The Sun. — London, England, 1854-04-11 00:00:00

f this w ill meat efusal a nd feated o ur ,1 that )t and -co3l y. t ride(' ; p ast 3 p . have 3vern- wo ul(1 ,s. i f 4y an d is and of the a on° lorre- issiou ) that Hance from 0 nOt 1 was latest roll of Irraeci brat° I. All ibassi toners 1r th e The/ Eng ,mong MI4 r!'S 1111 with his forces, with the intention of coming to an crews of the Russian ship s of war in that p ort have _ e ngagement with the superior force of the enemy, received orders to retur n home b y land. The ships, he would have been irretrievably lost ; since he it was rumoured, had been sold to the Greek Go- Would either have been surprised on his march vernment. by a collision in front with the Russian columns, The Divan, the Debats says, had in principle Who w ere th reaten i ng, moreover , a passage at fixed ten days , t he time accorded to M. Metaxa, Mirsova ; or he wculd have been taken in the rear, • the Greek Ambassador, as the peri od within which and thus annihilated. The peninsula of Dobrudscha all Greeks were to quit Constantinople, but at the Was therefore rather quickly evacuated from stra- request of G eneral Bara g ua y d'Hilliers the time Legetical motives, and the march of the Russians ha d been extended to three weeks. alon g the Hirsova road and the heights of Babadag h A letter from Salonica, of March 24, says :—The follow e d so r a pidly that all the military stores col - acco unts from Volo are very bad. The insurrection lected in the strongholds and entrenchments fell is increasing. The rebels have taken the offensive into the hands of the Russians. Even in his posi- iin Thessaly , and g ot p ossession of a small fort called tion a t T ra j an's Wall Musts ha Pacha sees himself! the Fanar , nea r Mount A g rafa . T h e communica strongly threatenedin his front by the Russian tions between Thessaly and Epirus are broken main body, and on his left flank by the two divi- 1 off. Mescovo Pappacosta and another chief are [lions n ear K a l aras h. H e will hence, most likely, 'at the head of 2,500 men, near Arviro, and_ have make a timely retreat in good order toßassardshik. written to the mudir of that place to give up Already he is causing every place that leads to it by the town in order to avoid bloodshed. Two the road from Karassu and from Kustendjee to be thousand other Greeks had passed the frontiers surrounded with rampart and palisades. A t the near Domoro, to join Pappaforte. The Turkish same tim e , th e comma ndants of Rutschuk and Silis - commanders in Thessal y are not sufficiently united. tria had orders sent them to act on the defensive. Zosinel Pacha only exasperates the population with The disposable forces of the Danube, excepting the his Albanese troops, who show no mercy. If troops fortress garrisons, are being made to converge on are not soon sent from Constantinople—that is to Rasgrad, with Shumia for their pivot and Bassard- say, regular soldiers—even the Turks will have to shik for their gravitating point. Prince Gortscha - give way, and open the door to the Greeks , for fear koff, i n th e meantime, is m arching with four strong of the irregular soldiers. divisions of infantry, and two of cavalry, on Tra- The Bishop of Cricala and other primates have fan's Wall; he will probably proceed at once to de- been brought to Volo, and will be sent to Constan- Karassu T s h er navoda, and Kustendjee, and tinople to account for their conduct, whic h is con will then attack- Omer Pacha in the square so his- sidered suspicious by the authorities of Thessaly. torically renowned in former Turkish wars. The Turkish position, however, is so strong here that the Prince will find it no easy task. The Adjutant- General Schilder received orders to conduct the MALTA. MALTA, April 7.—The Indus, with the outward India mail, has returned to alta with her ma chinery damaged. The Vectis has gone on to Alexandria in her place, after a few hours' delay. The Himalaya, with the homeward India mail, has arrived from Alexandria, and transhipped her passengers, mails, and ca a rgo, and will depart with troops for the East to-morrow. The 44th Regiment and three companies of the 50th were despatched for the East on the sth in the Vulcan. The 93d Highlanders, together with several offi cers of the commissariat and medical staff, left yesterday in the Kangaroo. The Ardent, towing the Georgiana, which has on board the women of all the regiments, besides mules, horses, and provisions, left this morning. The Cyclops and the Vesuvius, with the 28th Regiment and two companies of the 50th, are ready to go to sea.. The Himalaya and Indus are also ready to sail, and will transport the 4th and 33d Regiments with out loss of time. ---- Passage at — Kalarash, and to surround Silistria." CONSTANTINOPLE. Snow and rain are at an end, says a Constanti nople letter of 30th March, and the Bosphorus is of a deeper blue under the cloudless heaven. The hills behind Scutari are green with returning spring, and Olympus stands out well-defined against the sky. The population is abroad, eager to escape from the dreary imprisonment of their dark and narrow houses. Turkish women, childish and va cant, pursue their listless wanderings through the streets, while Greeks and Catholics, in the prettiest of bonnets, flock to the Lenten services, which seem for the moment to replace the balls and concerts of a less holy season. With such a sky and atmo sphere, thoughts of a dismal and uncertain future an. find no place, and, if serious rumours are abroad, and the faces of diplomatists are grave, Buell things make little impression on the happy spirits who, not unwisely, live in the present, cheered by the returning sun, and breathing more freely in a pure and balmy air. Yet the damps of winter have not ceased in their effects on the young and delicate. A great number of children and young persons have lately died through the excessive cold and humidity, in a city where the houses are not constructed to meet the necessities of a severe winter. The funeral chant is heard hourly in the streets, and little corpses, white and waxen, strewn with flowers, and borne on a gaily-decked bier, are carried along to the Christian burial-ground. Foreigners, and espe cially English, increase in numbers every day,— Co mmissaries; engineers, speculators, and contrac tors, tourists who have nothing to do, and young men anxious f or em pl o y men t, w h o , with hopes destined to be blighted, look to a commission in the Ottoman army as the first step in the ladder to wealth and glory. Of the latter, some few have been successful, if success be the acquisition of an uncertain rank and an unknown destination. The Turkish names which all receiveron 'their appoint ent ate a subject of much' amusement. • NO • Christian appellation can appear on the Turkish a rmy list, and therefore when an appointment is made, the European becomes " Pasha" or " Bey," Aith some distinctive name taken from his office, 3118 appearance, or even his dress. Sometimes the volunteer h as a little difficuity in remembering his new appellation, and it is one of the chief duties Of Dimitri or Dominic to be at hand to reply to his Master's question of " What's my name ?" Other accounts from Constantinople of the 30th !lit-, state that one of the most important points in the pending negotiations on the subject of the religious emancipation of the Christians had just been solved. A decree of the Government of the 2 8th ult: recognises the validity of the oath of a Christian before the Ottoman tribunals. The Grand ICrational Council assembled on the 27th. After having approved of all the recent acts of the Divan, and given to the Sultan the most entire adhesion to his policy and to his plans of reform, the Council, admitting the urgency of the sacrifices which circumstances impose on Turkey, decided that a national subscription should be opened, and . the members immediately subscribed for more than 1,000,000 fr. There was no doubt that, in a few days, the subscription will amount to from 20 to 25 millions. A Council of Ministers was held on the 27th, at which the coercive measures to be adopted towards Greece were decided on ; but, on the representation of the French and English ambassadors, a delay of eight weeks has been granted to Greek subjects to quit the Turkish ter itory. M. Metaxa, the Greek ambassador, was still at Constantinople on the 30th. The accounts now received of the aggressions of the Russians on English vessels at the mouth of the Danube do not exactly tally with those published by the private electric telegraph. It was the Bedlington English merchant vessel which was sunk at the mouth of the Danube by the Russian batteries, the captain and crew, however, saved themselves in their boat. T he Anna, another English vessel, which in the first accounts was stated to have been sunk, re ceived se vera l balls in her hull, and the Crescent Steamer which had her in tow received some in her reaehinery and rigging. THE ANBE. A. letter from 'Widdi D n, of U March 28, says, a strong reconnaissance has been made in the direc tion of Pojana with 2,000 cavalry. Iskender Bey at th e h ead of' 200 irregulars rode into the village at a gallop, but found there only two or three s elnadrons of Russians, who hastily retired. Four Co ssacks were made prisoners, and . a few killed. 1 a another dir ec ti on 20 b as hi buzuks wandered off in search of plunder, fell in with a large party of Rus sian cavalry, an d were a ll kill e d' or ma de pri soners, It appears th a t the Russians have now c oncentrat e d 411 their force in the villages of Ma glovitz, Gole n t ze, and Citate, an d h ave d es t ro y e d the en trenchment s they had made at Pojaala. Th e appearance presented by the Cossacks, who h ave been taken, is truly miserable, and if their accounts be true, the treatment the soldiers expe ce from their officers is frightful. There is which a minute e ith er o f th e d a y or night, in "leh beating is not going on in every company. Among the late arrivals at Widdin is an English gentleman lately returned from St. Petersburg. He states that there is not only a want of enthusiasm 1 1It that 1 Capital with regard to the war,. but abso a e a great dislike to it. Even Russian officers vo.3r expressed their feelings in the matter in a Vlanner which mus t b e somew h at d angerous i n foil " latitude& They said that it was the height of to Y going to war with England ; that there was poss ibility of gaining anything, and every pro bability of losing a great deal ; that they could un derstand their fighting for their faith, but, in the Tsent instance, there was' very little question a. put faith. They would all be ruined, to a cer ram,. The secret of the voluntary contributions, a: --11141 ned, too, in a manner which will easily fr , -ee unt for their great extent. -A governor of a "11 , for instance, informa a citizen by.a written pa that „ voluntary contributions are solicited by Isfl3 that in defence of Christianity against This rotoier, Silver rcflibl aM that it is considered that 200 will not be too much for him to give. and, th su e e stion bears all the force of an order, the goveern°ollre's3rhis paid instanter, sooner than be in name. quantities --lack book, with a cross against his Large probably Is lidt le s o f gabions are being made at for th e repair of the fortress, ° in m any Places is in a state dilapadatiou. THE WAR IN ASIA. The Journal de Constantinople of the 29th ult. Ys that flew s fro been rece i vedm Asia from a good source had of another and important victory by 56411134 over the R uss i ans , b u t th a t th e d e t ai l s were not known. THE BLACK SEA. (8a37 8 th e A letter from the Bl ac k S ea , o f the 28th u lt. Patric), informs us that the combined s q u adrons were anchored at Baldchi.k, n ear Kavarna. Since their departure from Beycos Bay the weather bad been constantly fine. The admirals had the day before sent a division of frigates to KusteLdjee, the point in -the Black Sea at which ends the forti fication' known by the name of Trajan's Wall. It was said that this demonstration had for object to support. the right of Omer Pacha. No vessel of war had quitted Sebastopol, as had been errone ously stated, and it was still thought that the Rus sian fleet woula not leave the harbour. GREECE. The Trieste Gazette gives the following details of the insurrection in Epirus :—‘!The Albanian troops have beaten the insurgents at Pharsalia and Tri kala, and forced them to fly in disorder. The in surgents had 5,000 men at the former place and 2,000 at the latter, and still were worsted. They have withdrawn to Agrafa. Puad Effendi was re ceived with the greatest enthresiasui by the popu lations." The MO jeurng atateN t h at the ofacerii sad I FRANCE. A telegraphic despatch has been received in Paris from Brest, which announces that several French ships of war left that port yesterday (Mon day) morning for the Baltic, and that, besides their ordinary crews, they carry with them 1,000 men of the marine infantry. The arrival of the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Raglan, and their respective staffs, is looked for ward to in Paris with much interest by the Pari sians, but great disappointment is felt that they are not to be accompanied by any of the English cavalry. The generals expected to arrive to-day (Tuesday.) The Duke of Cambridge and Lord Raglan are to take up their residence at the British embassy. On Wednesday a splendid review is to take place in the Champs de Mars in presence of the Emperor, who no doubt will be accompanied by-the English. .officers. .. In the evening a grand dinner is to be given in their honour at the palace of the Tuile:ries. ' The Paris press has been so very persevering in its announcements that Austria would certainly take part with England and France in the war against Russia, that their assertions at lengthpade some impression on the public, of which we saw the result in the rise which took place in the public funds. Yesterday, however, the confidence which they had inspired has begun to give way, and a con siderable fall has been the consequence. The truth is, that as the interests of Austria are so clearly in opposition to the projects of the Czar, the world is willing to believe that good sense will ulti mately have the upper hand in the Councils of the Emperor Francis Joseph, and that he will in the end be forced to take an active part on the side pointed out by those interests. On the ground of consistency, also, Austria ought to go the same way, for she has so openly condemned the aggressive policy of the Czar, that she cannot, with honour, take part in his favour. But there is a great diffe rence between disapprobation of a neighbour's policy and taking part in a war against him. This is what seems to influence both Prussia and Austria, and however pusillanimous their conduct may appear, there are strong reasons for believing that they are fully determined (for the present, at least) to hold aloof. The Emperor on Sunday received in private au dience, M. Mavrocordato, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Greece, who presented to his Majesty a letter from his sovereign. The Emperor also received Count de Lcewenhielm, Swedish Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, who presented a letter frotn the King of Sweden and Norway, notifying the death of his grandson, the Duke of Suder mania. The Monittur notifies to the subscribers to the loan of 250,000,000 fr. that they may present them selves at the Caisse Centrale at the Ministry ,of Finance, to exchange their provisional receipts for certificates of the loan, and to receive the reim bursements due to them. It invites those persons who subscribed on the 14th and 15th March, to attend on the 13th April ; those who subscribed on the 16th and 17th March to attend on the 14th ; the 18th and 19th on the 15th'; the 20th and 21st on the 18th ; the 22d and 23d on the t9th ; and the 24th and 25th on the 20th. As to the sub scribers in the departments, the Moniteur an nounces that they will shortly be informed of the dates at which the exchange and reimbursement will take place in each of the chefslieux of depart- . ments and arrondissements. _ the funds declined yesterday, in consequence of a rumour of the defeat of the Turks, near Silis tria. The Three per Cents. opened at 64f. 35c. and closed at 63f. 60c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 90f. 50c. ; Or leans Railway Shares, 1,042 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 840 f. ; Havre, 412 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 725 f. ; Stras burg, 710 f. ; New Shares, 525 f. ; Paris to Lyons, 792 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 650 f. ; Western of France, 557 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux to Cette, 5151. ; Great Central of France, 400 f. ; Lyons to , Geneva, 4251. ; Bank of Credit Mobi ilier, 48Cd. ITALY. Timm, April 10.—The Duke de Valentinois and his aide-de-camp are imprisoned in the Fort of Villa Franca, at Nice. Several arrests have taken place at Mentone. A letter from Piacenza of the 2d, in the Con ciliatore of Turin, states that the Duchess of Parma intends to raise a loan in foreign States, instead of the forced loan ordered by the deceased Duke. She has contented herself with a very moderate civil list, and is introducing great economy in the finan cial department. The man lately arrested upon suspicion of being the 'assassin of the Duke is no* considered to be innocent. SPAIN. • The Gazette annouces that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sublime Porte had, on the 9th ult., presentrzel a note to the Spanish Minister at Con stantir,ople informing him, that as some vessels, under, the Greek flag, had clandestinely imported ammunition to the coasts of the Epirus, any vessel not • giving an account of its cargo to the local a'ithorities, or discharging its cargo secretly, would lae confiscated, and its crew would be punished. THE DERRY RAILWAY.—It is stated that the whole 0 the railway from Derry- to Enniskillen is likely to be ready for public traffic by the Ist of June next. A line of powerful steamers to ply between Derry and Liverpool, in connection with this railway, will be established forth with. A SHIP DESTROYED BY ICEBERGS.—Yesterday in telligence was received at Lloyd's, of the total de struction of the ship Mary, of Yarmouth, Scott mas ter, in the Atlantic Ocean, whilst on her passage from Liverpool to Boston. On the 15th of February, the ship being in lat. 47, long. 43, she was suddenly be set by icebergs, and before the captain could extricate the vessel, she was struck on the port bow, and her timbers stove in. Through this aperture thb water rushed, and the crew had barely time to get out the boats when the vessel went down. From the sudden ness of the catastrophe, they were unable to save food or water, and for five days and four nights they were tossed about in open boats without sustenance, two dying from exhaustion. On the 20th of February they were descried by a fishing-vessel, and they were landed at St. John's, Newfoundland, where they received every attention that their deplorable situation required. BUSINESS OF THE PORT OF LONDON.—In the gene ral btu-bless of the port of London during the past week the, e has been less activity than for some time past. The number of ships reported inward was 154, being 11 less than in the previous week. The quantity of grain re ported was 31,675 quarters, including 25,079 quarters of wheat, in addition to 11,535 barrels and 2,290 sacks of flour. Of rice there were reported 18,900 bags and 357 tierces, in addition to 25,140 bushels of paddy ; of sugar, 3,460 hhd., 16,818 bags, 2,767 casks, and 2,530 cases ; of coffee, 3,736 bags and 406 casks ; and of tea, 31,201 packages. The number of ships cleared outward was 128, being 10 less than in the previous week. Of those, 36 were in ballast, and 8, as above stated, for the Austrgin colwaieg, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1854, HARROW RACES. SHARE MARKETS. alas DAY.)-.-7-j- (THIS DAY.) Itatd.l RanwAYß. , Olosing Prices yesterday. Busting& this day. -Cs (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TRIAL STAKES. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Criterion Edward of York Sophistry Closing Prices yestadar. Business done this day. Three ran. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(`HIS DAY.) LONDON, April 11.—Wind this day at Noon, E. ; and fine Weather. DEAL, April 10.—Sailed—H.M.S. Cumberland, for the Baltic, in tow of H.M.'s st. Janus. OFF DOVER,' April 11.—..9.ffghan, Coleman, from the Mauritius. OFF DARTMOUTH, April 9.—James Armstrong, from Shanghai. QUEENSTOWN, April 9.—Arrived—Zetland, from the Clyde, for New York, leaky, and foremast sprung. SHIELDS, April B.—Sailed—Lively, for New York; Regent, Dalhousie; Alexander and London, Quebec; Re covery, Constantinople ; Polka. Gallipoli ; Vesper, Quebec. SUNDERLAND, April 9.—Sailed—Reward, and Dawsons, for Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, April 10.—Wind, E. to S.E. Sailed— Patrick Henry, for New York; Celestial, Shanghai. Off Port—Milnika, from the Coast of Africa. POOLE, April 10.—Sailed—George, for Quebec. WrammiTil, April 10.—Sailed— Atlantic, for Quebec. PLYMOUTH, April 10.—Wind, E. Arrived-- Jamaica, from Antigua. NEWPORT, April 10.—Sailed—Jacobus, for St. Thomas ; Lind, Rio ; Cherokee, St. Thomas; Kate, Now Orleans; Eagle, Quebec. TORBAY, April 9.—Sailed—North Star, for Madras. OFF THE START, April B.—Emperor, Calcutta. OFF BEACHY HEAD, April s.—Chas. Tottie, from Rio, for Gothenburg. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.40 a.m. Wind E.N.E. ; tide half-flood ; weather moderate and cloudy. Arrived, 10th—The Newcastle, from Bruges • Haabet Anker, liagarue ; Martha, Santander ; Mary iVatkins, Galatz. 11th—Adonis, (, Amsterdam ; Moselle, (s.), Antwerp. Sailed, 10th.—Brisk, for Bathurst. 11th.—Spirit of the Age, for Sydney ; Ostrich, for Adelaide. DEAL, Tuesday, 9 a.m. Wind, N.E., very fine. Passed.--Susan, from St. Michael's for London ; Ca nada, London, Sierra Leone ; Index, London, St. Kitt's ; Quickstep, London, New York. Passed off Dover.—Affghan from Muritius for London. MARKET NETVS-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL. SUGAR.—This article is steady, with not much doing. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,540 hhds, 116 tierces, 578 barrels. There were taken for home consumption 662 hhds, 45 tierces, 338 barrels. The stock in the same places is 3,297 hhds, 755 tierces, 1,139 barrels. COFFEE. — The market is supported. There are buyers of Native Ceylon at 45s 6d to 45s 9d per cwt on the spot. Runf.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 358 puns, 32 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 182 puns, 10 hhds ; and ex ported 63 puns, 25 hhds. The stock in the same place is 4,111 puns, 795 hhds. SPlCES.—Pimento, 150 bags, at auction partly sold at 5d to to 50 for ord, the rest taken in at 6d for mid. Nut megs 44 boxes, only partly sold at 2s 7d to 2s 10(1 for mid bold Singapore, and 2s 4d to 2s Si for small. Mace, 13 cases, realised 2s 4d to 2s 5d for mid. ARROWROOT, &c.-150 tins Jamaica, and 23 packages St. Vincents, at auction, were taken in at 4id per lb, and 24 barrels Tapioca were brought in at 2d per lb for ord. TALLOW.—The market is rather firmer. HAY MARKETS. SIAITEIFIELD.-11ealio; 18. to 5/ Os ; clover ditto, 31 15s to 61 Oq ; and straw, 1/ 16s to 2/ 2s per load. A. full average supply, and a fair demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ I.Bs to 5/ 5s ; clover ditto, 31, 15s to 6/,os ' • and straw, 1/ 16s to 2/ 5s per load. Trade steady, at full prices. WiuTzati4Plai..—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 51 Os; clover ditto, 3/ 15s to 6/ 6s ; and straw, 1/ 16s to 2/ 2s •per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull ' DRURY-LANE • THEATRE.—Mr. E. T. Smith opened this theatre last night for a promenade concert, Which he proposes to repeat to-morrow arid Thursday. The pit has been covered with the boardings which have so 'often done duty in the days of Jullien ; and the back of the stage hung with the draperies of like familiar service. The orchestra stands in, the centre of the area, and corn- prises a large body of instrumentalists, under the com mand of Mr. G. Hayward, assisted by Mr. Duggan, who superintends, especially, the vocal department. The selection of last night was made with a judicious re ference to the popular taste, the instrumental music, consisting of an overture by Auber, and polkas, quad rilles, and boleros, by Jullieu, Bosisio, and D'Albert, being vigorously and brilliantly rendered. The vocalists were Miss Featherstone, Mr. Henri Drayton Miss Poole, and others, whose exertions were rewarded with loud applause. The price of admission being the same as to Jullien's, the house was crowded, and from the manner in which the whole passed off, there appears to be little doubt that this new bid for the public patronage will be successful. LYCEUM THEATRE.— Mr. Allcroft commenced a series of promenade concerts here last night, when the first part of the programme consisted of a selection from the works of Mendelssohn, the second part being made up _ . of miscellaneous pieces. The evening commenced with the overtm e to Ruy Bias, nicely played by the band of nstrumentalists heretofore known -as the London orchestra, consisting of some of our best orchestral players, conducted by Mr. Frank Mori. Some vocal pieces were sung by,Mdlle. Milk", Miss Rebecca Isaacs,. Miss. Blanche Tudor, and Mr. Augustus Braham ; but the grand feature of the concert was the performance of the violin concerto by Herr Ernst. His performance was distinguished by his usual masterly execution and refined expression, and his reception was enthusiastic. The second part was made up of that mixed fare which the best suits the taste of the. million, and without a due infusion of which no concerts of this class would be likely to succeed. With half the evening, however, devoted to classiCal music, the influence of these popular concerts must be beneficial to the public taste. MR. C. H. ADAMS. —For many years past Mr. C, H. Adams , has occupied the' Adelphi Theatre during the penitential week, and we look far his lecture on astro nomy and hiSlunes on the musical glasses as regularly as we kink for anything. It was not surprising, there fore, to Ind him at his post lasi night, bringing with him his numerous transparencies • illustrative of the phe nomena - of - the' heavens, . and the 'aforesaid musical glasses.' TO record the fact of: the brier return of this gentleman is all that is, pecessary. His lecture, which he - delivers with his accustomed "'fluency, com prises a popular outline of the science with which it pro fesses to deal with notices of the discoveries - which have •. , . recentli been made by Mr. Hind apd'iither diligent star finders. It is replete with interesting inTarination, while hiS diaiiarnS, stationary and moveable; iV,:i such practical force to hii descriptions as, tile public: understanding ..;,,,, . requires. ST. MARTIN'S TIALL.—Last night Mr. Glover gave his annual . cOnceit in the 'hall, - When a very numerous audience assembled 16 listen to Clara, Novello, Rita Favanti. Madame Sedlatzek, Madame Amadei, with Sims Reeves, and others. On the whole the concert afforded satisfaction. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 14, REGENT• BTREET.—Messrs. Grieve and Telbin, ever alive to the wants of the public in that branch of art in which they have become so justly celebrated, exhibited yesterday a diorama illustrating the route of.the British army to the .seat "of war, combined with. the much-admired Overland Mail Diorama, which has been entirely renovated on this occasion. The views of Constak- tinople, - St. - Petersburg, and . Sebastopol, were also •shown; as well as a new picture by night of 'the Darda nelless; from a sketch by Lieutenant O'Reilly, of the Retribution. In this scene the general effect of moon light on the water is extremely well managed. The exhi tion commences with the embarkation of the first body .of .troops from the Southampton docks, on board a large steamer, which occupies the front of the picture, while its supposed progress .is indicated by the moving of the back scene, on which is pass in review _Portsmouth, Spithead, the Isle, of Wight,. Osborne, and so on to the arrival of the troops at. Malta. The leading views have all been described before, but they cannot be either too highly or too frequently praised, not only for their local interest, but also for the artistic skill with which they are designed and executed. The diorama concluded with the celebrated Taj Mehal, com prising the gateway, the exterior of that magnificent building, - by moonlight, and the interior, showing the elegant marble screen, by lamplight. Many of the scenes were' much applauded,. and the whole exhibition appeared to giVe great satisfaction. - THE NEW CATTLE MARKET,--A deputation from the parish of St. Mary's, Islington, consisting of the clergy, Ministers, churchwardens, trustees, and vestry-clerk, has just presented a petition 'to the Court of Common Council, with reference to the alteration in the day of holding the market, so as to avoid the desecration of the Sabbath. The petition, which was signed by 16,000 inhabitants, and bound in a large volume, was, after some discussion, ordered, upon the suggestion of the Lord Mayor, to be read, as was also a letter from the Bishop of London, in which the right rev. prelate ex pressed an earnest hope that the petition would be fa vourably received, and that, thereby, the desecration of the Sabbath might be diminished. Th e p e titi on was re ferred to the Markets' Committee, with power to report to the Court of Common Council. , WESTMINSTER ABBEY ; OR, THE DAYS OF THE RE- f s'o'lWituhdietsefrioafrs." that Itg great tdestined monumentto FORMA TTON, " is the title of the new historical romance beings of the mind" as i ns ti nc t with vitality and pa ssion as the world-famous p ersona g es of the Notre Da me of Victor Hu g o. The whole abbe y ingenious i application of th e un ity peopleb ofy t h t h e e p a theauthorst Gw io with hh o c, able y a t n hothreatre for the most i m p or t an t is, bid a e e s e s m , events of the dawning Reformation. The most interest ing historical personages of the age are grouped upon its vast stage "in their very form and lineaments as they lived." Sing Henry VIII.. Anne Boleyn, Car dinal Wolsey, Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley, revisit the sunshine at the bidding of the literary necroinancer, and . sweep- , the. dust of ages from its aisles, while the personage of the martyr hero, and the extraordinary combinations of his doom are alone sufficient to entitle the author of " Whitefriars" to the highest honours of original and pathetic genius.—Britanaza. FAILIIRE.—The letters from Paris mentionl that a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. 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The Zoist, No. XLV. A curious and singularly attractive series of papers relating to the living and dead brain of the late Benjamin Robert Haydon, the historical painter, constitute the chief matter of interest in the quar terly journal of " Mesmerism and Cerebral Phy siology." There are some other contributions of vario us ability, but this group of papers relating to likaydon constitutes, we repeat, the principal charm of the new number of the Zoist for the quarter just commenced. The article on " Table Moving and Spiritual Manifestations" is admirable as an intellectual onslaught upon one of the most recent, as it is also one of the most extravagant, of all popular displays, of superstition. The review . of Mr. Townshend's last publication on "Mes merism" is worthy of particular attention as a di rect reply to a late, and, to our thinking in many respects, a very masterly analysis of that subject in the Quarterly. Subject for reflection will be fo , and in the record, penned by Mr. B. B. Mor rison, of mesmeric cures, among other diseases, of Paley, deafness, convulsions, and apparent con sul nption. Several other mesmeric cases are men ticaied further on by Dr. Esdaile in another contri. bution. Mr. Rutter's treatise on " Human Elec tricity" is examined by Phila.lethes. There are accounts of two mesmeric cures of ganglion by Mr. Capern, of St. John's Wood, and by Mr. Lloyd, of Fulford, in Yorkshire. Beside which there is a brief announcement, at the close of this number of the Zoist, of the progress made by the cause of " Mesmerism in Edinburgh." Readable as all these papers undoubtedly are, some of them, in deed possessing a singular attraction, the group of papers relating to Mr. Haydon, the historical painter, will be found, we believe, with the gene rality of readers, the most curious and most inte resting of all the contributions. They form a strange pendant to " Autobiography" edited by Mr. Tom Taylor. They tend appreciably towards the elucidation of the complex character of the un fortunate artist. The engraving accompanying them represents three views from a cast of the head of Mr. Haydon—the comprehension of which is aided by a phrenological account of the proper_ tions" discernible in the " development." Ob serve what Dr. Elliotson himself has written (pp. 62, 63) in reference to the poor suicide " I knew Mr. Haydon, from having been requested by him to visit some of his family in sickness, and I always cheerfully gave them my professional assistance. At the time of his suicide, Mr. Walter Bryant, of the Edg ware-road, invited me, with great good feeling, to assist in the inspection of the body. It was a frightful sight to behold him on the floor, with a gun-shot wound in his head, a deep gash in each side of his throat, and a half opened bloody razor at his side. The melancholy of the scene was increased by the strong marks of vanity in the arrangement of the death show—the body lying in his painting room, before an imperfect picture on his easel, a portrait of his wife placed opposite, and his diary open and just completed. When it is considered that a prayer-book also lay open at the gospel for the sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, and there were affectionate letters addressed to his wife and children, and a paper of directions, confessing distraction and wildly expressed insane vanity—' I have done nothing all my life that will render me fearful of appearing before the awful con sciousness of my invisible God, or hesitate to explain my actions !'—and a hope that his worthy and unworthy creditors would forgive him—the whole was harrowing, and an epitome of his previous life. Imperfection in his art —inordinate vanity—selfishness—strong domestic affection—bitterness, moral unscrupulousness, which is surely unprincipledness—violence—only moderate intel ligence, pharisaical airs, and superstition, characterised him.. Kis religion was, very different from genuine piety. It was the feeling and conduct which might be shown towards a very powerful person who could inflict miseiy, and grant him what he wished—grant that his son should get through the examination at Cambridge, that he might sell two of his pictures, and that people should flock to the exhibition of his pictures—to effect which purpose he wrote also strong and vulgar puffs." From a postscript to the second article in the Zoist for the new quarter, we extract the following as another illustration of the folly of belief in this monstrous humbug of table-rapping and spiritual manifestations. The writer has been protesting against thiS humbug, and designating every be liever in it " a blockhead." Whereupon he adds— "We have also given examples, alas too numerous, in our last number, of insanity produced by these igno rant fancies ; and now we have to record another, in the person of a well-known authoress, who always had indulged in such superstitions, and has of course adopted all the recent spirit fancies. She has gone stark mad and stark naked on the spirit-rapping. She was found the other day in the open street, as her mother bore her, except that she had a pocket handkerchief in one hand and a card in the other. She said the spirits had in formed her that, if she walked out so prepared, she would be invisible. She is now in a madhouse." So much for the blessings produced by this new importation from Yankeeland. THE BALTIC SEA. It is probable that this curious labyrinth of isle-en tangled and coast-sheltered waters will, after all, be the theatre of our first military operations in the struggle which it is now universally admitted is at hand. Its great length, and comparatively small breadth, give it the form of an extensive gulf, and as such it would be considered, if it were not separated from the North Sea by the low and narrow tract of land *hich forms the southern part of the Danish peninsula called Schleswig. The longest straight line drawn through the Baltic would be about nine hundred miles, and the breadth no where exceeds 150 miles. The area is computed at 160,000 square miles. The Gulf of Bothnia, which, is a vast sea in itself, running up between Norway and Finland, joins it on the north, and the Gulf of Finland prolongs it in the east. The entrance from the Atlantic is by a large gulf called the Kattegat, which separates Denmark from Norway and Sweden, and by three straits, the Sound, the Great Belt, and the Little Belt, which may be considered the three gates by which the Baltic is en tered. Having passed the pine-crowned cliffs of Norway, and threaded the numerous small isles of the Kattegat, we approach these fcrinidable gates. So far as regards the powerful naval expeditiOn that recently left our shores, we need only consider two of these gates or entrances. The southernmost, or Little Belt, which separates the peninsula of Jutland from the island of Funen, is too long, the navi gation too intricate, and the depth of water too variable to be attempted by large vessels. Its whole length is about 80 miles, and in some places, as at Ferdina, near the entrance, and at Middlefahrt, it is less than a mile in width. The depth varies from 4to 27 fathoms. The middle entrance, the Great Belt, separates the islands of Funen and Zealand. It is about 70 miles in length, and from eight to twelve miles in width. The navigation of this passage is also dangerous, owing to numerous shoals and small low islands. The third entrance, the Sound, through which one of the vessels of our fleet passed a few days since, separates Sweden from the island of Zealand. It is about 30 miles long, and asthe entrance, where it is narrowest, between Kronburg and Helsingborg, it is only a mile and a half across. The navigation of this channel is safe, and the depth of water varies from 19 to 20 fathoms. The fortress of Kronborg, which is about 25 miles from Copenhagen is placed at the extremity of the tongue of land on which stands the town and castle of Elsinour, and commands the entrance of the Sound. The whole of these three entrances, are strongly fortified, and are as completely the keys of the Baltic, as the castles and fortresses of the Dardanelles are the keys of the Black Sea and Constantinople, and it is somewhat singular that nature has thus interposed obstacles to the ambitious designs of Russia, by placing her, as it were, under arrest in her own vast dominions, with sentries at her only points of egress both in the north and south. Having passed the Sound, and arrived at Copenha gen, we are fairly within the Baltic. The northern shore is generally high and precipitons; - and covered with magnificent pine forests, producing timber of the finest quality ; the southern coasts, on the contrary, are low and marshy, and lined by numerous sand banks all the way td the entrance of the Gulf of Finland. The basin of the Baltic is of considerable extent. and it receives the waters of several large rivers, and the . drainage of msathain fifth of the surface of Europe. Perhaps in no otlier itZ country on the face of the globe does so in the course of the year as in the countries round the Baltic. This phenomenon may be alternatelybeace accounted for by the e with warm atmosphere of the sea being fin e moisture, and subject to a dry piercing cold, and by the rapid transition from one areto thethe i otrlieehneet granary Theproiv o provinces bordering the Balti c quantityc o mp are d o f t omtehl melted the globe ; and no portion of the earth app roac hi ng so near to the polar Th eir e cle im ea m n en b se e i n natural wealth. - snow water that falls into the Baltic renders it much less salt than the Bl ac k S ea. Its average depth is small compared with its area, being only forty to s i x ty . fathoms. It is to th ese t wo circumstances, its compara tive freshness and want of depth, is to be attributed that the shores, and nearly the whole of its surface, are every year covered with ice, which in gene ral, from the end of December to the beginning of April, locks up completely the harbours, straits, and bays, and interrupts the navigation. In severe winters large portions of the Baltic have been frozen sufficiently hard to allow of an army to cross. The current is not rapid ; it sets outward towards the Kattegat, and the tides are scarcely felt, the rise or fall at Copenhagen scarcely exceeding a foot. Another peculiarity of the Baltic, and of the gulfs in which it terminates, is exceed ingly important as regards the naval expedition which has just entered its waters. The ice does not leave the whole of this vast sheet simultaneously. The western parts are free and disengaged much sooner than the eastern, and from west to east the process of liberation once begun, stretches farther and further by well-known gradations.--Front (Justine' s .Russia. RAILWAY DILLS OF 185-I.—The report of the hoard of Tr ale to the general committee on railway and canal bills, on the railway bills of 1854, has just been issued. It appears from the report that the number of railway bills which have been deposited this session, amounts to 138. Two additional bills, not strictly railway bills, but relating to railways, have been considered with these, which makes the number included in the report 1400—Railway Record. -4 I ~. THE FUTURE OF TURKEY.' Amid the din of war, or in the more awful sus pense which precedes its first outburst, it may seem unseasonable to criticize institutions or re commend financial experiments. But, as far as human knowledge can foresee the future, the hos tilities which now threaten the world will have no common duration, and, even should peace be re stored more speedily than a thinking man sari venture to hope for, still its securitr must de pend on the elevation of a moral barrier agains aggression, and on the enlightenment and ,pres perity of those who, after all, must really decide their own destiny. The material improvement a this country cannot begin too soon. If the war were a thing of six months, we might be content to await its termination ; but in the approaching struggle of years, with the whole commerce of the East swept away, with',vast armies to be fed, clothed, paid, and pensioned, with few of the Ottoman pro vinces strongly attached to the Imperial rule, some notoriously disaffected, and some in actual revolt, it becomes us to see that what resources remain are duly developed, and that above all, facilities are made for the supply of food during the coming trials, not only to the armies, but also to the po pulation, whose attachment or disaffection may turn the scale at the crisis of the struggle. The Sultan's rule is virtually limited to Constantinople, and his counsellors are eliglitened and liberal only under the eye of Ambassadors and Consuls. Funds have been squandered and orders disregarded on this very subject of internal communication, and it is not likely that a better state of things will follow except under the authority and through the close supervision of men more upright and active con figuration than Pashas and their satellites. The geographical of the country, indented with inland seas and possessing capacious harbours, may be in part the cause of this neglect of land communication ; but the time is past when these can be considered sufficient, and the attention of those in authority must be sternly called to the facilitation of internal traffic, as the first condition of real improvement. Closely connected with this subject is one which has already received some attention at home. We are every year sending to the extremities of the globe bands of emigrants, the outcasts of our crowded shores or the hopeful pioneers of a new state. But why should they expatriate themselves to regions so distant that a letter only gives the in telligence of what is long past, and to revisit their country seems an idle dream ? Here, within a mo derate distance of their place of birth, is a land blessed with all that can afford the means of wealth and happiness. Here the emigrant does not find the blazing sun and sandy plains of Australia, nor is he exposed for m on th s to the insufferable cold of a Canadian winter. He conies to a portion of the earth the geography and productions of which are known ; he establishes himself in the neighbourhood of civilised nations, on the banks of thegreat-sea which is the historical centre of the earth ; he is on the highway between East and West ; by his exel tions another generation may see the commerce of the Old World, from Cadiz to Canton, take - the . • route of the Euphrates and the Persian Gulf ; and he advances the interests of the mother country by linking more closely to her these Indian depen.- dencies with which her greatness is bound up. Vast tracts of country in the neighbourhood of the noblest harbours, and watered by navigable streams, only want the hand of the cultivator to yield an abundant harvest. The corn of Russia, the wool of Australia, and the wines of France might be ri valled by the productions of Anatolia and Syria, and the deserted cities of antiquity once more raise their heads in the centre of a new race and a more durable civilisation. The only obstacle to the regeneration of these glorious regions is the domination of an effete religion and an in capable race. The authority of the Mahomedan ecclesiastics extends over three-fourths of the land which forms the fairest portion of the Turkish empire. By the system of vacoufs the church has gradually drawn to itself all that is most valuable in the territorial property of the country. The wealth of medieval Rome in Wes tern Europe did not approach the proportions to which the resources of the Ottoman church have attained in our own day, yet the last has become great by the same means, and through the influence of the same social conditions. On the conquest of new 'rJtory a part has always been set aside by the Turks for the service of religion ; but these lands form but a small part of the ecclesiastical possessions, which have accumulated for centuries, chiefly in the following manner :—As the possessor of land, whether Osmanli or Rayah, was exposed to the plunder and oppression of his superiors, while the property of the church was in violable, he was willing and was encouraged by the class who were both ecclesiastics and lawyers to conclude a fictitious sale, by which the land was nominally transferred to the church, while the original possessor received the benefit— on these conditions, however, that if he died with out children the land became altogether the pro perty of the church, who thus, in return for her protection, purchased the reversion, on certain conditions, of vast tracts of land. By the extinc tion of families most of them are now ecclesiastical property, and this accumulation of wealth in. the hands of the most bigoted and intolerant priesthood forms the chief obstacle to any improvement, and is one of those deep-seated evils which neither Mahmoud nor Abd-ul-Medjid have until now dared to touch..---Constantinople Correspondent of the Times. RAILWAY TRAFFIC BETURNO. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST BAILWA.Y.— Traffic return for the week ending April 8, 1854 £12,963 1 7 Corresponding week last year 11,492 19 9 Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 139,978 3 0 Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 122,377 3 1 LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending April 1, 1851 ..... - 216,017 /2 1 Corresponding week last year 13,731 7 7 Increase in 185:4 22,310 4 6 MILITARY CAMP, OR TRAINING GROUND.—The autho rities of the War-office, having obtained a grant from Parliament of 100,000/., fur the purpose .of purchasing land for occupation by the army, have bought about 4,000 acres of land at Aldershot, Farnham, and Ash, in the counties of Hampshire and Surrey, about 35 miles from London. From the bold elevations and undulating character of the land, it is admirably adapted for that purpose. The Basingstoke Canal, with some contribu tory jakes at Ash, affords opportunities of display in crossing rivers, and exercise in various other military tactics. The nearest railway stations from London will bo the South-Eastern and the South-Western, both at Ash, and within a mile of the ground. It is intended to encamp the militia ou the ground in the ensuing month. Parties are already building and speculating on the im proved value of land in that locality. COMMUNICATION WITH TURKEY.—The communica tion with Turkey has further been improved by the es tablishment of a supplementary mail service between Marseilles and Constantinople by packets of the French Government. French mail packets will hereafter leave Marseilles for Constantinople six times i n eac h mon th, viz. on the Ist, 6th, 11th, 16th, 21st, and 26th of the month. The packets leaving on the Ist, 11th, and 21st will call at Malta, Syra, Smyrna, Mytilene, the Darda nelles, and Gallipoli, and those leaving on the 6th, 16th, and 26th will call at the Piraeus, at Messina, and Gallipoli. The latest period for posting in London let ters intended to be forwarded by these packets, will be the evenings of the 3rd, Bth, 13th, 18th, 23rd, and 28th o f each month ; but when the month has 31 days, letters m ay be posted on the 29th instead of the 28th. On the eovethneringhsanwdh, e n l e a t n t e y r s of must te d a b t e e s p a b o s o t v e e d p o ec n isi t e h d e f p a r ll ev o i n ous i a Sunday. ST. PETERSBURG.—The advices from Russia continue to exhibit a total absence of reaction from the rapid de terioration of the Government paper currency. At St. Petersburg strong evidence is given of the view enter tained by the commercial classes as to the value of the statements attempted to be diffused, that a stock of bullion remains in the fortress equal to 19,000,0001. or 20,000,0001. sterling, by the fact that the bank-notes for which this gold is represented to be the security have fallen to a discount of 12 per cent. The last quotation of exchange on London was 331 d., and there is every indication that the Czar can hope for no financial re sources to enable him to maintain large armies out of his own territory for any lengthened period. Mean while, mercantile disasters of considerable importance are taking place. Ilja Stepha,noff, a cotton-dealer at St. Petersburg, has just failed for about 70,000/., together with M. Jensen, also a broker at Riga, for about 40,000/., while at Moscow the three firms of S. Alexe yeff, T. Mathias, and C. Kyber, the amount of whose liabilities is not yet known, have likewise suspended At Riga the weather was mild, and the ice was expected to break up about the 7th of this month. ves sels had arrived, and some of them wouldSab:evelxirkeeleytet; take away cargoes. At Revel, also, it t as w es of tallow, hemp, exports would yet be made. h se e n m t p t , o & r c i . , , us w si e a re an i d n sphirio)pgeredszsi:tmeSil:t.:Pr.cetersburg, to be t l f i l) sh r d story of the o A u T r a Evßi Village," , e by s 11 . a A r y genuine old school, has become very rare ; but Miss Mitf or d, the most truly English of our popular authors, has provedby that the style has lost none of its charm, and the inci dents and character none of their interest. S uc h a heroine as "Katy" would make the fortune of any un known writer ; and the various adventures of the tenants of "The H a ll," and "The Great Farm," afford materials for novel -writing which even an inexperienced constructor of stories must have rendered e ff ect i ve. In the hands of the authores s of " Our Village," the narrative be comes one of the most attractive that has been pub lished for some years ; and its literary merit, in con junction with its purely national character, must recom mend " Atherton" to every reader of taste iu the kingdom. the rce, 'g od, soon Ist of g Of Lem 13 to aerto a cir- con the you, ;0 0 11 Ort11: P l a ce adept LID you, I Will coal' that e pre - Ai at' to oh s two 10 G4} i 20 10 20 35 28 i