The Sun. — London, England, 1854-09-01 00:00:00

PARLOUR LTRIZARY, FOR SEPTEMBER MARK'S REEF ; or, THE CRATER. FENI‘IOqE COIPER. Price is. 6d.. Also, by the same Ant r. THE SEA LIONS; or, the Lost Sealers. Price Is. 6d. These are reprinted P - o - rf the Orl.4lnal London Editt,ns, by s - ecial prrmis-lon of Richard Bent'ey, Esq.; and it is n.cessary to specify •• Parlour Library Edition" to escape the incorrect American re prints. London : Thomas Hodron, 13, Pat.erno ter-row. NEW EDITION IN F iNCY BO ARD4. COUNT OF MONTE CH RISTO. By A. DUMAS, 2 vols., price 3s , 19 published th s Also, by the same author, MEMOInq OF A 2 vols. 3s. .1.1••• 1404 A ; or, The Black Tulip. 14. 43E011.3E; or, The P.anter of the Isle of France. Is. London : Thomas Hodgson, 13, l'aterm:st r-row. LYCEUM THEATRE.-HENRY RUSSELL, tor Thirty`'fights. TIIIS [NO (the 5 , 11 t•me). Se;,t. Is., and every Event g. Many friends having ex,resicd a wLh that. Mr. Russell should appear again previoui to finally w.thdraw• ing his Entertainment, h has, in compliance with ,heir request. made arrangements to appear ev:rj evening. Y r RUSSELL will prosent THE FAR WEST ; or, Tll P. PROGRESS of the EMI .IRA:CT from the OLD WORLD to the NEW. Mr. Russell will relate his anecdotes, and sing several new songs. " Chen*. Boys, cheer," " Far, far upon the 'zee," " Sunshine alter Rain," " Land ! Land ! Land !" " The Falls of Niagara." " Long parted have we been," " I'm Afloat," "Many chaNes have I seen," " the icebergs" (descriptive song). " Newfoundland Dog," " The Gambler's Wife," &c. The Second Part of the Entertainment will consist of a Series of Sketches. entitled NEGRO LIFE in Freedom and Slavery. Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. 2ackstone. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 1. Will be performed THE OLI) CHATEAU. Characters by Messrs. Bowe, Roger., H. 3,larsten, and Bucketone; Sirs. lam! 1 11am, and Mrs. Reym Ids. Followed by the cI. PANISII DANCERS In a NEW BALLET, THE GIPSY QUEEN. The new Farce AA LIKE AS TWO PEAS. Mr. Richards (a Barrister). Mr. Buckstone. After which the Second Part of the Ballet, When the Spanish Dancers will again appear. STRAND THEATRE, S)le Lessee Mr. F. W. Alleroft. THIS EVENING, Sin. 1, will be performed HARD TI ME. Followed by FAUAT AND I,4I ARGUERITE. Mephistopheles, Mr. Raiford; Faust, Miss G. Hodson; Marguerite, Miss LI Gordon. To conclude with BOMBASTES FURIOSO, The " traveller" question is assuming additional interest every day. It was to be anticipated that where the Legislature and the Police Authorities refused to give any definition of the phrase, Magistrates would differ and decide in accordance rather with the prejudices of the majority than with the actual merits of the case. Hitherto we are bound to say, that a fair and liberal interpre tation of the Statute has been given. In the great inejority of cases, the excellent precedent established by Mr. LONG, in dismissing the sum mons against the proprietor of Jack Straw's Castle, has been followed. Thus it has been alt chled that drovers coming to Smithfield Market, visitors from London to Gravesend, to Elttnpten C ee t, and even to Camberwell, are " travellers" w this the meaning of the Act, and, ' therefore, entitled to demand refreshment, which the landl IA would incur considerable danger in refusing t ) supp'y. One of the Magistrates, the Hon. Mr. NORTON, has spoken out boldly and exacAy, des wring his unqualified disapproval of the alteration ill the law, and stating that "it elnuot last, for tire time of opening from one to half-past two . was, in his opinion, not long enough for a publican to serve his customers and clear his house ; and, that, therefore, he felt confident that it must bo repealed." Adding, that "he felt much surprised the public did rot oppose the passing of such an Act." The Hon. and Learned Gentlemen also declared that, " with respect to the much-c mvassed ques tion as to who are travellers, and who a:e not, it was his opinion that a person going from the east end of the town to the west is as much a travelleF, and, as such, as much entitled to refreshments, as the person going to Hampstead or Richmond." This is a sound and wise decisicn, and one that should be generally adopted. The true test is, whether a person is sufficiently near to his own domicile to obtain the meat or drink his exi gencies require. If he can obtain either or both at his own dwelling, the law declares that he shall not be entitled to receive them within certain hours. In the zeal to promote the sale of Excise '",,, --,e ,• s --...._- : ,.. a . 3 , e-e,e, . able liquids it com p e l s parties to lay in stock s of drink, more, perhaps, than they actually re quire, or than they wculd get, if they could send out at tiny moment, but which, as they have it The seamen and soldiers of the combined fleets on hand, they will dispose of. But any person and armies in th e E as t are already -experiencing away from his own h ome , w h o h as l e ft i t f or purposes either of business or Rleasure, i who is not, in fact, an inhabitant of the locality the sad result s o f th e i nact i on to which they have n which been subj ec t e d. Ch o l era has attacked them in he may be at the mom en t, i s e ntitl e d t o rece i ve its most aggrav a t e d f orm, and more men have refreshment within the forbidden hours, and that perished in a few days under the fearful and in- whether he he at one of the suburban villages or glorious operation of the pestilence than would in a different part of town. There is one qualifi have fallen in the most sanguinary encoun t er. A lincation to the test of vi c i n ity t o th e clwel 'o. of the party suppli e d. If h e can few weeks since th e y were i n t h e full enjoyment of the most vi gorous health and strength, anxious show that he is r e t urn i ng f rom a b ona f i d e j ourney h e may obtain needful r e f res h men t only to be led against the foe—to gather the even at his own thresDold. Would it not be laurels which they fondly hoped were in store for truly ridiculous to say that a person coming them. But neglect and inaction have done their from Liverpool or Manchester to London was not fatal work. It would almost seem as if the " travelling" until the very moment that he " Fabian" p o li cy h a d b een resorted to, in order entered his own door? S uc h a person would clearly require pure refreshment after so weari some a t r i p ; to damp the s pi r it s o f our men, and to promote e if he should be entitl e d t o rece i ve it , so s h ould the cause of NICHOLAS. Sebast o p o l m i g ht have the man ret w lir n het; from Richmond, or ampstead, been captured, and its arsenals and the navy th a t er Camberell, or even from the west H end of town sheltered under its fortresses destroyed with far to the east. If he be once "a traveller" he con less loss. The whole objects of the war might have Unites a traveller until once more "at home." been achi eve d, an d ample material guarantees ob- We are aware there ha ve b een more str i ngent tained for th e goo d b ehaviour of Russia, with a les:, decisions—th a t th e M ag i s t rates a t Ch e l msford have held that the engine -drivers and stokers on expenditure of human life. Our able seamen, our , 'Are railway were not travellers. This is, how well-drilled soldiers, are cut off in the prime of If le, ever, so palpably absurd that it scarcely requires out the withconsolation of thinking that they have argument to display the error into which the died in rendering any important services to their " great unpaid" of that district have fallen. Of country that might preserve their memories green all others, engine -drivers and stokers, and railway in the reeollection of their brethren. In one vessel guards must be regarded as travellers. Their alone, the Britannia, fifty men died in a single ' , ccupation is essentially " travelling." The greater portion of th e i r t i me i s spent on the road, or per day from the fearf u l di sease, and thirty more 'raps, more correcsdy speaking, " the rail." They within the next twenty-four hours. Altogether, are not wilfully absent from home, but are obliged one hundred gallant f e ll ows were swept away in to be so in the performance ofduties sanctioned that single ill-fated vessel from the operation of IT Parliament—duties, too, of immense impor the disease, while the survivors, dispirited and ranee to the lives and property of the passengers ender their care, and of a very ar d uous c h aracter; weakened, wo rn out w ith wa t c hi ng an d nurs i ng their sufferin g comra d es , presente d a very diffe- requiring f requen t re f reshment. Why, of all classes of her MAJ ' i . ESTY S psu ets they are empha rent aspect indeed from that of a few days pre- tically those in whose favour an exception ought viously, to be made, and yet theSe Essex " Justices" • Other vessels have suffered in proportion, think proper to prohibit the much-required re although, perh a p s , no t qu it e as severe l y as the freshment. Britannia. Capt a i n S MITH, o f th e Si moom, has Mr. HARDWICK, at Marlborou g h- s t ree t , t oo, been numb ere d among t h e v i ct i ms ; nor have our we regret to find, is setting hi mse lf i n opposition gallant a lli es been exempted the from the pest. The NORTON and Alderman MIIGGERIDGE, and en- Ville de Paris and the Montebello are reported deavouring to enforce the more stringent opera each to have lost more than 200 men. tion of the new lavi. He has followed in the line The position of the land forces is scarcely more of the Chelmsford Justices, by convicting the t cella° seamen. Th e i r favourable th an landlord of the Bliek Horse, Oxendon-street, -th for serving liquor to the driver and conductor PoOtions appear to have been selected with a singular of a Brentford omnibus. His judgment was in disregard of caution • • , just as the object these words : were to succeed in finding out tial s pots t he most pestilen- "He thought it was drawing the matter very as the sites f or the different camps. fine ind to say that these pons were Had any any inform a ti on been sought for, with yellers. dee He could not view them in that light, respect to the salubrity) or otherwise, of th e and it did not appear to him that the Legislature different localitie s ; • es it could easily have been intended to include such cases in the privileges twined. .It is now said th at ob. accorded to travellers. Besides, the omnibus AladYns where Sir GEORGE Baowies di •i o • people, if they really wanted refreshment, could vis n is quartered .41 a regu l ar h ot- b ed of fever and d s t ' • h have drawn u p on th e roa d a nd supplied them dysentery en ery ," selves before ten o'clock. As, however, it was while Devna, another of the chosen spots, is Possibl e t h at the defendant had acted on m i sta k en k no wn amongst the inhabitants by the ominous views as to th e mean i ng of t he A ct, h e wou ld on l y title of "The Valley of Death." Our military call upon him to pay the costs I" Martinets, however, appear to think sanitary Now, th atconviction. If the con- was practically a siderations beneath their notice, and that it is defendant had committed no wrong, he could not of greater con sequence to see that th e chins of be char ge d a farthing for costs any more than the heaviest fine authorised by the obnoxious law. He our soldiers be - closely shaved, and their sought justice not leniency, and it would is w hi s k ers no t be .permitted to grow within tw o if th e fine were such as to enable him to be better apeal inches of the corners of their months, or on their against th e decision, was called on p to He decide gc ceetees" be of the regula- on a penal statute, which should be con throats," or that the strued liberally health or comforts should y oil the part of the defendant. tion cut, than that their Every word sa id on behalf of engine be duly attended to. drivers and stokers is also I applicable to that of Such was not the case with g lorioue old Sir driv ers an d conductors of omnibuses and the or feelings of "fine drawing," aye, and " qui • ' • CHARLES. Such were not the views bbling," is the who was no statement that they are not " travellers." How the Hero of Meannee and Hyderabad, can Mr. HARDWICK d are . to speak of the " inten ay a the less reno wne d f or hi s v i gour an d ener, l tion of the Legislat ure ," save as it is expressed field than f o r hi s extraor di nary at t en ti on t o the within the four earners of the Act of Parliament ? welfare of .his soldiers in the camp or the bar- He might have chatted at his club, on the Sun racks. If he was daring in action, he was even c ity morning, with some self-sufficient Sabbatarian but that does not entitle him to speak, en more prodigal of his OWLI safety and his own life M.P., ih dra as to " the intentions of the Legisla than of his followers, and though indifferent to : cathedra as " luxuries, and even th e comforts to which his tare • ! Tie also decided against the right to serve per _ psitil entitled him, he was " • f" in a railway excursion, if they . by no means ,_.O , - - sons r `ur-ADA -.' 1 .y. 45 • • d - - - 1, . o the reasonable .demands of his ~,.- d ,1 ' tho ns;ghbourbood. Iu this, also; he Tu..l C. 111 0 9 . . ~., ha real intensis of the luti s t • 1 humble. le pa.papl e e in the wrong. , The vexation and the the same to those residing r ' - hi§ 601 Dia5441 if Oire as closely seen to aanoyance is, however' the ~ . .- --,F r . ...., ii i' ' .3 '• - . .... i,. .-` 7:10' . .:, :- ... - ic ", i ,, 7: • '. :' -. i 44.; !loxes, 2s. Gd.; Pit, h.; Gallery, Gd. ; Private Bozcft El ie., 10 be had of Air. Al'croft. 15, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENA. "This place fills up an hiatus which the Crystal Palace leaves wanting. Vocal and Instrumental music of the first order, and a display of firework:; which excee is all imagination, are a fitting :lase to a day at the Crystal Palace." DINSON'S COLOS3AL, PANORAMA of CIICSAN. SPlmdld and Extensive MeaD.,gerie and 7,larine A.quarluin—ljnrl - Military Baud. )1.1. ,1 / 4 1, and. INSTRUMENTTAL CON'IERT, In Which Miss PoWe, Mist Ttansfori, ani Mr. M-lovers sine , !virtl N'ationsl anl Patriotic F0 , 144—A It the ritnitslnz N'ovoltq% 61 the. Gariiens in iim , ;(;,, , ,,i!0n. coraolniUn; with the " Feast of Lan teirilt," in I a rnlit in tz:iiitinnz .I!niptly of Firowor.ts to, , o,ithb,. Aloti4:ion 0 ?arilioa for Dancing has been reot , ,l. Full Qua.lriila Raw!, &c. AATTA:Y'm ROY kL A ,IPtilrfiEATqF tesgeo Aril Manager, Mr. WWlnm Coo!te, GREAT SUCCE iS of the N EQUEtiTRIAN EURLEFQUE, lIIS Third Time, an c ntire7y new 4t,criesrp:a of Eqr,eitrian character, by 'fro° V.VAP, en1;.11 • - - THE STEGE OF TROY ; ENT of PA ;ZIA After w'Ach, (!IIItItiTOFF (l'Emuereur de3 E'unam •1:1,$) on the Rorie, with the (until now) init. tempted in raculoni feat of throwing a 6tnu.nersaui'., and ailghtia; on the rope on his :eut Pile un'ime ana elezant. SCE.NP.R fr. the AIIF.NA, th invention, arran.zement, and alder the dlrection of gr. Wllitan, Cooke. To roncliple with Nits Q. G flealey's Equestran Ballet d'AcCon VIP; f AND THE.' IYAi ER LILY ; or, Love among the Ilernovas. 11 , ),-orth;e open from Eieven tia Four. Stage Manager, !Zr., ‘174,,t: fa 'WU ATF.R. AT LOS DON itR11)14 , .: Tr: 1 1 .1 T —:Tor7lin , 19 I:7oa.aftr.:r Kreniiig 51 aon.aft 7 To- I 7.'0 - !+l, °ruin 31 uia.after 3 Z3venius; 17 ri- f: 9 BIV KA'rli Orri Sr.PT. 1. TRZRUOMETNN, IN TEM SHADIC. 74 -blemAt since noon yesterday. 53 -lowc!t this morning and during the night. 68 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 33 . 37—rising. Wrsrn, E.N.E.—Light breeze, and fine, clear weather. It rt ..•,, ~ T. - .... W ~ --, A.... , , Alt A 4 i. 41 LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1854. within his district. We trust, then, that the Home Secretary will adopt speedy measures to secure uniformity of decision, and to abate the nuisance arising from unsound opinions respecting the operation of this highly vexatious law. The mutual principle has long been applied to Life Insurance, but hitherto Fire Insurance has been conducted, with a local exception or two, on the old plan ; yet no reason exists theoreti cally why both should not be conducted on the same system. Fires appear co be more capricious in their occurrence than the duration of life. This, however, is not really the case. Taking any large district, London for instance, the re turns published by Mr. BRAIDWOOD, and arranged by Mr. .BADDELEY, show that the average number of fires on a series of years is surprisingly alike ; and not the general average only, but that of par ticular trades and occupations also. Hence, taking a series of years, and a tolerable extent of business, it is easy to ascer tain a safe rate of insurance, and to deter mine the higher charge which must be made for hazardous trades. As safe tables, therefore, can be easily constructed, it follows that if some gua ranteed provision can be made to overcome the risks of the first few years, the public may as securely enjoy the advantage of Mutuality in Fire as in Life Assurance. The "Mutual Principle," as CHAMBERS long ago observed, " is the only one in which the public has any interest ;" it is the only one which reduces insurance to the least pos sible cost, by returning the legitimate profits at short stated intervals to the Insurers, while either by a Guaranteed Fund borrowed at interest for a time, or eventually by their own accumulated Reserve Fund, companies formed on this princi ple-are as secure as any other. It has been reserved, hoWever, for the British Empire Mutual Fire Assurance Company, a re port of whose annual meeting appears in another page, to popularise this great principle in regard to Fire Assurance. It has now been established for six years, and has just declared its second. Triennial Return of Profits to its members. Without for one moment disparaging the numerous well-established and valuable offices already is existence, we may, on behalf of the public, invite their attention to a comparatively young office, but one whose progress is remarkably satisfactory, and which has the great claim of having been formed not for individual but for public beucfit. As in the Mutual Life Coppanies the profits all return ultimately to the policy holders, and no expenses ate incurred by the public, except those necessary to inanaveinent, and the losses actually incurred. Such a plan deserves the fullest encouragement on the part of the public; and as it is certain that there is an im mense amount of property uninsured, and build ings are increasing around us with marvellous rapidity, there is abundant scope fur the liberal support of a Company which offers such advan bares to the community. It is to be feared that too many think but lightly of the duty of insurance against fire. We have known many of our neighbours risk their pro perty for years together, or insure it much below its value, assuming that a total loss is unlikely ; yet they may see every day almost in our columns accounts of fires from the most unforeseen, often unknown, causes ; very frequently accounts of total losses also. The first question they ask, " Was it insured, and for how much?" thighs well suggest the inquiry whether they themselves are insured, and insured adequately. No one ought to expose his property to absolute destruction at any moment, by the ma:ice of the incendiary, the carelessness of his neighbour, the oversight of his own domestics, lightning, or a thousand un thought of causes; but persons dependent for their livelihood on stock-in-trade, buildings, or any thing exposed to destruction by fire, are more than negligent if they render themselves liable tb. indigency or bankruptcy for the sake of a few shillings or pounds per annum. The creditors or friends who, in case of their ruin or even embar rassment, would bitterly and justly reproach them, ought to be thought of. If a person chooses im prudently to risk his own property,' surely no one for the sake of a small annual payment ought to risk the property of others, and to incur the danger of becoming burdensome to relations, or of injuring creditors. We fear these considerations are bu too commonly overlooked. One great , hindrance to Fire Insurance is, no doubt, the exorbitant and obnoxious duty. A tax in these days of free trade, too, of cent. per cent. at least ! A tax which is neither levied upon a luxury, nor made compulsory on all, but one wrested from the prudent and conscientious only, while the reckless and penurious escape. The British Empire Company, we perceive, has, in common with others, petitioned against this worst of impositions, and we may hope when the great disturber of Europe has received his quietus, that this tax will sown share his fall. as his own. But, alas, he is gone ! When shall we look upon his like again ? It is not under such terrible circumstances that I we can listen to further demands for procras ination or delay. We have already suffered sufficiently through the lethargy of our rulers. The health and lives of our gallant defenders by sea and by land are to be thought of more than the scruples of the AUTOCRAT. We are not to sacrifice in vain the lives of our sailors and soldiers, for the grati fication of his vanity, or to allow him to escape the humiliation he has so richly merited. We must have some consideration fur their feelings. We are not to suffer them to remain dying off like rotten sheep, while the diplomatists at Vienna are weighing sentences and grumbling about every paragraph. Nothing like " action" for banish ing the disease. It is the best remedy that could be resorted to for all classes, for it would banish that uneasiness of mind and lassitude of body so unfavourable to its spread. A landing at the Crimea and attack on Sebastopol would work a complete cure. We hear rumours every day that such a move is in contemplation, but unfortunately its realisation is still postponed. The Ist September has arrived, but the matter is not a bit farther advanced than it was a month since. We trust that this lethargy may at length be dispelled, and the reasonable expectations of the French and English peoples be at length, albeit at the eleventh hour, completely THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY ING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1864 LATEST NEWS. THE WAR. CONSTANTINOPLE. CONSTAIMINOPLE, Aug. 24.--4Xarshal St. Ar naud will hold a council of war at Varna, to decide upon the expediency of the great expedition, con sidering the state of the health of the troops. The Duke of Cambridge arrived here on the 22d, rather unwell. Thirty gun-boats have arrived from Malta, and 15 others are expected. Gnat excitement exists at Varna against the Grzecu-Slavonic agents of Russia. Discontent is increasing in the French army at their long inactivity. The cholera is decreasing. THE BATTLE AT KARS. Letters from Constantinople of the 21st confirm the previous accounts of the battle at Kars. The action lasted five hours ; the Turks lost 3,000 men, and the Russians 1,600. Not hioglwa,4 known there concerning the embarka tion of the allied troop. Kars is in no danger. THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE ALLIED ARMY. Our letters of the 20th inst. state the panitary condition of the allied army was rapidly improv ing ; the disease was everywhere on the decline, and the moment was fast approaching when the Gene rals could attempt important operations without compromising the health of the troops. The preparations for the expedition were proceeding with extraordinary activity, both at Constanti nople and at Varna. The Bosphorus was crowded with steamers destined to carry troops, mum tions, and materiel of siege. The last corps of the English army, which remained at Buyukdere, had left for Varna. The real object of the expe dition was still a profound mystery. Public opi nion in the Turkish capital was still impressed with a belief that an attack against Sebastopol and a landing in the Crimea were contemplated. One of our letters, however, observes that the events which caused the departure of the army to be pAst polled would probably render so great a military operation difficult t,efore the setting in of the had - Many persons at Constantinople consi tiered it more prudent for the Allies to take a strong ! ,osition on the Circassian coast opposite the ' Crimea, so as• to wa , ch and p, event all in. ivement the Russian &et at Sebastopol and of the Rus sian army in Asia, at the saint, tine that a strong •livision should remain at adtchik, to keep Odt ssa in check and command the Black S a , by combin ing its operations with the naval division in Cir ;assia. The writer adds that the prolongation done of the blockade of 0 lessa, S tstopol, an lof the other Russian ports of the Black Sea had in dicted grea t er i n j ury on Russia than the loss of a battle. THE BRITISH EXPEDITION. VARNA, Aug. 19. —The Duke's division has marched iu from ..k.lalyn, and is now encamped to w trls the sortth-western side of the h:ty. It tsp pears that notwithstanding the exquisite beauty of the country around. A'adyn it is a heft-heel of fever and dysentery. Tice saue is true of Devna, which is called by the Turks " the Valley of Death ;" au I had we consulted the natives ere we pitched our camps, we assuredly would never have' gone either to Atadyn or Devna, notwithstanding the charms of their position, and the temptations offered by the abundant supply of water and by the adjacent woods. So completely exhausted on last Thursday was the Brigade of Guards, these 3,000 of the flower of England, that iey had to make two marches in order to get over the distance from .Aladyn to Varna, which is not more than (not so much, many people say as) ten miles. But that is not al. Their packs were carried for them. Just think of this, good people of England, who are sitting anxiously in your homes, day after day, expecting every morning to gladden your eyes with the sight of the announcement, in large type, of ". Fall of Sebas topol," your Guards, your corps &elite, the pride of your hearts, the delight of your eyes, these Anakim whose stature, strength, and massive bulk you exhibit to kingly visitors, as no inapt symbols of your nation, have been so re duced by disease, and a depressing climate, that it was judged inexpedient to allow them to carry their own packs, or to permit them to march more than five miles a day, even though these packs were carried for them ! Think of this, and then judge whether these men are fit in their present state to go to Sebastopol, or to attempt any great operation of war. The Highland brigade are in better con dition, but even the three noble regiments which compose it are far from being in good health or in the spirits in which they set out for Varna. The Duke's division has lost 160 men, of these nearly 100 belonged to the Guards. In the Brigade of Guards there were before the march to Varna up wards of 600 men sick. The Light Division has lost 110 or 112 men. Sir D. Evans has lost 100 men or thereabouts. THE BLACK SEA FLEET. BALTCHIK BAY, Aug. 10.—Tile cholera, which has long been hovering about, has at length visited the fieet&in earnest. It attacked the French first, and they suffered so severely in some of the large ships that they put to sea in hopes of benefitting by a change of air. A few days after this terrible sickness fell on us. A few unmistakeable cases occurred in several of the ship, and we put to sea also. On Saturday, the 12th, our squadron sailed, ofconsisting (Admiral Dundas), Album, ra t falgt, B V ri eZ n ea i L3, Queen, Rodney, London, Retribution, Furious, Tribune, and mond. For two days we got on pretty well, the Trafalgar only having suffered; but on Monday Might (14th) the disease broke ont in all its awful fury in several ship 4 situaltaw)ualy. In 20 hours 30 men died the in Britannia, and 30 in the next 20 hours. Those who have only witnessed the etricts of this fatal post on land can hardly imagine the additional horror which accompanies its progress imaginethem 1,000 men nar row ly caatzseel in a a L:it t floatinghe m b to close all the ports, so that, notwithstanding all the appliances of air -sails, & L t., the air at night be comes abominably tainted below. 50 or 60 that poor fellow's fate ? A boat's crew go on shore to put a few stones together as a sort of landing-place on . the sand ; they move a s t one, an d underneath a is festering corps again. But there is no use In accumulating the - details of abenes like these, which must ever be the terrible attendants on war and pestilence. - On the 15th, the English men-of-war at the Golden Horn' and at Varna dressed in colours, hoisted the tricolour to the main, and tired a R,)yal salute in honour of the anniversary of the Em peror Napoleon's birthday. The Turkish fleet and forts also fired a Royal salute and the French men. , of- war observed th e day wi th every external demonstration of enthusiasm. THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Bucharest, 19th, in the Moniteur, says :—" Ibraham Pacha sent four regiments of cavalry on a reconnaissance as far as Bouzeo. On arriving on the 17th near that place, the Turks were informed that a detachment of Cossacks still remained there. Fif ty men were i mmed i ately de t.tchec3, who attack e d themin the town i tse l f. T he Russians lost six menkilledandtwotaken prisoners; the Turks had one killed and two wounded. The Turks remained masters of the place. Omer Pacha leas applied t o th e Wallachian administration, demanding 93,000 rations of bread a -d ay to be divided betw een B ucharest, Obilecht i , and Oursit chem. A second bridge of boats is being con structed on the Danubeof the Engli s h army is shortly expec t e d a t Obilechti." at Turtukai. A division COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, AUG. 31. The Earl of Clarendon and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer arrived yesterday on a visit to her Majesty. Toe Right Hun, Sidney Herbert returned to Wilton, near Salisbury. The Duchess of We'lington has succeeded the Mar ebintiesA of Ely as lady in waiting. The Duchess of Kent dined with the Queen. A deputation from the parochial authirities of St. Martin's•in-the.fieldS had an niterview yesterday with Sir Be !jamin Hall, the President of the General B of .H..alth, at his office, Whitehall. Tile deputation con .l,teil of Mr. It C.)bbett, j in., chairman of the board of guardians; Mr. E. .E. M9s,ri. G. Gillott, and H. J. Stobhs, churchwarlens ; Dr. Cross, ofkc. r of health ; Mr. James Loonaril, district surgeon and registrar of deaths ; and Mr. C. it. Griffiths, clerk to the guardians. COWES, ISLE OF WIGIIT.-Aul. 31. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS- —AIN'. 23 —C - inricorn, schooner, Vice- Commodore C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., from, Cherbourg and Alderney ; Sultana, yawl, Lord Colville, from the Chan el Islands. 24. Zara, -schooner, Commodore Earl of Wilton, from Cherbourg and Channel Islands ; do., J. E. W. Rolls, Esq., froin Weymouth. 25. Bea trix, do., Sir W. P. Carew, Bart., from Torquay and other ports. 26. Nymph, cutter, Sir John Bayley, Bart., from Boulogne and Havre. 29. Caprice, yawl, H. B. Baring, Esq., from Cherbourg and Havre. SAILINGS. —Aug. 25—Osprey, cutter, Lieut. -Colonel Huey, for Torquay; Julia, do., William Feared), Esq., for Cowes harbour, to lay up. 26. Irene, schooner, Jos. Reynolds, Esq., for Cowes harbour, to lay up. 28. Lalla Rookli, schooner, Viscount Bangor, for the Channel Islands. 29. Frisk, cutter, Geo. Arkwright. Esq., for Portsmouth, to lay up ; Lavrock, do., Capt. C. H. William, R.N., for Cowes harbour, to lay up. 31. Dream, yawl, George Bentinck, Esq., for Plymouth and Scotland ; Seagull, cutter, A. Davenport, Esq., for Cherbourg and Coast of France ; Zara, schooner, Com modore the Earl of Wilton, for Holyhead and Scotland. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATlON.—Capricorn, Alarm, Wizard, Stella, Amazon, -lone, Susan, Aurora, Arrow, Camilla, Cygnet, Virginia, Plover, Ripple, Titania, Fancy, Coral Queen, Caprice, Sultana, Ny m ph , Brilliant; r • A great many fashionables have arrived during the week, and several large houses have been let. Sir John Bayley, Bart., has taken the Cottage Pavilion ; Captain Cumberland, Gothic Villa ; J. Lindsey, Esq., the Ist Cliff Cottage ; Captain Shuttlewonth, the 3d Cottage ; G. Cooke, Esq., Cambridge House ; the Hon. Captain Denman has the Pavilion ; and Captain Berners is in treaty for Gothio Hill. Oak Hill House and several smaller houses have also been let. ÜbTIVLBSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, AUG. 31. UNIVERSITY COMMISSION. The University Commission appointed under the new University Reform Bill met, yesterday, in Spring gardens, London, when the Earl of Ellesmere was ap pointed chairman. UNIVEBBITY BATING BILL. The guardians elected under the new Poor-law and College Rating Bill met at the workhouse this evening, when the rector of Exeter College and several bursars attended, as well as the mayor, aldermen, and parochial guardians. On the nomination of the Mayor, R. J. Spiers, Esq., seconded by . Mr . Alderman Butler, the late governo r , Mr. J. R. Carr was elected chairman of the new board without opposition. Mr. Cartwright, cabinet maker, and Mr. Buddington, bookseller, were elected vice-chairmen without Opposition. LIEUT. JEROIZE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.—Tha Arne rican pap, ra state thtt Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte has forwarded t o t h e Secretary of War from Paris the resig nation of hi s comm i ssion it , the army of the Unite d States, as on account of the cordial t eotptif , u lie has Ina with from ti.e French Emperor he probably deenn, his prospects of adiancement better in France than is America. • refused to allow them to enter the town, and ad. dressed a very severe letter to S dim Paella. The Greek Patriarch at Constantinople, M Anthimos, had addressed a remarkable circular t. his co-religionists. 11 , ..aring that some Greek: manifested hostile sentiments towards the allies of Turkey, the Patriarch censured their coiduct, an.: passed a high encomium on the noble disintereste4j ness with which the Western Powers def.nd t cause of the wtnlc a.4ainst the strong. In couch, sion, he pronounced a solemn anathema, in tht , name of the E-tstern Church, against the schism. cading itself orthodoxy, which has transferred ti Sc. Petersburg the spiritual authority in religion: matters. CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF THE ALAND ISLES. The Cologne Gazettel:; the following from Stockholm, dated the 221. It is singular, how ever, that, a fact of this kind should nut have beeL mentioned in any of the telegraphic communica tions :—" The French general has handed over the civil government of the Aland islands to the Crown Provost, M. Lygnell." RUSSIA. THE RUSSIAN VICTORY AT KARS. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 23d August publishes the report of Prince Bebutoff, relative to the battle of August 5, near Kars. While mentioning the victory gained by the troops under his orders, the Russian General renders honia;e to the valour of the Turks, " who dis played," he says, "a power of resistance which out oldest soldiers had never experienced from them." " After having received this rep rt," says the Invalide husse, " the Emperor testified his great satisfaction at so brilliant and useful a victory, and conferred the order of St. Andrew on Prince Bebutoff." RUSSIAN ACCOUNT OF THE OPERATIONS AGAINST SCHAMYL. The Russian Invalid contains the following short reports relative to operations against Schamyl : "At the time of Schamyl's abortive attempt on the left flank of our Lesghian line, the mountaineers were beaten on their points of the Caucasus. " In obedience to the commands of the Commander of the Caucasian corps, the chiefs of troops cantoned on the plateau of Koumyk, in the Tchetchnia, and in Northern Da;hestan, successfully executed divers expeditions against aouts of the rebels themselves. " On the 29th of June, C donel Baron Nicolai ad vanced up the river Yaryk-Sou, and after an obstinate engagenient took several strung e:itrenchments aban do/Jed by the enemy at, Gulteniir and completely de stroyed (hem. " From the Lit to the sth of July, Major General Rtron Wrangel (not to he confounded with the lieut.- general) iwnetratcd into the Tchetchnia and ravaged the villaze3 of M-zene. " On the 7th of July, Lieut.• General Prince Orbe HAM 11., having penetrated by Sub ik into the territory ~ f the Sitlatlive , tir, destroyed tlw popubms village of Bourtoopai. Fin illy, Colonel B moo Nicolai :gah. threw liiinsAf into the territ,ry of AJcouliiirt,ii, and hay ing occupied a fortiried 1)0,4 of the enein v on the. Yainan- Sou, now burned down the souls of SAdt-Yours an i T4lou'ai-Yourt. "In these different affairs, we have only had 61 men kiiie J, and 10 subalterns and 71 men wounded. " The siidiennei , s and rapidity of these movements assured their success. Wi.hout counting the great losses su , .taineil by the rebels, an important object inis been aitained, that of diverting the principal assembly of consistirig 5,000 wear, who hastened to pro tect their families and her.rtils." AU S nuA. VIENNA, Aug. 27.—The subscription to the Aus trian luau closed fur a mouth. It amounts to nearly five lituilred million of florins. His Excellency B.tron Edouard de Bach, the newly appointed civil commissioner of the Austrian army in the East, left Vienna yesterday for Bucha reSt. The governorship hitherto held by this ac complished and much-esteemed public functionary in Upper Austria will not be otherwise disposed of during his absence, hopes, being entertained that his excellency's services in the principalities may not be of very long duration. The post of gover nor of Upper Austria is, therefore, being retained fur him. PRUSSIA. We extract the following from the Wanderer : " if Prussia should at this critical moment refuse to form one of the bulwarks against Russia, the Russian and Prussian Biltic provinces may at no distant period form one of those States to be erected as a wall of defence against Russia.!' It has been seen that the granite walls of Russia form an inadequate defence. The first fell of Bo marsund, and since the 16th it has been felt that the fate of those of Croustadt and Sebastopol are &pendent only on time, and the courage and per severance of the allies. The Lloyd directs its attention almost exclusively to Prussia, ad►ninistering, however, from time to time, a slight fillip to the other German Powers. GREECE. THE PORTE AND KING OTHO. We have accounts from Athens to 26th. The Ottoman Government refuses to prolong the delay which' it had granted for the free navigation of Greek vessels in the Turkish waters, unless the Greek Government will reco4nise in principle that Greece o.ses a , ) indemnity to Turkey for the recent events. The Greek Ministers refuse all indemnity, and 5..,y that on Vie contrary they think they have a right to demand one of a hundred millions of drach mnas. A letter from Athens states that the Baron Forth- Rouen, the French Minister in that city, has pre sented from the Emperor I,ooof. to the mother of the priest Marino, who died of the cholera whilst administering relief awl consolation to the French soldiers afflicted with that malady in the military hospital.' A corporal who acted ai one of the hos pital a,ttewlants has received the decorat,on of the Legion of Honour for fie zealous and humane at t,,ntiun that he had paid to the patients. BELGIUM. THE RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTERS. The Lavendance of Brussels expresie,i itfielf in the following terms, relative to the resignation of the Brouckere Cabinet "The following are tho rumours whioh are in eircOa tion. The discus•aons called forth by the conventions to be concluded between tli communal authorities and the bishops for the orgatiisailon of religious education by the ckrgy in the establishments of intermediate instruction; the opposition, openly manifested, which the convection of Antwerp meets with in a part of the liberal party; and, above all, the new preteTrsions which the clerical party puts forth have produced, it is said, a certain im pression on the Ministry, which had flattered itself to have found at last the means of cone hating the rights of the civil power with the exigencies of the religious au thority. The Ministry, it is also said, saw that animated discu.sions were to be anticipated on the question of charity, in which, as in that of instruction, the preten sions of the Right go exceedingly far, and in which also the Liberal party is not unanimous on every puiut." ' FRANCE. The Emperor left Paris yesterday for Boulogne. Yesterday evening his Majesty, accompanied by his Imperial Highness Prince Jerome, visited the French Opera. The Moniteur, in announcing the visit to a theatre on the preceding evening bad stated that his Majesty was accompanied by Prince Napoleon. It now states that this was a typo graphical error. It was Prince Jerome who ac companied the Emperor. The Moniteur publishes a decree promoting Vice-Admiral Parseval-Deschenes to the dignity of Grand Cross of the Order of the Legion. of Honour. THE VISIT OF THE EMPEROR TO BOULOGNE. BOULOGNE, Aug. 31.—The Emperor Napoleon 111. arrives here to-night. I have just returned from the railway station—which, by-the -by, is one of the most elegant and commodious in Europe—and found all life and bustle there. Tri-coloured flags were being erected all along the grand entrance, and garlands and arches of ever greens were gradually assuming form and shape under the expert hands of the Boulogne gardeners and artistes de decoration. The Emperor has taken the whole of th e Hotel Brighton, which is sur rounded hya beautiful qarden in which elegant tents have been pitched. The hotel is not situated, pro perly speaking, at Boulogne, but at Capecitre, on the ether side of the river, contiguoui to the railway station. Opposite the hotel, on the other side of the road, commodious stables have been erected for the Einperor's stud. A temporary corps de garde has been built at the entrance gate, and the Em peror's staff occupies the chateau to the south of the . hotel. From the offices of the Etat-major the DISSIISSAL OF SELIM PACITA.. I eye can trace the delicate lines of wire of the elec The Journal de Constantinople a,unell noes offi- t tric telegraph through the air; these lines of wire cially the dismissal of Selina Pacha, who manifested extend to the camps at Equihen, Honvault, Wime so great a want of courage in the affair with the roux, and Ambleteuse ; communications can thus Russians at Bayazid. He is replaced as general-in- ibe hell in a moment with the generals in command chief of the imperial guard by Darbous Reschid at the different camps. Paella, general-in-chief of the army 1 ) 1 Constanti- Many of the Emperor's staff have already arrived, hinnelf greatly in t (3 1 ,_ )? 1 nople, and as commander-in-chief of the army of I and from my window I can see the white ten's of Ba.tourn by Must:The,' Pacha, who distinguished the guides. The guiles are a corps d'etit, cra3k A /otter from regirnt-rit, equivalent to our H. arse Guards. Their D st u lle n ,i l(l ji l a v t l :aftor li:s ci ,, feat uni f.;rar ;:orne thing Erzerouni of th e between Huasarand Dra . ;oon Selim Paella fled to Van, the governor of which they art- all picked'inen, and fine strapping fellows.; consented to furnish his army with provisions, but Some of the officers were at the ball given at I A Jassy correspondent of the Ost Deutsche Post, who speaks. of the " despondency" of the Russians, tells a sin gu l ar story of Baron v on Budberg, the representative of his Majesty of All the Russias. The Civil and Military Governor having remarked that one of the passers by in the trlica-maxa (High-, street) did not bow respectfully to him, beckoned to the irreverent Moldavian to come to the door of his carriage. The man obeyed, and the polished Russian, catching him by the beard, higged and tugged him about in order to improve his manners. Another Jassy writer remarks that from the recent movements of the Russians it is evident that they have more than once received contra lictory orders. At last the Servians have left off drilling. and exer cising, and the warlike ferment in the Principali y appears to be subsiding. '►e Assembly-roonis ; they were certainly the finest ien—apart from their fine far hers—iu the room. ._)1,1 braid is profa ,, ely lavished upon them ; they arry he•tvy cavalry swords. A whisker is not to , e seen among military men here. They all wear ;he moustache and imperial a la Louis Napoleon. ;Wiles for a thousand horses have been erected vithin the last few d ins. It is currently repot tA here that Prince Albert val honour Boulo,newith a visit on th e 4th or 0 h September. The Kin , of the B.l o giails will take steam from .),teud to Oalsis, and from that town proceed by tort-hotses to the camp. The Prince de Chituay tccompanies him. It is probable that these royal personatzes will be `,he guests of the Emperor at the Hotel Brighton. The Three per Cents. opened yesterday at 74f. 45c., .' 11 to 73f. 65e., and closed at 73f. 9ac. for the end pf the mouth ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents, at WOE 75c. ; and the New Loan at 74f. ; Orleans railway Sh ares , 1 , 2 40 f. ; Rouen, 960 f. ; Havre, Tt9of. ; Great Northern, 857 f. 50e. ; Strasburg, 3(151. ; New Shares, 633 f. 75e. ; Paris and Lyons, )72f. 50e. ; Lyons and the Mediterranean, 8821. ; Western of France, 667 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux end Cette, 622 f. 50c. ; Great Central of France, inf. 75c. ; Lyons and Geneva, 525 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 732 f. 50c. SPAIN. Accounts from Madrid, of the 26th, represent the ctual deficiency in the Treasury to be 250,000,000 als vellon. Narvaez has obtained his passports, and has sub- Acribed 1,000 reals towards the proposed statue of 6 4 r eneral San Miguel. Yesterday afternoon a meeting was held of the commandants of the National Guard of Madrid. Amongst them were Brigadier Venancio Gurrea, private secretary to Espartero, who has been elected to the command of a battalion of foot artillery ' • Brigadi er V a ld ez, formerly aide-de camp to Esnartero, and now employed in the War-office ; and several other persons of mark, known to be friends of the present Government. Nevertheless, in the discussion that was held the Government's acts were severely scanned, not in a spirit of opposition, but with the desire to see it take such measures as would keep off danger and maintain it ill power. The accounts from the provinces are satisfactory. There had been some slight. disturrances at Utreria and other places in Andalusia ; they had not a political character, but related to the division of some common lands. The cholera continues to wake serious ravages, notably in Seville and Three per Cent?. 34.80 ; Deferred, 18.55 ; Re deemable Debt—lirst class, 9.23 •; , ditto second class, 4.75. THE BRUT] L MUIM PR f)F AN INFANT AT PADDINGTON. An inque-t was hell yesterday before M r . W a kl ey. , Niroio-r, at the B ar k of England Tawero, Cambridge place. Pa diti4ton, on the boil; of the infant wh,, is •illeged to have been tour eyed by the woman Sophia Knight, as stated in our report of yesterday. The mother of the deceased, E iza!ietn Groves, a single woman, was examined, and stat-d that she lial otae.,l the drill with Mrs. Kni , ht, who l ive d at IA Pratl-stre •t. Paddington, to be nursed ; that she went quently tAi, see it, and when she last saw the child alive it Was looking pretty will. This statement excited considerable surprise, as the chid was in a inwt emaciated condition. Mr. Lawrence. Omen], the house surgeon of St Ho=pital, Paddington, was also examined, and stated that the dee( an3d was brought to the hospital o - Tuesday night by S,,phia Knight, who said it had fallen wit of bed. The child was, in a miserably emaciated state, and was bleeding front the mouth and nose. It had a bruise on tile left side of the mouth. He had made a post moPtera examination of the body, and had ricer tamped that the death of the child had been occasioned by the blows on the head, accelerated by neglect. There were several old bruises on the head. Several of the jury wished the accused to be present. The Coroner recorded an application to Lord Pal. merston. The inquiry was adjourned till Tuesday for the purpose alluded to. ALLEGED CASE OF ABDUCTION. A poor woman, named Ellis, residing at 13, New. street, Shadwell, applied to Mr. Ingham, yesterday, at the Twones Police.court, in a state of high excitement to ask his advice as to the course she had best pursue under the following circumstances : She said that her daughter Janet, who agaisted her in the laundry business, and afro is a young woman of considerable personal attractions and some scho lastic acquirements, had been partly lured and partl) forced from her home and her friends by a man named Funnell, a stonemason, lately employed at the mills of Messrs. Kidd and Padget's, of New -street, S;)arl well. From the' little applicant had been able to ascertain she found that a woman named Rainberg, the wife of an engineer, had taken her daughter into the company of Funnell, and notwithstand ing her usual temperate habits, they induced her to drink what applicant was satisfied was some drugged liquor. This occurred on Tuesday week. After that they took her in a state of semi-stu pefaction to the Shoreditch railway, where Funnell purchased two tickets, and put the young woman into the train. The next applicant heard of them was, that Funnel! was seen with a young woman hanging on his arm, asking for work, at some mills about 20 miles distant from the metropolis. He then in quired respecting a man named Pa 'more, who wa•- a native of the place, and who was weli acquainted with applicant her daughter The persot, who %v.'s asked the question said, " Parlmore is here," and itutnerliateny called him out. PAtnore, surprise.) to see the girl with Funnell, said, 4 ' Bless me I what makes you here I" To which she replied with the air one not perfectly conscious, "I do not know." She was very pale, and her eyes wandered wildly. Funnel' said, " I did a bad job yesterday in bringing this gir , away." Paltuore replied, "Give her a little money, and i t her go home to her friends ;" tub which the other 41 - I , ,,yered, "No. I'll take her a stage or two further, am' then throw her up." Mr. Ingham— What did he mean by "throw her up V Applicant- —I do not know, sir. ro got rid of her -one way, I suppose. All I want to know is where slit. or what has been dune; with her. She is too proud to write to me ; she would sooner die. Mr. lagnam —ls she in expectation .of any money ? App ica,ot —As soon as my mother dies, I shall have 1,06 1 4., the interest of which my mother now enj nr. Ingham—Then I presume it was done nith a view to that looney ? Applicant—That cannot well he, sir. He is a mar ried man, with one child ; and his wife, who is the :laughter of a resp,ctable farmer, is pregnant with at,- other. He sent her out of the way bef we he did this. Mr. Ingham —And what can I do for you ? Applicant—Could you not grant me a warrant, sir ? Mr. Ingham—l cannot well do that, unless the young woman were under restraint ; and I cannot assume that she is, as she has not communicated with you. Irot, had better apply to some inspector of police. The applicant then communicated the facts to Inspec tor Sullivan, at King David-lane, who directed Potter, 212 K, an active detective officer, to institute the neces sary inquiries. MINERVA.—Messra. Pickford, of Liver p.'s ' `ed a telegraphic message onWednesday Ahern' m one of their travellers who was on board the Min va, statint , that the passengers and crew in the two missing boats landed at Holyhead in safety. The wreck was therefore unattended by any loss of life. The Minerva, which was built by Messrs. Vernon and Son, of Liverpool, was one of the fastest and hest boats on the station. BRITISH AND COLONIAL SMELTING AND REDUCTION COMPANY.--A meeting of this company took place on Thursday afternoon, when the report for the half-year, showing a toss of 9361. on the Tamar works, and of 2711 on the Millwall works, was agreed to. The general re sults of operations have proved unfavourable, the pric e of labour, coals, and freight alone having within the 12 months exceeded the amount paid during a similar period of the previous year by more than 4,0001. At the close of the proceedings a committee leas appointed to consult with the directors as to the desirableness of continuing or dissolving the undertaking. THE LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. —The half yearly meeting of the Council of the' Chamber of Com merce was held yesterday afternoon at the Exchange buildings ; Mr. Bouch, the president of the council, presiding. The meeting was numerously attended. The secretary read the report, in which a survey was taken of the important subjects which had occupied the attention of the chamber during the preceding six months. Among them w ere — Commercial Law ; Bank ruptcy (Scotland) Bill, and Judgments and E xecut i ons Bill ; Bills of Exchange Bill and Arbitration Amend ment Bill ; Shipping ; Letters of Marque ; Sound Dues ; Stamp Dimes of Foreign Bills of Exchange ; Peruvian Guano ; Plstal Affairs ; Survey Ctruficates ; Lock Ex tension arid Improvement. The chairman, in his ad dress, touched upon the variou s topics of the report. dr. Horsfall, M.P., afterwards addressed the meeting Votes 'if thanks having heeui accorded Mr. Horsfall for the assistance he had rendered ale cha nber in Parlia• ment, and to the chairman, the meeting separated. ATTRMPTED INCENDIAKISAI AT MANCHESTER. —An• other,, and almost the thirtieth attempt at iticentliarism in Manchester, during a tee' months, was made on Wed aeiday night on the warehouse of the executors of the live Mr. Thomas Thornber, 39, Yerketeeet. Being opened yesterday morning, the remains of a small parcel .f cotton, in brown paper, was discovered on the coun ter. The cotton and paper bad almost ,sniouldered Tway, burning a hole in the counter, but no piece goods being near, and the counter being of hard wood, the fire bad gone no further. The plaee was made up about seven o'clock on Wednesday night, and the cendru,;titile had been thrown in after that heur, through an opening in the window for letters. Toe material in the naper spoi are t , have hf±e , ) a 1;)1 1 , 1 of ~t hrwilb." ei : iz.d i...t• tun, such as weavers use to piece their ends with. The • portion of it that had burnt had left a white powder, or I ashes, in the paper, having a saltish taste, i THE 1.% ESSELBODE NOTE. The following is the answer of the Russian Go vernment to the Prussian note in support of the Austrian sommation addressed to St. Petersburg. It is one of the eleven papers submitted to the Bund 1,37 Austria and Prussia on the 17th, of which we have already published two—viz., the replies of Count Buol and M. Manteuffel to the Nessel rode note. This answer was addressed to Boa von Budberg, in Berlin : " St. P , Aershurg. 18th (30th) June, 1854. "The Prussian Chsrgd d'Affaires had handed toe the communication which his atoinet addressed to us under date of the 12:h of June in support of the sty , l3 taken by Austria t owar d s us, for the purpoze of prevailing on us to accelerate the conclusion of the present war by re• training from extending our military o p e rations hi Tur key, arid at th e same t i me withdrawing our troops from the Priocipaiities as speedily as possible. " We are not aware, baron, how we can answer this commuvication of the Prussian Cabinet letter than bringing to its knowledge the text of the answer vg :, have addressed to Vienna, here appended. From this it will become apparent that, without ,:haring the or . nions with reference to the occupation of the PriDc l. pslities as put forward by Austria and participated in by Prussia, we nevertheless, out of consideration fl tite special interests of Austria and Germany on the Dst ,ll 7 and the p e culi ar nature of the obligations which the e C iurts of Vien na , and Berlin h ave en ' ere d i n to with 1- Westein P owers i n t h e protocol of Apiil 9, are prepa res, at the to ue time reserving to ourselves the eecuritiOS which we require t.) he informed of in advance, to with draw from the Principalities, and to enter into nerds' dons for peace on the basis of the three main principles laid down i.t that protocol, or at least t) pave the vie,' for this negotiation by agreeing to a truce. " Without re prating on this occasion the very great considerations whi c h l ea d us to a b i d e by our requ irement . previously to be put in possession of securities in ex . change for the voluntary sacrifice which we make to the interests of Austria and Germany in relinquishing edr present or futu re mieitary p os iti on in Turkey, we c en !„"„ 8 ourselves to c ommen di ng these remarks to the mature deliberation of the Prussian Court, convinced that hio majesty the King is too just to demand of us thatr :7 6 should consent gratuitously to weaken ourselves marli'l and materially, without being certain of obtaining a Peace or even a truce. It is, moreover, with satisfaction that we observe that the Prussian Cabinet is itself expenetrate with the c o r rec t ness o f t hi s view, since while e, the wish th a t h ost ili t i es should be curtailed and circura* p scribed, it r ecogn i zes i n a d vance that this ought to ta kO piece on b o th s id es. In pursuance of the pacific nations expr esse d i n our answer, it is now put to the Prussian Cabinet to use its interest at Vienna an d elsewhere to procure for us the securities so ied i t pensab!y nec essar y. W e f eel that we are so the more entitled to hope this front that quarte r ' as it was to it (die P. useian Cabinet) that the ET: p. ror first commuleicated his intention to consider t:7 firm e,tablishetient (coo so lid at i me ) o f t h e re l i gious a i be civil rights to the Christians le Turkey, if they can , btained from the Porte in a form of working Oficial as actu el satisfactio n o f th e deman d s we have inti: o n it (die Po r t e ) ; an d that, by our access/41"e to this p ef the protocol, as well as our esti-factio n , of the two others, which will he seen by our ithdrawal from'the Pibecipalities, we henceforth Prussia, as well as Austria, a means of fulfilling the n ,igations which i n that dig:ll:Tient they have entered ke,‘ ins a Ids the Western Powers. yo a will, bacon, express this hope to Baron /nil Man trutfel in the most eistinct manlier, at the same taus • oat you bring this dispai.ch to his knowledge. " Receive the assurances, &c., ``NESSELSODIt. After the receipt of the note correspon his, received by Austria, Couut Buol a !dressed ' I I : circular containing instructions to the Austrian ambassadors in London and Paris, which is 4/,; t 6. among the documents laid before the Bund. T he iollowing is a translation of this circular :-- "To M. le Baron De Hubner at Paris, and 31. le , Count Colloredo at London. "Vienna, July 21, 1854 ' "I have the honiur to send to your Excellency here with the t ex t of they reply which the Cabinet of Petersburg bas made, on the 29th of June, to our cote; munication of th e ld , re l ative to the suspens i on of the operations o f th e R uss i an army on the other side tbe. Danube, and th e s p ee d y evacuation of the Dlnubiar Priecipaliti e s, i n or d er th a t you may su b m it this ansl. to the Briti s h (F renc h) C s bi net. ti upprecis e the impression w hi c h thi s commusiication, wade bar Prince Gort sc h a k e ff to th e I mper i a l C a b ine t, produced . upon us w h en y ou s h a ll h ave b ecome acqua i n ted wit° the despatch in which Count Esterlocay bad bee ts previou ly charged, on the 9th of this month, to e xpress to the Cabinet o f St. Petersburg our regret that, not withstanding the facts by which we supported ourselves in our despatches of the 3d of June, that Cabinet de clared itself willing to enter into negociations au to the time to be fixed for the evacuation only upon conditions the accomplishment of which did not depend upon our will. Under these circumstances we cannot avoid mairtaining our demand in the whole extent of the ternii en which it was made in the principal despatch of the 3d. of June. " As, moreover, the Cabinet of St. Petersburg has declared that strategetic considerations could not permit the Ru•sian army to quit the military positions which it had taken in the Principalities without having previously received guarantees of safety equivalent to an armistice, the question is shifted to another ground, upon which it was for the belligerent powers to decide in the first instance. "I need not call the attention of your Excellency to the extraordinary importance of the resolutions which these powers have now taken. You know too well the views which have invariably guided the policy of the Emperor our august master in the presont crisis, not to be aware of the spirit in which his Majesty desires to see the belligerent powers accept the overtures of Russia. " Without wishing to prejudge the resolutions which those Governments mey detinitilely take, we nevertbelesa .leein it right to explain to you the point of view from' which we regard the pr. sent phase of the question, in ord e r to put you in a condition to deal frankly towards the Cabinet of London (Paris) if an opportunity is Pre sented. " What has been the constant aim of the conne Cil fforts of the powers, if it has not been the re-establigh tient of a solid and durable peace ? We understand ht this a peace which, by re.esiablishi g th e rights of t he. Porte, giv es t o E urope guarantees against the recur rence of perturbations, such as those which disturb it , 8 '; :)rotoundly at the present moment. The neportance 01 ' 'he interests w hi c h are assoc i ated with this o bject ig µ s' great, great, that we are conv i nce d that no power wo uld vi a lingly expose it se lf t o the reproach of having I.egle!L r e -thy means .tever likely to'bring about a good ti"'"; , tailing. Reineinherin; this the b e rigerent er ....ill in, doubt feel it their duty to examine these cltle" s ion- carefully and conscielition,lv, in order to see it to reduction of the reply of the Cabinet of St Petersb e , r t : , o es not conta i n some germ of conciliat i on t h a t align ;cad to thepreparation of a defihite pacification. • " Russia mak es no diffi cu l ty i n s ubscribing t° tbut arinciples which a re conta i ne d in the protoc oi of Vie l ";,„ of th e 9th ,+f April, in thi s sense — t h at she declare s bet e 'elf wiling to conserve the integrity of the Porte, elld to be r e ady t o evacuate the Principalities, o n the cO t n dition of rec e ivi ng su i ta b le securities • and lastly' o participate i n th e consolidation of the rights of tb. Christians in Turkey, by taking part in the Effect znaratitee under w hi ch those rights should be placed'-' cording to the views of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg; that is to s ay, comprehending. in it not solely Christian._ of th e G ree k rite. This triple bads might, acco rding w the idea of the Court of Russia, serve as a guir ul l point for nego ti at i ons for peace, which, h ow ever, gilc u ‘ preceded by a genera l suspension of bostilitje"*, " Beside+ these three herself ready to accept, the protocol of the 9th " 4 1 ..... ‘ points which Russia has dec, r a contains, in reality, a fourth, by which the contract:;:, Governments have engaged themselves to enileavet. obtain in common the most suitable guarantees fa h ' ; tha fleeting the existence of the Ottoman Empire • L st. general equilibrium of Europe. The Cabinet w thi , Petersburg not having given any -übject, we cannot tell what are its intentions in ti t oo respect. But it nevertheless appears to us 4t ,„ dire. that the complete and unreserved acceptation of explanations 00 this Petersburg first points would be a great step towards a soluo crt °E the question raised by the fourth. r s feel " However th a t m a y b e , i t the heigerent P^wc -- themselves able to a cce pt th e d ec l arat i ons o f Russia a y the basis of a negotiation by which a durable peace re be attained, we do not doubt that they will be, like u s ; of opinion that th e evacuat i on of the Principalities 0112 0 . take the first plac e i n chronological order, and he , measure preliminary t o any understanding. If Onr dispensable condition is fulfilled—if Russia gives ho assent to the princip a l o f t h e i ntegr i ty o f t h e Otton te of empire and the protection by Europe of the rights ost the Christians in Turkey —especially is completely conformable to the stipulations of then tocol of the 9th of April, she will thereby a ffer, if not deceived, some elements of pacification, the itnr" .11 n 0 tance of which I hope the belligerent powers 1% 1 h t cietitly appreciate, and which should have gre at wet o in whatever resolutions they .may take, for w hic h wait with much anxiety. if this protecti (Signed) "-B" I '' It Prussia also gave instructions to her ainbassa d°r l 0 the Allied Courts, of w hi c h th e following i 6 to be a coi,y "Berlin, July 24, 1854 ' A " Whilst the Cabinet of St. P e t ers b urg bas decla re ' tself reroly as well for the maintenance of pease a 5 f" r . a preliminary armistice, it has in an equally noexFePd amiable manner hitherto disclaimed that it. has rvqo'r i the occupation of the Principalities by the DIP!'" armies. It consi.lered them but as a mm itary p os itn r li sad is ready to re ire iron) them so soon as certain to tary securities shall be gcaraoteed it. It does not d e ; flee the means of [mod a l l i a t en ] these securities, but leaves them to the equi ty o f to Cabinets to whi ch It , has replied. The King, our august master, for his part, cannot promise his assent to such proceeding, because it has been app arent l y suggested , simu l taneo usly, . 1 military prudi n , :s aid h onour ; hut should he, whilst appearing %hi ) transfer himself . to the charge of refusing to consider the Western Powers as a mediator,. ou r ' dispo-itions of Russia? We cannot bring selves to Lelieve he ought because we are that however stain;, , tiro c ', .iivictiOn9 , of both sides may b a. 117 i.-Ci p3r 7 ne the way of warlike operations and military pleparationa: o f o pinion they niust both come precisely to this r - which of sO! . 1 21. will proceed to the end—whicb of them will •eirerPtfr! I \