The Sun. — London, England, 1853-07-21 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Jr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, JULY 21, WiIll)e performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup ported by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. After which, Lord Byron's Tragedy of SARDANAPALUS. Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To be followed by CHESTERFIELD TLIIMSKIN. Characters by Messrs. Harley, Meadows, Add!son, and Miss Vivash. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Ur. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, JIILT 21, Will be performed GENEVIEVE. Characters by Messrs. Ben. Webster, A. Wigan, Leigh bluntly, Keeley, Parsellc, Paul Bedford, Cullenford, Woolgar, 0. Smith, and C. J. Smith; Madame Celeste and Mrs. Keeley. After which, will be presented SARDA.NAPALITS. To be followed by THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM. To conclude with JOHN JONES. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. First Week of a New Drama. THIS EVENING, JULY 21, Will be performed a New Drama entitled THE TIMES, Charac ters by Messrs. Farren, T. Mead, IL Marston, William Farrcn, G. Cooke, and Shalders; Mesdames Andertou, 11. Gordon, E. Tur ner, and Bartlett. Alter which, an entirely New Burlesque, by Francis Talfourd, Esq., entitled SIIYLOCK, or, THE MERCHANT OF "VENICE PRESERVED." Shylock, Mr. F. Robson. To conclude with (by desire) THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bags, Mr. F. Robson. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITILEATRE. Now ander the Direction acd Management of Mr. W. Cooke, The t:de of success flows into this popular Establishment, to witness the present attractive entertainments. The Battle of Waterloo continues its triumphant career. Gist NIGHT OF THE CHASE. NOTlCE.—Parties desirous of witnessing the World's Wonder, Miss Emily Cooke, in her astounding Leaps, are requested to em brace the present oppoti.unity as her engagement will shortly termi nate, when she immediately departs for the Continent. New Intro duction in the Circle —The Turin Perrots, Masters Alfred and harry Cooke on One horse. First Night of the Grand Cabalistic Pyramids. THIS EVENING, JULY 2!, And during tho week, the National Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Mr. W. Cooke's Scenes in the "CIRCLE," by artistes of celebrity, introducing Miss Emily Cooke, the Star of the Arena, who Leaps Forwards and Backwards through 16 balloons. Also, the Twin Perrots, whose Whimsical Feats must be seen to be appreciated. To conclude with the successful Hippo Drama of THE CHASE ; or, LIFE ON THE TURF, in which a real Fox Chase will take place. - - Doors open at Ilalf-past Six. Box-office open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Engagement 9f yr. Distin and Sons (the original Sas-horn players' and Mrs. Theodore Distin for One Week Only. ------- --- --- To-day, Panoramic View of CHUSAN, Splendid and interesting MENAGERIE, GODFREY'S unrivalled MuirrsaY BAND. Vocal and Instrumental Concert. Two favourite Songs by Miss Cicely Nott. A selection of crncerted pieces. Glees and Madrigals, by the celebrated Distin Family. Various amusing novelties, concluding with the extraordinary spectacle of THE FEAST OF LANTERNS, with grand display of Fireworks, and Explosion of Chinese Fire Rafts. Admission Is. 1)411Y WEATHER TABLE. THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1853, State of the wind and weather at each of the following rlace6 at nine o'clock on yesterday morning. The stations a 13 arranged in order of latitude. SOUTILIMPTON—N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. FOLKESTONE—S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. BASINGSTOKE—W., calm—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. STROOD—W. calm—partially cloudy. SWINDON—Ai. fresh breeze—partially cloudy. YARMOUTH—S.W., calm—cloudless. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock : LIMERICK—W_,_. calm—partially cloudy. MULLINGAR— W., calm—partially cloudy. LEIGHTON—W., calm—partially cloudy. HOLYHEAD—W., gentle breeze—fine. Wfhruv—N., gentle breeze—foggy. DARLINGTON—S.S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. SHAD—N., calm—overcast. WWI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tom Der —Morning 4 min. after 2 I Evening 31 min.aft. 2 ToOlOlßOW—Morning 56 min. after 2 I Evening 20 min.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.—SuN Omo, JuLT 21. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 72—highest since noon yesterday. 60—lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 93. WIND, W.S.W.—Fair, but cloudy. THE PUBLICATION OF " 1 1 H E SUN" COMMENCES EVERY AFTERNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK, t,ND TILE 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 t..fter the Post is closed by till Latest Trains. , , fiS .71 A 4-11. LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1853. Well ! the Advertisement Duty is to be given up after all. The obnoxious impost is to be totally abolished—cut off root and branch. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has virtually yielded. Not with a very good grace certainly, but as he has conceded the matter, we shall not too closely criticise the manner of the boon. It is sufficient to say that the inequitable and impolitic burden, which the Right Honourable Gentleman himself admitted to be " a tax on labour and industry," is to be rcmaved—that a fiscal impediment to the full and free intercommunication of wants and wishes will no longer bo maintained. Hence forward the overtoiled and underpaid sempstress may make known her desire to obtain employment without paying, what in her miserable condition is a prohibitory price, for the notification. The tradesman may announce the nature and quality of the goods he has for sale, without having his profits absorbed by the additional cost of the advertisement, rendered necessary by the Govern ment duty. All persons having any wants un satisfied may obtain the necessary publicity, so as to achieve their objects on the most satisfactory terms, without being conscious of the presence of the tax-collector. Unrestricted publicity is, in fact, a supplement to the " unrestricted competi tion" which has been so highly lauded both in and out of Parliament, but which never could be carried into practical execution so long as incidents so essential were wanting. As Mr. Cos- DEN justly remarked--(c it was a tax that, in a commercial community, struck at the root of all transactions." It opposed an obstacle between vendors and purchasers, masters and servants, employers and labourers, that operated very in juriously in the daily transaction s of lif heckina consumption, because persons did not know, where they could obtain the required goods on the best and cheapest terms—and inducing them to abstain altogether when a very slight temptation would have induced them to become customers. Thus the Customs or Excise Duty on the article would be lost, the profit of the tradesman which, if it ar ose, would be directly charged under the Income Tax, and a great portion of that which would probably be expended in exciseable commodities would be forfeited. It may be said " that good wine needs no bush ;" that the trades man who supplies a fair article at a fair price will never want customers ; but we deliberately assert that the sale of the pure vintage would be materially increased if the landlord wero enabled to extend the knowledge of its excellence beyond the convivial circle of topers by whom he was habitually patronised. The fair-dealing tradesman would also be enabled to enlarge his premises, and add to his business, by the general appreciation of his mode of dealing, and the advantages offered to the community. But why multiply argu ments in a matter so universally acknowledged as the advantage to be derived from a judicious system of Advertisements. They are well known, and thoroughly appreciated by every practical man of business ; and if hitherto so sparingly resorted to, the deficiency may be ascribed to the duty which, on brief notifications, added 50 per cent. to the cost price for insertion. To the sticklers for antiquity, who laud the old-fashioned style of doing business, we may merely notice the neglected stone which had for ages been merely used as a seat for runaway convicts or solitary herds men, but which waa eventually louud to COLltal /moral pounds of sterling gold, sufficient to purchase many gorgeous lounges for princely saloons. Its value consisted in the knowledge of what it would afford on close investigation ; and such may he the case I with many establishments now comparatively un known to the general community. It will be seen from our Parliamentary Report that the gratifying announcement was made dur ing the Debate on the Attorneys' and Solicitors' Certificate Duty Bill—which yesterday stood among the orders for a second reading. The Financial Minister was wise in his generation, for by deferring the statement of his intentions he succeeded in throwing out the Bill for the Exemp tion of legal practitioners from any annual duty Ifor this session at least. The Right Hon. Gen tleman, who at this period of the session could prevent either measure from being carried, plainly intimated that he could not afford to give up the two sources of revenue—to surrender 80,0001. to legal practitioners in the shape of a total repeal of the annual tax, and 80,0001. to the general public in the shape of Advertisement Duties. An option as to which would be taken was all that he could offer. Under such circumstances, there could be •no doubt as to which side the scale would incline. The repeal of the Certificate Duty would only benefit a class—a numerous and influential, and, despite' the calumnies that have been from time to time uttered, we will add, meritorious and honourable class. The abolition of the tax on publicity will benefit the community at large. Every man who desires to make known his wants of any description will par ticipate in the saving. Not a single bill of costs would be abated a farthing in consequence of the repeal of the Certificate Duty. The attendance would still be 65.• Bd. to 13s. 4d., or 11., accord ing to the time occupied ; but ninety advertisers out of a hundred will receive the full amount, and in some instances even more than the ls. 6d. now surrendered. There would be no compensation worth speaking of for the abolition of the Certi ficate Duties; the business would not be stimulated thereby, nor perhaps would it be very desirable to increase litigation, even if practicable. All that would flow into the Treasury would be the Income Tax, or 80,0001., or some 24,0001., and possibly a very trifling addition to the consump tion of taxable articles. We say a very trifling addition, because attorneys would be seldom de barred from any of the luxuries or comforts of life in consequence of the payment of 81. or 61., as the case may be. Whereas there would be an ample equivalent for the Ad vertisement Duties, not merely in increased con sumption of duty-paying articles, and in trades men's income tax, but more directly in the increased returns from the paper duties and the newspaper and supplement stamp duties. There could not then have been a moment's hesitation as to which of these taxes was thq greatest evil, and which should be selected for repeal. We con gratulate, then, the community at large, more especially public journalists, on this auspicious ter mination of the vexata questio. We congratulate Mr. MILNER GIBSON and his able and energetic associates on the triumphant issue of their incessant and efficient exertions ; and, above all, we con gratulate the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the removal of a rock ahead, on which, had he reck lessly steered, he might have materially damaged the vessel of which he had undertaken the pilot age, and prevented its safe arrival at the desired port. We have in former articles explained the origin and commented on the working of the Irish National System. We have indicated the dan gers to which that system is exposed, between the bitter hostility of one sect and" the lukewarm sup port of its rival. We have pointed out the appa rent inclination of the present Government to tamper with its rules, if not to subvert its fun damental principle. It remains only to see how this inclination has been evinced, and what are the circumstances which have led to the retire ment of Archbishop WUATELEY from the Board. It is well understood that among the friends of so-called " secular" education (a term, by the way, whose use has gone far to create prejudices against the mode of teach in which it professes to describe) there exists a considerable diversity of opinion as to the ex tent to which the religious element should be introduced. One F.) rty—the bond fide secularists— content themselves with ignoring it altogether. These, however, are few in number, and their theory is generally repudiated. Others, again, are satisfied with the reservation of certain days and hours for combined moral and literary instruc tion, allowing religious teachers of all denomina tions to have free access to the schools at fixed periods, as, for instance, on one day of the week, and before and after school hours on other days ; and stipulating only that, in such teaching, the schoolmaster himself shall not be required to take part, and that attendance thereupon shall in no case be made compulsory. A third section go still farther, and desire to see introduced into the general teaching of the school such religious lessons as can be given to all with out objection being raised by any sect. Between these two last plans the National Board has at various times oscillated. On its first institution, a variety of works, partly of a religious character, were prepared and issued with the sanction of the highest authorities iu both the Protestant and Roman Catholic Church. These, intended not as substitutes for, but as supplementary to, other religious instruction, were generally received into the schools, and read, with the consent of the Roman Catholic Archbishop, in school hours. But, objection being taken iu some quarter:, to a portion of these works, the Board, anxious to guard against even the semblance of an en croachment on conscientious scruples, laid down a rule to the effect that " where the parents of any child objected to that child using a particular book, its use in the case of that child should not be insisted upon." Considering that so far as the practical operation of the rule was concerned, the word " priest" might have been substituted for " parent"—and also that the concession here made, if largely taken advantage of, must have materially disturbed the discipline and uniformity of the schools, it may, perhaps, be thought that the Commissioners went too far in their efforts at universal conciliation. But the fault, if such it were, was on the right side. They mig'ht be taxed with imprudence—at least they could not be taxed with illiberality. Will it be credited that this concession is now complained of as inadequate ? and not only complained of, but actually done away, a rule being substituted which, de facto, allows the priest to make an index expurgatorius of every work which ho may choose to disallow ? Yet such, unless our authorities misinform us, is the fact. By the regulation of 1853, if any parent object, on behalf of his child, to the reading of any book whatever, moral, literary, or scientific, that book is thenceforth to be discontinuod in the school where such complaint is , madie ! We presume that an appeal is left open to the Com missioners ; but the working of this rule tends to give the parish priest an. absolute veto on all such teaching as he may disi ipprove, and thereby virtually to hand over to Nun the entire management of the school. Small. wonder that Archbishop WHATELEY —no bigot,- nor a friend t o bi got hould have refused t sanction this innovation by continuing his attendance at the Board. There is no disguising it, if thi s policy be not speedily reversed - the so-called Na tional System will become merely sectarian,in favour v and r assume the form of a n exclusive grant of Roman Catholic setrate chools. And mark the inus- tice thus perpd. A j public and po wer f ul society, composed of Irish Protestants Avb.o dislik e the administration of the Board, has for y ears past been organising an educational system of it s own on purely Protestant principles. This society is excluded from the benefit of Government assis- tanc,e, on the ground that it is essentially so , tarian, and thus does not fall within the scope o f the Act of 1832. Nothing can be fairer, so long as this Act remains in force. But where is the justice of continuing the exclusion, now that the National Schools are made by recent legislation to assume an equally one-sided character ? The arguments of Messrs. HAMILTON, NAPIER, and wily =wend 09 log DA the priA• ciples of Lord GREY'S Government were adhered to, become now incapable of refutation. The result is certain, and it is fatal to the attempted union of sects. If Roman Catholics are to monopolise the public funds in tended for all, a special and separate grant must be made for the benefit of Protestants. Thus sectarianism resumes its sway ; and the sacerdotal caste will, as before, have in its hands the form ing of the national mind. How that power will be used, experience sufficiently tells us ; and all this is done because Lord ABERDEEN and Sir JAMES GRAHAM cannot think themselves safe in their seats without the purchased support of the Bri gade. Yet we are said to live under a Ministry of progress ! Lord SHAFTESBURY and free voting do not ap pear to have any natural connection, but Lord SHAFTESBURY and suppression of vice hang well together. As might, therefore, be expected in his Polling at Elections Bill, his Lordship is obvi ously far more concerned to put down drunken ness, demoralising bribery and violence, than to secure the political liberty of the voter. Hence, though we always welcome Lord SHAFTESBURY as a legislator for juvenile mendicants, lodging houses, and the like, we must beg to decline his aid in a province where his sympathies, we fear, are all on the wrong side. The Tory Lieutenant- General for heading the Lords' deadly opposition to Jewish Emancipation, is hardly the fitting leader in emancipating the voters of Great Britain from the millionaire and the landlord. Lord SHAFTESBURY'S Bill is, indeed, withdrawn ; it has shared the fate of almost all reforming proposals, having died in a tolerably happy hope of entering into the clauses of the great Reform Bill of 1854, much as Hindoos placidly surrender their indiv:- dual existence, in expectation of that consumma tion of bliss, absorption into the essence of the DEITY. Still, from us, every serious proposition of the kind claims attention, the more so as the Noble Lords thought, that, in bringing his pro positions into public discussion, Lord SHAFTES BURY had obtained all ho could just now particu larly desire. On his proposal to limit all the legal expenses to such only as should be incurred by a publ;c officer authorised to conduct the election, we will not at present dilate. It would, of course, be impossible to do away with Committees, and with persons who should be the candidates' agents in dealing with the electors as to everything but mere pecuniary expenses. But if it be practicable, and we hope it is so, to elect a Member without putting him to any expenses but such as are really necessary, and which need not, therefore, shrink from publicity, any plan which would effect that should have our most hearty support. Lord SHAFTESBURY'S adoption of the Edinburgh Review scheme of house-voting by papers left and called for, as in the election of Poor-law Guardians, is the chief point of interest. Now, we have no ob jection whatever to a fair trial of this plan in a few of the next places which offer, just as we demanded the same trial for the Ballot ; but, look ing at its probable working previous to any trial, or with no better trial than it has already had in electing guardians, we do not hail it as the desired ultimatum. It will still leave an annual battle to be fought for the Ballot by all the honest Reform ers. We will not deny that it is an improvement upon the present mode of taking votes—miserable praise that—nor that it will at least annihilate one particular kind of bribery—waiting till after two o'clock to make the best market of the votes. It will also put an end to a system which has become quite a costly nuisance in boroughs—that of employing a large number of cabs to bring voters to the polling-booths, till expenses of con veyance amount to something like those of a county election. It will, however, even facilitate the commoner forms of bribery. The voting-papers are, of course, delivered some reasonable time before the day of collection. The voter knows that he must bag his bribe before the day ; the agent knows it also. The ss. or Si., therefore, will be paid with admirable convenience at the voter's house, the paper will be marked and sigasd in the presence of the briber, and after that the latter will be as sure as he need be of the man's vote. It cannot, indeed, be given against him. It may be withheld, certainly ; but as all the voter's interest lies the other way, that is an improbable supposition. We have no doubt the old Freemen of Liverpool, Hull, Yarmouth, and Canterbury will thank Lord SHAFTESBURY for his plan. The voting-paper and the colour-ticket will be as regu larly exchanged as money and Mr. GLADSTONE'S new receipt stamps. Indeed, the voting-papers might be not inaptly designated the SHAFTESBURY bribe receipts. Let them also be stamped, for they will no doubt be regularly given for " value received." Earl GnEY—his genuine Whig faith being confident of the immor tality of small constituencies—pointed out how easy it would be in small boroughs to purchase a seat to a certainty, since it would be only needful to buy the requisite number of voting-papers signed in blank. It would bo unfair of us, how ever, to avail ourselves of cases which we main tain that any decent proposition of Reform ought to banish from our representation. Of course Earl GREY is perfectly right, if pocket boroughs are to survive the Coalition Reform Bill. He might have added, however, that the bribable portion of even very large constituencies could be manoeuvred with almost equal ease. There would be no small difficulty also in dis pensing with the delivery of the voting-paper by the voter himself, on the one hand, or in re quiring him to stay at home until the collector called on the other. We aro pleased to see that Lord REDESDALE took notice of this objection, for it has always struck us as a very serious prac tical one. Not only, as Lord REDESDALE pointed out, might the person 'n whose charge the paper was left withhold it for a bribe, but, we may add, the facilities for personation would be largely increased. It would become quite a settled practice to look out as early as possible for all the dead and many of the absent voters, and to secure, perhaps by a bribe, the ser vices of their families. The great, the glaring defect of Lord SHAFTESBURY'S plan, how ever, is, that it leaves Lord SHAFTESBURY master of his tenants' votes. We call it a defect. Pro bably in the eyes of the Premier, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Lord WHARNCLIFFE, and the Earl of ITARDWICKE, it was a chief merit. It will render pocket-borough elections a little more decent, without delivering the dependent voter from his old masters ; and when applied to counties, which of course it would soon be, if only for consist ency's sake (as indeed Earl GREY seemed to take for granted), it would leave the tenants-at-will as much as ever without a will of their own. All the " influence" boroughs would be as amenable as over to their respective nabobs, while every voter in fear of the screw, of the good customer, of the employer, of the landlord, of everything in a word but the mob, would be as unprotected as before. Indeed, the Earl of DONOUGHMORE de clared that in Ireland it would be no security from the mob itself, not for the collectors at least; but that these officials must perform their duty in helmets, or be escorted by the military, if they were to be safe ; and he instanced a late election of Poor-law Guardians. We aro continually driven back to the old conclusion that intimidation ad mite of but one cure, and bribery of but one grand check, and that is the adhesive envelope en- closing the anonymous voting-ticket deposited by the elector himself in the returning officer's ballot box, commis sionersßßlTlfsonr 1 F 85 12 hassiiEn accounts brin g ou t a gross ca t c h f or th e year o f 602 , 6604 i fu S A —The published. The of T barrels, b e i ng a resu l t undoubtedly below a general aver theh ecombined aver age, and no less than 122,7554 barrels below the gross catch of the previous year. TnE OFFicE OF SPEAKER.—Sir Robert Inglis, on Tuesday evening, gave notice of his intention on Friday next to bring under the consideration of the House of Commons the report of the select committee, and to move that, " whenever the house shall be informed of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Speaker, the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means do take the chair for that day only ; and, in the event of Mr. Speaker's absence continuing for more than one day, do, if the house shall think fit and shall so order it, take the chair in like manner on. Lany oubsecsent day during such alveo." COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, JULY 20, 9 P. NI! The Queen has an ttack of measles. The eruption appeared slightly yesterday afternoon, and is now well out. Her Majesty had much cough during the night, but is relieved this morr'ng. JAMES CLARK, M.D. OSBORNE, JULY 20, 6 P.M. The Queen has less cough, and the eruption is more fully out this afternoon. Her Majesty has no symptom beyond those which usually accompany the disorder. HENRY HOLLAND, M.D. JAMES CLARK, M.D. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Mr. Gibbs, arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon from Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales walked out in the grounds yesterday. The Marchioness of Ely has succeeded Viscountess Jocelyn as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence-house, St. James's. _ _ A deputation from the Manchester School of Art, consisting of Mr. Bazley, the Rev. C. Richardson, Dr. C. Bell, and Mr. Atherton, had an interview with the right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley yester day, at the Board of Trade. The Greek Minister transacted business at the Foreign office yesterday. A deputation from the Liverpool Chamber of Com merce, consisting of Mr. Hubbuck. and Mr. Forward, had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation was accompanied by the Hon. H. T. Liddell, M.P., and Mr. Horsfall, M.P. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Faulkner, Mr. Alder man Neild, Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Cheetham, M.P., and Mr. Heywood, M.P., had an interview with Earl Gran ville (Lord President) yesterday, at the Council-office. Sir James Graham gaVe a cabinet dinner yesterday, at his residence at the Admiralty. The Lord Chamberlain has given directions that the funeral car of the late Duke of Wellington, being now placed in a temporary building in the court-yard of Marl borough-house, be exhibited to the public under the fol lowing regulations : On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, the public to be admitted free. On T.iesdays and Saturdays admission to be granted by tickets, obtainable on application at the office of Messrs. Banting, in St. James's-street. On Fridays the doors to be closed. The first day of admission will be Monday next, the 25th inst., and until the Ist of October next the hours of admission will be from eleven to six o'clock. THE QUEEN'S HEALTH. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) OSBORNE, THURSDAY MORNING. July 21, 9 o'clock. The Queen has had a good night ; all the symp toms of the disease are abating, and her Majesty's state is altogether very satisfactory. JAMES CLARK, M.D. HENRY HOLLAND, M.D. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The friends of Mr. Sims Reeves rallied round him in great numbers last night, when he took his annual benefit at Drury-lane Theatre. The house was filled. Upon this occasion the popular tenor revived the Fra Di - tvolo of Auber, in which he appeared several times during the last evanescent reign of Mr. Bunn. He played the part of the fascinating brigand with great vocal ability, suggesting the regret that such manifest talent as he possesses should have no national field for its exercise, but be continually wasted either upon occa sional operatic translations„ or upon the trivial plati tudes of the concert-room. The audience was in a high state of delight during the time we were present, and the most enthusiastic applause followed his exertions. The part of Zerlina was sustained by Mrs. Sims Reeves, whose embodiment of this pleasant personage is as well known as that of her husband's Fra Diavolo. She sang the popular song "On yonder rock reclining," with much agreeeble é. The opera, which was further sup ported by Miss Juba Harland, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Manvers, went off wall great spirit. The remaining entertainments consisted of a solo on the flute by Herr Reichart, and the old musical farce of the Waterm x ,a, in which Mr. Sims Reeves played Brahma's once-famous character of Tom Tug. ADELPHI THEATRE. Sardanapalus, the "fast" King of Assyria, a bur lesque of the first water, was performed here for the first time last evening, and met with the most complete suc cess. Like most of the A delphi's extravaganzas, it is one act, yet, in that ono act, every telling point in the magnificent or:ginal is very cleverly compressed. The curtain rises and discovers the breakfast-room in the palace of Sardanapalus, the housemaids of the palace being in a state of revolt at the tyranny exercised over them by Salamenes (Mr. Keeley), "the king's private mother-in-law," and who is by them voted to be a "public nuisance. " Sardanapalus (Miss Woolgar) enters, suffering from the effects of a " lark" at Green wich, and, after trying soda water and brandy, prepares to receive his five hundredth wife, Myrrha, (Miss Collins), in this case a fair Patlander. A pic-nic to the Vale of Palms is proposed, and Salamenes and her daughter Zarina, the four hundred and ninety-ninth wife, are not included in the invitation. The king's mother-in-law, overhearing the arrangement, determines to follow the royal barge in a wager-boat, and arrives only to find the place deserted, and all the " nic-nacs" any thing but agreeable, Sardanapalus having, on hear ing of her approach, emptied the pepper-box into the apple pie, the vinegar into the sherry, and the salt into a trifle. Determined not to be baulked in his pleasure-trip, he visits his military encampment at Can vass-town, and here a "night surprise" is effected, the military evolutions consisting of a " waltz march" and a " polka square." During the time the king is "idling his time," the usurping Mede, Arbaces (Paul Bedford), has succeeded in gaining over the "affections" of the army, and at a night orgie, at the Assyrian palace, vanquishes the king, who had previously ordered all his goods and chattels to be made into a bonfire, well knowing that they were allinsured. However, with the general con sent of all, things take a favourable turn, and the curtain falls amid blue fire and a chorus. The engrossing topics of the day all come in for their share of hits and puns, most of them being greatly relished by the audience. The acting of Miss Woolgar, Miss Collins, Keeley, and Paul Bedford was capital. The musical portion of the burlesque consist of parodies on the newest ballads— Mario's delicious morceaux in the last scene of Verdi's opera .Rigoletto, not escaping the appropriating hand of the adaptor. The scenery and dresses were magnificent in the extreme—the Adelphi burlesque rivalling in splen dour the Princess's spectacle. Like Mr. C. Kean, Mr. Webster has taken Layard as his authority, and winged bulls, &c., &c., are found in abundance. The burlesque was announced by Miss Woolgar for repetition every evening, amidst the applause of a house crowded to the ceiling. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—The performances of the German company this week take a decidedly Shaks perean turn. Last] night Humid, which achieved such a success last year, was produced with Herr Devrient as the Prince of Denmark, and Othello, with Herr Des soir as the Moor, is announced for to-morrow. A Ger man version of this latter tragedy will be a novelty to the London public. ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.—Mr. Cooke, the proprietor of this establishment, is upon the eve of returning from Paris. A new equestrian act of a peculiar character is in preparation for Mr. Alfred Cooke, the premier rider of the establishment. Mr. Cooke, during his continental trip, made several very important engsgements for Miss Emily Cooke, who will shortly make her debut in the presence of the Imperial Court of France. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 14, REGENT srEEET.—This successful diorama, illustrating the route of the Ocean Mail, has been visited during the past week by the following distinguished and fashionable personages :—The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Somerset Fane, the Marchioness of Clanricarde and pa rty, Earl de Grey, Earl of Rosso and family, the Bishop of Worcester and family, the Countess of Strath. 1 more and party, Lord Viscount Barrington and party, Lord Viscount Ranelagh and party, Lord Ashburton and ix arty, Lord and Lady Overstone and party, Sir John and Lady Harrington, G en eral Sir Richard Dohe ii L y an d p ar ty, Sir Richard King, Sir Thomas Dyke and Lady Acland, Lady Joddrell and party, Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Colonel Boyd and party, Major Gore, : Mr. Scholefield, M.P 2 . and party, &c. &C. RIB' IN THE PRICE or BREAD.—Yesterday another advane e took place amongst tne second-class bakers throng] lout the metropolis of Id. in the 4lb. loaf, which is no w increased from 6d. to 7d., a very large increase to a poi n• man with a numerous family, where bread is the stt gde article of food ; animal food, cheese, bacon, and sin iilar commodities, from the increase of price, are scarcerr within their reach, there being no corresponding increase of wages and employment. WRY), LOUTH—STEAM SEA TRIPS.—The "Prince " pro ceeded o n an excursion from this town on Thursday last, July 1 , 1, and called at the following places ; viz., leaving Weynn yu th at 10 a.m., for Bridport ; 12.30 p.m., for Lyme ;. 1.30 for Sidmouth ; 3 for Torquay (to remain that xn glit). July 15.—Left Torquay at 10 a.m. for Dartmc )uth, and proceeded up the River Dart to Totnes, leaving homewards, at 1 p.m., and arriving at Torquay at 3.30 ; Sidmouth, at 5 • Lyme, at 6.30 ; Bridgport, at 7.30 The scenery of the Dart has justly been at this season of the year considered as equal to that of the river Rh ine. Amongst the numerous objects of interest presentee Ito the excursionist in his progress up this de lightful r iver, may be enumerated—the Castle of Kings wear, Go mereck Castle, Mount ißoone, Old Mill Bay, Maypool, Anchor Stone, Village of Dittisham, Wadde ton Court Sanbridge, Stoke Gabriel, the Ruins of Dun cannon, 1 he celebrated Echo, and Wind Wh istle Cot tage. Th e "Contractor" left here July 14th, at 7,30 a.m., for Portsmouth and Spithead, calling at Cowes ; and '!left I 'ortsmouth at 4 p.m., for Cowes and Wey mor t(-) view the grand fleet, which are daily mar Igo a l Tu ag them IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Edinburgh and Glas gow Railway, Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway, Lands Improvement Company (No. 2), and St. Ives and West Cornwall Junction Railway Bills were con sidered and agreed to. The Dean Forest, Monmouth, Usk, and Pontypool Railway Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Tralee and Killarney Railway, and Upper India Railway Bills, were read a second time. PETITIONS. Mr. OLIVEIRA, and several other hon. members, presented petitions praying for the postponement of the Savings Banks Bill until next session. Mr. HADFIELD presented a petition from a dissent ing body against the Education Bill. Captain SCOBELL presented a petition from the medical profession of Bath against certain clauses in the Vaccination Bill. SAVINGS BANK BILL. On the motion for going into committee on this bill, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Government had, considering the late period of the session, and the numerous points of detail included in the bill, which could be better settled during the recess by communications between the Government and the parties interested, wished to postpone it. The two chief points of the bill were giving a Government guaran tee and an effective control over the accounts of receipt and payment of money. Two other points of great importance were the rate of interest and the responsi bility to be imposed upon the trustees in regard to the accounts. There was no question between the Govern anent and the trustees, but between the trustees and the depositors ; for it was obvious that the Government would not undertake responsibility for deposits which were not accounted for in the lists sent in to the Go vernment by the trustees • and the question was, whether or not the trustees should be responsible for all deposits not included, whether from neglect or fraud, in the lists sent in to the Government. With regard to the rate of interest, that was a question which could very properly be considered in that house. There were, however, a number of smaller points which would take up much time in discussion, but with regard to which the Government would be able to save much time to the house by communicating with the parties in the country. For these reasons, therefore, he should move that the bill be committed this day three months. Mr. H. HERBERT hoped the Government would introduce the bill at an early period of the next session. Sir B. HALL trusted that some provision would be introduced into the bill to regulate the expenses of the management of these banks. The hon. baronet quoted the case of a savings bank in the metropolis, which cost 2,2801. a-year, and in which the trustees had expended the sum of 6,0001. on the repairs of a house for the spe cial benefit of the managers. The result of this was that, out of the 31. ss. per cent. allowed by Government as interest, the depositors of 301. had 11. ss. taken from them for expenses, while those of 101. and upwards had 7s. 71d. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY said that there was a per fectly good answer to the case cited by the hon. baronet when the proper time arrived. If this bill were carried, he could assure the Government that the trustees of many banks would immediately resign. After a short conversation, in which Mr. Napier, Mr. J. Young, Mr. Maguire, Mr. Barron, and Sir J. Shelley took part, the bill was ordered to be committed this day three months. LANDLORD AND TENANT (IRELAND) BILL. The house then went into committee on this bill, at clause 74. [LEFT SITTING.] NOTTINGHAM RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ORDER OF RUNNING. 2.3o—Scarborough Stakes. 3. o—Robin Hood Stakes. 3.4s—Sherwood Handicap. 4.4s—Nottingham Handicap. 6. o—Castle Handicap. ALDDITIONAL ARRIVALS. Audubon, Brown Brandy, Bridesmaid, St. Leon, Mountain M aid, Evadne, lanthe, Constancy, Candle wick, Ludwig; Twinkle, c. by Ratan out of Miss Martin, Vestige, Ant , )nia, Chief Justice, Peari, Village Lass, Puritan, Sha ravogue, Cariboo, Deformed, Miss Mary, Nancy Martinson, Red Lion, Margaret of Anjou, Angelo, Ler rywheut, Friendless, Incense, Cogniac, Horatio, Ann Eliza, Hungerford, Indian Warrior, Caliph, Ethelwolf, Calot, Luxurious, Meteora, Florist, Thirkleby, Si r Rowland Trenchard. The ground. is in good order. BETTING ON THE COURSE-12.50 P.M. NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP. 5 to I agst Audubon (taken). 6 to 1, agst Florist (taken). 6 to 1. agst Contentment (taken). 8 to 1 agst Galvanism (taken). 9 to 1 agst Placid (taken). GOODWOOD RACES.—The following horses have left Mahon for G-oodwood :—Daniel O'Rourke, Greyleg, Prince Arthttr, Sycthian, Dervish, El Dorado, and Beauty. KNUTSFORD RACES—YEsTERDAY. NORBURY STAKES. Remunerator Tumbler INNKEEPERS' PLATE. The Admiral Cripple Kate CAVALRY CUP. Dunhaw Knutsford SHERIFFS' COURT-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. W. Burchell.) ALLEGED FORGERY OF A JUDGE'S ORDER.-BLACKBIIIIN V. DUMMER. This was an action to recover the sum of 2/. 18s. 6d., the balance of an account for goods sold, defendant having paid 305... into court. Mr. Clarke (f. Ledford-row), who appeared for the de fendant, said the .t before the case was opened he had to niake an objectio n. The plaintiff had sued in person, but last night he (Mr. Clarke) was served with a judge's order that he (phlintiff) should be allowed to appear by attorney, and he was now represented by counsel (Mr. Horne). The copy of the order was dated the 7th January last, which was before the action was com menced, and on is iquiry it was ascertained that no such order had been i3s ued. Mr. Home said that no doubt it was a mistake in the copy, and that it ought to have been the 7th July. Mr. Clarke said that inquiry had been made at Judges' Chambers, and it was ascertained that the order could not have been' signed on that day by Mr. Justice Maule, as it purp or ted, for his lordship was on circuit, and the clerks ki lew nothing of the order. He therefore applied to the Under-Sheriff to impound the original order. The Under-Sheriff said he did not think he had any power to try the question. All he could do was to hear the case. _ - - _ _ Mr. Clarke then submitted that as plaintiff had issued the writ in person, declared in person, and appeared in person on the record, he was not entitled to appear by attorney and counsel, and asked Mr. Horne whether he had been instructed by him. Mr. Horne said he had been instructed in the usual way by Mr. Hare, an attorney. Mr. Clarke—Then I call upon Mr. Hare to produce the original order. Mr. Hare's clerk declined to do so. Mr. Clarke said his object was to prevent frauds at Judges' Chanibers. The Under-Sheriff repeated that he had no power in the case, and if there was any irregularity the trial would go for nothing. He never heard of such a case before. Mr. Clarke then objected to counsel being heard, and requested that a note of his objection should be taken. Mr. Horne said that there was no occasion to take a note—the case was too extraordinary for ,them to for get it. The Under-Sheriff took a note, and the case pro ceeded, but was of no public interest. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended July 21, 1853, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. IBARLEY. I OATS. BYE. BEANS. I PEAS. 49s 8(1 28s 113 208 1 1 345 103 1 405 53 36s 8(1 THE SIX WEEK'S AVER A.GE. WHEAT. I BARLEY. OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. 4ts 9d 29s 4d, 19s I 1 d 33s 7d 39s 7d 358 3d DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. BYE. I BEANS. PEAS. Is Od is Od Is Od lls Od is Od Is Od QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEER. Wheat, 85,290; Barley, 2,285; Oats, 10,951; Rye, 159 1 Beaas 2,81 - 9; Yeas, 274 quarters. HAY MARKETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ 15s to Si Os ; clover, ditto, 4/ 15s to 6/ Os; and straw, 1/ 7s to 1/ 14s per load. Trade firm. CIIIIBERLAND.--lifeadow hay, 4/ Os to 5/ Os ; clover ditto, Si Os to 6/ Os; and straw, 1/ 8s to 11 15s per load. A moderate supply, and a brisk trade. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ 15s to Si Os; clover, ditto, Si to 6/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 15s per load. Supply limited, and trado firm. MEAT MARKETS NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL.—Each kind of meat was in steady 'request to-day, at very full prices. Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s Od; Lamb, 53 Od to 6s 4d ; Veal, 3s 10c1 to 4s 10d ; Pork, 3s 2d to 4s 2d per 81bs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, JULY 20.—Our market was very active, and prices were on the advance. The following are the quotations :—Beef, 3s 6d. to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 3810 d to 5s Od ; Lamb, 5s Od to Gs 2d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 48 10c1; Pork, 3s 4d to 4s Od per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, JULY 20.—The general demand at this market to-day ruled brisk, at the following quotations : Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; Mutton, 35 10d to 5s 4d ; Lamb, 58 2d to Gs 6d ; Veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 3s Od to 4s 2d per 81bs. • Su c kli ng ca l ves, 205 to ns each; and pax* 91d, 6t470 14 0 i J. to 25§ each, LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE. The original columns of the Paris journals are almost destitute of interest. The Ministerial jour nals have said all that could be said in favour of the pacific policy of the Government, and what are called the independent journals find it difficult in the present state of uncertainty, as regards the proposition which has been made to the Emperor of Russia, to continue their commentaries. The Minister of War went on Monday to in spect the military school of St. Cyr. On his ar rival he found the pupils in the refectory, and allowing them time to finish their repast, he went over the different parts of the establishment to judge by himself of the manner in which every thing was conducted. The pupils were then called out under arms, and a considerable time was occu pied in their going through the manoeuvres of the several branches of the service. In the gymnatic school, at firing at a mark, and in the fencing room the pupils also displayed to the Minister their acquirements, and he expressed his perfect appro bation of all he witnessed. On leaving the estab lishment, the Marshal addressed. General Alexandre, the head of the school, and declared himself to be much pleased with the state of the establishment and with the efficiency of the pupils. The Minister of Marine arrived at Rochefort from Nantes on the afternoon of the 18th in the Roland. and was received at his landing by the principal civil and naval authorities. The troops drawn up to receive him shouted " Vive I'Em pereur !" The Gazette du Languedoc of Toulouse has re ceived a second warning for publishing an address to the Count de Chambord. The Montteur contains the following decree : " The prohibitions imposed by the ordonnanco of the Bth February, 1826, will cease provisionally as to corn and flour imported from the possessions of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain in Europe." A General advance in Government Securities took place yesterday, at the Bourse, with a ten dency towards still further improvement at the ter mination of business. The final quotations were : —For cash—Three per Cents., 78f. 65c. ; Four and-a-Half per Cents., ditto, 103 f. For the ac count—Three per Cent s ., 78. 65c. ; Four-and-a- Half per Cents., 103 f. ; Bank Stock, 2,705 f. An improve of 15f. occurred in Mort gage Bank Shares, which closed at 725 f. ; Societe dobiliere Shares were last quoted at 830 f., being an advance of 35f. on Tuesday's final quotation. A considerable amount of business was transacted yesterday in the Railway Share Market, and a general improve ment in the value of that description of public security took place. Closing prices :—Northern, 885 f. ; Paris and Orleans, 147 f .: P ar i s an d Stras bourg, 9331. 50c. ; Paris and L yons, and Rouen, 1,120 f. ; Lyons to the 937f. ; Paris editerranean, 760 f.; Western of France, 745 f. • Rouen and Havre, 505 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 640 f. 50c. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. The British steamer Caradoc arrived at Constan tinople on the 7th of July. It is said that she has brought the last proposals which France and England have transmitted to St. Petersburgh. The news of the invasion of the Danubian Princi palities had produced some excitement. The Seraskier, Mahomet Ali Pasha, votes for war. He would, at any price, resist the encroach ments of Russia. His opinions and sentiments are shared by some of his colleagues. The reconstruction of the Cabinet is considered as inevitable. A Ministerial crisis is thought to be impending. The Franks have thought it advisable to take measures for their own safety. They fear a hostile demonstration. The foreign vessels of war have placed themselves under the orders of the commander of the French steamer Magellan, the senior officer in the port. On the Gth the American Ambassador was sere naded by the political refugees. Count Guilay has arrived at St. Petersburgh, charged with a mission from the Emperor of Austria. The forces assembled in the camp at Krasnoje Selo amount to 100,000 men. The Russian forces entered Oltonitza on the 7th instant, an important position on the Danube, which was crossed there in 1828 by an army of 40,000 men under the command of General Roth. Some of the inhabitants of the Danubian Princi palities have sought refuge on the Austrian terri tory. They were expelled by the Russians, who did not like their presence in their native country. The Russians are fortifying Jassy and Bucharest. Russian agents are active in Servia and Bosnia. They cause masses to be said in honour of the Czar, and for the success of the holy cause. The Assemble's Nationale says :—" We learn by a private letter, which merits absolute confidence, that at the date of the sth of July, the representa tives of the four great powers at Constantinople, France, England, Austria, and Prussia, were com pletely in accord to the terms of the arrangement to propose to the Porte and Russia. This arrange ment could not be submitted to the sanction of the Sultan on account of the Ramazan, during which official relations with the Porte remained sus pended ; but there was little time to wait to solicit and obtain the sanction, since the Ramazan ended on the 7th. In considering, as it is permitted to hope, that the Sultan has given his sanction, it might have been sent off to St. Petersburgh, so as to arrive by the' 15th of this month • and the de cision of the Russian Cabinet may b e known about the 25th." The Cologne Gazette states that the protest of the Divan against the occupation of the Danubian Prin cipalities by Russia, reached Vienna on the 15th, having been conveyed there by Mehemet Saftaluge. According to the Press of Vienna, the Divan replies in the most energetic manner to the arguments put forward by the Czar in his manifesto, whilst the Sultan, on his part, protests solemnly against the reproach of having violated his word, and calls on all the. Christian communities'to testify that he has never, knowingly and wantonly oppressed them, and that wherever inferior authorities have at tacked their rights and privileges they have been punished. The document enters into details on the persecution of the Jews at Damascus, and declares, with respect to the invasion of the principalities, that the Porte protests in the most solemn manner against it, as an act of violence which nothing can justify. The Nuremberg Correspondent has the following from Vienna :—" The Baron de Meyendorff mado on the 13th a communication to the Austrian Mi nister for Foreign Affairs explanatory of the circu lar despatch of Count Nesselrode. M. de Meyen dorff is said to have declared among other things that the Emperor of Russia was ready to accept a mediation provided that it shall recognise the jus tice of his demands." The Wanderer of Vienna asserts that the Rus sians have been favourably received by the inhabi tants of the Danubian provinces. Their outposts are near the banks of the Danube. A letter from Varna of the 30th ult. states that the Turks were displayinc , great activity in repair ing the fortifications of that place. In addition to the men already employed 3,000 had arrived from Adrianople for this purpose. The works arc under the direction of Mussa Pacha and a Prussian colo nel named Kutschowski. It appears by a letter from Constantinople of the Bth, in a German journal, that a rumour was still current there of its being the intention of the Bri tish Government to recal Lord Stratford do Red cliffe. A letter from Constantinople of the 7th says : " The Turks celebrated the Bairara, this morning with all the customary pomp and ceremony. A beat number of Europeans and foreigners of a ll ° classes were present at the passage of the cortege, and at the Sultan's reception of kissing hands. The members of the Embassy of France, who went from Therapia, had places reserved for them in a part of the building of the Ministry of Finance, situated in the first court of the Palace of Top Kapou. Everything passed off with perfect order, and in such a way as to dissip a t e th e f ears which some persons might have conceived as to the dispositions of the Mussulman populations towards the Chris- tiaras.' SPAIN. - - --- Our accounts from Madrid are of the Eith inst. It appears that the President of the Council was .very anxious that the question of the concession of the Northern Railway should be settled at the Cabinet Council which was to be held on that day. M. Moyano, the Minister of Public Works , de manded a further delay of eight days, in o rder that the investigation of the matter which he had con fided to a Commission, composed of Messrs. Caveda, Isidro, Arguelles, and Ybarrola, should be termi nated. The- Three per Cents. were done at43 of ; the New first Three per Cents., at 231 : th e Debt class, at Ifn ; and that of the second, at 58. ITALY. The Bunt?, of Bale, announces officially that the Austrian authorities are allowing certain citizens of the canton of Ticino to proceed to Lombardy to look to the preservation of their property there. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the 16th, states that the imperial commissary of the district of St. Fedele (Lombardy) has invited the landed proprietors of the village of Erbonne, who are all Ticinese, and live at Muggio, to return to their estates and perform the usual agricultural opera tions there. The /Dress of Vielap, ota,tea that the acreages between Austria and Piedmont, on the subject of the refugees of Lombardy, are still very far from having reached a solution: Her Majesty the Queen Dowager of Sardinia left La Spezia on the 15th, in the Governolo steamer, for Massa, there to meet her august relation, the ex-Empress of Austria. The German Journal of Frankfort states that a pontifical bull rendering mixed marriages more difficult than they are now will shortly be published at Vienna. We stated some time ago that Col. Calandrelli ° had been pardoned by the Pope at the intercession of the French Government. The Opinione of Turin subsequently contradicted the news of his liberation ; but we now find by a letter from Mr. Giovanni Calandrelli, his father, in the Spener Gcmette, of Berlin, that his liberation has taken place. M. G. Calandrelli, however, corrects the statement of the Independaitee Beige, which had attributed his liberation to the good offices of the French Government, and declares that it is solely owing to the efforts of the King of Prussia. The committee for the withdrawal of paper money from circulation at Rome has issued a-noti fication, announcing that since the last month a sum of 390,449 scudi (2,169,182 fr.) of paper money has been withdrawn, and replaced by an equal sum of coin. DENMARK. The Copenhagen journals of the 12th publish a circular of the anish Minister of Foreign Affairs to the diplomatic agents of Denmark, dated so far back as the 9th May. This document enters into an elaborate review of the motives on which the opposition in the Diet voted against the Royal message of the Bth October last, definitively fixing the succession to the throne, in accordance with the treaty of London— a vote which it will be remembered led to the dissolution of the Diet. According to the 'Minister, the opposition as well as the government and all the Danish nation, approved highly of the selection of the Prince Chris tian of Glucksburg and his male descendants by his wife the Princess of Hesse, as successors to the throne ; but that it thought that the messsage went beyond the treaty of London in enacting that the same order of succession should be observed in all the States submitted to the sceptre of his Majesty as well as to Denmark Proper—and that the order of succession for these States established in 1665 should be abrogated. But the Minister announces the intention of the Government of persisting in all the clauses of the Royal message, because, he says, it is convinced that they will not only be ad vantageous to the country, but that they are necessary for the full execution of the treaty of London. He directs his agents to explain to foreign governments the views of the opposition, and to inform them of the determination of the Government ; and he concludes by stating that the governments will see, from them, the cause of the delay, which, to the great regret of the Danish Government, has taken place in the execution of the said treaty. ENTIRE ABOLITION O.F THE DUTY ON ADVERTISEMENTS. (From, the Morning Adve)Ziser.) It will be seen from our Parliamentary report, t hat the information was correct which we exclusively g ave in our paper of yesterday, relative to the intention. of Mr. Gladstone to agree to the entire repeal of the ad vertisement duty, provided the house would enable him to throw out the bill of Lord Robert Grosvenor for abolishing the duty on attorneys' certificates. Before the house divided on the second reading of that bill, the right hon. gentleman stated, in terms as explicit; as could be desired, that, in the event of the house rejecting the measure, he would, seeing the strong feeling which existed in the country on the subject, acquiesce in the entire remission of the advertisement duty. We may therefore consider that remission as a fact virtually accomplished. (Front the Daily News.) Mr. Gladstone, like a wise tactician, is no longer in clined to force down the throats of an unwilling public and an adverse House of Commons his opinion about the advertisement tax. He has a hundred and fifty thousand pounds surplus, at any rate, in hand ; a.nd though he would rather keep it all, he declares hinn self not unwilling to surrender the beggarly 80,0001. he p ro posed to get by taxing the advertiser, or, iu pl sin terms, by checking publicity and preventing the ext an sion of trade. He admits- that the House of Commcms "has express2d a strong desire for the repeal of the ad vertisement duty”—a very modest way of characterising the divisions in favour of repealing that duty ;—a.nd declares that the Government, having to choose whether they shall give up the tax on attorneys or the tax on pub licity, they prefer relieving the press to giving 80,000/.. a-year to the lawyers. This decision will be popular' throughout the country. The agitation of Mr. Milner Gibson on the subject of the press has contributed largely' to the growth of public opinion respecting the Press-4 laws ; and the great injustice of the treble tax on news papers is now very generally condemned. Men see that to keep three taxes one one article is unfair ; an d f e t n h g a i t n e onethatosf mm some article dce hr modern happens Dpgoepula r shouldto enlightenment—the n n a e d w e t p a a k p e s e— ve t h r when ra d c e oim pressionhenfegeidetaphrt dehrseoeedo Advertisement three etTehheei imposts—ther true l Newspaper iigiahxt: S aan t r aedm strikingnptoh, woe t ff h rve e eonr P f, .yoaovpnagetlee7, generally from the Press will be hailed by the country at large as an equitable, wise, and proper step taken by the Ministry. The red uc ti on o f the tax from is. Cd. t o 6d. on each advertisement was advocated upon the principle that by such reduction n o l oss of revenue I s ould arise. The increase of advertisement s , t h e i ncra t sed consumption of newspaper stamps and of exc i se pay, ing paper, would, it was shown, have made up the d e fi c i en cY created by the reduction of the direct advertisetwot duty. But, as Mr. Gladstone now points out elm rly enough, he has at any rate some 150,0001. to dispose ; and as the real question left for the House of Commons and the Cabinet to settlebetween contending as id powerful claimants—was whether the pressure of t be Attorneys' licence should be - lessened, or the tax on publicity be wholly removed—there could be no roe an for doubt which should be done. All trade licences axe bad in principle. As means of raising money, they be long to a mischievous and theoretically exploded spa .em of finance. But until all of them can ba removed, to reduce the tax on one class of licences would only be to render still more irksome and unjust all those left un touched. Mr. Gladstone's decision to abolish the advertisentent tax is therefore exactly the one to be expected iron i a wise and judicious minister, and the hearty spirit viith which the house accepted his resolve was shown by the very significant division that followed soon after he . .had made his statement. It now only remains for the Hoe use of Commons to pass the needful bill repealing the ad i'er tisement tax, and parties concerned will find am ple materials for satisfaction in the results that must display themselves. Trade will obtain new powers of extension through greater facilities of publicity, whilst the n,ewst paper press will have to thank a free-trade Ministry for the removal of a shackle put upon it in those glow my days when tyrannical governments were fertile in schei nes for checking the growth of a free newspaper press. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday, July 20,—The Peninsula r and Oriental Company's steam-ship Tagus, Captain 11. K. Joy, which left this port on Monday with the coil tract mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gib raltar, returned this morning about 5 o'clock, in cons4.l - of having sustained a damage to one of tho engines, which rendered it impossible to use more than one of them in propelling the vessel. The accident occurred on Tuesday, when about 50 miles to the west ward of Land's End, and Captain Joy judged it expedient to retrace his course to Southampton in order to get the necessary repairs properly effected. Captain Englediue, the superintendent of the Company, on the arrival of the Tagus at Southampton, ordered the City of London, Captain Cargill, to be immediately dispatched, and the mails,_ passe ngers , a nd cargo wer e a t once t rans f erre d to that ship. So great was the expedition used in Performing this operation that the City of London vas ready for sea at 11 a.m., and started for her destination shortly after that time, to prosecute the voyage unsiac cessailly undertaken by the Tagus. The latter vessel, it is expected, will take the place of the City of London on the Constantinople line, and the adjustment of the Lila chinery will probably be accomplished in time to enaible the vessel to start within a day or twl of the 1 ap pointed time—viz., the 27 th inst. The Peninsular an d took her departure at 3 p.m, to-day Captain John for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria , with the us ua l sem i- mon thly Soy, Oriental Company's steam-ship I n d us, Archipelago. di tenlaiean The Indus h a d a b ou t 50 Egypt, Aden, India, Chi na , general c argo, and the followingspecie :—For Malta, 2,0801 . in gold ; Alexandria, l oamn s na , d Oifi passengers,rOts ehe Ofi a / og . rh i tt n le golVi Easternflull de ; Bombay, 23,000/ . in silver ; Madras, 300/. in silver; Calcutta, 5,000/. in silver; Penang, 2,0001. in silver ; Singapore, 30,000/, in silver and 3001. in goikl ; Hong Kong, 1 5,2001. in silver and 10,000/. in gold; Canton, 6,5001. in silver; Shanghai, 5501. in silver the total being 10 9,930/. The United St a t es mail ' steam-ship Washington, Capt. E. M. Fit c h, a l so sa il e d this afternoon for New York, with the British, French, and German mails, upwards of 150 passengers, and a very full and valuable cargo of continental m erc h an di se shipped f rom B remen and Havre. The General &rev/ Steam-shipping Company's ship Queen of the South, Captain Norman, which left Calcutta for Plymouth a nd Southampton on the 14th of May, and would call at Madras, Ceylon, Mauritius, the Cape, and St. Vincent, is shortly expected at Plymouth and Southampton. The Queen of the South has a full cargo, the chief items of which are 83 bales and 63 cases o f raw s i lks, 44 9 chests o f indigo, 2,237 packages of saltpetre, &c. The Mauritius, belonging to the same company, is now over due, in consequence of her machinery being out of order, but is daily expected. BREAK DOWN OF THE TALUS.---The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, which left South ampton at 3 p.m. on Monday with the Peninsular mail, broke down near the Start, and returned to Southamp ton at 5 a.m. yesterday. By 11 a.m. the mails, passen gers, and cargo were transhipped on board the above named company's chartered steamer the City of London, and the latter had steamed out of the port. The Gibral tar portion of the mail from the steamer Tagus was placed on board the Indus, which left Southampton yesterday with the Indian ruail. Ara Th e Po an l 'toPefu 14aster 3 • heT 18 r , 1 24 gok ',1d, 12, At i St oc k followi 4, o f ; t 4:" ar( "It _ c ap' at 10 T 0 44 1( To ara, reh t ,, eeni t o ditt o Per To ati l , 40toi txl Y bin . c 1 b it ; .fl Yditt Pall P Roa 00,0, tip o 1 )&1: t h e Y bat TI A zk to .) iniui tlioT k 1 ki lai Pro,, dolt -1 r arb PI 1)a Po. 111, j a3a B ~P I3D THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1853