The Sun. — London, England, 1854-04-20 00:00:00

NATIONAL FAST, April26.—The OFFICIAL FORMS of PRAYER gent. POSTAGE FREE, by Janseg Gilbert, 49, Paternoster-row, London, on the following terms : WS for 24.; 50 for 38. 6d.; 100 for Ts.; 250 for 165.; 500 for 11. 10s. ; 1,000 for 21. 10s. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. TO-MORROW EVENING, Will be performed NORMA. Principal characters by Madame Czradori. Midwife Sedatzek, and Madame Sonctitelm ; Signor Pa- Ten, Signor Sant!, tad Signor Arnoldi. Followed by a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. TEE 4.TRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Mader the management of Mr. Packstone. • THIS EVENING. Aran 20, Will be performed SPEED THE PLOUGH. Characters bY Mews. Vandenhoff. Compton, Rogers. and Chippendale; Miss E. Chaplin, miss Louisa award, and Mrs. Stanley. After which. an entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled MR. BUCKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (Di LEI CESTER-SQUARE), written by J. R. Planche, Esq. Principal characters by Mr. I3uckstone, Kr. W . Farrell, Mr. Clark, Mr. J. Msuihall, Mr. H. Marshall ; Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Caulfield, Miss E. Grey. Miss Lydia Thompson, miss Laura Morris.and Miss Featherstone. Followed by WILLIKIND AND HYS DINAH. Supported by Messrs. Buckstone and Corsi ; Miss Louisa Howard, Mrs. Fltzwil- Ham, and Mrs. Caulfield. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD -STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Camas* KW. THIS EVENING, API= 20. Rill be psrartned THE MARRIED UNMARRIED. Characters by Meads. W. Lacy, Ryder, and Cathcart ; and Misses Heath and Murray. Folleired by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Characters by 3fessrs. C. Kean and DaT:d Fisher ; Mrs. Winstanley and Miss C. Lecterog. - After which, AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. Characters by Messrs. Meadows, D. Fisher, and Salter ; and Misses Murray and Daly. __— THEATRE ROYAL ADELpm. p ro p Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, "Madame C e l este. THIS EVENING, APair. 20, wiu be performed TWO LOVES AND A LIFE. Supported by Mme . C. tsibY, Leigh Murray, Benjamin Webster, Keeley, and 0. pith ; YIN Woolgar and Madame Celeste. Followed by THE %MUSTACHE MOVE WENT. Principal cha meters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Keeley, and Parselle ; Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Mary Keeley. Followed by. THE OVERL IND JOURNEY TO CONSTANTI NOPLE, A 3 UNDERTAKEN BY LORD BA.TE WA, WITH INTERESTING PARTICULARS OF THE FAIR sOPITIA. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestrls. • THIS EVENING, Amin 20, Will be performed A CHARMING WIDOW. Principal char"- tars by Mr. C. Mathews; Miss Talbot and Miss Oliver. To be followed by GIVE A DOG AN ILL NAME. Prin cipal by Messrs. C. Mathews and F. Matthews. After which, NUMBER ONE ROUND THE CORNER. Concluding with A HOUSE OUT OF WINDOWS. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, APRIL 20, Will be performed THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. To be followed by TO OBLIGE BENSON. Supported by Messrs. Emery, Robson, and Leslie; Mrs. Stirling and Miss . Wyndham. To conclude with the Farce of THE WANDERING MINSTREL , Jem Boggs, Mr. F. Robson. STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Alleroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, THIS EVENING, Amu. 20, Win be performed THE ENCHANTED LAKE. Followed by AN ADVERTISEMENT—" WANTED, WIVES AND HUSBANDS." Concluding with a new burlesque on RICHARD THE THIRD. ..; ta ns, 55.; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, Is. 6d; Gallery, fid.; Private Boxe', Li lie. 6d., to be had of Mr. Alicroft, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. Great attraction and powerful Novelties for the Easter Holidays. THIS EVENING, Aram 20, And during the week, a now grand Nautical and Equestrian spec. tacle, embodying navel and extraordinary effects (written by Mr Nelson Lee), entitled A TALE OF TIIE SPANISH WAR; or, The Horse of the Wreck. Th! horses expressly trained by Mr. W. Cooke. Followed by an entire change of the scenes of the CIRCLE, intro ducing Miss Kate Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke, Mr. Alfred Cooke, arid the meet talented Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes in Europe. Concluding with the new Farce of DALRYMPLE versus TITERS. Box-Mike open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau DAT —Morning 57 min.after 6 I Evening 32 min.aft • 7 To•Monow—Morning 15 min.after 8 1 Evening 2 min.aft. 9 THE WEATHER.—Surt Oman, APRIL 20. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 70 —highest since noon yesterday. 50—lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29'77. WLND, E.S.E.—Light pleasant breeze, and fine, clear, sultry weather. DAILY IVEATIIER TABLE. TRIIRSDLY, APRIL 10, 1854, State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations aro arranged in order of latitude. TUNBRIDGI—S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. - STROOD—N.E. gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SWINDON—E. , breeze—cloudless. CAMBRIDGE—E. gentle breeze—cloudless. YARNOLITII—S.i., gentle breeze—cloudless. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock : ForAcEsToxx—N.E., gentle breeze—cloudless. TUNBRIDGE—N.B., gentle breeze—cloudless. GREENWICH—S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless. SinitooD--N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. B/RMINGHAII—S.E., calm—cloudless. HOLTIIDAD—S.,_gentIe breeze—fine. DARLINGTON—N.E., gentle breeze —cloudless—frost. SHAD— S.E. by E., calm—partially cloudy. • a ,- 1,44 , '.. , ~„,,, b t it ' ft te* - ‘7,Z-:4";*.t•A_e-y.4!) c§alll, , A ,, :,_ 4,-.7§,..-1•4: LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1854. Doctor JOHNSON, among the many wise things he said and wrote, once observed, " The King who makes war on his enemies tenderly, distresses his subjects cruelly." The reflection is just now particularly worthy of remembrance. Especially when the Prime Minister of England avowedly adopts as his motto that of the Duke of LEEDS, that motto of Pax in bello, expressive of a system of warfare altogether relaxed and incompetent. A very little time has elapsed since the First Lord of the Treasury declared as much, almost in so many words, when he asserted, in the House of Lords, his determination to emulate the pious conduct of the brave old Covenanter, of whom we are told that he still muttered "Peace, Peace," while in the act of buckling on his armour. That acknow ledgment, from the lips of Lord ABERDEEN, gives the clue to the whole mystery of these systematic delays in the carrying out of our warlike prepara tions. It accounts for everything that might be otherwise inexplicable. It explains every successive pause, every consecutive procrastination. It proclaims the whole secret plainly enough for anybody's apprehension. It proves that there is really a " method" in the " madness" of al] these distracting "delays, doubts, and hesitations. Bearing the avowal of the Prime Minister of England in remembrance, we can understood - at once all, that might be otherwise entirely incom ' prehensille. We can, for example, account for the long waiting o£ our troops at Malta, after they had once set out from home on their way towards the DarcLanelles. We can detect the meaning of this as well as of every other kindred show of hesitation or indifference --ex, gr. th e tarrying of our chief .officers up to the latest possible, moment b e f ore taking -their departure for the precon' carted rendezvous—the protracted stay made by the combined fleets in the Bosphorus--the absence u p to thi2; date of the 20th of April of any di rect communication between the military and mari time arm tments of the Western Powers and the head-quauter.3 of OMER PACJIA in the Princi palities. w e repeat, is explained by the avo E w v e e d rY v - ietv: of the Pri me Minister of England, the opinions notoriously entertained by the Earl of ABERDEEN and certain of his colleagues in the Government. Are th es e the men for a time of war? We doubt it. We doubt if thetarl of ABERDEEN can be regarded as the fitting conser vator of the interests of the country, or of the dignity of the Crown, at a period when England is called upon, together with France, to aid Tur key in repelling the advancing barbarism of Russia, and in fighting once for all the moment ous battle of civilisation. We question very much whether the Earl of ABERDEEN is the states man, of all others now living, who ought at a crisis like this to be placed at the head of the Ad ministration—the Earl of ABERDEEN, with his notorious sympathies for the Cabinet of St. Petersburg ! The Earl of ABERDEEN, the admired and beloved of Louis PHILIPPE TnE - SUN, LONDON, - THURRDAY- - EVENING, APRIL 20, 1864; The obsequious collaborateur _of M. GurzoT The personal friend for - forty years of the Czar NICHOLAS-the English senator with who& the latter personage declared very recently that he (they AUTOCRAT) could in ten minutes arrange the long-vexed question of the Eastern difficulty entirely to his Imperial MAJESTY'S satis faction ! A significant declaration, for our cog nisance of which we are indebted to the opportune revelations of the Secret and Confidential Corre spondence. The Earl of ABERDEEN continuing to be the First Lord of the Treasury—it cannot possibly be m atter of surprise that no energetic measures should yet have been adopted for the due prose cution of the war upon which we have adventured. No wonder, with Lord ABERDEEN Prime Minister of England—that the troops sent ont by us to aid the Turks in withstanding the onslaught of the armies of the AUTOCRAT, should be restricted to what MONTAGUE TIGG might have aptly termed the " ridiculously small amount" of 25,000 men. No wonder that even these were sent out in drib lets, that these driblets are delayed in their pro gress towards the seat of war, and that when they at last reach the frontiers of the Ottoman empire, they should be landed at about as remote a point as possible from the scene of action in the Principalities, namely, at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles ! Neither can it be matter of surprise, so long as the Earl of ABERDEEN, with his hankering after -peace at any price, with his friendship for the AUTOCRAT and his sympathies with the Northern Courts, and his especial predilection for the Court of St. Petersburg, remains at the head of the British Government—neither can it be matter of surprise, we say, so long as the Earl of ABERDEEN continues to be Prime Minister of England, that we should I hear even now, towards the close of the April of 1854, after all that has occurred that Lord RAGLAN is only now en route from P a ris to Marseilles—that the Duke of CAMBRIDGE has scarcely fixed the date of his departure from the French capital—that the Earl of LUCAN only left London last night for Dover, on the way to Paris, thence to proceed to Marseilles, and so on to Gallipoli ! Statements like these even now cannot be viewed with anything like astonish ment by those who correctly appreciate the fact of Lord ABERDEEN continuing to be the Chief of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Go vernment. Can be no more regarded with surprise, indeed, than that other equally noteworthy circumstance that the combined fleets were still at anchor between Baltchik and Kavarna, according to our latest advices (dating up to the 10th instant inclusively) from Constantintple. So much for the glorious results as yet obtained by a war carried on against Russia, while the Earl of ABERDEEN, the forty years' friend of Russia and of the AUTOCRAT, continues to preside over the Councils of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Administra tion. We have repeatedly alluded to the decided op position offered by the Directors of the Bank of England to the financial scheme for the conver sion of certain portions of the public debt, and the vexation which its author must naturally have felt at the unequivocal and humiliating failure of his pet project: At the last half-yearly general meeting of the partners, a wealthy and influential proprietor made the successful result of that op position a subject far complimenting the Direc tors and congratulating his brethren. We then hinted that these joyous pceans were rather pre mature, and that before suck exultations were indulged in it might be as well to wait a little, until it was seen how Mr. GLADSTONE would re gard the operations of the favoured establish ment to defeat the objects of those from whom they had obtained so many valuable privileges, and on whose favour they were d e p en d ent f or their continuance. The Directors, however, went on like the convivial toper, who, while indulging, in his over-night potations, was thoroughly oblivi ous of the heavy reckoning he would have to satisfy in the morning. The momentary triumph was all they looked to, but now - that they are awakening from the fond delusion, that they are enabled to count the cost, to discover the price that they will have "to pay for their whistle," they find that they have gone a leetle too far in their self-gratulations, and that they may exclaim, like the celebrated King of EPIRUS, "Another such victory, and we are lost." It was, certainly, a dangerous experiment on which they adventured. They " inflicted a heavy blofr and great discouragement" on the amour propre of a young and dashing financier. Not one of the mere red tapists who would take his snub bing in good part—pocket the affront—and be pre pared to resume amicable relations the moment that the magnates of Threadneedle-street, in the plenitude of their triumph, were prepared to send assurances of their magnanimous forgive ness for his daring to bring forward any project without having first obtained their sanction. Such conduct might have answered very well with a Wood-en-headed Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but it was, to use the mildest term, rather im prudent when practised towards a, man of vigor ous intellect and great determination—one not afraid of deviating from the beaten track—but prepared to think and act for himself without re ference to the probable sayings of the civic . Mrs. GRUNDYS, or the consternation that might be ex cited among the elderly dames, who, thanks to well-stocked purses, inflexible obstinacy, and lagging behind the spirit of the age, are "thought well of on 'Change." Mr GLADSTONE has, however, to use the language of the P. R., " countered severely." He has found " a Downing -street ROLAND for the Threadneedle-street OLIVER," and administered a " Stock dollcager" that has elongated the counte nances of " the wise men Of the East." In place of borrowing forthwith the sum to be liquidated, and placing the loss on the transaction to the wrong side of the national ledger, he has paid off the dissentients to the amount of nearly 8,000,000/. sterling, or about 80 per cent. of the entire amount dealt with, and he has trans ferred a large proportion—more than a moiety-- Of the loss to the account of his chuckling oppo nents. This has`been effected by paying off the dissentients out of the Government balances, and claiming, in pursuance of the partnership articles between the Government and the Bank, advances sufficient to liquidate all the demands on the Exchequer ont of the assets of the " Old Lady." Nor has this 'been done in a geiteel or liberal manner ! In place of borrowing the entire amount required on deficiency bills, and paying interest for more than double what he required, Mr. GLADSTONE will only do so on the exact amount required, so that the practical result is that the Bank and the Government have changed places, and that it is theEx lce c a heq: fcetrhewßahic Barak is using the balances of the Bank, in p and using the balances of the Exchequer! In place of having some five or six millions deposited in their hands gratuitously to use as they think proper, the Directors are obliged to provide from two to three millions sterling out of resources mate rially curtailed and restricted by. the operations of the Bank Charter Act of 1844. It is needless to say that this has been a very formidable and unexpected movement on the part of the Exchequer, and that it is strenuously resisted on the part of the Bank. We cannot say what has been the ex , tent of that resistance--whether the Bank has threatened to dishonour the cheques of the Ex chequer, or to leave the dividends on the debt or the salaries of the public servants unliquiclated We can only judge of the magnitude of the breach from the tone assumed by the ABERDEEN -GLAD STONE organ, and the threats fulminated against its quondam, protegee by the Times. From the article to which the Leviathan gave insertion in its impression of Saturday, to which we have already directed public attention, it was manifest that " it was a pretty quarrel as it stood." From the pertinent interrogatories there exhibited it could ea sily be seen that there was something more than met the eye. When the inquiry was seriously made w hy Government should make a present to any corporation of the profits derived from the issue of ;wady or thirty millions of paper money, when it would be just as easy to appropriate the sum thus created to its own use, and thus cancel, by a stroke of the pen, something like a million a-year from the charge of the national debt r' we may be certain that something very serious in reference to the position of the Bank has been " ventilated" at the Exchequer. But if any doubt could remain on the subject, it would be altogether dispersed by the publications of the present week. First, we find numerous letters inserted in the Times, 'almost every day, questioning the propriety of the Act of 1844, and the restrictions thereby occasioned on banking operations. No remonstrance or objec tionhas been offered against opinions which, a short time since, were deemed heretical. We cannot forget that, little more than two months ago, the Times, in answer to "A Banker," declared that, "if the alterations which, in his view, were gene rally thought to be necessary, were such as to affect the Act of 1844, they were as much doomed to disappointment as if he wAre waiting to see a revival of protection." This was the Times' opinion on the 16th of February, 1854, and yet " the principles of that Act are seriously ques tioned in its columns on the 18th and 19th of April, without a single expression of dissent; and this day it goes much farther, for it L draws a com parison between the position of the. Spanish and English Ministers of Finance greatly in favour of the former, as it declares that "it is probably better to beg at Saragossa than at Threadneedle street, and to be a temporary petitioner for the use of other people's money than our own !" It speaks, too, of the Bank being "placed in the enviable position which is popularly supposed to be so difficult to obtain—that of at once possessing and eating its cake." The refe- . rence to the extraordinary advantages afforded to the establishment affords powerful testimony that it is at least in contemplation to reduce these ad vantages, and to insist upon a change, in which the interests of the community will be more thought of than had previously been the case. At present the public suffers. Like PICKWICK . between Porr and Sues., it is sustaining the blows of both parties—that the Exchequer shovel and the Bank carpet-bag are equally busy, in deal ing blows on the unfortunate recipients. But when financiers quarrel, borrowers may have fair play. We therefore anticipate that the losses of the GLADSTONE abortion will be more than com pensated, and that before the arrival of August, 1855, some steps will be taken to remove the incubus that has so long paralysed the industrial energies of the nation, gild to confer on the coun try that inestimable blessing, " free trade" in banking and in money, which is even more im portant than free trade in food. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, APRIL 19. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon. The equerries in wait ing were in attendance. The Countess of Desert has succeeded Viscountess Canning as lady in waiting to her Majesty. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday for Hagley Hall, Worcestershire, LYCEUM THEATRE. The new one-act piece, or proverb, give a Dog an 11l Name, announced for Monday, and withdrawn in consequence of Miss Isabel Dickenson's-. indisposition, .vas produced last night, and from the success it achieved promises to hold its place in the bills for some time. The piece is undeniably French. • The plot may be briefly explained. Mr. and Aim Anthony Dearlove (Mr. Frank Matthews and Miss M. Oliver) are a very nappy and attached couple, confiding entirely in each other's affections. Horace Ogle (Mr: Chas. Mathews), an old frieod of Dearlove, has taken it into his head to fall in love with Mrs. Dearlove, not from feel ing, or instinct, or passion of any kind, but because he Plates husbands of every denomination, for the confidence repoeed in their wives and the self-satisfaction they at all times seem to express in their isolated possession. Ho race Ogle considers this a piece of Connubial impertinenc e. and his chief object is is tog-ender husbands jealous 13 . 7 making love to the wives. As Dearlove is his friend, he considers it his duty to put him on his guard ; and, accordingly, he informs him that he is in love with his wife, and that he intends to win her if he can. Dearlove laughs at him, and leaves him tote-d-te'te with Mrs. Dear love. The lady is a true daughter of Eve, and, though she appears to despise and be offended' with the cold blooded gallantry and presumptuous love-making of the - coxcomb who addresses her, in reality is moved with a new sensation, and, when her husband returns, she vents her ill. temper on him, abuses him, finds fault with him, endeavours to work herself into a jealous fit, and leaves the room in a fury. Dearlove soon perceives tbat, , Somebody has been tampering with his wife's affections, and to give a matter-of-fact explanation to the position in which she has placed him; ou her entrance with her. favourite King Charles, he pretends the dog is - mad. Upon her being convinced to the contrary by Master Dash drinking plentifully from a tumbler of water, and exclaiming, "No, he's not mad," D ear l o ie rep li es , `rNo, he's not mad; but it were easy to make him mad —Give a Dog an 11l Name, that's, enough." Mrs. Dearlove; with quicker apprehension 'than ourselves, we must confess, sees the direct application of the proverb, and repents of her momentary falling away, even in thought, from the strict pathway of conjugal faith. Horace Ogle is dismissed with silence, and then laughed at. It does not seem likely he will die of a broken heart. The piece was received with peals of laughter throughout the performance, and with unanimous applause at the fall of, the curtain, and a general summons was raised for the author, who, n ever th e l ess , did not think proper to respond thereto. Sr. JAMES'S TEEATRE.---We are glad to announce that this theatre will be certainly opened on Monday, the Ist of May, for the performance of French plays, under the direction of M. Lafont, so long known and estimated in this country. Messrs. Hoffman, Bardou, Feryille. and the excellent R4gnier, Mdlle. Luther, and Mdlle. Fix, of the Theatre Francais, are already engaged . to appear during the present season. THE LATE LADY ELIZABETH ASHBIMBHAH, whose death occurred at her villa at Richmond, on Easter Sun day, would have completed the great age of 91 years on the 10th of May. Her ladyship was the last surviving child of John, second earl and fourth baron of Ash burnharn (who was keeper of Hyde -park and St. Jaines's-park, and first lord of the bedchamber and groom of the stole to George III.), and sister of the late earl and of Lady Jemima, the first, wife of the late Duke of Montrose. By the death of this venerable lady many noble and distinguished families are placed in mourning. Amongst others those of the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Earl De Grey, the Earl and Countess Cowper, the Earl and Countess of - Ashburnham, the Countess (dowager) of Ashburnham, the Countess of Powis, the Earl and Coun tess of Ripon, Sir Henry and Lady Mary Gordon, Mr. and Lady Mary Vylier, Mr. and Lady Eleanor Wode house, Viscount and Viscountess Goderich. The de ceased lady was descended from a family of the highest antiquity- -described by an eminent genealogist a • "a family of stupendous antiquity, wherein the• eminence !lath equalled the antiquity, having been barons temp. Henry III." • DEATH OF LADY JOHN MANNERS.—It is with the ' deepest regret we announce the decease of tiafly John Manners. Her ladyship, who, we are informed, has been seriously ill from the period of her acpouchment, which took place on the 12th ult. died on F r id ay l ast at the early age of 23. L a dy John 31anners was the daughter of the late Colonel Marley,an owner of large property in Ireland, and was connected with the noble houses of Rutland, Charleville, and others, She was ' married to her bereaved husband in 1851. • •THE BAL COSTUME AT THE FRENCH EMBASSY.—A. re port having obtained circulation in some of our contem poraries to the effect, that the date of grand bat costume, to be given by the Ambassador of France, has been changed from the 12th to the 9th of May, we are enabled to state that no such alteration has been made or even contemplated; and that the fete, as at present arranged, will take place on the 12th proximo, the day originally fixed by - her Majesty the Queen.—Morning Paper. CONSECRATION OP THE NEW BISHOP OF SALISBURY. —We are informed. that the consecration of the Rev. W. K. Hamilton, late Precentor and Canon of Salisbury, to the bishopric, void by the death of Dr. Denison, will take place at Lambeth on the Ist of May, being the festival of St. Philip and St. James. THE FRIEND OF THE CLERGT.—The anniversary festival of this useful and prosperous charity has, in consequence of the day of humiliation having been fixed for the 26th instant, been necessarily postponed -until the 3rd of May. We trust the charity will not suffer by the delay. IMMENSE HousE.—On Saturday last, the largest horse in the world was exhibited at the Horse -bee Inn stables, in the town. He stands 21 hands high, and weighs 25 owt.— Wilts County Mirror. MILITARY AFFRAY.—A serious fight took place in Winchester, on. Sunday last, between about 150 soldiers belonging to the 88th Regiment and the Hants militia. It appears that the regulars had been sneering at the awkwardness and unsoldier-like qualities of the militia men ; the consequence was a desperate fight with fists, sticks, atones, and soldiers' belts, a terrible weapon, with its large metal buckle. Several soldiers were taken to the hospital dreadfully, and, it is feared, fatally wounded. The militia men were victorious, as they numbered two' to one over the regulars. The polioemen were too few to interfere to stop, or even to mitigate, the disgraceful affray. MONEY MARKE COMMERCIALAND INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 7,000 bales, all to the trade. The market closed firmly, with prices of all kinds fully supported. The salea comprised 5,000 American ; 700 Pernam and Maranham, at 6d. to 71d. • 400 Egyptian, at 6d. to Bid. ; and 700 Surat, at id. to iscir lb. Railway s h ares were stea d y. The - i steamer Hydaspes, from the' Cape of Good n Ope , has arrived. She brings late dates, but no conimercial news of importance. The withdrawal Of the steamers of the General Screw Steam Navi gation Company from the South African station sill be much regretted, but, fortunately, the occa sional calls of other steamers at the Cape will for the present help to obviate the inconvenience. The new Orders in Council permitting British as , well as neutral ships to convey Russian produce and other articles (not contraband of war) to ports not blockaded hive given satisfaction, in so far aq they remove the anomaly of our own merchants being placed upon a more disadvantageous footing than those of other countries ; but it is still con sidered very questionable whether all these indul gences will be calculated to cripple our unscrupu lous enemy. The amount of specie exported in the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's vessel Ripon, which left Southampton this day for Egypt, dro., is 198,7431., of which 50,6001. is for Malta, 15,300/. for Alexandria, and the rest for India and China. The last week's railway receipts ascertained to this day are in round figures as under : Great Western £24,216 £19,381 North-Western South-Westera Brighton . 14,815 9,737 Midland ... : . 26,047 23,034 South-Eastern Caledonian, and Edin. and Glasgow. 16,615 13,897 Great Northern 18,004 15,593 Lancashire and Yorkshire Yorkand North Midland,Newcastle 28,702 24,430 and Berwick, and Leeds Northern The English stocks are still ascending, and under the influence of money purchases the speculators are timid in resisting the upward tendency. Having sold alleady to such an extent, and had stock openly bought in against them, upon their failure to deliver it, we cannot feel surprised at the pause in their operations, and the inclination to await the receipt of later intelligence from the seat of war. Should the Turks experience a serious defeat while our fates are being kept at a respectful distance, the market would certainly give way, but the knowledge that public opinion would force on vigorous measures subse quently, would in the end rally the market. The principal cause of depression, therefore, to which the speculators must look, is the shipment of specie to the continent, and the 'contract of a new loan, and from certain appearances it has been conjec tured within the last two or three days that ar rangements are really making for a loan. We will. neither take upoh ourselves to deny nor affirm that such a proceeding is immediately to be a lopted, but if so, the object is clearly to render the Govern ment more independent of the Bank of England, after the late cavilling at the assistance required, and which, as a significant sign of the times, is bringing the "leading journal" to write - in.quite a novel-strain, and wholly in opposition to the mono poly conferred by Peel's Act of 1844, which hither to it has so strenuously supported. Consols have been at 871 to 88g. for transfer, and at 87; to 88k for account. The New Three-aud-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 87k to 88k, and the Three per/Cleats. 86; to 87k. Bank stock is firm at 212 to 2124. Exchequer Bills have been at par to 4s. premium. Foreign Stocks are very passive. Peruvian Four-and a-Half per Cents have been done at 58e. Mexican Bonds are 24. f. Spanish Three per Cents. have been 36 3 / 4 . In Russian and Dutch securities nothing has been done. The Railway Share Market is about 4 per cent. higher again, for the principal English lines, with, however, very limited transactions. French shares are very firm, but mostly nominal. There have been a few bargains in the Belgian and Canadian Hines. The Joint Stook Banks are a shade better, and the Land Companies' are firm. In Mines , there is nothing doing. Crystal Palace are up owing to the ann ouncement of the opening next month. B l agrlSH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, (Prom the Officler2 TILE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING. The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's mail packet Hydaspes, Captain Benson, arrived this morning. She left Calcutta, January 15th; Madras, 20th ; Point de Galle, 2511 ; Mauritius, February Bth ; Cape of Good Hope, 25th; St. Helena, March sth ; Ascension, 10th. Arrived at Fayal, April 10th, and left on the 13th. She has a full cargo of silk and indigo, and 120 passengers. From the Cape we learn that the election of the Upper House was completed ; that for the Lower House was still in progress. The Graham's-town, Journal states that gold had been discovered at Smithfield early in February. This is confirmed by the Port Bli;:abeth Mercury of the 18th of February. Dr. Devereux, Roman Catholic Bishop of the eastern province, died in February: The Meander, 44, Commander Talbot, was at. Simon's Bay, and the Dee, Commander Smith, was at Strays Bay. • The Hydra and the Dart were expected at the Mozambique. The Penguin had sailed for Algoa Bay, and was expected at the Cape at the beginning of March en, route to England. The squadron was all well. NEWMARKET RACES. Pebble (THIS DAY.) (BY. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPR.) SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Three ran. HANDICAP PLATE. T.Y.C. Anteverta Folly o' the Day Ten ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 100 SOYS. Incubus Olitipa SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOUS, Quince Four ran. HANDICAP PLATE OF £lOO. Inder Eleven ran. BETTING ON THE COURSE. PORT STAKES. sto 2 agst Orestes. BUOKHURST STAKES. sto 4on Boiardo. CLOSE OF THE ROOMS LAST NIGHT. CHESTER CUP. 9to 1 agst Baalbec. 25 to 1 agst Duchess of Lorraine colt. 40 to 1 agst Jujube (taken freely). 40 to 1 agst Peggy. 40 to 1 agst Cobnut. 50 to 1 aget Jack Frost. 1000 to 15 agst Dr. O'Toole. 1000 to 10 agst Catspaw. 1000 to 10 agst Aldiord. 1000 to 10 agst Little Jem. 1000 to 5 agst Canute. 1000 to 5 agst Bridesmaid. 1000 to 4 agst Royal►st. 1000 to 3 agst Indian Warrior. 1000 to 2 agst Umbriel. 1000 to 2 agst Pantomime. 1000 to 2 agst Annie Sutherland. 1000 to 2 aget Wild Huntsman. DERBT. sto 1 agst Autocrat (offered). Bto 1 agst Dervish. 33 to 1 agst Wild Huntsman. 33 to 1 agst Marsyas. 40 to 1 agst Belgrave. 50 to 1 agst Prince Arthur. 100 to 1 agst Champagne. 200 to 1 agst Punch Bog. 200 to 1 agst Marley Hill. 200 to 1 agst Marble Hill. 200 to 1 agst Acrobat. 200 to 1 ag4 Bessus. 200 to 1 agst Boiardo. GREAT NORTHERN. 15 to 1 agst Aguilla. 25 to 1 agst Vindex. TWO THOUSAND GUINEA'S. 7 to 2 ag..t Ruby (taken). 7to 2 agst Boiardo (taken). &to 1 agst Champagne (taken). Business done. Bank Stock ..... ......... ..... 212. 12 i per Cent. Reduced Annuities B7 64 78 3 per Cent Consols Annuities B7B 8f 8 I New 34 per Cent. Annuities BB 7i 84 Gong Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1880 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 15-16 [ndia Bonds, £lOOO ............. ..... 4 d par 'Console for Account 11th May BB 7.84 - Exehequer Bills, 2d. ElOOO ' Small 4 P Par PRICE OF FORRION FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Small , Vexican 3 per Cent. Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. sBf Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 36i Dividends on the above payable in London. HALF-PAST TWO. Consols BB4 -Ditto - May Account tRE SCREW STEAMER BALTIC.—This handsome iron screw steamer, which was launched from the building yard of Mr. Alexander Denny about 10 days ago, has already received the greater portion of her machinery, and - is rapidly being finished for sea. The entire opera tions are expected to be completed by the 30th of this month, when she will take her departure for Hull, be tween which port and Copenhagen she is intended to ply, in concert with the Humber, also a new' ship, just about ready for launching. The Baltic has all the appearance of realizing the high expectations formed of her, both in regard to speed and safety. She will have extra accommodation for first and second class passengers, for whose comfort every possible provision, will be made, whether in regard to space, ventilation, or protection from the weather. She is the property of Messrs. Thomas Wilson, Sons, and Co., Hull, whose business reputation affords ample security to shippers and passengers. Her comminder, Captain Atkinson, has been long and favourably known in connection with the Baltic trade, and knows every creek and corner of the passage as intimately as a river skipper knows the windings and turnings of the Clyde. The Baltic's dimensions are as follows :—Length between perpendiculars, 180 feet ; breadth of beam, 26 feet ; depth, 15 feet ; burden, 600 tons. Her engines, which are supplied by Messrs. Tulloch and Denny, are on the .direct acting principle, and of 110 horse power. — Dumbarton Herald. Sp. PETERSBIIRG.—From St. Peteisburg the dates are to the 11th of April, when tallow and other produce continued to be purchased for tranamiss;on to the fron tier and the Prussian port of Memel. The o,lessa let ters are to the 7th. They state that business was wholly suspended, but make no mention of a blockade. Advices from Riga yesterday of the 13th inst. state that a recur rence- of sharp frosts at night prevented the breaking up -of-the ice in the neighbourhood of the town, although at the upper parts of the river it had been disappearing for some days. Toe ha/ was likewise full of ice, and 20 vessels caught by it were in a rather dangerou4 position. One of them, a Dutchman in ballast, had just been wrecked. THE SUITORS' FUND AND FEE FUND.—The annual accounts of these funds have been presented' to Parlia ment. The Suitors' Fund consists of 3,882,558/. stock ; 62,442/.-out of the dividends are applied to the payment of the salaries of the judges and officers of the Chancery Courts, and the other expenses of those courts, and the surplus interest is carried over to - the Suitors' Fee Fund. This latter fund, with the above contribution and with the aid of 67,0191., "receivedfrom theCommissinners of Inland Revenue"(an item to which some explanation might have been appended), amounted to 183,764/. in the year ending in'November 'oat ; and the 'amount was applied to the payment of other Chancery salaries and compensations. The list of Chancery compensations and pensions seems framed upon a liberal scale. This account has among its items—annual payments it must be presumed—com pensation to two Six-Clerks for loss of office and profits 3,1551., to 20 sworn clerks 28,5961., one deputy-clerk of enrolments, deputy record -keeper, and agent to sworn clerk, 1,4531., the late blerk of custodies (in lunacy) 1 4681., chief clerk to a Master 7501., pension to a retired Master, 1,500/., to two retired regist r ars , 2,541 / , to the late Master of Reports, 2,2501. " SERVICE OF AQUEDUCTS AND FOUNTAINS AT CON STA,NTIIYOPLE.--Ttle Turkish capital offers the pecu liarity that good and salutary regulations exist where a mere chaos was hithertosupposed to occupy their place. According to late calculations, based on curiect obser vations and tables, the fifteen systems of sources and water wells which surround Constantinople, and from which numerous aqueducts and cisterns are alimented, yield a daily supply of 249 lulehs of water, which is equinlent to 12,267,532 kilogr. ; and as the population of the Turkish capital is calculated at 600,000, a daily supply of 2,044 kilogr. for every person indiscriminately is resulting therefrom. The administration and ser vice of this water supply is confided to an especial ()lass or order of men, the corps of the Su-Jaldshi, or well-tnasters. This regularly organised corps exercises a licensed art, and if they possess no theoretical know ledge, still they practise their art according to some traditional rules and principles. To this corps all the works relating to the searching after water, its conduct ing and distribution, as far as want and even comfort are concerned, are confided. The corporation of the Su-Jaldshi now consists of about 300 Turks and 100 Albanese Greeks, who are exclusively selected from some families of am district of Drinopolis, in the Epirus. The inhabitants of five or six villages emigrate for the sake of occupying the situations of well-wasters in Con statinople and ether Turkish cities. Yesterday the adjourned vestry meeting of the in habitant ratepayers of this extensive pariah: was held in the New Vestry Hall.* Kennington -green, for the pur : pose of taking the poll for the election of churchwardens and committee forming the Ifighway Board. The Rev. C. B. Dalton, M.A., the Vicar, presided. Considerable interest exists throughout the parish as to the election of not only the churchwardens, but the persons who are to form the Board of High ways, com mittees being appointed in the various districts to sup port their respective candidates. At the conclusion of the day's proceedings, the Rev. Mr. Dalton announced the result of the day's poll to be for—Mr. Grey, 277 ; for Mr. Plews, 275 ; Mr. Stratton, 195 ; and Mr. Barnard, 143, giving a large majority in favour of Messrs. Grey and Plews. For the Highway Board, the numbers announced by the rev. vicar were sufficient to show that Messrs. Price, Hodson, Taylor, Moseley, Doiilton, Hsyton, King, Wade, Mason, Avern, Bowles, Deacon, Bryan, Wells, Vall er , N o tt, Orme, White, Attee, and Littlejohn, were in the majority. At a late hour in the evening, a meeting of the com mittee and supporters of the election of Messrs. Grey and Plews as churchwardens was held at the Duke of . Sussex, Oakley-street, Dr. Sewell in the chair, when, after much discussion, resolutions were carried to carry out and increase the satisfactory result that had arisen from their exertions to secure the return of their candi dates, Mr. Grey and Mr. Plews, as also their list of the Board of Highways. The polling will finally close to morrow. MARLBORO UGH-STREET.-(THIS .DAY.) TITTERING A FORGED Nova.—William Turner, an elderly man, was brought up before Mr. Bingham, charged with uttering a forged Si. note. Mr. John Lowe stated that he was the landlord of the Grosvenor Arms, Green-street, and that on the 10th of February last the prisoner came into his house and partook of a glass of gill, and, in the course of con versation, he said he was an old customer of the late landlord, and should continue his custom with witness. He then went out, and in a short time he returned and gave me an order for half a gallon of gin, saying that he had found it so very good, and directed it to be sent to Mr. Gardner, 26, -Gilnert-street. The prisoner paid for the gin with the Si. note produced, and witness wrote his name upon it, and gave him 4/. 13s. 4d. change. Prosecutor sent the gin to 26, Gilbert-street, but found no one there. He was positive prisoner w,as the man. The note was a forgery. Police-constable Rigden, said he apprehended the yesterday afternoon, in Holborn. He told him the charge against him, but he made no reply. He then conveyed him to the station,- where he was searched, but nothing found upon him. The prisoner; who declined making any defence, was remanded fora week. An experimental trial, under the direction of theßoard of Ordnance, hay taken place at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, of Captain Maker's " Rifled " musket bullet, which was very successful at 200 and 300 yards.. A further trial at an extended range will shortly take place.—British Army Despatch. SHIPMENTS OF SPECIE.—The shipments of specieby the Peniosular and Oriental. steamer Ripon amount to 198,700/., of which 69,0851. is gold (including about 50,0001. for military expenditures at Malta), while. 129,6571. is silver for Singapore, Ilonz-Kong, Canton, and Shanghai. Pending the delivery of the last Austra lian arrivals a small sum of gold was again taken from the Bank of England yesterday for trans►nission to Paris. COLONIAL GOLD COMPANY.—The subjoined - memo randum is from the Colonial Gold Company. It indi cates that the question of profitableness of quartz crushing in New South Wales will soon be put to a de cisive test : " The Colonial Gold Company have received advices by the Harbinger from their superintendent in Nbw South Wales, to the 30th of December. " Mr. Spence writes from Louisa (Creek--` You will be glad to learn that this morning (the 30th) we got up steam for the first time, and tried the engi ne . She worked most beautifully from the first, without a jar, leakage, or any thing objectionable. We put the wheel round ,about 30 revolutions in the minute, and there was no little satisfac tion at the completion of so important a portion of the undertaking. The large wheel of the crushing house is to be on the ground this even i ng , w hi c h we s h a ll soon have in its place, and then the rollers will be raised to the cradles, and we shall finish the walls and cover all in. One of the ' kilns is ready, another nearly so, and the tratnroad is being laid down, not only along the ridge and to the house, but also on an inclined plane into the long level, so as to do aw a y as muc h as poss ibl e w ith th e windlass. " Mr. Spence calculates that lie can deliver and reduce 30 tons of quartz per day, one month with another ; and taking the average of 3 tons per diem, for 25 days in the month, or at the rate of 9,0 0 tons per annum, he estimates that all charges for breaking down, quarrying, raising, breaking, loading waggons, and delivery, at kilns, for calcining, and expenses of engine and reduction houses, and general superintendence and incidentals, will amount to (per ton of quartz) 1/. 10s. £3 10 0 Value of gold per ounce Less royalty, 3 per cent £o 21i Proportion to Great Nugget Company Estimated charge 1 10 0 2 5 81 Supposed profit RI. 4 3i perton on 30 ton s p er di em , yi e lding one ounce. And he add s `Should we realise the success thus anticipated, I shall immediately proceed to wake all nocessary preparations for raising a more extensive establishment in one of the many localities open to us, where auriferous quartz can he 9 b. tained in abundance, on Government ground.'" CONSTANTI,7,.TOPLE, April 10.-:=-A'Very large num . ber of the-subjects of Kin°. Otho resident in Fur key, have Acknowledged allegiance to the Sultan, and Will remain in the conntry. Omer Paella is at ,BardsChik, which is., now his head-quarters. The Cossacks show themselves at Trajan's Wall; but no regulars are seen. ' GamaTou, April 11.—The Villein has a rr i ve d here with the 44tkRegiment, - and three companies of the 50th. . The Xangaroo, with the 93d 'Regiment (High landers), and other detachments. The troops were well. The Greeks are flying from Turkey. Another despatch of the same date, states that four, chiefs and - 150 Greek prisoners . had .been brought in from Vvlo. Steamers and transports now arrive every day from Toulon,-Marseilles, Algiers, and Malta. Gam -1201,r, April B.—General Browne and Colonela Sullivan and Laurence, with. the Rifle .Brigade, and Colonel Victor, of the Artillery, with 100 Sappers, have arrived at the - camp of Conrail, thiee leagues from Gallipoli. Four thousand French soldiers, under the orders of General Can robed; are encamped there. Horses are not to be had. The beat understanding exists among the allied • troops. The Pasha of Adrianople does everything in his power to faCilitate our arrange ments. The Sappers have begun to fortify the Isthmus. A letter from Constantinople, of the Gth, states that the Divan, in order to provide . for the subsis tenee of the allied troops, had. decided to prohibit the re-exportation of rice, flour,• and wheat im ported into Constantinople in transitit. The French and English ambassadors are said to have raise( no objection to this measure, but the Austrian minister presented some few observations. The French mil -1 bassador is said to have made an application to the Divan, which - had been favourably received, but at which the orthodox Greeks showed some dis content. General - Baraguay d'Hilliers demanded - An exemption for a hundred poor Greek Catholic families, for the most part natives of Syra and of Hucos, who were formerly under French protec tion.- M. de Wildenbruck,- the Prussian Minister, is, itris said, about to quit Constantinople. He is a man full of moderation and straightforwardness, and who, throughout the grave questions which have been in agitation for the last twelve months, has always expressed himself very energetically against the violence and arbitrary conduct of Russia. Another letter states that, in Consequence - of a rumour set afloat by some of the Greek partisans of Russia, that there was a conspiracy on foot for a general massacre of the Christians by the Turks, a panic took place among the Christian inhabitants, and . there was a. great ru s h f or passpor t s : 9,006 were, it is said, granted in two days, and of these a considerable number having been obtained fraudu lently by-Christian subjects of the Porte, an order wss issued to annul the passports granted, and a commission was appointed,-composed of two Chris tians and two Turks," who could alone grant pass ports in future. At the same time, a notice was posted up,- that any subject of the kingdom of Greece who wished to become a sulject• of the Sultan Might be allowed to do s.o; on finding two respectable persons to guarantee his good conduct.: CONSTANTINOPLE, April 7.—The declaration of --war by , the allied Powers has_ reached us; and though an event long foreseen and hourly expected, yet it is of so momentous a nature that the excite ment and interest equal that produced' by the most startling surprise. At last the anomalous periad of inertness and expectation is at au end, the tran -sition state from peace to war hail been traversed, the labours of diplomacy are past, and nothing re ;mains but the- swift and steady prosecution of a vigorous war. The. world must be made to see that hostilities, though long delay e d an d unwil lingly - undertaken, can be efficiently- conducted, and that, though . civilised and peace-loving nations. shrink from deluging a continent. in blood, they. are restrained, not by fear of the enemy, but by, a sense of the responsibility incurred by those who. rashly enter into strife, even though tempted•as we have been. Among those who rejoice most at the ultimate decision of the Western Power's are -otir allies the Turks ; for, to say the truth, some doubts have till now been' hidden in the-depths of their hearts as to the sincerity of their defenders—doubts perhaps strengthened by" . the plain speaking of Parliament a n d th e p ress as to Christian wrongs and Ottoman misgovernment. - The French force which has arrived at Gallipoli includes two Lieutenant-Generals and three Gene rals of Brigade. They have turned the dervishes out of their convent, which they are about to con vert into an hospital. The men are at _present engaged in sinking wells and preparing for the re ception of a considerable force. Yet officers ' both French and English, are far fr om satisfied with the position'of affairs. They complain that neither the Governments nor the people of the two na tions appreciate the magnitude of 'the struggle, the' vastness of resources required, the back wardness of our preparations, and the time that must elapse before our armies can act efficiently. The few French troops at Gallipoli are all who `are as yet on Turkish ground ; and even this hand ful of men are ;obliged to _borrow Turkish tents to defend themselves from the weather. The town itself is not large enough to accommodate 10,030 men without a general expulsion of the inhabitants. 3,000 horses`are daily expected, and no place has been prepared for them—it is even recommended that a detachment should be sent - to cut wood at Lampsaki, for ;he purpose of constructing stables. Three mouths is considered the shortest time which must elapse before a force can be concentrated at Varna able to take the field with fair prospects, and if hesitation or timidity find a place in the counsels of statesmen or generals, the summer may be passing away - before - a campaign begins, whi c h must close again in October.- 'From the number - of military men here, and the active part which almost all will have to take in the coniing struggle, these matters ate continually discussed, and in a closer and more practical manner than is usual in general society at home. There certainly dues not prevail in this capital that overweening confidende and that contemptuous estimate of the-Russian power which are universal at present in London society. On the contrary, men- who knOw the Danube and - the Dobrudschaas well as the neigh bourboo.l ofCharing cross are forced to confess the skill and foresight of the Russian tactic_s ; and it is among such chiefly' that I find alarm experienced at the slight concern which the British public give themselves as to the means of carrying on an offensive war against over whelming numbers, in the heart of a desolated country, and amid a disaffected population. It must be remembered that Bulgaria has been eaten up lay the Ottoman armies. For-a space .of 10 months provisions of all kinds- have- been taken from the peaSantry, who have._ not. received one piastre in exchange. On this subject misconception prevails - in England, and has penetrated even i nto the House of Comm Ons, It has been asserted that the Turks have paid for all they have received. is trite that acknowledgments have been given, and that the - Bulgarian peasant has a claim on the Trea sury of Constantinople ; but what has taken place a hundred times will probably occur again; The unfortunate creditors, sick with deferred hope, will be' glad to part with their securities at a tenth. of their value. Then the Armenians will go among them, buy up the paper, and offer it to the Porte at perhaps 25 per cent. of its nominal worth. The Pashas in power will be induced to accede to the arrangement by an offer ofbalf the Armenian's pro fits, and every one will be contented, except the unhappy peasant who sees _the little earnings of years swept away, and knows that rich men are growing richer by his own misfortunes. This is the country through which our armies must pass, and whence it is expected by some to draw sup plies. That it is exhausted is beyond doubt, and , should it remain tranquil, such a result will be chiefly due to the recollection of the Russian atro cities in 1828, and a feeling that the little finger of Muscovite despotism is thicker than the loins of Ottoman misrule. The necessity of, preparations on the largest scale for a war of unexampled obsti- nacy is admitted by all - here, and, though the Go vernment is doubtless well-informed as to the ne- cessities of the case, it is to be feared that the English public, in their admiration of the vast dis: plays of naval power exhibited by their fleets, are sonaewkat disposed to forget that the real conflict must be decided on the Danube, 'that the offdnsive must be titken by us, and that anything short of Complete victory is for us a defeat. The measures against the Hellenic population arc being car 7ied out with unexampled'severity. Every steamer that leavee for Myra is crowelvd with human .r..a..:.►a2_.:..:~1..vti_ ~ _~...~.r.~. ~.. so thickly wedged together that to - walk ..ile deck i.; impossible. b At least 400 are, said to have taken their departure in one, vessel. Mea t of them have been reduced to the depths of povertY# and when thrown ashore, friendless and destitute , at the Piraens, three-fourths of the men will pre' bably go to swell - the ranks of the TilesSalian instil** gents, or take to th e i r o ld t ra d e .o f piracy in th e .../E4ean. The de e p an d well-wooded. _inlets of the - Lyciati coast-and islands may probably again swag'''. with corsairs, as they did in the time .of Latni . l and. Conrade, though- war steamers are rather dir ferent enemies-to - those which were _encountered bl i , the grandfath ers of the.present race. , Numbers °' the shops in-Pera will be shut up ,b the_expulsie„ of their: owners. : M ore t h a n 80 inedimlltten, tm" most skilful in the capital, are. abOut to leave; Hotelkeepers, dra gomans , d omest i c servant; het,, male awl female ; ar e all. comprised in this sweepillb edict.. Yet -there is a feature in this affair more de' plorable than. even - the : wide-spread m i ser y wbleg will.-result. It will hardly be believed: hat apostl to the Romisli.Chureh_ is sufficient to protect te_ d Hellenic subject from banishment and: ruin. it be wondered, that the lower class Of the Gres" communion :sympathise with- the - Russians and IT hold the-Aleinands of Menschikoff,_. when they ae ° _, that their religion places _them- in:a- worse positio_a than their brethren who by acknowledgment of! , Papal supremacy obtain the most- invidious Pf t , vileges—privileges continually turned by the Lan priests into engines- of -Proselytism.? In the PT, sent ~case, two men may . be:. equally . Hellen equally-. sultjects of .ging•-• ; _ but if .one be , e , Catholic, he enjoys French protction—the cert% .sate ofihis archbishop is -suftieieot to enable reside unmolested iu. the, capital, andpursue! at ordinary.- business, while the other is driven out a few days' notice, to wander in misery-and des, tution. Of the 13,000 who - reside in Constaat'a nople - alone but a Small number possess vi a means of transportin g th emse l ves - t o A t h en s seeking another occupation. They are solo; everything -to obtain: the p assage mon ey ' ls their families, awl when disgorged by the steal:ll i , on the shores of - P reece ; they will be - as de li c i, tote as if:thrown on the 'beach of a desert islae cto The Banshee passed th roug h w ith out stopping bo the sth. She was p ro b a bly .on h er way t o t fleet, and carried with her,the declaration Of Whatever may be the case with - the, land meats, there is no doubt.that. the _fleet:lain ear „a tal condition. The men a re we ll an d i n .. spirits ; practising with shot and shell goes on 10 tinually, terrifying the Pash a o f V arna w ith belief that the Russians are at hand. The OS *crews,. from' the Admirals and Post-Captains doh wards, will be glad that the singular state oft is over by which Russian- vessels- could only 15 requested to go back to port, and every man ly the affair of Navarino before his eye; and of danger of finding victory over an obstinate en ° o y . described by statesm en as a • ", disastrous cirelf stance." The fleets are still at Kavarna, but vwe7? be sure they *ill not stay long.. after the Ado„,,t, have, learned that they . are,. at liberty to .a - Whether Varna b e i n any positive danger It • difficult. to. say. There - i s a ' st ory told here that tp iso military and civil • P as h as h ave . quarre l le d , and , not speak to ea c h o th er , an d t h at • whenev!4‘ stranger Makes :his appearance, each does ai'l, can to influence th e new comer aga i nst his 1%9 This may be a joke, - but it is cha rac t er i s tic of class inquestion, and not unworthy of being o ° 4 l as a specimen, of the reputation which .governel;io officials enjoy. There seems a temp ora ry ln i r . the passenger:arrivals froniWestern Europe--Pro, .ba,bly, the flood w)l burst upon us again, in the P A , sent week. As .it is, the •: own is quite Europe hied, and the round hat is no. longer . an obje c t wonder and. aversion to the . do gs . o f P era . form still the, great body of visitors, and for t et or three days .after the arrival of every stem they may ; be' met with in every, quarter of sf boul, sight-seeing -with, incredible energy and id solution. They all with ,the,i.lea of g' ip ; up, to, the Danube, " seeing a brush," and W o o liens" when . ithey . retnrn . to the clubs.. Hosve, i d when it mim e s to the point, th e i r courage 'for them, • and they • ignominiously . r e ,..e tn bark t Marseilles, ,or compromise the matter by a vis i n t r rf Trebizond in the Austrian steamer.ams'so _to state, that General Tiuling,. comnianding . „. 0 .4 engineer .corps; has- met with.. rather a s ° l 'o A ~ few- . .dnys. since- he was ridiel Stamboul, when, passing.thrOngh'onii of the 1;n p 4 , e pitous and wretc!iedly-paved aileyaof that qua l 'o , his horse . stu m bl e d, and - the General-:was thVi t o .lie received a severe hurt" ill 1tt1e:x.4%.*, - and three days art ; a bseess -..forruveti ;'requiring :01 gical aid. Au operation has been perfOrmed, the Gt-neral - is now at - ,Tsierapia under flie d le)., treatment, with every , sprobability.'of doing 11 , 6 0 Thu accident is rather ruifuithhate at the Pre t moment, as his stirvices -.ill.probably be in in' s od diate request.' . ThiS large barracks of Scutari 00 'llaoud Pash a a re b e i ng prepared fur the recer „0 of troops. • The French will probably occuP)l,4l, latter, While the B r iti s h a r e stationed at Sou 1-c' They are 'both very_ large and commodious st P. l O l titres, and; -- besides; differ in an important P ° O O% fiem those which we are aeeustonied to see in mIY native land. The ranges- of buildings in the ne bourhood of HYdeLpark and Trafalgar-square a ir eyesores to every one who is capable of distingt 5)1 ing beauty from Ugliness ; while ..the' edifices . 4 0 the. accommodation of. troops which Eurol ;0 , skill' has lately erected in this capital are of pl of ing and • tasteful aspect ; an as the situ a 0 8 is generally w e ll -chosen, on the brow- of "iOO .gently risin g hill, they forman - agreeable addi t' i k to the landscape, and contrast well with the titude of wooden houses which cluster in t neighbourhood. Letters from Constantinople, of the 2d, that M. Bru c k (th e Austrian .ambassador) het! rad COll2O taciturn and reserved. He neither reee'; nor paid visit s , b ut lived-secluded; and affecte' be enigmati ca l an d Mysterions. s The attache of the Prussian embassy speak with very little serve, and openly proclaim their indignation aga' •England and their sympathies for the Czar. A correspondent of the Siecle says the Tar' 40 Government applied to the French and Eng id ambassadors for an anxiliary corps of land fe 110 to be sent to Varna; and was answered that , to ambassadors could not take upon themselves 'Ol 9 dispose of the army in driblets, and must refer.. • request to their Governments. . I THE BALTIC. • ~ r COPENHAGEN, Wednesday, April 19.--The .lish fleet is off Gothland. The Austerlitz has Kioge Bay. Bi s h op Mourad, A.ndra, Hall, I Lef - ring, -- and others, have been dismissed. ti CO P E NHAGEN, April 1 8.—Four . Russian al o r laden with , cargo, were c a pt ure d. i n the Baltic ‘iot terday, and carried past here to-day as Priz e° London. - ' KIM, April 16.—A Kierletter of the 16th ii `says: --The orders .which Admiral 'Napier with him when he left Kioge Bay last 'Tuesday I 0 strutted him to_ blockade all the Russian porta, he the Baltic. Notice of this will 'doubtless soot, be forwarded to all our consuls in these Parts. -1.1 despatches, which it is understood that tl a Da ll s less brought to COpeuhagen on the 12th, std that 18 R uss i an s hip s o f t h e li ne were lying at I ' l ' 4 singfors, and might soon be attacked ; they see as if they intend e d, as soon as it became posei,_i 0, to put , over to Revel. Admiral Plumridge e r watching th em with four frigates. There strong hopes that ,Acludral Napier :will soon g l ' an account o f th em, if they venture out fromtij a ; shelter. The last S we di s h steamer reports hay.`",.o met the precursors of the English fleet not far fro Riga. •A. Copenhagen ebrresponddi reports by graph that it was the Alban, steam-slo o p, and ...„" the A.mphion, screw-frigate, which got agrow' She is now. afloat-... - • th a A letter from Stettin says :—lt appears Woo article in -the 'Copenhagen, Fadrelandet that, o p steam-frigate Dauntless had l ate l y advanced it the Gulf of Finland as far as Sveaborg, wb. r e re ., saw 18 Russian ships of th e li ne lying. The l in/ ie - rieuse, which was also out reconnoitring, Pi ,tr chase to a Russian corvette, but the latter e° (0 , trived, to -escape to Sveaborg. Admiral Phil oil ridge's division of the fleet, which was sent out co . a cruise, was compos e d o f the screw-steamer 3 perieuse, 51, the Tribune, 31, the Dauntless' s ' and the paddle - wheel-steati ter Leopard, 18. F r- it private letters*from various ports in the Baltic appears that up t o the 15th instant, there " 4 , it still large ma sses of ice in Port Baltic, b u ic o o was no longer compact ; that up t o the 83 01 - date there w as i n Re i el much " floating ice, ,1 t gerous - to vessels ; and th a t up to the 133 , ° 1 - a , • of the 9th th e ice: was &min th e G u lf o f Bclu e- ra 100 • We have still warm Weatherdn Stettin, and, on, tr a il whole, the'probability is that the Gulf of Will be free from ice earlier than last ye ar " ..- cli . ° ' • the 6th of May. The imposts of all kinds 0 n ,,,, - / 4 landed ,proprietors and peasants of Russian PT: e at are fast reducing them to beggary. . Each of tae must furnlh a certain number of bushels t and pay a certain sum in money, according l w rar extent of la n d . To make matters worse, the_ 1111.' g ortif farmers have been informed that the will b eet ' t, a required to provide, of course without par ne f il aa certain ntunher of horses. Private letters both r be we den and Norwaysay th a t S we de n w ill no t /nu% able to rest neutral,_ public opinion being decideo• i n favour of a close alli ance wit h th e wes ter n pow ray, It is prob a bl e th a t a m i n i ster i al crisis will s h° arise ui Swede% oinailar to that lIQW PARISH OF ST. MARY, LAMBBTS. " :; 'a. ) i l l $. • CONSTANTINOPLE. .411 vices have been received from Constantinople to the 10th inst. The retreating Turkish irregulars set fire to Kas tendje. This, which is one of the commercial, ports of Turkey in the Debrudscha, has been reduced to ashes. The combined fleets were anchored between Balt chileand Kavarna. 1,500 English troops had landed at Gallipoli. The Porte. attaches all coin cargoes from the Danube- and Odessa. - Urgent necessity com:)eM this measure. Baron Bruck, the Austrian Envoy, protests against it. A - thistuiders!'saiding has incOusequence arisen betrieen Baron Bruck and Lord kodcliffe. • - ~ ~~ ca U] tei pli Po V 7( all of tic by dii ce of ac ha PE /%