The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-11 00:00:00

ST. PETERSBURG.

According to advices from St. Petersburg of the
3d, a vast camp will be formed at Kaminietz, in
Podolia, near the Gallician frontier, and a power-
ful corps assembled on the left bank of the Dniester.

OPERATIONS IN THE PRINCIPALITIES.
The last accounts from Bucharest says it is
thought that Prince Paskiewitsch considers it in-
dispensable to defend that place at any cost. The
*works on the fortifications are, however, suspended
for the present. It is now proposed to attack
Silistria by water.
The Press, of Vienna, of the 6th, says :
" Letters from the Danube inform us that all the
corps d'armee of General Osten Sacken has en-
tered into Wallachia ; the force there is estimated
at 80,000 men. A division of the Turkish fleet had
arrived at Varna from Constantinople to blockade
the port of Odessa, whilst the united fleets went
towards Sebastopol. Vessels were constantly arriv-
ing from Constantinople with provisions and ammu-
nition for the army of the Balkans. The command of
Widdin and that of Kalafat are to be concentratedin
the hands of one general. All the Turkish troops
are on the march towards the Aluta. The Rus-
sians are on the other bank, and occupy Rimorik.
The redoubts established by the Turks on the road
from Rossowa to Silistria have been attacked by
the advanced guard of Luder's corps, but without
success. The bombardment of Silistria is continu-
ing-50 houses have already been destroyed by the
flames. The Russians mostly fired hot shot.—
The
Corriere Italiano of Vienna of the same
date says :—" The report that the Russians intend
to evacuate Great Wallachia arose from the fact
that on arriving at Fokschani, Prince Paskiewitsch
resolved to make changes in the plan of
operations of Prince Gortschakoff ; he strongly
censuring the diminution of the corps d'armee,
and The vast extent of the line they occu-
pied ; and accordingly he immediately ordered
the evacuation of Little Wallachia. If the Turks
Should cross the Aluta, the Russians would see
them with pleasure divide their forces ; they would
then retire, and would even abandon Bucharest in
order to turn all their forces against Schumla and
Silistria, the possession of which would assure
them a line of retreat towards Fokschani, which is
strongly fortified."
Another journal of the 6th says :—" The last
accounts from Widdin state that the Turks have
occupied Krajowa ; the Russians have been re-
pulsed to Isaktchi. A body of 6,000 Turks
have landed in Bessarabia. The retreat of the
ltussians and the advance of the Turks in the
bobrutscha can only be explained by a defeat
*which the Russians must have met with on the
road to Rassowa and Czernawoda. However, the
landing of 6,000 Turks iu Bessarabia would be a
more important operation, since it could not be
intended for auy other purpose than to take the
Russians in the rear, and to cut oft' their provisions
in Southern Russia. The immediate evacuation
of Greater Wallachia would be the consequence of
that bold operation."

PERSIA.
It is said that the Schah of Persia and the King
of Bokhara have concluded a treaty offensive and
defensive.

MALTA.
MALTA, MAY 6.—The 30th Regiment has ar-
rived. Various French steamers have touched
here with troops, and Generals Thierry, Bigos,
and Rose, and Admiral Lugelol. Two English
transports with horses have been signalled.

FRANCE.

RECALL OF BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS.

withdrawn from MM. Thal and Habbe, the Russian
Consuls at Havre and Bordeaux, and from MM.
Debaecque, Dupont, arid Fruchard, Vice-Consuls
of the same power at Dunkirk, Calais, and Nantes.
A great number of cheering rumours have been
in circulation, the principal of whicii were, that
the rate of discount was to be lowered by the
Bank of France ; that the interest on the bons du
Tresor was to be diminished ; that a European
Congress was to be held for the purpose of arrang-
ing the affairs of the East ; and that Sweden and
Denmark have come to a complete understanding
with England and France on the subject of the
war with Russia.

CHESTER RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LATEST BETTING.
DERBY.
3to 1 agst Autocrat.
11 to 2 agst King Torn.
13 to 2 agst Dervish.
16 to 1 agst Andover.
20 to 1 agst Hermit.
20 to 1 agst Will Huntsman.
DEE STAKES.
6to 1 on the field.
Champagne has arrived.
CHESTER CUP SCRATCHINGS.—The following horses
paid forfeit yesterday for the Chester Cup :—Joe Miller,
at 1.45 ; Nabob, at 2 ; Brown Brandy, at 2.45 ; and
Llanforda, at 2.55.

The rise on the London Exchange and the almost
certainty that to-day the Bank of France would
reduce its discount to 4 per cent., produced yester-
day a favourable impression on the Bourse. The
Three per Cents. closed at 65f. 95c. for the end of
the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at
92f. 90c. ; and the New Loan at 65f. 70c. ; Orleans
Railway Shares, 1,065 f. ; Rouen, 895 f. ; Havre,
430 f. ; Great Northern, 775 f. ; Strasburg, 721 f.
25c. ; New Shares, 562 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons,
855 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 695 f. ; Western
of France, 585 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 525 f. ;
Great Central of France, 442 f. 50c. ; Lyons to
Geneva, 445 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 527 f. 50c.

The Moniteur of this day (Thursday) announces
that General Baraguay d'Hilliers is recalled to
France, to assume a high command at the camp of
St. Omer. For months past the Government has
been painfully alive to the inaptitude of that per-
sonage for the high and responsible position of
representative of France at Constantinople in the
present important juncture ; and from time to
time, as events arose which made that fact evident,
rumours were circulated that he had actually been
recalled. It is believed the measure would have been
taken long ago, but the difficulty was to find a place
for Gen. Baraguay d'Hilliers which would prevent
the world from setting down his removal as a dis-
grace. Among other plans it was proposed that he
should be appointed to the command of one of the
divisions of the expeditionary army to the East ;
but competent generals had already been nomi-
nated to all the divisions, and they could not
be removed without manifest injustice. At length
a place, mentioned above, has been found. Al-
though, for the present, that camp is not to be
called on to enter into active service, the day may
come, should the war continue as long as some
People imagine, when it will have to take a most
important part in the struggle. The late quarrel
thequarrel
between General Baraguay d'Hilliers and
Turkish Government, with respect to the expul-
sion of the Greeks, has weighed considerably with
the French Government, and induced them to
hasten the recall of the ambassador, though the
measure, sooner or later, had been previously re-
solved upon.
BLOCKADE OF GREECE.—It is stated in official quar-
ters here, says the 'limes correspondent at Paris,
that not only the blockade but the occupation of
Greece is determined on. The corps d'armee to be
sent without delay for that object will amount, I
am informed, to 12,000 men. It is added, that
the Emperor Napoleon has addressed an autograph
letter to King 0 tho, couched in the strongest pos-
sible terms, and in fact commanding him to desist
from taking part with Russia in the war waged
by the Powers to whom Greece owes her exist-
ence as a nation, and to whom she is indebted for
many favours against that Power, and that if
Greece persist she will have to bear the conse-
quences of her conduct.
The Moniteur states that the exepatur has been

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THE QUARTERLIES.

The New Quarterly. No. X.
There is no per
its perceptible diminution in the vivacity
and enterprize with which this New Quarterly inau-
gurated establishment. If its contributors are the
same they have not yet become hackneyed. At the
same time the freshness of their style is in no way
marred by the ripening influences of practise and
experience. Of all the quarterlies, the one before
us, the youngest of them all, contrives to keep its
readers most au courant with the current litera-
ture. This advantage results not merely from the
comprehensive " Retrospect of the Literature of the
Quarter" prefixed to each instalment of the periodi-
cal, but also, and in an especial manner, from the
subsequent and more elaborate contributions. For
example, in the number before us, while the
" Retrospect" already mentioned ranges over a
series of works as various as the Memoirs of Lord
Holland and the Speeches of Macaulay, as Farini's
Rome, and Guizot's Cromwell, extending down-
wards to reprints and pamphlets, and works of a
miscellaneous character, whole departments are
exhausted one by one in the subsequent contribu-
tions. Take, as an excellent illustration of this,
the elaborate criticism on " The Literature of the
War"—referring to Curzon's " Armenia," to Lagny s
" Knout and the Russians," to Hammer's " His-
toire de l'Empire Ottoman," to O'Brieu's " Jour-
nal of a Residence in the Principalities," to
" Russo-Turkish Campaigns," to Slade 's
" Travels in Turkey," to Smith's " Year with
the Turks," to Hill's " Travels in Russia and
Siberia," to Urquhart's " Progress of Russia," and
to a number of other productions of a similar kind
published anonymously. Again; there occurslater on
in the New Quarterly, a department devoted to
" Travels," through which the reader is introduced
one after another to various works, such as Forbes's
" Norway and its Glaciers," and Lloyd's " Scan-
dinavian Adventures," and Blanchard Jerrold's
" Brage Beaker with the Swedes," and Mansfield
Parkyn's " Life in Abyssinia," and Clacy's " Yisit
to the Gold Diggings of Australia," and Bonelli's
" Travels in Bolivia," and Davis's " Evenings in
my Tent," and other books of a like description.
It is thus in like manner in regard to Novels—the
collection of the most recent, of which here criticised
includes " Lady Lee's Widowhood," and " Ticon-
deraga," and "Florence the Beautiful," and " Pro-
gress and Prejudice," and "Lismore," and " Agnes
Valmar," and " Reginald Lyle," and " Maud,"
and " High and Low," and the "Star Chamber,"
and " Charles Stanly," among these, as will have
been observed, the latest erfusions of James, and
Ainsworth, and Miss Pardoe, and Baillie Cochrane.
In a supplementary portion of the New Quarterly,
we have an intelligent resume of the French cur-
rent literature, and of the current German litera-
ture. An attractive paper is devoted to the
analysis of Mr. Macaulay's powers as an Orator.
Another refers to the deplorable squabble over the
grave of Moore—between Mr. Croker and Lord
John Russell. We find in another article " A
Word to the Opium Eater," and in another an
agreeable comment on the Hon. Grantley Ber-
keley's " Sporting Adventures." A second portion
of the argument relating to "Authors and Pub-
lishers," follows hard upon a Note that should not
on any account be overlooked, a Note to the remark-
able series of papers published in successive numbers
of the 117 ew Quarterly, in reference to our Asiatic
possessions. Besides all which may be mentioned,
in conclusion, a chapter on " Modern Comforts,"
and a variety of notices delightfully miscellaneous.

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The British Quarterly. No. XXXVIII.

Among the more accomplished contributors to
this able and independent periodical, we fail to re-
cognise the writer of that brilliant criticism in a
recent instalment in reference to the subject of
" Portrait Painting in History," or of that still
more brilliant essay descriptive of the poet
" Horace," his life, genius, and character. Alto-
gether the number recently issued is, to our think-
ing, less vivacious in the style and less varied in
the subjects of the different contributions. Yet
several of these, too, are highly meritorious—some
of them peculiarly instructive, if they are none of
them particularly entertaining. Three men are '
treated of very carefully in separate papers, Comte,
Turgot, and Herbert. Each of these articles, of
course, partakes at once of the character of a criticism
and of a biography. The essay on "Auguste Comte"
takes into consideration successively his religion
and his philosophy. That on " George Herbert"
weighs in the balance, not only his own claims to
admiration, but those also of the religious poets
who were his contemporaries. That on " Anne
Robert James Turgot," comprises a review of his
life, and an analysis of his writings. In a masterly
treatise on " The Philosophy of the Senses" it is
well observed by the writer of it—" The cerebral
pulp is not the soul : it is merely its chief organ
and prime corporeal minister." The necessity for
the education of the organ, or rather of the sense
of sight, is thus clearly indicated :

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" Having now glanced briefly at the nature of the
organ required for the purpose of vision, let us suppose it
duly fastened into the head of our embodied phantom. He
begins to see, but at first is conscious of nothing more than
an overpowering sensation of light ; no object can be indi-
vidually distinguished. images float before him in a con-
fused and indefinite manner; all of them seem to be in a
state of incessant movement. After a while he becomes
able to discriminate between well marked forms; ho can
perceive a difference between a church and a windmill,
between a man and a chair; but at first everything ap-
pears either to touch his eyes, or actually to form part of
himself, `Je crud d'abord' (as Adam is represented saying
by Buffen, when the latter describes the supposed sensa-
tions of the first man), ` qua tons ces objects 6 taient en
moi, et faisaient partie de moi-memo: For some time also
everything appears flat ; an animal is only a plane surface
like an outline cut from pasteboard; a marble is only
a wafer ; and the human head is no more than a thin
irregular disc. He has, in fact, no correct notion of a
solid or projecting body ; and all nature presents the ap-
pearance of apainting without any perspective. Being ig-
norant of the idea of distance as derived from sight, the
neighbouring hut seems to be as large as the remote castle,
you far-off mountain is not a whit taller than the tree
which grows beside him. Every object which approaches
him appears to expand in its dimensions, and a pigmy be-
comes a giant by striding a few steps towards him. Like
Babies Adam, he cannot comprehend how his hand, if
lifted towards his face, sr,ould attain such a frightful size ;
and when ho glances at his body, he is startled to find it
d'un volume enortue, et si grand quo tons les objets qui
avaient frappe ses yaux ne le paraissent en comparaison que
des points lumineux.' At length, however, his vision
clears, and experience soon corrects the little mistakes to
which he is at first exposed. The eye needs training before
it is perfect in its performances; it must serve a sort of
apprenticeship (as every infant is seen to do), before it can
carry on the business of vision with practical efficiency.
` To the child', says Muller, ' everything appears equally
distant, and it grasps at the moon as the nearest object."'

An elaborate paper is devoted to the subject of
" Religious Worship and Religious Ministries."
Another review somewhat kindred to these relates
to the "Phases of Faith and the Eclipse." There
are two contributions appropriate to this time of
war—one on " Christians under the Sultan," and
the other on " Balance of Power and Russian
Aggression." Added to which eight articles, there
is the British Quarterly's customary epilogue on
" Affairs and Books," a resume of all that has
occurred during the past three months, of any par-
ticular note either in regard to politics or in regard
to literature.

Brotvason's Quarterly. No. VI.

A very remarkable paper adorns the current
number of Brownson's Quarterly—a masterly and
impartial reply to the question, " Where is
Italy ?" In the production of his elaborate argu-
ment the writer has dispassionately consulted the
opinions put forward by men as opposite in their
views as Gioberti and Mariotti, as Cercia, and Tom-
maseo, and Torricelli. We would in fair play
urge those who have read Mazzini, and listened
to Gavazzi to examine for themselves what is here
put forward in reference to Italy and the Italians
by au eloquent Catholic writer in Brownson's
Quarterly. It is but justice to act thus, if only
in obedience to the old dog's-eared scrap of latiu
a/terara partem. Hear it, as we
have heard it, and we will engage the reader shall
find ample matter for after meditation.

The Law Magazine. No. CM.

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Conspicuous among the ten important contribu-
tions comprised in the new number of the
Law Magazine, the quarterly review of juris-
prudence, are two deserving of very general
consideration. The one is an eloquent and
touching tribute to the merits of " The late
Justice Talfourd"—the most perfect biography yet
written of the poet-orator-philanthropist. The
other paper referred to is a reprint of the last of
his paid contributions—an article "On the Prin-
ciple of Advocacy as developed in the Practice of
the Bar," a brilliant treatise inserted some time
back in the Law Magazine, and which cannot fail
now to be read with peculiar interest once more by
those most familiar with the contents of the quar-
terly review of jurisprudence. Read this anybody
who, strange to say, knows little of Talfourd, and
love the memory of the man henceforth :
"It has been truly remarked to us by ono who knew
him well and served him well during nearly tho whole
period of his successful career, and who stood by and re-
ceived his dying breath, that "no doubt his greatest cha-
racteristic was earnest affection. His beneficence was un-
bounded and unostentatious." One trifling incident will
illustrate this noble attribute ; and wo select it out of
many such for record here. Most passers-by, who frequent
Russell-square, have observed an old woman, sitting with
a basket of faded fruit, against a lamp-post, opposite the
judge's house. Almost daily she was fed from his table
wit food helped by his own. hand.. On one occasion on
going out he saw her sitting, in a drizzling rain, at her ac-
customed spot. Shortly after he came back with a new
umbrella, which he had bought expressly for her ; and she
hs.s it still. He bad a heart for the high and lowly, but
most of all for thole who, with any kind of merit to Qom.