The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-16 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1854.

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Royal Albert, 121, screw, is lying at the north side of
the basin in the dockyard at Sheerness. Her tanks are
being got on board and her ballast stored in the fore hold ;
stores of all descriptions are being daily taken in. Yester-
day her yokes for the rudder were fitted. Her machinery
altogether is in a most advanced state, and only receiving
the last finish, which has proved by the late trial since she
came out of dock, when under steam all parts of her en-
gines acted in a most satisfactory manner, it is generally
expected that the next spring tides this splendid screw
will go out of dock; that point, however, is not finally
settled; when she does, however, and gets a few hun-
dred more hands on board, no doubt she will proceed to
Portsmouth for volunteers, and take in her bonded

stores, &o.

Her Majesty's ship Algiers proceeded for Portsmouth at
five o'clock yesterday morning.
Ganges, 84 (built by natives in India), irgoing into No.
2, graving dock, Sheerness. She is coppered, and has been
thoroughly repaired. Yesterday she got her tanks on
board, no doubt previously to her being put in commission.
She is a splendid model as a sailing vessel, and was a great
favourite last war.
Colossus, 80, screw, Captain Spencer Robinson, bent
sails yesterday. She still remains in Portsmouth harbour,
nor will she go to Spithead until Tuesday next.
Illustrious; 72, training-ship, Captain Harris, put the
lads through the great gun exercise yesterday.
Tho Dauntless, 33, screw steam-frigate, Captain Ryder,
is ordered to come into harbour from Spitheadi She is
to have new boilers, and is then to prCceed to the
Black Sea.

PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION OF 1855.

.t the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 12th day of
September, 1854. By the Right Hon. the Lords of
the Committee of Privy Council, appointed for the
consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Fo-
reign Plantations.

My Lords have had under consideration the best
means of apportioning the space placed at their disposal
by the French Imperial Commission among the various
intending exhibitors in such' a way as to secure the most
complete representation of our national industry which
that space admits of.
In compliance with Art. 9 of the regulations of the
Imperial Commission, my Lords forwarded, on the 15th
August (the day appointed), a return of the applications
received up to that date, representing 2,130 exhibitors,
who had applied for 348,625 square feet of horizontal
space, including the necessary addition for passages.
The Imperial Commission have announced their inten-
tion of allotting 15,000 square metres (162,000 sq. ft.) in-
cluding passages, to this country, a quantity exceeding the
62,000 square feet the amount allotted to France in 1851,
which must therefore be considered as a liberal allowance.
It is, however, obvious that the demands of the United
Kingdom must be materially reduced, in order to bring
them within the prescribed limits.
Up to this time no judgment has been passed upon the
character of the applications, although it must be evident
that one part of them is more likely than another to re-
fuse credit upon our national industry • and that though
there are probably few applications which do not include
something of public interest and value, the general cha-
racter of nearly the whole will' be improved, if exhibitors
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between Russia and Europe is to assume that it signifies
nothing to German Governments whether there shall or
shall not be any European law protecting the weaker
States against the more powerful. If; in fact, there were
any Governments. in Europe to which the concerted ag-
gressions of Russia were matters of little importance,
these were the Governments of France and England, for
to them the Czar offered a certain deference and a cer-
tain share of the spoil, while of the German Govern-
ments he spoke in language evincing little more respect
than he showed to Turkey itself.
The simple truth is, that Prussia, or, as we should
rather say, the Prussian Court, is content to forego the
consideration, not only of German interests, but of
European, interests altogether, for the sake of preserving
an alliance deemed essential to the stability of absolutist
principles in Germany. The real question debated at
Berlin is not how the Emperor of Russia can be brought
to reason in the matter of Turkey, but how a Govern-
ment so useful to absolute monarchies as that of the Czar
can be protected from humiliation or damage. This is the
object which is disguised by a false solicitude for the par-
ticular interests of Germany, and it is this fact which
alone explains the inconsistencies of Prussian policy.
Prussia could not pretend to deny that the Czar was in
the wrong, and she would have been not ill pleased if
ho could have been persuaded, without much abatement
of his pretensions, to put himself by timely concession
in the right ; but, now that the affair has come to
blows, and that a war has been commenced which is
likely to carry loss to the vanquished, she is only anxious
to prevent the consequences from falling too severely on
the Government to which she looks for political sym-
pathy and succour. With this view, she abstains from
entering the field herself, and intimidates Austria into a
like resolution, while, by palliating the conduct of
Russia, and throwing out insinuatlions against the policy
of the allies, she does her best to render the contest less
unequal than it would be, and to provide the Czar with
what he would otherwise want—the friendship of a
European Government. Prussia, while ruled upon ab-
solute principles, cannot be a party to any operations,
however justifiable, which would weaken the great
champion of absolutism. Suoh is the simple explanation
of the case before the world.