The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-13 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The opinion expressed in French political circles,
regarding the Russo-Turkish question, is, that
Russia, to save appearances, will occupy the Danu-
bian provinces—Wallachia and Moldavia—but that
there will be no war for the present.
The Nuremberg Correspondent publishes the fol-
lowing letter from Constantinople, dated the 26th
ult..—

"The Austrian Lloyd's steamer the Ferdinand the
First, which arrived here this morning, states, that
during her passage she saw, in the neighbourhood
of Dulczu, four large Russian ships of war, each
having in tow four transports, carrying a consider-
able park of artillery, and proceeding towards the
coast of Bessarabia. Large bodies of Russian troops
are stationed at Ismail, and extensive preparations
for war are being made. The day before yester-
day the steamer from Odessa brought an account, but
the truth of which is not guaranteed, that the Russians
were on the point of effecting a passage of the Danube
precisely in the same point where they did so in 1828.
Omer Pacha is, it is said, at Widdin. The greatest en-
thusiasm prevails here, and no alarm is felt in the public
mind. The armaments are going on with great acti-
vity. The Russian residents at Constantinople are placed
under the protection of Denmark, Austria having, it is
said, been refused that honour."
A letter from Alexandria of the 3d of June
states that Soliman Pacha had left that city the
day before for Constantinople, charged with a pri-
vate mission from the Viceroy. Before his de-
parture 119 had a long conference with the Consul
General of England.

Letters from Constantinople of the 29th ult.
state that according to the latest intelligence the
Russian fleet was composed of 13 ships-of-the line,
of which 6 carried 120 guns, namely, the Varna,
the Twelve Apostles, the Rostilar, the Sciatorlar,
the Selafond, and the Thrie Swildyteli ; 8 frigates
of 60 guns ; 6 corvettes ; and 12 smaller vessels.
The crews of the various vessels had been fully
made up, but the fleet had but few steamers.
The Emperor of Russia, by a recent ukase, has
ordered the construction of an electric telegraph
between Odessa and St. Petersburgh, and that the
posting establishments on that road should be com-
pletely reorganised.
Advices from Trieste of the 6th inst. state that
the French, English, and Prussian officers in the
Turkish army are actively employed in taking mea-
sures of defence. One of them, Captain Jun gmann,
is placing the citadel of the Bosphorus in a state
of defence. M. Petit has been sent to the ports of
the Danube. Admiral Slade is engaged in organis-
ing the fleet he has not, however, as yet, been
appointed to any command.
Five Russian Cabinet Couriers from St. Peters-
burgh arrived on the 7th inst. at Stettin, whence
they immediately took their departure for the va-
rious Courts.

SPAIN.
The Madrid papers of the 7th inst. are destitute
of interest.
Bourse.—Three per Cents., 45 15-16; Deferred,
24 1-16 ; Exchange on London, 51 10.

SWITZERLAND.
The Grand Council of Friburg heard, on the 7th,
the report of the committee charged to examine
the proposition of the Council of State, to send be-
fore the Court of Assizes the prisoners condemned
by court-martial for having taken part in the in-
surrection of April 22. The committee decided
that the course thus recommended ought to be
followed. The Grand Council, after a long dis-
cussion, came to the same conclusion.

STRIKE OF THE MANCHESTER POLICE.—MANCHESTER
JUNE 11.—Matters in the police force in this city are
now assuming such n serious aspect, that unless some
early adjustment of the differences which exist between
the men and the heads of the body is accomplished, pro-
perty will be left almost unprotected. It seems that
the private constables have 17s. a week, from which some
deduction is made for a kind of relief or provident fund.
The policemen contend that at these times, when the
price of labour is rising, and the cost of provisions,
meat, &c., is high, they ought to participate in the
general advance, and therefore solicited an increase of
pay. The magistrates declined to accede to their appeal,
and yesterday the chief of the force stated that 250 of
the first-class men had sent in their resignations. Many
others were about to follow their example.
STRIKE OF FORTY THOUSAND OPERATIVES. STOCK-
Fora, SATURDAY.—The threatened "turn out" at the
mills of this district has at length been carried into
effect, and some thirty or forty thousand weavers with
their families aro now traversing the streets in proces-
sion, to the great sensation of this part of the country.
A few of the mill proprietors yielded to the demands of
the men, for an advance of 10 percent, in their wages,
which is said to be equal to the Manchester rate, but
the bulk of the owners declined to comply, and the
notices coming due yesterday, the hand generally left
employment. The authorities have taken every precau-
tion for the preservation of good order, but the conduct
of the "turn outs " appears to be very orderly. An
immense procession paraded the streets last evening
calling at the several mills which were to become vacant
PRIZE ESSAY ON THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN.—We
understand that the prize of one hundred guineas,
offered by the Associate Institution, for the best essay
on the Laws respecting the Protection of Women, has
been awarded to James Edward Davis, Esq., barrister-
at-law, of the Oxford Circuit. The adjudicators were
the Bishop of Oxford, Vice-Chancellor Wood, and Mr.
Roundell Palmer, M.P.

THE AUSTRALIAN DIGGINGS.

Among the passengers brought home by the
Brazilian packet Teviot, which arrived at South-
ampton on Saturday, wore about 50 belonging to
the Australian liner Bombay, which put into Rio
in a leaky condition. The following notice of the
Bombay appears in the Melbourne Argus of a late
date :

" THE VICTORIA EXODlTEL—Arnongst the numbers of
old residents now leaving% .ue colony, the passengers by
the fine old Indiaman, the Bombay, occupy a position
worthy of remark. Amongst them we have Mr. John-
ston, late member for the city and long well known in con-
nection with public business in the colony. As an active
anti-transportationist, and identified with the popular
and progressive party in our political world for years,
Mr. Johnson leaves behind him many sincere friends.
Another passenger is Mr. Green, whose activity and
promptitude in the conveyance of our mails in the earlier
stages of colonial history, rendered very great services
to his fellow colonists. Mr. Green has been a great
patron of our public institutions, and has always dis-
played a kind heart and energetic temperament. We
also notice Mr. James Murray, very well known as
one of our oldest colonists, and very generally and
universally respected. Mr. Macredie, his son-in-law,
Mr. Condell, first mayor of Melbourne and member for
the city ; Mr. Collyer, of Green Hills ; Mr. Furlonge,
and others. It is rather a sorrowful thing to find so
many of our oldest residents leaving us, but it is
some satisfaction to know that few of them go with-
out a fair share of the good things of the richest
country in the world ; and if we can only succeed in
stirring up our empty mockery of a government into
securing some approach to a better condition of society,
we have a very strong conviction that numerous as are
the desertions at present from our shores the time will
come when most of our runaways will be glad to come
back again."
The Bombay left Melbourne on the 27th of February
last, a few days after the Atraveida, which brought the
latest news we have received. She left with a very rough
and inadequate crew, not one of whom would join the
vessel without 451. for the run home. The name of the
captain of the Bombay is Flamonsk. She had on board
about 80 passengers, 27,000 ounces of gold, 2,400 bales
of wool, and thirty tons of tallow. She made a good run
to Cape Horn in five weeks. Near the Falkland isles one
of the crew became mad, and attempted to murder the
captain and wounded him so dangerously that the mate
was obliged to take charge of the ship. About two days
afterwards the Bombay sprung a leak of an alarm-
ing nature. The crew were unwilling and unable to
manage the ship and manage the pumps, and the latter
duty was obliged to be undertaken by the passen-
gers. The gentlemen passengers worked at the pumps
incessantly for eight days and nights, while the ship
was making 20 feet of water in 24 hours. The lady
passengers were obliged to act as cooks and stewardesses.
While in this fearful extremity a gale came on, and
carried away nearly ,every bit of sail. At length the
Bombay reached Rio, and about 50 of the passengers
took a passage to England in the mail packet Teviet,
which put them to some hundreds of pounds additional
expense. Mr. Murray, one of the wealthy colonists, above
alluded to, went to Melbourne about 12 years since, when
there were not a dozen houses in the place. He built
the first large building there. Since that period pro-
perty has risen in that town a thousand per cent. The
gold on board the Bombay was not sent home in the
Teviot., Just before the Bombay left Melbourne the
ship Blackwell sailed for Melbourne ; on board of her
was Mrs. Latrobe, the lady of the Governor of Victoria,
and family. The Blackwell had also about 50,000
ounces of gold on board.
By the Bombay mails, which were sent home in the
Teviot, we have news from Melbourne up to the 26th
and from Sydney to the 18th of February last.

The Melbourne Argus of Feb. 23, supplies the follow-
ing items of local and commercial interest :

MOUNT ALEXANDER.

Another of those distressing accidents so common now
upon the diggings, and which are made still more pain-
ful by the carelessness through which they happen, oc-
curred on Friday last at the Golden Point. Notice was
taken, as they passed the Herald office, of a large party
of Germans on their way to Bendigo ; they had a num-
ber of drays with them, and were accompanied by their
wives. The men carrying their guns with their usual
nonchalance, one went off, lodging its contents in the
breast of one of the unfortunate females, who was killed
on the spot.
Through the late active exertions of the police and
troopers the diggings are in that state during daytime
that the carrying firearms is perfectly unnecessary. I
wish I could say the same of them in the night ; but the
next paragraph will show that several bad .characters
are still lurking about, watching their opportunity for
plunder. One of the force assured me the other day that
however much they might pursue the bushranger in the
outskirts, as soon as he entered Forest Creek they en-
tirely lost all track of him. in consequence of so many
infamous dens existing in many of the sly grog-shops.
One most desperate character, who, without ad exagge-
ration, they have followed for '2,000 miles is thus lost
sight of.

-A
robbery, surrounded with mystery, took place on
Saturday night at the store and eating-house of a Mr.
Briant, Montgomery's-hill. Briant's house has lately
been known as the rendezvous of the set above mentioned,
and it appears that about 12 o'clock, Briant being in a
state of drunkenness, his wife was obliged to go to an ad-
joining tent. During her absence an iron chest, containing
about GOO/. and 30 ounces of gold was removed. Imme-
diately on her return the loss was discovered, and informa-
tion conveyed to thepolice station, at therear of the Herald
office. Four men, whose horses were stabled at Briant's,
were given into custody, and the horses secured as sto-
len, Briant himself admitting the fact. Active exertions
have been made by Captain Berkeley, and six other men
were on Sunday consigned to the lock-up. I am in-
formed that the missing chest has just been discovered,
minus the contents, buried within a short distance of
where the robbery was committed.
The last government land sale took place on Thurs-
day, at the Castlemaine Police-court ; 41 lots in the
township of Carisbrcok, and other country lots, were
disposed of, and to speculators, with most profitable re-
sults. lam credibly informed that in the case of one
lucky storekeeper, for land that he purchased at 355. per
rood, 151. has since been refused. Carpenters will again
be fully in activity ; already bush paling and fencing
have risen in price. Several are laying in good stores
in expectation of another increase.

DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL HOWARD VYSE.—This
old and distinguished officer died on Friday last, at his
seat, Stoke, county Bucks, in the 70th year of his ago.
He was the father of Captain Vyse, of the Royal Horse
Guards, the M.P. for the county of Northampton, his
second son. The successor to the estates is Captain
George Vyse, of the 2d Life Guards. The deceased
filled the office of Sheriff of Bucks in 1829. Several of
the ancestors of the deceased served with distinction in
the army.
WEYMOUTH—Loss OF A VESSEL BY FIRE. —On
Saturday, the 11th inst., at midnight, the schooner
Commodore, of Blakenese, Schutt master, whilst about
eleven miles from land, was totally destroyed by fire.
The crew took to the boat, and shortly after the vessel
went down. They were picked up by the Duke of Corn-
wall, bound to Penzance, and landed at Weymouth on
Sunday afternoon. The unfortunate vessel was laden
with a general cargo from Hamburg to Vera Cruz.
THE SLIGO BOROUGH ELECTION.—It is stated that
Viscount Palmerston intends to give his support to Mr.
Somers at the ensuing election, although Mr. Sadleir is
a Lord of the Treasury.

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH DEVON.—It is reported
that Sir Ralph Lopez, M.P. for South Devon, is seri-
ously ill—that a vacancy in the representation is con-
templated—and that Sir Stafford Northcoto, Bart., of
Pynes, is to be brought forward as his successor. Sir
Stafford is a disciple of the Right Hon. Mr. Gladstone,
both in respect to political and religious opinions.—
Western Times.

PETERBOROUGH ELECTION.—Mr. George Hammond
Whalley, who was unseated on Wednesday last by the
select committee appointed to try the merits of the
Peterborough election committee, upon the ground that
he, by his agents, had been guilty of bribery, has again
become a candidate for the representation of that city.
In his address, he chiefly alludes to the accusations
brought against him before the committee, and calls
upon the electors to defend him against " a system of
persecution, tyranny, and falsehood, which, in the
House of Commons, itself, has been declared to be dis-
graceful to the country,"
THE ROYAL SOCIETT.—On Saturday evening the
Earl of Rosse, as president of the Royal Society, gave
his fourth and last conversazione this season, at his lord-
ship's mansion, Connaught-place. An unusually nume-
rous and brilliant assemblage of gentlemen eminent in
the various walks of literature, science, and art hon-
oured his lordship with their presence. Most of the
leading members of the Royal Society likewise attended
to pay their respects to their noble president. Among
the visitors we also noticed many members of the House
of Peers, and several artists and foreigners of distinction.
A. number of scientific objects, together with maps,
drawings, and plans were dispersed about the saloons,
and attracted much attention during the course of the
evening. The party separated early.
ROBBERY AT WINDSOR.—On Thursday afternoon two
strangers entered the Two Brewers Inn, at Windsor,
and asked to be supplied with refreshments, stating they
had engaged beds at a shop in the town. They had
their dinner in a small sitting room upstairs, and when
they left the landlady discovered that the cash-box, which
was in the adjoining room, had been robbed of money
to the amount of 1001., together with two watches. An
express was immediately sent by the electric telegraph
of the North-Western Railway, to catch the robbers at
the London terminus, but unfortunately the clerks were
then employed in transmitting the account of the races,
and some delay took place, in consequence of which the
two men escaped, and have not since been heard of.
MARINE INsunexcEs.—A return has been printed by
order of the House of Commons, showing the amount of
revenue derived in each year since 1830 from the stamp
duties on marine insurances. I n 1831, the amount was
225,4931. ; in 1836, 255,558/. in 1841, 287,762/. ; in
1846, 151,5411.; in 1851, 174,1481.; in 1852, 193,7881.
The highest amounts were in 1839 and 1840, viz.,
296,3431. and 302,9511.; and the lowest was in 1845,
148,7201. The sums, however, varied considerably be-
tween these two extremes. The total amount of ton-
nage belonging to the United Kingdom, in 1831, was
2,190,547 tons; in 1836, 2,312,846 tons; in 1841,
2,886,626 tons; in 1846, 3,148,323. Since that time
the increase has been steadily advancing, as follows :-
1847, 3,254,353 tons; 1848, 3,344,764 tons ; 1849,
3,427,140 tons; 1850, 3,504,944 tens; 1851, 3,601,729
tons; 1852, 3,698,004 tons,