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

THE SUN. I_,Wo DON, TUESDA IT—Ey:RINI...II'4B, SEPTEMBER 4, 1855,,

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
)e achieved by leaving the foe without the power
co again disturb the tranquillity of Europe.

There are two crowned heads whose conduct at
this moment engages a large share of attention,
and should lead to results of ►ast importance to
the united cause of liberty and ci►ilisation. 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 kna►e 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 God-forsaken race
his has long been.

The King of GREECE, 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
could render to their cause would be cheerfully
offered, or, giving ordinary scope for ingratitude,
that King °TEO would at least take care to pre-
serve a strict neutrality. The return they
actually met with at the ♦ery 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 Court
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
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.
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 Guratcu adds wr.tated 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 had 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, in 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 adopt
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
Ibackwards 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 aaain, 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. It made
a little step in advance when it just birched
Odessa for insolence, but compensated 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 hugeleet 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; Sweaborg bombarded is excellent in its

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-
tiu.

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 PANBIURE 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
RusssLL, 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 sot,
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 of 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 wo 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 fcrtresses 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 his fatherland. We must "Perssvere."

The King of Sardinia is expected in Paris on the 16th,

Abd-el-Kader i s seriously ill of cholera at Marseilles.
RUMOURED DEATH of SCRAMYL—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 82d, 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, 1854. The income of the year amounted
to 42,2661., and the expenditure to 35,667/.
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.—Ad-
missions on payment, 13,438 ; ditto by season tickets,
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.
MOORH'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 ♦ CHAPEL.—An entrance was effected some
few nights ago into the vestry attached to the Roman
Catholic chapel at Croghan, in the barony of Lower
Philipstown, 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 Pedenderry to
give a reward of 101. for the detection of the guilty
parties. . .

The potato crop■ here are free from disease, and they
are harvesting fast. A potato, grown at Risborough,
weighing 250 z., was exhibited at Thame, on 28th ultimo.
Mr. Anstiss, of this place, dug from one root 73 good
potatoes; and Mr. Thornton, of the Sun Inn, had from
one set upwards of ?lbs. At the rate of the latter pro-
duce, an acre would yield 166,3201b5. ; supposing they
were planted in 22-Inch drilh., and oao6 Dot la inches
apart. At the calculation of a bushel, weighing 60169.,
there would be 2,227 bushels, which, if sold at ls. per
bushel, would realise 1381. 12s.—Bicester Herald.
Yesterday a return ordered by the House of Commons
was published showing the Parliamentary, Legal, and
Engineering expenditure of 160 railway companies. It
appears that the total sums of money expended in ob-
taining acts of Parliament for establishing such com-
panies was 12,548,715/. Bs. 21d., 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 685,104/. 4s. 3d. Forty•five companies have made
no returns.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE RIFORIZ CLTIL—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
Gadman, a plasterer, was at work on a scaffold some 20
feet above the ground, when he accidentally missed his
footing, and fell. Upon assistance avriving 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
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FATAL
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. Kibblewhito, 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
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deceased was noticed to fall by some of the crew, and
all of sadden a splash was heard in the water. Upon
going to the side of the vessel his hands were seen ex-
tended, as if in the act of trying to catch hold of the
boat. An attempt was made by the crew, and also by
the Thames police, to rescue the unfortunate man, bnt
without success, and he was carried away by the tide
and disappeared. The river was dragged for upwards
of an hour, but without the body being found, until
yesterday, when it was washed into the roads by the
strength of the tide.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, SEPT. 3.
The Queen and 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 arrived on a visit to her Majesty.
Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey has succeeded
Major-General Bourerie 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 Hong Kong.

THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY TO SCOTLAND.-It has already
been announced in The Slot that her Majesty and suite
will leave the King's-cross Station, London, on Thursday
morning next, and travel thence by the great Northern
and North-Eastern lines of railway to Edinburgh.
The Royal train will proceed as follows :-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 ; Areley,
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 9.38, 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
in water. Leaving Grantham, at 10.26, the train will
pass flougham, 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 ;
Marton 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 ; Copmanihorpe,
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 depart.
ment of arts, is expected this month in Limerick, to
make arrangements for re•opening 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 he acci-
dentally fell.

We understand that the Rev. R. M. M'Bra,ir, M.A.,
late of Cambridge, has resigned his appointment into
the hands of the president of the Conference, and with-
drawn from the connection. expressing his dissent from
some parts of the Wesleyan economy and discipline.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT PLYMOUTH. Mr. Dent,
storekeeper of the dockyard at Plymouth, was drowned
on Monday evening by the upsetting of a boat, in which,
with two of his sons, he was fishing between Mount
Edgcumbe and the island. His eldest son, a lieutenant
in the Royal navy, was the only one of the party sen-
sible when picked up. The second son, a clerk in the
establishment, although resuscitated, lies in a precarious
stay. All efforts to recover the father were fruitless.
LIBERALITY 01' MESSRS. CUNARD.—The remains of
a daughter of General Cannon (Bebram Pacha), who
died last year at Constantinople, were put as freight on
hoard one of the ships belonging to the Messrs. Cunard's
line of steamers, plying between Liverpool and Constan-
tinople ; but, on arrival in this country, those gentlemen
in the most handsome and liberal manner refused to
accept freight, or permit the General to offer any remu-
neration whatever for the trouble and expense they had
incurred on his account, although he was a perfect
stranger to all of the gentlemen concerned.
THE 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 passage 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 mCrtality.
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 Lientenantey 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-
dinia, the oases have greatly diminished. At SaSsari, on
the 26th, there were only 14 fresh cases and 17 deaths,
but at Alghero, Osieri, and other places there was still
much suffering.
ROUEN.—The lettere from Rouen mention that the
market for manufactures was heavy, in consequence of
diminished 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.
Prinsep, 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
431,400/, silver for B-imbay, Madras, Calcutta, Pe-
nang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton, and Shanghai.
AMSTERDAM.—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 coffer, 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 comnrised 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, being 20 more than in the previous week.
The number cleared outward 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 YORK.—The specie from New York yesterday is
136,000/., and a further sum may be expected by the
Union on Friday. The commercial ad vices on this oc-
casion present nothing new. The stock-markets were
firm, but a disposition to buoyancy. which had recently
heen manifested was not fully sustained. Erie Railway
Stock remained at 53; Reading, 981 ; Panama, 108 ;
and Illinois Central Bonds, 87g. All doubt of an abun-
dant harvest had been removed, and one of the principal
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, although 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 Mexico. This force was to cross
the frontier and invade Mexico, under the command of
a Captain Henry, who had issued two kinds of procla-
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a cruise to the westward ; in the evening she left
again for Kotka.
10.—The Livlitning parted company for Faro.
At 2.30 the Geyser arrived with the mails from
Dantzic.

Aug. 27.—Yesterday being Prince Albert's birth-
day, the usual honours to it were put off until to-
day, when the allied fleet hoisted mast-head flags,
and fired a salute at 12 o'clock.

At 1.50 p.m. the Hastings arrived from Baro-
sund.

At 4.50 p.m. a French gunboat arrived. I be-
lieve the gunboats which have just come have on
board 4,000 rockets of a new and formidable con-
struction, having the enormous range of upwards of
7,000 yards, being nearly double that of our largest
mortars and guns.

7.55.—The transport Royal Adelaide brought
her weekly supply of bullocks.
Aug. 28, 7.30 a.m.—The Vulture returned from
towing the Calcutta. On her way back she got a
little too far to the northward, and ran upon a
rock near Hango while going at the rate of nine
knots an hour. She remained upon it 13 hours
before she floated. She has received a good deal
of injury, and makes 13 inches of water per hour.
The Austerlitz has returned home ; she has been
in a leaky state ever since she ran on shore off the
coast of Courland a few weeks ago.