The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-04 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1855.

While earnestly deprecating the abandonment
of the lines and works before Sebastopol, we are
by no means disposed to undervalue the benefits
that would necessarily arise from a well-organised
movement having for its object the closing of the
various channels of supply to the Russian army.
We have repeatedly and emphatically directed
attention to the paramount importance of such a
course, which would not only make Sebastopol,
but the whole of the Crimea, our own. The ope-
rations against Kertch, Anapa, and the Sea of

Azoff were so many steps in the right direction,
but they were only instalments of what was re-
quired. The Isthmus of Perekop should be her-

rnetically sealed, and also the passage of the
Sivash, so as to prevent the transit of large bodies
of men or stores for the relief of the Russian army
or garrison. This duty, if energetically under-
taken, would, although arduous, not be beyond
the power of the troops that could be detached
from the lines, who might be materially assisted
from seaward. We do not, of course, mean that
the larger class of vessels, requiring a considerable
draught of water, could be made available, but
flat-bottomed boats, each carrying a single gun,
could, by judicious management, be enabled to
penetrate from Genitchi almost to Perekop itself,
so as to prevent the possibility of men or stores
being transported over the Putrid Sea, and even
to greatly impede the communications across the
Isthmus. The storehouses at Odessa and Nico-
3aieff might also easily be destroyed, so that no
supplies could be spared from the districts that
have hitherto proved such fertile sources ; and if
sent, the channel of communication could also be
blocked up by an army having the base of its
operations on Eupatoria, and placing the Rus
sians in the field between two fires.

It is more than probable that some operation
of the latter description was • contemplated when
O~tAr PAsUA and the Turkish army of the Danube
were sent to Eupatoria. It was clearly not in-
tended that the experienced General and his
veteran soldiers should remain inactive under
cover of the Allied fleets. Sufficient reinforce-
=tents were, not, however, despatched to enable
them to take the field, and meet any attack that
might be hazarded by the Russian generals. The
whole of the army now quartered on the Mackenzie
heights might be brought against them, and they
should, before abandoning the shelter of Eupa-
toria, be satisfied that they were in sufficient
force to risk the chances of a pitched battle.
That they have never hitherto been, but it by no
means follows that the original plan may not still
be fully and fairly carried out.
According to the best information that can be
obtained, the Allies have nearly, if not quite,
200,000 fighting men in the Crimea ! Less than
half that dumber would amply suffice to maintain
the lines and works constructed against Se-
bastopol—against all sorties from within, or
attacks from without. We have seen that a
comparatively small number have always been
sufficient to repel the fiercest onslaughts of the
Russians, and Inkerman and the Tchernaya attest
the great results that can be accomplished by a
small but efficient body in defending an intrenched
position. An army of one hundred thousand men
might, therefore, take the field to the rear of the
Russians ; and, judging from the experience of the
past, from what has already occurred in every
hand-to-hand encounter, such a force might un-
hesitatingly meet any that the Russians could
bring against them.

Their army may be estimated at 150,000 men
at the utmost, one-third of whom are cooped up
within the walls of the beleaguered fortress. One
hundred thousand is, therefore, the greatest
number they could bring into the field en any
emergency. Even that is probably far beyond the
mark ; but supposing for the sake of argument
that they could be made available, would the
Allies shriek from anything approaching to an
equal contest, or hesitate to risk the fortunes of
the campaign on such a contest We believe
not. We are convinced that there is nothing
which they would more ardently desire than such
a chance, and we should fearlessly abide the
result.

Besides,- if one hundred thousand men be not
sufficient for such a duty, why not send additional
reinforcements. If England cannot spare the
men, France has them, and we now know that we
can
implicitly depend on the most zealous Co-
operation on the part of our faithful AUy.
She possesses the power, and we may rest
azsured. that -th*e.ivill is not wanting It will be
true econ=y to *440 Do miaow is the owiez

stages, but to put forth all our strength to crush
the enemy, and to conquer a just and honourable
peace, promising to be permanent, which can only
be achieved by leaving the foe without the power
to again disturb the tranquillity of Europe.

There are two crowned beads whose conduct at
this moment engages a large share of attention,
and should lead to results of vast importance to
the united cause of liberty and civilisation. The
monarchs to whom we allude are the King of
GREECE and the King of NAPLES. Of these the
former may be described as half knave and half
fool, and the latter as the maddest BOURBON that

ever existed, which is saying a great deal, consi-
dering what a tyrannical and Godforsaken race
his has long been.

The King of GMEOE, it is well known, owes
his exaltation to the throne to the good offices of
this country and France, and his Government, it
is no less notorious, has taken care to owe us a
great deal of money beside, which we would very
much like to see returned, without much pros-
pect, however, of having our wish gratified.
Under such circumstances the Allies had a right
to anticipate that whatever little service Greece
I could render to their cause would be cheerfully
offered, or, giving ordinary scope for ingratitude,
that King OTHo would at least take care to pre-
serve a strict neutrality. The return they
actually met with at the very outset of
the War must be fresh in general recol-
lection. A revolt against our Turkish Ally
took place, and Greece lent all but open
aid to the insurgents, the result being that
a portion of the Allied forces had to be detached
for the partial occupation of Greece as a warning
to its perfidious and ungrateful Government, at a
moment when a single regiment could be ill
spared. The warning, as it turns out, was only
temporarily effective, for from the withdrawal of
the troops up to the present time, Greece has
been a hotbed of Russian intrigue, and the Cour t
now rather resembles a Committee of Safety for
Russia than the Court of a neutral Power.

The King of the Two Sicilies, on the other
King
hand, reigns by divine right, and the grace of
Austria awhile ago backed up by Russian
bayonets, and, save in a commercial way, owes
nothing to France and England but toleration of
his monarchical existence—which a breath of
theirs would at any time for years past have
consigned to annihilation. No gratitude, how-
ever, has been anticipated at his hands for this,
and if in his heart he favoured Russia no one
could be surprised ; but that he should do more—
that he should persecute such of his subjects as
dare to sympathise with the cause of the Allies,
should have their steps dogged, their privacy in-
vaded, and themselves ultimately cast into prison
to expiate by flagellation and confinement, any
expression of such sympathy is somewhat startling
after all, but that he should carry his audacity
farther, and actually beard both France and
England by flagrant disrespect to the flag of the
one, and insult to a member of the corps diplo-
matique of the other savours of that infatuation
which the Gods are said to bestow on those whom
they have doomed' to destruction.
1 The fact is, both these monarchs have reigned
too long, and must be dethroned on the earliest
opportunity. Any longer toleration of them than
can be helped will be a condonation of their of-
fences and a blot on the escutcheon of the Allies.
For, let it not be forgotten that, to the offence of
ingratitude and treachery to the Allies, the King
of GREECE adds wretched misgovernment, and
the King of the Two SICILIES a tyranny that
smells to heaven; that Greece is hurrying to ruin,
and that Naples is a hell. Is it not monstrous
that in the very garden of Europe, whose special
endowment one would imagine bad been happi-
ness, and almost within sight and hearing
of the two great Guardians of Civilisation,
a cowardly tyrant should be permitted to
burden the very air with his yoke, and blast
the glorious vegetation with his breath
to hold a perpetual saturnalia for the cut-throats
and scoundrels of Italy—to fasten them on every
man's steps, and apply them with diabolical
ingenuity as snares to entrap, or goads to drive
to desperation and the scaffold, every liberal-
minded citizen ? Is not this, we say, monstrous ?
and can it be suffered to continue ? Outraged
humanity, iu reply, thunders—No !

We have seen it asserted that the Press is
keeping up the War, and that the nation is grow-
ing weary of it. So far as our knowledge goes,
and we doubt not the knowledge of our contem-
poraries also, the reverse is the truth, and as the
conductors of the Press generally must be pretty
well acquainted with the views of all classes of
men, and since the burdens of the War fall upon
them as well as upon others, there appear to be no
interested reasons why they should differ from the
generality of their neighbours. Indeed our in-
terest lies in sailing with the tide, and if we sus-
pected ourselves of a bias from considerations of
advantage, we should rather ask whether we
urged energetic prosecution of the War to gratify
popular wishes, keeping at the same time our
judgment in abeyance. We have, however, a
clear conviction for ourselves that our counsel is as
sound as it is honest ; and we have also the full

impression that the people do not so much adop'
it, as identify it with their own views.

There is enough, indeed, to cause a feeling of
weariness, but it is the weariness of fatigue, or rather
disgust,. not of changed or flagging resolution.
Looking at the general management of the War,
we are made, like a person walking on deep loose
shingle, or on a slippery road, to_lose almost half
of every step which is taken ; and it is very pro-
voking to find ourselves thus moving on by inches
when the progress should be measured by paces.
It has been so from the beginning. The
Turks drove the Russians from the Danube, and
from the provinces—a splendid effort forward, but
backwards we went again to the scandalous occu-
pation of the rescued country by the hateful Aus-
trians, and the consigning of the vanquisher of
the CZAR, to ignoble quiescence. We pushed for-
ward again at Eupatoria and the Alma, but back
indeed again, to the southern side of Sebastopol,
and the miseries of last winter. The fleet went
forward, too, to the Dardanelles, but was at
anchor while Sinope was perpetrated. R made
a little step in advance when it just birched
Odessa for insolence, but ecmpensated for such
progression by the tenfold greater mischief of
leaving it to aid Austria and Russia in their
plans developed at Inkerman. At the Sea of
Azoff most serviceable progress was made this
summer, but suck progress would have turned
our heads and ruined the enemy if permitted to
continue. Accordingly our huge fleet in the Euxine
has remained ingloriously at anchor, and Odessa
and Nicolaieff are still left intact to feed and
barrack the enemy, and, if late accounts be cor-
rect, to build new three-deckers ! It seems as
if every success were the prelude to a long subse-
quent inaction ; and as if express orders had been
given not to strike effective blows in too quick
succession. In the Baltic last year it was enough
to destroy a single Bomarsund, and too late to
follow up the success ; this year the story is
repeated; Sweabcag-bombardedis eueueut is it3

way, but it is clear that with Sir C. NAPIER'S
last year's plans before them our Government
might have destroyed Sweaborg, Helsingfors,
and Cronstadt itself by an adequate supply of
mortar-boats, mortars, and appropriate ammuni-
fish,

No wonder that the nation yawns immediately
after the tidings of each splendid achievement. It
has now come to look, on such occasions, for an-

other attendant illustration of Whig or Peelite in-

competency or jugglery. We are compelled to
enter upon another winter with the evidence that,

had we had a CARNOT at the head of the War
Department instead of a PANMITRE and a WooD,
every fortification up to St. Petersburg would have
been laid in ruins before autumn had ended. And
this, we suppose, is pretty much the same thing
as the War being terminated, and the millions re-
quisite for another campaign saved. We
are all weary, no doubt, of Administra-
tors pitched into office to propitiate family in-
terests, but totally wanting in the foresight and
general capacity to achieve a decided success; and
who cannot, with the ample means at their dis-

posal, provide our Admirals with the means indis
pensable to finishing their work.
Weariness of this kind we admit. Weariness,
not of the War, but of its management, and of the
burdens unnecessarily heaped upon us by the
vilest sycophancy to Austria, the criminal rejection
of the Polish cause and the invaluable aid of the
Pales, and the treacherous concern of Lord JOHN
Russiu, and others, to save Russian territory and
Russian honour. But ask any honest John Bull
whether for all this he is prepared to raise the
siege of Sebastopol, and to propose peace
to Russia? He might just before have been
complaining of the doubled Income Tax, of
our Chancellors of the Exchequer, even in
war time, sparing the Landlords' Probate Duties
and other taxes paid by every one else ; he
might have been talking of the high price of
wheat, and cursing the policy which has not,
with all our means in the Black Sea, opened yet
the navigation of the Danube and set free the
vast corn produce of its banks. He might have
seemed so out •f patience with the War manage-
ment, or rather mismanagement, that you had
supposed him ready to hold up both hands for the
BRIGHT and COBDEN policy ; but put to him the
testing question, and he would heave his broad
shoulders, as he has often done under many a
burden, and, turning half round, would tell you
" No, uo, that won't do ; we must teach the
Rooshans first who is master ; we've spent too
much now to leave off where we are."
No doubt we should all be but too thankful to
see things in the old ruts again—commercial
men with only commercial considerations to attend
to, and Whigs and Tories with nothing left to
quarrel about but reform bills and church rates--
but we should not be so glad to feel ashamed ever
after before all Europe that we and France could
not flog Russia, and Austria and Prussia into the
bargain, if they like to join her. With more
millions of people than the barbarian aggressor,
with twenty times more money, with navies that
compel hers to skulk behind her fortresses, and
that could annihilate those for tresses at long range;
with such means to let the savages who murdered
our unarmed men at Hango, who butchered our
prostrate wounded, who fired on their own cavalry
to destroy ours at Balaklava, who cannonaded
our allies when rescuing the Russian wounded on
the Tchernaya--nay, who opened the War, so far
as the allies were concerned, by firing on a flag of
truce at Odessa ; with the means of England
and France, to let off such brutal aspirers to the
conquest of Europe, without sufficient humiliation,
would make every Englishman and Frenchman
blush for hiA fatherland. We must " Persevere."

Thb King of Sardinia is expected in Paris on the 16th.
Abd-el-Kader is seriously ill of cholera at Marseilles.
RUMOURED DEATH of SCHAMYL—The Trieste Zeitunq
of the 31st contains a letter of the 14th, from its Trebi-
zond correspondent. One passage of it is as follows—
" The news of the death of Schamyl seems to be con-
firmed."

The Ocean Chief made the passage from Liverpool to
Hobart Town in 72 days, the quickest passage ever
made.

The depot of the 82c1, at present in Edinburgh Castle,
have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to
proceed to Ire'-and.
Yesterday was issued an account of the gross and nett
revenue of the Duchy of Lancaster for the year ending
Michaelmas, 1E54. The income of the year amounted
to 42,266/ , and the expenditure to 35,6671.
We (North British Daily Mail) have been informed on
good authority that there will be further changes in the
organisation of the Government, and that a coalition
will be formed against Palmerston, by Lord John Rus-
sell, Gladstone, Graham, and the other few Peelites,
along with Cobden, Bright, and that party.
CRYSTAL PALACE.— Shilling Day—Monday.-4d-
missions on payment, 13,438 ; ditto by season ticket.,
375 ; total, 13,818. Corresponding day last year, 9,405.
A. SCREW STEAMER ON SHORE.—CONSTANTINOPLE,
Aug. 23.—The Lady Jocelyn, screw steamer, got on
shore above Leander's Tower, has received assistance to
lighten her, but is not yet off.
MOORE'S LIBRARY.—The library of the poet Moore
has been received in Dublin, as a present from the widow
of the deceased to the Royal Irish Academy.
FIRE IN DIIBLIN.—The shop and stock in trade of Mr.
Thacker, boot-maker, Dame-street, Dublin, were de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday evening.
ROBBING A CHAPEL.—An entrance was effected some
few nights ago into the vestry attached to the Roman
Catholic chapel at Crogban, in the barony of Lower
Philipatown, by a party of persons unknown, who stole
therefrom a pall and other articles used in the celebration
of the mass, the property of the congregation. Govern-
ment have authorised the police-officer at Elenderry to
give a reward of 101. fur the detection of the guilty
parties.

The potato crops here are free from disease, and they
are harvesting fast. A potato, grown at Risborough,
weighing 250 z., was exhibited at name, on 28th ultimo.
Mr. Anstiss, of this place, dug from one root 73 good
potatoes; and Mr. Thornton, of the Sun Inn, bad from
one set upwards of 71bs. At the rate of the latter pro-
duce, an acre would yield 166,3201b5. ; supposing they
were planted in 22-inch drills, and each set was 12 inches
apart. At the calculation of a bushel, weighing 601b5.,
there would be 2,227 bushels, which, if sold-at is. per
bushel, would realise 1381. 122.—Bicester Herald.
Yesterday a return ordered by the House of Commons
was published showing the Parliamentary, Legal, and
Engineering expenditure of 16f) railway companies. It
appears that the total sums of money expended in ob-
taining acts of Parliament for establishing such com-
panies was 12,548,7151. Bs. 2d., giving an average for
each of 7,8421. The money expended in obtaining acts
for purchasing other railways, or amalgamating with
railway or canal companies, amounted to 852,2021. 2s.
The money spent in costs, charges, and expenses in-
curred by actions, suits, and other proceedings at
law or in equity by some of the companies amounted
to 685,1041. 4s. 3d. Forty-five companies have made
no returns.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE REFORM CLUB.—An
accident, nearly attended with fatal results, occurred
yesterday afternoon at the Reform Club-house, Pall-
mall. The building is at present undergoing some con-
siderable repairs, and one of the workmen, William
Gadnaan, a plasterer, was at work on a scaffold some 20
feet above the ground, when he accidentally missed his
footing, and fell. Upon assistance arriving he was
taken up in an insensible state, and removed to the
Charing-cross Hospital, where the resident medical
officer immediately attended upon him. A closer exa-
mination of his injuries allowed that he had suffered a
severe fracture of several ribs, and had also injured the
spinal column. He still lies in a very precarious condi-
tion, but improving. There does not appear to be blame
attached to any person.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO THE CAPTAIN OF A RIVER STEAM-
BOAT.—Yesterday morning, about half-past nine o'clock,
the body of Mr. W. H. French, the captain of one of the
Adelphi and London-bridge steam-boats, was found in
the River Thames, off Davy's Roads, Upper Ground-
street, Blackfriars-road. The body was immediately
got ashore, and handed over to Mr. kibblewhite, the
coroner's officer. The circumstances attending the death
of the unfortunate man are of an exceedingly painful
character. It appears that on Thursday last the steamer
in command of the Jeceased was chartered to attend a
rowing match, and on its return to the Adelphi-pier the
deceased was noticed to fall by some of the crew, and
all of sudden a splash was heard in the water. Upon
going to the ride of the vessel
his hands yeere seen ex-
tended, as if in the act of trying to catch
hold of the
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without success, and ho was carried away by the tide
and disappeared. The river was dragged for upwards
of an hour, but without the body being found, until
rescue theby
yesterday, when it was vr4stio'd into the ra;d9 by the
btrorgth of the tide.

COURT CIRCULAR.

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OSBORNE, SEPT. 3.

The Queen abnd Prince, the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, and the Princess Royal attended morning ser-
vice at Whippingham Church yesterday. The Rev. J.
Prothero officiated.
Lord Palmerston has returned to London.
Baron Liebig has aitived on a visit to her Majesty.
Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey has succeeded
Major-General Bouverie as Equerry in Waiting.

Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yester-
day from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were
sent to the Governors of Ceylon and 'long Kong.

THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY TO SCOTLAND.-4t has already
been announced in The San that her Majesty and suite
will leavo the King's-cross Station, London, on Thursday
morning next, and travel thence by the Slreat Northern
and North-Eastern lines of railway to Edinburgh.

The Royal train will proceed as follo-ws :-It will pass
Hornsey at 8.10 a.m. ; Colney-hatch, 8.13 ; Barnet,
8.17 ; Potter's-bar, 8.22 ; Hatfield, 8.26 ; Welwyn,
8.30 ; Stevenage, 8,37 ; Hitchin, 8.42, passing slowly
through the straight line without stopping ; Arsley,
8.48 ; Biggleswade, 8.52 ; Sandy, 8.55 ; St. Neot's,
9.2 ; Offord, 9.7 ; Huntingdon, 9.10, passing slowly
through the straight line without stopping ; Holme,
9.24 ; Peterborough, 9.35. At this station there will be
a pause of about three minutes, in order to allow of the
engine being changed. The train will resume its course
at 9.33, passing Tonkington, at 9.52 ; Essendine. at
9.58 ; Little Bytham, at 10.3 ; Corby, at 10.12 ; Great
Pouton, at 10.19 ; Grantham, at 10.23, where there will
be another pause of three minutes for the engine to take
h water. Leaving Grantham, at 10.26, the train will
pass Rougham, at 10.34; Claypole, at 10,38; Newark, at
10.45 ; Carlton, at 10.54 ; Tuxford, at 11.3 ; Retford,
at 11.12 ; Sutton, at 11.17 ; Ranskill, at 11.20 • Scroo-
by, at 11.22 ; Bawtry, at 11.25 ; where there will again
be a delay of three minutes to change engines, the train
leaving Bawtry at 11.28, and passing Rossington at
11.34 ; Doncaster, at 11.43 ; where the train will pass
through the station slowly on the straight line with-
out stopping, and reach Arksey at 11.46 ; Askern, at
11.53 ; Norton, at 11.55 ; Womersley, at 11.58 ; Knot-
tingley, at 12.5, passing slowly through the station ;
Barton Salmon, at 12.10 ; Milford junction, at 12.13 ;
Sherburn, at 12.16 ; Church Fenton, at 12.19 ; Ulles-
kelp, at 12.22 ; Bolton Percy, at 12.24 ; Copmanthorpe,
at 12.29 ; York (ticket platform), at 12.35; York sta-
tion, 12.42, the Great Northern engine being detached
at the former point, and a North-Eastern engine being
put on to shunt the train into the station. The Royal
travellers will lunch at the Station hotel, Mr. Halliday,
the proprietor, having received instructions to make
similar preparations to those of last year. Her Majesty
and suite will resume their journey soon after 1 o'clock,
and are expected to reach Edinburgh between 4 and 5
o'clock. The Royal travellers will rest there on Thurs-
day night, and proceed from Edinburgh to Banchory,
the furthest point by railway, and thence to Balmoral
on Friday morning. Orders have been issued to the
railway officials along the route to admit the public to
the various platforms under certain regulations, also to
keep the line clear half an hour previous to the time
named in the time-bill; and a special engine will follow 5
minutes after the Royal train.
We regret to find that Lord Clarence Paget, lately in
command of her Majesty's ship Princess Royal, in the
Black Sea, has arrived in England in a very infirm state
of health, and his present condition causes much anxiety
to his friends.

Dr. Lyon Playfair, secretary of the London depari
merit of arts, is expected this month in Limerick, to
make arrangements for re-openins, the School of Art in
that city, closed by the acts of Mr. Cole.
DEATH OF MR. ABBOTT LAWRENCE.—We regret to
learn, by the arrival of the Baltic steamer, which reached
Liverpool at an early hour on Sunday morning, of
the demise of Mr. Abbott Lawrence, the late diplomatic
representative of the United States at the Briti-h COurt.
FRIGHTFUL DEATH.—A. poor man named Christopher
Byrne, employed in the Irish Peat Company's works,
near Athy, was burned to death a few days ago in the
hot cinders of one of the furnaces, into which ho acci-
dentally fell. .
We understand that the Rev. R. M. M`Brair, M.A.,
late of Cambridge, has resigned his appointment into
the hands of the president of the Conference, and with-
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establishment, although resuscitated, lies in a precarious
state. All efforts to recover the father were fruitless.
LIBERALITY OF MESSRS. CUNARD.—The remains of
a daughter of General Cannon (Behram Pacha), who
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eueatco-dotTHE BOMBARDMENT OF SWEABORG.—The truth of the
following statements has been confirmed by a letter ad-
dressed to Admiral Dundas by the English Ambassador
at Stockholm :—The Russians lost upwards of 2,000
men at Sweaborg ; the terrific explosion which took
place at noon on the first day blew up the magazine,
containing the entire stock of shells, and 600 men were
killed by it. Every magazine in the place was destroyed
—also immense stores of cordage, rope, tar, and other
naval supplies. The large Russian man-of-war, which
was anchored in the pa-sage between the two islands to
the north of the fortress, had her side blown out, and 14
or 15 different descriptions of vessels lying inside the
dockyard basins were destroyed entirely.
THE CHOLERA IN ITALY.—The cholera still rages in
Central Italy, and where the Governments permit the
publication of reports they show a great mortality.
Where publicity is prohibited rumour of course exagge-
rates the evil. In the Duchy of Parma, on the 24th ult.,
there were 259 cases and 119 deaths, which make a total
of 3,864 cases and 2,100 deaths. In Northern Italy the
disease continues, though somewhat abated in its viru-
lence. The Lieutenantcy of Milan gives the following
summary of the number of cases reported from the
various provinces on the 27th :—Milan, 183 ; Brescia,
114 ; Bergamo, 84; Mantua, 137; Cremona, 127; Lodi-
Creme, 63 ; Como, no report ; Pavia, 26 ; Sondrio, 9.
At Genoa, from noon of the 26th to noon of the 27th,
there were 26 cases and 8 deaths. In the island of Sar-
dioia, the cases have greatly diminished. At Sassari, on
the 26th, there were only 14 fresh cases and 17 deaths,
but at Alghero, Ozieri, and other places there was still
much suffering.
ROUEN.—The letters from Rouen mention that the
market for manufactures was heavy, in consequence of
dirn;nished purchases.
We have great pleasure in stating that the Court
of Directors of th 3 East India Company have appointed
Mr. William Ritchie, of the Calcutta bar, to be Acting
Advocate General of India during the absence of Mr.
Prineep, with the reversion of the office when a vacancy
occurs.
MR. OLIVER'S BANKRUPTCY.—LiverpooI letters men-
tion that the trustees of the estate of Mr. Oliver have
now about 100,0001. to divide, if they can succeed in
resisting the new attempt being made to bring the case
into the Bankruptcy Court.
SPECIE.—The shipments of specie by the Peninsular
and Oriental steamer Euxine amount to the large total
of 593,2001., of which 111,8001. is gold for Malta,
Alexandria, Ceylon, Madras, and Hong Kong, and
481,4001. silver for Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Pe-
nang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton, and Shanghai.
A3ISTERDASL—The weekly reviews from the Amster-
dam and Rotterdam produce markets state that the de-
mand for most articles was supported, and that in some
cases a slight advance had been obtained. The opera-
tions in coffee had not been extensive, owing to the ap-
proaching sales of the Dutch Trading Company. In
sugar there was a further tendency to improvement. A
steady inquiry existed for rice.
DEPARTURE OF VESSELS FOR AUSTRALIA.—The depar-
tures from the port of London for the Australian colo-
nies during the past week have comprised nine vessels—
three to Sydney, three to New Zealand, two to Adelaide,
and one to Hobart Town, with an aggregate capacity of
5,888 tons. The rates of freight exhibit scarcely any
alteration.
BUSINESS OF THE PORT OF LONDON.—The general
business of the port of London during the past week has
been active. The total number of vessels reported in-
ward was 173, beinst 20 more than in the previous week.
The number clearacroutward was 144, showing an in-
crease of 15. Of these 26 were in ballast. There is also
an increase in the number of vessels entered for the Aus-
tralian trade ; the total on the berth now loading for
those colonies being 71, or 12 over the last report ; 9 of
them are for Adelaide, 5 for Geelong, 5 for Hobart
Town, 3 for Launceston, 5 for Melbourne, 1 for More-
ton.bay, 7 for New Zealand, 1 for Newcastle, 14 for
Port Philip, 2 for Portland Bay, 17 for Sydney, and 2
for Swan River.
NEW YonK.—The specie from New York yesterday is
136,0001., and a further sum may be expected by the
Union on Friday. The commercial ad vices on this oc-
casion present nothing new. The to vi were
firm, but a disposition to buoyancy which had recently
been manifested was not fully sustained. Erie Railway
Stock remained at 53 ; Reading,
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papers in Western New York had put forth an elabo-
rate estimate that the United States and Canada toge-
ther would this year have the enormous surplus of
77,200,000 bushels of wheat. Some of the States, it is
alleged, show a product ranging from 100 to 500 per
cent. over that of the large export year of 1847. These
calculations however, a!though supported by an array
of figures, must be regarded as altogether vague. There
had been no fresh arrivals from California, and gold re-
ceipts were rather anxiously looked for, the tendency
being towards decline in the amounts held by the banks.
Frcm Texas details are given of the open movements of
an " auxiliary force" of United States citizens to pro-
mote the revolution in Blexico. This force was to cross
the frontier and invade Mexico, under the command of
a Captain Henry, who bad issued two kinds of procla-
mation, one to his own countrymen, promising to bring
Mexico under the protection of the American eagle ;
the other to the Mexicans, in which, instead of alluding
to annexation, he states the object to be to enable the
people to establish an independent and powerful Govern-
! ment. The number of persons collected for this foray
yr,11!)ot gt4ttd.

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