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London, England, 1854-07-15

JULY 15, 1854.

Satign anb 6olonial nttiligtrae.

FRANCE.

The Emperor left Paris on Tuesday for Boulogne,
whence he intended to visit Calais and the camp at
st. Omer.
It is said that there will be a new levy of 30,000
men ordered in France within the next few weeks.
The new Imperial Guard is to be reviewed by the
Emperor in person on the 15th of August. Placards
are posted in all the streets of Paris informing
tailors that they will find work for the clothing of the
Imperial Guard.
In order to meet the expenses of the war a new
French loan of 500,000,000 f. is talked of.
The Moniteur publishes along report from General
Bandon, tho Governor-General of Algeria, with re-
spect to the military operations which he is carrying
on at the present moment in the Great Kabalie.
The great tribe of Beni-Menquilet had made its sub-
mission. The chiefs had arrived on the 24th ult. at
the Governor-General's camp with their war tribute,
and to offer protestations of their submission to
France. The example was followed by another
great tribe, that of Beni•Baten, and several others.
Some of the resisting tribes had been attacked and
dispersed. The French troops, it was rumoured, had
since received a check in Africa.
A great deal of rain has lately fallen in France ;
but, though the harvest may be late, it is thought
that there will be an average crop.
The Moniteur announces that the differences which
bad arisen between French citizens and the Go-
vernment of Guatemala have been satisfactorily
arranged.
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There has been a marked improvement in Crystal
Palace shares. A few days since sales were forcedin
these shares at 1 discount, but they are now at par
or a little below. The number of paying visitors is
considered remunerative, and pleasant accounts are
expected at the meeting of shareholders announced
for next week.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
There was a panic on a small scale upon the Paris
Bourse on Wednesday, resulting in a fall of Rentes
to the extent of 11 per cent. This produced a cor-
responding decline on the English markets for
French securities, but the decline was partially re
covered to-day. Other foreign stocks have been
steady, but with little doing.
Messrs. Black and Durand continue their negotia-
tions in London relative to the proposed Turkish
loan, but have as yet been unable to conclude a
treaty with any capitalist, in the absence of a guaran.
tee of the interest and sinking fund from England or
France.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1854.

POSTSCRIPT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--FRIDAY.

The Earl of SHLFTESBURY, in moving for certain
returns respecting the Board of Health, vindicated
that body from the attacks which bad been made
Upon it. He went through those attacks with great
minuteness, with the view of showing that each of
them was unfounded and unjust.
The Bishop of LONDON blamed the Government,
which had thwarted the intentions of the board for
providing the poorer districts of the metropolis with
pure and cheap water.

The returns were ordered, after some observations
from the Earl of CARLISLE and Lord BROUGHAM.
Lord LYTTELTON, in moving for a return, blamed
the Governor of New Zealand for quitting the colony.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE warmly defended the
governor, who had been summoned home by a great
domestic calamity.
Adjourned shortly before eight.
London, England, 1854-07-15

Pistelianta.

SomE nights since a man and his wife, residing in the
hamlet of Branco), near Sevres, were awoke by a noise in
their bedroom, and, on making search, the husband saw
the legs of a man, who was concealed under his bed. lie
said nothing, but quietly took his musket, and, levelling it
at the intruder, told his wife to jump out of bed and call
the guard. The man under the bed begged for mercy, but
the other told him that on the slightest movement he
would fire. They remained in their respective positions
until the wife had brought the guard, and the fellow, who
was afterwards recognised as a liberated convict, was
marched off to prison.
A I)uEL was fought on the 3rd of June in Mississippi,
near the Alabama State line, between General J. C. Saun-
ders, of Alabama, and Judge Evans, of Mississippi. Five
shots were exchanged, and both the parties were wounded,
Judge Evans dangerously. The difficulty arose from some
hat language used by Saunders, in reply to an address
delivered by Evans before the literary society of the West-
ern Military College in Alabama. The fact of five shots
being exchanged, says the New York Herald, may be re-
garded by some as an indication of great courage, but the
experience of duellists is to the contrary. The prolonga-
tion of the affair betrays nervousness on the part of one of
the combatants at least.
THE occurrence of a disastrous shipwreck and loss of
life is announced in a letter from Lima of May 17. It
says :—" The steamer Rimac was lately towing the trans-
port Mercedes from Casma to Callao, with nearly 1,000
troops on board. On the day after they left Casma, about
three in the morning, the towropes snapped, and, the crew
not being able to replace them by others in time, the Merce-
des, drifting with the current, struck on a reef and went
down immediately. The official reports give the number
drowned. as 731. Captain Noel, who commanded the sh,ip,
might have escaped death, but, unwilling to leave his post,
perished in the general wreck."
A Cvntous Gnrim COLONTAI. COIN has been recently
found in the neighbourhood of Stamford. It is a second
brass coin of the colony of Proconessus bumla, in Mysia.
It bears on the obverse the laureated head of Septimus
Severus, and the inscription, ' Au (tocrato) Kaesar Save-
ros.' On the reverse is a male figure standing. This is
the only Greek coin known to be found in that locality.
Severus arrived in this island in 20k, with an immense
army, to suppress an insurrection of the Caledonians, and
the probability is that this coin was lost by a soldier who
had previously served in Greece.
London, England, 1854-07-15

BELGIUM.

A grand review was held at Brussels on Saturday
last in honour of the King of Portugal. 8,000 men
of the garrison of Brussels and the neighbouring
towns were assembled. King Leopold, with the
King of Portugal, and accompanied by the Princes
his sons, and the Duke of Oporto, assisted at the
evolutions. _ _ _

The King, Dom Pedro, and the Duke of Oporto
were present on Monday at the annual Nte of
Malines, and on Tuesday and Wednesday con•
tinned their tour through the principal towns of
Belgium.
London, England, 1854-07-15

THE PRESS.

advance towards Schumla and the Danube as soon
as the commissariat and transport arrangements were
complete. This was expected when the accounts
left (on the Bth inst.) to happen " next week." It is
said, however, that 18,000 English and French troops
had already found means to join Omer Pacha, and
had shared in the successes he obtained on the 7th
over the Russians at Giurgevo.
The Duke of Cambridge returned on Ithe 2nd to
Constantinople, to confer with M. de Bruck, the
Austrian Internuncio, and next day, in company with
the Sultan, passed a review of the Turkish brigade,
and of the twenty pieces of cannon attached to that
division. The Duke returned on the 4th to Varna.
According to the accounts given by the Paris War
Department, the precise number of the English
and French armies already assembled at Varna is
75,000 men.
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DISEASES, INJURIES, and MAL.
FORMATIONS of RECTUM.
• By T.J.) ASHTON, Surgeon to the Illenheim.street Dispensary.
formally llouseSurgeonattulversity College Hospital.
"The work, which is abundantly illustrated by cases, concludes
with &chapter on II abitualConst ipation ....After a careful perusal
of the 'hole, we can conscientiously !letters that we find in' It
more information than is to be obtained from any single volume
yet published on the subjects of which it treats Mr. Ashton
has proved by this work that he is an attentive observer, and a
most able and zealous surgeon."—Lineet.
London: Jolts C LIU HORILL, 46, Princes-street, Soho.
London, England, 1854-07-15

THE FLEETS.

-
The naval operations reported during the week
are of little interest. In the Baltic Sir C. Napier
has retired from his advanced position before
Cronstadt, frightened away by a more formidable
enemy than the Russians, namely, cholera. The
disease is ravaging the Russian garrison of that for-
tress, and the infection spread to the fleets. The
ships were accordingly withdrawn to more healthy
cruising-ground off Baro Sund. There they were
last seen, on the 12th inst., to the number of sixty-
two ships, forty six English, and twenty-six French.
The blockade of the Baltic Sea is now complete from
shore to shore :

" An opinion being entertained that an attack on Cron-
stadt was practicable on the northern side of the island,
Rear-Admiral Chads and Vice-Admiral Parceval-Des-
chenes, accompanied by Lord C. Paget, of the Prince's
Royal, the Hon. H. Keppel, of the St. Jean d'Acre, and
others, embarked on the 29th ult. in the Driver, paddle-
wheel steamer, and proceeded as far up the channel as was
necessary, in order to judge by personal observation the
nearest distance off the town which could be approace
with safety by any portion of the ships in the fleet. The
result of their observations is said to be that the greater
part of the ships in the fleet may, without difficulty, steam
up the channel on the northern side of the island, and
take up a position from which they might, at long range,
throw their shell, ctc., into the town, and destroy it, with-
out sustaining any serious injury themselves."
From the Black Sea we learn, only by a brief and
skeleton despatch, dated Odessa, July 7, that " the
combined fleets, fifty sail strong, had been seen pro
ceeding in the direction of Sebastopol.
The Russian works at the Sulina mouths of the
Danube have been bombarded.
An attack has been preparing against the
fortress of Anapa, the only Russian post still de-
fended on the Circassian shore. Anapa lies a
short distance from the entrance to the Sea of Azof,
and is a place of great importance and strength.
Its enormous defences are so formidable that Sir
E. Lyons thought it unsafe to attack them with his
steamers only, and found it necessary to ask for a
reinforcement of ships-of-the line before undertaking
so important a measure. These reinforcements have
arrived, but it is said that in the meantime the Rus-
sians have not been idle. They have added a new
battery to their defences, which carries twenty-eight
heavy guns. No tidings of the result of this attack
have as yet arrived.
London, England, 1854-07-15

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive•
Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter ;
and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde-
pendent of the merits of the communication.
We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do

not avail ourselves.
Ccmmunications should always be legibly written, and on one
side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of
finding space for them.
Wbutever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the
mime and address of the writer, not necessarily for publics,
tom, but as a guarantee of his good faith.
Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a
remittance or a reference for payment in town.
London, England, 1854-05-27

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.

THE Return issued of Stamps supplied to
Newspapers in 1853 exhibits the following
comparative results :

NEWSPAPERS.

Stamps
Issued.

Average
Weekly
Circulation.

Atlas
Britannia
Examiner
John Bull
Leader ...
PRESS
[From May 7th to December
31at—Eight Months.]

Spectator

76,500
105,508
241,525
95,000
120,700
123,000

146.50

1,470
2,029
4,684
1,826

2,321
3,514

2,817
London, England, 1854-05-27

MAY 27, 1854.

railway travelling, is of itself a fact of serious
interest and significance to every class in the
community.
The thanks of the public are, therefore,
justly due to Lord DEBBY for his effective
interference in this important matter. Some
surprise may be felt that it entirely escaped
the attention of the Lower House, and some
doubt may be entertained whether the omis-
sion is to be attributed to design, or to an
oversight on the part of those who framed the
Railway Reform Bill. Was it because the
railway interest is strong in the Commons, or
because practical wisdom is strong in the
Lords ? We believe we must look to both
circumstances for a true solution of these
questions.
London, England, 1854-05-27

THE PRESS.

QT. MARGARET'S, near RICHMOND. -
CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

- _
RIGHTS of CHOICE on this valuable Estate are now on
SALE at the °faces, 83, Norfolk street, Wand. The Register
of the Rights to be disposed of is open daily for public inspee•
Lion. The allotment is fixed for Wednesday, the 7th of June.
CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary.
London, England, 1854-05-27

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY.

In answer to Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, Mr. Head-
lam, and Mr. M. Gibson,
Sir J. GRAHAM said that gun boats being small, and
containing but little accommodation, could not carry
medical officers. They would not be engaged with
the enemy except in conjunction with larger vessels.
It was intended to institute a vigorous blockadA of
all the Russian ports in the Baltic and the Black
Seas. The Government had not received informa-
tion of any actual blockade, except of Riga. When
any further blockades were effected they would be
announced in the Gnzette. It was not intended to
blockade the ports of the White Sea.
In answer to questions from Lord Dudley Stuart,
Lord J. RUSSELL, said that a protocol had been
signed at Vienna between the four powers, in the
text of which were inserted the treaties between
England and France, and between Austria and
Prussia. As soon as received it would be laid on the
table of the house. He further stated that no con-
versation had been entered into with Turkey similar
to that with France respecting captured vessels.
The house then went into committee of ways and
means, when Mr. WILSON explained the course
proposed for the Scotch spirit duties.
The Excise Duties Bill passed through committee
after a division on one of the clauses.
In committee on the Income Tax Bill,
Mr. GLADSTONE stated that the collection of the
income tax in Ireland, concerning which some ap.
London, England, 1854-05-27

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OFFICE, 3, OLD BROAD STREET, LONDON.
WILLIAM J. lAN, Secretary.

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London, England, 1854-05-27

gad and Bastion.

ON Saturday last the Queen's birthday was cele-
brated by a drawing-room, to which a throng of 1,400
members of the courtly world were gathered. In the
morning Prince Albert was present at the guard
mounting on the Parade at St. James's Park. The
Commander-in. Chief, Lord Seaton, and a brilliant
staff accompanied his Royal Highness. In the even-
ing the Queen and Prince visited the French Plays.
On Monday afternoon her Majesty left London for
Osborne-house, where the real birthday (Wednesday)
was kept by a series of festivities of a domestic cha-
racter. The Queen will remain in the Isle of Wight
for the ensuing week.
BIRTHDAY BANQUETS were given on Saturday
evening by nearly all the Ministers and officers of
state. Among them were the Marquis of Breadal-
bane, Lord Chamberlain ; Earl Spencer, Lord
Steward; the Premier, the Home Secretary, the
Colonial Secretary, and Sir Charles Wood, President
of the Board of Control.

THE ILLUMINATIONS in honour of her Makiesty's
birthday were on a scale of great magnificence. The
deN ices were varied and extensive, and some of them
of great beauty.
THE royal birthday was celebrated at Windsor on
Wednesday with salutes, peals of bells, illuminations,
and a dinner of the leading townsmen in the even-
ing.
THE DUCHESS OF KENT arrived at Osborne on
Tuesday on a visit to the Queen.
THURSDAY was the birthday of the Princes
Helena, who completed her tith year on that day.

THE Queen it is stated has taken a season ticket fc
the Sydenbam Crystal Palace.
A CABINET COUNCIL was held at the Foreign-officti
Downing-street, on Wednesday afternoon.
THE EARL,OF ROSSE, as president of the Royal
Society, held his second soirée on Saturday last. It
was honoured by the presence of his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert and a large attendance of
scientific and literary persons. His lordship's next
soiree will be on the 3rd of June. _

LADY ASHBURTON had an assembly on Saturday
evening at Bath-home, Piccadilly.
VISCOUNTESS COMBERMERE gave on Tuesday her
first assembly for the season at the family mansion in
Belgrave-square.
THE COUNTESS CRAVEN gave a magnificent ball on
Wednesday night at her new mansion in Charles-
street. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary honoured the
reunion with their presence.
THE marriage of the Earl of Durham and Lady
Beatrice Hamilton, second daughter of the Marquis
and Marchioness of Abercorn, and niece to the Duke
of Bedford and Lord John Russell, took place on
Tuesday atSt. George's, Hanover-square. The cere-

mei
London, England, 1854-05-27

THE PRESS.

leading firm has been purchasing within the last few
days ; and the bankers who have lent stock generally
make arrangements to have it returned before the
payment of the dividends, that it may stand in their
name at the Bank of England.
The increase in the interest on Exchequer Bills
from 2d. to 2ld. per day has scarcely affected their
value in the market. The change had been expected
for some time.

Subscribers to the Exchequer Bonds, series A, have
been subjected to much inconvenience by the non-
delivery of the scrip. Those who have paid the ti►st in-
stalment were left without receipt or voucher for the
sum paid, so that such of them as were in want of
temporary accommodation bad not the means
of obtaining money on the security of these deposits.
Amongst the subscribers, it is said, are foreigners
who have suffered seriously from this negligence.
London, England, 1854-05-27

RUSSIA.

In the absence of any direct intelligence from St.
Petersburg, van us rumours and gossip in the Ger-
man journals convey a melancholy picture of the
state of that capital, as well as of the Russian empire
generally. The Berlin National Zeitung gives a most
gloomy account of the sufferings and discontent of
the people, on account of the severity with which the
conscriptions are enforced. The landed proprietors
are in a high state of dissatisfaction at these extra.
ordinary levies, as every recruit taken from their
estates inflicts a loss of 100 silver rubles. The
conscription just ordered will amount to 220,000

IMF
London, England, 1854-05-27

RUSSIAN PRISONERS.

Sir J. GRAHAM, being questioned by Mr. Digby Sey-
mour on Monday, stated that instructions had been
transmitted to Admiral Dundas enjoining him not to
liberate any Russian subjects that might be captured,
except under a proper understanding with the Rus-
sian authorities respecting the exchange of prisoners.
London, England, 1854-05-27

CHURCH RATES.

THE division in the Commons on Sir W.
Ctsv's motion to bring in a bill for the abolition
of church rates cannot be regarded as a fair
test of the feeling of the House. or as imme-
diately decisive of the question at issue. The
introduction of a measure is usually a formal
proceeding, and when a division, as in this
cue, is taken, the numbers depend very
much on accident, or on the zeal employed to
collect together as many members as possible
favourable to the bill. Sir W. CLAY will pro-
bably be content for this session with the
success he has achieved, but, should he at-
tempt to push it further, his victory may be
turned into a defeat.

Still, the fact that the first stage of the bill
should be carried by a considerable majority,
and that Lord STANLEY, with his unprejudiced
intellect and sagacious views, should have
declared himself decidedly favourable to
the principle of abolition, warn us that
the question of church rates cannot remain
much longer in its present unsettled state.
Since the decision on the Braiiitree case,
church rates do not rest on legal right,
and still less can they be viewed as a volun-
tary offering. If the assessment be disputed,
the vote of a majority of the parishioners is
required to make it valid, and such a contest
can never be carried on without embittering
religious feeling, nor without bringing the
Church and dissenting bodies into painful
antagonism.
We think, therefore, that the Church and its
best friends would do well to consider in what
way those funds for the repair of churches, and
for the decent performance of divine service,
which have heretofore been raised from
church rates, can be otherwise obtained.
On this one point we are entirely at issue
with those members who voted for entire
and immediate abolition. We think it most
unwise and unjust that church rates should be
abolished before some substitute is provided.
Whether that substitute should come from
the surplus funds of the Church, or from
voluntary subscription, or from any other
source, is fair subject for consideration. We
earnestly hope that nothing in the shape of a
tLx on regular attendance at a parish church
will ever be sanctioned. That practice of pew
rants with which the inhabitants of great
towns are familiar will never, we trust, prevail
in our rural districts. But, however the neces-
sary funds may be raised, we do think it
incumbent on the Legislature to prescribe
some plan before it entirely abolishes the
existing system. And there is such a breath-
ing time between this and the threatened
a )olition as would suffice for the preparation
of a just and satisfactory measure. The ques
Ufa as it mainly concerns the Church itself
should meet with the immediate attention of
Churchmen.
London, England, 1854-05-27

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

It is impossible to acknowledge the macs of letters we receive.
Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter ;
and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite lode.
pendent of the merits of the communication.
We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do

not avail ourselves.
Ccmmunications should always be legibly written, and on one
side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of
finding space for them.
Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the
name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publics.
tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith.
Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a
remittance or a reference for payment in town.

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THE PRESS.

Mr. J. O'CoNNELL observed that the whole Roman
Catholic hierarchy had pronounced against the bill,
and wondered how Protestant members, under pro-
fessions of regard for the Roman Catholics, should
press forward a measure which the latter had unani•
mouldy declared to be most offensive. He dilated
upon the insulting character of the bill, and on the
provocation it gave to the Irish Catholics at a time
when unanimity and loyalty were so necessary among
all classes of the community. The particular cases
adduced to make out the semblance of a necessity for
the bill had, he contended, all broken down under
investigation, and it was morally impossible that any
such could exist.

Mr. Sergeant Shee, Sir J. Fitzgerald, and Mr. Ma-
guire continued to offer opposition to the bill. The
discussion, however, had become a mere effort to talk
against time on the part of the Irish representatives,
in order to delay a division on the bill. In this ob-
ject they succeeded. While the hon. member for Dun-
garvan was still speaking, the hour (quarter to six)
for closing the debate arrived, and the bill accord-
ingly once more stood adjourned.
London, England, 1854-05-27

FOREIGN FUNDS.

There has not been much business in the Foreign
market, but the tone was firm, and marked by a slight
advance. Russian Five per Cents. have been from
95 to N.

SHARES.

The English railways have been firm, and in many
cases have risen from ss. to 11. per share. The
foreign lines have been dull, except the Lyons, which
is iu some demand. Australian Banks have fallen
from 11. to 21., but the demand for the land corn
panies' shares is brisk and at an advance.

BRITISH FUNDS. -Oi
OFFICIAL QUOTA'

ng Prices.
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end. Tuesd.
per Cent. Consols B9} 81 69
Ditto for Account
$ per Cents Reduced
3} per Cents B9 81 N 8 f
Long Annuities
Bank Stock, 7 per Cent 2091 5 205 S
India Stock, 101 per Cut 233
Rich. Bills, 2d. per diem 2d 1p 2 d
India Bonds,

BANK OF ENGLAND.

ld r

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32,
for the week ending on Saturday, the 20th day of May, 1864.
IBSUZ DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued .... 123,779,095 Government Debt 111,015,100
Other Securities .. 2,984,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 11,779,096
Silver Bullion

L 26,779,096

Wed. Thurs. Friday
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89 8i 891 I sof I
89 69$ $ 69$ i
871 iBB * 88$ $
88$ 8811 9$ 89% 4
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NEW PHILHARMONIC.

WE have not space to give the programme of this
concert, which, for the good taste and credit of the
directors, had better be suppressed. We are not dis •
posed to dissent from the proposition that one
symphony is enough for one evening (all concerts in
England being, in our judgment, too long) ; but if
the place of the absent symphony be supplied by
two overtures, one concerto, and a brace of long
vocal pieces, executed by vocalists not the most
efficient in the world, the principle contended for is
at once violated, and the alleged and much-lauded
improvement turns into something quite the reverse.
Mendelssohn's symphony in A was the most im-
portant and best executed feature of the evening, and

11Z14,„:.

SATURDAY,

gave great delight to the audience. Beethoven's
overture, Leonora, was also well rendered, and
proved a pleasing contrast to three modern overtures
by Horsley, Silas, and Praegen, which, though ex-
hibiting undoubted talent in the composers, had but
little originality of thought to recommend them.
The instrumental solos were two in number. M.
Prudent played his favourite piece entitled "
Chasse " with great precision and effect, and M. Van
Gelder made his first bow to a London audience in a
solo on the violoncello. He is a very clever
player; but has, in common with most of the fo-
reign professors of this instrument, a thin crude
tone, and, in his case, this defect is not coun-
terbalanced by any great powers of execution or
expression. The vocal pieces seemed interminable,
no less than five being given. In this department
we must award the palm to Mme. Palm, whom we do
not remember to have heard before, and who, if she
lacks other qualities, has at least a good voice to
recommend her.
London, England, 1854-05-27

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1854.

POSTSCRIPT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY.

- -
In answer to the Marquis of Clanricarde,
The Earl of CLABZNDON said that the treaties
between Austria and Prussia bad been conducted in
the first instance in profound secrecy, but bad just
been communicated to the Conference at Vienna, and
embodied in a protocol which had not yet reached
the Government. With respect to Greece, very
voluminous papers would be laid on the table in the
London, England, 1854-05-27

SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARS.

WE stated, in a former article, to what extent,
according to the census report, the educational
wants of England are supplied by existing
schools. We showed that the result, though
not indicative of the highest attainable degree
of educational excellence, was yet on the whole
far more creditable to the public than ardent
London, England, 1854-05-27

MAY 27, 1854.

circumstances which are necessary for the proper
understanding of most plays, and especially of those
which Mr. Planche is pleased to write in prose.
These are so cleverly introduced, and put in the
mouths of odd persons, to be told at odd times during
the progress of the piece, that the audience at last
find they have absolutely been cheated into
hearing a long story without knowing it. The actors
did gallant service in aid of his success. Mr. Van-
denhcff was especially good as the cool imperturbable
" captain" of the swindling Knights. The comic
business devolved chiefly upon Mr. Compton and
Mr. Buckstone. The latter introduced some supple-
mental touches of a broadly farcical description, such
as coming down a chimney with a smudged face,
tying a servant girl's head in a bag, and other
pranks, which we should have thought better
omitted, if we had not seen how uproariously the
spectators laughed at them. Of the lady performers
we have not much to say. Their subordinate parts
were played by Miss Reynolds and Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
The drama, we should add, is of French extraction,
but is so well-Englished in style, sentiment, and lan-
guage, that it may fairly escape the purview of the
Alien Act.
London, England, 1854-05-27

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FRIDAY EVENING.
THE market generally has been quiet during the
week, and, although on Monday there wes some
slight heaviness in Consols, yet there has since been
a gradual and continuous rise, amounting altogether
to about one per cent. _

On Monday the first price was fiAl to 891, at
which they remained, with trifling fluctuations, until
Thursday, when intelligence of higher prices at Paris
sent them up to 891 to f, and to-day they have been
done as high as 90, although they ruled at 89i.
The political news from the Continent was thought
rather more favourable, but this was not the only
cause for the rise. It has been observed that a

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London, England, 1854-05-27

INDIA AND CHINA.

The overland mail arrived at Trieste on Tuesday,
with advices from Calcutta, April 20th; Madras,
24th; Shanghae and Hong-Kong, March 12th;
Bombay, 28th of April. The news is unimportant.
The Ganges Canal was opened on the Bth of
April.
The rebel army in China was advancing towards
Pekin.
The Americans have established friendly relations
with the Japanese.
Australian letters of March 18, brought by this
mail, state that several large masses of gold bad
been dug up at Ballarat, and the yield of the gold
diggings was increasing.
London, England, 1854-05-27

MAY 27, 1854.

mouy was performed by the Rev. Lord Wriothesley
Russell.
COUNT BERNSDORNF, who has received orders to
leave Naples and occupy the post of Prussian Minister
at the Court of St. James's, was expected to leave
that capital on the 23rd. His excellency will first
visit Berlin, and there receive his instructions before
proceeding to London. Count Bernsdorff is said to
be favourable to Russian interests.
THE PRINCE REGENT OF BADEN is about to visit
Baden-Baden. A marriage is spoken of between him
and the Princess Louisa, daughter of the Prince of
Prussia. Her Royal Highness, who is at present at
Baden, is only 18 years old.
CARDINAL. LANIBRUSCHINI, Bishop of Porto St.
Rufino and Civita Vecchia, the oldest member but
one of the Sacred College, and Secretary of the Pon•.
tifical Briefs, died at Rome on the 12th of May. He
was born at Genoa on the li.th of May, 1776, and was
Prime Minister under Pope Gregory XVI.
THE DUKE OF GOTHA, who has been residing in
Coburg, is said to have left for Vienna, where he in-
tends staying about a week. Afterwards he will take
up his residence at Reinhardsbrunnen, near Gotha.
London, England, 1854-05-27

FRENCH PLAYS.

IT is a matter of great regret to us that our space
will not admit of our noticing at length the perform-
ance of Wednesday last, which was, perhaps, one of the
most perfect that has ever been given in this country
in the French language. La Joie fait pour, by M.
Girardin, is an ill-constructed play, without any
merit as a literary work, and owes its success to the
talent of the actors. Mme. Allen and Mlles. Fix and
Luther were excellent representatives of their several
parts ; and M. Regnier's interpretation of the some-
what threadbare character of an old and faithful
servant was fully worthy of his great reputation.
London, England, 1854-05-27

SWEDEN.

A Stockholm vessel, laden with salt, attempted
to break the blockade and enter Riga. On being
hailed she neglected the signals and refused to lie
by, so a cannon ball from a British cruiser smashed
her stem. She immediately returned to Stockholm.
Her owners demanded compensation. The English
Embassy told them to be thankful that matters were
no worse.
The electric telegraph between Copenhagen and
Stockholm was opened on the 12th inst.
London, England, 1854-05-27

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CORN-EXCHANGE—The pre.;ent week's arrivals of English
wheat up to our market have been on a very limited scale, but in
fair average condition. Selected samples of white have sold
steadily, and, in some instances, the quotations have had an up-
ward tendency; but low and middling parcels have commanded
very little attention, on former terms. Foreign wheat—the im-
ports of which have been seasonably large—has been in fair re-
quest, at full rates of currency. The busines4 doing in it, how-
ever, has not been large. We have had very few floating cargoes
on sale. The receipts of barley have been tolerably good. The
tie for that article has been dull, at late tigures. The malt trade
has been in a depressed state, and the currencies have been
almost nominal. Oats—the arrivals of which have been good—
have met a dull inquiry, and the quotations have had a downward
tendency. Beans and peas have sold on former terms. The
value of flour—both English and foreign—has been well sup-
ported.
ENGLISH—Wheat, Essex and Kent white, 74. to 91s •, red,
708 to 85s; Norfolk and Lincoln red, 708 to Ms. Malting barley,
40s to 43s ; grinding ditto, 368 to 39. t • distilling, 378 to 395.
Malt, 68s to 635. Feed oats, 278 to 30s ; potato, 80s to 348.
Rye, 488 to 50s. Tick beans, 458 to 528; pigeon, 478 to 625.
13rey peas, 448 to 465 ; maple, 47s to 495 ; white boilers, 575 to
595 per quarter. Town-made flour, 668 to 708; country marks,
55s to 618 per 2801b8.
London, England, 1854-05-27

PORTUGAL.

A Russian Ambassador arrived at Lisbon incog.
a week or two since. The Portuguese Government
has subsequently declared its neutrality, dating from
the sth May. Of this decree one of the Lisbon
papers thus speaks :
" Let the Emperor Nicholas rest; let Odessa console
itself; the Cossacks may be filled with courage ; the
Muscovite line-of•battle ships may adorn themselves with
their flags; discharges of rockets may take place from the
batteries of Sebastopol. The l'ortuguese Government
decreed on the sth mat. its neutrality in the gigantic
question in which the interests of the world are involved."
The new currency law has been carried by the
Ministerial majority through the Chamber of Depu-
ties. All amendments which tended to prevent the
new coinage from being a mere speculation to raise
money were rejected.
The present year promises to be one of great abun-
dance in Portugal. With respect to the disease in
the vines, there are contradictory reports, but the
period for ascertaining the truth has not yet arrived.
London, England, 1854-05-27

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

VERDI'S Rigoletto was produced on Saturday, and re-
peated on Tuesday last. It was well rendered by the
singers, but the music is so poor and worthless that
we cannot afford space to offer any further criticism.
On Thursday last an extra night was given, when the
Barb iere and the second act of Fidelio drew a house
crowded to the ceiling. The effect of the Barbiere
was again much injured by the buffoonery of Signor
Lablache and Signor Tagliatico. We cannot under-
stand how actors who have any reverence for their
art can indulge in jokes and tricks that are only
suited to the comic business of our Christmas pan-
tomimes.
London, England, 1854-05-27

MIDDLESEX INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.-
AUTHORISATION OF THE MASS.

In a private bill, entitled the " Middlesex Indus-
trial Schools Bill," a clause had been introduced by
which the committee of visitors were authorised to
permit divine service to be performed by the minis-
ters of any persuasion, and in conformity with the
practice of any religious sect, whenever they might
think there was a sufficient number of boys belonging
to that sect present in the schools to justify such a
step. The bill being brought up for consideration
on Tuesday, Mr. Muu.mos moved that the clause
should be omitted. He pointed out that it permitted
the performan of the Roman Catholic mass and of
the Jewish Feast of Trumpets. A dangerous innova-
tion was thus introduced under cover of a private
bill, and the principle once admitted would speedily
obtain a wider range and lead to deplorable conse-
quences.
The clause was contested for with much vehemence,
and led to a lively debate, Sir G. Grey leading the
band of its supporters, among whom were Sir J. Pa-
kington and Mr. Drummond.
Mr. SPOONER, in opposing the clause, remarked :

" If this clause should pass it would be the first author-
isation of the celebration of mass by Parliament since the
Reformation, and he did not hesitate to say that the
minister who should advise his Sovereign to sanction this
bill was guilty thereby of a high crime. The principle was
a most dangerous one, and one so monstrous that the
Protestant feeling of this country would never recognise.
(Hear, hear.) If such aggressions were persevered in he
hoped Protestant feeling would be roused from end to end
of the empire. (Hear, hear. )"
Mr. HENLEY expressed his approval of the clause,
pointing out that many hundred Roman Catholic and
Dissenting children might be in the schools, to whom
it would not be right to deny the means of worship
according to their own rites.
The clause, on division, was carried by a consider-
able majority:-190 to 108-82.
London, England, 1854-05-27

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rally blown to pieces. Many persons were burled
overboard, and their bodies not recovered. Not a
fraction of vessel, freight, or cargo was saved. The
steam-boat Pennsylvania exploded in the Delaware
on the sth, killing nine persons. About sixteen
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CANADA.
The splendid edifice in Colon-street, Quebec, built
EIS a church for the Sisters of Charity, and fitted up
at an immense expense for the use of Parliament,
took fire on the 3rd inst. All efforts at saving the
building were useless, and it was almost totally de-
stroyed. The loss is immense.
The fast day was kept in Montreal with much
solemnity. Divine service was performed in all the
Protestant churches, and a special prayer put up
for the success of British arms. Collections were
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London, England, 1854-05-27

THE PROPERTY OF NUNS.

The debate on the second reading of the Property
Disposal Bill which stood adjourned from last week
was resumed on Wednesday.
Mr. MALINS argued in support of the measure that
the inmates of convents had avowedly renounced all
control over their temporal concerns, and the law
could not be accused of going too far even if it treated
them as being civilly deceased with regard to the dis-
posal of property. The bill before the house, how-
ever, stopped short of this provision, as it merely
cast upon the donees of property from nuns the our-
den of proving that the donors had exercised free
will in the matter. There could, he urged, be nojust
complaint of hardship under such circumstances.
Sir J. YOUNG resisted the bill, not so much upon
the merits as on account of the " Irish difficulty"
which it would occasion. He regretted to find that
its supporters persisted in attempting to carry it after
the proof they had obtained of the spirit in which
the measure was received in Ireland, and of the ani
mosities it was certain to excite among the Roman
Catholic population. He remarked upon the impolicy
of forcing upon the members of that faith a law to
protect them from a grievance of which they had never
complained, and whose enactment they considered to
be an insult. He condemned the bill as being in-
tolerant and inexpedient.
Sir J. PAKINGTON deemed it unfortunate that many
questions of civil policy should be denounced under
the charge of intolerance. For his own part he dis-
claimed any such feeling, having treated the measure
as involving nothing more than a civil right. He
contended that it was the mildest which the
case justified, or the public would accept, and if not
passed now some stronger measure would be de-
manded hereafter.

Mr. HA.DFIELD argued that the laws relating to
property should be framed with an utter indifference
to any question of religious observances.
Mr. COLLIER and Sir J. FITZGERALD having spoken,
Mr. GEORGE, who defended the bill, complained that
its opponents had endeavoured to stifle the free ex-
pression of opinion in that house by raising a cry of
insult to the Roman Catholic religion.
Mr. BOWYER contended that the cry was well
founded. The subject was one which it was impos-
sible to touch upon without conveying a deep insult
against persons whom all Roman Catholics regarded
with veneration. The provisions of the bill were
moreover absurd, being designed to obviate a non-
existent evil. _ _

Mr. F. Scta.mc also affirmed that no grounds could
be shown, or had ever existed, for interfering with
any disposition made by nuns of their property.
Mr. WILKINSON and Mr. BLAND opposed the bill.
Mr. LIDDELL (Liverpool) supported it, on the ground
that the inmates of conventual institutions were in a
state of moral durease.
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GREECE.

The French Emperor seems determined to take
effectual means for putting down the insurrection on
tha frontiers of Greece. Troops have already been
embarked at Toulon for that country. The Moniteur
has published an article on the attitude assumed by
King Otho and his advisers, which leaves no doubt
that these troops are prepared to act with vigou and
decision.

Both the English and French ambassadors are
stated to have left Athens on the 3rd inst.

By the latest advices from Athens we learn that
the Greeks are disheartened since the bombardment
of Odessa. Kariaskai has been mortally wounded.
Three generals have been sent by King Otho to
defend the northern frontier.

Some transports, conveying horses belonging to
the generals of the expeditionary army, have been
attacked by Greek pirates. Eight thousand muskets,
destined for the Greek insurgents, have been cap-
tured near Malta.

The Government of Greece will, it is said, be re-
quired by the allied powers to give in its adherence
to the protocol of Vienna.

UNITED STATES.

New York advices to the 3rd inst. reached Liver-
pool on Monday by the Asia.
Great loss of life and property had been caused in
the States by deluges of rain.
In a battle with the Indians forty United States
soldiers had been killed and wounded in New
Mexico.