The Sun. — London, England, 1853-07-18 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET , Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, JtTLT 18, Will be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING.. Sup ported by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. After which, will be presented Lord Byroll'S TragedY of SAR DANAPALITS. Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Characters by Messrs. Harley, J. Vining, Chester, and Everett ; Mrs. W. Lacy, Misses Daly and C. Leclercq. • THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster—Directrees, Madame Celeste. TEIS EVENING, Jr= 18, Will be pertbrmed GENEVIEVE. Characters by Messrs. Ben. Webster, A. Wigan, Leig h Murray, Keeley, Parselle, Paul Bedford, Callenford, Woolgar, 0. Smith, and C. J. Smith; Madame Celeste aid Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by THE CAMP AT CHOBLIAM. After which, NORMA. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. First Week of a New Drama. THIS EVENING, Jaw 18, win be performed a New Drama entitled THE TIMES, Charac ters by Messrs. Farren, T. Mead, H. Marston, William Farren, G. Cooke, and Shalders ; Mesdames Anderton, H. Gordon, E. Tur ner, and Bartlett. After which, an entirely New Burlesque, by Francis Talfourd, req., entitled SITYLOCK, or, THE MERCHANT OF "VENICE pRESEUVED." Shylock. Mr. F. Robson. To conclude with (by desire) THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bags, Mr. F. Robson. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Now ntitier the Direction and Management of Mr. W. Cooke. The tide of success flows into this popular Establishment, to witness the present attractive entertainments. The Battle of Waterloo continues its triumphant career. 58th 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 opportunity 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 18, And during the 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 Perrota, 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 Fos Chase will take place. Doors open at Half-past Six. Boa-office open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Engagement of Mr. Distln and Sons (the original Sax-horn players and Mrs. Theodore Distin for One Week Only. To-day, Panoramid View of CHUSAN, Splendid and interesting MENAGERIE, Glionvizir's unrivalled MILITARY BAND. Vocal and Instrumental Concert. Two favourite Songs by Miss Cicely Nott. A selection of c,ncerted 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. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. MONDAY, JULY 18, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock on Saturday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PORTSMOUTH—S.W., gentle breeze—heavy rain. SOUTHAMPTON—S.Ii' ~ hard wind—overcast. .FOLKESTONE—S.W., fresh breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—S.W., stron g breeze—overcast. BASINGSTOKE—S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. GREENWICH—S., strong breeze—overcast. STRooD—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SWINDON—S.W., fresh breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—S., strong breeze—partially cloudy. YARMOUTH—S.., strong breeze—partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Friday morning at nine o'clock : LIMERICK—W., strong breeze—overcast. MULLINGAR— S.W. strong breeze—rain. SOUTHAMPTON— S. W., strong breeze—rain. FOLKESTONE—S.W., resh breeze—rain. BASINGSTOKE—S. gentle breeze—overcast. GREENwiOH--S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. STBooD--S.W. gentle breeze—cloudless. LEIGHToN—S.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—S., strong breeze—partially cloudy. YARMOUTH—S., gentle breeze—overcast. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. lists DAY —Morning 35 min. after 11 Evening 0 min.aft. 0 To-Monow—Morning 9 min. after 12 ' Evening 41. min.aft. 12 THE WEATFIER.—SuI OFFICH, JULY 17. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 56—lowest this morning and during the night. 69—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 98. WIND, W.—Morning fair, but cloudy ; afternoon, fine sunshiny weather. JULY 18. 70—highest since noon yesterday. 55—lowest this morning and during the night. 65—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29.08. The barometer rose yesterday afternoon to 30'8, but fell during the night. WIND, S.S.W.—Sunshino and showers. THE PUBLICATION OF ‘, THE SUN" COMMENCES EVERY AFTERNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK, AND THE LATE OR THIRD EDITION, CONTAINING THE DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT THE SAME EVENING, With all other News arriving up to the hour of Post, AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is closed by the Latest Trains. „ .*,) tgs t*A-4:,,A1im.,:4, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1853. "Sivis pacem, para helium." The truth of the adage has never been contradicted save by the twaddlers of the Peace Society, who would fain have persuaded the people of the propriety of a general disarmament, and of the efficacy of reason and argument to prevent the dangerous conse quences that might arise from the total absence of anything like preparation to repel the aggressions which the ambition or cupidity of other nations might encourage. These amiable enthusiasts would have induced us to believe that the golden age was rapidly returning—that we might look forward to the speedy advent of the period - when " the lion should indeed lie down with the lamb," without any evil conse quences to the weaker party—when Justice would reign paramount over all the earth, and the only contests would arise from a friendly com petitor, as to who could produce the most valu able manufactures for the general consumption, which could most ably combine matters tending to the amelioration of mankind, and the happiness of the human race, with out distinction ofcreed or colour, climate or lo nging°, with the handsome profits to which these b ene f actors of their s would be legitimately entitl e d. It is, pecies , however, but a matter of simple justice to the simple minded individuals who so loudly adv t)- cated these doctrines, when th ere was no possibility of testing their efficacy to ac knowledge that they have maintained a total and unbroken silence since events have arisen to prove the fearful risks that should have been encountered if England and France, in accordance with their ridiculous suggestions, had put their vessels of war out of commission, and dismissed their well trained and hardy seamen to seek employment in conveying cotton from one hemisphere to another, and returning with the raw material converted into bales of calico. None of the Apostles of uni versal peace have volunteered a journey to St. Petersburgh to convince the AUTOCRAT of the impropriety of his proceedings, and to induce him to make ample reparation to the parties injured by his unprovoked and unwarranted invasion of territories of a friendly power. No broad brimmed diplomatists have offered " to beard the lion in his den"—the CZAR in his Palace—by lecturing him on his social or political duties, or P ersua ding ilixa " to submit all matters in dispute to the arbitration of judges we ll versed in inter national law—h av i ug v Arm, and GnoTrus, and PUPPENDORT at their B ug ers " No; the members of. the Peace Society are su e . n, if not convinced, and it is to be hoped that i i e : e i f ihe orwrl and for ever they will hide thei r diminished heads, and c forbear from intruding thei r senseless trash upon nations now thoroughly awakened t o its ex cee di ng folly and palpable absurdity. They have, however, already occasioned-. eve which it will be difficult, if not impossible, tiz;;;. me dy. The wauto aggression that has atreacki led to such injurious results has mainly arisen from the unfounded belief that their peculiar views were acceptable to a large proportion of the people of England, and to the certainty that the Prime Minister of Queen VICTORIA largely par ticipated therein. To the timid and vacillating policy of the " excellent ABERDEEN," which pre vented a bold and manly remonstrance in the first instance, when the threatened attack on the integrity of the Turkish dominions, and the inde pendence of the Ottoman Government was intimated, may be attributed the partial execution of these insolent menaces. If the Western Powers had promptly repudiated the " engagements" alluded to in the NESSELRODE Circular, " not to compli cate the difficulties of the situation by assuming an attitude, or prematurely taking steps, which, on the one hand, would have the effect of encour ing the Porte in a course of opposition, and, on the other, might involve them further than they then were in a question relating to the honour and dignity of the EMPEROR." We should not have had to prove the inaccuracy of the reasoning, the absurdity of the argument, which attempts to show that the presence of the combined fleets of England and France not in the Bosphorus or within sight of the Turkish capital—not even in the Dardanelles, but in a sea open to the navies of the entire world—was not an unjustifiable entry upon " the waters and harbours of the Ottoman empire," "a threatening demonstration," or "a maritime occupation," that authorised or afforded any reasons for " re-establishing the equilibrium of the respective positions by a mili tary occupation" on the part of Russia. The CZAR manifestly does not and cannot comprehend the reasons for our extraordinary forbearance. He has no feeling in common with those that avoided all recriminatory language, and submitted patiently to his impudent assumptions and bullying bluster. He ascribed to timidity, whether • correctly or otherwise, the injudicious course pursued by English diplomatists, in obe dience to the instructions of the Joint-stock Ad ministration, in which Lord PALMXRSTON did not hold the seals of the Foreign-office. It is not enough to be prepared for war—it is not enough that our forces by sea and land are thoroughly organised, and capable of defending our rights and those of our allies, when hostilities have been forced upon us. No. Something more • is required for the maintenance of tran quillity. We must be ready for war as well as being fully prepared for it. We must be prompt to lift the gauge of battle when insolently flung down before us. If the notion gets abroad that we will permit any advantage to be gained by offering a easus belli which is disregarded— that more will be conceded in consequence of a minatory aspect—farewell to the hope of permanent peace. The CZAR is too well aware of the step he has achieved—the strength of the position which he has taken to be easily induced to relin quish it, or if he should do so, for the time being, not to be on the look-out for the most trivial pre text for again taking possession of the Principali ties. Nothing but action—decisive and deter mined action—can avert the most serious evils. The NESSELRODE Circular has more than justi fied it, if any doubt could have previously existed on the subject, and that the English Government is bound to display, if it would maintain the con fidence and respect of the English people. Although the annual general Massacre of the Innocents hag not yet commenced in good earnest, an alarming predisposition to private Parliamen tary infanticide is beginning to be manifested by Hon. Gentlemen, and we are bound to say that her Majesty's Ministers are by no means inclined to oppose the progress of the disease. Several promising legislative bantlings have already been brought to a premature end : some nipped in the bud, before they had acquired a large portion of the affections of their putative parents ; others consigned to the limbo of a select committee ; while others were cut off after they had attained a fair position, having passed triumphantly through the dangers and trials of the second read ing, and the " affirmation of the principle" by a fair majority or majorities of the llouse of Com mons. When a bill has reached this " en gaging" stage when the watchful care of its Parliamentary parent or sponsor has safely guided it through the various shoals and quicksands that beset its early youth, it requires more than Spartan fortitude to witness its cruel fate. Nothing but a confident hope of its reappearance under more favourable auspices can reconcile the afflicted parent to its withdrawal or rejection. At the morning sitting of Wednesday, four youthful victims were surrendered to the sacrifi cial knife. First in importance, as in order, was the County Rates and Expenditure Bill; the prin ciple of which had been frequently considered, and repeatedly affirmed by the Representatives of the people. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Manchester had long exerted himself zealously, energetically, and efficiently in pro moting its progress. No private Member could have done more to assure the success of a mea sure which had not been openly taken under the aegis of Ministerial protection. Mr. MILNER GIBSON had every reason to anticipate that his proposal would have received the Royal Assent even during the present session. The lassitude and fatigue engendered by the morning and evening sittings, and the double work thus imposed on the labourers at the Legislative treadmill, however, defeated for the time being his reasonable expec tations. He had, however, the satisfaction of ob taining a pledge from the Home Secretary that, in the beginning of next session, her MAJESTY'S Go vernment " would propose to Parliament a mea sure founded on the principle of popular represen tation as regarded the administration of the affairs of counties." Although, therefore, the Right Hon. Gentleman must have experienced a feeling of disappointment at witnessing once more the temporary withdrawal of a proposition for which he had struggled so gallantly during many years, he may console himself with the hope that before the termination of another session he will see it, or something very analogous, enrolled among the statute laws of the land. We will add with Mr. SCULLY the earnest hope that it may be made general in its application, and that Ireland may be included within its operation. Next in order, but under very different cir cumstances, comes the Seamens' Savings Banks Bill, which had unaccountably survived the ordeal of a second reading, and stood for committee. Its parents had, however, ruthlessly deserted their helpless offspring. One of its sponsors alone appeared, who candidly confessed that, although he had allowed his name to be put on the back of the bill, "he was not acquainted with its details." The Honourable and Gallant Officer also made as brief a statement as to the nature of the agreeable position in which he was placed, saying that he " had no authority to withdraw the bill—he had no authority to go on, and he was not in a position to go on." Under such circumstances we need scarcely say that the bill was speedily cons i gne d to the " Tomb of the Capulets," with no hope of a resuscitation—a result the less to be regretted, as it appeared that it n ewasexistence s totallytence which carried out its object. The a w n h d ou la y bo s t u i p r e b r e n s u t o o us we L l usethleessbillwaswtaes, oft ere- the public time. Next came the ProbateTihof Wills and G ran t of Administration Ea by the Honourable Gentlemanshad bee n i n t ro d uced the M em b er f or Sheffield, with the vi ew o f removing serious grievance connected w ith the one very testamentary jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts, viz., that which, under certain circumstances, rendered ne cessary a useless increase of expense, by multiply ing the probates of the same will, if there were bona notabilia in different provinces. So that instances have occurred where it became necesAlry to take out probates from the Prerogative Courts of York and Canterbury, and also in Scotland and Ireland. Mr. HADFIELD very properly felt desir ous of abating this nuisance, in favour of which not a single argument could be advanced. He was, however, obliged to succumb to the, general weariness, and to content himself with a promise i fmna Lord l'Axatraszorr, that the question of Pro bates would be treated by the Government mea sure, which is to be brought forward next session. Last came the Simony Law Amendment Bill, which stood for a second reading. The question which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for Kidderminster was anxious to bring under the consideration of the House was undoubtedly one of very considerable importance. A great abuse—one that brought scandal on the Church, and led to very loud and general complaints—was aimed at. The sale of patronage, under any circumstances, is a crying grievance. The right of appointing a pastor to a Christian congregation should not be made a matter of barter or sale. A more sacred trust could not be confided to any individual ; and it is truly deplorable when we witness the delibe rate violation of that trust by its being turned into a means of obtaining money for the patron, or providing for an unworthy or unqualified per son, who had no claims to such a situation save the possession of money by himself or friends ; and the readiness to invest that money in acquir ing " a cure of souls in a good sporting county, ' where the duty was single, the population small, and the parsonage-house roomy and comfortable." What could be more disgusting than to find that infirmity, and decreptitude, and ill health were the only qualifications looked for by a patron, who had omitted to dispose of the next presenta tion previous to the death of the last incumbent ? Such a system cannot be defended, because it is "an aged vice, a grey iniquity." Means should be taken to remove the reproach from the Na- tional Church ; and Mr. PHILLIMORE is entitled to much credit for having directed the public attention to the subject. Under present circumstances, however, it could. not possibly be carried through its various stages during the present session, and therefore the noble Lord who took charge of its progress during the accidental absence of Mr. PHILLIMORE, exercised a wise discretion in not pressing it on to a division against the opposition which it received. It, or some analogous mea sure, will, however, again be brought forward; and we trust that the blot may eventually be erased from the escutcheon of the Church of England. We rejoice most heartily that the bill for the removal of professorial tests in the Scotch Univer sities has passed a second reading. It is high time that these mischievous implements of bigotry should be wrested from the hands that use them merely to deprive Universities of the noblest in tellectual life which might otherwise animate them. The bill, as it is to pass, is, indeed, but a compro mise, and the teachers of mathematics, chemistry, mechanics, and so forth, are to pledge themselves not to imperil the Assembly's Catechism by their problems and experiments ! Well, be it so. The professors, if doing their duty to their pupils and their sciences, will assuredly have other things to think about ; and if the Presbyterian D.Ds. think it worth while to furnish the profes sors of science with such dust to shake off their feet against the timid bigotry of ecclesiastics, why, it is never worth the professors' while to object. For ourselves, we hold all similar declarations, whether required of Roman Catholic Members of Parliament, of municipal town coun cillors, or of non-Presbyterian Scotch professors, very cheap. They convict of cowardice, or of dis trust of the merits of their own cause, the party which enforces them, while they never do and never can bind, to any practical purpose, the party who takes them. Still this test-protected liberty of teaching science was not enough for Sir ROBERT INGLIS. His Episcopalian co-religionists, it appears, had stretched their consciences to sign the confession of a Church which anathematises bishops, there fore Sir ROBERT thought the chairs were open to those sound in his own pliable faith ; but some worthy Presbyterians, not of the Scotch Establish ment, could not consent to sign themselves Esta blishment-men. These men, therefore, though agreeing with the Church of Scotland, probably in everything but the question of patronage (chiefly a secular matter), Sir ROBERT desires to exclude from office. In a word, the English Episcopalian, though anathematised by the creeds of the Scotch Church, stands up to fight the battle, which Scot tish members decline, for the remnant of the Scotch Establishment against the Free Church of the majority. This is the sum of the whole oppo sition. Poor GOLDSMITH remarked that it was " im possible to argue with JOHNSON, for if his pistol missed fire. he knocked you down with the butt end of it." We may truly say of Sir ROBERT et hoc genus omne, that there is no arguing with him, for if reasons fail he knocks you down with an oath. Not a profane one, oh, no ! but, in this case, with a royal one ; it appearing to him, no doubt, a royal road to his desired goal. By the QUEEN'S oath he charges us to desist from admitting intellectual light into universities except through " subscription" win dows. He takes up the London Gazette of June 20, 1837, and proves that Queen VICTORIA sub scribed the Oath of Security for the Church of Scotland against Episcopalian interference. Oaths should be "an end of all strife ;" but Sir ROBERT, and the few survivors of his school, con trive to make them the most strife-enkindling inventions in the world. They did so in the con troversy on Roman Catholic Emancipation ; they do so when any portion of Church lucre is in danger, or when, as in this instance, brains are likely to overpower bigotry. One thing is obvious to all, that the appeal to oaths, like the ap peal to " vested interests," is never made unless the cause is in itself defenceless ; when common sense, reason, the wants of society, the changes of circumstances, and all the considerations that in fluence disinterested and sound-minded men are irresistible, then the fanatic or the conservator of abuses conjures up the ghost of an oath to deter you. No instance probably can be produced of a cause intrinsically good being defended in either Houses of Parliament by the appeal to an oath. Sir ROBERT INGLIS, however, is not the man who has a right to watch over the safe-keeping of others' oaths. Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON has ap pealed to him ever since 1835 to see to his own oaths. He has shown him " that those pro ceeding, to a degree (and Sir ROBERT is a gra duate of Oxford) without fulfilling all indispen sable conditions, are declared perjured by statute, and no graduate now fulfils even the most impor tant of these." He has called on him, by every consideration of honour and religion, to put an end to the flagrant and gross perjury of which the heads of houses are distinctly, and not merely constructively, guilty, by their own statutes. The argumentum ad hominem proves nothing, it is true, for or against the general question ; but it is overwhelming against Sir ROBERT INGLIS. of all men, cannot maintain the inviolability of oaths, even when their sense and application is clear. He is a graduate in virtue of what his own university statutes declare to be perjury. Ho resists—and the heads of houses, who are in a worse moral plight than he, do the same—all interference of the Legislature to modify the statutes and oaths which convict him. Either, therefore, such official oaths may be broken openly without guilt, and Queen VICTORIA need not trouble herself about a for mality, or Sir ROBERT INGLIS and the heads of the Oxford Houses are chargeable with a crime which they would shudder to think of. We leave Sir ROBERT to choose his alternative, only adding that we think Queen VICTORIA will be promoting the true interests of the Scotch Church by assenting to this Bill ; and we only hope that it may speedily be presented to her for signature. We trust that a majority of 106 to 17 in its favour is conclusive of its fate in both Houses. It is hardly worth while to enter upon the general question of Tests in Universities just now; but su re ly th e ti me i s come f or th e i r en ti re aboli tion in r egar d t o lit erary pro f essors i n e v er y department, in English as well as Scotch Univer sities; and to y ou th an d l aymen i n every case . It is quite enough that those who enter the Univer sities to take office in the Church, should at a proper ago sign its Articles, or some Articles of reasonable length and simplicity; but after the * See "Discussions on University Reform," &c. Longmans. 1852. Especially pages 530, 450, and eon teat THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, ETLY 18, 1 ets3. Report of the late Commission, and in the rapidly advancing state of public opinion, the hour is plainly at hand when it will not be endured that National Universities shall refuse their education, or their educational honours, to all whose con sciences scruple subscription to Formularies, whose meaning the ablest sons of the Church dispute, or, indeed, to any Formularies at all. Even Oxford must become, in the secular and real sense, an Anglican University. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince Albert on Saturday morning at Buck ingham Palace. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, left town at 25 minutes before 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, for Os borne, Isle of Wight. The Royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps. Sir James Clark, Colonel Bou verie, Lieutenant-Colonel.F. H. Seymour, and the Mas ter of the Household. The Queen and Prince were conducted to their car riage by the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis 'of Breadal bane, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Abercorn, Lord Camoys, Viscount Torrington, Colonel the Hon. C. Grey, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. R. Boyle, and Col. Wylde. A detachment of Lancers escorted her Majesty from Buckingham Palace to the new station, at Vauxhall, of the London and South-Western Railway. Her Majesty and the Prince left by a special train for Gosport. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and Princess Alice remain at Buckingham Palace, having been both suffering under an attack of measles for the last three days. Their Royal Highnesses are passing favourably through the disease. Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. R. Boyle remains at Buckingham Palace in at tendance on the Princesses. OSBORNE, JULY 17. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the Prince of Wales, attended by the Ladies and Gentle men in Waiting, arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon at 20 minutes before 6 o'clock. The Royal party crossed over from Gosport in the Fairy, commanded by Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, honoured the Royal Italian Opera with her presence on Saturday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. Their Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, accompanied by Baron Knesebeck, attended divine service in the chapel of the Female Orphan Asylum, Lambeth, yesterday morning. The prayers were read by the Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley, the chaplain, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. John Jessopp. A deputation of the directors and others interested in the Electric Gas Company had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley on Saturday at the Board of Trade, for the purpose of explaining the objects of that company and supporting their application for a charter. The deputation con sisted of Mr. Rigby Wason, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Travers, Mr. Shepard, Professor Holmes, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Vernon Heath. , - _ A deputation from Brighton, consisting of Sir Adol phus Dalrymple, Bart., Mr. James Cordy, Dr. King, Mr. Richard Palmer, and Mr. Upperton, had an inter view with Earl Granville (Lord President) at the Council office on Friday. The deputation were accompanied by the members of the borough—Lord Alfred Hervey and Admiral Sir George Pechell. PROPOSED INQUIRY INTO THE IMPROVE MENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. DEPUTATION TO LORD ABERDEEN. Sir John Shelley, Bart., M.P., and a deputation from the commissioners for improving and paving the district of St. James's, Westminster, waited upon the Prime Minister on Saturday on the subject of improvements in the metropolis. Sir John Shelley explained that the object of the de putation was to ask the Government to institute a gene ral inquiry into the improvements so much required, not only in Westminster, but in all parts of the metro polis. The necessity for new thoroughfares could not be better illustrated than the detention he had that morning met with, of an hour, in getting from Guildhall to the Treasury. Mr. York, the clerk to the commissioners, read the report, which recommends that improvements should be classed under different heads—viz., first, cuts-de-sac re quiring to be opened ; second, streets or places to be widened ; third, arcades or glazed passages for the con venience of foot passengers ; fourth, new streets or im provements to remedy the overcrowded state of the metropolitan thoroughfares. That the various local authorities and others of the metropolis should be in vited to send in plans of the improvements required in their respective localities. That an inquiry should also be instituted as to the best means of raising the funds, and carrying out the most important of the improve ments ; and after the places had been classed and arranged, a general act should be passed, giving autho rity to the board to whom the improvements should be hereafter entrusted to purchase the property required when a favourable opportunity occurred. After some conversation, Lord Aberdeen thanked the deputation for the in formation they had laid before him. The subject was of great importance. He saw no objection to the proposed inquiry, and he would confer with the Commissioner of the Board of Works (Sir W. Molesworth) on the sub ject. A tax on coals was out of the question, and a direct tax would be for the consideration of Parliament. CABINET COUNCIL—A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers present were—the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of New castle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat three hours. THE COURT.—We understand that her Majesty and Prince Albert, who is quite convalescent from his late attack, will remain at Osborne about a week or ten days ; and then, should the health of the Royal Family per mit, embark in the Victoria and Albert to visit the Dublin Grand Exhibition, remaining probably in the Irish metropolis five or six days. The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice remain at the Palace, it not being considered safe for them to be removed. The Heir Apparent will remain with her Majesty at the Royal Villa. THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOL.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert, who consented to lay the foun dation stone of the Commercial Travellers' Schools for orphans and necessitous children, at Pinner, on Wed nesday next, has been compelled to decline the engage ment, in consequence of his recent illness, and has de puted Mr. Masterman, M.P., to perform the duty. OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Queen has conferred upon the Earl of Haddington the Order of the Thistle, vacant by the death of the Marquis of Huntly.---Mr. Law, commissioner of the InsolventDebtors' Court, will take the place of the chief commissioner, Mr. H. Revell Reynolds, resigned ; Mr. Sergeant Murphy will be the new commissioner, in succession to Mr. Law. The Honourable Julian Fane is appointed first paid attache to her Majesty's mission at Vienna, in the room of Mr. Frederick Hamilton, appointed secretary of legation at Stutgardt. —Mr. Fletcher Norton, unpaid attache at Naples, is appointed second paid attache at Vienna.— The Honourable Edward Vesey Bligh is appointed second paid attaché at Berlin. —Mr. Ailliam Brodie is appointed unpaid attaché at Stockholm.—Mr. Augustus Griffiths is appointed assistant colonial surveyor at Sierra Leone. —The Queen has appointed the Rev. Charles Boston, vicar of Wickhambrook, in Suffolk, to the rectory of Hartest, near Baxted, in the same county, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Maddy.—Observer. THE FLOODS NEAR LONDON.—The most disastrous immense na e ai neighbourhood na s ewtnh i aay a et s very h b se ahreysee sheets t received iestctoelofft, syo t water,no fallen.db rneo seenma n o f Ad n t lhei thousands otg l eyuhfftes e heal v ceno e t dws r s y s lo South-Western n o t fht : ll ; weaby i echneys heavy beyond nvk h r nyds e floating on the surface. At Guildford, Chertsey, Woking, and Battersea the water is several feet deep, and much damage has been done to the crops as well as the hay. On the Eastern Counties line immense injury has been caused to the sheep and lambs, and some of the crops have been destroyed. In Kent there has been a destruction of many thousand pounds' worth of propertl. A WIFE STARVED TO DEATH BY HER HIISBAND.—On Saturday, Mr. Brent held an inquest at the Clerkenwell workhouse on the body of Martha Garnett, aged 33, a married woman, with two children, alleged to have died from the effects of the refusal of her husband to provide her with food, although he is a cabinetmaker in full em ployment. The evidence went to show that the accused, who was present before the jury, was in the habit of treating the deceased with the greatest amount of cruelty, leaving her and her children without food for days to gether, although he was in the constant receipt of 308. and upwards per week. He had been known to come home and cook a steak for his own dinner, and sit down and eat the whole of it before his wife and chil dren, knowing, at the same time, that they had had no food. The deceased had frequently asked her friends and neighbours for food, and had borrowed a half penny even for a candle, as her husband was out all night nearly, as well as day, and would allow her no light. She had obtained a medical order, a short time since, to come into the workhouse, but, when she got a little better, she begged her discharge, for fear of the neglect and ill-treatment of her two children by her husband, with whom they were left. On her going out her treatment was just the same, and sheer exhaustion from want of nourishment induced her again to seek an asylum in the workhouse, where she died the day after her admission. Mr. Gill, the parish surgeon, stated in making a post mortem examination, that the immediate cause of death was consumption, but he believed it to have been accelerated by starvation and neglect. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against William Garnett, the husband, and he was committed, on the coloaer's warrant, to Newgate. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE. IMPORTANT CIRCULAR DISPATCH. M. Drouyn de l'Huys has lost no time in re plying to the second note of Count de Nesselrode. This morning's Moniteur contains the Minister's answer, dated only the 15th. The promptitude of the publication in this instance is accounted for by the breach of etiquette committed by the Russian Government in giving a diplomatic circular to the Petcrsburgh Journal before it had been dispatched to the parties for whose instruction it was intended. Having accomplished this act of retaliation, the French Minister, with moderation but with perfect firmness, proceeds to convict the Russian Minister of having misled the other powers, by an admis sion that the Sultan had satisfied the demands made by Prince Menschikoff, and of then raising a fresh question. He next convicts him of misrepre sentation of matters of fact regarding the pretended provocation to pass the Pruth, by the anchorage of the fleet in Besika Bay. In fine, he makes the Russian Government cut a sorry figure, as will be seen by the following translation of this well written state paper, in the shape of a circular to the diplomatic agents of the French Government at the various Courts of Europe. " Paris, July 15, 1853. " Monsieur,—The new dispatch of Count de Nessel rode, which the Journal de St. Petersburgh published the day after it had been sent to all the Russian lega tions, has produced an impression upon the Emperor's Government which his Imperial Majesty has ordered me to convey to you without circumlocution ( detour). "We cannot but deplore seeing Russia at the very moment when the efforts of all the cabinets to bring about a satisfactory solution of existing difficulties, bear such striking testimony to their moderation, assume an attitude which renders the success of their negotia ations more uncertain, and imposes upon some among them the duty of repudiating a responsibility which it would be vain to attempt to fasten upon their policy. " Ido not desire, sir, to return to an exhausted dis cussion ; but since Count do Nesselrode continues to allege, in support of the pretensions of St. Petersburgh, the offence said to have been committed by the Porte in not regarding the promises made to the Russian Lega tion at the period of the first settlement of the Holy Places in 1852, I am forced to repeat that the firmans issued by the Sultan after Prince Menschikoff's mission took away all foundation for this single grievance, and that, if any Government be authorised to prefer legiti mate complaints, it is not the Government of his Ma jesty the Emperor Nicholas. "In fact, on the 10th of May last, Count de Nessel rode, who had just then received dispatches from the Russian ambassador at Constantidople, congratulated himself with General de Castelbajac upon a result which he regarded as a happy termination of the affair of the Holy Places. M. Kisselef, in Paris, made a similar declaration, and the agents of the Cabinet at Petersburgh everywhere used the same language. The demands subsequently made by Prince Menschikoff, when the principal object of his mission was attained, and when his return was already announced, were not therefore in any way connected with those which he had prevailed upon the Porte to accept, and it was really a new ques tion, a more grave difficulty that arose at Constanti nople, at the very moment when Europe, an instant alarmed, was invited by Russia herself to be completely reassured. " Taken, in some sort, by surprise, by demands which they had no grounds for suspecting, the representatives of France, Austria, Great Britain, and Prussia, at Con stantinople, loyally employed their efforts to hinder a rupture, the consequences of which might be so fatal. They did not advise the Porte to make any resistance of such a nature as to expose itself to more serious dangers, and, unanimously agreeing that the demands of Russia touched the liberty of action and sovereignty of the Sul tan too nearly to allow them to offer an opinion, they left to the Ministers of his Highness alone the responsi bility of the course to be taken. There was, therefore, on their part, no pressure of any kind, no interference whatever; and if the Ottoman Government, left to itself, would not subscribe to the conditions that were desired to be imposed upon it, the reason must assuredly have been that it considered those conditions entirely incom patible with its independence and dignity. " It was at such a conjuncture, sir, that Prince Mens chikoff quitted Constantinople, breaking off all diploma tic relations with the Porte, and that it devolved upon the Powers bound by their traditions and their interests to maintain the integrity of Turkey, to trace out for themselves a line of conduct. " His Imperial Majesty's Government, in accord with that of her Britannic Majesty, thought the situation too menacing not to be narrowly watched, and the French and English squadrons speedily received orders to anchor in Besika Bay, where they arrived in the middle of the month of June. "This measure, one entirely of precaution, had no character of hostility towards Russia. It was impera tively called for by the gravity of the circumstances, and amply justified by the preparations for war which for several months past had been making in Bessarabia and the harbour of Sebastopol. " The motive for the rupture between the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh and the Porte had, so to speak, disap peared. The question which might have been raised on the sudden at Constantinople was that of the very .2E istence of the Ottoman empire, and his Imperial. Majesty's Government will never admit such vast in terests to be mooted ("se trouver en jeu") without in stantly claiming that share of influence and action which properly belongs to its power and its rank in the world. To the presence of a Russian army upon the land fron tier of Turkey, the French Government had the right and the duty to reply by the presence of its naval forces at Besika, in a bay freely open to the ships of all nations, and situated within those limits which treaties prohibit the passing in time of peace. " For the rest, the Russian Government was soon about to take upon itself to explain the necessity for the movement of the two squadrons. For on the 31st of May, when it was impossible to know at St. Peters burgh, where the news only arrived on the 17th of June, the resolution that might be adopted by France and England, Count Nesselrode sent to the Porte, in the form of a letter to Reschid Pacha, a final ultimatum, with a brief delay, and which contained a very clearly expressed threat of an approaching occupation of the Danubian Principalities. " When this decison had been come to with a solem nity which no longer permitted a Government jealous of its dignity to modify it ; when, by a circular dated June 11, his Majesty the Emperor Nicholas caused his resolu tion to be announced to Europe as if to render its execu tion more irrevocable, our squadron was yet at Salamis, and that of England had not left the port of Malta. "This simple comparison of dates suffices, sir, to show from what quarter proceeded that initiative now sought to be denied, while the responsibility of it is thrown upon France and England ; it is also sufficient to prove that between the communication made to Paris and London of the proposition made directly to Constanti nople by Count Nesselrode, and the rejection of that ul timatum, time was materially wanting for the Govern ments of his Imperial Majesty and her Britannic Ma- jesty to exercise their influence at Constantinople one way or the other. No, sir, I say it with all the force of conviction, the French Government in this grave de bate has nothing to reproach itself with ; it repudiates from the depths of its conscience no less than before Eu rope the responsibility imputed to it, and strong in its moderation appeals in its turn to the judgment of the cabinet. Setting aside the so different objects of the two demonstrations, there was perhaps a sort of analogy be tween the respective situations when the Russian army was on the left bank of the Pruth and the English and French fleets cast their anchors at Besika. The analogy has disappeared since the passage of the river, which forms the limits of the Russian and the Ottoman empires. Count Nesselrode seems to admit this when he supposes the squadron to be already within sight of Constantinople itself, and represents the military position taken up by the Russian troops on the banks of the Danube, as a compensation for what he calls, our maritime occupa tion.' " The English and French forces do not by their presence outside the Dardanelles infringe existing treaties. The occupation of Wallachia and Moldavia, on the contrary, constitutes a manifest violation of these very treaties. That of Adrianople, w,l4ich determines the condition of the Russian protectorate, implicitly states the case in which that power was to be permitted to interfere in the principalities; it was in case their privileges should be disregarded by the Turks. " In 1848, when these provinces were occupied by the Russians, they were a prey to a revolutionary agita tion, which equally threatened their own security, that of their sovereign, and that of the protecting power. The convention of Balta-Liman established that, if similar events should recur within a period of seven years, Russia and Turkey would jointly take measures to restore order. " Are the privileges of Wallachia and Moldavia me naced ? Have revolutionary troubles broken out in their territories ? The facts themselves answer that at present no cause has arisen for the application either of the treaty of Adrianople or the convention of Balta- Liman. By what right did the Russian troops pass the Pruth if not by the right of war ?—a war, I admit, the true name of which they will not pronounce, but a war derived from a new principle fraught with disastrous consequences, which one is astonished to see practised for the first time by a power so eminently conservative of European order as Russia—a principle leading to nothing less than the oppression in time of peace of weak States by their powerful neighbours. "The general interest of the world is opposed to the admission of such a doctrine, and the Porte in particular has the incontestable right to see an act of war in the invasion of two provinces which, whatever may be their special organisation, form an integral part of her empire. Neither the Porte, therefore, nor the powers that might come to her aid, would violate the treaty of July 13, 1841, if she were to declare the straits of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus open to the French and English squa drons. The opinion of his Imperial Majesty's Govern ment is formal upon this point ; and although it does not think this opinion excludes the 'attempt to find an efficacious means of conciliation between Russia and Turkey, I have requested General de Castelbajac to ' make known to Count de Nesselrode the way in which we view the subject, and to communicate this dispatch to him. I also authorise you to transmit a copy to • M-. . , "Accept, sir, the assurance of my high consideration. "DEOUYN-DE-LHUYS. A letter received from Vienna, by a Paris mer cantile house of eminence, represents as almost certain the acceptance by Russia of the last proposi tion of the intervening Powers. The announcement on Friday of a rise in the price of bread of five centimes occasioned a sort of agitation in the Rue Rambuteau, in the neighbour hood of the markets, which the police succeeded in quelling before it grew to anything formidable. The price, 40 centimes the kilogramme, first quality, makes the Paris loaf dearer by about 30 per cent. than it is in London ; this; with the enormous ad vance in the rent of apartments, would soon cause discontent, only that, happily, the harvest prospects, despite the unfavourable aspect of the weather, are good, and building speculation having become almost a mania, there will be houses enoug h before a year, to meet the wants of the population. The reports of the prefects confirm the promising ap pearance of the crops. A rumour of a second attempt on the Emperor was current yesterday, but it seemed to be without ground. The trial which is to take place on Wednesday of parties im plicated in what is called the COMMUM revolution naire, has nothing to do with the late attempt at the Opera Comique. Indeed, it is said, and gene rally believed, that the persons arrested with arms upon them on the night in question have been all packed off to Cayenne by virtue of an existing de cree, which gives the Government power of sum mary transportation of recognised members of secret societies. . A favourable reaction took place on Saturday at the Bourse, business generally being active, and a rise of about 4- per Cent. in nearly every description of stock having occurred at its termination, the pre cise amounts being 55c. in the Three per Cents. for cash, and the Three and Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for the account, and 20c. in the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for cash. In the Bank of France shares there was an improvement of sf. The final quota tions were :-For money : Three per Cents., 77f. 45c.; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102 f. 10c. For the end of the month-Three per Cents., 77f. 35c.; Four-and-a-half per Cents., 102 f. sc. • Bank Stock, 2660 f. An advance of sf. occurred in thortgage Bank shares, which closed at 665 f. ; and there was a similar rise in those of the Societe Mobiliere, which were last quoted at 760 f. The railway market was active, with a general improvement in prices. Paris and Orleans shares rose 20f. ; Paris and Lyons, 12f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 7f. 50c. ; Nor therns, 6f. 25c. ; whilst the remaining lines ad vanced from 3f. to sf. each. Closing L . rices :-Nor them, 860 f. ; Paris and Orleans, I,llof. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 910 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 910 f. ; Paris and. Roueu 1,055 f. ; Lyons to the Mediter ranean, 730 f. ; Western of France, 725 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 495 f.; Bordeaux and Cette, 618 f. 75e. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 610 f. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. A telegraphic dispatch brings news from Con stantinople down to the sth inst. At the depar ture of the steamer a certain uneasiness prevailed at Constantinople ; it was feared that the Turks and Greeks, excited by political circumstances, would give way to excesses. Information had just been received of the passage of the Pruth. Accord ing to the last accounts, the number of Russian troops in Wallachia amounted to 50,000. The am bassadors of France and England had recommended the Government of Greece to stop its maritime armaments. The combined fleets were still in Besika Bay. A letter from Jassy of the 4th inst., says : " General Dannenbera crossed the Pruth yesterday morning with 10,000 infantry. The Russian troops entered the city in the night in a heavy rain, exhausted with fatigue and hunger. They were hastily lodged, and without order, in private houses ; the soldiers, impatient to seek repose, en tered the houses by force, installed themselves therein, and imperiously demanded provisions. All classes of the inhabitants are plunged in the most profound consternation." A private telegraphic dispatch from Dresden of yesterday morning, says that the Dresden official Journal confirms the news that Russia had accepted the offices of mediation of England and France. A dispatch from Constantinople of the 9th says that no ministerial crisis had been caused, as was apprehended, by the passage of the Pruth. A ge neral conviction of a pacific solution prevailed. Negociations continued regarding the affairs of Kossta, whose arrest at Smyrna had led to such un fortunate results. It will take the Russian troops eight days to cross the Pruth. The majority of those troops are proceeding by forced marches to the Danube. At this date (the 4th) there are 30,000 Russians actually in Moldavia. The most important news at this moment from Constantinople is the fact of a formidable conspiracy having been detected against the life of the reign ing Sultan. On Friday night or Saturday morn ing, the 2d July, 15 imaums or softa s (M ussu l man students) were seen passing through Galata in the custody of numerous armed cavasses, with their hands tied behind them. This unprecedented sight gave rise to a mixed feeling of dread and curiosity, since these white turbaned people are looked up to by good Mussulmans with great awe and respect, as the expounders of the sacred precepts of the Koran. The cause of their arrest was a conspiracy to depose the Sultan Abdul Medjid,. in favour, it is believed, of his brother, Abdul Aziz. A few hours after their arrest they were all put to death by the bowstring. It is said that there is a strong determination among the Mussulman popu lation to throw out the present Ministry, and bring in a decided war party. The greatest discontent prevails amongst the Redif, or reserve corps, and numerous instances of mutinous conduct have been reported. These poor men complain that they have been called from their fields during the harvest time, and thereby subjected to severe losses ; they remember with bitterness a similar call to arms during the Hungarian refugee question, and they declare they must not again be sent from their homes on a bootless errand, but must fight or return. The expenses of the Ottoman Government at this moment are calculated at 100,0001. per month over and above their usual outlay. The warlike prepa rations are certainly conducted on a gigantic scale, and with great spirit. A letter from Bucharest, dated the 26th of June, says that in 15 days the northern bank of the Danube will be lined with 280,000 Russian troops, and their posts are marked off from Orsova to Suhna, the three principal posts being Kalafat, opposite Widdin, Gurgavo, opposite Rustchuk, and Kalarash, opposite Silistria—the three principal Turkish forts on the right bank of the Danube being thus:observed. This position would indicate an annexation rather than an occu pation, since it is not the centre, but the extremi ties, of the provinces that are occupied, and the Danube thus made a frontier of. The Count de Buol Schauenstein, Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, addressed a circular, dated 4th July, to the Austrian agents abroad, an nouncing to them that, from the commencement of the conflict between Russia and Turkey, the Cabi net of Vienna had taken great pains, both with the contending parties and with the other great Powers, to effect an amicable solution of the question, and thus to prevent complications which might endan ger the general peace. " Whilst the Austrian Cabinet," says the circular, — "Held language to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg dic tated by the Sincerest friendship, and tending to dissuade it from the occupation of the Principalities, by showin g the numerous inconveniences which would result from this measure, it advised the Divan not to consider it a case of war in case it should be carried into execution notwithstanding our efforts to prevent it. Inspired with an equal desire to uphold the Ottoman Empire as an element of the balance of power in Europe, and to preserve inviolate the intimate alliance which unites Austria to Russia, and which constitutes in our eyes one of the firmest barriers against revolutionary attacks, we have devoted all our care to preventumean n a t general conflagration, r x e p se o r t v ea i a n tsi g eon a. at eoT t m h hp e elileio s aa a st m t e dno t o i should m e arise entire contraryliber ty of to ouraction, e in e in the discussion which has reached us is the reply of Redschid Pasha, dated 16th June last, to the letter which Count Nesselrode addressed to him on the 19th May. The Porte by this reply, drawn up in suitable language, declines the demands of R uss i a . A ccor di ng to our latest new s from St. Petersburgh, the letter of the Ottoman Minister arrived there the 25th of last month, but we do not yet know how that document was re ceived. The Russian Envoy at the Imperial Court has, however, communicated dispatches to us from his Cabi net of the 23d June, and which contain the most re assuring explanations as to the sense and meaning of the guarantees which the Russian Government demands of the Porte. Count Nesselrode states that Russia demands nothing with regard to the Christian wor ship in the East but the strict maintenance of the status quo based on castom and on treaties ; and that, consequently, she demands. nothing new—nothing which implies an intention to interfere nl the internal af fai r Turkey.sof assurances at C o nstantinople, wellto bringasi nParis forward those and London, and to pleadetxhpeereett ourhe cause r t of samr crownededresrtaati shall odn. and conciliation.lf, a endeavourwi th succe success, if aifectohienptch,coshnoteunlddicnogrnpeatrotiaen understand ing we n ing as to a middle term between thenoteupon which Russia ich Russia has hither to continued to insist and that which the Porte was ready to present, we shall be happy to have contributed, for our part, to the pacific solution of a difference from which the , greatest danger to the peace of Europe might e nsue . " The Constantinople correspondent of the Augs burg Gazette, who is a remarkably circumspect writer, says, " The manifesto of the Russian Go vernment has produced a tremendous effect here. No one now doubts that Russia has resolved to carry out her plans, and that she will succeed in doing so. If the other Powers had acted together, as they ought to have done, they could have bid Ruosia halt, They have let her have her own way, and Europe will feel the consequences." People here are as convinced of the truth of this as then Constantinople politician. Military men are of opinion that Omer Pasha will strongly fortify the line of the Danube. The staff of Gene ral Dannenberg in Jassy consists of twelve gene rals and twent yfour inferior officers. Among the firms troops that entered Moldavia were the lbth Chas - seurs and a Garde Sapper battalion which had o:n their flags the inscription :—" Given as a mark Q distinction for services rendered in 1828 at the siege and taking of Varna and Anapa." The ooz cupation of the two Principalities will be cont. pleted on the 28th. In the Cronstadt Zeitung W® read the following singular passage—" Some Ruf,- sian regiment will pass the precincts (weiehbild) .of the Cronstadt frontiers." It must be supposed from this that the Russians have been permitted to pass through Transylvania, as there are no roa.tls on the adjacent Wallachian frontier. The Oast. Correspondenz contradicts the repot of Baron Bruck's having demanded 5,000,00 0 piastres, and the surrender of Meek and the Suto rina as indemnification from Turkey. AUSTRIA. A private letter from Vienna, of the 13th inst., gives some particulars relative ta . the removal . of the Hungarian refugee, Kossta, from the Austrian corvette Hussar at Smyrna. It appears that the Captain of the United States corvette, in the bay of Smyrna, either acting .on his own judgment, or by orders from a superior authority, addressed a peremptory note to the, Captain of the Hussar, informing him that if he not immediately surrender his prisoner he would take him by force. The Austrian replied that he could not give up the Hungarian, except upon an order from the Austrian Consul-General. The American gave him eight hours further to reflect ; and, as the answer of the Consul was in file negative, the American laid his vessel aim) g side the Hussar and cleared for action. Tb° Austrian Captain made known to the American that he was aware of his inferiority, but that his honour commanded him to defend himself until he should be blown into the air. Fortunately the French and English Consuls interfered, and, as the two champions were determined to fight, it was arranged that Kossta should be delivered up to the French Consul until M. de la Cour and the Baron. de Bruck arranged the question at Constantinople. Kossta was landed in chains, and, escorted by Ate' trian marines and seamen, was delivered over to M. Vichon, the French Consul, who sent him t ° the Marine Hospital, where he will remain until orders are received from Constantinople. The in" habitants of Smyrna consider that they have had 3 fortunate escape, for if an action had taken place between the American and Austrian corvettes the houses must have suffered severely, as well as the shipping in the harbour. There is reason to believe that the Emperor is about to revive the privilege of nominating " Crown Cardinals," which has long been dormant. This right, which is based on a Convention made with the Papal Chair during the last century, "I s of high political importance, as it gives the Air' trian Governme n t g re at influence at the election. of a Pope." Of 36 persons who were sentenced or l , the 2d, by the P ermanen t C our t- mar tial s itting a" Este, to be hanged, 19 were shot, and the punish meld of the oth ers commu t e d in t o imprisonmen." for terms varying between 6 and 20 years. It I s supposed that more than half as many persons hal ° been tried for their lives in the little town of Este, within the last three years, as the Russians lost hf the sword during the Hungarian campaign. Tle n fine warm weather which w e h ave h a d during t'i" last fortnight has almost dissipated the appreber sions which were felt about the crops. The tog' thete Aristarchi is a daily visitor at the Russian Embassy. The Emperor is not expected back frol s Olmutz before Saturday. Lord Westmoreiand and Barok Bourquency 111 had frequent co n f erences l a t e ly w ith th e Turku` Ambassador and M. de Meyendorff. The Austrian Corps of Observation in Slavonia will be formed partly by the troops in the vicilli t l and partly by forces from Vienna. ITALY. A letter from Turin of the 14th inst. states tha the Duke de Guiche, French Minister at the Co of Turin, had left for Paris on a short leave of 3 " sence. Accounts from Rome of ,the 12th inst., ineliti . t the probability of a partial amnesty. Among st others said to be the objects of the Papal clemee, ; "; is Signor Cialdi, former Commander of the P olo ' steam-boats. The Pope had appointed Cardinal Savelli 1 - 7r°' dent of the State Commission of Finance. The Grand Duke Tuscany published a decree a , Florence, on the 11th inst., commanding tha t levy of 1,400 men should be made amongst young men born between the Flt January an d a ). December, 18s41. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 12th have reach ed us, together with our usual correspondence. The Ga ze tt e pu b lishes a decree count ersigue„,%bo the Minister of Finance, authorising tho eroisT, o " of 300,000,000 of reals by the Treasury to repiPZ ig ,. the floating debt. The Minister expects br,T ie operation to reduce the amount of interest on " vo sums lent monthly to the Treasury. B l lt, Murillo had contemplated a similar arrangenly— and had even prepared the Treasury notes. es , The recall of Marshal Narvaez and the Ole o , sion of the Northern Railway, the two great clu, bo tions of the day, were expected to be settled at Cabinet Council to be held on Friday last. ; THE COMBINED SQUADRONS AT BESECA BAY. _ . We have accounts, via Malta, from Besika 8 3 .7 0, the sth of July, containing, however, nothing of monle .n , save the arrival, on the afte rnoon o f t h e 3d, of the 670 spareil, which vessel, however, cuts but a sorry W e i l alongside of the Napoleon and Charlemagne, Fre° oo screw steam liners. On her arrival, the C ar adoc 1 ° . 4 , dispatched to Constantinople, whence both the Eng ll :, and French naval Commanders-in-Chief received ° l to patches from the ambassadors of their respective nati,e .'jt on the sth of July, by an Aust r i an s t eamer , w hich Constantinople on the evening of the 4th. Vice-Aden'.A Dundas was in constant communication with the Britr e ; consul at the Dardanelles, through whom the dispatc h from the ambassador pass. The English and French admirals have frequent C„..; °ll ferences together, and though a goo d understand'ig exists between the officers of the two fl ee t s , st ill t here not much intercourse ; in fact, so far from this bel encouraged by the British Commander-in-Chief, L stacles are thrown in the way, an d no less than 0%. junior officers of one of the Briti s h li ners had had theA' leave stopped until furthe r or d ers, f or having ventur°' to pull out a private in a b oa t t o l ook at the French sou dron coming to an anchor, without any previous vm n : ing that such an ac t would be considered an inIPLI priety. The French are moored outside of the Brit' :,, ships in two li nes, t h e latter riding at single anchor P line of battle. Both frequently exercise gunnery drill' EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO COMPANY.—At the annt 4 meeting of the Eastern Archipelago Company, held Saturday, the gross disbursements of the company w er stated at 56,6971. up to the 30th ult. whilst the gr c :;/, receipts f or coa l so ld t o th e en d of March i were 19,5' „ . f No divid en d was d ec l are d; b ut t h e di rectors express t be' confidence i n th e ulti ma t e success o f the undertaken ,, Reference was made to the proceedings instituted by James Brooke for the purpose of revoking the company, charte r ; b u t th e directors re-assure th e s h are h o lde r , that, in the improbable event of the charter being re yoked, and the grant of another refused, the ex t e nsi o Thepr opsehrtayreohfoldr th e ee s o w m e p r a e n a y ls i o s notcong comprom i sedratuecl on in h the e is o s T l2 :i of Sir James Brooke from the governorship of Labus l3 ' The directors state that her Majesty's Gove rnmen t hO O f officially recognised the validity of the, Sultan's grant 1) t coal, and that they are consequently prepared to gro% li cen ses or leases to any parties o r compan i es who ve'- work distinct portions of their coal field. SHOCKING SUICIDE AT BROMLEY.—Mr. W. Bak er held an inquest at the Imperial Crown, Three Mill-lan e ' Bromley, on Saturday, on th e b o d y o f T homas Wr i g h t' aged 37 years, who com m itt e d su i c i de. It appo,r7, that the deceased, who h a d b een in the habit of drink to excess, proceeded to the shop of Mr, Tickler, a eh r h mist, of High-st ree t, B ow, and asked for a pennyviei,"; of arsenic to kill some rats, but Mr. Tickler sold hie° powder called white hellibore wrapped in a pape r labelled "p o i son. " T he deceased went home and tired to rest; shortly afterwards the wife was a rouse by the deceased being seized with violent vomiting' Search was made in the room, and a paper containing °' portion o f th e powder was discovered on the No sil hand -stand. Mr. John P. Cooper , surgeon, of 1 3 °, 14 deposed t o b e i ng called on 'Wednesday night, w hen o e found deceased in a prostrated condition, and quite ; Tv sensible. Stimulants were administered and the " (3 ' ceased rallied, but became worse, and died from t h : effects o f th e po i son on Thursday morning. The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity." CURIOUS ACCIDENT AT WATERLOO BRIDGE.--T i Saturday a ft ernoon , a b out four o ' clock, as one of th e London and South-Eastern Railway Company's w a g: gons, loaded only w ith empty fruit baskets from Coven"; garden market, was proceeding from Wellington-str ee through the t o ll ga t e of Waterloo Bridge, one of Ole, upper baskets caug ht the centre or direction lamp, w hic a stood upon a grranite pillar, standing in its turn upon solid granite b ase , w h en the pillar and the lamp w e r 0 compl e t e l y i nto the road, the latter of tou rs being sm as h e d to atoms. An examination of the p i l lar' shows that it was only held on the base by a bar of irc! ii up the c en t re, not more than six or seven inches depth, while the height of the pillar must have bee n about as many feet ; so that it really appears remarksfed that it has not been overthrown before, if not by a loa waggon, at l eas t b y the wind. Fortunately the gat e ; the side t owar d s w hi c h t h e p ill ar fell was c l ose d at time, or the accident must have been attended With Ge ri' our results,—Observer. Sou Sou Sta, thix rail 30t1 3,0( yea] 100? Eas. have die( ls. Bon at a: glee apex 3 p c/ New ludi g India Cons Ea PR Braz' Mexi Port , Russ L Di Di Sard Span Spa]