The Sun. — London, England, 1854-01-25 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, JAN. 25, Will be presented PAU LIZARRO ; or, The Ladrone's Daugh ter. Characters by Messrs. G. Bennett, G. Wild, Lee, Belton, and T. Mead; and Miss Featherstone. To conclude with KING lIUMMINGTOP ; or, Harlequin and the Land of Toys. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Backstone. THIS EVENING, JAN. 24, Will be performed THE STRANGER. Principal characters by Mr. G. Vandenhoff, Mr. Villiers, and Mr. Howe; Miss Cushman, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss E. Chaplin, &c. After which, the Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, called HARLEQUIN AND THE THREE BEARS; or, Little Silverhair and the Fairies. Columbines, Miss M. Brown; Harlequin, Mr. J. Marshall : Pantaloon, Mr. W. A. Barnes; Clown, Mr. H. Marshall. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of ill*. Chasms K.EAN. THIS EVENING, Jam. 25, Will be performed the Tragedy of HAMLET. Principal charac ter by Mr. C. Kean. After which will be presented the new Grand CHRISTMAS PAN- To%lsm, entitled II IRLEQUIN AN!) THE MILLER AND 1115 MEN; or, King Salamandar and the Fairy of the Azure Lake. Harlequin, Mr. Corrnack ; Clown, Mr. nano ; Pantalo on , Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, Miss Desborough. LYCEUM TUEATRE. Under the Management of Madame VestrLs, TILES EVENDTG, Jam. 25, Will be performed A BACIIELOR OF ARTS. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Ntatthews, and Baker; Miss F. Hu g he s . After' which, the original Fairy Extravaganza, called ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WERE TWO KINGS. Principal cha racters by Mr. Wright and Madame Veatris. To conclude with PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, JAN. 25, ylrul I,e presented the highly Popular New Nautical Melo-drama, in Ave taoleaux, with new scenery, the Sea of Ice, &c., sew Are .mes and appointments, called THE TFIIRST OF GOLD; or, T riE LOST SHIP AND THE WILD FLOWER OF MEXICO. principal characters by Messrs. B. Webster, Keeley. Paul Bedford, O. RelhY, Parselle, Marsden, &c.; Madame Celeste, Mrs. Leigh MurraY, Miss F. Maskell, &c. To be followed by the popular and entirely New Grand Specta cular legendary Christmas piece, in two acts, with new scenery. dresses, machinery, and appointments, called NUMBER NIP, or THE SPIRIT BRIDE. Principal characters by Madame Celeste, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss M. Keeley, Miss Cuthbert, Miss C. Harding; Messrs. Paul Bedford, .r. Rogers, Romer, G. Lee, &c. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, Lug. 25, Will be performed THE FIRST NIGHT. Characters by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, Leslie, Lindon, Harwood Cooper, and Vincent ; Miss P. Horton, and Miss Wyndham. To be followed by THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac• tars by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Robson, Morton, and Galli ; Mes. dames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Horton, Chatterley, &c. Followed by THE WANDERING MINSTREL. STRAND THEATRE. Fole Lessee, Mr. F. W. Alicroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaac,: THIS EVENING, JAN. 25, Will be performed DER FREISCHUTZ. Principal character ; Miss Rebecca Isaacs. To be followed by THE VIRGINLIN MUMMY. After which, a new grand Comic Christmas Pantomime. entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING NUTCRACKER; or, The World of Toys. Clown, by the inimitable Flexmore ; Harlequin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. Griffiths; Columbine, Miss Govrard. Stalls, 55.; Boxes. 3s. ; Pitt, la. ; Gallery, Gd. ; Private Boxes 11. is., to be had of Mr. Alleroft, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPRITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. Third Appearance of Miss KATE COOKE since her return from the Continent. The Theatre nightly crowded to overflowing attests Its matchless attractions. In consequence of the overflow to all parts of the Theatre on Thursday, Jan. 19, in order to meet the numerous disappointments of parties who could not obtain places on the occasion, another GRAND MORNING PERFORNIA.NCE (and positively the Last) will take place on TitURSDAY NEXT, Jan. 26, when the triple Entertainment of the Pantomime, Scenes of the Arena (in w1.1.:11 bliss Kate Cook will appear), and the wondrous Performing Ele phants will be given. To commence at Twa o'clock. Immediate application for places at the Box-office is absolutely necessary to secure them. THIS EVENING, JAN. 25, (And during the week) To commence with the Grand Chinese Spectacle, THE WIAi ELEPHANTS OF THE EAST, or THE MAGIC GONG, in which Mr. William Cooke's extraordinary Tratned Elephants appear. Followed by a Rache•cho Routine of Scenes of Equestrianism in THE ARENA, supported by the Elite of Europe's Equestrian Artistes. Concluding with Mr. W. Cooke's immensely successful coitre PANI`OV ME. written expressly for this Theatre, by Mr. Matson LEE, entitled BILLY BUT I'OM'S JOURNEY TO BRENTIORD ; or, Harlequin and the Ladles' Favourite. New scenery, dresses, decorations, and appointments, magnificent Car of Industry, &c. Harlequin, Mr. 11. Hemmings ; Columbine, Mdlie. Christine; Pantaloon, Mr. Lehman; and Two Clowns, Mr. C. Adams and Mr. Croueste ; Sprites, Masters Gee and Bralbury. Box-office open front Eleven till Four. Stage Manager. Mr. W. West. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25, 1854. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. FOLKESTONE—S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. TUNBRIDGE—S.W., strong breeze—overcast. GREENWICH—S., Strong breeze—overcast. STuoOD--S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE-8.. strong breeze—cloudy. BIRMINGHAM—S., hard wind—rain. YARMOUTH—S.E., hard wind—partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock : HOLYHEAD—S.W., strong breeze—overcast—rain. DARLINGTON—S. by W., gentle breeze cloudless— slight frost. s HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Toll DAY —Morning 17 min.after 10 I Evening 57 min.aft. 10 To-Moaacm—Morning 37 min.after 11 Evening 0 min.aft. 0 THE WEA.THEII.--Sux OFFICA, JAN. 25. THERMOMETER, IN THE SRAM 49—highest since noon yesterday. 36 —lowest this morning and during the night. 43—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30 . 23 —a sudden the of nearly three-quar. tern of an inch since yesterdly. WIND, S.W.—Fine, sunshiny weather. N., LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1851 Sanguinary fighting on the Danube at Matchin —suppressed rage among the Russian maritime authorities at Sebastopol, on learning intelli gence of the entry of the combined fleets into the Black Sea—a revival of confidence at Constantinople —an anticipation, both at Paris and at London, of the speedy withdrawal of MM. Brunnow and Kisseleff—hesitation at Berlin— anxiety at Vienna—evidence of the calm and re solute determination of the CZAR to persist in his desperate policy, according to the latest advises from St. Petersburg. Behold the situation im mediately before the re-assembling of Parliament. " To this complexion it has come at last"--as we predicted as far back as the spring of 1853—in spite of all our repeated evasions of the difficulty, and of all our reiterated attempts at negotiation. War has not been avoided: it has only been mag nified. Peace has not been secured : it has only been rendered less attainable. Hitherto the danger has been shirked, it must now be looked boldly in the face. The evil can n o longer be avoided, it must be grappled with and crushed. It has so been insisted by us, d a y after day, almost without any intermission whatever during the last half-year and upwards. Vainly, until now, so far as concerns the recog nition of the truth by her MAJEs Ti e s Government. It is satisfactory, however, at last, to feel con scious that the rapid approach of the Legislative session urges .the Cabinet on to some shoe at least of resistance to the criminal aggressions of the Russian AUTOCRAT. Whence, in a great measure, we rest assured the modifications recently oh. servable in the course pursued by this country towards the arch-assailant of the Turkish empire. Whence, indeed, the entrance into the Euxine of the combined fleets under Admirals DUNDAS and HAMELIN. Whence the warlike tone in which the crew of H.M.S. Thetis was addressed the other day by, a flag-officer at Portsmouth. But for the hastening onwards of the ti me when.. the discussions of Parliament will be resumed, we qUestion very much whether any of these signs of awakening energy would have been perceptible. Nevertheless, howsoever this may be, those tokeni of resolve have at length b " Itvitarsedp f ind the nation at large must feel thankful L. !, 1 '• so under existing circum 4. - mitr , " i• tta r—ns 4? '— • -,-0,1%-s 0 The recapitulation: t this moment of the prin eecipal datt. it, 13t; remembered henceforth in con ( 7,,ii,:,:tion with thegMern Question, may not, we conoeive, bivio untimely or devoid of a Pew i liar significance. It must be recollected then, at the outset, that it was as far back as the 28th of February, very nearly eleven months ago, when Prince MENscruKoFFmade his memorable entrance into Constantinople. It was on the 16th of March that he made his first demands on the Sublime Porte, accompanying them with condem natory allusions to the conduct then re cently pursued towards his Imperial mas ter's authority by the Turkish Government. It was in consequence of the threatening tone of these communications to the Divan from the Russian Envoy Extraordinary, that Colonel ROSE, her Bri tannic MAJESTY'S Charge d'Affaires, deemed it advisable then (ten months since) to summon the British fleet forthwith into the Dardanelles. It was at the beginning of April that Lord STRAT FORD, the British, and M. DE LA COUR, the French Ambassador, arrived in Constantinople. It was on the 19th of that month that Prince MENSCHI KOFF, in a fresh note addressed to the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, a note couched in terms yet more arrogant than its precursor, de manding from the Sublime Porte, besides a firman relating to the silver star at Bethlehem, and an order for the repair of the Dome of the Holy Sepulchre—" A Sened or Convention guarantee ing the strict status quo of the privileges of the Catholic-Greco-Russian faith, of the Eastern Church and of the sanctuaries which are in the possession of that faith exclusively, or in participation with other sects at Jerusalem." It was on the morn ing of the sth May that the reply of the Porte agreeing to the demands of the CZAR, with the solitary exception of the . Sened or Convention, was delivered into the hands of the Russian Am bassador. It was on the evening of that same day that Prince MENSCHISOFF responded to this communication by delivering into the Divan his memorable ultimatum, giving the Porte until the 10th to pronounce its definitive resolution. It was on that pre-arranged 10th that RIFAT PACHA, in a temperate note, replied to this ulti matum, by intimating that it was impossible for Turkey to accede to its requirements. There upon, it will be remembered, that it was on the 21st of that same month, after reiterated de mands and reiterated refusals, stormy inter views, and stormier correspondence, that Prince IVIENscuixoFF took his departure from Constan tinople. Ten days later, namely, on the 31st, came forth that intimidating letter addressed by Count NESSELRODE to RESCHID PACHA, in which the former Statesman announced boldly and explicitly that in a few weeks from that time the troops of his Imperial Master, the AUTOCRAT, would receive orders t 6 cross the Ottoman fron tiers, and enter upon the formal occupation of the Principalities. An alternative was held out by which the evil might be warded off—the accept ance of the demands in all their integrity, without any change (sane variantes), precisely as they were submitted to the Divan by Prince MEN SCHIKOFF. That was the opportunity—that was perversely and wantonly lost by the British and French Governments ! Had those Governments in their capacity as the allies of Turkey responded to that intimation of Count NESSELRODE by de claring—lf you cross the Pruth wo shall im mediately cross the sea of Marmora, directly you venture to despatch your military forces beyond the boundaries of Bessarabia into Moldavia and Wallachia, we shall instantly order our maritime armaments to proceed without delay through the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, taking up a power ful position in the Black Sea, instead of remain ing inactive at such a crisis in the Mediterranean —had England and France replied thus in June last to that Note of the 31st of May, in which Count NESSELRODE formally announced that the troops of the CZAR would then in a few weeks more proceed to the occupation of the Princi- palities—the Russian frontiers would never have been passed, and peace would within a brief interval have been solidly re-established. The opportunity was lost, On the 11th of June came forth that specious, but untruthful, explanatory circular addressed by Count NESSELRODE to the diplomatic agents of the Russian Govern- ment. Shortly afterwards, on the 27th, ap peared in the official Gazette of St. Petersburg the famous Manifesto of the Russian AUTOCRAT proclaiming the entrance of his forces into the Danubian Principalities. A second circular, dated the 2d of July, revealed still more glaringly, in the name of Count NESSELRODE, the mendacity of the Muscovite Government. Afterwards (how soon shall we forget it ?) took place that no torious Vienna Conference—out of which came the Note that was such a diplomatic abortion ! In the midst of all which negotiations arrived that monstrous despatch, addressed by Count NESSELRODE, on the 7th of September, to Baron DE MEYENDORFF explaining beyond the pos sibility of further misapprehension the real enormity of the demands made upon Tur key by the Russian Government. Followed.on the 31st of October by that atrocious Manifesto in which the CZAR followed up a series of monstrous untruths with a declaration of war, closing his document with a versicle from the Royal Psalmist. Everybody remembers vividly enough what fol- lowed. The subsequent events need no detailed recapitulation. There was the advance of the combined fleets from Besika Bay to their Beycos anchorage. There was the execrable massacre of the Turks at Sinope. There were those portant victories at Cifale, by which OMER PAcHA followed up so nobly his earlier successes at Oltenitza. There were the acceptance of the final proposals of the Four Po . wers,,at Constan• tinople, and their refusal at St. F'etersburgh, Finally, we have now witnessed the latest events, which may be said to have brought matters to a climax—the advance of the Combined Fleets into the Euxine, and the indignant reception of the news of that movement at the Russian Capital and at the port of Sebastopol. And so matters stand now at this memorable and most critical juncture, when we are simultaneously on the verge of an European war, and on the eve of a stormy session of the Imperial Legislature. To Sheffield belongs the honour of opening the Parliamentary campaign of 1854, and well has it done its part. A question of far more permanent consequence than any settled by Mr. GLADSTONE last session is to be the grand topic of the pre sent One ; and it would ill become the English boroughs to let her MAJESTY'S Coalition and her faithful Commons commence the great discussion without those preliminary instructions which they have always given on weighty matters to the great Committee of the nation. We trust the example will be followed in every borough which some Lord or Gentleman " of influence" cannot "crum ple up and put in his pocket." While the House of Commons so imperfectly represents the people, it behoves the people to represent themselves. Let them not imagine it is of little use. On the 1 contrary, their own members, if right-minded, need the support ; if wavering, need a weight to turn the scale ; and, if quite wrong, will doso much less harm, for the awkward fact of their own con stituencies being in open mutiny against them. Just at the present time, moreover, silence is being misconstrued for apathy, and a Premier quite as indisposed to attack electoral as Imperial tyranny, will assimilate his domestic to his Russian policy, unless, to use a Spanish phrase, the country pro nounce in time. Up to the hour when Lord Jon/v. ALTS 84144 rises to make his Beform dill 1 3 Peeell i will important concessions be waiting for the yea or nay of the country. The public demands and their bearing on the stability of the Cabinet will be carefully watched till the last ; and let it be remembered, that, thoughit has often not been very difficult to prevent some objection able Government proposal, it has always been next to impossible to gain Cabinet assent to anything good which Ministers have not them selves proposed. We believe this is frequently due to the simple fact that they had not proposed it. The credit would be but in small part theirs, and they know the people will endure better the continuance of some old evil than the infliction of a new one. We advise all our constituencies then to be up and doing. There is, indeed, no time to be lost. The QUEEN'S Speech we shall very soon have the honour of laying before them, with its cautious Reform paragraph ; and it then can not be long before we shall present them also with the Reform Speech of the Leader of the House of Commons. The substantial propositions of that Speech will depend much on the Public Meetings held before it is delivered. Sheffield has, as already observed, set an ex cellent example. We indeed, of course, must think so. The two resolutions of the meeting comprise the two points which for some months past we have pressed upon public attention—a largo extension of the constituency and the Bal lot. The latter too was, as with us, obviously of primary importance with . both the meeting and the speakers. Though it belonged to Mr. BRIGHT'S resolution, Mr. COBDEN could not refrain from occupying with it the best and by far the most earnest part of his speech ; and Mr. BRIGHT did not fail to do it equal justice. If our readers have not perused their admirable remarks, we beg them to turn again to The Sun of Saturday. With perfect truth Mr. BRIGHT observed, that "as to the Ballot, he affirmed that no man ever heard a fair tenable argument against it." It seems that so early as 'the time of JAMES I. the Ballot was enjoined of his free will in the Charter of Pontefract, "to the intent that the aforesaid election may be without any contention and ma lice in any shape." We have sometimes been told that Americans are indifferent to the Ballot, though we never met with the Yankee who avowed this indifference. The truth seems to be, that the number of dependent voters is comparatively small, as may be expected in a country where labour is at a premium. Mr.. BRIGHT, however, mentions that "the Attorney-General of the United States, a man of remarkable intelligence and libe rality, and possessing a large fund of information on all subjects, said to him the other day, speak ing of the Ballot—' We consider the basis of freedom to be representative institutions, and we consider the Ballot to be the basis of representative institutions.' " There is a weighty truth in this last clause, for as Mr. B. added, " The Ballot would give what the law often failed to afford—it would give the vote actually, positively, and sole!y to the man whose name was on the register ;" that is, the representation would be real, the representation not of the voters, masters, creditors, landlords, or purchasers, but of the voter himself. The speaker also fully concurs with an opinion we have more than once expressed, that hard work as the Government will have to carry any respect able measure with the long list of members who must be consigned to schedule A, the proposal of the Ballot alone would rouse the people to carry it for them ; " would create greater enthusiasm in its behalf than anything else, and would do more to insure its passing than the introduction of any other provision which could be placed in it." As to Mr. COBDEN, he appeared quite to long for another organised crusade in the cause of free voting. It would certainly be a most worthy supplement to his Free-trade labours, and the country would have almost as much reason to thank him for one as for the other. He thinks himself, however, too near fifty for that work. He was most indignant that the very class who refused thorn a trial of the Ballot were those who used it in all clubs and societies of their owu ; he desired especially that all the country should learn of Oxford, for the University employs the ballot in their meetings of Convocation —in every thing, in fact, but electing members of Par liament. lie looked upon open voting as a mere piece of feudalism, as the means of keeping retainers and vassals to their duty, as much a badge of feudalism as bad been the corn laws. It was because everybody thought he had a hereditary right to control somebody's else vote. He was confident that if a trial of it were made in only a few towns it would spread like wildfire. The good order would be such as he had witnessed in Spain and America, and all had heard of in France, a quiet like that of one of our Sundays, rather than the perfect Satur nalia which disgrace English elections ; and yet Whigs and Tories alike were doggedly opposed to even a few trials of it ! It is somewhat singular, after language like this, heartily applauded by a meeting of a thousand people, and a resolution passed accordingly, that the influential morning journal, whose leader we gave with the report of the meeting, should speak of the Ballot as some thing quite shelved by the public. It is, how ever, one thing for the public to despair of real reform from a Coalition Ministry, and another to renounce its rights. We perceive that Mr. COB DEN, also, has no faith in the extension of the county franchise being anything more than a multiplication of dependent votes—that is, under the present mode of taking them. Of course, the petty boroughs were shown up as they deserve. Yorkshire was quite sufficient for perfect specimens. The boroughs returning 17 members, yet not numbering altogether more than 80,000 inhabitants, while Sheffield, with nearly double the number', 140,000, returned also but two. The little pets presenting also some pleasing varieties of absurdity in ter se. Richmond, with a population under 5,000, returning two members, while Scar borough and other little boroughs, though having a population and constituency more than twice as large, also returned but their two each. The specimens of " influence" are equally normal. At Richmond the DUNDAS family, for instance, (the Earl of ZETLAND) " doing what they will with their own." Earl FITZWILLIAM, of course, doing the like at Malton, where no Peterborough rebellion has yet been known; " no contest has been heard of for half a century," saith the fin passible DOD. RIPON was bequeathed, according to the same authority, by the wealthy Miss LAW- RENcE to Earl DE GREY, and it has worn. the GREY livery faithfully ever since. We must not wander farther, however, among these venerable relics of feudalism, so soon to bo utterly ruined by Reform Vandalism. We can onlyexpress our hope that some faithful few at least will be found to call in every independent borough a meeting which shall vote on the two Sheffield resolutions, prepared, if needful, to follow it up by petitions and memorials to their members. One demand, we think, might uniformly be made, that wher- ever a majority of a fairly-called public meeting declared in favour of the Ballot, that there at least it should be tried. It would in all such cases be clear that the non-electors also preferred to in trust their cause to the consciences of the electors. Many years, must elapse before the cabman's strike of 1853 will be forgotten by the sojourners in or visitors to the metropolis during the glorious (!) days when there was so deplorable a lack of vehicular accommodation. Mr. FITZROY'S Bill had just come into operation, and its provi sions were singularly distasteful to the irritable It is true that there were many points in exceedingly favourable to the body, but they Were unwilling to take the good with the bad. The extra fare for additional passengers, the pay ment for small parcels, the double mileage beyond the circular line, were all very agreeable to the heroes of the stands ; but the giving of tickets with the number of the vehicle, so as to insure their identification in case some indignant passen ger should choose to haul up the delinquent, the summary jurisdiction bestowed upon magistrates, the enactment which enabled the fare to direct the driver to proceed at once to the nearest police station, and, above all, the 6d. fares (!) were re- race. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY 'EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1854 1 garded as perfectly i n t o l era bl e . Th e j inn entere d deeply into thefr souls. They determined to teach the public that they could not be done with out, and, as the first lesson, simultaneously withdrew from their respective stands. Great was the consternation excited at the moment among the elderly ladies and gentlemen, who, on busi ness or pleasure intent, arrived at the London termini of the different railways. Here an " un protected female" bewailed her mournful lot, her trunks, band-boxes, and brown paper parcels being scattered about in admired confusion. There a respectable "pater familias" listened to the objur gations of his spouse, while he vainly ransacked his brains as to the most eligible mode of convey ing his wife and , numerous olive branches to their remote destination. The enemy, meanwhile, made the most of their temporary triumph. Crowds attended at the different, places of public resort, and jeered and bamboozled the unfortunate vic tims of the movement to their hearts' content. At length they condescended to come round. The movement had taken place at an inconvenient season. Parliament was actually sitting at the time, and had the malcontents continued the war, very formidable results might be antici pated. A parley, therefore, took place. Mr. FITZ ROY promised to make some slight concessions, and a truce was patched up, and Cabby re turned to his post, having given " a taste of his quality " to his adversaries, and shown how great was his power of annoyance. Since that period he has found that the work ing of the new code is by no means so unfavour able as he had anticipated—that he had, in fact, been frightened rather than hurt at the novel regulations. He has therefore set himself to make the best of, the job, to exact to the uttermost farthing for every delay not sanctioned by the Act. Formerly he could only charge for time or distance ; now he can do so for both, except under certain conditions never acted on, and which prac tically rendei the law on, that part of the subject a dead letter. .But a sudden shower brings him in a regular harvest ; when a lady with a nume rous family of children are caught in the rain, and obliged to pay more for one cab than they could obtain three for, if so many were forth coming, and could be obtained. Great discrimi nation is, holvever, required in the selection of the best customers in extracting the 6d. fare, and ob taining that which will pay nearly three times the amount. This is rather a difficult task, but experience has taught the modern JEHU many valuable lessons, and amongst them that of deciding on the value of a fare, at first sight—deciding literally by the first impression. Thus, it turns out, that some persons can never find a vehicle disengaged. The driver has first been chartered by " a gent. who has stepped over the way . to get refreshment !" or " his hanimal is vorn out, with fatigue, and he is on his vay to the stable !" These excuses generally answer the purpose. The applicant, discouraged, wends his weary way until he finds some more complacent driver, or an omnibus proceeding in the required direction. Sometimes a very pertinacious and stubborn customer is discovered, one who does not quite approve of the ill-suppressed mirth that finds its way along the rank, as Cabby asserts most vehemently his pre-engagement. Such persons sometimes resort to a summons, and it is, there fore, necessary to be prepared with a defence. For this purpose, a new class has arisen, who are ready to bear witness on any occasion in favour of the inculpated JEHU. There are male and female " mounters" always available, who will swear anything that may be required, either as to the fact of a pro -engagement, or as to the politeness of demeanour and language of the accused. By such evidence---for the mounter generally has a plausible tale concocted as to his or her occupation and respectability—the tables are usually turned—the complainant finds to his astonishment that•he is altogether in the wrong, that it was he who displayed the violence of de meanour and of language very unbecoming his position and station in society, and he finds that through the fortunate presence of the disinterested and unexceptionable witness his complaint is dismissed with costs, and that he has also to make ample compensation to Cabby for loss of time, (h. The device was unquestionably in genious, and if not testifying very clearly as to the morality, did so as to the acuteness and cun ning of the accused. But now that it is known, its efficacy will be destroyed. It will henceforth be incumbent on the presiding magistrate to insti tute a strict inquiry into the antecedents of every person suspected of being a " mounter," and, if it can be shown that the tale,is untrue, of commit ting the party to trial for perjury. By such means the trick will be defeated—the deceiver caught in his own toils, and Cabby will at length learn that in his trade, as well as in all others, " honesty is the best policy." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 24. The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Viscount and Vis countess Hardinge, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, and the Baroness de Speth. The band of the Ist Life Guards attended in the Castle during dinner, and performed the following pieces : Overture, " Sophia Catharina" Selection, " Mountain Sylph" Barnett. Wralzer, " Narragansett" Gung'l. Grand Selection, " Rigoletto" Verdi. Polka, " Glocken" Herzog. Schottische, " Edinburgh," on National Melodies Labitzky. Her Majesty's private band was afterwards in attend. ance, and played the following compositions : Overture, " Pastorale" Kalliwoda. Duo, " Gustave" Coro, " II Templario" The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and the Earl and Countess of Bessborough have been invited, and are ex pected this afternoon. The Earl of Clarendon arrived in town yesterday morning, to attend the Cabinet Council, from Windsor Castle. Count Walewski, the French Ambassador, paid a visit to the noble earl in the afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing.street. Mr. Monsell, M.P., had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer on Monday, at his official resi dence in Downing-street. The Royal Commission for Inquiring into the state of the Corporation of the City of London met yesterday, at the Privy Council-office, Downing -street. The Commis sioners present were the Right Hon. H. Lahouchere, the Right Hon. Sir John Patteson, and G. Cornewall Lewis, Esq. Bishop Wilson had an interview with Viscount Pal. merston on Monday, at the home-office. Despatches wore received from the Governor of Canada yesterday, at the Colonial-office. CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, yesterday afternoon. The Ministers present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll. Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat four hours. The Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar have arrived in town from visiting the Duke arid Dueness of Richmond, at Goodwood Park. His High ness is doing duty with his regiment, the 3d battalion Grenadier Guards quartered at the Tower. The Duke of Beaufort, and a party of sporting noble men and gentlemen are participating in the pleasures of the hunt, at Badminton Park. Lord John Russell's official banquet, on Monday next, when the Queen's Speech will be read to a full dress dinner party, including the mover and seconder of the Address, will be given at the Foreign• Office, his Lordship's mansion in Chesham•place not being suffi ciently capacious for so large a party. The Lady Elizabeth Cornwallis arrived in Berkeley square yesterday, from Linton-place, near Maidstone. Lord and Lady Alfred Paget and youthful family arrived in Berkeley-square yesterday, from visiting the Marquis of Anglesea at Beaudesert, where Viscount and Viscountess Sydney and a limited circle have been staying on a visit to the gallant and venerable field marshal during the last week. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon entertained a distinguished party at dinner last evening in Grosvenor crescent. The Hon, Charles A. Murray, her Majesty's Minister at Berne and suite, arrived yesterday at Mivart's Hotel from Switzerland. THE GRAND OPERA IN PARIS.—The English with us complain loudly of the time wasted between the acts, which formed a serious addition to the length of the opera, the sederunt altogether occupying up wards of five hours and a balf,--110lignanc$ No ginger, MONEY MA RKE AND COMMEI?CiAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000 bales, all to the trade. The market was heavy, and prices of new American at sid. to aid. were Id. per lb. lower ; everything else flat. The sales include 100 Egyp tian at Gd. to Bd., 300 Surat at W. to 4d., and the remainder American. Railway shares were again lower, with more desire to sell. Messrs. H. W. Jewesbury and Co. report as follows : " There has been decidedly an improved tone in the foreign and colonial produce markets during the past fourteen days. A large business has" been done for home use, and also a fair amount for export. The im portations have been moderate, and as the deliveries from the warehouses continue large, the stocks of many of the leading articles show - a further decrease. The articles which have most materially improved in value are rice and saltpetre. Cochineal has been in increased demand at advanced rates, and dyewoods generally are also higher. Indigo and lac dye rule about previous rates, but' safflower is rather easier for the lower qualities. Unfortunately we are unable to notice any change for the better in the aspect of political affairs ; the prospects of a continua tion of peace are diminishing daily ; it cannot, therefore, be expected that confidence in mercantile transactions, particularly for export, will continue. The strikes in the manufacturing districts, although partially ended, are. still in a very unsatisfactory state, and large numbers are out of employment. The further rise which has taken place in the necessaries of life must be severely felt by the labouring classes. From the continental produce markets the late reports notice that prices re main firm, but with the exception of some business in rice, the demand generally was confined to actual re quirements. In our cotton manufacturing districts, there has been more doing in goods suitable for the India markets, since the receipt of the last advices, but for cloth generally the demand is only moderate. In the woollen districts the transactions have been consi derable, at firm prices." Under this head, an interesting extract respect ing the trade of Russia, and the loss she must sus tain by a conflict with Europe, was given a few days since from the Bankers' Circular. The fcl lowing remarks from the same source are based upon data, embracing the whole of the year 1851 : " Perhaps it may interest our agricultural readers to know that the exports of grain from the Russian Em pire, exclusive of those from the Kingdom of Poland, in 1851, amounted to no less than 19,393,281 roubles, or about 3,000,0001. sterling. And it is probable that their value will greatly exceed this amount for the year just ended, inasmuch as our imports of wheat alone during the first nine months of 1853 exceeded those of the total quantity for the year 1851, by 773,507 quarters against 699,684 quarters. " And it appears from their official returns that the proportion of the exterior commerce carried on with Europe in 1851, amounted to about 79,000,000 roubles in the exports, or about 81 per cent. of the entire value, and the imports from the same quarter to 78,000,000 roubles, or about 75 per cent. of the entire value. " Hence we may infer that, if Russia be determined to act hostility to the Ither great Powers of Europe, she must be prepared to sacrifice a great proportion of her exterior commerce, in which she will have to play a very hazardous game. For, to admit the posibility of her success in a military point of view, would be nothing less than giving to despotism the power of triumph over freedom and civilisation. BRITISH MlNEs.—Transactions in shares this day were more frequent than yesterday, in conse quence of buyers being more numerous. Those most in favour are Alfred Consols, 25 ; Tremayne, 10 ; Molland, ; Bedford United, 8k 9 ; Wheal Buller, 1,100 1,110 ; Sortridge Consols, 225. 6d., 275. 6d. ; Tamar Marias, Bs., ; Great Tregune Consols, 3 I; Treleigh, 2 ; East Russells, 61; Comb martins, 6s. ; Poltimores, 1 ; Great Crinnis, 305.; Treweathas, 4 ; Wheal Edward, 2k 3 ; and So. Cork, 15s. 1. At the meeting of the Shareholders of the Old Trewether Consols Company yesterday, some good samples of antimony, silver-lead and copper ores were exhibited, which have just been raised on the setts. Due activity seemed to have been displayed by themanagers of this undertaking, as the engine only went to work on the 4th inst., to fork the water out of the old workings, yet many tons of anti- molly are stated to be now on the surface, and only a small expense is said to have been incurred to arrive at this result, which is important to the in terests of the slmreholders. Yesterday afternoon, the quotations for bills were a shade higher upon the principal Continental cities. Paris, 90 days, was 25 27i to 30 ; Amster dam, 1115'i to ; Hamhurgh, 13 4/. to 41, and Trieste, .12 55 to 13. There is a gratifying change in the English funds, consequent upon the important fact that the Emperor of Russia has not acted up to his pre vious declaration, and recalled the ambassadors upon hearing of the entry of the combined fleets, The speculators for a fall have been buying back, and as stated frequently under this head, there will be a great reaction should there ba even the ap pearance of a preservation of peace, for the obvious reasons that the public have large surpluses ready for investment, and that Bearing always predomi nates in periods of doubt and anxiety like the present, since capitalists and others holding largely of stocks and shares are compelled, as a matter of prudence, to sell for time in order to protect them selves against loss. Consols have been 90g to 1, and since 91 to 91k. Exchequer Bills are 7s. to 10s. premium. Bank Stock has been firm at 216. Foreign Securities participate in the buoyancy of our own securities. Russian 5 per Cents. hal e been up to 105 and 107, and the 4i- per Cents. to 861 and 87. Spanish 3 per Cents. bring 40 to 1, and the Deferred 19 to l. Mexican Bonds are worth 23, and Grenada Deferred 61. Brazilian Old Stock is at 96. Belgian 41 per Cents. are 871, and the Dutch 4 per Cents. 91 to 911. Railways are up 1 to 2 per cent. in many in stances, although there is not a large business doing. Caledonian, Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland, and North British are very buoyant. French shares have recovered nearly 21., and the Belgian lines in proportion. The current prices for the Jamaica Mines not officially quoted, are as follows :—Jamaica, par to premium; Metcalfe, to premium; Sue River, discount to par; Port Royal, toe premium. The Gold Mine shares are much the same, excep t Agua Fria, which have advanced. Joint Stock Bank shares have been nominally rather firmer. There is an improvement of IL. to 2/. in Austra• dan Agricultural shares. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Business done. Bank Stock i per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent, Consols Annuities . 3O, f; 1 1 ,- 90i Neva 31 per Cent. Annuities 9li 2g A India Bonds, £IOOO Ditto, under £lOOO par Consols for Account 15th Feb. 94 14- 00i Exchequer Bills, ld. £l000 £5OO 7lO p ' Small 7lO p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. rirazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 96 Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent lO2 Grenada Bonds, Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent. Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St lO5 7 Ditto 4i per Cent B7 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent... ...... 87 0. Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 39 401 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. l9 Ditto Passive (Converted) Dividends on the above payable in London. Beigianlßonds 41 per Cent. ex. 25 fr Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Guil 6O 1 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates HALF-PAST TWO. Consols 9oi Ditto February Account DETERMINED SUICIDE IN TOWER -STREET POLICE STATION-HOUSE, WATERLOO-ROAD.—This morning, W. Payne, Esq., the coroner, received information of the death of Isaac Plank, aged 40 years, No. 41, New-street, Webber-street, Blackfriars, who committed self-destruc tion under the following melancholy circumstances. It appears the deceased was taken to Tower-street station house, Waterloo-road, for making a disturbance, and locked up. When police-constabl e Henry Percy, No. 74 L, went to visit him in the cell, be found he had delibe rately drawn a razor across his throat, inflicting a fright ful gash, by which the windpipe and carotid artery were divided. He was instantly conveyed to St. Tiomas's Hospital, where Mr. Dickinson, house surgeon, attended by the medical staff of that valuable institution, afforded prompt attention to the sufferer, who gradually sank and expired shortly on his admission. The razor was concealed about his person, as it was not found by the office ;on searching. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS RUSSIA AND TURKEY, It is stated, says the Paris correspondent of the Times, writing yesterday evening, that despatches were received on Monday evening at the Russian Embassy from St. Petersburg; and though their contents are not known with any degree of certainty, they are supposed to contain the Emperor's reply to the note of which M. de Reizet was the bearer, and the notification of the entry of the combined squadrons into the Black Sea. That reply, though not described as couched in any very strong lan guage, is nevertheless of such a character as leaves little hope of a change in the Emperor's 'mind. It demands, it is said, explanations as to what the French Government moans by making the Black Sea neutral, and requires that a declaration of such neu trality shall be set forth in an official memorandum. Otherwise the reply is, as usual, evasive. The Czar makes the old protestations of the purity of his in tentions and the harmlessness of his designs, and though ravaging the Principalities and burning the Turkish ships at Sinope, he still declares that war is not his desire, nor conquest his object. His in tentions are pacific, non-aggressive, and though his troops may be established in the Ottoman terri tory, aggrandizement is as far from his mind as ever: At the order given to the fleets to enter the Black Sea he is understood to express his surprise and regret, as the Powers must know that Russia is not at war with France aid England, but only with Turkey. It is a personal quarrel between him and the Sultan, with which the Powers have no concern whatever. If such be the true charac ter of the despatches, they would seem to be little more than a repetition, or rather compendium, of all that has been already said and written on this luckless Eastern question. The recall of the Am bassadors from London and Paris may be more or less imminent, according to the refusal of these Governments to such a demand. The Czar seems unwilling to abandon to the last moment the part he has hitherto assumed —not the wrong-doer, but the wronged—not the attacker, but the attacked ; and ho evidently prefers leaving to England and France the initiative in the complete rupture of diplomatic relations. • The Vienna correspondent of the Morning Chronicle of Jan. 21, writes :—ln the beginning of the present week it was intimated to me that the Czar would most probably answer the notification of the entry of the combined fleets into the Black Sea in an angry tone, and order his ambassadors at London and Paris to leave their posts, at least for a time. Since then, it would appear that a some what less resolute mode of replying to the said no tification has been determined upon. The notifi cation in question was verbally communicated to Count Nesselrode on the 12th inst. ; and as "peace or war" depends upon the answer, it would seem likely, from the latest information, that the'prima facie casus belli, which the said notification is sup posed to involve, will be momentarily ignored; and that the Russian Cabinet will most probably de mand formal explanations thereon, copies of . , the special instructions given to the English and French admirals in the Euxine, and so forth. If the Czar should determine to frame his preliminary answer in this manner, of course the immediate consequence will be that an additional delay of three or four weeks will ensue before the question of "peace or war" between Russia and the Western Powers will be determined. Meanwhile, no doubt, the Czar's caution may be construed favourably ; and yet, if I am not greatly mistaken, all these manoeuvres to gain time will soon be exhausted. Russia will not tamely submit to be humiliated ; and as for the last peace project agreed to at Con stantinople, the Czar will surely not accept it, un less the Porte consents to enter into direct negotia tions with the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh. The passage of the Danube by the Russians ap pears to be confirmed by news received in Paris. It is believed that from 10,000 to 15,000 have passed in the spot indicated, and it is certain that that corps will be followed by others ; and we may expect for a desperate attempt at as complete an invasion of Bulgaria, for the movement of troops in Russia is very great. The Emperor has in this, as in other matters, disappointed all anticipation ; he has not waited for spring to resume his operations ; and while receiving and answering protocols and ulti matums he has been acting. The passage of the Danube creates a new embarrassment to the Powers. By perhaps a strained construction of words the passage of the Pruth and the occupation of the Principalities were pronounced not to be in strictness a casus belli ; the exceptional position of these provinces justifying the doubt, and the benefit of the doubt was given to the Czar. The question may now arise whether the passage of the Danube, which is regarded as the real answer to the entry of the combined fleets into the Black Sea, ought to be regarded by the Powers as a casus belli, or merely a simple act of intrusion,, condemnable to be sure, but yet necessitating the application of the u/tima ratio. If the Russians enter the Balkan passes and invade Roumelia, the same question may arise. In the Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 15th inclusively, there is nothing respecting the move ments of the Russians in the Principalities of the Danube, or any other operations of the Russian armies. By a rescript dated the 23d ult. the Emperor of Russia has conferred the order of the White Eagle on Vice-Admiral Stanukovitch, Cowman3ant of the port of Sebastopol and Military Governor of the town. The Trieste Gazette states that the restrictions imposed by Prince dortschakoff on neutral vessels in the Lower Danube have rendered navigation there impossible, and that Austrian commerce will suffer more than that of any other nation. It is affirmed in monetary circles usually well in formed that Austria has notified to Russia her fixed determination to maintain an armed neu trality, provided the Czar adheres to his engage ment that he aims at no territorial aggrandise ment. In the event of this pledge of the Czar be ing broken, it is stated Austria would assume an attitude antagonistic to Russia. A letter from Hermannstadt, Jan. 20, mentions that Prince Gortschakoff had left Bucharest with two regiments of infantry and several squadrons of hussars and Cossacks, for Krajova, whence he pro ceeds to Radovan, the present centre of General Aurep's corps. General Dumont is among the Russian officers severely wounded. A private letter, dated Sophia, Jan. 12, states that on the 10th several thousand men of the gar rison there were marched down towards Wid.din. On the 12th 3,000 irregulars arrived at Sophia. The announcement of the passage of the Danube at Silistria by the Russians, originally made in the Vienna Frenden Blatt, is not confirmed, but other despatches from Bucharest state that the Russians were very active along the whole line of the Danube, and it is not improbable that aggressions on the right bank may have taken place at more than one point. The statement that Silistria had fallen into the hands of the Russians is now explained to apply, not to the celebrated fortress there, which is known to be capable of resisting a considerable force, but to a locality in the neighbourhood. Accounts from Sebastopol of the 10th, received through Bucharest, state that all the Russian ships are kept close in port. Small steamers keep the IRussian Admiral well informed of the French and English fleets. On the '7th two steamers from the fleets brought an official message for the Russian Admiral. Since that date neither the French nor English flag had been seen. There was a violent sea storm on the 6th. Letters from Odessa of the 12th state that no French or English war ships had been seen there. The British steamer, Prometheus, was at Varna on the 2nd inst. The captain, it was said, was b lookina in the Gulf of Burgos for a good anchorage for the fleets. The report that oto Russians bad blockaded Varna was incorrect. A letter from Vienna of the 20th, to the Cologne Gazette, says :—"News have arrived here to-day to the effect that on the morning of the 13th, the Russians passed the Danube near Matchin, and engaged in a very brisk combat with the Turks. The result was not known at the departure of the courier at one in the afternoon. Matchin was said to be in flames, and the carnage terrible." The first regiment of the Christian Cossacks formed by Zadyk Pasha (Charkowsky) and mostly composed of Bulgarians, was to leave Constanti nople on the 10th for the head-quarters of Omer Pasha. It was believed that the Governor of Sebastopol contented himself with answering to the notifica tion of the entry of the' fleets into the Black Sea, that he was astonished at so unforeseen a commu- nication, that he could not understand what they wanted of him, Russia being at war only with Turkey, and that, consequently, he could not say what he meant to do under the circumstances. The Turkish Government, on the recommenda tion of General Baraguay d'Hilliers, has decided on establishing a line of electric telegraph from Constantinople to Schumla. It is also in contem plation to purchase in Europe a certain number of steam vessels. A Constantinople letter of the 9th, in the Lloyd of Vienna, states that the Russian ships of war which had been cruising in the Black Sea had en tered the port of Sebastopol. Letters from the Danubian Principalities state that Prince Pas ke witch is charged to draw out a plan of military operations on an immense scale. General Osten-Sicken, whose head-quarters have just been removed to Belze, is appointed by a ukase Go vernor-General of Bessarabia and the Crimea. This concentration of such an extensive power has for its object to favour military combinations, and to render them more active. Nothing is neglected. by Russia, says this cor respondence, •whinli can tend to excite national amour propre, religious fanaticism, political ambi tion, the ignorance of the masses, and the pre' judir..,es of the nobility. Everything is set at work by the agents of the Czar, on whose head reposes the double diadem of spiritual and temporal ab solutism. No idea can be formed of the terror spread in the principalities by acts which are in flagrant violation of the law of nations. On the most frivolous pretext the inhabitants are arrested and dispossessed of their property. Instances are named in which the most respectable people, even those who are strangers to the country, after having been despoiled stand in danger of their lives. In order not to aggravate their peril, it is necessary to be silent as to names. It is in vain that Prince Gortschakoff gives orders more conso nant with humanity ' • his subordin a t es h ee d that not and feroci ous old Boyards accomplish the most deplorable acts. THE DANUBE. The following account of the combats at Cagle is given by the Wanderer : " The tremendous efforts of the Russians to eject the Turks from the neighbourhood of Kalafat have failed, after a series of bloody battles fought during five sue" cessive days. Six weeks' preparation, a great concentra' tion of troops, an accumulation of all kinds of warlike stores at Radovan, and continual reconnoitering have all been in vain. Not only have the Russians not so' ceeded in investing the Turkish fortifications, but by re" treating yesterday evening to Radovan, they have given up the positions which they had at Crucea, and to the right of that place. The Turks now move on the out' side of their fortifications within three or four hours ( e ight or ten English miles) of Radovan, just as they did two months since. "My description of the battle of the 7th closed with the retreat of the Russians from Citale in an oblique direction towards Radovan. As the Russians MO; selves have avoided all mention of this retreat, 1 have taken great pains to glean inforniation on the subject, and things happened thus. After the bloody battle with the Wallachian borderers, near Salceet at the end of December, in which the village via l reduced to ashes, the women, children, and old people emigrated to Roumelia. The men capable of bearing are° united with the borderers of Citale and other places le the neighbourhood, and formed a battalion 900 or 1,° 13 1 strong. For some t i me the people on the two banks o f the river hav e b een i n un i nterrupted communication, 05, 7 it appears th a t th e T ur k s at length resolved to make o. ` Citale a kind of bulwark, which would complete the fortifications around Kalafat. The Russians were awar e of this intention, and hence arose the sanguinary conflict' During the night, between the 6th and 7th, the Turks managed to get behind (to the west of) Cital e, whe t° they united with some other Turks who had cora ° up, and across the river in boats. To the east of Ka l° A ' fat, and on th e fi e ld o f battle , there had o n ly re maine d about 3,000 T ur k s , an d the above-mentioned Wallachia ° battalion, which, thirsting for revenge on the Russians for burning down Salcea, and other acts of the see le description, had de s i re d t o b e placed in the very lron ' , of the battle. The request was granted, and on the itli; this battalion, a T ur ki sh one, 1,000 horse, and 3 1 % t • 7 supported by th e art ill ery, sustained the attack of t he Russians for a w h o l e hour. At the end of tha t time, the Turks po3ted behind Citale, who were about 6,000 strong, appeared in two detachments, and mad ° a vigorous attack on the flanks of the Russian cols' After half an hour's hard fighting, the Russians wer e ° repulsed with gr ea t l oss, and retired with all speed Radovan, as Ismail Pacha, with troops from Kalafat, making a move in that direction. The reinforcement 3,000 men, which th e T ur ki s h commander had sent o', about four in the evening of the 6th from Fontana 1 3 ° nului to Gunia, to o k u p it s or i g i nal position after t h e battle. As this m ovemen t l e d to the report that th e Turks had retired from Citale to Kalafat, we in X ra ' , jova were u na bl e t o un d erstan d why the Russ i a °o had retreated in suc h h o t h aste on the 7th. It is n om evident that when I sma il P ac h a recalled a part o f t he troops from Gunia, he reinforced those left by sendin . g fresh men across the Danube behind th ,t place. S ele observedn on the 6th and 7th. I sma il Paell how things were going on from Gunia Muglavit. On this day (the 7th), after the retreat of t h e Russian, only outpost skirmishes took place. "On the Bth, th e b att l e was renewed ne a r Cite'? —about two English miles to the north-west o f tha t place—but soon took the direction of the road leading from Radovan to Kalafat. At mid-day the battle became as violent as th a t o f th e 6th, b ut i n the afternoon and eveningit grew far h o tt er , an d term! , listed decidedly t o th e di sa d vantage of the Russian'. , On the Bth th ere were 15,000 men engaged on e ith er side. The R uss i ans h ave l ost several guns, be t cannot positively say how many, as the reports vary" We now lea rn th e R uss i ans on l y got b ack three of t hei n guns on the first d a y, th e T ur k s h av i ng managed to ke ep the other three. " On the 9th the conflict was continued, but was le: obstinate than those of the 6th and Bth. It apPea t that the battle of the 10th was nearly as serious as ti ° of the Bth. On both these dates the best Russian troo p s fought hand to h an d w i t h t h e enemy, and this /04 duty they had to perf orm severa l t i mes in the course " each day. "In a hurried not e , wr itt en yesterday in penc il, 0 read— Half-past 11.--It is reported beyond the Russ ia line-of-battle, that O mer P ac h a has appeared to the , bihind Ciorin , in the neighb our h oo d of the line-of- b a ttl e; Two Russian battalions, deceived by a feigned retreat the part of the Turks, got between three ma s ked b 1 teries, which thinned th e i r ran k s f ear f u l ly. Noth i n g o to be heard but the thunder of the cannon. The tunl of battle is so grea t th a t no thi ng can b e distingu i s h° , Both parties are completely exhausted.' The news of Omar Pacha's having appeared e i ° the field of battle I cannot confirm, neither am h able to give pa r ti cu l ars o f th e engagements wh i ch took place on the 9th an d 10 t h . It str i kes that the foregoing note, which is from a credo) eye-witness, may refer to the Bth, as the date lo ft become almost illegible before it reached me. is, however, certai n , th a t h ost ili t i es ceased i n the afternoon of the 10th w i t h the result ment i o n: in the note. O n a ll th e d ays mentioned the o°,'„, Edict was for the mo s t p ar t b etween the cavalry and 0 .4 artillery. The i n f an t ry p l ayed a subordinate part, b:, when the hostile battalions met they almost iruol diately took to the bayonet and fought man to 1131 t ot After such a fu r i ous an d d esperate struggle it is -fact natural that the l oss on b ot h s i des is enormous, and I cannot bett er express myself than by saying tut/ during the fi ve days' enga gemen t, f our t i mes as ree'ea lives were lost as at Oltenitza. No one at all ex pect ! , that the Russian s wou ld b e d e f eated on a field w bie r was so advantageous for the operations of their super i d cavalry, for you must know that during the whele,be the five days th e o bl ong d escr ib ed in my letter o f Bth formed the battle. The spot is known, on accol, l ; of its extensive pl ans , as the Campu,' or field. ce o cepting during the s ho r t a ff a i r on t h e 7th, the foP f were equal. The Russian bulletins are as like those_f h the Turks are as one drop of water to another. blob party just doubles the oth er ' s f orces , b u t th e fi gures viT I have given are worthy of all credit. In their ar tilles the Turks were mor e p ower f u l than the R uss i an s. j i g ` I give the number o f killed according to th e rep?? .. „, now before me, I must multiply the number Pi t; given in the writer's letter of the 8th —by 4 a t leas t , but w o but I will still hope, for humanity's sak e , th a t -t mistaken. But few prisoners were mad e , as d ea th to preferred to captivity. ' An eye witness wrote to on the Bth :—I saw a group of Turkish irrego"" e d, about 25 in number, surrounded an d diserl As the men still resisted, some w ere put to d eath, a and others thrown violently to the ground. Even vibe `prostrate, the unfortunate wretche s ma d e use o f 7 01 . 0 short weapons, and so sent some of their conque o i into the next world. The transport of the wow' o r takes no end, and there is no more room for the CO crea tures in Krajova an d the two neighbouring Coe vents. Many are sent on t o S latina, but' many ro°reb.coe lying in the neighbouri ng v ill ages. Hundreds of teliej, w ounded on the 6th, 7 t h , and Bth, have already the No words can describe the anxiety displayed V o le inhabitants of Krajova during the battle. In s iao were tranquilli s i ng proclamations issued by the Reetbeir authorities ; the more wealthy fled to Slatina or to 0131 estates in the north, and those who re ma i n ed terr ia , each other w ith t h e cry of ' The Turks are corn ins The gipsies, wh o are very act i ve i n spreading a l a r m i news, are frequently heard to say, Vine nr, r tyl. adduce libertat' (the Turk comes and brings us IR': ,bat The gipsies were emancipated in 1848, and sinc e time the word libertat' had always been in their rir r t he Hostilities are now suspended, and will be so f o r next three days at least--thatis, until Prince Gor" koff comes." FRANCE. n at On Monday evening a splendid ball was pe n by the Palace of the Tuileries, which was attende d ' cl all the notabilities in Paris. The ball was ot ie f l atis by the Emperor, who danced with the PrIT-, 0 -e rd Mathilde, the mpress being vis-d-vis, with - A of Cowley as her partner. Among the guests, ° 11 .," n t the most noticed, in consequence of the Pr e ig l e state of political affairs, was M. de Kisseleff a s fact is of little consequence in itself, f ()r o i re long as M. do Kisseleff remains the represents leg of Russia, in Paris , he will of course show liiinsre. at all the Court fetes; but the mere fact of his Poe sence undoubtedly assisted in the reaction en 00a Bourse ; and the speculators, to increase its g o d effect, added that the Russian, arabasasdor den of ma eel] res to' lat( Ra: to hat ant.: the the Old, ban' Lion thin ono tion sitti no s T 1 into. N et( \Val thal flop deli( lnos rent tend Prir of t de Wer Pose The viol Iriat Tit] adjc COW tale Jud' Pro teal ft-c c Wad Pro, aba [Ar c the gat '1 0„ 11 . '0; ' Gu z O th e Will aga; 00 1 ces