The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-19 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1855.

We yesterday announced the very stringers;
measure adopted by the Bank of England in thi,
increase of the miniinunt rate of discount to six
per cent. for bills not having more than GO day-
to run, and to seven per cent. (t) for bills not ex-
ceeding Or, days t This is indeed a heavy blov
and great discouragement to the trade and com-
merce of the country—one that may make ever,
person engaged in any description of business
which credit is indispensable, tremble in anticip.
tion of the trials and hardships ho may have t(
encounter. To many it conveys the sad tidings
of bankruptcy and utter ruin—to all, except th(
members of the moneyocracy, who extract unholy
profits from the sweat and labour of over-toiled
operatives and the difficulties of struggling trades-
men, the certain anticipation of vexation and loss.
It also shows that the Directors of the quasi
National Bank anticipate a further heavy drair,
on their resources, and that they may be com-
pelled to adopt still more onerous rates to protect
themselves from the very formidable consequences
that may ensue, if the severe restrictions of the
Bank Charter Act be steadily enforced. Were it
otherwise, we should not have had such rapid ad -
vancseata time when there is no undue speculation
in existence, and when our internal trade is univer-
sally admitted to be in a particularly healthy
and sound condition. We are told by the
great organ of the bullionists that even
at this moment the total absence of commercial
distrust is as marked as ever." A significant and
valuable admission, inasmuch as it completely
eliminates from the great financial problem tht.
enormous quantity of twaddle with which it was
unduly encumbered on previous occasions, and
places the burden in the right direction, showing
that it has arisen exclusively from the mischievous
operation of the so-called self-acting regulator of
the currency—the infamous and impplitie Bank
Charter Act of 1844. Fortunately, that
d
in-
equitable law is rapidly drawing to a conclusion.
It will exPiec
in the course of the ensuing
•
year, and it is of vital consequence
that it should never be renewed, but that a more
salutary monetary code should be substituted for
that, which has occasioned such fearful damage to
the welfare and prosperity of the nation during
its existence. .

AtAthe very commencement of hostilities we
pointed out the pressing necessity of adopting
timely measures to arrest the drain of bullion,
which it required no extraordinary power of va -
ticination to predict. When all other nation -4
were encouraged to provide themselves with au
ample provision of the-most important " sinew of
war" at our expense--when even Russia itself
could make afrangements for supplying its greatest
want from our stores—it was perfectly clear that
every blot which our absurd legislation left exposed
would be hit ! A very ordinary degree of calcu-
lation would establish not merely the probability,
but the absolute certainty of this result. We are
already reaping thefruits of the unparalleled apathy
and in.souciance. of our Financial Minister. But there
is yet time to prevent the complete development of
danger, to arrest the progressof
the impending
the road to ruin.'
the State machine on . Let us
pause in the mad carper,
ere it be too late.
We have already been seriously., but not fatally,
hurt. :In another month the injury may be irre-
trievable, 'an terl
dwe may have cause bit yto de=
plore-thO infatuation that induced us to perse-
vere. reek
'"ali in the desperate experiment.
The great evil to tE, guarded against is the in-
cessant and rapid drain of bullion from our ports.
Can , this be arrested • crippling l' our do-
hout cri
"nestle trade? And if ' in.
ao Low, or whatmannei .
,
This is the great, the allii
mportant problem • but,
fortunately, it requires'
no i:Eotru'S"to discover a
satisfactory solution! The cause of the difficulty
is patent to the '''World, and b. removing that
cause the pernicious effects. will.al3ocease: Let
a, suitable circulating raectium) adevutte to the

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wai ats and exigencies of the country, be supplied,
and: a considerable portion of the forty millions of
so- rereigns, now in daily use, will be liberated to
IT Leet the national wants. Thirty years since—
i n December, 1825—the Bank of England was
saved from stopping payment by the accidental
discovery of a box of one-pound notes. At the
moment it had but little more than a single mil-
lion of gold in its coffers. They were at once
sent into circulation, and the delight—for no
lighter term will express the feeling—with which
they were received, proved that the want of a
secure small-note currency was alone required.
The one-pound notes saved the country, and within
a single week the peril bad passed away.
Why should not a similar result follow a similar
operation in the present instance ? No adequate
reason can be assigned, and it is an imperative
duty on the Government to adopt the necessary
steps without a moment's delay.
We cannot conclude without earnestly inviting
public attention to the communication of a well-
known and highly-respected correspondent, Mr.
HAMER STANSFELD, to whose excellent sugges-
tions we have repeatedly adverted. The pe-
tition which he has prepared is one that
should be numerously signed, to show that
those most interested are sensible of the
magnitude of the emergency, and aware of the na-
ture of the remedy so urgently demanded. It
will strengthen the hands of the Government,
and enable it to follow the precedent so success-
fully adopted in October, 1848, by the suspension
of the Bank Charter—the teterrima cause mali—
the primary cause of all the mischief that has
arisen.

It is marvellous, after all, to notice the growth
of public opinion. Labouring, as we poor jour-
nalists are, to form it, in the midst of our ceaseless
toil, and appearing to make almost no progress com-
pared with the amount of effort, we are occasion;
ally liable to overlook the advance really gained.
Our readers, no doubt, generally gave a glance
at least, yesterday, at what so notable an ex-
Minister as Mr. GLADSTONE would say on the
great subject of our colonies. His remarks, in
one sense, were not distinguished by any peculiar
novelty ; the speech itself was, in fact, an extem-
pore one, delivered at the request of mechanics,
and intended not only to instruct the middle and
working classes, but also to gain shillings and
sixpences in the form of admittance fees, for the
benefit of a village literary institution. The elite
of the neighbourhood, we are informed, attended
in crowds, and, therefore, we may hope that
sovereigns and notes were almost as numerous as
the shillings, and that the treasury of the insti-
tution was as much enriched as the minds of the
elite and non-elite who were present.
To many, we imagine, Mr. GLADSTONE was
himself as instructive a lesson as his oratory,
and even more so. They well knew all he could
tell them off-hand about the colonies, but to
think of him, a good fair-going Tory, telling
them such things ! They listened to him de-
•cribing our colonial policy of 80 years ago,
pointing out as antiquated, as needing but men-
tion to be their own refutation, the dicta which
swayed the minds of our grandfathers, obstructed
the perceptions of our own fathers, and left us
much obstinacy to overcome ; describing also the
indignation of this country at the colonies' denial
of our right to tax them while unrepresented, and
the style in which true Liberals were denounced
as Jacobins and traitors if they agreed with the
colonists. It doubtless occurred to many of his
audience while listening to all this, that the ad-
vance during the last 80 years must have been
great indeed. Here was no Reformer, no Radi-
cal, but a veritable Conservative portraying for
.amusement the exploded errors of his own party.
Describing what he would surely have done and
4:4id had his life been cast on those days, and then
Mowing how much wiser even Tories had now
become, no ono could with more appropriate-
ness, have quoted the motto—

" Teinpora. mutantnr, et nos,
Mutamnr in illis."

If Mr. GLADSTONE has thus advanced upon the
Toryism of 80 years back, what ought to be, and
what must be, the position of a Sir W. MOLES-

WORTH ?

Mr. GLADSTONE'S remarks were necessarily free
from Blue-bookism, and entirely elucidatory of
general principles, and we really do not know that
we could find fault with any of them. Except
from his known hankering to give the Episcopal
Church in the Colonies the privileges of Volun-
taryism and State Churchism together, which Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON and Mr. WALPOLE will never
let him do, he seems to be quite a safe successor
to Sir W. INIOLESWORTH, whenever one of the ebb-
ings of party may carry the Hon. Baronet back to
Opposition Benches. Uncharitable folk may even
surmise that he is informing all whom it concerns,
that if Conservatives of all grades will coalesce as
a Peace Party, he can cheerfully take the Colo-
nies, if the Great Hebrew insists on having the
Chancellorship of the Exchequer. Which of our
Colonies would repudiate a Minister who touches on
all old Tory notions of Colonies but to refute them?
We once thought Colonies were to be held for the
profit or revenue they yielded to the parent State,
er that as adding to the extent of our dominion
they might increase its magnificence and influ-
ence ;—or, that we might render all their fine
fisheries, farms, mills, &c., conducive to our own
plitrposes ;—or, that they might furnish snug
berths and offices for our needy respeotables, for
1 whom the Treasury Benches could not find room
at home ; or, that they might afford facilities
for propagating the Gospel;--or, because if
striPls4l of her Colonies, England must in-
evitably fall ;---all these things Mr. GLADSTONE
mentions but to fling them to the winds •
most of them he hardly deigns to honour with a'
rehtation. He would have England estimated
only for what she is really worth ; he thinks colo-
nial men best qualified for colonial offices. Emi-
grants now leave to improve their fortunes, not
to spread azistianity, or qven,„as in the days of
tile STUARTS, to enjoy liberty of conscience ; and
fOr her greatness and glory, England must rely not
gteonnce, the p
eirnsdeuvsetrrayn,e, p
a.
of her
own
extse:ssivo
tiiotism, and virtue.
thcoeliorniienst'ebllui
Mr. GLADSTONE seems quite prepared to treat
tile wish of any colony for independence as a per-
febe but a reasonable,atly harmless, it may
tiling. He even adduced the ancient Greek cola
Ideation, in which the colony was politically
entirely independent, retaining only a friendly re-
lation to the mother city, as the best mode of
41onisation! At the same time he illustrated,
it seems very fully, the benefits of emigration in
raising the pried of laboui at home, and Creating
arkets for the manufacturer abroad ; thus corn-
, , ending colonisation as the enricher of all. A
collection sermon,, in such a
, I .style, could hardly
fail to elicit hearty cheers ; atle h
out-an d-ou t
liberality, in this department,-::such
demonstra-
tions of advantage,toall from what is going on
jcist now at such a hitherto unpar'alleled rate,
must have been gratifying to any audience. But,
to come from Mr. GLADSTONE—from the great
orator of the House of Commons--and from him
standing not on the floor of " the Rouse," but
eitting behind the table of a country Schoolroom,

—really, the Liberalism, and the condescension
together, will enrapture more than the villagers
of Hawarden.

In one respect Mr. GLADSTONE surpassed his
present associates. As a member of the peace
Party he kept the peace. He let Russia and
her chastisers equally alone. The War, the
CZAR, and PALMERSTON were all forgotten, at
least practically ; he preached peace by confining
himself to what none could quarrel with, and by
keeping aloof from foreign or party politics alto-
gether. At the present time, when every speaker
who varies the monotony of the recess—from the
Premier to W. 8.--seems unable to refrain from
adverting to the all-absorbing topic—when Mr.
BRIGHT must denounce the Press, because its
writers no longer starve in back garrets, but even
venture to be in the majority against him, of
course from mercenary motives, since, like him-
self, they abjure starving,—Mr. GLADSTONE alone
seems quite content to talk for an hour or two,
and to leave the War to Lord PALMERSTON and
the country. Would that he had always been as
discreet ! His language then would not have en-
couraged Russia, and discouraged the army. His
speech at Hawarden will not be translated in ex-
tenso for the Invalide Russe ; in two respects it
would be a mortification to Russia. It would
show her a country overfilled with energetic in-
habitants, in contrast to her steppes thinly peo-
pled with inanimate serfs ; and it would set before
her the difference between colonisation by the
conquests of despotism and by the enterprising
vigour of honourable commercial ambition.

In another column will be found a report of an
address by Mr. MACGREGOR, M.P., to the people
of Glasgow, in which, according to his annual
custom, he gives an account of his stewardship.
The Hon. Member for that busy emporium of
commerce reviewed, it will. be seen, with much
discrimination and judgment the doings of the
late session, and put the questions of the War in
a very forcible manner. " The present War,"
he said, "had been most seriously and deliberately
entered into for the 'purpose of defending the
liberties and freedom of mankind against a con-
spiracy of monarchs more insidious and dan-
gerous than any that had ever been recorded
in the annals of the world. He granted that
we in these islands might for a while
longer have held aloof from this War ; but from
the first he was of opinion that the most fatal
policy for this country, and finally the most ex-
pensive with regard to taxation, was to defer de-
claring War beyond the time that that step was
resolved on,"— an opinion, we may remark,
abundantly justified by the event, and strikingly
fortified by the speaker by a reference to the
Holy Alliance. The conspiracy he describes
as having been in full or fuller vigour than ever
at the outbreak of hostilities, notwithstanding the
hypocritical pretensions of Austria. Adding, "If
we had not gone to War we should have had a
combination of all the military forces of Russia,
Prussia, and Austria, to prevent anything like
the development of civil, religious, or political
liberty throughout Europe. An attempt
made in the Italian States would be put
down as the insurrection in Hungary was
put down by Russia, and a rising in Poland
would be crushed by the aid of Prussian and Aus-

trian armies.'' Not less forcible and conclusive was
his censure of that Ministry whose conduct hardly
excites less suspicion of treachery than the stores
in Sebastopol lend countenance to the alleged tyran-
nical designs of Russia, in whose wake Austria and
Prussia should ever be looked for. Equally satis-
factory was his indignant reprobation of the
policy and the conduct of that mongrel
herd " The peace party ;" while still more
so was his ♦igorously expressed resolution to sup-
port the carrying out of the War with the utmost
energy, in union with France, until the only de-
sirable peace can be secured, and his advocacy of
having recourse to a loan instead of increased
taxation to meet the necessary expenses. The
speech ought, however, to be read, and we there-
fore commend it to the thoughtful perusal of our
readers, and not least to that of the dissatisfied
gentleman who so bitterly questioned the speaker
respecting the Scottish Education Bill at its con-
clusion, and who need a good deal lof that en-
lightened liberality of feeling by which it is dis-
tinguished.

We are positively bankrupts in sympathy. The
magnitude of the demand overpowers us, and we
are compelled to resort to a lesion of fortitude.
Gentlemen in broadcloth, whose purity is as
starched and immaculate as your cambric, and
whose personal humility and sympathy for your
fellow-sinners in distress is so strikingly manifest
when you are at prayers, put up your odoriferous
handkerchiefs, moistened so heavily with tears—.
have done weeping for the fate of that martyr to
kindliness, Captain HILL, and console yourself
with the reflection that this is a world of trial,
and that what cannot be cured must be endured.
If this won't do, try another tack. Picture to
yourselves the greatness of the sacrifice he has
made, and the delightful effect the record of his
devotion is calculated to produce. You can't ;
well, give over sobbing and we'll try to do it
for you.

The glory of benevolence, it is said, is to pity
the undeserving, and the greater the glory the
greater the sacrifices you make in manifesting
your pity. You nod assent ; and where, let
us ask, could your pity descend lower than
to the cells of Messrs. STRAHAN, PAur, and
BATES ? To the cell of the begging-letter— or
"something-to-your-advantage" writer ? Surely
not. To that of the petty area sneak, with that
distressing hankering of his for Pewter pots? By
no means. To the cell 'of the gay swe]l-mobsman,
with his gentlemanly slang, refined manners, and
oharmingly-prehensible fingers ? To No. 50, where
the enterprising gentleman who stopped farmer
HODOB the other day with a modest request for
his 'watch, and whatever valuables he possessed
to keep it company, and, in exasperation at. the
clumsy fellow's lack of promptitude, went far to
brain him? To the cell of Mr. SYKES, that
hardy child of the night, whose centre bit now
and then made its owner's way into honest doors,
whose bludgeon was not good. to look at
by candle light, and whose reprobate-look.
ing 'thedog keeps whining for its master
at prison gates ? You are bursting
with impatience to reply, Certainly not ! It does
You credit I These are but common culprits, for
whom, though
,there
may E4d in th is no defence, something
0 way of extenuation. Thoy
were born with craving stomachs and
principle than that of
sharp wits,
and 'bred on n-o• ahe.
Your neighbour possesses
good SOeietY and indoctrinated in
"never starve while whart
'They were not early
11111tu; *
against them.-
is to be had for taking,"
of Captain aopftaCilln
in the sociveitcytimofsß:lifpsee:r
arch and State. Un-
like
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emi
choicest
objects
sn p
s compassion,
siociety had some protection
and entrap the unwary confiding in their
associa.
did not plan incursions
They built to
414 oanp
andels h ung
gave
unconscious snc ioo uals
alms
sto Admirals.
lure
dens. They did much evil, doubtless ; but the
gallant soldier fighting for his country.had not to

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enter the field heavy at heart, less with the pre-
sage of an untimely grave than with the know-
ledge that, owing to their rapine, his wife and
little ones must enter comparatively destitute on
a cold world at his decease. They broke up no
domestic hearths, where the charities were made
almost divine by the graces ; and if they inflicted
pain it was only on a few—they did not deal out
wretchedness wholesale to thousands,

It was not to them the kindliness of Captain
HILL descended. It was not for them he violated
his duty. It was for more undeserving characters
than they, for the bankers who had " put money
in their pockets," that the prison roles were set
at nought and the House of Detention was alter-
nately transformed into a confidential snuggery,
a drawing and a dining room, into which prohi-
bited luxuries and convenient means for the evasion
of justice might freely pass. To undesert like
theirs the clamours of outraged society for atroci-
ously violated confidencewere to your heroic friend
an additional recommendation; and to heighten his
claims on your admiration, his sacrifice as he could
not fail to know involved a dangerous illustration
of the truth of a doctrine which saps the founda-
tions of society—" There is one law for the rich
and another for the poor." it is hard so great a
philanthropist, so good a Christian as Captain
HILL should be suspended, but console yourselves
with admiration of his heroism, and the reflection
that he is not yet expelled, and pray that the
" low Radicals' may not have further power over
him!

THE GREAT FIRE AT THE GREEN MAN
TAVERN, BLACKFRIARS ROAD -
DEATH OF THE LANDLORD.

LATEST PARTICULARS.

A sensation, which it would be almost impossible to
describe, has been caused throughout the whole of the
parish of Christchurch, Blackfriars-road, owing to the
dreadful fire which occurred on Wednesday morning
last, in the premises belonging to Mr. Hallewell, the
Preen Man Tavern, Green-street, Blackfriars-road, as
reported in this journal yesterday.
Since that report was written it is to be regretted that
Mr. Hallewell, the landlord of the premises, has died
from the combined effects of the burns and the inju-
ries he received from- falling out of the second floor
window. His sister-in-law (Miss Sutton), who remains
in St. Thomas's Hospital, is also so seriously injured
that not the least hopes can be entertained of her re-
covery.

During yesterday a very searching inquiry was made
by the officials of the fire brigade for the purpose, if pos-
sible' of tracing out the origin of the fire, the result of
which clearly showed that the gas was not turned off at
the main, as was at first supposed. Cooper, one of the
engineers belonging to Chandos-street station, asserted
that after the fire was extinguished he went into the pre-
mises, and turned the vapour off, at which time it was
escaping into the front of the premises. Whether the
gas was the cause of the accident could not be learned ;
but one thing is quite certain that it must have added
considerably to the vigour of the fire. A more searching
inquiry will no doubt take place at the coroner's inquest,
which it is understood will take place at twelve o'clock
to-morrow.

The lodge; John Otten, who was sleeping on the upper
floor, has been enabled to leave the workhouse. The
principal injuries he has received are severe cuts on the
arms, occasioned by the broken glass in the windows,
-and a few trifling buras on the body. He states that he
went to bed at half-past nine o'clock, at which time the
house was open, and there was then not the least smell
of an escape of gas or of wood burning. The first that
he heard of the fire was by the springing of the police
men's rattles, when he found the flames coming up the
staircase, and the smoke was so dense that he was nearly
suffocated. Finding that he was unable to descend by
the stairs, he got to one of the front windows, and by
great exertion he managed to get out of the window, and
by swinging round the corner of the wall he climbed upon
the roof of the Church-street Sunday School, where he
remained almost stifled with smoke until Perkins, the
conductor, arrived, with the Royal Society's fire-escapes,
and rescued him just at the moment he was about to
precipitate himself from the roof. He was quite certain
that!the fire did not begin in any of the upper rooms ;
but, on the contrary, in the lower part of the premises,
most probably in the bar or the cellar. The latter plaoe
seems the most probable, as even the beer barrels there
are destroyed, and the metal pipes melted, which would
hardly have been the case bad the fire burned down-
wards from the bar or parlour.
The unfortunate man, Mr. Hallewell, it appears, had
his leg amid thigh broken, and his cheat was almost laid
bare by the action of the fire: As he hung by the win-
dow sill the fire ignited his shirt, and the flaming then
seized upon the lower part of his body, burning it in a
frightful manner. When lifted out of the cab the
driver, not knowing that his arm was broken, laid
bold of it, when it actually sprang from its original posi-
tion. The whole of the surgical staff was in constant
attendance upon the poor man, but he expired on Wed-
nesday night.
The distance Miss Sutton jumped out of window was
35 feet, and when she reached the ground the flames
still surrounded her. To rescue her the police and fire-
escape conductor were obliged.to climb over the back
wall and lift her over, when she was taken first to the
house of a female neighbour. In placing her on the
bed, the flesh came off her bands.
The school kept by Mr. Lamb has been temporarily
closed, owing to the building being so much burnt and
the floors saturated with water.

The houses on the opposite side of the street are also
so much damaged by the fire that the shatters cannot be
taken down. Men were busily employed during the day
in shoring up the walls to prevent them falling upon
the heads of the firemen. This has been done at the ex-
pense of the Imperial Fire-office, in which company the
building was insured.
A telegraphic message was yesterday sent off to Mrs.
Hallewell, at Cheltenham, informing her of the distres-
sing event, and she was expected to arrive in London
last evening. One very fortunate circumstance is that
the widow and her five children were at their country
house, or it is quite probable that the whole family would
have perished, for the Staircase was completely on fire
before the discovery was made.

:jiadthe fire escape been sent for only two minutes
sooner the whole of theresidenti might have been rescued
in safety, for the unfortunate deceased had just reached
the-ground when the conductor entered the street,

Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council, this Friday
afternoon, at Windsor Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir George Couper, arrived
at her residence, Frogmore, near Windsor, on 'Wednes-
day afternoon, from Abergeldie.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester ar-
rived in town on Tuesday, from Brighfcin. Her Royal
hasHthe
seaside,
s derivedie, muchandis
i
a d vctaw in the enjoyment ofo :Age from her resi-
denceigllneasts h
good health.
The Duchess of St. Ardans and Lady Diana Beau-
clerk have left Edinburgh, : ,
g for Lees House, Coldstream.
Lord and Lady I'oltimore, accompanied by Major-
General Sir Geo,rge Buller, K.C.8., left town this morn-
ing, for Sand;noe House, the seat of Mr. Rowland Er-
rington.
Lord, and Lady-John Russell are at present on a visit
to tlie Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, and the
Ikon. Mrs. Cradock. Oa Tuesday morning his lordship
and Lady Russell, in company with the Rev. Dr
Cradock, visited many of the University buildings, In
the evening a select party of the elite of the University
sAned'at the Principal's lodgings.
' The Dowager Lady Panmure and Mrs. Arthur Shir-
ley have arrived at Princes-gate, from Paris.
Sir George Grey arrived in town on Wednesday even-
ing, from Balmoral. The 'right hou. baronet accompa-
nied her Majesty from Scotland.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday
for Harpton Court, Kington, Hereford.
The Marquis de Moustier, French Minister in Prussia,
has arrived in Paris. , ,
The Bank late for advances on Consols, Turkish Scrip
and other Government securities will be 6 per cent.
Major Knatchbull, who some mouths ago absconded
in arrear to the Government, has recently died in
America.
On Wednesday Le Nord expressed its disbelief in any
assault having been made upon Kars.
Of the number of the New York Herald containing the
announcement of the fall of Sebastopol more than 80,000
copies were sold.
The ceremony of the distribution. bf the medals at the
Paris Exposition is expected to 'oe of the most imposing
character.

LONDON UNIVERSITY.--T, dPORTANT.—We understand
that the Senate
has re':.teived a communication from Sir
George Grey, intiv_iating that in the opinion of the Go-
vernment the ,Q,enato ought to concede the points upon
which they
• •
'nave so long opposed the graduates, and that
that boil
ought now to be admitted into the Univer-
sitY -with the privileges of convocation and the right to
n`Jminate members of the Senate.
Accounts from Egypt state that the exportation of
corn will be prohibited, in consequence of the insuffici-
ency:ofthe-overflowing- of the Nile, giving reason to
fear &famine.
The Austrian pence has prohibited the circulation of
General
IClapka's work, entitled "The War in the East
during the years 1853 and 1854."
THE DATECONFLAGRATION IN THE BLA.CRIBIAItS-ItOAD.
.--An inquest was held this morning, at St. Thomas's
Hospital, on the body of Mr. J. Hallwell, the landlord of
the public-house in which the fire commenced. A ver-
dict of "accidental death" was returned.
THE WAR.7--Mr. Wyld, the well-known Geographer
to the Queen, is again in the field, with a new map and
chart, for the enlightenment of those who would follow
intelligently, step by step, the progress of the war. The
present production describes the coast between Otchakov
plicolaiev and Southern Russia; in addition. to which there
is given in the corner of the broadsheet a small chart of
the coast froth Odessa to Perekop. The utility of a
good map, &c., of these coasts at the present moment
will be obvious to all, and this we can cordially re-
Oommetad .

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