The Sun. — London, England, 1854-06-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1854. thinking their reasonable independence invaded, will rather be thankful for the moral support of the nation's Representatives. There is no prospect of the introduction of a " decimal coinage" during the present session. Like other useful reforms, it has been postponed for an indefinite period in consequence of the war ; and from what fell from Mr. GLA.DSTONE on Tuesday we fear that other difficulties will be in terposed in the way of its attainment. And y e t its advantages are universally recognised. It is on every side acknowledged to be " a labour saving machine," which would materially reduce the amount of useless work, and greatly diminish the chances of error in every office and counting house in the kingdom. Nay, more, it would simplify our transactions with other nations, and go a great way towards the introduction of a uniform system in all civilised countries. It is, indeed, strange that England should so long have lagged behind the spirit of the age, that the " most commercial country in the world" should perversely cling to that which was deprecated by every commercial man, and which reflected deep discredit on the Parliament and people of the United Kingdom. But although all men are agreed on the un equivocal advantages of a " decimal" system, there is by no means the same concurrence of opinion as to the' detlils of the contemplated measure. The "unit" constitutes the great cause of difference. The " pound" sterling has many influential advocates. The Committee of the House of Commons reported unanimously in its favour, while the Decimal Coinage Association has been• expressly framed . on that basis. Such powerful support renders it exceedingly improbable that any different " unit" should be adopted, and yet for reasons which we have repeatedly put forward in these columns, we are convinced that the " pound" unit, with the several sub-denomina tions recommended by the Committee, would be not. only exceedingly injurious to the humbler classes, to all those whose wages or earnings are expended " in terms of pence," but that it would also tend to retard, if not altogether to prevent, the introduction to that universal system which is so greatly to be desired. We shall look to the latter objection in the first instance. There is no other nation in the world which has so large a " unit" as a pound, or so many as four denomi nations of coins specified in accounts. If the " pound" were adopted, we should have pounds, florins, cents, and mils—in place of francs, or florins, and cent, which are found sufficient in all continental nations. We could never hope to bring round the people of other lands to adopt such a . cumbrous system —one almost as irra tional, we might say as barbarous, as that now in use. If we wanted to assimilate the coinage, we should make up our minds to another change scarcely less troublesome than the first, while by •a single alteration of the right description, we might pave the way to the speedy attainment of the great desideratum. Looking to that which would agree with the greatest number of other nations, there can be no doubt that the franc or florin of twenty-pence, which might be termed the " double franc," would be • the most useful " unit "—far more so than the florin of two shillings, which has been so strenuously urged. In fact, so far as other countries are concerned there could be no doubt between the two florins—and the question rests between them, for the exclusive pound could not lee retained, rendering four denominations imper ative where two would otherwise answer every purpose, while for domestic purposes the advan tages of the former would be equally clear—no alteration in the penny being required—the coin in which the poor man's dealings are almost in variably conducted. Now, in the first place, we submit that it is the interest of the poor man that should chiefly be con sulted. He will receive no benefit from the sim plification of accounts, for he has none to keep, and the parties who will really be served by the alteration should pay the price—i.e., submit to any inconvenience that cannot be avoided. `With a florin of twenty pence all the exist ing coins would be available—none would occasion difficulty. We should gradually in troduce the cent in place of the farthing; but until the latter could be called in, and altogether withdrawn from circulation, four of them would always be equal to one penny or five cents ; the penny would remain unaltered, while the 3d., 4d., 6d., and ls. would respectively be 15, 20, 30,and 60 cents, the florin of 2s. 120, and the half crown 150 cents, or 11 20c. and lfl. 50c. re spectively. The introduction of the actual florin and its sub-denominations, the franc or half florin, 10d., the quarter florin, 5d., and the five and ten florin pieces in gold to Bs. 4d. and 16s. Bd. present currency would be useful, and could gra dually be brought into circulation ; but there would be no immediate or violent disturbance, so long as we chose to retain all or any of the coinage now in use. How different would this be with th e poun d unit, or the florin of 2s. All the matters t rea t e d of in terms of pence—all postage and receipt stamps, all tolls, would be altered. The Go vernment or private toll proprietor would not submit to lose 4 per cent., therefore they would levy 20 per cent. additional. The report of the select committee distinctly pointed to the result. The loss on postage alone would be 400,000/. per annum ; and if we take receipt stamps, and other matters, public or private, it might b e counted in millions.. This is a serious, and, to our minds, an insuperable objection to the pound But it is not all. The workinc , man would not find that the five-cent piece, ten of which he would receive in exchange for his shilling, would in small, transactions, such as be would be engaged in, possess a higher purchasing power than the penny, of which he formerly re ceived twelve for his shilling. He would there fore lose 20 per cent. on three-fourths of his earnings—a formidable reduction, when it was not the masters or employers that would benefit, and when, therefore, there would be no prospect of the matter rectifying itself in time. It is erroneous to say that the change in ire land had been effected without inconvenience. We well remember hearing loud complaints from all but the merchants and traders. The humbler classes were particularly strenuous in their objec tions to that which they asserted, and with much apparent reason, reduced their wages by one thirteenth, or Bid. per cent. By all means, then, let the agitation for a deci mal coinage be continued, but let it not be as sumed that it must be conducted on the basis of the " pound" unit. That question is one not merely affecting the commercial interest, but on which some evidence should be taken on behalf of the working classes, whose interests have hitherto been disregarded in the discussions. unit. CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, on Saturday after noon. The ministers present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll , Viscount Palmer . ston, the E,rl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Si r J . Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir William Molesworth, and Earl Granville The Council sat three hours and a half. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, honoured the Opera Comique at the St. James's Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office on Sa turday, to the Governors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, and Malta. No change has been made in the Private Secretaries of Lord John Russell. Mr. John Edward Boileau has acted in that capacity, with Mr. Arthur Russell, during the last as well as the present session of Parliament.— Observer. OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.-Mr. L. H. Noel, Mr. Robert Thompson, and Mr. Thomas K. Gloagan are appointed seeoud-class clerks, and Mr. William Ken rick to be acting second-class clerk in the Accountant- General's Department of the Admiralty, at Somerset house.—Observer. ACCIDENT TO THE DUKE OF SASE-COBURG.—COBITRG, June 22.—Yesterday, being the anniversary of the birth of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, the following accident hap pened to Yln. The duke was in his e3rriagc, when at th e cutranee of the town one of the horses fell, and the duke was pitched violently out of the carriage. By a providential hazard, his highness was not injured. He got up immediately and walked to the chateau, receiv ing; as be went, the Inost lively marks of satisfaction at his escape. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at from 8,000 to 10,000 bales, in cluding 1,000 American, 500 Surat, and 25 Sea Island, taken for export. The market closed firmly, and prices had an upward tendency. The sales comprised 7,000 American, 200 Pernam and Marauham, at 61d. to 71d.;.100 Bahia, at 61d. ; 300 Egyptian, at 6d. to Bd.; 1,200 Surat, at 3d. to 4ict.; and 80 Sea Island, 50 at 111 to is. ld., and 30 at Is. 7d. to 2s. per lb. Railway Shares were quiet. The New York accounts do not present any fea tures of particular interest. The stock market was dull and heavy. Cotton tended downwards. The flour market was inactive. Very little was doing in breadstuffs for export. It is stated in a private communication from New York, that the " Cotton yet remaining in the interior will not be delivered as freely as was ex pected a few weeks since, owing to the already large amount controlled by planters at the ports for which they can find no satisfactory market. Should prices materially improve the crop will not be limited to 2,800,000 bales. In regard to the growing crop, there is nothing new to report. Although the spring has been a late one, the plant is healthy, and there is season enough yet to se cure a good crop." The ship Herefordshire has arrived, with dates of March 10, from Sydney. She has only 300 ounces of gold on board. The Prince of Wales brings accounts of March 25. The import markets were still dull. There is not stated to be any gold on board. The letters from the Continent are satisfactory in respect to the growing crops. In Flanders wheat is looking most excellently, and promises an exceedingly abundant i crop. Rye had grown to mast gigantic proportions, and the straw was of unusual height and thickness. From the root to the summit it measured 2 metres and 60 centi metres. Such a size was scarcely ever before known. The price of bread in Belgium will be raised 1 centime per 50 killogrammes after this day, the 26th inst. The New Belgian Loan has been so rapidly subscribed for, that the al lotments must be particularly small. The Russian Loan at Amsterdam is reported to be a failure, and at Hamburgh it is stated to have met with very little success. The French Government has prohibited business in the-secu rity. In England there is a standing law against transactions in any new loan contracted for a country with which we are at war. The Hano verian Government is making propositions to the First Chambers for the establishment of a German fleet, the representation of the people at the German Diet, and the establishment of a federal tribunal. The Overland letters from India will be delivered on Wednesday morning. The East India Railway Company being now in the market for the loan of a million sterling upon debenture bonds, the question very naturally arises, whether, since there has been such a want of success in obtaining the capital, a revision of the system under which the Hon. East India Company and the Board of Control have granted concessions should not take place. We have con tended from the very commencement that it was most injudicious to concentrate into a compact monopoly the whole railway communication of India. Where a large amount of capital is to be obtained, there should be a subdivision of the amount under the guidance of different boards of direction, so as to interest an increased number of persons in the success of the projects, and to allow of personal exertion and influence at all times more powerful than mere official working. If the object of the East India Company, were ultimately to bring the railways entirely under Gove rnmen t control, it would be time enough to do this when they were constructed ; and all that is necessary is to keep them under one general code of regulations, such as is ensured by the presence of Mr. Melville, ex officio at each board. However, even if a false start has been made, there may be no motive for not now attempt ing some improved arrangement, and we believe that there are parties quite competent to suggest a plan by which the capital for the various lines known to be imperatively necessary could be raised in different portions with comparative ease. The following aro the railway "calls" due in July : Date due. Call. Dublin and Drogheda, Pref. 251 1 .C 2 10 18,500 Lancashire and Yorkshire (P and W Halves) Nemarket (Bury Extension) *Paris and Lyons 1 4 0 960,000 *Royal Danish.• Shrewsbury and Chester 5 per cent Red. Pref. Waterford and Kilkenny Pref l3 1 0 40,000 Wimbledon and Croydon lO 110 6.825 *Zealand 1 2 0 53,500 * The proportion called by foreign companies is 1,094,5001., but the holdings of English proprietors are not known. Total called in 1854 £8,500,672 The railway meetings announced are the fol lowing : Company. Date. Plare, &c. Aberdeen July 6, Radley's Hotel. Ambergate, &c. Central Peninsula of Portugal Aug. 1, Lisbon. Chester and Holyhead June 26, Euston-square. Dutch Rhenish Eastern Counties Llauelly London and Blackwall June 27, London Tavern. Lucca and Pistoja July 15, Lucca. Melbourne Dock and Railway June 30, London Tavern. Norfolk North British July 16, Edinburgh. North Staffordshire West Flanders Ditto. The English Stock Market "has been flatter, and with a very limited business doing, notwithstand ing the intelligence of the " superior" order to the Russian army to retire behind the Pruth. The probability of a change of Ministry, however, .is acting upon the market, for, although it is almost universally desired that Lord Aberdeen should re sign, there is the usual doubt as to whether the Cabinet would universally determine to quit with him, and political uncertainty, after such a rise in prices, renders the market sensitive. Consols have been 931 I f , and since at 931 being now again 93i The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been marked 93i to 94, and the Three per Cents. 9311 to 931. Exchequer-bills have been at 2s. discount to 2s. premium. The Bonds are at premium. East India Bonds are at Is. premium. Foreign securities have been very dull. Sar dinian Old Bonds are worth 85 to 86 : Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. are 90k, and Peruvian Three per Cents. 51. These have been the only bargains, except one in Spanish Passive at 4i. The other securities are merely nominal. The Railway Share Market hag been firm gene rally, with moderate dealings. Great Northern hive been heavy, however, and also Caledonian. French Shares have been at about previous rates nominally. The Gold Mine Shares are dull, the Joint Stock Banks scarcely so high, and the miscellaneous shares quieter. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOt ( Front the O(cial List. ) Itutßinc , vd• Ann, 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities o 3i g . 3i per Cent. Annuities 91 3i Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 India Bonds, 21000 ...... ........... Consols for Opening 19th July Exchequer Bills, 24d. /3000 00 25 Small Exchequer Bonds Scrip i P PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian 3 per Cent. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent B6 5 x d Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto Passive (Converted) Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian Bonds 4i per Cent. ex. 25 fr HALF-PAST TWO. Consols for Opening 19th July 93i t 1' d RECRUITING IN AUSTRIA.—A l e tt er f rom V arna , i n the Leipsick Gazette, says :—" The recruitment has never been effected with so much facility, the young men showing an extraordinary eagerness to enter the army. At Laybach, of the 35 men whom the town had to furnish, 25 are volunteers. In Croatia, the young men have come forward by communes to enrol them selves. In several places, it has not been necessary to proceed to any drawing." GERMAN SURGEONS FOR THE BRITISH FLEET. —The Independance of Brussels publishes, on the auhority of its Hamburg correspondent, the extraordinary state ment that, owing to the want of surgeons in the Eng lish ships in the Baltic, endeavours have been made within the last few days in various German towns to engage practitioners with the stipulation of good pay. ARRESTS IN SICILY.—The Offlicial Journal of the Two Aicilies, of the 9th, after recounting the fact we gave a few days ago of three political refugees, Inter donato, Savona, and Scarpeira having landed near Messina, state s th a t w h en th e h ouse in which tney were was surrounded by the armed force, they nevertheless contrived their escape under favour of the darkness of the night ; but that subsequently two of them, namely, Ipterdonato and Scarpeira, surrendered to theautho rities of the commune of Giardini to take their trial. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. SIEGE OF SILISTRIA DEFINITIVELY. RAISED. The following important telegraphic, despatch was received in Paris this (Monday) morning " BELGRADE June 25, 12 o'Clock N oon .—Th e Moniteur of Bucharest officially declares that, in obedience to orders from St. Petersburg, the siege of Silistria is raised, Giurgevo is evacuated, and the whole Russian army is about to retreat across the Pruth. The Turkish Embassy at Vienna has received official acounts from the theatre of war to the 15th, which state that Silistria can hold out for a long time. The loss of the Russians •n the 13th was enormous. In some laces the ditches were full of bodies. The Turks took two standards, and gained possession of a battery of mortars which had been abandoned by the Russians. The Comniander of the fort of Abdul Medjid, Hussein Bey, directed the sortie ; the Egytian troops distinguished them selves in a very remarkable manner. The Press of Vienna says :—" We learn from Bucharest of the date of the 17th that the troops posted near Erekli, on the road from Schumla to Silistria, moved on the 13th, and were fighting with a Russian corps of obseivation, on the 15th, at Baldakidi. This advance was supported by a flank movement on the part of Said-Pacha from bons touck by Semersikai. The Russians appeared in clined to withdraw. On the same day the Turks made another sortie from Silistria and established on the bank of the river a battery of mortars, the fire of which is directed on the Russian batteries in the islands. NATIONAL FESTIVAL, in Celebration of the ! life of us understand how it is he undertakes to Union between Englam' and France.—A GENERAL PUBLIC MEETING will be held at the EGYPTIAN HALL, MANSION.. , remove what he calls the " misapprehensions" HOUSE, on WEDNESDAY, the 28th ofJnne instant, at Two o'Clock R rt f the C o mmittee in the Afternoon, precisely, to rece ive a epo rom prevalent in regard to some of his recent, and, of Management on the proposed proceedings of the National Festival, and to adopt measures thereupon. by this time sufficiently notorious, observations. By Order. GEORGE SEDGWICK, Hon. Sec. Misapprehensions ? Why, • the language lately I addressed to the House of Peers by the First Lord of the Treasury, was altogether so plain and obvious in its meaning that it never for one instant admitted of the slightest possibility of being at all misunderstood. What was that lan guage? It is worthy of being particularly brought again before the notice of the public, now that we are close upon the sitting of the Upper House appointed for the Earl of ABERDEEN'S promised explanation. Listen ! Again and again, we say, mark ! and observe well what were those words—those deplorable words, deplorable as com ing from the lips of the Prime Minister of Eng land—those notable and notorious words, the mean i ng of which Lord ABERDEEN is going to explain in the House of Peers this evening, those words, in regard to which the Premier has re cently averred, there have been so many curious misapprehensions. Now mark ! After having observed "we shall direct our efforts to maintain, as far as reasonable [note the modulation and reservation !] what is called the security of Europe," Lard ABERDEEN, in that miserable speech of his, which followed the very noble and patriotic orations of Lords LYNDHURST, DERBY, and CLARENDON, added—" that peace of Europe which I cannot say I feel is very much en dangered by the chance of success of Russian ag gression." Is there any room, here, we ask, for the slightest degree of misapprehension ? Again we declare that words like these can only by pos sibility be " explained away," so to speak, by a distinct and deliberate recantation. Moreover—speaking of the treaty concluded twenty-five years ago between Russia and Turkey, speaking of the disgraceful Treaty of Adrianople, under cover of moving for a despatch in regard to which Lord ABERDEEN is to-night going to clutch desperately at the last straw of a seeming oppor tunity of explanation the Prime Minister of England remarked—" I say, considering the position of the Russian army at the gates of Con stantinople, the treaty of Adrianople did not show en the part of Russia any great desire for terri torial aggrandisement. And what has happened since ? That treaty was signed twenty-five years ago, and since that time has Russia acquired a single inch of Turkish territory?—has Russia been engaged in any hostilities at alt with Turkey ? None in the world. The only interference Russia had with Turkey was to save the existence of the Turkish Empire, by sending a Russian army to Constantinople to protect it against the Egyptian invasion. That is all that has happened since the Treaty of Adrianople. Now, give me leave to say that the Treaty of Adrianople was signed twenty five years ago, and no war, "no aggression, has taken place ; but, on the other hand, signal ser vice has been rendered by Russia to Turkey. I think that if we can secure the same result for twenty-five years to come, we shall not do amiss, and that, I believe, is the object which we ought to have in view." Recollect that these are the words, not of NESSELRODE, but of ABERDEEN ! The statesman.who uttered them, to use the memora ble expressions once employed upon a different occasion, and in regard to a very different personage, by my Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the states man who uttered these words was—" not the Minister of Russia, or the Minister of Austria, or the Minister of Prussia, but [save the mark] the Minister of England." These are the words, in fact, that my Lord ABERDEEN is going to-night in the House of Peers to explain—these are the words, in regard to which he says there have been so many and such extraordinary misapprehensions. Do they admit of misapprehension ?—Examine them syllable by syllable, sentence after sentence, and ask yourselves ; can thsy admit of misappre hension ? We maintain they do Not ! We insist that they no more admit of misapprehension than those wonderfully contrasting declarations which had previously fallen from the lips of the Earl of CLARENDON—" We must now give Russia to uns derstand that all Europe is not to be disturbed— that great interests are not to be dislocated—that nations are not to have fresh burdens imposed upon them—that great social, political, and com mercial risks are not to be incurred—and, above all, that the greatest powers in Europe are not to be united for any insignificant result. I think we are all agreed that in this case any mere tem porary repression would only postpone the danger by which we have been threatened, and that safety can only be sought in measures which shall pre vent its recurrence." The language of the Foreign Secretary was resolutely expressive of the deter mination of England and France to avenge the injustice done to Turkey by the CZAR, and to extort adequate guarantees for the future from the Russian Government. Whereas the language of the Prime Minister was equally expressive of— what ? A panegyric upon that same Russian Go vernment ! An earnest encomium on its modera tion, on its good faith, and on its pacific intentions ! Otherwise how could the Premier inquire whether, since 1829, Russia has engaged in any hostilities with Turkey ? And himself reply at once to the inquiry—" None in the world !" Otherwise how could Lord ABERDEEN maintain so very earnestly that the Treaty of Adrianople did not show on the part of Russia anygreat desire for territorial aggran disement ? Nay, it was in this spirit of encomium upon the moderation evinced by Russia in her con duct towards TURKEY that Lord ABERDEEN insisted on the 19th instant, in the House of Lords, that Russia had secured to herself no territorial acqui sitions at the expense of Turkey through the medium of that same notable Treaty of Adrianople. When that Treqty was signed, argued my Lord Anntiinhis character as the panegyrist of Rus sian moderation—" no acquisition of Turkish terri tory was made by Russia." Now, what, let us ask for a moment, was in reality the nature of this same Treaty of Adrianople ? Sir ARCHIBALD AusoN, the historian of modern Europe, has called it emphatically in one of his latest volumes—AmoN has called the Treaty of Adrianople 44 One of the most glorious in the Russian, one of the most disastrous in the Turk ish, annals." (Vol iii., p. 358.) And no wonder. For by this treaty, which, according to Lord ABERDEEN', secured "no acquisition of Turkish territory to Russia"—behold_what was actually accomplished ! Moldavia and Wallachia were evacuated, it is true, by the Russian army, as well as were also those portions of Bulgaria and Roumelia which had been seized during the campaigns of 1828 and 1829 by the invading Muscovites. But the Delta of the Danube, the islands formed by the mouths of that great river, were "retained" by Russia ! And while the CZAR thus secured to himself, through this apparently i ns i gn ifi can t b ut really important acquisition o f T ur ki s h t err it ory he acquir e d a grea t d ea l more b y the same treaty, but i n a more flagrant man ner, fromfortressesia(tmong the SUL TAN ' S A s i a ti c do minions, R uss i a thereby obtained, in fact, t Asia Minor as valuable as—Anapa, and that ttsbe carri e d i n remem b rance ikh, and Al z k ow , an d Ak hd Pkala7liki a n n A.h . Let —let it be espec i ally borne in mind that, while Bussia secured lsrailow and a tract of country lower down in Europearl Turkey, s h e o b ta i ned, besides other fortresses i n A • that Treaty Asiatic Turkey the secured - to fortress and Pashalik of Akhaltsikh' by the Treaty ABERDEENby deClared ef Adrianople w of hic A h dr in ia y nop L le or — d acquisition of Turki s h • , Russia "no territory —at any rate, none to speak of I A nd this Treaty of A driano p le is actuall y what is crow held up to Europe as the model f or the terms of a new pacification. If we obtain a peace with Russia upon any terms like that we are told by Lord ABERDEEN, that we shall not cc do amiss !" We shall not "do amiss" if we end the present war with Turke y by a treaty like that THEATRE ROYAL DRITRY LANE; Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Jules 26, Will be performed (3d time) Meyerbeer's Opera LES HUGUE NOTS. Characters by Ma ame Itudersthrff, Madame Caradori, Mdlle. Janola (her 3d appearance in England), Herr Reichardt, Sig. Gregerio, Herr Grahn, Herr Zaph, Herr Haase, Herr Pasque, Herr Pecz, and Herr Formes. Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Herr Anchuez. Prices—Stalls, 7s; Dress Circle, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The Box-office open daily from Ten till Six, where places may be secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and Cock. 63, New Bond-street. Notice.—Doors open at Half-past Seven. Performance commences at Eight. Haf-price at Half-past THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Backatone. THIS EVENING, ..Tufiz 26, Will be performed the Drama of THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, G. Vandenhoff, W. Farren, Compton, and Buckstone ; Miss Reynolds, Miss E. Grey, and Mrs, Fitzwilliam. After which THE YOUNG KING. To conclude with THE TURNPIKE GATE. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN. THIS EVENING, JuNE 26. Will be performed FROSI VILLAGE TO COURT. Principal characters by Messrs. Harley, Fisher, and Cathcart ; Misses Mur ray; Heath, and Vivash. Arter which, THE COURIER OF LYONS. princip al David d ar F a is e h te e r r s by Messrs. C. Kean, J. Vining, Addison , G raham. , Cathcart, and Saker ; Misses C. Leclerq, Heath, Ternan, and R. Terry. To conclude with THE HALF OF THE BALLET, LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING, Jum: 26, Will be performed A CHARMING WIDOW. Principal charac ters by Mr. C. Mathews and Miss Talbot. Followed by a new Drama, entitled SUNS'IINE TIIROUGa THE CLOUDS. Characters by Messrs. Rosiere, Gladstone, F. Matthews; Madame Vestris, Ails; Hugh e s, an d Hi ss Oliver. To conclude with BEFORE BR EAKF.IST. Character s by fir. C. Mathews. M essrs. F. Matth ews ant Baker; Miss Wallism, &c.. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI, Proprietor, air. 13. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. TIII3 EVENING, JUNE 24, Will be performed MASKS AND FACE?, Characters by Messrs. B. Webster, L. Marray, P. Bedford, &e.; Mesdam,s Celeste, Wool gar, &e. After which will be presented the New Extravaganza, entitled A MOVING TALE, supported by Mr. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by :WAITING FOR AN OMNIBUS IN LOW THER ARCIIDE IN A RAINY DAY. To conclude with HIS FIRS CHAMPAGNE. STRAND TDEA.TRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Allc:oft. Tars EVENING, JUNE 26, Will be performed BLEAK 110Ut;E. After which, THE FETA OF THE BALLET, To conclude with MEI. AND MR4. WHITE. Atatts, is.; Boxei, 35.; Pit, I:. Id ; liallery, lid.; Private 13otr, s, XI 11s. 61., to be had of Mr. Alleroft. 15, New Bond-stre,•t. At'.3TLErS EtTROPIL'S zkrArwx.u. A. \IPEILL'iIEA:CIM. Lessee and llanager, )7r. William Cook a. TIIIS EVENING, JITNE 26, Will be presented the new Grand Mi itary Spectacle, en titled THE COSSACKS ; or, Vive la Franca. Followed by a series of Chef d'Oavres of Art, or Equitation DE LA. HALT rE ECOI,E deve ()pad in the in th 3 CIRCLE, the whole arranged and conducted by Mr. William Cooks To conclude with RUSSIA AGuNs 12 TURKEY, NOW ON TRIAL. Box-Office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. !TTGH WA' .TER AT LONDON !MID }E. T G 24 cain.after 2 Evenin2 44 min.aft. 2 To . 'r,R.Rrox--Morning 0 inin.after 3 Evening 20 raivotft. 3 PHR.. W EAT kt.—strze Or ria4, JuNE 25. Tii&RIIONIETEU, IN TILE SHADE • 79 - highest since noon yesterday. 60 —lowest this morning and during the night. 80—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30105—falling. WIND, S.—Light breeze, with very sultry weather— the hottest day this year. In the evening heavy clouds portending thunder, with light rain. JUNE 26. 81—'lighest since noon yesterday. 66 -lowest this morning and during the night. 71—th:s day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.78. WIND, S.W.—Smart breeze, and cloudy weather, with partial sunshine. t x, - •N4' 4 N nnnn , n 4: § Ain . L )NDON, MONDAY, JUNE 2G, 1854, OMINOUS NEWS! If the movement on the part of the Russian Army—announced in the following alarming tele graphic message from Vienna this morning —be taken as the preliminary to a disgraceful pacifica tion, it augurs as its ultimate consequence the bloocWst war the world has yet known—a war ushered in by a wide-spread and appalling Revo lution. Here is the intelligence : RUSSIAN REPLY TO THE AUSTRIAN SUMMONS. THE CZAR CONSENTS TO EVACUATE THE PRINCIPALITIES. "VrmsTA, Monday Morning.—The night be fore last the Russian reply to the Austrian Note reached Vienna. "It is to the effect that, as a mark of high consideration for Austria, Russia consents to eva cuate the Turkish territories." Can it be that .it was in anticipation of this announcement the Earl of ABIMDEEN ob served with such sinister emphasis on Monday evening last, when speaking of Peace—" may look to the attainment of that great object in a shorter time than, many Noble Lords seem to think probable." It is suspicious. A " shorter" time ? Scarcely a week has elapsed after the " forty years' friend" of the Emperor NICHOLAS has given utterance to that significant sentence of foreboding when we receive the above abrupt intimation that the CZAR has consented to evacuate the Principalities ! Again we say it is suspicious. If itlhave ever been advisable for the people o England to be prudent and watchful, it behoves them to be ! After the massacre of Sinope, and a doubled income tax, and two years of trouble and disquietude, and the prolonged devastation of the provinces, and the fit ting out of enormous fleets for the Baltic and the Euzine, and the despatch of expeditionary armies from England and France to the seat-of-war —is all to be hushed up through our complacently allowing Russia to escape by the evacuation of the Principalities? Not without infamy both to the French and to the English Governments ! No. The conditi on , of the war are somewhat weightier and somewhat more considerable. Russia must be compelled to indemnity to Turks give pecuniary y for the devastation of the Danubian Principalities. The CZAR must be ad compe ll e d to yi e ld __equat e co the e e s n u sa bl t i i m on e for the expenses o f the w ar not only to , es p o r f ec t a h u e_ Beyond eth4iilis Porte, but also to the Ott oman Government. tionary measures must be adopted in regard t o the future. Whether the Crimea should b e re stored to the SULTAN, and Finland to the KING} of Norway and Sweden, and Russia be com pelled to disgorge other robberies from her immediate neighbours—must yet, of course, be decided. But at any rate two conditions no less remarkable than these are already quite obvious and indisputable. Tho opening up of the river Danube and the opening up of the Black Sea to the whole world's navigation. Such are the manifest and absolutely essential conditions of peace with Russia, and not the mere evacuation of the Principalities. This evening the Prime Minister of En g land is to favour the country with his Explanation. It remains to be seen whether this explitkaticni"will \ s ow amount to a diAtinet recautatiou. tlales.s my Ni z.. 1. , ;‘, i 1 1 ,4 d ABERDEEN consent t o th e unwh me ne ity of eating his own words—a revolting ne- L or - it must be confessed —we cannot for the L '004171 ) L a s INMailam IMMINIMINII which ALISON has designated " one of the most glorious in the Russian, one of the most disastrous in the Turkish, annals." We shall not "`do amiss." if we close the present contest by securing a quarter of a century of peace, a peace like the 25 years which have intervened between the present time and the date of the Treaty of Adrianople—that treaty which my Lord ABER DEEN at the same time reminds us (rather blunderingly) was dictated by Russia when her army was "at the gates of Constan tinople." It is true that, just now, the position is some what different from that which closed the cam paign of 1829. The Russian army has not passed the Balkan, has not reached Adrianople, has not arrived before the gates of Constantinople. True, also, that hitherto it has been worsted by the Turks alone, or aided only by the Egyptian con tingent, in almost every successive engagement— at Oltenitza, at Citate, under the walls of the gloriously defended stronghold of Silistria, ! True, moreover, that Turkey in 1854, unlike her position in 1828 and 1829, is backed by England and by France, as well as sustained by the enthusiasm of her own gallant population ! No matter—set every other consideration aside— my Lord ABERDEEN has spoken —we shall not "do amiss" if we secure peace for twenty-five years more by some such another arrangement as the Treaty of Adrianople ! That was the argu ment addressed to the House of Lords on this very day se'nnight, Monday, the 19th of June, 1854, by the Earl of ABERDEEN, Prime Minister of England, and that is what my Lord ABERDEEN is about to explain to the House of Peers, and through the House of Peers to the country, on this very evening, Monday, the 26th of June, 1854—exactly a week having elapsed between the declaration and (we venture to hint) the rather needed explanation. Perhaps the public generally will take more in terest in the University debate of Thursday night than in most of its wearisome predecessors. The proposed substitution of an Elective Council for the old close Hebdomadal Board was pretty com monly understood and relished, but all the minor points over which the initiated squabbled, and the Government were generally defeated, nobody comprehended, and nobody cared to comprehend. Mr. HEYWOOD'S proposal, on the contrary, is int el ligible to alinost every man who has heard of Oxford. All the worshipping portion of the c )mmunity, at least, fully understand it ; both the larger half, according to the reli gious census, which now are forbidden to learn Latin and Greek, or anything &se at Oxford, and who almost to a man resent the exclusion as an indignity, and the moiety of church-going persons, nearly as large as that of Nonconformists, who are divided into two sec tions on this question—all of these feel a deep in terest in the subject of Dissenters' admission to the Universities. There can be little doubt which 1 is the popular view with electors, and which must therefore sooner or later become law, whether the Lords be restive or not. Adding the vast numbers of liberal and intelligent Churchmen to the entire body of Dis senters, the real majority against exclusive ness must be very large. Indeed, not only on this, but on almost every question of the retention or abolition of religious distinctions in public and national institutions, the tide of conviction and feeling is flowing strongly in the right direction. We trust it will continue to do so, until in all matters touching the relations between Man and his MAKER, the profane demarcations originated or upheld by law will be swept away for ever. We are not surprised that many liberal hearts and en larged minds should be slow to see the full and fair application of their warmly-cherished opinions, but they will rapidly learn. A right heart is a most successful teacher ; and we quite expect that the pleasing symptoms of religious liberality, con spicuous in some of our younger senators, where it was not much looked for, will expand into something much more genial than the timid finality of the old school of Whig Constitution alists. The debate itself must be considered to have been as triumphant as the division. A majority of 91, in a house of 413 members, to abolish all requisitions but the oath of allegiance at entering Oxford University, was indeed one of the noblest votes of the House this year. Flagrant as is the absurdity of lads signing three or four hundred abstruse theological propositions as a passport to education, it is yet a marvel how 252 Members were got together to vote against a Cabinet, against any antiquated absurdity, and for a clean sweep of a venerable nuisance. Indeed, the House seemed a little frightened at itself, for good Mr. WALPOLE having raised up some bugbears about the horrible consequences of Dissenters obtaining literary and scientific degrees, and the vote being taken on the spur of the moment, a majority of nine was gained, in a much thinner house, to exclude Dissenters, as at Cambridge, from the honours of learning, although they might get the learning itself—an exclusion of little consequence except at the University itself, since the tripos would always show the standing of the successful student. Thanks to the honest and stringent examination, literary acquirements and mental power can secure their record. This last vote, too, may yet bo reversed. The debate, however, was the great triumph ; it shewed that the vote was given from a pre dominant conviction of its rectitude. Hardly a speaker denied_the impolicy of exclusion, or the unreasonableness of youths taking theological oaths. Dissenters have rarely got so many soft words in the House of late. They were, even with the " Noes," moral and influential, and educa tionally useful—in short, almost everything but suitable companions for Churchmen at Oxford. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Lord President, while obliged, as they thought, to vote them out of- this bill (the latter in rather awk ward inconsistency with his promise), yet gave them the most honied words. As in the Church Rates debatethe opponents of liberali tyseemed cowed by the consciousness of an indefensible principle, and their only arguments were the House of Lords, and the independence of Oxford ; both admitting of very obvious answers, and both actually an swered to the full satisfaction of the House and the country. Great stress was laid by some speak ' ers on the Universities being schools for the Church, and on the importance of a religious edu cation, which it was assumed could be given by the Church of England only. But the Church will be as free as ever under any arrangement to give its o wn theological instruction. In Scotland, the Free Church and some bodies of Dissenters have their theological institutions in voluntary connection with the national Universities, and we never heard it pretended that the Scotch youth were less religious than those of England, or the Scotch clergy inferior in theological knowledge to our own. Sir JOHN RAMSDEN, in his highly promising and beautiful maiden speech, most tho roughly exposed the irreligion generated by the compulsory religious worship at Oxford, and must have carried conviction on that point to the minds of even his opponents. Indeed, there is but one word, though we decline to use it, by which all this cant about religion in the business deserves to be designated. With the exception of a few stupid old High Church pa triarchs, every one knows that the contention is not for religion itself but for an ecclesiastical sys tem, which, as Mr. Fox observed, those who now profit by its good things wish to keep unchanged, upon the well-known " good old rule and simple plan." Dissenters of every class, so far as we can gather their sentiments from their own jour nals, have no wish whatever to place their sons in the present Colleges. Some of their prominent men, however, think that they might advan tageously have one of the New Private Halls conducted on their own religious principles, and connected with the University, not with the College. We entirely agree with Sir JOHN RAMS DEN, that suc h a un i on i n e d ucat i on m i g h t d o very mu c h t o engender mutual respect, and often a ttachment, b e t ween part i es who are uow b ut too much trai ne d to mutual antagonism. On the we feel assured that the vote must do good, The Liberal party at Oxford, so far from RETREAT OF THE RUSSIANS. A despatch dated Vienna, yesterday (Sunday) evening, says : " The Russians are in full retreat to Moldavia. " The Russians in the Dobrudscha are also re tiring. " A Turkish army, 20,000 strong, is advancing to relieve Rassova. "Omar Pasha is advancing with his entire force to the Danube. THE BRITISH EXPEDITION. Telegraphic advices dated Varna, June 15, state that the Duke of Cambridge, with the first division of the British army, had arrived there on the pre ceding day. _ _ _ A telegraphic despatch from the Turkish capital dated June 15, says : The division of Prince Napoleon is to embark for Varna on the 18th. Generals Bosquet and Allonville were to-tarrive at Adrianople on the 20th. Four thousand French and English troops were near Sebumla. Admiral Bruat, with his squadron, is going into the Black Sea, to take part in some great operation of the combined fleets. The army of Asia now numbers 70,000, com manded by General Guyon. Schamyl is close to Tiflis. STATE OF THE CRIMEA. The Moniteur de la Flotte quotes a letter from the Crimea of the 7th inst., announcing that a destruc tive fire took place on the 3d at Kherson, a fortress of Southern Russia, situate at the entrance of the Dnieper into the Black Sea : "The fire commenced during the night in the pro vision stores, and, as the wind blew from the west with much violence, it occasioned extensive ravages. A por tion of the docks was consumed, and it was feared at one moment that the entire town would become a prey to the flames. As there exists at the present a discon tent bordering on hostility against the Russians in that country and throughout the Crimea, it was believed that the fire had been kindled by the malcontents, the more so as a mutiny had lately broken out among the troops of the garrison. Major-General Slinski, the Military Governor, caused a number of persons to be arrested, and installed a court-martial, which was to sit perma nently. The town was in a state of the greatest desola tion The trade of the country was ruined by the war, and the population, which only lives by maritime in dustry, is reduced to the utmost misery. A decided hatred prevails against the Russian Government, the author of all those evils, and when an opportunity shall offer, the entire province will rise in arms against its oppressors." _ _ Workmen are being employed in putting up an electric telegraph between Moscow and Odessa. WITHDRAWAL OF THE RUSSIANS FROM BUCHAREST. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, in the Moniteur, says : " Letters from Bucharest of the 20th announca that every preparation is being made there for the withdrawal of the Russians ; the day for -their movement is even fixed for the 27th. The public treasury, the archives, the functionaries, and the militia will, by superior orders, follow this movement. The greatest confusion prevails in the capital of Wallachia. Giurgevo is evacuated. No accounts have been received from Silistria, but no one here supposes that the siege can be continued. It is thought that the Russians expect an offensive move ment on the part of Omer Pasha on the right bank of the Danube." According to a letter from Jassy, 16th, the ex port of barley and oats from Moldavia into Austria has been prohibited. ILLNESS OF PRINCE PASKIEWITCH. In the Narrator, a journal published under Rus sian authority at Bucharest, we find the * following significant apology for the removal of Prince Pas kewitch "We learn," says the Narrator, "by a letter from Kalarash, that the Field Marshal's health, which was very bad when he first arrived in that town, had become much worse when he took up his quarters on the banks of the Danube. Al though we are well aware that the physical con stitution of the celebrated Field Marshal is excel lent, that it is even exceptionally strong, it is, not withstanding quite unable to withstand the un healthy influence of the climate in this country. A fever, attended with many concomitant disorders, has rapidly increased this state of suffering, so much so, indeed, that the Prince of Warsaw is greatly reduced in strength, and, although there may be as yet no actual grounds for serious alarm, this situation is not the less on that account to be regretted." A letter from Jassy states that Prince Paskie witch will not remain in that place more than two months, and will afterwards proceed to Warsaw. MONTENEGRO. Intelligence from Montenegro comes down to the 15th. Armed bands were still assembled at Cettinjen, and no doubt was entertained that their leader intends leading them against the Turks. THE BALTIC. In a letter from an officer of the Odin, dated Oreground Bay (on the coast of Sweden), 15th June, we find the following : " There are four ships of us detached to this re mote corner in the Gulf of Bothnia. On the 7th of June inst. the boats from this ship and the Vul ture, with 112 of our people and 80 others, were sent under an officer of the Vulture to attack Gamla Karleby, in Finland, in 64 50 N. They were surprised by a large body of troops, and when we were ordered to their aid with more boats from the ships five miles distant, we found 3 officers and 3 men killed, and 17 more disabled belonging to this ship. A large boat, with 1 officer, 27 men, and a 21-pounder gun belonging to the Vulture, missing, captured, sunk, or destroyed, besides 1 man killed, and 3 others wounded. I know you will rejoice in the safety of the youngsters, although they were in the thickest of the fire. I will now give you the names of the officers killed and wounded, in case of your meeting any one interested, with the assurance that the wounded are all out of danger, and doing well. " KILLED. Lieutenant Carrington, R.N. M r . M on tagu, Mate. Mr. Althorpe, Midshipman. " WOUNDED. Lieutenant Lewis, R.M. Mr. Magrath, Midshipman. cc mi ss i n g from Vulture—Mr. Morphy, Mate." A. letter from Stockholm of the 16th says : " The number bf the vessels destroyed by Admiral Plumridge amounts to 11 at Brahestad and to 10 at Uleaborg. No private house was burnt in either of these towns, and no blood was shed." A letter from Dantzic of the 19thstates :—" The' Prince of Prussia has passed through Dantzic on his way to inspect the troops of the province. His Highness received from the citizens the warmest reception. The municipal authorities organised a fete in his honour, to which the officials, both civil and military, as likewise the foreign consuls, were invited. The flags of France, England, and Austria were to be seen waving by the side of those of Dantzic and Prussia. This attention on the port of the municipality was rendered more impres sive by the circumstance that the Russian flag was excluded." We extract the following from a letter, dated Wisby, Island of Gothland, June 18 : " In my preceding letter from this ancient town I stated that one of the small steamers of the British fleet had approached the entrance to Sveaborg, the formid able fortress in the Gulf of Finland. I c.rn now informed, in a letter from Stockholm of yestf , rdav's date,• that that steamer was the Porcupine, 4 guns, Captain Melville Jackson. The names of the other offieers are Mr. Leech, acting first lieutenant, Surgeon ITAxee, Mr, Goldsmith, first mate, and Mr. Saunders, clerk in charge, lately nominated by the Admiralty purser unattached. That war steamer was stationed during more than then three weeks in Farasund, in this island, in order tip guard the coal depot, and it is not a little remarkable that it should so suddenly have exchanged that quiet po sition for one of so much importance and danger. the masters of the fleet, and the Masters of other large vessels, were taken on board the Porcupine, in order to survey the shoals and passages around the entrance to Sveaborg. It approached so near the forts that the , Russian soldiers were placed at the guns, waiting until it should come within range. A long gun, too, was trained along up to the telegraph station, for the espe. cial benefit of the Porcupine. As it first approached the forts, it observed smoke at some distance—the Rus sians probably trying the range of their guns. You were informed, I believe, in my previous communication , that the Arrogant and Imperieuse were cruising some miles off, ready to come to the aid, if necessary, of the Porcupine, which, by enabling an engineer officer on board to take a sketch of Sveaborg, has rendered no' slight service to the good cause. The officers on board the Porcupine hail also a good view on the 6th instant of Helsingfors. Th e *dent and number of the batteries, however, could not be fully ascertained. "The following speech was delivered by his Majesty the King of Sweden on presenting new colours to a bat' talion of the Stnaland grenadiers : "*On the colours which I present to yot this day is in scribed the word Lutzen.' That war recalls to my mory the glorious time in which Sweden's King fought and conquered in the cause of enlightenment. That name will remind you also of the courage with which the Sma lenders supported him in that holy contest. You possess, therefore, an ancestry of 200 years. Great reminiscences impose great duties, and the victories of one's forefathers exhort to fresh exploits (mama till nya bragder). The days of warfare and honour are not yet over. Even now you may be called upon to defend your native land, and to combat for the dearest of all earthly possessions. Should Fatherland and I call on you, my brave Srnalan' ders, to gather around these flags, you will prove that a long and happy peace has not weakened these arms which in tranquil times cultivated the Swedish soil, and that the swords which have long reposed in their scabbards are not only as sharp, but that they will be as valiantly borne, as they were on Lutzen's battle-field.' "This speech was followed with enthusiastic and pro longed cheering. His Majesty afterwards presented neW colours to the National Militia of this island, and in do'' ing so said : " In a time when war's portentous cloud obscuros the northern hemisphere, every obligation becorncs dearer, every duty mo r e sacred. No obligation is greater than that, in such a time, people and king shoat have the same will and act in unison ; no duty is holier than that of defending our native lard, at the sacrifios even of life itself. Such a time, it would seem, may possibly arrive for the north. (Synas for Norden , nw - Aga.) Such a time, too, is one in which, as you will prove, no sacrifices are too great for the maintaining of our self-existence and independence. Should foes at tempt to pluck this noble island—this pearl in Sweden's crown—from the bosom of our motherland, you will all. eagerly gather around these banners which with my own hand I now make over to you ; and you will know heir to fight for your king and your country. (Enthusiastic : and long continued cheering.) But before I deliver to you these pledges of my confidence in your patriotism, 1 ask you, officers, sub-officers, and men, to swear to defend these colours to the last, so help you God.' " Those speeches are certainly remarkable ones• They are such speeches as a King of Sweden could ar propriately deliver on the eve of any other contest in Vie cause of enlightenment,' particularly if we have good grounds for believing—as his present Majesty assuredly has—that his subjects would courageously support bin' in so holy a contest.' It cannot be forgotten in Sweden that in fighting for so good a cause, it not only conquered, but became one of the most important states in Europe, respected and feared abroad, and prosperous at home. Very different would have been its fate had it espoused the opposite cause. ' The days of warfare' are certainly not over, for a gigantic contest is now com menced, one, too, at the very gates, as it were of Sweden,. The northern skies are indeed clouded, and clouded they will remain until the sun of liberty—that liberty for which Gustavus Adolphus fought and died on Lutzen's battle field' shines forth in all its resplendence. The Swedes who descend from the warriors of Lutzen, and their sovereign, who now sits on the throne of the great Swedish hero of 1632, may yet—King Oscar hints —be called upon to defend their fatherland. That land is coveted, not by the friends,' but by the foes, of the "cause of enlightenment ;" and that ambitious empire which plucked Finland—also a pearl in Sweden's crown —from the bosom of its Swedish motherland, may well hope to get possession of the island of Gothland, the most important in the Baltic. Assuredly the Swedish soldiers of the present day have not degenerated. Manly and robust in form, in a high state of discipline, hardy, brave, and courageous, they are inferior to no troops in Europe. They. are worthy descendants of their ancestors "of two hundred years." But "great re miniscences impose great duties," and the glorious re miniscences referred to cannot be separated from the " cause of en!ightenment," and the obligation of com bating for it at any sacrifice. In times like the present " people and king should have the same will and act in unison," a noble and felicitous sentiment, and one truly appropriate under present circumstances. There is no one in Sweden or Norway hardy enough to deny that. the overpowering majority of the inhabitants of the• sister kingdom are heart and soul with England and France in " the cause of enlightenment" against Russia and barbarism, Let us, accept, therefore, as a happy omen, that significant declaration of th e monarc h of: Sweden, and employ in his regard the solemn and ini"* pressive ejaculation with which he concluded his two admirable discourses. Ystad Gazette states that a rich inhabitant of that town--a Swedish one situated nearly opposite the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic—has promised to give 1,000 dollars banco to the poor, on the day that he receives certain intelligence of any important defeat of the Russians." ST. PETERSBURGII. ST. PETERSBURG, June 18.—An Imperial ukase authorises the Minister of Finance to issue the two last series of paper money, whiah are to produce six millions of silver roubles, and completes the issue authorised by the imperial ukase of 18th January last. A mercantile house here has failed for 1,500,000 silver roubles. Other similar disasters are expected• GREECE. ATHENS, June 17.—Hadji Petros has submitted. Piracy is fast disappearing. The vine is universal throughout Greece. AUSTRIA. Quartermaster-General Hess has been named Commander-in-Chief of the N or th- eas tern a"' „ South-eastern Army Corps. The Archduke Albert will command the South eastern and General Schlick the North-eastern Corps, as second in command to Baron Hess. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA AND THE BAMBERG CONFERENCE. A letter from Leipsic of the 19th, in the Mont" `cur, says : "As - before announced, the reply agreed upo.n. between the Governments of Austria and Prussia to tho States of the Conference of Bamberg W sent off on the 16th. It demands the uncondi tional assent to the treaty of the 20th of April, otherwise the two contracting powers will have no other course to pursue than to come to an under standing separately with such of the German States as may consent to a pure and simple adhesion. It is thought that a conciliatory re ply w ill b e given by the Conference." MALTA. MALTA, June 22.—The 4th and 6th Regiments of Dragoons have arrived here. Captain Wallace of the 7th Fusileers, has died at Varna, having been thrown from his horse. Thirty - transports have been engaged to convey troops from Tunis to Constantinople. Various transports with troops leave to-morrow• The Tribune, with 35 dragoons, saved from the Europa, has arrived. FR &NOE. M. Billault took the oaths before the Emperor yesterday. The Paris papers publish the following " Triestie, 24th.—Accounts have been received from Bombay to the 23rd ult. The Russian troops are fortifying Khiva. Dost Mahomed is again seeking for the friendship o f die English. Admiral Stirling, with two steam-vessels, has gone in search of the Russian squadron which had just left 13 0 4" tavia. Tranquillity was maintained at Nankin. Shanghai was was tranquil, but, disturbances had broken out at Canton. It was reported that victory had been gained by th e i m p er i a l t roo ps.' The Emperor has addressed the following letter to M. de Persigny, Minister of the Interior :-- " St. Cloud, June 22. " Monsieur le Ministre,—l sincerely regret that your health obliges you to give me your resignation, and I 4 1 ° not less regret that you have not thought proper to accept the position of Minister without portfolio, for that arrangement would not have deprived me of the intelligence and loyal counsels of a man who for the last 20 years has given me so many proofs of devoted ness. As a testimony of my particular satisfaction, I name you Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, end I hope that your health will at a future day allow 9 ° . 11 to render me fresh services. I pray God to have yott , in His holy keeping. " NAPOLEON.' A decree in the Moniteur appoints DZ. Billault, President of the Legislative Body, to be Minister of the Interior, in the room of M. de Persigny Another names M. de Persigny Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. M. Mavrocordato leaves Paris to go and take possession of the presidency of the new Greek ministry. His Excellency had a private audience of the Etcperor 011 Saturday to take leave. 'tumours have been again afloat of an interview to take place in the course of the autumn between Queen Victoria and the Emperor of the French, ;. , ~`t'~i ':~'r~<: + ; '~, p a. ~.: .;r.,