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THE BALTIC ; Its Gates, Shores, and Cities
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BREWERY, COPPER, AND OTHER
FUR NAC ES.
"The Brewery, Lichfield, 9th August, 1854.
"Dear Sir,—We are glad to say that your apparatus quite bears
out the assurance you gave us that it would answer our purpose.
" The doubt we had as to its adaptation to furnaces with defective
draught is entirely removed. Our liquor copper now boils quite as
soon as the wort copper, and with both there is a diminution in the
consumption of fuel.
"The experiment we witnessed at Messrs. CFIARINGTON, HEAD,
and CO.'S, as to smoke prevention, we thought at the time perfectly
snceessibi, and this impression we are happy to confirm from actual
experience.
"It will give us pleasure to reply to inquiries that may be made by
any Brewery Firms at Burton-on-Trent, but should suggest that it
may probably be more satis'actory to those gentlemen to judge for
themselves by seeing the furnaces at work, and this they can de at
any I.lme.

" We remain, dear sir,
"Yours, very truly,
" JOHN AND ARTHUR GRIFFITH.

"J. Lee Stevens, Esti "
Co'Hes of official and other reports, and of testimonials In favour
of the invention, as applied to steam Boilers, Brewery Coppers,
Stills, Chemists', Dyers', and Confectioners' Pans Coal Ovens, &c.,
with information respecting Licences to manufacture or use this
well-,stallished system of :smoke Preventi^n and Ec nomv of Fuel
continues to be given by Mr JOHN LEE: STEVENS, the Patentee,
the offices, No. 1, Fish-street-hill, City, London.

TELEA.I'RE 2:OYAL DRURy LANE.
Lessee, 3fr. E. T. Smith.

The Subscribers, 'Cobalt'', gentry, and the Public are respect'ully
Wormed that the PE:4ORX 4,.NUES will be ItEillAtED on
SATURDAY NEXT, Au;"11A 12. Ross'as ~;emlramt le. (.t.emlra-
nrde Madame "JaradorD and H-I.lel's Acts and Galatea (eolyplie-
Ines, Herr z ormes, will be anion; the. eArliest productions.
Theatre Royal, Dra-y-lane, August 11, 1354.

THEI.THE ROYAL HAYALIRKET.

L'oder the management of Mr. Ilockstone.
TIII3 EVENDiG, AuousT

bi performed TO' E OLD CU ATE. 11.7- Characters by Messrs.
ELM 0, Roger.. U. ILuston, and Buckstonc; Mrs. Fitzerldlam, and
1111si Reynolds.
Followel by the srAN:sa DANCERS In a GRASD BILLET.
The new Farce A 3 LIKE Ai TWO ps.ti.

ROYIL OLYNIPIC TILE

Lea .11.anzger, Mr. A. cirtgan.

TIUS F;VF.Z*.TING. ArcusT 11.

WVI be performel. I.'O.OIILE, ; BE N SON.• Art prert ed •by Mesa:. .
Eme'ry, huhwu, and Leslie; il.l!ss Marston, and Mis 3 E. 1 timer.

To. ba tolllwed by TIT?. r Nri:(I:IT. Characters by Mes.r,
/Ore,. Wig,n;Let-Ite, Harwood Cooper, and Vincent; Aliso I', lior•
tcn,' and YEss Emily Orm

To crinc•tile cr7tti th 3 Fare of TUE TVINDEEING MINSTRE!
Jean Ila/gs, Sir. F. Rol,eoli.

STRAND TlizATam

•ole Lesßee 7.4 r. F. W. Allcrort.

TINS EVENING, Avousr 11,

Will be performed r IE IVILLLER'S MAID

Ffil:owcti by 1.W.4T A D Mephistopheles,
Mr. Ilaltord; Faust, 'Cs? G Itodsou; Marguaite, Miss ii Gordon
TO conclude with EO3IBASiTS

4t5;119, 4i.; Boxes, 2A. 641.; Pit, 1..; idaliery, rd.; Private
£1 IL to he had of Mr. Aileron. 15, tiew Itond-atre,•t

ROYAL SURREY 10 :)LOGICAL GARDENS.

"This place fills up an hiatus whiz.h the Crystal Palace leaves
wan:lng. Vocal ant instru:nlotal in is cof the fl-st or•it:r, and ,
display of Oreworki which execs l all ints;inatlon. are a fitting
close to a day at the,Crystal

DANSONS COLOS;A.I4 PANDItA.IIA of CHUSAIi.
lenclid and Extensive Merkwerle and Marine Aquarlarn—Unrl
valled Military Band.

17314%..L and INSrRITMENTAL CONCERT,

in which Miss Poole. Miss Ransford. and Mr. Maivers sing
several National and Patriotic Songs—All the Amusing Novelties
of the Gardens in succession, concluding with the " Feast of Lan-
terns," and a most mupsiicent display of Fireworks by Southby.
Admission Ooe Shilling. A soleadiii Pavilion for Dancing has been
erected. Full Quadrille Band, &c.

ASTLErS ROYAL AMPIIITHEATKE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.

The popular p'ecs, the Cossacks, whose career has been most suc-
cessful, will shortly he withdr Iwn, to admit the production of a
Grand Military Spectacle, embracing many of the principfd events
of the present War between It issia and Turkey !

Enthusiastic reception of the new Equestrian Ballet d'Action, the
poetry of motion !

TII rs EVENING,. AUGUST 11,

And daring the week, THE COASAC ; or, Vivo la France,
After which, 1,14:S PREUVES DU GENT(E, or 3 nes ,n the Circle,
invented and arranged by Mr. William Cooke, who, in the course of
the evening, will exhibit (n,:on his hand) a horse whose height is
ony 15 inches.
" HERR CHRISTOFF, the first Rope Dancer In the universe.

To conclude with the new ISquestvian Ballet d'Actlon, by Mrs S-
G.-Healey, callet TIU r AND TEX: WA lER, LILY; or.
Love amung the Mermaids.
Box-oMee opeu from Eleven till Four. Stage lianagzr, Mr. W
West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Ting DAT —l36"ing 45 :nin.after 3 Livening 7 min.sft. 4
yo.Aontiovt—Morning 26 min.ster 4 j Evening 48 nth-...aft. 4

THE WSATHER.—Sux Op,wz, Ara. 11.
.r.BEZIONETICII, IN THE
74 —hignest since noon on Saturday.
56—lowest this morning and during the night.
68—this day, at noon.

t3ABOMET ER, 3C•o3—rising.
wnin, W. to W.N.W.—Light, with line sunshiny
weather.

44'
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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1854.

The Sovereigns of Europe don't appear to be
getting on so very well latterly. There was the
King of PRUSSIA the other day, scarcely recovered
from the effects of knocking his head against a
tree in the royal garden at twilight, must needs
go tumbling down and nearly breaking his neck
in another fit of champagne. The poor King of
SAXONY, we learn to-day, was killed suddenly a
few hours since by a kick from one of his horses,
in consequence of an overturn in his carriage on
leaving Munich to return to Dresden. The
King of GREECE has but just saved his crown
from being forfeited, by an odious complicity
with the designs of the Russian AUTOCRAT, by
listening, just in time before it was absolutely
too late, to the sagacious councils of Mr. WvsE
and his French colleague at the Court of Athens,
M. le 'Baron de ROUEN—backed as the advice
coining to OTHo from those two able diplomatists.
-fortunately was, by the arrival at the Piraeus of
a small body of troops otherwise destined to swell
the ranks of the Anglo-French contingents sent
out to the
.aid of the Sultan ABD-UL-MEDJID.
The Queen of SPAIN too—we have all seen how
nearly her Most Catholic MAJESTY was (about a
week or so back) running hor head, not
as With the mks-tering KOENIG FRITZ WinEtErat
against the branch of an apple-tree at sun-
down--7but at broad noonday against the stone
wall of a Revolution. A not inapt meta-
phor, by the way, for a barricade ! As for
her luckless parent the Dowager Queen CHRISTINA
—we have yet to learn whether she has contrived
to escape with her Ittinkioz brood, scot-free from
the bands of the Spanish
people, as well as from
the more gentle ones of the leaders of the trium-
phant insurrection. We 'were told the other
morning, in a somewhat startling manner, cer-
tainly, of the EMPEROR of all the Russian ha •
ving
been within an ace of making a Voyage down the
Baltic as a prisoner of war on board an English
steamer, for ultimate incarceration in one
of the
historic chambers of the Tower of London. It
appears, however/ on inquiry, that the whole story-
is what our Yankee cousins on the other side of
that little fishing,-pond the Atlantic are in the
habit of calling monosyllabically a " bam "—and
what we are accustomed here at home to term in
ie
the vernacular rather more pciphrastically, a tale
abOut a Cock and Bull However this may be,
!
the Czar NICHOLAS is just now manifestly in any-
thing but an agreeable predicament. Confronted,
whether he looks to the Baltic or to the Brack
Sea, by the mighty fleets and armies of France
and Raglan- d ! With his own legions driven
back from the mud walls of Silistria—
beaten in
_eirery encounter by the Turks he af-
fected to despise—vrith his ablest commanders
killed, or .wounded, •or out-generalled—and his
troops compelled, with the loss of nearly 50,000
men, to retire hurriedly in the direction of Bessa-
rabia.
He must feel himself, in fact, to say the
least of it, rather in a Quandary ! Remembering

all the while the witty axiom (if we recollect
rightly of Prince TALLEYRAND), that the "natural
death" of a Russian EMPEROR is—not fever, not
apoplexy, not bronchitis, not any of the ctutom-
ary ills that "flesh is heir to," but simply in one
word—assassination !

Really, when the calamitiei, that have lately
gathered about the crowned heads of Europe,
here enumerated, are borne in reoollection—
thei r imperial and royal contemporaries, more wise,
or less unfortunate, have each we cannotbut think
great reason, indeed, for gratitude to GOD and
for earnest self-gratulation. His MAJESTY of
Sweden and Norway, listening in his palace at
Stockholm to the distant booming of the
bombardment in the direction of Bomar-
sund ! His MAJVTY of Denmark giving
audience to the General BARAGUAY D'HIIr
IMRE, on his way to conduct 10,000 of the
heroic soldiers of France to the aid (by laud) of
the combined fleets sent out for the capture or
destruction of St. Petersburg ! Or, again, the
stripling King of PORTUGAL, still on his gay
tour from court to court among the less
agitated countries of the European Continent !
While his Majesty of SAxoNY is. being killed by
a kick from a horse on the Munich highway, the
King of the BELGIANS is happily presiding undis-
turbed over his Constitutional Government—the
King of SARDINIA endeavouring in some man-
ner to carry out by a pacific policy what his gal-
lant and lamented predecessor vainly strove to
effect by warlike means, namely, the advancement
of his *own subjects, and the regeneration, if pos-
sible, of the whole Italian peninsula. The youth-
ful Emperor of AUSTRIA meanwhile consoling him-
self for the close of the • honeymoon by exult-
ing over the success of the new loan which in
any way empowers him to ac; as prudence
may seem to dictate in any emergency—deferring
still, as long as possible, the inevitable day of
action, when there must at length be an end of
this long wire-drawn coil of diplomatic nego-
tiation.

Passing over the lesser potentates of Europe,
unnecessary here to b 3 individually particularised,
and looking nearer at hand—to the august rulers
of the two great allied nations of the West, the
&lids of the world and the champions of civili-
sation—we find them of all the most happily
situated, while surrounding ionarchs are struck,
Ine by one, by calamitous death, by agcnising
iuspense, or by the thunderbolts of revolution.
The Queen of ENGLAND, in her Royal yacht, passing
a summer's holiday iu a pleasant cruise among the
Channel Islands ! The Emperor of FRANCE,
whiling away in domestic seclusion at his
imperial retreat at Biaritz, the hours not ne-
cessarily dedicated to the gicicrantic labour of
directing every Movement, 1116 , least and
the mightiest, of his immense and magnifi-
cent Government ! VimoRIA and NAPOLEON—
united in purpose by the bonds of a cordial
alliance have, indedd, ample reason to
exult with profound emotions over their
own tranquil happiness now, when, with
misery apparent as the lot of so many of their con
temporary Sovereigns, they are sending forth
their enormous armaments to the ends of the
world, in the cause of civilisation and in the
interests of humanity, not for selfish conquest,
but for the re-establishment of the peace of
Christendom.

At length, after a delay of nearly four weeks,
the decision of the fust Court-martial on Lieu-
tenant PERRY has been officially promulgated.
Fortunately, it was essential that the entire pro-
ceedings should be considered by a fair and impar-
tial officer (the Right Hon. C. P. VILLIERS, Judge--
Advocate, or his deputy), and by him submitted
to our most gracious SOVEREIGN for approval
before the sentence could be carried into execu-
tion, or the practical jests of the officers of the
gallant 46th brought to their appropriate termi-
nation by the dismissal of their unfortunate
butt from her MAJESTY'S service. Had it
been otherwise, the ruin of the victim would have
been accomplished ; his name would be -stigma-
tised for the remainder of his life, and the
career on which he had entered brought to a
premature and most untoward conclusion.

The finding of the Court substantially was, that
Lieut. PERRY was guilty of the charge preferred
against him, and he was thereupon sentenced to be
dismissed from her ALIJEsTY's service. He was, how-
ever, unanimously iecommended to mercy, on ac-
count of the grea t provocation which he had received.
The ill-used young man was, however, a suitor
for justice—not for mercy. The recommeuda-
Con of the Court would probably have procured

im the purchase-money of his commission, the
Awn which lie himself had actually paid for the
privilege of being bullied and maltreated, addressed
in the most opprobrious language, and subjected
to personal violence by the "officers and gentlemen"
'f the 46th Regiment. But fur that indulgence,
he should have consented to rest under the re-
proach of an unfavourable decision of a military
tribunal—of having been guilty of "conduct un-
beco,niug an officer and a gentleman, and to the
prejudice of good order and military discipline."
From this opprobrium he has, however, been
saved. The disgrace has been transferred
from his character to officers of far greater
experience, and holding much higher rank in
the service. The Judge-Advocate-General hav-
ing carefully perus-d the proceedings of the
Court, discovered that it had been guilty
of sins both of commission and of, omission—that
it had admitted evidence against the prisoner
which ought to have been rejected, while it had
refused evidence in his favour that ought to have
been received. Under such circumstances there
was no alternative but to advise 'her MAJESTY to
refuse the necessary confirmation of the sentence.
This has been done, and the entire proceedings
have accordingly fallen to the ground.
Although it could scarcely be supposed that the
, -
Court would have convicted Lieutenant PERRY for
an act not merely committed under great provo-
cation, but what was palpably one of self-defence,
it was quite clear that the refusal to abide by any
authority was in itself sufficient to vitiate the
proceedings. When the cross interrogatories put
by the accused for the purpose of eliciting the
cause of the quarrel were suppressed, and he was
told that " he must confine himself to the shaking
of .the evidence of the witness," with the addition
that he should " have an opportunity of bringing
these things forward when called on for his de-
fence"—when also the authority of the standard
work on military tribunals (Simmons on Courts-
martial) was contumeliously repudiated, and the
extraordinary. doctrine put forward, that "the
only authority for the court was the Mutiny
Act" (!), the gross illegality of the whole pro-
ceedings became too painfully apparent that there
could be no hope of an impartial and equitable
adjudication. Everything that could bear
against the prisoner was admitted, however inap-
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denied, but he should not venture to set up a
justification
, and prove it out of the mouths of
his adversaries ; that, forsooth, was " matter for
his defence," for which he should •
bring forward
hostile witnesses, and not be
necessarily granted on a allowed the license
cross-examination. De-
spite all the objections offered, and what Colonel
GARRETT termed the animus exhibited, the in-
tended victim passed triumphantly through the
ordeal, and the barbed shafts aimed against him
have
,recoiled with telling effect against his perse-
cutors.
yes—the loose system of discipline—the unfair
and partial favouritism practised in the corps
ht despite every obstacle.
have been brought to light .
Even the strange
and unaccountable oblivion that
has oppressed the faculties of the great majority
Abe ireof--the 46th, has failed to shroud

' these extraordinary transactions in mystery. The
public have learned quite enough of the every-
day, or it might be more appropriately termed
the every-night-proceedings of the officers, sanc-
tioned and connived at by some, if not all, of
their seniors. There is no longer any possibility
of concealing the discreditable revelations—and if
such conduct be suffered to prevail by the mili-
tary authorities, it is some satisfaction to know
that it is properly estimated by the community at
large, and that the voice of public opinion has
plainly and unequivocally proclaimed the general
feeling on the subject.
The decision on the first trial must be conclu-
sive on that now pending. It was for protesting
against decisions such as 'those which have now
been proved to be erroneous that Lieutenant
PERR? has been subjected to the last accusation.
The prejudice and bias of the Court now sitting
has been even more palpable than of that whose
decision has not been confirmed. In like manner
they have refused permission to the prisoner to
ask most pertinent and proper questions on cross-
examination. In like manner they have ad-
mitted that which should not have been received,
determined, like the Irish jury, who convicted a
man of murder because he had stolen, or rather
was supposed to have stolen, a colt from the fore-
man, that he should not escape under any circum-
stances. If his protest was erroneous, the QUEEN
and the Judge-Advocate-General have fallen into
a similar mistake. If it was correct, it should not
be made a ground for victimising him. He has
already been subjected to a ruinous expense,
sufficient. to accomplish the desired object, of
crushing a young man, who deemed it more
correct to live within slender means than to
incur debts which he had no reasonable prospect
of being enabled to discharge. We must, how-
ever, await the conclusion of the proceedings before
we can speak more fully on this part of .the case.
We believe, however, that the public will not
permit the unfortunate accused to be crushed by
the costs. As he has escaped one of the conse-
quences of the persecution, he must be protected
from another no less fatal to his future prospects.