The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1853.

ANTWERP and ROTTERDAM RAILWAY
COMPANY.—NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That interest at the
rate of 5 per cent. per atrium for the Half-year ending 31st March,
1853, will be PAYABLE on the SHARES of this Company on and
after the 4th April next.
The Certificates must be left at the Offices of the Company in
Brussels or in London, five days previous to the delivery of the
interest warrants.

By order of the Board.
W. MACKENZIE SHAW, Sec.
16, Canon-street, London, March 3, 1853.

IF)OYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY.
INTEREST GUARANTEED BY THE STATE.
.N °Tics Is HEREBY Given, That the FIR 4 T HALF-YEAR'S
INTEREST, at the rate of Fogr per Cent. per annum, due on the
27th April next, will be PAYABLE on ant after the Ist of blay
lowing.
Interest warrants payable in London will be deliverel at that date
of presentation of the scrip at the office of the CompaV.
By order of the Board of Directors,
EDW. C. NICHOLLS, Secretary.
London, 2i3, Poultry, March 18, 1853.

THE TIMES FIRE AND PROPERTY
INSURANCE COMPANY,

32, LUDGATE .HILL,

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That INTEREST on the Subscrib'd
Capital of, this Company, at the rate of 5 per Cent. per annum, will
be payable to the peeprietors on and after the 31st day of 'March
instant, between the hours of eleven and three o'clock.
H. B. SHERIDAN, Manager.
32, Tavigate-hill, March 21st, 1853.

BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Established August 1,'1837.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. 4 VI ct., cap. 9.
CIIAIILMAN— Colonel ROBERT ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION.
A table of increasing rates of pre um, especially adapted to
the securing of Loans or Debts.
Half-credit rates whereby half the premium only is payable
during the first seven years.
Sum Assured payable at sixty, or at death if occuring pre-
viously.
Orphans Endowment Branch affording the means of having
children educated and started in life, by securing annuities, to com-
mence at the parents' death, and to bo paid until a son shall attain
his 21st year, or, if a daughter, her 25th year of age.

BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION.
Empowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.

♦nnual division of profits.
Policy holders participate in profits after five or seven annual
payments, according to the table selected.
Premiums calculated for every three months' difference of age.
Half credit policies granted on ternis unusually favourable ; the
unpaid half premiums being liquidated out of the profits..
At the Annual General Meeting on the 27th April, 1852, a reduction
of 30 per cent. was made in the current year's premium on all partici-
pating policies.
A Board of Directors i
Age of the assured in
Medical attendants re

in attendance daily at Two o'clock.
every case admitted in the policy. •
triunerated is all cases for their reports.

(PROPRIETARY.) (MUTUAL.)
Extract from the Half Extract from Table with Participation
ire:lit :ates of in Profits, after Seven Yearly
Premium. Payments.
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Half Wholo Half Quer-
-43 premium premium
to First for Re- Age. Annual 1 Yearly terly
Seven nnunder premium; Pre- Pre-
mium. mlum.
Years. of Life. .
1
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I X a d X a. d. Years. 'Months £ s. d. X s. d. £ s. d.
30 1119 2 3 6 30 0 27314 2 0 12 3
40 1 9 2 218 4 3 2 7 6 1 4 4 012 4
50 2 2 6 4 b ft 6 2 7 10 1 4 6 013 b
60 3 6 2 613 4 9 4 8 2 1 4 8, 012 6

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E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director.
ANDREW FRANCIS. Secretary.

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call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purfleet

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" Divide about the broad bride cake—
Round about the bride's stake."—BEN. ,TorrsoN.
PARTIES requiring WEDDING BREAK-
FASTS or DINNERS may save much trouble and expense by
applying to Messrs. PURSSE LL, who undertakes to supply the entire
entertainment, including Wines and the Hire of Plate, Linen, Glass,
and attendance. A competent person sent with bills of fare and
estimates, or for making general arrangements. Dancing Hollands
laid, and upholsterers sent to remove furniture. Rout furniture of
every descriptims for hire, ball ro ms lighted, first-class musicians
provided.—Messrs. PURSSE LL,
Cori hill (only).

BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH
Hamilton-Mice, New-road, London.
The principles of the IIYGETAN or mOItISONIAN SYSTEM
are con, allied in the f Blowing propo,itions
I. The vital principle is In the blood.
2. Everything in the body is derived f, om the blood.
3. All constitutions are radically the same.
4. All diseases arise from impurity of the blood, or, in other words,
from acrimonious humours lodged in the body.
5. rain and disease have the same origin, and may therefore be
considered synonymous.

6. From the intimate connexion subsisting between mind and
body, the health of the me must conduce to the serenity of the other.
7. Proper purgation by vegetables is the only effectual mode of
eradicating disease.

15. Tnediscovery of a vegetable compound, capable of being di-
gested. and mixing with the blood, so as to impart to it that energy
requisite for ridding the body of all impurities, was a desideratum.
16. This discovery was made by JAMES MORISON, the Hygeist,
in the composition of the VEGETABLE UNIVERSAL MEDICINE
k Morison's Pills), of the British College of Health, Hamilton-place,
New-road, London.

TEETH.—By her Majesty's Royal Letters
Patent.—Newly-invented and Patented Application of Che-
mically-prepared White India-rubber in the construltion of Artificial
Teeth, Gums, and Palates.—Mr. EPHRAIM' MOSELY, Surgeon-
Dentist, 61, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Sole Inventor and
Patentee.—A. new, original, and invaluable invention, consisting in
the adaptation, with the most absolute perfection and success, of
CHEMICALLY-PREPARED WHITE INDIA-RUBBER as a lining
to the ordinary gold or bone frame. The extraordinary results of
this application may be brieqnoted in a few of their most promi-
nent features, as 11%;1011.0ixlit—AllAimrp edges' are avoided ; no
springs wirm or fiEsteningpt„required ; a gr*-Xer increased free-
dom of sucticmia supplied CaMittual elasticity- ilitherto wholly en
attainable: and alit; perfeeteirwlth the most uni6rring accuracy, are
secured, while from the so:Mess and flexibility of the agent em-
ployed, the greatest support is given to the adjointeg teeth when
loose, or rendered tender by the absorption of the gams. The acids
of the mouth exert an agency on the chemically-prepared White
India-rubber, and as it is a non-conductor, fluids of any temperature
may with thorough comfort be imbibed and retained in the mouth,
all unpleasantness of smell or taste being at the same time wholly
provided against by the peculiar nature of its preparation.
To be obtained only at 61, Grosvenor-street, London ;
22, Gay street, Bath ; •
34, Grainger .street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

(From the Times. )
The perplexity thrown over the present state of
affairs in the East by the confused and exaggerated
statements of several foreign journals is now partly
dispelled ;. and when the occurrences which have
actually taken place are reduced to their real di-
mensions they will be found to have lost much of
the imposing and alarming character ascribed to
them. It appears to be true that some days after
Prince Menschikoff had his audience of the Grand
Vizier, Colonel Rose, the British Charge d'Affaires
at Constantinople, thought fit, either upon the so-
licitation of the Turkish Government, or of his own
mere motion, to send a steamer to Malta with a
request addressed to Admiral Dundas, that he
would bring her Majesty's fleet in the Mediter-
ranean to Besika-bay, or some point near. the
mouth of the Dardanelles. We use the term " re-
quest," because we believe that Colonel Rose had
not, and could not suppose ,that he had, the power
to order the Admiral to take so momentous a step ;
and although the present emergency had been fore-
seen for several weeks, and indeed a similar one
had recently occurred at the time of Count Lein-
ingen's mission, no such power had been sent out
to WM. It is due to the French Charge d'Affaires
at Constantinople to state that, on being consulted
by his colleague, he did not concur in the measure
proposed by Colonel Rose. That measure was, in
fact, as we think, a great error of judgment, and
it demonstrates more strongly than anything that
has yet occurred that Lord Stratford's long delay
in proceeding to his post is very highly reprehen-
sible.
Fortunately, upon the arrival of the Wasp
steamer at Malta with this request from Colonel
Rose, Admiral Dundas was of opinion that his in-
structions did not enable him to comply with it un-
der the circumstances alleged to have occurred.
The fleet, therefore, remains in harbour, and there
is no reason to suppose that the decision taken by
Admiral Dundas has been disapproved by her Ma-
jesty's Government. It may also be hoped that
before any more such communications can be
dispatched by the Charge d'Affaires Lord Stratford
will have reached Constantinople with full know-
ledge of the views of the British Government. It
certainly does little credit to the foresight of Cabi-
nets that at the moment of the arrival of Prince
Menschikoff, with a degree of pomp and solemnity
which no Russian Ambassador had displayed since
Potemkin, the three Courts of England, Austria,
and France should be represented by simple Charges
d'Affaires, whose personal abilities are not above
their professional rank.
Upon the receipt of the intelligence that Colonel
Rose had sent for the British fleet, the French
Government appear to have taken an instantaneous
resolution to send their fleet to the Greek waters,
without waiting to be informed or deigning to in-
quire what had been the result of Colonel Rose's
application. The decision might, however, be
the effect of the dispatches received in Paris
from their own Chargé d'Affaires, or of the re-
presentations made by the Turkish Ambassador.
Probably it will turn out that the French squad-
ron will remain for a time at Athens or Smyrna to
watch the course of events. But although we
regret the haughty and exclusive tone which the
Russian Envoy Extraordinary has been suffered
to assume at Constantinople, and it is impossible
for the great Powers to recognise in Russia any
claim whatsoever to dispose arbitrarily and at her
own pleasure of the fate of an Empire whose ex-
istence has so long been the peril and the problem
of Europe, we are by no means satisfied that the
views of the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh extend as
far, at this moment, as some of our contemporaries
suppose. If they did, it is not the presence of
half a dozen French line-of-battle ships off the
Dardanelles that would stop the course of events.
In discussing this subject, however, on which
several of the principal English journals appear
to labour under extraordinary misconceptions
both of fact and principle, it must be borne
in mind that the prime aggressor of whom
Turkey has reason to complain is France ; and it
may be demonstrated that, without the extraor-
dinary concessions exacted by M. de Lavalette
last autumn, the cause which-has led to this for-
midable Russian embassy would not have existed.
That cause is not the attack on Montenegro, as
one journal supposes, or a modification of the
Treaty of Adrianople, as another conjectures. It
is the necessity which the Emperor of Russia
professes to feel for the maintenance of the rights
of the Eastern Church, which everywhere involve
his authority. We have not forgotten that in the
latter part of last summer, when Louis Napoleon
was making his selection of Imperial titles, that of
" Protector of the Holy Shrines" was credibly
assigned to him. It was obvious that neither Tun
key nor Russia would ever acknowledge such a pre-
tension, but M. de Lavalette was instructed and
authorised to use every means known to diplomacy
to strengthen the influence of France in the Holy
Land, especially by extending the rights and juris-
diction of the Latin convents. A firman wasgranted,
revoked, and granted again to these Franks, and the
persecution which the Divan had to endure on this
subject was one of the chief causes that led to the
fall of Redschid and the dissolution of the Adminis-
tration of Ali Pasha. Russia declared that she
could not submit to changes thus introduced into
the existing state of things, which were so humili-
ating to the Greeks and favourable to the Roman
Catholics. A negotiation was proposed at St.
Petersburgh, 'but the instructions of M. de Castel-
bajac, the French Minister, were not of a nature
to facilitate a settlement. The French Govern-
ment seemed to, have made itself, on this question,
the very tool of the ultra-Catholic party, doubtless
for political objects of its own ; and at the point
the question has now reached she must either sur-
render the preferential rights she has extorted from
the Porte, or defend them by other means. Such
is strictly the history of this complicated affair, and
it is certain that Russia has taken no active part in
it until she found it politic to defend her supremacy
in the Greek Church from the direct attacks of the
late French Ambassador.
But what have we to do in such an affair ? Will
any one contend that this country is to pay the
penalty of M. de Lavalette's folly ? That we are to
interpose, for the purpose of strengthening the in-
fluence of France in the East, as the protectress of
the Latin Churches ? Or that we have the defence
of the Roman Catholic clergy so much at heart that
we are to uphold their claims of precedency over
Greek Popes ? Such notions will not support a
moment's investigation, and, accordingly, the mo-
tives and origin of this dispute have been dressed
up in every way but the true one to engage English
sympathies on behalf of French interests in the Le-
vant. The French are no doubt in an awkward po-
sition there, but it is the result of their own policy,
and the first blows struck in the last few months at
the independence of the Porte came from Paris,
and were destined to gratify the vanity of Louis
Napoleon. It is, therefore, a mockery to suppose
that this country can be made the catspaw of the
French Government, by lending itself to the sup-
port of demands which ought never to have been
made, and which might be employed at no distant
period to warrant a French occupation of Egypt.
It is true that this unhappy and scandalous
transaction, disclosing as it does the impotence of
Turkey and the divisions of Christendom around
the very sepulchre of Christ, may also serve as the
pretext and the occasion to execute other and more

deeply laid schemes of policy. That was a conse-
quence which the French G-overnment. ought to
have foreseen when it thrust the Sultan into so
embarrassing a position. But we must deal with
those dangers as they arise, and though we hold
that it is at present our duty and our interest to
stand aloof, we shall never cease to contend that
the true policy of this country is to restore the
concert of all the great Powers in the affairs of the
East, and by our example of moderation to pre-
serve peace, and to check that cupidity which may
threaten at any moment to tear the Turkish Empire
with violence asunder.

THE JEWELLER'S SHOP _ ROBBERY IN MANCHESTER.

Saturday the two prisoners, Mayne and Robinson,
who had been remanded on a charge of being concerned
in the plunder of Mr. Howard's jewellery-shop, Market-
street, in this town, between one and two o'clock p.m.,
on the 7th inst., were brought up for further examina-
tion. Chief Superintendent Beswick conducted the pro-
secution ' • and Mr. Rigg appeared for one of the pri-
soners. William Priestley, a letter carrier, and Miss
Wilks, a young lady, identified Robinson as the person
who was engaged driving the public away from Mr.
Howard's door at the time the robbery was being perpe-
trated by his confederates inside ; and Thomas Conroy
proved having seen both prisoners together several
times during the day of the robbery, and particularly
at the oatside of Mr. Howard's shop. Mr. Beswick
applied for a further remand; in order to procure addi-
tional evidence ; and they were accordingly remanded
until next Saturday.
SHIPS' STORES.—The Board of Customs have approved
of a new form of bond to be entered into on the removal
of warehoused goods from one port to another for imme-
diate and direct shipment as stores, which is to be
adopted in future at the several ports in the United
Kingdom.