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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Backstone. THIS EVENING, JULY 5, Will be performed THE HUNCHBACK. Characters by Messrs. B. Sullivan, Howe, W. Farren, Coal, and Compton; Miss Katherine Befl, and Miss Reynolds. To be followed by MR. BUCKSTONE'S ASCENT OF MOUNT JUAN ASS US. To be followed by BAPPINGS AND TABLE MOVINGS. Atter which, THE BOARDING SCHOOL BALL. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, JOLT 5, Wilt be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup ported by Mr. and Mrs. W. Limy. Atter which, will be presented Lord Byron's Tragedy of SAR DANAPALUS. Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Characters by Messrs. Harley, J. Vining, Chester, and Everett ; Mrs. W. Lacy, Misses Daly and C. Leclercq. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Kr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, JOLT 5, Will be performed GENEVIEVE. Characters by Messrs. Ben. Webster, A. Wigan, Leigh Murray, Keeley, Parselle, Paul Bedford, 0. Smith, and C. J. Smith; Madame Celeste and Mrs. Keeley. After which (fifth time), THE CAMP AT CHOBIIAM. ♦fter which, NORMA. To conclude with THE DANCING SCOTCHMAN. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. Great success of the New Drama. THIS EVENING, JULY 5, Will be performed LOVE AND AVARICE. Characters by Messrs. H. Farren, H. Marston, G. Cooke, and Shalders ; Mudames Ander ton and Bartlett. After which, an entirely New Burlesque, by Francis Talfourd, Esq., entitled SHYLOCK, or, THE MERCHANT OF " VENICE PRESERVED." Shylock, Mr. F. Robson; Portia, Miss Fielding (In consequence of the indisposition of Mrs. A. Phillips.) To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bans, Mr. F. Robson. ASTLEY'S IOYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W C°°ke• Nightly Equestrian Galas. —Extraordinary Feats of Equitation.— BaaTICULAft NOTICE.—The grand national spectacle of the Battle of Waterloo, one of the greatest glories of the immortal Welling. ton, our Hero of a Hundred Fights, is nightly received by crowded and fashionable audiences with enthusiastic rapture. Visitors from the country are respectfully requested to note this warlike spectacle, realising many features in continual practice by her Majesty's Troops at Chobham. Commences at Seven o'clock. Miss Emily Cooke, the most talented juvenile equestrian artiste, will (by desire) appear every night. THIS EVENING, JIILIr 5, And during the week, the Performances will commence with the grand national Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, with more than its original brilliant effects. To be followed by Mr. W. Cooke's unsurpassable scenes in the Arena, introducing the most celebrated Artistes in Europe, combin ing the talent of the World's Wonder, Miss Emily Cooke, whose grace'nl performances have become the theme of admiration, he; daring Leap through 16 balloons, both forward and backward, having created quite a furor. _ . _ To conclude with the successful Hippo Drama of THE CHASE, or LIFE ON THE TURF—Ulustrating a Sporting Man's Camel.. By express desire of several Families of distinction, and in uccord ;pee with the flattering request, Mr. W. Cooke has made arrange ment; to give another Grand Juvenile Morning Performance, and positively the Last, on WEDNESDAY, JULY 6. Box-odice open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THIS EVENING, JULY 5, CHUSAN and the FEAST OF LANTERNS, Splendid MENAGERIE, containing many hundred interesting specimens of :Natural History. GODFREY'S unrivalled Mriarear BAND. Vocal and Instrumental Concert. Two Songs by Miss Cicely Nott. Solo, Clarionet, by Mona. Wuille. The whole con cluding with the moat extraordinary spectacle ever exhibited, " The, Feast of Lanteis" and explosion of Chinese Fireships. Brilliant dis play of Fireworks by Southby. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations aru arranged in order of latitude. SOUTHAMPTON—W., gentle breeze—cloudless. FOLKESTONE—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. TUNBRIDGE—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. STRooD--S.W., gentle breeze.--partially cloudy. YARMOUTH—W., gentle breeze—cloudless. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tati DAT —Morning 9 min. after 1 I Evening 32 min•a ft . 1 To-Moutow—Morning 51 min. after 1 Evening 9 min.aft. 2 THE WEATHER.—Sus Omen, JITLY 5. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 73 —highest since noon yesterday. E9—lowest this morning and during the night. 71—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 3014. WIND, S.W.-Light breeze, and fine weather. 4..*A M- 11 ~~~ int a- LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1853. Mr. GLADSTONE last night preserved an ominous silence as to the course which he would ulti mately pursue with respect to the vexatice ques tiones on the Stamp Duties. What he has done is tolerably clear so far as it goes, but not so as to its results. He has divided the bill, which had been read a second time, into two distinct portions. He has retained and carried through committee all the uncontested clauses, and for the time being dropped the parts about which there existed any dispute or difference of opinion, viz., those relating to the stamps on supplements, and to the duties on attorneys' certificates. These portions are to be reserved for future discussion, and the results, whatever they might be, are to be embodied in another bill. This may be all very correct, and it may be " very desirable to be enabled to get on with the bill on account of the penny stamps on receipts," and to enable them to take effectual proceedings for " preparing the dies and securing the stamps against forgeries ;" but we confess we cannot understand why it is that these proceedings may not be taken as well during the pendency of an unopposed bill, as after it has received the Legisla tive sanction. There is a positive certainty that it will become a portion of the law of the land, and there is no reason that we can discover why the " preparations for the dies," and for " secur ing the stamps against forgery," may not be car ried on as well before as after the bill had re ceived the Royal Assent. There would not be any very great danger that the time or labour of the subordinates who would be engaged on these matters would be thrown away, nor would that time or labour be so exceedingly valuable as to lead to the adoption of any extraordinary or unusual course, in order to avert the chance of their being misapplied, in the event of the occurrence of a very improbable contingency. When we con sider, then, the inadequate reason offered for dividing the measure, and combine it with the probability alluded to by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that " it might be some time before the state of public business would put it in the power of the Government to fix a time for the dis cussion of any controverted point on these subjects, and with the unquestionable fact, that, in the event of no bill being passed, matters will remain in statu quo, without change, or alteration of any kind, a grave suspicion is excited, that the Right Hon. Gentleman may be tempted to pursue the Fabian Policy, and to defeat by strategy where open force might prove unsuccessful. This is peculiarly the case with the Attorney& Certificates Duties, on which Ministers have already sustained some five or six successive defeats. This he must settle with Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR, the doughty champion of the legal practitioners, who feel themselves ag grieved by the heavy tax for liberty to practise their profession, when they are again charged under the Property and Income Tax, on the entire amount of their earnings, and that, like the Irish landlords, whether or not they ever receive payment of their several bills of costs—a matter by no m eans certain, and which we believe requires a considerable deduction for bad debts. The Noble "Attorney-Gene ral," as he has facetiously been designated, will have to considerhow far the interests of his sharp-witted clients are involved in the division, and adopt measures as he may deem best calculated to Insure the success of his proposition. We should think that so steadfast and influential a supporter of the Administration would have no difficulty in be fain b an assurance that the question would me . t, and not di s p ose d o ff by a s id e -wind, or unduly snelved be more Mr. GLADSTONE b y d e ay or procrastination. h as with respect to the Advertis eta • c 'l'aerved a similar mystery existing doubt s on that "bident Duties ; but the will speedily removed. Re h aa fme the second ing of the Newspaper Stamps _ for Thursday, read and he will at all event s on th a t eve he will Blare positively and une qu i vo c ini: de yield to the frequently-expressed Opettt he to majority, or whether h e will obstinateni of the tinue his opposition thereto. Nothin g t e l excess of perverse obstinacy could induce the Right Honourable Gentleman to persevere in his Stubborn and dogged rebistanco to a matter so )'unimportant to himself in point of principle (although of vast importance to the overwhelming majority of the public journals, and to the com munity in general, whose interests are greatly involved in the result), and on which the amount at stake is of comparative unimportance. It must not be forgotten that his colleague and leader, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, acknowledged clearly and distinctly that " the preponderance of argu ment was in favour of the total abolition of the Advertisement Duty ;" and that it was " a very heavy duty, and no doubt, it was an impediment to trade, and an obstruction to the supply of those wants and that information which the people would desire to have." The question then—if these influential members of the Cabinet are in accord—must solely rest on its produc tiveness to the Exchequer; and surely 80,0001. although only " for the first year, and followed by a rapid and constant inc,rease," is not of such vital importance, that thr.3 Right Honourable Gen tleman should alienate his friends and risk even the existence and perr.aanency of the Government itself rather than. abandon one of the crotchets to which he is so strongly attached, and to which he has given such unquestionable proofs of his de votion. There may, however, be something more in this determined opposition than meets the eye in the first instance. It appears, from a few ominous hints which he let fall on Friday evening, in answer to the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Manchester, that he is by no means convinced of the propriety of removing the " Taxes on Knowledge," even if the state of the Exchequer warranted such a con cession. In speaking of a cheap press, he de clared that the question "was not by any means so simple as he (Mr. BRIGHT) seemed to suppose ; that it appeared to him to i nvo l ve a var i ety of considerations to which the Hon. Member had not, even alluded. The fiscal aspect of the question was not the only nor even the most xiiipo — rtant point t o b e cons id ered, and it was obvious that the question could not be disposed off 'without deliberate consideration." It would bi - .; well to ascertain the exact meaning of this remarkable speech, to know whether the Right 1 Honourable Gentleman is so exclusively devoted to the interests of " The Times," as the unsolicited boon which he offered to that journal and his more' recent declaration would seem to imply. And if the surmises to which these matters have given rise should prove to have but too much foundation than that it should be discovered whether these feelings are participated in by his colleagues, or any, and which o f th em , th a t th e measures m ay be taken accordingly, and that we should not be lending our aid to th e creation of new restrictions on the press generally, so as to endeavour to vest a practical monopoly in the Leviathan. No candid man will be severe upon any Government for failing more or less with an Educational measure. All our Legislators, for many years past, have been most sincerely de sirous to make education universal, and to see its standard raised and its scope enlarged for all classes, not excepting those who enjoy University instruction. Even the concessions to Catholics, High Churchmen, and Dissenters, bitterly attacked as they have been by religious zeal, to use the mildest woad, have been made, we believe, generally with the very best motives. The patriotic statesman, while deploring the nar row-mindedness to which he yielded, has thought it richly worth while to turn the zealots into educators, at the price of humouring some crochet, on which they supposed the poor child ren's eternal welfare were to depend. The crotchet could do, as the Statesman thought, but little harm ; the education, he was justly confident, as a general thing, must do good. We regret, with Mr. WALPOLE, that Catholics should practically exclude the Bible from the majority of Irish schools. We regret that Presbyterians as well as Catholics should get rid of such an admirable compendium on that important subject, as Arch bishop WHATELEY'S " Evidences of Christianity." For Religion's sake, for Education's sake, on social and intellectual grounds, we deplore both acts sincerely ; yet are we none the less assured that the education itself, guaranteed as it is as to its intellectual character by inspection, is a gain of incalculable worth. There can be no doubt, if we will not be misled by instances of occasional and exceptional turbulence or violence, that the Irish character and habits are rising, and that educa tion has much to do with it. An agrarian mur der, it is true, is still sometimes committed, and its perpetrators shielded as a point of honour. Let us, however, only remember how slowly duelling went out of practice amongst a cultivated class, and how all concerned, even judges and prosecuting officials, leagued to screen the duellist, and we shall not be surprised that barbarous revenge should, amongst the rudest class, be but too long regarded as the necessary vindication of public rights. As to the interests of Popery and Protestantism, edu cation must ever be suicidal to the former. In spite of the innumerable and splendid exceptions, education will, as the rule, train to the exercise of private judgment (the very essence and germ of all Protestantism, and of all liberty too), even while the pupil learns the creed. which in terms denies it. It is utterly impossible that an educated community should not be, compara tively at least, an inquiring community. And, we may say it we hope without offence, it is utterly impossible that Popery, or any system based on authority, can stand before free inquiry. Popery never has done so; it knows it well, and it therefore suppresses it. The semi-Popery of Tractarianism does precisely the same. It is a singular fact, too, that the entire tendency of early education is by no means to insure the fidelity of the pupils to the creed of the school. We once at a stormy public education meeting saw a shrewd-looking, intelligent infidel of the ope rative class gain the platform, and, having obtained a hearing from the quarrelling religionists, he frankly avowed his sentiments, but said he good temperedly, " Gentlemen, you really need not quarrel which faith you shall teach us, if you will but teach us at all. I have observed that a lad will mostly talk against the creed that was taught him when a boy. I have several children, and I have sent them to a Church School, and a Metho dist School, and a Baptist School, according as I happened to live near one or the other. I know they won't like a creed better when they get older for remembering that great pains were taken to make them learn it." Who can deny that the man in fustian told the truth with regard to all the better class of minds which we educate, the minds which, like his own, must influence the circle in which they act ? and if so, may it not well moderate the heat of the DENISONS and CIILLENS to reflect that their zeal is frequently but sowing the seeds of youthful revolt against juvenile cramming. " The hey," it is true, "is father to the man ;" but if you attempt, in proverbial language, " to put an old man's head on a young one's shoulders ;" if you would make, in other words, a sectarian theo logian of a child, it will soon be perceived that the theology was not:a natural part of " the boy's mind," and will, most likely, be no part of " the man's." The disappointed priest will only find another old motto, verifying itself for the thousandth time— " Naturam expelles farca • tamen us pie recur re t, Et taala perrum p e t furtim fastidia victrix." In regard to Lord Jortres Educational Bill, while we give him the full credit due to his long advocacy of th e cause of we must think th a t h e popular enlightenment, by it s is not himself much dis appointedpresent position. Perhaps he hardly expected th at nearly all the most import ant towns to which it would apply, should peti tion against it, thro ug h the very Town Councils which he proposed should lay th© ra t e . The fear of increasing municipal discords, and adding religious to political contests in their meetings, with the unfortunate provision that the Town Councils were not to disburse their own rate, but to hand it over to a Government Committee in London, appear to indispose the more ka_ portant boroughs to accept it. His Lordship, however, was no doubt taken by surprise at re ceiving, on the very eve of his introductory speech, the statistics which showed that the school accommodation is, on the whole, ample ; that the proportion actually at school has all but I 44 4%1 tho egimatedciesirableuumber ; cad that the , voluntary payments of the parents themselves have attained the enormous amount of half a million sterling ! It was very obvious that he felt the need of Government aid to be much less than any of us had supposed. There are also other considera tions which make us willing to leave our naturally self-acting race to go on educating themselves and improving the quality of their education pretty much in their own way. One is, that the spirit of education is now thoroughly roused. Even the Mansion-house, the central point of the City of London Corporation, has caught the public feeling. The poor fagged teachers of our public schools are honoured with civic notice, and in the Hall of Aldermanic feasting discuss under civic auspices the truly noble subject of popular educa tion. Mayors from all the provincial boroughs have already met th ere t o cons id er the higher de partmentweßlEducation.may energyy well eand b eW liberalityi cautious s u c such b y a f edn spiritg of voluntaryabroad, Artistic P s p b e l compulsory rates which would become the excuse for personal effort. Another consideration is that, the only class unquestionably needing some com pulsory intervention, is untouched by this bill. The Census Returns show that the great mass of children do attend some school already. The mid dle classes and upwards of course provide for themselves ; pauper children are already under Government care ; it is the children of what are reasonably enough designated the " dangerous classes" which chiefly need to be secured. Hither to, these have baffled every effort. The States man who can legislate for them on any plan com patible with English liberty, will deserve the thanks of this and of every coming generation. We wait with interest the development of Lord SHAFTESBURY'S plan. Here, if anywhere, the Noble Lord is at home, nor should he be grudged the necessary powers, if any powers can effect it, to turn the thousands of almost infant vagabonds trained to be their own ruin and the plague of society into a school of intellect, industry, and virtue. If Lord SHAFTESBURY can succeed in this, his will be the real Education Bill of the day. There is a claim, too, put in by the Volun taries, which it will be difficult to gainsay. They have given notice of a proviso to be exempted from the rate to the extent to which they already volun tarily subscribe to any school. It is difficult for any who, on Mr. PHILLIMORE'S and Lord STANLEY'S plan, would relieve them from church rates, to deny the reasonableness of this proposition. The proposed rates are to enable the children to go nearly free to the Government schools ; and it does seem hard to rate a person who already sup ports schools he approves, in order to enable others to allure children by cheapness away from his freely -supported school. As, however, the great bulk of the respectable people in boroughs already subscribe to some school, the amount of exemp tions would perhaps render the rate a nullity. If it be so, the proposition only shows pretty strongly how much the proposed rate would injure that existing voluntary support which Lord JOHN RUSSELL and all of us equally desire to maintain in full vigour. IMPERIAL PARL TAINIENT HOUSE OF COMMONS--(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : —The Llanelly Railway and Dock (No. 2), South Devon and Tavistock Railway, and South Staffordshire Rail way. The reports upon the following bills were considered and agreed to :—The Cotham's Estate, Moore's (Brown's Trustees) Estate, and Chard Railway. PETITIONS. - Mr. MIALL presented petitions from Rochdale, Old ham, and other places, in favour of the limitation of factory labour to ten hours. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from a medical society in Lancashire, in favour of medical reform. Mr. BROCKLEHURST presented a petition against the Registration of Assurances Bill from a bank at Macclesfield, and gave notice that he would move that it be referred to the select committee. He also pre sented a petition from that town, praying that intoxicat ing liquors should not be sold on the Sabbath. Sir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition from Loughborough praying that Parliamentary representa• tion be given to that town. Several petitions were presented against the Registra. tion of Assurances Bill. Sir J. WALMSLEY presented two petitions from Lancashire in favour of the People's charter. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. HAYTER a new writ was issued for North Derbyshire, in the room of Mr. Wm. Evans, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. . ____ THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1853. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert paid her Majesty's visitors inspected yesterday morning; in Buckingham Palace, the two Aztecs, from Central America. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour and Mr. Gibbs, left Buckingham Palace at a quarter before 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and travelled via London and South-Western Railway to Windsor Castle. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha yesterday. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe Langenburg, visited the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha in the evening at Buckingham Palace, and took leave of their Royal Highnesses. The Princess of Prussia and the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha visited the Duchess of Kent yes terday afternoon at Clarence-house, St. James's. The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha also visited the Duchess of Cambridge at her residence, in St. James's Palace, The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince and Princess of Prussia, the Duke and. Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and the Prince of Hohenlohe Langenburg, took a drive yesterday afternoon in two open carriages and four. Lord Alfred Paget and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon attended on horseback. The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, at tended by the Baroness Wangenheim, B ar o n Seebach, and Baron Treskow, took leave of the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday evening on their return to the conti nent. Their Royal Highnesses quitted Buckingham Palace at five minutes to 8 o'clock, in one of the Queen's carriages, for the London-bridge terminus, and travelled by the South-Eastern Railway to Dover. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the Philharmonic Concert, at the Hanover square Rooms, with their presence last evening. The Prince and Princess of Prussia, ihe Princess Royal, and the Princess Louise of Prussia accompanied the Queen in her carriage. Prince Albert, the Prince of Hohenlohe Langenburg, the Duke of Weilington, Master of the Horse ; and the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Steward, occu pied the carriage immediately preceding that of the Queen. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting occupied five other Royal carriages, and consisted of the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Lady in Waiting ; the Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Maids of Honour in Wait ing ; the Countess von Hacke, the Countess Oriolla, and Mademoiselle von Stereberg, Ladies in Waiting to the Princess of Prussia and the Princess Louise, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain ; the Marquis of Abercorn, Groom of the Stole to Prixice Albert ; the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord in Wait ing ; Viscount Torrington, Lord in Waiting to Prince Albert ; Major-General Berkeley Drummond, Groom in Waiting ; Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting ; Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert ; Count Puckler, Count Goltz, and Count Boos, in Waiting to the Prince of Prussia. Her Majesty and the royal party left the palace for the concert at eight o'clock. A deputation from the county of Warwick, consisting of Mr. Samuel Umbers, Mr. George Startin, Mr. Thos. Carter, and Mr. Henry Brown, and a deputation from the directors of the poor for the city of Coventry, con sisting of Mr. Stephen Hammerton (chairman), Mr. Francis Serjeant, Mr. Edward Simms, and Mr. Thomas Rue, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yes terday at the Home-office. The deputations were intro duced by the Right Hon. E. Ellice, M.P., Mr. C. N. Newdegate, M.P., Mr. R. Spooner, M.P., and Mr. C. Geach, M.P. Mr. Joha Wood, chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing street. THE AZTECS BEFORE HER MAJESTY.—By command of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and through the agency of Dr. Clarke, the Aztec Lilli putians, from the city of Iximaya, in Central America, were brought to the Palace yesterday. There were present at the interview the Prince of Wales, the Prin cess Royal, and the Princess Alice, the Prince and Prin cess of Prussia, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, Prince Hohenlohe, the Countess of Mount-Edgecumbe, and many ladies of the court. So interested was her Majesty that she remained with the Lilliputians for nearly an hour, and previous to their departure ex pressed herself ? much gratified with their visit. A similar compliment was paid by the members of the royal party. The departures from the port of London for the Aus tralian colonies during the past week show a slight decrease. They have comprised altogether 10 vessels— four to Sydney, with an aggregate burden of 2,511 tons ; four to Port Philip, with an aggregate burden of 1,910 tons ; one to Hobart Town, of 608 tons; and one to Adelaide, of 554 tons. Their total capacity was, conse quently, 5,583 tons. The shipments of manufactures and ordinary merchandise have rather diminished, and rates of freight show a further tendency to decline. AMSTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM PRODUCE MARKETS.— , The weekly reviews state that business continued inac tive. The transactions in coffee had been limited, but prices were fairly supported. No change had occurred in raw or refined sugar, scarcely any contract; having been concluded. Rice continued in demand, and most descriptions of fruits showed a further tendency to im provement. The accounts from Hamburg and Antwerp represent a similar position of trade. ROUEN.—The letters from Rouen mention that:the market for manufactures was heavy, the absence of pur chasers having again unfavourably influenced quotations. NEW YORK.—The commercial accounts from New York this week are wholly without interest. The rate of exchange continued in favour of this country, the specie brought on the present occasion being 110,0001., while a further sum may be expected by the Arctic on Wednesday. THE OUTWARD INDIAN MAIL.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Bengal left Southampton yesterday with the India, China, and Australian mail. The mail was exceedingly heavy ; it was conveyed to Southampton by special train, filled four railway wag gons, and weighed about 15 tons. It consisted of 325 boxes and 18 bags,-97 of the boxes were for India, 10 for Chi na , an d 210 for Australia. Of the Australian IN RE ASHTON AND SPRIGGS. The only case before the court this morning was a boxes, 5 were for King George's Sound, 25 for Adelaide, 108 for Melbourne, 8 for Geelong, and 64 for Sydney dividend meeting under the private estate of the bank- Amongst the passengers by the Bengal were Colon-el. rupt Spriggs, who, it will be remembered, absconded Outram, whose return to India in the service of the with a very large sum of money, &c., and was appre- East India Company is significant of his having bonded at Melbourne, Australia, and the property se triumphed over th e Bombay Government ; Lieutenant cured. The bankrupt was brought over to England and Percival, R.N., who is gone out to take charge of the now lies in Newgate for trial for absconding. mails between Suez and Calcutta, and a portion of the The business before the court was pro forma, and the suite of the Rajah of Coorg. On board the Bengal, also, amount of the dividend will be declared in a few days. there were mastiff dogs, gold and silver pheasants, pea, A larger dividend will, in consequence of the appre cocks, and a quantity of poultry from, the Pacha of hension of Spriggs and the recovery of the property, be Fig nt, • payable to the creditors of the joint estate. Mr. W. C. Scott; manager of the Parcels Delivery Company, gave the prisoner an excellent character, and intimated that it was through one of the directors of that company, who expressed a high opinion of his honesty, that he obtained a situation in the bank. The Recorder said be would defer passing sentence. The prisoner was then removed. NEW COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) Ann Howard, a shabby genteel-looking young woman, was indicted for passing base coin. Mr Bodkin and Mr. Poland prosecuted. It was proved that, on the night of the 11th of June, the prisoner went into the shop of a milliner in the Northern-road, at Shepherd's Bush, and. in payment for some trifing things she had bought tendered a bad crown piece. The prosecutrix, a Mrs. Ayshford, not baying change, sent her cousin over to a neighbour for it, and she brought back the crown-piece, and. said it was a bad one. She then, it appeared, tried to pass the same bad coin at another tradesman's in the neighbourhood ; and later in the evening, she tendered a bad half-sovereign, which being detected, sbe was given in custody, when she gave an address at a place that did not exist. The prisoner, whose manners and language bespoke her being far above the usual class of persons who ap pear here charged with this class of offence, said that she had received the money in payment for some needle work which she had done for a lady who had gone abroad. The jury found her guilty. Not being known as a previous offender, she was sen tenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. There are 18 prisoners for trial for this class of offence, and the cases will occupy the whole day. George Hetherington, whose case appeared in our im pression of yesterday, was, after a long investigation, found guilty, and sentenced to 12 months' imprison ment and hard labour. BANKRUPTCY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) CUSTOMS, &c. A CTS. The following are the resolutions to be reported to the House of Commons this day 1. Resolved, That in lieu of the consideration mentioned in the act passed in the forty-second year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter 116, sections 22 and 23, and the table of the schedule marked (L) to the said act annexed, to be given or paid for the redemption of the land tax in Great Britain, under the provisions of the several acts in force in th a t behalf, the consideration for such redemption shall be a sum of the capital stocks, or one of them, mentioned in section 22 of the said act, by and at the rate of 171. 10s. per 1001. than the amount of the stock consideration calculated and ascertained accord ing to the said last-mentioned enactment, or a sum of money less by and at the like rate than the amount of the money consideration calculated and ascertained according to the said section 23, and the said table in schedule (L) of the said act ; and the consideration for the purchase of land tax under the several provisions contained in the said act in that behalf, shall be such sum of capital stock or money at the least as is hereinbefore directed to be given or paid for the redemption of land tax. 2. Resolved, That the stamp duties, and composition for duties, granted and made payable in Ireland for a limited term, by the Act 5 and 6 Vic. c. 82, and continued by sub sequent acts for four other several and successive terms, the last of which will expire on the 10th day of October, 1853 ; and all duties now payable in lieu of any of the said duties which may have been repealed, shall be con tinued and made perpetual. MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL. The house then went into committee upon this bill. Clauses up to 28 inclusive were agreed to after several desultory discussions. On cluse 29, which provides that British vessels may be navigated wholly by foreigners, Captain SCOBELL moved the omission of the clause. This, he said, was a national question, and struck at the root of our maritime power. The right honour able gentleman the President of the Board of Trade might tell them that this clause was the summit of free trade, but he denied that this had anything to do with the question of free trade at at all. The repeal of the Navigation Laws was said to be the summit of free trade, but when that was passed the Government did not propose the repeal of these manning clauses. If this clause passed, and it it were declared allowable for the master, mates, and men of a British vessel to be foreigners, he should propose another clause that every morning the crew of every vessel should sing " Rule Britannia," and that the captain should accompany them on the French horn, and the mate on the German flute. (Laughter.) (LEFT SITTING.) CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) Thomas Cornell, 27, baker, was indicted for stealing a horse and chaise, value 201., the property of Richard Skelton. It appeared that the prosecutor, who is a veterinary surgeon, on the 25th of June last was driving a pony chaise, and that he fastened up the horse near a g en tl e . man's house at Forest-gate, and left it for about a quarter of an hour, and on his return he found that both the ani ma l and vehicle had disappeared. He gave information of his loss to the police, and a short time afterwards the prisoner was overtaken on the Leystond-road with the pony and chaise, driving at a furious rate, and he was taken into custody. The prisoner was undefended. Mr. M'Murdo, the surgeon of the prison, said he had attended the accused since his admission, and he thought he was a man of flighty dispositi on , an d in an unsettled state of mind, but he considered he was capable of dis tinguishing between right and wrong. The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, said on the morning in question he had just come out of gaol, and he took a walk in the forest, and seeing the pony and chaise he took a fancy to it, and had a ride along the road, until he was stopped by a policeman and conveyed to prison. The Recorder having summed up, The Jury acquitted the prisoner. BETTING-HOUSES. William Woodward, 31, clerk, withdrew his former plea of not guilty, and pleaded guilty to stealing a bank note value 1001., and other property, belonging to Robert Bell and others, his masters. Mr. Ballantine said it was by his advice that the prisoner had retracted his former plea. He was a young man who had been in the service of the National Pro vincial Banking Company (who were now obliged, un willingly, to prosecute him) for six or seven years, during which time he had conducted himself irreproach ably, and his honesty had remained entirely unim peached until the occurrence which formed the subject of the present indictment. Previously to entering the bank he had been in the employ of the Parcels Delivery Company for nine or ten years, and though he held an office of considerable trust, there was a person from that company present who would state that ho did not know a better or more honest servant. He had unfor tunately got among that gang of robbers and swindlers who were allowed to infest the metropolis and keep what were called betting-offices. He was led on step by step to commit the crime to which he had just pleaded guilty; and it appeared that on the day before he committed it he pawned his hat or his handkerchief in order to raise a shilling, the whole of the money he had purloined be ing swallowed up by the people to whom he alluded. He was sure his lordship must feel the lamentable con sequences which ensued from such establishments, for, encouraged to the extent they were, they opened the door of ruin to persons in the situ a ti on o f the prisoner. He hoped an end would some time or other be put to this growing evil, for he could state that one or two out of every three cases of robbery in which he was engaged, were to be attributed to the temptation held out by bet ting-offices, and those who became their victims were generally persons of respectability. Mr. Bodkin, who appeared on behalf of the company, said the directors had found that they could not, con sistent with their duty, avoid instituting this prosecution; but ho was instructed by them to say, that they had no reason to believe that the prisoner had ever committed himself in a similar way until he became connected with those dens of infamy, for he could call them nothing else, which existed in different parts of the metropolis. He would only say, that when suspicion attached to the prisoner, an officer was appointed to watch him, in order to see whether there was anything in his conduct to jus tify that suspicion, and he was traced, on an evening shortly after the commission of the offence, to no fewer • than four betting-offices. It was impossible to repre sent too strongly to the public authorities the mischief which such places created, for there were great numbers of young men whose ruin could be clearly traced to them. It was right he should state that the 1001. which the prisoner was charged with stealing, was taken out of a remittance to the bank of 2001. It was the duty of the prisoner to open the enclosure, and he contrived to ab stract from it notes to the amount of 1001. At first, it was considered to be a mistake on the part of the ma nagers of a branch bank, but on inquiry it was found that the money had been purloined. Suspicion then fell on the employs in the post-office, but they were now completely exonerated by the confession of the prisoner. The Recorder—Did the prisoner make any false entry Mr. Bodkin replied in the negative. The Recorder said it was impossible for any person having experience in that court not to concur in all the observations made by the learned counsel, with respect to the system of betting-houses. He believed that the attention of those whose duty it was to watch over the morals and good of the people was directed to the sub ject ; and every one who knew anything about it were aware of the extreme difficulty of devising a remedy which would be really effective ; and their anxiety was not to take any false step, but still he hoped some mea sure would soon be passed to check the evil. NEW PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. The fifth concert of the New Philharmonic Society was a varied and elegant entertainment, and attracted one of the most fashionable and crowded assemblies of the season. The whole resources of as noble an orchestra as has ever been organised in this country were called into action, to furnish forth a musical banquet of almost unparalleled splendour. Dr. Spohr directed ; and it was an interesting sight to see the greatest of living com posers presiding, while fine singers, a powerful chorus, and a matchless orchestra, were giving triumphant in terpretation to his grandest and most beautiful concep tions. The programme was as follows : PART I. Concert Overture (Op. 126) - - Spohr. "Ave Verum," Herr Theodore Formes - E Silas "Kyrie Eleison," Chorus Grand Choral Symphony - - - Beethoven. The solo parts by liadlle. Bury, Miss Bassano, Herr Theodore Formes, and Mr. Weiss. PART 11. Concerto in D minor - - - - Mendelssohn, Pianoforte, Master John Barnett. Aria, "0, zittre nicht" (Zauberflote) - Mozart. Madlle Bury. Overture (Jessonda) - - - - Spohr. Aiia, " Dass mich Gluck" - - - Spohr. Herr Theodore Formes. Flute Solo (Carnival de Venise) - Herr Reichert. Overture (Men of Prometheus) - - Beethoven. The concert overture is elaborate in its conception, scho larly and erudite in its style, and contains passages of deep solemnity and sublime grandeur, which were ren dered with great effect. The overture to the opera of Jessonda is a still finer specimen of the composer's ge nius. It is of a refined and fanciful character, with a flow of sweet expressive melody throughout, and a clear ness of construction in its most elaborate movements, which is beyond all things delightful. The aria " Dass mich Gluck," another g em from the diamond-quarry of the same opera, was received with great enthusiasm. The singer (Herr Formes) has a voice at once flexible and vigorous, and uses it with grace and expression. To the New Philharmonic Society belongs the eminent distinction of familiarising the general public with the ninth symphony of Beethoven—the chef d'oeuvre of that great master. They have produced it on no fewer than three occasions in the course of twelve concerts, and the performance has each time been distinguished by a brilliancy, a beauty, and a power which have left nothing to be desired by the most fastidious ear. The Ave Verum and Kyrie Eleison of M. Silas are elegant and pleasing compositions—melodious and flowing, and full of the solemn grandeur of the ecclesiastical style. The greatest treat of the evening, how ever, was Mendelssohn's concerto in D minor, played on the pianoforte by Master Barnett, in a style which created general astonishment and pleasure. Being but thirteen years of age, his " antecedents"—to use the affected phrase of the day—do not afford him the re sources of an extensive experience, and yet he played with a beauty of tone and an unerring certainty of exe cution which could scarcely have been surpassed by any pianist of the day. To say he has been taught by Dr. Wylde is to say that his style has been founded on the purest and most classic model. Every note of the scale is emitted with faultless equality and clearness ; every passage is beautifully round and articulate ; and his whole manner is marked by the highest refinement and the most delicate sensibility. The performance indicated great, almost consummate, art— " Now 'twas like all instruments,' Now like the lonely flute." And what made it still more remarkable was, that the whole concerto was played from memory without the slightest reference to the printed score. The sixth and last concert for the season will take place on Friday, when Dr. Spohr's symphony for two orchestras, entitled " Earthliness and Godliness," and other interesting works will be performed. We cannot close this notice without expressing our high sense of the claims of Dr. Wylde, to whom the management and general direction of this society's con certs has been committed, on the gratitude and admira tion of the musical world. His genius as a musician is sufficiently attested by his own noble compositions, while his unremitting efforts to give to these entertainments a high artistic character, satisfactorily evidence the deli cacy and purity of his taste. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Mr. Mitchell's second series of German plays began last night, like the first, with GOthe's Egmont. The unfortunate Count and the amiable ClArchen were played, as they were last year, by Herr Emil Devrient and Frau Stoke, but in lieu of Herr Kuhn, who was the Duke of Alva on the former occasion, we had Herr Dessoir, a stranger to the British public. We may assume that Egmont is now a well-known piece with all who take interest in the Ger man performances. The success of the performance was unequivocal. The love scene between Egmont and Clara and the scene between Egmont and Alva were honoured with especial calls, which were duly answered by the performers. It appears essential to a German season that it should be ushered in by an allegorical lady denoting the German Muse, or Germania, or Teutonia, or somebody of the sort. Last night the ceremony was performed by Fraulein Fuhr, of Berlin, who is to be one of the stars in the course of the season, and who poured forth the usual measure of rhymed compliments on her British kindred. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.—Mr. George Turpint the box book-keeper, has announced his first benefi for to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, when a new comedy will be presented, together with Mr. Buckstone's Ascent of Mount Parnassus, and the comic drama of The Rough Diamond. Mr. Turpin always performs the duty of his difficult because delicate office in a most obliging manner, and we are sure that his friends, and the patrons of the theatre generally, will not forget his former urbanity on this occasion. OLYMPIC.—the tragedy selected last evening for smothering in jokes, anachronisms, and all kinds of tomfooleries, was Shylock; or, The Merchant of Venice Preserved, the jumble of titles giving the clue to the general style of what comes after. Our readers will, perhaps, conceive how the tragedy is treated—how the Jew is turned into the conventional Hebrew of the minor stage, endowed with a due allowance of patois and three hats—how he keeps a pawnbroker's shop, and lends the money to Bassanio and Antonio after running it upon the stage in a wheelbarrow. The bargain settled, after abundance of the usual comic chaffering, we have the scene of the caskets transmuted into knock-em-downs, at which Portia's lovers fling sticks—Antonio, of course, winning the first prize. The trial scene is a sort of imi tation of the mock courts which used to enjoy a mid nightly reputation among a certain class of the com munity in streets abutting upon the theatres. There is a " chief baron," who " lights his cigar at 9 o'clock precisely, for hearing the great case of Shylock v. An tonio," and the story of the trial, of the comedy, is fol lowed pretty exactly, only that the termination - is the reconciliation of all parties over the brandy and water provided by the court. The applause was continuous, the ultimate success decided, and the piece will no doubt enjoy a long run. THE LIVING MARIONETTES.—The theatre in Leicester square, where these clever juvenile artistes are located, has recently undergone a thorough renovation ; and last night it was opened for a brief summer season. Proper attention has been paid to the ventilation of the establish ment, and the performance of the highly-trained com pany of living marionettes can be enjoyed without the inconvenience of that suffocating heat which forms the great drawback of most theatres on the approach of the dog days. The company, which numbers no less than forty performers, includes Master Geo. Becket, the cele brated juvenile comedian and pantomimist, while the entertainments extend over a wide range of subject, enlivening comedy, ballet, and opera, all of which are got through with a surprisin g t ac t, skill, and precision, that would do no discredit whatever to children of a larger growth.. No one in search of a half hour's healthy relaxation ca:a do better than visit the temple of this juvenile corps dramatique. CREMORNE GARDENS.—The fineness of the weather yesterday drew a large number of fashionable visitors to this favourite Place of amusement, when, in addition to the ordinary round of daily amusements, a still further and greater rbttraction was provided by the opening, for the seascm, of the elegant and spacious circus, with what have been, in the announcements, correctly styled a tales ited troupe of native and foreign artistes, and a capita I stud of highly-trained horses. The arrangements of the circus and the performances in the arene wei.e of the most creditable character, and not a few of the artistes promise to achieve as great reputation as some of their distinguished predecessors in former sea sons. M. Jean Guertner performed an equestrian act, a la M'Cullom, upon two horses, and cer tainly put forth a strong claim for the title of "Adonis of the ring," , risually bestowed upon that gentleman. M. Andre, as; the Cherokee chief, and M. Thomas Guertner as 11 grotesque equestrian, also created a strong impress ion ; whilst Herr Hendrick, on his bare backed steed, i •eminded us very powerfully of the daring equitation of I Baton Stone, at Drury -lane in 1851. The list of clowns is a good one, including Messrs. Twist, Rochez, and Boswell. _ _ Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yester day from the Governors of the North American Colonies. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS TURKEY AND RUSSIA. The following is tho most important portion of a manifesto issued by the Emperor of Russia on the 26th of June : " PETERHOFF, JUNE 14-26, 1853. "It is known to our faithful subjects that the defence of our faith has always been the sacred duty of our ancestors. " From the day it pleased the Almighty to place me on the throne of our fathers, the main tenance of the holy obligations, with which it is inseparably connected, has been the object of our constant care and attention ; these, acting on the groundwork of the famous treaty of Kainadjir, which subsequent solemn treaties with the Otto man Porte have fully confirmed, have ever been directed towards upholding the rights of our Church. " All our efforts to prevent the Porte from con tinuing in this course proved fruitless, and even the oath of the Sultan himself, solemnly given to us, was soon perfidiously broken. " Having exhausted all means of conviction, and having in vain tried all the means by which our just claims could be peacably adjusted, we have deemed it indispensable to move our armies into the provinces on the Danube, in order that the Porte may see to what her stubborness may lead. " But, even now, we have no intention of com mencing war ; in occupying those provinces, we wish to hold a sufficient pledge to guarantee for ourselves the re-establishment of our rights under any circumstances whatever. "We do not seek for conquests : Russia does not require them. We seek the justification of those rights which have been so openly violated. We are still ready to stop the movements of our troops, if the Ottoman Porte will bind itself to ob serve solemnly the inviolability of the Orthodox (Pravoslavnai) Church. But if, through stubborn ness and blindness, it desires the contrary, then, calling God to our aid, we shall leave Him to de cide between us, and, with a full assurance in the arm of the Almighty, we shall go forth to fight for the Orthodox faith." The last Constantinople news i s hi g hl y import ant. The following letter from Constantinople, dated the 20th, proceeds from a very well-in formed source : " In the ans% er given to the ultimatum of Count Nesselrode are not inserted the following words, but which were communicated separately The Turkish Ambassador, who would be prepared to leave for St. Petersburgh, would explain to the Emperor of Russia the motives which have occasioned the refusal to accept it—the ultimatum.' It is supposed that the propo sition with reference to an Ambassador would, at all events possess the advantage of gaining a lit tle time. In a month more the Porte would be able to have on foot 250,000 men. M. de Bruck is most actively engaged in the work of conciliation, and in endeavouring to make his Government be accepted as a mediator ; but I much doubt his success. The move ment of steamers, English and French, is very great, and each day the cannon announces some new arrival. The English steamer, the Retribution, left this morning to take up position with the Turkish fleet at the mouth of the Black Sea. The English and French fleet are at anchor at Besika, and the two Admirals are expected from one moment to another. " Important intelligence has been received from Servia. The Prince offers 45,000 men, of whom 15,000 are for the protection of the fortress of Belgrade and 30,000 for that of the f ron ti ers o f the Principality. " Gold is being c o i ne d i n grea t abundance at the Mint, and four machines are at work day and night. Four ships are being fitted out for immediate service at the arsenal. The redifs of Constantinople have received orders to muster. The Sanitary Intendance has abo lished the quarantine of Syria. The English Ambassador received dispatches on Friday, the 17th, brought by land, and on the following day the same courier left." ' The frigate Meshidshe is gone to Smyrna to fetch a troop of militia. Other vessels have brought soldiers from Beyrout and Brussa. On the 16th the Niger and Retribution reached Con stantinople. The first vessel brought the news of the arrival of the united fleets at Besika Bay. The English fleet has 8,000 men, with 700 guns ; the French, 10,000 men,with 900 guns. The three decker Friedland with 120, the Jena with 90, and the Marengo and Duperre with 50 guns each, are expected. The Journal de Constantinople, which appears to have made complete arrangements for war, opines that should a collision occur " Admiral Dundas would have the chief command of the fleet, and some French General of any troops that might be landed." A correspondent of the Triest Zeitung writes that the Turkish fleet has 1,000 and the Rus sian Black Sea fleet 1,500 guns. According to the Turkish accounts the army already consists of 260,000 men. "40,000 volunteers have already presented themselves." The Turks are working hard at the block-houses on the heights which command the entrance to the Bosphorus from the Black Sea. Lord Stratford has recently been twice to the Seraglio, where his stay was very pro longed. "It is expected that, at the first move ment of the Russian troops towards the frontier, the fleets will come to the Bosphorus." The following is significant. The Oest. Corres pondenz denies that the representatives of the four Great Powers sent in a collective reply to the Porte on the subject of Prince Menschikoff's last note. The Government organ, which is extremely anxious that the difference between a " collective and " iden tical" note should be fully appreciated, says : "On the 21st May, the Ministers of the Great Powers agreed on a certain form of note, which each of them presented separately." In a word, Austria disapproves of the policy of Russia, but is not inclined to go wherever France and England may choose to lead her. A telegraphic dispatch from Berlin, dated yes terday, announces that the Emperor of Russia hail published a manifesto on the 26th, in which he announced his determination to occupy the Danu bian provinces, and that on the following day the order for the marching of the army was actually dispatched. Besides is, it is stated that prepa rations for war are continued in Russia with great activity. Extraordinary levies of troops were being made, in the proportion of 12 men for every 500. These facts seem in contradiction with the hopes of these who continue to look with confi dence to the maintenance of peace ; but still there are many who hold to their pacific opinions, and maintain that everything will be arranged by nego tiation. A letter from Berlin of the Ist, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" It is said that the Eastern ques tion has of late occasioned an internal crisis, and that M. de Manteuffel has run great risk in his system of complete neutrality. At last the ques tion has been resolved against the neo-Prussians, and the Council of M. de Radowitz has, it is said, given the opinion that Prussia ought, in the Eastern question, to draw as close as possible to England. We cannot, however, confirm this news. Count Guzlaz has left Vienna for St Petersburg. He is to be accompanied by General Steininger and three officers. It is said that he goes on a special mission in connexion with the quarrel between Russia and Turkey. The Prince of Servia has offered to place 45,000 men at the Sultan's disposal-15,000 for the defence of Belgrade, and 30,000 for the protection of the frontier of the principality. Forty-four vessels are being armed in the arsenal, and the Rediffs (militia) of Constantinople have been called out. FRAN CE. The note yesterday , in t he Moniteur, explana tory of the affair of the muskets for the Turkish. Government, and the denial that any autho rization had been given the French officers to enter the Turkish ser v i ce , h as b een the consequence of an interview between the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Rus sian Ambassador, and which took place on.sSastauird• Satur day. The conversation between them . to have been, in th g e re c w o encemtentee,enod.al rather animated animated kind, but calmer a Kisseleff complained of the Government having fur nished fire-arms to Turkey eratier looked upon it as an excitement to warya;gainst Russia, and he protested against the act. passports ; It is said that he eve n hinted s ome thi n a b out demaild in g his but this ha s no t g been confirmed to me on any good authority. M. D rou yn de Lhuys gave the u sua l explanation. He said that there was nothing con trary to precedent, or inconsistent with the excel lent relations existing between Franco and Turkey, in ceding, at the request onfsthaed of w latter ;ooo a certain number number of muskets (40,000, instead mentioned). Such services were mutually render e d by Governments on amicable terms with each other, an d h e denied emphatically that it could be con s trued into an ac t of hosti lity to Russia, inasmuch as there was no declaration of war made b that Power aga inst the Porte. lie trusted Y a that that explanation would be sufficient--he should feel re gret if it wore not, but he had none other to give. It is said that M. de Kisseleff appeared satisfied— in a diplomatic sense—with the explanation. Admiral Hamelin leftT oulon yesterday in La take Plata steam corvette, to the command of the French squadron. The vessel La Jena has not joined the squadron. She is p rac ti c i ng m ai n ma. nceuvres off the Isles of Hyeres, and will shortly return to Toulon. By an imperial decree, Admiral Baron du Bour dicu has been nominated maritime prefect of Tou lon, in the place of Admiral Hamelin, appointed to the command of the French fleet in the Medi terranean. Au imperial decree of July 2 nominates M. Belurgey de Granville, prefect of the Lozere, to be prefect of the Aube, iu the place of M. Collet- Meygret, appointed director of general surety, and M. Janvier de La Motte, sub-prefect of St. E tienne, to take the place left vacant in the Lozero ; also M. d'Andigne, sub-prefect of Peronne, to be pre fect of the Charente, vice M. Riviere, who retires on a pension. Another imperial decree of the same date effects a number of changes amongst the sub- prefects and secretaries of prefecture, an d re establishes the office of secretary in eight pre fectures in which it had been suppressed. A decree in the Moniteur relieves from the obli gation of having a surgeon on board, all tr a ding vessels and whalers, of which the crew is less -than 30 men. The Bank of France has published in the Ilioni teur the result of its operations during the :.'irst six months of the present year, which show a plrofit of 6,387,000 fr. Among the principal items com.posing the profits of the establishment discount reckons for 1,400,000 fr. ; Rentes held by the Bank, 1 ,800,000 fr.; advances on railway shares, 812, 000 fr. ; and on public securities, 524,000 fr. The profits from different branch banks figure, in the ;eneral result, for 2,034,000 fr., after deducting this. losses on two of them. It is on these results tl tat the Bank declared a dividend of 70fr. a share ;ikor the six months. The Cons titutionnel, after giving the note of the Moniteur, respecting some of its statements, s ays:— "We prod uce thi s note without the least hesita tion, since it leaves us at liberty with rest ?ect to the information which we think it useful ti 3 com municate to the public. Let it, however, 1 le per mitted to us to remark that the Constitution.; tel did not say that the French officers had receive( 1 from. the Minister of War the authorisation to tal Le ser vice in the Turkish army ; it only spoke of infor mation obtained with a view to certain even ties. We accept, therefore, the correction ( )f the Moniteur in the measure of our assertion. Ls to the sale of muskets, we were only deceived as to the number." The reply of Reschid Pacha to the note of (;fount Nesselrode meets with the approbation that it de serves in the notices of the Parisian press. Some of the journals, indeed, reserve their remarl zs for another day, but there is no reason to suppm 3 that they will be less favourable than those we sul ajoin. The Debats says : " The reader will obsery e the tone of dignity and moderation of th e langut tge of Reschid. Pacha." The A ssemblee Nationale, w two days ago, only indulged in offensive alit isions to what it called the weak pride of the TE trkish Government, now says : " It is impossible not to be struck with the m odera tion which characterises this reply. The langu age of the Turkish Minister is sufficient to remove all fears. Russia has not now the slightest pretext for is taking war. If the Russian troops have received ord, ers to occupy the Danubian provinces, it is that the Cabi .net of St. Petersburg did not wish to appear too pros npt to accept any solution, except that which it had prof )used ; it feared that its acts would be a contradiction to its words. It appears to us more and more impossibi to that the Emperor should not admit the necessity of p utting an end speedily to the affair." The Pays has the following :- 4 , We publish to-day a diplomatic document o! f great importance in the difference between Russia and I 'urkey. Reschid Pacha has just replied officially, in the n ame of the Sultan, to the note of Count de Nesselrode, a ed it is this document which we now place before our i readers. Nothing can be more noble, dignified, and in oderate than the language of the Minister of the Porte. It is marked with the impress at the same time of col ifidence and of right. Reschid Pacha refuses the Emi )eror of Russia only what is incompatible with the hone mr and sovereignty of Turkey. He shows himself T. aady to accord all that is possible and just. In order t hat war could take place after such declarations, Russi: s should be decided to hear no observation and to dar a every thing. The proposition by which Reschid Pach a termi nates his reply will above all be remarked. The Turkish Government offers to the Russian Government to send an ambassador extraordinary to St. Petersbi irgh, to there resume the negotiations, and seek, by a common accord, the bases of an arrangement which can be accepted. This offer, which honours Turkey in the eyes of the whole world, and which is a new and stril :ing tes timony of her admirable moderation, renders pe ace still more imperative for the honour and interests of _Russia, for it would render aggression on her part mor e unjus tifiable before the universal conscience of Europe a." We read in. the Constitutionnel :—" Ti' ve Rus sians are difficult to satisfy. The irade of the Sultan in favour of his non-Mahometan si ibjects, which was considered of a nature to rem Ive all pending difficulties between the Porte a aid the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, is considered a now offence, if a letter addressed from Odes; ;a to a Berlin journal, the New Gazette of Pruss la is to believed. The letter, which is dated the 15th, says:-- " `The last firman of the Grand Signior has greatly surprised us ; but we have been still more to see that the English, German, and French journals pret end that it should be considered as the last concession i made by the Porte to the exigencies of Russia. It is ra ,ther the most hostile act to Russia which the Porte has hitherto published. It is clear that you must be plc used at Berlin that your co-religionists in th e E ast shoo old enjoy the liberties which have hitherto been privilege s of the members of the Greek Church ; but, as rega srds that church herself and her members, not only have they re ceived nothing, but by being placed on afc moting of perfect equality with other confessions, there results a real damage to them, since they will share wit Is others what belongs to them alone. Thus, whilst his Majesty the Emperor Nicholas demands that the Porte , shall un dertake to maintain the privileges of the Greek Church, the Sultan publishes a firman, which is an act ; of hos tility against that church, and the liberal jou rnals of Europe demand that the Emperor shall declare 1 himself satisfied." We fancy (adds the Constitutionnel) that we are dreaming when we read such things. WI tat !an act which has been considered by all Euro, pe as of a nature to give satisfaction to all interests, is held to be an act of hostility against the Greek Church, and the Czar will carry intolerance to the extent of not desiring liberty of conscience, except in fa vour of his co-religionists ! That would be di ffioult to believe, if acts did not correspond with th e rea soning sent from Odessa to Berlin. A considerable advance towards recoverin.g from the late panic was made at the Bourse yesterday at the termination of business, all descriptions of stock having materially improved in prile e, the Four and a Half per Cents. for the account; to the extent of more than 1 per cent. ; for money, the Three per Cents., rose 40c., and the Four and a Half per Cents. 25c. ; whilst for the end of the n lonth the improvement was 60c. in the Three per Cents,an.d if. sc. in the Four and a Half per Cents. No change occurred in Bank of France shares. Gl om g prices :—For Cash—Three per Cents., 75f.., qoc. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 101 f. 25c. ]For the Account—Three per Cents., 75f. 50e. ; Four-find a-Half per Cents., 101 f. 60c. Bank Stock, 2,650 f. In Bank of Credit foncier shares there is no v. tria tion to report, being still quoted at 650 f. ; a rise of 201. took place in those of the Societe Mobi lere, which closed at 715 f. The railway share mf irket also participated to a considerable extent i) a the general improvement in business, and an impx ove mcnt took place in all the principal lines : -Paris and Strasbourg sh ares rose 25f. ; Paris and. Louen, 15f. ; Orl eans and Paris, and Lyons, ea c h . I . of . ; Northerns, 12f . ; and Lyons to t h e Mediterran ean, sf. The fi na l quotations were Northern, 872 ; Orleans, 1 , 040 ; P ar i s an d Strasbourg, f 3 Bsf . ; Paris and L y , ons 890 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 005 f.; Lyons to the Mediterrean, 7 05 f. ; Western, 702 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 465 f. SPAIN. The ClanWi. pub/ico of M a d r i d, of the 2911 ult., states that rumours were current and ge: nerally credited that the Cabinet, which has just bi 3en re constituted, is already in a state of crisis. 1 ill the m i n i s ters had gon e t o A ranjuez, and a letter asserts that it was believed that General Le rsundi would give in his resignation. The Marquis de viluma had arrived in Madrid, from Naple( ;, and was to set out for Paris in a few days as am bassa dor. The accounts from Gallacia confirm( )to be most lamentable. In addition to the fearft 11 dis tress caused by the famine, the typhus fevi )r has broken out at Santiago and the environs. The Count de Montemoline has contributed 20,000 reals to the fund which is being raised, under the direction of the junta, for the relief of the sufferers. The 29th was the holiday of St. Peter and! St. Paul, and in consequence, the Stock Exchan ge was not open. GERMANY. The Postampt Gazette of Frankfort, under date of Cassel 30th ult., says :—" The trial for high treason has concluded ; the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on the main charge in favour of Pro. fressor Winkelbleck and Procurator Alsberg. M. Winkelbleck was declared guilty of giving cause for the proceedings, and condemned to the costs. The other persons accused, viz., M. Heisse and M. Wallach, who were tried by default, were found guilty of high treason without verdict of the jury, and condemned to imprisonment for five years, and to be deprived of the national cockade." The police made a domiciliary visit on the 24th ult. at the houses of 800 members of the Associa tion of Workmen at Rendsburg (Holstein), and seized all their papers. It is not known whether agy Qf a cemprorairiing oharaeter were dim:mend.