The Sun. — London, England, 1853-03-21 00:00:00

rtirb Wintions LINCOLN RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE TRIAL STAKES. Xing David Chilton Five ran. THE FRENCH EMPIRE. We find the following in the Union on the in• teresting and always popular subject of liberty :...._ " Wh;.t is the use of disputing about liberty ? Liberty - -we speak of oivil or political liberty—is something dative, and cannot be either judged or defined without taking into consideration the habits and wants of each People and each period. How, therefore, can the liberty of one period be compared to the liberty of another ? Liberty is not an abstraction, is not an absolute idea, and is not subordinate to inflexible conditions or forms. Was France in 1789 free ? Certainly not, if liberty is what was seen in 1791 or 1793, and afterwards in 1797, and again in 1801, er in 1804, or in 1851, or, if one liken it better, in 1848, or, in fine, in 1851. Still more, has Prance ever b een free ? No, if her liberty be compared a te that of all other States, from Greece to the United 'Wes. But ask the same question of any people what ever, and you will inevitably have the same reply. The liberty of Sparta was not that of Athens ; far from it ! The liberty of the Cretans had nothing in common With that of the Sicilians or Carthagenians. And what was the liberty of Rome ? A dominating Senate, patri cians masters of the people, a perpetuity of empire finder the name of customs of their ancestors, and run 30,000 or 40,000 citizens with 3 0 0, 000 slaves. that the veritable and unchangeable type of libertyl For a century, English liberty has been made the universal model of all constitutions to be established. Whatt is that liberty ? Could we support the most feeble imitation of it ? The Charter of 1814 was at most a parody of it. English liberty is a classification of society with a land e d aristocracy at the top armed with political Privileges. Just attempt to propose something similar to that in F rance , b ro k en u p as it i s i n t o littl e morsels of land, to that scattered democracy, ricketty but haughty, extenuated but sovereign. It would break everything to pieces rather than subject itself to a pri- Vileged class of that kind. How chimerical, therefore, is it to attempt to render liberty subordinate to certain typical and preconceived forms, according to which per sons would deem themselves entitled to affirm that one People is free, and that another is not ! At most it can be declared th a t th ere are i ns tit u ti ons i n themselves In . _ re in confor m ity w ith th e na t ura l r i g ht of defence u ,_ r of protection in a political society ; but in that Itething is absolute. The institutions of the middle . a n were not without connection with that right of defence, but they were themselves of very different I _ ll . l • The communal constitution of France was Zot the same as that in It a ly, or i n Fl an ders, or in gain ; and yet it was everywhere the real basis of erty. To speak only of France, it is an historical truth that her liberty followed infinite variations with 21t any one being able to affirm that it ceased to exist. e establishments of St. Louis were establishments of ""rty, and the ordonnances of Louis XIV., even in :?!ir despotic form, were a new modification of enfran ,' miaentent. To deny this would be to fall into the tgnorance and silliness of liberalism ; parties, since 1825, tare had time to learn a little history. Does it follow ;at the new times ought to bring back the old forms of I,?erty To all appearance no one has any such idea in to mind. It is sufficient to knoW that each period, in B Pite of constraints or resistances, produces its liberty ith its most natural forms. And it is of no use abus i lg the o ld lib er ty, f or no one can s ay if the new will be b etter. Posterity alone has a right to decide the point. us then leave aside 'B9, and let us not be proud ! ~e Would not certainly support what then remained of nodal right ; let us not boast to have supported the :lueunt of revolutionary impost levied on us. Each Zueiety has its acts of servitude even in liberty, and the Says established society is that which in submission is wlltays the most certain of its dignity." Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, English Ambas nador at Constantinople who has been passing i wte days at Pari s , has left for Vienna, on hi s wa y t o t r , his post. From Vienna he will p ro ceed to ifeste, where a steam-frigate is waiting to receive • M. de Bourquency, and M. Delacour, French ~,'-clbassadors at Vienna and Constantinop le, have ' 4 411 left for their respective destinations. The Moniteur contains the official promulgation f the treaty of commerce and navigation concluded between France and Tuscany, and which will come 4 ' o o operattOn on the 10th of April next. It commission has just been appointed to exa ,,,ne whether the special exercises of the Chasseurs Vincennes cannot, be applied to the French in 4antry in general. The Senate met yesterday for the reception of Eno senators nominated by the decrees of the 9th of February and the 4th and Bth of March. They took the oaths, and the Senate then occupied itself with the 23 bills adopted by the Legislative Body. The Moniteur publishes a decree by which ores 'of all kinds except sulphur are exempt from duty when imported by French vessels, and subject to the payment of lfr. per 100 kilos. by foreign ves sels. Liquorice root, imported by French vessels, g Autos. by exempt from duty, and chared . 2fr. per 100 Autos. by foreign vessels or by land. The cold on Saturday was severe. The thermo rneter of M. Chevalier stood, at six o'clock in the lacrnin' g, at 4 deg. 9-10ths centigra de ( 23 k Fahren heit), and at noon at 1 deg. 4-10 th s centi g rade (29k Fahrenheit) below the freezing point. •,Yesterday the Emperor gave private audiences to cuseigneur Garribaldi, the Pope's Nuncio, to, M. de Hubner, the Austri an Minister, when presented the answers to the n otification of the ' 4ll Peror's marriage. The Debats declares that the English fleet was sent for by Colonel Rose spontaneously , and not at the request of the Porte. Madame de Montijo left Paris for Madrid. , A leading Nantes journal, the Union Bretanne, States that it is the resolve of the Pope to com mence his journey to . France early in May , whe re h e intends remaining for about two months. The Emperor has ordered an opera to be pre- Pared in honour of his approaching coronation, t° be called The Coronation of Charles the 'Seventh. The conflicting reports which have agitated the 45 curse for the last few days, have not tended to !,aise the drooping prices of our late qu otations. 4 . 1 1 e Three per Cents. have experienced a decline ,of 50c. for cash, and 95c. for the account ; the ,„ A . t'cur-and-a-Half per Cents. (cash), sc. lower , and t"c. ditto for the account. The depreciation of flank Stock amounts to 25f. The following are the .I .gltest quotations :—Three per Cents. (cash), 79f. ; ditto, for the account, 79f. 40e ; Four-an Half per Cents. (cash), 103 f. 25c. ; ditto, for the account, 103 f. ; Bank Stock, 2,700. At the Casino yesterday the French Three per were at first constantly offered, and declined b° 76f. 70c. Afterwards, some purchases having been made , a reaction took place, and the last price Vas 77f. 80c. SPAIN. , M. Llorente, the Spanish Minister of Finance, has just concluded a loan of more than 500 millio ns of reals (more than 125 millions of francs) with the 'louse of Baring, of London. This sum is intended to pay off the floating debt, which will be replaced by a perpetual debt. The conditions of this loan are very favourable to Spain, which has never been able hitherto to obtain money but at an interest of 1 ,0, 12, a nd even 15 per cent. per annum. This lean has been effected at 7 per cent. M. Sala ii?-anea, w ho seconded M. Llorente in this negotia tion, has just left London on his return to Madrid, v ia , Paris. The affair will be immediately sub- Zoitted to the approbation of the Cortes. -A- good deal of rain had fallen in Madrid. The following are the prices of stocks :—Three ter Cents 48i • ditto Defe rred, 24f; Redeemable -Debt, first class, 11; ditto , second ditto, sl. ; Cou- Poll Certificates, 6. Exchang e on London, ITALY. A letter from Florence, of the 13th, in the -Parlament°, of Turin, states that the public prose cutor has called upon the Court to declare Gu_er llizzi, Petracchi, Romanelli, p an t an elli, and U t a- Po Court guilty of high treason. The sitting s of he have been resumed. The judicial authori ties have since passed sentence of perpetual impri lleuraent upon Guerazzi. In its sitting of the 15th the Senate of Turin Passed the Submarine Spezia and Cagliari Electric Tele grap h Bill. The Giornale di Roma publishes the Latin ora tion held by the Pope in the consistory of the 7th, la which, among other matters, his Holi ne ss des *nts on the pastoral virtues of ? the Archbishop of Tours, adding that he has been induced to promo te him to the dignity of Cardinal, as well OR account o f his virtues, as also because His Holiness was 8 lire to give great satisfaction thereby to " his tell-beloved son in Christ, Napoleon, Emperor of t he French (Charissimo in Ch,risto filio nostro Na raeoni, Francum Imperatori)," since he himself ,cl warmly advocated (vehementer petierit) that no mination. . 10 The deputation from the Lombard provinces, ch is to proceed to Vienna to congratulate the "Peror t upon his providential escape, is composed I 1 th e A rc hbi s h op o f Mil an , the Bishops of Pavia 41:1(1 Como, &c. A proclamation, by General Count Hoyos, cora- Z• auclant of Ancona, prohibits every assemblage of „?re than fi ve p erson s, under whatever pretence, natz Sunset is announced by the evening gun. 411, 8ca1. Marchetti, 21. years of ar o has been allot, THE SUN,- ,LONDO , N, MONDAY EVENING-, MARCH- 21, , 1853. Hsi). squadron of evolutions should quit Malta, where it now is, it will only be to return to the lonian Islands." The Moniteur, of Paris, announces that the Fre_: - Ich squadron now at Toulon has received orders to leave that port and proceed to the Greek waters. The arrangements for the establishment of a new Bank at Constantinople were proceeding very satisfactorily. Ten of the principal bankers and merchants of the city—eight of them Arme nians, and Iwo Europeans—are to be the founders of the bank. These gentlemen are MM. Miran and Boghos Duz, Abraham Alaverdi, Ovanes Tinghir, Bedros Yaglisian, Diran, Psichari, J. B. Belisigdji, David Glav:ny, and Hanson. They have adopted a scheme drawn up by a Mr. Stanley, representative of some important London houses. It was said that a Frenchman, M. Trouve-Chauvel, at one time Minister of Finance under the Provi sional Government, was to be at the head of the bank ; but it appears that he had only been con sulted about it. The capital necessary for the operations of the bank is to consist of five-tenths supplied by the founders, two-tenths by the Go vernment, and the remaining three by means of shares. The principal object of the institution is to restore public credit, by replacing , within a given period, all the bad money which has only a nominal value by good, and by reimbursing at par and on demand the paper-money of the Govern ment, which is to continue in circulation. The agio on exchanges arising from the difference be tween good and bad money will cease to exist when the latter shall be no longer in circulation, and the Government will thus economise the enormous sac rifices which it has had to submit to of late years, in order to maintain the exchange at a reasonable rate, and which have been the principal cause of its pecuniary embarrassments. The bank will have its paper accepted by the first houses of London, Paris, and Vienna ; and to facilitate transactions, it will issue a certain amount of notes payable to bearer. The bye-laws drawn up by the founders have to be submitted to the Government before they can be published. They propose, amongst other things, to subject its operations to the surveillance of a com mission nominated by the Porte, and to publish an account of them annually.—The Sultan has granted a large piece of ground for a cemetery for Christians of all communions, and it was said that he would even pay the expense of building a wall around it. The Moniteur of yesterday confirms the report that the French fleet is about to sail for he Levant. It is said the instructions given to the admiral are that he is to cruise off the coast of Asia Minor, and not to approach near to the Dardanelles without further orders. As regards the settlement of the question between Turkey and Russia, it is very doubtful if the orders given to the two fleets will have much influence. The belief of the French Government is that the whole question will have I been settled before the Porte can be aware of the approaches of these forces. It is said Russia de mands that the Emperor shall be aclatowleclged head of all the Christian population in the Turkish dominions, or, in other words, of nearly one half of the population of Turkey in Europe. She demands, moreover, that the Greek Patriarch at Constantinople , shall, after being elected by the faithful, be confirmed by the Emperor of Russia as head of the Greek Church ; and lastly, that the protectorate of the Holy Places shall be conceded to Russia, to the full extent of her de mands. It is evident that if these concessions be made, the power of the Sultan over the Christian population will henceforth be little more than nominal. The Czar will be the actual sovereign of Turkey in Europe. A few years since any one who would have ventured to predict that England and France would allow such to nas to be forced upon Turkey would have been laughed at • but the opinion here certainly is that they will not only be conceded, but that, on the part of France at least, there will hardly be a remonstrance on the subject. The accounts received in Paris yesterday did not add much to the information on the affairs of the East. The organs of the French Govern ment persist in saying that Colonel Rose sent for the English fleet spontaneously, and not at the solicitation of the Turkish Government. The only object of the papers which make this as sertion seems to be to save t'ie amour propre 20 of France. If Turkey appealed to the protection 20 of England alone, and de nanded the presence ‘5,0 of her fleet, why should France send her fleet 10 without any such solicitation ? This question 10 being rather an awkward one, the French Minis- St. terial journals find no better means of getting over 25 the difficulty than by saying that both fleets are 25 sent without any solicitation on the part of the S t ' Turk. The following article from the Pays of yes terday, though written with great care, is . entirely in that sense : _ _ St. " In accepting, in its textual terms and as completely true, the dispatch which has caused so much excitement, it would only state one thing—that the English fleet, at the solicitation of the Turkish Government, would draw near the spot where more or less important diplomatic questions were about to be agitated, and that, instead of remaining at Malta, it would anchor in the waters of the Archipelago. A fact of great importance in our eyes would result from this ; it is the accord which would thus exist between England and Turkey. The Turkkh Ministry would in a m3asure have placed itself under the protection of British diplomacy, and that protection would not have been refused to it. Certain persons find. 0 - ..-eater;ng eventr-lities in this fact ; we, on the con trary, see in it the most serious guarantees for the main tenance of peace, and of a conciliatory solution. If Turkey were isolated, or abandoned, without strength, and Without counterpoise to all the greedy ambi tions which agitate around her—if no one took up her defence, and if no power protected her rights—then there night be perhaps reason to fear violert enterprises, which might in a mor:elt compromise the balance of power in Europe. But such is not the case. Turkey is, besides, more vigorously organised than is generally stated, and the new effort which she has just made to reconstitute a new bank on solid bases, proves that her financial resources are in a better state than has been pretended. The support which she appears to find in British intervention is a poweilul counterpoise to the force which acts on her or the other side. England wishes for peace, and it is evident to every impartial mind that it is only by diplomatic means that all the dif ficulties will be solved. Besides, it is not yet clear to any one what is the real character of the difficulties, and the positive object of' the mission of General Mentschikoff. Doubtless, the high rank of this pleni potentiary, the considerable personnel of his legation, and the hauteur with which he is said to have carried himself towards certain members of •the Turkish Go vernment—his ostentatious review of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, before his departure from Odessa—all announce that Itaiss'a attaches great importance to the success of this mission. We repeat that we are ignorant of the character of the instructions of the Russian pleni potentiary, but we do not think that the present diffi culty exceeds the limits of a question of influence and of protectorate over certain of the inhabitants of Turkey. Austria has, it is said, obtained by the mission of Count de Leiningen certain advantages which, it cannot be dis sembled, increase her authority in the eyes of the inha bitants of Bosnia, Montenegro, and the Herzegowine. Russia will not remain in the background. She hopes to obtain in her turn some new concessions of a nature to increase her moral influence in the Ottoman Empire. We are convinced that in spite of the pompous appear ance of the mission of General Mentschikoff, it does not bear on any territorial question of a nature to give rise to any threatening casus belli. Russia knows as well as the other Powers interested that the dismember ment of Turkey would compel a remodelling of the chart of the balance of power in Europe in the midst of perils and commotions ; and not more than the other 10 great states is she disposed. to stake the peace of the 25 world and the future state of society in this terrible 10 1.0.6 game. The policy of Russia in this respect is well known. That vagre hopes in the future may excite her ambition, 20 and point out Constantinople as the definitive object ot 5 her dreams, may be conceived ; but it would be madness St. to suppose that she can think that the moment is now arrived to attempt such a decisive blow. The question 17 of the East will be once more settled by the habitual 25 prudence and skill of negotiators. The attitude which has been already assumed by England is a guarantee for it. In order to make the question assume any more formidable appearance, one of the Powers interested e must tyoanvidolnaetuetry aaliptart of the Ottoman territory, 10 h of which are so important to - 20 Europeanner 20 eace. Who will hav e the coura g e to attempt such on ? Is it that Russia is o n t he p oint of 20 tein daretg aggression le? I England about to Egypt? t a king Constantinnor one s of those skilful financiers who so 20 Not a statesm an, imprudently set a n example of a thoughtless pa nic, can 5 believe such a thin g . Lt us then reduce this agitating 20 essi can only be confined to em partition of question to its real proportions. s oTfhaeseperoentednasriyonnastoufrße;utshseiy 5 Russia 20A cannot imply the dismem b erm ent and the 20 and, if we may believe the dispatches,. and 10 in the negotiations a support 6 sought from England a counterpoise Turkey. They have, however, agita tedth i e t O is tto s m ai a d n t l:i h m, diplomacy, with its habitual prudence,. is said o 10 the British fleet would 20 are preten- the 2 2 0 0 which are about to be opened. to 5 thought that the proximity of give more weight to its intervention.et facts, looked at coolly and truly. B what ought sion of Russia and the protection of England, 20 16 have to judge of. At the present time, however, there we S en uc t h he to be the conduct of France ? That is what we shall 20 is nothing more than a diplomatic difficulty, which will be settled by these pacific means which modern Govern- 10 ments have for the last thirty years put in practice when- 20 ever a cloud has made its appearance on the horizon of 20 European diplomacy." 200 A CHILD ATTACKED BY A GAME COCK. —OII the morning of Sunday last a little boy, four or five years of age, was attacked by a game cock belonging to Mr. Daykin, of the Turf Tavern, in St. James's-street. The child fell on his back and was defending himself with his feet as well as he could, whilst the infuriated bird was making vigorous attacks on his face. Some passers by happily drove the bird away, or the consequences might have been most serious. As it was, the child was bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth, ard, but for the timely assistance afforded, might probably have lost both his eyes, as the attack of the cock was always directed at the face.—Donostor Chronicle. having been found guilty of carrying a revolving pistol. The hiding-place of Signor Mairiiti is still an enigma. All search has proved abortive. Many think that he is at Milan. It is, however, very doubtful if he ever ventured so far within reach of the imperial clutches. Baron Rothschild, after having concluded the Three per Cent. Sardinian Loan at 70, has left for Rome. GERMANY. The Minister of Police at Vienna has revived the decree, published at the time of the Hay nau affair in England, against English travellers in Austria. The Austrian Ambassador has addressed to the President of the Confederation, a written reply, which persists in all the accusations already brought against Tesino, but without any proofs to support them. The Prussian Gazette states that Lord Westmore land had presented an official note to the Austrian Ministry from the English Cabinet, containing , a formal expression of their intention rigorously to suppress any conspiracy fomented by foreign refu gees against the continental powers. This paper adds, that Austria is rapidly preparing the neces sary documents for the legal prosecution of the proscribed by the British court. The Emperor of Austria held a grand reception at Vienna on the 13th ; all the foreign ambassa dors were present. The physicians of the Emperor who attended him after the attempt to assasinate him, MM. Seeburger and de Wattman, have re ceived distinctions ; the first has received the Cross of the Order of Leopold, and the second has been made an Aulic councillor and a baron. A letter from Vienna, of the 14th, states that both General Haynau and. the Archbishop of Vienna, whose death has been announced, died on the same night of apoplexy. The Archbishop had been at the head of the clergy of Vienna for 21 years, and was distinguished for his literary ac quirements, He was 76 years of age. Haynau was in his 67th year, and was on the point of receiving a new command in Italy. The man who did so much to repress the revolution the cut down himself on the famous 13 th of March, the anniversary of its :breaking out. The Papal Nuncio at Vienna and the Primate of Hungary have been raised to the dignity of Cardinal. Count Leiningen, the successf ul envoy, has re turned to his post at Cracow, where he is governor. On the 6th inst. the Russian and Austrian com missaries returned to Cattaro from Podgarizza. The Turks had retired from Montenegro, but Omer Pacha still kept a garrison at Spuz and Podgarizza, while he himself had his camp at Skutari. All hostages and prisoners tak en by the Turks were to be given up ; and, on the other hand, the abla guns seized by the Monteneg rins at Godirie and Zk were to be restored to their former proprietors. Omer Pacha's request that the inhabitants of Spuz and the surrounding district should be allowed to continue their field labours unmolested, was well received by the two commissaries, who caused mea sures to be taken for their protection. We read in the Voss Gazette :7--" The federal contingent is one per cent. of the population, in conformity with the Convention of 1818, 1819, and 1820. At that period the total population of the States of the Confederation was 30 millions ; it is now 43 millions. The federal army is, therefore, 300,000 strong, or rather less than one per cent. of the population, divided in the following manner Austria, 94,000 men and Prussia, 79,000 ; Bavaria, 35,000 ; Wurtemburg Hanover, 13,000 ; Sax ony, 12,000 ; Baden, 10,000 ; making a total of 243,000. The other 57,000 are divided among the other States, and form contingents, varying from a maximum of 6,000, which is for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and a minimum of 55 for the principality Lichstenstein." TURKEY. Accounts from Constantinople to the sth by way of Marseilles, and to the Bth by way of Vienna, have arrived. They dwell principally on the mis sion of the Russian Minister of Marine, General Prince Menschikoff, and are of considerable interest and importance. The object of the General appears to have been to show more hauteur to the Turkish Government, and in a more public manner, than Count de Leiningen, the Austrian Envoy, dis played. Before embarking at Odessa, he passed a review of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, and of the corps of disembarkation which Russia has kept on a war footing in the port of Sebastopol since 1833. Twenty-seven vessels of war—ships of the line, frigates, or large steamers—and 30,C30 soldiers, were assembled on this occasion ; and the greatest eclat possible was given to the review with, it is supposed, the view of causing it to be known at Constantinople. The General then proceeded to Constantinople on board the Russian war-steamer the Foudroyant, and ar rived in that city on the 28th February. He was accompanied by Count Dimitri Ness . slrade as .. secretary, by two generals, one of them Ge32:-al Nipocatscinski, commander-in-chief of Vie sth corps d'armee, by two admirals, ore of them' Vice- Admiral Corniloff, commanding the naval forces in. the Black Sea, by two colonels and two lieute,,ant colonels as aides-de-camp, and five captains as ordcrly officers, Since the celebrated e nbassY of Koutousoff at the end of the last century, no mis sion of the kind has been seen at Constantinople. Prince Menschikoff and his suite were received, on disembarking at Topkhane, by all the employes of the Russian Embassy, and by between 6,000 and 8,000 Russian subjects or members of the Greek religion ; and he was esco rted b y them with g reat po np to his hotel. On the 2d March, the Pr:nce went to the Porte to pay a visit to the Grard Vizier ; but, contrary to all usages, he did not ap pear in the uni:o7m of his grade, but in plain clothes. What took place in the interview is not precisely known ; but what is certain is, that whe aon taking his leave the Grand V izier invited him, in conformity with the diplomatic usage at Constantinople, to paya visit to the Minister of Forei g n Affairs, Fuad Effendi, who was waiting to receive him, he replied in a very loud and very disdainful tone, and before several witnesses, that he would not see that minister, as his Government, and especially its accredited mi nister at Constantinople, M. Ozeroff, had to re proach him with several breaches of faith. In con sequence of this Fuad Effendigave in his resignation. It is said in one of the letters from Constantinople that the demands made by Prince Menschikoff on the Grand Vizier, and supported by this demon stration, were not less offensive to • the Porte than the remarks on one of its ministel.2. It was said amongst other things (but this statement must be received with doubt) that the Prince demanded, in the name of his Government, that the Emperor of Russia should hence^o7th be officially recognised as the protector of the Greek Christians, subjects of Turkey, as France has been fir some centuries of the Catholics in the Levan anti that the e'ection of the Patriarch of Constple should hence forth be made by . the Greeks, and confirmed by the Emperor of Russia, to the• exclusion of the Sultan, who at present has the right of nomination and investiture. The day after this interview Fuad Effendi was replaced (as already announced) by Rifaat Pacha, who had b-.,•en nominated ambassador at Vienna, and who is con sidered one of the st chanti iefs of what is called the Austrian party at Con nople. The ministers held a council the same day, and put themselves in communication with the foreign diplomatic body. On the 4th March, either on the solicitation of the Divan, or spontaneously, the English charge d'affaires, Colonel Rose; accord ing to another letter from Constantinople, proposed to send a steamer to Admiral Dundas, commanding the English fleet in the Mediterranean, who was then at Malta, inviting him to approach the Dar danellesid, at fiwristthahe accepted p fl t e e e d t. ; The but ohn p t r he ope 6 s t it h ie i n t s w e as em , e i d t . said, ev al e t r a , wi th t e h to a be set aside. On the Bth, vessel the Wasp was sent off to ew from Colonel tnelo be forwarded AdmiralßoseforDundas, and with dispatches letter ; London d via Mar sevsixeilslseemsls.7-bToufh-tewifaflreeireanteidiomf as consists of asAnmiraltdaohzeeens should require, and smaller require, it can easily be doubled. A letter from Constantinople of the sth says " The 'arrival of the Russian special ambassador, Prince Mentschikoff, has excited great sensation here, and he is said to be the bearer of an entien ultima tum from the Emperor of Russia, which will of no modification. He is accompanied by the General-in-Chief of the Russian army m Bessarabia, an d the admiral commanding the Russian fleet at Sebastopol, who are placed under his orders, and will, in the event of the Porte refusing to complyi w ith the demands of Russia, return to their posts and commerce ope7ations. What these demands are has not transpired officially. Report says that the Emperor of Russia insists, among other things, on a revision of the decision relative to the Holy Places, on the cession of a tract of territory of 134 square miles near Ararat, and the recognition of the independence of the Montenegrins." A Belgian paper publishes a 'telegraphic dispatch from Marseilles, dated Thursday evening, to the following effect "The English steamer Caradoc has just arrived from Constantinople. It brings the intelligence that Prince Menschikoff does not regard as sufficient satisfaction the dismissal of the Turkish Minister of War. He has pre sented an ultimatum, which the Divan has refused. The Sultan has invoked the immediate help of France and England. The fleet of Sebastopol was ready to start for the Bo3phorus." The Fa of Paris, says :—" A report was lish fleet spread to-day at the B ourse that the Eng was at the mouth of the Dardanelles. This news is false. We think.we can affirm that if the Eng- THE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Pale j Renactirs. LOO !Aberdeen ...... 8' tmbg. Nottng. Bost & Eastn. June....... all Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey......... 28 Birkenhd. Lancsh. & 'Cheshire Junct.. all Do. Chesh. 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Western 42 Do., £50........- 34 Do. £4O all Lndndrry.&Coleraine all Lrdndrry. 6z Ennisk. 1100 r..Nneh.Shef.&Lindn. 4i Do., Man. &Lin. U.l 100 Midland ........ 100 Do. Birming.&Derbj 476 Midland G. Wez,t.(lr.; 176 Do. Sha-es ......... all Newcastle & Carlisle. 100 Neu market 3 Do. Bury Ex'slusiono 16 Newpt.Aberz;.&Htfd. 74 Newry & Enniskillei all Newry Warrenpoinl & Rostrevor 100 Norfolk. . all Do., New 31 Northn. Counties U.l 100 North BriAsh 13 North Devon, 61 Do., No. 2 all Do., A Deterred 5 Do., 1 B Guarantee 171 North Staffordshire all North Western 10 N. &S. Westrn. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 100 Scottish Central ... 100 Scottish Midland_ 100 Shrewsbury & Birmg 100 Do., L. &N. Westn Guaranteed Stock 8 Shrewsby. & Herefd all Shrewsby. & Cheater (Nor. W. Min.) all Do. Halves, do all Do. Oswestry 6i Shropshire Union all South Devon 100 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yorksh. River Dun 5 Do.. .. ... IC4 Stock.. . Stockton & Hart — lepl 19 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17 Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick 13 West Cornwall 21s. Wmbledon &Croydon 1 Woodford 100 York Newctl.&Berw. 20 Do. Extensions....... 112 Do. G.N.E. Purchase 100 York &N. Midland.. Closing Prices Saturday. 29 - 30 ; - 91 - 104 7 —6icad 21 -- 22 3i -- 2 d 104 -- 105 64 -- 646 21 -- 22 18i -- 19 6 ... - ... 1 - lip 8 - 9 5 - .3i 4 - 131 10 - 11 - 72 - 73 55 - 57 74 - - 76 33 - 35 - 61 -- 63 81 -- 82 45 -- 47 123 - 124 1071 -- 108A1 90 991 6 -- 7 92 -- 94 13 --13 p 75 __ 75 !, . 5 § 16 -- 16 81 1 -- Ir, 103 -- 1G.4 118 -- 118 i 2 -- 3 p -- l 90 -- 9 1 p 5 4id 4 -- Sid 11i -12 A 19 -- 29 -- 80 3i 3d 741 —74 i 44 48 50 52 334 ai 8 d 3i 9 10 52 54 11 -- 2t 21 d 351 —36 i it • 4d 8 8i $ —4 p 48 - 49 100 - 102 64 - 66 64 - 66 70 - 75 18 20 9 10 14 15 31 3 d 21 22 77i 78 36 37 4 4 13 41 19 21 i 2f 15 - 16 9 - 94 29 - 31 91 - 9f d- ip 69 TO Ti 21 2id 58 —59 h PREFERENCE SHARES, 100 Aberdeen all Do., No. 2, 7 p. 100 Brie. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4 p. c. Shares ... 100 Caledonian £lO ....• • all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 53 per cent... 3,f Cork&Bandon 53 p.c. all Dundee Pert' , &Aber- demi-Junction all EastA nglian (1.3 10s) 1 6 per c0nt..... ...... . all Do. (E 5) 7 per cent.. 2 Do. (£7l7s) 7p. ct.. all Eastern Counties Ex- tension, 5 p. e. No.l all Do., No. 2............. all Do., New 6p. e. St.. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent.... 100 EastLancash. 6 p.cts. all Edinb. Prth. &Dundee 5i per cent.. 100 Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent 100 Great Northn. 5 P.C 100 Do. sp. c., Redeem., at 10 p. e. prem all Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths 6 Gt. Westii. (Berks dt Ants Ex. 5 p. c.).. 100 G. West, fuced4ip c. 6 Lan. ti; York. F. £2O, 100 100 Do., 6 p. c., Stock 100 London and Brighton GuarPnteed 5 p. c.., 100 Do. Pref., 5 p. C. St. all Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 ....... 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. 5 London tit S. Western, Con. Thirds 12i 10 Londonderry& Color. Shares 12i all. Londy. & Ennis Sh 25 all Manch. ,Shef. , & Lin., S'aares, No. 1...... 10 all Do. New, £lO 6 3 Do., £6 ..............., 124 all Marypt. &Carl. 4p. c. 12i all Do. 4i per cent 126 8i Do .......... ....... .• . St. 100 Mid. Consol . 6 p.c. Si St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent 16 5 Do. Pref. 4i per cent 20 all Norfolk Extension all Do. Guar. 5a per ct.. all Do. Way. Val. 5 p c 100 North British . ...... all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. 9 D• all Shrews& Birm. N. G all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min),B p. c. 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon 11 Do. New all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of 21 08.6 d. all S. Yorksh .4p. c. Guar. 3 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. 100 York Newcastle and Berwick,4 p.c.Pref. 5 IDo - - 10 'York& N. Midland 11 & S. Purch. 106 - li '166 - 108 18i -19 i i a -- pa] 61 -6, 31 - 3 3i - 4t, - 1i -- 2 p p -- 15 18i -- 19 31 - tii --- iia ,110 - 112 83 -8, 6i - 7i 105 107 x( 150 - 152 ... -- 1(.1 ... -- Zli. 1150 - 153 34 - 3i p 101 -- 11 13 -- 13 8 - 9 10/ - 11i1 - 148 —l49xd # p 22 — 23 11 2k 109 111 25 26 1 I.p 11 - 11:1 171 = is 15 -16 P Par- P, 26 —26 i 20 21 id par 101 - 103 6 -5, - i pl 3 An 'oveip&Rotterdam 3 Bel3iar F.astn. Junct. all Charleroi &Erquelin. 6 Dijon and Besan9on 8 Dutch Rbenish all East Indian . 1 Do. Extension .... all Gi. Irdian Peninsula 7 Gd. June,. of Fraaco Gt : Western of Canada 1 Shares 1 Lucca & Pistoja sp.c, 1 _ _ pref.. 15 Luxembourg 10 Do. (Railway) 2 Do. 3 Do. (Canal) 2 Do. 6p. et. pref 7 Lyons & Mediterran 4i Madras all Namur & Liege (with interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all Do. 20/. 3 p. c. Bds (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs.) all NorwegianTrunkPref 10 Paris and Lyons all Paris and Oecans all Paris and Rouen all Paris and Strasbourg 4 Paris Jaen & Cherbrg. 54 Quebec &Richmond all Rouen and Havre all Sambre and Meuse 4 Do. 5i p. ct. pref 4 Southern of France 2s. Upper Ir dia Scrip all West Flanders 6 Do. 5 per c. 10 Western of France 2 West. of Switzerland 3 Zealand... ...... d— Par 1 -- 1A 2 —2i 13i -- 144 -- its 6 --6 I p 1 13 ) 1 -- 1 p I --- i 1)1 - 8 4 - 1 - 1 - 2 r r - - 2 - 2ip 74 -- 8 6 -- 7 35 -- 36/ 14 -- 15 17 -- 17 /p 41 -42 i 41 -- 42 32 -- 331 4 -- 6p 194 -20 A • • • a -- iip P 4 i -- i p 9} -- 9 p l I Ad -- -- is Business done this day. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. RAILWAYS. Bed`ord and Bletchley Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee Do. ve thout Birm.Wolv. & Dudley guar. Do.wthtguar. Buckglamsh. ClydesdaleJc. E. Lincoln. gr. 6 p. cent Glstr.&Dn.Fr Dk. & Railway [lull & Selby Do. Shares Do. Shares Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent Do. 6 per et Manch.Thcton and Matlock Aiddlesbro' Redear NEdld.Brada Northern and Easternsp.e. Do. 6 per et.. Do. Fixed 6p. e Prest. do Wyre Do. Shares. Roystn.&Hit. Do.Shepth.St. Shef. Roth. & Goole g.5.p.c S. SLafforish WearValleygr 6 per cent Do.. (Wilts drSomrsl Closing Prices Saturday. Leasing Compans. London di 1 N. West. Gt.Westn. Do ...... .. 30 -31 29 -30 k 30 -31 29 - 30 105 -107 52 -53 L. dr N.W Caledon.., Gt.Notrhni Gt. Westn. l Yk. New. & Berw Y.&N. Md Do 151 - 153 32i -33 i 111 - 113 55 - 561 274 - 28. 131 - 14 25i - 26 ; 19 - 19 25 - 27 S. Eastern ,Do Norfolk Do Gn.dtN.W dt Midld. Stekton di Darlingt.l 2i - Six 4 :c6 E. Count Do 64 - 66 L. it is . W &La& Yk Do - x,l L 49 - 151 1 48 - 1501 Gt. Northn Do Lancash. do Torksh.. MrMClean Stockt. do Darling . Do. 1— id i -33 i 103 - 104 Gt.Westn. MINES. 1 all Agna Fria ........ 1 —ll p 10s. all Anglo Californian — p 10 2 Australasian 4d— 4 p 20 5 Australian 54 6 p5l 1 all Australian Cordillera par p 1 1 all Australian Freehold, par p 1 all Ave Maria i# dis— p 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) par p 1 all British Austria. Gold # pll 20 13.5 British Iron 7 9 35 244 Brazilianlmp.(issued at R. 5 pm 5 54 5# 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada - 4 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 29 —3O 1 Carsons's Creek par p 4 40 all Cobre Copper 47 49 5 1 Colonial Gold 24 - 34 11 ... 14 Copiapo s# 61 St. all Copper Min. of Eng 73 78 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent 74 — 81 P all English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co ll d 4 20 all General l7 19 2 all Great Nugget Vein 24 — 2 4 p 4# 1 3 all Great Polgooth l* 1 p 1 all Late Bathurst 1 dis— par 1 all Liberty I P 11 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co 1 d 1 all Mariquita ... ... *d— par 10 9 Mezican&S.Americn. 8 8# 8 1 all New Granada — 4 p 11 1 all Nouveau Monde 1 11 p 24 3 1 Port Philip OPIt 4 1 all , Quartz Rock par —• p 1 50 all Rh) coney Iron 23 —25 p 15 Do. New 7 8 80 104 S•mtiago de Cuba 7 8 1 all South Australian I 1 p 11 10 7 Tin Croft 1 13 284 all United Mexican 64 T 61 1 all Waller d par 1 all West Granada p 1 all West Mariposa 4 dis— 4 p 1 1 F all Yuba 4 P JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 50 all British N. American ... 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 2 —21 p 100 25 Colonial — 100 20 Commercial of Load — ... 10 English Scottish and Australian 2# —2/ p 1'24 1 20 124 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 —54 p 50 20 London and County — 50 10 London Joint Stock — 100 20 Lond. & Westminster 35 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 50 224 National of Ireland — 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 57 -- 59 564 74 25 5 Do. New 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all Do. New — 1 1 Royal Anstraln.Bkg & Gold Imp Co idis 25 all South Australia 5O 52 1 25 all Union of Australia 774 78.1 ... 21 Do. New B4 9 50 10 Union of London ... 40 all ,Union of Madrid.-- ... • ... MISCELLANEOUS 100 35 A astralian Agricult. 103 108 102 5 •20 4 Australsn.Pcific.Mail 10 5 Australis. Royal Mail 3811BriL. American Laud 62 60 100 324 Canada — 5 5 Crystal Palace — 64 4 2 Crystal Pal, of France 20 1 Eastern Steam — 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir — 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat — 100 50 General Screw Steam 20 24 Irish Beetroot Sugar 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 2 Nether?ands Land — 20 24 Nrth. ofEurope Steam 50 all Poninsu'ur & Oriental 50 25 Do. 100 60 Royal Mail Steam . . 25 25 South Austral. L and 53 55 53 50 1 1 Submar. Telegraph ... 5 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization ... 100 284 Van Diemon's Land 234 24* 234 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DA Ir. ) LONDON, March 21.—Wind at Noon, S. to S.W., light breeze, and dull, hazy weather, with snow. DEAL, March 20. Wind, N.W., fine. Arrived from the River, and sailed—Adventure, for the South Seas ; Ganges, Port Philip ; City of Hamilton, Montreal ; John Bull, do. ; Vivid, do. ; George Carl, Boston ; Margaret, Laun ceston, Van Diemen's Land ; Stanhope, Melbourne ; Ellen Rawson, Cape of Good Hope ; Lady Hilda, Barbadoes. PORTSMOUTH, March 20.—Wind, N.. to N. Sailed —John Bertram, Boston. PLYMOUTH, March 20. Arrived—Sovereign, London, for California, crew refusing to proceed. Sailed—Albe marle, Port Philip ; Maria Emile, Singapore. LIVERPOOL, March 20.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived— Byron, Buenos Ayres • Esther and Sophia, Maracaebo ; Rappahannock, New drleans ; Saxon, Apalachicola ; Can ton, do. Sailed—Meame, Melbourne; Bloomer, do. ; Gifford, Shanghai ; Annie, Maranham ; Vernon, New York ; Niagara (s), Boston ; Catherine, Santa Martha ; Wm. Hitcock, New Orleans ; Silas Greenman, do. ; St. Petersburgh, Boston. The Clisny, hence to New Orleans, has put back, having been on shore. BELFAST, March 19.—The Willing Lass, the Clyde to Melbourne, struck on the Skull Rock, and is in a precari ous situation. LONDONDERRY, March 19.—The Admiral (a), for Liver pool, is on shore. DARTMOUTH, March 20.—Wind, N. Sailed—Ann In gate, Geelong. CLYDE, March 19.--Wind, E. Arrived—Albion, Mau ritius; aelhi, Callao. LERWICK, March 14.—Wind, S.S.E. Sailed—Dublin, Mary Ann Henderson, Pomena, Resolution, Kate, Me lenkeo, Alert, Intrepid, Agostina, Traveller, Perseverance, Hamilton Ross, Ranger, Alex. Harvey, Maclean, Com merce, Xanthus, Union, Eliza, Victor, Active, and North of Scotland, Superior, Columbia, Gem, Felix, Eclip se, Fairy, Enterprise, Queen, Swan, Mazenthien, Hobe, Ve nerable, Orion, Abram, Brilliant, Sarah and Elizabeth, St. George, Flamingo, and Germania—all for Greenland. GIBRALTER, March 12.—The Ben Muick Dhue, of Aber deen, from Pernambuco, has put in in great distress, and very leaky, having boon in contact at sea, and thrown the greater part of her cargo overboard. CUXUAVEN, March 18.—The River is full of ice. The Spray has been cut through by the ice, and is very leaky. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON; BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending March 19, 1853 £8,729 8 4 Corresponding week last year 8,079 16 10 Total of the half-year to this date, 1853. 100,681 16 1 Total of the half-year to this.date, 1852 92,957 1 11 SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAlLWAY. — Traffic return for the week ending March 13, 1853 £1,794 14 5 Corresponding week last year MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OE A GIRL.—On Saturday last Margaret Elliot, a young girl about 16 years of age, who resided with her parents, in Low Glencairn street, committed suicide under very mysterious cir cumstances. On Friday night she had been out with other girls, in company with several young men, and the party had separated about twelve o'clock. On Saturday she was in her usual spirits apparently, although it was evident her mind must in some way have been disturbed. On that day she purchased from an apothecary a penny worth of vitriol, and having gone into the garden at the back of her father's house, drank it between four and five o'clock in the afternoon. Having been observed lyiny in the garden, she was brought into the house in great agony, and surgical assistance immediately pro cured. The fatal potion, however, defied all remedy, and in three hours after she died. She gave no other reason for the step which she had taken than that she was tired of her life. The corpse was interred on Tues day.—Silmarnock Journal. SOLINAMBULISM AT NORTHALLERTON.—During the night of Wednesday, the 9th inst., a young man named Powle, a joiner and cabinet maker from Leeds, who was Bleeping at the Rose and Crown Inn, at Northallerton, arose up, in his sleep, and went out of the window of his bedroom, which is an attic, and fell to the ground. Though he was very much cut and injured by the fail, there are strong hopes of his recovery. Business this day. 50 25 !00 St. 10 20 10 20 30, St. 50 St. 12i St. St. 25 80i 80 'lo7i 90 801 001 !4 5 41 5i pm 10k 118 17/ 18/ 14/ 901 90 74 St 100 48 1 64 69 8i 12i 581 I 19 xd 14i lui 1127 61 26i 41a 32i 2 6 i tl 8# i 9 8 i pm LOO 18i 9i ail 05 xd LITERATURE. White, Red, Black. 3 vols. By Francis and Teresa Pulki. Frilbner. Under this fanciful title is presented to the Eng lish public a cluster of amusing and brilliant sketches of society in the United States—sketches, drawn with infinite vivacity, by two of the most distin guished of the refugee Hungarians. Under ordi nary circumstances a work of this description, fr om hands like those of Francis and Teresa Pulszki, could not possibly have proved otherwise than in the highest degree attractive. Considering, however, that the occasion which has elicited the present vo lumes is one no less memorable than the visit paid to the American Republic by Louis Kossuth, the guest of that Democracy, the production before us must necessarily be regarded by the English people as one fraught with a very peculiar fascination. Although so brief an interval has elapsed since the time of the voyage here recounted, it is really remarkable how effectually the industry of the companions of the Hungarian chieftain has overcome all the difficulties of a narrative necessarily diffuse and comprehensive. Numerous as have been the works already written upon the Republic of North America, we know none more eminently calculated to present a truthful and life like picture of the original to the mass of the British population. Already we have been rendered familiar with the condition of society in the States through the descriptions of Harriet Martineau, the humorous pencillings of Charles Dickens, the ani mated rhetoric of Silk Buckingham, and the shrewd comments of George Combe, through the satire of Mrs. Trollope, the science of Sir Charles Lyell, the perspicuity of Alexander Mackay, and the ever-watchful observation of M. de Tocqueville. Added to these, we have now the pleasant pages furnished to us by our travelling Hungarians. The merit of these passages can only be the more ap preciable on comparison with those of their prede cessors. Neither Francis nor Teresa Pulszki appear to have crossed the Atlantic accompanied by preju dices any more than by predilections. Their good opinion must, necessarily, to a considerable extent, have been propitiated by the fact of their illustrious compatriot having received the magnificent tribute of an invitation from Congress—a grand and na tional invitation to visit, as the guest of that people, the inhabitants of the North American Republic. Otherwise, our authors evidently set forth on their journey with their minds altogether un warped, and ready to accord to the novel and interesting scenes presented to them the benefit of a calm and altogether dispassionate judgment. Setting aside entirely any reluctance that might be excited by the apparent incongruity of a work of this particular character coming to us from the hands of a foreigner, Francis Pulszki observes, at the very outset of his preface, in a phrase quaintly but ingeniously apologetic, that various reasons therein specified have induced him, by publishing these volumes, " to carry an owl to Athens." The task of compiling the work from the loose papers brought back with them by our Magyar travellers on their return to England, seems to have been singularly facilitated by the circumstance of a regular diary having been kept by Teresa Pulszki throughout the whole of her transatlantic movements. What tends particu larly to enhance the value of the present narrative is the fact, that its materials are not, as is usual with the majority of such productions, composed for the most part of allusions to the domestic manners and personal peculiarities of the American population. As our authors themselves remind us, they were not shocked by such little incidents as the Ameri cans pouring the contents of their egg shells into glasses at breakfast ! Neither did they care much seemingly about the orthodoxy of eating lamb with mint sauce, rhubarb pie with Devonshire cream, and roast beef with Yorkshire pud din°. ! Their indifference in these particulars recalls to our recollection the introductory remark of Mr. Samuel Weller when " Boots" at the White Hart in the borough—" We shan't be bank rupts and we shan't make our fortunes ; we eats our biled mutton without capers, and don't care for horse-radish yen ye can get beef." Similar is the disregard evinced in reference to these minutiae in the sublime art of cookery by our light-hearted Hungarians. As to another peculiarity already frequently commented upon by previous travellers in the United States, Francis Puiszki candidly ac knowledges that " belonging to an eminently smoking people, the extensive use of the cigar did not hurt my feelings, though I thought that chew ing and its consequences were no improvements on the.use of the fragrant leaf !" Everything consi dered, Brother Jonathan could scarcely have been subjected to a more generous examination than that of our authors (as we may now rezard them), the Anglicised Hungarians. The charming sketches before us open with a descrip tion of the passage to America across the Atlantic. Prior to this description, however, we have an account of the departure from England of Kossuth and his companions. This account is immediately followed by some intelligent remarks upon the discovery of the New World before the age of Columbus—a discovery made, of course, as is now pretty generally known, by certain Norwegian adventurers. It may be observed, moreover, that the tedium of the voyage is lightened very agree ably by a narrative of the escape of Madam Kossuth, as told by herself, in the course of one or two familiar conversations. Incidentally, also, a deserved tribute of gratitude is paid by our writers to the Turkish hospitality displayed at the close of the Hungarian war of independence, towards their fugitive fellow-countrymen. Arrived at Staten Island, we have a brilliant description of the noble city of New York, of its motly society, of its enormous meetings, and of its composite architecture. Opinions are then expressed as to the position assumed in the United States by the chiefs of periodical literature. A chapter upon colonisa tion conveys to the mind of the reader, in regard to the North American Continent, a tolerably clear idea both of its physical and political configuration. Especial reference is, of course, made at a fitting opportunity to the state of parties in America, and to the nature of their respective principles. From New York we advance to Philadelphia, thence to Baltimore—on to Washington, to Annapolis, to Harrisburgh, across the Alleghanies to the iron city of Pitsburgh on again by Maryland and Pennsylvania to Ohio, where we are introduced to Cleveland, to Columbus, and to Cincinnati. Tra versing Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri, we find ourselves conveyed at last to the lower Mis sissippi. Returning northwards by Mobile, the Alabama River, and Montgomery, we pass Georg ia and the Carolinas, and so come at length to Nw Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachussets. Here, however, the journey by no means terminates—for, advancing to the city of Boston, we are carried forward to the wonderful Falls of Niauara ' and leaving these we are carried back to New York, through Buffalo, Troy, and Albany. Having thus completed the tour of the United States, we are invited to the consideration of an ingenious parallel of the American and English character. Several appendices to the three volumes comprise a variety of interesting documents. Among these, it must be especially remarked, will be found some valuable statistical papers on the local railways and telegraphs. Besides three remarkable letters from the MSS. of a New England Lady, a detailed account of the Northman in North America, and Chancellor Harper's vindication of slavery. It must be borne in remembrance that the title of the work here under review is not simply eccentric, but in an eminent degree significant and sugges tive. It implies that the races herein described are not simply those of the domineering white men, but those also of the Red Indian and African populations. White, and red, and black are, in fact, the motley colours observable amongst the inhabitants of the Great North American Continent. Apart from every other considera tion, these sketches of society in the United States must be regarded as of singular importance, seeing that they demonstrate, beyond the possibility of contradiction, that Louis Kossuth, the glorious guest of the American democracy, was re ceived by the vast mass of its citizens not with coolness, but with universal accla mations. Consequently, the Times and the Daily News were in every respect mistaken, in re presenting Kossuth's visit to the United States as a " failure," —doing so through the medium of anonymous correspondents. True, undoubtedly,that as the public is here reminded by thePulszkis, Kos suth would not avail himself of his popularity to ob tain a grant of land on the opposite shores of the Atlantic for himself and his countrymen, so that he might " live there in comfortable easee c th ou sas rse ters °f. Hun and , senti mentally remembering his country, money and an N d o_ pol s i t t l i c ca h l w c as apit: o l t of th th e making —if the refusal the glorious hero of Debreczin. No. Pursued. by of Kossuth to act thus can be as consti tuting the failure of his visit to America, as the failure, thank God it musAtnedverre but not otherwise, did he fail. regarding d ing then,tregardedh at as altogether unmistakeable. A failure forsooth ! Why, take the following as its proofs : it was surely a wonderful failure the passing of that unanimous vote in the Americancl. Congress, on the motion of Senator Foote, send, a steam - frigate to Asia Minor for the purpose of conveying • Kossuth t o the Sultan States so soon a s hi s Majesty the would consent to his departure ! It wonderful failure, the President of the ante's States exile's States only a few days before arrival at New York, taking his annual Message to comwe Kossuth 'to the attention of C negr w as surely a_ the occasion of nd the approach of o ea...observing that it was impossible for the people of America ip see with indifference the principles of freedom attacked and baffled. It was a wonderful failure that reception of Kossuth at New York, with triumphal honours—a wonderful failure his being greeted. by Congress at Washington, in a manner like that displayed towards Lafayette a wonderful failure his official introduction to the Senate and House of Representatives—his reception by the most eminent American Statesmen now living—his respectful treatment by the two great men since departed, Henry Clay, " the mill-boy of the slashes," and Daniel Webster, " the great ex pounder " ! As further illustrations of this same wonderful failure, take the resolutions inviting Kossuth to the capital of those States, passed by the Legislatures and Governors of Indiana, Maryland, Maine, New York, lowa, Rhode Island, Ohio, Vermont, Michigan, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Penn sylvania, and Massachusets—all of which, with the exception of Maryland and Teunessee, commended in the warmest terms the foreign policy suggested to the Union by its illustrious visitor. It would be difficult to enumerate the ad dresses presented to that great man during his stay in America by a series of important deputations. Everything throughout his progress indicated a triumph rather than a failure. Undoubtedly the old hunkers and the silvery greys were sufficiently frightened, but their alarm in no way tended to diminish the general enthusiasm. Such is the character of the extraordinary events here re counted by Francis and Teresa Pulszki, and of which these present delightful volumes form a noble and brilliant celebration. British Medical Directory for 1853. Published air the Lancet Office. This annual has been prepared with great care and elaboration, and contains a great deal of infor mation of thta most useful description. It is impos sible to over-estimate the value of such a work , whether as regards the medical profession or the public. By a reference to its pages can be found the name of every practising medical man in every city, town, or village in England, Scotland, or Wales, with the date of his diploma, the offices he holds, and other particulars of an interesting char acter. The information respecting the courses of study and the examinations and honours at the different colleges, universities, and hospitals is am ple, and, as far as we are able to judge, extremely correct. Among the other contents of the direc tory are lists of all the hospitals, dispensaries, lunatic asylums, and medical institutions, from John o'Groat's to Land's End. SPOBTING INTELLIGENCE. SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCCXCIII. By permission of the weather the Lincoln Spring Meeting will come off to-day and to-morrow ' • the New castle Spring Meeting on Wednesday and Thursday ; Chipping Norton Steeplechases to-morrow ; and Derby and Tadcaster Steeplechases on Wednesday. Such is the present outline of sport for the week. The freezing state of the atmosphere,' however, bids fair to curtail it of its fair proportions. LINCOLN SPRING MEETING.—On Saturday, in the city, they backed Snowdon Dunhill for the Trial Stakes, as if the race was a forgone conclusion. Chilton is the only animal in the entry that could beat him, but, I pre sume, he will be reserved for the Handicap to-morrow. Billy Richardson will be the second horse for the Trial Stakes. There is nothing that has any chance of suc cessfully contesting the Two-year-old Stakes with rope Joan and the Jewess but Monitress, whose starting is dubious.; the other two I have but little doubt will oc cupy the first and second places. The Steeplechase ought to be won by Bourton. Maria Day and Maurice Daley are not " in" badly at 9st 101 b and 9st 91b. The Spring Handicap will be contested, I suppose, by about half the acceptances ; and if HARP is not able to accomplish the feat of winning with only 6st 71b up, I must turn to CHILTON to pull me through. Odiham is not overdosed with weight at 6st 131 b, nor is that re markably slow coach Abdallah, who, though a six years old, has been favoured with the light weight of 6st 71b. Game Tommy at sst 121 b, is the only other animal that may find his way to the front ; but I cannot fancy with the small difference of 41bs that he can beat Chilton. The Hurdle race I do not profess to advise upon, but I cannot help remarking that Sir Robert at lOst 81b, Caurire at lOst 41b, and Theodine at Bst 21b, seems to me to be better "in" than the remaining twenty-one. ANALYSIS OF THE GREAT NORTHAMPTON SHIRE HANDICAP. Being within a fortnight of Northampton races,. I will at once proceed to analyse the principal stake of the meeting, more especially as it will be the centre of attraction to the betting world until its decision. The Great Northamptonshire Stakes was established in 1844,. when Vitellius, then 4 yrs old, with 7st up, was the winner. It is a curious fact that, with one excep tion (Poodle last year), a three years old has not been able to win over this course, which has so trying a finish as generally to stop the youngsters. It has been won on four occasions out of the nine by light-weighted 4 yrs old, and in four instances by 5 yrs old and upwards, who have carried 7st 91b and above. By this it will be seen the chances are great against a 3 yrs oil winning ; and it must be remembered that in the only victory of that class the winner, Poodle, had only the feather of 4st Sib to carry. The Stakes of 100 sovs. are the gift of the Northamp ton Grand Stand proprietors, added to a Handicap Sweepstake of 25 sows. each, 15 ft, &c., with penalties for winning certain stakes, which only affects one horse in the entry, Llanforda, who will have to carry 5 lbs extra for winning the Liverpool Spring Cup. The dis tance is exactly two miles. The large entry of 117 has been obtained to this stake ; seventy-three of whom declared forfeit, leaving forty four animals to contest the palm of superiority. Stebbing's lot consists of Kingston, at the top weight of Bst 131 b -; the Bishop, at 6st 111 b • and Charity, at sst 31b. I should hardly imagine they will pull out Kingston, but if they do, with Nat or Butler up and the horse in good condition, his chance is anything but for lorn ; quite as good, in my estimation, as Wolfdog's, when he won carrying pretty nearly the same weight, in 1847. The Bishop's running at Nottingham was too mediocre to give him a chance here. Charity would seem to be their horse for this race ; her pretensions, however, are but indifferent. Scott has a couple— Newminater and Hobby Horse ; the former stops at home, and the latter will not only represent its stable, but carry a considerable amount of aristocratic cash. His running last year was execrable ; he has improved considerably during the winter, and has done good work during the last week or two : at 4st. 131 b. he will, not improbably, repeat Poodle's performance. W. Day's horse, I believe, will be Postulant, who, at the same weight as Hobby Horse, must, I fancy, give way to him. Joe Miller, I understand, does not run ; and Lady Harriet is very doubtful. Alec. Taylor has the Confessor and , the Dandy ; the former at 7st. 121 b., and the other at sst. 31b. I think some mischief is meant from this stable, to be brought about very shortly ; whether we are to have it with these horses, at the present moment I am unable to say. Everybody knows what the Confessor can do, and the Dandy has much improved on his last year's form. Tom Dawson's lot is comprised in a couple—King of Trumps and Lindrick—the former, I believe, being the representative. I have but A very so-so opinion of either. Lord Eglinton's Lucio will not do this time. Dockeray's Muscovite and Cotton Lady I think very little of for this race, albeit the latter is treated very favourably in the disposition of weights and measures. C. Fisher can have no chance of producing the winner in Attack ; though if Nerva starts he decidedly has. Mr. T. Parr's stable will, of course, not trifle with their Chester Cup horse for this stake, but do what they can with Defiance, whose chance, notwithstanding the gameness of the horse at sst 131 b, cannot be the very best. . . . _____ -I shall conclude this analysis to-morrow, and at the same time attempt to indicate the winners of Monday's races at Lincoln. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. nab woma n, rker i ii carrying h i, a s P k ii e lm t, eGnEte.—reOcinteh the shop lastp of awleakw, would call ll the description.. said one she answerin g there must be this city, and inquired for a person repre sented had promised to meet her there s had some m e not mt s t a s ekeen,who m she The attendant basket bearer feigned -3--- surprise, thought The and would the shopman kindl y . again in a short time, basket till her return 1 There allow her to leave the any objection to so trifling could not, of course, be was very carefully deposited a request, and the basket Not long after the w in one corner of the shop. woman's the basket attracted s departure, some noise from by the screams att ent ion which was quickly fol loweda fine healthy of an infant ; and upon searching child was f ound posed, carefully packed , but, as without any reference or c lue to its . connexions The woman did n ot return t o look for her friend, and the infan t d tand wa s removed to the workhouse.—Exet e r we un ers , Flying Post. HEALT H. ni , -. ..: , -- T OWNS ON LICVATED SITES.—It is a somewnat singular fact that fever should be prevalent ham at the p resent t i me i n t h e T illages of Cherry Willing and Reighington both beautifully and airily situated on the summit of hills, whilst villages that lie at the base and on the sides of the hills are f ad Heighiree. Yet uch is the Willingham ngton the case, and both at disease has appeared in a malignant form. EGYPTIAN CATTON.—Mr. Boothman, secretary of the Manchester Chamber of C o mmerce, has received 20 the Pa of sma ll bags of cotton growl? on the estates of ach . pro sam ples exhibiting a ve im ry great vement Egypt as through the instrumentality of Mr. Ed already effected • l e hurst, a young ma n sent out b y the chamber ward wing request of the Pacha, in the cleaning and packing at t he o f Egyptian cotton. THE KOH-I-NOOK DIAMOND.—This diamond that looked in the Great Exhibition like a dingy chandelier drop, has now—after an expenditure of 2,000/. in bringing it to light—been finally set in an exquisite circle of small diamonds, and made the " Mountain of Light" on a most g raceful tiara of diamonds for the brow of Queen Victoria. To show a jewel of this character to numbers, and to due , invitation of advantage, is impossible ; but, by the kind Mr. Garra rd, oppo rtunity of the/Haymarket, we had the of examining and at.miring it before it was sent, on Fri day week, in its new setting, to Buckingham Palace. The -reserve old setting, as worn by Runjeet Singh, has bee n d w ith beautiful counterfeits of the stone s p ' as on the arm of the Lion of Lahore. Th e they were seen sur rendered to Great Britain on the same large rubies with their Persian inscriptions untouched, remain indeed, they will lo g • - ed, as we hope, lelnain,----Minicum. aGN. 63i i 5i 12i i 2 15 k 35 ti Yd xd xa xd