The Sun. — London, England, 1854-06-13 00:00:00

• TLIZA.TE - E rIOYAL DRURY LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith, • . THIS EVENING, Jaz 13, will be performed NORMA. Principal characters by Madame C .ra4 ori. Madame Sedlatzek, and Madame Heinrich; Signor Ar nold', Signor Sant!, and Ilerr Pttz. Followed by the new BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled UNE FETE EN OLYMPE. Prfees—Stalls, 7s; Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, Is. ; Pit., 2s. ' • Gallery. Is. ; and Pfivate Boxes, Oue, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The Box-citice °pet daily from Ten till Six where places may be secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be hld of Messrs. Leader and Cock, 63, blbw Bolul-street. RTBF ROYAL HAYMARKET. Nadel the management of Mr. linckstone. EVENING :tins 13, Wlll be performed THIS the Drama of , THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, G. Vandenhoff, W. Farren, Compton, and Buckstone ; Miss Reynolds, Miss E. Grey, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After widen, the entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled MR. BUCKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI CESTER-SQUARE), written by J. R. Pt/inches, Esq. ROYAL' PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXYORNSTKEET. Under the Management of Mr. Claims& Kw. THIS EVENING, Jmra 13, Will be performed FROM VILLAGE TO COURT. Principal characters by Messrs. Harley, Fisher, and Cathcart ; Misses Mur ray, Heath, and Vivash. Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Characters by Messrs. C. Kean and David Fisher ; Mrs. Winetanley and Miss C. Leclercq. To conclude with A STORM IN A TEA-CUP. Principal cha mters by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the manages ent of Madame Vestrls. - THIS EVENING, JUNE 13, 'Will be performed BEFORE BREAKFAST. Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Messrs. F. Matthews and Baker; Miss Wadham, &c. Followed by GIVE A Doa AN ILL NAME. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews and F. Matthews; Misses Oliver and Mar tindale. To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webater.--Directress. Madame Celeste. Tilts EV E NING, JuNE 13, will b e per f or med THE X 11tBLE HEAR f; or, The Sculptor's Dream. Characters by•sleasrs. P. Bedford, L. Murray, Ben. Web. ster, and C. 3elD7 madame Celeste, Miss W oo l gar, and Miss E. Harding. After which `Will' be produced the New Extravaganza, entitled A MOVING TALE, supported by Mr. Keeley, and Dirs. Keeley. To conclude with the popular _Nautical Drama of the CABIN BOY. Julien (her original character), Madame Celeste. Tiekets, Places, and Private Boxer to be had at the theatre. AwrLmrs EUROPE'S NA.TIOXAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. THIS EVENING, Juan: 13, Will be produced the new Grand Historical Altitary spectacle, en titled THE COSSACKS; or, Vive la France. Followed by a total change of the Scenes in the CIRCLE. To conclude with a new Grotesque Extravaganza, called THIS HORSE WILL BE SOL 1) u PAY EXPENSES IF NOT CLAIMED WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS. Sox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Open for the Season. THIS EVENING, Jura 13, Will be repeated an entirely NEW and BRILLIA.NT PIECE .f FIREWORK on a gigantic scale, representing the British Lion and Gallic Cock Trampling on the Russian Eagle. All the numerous attractions of the gardens as usual, including the beautiful Panorama of Chusan, by Danion—the extensive and interesting Mena:er,e— Vocal and Instrumental Concert : Miss Poole, Miss Ransford, and Mr. Manvers, &c. Concluding with the attack of the British Fleet on Cbusan—Explosion of the Batteries and Ships, and final Grand Display of Fireworks. by Southby. Feeding the animals, Half-past Five. Concert, Half-past Six. Fireworks, Quarter to Ten. Ad mission to the whole, Is. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAY —Morning 15 min.after 3 I Evening, 40 min.aft. 3 To•Moailow—Morning 4 min.after 4 I Evening 29 min.a - c. 4 PIiE WEATHER.--Sun Orners, Arlo 13. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 69 highest since noon yesterday. 52 —lowest this morning and during the night. 61—this day, at noon. BARoriKTEE, 29 . 69. WneD, N.W.—Heavy rain. Tbt ~\ ~^~C LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1854. Expectation is still on tiptoe. Everybody is beginning to ask when this doubtful state of things may probably terminate. There has been so much said about the great things which the allied forces, both by sea and land, were to have accomplished, that people at home are naturally becoming rather impatient at finding week after week, month after month, actually season after season, flitting by without our receiving any news whatever of their accomplishment. So that when the summer of 1854 has arrived we are still re ceiving the gratifying intelligence that the Anglo- French contingents are " going" to the seat of war—not that they are " gone," but that they are going, and that the combined fleets, here in the Baltic, and there again in the Euxine, are still complacently " biding their time"—with not a single broadside yet fired, by the war-vessels of the two great maritime powers, either at Cronstadt or at Sebastopol. It is altogether begging the question to maintain that complaints of this cha racter are nothing better than mere tokens of im patience—that in regretting, as we do, the de plorable lapse of time which has taken place without the maritime or military annals of France and England being, in regard to this war with Russia, illustrated in a befitting manner by any very bril liant achievement, we are only betraying ignorance as to the difficulties of both land and sea cam paigning. It was not thus that NELSON hesitated and procrastinated. It was not after this fashion that NAPOLEON prepared for an advance against the enemy, by reiterated delays, in the way of precaution. The former chased the imaginary fleet of his foe to and fro across the ocean in the eagerness of his heroic pursuit during an interval of time equivalent to that occupied by his succes sor in the command of the maritime armament of England in the Mediterranean, in crawling from Besika Bay to Beycos in the Bosphorus. The latter completed a campaign in fourteen days, taking the capital of the opposing territory, and returning to his own ; there to receive the felici:,a tions of an astounded population—effecting all this within an insignificant portion of the time consumed by the warriors of nowadays in taking leave of their friends, and getting their baggage together, and ar ranging the fashion of their accoutrements, and in selecting first one place and then another place of preliminary encampment. In everything we have said, there is not, we insist, detectable any where the smallest exaggeration. And while we would not, of course, be so preposterous as to ex pect a NELSON in every Admiral, or a NAPOLEON in every commander of a division—heroes like those scarcely appearing once in a thousand years, if either of them, indeed, can be thought to have been ever paralleled —we may, at any rate, expect from their posterity, in the generation coming im media ely after themselves, some feeble effort, at least, at the semblance (if nothing more than that), at the semblance of emulation. Instead of which, we behold the results of a dawdling v-olicy such as those we have just taken occas - on - o particular ise. We find that the summer of 1854 has actually arrived, while we still continue to be told that our fleets are going to do great things, and that the allied armies are going to do great things—but that, of course, all those wonderful achievements, about which we have heard so much iu the way of anticipation, have yet to be accom plished. The British contingent is to hasten from Scutari, by way of Yarns, to carry assis tance, at last, to the Turkish and Egyptian forces, under OMER PAULA, between Schuwla, his head quarters, and Silistria, still invested by the Rus sian soldiers of PASKIEWITCH. The French con tingent i s to march with all speed in a similar direction from Gallipoli, hastening towards the of Adrianople. Meanwhile, the by w a y the fleets—under DUNDAS and Haaraiara deem it more prudent to wait in the safe tranquillity of their anchorage, rather than punish the Muscovite marine force for all the enormities them long since at Sinope, rather I perpetrated by than avenge the fate of the "Tiger" by a more de cisive movement against Odessa, rather than take possession of the three principal mouths of the Danube, and daringly adventure against the enor mous fortifications on the coast of the Crimea at Se baStopol. Hearing of which prudent de cision on the part of one of the great maritime armaments sent forth against Russia by the nations recog nised as the two mightiest champions of civilisa tion, w e rece i ve i n t e lli genc e at the same time from the Gulf of Finland, that one portion of the com panion Fleet of the Baltic is at Poskala Bay, three miles from Sweaborg, and that an other is at Hango-head, as a glance at the map will show, not exactly within gun-shot of Helsingfors. As yet—though June is advancing— no intimation of a descent upon Cronstadt, much less of any advance beyond Cronstadt, with the aid of gun-boats and land forces, directly upon the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. If we presume to comment at any length upon these circumstances, however, we are told not to be • - impatient, in tones of reproach and reprehension. Why we have been told the same thing ever since the conflict with Russia was recognised as un avoidable by a reluctant Government. We have been told to wait, and we have waited hitherto—England has waited up to this mo ment with exemplary forbearance. With a doubled income tax and an increase of the annual taxation to the tune of 10,000,0001.—. with almost all our available troops shipped off to the seat of war, and the Militia peremptorily called out, increased, and re-organised—with an enormous fleet in the Black Sea, and a still more powerful one in the Baltic : and all the while —with June arrived, and the Russian forces not yet beaten back across the Danube, much less across the Pruth, and the Muscovite batteries still uninjured at Cronstadt and Sebas topol ! _ _ ( 1 4 ki 1.0 17" ..t 1".? 17 Ifia COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENOE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 5,000 bales, including 500 American, 100 Bahia, and 500 Surat were taken for export. The market closed tamely with a tendency in favour of buyers. The sales comprised 3,000 Ame rican, 50 Pernam and Maranham at 6/d. to 6 d.; 360 Bahia at 61d. ; 200 Egyptian at Go. to 7 d. ; 1,200 Surat at 3d. to 41d., and .80 Sea Island at is. to ls. 10d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull. The ship Neleus arrived from Melbourne, does not bring dates later than March 11. She has gold to the amount of 52,913 ounces. The Woolloo mooloo, which arrived yesterday, brought 8,793 ounces. There are now on the way from Sydney, the Anglesea with 4,262 ounces, the Waterloo with 1,631 ounces, the Herefordshire with 400 ounces, and the Prince of Wales with 100 ounces. These are in addition to the other vessels formerly noted as having left the Australian ports in Feb ruary, and many of them not yet arrived. The crew of the ship Tubal Cain set fire to that ship outside Port Philip Heads, on the night of the 3d of March. Everything considered, we do think that there is reason for regret among the masses of the Eng lish community at this reiterated or protracted disappointment of their nobly-sustained and mag nanimously-sanguine anticipations. The great punctuality which Brazil has ever exhibited in the payment of interest upon its debt, gives it a high character in Europe, and shows that whatever disturbances have arisen in the provinces, its Government must have the elements of sound ness and popularity. There is less known of this large empire than many of the smaller states, and a publication just issued under the title of Brazil, the River Plate and the Falkland. Islands, by Mr. William Hadfield, many years resident there, enters into every topic that can be conceived to be of interest. The work becomes additionally inte resting, as containing the South American sketches of two diplomatic functionaries, namely, Sir W. Gore Ouseley and Sir Charles liotham ; the latter furnishing much new information relative to Para guay and the region of the Amazon. Great changes have within the last few years been established in the habits of the planters, who are now much more approximating to the customs of the older coun tries. In the year 1808 there was not a printing press in the country, but now no large town is without its journal, generally well conducted, and there are educational establishments in all the Provinces. The difficulty of procuring labour is a great drawback, and the immigration of free labourers appears to be the only means of alleviating it. There are vast re g ions in the Bra zils where outdoor labour is prac ticable to natives of Great Britain; but Coolies from China would in the other districts better answer the purpose. By the side of slavery, however, free labour can never prosper, consequently the introduction of the one must lead to the decline of the other. The imports and exports of Brazil are upon an important scale, and the imports from Great Britain amounted in the year 1852 to nearly 3,500,0001. The national debt appears to be about seven millions sterling, but the income is fully equal to all charges, and there is now a good surplus. Upon this, and many other interesting points, no work can be so use fully consulted as Mr. Hadfield's. There is a flatter market for Public Securities, the paucity of business being as much the cause of this as anything else. Consols have been 91 to 91,} for the opening, ex dividend, which is / to g per cent. worse than yesterday. The New 3/ per Cents. have been at 91a to 92, and the 3 per Cents. at 91i to Bank Stock is firm at 204 to 206. Ex chequer Bills are par to 4s. premium. The scrip of the New Bonds has risen to g premium. In the Foreign market there is an entire pause, and the quotations are merely nominal. Russian 5 per Cents. are not so high as they were a few days since, having been marked 99i. Swedish 4 per Cents. have realised 86k. Dutch 4 per Cents. have been 89g. Brazilian Small Bonds have been quoted par. Forßailway Shares the market is declining, being affected by the heaviness of the other securities, but the sales are not at all numerous. London and North Western have receded about 10s. ; Brighton, 15s. to 11. ; Great Northern, 10s. ; and the Caledonian and Great Western in about the same proportion. The French lines have been steady, without any appearance of animation. Namur and Liege have improved. The Minin g M arket is rather better for United Mexican, and one or two other of the foreign shares, but the gold shares are still neglected. The Joint Stock Bank shares have been dull, but Australasia have been done at a slight advance. The Crystal Palace shares are again rather flat ter. The Peninsular and Oriental shares, owing to the non-declaration of a dividend, have receded 2/. to 44 The Stamp Duties Bill has passed through Com mittee of the House of Commons, but not with out serious opposition. The proposition for sub jecting Foreign bills of exchange to these duties was most strenuously resisted. A division was taken, in which no less than 110 Honourable Gentlemen voted in the minority against the clause which, if rejected, would have led to the withdrawal of the entire measure. Fortunately, however, the attempt was defeated, and the bill, which is as expedieht as it is equitable, went safely through its most trying ordeal, and we may now venture to look forward confidently to its complete and unequivocal success. The most extraordinary part of the proceedings was the assertion that the much-required altera tion was opposed to the principles of Free Trade, and that it therefore might be regarded as a retro grade movement. Never was there a greater mis take. There might be some foundation for the statement if a duty was for the first time about to be imposed on all negotiable securities—if every commercial transaction was to be subjected to an ad valorem tax, although that tax amounted to only Is. per 1001., or 1-20th per cent. But when the alteration only went to equalising the duty on all bills, without reference to their origin, when it was merely a revenue question, placing foreigners and natives precisely on the same footing, it seems ridiculous to say that the removal of an unfair and unreasonable exemption, enjoyed by one class at the expense of another, is an undue interference with the freedom of trade, or the creation of a new and onerous restriction on commercial transactions. r r r 7 1 . , 4 " ) w L L., a. ii 1 1? VL. "A" Putting aside altogether the question of re venue for the time being, it was incumbent on our Financial Minister to adopt some stringent regulations against a fraud that was proved to be of almost daily occurrence in the City of London, and which was also probably practised exten sively in other parts of the United Kingdom —a fraud, too, which not only affected the revenue, but innocent holders for valuable considerations of these spurious dccurnents. Our readers can not forget the sensation excited towards the close of last year by the revelations made in the Court of Bankruptcy, as to the concoction of bills which were proved to be drawn as well as accepted in this country. The fact that an innocent holder could not prove a debt, or recover on such a bill, although ignorant of the blot, and firmly be lieving that it was perfectly regular in every respect, might have led to results far more injurious to our foreign commerce than the trifling stamp which will be required on all bills, no matter where drawn, which may be discounted in this country. It would have excited suspicions that would, in many instances, have partially prohi bited the negotiation of such securities, and thereby inflicted serious injury on those who received pay ment for their consignments by such means. So far, then, as public policy and expediency are con cerned, Mr. GLADSTONE has conferred a valuable boon on the parties more immediately concerned, while he has, at the same time, made a hand some addition to the public revenue. Generally speaking, a Financial Minister has but a choice of evils. He must make up his mind to bear the com plaints and remonstrances of those whose pockets he is attacking. Here, however, he avoids that difficulty, and finds a class almost as willing to pay as he is to receive. THE WAR. THE SIEGE OF SILISTRIA. But the removal of the exemption was no less required by equity than by expediency. We need not say that we are no advocates for protection in any shape or form, directly or indirectly. Fair, open, and unrestricted competition is what we desire to see ; and we add, the honest hearty English aspiration, that "the best man may win" in the generous rivalry. While, however, we earnestly and emphatically repudiate any undue advantage for ourselves, we must also distinctly and unequivocally protest against being subjected to any impediment or burden from which our rivals are exempted, but no further will we join the most strenuous advocates for " justice to British industry." All we ask is " a clear stage and no favour ;" but that we demand as a right, and will exert all our energies to obtain. Now, the " sinews of commerce," the very " life-blood of industry," is money. Without an ample supply of " the representative and measure of value," every transaction would be clogged and impeded. It is indeed the " material" that lubricates the wheels of trade, and makes them run smoothly and evenly along the occasionally rugged path which it is required to traverse. We are obliged to economise the indispensable com modity as much as possible, owing to the unwise and impolitic regulations of our monetary code. For this purpose cheques and bills of exchange are largely resorted to. The latter are used in almost every credit transaction. They possess many advantages in this respect, for they at once fix a time for payment with greater certainty than could be done as to mere book debts, while without doing a par ticle of injury to the purchaser or acceptor, by whom the amount is ultimately payable, they enable the vendor or drawer to realise his assets, and, on payment of a comparatively trifling sum, to anticipate the period of payment. A keen competition, however, exists for the means of doing so. We hear of the extraordinary benefits of an easy state of the money market, or, in other words, of an abundant supply of banking accommo dation, where every unexceptionable business bill will be discounted at a moderato rate, while the evils resulting from a " tightness in the market" and the " stringent application of the screw" have been so often deplored that it would be an act of supererogation to expatiate on a matter so universally known. For the advantages above referred to the nation has charged a cer tain price in the shape of a stamp duty. This was exceedingly onerous on small transac tions, while those of large amount were compara tively trifling. But, heretofore, all bills drawn abroad were exempted from any tax, and the foreign merchant was permitted to compete with our own for the banking accommodation so ur gently required, but without being exposed to the same burden. There was a burden on our home trade from which the foreigner was altogether free. This was neither just nor equitable. Mr. GLADSTONE has nobly stepped forward to remedy the grievance, and also to equalise the charges on every transaction, or rather to render them proportionate to the amount of the transaction. For this laudable attempt he is entitled to the thanks and gratitude of the country. We are as willing to bestow praise where it is merited as we are ready to censure where that is called for. We rjothen, to find th a t so far success has the exertions of the Right Hon. Gentle man, and we have no doubt that hereafter his brightest financial laurels will be bestowed for his great improvements iu the stamp laws, more espe cially those relating to bills of exchange, foreign and inland. The Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna of the Bth says —"The siege of Silistria still continues with out the occurrence of any important events. The Turks every day male sorties in order to destroy the works of the besiegers. The fort of Ab-dul- Medjid must be taker. before the fortress so called can be attacked by the - centre of the besieging force. The fort of Ald-ul-Medjid is mounted by 60 guns, and surrounded by a triple wall in ma sonry, and occupied eight months' constant labour in its construction. On the left of it are two towers with which it communicates. If the fort were to be taken the garrison could readily retire into Silistria, by a covered way which leads into the place." PERlL—Advices from Peru mention that nearly a hundred persons had just left Lima on gold-searching expeditions among the mountains of the interior. From Mexico it is stated that the news of the ratification of the Gadsden Treaty by the Senate at Washington had reached Vera Cruz on the 11th of May. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( From the Oficial List. ) Business done, Bank Stock per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9 li 3 per Cent, Consols Annuities . . , Now 34 per Cent. Arnuities 913 2 13 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 9-16 Consols for Opening 19th July Exchequer Bills, 231 £IOOO 11500 par 4 p Small 4 2 5 1 p Exchequer Bonds Scrip p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. — Ditto Small Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 991 Swedish 4 per Cent. ....... Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates..,~, HALF-PAST TWO. Consols for Opening 19th July ..... 91 1 x d THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1 R 54. wards the middle of the mountains the trees are I)nrc, arid :a little. 11,;yon , 1 liav,.; no fol::,gc all. Then the species changes from elm and oak to pine and larch, which at first runs with and lights up the other trees beautifully, and afterwards in a thick black fringe have all the top to them selves. Mountains such as these occupy either side of the gorge, their tops a mixture of black pine and snow. Towering beyond, in the centre of the whole view, are huge peaks of unbroken and perpetual snow ; the whole is a glorious combination of summer and winter—beauty ; and grandeur. The fort of Gagri had evidently been evacuated in a hurry, as the Russians had left their ord nance stores there. I counted thirteen 9-pounders quite new, and there are also several 10-inch mortars and howitzers, besides many piles of shot and shell in the best condition. Their principal missile seems to have been caseshot ; the whole place was strewed over with old canisters and iron balls of this description ; one storehouse was entirely filled with the latter, to be fired from the 10-inch mortar. The fort is a square, with bastions at the angles, and there is a block-house at some distance from it up the valley to command the passage. We did not anchor, - and our stay did not exceed half-an-hour. A number of Circassians were sitting on the remnants of a cheraux-de-friae, and welcomed us gladly, but advised us not to go far up the valley, as their brethren on either side not knowing what to make of us, would probably fire. They had col lected in some numbers as we left, and as we shoved off ali fired their rifles together, as a parting salute, which we acknowledged by tossing oars to them. As the Cir cassians do not understand any sort of warfare but their own, all the military stores should be taken and given to the Turks to make strong their towns upon the Black Sea. The evacuation had been so recent that frag ments of books and other small wares were strewed around. After leaving Gagri, we passed the town of Paposi, and skirted the coast of Imeritia ; its occupants are Christians of the Greek Church. and are favourable to Russia, their chief receiving 20,000 dollars a year. Some people theorise that local scenery influences the minds of those who dwell amid it ; these people should be the noblest nation on earth. The mountains have retired from the water's edge, and between them and the sea is a plain some miles across, upon which the trees and verdure are luxuriantly beautiful ; smoke arises here and there, as if agriculturists were at work, and distant houses of wood are bathed in the 1 -rightest sunlight. This is summer—winter approaches half-way up the mouatains, its boundary again marked by firs and pines and stray snow-patches in the ravines ; again, there is a splendid black forest of firs, many miles in length along the mountains ; above this fir-tops are seen struggling through the snow ; above is winter indeed in all its dreariness and fierceness. The immense quantity of snow is perfectly dazzling ; it lies in one thick un broken mass extending high up into the heavens, except where abrupt precipices and rocks will not allow it to remain on their perpendicular surfaces ; and peak upon peak, as fantastic as the most insane artist could desire, follow in rapid succession. In steaming along the coast we passed a Russian monastery embowered in trees ; one monk alone had taken up his quarters there, as it had not been finished ; it .is now deierted ; its circular green top, crowned by a gold cross, has a pretty effect. " In passing Paposi five guns were fired thence as a salute, a gun to each ship (Agamemnon, Charlemage, Highflyer, Sampson, and Mogador), which was duly returned by the Agamemnon, which ship bears the flat. of Rear Admiral Sir E. Lyons. We have had some curious effects of mirage ; the Agamemnon greatly in creased in height, now becoming all white, then all black, and then surrounded by a thin white stripe, which con tinually changed its position ; the Charlemagne appeared to sink lower and lower in the water, until nothing re mained but her hammock nettings; after which proceed ing she suddenly grew to twice her height, and then dimi nished once more. We are rapidly approachin g Suchum- Kaleh ; there is a glorious view o f snow androck ; the former on the more distant mountains appears to descend almost to their bases; but, notwithstanding snow and ice, we have below here tremendously hot weather. The masses of snow are partially lit up by the sun ; in other places they are partly concealed by cloud ; it is diffi cult sometimes to draw the boundar'es of heaven and earth, for as the evening draws on both are fast melting into one. One giant peak of porphyry, which shows the perpendicular rock, presides over the glaciers be neath right regally. "Mar 18.—On nearing Suchum-Kaleh we perceived the walls were covered with men in the Circassian dress, eight of them bearing flags of all devices and colours, but nearly all having upon them the star and crescent. A beau iful bay, thickly wooded around, forms the entrance to Such= ; in the centre of this we found 70 tathoms of water. The wind blew from the shore, and brought with it a delicious perfume of lowers, and from the ap pearance of handsome detached houses scattered around one sees that Russians and Georgians have lived toge gether on friendly terms. About two miles from the town rises a small hill, covered with buildings, and farms, well constructed in every respect, nestle at its foot. I began exploring Suchum yesterday at 10 o'clock. On the one flank is a battery of gabions and fascines, having eight guns towards the sea (six of them remaining there, though jammed up with shot). In the centre is a fur nace of brick, built with the amiable intention of heat ing shot for our reception, for our prisoners tell us that the whole of the sea defences have been recently con structed. At the other flank is the old Genoese castle, surrounded by a thick wall of great strength and extent. Here are all the Government stores , ; 12 or 14 guns, ranging from 18 to 30 pounders (the latter are handsome and serviceable pieces of ordnance), repose upon the ' walls unspiked. Large stores of flour - and wheat were still burning with a horrible smell ; and shot and shell of all descriptions are strewed over the ground. Between these two ports is a long street, containing shops and houses of wood and stone; from the centre of this street a spacious road leads to the country. It is well planted with trees upon the walks on either side, behind which are cottages built in excellent taste, and covered with roses and jessamine. We visited the General's house ; his coach-houses, stables, and kitchens excited our admira tion. A little beyond are botanical gardens. I never saw roses in such profusion as here ; the hedges are form ed entirely of them, and they are in full flower ; their scent fills the whole place. After nearly all the ships had foraged enormous bouquets, we climbed up to the houses on the hill I spoke of ; these proved to be an enormous hospital, beds still remaining there. We sat underneath large trees in front of the building and emptied onr pocket-flasks with much gusto, for the heat was tropical. Here I sketched a Circassian, and gave him the performance, which caused roams of laughter and Mashallahs Ve soon got to know how it hap pened that the town had not been destroyed like the neighbouring places. It seems the Russians marched from the town overland to join the army in Asia ; but, being too weak in themselves to make the journey, obtained a larga escort of Georgians, the price of their service being the town of Suchum, the Georgians having stipulated that nothing should be destroyed, except military stores. Their terms were accepted, and a Georgian detachment re mained behind to take care of the place until their brethren should return ; but our friend Schamyl had also kept his eyes open, and immediately upon the eva cuation of the town by the Russians and Georgians, sent a lieutenant with a body of Circassians (some say 500, others 2,000) to take possession. In consequence dis putes ran high between Georgians and Circassians (the former Christians) at Suchum-Kaleh ; the one party say they shall occupy the place and keep it, and the other that they have earned it ; the returning Georgians, how ever, are but one day's march from the scene of dissen sion, and most likely Suchum-Kaleh will be a prize well fought for. Schamyl's lieutenant had left for Batoum to communicate with the Turks. On leaving Suchum- Kaleh, we made acquaintance with the highest peaks of the Caucasus, which run inland, and were left behind before approaching Redout-Kaleh. We have been for tunate in the clear atmosphere, hot as it has been. This morning the view of the wildest part of the Caucasus was grand in the extreme. The highest peak (8,000 feet) was in sight, its surrounding neighbours forming with it a magnificent snow landscape, which I shall never We had been told that Redout-Kaleh was deserted by the Russians. On arriving at the place the Admiral hoisted a large Turkish ensign, but no notice eas taken from the shore, not even a red pocket handker chief was shown in our honour, and people were seen riding about on shore, carryin g c , lances of a most suspi cious Cossacky appearance. The fleet proceeded to Nikolai (Shefkatil), where we anchored, and the admiral went on shore, and after a conference there we got under way again, and are now anchored at Zuluk Zee, where there is a large Turkish camp, whence we are to take a body of Turkish soldiers to occupy and take Redout-Kaleh, which, as we suspected, is still in the hands of the Russians ; the marines and marine artillery of the fleet are prepared to land with the Turks to attack the fort by land. The ships have been busy in bringing off the Turks, to the number of 1,000. These soldiers are excellently armed with French muskets ; their clothing is not good, being both patched and in holes, and they are heavily laden with large knap sacks, but, notwithstanding their having been encamped for seine months in a most unhealthy place, they are generally hearty and strong, thickset fellows, and of capital fighting material. Their officers are very so-so, and treat their men harshly. Zuluk Zee boasts a bazaar, a long narrow street filled with dirty little shops. There are great numbers of sick in the hospital, for here, as at Suchum, fever, ague, and consumption do their wo; " MAY 22. And now to give you an account of our adventures at Redout-Kaleh. We reached that place at about four o'clock, and, before doing so saw hosts of Georgians, mounted, intermingled with Cos sacks, and riding hard along the beach into the town ; and, standi ng a b out the parapet of t h e f or t , could distinguish eight or nine Russian officers by their uniform. The Admiral immediately sent a flag of truce, requiring th e i mme di ate evacua ti on of the place. The officer in command replied that the Prince was two miles distant, and it was necessary to communicate with him on the subject. Upon this the boat waited for a quarter of an hour (five minutes longer than agreed upon), then shoved off, and, making signal to the ad miral, "Have received no answer," pulled out. They were ordered back, however, by signal, to remain an other quarter of an hour ; but, upon again reaching the shore, no one was to b e seen — o ffi c ers, Georgians, and Cossacks all having disappeared as if by Tagio. On this being m a d e k nown , th e Agamemnon immediately opened fire, the Turks were got into the boats, and as sembled near the Simpson, with a few gun-boats to cover them, and waited until ordered to approach, but, as the first shot was fired, a thick mass of smoke began to vise from the town, and soon afterwards I counted ten such ascending straight into the clouds—in short, the Russians had fired the town, a 4 right well had they commenced their work. The old Caucasus, who shone against the sky with all his snow peaks without a cloud, eehoed loudly the cannonade of the Agamemnon and Charlemagne, and the gunboats and Turks advanced and disembarked, having but one gun fired at them from 4 RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending June 10, 1854 £17,498 6 3 Corresponding week last year 11,836 5 2 Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 265,593 19 7 Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 230,511 9 3 LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re• turn for the week ending June 10, 1854 £19,181 2 3 Corresponding week last year 16,252 13 11 Increase in 1854.. £2,928 8 4 ASCOT RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TRIAL STAKES. Crosslanes Filbert ARRIVALS FOR THE ASCOT STARES.—Kingston, Ilex, Ethel wolf, Grapeshot, Montague, Bracken, Rackapelt, Cock Pheasant, Little Jack, Veteran, Newbold, Cable, Pancake, Waterfall, St. Spiro, Hercules, Lincoln's lun, Jenuala filly, and Sweetness. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, REGENT-STRERT. —His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Colonel Biddulph and Mr. Gibbs, honoured the Diorama of the Danube and Black Sea with a visit this morning. EXETER HALL—To-morrow evening the Harmonic Union will perform, for the first time in this country, Emil Naumann's oratorio, " Christ the Messenger of Peace." The grand musical festival being for the benefit of the German hospital_ It is under the immedi. ate patronage of her Majesty and several members of the Royal family. Among the principal vocalists are Madame Caradori, Mdlle. Agnes Bury, Herr Reichart, and , r. Hamilton Braham. RATES OF EXCHANGE.—The rates of exchange from the continent show no alteration, except in the case of Amsterdam, where they were rather lower. Mo ney, however, was still easy there at 21 per cent. The following extract of a communication from St. Peters burg offers an explanation of the recent firmness of the quotations in that city :—" The cause of our exchange going so high is, we believe, the grain crops contracts, which must now be received, as they were made for May; and, as part df them are for foreign account, they have, of course, to be drawn against. This, with the great want of money here at present, and the excessive dull ness of our import market, coupled with the report of a contemplated loan in Holland, seems sufficient to ex plain the advance." THE OVERLAND MAIL.—The commercial accounts by this mail are not on the whole unfavourable, since, although prices were heavy at Bombay, consequent upon large quantities of goods having been forced off during a pressure for money, a very satisfactory business both in exports and imports had taken place at Calcutta. From China the accounts show no improvement, and the tendency of the rate of exchange gives no prospect of a cessation of the drain of silver from this country. The general news by the present mail tends to confirm the discredit attaching► to the positive assertions by the previous arrival of Dost Mahomed having committed himself to an alliance with Russia. THE ROYAL BOTANICAL SOClETY.—Yesterday the first show of American plants for the season took place in the gardens of this society in the Regent's-park. The collections exhibited were those of the three well-known nurserymen of Bagshot, Mr. John Waterer, Mr. Baker, and Messrs. Standish and Noble. The flowers were very brilliant. Three or four thousand persons were present, and the usual military bands were in attendance. Among the company present were the Duke of Sar mento, his Excellency M. Lavradio, Viscount de Careira, the Duchess of Buccleuch, the Countess of Bradford, Lady Rums Campbell, Lady Remington, Lady Clifton, Lady Fellowes, the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, the Earl of Clare, Lord de Mauley, Lord Blaney, Sir James Clark, Sir Henry Py al, the Dean of Worcester. ROYAL CONFERENCE AT TESOHEN. A telegraphic despatch, dated last night, from Berlin, says " The results of the Teschen conference are fa vourable. " Austria and Prussia will send an answer to the minor States extinguishing the hopes of the Bamberg Conference. " Prussia is resolved to consider the note sent by Austria to Russia on the 2d of June as the sommation mentioned in the late treaty, and w ill send Colonel Manteuffel to St. Petersburg to back it. " Brahestadt Tornea, on the north of the Gulf of Bothnia, has been cannonaded with success." Under the head of Berlin the 9th, the Cologne Gazette says :—" The following is the explanation given as to the real motives of the interview which has just taken place at Teschen, or rather on a pro perty of Count de Thun, the Austrian Ambassador at our Court. General de Meyerhoffer communi cated to the King the desire which the Emperor felt to present to his Majesty the young Empress, and on the King having given an affirmative answer, a formal invitation arrived to him for Teschen." The King of Prussia arrived at Dresden incognito in the afternoon of the Bth. He was received at the railway station by the King of Saxony and Prince John. Their Majesties left together for Bodenbach, in order to meet the Emperor of Aus tria at Teschen. NEW TREATY BETWEEN THE PORTE AND AUSTRIA. --- - --- It is stated in a private communication from Constantinople, that propositions have been made to the Porte by Austria for a convention or treaty between these two Powers. According to the terms of this proposed treaty, Austria would undertake to send troops to the Principalities to act against the Russians, and compel by arms their evacuation. The letter does not make mention of any other stipulation, though, perhaps, this is not the only one, nor does it state whether these propositions had been communicated to the allies of Turkey. MORE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CZAR. A letter from Vienna of the Bth, in the Trieste journal, mentions that General Count de Rostiz has been called by the telegraph to Prague. He is to proceed to St. Petersburg with an autograph letter of the Emperor of Austria to the Czar. A Berlin letter of the 9th states that Colonel Manteuffel has been charged with another mission to St. Petersburg. General de Bakendorff, the military attache of the Russian Embassy at Berlin, is also to leave for St Petersburg, but his absence will be short. Another letter from Berlin mentions a report that the King of Prussia will set out on the 12th for the Polish frontier to have an inter view with the Emperor of Russia. RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS IN THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Moniteur confirms the news of the removal of the head-quarters of Marshal Paskiewitsch to Jassy, as will be seen by the following telegraphic despatch from Vienna, received by the French Go vernment, and dated Sunday : " The removal of the head-quarters of General Prince Paskiewitsch to Jassy is confirmed by all the news from the frontier. The concentration in Moldavia of Russian corps that were advancing on the Danube also appears authentic. These new measures are seemingly a reply to the movements of Austria on the Transylvanian frontier. It is asserted that Prince Gortschakoff will retain the chief command of all the troops on the right bank of the Danube. On the 7th of June the siege of Silistria continued without any important event." A letter from Belgrade of the sth, in the Press of Vienna, says :—" All the Russian consuls and agents in the Principalities have long since ceased their functions, and there only remain some em ployes to transact current business. When the Turks entered Lesser Wallachia, and the commu nication between Krajowa and Bucharest was cut off, M. Glaise, the consular agent at Krajowa, went to Belgrade to come to an understanding with the valier Meroni, the Prussian consul in that place. He has just returned to Krajowa." RUSSIAN INTRIGUES. At Constantinople it is asserted, on good autho rity, that Russia has manifested a desire to con clude an arrangement which should have for its principal basis the evacuation of th e P r i nc i pa li t i es, and the establishment of the status quo, and that propositions have been made to Austria to that effect. Though such a move on the part of Russia would argue the consciousness of weakness, and a desire to get out of the difficult position in which she now is, w ith t wo great Powers in arms against her by laud and sea, with her sea-coast rigorously blocked up, and discontent and irritation among her people, y e t i t i s not thought that it proceeds from any desire of Russia to retrace her steps, nor from th e s li g ht est inten tion of abandoning the object for the attainment of which she entered on th e war. H er real de sign is, by relieving the German Powers from the apprehensions occasioned by a con ti nue d occu pation of the Principalities, to detach them from their alliance with England and France ; and the fact cannot be concealed that, whether well founded or not, apprehensions are entertained in certain high quarters lest that this move on the part of Russia may produc e on th e G erman Powers the effect intended. It is to be hoped that these fears are groundless ; but it is admitted that the offer to evacuate the Principalities would be a temptation which neither Austria nor Prussia would resist, and that they would cons id er i t as sufficient satisfaction for what has o ccurre d . I t i s calculated by Russia that if England an d F rance continued to carry on hostilitiesafter the evacuation they would not have the moral, much less the ma terial, su pport *of the German Powe rs; nay, more, that something . might occur to oblige them to transfer to Russia the alliance they had p rev i ous l y given to us. To gain time, and trust t o it f or future advantages,. is her object, and ther e i s reason to fear conduct of the intriues at Const an ti nop l e are with enabling her to do so . Th e re centßedsclnd Pasha, and the new no minations he has made in the Cabinet, are sufficient to excite suspicion that all is not right, and that some project is hatching for the sole benefit of Russia. MONTENEGRO. A letter from Serajevo, of the 24th of May, in the Moniteur, says " The Montenegrins have invaded the district of Gatzko. Their plan of campaign is the work of Colonel Kowalewski and Russian officers who are among them. It consisted in advancing large bodies into the districts upprovided with troops, to ravage them, and carry, off the provisions and ammunition. The Montenegrins have already seized a convoy of ammunition near Nevessirn, only five hours' distant from Mostar, having massacred the cavas in charge of it. This latter fact proves that they push their incursions into the very heart of Herze govina. "It has been decided that, in addition to the two bat talions which left Sarajevo for Fotcha some days since, and that which is to proceed from Travnik to Cognitza, a fourth battalion will leave immediately for the same point. "The Christian population of Bosnia have shown a spirit of order and moderation ever since the commence ment of the crisis, and at the present moment the events in Herzegovina, have not affected it ; no more have the events in Epirus and Thessaly. Therefore, whatever turn the aggression of the Montenegrins may take, it is generally thought that the Sclaves of Bosnia will not become the source of any anxiety to the Porte." The Moniteur also publishes the following letter from Scutari : On the 21st May 400 Montenegrins advanced to- wards Podgoriza to a spot called the Vizir's Bridge.' They attacked a body of Albanians, which repulsed them after a combat of some hours' duration. On the morrow, the 22d, another body of Montenegrins, 800 strong, crossed the river Moratcha, and attacked a fortified farm with a ♦iew to carry off the cattle. Here again the Montenegrins were repulsed, leaving five dead. The Albanians did not lose a man." THE CIRCASSIAN COAST. The following is a very interesting account of the recent operations : "Her Majesty's ship —, off the Circassian coast, May 15.—We are on the way to Suchum-Kale►.' but Admiral Lyons has kindly permitted the officers to have a run on shore and explore the blown up Russian fortress at Gagri. We found its remains standing at the en trance of a tremendous gorge, in the centre of which a mountain stream runs, rendering Gagri the most healthy of the Russian Circassian posts. The hills, which sprin g in a steep slope front the sea, are on their. lon or parts covered with magnificent foliage, occasionally broken into large grassy spaces of a park-like appearance, and theft) are now decked in all the beauty of spring, To. the fort. The Turks formed upon the belch, the Thtsh;- Bazouks penetrating the wood on their right, and cx arnining the houses and forts in front, as skirmishers. The Turks prom :tied by the banks of the fine broad river towards the burning town, and found that pursuit of the Russians was cut off by the destructio❑ of bridges of boats. Two rivers, one from the south and one from the east, have their confluence here. A Turk swam across with a line in his mouth to form a communication, but the measures of the enemy had been taken too well, and but a few shots were fired at the last of them. Meanwhile the ships' boats were re called, and the Turks left in quiet possession of this side of the rivers ; the rest was a tremendous conflagration ; houses and trees burnt together furiously during the whole of the right, and fierce flames and illuminated smoke rendered our decks almost light. As I was look ing through a glass, down came the steeple of a church, most beautifully covered with flame. Fortunately, the wind did not permit of its spreading more to the west, or the Turks would have been burnt out. All the men in the ships were ready at their guns during the firing, and the artillery and marines were ready to land if ne-, cessary. Redout-Kaleh . was the most important point of the Russians, connecting Teflis and the interior of Georgia with the Black Sea ; and it was from that place communications were made between the other posts and the army in Asia. Flame and smoke were also seen in the direction of Poti, which most probably has shared a similar fate ; so that now the Russians 'are completely shut out in Georgia from . the Black Sea. They had evidently retained Redoubt as long as possible, owing to its importance, but were prepared to destroy it upon an emergency, and I have no doubt but every thing was ready to fire it on our first appearance off the place when we hoisted the Turkish ensign. Redoubt is now the most important position in the hands of the Turks, and they require more men and guns there as soon as possible, as now they have but 7,000 men to hold five positions. We are now off to. Sinope, and afterwards to join Admiral Dundas, leaving the Sampson to help to take care of Redout-Kaleh." THE BALTIC. HAMBURG Juno 12.—The Swedish j ourna l, th e Sworske laningen, confirms the news of the arrival of Admiral Napier in the Bay of Poskala, three miles south-west of Sweaborg. From the lighthouse, a part of the Russian fleet, composed of ten line-of-battle ships, was perceived, sheltered by the fortifications. Admiral Corry was with his division before Hango Head. The King of Sw e d en and the Hereditary Prince are to go shortly to in spect the troops of the Island of Gothland. - The Hamburg A etvs says—" Intelligence has reached Berlin, via Dantzic, that the principal di vision of the Russian navy in the Baltic is no longer in the fort of Cronstadt. The Russians are far from feeling confident with respect to the fate of Cronstadt in the event of an able attack being made by the combined fleets." The same journal has the following from Memel, of the 7th :—" Since Sunday about forty vessels have entered our port. If the arrivals continue to be as numerous, it is to be presumed that a great many vessels will be forced to leave the port in ballast. All the public squares are encumbered with goods, the warehouses and depots being in sufficient to contain the cargoes. The English are very severe in the blockade of Russian ports ; all the vessels which attempt to enter or leave are im mediately captured by their cruisers." COPENHAGEN, June 7. —The Swedish papers and letters up to the 2d inst., contain very little news of interest. Captain Hall, of the Hecla, continues to be the lion of Stockh o lm. O n th e 31st of May he visited the dockyards and arsenals of that place, and was cheered and huzzaed wherever he went. The name of the British officer on board the Hecla who was wounded in the affair of Ekness is Crew Read ; he is better, though not out of danger. Intelligence has reached us of Admiral Plumridge and the flying squadron. On the 21st, at 10 o'clock a.m. he left Chi:lea, a town on the Swedish side of Finland, opposite to Gamin Karleby, on the Russian side. He steamed north ward to Bjurveklubb, and had taken with him all the pilots he could get. THE FLEET AT HELSINGFORS. OFF HELSINGFORS, June s.—The screw line-of battle ships, consisting of the Duke of Wellington, 131, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, Commander-in-Chief ; Edinburgh, 58, flag-ship of Rear Admiral Chads ; St. Jean d'Acre, 101, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel ; Austerlitz, 100 ; Princess Royal, 91, Captain Lord C. Paget ; Caesar, 91, Captain John Robb ; Cressy, 80, Cap tain R. L. Warren ; Blenheim, 60, Captain Pel ham ; Hogue, 60, Captain W. Ramsay ; paddle steam frigate Penelope, 16, Captain Catlin ' and a few smaller steamers, re , amed at anchor inllango Roads, Finland, for a longer period than was in tended, in consequence of the prevalence of dense fogs at frequent intervals. The navigation of the Gulf of Finland under the most favourable state of the weather is attended with difficulty, espe cially for ships of great draught of water. At the present time it is rendered more hazardous, from the fact of the Russians having removed the vari ous buoys and beacons which denoted the usual channels. As an instance of one of the impedi ments which the enemy has thrown in the way of the safe progres of the fleet up the Gulf of Finland it may be cited that the lighthouse on the island of Hango, which is situate at the north-western en trance of the gulf, has been pulled down, and the usual marks for vessels entering the roadsteads have been removed. Throughout the whole length of the gulf similar proceedings have been adopted by the enemy, but which, however, will not have the effect intended. By sending in advance two or three small steamers to take soundings and bear ings the large ships will be able to shape a safe course to Sweaborg, and thence to the vicinity of Cronstadt. No further bombardment of the forts commanding Hango Udd has taken place. Tueir speedy destruction would have been easily effected, but attended with no advantage. The fortresses of Sweaborg mount 800 guns of large calibre, one. half' of which, it is stated, could be brought to bear on any ships attempting to pass through the narrow channel to the harbour of Helsingfors. In the gar rison are several thousand artillerymen, and it appears to be the opinion of those who have given the subject much serious con sideration, that our ships, notwithstanding their powerful armament, would make but little impression on batteries of solid granite. It is not, therefore, probable that any attack on Sweaborg will be made. But admitting that the fleet suc ceeded in demolishing these fortresses, the posses sion of the locality could not be retained without a large body of troops, a supply of whom is not pro vided. While at anchor in Hango Roads, the crews of the various ships were exercised aloft in reefing and furling sails, shifting topsail yards, and similar evolutions. A squadron of observation, consist ing of the Imperieuse, 50, Captain Watson ; Ar rogant, 46, Captain Yelverton ; Dauntless, 33, Captain Ryder ; and Basilisk, 6, Captain the Hon. F. Egerton, have been cruising in the vi cinity of Sweaborg, Rear-Admiral Corry, w ith the sailing ships and a few steamers, is reconnoiter ing between the island of Gottska Sando and Port Baltic. The paddle and screw steamers, under the orders of Rear- Admiral Plumridge, are off the Aland Isles. The Amphion, 36, Captain A. C. Key, has captured several of the enemy's merchant vessels. The Desperate, Capt. E. T. C. D'Eyncourt, anchored in Haugo-roads on the 27th ult., and the Hecla, Captain W. K. Hall, was despatched to Stockholm, to procure fresh provisions for the fleet. The Driver, Commander the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, arrived from Copenhagen, having on board Lieu tenant Naylor, R.M., the bearer of despatches for the Commander-in-Chief. On the 28th the Driver was sent to look after a Russian steamer re ported cruising outside, and the Lightning, Captain Sulivan, to the Gulf of Bothnia. The Alban, paddle steamer, Commander, Otter, joined company on the 29th; and the Cruiser, Commander the Hon. G. H. Douglas, proceeded to Gottska Sando. During the 31st, and greater portion of the subsequent day, a dense fog prevailed, whereby all communications between the ships was pre vented. Two Dutch galliotts came into Hango Roads bound up the Gulf of Finland, but were not allowed to proceed on their voyage. Early in the morning of the 2d inst., the Gorgon, Dragon, and Desperate (the latter with the English yacht Myrtle Colonel Corfield, in tow), steamed out of the road stead to examine the shoals, Asc., in Baro Sound. The Alban brought in a Russian gunboat and a merchant brig, and the Porcupine a brigantine, as prizes. At noon the fleet weighed under steam. After clearing Hango Roads the fires were banked and all necessary sail made to a fine breeze from the N. W. In the evening the ships anchored in Baro Sound, about eight miles off the shore of Elgso, the Penelope, remaining off Hango to watch ' the movements of the enemy on that part of the coast, and to wait the arrival at that anchorage of the squadron in company with Rear-Admiral Corry. The Lightning, CAptain Sullivan, while in the Gulf of Bothnia, will reconnoitre Bomar sund, the princip6.l of the Aland Isles, for the purpose of ascertaining the strength of its for tifications. Mr. Nugent, one of the officers of engineers attached to the fleet, accompanies Cap tain Sulivan to assist him in this important service. The Hecla, Captain W. K. Hall, arrived in Baro Sound on the 3d from Stockholm, with a large number of live bullocks and vegetables for the fleet. The Imperieuse, 50, Captain Watson, and Arrogant, 46, Captain Yelverton, hove in sight in the forenoon, and were ordered to cruise in the offing, to intercept all merchant vessels bound up the Gulf of Finland with supplies for the enemy. The Pigmy, steam gun-boat, Lieutenant- Commander C. Otter, joined company on the 4th, 14 days from the Cowns ; and the Gorgon steamer was despatched to Stockholm, The French eg,nad. ron P'igl , t 5.:7 , 11 of tlo lin , ) hare unitell with the divi , ii)A. of the Eu!i.,ol ;:I,2et erAkins oil Gottska Sand°. On leaviug Baro Sound the allied squad rons will proceed further up the Gulf of Finland, near to Sweaborg, and thence to the island of Hogland. FR &NOE. The Moniteur of this day (Tuesday), publishes a despatch from Admiral Hamelin, dated May 23, relative to the capture of the fortifications in Cir cassia. Auapa has not been taken. General Portonneaux quitted Paris yesterday morning for the camp at Marseilles, after having received the instructions of the Emperor. M. Berryer has just returned from his country seat at Augervilie, where he has been latterly em ployed in composing his address for the occasion of his reception to the French Academy. The candidates for places in the Hundred Guards of the Emperor were presented to him two days back at St. Cloud. After a sufficient examination, 70 of them were admitted. It is said that the whole body will be perfectly organised by the 15th of July. M. Etienne Arago, brother of the late illustrious astronomer, who fled from France in consequence of having taken part in the affair of June 13, 1849, has just received orders from the Belgian Govern ment—it is said, on the representation of the French Cabinet—to quit Belgium in ten days. Se is accused of keeping up relations in France, and especially of having endeavoured to enter into a series of secret intrigues with some of the troops quartered in the department of the Nord. A similar order had been on two occasions previously given to M. Arago, but he always managed to have the matter arranged. Perhaps the same will be the case at present. The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 71f. 85c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 97f. 40c ; and the New Loan, at 71f. 25c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,155 f. ; Rouen, 980 f.; Havre, 380 f.; Great Northern, 851 f, 25c.; Strasburg, 795 f.; New Shares, 650 f.; PariS am,l Lyons, 935 f.; Lyons to the Med.terrantall, 805 f.; Western of France, 64321. 50e.; Bordeaux and Cette, 602 f. 50c.; Great Central of France, 505 f.; Lyons and Geneva, 4901.; Bank of Credit MobilitT, 747 f. 50c. ITALY. Letters from Rome of the 4th again speak of the proceedings with respect to the assassins of Count Rossi. Although the verdict passed on them was confirmed by the Court of Revision, nothing is yet known with certainty at Rome as to their ultimate fate. It is the custom in that country that whenever a sentence of death is pronounced all the documents of the trial are sent to the sovereign, who, after due examination, sends them back to the court, if the sentence is to be carried into effect. As the documents of the Rossi trial have not been yet sent back from the Vatican, it is generally supposed that a commutation of punishment will be decided on. A rumour having been circulated that a piratical vessel had been seen in the vicinity of the isle of Giglio, the Pontifical Government has sent some soldiers to guard the shore between Cometto and Terracina. The two little vessels of war which it possesses have also been ordered to cruise about on the same coast, as a measure of precaution. But it is impossible to suppose that any piratical craft could have the audacity to appear in a sea frequented by such numbers of vessels of all nations. HA_NOVER. The Finance Committee of the Second Chamber of Hanover presented, in a recent sitting, the fol lowing resolution during the discussion of the budget of foreign affairs "The States renew this year their demand that the Government of the King will employ all his influence for the creation of a German fleet. They equally renew their demand that the Government shall employ all it" efforts to obtain a proper representation of the German people, and the establishment of a Federal Tribunal, in which all the German Diets shall participate. They re• new these dema,nds although, under present circumstances, it cannot be hoped that they will be satisfied, in order to call to mind that the normal development of German relations, which is the condition of the prosperity of separate States, is not possible out of the pale of such institutions. As regards the relations which arise frown the political situation of Europe, the States earnestly demand that the King's government shall employ all the means in its power to cause the German States to re main closely united in the present cri•is of Europe, and to act with a view to the protection of German interest' and of the right recognised by the two great Gerrnao Powers, with the force and the firmness required by the position and dignity of Germany." CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY). OLD COURT, (Before the Recorder.) Mary Lewis, 41, married, a respectable looking woniar,. was indicted for stealing a ham, valued at 125., the pro perty of Chas. Price. Mr. Robinson defended. It appeared that the prisoner, who is the wife of an artist, had gone upon Saturday evening into the shop of prosecutor, who keeps a cheap ham and butter shop at the corner of Sun-street in Bishopsgate. The wife of the prose cutor, who was in the shop, stated that frcm some suspicion which she had she told the shop boy to watch her, and he having told his mistress that she had a ham under her cloak, Mrs. Price at once went up to her, and, according to ber statement, felt the ham under her arm, and that it fell to the ground. She was then given into custody to an officer who was called in. Prisoner indignantly denied the charge, and said she had only picked up the ham to have it weighed. At the station she gave her right name and address. She had nine shillings and some coppers upon her when secured. The policeman said there was not any marks of grease upon her dress, which would have been the case if she ad put the ham under her arm. The jury acquitted her, and the recorder directed her to be at once discharged. NEW COURT. (Before Russell Gurney, Esq.) Thomas Morris , Elizabeth Jackson, and a man name d Riley, were indicted for coining, and also having in their possession a large quantity of base coin. It appeare.l that from something which had taken place at the Bow-street Police court, the police went to No. 44, Charles-street, Drury-lane, and having gained admission, went up to the front room, first floor, the door of which they forced, a ,, d 1.9 they entered Jackson was trying to break a plaster of Paris mould by crushing it with his foot. The female seized hold of one of the officers and struck at him with a basin. The prisoner Riley ran past the police, but was taken into custody. In the room were found a quantity of base half-crowns shillings, and sixpences, moulds, electro-plating appar atus, and other implements used by coiners. The prisoner Riley did not appear to take any part in the proceedings, and had only been known in the house for a week, occupying a room upon the same floor as the other prisoners. The Jur y acquitted Riley, and found the others guilty. Both being well known to the Mint authorities, Morris was sentenced to six, and Jackson to four, years' penal servitude. OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Her Royal HiAtiess the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna M t.ria Dawson, Lady Caroline Harcourt, Lord Jamei Murray, and Colonel Harcourt, honoured the first per. fortnance of the opera La Promise, at the St. James's Theatre. with her presence last evening. THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—Yesterday was the first day on which this vast undertaking was opened to the public, and a very large number—probably more than 4 000 perso ns — c hi e fl y season ticket holders, availed themselves of th e fi rs t o pp or tunity o f inspecting the varied and interesting works of art there displayed. The Pompeian house, the Alhambra, the Renaissance, Italian, and Byz xntine ct.urts appeared to be decidedly the favourite resorts, and their contents and mural and monumental decorations were examined with great interest and delight. The company's band played at intervals during the day, both in the Palace and the grounds. The dais and orchestral seats, and some other of the temporary structures fitted up for the opening, ceremony, still remain in their places. As the contents of many of the cases fitted for the reception of industrial pro. ducts, and which were only lent for the occasion of the opening, have been removed, several of the courts have a much more bare and unfinished appearance than they presented on Saturday. Time, however, and some ex perience as t o t h e value of the exhibition in an industrial point of view, may soon do much to fill the Palace with the trophies of industrial skill. "HALF RECKONINGS" IN INDIA.—Some months ago Lord Dalhousie called the attention of the Court of Di rectors of the East India Company to the question of the " half reckonings," telling them it was high ti me t o do away with the disreput a ble I ractice of payi ng th e colonels of regiments by cribbings from the S e p o y s ' clothing, an d sugges ti ng th e substitution of a fixed money payment in the same manner as has within the last fe w d a y s b een ca rried into effect i n her Ma jesty's s erv i ce . Th e c h a ir and the deputy chair drew up a P.C., which means a previous communication, or draft of a despatch, in which these worthy pieces of directorial furniture reproved " our G o v ernment " for his suggested innovation, asking when such " danger ous changes" would end. To the credit of the body of directors, however, the draft of despatch was disapproved of, and one drawn up for the approval of the Board of Control entirely approving of the suggestion of Lord Dalhousie, and directing the arrangement to be forth with carried into effect. This despatch was duly trans mitted six weeks ago. Our readers may rest assured of the entire accurac y of this statement. NEW PROJECTILR.—A, correspondent of the .Elgin Courier states that a trad esman b elonging to that town has, in compliance with a summons from the Board of Ordnance, proceeded to Woolwich for the purpose of submitting to the military authorities there the prin. wile? of a destructive engi ne d es i gned and constructed by him. The i nstrument is deno m i na t e d a " Longitu dinal projectile." It is about four feet in length, may be fired from a can non, and will " hit to a hair " any object at a distance of five miles. On being shot from the can non it expands like an umbrella, explodes the moment it alights, and causes instant annihilation to every mate rial for many yards around. It will, it is said, cause th Immediate destruction of the largest ship in the world and one or two charges would, in a few seconds, extir pate the finest army that ever marched to music, No substance beyond 4, inflammable matter" is used. 448 ia and th The seen 15 4 th e 19th, hi s bed-sic fi t. .. 4 dually be( 1 :! 1 were gon lower liana Ijaw. t i e4B t, kissec the dead 4 11 'oughout 4 „ 4 , ll ifested t mpu at his de i ° tl ge ter re than " 4 -rlous and 71 te Year- %Xteen :Iv been p (:) st irnpor thetWeen if 'Useful 6'eity, i n t 'olO g y al raorologY• 1 a tuong I ,4 t rema te - Pal Palace 0 7 , 3 _ ts a % - ' l l ,cl L et 0 - e past ah4neert of t Willis's drd faattior Vgat Unio ot th e LockE Ckt ee , a . r §re e " 1 414 , elm li tr , 7 °'d •ett, t~r henry tb ° e Pieces fort Patts ~ e,.perfo ▪ O ▪ LOSSE 13Yheir a 9 ' heir