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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1854.

Everything denotes a change in the campaig%
and a new " stir" among the belligerents. Some-
thing must come of it—so one would hope at last
—in the way of drawing the events of the war
onwards at last to some decisive catastrophe.
The combined Fleets of France and Englani in
the Baltic have at length " sighted" Cronstadt,
An attack may therefore be expected to be made
at length upon that chief gate of the Russian
capital, the outer bulwark of that metropolis, as
we have already called it the Ostea or Pirxus of
St. Petersburg.

The combined fleets in the Black Sea, although
according to the last advices still at
Balchik, may
before much longer now, we do believe, be heard
of not far from Sebastopol.
Meanwhile, matters continuing thus at seams
on land the situation is rapidly becoming one of
more imminent importance, one every day rao,,,
and more obviously calculated to lead to events of
a momentous character.

Everybody knows already of the complete na-
ture of the retrograde movement made by the
Russian army in the Principalities. Almost every-
body is aware, moreover, that the forces of the
CZAR are said to have been utterly routed and
dispersed in the Caucasus. Wallachia is, by this
time, nearly evacuated by the troops of GORTSCIEA-
KOFF or of PASKIEWITCH—for there are still doubts
as to who is henceforth to be regarded as the
Muscovite Commander-in-Chief. The rearguard
cf the recent besiegers of Silistria had been
again defeated by the Turks not far from its
gloriously defended fortifications. The Russian
retreat has, in consequence, been more precipi-
tate and comprehensive. Not only Wallachia
but the Dobrudscha is being formally abandoned
by the legions who, like a swarm of locusts or
an irresistible conflagration, were to eat their
way across Bulgaria
and Roumelia, either through
the rocky passes of
the Balkan, or along the sea-
board by way of Varna, to the coveted palaces of
the SULTIN in the Bosphonis, to the gilded
mosques and minarets of Constantinople. Instead
of the boastful prediction of the
AUTOCRAT being
realised, his discomfited soldiers, leaving 25,000
of their fellow-slaves dead upon the battle-fields,

or in the hospitals, are hastily concentrating their
thinned and dispirited numbers in Moldavia.
Recoiling before the valour of the Turks and the
tardy advance of the Allies—only to advance once
more to the encounter at the earliest discernable
opportunity.
At this juncture we hear that fifty thousand
of the Anglo-French contingent are rapidly ad-
vancing towards the Turkish head-quarters at
Schumla, from the city of Varna, where they had
been disembarked. The advance guard of the
French army, moreover, is known to have passed
in a sort of ovation through the streets of Adria-
nople. The gallant 01= PACHA. must speedily,
therefore, find his victorious army of Turks and
Egyptians strengthened by the junction of his na-
tive forces with those of their more highly civilised,
more skilfully trained, and redoubtable auxiliaries.
Augmented by the arrival of the French and
English contingents, the allied armies will then
be in a position to act decisively against the
enemy, under the conduct of the Marshal ST.
ARNAUD as Generalissimo.

At this particular period in the great war with
the Russian AUTOCRAT, it may not be uninteresting
to revert for a while to a remarkable Contrast sug-
gested twenty years ago by an anonymous writer
of really marvellous prescience, in a pamphlet to
which we have already more than once earnestly
directed public observation. We allude, of course,
to that exceedingly curious, and, indeed, extra-
ordinary brochure, entitled simply, " England,
France, Russia, and Turkey," 119 pages Bvo in
all, and published, -without any author's name, by
Mr. Ridgway, of Piccadilly.
Turning to the 107th page of this prophetic
pamphlet—prophetic we term it advisedly, for at
that distance of twenty years from the present
time, the writer exactly described the position
which matters have actually now assumed in re-
gard to England, and France, and Russia, and
Turkey, and the rest of the chief Powers of the
European Continent—turning to the 107th page
of this prophetic pamphlet, we find the following
Contrast or Alternative, literally in so many words
thus depicted :

" If Russia is first at Constantinople, she com-
" bines, necessarily, all the resources of the
" Northern Governments ; she developes a power
" to which there can be no possible balance in the
" Mediterranean ; Greece and Egypt become de-
" peudencies ; no State can partake in the
" Eastern commerce, save by her sufferance ; the
" possibility of all useful union against her on the
" part of England and France vanishes : and ci-
" vilisation itself is threatened wish a more dan-
" gerous eclipse than it suffered from the over-
" flow of the barbarians in 604."

All this, mind, if Russia is first at Constan-
tinople !
But—observe the obverse :

"If England anticipates Russia, she has
" with her France, Prussia is left aside,
" Austria enters, to hasten the termina-
" tion of the struggle, if necessary, the
" whole Ottoman Empire is called to arms, the
" troops and fleets of MEHEMET Ara united to
" them, and the only result that will then be
" accept:lig, will be the retreat of Russia
" behind the Dnieper, which moderate prudence
" a:ri sequence in the policy of the Cabinets of
" Prance and England would never have per-
mitted her to traverse."

Well, the alternative which was thus clearly
defined in 1834, has now in 1854 been—in the
initial proviso at least—decided. Notwithstand-
ing the fearful delays of our own Government,
and the lawless and desperate precipitation of the
Government of St. Petersburg—we have stolen
a march upon the Russian AUTOCRAT ! So far
from his troops being in possession of
Constantinople, they have been so thoroughly
beaten along the banks of the Danube that they
are compelled to withdraw precipitately into the
Moldavian Principalities. Thanks, however, nut
to England, but to the splendid valour and deter-
mination of the Turks themselves ! Consequently,
we have been enabled to "anticipate" Russia in her
designs in regard to the capture of Constantinople.
The result has been precisely that described by
the pamphleteer. England "has with her France."
—Prussia "is left aside." It remains, of course,
yet to be seen whether it is with good faith to
to her 'Western Allies that Austria " enters to
hasten the termination of the struggle"—but it is
at a►ny rate certain that she is now pledged to
war with Russia, while her forces have already,
with that implied purpose, entered the Wallachian
provinces from beyond the frontiers of Transyl-
vania. From the commencement of the struggle
the Egyptian contingent, both military and
maritime, was supplied by the ruling Peelle, not
by MEHEMET ALI, but his grandson Asses, to the
reigning SULTAN, his liege Suzeraine. The object
of the war alone remains to be fulfilled, in order
to complete this singular prediction—the driving
of the Russians back " behind the Dnieper."
That is, in truth, as was declared twenty years
ago by this anonymous writer, " the only result
that will be worth accepting." Again, therefore,
we repeat, the watchword of the war is found—
the name of the " DNIEPER."

"The good old times" have long passed away
since it was an ordinary custom, for persons hold-
ing a tolerably respectable position in Ireland, " to
purvey themselves wives after the fashion of the
tribe of BENJAMIN." No " Abduction Clubs"
now exist in any part of the Emerald Isle, nor are
"young Hibernian bloods" accustomed to submit
their pretensions to the hand of some blooming
heiress of the vicinity to the arbitration of a pack
of cards, a pair of dice, or the still more summary
decision of a thrown-up halfpenny, or what
is vulgarly termed " skying a copper"—
the disappointed claimants, like the suitors
of HELEN, being compelled to assist their
successful rival in carrying off the lady thus
unceremoniously disposed of. But the ancient
spirit has not altogether departed from the sister
kingdom. A recent attempt has been made to
revive the obsolete custom, and that not by a
vulgar, illiterate, or needy man, but by one oc-
cupying a highly respectable position in society,
a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant of his
county, the owner of valuable real estates, in re-
spect of which he had on all occasions shown him-
self to be a considerate and improving landlord. It is
n eedless to say that such a person was highly respected
and esteemed by persons of his own class, popular
with his more humble neighbours, and idolised by
the tenantry of his wide-spread domains. He
had indeed won golden opinions from men of all
ranks, and was generally considered to be one of
the last who would attempt the perpetration of a
brutal and unmanly outrage on a young and
beautiful lady—an outrage for the repression
frequently exp
of which most stringent enactments had beenpassed,P'eds and the perpetrators whereof had not un-
deaths b y
Y the hands of the hangman, or by pro-
t
iated their offences b ignominious
acted exile from their native land.
The
circumstances under which Mr. JOHN CAR-
DEN, of Itarnane, attempted the offence, for which
next assizes for the
he now lies in prison, awaiting his trial at the
features of no ordinaryunt-
awyaoif Tipperary, disclose
was made in the broad
Sab-
bath, when the parties were of
atrocity. The attempt
parish church, where theyreh day, on the
from the
tribute of praise and thanksa,:de* toto their Hea-
neningoffering the
hn.the venly Father. What could ctiavtviiirblele
Ls. arrange-
a sensa-
tionsf.ellow-
of the man who had completed
ofn the
ments for the abduction of one of
worshippers, while apparently joinin
service, and listening to the exhortatiogna
officiating clergyman? How could he have hardened the
his heart so far as to proceed to the execution
of his nefarious project, while seeing his intended
victim engaged in her devotions, and utterly un-
conscious of the severe ordeal through which she
was about to pass ? He did so, however—unfor-
tunately for himself—and he has now to meet the
consequences of his deliberate violation of one of
the most salutary laws of his country.
It is unnecessary to dwell at any length on the
particulars cf the attack which was so vigorously
resisted, and gallantly defeated. The vehicle in
which the young lady—the object of the
attack—Was seated, had scarcely been stopped

* Curran and his amtemporaries. By CHARLES
PHILLIPS, Esq. Blackwood and Sons, London and
Edinburgh.

There is, we all know, a Pastoral Aid Society,
and we doubt not it aids the pastors well, and
that a staff of secretaries, clerks, and travelling
agents are eloquent in reports, circular; diocesan
school-rooms, and in drawing-rooms too, on the
sufferings of over-worked rectors, and the spiritual
wants of the thousands whom no man careth for,
unless perhaps as the Record hath it, " Dissenters,
Papist; and Infidels ;" it is, however, a great
mercy for our reporters and leaders that societies
of this kind do not plead their cause in Parlia-
ment. We are not sure whether there is also au
Episcopal Aid Society ; that bishops do need
some aid in bearing the burden of their incomes
and estates-is, of course, obvious enough, and
many have been the efforts of devout Marquises,
and reverent commissions to release the Right
Reverend Fathers from worldly cares by an easy
or luxurious salary disconnected from episcopal
superintendence of fines, reversals, ground-rents,
(tc. But partial success has hitherto attended
these benevolent endeavours. It would seem,
however, that our Episcopal Church does obtain
effectual aid from certain of her lay offspring—
Honourable M.P.'s, who feel it their especial voca-
tion to do battle on every occasion in her behalf
against the other great Episcopal Church in these
realms. Never did knight errant in story look out
more keenly for Paynim knights, or search more
zealously for some oppressor of innocence with
whom to break a lance, than does Knight
SPOONER, attended ever by his faithful Squire
NEWDEGATE, for some Papal foe in the House of
Commons. It was apostolic advice to Bishop
TIMOTHY, as many designate him, to do his sacred
work "in season and out of season," and Mr.
SPOONER, believing the charge binding upon him,
shows certainly no respect of seasons ; whether it
be when votes are taken for the spiritual superin-
tendence of those whom society has thrown upon
their self-communings in the solitude of a prison,
or in one of the most important public financial
bills which has been presented to the country for
many years, it is all one to our Episcopal HUDl-
BRAS—straight he tilts at his grand enemy, " the
Idolatrous Antichrist"—whether a prison or the
Treasury be his supposed shelter ; or rather, we
should say, now he stands lance in rest to repel
him from tampering with thieves, vagabonds,
and pickpockets, again he charges at full
speed to dislodge him from quiet quarters
in the Consolidated Fund. Mr. SPOONER has
taken on himself the out-and-out championship of
Protestant Episcopacy ; nothing else is to have a
shilling of State pay ; Ireland may groan under
the burden of episcopal wealth, her Protestant
Church may in its luxurious endowment be the
scandal of Christendom ;—never mind, says our
hero, " the sword of the LORD and of CROMWELL,"
—Parliament to the rescue 1 Well, the spirit of
episcopacy, like that of prophecy, disdains some-
times the regular channels ; it will pour down
upon those educated for worldly professions, and
' we are quite confident that the mantle of the
BISHOP OF FERNS has descended with a double
portion upon this unconsecrated ecclesiastic.
Every one who has heard his anti-Catholic oratory
will have been compelled to remember the well-
known picture of his predecessor, and his senti-
ments :

" (end while he spoke his cheeks grew fatter),
The rogues may munch their Paddy crop,
But the rogues must still support our shop.
And depend upon it, the way to treat
Heretical stomachs that thus dissent,
Is, to burden all that won't eat meat
With a costly MEAT ESTABLISHMENT."

Mr. SPOONER was defeated luckily on Monday
evening by a majority, however, hardly large
enough to save the credit of the House ; but what
on earth could be more unhandsome, more unprin-
cipled almost we might say, than to hazard de-
feating the valuable measure for bringing all the
payments out of the nation's Exchequer under
Parliamentary control, merely to gratify a paltry
spite against Maynooth ? Let Maynooth be all
that SPOONERISM supposes, we yet maintain that
Parliament ought to frown upon such attempts to
accomplish an object per fas ant nefas. While a
Commission is inquiring into the state and working
of the College, to attack it pending the presenta-
tion of the report, and when its support had been
placed on the Consolidated Fund by Act of Par-
liament, to attempt to alter the arrangement by a
catch vote on a clause foisted into a bill for a
totally diverse object, is, it strikes us, the very
perfection of unfairness and of Parliamentary
thimble-rigging. We trust any renewal of such
attempts will obtain the yet more marked dis-
approbation of the House. We hardly need assert
that our Protestantism is, perhaps, more decided
than that of -Alessi& SPOONER and NEWDEGATE,
but our Protestantism embraces firmly the prac-
twicaoulldantdhaDtDivine rule, " to do unto” others as we
they should do unto us.

The Earl of Scarborourdi, we regret to state, is suffer-
ing from serious indisposition at his residence in Park-
street.
The Duke and Duche,s of Hamilton and youthful
family have arrived at the baths of Fribourg, from Paris,
en route to visit the Royal family at Baden, where their
graces intend to remain until
the end of the ensuing
month,

MONEY MA RKE

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at from 6,000 to 7,000 bales, in-
cluding 1,000 American taken for export and on
speculation. The market closed heavily, with
prices of all kinds unchanged, except American,
at sd. to 51d. per lb., which were in favour of
buyers. The sales comprised 100 Pernam and Ma-
ranham at 6/d. to • 71d. 100 Bahia at 62d., 850
Egyptian at 60. to 9d., 300 Surat at 31d. to 4d.,
200 Sea Island at 10d. to Is. Bd., and the re-
mainder American. Railway Shares were quiet.
Colonial produce has been rather quiet this week,
and sales have, in some cases, been pressed. Sugar
has been dull, but coffee firm. In tea there has
not been much doing. Tallow is held for higher
rates. Cotton has not undergone any particular
change. In cochineal there has been an advance.
There has been a disposition to press sales publicly
in many articles. Saltpetre has been quiet. At
the indigo auction there are to be 14,000 chests
offered.

As an instance of the little deference paid to the
wishes of shareholders in some of the mining com-
panies, we give a statement that has been sent to
us by the Australian Consols Shareholders' Com-
mittee of Investigation :

"The following requisition was addressed to the
committee of management and finance of this com-
pany :
" ' Gentlemen,---We, the undersigned shareholders in
the above company, holding upwards of 700 shares in
the capital stock of this company, hereby request that
you will forthwith convene a special general meeting of
the shareholders, for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration and deciding upon a plan or plans proposed
by the Shareholders' Committee of Investigation for the
re-organization of the Company, of passing any resolu-
tions with reference to such plan or plans, and of trans-
acting such other business in connexion therewith, as
the said meeting may deem expedient. Copy of the
plan is sent herewith.

" ' 17, King's Arms Yard, 10th June, 1854.'
" Signed by the holders of shares amounting to
20,1301."

The Directors have not convened the meeting,
as requested, and the Shareholders' Committee,
therefore, calls a special meeting, according to the
powers vested in it by the rules of the Company.
The English Stock Market is generally heavy
this morning under the combined influence of the
return of unfavourable weather, the non receipt of
satisfactory news from the continent with regard to
the Eastern Question, and the causes which yes-
terday operated upon prices. Consols have been
alternately buyers and sellers at 93. They opened
at 92 to 93 for money, and at 92i to 93 for the
account, and are now about 93. The Reduced 3 per
Cents. are 921- to 93. The New 31 per Cents. 93i to g.
Exchequer Bonds continue steady at to prem.,
and the Bills at ls. to 2:3. premium. Bank Stock
is firm, at 207 to 209. India Stock is about 232,
and the Bonds at par to 3s. premium.
The payment of the half-yearly dividend on
Consols, (L-c., commences to-morrow, when one
year's Income Tax will be deducted, namely, at
the rate of ls. 2d. per pound.
Foreign Stocks are dull, and, in some instances,
at lower quotations :—Mexican are heavy at 24k,
and Russian 5 per Cents., at 99. Grenada Bonds,
are quoted 17, and Equador 3i, being weaker.
Chiliaa 6 per Cents., have been dealt in at 10.21.
Spanish 3 per Cents., have risen to 37 and 37g.
Belgian 41 per Cents. are 90 to 91, and Dutch 4
per Cents. 901.
A limited business has been done in Railway
Shares, and prices have mostly given way. Cale-
donian have declined about 55.; Great Northern,
10s. to 155.; Great Western, 15s. to 11.; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 55.; North-Western, 5.. to
10s.; Midland, 10s.; and York and North Mid-
land, 10s. to 15s. Brighton, however, are firm,
and South-Eastern ss. higher. French Shares are
nominal. Dutch Rhenish are better.

Mining shares are dull. Poutigband have risen
slightly.
Joint Stocks present a heavy appearance. Ori-
ental have receded 103., and Union of Australia,
15s.

Land Companies' are neglected. Crystal Palace
have undergone no particular change.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES

( Front the Oficial List.)

RUSinees done.
sank Stock ............. 207 9
• per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93 i 3
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 93i li i
India Bonds, £IOOO
Ditto' under £lOOO par 3 p
Consols for Opening 19th July
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£IOOO
£5OO 2 p
Small par 5 p
Exchequer Bonds, 1858 .. • 9B.
Ditto Scrip, 1859
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent ............ 102 i 3
Ditto 3 per Cent
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 1i per Cent
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
:46.}
tlexican 3 per Cent.
Ditto 4 per Cent
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 99
Ditto Small
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 37 3 i a d
..ivoeeds on the shove parable in London
Belgian Bonds 4i per Cent. ex. 25 fr
Dutch Exchange, 2. per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates ...
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening 19th July 92k 3 x d

HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION AT CHIBWICIL—We un-
derstand that the following are the regulations to be
observed to-morrow on the occasion of her Majesty's
visit to the Horticultural Exhibition :—The Gate No.
4 in the road to Chiswick House is reserved for
the exclusive use of the Royal party, until her Ma-
jesty's departure. Previous to the arrival of the
Queen the tents will be cleared, and no one except
those in attendance on her Majesty, or on
duty, can be permitted to pass the barriers.
The barriers and entrances to the tents will be placed
in charge of the police ; and the Council trust that gen-
tlemen will cordially support the force in the execution
of their duty. It is most especially requested that every
one will use his influence to prevent her Majesty being
inconvenienced in any way by crowding. All visitors
are expected to reach the gardens before four o'clock,
that her Majesty may not be inconvenienced in arriving
there.

TRH KING OF PORTUGAL. —The King of Portugal and
his brother, the Duke of Oporto, arrived at Brussels on
Countth ei their R"
Tuesday evening. His Majesty and his Royal Highness
Royal Highnesses the Duke de
Brabant de Flandre, and by the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and were escorted to the Palace by
a detachment of cavalry.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford and family
are expected to lea.vs Hamilton-place, at the close of the
were received
and the
ensuing week, for Tarbat House, Inverness-shire, fur the
season.

Despatches were sent to the Governor of the Cape of
Good Hope last evening from the Colonial-office.
Despatches were received yesterday from the Gover-
nor of Heligoland. _

ODESSA.—The advices from Odessa state that in the
Sea of Azoff an impression prevails that there will be no
blockade, since it wouLl be inconvenient to watch all the
ports there ;
and a
fancy is indulged that it would not
be legal to blockade merely the entrance. The reason
urged for this belief is, that if such were not the case, the
Allies would content themselves with blockading the
Bosphorus at once ; but the argument is utterly inap-
plicable, since the commerce of the world with Turkey
would then be interfered with, while in the instance of
a blockade of the Sea of Azoff at the Straits of Kertch
none but Russian territory would be shut off.
IRISH PEAT COMPANT.—An adjourned meeting of the
Irish Peat Company took place yesterday, at which a
supplemental report was adopted. The progress of the
works has lately been more satisfactory than was at one
time anticipated, and when some slight defects in the
machinery
shall have been remedied, the manufacture
of tar, oil, and other articles, which has already been
commenced, will,
it is said, be successfully developed.
In the meantime 3,000/. has been raised by the three-
, tors, to supply a requisite increase of expenditure, in
preference to making a further call.
NEW ACT ON HIGH TREASON.—On Wednesday an act
was printed to assimilate the law and practice existing
in cases of high treason in Ireland to the law and prac-
tice of high treason in England.. By the 7th Anne,
e. 21, a list of witnesses, with their abode, &c., and
a list of the jury are required to be given at the time
a copy of the indictment is delivered, ten days before
the trial, in the presence of credible witnesses. It is
declared to be expedient, just, and reasonable, that the
same should be extended to Ireland, and it is enacted
that from the Ist August next the same shall be ex-
tended accordingly.
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FRO.I SHIPWRHCK. —Yesterday
a general meeting of the committee of this institution
was held at the offices, John-street, Adelphi. Mr. T.
Chapman, F.R.S., deputy-chairman, presided. Various
pecuniary rewards were granted for saving life on the
coasts. The attention of the committee was afterwards
directed to the necessity of providing, without delay,
carriages for eight lifeboats which it had recently placed
on different parts of the ciast. A carriage is now being
constructed, under the direction of the institution, by
Messrs. Ransorne and Sims, of Ipswich, which, with the
exception of its cost, which we understand will be up-
wards of 1001., is likely to answer the purpose admirably.
The committee sanctioned the sale of a considerable por-
tion of the small funded property of the; society to meet
the current expenses on lifeboats, boathouses, &c. They
earnestly appealed to the public for increased pecuniary
support, to enable them to carry on successfully the ope-
rations of the institution, in which appeal we cordially
join, for we believe that few societies axe more deserving
of support than this is, considering really national
and Lenevolent oljects. Mr. Haiiiilioi i Fitzgerald haw-
ing been announced as giving the liberal donation of 100
guineas and a grant in aid of the Har 'depool seamen's
lifeboat voted, the proceedings closed,

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS,

THE WAR.

THE FLEETS BEFORE CRONSTADT.

Other telegraphic advices confirm what we
published yesterday, as to the first shot having been
fired at Cronstadt. They are to the effect that ou
Tuesday last, the 4th instant, Sir Charles Napier
was still before Cronstadt, with his screw steam
squadron, challenging the Russian fleet. H.M.S.
Desperate attempted to engage a steamer which
peered out from behind the batteries, but the
Russian drew back as soon as the shot began to fly.
The cholera is making great ravages among the
garrison of Cronstadt.

SECOND BOMBARDMENT OF BOMARSUND.

A telegraphic despatch from Copenhagen, dated
yesterday, confirms the second bombardment of
Bomarsund. The fortress is destroyed. The
troops are occupying the place.
Under-water mines are said to be sunk at
Hango Point.