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London, England, 1854-05-18

FRANCE.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Chronicle
writes :—ln my letter of yesterday I sent you an
extract from the letter of a correspondent, who
represents the attitude of Austria as still very
doubtful, and that that Power has determined
not to go any further against Russia than is to be
implied from its persisting in maintaining a neu-
tral attitude. I have since learnt that this is not
the feeling of the French Government. The im-
pression at head-quarters here is, that Austria has
now not only come fairly and honestly over to
the side of the Western Poweri, but that there
is every probability that within the next fort-
night we shall have the news that she has declared
war against Russia. The attitude of Prussia is
not quite so satisfactory, but great confidence
is felt that that Power will also follow the ex-
ample of Austria. M. de Manteuffel is said to be
firmer, and more determined in his adhesion to the
alliance, than is supposed in some quarters • and he
is now more secure th4n ever in his post as Minister
of Foreign Affairs. The French Government has
no longer any uneasiness as to the resolution which
the Prusi-ian Government will ultimately adopt.
It has never yet at empted to get rid of its engage-
(nents hitherto; and notwithstanding some evident
tergiversations in the mind of the King, nothing
has occurred to show that it has ever contemplated
the idea of shaking them off.
On the same subject the Times Paris correspondent
says :—According to the most trustworthy accounts
nothing can be more satisfactory than the attitude
of Austria in the present critical state of affairs
between Russia and the Western Powers. Any
doubts that may have hung over the policy of that
Power, or any suspicions that may have been to
the latest moment entertained as to the sincerity
of her adherence to the policy of France and Eng-
land, or her willingueso to Act Trim the proper
London, England, 1854-05-18

GREECE.

ATHENS, May 12.—Fuad Effendi, with 15,000
Turkish troops, is at Arta. The rebellion is almost
totally quelled.
Communication with Prevesa is fully restored.
The road to Janina will shortly be entirely free.
It is said that a new Anglo-French note has ar-
rived at Athens.

8,000 Belgian muskets, destined for Greece, have
been confiscated at Malta.

Some transports, con veying horses belonging to the
generals of the expeditionary army, have been
attacked by Greek pirates.
Eight thousand muskets, destined for the Greek
insurgents, have been captured near Malta.

The Government of dreece is to be required, by
the allied Powers, to give in its adherence to the
protocol of Vienna.

The new Kaiinakan of Samos, Jan Ghika, has
addressed to the inhabitants a proclamation in
which he exhorts them to union and obedience to
the laws, and declares that he is charged by the
Sultan to maintain tranquillity, and at the same
time protect and consolidate the privileges which
he has granted to .the principality of Samos.
London, England, 1854-05-18

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declaration of war with Russia, when they would con-
cert measures for capturing the Diana. By this time
they have, doubtless, received their orders from home,
when, we have no doubt, it will be so arranged that
whilst one of the frigates pursues the Diana, and brings
her to action, the other will wait off Valparaiso the ar-
rival of the other Russian frigate the Auroca from Rio►
and do her best to capture her before she can reach a
neutral port.
THE RUSSIAN SQUADRON IN THE CHINA SEAS.—We
learn by the overland telegraph, that the Russian squad-
ron that has been so long in the China seas left Ma-
nilla, March 18, for Batavia. We trust that they will
not hear of the declaration of war before our Anglo-
French squadrons take the intelligence and the enemy
too at the same time. To effect this, however, we must
employ the flag-ship Winchester, 50 ; Sybille, 40 ; En-
counter, 14, screw ; BArracoula, 6; Rattler, 9, screw ; '
and the two or three men-of-war the French have in
China. They have, however, gone to a neutral port for
the present, whither they must of course be followed,
and not lost sight of.
THE BLACK SEA.--The first promotion for the Rus-
sian war kas been conferred upon a most deserving and
long-service officer—namely, on Commander John Boor-
master Dickson (1847). cominander in Admiral Dundas's
flag-ship Britannia. He has been promoted to the rank
of captain for his gallant services in command of the
rocket-boats at the bombardment of Odessa.
London, England, 1854-05-18

SHIPS.

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THE DANUBE.

A letter from Bucharest, iu the Press of Vienna,
states that the prisons of Bucharest are filled with
Wallachians suspected of being partisans of the
Turks.

At Vienna it is said there is no foundation what-
ever for the rumour that the Russians have in vested
Silistria by land on the right bank of the Danube.
The Moniteur de l' Armee thus describes the
respective positions of the belligerent armies since
the evacuation of Lesser Wallachia by the Rus-
sians

" On the extreme right, along the left bank of the
Aluta, is stationed the Russian corps of army coming
from Pojana and the neighbourhood of Kalafat, which
has been reinforced by a second corps, lately arrived
from Moldavia. The reserve is at Pilesti, an important
town of Great Wallachia, 20 leagues to the N.W. of
Bucharest. The right of the Russians communicates
with the centre through Giurgevo, where a third corps
is encamped. The centre extends from Giurgevo, oppo-
site to Rustchuk, to Kalarasch and Rassova, along the
left bank of the Danube, having its reserveat Bucharest,
13 leagues from the river. The left wing begins at Ras-
soya, and occupies the Dobrudscha, communicating, by
Odessa, with the troop of Osten-Sacken. Its reserve
occupies Matschin and its vicinity. The line of
operations of the Russian army stretches over a distance
of at least 50 leagues, from the Aluta to the mouths
of the Danube. Its real force may be calculated
at between 150,000 and 180,000 men. The second
reserves are still on the banks of the Dnieper, their
effective force being unknown. The Turks, who have I
likewise effected a movement of concentration duce

their adversaries abandoned the environs of Kalafat, oc-
cupy the following positions :—Their left wing is on the
right bank of the Aluta, with its bead quarters near
Slatina, and its reserve at Krajova, communicating with
the centre by the Danube towards the confluence of the
Aluta. This wing is formed of the troops which lately
garrisoned Widdin and Kalafat, and of a portion of the
reserve, ordered to join from Sophia. The centre faces
that of the Russian army, between Nicopolis and Silis
tria, occupying the fortified points of Rastchuk, Tur-
tukai, and Silistria, the garrisons of which have been
lately reinforced from Shumla by order of Omer Pacha.
The reserve of the centre is stationed at Shumla. The
right wing lines Trajan's Wall, with its reserve at
Bazardjick and Varna. The Turkish force on those
different points tray be estimated at from 120,000 to
130,000 combatants, including the garrisons of the
strong places. The troops of the second line are con-
centrated around Adrianople, and the 50,000 or 60,000
English and French already at Gallipoli, Scutari, and
Constantinople form the third line. Such are the forces
of the two belligerent Powers opposed to each other in
Europe. Our information with regard to the armies of
the Caucasus and Asia are too imperfect to enable us to
give any correct account of their positions and numbers."
London, England, 1854-05-18

THE DOBRUDSCHA.

The Augsburg Gazette, generally well informed
about Russian movements, estimates that the epi-
demic has already put hors de combat 18,000 Rus-
sians since their occupation of the Dobrudscha.
It is stated by the Lloyd of Vienna that in con-
sequence of the continually increasing number of
Russian prisoners, Omer Paella has written to his
Government to propose that a regular exchange of
prisoners shall be effected. The Lloyd also adds
that putrid fever is making great ravages in the
Russian army of the Dobrudscha.
The allies are now in sole possession of Varna,
and as the French have already advanced to
Adrianople, the Turkish garrison of that city is
on its way to Shumla. It is also confidently
asserted at Constantinople that the French
will place a reserve corps of 50,000 men at
Rodosto, where their engineers are already taking
admeasurements for a fortified camp. The corre-
spcndent of the (lest. Deutsche Post writes that
the offensive operations of the allied armies will
soon commence, " but not on the Turkish soil."
All the best tacticianscousider Prince Gortschakoff's
expedition into the Dobrudschaa strategical bl under.
The Constantinople writer- further says, that the
Russians have experienced such severe checks neat
Rassova that they have probably lost all inclination
to renew their attempts in that quarter for some
time to come. The English part of the Constan-
tinople garrison-15,000 infantry—has already
reached its destination, and as many French troops
are expected. The official Osservatore Triestino
has a strongly-pronounced dislike to Russia, but its
Constantinople correspondents are extremely impar-
tial in their reports. One of them writes that the
Anglo-French cruisiers have taken 13 vessels, four of
which offered such a vigorous resistance that they
were sunk. Six have been tak..n to Varna, and
three brought into the Bosphorus. Omer Pasha
has had several of the Bashi-Bazouks beheaded.
Some 600 of these fellows nut long since were taken
on board the British steamer Astrologer at Trebi-
zond, and just as they were starting for Batoum,
they amused themselves by trying whether their
new guns would carry as far as the shore. As the
whole population of the place was assembled to see
them start, two persons were killed and four severely
wounded. This new kind of salute seemed to pro-
duce no sensation, for the apathetic bystanders did
not take the trouble to move from the spot. The
whole of the maritime coast from Batoum up to
St. Nicholas has been fortified according to plans
drawn by European engineers. Selim Pasha is pre-
paring for au attack on Osurgeth, which is a town
not far distant from St. Nicholas.
London, England, 1854-05-18

ALEX:IN-DR-lA, MAY 8.

El Hamee Pasha, 17 years of age, son of the Viceroy
Abbas Pasha, left for Constantinople on the 4th inst., in
the steam-yacht Faid Gehaad, on a state visit to the
Sultan and the Sultan's daughter, his bride. The pre-
sents the Prince carries with him to Constantinople fall
far short of what his father expected to send, in conse-
quence of the very great straitness of money from which
his Highness is suffering. The cash taken by the Prince
dies not reach 100,0001. sterling, while the Viceroy's
first wish was to have sent at least five times that
amount. It is, consequently, feared that El Hamee
Pasha will not be so very we come at Constantinople, as
there is little doubt that the Sultan offered his daughter
to hint in the expectation of receiving a good round ;aim
from the Pasha of Egypt for the honour thus conferred
upon him.
The India mails' proceed this day by the Ripon to
Malta and Southampton, after having lain here since
the 4th. The steamer Bombay having arrived at Suez
on the Ist inst., Mr. Anderson, one of the directors of
the Peninsular and Oriental Company, returns to Eng-
lind by the Ripon, after having obtained from the Pasha
a reduction of half the transit duty charged on all goods
passing through Egypt, the duty to be in future a quar-
ter per eent., in lieu of a-half per cent., on the value.
Abbe; Pasha ha. been selling small quantities of pro-
lace, but not sufficient for the wants of the numerous
rr i
vessels lirethat have arrived during the last few days.
fights are about ss. per quarter
Wheat-
is worth 425, per quarter ; beans, 365. per
quart, r.
Exchange on London, 99 piastres per pound sterling.
London, England, 1854-05-18

DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL.

Mr. K. SEYMER moved the second reading of
this bili.

Mr. CHRISTOPHER opposed the bill, considering
that one of the leading clauses of which was to tate the
land of your neighbour without his consent. He moved
an amendment that the bill be read a second time this
day six months.
Sir J. TROLLOPE hoped his hon. friend (Mr.
Christopher) would withdraw his amendment. His hon.
friend had found fault chiefly with but one clause of the
bill, and he (sir J. Trollope) thought that clau-e, and
any other objectionable matter in the bill might be
omitted when the bill got into committee.
Sir J. SHELLEY defended the principles of the bill,
and hoped the bill would be allowed by the house to go
into committee.
Sir N. HEATEICOTE supported the bill generally.
Mr. HENLEY hoped if the house allowed the bill to
be read a second time they would refer it to a select
committee, for he thought, as the bill now stood, it had
no chance of getting through the house with any advan-
tage to the farmers.
Lord PALMERSTON' hoped the house would agree
to the second reading of the bill, in order that it might
get into committee; and in fact all the of jections that hail
been urged against the bill were merely committee objec-
tions. There were few matters of more importance either
as regarded the welfare of agriculturists or the health of
the people, than good drainage, and therefore he ah uhf
give his most cordial suppirt to this bill. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. cum sTo P Elt then withdrew his amendment,
and after a brief reply iron Mr. KIM SEYHER,
The bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Wednesday next.
MANNING THE NAVY BILL.
The report of the committee on this bill was then
brought up and agreed to.
NAVY PAY, ite., BILL.
The report of the committee on this bill was also
brought up, and agreed to.
The house then adjourned at half-past five o'clock.

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PARIS BOURSE.—The labt auevatAw It 0111 Ws.) earls
yesterday evening showed a rally of three-quarters per
cent. from the recent reaction. At Vienna the money
market has again taken an adverse turn, and the funds
have declined, while the rate of exchange has advanced
to 13.22,
London, England, 1854-05-18

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian, of yesterday.)
I'MANCHESTER 1 y 16.—Cotton is reported as to
e, lower in the'fNev Ireaek
at 84c.. per lb. at New York, but as remaining
middling at New Orleans. The re-
ceipts. continued large and the estimates were running at
2,800,000 to 9iothiS,OP,OrOieebales. The Liverpool cotton
market is dull, -;
es s?areely varying from those
of Friday last. The buywrisuxin this market feel the mo-
tives for caution to press
conserather augmented force and their purchases are
very small, such
only as their more urgent wantsrentlYe(l.:toecelagsracireYo.p''tsthere is no disposition to be temented
tions by lowness of price, all thatlacala eoisaieNvitli the
present retail business is, that the bias
somewhat against the producers of bothvaylauen l
goods ; quotations of change can hardly be yarns
and
declining tendency, being, as it has all along been,
scarcely perceptible in its steps. Some of the overland
letters (those by Trieste) were received this morning
•
and their advices from the India markets do not appear
to be worse than those by the previous mail ; we have
accordingly had some inquiry to-day for yarns, and also
for the lighter makes of madapollams, jacconets, and
shirtings, though but little has been done in them.
HALIFAX, May 13.—The aspect of our piece hall has
been to-day quite as dull as it usually has been for some
time past, and few worsted goods of any sort have been
inquired for. In yarns, there is a turn in favour of the
buyer ; and the spinners, being in a worse position than
before, are more and more resorting to working short
time. The wool market generally is not active. For
deep-grown bright Lincolnshire wool there is much im
query, and the late advance on them is fully maintained.
Other
descriptions go off heavily, at late rates.
HUDDERSFIELD, May .16.--The market to-day has
been very flat in every branch. Manufacturers com-
plain much of the want of business, and wool merchants
say they are doing
innext to nothing. With the excep-
tion of the yarn spinners, erds. who have lately been busy,
the woollen trade isn Being fair day the
streets have been crowded with ; but as to pur-
chases, the shopkeepers, like the rest, might almost as
well have had a holiday.
ROCHDALE, May 15.--The flannel market continues
in a very languid and inactive state,
London, England, 1854-05-18

GREECE.

ATHENS, May 12.—Fuad Effendi, with 15,000
Turkish troops, is at Arta. The rebellion is almost
totally quelled.
Communication with Prevesais fully restored.

The road to Janina will shortly be entirely free,
It is said that a new Auglo-French note has ar-
rived at Athens.
8,000 Belgian muskets, destined for Greece, have
been confiscated at Malta.

Some transports, conveying horses belonging to the
generals of the expeditionary army, have been
attacked by Greek pirates.
Eight thousand muskets, destined for the Greek
insurgents, have been captured near Malta.
The Government of Greece is to be required, by
the allied Powers, to give in its adherence to the
protocol of Vienna.
The kew Kaimakan of Samos, Jan Mika, has
addressed to the inhabitants a proclamation in
which he exhorts them to union and obedience to
the laws, and declares that he is charged by the
Sultan to maintain tranquillity, and at the same
time protect and consolidate the privileges which
he has granted to the principality of Samos.
London, England, 1854-05-18

BIRTHS.

OF A SON. s'
On the 14th inst., at Cumberland-terrace, Beg
park, the wife of John Evans, Esq., Q.C. ala
On the 14th inst., at Weybridge, the wife of Deb—
Augustus Warren, Esq.
OF A DAUGHTER, "A,

On the 14th inst., at the Parsonage, Sandgate,
of Captain Deane Shute, Quartermaster-General's Del'
ment, Bengal. k the
On the 14th inst., at 15, Acacia road, Regent's• Par '
wife of the Rev. Frederic Aubert Grace, M.A.

MARRIED, the
On the IGth inst., at Trinity Church, TwickenhAvahtiPreb,
Rev. James Twining, M.A., incumbent of Trinity "of the
Twickenham, to Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter h
late Rev. Thos. Bevan, incumbent of the same chur_c_z_____

D I E D. voar,
On the 12th inst., at Dynes-hall. Essex, in her 90'' JO-ost;
Harriet, the widow of John Sperling, Esq., and youtr,
daughter of the late Hon. William ochfort, of Clonvw-
Ireland. Lad,'
On the 14th inst., at Cokenach, Royston..thwe
Louisa D. Clinton' widow of the late General Sir
H. Clinton, G.C.8., in the 78th year of her ago. wife
On the llth inst., at Poulton-10-rylde, Maria 3/317o
:,_ .„,
of Itichar 1 Hawkins Risk, Esq., Lieutenant Royal Pi"
commanding her Majesty's ship Tartarus.

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London, England, 1854-05-18

MONTENEGRO.

A letter from Cattaro of the 4th, in the Moniteur
says:—" The Montenegrins attempted a week ago
a little razzia on the village of Sestani ; but being
attacked by the inhabitants at the moment when
they ware retiring, they had two men killed and
were forced to abandon the flocks which they were
removing, and also a human head which they had
cut off."
London, England, 1854-05-18

drainage of the metropolis. He regretted that that sum
should continue to be locked up, and if they did not receive
the sanction of the Government for the expense of works of
rnain drainage, tney howl be at li betty to apply it to other
works of urgency that were frequently demand of them.
Mr. GIBSON thought the sug4estion of Colonel Dawson
should be added to the application of the chair Man; and
that they should use the money for other purposes.
The CHAIRMAN said they had no wish to relieve them-
selves of responsibility by tranferring it to the Government
or any other body, as recently a member of the Govern-
ment had asserted in the House of Commons that he could
not withstand or sanction any measure they proposed.
There was no moral doubt that they should not have a
judgment in general matters, but they objected to their
going into details of the works they proposed.
Lieutenant-Colonel DAWSON thought, as their hands
were tied as to the main drainage, that they should be
enabled to apply the money to some other purpose.
The CHAIRMAN sail, as the season was far advanced,
with the peculiar state of prices, and the threatened ap-
proach of the cholera, there was no time to be lost. They
ought not to let 150,000/. lie idle, that might be spent with
so much advantage on other works.
The motion was then put and agreed to that works to
the amount of 75,593/. be executed.

CITY COURT (JP SEVERS.
London, England, 1854-05-18

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THE DANUBE.
A letter from Bucharest, in the Press of Vienna,
states that the prisons of Bucharest are filled with
Wallachians suspected of being partisans of the
Turks.

At Vienna it is said there is no foundation what-
ever for the rumour that the Russians have in vested
Silistria by land on the right bank of the Danube.
The Moniteur de l' Armee thus describes the
respective positions otthe belligerent armies since
the evacuation of Lesser Wallachia
.by the Rus-
sians :

" On the extreme right, along the left bank of the
Aluta, is stationed the Russian corps of army coming
from Pojana and the neighbourhood of Kalafat, which
has been reinforced by a second corps, lately arrived
from Moldavia. The reserve is at Pilesti, an important
town of Great Wallachia, 20 leagues to the N. W. of
Bucharest. The right of the Russians communicates
with the centre through Giurgevo, where a third corps
is encamped. The centre extends from Giurgevo, oppo-
site to Rustchuk, to Kalarasch and Rassova, along the
left bank of the Danube, having its reserveat Bucharest,
13 leagues from the river. The left wing begins at Ras-
soya, and occupies the Dobrudscha, communicating, by
Odessa, with the troopi; of Osten-Sicken. Its reserve
occupies Matschin and its vicinity. The line of
operations of the Russian army stretches over a distance
of at least 50 leagues, from the Aluta to the mouths
of the Danube. Its real force may be calculated
at between 150,000 and 180,000 men. The second
reserves are still on the banks of the Dnieper, their
effective force being unknowa. The Turks, wt.o have'
likewise effected a movement of concentration since I

their adversaries abandoned the environs of Kalafat, oc-
oupy the following positrons:—Their left wing is on the
right bank of the Aluta, with its head quarters near
Slatina, and its reserve at Krajova, communicating with
the centre by the Danube towards the confluence of the
Aluta. This wing is formed of the troops which lately
garrisoned Widdin and Kalafat, and of a portion of the
reserve, ordered to join from Sophia. The centre faces
that of the,Russian army, between Nicopolis and Sills-
occupying the fortified points of Rustciauk, Tur-
tukai, and Silistria, the garrisons of which have been
lately reinforced from Shumla by order of Omer Pacha.
The reserve of the centre is stationed at Shumla. The
Tight wing lines Trajan's Wall, with its reserve at
Bazardjiek and Varna. The Turkish force on those
different points may be estimated at from 120,000 to
180,000 combatants, including the garrisons of the
strong places. The troops of the second line are con-
centrated around Adrianople, and the 50,000 or 60,000
English and French already at Gallipoli, Scutari, and
Constantinople form the third line. Such are the forces
of the two belligerent Powers opposed to each other in
Europe. Our information with regard to the armies of
the Caucasus and Asia are too imperfect to enable us to
give any correct account of their positions and numbers."
London, England, 1854-05-18

THE OTTOMAN FLEET.

The destination of the Ottoman fleet, which
lately left Constantinople for the Black Sea, is not
exactly known, but the most probable is that it is
hound to the Circassian coast, as they have em-
barked large quantities of ammunition and guns,
besides which Seffer Pacha and Beseeh Pacha, both
Circassians, accompany the ships. By last accounts
parts of the combined fleets were blockading Se-
bastopol, and the remainder had gone to Souk-
houm Kale. The Turkish fleet is under the com-
mand of Caiserli Ahmet Pacha, a good and brave
sailor, Mouchaver Pacha (Captain Slade), and
Hassan Pacha, and is composed of 22 vessels, in-
cluding steamers. The following is a list of the
fleet

SAILING SHIPS.

Guns.
Mailmen& 124
Peiki Zafer
Isdemdoulie
A Cade Zerad 74
Feuftah Zehad
Garan Bahri
Cheref Nutna 2O
Djai Fcrakh

Guns.
Peiki Measareh
Techrifie
Nousretie 74
Myouni
Baird 54
Ferakh Numa 2O
Shaika 2O

STEAD
Guns
Muklibirri Surur 26
Chaiki Chadi
Shakkper 8
Peiki-fiz
London, England, 1854-05-18

THE BLACK SEA.

TREBIZOND, April 30.—Forts Noworossijsk and
Gelendshik have been evacuated. Sucbum Kaleb
is almost entirely deserted.
A letter from Orsova, of the Bth, states that the
Russians have destroyed three batteries which they
had near Salina, and ordered ail the inhabitants of
that place to leave it. Most of them are going to
Tultscha.

According to a correspondent of the Trieste
Gazette, the united fleets were cruising off the
Crimea, where they were blockading Sebastopol.
On the 30th ult. explosive projectiles were launched
against it for three hours by an English steamer,
but, as it was given out, without result. A di-
vision of frigates had steamed away and gone to
destroy the Russian forts of Redutkale, Suchum•
kale, and Auapa, on the Circassian coast. The
Russian fleet keeps snug at anchor behind stone
walls, and shuns all chance of collision. This may
prolong the war, but then it will compel the allied
Western Powers to support their fleets in both
seas with land forces.

The Ko/n. Gazette says :—An official communica-
tion was published at St. Petersburg on the 9th,
that 30 ships of war of the enemy had been. seen
from Sebastopol on tie 28th of April.
London, England, 1854-05-18

COURT CIRCULAR.

Prince Gliolana Mahomed and Prince Feroae Shah
had an audience of the Queen yesterday, at Buckingham
Palace, accompanied by Sir Charles Wood, President of
the Board of Control.

The Bishop of Salisbury had an audience of the
Queen, to do homage on his appointment, and was in-
troduced to her Majesty by Viscount Palmerston, Se-
cretary of State for the Home Department.
Viscount Palmerston had an audience of her Majesty.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal and Princess Alice, went to Gore-house,
Kensington, yesterday morning, and inspected the col-
lection of the works of students of the Schools of De-
sign ; and also viewed Mr. Thompson's photographs.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were attended by
the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Colonel Bourerie, and
Captain Du Platt.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen.
Prince Leopold and Prince Arthur took a drive iu an
open carriage and four.
The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of
Gloucester yesterday.
A deputation from the Guardians of the Poor for the
Fulham Union had an interview yesterday with the
General Board of Health, at their offices, Whitehall.
The deputation consisted of Messrs. J. Stevens and
Jones (guardians), attended by Mr. Salter, Clerk to the
Fulham Board of Guardians.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Arthur Morse, Mr.
Plimsoul, Mr. Oakes, Mr. J. Finch, and Mr. H. Finch,
had an interview with Sir W. Molesworth yesterday, at
the office of Public Works and Buildings, in Whitehall-
place.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yester-
day from the Governors of the West India Islands.
London, England, 1854-05-18

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THE DOBRUDSCHA.

The Augsburg Gazette, generally Well informed
about Russian movements, estini:.Les that the epi-
demic has already put hors de combat 18,000 .Rus-
sians since their occupation of the Dobrudscha.
It is stated by the Lloyd of Vienna that in con-
sequence of the continually-increasing number of
Russian prisoners, Omer Pacha has written to his
Government to propose that a regular exchange
prisoners shall be effected. The Lloyd also adds
that putrid fever is making great ravages in the
Russian army of the Dubrudseha.

The allies are now in sole possession of Varna,
and as the French have already advanced to
Adrianople, the Turkish garrison of that city is
on its way to Shamla. it is also confidently
asserted at Constantinople that the French
will place a reserve corps of 50,000 men at
Rodosto, where their engineers are already taking,
admeasurements for a fortified camp. The corre-
spondent of the Oest. Deutsche Post writes that
the offensive operations of the allied armies will
soon commence, " but not on the Turkish soil."
All the best tacticians consider Prince Gortschakoff's
expeditionintotheDobrudscha a strategical bl under.
The Constantinople writer further says, that the
Russians have experienced such severe checks near
Rassova that they have probably lost all inclination
to rene w their attempts in that quarter for some
time to come. The English part of the Constan-
tinople garrison-15,000 infantry—has already
reached its destination, and as many French troops
are expected. The official Osservatore Triestino
has a strongly-pronounced dislike to Russia, but its
Constantinople correspondents are extremely impar-
tial in their reports. One of them writes that the
Anglo-French cruisiers have taken 13 vessels, four of
which offered such a vigorous resistance that they
were sunk. Six have been taken to Varna, and
hree brought into the Bosphorus. Omer Pasha
has had several of the Bashi-Bazouks beheaded.
Some 600 of these fellows not long since were taken
on board the British steamer Astrologer at Trebi-
zond, and just as they were starting for Batouin,
they amused themselves by trying whether their
new guns would carry as far as the shore. As the
whole population of the place was assembled to see
them start, two persons were killed and four severely
wounded. This new kind of salute seemed to pro-
duce no sensation, for the apathetic bystanders did
not take the trouble to move from the spot. The
whole of the maritime coast from Batotun up to
St. Nicholas has been fortified according to plans
drawn by European engineers. Selim Pasha is pre
paring for an attack on Osurgeth, which is a town
not far distant from St. Nicholas.
London, England, 1854-05-18

THE BLACK SEA.

TREBIZOND, April 30.—Forts Noworossijsk and
Gelendelhik have been evacuated. Suchum Kaleh
is almost entirely deserted.
A letter from Orsova, of the Bth, states that the
Russians have destroyed three batteries which they
had near Sulina, and ordered ail the inhabitants of
that place to leave it. Most of them are going to
Tultscha.

According to a correspondent of the Trieste
Gazette, the united fleets were cruising off the
Crimea, where they were blockading Sebastopol.
On the 30th ult. explosive projectiles were launched
against it for three hours by an English steamer,
but, as it was given out, without result. A di-
vision of frigates had steamed away and gone to
destroy the Russian forts of Redutkale, Suchum-
kale, and Auapa, on the Circassian coast. The
Russian fleet keeps snug at anchor behind stone
walls, and shuns all chance of collision. This may
prolong the war, but then it will compel the allied
Western Powers to support their fleets in both
seas with land forces.

The Koln Gazette says :—An official communica-
tion was published at St. Petersburg on the 9th,
that 30 ships of war of the enemy had been seen
from Sebastopol on tile 28th of April.
London, England, 1854-05-18

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.

Commanders—Alexander Boyle (1842), from the Vic-
tory flagship at Portsmouth, to the Indefatigable, 50,
commissioned by Captain James Hope at Devonport ;
Frederick T. C. Strode (1854), recently promoted from
First-Lieutenant of the Victory to be Commander, is
reappointed to that ship. vice Boyle.
Masters—Henry William Allen (1842), recently in
command of the Lightning steam-vessel, is appointed to
commission and command the Vivid steam-vessel, for-
merly one of the Dover mail steam-packets, and at pre-
'knit at Woolwich ; Cornelius Fox Ilgt3);'to tNe Hornet
screw steam-sloop at Woolwich.
Surgeons—Augustus Slight (1846), to the Retribution
piddle-wheel steam-frigate, serving in the Black Sea ;
John Belcher,ll.D. (1846), to the Wolverine, 12, sloop,
at Chatham.
Paymasters—William L.. Wright (1854), recently
promoted from clerk to the Sitnoom iron screw steam-
ship, to the Wasp screw steam-sloop serving in the
Black Sea ; William Thom (1854), to the Hornet screw
steam-sloop at Woolwich ; Frederick Gransmore (1844),
from the Saturn at Pembroke, to the Indefatigable, 50,
Devonport;at Joseph Lewis (1848), to the Saturn, vice
Gransmore.
Second Master Adolph E. Parks (1853), to the
Miranda screw steam-sloop, for service in the Baltic.
Master's Assistant W. W. Vine, to the Brisk, 14,
screw steam-sloop.
Acting Clerk Arthur B. Cumming, to the Powerful,
84, at Portsmouth.
Clerk's Assistant Francis B. Moore, to the Vestal, 26.
Promotion—Commander John B. Dickson (1847),
Commander of the Britannia' 120, flagship in the Black
Sea since Dec. 1, 1851, to be Captain.
London, England, 1854-05-18

THE DOBRUDSCHA.

The Augsburg Gazette, generally well informed
about Russian movements, estimates that the epi-
demic
has already put hors de combat 18,000 Rus-
sians since their occupation of the Dobrudscha.
It is stated by the Lloyd of Vienna that in con-
sequence of the continually increasing number of
Russian prisoners, Omer Pacha has written to his
Government to propose that a regular exchange of
prisoners shall be effected. The Lloyd also adds
that putrid fever is making great ravages in the
Russian army of the Dobrudscha.
The allies are now iu sole possession of Varna,
and as the French have already advanced to
Adrianople, the Turkish garrison of that city is
on its way to Shumla. It is also confidently
asserted at , Constantinople that the French
will place a reserve corps of 50,000 men at
Rodosto, where their engineers are already taking
admeasurements for a fortified camp. The corre-
spc.ndent of the Oest. Deutsche Post writes that
the offensive operations of the allied armies will
soon commence, but not on the Turkish soil."
All the best tacticians consider Prince Gortschakoff's
expeditionintotheDobrudscha a strategical bl under.
The Constantinople writer further says, t hat the
Russians have experienced such severe checks neap
Rassova that they have probably lost all inclination
to renew their attempts in that quarter for some
time to come. The English part of the Constan-
tinople garrison-15,000 infabtry—has already
reached its destination, and as many French troops
are expected. The official Osservatore Triestino
has a strongly-pronounced dislike to Russia, but its
Constantinople correspondents are extremely impar-
tial in their reports. One of them writes that the
Anglo-French cruisiers have taken 13 vessels, four of
which offered such a vigorous resistance that they
were sunk. Six have been taken to Varna, and
three brought into the Bosphorus. Omer Pasha
has had several of the Bashi-Bazouks beheaded.
Some 600 of these fellows not long since were taken
on board the British steamer Astrologer at Trebi-
zond, and just as they were starting for Batoum,
they amused themselves by trying whether their
new guns would carry as far as the shore. As the
whole population of the place was assembled to see
them start, two persons were killed and four severely
wounded. This new kind of salute seemed to pro-
duce no sensation, for the apathetic bystanders did
not take the trouble to move from the spot. The
whole of the maritime coast from Batoum up to
St. Nicholas has been fortified according to plans
drawn by European engineers. Selim Pasha is pre-
paring for an attack on Osurgeth, which is a town
not far distant from St. Nicholas.
London, England, 1854-05-18

RUSSIA.

The Lloyd of Vienna says it is now quite certain
that the Russians intend to form an army of obser-
vation near the Prussian frontier. Twenty thousand
men are marching towards Petrikan and Gensto-
which are only a few miles from the frontier.
The Presse contains an article in answer to the
assertion of the Journal de St. Petersbourg, that
"during the war the nobles would give up one-
tenth of their income to the Czar, and that the
merchants and traders would pay an annual tribute
of 300, 160, or 100 roubles, according to their
means ;" that is to say, 1,200 f., 640 f., or 40Jf.
The Presse declares that there are not 20 noble
houses in Russia that are not deeply mortgaged ;
that their incomes are rather nominal than real; and
that they cannot give a large sum to the Czar.
Their incomes, besides, being founded on agricul-
tural produce, must fall off enormously when once
a strict blockade is established by the Western
Powers on the coast of Russia. Already the effects
of that measure are beginning to be severely felt,
and, should it continue, ruin inevitably awaits the
Russian nobility. As to the merchants and
traders, their number amounts to about 36,000, of
wham 900 belong to the first class, 1,900 to the
second, and the remainder to the third. Supposing
that they paid the amount mentioned above, the
Czar would receive about four millions of roubles
(sixteen millions of francs). "But how," asks the
Presse, " are they to pay that amount of money
when their business is nearly ruined by the
blockade'? Surely, what causes damage to the
nobles cannot but be just as injurious to the mer-
chants and traders, who are the connecting link
between the Russian nobles and other countries."
It is now three or four months since a proje t
was attributed to the Emperor of Russia of re-
constructing the kingdom of Poland, not, of course,
out of any regard for Polish independence, but out
of vengeance on those Powers that refused to asso-
ciate themselves in the,enormous injustice he medi-
tated against Turkey, or who have contravened his
designs. The movement of Russian troops to the
frontier of Galicia and the Bukovina, would seem
to render probable the execution of that menace ;
and though such an attempt would, in all proba-
laity, terminate as much to the disadvantage of
the Emperor himself as to those against whom it
was directed, yet, from what we have already wit-
nessed of his conduct, we are justified in supposing
that no step will be thought too desperate for him
to undertake.
London, England, 1854-05-18

AUSTRIA.

The Austrian Government has published an ac-
count of the receips of the Treasury for 1853. It
shows a falling off of 56,000,000 of florins.
PRUSSIA.

The negotiations with Russia for a treaty of
commerce, have completely failed. All that has
been agreed upon is, to give facilities to commerce
on the frontiers.

Severhl of the Berlin journals state that at
Backeburg, in the principality of Schauenburg-
Lippe, some Prussian subjects have been condemned
by the tribunal of correctional police to rather a
lon imprisonment, for having been present at a
religious meeting presided over by an anabaptist
missionary.
The German Journal of Frankfort states from
Berlin that there is no foundation for the assertion
of the Cologne Gazette, that the King of Prussia
has, on the application of the Prince of Prussia,
deprived him of his military functions.
The • same journal says there is a rumour at
Berlin that the German powers propose to send an
" army of pacification" to Greece instead of the
intervention proposed by France and England.
We learn from another source that the Prince of
Prussia has been prevailed on, at the especial re-
quest of the King, to return to Berlin on the 7th
of June, the anniversary of the death of their
father, a day always observed by the royal family.
London, England, 1854-05-18

NEWMARKET

;ACES—Tats DAY.

Entries for the Handicap Plate of 50 sous.
Black Swan, 4 yrs Monie Moses, 3 yrs
F out of Anvil's dam, 3 yrs Sir George, 3 yrs
Kennyside Hero, 3 yrs Nervous, 4 yrs
Entries for the Sweepstakes of 10 sous, each. The win-
ner to be sold for 200 soya, if demanded, &c. T.Y.C.
Pebble, 3 yrs I Amos, 3 yrs
Chorus, 6 yra I Helmet, 3 yrs
Entries for the Sweepstakes of 10 soya, each. The win-
ner to be sold for 30 sovs, if demanded, &c. First
half of Ab.M.
Handsome Buck, 3 yrs
Flagelator, 2 yrs
Freckle, 2 yrs
Five races are set for this day, the first at 12.0,

Oxus, 3 yrs
Helmet, 3 yrs

SHREWSBURY RACES—THIS DAY.
011 DER OF RUNNING.
Salopian Stakes.
Longner Hall Stakes.
Cleveland Handicap.
Herbert Stakes.
Queen's Plate.
Welter Handicap,
The races commence at half-past two.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, JUNE 21.

WEIGHTS for the NORTHC3IBEELAND PLATE. Declara-
tions of forfeit to be made on or before Thursday,
May 25. Should the highest weight accepting be
under Bst 71b, it will be raised to that weight, and
the others in proportion.
Age st lb
Kingston
New min ster
Balrownie
Red Lion
Prime Minister 6 7 12
Ilex
Daniel O'Rourke 5 7 12
*Alonzo a 7 10
Songstress 5 7 10
Goorkah
Leopold 5 7 10
Indian Warrior 5 7 10
Exact 4 7 6
Um briel
Latnbtou
Talfourd 4 7 4
Hunca-munca
Joe Miller 5 7 4
Typee 4 7 3
Testator a 7 3
Cariboo
Haricot
Eulogist 4 7 0
Little Jack
Grapeshot 4 6 12
Annie Sutherland

Age at lb
Georgy
Veteran
Honeydew 4 6 0
Dear Polly 4 5 12
Lina
Atwell
Lady Bird 3 5 10
Ch c by Verulam,
out of Mar-

h b 4 6 12
Mr. Sykes 4 6 12
Colsterdale
The Buck
Lancashire Lass 4 6 9
Billy Richardson 5 6 9
Hobby-horse 4 6 8
The Skinner
Ulster
Bit of Blue 5 6 7
Wild Huntsman 3 6 6
Dove 4 6 7
Maid of Team

Valley
Don Quixote 4 6 4
Provost Marshal 4 6 4
Candlewick
Dear•me
Ileapy
Doublethong
Peggy
Braxey
The Early Bird 3 6 2
Lady Vernon
Canute
La Belle 4 6 0
Ammonia
Augusta 4 6 0
* This horse having been
knowledge, will be struck
unless specially ordered to r

chioness
Light of the Harem 4 5 7
Hanby
St. Claro 3 5 7
!General Breezo 3 5 7
The Queen's Own 3 5 7
Torn Rintoul 3 5 7
Brown Brandy
Domino
Bridesmaid
Aribbas
Eva 3 5 2
Dr. O'Toole
Gamekeeper
Punch-box 3 5 0
I The Jealous One 3 5 0
Caliph 3 5 0
Comfort 3 5 0
Lady Napier 3 4 12
ITrump Queen 3 4 12
Red Rose
Cable
Amos 3 4 10
Phoenix
Lamprocles
Swiftsure
cContender
Baal bec
Sampson (h b)
Robin Hood 3 4 10
Shunting ...
Lurley
Bianca
Ludwig
Sir James Graham 3 4 7
Julius Agricola
Amalgamation
Device
Royalist 3 4 7
Surgeon-General 3 4 4
Lincoln's-inn
Erycina
Jetty Treffz
St. Michael

entered without his owner's
)ut at the time prescribed
emain in.

THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF THE ABSENT SOLDIERS.
—The Liverpool Shipwrights' Association have pre-
sented 501. in aid of this fund.
London, England, 1854-05-18

RUSSIA.

The Lloyd of Vienna says it is now quite certain
that the Russians intend to form an army of obser-
vation near the Prussianfrontier. Twenty thousand
men are marching towards Petrikan and Gensto-
chan, which are only a. few miles from the frontier.

The Presse contains an article in answer to the
assertion of the Jouirnal de .St. Petersbourg, that
"during the war the nobles would give up one-
tenth of their income to the Czar, and that the
merchants and traders would pay an annual tribute
of 300, 160, or 100 roubles, according to their
means ;" that is to say, 1,200 f., 640 f., or 400 f.
The Presse declares that there are not 20 noble
houses in Russia that are not deeply mortgaged ;
that their incomes are rather nominal than real; and
that they cannot give a large sum to the Czar.
Their incomes, besides, being founded on agricul-
tural produce, must fall off enormously when once
a strict blockade is established by the Western
Powers on the coast of Russia. Already the effects
of that measure are beginning to be severely felt,
and, should it continue, ruin inevitably awaits the
Russian nobility. As to the merchants and.
traders, their number amounts to about 36,000, of
wham 900 belong to the first class, 1,900 to the
second, and the remainder to the third. Supposing
that they paid the amount mentioned above, the
Czar would receive about four millions of roubles
(sixteen millions of francs). "But how," asks the
Presse, "are they to pay that amount of money
when their business is nearly ruined by the
blockade ? Surely, what causes damage to the
nobles cannot but be just as injurious to the mer-
chants and traders, who are the connecting link
between the Russian nobles and other Countries."

It is now three or four months since a proje•t
was attributed to the Emperor of Russia of re-
constructing the kingdom of Poland, not, of course,
out of any regard for Polish independence, but out
of vengeance on those Powers that refused to asso-
ciate themselves in the enormous injustice he medi-
tated against Turkey, or who have contravened his
designs. The movement of Russian troops to the
frontier of Galicia and the Bukovina would seem
to render probable the execution of that menace ;
and though such an attempt would, in all proba-
bility, terminate as much to the disadvantage of
the Emperor himself as to those against whom it
was directed, yet, from what we have already wit-
nessed of his conduct, we are justified in supposing
that no step will be thought too desperate for him
to undertake.