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r" P"—.I3IIAROS will WIN the DERBY. LION. A US TRALIA.—Parties about to proceed to o„,,,,Atistralia can be assured in the PROFESSIONAL LIFE rn:Tundle7CE COMPANY, 76, Cheapside, London, upon the whole w o los of Life See, without payment of extra premium for voyage toins granted on personal security. EbWARD BAYLIS, Resident Manager and Actuary. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—CHEAP LAT .„,„ . , ttSION XxcEXCITRSION TRAM : VS.—On Sunday, 29th of Ma, TRAINS will leave Paddingtoa the at 7.45 a.m. for 6,3 0 f," !Wel BRISTOL, returning the same evening from Bristo l a t ,Vlock, and Bath at 7 o'clock ;---and at 8.30 a.m. fer OXFORD, steniDnURY,LEXIIINGTON, and WARWICK, returning the same and g f e o,l l Warwick at 6.4,5, Leamington at 7. 0 , Banbu r y at 7.40, p O xford at 6.30 o'clock. area there and Back— First Class. Covered Carriages. 8ath..... ' 9s. 63. • • Os. Oxford .. .. 6s. Banbury ••••• • • • " ***** • s. •• 3s. 6d. .. 6s. 4s. 6d. Leamiu fo Tick ets „„., h g—n and Warwick ...10s. 6d. • • 6 s. n Trai 4xee n i o ' Lic are not transferable, and are only available for the ehea ns, may * 153 K1e • 269 Stand e obtained previously King-street, •ers h oi , • band at the Paddington Station. Passau ---...__.:____•ig Wage can only be conveyed at the ordinary fares. P ATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. It ° TATA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Esq e,s;77A. MUSICAL LECTURE by GEORGE BUCKLAND , gab;,,")" tled SONGS and SONG-WRITERS, every Evening (except at Eight, y of Gun- El, et j n !nd R9eket Compos Pepper ition ;by Dr. Bachhoffner Chemistr on , Voltaie e ri ' s " . Y. with a S er i es of llridismt Illustrations ; experiments by Nki,P e, on Heat, illustrated by two gigantic Reflectors, by which T w0 , 16 2 8 Iree a distance of 100 feet from the fire. ch4,:les oSplendid Dissolving Views, principally painted by 44 1 ,1 88 i o n",81111Schools,,r. Clare. • and Children under Ten years of age Half-price. T pr , MEDITERRANEAN ELECTRIC i nd , — ...CrEAPII COMPANY, to units Europe with Africa, the and Australia via France, Piedmont, Corsica, Sardinia, ‘ 44 es r . .).- kncl Egypt (Societe en conunandite,) Capital, 7 , 500,000 Dom+ ow, Egypt. v . 100 in 30,009 shares •t 250 francs ( 101.) each. De i"kr, f rn (4/.) per share, with an exclanve privilege, for fifty erg -a ' the Governments of France and Sardinia, and a guaran- . "I tr, Per cent. per annum on 4,500,000 francs by the G overnment Sara i 9 n e i a ,hd five per cent. on 3000,000 frthics by the Government --• his G HONORARY DIRECTORS IN ENGLAND. his t r l ace the D oke of Ham il ton an d B ra ndon, K.G. 1111 tv eell eneY the Count Colonna WalewsM, Ambassador of France. kini eell eney the Marquis d'Azeglio, Envoy Extraordinary and til G'tee Plenipotentiary of Sardinia. el, 4 e Manley Chairman of the Submarine Telegraph Com , " " e 'Neen Great Itritain and the Continent of Europe. 41 % lin n HONORARY DIRECTORS IN FRANCE. T hep o e n Tal Highness the Prince Napoleon Bonaparte. t v ,, - ,• de Morny. &c. ''''''neney the Count F. de Persigny, Minister of the Interior, Ill ti ,' B, e. . Il ke .I ' 4ll elley M. Drouyn De Lhuys, Minister of Foreign Affairs B rt. ,E xe ''' trit a ' I ""'eneY the Eight Hon. Lord Cowley, Ambassador of Great m, HONORARY DIRECTORS IN SARDINIA. 1.4 UlthheSS the Duke of Genoa. 'tiers & ate u t Massimo d'Azeglio. - "encY Count C. de Cavour, President of the Council of Ais C' tx,,,, n e ncY General da Bormida, Minister of Foreign Atairs. - 114,`,„,"eYPaleocapa, Minister of Public Works. tiltii B C' e ncY James lludson, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and er Plenipotentiary of Great Britain. iiii t i z e ee llenny the Duke de Guiche, Envoy Extraordinary and Ler Pi euiPotentiary from the Emperor of the French. Gerant—John Watkins Brett, Esq. iek: Surveillance—Samuel Laing, Esq., M.P., &c. ; John Mas- Esq., Jun. ; Sir James Carmichael, Bart. ; Ernest Bunsen, ••ers in Londo—Mess. Merman, Peters, and Co. 44/L eft in Paris— n Messrs sr . Fon a ld, st and Fould Oppenheim. B ankers in Turin—Messrs. Pavia. Travi, and Co. elieral Agents in Italy—Messrs. Curti, Picciotto and Co. trok,, n3i neers—Jacob Brett, Esq., and the chevalier Bon. 111. "xSecretarybroad in London—J. Mortley de la More, Esq. t/3 leek Secretary in Paris—James Power, Esq • 117,.118, Bishopsgate-street, near the London Tavern, and O " le 4 " 83, Rue Richelieu. - ste "inarine Telea between England and nce been lc nite r - siant litlP:ed operati gr ph g th on during the last two years, Fra and o has n the 6th tvn i t ; us cable of seventy miles, in one entire length, was laid 41r trilin etw eelt England and Belgium with complete success, thus oli nter - g an additional proof of the vast capabilities of this medium cominunication.* `ne t ,p 4 velitors and promoters of the submarine telegraph, aided by Ihtened and generous support of the Governments of France th e m aNi nia, propose to unite Europe . with Africa by continuing 1.„ - •ectrl i ll 'ido l , wires, which now run withoutinterruption . between t k ed l7. l Genoa to Spezzia. From the latter port thta , cross d ardi n i a :erraneen to Africa, passing by the Islands of Corsica an th route chosen has been carefully surveyed, and approved . by 'llei,,c7ilaission appointed by the French Government as affording 'f‘e, t 't Practicable line of crossing the Mediterranean : the depth k it tr horn land to land being throughout very moderate.t es th rr e , C "lliany has further and still more important objects in caie telegraphic junction of Europe with Africa and the East ],roes s great desideratum to the whole world, and must be con % as one of the most important undertakings of the present age Ti llrest 141 )t( a Co mpany is making arrangements for the continuation of a stihiaralletui line from Algeria along the coast of Africa, to Alex- Pr l 4 a , RRYPt. to this construction of which it has been ascertained Zev e ,.„ .csi difficult exists •, and with the support of the British ss,,,;,."nisnt and the Y E East India Comps/13 , ft will be easy to prolong ilea to Bombay, where as they will meet the groat line of 3,000 °w in course of construction by the East India Company, and 0,4, Cloven ,uittinatelY lte pilylo3.l to Australia. hip a linen o nue and Sardinia liave guaranteed to the 'Nl 3 ' an exclusive p r i v il ege for the term of fifty years, with a l) annual minimum interest. Dr onaoters have ent• red into a contract for the complete exe til tg : ,?f the works from Spezzta to the borders of Tunis (Including ! i N,"rtinitry expenses, and a transfer of the concessions of the two 1 0 11 1er t ), for the sum of 300,0001., being the amount of capital '4l t * s q n ' el l interest has been guarateed . by the Governments of France and the works in Sardinia are now in active pr. gress. tape`%st at the rate of four per ceut. per annum will be paid to the ders upon the amount called up, and the guarrantees of the "vrtl4 v e , nments will take effect on the opening of the respective Ott; Of the line h ' 30,000 s h are s representing the capi tal of the Company, "iis to, ha ve been taken in Sardin ia, and 10,000 in Paris, leaving 'aittp.. - " ar es for England ; applicatio n for whish may be made to 1 1 — • oster and Braithwaite, 68, Old Broad-street. PteaDital requisite for the extended operations b t eyon il d ned Algeria 'e' o th,,:: 4l4 ed hereafter upon such terms as may be dethernEast India irtip,ilegotiations with the British Government and e d Y * The shareholders et the present Company will be entitle 'eference in any future extension. ‘, 4 2 . ts of the subscribers is limited to the . amount of their rkisthe ,!;loh are payable to bearer), and the capital of 300,0001., Will be devoted to the Mediterranean Line. Y alse t art s will be made to bearer, and issued and delivered on the 1 41)34 °f the deposit. May 21 1853. - FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. Mediterranean Electric Telegraph Company. To Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite. 1 4 "ett a kren,-1 . request you to allot me shares in the above sl,: r ia l „ a ,,l; and I hereby agree to accept the said sha 4 res, or any a llstt r ed Yu may allot me, and to pay the sum of 1 110 . t o t n me e n a t e . h at m a t the thne to be specified in your letter of a day of 1853. Name (in full) ...... ..... • • • .... • • • • • • • • .. ► Profession, &c .. lac hlthe c c om munications weree ••..••••• • • • • • • • • ..instantly ... • .....transmitted . • ' • • • • • • • :, ~ sts b att — "es of submarine and subterranean. line, with two of 24- ery nY• ;.;;------- ' as fal results of the last Half Century have proved beyond OWT question that AND'S MACASSAR OIL possesses sin -4111,;,,N41,,,"1.7 nourishing powers in the growth, restoration , a nd T'• ' 4 ' of the Human Hair, and when every other specific has ehp 4ll St e‘ebrated Oil is now universally acknowledged to be the an PeriOr to all other preparations for the Hair. It '4(l i;A 4 ce s "M falling off - or turning grey—strengthens weak hair 'l) tr u4 Nri! t hick and luxuriant growth—cleanses it from Scurf ‘st.lot, in4--and makes it beautifully soft, curly, and glossy. Its 4 k t r ii ti V i T t !a kit e s as , area baldness is pe i Tlie r r A ly mt a t c o t s ive it lasndainufatiblleagrg in n w i t t h s tj 'a itZ e t ?Peratio l n E . R° F w o s ; C a h n i d ldren m it is especially recommended, ! , 111, 1 114..' e b asis of a beautiful head of hair, and rendering the ass ny efr comb unnecessary. In dressing the hair nothing can kid i 4 ect eet ' rendering the Hair so admirably soft that it will lie in 14,4; and imparting a transcendent lustre.—Price 3s. 6d. Bottles (equal to four small), 10s. 6d. ; and double 1; 1 4 % Tlos; the wrapper of each Bottle are the words, Row- OIL la twolines. The same are engraven on the 411 (b. 3 ,,' .it o ",., ra PPer nearly 1,500 times, containing 29,028 letters. -11 Thits ""'ND & Boris, 20, Hatton Garden, London ; and by and Perfumers. FETING in the drifts, tremendous hail of 'TWO EXTREMES ktki :lonaWATIIER.—A few days . I 'I N,INI , a,";1 sharp frosts visite ag d o s d e ee ve t P r h a s e l n m o p w i a l rt d - the country,genial t: 4 no, c od notiee were succeeded by ~, summer. This ' , tit f ,' a lite et :' all other warm indications 1 breezes,mildesttof seasonable Clothing, thou 'Nl- N et I nt of two extremes in the weather. Such an occur tlett' et t h e 4,, an extreme demand for ' a tto,'eca s si 'Line time , desiring a complete o Clothing Establ ''''' 't I'n'' the ndicent and connnodi * us nvenience, as well change of Attire. On t e pk :. ( tat ii,i4,,nsrs and sots becomes a public . co departments being ; 1 111 1' ,.;',Le ao—, v an tage, from the fact of all its communicating—where 7.50-it''s c ao ' l ectin Plete--tlistinct, but each nish . ed with all the ill ' el e ark l ev e er fin either ready-nafui . e e o s r fz e 'i e ll tie, exhi t iftrilisllnTable o t rd su er pe o r f io D r ! eig re a s n , cis and novelties of the quality at the lowestic , N i :ta t b o ' !IT 1 ' , sine a g dv i a e n n ta lo g s es to all classes triumphan i tl united. the metro. ~•• at',,bu it"„,,,ess facilities are conveniently distributed E in Establishment of .'4f,;',,sts ai , - ,, , aSt at the Aldgate and Minories in New ' il etb u- str o „ - , S ON, and at the West End by their Branch bls,, - at . roma being equally commio vs ofd , alw a ,_ _ r of Bart-street, each h st novel and tasteful i d ss e„,eila,„ Ciottgf r_oeprlenished with the Superior m quality, artistic designs, ' e g i n i ts ' ,Lvk,,o7ienci wer'i%niiiritill classes , and comfort secured in 1 6r ic a a r ble to Nit a ! styi: l'it, and, ITY a a p s e l c o ula ' r process, rendered a p P ery profes tlikt ,Dirro om W bress for Juveniles and Adults, and for ey ees so low ,Ila-eblia4;,, engagement All articles charged Pr!_,,_ . s'aitt and els futile and imitation an entire impesslmlnY . nd SON'S, 444•,:11e t/i(11 41)' os for h ' s summer season, at E. MOS" led cheap -11 4 vuiet3', unequalled novelty, and unparalle hn fea sti l ,' ? "Y ro T . plc to-istetiott: ;V i es and Gentlemen, the nucleus of all seasonable world. t Outfit ' - tiargea l ower prices than any house in the om ,,'-'atat ~' Drovlous t- embarkation, may procure the most c .. IN,. tholr and press required° a to Australia, as well al l Lea to pursuits for the voyage department is appro. )) s lo w lni o _ when arrived. A separate . applications. t N , 4 eSI Di ,, ,ults; i mmediate attention paid to theirthey will ‘ l , 4 ,Pt al ,, tl d th e „e"„arc charged for the Goods and Clothing t il tli a i ;ls, at-eirautY and suitability of every article is {guaranteed. , ilat t , 4 tit, e h ha , n bs. and Emigrants disposed for an investru I. t . teo et ;;;en t, th amesato Department at E. Mons and Soseosr, smallst, i I P ttli it 't e 'xigt 'Profitable and convenient for large 'hfc, L' ki _ n tio dst 3 or i .,_ . _ and ship sailing niFtiott;l.oltroa;7:..Ttsa for Ladies and Gentlemen part of the IRO lia , to 'nd on application, or post free to any 1 4 . ic , Ni...... 1, .„„. the 1 1, 411 02 411 5d 0 , - ",'_ In 9SES and SON regret having to guardu.-e w e 4,,,', , _t Of ri_IpSIIIOTI, having learned that the nntradesm il IC ~ e‘ It': u vloO',,e c00ce,,,,,723 connected with their Establishment, or _ lit o ~,!e,tgoe„'n! has been resorted to in many instances, and fur kit:, ''Exi;;beY beg to state that they have ti tlo _ex ceDt v_sv.e Prit ANT ()TITER HOUSE IN OR OUT OP LONDON, ,k 5,„, Ity ),% n ta lj own Es tablishments, as follows : 4 .ooa o '' , i i r 86, Ala lishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minorics, 83, 114, lierlVest.4lll.9lMosite the Church, all communicating. _ r i 'll i '-iitr eet, _,, ranch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, 2 , 41:41,14 itYork.4l47municating. 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CONTENTS : —Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills Forests, Fields, Iligh-roads, and other pleasant places- Country Trips and Rambles—The Sea -London at Night—Evenings at Home Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., II FRAGAIENTS FROM THE FOUNTAINS. Two Vols. Vol. I. VISIT 30 THE LAKES ; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, ace. Vol.II. TJE LAKES OF KILLARNEY; REMINISCENCES OF DUBLIN, Sr.c. ~y~ LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1853. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham road. Open Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during the week, "The Thistle," " ShamrOck," " Rose," "Amina" "Gran ville," "Loch Vogel," and "Windsor Castle" Waltzes; the "Napo leon" Galop; "Le •Cirque" Quadrille; "The Gold Hawk" and " Juno" Polkas.— Admission, Is. Doors open at Half-past Eight ; Dancing to commence at Nine o'clock, and terminate at Half-past Eleven. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID, "That three score years and ten our course may run." A - popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution that harasses the young, besets the man of pleasure, business or study, and em bitters old age ; with tables and rulesfor the diet and physical regu lation 01 every-day life. Iv. THE PASSIONS. What passions hurt the body—what Improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." SUBJECT Ws pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad vent of the passions. Chastity and its Infringement. The casualties oflicentiousness and dissipation, with Illustraticns, graphic, narra tive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages. V. TILE MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, thatis the question." EPSOM RACES and ICED CHAMPAGNE. Parties visiting the Races can be supplied with all kinds of diet, esliments, viz., Hams, Tongues, Raised Pies, Salads, &c., and use of China, Glass, Cutlery, and Linen, packed in convenient hampers, made tor the occasion. Wines, Soda Water. &c., packed in Ice. Messrs. FURSSELL, Cornhill, near the Exchange (only). ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE.—I refer the learned to Baron Liebig, the temperate to Dr. Carpenter, invalids to the medical profession, and the robu.t to the best clui•is of London for the merits of my stock of ALLSOPP'S ALE. The "Thirsty soul " and " Constant Reader " of the " Times" I can also satfsfy with my Imperial Measure. Bottles (quarts) ..........•• .......... as. per dozen. Do. (pints) • • •• • • ss. „ Kaderkins (IS galions).. • • .. • • ........ 30s. HARRINGTON PARKER, Beer-Merchant, sf, Pall-mall. schikoff, on behalf of the Sultan, was a positive re fusal to acquiesce in the demands of -Russia. To the extraordinary nature of these demands we have already more than once adverted, but it is of some importance that they should be par ticularly and thoroughly understood: Russia, then, demanded of the Sultan the Protectorate of the Greek Cluistians in Turkey, and that the Russo-Greek Church should have accorded to it, specifically and by solemn treaty, all right and privileges which it had ever claimed. Now, one of ,the main objects of the latter portion of this stipulation was to define and enlarge, to a most dangerous extent, a privilege which was granted to Russia, though in terms somewhat vague, by the Treaty of Kainardji, at the close of the last century, and later again, as vaguely confirmed by the treaty of Adrianople. This, privilege con sisted in a permission to the Russian Embassy to interfere on behalf of a certain Greek chapel or church—which was allowed by the treaty of Kai nardji to be erected in Constantinople—in the event of its priests or congregation being ill-treated by the Turks. This principle Prince Menschikoff sought to magnify into a Protectorate of the eleven million Greek subjects of the Sublime Porte—en deavouring to extend a permission to interfere on behalf of one chapel into a right of Protectorate of the whole Church, and to establish over it a juris diction concurrent with that of the Sultan. Such a cession of power would in effect be more serious to the Ottoman Empire than the abandonment of a third of its territory. How, then; could the Powers, signataries of 'the treaty of 1841,"which guaranteed the independence and'-'integrity= of - Turkey, permit so gross a violation of its letter and spirit ? And it may well be asked how could one of those powers so far forget the obligations of honomond international good faith as to seek sud denly and by deceit to overthrow the provisions of a compact to which she was solemnly pledged ? The next point of importance in the demands of Prince Menschikoff was the immovability of the Greek Patriarch at Constantinople unless guilty of proved high treason or gross misconduct, and then only upon the consent of the Czar. This stipulation would clearly remove the allegiance of the Patriarch from the Sultan -to the Em peror of Russia, who would hold over him a power superior to that of the Turk. Hitherto, the Patriarch had always been removable at the will of the Sultan ; and a case occurred not long-ago in which this power was exercised, and we ourselves were the occasion of it. It was at the time of Lord Ponsonby's embassy at Constantinople that the Greek Patriarch was active in fomenting disaffec tion to the British rule in the lonian Islands. In consequence of this, on the complaint of Lord Pon sonby, the Patriarch was removed. It does not require a very acute perception at once to see, that according to the proposal of Prince Menschikoff, the Patriarch would exist only as a tool of Russia. He would become an instrument of mischief in her hands, and would excite the rebellion against the Turk of his most valuable and industrious subjects. If, in such a case, the Sultan were to attempt his removal, the Czar would step in and say, "No ; this good man is slandered by evil report, and I have the right, by treaty, to forbid your dismissing him upon grounds which I consider insufficient." On the face of this, such rights as we have described would effect the complete overthrow of the Otto man Empire, and the aggrandisement of Russia, at its expense, to the destruction of the balance of power, and the serious detriment of the other great States. It is deeply to be regretted that such an attempt should have been made ; and while we rejoice at its futility, we cannot but deplore the gross breach of good faith by which Russia endeavoured to effect her purpose. It is a deep stain upon the honour of the Czar that, after giving in London and Paris the most positive assurances that Prince Menschikoff's mission related to nothing but the question of the Holy Places, and that his large ar maments had no purpose and had been greatly ex aggerated ; that after this he should suddenly attempt by menaces, unknown in England and France, to extort from Turkey a treaty which, as we have shown, involved the violation of the most solemn international engagements. Fortunately, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and M. de Lacour have acted in firm and successful conjunction. They have assured the Sultan of the steady support of Englana and Rance in hid re fusal of the Russian ultimatum. What will result from this ? War ? No. There is no danger that the Russian will march his Cossacks into Moldavia, or sail his fleet for Constantinople. He cannot face the joint opposition of France and England, Austria and Prussia. He will simply retire, as he always has done, when headed in his venturous at tempts—like the Scotchman who had climbed half way over his neighbour's garden wall for the pur pose of stealing his fruit, and who, when asked by the neighbour—" Where are ye gaun to, Sandie ?" replied—" Back again 1" Even so, Prince Men schikoff will have to go "back again," having reaped nothing but discomfiture and disgrace. The question of the Holy Places, as we have stated on a previous occasion, was conclusively settled in April to the satisfaction of Russia, and this settlement was mainly owing to the liberality and right feeling of France. The appointment of Redschid Pacha as Vizier may be held as indicative of a purpose on the part of the Sultan to pursue a liberal and English line of policy; and the united action of the English and French Ambassadors at Constantinople may be vegarded as a guarantee of the safety and integrity of the Turkish Empire, so valuable to our com merce, and so necessary to our Rasters interests. Of disturbance there is no danger, for where Eng land and France are united in opposition to any other power they invariably prevail. Besides, ' Russia would have no excuse for armed aggression ' save the barbarous and thievish reason—" You have what I want." Under these circumstances, we are happy to congratulate the public upon a ' danger dissipated and a trick exposed. MANNING' THE NAVY. (From the Daily News.) The controversy about procuring seamen for the Royal Navy is practically reduced to one point—to " provide against the emergency" of France being able by " the admirable organisation of its whole maritime population" to man and send " its entire fleet to .sea in a short space of time." That danger once past, there is not the slightest doubt " that the resources and patriotism of the country would do the rest." To provide against such an emergency our official men—our great First Lords of the Ad miralty, such as the Duke of Northumberland — with their subordinate admirals, secretaries, and cap tains—could for ages find no better expedient than impressment ; and as the temper of the times, which has abolished the minor outrage of the slave trade, positively forbids the authorities ever again having recourse to this expedient, they are on the look out for a substitute, and fancy that entering seamen for ten years may serve the purpose. When slavery was abolished apprenticeship was at first substituted for the slave trade ; the planters then proposed an importation of negroes, and that not being readily assented to, they had recourse to Coolies and Chinese. Their whole system was based on the slave trade and slavery ; they could not, according to their customs, exist without slaves, and continue to this day to crave for a large importation of la bourers. So the minds of our naval officials, and our naval system having been modelled on the one idea of providing by impressment against the emergency of a sudden attack by a well-organisea despotic power, it is supposed that the nation will not be safe unless a substitute be found for that intolerable wrong. The argument, based wholly on fear, is an eulogy on des potism. The first duty of a Government is to provide for the national defence, and, regardless of our liber ties, we should, if adopting this principle, imitate the despotic State, and subject our whole maritime population to a conscription for our fleet, and the rest of the population to a conscription for the army. For the usual purposes of administration a centralised despotic Government is more effica cious than popular representation, and the eulogy justifies the readiness only too apparent amongst our statesmen to sacrifice whenever they can the public liberties to an efficient government. But as national greatness is born more of public spirit than of efficiency of administratio n, there is prima facie ground for supposing that p re p arati ons may be made for the emergency contemplated without borrowing a method from despotism. It is lamentable to perceive that notwithstanding the immense sums lavished on the Navy, it is with the multitude not a popular service. Several in stances have recently occurred, says one of our contemporaries, of first-class vessels detained for months for their complement of men ; and the 5,000 additional seamen vot ed last De c e mber have not yet been entirely raised. " So severe," says another, " is the competition which the Royal Navy has at present to encounter, owing to the activity which prevails in all branches of our Mer cantile Marine, that it would be unwise to form ex travagant expectations of the benefits to be expected from the changes which we have described." After all the care that has been taken to provide better accommodation for .the seamen, to improve PROGRAMME :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, on both sides. as to age temperament, complexion, and figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. Cases, /cc. By R.J. 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We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his avower to correct."--London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. "We promised in a former number that we should recur to this work, in order to exiiibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying on the credulity of tic public. The tribe of • Quiet Sytnathisers,' and • Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book could find its way into lie hands of those who sailer from tit com plaint of which it Ire .15, we are satisfied that many h mdreds would tie saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, theut'h It is that which the quacks most prize— much money --This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Seermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, ‘lkely to do much good."—Meilleal Circular, June 16, 1852. No. 11. sva...n oth , price 35. 64., by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE ON THE URETHRA, on Princi- pies at once Simile, ititte, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate 'and apparently Intractable Forms. BY F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of gurgeons of England. "In proot of his views he (Mr. Conrtenay) haa given history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad any which Mr. Syinc adduced, and on which he had operated. ~u eh are cases ix., xi., xil., and xviii. No. ix. had yes sted, for a period of twelve yeas. the treatment by titillation, and was finally removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both In duration, severity, .inti complication of symptoms, of a more ag gravated character ti , an any detailed by Mr. Synin. and yet the treatment adopted by Mr, Courtenay proved eminently successful." —Professor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture. i L •Ck • ; , p•Kot. 43 ' Tj Z. • O .Z .' " - • . C E . -• F 41 k .' :\ ;4 4401k111L . V A S t .• • • __ -,-„ . & 441" , ' \• S ',l • YON o k 'l P 7, 44 / 0 .1-g ... ,014 . • • ,P. Oj • ; •i • • if '" 1 DlO 3- A' , • -pito T " 1 11+ • their diet, to preserve their health, to establish gradations of merit, and give them rewards and pensions, the Royal Navy remains a decidedly un popular service. The Mercantile Marine never wants seamen ; and our people, having a natural affection for the sea, half man the ships of America as well as our own ships. There is no other busi ness of life;—not even that of the wretched agricul tural labourer—which cannot at all times procure an abundance of men. There are always numerous candidates for the most noisome and most danger ous occupations, but not for the cleanly, safe, and almost idle life of a man-of-war sailor. For situa tions as officers in her Majesty's ships there is no want of candidates. The posts are eagerly sought after by scions of the aristocracy. There is some thing, therefore, peculiar to the Royal Navy which makes it distasteful, or even odious td the bulk of our population. What is it ? We have given it a bad name. We have com muted. the punishment of crimes for service in the Navy. We have practically, by carrying off men to serve, as they were carried into slavery, stigma tised it as something horrible, and by such means have made a profound impression in the minds of the bulk of the people that the Navy is a kind of Pandemonium, or almost as bad as negro slavery. Where its true character is known, amongst the children and relations of men-of war seamen, as at Plymouth and Portsmouth, and their neighbour hoods, the impression is removed, but it is not effaced in distant places ; and these naval seaports supply fifteen times as many seamen for her Ma jesty's ships as the much more maritime And popu long- neighbourhoods of Liverpool and Bristol. Our first and chief business, in order to procure seamen for her Majesty's service—without imitating the despotism which our contemporaries, even while they abuse it, eulogise—is to make that ser vice extremely popular. Do this, and you would have the same men enter again and acrain under good captains, and a choice of the very best seamen in the world would be obtained for our English fleets. In all the business of civil life the engagements are for short periods, and generally terminable by a notice on either side. To build and prepare ships in an emergency, shipwrights, sailmakers, caulkers, &c., are as necessary as seamen. Many of these are brought up as apprentices in the royal dock yards at quite as great an expense as boys are brought up for seamen on board ship ; but it never entered the head of any alarmist admiral or captain to bind these men to serve for ten years, lest they might be wanted on such an emergency. They can retire from the service when they like, but they rarely do, and generally serve till super annuated. It is in a great measure optional, too, with all the officers of the navy, to quit the ser vice, except when actually in face of an enemy. They must not, indeed, desert ; but there is never any difficulty in accepting a resignation ; and, from a midshipman to an admiral, if they choose to give up expected promotion or half-pay, they can always make themselves free. A resigna tion is, however, a rare occurrence; and, though the officers are not bound to serve for ten years— though on an emergency they are as much required as the seamen—no person ever dreams that naval officers will be scarce. In the merchant service, men enter by the month or by the voyage—at the end of the month or voyage they are again free to make or to seek a new engagement ; and there never is for a long period, however rapidly the mercantile navy may increase, any want of seamen. In the royal navy it is different. The men enter for a term of five years. Till the end of that time they cannot quit the service. To leave it is to desert, and to expose themselves to very severe penalties. In this respect, then, they differ from every other class of men except: soldiers—whose ranks, too, are not so readily filled as those of !other classes—they differ from merchant sea men—they differ from naval officers—and is this difference lies the cause of much of the unpopu larity of the navy. The stipulation to serve for a lengthened period continues, in fact, the bad name long ago given to the navy. _ _ At the - same time it does not follow if there were no such stipulation that the seamen would change their ships or their occupation once a month. That does not take place in the merchant service, nor in any other service. It is not an easy thing in our settled community always to find an em ployment, or to change a pursuit. Once enter a dockyard, or become a naval officer, and a man is generally fixed for life. It may be laid down as a rule that the more open and free is a service the more. acceptable will it be, and the more certain to be occupied. All the cotton-spinners, all the bricklayers, carpenters, printers, and workmen can quit their employments at a week's or a month's notice ; and because they can quit, 'they rarely do. If there were any one of these em ployments in which men could only get work by engaging for ten years—if all its higher ranks were reserved for a caste, being made a kind of preserve for an aristocracy—if the highest position they could attain in it' was that of a foreman or leader, with a salary of 1201. a year—if they never could rise to be masters, whatever might be their merits,—that employment would be at a discount. Gentle men in the City are now extremely eager to procure' a seat in the Common Council by the suffrages of their fellow-citizens, and though an nually elected, are generally re-elected as long as they please to hold the office ; but if at the first election they were bound to serve ten years, and could never be Lord Mayor, nor Governor of the Bank, nor Chairman of Railway Board, a seat at the Common Council would be as unpopular with the citizens as her Majesty's naval service is with the maritime population. We doubt if any man would pledge himself to be a member of the House of Commons for seven years if he could not possi bly leave it, and must never aspire to be either a Chairman of Committees or a Minister. The long and the fixed period of service is the chief source of the unpopularity of the navy, and that will be much aggravated by the proposition to lengthen the period, and to require all boys to remain ten years in the service after they have reached their eighteenth year. If it be alleged that in the late war men remained in the navy for a longer period, it must be answered that almost every month then brought a hope of peace and an expectation of the termination of the servitude. The proposed plan, instead of providing us with seamen on an emer gency, will have the reverse effect. It is an at tempt to rectify what naval officers regard as one of the evils of liberty, by tempting.men to engage in constrained servitude. Our policy ought to be the very reverse. Men should be entered for the navy for six months for home service, for twelve months for foreign ser vice, or for two or three years. The consequence would be a greater amalgamation of the royal and mercantile services. More mercantile seamen would enter the navy, and a far larger proportion of men of-war seamen would find their way into mer chant ships. Now, after being spoiled by five years' idleness in men-of-war they are not liked, and are rarely taken into the merchant service. The knowledge of gunnery practice and the dis cipline learnt in the Navy would be spread to a much greater extent than at present through the merchant service, and the bold and laborious habits of the merchant seamen would increase the vigour and the hardihood of the men in the Queen's ships. A correct knowledge of that service would then be swiftly spread through the maritime community— and with a few precautions which we need not now enumerate, the Royal Navy would, in case of any emergency, procure any number of men it might require. Voluntary service for short periods is, we admit, incompatible with the enormous arbitrary power now entrusted to naval captains. The profession, therefore, scout the idea of enter ing men for short periods, and recommend the Standing Navy system. But when the question is, whether the safety of the country shall be pro vided for on the principle of freedom, or whether the arbitrary power, dignity and exclusive pri vileges of naval officers shall be preserved—the biassed opinion of officers, though they be as high in rank as the Duke of Northumberland, or have as much confidence in mere gunnery as Sir Thomas Cochrane, is of less value than the opinion of the lowest swabber in the fleet. MERCANTILE AND PARTNERSHIP LAW COMMISSION. — We are enabled to state that the Lord Chancellor has consented to issue a commission, " to inquire and ascer tain how far the mercantile laws in the different parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland may be advantageously assimilated, and also whether any and what alteration and amendments shall be made in the law of partnership, as regards the question of the limited and unlimited responsibi lit y of partners." We believe that this commission is already sealed, and ready to be issued.—Afining Journal. THE COAL TRADE.— The collectors and comptrollers of the Customs at the several ports and places through out the United Kingdom have received directions from the commissioners, to prepare and transmit to the Inspector-General of Imports and Exports, with all practicable dispatch, the following account, so far as the same relates to their respective ports, including the sub-ports and creeks—viz., an account of the number of tons of coal, eulm, and cinders, respectively, shipped at the several ports of Englandjkotland, and Ireland to other ports in the United Kingdom in the year 1852. [PRICE SD. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 22. The Fairy Royal yacht, Captain Crispin, embarked Prince Albert yesterday morning, and brought his Royal Highness privately to this harbour to witness the results of the experimental gunnery practice upon the old hulk York, 74, from the Excellent. The experiments during the past week have been of a singularly interesting nature, the chief object being that of ascertaining the probable effects of the gener a l introduction of shells in warfare afloat. Some of the results have been as fol lows :—Shot fired at shells fixed in their places ready for action on board the hulk. The shells in two instances were'broken, and fragments thrown along the decks, the fuzees not ignited, but the powder exploded by sparks from the friction of broken east iron. With hollow shot, results the same ; the shells were split as before, not burst, no ignition of the fuzee having taken place. Hollow 10-inch shot were split also in like Manner. In one instance the powder was scattered, but not ignited, and several live shells were thrown out of their boxes uninjured. Some shot, at a short range, fired a pile of shells, one of which split, causing the ex plosion, by friction, of the bursting powder, which, driving off the fuzee caps of two other shells, fired the fuzees, and exploded the two ; after the fuzees had pro perly burnt their time other shells were thrown to the right and left, but were uninjured. Shells were also fired at the hulk, while powder-cases, with the usual two cartridges, were placed, as if in charge of the boys ; the cases were thrown about, but the cartridges were not fired by the explosion. These experiments are to be continued, and no expense is to be spared to ascertain Praoticil results of this nature. The Bt. Jean d'Acre new screw line-of-battle ship, of 100 guns, is ordered to be commissioned at Devonport by Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel, late of the Mean der, Dido, &c., an officer of the most popular character in the service. Commander Peter Cracroft is also al) , pointed to her ; an officer of much valuable practical experience in screw propulsion. He last commanded the Reynard, an experimental screw steam-sloop, in which he exhibited the most satisfactory results. Cap taro Cracroft, since he has been on haltpay, has never lost an opportunity of witnessing any interesting or important trials of screw-propelled vessels, whether in the navy or the mercantile marine, and he preferred serving! as second in a ship where the working of the screw principle would be so extensively developed as in the St. Jean d'Acre to having an independent command. The St. Jean d'Acre is to be manned on the terms pro posed by the Committee on Manning the Navy, whose report has just been published, and every effort will be made to make the service popular under the new regu• lations. The members of the Portsmouth Royal Naval Club dined together last evening at the Portland Hotel, Southsea. Rear-Admiral Fanshawe, C. 8., superin tendent of this dockyard, presided, and was supported by Rear-Admiral Wallis, Colonel Stevens, R.M.A., Colonel Wearing, R.M., Aide-de-camp to the Queen, Captains (R.N.) Chads, C. 8., E. H. Scott, Shepherd, Harrison, Sullivan, O'Callaghan, Pritchard, Lawrence, R.M. ; Savage, R.M.A. • Com man d ers W ors f o ld, Eaton, Coppin, Massingberd, Flag-Lieutenant Yonge, and Messrs. Edwards, Vinter, Wreford, Langley, and Dorien. The Highflyer, 21, screw-frigate, Captain Moore, left Spithead on Friday evening for Plymouth. The London, 90, Captain Charles Eden, and the Sans pareil, 70, Captain Dacres, left Spithead at daylight yes terday morning for Plymouth, where it was expected they would find further orders awaiting them. The Encounter, 14, screw, Captain O'Callaghan, hauled out of dock after the removal of her broken boomerang yesterday. The Pitt, 72, fitted for a coal depot, hauled out of dock to the fitting basin yesterday. The Vulcan, 6, steam troop-frigate, Commander Von Donop, steamed out of the factory basin after repairs yesterday morning. She is ordered to prepare for further service. The Imperieuse, 50, screw, Captain Watson, C. 8., was paid advance at Spithead yesterday morning, and is expected to leave to-morrow on foreign service. Twenty-one mates, R.N., were promoted to the rank of lieutenant on the 3d inst., but their names have not been given out for publication. FALMOUTH, MAY 20. An official visit to this port and garrison from the Board of Ordnance has been paid by the arrival this morning of the Black Eagle, Government steamer, having on board Lord Raglan, G.C.8., Master-General, Colonel Cator, R.A., Director-General of Artillery, Lieutenant- Colonel Andrews, R.A., and Sir John Burgoyne, K.C.8., Inspector-General of Fortifications ; they are also accom panied by General Sir H. G. Smith, Bart., G.C.8., commanding th 9 western district. • it is rumoured that the contemplated erection of more efficient defences, and additional barracks at Pen dennis and St. Mawes Castles (the Dardanelles of the Fal), as well as the inspection of the detachment of Royal Artillery, and probably of the regiment of Miners Artillery Militia (who have been a week on duty), em ' brace the leading objects of the visitation, from which it is further presumed that this port is to put in a similar state of defence to Plymouth and Portsmouth. The militia force under the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of Sir Col man Rashliegh, Bart., aro fast completing their quota, and are rapidly advancing in their drill under au active staff, and it is fully expected that his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who, as 'Warden of the Stannaries, is their Colonel-in-Chief, will pay a visit to the regiment before the period of service expires. If the barracks be rebuilt the militia will hereafter, instead of being billeted in .the town, be quartered within Pendennis, which in all respects will be more available to their early profi ciency as infantry and artillery by being always at the point d'appui. • The Master-General has already commenced his in spection, and it has not transpired where he will proceed from this place, but it is thought to Plymouth. PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY. A legal gentleman, acting, it is said, under the autho rity of a warrant from the Speaker of the House of Commons, arrived at the Devonport Dockyard yesterday, and proceeded to the office of Commo dore Superintendent Michael Seymour. His busi ness appeared to have reference only to the appoint ments mode during the Ministry of the Earl of Derby. On Friday he examined separately and alone two sawyers, Smith and Abbott, and a joiner, the last of whom declined to answer any question. To-day a black smitle and two appretices were also interrogated as to the influence used to obtain their admission into the Government employ. Mr Stephen Gaselee, serjeant-at law, of Chancery-lane, is named as the gentleman per forming this duty. Her Majesty's ships Amphion, Leopard, Vulture, and Valorous, which left the Sound, under Admiral Corry, on Tuesday, returned at 8 a.m. on Wednesday. La Hogue, 60, Captain W. Ramsay, steamed out of harbour at noon on Thursday, with her top-gallant yards across. She is gone to cruise in the Channel for ten days. wo Government steamers (a ship and a barque) went down Channel inside the Eddystone at 9 a.m. on Friday. It is thought they were towing two ships, but the weather was too hazy to discern them. The Black Eagle Admiralty yacht, Master-Com mander J. E. Petley, which arrived yesterday from Portsmouth with the Master-General of the Ordnance, Lord Raglan, and assistants, returned again to-day. His Lordship is about to inspect the coast defences in this vicinity. The Highflyer, 21, Captain J. Moore, arrived to day from Portsmouth. The London, 90, Captain Charles Eden, and the screw steamship Sanspareil, 81, Captain S. Dacres, which left Portsmouth yesterday, are hourly expected. After their arrival Rear-Admiral Corry will take the fleet to sea for a cruise of five or six weeks. The ships will probably leave on Sunday or Monday. The Vulture, G, Captain F. H. Glasse, sailed this evening under a press of canvas for Lisbon and Malta. The Star, Commander F. B. Warren, arrived to-day from Portsmouth, bound for the Brazil station. The crew of the St. George, 120, Captain Nias, were paid six months' wages on Tuesday, and the warrant officers of the ships in ordinary on Thursday. The steam-ship St. Jean d'Acre having been coppered, will be taken out of dock on Monday, and will receive her masts on Thursday. Additional engineers have been sent by the contractors to expedite the fitment of her machinery. The work is rapidly progressing. Off the Start yesterday, the merchant barque Dublin, Captain White, of and for London, 44 days from Tri nidad. The barque Cleopatra, Captain Robert 31Tachern, from Demerara, 4th of April, landed here this afternoon the Rev. James Bickford and the Rev. W. L. Kinks and families. The Cleopatra is gone on to London with a full cargo of sugar and rum ; she reports the entrance to the Channel as crowded with merchant vessels, chiefly homeward bound. The ship Epttninoxdas, 1,171 tons, Captain Kerr, from Adelaide the 21st of January, sent a small mail ashore here this evening. The is reported to have one ton 16 cwt. of gold-dust, 300 tons of copper ore, and wool to complete a full cargo, with which she is proceeding to London. Max 22. Her Majesty's ships London and Sanspareil, from Portsmouth, arrived here early this morning. In the Sound—The Queen, 120, Prince Regent, 92, London, 90, Sanspareil, 71, Edinburgh, 56, gunnery ship, Amphion, 34, screw steam-frigate, the Leopard, Valorous, Magicienne, and Highflyer steam-frigates, and the Star brig. The whole of these, excepting the Edin burgh and Star, bear the flag of Admiral Corry. SHEERNESS, MAY 22. In consequence of the new screw steam-fries Ti bune having t o comp l ete further fitments at Voolwicvh, the order for the Cyclops, 6, paddle-wheel steam-frigLe, to proceed from hero to tow her to this port, as reported, has been countermanded. The Tribune's further fit ment at Woolwich is expected to occupy from eight to ten days. The Cyclops is also under orders to convey machinery from Woolwich (which is now preparing there), for Devonport, for the James Watt, 90, sarerw steam-ship, built at Pembroke-yard. The Dolphin, 3, brigantine, has been towed down SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE EASTERN QUESTION. • (From the Times.) The short period of time which has elapsed since the extension of telegraphic communication to the extremities of Europe has already served to demon strate the difficulty and danger of drawing any positive conclusions from the incomplete, and sometimes inaccurate, information which reaches us by this extraordinary instrument ; and, al though, it is our duty to give publicity to the in telligence transmitted to us in this form, it is impossible to place the same degree of reliance upon it which may be given to the regular and detailed reports of our correspondents abroad. Thus it turns out that the statement current in Paris on Thursday last, and which was also trans mitted to us by electric telegraph, to the effect that news had been received of the acceptance of the Russian 'ultimatum by the Porte, was incorrect ; and in place of it we are informed by similar means of communication that some .occurrences of an op posite character and of considerable importance have taken place in Constantinople. According to the last account of the state of affairs, the Porte resolved on the 10th inst. to reject the convention which Prince Menschikoff had proposed for its adoption on the sth ; and, as the demand of the Russian Envoy had been couched in severe and menacing language, great apprehensions were entertained that he would at once give effect to the painful measures at which he had already hinted, and quit Constantinople. He appears, however, to have resolved of his own accord to postpone, at least for some days, this decisive step ; he voluntarily intimated that he should not withdraw until the 14th, in the hope that this further delay would still leave the door open to some arrangement. That period had not expired at the date of the intelligence which has been forwarded to us, but we are further informed (though without any distinct account of the causes of such an event) that on the 13th inst. Rifaat Ali, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, ceased to occupy that post in the Government, and had immediately been replaced by Redschid Pasha. These are events of serious importance ; and, if the intelligence we have received be confirmed, the Turkish Government is, perhaps, at one of the most critical periods of its existence. From the inquiries we have been able to make, there is every reason to believe that the facts we have stated are correct • but until the arrival of the mails we can not pretend to offer a connected narrative of these transactions, or to reason with entire certainty on occurrences which are still surrounded with so much mystery and contradiction. It is, however, certain that a variety of circumstances had combined to place the Sultan and his Ministers in a most painful and humiliating position. The SultanaVa.lide, mother of Abd-ul-Medjid, had just expired when the Russian Ambassador assumed increased arrogance of tone and demeanour ; and the communications made by him to the Sovereign with whom he professed to be treating on amicable terms were transmitted in the form most galling to the pride of the Sultan, at - the very moment his feelings were already excited and afflicted by private sorrow. The Sul tana Valide was- a princess of energy, who had taken a more active part in public affairs than is common among the women of the East ; and she is believed to have not unfrequently strengthened the feeble hands of her son. She died of a swelling of the knee, aggravated to a formidable disease by the gross ignorance and bigotry of the Turkish physi cians ; and her loss was never more likely to be severely felt. Throughout the empire the hopes and religious enthusiasm of the Christian popula tion are excited by the interposition of Russia on behalf of their church ; and, if no results followed a mission to which such important consequences have been attributed, the reaction against Maho medan supremacy might become still more formi dable. The Russian Envoy professes, indeed, to demand no more for the orthodox church of the East than the Sultans and Caliphs have conceded to their Christian subjects from a remote period. But there is an essential difference between con cessions or edicts of toleration granted by a sove reign Power to a portion of the population living beneath its sceptre, and an engagement to the same effect in the nature of a contract with a foreign State. The Russian Government s is the less justified in proposing such a contract, inasmuch as it cannot be contended that the privileges of any of the Christian subjects of the Porte are in danger ; and if those privileges did require further protection, they would become an object of just solicitude, not to one Power alone, but to all Christendom. The evil of such demands lies not so much in the con ditions they are calculated to enforce, as in the proof that nothing is wanted but hardihood and a strong will to enforce them. Nor are these and similar acts of interference the causes of the decline of the Ottoman empire ; they are its natural and inevitable effects. The Power which, scarce a century ago, sent foreign ambassadors to the Seven Powers on a declaration of war, and required that those who came to treat with it should leave their shoes at the gate, is now condemned to listen to propositions and to language which no Sovereign can hear with impunity. The disposition of the Ministers of the Porte seems to have been never theless to run the risk of rejecting the convention demanded of them, although it is not alleged that they had received any specific assurances of sup port from the ambassadors of European powers ; but they probably speculate on the impression that such an event as the abrupt departure of Prince Menschikoff from Constantinople would produce in the world. If it be true that Redschid Pasha, who was lately in complete disgrace, has succeeded Rifaat in the office of Foreig,eMinister, that change would indicate still more determina tion on the part of the Divan to brave the conse quences of the rejection of this treaty ; for, al though Redschid has been shown to be guilty of grave delinquencies, according to the European standard of character, in the conduct of public affairs, he is of all the Turkish statesmen the most opposed to !Russian influence, and the recal of such a Minister in the present crisis is in itself a revolution in the Government. It is, indeed, possible that this change, assisted by the post ponement of Prince Menschikoff's departure, may lead to the adoption of some modified arrange ment between the two Courts ; but the fact is un questionable that ',the Russian Envoy did, without provocation, resort to those threats which are usually the prelude to more serious hostilities ; and that the only pretext for this conduct was to support demands which, in accordance with the positive assurances of the Russian Government, he ought never to have made. The next few days must determine the result of these transactions, which we do not attempt to prejudge ; but either alternative is likely to increase the perils of the Turkish Empire. If it yields, it gives Russia an unexampled right of interference over the Chris tian populations ; if it resists, it runs the risk of a collision which may lead to consequences of far greater moment in Western Europe. The safest expedient in such a position would be the proposal and acceptance of some other form of agreement which might save the honour of both parties, and this we hope may still be the result. (From t 1 e. Post. ) • It is well for the peace of Europe that a crafty intrigue has not prevailed over an honest policy, and that guaranteed rights have not been subverted by the artful encroachments of Russian ambition. We are happy in being able to announce to the English public, that the ultimatum which Prince Menschikoff presented to the Porte on the sth of May was rejected on the 13th. It appears that the Russian Ambassador, who had, in the first in stance, demanded an answer on the 10th, granted a delay, and that subsequently to that date Red schid Pacha, who was lately displaced by Russian influence, was appointed Grand Vizier, and that the answer given by that Minister to Prince Men- /// from her harbour moorings in Saltpan-reach, and Intl been taken into the north dry dock for survey, and, if found efficient in her hull she is to be commissioned as soon as she can he brought forward and ready for the pendant. The Comus, 14, sloop, Commander W. A. Fellowes, now in dry dock, has been thoroughly caulked through , out, and is being newly coppered ; all her seams and butts in bottom, topsides, and decks are being payed or laid in with Jefferies's patent marine glue, instead of pitch • four strand hawser laid rope is being used for all her standing rigging, ways, &c. All her masts and spars, from deck to trucks, will be bright varnished only, and not painted as usual, it having been found by practical experience that masts, yards, &c., keep sound much longer under bright varnish than under two or three coats of paint, and when defect takes place it can be immediately detected ; in consequence of which, masts, rigging, and seamen's lives, last though not least, are savehereby. Her old fitments at her ports for pivot guns, on Sir Thomas Hardy's plan, are being removed, and she is to be fitted with carriage guns fbre and aft. The officers and crew were mustered on Friday last by Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, Flag Captain. She is ordered to be ready for sea by the 20th of June next. Her complement of petty officers have entered, with the exception of sailmaker, armourer, and carpenter's mate. A number of seamen riggers (smart seamen) have volunteered for her from this dock yard, and have obtained their discharges. The Horatio, 24, screw steam-guardship. A number of the crew of this frigate, who have been engaged on duty in other vessels, ich, under present regulations, are considered extra duties, received their check-money for the same on Friday last here. This extra remunera tion to seamen serving in her Majesty's ships in harbour is not generally known to seamen. It every quarter adds their classes,considerably a)nnadisnyhe ti i4netethnrefteoil regular uhgrl breaking gives s u l anrrgn generals leave,pfaoyr, accordingheisr T in h il e es s s h u ip n s de e r on p i u i breach of discipline.satisfaction.p ri any v ile other gte o The Waterloo, 120, flagship, Capt. the Hon. Montagu Stopford. The crew of this ship were paid down their six months' pay yesterday. A shocking accident happened yesterday afternoon in her Majesty's dockyard here to J. Allen, one of the drivers of the 50-h orsepower engine. Allen was en gaged cleaning sonic parts of the machinery, when his hand got entangled and jambed, by which his hand and lower part of his arm were dreadfully crushed. The ' poor unfortunate man was conveyed in a cradle immedi ately to the surgery, where he received the prompt at tention of Mr. James Wilson (b), surgeon, and Mr. Jcfcott, the assistant-surgeon of the yard. Amputation must take place, but, in the present exhausted state Allen is in from loss of blood, the operation must be delayed for a time. A very unusual scene took place in her Majesty's dockyard here yesterday. An order having been posted at the Muster-office for the information of such of the artificers and labourers as belonged to the Dockyard Royal Battalion, ordering them during the drill months to come in to their daily duty earlier than usual in the morning and shortening their dinner hour, they assent bled in a body of about 100, and proceeded to the office of the Captain Superintendent to protest against the order issued. The Captain Superintendent Charles Hope, although taken perfectly by surprise, received them in the waiting-room (which was crowded, as well as the lobby adjoing the same) in a most courteous manner, and, after hearing their reasons against complying with the order issued, he informed them he would give the case his immediate consideration, and, after consulting with the respective officers, he would give his answer to a deputation who were to await on him on Monday next after his levee with the principal officers. On Captain Hope giving his reply the men respectfully thanked him for his courtesy in receiving them in a body to lay their complaint before him, and returned to, their work. WOOLWICH, MAT 21. APPOINTMENTS. Captain the Hon. Henry Koppel (1837), who recently commanded the Meander, 54, on the East Indian station is appointed to command the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw steamship, with engines of 650-horse power, com missioned this day at Devonport. Commanders Frederick B. P. Seymour (1847) to com mand the Brisk, 14, screw steam sloop of 250-horse power, commissioned this day at Devonport ; Peter Cracroft (1846), who studied steam at the factory at Woolwich dockyard, and subsequently commanded the Reynard screw steam sloop, on the East India and China station, to the St. Jean d'Acre. _ _ Lieutenant William D. Hanbury, recently promoted from mate in the Express, 6, brig, on the South-East coast of American station, to the Nerbudda, 12, sloop, at Chatham. Mr. W. M. Rice, who was recently appointed mas ter-shipwright at Woolwich dockyard, in the room of Mr. Oliver Lang, deceased, joined the naval establish lishment here on Wednesday last, from Pembroke, and has commenced his duties at this yard. LONDON NECROPOLIS AT WOKING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Observing in The Sun of Saturday a notice, copied from a morning journal, of the special general meeting of the Necropolis Company, held on Tuesday last, you will oblige me by giving insertion to the an nexed document which, in the form of a printed circu lar, has just come to my hands. Although the' meeting was called for purposes of a public character, viz., to remove Lieut.-General Briggs and others from the office of director ; to annul a vote of 2,0001. to Mr. Voules for retiring from a chair which he has never filled except by usurpation ; and to nomi nate a committee with power to investigate, and report upon, the state and affairs of the company, not only was the press excluded, but also my solicitor, Mr. Col lette (of the firm of Prichard and Colette), who attended with my proxy, and who, had an opportunity been afforded him, would have enabled the shareholders to understand correctly the misconduct of the parties who, for upwards of two years and a half, have so managed the company a s t o b r i ng i t i nto its present shameul condition of disrepute and collapse. It is proper that the public should know that, as the principal originator of this great scheme, and co-founder of the Company, I have, since April 1851, repudiated and disallowed whatever Mr. Voules and his associates have done under the self-assumed name and functions of directors ; and so soon as the two factions calling them selves " directors" have fought out their battle in the Court of Chancery, it is my intention to compel the com pany to a specific performance of covenant as regards realising the necropolis project in its entirety as devised by me. The paragraph noticing the meeting on the 17th, states that " the company has purchased nearly 1,900 acres (the Daily News says 19,000 acres) at Woking." This is not the fact—the company only acquire 1,500 acres for burial purposes, and 50 for other purposes, the residue being leased to myself and Colleague. Neither is it correct to state that "500 acres would be more than sufficient to meet the demands for burial purposes of all London for an indefinite period, 218 acres at present sufficing, of which not one half has been used in the several suburban cemeteries." The metropolitan burial grounds (including the ceme teries), make collectively 500 acres ; and unless the re volting practice of burying 12, 16, or 18 corpses in one common grave-pit is to continue, neither 500 nor twice 500 acres will suffice indefinitely to bury a mortality ap proaching rapidly to 70,000 yearly. The Necropolis, however, which will be equivalent to 42 cemeteries of the average extent of the eight existing suburban cemeteries, will supply London withia chea,p, wholesome, and conve nient sepulture for a period sufficient to render unneces sary, for generations, a multiplication of petty ceme teries within or near the " Metropolis," as defined by the Burials Act of last session. The statements embodied in the letter of the Solicitor- General to Mr. Taylor, renders it unnecessary for me to add more than simply the expression of my hope that the public will refrain from taking shares in the Necro polis l . until such time as a Board of Direction worthy of public confidence, and a staff of officers competent to manage the company's affairs, are duly nominated and appointed.—l sir, your obedientßrl m se o r u vant i3art. Si plinx-lodg remain, e,Clielsea, May 23, 1853. TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE LONDON NECROPOLIS AND MAUSOLEUII COMPANY. Pending legal proceedings, which will necessarily occupy a few days, the attention of the shareholders is requested to the following copy of a letter from the Solicitor-General to John Stirling Taylor, Esq., and read by that gentleman to the meeting of the Shareholders on the 17th inst 20th May, 1853. Sir,—lt is with much regret that I find my public duties render it impossible for me to attend the meeting to-day. It is a most important crisis for the sharehold ers : the preservation or total loss of their property de pends on the resolutions they may come to. I can assure them from my own personal knowledge, that the state of their share list, and the depressed and neglected condition of their great undertaking, are attributable to one cause only—want of public confidence in the direc tors of the company. In my opinion, the reason for cant l) i s he plgeneralnce placed distrustin men isw whose el managementf ounded. thecon confidence. affairser anuncstae,, aansyyehoas have detailed attended to with m e,_ andsu such will, gs a p in to the assembled shareholders, I yeeh w eee i dxe s oi h nml it to be understood that Ia ascertained .not . taken yo ur entire their cor confidence. It n e m e s e s ri , t a s n upon trust, that you but havi have . : m y r ‘ s v et i ac i tt l, however, be but just that the shar a e i h n o e l ci der s should also inquire before they determine on the only course namely, the dismissal of that can redeem the company the present directors, y' namely, and Colonel Chat tme r e t i o i t n . , and rrh e theieg legal aformationnd best cournseewtoboaadrodptowfimanbneagtoe move an amendment, that the report of the directors be not received, but that 'a committee i of shareholders be the state a on the proceedings of the directors an d ams of . the company, and appointed to investigate the to report fully on and the stenscondition thereof, and of the company, for the formation of a new board. i You will be good Shareholders, that since , the formation (Dag it to be taken so as to state my opinion to the holders, that they are at present without any di rection, for that the persons who assume to act as directors are not legally competent to form a beard. If the course I have recommended be adopted, I have reason to know that this great national undertaking will he'regarded in the light in which it ought to be placed, . that a large amount of additional subscriptions will be immediately obtained, and the success and prosperity of ' the company placed on a secure basis. I have the honour to be, your very faithful servant, -- (Signed) RICHARD BETRELL, John Stirling Taylor, Esq. 1 Lincoln's Inn, May 1 7, 1853. nan-price. IMPERIAL BRAZILIAN MINING ASSOCI xot,„„ ATION. , --Winchester House, May 11, 1853. , hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL Ittilo_ Condon Tavern, at th e C C/ of the PROPRIETORS of this Association will be had on the 28th day of May next, to receive the rt , r .. " . the Directors. The chair be taken at Two o'clock hire e v to ' el alY• At this Me e ti ng the Election will take place of Iwo Jobs r In the room of George Thomas Esq., deceased, and P. N. tareuel resigned ; and of Two Auditors in the room of es i6n and, Esq., deceased, and Abraham John Valpy, Esq., Of bire_l Proprietors desirous of becoming Candidates for the office t tleirietZ or Auditor are required by clause 39 01 the Deed of Se - "tat,- leave notice of such intention at the office of the Associa gift fourteen days before the Election takes place. _ the t e :.`," lB notice was given two other vacancies have occurred at efsi7 l , by the death of Mr. W. A. Wilkinson and the retirement ibex i t Z d Browne. The General Meeting will thus have to select selv e a s otwo Directors from the Candidates who have offered G. V. DUVAL, Managing Director.