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

trb WlYttion, LINCOLN RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE TRIAL STAKES. Ring Dairid Chilton Five ran. THE FRENCH EMPIRE. We find the following in the Union on the in *erestiug and always popular subject of liberty : " What is the use of disputing about liberty ? Liberty --we speak of oivil -or political liberty—is something relative, 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, or in 1804, or in 1851, or, if one likes it better, in 1848, or, in fine, in 1851. Still more, has Yrance ever been free ? No, if her liberty be compared ' IP. that of all other States, from Greece to the United States. 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 ander the name of customs of their ancestors and then 39,000 or 40,000 citizens with 300,000 slaves. IS that the veritable and unchangeable type of liberty ! For a century, English liberty has been made the universal model of 411 constitutions to be established. hat is that liberty ? Could we support the most feeble amitation of it ? The Charter of 1814 was at most a Parody of it. English liberty is a classification of society with a landed aristocracy at the top armed with political privileges. Just attempt to propose something similar to that in France, broken up as it i s i n t o little morsels of land, t o that scattered democracy, ricketty but baughty, extenuated but sovereign. It would break everything to pie ces ra th er than subject itself to a pri 4ileged 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 that there are institutions in themselves 3nore in conformity with the natural right of defence or of protection in a political society ; but in that nothing is absolute. The institutions of the middle age were not without connection with that right of defence, but they were themselves of very different kinds. The communal constitution of France Was not the same as that in Italy, or in Flanders, or in Spain ; and yet it was everywhere the real basis of liberty. To 'speak only of France, it is an historical truth that her liberty followed infinite variations with= out any one being able to affirm that it ceased to exist. Theestablishments of St. Louis were establishments of liberty, and the ordonnances of Louis XIV., even in their despotic form, were a new modification of enfran chisement. To deny this would be to fall into the ignorance and silliness of liberalism ; parties, since 1825, have had time to learn a little history. Does it follow that the new times ought to bring back the old forms of liberty ? To all appearance no one has any such idea in his mind. It is sufficient to know that each period, in spite of constraints or resistances, produces its liberty with its most natural forms. And it is of no use 'abus ing the old liberty, for no one can say if the new will be better. Posterity alone has a right to decide the point. Let us then leave aside 'B9, and let us not be proud ! We would not certainly support what then remained of feudal right ; let us not boast to have supported the amount of revolutionary impost levied on us. Each society has its acts of servitude even in liberty, and the best established society is that which in submission is always the most certain of its dignity." Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, English Ambas sador at Constantinople, who has been passing some days at Paris, has left for Vienna, on his way to his post. From Vienna he will proceed to Trieste, - where a steam-frigate is waiting to receive nun- M. de Bourquency, and M. Delacour, French Ambassadors at Vienna and Constantinople, have Also left for their respective destinations. The Moniteur contains the official promulgation of the treaty of commerce and navigation concluded between France and Tuscany, and which will come into operation on the 10th of April next. A commission has just been appointed to exa mine whether the special exercises of the Chasseurs of Vincennes cannot be applied to the French in fantry in general. The Senate met yesterday for the reception of the senators nominated by the decrees of the 9th of February and s the 4th and Bth of March. They took the-oath s , 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 Ifr. per 100 kilos. by foreign ves sels. Liquorice root, imported by French vessels, is also exempt from duty, and charged 2fr. per 100 kilos. by foreign vessels or by land. The cold on Saturday was severe. The thermo meter of M. Chevalier s tood, at six o'clock in the morning, at 4 deg. 9-10ths cen tigrade ( 23± Fahren heit), and at noon at 1 deg . 4-10ths centigrade (29* Pahrenheit) below the freezing point. Yesterday the Emperor gage p rivate audiences to Monseigneur Garribaldi, the Pope's Nuncio, a_and to M. de Hubner, the Austr ian Minister, w f h t e h n e they p resen t e d the answers to the notification o Znaperor's marriage. The Debats declares that the English fleet was sent for by Colonel Rose spontaneously, an d not at th e 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 th e Pope to wherecom mence his journey to France early in Ma y , he intends remaining for about two months. The Emperor has ordered an opera to be pre- Pared in honour of his approaching coronation, to b e called The Coronation of Charles the Seventh. The conflicting reports which have agitated the Bourse for the last few days, have not tended to raise the drooping prices of our late quotations. The Three per Cents. have experienced a decline of 50c. for cash, and 95c, for the account ; the Pour-and-a-Half per Cents. (cash), sc. lower, and 60c. ditto for the account. . The depreciation of Bank Stock amounts to 25f. The following are the latest quotations :—Three per Cents. (cash), 79f. 50c. ; ditto, for the account, 79f. 40c. • Four-an a Half per Cents. (cash), 103 f. 25c. ; ditto, for th e account, 103 f. ; Bank Stock, 2,700. At the Casino yesterday the French Three per Cents: were at first constantly offered, and declined to 76f. 70c.. Afterwards, some purchases having been made, a reaction took place, and the last price waS 77f. 80c. SPAIN. , M. Llorente, the Spanish Minister of Finance, has just concluded a loan of more than 500 millions of reals (more than 125 millions of francs) with the house 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 10, 12, and even 15 per cent. per annum. This loan has been effected at 7 per cent. M. Sala puma, who seconded M. Llorente in this negotia tion, has just left London on his return to Madrid, via Paris. The affair will be immediately sub- Enitted to the approbation of the Cortes. A good deal of rain had fallen in Madrid. The following are the prices of stocks :—Three per Cents. 48 9 48a ; ditto Deferred, 241; Redeemable Debt, fi rs t . class, 11; ditto, second ditto, 5 ; Cou pon Certificates, 6. Exchange on London, 51. ITALY. A. letter from Florence, of the 13th, in the Parlarnento, of Turin, states that the public prose cutor has called upon the Court to declare Guer- Petracchi, Romanelli, Pantanelli, and Ca- Poechi guilty of high treason. The si ttin g s of the Court haxe been resumed. The judicial authori ties have since passed sentence of perpetual impri sonment upon Guerazzi. In its sitting of the 15th the Senate of Turin Passed the Submarine Spezia and Cagliari Electric Telegraph Bill. The Giornale di Roma publishes the Latin ora tion held by the Pope in the consistory of the 7th, In which, among other matters , his Holiness des cants on the pastoral virtues of the Archbishop of Tours, adding that he has been induced to promote tiara to the dignity of Cardinal, as well on account of his virtues, ,as also because His Holiness was sure to give great satisfaction thereby to " his ;:ell-beloved son in Christ, Napoleon, Emperor of the French (Charissimo in Christo filio nostro Na- Poieeni, Francum Imperatori)," since he himself had warmly advocated (vehementer petierit) that nomination. _ _ The deputation from the Lombard provinces, Which is to proceed to Vienna to congratulate the '4 l3 lperor upon his providential escape, is composed of the Archbishop of Milan, the Bishops of Pavia kid Como,- &c. A proclamation, by General Count Hoyos, com mandant of Ancona, prohibits every assemblage of. _more„ than five persons, under whatever pretence, alter sunset is announced by the evening gun. 1 ' 114 ;041 Marchetti, 21 years of age, has been shot, THE .SUN, LONDON, having been found guilty of carrying a revolving pistol. _ _ - The hiding-place of Signor ' Mancini 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 Haynau affair in England, against English travellers in Austria. The Austrian Ambassador has addressed to the President of the Confederation, a writ ten 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 1 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, hare 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 was cut down himself on the famous 13th 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 successful 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. hostages and prisoners ta ken by the Turks were to be given up ; and, on the other hand, the guns seized by the Montenegrins at Godine and Zablak 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 :—" 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 ; Prussia, 79,000 ; Bavaria, 35,000 ; Wurtemburg and 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 30,000 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 Nesselrode as secretary, by two generals, one of them General Nipocatscinski, commander-in-chief of the sth corps d'armee, by two admirals, one of them Vice- Admiral Corn 1011, commanding the naval forces in the Black Sea, by two colonels and two lieutenant colonels as aides-chi-camp, and five captains as orderly officers. Since the celebrated embassy 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 escorted by them with great pomp to his hotel. On the 2d March, the Prince went to the Porte to pay a visit to the Grand. Vizier ; but, contrary to all usages, he did not ap pear in the uniform of his grade, but in plain clothes. What took place in the interview is not precisely known ; but what is certain is, that when on taking his leave the Grand Vizier invited him, in conformity with the diplomatic usage at Constantinople, to pay a visit to the Minister of Foreign 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 Effendi gave 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 ministers. 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 henceforth be officially recognised as the protector of the G ree kC f r r is s t e i m an e s, e s e u n b t j u e ri ct e s s of Turkey, as the Catholics in the L France has been Levant ;and that the election c of the Patriarc h of Constantinople en shoul e d d hence forth be be made by t he Greeks, andwEmperorho atpresent nomination t h e a Sultan, nd Russia, to the therih Effendi was replaced (as alr investiture. The day after t ea hi d 's y m . a t nn er e vi un ew eed F ) u b ad y _ Rifaat Pacha, who had been nommatedeafmthe bassador at Vienna, and who is consid ered one chiefs of what is called the Austrian P AY at Consta..nti nople. Th e m i n i s t er s held a council the same day, and put the mse l ves i n communication with the foreign diplomatic body. On the 4th March, either on the' solicitation of the Divan, or spontaneo usl y , the English charg e d' a ff a i res , Colonel Rose, accord ing to another Vett er f rom C ons t a ntinople, propose d 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 danelles with his fleet. The proposition was, it is said, at first accepted ; but on the 6th it seemed to be set aside. On the Bth; however the English vessel the Wasp was sent o ff to Malta with a letter from Colonel Rose for Ad m i ra l D un d as, an d w ith fl b e e et fo e r f w An ard mirai ed to D L un on d d as on eo v nts Mar seilles.of six dispatches The h t e o six men-of-war and a dozen frigates and smaller vessels; but if circumstances should require,it c an easily be doubled. _ T A h l e et a t v f a r l om of C t o h ns e t ß an u t s i si n a o n ple sr o e f ci t a h l e sth bas sa sa y s do : 7, Prince Mentschikoff, has excited ea a t m sen tion here, and he is said to be the bearer of ultima tum'fromom the Emperor of Russia, which will admit of no modification. He is accompanied by the General-in-Chief of the Russian army in Bessarabia, a and the admiral commanding the Russian fleet t Sebastopol, who are placed under his orders, and will, in the event of the Porte refusing to comply with the demands of Russia, return to their posts and commence operations. 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 Boiphorus." The Patric of Paris, says :— cc report was spread to-day at the Bourse that the English fleet was at the mouth of the Dardanelles. This news is false. We think we can affirm that if the Eng lish 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 French 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 two 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 Glavany, 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. St. St. St.. St. The Moniteur of yesterday confirms the report that the French fleet is about to sail for the Levant. It is said the instructions given to the admiral are that he is to cruize 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 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 acknowledged 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 Greei 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 terms 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 the amour prOpre of France. If Turkey appealed to the protection of England alone, and demanded the presence of her fleet, why should France send her fleet without any such solicitation ? This question being rather an awkward one, the French Minis terial journals find no better means of getting over the difficulty than by saying that both fleets are sent without any solicitation on the part of the Turk. The following article from the Pays of yes terday, though written with great care, is entirely in that sense : St. St. St. 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 Turkish Ministry would in a measure have placed itself under the protection of British diplomacy, and that protection would not have been refused to it. Certain persons find threatening eventualities 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 might be perhaps reason to fear violent enterprises, which might in a moment compromise the balance of power in Europe. But such is not the case. Turkey is, besides, more vig•rously organised than is generally stated, and the new effort which she has just made to reconstitute a rev 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 i n n British intervention is a powerful 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 th a t a ll th e dif- ficulties will be solved. - Besides, it is not yet clear to any one what is the real character of the difficulpies, 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, Lefore his departure from Odessa-all announce that Russia attaches great importance to the success of this mission. We repeat that we are ignorant of tho character of the instructions of the Russian p).eni 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 Oa bitants of Bosnia, Montenegro, and the Herzegollne. Russia will not remain in.the background. She hppes 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 ofl the chart of the balance of power in Europe in the midst of perils and commotions ; and not more than the other great states is she disposed to stake the peace of the world and the future state of society in this terrible game. The policy of Russia in this respect is well knrin. That vague hopes in the future may excite her ambi ion, and point out Constantinople as the definitive object of her dreams, may be conceived ; but it would be madness to suppose that she can think that the moment is now arrived to attempt such a decisive blow. The queEition of the East will be once wore settled by the habitual 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 territory, r y t tmhuesitt dteagvnitytoanvdioloaetoetvaaliptayrtofowf h t i h e e h a Ottoman p Who will . have the courage to attempt o Europan Peace' Is it, that Russia is on the poilit of of those skilful financiers who so Not a statesman, nor one f h htl example o a t oug ess panic, eau taking Constantinople? Is England about to invade Egypt! imprudently set an such an aggress Let us th_en reduce this agitating question to its real proportions. can believe nonv s übcehe confined fi t h n demands ofa secondary nature; they The pretensions of Russia dismemberment and the partitioh of cannot imply the h is said to have sought es, and, if we may believe the andsupport in the negotiations a sought from England a counterpoise Turkey. They have, however, agitated the Ottoman Divan, 1 D e d g t . negotiations which are about to be diplomacy, with its habitual prudence, is opened t E o ng h l a is v h e thought that the proximity of the,British fleet would r et eo e . h give more weight to its interventimeweSen facts, looked at coolly and truly. B p sion of Rusai a an d the protection of England, what ought to be the conduct of France ? That is wh at we shall r i uc t il he a et have to judge of. At the present time, however, there is nothing more than a diplomatic difficulty, which will be settled by these pacific means which modern Govern ments have for the last thirty years put in practice when ever a cloud has made its appearance on the horizon of European diplomacy." A CHILD ATTACKED BY A GAME COCK. —OH 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 bleedin g profusely .from the nose and mouth, and, 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.—Doncaster Chronicle. , 26i 13} 20 20 50 20 20 50 20 10 I 6 124 12 ! 12. St. St. 20' 2 1061 20 20 33A 10 20 25 25 St. 50 - MONDAY ETENING,' MARCH 21, 1853. THE .S.ll ARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices Saturday. Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bosi & E&stn. Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lartsh. & Cheshire Junet Do. Chesh. & £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock and Passage.. Dublin&Belfast June Dundee Pe7th&Aber deem Junction , Do. New 8 -- 'East Anglian (X 25 L. and &L: &D, Do. Do. (181. E.& H. Eastern Counties..., F.astern Union, Class 1. (late E. U. Rh.) Do., do Do., B. and C East Lancashire East k West Ind. Dk & Binning. June :Edinburgh & Glasgow l Edin. and Peebl_es.... Edin. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk.. Do., A. Stock ...... Do., B. Stock Great Southern and WeStern (Ireland) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash.& Yorkshire Do., Fifths • Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv. Crsby. &Southpt. London & Blackwall Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond. Brigt. & S. Cst. London & N. Western Do., Fifths. Do. ,£lO Sh.M.&B. C London 4 S. Western Do., £5O Do., £4O Londerry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch. Shef. &Lircln Do. , Man. & Lin. Un iMidland Do. Binning. & Derby Midland G. West. (Ir.) Do. Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket Do. Bury Extension. Newp. Aberg.&Hftd Newry k Enniskillen Newry, Warreimint,l and Restreyor Norfolk Do., New Northn.Counties Un 'North British North Devon, No. 1. Do No. 2 Do., 4 A Deferred ... Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire.. North Western...... .. N: & S. Westrr. Orford, Wo-ces:,er, & -44 ci 8 - 8i 3 4p Wolverhampton Scottish Central Svo;,',ish Midland.... 474 - 48; 100 - 102 63 - 65 64 - 66 S'arewlbury & Birmg. Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock. Shrewsby.& Hereford Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) ... Do. Halves do ......... 70 - 75 ... - a 18 20 9 10 14 15 3/'— 3 d 21 22 77 77/ 36 37 12/ 13/ 4 4i _ Do Do. Oswe3tly Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Torksh.River Dun IDo. Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath • Waterfd. & Kilkenny Watefford& Limerick West Cornwall 15 21 - 15 9 - 9 29 - 31 gi - 9i i.d- ip Wimbledon&Croydn. Woodford York Newetl.&l3erw. Do. Extensions....... Do. G. N. E. Purchase York & N. Midland... 68i 7i —7 l d 2a -- 2ad: 58 -- 59 29 - 30 - 63, 9 - 104 7i —6idad 21 —22 d 3i --Wad 101 105 63 -- 64 21 223 18 19 pad 5 - 5i 3i - 4 12' -13 10 - 11 71 i —72ixd l 55 57xd 74 76xcli 32 35 61 63 80 81 45 47 123. —l24xd 074-1084zd 1 90 'ooi 9 2 94xd 13 13ip 75 5 4.1 d - d lot --- 164 d 8 clixd 10i1 - --: 164 118 118 2i —3p id 1 I 1 —lipid 89 aoi 5 - - 40 4 3d 11 -- 12} 19 21 29 -- SO 3 ,4 .-- Id, 43 45 1 52 3i 311 3 - 3 id g 9 10 52 54 7 81 2 2/3 d 35 36 PREFERENCE SHARES. Aberdeen ...... Do., No. 2, 7 p. e Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 53 per cent. Cork&Bandou 53 P.C. Dundee, Perth, ,and Aberdeen Junction E. Ang. (705.) 6 p. o. Do. (5), 7 per cent. Do. (X 7 17s), r. pet. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., oN. 2 _ _ _ Do.; New 6 p... St. Eastern Union Scrip Guar. 6 per cent... East Lancash. 6 p. cts. Edinb. Prth. & Dund. Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent... Great Northn. 5 p. o. Do. 5 p. 4., Redeem. at 10 p. e. prem.., Gt.S outhn. & Westn. (Ireland) rights Gt. Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. e.) Great Western, fixed 4i per cent Lan. k York. F. £2O Do., 6 p. e., Stock London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. s Do. Pref. 6 p. c., St Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 Do. New Guar. 6 p. e.l London &S. Wes tem,l Con. Thirds Londonderry & Color •A Shares Londndry. & Ennisk A Shares • ....... • • IYfanch., Shef. ,& Lin., Shares, No. 1...: Do., New, £lO . Do., £6 . Marypt. dr Carl. 4 p. Do. 4i per cent Do Mid. Consol. 8 p. o. St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. ft per cent.... Do. Pref. 41 percent. Norfolk Extension... Do. Guar. 5i per et. Do. Wavoney Valley 5 per cent....... .... North British ..... North Staffordshire.. Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. Do. 'Shrewsbury & BirmH New Guaranteed Shrewsby. & Chester Nor. W. (Min), 3 p. c. Do. 5 por cent. South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) • f £1 Os. 6d. S. Yorksh . 4p. e. Guar. Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.e. York, Newcastle, and 'Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref Do Tbrk & N. Midland, , H. & S. Purchase... FOR: Antwrp. &Rotterdam Belgian Eastn, Junct. Charleroi & Erquelin Dijon and Besang on Dutch Rhenish East Indian • DO. Extension .. Gt. Indian l'eninsul Gd. Junct. of France Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares Lucca *and lnstoja, • per cent. pref Luxembourg Do. (Railway) Do. Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. cent. pref Lyons 6: Medterran, Madras Iffaria Antonia Do. Now Namur & Liege (wil interest Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 20/. 3 p. .. Bds (fmy. B. StAms. Shs. Norwegian Trak. Prei Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and- Strasbourg Paris Caen &Cherbrg. ruebee & Richmond Rouen and Havre : Sambre and Meuse ' Do. 51 per cent. pref. southern of France Upp eandia Scrip_ Wait Flanders Do. sA,per c. Pref... I Western of France... Otrost. of Switzerland ow Z0a10ad....... oft .:• -- 1106 - 108 fib:6 -- los 18i -- 19. id par gl3- -- - 4 lip - p 14t -- 15 18i -- 19 81 31 xd 126 128 1109 - 111 N 6g.— 14 LO5 )07 id bad .50 —152 50 si RI) 10 ni 13 -13 A 8 - 9 10.1 111 I —ip id 148 - 149 4 - 224 - 23 ip 1i - 21 109 - 111 25 - 26 1 -- Ihp 11 -- 114, 17i -18 i -- l 15 -- 1 6 p par -- 3 p -26 i 20 - 21 Id- par .01 - 103 i, - 51 par i pl id -- 1 13 14 2i S 2 61 p 1 11 p 2 p it P 7 —7lxin 4. 41 11 —1 xi, 1i —2 xin P 9 —ll 2 2i p 71 6 - 7 341 -35 k 14 - 15 4o t —41 i 32 - 32} 3i - 4 p • 19 -20 p 8• - 9 p d —,pa r 9 -- 9ip jd par Ot d 19 ad pm pat 14f 15 18f I xd 127 61 7 Business done this day. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. 'Paid. RAILWAYS. Leasing Compans, Closhig Prices this day. Dulness this day Bedford and Bletchley. .1 Birm. & Oxfa. guarantee.... Do. withoutgr Birm. Wolv. dt Dudley guar. Do. wtht guar. Buckghamah. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. per cent. Glstrok Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. ; Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Mauch. Bxtn and Matlock Middlesbra' Redcar Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Eastern sp. C. Do. 6 per ct. Do. Fixeds p c Prest. & Wyre o. y s i n slla H re i s t . Ro . Do.Shepth.St Simi. Roth.and Goole g. 5 p. c. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do Wilta&Somrst London & N. West. IGt.Westn Po Do Do L. &N. W. Caledon Gt.Nrthn. Gt. Weetn Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &NICI Do S. Eastern Do Norfolk Do L.& N. W. & Midid. Stckton & Darlingt. Midland.. E. Coint Do Do L. & N.W &Ln&Yk Do GtNorthn Do Lancash& Yorksh. IlLMClean Stockt. & Darlingt.l Do ' .1 IGtWestn. 30 - 31 29i -30 i 30 -31 29 -30 104 -106 52i -53 k 151 - 153 32i -33 i 111 -- 113 65. -- 56: 27 -- 28: 13i -- 14 25i -- 26 19 -19 i 25 - 27 2 —3Lxd, 105 --106xd 64 - 66 xd 1149 —lslxd 148 —lsoul i 32] - 33 103 - 104 'lOO 14 100 100 100 100 100 100 GN. 63 1 21, 464 a d 12 i f 13 72 li i d xd 73 xd 33i 80i 80 1241 1071 90 89 90i 924 d 12 pm • 7450 ;4 k • 118 171 18117 i 14i xfl 901 89! 29i / 74 31 4/ 43 521 4 MINES. 1 all Agua Fria 106 all Anglo Californian._ p 10 2 Australasian d— 1 p 21 11 20 6 Australian 1 all Australian Cordillera par— 1 p 1 all Australian Freehold, par— / p 1 1 all Ave Maria 1 all Baden(Gd. Duchy of) par p 1 all British Austen. Gold 4 pll 20 13.5 British Iron " 7 9 35 244 Brazilian Imp. (issued at £5 pm.) 4i 51 58 30 all Do. Cocaes k Cuiaba 3i - 4 43/ 41 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 29 —3O 291 1 4 Carson's Creek Par P 43 40 a Cobra Copper 47 47 48 9 6 1 Colonial Gold 2l ——2 l p 31 1 _.. 14 Copiapo 5l 61 St. all CopperMinersof Eng 73 78 25 all Do. Preference 74 —B4 p 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co ll 4 d 4 20 all General l7 —l9 2 , all Great Nugget Vein 2 41 —2f p 44 3 all Great Polgooth 1 11 p 1 all Lake Bathurst 1 is— par 1 all LibertY — I P I, all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co i d 1 all Mariquita > d par 10 9 Mexican &S. Americ 8 81 8 1• all New Granada — p 1 1 all Nouveau Mondo l ll —1 p 2 5 1 Port Philip... A —p 1 1 all Quartz Rock id p 1 1 50 all Rhymney Iron 24 —26 15 Do. New 7 8 30 101 Santiago do Cüba '1 all South Australian 1 pll 10 7 Tin Croft ll —l3 281 all United Mexican ao 7 6 1 all Waller — p 1 1 all West Granada — P 1 1 all West Mariposa 4d i r —• p 1 1 all Yuba par p 11 1 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 921 - 931 92 3 50 all British N. American 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 14 —24 p 4 100 25 Colonial . — 100 20 Commercial of Lon , don , English Scottish and ••• Australian 2i — 24 p 1 1 20 74 Lond. Chart. , Bk. o f Australia 4l 5 p 17 3 60 20 London and County 50 10 London Joint Stock 100 20 Lond. & Westminster 35 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 60 22 j National of Ireland — •.. 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 564 574 1 564 74 25 5 Do. New — 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all Do. New 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & GOld Imp, Co, 4p 25 25 South Australia ... 25 all : Union of Australia 76 77 2h Do. New, B4 9 50 10 Union of London — 173 40', all Union of Madrid — • MISCELLANEOUS. 100 35 Australian Agricult 1 101 104 102 5 2 20 6 Austrlasn.Pcific.Mail i 10 Australn. Royal Mail! 38A Brit. Americn. Land - ... 62 60 100 -12 i Canada — & & Crystal Palacs — 61 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 Netherlands Land 1 20 Li Nrtb. of Europe Steam 50 all Peninsular &Oriental 50 25 Do. Do. 100 60 Royal Mail Steam. ,. 25 25 South Austral. Land 51 53 53 50 3 1 1 1 Submar. Telegraph — 5 2 Universal Emigration 10 and Colonisation......- 100 28i Tan Diemen's Land 23i 24& 23i 4 iii : 24 23 4 LLOTD'S SHIPPING(THIS DA Y.) 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, d 0..; 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 refuoing to qproceed. 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 Orleans; Saxon, Apalachicola; Can ton, do. Sailed--Meanie, Melbourne ; Bloomer, do. ; Gifford, Shanghai ; Annie, Maranham ; Vernon, New York ' • Niagara (s), Boston ; C a th e rine, Santa Martha ; Wm. 11itcock, New Orleans ; Silas Greenman, do. ; St. Petersbiugh, Boston. The Climy, 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. I,OI6ONDERRY, March 19.—The Admiral (s), 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. _ LEiwicx, March 14.—Wind, S.S.E. Sailed—Dublin, Mary 'Ann Henderson, Pomona, 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, Eclipse, Fairy, Enterprise, Queen, Swanlazenthien, Hebe, Ve nerable, Orion, Abram, Brilliant, Sarah and Elisabeth, St. George, Flamingo, and Germania—all for Greenland. GIBRALTER, March 12.—The Ben Muhl Dime, of Aber deen, from Pernambuco, has put in in great distress, and very leaky, having been in contact at sea, and thrown the greater part of her cargo overboard. CUXHAVEN, March 18.—Tha River is full of ice. The Spray has been cut through by the ice, and is very leaky. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON, 'BRIGHTON, AND 13017TH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending March 19, 1853.6., • . £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 RAILWAY.—TraIbo return for the week ending March 13, 1853 Corresponding week last year MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OP 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. SOMNAMBULISM AT NORTHALLEBTON.—During the night of Wednesday, the 9th inst., a young man named Powle, a joiner and cabinet maker from Leeds, who was sleeping at the Rose and Crown Inn, at Northall er t on, arose 'up in his sleep, a n d wen t out f the window of his bed-room, which is an attic, and fell to the ground. Though he was very much cut and injured by the fall, them are strong hopes of his recovery, 36.6 134 a 48i I ; 100i 64 3 3i 21 77i 7 2 15 i 69 3 / 4 8 3 / 4 121 8 r 58 I i 149 8i 1101 9s] 4R x i n x is _ x in 7 i 35 5i 4 5 26/ 414 321 a 9 8 19 2i 3 x d 1054 a d LITEBATUBB. - • White, Red, Black. 3 vols. By Francis and Teresa Pulszki. Friibner. 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 from hands like those of Francis and Teresa Pulszki, could not possibly have proved otherwise thaa 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 o f G eorge Combo, 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 Tocqueirille. 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 pepple, 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 reluct f ance that might be excited by the apparent incong,tuity 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 oil 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 poptilation. 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 i 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 ding ! 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 ven ve 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 Pulszki candidli ac knowledges that " belonging to an eminently smoking people, the extensive use of the cigar did not hurt my feelings, though I thought that clew ing and its consequences were no improvements on the use of the fragrant leaf 1" Everything consi ' dered, Brother Jonathan could scarcely have been subjected to a more generous examination than that of our authors (as we may now regard 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 ago 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 fittin g opportunity to the tate 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 All eg hanies 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 n or th war d s b y Mobile, the Alabama River, and Montgomery, we pass Georgia and the Carolinas, and so come at length to New 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 Niagara, and leaving these we a re carr i e d b ac k t o N ew 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 Northmen 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 shores of the anonymous correspondents. True, undoubtedly, that re3PrinuiszenkissOß as the public is here reminded by th comfortable ease, senti suth would not avail himself of his popularity t Kos suth a grant of land on the opposit e - ° therean in d his ee Atlantiche might fo , , r li hi ve naelf ) that' mentally remembering his country money and political capital of the di' and making sasters of gary 1" No—such was not the co Run the glorious hero of Debreezin. N urse pursued by o 1 Kossuth to act thus can be o---if the refusal tuting the failure of his vis't if as consti but not otherwise, did he fail.l to , America, then, as the failure, thank God it And reg ar di ng th a t as altogether unmistakeable• A failure forsooth ! a wonderf u l f a il ure th g as its proofs : it w as surely vote in the American Congress, of that unanimouos_ Senator Foote, during ongress'on the f mloBtsilo,n to send a steam-frigat to the sessi on in o or for' the Purpose of -- • e As ia the United conveying Kossuth to States so Boon as his Majesty the Sultan would consent to his departure ! It was sur el y a wonderful States failure, the Pres id e nt of the United ue only a "f ew d a ys before the exile's arrival at N e w York, taking the occasion of his annual Message to commend the approach of Kossuth to the attention of Congress-.-observing that it was impossible for the people of Ameiica to see with indifference the principles of freed.om 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 liv ing —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 " 1 As further illustrations of thissame 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 Tennessee, 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 geneial enthusiasm. Such is the character of the extraordinary events here re counted by Francis and Ter esa Pulptzki, and of which these present delightful volumes form a noble and brilliant celebration. British, Medical Directory for 1853. Published at the Lancet Office. This annual has been prepared with great care mid elaboration, and contains a great deal of infor mation of the 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 ablit 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. SPORTING 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 contestingsthe Two-year-old Stakes with Pope 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 acceptandes ; and if HARP is not able to accomplish the feat of winning with only Est 71b up, I must turn to CHILTON to pull me through. Odiham 18 not overdosed with weight at Est 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 Ido 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 old winning ; and it must be remembered that in the, only victory of that class the winner, Poodle, had only the feather of 4st 51b to carry. The Stakes of 100 sovs. are the gift of the Northamp ton Grand Stand proprietors, added to a Handicap Sweepstake of 25 soya. 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 1311 i; the Bishop, at 6st 1111, • 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— Newminster 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. Kis 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. 3113. 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 fau Monday's t da the y,il their Chester Cup horse for this stake, but d o w h a t th ey can with Defiance, whose chance, not w ith s t an di ng the gameness of the horse at sst 131 b, cannot be the very best. analysis to-morrow, r 4) winners w o ' same e shz tra ll coenclude attempt to indicate indicate th e races at Lincoln. THE SPIRIT OF THE T ' A. NOVEL PLEDGE.—One day last week, a woman. carrying a basket, entered the shop of a pawnbroker in this city, and inquired fora person whom she repre sented had promised to meet her there. , The attendant had not seen any one answering the description. The basket bearer feigned surprise, sasidosphine a w n could ou k l i d nd c l a 3 l r l al a lo gain w her to leave in a short time the , thought th ere mus t b e s a o n m d e ta would th e e h basket till he r re t urn 1 There not. of course, be any objectio n t o so trifling a req ues t, an d th e basket the basket was very car e f u ll y deposited in one corner of the shop. Not long after the woman ' s departure, som e noise from attracted attention, lowed by the screams o f an infant • and upon searching a fine health y child was found care fully packed, b u t, as may be supposed, without any reference or clue to its connexions. Th e woman did not return to look for her friend, and the w orkhouse.—Exeter Flying Post. SrrEs.—lt is a 'HEALTH or TOWNS 01.1 ELEY :hould be prevalent at somewhat singular fact that fever Cherry willingham the present time in the villages beautifully of and airily situated on the infant, we understand, was removed to and Heighington, both hills are free. Yet such is the and on the sides of the h an d Heighington the the summit of hills, case, and both at W. malignant form. disease has appeared in a mr Boothman, secretary of w hilst vi11w..._..,eS that lie at the base EGYPTIAN C°TT°N.— • has received 20 Chamber of Commerce, on the estates of the Pacha of of cotton gro wn small bags biting a very great improvement Egypt " samples e h the instrumentality of Mr. Ed wardalready e ffected t hroug h man sent out by the chamber Swinglehurst, a y oungh . the cleaning and packing t of the Pac a, in at the request o f Egyptian cotton. DIAMOND. — Thi s dia mond that THE KOH-I- MOOR . . .. the Manchester now—after an expenditure of 2,000/. in bringing drop, has y set in an exquisite circle of small it to light—been finally looked in the Great Exhibition like a dingy chandelier graceful tiara of diamonds for the brow of Queen Victoria. diamonds, and made the " Mountain of Light" on a most To show a jewel of this character to nu m b ers , an d to due advantage, is impossible ; but, by the kind inv it a ti on of Mr. Garra rd, of the,Haymarket, we had the opportunity of examining and aumiring it before it was sent, on Fri day week, in its new setting, to Buckingham Palace. The old setting, as worn by Runjeet Singh, has been preserved, with beautiful counterfeits of the stones as they were seen on the arm of the Lion of Lahore. The large rubies sur rendered to Great Britain on the same occasion remain with 'their Persian inscriptions untouched, as we hope s indeed, they 7 . 4 long zeraain,--dialnceunt. all all 100 4 1 100 100 100 all 10(1 176 all 10 100 100 100 100 100 all all all 100 all liusi 100 20 11 3 / 4 ,100 all all 100 100 all all 7 15i 110 i 1511 1261 114 100 100 18 8 all x (I x (1 x (1 ad