The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-18 00:00:00

dangerous system which would I

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rights

If we suff(

istitutional principles

tion to the life and property of -every British

subject to be subverted for

poses of party

the temporary pur-

and nepotism, of any other

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taxed to annihilation, Yorksl
last degree of feudal vengeanc

we may live to see Lancashire

ire persecuted to th
and Middlesex

ind probably Buckinghamshire, pardoned
and pampered as the favourites of those in power.
England is not prepared for such a change.. No
central Government can give that protection to
life aid property, that development to local
resources, and that attention to local wants, which
municipal and local bodies now afford. No govern-
ment board can administer parish revenues and
other localincomes, as economically and justly as a
number of men residing on the spot, and sharing
the burden of their own acts, as the guardians of
their neighbours' pockets. And yet the PALMER-
STON Cabinet set up Mr. 1.40wE, the Vice-President
of the Board of Trade, as an infallible authority,
who is to convince us to the contrary ; and the
Rate-payers of Liverpool have been put to some
thousands of pounds expense, to defend their
lawful income from the grasp of the plausible
innovator, who repudiates all idea of compensation
for work done !

The persons who read the reports of the pro=
ceedings of Mr. LowE's Towns' Dues Committee
must be amazed at their National School
character. The Town Clerk of Liverpool, instead
of being left at home to mind the more legitimate

duties of his office, is compelled to appear before
the Committee in the capacity of an historical

preceptor

The Cabinet and Parliament are fully

aware that this sea-port town has a right to levy
dues on shipping and goods, as well as every other

and Corporate town in the three kingdoms,

and without asking if that right is guaranteed to

them, with the rights of property in general, by
the Constitution ; they carry on the solemn and
costly farce of enquiring into its origin, knowing
full well that we have enjoyed the income they

covet for centuries. lf such an investigation
is necessary, Mr. LOWE must have been perfectly
ignorant of the subject on which he asked the
House of Commons to legislate when he
introduced his Passing Tolls and Towns' Dues

Bill. He made a two or three hour speech on that
occasion, and surely all he uttered was not bosh.
The House could not have .doubted the correct-
ness of the right honourable gentleman's state-
ment. Mr. LOWE, then, can never forgive Lord
PALMERSTON for sending him " hup stairs" fora

whole Session, even if the Corporate towns of

s attempts at

atralisation and disregard of vested

It would be ridiculous, however, to think of
calling this a local question. Mr. LowE's Commit
tee is meant as a direct attack on the municipal
revenues of the entire country. And if the
advocates of centralisation can only get one set of

Rate-payers to oppose another, as'those of Man-
chester have unwisely done, at the biddin
agitators who will go to Parliament every session

plea or other, the object of those who
find they cannot retain office except by increas-
ing patronage, will be speedily accomplished,
and every Corporation and parish will have
their Government assessors, tax collectors, over-
soers, inspectors, and all the other officials, in
the places of those who are now selected from
the locality to which they belong. The Govern-
ment are only holding Liverpool up by the ears
just now, but Manchester, and every other town
circumstanced as she is,may rest assured that they
will be collared in their turn. Boards and Com-
missions have been organised in London for the
management of poorhouses, education, trade,
shipping, and everything else in which the public
are concerned ; and these boards must have work,
and the handling of rates, given to them, or they
must be broken up. The Government must either
extend or curtail their patronage, and this is the
Ministerial necessity with which we have to con-
tend. Such expensive bodies when called into
existence must have something found for them to
do, and if we do not resist the centralisation
scheme, the magnitude of which their numbers
betray, there will not be a trace of local self-
government left in the land in another session or
two. The advent of a general election is the time
to discuss such a subject, and we promise Mr.
LowE that the Rate-payers of Kidderminster, with
their 495 registered voters, shall be made fully
acquainted with his particular views with re-
gard to self-government long before he is again
compelled to appear on the hustings ; and we do
not despair of making the Cabinet feel the in-
fluence which the voice of Liverpool has in the
manufacturing districts, whose best interests have
been assailed to repair the backslidings of a cor-
porate administration, which the House of Com-
mons has failed to reform.

som

THE Government have not yet opened the
tenders which have been sent in for the convey.
ance of the mails to Australia by steamships. The
authorities are waiting, probably, to hear from the

colonies on the subject before they make up their
minds as to what ought to be done fo'r the trader
and merchant at home. We have repeatedly urged
on the public the peculiar advantages which Liver-

pool possesses as a mail and passenger station,
but with what effect remains to be seen by the
solution about to be made. If we should lose the

conveyance of letters, our ships wilt still retain th

carriage of bullion, as few will like to trust tons

of gold to anythir

short of an army on the 0

land Route, to say nothing of the immense

transit

Of the West Indian steam line w

say nothing until we know for a certainty ti

to have the contract

beyond remit

I Mr

WILSON and the Post-office authorities that there
arc blue books in existence which they ought to
read before they pledge the country to what the
commercial classes will find the best, if not the
shortest route. The fate that awaits the Liverpool

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traders is a matter di' very trivial import to this town.
We need. care little about the mails, seeing that our
large steam passengers' ships command the largest i
cargoes and highest freights. We feel more for the '
Bank of England,
,and the bullion producers in the {
colonies, than we do for ourselves.

Millionares may go overland, or any other way
they please, but the solid passenger and goods traffic
will settle down in the expeditious, known, and
safe channel in spite of all obstacles. If the Mer-
sey gets the contract, well and good. If not, we
know what remains to be done ; and it would be
well for those whose tenders are accepted, to
remember that Liverpool has not the slightest idea
of abandoning her vantage grounds. We must have
an Australian steamship line, let who may have the
Government bags. Those who know the exact value
of the traffic will be the first to taste the sweets
of an opposition such as Liverpool is capable of
offering. The trade between the two regions in
question dates from, and is addressed to the north,
and its specific gravity will mark out the true line
Only raise the ball that we
ee it fall and remove all doubts as

it ought to tak

to the course heavy weights take. When
we speak of the traffic between England and
Australia, the success which has already attended
Liverpool must not be overlooked. And what
will, the traffic be five or ten years hence ?

We have all seen what the Pacific silver and
California gold freights have done for the West
Indian steamers, as far as profits are concerned,

but we have yet to learn what difference they have
made in their punctuality. If Liverpool had a
line of ocean steamships running to Chagres,
and from Panama to Australia, and vice versa, they
might relieve the West Indian boats of their Cali.
fornia cargoes, and with the Australian gold, they

would make a very respectable appearance, in ad-
dition to quick and safe passages. Such enter-
prises are, by far, too inviting to be long over•
looked, and the greater the success which attends
others, the sooner will our merchants be
moved. At present, we believe, the pro-
mise of

a Government contract, and the
certainty that it would not be given to this port,
if it could be avoided, has kept our enterprising
capitalists quiet; but another year will scarcely have
passed over before we shall see the Liverpool and
Australian steamships commanding the great
bulk of the bullion and passenger freights between
the two countries.

The trade is a young and growing one, and we
can compete with any line, the Government may
select. We can do the whole distance in 45 days,
and this has to be beiten. It has never been done
by any other route ; and although we hear of the
" shortest lines," we are not told' of the rocks,
shoals, and hurricanes which have to be encoun-

tered along almost unknown shores for nine
months out of the twelve. Liverpool can beat,
everything that has been done as yet, as the Par-
liamentary reports clearly show. Therefore, we
have no reason to despair, even if the contracts
should be given against us. The first six months
will prove to the mercantile world what
the steamers of other places can do, and
how far we shall be in advance of
the Continent and America in the receipt of
our commercial advices. But there is an abun-
dance of room for a line of Australian packets,
totally irrespective of all the Government may
do in the way of contracts. If they pay due,
regard to the mutual importance of a quick transit
of bullion, they will *never give the mail bounty
to the Overland Route. If they bestow it on the
West India line we can guess what the result
will be, and they will be doing a grievous wrong
if they give the work to any Melbourne parties,
or persons whose pretensions to the management
of such heavy undertakings have not undergone
the severe test Liverpool has in ocean steamship
management. The public seek the performance
of a great maritime duty, and experience points to
the Mersey as the quarter in which it can best
be done.

THE exhibition which took place at Stafford on
Saturday, must make the most devoted advocates
of the punishment of death blush again at the
depravity of the age. The profound disgust the
Press and people of this country give vent to
when they hear of men, women, and children
being present at bull fights, bear beating, badger
drawing, and the like cruel and brutal amuse-
ments, must henceforth expose us to the contempt
and ridicule of Christendom. Every householder
who had a doorway, window, or roof, which corn-
"manded a view of the scaffold from which a fellow
creature was about to be launched into eternity,
found hosts of occupants for the accommodation
they could afford. And the Magistrates of the
town thought it necessary to caution WOMEN and
the youth of both sexes not to appear in the
crowd. But all would not do. The depraved
female taste of our times, was stronger than
Magisterial regard for personal safety, and public
decency. Women, girls, and boys were there,
and long will the revolting spectacle they
beheld haunt their minds, and supply a
topic for an evening's discourse. Fortunately,
the wretched being whose death struggles
they - went to witness died without a visible
effort to retain life, nor did he make a confes-
sion, to take from the medical witnesses examined
on his trial the solemn responsibility which rests
upon them to prove the truth of their scientific
allegations.

WILLIAM PALMER'S death on the gallows has
satisfied the ends of justice, assuming his guilt to
be established. As the murderer has been executed,
it may not be thought necessary to direct any
further examination of the body of the murdered
man. Comes remains may not be submitted to
further chemical analysis. Yielding to such a
desire on tie part of the public would probably be
considered as an admission of a doubt as to the
propriety of putting PALMER to death. But all
this will not remove the general anxiety as to the
new doctrines laid down in our Criminal
Courts, and the universal alarm which must
be felt at the thoughts of poisons being
sold openly in shops which cannot be
discovered in 'the body after death. Such a
proposition has been declared too monstrous for
belief; but since a man has actually been hanged
on that dictum, it will henceforth enjoy the sanctity
of a precedent, and there really is no safety for
life where the symptoms, immediately before and
after the death of another, may resemble those of
poisoning. We may have legs to fear in this
country from the promulgation of such medical
dogmas ; but wa must remember that the trial of
WILLIAM PALMER has been spread over the whole
civilised world, and there is no knowing what use
may be made of them in those parts of the world
where trial by jury is not known, and where it is
a mere mockery.

It is due, not only to England, but to every other
nation • whO are capable of understanding the
questions, that all the doubts about them should
be cleared up, and without delay. Professor
ROGERS, whose letter appeared in the London
Times of Friday, says :—" I cannot conceive an

LIVERPOOL, WEDNE

" opinion more dangerous to

public

safety

" than that a fatal dose of poison can be
"so nicely adjusted as to escape discovery
" after death." And after describing the results

of his experiments, and the process he adopted,
he adds : " The results of these experi-

" ments, but without a description of the process
" employed, were forwarded by myself and Mr.
" GIRDWOOD for the consideration of Sir GEORGE

GREY, as we were of opinion that if SonN
PARSONS COOK' was poisoned by strychnine, no

" matter how small the fatal dose, its presence
" could even now be clearly demonstrated if the tissues
" of his body were subjected to the same mode of
" analysis. I cannot conclude this letter with.
" out expressing my opinion that, of all known
" poisons, there is not one more readily detected
" than strychnine, consequently no death ought

" to be attributed to its agency unless its presence
"be clearly demonstrated." Now, if this were a
matter of ordinary importance we should not
think it worth while to reprint even these short

extracts from Professor ROGERS' letter. But the
public must bear in mind that it is one of life and
death which must be cleared up, let who may

suffer in reputation or conscience by the issue of

a furthc

investigation

WILLIAM PALMER'S case needs no further discus-
sion, and his name will only be mixed up with the
enquiry for the purposes of evasion, or the defence
of the individuals whose professional character
may be at stake. We can ask for no
more decided recognition of the truth of
Dr. TAYLOR'S theory than the execution of the
man against whom he gave his evidence, and
it remains for the scientific gentlemen examined
for the defence, and Messrs. ROGERS and GIRD.
WOOD, to prove to the world that what they have
advanced leaves no suspicion behind it, in a ease
of murder. If those whose assertions now stand
condemned, in the eyes of all who believe WILLIAM
PALMER guilty of the murder of JOHN PARSONS
COOK, can successfully rebut the new doctrines
advanced by the prosecution, they will find that
they are on a short road to universal fame. There
never was a case known which caused so much
anxiety, consternation, and disgust, in the public
mind. The diabolical character and number of
the charges brought against the prisoner ; the
extraordinary nature and length of the investiga-
tion before the CORONER, and the trial at the Old
Bailey ; the conflict of opinion as to the sentence
and execution, have given to this huge tragedy
an appalling interest, which will long outlive the
generation which has participated in them. We can
only say, for ourselves, that we hope PALMER was
not guilty ; that those who say he was, according
to the teaching of science, will prove it, that the
Legislature may, forthwith, pass some law,
declaring the vending of poisons, without Govern-
ment authority, an offence which shall be punish-
able by transportation for life. Something must
be done before more lives are destroyed, by drugs
which are not discoverable in a human being after
death; and it is to be hoped the Government will
look to it, before we are again put to the pain of
recording such national degredations, as those
which were witnessed at Stafford on Saturday.

THE COURT

The Queen went on Monday morning to the camp at
Aldershott. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with
the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, left Bucking-
ham Palace at twenty minutes before ten o'clock
accompanied by the Regent of Baden and Prin4
Frederick William of Prussia. The royal party occu-
pied five of the Queen's carriages, and was escorted by
a party of the 3rd Light Dragoons to the private station
at Vauxhall. Her Majesty travelled by a special train
on the South Western Rail way to Farnborough.

Mr. Crampton, late British minister to the United
States of America, arrived in London on Monday, and
had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon. Mr.
Crampton also paid a visit to Viscount Palmerston.

INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE.—DONATIONS BY HER MAJESTY
AND FRINCH ALBERT.—Her Majesty and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert have been graciously pleased to
testify their sympathy for the unfortunate sufferers by
the late inundations in France by f)rwarding to the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor the munificent donations of
one thousand and five hundred pounds respectively, in
aid of the fund now raising at the Mansion-house for
their relief. s

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION..-Mr. Pellew Artbur,who was
elected Masters' Exhibitioner last year, is in the first class
at Trinity College, Cambridge; and Mr. William Jones
has obtained a Greek Testament prize in the same
examination.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday, the coroner held an
inquest on the body of the man Thomas Crooks, who died
from the effects of drinking a large quantity of rum, as
detailed in yesterday's paper. The, jury returned a verdict
of " Died from excessive drinking.'
STREET ROBBERY.--On Monday night, as Mr. W. D.
Farley, of Renshaw-street, was ,proceeding to his house in
Park-road, he was attacked by three ruffians who knocked
him down, ill-treated him, and robbed him of a considerable
sum of money. The villians got away before assistance
came to Mr. Farley. _

THE Boys' OWN JOURNAL.—Under this title, a new
candidate for popular favour eppeared, for the first time,
on Saturday last, and promises to be a welcome weekly
visitor to the rising generation. It is neatly got up, and
the selections combine useful information, with narratives,
which will generate a taste for reading and study. The
.Thys' Own Journal cannot fail to command a wide-spread
circulation.

LIVERPOOL ROYAL INPIRMARY.—Week ending June 14,
1856.—Admitted : In-patients, 39 ; out-patients, 3 ;
casuals during week, 10. Discharged : In-patients cured,
19 ; relieved, and at own request, -14 ; made out-patients,
3 ; irregular, 0 ; dead, 3 ; remain in the house, 171.
House visitors : W. H. Moss, and William Gregson,
Esqrs. Physician and surgeon for ensuing week : Dr.
Vose and Mr. Halton. House surgeon : Mr. G. B.
Halford. Junior house surgeon : Mr. Cecil Webster.
Chaplain : Rev. H. J. Garrod, B.A. Robert Hutchison,
treasurer

• BIRKENHEAD BONDHOLDERS.—A meeting of Birkenhead
bondholders was summoned by advertisement to meet a
gentleman, merely describing himself as a bondholder, at
the Wellington Hotel, Dale Street, last night. The adver-
tisement bore no signature, and was addressed to such
bondholders as felt dissatisfied with the present position of
affairs. Six o'clock was the hour appointed. The gentle-
man who invited the meeting, and who came from London
attended with another. Reporters from the Northern
Times, Mercury, and Daily Post, attended and waited until
long after the hour appointed, but up to the time of their
withdrawing no other individual had wade his appearance.
CLAYTON HALL.—MR. OKEY'S ENTERTAINMENT.—
Would you like to visit Paris? Yes, vastly, if time per-
mitted. Thenit will only cost you two hours at the
Clayton Hall, where, with Mr. Oakey, you cart have an
agreeable bird's-eye view of that Metropolis as can be
imagined. He will introduce you into all sorts of genteel
society, and, as for the " manners and customs" of the
gay and polite Parisians, you glean as much in these two
hours as you could, by observation, learn in as many years.
The sketches are lively, natural and interesting—the taus •
trations excellent and instructive. Mr. Okey is an accom-
plished gentleman, and gives a faithful picture of all
things he takes in hand. On the whole the entertainmentis truly interesting, and Cannot fail to be attractive to the
public

l'usATitE ROYAL—Bosco.—Bosco has changed quarters
from the Queen's llall to the Theatre Royal. The house
is better calculated for his operations, but if it were larger,
it would be filled with admiring audiences. The Signor
seems to improve in the mystic art as he " gets along," and
well it is for him that he lives at this period of the world,
for, had he existed a couple of hundred years ago, any man
might have purchased the fee simple of his lite for a half-
penny—as he would surely have been devoured by fire as
an imp from the lower regions—when old ladies were burnt
for witches, and old gentlemen for necromanc,:rs. Fortu-
nately, the Signor is amongst enlightened people, and never
were a people more delighted with any performance than
that which he affords the public. A quarto volume, wpuld
not contain a detailed accouLt of his amusing tricks and
feats in the sable art; he appears capable of doing anything ;
but we cannot put on paper a description of his wonderful
performance—it must be seen.

DAY.

ETAY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY EVENING

The Ministerial explanation touching the
American difficulties has been the chief topic of
conversation on change to-day, and has• afforded
very general satisfaction to the trading classes
gAnerally. In the Cotton Market there has been
less desire to speculate, and the demand in con-
sequence wss more moderate. The sales amount
to 5,000 bales, of which 4,500 were taken by the
trade. _ . .

The Liverpool Share Market opened with a
very buoyant feeling, and after fluctuating a little
in the course of the day, finally closed very firm
at the highest quotations of the day, at the
following prices :-Aberdeen, 13 134. Chester
and Birkenhead, 15/ 154. Caledonian, 314
314. Chester and Holyhead, 161 164. Eastern
Counties; 101 104. East Lancashire, 194 204.
Great Northern, 231 24. Ditto A, 94 94. Great
Western, 624 63. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock,
944 941. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 174 171.
London and North Western Stock, ma 104.
Manchester Sheffield, and Lincoln, 301 304 Ditto
Pref., 111 12. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 1 ay.
Midland Stock, 801 801. North British, 9 91,
North Staffordshire, 6 51d. South Eastern
and Dover, 21 15-16 22. York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, 21 211. York and North Midland, 294
291. Leeds Capital Stock, 184 IS4. Buffalo and
Lake Huron, 14 lap. Dutch Rhenish, 1 9-16
1 1146 p. Great Western of Canada, 264 26a.
Ditto New Shares, 34 34p. Great Luxembourg,
84 81d.
The Liverpool Corn Market has been firm in
tone to-day, and prices were rather higher, but
although there was a good attendance, only a small
business was done, buyers confining their opera-
tions to the supply of immediate wants only.
The Manchester Goods Market, though firm, has
not been very active. Higher prices were generally
demanded for both goods and yarns.
The following is a statement of the Traffic
Receipts of the Great Western Railway of Cannda,
by passenger and goods trains, for the week ending
the 30th of May, 1856, and for the corresponding
period last year:-Week ending 30th May, 1856,
total receipts, £10,423 lOs 5d ; week ending Ist:
June, 1855, total receipts, £7,535 lls 7d ; increase,
£2,887 18s 10d. Aggregate gross receipts from the
commencement of the current half-year to date,
£205,280 lls 9d sterling; do. for the corresponding
period last year, £144,745 59 2d, do.
Accounts from the Continental silk-producing
districts continue to state that the cocoons have
suffered in consequence of the recent unfavourable
weather. At Valence the prices range from 6f.
50c. to 7f. 25c. per kilogramme for cocoons, ac-
cording to quality. At Romans the grain of the
silk is not so good as it was last year. At Avignon,
the produce of the season is expected not to
exceed one-third of the ordinary yield. In
consequence of this scarcity, the cocoons, though
of inferior quality, maintain high prices. Bargains
have been closed at sf. 75c. and 6f per kilogramme.
Advices from Warsaw to the 12th instant state
that the annual fairs for the sale of wools had
commenced, and that an unusually large number
of the provincial wool growers had arrived with
heavily laden vehicles, There was every appear-
ance of a busy fair, on account of the result of
those held at Breslau and Cracow, when prices
ruled high. It is calculated that the prices at
Warsaw this season will exceed those of pre-
vious years, from 1.0 to 15 thalers per quintal ;
and that the produce will be greater than last
season.

Letters from Madrid, to the 12th instant, state
that the surveying and construction of railways
proceed with rapidity throughout the kingdom, and
that the Cortes had approved of a new project,
which concedes to the Spanish Credit Mobilier
Society the right of constructing a line from Dueg-
nos to Alar.

Accounts from Germany state that the
Committee of Finance in the Secon(t. Chamber

iof Hanover, on the occasion of considering their
postal budget in connection with the Germanic
Diet, drew up a report, announcing their
intention of introducing a uniform system of
commercial legislation on weights, measures, and

money

The annexed are the closing quotations of
the Foreign Exchanges :—Amsterdam, short, 11
18 to 11 181. Do., three months, 12 124 to 12 121.
Rotterdam, do , 12 121 to 12 121. Antwerp, do.,
25 621 to 25 671. Brussels, do., 25 621 to 25 671,
Hamburg, do.; 13 10 to 13 104. Paris, short
25 324 to 25 424. Do., three months,
to 25 75. Marseilles, do., 25 70 to 25 75
Frankfort, do , 120 a to 1207. Vienna, do., 10
17 to 10 20. Trieste, do., 10 18 to 10 21.
Petersburg, do., 378 to 371. Madrid, do., 494 to 49 .
The Ministerial statements made last night with
reference to the American question have been
received with great satisfaction, but exercised no
influence upon the funds, which had already ad-
vanced 2 per cent. yesterday. owing to the antici-
pation that the American Minister at this Court
would not be dismissed. The final quotations were
944 to 951-. Active speculations for higher prices
are checked by the gloom which still hangs over
the French Bourse. The speculative mania
which has lately attained so serious a develop-
ment in that city is at length met by a sovere
check, in consequence of the positive inability
of the market to sustain the constant calls made
upon it, and the weight of the vast mass of secu-
rities lately created. Money continues in good
demand in most quarters, but with a fair
supply. In the Stock Exchange, the current rate
is still about 5 per cent for short loans. The
Railway Share Market to-day was very buoyant,
and retained an improving tendency to the close,
and a general advance in prices was established.
The closing quotations of Railway Shares stood as
follows : Caledonian, 624 624. Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 59 61. Eastern Counties, 10 1-16 10 3 16.
East Lancashire, 791 801. ,Great Northern,
951 96. Ditto A, 78 79. Great Western 63 631.
Lancashire ,and Yorkshire, 944 944. London and
North Western, 1034 103 g. Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 304 301. Midland Stock, 80 804.
North British, 86 37, South Eastern and Dover,
724 73. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 821 831.
York and North Midland, 59 594.

25 70

THE CRIMEA.

We have received advices from Sebastopol to
the date of June 3. The only news is the record
of the departure of the army regiment by regiment.
Lord Gough has not yet arrived in the Crimea.
The Rifle Brigade, Ist battalion,' commanded by
Lord A. Russell, should have embarked on the
3rd June in the Apollo, which will be towed by
"the Medusa, but it was found that the troop ship
was not in a fit state to receive troops, and the
embarkation was deferred till June .4. The Gre-
nadiers embarked on the 3rd, amid the cheers of
-their comrades.

From Constantinople we learn that the staff of
the Turkish contingent has arrived from Kertch,
General Evans and General Dickson among them.
There are now only 3,000 or 4,000 Turks there.
The rest have already left, as likewise most of_ the
artillery and stores. • The 71st is to remain last,
to give over the town to the Russians. The
latter have drawn a strict cordon round the place, in
order to prevent the inhabitants from coming in.
The emigration fury has seized the Kertch
Tartars, as well as their brethren of Eupatoria and
Baidar ; several thousands have already been
shipped off to Baltshik. It would have been
desirable that some kind of preparation had been
made for these poor people, for they are said to be
in great misery on the inhospitable shores of
Bulgaria.