The Sun. — London, England, 1854-05-13 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, MAT 13, Will be, performed FIDELIO. Leonora. Madame - Caradori Fbrestan., Herr Reichardt; and Rocco, Herr Formes. Followed by a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. Prices—Stalls, 78; Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Gnin eas. The Raz-office open daily from Ten till Six, where pla ceii may be secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs- ' , wider and t. oak, 63, New Bond-street. THE &TEE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Ilackstona. THIS EVENING, 31ar 13, Will be performed MARRIED LIFE. Mr. Henry Dove, Mr. Buckstone i Mrs. Henry Dove, Mrs. Stanley. Atter wnich, the entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled MB. BfiCKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI CESTER-SQIJARE), written by J. It. Planche, Esq. Principal characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Clark, Mr. J. Marshall, Mr. H. Marshall; Mrs. Fitzwilllam, Mrs. Caulfield, Miss E. Grey, Miss Lydia Thompscn, Miss Laura Morris, and Miss Featherstone. Followed by WILLIKIND AND HYS DINAH. Supported 'oy Messrs. Buckstone and Corri ; Miss Louisa Howard, Mrs. Fttawil limn, and Mrs. Caulfield. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Citasus Ks As. THIS EVENING, MAT 13, Will be performed THE MARRIED UNMARRI'AD. Characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, Ryder. and Cathcart; ane. Misses Heath and Murray. Followed by F.4.173T AND MARGIJERT,TE. Characters by Messrs. C. Kean and David Fisher ; Mrs. ' ffinstanley and Miss C. Lecie req. After which, AWAY WITH MELP NCHOLY. Characters by Messrs. Meadows, D. Fisher, and Sa'ser ; and Misses Murray and Daly. THEATRE ROY AL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.— .Directress, Madame Celeste THIS EVEY KING, MAY 13, Will be performed TWO LO' VE4 AND A LIFE. Supported by Messrs. C. Selby, Leigh Ifurre .y, Benjamin Webster, Keeley, and 0, Smith ; Miss Woolgar and N &lame Celeste. Followed by THE itiOU'S' CA.O FIE MOVE If ENT. Principal cha. racters by Messrs. 0. Scal .th, Keeley, and Parselle; Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Mary Keeley. After which, THE OVERLkND JOCTRI•EY TO CONirAISTrI. NOFLE, Ai UNDEII.7 . AKEN BY LORD BATEWAY, WITH NTEREiTINti PART%CULARi OF THE FALB HOPEIII, ROYAL, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lease o and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan, "THIS EVENING, MAY 13, Will be performed FIGHTING BY PROXY. Characters by it bawl and Wigan ; and Miss E. Turner. THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Cha racterser which. . ch b w y h Messrs. F. Robson, J. II Waite, Leslie, an d Vi ncent; atterler I, Miss P. Horto n , an d Mi ss Marston. jan ft To be followed by TO OftLI4E BENSON. Supported by Messrs. E mery, Rob ion, and Leslie; Mrs. Stirling and Miss Wyndham. STRAND THEATRE. so:e Lessee Mr. F. W. Ali croft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs THIS EVENING, MAY 13, WM be perCormed NELL GWTNNE. The ZULU KAFIR'S, as they appeared at St. George's Gallery. After which, SUIDIErt FLO VER.S, in which the French Ballet Troupe will appear. Followed by TfIE THREE TURKISH RAZOR GRINDERS. Silvis, 55.; Boxes, 3,4.; Pit, 1 6d; Gallery, .id.; Private 1304.e5, X 1 lls. 6,1., to be had of Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL A dPIIITHEATitE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. THIS EVENING, MAT 13, • WM be presented the new grand Nautical and Equestrian spec• taee, ernbodyln; n vet and extraordinary e:h•cts (wri•ten by Mr. Nelson Lee), entitled A TALE OF THE SPA NIL VAR; or, The Horse or the Wreck. Th horses expressly trained by Mr. W. Cooke. Followed by an entire change of the Scenes of the CIRCLE, intro ducing Miss Emily Cooke. Wile. Blanche, the celebrated Continental Arti<te, on the TIGHT ROPE. To conclude with a Grand Ballet, entitled THE STAR OF THE RHINE. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. IGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T mtv —3lorniul 1 min.after 2 Evening 23 min.a ft . 2 ro-Monnow--Morning 45 min.a ft er 2 , Evening 6 rntn.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.--Suzi Ornoe, MAT 13. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 66 —highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 65—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'17—falling. WIND, N.W.W.—Light and variable—heavy clouds and sultry weather, portending a thunderstorm. r - -- f ( \ e); t 41 . '1; -s-k•f, 3111, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1854, Dynastic influences have triumphed over every rational consideration both at Berlin and Athens —and at this moment the Sovereigns of Greece and Prussia are equally at the feet of the Northern AUTOCRAT. The secret of all this is obviously discoverable in the circumstances of the Royal and Imperial marriages. The origin of these extra ordinary proceedings on the put of OTHO and of FREDERICK WILLIAM IV. may be comprehended by any one who takes the trouble to glance at the august records of the Almanach de Gotha, that Talmud, or Koran, or Shaster of the believers in Legitimacy. Thera it will be seen how, on the 13th of July, 1817, NICHOLAS espoused CHAR LOTTE, eldest daughter of the late, and there fore of course eldest sister of the present, KING of Prussia—the bride of the future CZAR paying the tribute of her entrance into the Russian dynasty by embracing the Greek religion and assuming the name of ALEXANDRA-FEODOROWNA. There again in that wonderful record of alliances brought about more by intrigue than by affection, it will be perceived how, on the 22d of November, 1836, OTHO took to wife the Princess AMELIA of Oldenburg. In conse quence of these two remarkable marriages, the dynastic influence exercised by the AUTOCRAT, from St. Petersburg, has proved paramount, both in the councils of Athens and Berlin, to every prudential consideration. We have seen how, step by step, OTHO and AMELIA have advanced towards an open rupture with the Western allies of Turkey. Until, in fact, their complicity with the insurgents of Epirus and Thessaly has become matter of abso lute notoriety. Until their flagitious conduct has been denounced by her Britannic MAJESTY'S Am bassador at Constantinople : and again, and yet again, by the Leader of the House of Commons, on addressing himself in reference to the policy of Greece to the assembled Members of the Impe rial Legislature. The mask of duplicity, at first assumed for a brief interval by the Greek Sove reign, we have long since observed, thrown aside with a sort of suicidal desperation. So that the British and French Ministers at the Court of Athens (Mr. WYSE and Baron RouEN) have found themselves justified in denying the mendacious falsehoods of M. Pecos, the Greek Foreign Secre tary. So that his Imperial Majesty NAPOLEON 111. has at last deemed it advisable to address an autographic letter to the insensate ruler of Greece, enjoining the latter in the strongest terms to beware of the evil consequences which must befall him in the event of his breaking with Prance and England and adopting the cause of the Muscovite Government. If - less flagrant in his indications of hostility towards the allies of Turkey than King OTHO, the Pr ussian Monarch has been if possible yet more 131xxlriti cal in his policy as far as that policy areas the interests of France and England. Of the devotion of I'aIfDERICK WILLIAM IV. to the cause of his ir operia brother-in-law, there have been a successi on of unmistakeable inci dents in demon s t rat i on. There w as the distinct p itt refusal of the Ki ng of ssla. during the course of last March to sign the convention of the Four Powers, a refusal which will be very well remem bered as having been acco mpan i ed by th e dismissal from power of the Count POURTALES. Then the virtual recall from London of the Chevalter B UNSE N, SO l ong and honourably know at the Court of St. James's, in his diplomatic p os i tion there as the Prussian Ambassador. Recently occurred the expulsion of General BONIN from the head of the War-office in the Berlin Go vernment. And lastly, the most daring of all the testimonies of the King of PRUSSIA'S subservience to th e Northern AUTOCRAT has but just come to light in the provisional removal, by FREDERICK WILLIAM IV., of his own brother, and .the heir-apparent to the Crown, from his elevated po sition as Military Governor of the provinces of the Rhine and Westphalia. This rash proceeding of the King towards the Prince of PRUSSIA has alto gether surpassed his previously significant conduct towards General BoNIN, towards the Chevalier BUNSEN, and towards the Count POURTALES. It indicates beyond any doubt the insensate nature of the policy upon which the King of PRUSSIA j has at length, we m i g h t venture to assert, now I avowedly determined. Happily, the intelli gence of this reuihval of the Prince of PRUSSIA ~i ~c~i~ b %_ from the military governorship of the provinces of the Rhine and Westphalia, does not arrive untilafter the establishment of a camp in the north of France is known to have been resolved upon by the Im perial Government. Already, it is said, considerable anxiety is evidenced at Berlin in reference to the approaching encampment of this northern army hard by the German frontiers. And no wonder ! The camp is to be composed of some 25,000 men at St. Omer, of some 25,000 men at Helfay.t, and of from 50,000 to 60,000 men at Boulogne --the EMPEROR hi mse lf taking the command of the whole army, num bering in the aggregate upwards of 100,000. No - wonder the accomplices of the councils of the KING of Prussia begin to talk among themselves of Jena, with a dread of its repetition ! No won der—any more than that King OTEO and Queen AMELIA should fear at last for their sovereignty over the country they have so long misgoverned, the possibility, before many more weeks have elapsed, of an Anglo-French occupation. Everything indicates, indeed, at the present moment, that both Greece and Prussia will have to be dealt with summarily by the two great Western Governments. As will have been observed from our impres sion of last evening; Captain CLAXTON has at once given to the statunents recently put forward by Mr. SCOTT RUSSELL, in reference to the pro posed steam gun-boats for the Baltic, the bene fit of his direct and distinguished corrobora tion. In his letter to the Times, dated the 10th instant, Mr. RUSSELL observed that among those experienced steam officers in the navy who had strongly recommended to the authorities the employment of gun-boats made according to his firm's plan of construction, he might mention his friend Captain CLAXTON, of the Royal Navy, one of our oldest steam promoters, and one who had himself examined the vessels Mr. RUSSELL had been describing in his communication. In his letter to The Sun, dated the 12th instant, Captain CLAXTON takes occasion, as will have been remarked, we repeat, in our impression of yesterday, to corroborate all that had been said by the builder of the two vessels, in reference to the merits of the Nix and the Salamander. Those model steam gun-boats—inadvertently mentioned in these columns as belonging to the Northern AUTOCRAT, whereas they are, on the contrary, in the Prussian, and not in the Russian, maritime service —are, it will be ob served, spoken of by Captain CLAXTON in terms of eulogiurn, justifying, to the full, every syl lable of our own earnest words of commendation. Nor can it be in any way surprising that an officer like Captain CLAXTON, an officer of acknow ledged skill and undoubted experience, should speak in language of praise of steam-gun boats so peculiarly fitted to the shallow navi gation lying between Cronstadt and St. Peters burg. Remember some of the more prominent merits of the Nix and Salamander. Enumerate merely the most conspicuous of these and then pronounce--after the statement made by Mr. SCOTT RUSSELL, and the panegyric penned by Captain CLAXTON, RN., by way of corroboration —pronounce, we say, 0 Board of Admiralty! after mature consideration, whether steam-gun boats precisely of this kind are not the very things fitted for the exigencies of the maritime service of France and England in the Baltic, when their combined fleets shall have conquered Cronstadt, and shall be de sirous of pushing on resolutely towards St. Peters burg. Remember that the current of the Neva and the adjacent shoal waters at the extremity of the Gulf of Finland can only be traversed by ves sels having less than a draught of eight feet--and remember that these steam gun-boats mentioned by Mr. RUSSELL and praised by Captain CLAXTON, have no more than a draught of five feet even when fully armed and equipped ! This extraordinary advantage is accompanied, recollect, by a variety of other notable merits, the vessels in question being 160 feet in length, 24 feet in breadth, and 11 feet in depth, having engines of 160 horse-power— with a speed of 15 miles—and armed by four 32- pounders and four 68-pounders ! Extraordinary merits like these surely demand for the proposed steam gun-boats, to be constructed after the model of the Nix and the Salamander, the serious and impartial consideration of all their advantages by the proper authorities of her MAJESTY'S Govern ment. THE LATE MR. JUSTICE TALFOURD. A statement, alike honourable to all parties concerned, has reached us from credible authority, to the effect that her Majesty designs to place apartments in Hampton Court Palace at the disposal of the widow of this late lamented judge. Such would be a graceful, meritorious, and most popular action, well worthy of the Sovereign Lady of the Realm. It is known to most of our readers that a portion of the apartments at Hampton Court have long been assigned, rent free, to various members of aris tocratical families whose circumstances are scarcely equal to their birth. In this instance merit would be placed on a par with mere rank. We sincerely hope that the report is true. We have also heard that the members of the Oxford Circuit intend to raise a monument to their late beloved leader. If it be not too late, might we be permitted to suggest to these gentlemen a far nobler and more appropriate testimonial ? Why not apply the funds to the foundation of a Talfourd Scholarship at one of the Universities ? With struggling and ingenuous youth, the late judge, who never lost sight of his own early career, possessed in an eminent degree those sym pathies arising from freshness of heart and nobility of nature.—• Morning Advertiser. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—We are requested to state that the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's are desirous of availing themselves of the fittings used at the Fes tival of the Sons of the Clergy, and trying the expe riment of having the afternoon service under the dome to-morrow (Sunday, the 14th). Divine service begins at a quarter past 3 o'clock. GENERAL POST -OFFICE.—A n offer has been received from the French Government to convey by the French Levant packets the correspondence of the British sol diers and seamen in the East, upon the same favour able terms as those which apply to the correspondence of the French forces. This liberal and considerate offer has been gladly accepted, and the regulations under which it will be carried into effect will be made public by the General Post-office as soon as the necessary de tails have been arranged between that department and the Post-office in Paris. On the part of the British Government advantages of a like nature will be made available to the French seamen serving in the allied Baltic fleet, as often as the communications with that feet furnish the opportunity of doing so. The Duke of Newcastle's youngest son, the youthful Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton, has just entered the navy as naval cadet. Brigadier-General the Earl of Cardigan, ' we under stand, is expected to leav e P ar i s , where his lordship arrived on Tuesday from L on d on , for Marseilles, where a special steamer chartered by the noble and gallant earl, called the Dryad, will convey his lordship and staff to Constantinople. The earl's valuable stud of hunters were brought to the hammer yesterday at Tattersall's and fetched fair prices, and his establishments at Deene park and in Portman-square have been reduced. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—The Con templated matrimonial alliance between the Earl of Durham and Lady Beatrice Hamilton, second daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, is expected to take place at the close of the ensuing week. Lord Bateman's marriage with Miss Kerrison, sister to Lady Mahon and Sir Edward Kerrison, is expected to be solemnised to-day, at St. George's Hanover-square. THE CIVIL SERVICE.—Mr. John Lowther Du P. Tay lor, from the secretary's department of the General Post Office, is at present temporarily employed at the Trea sury. There is a junior clerkship vacant in the Edin burgh Post-office (inland office), caused by the resigna tion of Mr. Denholm ; salary, 701. per annum. There are two vacancies in the inland department, caused by the dismissal of two clerks, 801. per annum, in the gift of the Postmaster-General. Mr. Alan E. Chambre, private secretary to Colonel Maberley, late secretary to the General Post-office, has returned to his duties as assistant clerk in the secretary's department. The Honourable Charles Alexander Gore performs the r th es e ts iig t h il t i duty of Acting Com m i ss i oner o f W oo d s an d Fo hoen T. F Kennedy vacan . cycaused shall byt b l lee filledr esi gn upat. ion m o r f . EckersteY Smethurst has been appointed clerk in the Custom s at Li • verpool. Mr. W. Catt has been appointed tidewaiter and boatman at Rye. Mr. G. Darl ing h as been appointed weigherodatAtverpool. Mr. J. Mans ewaiter in London. M r . O'Shanglinessy h as been appointed tidewaiter in Lime rick. M r . J. R eid has been appointed weigher at Glas gow. Mr. F. Springett has been appointed clerk a t th e London Docks. M r. H. Wild has been in the office of I nspector General of iL n ap fn o t inted a ndclerk Ex ports, London. M r . W. T . Bell has been' appolited t z o . a. junior clerkship in the solicitor's department, Inland annum. Revenu Civile department Service Gazette, , Somerset Hou se , at 100/. per S THE CHARGE OF CORRUPTION AGAINST IRISH MEI' B E R3 .—Th e committee app o i n t e d to investigate this charge met yesterday, at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of hearing further evidence. The proceedings took place with closed doors. At its rising the committee ad journed to Tuesday Week ; the 23d inst. ~~ MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,000 bales, including 1 5 000 American taken for export and on speculation. The market was fiat, and b u y ers s h owe d l ess i nc li nat i on for business. Railway shares were firm. The return of the Bank of England for the week ending the 6th inst. is much of the same cha racter as the preceding statements of late ; one item, however, having undergone some change, viz., that of the public deposits, in which, probably from the Exchequer-Bond arrangement, there was an increase. The demand for money is evidenced by the withdrawal of private balances and the increase in discounts, to meet which the Bank appears to have sold stock or other Govern ment Securities. In this way the circulation was kept down so as to respond to the diminution in the bullion. Compared with the previous week, the changes are as follows : £21,974,300 273 ; 020 12,608,079 307,847 3,204,862 Increase 32,679 Public Deposits 2,338,822 Increase 320,329 Other Deposits 10,688,531 Decrease Seven-Day and other Bills Increase 37,635 Government Securities 12,566,607 Decrease 514,072 Other Securities Increase 14,749,460 311,268 Notes unemployed 3,900,430 Decrease On Amsterdam and Hamburgh the rates of ex change slightly improved yesterday afternoon, but Paris, 90 days, remained at 25 25 to 271. Trieste was 13 38 to 50 ' • Frankfort, 1188 to 1- ; Ham burgh, 13 4i to 5 • and Amsterdam, 11 15i to 51. There is no gold being taken from the Bank of England for exportation, with the exception of parcels that contain silver, as Messrs. Haggard and Pixley report that the re wou ld b e scarce l y any profit in sending it. The amount of silver exported direct from Lon don during the week to Thursday last was 94,281 ounces, nearly all to the Continent, and of gold 11,410 ounces, to Hambro', Sweden, France, Hol land, and Belgium. Active circulation Decrease Bullion Decrease Rest The steamer Thames, from Brazil, brings 10,707/. in specie. Trade had been rather duil at Rio and Pernambuco, and there had been dissatisfaction among the foreign merchants at the mode in which the Customs duties were levied. This occasioned an alteration, however, that appeared to meet the case. The Marco Polo, • clipper ship, is telegraphed as having arrived off Holyhead. She left Melbourne Feb. 19, and will therefore bring later dates by about a fortnight than any received direct. In all probability she has a large amount of gold on board. The Gipsey, from Australia, has arrived at Belfast. There has been a very quiet market for public securities, and prices are firm. Consols have been 871 to 88i for trans er and account. The New 31 per Cents. bring 87h to 88. Exchequer Bills are 2s. discount to ls. premium, and India Bonds 15s. discount. Nothing has been done in Bank Stock. Foreign Securities have been steady. Russian 5 per Cents. 931, and Dutch 4 per Cents. 88. Buenos Ayres Bonds are 55A. Mexican nominal. The Railway Share Market has been rather heavy, without much doing. French Shares are quieter. The Gold Mines are flat, but Australian Agri. cultural Land have again advanced. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE. (From the Oficial List. Rosiness done. per Cent. Reduced Annuities B6i 7 3 per Cent, Consols Annuities B4 8i low 3i per Cent. Annuities B7t 8 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 , — Dittc 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859..., 4 India Bonds, ..4;1000 . Consols for Account Cth June B7k 8i Exchequer Bills, 2d. £IOOO Small 2 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. r;razilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 961 7 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent ssj Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 93j Ditto 41 per Cent Boj lj Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.. .......... Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. lB Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2. per Cent. 12 Guil ..... Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... _ BB TWO O'CLOCK. 87i 8 87i 8 Consols Ditto Juuo Account SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH. OPENING TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER. The above companies' subterranean line of telegraph be tween Liverpool and London was completed by Messrs. Frend and Hamill, and opened to the public last Wednesday, and messages were forwarded from point to point. In accordance with the principle upon which the extension of the companies' operations was based, and which was primarily put in opera tion at Birmingham, a great reduction was effected in the tariff of charges. The previous amount of ss. from Liverpool and Manchester to London was replaced by the more moderate one of 2s. 6d.; and Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham were put into intercommunication for ls., instead of 2s. 6d. No charge is henceforth to be made for name and address in the messages, and despatches by this company are to be de livered as heretofore, free of charge, within a circuit of a mile from the different offices. The increased certainty of an under ground system combined with the above programme, and the assurance it contains of the due fulfilment of the companies' previously expressed intentions, should secure the support of the commercial world. A system of cheap telegraphs, as de manded by the mercantile world, is now placed within their reach, and within the grasp of the country generally, but to assure its continuance and its universality, the company should not be left in the lurch when other tariffs are reduced to the same liberal amount. For in the present instance the reduction is voluntary and part of a recognised system, whilst in other instances it will be due somewhat to the influence of example, but more especially to the absolute necessity of self preservation. It appears that from Liverpool and Manchester to the north by Leeds, Hull, Glasgow, dm., the wires of the Submarine and European Telegraph Companies will be joined by those of the British Telegraph Company, thus giving a direct circuit with Loudon to those important districts. A reduction in the tariff will also shortly be made, and in this manner the advantages insured to Liverpool and Manchester will be extended over a vastly increased area. . . Most interesting experiments were made at Liverpool and Manchester on Wednesday and Thursday, by which the prac ticability of direct services between those important centres and Paris and Brussels was very successfully demon strated. The French wires and the wires from Liverpool were joined together at the office, 30, Cornhill, London, and Liverpool and Manchester proceeded to hold direct communication with the metropoli of France and Belgium, a distance in the one case of 535, and in the other of 520 miles. The currents from the offices, Castle-street, Liverpool, and Market-place, Manchester, passed without any intermediate assistance instantaneously from those offices into the offices of our Gallic neighbours. The Mayor and principal merchants of Manchester were present at the expe riment, and messages were interchanged. The query as to the state of the weather in Paris, and the reply " Fine and cold," occupied about one minute. The Mayor of Manchester congratulated the Mayor of Paris upon the establishment of a direct communication between the two places, and the Pre fect of the Seine afterwards forwarded the following reply : " The Prefect of the Seine to the Mayor of Manchester, Wed nesday. Warm thanks for the obliging despatch, and assur ances of the cordial sentiments of the town of Paris for the city of Manchester." Sir JAMES CARMICHAEL, the deputy-chairman of the com panies, also congratulated the Vicomte de Vougy. Most probably the managers will endeavour to establish permanently direct services from Liverpool and Manchester to Paris, and the enlightened liberality which distinguishes the Emperor in telegraphic matters is a pretty sure guarantee of the success of such an endeavour, should it be made. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY). OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) Frederick Flood, 26, smith, pleaded guilty to a burglary in the dwelling-house of Charles Mills, and stealing bank notes and moneys of the value of 301. Mr. Robinson prosecuted and Mr. Ribton defended. The circumstances of the case were somewhat peculiar. The prosecutor keeps a laundry in the Marlborough-road, Chelsea, and is father-in-law to prisoner, and on the 28th of April their house was entered from the back staircase window, and the money was stolen from a chest of drawers. Near the house a pair of boots belonging to the prisoner were found, and he was the next day found at Greenwich changing the notes and spending money. Mr. Ribton, on behalf of the prisoner, said that this was a very unhappy affair, and had arisen out of family differ ences. He had up to this time an irreproachable character. Prisoner, after cohabiting some time with prosecutor's daughter, had married her, and had lived most unhappily in consequence of the prosecutor and his wife always en ticing the wife away to assist them in their business. Upon the night of the burglary he had been to prosecutor's to see and get hid wife to come home, but not being able to get her to do so, he had gone out drinking, and falling in with some bad companions he was led to plan this offence with them. Several respectable persons gave the rprisoner a good character, and said up to the period of the acquaintance with his wife he had been a steady careful man. On behalf of the prosecutor, it was urged that prisoner was of idle and drunken habits, and sought to live upon his wife's earnings. The Recorder, after hearing some recriminatory evi• deuce, said he should postpone passing sentence. ST. PETERSBURG.—The letters from St. Petersburg do not fully confirm the statements in some of the pre vions advices regarding the probable export of tallow. It is admitted that from 100,000 to 110,000 casks are likely to be received, but it is added that only under the most favourable circumstances could half that quantity be sent away, while the general calculation, lookino• at the means fur transport, are, that the total despatched will not exceed from 20,000 to 30,000 casks. 111111111111111 11,D.A.Y EVENING, MAY 13, 1854. 5 .111 E LAUNCH OF THE ROYAL ALBERT. (THIS DAY.) The exciting yet imposing scene witnessed to-day at Woolwich by thousands upon thousands of persons will occupy no insignificant place in the historic annals of those important and nteresting events in which the reign of Queen Victorie has singularly abounded. We speak not of the actua. ceremony of launching a three decker man-of-war of 111 guns, screw-propelled, and with every possible modern inprovement, but of the auspicious novel circumstances urder which it took place. 'We are far from saying that thi first trial of a huge structure of that description, laqe enough for the accommodation of a crew equal in size to the population of a moderately sized town, and in the tonstruction of which skill of the highest order, and a east amount of labour, has been employed over several /ears, at an expense difficult for as ordinary arithmetician to calculate, is an occur rence of more than ordinary magnitude. None can look with indifference at one of those noble ships gliding slowly and gently from the stocks in which she has so long rested, into that watery element in which she may play a distinguished part during a period ex ceeding perhaps the allotted space of man's existence. Who knows in what service she may still add to the already well-earnt and not excelled reputation of our navy, or how honourally she may be associated with achievements which nay eclipse all those of former times ? It is not, however, to those matters that we address ourselves. We spent of this magnificent vessel being named the " Royal Albert," in honour of the consort of our beloved and gracious Queen—that amiable and en lightened Prince, the sincere esteem of the public for whom, gained not onlyby a blameless career for many years in a position in which the least indiscretion would have been observed, but by one single act that is enough to make a man's name live for centuries, and to which the year 1851 bears testimony, has only been augmented by the insane and grouniless caiumnies recently directed against his person. We speak of the graceful and well-timed act of the Queen in christening this worthy addition to the impregnable " wooden walls of England," in the name of her royal husband. We speak of the attendance of the greater portion of the members of both branches of the Legislature, of the vast concourse of the aristocracy, and of the innumera ble masses of her other faithful subjects of all classes, who 'wore drawn together to the Royal Dockyard to do honour to the occasion. Independent /of the display itself, which we may mention was grand beyond precedent at Woolwich, or indeed it may be assumed anywhere else, the curiosity of the uniniated in naval affairs to know something about one of these floating bulwarks, which have always stricken terror in the minds of our enemies, it is not unlikely has been redoubled since we have commenced in earnest to check the aggressive policy of the great northern tyrant. The late hour at which the proceedings terminated compells us to give only a very hasty sketch of the events of the morning. The first topic generally touched upon in such accounts is the state of the weather, and in regard to it, it is gratifying to be able to say that thegood genius who follows her Majesty in all out-door exhibi tions of this description warded off, if not all the ominous clouds f rom t h e horizon, at least all'eord Vvinds aid` everything in the shape of rain or unpleasant dews. The spirits of the ladies, to be sure, were now and then damped by the eccentric conduct of King Sul, who was rept ttedly showing himself and then to tally disappearing, and seats were in request where shelter could be obtained, in the event of showers but the general feeling was that the presence of the Queen was tantamount to there being no such drawback to the enjoyment of the spectators - The cards, of which an immense number were dis tributed by the Admiralty, fixed the hour of admission at ten o'clock, but before nine the gates were opened and persons were at once allowed to pass to their re spective booths and positions without any interposition. On the North Kent line special trains to Woolwich com menced running at a very early hour in the morning, and continued doing so, at short intervals, until near one o'clock. This was, of course, the principal means of conveyance for the public, and, notwithstanding the crowds who besieged the station during the entire morn ing, the excellent arrangements of the company enabled all to avail themselves of it, and, as far as we could ascertain, there was not the slightest mishap. Steamboats were alsoincessantly plying between Lon don and Woolwich, and, judging from their appearance, we should say that the proprietors must have made an excellent harvest. Numbers of these, as well as sailing vessels and small boats, gaily decorat e d w ith fl ags, fi l l ed the river in the neighbourhood of the launch, and even on the opposite banks of the river platforms had been put up in every place where a glance of what was going on could be seen. In the largest of those immense, shed-looking erections, which so prominently strike the eye in the Woolwich dockyard ; as one passes down the river, the truly formidable " Royal Albert" was comfortably lodged before the christening ceremony commenced, ane towering up from the ground as it did, higher al most than the most elevated house in the Strand, it would have seemed to the casual observer the height of absurdity, if be did not know that such things had been done; before, to suppose that in a few Minutes it could be lowered down into the Thames. Round the build ing an inueenecw numbea or seats, beginning close to the keel of the ship, and extending backwards in the shape of an amphitheatre, were fitted up for the nse of the spec tators, and we need scarcely say that not a spot was left unoccupied. This afforded the best points for seeing it—and was graced by a most brilliant assembly, in which the fairer sex, it may be said, predominated. But the roofs of all the different buildings in the dock, as well as most of the Fhips there, from which a view could be obtained of the Royal Albert, swarmed with collections of humanity. Along each side of the vessel were suspended every conceivable variety of flags. As the christening took place at the bows of the ship, which pointed towards the land (the hinder part of the leviathan nearly touching the river), a plat form and a booth were erected for the Royal party. The entrance to them was by a covered awning, which was lined by a few young tars. A detachment of the Artil lery and Marines and bodies of police kept the thorough fare, along which her Majesty passed, and bands from those regiments played enlivening airs continually until her arrival. The following few facts, descriptive of the Royal Albert, ma y not be without interest :—The Royal Albert was designed by the late Mr. Oliver Lang, master shipwright of the Woolwich Dockyard, and her keel was laid down on the anniversary of Prince Albert's birth-day, August 26, 1842. She was origi nally constructed for a sailing ship of the line, and was proceeded with as such till January, 1852, when she was ordered to be altered to a screw ship of the line, and was in consequence lengthened about 14 feet at the stern, to give space for the screw propeller. By this in crease of length, the tonnage (builder's measurement) was increased by about 264 tons. Her present dimensions and tonnage, &c., are as follows : Length between the perpendicul a rs 232 ft. 9 in. Length of keel for tonnage 193 6h Breadth, extreme 61 0 Breadth for tonnage 6O 2 Breadth, moulded Depth in hold Burthen in tons, 3,726 4.94 Ermines by John Penn and Son, on th e i r patent trunk principle, of 500 horse-power. The carpentery of this magnificent ships differs 'in many particulars from the 'ordinary mode of shipbuild ing, and evidences the great mechanical skill of the master shipwright by whom she was designed. On his demise, in 1853, the task of completing the Royal Albert devolved on the present master-ship wright, Mr. Wm. M`Pherson Rice, in the fulfil men t o f which much good taste and ability have been displayed. The Royal Albert is a very fine specimen of naval ar chiteeture, and reflects the highest credit on all who have been engaged in her construction. With her proverbial punctuality, her Maj es ty reac h e d the Dock-yard, at one clock, in a carriage, and escorted by a few Dragoons, and was enthusiastically cheered, the bands striking up " God Save the Queen," and the people waiving their handkerchiefs. Besides her Majesty there were in the carriage, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Duchess of Suther land. Other carriages followed, containing the rest of the Royal Family, and attendants. The Queen looked extremely well ; as also did Prince Albert, who wore his uniform as Colonel of the Guards; the Princess Royal appeared to be quite in ecstacy of delight at the scene, but her brother seemed to be in a rather thought. ful mood. _ The party entered, and one of the warehouses which bad been temp orar ily prepared as a retiring-room, an d in a few minutes reappeared at the other side facing the river, and having taken a hasty glance at the hel m an d and proce e d e d u p a gangway by the side of the ship, amidst renewed applause to the platform, mentioned above at the bow. Prince Albert, on arriving here, bent himself back and took a comprehensive glance at the sight before him, and, from his manner, he appeared amazed at the height of the ship and at the gigantic effigy of himself, by no means an unlike one, which ornamented the prow. After a brief conversation with the naval officers, who surrounded her, the bottle of wine, attached by a cord to the ship, was handed to her, and corning forward with a very determined step, she flung it with force against the bow, but it did not break, and was again given to her, and the operation age:a repeated, but with the same success. The third time, however, her Majesty dealt a smarter and more direct blow, and the bottle was shivered to atoms. She audibly pronounced the words " The Royal Albert." Here was another burst of onthusiasin, the like of which is not often beard. Her Majesty, accompanied as before, then returned by the same gangway to the river side, and there awaited the lowering down of the man•of--war into the bosom of old Father Thames. After a good deal of hammering and tramping to and fro inside the ship, in less than a quarter of an hour there was a loud whisper "she's going," and in a minute, and without the slightest noise, she elided into the water with the same ease as a swan would have done : " - and waving streamers floated in the sky. Thus the rich vessel moves in trim array, Like some fair virgin on her briday day ; Thus, like a swan, she cleaves the watery plain, The pride and wonder of the ./E,gean main." The band again repeated the National Anthem, the people cheered, and the ceremony was at an end. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. THE WAR. ANOTHER LETTER FROM ADMIRAL DUNDAS. RUSSIAN PRISONERS GIVEN UP. The Journal of St. Petersbourg, in its number of April 22 (May 4), republishes from the Invalide Busse, two fresh reports from General Osten-Sacken respecting the affair of Odessa. These reports do not communicate anything new ; but General Osten-Sacken adds that Vice-Admiral Dundas had sent him, by means of an Austrian merchant-ves sel then in the roadstead, 49 men (prisoners), in cluding the captains and the crews, belonging to the Russian merchant service, togeth€r with a letter, which we here re-produce : "On board her Britannic Majesty's Ship the Britannia, off Odessa, April 12 (24), 1854. " Vice-Admiral Dundas has the honour to announce to his Excellency Baron Osten-Sacken, Aide-de-Camp General of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russia; that as the allied squadrons do not desire to keep any longer than was indispensable the small number of Rus sian merchant seamen (49 in all) whom they had taken prisoners, he has placed them on board of an Austria❑ vessel, in order that they may be landed at Odessa. "J. W. DIINDAS." THE BALTIC. - - STOCKHOLM, May O.—Accounts from Finland to the 3d of May confirm the statement relative to large defensive preparations there. General Junker has been appointed commandant of the fortress of Wiborg, and General Drake commandant of the artillery. Four new companies of reserve of the rowing flotilla have been enrolled ; head-quarters at Rothensaln, where there are magazines and barracks for 14,000 men. Expect important news from Admiral Napier in a few days. Cronstadt reported " not impregnable." COPENHAGEN, May 12.—At 2 p.m. to-day five steam frigates anchored at Elfsnabben. At 4 p.m. the whole fleet sailed excepting two vessels, a man of-war and a corvette. STETTIN, Thursday.---Sir C. Napier's fleet, after going towards Sande, off Gothland, was proceeding towards the Gulf of Finland. Ten French ships had come up. The weather was fine. Russian vessels had been moving in the gulf. The Nor wegian na✓y was in Swedish waters. The Swedish Court was thought to be leaning to the Western Powers. Frequent meetings of the Council of State had taken place. It is stated that the Russian ships just "showed their noses" out of Revel, but learning that Sir Charles Napier was not fa* off they at once slunk back again, under cover of the batteries. We subjoin additional letters from the fleet. It will be seen that they are of the latest date. Rear- Admiral Plumridgo has shifted his flag from the Leopard, 18, paddle frigate, to the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw. " ELFSNABBEN, MAY 2.—The fleet here consists of : Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, flag-ship of the Com mander.in-Chief, Captain Gordon;• St. Jean d'A cre , 101, screw, Capt. Hon. H. Keppel, flag of R ear -Admiral Plumridge ; Neptune, 120, Captain Hutton, flag of Rear -344 i ralm.Coarryl, : PO ncess spre w, Captain Lord C. — Paget ; James Watt, 91, screw, Captain G. Elliott ; Blenheim, 60, screw, Captain Hon. F. Pelham ; Edinburgh, 60, screw, Captain Hewlett, flag of Rear Admiral Chads, C.B. ; Hogue, GO, screw, Captain Ram say ; Cmsar, 90, screw, Capt. Robb ; Cressy, 80, screw, Capt. Warren ; Boscawen, 70, Capt. Glanville; Monarch, 84, Capt. Erskine ; Royal George, 121, screw, Captain Codrington ; Austerlitz, 100, screw (French), arrived yesterday ; Dragon, 6, paddle, Captain Wilcox ; Gor gon, 6, paddle, Capt. Coming ; Basilisk, 6, Commander Hon. F. Egerton ; Lightning, 4, paddle, Captain B. J. Sulivan ; Vulture, 6, paddle, Captain Glasse ; Valor ous, 16, paddle, Captain Buckle ; Leopard, 18, Captain Gifford, coaling; Odin, I know not where, but she left on Sunday ; Euryalus, 51, screw, Capt. Ramsay, in the Slack-bit, cruising ; Desperate, 8, screw, Capt. D'Eyn court, off Dago ; Dauntless, 24, screw, Captain Ryder, and Arrogant, 47, screw, Captain Yelverton, Hango Head ; therm. 28 deg. ; ice still firmly to the shore. Report is that paddle-wheel steamers go with Admiral Pluinridge to attack 18 gun-boats at Aland. We have not had letters for one month. Magicienne, 16, paddle, Captain Fisher, is gone to see if there are any at Copen hagen. The mouth of the Gulf of Finland is quite open, and so is Hango. Poor Foote, we are very sorry for him." "FLEET AT ANCHOR NEAR STOCKHOLM, May 5. Hitherto there has been no news worth imparting of 'any interest, or opportunities have not offered at the moment of transmitting it. Of the present and prospective poli tical position of affairs we know nothing. On the water nothing has been done as yet ; the ice, and unusual severity of the weather, added to the difficulties of a very dangerous navigation, have thrown the greatast obstacles in the way of any combined naval movements. The time for action is not far distant. Sir Charles has determined, without loss of time, on an attack upon a grand scale ; the place selected is of course not made known. The icei a breaking in the Gulfs of Bothnia and Finland. The large island of Aland, commanding the entrance of the Gulf of Bothnia, will, I think, be the first attempt, then Port Baltic and Revel—he fears the fortress of Sweaborg is too formidable for Helsingfors to be attacked on that side alone. We were joined yester day by the Prince Regent, Cumberland, and the schooner yacht Estneralda, from England. The Austerlitz, screw liner, is the only French ship with the fleet, no others are reported as having entered the Baltic. Neptune and Cmsar have cases of smallpox on board. The Admiral, on receiving the melancholy intelligence of the death of poor Captain Foote, of the Conflict, who has been drowned with four of his boat's crew off Memel, on the coast of Courland, has given Captain Cuming his vacancy." "COPENHAGEN, May 6.—Under the title, "Truth and Fiction, Pen and Ink Sketches from the Coast Islands," a social novel has just appeared in Sweden, which has made quite a sensation, and may produce the best fruits. It is a vigorous and well-written attack on the present Swedish prohibitive Customs laws. It ad vocates free-trade in all its extent, and shows what terrible crimes and demoralisation result from the smuggling system now directly encouraged by the State. Many of the scenes and characters are charmingly described. The Swedish schooner Ac tiva is to be provisioned for a three months' cruise. The English fleet at Elsfnabben has obtained a large mass of refreshments, and 200 oxen, from Stock holm, besides a number of pilots and other assistants, some of them Finlanders. The Bulldog has arrived at Vinga, and the Alban has left that roadstead. A bat talion of Prince Barclay de Tolly's carabineer regiment has entered Helsingfors, and been welcomed with re freshments by the citizens. There is to be an exercise camp for all Gothland on the plain near Visby. The whole island is in the utmost activity, especially at Fareysund, and English money is plentiful —a real godsend for the poor islanders. The English officers and crews have gained universal goodwill by their urbanity and manliness. The Magicienne has left Farey, with four prizes for England—the Dido, Ida, Patrioten, and Victor. A number of frigates and cor vettes, some of them from Sir C. Napier's fleet at Elfsnabben, come and go for coals, of which there is a large depot at Farey. The French man-of-war Auster litz has joined the fleet at Elfsnabben. The well-known Frederika Bremer has written a warm appeal to the Swedish Parliament in favour of the Jews, who are now subject in Sweden to ten thousand injuries. In Den mark (exclusive of the duchies, where our present Cabi net has refused them justice), and in Norway they are entirely free. A number of ballads (stall-songs, fly sheets) have lately appeared in Sweden, and are sold in immense numbers. They treat of the present warlike state of affairs, and breathe the utmost hatred against Russia. This is of more consequence, as the principal secular reading of the lower classes, in the Swedish pro vinces, consists of this stall literature, which includes many magnificant ballads from thejiniddle ages." THE GREEK INSURRECTION. SALONICA, April 28.--A Turkish frigate brought yesterday two battalions of regular troops (1,600 men), under the orders of a colonel, sent from Constantinople against the insurgents. These troops will join 2,000 irregular soldiers, of whom 200 have already left under Bey Ahmet Aga. It is generally thought that they are sufficiently strong to defeat the insurgents, who have already arrived at Ormilia, fifteen hours' distant from this town ; at any rate they are amply sufficient to protect Salonica. The sudden arrival of this force, in a much briefer space of time than is generally the case here, has had a very good effect. The letters received this day from Volo do not mention any engagements as having taken place in Thessaly. Fresh regular troops had arrived there from Constantinople, amongst whom are 500 ca valry. A Turkish flotilla was in the port of Volo. On the admiral hearing of the landing of the rebels at Seika, he immediately left for that place. Letters from Janina state that the insurrection in Epirus may be considered at an end. The Austrian corvette Carolina is expected here to-day. She left Volo yesterday, towed by the Austrian Lloyd's steamer. The wind being, how ever, very contrary, she left her to herself. THE WAR IN THE DOBRUDSCHA. SCHUMLA t April 22.—The state of suspense we have been in for some weeks as to the advance of the Russians o n S c h um l a i s gradually su b s idi ng . The inhabitants no l onger i magine that every rider who is seen hurrying along the plain is a messenger announcing the approach of the grand army of the Russians. If time is a valuable element in conducting commerce, and in agricul tural affairs, it is much more so in war. Had the Russians intended to attack Schumla, we think it stands to reason that we would ,have heard the sound of their artillery before now. Omer Pada thinks that he has sufficient is in formation for concluding that their plan to stand on the defensive, and that if there is to be any more fighting upon a great scale, we must move against them, and not expect them to move against us. Those, however, who profess to be acquainted w ith th e supers titi ou s feelings and habits of the Russians, will not allow themselves to think, until the Easter of the Greek Church be passed, that the Russians will be so slack in their ambitious military designs. The Russian soldiers have always considered that a most lucky day, and reserved many of their great enteprises for it. In 1831 they expected, by a grand attack, to seal the fate of Warsaw and Poland. They failed ; but still an ignorant people are not easily disabused of their prejudices. Very likely they may do something on the Danube, but we think that they are too tardy in their preparations for making this, place the scene of any great - exploit. There has been an affair at Kalafat and another at Silistria some days ago, but from the conflicting accounts, the only certain thing we could gather has been that there was very little blood shed in either. The departures at Omer Paella's may de serve a little notice. His brother has left with one of his sons, who is a major in the army, for Paris. Another son is a lieutenant-colonel. Both these young men, we believe, have renounced the Christian faith, but their father is still true to his religion. His brother is not attached to the Ottoman army, nor does he live in Turkey. His native country and home are in Croatia. The French General Bosquet has also taken his leave. This officer has been for twenty years in Algeria. If the opinion of a man who gained his rank, not in the circles that assemble at the Tuileries, but in the fierce contests with the native tribes of that trying country for a soldier, and whose style of speaking has been fotmed not in the fashionable salons of Paris, but in the camp and field, is of value—then we have reason to congratulate our selves upon having him at the head of this great army now assembled here. " Omer Pacha and I," said the General, putting his two hands together, "are alike there, we are both united in our opinions. I entirely approve of his plan of resisting the enemy. I see," continued the General, "that he has a natural genius for war. It is there," said he, striking his forehead, "It is there." That Omer Paella has hitherto played his cards well cannot be doubted ; but a great deal has yet to be done, and the future will better decide his generalship than the past. SCHUMLA, April 24.—The Greek Easter has passed away, and the Russians have not made a move of any kind against Sahumla. The im provement and extension of the works still go on, the many roads leading into the town through the narrow passes in the heights ren dering a great variety of defences necessary. The semicircle of heights or hills above the town pre sent a very gay appearance, being everywhere almost dotted with white tents, which tend to take off the otherwise tame character of the sky line. At least 20,000 soldiers live there night and day. Their situation must have been, until now, more romantic than, pleasant, for during my short'stay here we have had many nights of such piercing cold that even in the houses, with fires and great coats, we could hardly make ourselves comfortable. We have heard no murmurs from the Turkish soldiery. Had English troops been sent to occupy such quarters, iu all probability a mutiny would have been the consequence. At Chobham the complaints among the men were very general, but their privations were nothing in comparison of those that have been undergone by Omer Pacha's troops on the heights of Schumla. I have no hesi tation in pronouncing the Turkish soldiery here to be models of submission and patience. THE WAR IN ASIA. The following is from the special Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle : " KARs, April 13.—Since my last communication nothing stirring has taken place here, if I except a false alarm created by a report of the advance of the Russians on Ardahan. The army is in the same distressing -state described in my last letter, and I regret to add, without prospects. No money has arrived, nor, indeed, have we any indications of relief from the side of Con stantinople. A regiment which had been expected for some time arrived :few days ago, and has been quartered on the surrounding villages. This regiment was reported to be composed of volunteers, but, in fact, it is one of the Rediff guard of Constantinople The men were quite unfit for a march across the snow, being badly shod ; consequently, every opportunity to desert was taken advantage of. In this manner, the regiment has lost a considerable number of men. Here the soh diers are equally badly off for shoes, but unfortunately there are no shoemakers, and the army is, as in all other articles, dependent on Constantinople. With respect to provisions, the army exists on supplies brought in daily from the country about, which are collected with diffi culty, and may suddenly fail. It may then be judged on bow precarious a tenure depends the very existence of this corps d'arinee. At the risk of being considered an alarmist, I five you these sad details, for I consider it imperative that the English public should be made ac quainted with the real state of affairs here, and prepared to hear of the catastrophe which must soon arrive, unless the army is strongly reinforced, and properly supplied with clothing and money. By a catastrophe, I mean either that, in case of an attack on the part of the Russians, defeat to the Turkish arms must ensue, or else that the army will, from sheer want and despair, disperse over the country. Since the accesion of Riza Pacha to the Seraskierate, the isolated position of the army of Anatolia has become most painfully evident, and I re peat the burden of my proceeding lettcr, that, with the true interests of Turkey and England, it bas been sacri ficed by diplomacy at Constantinople. I can readily understand that if this army had been strengthened, and thus enabled to march on Tiflis, all ideas of peace would have been scouted by the Czar. It was, therefore, con sidered unadvisable by the diplomatists to a ll ow hostili ties to be carried on in Russian territory ; consequently the army, in'its present helpless condition, now that war is declared, is equally incapable of offensive or defensive operations. _ _ _ A golden opportunity has been lost of destroying Rus sian influence and power iu the East by hurling her oul of Georgia. _ . " The insidious and incessant efforts directed by Russia to extend her influence towards the British possessions of India are far from being ignored in England, and yet this available means of defeating the projects of Russia, and humbling her in the eyes of the East, has been thus allowed to escape. Let England in the present crisis beware of Persia, for the intelligence which has this day arrived from Bayazid, where the Turks have a few bat talions, is important and threatening. It appears that the Persian army which had assembled some months since at Khoi, and was supposed to have dispersed after the apparent triumph of British over Russian influence at the Court of Teheran, has been merely spread over the surrounding country, so that twenty thousand men can be assembled at a week's notice. The Russian com mission, composed of a numerous staff of Russian officers, headed by an aide-de-camp of the Czar, is at present in the neighbourhood of Khoi. A caravan had been seized on the frontier, on the unheard-of plea of carrying provisions to the Turkish forces. On redress being demanded, the functionary who had directed the seizure referred to higher quarters. " A treacherous attack on the part of Persia, which is far from improbable, would at the present moment be fatal to Turkey, for the army here would be forced to advance against the aggressor, thus leaving the whole country open to the Russians. In a word, it is most essential that a British force be sent to this quarter, not only to assist threatened Turkey, but to defend English interests against the machinations of Russia. " We are still in winter, and the plain lies deep in the snow, thus keeping closed communications from which provisions might be received. Typhus has de clined in its ravages, but the troops suffer greatly from dysentery and exhaustion, caused by insufficient nou rishment. The stocks of rice are exhausted, and the Arabistan regiments, who loathe meat, live simply on bread and water. Yet these poor fellows are the flower of the army, and if a smile be seen in Kars—l confess the occurrence is rare now—be assured it beams on the face of an Arab." Captain Jones is the officer who was entrusted by Rear-Admiral Bruce to conduct the desperate and bloody attack at Lagos. Captain M'Cleverty, of the Terrible, is the officer who won his rank by his gallantry on the coast of Morocco, in attacking the Riff pirates. Commander Dickson, who had the charge of the rocket division, belongs to the flag-ship Britannia ; he has served as commander in three line-of-batte ships, and is a very gallant officer. The Cronstadt Gazette, in Transylvania, says that the Turks resorted to a ruse de guerre lately at Silistria, for enticing over a body of the enemy across the river. They set fire to a huge pile of reeds, straw, and dry weeds, which looked as if the town was in flames. Loud hurrahs resounded in the Russian camp ; they thought the moment favourable for crossing, and hoped in the confusion to carry either the whole or a part of the fortress by a coup de main. But the Turks had already planted an ambuscade of sufficient strength in the vineyard near the town, along which the Russians would have to pass. A contest ensued, and the Russians had to retreat, being both out-generalled and overmatched. We read in the erotonal de Constantinople of the 29th ult. :—" We learn by letters from Bucharest of the 11th, that when Messrs. Hory and Grant, archivists of the French and English consulates, took their departure, a gentleman employed in the English consulate was arrested by order of General Budberg, and sent to Bender. M. Rotta is a Rou meliote by birth, and has been four years in the service of the English consulate. When he was appointed archivist, Prince Stirbey refused to re cognise him in that character, and he remained in consequence a simple attache. The arrestment of M. Rotta is an additional proof that the Czar never hesitates to violate the law of nations." [The Czar is running up a long score : a day of reckoning will come.] The Fress of Vienna contains a letter from Semlin of the 3d, which says :—" The arrival of the Archduke Albert in the countries of the Lower Danube, as commander of the Austrian troops on the Servian frontier, has produced an extraordinary movement in Servia. Scarcely had this news been received, when six Cc un.;illuni of State, v,itii a ru merous staff proceeded to the provinces to adopt such measures as might be necessary for the case of the Imperial troops entering Servia. At Bel- grade, orders were given to all citizens to bol d their carriages and horses at the disposal of the Government, which will probably establish its seat at Kragujewatz." 1 ~ ~ ~.__. t ~ FRANCE. The Moniteur of this morning contains an lm' perial decree abrogating entirely the ordinances of the Bth February, 1826, which prohibited the im portation into France of Asiatic, African, or A.me rican products loaded from English bonded ports, and which also prohibited the importation under an English flag of European products loaded front any other ports than those of the United Kingd o or its possessions in Europe. General Forey will, it is generally said in Pa.rin9, be appointed to the comman d o f th e di v i s ion on 12,000 men destined for the occupation of Greece'. However painful it may be to those who really' love their country to see it occupied by a foreign force, the measure is highly approved of by the great majority, if not the whole of the Greeks in Paris and this without distinction of party. They are glad that the country will be thus relieved from the ra' nceuvres, and perhaps the presence, of Russian in triguers, who will not dare t o s h ow iemselves when the French occupy the country ; and it is almost certain that the Russian Minister at Athens, who is at the bottom of these plots, will quit the moment' the French flag floats in the Pirmus. The Empei'or of the French has declared that lie will never peral.lt . Greece to stir while France is engaged in so serious: a matter as a war with Russia ; arid he feels all the' more indignant at the conduct of the King when he. calls to mind that France, on account of the injus- . tice with which it was considered Greece was treated in the affair of Don Pacifico, went so far as to re- call her Ambassador from London (the actual Minister of Foreign Affairs) and to supend matic relations with the English Government. There are a good many persons spoken of for the" mission to Constantinople vacant by the recall or General Baraguay d'Hilliers ; but of those therw are but three who are considered as likely to by named. M. de Bourree, who has left en route for Athens, and who is the bearer of the Emperor's letter to King Otho, is not included in that liat• The parties who have the best chance of a sele 0- tion being made from them are M. Thouvenel, Di rector of Political Affairs in the Foreign Departmen and who is long known in the diplomatic world 1 ; General Daumas ; and General de la Rue. AL Thouvenel, who held the honorary rank of Minis 4 ter Plenipotentiary of the first class, will veri probably be the person. Nevertheless, it it i thought that Marshal St. Arnaud may receive dip lomatic powers, and as the Legation at Constant • nople possesses a most intelligent and active secre tary in M. Benedetti, that no other arrangemen!' will, for the present at least, be concluded. Applications being every day made directly to the Minister of War by officers of the army fo - t' admission into the imperial Guard, the Monitev r publishes a notice that not only will these applicr tions not be attended to, but the officers makin them will run the risk of punishment for an it fr fraction of hierarchical regulations. The Ministe of War having prescribed to the generals con manding the military divisions to send in lists officers under their command whom they may thin k deserving of entering the Guard, it is only fror such lists that the appointments will be made. We read in the Moniteur :—" At the momen t when the armies of France and England are unite. in the East to defend the same cause, the Empero r is desirous to extend to the English soldiers ; favour hitherto exclusively reserved to Frencl soldiers. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has, i] consequence, informed the Government of hei r Britannic Majesty that English officers, soldiers, . and sailors, will enjoy for the transport of their letters, all the reduced charges granted on our territory and on board our packets to our of ficers, soldiers, and sailors. Lord Cowley has , already been charged to transmit the cordial ex pression of satisfaction, with which his Govern ment has received this fresh proof of the friendly ; sentiments which unite the two countries, and, on ~ its side, the English Postmaster-General has jus assimilated the charge on letters from our officer 0 and sailors in th e Baltic squadron to that on thos of the English officers and sailors. Thus the sol diers and sailors of the two countries whether i the East or in the Baltic, notwithstanding the dim tance of the scene of war, will have equal advane' tages for themselves and their families." The Moniteur publishes the following repork; from Admiral Hamelin : " Ville de Paris, Odessa Roads, 25th April.-- Mon-. sieur le Ministre—l have the honour to inform you that' the division of three steamers, consisting of the Raz . ; bution, Captain Drummond, the Descartes, Captai a Darrican, and the Niger, Captain Heath, which wer 3 sent on the 11th inst. from Baltchick to blockade th 3 port of Odessa, have captured 14 Russian merchan t vessels. After this capture it was agreed upon by thest cruisers that the prizes should be sent as soon as pos- ' bible to Constantinople, and that Captain Drummond, the senior officer, should have the direction of the affair and the custody of the papers of the said prizes, they baying been made in common by the said cruisers. When the squadrons anchored of Odessa, where we were joined by the Retribution and the Descartes, I removed from the latter on board the Ville de Paris, a part of the Russian crews of the captured vessels, and Admi ral Dundas had the other part put on board one of his ships. Yesterday, the 24th, the English Admiral proposed to the Governor of Odessa to exchange these men, captured by the right of war, for the English sea men belonging to the merchant vessels detained without any declaration of embargo in the commercial port of Odessa, which our cannon respected as well as the town during the 22d. Wishing, as far as we are concerned, to continue to give to the war which has just been de clared the character of justice and humanity, which our two Governments have in view, we have just decided that we will place these prisoners at the disposal of the authorities of Odessa without any conditions. We shall ' only detain a certain number of prisoners in order to validate the capture of the enemy's merchant vessels. I am, &c., " HAMELIN. " Vice-Admiral, Commandant-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Squadron." The Pays notices as follows the announcement by the Bank of France of the reduction of the rate of discount : "Public opinion will hail with satisfaction this mea sure, which gives a fresh proof of the abundance of capi tal in the financial and commercial ma r k e t, an d o f the cessation of the various causes which had led to the ex- portation of the precious metals in the course of the past year." The fact of the reduction must be regarded as a satisfactory one under existing circumstances. It proves that there is no scarcity of money, and that when a country is engaged in war is a very impor tant circumstance. But money may be plentiful from different causes, and a scarcity of it does not always imply a state of adversity. A country may be very prosperous even at a time when a very high rate is paid for the use of money, for that may arise from the readiness with which capital has been invested in commercial enterprise. The Bourse was again very firm yesterday. The Three per Cents, closed at 66f. 45c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 92f. 90c. ; and the New Loanat 66f. 15c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,082 f. 50; Rouen, 905 f. ; Havre, 450 f. ; Great Northern 785 f. ; Strasburg, 730 f. ; New Shares, 567 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 866 f. 25c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 710 f. ; Wes tern of France, 595 f.: Bordeaux and Cette, 540 f. ; Great Central of France, 462 f. 50c. ; Lyons to Geneva, 450 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAY 12.—1 t is now known that the Prince of Prussia has ceased to be Military- Governor of the Provinces of the Rhine. He has gone to Baden. A letter from Berlin, of the 9th, in the Post Gazette of Frankfort, says :—" The departure of the Prince of Prussia is the subject of all conver sations. The Prince has desired and obtained a leave of absence for four weeks as commander-in- , chief of the infantry of the Prussian army. It i 5 not yet known whether at the expiration of the leave of absence his Royal Highness will come to Berlin. The retirement of M. Bonin, Minister of War, has not given pleasure to the Prince." A letter from Berlin of the 10th, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" M. de Bismark-Schoenhausen is here to confer with the Minister of Marine on the best manner of presenting an Austro-Prussian treaty to the Germanic Diet. The treaty has been com municated to the federal governments. I can con tradict on official authority the rumour which has been prevalent on the retirement of M. de Mante u " THE BRAZILS. SOUTHAMrTON, FRIDAY, NINE P.M.—The Bra zilian mails have arrived by the Thames, being 4 days before the time at which she is due. Her dates are—Buenos Ayres, April 4 ; Monte Video, 7 ; Rio, 14 ; Pernambuco, 21 ; Madeira, May 5 ; Lisbon, 8. She brings 118 passengers, 9,7651. in specie, dia monds 6,8751., and a cargo of tapioca, potatoes, ite. From Rio we have intelligence to the 14th inst. Business since the opening of the month has been moderate. The new Bank of Brazil commenced operations on the 10th inst. In freight a mode rate amount of business has been done for the Channel at 72k, and for London at 67i. Exchange was quoted at 27- i ; to 281 on London. At Bahia exports in sugar were limited, but prices remained unaltered. Cotton continued almost n: charters had been effected on frei,L;hts, and the rates remained nominal at from 40s. to 50s. 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