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LONDON, TUESDAY EVEING, JULY 4, 1854.

THE SEVENTH VOLUME IS Now READY,
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CHEAP EDITION of MISS STRICKLAND'S
LIVES of the QUEEN'S of ENGLAND.
Comprising the Life of 31ArtY 11., Queen Regnant, Consort of
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Sydnoy, on the 4th August next. This flee vessel has maintained
her high reputation for rapid sa hug and punctuality, and is a siter
hip to V:e " Argo," which has made the quickest v .yage to and from
Australia up to this time. The Calcutta has been employed carrying
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tons. Full particulars as to Freight and Passage Money at the Com-
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Ad_ITTSOMIAN LECTURES on INSANITY ;
delivered before the Medical Society of London.

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CANADA.

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.
MONTREAL, JUNE 19.—0 n Tuesday last his Ex-
cellency the Governor-General proceeded in state
to the Chamber of the Legislative Council, in the
Parliament-buildings, Quebec. The members of
the Legislative Council being assembled, his Ex-
cellency was pleased to command the attendance
of the Legislative Assembly, and, that house being
present, his Excellency was pleased to open the
Second Session of the Fourth Provincial Parlia-
ment with the following speech :
"Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,
and Gentlemen of the Legislative Asssembly,
" During the recess the province has sustained, I re-
gret to say, serious loss by fire, in the destruction of the
Houses of Parliament, and of the building which was
subsequently secured for the temporary occupation of
the legislature. The best arrangements practicable
under the circumstances have been made for your ac-
commodation.
"Her Majesty the Queen, our most gracious Sove-
reign, having failed in her anxious and protracted en-
deavours to preserve for her people the blessings of peace,
has felt herself called upon by regard for an ally, the in-
tegrity and independence of whose empire have been re-
cognised as essential to the peace of Europe, by the
sympathies of her people with right against wrong, and
by a desire to avert from her dominions most injurious
consequences, to t .ke 'up arms in conjuction with the
Emperor of the French for the defence of the Sultan.
" The manifestations of loyalty to the Sovereign and
sympathy with the parent state which have been so
general throughout the province at this conjuncture,
will, I am confident, be heartily responded to by the
legislature. The cordial co-operation of England and
France in this war is well calculated to call forth the
sympathies of the inhabitants of a country peopled
mainly by the descendants of those two powerful em-
pires.

THE WARRANTS for the HALF-YEARLY
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paid on presentation at the Head Office in London, or the amount
may be received at the various Branches, oritarough Country Bank-
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PETER. MORRISON, Managing Director.

21st June, 1f54
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on application

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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY, No. 26, Cornhlll, Loudon.
Established in 1838.
DIRECTORS.
A. Campbell Barclay, Esq. John Moss, Esq.
Charles Bennett, Esq. I Thomas Nicoll, Esq.
Hugh Croft, Esq. I E. S. Symes, MD.
John Elliotson, NI.D., F.R.S. I J. Leander Starr, Esq.
Thos. Colley Grattan, Esq I Clement'tabor, Esq.
Joseph Thompson, lisq.
MANAGING DIRECTORS.

T. Leander Starr, Esq. (General). 1 Chas. Bennett, Esq. (Financial

Having during my recent visit to England been ho-
noured by the Queen's command to endeavour to effect
the settlement of various important questions bearing
upon the interests of the British North American pro-
vinces which had been long pending between the Go-
vernment of Great Britain and the United States, I pro-
ceeded to Washington, where, after frank discussion
with the authorities of the United States, I was enabled
to conclude a treaty which now awaits ratification, upon
terms which it is ray firm conviction will prove in the
highest degree advantageous to the colonies generally,
as well as to the United States. A measure to give
effect to that treaty will be submitted for your approval.
" I will communicate to you a depatch which I have
received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
with reference to the addresses to the Queen from the
two Houses of the Legislature on the subject of the con-
stitution of the Legislative Council, transmitted by me
at the close of the last ses4ion of the provincial parlia-
ment, in order that they might be laid at the foot of the
throne.

" I recommend to your consideration the passing of
a law for bringing into early operation the act of last
session which extends the elective franchise, in order
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gest to you the propriety of making such reduction in the
tariff as may be compatible with security to the public
creditor, and efficiency in the public service.
"Honourable Gentlemen and Gentlemen,
" During my sojourn in England, I was much struck
by the proofs which I received from all quarters of in-
creasing interest in Canadian affairs, and I trust that my
acquaintance with the province derived from long resi-
dence within it, may have enabled me to render some
service in spreading more widely a knowledge of its re-
sources and of the feelings of the inhabitants.
" Although a state of warfare has a necessary ten-
dency to restrict ooerations involving large expenditures
of capital, I feel confident that the credit of Canada has
attained a position in Engdsla opinion which it never
before achieved, and that, to enable you to retain it, no-
thing is requisite but prudence in your undertakings and
the maintenance of the high character for fidelity to
pecuniary engagements which the province has at all
times borne."

The house having adjourned, it did not meet
until Friday, when the house voted an address
echoing the sentiments of his Excellency. The
paragraph relating to the war is thus expressed :
" This house heartily responds to the manifestations of
loyalty to her Majesty the Queen our Most Gracious
Sovereign, and of sympathy with the parent state,
which have been so general throughout the province, at
this conjuncture, when her Majesty having failed in her
anxious and protracted endeavours to preserve for her
people the blessings of peace, has felt herself called upon
by regard for an ally, the integrity and independence of
whose empire has been recognised as essential to the
peace of Europe, by the sympathies of her people with
right against wrong, and by a desire to avert from her
dominions most injurious consequences, to take up
arms in conjunction with the Emperor of the French
for the defence of the Sultan ; and that we believe the
cordial co-operation of England and France in this war
is well calculated to call forth the sympathies of the
inhabitants of this country, peopled mainly by the
descendants of those two powerful empires."
From a report just published by the Montreal
Board of Trade, it results that in 1827 the exports
from the British American provinces to the United
States fell short of half a million dollars ; in 1852
they exceeded six millions. In 1849 the entire
exports and imports amounted to eight millions of
dollars. In 1852, after an interval of only three
years, they had increased in amount to sixteen mil-
lions. In 1849 the exports and imports from the
Canadas alone amounted in round numbers to five
millions ; in 1852 they had more than doubled,
amounting to eleven millions. In 1849 the quantity
of wheat exported to the States from the Canadas
was equivalent to about 25,000 barrels ; in 1852 it
amounted to nearly 467,000 barrels.

AMSTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM PRODUCE.—The weekly
reviews from the Amsterdam and Rotterdam produce
markets state that business was limited. A slight increase
in the demand for coffee had created greater firmness,
and for some descriptions higher rates had been paid.
Sugar, raw and refined, exhibited little variation. Sales
of rice had caused an unfavourable reaction, the state of
the weather having been good for the grain crops. Metals
were heavy, and but few transactions had taken place in
indigo.
COMPLETION OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY AND
LETTERS.—CHEAP EDITION.—The seventh and conclud-
ing volume of this work is just published. This
volume possesses even more interest than any of the pre-
ceding. The work stands at the head of this class of
English literature. Wholly different from the Diaries of
Evelyn and Pepys, or the Letters of Walpole and Lady
Wortley Montague, it possesses, in a high degree, some
of their best qualities. The great charm of Madame
D'Arblay's Diary and Correspondence is to be traced to
their good sense and ingenuousness. The air of a court
had not spoiled her natural character. Madame D'Arblay
had the good fortune to mix largely with the mostdis-
tinguished persons of her time ; she was admitted to a
closer view of the domestic life of the Royal Family than
almost .anyb,,dy else, and her literary reputation drew
around her crowds of people celebrated for taste and
genius. These circumstances contribute to confer a
peculiar value upon the work,"--Atlas.

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ing replenished coals from the dockyard, hauled off to
her moorings ready for service.
The Black Eagle steam yacht arrived at Sheerness at
11.30 a.m. yesterday, from Chatham, with the Right
Hon. Sir James R. G. Graham, Bart., G.C.8., M.P.,
&e., Rear-Admiral Maurice F. F. Berkeley, M.P., &0.,
and Captain Sir Baldwin W. Walker, R N., K.C.8.,
who made an official visit to the Hannibal and Daunt-
less ; after which they proceeded on shore, and left
again at 6 p.m., by the North Kent Railway, for Lou.

A number of the naval coast volunteers have entered
to go out to the Baltic to bring home the Russian prizes
taken by her Majesty's cruisers.
The following appointments have been made :
Captain George A. Eliot (1838), from the St. Vincent,
102, guardship of ordinary at Portsmouth, to command
the Powerful, 84, at Portsmouth.
Captain George Manse' (1840), from the Powerful,
84, to command the St. Vincent, vice Eliot.
Masters— Henry Harper (1843), from the Powerful,
to the St. Vincent ; Joseph N. Bing (1828), from the
St. Vincent, to the Powerful ; Thomas H. Fraser (1849),
to the Malacca, 17, screw steam-sloop, at Chatham.
Assistant-surgeons—James F. Stoddart (1850), to the
Spy, 3, brigantine, at Chatham ; John L. Palmer (1848),
to the Jackall steam-vessel, at Woolwich.
Clerk Frederick Lucas (paymaster of 1854), to the
Hannibal, 90, screw steam-ship, at Sheerness.
Yesterday the Lords of the Admiralty gave notice
at Lloyd's that ships were required to convey 300 tons
of ordnance stores, shot, and filled shells to Malta ; six
tons of ordnance stores to St. John's, New Brunswick ;
and 72 tons to Cape Coast Castle ; 90 tons of victualling
stores to Halifax ; eight tons and a half of victualling,
medical, and ordnance stores to Valparaiso, and one,
officer and 56 men to St. Helena.
Their Lordships also gave notice that several steam-
vessels of not less than 900 tons burden were required
to convey troops to the Black Sea.
A Southampton correspondent informs us that the
Royal Mail steamer Orinoco is being prepared for sea,
to take out a regiment of infantry, and the Peninsular
and Oriental steam-ships Himalaya and Simla. The
former is ordered to embark a regiment of cavalry from
Plymouth. The Government has also chartered the
General Screw Steam-Shipping Company's steamer
Prince, of 2,760 tons, now fittinc, at Blackwell, for the
conveyance of troops. The whole of these steamers are
to be got ready without delay. 13 waggons full of musket
ball-cartridges (weighing about 60 tons), and other mi-
litary stores, have arrived at Southampton for shipment
to the East. The destination of the troops to be sent
out by the Orinoco, Himalaya, Prince, and Simla, is not
known, but it is understood the steamers are to proceed
direct to Constantinople, there to receive orders as to
their final destination, which is supposed to be a port
in the Crimea, for the purpose of co-operating with the
land and sea forces now in the Black Sea, in a combined
attack on Sebastopol.
The depots of the 3d (Buffs), at Newry, and the 62d
(Wiltshires), in Belfast, have been ordered to send out
strong draughts to the service companies of their re-
spective regiments stationed at Malta with the least
possible delay.

DEPARTURE OF THE SCOTS GREYS.
The 2d Royal North British Dragoons, or Scots Greys,
having been ordered on foreign, service, left Nottingham
yesterday. The occasion of their departure excited great
enthusiasm in the town, and it was calculated that 30,000
persons were present. On reaching the centre of the
market-square, they were met by a civic procession from
the Exchange, headed by Mr. Reckless, the mayor, and
Mr. Mundella, the sheriff, and which consisted of the
magistrates, town council, the municipal officers, many
of the principal townsmen, and by all the corporation
servants in their ancient livery, bearing the mace and
other insignia. The mayor's valet carried the "loving
cup," presented to the Nottingham corporation by
Henry, Duke of Newcastle, in 1681 ; and other attend.
ants conveyed a plentiful supply of wine wherewith to
replenish it. The " Health of her Majesty the Queen"
having been drank with great enthusiasm, the Mayor,
grasping the "loving cup," addressed Colonel Griffiths
in energetic terms, telling him that it was the wish of
the corporation and people of Nottingham to drink, on
the eve of their departure for the East, "Success and
prosperity to the noble regiment of Scots Greys."
His worship having drunk to his toast, the cup was
passed round, and the civilians within the circle did the
same, the band meantime playing "Scots wha ha'e wi'
Wallace bled" and other stirring tunes ; the people, who
thronged every inch of pavement, every window around,
and nearly all the housetops, meanwhile waving flags
and handkerchiefs, and unanimously cheering with enthu-
siasm. Colonel Griffiths, having expressed his anxious
desire to return a complimentary toast, was asked to
allow his men to partake of a parting cup of " Notting-
ham ale," which the corporation ordered immediately.
He then proposed "The Health of the Mayor, Corpora.
tion, and every individual of the town of Nottingham,"
which was drunk by the officers from the " loving cup,"
and by the troops from their cups of ale, with three-
times-three hearty cheers, and many more.
The Rev. S. AVAIL gave a few words of exhortation
and a parting blessing, shortly after which the order to
march was given amid hearty cheering.

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We got up a sweepstaketh to name the day on which we
shall be relieved, each naming the day he thought most
probable. They ranged from the 3d to the 15th of
June, Mussa Pasha having chosen the first and his se-
cretary the last of these dates. Casualties, seven killed.
22d—Enemy's fire slackened in the course of the
forenoon, and ceased altogether for about two hours,
after which he opened a very heavy fire on the Arab
and Yelanli forts from seven batteries at once—practice
very good. Demonstrations against these forts con-
tinued all day. Made out from the Circassian priso-
ners that Paskiewitech was commanding, and not the
Archduke Constantine as was previously supposed.
Casualties, upwards of 50 killed and wounded.
23d.--During the night the enemy threw up a 15-
gun battery beyond Arab Tabia, and three additional
ones on Salhane. From all these he opened fire on
Yelanli and Arab Tabia in the afternoon.
24th— (Queen's birthday)—Received the welcome
news from Mussa Pasha that in eight days we might
expect to see the English red-jaclsets topping the heights.
Nothing particular occurred to-day, and in the evening
Butler and I loyally drank her Majesty's health in a
mugfull of sour wine.
25th—The quiet the enemy has maintained yester-
terday and to-day bodes no good. An orderly from
Mussa Pasha requested our attendance at his quarters,
where he found a council of war assembled to decide on a
very important question. In the middle of this a tremen-
dous hailstorm came on, and the enemy, taking advan-
tage of, it, commenced an attack, under a furious can•
nonade, on Arab Tabia. A body of cavalry with guns
suddenly appeared in front of it, when, halting at a
short distance, from behind each horseman leapt an in-
fantry soldier ; these formed up, and commenced an ad-
vance on the redoubt, but being received by a severe fire
from its defenders, the cavalry halted, leaving a gun be-
hind, and the infantry drew out of range, and quietly
began to pitch their tents in the valley below. We had
hardly returned to our quarters in a little barrack inone
of the bastions when the alarm was again given, and
drums beat to arms. Scuttling back in the dark, knee-
deep in mud, and fancying from the sound, which ap-
peared very close, that the body of the place was attacked,
wo were suddenly called on to halt by the gruff chal-
lenge of a sentry demanding the parole. Doubtful
of accomplishing the correct pronunciation of a 12-
syllabled Turkish word, we answered Inglis Zabit
(i.e. English officers), a reply which seemed fully to
satisfy the curiosity of the inquirer. Arrived at the
rallying point, the Stamboul gate, we found an attack
taking place on the forts of Yelanli and Arab Tabia.
It lasted upwards of an hour, during which time
an uninterrupted flash and roll of musketry proceeded
from that direction, while shells were sent blazing
through the air in all directions from both our own and
the enemy's batteries. By 10 o'clock it was all over, and
soon after a report from each of these forts showed
that we had suffered little damage in the affair. Dur-
ing the day a Turkish officer, who had been made
prisoner at Kalafat and afterwards escaped from the
Russians, arrived—he states the force opposite to be
100,000 men. Rockets, thrown at Arab Tabia and Ye-
lanli fort, were used for the first time by the enemy
here.
26th.—A few solitary shot and shell only thrown by
the enemy this day. He is not idle, however, being
employed in fortifying his position, constructing strong
breastworks on the Ada Kien heights, as if with the
view of awaiting the arrival of the allies.
27th.—The Russians during the night have cleared
the neighbourhood of their position of all wood that
might afford cover to the riflemen of the allies, showing
mueh greater foresight than our friends the Turks.
Considerable injury was done to the blockhouse and
parapets of Fort Yelanli by the enemy's shot and shell
during the cannonade of this forenoon. About sunset
the enemy turned his attention to the abovenamed forts,
opening a strong fire from his batteries upon them, to-
gether with rockets during the night. He seems to
have abandoned all idea of town, for the present at
least, and appears intent on taking Arab Tabia, thereby
completing his line and securing a retreat in the event
of being defeated. He has now a large redoubt on the
Ada Kien hill, and is busy constructing another near
the river. On the former he has a sort of observatory,
on which some of the Turkish sentries told me they had
soon ladies. I suspect what they saw were only some
Russian officers in their long greatcoats.
28th.—Awoke about 3 a.m. by a furious cannonade,
which last all day. Another council of war on the subject of
making a sortie on the enemy's batteries ended in smoke,
Mussa Paella not being able to make up his mind to risk
the loss of men that might ensue. A. watercourse, which
supplied part of the town, and which at the commence-
ment of the siege had been cut off by the Russians, was
again allowed to run by them. About midnight aroused
by the report of musketry from Arab Tabus, and on
reaching the rampart at the Stamboul-gate found that a
second and much more serious attack on that work was
going on. The first assault was on the left face, the
enemy actually penetrating, into the redoubt before they
were observed. A Russian officer who led it, and cut
down a lieutenant of artillery, was immediately brained
by a handspike. A severe and desperate struggle took
place, terminating in the repulse of the enemy, who
were driven into the ditch, having suffered severely from
our grape and canister tearing through them. Re-form-
ing, they again attempted it in the same place, led gal-
lantly on with drums beating, but were again driven
back with great slaughter. After about a quarter of an
hour a third attack was made, this time on both left
and front faces at once, but meeting with the same
determined resistance. After a bloody fight the Rus-
sians were finally beaten off, the Albanians pursuing
them into their own batteries. The force in Arab Tabia
at the time was only four battalions of Egyptians and
500 Albanians, under the command of Hussein Pasha.
The lowest estimate of the numbers with which the enemy
attacked is nine battalions, and it is not improbable,
from the number of his dead found in and about the fort,
that this is considerably under the mark. The affair
lasted from midnight till after daybreak, and is one of
the most brilliant occurrences in the whole course of the
siege. Casualties, 68 killed, and 121 wounded, many
officers being among the former. The loss of the enemy
may be reckoned at 2,000 killed and wounded, although
those who removed the bodies deelared there was up-
wards of this amount in killed alone, which allowing
for wounded in the smallest proportion, would bring
their loss to upwards of 0,000.
29th.—Went down to the Stamboul-gate, where
we saw the arms, accoutrements, &c., of the
enemy's slain being received and registered. While
there a ruffian threw down before Mussa Pasha
a pair of ears, which he said he had cut
from the head of a Russian officer. He was quite
surprised at the Pasha, instead of rewardine him as be
had expected, ordering the ears to be buried, and turn-
ing from him with disgust. Several heads were also
brought down, but were not allowed inside the walls.
It is to be hoped that this disgraceful mutilation of the
dead will be abandoned by the Turks when they come
to act in concert with the Allies, it being, moreover, in
direct violation of a special firman from the Sultan. In
juss ice to the Turkish soldiers, I must state this bruta-
lity was confined chiefly to the irregulars and towns-
people, who seemed to take a savage delight in dis-
figuring the bodies of those with whom the latter had
not even been engaged. In the afternoon Butler and I
went up to AraCTabia, where the enemy's conical bul-
lets were singing through the air in great profusion.
Heaps of dead were lying in the ditch and about it. All
the former were stripped, and many were headless. The
Russian riflemen had apparently done their best to pre-
vent the mutilation of those outside, as most, if not all,
still wore their clothes, although their arms and
accoutrements had been brought in. While at Arab
Tabia we saw a body of infantry, with cavalry
thrown out, which had, as they came in sight in the
distance, on the brow of the hill near Medjidie, all
the appearance of the advanced guard of a large
force. Cries resounded on all sides that the Shumla re-
lieved army had arrived. Off we galloped, taken in liket
the rest, to welcome them. It turned out, however, to
be merely a clever dodge of Hussein Pasha's to deceive
the enemy, and make them suppose that aeretinhfe
had arrived. It being necessaryso:cocoremindlipoeavrtjeydmen at
h thes
march. above
the commence-
Arab Tabia, who had been there froa
merit of the siege, Hussein
Pasha
acausipng
inhlys,smorning, as_
at the same
round-about method of doing
time two squadrons of cavalry to
30th . A. flag oftrwucheo
commanding a party dead up to
tired on at first by the enemy ur,
a Russian officer
his batteries. Notwithstanding the white flag, they
werewtonosksetnheonetnet
s of the state in w •
interposed. On receiving the bodies the officer spoke
'n most indignant term Inch they were
Banded over to him, but was told by the officer in charge
of our party that it was the result of the Bashi-Bazouk
Tut
hanlush diwork,auth anordties thato prevent it. ing had been done by the
i
31st.--Nothing particular beyond constant firing took
place n duringTthh
ee
eday,em
overe Arab Tabi a his siege trainy Was busy all day in bringing
and materiel to his batteries oppo-
sit . Information was received to-day that
Omar Pasha is ot route from Shumla, with 2S battalions,
Go guns, and a large force of cavalry. Also that the
first division of the allies were seen at Varna on the 29th
ult., and several vessels, supposed to contain the re-
mainder, were the same day seen in the offing ; so that
we may expect to see them here about the 7th. 3,000
Albanians, with some irregular cavalry, having been re-
ported to have arrived at a village a few miles from this,
an order was despatched to hasten their march, so as to
reach this before night. Galleries of the mines in the
counterscarp of the ditch in front of some of the bastions
were finished this afternoon, so that, in the event of the
enemy trying an escalade, he will meet with rather a
warns reception. Firing was kept up without intermis-
sion throughout the night, and shells came unpleasantly
near our tent.

display; A couple of houre offer Mg hlit remalnr wars
interred. He bad considerable natural quickness of al)•
prehension, intelligence, and activity, and was zealous
and anxious to discharge his duties faithfully, added to
which he was a kind, goods-hearted man, beloved by his
dependents. His death is a great loss. Hussein Pasha,
who had been in charge of the force at Arab Tabia, now
assumed the command of the fortress, and was succeeded
by Colonel Latif Bey. The surmise of yesterday regard-
ing the Russians having sunk a mine under Arab Tabia
was confirmed by his springing it about 6 p.m. It was,
ho wever, so mismanaged that in place of destroying the
bastion the explosion was carried backwards into their
own batteries, doing considerable injury to the storming
party, who were there all ready to rush in. 5,000
Bashi-Bazouks, under the command of our old Bazard-
schik acquaintance, Mehemet Pasha, arrived. Nothing
beyond the usual cannonade occurred during the night.
JUNE 10.--This morning we had another attack on
Arab Tabia, in which the enemy was repulsed, with
great loss, Our loss is about 100 killed and wounded.

2d.—At 1 o'clock this day Mussa Pacha, the comman-
der of the fortress, was mortally wounded in the left side
by a piece of shell, which burst near him while sitting
outside his quarters at the Stamboul-gate. He lived
about 12 minutes after receiving the wound. He had just
received intelligence that a messenger was at band,
bearing the Sultan's order of Medjidie of the second
class, which had been sent to him, and was waiting for in-
structions as to whether it was his Excellency's wish
to receive the decoration publicly and with the usual
ceremony or otherwise. Mussa Pasha replied that it
would be better to bring it in quietly, remarking at
the same time that this was ^o &oasOn for pomp and

AUSTRIAN DUPLICITY.

" Russia will resist to the last man and the last
rouble." So runs the reported reply of the Czar to the
Austrian demand for the evacuation of the Principalities.
The fudge about an immediate retreat "out of high con-
sideration to Austria " is now, therefore, fully exposed
for a Stock-Jobbing trick. With Austrians in Walla-
chia, it is less likely than ever that Russia should with-
draw beyond the Pruth. Why should she fly before the
face of so old an ally and so peculiar a friend as Francis
Joseph ?
Nothing that has occurred since the commencement
of the war seems more strange than the present state of
doubt and difference in the English mind about the Aus-
trian alliance. We do not want to prophesy, or to see
anybody else prophesying, about future turns in the pro-
gress of the war, or issues of international relations.
We have the past for our guidance ; and in forming
opinions and wishes about the Austrian alliance, a due
regard to the past would assuredly preclude a large pro-
wtbpoeoh riortt mot
anui
sdrt of the difference of opinion about what Austria
will will do, and what we should wish her to do,
which must
en:oentg:aloinnligdtett°lne.ntgahme
whetheru°zsinarg' t ftobwZeh e has
have ttime
n Germaneeyesto states,i
nattendour
heads, or are labouring under a loss of memory, that we
can be in doubt about what is so clear to everybody out
of England whose opinion is of any value. We must re-
member that what is consoling to the Czar and amusing
to the German courts must be highly exasperating to
certain people with whom we have more sympathy—
certain Poles, Hungarians, and Italians, who have some
interest in the question what Austria can and will do.
For their sakes, and that of the Turks, and for our own,
we are bound to rouse our faculties on this most vital of
all questions. We must not go on playing with our
respective imaginings on the matter, and passing the
time in speculations ; but we must consider and decide,
by the evidence of the case, whether it is possible first,
and then desirable, for Austria to be our ally ; and, on
the other hand, whether it is possible or desirable for
Austria to be neutral.
The Times did some real service last week in rousing
us to this duty by its preposterous proposal that a great
portion of our Baltic fleet should be sent to the Black
Sea. If you ask a clodpole where his heart is, he will
look at himself all over ; and if you tell him his heart is
in his right foot he will not dispute the information.
The Times is pleased to try the same sort of experiment
with the British nation. It tells them that Sebastopol
is the heart of the Russian empire. But the nation had
a preconceived notion that St. Petersburg was more
like the thing ; and, as the sword is actually pointed
there, we are not disposed to drop its point, and aim
solely at its right foot. Even the simplest newspaper
readers,!who are aptto believe everything they see in print,
are startled by such a moral to a pathetic sermon against
impatience with our Baltic Admirals. Others, who see
a little further, are not sorry that so open a sign is
given of solicitude for both Russian and Austrian inte-
rests. Of course it would delight the Czar that we should
withdraw our best ships from the Baltic; but it would be
equally gratifying to Austria that the central scene of
the war should be one in which she should be the most
important party, as the one whose decision might be ex-
pected to turn the scale. It would not suit Austria at
all that we should make the breach in the Russian for-
' tress of despotism through the Baltic. We should, of
course, secure to Germany the freedom of the Danube
just the same, whether we walk in upon the tyrant
from the west or from the south ; but the objects which
Austria has even more deeply at heart could not prosper
if Napier and Plunsridge should get the start of Dundas
and Raglan, and bring the Czar to a parley, altogether
independently of Austrian intervention. We owe it to
the rashness of the Times that people are at last hasten-
ing to the right point of view of the whole question, and
making a few significant inquiries of each other.
For instance :—What made the Czar rely so inso-
lently, as we know he did, in his conversations with
-Sir G. H. Seymour, on the co-operation of Austria in
.his schemes ? There must have been some reason.
What was it ? What but this ;—that Austria had
been the steady coadjutor of Russia against the Porte, as
Russia was the coadjutor of Austria against the Hunga-
rians. The Czar was justified in his expectations from
the young Emperor by precedent, and by his claim on
the gratitude of the House of Hapsburg. He had up-
held and preserved that dynasty; and when, moreover,
it was notoriously true that Austria bad thus far been
his virtual ally against the Turks, the Czar was surely
altogether reasonable in reckoning on the continuance
of that virtual alliance. The most superficial observer
of the Montenegrin affair could no snore doubt than
Nicholas himself that the Romanoffs and Hapsburgere
were in the same boat, and pulling together. The fact
being so, what sort of foe can Austria possibly be to the
Czar ? How hard will the fighting be ? Of course it
will be much like the desperate-looking wrestling that
may be seen in Arab cities, where the combatants make
fierce grimaces and gestures, but are seen by those who
are near enough, to be so thoroughly greased that
neither can get a good gripe of the other, and, more-
over, to smile covertly and betray a secret under.
standing. We need not ask what, in this case, would
be the value of Austria as a nominal ally. And
,upposing the time to have arrived for that 'rank
ingratitude which Prince Schwartzenburg declared
would become necessary, should we like Austria any
better for an ally ? Character is of some importance
in forming a political as well as a commercial partner.
ship : and what testimonials to character can be brought
by a power which has treated a benefactor and former
partner as Austria will then have treated the Czar ? Who
will venture to ask the Porte to sign articles with a
power which has steadily reinforced Russia for a long
course of years, and now begins the pretended alliance
with the Sultan by occupying his Danubian Provinces as
the successor of the Czar ? The case ought to be clear
to all rational men. Austria cannot be sincerely the
enemy of Russia without being guilty of such tergiver-
sation, treachery, and ingratitude, as should exclude her
from participation in any honourable cause. The case
standing thus, the news given by the Times, presently
proved false, that the Czar would evacuate the principa-
lities out of deference to Austria, would, if true, have
been only another instance of collusion. But the collu-
-1 Rion would have been too clear to allow the pretended
news to be true. Looking at the relations of the two
Emperors from every point of view, the conduct of
Austriatreae
treachery to
the ca
must
deception
precious alternative
alliee,
or
may be left to the choice of all observers.
Thßeru'
etissy so
noa nemedel whyoshouwastelde
onno
tthis Austria be
question,
w ?
that
Nothing
m thath her
she
roccupation
do e s n o t
o t mean
the tpo rbi
lei c neutral.
ipa
iti.e
, hisiais fora neutral
`but she
sheeau
nol ongaecrt.
obSsehre may en
vea genuine
eounr tenotrtarliimty.;
I Be keeping the Allies out of the frontier provinces,
she may hope to bribe the Czar not to take ad-
vantage of the hatred of the Hungarians against her ;
and, by speaking the Allies fair, and marching her armies
genuineu p o
on may hope to secure the
aid of France in keeping her foot upon the neck of Lom-
bardy ; but she has not within her own borders the
unity and peace which are indispensable to a state of
Austria is the Logan-stone of
equilibrium Eur
s; 0 and people
hpeeno pallel atehteu al la•
windslookof toh heaven
tvfeonr
are rushing into uproar. The touch of a finger tip on
this side or on that sets it rocking ; and yet we are
required to trust to its being as steady as the rocks
around it which are rooted in the depths of the earth
and sea. If we had to choose, we should say—let it
rock. Its oscillation is circumscribed ; and it can exceed
that oscillation only by a total fall. That fall we ac-
knowledge to be the issue we anticipate—in the event of
either peace or continued war, If Austria leans to
Russia in war, Lombardy breaks away, and down she
goes on that side. If she leans to the allies, the Czar will
not only conquer but win Hungary from her ; and then
she goes down on that side. Whenever peace comes,
she will in the one case be punished by the allies, and
more than ever subjected to Russia ; and in the other
case, she must quit her grasp of Hungary and release
it, as a measure of self-defence against Russia. Defier-
i ? te en
neutrality,E Ta sts
structurel
aa ns ea frontier,
she
in g that she will never bring herself to do this, we anti-
cipate her humiliation as one of the European powers.
She cannot be more grievously humbled by any future
adversity than she already is by her double.dealing, hera
despotic tendencies, her cruelty, her ignorance .of the
principles and laws of national welfare, her insolvency,
and want of internal unity, mutual trust, and national
spirit. Thus regarding her state and position, we de-
precate an active alliance with her—all alliance which
can affect our action in regard to Russia. We do not
doubt being able to deal with her if she should
.prov,e an
eener, it is n
enemy. If she declares
ifneutralwe a(forre upt t
whch,onoourw-
ve owtoolate herself
) weshall,
duty, take care that she does not intercept the aims of
the war. And if she persists in claiming to be our ally,
after a clear declaration on our part that we shall we may easily permit her to call herself what She pleases,
pur-
sue our own objects in our own way, and shall not lift a
come upon
ihnoaunryftrroomubhleer tohwatn
nmoamy
inal subjects,hfienr,:eirn to help
eri
tliieearl
who may be expected to seek their retribution precisely
in the crisis of her need.—Daily New,.

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LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the management of Madame Vestris.
For the BENEFIT of Mr. and Mrs. F. MATTHEWS.

THIS EVENING, JULY 1.

Will be presented THE GENTLEMAN OPPOSITE. Characters
by Messrs. C. Mathews, Baker, and Swan; Miss Talbot, and Mrs.
F. Matthews.

Followed by a new Drama, entitled SUNSIIINE TIIROUG
THE CLOUDS. Characters by Messrs. Rosiere, Gladstone, F.
Matthews; Madame Vestris, Miss Hughes, and Miss Oliver.
To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, Jots 4,

To conclude with THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Characters by
Messrs. B. Webster, Leigh Murray, Parselle, and Keeley; Mrs. L.
Murray. Misses Woolgar, Fanny Maskell, and Laldlaw, and Mrs.
Keeley.

After Which will be presented the New Extravaganza, entitled
A =VINO TALE, supported by Mr. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley.
To be followed by WAITING FOR AN OMNIBUS IN THE
LOWTHER ARCADE IN A RAINY DAY.
To conclude with HIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE.

AsTurs EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPIIITTIEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING, JOLT 4,

Will be presented the new Grand Historical htiltary spectacle, en-
titled THE COSSACKS; or, Vive is France.

Followed by a series of Chef d'Ouvres of Art, or Equitation DE
LA. HAUTE ECOLE developed in the Scenes In the ()UCCLE, the
whole arranged and conducted by sir. William Cooke.

To conclad with RUSSIA. AGAINS r TURKEY, NOW ON
TRIAL.

Box-ofilee open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Open for the Season.
THIS EVENING, JULY 4,

Will be repeated the entirely NEW and BRILLIANT PIECE
of FIREWORK on a gigantic scale, representing the British Lion
and• Gallic Cock Trampling on the Russian Eagle. All the numerous
att•actions of the gardens as usual, including the beautiful Panorama
of Chusan, by Danson—the ext:nsive and interesting Menagerie—
Vocal and Instrumental Concert Miss Poole, Miss Ransford, and
Mr. Manvers, &c. Concluding with the attack of the British Fleet
on Chusan—Explosion of the Batter'es and Ships, and final Grand
Display of Fireworks, by Southby. Feeding the animals, Half-past
Five. Concert, Half-past Six. Fireworks, Quarter to Ten. Ad-
mission to the whole, Is.

On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday Next, July 11th, 12th,
and 13th, THREE GRAND FETES, under the Patronage of his
Excellency Count WALEWSKI, the French Ambassador, in ho-
nour of the cordial alllance between France and England.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tars DAY —Morning 44 min.after 7 I Evening 11. min.aft. 8
To•Moatww--Morning 45 min.aftezr 8 1 Evening 1G min.aft. 9

THE WEATHER.--Scru OFnai, JOLT 4.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
73 highest since noon yesterday.
60—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29'63—still falling.
WIND, S.W.—Light breeze, and heavy, cloudy weather,
intermingled with sunshine.

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