The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-18 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR'S VISIT.

SEATS to view the EMPEROR and EMPRESS,
commanding the best and most extensive view of the urocts-
Mon. Windows or Seats to Let.—Apply at, So. 4, Cheapside, corner
of St. Paul's.

EMPEROR'S VISIT to the CITY.—SEATS to
be Let at St. Clement's Church, near Temple-bar.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Tinder the management of Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING,

Will be presented THE SECRET AGENT. Principal characters
by Mr. 13ackstone and Miss E. Chaplin.
To he fuliowed by a new Ballet, in which the Spanish Dancers
Will appear, entitled THE EVENING FESTIVAL.
After which, a new Extravaganza, called THE NEW HAY-
MARKET SPRING MEETING 1855.
To ccnelude with THE GALICIAN FETE.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Climax;
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the original adaptation of Casimir Dclavigne's
-Historical Play. entitled LOUIS TUE ELEVENTH. Principal
"haracter by Mr. C. Kean.
To conclude with (Rh time) a Romance, in two acts, entitled
THE MULETEER OF TOLEDO ; cr, King, Queen, and Knave.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHJ.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Direetress. Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed the Drama entitled THE MYSTERIOUS
STRANGER.
To conclude veth A NF.Ar EDITION OF THE FAIRY TALES
OF MOTHER GOOSE, with numerous highly-coloured Illustrations.

RGYAL OLYMPIC' THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
TIII3 EVEN-I:NG,
-Will be performed a Corned;etta, call3l LAW FOR L kDIE3
Charntter3 by Me,,,rs. A. Wigan, G. Vining, H. Cooper, Danvers,
tad Miss CaA'et-n.

After which, K 1 L On CURE. Characters by Messrs. Robson,
Zmery, and F. Vining; Mrs. A. :rigAn and Miss Bromley.
To be f towed by tte Fairy Erravaganz a. called THE YELLOW
DWARF AND THE KING OF IHE GOLo MINES.

ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITEIRA.TRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING
Glorious success I To commence with an• entirely new and oriutrue
Sy`ttacle-drama of harrowing interest, by Mr. Nelson T.. e. call-d,
THE FIELD A( lAr VST •HE FAVOURITE I No Drama for many
years has created so gnat a F en.ation. The interest is m st intense .
the burning of the stables is most terrific, while the Derby race is
Most exciting.

After which, a Series of Novel SCENES in the CTRCLE, invented
by Mr. William Cooke.
To coneludb with RETURNED FROM THE BALTIC ; or, Jack
Ashore.

A new Military Act Drop, painted by Fenton, Iris been added to
the Embellishments.
Tiox-office open from Eleven till Four. fitage Manager. Mr. W.
West. Acting vinnarcr. Mr. W. U. Cooke. Equestrian Director,
Ur. W. Cooke,

ROYAL •ITRAND THEATRE.

ruier the direction of Miss Rebecca Txa.,..

TIIIA EVENING.

Will be performed Tlll7, CRICKET ON VIE HEATITH. Cha-
racters by Mews J. Halfwd, Ro-e•son. snd Klnloch ; and Miss Re-
becca Isaac-, Ni.s lieaumont, and Miss Somers.
After which, KING QUEER AND INS D kUGHTERS THREE.
To which will be added a Ballet Divertissement.

movement. The Treaty of the 2d December_was_ property- It would be absurd to say tliat the
the result. But that bound it to nothing. As journal which first contrived to catch a floating
we explained when the text of that Treaty was rumour, or.who gave the earliest report of a dis-
published, the Western Powers were bound to ; cussion in Parliament, or a report of a trial
assist Austria if attacked by Russia ; but there in banco, or in one of the Police Courts,
was no reciprocal engagement. All that was should have the exclusive property in the facts
promised was that she would confer as to an there detailed. So far, then, from being for the
alliance, if Russia rejected the proffered terms, liberation of the Press, it will operate as a cora-
and declined to negotiate a peace on the basis of pieta restriction. Even the Leviathan itself, and
the Four Points. all the smaller fry who follow in its wake, will
We have since seen the solemn farce enacted at find that they themselves will participate in the
the Austrian capital, and the complete break down annoyance, and when too late will feel the nuisance
of the Conference. By simulated concessions on of the gagging operation to which they have been
the first two points, in which Austria felt chiefly assenting parties.
interested, Austria secured her co-operation on
the remaining items. Now it seems that her
chief anxiety is " to save the honour" of the new
CZAR ; that is to say, to leave him at full liberty
to carry out the nefarious designs so long con-
cocted against the stability and integrity of the
Ottoman Empire; and it has been tolerably clearly
intimated to the Western Plenipotentiaries that
her assistance cannot be expected for any such
purpose. The result has been the official state-
ment in the House of Commons, that Lord JOHN
RUSSELL intends to leave Vienna during the pre-
' sent week, and is expected in England by the
27th or 28th instant, and it requires no great
degree of prescience to declare that M. DRouYN
DE I: HUTS will not long remain behind
his colleague. It is well that the mock-
ery should be brought to a conclusion
on any terms, even though it should be the open
hostility in place of the pretended friendship of
Austria. Had there been any doubt as ti her
previous intentions it might have been set at rest
by the scarcely doubtful conduct of King LEOPOLD,
who must have been perfectly au fait with respect
to the manoeuvres of the Cabinet of Vienna, and
who has unhesitatingly joined in the confederacy
of " Germanism" against the Western Powers.

But we have other intelligence of no ordinary
importance. It appears that at the very time
when the French and English diplomatists are
retiring in disgust from the Austrian capital, the
only real "'peace-makers" are resuming their ope-
rations. On the 9th instant the Allies opened
fire from all their batteries on Sebastopol, and the
bombardment continued with much success. Con-
siderable damage had already been inflicted on the
devoted town, and it was stated on good authority
that a breach had already been effected. Should
matters proceed favourably there it is by no
means impossible that we may witness another
wheel by the versatile FRANCIS JOSEPH, and that
he may once again, when his assistance is not
required, be willing to prove himself the faithful
friend of the Western Powers, prepared "to go
the entire animal" against the losing side. Even
English diplomatists, albeit proverbially short-
sighted, are not quite so purblind as to be again
deceived. The scales must at length have fallen
from their sight, and we may expect to witness
the consequences of their improved vision in the
more vigorous and energetic waging of the War,
and the absolute eschewal of the deceptive coun-
sels of Austria, which will henceforward be placed
in the same category with Prussia, having by its
own misconduct forfeited the position which it
once occupied.

Vacillation and instability of purpose appear
to be the chief charaCteristics of the new Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. He has already shif ed
his ground on almost every point on which he had
assumed a position, and should he continue to
display similar shifting propensities, his first an-
nouncement on any topic will only be useful as
showing that a totally different arrangement will
ultimately be adopted. Alzeady we have seen
the result of this " J'im-Crow" disposition in the
treatment of the loan. There was a p.)mpous
semi-official declaration that the Government
plans had been so fully matured that no deviation
would be sanctioned. The capitalists were sum-
moned merely to hoar the views and intentions of
the Financial Minister, not to discuss the condi!.

tions of the Loan, which were as fixed as " the laws
of the Medes and Persians." One cf the earliest
and most important questions mooted related to
the competition with respect to the biddings. It
might easily have been discerned that the success
of the operation depended on the amount of that
competition. To the first inquiry Sir G. C.
LEWIS very properly stated that although the
Government would, of course give a prefer-
ence to those biddings which were for the
entire amount, it was not proposed to exclude
those which were only for a portion. This
was a sound and judicious decision, by which he
should firmly have abided, but he yielded to the
first murmur—we can scarcely term it remon-
strance. It was said that the competition of the
smaller bidders would be inconvenient to the
leviathans, who might feel disposed to tender for
the whole. The consistent Minister of Finance,
after a brief consultation with his "fides Achates"
—Mr. JAMES WILSON and the Pi emier—an noun cod
that "Government thought it better to accept only
such tenders as should be for the entire amount." The
consequence is that the matter is left solely in
the hands of Mr. RoTsucunn and Co. No other
lists are in course of formation, and Sir. G. C.
LEWIS must either submit to such conditions as
those capitalists may think fit to offer, at a ruinous
loss to the country, or bear the disgrace of an
unqualified failure.

Until an invention that costs money is about
dead sure to answer its purpose better than any-
thing else at the price there is little chance of
its general adoption in this country, and, judging
it by this test, the superiority of screw over every
1 other mode of propulsion is sufficiently established
to call for no other proof. Not only is it used
in our
_commercial marine, where the increased
room for stowage it affords, and other advantages
over the paidle are bringing it into play where
steam propulsion was never employed before, but
also in the Royal Navy. In this department it has
effected a surprising revolution. Huge ships that,
in the time of NELSON and COLLINGWOOD, could
only take their departure with a favourable breeze,
and might in some stirring but luckless mo-
ment lie becalmed and log-like on the water, or
be driven by the tempest irresistibly onward
towards a lee shore and inevitable destruction,
may now, thanks to the agency of the screw, be
depended on almost at any time and under any
circumstances, to set at comparative defiance
adverse winds, calm, and storm. Those of the
general public who witnessed the mighty fleet
that left Spithead the other day and steered in
majestic grace, but with fate-like speed for the
Baltic, must be especially able, next to men of
science, to appreciate the immense value and im-
portance of the screw.

While, however, this mode of propulsion is
deservedly the admiration, to a greater or less
extent, of millions, it might not unaptly be asked
—How many hundreds are acquainted with the
name of the inventor, or ever felt any degree of
gratitude to one who deserves to take rank in a
high class of public benefactors ? To such ques-
tions we are afraid the answers must be far from
satisfactory. It remains, then, for us to state,
that, to all intents and purposes, Mr. PETTIT
SMITH is the practical inventor of the screw.
Others may possibly lay claim to pi iority of inven-
tion, but he it was who, in the Archimedes in
1839 and 1840, first developed this great im-
provement in the means of maritime enterprise.
To the genius of Mr. SMITH, who has spent the
best years of his life in establishing the merits of
the screw, the vast accession it has contributed to
our naval strength at the present time is mainly
owing. And how has lie been rewarded ? The
reader will hardly fail to guess with tolerable ac-
curacy. He who has deserved so well at home,
has had his most tangible reward fiom abroad.
To the French Government Mr. SMITH is in-
debted for a signal recognition of his merits and
a token of approval. That is all. From the
Government of his own country he has received
no reward whatever, at all events of a substantial
nature.

Say what we will in extenuation, the syste-
matic neglect experienced by our national benefac-
tors is dishonourable to us as a people, and espe-
cially so to our rulers. If they were properly lo.ked
after merit would not be nnlected as it is ;
for more instinctive and cold-blooded enemies to
sterling merit than our aristocratic Governments
do not exist. Had the public done their duty,
it would be out of the power of any one to say,
with truth, as we now do, that, while thousands
are annually wasted on wortlile3s objects, and
high-born imbeciles iu office are suffered to draw
on the public pure for services which should
earn them a whipping, the man who, by his
genius, contributes to the security and stability of

the empire, is suffered to go penniless and unre-
warded. It certainly is high tiwe this sort of
thing was over : until it is we must continue to
do as we mean in this instance, viz., recommend
to public gratitude the man whose merits are too
great to meet with governmental patronage.
Already we are happy to be enabled to state that
an influential committee has been formed, and
liberal subscriptions have been received, in order
to present Mr. Smith with a testimonial in some
measure worthy of his deserts, and of his fellow-
countrymen's sense of them. The subscription
list still remains open, but we trust no long time
will be suffered to elapse before it is closed in a
satisfactory manner. Let it be shown that the
people are not wanting in gratitude, a feeling of
which their rulers are so evidently incapable.

Nor is this the only matter in which he has
given evidence of his want of firmness. In the
Newspaper Stamp Bill which, in place of
being for the liberation of the Press, may
now be more fitly described as one for
the imposition of pains and penalties on
journalistS, he first declared that there was no in-
tention to alter the laws relating to copyright, as.
the existing enactments were quite sufficient to
afford all requisite protection for original matter.
Now, however, he has completely altered his
views, and has brought forward resolutions which,
if sanctioned, must lead to perpetual litigation.
Unfortunate newspaper proprietors are to be de-
prived of the trial by jury, and consigned to the
tender mercies of a Stipendiary Magistrate,
or of two Justices, who have jurisdiction where
ha resides, and who may convict him in any
penalty not less than 51., and not exceeding 301.,
and issue distress or warrant for the sale of his
goods and chattels. It is needless to expatiate
on the vexatious character of such proceedings—
or enter into any arguments to prove how greatly
they must impair the efficiency of the Press, or
to have been the object of the
tend to consolidate the monopoly—which
lat
lain
Chancellor
seemsncellor
of the Exchequer, and his successor, who
has been pitch-forked in to the situation
for Which he is .so totally disqualified, to
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THE_SUN, LONDON, W-ED-N,ESDAY- EVENING, APRIL 18 1855.

LATEST NEWS.

came to the conference in a chaise drawn by two
horses.

Major-General Scarlett has left the command of
the cavalry to return to England on urgent private
affairs.

A fire broke out yesterday in the Engineers'
yard, at Balaklava, but did but little harm. It
would have caused some mischief had it got the
length of some powder used for exploring rocks.
The cause of the fire on board the Favorita, in
harbour, the other day, has been traced to two
Greeks, who were stealing spirits from the hold.
The bag for England does not close till 10 a.m.
daily now, therefore I shall write a few words in
the morning.
The following General Order has arrived here :
"Horse Guards, March 15, 1855.
"Her Majesty has been pleased to command that the
practice which prevailed in former wars of withholding
promotion from officers taken prisoners of war shall be dis-
continued as regards the subaltern officers of the army;
and, as regards officers of the rank of captain who, if
not made prisoners, would, by their regimental standing,
succeed to the rank of major, or if majors would succeed
to lieutenant-coloneleies—that the loss of promotion,
consequent upon being captured by the enemy, should
subsequently be made up to them, after their exchange
r release, so far as may be pracfcable, by their being
advanced to the substantive rank which they would
have attained had they not been taken prisoner—and
by the antedate of their commissions.

" Her Majesty has further been pleased to command,
with a view to prevent any officer who may have been
taken prisoner by his own neglect, or any other unofficer-
like conduct, obtaining any of the advantages above
enumerated, that the following regulation shall. be esta-
blished :

" Whenever an officer shall have been made a prisoner
of war, a court of inquiry shall as soon as possible
be assembled, by order of the general officer command-
ing the forces, to investigate the circumstances under
which he became a prisoner, and— having sifted
the facts as far as may be in their power—to make
a. report thereon, whether his capture is to be attri-
buted to the chance of war to which he was exposed,
or whether it may have occurred from any unofficer like
conduct on his part, and that the following declaration
be made by the president and members of the court of
inquiry previously to commencing the proceedings :
" A. 8., do declare upon my honour, that I will duly
and impartially inquire into and give my opinio❑ as to
the circumstances under which Captain C. D. became a
prisoner of war, according to the true spirit and meaning
of her Majesty's orders and regulations on this head ; and
I further declare, upon my honour, that I will not on any
account, or at any time, disclose or discover my own vote or
opinion, or that of any particular member of the board,
unless required to do so by competent authority."
"The proceedings of the court are to be transmitted
by the general officer in command of the forces to the
General Commanding-in-Chief.—By command of the
Right Honourable

"General Vi count HARDING;
Commanding-in-Chief.
"G. A. WETHERALL,
Adjutant-General."
APRTL 3, Nine a.m.
A great deal of firing was carried ()Oast night on
both sides ; at intervals the French fired volleys
from their small arms during the night, which were
supposed to be at the Russian riflemen in their
front. Shells were freely exchanged between the
contending parties. I have heard of no casualty.
The batteries, I am thinking, will open sometime
to-morrow. To-night the electric wires are to he
carried clown to our lines, and they are to be
finished fit for work by daylight to-morrow. This
seems likely for an opening.
It is a lovely morning, a little cold, but nothing
worth mentioning, only seasonable.

P.S.—General danrObart was at head-quarters
late last night.

As there have been many conflicting statements
respecting the strength of the army I have pro-
cured the following returns, which, on a certain
day now past, were accurate, and which show the
strength of the British army last month according
to the ration returns :

The Light Division, Lieutenant-General Sir
6 Georo'e Brown.-7th Fusiliers, 609 ; 23d Folt,
574 ; 19th Foot, 450 ; 23d Pegiment, 321 ; 34th
Regiment, 809; 77th Foot, 650 ; 88th Foot, 781;
90th Foot, 537 ; one wing 2cl Battalion Rifle Br-
gade, 735 ; total effective and non-effective, 5,466 ;
non-effective, 1,000 men ; for duty, 3,800 men.
First Division, Sir Colin Campbell.—Grenadier
Guards, 1,096 ; Coldstream Guards, 820 ; SCots
Fusiliers, 815 ; 42d Highlanders, 666; 71st High-
land Light Infantry, 878 ; 79th Regiment, 690 ;
93d Regiment, 732 ; totals 4,697 ; non-effective,
1,209 for duty, 3,500 men.

The Naval Brigade, 1,000 men for duty.
The Marines, 600 men for duty.

Second Division, Major-General Pennefatber.-
30th Foot, 499 ; 55th Foot, 687 ; 62d Foot, 453 ;
95th Foot, 309—total, First Brigade, 1,948. 41st
Foot, 686 ; 47th Foot, 631 ; 49th Foot, 689—total,
Second Brigade, 2,066. Artillery, H and B bat-
.eries (Turner and Pennycuik's), 300. Total ra-
tion strength of division, 4,254. Nnumber of sick
in hospital about 650, leaving available, say 3,600
men, of whom at least 800 are required for camp
duties, for Commissariat dutes for hospital and
orderly duties, as storekeepers, batmen, storemen,
servants,

Third Division.-Ist Royals, 586; 4th Foot, 504;
9th Foot, 409 ; 14th Foot, 730 ; 18th Foot, 848 ;
28th Foot, 490 ; 38th Foot, 673 ; 39th Foot, 717;
44th Foot, 562 ; 50th Foot, 321; 89th Foot, 576;
total, 6,416 ; strength for duty, 3,500 men.
Fourth Division, General Sir John Campbell.-
17th Regiment, 829 ; 20th Foot, 411 ; 21st Foot,
607 ; 46th Foot, 324; 57th Foot, 607 ; 68th Foot,
407 ; Rifle Brigade, Ist bat., 550 ; Artillery, 156 ;
Ambulance, 101; Commissariat, 128; total, 4,120;
strength for duty, 3,000.
Cavalry Division.-600 men.
Total strength, 22,600 men. Of these about
6,000 would only be available in extremis, and the
ordinary strength of the whole army in bayonets
would not exceed 15,000 men. .

The officer was carried away by his horse among
the Bashi- bazouks, and was shot down by one of
them. As soon as he fell another gave him a lance
thrust, and a third a sabre cut over his neck. In
another minute he was without boots, but it would
have been well if this had been all ; but no, while
the melee was still at its height one of the Bashi-
bazouks quietly alighted from his horse at about
15 or 20 yards from the Russians, fired his pistol
into a truss of hay whi,lth was close to the fallen
officer, and covered the body of the latter
with the burning hay. Omer Pacha, as soon as he
heard of this case, ordered an inquiry to 'be made
to find out the author of this ferocious deed, who
will certainly not escape the severest punishment.
Except this case of barbarous cruelty the Bashi-
bazouks as irregular cavalry behaved exceedingly
well. What the regulars have several times tried
without success, because they were badly corn-
mended, a handful of irregulars have done ; and
they had the best irregular cavalry of the Rus-
sians, the Cossacks of the Don, opposed to them.
The great thing is not to attempt to employ Bashi-
bazouks as regulars, but to let them fight in their
own way, to which they hare been accustomed
during their whole life. In foraging, for surprises,
or coups de main they are invaluabl. •
This small affair has incredibly raised the spirit
of the Turkish cavalry, which had been rather de-
pressed by the repeated checks which they had ex-
perienced in their former reconnaissances. The
entry of the Eashi-bazouks into the town was quite
a triumph, Turks and Tartars hailing them with
" Ay Wallahs" and " Mash Allalis," and throng-
ing to see them. Two persons who had got hold of
a cow were the principal points of attraction.
Their return in the lovely spring evening, their
picturesque costumes, the excitement of the popula-
tion, the sound of their war drums, intermixed
with the shouting and singing, formed one of the
most interesting scenes imaginable.
Hew completely successful this little affair was
as a coup de main, you may imagine from the fact
that in several or the copper kettles which had been
left by the Cossacks the Bashi-bazouks found the
soup just ready cooked ; but they cared more about
the kettles than about the soup.

FRANCE.
(FROM OCTR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARTS, TUESDAY EVENING.
Yelp Paella left Paris yesterday for Bruisels to
present to the King of the Belgians his letters of
recal—he being accredited to the Court of Bel-
gium as well as that of France. He is to return
to Paris to-morrow, and will shortly after proceed
to Marseilles to embark for Turkey.
The following letter from Kainiesh Bay, in the
Sentinelle of Toulon, although dated as far back as
the 30th ult., is not without interest :
" A rather strange adventure has occurred outside
Sebastopol. A young Russian woman was for some
days seen walking about the Russian trenches—and
sometimes at night also, with a lantern. It was thought,
as she was very tall, and of majestic appearance, that
she was a man in disguise, and the geoe,al-in-chiet or
dered that she should be carefully watched. At six
o'clock in the morning of the 28th, she again appeared
opposite our lines, and examined them with great
attention ; she carried a note-book and pencil in her
hand, and seemed to inscribe in it the result of her
observations. Finding, after a while, that she was per-
ceived, she hurried towards a species of ravine at the
extremity of the French trenches. Two Z 'naves were
sent in pursuit of her, and succeeded in capturing her.
Being found to be really a woman, she was taken before
General Canrobert, and questioned. She said that she
had made observations of the French positions for the
good of h=r country, and to avenge the death of ha.
husband, Boninoff ny name, who was killed at the battle
of the Alma. I3.er note-book WaS found to contain
several details relative to the situation of our batteries,
and the number of guns in them ; she had also in her
pockets a double-barrelled pistol, and a letter addressed
to Prince Menschikoff. She was placed in confinement,
under the surveillance of two sentinels, and it has been
determined that she shall be sent to Malta."
The same letter says :

expected to join the contingent. Me cloy
tion of whether Danish troops s
way be Made amenable to a resolution 01;00t
German Lund having been for a long, tilue aj, be
.point, the outfit of these troops is very rctab.bited
laind-hand, but great diligence is being 611 1 told
ammuninstein
now in the purchase of arms,
accoutrements. The command of the l!oese'
bout& ill,
,b,
contingent tingent will be entrusted to Lieu
ir.o von Krogh, and as, in case of a feders'',ll.
nation, it
_would, on this occasion, fall to To
mark's turn to appoint the c( naraander of to
armee corps, in all probability he svotd o'ooooo
into the command of the whole corps of 7 '
tenawc.,,,obi.
men. .
The Thetis frigate, of 36 guns, rf
that our Goo or
tliment changed away to thePrussianGOVefllo.4
Z.'. two aviso steamers, Nix and Salaraanderrn'larria tsiei
at Elsinore on the 6ch, on her way to Al 460
liwhere she will take in her full complement °son
navy are
ands. All persons connected with the Pr,ll.tios,
acquisino
highly delighted with this
and describe her as exquisitely built, 'learnt, the
and handed over with full equipment!' in bet
very reverse of what Sir J. Graham descw
to be in the house last summer.

SPAIN. 4
The Madrid journals of•the 12th have arri the
The agitation which had prevailed durittO
few days previous' had entirely et'a'ed lace
way of precaution, the guard of the Oct sos,
the Cortes was considerably increased. r 106
reported that the Minister of the Intemfociir
reigned, and that the Minister ofdUSti
tended to follow his example.

"In the intervals between the sorties of the enemy
the soldiers amuse themselves in the trenches in playing
pitch and toss, or cards, or bowls—the Russian balls
serving as the bowls. Sometimes, too, to try the skill
of the Russian riflemen, who are in ambuscade at 50 or
60 yards from t,ein, they raise a bottle or a cap on the
top of a parapet, and when the man hits it, which he
almost always doeS, they hoist up a canteen to signffy
that he deserves a drink for having fired so well. Four
days agl eight of the soldiers were playing at loto in the
trenches, and ail at once a shell fell in the midst of theta.
Qui vine?' cried one, with a laugh ; and the moment
after it. was ascertained that of their party one wag
killed and six wounded. The other evening a sen-
tinel who was peeping through a hole in the para-
pet, cried, Here are the Russians coining !' Are they
far off asked the others. Not very r answered the
sentinel. ..Well I when they are quite clame, tell us !
was the answer—and the men remained quietly seated.
Presently the sertMel cried, 'Here they are 1' On which
each man seized his musket, and after firing a volley
over the parapet, proceeded co att tek the Russians with
the bayonets—and iu a few seconds routed them."

MONTENEGRO. fto°
The Austrian Gazette of Vienna et3'—rriteg
Montenegro, under date of the 30th ult., that to St.
Daniel° has sent his secretary, Mecink°l7lc-a;0014
Petersburg, to present his homage to the ,t,orr
Alexander, and to endeavour to obtain the iv;,l hie)
tion of the pension of 8,000 scudi (80,00(41.'i 0 eci
the Emperor Nicholas had suppressed, on
count of the prince not having aided hie ri tb
with sufficient activity. On the other han'rsoo
Gazette declares that Danielo had also sent'tlooPld
named Provic on a secret mission to CoPstfito be
—the object of winch is, it says, supP2se" toe
offer to the Porte the protectorate of Awn' otiers'
on condition that it will restore its ancient frecilrgetl
The Gazette adds, that this person is ale.°
to prevent Montenegrin sultjects from 01'8 ,0 iell°
English service, and to send home all of th 7 •
may be without work at Constantino-Pie' •

PIEDMONT. Ats stir
It appears from the report on the ConTe-watet
pressiou Bill, presented to the PiedinontessAhiir
that 174 petitions, with an aggregate ef 12/f
natures, have heen presented in fav°ll:an. of
measure, and 615 against it, with 68,697
including 6,071 names of members of th-
and regular clergy. listl"
The generals of the religious orders aijefteal..l6
in Piedmont have addressed a letter, date-4. tor
31st ult., to the archbishops and bishops .:',OOO
kingdom, congratulating them on the rea.s
they have made to the Convents suppreesl°'tb ess
DOW before the Senate at Turin, and thanii, th.
for the protection they have thus gran ieu :
establishments menaced with destruction.. dip%
document is signed by nineteen generals'inclea°
the Bishop of Porphyra, general of the
monks.

BOURSE, APRIL 17.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. Ervi ~f .I,iouth.
4i per Cents 93 50 93f. 75..
3 per Cents 63 75 68f. 80e.
Credit Mobilier 7BO Roman
Credit Fonder 538 50 Austrian
Belgian Fives ...... .. 94i Spanish Threes —
Piedmoutese B5 75 Home Debt 3oi
RAILWAYS-10R CASH:
I r. c. fr. c
Orleans ........ ll5O Lyons lOBO
Western ... 650 Rouen
Cette 617 50 Strasburg .
Mediterranean 965 Havre 555
Northern

The Danube of Vienna, of the 12th, says fro-s
Drouyn de l'Huys has to-day received lette
col
Paris instructing him to hasten as inuell.,anstrto Orr
the proceedings of the Conference, and m-#10; it
rate any longer the delays contrived by "I,oP-
sians. Lord J. Russell has received ir°lll
analogous instructions."

ao e
The Hanover Gazette sas e g"-- iit't),"A
ceived from a very reliable source the coilurfda
of the news that the United States, °yip's!' the
end of March, denOunced to Denmalk;eo
treaties existing between these two coutia.;4o/0.5
tive to the Sound dues, The moment (fl
B 7
well chosen, as it is probable that, if the s ale;
States determined to refuse further Parl"el24:ooP.
decision would not much disturb th.P c""".
time powers."

in the rtnt.
A letter from Genoa, of the 13th, depa
teur, says :—" The preparations for the erahfito
of the Sardinian troops continue. The.„ On al
lien of the artillery commenced yesterTibis ech.
11th, the steam-frigate Constituzionekee) dertor
having on board a part of the matbra. 'of the Di v.
meat of the engineers, the medical Sta' Cu'S'and
pita.l which is about to be established a'", stte-
tinople, the Sisters of Charity, who are wi CoOr
to it, and the military staff of the Genera
manding-in-Chief.'
ViS
The King of Sardinia has appointed Ca, Pair
Rizzardi, the Marquis of San Marzano, all poi',
tain Genova de Revel to be Sardinian C4' CJV
sinners accredited to Omer Paella, Genera'
nbert, and Lord Raglan respectively.

iernO
THE CAPE OF GOOD Ix-
03°

By the arrival on Monday, in the MerseY'reSt
screw steam-ship Antelope, Captain A. P. ffope
we have advices from the Cape of Good ,L4ly
Feb. 27, being one week later than prev'°'or",,
hand. The Antelope brought several pn, trav4
but no cargo. The Dazzler, schooner, sails; P. e;
Table Bay, Fob. 23, for B -Ifast. The scbs°ll3)oo4i
to the Patriotic Fund at Cape Town reach s' both
2,0001. The Cape Monitor says that 4g the re
sickness abating in the eastern, and i 8 n_Pt:ll eh,
in the western provinces. Probably "avir_
disappear, as did the lung
,sickness iretevi
horned cattle, which several well inforniewo 011,1
nary surgeons declare to be identical. el it
hope that the farmersof the western provinces t 9
escape the threatened visitation,
experience of former years they could o%.alitoo
The 'd stet
Town with horror and dismay."
TwtenJournal speaks very disco uraginglY, 2/1,01 PAO'
that the sickness in the western province(' hy.,61"1
abated in the least. The party deritemecl',4
inhabitants of Cape Town to visit the relnt
tier°
indications had returned, but the rssu
tbef
not known when the Antelope ailed t,.;nos
which bil;
was, however, every reason to expect --illiffiP" e
were satisfied that coal exists in quantities° 00 ti
to be worked with profit. The layers ari.ellasill of
lower level towards the north of the great ,ort -
the secondary formation of the eastern •L-
-. iev.
South Africa.
From Natal advices had been received .:64,
eli.igaTgehde smuttrijcehct
aotfteannexationtometraheorCi:civglisiiio
course of signature to Mr. Pine, requesti.olll,4cl:
not to throw up the reins of government., bridro e
tional plans, formation of roads, laying ch'd pti
and monthly markets, give au indicatinnLt *-
activity likely to produce a salutary em"-
the community at large.

PRUSSIA.
A. letter from Berlin of. the 14th inst., in the
Constitutiounel, says :
' "A copy of the new Russian instructions for Prince
Gortschakoff at Vienna has been forwarded to our
Government. Nothing has transpired as to their con.
tents, except that it is positive'y stated that Russia thies
not in any way accept the propositions of the Western
Powers on the third point. The general opinion that
peace will not issue from the conferences is thus fully
borne out. It is true that the King of Prussia has lately
made personal applications to the Eaiperor AleXander to
induce him to make concessions, and particularly to -in-
duce him to send Count de Nesselrode to Vienna as being
the surest means of arriving at conciliation. The Em-
peror Alexander would not accede to this request, pre-
cisely because no conciliation could be hoped tor, from
the opposition of principles which exists between Russia
and the Western Powers. It is probably these applies-
titfns which have delayed these last instructions of
Russia."

It is not clear what instructions are here alluded
to, as the telegraphic despatches received from
Vienna state that the Russian instructions had not
arrived in that city on the 14th; and were only ex-
pected yesterday, the 16th. It is scarcely probable
these instructions could have been communicated
to the Court of Berlin before the Russian Pleni-
potentiary at Vienna had been made acquainted
with them.
The _National gazette of Berlin, of the 13th,
is
says :—" M. de Bockelberg to take his departure
in a few days for Munich as ambassador of Prussia.
Councillor de Nesselrode, son of the Russian
Chancellor, yesterday paid his visit of adieu to the
president of the council. He is returning to St.
Peters!. urg from Stutgard, where he had , been
charged to notify officially the accession of the
present Emperor of Russia. Several petitions
were some time back addressed to the Second
Chaniber here in favour of the re-establishment of
the hastinado. Both the committee appointed to
examine these petitions and the Goveinment are
opposed to the prayer contained in them, and do
A. ri°"- o'
not think that the punishment ought to be inflicted PORTSMOUTH, Wednesday 111orning.----4.ri CO
in any case whatever. It is probable that it is in Majesty's shins Neptune, Ca:cutta, Power° '1
0'
that sense that the question will be decided." . Cruiser, and Driver, from Dover roads.
bei derolo .jo,
-- We regret exceeding:y to have to record td,tinguy
THE BALTIC FLEET. Lieutenant-Colonel Nottage, an old and • the
offic,who for many years held local rank IP itl
The latest news we have here (Berlin, April 15.)
Ind ers
ie.
torilel,
of thu movements of the advanced squadron of the Captain Wright, Foreign-office messenger, Gicite
,411
fleet is, that the screw frigates Imperteuse, 51, Capt. town late last night, with despatches from ttl.eed At of
'Keheadreu"aus Pnr.
Watson, and Euryalus, 51, Capt. Ramsay, entered Yesterday, the Earl of Munster was inarr,l% Oegi/3„04
Kiel harbour at 11 o'clock on the morning of the 13th
Erskine, eldest daughter of the late Hon. Ji_llert.aliejsts
Saint's, Knightsbridge, to Miss Wilhelmino. jell'i3Ote
inst., and came to anchor there. Several cargoes of
coals fur our steamers have already arrived, and
bridegroom bring bmehill'gliegernatn
Erskine and Lat.ly Augusta Gordon HAY° .. of tuk;fot
lalita'dn
others are expected at that port. One of two Ktilienghrlidvei
nneCIY VI 00
colliers, that arrived at the mouth of the harbour
Lad I'' 7 "SV'
On the 9th inst., contrived to get through the secondried and youngest
.daughter of
welyss, 0.• 00
floating ice as far in as the dilapidated fort of Fried- Ca.tle, son of thseaul'astetAlmdemti‘rial Wrernyss. „ et 11011
richsort, and cast anchor there ; the other was ACCIDENT TO EARL GRANVILLE,—Last -,1be'.1,-0'
compelled to put about and regain the open road. Earl Granville was driving in his cab, froni„„zoie% to,
The interior portion of the harbour had been open of Lords to the Great Western RailwaY ._'' 0, vi:lo 0
for some days, owing to the influx of the Swentinc Paddington, on his way to Windsor Castletciliepr 0
and various laud springs, but till within a very few her Majesty, to dine with the Emperor and it
days the w hold space between Bellvueand the mouth .the French, he met with an accident. whiciii. Dad °reef,
of the harbour was covered with firm ice. Up to the utiatten,;ed by serious results. The noble for
10th there were a number of Kiel vessels detained silent of the Council it appears was pres'hio h '.ool'
d 0,01 fti
and being anxious to catch the train urge
at Corsoer, waiting for the ice to break up suffici- . r the t, ,k a pace so rapid that he lost all conlrol over „ pre b ently for them to proceed home through the
which at length carried the ca • .st a lamerw rd allot
southern portion of the (heat Belt. The boldness the collieio Earlil Glanville alinadgahlis groom t.;solh-00
of our navigators and the strength of our vessels, thrown out of ttie cab; the I,rse a 1411-51:4,1;,-;b0 Porto
as evidenced in their early arrival in those waters, cknnineneing to kick furious] braking b''' but 10°
and successful progress through floes and sheets of off' short. Earl Granville was much shake", If ° big
t; Merl _A
ice, cause great admiration in those parts. tiat,:ly not seriously hurt. Ile availed 1'
roan ,r
Two Danish steamers that were announced to ar- brougham of a frend then The
and
univi
rivo at Kiel on the same day (Friday) were ordered route to the railway terminus. The horsel"1".
..,/,,ioi
to return only to Corsoer for the present, the trip but the vehicle way greatly damaged.
__The ''' pool',
to Copenhagen not being considered feasible yet. WRECK OF THE SHIP FLYING CHILDERS. jo sa .-.cig 0
71,1 i 0, 1 el'boe
The Danish Government, in compliance with the ChiAers was blown ashore at Munte-N _ tota
German Federal resolution of Kriegsbereitschaft, Pero, on the 34 of February, and became
rao_.,h her
.
has summoned its federal contingent, in virtue of crew saved. The ship, having rocks th ub
,00,01:;
Holstein'and Lauenburg, to come together on the tom, has been sold with her cargo.
Togs 01 91005
15th of April. This body of troops will consist , LECTURES ON THE
Rev.PYRAMIDS AND 1:111 yelvere4.,a,, ;011;0
of the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th battalions of in. i
o—nLai t e viet.aeientg
itnh Cii; DCirtin-WeliilSochool, Che,),B:j.• die"
Pantry of the line. and the sth corps of ritleinen. ' of thet- sfusun:lis of the Chelsea Pti.authropie Soc: 00 r
The 2d regiment of dragoons and a battery f
0.. ' call Mr. Robertson presided. The audiency
artillery, at present stationed at Holstein, are i cipy composed of ladies.