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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 18153.

THE letter of the Turkish Government to the

'four Powers justifying its modifications of the
Vienna note /14 now published, and may be
said to throw one more ray of light on the
complicated disgrace of our Eastern policy,
and to prepare us for its climax of imminent
confusion.

While we await with decorous and approved
terror the final fiat of the Russian Emperor,
we may estimate our position and the steps

by which we have reached it.
The authors of the Vienna note, as the
Sultan complains, have not chosen to con
sider his own proposal to put an end to
existing differences. They did not consult
his Ambassador at Vienna with respect to the
proposals which they did adopt, and they
ascertained that these would be accepted by
the Czar before they obtained information of
the views of the Porte. It would, moreover, re
quire a keener discrimination than we possess
to decide in what the terms they offered dif-
fered from those required by Prince MINEICRI-
xont ; but the Sultan does not avail himself of
these injuries and indignities, but confines
his explanation to his guarantees for the
future. He is grateful, of course, to the pro.
tating Powers, and it is repugnant to him to
hesitate where they are agreed ; but as his
Government " had been declared at the coin-
" meueement of the affair the only competsgst
" judge of questions touching its rights and
" independence," from the circumstances we
have stated, as he considerately expresses it,
he " finds himself placed in a difficult
position."
His difficulty is that which we explained
last week, that the Vienna note was so care-
lessly &tuned as to surrender to Russia the
very objects it contended for—that it recog-
nised her right to concern herself with his sub-
jects, and assigned to its exercise no other
limits than the conventions and agreements
which he may have made with other powers
for the protection of their subjects when resi-
dent in his territories.
This difficulty is summarily and clearly
stated in the following paragraph of the
Sultan's letter
To afford the Government of Russia grounds for pre-
tending to exercise a right of surveillance and interven-
tion in such matters, by strengthening by new engage-
ments the religious identity already subsisting between a
great community of the subjects of the Sublime Porte and
a foreign power, would be in some measure to share the
Sovereign's rights and endanger the independence of the
empire. It is. therefore, utterly impossible for the Go-
vernment of his Majesty the Sultan to give its consent
thereto, unless compelled to do so." (Sans y furci.)
The difficulty is precisely the difficulty of
surrendering, at the request of certain by-
• standees, professedly sympathetic, the rights
of which a ruffian is seeking to rob you, but
whose ability to rob you you have been pre
London, England, 1853-11-12

ttt fuss.

LONDON, S.ITURDAY, NOI'EMBER 11,

ALL negotiations between the European
Powers upon the Eastern question are b►oken
off. The Russians have recei►•ed a substantial
check in the Principalities, where, it appears,
their numbers have been greatly exagge►ated.
The Hospodars of Wallachia and Molda►ia
have retired to Vienna ; and the Czar pro-
fesses now to be solely occupied m ith the
design of wiping off the disgrace of his
defeat.

No

Its of consequence can

reach Prince GORTSCHAKOFF before next spring;
yet, until with his present, or additional,
forces he can repair the disasters which the
Russians have sustained, the discussion even
of the preliminaries of peace is postponed.
In the meantime, there is no pretence what-
ever for the rumours that the Czar has evinced
any disposition to accede to proposals for a (on •
ference on the subject of his differences with
the Porte ; and it is to the lust degree imm-
bable that, in any contingency, he will consent
to such Conference at London or Paris.

After a four months struggle with his Rus-
sian predileetions,and the same interval spent in
elaborating terms of compromise, it was simple
human nature that Lord AutiamiEs should ex-
-I►oet, as he did expect, to be able to announce at
the Mansion-house dinner that his negotia-
tions had attained their end, and that a com-
promise had been effected. On the morning
preceding the very day on which he was to
gratify the City Magnates his audience was
considerately prepared for the surprise by the

innouneemeut in his t)rgan that " reports
" from all quarters concurred in representing
" that terms of tuljustment had been virtually
" arranged." But, between this announcement
and the auspicious hour when the Premier of
England was to confirm it in a grand tableau,
events hail again exploded the diplomatic
bubble, and the threads of the negotiation
were floating to the wind, shrunk up and scat-
tered in the battle-wreaths of a commencing
conflict.

His Lordship superfluously enough admitted
that the desire for peace, on which he had so
much emphasis, was no longer to be under-
stood as " implying the impossibility of war."
In fact, the paper which recorded the credita-
ble profession that " the policy of her Ma-
" jolty's Government was a policy of peace "
reflected on the zeal or adroitness with which
this policy has been pursued, by reporting that
London, England, 1853-11-12

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USIt.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

ON last SaturaWnight, Nov. the sth, a considerable
crowd was attracted by the first performance of Mr.
Duggan's Pierre. It is a very slight piece, in which
Pierrit (Mr. Henry Drayton) is depicted as mad,
and then gradually recovering his reason by hearing
some favourite old melodies sung to him by Nicette
(Miss Lowe). The piece is not inaptly called "a
lyrical sketch." Deficient in variety of dramatic in-
cident, it might be contracted with advantage. Its
music is light, pleasing, and graceful ; and some of
the airs, charmingly sung by Miss Lowe, were re-
ceived with deserved applause.
After the performance of Pierre we were treated
to that delight of genuine playgoers, " a row." Fol-
lowing the example of less harmonious operatives,
the orchestra had " a strike," not upon their instru-
ments, but upon their manager. Altercation was
heard from behind the scenes, and some unrehearsed
etrects were produced, which were not at all attuned
to the plaintive sweetness of the music of Pierre.
ruder the generally excellent management of this
theatre such interludes are of rare occurrence. The
audience were very good humoured. The occupants
of the gallery sang in chorus, " Cheer boys, cheer,"
and their performance was highly relished by those
who tilled the boxes and the stalls. Sonic lines of
" Molly Bawn " were next sung by a noisy hut good
humoured l'atiander, and the time was whiled away
until at last the curtain drew up for some very good
dancing, in which Miss Parkes, a new candidate for
applause, distinguished herself by the grace and
vigour mmf her Caelasea. An net of tionnatubnia was
then played, but time orchestra decamped for the
second time, and the audience had to retire without
seeing The Star of the Rhine. As faithful chroni-
clers we are obliged to record these incidents, but
they are not of such unfrequent occurrence in theatri-
cal life RS to call for any special strictures. We feel
pleased at a well-meaning attempt to sustain the
appetite for an English opera, and we wil ]not follow
the example of some of our contemporaries, whose
censure was rather disproportionate to the occasion.
London, England, 1853-11-12

him,—the approved method of rewarding and
dismissing a fairy who ham done service.
" The Three Trials; or, Crabby Cress," is a
wonderful tale, abounding in startling incident,
but scarcely so pleasing as the first. It is de
ficient in art. Again, " The Seven Crosses of
Tiverton "is complicated, but we are interested
in the seven little girls " who were twins," and
who were all in a round basket like little birds
in a nest, opening their months for food. The
next tale, "'The Pixies' Bath," we notice
to reproach Mrs. Bray with a morbid craving
for horrors. The (lse is this :—A wicked man
is trying to till up a Pixy pool, whereupon,
" although working in a place so lately filled
" with water, the fleas swarmed in such abun-
dance that the men tore the very skin frt on their
"bones with scratching." Wherefore in Pixy land,
with all its machinery at herdisposal, must she
resort to one of the plagnem of Egypt to accent
plish her purpose? Poetical licence is pardon-
able, but this licence is not poetical.
The last tale we notice for the sake of the
illustration, or rather for the sake of Mr.
K. Brown and his brethren. It represents a
beautiful prince asleep, and Serena, the lady,
falling in love with him. And here is the
point : his legs are prodigiously long, and we
accuse Mr. Brown and his brethren of
Idly associating virtue and good qualities ge
morally with length of legs. Any illustrated
serial (except Mr. Thackeray's) will establish
the truth of our criticism. rooe
gazing at these long legs, and lulled by the
soothing sound ofa waterfall, is lute for prayers,
not bearing the vesper bell. She has to give a
silver bell to the chapel to expiate her crime,
but alas ! not having fully confessed, she is
drowned close to where she saw the prince,
who was not there to save her, when there
might have been a reason for giving him
long legs, viz., that, resembling the waders,
ho might have taken to the water without in
convenience, and fished out his intended.
The chapel—bell and belfry—has vanished,
and is no more visible to mortal eye ; yet when
a flood of white light falls from the fitll round
moon, changing the mist of the foaming cas-
cade into diamond dust, mingling with the
many voices of the water, that silver bell is
still heard ringing a fairy funeral chime.
London, England, 1853-11-12

NEW MUSIC.

Second Musical Serrice for the Church of England.
By Charles Edward Stephens, Organist of Trinity
Church, Paddington. London

A 311.141C11. service, arranged for four voices. The
composer deserves praise for simplifying church
mus►c so much. The whole service before us is
written with great care and an evident desire to
adapt it to the generality of performers. The har-
monies, when employed, are written as simply as
possible. The "Te Deum " and the responses
after the Commandments are arranged well.

A Set of Sonlp. The poetry selected and published
by permission. The music by Edward Francis
Fitzwilliam. London: D'Almaine and Co.

A sEr of songs, consisting of twelve ; the poetry by
different authors—Shakspeare, Macaulay, Byron,
L. E. L., Blanche, 17. c. The music throughout is
most creditable to the composer: it shows an excel-
lent arrangement in simple keys, combined with a
strict attention to the accompaniments and sympho-
nies. In some of the songs, particularly in No. 4,
" Love is a weary thing," we are reminded of many
passages in the "Irish Melodies." Mr. Fitzwilliam
possesses the talent of uniting sweetness and bril-
liancy in his songs, and is happy in the style and
taste displayed in this series.
London, England, 1853-11-12

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•As abolition of the Daly on Advertisements enables us to
insert at the price of Three Shillings the Advertisements
for which we have hillwrto charged Fire; and Adter•
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in the law.

TO CORRZOPOICZNTO.
It is Impossible to aekuowledge the masa of letters we receive.
Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter;
and wheu omitted, it is frequently front reloads* quite hide.
pendent of the merits of the em ttttttttt ieatiou.
We eanuot undertake to return 1:,, 11111 l anieations of which we do

not &veil ourselves.
Ctw►munlcations should alway 4 be legibly written, and on one
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Whatever le Intended fur insertion must be authenticated by the
name and address of the writer, nut neoeilatitily fur publica-
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London, England, 1853-11-12

THE PRESS.

Mr. W. IL Webb, of New York, has been commis-
sioned by the Emperor of Russia to build a huudrett-
'Mil ship Of war, furuished with a Mean► propeller as
an auxiliary isiaer.
Tile Panama papers state that the provinces of
l'asto and Barbaeuits, New Granada, were iu u state

of re‘olution.
The first accident since the opening of the Panama
Railroad occurred on the Ist ult., when a train with
lion passengers was thrown off a bridge, at Taberelia,
into a ravine sixteen feet doep, by running o‘er an
ox. Four men were killed and several severely
injured.
The Spanish Minimwr at Vera Cruz has suspended
his relations with the Mexican Liovernment, and left
the capital. The revolution at Yucatan had been
suppressed. The Indians continued their depreda-
tions.
The Jesnits are re established in Mexico. Through
the defalcation of their cashier, the Sisters of Charity
have been rendered bankrupt ; their debts amount
to several hundred thousand dollars.
In Valparaiso two hundred thousand dollars' worth
of properly had been destroyed by a lire.
An extensive mercantile lino, that of Diago
Brothers, had failed in Cuba, %nil liabilities extend-
ing to the amount of riot yin° dollars.
At the Chinclia Islands there were upwards of
one hundred vessels loading or waiting their turn to
receive cargoes of guano. Severed of these vessels
must remain for months at the islands before they
can be supplied. It is said that the Peruvian tiovern-
ment had agreed to allow full compensation for the
insults and injury to the Americans.
SANDWICH IST.ANDS.

Adviees to the :nth August state tl►at the King has
refused to abolish the Ministry of Judd and Arm-
strong, notwithstanding the petition sikmed by •d(pl
American residents and MOM native islanders.
Seditious speeches and publications abounded. and
the revolutionary tendency was such, that either the
Judd dynasty or the Hawaiian (Government must tall.
The Czar of Russia has turned his attention to the
islands, and it is rumoured that 11,00 Russian
emigrants, under his protection, are on their way
overland to Kamschatka, with the Sandwich Islands
as their ultimate destination.
The whalers arrived at the islands report having
seen the English ship Plover, of the searching ex-
pedition. in August, in the Arctic Sea. They also
state that the Esiptimanx had given up all hopes of
Franklin's safety.
INDIA AND CHINA.
The overlimd mail from India bag arrived at
Trieste and Marseilles. The dates are from Calcutta
to (let. 3, Bombay Oct. 11, Burmah Sept. li, and
Hong Kong Sept. 47.
()lir troops in Burmah arc in a state of siege, and
the esou►tr in possess►on of the followers of Meah
Toon out other chiefs of equal rank, who give out
that they are acting under the authority of the King
or Ave. British steamers are tired upon in going
up and down the river, and the country is becoming
a desert.
Mr. Dawes Thomason, the tiovernor of the Agra
Presidency, 1. dead.
Sh►atmhne has been occupied since the WI Sep-
tember by a baud of insurgents. At Amoy, on time
I•tth September, the rebels completely routed a body
of Government troops.
London, England, 1853-11-12

661

hate your neighbour's government is the foreign policy of his party.
Tear up national traditions by the roots ; overlook all differencen made
by a thousand years of diverse blood, climate, and tongue ; varnished
over with a little sentiment, black, white, red, and yellow aro all the
same.

" Let all the nations rrottill join
In a compact Ann mid true ;
And each kiss his brother
(Somehow or other),
In 1862:"

This was the strain with which Squally ushered in the year after
the Exhibition. In strains like these he urges on the human mind to
that millennium of cheap production and no govermuent which his
inspired vision secs iu the future.

ABERDEEN'S COMPLAINT.
(Arm' Comma.)
Forced from home and all its pleasures,
Premier's post I took, forlorn,
Knowing I must counsel measures
Recently I'd laughed to scorn.
For the Coalition " sold" me,
61ad to clutch the nation's gold,
But though colleague they've enrolled me,
They, in their turn, now are sold

Still the Czar's as much as ever,
What are England's rights, I Ksk,
Him from Stamboul's soil t4l sever,
And his projects take to task ?
If he deigns, in pure aftction,
Certain provinces to claim,
To oppose his predilection
Seems to me a burning shame.

Why did all-creating Nature
.loin the Russ and Turkish soil,
If the Danube's muddy water
Russian enterprise must foil ?
Think, ye English, iron•hearted.
(Lolling at your jovial boards)
Only think of Turkey, parted
From the gallant Cossack hordes.

True, the Czar has knotted scourges.
Which his blinded foes abuse,
But they're things his duty urges
On blasphemers' backs to use.
He, observing what vexations
Turkish Christians undergo,
Just appeals to pitying nations,
Like a Russian Mrs. Stowe.

Talks of modern bastinadoes,
Wooden yokes fur Christian necks,
Sketched in travels—see Miss Pardoes--•
Also by the rougher sex.
Shocked to think such dreadful torture
Is inflicted by the Porte,
Nicholas commissions tiortsclia.
Koff to cut such doings short.

Yet a cruel Press reviles him,
Scoffs at his paternal rule ;
Faithless, ruthless, tyrant styles him,
And declares I'm but his tool.
Slaves of law, who keep appealing
To your boasted Western l'ow•ers,
How we movk your taunts, while feeling
Ilow your craft's outmatched by ours.

n..
London, England, 1853-11-12

The Cossack and the Turk. By Arthur J. .Tice.

London : Vir.etelly.
Tuts is a popular but carefully-compiled account
of the present crisis in the affairs of the East, and of
the events that led to it, ending with that last note
of Omer Pati' to Prince tiortschakotf which imme-
diately preceded the commencement of hostilities.
By the treaty of Kainardji, concluded in 1774, Russia
" then obtained a right or simple ' intereessi iiii ' on be.
half 44 the Christian inhabitants of Moldavia and Wallw
chic in 114211 the treaty of Ackerman Wits e 1111 l +Ord. in
which the privilege of intercession was ilex melt to that
Of" representation.' liv the next treaty, vaned the treaty
of Adnanople an important step was secured for
Russia, who then obtained a right of ' guarantee.' And.
finally, in 11434, when an organie owttlement was effected,
determining the constitute of the two principalities, the
Czar became entitled to a right of ' protectorate' the
Greek Christiana that dwelt in them."
Mr. Joyce sketches the question of the Holy nacos,
and of other incidents which resulted in Prince
Itlenschikoff's mission to Constantinople, and then
interweaves the different notes and manifestoes that
appeared, in a clear and simple narrative. Some in-
teresting info:mation about the military and naval
resources of Russia and Turkey follows :
" The Russian captains and admirals arc not by any
means bluff, bearish old tars of the Drake. Tromp, or Ray-
ter stamp. slippered they are and wrapped 1110111.
Mg-gowns, and got up in the most splendid style of ease,
they 101 l on suit sofas of purple veliet. reading Frenell
WRAP, or they sit at the 0111110 by the hour, playing Enotex
par Chapels."
The Russian sailors and marine 4
" stand in their high hoots and stiff costs in the exact
position prescribed by the rules and regulations sit their
service, so that their feet form an angle of flit-triiye de•
trees, and this position it is their ride and their glory to
pi eser,* On the spirit, at the 'singed, and at the guns."
A map of part of Turkey, &c., is appended, with
carious other illustrations.

Pantomime finelyets. 1 Amami .T. Cross and son.
['morn the above rather fantastic• title :%lr. R. .1.
Cole ha% published a pamphlet, consisting of three
letters by him which originally appeared in the
Leader, advocating prepaid taxation l y wan.; of
atamps on a variety of documents, the re%idite bin
ouggestiqum sud oblervatious ou taxation geucrally.
London, England, 1853-11-12

RAILWAYS.

ltailway shares have been very well supported
during the ..eck. nntwithstmling the fin tuition.
which lime tweurretl in t',lnsols. .

The public evidently buy on any fall. The large
interest which railways pay at the present prices.
compared to the fluids, i. sufficiently tempting to
Caliße collie portion of the savings Of the c.amtry til
be invested in tl►em. Ile this means the lit ating
stock is becoming gradually absorbed.
In order, however, to show how detrimentally the
present state of atl'ai►s acts on industrial tinder
takings, we may mention that one of the India
railways only received 1:10,0not. nut of „lb
scriptions for $O,OOO/.. notwithstanding We guariut
tee of .11 per cent. by the Fast India Company.
London, England, 1853-11-12

rout( 'Markt

IFILIDAY EVENIN4).
THE funds during the week have been sithjeete.l to
eolptiderable thtetttations, the CXIIVITIO plit'es biting
varied from U 5 to OM.

The cause of the decline is to be attributed partly
to the supply of stock which the price of tlse
brought to market, partly to the aceount being got
over, and also to the declaration of war against.
Turkey by Russia when many were expecting a pa-
cific solution of their differences. Another reason
may be assigned for this flatness—vii., that gold is
again being exported to the Continent, but not at
present in sufficient quantities to justify tmeasiness,
as we believe that, on balance, the imports of bullion
exceed the exports ; and the intelligenee from Aus-
tralia and California is most satisfitetory, so far as the
abundance of gold is concerned. The exports from
California alone will exceed eleven millions sterling
this year.

Thu settlement of the Consol account, however,
proves that a great scarcity of stock still exists, a
premium, varying from 1-10 to 11, having been given
for the loan of stock in very considerable quantities.
So long as this scarcity of stock exists, and the
demand on the part of the public continues, uo very
considerable depreciation in the price of Consols can
be expected.
The position of the Bank of England is also con•
siderubly improved, as may be gathered front the
fact of the Bank taking up stock this account to the
extent of about 900,000/., which she had previously
lent in the market, and which might have been again
lent at a premium.
We infer from this that the Bank has greatly im-
proved in position, and it is quite certain that very
few bills of exchange can now be sent in for discount
at 5 per cent., when the rate of discount in Lum-
bard-street does not exceed 4i to per cent. on good

paper.
We expect shortly to see a rapid diminution in the
amount of private securities held by the Bank ; and
were it not for the frer of large Unportations of
foreign corn, which induces the utmost caution on
the part of the Bank and bankers, it would be im-
possible to maintain the rote of money at 5 per
cent. _ _

Exchequer Bilk remain at a premium of from
to ss.

As we anticipated, very few of the South Sea dis-
sentients have availed themselves of the offers of
(ioveniment to discount their claims at 4 per cent.
As this stock is mostly held by trustees, we should
almost question their power to pay a discount ; and,
in the event of Consols being lower in January than at
present, how are they to be indemnified from any
claim being made to them for time difference ?
Consols opened this morning at 1)41, but, on the
Russian declaration of war against Turkey appearing,
the market has receded to 931 4, at which puce Con-
sols closed.
Money is very abundant in the Stock Exchange,
and in Lombard-street the brokers decline to allow
more than 4 per cent. on call, and many will not
give that rate f..r a shorter period than a month.
The Bank broker sold 100,0001. Consols to-day for
money, which has tended to depress the market.
%%Melt leaves off this afternoon with a liett‘y up-
peaninee.
The exchanges are rather lower.
London, England, 1853-11-12

EXETER HALL.

The Sacred Harmonic Society commenced last
night their twenty-second season, with their 29th
concert. The chief performances of the night were
I lenders "Coronation Anthem," the " I►ettingen 'Fe
Deum," " Zadok the Priest," and Mozart's " Mass
No. H." M. Costa conducted. In the programme
for the season, just issued by the committee, they
state, that arrangements have been made to bring
forward several work 4 hitherto unperformed by the

NOVEMBER 12, 1853.

society. Among those which will receive the earliest
attention is Beethoven's " Grand Mass in 1)." The
success which attended the reproduction of tlanders
"Samson," with the masterly additional aecompani-
meuts of M. Costa, has also led the committee to
make arrangements for the early revival of the same
composer's " Deborah," a work which, although eon.
wining several of the great toaster's grandest
choruses, is comparatively but little known. It is
also intended to give a performance of anthems and
cathedral music on a scale of completeness commen-
surate with the society's present position. Madame
Aiardot Garcia is announced to sing in the next con-
cert, on Friday, the :rah inst. She will sustain the
contralto part of Micah in Ilantlers Samson.
The third of the series of Wednesday Concerts took
place on I‘'etinesday evening, and proved entirely
successful. Mozart's nymph yin ti minor was the
great work of the night. In addition were the piano
forte performances of Mlle. Clauss, anti the singing
of Miss Birch and Mr. Augustus Braham.

Ely puma'.

LYCEUM THEATRE.

JF.Af.otsv, we are told by an excellent authority, is
always a telling subject with theatrical audiences,
0 for that shoe pinches every foot." The new farce
prepared, according to our surmise last week, for
Wright, at the Lyceum, is a proof of the soundness
of this maxim. In itself the piece is commonplace
and somewhat wiredrawn; but. a jealous wife, capi.
tally performed by Mrs. Frank Matthews, with
Wright as the sufferer under her absurd suspicions,
furnish the staple of the fun and carry the play
triumphantly through. There is no plot worth men-
tioning. A series of trifles brought together with
some ingenuity make Mrs. Dubchick jealous—some
more trifles ease her of the complaint. Mr. Deb-
chick also upon trivial incentive takes the tit in his
turn, and in his turn is trivially cured. The "tag"
which furnishes the title of the farce offers some

recommendations Hole to make Home Happy. The
dialogue is not brilliant, the humour being chiefly of
the practical sort. But the actors contrive to render
it sufficiently amusing, and the spectators find H.
cause fir complaint. The piece, we must add, is
attached to The Commencement of a Itml Farce, vice
the .original occupant of that post, Wright at Last,
which has retired to half price, or what would be
such at other houses.
London, England, 1853-11-12

the Turks had erossod the Danube at four
different points, and that protracted negotia-
tions had procured the final rupture in a form
which tendered war not only possible," but
indisputably present.
On such a catilitrophe, so brought about, it ap-
pears to be equally superfluous from our 1 t
of view to oiler any comments of our own at
this moment. On all sides, both at home and
abroad, in diplomatic circles as well as in the
looser interchange of less accurate information,
the present Calbillt`t is alone held responsible
for a result which they invited in wantonness
and ensured by imbecility. Having afforded
the Czar an excuse for attack, they have left
him at last without the option to retreat, and,
as they have negotiated without issue, they
will probably Illellitee without effect. A Con-
ference is suggested as a bare aspiration, not
as a hope which eau lie realised at any definite
time or place ; and, in the interval which must
inevitably elapse before any combination of
events could induce the Czar to murrender his
hereditary policy to its control, the impulses
of any one people, or the aecidents of empire,
may produce a preponderant.° which will com-
promise the peace and liberties of Europe.

PARIAAMENTARY REFORM.
Oca contemporaries are very busy in discuss-
ing the probable, or the fitting, arrangements
of the "large measure of Parliamentary Re-
form" which is the basis of the present Coali-
tion Ministry. We have ourselves notieed
one or two of the suggestions that have been
thrown out to feel the pulse of the public on
the question of the suffrage. We have shown
the utter futility of what is styled the educa-
tional franchise, a pntjeet plausible on the
surface, but which will not bear analysis. It
is one of those sentimental schemes which
abounded in the time of the great French
Revolution, and which end always in anarchy,
plunder, and despotism. We have had quite
enough of political sentimentalism ! In
nothing is it inure important that we should
stand upon the ancient ways than in the
matter of the franchise. The essence of the
franchise must be property : it must in this
country be a privilege, and not a right, and a
privilege arising from tenure and tax-paying.
We recommend our friends not to be en-
trapped into any controversy at this moment
as to the principles on which further changes
should be made in our parliamentary consti•
tution. Let us hear what Sir JAMES GRAHAM
and the other "large-measure Hie " have to
say for themselves. We know what he said at
Carlisle, nut only in his public speeches, but
in his private canvass. We know ha de- •
nounced Lord .Toss Russimes last scheme of
Parliamentary Reform, because it did not trans-
fer the forfeited franchises to great towns.
We know Sir Jim :s's language was so violent
and revolutionary on this head, that an emi-
nent disciple of Sir HUBERT PLRL, and one of
• his present colleagues, felt it this to the
London, England, 1853-08-06

LANI►LOItI AND TENANT (IRELAND) HILL.

On the motion for the third reading of this bill on
Monday evening, Lord MAncti moved an amendment
to the 10th clause, with the object of preventing
landlords from distraining upon growing crops.
The SoLicFrou-GENERAL for Ireland resisted this
amendment.

The division which followed WILY memorable, as
being the first at which "strangers" were allowed to
be present, pursuant to the resolutions agreed to by
the house that same evening. The result was to
reject the amendment by a majority of 94 to 70.
A clause afterwards moved by the Irish Somerroft-
GENERAL for preventing the summary ejection of a
tenant until he had had opportunity to claim com-
pensation for improvements was carried upon a
division, and the bill then passed.
London, England, 1853-08-06

THE PRESS.

" That, in consequence of that recent decision, the mem-
bers of the board who dissented from it have withdrawn
themselves from the commission—namely, his tirsce the
Archbishop of Dublin, the Right Hon. Baron (invite. and
the Right Hon. Francis Blaekburne.
" That such a step on the part of men of so much weight,
and of such libend views on education, hilt' greatly shaken
the general confidence in the board, the public being ap-
prehensive lest such vital departures from the spirit of the
system may become precedents for still further changes;
and, in but, as an A.M. and sign of such insecurity, some
patrons have already dissolved their connection with the
board.
" That, on the implied pledge of being permitted to use,
in the combined instruction of all children whose parents
should be desirous of it, all the books published or sanc-
tioned for that pur)ose, your petitioners were induced to
convey their lands, or spend their !moneys, for the crecti
and maintenance of national schools, or were content to
sacrifice convenience and to incur much obloquy.
"That your petitioners still approve of, and are anxious
to maintain and extend, the system of national education
established in Ireland, and therefore most humbly but ear-
nestly pray that your lordships will take measures to have
the system restored to its integrity, by preserving the reli-
gious element which has hitherto pervaded the combiued
instruction, and by leaving the books already published for
that purpose free to all children during school hour", with-
out being forced upon any whose parents or guardians may
object to their use."
London, England, 1853-08-06

MISSIONARY BISHOPS BILL

This bill stood for second reading in the House of
Commons on Monday, when

Mr. A. KINNAIRD moved that it be read a second
time that day three months. It had, he maid, been
carried with unseemly haste through the House of
Lords, and interested parties had had no time to con-
sider it..

Lord SEYMOUR also opposed the bill.
Mr. R. PHIIJIMORE explained its objects, after
which

The bill was rejected without a division.
COLONIAL CHURCH REGULATION

A motion for advancing this bill on Monday next
through the stage of a second reading was made on
Tuesday by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who wished the
house to see and consider certain amendments to be
proposed by the Solicitor-General. There was no
intention of pressing the measure further this ses•
sion.

Mr. KINNAIRD opposed the motion, believing that
the bill was too bad to be mended, and that no
colony would accept it if it were offered. Too much
religions disputation had already intruded itself into
Parliament ; and, to shut out the possibility of more
from this source, he moved that the bill be read a
second time that day three months.
After some remarks from Mr. HADFIELD and Sir
R. INGLIS,

The Souctroa-GENERAL pleaded on behalf of the
motion that, if the amendments were laid upon the
table, it would be found that the bill was reduced to
one•tenth, and that they would accomplish two ob-
jects—first, that there should be preserved the most
perfect religions equality among all denominations
in the colonies ; and, secondly, that the colonies
should be left to the free and uncontrolled manage-
ment of all their affairs, ecclesiastical and civil.

Some considerable discussion ensued, in which
Lord J. Ilussm.t. explained and Mr. It. PALMER de-
fended the bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER also supported it, with some general remarks
upon the condition of the Church in the colonies.

Mr. ♦. SMITH, Mr. HENLEY, alid Mr. NI.7WDEGATE
opposed the motion, and ultimately Mr. Kinnaird's
amendment was agreed to, and the bill is consequently
lost.

THE PRESS.
London, England, 1853-08-06

THE PRESS.

provement which died away, until the last week of
all blazed up with the production of Fiesco and Die
Braut von Messina.

This last play was, we think, the cheld'eurre of
the season—most imposing as an uncommon spec-
tacle, and played with the best distribution of talent.
Strange to say, the Germans feared it would be
heavy, and therefore deferred its production as long
as they could. The play, written on the Greek
model, is a play of mere declamation ; and the public
they thought would get tired of the long speeches.
But mere declamation is just the thing in which the
Germans excel, and therefore the piece in question is
exactly suited to their talent. We have seen many
artists whose power of impersonation we should place
far higher than that of Herr Devrient, but we do not
know where we should find a better elocutionist.
Metrical language from his lips has a charm totally
irrespective of the sentiments it conveys ; and the
same, though in a less degree, might be said of all
the actors iu the Braut von Messina. Heaviness
should not be a bugbear with German performers in
this country. No one, they may rely upon it, goes to
see their doings as a mere amusement ; but their
audience are a staid, sober set, who come to sit
through works because they are classical, and because
they occupy an important place in German literature.
In a word, the English readers of German are the
support of the German theatre.
But would not some light, amusing play suit the
German residents in this large metropolis, who,
without caring so much for classicality, could relish
a joke conveyed in their own vernacular? Alas!
alas ! The German residents in London, though
they are many and rich, do nothing whatever to en-
courage the enterprise of Mr. Mitchell in endeavour-
ing to find an English home for their histrionic
compatriots. Of this neglect, we understand, the
German actors bitterly complain, and we can per-
fectly sympathise with their complaint. Two years
ago, such a thing as a play of Gothe or Schiller,
acted in the original language, was utterly unknow.i
in England. The German residents cannot, there-
fore, be so very much surfeited with the productions
of their own dramatic poets ; and certainly—without
flying into raptures —we can affirm that all the
German chef-d•mtrres have been played quite well
enough to constitute an agreeable and intellectual
entertainment. But nationality seems out of the
question now-a-days, and Mr. Cobden himself could
not surpass the German merchants in that philoso-
phical indifference to the land of his birth of which
he is so distinguished a professor.
London, England, 1853-08-06

DEFACING THE COIN.

Ma. FITZROY'S very successful piece of legisla-
tion on the cab question bids fair to be ri-
valled by the proposed Govemment bill for
preventing the defacing of the Queen's coin.
The offence complained of is, in the present
case, not a political, but a commercial, one.
The English people are not naturally prone to
treat with disrespect anything that has the
sign of royalty about it. The Queen's head,
therefore, whether on postage-stamp or penny-
piece, is with us as safe from insult as the
Queen's person. We have, thank Heaven !
no rival dynasties whose disappointed ad-
herents think it worth their while to exaggerate
the royal nose, or shorten the royal forehead,
or indulge in any of those tricks with the
effigies of the Executive which disturb the
repose of Ministers and Prefects across the
Channel. But we are a trading people—a
nation of political economists—who claim the
right to avail ourselves of whatever our indi-
vidual ingenuity may devise for our own
material benefit. In pursuance of this noble
principle, certain cunning persons have dis-
covered that the coin of the realm, circulating
among all classes throughout the length and
breadth of the land, affords an advantageous
vehicle for advertising their wares to the
world. From an historical view of our own
experience, we suspect that one RomssoN, a
provincial cutler, was the first who had the
keenness to discover this expedient, and, by
the simple stamping of his name, profession,
and address on heavy penny-pieces of the last
century, elliptically to induce mankind to send
to him for their knives and razors. We pre-
sume that he has since made a fortune, and
set up in business as a scientific farmer. We
can imagine Romssos (who was, we pre-
sume, an exparte Free•trader) learnedly demon-
strating that no check ought to be applied to
his advertising propensities, beyond the natural
one arising from the deterioration (if any) in
the exchangeable value of the coins in ques-
tion. The cutler has had many imitators ;
insomuch that, if any one dips his hand at
random into a heap of coppers, he will pro-
bably find at least one coin there with some-
body's name and address, or somebody's
inquiry whether you have read some magazine
or newspaper, indelibly engraved upon both
sides. This is the nuisance which—allowed
to flourish under all previous Ministries from
the time of ROBINSON downwards—is now pro•
posed to be remedied by Mr. GLADSTONE'S

Let us see how this is to be done. The bill
is especially directed against this system of
advertising. It is proposed (for we leave out
of the question already existing acts confess-
London, England, 1853-08-06

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Court an ataskiou.

HER MAJESTY returned to town on Tuesday from
the Isle of Wight. On Wednesday and Thursday
the Queen had dinner parties at the Palace, and on
the latter day visited the camp at Chobham.
THE CROWN PRINCE AND PRINCESS or WURTEM-
BERG (Grand Duchess Olga of Russia), who left
Stuttgard on the 30th ult., reached London on Tues-
day, and were received by the Queen in the course of
the following evening at a Court held specially for
that purpose in Buckingham Palace.
HER MAJESTY was pleased to stand sponsor to the
infant son of the Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor,
who was christened on Wednesday in the private
chapel in Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty named
the infant " Victor Alexander." The other sponsors
were the Duke of Sutherland and the Marquis of
Westminster. The baptismal service was performed
by the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell.
Two PRINCES OF THE ROYAL FAMILY OF PRUSSIA
are expected shortly to visit England—namely,
Prince Frederick William, heir apparent to the
throne, and the Prince Adelbert, Lord High Admiral
of the Prussian navy, who will visit Portsmouth to
inspect a small squadron of that nation about to refit
at that port. It is rumoured that at no distant
period the preliminaries of a matrimonial alliance
will be arranged between the Royal Families of Great
Britain and Prussia.

THE PRESS.

HER IMPERIAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUCHESS
OF LEITIITENBERG, eldest daughter of the Emperor
of Russia, has returned to Torquay from a short visit
to London.

THE ROYAL. EPIDEMIC of the season, the measles,
has attacked the King of Hanover and two of the
young Princesses. The Princess Royal of Belgium is
also said to be suffering from the complaint.
WE regret to state that the Countess of Minto
died on the Ilnd ult. near Piedmont. Her ladyship
was the mother of Viscount Melgund, Lady John
Russell. and Lady Elizabeth Romilly.
LADY HOLLAND gave her third and last reception
for this season at Holland-house on Monday
evening.
London, England, 1853-08-06

EXPENSES AT ELECTIONS.

The motion for committing this bill, moved on
Wednesday by Mr. C. BERKELEY, was resisted by
Colonel starnonr, who said he had carefully coma-
dered the measure,
" and ventured to designate it as a mean, low, dirty bill
—( laughter )—daagenatm and delusive, and a trap set for
the unwary man, who might be knulty of that which he had
no intention of committing. When they talked of bribery,
let them (141 away with the patronage of the Treasury bench;
there was bribery enough there ; and if a man in Ports-
mouth, or Chatham, and other places did not vote accord-
ing to the wishes of ministers and their satellites, he would
get a broad hint that he would lose his plsiee, or that none
of his relations should succeed him. (Hint, hear.) He
proposed that the further consideration of the bill should be
postponed to that day three months."
Mr. W. Mums supported the bill.
The house divided :
For the motion
Against it
Majority for the motion