The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-04 00:00:00

THE MIL ETIA.

The first division of the Cheshire Regimert of M
litia is appointed to leave Stockport to-day for Glo-
cester.

The Northampton Regiment —2O officers and 780
men— will leave Liverpool and arrive at Plymouth
within the next few clan,.
The Royal Elthorne Light Infantry, Major Pryor
commanding, was paraded at Uxbridge on Monday for
the purpose of ascertaining how many of the men who
had enlisted prier to May, 1854,' wished to return
home. Only 50 men came forward to claim this indul-
gence. It is expected that as this regiment is so fast
recruiting, and the field-officers and all the captains are
old line men, it will shortly be ordered to Portsmouth.
The City of London Regiment of Militia, numbering
nearly 600 strong; under the command of Col. Wilson,
alderman, assembled yesterday in the Artillery-ground,
Finsbury. The general order for volunteering for the
Mediterranean was read by the adjutant, after which the
men were addressed by Col. Wilson, who told them it
was entirely optional with them whether they volunteered
or not. Those who tendered their services numbered
more than 150 men.

The West Kent Light Infantry Militia Regiment has
during the past week sustained a very great decrease in
its strength. About 120 men have been re-attested, and
nearly 250 left, but many of them have since returned
and continue coming in fast. The present strength of
the corps is about 400.

The Stirling Militia, Colonel Sir A. G. Maitland, are
doing duty at Stirling Castle. The regiment is at pre-
sent 550 strong, and is obtaining recruits at the rate of
50 per week.

The 48th Northamptonshire Militia, at present sta-
tioned in the Linen-hall Barracks, Dublin, are held in
readiness for immediate embarkation for Liverpool, for
further proceeding to Plymouth, there to be quartered.
A considerable number of the Hampshire Artillery
Militia, which recently arrived to do duty at Woolwich,
on Monday, followed the example of some of the militia
corps in the north, and demanded and obtained their
discharges, which they claimed after 56 days' service, in
terms of the act of 1852.

GRATUITIES TO WOUNDED OFFICERS.

A Parliamentary return published yesterday gives an
account of the sums awarded to many of the officers
wounded in the Crimea. The following list gives the
name, rank, and regiment of eaoh officer, the sum
awarded, and the description of his wounds :
Ensign Hon. H. Annesley, Scots Fusilier Guards,
1001. 7s. 6d. ; very severely wounded by a musket ball
through the mouth, by which he lost 23 teeth and part
of his tongue.
....

Lieut. -Astley, Scots Fusilier Guards, 331. 9s. 2d. ;
severely wounded by a musket ball through the neck
(fore part).
Captain Acherly, 30th Regiment, 521. 16s. 11d. ;
severely wounded by a musket ball in the left arm.
Lieut. C. Baring, Coldstream Guards, 1331. 16s. Ed. ;
very severely wounded by a musket ball in the left arm
(the arm was amputated at the shoulder joint).
Lieut. Bathurst, 23d Regiment, 1181. 12s. 6d. ; very
severely wounded by a musket ball in the right arm.
Lieut. Bayly, 30th Regiment, 1051. 13s. lid.; severely
wounded by a musket ball in the right leg.
Lieut. Baynes, 88th Regiment, 591. 6s. 3d. ; severely
wounded by grape shot in the right thigh.
Ensign Braybrook, 95th Regiment, 471. 18s. ld. ;
severely wounded by a musket ball in the right thigh.
Lieut. Bennett, 20th Regiment, 881. 19s. 4d.; severely
wounded by a musket ball in the vertebrae.
Captain Berkeley, Scots Fusilier Guards, 282/. 17s. 6d.;
severely wounded by a musket ball in the right leg.
l id. ;
Captain Boldero, 21st Regiment, 14
severely wounded by a musket ball in the right
igl:lt3adl7;
se-
Ensign Boothby, 95th Regiment, 951.16•
verely wounded by a gun-shot wound in the:oe left °,7::: (e
tilled";
amputated).
the right arm,
utahreds' right
Captwn Brown, 44th Regiment, 26.401.;g4:.ta1r0nd: ;a 1 vn epruy_
severelya.,d i
lost
little
tated). wounded
fingerd ed byo
of the Imusketeft handball in
.
711. - L4*
severely
Lieut. Cahill, 49th Regiment,
Lietit.,J„,.,ndßedurtigyoyanie,,,,Gisrk,entabdaiellriGii
1 es. ld ;
wounded by a musket half i i the right foot.
Lieut. Cameron, Grenadier Guards, 133/. 16 . 8(1.
very severely wounded by a musket ball in the lelt arm
(at present nearly equal to the loss of a 1 nib)
Captain Campbell, let Dragooll. 9
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Lieut. Carpenter, 7th Regiment,
musket
ePt%ebg inent, 59/. Gs. 3d. ; severely
wounded by a musket hall in the left thigh.
Regiment, 1181. 12s. 'd
Lieut.
levoatuOnrd,
ed
all in 'right arm. 6 • ;
L wounded Lieut.
Coney,bseverely
Regiment, 1181. 12s. 6d. ; very
ya
7btyha musket ball in the left arm.
Crofton, 20th Regiment,
severelyma jor
92L
wounded by a musket bail in the palm
o2fthe;rigsbetvehraenlyd
and the back of the neck (hand permanently disabled,
wound in the neck slight).
Captain Crosse, 88th Regiment, 521. 16s lld • se-
verely wounded by a bayonet in the left thigh.* * '
Lieut. Currie, 19th Regiment, 1181. 12s. 6d. ; very
severely wounded by a musket ball in the right instep

is Handefollkii elfer the Walls at tba ten kiiol4o;
01111).
Captain the Rawl of Bswell, Bite Brigade, tali. *4,
11d. ; severely wounded by a musket ball in the right
hand (index finger amputated).
Captain Fairtlough, 63d Regiment, 2111. re. lid. ;
very severely
.woundecl by a musket ball in the right
thigh.
Lieut. Gipps, Scots Fusilier Guards, 661. 18s. 41. ;
severely wounded by a musket ball in the back of the
neck,
Lieut.-Colonel Haly, 47th Regiment, 2321. 18e. 9d. ;
four bayonet wounds (one through the left leg, left
temple, left thigh, and left side).
Captain
Hepburn, Scots Fusilier Guards, 701. 14s. 4d.;
slightly wounded by a musket ball in the right arm.
Captain Reyland, 95th Regiment, 292/. ; severely
wounded by a musket ball in the left elbow (left arm
amputated).
Captain Hutton, 4th Light Dragoons, 2661. 2s. 11d._;
very severely wounded by a musket ball in each thigh
(nearly equal to the lees of a limb).
Captain IWDonald, 921 Regiment, 2111. 76. 11d. ;
severely wounded by a musket ball in the left foot (at
present fully equal to the loss of a limb).
Captain Morris, 17th Lancers, 2661. 2s. 11d. ; several
severe wounds (two sabre cuts on the head, a lance
thrust on the forehead, a sabre out on the left arm, and
two ribs broken).
Captain Pakenham, 30th Regiment, 1051. 13:. lid
first, severely wounded by a musket ball on the left side
of chest, and secondly a musket ball across the left arm
(the first ball cut out below the shoulder blade, and the
second wound superficial).
Second Lieutenant Stephens, 21st Regiment, 951. 16s.
3d. ; very severely wounded by grape shot in the right
arm (right arm amputated).
Lieutenant E. D. Smith, 95th Regiment, 1181. 12s.
6d. ; severely wounded in the head from the fragment of
a shell.
Brigadier-General Torrens, Staff, 5201. 2s. 6d. ; dan-
gerously wounded by a musket ball on the left side of
the thorax (at present fully equal to the loss of a limb).
Staff Captain Thompson, 10th Dragoons, 1331. Is. 6d.;
severe contusion on the left shoulder by a fragment of a
shell.

Major Sir T. Troubridge, Bart., 7th Foot, 5841. ; very
severely wounded by a 391 b. shot (right leg and left foot
amputated).
Captain-ViaHs, 95th Regiment, 2111. 7s. 11d. ; very
severely wounded by a musket ball in the right hip.
Lieut.-Colonel Warren, 55th Regiment, 3101. ss. ;
wounded very severely by a musket ball in thixigkt-----
The return further states that " an officer who, in con-
sequence of his wound, has lost a limb or an eye, or
whose injury in action is proved to be fully equal in
every respect to the loss of a limb, will receive, in addi-
tion to the above gratuity, a pension according to his
rank ; such pension commencing pne year after the
wound was received, as prescribed in her Majesty's war-
rant of the Ist of July, 1848."

SHIP-BUILDING IN THE THAMES FOR
THE IVA R.

Yesterday another large screw-ship, purchased by
the Admiralty for the transport service, was launched
from the establishment of Messrs. Mare and Co., in
Bow Creek, Blackwall. The ship, named ,the Urgent,
is of the following principal dimensions :

Ft. in.
Length between the perpendiculars 273 3
Length of the keel for tonnage 250 2f
Breadth for tonnage
Depth in midsbips 26 81
Draft of water
Burden in tons, numbers 1964 5-94.

She is a sister ship of the Candia—a vessel whose
performances in the transport service have been analysel
by Mr. Atherton, the chief of the machinery depart-
ment of the Royal dockyard, Woolwich, and who
states in his article in the Artisan that she achieved 12
knots, and has produced a result comparatively the best
of any screw-steamer afloat. The Urgent, like the
Perseverance, has been fitted up with a long and
heavy poop and forecastle, for which she was not
designed ; but in launching she appeared as stiff
as any three-decker, and was brought up within
her own length, and towed round to the East
India Dock, to receive her machinery of 350-horse
power, by Napier, the second pair of engines built
for the Emperor of Russia, and confiscated 14 the British
Government. This ship will have appropriate masts and
yards, and will have every care in docking and undock-
ing, and then there is little doubt she will prove what
every other ship turned out from the same establishment
has been found—a good, fast, safe, and serviceable ves-
sel, and she will realise all that could be anticipated
from the report of Mr. Chatfield, the master shipwright
of the Royal Dockyard, Deptford, who pronounced the
Perseverance, Urgent, and Transit admirably adapted
for the service for which they 'have been purchased.
On Saturday last Messrs. Green launched from their
establishment at Blackwell two of the screw gun-bmits
for the Fa tic fleet.

On the same day Messrs. Wigram launched two of the
mortar-vessels for the Baltic, to be fitted 'with Captain
Roberts' sling carriages.
The great point of attraction, however, in the Thames
at the present moment is the construction of the screw
batteries for the Baltic. There never was such friendly
rivalry between the respective constructors as prevails
with regard t i the completion of these novel ships. Mr.
Scott Russell is building one, Messrs. Green two, and
Messrs. Mare and C 9. two. Numbers of people visit them
daily, or rather watch their progress, for they are crowded
with workmen, and there is no room either- about the
slips or on board the ships for visitors. No elfOrts have
been spared, no expense has been stinted to get these bat-
teries ready for launching. Night and day gangs of men
are 'employed, and there is no pause to the busy work.
There is not a passion in the minds of the workmen that
has not been appealed to—whether of self-interest or
patriotism, and there is no doubt that the work almost
"flies through their hands." By many it is considered
that the time of completion is a "shipwright's question ;"
if io,_ that will soon be solved, for no men in the world
could despatch the work so speedily as the ship wrights of
Mare's establishment at Blackwell are knocking off their
job. But it is rather a question of " iron," and the chief
difficulty is in the bending of the massive plates, four and
a half inches thick, to adapt them to the peculiarcurves of
the bows and sterns of these new batteries. Messrs.
Green have their plates from Scotland, and Mr. Scott
Russell has his plates from the country ; but everything
for the batteries constructing by Messrs. Mare has been
manufactured on their premises. In fact, the whole of
the gigantic concern has been absorbed in this great
national work. Steam-hammers and forges in making
and twisting, lathes and tools of all kinds in the machinery
department, drilling, planing, cutting, and squaring,
and at least a dozen furnaces and 200 men in bending.
hollowing, and adjusting. We believe that at least 800
men in various departments are employed in the con-
struction and completion of these batteries, which are re-
garded by many experienced officers as so many useless
logs or targets.

The engineers, ton, are not idle, Messrs. Miller,
Ravenhill, and Salkeld, Penn and Co., and Mandalay
and Field, are taking every advantage to fit their ma-
chinery on board the ships on the stocks, whilst the
ships are progressing. The engineers are like so many
birds at a late season building their nests in the trees,
whilst the foliage is being developed day by day, or
hour by hour, by a gleam of sunshine or a genial shower
of rain to protect their industry.
It is expected that the five. batteries will be launched
in the Thames on or befora Monday, the 16th instant,
when they will be instantly fitted and despatched for
service under the most active, energetic, and skilful
captains in the Royal navy.
Almost every day now in the Thames some new veg.
sel is launched for the war service—either man-of-war,
transport, gun-boat, or mortar-vessal, when they are
pounced upon at the moment by some. Admiralty tug,
and towed to the Royal dockyards to be fitted for hi"
mediate service. The demand for shipwrights is insa-
tiable, and the high wages, so much in some instances
as 15s. a day, must bring a host of ss. a day good men
from north, east, south, and west to share the
" good times," and give masters a chance of keeping
their engagements within some reasonable bounds o
expense.
Yesterday the Peninsular and Oriental Company?
screw-ship Candia was taken out of Messrs. Green s
dock. She is to be fitted to convey cavalry to the
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ROYAL COLLEGE
OF PHYSICIANS.—At the usual
the necessary examinations for diplOma
quarterly meeting of the egoen'ttlieammenajohral,
.held ond Mon-
day, April 2, the followin
Avilinvegr,,nnadenrstetnede
members, of the College :—Dr. Bealey, Lansdowne-place,
lrunswiek-square ; Dr. Sander-on, Albion-street,
AT ,
"1- .yde-park ; Dr. Mackenzie, Chester-place, Hyde.pa,rk-
!:ardens ; Dr. Murcet, Chapel-street, Belgtave-square ;
Dr. Torrington-square. Also Dr. Eager,
Liverpool, was admitted au extra licentiate. At the
same comitia, Dr. Billing, Dr. Nairne, Dr. Jeaffreson,
and Dr. Owen Rees, were chosen consiliarii.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following men-
ben of the college, having undergone the necessary
examinations, were admitted licentiates in midwifery
at the meeting of the board on the 3d inst. : Messrs.
John Mennie, Plymouth, diploma Gf membership dated
Nov. 18, 1853 :—William Henry Beere, Bsnbury, Dec.
18, 1854 • Edward Chas. Garland, Bath, Feb. 23, 1855 ;
Robert Geo. Hardwick, Leeds, Jan. 8, 1855 ; 'William
13. Aldersey, Puckeridge, Herts, March 2, 1855 ; Robt.
Bray Sweeting, Reading, Berks, March 9, 1855 ; Wm.
Hall, Leeds, March 16, 1855 ; Cecil Webster, Newton
Heath, Manchester, March 16, 1855 ; John Nettleton
Terry, Bradford, Yorkshire, March 28, 1855 ; Hanson
Evison, Hull, March 28, 1855 ; Wm. Dale, Kirby Moor-
side, Yorkshire, March 30, 1855 ; Wm. H. Powell,
Ross, Herefordshire, March 30, 1855 ; Richard S.
Davey, Waltner, Jan. 8, 1855 ;Peter O'Connell, Water-
ford, Dee. 8, 1854 ; and Thomas Elkington, Fenny
Compton, Dec. 8, 1854,

Tom NVICATHEIL—Bus Ovncii, April. 4.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
52 - highest since noon yesteraay.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
50—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29'77.
WIND, N.E. to E.—Light breeze, with dull weather and
occasional sunshine. Some rain in the morning.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1855.

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A time-honoured apophthegm tells us that
Wretches hang, that jurymen may dine."
It presents, however, but one phase of a great
social grievance—an evil of no ordinary magni-
tude. It illustrates the habitual apathy and
insouceance with which men disregard their most
important public duties when opposed to their
own private interests, inflicting the deepest in-
juries on their fellow-subjects, or on society in
general, rather than submit to some trifling per-
sonal inconvenience. The adage is now applica-
ble, not merely to a petty jury, but to the grand
inquest of the nation--not to a dozen persons
whose compulsory attendance is required without
recompence or acknowledgment, but to several
hundred persons, who voluntarily solicit and. re-
sort to every effort to obtain the high distinction
of a seat in the British Parliament, and expressly
or impliedly bind themselves in the most solemn
manner to discharge the arduous and. im-
portant duties incidental to the position.
Never, perhaps, was there a national emergency
when the utmost vigilance was more imperatively
required at the hands of every member of either
branch of the Legislature. The fate of Eur Ope,
as well as the honour and welfare of the United
Kingdom, is trembling in the balance. A ques-
tion of vital consequence is under discussion by the
representatives of the different Po.wers assembled
at the Austrian capital. Sinister rumours are
in circulation as to the timid policy adopted by
the English Plenipotentiary at the Conference.
It is said, and, unfortunately the assertion is too
strongly corroborated to warrant incredulity, that
lie is willing to assent to terms alike discreditable
and disastrous to the Western Powers ; to nego-
tiate a peace which cannot possibly prove perma-
nent, and which will leave the objects for which
we were compelled to draw the sword, and to
enter into what has been truly denominated " a
just and necessary war" unaccomplished, which
will leave our unfortunate protegee, in whose
cause we buckled on our armour, in a much
worse condition than he would have been but
for our ill-omened assistance.

It was almost at the very moment when these
rumours had assumed such consistency as almost
to compel belief-- when serious apprehensions
were entertained that each day would bring forth
the melancholy tidings of national disgrace—that
the British Parliament adjourned for an unusu-
ally protracted vacation, suspending its sittings
until the 16th instant, so that any possibility of
interference, or even protest, was prevented until
after the full consummation of the impending
evil. Like the jurymen of the proverb, the
chosen representatives of the British people were
willing that any danger should be encountered,
any mischief perpetrated, rather than their anti-
cipated holidays should be in any degree abbre-
viated. What signified the retention of Sebasto
pol, in all its ominous strength, by the AUTOCRAT,
in comparison to the full and unalloyed enjoy-
ment of tie Easter vacation by themselves, their
families, and dependents ! What signified
the loss of prestige by France and. England
when weighed in the balance against the coveted
opportunities of playing the great men at their
respective country seats ! Unlike the energetic
men described by the Roman poet—
" Nil actum credeus, cunt quid superesset agendum,"
who considered nothing done while anything re-
mained to be accomplished, they are contented
With the appearance
of business, while their inac-
ti7itY and indifference is the theme of every
14 e. Two months have already been squar-
dared, and what are the fruits ? Save the sub-
stitution of the younger DROAIIO for his elder
brother, and a much laraer
infusion of the aris-
tocratic element into the IVlinistry,
nothing—
literally nothing—has been achieved; while those
who ought to be the vigilant guardians of the
commonweal are piping and dancing at the edge
of the volcano.

It is then for " the Fourth Estate,"
the much-
despised journalists, to assume the functions thus
abdicated by the popular representatives—to up-
lift their warning voices, and to prevent the
people from being deluded by the expeetat•
len of
peace, where there can be no real peace—to ex_
pose the truckling subservience to " Germanism,"
that makes our representative, in obedience
to the wishes of Austria, refrain from in-
sisting on the cession, or at least the dis-
mantling, of Sebastopol. As we have incessantly
declared, and as we shall repeat while there is yet
a hope of arousing the British nation from its
slumber, there can be no satisfactory or lasting
peace while a single fortification of Sebastopol.rc-
mains standing. It would be exposing Russia to
a temptation under which she would unques-
tionably yield on the first convenient opportunity.
Any promise respecting the limitation of her fleet
would be worse than useless, inasmuch as it would
infallibly be broken, and at a time when, owing
to the undue reliance on the valueless pledge, we

;should be totally unprepared to enter on the
inevitable conflict. It would even be better that
England should fortify Sinope, and maintain a
large navy in the Euxine, although, as we have
already pointed out, such a course would be tan-
tamount to an addition of some 20 per cent. to
the public debt, and a matter of thousands of
valuable lives in every ensuing year ! Such matters
prove beyond the possibility of doubt the impera-
tive necessity of decision at the existing crisis.
We must not suffer " the light cloud" to pass
away before the necessary measures are taken.
The suspicious conduct of FRANCIS JOSEPH, the
ominous neutrality of King LEOPOLD, prove that
we are, and have long been, leaning on a broken
reed, in hoping for the active co-operation of
Austria. We must not suffer the bitter but salu-
tary lesson to be misapplied. Our real Ally is
France. We should more closely cement the bonds
by which we are united to her, and firmly eschew
any course by which the hold which her chosen
EMPEROR, the elected of eight millions of French-
men, has on the affections of his people, might be
impaired or destroyed. The chivalry of France
and England are unanimous in their views, and
woe to any Minister who shall dare to conclude
Treaty in opposition thereto !

The occurrences of importance which have
transpired in various parts of the world contem-
poraneously with the progress of the European
war between the Allied Powers and the Russian
Autocracy, occurrences to which we yesterday made
a sort of generalised reference as entitled to popu-
lar consideration, are sufficiently manifold to be-
wilder one at the first blush in their mere
enumeration, and sufficiently varied to embarrass
for a while whoever might venture upon their
simple classification. A few of the more promi-
nent among these great popular events we took
occasion to mention cursorily towards the
close of our remarks last evening. Numerous
others crowd upon the memory at the first mo-
ment of retrospect. It appears to us that, in the
throng of these arresting recollections, the only
escape from a chaotic confusion of all, jumbled
promiscuously together, into anything like lucidity
in the arrangement of each in its proper sequence,
distinctly and individually, will be to recall to
remembrance for an instant how it is that the
principal powers of the earth are situated in
regard to the struggle now raging in the East.
Considering, in other words, what their precise
position may be at this moment in reference to
the somewhat momentous alternative of maintain-
ing to the last an inflexible neutrality, either
armed or unarmed, as events may necessitate, or
of directly participating in the struggle as among
the actual and recognised belligerents.

Whatever may be declared to the contrary by
the more credulous votaries of our great political
hubgoblin—Red-Tapist Diplomacy—it is still, up
to this instant, matter of doubt how far Austria
has embarked upon that ocean of difficulties—the
war against the Russian Autocracy. Whether, in
short, the Cabinet of Vienna has yet resolved
upon a complete accordance with the Allied
councils of St. James's and the Tuileries, or abso-
lutely broken, for once and for all, in this contest
about Turkey, with the Imperial Court of St.
Petersburg. It is perfectly well understood, on
the contrary, what it is that may be expected
from Prussia ; to speak plainly upon the matter,
that nothing else can be looked for from the di-
, rection of Potsdam beyond duplicity, insincerity,
hypocrisy, and vacillation whatever may at
any time have been hinted at Paris by M.
WEDELL, or at London by M. USEDOM, as to the
possibility of any more favourable result to their
frivolous and protracted negotiations. It is re-
cognised by the discovery that nothing advan-
tageous to the interests of the Western Powers
can be wrested from the tenacious servility of
M. MANTEUFFEL to the crocked and despicable
policy hitherto in vogue at Charlottenburg. It
is perceived no less plainly that little benefit to
the same.cause can be seriously anticipated at the
instance of M. BuoL, as the mouthpiece of the
scarcely less cooked and despicable policy
of Schoenbrunn. It were hardly more absurd,
in either instance, to expect fair play and
honest dealing in regard to the questions now at
issue, from the wily words and tortuous state
craft of the smooth spoken but uuyieldino• and
wholly inexorable M. DE NESSBLRODE. Turkey
has long since come to the decision of looking for
little, in the way of active support in her antagon-
ism to Russia, beyond what is derivable from
that twofold tower-of-strength in which she has
until now, neither idly nor vainly confided, the
energetic and strenuous assistance magnanimously
afforded by France and England united. The
warlike aid yielded to the Divan by Egypt can-
not, of course, be included in any way within
the same category—the powerful contingent re-
cently disembarked at Eupatoria, being in truth
nothing more nor less than a splendid attestation
of loyalty front a faithful Viceroy to his liege
Lord and Suzerain. Something different, it is
true, might be said as to the contingent about to
be conducted to the shores of the Crimea, by
General DE LA MARMORA, as the leader of the
gallant soldiers of Sardinia. Nevertheless, all
else becomes subordinated in this particular to
the attitude assumed towards the giant enemy of
civilisation, on behalf of his Imperial MAJESTY
the Sultan ABD-UL-ME,DJID, by the two most
influential among the mightier powers of the earth,
those respectively presided over by the constitu-
tional sway of Queen VICTORIA, and the autho-
ritative sceptre of the Emperor NAPOLEON. Sus-
tained by this momentous alliance between
the FrenchEnglishanalittle t o theG Sublimeovernme itpntso,rte
signifies
comparativelywhether
or no the rest of the States of
Europe refrain al-
together from participating
in the perils of the
contest, or evince an anxiety to
share in the glories
of the struggle by the contribution
to the armies now, during the last six months, en-
camped before Sebastopol. Nevertheless, it still
continues worthy of note to every impartial ob-
server of these extraordinary events, that while
most of the lesser powers of Germany betray an
agreement with the more timorous policies hitherto
cherished both at Berlin and Vienna, many others
among the minor States of Europe reveal, on the
other hand, a manifest, and wise, and 'magnani-
mous accordance with the more chivalrous course
pursued from the outset by the councils of Paris
and London, as well as more recently by the Ca-
binet of Turin, in fartherance of the cause which,
in the first instance, summoned forth against the
t' antic authority of the CZAR the then unassisted
fleets and armies suldenly collected together from
Alt-!.aand •
r'a, and Cort.stantinople. There can be
Scaxeelyanydoubt, or example, that weden would
1;1.01 v avail it '
4el
I • f o.t: the earliest reasonable opportu-
nity of drawing the sword from the scabbard as
amongst tlwranks of the • Allies, if merely with an eye
to the vague char; cc of so
I nle possible reacquisition
of Finland. Ia like manner there can be but
little question, ti .11 things considered, that Den-
mark would hair with satisfaction any prospect
that might reasonably open up to her the perma-
neut and secure reclamation from Prussian influ-
ences of the entire di the Schleswig-Holstein popu-
lations. Belgilvn, meanwhile, remains true to