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London, England, 1855-04-28

WE are in a condition now to estimate the cost
to the country of that manoeuvre which ejected
the Government of Lord DERBY from office
little more than two years buck. Political
crimes or political errors must not hope to
escape their just consequence, and the country
which sanctions or suffers them must be pre-
pared to pay their penalty.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S insatiable eagerness
for power was the main cause of that combi-
nation which overthrew a Government of prin
ciple to replace it by a Government of in-
trigue. The Whig party followed his lead
from the knowledge that he has the keenest
scent of the pack ; they follow it now, and
they will follow it to the end of the chapter.
Nothing but the indignant sense of the country
will put an end to that pernicious system of
maintaining the governmental supremacy of
what CHATHAM justly termed " a few too power-
" ful families," by concession to democratic
cries and corrupt influences,—a system which
has all the vices of oligarchy without its
strength, and all the dangers of democracy
without its public spirit. The system is
purely Whig in its origin and its growth ;
it becomes more perilous as it becomes more
degenerate, and combines the opposite dis-
advantages of making the Government weak
and the country turbulent.
Twenty years of official power during the
last quarter of a century were not enough for
Lord JOHN and his great Whig families. The
most enlightened members of his party had,
indeed, the sense to perceive that it was
breaking down by its inveterate place-hunting.
They conceived that a probationary period in
Opposition would be useful to it to recruit its
popularity and even to give the country the
advantage—an advantage not to be over-esti-
mated in a balanced Government like ours—
of possessing a second set of statesmen. But
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that plan, and every trader was satisfied. We are aware
that it will be said that by giving time parties would take
opportunity to pay the lower duties; but, as counter bene-
fits, the quantity thus paid upon would be so large that the
pressure on the market preventing an undue advance
would protect the public, whilst the Treasury would gain
a large present accession by the amount of money andel-
patorily paid in.
Our remarks above apply only to London, but if parties
in the secret at the ontports have availed themselves of
the opportunity (which no doubt they have) the evil is the
greater. Whether hereafter there should be an advance in
duties or a reduction, time should be given to enable
parties to adjust their stocks, and no Government ought
to adopt a scheme which on the one hand may give enor-
mous gains to individuals, and on the other inflict exten-
sive injury.
Whether such time of preparation should be
allowed, or whether the change should take place
immediately, is a question open to debate. There
are obvious advantages attending the latter practice,
as otherwise in the case of advanced duties the
Government would for a period be deprived of the
desired revenue, while great capitalists would be en-
abled to gain an advantage over traders in general.
But, not less for the credit of Government than for
the interests of fair dealing, it is essential that in
such changes all dealers should stand on precisely
the same footing; and it will be difficult to convince
the public that a secret which could be kept from, say,
198 dealers all interested in obtaining early informa-
tion could not be kept from the two firms in the
trade which obtained such large pecuniary advantage
from its knowledge. Corruption is an ugly word, but
a grave suspicion of it is raised by the facts of this
particular case.
London, England, 1855-04-28

SHARES.

The Railway Share Market has been inanimate,
but prices are well supported. The weekly returns
of tratlic receipts, published this morning, present a
more favorable result than for some time past.
FOREIGN.

Then has been very little done in Foreign Stocks,
speculation being quite in abeyance.

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BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 82
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wire was in perfect connection and in good order, as was
proved by the messages all reaching the .4r us, it was im-
possible to transmit an answer back to the shore. As the
ship increased her distance from land, the wire gradually
gave faint intimation of returning powers; and at last,
when 100 miles of it had been laid down, the messages
were easily sent backwards and forwards. The scientific
gentlemen sent out in charge of the telegraph were utterly
unable to account fur this phenomenon.

Tug BALTIC FLEET.—The following vessels arrived
at Elsinore on Wednesday :—Magicienne, geyser,
Snap, Snapper, Cuckoo, Gleaner, Pelter, and Princess
Alice. The latter broke her connecting-rod while on
the voyage. The Cuckoo proceeded.
The first Ba_tic capture of 1855 has been an-
nounced. The vessel was the Afgran, Kenewich,
from Lubeck, with a cargo of coals, which was cap-
tured off Libau on the 17th inst. by her Majesty's
steamer Desperate, and has been brought into
Memel.
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buried. All the other mosques have experienced the
same fate. No stone-built house in the city has re-
sisted the terrible shocks. Enormous masses of
earth and rock have become detached from the
flanks of the mountain above the upper streets of
the town, and rolled down upon the Jews' quarter,
whose ruin they completed.
As to the wooden houses, which escaped with less
injury from the earthquake, they have been destroyed
almost entirely by a conflagration. The fire broke
out at several points about nine o'clock, and is
raging while I write. The scene is awful. The
Bazaar, and the whole quarter of the city around it,
presents nothing but a heap of smouldering ashes.
The European quarter has suffered least. It is
situated in the plain, and the houses of the Franks
have, in many cases, stood the shocks with little
damage. But what miseries are around us on every
side! If the Government does not afford assistance
immediately and energetically, hundreds of females,
who are left without shelter, food, or clothing, must
perish miserably.
Nom—The conflagration still continues ; the
night has been fearful. The shocks of earthquake
have not ceased even yet. More than a hundred and
fifty, more or less violent, have been counted. The
population seems plunged into an indescribable state
of stupor. The number of victims is still unknown ;
whc, indeed, can give any account of them ? News
has arrived that Tikindji, a village situated about a
league from Broussa, has been utterly destroyed.
Many hamlets and farmhouses in the adjacent dis-
trict are also said to have been wrecked by the con-
vulsion.

jortign nub dolonial 3nttilignut.

FRANCE.

The Emperor and Empress of the French landed
at Boulogne on Saturday last, and passed the night
there. On Sunday a review of 30,000 men from the
camp at Honvault was held in presence of their Ma-
jesties, who afterwards departed for Paris, where
they arrived by seven o'clock that evening. Ac-
cording to Galignani the Empress has benefited con-
siderably in health by her visit to England.
Confident statements are made that the Emperor
will proceed to the Crimea immediately after the in-
augural ceremonies attending the opening of the
Paris Exposition. All the preparations are already
completed. General Aupick has been selected by
the Emperor as the head of his staff when he as-
sumes the command of the army of the Crimea.
Admiral Hamelin has been appointed Minister of
Marine in the place of the late M. I)ucos. The de-
cree conferring the appointment was dated from
" Windsor Castle."

Two new squadrons will be added to every cavalry
regiment in the service ; in other words, an addition
of 90,000 hoist) will be made to the army. These
squadrons will remain in France as cavalry of
reserve.
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VIENNA.

The conferences came to a close on Saturday last,
the Russian plenipotentaries positively declining to
accept the propositions of the four powers. On
Monday the several negotiators met again merely to
sign the protocol recording their transactions at their
last meeting. That day Lord John Russell
left Vienna on his return to England, after a prclonged
interview with Count Buol. The French Minister of
Foreign Affairs, M. Drouyn de Lhuys, remains for
a few days longer in the Austrian capital.
The Independance of yesterday states that General
Hess declared that the Austrian army will take three
months more to make the necessary preparations for
entering on a campaign.
On the 18th inst. a battery of field-pieces, the sixth
with which gun-cotton only is to be used, left Vienna
for Gallicia. Other batteries of the same kind are
being prepared in the arsenal of the capital.
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BALAKLAV A.

I think you are not Justified in impugning the bravery of a man who, as both officers and
men present iu the battle of 13a!skim' have tebtitied, led two regiments gallantly into action,
rallitd them the other side, brought them back again, ac.—Vide Lord it. Payees letter to
" Times."

We fought beside you, brothers in the battle—
Do ye deny us sharers of the crown ?
We bore with you the blood and dust and rattle—
Is no part ours of all the fair renown ?
Soldiers and friends I before yon Russian town
Were noble names called twice when bugle sounded ?
Soldiers and friends ! were white hands dull and down
When, with blades raised, forth to the charge ye bounded?
Nay ! nay ! ye nobly cry, ye are not they
Who basely make our honours our demerit,
And what dear fame we earn fritter away
For the mean envy of what we inherit:
Wolves—herding ever where one yell hath led ;
Camp followers—stripping living men, not dead.
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Hails one "right man in the right place."

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bers of the Government, Lord Cowley, and the
foreign ambassadors had the honour to receive in.
citations. At nine o'clock there was a representation
in an elegant little theatre fitted up at St. Cloud, by
the artists of the Theatre Francais. The piece
selected by ber Majesty for performance was Les
Demoiselles de St. Cyr, by Dumas, a piece which her
Majesty had previously seen performed at St. James's
by the same company.
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AUG. 25, 1855.

of the Napier symptoms into the congested
malignity of the Netherb3 type. Spectators
must avoid infection ; but, at the proper time,
we shall give our opinion on the whole alarm-
ing case.
The catalogue of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S
awkward collisions of a most unpleasant kind,
is painfully long. They began with Mr.
O'GORMAN MAHON in 1831—with the Melbourne
Whigs in 1834—with sundry of the Cumberland
yeomen in 1837—with Lord JOHN RUSSELL in
1841 (when the Noble Lord took a memorable
distinction between the characters of Lord
DERBY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM)—with Mr.
DUNCOMBE in the letter-opening case, and
with Mr. MACAULAY (July 2nd, 1844)—with
Recorder SHAW in '46—with Mr. LAYARD in
the late session. To these is now added what
threatens to be the most serious of them all.
There is no House of Commons now sitting,
and Sir JAMES will have no opportunity for
firing off his hoarded rhetoric, and showing
how great a proficient he is in " the oratory of
terror."

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shal, with the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour
Both her Mtkiesty and the Prince were looking re-
markably well ; the Empress, however, appeared to
be suffering considerable indisposition, and its effects
were strongly marked upon her beautiful and inter-
esting features. Her Majesty and the Empress,
seated side by side, occupied the centre of the box.
By the side of her Majesty was seated the Emperor,
and Prince Albert by the side of the Empress. The
Prince Napoleon sat on the right of the Emperor,
and the Princess Mathilde on the left of Prince
Albert.

The piece selected by her Majesty for perform-
ance was the ballet of La Fonti, a piece which has
for some time been a great favorite in Paris. It is a
ballet pantomime in six tableaux by M. Idlazilier,
and the music, which is very graceful and pleasing,
is by M. Theodore Labarre. It was first represented
at the Opera on the Bth of January, 1855.
The dancing of La Fonti (Mme. Rosati) was
graceful and exceedingly beautiful, as was also that
of Mlle. Plunkett. In the first act of the tableaux
M. Merante, Mme. Rosati, Rousseau, and
were the principal artistes; in the second act M.
Bauchet, Mlle. Plunkett, and Mine. Rosati.
The remainder of the performance consisted of a
trio from Guillaume Tell, by Gueymard, Obin, and
Merly ; variations of Hummel by Mlle. Alboni ; duo
from La Reine de Chypre, by Roger and Bonnehee;
bolero from the Vipres Siciliennes, by Mlle. Cruvelli.
Mlle. Alboni was in magnificent voice, and her
florid and graceful variations were warmly applauded
by the audience, her Majesty joining in the applause.
The famous bolero, from the new opera of The Sici-
lian Vespers, was also charmingly sung by Mlle.
Cruvelli, and evidently appreciated by the illustrious
visitors. Gueymard, as Tell in the Swiss trio, was
unusually fine ; and in the noble duet from The Queen
of Cyprus, MM. Rogers and Bonnehee well sustained
the interesting characters assigned to them.
At the conclusion of the ballet the whole of the
artistes of the Opera assembled on the stage and
sang the National Anthem, a scene in the background
showing a beautiful representation of Windsor Castle.
The solo passages of the anthem were sung by Mlle.
Cruvelli and Mlle. Alboni. At its conclusion her
Majesty was about to retire, when the National
Anthem was most vociferously encored, and, amid
repeated cries of " Vivo la Reine !" for which her
Majesty gracefully curtseyed her acknowledgements,
the whole of the illustrious visitors returned to the
front of the salle, and once more the simple strain
of " God save the Queen " resounded through the
magnificent Grand Opera, a very large number of
the French portion of the audience joining in the
chorus. It was half past eleven when the royal and
imperial party quitted the theatre, amidst the plaudits
of the assembled multitude outside. By midnight
they were safely housed in St. Cloud.
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CAMPBELL—COLLIER—On the 20th instant, at St. George's,

.....
Hanover•square, Sir Alexander Campbell, Bart, of Boreal-
dine, to Harriette, daughter of Rear-Admiral Henry Collier.
GOODE—HOPKINSON—On the 21st instant, Wm. Henry
Goode, Esq., late Major 62nd Regt., to Mary, daughter of Wm.
Mandan Hopkinson, Esq., M.D., of Stamford.
JOCELYN—HILL—On the 16th instant, at Bryansford, the
Hon. John Jocelyn, to Helen, daughter of Captain Hill,
Bryansford.
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Court aull jastion.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO FRANCE.
THE memorable visit paid by Queen Victoria to the
capital of her great ally commenced, according to ap-
pointment, this day week, and every day since the
" Court Circular" has been dated from St. Cloud, for
the first time since that ingenious mode of promul-
gating doings and movements of British royalty was
invented. The proceedings of the royal party in
Paris have followed pretty accurately the programme
which we published last week. The following is the
daily chronicle of events as recorded by the French
journals, or reported by the industrious correspon-
dents of our London contemporaries :
London, England, 1855-08-25

Lyra Germanica.

Tales of France: Romantic, Historical, and Domestic.
Lambert and Co..
Romantic Tales ("Great Men. Ditto.
Tales of Humour. Ditto
Tales of Paris, Ancient and Modern. Ditto
The 4bomination of Desolation Come ; or, Revelation Re-
vealed. Nisbet and Co.

Report of the Commiuiorurs for the Investigation of Alleged
Cases of Torture in the Madras Presidency.

Madras: H. Smith.
Catherine, the Egyptian Slave. Rev. W. J. Beaumont,
M.A. Cambridge : Macmillan.
Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett and flu Times.

Sampson Low and Son.

Reply of a Belgian General gfficer. T. G. Jones. W. Jeffs.
Sufferings of Royalty ; or, Human Greatness a Fallacy.
W. Pinch. Effingham Wilson.
Benthamiana ; or, didministratire Reform. Ditto.

Report of a Albite Meeting on Establishing Rural Librarins
in Ilertfordshire. J. and W. Boone.

3111.4,it.

THE MUSItAL FESTIVALS.
BIRMINGHAM.—This great triennial meeting will
commence next Tuesday. The programme is one of
such magnitude, and the novelties are of so much
interest and importance, that the review of the
week's proceedings in the next number of THE PRESS
would extend beyond the bounds given in these
columns to matters musical, if a few preliminary
facts were not now submitted. The Birmingham
Musical Festival was established in 1769, but it was
owing to the great exertions of the late Mr. Joseph
Moore that the committee of the General Hospital,
the existence of which depends on the general
success of these gatheilngs, were enabled to induce
the ratepayers to consent to the erection of the Town-
hall, the magnificent edifice, with its colossal organ,
in which the performances take place. There is a
standing committee always at work in the organisa-
tion of these festivals, and Mr. Oliver Mason is the
able and active successor of Moore, in attending to
the complicated details. The festival committee
succeeded in prevailing on the Town Council to im-
prove the interior of the hall. The decorations have
just been finished, and a new system of lighting and
ventilation has been carried out. In harmony with
the Grecian exterior, the Italio-Greek style has been
adopted in the interior. The musical arrangements
have been, RS usual, a source of great anxiety and
difficulty. The committee hoped to have secured Mme.
Otto Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind ), and a curious corres-
pondence has taken place, exemplifying the well-known
"she would and she would not " disposition of the
Swedish nightingale, but at the close, the determina-
tion of the fickle prima donna was declared in a letter
to Mr. Mason, affirming that she wanted " rest during
the whole summer for the body as well as for the
soul," sic inari. Argal, she could not sing at the
Birmingham Festival in 1855. Another disappoint-
ment was in Mme. Clara Novello. The diplomatic
papers connected with the operatic negotiation have
London, England, 1855-08-25

THE QUEEN IN PARIS.

Thursday was reserved as a day of partial rest for
her Majesty, whose fatigue on the previous days had
been excessive, and the Queen accordingly remained
peaceably at St. Cloud until the afternoon. Prince
Albert, however, paid another visit to the Industrial
Exhibition, where he arrived at half-past ten, and
stayed until nearly two o'clock. His Royal Highness
occupied his time in a curious scrutiny of various
departments, noticing especially the collections of
arms and warlike instruments. He made also several
purchases ; among others, becoming possessed of a
diamond pavure and an ebony cabinet., elaborately
carved. Her Majesty on the previous day had like-
wise bought a number of rich silks, &c.
At two o'clock Prince Albert reached the Tuileries,
where the Queen had already arrived, and whence,
after lunch, the royal party proceeded to the galle-
ries of the Louvre, and viewed the splendid series of
paintings of the old masters there collected. The
visit was quite private, no spectators being admitted,
and the illustrious visitors entering the Louvre by
the private door from the Palace of the Tuileries.
At night the magnificent ball came off at the
Hotel de Ville, for which it is stated that not less
than 200,000 applications had been made for tickets
of admission, the number granted being extremely
limited. Queen Victoria opened the ball by dancing
with the Emperor Napoleon.

It is arranged that her Majesty and the Royal
Family will leave town for Balmoral, on Thursday,
the 6th of September, by the Great Northern
Railway. Her Majesty will pass a night at Holyrood
on her way.

Fifty-four persons have been tried by the Cor-
rectional Tribunal of Nantes, for being connected
with a secret society, all of whom were found
guilty, excepting seven, who were at once set at
liberty. Ten of those convicted were sentenced
to two years' imprisonment, seven to eighteen
months, twenty-one to one year, and nine to six
months.

Six large and elegant Arabian horses have just
arrived at Marseilles from Syria, intended as a
present for the Emperor Napoleon.

AlVienna despatch of Thursday states that there
has beet a great interchange of couriers within these
few days. Two English messengers have been
despatched to Berlin; two Russian to St. Peters.
burg : a Prussian and an Austrian to Berlin
and Nirmkfort ; two to Pars and London, and three
to Italy.

The Second Wurtemburg Chamber having de-
manded of the King a reform in the political
organisation of Germany, his Majesty refused to com-
ply with the request, and dissolved the two Houses
if Legislature forthwith.
The late Duchess of Saldanha, the wife of the
Portuguese statesman, who died on the 6th inst., was
an Irish lady. To the duke, it is said, the blow will
prove irreparable, as he was devotedly attached to

THE PRESS.

her ; and some add that its effects will be to cause
him ultimately to quite public life.

Another first-class ship of the line, to be called the
Howe, is to be built at Pembroke Dockyard ; she will
class with the Marlborough, Royal Albert, and Duke
of Wellington, and will be considerably larger than
the latter vessel.
London, England, 1855-08-25

THE ATTACK ON SWEABORG.

THE view which we took last week of the
nature of the operations of our fleet against
Sweaborg has been fully verified by Admiral
DIINDAS'S despatches. As we surmised, the
storehouses, arsenal, and Government buildings
upon the principal islands have been burnt, but
the sea defences at the conclusion of the born
bardment, to use the Admiral's own words,
" appeared but little (injured." In fact, so far
from being an assault upon the fortress of
Sweaborg, the attempt of the 9th, Admiral
DUNDAS clearly states, was limited to the
destruction of the dockyard and arsenal,
no attack against the defences being con-
templated at any period. The modest, manly
tone which pervades Admiral DIINDAS'S de-
spatch contrasts favorably with the bom-
bastic fustian put forth by the Times last week,
and re-echoed through the country. Upon the
first receipt of the telegraphic message briefly
announcing the bombardment on Wednesday
week, the Times declared that "Sweaborg was
"utterly destroyed." Not content with this sweep-
ing assertion, it even went into detail, and
informed us that " a few shattered earthworks
" and batteries are all that survive (?) of a
" mighty link in that chain of fortresses pre-
" pared for the conquest," &c. &c. ; in fact,
" Sweaborg was no more."
Such extravagant and unwarrantable asser-
tions as these, at a time when nothing was
really known of the details or results of the
operations, were unworthy of a paper in the
position of the Times, and serve to make us
rather the laughingstock than the "admiration "
of Europe. It would be scarcely just to the Times,
however, after having noticed these ridiculous
exaggerations, if we did not bear witness to the
creditable facility with which, on Tuesday last,
it ignored all that it had the week before so
triumphantly boasted of, and informed us that
Sweaborg was now reduced to its "naked bat-
kries," against which " the allied fleets did not
" venture, as it was scarcely possible we could
" destroy them without suffering terrible loss,
" and were hence compelled to leave them
" comparatively intact." We leave the comps
rison between these two statements on the
same subject to be drawn by our readers.
In another page the admirable letter of our
"Baltic Correspondent" will be read with
great interest ; it is undeniably one of the
best and most clearly written which has
appeared in print. From his account it
appears a miracle almost that the gun and
mortar boats, though at a range of 3,300 yards,
should escape with so little loss, for the fire of
the Russian batteries was at times very heavy
and of commanding range ; but the most
remarkable good fortune favored the attack
throughout. 1121 gun-boats seem to have
been handled in the most seamanlike
.ner, and every man and officer to have
Jrted himself to the utmoz*t. though it is
Imarkable a d worthy of no'ice here that
gallant Admiral in his despatch corn
,ds no officer under the rank of captain.
two such days there must surely have
n some inferior officers worthy of common-
London, England, 1855-08-25

FRANCE.

All interest in the French capital seems to be
absorbed by the visit of Queen Victoria. The ex-
citement occasioned by this event appears daily to
increase. Business is almost suspended, and holiday
making and sight-seeing are the order of the day.
The conductors of the Paris journals, inoculated
with the popular feeling, respond to the wishes of
their readers by giving the most copious accounts of
every circumstance, however trivial, connected with
the arrangements prepared to afford welcome and
entertainment to the royal guests of their Emperor.
Lord Howden, the English Ambassador at Madrid,
has arrived at Paris.
Four vessels left Marseilles and Toulon on Satur-
day and Sunday last, with troops and stores for the
Crimea.
London, England, 1855-08-25

GERMANY.

The urgent remonstrances made in Berlin by the
representatives of the Western powers against the
exportation of articles contraband of war to Russia
have had their proper effect, the Prussian authorities
having received orders to exercise the strictest sur-
veillance on the subject.
The negotiations for a Concordat were concluded
on Monday last ; and the document was duly signed
by the Pope's Nuncio and the Austrian Negotiators.
A letter from Vienna, in the Silesian Gazette,
states that the Empress of Austria is again in an
interesting situation.

PORTUGAL.
The King of Portugal, accompanied by his brother,
the Duke of Oporto, returned to his dominions on
the 14th instant, and was warmly received by his
subjects. The Duchess of Saldanha, who was much
esteemed, has died at Cintra.

TURKEY.

News from Constantinople of the 13th and 16th
inst. is published by the Oesterreichsche Correspon-
denz.

Omer Pacha had been invested with the order and
insignia of the Bath. He was still at Constantinople.
Advices from Trebizond of the 7th of August state
that the postal communications between Kars and
Erzeroum are interrupted. The Russians had ad-
vanced as far as Kapricio, on the road to Erzeroum.
Ten thousand Bashi-Bazouks had arrived at Er-
zeroum.

811

A winter camp is to be established at the Sweet
Waters. The camp, including that of Maslak, will
number 50,000 men.

RUSSIA.
A despatch from Warsaw of the 20th inst. states
that ten thousand of the Imperial Militia, WHO were
under orders to advance from Kisseleff into Poland,
have received counter-orders and remain in Li-
thuania.

A letter from Odessa of the 11th says :
Bodies of troops are constantly passing through this
place for Nicolaieff ; about 3,000 men of the iireco-Schi-
vonic legion, which were at Ismail, have also left for
Sebastopol, Several Poles have recently been shot at
Sebastopol, being convicted of acting as spies. While I
am writing this letter the air is completely obscured by
immense swarms of locusts. These insects have this year
committed dreadful ravages in Southern Russia.
A letter from Warsaw, in the Borsenhalle of
Hamburg, says :—" The Emperor has given (1,000
silver roubles to heirs of the persons lately mur-
dered by the Circassians of the guard of Prince
Paskiewiteh." The rouble is worth somewhat more
than four francs.

It is stated that the Emperor of Russia will,
towards the latter end of the month, proceed to
Sebastopol, with his brothers Nicholas and Michael,
in order to convey in person to the army the expres-
sion of the gratitude of his late father, as he verbally
promised to do.
London, England, 1855-08-25

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THE END ; or, the Proximate Signs of the
Close of this Dispensation.
By the Rev. JOHN CUMMING, D.D.
The momentous events now transpiring present startling
proofs end illustrations of the interpretation of prophecy which
are contained in these Lectures. The mission of Russia, the
nature and results of the present war, are set forth in the light of
Scripture, and demand the earnest attention of thinking minds.
London: JOHN F. SHAW, Southampton-row, and Pater-
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London, England, 1855-08-25

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UNITED STATES.

New York dates of the 11th inst. have been re-
ceived by the Ariel steamer.
The Pennsylvania papers are filled with accounts
of terrific rainstorms, floods, dams carried away,
barns struck by lightning, horses and cattle killed,
&c. The cupola of the courthouse in Taylor
county, Va., had been struck by lightning while
the court was in session, and a large number of
persons within the building. One man, the Rev.
Hezekiah Dunham, was instantly killed, and several
others prostrated, some of whom were severely
wounded.

The new York, Newfoundland, and London Tele-
graph Company's officers had sailed from the
former port, to lay down the submarine telegraph
cable between St. John's, Newfoundland, and the
mainland.

A sanguinary election riot occurred at Louisville
on the oth inst. Several persons were killed, and
many wounded. Two blocks of buildings were set
on lire. The Irish fired from windows, and killed
three Americans. One Irishman was hung by the
Americans; several were killed, and others taken
prisoners. The excitement was increasing when the
last mail left.

A collision had occtured on the Delaware between
twe vessels, and a number of persons were killed or
drowned. The Danish brig Janette had drifted
into the Bahamas with all her crew dead, supposed
to have been murdered by the crew of a strange
vessel.

A terrible calamity occurred at Wilmington on the
3rd inst. Several tons of gunpowder exploded, scat-
tering death and desolation around. Trees, build-
ings, fences, were levelled with the earth, and every
moveable object was dashed to an immense distance
and shattered in its flight. It has been ascertained
that not less than four persons were killed outright.
London, England, 1855-08-25

SIR C. NAP IER.

A Loma letter from the late naval commander.in-
chief in the Baltic was published in yesterday's
papers. Sir C. Napier gives an account of the
abortive councils of war held last year on Sweaborg,
and intimates that the want of mortar-vessels and
gun-boats was the main cause of no attack during
the season of 1854. He points out that he did lay
down a plan for attacking Sweaborg, but with the
intimation that, whether successful or not, the fleet
would afterwards be unfit to cope with the Russian
fleet, and adds
It will be seen by what I have written and by Admiral
Dundas's despatch, had my plan been followed up to the
letter, Sweaborg would have been annihilated. It appears
the allies had only 48 gun and mortar boats, and many
mortars have been disabled. They ought at least to have
had 100. Sir James Graham, in a letter to me, said 200.
Had that number been there, the bombardment would
have been continued by means of reliefs, as men are re-
lieved in the trenches. The mortars would have had time
to cool, and the bombardment continued till not one stone
was left on another, and an opening made for the ships to
go in and finish the work.
Sir Charles goes on to make several accusations
against the late Government :

Instead of building gun and mortar boats, they built a
parcel of iron floating batteries, which could hardly swim,
and if they could they would have been useless, for had
they been placed within 400 yards of Sweaborg they would
have been annihilated, and at 800 yards they would have
done no harm. . . . Had Admiral Dandas been fur.
wished with sufficient means he would have contemplated
an attack on the defences, and assembled the whole of his
fleet, ready to take advantage of the terror and confusion
occasioned by the gun and mortar boats ; the heat of the
conflagration alone would have kept the garrison from the
guns, and the fleet would have been iu Sweaborg, and the
whole of the fortifications, islands and all, blown to the
devil ; instead of that, the wooden buildings and magazines
are destroyed, and the work will have to be begun again
next year.

Sir Charles concludes his letter by saying :—" In a
subsequent communication I shall prove my charge
against the Admiralty of having perverted my
letters."

foreign and Qtolnniai 3nttiligente.
London, England, 1855-08-25

IRISH FISHERIES.

THE Irish fisheries, like every other self-production of
that unfortunate island, are as abundant as they are
neglected. It seems to be the peculiar fate of Ireland
to be blessed with abundant advantages of soil, climate,
and production, which are doomed to be neglected
precisely in the ratio of their real value. Upon
the fisheries of Ireland much has been written, but
for them little has been done, and we hail with plea-
sure the prospective formation of an English company
which promises to work in a proper and businesslike
manner, and, by a judicious system, develop to its
utmost this invaluable and most profitable resource
of the country. The success of the scheme turns
solely upon the question of supply, for the demand
in the interior of both England and Ireland is so
great, and increases so rapidly with the opening of
each new line of railway, that no fears need be felt
on the score of its sufficiency, backed up as it is by
the reports of the Irish Fishery Commissioners
for 1854, and of the unanimous opinion of the London
dealers. On the question of the supply every wiiter.
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HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY.

In answer to the Marquis of CLANRICARDE,
Lord PANMURE stated that the apparatus of Colonel
Bethune for attacking maritime fortresses had been
referred to a scientific commission, which had re-
ported against it.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH observed that scien-
tific discoveries ought in time of war to receive special
attention.
A considerable number of bills were advanced their
respective stages, and the house adjourned at ten
minutes to seven.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FransY.

VOTL OF CENSURE ON THE

Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice that on the 3rd of July
he would move a resolution—" That this house,
deeply lamenting the sufferings of our army in the
Crimea during the winter campaign last year, and
considering, in accordance with the committee, that
the conduct of every member of the Government
engaged in the management of the war was the first
and chief cause of those sufferings, does hereby
censure the conduct of every member of the Cabi-
net." (Loud cries of " Hear.'')

In answer to Colonel HARCOURT,
Admiral BERKELEY stated that no further infor-
mation had been received relative to the Hango mas-
sacre than what bad appeared in the papers, nor had
the Admiralty any confnmation of the accounts pub-
lished which gave hopes that some of the men said
to be killed were only wounded. He took the op-
portunity of denouncing the statement made by the
Daily News, in which he was directly stigmatised
as the author of the catastrophe.
On the motion that the house on its rising adjourn
until Monday,
Sir J. PARINOTON asked what course the Govern-
ment intended to pursue with regard to the Educa-
tion Bills, commenting on the delays they had met
with, and the apparent indifference of the Govern-
ment, in the face of the urgent necessity of settling
the question, and the anxiety of the public.
Mr. HADFIELD hoped that the speech of the right
hon. baronet was the funeral sermon of his bill. He
deprecated all the bills as founded on exaggerated re•
ports of the ignorance of the country, and a mis-
chievous interference with its free action.

Lord J. RUSSELL said that as the object seemed to
be to refer the bills to a select committee, there was
not the same urgent necessity for pressing forward
these bills as others which required to be passed in
the session. Admitting that the voluntary system
would not supply all deficiencies, those deficiencies
had been exaggerated, and the education it gave was
a free education, and was far superior to the compul-
sory system of the Continent.
Mr. JOHN MAconEoos. proceeded, amidst much
confusion, to argue upon the propriety of appointing
a Secretary of State for Scotland.
Mr. A. STAFFORD brought forward the question of
the arrears dne to the Crimean sick and wounded,
who made complaints which compromised the
Government, and hindered the progress of re-
cruiting.
Mr. F. PEEL could only repeat the explanation be
had already given,—that the Government did not