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LONDON, MONDAY. EVENING, MARCH 21, 1853.

AUSTRALIA. Parties about to proceed to
Australia can be assured in the PROFESSIONAL LIFE AS-
SURANCE COMPANY, 76, Cheapside, London, without payment
of extra premium for voyage to or residence there.
EDWARD BAYLIS,
Resident Manager and Actuary.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That on GOOD FRIDAY the
Trains will run as on Sundays, with the addition of the Day Mail,
from Paddington to Bristol, at 10.15 a.m., ; and from Bristol to Pad-
tington at 8 3.5 a m., chug at the usual stations.
Return Tickets issued on Thursday. the 24th March, and on Good
Friday, will be stumble for the return journey on either of those
da, s, or on the 26th, 27th, or 28th inst.
_ _ _

For further particulars see handbills, which may be obtained at
the stations, or at any of the emcee of the Company.
Paddington Station, l6th March, 1853.

METROPOLITAN- LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY, No. 3, Princes-street, Bank.
The Directors hereby give notice to Members whose PREMIUMS
fall due on the sth 01 April next, that the same must be PAID
within thirty days from that date.
The premiums are pad yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly, on the
sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October; either
of which several days constitutes the commencement of the year to
members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the society as
members, on the sth of April next. should appear or lodge their pro-
posals at the °Mee on or before that day.
This society, for mutual and general assurance, appropriates the
whole of its profits to the benefit of parties assuring their own liveS
for whole term of life, as members of the society.
For the year ending the stb of April, 1853, an abatement of 51 per
cent. has been declared on the premiums of all members of five
years' standing and upwards.
. RICHARD HEATLIFIELD, Supeentendent.
Princes street, Bank, March 4, 1853.

HANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Persons a filing to TENDER for SUPPLYING the above-
named Institution, which contains about 1,100 Inmates, with Meat,
Flew, Malt, Hops, Oatmeal, Peas, Hay, Straw, Oats, Butter, Cheese,
and Bacon, for Six Calendar Months, from the let April next,
are requested to deliver sealed tenders addressed "To the Com-
mittee of Visitors," to the Storekeeper, at the Asylum, at Hartwell,
by Half past Eleven o'clock on Thursday, the 24th instant, and be
in attendance there at Twelve o'clock.

Blank forms in which the Tenders must be made may be obtained,
and the form of. Contract7may be seen, either by application hero.
er at the Asylum.
The Committee will not bind themselves to accept the lowest or
any of the Tenders.
Dated this 12th of March, 1853. .
CHARLES WRIGHT, Cie& t. the visitors.
Sessions•house, Clerkenwell.

LADIES of delicate complexion, who suffer from
exposure to cold winds and damp atmosphere, will find imme-
diate and soothing relief in the application of ROWLANDS' ILLLY-
DOR. It allays all irritation and tenderness of the skin, and renders
it soft, smooth, aid pleasant; removes cutaneous disfigurements,
freckles, and tan, and imparts a healthy and blooming appearance.
Gentlemen, after shaving, will and it allay the irritability and smart-
pain, and render the skin smooth and pleasant. Its purifying
and refreshing properties have obtained its selection by Royalty and
the several Courts throughout Europe, together with the elite of the
aristocracy. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle.
ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL is a delightfully fragrant and
transpareit preparation for the Hair, and as an invigorator and
purifier beyond all precedent. Weakness, premature greyness, and
tendency to fall off, are entirely prevented by its regular application.
ROWLAND'S ODONTO, •r PEARL DENTIFRIFICE, preserves and
beautifies the Teeth, strengthens the Gums, and renders the Breath
sweet and pure.

Sold by A. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-gardens, London ; and by
Chemists and Perfumers.

BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH
Hamilton-place, New-road, London.
The principles of the HYGEIAN or MORISONIAN SYSTEM
are contained in the following propositions:-
1. The vital principle is in the blood.
2. Everything in the body is derived from the blood.
3. All constitutions are radically the same.
4. All diseases arise from impurity of the blood, or, in other words,
from acrimonious humours lodged in the body.
5. Pain and disease have the same origin, and may therefore be
moldered synonymous.
6. From the intimate connexion subsisting between mind and
body, the health of the one must conduce to the serenity of the other.
7. Proper purgation by vegetables is the only effectual mode of
eradicating disease.
lb. The discovery of a vegetable compound, capable of being di-
gested, and mixing with the blood, so as to impert to it that energy,
requisite for ridding the body of all impurities, was a desideratum.
16. This discovery was made by JA 31Es MORISON, the Hygeist,
in the composition of the VEGETABLE UNIVERSAL MEDICINE
k Morison's Pills), of the British College of Health, Hamilton-place,
New-road, London.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
(From the Times.)
Some inconvenience is naturally attached to the
use of the marvellous instrument which enables the

purveyors of public intelligence to conquer ' and
annihilate space and time, and to convey-the infor-
mation which has just reached the confines of
Europe, at Trieste or Marseilles, to the breakfast-
table of every citizen of London, Paris, and Berlin,
for it is not always possible when these flashes'
of news are first seen on the horizon, to pronounce
with certainty on the accuracy of such intelligence.
In these days assertion flies along the telegraphic
wire, while proof still travels in the post-bag, or by
far less nimble messengers. An instance of this
kind has just occurred. On Thursday evening last
a telegraphic message was circulated through
Europe to the effect that Prince Mentschikoff had
at once presented his ultimatum to the Porte ;
that the Minister of War had been dismissed to
appease the wrath of the Russian Envoy, but in
vain ; and that on the entreaty of the Turkish Go-
vernment the British Charge d'Affaires had dis-
patched the steamer Caradoc to Malta, in order to
summon the British fleet to the Dardanelles, while
the fleet at Sebastopol was ready to start for the
Bosphorus. This message produced a considerable
effect last Friday on the Bourse at Paris ; but, al-
though it was not unknown to us, we thought it too
vague and improbable to deserve publieitty here, and
we may now state with confidence that nothing is
known in this country to warrant the belief that

our fleet can have sailed from Malta at all. This

message, however, has been followed by one of a
more positive_ character, proceeding, not from Tou-

ion or Marseilles, but from Paris,--and stating in
official terms that " the French fleet is ordered to

the Greel: waters." The authority of the Moniteur
does not allow us to doubt the truth of this asser-

tion, but it is unquestionably one of a most extra-
ordinary character. If it be indeed true that the
French fleet is ordered to the Greek Seas, that de-

termination has been abruptly taken by Louis Na-
poleon on his own responsibility, and it is entirely
unconnected with the policy that may be pursued
.

by this country. Yet for several weeks Past the
attention of all Europe has been directed to the

state of the Turkish empire. Amicable .commuui-

cations have passed on the subject between the
French and English Cabinets, insomuch that our
Ambassador at Constantinople has commenced his
mission by a somewhat protracted visit to Paris.
The Austrian mission of Count Leiuingen has been

begun, carried on, and terminated, While that of
Prince Mentschikoff proceeded from St. Petersburg
to Constantinople in the slowest and most delibe-
rate manner. The progress might be traced as re-
gularly as the hands upon a dial, and at . the ap •
pointed time it reached its destination. It was
therefore perfectly easy for the Governments of
Western Europe to determine beforehand the
course they intended to pursue, separately or
jointly, in the event of their assistance being in-
voked by the Porte to enable it to resist the de-
mands of the RuSsian Envoy. Yet we are per-
suaded that no such understanding as one of our
contemporaries had alluded to is in existence.
In point of fact, the views taken by the French
and English Governments on the question of the
Holy Places in Palestine, which is the principal
subject of Prince Mentschikoff's mission, have no.:
thing in common. The late French Ambassador
at Constantinople, had unfortunately, committed
himself to a rash and impracticable line of policy,
involving topics nearly affecting the religious and
popular feelings of a great community. He has
been recalled, and the French Government have
since shown a great desire to settle the dispute by
a fair and moderate arrangement. The English
Government has only interposed in the affair to
recommend the maintenance of peace and charity,
especially in a matter which derives its interest
from the most sacred local associations of Chris-
tianity. Nor can there be the slightest ground or
motive for interference on our part to assist by any
means the pretensions of France on behalf of the
Latin Church in the East—pretensions which are.
equally indefensible 'on grounds of right and on
1 ive with the French Govern-
ppAdino rests exc us
certainly
grounds of policy. The responsibility of those pro-
ot suppose that the
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the character and
effects of Prince Mentschikoff's mission.
told that it is ordered to assume an attitude of ob-
servation. The rest depends on
There is considerable reason 'to hope that the
ved at Con-
overbearing nature of the Russian mission has been
exaggerated.' Prince Mentschikoff arri
a suite
of twelve persons, including an Admiral of the fleet
stantinople on the 28th of February, with
in the Black Sea and a General of Division. He
was received with great solemnity, not only by the
whole Russian Legation in full uniform, but by a
long procession of the Greek clergy, heading the
Greek population of the suburbs of Constantinople
and the villages on the Bosphorus. On the follow-
ing day he received the visits of the great Turkish
officers of State, and on the 2d of March he called
on the Grand Viiier. But he seems to have been
expressly precluded by his instructions from return-
ing the visit of Fuad -Effendi, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, on the ground that Fuad had deceived the
Emperor in some of his communications with re-
ference to the Holy Places. We further learn, on
the authority of a private letter, which we believe
to be correct, that Prince Mentschikoff and all his
suite have since been received with the usual for-
malities by the Sultan, and that the messages he
was charged to deliver at this audience were of
a very friendly character. - There is; in Act, no

groUnd whatever for believing that this mission
has any other definite object besides the restorer
tion of the privileges of the Greek. Church in the
Holy Land to the state they were in before
de Lavalette took it into • his head to meddle*.
with. them ; and this question interests and
affects Turkey only in so far as she has allowed
herself to be alternately and inconsistently swayed
by the rival influence of France and Russia on be-
half of their respective"churclies. The possessions
which the Greek Church in the East has held from
time immemorial, involie rights which it is impos-
sible for the Emperor of Russia to surrender to the
Latin Church and to France, and he is bound by
the public opinion of his empire, as well as by the
fanaticism of his clergy, to maintain that ancient
position. But he has already. signified that he does
not seek to render those rights exclusive, and it IS
impossible to suppose that the Russian Govern-
ment would seize this subject, of all others, to
fasten a fresh degradation on Turkey, to pick a
quarrel with France, and to run the risk of posi-
tive hostilities between two of the great Powers,
It is true that M. de Lavalette put forward exor-
bitant pretensions, and strained his influence to
such an excess, that he contributed to bring about
the reaction in the Turkish Government which has
already proved so calamitous to the empire. But
M. de Lavalette is recalled, and, with all the zeal
professed for the Ottoman Empire by some of the
French and English Ministers, neither of those
countries is efficiently represented at Constanti-
nople at the present crisis, although its approach
has long been distinctly ioresee,2l.
The real evil against 'which both France and
Russia would do well to guard themselves and their
agents is the attempt to interfere single-handed in
these affairs, which have never been conducted
with temper and disinterestedness except when
they have been regulated by the collective action
of, the great Powers. If one State interferes in de-
fence of its peculiar claims, another opposes them ;
and a very insignificant dispute sets fleets and
armies in motion. That is the chief danger in what
is termed " The Eastern question," and we are
persuaded, that nothing which can happen to the
Ottoman Empire with the cognizance of all the;
principal Governments of Europe is so dangerous
to the general peace as any isolated attempt to
wring concessions from its weakness, or even toe
support by extraneous force its declining authority.
Although therefore we should rejoice to see this
country exert its usual temperate influence in the
general consideration of these arduous questions,
we hope that it will be no party to hasty expedi-
tions, the consequences and results of which it is
impossible to foresee. Our policy is, at present,
to abstain.

• (From the Morning Post.)
The Eastern question has once more assumed, as,
we had anticipated that it must, an appearance
most important to our political relations with the
great Powers, if not imminently threatening to the
peace of Europe. The menacing circumstances
which we have already described as having arisen
at Constantinople out of the vindictive aggression
against the Porte of her formidable neighbours have
placed the sense of right and justice—perfectly con-
current,. as it happily is—of this country and of
France in direct opposition to the apparent objects
and actual proceedings of Russia, with which the
intentions and ends of the Viennese Cabinet are,
of course, intimately connected.
The ultimatum with which Prince Menschikoff
has followed up the enforced resignation of the
Turkish Minister has driven even the sufferance of
the Turk to appeal to the protection of England
and France—a protection which, under inviolable
guarantees, that Power has an undoubted right to
demand, and which this country and France are
under an undoubted obligation not to withhold. The
immediate effect of this appeal our readers have been
already informed was a summons from the Queen's
representative at Constantinople to the British fleet
inthe Mediterranean. Min iralDundas, however, ac-
cording to the last adN:ces, hadnot left Malta; but,
on the other hand, the French fleet at Toulon was
under orders ; and so complete and cordial is
known to be the understanding on this question
between ourselves and France, that there can be
no doubt that whatever course may be taken will
be pursued in perfect unison by the two Powers.
It is clear, therefore, from the manifest tendency
and open acts of Russia, coupled with the equally
manifest resolution of our own Government and
that of our ally to maintain the balance of power
and the integrity of treaties, that the immense re-
sponbility of maintaining tranquillity rests at this
moment on the moderation and sagacity of that
remarkable man to whom it cannot be denied that
Europe has on former occasions been deeply in-
debted for the preservation of peace and order. It
is important at such a moment to remember, that
the Einperor Nicholas has hitherto displayed, in'
the management of that gigantic power with which
he is charged, an appreciation so profound and so
just of his duties and of the rights of other Powers,
that it is difficult to conceive his deliberately per-
sisting in the course on which he has unhappily
been provoked or tempted to enter against a State
of which he is bound, in common with ourselves
and the other parties to' the Convention of 1841, to
respect the integrity and honour.
The importance, politically and commercially, of
maintaining the just rights of the Porte has lately
been fully discussed in this journal, and can scarcely
need further proof. But of the aggressive and am-
bitious policy of the northern powers, we regret to
observe that every movement on their part brings
some additional evidence. The course of the Aus-
trian Cabinet in the matter of Montenegro, and
the threatening proceedings with which it gave
weight to Count von Leiningen's mission, were'
subjects of regret and uneasiness, which the subse-
quent measures of Russia have raised to a crisis of
real and well-founded alarm.

It is, indeed, impossible to disguise the fact that,
unless the Emperor Nicholas be content to modify
the terms which he has demanded of the Porte, or
to renounce the hostile means by which he has
threatened to enforce them, the most serious con-
sequences may be apprehended. The main hope
that he will do so rests on the firm good sense and
temper which have hitherto guided his councils.
On the other hand are to be considered the strong
temptation which the brilliant prize of Constanti-
nople has always presented to Russia, combined
with the extreme soreness well known to have been
excited by the serious checks lately sustained by
Russian influence at the Porte on the questions of
the refugees within the Turkish frontier, and of
the guardianship of the Holy Places.
As regards the policy of Vienna, and the influ-
ence which that Court may possibly exercise on the
question, we have less warrant fnr expecting a fair
and moderate course, and have unfortunately been
called on to notice strong symptoms not only in
the East, but in other quarters of Europe, of a
most aggravated injustice of principle. The treat-
ment of the unhappy Ticinese, though not a matte!.
for direct interference on our part, is one which no
country, guided by the common principles of hu-
manity, can observe with indifference. It is surely
monstrous that this mass of industrious people,
long settled as they have been in Lombardy, should
be forcibly expelled, and driven to ruin and starva-
tion, for no alleged offence but that of belonging to
a EState, which, without having exhibited the
slightest hostility.to Austria, has offended that ab-
solute and exclusive Power merely by daring to
preserve the dignity of the Swiss frontier and the
rights of Switzerland as a refuge.
Among the Italian States the short-sighted
tyranny and bigotted influence of Austria. have
produced results, which force themselves continually
upon our observation, and excite unceasing appre-
hension for the tranquillity of that most unhappy
and ill-used land. To Sardinia, the hope and
stronghold of constitutional. Government among
Italians, and therefore the dread and horror of
Zienna, the conduct of the ratter Power has been
of a nature to call forth a warm and earnest re-
monstrance from this country. We trust that the
effects of that remonstrance may be not less bene-
ficial than Lord John Russell permits himself to
expect ; but the fact of its having been necessary
adds one to the many proofs that the councils of
the Austrian Empire are directed by an influence
of a most fatal and dangerous blindness.

One great lesson and one good result we think it
certain must be drawn from the present juncture
in our foreign relations, whatever may be its issue,
and that is the paramount importance of maintain-
ing our cordial affiance with France, and the true
and absolute identity of the interests of the two
countries (the best security for national friendship),
as opposed to the league of the Northern Powers.

CLERGY RESERVES (CANANDA).—According to
returns to the House of Commons, obtained by Sir W.
Molesworth (printed on Friday), the payments out of the
revenue of the United Kingdom to religious sects in Canada
since 1840 were 48,191/. 2s. The amount voted was :
In 1841, 24,340 18s. 6d. In 1847, £4,190 18s. 6d.
1842, 4,340 18s. 6d. 1848, 4,190 18s. 6d.
1843, 4,190 18s. Gd. 1849, -4,190 18s. 6d.
1844, 4,100185. 6d. 1850, 4,190 18s. 6d.
1845, 4,190 18s. 6d. 1851, 2,990 Ps. Gd.
• 1846, 4,190 18s. 6d. 1852, 2,990 18s, 6d.
pakixtg the emu oteited-48,1911.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, held
a levee at Whitehall to-day, and it was attended by the
following officers :
Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.B.
Rear-Admiral David Price, and Rear-Admiral Sir John
Hill, Kt.

Captains—George William Conway Courtenay (1828),
Robert Lambert Baynes (1828), Henry J. Codrington, C.B.
(1836), Julius James Farmer Newell (1838), Francis Price
Blackwood (1838),' George Elliot (1840), Thomas Hender-
son (1840), John Robb (1841), Harry Eyres (1841), John
Coghlan Fitzgerald (1841), Hastings R. Yelverton (1843),
Sir George Graham Otway (1846), Edward John Carpenter
(1846), Charles _Edmunds (1848), John Moore (1848),
Richard Douglas (1851), George Sumner Hand (1852), and
John Hills (1853). _

Commanders—Grove George Wodehouso (1844), Arthur
Davies (1846), and William G. Luard (1850).
Lieutenants—Richard E. Bullon (1833), Thomas B.
Christopher (1841), John J. Kennedy (1841), Francis J.
Digging (1842), Alexander Anderson (1842),* Hon. 0. W.
Lambart (1844), George W. Towsey {1846), and John Hill.
The Right Hon. Sir J. Graham, First Lord, and Mr.
Bernal Osborne, First Secretary, now occupy their official
residences at Whitehall.