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London, England, 1855-06-06 00:00:00

rPRIcE 5D

or of Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom, is re-
! quired to intimate the same by letter to bo addressed "On
Prize Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Lon-
don,"--in which letter his own place of residence is to be
precisely stated, as well as the place of the nearest Collector
of Customs, or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would be
convenient to receive such share of prize money.
the following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :--

s. d.
Commander...... 29 19 1 10
Third class ...... 510 2
Fourth class..,,, 3 10 10
Fifth class .... 119 4
Sixth class • ...... 115 5

2 s. d.
Seventh class 1 3 s
Eighth class () 11 10
Ninth class
Tenth class

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED,
Erasmus Bond, soda water manufacturer Wharf-roa(:,
City-road.

BANKRUPTS.
William Paxon, auctioneer, High-street, Hampstead
to surreider, June 15, at twelve, and July 21. at half
past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, officia:
assignee, Guildhall-Chambers ; Stopher, Cheapside.
Edmund Butler. baker, York-street, Middlesex Hospi-
tal, June 15, at two, and July 25, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Atkinson, Quality-court, Chancery-lare.
Frederick Dawson Hiorns, ironmonger, Coventry, June
16, and July 7, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; East,
Birmingham.
George Stanton, retail brewer, Birminghim, June 20,
and July 9, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Hawkes,
Birmingham.
Abraham Henry James, stone and marble mason, New-
port, Monmouthshire, June 1I and July 17, at eleven, at
the Bristol District Court. .Acraman; official assignee,
Bristol ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
William Williams, tailor and draPer, Liverpool, June 13
and July 9, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Banner, Liverpool.
Wm. Hancock,_ builder, Talk o' th' Hill, Staffordshire,
June 22 and July 13, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis-

net Court.

Christie, official assignee, 'Birmingham,

Sherratt, Talk o' th' Hodgson, Birmingham.
Francis Parry McCarthy, metal dealei., Baach-street,
Barbican, June 19, at two, and July 17, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alderman-
bury; Rennolls, Lincoln's-inn-fields; Gem, Docker, and
Sutton, Birmingham.
Henry Laumann, boarding and lodging-house keeper,
Burlington-how°. June 14, at tao, and July 19, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Ba-
singhall-street ; Smith, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
Buchanan Balfour, underwriter, Pinner's-hall-court,
Broad-street, City, June 15, at one, and July 19, at half-
past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Surr and Gribble, Abchurch-
lcne.

David Rollason and Benjamin Rollason, ironmasters,
Bilston, Staffordshire, June 18 and July 9, at half-past
ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, offi-
cial assignee, Birmingham; Whitehouse, Wolverhampton;
James; Birmingham.
William Bench, licensed victualler, Queen-street,
Pimlico, June 15, at twelve, and July 10, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Dim-
mock and Burbey, Suffolk-lane, C mnon-street, City.
Benjamin Borsch, licensed victualler, Clarence-road,
Kentish-town, June 15, at one, and July 20, at two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Dimmock and Barbey, Suffolk-lane,
Cannon-street, City.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Alexander Allan, carpenter, Edinburgh, creditors meet
Juno ].4, in. Dowell's and Lyon's Sale-rooms, Edinburgh.
John Stevenson, flesher, Glasgow, June 14, in the Lon-
don Hotel, Glasgow.
James Peterson, merchant, deceased, Burravoe, Shet-
land, June 18, in Gilbertson's Temperance Hotel, Lerwick.

(Front the Times of this day. )
. The formal dissolution of the Vienna Conference, which
took place on Monday afternoon, is the most definite com-
mentary we have received upon the situation of Europe and
the prospects of the war. It terminates that state of sus-
pense which was sometimes mistaken at home for a want of
resolution, and abroad for a want of resolution, and abroad
for a want of power. It consigns the protocols of the past
spring to that limbo in which the diplomatic relics of this
long controversy may be preserved. It teaches us to rely
ou our own resources for the success we hope to obtain, and
it brings to. a decisive test the falterers and waverers in this
contest. We need hardly add that the people of this country
'.infi,kiitely prefer a clear stage and a direct trial of strength to
the perplexity of negotiations, in which it was not unreason-
ably, apprehended that we might be overreached by crafty
antagonists and uncertain allies ; and the best answer to those
who affect to regret that peace was not obtained on these re-
stricted and precarious terms is to be found in our present
/
military and naval position A the theatre of war. The first
year of these hostilities found the Russian Government in pos-
session of an enormous and highly efficient army and of vast
warlike stores, accumulated with incessant labour and ex-
pense during a long peace. The first year of these hostilities
found the Allied Powers with their armies and fleets on a
peace establishment, and with no extraordinary preparations
of any kind for carrying on war at a great distaff, e from tla.r
own dominions. Every succeeding month of the war has
reduced the resources of the enemy and increased our own.
The army now in the Crimea, the squadrons hovering on
its coasts and penetratiue. to the recesses of the Sea of Azoff,
the fleet already in the Baltic, anchored within a few miles
of Cronstadt, are all far more powerful and inured to war
than the forces which began to operate by land and by sea
last year ; and, if the contest is unhappily prolonged, we
have no doubt that we shall a.-quire a far higher degree of
efficieecy than we have yet attained.
The Russians appear disposed to acknowledge the fact that
the turn of affairs is not in their favour, and that they have
little to. hope from active resistance, for since the allied forces
arrived at Kertch they have been everywhere precede i by the
'self-imposed sacrifices of the enemy. The troops retired from
Kertch and Yenikale ; steamers and stores of war were set on
fire ; and, by the latest intelligence, Soudjak-Kaloh, on the
Circassian coast, has been evacuated, the works burnt, and
no less than 60 guns and 6 mortars spiked and abandoned.
Anapa now remains the only Russian fortress of any import-
ance on the shores of the Black Sea to the south of the Sea of
Azoff, and, if it be worth while to attack it, it must speedily
fall into the possession of the Allies. As far as Circassia is
concerned, we have no reason to extend our operations to that
country. The natives of that mountainous region are eager
enough to asuert and brave enough to defend its indepen-
dence ; but Russia has already lost there the fruits of twenty
years of wailer°, all her fortified posts, and the principal
lino of communication with her Transcaucasian provinces.
Hence the Russian army in Georgia has been paralysed, and
no operations have been attempted against Kars, which Col.
Williams has now succeeded in putting into a respectable
state of defence.
Lord Raglan cannot be accused of having neglected or un-
derrated the importance of the expedition to the Sea of
Azoff. On the contrary, he had obtained information which
satisfied him that the Russian army in the Crimea, and even
the garrison of Sebastopol, were mainly victualled from the
eastern coast of the peninsula, and hence the extreme anxiety
with which, in conjunction with Sir E. Lyons, he urged on
the Kertch expedition. Indeed such was his earnest desire
to effect this object at all hazards, that when General Can-
robert ordered the French ships to return Lord Raglan autho-
rised Sir George Brown to proceed with the British squadron,
and to complete the enterprise, if he thought that the force
under his orders was sufficient for that purpose. It is clear,
however, that until a very recent period the Government at
home had very imperfect notions of the nature of this opera-
tion. On the 14th of May—barely three weeks ago--Sir
James Graham was examined before the Sebastopol Commit-
tee, and he stated at the close of his examination that, in his
belief, the principal supplies, if not of men, certainly of am-
munition and provisions, had entered the Crimea, not by Pere-
kop or by the other known road, but by the Sea of Azoff.
Upon this statement the Ex-First Lord of the Admiralty was
naturally asked whether any attempt had been made to
blockade the Sea of .Azoff; to which he replied that it was
impossible to carry on any naval operations there without pass-
ing the Strait of Kertch. He added, that " vessels of light
draught had been provided to paes it, but that there are
batteries which command the passage ; and that the passage
is blocked up by sunken vessels, as it is at Sebastopol." It
certainly could not be foreseen that the Russians would
abandon so important a position without firing a shot, and
the commanders who planned the expedition were quite
right in making preparations sufficient to overcome
a much more powerful resistance ; but it is a remark-
able instance of the imperfect information possessed
by Sir James Graham down to a very recent period,
that ho should have taken it for granted communi-
cations by the Sea of Azoff could not be intercepted. Had
the straits of Yenikale been blockaded from the beginning,
the cruisers would probably have picked up some informa-
atioaknilasfultoretchoenuaireaslsastnactee
of
ff theho defencesomto m ofsh shores
sat
of the Crga;imaneda
during the course of last summer might have contributed
most important information to the undertaking in which th
allied forces were then about to engage.

At the present moment, it is not clear from the telegraphic
intelligence which has been made public in which direction
Sir George Brown may have moved with his army. A
Turkish garrison was left at Yenikale to command the straits,
but as this point is far removed from any chance of attack
by land, it would have been useless to detain the main body
of the army there. The Russians withdrew from Kertch to a
village in the interior of the.Kertch peninsula, about 10 miles
on the high road to Kaffa ; and, as Sir George Brown's corps
was sent out completely equipped for the field, inc tiding
means of transport, it is probable that he has either followed
the retreating division of the Russians, or advanced towards
Arabat 'the land side, that being the nearest point to
Simpheropol at which stores have been landed. The country
is more favourable for military operations than the southern
or the western coasts of the Crimea, for it is neither so moun.
tainona as the one nor so dry and unproductive as the other.
Moreover, the close proximity to the sea on both sides is an
immense additional facility to the movements of an army
acting in conjunction with a flotilla. With 20,000 men of
picked troops, Sir George Brown may be able to operate a
formidable diversion on that side on which the Russians have
hitherto been least exposed to attack, and we are sanguine
enough to anticipate important advantages from the opera-
tions in which be is engaged.

Porseveranco, transport, is still under the sheers, in Sheer-
ness basin, with the Margaret alongside, discharging 300 tons
of Welsh coal into her. Her crew have not yet arrived. Her
masts are newly-painted, and rigging, we may say, all ataunt.
Her two launches are alongside ready to be hoisted inda.
y Tshsesehe
are first-rate boats and built diagonally. In a few
will be ready for sea, when report says she
will be off to
oouthstrapton.

, Last night it pleased Mr. Cobden to attempt the facetious.
1 Warned by the experience of Mr. Layard, he did not venture
to discharge his sarcasms against men. He chose the safer
line of calumniating women. The sainted Nicholas had a
I taste for flogging females, and his admirers amongst us imitate
Ihim as far as the usages of Englsh law will allow. Mr. Cob-
den supposed a case—only supposed it; how " possibly the
fact
te
that
oh fa divulgedt somett
ahetrheCe
were
ibeirfneee Ministerttawfot
hpae al.dtiiet
sadri rnoefwt
the
some
nfromacea her husband,
peace party—and that the peace party,andthae
whblsveit—aanig.e
,
required to b
o flogged into submission." If Mr. Cobden
-
meant this not very originalparable journal,t hw war
:' weaker,
to be understood as hay-
, defence, in the middle of the Black Sea, and within a few ing no foundation in fact, it pointless as irrelevant—a
hours' sail of a neighbouring capital. It is not till the mere repetition of Irillear, hackneyed as
, ~ sneers at all women, as
zar has reduced the Sultan into the mere janitor of weak and meddr mg gossips. If he meant it to bunderstood
the Black g
-ea, and is on the point of reducing him still as having some foundation in
fact, he insinuated what he did
lower, •
and wresting his empire from him altogether, that we not, and could not, know to be t •
111e—hich a * - i •
refuse to demolish his stronghold, rescue his present victim, • next door to a man's, asserting what he 's we 'ale 't, is
knows to be untrue.
and throw him back a century or, two in his scheme of mil- This is nit the first olfence of the kind of which these peace-
versal dominion. This Mr. Cobden calls ee iny-sion. It is at any-price 1112 a have been e• 'it
1 .
,bin y. Rather more than half a
about, as much an invasion as it. i --
'
lc .' Iw'
san assault to knock Clow 1 year ago they p :tended the walls of our manufacturing towns
the highwayman who demands' ottr money or your lie, er with an anonymous atta:,l.. upon a distinguished- authoress,
burglary to pursue him into hi3s. den, So on this point, as whose only offence was that she was suspected not to believe
well as the rest, we must decline to see the matter exactly as in their dogmas. Will' have the wives
Mr. Cobden would have us. We pree •
confineottr own natural eyes , tors de le that they are to be onred up as-victims to the un-
to his patent spectacles, and we will not'iour attention manly and vu bar ri;-ittldry of sir. Cobden and Lis associa es I
to one little corner of the subject, when the whole
eo,hlises spread i Are they to be placed beyond the pale of the protection of
before us, or read just that one particular pa
.toryand that chivalry wide?) is conventionally assumed to regulate
no other, or restrict ourselves to Mr. CobdeL political
voea- the conduct of gentlem m towards females in this country ?
bulary.
I Tile coarse, pot-hous., jest of Mr. Cobden was received in the
I HOUS3- of Commons with approving laughter. Burke was not
(Front the Daily IV CIC3 of this clay.)
far w-ong when he the of was
The second night of the adjourned debate on the result of ' ' ' said
age
chivalry gone.
If
women can no longer rely upon their " natural protect)rs"
the negotiations at Vienna was, if possible, more dull and to shield them from vulg.a. impertinence, it were well if they
disappointing than the first. Mr. Cobden made merry, in his .
: ttioi?k their Caine into their own hands, and goaded these
somewhat peculiar style of mirth, with the alleged incousist!
I n2gs of a third sex, - destitute of the feelings of men, with
cities of his old f. iend and ally, Sir William Molesworth, their Wherewith
crotchet needles sin; they have no longer distaffs
The house laughed, and nobody was much the worse or the rewith to belabour Cm creaturcs.—.Daily Nem. •
wiser. Upon the whole, it would be wrong to say that the
speech of Mr. Cobden was not successful. It was obviously - --
intended for the opposition, whose attention throughout tend
occasional applause it won. The design, hardly palpable at I BANK RETURNS.
the outset, grew clear as the advocate of peace at any 'price
_—,,,,,_......_
developed his views; and towards the close all disguise For some time st England has
the importation of gold to
been on the inereaspae
was laid aside, and the Derbyites fo:aid themselves
May 19 the stock
of and by the return for the week ending
zealously cheering the once hated and feared tribune
bullion, in both departments, amounted
of democratic interests, now become au alogist fbi the to 16,647,7161., Win
increase of 602,2151. as compared
with the preceding net an
superior moderation of aristocratic opinion tithe subject of
' the war. To their Conservative sympathies and apprehen- At the commend return,
the year the stock of bullion in
the Bank was from 124 to
sions Mr. Cobden did not scruple to address more than one '
has millions, so that au increase of
I from three to four millions
appeal; and his example was followed, later in the evening,
taken place since the Ist of
by a more accomplished practitioner in the art of political I January
I The amount of u
versatility.
nemployed notes •
ed in the banking depart-
ment has also considerably fuer
We omit the numerous minor speeches which occupied
by the above re-
turn 10,280,6101. This is about three being*
some tedious hours in unimpressive and uninstructiye chop-
millions more than it
was at the beginning of January.
ping of well-worn phrases, and come at once to that of Sir .
It has repeatedly been obs-rved in this paper
James Graham. Much, in a certain sense, was expected
that an im-
proved condition► of the count',"
, may be ant••
fromlim on the occasion--perhaps most by those who knew .
icipated when, the amount of gold and that of unemployed him least. His friends--or at least, those about him whom notes is consider-
ably increased.
his habitual oscillations and fluctuations keep in a perpetual ,
The experienced and judicious author of the
fret and fear—laving, heard him accept the tauntig teal- ;
1 England Barometer" makesi the following "RankobservatiOn of
lenge of Lord Palmerston before the holidays, knew well that
" If the sum total (of the bullies' with
long before the recess was over Sir James would be seized I which we agree '---
n and
notes) exceeds '24 millions, we may expect that in pr
I with the shivering fit; and that nothing was so unlikely as 1
as it exceeds that amount money will be plentiful dcl•P°rtieu
that he would resume the tone of denunciation and reproach
, iscounts
low, and prices in general remunerative."
of his former colleagues in which he had taken leave of them
amounts to
ten days before. The result in every respect verified such As the sum total of bullion and notes now
nearly 27 millions, we may therefore look forwardam too u
an ilia-
anticipations. Nothing could be lower than the quicksilver
proydd state of commerce. The foreign exchanges are in our
last night iu this remarkable political barometer. The man-
favour, and this fact, together with the favourable intelli-
ner and the matter of the lengthy statement of the right hon. Bence from the seat of war, and the undoubted benefit which
baronet were in perfect keeping—for under every change of
the wheat crops wid derive from the change in the weather;
part and scene, Sir James never ceases to be an artful, and,
in many points, an admirable actor. But manner and matter all combine to bring about an improvement in the state of a
were both in the deprecatory style of the sick Cardinal. He the country.
''' have risen
es,
had a clean breast to make of it; his past sins and short-
The Funds, the most sensitive of all see
considerably within the last week.—Derbyshire Courier.
comings were all present before him ; interest in the future he
could have none ; but a solemn admonition it was his duty to
•
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pronounce to the nation and the Legislature. Words to this
effect our readers will not find, indeed, in the sinuous windings
of his speech, which reads like something between an histori-
cal lecture and a court chaplain's sermon on the
wickedness
of unwarrantable war. But all this and a good deal more
questionable is in substance to be found in the strange and
dismal harangue. .
Both the advocates for the resumption of negotiations cast
aside all reserve and delicacy regarding France. By both
Ministers were called ou to break the seals of diplomatic con-
fidence, and to declare whether they bad not over-ruled the
Cabinet of the Tuileries on the question of the limitation of
Russia's naval forces in the Black Sea; and Sir James did
not hesitate to endorse the rumour that the retirement of M.
Drouyn de l'Huys was attributable to no other cause.
At the conclusion of his harangue the member for Carlisle
addressed himself t.
par icularly to the philo-Austrian views
enunciated on the preceding night by Sir B. Lytton, in all of
which it is unnecessary to say that he cordially concurred.
The policy of the Court of Vienna ought, according to these
new confederates, to be the touchstone whereon the edge of
our national honour and courage should be set. The impro-
bability of our ever getting active aid from Germany is rather
noticed in a tone of triumph than of regret ; and the sagacity
and wisdom of thus forfeiting all the boasted pledges and
promises of the last tiVelve months is eulogised without reser-
vat
ion. " The p.ramount policy of England and of Austria,"
said Sir James Graham, "is the same, and that policy is
peace." Why was not this language held while the orator
was a member of the cabinet that began the war, and which,
up to the latest hour of its existence, assured the country
that Austria was committed to an alliance with France and
England against Russia, i
occurred 7

SPORTING NOTES.

THE CUP AND THE "TIP."
Expostulation is useless; owners of horses will do as they
like with their own to the end of the chapter. In working
out their ends.they, however, sometimes display an unscrupu-
losity and shamelessness not a little surprising. Despite
public opinion, or the censure of honest men, they play their
little game with a selfish indifference which renders them re-
gardless of the consequences. These reflections must have
been forced upon the Derby backers of Oulston when they
saw the unequivocal ease with which he won the Queen's
Vase. Not a shout greeted his victory; no one congratulated
his owner, and the event was passed over in silence and con-
tempt. Immediately after the race, 3to 1 was taken about
Oulston for the St Leger. His backers, however, must exer-
cise caution.
Mortimer won The Stakes with evident ease. Still in cer-
tain quarters he had been betted against as if he were dead.
The warning which I threw out about Pantomime was nc4
not
unnecstart!essary. Ashmall weighed for him, but the horse did
Habena's running for the Three-years-old Triennial Stakes
gave quite an agreeable surprise to the fielders. It was cer-
tainly incompatible with her antecedents.
Fly-by-Night's performance for the Triennial for two-yrs' -
old showed that the reputation which preceded him was not
undeserved. The winner of the Derby for 1856 was not, I
fancy, in this race. By the way only three animals wero
backed, and they were first, second, and third
Although Rataplan. was defeated to-day, the confidence
whichl entertain of his Cup chance is not destroyed. Fan-
dango is, however, backed with a determination which would
indicate that his success is a foregone conclusion. That heii
a good4horse is tmdeniable; still, if too much use be not
made of Rataplan, I shall expect the old 'un to jeopardise the young 'un's chance. The starting of 'Virago is talked about, but, the fact of 4to 1 being currently offered against her is
sufficient to induce me to withhold confidence from her.,
For the New Stakes I see no animal capable of interfering
with the success of Queen's Head. Should Oulston start for
the Great Western Stakes, he shall be my champion. Of the
two-yrs-old Coroaer and Stork are the most worthy of notice.
Windsor, Tuesday night. A FRESH MAN.