The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-12 00:00:00

N DON, MONDAY EVENING-, SEPTEMBER 12, 185 a.

SHREWSBURY and BIRMINGHAM and
SHREWSBURY and CHESTER RAILWAYS.
The COMMITTEE of SJIAREHOLDERS have to announce that
the proposal for an AMALGAMATION with the GREAT WESTERN
COMMA NY will be submitted for the consideration and approval of
the Shareholders of the above-mentioned Companies, at SPECIAL
ME KTING,, to be holden as follows, viz.:
SHREWSBURY and CHESTER—At the Royal Hotel, Chester, on
TUESDAY, sept. 13, at Two o'Clock p.m. precisely.
SHREWSBURY and BIRMINGHAM—At the London Tavern,
Bislwpgate-street, London, on WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14, at Two
o'Clock p.m. t recisely.
Shareholders who have not transmitted their proxies are earnestly
solicited to attend tha Meetings of their respective Companies,
and to record their votes in person in favour of the proposed Amal-
gamation.

By Order of the Committee.
GEORGE WOOLCOTT, Secy.

12, Buckingham.strect, Adelphi, Sept, 1853.
N.B.—No person will be entitled to vote as a proxy, unless the in-
stratum t at pointing such proxy has been transmitted to the Secretary
of the Company not leFs than forty-eight hours before the time ap-
pointed for holding the Meeting at which such proxy is to be used.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, 6th Sept , 103.
THE Principal Officers of her Majesty's Ordnance
do hereby give notie, that they are reidy to DISPOSE
OF, to such persons as arc willing to tender for 'he same, a quantity
of Old Iron Ordnance, shot and Shell., Old Gun Metal, Lead, Cast
and Wrought iron, in Store at the Royal At senal at Woolwich, which
has been divided into lots, and may be view;:d upon application to
the Sturekeeper at that place any day (Sanday excepted) previous to
the day fixed for the delivery of the renders.
A catalogue of the severs' lots may ba obtained by persons willing
to become purchasors, at the Storekeeper's Office, Woolwich, the
Principal Storekeepers Office at the Tower, and at the Secretary's
Office in Pall-mall, where the Tenders for the whole or any number
of the said lots are to be delivered on or before the 17th instant
By order of the Board.

J. WOOD, for the Secy.

CONTR iCT FOR PIG IRON.

Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, September 10, 1853.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
ana Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
the 20th inst., at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such
persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying Her Majesty's
Dockyards at Woolwich and Chatham with
'SOFT MELTING PIG IRON.

A Distribution of the Iron and a Form of the Tender may be
seen at the said Office. No Tender will be received after One
o'clock on the day of treaty, nor wil t any be noticed unless the party
attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " amender for Pig Iron,"
and must also be delivered at Somerse-p'^ce, accompanied by a
Letter signed by a responsible person, engaging to become bound
with the person tendering, in the sum of 1001., for the due perform-
ance of the Contract.

IDDLESEX LUNATIC ASYLUM, at
HANWELL.
Persons willing to TENDER for SUPPLYING the above INSTI-
TUTION with Meat, Flour, Malt, Hops, Hay and Straw, Oatmeal,
Peas, Butter, Cheese, or Bacon, for six calendar months, from the let
of October next, or with any of the undermentioned articles for
twelve calendar months from that day, viz., Groceries, Soap, 011,
01 Colours, Brooms, Brushes, Window Glass, Lead and Leaden
Piping, Hosiery, Linen and Woollen Drapery, Blankets, Rugs, Straw
Hats and Bonnets, Tobacco, Snuff, Cloth, Boots and Shoes, Leather,
:,and Wine and SPilts for the sick. are reqcested to deliver sealed
'Ten !ere to me, by Eleven o'clock, on TUESDAY, the 20th inst.,
at the Sessions 1+ Dose, Clerkenwell green, and to attend there
personally o that day, at Twelve o'clock. Blank forms, in which
Tenders must be made, may be obtained, and the form of contract
may be seen, either upon application to me at this place, or to the
Storekeeper at the Asyl,m. and patterns and samples, to which the
contractors will bs required strictly to conform, may be seen at the
Asylum at Hanwell. The Committee of Visitors will not bind them-
'selves to accept the lowest or any of the tenders.
CHAItLES WRIGHT, Clerk to the Visitors.
Dated this "tth SeVeanbar,lBs3.

CA_WIOW:—MECii.I'S MAGIC STROP.—
"gfie Real Magid Strop," " The Double Magic Strop," " The
Matte &crop," are base imitations of MECIII'S MAGIC STROP.
None arc genuine without Mechi's name, which imitao-s dare rot
put on the spurious strop; yet, strange to say, many pe•Anners call-
ing themselves respectable, endeavour to palm this rubbish on the
public as Mechi's genuine strop, although they possess no sharpening
properties whatever, but the very reverse. The well-known Magic
Paste is an invaluable auxiliary to the Strop, and its renovating
properties are truly astonishing. Mechi's Razors stand pre-eminent
as well as his Table Cutlery.

FOR MORE THAN ONE PURPOSE, and
for more than ONE SEASON.—ATTIRE to MEASURE or
READY MADE, which may be obtained at the Establishment of
E. MOSEY and Son. or at its West-end Branch, New Oxforthstreet,
exhibits an admirable suitability to the season, and is prepared ex-
pressly for Excursionists, Men of Business, and all others—for Adults,
Juveniles, and Children.
The materials are the greatest novelties which have been pro-
duced, and the styles and workmanship of the most distinguished
order, but the prices charged are very considerably lower than at
any other house.
Uniforms Military and Naval, Liveries and Official Costumes, are
made according to present regulations, and every description of Dress
is provided in the most artistic finish, at the lowest possible charges.
Hats, Caps, and Hosiery for Ladies and Gentlemen are presented
by E. MosEs and Soli in every variety, combining the Elegancies
and Novelties of all countries, the recherché samples of British and
Foreign manufacture. In every Article, superior quality, and ex-
tremely economical prices are recommendations of the highest order.
The newest samples of Autumnal Materials and fashions are to be
inspected at E. MosEs and Sow's.
Shippers to the " Gold Lands," or any other part of the world, will
find at the Wholesale Department of E. MOSES and Sow's Establish-
ment the largest stock of the most suitable and therefore the most
saleable goods, the great advantages in price render the articles a
greater source of profit than any other class of exports.
Full lists of Outfits for Ladies and Gentlemen, with ship sailing
information, may be had on application, or post free to any part of
the kingdom.
CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like
falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's
the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have
NO CONNEXION WITH ANT OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :
London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157. Minories, 83,
44,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, 2
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Colonial Branch, Melbou ne, Australia.
Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe
Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it willbe
exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, tha money will be returned
without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lo west
price. trom which no abatement can be made.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on
Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock.
A new Book, "The Herald of the Seasons," containing fall lists
of prices, our system of self-measurement, facts relative to Australia,
advice to emigrants, &c., may be had on application, or post-free to
any part of the kingdom.
A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1853 can be had gratis,
an application.
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Hier srricht man Del-P.41

Qui el parla Italian.
Auua se habit, Raman!

BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS.
The following testimonial is another proof of the great effi-
cacy of this medicine :-
157, New Bond-street, London, October 12, 1850.
" Sir,—ln acquainting you with the great benefit which I have ex•
perienced by taking BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS,
I feel that I am but performing a duty to that portion of the public
who may be similarly affected.
" About twenty years since I was first attacked by rheumatic gout
al my hands and feet. I had previously been subjected to every va-
iety of climate, having served in Canada in the 19th Dragoons, and
in Spain, under Sir John Moore. in the 18th Hussars. I always pro •
-tired the best medical aid, without obtaining any essential rel'ef,
and my sufferings can be appreciated only by those who know some-
thing of this disease.
" It was during one of those paroxysms, between twelve and thir-
teen years ago, that I was recommended to try BLAIR'S PILLS. I
lost no time in procuring a box, and before I had taken that quantity
he pain had entirely ceased, and in a few days I was in perfect
health.
" From that moment, whenever I feel any symptoms of the dis-
ease approaching, It have instant recourse to this medicine, which to
tne is so valuableat were it not that the days of magic hay,.
eased, I should certainly attribute the relief I obtain to that cause.
Moreover, I rejoice to say that my health has not in any degree suf-
iered. but on the contrary I believe the tendency of BLAIR'S PILLS
s towards its improvement.
" I have recommended the Pills to many friends, and the result
has always been of the most gratifying character.
" I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
" GARRET FOSTER GILL.

"To Mr. Prout, 229, Strand."
For every description of Gout and Rheumatism, Sciatica, Tic-dolo•
reux, &c., &c., BLAIit'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS are a
sovereign remedy, contain neither mercury, opium, or any other
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Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and all respectable
Medicine Vendors. Price 28. 9d. per box.
Askfor BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe
that " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," is impressed upon the
Government Staten.

QIJRGEON HENRY HAMILTON, Twenty-
eight years in London practice, will REMOVE any CASE of
a PRIVATE NATURE before charge be made for medicine. In all
female complaints requiring practical professional skill, Surgeon
Hamilton will guarantee a successful issue, or no expense will be
incurred by the patient. Medicine can be sent to any part of the
realm, securely packed, on receipt of particulars. Ladies and gen-
tlemen consulting by leder must enclose the usual fee, when they
will be treated with by return of post. Hours for personal visits
from Ten till Four, and from Six till Nine daily.—Address, No. 3,
King William-street, Strand, London. Medicine to country pa-
tients, 11.

MEDICAL AD YOUTH AND MATURCE ON THE SECRET
ITY INFIRMITEES OF
Y.
DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON
Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University o
Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical
Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Sre., &c.
MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
the various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro-
!need more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema-
ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis-
eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience
in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist-
encework oyvn-coAlToclOredif
secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in
existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Mani-
age3, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their
endless modifications owe their almost entire origin.
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may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be remover,
and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all,
that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure
DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged
inohaf
thvaneebierexeptnaetninesiidivtueneoedpiitnatlohceiatintptitclesaep:seaheitnmaiial,the treatment of these delicate com-
plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless
of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had
the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct
attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is
tree. In selecting thi4 department of practice, he has been amply
rewarded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the
treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the
care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated
publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues
iflhicthteedirseprreioutessisii)ojuhrsy. on those who
sixAnttihmiloEmdiegeshirtfo.arA:consultationedthianily from Eleven till Two, and from
cownistahiinngthteofeceonosfuilit.,
Dr.and DadA;lsiceEann:
medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address.
should first obtain a copy of
hisusntts
A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and
Generative Debility, 1118nEstLrraterdRbEy8fiEltft engravings, and des-
cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret abits and
,xcesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct
lesisiotion of their cares, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in En2lish
r Tench, Spaniqt, Dutch, tiall,::., or German, of Measrs Pipe!
mothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford Me
Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; * sor free
by post for forty-two stamps, to any addrer ltora the Author's resi•
MG% V, BBDroap-Kcaar,, Lowroorr.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

Yesterday the Sunday Tines published the offi-
cial reply of the Earl of Clarendok to the circular
note of Count Nesselrode. Through what channel
that journal has obtained this important document
which all the persuasion of both Houses of Parlia-
ment could not induce the Ministers to make
public we are unable to say, but there can be no
doubt as to its authenticity.
The dispatch in question is addressed by the
Earl of Clarendon to Sir G. H. Seymour, her
Majesty's Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, and as
follows :

" THE EARL OF CLARENDON TO SIR G. H. BETWDUL
"Foreign Office, July 16, 1853.
" Sir—The Baron Brunow has communicated to me
the circular dispatch addressed by the Count de Nessel-
rode to the legations of Russia, bearing date the 20th
June (2d July), 1853.
" It would give me much pain to express to you the
astonishment and regret with which the Government of
her Majesty has seen the declaration contained in that
dispatch, that it was in consequence of the refusal of
England-and France to yield to the recommendation of
the lin3sian Government, and in consequence of the
entry of their fleets into the waters of Turkey, that the
occupation of the Principalities had taken place.
" The passages of the dispatch containing that extra-
ordinary assertion are the following :
" In placing this ultimatum before the Porte, we
had more particularly informed the cabinets of the great
powers of our intentions. We had especially
appealed to
France and Great Britain not to complicate, by their
attitude, the difficulties of the situation • not to take
measures too hastily, that, on the one hand, might have
the effect of encouraging opposition on the part of the
Porte, and, on the other, might engage more deeply
than had hitherto been the case the honour and the dig-
nity of the Emperor.
" On the other side, the two maritime powers have
not thought it their duty to yield to the consideration
which we have recommended to their serious attention.
Taking before us the initiative, they have judged it in-
dispensable to precede immediately, by an effective mea-
sure, those measures which we only announced as purely
eventual, since we made the carrying of them into offect
depend on the final resolutions of the Porte, and because
at the very moment when I write, the execution thereof
has not yet begun. They immediately sent their fleets
into the waters of Constantinople. They already occupy
the seas and ports of the Ottoman dominion at the gates
of the Dardanelles. By, that advanced attitude the two
powers have placed us under the weight of a threatening
demonstration, which, as we had predicted to them,
may add to the crisis new complications.

` In presence of the refusal of the Porte, supported
by the manifestations of France and England, it becomes
more than ever impossible for us to modify the resolu-
tions that the Emperor has made dependent on them.
In consequence, his Imperial Majesty has sent to the
corps of our troops stationed at this moment in Bessa-
rabia the order to pass the frontier, and to occupy the
Principalities.
" I may observe, in the first place, with reference to
the first of these passages, that the dispatch of Count
de Nesselrode, addressed under date of the first of June
to the Baron Brunow, had not been brought to the
knowledge of the Government of her Majesty before the
Bth of June, and, consequently, the orders forwarded a
week previously to Admiral Dundas to repair to the
environs of the Dardanelles had not been issued, as pre-
tended in the circular of Count de Nesselrode, after the
considerations were made known to the British Govern-
ment. Bat had it even been different, and had the
orders not been issued, it was still impossible for the
Government of her Majesty to think that the menace to
occupy the Principalities would not be carried into
effect in consequence of the adherence on the part of the
Porte to the rejection' of those clauses which a few days
before it had rejected without hesitation.
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cabinet of St. Petersburg will not now pretend that the
note of Count de Nesselrode to Redschid Pacha con-
tained merely a simple menace, which it was never seri-
ously proposed to carry into effect. It is a fact, more-
over, that the note of Count de Nesselrode of the date
of the 31st May, containing the communication of the
hostile intentions of Russia, would suffice of itself to
authorise the Government of her Majesty to take mea-
sures for the protection of Turkey.
" I will endeavour now to establish at what period
and on what motives the British fleet was sent into the
waters of Turkey. The Prince Menschikoff, acting, as
we must believe, by order of his government, has declared
in his note of the sth May, of which a copy was received
in London on the 18th of the same month, that all fur-

ther delay to adopt his propositions relative to the
Greek Church would be considered by him only `as a
want of respect towards his government, which would
impose on him the most painful obligations.'
"And accordingly, in his note of tha.llth May, of
which a copy was received in London on the 30th of
the same month, the Prince Menschikoff said, that in
case of an unsatisfactory decision by the Porte, If
the principles which formed the basis (of the articles
under discussion) are rejected—if by a systematic
opposition the Sublime Porte persists in withholding
itself from an intimate and direct understanding,
he must consider his mission as terminated, inter-
rupt his relations with the cabinet of his Majesty the
Sultan, and cast upon the responsibility of his ministers
all the consequences which may result therefrom.' And,
in fine, in his note dated the 15th of May, received in
London on the Ist of June, Prince Menschikoff con-
cludes with these words It remains for the sagacity
of your highness to weigh the incalculable consequences
and the great calamities which
may result, and which
will fall with all their weight on the responsibility of the
ministers of his Majesty the Sultan. -
" On one hand, these reiterated menaces towards a
power whose independence Russia herself had declared
her determination to maintain—these menaces, say we,
addressed with the intention of sustaining the demands
so little conformable to the assurances
Government of her Majesty ; and, the Oven to the
given
hand,
the great armaments, military and naval, which during
months were carried forward on the very frontiers of
Tnrkey, left no longer any doubt in the minds of the
Government of her Majesty upon the imminent danger
in which the Sultan was upon the point of being placed.
They deeply regretted that that danger resulted from
the acts of the Russian Government, which was a con-
tracting party to the treaty of 1841 ; but as the Govern-
ment of her Majesty entertains now as firmly as in 1841
the principles laid down in that treaty, and as they think
that the maintenance of the peace of Europe is engaged
in the conservation of the Ottoman empire, they have
felt that it was time for them to be ready (in the interest
of peace itself) to protect the Sultan. On learning,
then, the sudden departure of Prince Menschikoff, they
took the determination to place the British fleet, which
at that time had not quitted Malta, at the disposition of
her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople.
"On the Ist of June the Government addressed to
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe a dispatch authorising him,
upon certain specified occurrences, to send for the fleet,
which, in such case, would sail for whatever place might
be indicated for it. On the 2d of June they forwarded
to Admiral Dundas instructions that ho should repair
immediately to the neighbourhood of the Dardanelles,
and place himself in communication with her Majesty's
ambassador.
"The evening before we received a copy of the note
of Prince Menschikoff, dated the 18th of May, in which
he announced that his mission had terminated, and that
the refusal of the guarantee demanded would hence-
forth impose on the Imperial Government the necessity
of finding it in her own proper force.'
" On the 2d of June I brought to the knowledge of
Baron Brunow the measure taken by her Majesty's Go-
vernment. That measure could not have been commu-
nicated by him at St. Potersburgh before the 7th or the
Bth, and, consequently, it could not have the least in-
fluence on the decision taken by the Russian Govern-
ment ; whilst the note by which Count Nesselrode an-
nounced to Redschid Pacha that ` within some weeks
his troops would receive the order to pass the frontier of
the empire,' was dated the 31st May, and his dispatch
to Baron Brunow, in which he said that, if the Porte
did not sign Prince Menschikoff's note within a week,
counting from the reception of his note by Redschid
Pacha, the Emperor would give orders to his troops to
occupy the Principalities,' bore the date of the let of
June.
'`lt results, evidently, from that which precedes,
that the British fleet has not been sent into the
waters of Turkey out of disregard of the consider-
ations submitted to her Majesty's Government by
the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, and that the de-
cision to occupy the Principalities had been taken
by the Russian Government on the eve of the depar-
ture from London of the instructions directed to Vis-
count Stratford de Redcliffe. And that decision, we
say, had been taken because the Russian Government
could not seriously, even for a moment, entertain the
hope to see the Porte give its adhesion to the clauses,
without variation,' (les clauses sans variante), which
respect for its proper dignity and the interest of its
security had, a very few days before, imposed on it the
obligation to decline. Nevertheless, Count Nesselrode
asserts, in his circular dispatch of July 2, that the
presence of the English and French fleets in the Bay of
Besika has, above all, provoked and entirely justified
the occupation of the Principalities ; he pretends that
these fleets are almost in view of the capital--that they
are hardly 200 miles distant, and that the maritime oc-
cupation by these fleets of the ports and waters of the
Turkish dominion, could only be counterbalanced by a
military occupation on the part of Russia.
" But her Majesty's Government must protest against
that assertion in the most forcible terms ; they deny the
existence of any similitude between the position of the
united fleets in Besika Bay and that of the Russian
armies in the Principalities. The fleets have the same
right to anchor at Besika as they have to moor in every
other port in the Mediterranean. By their presehce in
these waters no treaty is transgressed, no territory is
viointe,d, no principle of the. law of nations is
disre-
garded ; the indep3ndence of the Ottoman Empire is
not menaced by it, and, assuredly, it ought not to
be a motive of offence to Burma. On the contrary,

the occupation of the Principalities by Russia con-
stitutes a violation of the territory of the Sultan,
and of the special treaty concerning that part of
his dominions; ; it constitutes an infraction of
the principles of the law of nations, and an act
of direct hostility against the Sultan, to which he
would have the right to respond by a declaration of war
and a requisition to the allied squadrons to advance
to Constantinople for her defence. That occupation
constitutes, in fine, an act so dangerous, considered
as a precedent, and an act so violent on the part of
a. powerful state against another whose very feebleness
ought to be its protection, that it has exerted through-
out all Europe sentiments of alarm and reprobation.
To admit that there exists any resemblance, or that
there could be established with reason any comparison
whatever between the position of the English and
French fleets without the Dardanelles, and that of the
Russian armies within the Principalities, is evidently
impossible.
" It is with profound regret that her Majesty's Go-
vernment sees itself in the necessity of expressing their
opinions with respeTt to the recent invasion of the
'Turkish territory ; but they think that in abstaining
from doing so they wo,eld have been wanting in their
duty, and would render more difficult, in future, their
intervention for the defen, ev and maintenance of treaties,
;which constitute the inter national law of Europe, and
the only effectual guarantoes of the general peace and
of the rights of nations.
"The sufferings that the occupation of the Princi-
palities must occasion to the iithabitants will be doubt-
less alleviated by the Russian Government taking upon
'itself all the weights of that occupation. Having so
many times and at such length d'iscassed the demands
addressed by Russia to the Sublime Porte it does
not appear to me necessary to dwell vpon the other
passages in Count de Nesselrode's cirou.lar dispatch,
;which, indeed, contains no new fact or argument in
favour of his demands. I must, however, aztpress the
conviction of her Majesty's Government that tho cabinet
of St. Petersburgh is altogether in error in amerting
.that the Porte is little disposed to satisfy the just de-
mands of Russia, or that it seeks to evade the engage-
meats made with her. If that imputation were tnie,
her Majesty's Government would not have failed to ewe
all the influence they possess to induce the Porte to re-
cognise its engagements suitably. But the Government
has no more knowledge of such violation of the engage-
ments in question on the part of Turkey than they have
of those numerous arbitrary acts of the Ottoman Govern-
ment by which, as it is pretended, the rights of the
Greek Church have been violated, and which have me-
naced even to overturn the order of things sanctioned
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strict status quo, and the maintenance of the privileges
which they have enjoyed under the protection of their
Sovereign. But Count Nesselrode dispenses entirely
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w beenit h thedisturbed—how explanation
—what complaints have been made—what wrongs have
remained unredressed. Her Majesty's Government has
the knowledge of but one offence committed by the
those ows he
Turkish Government against Russia, and that offence
has been repaired to its satisfaction, with the consent of
Prince Mensehikoff, at the same time that the last
firman by which the Sultan confirms the privileges and
immunities of the Greek Church was received with great
gratitude by the Patriarch of Constantinople. Where,
then, are the reasons which, as the Count de Nesselrode
asserts, will justify in the eyes of impartial Europe the
position taken at this moment by Russia ?
" Count Nesselrode adds that Russia, thanks to its
geographical situation, and to its treaties, possesses vir-
tually the right to protect the Greek Church in the East.
If it is so, and if that right, (whatever may be its nature
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ent rights constrain
and extent) is not interrupted, it is Russia that puts its
existence
exist, and if they are respected by Turkey, Russia has
no motive for complaint against Turkey. But if Russia
seeks to give a greater extension to its rights, then Tur-
key, on its side, has the right to examine closely the
nature of the new demands, and to refuse such of them
as are incompatible with its independence and its dig-
nity.
" Her Majesty's Government receives with sincere
satisfaction the new assurances that the policy of his
Imperial Majesty, as well as tile interest of Russia, re-
quires the' maintenance of the or der of things existing in
the East ; and as the interests of Turkey render it ne-
cessaryherMajesty'sforittoGobbvseerrnvme ietsntefiangtatgeerments
themselvestow ardtsh
at Russia,
Rus-
sia will not wish (by endeavouring in actual circum-
stances to insist upon demands that the Porte ought
not to admit) to prolong a crisis which may render ine-
vitable consequences that Europe has so great an interest
in avoiding.
" You are authorised to read this dispatch to Count
Nesselrode, and even to give a copy thereof to his excel-
lency. " I am, &c.,
(Signed) " CLA.RENDON."

I PRICE SD•

.NJ VAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 11.
The Edinburgh, 58, Captain Hewlett, screw gunnery.
ship, returned to Spithead from her cruise last night,
and is reported to have answered very satisfactorily.
The Bulldog, 6, paddle-frigate, was commissioned pro
tem., on Friday morning by Lieutenant George H.
Clarke, First of the Blenheim, as the depot ship of the
steam reserve squadron at the port. Forty seamen and
marines of the Blenheim remain behind to bring forward
the Dauntless (screw), 24, and Dragon (paddle), 6,
steam-frigates, for eommi,sion.
Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert was hauled
under the shears yesterday morning, and had her
masts taken out, preparatory to being lengthened—
a transformation which will cost as much, we suspect,
as would furnish her Majesty with a new yacht.
The Plumper, 9, screw corvette, Commander Whar-
ton, was inspected at Spithead yesterday by Vice-Ad-
miral Sir Thomas Cochrane, the Commander-in-Chief,
after which she took in her powder, shell, &c., and is
now ready for service.
The Vulcan, screw troop-steamer, Commander Von
Donop, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from
Woolwich, to embark draughts of the 10th, 36th, 39th,
and 59th Regiments, which the Sprightly steam-tender
took out to her. She sailed this evening.
The artificers of this dockyard were given the half
holyday to-day which they usually receive on the day of
muster by the Lords of the Admiralty.
The Contest, 12, Commander the Hon. J. W. S.
Spencer, was paid off in this harbour yesterday.
The Antelope, 3, dispatch-packet, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Young, was inspected Sir Thomas Cochrane
on Friday evening, and yesterday morning she went to
Spithead.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 10.
The Lords of the Admiralty are expected at Moors-
head's Royal Hotel, on Tuesday and Wednesday, when
they will commence their annual inspection of the dock-
yard, the new steamyard at Keyham, the Royal William
Victualling-yard, and the other public naval establish-
ments. On Wednesday they dine with Port Admiral
Sir John Ommanney, and on Friday their Lordships
patronize a ball at St. George's-hall, Stonehouse, in aid
of the funds of the Royal British Female Orphan
Asylum.
Her Majesty's ship Harlequin, 12, Commander Arthur
p. S. Willmott, which left Ascension the 24th of July,
arrived here yesterday morning. In consequence of
this lung passage—seven weeks—her crew for the last
fortnight have been put on short allowance of water.
The Harlequin left Plymouth in December, 1850, and
has been ever since actively employed in the suppres-
sion of the slave trade on the coast of Africa. Her boats
have been engaged in many river expeditions, but she
has made no captures since she has been in commission.
Commander Willmott has, however, been a very suc-
cessful mediator in making treaties of peace among con-
flicting African tribes, and he and his crew have con-
ducted themselves very meritoriously in fixing a new
false keel to the Teazer, 2, screw tender to the Commo-
dore, which got ashore near Sierra Leone. It was con-
sidered necessary by the carpenters of the Penelope to
send the Teazer home, but Commander Wilmot, by
main force, hauled her up 90 feet, high and dry, upon
the beach, and completely repaired her. This extraor-
dinary effort, in such an unhealthy climate, has had its
effects on the brig's crew, who, though not now ill of
the fever, are suffering from weakness, especially their
chief. The master, Mr. Earl, died in the spring of
the year, when on detached service in the Volcano,
5, Commander Robert Coote, and Mr. Harris, acting-
master of the Waterwitch, 8, Commander Alan A.
Gardiner, is now doing duty on board the Waterwitch.
Lieutenant Commander W. R. A. Pearse, of the Athol,
4, storeship, having become sick, the First Lieuteiant
of the Waterwitch took charge of the Athol, and the
Second Lieutenant of the Harlequin went first of the
Waterwitch. Mr. T, B. Mitchell, acting mate of the
Spy, Lieutenant-Commander H. B.Beresferd, is now
acting lieutenant of the Harlequin. There have been
no promotions in the brig during her absence,
Commodore Bruce, in the Penelope, with the Crane,
6, Commander Thomas Miller, and the Myrmidon
steamer, Lieutenant-Commander W. K. Jolliffe, was off
the mouth of the Congo on the 6th of July.
The Philomel, 8, Commander Skene, was towed out
of harbour this morning by the Confiance steam-vessel,
and took her powder in, preparatory to sailing for the
coast of Africa.

Those officers and seamen of the Ajax, 58, screw
steam-ship, Captain M. Quin, who have been three years
in commission were paid off yesterday, and she was re-
commissioned to-day by Captain Frederick Warden.
The apprentices' brig Nautilus, 6, tender to the Im-
pregnable, Lieutenant-Commander Samuel B. Dolling,
came into harbour yesterday to refit.
The crew of the Ddalus, 20, Captain Wellesley,
sent down lower yards and topmasts on Thursday, and
unmasted her to-day. She will be paid off on Tuesday.
The brigs Scorpion and Mariner are ordered to be
commissioned at the port.

WOOLWICH, SEPT. 10.
APPOINTMENTS.

Secretary's Clerk.—Edward Faulkner (1847), to the
Impregnable, 104, flagship of Admiral Sir J. A. Om-
' manney, K.C.8., at Devonport.
Clerk. —Richard F. Wily (1852), to the St. Jean
d'Acre, 101, screw steam-ship, at Devonport.
Byron Stratford, H. F. Alldricks, John Rivers, and
F. A. Miles, have been appointed clerks'-assistants.
Lieutenant John Trevenan (1850), recently serving in
the Vulcan, has received his appointment to serve in the
sloop Arab, 12, at Chatham.
The Rifleman, 8, screw steam gun-vessel, is getting
rapidly on with her refitting, and will be out of the hands
of the dockyard and ready for commission in about a
month from this time. .

The Violet, iron padle-wheel Dover mail steam-
packet, of 120-horse power, Lieutenant Commander
Henry P. Jones, arrived here on Friday afternoon from
Dover, to have some repairs effected. The crew re-
turned on the following day by railway to Dover.

MALTA, SEPT. 2.

Advioes from Besika Bay to the 25th of August state
that there was a decided improvement in the health of
the crews of the British squadron. The Bellerophon,
Captain Lord G. Paulet, however, had an unusual num-
ber of sick on board, and continued at, Tenedos.

The Sampson, 6, paddle-frigate, Captain Jones, was
at Imbros.

The Firebrand, G,' paddle-frigate, Captain Parker,
which was relieved at Constantinople by the Inflexible,
ti, paddle-sloop, Commander Popplevrell, had been dis-
patched from Besika to visit Smyrna, Beyrout, Jaffa,
and Alexandria, and to rejoin the fleet by the end of
September.
The Modeste, 14, Commander Lord W. Compton,
left Malta on the 25th of August, for Naples and
Leghorn.
The Wasp, which arrived from Corfu on the 27th,
with the lonian and Greek mails, left with the return
mails on the 29th.

The directors of this company have issued a report on
the proceedings in Chancery instituted by Mr. Geach,
Mr. Scott, and others against them, to be considered at
the special meeting of proprietors, called by requisition,
at Shrewsbury, on Wedneylay, the 21st inst., They state
that the proprietors rre already sufficiently acquainted
with the charges brought against the directors by the
parties so deeply implicated in London and North-
Western interference with the affairs and independent
management of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Com-
pany ; that these parties have thought it not unbecom-
ing to transmit, not only to the Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham shareholders, but to those of the Shrewsbury
and Chester Company, copies of the bill filed by them, in
Chancery—a bill which the proprietors are called upon
to sanction and prosecute, notwithstanding the refusal
of the Vice-Chancellor (Sir W. P. Wood) to make any
order on the subjects embraced in it ; not one of the
numerous assertions affecting the honour and integrity
of the board having been sustained. The directors re-
commend an appeal to the Board of Trade, as likely to
reach the truth more directly and speedily than any
other arbitration ; Mr. Scott, for reasons only known to
himself, objected to any reference, save to himself and
the three gentlemen who were aiting with him as
accusers, counsel, jury, and judges. The Vice-Chan-
cellor fully concurred with the directors in the pro-
priety of calling in the Board of Trade, and unequivo-
cally gave his opinion that it remained with the
plaintiffs to show why that course had not been
adopted. The report concludes by stating that a proxy
paper is enclosed, having for its object the immediate
and definitive settlement of the question whether pay-
ment of Mr. Scott's expenses shall be ordered by this
company or left for liquidation by the London and
North-Western Company, the real promoters of the suit.
The directors might well have called for a stronger con-
demnation of the interference and oppression to which the
company has been subjected; but, believing that the
future interests of the proprietors will be best consulted
by a quiet yet resolute disapproval of these proceedings,
a simple negative to the demands of the requisitionists
is considered sufficient for the emergency, leaving it
open at the forthcoming election, in accordance with the
suggestion of the Vice-Chancellor, for any shareholder
to " state what his view is of what has been disclosed
on the affidavits and statements which have been made
in this case."