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BLETIES.
DRUMMOND—On the 14th instant, at Brighton, Mrs. George
Drummond, of a eon.
SOOTT—On the 12th instant, at Maidstone, the wife of Captain
Edward Scott, of a son.
SHIITE—On the 14th instant, at Sandgate, the wife of Captain
Deane Shute, Quartermaster• General's Department, Bengal,
of a daughter.
TUFNELL—On the 10th instant, in Mayfair, the Lady Anne
Tufnell, of a eon,
MARRIAGES.
BATESON—KERRISON—On the 13th instant, at St. George's
Hanover•square, Lout Bateman, to Agnes, daughter or the
late General Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart.
FERGUSON—DUNBAR—On the 11th instant, at Elgin, N. 8.,
the Rev. Edward Seymour Stocker, to Jean Hamilton,
daughter of Sir Archibald Dunbar. Bart., of Northfleld.
HENRY—FORSTER—On the 11th instant, at Dartmouth,
Captain Henry, of the 4th Dragoon Guards. to Eliza Mary
Ann, daughter of Captain Forster, Royal Artillery.
DEATHS.

BAGOT—On the 15th instant, at Brighton, the Hon. and Righ
Rev. Richard Begot. Bishop of Bath and Wells, aged 72.
CHAPMAN—On the 11th instant, at Stonehouse, Devon, Fred.
John Chapman, Esq., eon of the late Lieut.-Genera Chapman,
of the Royal Artillery, aged 84.
CLINTON—On the 14th instant, at Cokenach, Royston, the
Lady Louisa D. Clinton, widow of the late General Sir Wm.
Clinton, G.C.8., aged 78.
DACRE—On the 17th instant, in Chesterfield.street, Mayfair,
the Dowager Lady Daere. aged 87.
INOILBY—On the 14th instant, in Abingdon•street, West-
minster, Sir Wm. Amcotts Ingilby, Bart, of Ripley Castle,
Yorkshire. aged 70.
MAINWARING—At Camp-hill, near Newcastle, Staffordshire,
Captain Wm. Arthur Mainwaring, of the King's Own 3d Regt.
of Stafford Militia.
PORTSMOUTH—On the 12th instant, at Eggesford. Devon.
Catherine, Countess of Portsmouth, widow of the late Earl
of Portsmouth, aged R.
WOLSF.LEY—On the 15th instant, Sir Charles Wolseley, of
Wolseley, in the county of Stafford, Bart., aged 4L

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THE PRESS.

they be raised in the scale of intellect, or
would newspapers descend to their level?
But this is a separate subject, which we have
not space to consider here. So strongly was
the House impressed by the evils of the
existing system, as enforced by Mr.
GLADSTONE, that the motion was agreed to
without alteration, despite the qualified op-
position of the Government, to whom Mr.
MILNER GIBSON administered the significant
hint, that if Lord DERBY had remained in
power these abuses and anomalies would have
been long since removed.
London, England, 1854-05-20

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

The select committee which has been sitting upon the subject
of the business of the House of Commons has made a report,
suggesting a simplification of some of the forms at present ob.
served with respect to bills, and proposing the abolition of the
hebdomadal motion for adjournment to Monday. In the main,
however, the committee seems to prefer trusting to the good
sense and right feeling of members, and the effect of the evi-
dence given by the Speaker and others, respecting impediments
to the despatch of business. There are still fourteen questions
necessarily put in the House of Commons upon every public bill
that is passed, exclusive of the proceedings in committee and of
debates upon amendments. In reference to the practice of rail
ing various subjects of debate on going into committee of sup-
ply, the speaker says in his evidence :—" I think the practice
certainly has been carried to a very inconvenient extent, espe-
cially of late, when members have not been contented with merely
moving amendments to the question ' that the Speaker do leave
the chair' on going into committee of supply, but have given
previous notice of their intention to ' call the attention of the
house' to questions before the Speaker leaves the chair, which
has caused very great delay and inconvenience. Many topics
may thus be debated by the house at the very same time, 'nth-
out its being able to give an opinion upon them. Some of those
subjects may refer to the conduct of the Government, and require
a member of the Government to take part in the debate; but, as
no member of the Government can speak more than once upon
the same question, and as all these subjects are brought forward
upon one question, it frequently happens that the house is obliged
to listen to ex park statements which cannot be answered."
London, England, 1854-05-20

tort* girt, Nittraturt, &r.

TELEORAPIT OFFICES have been established at De-
lemont, in the Bernese Jura, and at Interlaken, the
fashionable haunt of the English tourists in Switzer-
land. A star clock, constructed at Munich, has been
placed at the Berne Observatory. Its pendulum
touches every minute an electric wire, which puts it
into instant communication with the Post-office. The
public will be enabled to benefit by this invention,
and a perfect uniformity in timekeeping will be intro •
duced all over Switzerland.

THE FRENCH ACADEMY has just awarded the grand
prize for poetry to Mme. Louise Collet; the subject
was " The Acropolis of Athens," and the number of
competitors sixty.
THE additional buildings necessary to complete the
Palace of Industry in the Champs Elysees will be
commenced immediately. These additions will be
made of cast iron, so as to be removable when the
Universal Exhibition is over. They will be very ex-
tensive, for applications have already been made fur
the admission of no less than 1,000 large engines re-
quiring space to allow visitors to inspect them in ac-
tion. The building is expected to be finished in
November.

A WELL-KNOWN SWEDISH AUTHOR, John F. Lund-
blad, has just expired. His histories of Charles X.,
Gustavus, and Charles XII., are well known and
highly appreciated in Sweden.
Ms. ULLMAN, Madame Sontag's agent, is on a visit
to Europe, where he will engage an English tenor
and other artists to assist Madame Sontag in the
production of English operas, a series of which she
intends giving in all the principal cities of the United
States, commencing in New York city. Since Ma
dame Sontag's arrival in America she has received
one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

M. JAQUES ARAOO is about to leave France for the
Brazils, at the request of the Emperor, Dom Pedro
11., who has a great affection for him.
IT is stated that by June next the wires of the
electric telegraph will have been extended from
Madrid to Saragossa, from which point two lines will
be directed to Barcelona, and two others to meet the
French telegraph at lrun ; and that in August the
whole will be completed.

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London, England, 1854-05-20

RUSSIA.

Travellers coming from St. Petersburg state that
the Emperor, although greatly harassed and
fatigued by the accumulation of labour, and evidently
baring traces of profound anxiety, is not indisposed
to the extent reported and believed in the West.
The accumulation of military business has brought
such excess of labour upon the War Minister, Prince
Dolgorukoff, that an adjunct has been appointed to
his department. This, however, produces little
diminution of labour to the Emperor, who directs
and supervises all matters, and not a single detail is
carried out without his previous examination and
assent.

An extraordinary scarcity of money prevails in
the capital, attended by a corresponding increase of
prices, not only on all articles of luxury, but of first
necessity, and especially upon colonial produce,
which must henceforth be transported by land, ex-
clusively from Prussian and Austro•Galician fron-
tiers. Not an atom of coffee, rice, foreign-made
sugars, spices, drugs, and numerous sundries, as well
as raw salt, hitherto drawn from abroad, can reach
St. Petersburg or other places, save by this expen-
sive and tedious route.

A grand parade of the garrison of St. Petersburg
took place on the sth instant, in presence of the
Emperor, Empress, and Imperial Family. The
troops, consisting of nearly 40,000 men of the
Guards, of all arms, were commanded by the
Czarewitch, who is chief of the corps of Guards and
Grenadiers.

RThe houses on the right bank of the Neva at St.
Petersburg have been demolished.
The Russian versions of the Odessa affair, differ-
ing as they do so materially from those received by
the English and French journals as published upon
authority in the official organs of London and Paris,
have received an imperial endorsement by the
following decree, which was published in the Invalide
Ruase of the sth inst.:—

" To our Aide-de•Camp General, the General of Cavalry,
the Commander of the 3rd Corps of Infantry, Baron Osten-
Sacken the First —On the day when the inhabitants of
Odessa, assembled in the orthodox temples, were celebrating
the death of the Son of God, crucified for the redemp-
tion of humanity, the allies—enemies to his holy name—
committed a crime against this city of peace and com-
merce, of this city where entire Europe, in its years of
famine, always found open granaries. The French and
English fleets bombarded our batteries for twelve hours,
the dwellings of the peaceful citizens, and the merchant
vessels in the roadstead. But our valiant troops, con-
ducted by you in person, and filled with a profound
faith in the supreme protector of justice, gloriously
London, England, 1854-05-20

THE

POPULAR HISTORIES OF ROME AND
GREECE. By Rev. G. H. LIDDELL and Dr. WM.
SMITH.
This day, with 100 Woodcats,l6mo., Ys. ed.,
A SCHOOL HISTORY OF GREECE, from the
Nedloot Times to the Roman Conquest; with Chapters on the
of Literature and Art. By WM. SMITH, LL.D., Clas•
reitidt7xaminer in the University of London, and Editor of the
" Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities," lc.
Also, preparing for publication, uniform with the above,
Woodcuts, lemo.,
A SCHOOL HISTORY OF ROME, from the
E►rliest Times. By G. K. LIDDELL, M.A., Head Master of
Ifestminster School, and Editor of "Tbe Greek and English
Xezicou."
Jonx MURRAY, Albemarle•street.

In a few days, a Fifth Edition of
ANNA ; or, Passages from the Life of a
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C4t Vrtss.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1854.

THE recal of the Prussian Minister at the
Court of St. James's (his Excellency the Che-
valier BUNSEN) has been involved in consider-
able mystery, which, as it arises from
eircumstamces which may affect the future
relations of the two countries as well as the
European settlement, may deserve some eluci-
dation. We have reason to believe that the

startling and very unexpected eventin question
was occasioned in this manner :—His Excel-

lency Chevalier BUNSEN, some little time ago,
addressed a secret and confidential despatch
to his Court, in which he sketched out a new
territorial disposition of Europe, and indi-
cated the provinces now belonging to Russia

which it was proposed to apportion to his
own Sovereign. The King of PRUSSIA was
very indignant and greatly alarmed when
Baron MANTEUFEL submitted this despatch to
his Majesty. The King ordered the instant
recal of his Plenipotentiary, and commanded
General GROEBEN to proceed immediately to
England on a special mission, and obtain
from the British Government distinct expla-
nations whether the proposals of M. BUNSEN
had received their sanction. The Ministry of
Lord ABERDEEN replied that the Bunsen pro
ject was in nowise authorised by them, and
that they recognised the integrity of the Rus-
sian empire as necessary to the political
equilibrium which they wished to maintain.
The Chevalier BUNSEN subsequently ad-
dressed a long explanatory letter to his So-
vereign, but without effect on his Excellency's
altered position. The King of PRUSSIA ex-
pressed the anxiety of the German Powers to
restore and secure peace on the footing of the
statue quo, which was a sine quit' non.

PHILOSOPHERS have often fancied that they
could discover in little accidents and paltry
motives the secret sources of those great
events which fill the pages of history. VOL.
TAIRE collected a crowd of instances to show
" What mighty contests rise from trivial springs."
But the notion is rather ingenious than pro-
found. Mere chance has not much to do with
the government of nations. Great events
have a more decided parentage. We must
look for their origin in the character of those
persons under whose rule they rise up. All
history is resolvable into biography—that is,
into the actions of men who have borne a pro•
London, England, 1854-05-20

gate and pourt.

Jolts TODD, after carrying on for many years an
extensive business as distiller in Newcastle upon-
Tyne, suddenly absconded in May last year, leaving
behind him very considerable debts, and hardly any
property. It was believed, from the return of his
transactions just previous to his departure, that he
had turned a quantity of goods into money, and thus
carried off d. large sum with him. His two sons,
who had acted as his clerks, also disappeared at the
same time, and presently the whole family were
traced to America. Their proceedings in that coun-
try, and the success with which the elder Todd
baffled the attempts made to bring him back to

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London, England, 1854-05-20

THE EXHIBITION kf the ADVANCED
WORKS of STUDENTS Of the following gdiooLs of
ART will be opened on MONDAY, the 22nd of May, at GORE
HOUSE, Kensington:—
Aberdeen Metropolitan, including
Begaat Central Male
Birmingham Central Female and
Chester Finsbury Markt
Cork Newcastle•on-lyne
Coventry Paisley
Dublin Potteries (Staffordshire)
Dudley Sheffield
Durham Stuurbridge
Glasgow Warriugtuu
Limerick Worcester
Miutclestield York
Manchester
Admission daily from Ten to Five, free.
Department of Science and Art,
10th May, 1814.
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MAY 20, 1854.

and Sante Constantini, condemned to death. Rug-
giero, and the two brothers Phillippi and Bernardo
Facciotte, to the galleys en perpetuiti; and Francisco
Constantini, Selvaggi, and Testa, fifteen years in
irons. The other accused have not yet been set at
liberty, the greater part of them having been pre-
viously condemned, or being on the eve of trial for
other offences. The prisoners have appealed, and
the appeal will be heard on the 12th. The proceed-
ings were secret.
PORTUGAL

A most important measure is now under discussion
by the Lisbon Government, comprising a complete
revision and alteration of the whole monetary system
of Portugal, which will, of course, affect its finances,
as well as its external commercial relations.

A project has appeared for raising a loan in series,
to the amount of 10,000,000,000 reis by " Titulos de
Obras PublicEus," at six per cent. per annum. The
loan is intended to carry into effect all public works,
but the interest is to be paid by those items of
revenue which are at present raised for public works,
and applied to the service of the State.
The squadron that is to convey the young King to
London is to consist of two steamers only, but it is
said the admiral insists on hoisting his flag on board
one.

The war against Russia is very popular in Lisbon,
so much so that a strong desire exists to raise several
Portuguese regiments for the British service to be
employed in that war. A Russian ambassador to the
Court of Lisbon arrived from Southampton on the
2nd, incog., and under an assumed name.
London, England, 1854-05-20

SATURDAY,

University of Melbourne, Australia, in the four kilo •
ng
departments of knowledge, viz. :—l. The Greek and Latin
classics, with Ancient History. 2. Mathematics, pure and
mixed. 3. Natural Science. 4. Modern History, Modern
Literature, Political Fconomy, and Logic. Gentlemen
who are desirous of becoming candidates for the several
professorships are requested to send their letters of appli,
cation and testimonials to Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Part., 32.
Harley-street, Cavendish-square, London, on or before the
10th of June. The stipend of each of these professors
will be 1,0001. per annum, with the use of a house, and
3001. for an outfit.

Zip *mg.

THE MILITIA.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD•LIKUTENANTS.

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Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Hamlets—
George Frederick Weller Paley, Esq., late Captain in her Ma.
jesty's 20th Regiment, to be Captain and Adjutant, vice Cowell,
retired.
Ist Regiment of Warwickshire—William David Lloyd Sparrow,
Gent., to be Lieutenant.
2nd Regiment of Warwickshire—Francis Warburton, Gent., to
be Lieutenant, vice Howe, resigned.
East Kent Regiment of Mounted Rifles—Edward Cholmeley
Dering, Gent, to be Cornet; Edward Wheler Wheler, Gent., to
be Cornet.
llrecknock Royal Rifle Regiment—Howell Gwynne }lowa%
Esq., to be Second Lieutenant; William Dowding, Esq., to be
Secoil Lieutenant.

Merioneth Rifle Regiment—Edward Abadan, Gent., to be Se.
cond Lieutenant; Thomas Ellie, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant,
Royal Merioneth—John Henry Waterfall, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant.

East Kent Regiment—Lieutenant Frederick Warre to be Cap•
taro.
2nd Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet
Henry Drummond to be Lieutenant, vice Mandy resigned.
Lanarkshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieutenant Ro-
bert Lockhart to be Captain, vier Gray, resigned; Cornet John
George Chancellor io be lieutenant, vice Lockhart, promoted,
London, England, 1854-05-20

SPAIN.

Queen Isabella has conferred the Grand Cross of
the Order of Isabella the Catholic on Omer Pacha,
and on Mehemet Ali Pacha, ex-Minister of War in
Turkey ; and the Cross of Commander of the same
Order on Ferik Pacha, Mustapha Pacha, and Ismael
Pacha.

The Madrid Gazette publishes a royal decree
restoring to his Royal Highness the Infante lion
Henry his titles and honours.
The reply of the Spanish Government to Mr.
Soule's last note was, that they consider General
Pezuela and the Cuban authorities to have acted in
a perfectly regular and legal manner; that, out of
consideration for the United States, but not as an
acknowledgment of right, the fine of 6,000 dollars
has been remitted, but that the demands made upon
Spain by the American Minister are destitute of
foundation, and wholly inadmissible.
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MORE WORLDS THAN ONE ,

CREED OF THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE HOPE OF THE CHRISTIAN
BY SIR DAVID BREWSTER.
JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle•street.

In a few days, the Eighth Edition of
THE REV. C. BRIDGES' WORK on the
CHRISTIAN MINISTRY. In Bvo., price 108.6 d., cloth.
81ELEY11, Fleet-street and Hanover-street.
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LEIPSIC FAIR is this year very badly attended,
and little business is done. hi other times there
have always been a large number of purchasers from
Turkey, Russia, and Poland, but this year there are
scarcely any.
A 'IRE-ENGINE, worked by steam, is used with
much success in Cincinnati. It weighs only four or
five tons, and steam can be got up in the short space
of seven minutes. It is proposed to provide New
York with similar engines.
THE CALCULATING MACHINE invented by the Swedish
mechanician tielieutz has been tried in the presence
of a great number of official people, and found to
answer admirably.
A NUMBER OF BALLAns (stall-songs, fly sheets)
have lately appeared in Sweden, and are sold in im-
mense numbers. They treat of the present warlike
state of affairs, and breathe the utmost hatred
against
.Russia. The principal secular reading of the
lower classes in the Swedish provinces consists of
this stall-literature, which includes many magnificent
ballads from the middle age.
THE BERLIN Feuerspritze publishes the following
statement relative to the German opera company
proposed to be engaged for London
The London German Opera enterprise, for which our thea-
trical ladies had prepared materials fur dresses, has fallen to the
ground. The agent of the London company, a Mr. Seeger
Oswald, had not only concluded contracts with Mesdames Koster,
Tuezek, and Kiichenmeister. and with the music director Thomas
$t Berlin, but with sundry artists at Hamburg, Cologne,
Hanover, and Brussels, whereby the combined company was
engaged to meet in London on the 24th of April. But this gen-
tleman suddenly disappeared, and a number of poor chorists,
who had proceeded to Hamburg, have become the sacrifice of
fads negotiator. The strong boxes of divers theatrical agents
have considerably suffered by this proceeding. A singular fata-
lity appears to hang over Berlin female singers in England.
The Feuerspritze must take the entire responsibility
of the foregoing announcement.
UNDER the title " Truth and Fiction, Pen and
Ink Sketches from the Coast Islands," a social novel
has just appeared in Sweden, which has made a
marked sensation. The work contains a vigorous
attack on the present Swedish prohibitive customs
laws, and shows what terrible crimes and demoralisa-
tion result from the smuggling system now directly
encouraged by the State.
LIEUTENANT SWAIN, DOW at Aspinwall, pronounces
a Darien ship canal to be an impossibility. He says,
"There is as much prospect of a canal there as there
is of a railroad to the moon."
London, England, 1854-05-20

littmolitan Markets.

(Reported eretutively for "Tni Pause.")
CORN-EXCHANGE Since of
home-grown wheat, coastwise and
on a very limited scale. For all
steady, at an advance in the quotations
quarter, at which good clearances be,
wheat—the receipts of which havt
steadily, at from Is to 2s per qua
cargoes have realised en improvemeni
has come steadily to band, and
been doing in it on former terms.
quarter, owing to the rise in the dt
6d to is per quarter more money.
peas we have no change to notice.
an improvement of Is per barrel; ,
has not been extensive. The imports
Esomert—Wheat, Essex and
70e to 855 ; Norfolk and Lincoln;
40a to 43s ; grinding ditto, 36s
Malt, 66s to 88s. Feed oats, 97s
Rye, 48s to 505. Tick beans, 45s
Grey pea., 445 to 46. ; maple, 47s t
59s per quarter. Town-made flour,
58s to 61e per 2801bs.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. If arley. Malt. Oata. Mbar.
English 440 .. 1360 .. 4080 .. 1280 .. 410
Irish
Foreign .. 37790 .. 4400 .. 50460 .. 1230 eke.
2520 Wit
LONDON AVERAGES DECLARED ON FRIDAY—
Wheat, 2,101 quarters, 801 4d; barley, 879 quarters, 38s ild;
oats, 2,897 quarters, 29s 6d ; rye, 113 quarters, 46s 7d ; beans, 212
quarters, 47s 7d; peas, 67 quarters, 48s 9d.
IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES--Wheat, 781 9d; bar-
ley, 375 Id; oats, 29s scl ; rye, 520 ld ; beans, 48s lid; peak
46s 9d.
THE SIX WEEKS' AVEIIAGE.S—Wheat, 78s 3d; barley,
36s lid; oats, 28s 2d; rye, 50, 7d; beans, 40, 8d; peas,
44s 3d.
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK—Wheat, 57,450;
barley, 19,218; oats, 14,885; rye, 82 ; beans, 4,877; peas, 854
quarters.
SEEDS—There is a steady business doing In linseed, at very
Nil prices. All other seeds are dull, on former terms. Cakes
command extreme rates.
TEA—The public sales held this week have gone off steady,
at full prices. Privately, our market is firm, on former teed.
Common sound Congou, Is per lb. Upto Saturday last duty will
paid on 16,389,9911b5, against 11,219,599115 s in 1853.
SUGAR—The business doing In raw sugar Is not to
extensive, yet the quotations are well supported. Fine ye
liarbadoes has sold at 89s to Cm; mid to good, 35s to Bft ;
low, 33s to 34s &I; low to mkt yellow Mauritius, 34s to Kis
good to fine, 38e to 375; good to fine crystallised yellow,
40s per cwt. Crushed is held at Hill currebeies. Maned
are rather active. Brown lumps era sailing at 408 tO

our la-it report the arrivals of
nd by land carriage, have been
ill kinds the demand has ruled
cations of from Is to fully 22 par
es have been effected. Foreign
lave been liberal—has moved off
quarter more money. Floating
emeut of 2s per quarter. Barley
1 about an average business has
[s. Malt has advanced 10s per
duty. Oats have sold at fries
ey. In the value of beans and
American flour has realised
rel ; but the business doing in ft
sports have been but moderato.
Kent white, 745 to 911 ; rto,
red, 70s to Ms. Malting barley,
to 395; disttning, 87s to lit.
75 to 30s ; potato, 110 s to US.
Is to 525; pigeon, 47s to Oh.
7e to 49s ; white boilers, 1175 ti
our, 86. to 70s; country mutt,
London, England, 1854-05-20

THE PRESS.

480

MURRAY'S BRITISH CLASSICS.

On the 81st, with Frontispiece and Vignette, demy Bvo., 7s. 6d., the Fourth and Concluding Volume of the
WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH,
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attiesinstital.

AND A

The Rev. Win. Wyatt Woollcorube, M.A., to the Rectory of
Wootton, near Northampton.
The Rev. John I.ees, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. Mark's
Church and District, Islington.
The Rev. J. R Charleeworth, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy
of Eletoul, near Godahoing, Surrey.
The Rev. Henry Margette, M.A., to the OMcialty of the Arch-
deaconry of Huntingdon.
The Rev. Mourant Brock, M.A., to the Curacy of St. Matthew's
Church, Whicombe, Bath.
The Rev. W. V. Dawson, 8.A., to the Curacy and Sub-Rector-
ship of Cooling, Kent.
The Rev. Edward John Bell, to be Organising Secretary
of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel iu Foreign Parts.
The Rev. J. M'Connell Hussey, M.A., to be Afteronon Preacher
at the Foundling Hospital.
The Rev. J. Prideaux Lightfoot, M.A., to the Rectory of Kid-
lington, Oxfordshire.
The Rev. Raymund S. Daniell, M.A., to the Curacy of St. Paul's
Church, Shadwell.
The Rev. 0. If. A. Perry, 8.A., to the Curacy of Lane-end,
near Newcastle-under-Lyne
The Rev. Henry Horace W. Thrupp, 8.A., to the Curacy of
Pleasley, Derbyshire.
The Rev. J. Marshall, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Paul's Church,
Salford.
The Rev. John Martin, M.A., to the Curacy of Dawlish,
Devonshire.
The Rev. Robert Augustus Gordon, M.A., to the Rural
Deanery of Buutingford.
The Rev. Augustus Gedge, M.A., to the Rectory of Lud-
borough, near Louth, Lincolnshire.
The Rev. Wm. De Courcy Ireland, 8.A., to the Curacy of
Christchurch, Liverpool.
The Rev. Wm. Robert Stephens, 8.A., to the CuracyStipendiary
of St. John's Church, Longsight.
The Rev. J. Graves, M.A., to the Vicarage of Kelmacar.
The Rev. Edward Thomas Cardale to the Incumbency of
Flax Bourton, Soniereetehire.
The Rev. John Tommie to the Living of Strontian, in the Pres-
bytery of Mull.
The Rev. John Peel, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Hornsby and
South, Yorkshire.
The Rev. Henry Morgan, 8.A., to the Incumbency of II e amen,
newt ampeter.
The Rev. Anthony Ely, M.A., has been appointed a Surrogate
for the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol.
The Rev. William Nassau St. Leger, M.A., to the Chaplaincy
of her Majesty's troops at Corfu.
The Rev. Richard Boys, M.A., to the Incumbency of Loose,
near Maidstone.
The Rev. Francis Thomas Gregory, M.A., to the Incumbency
of St. Mary's Platt, Wrotharn.
The Rev. William Robert Lyon Bennett, 8.A., to the Ininun-
bailey of Holy Trinity Church, Dover.
The Rev. J. Leyborne Popham, M.A., to be Chaplain to the
Bishop of Salisbury.
the Rev. Dr. Somerset Lowry Townsend to the Rectory and
Vicarage of Louth.
The Rev. Frederick Fitzpatrick, M.A., to the Rectory of Pains-
town.
The Rev. J. M'Clintook, BA., ti the Curacy of Derriaghy.
The Rev. M. Hawke, ILL., to the Rectory of Willingham, near
Oaluaborough.

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THE PRESS.

by M. C. L. Muller—a picture of much importance
and very careful execution. The parable is adapted
to modern life, and the actors wear the gay and bril-
liant dresses of the sixteenth century. The prodigal
himself is well conceived—his countenance and atti-
tude, expressive of voluptuous facility and gay indif-
ference, are happily rendered ; and his female
companions, cajoling and interested, are well imagined
to point the moral of the story. No. 25, " A Meadow
with Cattle," by M. L Coignard, is very true to na-
ture : the cattle are dispersed over the plain with
more regard to truth, perhaps, than to picturesque
effect. The landscape is excellent, and we think the
artist has judged well in sacrificing every other con-
sideration to truth. AAA, " Going to Market," by M.
Troyon, is a very pretty picture : the sun behind the
group Of peasants casts long shadows in front of them,
and involves all intervening objects in a dazzling
haze.
London, England, 1854-05-20

GERMANY.

Austria has addressed to Russia a new note re-
questing her to evacuate the principalities, and
pointing out, it is alleged, an eventual catus belli.
The Vienna Gazette states, that, in consequence
of the great concentration of troops on the north-
eastern and eastern frontiers of Austria, 95,000
recruits will be raised.

The Austrian Government continues to carry out
the mobilisation of the army with activity. The
corps sent to the frontiers of Galicia is commanded
by General Count Schlick.
An account has been published of the receipts
of the Austrian Treasury for 1853. It shows a falling
off of 56,000,000 florins.
The amounts subscribed to the new Austrian loan
of 3; millions are said to have been 2,000,0001. at
Amsterdam, and 500,000!. at Frankfort.
The negotiations between Russia and the Berlin
Cabinet for a treaty of commerce have completely
failed. All that has been agreed upon is, to give
facilities to commerce on the frontiers. _

The Prince of Prussia has been prevailed on, at
the especial request of the King, to return to
Berlin on the 7th June, the anniversary of the death
of their father, a day always observed by the Royal
Family.
The betrothal of his Royal Highness Prince
Frederick Charles of Prussia with the Princess
Maria Anna of Anbalt Dessau was to have been
celebrated on Wednesday, at the palace of Chariot-
tenburg.
Several German Governments, including Hanover,
Wurtemberg, and Bavaria, have sent in their adhe-
sion to the Austrc-P.-ussian treaty. Other German
Courts, especially that of Saxony, where Russian
sympathies have always prevailed, have formed as
yet no decision.

SWEDEN AND NORWAY.
The following letter appears in the Moniteur of
Monday last :
" STOCKHOLM, May s.—Our situation is assuming here a
more warlike aspect every day. Public opinion desires
that we should attach ourselves to the Western powers.
The
opportunity is too favourable for squaring our ac-
counts with Russia. The Government shares this view of
seeing the case. It continues its armaments. There is a
wish to conclude an offensive and defensive alliance with
France and England. Our infantry is composed of 85,000
men, the cavalry of 5,569, and the artillery of 4,910; in all
94,080 regular troops. Gothland and the other provinces
could furnish 21,000 men. Thus the entire army would pre-
sent &total of 116,000 men. The ambassadors or the foreign
powers do not leave the King. The English ambassador
had a private audience of his Majesty on the 3rd inst., the
Prussian had one yesterday, and to-day the ambassadors of
France and England were received by his Majesty."
Norway will derive large benefits from the blockade
of the Finland coasts, especially as regards the
timber trade. The supplies hitherto drawn from the
latter by Denmark, Holstein, and other Baltic ports,
are completely cut off, and these supplies must be
made good from Norway, or from the Silesian,
Lithuanian, and Posnanian forests.

ITALY.
The trial of sixteen persons accused of the murder
of Count Rossi has been concluded in Rome. The
following have been found guilty :—Luigi Grandont
London, England, 1854-05-20

TURKEY.

Prince Napoleon, who arrived at Constantinople
on the Ist inst., was received on the same evening in
a most affectionate manner by the Sultan. On the
following day the Prince was visited by the Sultan—
a most unusual honour. In the evening there was
a grand banquet at the embassy in honour of the
Prince, who proposed the toast of " The Sultan."
Muslaman Bey and Mehemet Pacha have been
appointed, respectively, to the Ministries of Com-
merce and Police. Namik Pacha, who was lately
charged with the negotiation of a loan, will, it is
said, be nominated Ambassador to France.
A terrible conflagration took place in Constanti-
nople on the 4th inst. Two or three hundred houses
were burnt down. Prince Napoleon and the crew of
the Roland worked actively to extinguish it.
Mr. Colquhoun, the English consul, passed through
Belgrade on the Ist, coming from Wallachia, on a
mission extraordinary to Bosnia, the Herzegowina,
and to Montenegro. He will endeavour to prevent
any armed rising in these provinces against the
Turks.
London, England, 1854-05-20

tout 10 lastion.

Tars day week her Majesty left Buckingham
Palace for ‘Voolwich, to be present at the launch of
the Royal Albert, 131 guns, of which we gave a pre-
liminary account in our last PRESS. The Queen
herself named the ship, which was launched upon
its destined element in the presence of an immense
crowd, including the Court circle, the members of
both Houses of Parliament, many distinguished re-
presentatives of the military and naval professions,
a numerous gathering of Loudon fashionables, and
a miscellaneous throng of, it was computed, more
than 00,000 spectators.
O Monday Prince Albert went to Aldershott-
common to inspect the site selected for a camp.
The Queen had a dinner party in the evening. On
the following day her Mejesty and Prince Albert
drove to Hampton Court, and viewed the paddocks
at Bushey. Returning through Twickenham, the
Queen and Prince called on the Duke and Duchess
of Amitele. On Wednesday the royal pair went to
Gore-house and inspected the collection of the works
of students iu the School of Design. In the evening
the state ball took place at Buckingham Palace. On
Thursday the Queen visited the Duchess of Glou-
cester, and went to the Italian Opera in the evening.
TO-DAY (Saturday) is fixed for the celebration of
her Majesty's birthday. An inspection of such
household troops as still remain in London is to he
held in the Tilt-yard, St. James's-park, by Lord Har-
dinge. Many Ministerial banquets will come off
to-night, all the members of the Cabinet giving din-
ners except the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is
in seclusion, owing to the death of Lady Glynn, the
mother of Mr. Gladstone.
lIER MAJESTY and the Prince Consort, accompanied
by the youthful royal circle, are expected to leave
Buckingham Palace on Monday next for Osborne-
house, where the Queen will remain in comparative
retirement until the Bth of June. The Court will
then return to London until Ascot races, when a
distinguished circle will be invited to meet Dom
Pedro V., King of Portugal. Her Majesty's birthday
on Wednesday next will be privately celebrated at
home.

IT is reported that a chapter of the Order of the
Garter will shortly be held, to take preliminary steps
for expelling the Emperor of Russia from their order
in consequence of his having broken the oath which
l►e bad taken at his installation.
A MARRIAGE will shortly take place between the
Hon. George Byng and Lady Alice Egerton, eldest
daughter of the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere.
The Hon. George Byng is the eldest son of Viscount
Enfield, and M.P. for the borough of Tavistoek.
London, England, 1854-05-20

The Copirte Zeitung's Correspondenz says :
. .

" It is confirmed that Russia is concentrating an army
corps of observation on the Prussian frontier. The
20,000 troops that have recently commenced their march
from Warsaw will not be sent into Moldavia, as at first
announced, but to the neighbourhood of Petrikau and
Czenstochan—places which are only a few miles distant
from the Prussian frontier."

A letter from the Russian frontier, published in
the Moniteur, states that the levies of troops have
ceased throughout the empire ; they amount to
200,000 men. The principal armies are stationed in
columns along the frontiers of the south and the
north-west. The different reserve corps are concen-
trating around Moscow and Kiew. There are 50,000
men now in Poland.
London, England, 1854-05-20

THE PRESS.

repulsed the attack of the enemy against that soil which
had received, in the time of the apostles, the sacred pre-
cursor of the Christian religion to our holy native land.
The heroic firmness and devotion of the troops, inspired
by your example, have been crowned with complete
success; the city has been saved from destruction, and
the hostile fleets have disappeared. To recompense
worthily so brilliant an action, we grant you the Order of
St. Andrew.

(Signed) " NICHOLAS.
" Saint Petersburg, April 21 t May 3), 1854."
The damage done by the bombardment to the
Government property in Odessa is now stated to be
far greater than was generally supposed. The
Russian journals announce that, in virtue of a deci •
sion of the Government, the military stores, batte-
ries, and all the other works of defence, destroyed by
the division of the combined squadron, shall be re-
constructed at the expense of the city of Odessa.
Those journals add, that the Czar, in taking that
decision, merely acceded to the patriotic demand of
the inhabitants of that city. The Governor of
Moscow caused a "Te Deum " to be sung in
honour of the victory gained by the Russians at
Odessa.
London, England, 1854-05-20

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Contains iodine, phosphate of chalk, volatile acid, and the ele-
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FRANCE.

SATURDAY,

.
Sortign RA' Colonial ittelligtnte.

The Ulm screw-ship, of 100 guns, was launched at
Rochefort on Saturday afternoon, the same day that
the Royal Albert was launched at Woolwich.
The uniform of the new Imperial Guard is to be
precisely the same as that of Napoleon's celebrated
Old Guard, with the exception of the queue, and
some other innovations made necessary by the
change of fashion. _ _

The interest on Bona du Tresor is reduced to :le
per cent. for bonds of three to five mouths, 4 per
cent. of six to eleven mouths, and 41 per cent. of
twelve months.

All the French diplomatic and consular agents
who may have been obliged, on account a the war,
to leave their posts and return to France, are to re-
ceive for six months, dating from their return, a
special allowance varying according to their grade,
and calculated at from 50,000 f. to 60,000 f. for am-
bassadors, 15,000 f. to 40,000 f. for ministers plenipo-
tentiaries, and 2,400 f. to 14,0001. for agents of lower
ranks. At the end of the six months, the agents
who may have served for more than ten years may
be allowed the pay for non-active services.
M. de l'ersigny leaves Paris for the country, where
he will remain for two months. M. Baroche is to be
ad interim Minister, and will probably retain the
place permanently.
The once famous Albert, ouvrier, the member of
the Provisional Government of the Republic, who
has been detained since 1848 as a prisoner of state
at Belleisle, was lately removed on account of the
state of his health to Vannes, and subsequently to
Tours, in the prison of which place he has been
since the oth inst.
London, England, 1854-05-20

EXTRA SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

ST. PETERSBURG GAZETTE.

(We were just going to press when the courier of St. Petersburg, standing on the backs
of four horses at once, dashed up to our door and flung in the following fly-leaf for
instant insertion. He refused to wait and give explanation of any kind, but, shout-
ing that he must get on to Argyll-house, went off at a tremendous pace. We have
no alternative but to print what has reached us under such circumstances. It seems
to carry internal evidence that it is genuine, being very like what has already emanated
from the same quarter.'

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY has honoured us with his gracious permission
to communicate to his children, the people of Russia, the most
glorious intelligence which ever threw a nation into a fever of loyalty
and gratitude. Providence has blessed the arms of his Majesty's
gallant soldiers and sailors to a degree which it would have been
almost presumptuous even for the Emperor to have asked, and which
it would be impious not
.to acknowledge as a special and miraculous
interposition in aid of the orthodox faith.