The Sun. — London, England, 1853-07-27 00:00:00

---- ROYAL PRLNICESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. tion. Such, heretofore, without any shadow of a Under the Manageme n t o f M r . Charles Kern. shade of ex aggera ti on, has been the average THIS EVENING, Juvr 27. specimen of a Cab in London. Will he performed TIIE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup- NT ported by Mr. and M rs . W . L acy , ow, a Fi acre i n P ar i s has long been , and is After Which, Lord Byron's Tragedy of SARDANAPALUS. , still, up to this moment, the reverse of all thi s Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To be follow e d b y CHESTERFIELD THINSKIN. Characters diametrically ! I ns t ea d of a wretched instance by Messrs. Harley, Meadows, Addison, and Miss Vivash. of what might, some twenty years before, have been an example of the skill of the coachbuilder, Ia good and substantial vehicle is your Paris Fiacre. Instead of a fellow reeking of gin, with the bowl of a blackened dudheen sticking out of his waistcoat pocket, a straw-wisp as a hat-band in winter, and himself in his shirt-sleeves during the dog-days—the driver of your fiacre is a re spectable citizen enough, sober as a judge and civil as an engineer, not merely labelled with the badge of his licence, but dressed in a decent livery marking the nature of his occupation. As to your fare, the amount of that has long since been placed altogether beyond the reach of dispute. As to your property, that also is secured in a manner the most simple and the most effectual—the driver of the fiacre handing you a ticket giving his number thus in sufficientlylegible characters : THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Jr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, JULY 27, Will be performed GENE VIEVE. Characters by Messrs. Ben. Webster, A. Wigan, Leigh Murray, Keeley, Parselle, Pan] Bedford, Cullenford, Woolgar, 0. Smith, and C. J. Smith; Madame Celeste nd Mrs. Keeley. After which, will be presented SARDANAPALITS. To be followed by THE CAMP AT CHOBEAM. To conclude with JOHN JONES. ROYAL OLYMPIC: THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. Great success of the New Drama. THIS EVENING, JULY 27, Will be performed the New Drama entitled THE TIMES. Charac ters by Messrs. Farren, T. Mead, H. Marston, William Farren, G. Cooke, and Shalders; Mesdames Anderton, H. Gordon, E. Tur ner, and Bartlett. After which, an tirely New Burleue, Francis Talfourd, Esq., entitled SHYLenOCK, or, THE ME sq RCHA by NT OF " VENICE PRESERVED." Shylock, Mr. F. Robson. To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bags, Mr. F. Robson. 6 5 8. Conservez ce numero en cas ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Now under the Direction and Management of Mr. W. Cooke. The tide of success has fairly set in to this favourite Establishment. No greater test can be given than the crowded state of the Theatre nightly to witness the ever-memorable Battle of Waterloo, with is marches, encounters, and brilliant tableaux. New and splendid Scenes in the CIRCLE, by Artistes of known talent—introducing a new engagement, M HOMET BEN SAID, tke Arabian Groteeque, from the Cirque Royal, St. Petersburgh, by Permission of the Emperor. de reclamation. Everything, in fine, is as decent, as orderly, as c l ean , as reputable in all essential particulars, as could well be in the conduct of the public vehicles of this class throughout the whole of the French metropolis. Indeed, decency, order, cleanliness, and respectability constitute the rule with the Fiacres of Paris, and not the exception. It was in consequence of the lamentable and even disgraceful contrast presented in these re spects between the London Cab and the Paris Fiacre that the recent reformatory bill was at length passed into a law by Parliament. Yet now that that enactment of the Supreme Legis lature has been contrived—an enactment framed not so much for the public convenience merely, as for its security henceforth from habitual insolence and organised extortion—now that that enactment has been contrived, we say, the cab-proprietors of our metropolis have capped the climax of their mis doings, if not by an open violation of the law, at any rate by a flagrant and most unjustifiable act of evasion. Smarting under the effects of the tardy, but, at last, decisive interference of Parliament, the cab fraternity resolved to withdraw the whole of their vehicles from the streets of the metropolis. This morning, mop over, they actually carried that resolution into effect. For once London has been deserted by its cabs plying for hire, or waiting at the stands, or hovering about the theatres and the railways. Whatever inconvenience may have resulted to the public generally from this sudden and unlooked for proceeding, we can, at any rate, vouch for one fact, that the streets have seldom had so in disputable an air of respectability. Another fact in connexion with this strike, on the part of the Cabmen, is worthy of considera tion. It is wholly and exclusively suicidal in its character. Deprived of their cabs, the public can at least walk—they can employ the aid of the omnibus, and, in cases of great emergency, of the brougham and the clarence from the nearest livery-stables. So that the cabmen alone will be the sufferers from their new and crowning miscon duct—a consideration, so far at least, satisfactory. Yet another and a very different consideration is forced upon us by this eccentric climax of the Cab Nuisance—the consideration to which we gave utterance at the outset of these remarks, namely, that something must be adventured upon, in addi tion to the recent enactment, by the " wisdom " of the Imperial Legislature. Happily we have not had long to wait before receiv ing a substantial guarantee of this legislative inter position. It will be perceived from our report (given elsewhere) of this day's proceedings in the House of Commons, that Mr. FITZROY, in answer to inquiries made by Sir R. H. brcaas, and en forced by those of Mr. WALPOLE, announced this afternoon his intention to introduce a new bill, or under any circumstances to propose a new clause calculated to prevent the repetition of this annoy ing proceeding on the part of the cab proprietors. So that under the conduct of that able and ever• 63D NIGHT OF LIFE ON THE TURF, with a real Fox Chase. N.B.—Miss Emily Cooke is re-engaged, and wilt appear at this Theatre at the conclusion of her Continental professional trip. THIS EVENING, JULY 27, • And during the week, the Performance.; will commence with THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, with all its or ginal military effects. To be followed by Ifr. W. Cooke's Scenes in the CIRCLE, intro ducing talent unprecedented, among whom will be found the great Arabian Wonder, 3fahomet Ben Said. To conclude with the successful Ilinpo Drama of THE CHASE ; or, LIFE ON THE TURF, in which a real Fox Chase will take place. Doors open at Half-past Six. Box-office open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. , N est. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. - THIS EVENING, JOLT 27, ' PANORAMIC VIEW of CHUS.tN, Splendid and Interesting ENAGER lE. GODFREY's unrivalled MILITARY .BAND. Vocal and I nstrumental Concert. Various amusing novelties, concluding with the extraor dinary spectacle of 'filE FEAT OF LANTERNS, and a grand display of Filtr,'WORKS, and EXPLOSI ON of CHIN - EsE FinE RAFTS. Admission Is. __ ... getie reformer we may hope before long to hear indeed " the last " of this intolerable Cab Nui- san ce. The Government of India Bill has passed through committee. To-morrow evening the re port will be brought up, and the third reading will be taken on Friday. So far the Government have had it all their own way. Every amendment brought forward by an independent Member has been rejected seriatim with one solitary exception. Ministers, however, signalised their triumph by one graceful concession to public opinion, for which Indian reformers should be truly grateful ! And their gratitude should be materially enhanced by the fact, that the boon was altogether unsolicited —that no application had been preferred, no peti tions presented, to induce their consent to this most beneficial alteration. It is true that the party in charge of the bill did not himself initiate the proposition. So far a distinction is perceptible between the course adopted in reference to the stamps on newspaper supplements and that pur sued on the present occasion, but we yielded with out remonstrance on the first summons. The suggestion was eagerly grasped at, and Sir CHARLES Woon concealed his blushes while Lord PALMERSTON signified the cordial acquiescence of the Government in the proposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Northampton. Yes ; let grateful India rejoice ! Let its unnum bered myriads express their exultation without restraint or moderation ! Let its injured Princes believe that there is at length a prospect of ob taining ample redress for their manifold griev ances, for the wrongs they have sustained, the unmerited sufferings they have endured ! Pro ! claim it throughout the length and breadth of Hindostan. Let it resound through the different Presidencies, and be re-echoed from the tributary, the protected and allied States, that Sir CHARLES WOOD, the efficient ! the experienced ! ! the eloquent !! ! Presi dent of the Board of Control, is to receive an additional ONE THOUSAND POUNDS PER ANNUM. That which was considered ample remuneration for GLENELG, for ELLENBOROUGH, • for HOBHOUSE, FITZGERALD, RIPON, and HERRIES, was clearly inadequate for the inappreciable services of our own Sir CHARLES ! There it is, that he had pre viously received double the salary paid in the be ginning of the century, and in a paper currency, when the purchasing power of the pound note was less than half of that belonging to the gold sove reign of the present day, to CASTLEREAGH, to MINTO, and GRENVILLE, and TIERNEY, and HAR ROWBY, and MELVILLE. But what had that to say to the question ? Making due allowance for his extraordinary powers, it would have been an act of gross injustice, if he were not placed in as good a position as any ever occupied by a Minister—on the same footing as GEORGE CANNING and with salary equal to that enj o y e d by the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or any of the Principal Secre taries of Stat e . That was the very least th a t cou ld be expe c t e d , and, indeed, the matter was placed in that point of view by the Right Hon. mover of the new clause, whose proposition was, that the salary should in no case be less than that paid to one of the Principal Secretaries of State. There may, therefore, be hope as to the further exten sion of the boon to British India, Possibly of a few thousands more being paid to the Right Hon. Baronet when lie shall have merited the addition by another five-hours Speech in praise of the Court of Directors, and i n opposition to any real improvement in the ad ministration of the affairs of the Anglo-Indian Empire. There was another branch of the proposition of Mr. VERNON SMITH which was responded to with almost equal cordiality by the Home Secretary, Sir CHARLES WOOD being still too modest to ad dress the House. It is that, in place of two po litical Secretaries of the India Board, eligible to sit in Parliam en t as at present,. one is to hold ()Lace permanently, not changing with the Minis- ADINE _DAILY WEATHER TABLE. WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. SOUTHAMPTON S. W., strong breez e — overcas t - FOLK ESTONE—S.W., Arong breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—N.E., gentle breeze —overcast. BAS INGSTOKE—N.W. strong breeze —o vercas t. GR EENWICH—S.W., strong breeze —overcast. STROOD—S. W., strong breeze—rain. SWINDON—S.W., strong breeze—cloudy. CAMBRIDGE —S., strong breeze—cloudy. YARMOUTH —S., strong breeze —overcast. he returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock :-- PORTSMOUTH—S.W. strong bre eze — par ti a ll y c l oudy. SOUTHAmpTox—S.II:., strong breeze—partially cloudy. FOLKESTONE—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. TUNBRIDGE—S. W. ~, ,e ntle breeze—p ar ti a ll y c l ou d y. BA SINGST OKE—N.W., calm —partially cloudy. GREENWICH—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. STROOD—S.W., gentle breeze -partially cloudy. SWINDON—W., fresh breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—S., gentle breez e — c l ou dl ess . YARMOUTH—S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. HOLYHEAD—S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. DARLINGTON—W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. Soar—S.W., strong breeze—rain. THE PUBLICATION OF " THE SUN" COMMENCES EVERY AFTERNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK, AND THE LATE OR THIRD EDITION, CONTAINING THE DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT THE SAME EVENING, With all other News arriving up to the hour of Post, AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is closed by the Latest Trains. );IGEI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE, Tar , DAY —7,lrorning 30 min. after 6 I Nvening 51 inin.aft. 6 To- aKow—Koruing 11 min. after 7 I Evening 35 tnin.aft. THE WEATHER.—Sow OFFICE, JULY 27. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 69—highest since noon yesterday. 60- lowest this morning and during the night. 73—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30 . 7. WIND, South.—Fine. 4 :4, - LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1853. A climax has been put this day to that most intolerable and detestable of all the petty social evils endured by the Londoner—the Cab Nui sance. It now remains fur us to witness some really stringent interfere Ace on the part of her MAJESTY'S Government. Direct interposition has at length become imperatively requisite—for the public patience has at last, we are bold to assert, been entirely exhausted. Hitherto, our long-suf fering has been something more than exemplary. It has rendered us ridiculous at least, if not ab solutely contemptible, in the eyes of our neigh bours, the Parisians. We appeal to the common sense of any one who has ever enjoyed an excur sion to the metropolis of our Gallic contemporaries. We ask any sane man who has ever visited that beautiful and orderly city of Paris where Jehus are not necessarily, besides being hackdrivers, purveyors of insolence and organised batteners on extortion ! We put it to any rational member of society, who may have rejoiced in the delight of a trip from London to Paris, whether the contrast presented between the two capitals in reference to the management of the public vehicles plying through the streets at all hours for the convenience of the population, has not appeared to them to reflect the utmost disgrace upon ourselves, while it re dounds to the credit at once of the propriety, the honesty, and the decency of our somewhat more civilised. friends across the Channel. We are not hair-splitting in thus marking out with exacti tude the balance of this really melancholy corn parisor. The truth is altogether in this matter notorious. Everybody can testify as much who has ever strolled under the urban umbrage o f the Boulevards. Here again, as i n so many other directions, do we find reaso n to repeat with a " damnable iteration," the hackneyed admission of bette parrson u STERNE, that they manage th ese things France. Bet ter ! Why, i n simple i candour, it must be allowed that between the cab and the fiacre there is absolutely no room what ever for comparison. A cab in London has hitherto been, in the vast majority of instances, nothing more nor less than a ricketty tub upon wheels, with cracked. window panes and threadbare cushions, sometimes not wholly innocent of th 3 depredations of vermin, for, the privilege of riding in which at the tail of a miserable specimen of horseflesh (literally, fast going to the dogs) you had either to pay exorbitantly, or to submit to the abuse of a driv er powerful in the choicest voca b u l ary o f Billingsgate. A pl easan t a lt erna ti ve ! You had to put up with a coachman often in liquor, and almost alw ays out at elbows. You had to 101 l upon seats redolent of stables and tobacco—occa sionally losing a train while Master JEHLT was giving a f r i end doubt, a lift," very - convenient no to him,but,, rather the reverse to yourself, seeing that it necessitated what Mr. S:dcK, of Slickvill e , 'would call circumbendibus." All these deleetaahle‘ t c a o rri n c a o t m i o i n_ tants you had to tolerate if you ventured Upon calling one of those -tumble-down convey % on drawn by a " galled jade," redeemed ance-Tfrom the 'iands of the knacker, driven by a somewhat be e ry ;e in the College of Insolence, and corn the most part (each of these delightful 1, of old leather, old boards, and old. a rapid state oic, irredeemable decomposi- .tv i ,... ) . _ ...---,,, ` i nr s . ~.,,, . . 0 ~.. 4...; 1.434-.7.7k e,.V-- ....: 0. t..-- 4 - ..4 .c.j. 1 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1853. try, bUt ready to give the benefit of his expe rience to each new President who may require cramming before he can venture to address either House of Parliament on a topic relating to the department over which he presides. As this will afford an opportunity of making a lasting pro vision for some Ministerial hanger-on, of satisfy ing the expectation of some one of the nu merous waiters on PROVIDENCE, and as Sir CHARLES WOOD will have an influential voice in the selection of the fortunate individual thus satisfactorily shelved for life, we can easily con ceive the great value of the concession to the un conscionable natives, even if they should fail to appreciate the inestimable benefit according to its deserts. After such liberal conduct there should be a total cessation of agitation in the Presidencies. Why should the inhabitants, native or British, any longer complain of unprovoked and unjusti fiable wars consuming their resources, and leading , to annual deficie nc i es i n th e E xc h equer —an in ability to restrict the expenditure within the revenue ? Why should the unreasonable Ryots murmur at the lamentable deficiency of roads and bridges, of harbours and public works, of vicious and grinding tenures, or defective irriga tion ? Why should they look for any improve ment in their condition—for better diet than a scanty supply of coarse rice flavoured with a still more scanty and wholly inadequate propor tion of very bad and highly-taxed salt—of a rag for a dress, and a mat for a bed ? Let him banish such unwarrantable notions from his mind, and, while living on one-and-a-half or two rupees per month, exult in the thought that Sir CHARLES WooD will henceforth receive 5,0001. sterling per annum. Let him no longer groan at repeated instances of extortion, peculation, chicanery, or intrigue—of the scandalously defective adminis tration of justice— of the appointment of Judges, who never held a brief, or witnessed a trial before a competent tribunal—of an in adequate police force—of the almost total ab sence of public education—of the non-employ ment of natives—of the grinding Moturhha, or tax on tools—of the nefarious salt monopoly, or its certain effects upon their health and comfort— for all these evils, for all these grievances, there will henceforward be suitable remedies, for is not Sir CHARLES WOOD to receive an additional salary of 1,0001. per annum ! Is not some fortunate protege of the Right Hon. Baronet to receive a comfortable provi s ion for life, by being made a permanent fixture at Cannon-row ! ! Let them at once, and for ever, forget their previous sor rows, and rejoice in the enlightened liberality of the British Parliament, to which —on the propo sition of an independent Member, in which the Government had no share, " Oh, no ! by no man ner of means !"—they are indebted for such ex ceedingly auspicious results, and for which they should be truly and devotedly grateful hencefor ward and for ever. Scarcely a day elapses, not an assize town is visited, without an investigation taking place into some heartrending case. of child-murder, where, although we must feel the deepest horror at the atrocious crime, we cannot help pitying and sym pathising with the wretched criminal. It is use less to deny the fact, that infanticide is fearfully prevalent in England —and there is but too much reason to suppose that the offence is on the in crease. The unfortunate and miserable creatures who are brought to answer at the bar of a crimi nal tribunal for the highest crime known to the law, and who, if convicted, may have to expiate their guilt by a painful and ignominious death upon the scaffold, are, generally speaking, young girls, who, in an unguarded moment, have fallen victims to the seducers' arts, and then deceived and deserted, abandoned by those who should afford protection and assistance in the dark hour of distress and difficulty, violate the most sacred law of nature—the love of a mother for her off spring —in the vain hope of hiding their shame, or getting rid of the heavy expense for which they have no means of providing. Cau we, under such circumstances, wonder if Juries are anxious to seize on any loophole that may enable them to avoid returning a verdict for the capital felony, or that even the most upright Judge may strain a point to save the trembling wretch who stands convulsed and agonised before him—combining regret for her poor baby—dear to her heart even at the very moment when she was inflicting the fatal blow—with the terrors of the punishment which she had justly merited. None but those who have been similarly cir cumstanced can imagine the harrowing struggle that takes place in the heart of one of those most unfortunate amongst the very wretched. The mingling of maternal affection with the horror of discovery—the knowledge of the total destruction to her future prospects, the disgrace and ignominy of being pointed at as the unwedded mother, all combine to drive her to a state of phrenzy, and to induce her in a moment of reckless desper ation to stain her hands with blood !—the blood of her own offspring—of the helpless being, whom, under other circumstances, she would have loved and cherished—for whom she would have braved any danger, and with whom she would joyfully have shared her last crust. The fair young matron, proud and happy in the love of an idolising husband, who sees in the young inheritor of her beauties but an additional link in the chain of affection, by which she is united to the partner of her joys and sorrows, may shudder at the un natural monster who, a rebel to the first instinct of nature, could lay violent hands upon her own child. But when reflecting upon the ordeal through which she has herself passed, when think ing of the severity of the trial she has herself endured, although the severity had been miti gated by every alleviating circumstance--the care of a skilful physician, of assiduous friends, and surrounded with every comfort, she must feel for her unfortunate sister, who had neither assistance nor comfort in her affliction, and who was driven to despair by the inexorable usages of society, and the defective state of the statute law ! Yes, we confess it with shame, that the usages of society, and the state of the law are, in ninety nine cases out of a hundred, the exciting causes of these melancholy outrages. To these may the responsibility be directly traced. We tempt to the crime, and then we punish—most stringently and severely punish—the miserable creature who, by her previous sufferings, had fearfully expiated the weakness of an unguarded moment. We do nothing for prevention—nothing to check or re strain the tempter, but practically permit the whole burden to rest upon the shoulders of the weaker party ; and then, when driven to despera tion at the position in which she is placed, she consummates her guilt by the last horrible out rage against nature, we hang the miserable victim, while the murderer of her innocence walks forth uncondemned, we had almost said uncensured, boasting amongst his profligate companions of his too fatal success. Public opinion, that presses with such frightful severity upon the female, passes over with indulgent leniency the peccadill o (' . . of the male. He is received in society as if no thing had occurred, while she—the victim--de- 12 months, he is for ever exonerated, no matter how clear may be the proofs of his participation, or complete the destitution of the friendless mother. Even if the order be made she cannot recover more than 13 weeks' arrears ; and, as if to insure her continuance in the miserable con dition in which she is placed—to prevent the possibility of her emerging from the slough of despond in which she is floundering —it is pro vided that, any man who may marry her becomes responsible for the support and maintenance of her illegitimate child, which thus becomes an in superable obstacle to the formation of any honour able and guiltless connection. To these usages and to these laws then may be traced every one of the cases that have been brought under the consideration of our criminal tribunals. To these may be ascribed the extraor dinary fortitude—the desperate determination of feeble girls who endeavour to conceal their crime at any cost or any sacrifice. How great must be the dread of discovery when we find poor crea tures pursuing their ordinary avocations as if nothing had occurred, and with a marvellous stoicism suppressing every expression or indication of the agony they have endured and are enduring. What must have been the firmness of the girl who, but a fortnight since, spent the entire day hay making in Dorsetshire until six o'clock in the evening, then brought forth her offspring in a secluded lane, and, returning to the duties of her service, milked twelve cows, and did all the household work before going to bed, and continue the same labours on the following day ? How great must have been the horrors of publicity to her mind, when she could stimulate herself to such exertion without a murmur ? Surely no punish ment which the :aw could devise would equal that self-imposed and voluntarily encountered. Where could there be cited an instance of more astonish ing, almost miraculous, fortitude ? If we look to the cases of the wretched convicts at Lewes and at Stafford, both young creatures in the pride of youth—the first blush of womanhood, we shall find that the offences for which their lives have been declared forfeited to offended jus tice may be unequivocally ascribed to the opera tion of the 7th and Bth Vie., cap. 101—the sta tute to which we have alluded. CAROLINE SHERWOOD, the Brighton convict, described as a good-looking young woman, 23 years of age, had been left an unprotected orphan at an early age. When a mere child, but 15 years old, she became the prey of a foul seducer, and was delivered of a female child in due course. She struggled to maintain her infant without assistance from the plunderer of her hap piness, and so far successfully that she forfeited all claim on his purse, from not having enforced the demand within twelve months. She went into service, having contracted to pay 2s. 6d. for the support of her child, which she continued to do punctually until the fatal transaction— neither her employers nor any of her fellow servants having the slightest notion of her mis fortune. She invariably maintained a good character, doing all in her power to repair the error of her unprotected childhood. For six years she persisted in her laudable efforts to retrieve her position. At length an irresistible tempta tion arose. A suitor came forward who, ignorant of her former failing, made overtures for an honourable connection. Here was indeed an ordeal of no ordinary severity. She might be a respectable wife—the mother of legitimate chil dren—on whom she might fearlessly bestow the treasure of her love. If she could obtain from her foul seducer the means of supporting the un happy offspring of his lust, all would be well ; she might still preserve her secret from the know ledge of the world, even from her husband him sel. But the enactments to which we have referred rendered that impossible. There being no liability attached to the real father, the hus band would become responsible, and it would be impossible to keep the damning fact from his knowledge. She could not hope to put by half a-crown a week from his scanty earnings without a full disclosure of the circumstances, and the sacrifice of all her future hopes. Hence it was that in the excitement--the madness of her situation—she committed the awful deed. Every thing connected with which proved that she was not an adept in crime ; that she was scarcely in possession' of her reasoning faculties. The case of SARAH BAKER is no less remark able. The same exciting cause, the state .of the law, being easily discoverable. The poor miser able creature had braved the disclosure of her crime, and with ruined hopes, and blasted repu tation, she found herself, at the age of 18, the mother of a child conceived in sin. There was abundance of evidence to show her shocking desti tution, and the ardent love she bore to her child. To obtain for it a mouthful of bread, she descended to the lowest occupations, washing cinders for a shilling a day ; when she could not get even that scanty remuneration, she tried to get work of any description, but was " very weak," and failed ; she was passed from workhouse to workhouse, from the Walsall Union to the Brewood " bas tile," as it was termed by one witness. During this time she was " very fond of her child, would give it the last bit out of her hand, if she went short herself." In the desperation occasioned by sharp and biting poverty, she conceived the awful idea of destroying herself and baby, of consum mating the double crime of murder and suicide at the same moment. This dreadful notion did not come into her mind until she had applied to the "tender-hearted" (?) guardians at the workhouse, to keep the baby until she became stronger, and being met with a decided refusal—the answer being, that " she should take the baby out, and work for it herself." After three weeks' endurance of all the pangs of cold and hunger, without food or shelter, save what she obtained from the casual charity of those whose situation was but little better than her own, who were themselves the recipients of parochial relief, she flung her child into the fatal pit, but was prevented from accom panying it by " the timber across it." Here the cruelty of the guardians might possibly have combined with the state of the law to drive her to desperation ; but we cannot forget that it was the primary cause—for her seducer had absconded to a distance for the twelve months, and was then enabled to marry another woman, and refuse to give a farthing to his youthfu victim These wretched young creatures now await the execution of the awful sentence of the law. And quasi philanthropists will babble of the neces sity of making an example, in order to check the growing crime ! Making an example, forsooth ! Let those whose horror at the offence is so greatly excited endeavour to give a better tone to public opinion ; to Poor-law Guardians, and persons who, having been mercifully exempted from temptation, have never fallen. Let them exert themselves to procure a reform of the unjust and impolitic enactment; and when they have dis charged these imperative duties, they may with a better grace, pronounce a decided opinion on the punishment that should be inflicted on their fal len sisters. D as 2 0 t4 t h9e E lw4n balances f3oErs yesterdayxi nt P Bh E dte r EXPENDITURE.—The r eEa T pan u xur d ß eb E l el the e . nsfd Exchequer. r h . t e nhf G eTt Govern ment ehe expenditurer non in comejcmeue m P l n ye u t balance-sh eet last, with sexpenditur esi x t4 h c , 11. 50,680,5161. 75., leaving an excess of 3,568,6241. 16s. Bd. On the sth of July, 1852, the balances in the Ex chequer were 6,492,7311. 6s. 10d., and on the sth of July inst., 5,112,639/. ss. 9d. THE NEW CAB ACT.—STRIKE OF THE CABMASTERS. - —This morning, in accordance with a preconceived arrangement of the cahmasters of the metropolis, the streets and the vicinity of the different railway stations, presented a very strange appearance, in consequence of the total absence of the usual cab conveniences. On the arrival of the usual trains at the different railway stations this morning, the absence of the usual supply of cabs was the cause of much surprise. At the moment that the nine o'clock train arrived at the Great Northern, and the passengers were waiting for their accustomed r d o e a d d the an dpoostn acrorinvveinyganacte a t , hectaebll-gdvearotethdeowk-neepthere dNemewan horse duty in consequence of the cab not exhibiting the, usual plate with the number. The driver refusing to pay a great crowd of people assembled, and a disturb ance was anticipated ; but the toll-keeper being satisfied bythe passenger, the cab was allowed to proceed. It is said by the different cab-owners that they intend to continue the present strike until some alteration is made in the new act. THE OVERLAND MAIL. (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) TRIESTE, TUESDAY. The steamer Bombay arrived to-day at two p.m., in 111 hours from Alexandria. The India Mail had arrived there with dates from Rangoon to the 4th June ; Calcutta, 16th June ; Bombay, 20th June ; and from Hong-KOng, 7th June. From Burmah the intelligence is that no advance is to be made on Ava unless our troops or civil ser vants are molested, and our present position there is to be maintained. Many officers have died. Trade in India is dull, owing to the season of the year. Exchange at Calcutta, on London, 2s. The empire of China is divided, and Nanking is independent of the reigning dynasty. Great anxiety was entertained for Canton, and a rising was daily expected there. The screw steamer Lauriston, on her passage from Shanghai to Hong-Kong, struck on Turnabout Island, and was totally lost ; crew and passengers were all saved. GOODWOOD RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) GOODWOOD STARES. SWEEPSTAKES-300 Sovs. (Fillies, Mayfair Exhibition Cheddar.... Jessamine . Four ran. HANDICAP PLATE. Narcissus.. Thirteen ran. BETTING.-6 to 1 agst Kingston. ORDER OF RUNNING. 1. 0-300 Sweepstakes for fillies. I.3o—Handicap Plate. 2.ls—Goodwood Stakes. 2.45-300 Sweepstakes for colts. 3.3o—Steward's Cup. 4.ls—Biennial Stakes. 4 .4s—Drawing-room Stakes. s.ls—Selling Stakes. ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS.—Snowdon Dunhill, Cornelius, Jack Frost, Kaffir, Spicey, King Torn, Robert de Gor ham filly, Lady Strut, and Brother to Mountain Deer. prived of the means of earning an honest liveli hood, is driven forth from her desolated home to starve on the wages of promiscuous prostitution-- perhaps to anticipate with her own hand, " the more tedious murder of its diseases." Such are the usages of society !--such are the customs and habits of civilised life—such are the views and feelings of fair and gentle creatures whose tender hearts sympathise with sufferings arising from any other cause, and pity the victim of any other transgression, with whom " Ev'ry woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame." The state of the law, too, is equally injurious to the female. The burden particularly rests upon her of providing for the offspring of mutual sin. It is true that, 'if she can bring forward evidence corroborating her statement, in some ma terial particular, she may, either before her con finement or within 12 months after the birth of her child, obtain an order' on the father for a payment not exceeding 2s. Gd. per week for its support. But if the party, by absconding or other means, evades a payment within the first LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE. There is nothing to extract, or even to notice, in the articles of the Paris journals on the Eastern question. It would, indeed, be difficult, in the present state of uncertainty, for them to say any thing of interest on the subject. On other sub jects the only article at all worth notice is in the Assemblee Nationale, on the prospects of the har vest. This journal expresses a belief that it will turn out better than it was expected ; but, let the circumstances be what they may, it approves of the precautions adopted by the Government. The Moniteur contains a decree from the Em peror dividing all the compartments of France into nine circumscriptions, and nominating to them the following gentlemen as inspectors of prefectures : MM. Marchant, earlier, Boulatignier, Villemain, Waisse, Fremy, Stourm, Dubessey, and Dariste. M. de Persigny, the Minister of the Interior, has addressed the following circular to the prefects re lative to this decree : "Monsieur le Praet—The Emperor lias decided that the inspection entrusted to high functionaries, on the proposition of the Minister of Police, in execution of the decree of March 5, 1853, shall be united to the inspec tion of the prefecture confided to Councillors of State by the decree of the 2d of February previous ; but the in spection is to be confided to the administrative services in the departments in which the political inspection has already taken place. A decree dated July 23, published in this day's Moniteur, contains a table of the circum scriptions of inspection, and their distribution amongst the inspectors. An auditor of the Council of State is attached to each inspector in the quality of secretary. The inspectors and the auditors shall be received at the hotel of the Prefecture, but without its being necessary to observe the ceremonial prescribed by the decree of the 24th Messidor, year XII. Within 24 hours after his arrival, each inspector will receive the functionaries of the department. Such of the inspectors as have not yet quitted Paris, are to do so immediately, but you will be informed of the precise period at which the in spector of the circumscription in which your prefecture is situated, is to proceed to the department. The in spectors have received directly from the Emperor in structions for the accomplishment of their mission; and, in addition; they will bear with them those which I have considered it necessary to determine on, in execution of the decree of his Majesty, dated the 2d of February last. According to these instructions, the prefecture and all the services dependent on them or connected with them I are to be the object of a profound investigation in every part, with a view to the maintaining or strengthening the unity of the administrative action in each depart ment. The Emperor expects an exchange of sincere and friendly communications between the members of the superior administration and the functionaries of the local administration. He is convinced that the inspec tion will furnish him with the means of better seconding the action of the departmental authorities, and at the same time of obtaining from those authorities a more efficient co-operation. Receive, Monsieur le Praet, the assurance of my most distinguished consideration, F. DE PERSIGNY." The news of the crops in the South is favour able. In the Sautes and Basses Alpes, particu larly, the corn is in excellent condition ; and the same may be said of the olives and figs in the vicinity of Lyons. From the Cher and Normandy the news of the state of the crops is equally favour able. The more pacific aspect of the Eastern question has had a favourable influence on the funds yester day, and operations to some extent have taken place at an advance on the quotations of Monday. The Three per Cents, for cash have improved in value 20c., and for the account 35c. ; the Four and-a-Half per Cents. for cash 20c., and for the account sc. Bank Stock has also gone up in value to the extent of 20f. The following_are the closing prices :—For cash : Three per Cents., 78f. 80c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 20c. For the account : Three per Cents., 78f. 20c. ; Four -and a-Half per Cents., 103 f. sc. Bank Stock, 2,760 f. The shares in the banks of Credit Foncier and Credit Mobilier still remain unchanged, closing at 750 f. as the value of the former, and 825 f. the latter. The Railway Share Market has partaken of the improvement in the funds, and an advance on yesterday's prices has been obtained of, in Northerns, 2f. ; Paris and Orleans, sf. ; Paris and Strasbourg, sf. ; Paris and Lyons, if. ; Paris and Rouen, sf. ; and Bord eaux an d C ette, 2f. ; Lyons to the editerranean, however, have fallen 10f. ; Western of France, and Rouen and Havre, re main unchanged. Th e l as t pr i ces are :—iTor therns, 875 f. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,137 f. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 932 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 926 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,098 f. ; Ly ons t o th e Mediterranean, 755 f. ; Western of Fran ce , 740 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 500 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 637 f. 50c. SPORTING NOTES. GOSSIP ABOUT GOODWOOD. Foul weather only marred the opening day of the MODEL MEETING at Goodwood. The sport was ample, the various encounters important and exciting, and the betting was occasionally brisk and heavy. All pleasure and enjoyment were, however, entirely stopped by the " skiey influences"—the wind was cold and boisterous, and the rain fell in mizzling showers with little inter mission. Still the company was large and fashionable, and only in the attendance of ladies was a marked dimi nution perceptible. The most important incident connected with the day's proceedings was perhaps the defeat of Andover for the Ham Stakes. This horse has figured very conspicuously in the Derby betting, and just before the race a large stake was "got on" him at 1,000 to 40. His party cal culated upon his success with the utmost confidence, but their sanguine expectations were sorely disappointed— he obtained the third place only. My selection, Sortie, was second, being beaten by three-quarters of a length by an animal that had succumbed to her at Liverpool. So much for the consistency of public performances ! The winner was scarcely mentioned in the betting ; the re sult, therefore., was very fortunate for the fielders. I am credibly informed that the "Leviathan" bookmaker won about 1,.900/. Sittingbourne cantered away from his opponents for the Gratwick,e Stakes. At the stand he was leading upwards of six lengths, but Sam Rogers stopped him, and allowed. Umbriel to get within two lengths of him at the post. Should anything happen to West Austra lian, Sittingbourne will be a formidable competitor for the St. Leger. A fine race for the 300 Sovs. Sweepstakes ended in favour of Ilex, who ran with indomitable gameness and "pluck." Rataplan was scratched this afternoon for the Cup. Pelion is now, therefore, the first favourite—a position to which he is indisputably entitled. He will encounter a " field" of somewhat moderate pretensions ; and, al though the diaance is not exactly suited to his capabi lities, yet I am induced to regard his success with much confidence. Ambrose is frequently mentioned with strong partiality. I have little satisfactory information respecting him, but in consideration of the long rest which he has enjoyed, and the favourable opinions which were once entertained of his racing powers, I shall not deem his chance utterly insignificant. The winner, how ever, will, I anticipate, be either Pelion or Jouvence. Rattle is much fancied, and I shall couple him with Ambrose, as being the most dangerous " outsider." The Bentinck Memorial Stakes for three-yr-olds, I assign to Sittingbourne, and the Bentinck Memorial Stakes for four-yr-olds, to Daniel O'Rourke. Cobnut and Cineas are engaged in the 100 sovs. Sweepstakes. Cobnut defeated Cineas at Stockbridge, last month, and I shall expect him to again evince his superiority. Worthing, Tuesday night. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. Advices from the Danubian Principalities state, that the vanguard of the Russian army, under the command of General Aurep, entered Bucharest on the 15th inst., and that the Commander-in-Chief was expected to reach that city on the 25th. The head-quarters of the Russian army are to be esta blished at Bucharest. Letters from Constantinople are to the 11th inst. They do not mention any new few fact of import ance, :but give interesting details of some facts which have been mentioned in the German papers, and show that some other statements were alto gether unfounded. The Constitutionnel gives the following resume of the accounts that it has re ceived from its correspondent at Constantinople : " We have already expressed doubts of the news given by a journal of Vienna that five vessels of th e Anglo-French fleet had left the roadsted of Besika to approach Constantinople. We can now formally deny this statement, for we have received by way of Trieste, a letter from Constantinople dated the 11th of this month, announcing that the combined fleet was still at Besika, and that there was not for the present any question of its going to Constantinople. However, if the Porte h as no t y e t summone d t h e combined fleet, it has not abandoned the right of demanding its presence ; it reserves to itself the right of opening the Dardanelles, which the entrance of the Russians into the Principalities gives to it. What may have led the Austrian journal into error is that, on the 6th of this month, the eve of the Beiram, it was proved that the religious excitement which signalises the end of the Turkish Lent, would lead to some colli sion between Mussulmans and Christians. The com manders of the six vessels of war at Constantinople, namely, two English steamers, one French, one Austrian, one Dutch, and an American corvette of 24 guns, as sembled, and addressed a collective note to the Pacha of Tophana (the Arsenal), announcing to him that, in the event of any ill-treatment being inflicted on the Franks, he would bombard Tophana. And, in fact, the six vessels of war, had taken up a position opposite the Arsenal. The superior command, it was even said, had been given to the commander of the French corvette as the oldest in rank. Fortunately, everything passed off well. On the Bth, the day on which it was least expected, the Mini sterial combination, which has been so much talked of for some days past, took place ; it consisted in the removal from the Cabinet of Mustapha Pacha Grand Vizir, and of Reschid Pacha Minister of Foreign Af fairs. The bureaux of the Porte being closed on ac count of- the solemnity of the Beiram, it could not be known at once who were named to these important posts. It was only late in the evening that it was learned that the ex-Seraskier, Mehemet Pacha, h a d been named Grand Vizir, and Ali Pacha, who was re cently Governor of Smyrna, Minister of Foreign Affhirs. Everybody saw in this choice, not only the formal inten tion of the Sultan to resist the pretensions of R uss i a, but even that of abandoning any idea of ulterior nego tiations. Fortunately this combination could not succeed—first, by the refusal of Mehemet Pacha to accept the office of Grand Vizir under such difficult cir cumstances, next from a protest being made by Austria against the nomination of Ali Pacha, and thirdly by the intervention of the Ambassadors, who saw in the o nia a n ti i o f: to prevent t n tohfesurcehsuma resumption n ine o t f the manifest through Lord Stratford de Redcliffe that the Sultan was informed of the opinion of the diplomatic body in the morning of the 9th . In consequence of his y representations, th e pro j ected changes were not carried i u n r is c t o ry rre r s e p m o a n i d n e s n , n in e t w o e o ff r e d c e t r . s T h h u e t o m t t h d e n o e , s as n it ot wasdis guise until from us that the situation is very grave at Constantino ple. It is difficult here,' ho writes, 'to believe in the maintenance of peace. The Russian and Turkish armies are, as it were, in presence ; an imprudence would suf fice to, bring about a conflict, and one is to be dreaded from the excitement of the Turks.' The ambassadors of , the allied powers continued to have frequent confer ences between themselves and with the ministers of the Porte. They appeared inclined to lean to prudence, and sought means to renew negotiations in an honour able way. All the diplomatic body, adds our corres pondent, felt anxiety with respect to the interior situa tion of the country, which is calculated to cause serious alarm, the discontent and irritation of the people being always on the increase. A circumstance calculated fur ther to augment it is that every day it is learned that Russian vessels of war, taking advantage of the inac tion of the allied fleets, begin to show themselves in the Black sea." A letter from Berlin,. of the 24th, says :—" An Austrian Cabinet courier has left f or St. Peters burgh. He is to pass by Stettin, where a steamer is waiting specially for him. He is the bearer of very important communications addressed to the Russian Government by the Porte, and which the Austrian Government has been charged to transmit and su pport. From the tenour of these communica tions Turkey is disposed to cede in principle, and only a question of form remains to be settled. These communications are to precede an official note of Reschid Pacha, which is to form the subject of an extraordinary mission. But the Porte, de sirous not to expose itself to a useless step, wishes to know before all things if Russia is disposed to accept the project contained in these communica tions. The courier will arrive at St. Petersburg!' on the 28th."—" If we are well informed (says the Constitutionnel, alluding to the above), the delay, ; A FRESH MAN, RACING FIXTURES FOR 1853. The figures within parenthesis denote the number o day's racing. JULY. Goodwood (4) 26 Wenlock AUG Ripon (2) Newton Abbot (2) 1 Brighton (2) 3 Airdrie (2) 4 Edgware (2) Brighton Club (1) 5 Wolverhampton (3) 8 Yarmouth (2) Reading (2) lO North Staffordshire (2) 10 York (3) 17 SEPTE, UST. • Canterbury lB Tonbridge (1) 18 Radcliffe (3) 22 Egham (2) 23 Liverpool Hunt Cup (2) 24 Derby (2) 25 1 Hereford (2) 29 Eccles (3) 29 Lichfield (2) 29 Chelmsford (2) 30 Lincoln (2) 1 Warwick (2) 6 Doncaster (4) .13 Weston Zoyland and Bridg Rater (1) 12 Dover 15 Pontefract (2) MBER. Bedford (2) 2O Leicester (2) 21 Lanark (2) 22 Manchester Autumn (2) 22 Newmarket F. 0. (3) 27 Walsall (2) 28 Northallerton (2) 29 . • NOVEMBER. Worcester (2) Epsom Autumn (2) 3 Shrewsbury (2) 15 Cowbridge Hunt (2) 9 Aberystwith (3) Last week COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, JULY 26. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.-Col. Seymour, rode on horseback to West Cowes yesterday. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred walked in the grounds. The Princess Royal and Princess Alice, attended by Miss Hildyard and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, arrived at Southampton yesterday from Buckingham Palace in a special train, and embarked on board the Royal steam yacht Fairy, for Osborne, where they arrived soon after two o'clock. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House, Piccadilly. Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz visited the Duchess of Kent yes terday at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir Geo. Couper, honoured the Royal Italian Opera with her presence last evening. Lady Augusta Bruce has succeeded Lady Anna Maria Dawson as lady in waiting to the Duchess of Kent. A deputation on the subject of the new cattle market had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Home -office. The deputation consisted of Mr. H. L. Taylor (chairman), Mr. T. H. Hall, Mr. De Jersey, Mr. Thwaites, the City Remembrancer, and the City Architect. A deputation, headed by Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P., consisting of M r . P . F . Li tt l e an d Mr. R. J. Parsons (members and delegates of the Legislature of New foundland), had an interview with the Duke of New castle yesterday at the Colonial-office. A deputation of the Eastern Union Railway Com pany, consisting of Mr. R. Bagshawe, Mr. T. Sturge, Mr. Bell, Mr. Coates, and Mr. Stretton, bad an inter view with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell on Monday, at the Board of Trade. Dispatches were received at the Colonial -office yester day from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and the Governor of the Mauritius. Dispatches were sent yesterday to the Governor of Gibraltar. THE POPE.—A letter from Rome, dated July 12, states that the health of the Pope is daily becoming more precarious. He is suffering from a severe attack of asthma and general deLility. The Pope is 61 yea) s of age. TESTIMONIAL TO M. JULLIEN.-A meeting of the com mittee of the testimonial concert, with a host of the artistes who have for many years performed under the direction of M. Jullien, met at the Hanover-square ' rooms yesterday morning, for the purpose of presenting to him a magnificent gold-mounted baton, set with dia monds, of the value of 2501. Mr. Howell, the eminent double-bass player, on giving it to M. Jullien, dwelt on the many important services he had rendered to the art and its prof essors, which the maestro, in a speech of great feeling, respon d ed to. M. Jullien sails in the Bac, from Liverpool, with his agent, Dr. Joy, for New York, where w e h ave li tt l e d ou b t of the success that awaits him. which, contrary to general expectation, has place in the pacific solution of the Turco-Re 7 i ; difference m us t b e explained. The Emperor NicA, las, on receiving the different propositions of n ,`" Western p owers, f or a friendly compromise betlT' Russia and T ur k ey, on the subject of the protector, re , ship of th e Greeks, is said to h ave th an k e d they presentativ es of those powers for their friens e l offices. The Czar is even said to have adilel' that the proj ec t s su b mitted to him were of a n ature to permit the hope of arriving at a solution; bat he is stated to have added that he was forced to cline the intervention of the Western Powers it iy . affair, even if it s h ould be offered in a sillee amical form. In a word, the Emperor Nichol does not re cogn i se e i t h er in France, in Englane? Austria, or in Prussia, the right of interfering difference which, he says, lies between Russia p i Turkey, and only concerns these two nations. consequence, the Czar is said to have declared the however conciliatory the propositions made to D; by the West ern P owers may be, he cannot reeel,, and reply to them, except they be addressed to al directly by th e Di van i n the name of the Tar p government. In taki ng everyt hi ng at the best, of is permitted to suppose th at i t is in consequeneet, that resolution that the Sublime Porte itself been advised to propose to Russia an arrel ment, reposing, no d ou b t, on bases similar those of the projects submitted to the Czar hY, Western P owers . T ur k ey, on its part, before attempting this ne w an d l as t step, is said to 11!co, wished to be certain that the propositions she about to make officially would not be rejected ; 11 , 1 1 , 1 , this explains th e p rev i ous communication of :1 proposition to th e Czar, spoken of by the 1e ,14 a from Berli n . The Turkish proje c t cannot re*-1, St. Pet ers b urg h b efore the 28th July, and can!,ll arrive at Constantinople before the sth AnVi 9 next ; from whence it f o ll ows th at the official no of Reschid Pacha, to be present e d t o th e C za r b 1 an Ottoman Ambassador, cannot certainly all: before th e 15th of the same month. It will, they ' fore, not be b e f ore t h e end of August that we learn at Paris the definitive conclusion of t Turco - Russian differen ce , even in admitting IPPoi nothing should occur to interrupt the progreel the negotiations, that no incident should tong cate the Eastern question, and that the Emile,:l, of Russia be really disposed to lend himself, a good gra ce , t o th e promptest arrangenio possible." - A Constantinople letter of the 11th, in the 6 141* man, Journal of Frankfort, states that M. d'ol roff was expected t o arr i ve t h ere in a few days, Empty from this it was contended that the Empw.", Nicholas has no intention of refusing propositi°' for the maintenance of peace. The Journal de Frankfort gives the follo1 05 „, details respecting the Nekra ssowz i ens, a religie:i sect exceedingly hostile to Russia :—" This ec": was forced, under the Emperor Alexander, to el grate from Southern Russia, and then went fixed themselves at Tultscha, on the Danube, in the i s l an d s o f t h e Delta of that river while' small number o f th em rema i ned at Ismail. They ir , all determi ne d t o se i ze on this latter place, and far that purpose prepared 80 boats well provided arms. The letters of the body at Tultscha to the sectarians at Ismail fell into the hands of the sians, who at once determined on measures of o e ' fence. This sect is the same that, during the prf; sence of the Emperor at the siege of Schumia 1828, destroyed two Russian regiments by a stl' den attack." GERMANY. A conspiracy has been brought to light ; 47 1 1 , 6 e sons, some of th em s t u d ents, have been arrestea• The Government has published a decree, Pl l d , hibiting Austrian l a b ourers going to Switzerlan d ' Nevertheless, it is thought that the differences r o tween Austria an d Switzerland will soon find satisfactory settlement ; some persons even men t : tion the conditi ons of the proposed arrangenieFts They are to th e following effect :—Austria insl s on the expulsion of the refugees, and demands pension for the 22 Lombard Capuchins. A Berlin letter, in a Frankfort journal staff that three prop r i e t ors o f j ournals at Berlin been called before the director of police o f tli_s city, and told t o b e l ess severe in their remar upon Russia, as the Gov ernmen t hoped for a paci fic solution o f the Easter n ques ti on, and wishec i prevent the publication of irritati ng art i cles on r""le,„ subject. The Court of Assizes of Friburg has commence d .. the trial of the leaders in the last insurrection that place. M. Perrier is the principal of they'' and he admitted in his interrogatory that hnoca the military chief of the expedition, but dent ed said, he organised it—it was really orga • ed,.. t ." said, by the general discontent. He alleged tllr the committee of Posieux had always acted wit' ssotrihcitinlseeglafliitfy,thaendGosaviedrurantheattheonshitos part should have done spected th e l aw. had re' Prince Alex an d er, son to Prince Frederick 0 f Prussia, arrived at Chamounix on the 13th, under, the incognito of Count Tecklenburg. His rorL highness intends visiting several parts of the Pi°" montese dominions during the ensuing autumnt ITALY. ' The Ticinese Gazette states from Faenza, that since the late attempts on the lives of the Geverl l °` and Gonfaloniere of that town, it has been irt state of siege, which has become still more stric t since th e mur d er o f a Papal functionary, named CoUlna, with his wife and numerous family, 3 , / Cas-el Bolognese, a s ma ll p l ace between Imola and Faenza. The Piedmontese Gazette, of the 23d, contai' invitations addressed to the Senators and Deputies of the kingdom by the presidents of those bodies , requesting their attendance at the funeral cer'r mony which is to take pl ace in the Cathedral '9"i Turin on the 28th inst. the an n i versary - o f the death of King Charles Albert. The Parlament° of Turin, of the 23d, announce s from Florence, that after much hesitation Gua r ' razzi has at length accept e d the commutation his punishment. He is said to ha ve prev i ou sg had an interview with the Grand Duke hiniscu' He was to leave Tuscany and Italy very shortly. The Tuscan Monito re states, from San Marino, thattlt a Bonelli, a man i n high consideration ill town, was fired at and killed close to his hot'se on the 14th. The assassin has not been discovered' SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 21st publishes a roy'n decree ordering that, in honour of the memory o ,' the dramatic author Don Leandro Fernandez a o Mirantin, his remains, which are interred in th e cemetery of Pere-Lachais e , in Pari s , shall be re moved for fi na l interment in Madrid at the sani" time as those of the late Don Juan Donoso Cortex , Marquis de Valdegamas. A Madrid letter of th e d same date inf orms us that the Minister of Finance: finds great difficulties in the way of his project for an emissio n o f 300 m i llions of reals (75 million: of francs) in Treasury bonds at 6 per cent., and th e transfer of the deposits of the savings banks to th e State. The depositors, to prevent this appropria tion of their funds, are calling for reimbu rsem ent. Certain chang es i n the Cabinet are still men' tioned as impending. The Three per Cents. were done at 43k. ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY. At the annual general meeting of this institution Y es; Clark, terday—Sir Jas. Bart., in the chair—th e repor i of the council for the year en di ng in Dec., 1852, showe d ` that the pupils had in creased in number, and that the fees received were nearly sufficient for the support of th e H colleg a e ; that on the re tirement of Prof essor Playfair P r ' ofmnn Nyas offered the Chair of Chemistry at th oa e " Metropolitan S c h oo l of Science applied to Minn and to the Arts ; " an d that the council sanctioned 01" acceptance of so desirable an appointment. I n con o e' quence of this change, the council entered into a corre' spondence with the Government for the purpose of P er pwie.tuath tang the R oyal College of Chemistry by uniting 1 the "Metropolitan School of Science." The cor respondence with the Government was t hen read, and it was moved and carried that the lease, fur niture, and fi x t ures be made over to the Government:.. according t o t h e conditions mentioned in the corresP°f dence, and th at a committee be appointed, consisting 0 - the Right Hon. Lord Ashburton • Sir James Clara ., Dart.; Dr. Da n i e ll ; W arren de la Rue, E sq . ; Dr. Bruce Jones ; George Lowe, Esq.; Benjamin Bond Cabbebt. Esq., M.P.; William Porrett, Esq.; William Tite,,,, c l: Samuel Whitb rea d , E sq.; Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., " and Raymond Baker, Esq., to carry out this object. A report of the council was then read, on the fin' n . vial and genera l con di t i on of the college, f r om the n° in. mencernent of the y ear t o th e present time. F rom this it appeared that the college, as regards students , wa g never in a more fl our i s hi ng condition, and that subscriptions f or the pr esen t year, i f pa id , will be ' 4 turned to the m em b ers, and that a new volume v chemical reports will be immediately distributed. After a vote of th an k s to his Royal Highness Prince 1 Albert (the P res id ent), Lord Ashburton, the Treasurer of. and Council, th e Auditors, the Professor (Dr. ji mann), and the Chairman, the meeting separated. —This ROYAL S OUTH L ONDON F LORICULTUR AL SOCIETY' --This old established society yesterday held another 0 its sho ws a t the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens, wbic4 was well atte n d e d. On the occasion the flowers were as usual e x hibit e d un d er tents erecte d f or that purpo se, and incl u d e d some exce ll ent sp ecimens of Ca p roses, stove and greenhouse plants verbena,s, carnations, hollyho c k s , pi co t ees , cu t fl owers , fruit &c. 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