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whose systematic corruption it had been justly
forfeited. Had the members been given to Bir-
mingham, on the disfranchisement of East Ret-
ford, the modern Magna Charta (the Reform Bill)
would not have been so speedily carried, or by
any means so extensive in its operation. The ad-
vocates of " Tenant Right," in its due significa-
tion, such as that which has been in ope-
ration in certain districts of Ulster since
before the Commonwealth, may console them-
selves with this reflection. The justice and
expediency of their demand has been recog-
nised by men of all parties in both Houses of Par-
liament. It has found its way into the inmost
recesses of Downing-street under the DERBY Go-
vernment, and under the Joint-Stock Administra-
tion. The Attorney-General of Lord DERBY has
been zealously and efficiently seconded by the
Solicitor-General of Lord ABERDEEN ; KEOGH has
sustained and supported NAPIER ; and whatever
doubts may be entertained as to the ardour of
either Cabinet, there can be none as to the enthu-
siasm, the efficiency, and the honesty of the Irish
Law Officers of the Crown on the great question
of Landlord and Tenant Reform. We rejoice to
find that justice has been done to these Right
Hon. Gentlemen by the northern deputation, and
that a well-merited tribute of praise has been
accorded to KEOGH and NAPIER for their inva-
luable exertions in promoting the industrial rights
of their countrymen. Whatever differences may
exist on minor points, or on the details between
these Hon. and Learned Gentlemen, both are ani-
mated by an equally zealous and honest determi-
nation to prove that if " property has its duties
as well as its rights," industry likewise has " its
rights as well as its duties"—that legislation must
no longer be one-sided, but must look to the inte-
rests of the occupiers as well as of the owners—of
the cultivators, as well as of the proprietors of the
soil.

the AtriocßAT—after the duplicity with which he
treated the Powers of the Continent in the mat-
ter of the Holy Places—after the arrogance with
which he insulted the Sublime Porte, for the pur-
poses of intimidation—after the insolent words
of MENSCHIKOFF, and the aggressive acts of
GORTZSCHAKOFF—nay, after the passage of the
Pruth and the usurpation of the Danubian Prin-
cipalities ! .
Reliance is to be placed in the foreign policy of
the ABERDEEN Coalition—when it is known that
that policy prompted the Divan to permit the
seizure of the Moldavian and Wallachian pro-
vinces by Russia, without the faintest effort at
retaliation—when it is seen that that policy
tolerated, with little more than an impotent mur-
mur, the Muscovite interference with the rights
of the Hospodar at Jassy—when it is understood,
moreover, that that policy is so arranging recent
differences between the Powers at St. Petersburg,
and Constantinople that the SULTAN will concili-
ate the CZAR by more concessions than were ever
demanded by the Russian Government !
Entirely, though reluctantly, do we find our-
selves compelled to acknowledge the justice of the
condemnation pronounced last night, by the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman the member for Ayles-
bury, upon the members of the Coalition Govern-
ment. Cordially do we sympathise in the indigna-
tion with which Mr. LAYARD declared that, in the
management of this affair at Constantinople, Eng-
land had been degraded to the position of a second-
rate, and Russia elevated to the position of a first-
rate, Power in Christendom. Yes! the melan-
choly truth glares through all this veil of pretended
victory—through all this haze and mist of minis-
-1 terial self-glorification. Esiglandhas consented to a
disgraceful compromise, and is striving to con-
sole herself by calling it a triumph of diplomacy.
She has permitted Russia to commit the most
flagrant acts of injustice with impunity to herself,
but with loss of dignity to the rest of the nations
of Christendom, and with a virtual loss of inde-
pendence to Turkey. And all these degrading
results of our policy are to be compensated by the
maintenance of international tranquillity—a peace
purchased by the most ignominious concessions made
to the lawless pride of the AUTOCRAT. No wonder
that a policy such as that ellits the eulogium of
those politic poltroons who are always running
a-muck after the Will-o'-the-wisp of Arbitration.
Any sentiments more disgraceful to the House
of Commons were, perhaps, never uttered within
the walls of that assembly than by the Hon. Gen-
tleman the Member for the West Riding
of Yorkshire, towards the close of yester-
day's discussion ! Sentiments derogatory to
the honour of Great Britain, and (from being
strictly in accordance with the acts of her Minis-
ters) injurious to her influence, and destructive of
the glory and the majesty of her reputation. Mr.
CARLYLE once spoke of Mr. COBDEN as a " politi-
cal bagman." It is deeply to be regretted that a
man of his eminent abilities should ever have
given that vulgar soubriquet the shadow of a sem-
blance of its applicability. If ever the sneer of
the Scotch Dreamer was justified, it was assuredly
upon the occasion of that speech delivered by
Mr. COBDEN in the House of Commons yesterday.
Talk, forsooth, of crumpling up the Russian Em-
pire like a sheet of paper ! Rather talk in future
of our cringing like stricken hounds before the
brandished knout of his Imperial Majesty the
AUTOCRAT !
Let it be observed that Mr. COBDEN closed his
most un-English remarks of last evening with a
panegyric upon the " peaceful policy" of the Coali-
tion. Praise such as that was rather too bitter a pill
to be swallowed with anything like complacency by
Lord PALMERSTON. Accordingly we find him rising
on the instant to protest in words that burnt with
something of the warmth of his ancient fervour,
that encomiums like those lavished upon the
Ministry by the Member for the West Riding,
were, at least by one of them, promptly, loudly,
and indignantly repudiated. Alas I the force of
that noble but impotent protest—noble in origin,
but impotent in influence—goes at this hour for
absolutely nothing. Mr. COBDEN is only too well
justified in commending as he has done what
he delights to designate the "pacific policy" of
the Coalition GLvernmen t. The eulogium may be
instinctively recoiled from, it is true—but it must
also be officially endured—by Lor 1 PALMERSTON.
After refusing to eat humble pie upon a memor-
able occasion, when the seals of the Foreign-office
were thrown aside like the veriest bagatelle—it
must be terrible to nibble, with a smiling face, at
she leek of a FLUELLEN.

MONEY MARKET

AND
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, AUG. 16

The Queen and Prince, the Princess Helena, and the
Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, the
Hon. Mary Seymour, and the Hon. Captain do Ros,
drove out yesterday afternoon.

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A deputation, consisting of Mr. Walter Westrup, the
inventor of the new system of grinding wheat, Dr. Dun-
das Thomson, F.R.S.E., the eminent millwright, Mr.
Middleton, Mr. W. Pairtt, miller, the Solicitors and
others, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon.
E. Cardwell at the Board of Trade, to support the peti-
tion of the Right Hon. the Earl of Essex, Lord Port-
man, C. P. Villiers, M.P., R. A. Christopher, M.P.,
Sir J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., C. Hadley, M.P., W.
A. Mackinnon, M.P., J. B. Carter, M.P., and B. B.
Cabbell, F.R.S., M.P., for a Royal Charter of Incorpo-
ration of the " Royal Conical Flour Mill Company. In
the unavoidable absence of Lord Beaumont, Mr. North-
house, the Parliamentary manager of the petitions, in-
troduced the deputation, and argued the case.
Dispatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of the West India Islands.
Dispatches were received yesterday from the Gover-
nors of the West Coast of Africa.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, THIS DAY

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Platt.)

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE EMPEROR

OF THE FRENCH.

It cannot be supposed that the reformers of the

landlord and tenant code will be prepared to yield
submissively to the spirit displayed by certain
hereditary legislators in opposition to the land
bills, and to the very great want of spirit exhi-
bited by the Premier on the same subject, to
which we directed the public attention last week.
Lord ABERDEEN apparently thought that he had
achieved a signal triumph when he persuaded the
dissentient Peers to abstain from a very striking
demonstration by utterly rejecting measures, the
fruits of constant labour for many years, and
which, if found practically operative, would have
done more to effect the complete tranquillisation,
and with it the regeneration, of Ireland, than all
the statutes that have been enacted since the

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great measure for the removal of the civil and re-
ligious disabilities of our Roman Catholic brethren
received the Royal assent. He entreated with
humility, almost equal to that with which he would
have supplicated an Envoy from the CZAR, that
they should not be ignominiously kicked out of
the House—surrendering at the first appearance

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80,000 fr. were distributed in alms. The expense is to
be equally divided between the city of Paris and the
State.

TURKEY AND RUSSIA.
A letter from Constantinople, dated August 1, gives
a resume of the events of the last few days, which cer-
tainly cannot increase the expectation of a speedy and
pacific termination to these differences. The note which
was sent off to Vienna on the 24th July, is stated to
have been a single isolated instance of any attempt on
the part of the Porte to conciliate Russia, but in
fact advances the matter nothing at all, as it only
offers what Russia has already refused. Since
then a manifesto of the Sultan to his subjects was
published on the 30th of July, in which, commenc-
ing with the demands made by Prince Menschikoff,
the whole course and present state of the affair is set
forth, the reasons given why the Russian demands
have been resisted, and the population informed of the
occupation of the Principalities having been protested
against and foreign mediation accepted. The recal of
the two Hospodars, the closing of the Russian post, the
approaching removal of the Russian Commercial Chan-
cellerie, and the departure of the Russian Consul from
Adrianople, do not bear a very pacific character. At
the same Council, at which the above manifesto was
signed, the progress made in preparation for defence was
reported and the statement received with the greatest
enthusiasm.
The Zeit and the Frankfurter Zeitung look on the
manifesto of the Sultan as another pledge of peace, in-
asmuch as, instead of working up the passions of his
subjects against his enemy, he seeks to allay the inter-
nal animosities of the Turks and Christians under his
rule. The latter journal points out, however, a pecu-
liar danger to which the peace of Turkey is exposed in
the event of the present forces being disbanded, namely,
that the Turkish soldier, who, in his extreme poverty,
has been compelled to leave wife and children at home
unprovided for, looked forward to booty, to be obtained
in battle, as a means of recruiting his own finances, and
if sent home empty will help himself on the road to
anything he may feel inclined to in the possession of his
unarmed countrymen.
The Zeit has published a translation of four docu-
ments :-1. The letter of the Prince of Moldavia to
Redschid Pasha, June 25, informing him that the Rus-
sian Consul-General at Bucharest had summoned him
in the name of the Emperor to suspend his relations
with the Porte, and withhold any further payments of
the tribute. 2. The letter of the Consul-General above-
mentioned, dated June 23d. 3. The dispatch from
Count Nesselrode to the Consul-General Satchinski,
ordering the above measure, June 3d. And 4. Letter
from Redschid Pasha to Stirbey, Prince of Wallachia,
July 25th. The two latter may perhaps still have some
interest, particularly the former of the two, as it will
serve as preliminary answer to Lord Clarendon's de-
mand for explanations :
" COUNT NIISSELRODE TO THE CONSUL-GENERAL
KATCHINSKI.
" St. Petersburg, June 3.
"The military occupation of the Principalities is, as
have already informed you, to cause no change in the exist-
ing order of things as regards the civil administratioa
and the person,el of the superior officers, unless the
Hospodars themselves should consider the change of some
employes necessary to the introduction of the greatest pos.
Bible regularity in the various branches of the service, and
particularly in that of providing for the Imperial troops.
There is still one question, however, on which we must
make our views known beforehand to the two Princes, so
that they may guide themselves accordingly. We have
to speak of their relations to Constantinople and. the Otto-
man Ministry. These relations must necessarily be broken
off on the day the military occupation of the land on the
part of our troops commences, and at the same time every
action, every influence, on the part of the sovereign power
must for a time cease. Another consequence of the state
of things will be the stopping of the tribute which these
provinces are bound to pay the Porte. The sums which
(the same as hitherto) have to be paid, must remain at the
disposal of the Imperial Government, which reserves to
itself to make what use of them it thinks proper.
" You will communicate to the Hospodars the contents
of this, which I have the Emperor's commands to inform
you o

(BY ELECTRIO TELEGRAPH.)
ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
At noon to-day the United States mail steam-
ship Atlantic, Capt. West, arrived in the Mersey
with the usual mails from the United States and
British North America. The Atlantic left New
York on the 6th inst., and besides the mails has
brought about 140 passengers, but no specie.
The United States mail steamer Washington had
arrived out at New York on the 4th inst.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara reached
Boston on the sth inst.
On the Bth inst., the Royal Mail steamer Africa,
from hence for New York on the 30th ult., was
passed by the Atlantic.
The political news from the States continues of
an unimportant character.
O'Donoghue, the Irish exile, who escgped from
Van Diemen's Land and lately landed in New
York, has got himself into trouble. From infor-
mation lodged with the authorities, he had been
arrested for intending to fight a duel, but was libe-
rated on procuring bail.
Business had taken an unfavourable turn at New
York since the departure of the previous steamer,
and the pressure on the money market amounted
to almost a panic. Prices of Stocks had consider-
ably fallen, and the tendency was still downwards.
The Market for Breadstuffs was active, and prices
very firm, at the following quotations :—Western
Canal flour, 5 dolls. 25c. to 5 dolls. 371 c. per
barrel, very firm ; Gennessee prime wheat, 1 dol.
34c. to 1 doll. 36c. per 601bs. ; Indian corn,
sound yellow, 76c. to 78c. per bushel ; Indian
meal, 3 dolls. 12ic. to 3 dolls. 25c. per barrel.
The cotton market at New York is reported
brisk, with a good average amount of business
doing, at slightly advanced: prices. The following
are the quotations :—New Orleans and Mobile mid.
fair to fair, 121 c. to 13c. ; Uplands, 14..
In the provision market there. had not been much
doing, and prices were weak.
The freight market was in a good firm condition,
and shipowners were asking increased rates. Flour
to Liverpool paid 2s. 9d. to 3s. per barrel, and
cotton, id. to 5-16 d. per lb.
Exchange on London, 109 i to 1091, but not well
sustained ; Paris, 5' 124 to 5 15 ; Hamburg, 36i to
364 ; Bremen, 79/ to 80.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS

FRANCE.
In consequence of the fete of Monday, which was also
the religious holiday of the Assumption, only two of the
Paris journals appeared yesterday—namely, the Moni-
teur and the Gazette des Tribunaux. The former appears
to have been published partly for the purpose of announc-
ing some further nominations in the Legion of Honour,
and giving a long list of persons to whom the Military
Medal of Honour has been granted.
The Marquis of Clanticard• passed yesterday through
Paris. He proceeds to Hamburg.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs gave a grand diplo-
matic dinner on Monday. All the members of the corps

diplomatique were present.
The Minister of the Interior has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to General the Marquis de Lawcestine,
Commandant-in-Chief of the national guards of the

Seine :
My dear General—The review of Sunday has tes
fled in a striking manner both the good feeling and the
excellent appearance of the national guards of the Seine.
Those 30,000 men whom you presented to the Emperor
with so much military precision figured with honour by
the side of our admirable army. This is a fine compli-
ment to pay you. The Emperor charges me to express
to you his lively satisfaction, and I am happy and proud
to transmit it to you. Accept, my dear General, the ex-
pression of my sentiments of high esteem and attach-
ment. " F. DE PERSIGNY."
The Moniteur publishes telegraphic dispatches from a
great number of towns in the departments, announcing
that the fete of Napoleon had been celebrated there
with great enthusiasm.
A Ltelegraphic despatch from Toulon announces the
arrival there of the Montebello from Besika Bay.
It is also said that letters from the Levant announce
the arrival at Constantinople of the Friedland. She was
to rejoin the squadron in a few days.
There has been a manifest improvement in the trade of
Paris since Monday last. Several large orders, which
had been given two months past and subsequently sus-
pended, have been confirmed within the last week, and
the manufacturers have been compelled to use increased
exertions to recover the time lost. The provincial shop-
keepers, moreover, having disposed of the stock on band,
are now coming into the market, and, of course, increase
the demand. The shopkeepers and hotel-keepers of
Paris have gained considerably by the influx of foreign-
ers, particularly English, within the last few days,
to witness the preparations, and assist at the
national fete, It is calculated that 150,000 strangers
have arrived in Paris within the last two days.
The accounts received by the last mail from New York
are highly satisfactory to the French merchants and
manufacturers. It appears that the stock of foreign
manufactured goods is considerably reduced throughout
the United States, the greater portion having been ex-
ported to California in return for gold received from the
mines. The French manufacturers have likewise found
a new market in Australia. Any business formerly
transacted between France and that colony was con-
ducted by English houses ; the French export merchants
now trade there on their own account. The wheat har-
vest is now nearly concluded throughout France, and,
although the weather has been so favourable during the'
last three week; the result is by no means satisfac-
tory. Several accounts are evidently exaggerated, which
estimate the deficiency as equal to one-fourth of an
average crop. The truth appears to be that it will be-
come necessary to purchase from foreign countries
10,000,000 hectolitres of wheat, equal to one month's
consumption of the population of France. There has
been a considerable amount of business transacted at
the wine-market of Bercy during the last week, with
less firmness in prices. The arrivals of consignments
of Bordeaux wines at Bercy since the opening of
the entire line have been considerable, and the
accounts of the improvement in the appearance of
the vines since the late fine weather are calculated to
cause a further reduction in price, but unfortunately the
spreading of the oidium is so general that fears are en-
tertained for the general crop. The destruction com-
mitted in the Aude and the Var is alarming. Some pro-
prietors in the neighbourhood of Narbonne do not ex-
pect to obtain one hogshead of wine from vines which
produced 100 hogsheads previous to the appearance of
the disease. The accounts from Burgundy scarcely
mention the oidium. They agree in stating that the
grapes are making great progress to maturity, and that
they have entirely recovered the effect of the heavy
rains.
The Government securities were very firm yesterday
on the Bourse. The Three per Cents. opened at 80f.
90c., rose to 81f. 25c., and closed at 81f. 15c. for the end
of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed
at 105 f. 10c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,250 f. ; Rouen,
I,llof. ; Havre, 515 f. ; Great Northern, 905 f. ' • Basle,
370 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 1000 f. ; Paris and Lyons,
970 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 815 f. ; Western of
France, 765 f. ; Bourdeaux and Cette, 650 f. ; Caen and
Cherbourg, 627 f. 50c. • Dijon and Besancon, 550 f. ;
Shares of the Bank of dr4dit Mobilier, 885 f. ; Bank of
Darmstadt, 5501.
to

REDSCHID PASHA TO STIRBEY, PRINCE OF WALLACHIA,
" Constantinople, July 25.
" Prince ! When Russia advanced her troops into the
Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, she declared
that she had no intention of changing the public arrangc,-
ments which govern those provinces, or to alter the posi-
tion which is guaranteed to them by solemn treaties ; and
the Sublime Porte, which trusted this declaration,
thought it might leave your Highness, as well as his
Highness the Prince of Moldavia, at your respective posts-
We learn, however, from the letter which has been sent
us by the Prince of Moldavia, that the Russian Court hss
issued an order that you, as well as the Prince of Moldavia,
shall break of your relations with Constantinople, and
keep back the settled tribute. This has surprised no
excessively.
"As the Russian Court has attacked the system of pro'
vinces in the point which immediately affects the power
possessed of Sovereignty in them—in a word, in its very'
foundations—the Sublime Porte sees clearly, that in this
state of things the exercise of rightful authority in a man"
ner due to its holy and uncontested rights, is impossible
the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The Sunesb-
lime Porte has therefore determined that your Highs,
as well as his Highness the Prince of Moldavia, shall for
the present quit the provinces, and this order has also been
officially communicated to the great Powers. You must,
therefore, as is due to commandsissuing from the Inv
perial throne, quit the provinces immediately ; and should
it happen that you act contrary to these orders, the Su-
blime Porte will adopt such measures as shall appear suit-
able and conducive to its interests on the occasion.
" I gladly embrace this opportunity," &c.
From St. Petersburgh there are dispatches to the 10th
iustant. The formal proposals had arrived, and had
met with the promised reception. Nothing is wanting
but the adhesion of the Sultan, when the Principalities
will be at once evacuated and diplomatic relations com-
pletely re-established. Constantinople is, therefore, at
present the centre of attention, and the next steamer
bringing news from the Turkish capital is looked for
with the greatest impatience.

ITALY.
The Voce della Libertd, of Turin, quotes a circular of
the sth, issued by the police department of Switzerland,
ordering the arrest of two refugees from Lombardy, 6/e,
Hungarian deserters, and a Turk from Bosnia, to Whom
acts of robbery and theft have been attributed. ,„
refugees are to be taken to Berne under escort ; the de'
serters are to be given up to Austria.
We read in the Genoa Gazette of the 12th that the,
Dowager Queen of Sardinia has been labouring under
indisposition at La Spezzia, serious enough to rend
bleeding necessary. Her Majesty is now convalesce°

THE FETE OF THE EMPEROR

If some great prize were proposed to the competition
of all the cities in the world for superior excellence in
getting up a great public fete, beyond a doubt Paris would
prove immeasurably victorious in the strife. Each year
sees a fresh demand made on the talents of her decorative
artists, but so fruitful is their imagination, and so pure
their taste, that always something beautiful is offered to
the public admiration, and in most cases differing essen-
tially from anything invented for former solemnities. The
present occasion furnishes an additional pied of the vast
superiority of French decorative talent, the ornamenta-
tion for the Fête Napoleon being distinguished alike for
novelty and for good taste.
The fete commenced at six in the morning by a
salvo of 101 guns fired from the Invalides. Even as
early as that hour a number of promenaders were
already enjoying the cool air of the morning in the
Champs Elysees, where thousands of workmen
had been busy from the first light of dawn in putting up
lamps and completing the various preparations. The
weather was propitious, rain having fallen in the night
and laid the dust, and the atmosphere being just so
cloudy as to prevent the rays of the sun from falling on
the earth with too much force. As the morning ad-
vanced the crowd gradually increased, and at
nine
o'clock the various points on which the ornamentation
was most attractive were already thronged. The ground
selected for the principal decorations comprised the
garden of the Tuileries, the Place de la Concorde, and
the Champs Elysees, up to the Arc de Triomphe de
rEtoile.
But the fete was not merely in honour of
.the Empe-
ror ; it was also, to a certain extent, a religious elle,
since the Fete Napoleon and that of the Assumption
fall on the same day. In the various churches of
Paris the image of the Vi▪
rgin was dressed out
with great splendour, and a grand service was cele-
brated in her honour. The attendance at these services
was exceedingly great, andthe churches continued to
be crowded until twelve o clock. In the course of the
morning also provisions were di▪
stributed at the different
mairies of Paris to the poor and aged, and on this occa-
sion the usual allowance was increased.
The public offices generally were illuminated. The
dome of the P a
tntheon, the cornice of the Legislative
Chamber, and he Arc de Triomphe were lighted with
gas. The Hotel de Ville, which was handsomely dressed
out with flags and hangings, was at night brilliantly
lit up. The Column in the Place Vendome was illu-
minated at the top and bottom with lampions, but
the effect was not very striking. It may be as
well to mention, that in the afternoon a num-
ber of old soldiers paid a visit to this spot, and deposi-
ted crowns of immortelles and flowers on the steps. The
railings were dressed with bouquets and wreaths of
laurel, and the general effect was pleasing. Along the
Boulevards and the principal leading streets, the illumi-
nations were pretty general, but they looked insignifi-
, cant after the fairy-like scene in the Champs Elysees.
The whole cost of the fete was 70,000 fr.,. of which