disposed of, and the major part of the space now cleared thrown into the public way. There is, we have moreover the satisfaction of stating, but little doubt of these propositions meeting with the approval of the Court of Common Council. The chief objection to the proposition is the probable money loss the Corporation would sustain, but this ob jection has been met by Mr. Alderman Lawrence, Al derman Muggeridde, Deputy Harrison, and other in fluential members of the Corporation, who argue that an improvement of this character is not only of City, but of metropolitan, and indeed of national, importance, and that, if necessary, a general local rate in order to effect it might justifiably be sought for. At all events it is to be hoped that, now there is such a favourable oppor tunity of promoting so desirable a design, no paltry pe cuniary considerations may interfere to prevent its being carried into execution. ROYAL LONDON YACHT CLUB. The first match of the reason for prizes offered by this club was sailed for on Saturday. The contest was limited to third-class vessels only, belonging to mem bers of the club, and although the day was remarkably fine, the wind most unfortunately disappointed the ex pectations which had been entertained by the numerous company which had assembled to witness the race. Th• committee had as usual chartered a steam-boat for the accommodation of the members of the club and their friends. The company having received a considerable addition to its numbers at Blackwall, found on ar• rival at Erith the following yachts ready moored for starting : Name. Tons. Owner. Romp 9 .. Mr. Mumford. Cormorant Mischief Kitten One minute per ton was allowed for the difference in size. The Romp was on the Kent side nearest to the shore, and the others in the above order. The signal for the start was fired by the Commodore, Mr. Goodson, at half past eleven precisely, and the yachts at once got under weigh. The Kitten, however, was much the smartest, and although, from the absolute lack of wind, it was some time before they could obtain any steerage way, the Kitten first caught the breeze, and took a lead of about 100 yards. She was followed at intervals of some distance by the Mischief, Romp, and Cormorant. They continued to drift down with the tide in a most mono tonous manner, and although their positions were con tinually changing, this portion of the match did not afford the slightest t est of the superiority of any of the competing craft. In this state of affairs, the Commo dore most judiciously shortened the course at Rosher ville, when the tide turned, and the vessels with very great difficulty rounded the steamer in the following order : Mischief 3 0 33 Kitten Cormorant 3 56 12 Romp 4 5 0 A promising breeze having sprung up, the Mischief made the most of the commanding lead which she had obtained, and the issue of the match was apparent. The wind increasing, the others gradually gained upon her, and the advantage the Mischief had gained by catching the wind first was made up for by the fact that the in creasing force of the breeze overtook the rearward ves sels some time first. The match, therefore, was no trial. either of the capabilities of the vessels, or the skill of the crews. They arrived at the winning buoy, off North Woolwich, in this order : . H. M. S. Mischief 5 39 0 Kitten ................................. 5 55 0 Cormorant ..................... 6 0 30 Romp ................................................. .. 6 16 0 The day was delightful, and, in the absence of a yatching match, the band of the Royal Artillery was pressed into the service of the dancers, who improvised a ball on the afterdeck of the steamer. There was a great number of shipping and transports, in the rivet:, dressed out in their colours in honour of her Majesty's birthday, and the Jason was met with, steaming 1" speed, with artillery on board for Constantinop l m e • was duly saluted with two guns from the C u o rn m e _, d o n a which act of courtesy was immediately O I t d o S r h o: somewhat grander scale. The enthusiastareexotefitethdetocotraht; pany on board the other vessels utmost pitch, and they loudly cheered the troops o nip lhnenon twith itit board the Jason, who returned t 0 the greatest heartiness and goodwill. MERCANTILE MARINE FUND.—On Saturday the annual return to Parliament was printed containing an account of the income and expenditure under the Mer icnacnotmilee,A r wit i h n e t h A e c b t a and ne e t h w e a S s t 4 e 0 7 29 N l te a a. Navigation balance. A , c a t u . a T t h ho e st expenditure, 7,2601. 33,034/. 15s. 7d. ; MERCHANT SEAMEN'S FUND.—On Saturday a P a r. liatnentary paper was puplished giving an account of the receipts and expenditure under the Seamen's Fund Winding-up Act in the year ending the 31st December, 1353. The receipts, with the balance in hand, were, in cash, 263,776/. 19s. 9d., and stock and bonds, 161,821/. 12s. Id. After various payments, the balance at the end of the year was 30,401/. 10s.. lid. On the 3 1 st December last there were 26,306 pensioners on the fund, and the pensions amounted 059,530/, 15s. 3d. e d ce f a o s r e w d a s g ea es m a e n n d w e a ff s ec3tos , s t ir T n h ielaanmd ofn amount received v d e Os. balance 4d . and 13,908/. 14s. 10d. was paid last :year to the relatives and representatives of 2,015 deceased seamen, leaving a balance unclaimed at the end of the yea r 0f16,6761.113, 64 -~