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possibility of -withholding it. Lord ABERDEEN
was driven from office at the altncst unanimous
djsire of the nation. As a double portion of
h 3 spirit appears to have descended to Lori
Pi.AL:ERSTON, as the expectations of the nation
with respect to that Noble Lord have been :o
frequently disappointed, he must meet with simi-
lar treatment. The like conduct demands the
like punishment. If the Red-tapists will not act,
we must find men who will undertake the duties
which they have neglected, and will look to the
honour and interests of Great Britain rather
than to the dictates of a petty German Princi-
pality.

NATMARK.EII THEATRE.

Last night a new four-aet drama. entitled the Actress
of Padua, was produced here with most triumphant
success. The plot is short, and may be explained as
follows :—Tisbe, an actres', has risen by her talents
'rom a chill who sang about the streets to a station of
wealth sufficient to entertain the Governor of Padua,
Angelo Malapieri, at a grand fete. The Governor is
also among the host of lovers of the successful actress—
albeit he is marriede-ebnt his love is not reciprocated ;
n fact, Tisbe doatingly loves another. The Governor,
in his attentions to Tisbe, neglects his wife, who has
peen forced into the marriage against her inclination,
her heart having been given to another. This person
turns out to be none other than the man upon whom
Tisbe lavishes all her affections one Rodolpho, a
banished lord, whom she passes off as her brother, and
he, in his turn, is dying of an early love for Catarina,
the wife of the governor of Padua. Omodei, a secret
agent of the Council of Ten, who is supposed to he an
,diet, overhears the secret of the different parties, and
as Rodolpho has saved his life, he procures him an in-
'erview with the gevernor's wife, and then coromuni.
cites to Tisbe where she will find her lover. Driven to
'esperation by jealousy she enters the secret chamber of
Angelo ; but there only, di'covers his neglected wife,
but her suspicions are aroused by discovering a cloak.
Fier rage knows no hounds, but on discovering that
Csterina. when a child, saved the life of her mother,
.vhich circumstance is brought to light by a cruelfie,
which the mother of the actress gave the child,
her hate turns to love, and she resolves to sacri-
fice her own happiness to secure that of Catarina.
The circumstance of a stranger having been in the
alace has been cornmenicatel to the governor, and as
his wife refuses to write or speak the name of the visi-
tor, he determines to poison her, and thus avenge his
supposed dishonour. Tisbe having given him two
potion., one to produce nearly instant death, and the
other sound sleep, she so contrives that the sleeping
draught is given to Catarina ; and having promised
Angelo to have the corpse secretly conveyed from
the palace, he departs to find his ina'.e enemy.
Tisbe, however, has the sleeping lady conveyed
to her own home, and here Rodolpho, who has
heard that Catarina has beenpoisoned by the agency of
Tisbe, enters mad with rage as he is about to assassinate
her. She seizes his dagger and dies by her-own hand.
Catarina now revives, and all is explained. A bell is
heard to toll, and a messenger enters with the intelli-
gence that the Governor of Padua has ceased to exist,
he having swallowed the contents of the other phial'
with the hope of getting refreshing sleep.
Although the materials are not entirely new, they
are worked upon with extraordinary ability. A play is.
produced that will take its place amongst the
hest-acting dramas of the day. Miss Cushman, as
Tisbe, acted with her usual ability, and hence-
forward this will be one of her greatest parts. The cha-
racters in the drama were well sustained by Miss
Reynolds, Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Farren, and Mr. 4toger.
The scenery was excellent, and the dresses magnificent.
The principal performers having received the honour of
a "call," the author's name was demanded. Here Mr.
Buckstone stepped forward and said :—" The author is
a Frenchman—Victor Hugo—part adapter, your humble
servant. With your kind permission the Actress of
Padua will be repeated every Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday, till further notice." This laconic address was
received with the loudest cheers from a house crowded
to suffocation.

.LATEST NEWS.

SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT
BEFORE SEBASTOPOL.

1S?A1 DEPARTMENT, MAY 4, '7 p.x.

Lord Panmure presents his compliments to the
Editor of The Sun, and has great pleasure in trans-
mitting the enclosed intelligence.
"A sharp engagement took place on the night
of the Ist of May in front and left attack. The
whole of the Russian rifle pits were taken, 8 light
mortars, and 200 prisoners. The whole aflair
was brilliant for the Allies."

The old proverb says that " the Vrd which
can sing, and won't sing, must be made to sing."
The terms may be considerably extended, and
made applicable to every obligation which any
:nan or body of men, any individual or nation
nay, if he or they think proper, discharge ;
.vhich, not from disability, but sheer roguery,
hey are unwilling to do. It should at pi esent
1)e seriously pondered over at the Foreign-office,
and energetic measures adopted to obtain justice
for the defrauded creditors of some practically re-
pudiating States. There was a time when it was
Lord PALMERSTON'S boast that he would caw e
the name of Great Britain to be respected as
highly as was that of Rome in days of yore ;
that the Englishman would find the enunciation
of his citizenship as effectual a protection for his
person and property as that of the ancient
Roman, and that it would entitle him to justice,
not only at home, but abroad, from every people,
and in every clime.
This salutary principle, however, appears to
be totally disregarded so far as the English

BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, FRIDAY MORNING,

MAY 4.

On the night of Wednesday last, May 2, the
French under General Pelissier having taken up
a position before the Quarantine Bastion, ad-
vanced briskly upon the Bastion No. 4, attacked
the advanced works which the Russians had
raised to protect that Bastion, and carried them
at the point of the bayonet.

In this attack the French took twelve mortars
from the enemy. The Engineers immediately
occupied the ground, and began to carry on a
flying sap. At daybreak._ they had succeeded in
establishing themselves in- tile- conquered works.
Last night (Thursday) the Russians male a
general sortie, with the object of retaking the lost
ground. After a sanguinary combat they were
driven back into the place.
Our losses have been great, but bear no pre-
portion to those of the -enemy, nor to kilo advan-
tages gained. •

holders of foreign securities are concerned. It is
almost needless to say, that in the strictures
which we may deem it our duty to put forward
we do not in any way allude to nations who have
made bond fide efforts to keep faith with creditors,
and to the best and utmost of their abilities have
endeavoured to meet their liabilities fairly and
honestly ; or, if unable to satisfy every claim,
have yet taxed their resources to the uttermost,
and rateably divided the available assets among
the claimants. It is only against those who, dip-
regarding alike the dictates of honour and
honesty, set their creditors at defiance, and too
frequently add insult to injury, heaping abuse
and contumely on those whom they have scan-
dalously swindled—we use the term advisedly
and deliberately—of their property, against all
such unconscienti.ous spoliators we invoke the
Aid of the Foreign Office. All that would be re-
quired would be a clear and unequivocal expres-
sion of a determination on the part of the British
Government. to enforce justice to its defrauded
citizens. Even " a hint in tender cases " would
be enough. We should then see some efforts
made to satisfy our fellow-citizens in some more
acceptable way than by heaping vituperation and
contumely on their heads, and repaying the coin
‘,latained by gross abuse against the beguiled
lenders.

This (Friday) morning , the Russians have
neither a man nor a gun outside the regular en-
closure of the place.—Daily News.

We (Times) have received the following tele-
graphic despatches from our Constantinople cor-
respondent, via Vienna :
" CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 2.
" Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has returned to

Constantinople.
" Mehemet Ali is recalled from exile.
" Caurobert speaks to his troops of immediate

operations.
" Orders have been received to prepare trans.

ports."

.‘-‘ VARNA, MAY 3.

" A sharp engagement took place on the lef
attack before Sebastopol on the night of the is

of May.
" All the Russian rifle pits have been taken

and 200 prisoners."

At present we would especially direct attention
to the Buenos Ayres Loan of 1824. Mr. Gino,
the accredited agent and representative of the
English Bondholders, has, it appears, given mortal
offence to the local authorities by the suggestion
that "the loan being contracted at a very high
price, every principle of justice, sound policy, and
honour (!), make it incumbent on the Buenos
.kyres Government to settle the question, espe-
cially after a delay of nearly thirty years." To
enforce and give validity to this proposition he
published the terms of ono of these bonds in ex-
fenso. This has rendered the defaulters furious.
They lavish abuse not only on Gino, who has
been guilty of telling the truth, but on his clients,
the victims of their own dishonesty, asserting
that " the Jew usurers of Loudon get 2 per cent.
now on their money ;" that is to say, on what
they have expected to have beet the money actually
advanced, which they declare to have been only
70 per cent., and not 85 per cent. as stated.
Now, on this point it is scarcely necessary t,)

PARIS, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 7.30 A.M.

The Moniteur contains the following :
The Minister of War has zeceived the follow
ing telegraphic despatches from General Calm.
beet

BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, MAY 2.

raise an argument. Whatever was actually ad
vanced, whether 7-0 or 85 per cent., it was, as i
turns out, far too high a price for what the dupe(

creditors obtained in return ; for no less than
26 years payment was suspended, and the arrears
of interest to no less than 1,750,0001. on bonds
for 1,000,0001., or 175 per cent. on the original
debt. According to their own admission, they
actually received into the Treasury 700,0001., in
proof whereof they produce a letter from Messrs.
BARING, the agents of the Republic. But if that
was all they received, the parties employed and

authorised by themselves, and for whose acts
they were unquestionably responsible, received
850,0001., and if they pocketed or abstracted so
large a sum as 150,0001. in transitu, their prin-
cipals must themselves sustain the loss, and not
the bondholders, who were not bound, and could
not possibly look to the application of the funds
which they, we regret to say, so improvidently
supplied.

PARIS, SATURDAY, MAY 5.

The creditors paid the stipulated price, which
was far higher than that at which a large propor-
tion of the National Debt of Great Britain was
contracted. They received the Bonds in ex-
change, in accordance with the agreement entered

MAIISEILLES, SATURDAY MORNING.

into. No pretence was then or is even now made
that they retained any portion of the money in
their own hands ; and it is really too bad, at the
end of nearly thirty-one years, and with such
enormous arrears of interest still due and owing,
to question the consideration given, or talk as
if " the Jew usurers of London " should be
well off at now receiving 2 per cent., not on the
sum they advanced, but on what found its way
into the treasury of Buenos Ayres I
What renders the fraud worse—for we shall
not mince matters, but call things by their right
names—is that they have made distinctions
in favour of the domestic debt, paying their own
citizens, while they are awindling and vituperating
the English creditors. This is surely sufficient
not merely to warrant, but imperatively demand
the intervention of Lord CLARENDON, and to in-
duce him to adopt measures which will render jus-
tice to the much-wronged bondholders, and teach
a salutary lesson to all nations inclined to deviate
from the paths of rectitude, and to save their
pockets at the expense of their characters for
honour and integrity.

Tchorgun.

night •of the 21st.

were r ep'ilsed.

ponden t :.—.

VI ENNA, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 10 A.M..

AUSTRIA'S PROPOSALS FOR PEACE.

The Court of Vienna has submitted to the
Allies the course which it recommends for con-

cludipg peace.

It Adopts, as a basis, the counter propositions
of Rivisia, with the addition that two frigates of
the
WeKteru Powers sbou4l be allowed to cruise
in the Black Sea.

accepted.

The rejection of this proposition by the Allies,
though not offered as
upon by Austriaau ultimatum, will be looked
as a conclusion of its engage-
wen t 8 under the treaty of December.
It is said that the Austrian scheme has been
received with much favour at Paris.--Press of
to-day.

VIENNA, SATURDAY.

TR E BALTIC FLEET.

TUE Tl!‘li L 0 OWL Aorrytn 4.! VITTIWINOI
_NAY 51 1855.

CE.

PARIS, FRlD.ty.

The Patrie of this evening has the following :
" There is a report current to-day that on the
2d of May the besiegers took possession of some
very important Russian works of counter-approach,
after a. fierce engagement.
" On the following day, the 3d of May, the
Russians are reported to have att-empted to retake
the positions, which remain in the hands of the
Allies."
The Moniteur announces the reception by the
Emperor of Count de Hatzfeldt, the Prussian En-
voy, and of Baron de Hubner, the Austrian En- 1
voy, who presented autograph letters from their
respective Sovereigns relative to the recent attempt
upon the life of his. Majesty.
M. de Hubner also presented to the Emperor a
reply from his Government touching the mission
of M. Droyn de l'Huys to Vienna.
The Journal des Debats publishes the following
telegraphic despatches :
" Advices from Constantinople of the 231, aria Trieste,
announce the arrival on that day at the Golden Born of
the Costituzione with the personnel aid mateeiel of the
sanitary department of the Sardinian expeditionary
force and the officers of the engineering staff.
" A few ewes of cholera hs,d occurred at Maslak.
" Erzerouin was being fortified. Colonel Walpole
arrived on the 12th at Damascus with Ottoman recruits
destined to serve under English officers. A number of
vlunteers had offered to serve under him.
" It is said the mission of MM. Murray and Bourr6e
to the Nyman Government is a failure. There v%a-i a
movement of troops on the Persian frontier. Bajazid is
reported to be in the' bands of the Russians."

BOURSE. MAY 4.—CLOSING PRICER•
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4i per Cents 94 —f. —c.
3 per Cents 6B 90 69
Credit Mobilier 7B.i 25 Roman

Credit Fancier
Belgian Fives
Piedmontese

Austrian
Spanish Threes
85 50 Home Debt

We had a successful aff dr last night. The ene-
my had strongly connected his works, and with
lodgements in front of the Central B tstion
•
was a work of counter-approach witu a double
en ciente and very solid. We stormed it, and
maintained ourselves there under a very heavy

fire, and have definitively established ourselves
there. We took from the enemy eight small port-
able mortars which were inside.

Exact returns of our loss are not made up, but
they are below what I had feared.
The enemy suffered consideraMy.
The intrepidity of the troops was admirable.
BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, MAY 3.

Yesterday, at 4 p.m., the enemy made a sortie
to attempt to retake the work of counter-approach
which we had taken from him on the preceding
night. The troops of the Garde attacked the
Russians at the point of the bayonet, routed them,
and drove them back into the town.

The enemy's artillery protected the departure
and the retreat of the sortie by a very violent
cannonade, to which our batteries replied well.

RAILWAYB—FOB CASH.
ir. c. tr. c.
Orleans
Western 645 Rouen • lOlO
Cede 621 25 Strasburg •
Mediterranean 1025 Havre, 550
Northern

An Imperial decree appoints M. Thouvenal
French Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, and M.
Benedetti, actually at Constantinople, Minister
Plenipotentiary to Persia.

We have received the following telegraphic de-
spatch front our correspondent at Mtrseilles

The Sinai, which left Constantinople on the
26th, has arrived. Her despatches have been
forwarded by the train at 9 o'clock this morning,
According to advices from Balakiava, of the
night of the 23d, a reconnoisance was to be made

the day after in force, in order to ascertain the
amount of Russian forces on the Belbek and at

Baidar, and also to occupy a position near

According to advices from Kamiesch, of the
24th, the bombardment was su.pended on the

On the 22d and 23d there were sorties, which

Oine'r Pasha bad returned to Eupatoria, which
it was ‘said was menaced by the Russians.

We- (Times) have received the following tele-
graphi c
despatch from our Vienna corres-

Advice 3 from Constantinople of the 3d inst.
state that Mehemet Ali Pasha, having been re-
called fro -n exile, Redschid Pasha has resigned.
Ali Pas ha, now at Vienna, is appointed Grand
Vizier in his stead ; a substitute has been ap-
pointed t o act for him ad interim at Constan-
tinople.

The t terms proposed by Austria for the accept-
ance of Russia are not satisfactory, but Austria

is likely , t,) act on the offensive if they are not

If the 1 'extern Powers agree to them Russia
will IrArdly do so.

BERLIN, SATURDAY, MAY 5.

Admiral D uudas, with 13 screw sbips-of-ths-
line, five steam
frigates, and two steam gun-boats,
left Kiel barbgi on the morning of the 3d inst.