The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-24 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1854.

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and Every Day at Half-past Two and Eight o'clock.. The
Lecture is delivered by Mr. CHARLES KENNEY or Mr. J. H.
44TOCQUELER, and has been written by Mr. ALBERT SMITH
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"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy;
But not expressed In fancy ; rich, net gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man."—SHAXSPEAUE.
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HEMMENT and CO., Tailors, 73, Cornhill,
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requirements, invariably produce a garment, whether a Lady's Rid-
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to serve, economy and quality being duly regarded —Liveries.

ART -UNION OF LONDON. (By Royal
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orce an impression of a large plate of deep national and historical
interest, " TILBURY FORT ; WIND AGAINST TIDE :" By J. T.
Wilimore, A.R A., after C. Stanfield, R.A. The subscription closes
next Friday, 31st inst.
Each Prizeholder will be entitlel to select for himself, as hereto-
fore, a Work of Art from one of the public Exhibitions.

GEORGE GOD WIN, Honorary
444, West Qtrand, March. LEWIS POCOCK. 3 Secretaries.

TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters
Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de
Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna.
The long continuance of certain diseaes arising front impurities,
while it tends to render detection more certain, and thus frequently
to embitter the domestic hearth, also serves to excite feelings of die-
sppointment, and to induce lowness of spirits, and other sensations
'Wit most painful kind. 'rho cfree.nally, in the short
4ifface`Of three days, completely end entirely eradicates all traces of
these Dismes, to whatever stage they may have advanced, p ,ssess-
log at the same time the manifest advantages of being utterly devoid
of taste or smell, and of all nauseating qualities. It may lie on the
toilet table without its use being suspected.
Sold in tin cases at I ls. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into
separate doses, a 3 administered by Val peau, Lallemand , Roux,
Ike. This quantity is sufficient for any case, however virulent or
protracted.—To be had Wholesale and Retail at Johnston's, 68, Corn-
hill ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 110, Oxford-
street, London.

THE HOME COUNTIES AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
29, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London.
Every description of risk (home or foreign) connected with Life
Assurance Half Credit premium, on a new principle.
remb'ms ~ayahle yearly, half yearly, or quarterly.
One•half of all premiums after the first two years are repayable
to policy holders at any time on demand, without personal liability.
Annuities granted either immediate, contingent, ordeforred, and also
endowments.
Po,lcies indisputable.
No charge for policy stamps.
Money received on deposit at 5 per cent. interest.
Active Agents wanted in town or country, particularly In the
agricultural towns and villages.
Apply by letter, giving names and addresses of referees as to
Tespectability.

A. DURNFORD, Secretary.

SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
London.
SHARE OF PROFIT INCREASED FROST ONE-HALF TO
FOUR-FIFTHS.

Policies effected with this Society after Midsummer, 1850, and re-
maining in Jorce at each Septennial period of division, will PARTE3I-
PAT r; IN FOUR- FIF r tits of the let Profits of the Society accru-
ng after Midsummer, 185$, in proportion to their contributions to
those pre fits, and according to the conditions contained in the
Society') Prospectus.
The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives
are lower than in many other old-established offices, and Insurers
are fully protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in ad-
dition to the accumulated fluids derived from the investments of
Premiums.

Policy Stamps paid by the Office.
Prospectuses may be obtained at the Office in Threadneedle-street,
London, or of any of the Agents of the Society.
CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary.

mETROPOLITAN LIFE ASSURANCE
_ _SOCIETY. _

No. 3, Princes-street, Bank.

The Directors hereby give notice to Members whose Premiums fall
due on the sth of April nett, that the same must be PAID within
Thirty days from that date
The Premiums are paid Yearly, Half-yearly, or Quarterly, on
the sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October,
either of which several days constitutes the commencement of the
year to Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So-
ciety as Members on the sth of April next, should appear or lodge
their proposals at the office on or before that day.

This Society, for Mutual and General Assurance, appropriates the
whole of its profits to the benefit of parties assuring their own lives
for the whole term of life as Members of the Society.

For the year ending the sth of April, 1854, an abatement of 51 per
cent. has been declared on the Premiums of all Members of Five
Years' standing and upwards.
RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Superintendent.
Princes street, Bank, March 13, 1854.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE Cjlil PANT,
No. 11, Lombard-street, London.
DIRECTORS.
Sir WALTER R. FARQUHAR, Bart.. Chairman.
FRANCIS HART DYKE, Esq.. Deputy-Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Btewart Marjoribanks, Esq.
John Dixon, Esq. John NI artin,Esq , M.P.
Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Bart. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
T. Hankey, jun., Esq., M.P. James Morris, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
John G. IlutZard, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Jun., Esq.
George Johnatone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
John I abouch,re, Esq. James Tulloch. Esq.
John Loch, Esq. Henry Yigne, Esq..

_ _ ,TORS.
A. W. Robarts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Lewis Lloyd, jun., Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq.
SECRETARY—Georgo Keys, Esq.
Ac=Any—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.

AUDI'

LIFE DEPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par-
liament, this Company now offers to future insurers Four-fifths of
the Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium
without participation of Profits.
The next division of Profits will be declared in June, 1855, when
all participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year
at Christmas labs, will be allowed to share in the Profits.
At the several pest divisions of Profits made by this Company, the
Reversionary Bonuses added to the Policies from One-half the
Profits amounted, on an average of the different ages, to about One
per Cent p r Annum on the sums insured, and the total Bonuses
added at the Four Septennial Divisions exceeded 770,0001.
FOREIGN RISK. S.—The Extra Premiums required for the East
and West Indies. the Firitish Colonies, and the northern parts of the
United -tates of America, have been materially reduced.
I S VALID LIVES.- Persons who are not hi such sound health as
would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums,
may hay. their Lives insured at Extra Premiums.
LOANS granted on f.ife Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 50/.

ASSION3IF.NTS OF I)oll6l7E6.—Written Notices of, received
and rerlstered.
_ _

M edical fees paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for
Policy Stampi.
Notice is hereby given, that FIRE POLICIES which expire at
Lady-dio, n:ust be renewed within fifteen days at this Oftce or with
Mr. ems, No. I, St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall; or with
the Company's Agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they be-
come void.

INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY
COMPANY,
No. 72, Lombard-street, London.
TRUSTEES.
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. MP. ,onn Campbell Renton, EA.
James Fuller Madox, Esr4 I Richard Spooner, Esq., M•r-
William Wilberforce, Esq.
DIRECTORS.

William Adams, Esq. Robert H. Forman, Esq.
John Atkins. Esq. John Hamilton, Esq.
H. A. Bevan, Esq. J. Mathews. Esq.
John Dangerfield, Esq. Chas. 0. Parnell, Esq.
W. Williams, Esq.

IVOT.ICIia to BUILDERS. ORDNANCE
WORKS.—BULL POINT, near Devonport.—Sealed Tenders
for ERECTING a BASIN and CONSTRUCTING an EMBANK-
MENT will he received at the Ordnance Office, Pall Mall, London,
on or before the 224 day of April, 1854, at noon, addressed "To the
Secretary. to the Board of Ordnance,V and endorsed " Tender for
Works at Lull Point."

Detailed plans may he seen. and specifleatisns, form of tender, and
all other necessary information obtained, at the Royal. Engineer
Office, Bull Point, between the hours of 9 and 4, daily; from the 27th.
March to tho 20th April, 1454, Sundays excepted.
Royal Engineer Office, Devonport, March, 1854.

KINGSTON ASSIZES. -LONDON AND
.SOUTII,IVESTERN ItAILWAY.--On Monday next.. 27th

inst., and during the Assizes, A SPECIAL TRAIN, at ordinary
fares, will leave Waterloo at 8.0 am. for Kingston, calling at inter-
mediate station.

ARCIIIY. SCOTT, Traffic Manager.
Waterloo Station, March, 1851.

T ONDON & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
XI REDUCTION in the CHARGE for SMALL PARCELS.

The Public are requested to take notice, that on and after the 20th
February, 1854, Parcels of lib. weight and under will be conveyed
between London and Liverpool, Manchester, Huddersdeld, Stock-
port, Chester, Warrington, and Preston only, at a charge of Sixpence,
including delivery within the usual boundaries. And Parcels of 21b.
weight and under, at a charge of One Shilling.

To insure the transmis.ion of Parcels by this conveyance, they
must be delivered to the cluipany at one of their stations named
above, or at one of the following offices of their agents (Messrs.
Horne and Chaplin), in London : Spread Eagle, Gracechurch-st. ;
Swan-with-two-Necks, Gresham-street (late Lad-lane) ;Cross Keys,
Wood-street, Cheapside ; Bolt-in-Tun, 64, Fleet-street ; White
Horse, 90, Fetter-lane; 90, The Borough, Southwark; George and
Blue B•lir, 269, High Holborn ; Old White House Cellar, 155, Picca-
dilly; Golden Cross, Charing-cross ; Do., 33, Regent's-cireus ; Spread
Eagle, Regent's-circus ; Griffin's Green Man and Still, 335, Oxford-
street.

The Company will not hold themselves liable for detention or loss
to any parcel not delivered to them at one of their own offices, or to
the charge of their agents.

By order of the Directors.

A LLSO PP'S PALE ALE, Imperial Quarts
ad
P;ritz,
Bottled by PARKER and TWINFNG, Beer Merchant/,
SM, PALL-MALL.
Quarts, Bs.; pints, 55,. half-pints (for luncheon), as. per dozen.
Also in casks of 18 gallons and upwards.
We refer the learned to Baron Liebig, the temperate to Dr. Car-
penter, Invalids to the Medical Profession, and the robust to the best
Clubs of London, for the merits of our stock of ALLSOPP'B ALE.
The " Thirsty Soul" and "Constant Reader" of the Times we can
also satisfy with our Imperial Measure.

interests of Europe has no claim in its hour of
peril on the support of those it has abandoned.
The severity of her punishment was equal to the
magnitude of her fault, and her conduct in the
last two years of the war, which gave her a large
share of the glory and the spoils of victory in
some degree effaced from memory the scandalous
insincerity and the deplorable consequences of
her former policy. Unhappily, unless the energy
of the country can be roused to asserts its
independence and its right to a place among
the civilised nations of Europe, in_this contest,
the Prussian Cabinet appears determined to
act on• the. precedent of 1795, rather than
on that of 1813, and to separate itself altogether
from the cause in which this country is engaged.
We have still, however, too much respect•for the
sense and patriotism of the Germans to believe
that they can resign themselves to play so tame,
and at the same time so perilous a part, or to feel
indifference when their honour and their interests
are so nearly at stake.

We are told that already, in Northern Germany,
large numbers of persons are repairing to Kiel, in
the hope of seeing the magnificent naval armament,
which will probably soon be lying in those inland
German waters ; and we have no doubt that the in-
stinctive enthusiasm of the people will be excited
by the reflection that this fleet has entered those
seas on no hostile errand to Germany. Its presence
is the pledge of the opening of the Baltic and the
independence of the North. What, on the contrary,
would be their position if Russia held by her mari-
time superiority in the Baltic complete possession of
that sea, as she must do if the Western Powers
were not resolved to confine her within the shelter
of her -ton coasts ? What, again, would be the fate
of Dantsic, Stettin, Memel, and Lubeck, if
German interests were sacrificed to the demands
of Russia, and the whole north coast of Pomerania
closed by blockade ? It is impossible that the
presence of this fleet should not remind the North
Germans that the theatre of war is at their own
doors, and that their independence is involved in
the success of the Western Powers. It rests mainly
with them and their Government to decide whether
this war is to be long or short, perilous to Europe,
or decisive of the independence of all nations. They
have repeatedly challenged us to take the part
which befits this country in such au enterprise, and
we have reluctantly but resolutely obeyed that call.
It remains to be seen whether Germany is still an
ally of England or of Russia, for to halt between
the two is to forfeit the confidence of both.

(Front the Morning Citromicle.)

It is impossible to define beforehand, with any
degree of accuracy, the objects of the war. The
chief desire of the Allies is to secure the peace of
Europe against all future attempts at aggrandise-
ment on the part of Russia. The process of
encroachment on the territory of Turkey has been
going on for more-than a century ; and the steps
by which it has been concluded are marked by
the various treaties and conventions which have,
from time to time, been imposed on the weaker
Power. It follows that one condition of a durable
peace must be the revision, if not the abolition,
of all the engagements which the Porte has
been compelled to contract with the Court of
St. Petersbut. The Western Powers would,
for the sake of peace have indhced their ally to
assent to the restoration of the status quo ante ;
but the failure of all negotiation leaves them fully
at liberty to resolve on the establishment of a
safer and more equitable system. Among other
necessary changes, the oppressive Protectorate over
Wallachia, Moldavia, and Servia, must be alto-
agtethsetr. apbeotliesrshbedu.rg,ltnhteheEmcepleel;roarteddecsocrinvbeersad
tthioonses
Principalities as having already become dependen-
cies of Russia ; yet this supremacy was obtained,
under colour of conventions by -which, while the
Sultan retained the titular sovereignty of the Da-
nubian provinces, both Governments bound them-
selves to abstain from interference with 'the inter-
nal administration. By the separate act annexed
to the Treaty of Adrianople, the local authorities
were permitted to institute a quarantine along the
left bank of the river. This stipulation was carried
into effect by the establishment of Russian police-
stations on the entire frontier ; and all intercourse,
either with Turkey or with foreign countries, was
systematically discouraged, while the development
of the national commerce was impeded by every
possible obstacle. Whatever arrangement may
hereafter be adopted with respect to the provinces
in question, it would be highly inexpedient to
renew treaties which have' given rise to
abuses so grievous. The claims of Russia to
interfere in the affairs of Wallachia and Mol-
davia were originally founded on provisions very
similar in character to those which were contained
in the Menschikoff demands, and slightly modified
in the Vienna Note ; and as the war has arisen
from attempts to extend a local and qualified Pro-
tectorate to the whole Ottoman Empire, it will
evidently be prudent to abolish it with respect to
the territories in which it has hitherto been
established.

The designs of Russia have, however, been for-
warded by other means, no less insiduous and dan-
gerous than her attempts at meddling in the in-
ternal affairs of Turkey. It was considered by the
Czar quite as advantageous to urge friendship
and protection upon the Porte as to interfere
between the Sovereign and the subject. The
Christians of the Ottoman Empire have been
greatly in error if they have supposed that any re-
pugnance existed at St. Petersburg to the closest
alliance with the Sultan. In 1833, the cele-
brated Treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi bound the Em-
peror, at all times, and in whatever cause, to
place his whole forces at the service of .the Porte ;
and the Turkish Government, in return, only con-
tracted the obligation to close the Dardanelles,
under all circumstances, to foreign ships of war.
In other words, the Sultan was induced to re-
nounce his claim to the support of Europe, and
especially of the Western Powers, and bound him-
self, on all occasions, to adopt the quarrels of his
overbearing ally. It was in the hope of isolating
Turkey by a separate arrangement of the same
kind, that the original Menschikoff convention was
' drawn up ; and, on the condition of treating with
Russia alone, the Porte might have obtained terms
ostensibly more favourable than' those which were
afterwards offered through the Conference of
Vienna. In 1853, as in 1833, the Emperor was
willing to reward so great and dangerous a conces-
sion by offering to employ all the forces at his dis-
posal in maintaining the Ottoman power.

- It is impossible to judge whether compliance
with this proposal would have purchased a respite
from aggression. The Emperor Nicholas was -as-
suring the English Minister at St. Petersburg that
Turkey was on the verge of dissolution, about
the same time that his Envoy was urging on the
acceptance of the Porte a guarantee against all do-
mestic or external attacks. Had that guarantee
been accepted, it is not improbable that the seizure
of Constantinople would eventually have taken
place, under the pretext of occupation by an
auxiliary force. The jealousy, of Europe might
have been less dangerously excited by the com-
mencement of the new Byzantine Empire under
colour of the Sultan's authority, than by avowed
projects of spoliation and conquest. Once estab-
lished on the shores of the Bosphorus, the Russian
armies would have had comparatively little diffi-
culty in maintaining
their position • and the Im-
perial Mayor of the Palace would ;and
engrossed
all the powers of Government before openly de-
claring that the dynasty of Othman had ceased to
reign. It is as a precaution against similar dangers
hereafter that the Porte has been required to
abstain from negotiating a separate peace with the
enemy.
No mere promises, whether contained in a treaty
or otherwise, can give any security against a re-
newal of Russian plots for the subversion of the
Ottoman empire. The intrigues which have never
been interrupted, except by periodical declarations
of war, will certainly be renewed on the restora-
tion of peace, unless material impediments are in-
terposed by the Great Powers. The statement in
the Moniteur, which appeared in our second edi,
tion yesterday, only confirms a suspicion which
had already been confidently entertained. The
rejection, by the English Government, of the Em-
peror's iniquitous proposals was it seems imme-
diately followed by efforts to effect the same object
by the aid of France ; and the " word of a gentle-
man" was almost simultaneously pledged, in Lon-
don, in Paris, and in Constantinople to three
incompatible courses of action. It is highly pro-
bable that a further confidential statement
was, at the same time, made at Vienna.
The acquiescence of Prussia was taken for
granted, not, as it appears, without suffi-
cient reason. Whenever peace is restored, it will
be desirable, should it be found practicable, to
put an end to a kind of diplomatic activity which
has proved utterly inconsistent with the tranquil-
lity of Europe.
It may be thought premature, before the com-
mencement of hostilities, to'discuss the conditions
, on which they may, at some indefinite period, be
, • discontinued ; but, in this instance, the terms of