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TURKEY AND RUSSIA,.

Tim manifesto of the Porte declaring war was
communicated on the 9th instant, by the Turkish
Comm antler- in Chief, Omer Paella, t o Prince I lofts
chakott, commanding; the Russian clime in Wallachia
and Moldavia, accompanied, however, by an Ultima
lion, that, in order to allow the Primo time to consult
his tlovernment, Ito active hostilities would Ise row
mewed before the termination of fifteen days.

A proelamation, allilressed to the Turkish nation,
is to follow the manifesto, justifying the proeee4lings
of the• Porte.

The Euxiiie is Mit cif iseti, except to vessels under
the Russian tlag.
The Turkish Heel im to be statitaied nt. Ilattshik.
The last lithielN rnim 1%11011111'4 state that the
Aletrorolitan was to Ripe his blessing to the flags and
to the tniop, on the :Ird last., and that, on the Mli or
the 7th an attack would prohably he made on the
left bank of the Danube. l'askewitseli is said
to he nominated emiiiiiander iu chief or the
lir my on the frontier.
l'he tzar hits issued an ukase permitting the im-
vitiation into fluty Finnish town of all materials for
the equipment of vessels ditty free. This privilege
is to remain in force for the years.

roen emissaries of NI avzini have been arrested at
Innspritek. They betrayed ilient,elvem by their con-
duct. When a Rentlat me demanded their passport,.
one of them drew out a pistol from his, p..eket.
Them were found upon them English passports.
proelintiatilm,, and letter:, which 1•01.1111VIllige
persons in Southern T 31,11. They als,, had .toymmi
A tiftli emissary eseaped.

Nr.w l'Arrns or the '!Nth have been reeehol,
but the only news they contain is the grutif)ing in
telligence that mortality front yellow fever has
ohm SSI 1441,141 in New iniclins.

Till: Meta steamer lin: ani‘ed nt Soittlinuipton
with the West India moil. She briic,f. 19 141/. in
gold and silver. The :4 ellow re% cr hu l eon.isterso.l
alratod at .181,116141, lout trade was ‘or .%11 par
ties wen• anxious for the nrrn al of the new go \
in the hove that lat•iitte,o4 wealll he itaprove4l, nlld
the colony placed 'Ton a MOM kraetnry
alining affairs were proveisling satisfachnily. mink
the agricultural prospeets of themend islands were
looking midi as usitl. St. Thomas': wn: visited hy
an earthoptake on tin. 19th ult. Tortola was tilet.
Sixty-one of the iinglenders in the late riots wen' in
custody.

I.titor CommEnttAt. Seiti:ims are on foot 11410'CM
011101 ant only Nowitsfy
been funned for the export thither of manufactured
gissls. but there is talk of establishing an Austra-
lian company on a large scale. at the head of whieli
will bo several of the largest Copenhagen mer-
chants.
London, England, 1853-10-15

TUE KOSSTA AFFAIR.

A most. voluminous mass of state papers, relating to
the Kossta difficulty between Ausnia and the United
States, has arrived by the last American mail. They
consist of a " note" from the Austrian Charre d'Af-
faires in Washington to the American Secretary of
State. and an elaborate reply from the President.
Chevalier Iltilscinann recapitulates in full detail the
most prominent incidents of the affair, and then em-
bark-t upon a series of arguments to show the pro-
priety, on the score of international right, of the sur-
render of liossta to the Austrians, with the further
conclusion, that it behoves the United States' Govern-
ment to disavow the condoet of its agents in Sturyna,
to call them to a severe account, and tender to Aus-
Uia some satisfaction proportionate to the magnitude
of the offence.

The reply, which is communicated by Secretary
Marcy, thus begins:—
" Department of State, Washinttion, Sept. 26.
" The President has carefully considered the note of Mr.
Hublemann, Charge d'Affaires of Isis Majesty the Emperor
4,1 Austria. of the 29th nit., addressed to this department,
and the other documents relative to the mueh•regretttd

oecurrences at Smyrna in June and July last, pith a view
t.i ascertain the nature of the complaints therein preferred
acaiust the Aturricau 4/Diem engaged hi that affair, and
London, England, 1853-10-15

MISS CUNNINGII.IIIE'4 ItELEASE.

Homy and TvdcAwv—despotisms spiritual and tem-
pontl--Itave shrunk liefore the united spirit of Pro-
testantism, and have released their intended victim,
in eontemplat ion perhaps of the possible advent. of Itri
tish ships in the Inuliour of Le born. The organ of
Lonl AnuatiEr.s, suddenly startled by this outrage
for u moment into an English and a untidy burst. of
indignation, has relapsed as instantly mutt, its leanings
towards despotism.
The arrest of Miss Ceti NI i.ll i: and her iticareent
bolt ill a prison for the (offence of giving to an Ifillitill
peasant an Italian version of the Mole is to lie
treated as a joke. Those subjects of the lintottl
Duke who read the Bible heroine, it seems, dis
afft.eted to his sovereign sway. We do not wonder at
it. Bible and tyranny—truth and falsehood—
comma co-exist.
The violation of any law of a foreign stab' by it
sojtounier in it we do not. justify, however moustmns
that law may Is. in itself ; but penalties should bear
some prolairtinu 1.0 OireiteeS. Till! Spirit of an titfenet.
should chiefly Is. considered in awarding punish
ment for it. The excuse put forth for the Grand
I Puke is, that the distribution of Bibles caused dis•
affeetion, and, if it hut been the object of Miss Crx•
Nts4lll ME It) excite civil commotion in 'Tuscany, her
punishment might have been deserved. But (Al sup
pose that. such was her object is absurd, and there
fore it eatiniit be urged to extenuate the brand
Duke's bigotry. It is as one incident in a scheme to
crush freedom) of Ott slight and liberty, civil and reli
gloom, thniughout the world, that we regard this
event ; and we cannot boo severely censure the spirit
that would treat with levity so flagrant a manifesto
Lion of such it design. Tyrants, great ands 11,
must lie taught that there is a limit ill patient endu-
rance of wrongs and insults, and, this l• t once
passed, and the heart of Protestant England ()love
*noised, they will find that they have to deal, not
with " antiquated imbecility," lint with the se III• 4
oho e who in old days tataisfroutaial tlisa power of
Rome when that power wielded the might of eloopire,
a, its weapons, and who shattered the fore'. of Spoils
when Spain was guided by the skill of FAttxv.sr, tool
ruled over by the heir awl successor of eitAid.u.s V.
London, England, 1853-10-15

(C't ptss.

LONDON, SATURDAY, (04'7'0HYR IM%

THE Emperor of %ce% is the inheritor of a
great imperial scheme, which, for upwards of
a century, has been in a state of successful,
and, latterly, of rapid, development. As his
reign has been long, as his abilities are consi-
derable, and as he is a man of strong charac-
ter, ho has enjoyed ample opportunities of ad-
vancing his object.. We are not prepared to
say that the mews of which he has availed
himself are more unjustifiable than those
which usually realise the purposes of imperial

ambition. We are not anxious to inainbiin
that the invasion of the Danubian principa-
lities is a more heinous act than the invasion
of Affghanistan by the Queen of Great Britain,
or the appropriation of Algiers by the King of
France. We will not consider the last Russian
aggression as a matter of tiny or justice : we
will consider it only as a matter of policy.
For a great inland nice to reach by conquest,
in this age of civilisation and political equili-
brimu, the shores of two oceans is itself a pheno-
menon, more alarming if' possible from its pros-
pects even than from its results. The Sallie in-
stinet that has brought the Muscovites to the
Gulf of Bothnia and the Crimea, to the Baltie
and the Black Sea, will never endure that
their colossal empire shall be restrained by a
MARE ci.Aust:m. The Sound and the Darda-
nelles are in the imperial scheme as neves
sary to Russia as and Normandy
were to France, or Scotland and Ireland to
England. Every statesman is convinced that,
possessing these two positions, the universal
dominion of Russia would, with time, be pine.
ticable ; and every one knows that these two
sovereign positions are now held by two weak
rowers. That is the " Russian Question."
It is not a mere question whether Russia
should attack our Indian territories; it is a
question not merely of the conquest of India,
but of Italy, of Germany, of Europe; of the
substitution of new laws, new customs, new
creeds, and new principles of action, through-
out the most civilised portions of the globe ;
of the supremacy of a new race, and the pre do
minanee of a new religion.
The decisive part which Russia took in the
fall of NArotEox gave her a natural and an
irresistible ascendancy in the Congress of
Vienna, and the Imperial scheme wits then
ilroportionntcly advanced, notwithstanding the
prescient but fruitless efforts of Lord CASTI.E•
ItKA4:II. Fl'4llll that petit' it Was the, effort
both of British and Austrian statesmen to
arrest its further development, and it should
have been of the French ; but Russia neu-
tralised the hostility by pritetising on the
of the eider Bourbons, and on the
death of Mr. CANNING commenced a series of
hantssing movements, which then, as in the
present instance, forced Turkey into a decla-
ration of war. That struggle ended in the
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tion. Belgium where the English ships
blockaded the scheldt. whilst the French ean
non breached the citadel of Antwerp ! Greve,.
—where the untoward accident 'of Nava

rum destroyed fir years the navy of Turkey.
Spain—with its lingering war of treachery.
famine, and murder, where quarter was not
given, and pillage was the substitute for pay'
Syria—with its brisk and dashing six weeks
campaign, in which the strong fortress of Aete
fell under the " arbitratory process of a
four hours bombardment, and toms were dic-
tated by Sir C. NAPIER With Alexandria 1111414.1•
the guns of his ships
If these are instances of the successful ap-
pheation of the rinciple ot " international
arbitration." and if it has been acted on in
the Eastern question. we may speedily expeet
its full development in a war which will be all
the bloodier because " arbitration " has given
all parties time to Krill to the teeth. Mr. 6 I.Ao-
STONE seemed to expect this himself for he
said we were never. in a veuniary point of
view, batter preialred for war.
Sir K. PEE', Mr. OLAMSToNifti political tutor.
took lessons from " the unadorned eloquence"
of Mr. Conn Ex. Mr. tiLAINToNE also would du
well to imitate Mr. CoanEx's style, but. without
his confusion of arguments and lints. Some
deficiencies and incongruities may at present
be pardoned in one who commenced political
life as " the rising hope of the unbending
Tories," and who now rails Sir WILLIAM
MolKiiNoliTll eolleague—espeeially when, sue
rounded by "the old familiar fneem" of BAZLEY,
IInoTIIERTON, PorrEit, and MOWS, amidst en-
thusiastic applause which is too much for his
feelings, he is commending himself to the
political followers of Messrs. Coauxx and
BRIG HT.
London, England, 1854-05-13

TURKEY.

A dissidence is said to have broken out between
Lord Stratford and General Baraguay d'Hilliers in
Constantinople. It appears that the latter was
desirous of protecting the Catholic Greeks, who were
ordered to quit Turkey on the 15th of April, whereas
Lord Stratford was opposed to exceptions, and ex-
pressed his opinion that all Greek subjects, without
inquiry into their religion, should be expelled.
Redschid Pacha inclined towards Lord Stratford.
This seriously vexed the French Ambassador, who, in
uniform, proceeded to the palace, and, in an inter-
view with the Sultan, complained of his Minister for
Foreign Affairs. The Sultan called the latter, and
remonstrated, and urged strongly against the line of
policy adopted. Redschid Pacha withdrew, and im-
mediately tendered his resignation, which was not
accepted. Subsequently we learn that the dispute
had been adjusted.
Certain individuals named by General d'Hilliers
will enjoy his protection, these persons being Catho•
lies and Greeks.

It is on account of this dissidence that the Emperor
of the French has superseded the general in his am-
bassadorial functions.

MAY 13, 1854.

Owing to the financial difficulties of the day the
Porte has decided to increase the circulation of its
paper by 50,000,000 piastres of 10 and 20 piastre
notes, not to bear interest. These notes will be re-
ceived in the provinces by the governors in part pay-
ment of taxes.

The Polish emigrants at Constantinople do not
doubt that the legion which they are anxious to form
in Turkey will receive the sanction of the Turkish,
English, and French Governments. The great diffi-
culty relative to the accomplishment of their hopes
arises at present from want of money.
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who, as we are informed, has only recently discovered
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by artists of long standing and great practice.

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ITALY.

The health of the Pope is still very unsatisfactory.
On the 24th ult. his Holiness was anxious to be
present at the funeral mass performed at the Sixtine
Chapel in honour of the late Queen of Portugal, as
is customary in Rome on the demise of any Cathol►c
sovereign ; but was not strong enough to do so.
It is stated from an authentic source that the
sequestration of the estates of 160 persons in Lom-
bardy, and 29 in Venice, has been superseded.
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going on between them which will result in the com-
plete triumph of one or the other. " Shall we wait
" till Popery shall have gone on gaining strength
" some five and twenty more ? Or shall we resolve
" at once to try the issue ? to settle now which of the
" two shall be the master ? This, my dear sir, seems
" to me to be the question which Lord John Russell
" really brings before the country and the Parliamint "
in the Oaths of Allegiance Bill. This pamphlet is
written without bigotry. The author, as is well known,
was formerly a Roman Catholic.
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The Vicarage of Ranby, near Wtagby ; worth 1001. a year, in
private patronage.
The Vicarage of Beeston, near Nottingham ; worth 3001. a year
in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire.
The Incumbency of Trinity Church, Dover; worth 200/. a
year, in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Curacy of Goodnestone, near Wiugham, Kent; in the gift
of the Rev. M. Hedd Lloyd, M.A.
London, England, 1854-05-13

UNITED STATES.

The Arctic has brought New York advices to the
30th ult.

The Gadsden treaty with Mexico, granting 10,000,000
dole. to Santa Anna for a new boundary, has been
passed by the Senate.
A dreadful conflagration occurred in Broadway,
New York, on the 25th ult. After raging for some
time, the building in which it occurred suddenly fell,
crushing fourteen persons to death, and desperately
wounding and burning thirteen more. On the 27th
the city and neighbourhood were visited by a tornado.
Several lives were lost by the falling of houses and
upsetting of boats. The calorie-ship Ericsson was
off Jersey city at the time, returning from her trial
trip, where she suddenly careened from the force of
the wind, tilled with water and sank, the guests and
crew barely escaping with their lives in the boats
which put off to render assistance. The tops of her
paddle-boxes and bowsprit were left just above water,
and it was expected she would be raised.
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A DREAM OF THE AMBASSADOR'S BALL.

Before me rose last evening late,
In life and lustre seeming,
The splendid crowd of Albert-gate,
In plumes and jewels gleaming.

And chief amid the brilliant press
One group I marked advancing,
Each placeman in his proper dress,
In proper orders glancing.

Their Premier came the first of all,
As like the ghost of Danby
(Ere foreign favour wrought his fall)
As two such people can be.

Another, as in farce we see,
Assumed a costume later,
The famous Diddler's garb when he
For " tenpence " asks the waiter.

A third in Burleigh's bugles strode,
And shook his head so knowing,
'Twas clear his hopes were " all abroad,"
Where all his wits were going.

But, overtaxed, my cheated sense
At length my slumber banished ;
I muttered, "want of confidence !"
And all my vision vanished.

SATURDAY,

" The interests of a noble country are not to be sported with," he
said. "I wished this Turkish gentleman to understand my sentiments.
There are no hopes for Turkey."
" While there is life there is hope," I said.
" But you have no life," he replied, impatiently. " What is the
state of Constantinople? Are not the streets full of dogs—twenty
thousand, I believe?"

" That is the number, my lord, and I believe exactly that of the
unhappy women who prowl the streets of your Christian metropolis."
" Ah!" he said, " that's another question—you don't understand
political economy, or you would see that an artificial state of society
must have unfavourable phenomena. That is no argument. yotr
streets, moreover, smell vilely, I know."
" I own it, my lord, and I have missed the odour ever since I came
to England until yesterday, when I was out on your Thames, and have
been ill ever since."

" Commercial interests forbid sacrifices to fastidious tastes," said
the Earl. " But look at your laws—arbitrary, bloodthirsty—why, a
man's head is off in Turkey before anybody knows that he has been
accused."

"The Padishah's vengeance falls rarely, but swiftly," I answered.
" You are wiser—you make a ruffian into a hero, whose life and con-
versation are the theme of thousands; and, after giving him every
chance of escape, you put him to death in the presence of the most
hideously profligate throng you can invite to the spectacle."
He found he was getting the worst of it, my Kabob, so he changed
his attack.

" Whether our reforms are complete or not may be a question,"
he said; "but we only want time for improvement."
"And we only want time, my lord."
" Yes," he said, "you want something else. You want a strong
Christian Government, to put you in the right way, and to keep you
there."
London, England, 1854-05-13

BILL FRAUDS.

Mr. Dianv SFvxoun on Tuesday moved for leave to bring in
a bill to make fraudulent dealings with regard to bills of ex.
change felonious in certain cases. He quoted the opinion of
Baron Alderson, given on the occasion of a recent trial, to the
effect that the state of the law was disgraceful with respect to
fraudulent dealings in bills of exchange, which should be treated
as felony, and said his bill was intended to carry out the views of
that learned judge.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the evil complained of waa a
serious one, and he should offer noopposition to the introduction
of the bill, but he reserved his opinion as to the details, which, he
feared, would be full of difficulty.
Leave was given to bring in the bill.

THE MORTALITY OF LONDON during the past three
weeks has been high, and the last return manifests a
decided tendency to increase. The deaths, which in
the last two weeks of April were respectively 1,193
and 1,211,r05e in the first week of May to 1,263. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1844-53 the
corrected average is only 1,046. The increase is
owing in part to a great depression of the mean tem-
perature, which fell from 52.6 deg. in the third week
of April to 43.0 deg. in the fourth.

SATURDAY,

Foreign anti (colonial 4uttiligentt.

FRANCE.

General Baraguay d'Hilliers is recalled from Con-
stantinople, ostensibly to assume an important com-
mand under the Emperor at the camp of St. Omer.
General Daumas is spoken of in Paris as likely to be
the new ambassador at the Porte.

Some surprise has been felt in Paris at the pro-
longed absence of ➢i. Hubner, the Austrian ambas-
sador. He left for Vienna on a week's leave of ab-
sence, and has been absent more than three weeks.

The situation of the Bank of France Is considered
so satisfactory, particularly with regard to the amount
of specie in the coffers, that the rate of interest,
which had stood at live per cent. since the 21st of
January, was reduced on Thursday last to four.
The stock of bullion has increased 4,000,0001. since
February.
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He administered to them all the last sacrament, and
then gave orders to shoot them every one. This was
done in the evening of the 10th of April. On the
following night he got through, and escaped with his
handful of followers to the Agrapha hills, but inces-
santly pursued by the Turks, utterly destitute. He
is now, it is said, on the eve of returning to Greece.
The Greek Archipelago is at present swarming
with piratical vessels, fitted out, of course, from the
islands and ports of Greece.
London, England, 1854-05-13

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E. & W. I. Dice. &
Edinburgh & Glasgow
Eastern Counties I
Ednbrgh., Perth, Dund.
Great Northern
Gt. Sth. and Wet of Ire.
Great Western
Hull and Selby
Irish South-Eastern 1
Lancashire & Yorkshire'
Lancaster and Carnal/3'i
Leeds Northern
Lon., Tilbury, & Sthendi
Lon., Brighton, &c
London and Blackwall,
London and Nrth-West.
Londndrry. & Coleraine
Londndrry. & Enneklln.
Man.,Shef.,& Lncolnsh.
Midland
Do. Birm. and Derby

Newmarket•
Newp.,Aber.ct Hereford
Newry and Enniskillen
New., Warrnpnt.,& Roe ,
Norfolk
Nrthrn. Counties Union!
North British
North Devon
North Staffordshire
North-Western
N.& Sth.-Western Juno
Oxf., Wrcstr., and Wolv
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Shrewsbury & Birming.
Shrewsbury & Hereford
Shrewsbury & Chester
Shropshire Union
South Devon
South-Eastern and Dov
South-Western

South Wales
Sth. Yorksh. Riv. Dun
Stockton & Darlinb,ton
Thms. Haven Dk. & Rail.
Vale of Neath
Waterford tt Kilkenny
Waterford hLimerick
West Cornwall

Wimbledon & Croydon
Woodford
York, Newc., and Bar
York and Nrth Midland
IiANKS
Australasian
Chartered Bank of Asia'
Ch. flank of India, Aus-
tralia, & China
Eng. Sctch & Aust. Cho
Lon. Bak o f Au.. & In
Lon. Char. link of Aust.
Oriental Bank Corpor.l•
Roy. Aus. Bnking& Old
Importing Company
South Australia
Union of Australia
1)o. New
MINES—
Brazilian Imperial
Do. (St. John del Rey),
Cobra Copper
Colonial Gold
Nouveau Monde ...

Mtscittarreous—
Australian Agricultural
Brit. American Land
Canada
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace of Franc
North British Ans. Land
Do. Preference
Peel River Land Min
Scottish Aust. Invest
South Australian Lan
Van Diemen'e Land
London, England, 1854-05-13

CHIMNEYSWEEPERS' BILL.

This measure, which has passed the House of Lords, and
is now before the Commons, imposes a penalty of 101. on
every person who compels, or any master sweep who
knowingly allows, any person under the age of 16 to use or
assist in the business of a chimneysweeper, the proof of
age to rest on the party complained against.
London, England, 1854-05-13

GAMING•HOUSES BILL.

This bill passed the second reading on Thursday, on the
motion of the ATTORNEY•(iENERAt, and without opposi-
tion, or even remark. The bill recites the act of ti and
fl Victoria giving power to the magistrates to authorise the
police to enter houses suspected to be common gaming-
houses, and arrest all persons found therein, and providing
that where cards or instruments of gaming are found in
a room it shall be primd facie evidence that the per-
sons in the room were playing. The bill then proposes
a penalty of 1001. on persons obstructing the entry of the
constables, or securing the door by a bolt, bar, chain, or
other contrivance ; and where there is such obstruction, or
the place is found fitted with means for unlawful gaming,
or for concealing or removing instruments of gaming, it
shall be prima facie evidence that that is a common
gaming-house, and that the persons found there were un-
lawfully playing. There is also to be a penalty of 201. on
giving a false name or address before the magistrates in
these cases, and a penalty of 1001. on a person keeping or
assisting in conducting a gaming-house, or knowingly per-
mitting his premises to be so used. The magistrates may
require persons apprehended in the house to be sworn and
give evidence, though it may tend to criminate themselves ;
but those who make a full discovery are to be freed from
penalties. Half the penalties are to go to the informer,
and half to the poor rate. An appeal to the quarter ses-
sions is to be allowed. If the informer neglect to proceed
with the case, the magistrates may authorise another per-
son to prosecute in his stead.
London, England, 1854-05-13

RUSSIA.

The Russian Government has withdrawn its
exequatur from the consuls of France and England
at St. Petersburg. In communicating that deter-
mination to the consul of her Britannic Majesty, says
the Moniteur, Count de Nesselrode offered that
agent his passports, whereas he announced to M. de
Castillon that the Czar authorised him to continue
to reside at St. Petersburg. The French Govern•
went has refused to accept the benefit of the differ-
ence of treatment which the Russian Cabinet has
endeavoured to establish between the consuls of the
two allied powers, and has ordered M. de Castillon to
quit his post.
A letter from the Baltic of the 25th ultimo, in the
Moniteur, says :

" The thaw of the Neva is expected in two days. The
ice has already broken up in the Gulf a little distance
from Cronstadt, which will be very probably accessible at
the end of the month. The approach of hostilities is
strongly felt at St. Petersburg, and measures are being
taken with a view to dangers wich are profoundly appre-
hended, though denied. Four batteries have just been es-
tablished at the entrance of the Neva. The metallic
reserve of the fortress was sent eight days ago to Moscow.
From the 27th the command of the town will be divided
between four military governors, and the state of siege will
be applied in all its rigour. Many persons are leaving for
the interior of the country. The departure of the Emperor
for Peterhoff, where the Court was to have gone on the
27th, is adjourned. His Majesty is in such ill health that
he had been obliged to countermand twice a review which
he had intended to pass. The displeasure caused by the
policy of Austria was every day expressed more openly. It
had been affirmed in some salons that the Government was
preparing to place that power, by an ultimatum, under the
necessity of pronouncing for or against it. But at bottom
it is with a sentiment of sadness, more in conformity with
the gravity of the circumstances, that the attitude taken
by the Cabinet of Vienna and the signature of the protocol
of Vienna, which has cemented the understanding of
Germany with the Western powers, has been seen at St.
Petersburg."
London, England, 1854-05-13

Ett Armg.

WAIL OFFICE, MAY O.
Royal Horse Guards Blue--General the Right Hon. Fittßoy
James Henry Lord Raglan, G.C.8., blaster-General of the
Ordnance, from the 63rd Foot, to be Colonel, vice Field Marshal
Henry William Marquis of Anglesey, K.G. and G.C.8., deceased.
68rd Regiment of Foot—Major-General John M'Donald, C. 8.,
to be Colonel, vice General Lord Raglan, G.C.8., removed to
the Royal Horse Guards Blue.
70tit Regiment of Foot—Major-General George Wm. Patey,
Cll., to be Colonel, vice General Gage John Hall, deceased.
truth Regiment of Foot—Major-General Lord James Hay to be
Colonel, vice Major-General Roger Parke, deceased.
London, England, 1854-05-13

442

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1 to celebrate the completion and opening of the new
I wing of the Brompton Hospital for Consumption.
An admirable site for this bazaar has been furnished
by her Makjesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of
1851, who have placed Gore-house and grounds at
the disposal of the directors. The Countess of Derby
has kindly consented to take a stall.
GREAT PREPARATIONS have been made for the

launch of the Royal Albert,l2l guns, which will take
place at Woolwich this (Saturday) afternoon. The
Queen and Prince Albert are to be present, a booth
having been fitted up especially for their accommoda-
tion. Many other booths on shore and vessels on the
river have also been prepared, and a grand stand
erected on the other side of the river for spectators.
The applications to the Woolwich authorities for tickets
have been exceedingly numerous: 9,000 were issued,
but that number could not satisfy one-half the
demand.
London, England, 1854-05-13

"'Tway the pomp of a pageant—
The pride of a day ;
'Twas the plaything of kings,
'Twas the pastime of sway."
(I'll bet that the money
To Henry was lent
At less than poor GLADSTONE'S
Small twenty per cent.)

" Each trumpet's shrill flourish,
Each charger's bold prance,
[The Poet indignantly ce

" And the nations in rapture
And pride see advance
The Lion of England,
And Eagle of France."
(Now what will you wager
The Premier still hopes
That there's no word of truth
In your flights and your tropes !
That in each new despatch
He most hopefully seeks
The advance of the Czar,
Or success of the Greeks?)

r, and the Cynical Friend disappears.

education, especially among the city population, in
both sections of the kingdom. He thought the
Government proposition for Scotland altogether in-
sufficient to cope with so gigantic an evil, and in-
tended to vote for the amendment.

Mr. BOUVERIE believed that the bill would tend to
improve the moral and educational state of Scotland,
and, although he disapproved of some of its details,
was anxious to give it a general support.
Mr. J. MACKIE eulogised the existing system, and
deprecated change.
Mr. HUME said that it was impossible that the
general education of the people of Scotland should
be any longer in the hands of a minority. The
separation which had taken place in the Church of
Scotland rendered a radical change indispensably
necessary. Circumstances and opinions had altered,
and for that alteration the Government were bound
to provide.
Colonel BLAIR protested against the unfairness of
throwing on the opponents of the bill the odium of
opposing education. He enlarged on the efforts
made for education by the Established Church.
That. Church maintained double the number of
schools over all the other sects put together.
Mr. COWAN complained that the supporters of the
bill had been characterised as destroyers of the
parochial schools and abettors of godless education.
An eminent minister had said that he would rather
see the Russians in the country, and the streets
deluged with blood, than see the bill pass. He
strongly reprobated the tone of the opposition to
a measure so diligently prepared.
Mr. NAPIER objected to the bill, because it super-
seded, instead of being merely supplemental to, the
schools already existing in connection with the
Church of Scotland.

Mr. COBDEN considered the bill deficient, inas-
much as it did not sever secular education from
religious instruction. He hoped to have it amended
in committee. The great problem of separating the
functions of the clergyman and the schoolmaster
pressed for solution, and Scotland was the most
suitable country to try it in.
The Hon. F. SCOTT supported the amendment.
London, England, 1854-05-13

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• • • •-•:•_, _ •

MAY 13, 1854.

" A CHANCELLOR'S CHEQUERED
With hand aloft and waistcoat doffed
He paced the lonely room,
And trippingly he tried his speech
To seal Oxonia's doom.
Portentous syllables were there,
And phrases fresh to common ear,
With syllogisms bold ;
He seemed to taste them on his tongue,
As forth the fluent sounds he flung.
He paused, that Chancellor—he smiled !
Oh ! crocodileau smile !
What daring sophistry beguiled—
What new Gladstoniau wile?
Sudden a step was at the door,
A voice, a form known long before—
'Twas Alma Mater's own;
And quick his recreant visage took
The colour of his bluest book.

" Oh tui euratiseime
The classic dame began,
Alieni profusiesinte
Thou cold ungrateful man.
For all my anxious hopes and fears,
For board and lodging, cares and tears,
Is this thy gratitude,
•
To doom to pixand book and bell
The dear mamma who loved thee well?

" Is't not enough I've seen thee keep
11l company and low—
Enough to make thy mother weep
If she had tears to flow?
The Grseme, and he ' qui, units lunno
Nobis perpetue cunctando
Destituet, quickly, rem.'
Jones, Smith, and Brown, thy bonds who sign,
Were trusty names to these of thine.
" And wilt thou with thy motley crew
Thus carelessly condemn
Systems in all else good and true,
But that they fostered them?
Look'st thou to see by Isis' strand
A ' Coalition' college stand,
With ' Coalition' creed ?
Take courage ! so it shall be soon,
When latter Lammas falls in June.
London, England, 1854-05-13

PRIZE AND BOUNTY MONEYS.

Sir J. liaAtum on Monday obtained leave to intro-
duce two bills for the encouragement of seamen ;
and for facilitating the payment of the navy, and the
distribution of prize, bounty, and salvage moneys
among the officers and crews of her Majesty's ships-
of war. The measures, he observed, were similar to
those which had passed with relation to prizes at
the commencement of every war, differing only in
containing some modifications of the scale under
which prize money wasto be distributed, designed so
as to favour the seamen.
The bills were afterwards brought in and read a
first time.
THE COAL TRADE.

A question whether coals were to be considered
as " contraband of war," and so prohibited from
being conveyed by neutral vessels into Russian ports,
was asked on Tuesday by Captain Scoaci.L.
Sir J. (IRAHAX said the question was one of great
importance and great difficulty. Coal was not in-
cluded in the terms of the order in council, but
instructions had been given to the officers command-
ing her Majesty's cruisers that coals should be
treated as "doubtful articles," i.e., such as might be
intended for commercial purposes, when they would
be treated as innocent; or might be intended for
purposes of war, when they would he of course con-
traband. The orders given to the officers were that
they should exercise a sound discretion with reference
to the port of destination to which the coals were
being conveyed, and as to what was reasonable
of the use to which they were to be put. Inel
were satisfied on these points they would not be
captured ; but if there was no presumption in favour
of their being intended for innocent use they were
to be captured, and be dealt with by the Courts of
Admiralty.
CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS IN IRELAND.

Copies of any memorial that might have been
presented to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in
favour of Hugh Luney, who was convicted of wilful
murder, and sentenced to death, at the late assizes
in Westmeath, but whose sentence was subsequently
commuted, were moved for on Tuesday by the Mar-
quis of WESTMEATH. He contended that the crime
was of the most serious character, and the culprit
one to whom mercy had been inappropriately extended.
The Earl of ABERDEEN gave some explanations of
the circumstances of the case, and defended the Irish

Viceroy, by whom the sentence had been commuted.
The Marquis of CLANRIOARDE complained that in
the criminal convictions in Ireland offences against
property were more heavily punished than those
against persons.
The Losn CHANCELLOR admitted that anch an im-
pression was to be gathered from the reports of the
trials, but remarked that the shades of criminality
in each case were very delicate, and the beat reports
might often mislead.
Lord WI/MATH having replied, the motion was
agreed to.

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4SB
London, England, 1854-05-13

GERMANY.

Several conferences have taken place in Vienna
lately between Count Buol, the Earl of Westmore-
land, and M. de Bourqueney, at which conditions
were agreed upon, to be offered by Austria to Russia,
after the former has occupied Bosnia, the Herzego-
vina, and Upper Albania. The conditions were said
to be found acceptable by Baron Meyendortf. They
were regarded as being probably the final attempt of
Austria to restore peace before she declares herself.
The Archduke Ferdinand Max is shortly to visit
England, to return to Queen Victoria, in London, the
visit made by the Duke of Cambridge to the Em-
peror of Austria in Vienna.
The Austrian Government has opened a subscrip-
tion at Frankfort and at Amsterdam for three mil-
lions and a half sterling. The new loan was issued
by the Messrs. Rothschild on the Bth, at 751 per
cent.

The state of things in Montenegro must, it is
stated, inevitably lead to some kind of intervention
on the part of Austria, Russia having almost forced
Austria to make common cause with the Western
powers.
The following intelligence is vouched for as
authentic by the Wanderer of the oth inst.
" A Russian army corps of 70,000 men is to be posted on
the frontiers of the Bukovina and Transylvania. Within
the last few days the local Russian Government has given
orders to the governors of the different districts to make
the most speedy preparations for the new troops, which
will be placed near Herza, liurduscheni, Falliceni, Botos-
cheni, and Tergul•Frumos, in the circles of Njemzu,
3/ash* Roman, and Bacan. The first part of these troops,
consisting of two infantry divisions and a few companies
of Cossacks belonging to the 2nd and fith army corps, will
cross the Pruth and enter Moldavia at Liptacheni, in the
direction of Herza. With these first troops there will be
eight batteries of twelve guns each."

Count Bonin, the Prussian Minister of War, has
been replaced by Count Waldersee, commander of
the Federal troops at Frankfort. Count Bonin passed
for being anti-Russian.
London, England, 1854-05-13

GREECE,

A despatch from Athens dated the 2nd instant states
that the Greek Chambers are dissolved. The insur-
rection was beaten everywhere in Epirus, in Thessaly,
and also, it is said, in Macedonia. Nevertheless, the
Greek Government was organising a new attempt to
revolutionise, assisted by the subsidy of a million
forwarded to it by the Russian Government.
The Paris Moniteur has published more than one
note reflecting in severe terms on the conduct of the
Greek Government in favouring the insurrection in
Epirus. All the representations of that Government
to the effect that the German powers approved of its
conduct are, the Moniteur affirms, completely false,
as the various German representatives at Athens had
received formal orders to express the disapprobation
entertained by their respective Courts of the conduct
of the Greek Government.

It is credibly stated that the Austrian minister at
Athens has informed the Greek Government that if
it was unable to maintain order Austria wag prepared
to do so.

Two Austrian ships-of-war have, it is said, received
orders to proceed to Prevesa, and to come to an un-
derstanding with the commanders of the French
and English ships.
It is stated in official quarters in Paris that not only
the blockade but the occupation of Greece is deter-
mined on. The corps d'armie to be sent without
delay for that object would amount to 12,000 men.
It is added that the Emperor Napoleon has ad-
dressed an autograph letter to King Otho, couched
in the strongest possible terms, and in fact command-
ing him to desist from taking part with Russia in the
war waged by the powers to whom Greece owes her
existence as a nation, and to whom she is indebted
for many favours, against that power, and that if
Greece persist she will have to bear the consequences
of her conduct.
The New Prussian Gazette says :

"At last the blockade of Greece has been officially an-
nounced to the Greek Government, and it is said that it
will commence in the course of a few days. The ambassa-
dors of the Western powers have officially declared to the
(government that the admiral of the squadron at anchor
in these waters has received orders to detain the three
Russian men-of-war that were bought by the Greeks at
Trieste."

When Grivas was reduced to extremities he found
he must cut his way through the Turks. But he
had 100 wounded with him, and these, of course,
would fall into the hands of the Sultan's troops. He,
therefore, preferred to kill them himself beforehand.
London, England, 1854-05-13

SWEDEN.

Sweden continues her warlike preparations. Five
fresh batteries of artillery have been ordered to be
put on the war footing. The national sympathies are
decidedly in favour of the Western powers.
At a banquet in the park, on the Ist of May, the
Swedish House of Yeomen drank with enthusiasm
the health of Admiral Sir C. Napier.
London, England, 1854-05-13

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THE PRESS.

VISION."

For thou this very week hast shown
That Cooker is to thee unknown,

Unlearned the rule of three.
And dost thou proffer me instruction,
Grandmothers !—and ovarian suction !

" When Francis and Henry
Their banners unrolled
On the fam'd field of Guines,
With its carpet of gold "
(I hope that the Commissaires
Managed to find
A shed for the English
That kept out the wind)—

" Their serfs in the sunlight
With fear saw the glance
Of the roses of En gland,
And lilies of France."
('Ti: plain that the weather
Was somewhat more clear
Than the sky of the East
At this time of the year.)

" Whether much longer they will bear
Thou jisci conturbator,
Thy tricks I know not, but I know
You've done with Alma Mater.
Speak double at St. Peter's chair,
Spin syllogistic budgets there,
And win the scarlet hat ;
And, thinking whither words have brought you,
Teach not again the head who taught you."
A. E.

MINSTRELSY OF THE WAR.
SCENE.—.I Second-Fluor Front.—Martial Poet of the Musical Publishers,
and Cynical Friend. Poet reading a New Song fur the War.

Spoke the bondage of England,
The serfdom of France !"
(Egad there's no longer
Such equal distress,
If We credit the tales
Of (Gallipoli's nuns.)

" But a dawning far brighter
On Europe hath come,
And the standard of France
Is the eagle of Rome."
(Don't you think 'Was more likely
We neer had had war,
But that some people's shuffling
Gave heart to the Car!)
London, England, 1854-05-13

THE PRESS.

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to La Plata and Charge d'Affaires in Brazil ; and from the
drawings of Sir C. Ilotham, during his recent Mission to
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