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He is perhaps the greatest sufferer in Europe, and let him be regarded accordingly, But, as we need not say, he is totally unfit for the management of human destinies. We have nothing to do with the relations between himself and his subjects ; but we must see that he never again lays the weight of even his little finger on the destinies of any people be yond his own proper bounds. We have done him jome "" harm, in the course of years, by our supineness and cre dulity ; and we must regard ourselves, therefore, as not unconcerned in his present abasement. We must sin no more in the same way. Having thus resolved—having made up our minds that this common foe shall do no mere hurt to anybody but his own subjects —we are at liberty to compassionate, freely and kindly, the wretched man who has declined into every other abyss before he reaches that of the grave —Daily Paper. THE LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK issues CIRCULAR NOTES of 10/. each for Travellers on the Continent. They are payable at every important place in Europe, and thus enable the Tracelkr to vary his route without inconvenience. 2,0 expense is incurred, and when cashed no charge is made for commission. They may be obtained at the Bank, Loth bury; or its Branches, I, St. James's-squar ; 214, High Holborn ; 3, Wellington-street, Borough ; 87, High-street, Whitechapel ; and 4, Stratford-place, Oxford-street. No. 19,278.] LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, J ULY 10, 1854. [PRICE SD. G. W. GILBART, General Manager, T . ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY. LAKES of WESTMORELAND and CUMBERLAND. Tickets, available for fourteen days to the above Lakes, are issued at the following fares by any through train PUBLICATIONS. ESTABLIWED 1837. BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM- Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Vic., Cap. 9. THE MAIL STEAM-SHIP for AUSTRALIA, August 4, 1854.—The magnificent screWsteam-ship "CAL CUTTA," 1,800 tons, Captain J. GOODALL, another of the file fleet belonging to the Ceneral S crew S team Sh i pp i ng Company. will be despatched with her Majes'y' A M a fi a for Adelaide, Port-Philip, and Sydney, on the 4:h August next. This floe vessel has maintained her high reputation f or rap id sa ling and punctuality, an d i s a s i s t er ,hip to t'ae " Argo," w hi c h h as made the quickest voyage to an d f rom Australia up to this time. The Calcutta has been employed carrying he Malls to and from England and Calcutta, and front her superior sailibg and steaming qualities, it may be fairly assumed that she will make the run iu GO tbys. Rates of Passage ,ram 30 to 100 guinea?. She will be followed, on the 4th of October, by the CACHETS, of 2,500 toes. Full particulars as to 4 PreiAit and Passage Money 4 the Com pany's Officer, .7 Cannon-street, City. and the same union 'can alone cenvert that appear ance into reality. With Austria and Germany on our side we may hope to bring the war to a satis factory termination in less time than has been com monly supposed, especially if the accounts, we re ceive of the growing sufferings . and disaffection within the Russian empire can be relied on.. But without the co-operation of Austria the occupation of Wallachia and Moldavia to the frontiers at Tran sylvania and Gallicia might devolve upon the allied armies—a circumstance which must protract the war, and would be productive of infinite em barrassment to all parties. The occupation •of the Principalities by Austria is, we are satisfied, the safest and most convenient course, for, while it will restore those provinces to their legal adminis tration and preserve them from invasion, it leaves the Anglo-French armies at liberty to prosecute an enterprise more worthy of their arms, and to ob tain by the destruction of Sebastopol the first grand condition for the restoration of peace. That peace is to be sought for by the success of our arms, not by any negotiations that can now be attempted in Europe. his people's welfare were repaid. The words " ingrat tude ' and " repayment" are commonly used on such occasions ; but in this case, we imagine, the hostility was on the part of one class on account of the indulgence shown to another. It did not, and it never will suit the nobles (in their own judgment) to have their serfs eman cipated ; and a somewhat recent instance of the calami ties which may ensue, on giving anything like hope of freedom and progress to any of the Czar's largest class of subjects, seems to explain one of the marked changes in the character or Nicholas. Seeing, as he did, that every hope held out by Alexander led to violence among the serf population— that when once assured that thby were regarded and pitied, they began to cut their masters to pieces, or flay them alive—he gave up the idea of re generating the policy of the empire ; and his course as Emperor shows that it snits him better to make himself a type of. Russian empire, and the fulfiller of the law of his predecessors than the mediator of Alexander, in trying to make something very fine out of a mixture of the milk and honey of the Gospel with the galland brimstone ofMus covite nomination. Alexander bad, however, something more to trouble him than the failure of his benevolent schemes. In the year 1817, when Nicholas was marry ing the Prussian princess who is now nursing him in his premature old age, a secret society Was formed in Russia which left not an hour's peace to Alexander for the rest of his life. For nine years he lived in the knowledge that a great conspiracy existed, the object of which was to form a federal union of Sclavonic re publics, extending from the North Sea to the Adriatic-- that object of course including the deposition of the Romanoff family. means, either of fraud or force were of any use in putting down this conspiracy; and for nine years did Alexander walk about with this fear ful ghost at his heels, never knowing when the moment would come for him to feel its grasp. This society in tended to reform the political condition of Russia alto gether, and to reinstate Poland. The conspiracy was a direct consequence of the war ; and it is astonishing that Nicholas, who must know this very well, has not deferred to the last possible moment the sending his armies forth in European warfare. He knows very well that the first secret society, the Alliance of the Sons of the Fatherland, was conceived of and formed by young officers who had picked up ideas of a better government than the Russian in foreign countries, and yet he offered to send his forces into Hungary on behalf of Austria, and finds that the same thing happens again ; that the officers and even the common soldiers have re turned without some notions in their heads which make his intervention in Hungary more a loss to him than a gain. NEW STORY BY THE AUTHOR OF MARGARET MAITLAND. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., 3IAGDALEN HEPBURN; By the author of " Margaret 3 , laitlaud," &c. • " An admirably conceived and we I executed talc." —John Bull. " We Hunk this one of the most brilliant and successful efforts that the author has yet achieved."—Messenger. Hurst and Blackett. Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough•street. BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCTA.TION, Empowered by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. COLONEL RouuaT ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted, with or without Participation In Profits. E. It. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. 1, Princes street, Bank, London. Ist Class. 2.1 Class. London to Windermere and back ...... 31. 10s. Od. 21. 108 Od. Oxford to ditto and back 37. 38. Cd. 2/. ss. oa. Birmingham to ditto and back .... • • 21. ss. Id. 1/. 15s. Od. By order, MARK HUISH. General Manager's Office, Euston Station, June, 1851. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-CHEAP EXCURSION fo OXFORD, BANBURY, LEAMINGTON, WARWICK, and BIRMINGHAM. On Sunday, July 16, a Train will leave Paddington at 7.45 a.m. ' returning the same evening from Birmingham at 6.15, Warwick G. 50, Leamington 7.0, Banbury 7.40, and Oxford at 8.15, or on Monday or WedneFdsy morning. from the same stations (Oxford excepted), at the following times ham 7.10 a.m , Warwick 7.40, Leamington 7.50, and Banbury 8 30. Fares there and back. Oxford, Gs. and 3s. 6d. ; Banbury, 7s. and 4s. 6d.; Leamington or Warwick, 10s. Gd. and 6s ,and Birmingham, 12s. and 7s. Tickets mar be obtained at the Paddington Station ; at 27, King-street, Cheapside; 269, Strand; 63, Bridge-road, Lam beth, and 351, Oxford-street. lIE LANCET.—No. I. of a New "Volume was published on Saturday last, July Bth.—Subscription for the volunaz, Unstamped, 155., Stamped, 17s. 4d.—Orders received by all Booksell , rs and Newsvendors. NATIONAL LOAN ANCE SOCIETY, No, Establithe DIRE( FUND LIFE ASSUR. 2G, Cornhill, London. ;d in 1838. _ _CTORS. A. Campbell Barclay, Esq. I John Moss, Esq. Charles Bennett, Esq. Thomas Nicoll, Esq. Hugh Croft, Esq. E. S. Symes, M D. John Elliotson, 11. D., F.R.S. I J. Leander Starr, Esq. Thos. Colley Grattan, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. MANAGING DIRECTORS. J. Leander Starr, Esq. (General). I Chas. Bennett, Esq. (Financial). AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor John Radford Young. MEDICAL EXAMINERS. J. Elliotson, M.D., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. E. S. ilymes, /1.D., 33, Davies-street, Berkeley-square. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &c. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 56, Lombard-street. SOLICITOR. C. Ewens, Esq., 61, Moorgate-street. Total number of Policies granted from December, 1852, to December, 1853-1,194. Under the following heads are briefly enumerated the leading principles of this Society : OBJECTS OF TILE SOCIETY. 1. A Life Assurance may be effected either by One Payment, or by an Annual Premium. 2. Policies may be effected WITS! or without the privilege of withdrawing one-half of the Annual Payments. If with out this privilege, the rates are lower. 3. A Life Assurance may be effected on the life of another, on Joint Lives or Survivorships. 4. Annuities, Immediate, Deferred, or Contingent, will be granted; also Endowments for Children. 5. Naval and Military Men, not in active foreign service, as sure t without extra charge, and allowed to go abroad with out forfeiture of Policy, on payment of an extra Premium, according to climate. MR. MECHI'S DRESSING BAGS, of an entirely novel construction, as Exhibited and Sold at the Crystal Palace, cmi‘bine all the advantages of an ordinary desk and dres,ing case, wills tannerous - ether conveniences for apparel, and are varied in cost to suit the economie, the utilitarian, or the luxuri ous ; either for ladles or gentlemen. • 4, Leadenhall-street, June 20, THE LATE REGISTRAR OF THE HIGII London : Published at the Lancet Office, 423, Strand. COURT OF ADMIRALTY. The particulars of a gigantic robbery of public monies are fully exposed in a Parliamentary paper issued on Sa turday—the " Report of a Committee for inquiry into the misappropriation of monies entrusted to Mr. Swabey late Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty." We learn from this report that the salary of the Registrar in question was 1,4001. a year, and that from 1844 be received, in addition, fees averaging 300/ per annum for attending appeals as her Majesty' s Registrar in Ec clesiastical and Maritime causes. We see very clearly here, that the bread of the civil servants of the Govern ment is particularly well buttered. The report tells us that the Registrar had to receive monies in relation to three separate funds. TilE ANSWER OF THE CZAR. R OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, PATnoN—II.R.IL PRINCE ALBERT. Mr. PEPPER begs to announce that the CONVERSAZIONE inaugurating the New Management will take place on THURSDAY evening, the 13th inst., at 9 o'clock. JOHN WALTER, Esl., M.P., will kindly deliver the Opening Address ; and, in addition to various Novelties, Mons. DUBOSCQ will come specially from Paris to exhibit his BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS in OPTICS with the Elect, ic Light. REAT WESTERN RAILWAY. I lJr CHEAP EXCURSION to the WEST of F 4 NGLAND.— On SATURDAY, the 22d July, an EXCURSION TRAIN will leave PADDINGTON at 8 a.m., for PLYMOUTH, calling at Weston•Super•Mare, Bridgewater, Taunton, Tiverton Road, Exeter, Starcross. Dawhsh, Teignmouth, Torquay, Totnes, and Kingsbridge, and will return from Plymouth on Saturday, July 29th, at 6.30 a m. First Closed Class. Carriages. To Weston-Super-'bare or Bridgewater 203. .. 13s. (Front the Times.) It was not till Thursduy, the 6th of July, that the Russian Minister at Vienna communicated to the Austrian Cabinet a despatch containing the answer of the Court of St. Petersburg to the demands of the German States, and some further delay appears to have intervened in consequence of the temporary absence of the Emperor (Sf Austria at that moment from his capital. On the following day, however, the Russian answer is said to have been communi cated to the British and French Ministers at Vienna, and although the exact phraseology and tenour of this important document are still unknown to us, its general purport and character have to a certain extent transpired. According to the infor mation we have received from our correspondents, and on which we think that reliance can be placed, the Emperor Nicholas professes his readiness to treat upon the basis of the protocol signed on the 9th of April at Vienna by the representatives of the Four Powers ; he seems ready to admit that the navigation of the Danube shall be free, and that the rights and privileges of the Christian subjects of the Pprte shall be placed under the safeguard of the Five Powers ; and it is added, that he will agree to evacuate the Principalities on certain con ditions and securities, which are not fully known to us, but which do not appear to be of a nature to obtain the approval of the Western Powers or the assent of the Cabinet of Vienna. OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION: *A) 309, Regent•street. Under the Patronage of H.R.H. PRINCE ALII„ERT. AN ENTIRE CHANGE in the MANAGEMENT of this Institu tion having taken place, the Resident Director, Mr. J. H. Pepper, begs leave to inform the public that the Exhibition will be CLOSED ro e 7tl 'lts ',MONDAY, the 17th, when it will RE-OPEN lbrations and Impttirements' in a 1 its depart . To Taunton or Tiverton Road .... 225. To Exeter ..... 1; Croum Fund.—Sams paid under warrants of the Lords of the Treasury, being the proceeds of slave ves sels captured and condemned. 2. Suitors' Fund.—The proceeds of sales of ships un der decree of the High Court of Admiralty, and monies paid in by suitors in salvage cases and others pending litigation. 3. Fee Fund. —Fees payable to the judge registrar, &c., according to the course of office. The monies pro ceeding from the two first of these sources were of a very large amount—those paid in on account of the Fee Fund were apparently small. It adds greatly to etir reverence of the wisdom of the administration of the civil service to learn that Mr. Swabey gave no security, nor was he ever Called upon to render any account in re spect of the two first funds, but that these two condi tions were rigidly exercised in the comparatively unim portant case of the Fee Fund. Tp t„ar . crnail s To Tomlin , or Tcitifel 275: 1135.T0 Plymouth or Kingsbridge.... •• • • 30s. .. 20s The Excursion tickets are not transferable, and are only available for the Excursion Trains. tickets may be obtained at 27, King street, Cheapside ; 63, Bridge-road, Lambeth; 351, Oxford-street; 2;19, Strand ; and at the Paddington Station. Further particulars will be given in handbills, which may be had at any of the above places. meats. . . Models of Machinery and Works of Art for Exhibition may be sent ir; any day, between Eleven and Five o'clock. July, 1854. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms, (Lessee, Cum. C. LeosENT, Onslow-house, Fulham-road), —The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON. and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S CELEBRATED BAND. Constantinople Quadrille, Sultan Polka, Fair Star Waltz, and Overland Mail Galop, by D'Albert; also, by 11. Laurent , the following Waltzes -La belle Fran ca isc, Lednora, Ytlit kins and his Dinah, Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8. Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter.ninate at half-past 11. A LBERT LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 11, Waterloo-place, Pall.mall. Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND to the 3:)th ult., after the rate of Seven per cent. per annum, will be in COURSE of PAYMENT to the Shareholders on and after the II th July instant. HENRY WILLIAM SMITH, Actuary and Secretary. In the event of the Assured (when on the Withdrawal System) not requiring to continue the Police, on its surrender one-half the annual payments will he returned by way of purchase of his interest therein. By this mans, apprehension of great pecuniary loss and doubt as to the intrinsic transferable value of each Policy is moved. its cash value being fixed and tietelmined beforehand by the toasty at one-half the annual premiums paid thereon : a vast class of society will thereby be admitted; and every individual, while steadily pursuing one object —a provision for his family at death— will have, by the plan of this Society, a door open to his savings, which will never be closed against his w lids or his use. Gth July, 1854. ESTABLISHED 1803. CREMORNE. —Admission, One Shilling.— Tlrs Day the Programme will present the Most Popular mertainment of the Season, consisting of a Grarri Concert by Bosisio's admired Band. Vocal Performers, Mr. Debrenner, Miss Storace, and the matchless Sam Cow 11. The French and American Circus Company will exhibit their intrepid performances. Princi pal Esuestrians, Madlle Mclillo, Mons Verdier, Mons: Blair, the American Wonder, and the Great Little Wheale. Magnificent Ballet of the BRIDAL MORN. by Milano 3larriott's Working Bees—lie sarias's Dogs and Monkeys—Professor Taylor and the Double sighted Youth—Battle of Trafalgar—Terrific Rope Ascent—Dancing on the Illuminated Platform. A Magnificent Display of Pyrotechnics, by Mortram. Doors open at 3 o'clock. Conveyance from all parts of the Metropolis direct to Cremorne. GLOB R AN CE, CORNHILL IND PALL-MALL—LONDON. New Tables of Life Premiums—Participating and Noh-Partici rating. Every class of FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITY business transacted N ATIONAL LOAN FUND FIFE ASSUR , A NCE SOCIETY. Prospectuses, Report of last Atimpl Meeting, Forms of Proposals `or Assurance, and every description of necessary Blank Forms, with Tables of Rates, and full information on all points, furnished, on ap plication at 26, Cornhill, or at any of the Company's Agencies. 26, COILNIIILL, LONDON, 21st June, 1351. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the HALF-YEARLY IN TEREST on the CAPITAL STOCK of this SOCIETY, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, due on the 30th instant, together with the B iNUS thereon, declared at the annual meeting in May last, will become payable on the 10th July next, and proprietors may receive the same at. this Office on that or any subsequent day, between the hours of 11 and 3 o'clock. And notice Is hereby given, that the Transfer Books of the Society wid close on the 30th inst., and open On the 11th day of July next. By order of the Court of Directors. W. S. B. WOOLHOUSE. Actuary. M ARITIME PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders of this Company will be held at the Company's Offices, No. 4, Moorgate street, London, on WED NESDAY, ;he 19th of July, at 12 o'clock at noon (exact time), to receive the Reports of the Directors and Auditors; also to elect three Directors in the room of Leonard Philip Cox, Esq., Richard Towne, Esq., and William Watkins, Esq., who re ire by rotation, and offer themselves for re-election, and also to elect two Auditors for the ensuing year. JOHN GEARY, Resident Director. IMPORTANT TO HOUSES OF BUSINESS. Reduction on the Government Duty on Fire Insuraace;;Ci Insurers. UNITY FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION. Capital Two millions, with Seven Thousand Shareholders. Chief Offices :-40, Pall-mall, London. Insurers in the " UNITY" are allowed the full Discount which the Office receives from the Government upon the Duty chargeable on their Policies, at the rate ofsl. per cent. on Country, and 41. per cant. on London policies.. Insurers receive Two-thirds of the Profits Parties desirous of insuring with this Association may be pqrsonally Waited upon by a gentleman from tho °Mee, and thus be spared all trouble or loss of time. Applications for Prospectuses, Agencies, and all other information, are requested to he made to THOMAS 11. BAYLIS, General Manager and Secretary. TOURS IN IRELAND IN 1854, Commencing 22d May, and terminating 30th September. The Public is respectfully informed that arrangements have been again entered into by the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company with the principal Railway Companies In England, Scotland, and Ireland, by which First and Second Class "IRISH TOURIST TICKETS" bill be issued at the following stations and prices : London (Easton (Station), Newcastle, Dur ham, Berwick • . ••••..• • £6 10 0 1..5 5 Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Bristol, Carlisle, Darlington, Scarboro' ..... .•• .. 6 6 0 5 5 0 Worcester, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Oxford 515 0 415 0 Birmingham, Rugby, Leamington, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Huddersfield, Leeds, Shef field, Derby ••• •• .. • 5 0 0 4 5 0 Preston •. •• • ••••••••••• • • • • Manchester, Warrington, Stoke, Macclesfield 4 4 0 310 0 Liverpool, Chester...• •• ...... •• .. 4 0 0 3 5 0 These Tickets (which in no case are transferable) will be available for one month from the date of issue. They will enable the holders to Proceed to Chester, thence to Bangor, Holyhead, and Dublin (by the Express Boats only); from Dublin to Cork, situate on the pic turesque river Lee, and within ten miles of the celebrated harbour, dockyard, and naval station of Queenstown (Cove). From Cork back to 31:110w, and thence by, the Killarney Junction Railway to the far-famed lakes of Killarney. The tourist can remain as long as convenient to himself at Chester, Bangor (for the inspection of the Britannia Tubular Bridge), Holy head (the new Refuge and Ocean Steam Harbour), Dublin, Cork, and Killarney ; the only condition being, that his return to the sta tion in England, or Scotland, at which be took his ticket, must net be later than one month from the date of his departure therefrom. Supplemental tickets for Glengariif, Connemara, and the Giant's Causeway. Under arrangements which have been specially and exclusively entered Into for the accommodation of English Visitors, the holder of each " Irish Tourist Ticket" is entitled (within the month it is available) to have issued to him : I. At the Offices of the Dublin and Drogheda Company, Amiens street, Dublin—Dublin to Belfast and back, for the four to the Giant's Causeway:—First Class, II• Ss.; Second Class, 11.25. Avail able for Seven Days. 2. At the Offices of the Midland Great Western Company, Broad stone, Dublin—Dublin to Galway and back, for the Tour to Conne taara k.—First Class, 11. 10a.; Second Class, 1/. 4s. Available for Seven Days. 3 . At Mr. J. Flshboarne's Offices, B schelor's-walk, Dublin ; Rail- Way Station, Killarney; Imperial Hotel, Cork ; and Victoria Hotel, G lengariff—For the Tour between Cork and Killarney, via the Cork and Bandon Railway, the Kimmamee Pass, and the Lakes of Gnu ganebarra and Inchageelagh, and vice versa, each day (Sundays ex canted), lis.6d. 4 5 0 CONTRACT FOR RUM. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 7th July, 1854. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on MONDAY, the 17th Instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons t may be willing to Contract for eupplying and delivering into her majesty's Victualling Stores at DEPTFORD. IN hen to be delivered. Half in three weeks, and the re -41:r11f '' mainder in three weeks after ...... 20,000 Gallons wards, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering. The Rum to be exempted from the Customs Duties, and parties tendering are to state where it is lying. Tenders will be received from any Firm for any portion of the total tillautity not less than 2,000 gallons. Samples of the Rum to be sent in pints for each import mark, and the average strength of each mark ex to be stated, and 1 2._ ° t an average of different marks or strengths of several imports, anY parcel of rum that is found not to be of the same quality, . I . l lark, or average strength of the sample tendered and accepted wid . be rejected by the officers. The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted are requested to be taken away by them Immediately after the con tract has been decided. No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro rdedfor the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at 'RI said Office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at L iverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol. The conditions of the revised eoatract, to which particular atten en called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the office on the day of con tract,l as the result of the offer received from each person will be co mmunicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the . Secretary of the Admiralty, Mid bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Rum," and Inua t also be delivered at Somerset-place. G.R AVESEND STAR PACKETS. ho other Packets call at the Greenhithe, and Furfleet Piers. I).NOTICE.—DAX TICKETS are issued upon the Gravesend Star .I, 4°k etgl available for return by them or by the London and Tilbury flueay; the Reiurn Tickets by the Railway will also be available by the Star Packets. 11141 Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather perm! FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. WEEK DAYS. SIJNDATS. :tiny) Terrace Pier 1 C ' ' 48 7y4 851 11% 134 • Direct Trains from the Boats marked t t , ° nlillbuses from Fenchurch•street Station to all parts of London erY quarter of an hour. . 'ItIYNSWICK WBARF. BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the _lowing Trains from the Fenchurch-street Station. •-,......... WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. .) ~..4 a, Pen. A•Z 5 = , 0- , t 5 t Fen- .-.—, w Z ' lo lreh 4 , V -=" 1 ..) church 1 8 ''' oil str eet I - 6 - 3 t e ii. street ' - c e j P 8 .............._ S . 4 c. 2 7 '. 41 1014 _ I 12% l I A . _ 10 - 11 214 _ I!; _ .... *5 l , ......_ 6% Passa g es marked . aro run direct. To or fr om G ravesen d an d L0nd0n........ Fore Cabin. Saloon... 10d. .. Is. 2d. ~, Gravesend and Illackwall or Woolwich Bd. .. O s . 10d. .11 , eb,..-- direct. To or fr om G ravesen d an d L ondon ........ Fore Cabin. Saloon. 10d. .. Is. 2d. Gravesend and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. 10d. Be tween Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd. BO aT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 5,. Os.; Six Months, 31. Os.; Three Months, 21. Os.; to be bad of the Collectors on board the p ackets ; or of blr.,Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. ~ .Fast and superior Packets to be Let for Xxcursions. Apply to 41r . W. Morgan, Agent, Star Company, Star Office, Felleburch street Terminus, BlacklYa RallWaS' J ll 4 1, 1864. lix Ix 8X 5 GX 7x Time THE BEST HATS in EUROPE.— JOHN BOWLER and SON having had several complaints from their customers (both town and country) triat a party who is known to deal with them has been advertising The Best Hats in London, 135.—they are compelled, to save their Trade, to adopt this method of informing the public and the trade in general, that the Hats, Jno. Perrin; of Cecil House, Strand, and 251, Regent street, advertised as 'the Best Hats in London. 133., are only their Fourth Quality of Goods ; and at the same time to announce that Hats of their manufacture are sold only at present in bon lon, west of Temple-bar, by Mr. John Hall, Regent-circus, Oxford street ; Mr. W. S. Young; 344, Oxford-street ; and B. J. Hutson, 99, Regent-street. SIR WM. 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TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, Is a remedy for Relaxation, Spenuatorrhcea, and Exhaustion of the System. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of those , Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs have so long been thought au antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIFqEMAR No .3, • •• _ _ Is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of t: ate or smell, and of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table without their use being suspected. Sold in tin cases at 1 Is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into separate doses, as administered by Yalpean, Lallcmand, Roux, &c., &c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Robert John ton, 68, Cornlilll ; Llanna.y and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street. CAUTION. —M essrs . ALLSOPP and SONS find it necessary to caution the Public, and especially Shippers of their Ales to the Colonies, aga'nst frauds committed by parties in selling spurious Ales for those of Messrs. Allsopp and Sons. Messrs. ALLSOPP and S&INS have felt compelled by the &tent to which this disgraceful practice has been carried, to proceed in several cases by obtaining irjunctions from the Court of Chancery, and have ultimately been driven to pro:ecute criminally tor the com mission of this offence. They beg to et)! attention to the Case of the QUEEN v. GRAY and GOBLIN, in which Lord Camped sentenced the parties charged to " Twelve Months' Insprlsomnent, with Hard Labour."—Vide " Times" and " Morning Advertiser," of the 18th May. Messrs. ALLSOPP and SONS will thank all persons having rea son to doubt the.genulnelicsa of any article sold under their name, to send them the earliest information, in order that immediate steps may be taken for prosecuting the parties. Me.srs. ALL '•OPP and SONS will be tappy to ttrnish the names of respectable houses, where a supply of their Ales may be depended on as genuine from the Brewery. Brewery, Burton-on-Trent. ONDON and ST. PETERSBURG. —The capital of the Russian Etn,ire during the summer months has usually been a scene of activity and business—the Neva studded with vessels of every description, and pleasure and commerce mutu ally united. Now, those who can escape Lye glad of the opportu nity, business is stagnant, and pleasure unknown. On the other hand. London is busy as ever ; the Thames bears on its broad waters the ships of all nations, and imports and exports proceed as if war did not exist. The business of E. MOSES and SON as Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, and Exporters to all parts of the world, produces an unusual degree of excitement. Their Summer Attire diffuses cheerfulness through every circle of society; their Styles of Dress are more novel and varied than on any previous sea son ; and the talent displayed in their Summer Costume is the greatest exhibition of popular progress which has been made for a number of years. Every description of Summer Dress may be pro cured at E. MOSES and Sox's City Establishment and their West-end Branch at the most economical prices. Youts' and Children's Dress in such magnificence and novelty as cannot be particularised. Every style which could be devised for fashion, comfort, and durability is to be found at E. MOSES and SON'S, and the prices charged are highly advantageous to parents and guar dians. Hats and Caps, Hosiery Goods, Boots and Shoes, &c., &c., for Ladies and Gentlemen—in fact, every article of Dress for all per sons, purposes, and professions may be obtained at E. MOSES and Sox's, at prices which will ensure the most ample satisfaction. The Wholesale Clothing, Shirt, and Bnot and Shoe Department offers selection from the largest, newest, and best stock in the world, at prices which return the largest profit in the home or colonial trade. Full LISTS of OUTFITS for Ladies and Gentlemen, with ship. sailing information, gratis on application, or post free. 1510615 S and 60N regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like falai h 01 of g` Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, anti for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ♦NT °THEE HOUSE IN OX OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : Lond ,, n City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Minorles, 84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, and 3, Bart-street, all commuicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. Colonial Wholesale Branch, Melbourne, Australia. Merchant Tailors Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT.—ShoUId any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, trom which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sense - on Fridays to sunset on taturdays, whoa business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, with illustrations, entitled" The Echo of Public Opi nion," containing lull lists of prices, our system of self-measure ment, &c., &c., may be had on application, or post-free. Ici l'on parle Francais. Qui si parla Italian°. liter spricht man Deutsch. Aaua sa habla EsPanO THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just published, price 25., illustrated with cases; free by post for 30 Nstamps, ERVOUS DEBILITY; Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper matorrhcea, with Practical Observations on a safer and more successful mode of treatment. of the diseases of the Generative , ystem, obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and distinguisbin7„ by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of every variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, excesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, .permatorrhcea, &c. To which are aided, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre cautionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, and on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on these important disorders. By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hail, London, &c., Ace. Theessential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, slegradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, "any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is plrticularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It Is ab:olutely necessary that all men should know, that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, Ind how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, that there is scareely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. The Author has for a series of years been engaged In an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, 'which are unfortunately teen tool generally confided to the care of ignorant emplrics, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had, price 2s, of Messrs. 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Robert ilanbury, j an.. Esq. William Sultan, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Scms, Esq. William Tetlow Ilibbert, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Esq. . William Wallace, Esq. Sir John Win. Lubbock, Bart. Charles Baring Young, Esq. MEDICAL REFEREE--Samuel lolly, Esq.., F.R.S. Notice.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre miums tailing due at Midsummer will expire on the 9th of July. FIRE ani LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Cor poration on advantageous terms. The Assured are exempt from the liabilities of partnership, and payment of their clainis is guaranteed by a large invested capital stock. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation in profits, or, at lower I - rerniums, without such participation. The Reversionary BONUS on Participating Lite Policies has averaged 2 per Cent. per annum on the sum assured, or 46 per cent. on the Premiums paid. Any sum not excee.ting 10,0001. may be assured on one Life The Corporation bedrsthe cost of Policy Stamps and Medical Fees, and requires no entrance-money. The Assured are subject to no expense but the Premium. No extra charge is made for service in the militia. LOINS are granted on Life Policies to their fhll values. This Corporation affords all the advantages of modern practice, with the stability of an office safely constituted under Royal Charier and Special Acts of Parliament, and tested by the experience of nearly a century and a half. There is but one older lite office in existence. FARMING STOCK. The Corporation having determined on a reduction of " One Shil ling per Cent." in the rate of Premium for the Insurance of Farm ing Stock and Utensils in England and Wales, the Company's agents have been fully instructed upon the subject, and are authorised to accept Insurances on that class of property accordingly. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. JOHN A. HIGIII4, Actdary and Secretary. E CONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 6, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, I3LACKFRIARS. Established 1823. Empowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV. DIRECTORS. The Right Hon. Sir T r . FRANKLAND LEWIS, Bart., M.P., Chair man. lIENRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. A. Kingsford Barber, Esq. I Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, Bart. Arthur Kett Barclay, Esq., F.A.S. I Archibald Hastie, Esq., M.P. Henry Barnett, Esq. John Mendham, Esq. Robert Bidduiph, Esq. Charles Morris, Esq. Thomas Edgar, Esq. William Routh, Esq. AUDITORS. Edward Charrington, Esq. I Captain Robert Gordon, R.N. Francis Duinergue, Esq. John Gilliam Stillwell, Esq. PHYSICIAN—John Ayrton Paris, M.D., Cantab., lion. D.C.L. Oxon. F.R.S., 27, Dover-street (President of the Royal College of Phy- sicians). SuaoaoN—Benjamin Travers, Esq., F.R.S., No. 54, Green-street Grosvenor-square. SOLICITOR—Henry Young, Esq., No. 12, Essex-street, Strand. AcTuesr--James:johr Downes, Esq., F.R.A.S. The advantages offered by this gociety are : ECONOMY combined with Security, and Lower Rates of Premiums than those of any other office, which eititle the assured to participate in the profits, and considerably lower than those of any other Mutual Assurance Society. The WHOLE of the PROFITS are divided every fifth year among the Assured, and a Bonus is added, after the payment of the Fifth Annual Premium to every Policy effected on the participating Scale, if a claim accrue thereon prior to the neat division of profits. The sum of 397,0001. was added to Policies at the last division, which produced an average BONUS of 671. per teat. on the Premiums paid. Number of Policies in force 6,600. The Assurance Fund amounts to 1,340,0001. Income upwards Of 220,000/. per Annum. No charge for Policy Stamps, nor for Service in the Yeoma nr y or Militia Corps. The subjoined Table shows the advantages offered by this Society, resulting fro w low PreMitllll9, and a division of the entire profits among the Assured : ►a I o O o • ).• 4' t . ▪ , ag • IF ;),r A ir ll° E ;BM Er, .. g , ~7..ng.... V::,4r X. 5. d. 21 15 10 1260 26 13 5 1205 33 19 6 1140 45 6 0 ' 1030 £ 1854. 1854. 116 £l2 4E1388 125 12 1342 130 11 1231 141 10 1181 Assurances effected in the current 3 ear, 1854, will participate In the Profits in 1859. Prospectuses and Hill particulars may be obtained on application to ALEXANDER MACDOITALD, secretary. LAW UNION FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Chief Offices, 45, Pall-mall. Capital, One iu 100,000 Shares of 101. each. The Fire and Life Depart ments are under one management, but with separate funds and accounts. DIRECTORS. Sir WILLIAM FOSTER, Bart., Chairman JAMES PARKER, Esq., Baddow-house, near Chelmsford. 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The legal business in connection wits mortgages may (under judi cious regulations) be transacted by solicitors of known respectability, being shareholders. Fire and Lilo proposals will be received and every information given at the chief offices, 45, Pall - mall ; at Edward Rurkitt, Esq., Curriers'-hall, London-wall; at J. 0 Bees , Esq., 38, Lin co l n ' s-in- fields; Ifessr.. Lindsay and Mason's, 84, Baslnghall-str ee t ; and H. E. Marsh, Esq., 2, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, London ; and at the offices of any of the Country Directors. Forms 4;4 propogl, ikc,, po;t freti 011 application to the Secretary, FRANK AvozDy. If this be a correct account of the last Russian communication, and of the effect it has produced at Vienna upon the representatives of the other Great Powers, this answer is obviously evasive and intentionally vague. The Emperor of Rdssia appears desirous to claim the merit of making a large abatement of his former pretensions with re ference to the protectorate of the Christians and the navigation of the Danube, but he attaches con ditions to the more pressing and immediate mea sure—the evacuation of the Principalities = to which neither the Conference of Vienna nor the Western Powers are at all likely to submit. Nay, even if there were some prospect of agreement on these_ points, it is impossible to reconcile the re storation of the former treaties between Russia and the Porte with that stipulation of the Protocol of the 9th of April which binds the Allied Govern ments " to endeavour in common to discover the guarantees most likely to attach the existence of the Ottoman empire to the general equilibrium of Europe." And when we say that those treaties are abrogated, we mean that it is impossible for the Western Powers to contemplate any return to a state of things which would neces sarily restore the dominion of Russia over the Eastern coast of the Black Sea, which she has been forced 'to evacuate, place the administration of Moldavia and Wallachia under leer joint protecto rate, and, in short, leave her in the most favourable position to renew this entire schemes of aggression at the first convenient opportunity. Such propo sitions are as superficial as they are insincere, for it is impossible to suppose that an astute Cabinet like that of St. Petersburg can delude itself with the expectation that such au overture would exer- cise any influence at all upon the military . operations of the Allied Powers, or that any • negotiation can be commenced with a prospect of success which does not go clearly and resolutely to the root of the whole matter. The Emperor Nicholas is perfectly aware that such communications can have no 'effect upon the Powers with which he is at war, and, indeed, they are addressed not to 'us or to France, but to the German States ; but he hopes by such means to stop the march of the Austrian armies already assembled on the frontier, to furnish an excuse to Prussia, of which she might be base enough to avail herself, for withdrawing from the Convention of. the 20th of April, and to promote the disunion of the-rest of Germany. The Proper and effective reply of Europe fo these fine-spun artifices is redoubled activity in the field. If France, England, and Austria are united, and united in defence_ of those principles and interests which command the support of Europe, it is of no matter what may be con t r i ve d a t Stuttgart or at Berlin ; for, although Prussia figures as a member of the Conference of the great Powers, she can exercise no control over their deliberations, and still less oppose the execution of their will. Austria has already concluded a separate treaty with the Porte, providing expressly for the occupation of the Principalities by the Imperial forces for the purpose of restoring the legal authorities in those provinces and of maintaining them until the end of the war. But every act of Russia is a denial of the existence of any legal authority in the Princi palities beyond the will of her own Generals for she has not only plundered the peasantry - and ap propriated - the public treasure, but incorporated the militia in her armies against their own Sove reign, and carried off the archives. Her retreat has only been a movement from positions which she• found it impossible to maintain to a line of operations more m a e nt n ettac to her own resources ; and, though her diplomacy object in these intrigues has been actively than to to Austria, and nearer gnupelosyy Europe, endeavouring on t h e war ae to rr shake the pres en t advantage, rather Turkey combinationeiscitlo.neaonsf. ourselves greater t i e s : boththe r relative tive politics stre strength in fact, inconsistent with the tions for peace when • o f w f ar to t e or party enter peace. firstw i u n p i tothhne.n contestprinciplesego t i a - en neither the pretensions nor g u t d h can be said to be changed. If a congress were opened to-morrow, all the same questions which have been so long pending over Europe, and have at hat broken out i n t o actual •• • hostilities, would re main to be adjusted, and they could only be ad justed by engagements and promises similar to those which Russia has so recently broken. The events of the campaign have already decided the fate of that invasion of the Trans -Danubian provinces of Turkey which Russia threatened in the winter and attempted in the spring ; but they have decided no more, and even in this negatiVe achievement the forces of the Western Powers have borne but an indirect and unimportant part. In order to answer and confute the erroneous and injurious supposi tion that the Western Powers are in any way pre pared to suspend their operations, or to open nego tiations on sick proposals as these, it is only neces sary to refer to Lord Clarendon's last peremptory declaration in the House of Lords, that it was not for an insignificant result that France and England had sent out the enormous armaments now in the field, nor would an insignificant advantage or a hollow peace induce them - to retire from the contest. On all these grounds, we not only deprecate ne gotiations at this stage of the war, as the deceptive and dilatory means by which the enemy hopes to slacken our activity . and to cool our alliances,. but we affixm that it is impossible for any negotia tions to be now brought to a successful result. The answer of the Emperor Nicholas to the Court of Vienna is, in reality, a practical refusal, just so far dressed up an d disguised in conciliatory lan guage as to ensnare those partisans of Russia who make it their_ business to be caught by her. In the present state of these affairs, however, nothing is to be gained by these subtleties and refinements, and the first proof to-be required from Russia of the sincerity of her intentions is, that she should declare them without reserve. The course of the Western Powers remains, therefore, wholly un changed, and we trust that the policy of Austria will remain equally firm. It is true that, on the urgent representations of Prussia, the Court of Vienna was induced to suspend the order given to its generals to enter Wallachia until the I,ussian note had arrived ; but the next few days, or per haps this very day, must prove decisive on this as well as on some other points. According to prece dent, and in pursuance of the express terms of the Protocol of the 9th of April, Count Buol will pro.. bably again summon the Conference to meet, and will inform the representatives of the other Powers . of the Russian proposals, on which they have a right "to deliberate in common." But, in reality, the decision of Austria herself at this crisis is the most momentous part of the question, and we have no reason to believe that these proposals are of a nature to be more acceptable to the Austrian .Government than those which preceded them. It is by firmness and union that we have extorted from Russia even the appearance of concessions ; the same firmness (From the Ihorning Post.) The long-deferred answer of the Czar to the Nor thern Courts has at length been delivered by Prince Gortschakoff to the Emperor Francis Joseph. The following, we have good reason to b e li eve , are t h e plain facts with respect to this important commu nication, divested of the errors and mis-statements with which the subject has been crowded :—The Russian Envoy arrived at Vienna on Thursday the 6th, at which date the Emperor was absent from the city. The answer was forwarded on the follow ing day to his Imperial Majesty, but previously to its despatch a copy appears to have been shown by Count Buol Schauenstein to the British Minister ; and from Lord Westmoreland we do not doubt that such an outline of its contents as the telegraph is capable of supplying will have been forwarded to our Foreign-office. From that source alone must we look for a trustworthy version of the conditions and proposals of which fore-shadowings, so various and so contradictory, have been made public. Por tions and instalments of the truth no doubt are con tained in the accounts circulated through the leading channels of public intelligence; but they must be re ceived, to say the least, with much caution. The point of the greatest importance, however, lies not in the mere terms of the answer, but in its result and effect. On the return of the Emperor Francis Joseph to Vienna, Prince Gortschakoff was ad mitted to a special audience, after which, a courier was despatched direct to St:Petersburg, the Prince remaining at the Austrian Court. The obvious in ference from these facts is, that some fresh commu nication is now pending between the Courts of Vienna and St. Petersburg, thus lengthening out by another link the chain of negotiation which it was supposed that the promised ultimatum would have snapped. Such a fact will, no doubt, be viewed in this country with the deep interest —nay, with the anxiety, ,1 hich is warranted by the position of Austria, and by the conflicting and weighty in fluences between which she is placed. In Vienna, we learn that the effect on public opinion of the immediate sequel of Prince Gortschakoff" interview with the Emperor was a rise in the funds, under the impression, no doubt, that, in lieu of decisive a ng up once more action being commenced, negotiations may be re sumed, with a chance of patching the alliance so rudely shaken between the Northern Courts and that of St. Petersburg. Both in Ger many and in England it is probable that a some what higher importance will be given to the hesita tion of the Austrian Emperor than the matter de serves. It is impossible to be surprised that the desperate tenacity with which the Czar clings to his last hope of breaking up an irresistible combination, and defying a fatal sentence, should have met with such a shadow of success as consists in a slight re prieve. But it does not follow that Austria should be blinded to her own interests or warped from her good faith because, in accordance with her course of policy throughout, she has determined on exhaust ing every stage of the dispute diplomatically before taking it up with an armed hand. Much may have been represented by the Czar, through his envoy, which may have induced the young Emperor to ask for further explanation or to make additional statements, but nothing short of an absolute surrender of Russian pretensions can effect the paramount considerations which the Cabinet of Vienna has repeatedly admitted as binding it to pursue the same objects as the Western Powers. From those objects Austrian statesmen have given every earnest that they will not swerve or turn aside. Ultimately, they must not only aim at the same end, but adopt the same means with the allies. That they are not eager to step at once from discus sion to war we believe may be accounted for on more grounds than one. The Austrian army, so rapidly levied on the eastern frontier, is far from being in a state for immediate action. The same may be said of our own forces, which still await their complement of cavalry and artillery at Varna. An additional step in a negotiation may be disap pointing or useless, but so long as it does not divert the course of a declared and recognised policy, it will not change the catastrophe, or have any effect more serious than a negative one. A far greater danger would be the mistake of taking the field in sufficiently prepared. Ono fact with regard to the proposals of the Czar we hold to be decisive of their inevitable fate, and of their effect on the Go vernments of the Allied Powers. The Emperor Nicholas, in answer to the demand of Austria, that his armies should quit the Ottoman territory, con sents to do so on the evacution of Turkey by the forces of the Allied Powers ; but insists on holding his military position by a continued occupation of Moldavia. To such a condition there is but one answer possible to the Western Powers. Their army will no doubt leave its present post, and quit the Turkish soil at no very distant date ; but it will be for the sake of changing the scene to a point where a heavier blow will be struck than Russia, shaken as she is, has yet had to encounter. THE GAR'S BIRTHDAY. A ROYAL "FESTIVAL" IN ST. PETERSBURG. The birthday of the Czar is just over ; and surely it must have been the most anxious and dismal of his birth days —grave as the vicissitudes of his life have been. He was born on the 6th of July (new style), 1796, and already, while only 58, he is worn, broken—older in constitution and appearance than most men who have lived ten or fificien years longer. His most eager ene mies cannot look on such a spectacle as the decline of this man and his fortunes without a sort of grief in the midst of their satisfaction and thanksgiving—grief that power so considerable, and a morale that once had much that was fine in it, should have carried a man into a mission no higher than one of warning, after he and many others had believed it would bo one of retrieval and amelioration. There is no need to say that he was unhappy in his descent. The grandson of Catherine and the son of Paul claims our pity at the outset. The mischief was, however, simply codntitutional, for he was too young at the death of both to suffer by their example. He was four months old when the Empress died ; and under five years when his wretched father came to his untimely end. He was, therefore, exempt from the horrible im putation which rested on his elder brothers—that they kneW what was doing on the night of Paul's murder, and consented to it as the only means of saving their own liberty and even life. Alexander was then four and-twenty ; 'but the child Nicholas, then a spirited and clever boy of four-and-a-half, was one of the last who received a loving word and kiss from his doomed father. On that fatal evening, Paul was in one of his amiable moods ; and he went to the. Empress=that ingenuous German girl who found the greatness which had at first astonished her a miserable- change from the freer and more modest life in. her father's castle. Her husband went to her drawing-room that evening ; spoke affec tionately to her, and took the baby into his arms, and played with the little Nicholas. His mother did the best she could for the boy, in the way of education. General Laudor, superintended it ; Adelung taught him languages, and Councillor.Stork instructed him in political economy—to no great purpose,, judging by the results. He was more inclined to military studies than any other ; and was almost as fond of fortification as Uncle Toby himself. Ho was fond of music too ; _and united the two tastes by composing military marches. Though - Though his constitutional industry manifested itself in the pursuit of such studies as he liked, he issued from the educational process, ignoraut really nt of ign t o le r a nian t what it became—not only a Prince , b ut a .n lur gea o know ; and not a few of the wisest men t 1; ope at tribute his fatal .errors and misfo rtunes to his cause, above all others. During his youth he was extremely unpopular. His irascibility was so great that no one cared to approach him unnecessarily. His manners were excessively ru d e; and the contrast was daily pointed out, by tho se w h o dared speak to each other betweenhim and th e a ff a b le Alexander. When h e was he tame to E ng l and, after the peace: He was then a tall youth, said at the time to be a stern likeness of his brother the Czar. On his return be explored his own country, and lived for some the serfs time in , each of th e chief p rovincial cities. It was the n eam th el e io id ra e t a ed of condition, emancipating This was that he became interested in th e condition of the lower or ders of the people ; and it is probably at th a t ti me th at ' after an his bro ther's a i m ; and there ar e some enlightened Russians w ho believe that Alexander died broke n hearted on ac count of the "ingratitude" with w hi c h his efforts for interval of oivfd The military men who returned home after the peace inoculated the young nobility, and the disaffection spread through the whole class. It is an old story. The despotic monarch and unenfranchised people are one party, and the aristocracy another, and the two are in constant antagonism in all despositions. It is the na ' turai operation of this necessity which explains every Russian problem, past and present, and will explain every future one, as long as despotism exists there. The singularity and fatality of the Russian case lies in the extreme depression, brutalisation, and helplessness of the popular class. This peculiarity seems to point to a most disastrous issue ; and nothing, in all the wayward conduct of the present Czar so justifies the suspicion of his insanity as his precipitating so unnecessarily the catas trophe which sooner or later must come. It must be remembered, however, that he is ignorant. He has no philosophical insight into the principles of interpretation of history, and he little suspects how the students and philosophers of his day can read his horoscope, and tell his future, or that of his family and empire, as confi dently as if they were prophets. By his best qualities his courage, his energy, and devotion to a present pur pose—he crushed the hostile enterprise at the time, and now, nearly thirty years after, he is doing his utmost in his ignorance to revive it. One secret society after another was discovered, in Alexander's time, but, under the appearance of suppression, each merged in the great one which could not be traced. It spread south and north, comprehending nearly the whole class of nobles— some of whom were democratic republicans, while others limited their demands to reform, and the d e p os iti on o f the reigning family. It is a well known fact, that not one distinguished family of nobles in the whole empire was unconnected with the conspiracy. The Czar's com mittee of inquiry ascertained this, and with it the other all-important fact that the immense majority were the oligarchists, and the men who desired change without any desire to help in inducing it ; men who eschewed the doctrinal part of the affair, while ready to avail themselves practically of the issue. In other words, the majority were found to be manageable by means of self interest ; and nothing could be more skilful for the mo ment than the young Czar's management of them. The first step of the conspirators was to create confu sion as to the succession. Alexander's will decreed that Nicholas should succeed him, and Constantine's repudi ation of the crown was sealed up with the will. So the conspirators declared for Constantine. But the habit of Russian-perfidy is too strong for such dangerous occa sions ; and while the conspirators were,making progress in St. Petersburg, and gaining over the soldiers in bat talions, their chief and dictator was taking the oaths to Nicholas. It was not safe to inflict much punishment. Only five men were executed, and no more than 121 sent to Siberia. The wisest of the five declared to the last that nothing but a total renovation of the empire, and the adoption of a free constitution, could save Russia from violent dismemberment.' When Poland arose, five years after this execution, the Poles cele brated the death of the Russian martyrs, carrying five coffins through the streets of Warsaw, inscribed with their names. Perhaps this may be done again, in the same streets, when that prophesied dismemberment of Russia is accomplished. Though that revolution did not take place, another did, far less expected. Nicholas became apparently a totally altered man. The strength of his will has never shown itself more marvellously than in the restraint which he instantly put upon his temper and manners, and maintained for a long course of years. Those who happen to have watched the insane know that the most fearful of their peculiarities, in many cases, is the in stantaneous transition from the brutal to the human state. You catch their eye, and are horrified at its expres sion of feroeity and cruelty ; and, before you can with draw your gaze, it is gone, and all is bland and gra cious. Thus was it with Nicholas, from the moment when his foot touched the step of the throne. Stern, but no longer irascible,—distant, but never ill-mannered, the brute part of him, known to be so largely inherited from his ancestors, seemed to have been cast out. There were always many who knew that it was not so ; and of late, it is understood; his self-control has given way, and his temper and manners are like those of his youth. What his government of his dominions has been, there is no need to describe. The more hopeless he 'became of doing effectual good at home, the more he has inclined to i lthe policy of Peter and Catherine. He is aware that the nobles regard the existing system as doomed, and only expect or desire it to last their time. He is aware that the host of slaves who worship him are no power in his hand, but a mere burden. A man might as well be king in a wide wilderness peopled by sheep and wolves as in Russia ; and no one knows this better than Nicho las. He is aware that be cannot reckon on the honesty of any one functionary of his whole empire. He has in vited and pensioned savans and men of letters, and insti tuted schools, and toiled harder than his own slaves, and he perceives that society grows no better, but rather worse. So Le has recourse to schemes of territorial extension ; and there the same evils follow :—his ships are rotten ; his cannon balls are turned into wooden bowls ; his quinine is found to be oak bark ; and while he is paying enormous bread bills, his soldiers are perishing under a bran and straw diet. Of his fanaticism ono does not know what to say. His Empress turned Greek in a day to marry Lim ; and this no doubt seemed to him all right and natural. But when he wanted his daughter Olga to marry the Arch duke Stephen', he offered that she should turn Romish in a day—should embrace the faith of those nuns of Minsk who were so very displeasing to his orthodoxy. It is probably in his case the mixture of fanaticism and laxity which is so disgusting in the history of all chur ches at any time dominant, and involved with the . sta e t t e. In his family, he is no less unhappy than in with hmertreh lations. His faithful wife, who has born . emuch from him, partly because there was no helping e i n i 1 ; 1 ' s miens, and partly because he carried en wear., is ion to her through all his vagaries, has fatigues of the e g out for many a dreary year under t h h e o imposes on all his faimeilyof empty amusement which g is esith idow Princess o .f One favourite daughter is l ilea n d d . t A h n e o y t o h u er n the Dec de Leuehtenberto , Royal of NVurtemberg. to Th n e two eldest sons are always quarrelling —as is likelyhappenho as is universally understood, the younger (w s is a Muscovite savage of the Moscow party) strives all in his power to supplant his elder brother (who is a much milder and more esti mable man) in the succession to the throne. The Czar has till now repressed their feud ; but it has, like his other misfortunes, become too much for him and the scandal is fully avowed. If th e reign of Nicholas should co me to a violent end w i t h his life, his. may not b e the only royal blood shed on the occasion. Thus has th e proud man, the imperor of all the Russias, passed his fifty-eighth birth-day, sitting among the wreck of all his idols. They are of clay, and it is his own iron will that has shivered them all. Instead of achieving territorial extension, be has apparently b r o ug ht on the h our o f forcible dismemberment ' of his empire. Instead of court gaiety, his childish vanity has created only the mirth which breaks the heart and undermines the life. Instead of securing family peace by the com pressive power of his will, he has made his sons the slaves, instead of himself the lord, of their passions. Hated by his nobles ;- liked only by those who can give him no aid, and receive no good from him ; drawn in by his own passions to sacrifice them in hecatombs, while they fix their eyes on him as their only hope; tricked by his servants all over the empire ; disappointed in his army and its officers ; afraid to leave his capital, because it would be laid waste, as soon as his back was turned ; cursed in all directions for the debts of his nobles, the bankruptcy of trade, and the hunger of his people ; con scious of the reprobation of England and Franco, whose reprobation could be no indifferent matt er to Locife r I himself; finding himself out in his count about Austria,. and about everybody but his despised brothers of Prussia, and (as an afterthought) Naples ; and actually humbled before the ITurk ; what a position for a man whose birth-dayonce seemed to be an event in the calendar of Mr. Swabey's employers acted here scrupulously upon the maxim of "taking care of the pence, and letting the pounds take care of themselves." The pounds, however, did not take care of themselves, but it is certain that some one relieved them of the trouble. The monies re ceived on account of the Crown Fund were not subject to the orders of the Court of Admiralty, or brought before that court at all. If anything could tempt the person who had charge of them to malversation, it would surely be an a rrangemen t o f t hi s nature. Th e com mittee report that in the latter part of 1851 the cash book and bank pass-book were, for some unexplained reason, withdrawn by Mr. Swabev from the use of the office. Tile ledger, therefore, beilic , the only book on which the committee could rely was examined, and from this it appeared that a balance was due to Mr. Swabey of 1,1321. Os. 11d. There was, however, a large amount of Exchequer bills unaccounted for, and the committee on investigating this omission report that Mr. Swabey is inbebted in the value of 25,0001. of such bills on one account, and 1,7001. on another. They conclude their researches into the state of the Crown Fund with the following words : "The iron box at the Bank of England appropriated for the safe keeping of these bills was, when opened by Mr. Rothery, the present registrar, on the 11th of No vember, 1553, in the presence of two of the Bank clerks, and of Mr. Swabey's solicitor (Mr, Stevenson), found to be empty." A fine specimen this of a " Civil Service" strong box. The - negligence visible in the want of due superinten dence of the Crown Fund is seen also in the administra tion of the Suitors' Fund. In respect of this Mr. Swabey is indebted according to the committee in the sum of 29,516/. 13s. Other items having relation to . this fund add something more than 4,000/. to these bilities. Tho Fee Fund (the only one for which secu rity was taken) shows a deficiency of 322/. 18s. 2d. No account of monies received with respect to this fund was kept or even opened at the Bank ofEngland. . The cash was kept by the registrar at a private banker's. As a specimen of the - free and easy manner in which the civil service is conducted, the way in which the Commis sioners assert that this deficiency arose is very instructive. In December, 1843 (they say), Mr. Swabey borrowed from Mr. Wilkinson (the third class clerk in the office) 1,500 t, Early in 1844, and at a variety of times during that year and 1845, Mr. Wilkinson retained for his own use by way of part payment of principal and interest on the above sum, certain monies paid into the registry by the proctors on account of fees, in the expectation as he states that Mr. Swabey would account to the fee fund for the amount so retained. Sometimes the whole amount paid in by a proctor was retained ' • at other times a p or ti on on l y; b ut i n b oth cases the proctor remained a debtor, according to , the ledger, for the amount of the sum retained. "On the whole, the sums retained amoulted to 394/. 19. "About the end of 1845 Mr. Swabey, who is stated to have had his attention drawn by Mr. Wilkinson to the practice, and who is stated not only to have disapproved of it, but to have enjoined its discontinuance, withdrew the cash-book from Mr. Wilkinson's keeping, who there upon ceased to receive the fees. " From time to time afterwards down to 1853 Mr. Wil kinson, finding the money was not being; replaCed by Mr. Swabey, made some s m a ll p a y men t s into 'the Fee Fund, amounting in all to 711. 13s. 10d., leavingiLnet deficiency of 3221. 18 a. 2d." The committee report that the total amount of the deficiency in Mr. Swabey's accounts appears to be : In Money -0 35,328 16 6 Exchequer Bills Stock, Three per Cent. Consols 1,576 1 3 Stock, Three-and•a-Half per Cents Reduced 2,842 8 9 and the amount of dividends on such stock from July, 1843, and interest upon Exchequer Bills for varying periods, amounting to a considerable sum. In the course of the report the committee state that as to the liabilities of their lordships of the Treasury to make good (out of the taxes) to different parties the amounts of the defalcation on the Crown fund and Suitors' fund, it is impracticable to form any precise judgment. On the best information that they were able to obtain, they think it unlikely that their lordships will be called upon for any payment of importance beyond the 19,0001. already paid. With a Civil Service so admirably managed" as ours, from the above specimen, appears to be, one wonders that we have not a double income tax long ago, without the assistance of the Russians. The picture that we get in the above details of one only of the Government offices shows a laxity of superintendence that would scarcely be credited in a Government whose Ministers are respon sible to Parliament. But the House of Commons hav ing got the particulars of this huge robbery---the tax payerse of England should insist upon an answer to th to question—" What steps are the Government, about take on the subject ?" Is " Mr." Swabey in custody Daily News. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of Newcastlehad an audience paiae. of her Ma jesty on Saturday, at Buckingham The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of \Vales and Prince Alfred, went on Saturday afternoon to view the exhibition of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were attended by the Countess of Gainsborough, the Hon. Matilda P age t, the Hon. Mary Seymour, Earl Somers, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Seymour. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode on horseback in the forenoon, attended by his equerry in waiting. The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice visited the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the perform ance of the Opera Comique with their presence in the evening. Tho Royal suits consisted of the lion. Ma tilda Paget, the Hon. Mary Seymour, Earl Somers, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Seymour. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, also honoured the performance with her presence. Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner in Buckingham Palace, on Friday evening, and per formed the following selection : Overturn, " Cenerentola" Selection, " Robert le Diablo" .... Meyerbeer. Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Duchess of Kent, attended Divine service in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. And Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. The ladies and gentlemen of the Court and the domes• tic household also attended the service. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Couper, went to Frogrnore on Saturday morning. Her Royal Highness returned to Clarence House, St. James's, in the afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House, and the Duchess of Cambridge at her residence in St. James's Palace. :h Ambassador, visited the Count Walewski, the Frenci Earl of Clarendon on Saturday at the Foreign-office. A deputation on behalf of proposed accommodation for scientific and literary bodies in Burlington House had an interview with Sir William Molesworth on Satur day, at the office of Public WOrks and Buildings. The deputation consisted of the Earl of Rosse, president of the Royal Society ; Lord Wrottesley, Lord. Mahon, president of the Antiquarian Society ; the BiShop of Oxford, Mr. Greenough, Mr. Hamilton, pre6dent of the Geological Society ; Colonel Yorke, president of the Chemical Society ; Mr. Bell, president of the Linntcan Society ; Mr. Grove, Colonel Sabine, Mr; Heywood, and Professor Foster. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Satur day for the residence of the lima. Mrs. Talbot, Eden bridge, Kent. The Judicial Committee , of the Privy Council sat on Saturday, and concluded th,n hearing of an appeal from the Prerogative Court, " Ziwards v. Edwards."