The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-11 00:00:00

THE COURT

OSBORNE, August B.—The Queen and Prince drove out
yesterday afternoon. The royal children also took their
usual exercise. Her Majesty, instead of proceeding by
the coast route from Newcastle to Edinburgh, this year
will, it is said, cause the Royal train to turn off at Ber-
wick on the 28th, and proceed along the Kelso branch up
the valley of the Tweed, and thence by the Hawick branch
to Edinburgh. Dryburgh, Melrose, and Abbotsford are
comprehended in this route. It is the intention of her
Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
to pay an early visit to Jersey and Guernsey. Should the
weather permit, the Royal party will embark to-day from
Osborne, on board the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert,
Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, and proceed on a
cruise down Channel, calling at the islands en route. The
Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Secretary of State for the
Colonies, will attend her Majesty, together with Sir
James Clark, her Majesty's physician. His Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent on Thursday. Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent left town yesterday for Abergeldie
House, Braemar. Her Royal Highness was accompanied
by the Princess Amelia of Hohenlohe.Schillingsfurst, and
attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Lord James
Murray. Her Royal Highness travelled via the Great
Northern Railway, and will sleep to.night at Newcastle-
on-Tyne, and to-morrow at Edinburgh, and proceed on to
Banchory on Monday. Mr. Elwyn, of the manager's
department of the Great Northern Railway, will attend
her Royal Highness as far as Banchory, whence the
Duchess will travel post to Abergeldie.

DEATH OF MADAME VESTRIS (COMMUNICATED).—We
regret to have to announce the death of Madame Vestris,
which took place at her residence at five o'clock yester-
day morning. For some months past this talented lady
had been suffering from severe illness, but many of her
friends who had the pleasure of her private acquaintance,
and a still larger circle who had been charmed and
delighted by her acting, entertained the hope that she
would be restored to health, and once more give pleasure
to delighted audiences. Few artistes have enjoyed so long
and so continued a share of well deserved popularity as
Madame Vestris, and her removal from theatrical circles
will cause a vacancy not easily to be filled up. With the
death of Madame Vestris another link which binds the
present age of the drama to past and brighter periods of
its history has been severed, and a star which once
glittered brightly has become darkened and has disap-
peared from our gaze. Private sympathies and public
regrets will seek expression on the announcement of the
death of this talented lady.— Observer of yesterday.

RUSSIAN TREACHERY.—AdmiraI Houston Stewart,
second in command in the Mediterranean, has been
ordered from Marseilles to join Lord Lyons, the Com-
mander-in-chief at Malta. The British fleet in the
Mediterranean has received reinforcements, and we
believe it is quite true that these movements are pre-
paratory to a concentration of the British and French
navies, in order to enforce certain portions of the Treaty
of Paris, which some of the Russian authorities have
shown too great a disposition to postpone, or to neglect
altogether. In the Paris Conferences Baron Brunow
actually proposed that the fortresses of Reni and of
Ismail should be dismantled and razed before they
should be given up to the Moldavians in the " rectifica-
tion of that part of the Bessarabian territory"' that is to
be added to the Principalities under the suzerainty of
the Sultan. This proposition of the Russians was at
once resisted by Count Walewski and the other pleni-
potentiaries, and was immediately withdrawn. And
now it appears that the Russians have, notwithstanding
this direct refusal of the other powers, proceeded, since
the peace, and after this very discussion, not only to
dismantle the fortresses of Reni, Kilia, and Ismail, but
to raze them to the ground. This they have done, although
the Allies had utterly ceased to proced with any
further demolition of Sebastopol, from the moment that
the armistice was agreed to by the commanders of the
several armies in the field. It would have been only
preparing for carrying out the positive stipulation of the
treaty, that Sebastopol and every other port in the Black
Sea should be no longer employed as naval arsenals—
that every portion of the docks and naval stores should
be destroyed. The Allies behaved, however, with good
faith, and committed not one act of destruction against
the public property of Russia from the moment the
peace was agreed upon. Not so the Russians.
They have, in time of peace, utterly demolished the
Danubian fortresses, which they stipulated to restore to
their rightful owners, in " rectification of the Besserabian
territory," and in the stipulated freedom of the trade of
the Great European River. In like manner they have
dismantled Kars, and although Sebastopol is given up to
the Russians, and not a single soldier of the Allied
conquerors remains in the Crimea, Kars and its neigh-
bourhood are still occupied by Russian troops.
And this, notwithstanding that the restitution
of Kars, as well as all the Turkish territory, was
expressly insisted upon by Lord Clarendon in the
conferences, and made a separate article of the treaty.
The Russians have also taken possession of a small and
barren island in the Black Sea—the Isle of Serpents—
which was first heard of as the rendezvous of the fleets for
the invasion of the Crimea. It is needless to observe that
at that time there was not a Russian subject or soldier in
the place. It lies in the Delta of the Danube, and is
utterly barren. It can be no use to Russia—not even to
revive her annihilated " preponderance in the Black
Sea." It must not be lost sight of that one of the lead-
ing objects of the Peace of Paris was to secure the free
navigation of the Danube, and of all its several mouths,
and to remove all Russian authority and interfeience to
a safe distance. Russia will not possess the 'slightest
control or influence over a single acre of land upon either
side of the Danube, or of its numerous mouths and
deboucles into the Black Sea: Nay, more, she has stipu-
lated to surrender a portion of the territory, north of the
most northern mouth. of the Danube, and comprising a
considerable shore of the Black Sea itself. It is, there-
fore, absurd to suppose that she should now be allowed
to take possession of this little island—barren as it is
—and to retain a possession—ever so small in the
midst of the river and territories which she has
agreed to surrender, and entirely dependent upon them.
These tricks must not be allowed—and we are glad to
hear that they have engaged the watchful attention of
the Allied governments, who are completely in accord
upon the subject, and whose fleets are sufficient to see
the treaty carried out—even although the armies have
totally evacuated the seat of war "in the promptest
manner," and with all that honourable sincerity and
disinterestedness for which we have always given them
credit. The dignity of Russia was respected—as far as
such dignity could be—by the representatives of the
Allies. If the Russian authorities anywhere exhibit a
disposition to evade their engagements, or to diminish
their force, they must be taught that the other powers
are still watchful and allied to carry out the true objects
of the war—and they must be made to respect that
justice, which has been honourably and amply dealt out
to them.—Observer.

His Excellency the Russian Minister and the Countess
Chreptowich arrived at the embassy in Chesham-place,
London, on Friday afternoon, accompanied by M. de Berg
and the personnel of the legation.