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protest against the severance of Moldavia from
Turkey is still on its road to its destination. Nor
must it be forgotten that there are other elements
of uncertainty and danger, over which the me-
diating Powers have no control ; for, at any mo- •
ment, the news may arrive that a change of ,
Ministry at Constantinople has precipitated hosti-
lities, notwillistanding the prudent advice tendered
by England and France to the Porte. When
diplomacy is employed in adjusting the terms of an
arrangement which all parties seriously desire, a
mere analysis of the facts and beari of the case
will often supply materials for a co dent antici-
pation of the result ; but it is alwiri difficult to
calculate on the passions of individuals, or to fore-
see the extent to which ambition may outweigh the
dictates of justice and prudence. Were the Czar
determined on extorting, at all hazards, the sub-
mission of his opponents, war would ensue, in spite
of all reasons in favour of peace.
It cannot, however, be too often repeated that
ostentatious preparations for war may, after all,
be only a machinery of intimidation ; nor can it
be supposed that Russian statesmen are unable
to count fleets and armies, although it may have
been thought expedient to assure the people that
the Emperor's enemies will be scattered like dust
before the wind. Should the aggressor persist in
his design, he would embark in the contest with-
out an open ally, and even without a secret well-
wisher. Austria and Prussia live in constant
dread of their encroaching Reighbour,. and the
minor Princes of Germany have ncrcterare to be-
come Muscovite pensioners, on a livel with the
Prince of Georgia or the descendaiitsk)f the Khan
of the Crimea. Even the immediate object of the
Imperial aggression would be by no means a con-
temptible enemy. Behind the Danube, the Turkish
dominions are protected by three strong fortresses, ,
defended by a race unsurpassed in the obstinate
courage with which they meet besiegers. Some
doubts may be entertained of the quality of the
Turkish infantry, and it is not probable that, in a
regular campaign, they could face the Russian
army on equal terms. Yet it is known that the
military organisation of the Ottoman Empire has
been greatly improved since the war which ended
in 1829, nor could the Russians again count on the
disloyalty which, at that time, had been caused by
the then recent reforms of Sultan Mahmoud. Die-

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THE EASTERN QUESTION.

(From the Times.)
We understand that a telegraphic dispatch has
been received by her Majesty's Government from
Vienna, from which it appears that the Emperor
of Russia has accepted the propositions of the Four
Powers. At the time when the last Cabinet courier
from St. Petersburgh left that capital the proposal
in. question had not yet been received there, but an
intimation had already been given by the Russian
Government to the British Minister that it was the
Emperor's intention to accept the terms recom-
mended to him by the Conference at Vienna. That
decision is now announced to have taken place, and
we trust that we may congratulate the country and
the rest of Europe on the speedy termination of the
prolonged crisis which has already produced so
much serious loss and embarrassment, and has
threatened to cause still more formidable conse-
quences to the peace and tranquillity of the world.
This result—if, as we have now reason confidently
to hope, it be indeed attained—is the most con-
clusive answer to the taunts and impatience of that
party which has urged urged upon the Government
a more active policy, and it is the appropriate re-
ward of the steady forbearance with which these ne-
gotiations have been conducted. At the same
time, after the repeated alternations and disappoint-
ments which have occurred in the course of this
question, we cannot place entire confidence in any
declaration of the Russian Government until it has
been followed by positive and immediate compli-
ance with the terms proposed. As long as the
Russian armies continue to occupy any portion of
the Turkish territory, a flagrant infraction of the
public law of Europe has been committed, and the
arrangement to which Russia is now understood to
accede must, of course, include an entire and im-
mediate cessation of a state of things which is utterly
inconsistent with the independence of the East and
the peace of Europe. We shall therefore await
with the utmost impatience the fuller details which
must soon reach us as to the nature and extent of
the terms to which Russia gives her assent. Until
they are known and acted upon we cannot regard
this period of suspense as entirely at an end ;
but, from telegraphic dispatch which has been
already received, we believe that the first and most
important step has been taken, that the Cabinet of
St. Petersburgh ceases to hold out against the
united determination of Europe, and that, if the
most ordinary good faith be observed by the Em-
peror in the subsequent stages of this transaction,
he will escape the disgrace and the danger of in-
flicting the horrors of war upon the world.

bitsch, after buying the frontier fortresses, crossed
the Balkan with so much difficulty that he was
only saved from a disastrous retreat by the sudden
conclusion of the Treaty of Adrianople. In the
event of a new invasion, many risks would be run
before Menschikoff or Gortschakoff could establish
a second claim to the title of Sabalkanski. The
Turkish fleet, already strengthened by the Egyptian
contingent, numbers as many gnus as the Russian
fleet in the Black Sea ; and on the eastern coast of
the Euxine, thousands of fanatical Mussulmans are
ready to engage in a crusade on behalf of the repre-
sentative of the Prophet. The Circassians must
already be meditating the recovery of the frontier
from which, in the course of twenty years of war,
they have been slowly and painfully pushed back.
The army of the Caucasus at least would spare no
aid to the forces on the Danube ; and it is not im-
probable that Persia also would take a part in the
general struggle.
The resistance of Europe would, however, be far
more formidable. England alone has power to
close the Sound and the Bosphorus, and to shut
up the Russian fleet in Cronstadt and Sebastopol.
France, again, is singly superior to Russia at sea,
and certainly not inferior by land. Were Louis
Napoleon to throw his whole strength into the
struggle, the Russian army would be overmatched
even on the Danube; and, meanwhile, Austria
would stand by, with forces equal to those of
Russia, to watch the course of events. It is true
that the Emperor Nicholas may at one time have
persuaded himself that, by audacity, he could
paralyse or divide his antagonists ; but no war of
conquest has hitherto been undertaken in the face
of so overwhelming a preponderance of strength.
If, under these circumstances, Russia refuses to
evacuate the Principalities, it is evident that the
defiance thrown out to Europe will have been de-
liberate and premeditated. So dangerous a reso-
lution can only be taken from a desire of aggran-
dis ement too strong to yield either to conciliation
or to menaces. The persevering moderation of
England and France may have offered some strate-
gic advantages to the invader, but it will nut have
been the cause of the war. On the other hand, it
will be much to have satisfied the whole world that
the blame rests exclusively with the Imperial
aggressor ; nor is it a trifling advantage to have
waited until the bias of the Austrian Government
yielded to the pressing necessity of union with the
Western Powers.

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(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The telegraphic intelligence which we elsewhere
publish, announcing the Emperor of Russia's ac-
ceptance of the propositions agreed to by the repre-
sentatives of the Four Powers at Vienna, may, to
a certain extent, be regarded as satisfactory, inas-
much as it indicates an approximation towards a
pacific—and, let us hope, an honourable—solution
of the present difficulties in Eastern Europe. In
the absence, however, of any definite information
as to the extent and nature of those propositions,
we are of course unable to judge of the precise
value to be set on the Imperial assent to the terms
which they embody. In particular, until we learn
that the proposals in question contemplate the im-
mediate and unconditional evacuation of the Prin-
cipalities, it would be unsafe to assume that the
acquiescence of the Court of St. Petersburgh affords
any guarantee for the peaceful termination of the
dispute. After all that we have seen of the
o rtnhi
the
mingled violence and bad faith which have charac-
terised
impossible—especiallythepanubian
Provinces—to
a s regards
take
evitalanything qu e question
ifoonr
terised the policy of Russia in this matter, it is
The Board of Trade returns for the month ending the
sth of July, issued this m •
granted which is not distinctly and specifically
a classess
expressed.
In the meanwhile, it is scarcely probable that money,rweoserkltisn sufficient to explain
the Marquis of Clanricarde will elicit, by his ques-gin
increasing
edetrao
demand
drnfisohr
tion this evening, any satisfactory information unntorw manifesting itself by strikes in all
parts of the co
corres-
as to the conduct of the Russian authorities pending month of country. As
As compared with the
in the Principalities. No direct accounts from portations again shows year,an the declared value of
diffe-
Moldaviaex-
have been received since the conver- rence being 1,003,6371. enormousThis increase, the
cation on the subject which, a few days ago, satisfactorily spread over every b augmentation is still
arose in the House of Lords ; and after dispatch- only item in which there is a fallingraneh of production, the
ing a special messenger to St. Petersburgh with importance being wool, which, off of the slightest
a remonstrance against the proceedings forced has simply been retained at homaes because
t ehre oe cxctar
as loornp
demand of our own manufacturers
on the Hospodar, Lord Clarendon can scarcely par demand u prevents us from
s
commit himself to any further step until he has aii.tahromugghanays for shdipsmthent. It is also to be remarked, that
roewgainrflueneeeedxtent to which the totals of each
received an answer. Nor can the particular acts
month are n
of the Russian commanders in the principalities allowance the rise in prices of raw ma-
terial some considerable
have much influence on the ultimate alternative of fact that cotton, the most important is to be made, the
peace or war. The withdrawal or suspension of mains at last year's quotations
of the whole, re-
allegiance to the Porte completes the case of usur- weight of this consideration. Ants
the
eiminishes greatlyhe the
pation against the Court of St. Petersburgh ; and that the prosperity exhibited has evidently time,been shuawredvebr;
we cannot have any direct concern with the pro- all departments of trade, the hep,dsn under which the
visional forms of a Government which it is impos- greatest increase is observable are such at to denote that
Bible for us to recognise as legitimate. The real the attractions of the Australian market have superseded
all others. Hence, notwithstanding
question for the allied powers is, not whether the
last accounts, there will be
reason for great anxiety as
leaders of the invading army abuse their position, to the ultimate fate of the aggregate
but whether they are to continue to hold it. Public that quarter, effected, as they a consignmentst forto
law was violated when the Pruth was crossed ; and labour that would render theirive been, at a o
saorificeonthecspsotat
no man seriously supposed that a country subject low prices, or their reshipment to other countries, alto-
to military occupation would retain its practical in- gether ruinous. Meanwhile, whatever may be the pros-
dependence, even if a show of regard for constitu- , pect pending the next arrivals, which will probably
tional forms had been preserved. The decision bring ietelligenhce of the effect of the supply of goods
rests, as in almost all cases of crime, with the taken outofbyltBse2nuamoderowuesr vessels that left England at
the wrong-doer alone. France and England are tchhea end
nnel, enough is shown t: :I° long windbound in the
willing at the last moment to accept explanations, explain the state thtatemtiums
naturally prevail in the money-market
the aggressor will relinquish the territories which
that this trade, with its peculiYa-rmitarkoeftidurind h
long -deferred re-
efehe has seized. In the event of a refusal, they also i
turns, shall remain unchecked, anyd to confirmuu the anti-
must put forth their strength ; and any efforts , cipations expressed at the commencement of the year,
which they may make to restore the political , that the bullion in the Bank of England might, from
equilibrium of the world will have the countenance
! circumstances of the kind, be subject to unusual alter-
and support, if not the direct aid, of Austria and ! nations.
Prussia, both of which are justly alarmed for their I The aggregate value of our exports wring the first
own security while their neighbour's house is six months of the year has been 41,866,557/., against
flames. The minor states of Europe will watch 33,549,3921., showing an increase of 8,317,1651., or
with breathless anxiety the result of negotia- exactly 25 per cent., which has occurred in the following
tion or of war. Every prince on the continent, I order :F— 5
February ... ••• ••• ... R 1,410,060
despotic or constitutional, will know that his March 5 ... ••• ...
... 919,097
very existence depends ou the solution of the ques- April 5 ... ..• ... ... 1,06,818
tions which have now been raised. For nearly forty
May 5 ... ... ... ... 2,309,995
years, treaties have been sufficient to restrain the
ju„ 5 •
... ... ... ... 1,187,
,558
July 5
great military monarchies from attempts at tern-1
, ...
... ... ... 1,003637
tonal aggrandisement ;but if Russia is allowed to
As compared with the same period of 1851, there has
been an increase of 7,772,7041.
seize adjacent dominions at her pleasure, the prece-
-1 As regards the articles of food taken into consurnp-
dent of rounding off frontiers at the expense of
tion, the i h been kbl
ncrease as remar a e, and affords an-
weaker States may be followed with dangerous other indication of the rate of immediate
facility.
that is going on while we are waiting for the proceeds
- Among the many unfortunate consequences of of the trade by which our outlay is justified. Provisions
coffee, r, tea, rice, spirits, wines,
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CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE pion of order : and even after the commencement 0
trust-
the
of the quantity in the same period of 1852, while of
Illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engraving' s and of the present alarming crisis, the jargon of trusu-
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best- •f in ormed statesmen. The accounts which
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August, 1554, furnaces in the metropolis are to consume
their own smoke. Steam-vessels on the Thames between
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are to consume their own smoke.
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smoke is only used therein.
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ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

Spohr's Jessonda, one of the announcements made by
Mr. Gye in his opening programme, was. produced on
Saturday night. It would, we believe, have been
brought out during the recent visit of the illustrious
composer to this country, but there were difficulties in
the way that prevented the consummation of this in-
tention, and it has been unfortunately deferred until the
season is fairly on the wane, arid many of our most
refined and judicious amateurs--to whom a hearing of
this most charming of works would have been an inex-
pressible treat—absent from the metropolis. This is
much to be regretted, for the production of the Jessonda
is a worthy act on the part of the manager, and entitles
him to the gratitude of all who can appreciate the higher
developments of music and derive delight from its truest
sources.

It is idle to descant upon an opera so well known to
all true connoisseurs, but we cannot refrain from refer-
ring cursorily to its leading points. Of these, the duet
between the chief Brahmin and the novice • the duet
with the sisters which precedes the breaking of staves
and the extinction of the lights which symbolise the im-
.

pending sacrifice ; and the trio in which-the young priest
delivers his fatal message, are the most remarkable of

the first act. In the second, the air alla Espagnuola of
Tristano ; another duet between the sisters (one of the

loveliest effusions of domestic and sentimental tender-

ness that the world of art possesses) ; and the exquisite
air of Amazili, in which she responds to the admiration
of Nadori, may be cited : adding to them the distracted
love plaints, the theme of the air of Tristano, and

the pious and exultant apostrophe of Jessonda, which
are the two principal solos of the third. If there are

sceptics as to the descriptive power, of Spohr we could
point to the Brahminical hymns in the temple, the fan-
tastic strains of the Bayederes, the choruses of the Por-
tuguese soldiers, and the appalling omens which presage
the downfal of the idol and the capture of the city, as
instances of musical painting, which it would be, indeed,
hard to excel in truth of detail and picturesqueness of
effect.

The execution of the opera on Saturday night was in
every way worthy of the house ; and we were scarcely
prepared for so successful a delivery of a work which has
but little in common with the ordinary routine of Italian
vocalism. Mme. Angiolina Bosio was the representative
of Jessonda, and Mme. Castellan of her sister Amazil,
both highly interesting personations, the latter parti-
cularly so. The two duets, which may be pronounced
the gems of the opera, were beautifully rendered by these
ladies, who sang them with a delicacy and taste to which
we are bound to render every praise. Madame Bosio
was encored in the delicious movement in the first act,
in which she dwells with fond remembrance on the hap-
piness of bygone days. She might, however, have
thrown both into her deportment and singing a greater
amount of dramatic fire. She sang sweetly and cor-
rectly, and with a refinement which we have already
panegyrised ; but Spohr, in reality, was left to make his
own impression. This he did ; nevertheless, the tame-
ness of the artist was a drawback which she may reason-
ably be counselled to amend. Madame Castellan, on
the other hand, sang with the utmost fervour ; and her
delivery of the music was as interesting as it was
faultless. Signor Lucchesi, as Nadori, came out of
the ordeal with unexpected ability, and a very useful
singer was discovered in a member of the troupe who has
hitherto had but a limited opportunity of distinguishing
himself. The air of the impressionable novice, in which
he throws off the moral bondage of the temple, demands
both skill and power ; and Signor Lucchesi, notwith-
standing certain coarsenesses and redundancies of style,
displayed both. Belletti, who sustained the part of the
Portuguese general, won an encore by his neat and
spirited interpretation of the Spanish air in the second
act ; and the grave and definite sonority of the voice
of Formes, in the solos of the high priest was
invaluable. The chorus singers were not uniformly
good, occasional uncertainties in the first finale betray-
ing an imperfect state of discipline. But nothing could
exceed the excellence of the orchestra. The well-known
overture was not only finely played, but the accompani-
ments throughout were given with a precision, richness,
and colour which adequately sustained the reputation of
the Royal Italian body of instrumentalists. It is in
operas of this recondite texture that the worth of these
accomplished players is really and unmistakeably felt.
The executive ensemble was well supported by the
scenic adjuncts. Mr. William Beverly has painted a
very beautiful landscape for the second act, delineating
the encampment of the Portuguese invaders, backed by
a line of distant mountains, bathed in a warm trans-
parent atmosphere. The decorations are not altogether
new, but they have been selected with care, and the
general coup d'ceil is costly and appropriate.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert honoured the performances with their presence.
The Queen and the Prince were accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred.
The Royal suite consisted of the Marquis of Ormonde, the
Hon. Mary Seymour, the Hon. Matilda Paget, Capt. the
Hon. Dudley De Ros, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Gibbs.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge also honoured
the theatre with his presence. Major the Hon. James
Macdonald was in attendance upon his Royal Highness.
Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward
of Saxe Weimar were also present. Among the fashion-
able company in the boxes and stalls we remarked the
Prince Doria, his Excellency Count Creptowitch, Russian
Minister at Brussels ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, the
Marchioness of Blandford, the Marquis of Bath, the
Marchioness of Hastings and Lady Bertha Hastings and
Captain Yelverton, R.N., the Marchioness of Ailesbury,
the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina
Villiers, the Earl of Bessborough, the Earl Bruce, the
Earl of Gifford, the Countess Dowager of Essex and
Miss Johnston, the Countess of Harrington and Lady
Geraldine Stanhope, the Earl of Wilton. the Coun-
tess of Glengall and Lady Margaret Butler, the
Earl Granville, the Countess Paulett and Miss Dor-
mer, Viscountess Goderich, Viscount Sydney, Vis-
count Clifden, Viscount Enfield, Count Louis Corte,
Viscount Canterbury, Lord William Powlett, M.P. ;
Lord Elphinstone, Lord Adolphus Vane, Lord Milford,
Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord Wodehouse, Lord
Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., Lady Suffield, and Lady
Caroline Cust and Lady Augusta Cadogan, Lord Arthur
Hay, Lord Grey de Wilton and Lady Elizabeth Grey
Egerton, Lord and Lady Foley and the Hon. Adelaide
Foley, Lady Augusta Gordon and the Misses Kennedy
Erskine, Hon. C. Hardinge, M.P., Hon. Mrs. G.
Anson and Miss Anson, Hon. C. Hanbury, M.P. ;
Hon. Henry Curzon, Hon. Strange Jocelyn, Hon.
Mr. Grey Egerton, Lady Janet Waldron and Miss
Waldron, Lord Ernest Bruce, Honourable Mrs. Eger-
ton, Honourable John Fortescue, Honourable F. Cal-
thorpe, Right Honourable C. A. Villiers, M.P. ; Baron
de Steinberg, Lady Burghersh, Hon. G. A. Browne and
Miss Blacker, Hon. Otway Toler, Hon. Jacob A stley,
Hon. Mrs. Ives, Lady Howard and Miss Ponsonby,
Lady Molesworth, Sir William and Lady De Bathe,
and Mrs. Villiers Hatton, and the Hon. Misses
Boyle, Sir Henry Webb, Sir George Armytage,
Lady Macfarlane, Sir John Lister Kaye, Lady
Ashworth and Miss Ashworth, Sir C. Marshall, Sir H.
Vivian, Admiral Ryder Burton and the Hon. Mr.
Ryder Burton, Colonel Lockyer Freestun, M.P., and
Mrs. Lockyer Freestun, Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P.,
Colonel Rose, Colonel Steele, Colonel Blane, Colonel
Tyrwhitt, Major Gage, Major Fludgate, Captain
Lumley, Captain Meyrick, Captain Dame; Captain
Duff and Mrs. Duff, Captain Pakenham, Mr. Monta-
gue Gore, Mr. Webster, Mr. Uzielli, Mr. Knightley,
Mr. W. Rose, Mr. Augustus Lumley, Mr. and Mrs.
Coghlan, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Henry Greville, Mr.
H. W. Currie, Mr. and Mrs. Newton Scott, Mr. W.
Gregory, Mr. E. Bligh, Mr. Forster, M.P., Mr. Law,
Mr. Martineau, Mr. Vane, Mr. Leopold Redpath, Mr.
Thistlethwayte, Mr. Vansittart, Mr. Valentine Browne,
M.P., Mr. Leslie, M.P., Mr. Jervoise Smith, &c.

ATROCIOUS MURDER.—The neighbourhood of Hatfield
has been painfully excited for the last two or three days
by the commission of a most brutal murder by a disso-
lute wretched-looking tramp, who described himself to
be a Spaniard, named Miguel Eschiero. The unfortu-
tunate victim was a well-conducted boy, aged 14, of the
name of Scales, son of the shepherd of Colonel F. Gre-
ville, of North Mimms. The coroner's inquest was held
on Friday, and, from what was elicited, there is little
doubt that the prisoner has taken part in umany des-
perate burglaries which have recently been committed
in the district. It appears that in the course of
Thursday, Webb, a gamekeeper on the estate, had
his attention drawn to a suspicious-looking character
in an adjacent barley-field, who apparently was setting
snares. As soon as the fellow saw the keeper he ran
away, and Webb sent a dog after him, which caught
him by the boot. On Webb coming up to the man, he
made a desperate struggle, in which the keeper received
a fearful blow on the back of the head from a bludgeon
which the accused had in his hand. At, length he was
secured, and, with assistance, he was brought to the po-
lice station. The police observed his hands, fingers, and
nails, and parts of his trousers were stained with blood,
and, upon some questions being put to him, he muttered
something to the effect that he had murdered Webb's
companion (the poor boy was employed to watch the
plantation). Inspector English, the officer who had the
case in hand, then returned to the barley field, and he
discovered a part of the crop to be trodden, as if by
some person severely struggling, and the ground spotted
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spot that
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with blood. On the officer proceeding a little further,
he found the lifeless body of the unfortunate lad ; the
head was shockingly mutilated, as if beaten in
by some heavy instrument. It was evident that
the poor boy had been murdered, and on the prisoner
being taxed with causing his death he said that he was
obliged
pose, and, being disturbed by the dece-s
prisoner went into the plantation for some illegal
d pur-
aitndineffseelfct.d his e, h e Instantly
found a napkin, which contained some bread and cheese.
The napkin was identified as part of
stolen from the residence of the hon. firs.sorneproperty
Bathurst,
at Brocklin, which was entered a few
S. attacked to
him do
o
nights since. He
was also found wearing a shoe which was stolen from an
adjacent farm, which was broken into On the previous
night. The other shoe was picked
up near the scene of a
the murder. The jury returned verdict of "Wilful
murder" against the accused, he
county gaol at Hertford, to was lodged in the
await his trial at the
next assizes. He is between thirty
age, and states himself to be and forty years of
Spin, a native of Amazon, in