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

THE ITRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. trader the management of Mr. Pluckator.e. THIS EVENING. Aran. 20, THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directresa, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENDTG, Aram 20, Wlll be performed TWO LOVES AND A LIFE. Supported by m C. Selby, Leigh Murray. llellJamin Webster, Keeley, and 0. Smith ; Miss Woolgar and Madame Celeste. Followed by THE P&OUSTACHE MOVEMENT. Princip a l che ers by mean. O. smith, Keeley, and Parselle; Mrs. Keeley, and bliss Mary Keeley. Followed by THE OVERLAND) JOUrRNEY TO CONSTANTI NOPLE, A 3 UNDERTAKEN BY LORD BATEMAN'. WITH INTY.B.E3TfIiG PARTICULARS OF THE FAIR SOPHIA. LYCEUM TILEA.TRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING. Anti, 20, Will be performed A CHARMING WIDOW. Principal charac• tare by Mr. C. Mathews; Miss Talbot and Miss Oliver. To be followed by GIVE A DOG AN ILL NAME. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews and F. Matthews. After which, NUMBER ONE ROUND THE CORkTER. Concluding with A HOUSE OUT OF WINDOWS. ROYAL OLYMPIC TIIEA,TRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING. As 20. Wi ll be Performed THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. To be followed by TO OBLIGE BENSON. Supported by Messrs. EvierY, Robson, and Leslie; Mrs. Stirling and Miss Wyndham. To conclude with the Farce of THE WANDERING MINSTREL, J en' Baggs, Mr. F. Robson. - STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Allcroft.—Directress, Miss Robe= Isaacs, THIS EVENING, Amu, 20, Will be performed TUE ENCHANTED LAKE. Followed by AV ADVERTISEMENT—" WANTED, WIVES AND HUSBANDS." c o ncluding with a new burlesque on RICHARD THE THIRD. Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 32.; Pit, la. 6d; Gallery, 6d.; Private Boxes, XI I ls. 6d., to be had of Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLErS EUROPE'S NATIONAL k NIPEIITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. Great attraction and powerful Novelties for the Easter Holidays. THIS EVENING, Aram 20, And during the week, a new grand Nautical and Equestrian spec tacle, embodying novel and - extraordinary effects (written by Mr. Nelson Lee), entitled A TALE OF VIE SPANISH WAR; or, The Horse of the Wreck. horses expressly trained by Mr. W. Cooke. Followed by an entire change of the Scenes of the CIRCLE, intro ducing Miss Kate Cooke, XiiS Emily Cooke, Mr. Alfred Cooke, and the most talented Equestrian an 1 Gymnastic Artistes in Europe. Concluding with the new Farce of DALRYMPLE versus TUBBS. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tar! DAT —lforning 37 min.after 6 I Evening 32 min.aft. 7 To . Moititow—Morning 15 rain.after 8 I Evening 2 min.aft. 9 THE WEATHER.--Sus Orrms, Amur, 20. TLIERNOMITER, IN 'THE SHADE. 70 --highest since noon yesterday. 50 —lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29'77. WIND, E.S.E.—Light pleasant breeze, and fine, clear, sultry weather. DAILY WE.ITIIER TABLE. TJELVRBDAT, ..h.Prai, 20, 1854. State of the wind and weather at -each of the follo-.ving places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged iu order of latitude. TIINBRIDGE—S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. STROOD--N.E. gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SwiND 0 E., l Oit breeze—cloudie:-9; CAuncanGE—E., gentle-breeze—cloucllef9. YAIiMO —S.E., gentle breeze—clowileas. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock : FOLICESTONE—N.E., gentle breeze—clondless. TUNBRIDGE—N.E., gentle breeze—cloudless. GREENWICH—,S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless. STROOD--N.E., gentle breeze —partially cloudy. 8iMum:41,174-8.E., calm--cloudless. HOLYHEAD —S., gentle breeze—fine. DARLINGTON-3Z.E., gentle breeze—cloudless—frost. SHAP— S.E. by E., calm —partially cloudy. • ,; • WW c:7‘) ,k„,„,51.1ALT LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1854. Doctor JOHNSON, among the many wise things he said and wrote, once Abserved, " The King who makes war on his enemies tenderly, distresses his subjects cruelly." The reflection is' ust now particularly worthy of remembrance. Especially when the Prime Minister of England avowedly adopts as his motto that of the Duke of LEEDS, th4t motto of Pax in bello, expressive of a system of warfare altogether relaxed and incompetent. A very , little time has ela*psed 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 apprehenaion. It proves that there is really a " method" in the " madness" of all these distracting delays, doubts, and hesitations. Bearing the avowal of the Prime Minister of England in remem.brance, we can understood at once all th a t m i ght be otherwise entirely incom • prehensible. We can, for example, acco un t f or th e long waitin g of our troops at . Malta, after they had once set o u t from home - on ' their way towards the Dardanelles. We can detect them eaning of this as well as o f every other kindred show of hesitation or indifference, — ex . gr. the t • rrying of Poaghleamoment, our chief officers up to the latest before taking their departure for the precon certed rendezvous—the protracted st a y made by the combined fleets in the Bosphorus the absence u p to this date of the 20th of April of any di rect oo unieation between the military and mari time armaments of the Western Powers and the head-quarte rs • of ()HEE PACHA in the Prinei pa/ities. 4 we repeat, is explained by t h e E ve rything, avowed views of the Prime M i n i s ter of Engla n d, the opinions notoriously entertained by the E ar l of o f h. ABERDEEN and certain c olleagu es in the Government. .o re these th e men for a time • of war We doubt it. We doubt if the Earl of ABERDEPS can be regarded as the fitting conser vator of the interests of the cou ntry, or of the dignity o f th e C rown , at a period w hen England is called u p on , t oge th er w ith Franc e, 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 .. rainistration—the E ar l of ABERDErar, with his nothrious sympathies for the Cabinet of St. `'•:* Petersburg / The Earl of ABERDEEN, the ."4.lto.itraired and beloved of Low s piwars I `•• ,•1 ATIONAL FAST, April26.—The OFFICIAL FORMS of PRAYER sent, POSTAGE FREE, by James Gilbert, 49, Paternoster-row, London, on the following terms:- 25 for 24.; b 0 for 3s. 643.; 100 for 73.4 250 for 16s. ; 500 for 11. 108. ; 1,000 for 21. 10s. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. TO-MORROW EVENING, Will 1* performed NORMA. Principal characters by Madame Candor', Madame Sedataek, and Madame 2onahalm ; Signor Pa. v esi, Signor Sant, and Signor Arnoldi. Followed by a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT . Wilt be perforneciThiiiiiTiak PLOUGH. Characters by Messrs. Vandenhoff, Compton, Rogers. and Chippendale ; Miss E. Chaplin, Miss Louisa Howard, and Mrs. Stanley. After which, an entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled MR. BIICESTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI CESTER-SQUARE), written by J. R. Planch6, Esq. Principal characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. W. Farrel, Mr. Clark, Mr. J. Marshall, Mr. 11. Marshall Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Caulfield, Miss E. Grey, Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Laura Morris, and Miss F eatherstone. - - Fo'lowed by WILLIKIND AND HYS DINAH. supported by Messrs. Buckstone and Corti ; Miss LOUitfl Howard, Mrs. Fltzwil- Itain, and Mrs. Caulfield. 110 )(AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the lianagement of Dlr. CHARLES KEAN. THIS EVENING. Aram 20, Will be performed THE lIARRIED UNMARRIEb. Characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, Ryder, and C a thcart ; and Misses Heath and Murray. • Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Characters by Messrs. C. Rear; and David Fisher ; Mrs. Winstatley and Miss C. Leclercq. After which, AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. -Characters by Messrs. Meadows, D. Fisher, and Salter ; and Misses Murray and Daly. S The obse'quious collaborateur of M. Gutzor ! The personal friend for forty years of the Czar NICHOLAS—the English senator with whom the latter personage declared- very recently that he (the AUTOCRAT) could in ten minutes luTange the long-vexed question of the Eastern difficulty entirely to his Imperial MAJESTY'S satis faction ! A significant declaration, for our ceg n.sanee of which we are indebted to the opportune re v e l a ti ons of the Secret and Confidential Corre spondence. The Earl of ABERDEEN continuing to be the First. Lord of the Treasury—itcannot possibly be matter 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 out 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 L 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 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 Paris to Marseilles—that the Duke of CAMBRIDGE has scarcely fixed the date of his departure from the French capital—that the Earl of LUCAS 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 Constantinople. 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. I 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 1" 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 wou ld b e a lt oge th er di sperse d b y the publications of the present week. First, ive, find numerous letters inserted in the Times, alurost every day, questioning the propriety of the Act of 1844, and the restrictions thereby occasioned on banking operations. No remonstrance or,objec tionhas been pffered 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 were 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 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 mere thought of than had previously been the case. At present the public suffers. Like PICKWICK between Pori and Sue; 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, and 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. MONEY MA RKE AND COMMERCIAL. 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 sales comprised 5,000 American • 1 700 Pernam and Maranham, at 6d. to 7-id. ; 400 Egyptian, at 6d. to Bid. ; and 700 Surat, at 3d. to 4td. per lb. Railway shares were steady. The steamer Hydaspes, from the Cape of Good Hope, has arrived. She brings late dates, but no commercial news of importance. The withdrawal of the steamers of the General Screw Steam Navi gation Company from • the South African station will 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 have given satisfaction, in so far as 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, &c., is 198,7431., of which 50,6001. is for Malta, 15,3001. for Alexandria, and the rest for India and China. ; The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day are in round figures as under : Great Western 216 £l, 1853. 3 981 North-Western South-Western Brighton Midland South-Eastern... .." Caledonian, and Edin. and Glasgow 16,615 13,897 Great Northern 18,004 15,593 Lancashire and Yorkshire Yorkand North Midland, Newcastle and Berwick, and L ee d s Northern S 28,702 24,430 The English stocks are still ascending, and under the influence of money purchases the speculators are timid in resisting the upward tendency. Having sold already 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 , farces 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 upon ourselves to deny nor affirm that such a proceeding is immediately to be a opted, 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 87i to 88g for transfer, and at 871 to 88k for account. The New Three-aud-a-Quarter per Cents. haVe realised 871 to 88k, and the Three per Cents. 86k to 87k. Bank stock is firm at 212 to 2121. 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 58k. Mexican Bonds are 24f. Spanish Three per Cents. have •been 36i. In Russian and Dutch 'securities nothing has been done. The Railway Share Market-is about I per cent. H 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 lines. Pebble Inder 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 for complimenting the Direc tors and congratulating his brethren. We then hinted that these joyous paans' were rather pre- Mature, and that before such exultations were indulged in it might be as well to wait a littl e , until it was s een h ow 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 dependent for 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 I*,w 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 heir self-gratulatious, 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 blow and great discouragement" on the amour imoive, of a young and dashing fikaucier. 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 answefed very well with a Wood-en-headed Chancelloref 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 iiiMself 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 'Ch ange. " Mr GLADSTONE has, however, to use the language of the P. It., " countered severely." He has found "a Downing -street RoLasnalor the Threadneedle-street OLIVER," and administered a " Stock dollager" 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 ,000,0001. sterling, or about 86 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 sufdoient to liquidate all the demands on the Exchequer ont of the assets of the " Old Lady." Nor has this been done in a genteel 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 Fio , on the exact amount required, so that the practical result is that the Bank and the. Government have changed places, and that it is the Exchequer whic Bankh kepiseusiz the balances of the Bank, in place of the and using the balances of the Exchequer! In place of having some fi ve or s ix millions deposited in their hands gratuitously to use a-s 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 unliquidatecl. 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 th e Times. Frou b i the article to which th e Leviathan gave insertion in its impression of Satu r d ay , to which we have already directed public attention, it was Manifest that " it w as a pretty quarrel -as it stood." From the . pertinent interrogatories there exhibited it could easily be seen that there was something more than met th e eye. When the inquirpwas seriously made w hy Government should make a present to any thirty j he m p a r l o i fi o t 2 9 B d of eri p v aeciperfrmoomnteyh:issztolt etwent yporactlr'onthoif The Joint Stock Banks are a shade better, and the Land Companies' are firm. In Mines there is nothing doing. Crystal Palace are up f, owing to the anhouncement of the opening next month. RITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES • . ( Prom. Cho Offscii' a List.) Bank Stoek "' Business time. 2124 12 9 : ; Ter Cent. Reduced. Annuities B7 61 74 4 3 per Cent . Consols Annuities B7i 81 8 8 New 31 per Cent. Annuities BB 7/ 81 fang Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan.,1860 4 15-16 India Bonds, £l000 Consols for Account 11th May B3 71 84 i 8 7; Exchequer Bills, 2d. £lOOO. ... 4 p par Small 4 p par PRICE OF FOIU FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. — Ditto Small -- - Grenada Bonds, Ex. Dec. ' 1849 pupon 17i Grenada Bonds, Deferred %lexican 3 per Cent. Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. sBf gardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 7B Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 36: ). Spanish 'New Deferred, 3 per Cont. l7f :' ; • Dividends on the above pay4bi. to 64 ndon. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols ~ B7f 8 Ditto May Account . B7f i THE SCREW STEA.MER 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 bef made, whether in regard to space, ventilation, or protection from the weather. She is the propetty of Messrs. Thomas Wilson, Sons, and Co., Hull, whose business reputation ' affords ample security to shippers and passengers. Her commander, 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. ST. PETERSBURG,—From St. Petersburg the dates are to the 11th of April, when tallow and other produce continued to be purchased for transmission to the fron tier and the Prussian port of Memel. The Odessa 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 bad been disappearing for some days. The bay was likewise full of ice, and 20 vessels caught by it were in a rather dangerous 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 3,882,5581. 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., "received from the Commissioners of Inland Revenus"(an item to which some explanation might have been appended), amounted to 183,764/. in the year ending in November last ; 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 pensatiou to two Six-Clerks for loss of office and profits 3,155/., to 20 sworn clerks 28,5961., one deputy-clerk of enrolments, deputy record -keeper, and agent to sworn clerk, 1,4531., the late clerk of custodies (in lunacy) 1,2681., chief clerk to a Master 7501., pension to a retired Master, 1,5001., to two retired registrars, 2 , 541 / . to the 'late M a st er of Reports, 2,2501. SERVICE or AQUEDUCTS AND FOUNTAINS AT CON - STANTINOPLE.—The Turkish capital offers the pecu liarity that good and salutary regulations exist where a mere chaos was hithertosupposed to occupy their place. Itee)rding to late calculations, based on con ect obser vations and tables, the fifteen systems of sources and water wells which surround Constantinople, and from which numero - us aqueducts and cisterns are alimented, yield a daily supply of 249 lulehs of water, which is equivalent to 12,267,532 kilo,gr. ; 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 thii Water supply is confided to an especial class or order of men, the corps of the Su-Jaldshi, ( r well-masters. This regularly organised corps exercises a licensed art, . and if they possess no theoretical' knon • ledge, still they practise their art according to some traditional rules and princiles. To this corps all the works rel a ti ng t o 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-Jaldslii now consists of about 300 Turks and 100 Albanese Greeks, who are exclusively selected from some families of the district of Drinopolis, in the Epirus. The inhabitants of five or six villages emigrate for the sake of ottupyiug the situations of well-muter' la Con. stathauple aLtd -other Turiiigh wouli be just as card to apptopriate tce sum THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1854, THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.) 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 Ga!le, 25th ; 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 iu February. This is confirmed by the Port Elizabeth 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 Struys 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. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC-TELEGRAPH.) SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Three ran. HANDICAP PLATE. T.Y.C. Anteverta Folly o' the Day Ten ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 100 SOVS. Incubus Olitipa SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS. Quince Four ran. HANDICAP PLATE OF £lOO. Eleven ran. BETTING ON THE COURSE. PORT STAKES. sto 2 apt Orestes. BUCKHURST STAKES. sto 4on Boiardo. CLOSE OF THE ROOMS LAST NIGHT. CHEERER CUP. 9to 1 agst Raalbeo. 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 agst Jack Frost. 100 b to 15 agst Dr. O'Toole. 1000 to 10 agst Catspaw. 1000 to 10 agst Aldtord. 1000 to 10 agst Little Jem. 1000 to 5 agst Canute. 1000 to 5 agst Bridesmaid. 1000 to 4 agst Royalist. 1000 to 3, apt Indian Warrior. 1000 to 2 agst Umbriel. 1000 to 2 agst Pantomime. 1000 to 2 agst Annie Sutherland. 1000 to 2 agst Wild Huntsman. DERBY. 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 Box. 200 to 1 agst Marley Hill. 200 to 1 agst Marble Hill. 200 to 1 agst Acrobat. 200 to 1 agst Remus. 200 to 1 agst Boiardo. GREAT NORTHERN. 15 to 1 agst 25 to 1 agst Viudei. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 7to 2KA Ruby (taken). 7to 2 agst Boiardo (taken). Bto 1 agst Champagne (taken). PARISH OF ST. MARY, LAMBETH. Yesterday the adjourned vestry meeting of the in habitant ratepayers of this extensive parish was held in the New Vestry Hall, Kennington-green, for the pur pose of taking the Fill for the election of churchwardens and committee forming the Highway 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 Highways, 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.' Flews, 275 ; Mr. Stratton, 195 ; and Mr. Barnard, 143, giving a large majority in favour of Messrs. Grey and news. For the Highway Board, the numbers announced by the rev, vicar were sufficient to show that Messrs. Price, Hodson, Taylor, Moseley, Doulton, Hayton, King, Wade, Mason, Avern, Bowles, Deacon, Bryan, Wells, Valler, Nott, Orme, White, Atlee, 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. MARLBO.ROUGh-STBEET.-(THIS DAY.) UTTERING A FORGED NOTE. —William, Turner, an elderly man, was brought up before Mr. Bingham, charged with uttering a forged 51. 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 gin, and, in the course of con versation, he said he was an old customer of the late landlord, and should continue hiq 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 he sent to Mr. Gardner, 26, Gilbert -street. The prisoner paid for the gin with the 51. note produced, and witness wrote his name upon it, and gave him 41. 13s. 41. change. Prosecutor sent the gin to 26, Gilbert-street, but found no one there. He was positive prisoner was the man. The note was a forgery. Police-constable Rigden, said be 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 for a week. An experimental trial, under the direction of the Board of Ordnance, has taken place at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, of Captain Maher'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 or SPECIE.—The shipments of specie by the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Ripon amount to 198,7001., of which 69,0851. is gold (including about 50,0001. for military expe,,ditures at Malta), while 129,6571. is silver for Singapore, Hong-Kong, Canton, and Shanghai. Pending the delivery of the last Austra lian arrivals a small suns of gold was again taken fr,on the Bank of England yesterday for transmission 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 advises by the Harbinger from their superintendent in New 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 engine. She worked most beautifully fr o m th e first, without a jar, leakage, or any thing objection a bl e . 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 evening, which we shall 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 tranaroad 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 away as muc h as poss ibl e w i t h t h e w i n dl as s.' " Mr. Spence calculates that he 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) 11. 10s. Value o f go ld per ounce £3 10 0 Less royalty, 3 per cent £o 2 14 Proportion to Great _Nugget C° Estina ul a P ted anY charge (i) 3 7 10 0 N Li 4 3i porton on 30 ton s per diem, Prt yielding ono ounce. And be acids ; ' Should we realise the success thus anticipated, I shall immediately pressed to make all necessary preparations for raising a more extensive establishment in one of the many localities open to us, where auriferous quartz ma b e e b„ tai4 o 4 is *wawa, ca Gam gat mud.' " 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 Desart has succeeded Viscountess Canning as lady in waiting to her Majesty. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday for Hagley Hall, Worcesters.,-lire. 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, was 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 Mrs. Anthony Dearlove (Mr. Frank Matthews and Miss M. Oliver) are a very happy and attached couple, confiding entirely in each other's affections. Horace Ogle (Mr. Chas. Mathews), an old friend of Dearlove, has taken it into his head to fill in love with Mrs. Daarlove, not from feel i'ng, or instinct, or passion of any kind, but because he hates husbands of every denomination, for the confidence reposed 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 impertinence, and his chief object in,life is' to rendei husbands jealous by making love to the wives. As Daarlove is his-friend, ho 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 tite-d-tete with Mrs. Dear- love. The lady is a true daughter of Eve, and, though she appears to despise arid 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 hint, finds fault with him, endeavours to work herself into a jealous fit, and leaves the room in a fury. Dearlove soon perceives that somebody has been tampering with his wife's affections, and to give a matte:-of•fact explanation to the position in which she has placed him, on 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," Dea,rlove replies, " No, 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 g enera l summons was raised for th e author, who, nevertheless, did not think proper to respond thereto. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—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, Ferville. and the excellent R6gnier, Mdlle. Luther, and Mdlle. Fix, of the Theatre Francais, are already engaged to appear during the present season. THE LATE LADY ELtzaurria AsHBURNHAII, 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 fourtk baron of A.sh burnham (who was keeper of Hyde-park and St. James'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 Jetnima, 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 Ashburnhain, the Countess of Powis, the Earl and Coun tess of Ripon, Sir Henry and Lady Mary Gordon, Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner, 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 as "a family of stupendous antiquity, wherein the eminence hath equalled the antiquity, having been barons temp. Henry III." DEATH OF LADY JOHN Masszns.---It is with the deepest regret we announce the decease of Lady John Manners. Her ladyship, who, we .are informed, has been seriously ill from the period of her aceonchment, which 'took place on the 12th ult., died on Friday last at the early age of 23. Lady John Manners 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. Sh e was married to her b e re ave d 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 fromthe 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 OF 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. Dquison, will take_ place at Lambeth on the Ist of May, being the festival of St. Philip and St. James. . . THE FRIEN D - OF THE CLERGY.—Thw anni v ersary festival of this useful and prosperous charity has, in consequence of the day of humiliation having been fixed for the 26th instant, been necessaiily - postponed until the 3rd of - May. -We trust the charity will -not suffer by the dplay. IIIgENSE HORSE.—On Saturday last ; the largest horse in the world was exhibited at the Horse Shoe Inn stables, in the town. Ho stands 21 hands high, and weighs 25 cwt.—Wilt€ County Mirror. • - • MILITARY . AFFRAY.—A serious fight took place in Winchester, oe Sunday last, between about 150 soldiers belonging to the 88th Regiment and the Hants militia. It appear s th a t th e regu l ars had been sneering at the - awkward ness an d unso ldi er -lik e qua liti es o f th e m iliti a mFti; the consequence was a d espera t e fight with . fists, sticks;e, stones : and soldiers' belts," a terrible weapon, with its large - metal - buckle. Several soldiers were taken to the e bospit a l dreadfully, and, it is feared,latally wounded. 0 militii men were victorious, as they-numbered two to ne ov! the reg u lars. The policemen were too few tce interfere to stop, otyven to mitigate, -the disgraceful "*Y-- -- - ...• - -- - - . LAtEsT FottpAGN :NEWS, CONSTANTIN OPLE. Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 10th inst. , The retreating Turkish irregulars set fire to Kos tendje. This, which is one of the commercial ports of Turkey in the bobrudscha, has been reduced to ashes. The combined fleets were anchored between Balt cbik and Kavarna. • 1,500 English troops had landed at Gallipoli, The Porte attaches all corn cargoes from the Danube and Odessa. Urgent nec ess ity com p e l s this measure. 'Baron Bruck, the Austrian Envoy, protests against it. A misunderstanding has in con sequence arisen between Baron Amok and Lord Redclitre. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 10.—A very large num ber of the subjects of King Otho resident in Tur key, have acknowledged allegiance to the . Sultan, • and will reitain in the country. Omer Pacha is at BardSchik, which is now his bead-quarters. The C 056.66 show themselves at Trajan'S Wall, but no regulars are seen.' GA,LLIPOLI, April 11.—The Vulcan has arrived here with the 44th Regiment, and three companits of the 50th. - The Kangaroo, with the 93d Regiment (High landers), and otherdetachments. 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 Volo. Steamers and transports now arrive every day from Toulon, Marseilles, Algiers, and Malta. " GALLIPOLI, April S.—General Birowne and Colonels Sulliv an and Laurence, with the Rifle Bri g ade, and. Colonel Vidt or , o f t h e A rt ill ery, w i th 100 Sappers, have arrived at the'camp of Conrail, three leagues from Gallipoli. Four thousand French soldiers, under the orders of General Can robed, are encamped there. Horses are not to be . had. The best und e r s t an di ng exists among the . allied troops. The P a l a o f Ad r i anople does everything in his power to facilitate our arrange ments. The Sappers have begun to fortify the Isthmus. A letter from ConStantinople,, of the 6th, states that the Divan, in. order to provide for the subsis• tence 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 obiervations. The French am bassador is said to have made an application to the Divan, whidh 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; it is‘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 conseqience 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 rush for passports : 9,000 were, it is said, granted in two days, and of these, a considerable number having been obtained fraudu lently bly Christian subjects of the Porte, an order was issued to annul the passports granted, and a commission was appointed, composed of two Chris tians and two Tifrks; 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 subject of the Sultan might be allowed to do so, on finding two respectable persons to guarantee his good conduct. CONSTANTINOPLE, "April 7.—The declaration of war by the allied Posiers 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 period of inertness and expectation is at an end, the tran sition state from peadi to war has been traversed, the labours of diplomacy are past, and nothing re mains but the swift and stew ly prosecution of a vigorous war. The world must be made to see that hostilities, though long delayed and unwil lingly undertaken, can be efficiently conducted, and that, though civilised and peace-loving nations shrink froin 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 temptee as we have been. Among those who rejoice most at the ultimate decision of the. Western PoWers are our 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 4 Parliament and th e press as to Chri s t ian wron g s I and Ottoman misgovermient. 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 from 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 the resources required, the back- Wardness l 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 10,0,)0 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 the purpose of constructing stables. Three months 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, which must close, again in October. From the number of military men here, and the active part which almost all will have to taxa in the coming struggle, these matters are continually discussed", and in a closer and more practical manner than is usual in general society at home. There certainly does not prevail in this capital that overweening confidence 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 wellas.the neigh bourhoo, I ofCliaring cross are forced to confess the skill and foresight of the Russian .tactics ; 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 desblate( country, anti amid' a disaffected population. It must bb remembere I that Bulgaria has been eaten up by the _Ottoman armies. For a space of 10 mouths provisions of all kinds have* been taken from the peasantry, who have not received one piastre in exchange. Ou this subject misconception prevails in England, an'il has penetrated even into the House of Commons. It has been asserted that the Turks have paid for all they have received. It is true 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 tVill go aniong 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 of half the Armenian's pro fits, and everyone will be contented, except the unhappy peasant who tees 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 xemain 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 nn the largest scale for a war of unexampled Obsti -: . ,navy is ad m it ted ^ by - all here, and, though the Go-_ verntnent is doubtl ess we ll-i n f orme d 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 Somewhat disposed to forget that the real conflict must be decided on the Danube, that the offcnsivd Must bo taken by us, and that anything short of complete victory is for us a defeat. The measures aattinst the Hellenic population are being oar rred out with unexampled eeverity. Every steamer that-1som; ~ f 9; ayrs, .10 cgoirdlid wat , tiwavw • VIII 41. :, .._. \ ~ tl-'+-1, beings, so thickly wedged together that to walk the deck is impossible. - At least 401) are said to have taken their departure in one vessel. Most of them have been reduced to the depths of poverty", and when thrown ashore, friendless and destitute, at the Piraeus, three-fourths of the men Will pro bably go to swell the ranks of the Thessaliarrinsur gents, or take to their old trade of piracy in the .2Egean. The deep and well-wooded inlets of the Lycian coast and islands may probably-again swaro l with corsairs, as they did id- the time: of -Laurbra and Conrade, though war steamers are rather dif ferent enemies to those which were encountered 1 1 the grandfathers of the present:tam. ,Numbers of the shops in Pera will be shut up by the expulsion of theit owners. More than 30 medical men, the most skilful in ,the capital, are about, to leave- Hotelkeepers, dragomans, domestic servants, both male and female, are all comprised in this sweeping edict. Yet there is a feature in this affair more de plorable than even the wide-spread misery' which will result. It will hardly be believed that apostal 'to the Romish Church is sufficient to protegt the Hellenic subject from- banishment and ruin. Can„ it be wondered that th e l ower claps of the Greek communion sympathise with the 'Russians and up hold the demands of Mensehikoff, when they see that their religion places them in a worse position than their brethren who. by acknowledgment of the Papal supremacy obtain the most invidious pri' vileges—privileges continually turned by the Latin priests into engines of ,proselytism ? In the pr' .sent case, two men may be 'equally Hellenes , equally subjects of. King Otho ; but if two be a Catholic, he enjoys French protection--4he certifi cate of his archbishop is sufficient to enable' him to. reside unmolested in the capital, and pursue his ordinary, ,business, while the.other is driven out at a few days' notice, to wander in misery and dead' tutieu. Of the 13,000 who reside in Constant'• a nople alone b u t small number possess 0 1 means of transporti ng the m s e l ves t o A t h ens and seeking another occupatibn.. They are; selling everything- to obtain the passage money P r their families, and when disgorged bythe steams' on the shores o f G reece ,_ t h ey w i ll be as desi. tute as if thrOwn on the beauh of a desert island' The Banshee passed through without stopping 2 1 ; the sth. She was probably. on her way to 0 ' fleet, and carried with her-the declaration of vrer' Whatever may be the case with the land arniir meats, there is no doubt that the , floet is in call 01- condition. The men are w e ll an d i n go° spirits; practising with shot and'shell goes on con, banally, terrifying the. Pasha o f - V arna . w ith. to' belief that the Russiaus are at hand. The' e ntire crews, from the Admirals and Post-Captains daily wards, will be glad that the singularstate of thing is over by which tßussian vessels could only _ A requested to 0 ' .o back to port, and every man hr. the affair rofNavarino before his e y es , an d tIS danger of finding victory over an obstinate enenv describe 6 by statesmen as a "disastrous circao; stance." The fleets are still at Kavarna, but we trips be sure they will not stay long after the Admir7 have learned that they are at liberty to On Whether Varna be in any p os iti ve d anger 'it 1 '; difficult to say. Th e r e i s a s t ory t o ld h ere th a t til military and civil Pashas have quarrelled, and do _ not speak to each oth er , an d th a t wh e. never4 stranger makes his appearance, ea c h d oes an II can to influence the new coiner:against his rivr e This may be a joke, but it is c h arac t er i s ti c of t he class irk question, and not unworthy of being quotl as a specimen of reputationAvhich Governmet officials enjoy. There seems a temporary lull: the passenger arrivals from Western Europe—Pr bably the flood will burst up o n u s aga i n i n t h e sent week. As it is, the : ' own is quite Europes ll 3 ised,' and the round bat i s no longer. an object; i ; wonder and aversion to the d ogs o f P era; E n gl/- form still the great body of visitors, and for two or three days after the arrival of every steareub they may be met with in every quarter of Stalr bout, sight-seeing with incredible energy an o f solution. They a ll c o m e with the i lea of . 01 'up to the 'Danube, "seeing a brush," and being "lions" when th e y return ' to t he clubs. HQlvarrii; when it conies .to the p o i n t, th e i r courag e It z . them, and they ignominiously re-embark I ° Marseilles, or c om p rom i se - the matter b y a v isit t° Trebizond inthe Austri an s t eamer . l am saw to state that General Tiuling, commanding t he engine'er corps, has met with rather a 'seri accident. A few days s i nce he .was riding''. Stamboul, when, passing through one of the Pr pitons and wretchedly-paved a ll e y s o f t h at qua rter , his horse stumbled, anu the General was t hrovill; He received a severe hurt in th e b ac k, an d in or three days an abscess _formed, .requiring swit . gical aid. Au operation has be e n p e rf or med, 011 A the General is now at . Teerapia under treatment, with every probability of doing wen The accident is rather unfortunate at the pres en e , inotuent, as his set vices in pri , bably be in dime request: The large , barracks of Scutari and aloud Pasha are' heiirg prepared for the rec e ptia t of troops. The French will prolfably occupy t 1 1• latter, while' the British are stationed, at Sadly' They are both v er y l argo an d commodious still, ci , tures, and, .besides, diff er i n an i mportant p o int from those which w e are accustome d to see i n o , ~, native land. The r a n ges o f b u ildi n g s i n t h e n eigh bourhood of Hyde-pirk and Trafalgar-scritare ef; eyesores to ev e ry pile who is capaltleof disinguis to ' s , rug beauty fr om ugliness ; while the edifices ' cre accommodation of troops whi c h EuroPe 6o, skill has lately erected in this capital are of pie° . ing and tasteful aspect ; and• as the situatia: is generally well ch osen , on t h e b row of soitIll„ gently rising bill, th e y f orm au agreea bl e additiar to the landscape, aneentrast well with them u . titude of wooden houses which cluster in :the'. neighbourhood. Letters from Con s t an ti nop l e, o f the 2d, sta te a , that M. Bruck (th e A us t r i an am b assador) had u'a Come taciturn and reserved. He neither7receiv e i n nor paid visits, but lived secluded, and affected be enigmatical and /mySterious. The attachés " the Prussian embassy sJetik with very little rei serve, and openly proclaim their indign a tiou aga'r's England and their sympathies for the Czar; A, correspondent of the Siecle says the Tur l r-- ish „1, Government applied to th e F renc h and EngS, , g ambassadors for an au x ili a ry,corps of land for t ' to be Sent:to Tama, and was answered that ,0 ambassadors could' not take upon themselves k w; dispose of the army i n d r ibl e t s , and must refer tP request to their Goyerntnents. THE BALTIC. COPENHAGEN', Wednesday, Aprill9.--The VI; lish fleet is off Gothland. The Aust er li tz h a s le' Kioge Bay. Bishop Mobrad, Andra, Hall, B#' ring, and others, have teen dismissed., CqENRAGEN, April I.B.—Four RUSSiin . ship s ' laden with cargo, were captured in the 13altio ye terday, and carried past here to-day as prizes le t London. KIAL, April 16.—A Kiel lettei of the 16th ing t. says: —The orders which Admiral Napier W ic with hiva when he left liioge Bay last Tuesday strutted him to blockade all the Russian ports the Baltic. Notice of this will doubtless soon 1 / 6 forwarded to all our consu l s i n t h ese par t s . 51 1 0 despatches, which it is understood that the Daun t/ j _ less brought to Copenhagen on the 12th, 'stateZ that 18 Russian ships of the line were lyi nga t fle' d singfurs, and might soon be attacked ; they seen' as if they intended, as soon as it bet 'me possibl e ' to put over ,to Revel. Admiral Plumridge watching them with four 'frigates: There,a re strong hopes that Ad.n.141 Napier will soon g iv r : an account of them, if t h ey ' venture out from rust' shelter. The last Swedisli - steamer reports havi i ! met the precu rs o rs of the English fleet not far fr°'fr- Riga. • 10* A Copenhagen correspondent reports by to graph that it waS OW 'Alban - steam-sloop, and u the Amiphion, screw-frigate, which got agroun She is now afloat. A letter from Stettin . says :—lt appear .bY..2 0 article in the Copenhagen Fadrelandet that steam-frigate Dauntless had lately ad v anced til' t the Gulf of Finland as far as Sveaborv, where saw 18 RuSsian ships of the line ly ing . ° The InW 0, Heim', which was. also out reconnoitring, ga ve .„ elms° to a Russian corvette , but the , latter PQ'' triverl to escape to Sveaborg. Ad m i ra l plow .: ridge's division Of the fleet; whi c h was sent o ut °' acruise, was composed o f th e screw-steamer I f er eu e 51, the Tribun e , 31 , the Dituntless F ,:', l ' and the paddle-wheel St r ain er L eopard, 18. Fro m private letters from vari ou s ports in th e Baltic,4e a ppeals that up to th e 15 th instant, -there w'it still large masses o f Ice in Port b u : t 6 was no longer compact ; that u p t o th e e ,,,- date there was in Revel much floating ice, dan~ getout; to vessels ; and that up to the of the '9th the ice .w as fi rm i n the Gulf of Bolu ° ' t - b is t; We have still w arm weather. in Stettin, and, °" whole, the probability is that th e G u lf of ,: d will be free from ice . earlier than last • Year7 7-v ,t; the Gth of May.. The imposts of 'all . ki n ds on," fi a landed' proprietor s an d pea Santa of RU 1311 Fin s ' : are fast redu c i ng them to beggary. Each of " must, furnish a certain number of bushels of t rf o and p.Ly a certain sum in money, according t° a er extent of l an d . To make matters worse; the ,14fliy farmers have bee n i n f orme d that-they will beetl i r t require(' to provide, of course without parn, fluff°l/ certain number of horses. Priv a t e - l e t ter s butte be Sweden and Norway say th at S weden Will not leugdiy able to rest neutral, public o p inion being deciders, in favour of a close alliance with the western ijo y f r ay It, is probable that a ministerial : : !LLI"!`, Fg f e,,4 l 4:,Pitetienrikaaig,*. 14it *Or esialok the entr at cf )110 Ti• Of 3 TSlit bind one th e that All i in re all tl tieul well Silisi ou r( Russ. beat( /late] beery fugic herd: Alete scare tend( Wide than Th the li corre tessit of wa avoid have petit] thr o loyL the Por Nvoi - all of t tio n t dine earn(