The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-13 00:00:00

The whole of the Royal Horse Artillery were yester-
day morning trooped on Woolwich Common at 6 o'clock,
and rehearsed a number of field exercises intended for
the general inspection which is ordered to take place
to-day at two o'clock before his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge. At eight o'clock they were with-
drawn to the encampment, and the field was then occu-
pied by the batteries. These were drawn out, likewise,
for the purpose of rehearsal, in heavy rrarching order,
under the command of colonels of divisions. A good
deal of firing took place, which was kept up until
near mid-day. At 4 p.m. sik battalions, composing the
whole of the Artillery off duty, were marched in two
divisions to the common, and fput through a course of
drill exercises, under the inspection of General Williams
Commandant of the Garrison, and his Staff. To-day his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Commander in-chief, will inspect the whole of the Royal Artillery on
Woolwich-common, at 2 p.m., and at 7 o'clock his Royal
Highness will dine with the General and the officers of
the Mess Committee, in addition to whom the Duke's
own Staff are invited, as well as the Staff of the Horse
Guards. The Inspector-General of Fortifications, Sir
John Burgoyne ; Colonel Matson, Deputy-Adjutant.
General, Royal Engineers ; Dr, Smith, Director-Gene-
ral of the Army Medical. Department ; the commanding
officers of the various corps in Woolwich, and the heads
of departments there, Sir Hew Ross and Sir Robert
Gardiner, will likewise dine at the mess-table on this
occasion. Preparations have been made and covers
ordered to be laid for 150 persons.
The 95th Regiment, consisting of 38 officers, 540 rank
and file, under the command of Msj Dennis, left Al-
dershot Camp yesterday morning at 9 o'clock for Ports-
mouth, there to embark on board the steamship Pacific
for Dublin.
•
The 82d RegiMent, lately returned from the Crimea,
arrived at Aldershoton Monday morning to be quartered,
and is now in the north camp.
Her. Majesty's ship Centaur arrived yesterday at Ports-
mouth, from Cadiz, from which port she sailed on the 7th
ult., having; on board the remainder of the officers and
troops out of the steam transport Clarendon, lately
wrecked off that poet. Her Majesty's ship Centaur left
at Cadiz the "screw steam transports Bacchante, Jackal!,
and Albatross, coaling for England. The latter had
taken on board the horses saved from the Clarendon.
The William (192), sailing transport, has arrived at
Portsmouth from Kertch and Constantinople, and has
sailed again for the eastward with the following :—Capts.
Bent, Pye, and Collins ; Doctors Gibbon and Foagey,
Turkish Contingent ; Lieuts. Vidler and Hayden, 931 ;
Underwood, 42.1; and Johnson, Kershaw, and Badgley,
Ist Royals ; 12 non-commissioned officers and men of
the Turkish Contingent.
The Libra, commissariat transport. No. 15; the Mary
Davidson, commissariat transport, No. 199 ; the Pa-
nama, commissariat transport, No. 192 ; and the Bala-
klava, commissariat transport, No. 10, have arrived at
Portsmouth from the Black Sea and Constantinople wit's ordnance and commissariat stores, &c., and await orders.
Her Maje-ty's ship Royal George has sailed for
Sheerness, and her Majesty's ship Banshee for Wool-
wich.
The Pioneer, No. 232, screw steam transport, has
arrived at Portsriouth from Devonport, and awaits
orders; and the Barrette Junior, commissariat transport,
with stores, &e., from Constantinople and Malta.
Her Majesty's ship Algiers, Capt. Codrington, arrived
at Spithead yesterday evening.
His Sardinian Majesty's corvette Aquila, 16 guns,
Capt. ChevalierGalli di Mantica, arrived at Spithead, in
the night of Monday, front Genoa, on a voyage of in-
struction, having on board 11 officers of the staff, and 52
midshipmen from the Royal Sardinian Naval Academy.
Yesterday morning she saluted the national flag and
the Port Admiral, also the Sardinian Consul, Chevalier
Pappalardo, who afterwards presented the captain and
staff to the naval and military authorities at Portsmouth.
The C Field Battery of Artillery, composed of 6 offi-
cers, about 200 men and horses, 16 guns and 11 car-
riage; embarked yesterday at Liverpool for Dublin.
The hired freight-ship Koh-i-noor, Capt. J. P. Wat•
lington, sailed yesterday morning from Woolwich for
Bermuda, with Lieut. Henry Hill, in command of a de-
techment of 49 non-commissioned officers and privates
of the Royal Artillery Regiment, to increase the strength
of the companies there.
The screw transport W. S. Lindsay left Woolwich yes-
terday morning for Deptford, and the sailing transports
Star of. the South and the Ayrshire are ordered to be
discharged the service.
The non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal
Sappers and Miners at the head-quarters, Brompton
Barracks, Chatham, are furnished with the Lancaster
rifle, and the 26th company of that corps have commenced
a Course of rifle instruction under Lieat. G. R. emriere,
Royal Engineers, the Instructor in Musketry p
of that
corps.
The troops belonging to the Chatham division of Royal
Marines Light Infantry were yesterdaymorning marched
to the rear of their barracks at Chatham, for the purpose
of witnessing the carrying nut of the sentence of a court-
martial upon Private Janice/ of the Tad company
of Royal Marines, who had been sentenced to receive 50
lashes, and also to be placed under stoppages, for deser-
tion, awl making away with a portion of his regimental
necessaries. After the prisoner, who bears a very bad
character, had received his punishment, he was removed
to Melville Hospital.
The •Sandfly gunboat, Lieut.-Commander B: G. W.
Nicolas, was taken into No. 4 dry dock at Sheerness on
Monday, to have a condenser fitted, to complete which
will occupy 14 days. She is ordered for immediate active
service.
The gun-boats Plover, Spanker, and Palter are being
fitted in the lower basin at Sheerness for immediate ac-
tive service. The Magnet gun-boat is making good de-
fee,s, and preparing for immediate service.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Lieut. F. R. Purvis, to the Actreen ; S. Smyth, pay-
master, to the Chillers; H. de Ridder, clerk, to theemsar;
E. C. Bryan, master's assistant, to the HiOiflyer ; G. R.
Donkin, inidehiplian, to the Acten ; C. Jenkins, mid-
shipman, to the Princess Royal ; G. C. Gahar, assistant
clerk, to the G'adiator ; .T. Wortley, assistant clerk, to
the Formidable; W. A. Brown, assistant clerk, to the
Diamond ; F. North, assistant clerk, to the Medina ; T.
Pallinger, assistant clerk, to the Mirondm ; C. R. Ito
berts, naval cadet, to the Royal Albert.

LIVERPOOL, AUG. 12.
The screw steam-ship Royal Charter has arrived
with advices from IVlelbourne to the 25th of May.
She brought 181,000 ounces of gokl, and 10,000
sovereigns on freight, besides a large amount of
gold and jewellery in the hands of passengers, of
whom "there are 326.
The Royal Charter left the Heads on the 26th of
May. For the 30 days succeeding she experienced
strong easterly winds, and rounded Cape Horn
under steam on the 33d day out. During the re-
mainder of the passage baffling headwinds prevailed.
In lat. 59 S., long. 90 W., she fell in with several
icebergs.
The Walmer Castle, for London left Melbourne
on the 17th of May. The Kent was intended to
be despatched for London on the sth of June, and
the Joseph Jarrett, for Liverpool, on the 10th.
Our advices by this arrival record no political or
general news of importance.
Tile reaction against thefeverish excitement of
the gold mania having nearly terminated, the
resources of the colony of Victoria were coming
into full play, and the inhabitants were looking
forward to a career of unexatnpled prosperity. The,
local Government hadtaken the subject of railways
in hand, with the promise of pursuing the object
with zeal and energy. Under the auspices of the
Governor-General, Melbourne and Geelong would
soon be connected by railway, and a line had been
traced out from Melbourne, through the goldfields,
to the river Murray.
The Government had a balance of 700,000/. to
800,000/. to their credit at the banks.
In trade and commerce the absence of all specu-
lation and excitement had become an established
feature. Business generally was good. The fol-
lowing is a comparative statement of the imports
and exports for the first quarter of 1855 and that
of the current year :
Imports first quarter 1855, 2,808,171/. ; 1856,
2,228,8731.
Exports first quarter 1855, 2,997,157/. ; 1856,
4,492,6601.
The rate of interest for money was quoted at 8
to 10 per cent., but few transactions had taken
place at those rates.
The farmers of the colony were prosecuting their
pursuits with great energy and success.
Potatoes of the finest quality were selling from
ss. to 7s. per cwt., while the price of flour was
quoted at 261. per ton, enabling bread to be sold
at from 10d. to Is. the 41b. loaf.
The yield of the precious metal at the various
goldfields continued steadily to increase, notwith-
standing the temporary obstacles of winter, and
the consequent cessation of operations on several
goldfields. The respective amounts brought down
by escort for the first four months of 1856 were
962,040 ounces, against 589,337 ounces for the
same period in 1855. Up to the 24th of May,
1856, 185,897 ounces had been received, against
120,424 ounces. for th., same rot._ last year.'
an -mice -of sold remained at ot._ es.,-.4lEith.'
an active demand. The _rumoured discovery
of new goldfields in the Gipps Lend District,
fir removed from the locality of the known auri-
ferous districts, had been confirmed by reports
from the district surveyor. At Mount Korong
diggings, which had been almost abandoned
as a failure, several monster nuggets had been dis-
covered. Quartz crushing continued on the in-
crease. There was very little doing in wool. For
tallow the demand for colonial use was almost
equal to the quantity produced. The labour mar-
ket remained about the same as last quoted, there
being no material difference in the rate of wages.
What is called the eight-hour movement had ben
pretty generally successful, but it was thought that
ultimately it would operate to the loss of those
tradesmen who commenced the agitation, as a large
influx of labour was arriving from the adjacent
colonies.
Sydney accounts state that the new Parliament
would be called together for the despatch of busi-
ness on the 221 of May.
The Governor-General had appointed Mr. Alfred
Denison to he his Excellency's private secretary ;
also, with the advice of the Executive Council,
Mr. William Macpherson to be clerk of the Legis-
lative Council of New South Wales.
The sgydney Herald says:—
" From the expression of political opinion made
by members of the Government during the recent elec•
tions we may anticipate that its general scheme of policy
will involve something like the following pro4rainme :
The introduction of a measure for the repeal of the two-
third clauses of the Constitution Act; measures for the
establishment of municipal institutions; a comprehensive
system of education which shall allay anituo,ities and
c nismand general re:Tea and support; a revision of the
administrative departments of the Government, with a
view to a numerical reduction in subordinate, combined
with increased efficiency from ability ; a vigorous prose-
cution of public works in general, and of railway exten-
sion in particular, with a view to the increase in the
value of the property of the colony, and the tsanstniFsion
of the produce of its remote districts to markets not
available ; the full and unreserved consideration of the
land question, both as to the distribution of the land,
and the control of the revenue to be derived from it,
and with the object of according greater facilities to the
acquisition of public lands, with the protection of existing
private rights, and of providing such a system of taxation
as shall bear more equally than at present on those who
have to contribute to the generalrevenuesof the country."
The Sydney commercial accounts describe busi-
ness to be about the same as previously reported.
At Adelaide the wheat and flour market was dull
at a slight decline in price. Money was a little
easier

MILITIA.
The 109th, or County of Dublin Light Infantry Regi-
ment of Militia, was formally disembodied on Monday
in the square of the Linen-hall Barracks. Each man
received 10s. bounty and 14 days' pay.

At Ballarat the purchasing rate of gold had ad-
vanced from the Bank price of 775. 6d. to 78s. 3d.,
in consequence of a desire to ship by the Royal
Charter.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
The Sardinian, the. Salem, the Athetstane, and the
Spray of the Ocean, hence ; the Tudor, the Caidera, and
Carntyne, from London, and the Clutha, from Glasgow,
at Melbourne ; the Ellen Master,, hence, at Adelaide ;
the Enchanter and the Haltwhistle, from London, at
Geelong ; the Greenock, from Glasgow, the Fayaway,
from Newcastle, and the Phoenician, from London, at
Sydney; the British Empire, from London at Hobart
Town ; and the Nova Bella, from London,
at Adelaide.

ARCHDEACON DENISON'S CASE.—THE JUDGMENT. --
BATH, August 12.—This being the day fixed upon for
the deliverance of judgment in the case of Archdeacon
Denison, charged with having preached doctrines con-
trary to the Articles of the Church of England, in rela-
tion to the real presence in the Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper, the court was crowded at an early hour. Dr.
Lushington pronounced the doctrine preanhed by the
archdeacon in the cathedral church of Wells, on the
6th of August, 1853, to be contrary and repugnant to
the 25th, 28th, 29th, and 35th of the Articles of Reli-
gion. Time was allowed the rev. gentleman to revoke
his errors until the 21st of October.
CREDIT MODILIER IN SWITZERLAND.—The Lausanne
Gazettefollowing the curious details concerning the
subscription to the Zurich Credit ltlobilier :—" During
the three days fixed for receiving subscriptions the crone
which assembled was so great that no one could help feel.
ing pity for the poor wretches who remained for half
Jay pushing and elbowing each other, and imploring.
almost on their knees, that they might be relieved al
their bank notes, rouleaux of gold, and sacks of silver.
Bavarian Jews have been seen with game bags at their
backs containing millions. One of these poor fellows,
after having pushed about for two days in the corridorS,
was turned out of doors with 3,000,000 f. in his pocket,
to which extent he wished to subscribe. On the last de.)
that the subscription remained open, the amoun,
signed for attained the sum of 218 millions, and just
before the close the receipts given were in thit
form Received a bag said to contain 500,000f.,'
and those who were not satisfied with this vague docu-
ment were fiut about ,their buoinesa."_

(From the Special Correspondent of the Morning Post.)
We have received the following letters from our
Special Correspondent, who, it will be seen from
from their dates, has arrived at St. Petersburg,
on his way to Moscow :
ST. PETERSBURG, AUGUST 4.
This morning the thunders of artillery awoke all
Petersburg,-and the sea-coast town within many
mileS, to witness a grand review of the Russian
mortar-boats off Cronstadt. Yesterday evening,
as our steamer approached Cronstadt, we had seen
the Russian fleet some 15 or 20 miles east of that
fortress. There were 12 (I think) line-of-battle
ships, and about 18 or 20 frigates. When we
came to the guardship we had to moor there for
the night, as our vessel,- the Gothenburg, a fine
screw-steamer, drew too much water (11 feet)
to pass the bar till she had discharged part
of her freight, and we could not obtain a small
boat till daylight.. At first we were disappointed at
this delay, but next morning we had every reason
to congratulate ourselves that a readier despatch had
not deprived ns ofla 'very animated and striking
spectacle: • We were immediately boarded by a.
semi-civilian, and very civil officer, who talked any
language that happened to come uppermost ; a
naval or military, or both naval and military'offi-
car, whose business was not to talk, at all, • btit in
silent obesity to represent the martial power ; ;and
lastly, a scrivener, with a leather bag containing
a seal as large as the dial of a timepiece. Theicap- '
Lain of our boat produced tjae recluisiteslnaumffnlsss and smile champagne and capital cigars. To my
snrpriste—s-forsl know that such articles are appre-
ciated in Russia—the principal officer of the three
who visited us almost immediately lost his gay
appearance. -He declined the champagne (a second
glass, that is); he threw down his cigar ; he leant
his forehead on his hand, one of his companions,
the representative of the Cronstadt military, autho-
rity, laughed, urged him in Russ to take off his
glass, and asked him what was the matter. " This
stupid vessel," replied he, in the same language,
"ought to have let two anchors down ; she rolls so
that I am quite sick already." He thought this was
not understood. Yet for three months this gentle-
man had never once been on land. He lived entirely
in the guardship. It is well that the Russian navy
can now take exercise. Had the blockade lasted
much longer, a short row in an open boat, and 20
miuutes on board of a steamer riding at single
anchor, would have sufficed to make the greatest
veteran in the Russian navy sea-sick.
The whole of Cronstadt was alert at daybreak on
the 4th, and we passed through the whole line of
steam mortar-boats. There were 75 in number, ex-
tended along a diagonal front of 15 versts (or 10
miles English) within Cronstadt, and from that place
to the shore of Peterhof; Every one of these boats
was furnished with the screw propeller. Moro than
two-thirds of them carried three mortars each—one
in the stern, one amid-ships, and one in the bows--
the rest carried only two pieces. They were very large. The crew of each boat numbered from 4(1 to
50. The boats were hastily got up ; they are very
light in motion, and of very shallow draught.
They offer scarcely any mark, and are considerably
lower in the water than the French boats or ours
of similar construction. The reason of this is,
that ours were built for offence, and intended to be
able to cross the German Ocean or any seas These
Russian boats would not live in a heavy sea, nor
could they safely venture far from shelter ; but in
these land-locked waters, to seize their time, to
creep about, or to aid in the defence of an assailed
port, they are perfectly sufficient in quality,
although not in number. The Emperor appeared
on the water at 11, and after the boats had ma-
noeuvred he steamed back to Peterhoff.
This was the great naval review not only of the
Russian Baltic fleet which has lived thrOugh the
war, but of the new fleet of Russian mortar-boats
which may be said to have been born of it, and
which, having silently and rapidly come into exist-
ence, made their first grand, open, and avowed
appearance on the morning in question. It was a
remarkably lucky day for a sight-seer to arrive.
To this review Sir Charles Napier, inasmuch as
he was on a visit to Russia and in the neighbour-
horid, received a special invitation from the High
Admiral of the empire, the Grand Duke Constan-
tine. Before mentioning more particularly the im-
posing demonstration, through the midst of which
our steamer happened to shave its way to take. I
-eaasis mention that the land orattsentionswhlcsa •es
Russian Court and authorities showed to Sir C.
Napier (whose visit, in the first instance, took
thorn completely by surprise) was, while perfectly
courteous, acidulated with a fine and delicate fla-
vour of irony, which seems to have been quite lost
tmon the perceptive power of the gallant admiral.
Your readers can judge for themselves ; and I will
mention ono or two incidents of Sir Charles's visits
and sojourn, because they aro characteristic of
other parsons as well as that of the well known offi-
cer, and because the whole style in which he
brought himself into contact with Russia on this
occasion is curious. The very first direct intimation
conveyed to him, after his presence in St. Peters-
burg had been notified to the higher powers, was
couched in phrases which would have made many a
man wince. He was told that orders had been given
at Cronstadt and elsewhere to receive him, should
he desire to look through these places; and ho was
politely assured that he would not now experience
any difficulty in entering the various fortresses.
At the same time, the Grand Duke exist:entitle
ordered a steamer to be stationed in the river, just
under the windows of Sir Charles's rooms, on the
English quay, and a Russian officer informed the
visitor that this vessel was for his special behoof
and accommodation ' • but first he was begged to
repair at once to the Grand Da're's residence,
" the Marble Palace." Sir Charles forthwith
douned his Russian cross of St. George (received
long ago for the St. Jean d'Acre hit), and waited on
the Grand Duke. The manner in which the gallant
admiral had notified his presence, in the first in-
stance, outside Cronstadt, was droll. The steamer,
according to custom, had dropped her anchor
about a mile or two beyond that fortress, abeam
of the Russian guardship. On board this last it
happened to bo dinner hour ; and, therefore, no
attention was for some time paid to the English
vessel, which was obliged to tarry thus until she
had been visited and her papers had been inspected
by the proper officers from the guard-ship. Sir
Charles became dreadfully impatient after having
examined all he could see from that position of the
Russian fleet. He had steamed through a large
division of it some 10 or 15 miles further seaward,
where about a score line-of-battle ships and frigates
had gone out, and whore they have been every day
for some weeks, exercising and manoeuvring in the
Gulf of Finland. The sight produced a high state
of mettle and excitement in the gallant admiral,
who exclaimed, " Ali, if those chaps had only come
out that far when I was in command, perhaps they
wouldn't ha'e caught it !"
Finding that the guard-ship continued absorbed
in dinner, Sir ,Charles called up the chief officer,
gave him his card, and told him to board the Rus-
sian vessel with that in his hand. The result an-
swered his wishes. A boat came alongside imme-
diately, and the aerial telegraph of the guard-ship
began to fling about its arms in a style which
quickly set those of the Cronstadt semaphore in
motion. Thus the gallant admiral literally sent
up his card to Russia, and found her at home.
When the officers came aboard they were attacked
forthwith by Sir Charles by a thick discharge of
questions—a fire which they promptly returned
.by
the most astounding declarations. Sir Charles
pointed towards Oranienbaum, the beautiful groves
novoes
of which came down to the water's edge, close
the right hand—" Have
you any guns . there?"
" Yes—some 14 batteries." " And there?" point-
ing to Peterhoff. "Oh yes, about a hundred guns
there."

These batteries are wonderfully well concealed,
for at least at Peterhoff I defy any visitor to detect
them. Sir Charles, however, seemed to believe
the answers he thus obtained. At the quay in St.
Petersburg a crowd of people were collected to see
the admiral disembark. When he went to Peter-
hoff he proceeded in his off-hand way straight to
the Emperor's palace, and demanded of a servant.
in the grounds whether his Majesty was there ?
The man could not speak any language that Sii
Chart: s spoke (or rather vice 'versa), bat an English
gentleman translated the question, and then tran-
slated the answer, which was that Alexander IL
was not there, but at his farm, a little distance off.
No appearance of mystery or reticence was observed
towards Sir Charles in any of the warlike esta-
blishments.

ST. PETERSBURG, AUG. 6.
Many persons in England will be interested and
edified, not to say suprised, on learning the nature
of those rural employments or recreations which,
in Alexander IL's case, are beguiling the retire-
ment so usual with the Czars at this season. Just
behind the green woods of Peterhoff, and visible
from a deck in Cronstadt Iioad;1, rise beyond the
golden towers of the summer palace the hills where
Ole late &vertu Niollolaa used to delight to ex-

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crash was spread otter :many months during the LendeiT.Exhil4tion, and will be crowded into two
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Daring summer, dal have said, a good choice of
, roads is offered to the int:ending' iiiisitor of Russia.
1 ercise numerous hosts in mimic warfare ; there, I Tho French -.generally go right tlirough Europe,
wiry, epiriateele
extend, at Krasnoe Seloe, or the Red Village, the 1,14'14Ch is now so covered in all directions with rail-
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great summer camps, where the Guards, the army -waY,s2lll4itarau-re.acktlie Russian fi)sntier. There,
of the north, detachments from "the army of I the
Finland," and detachments from all the other corps
stationed throughout the empire, were wont to little shaggy,
ill-looking, inde-
fatigable horses of the counfils---the terriers of the
equine family—still convey the Coyliel, diligences
(or neglig,encee), mails, and *lieregas from Warsaw
onwards, "atelier to St, Petersburg, as the case may
be marshalled, revie wed, ma rched, counter-marched,
and manoeuvred. Doubtless such exercises will
be; "
or to MOICP-vi. From England, you can go at •
andaniere direct route
not be much intermitted, far less will they be
present by a still shorter .
altogether abandoned. But in a despotic State the
than that through Hamburg and )Lubeck, which
heart, the devotion which the Sovereign throwsinto
was itself intended as a short cutterpon the " all-
his several occupations is everything ; and Alexan-
sea passage."-- But, as sometimes occurs, especially
der, while passing the interval before his departure
i
for Moscow to receive the crown of his immense in newly-opened communications, the "shortest'
The
realm, amidst such solemnities as never before six-
way occasionally proves to be the longest.
realised a RusSian monarch's coronation, is busy
new line to which I-refer, is that which the North
with all his soul—doing what ? Why, attending to; -
of Europe Steam Company-have this season opened.
and perfecting, a model farm which he has got, and They book their passengersaccarding as these may
with which he means to beat Mr. Mechi, givin choose—the whole journey to St. Petersburg or to
him nine degrees of latitude as odds in climate, g
either of the intermediate stations of Tonning and
,
and about the samenumber of years, I suppose, as of Flensburg. The entise.distance is charged seven
guineas by boat and rail Way first class—each tre-
e start, in the race of time. It is amidst such
yeller spending what he thinks fit for his living.
scenes and such cares that the little Czarevitch and
the Emperor's three other children are openine There are also to be added to the cost certain delays
their eyes upon the new politics of Europe, the
at hotels. From St. Katherine's-wharf to Tonning,
.
on the west coast of Schleswig, the distance across
close of a terrible war in their country's history,
and the inauguration of an era unprecedented for the north sea is 320 miles ; the run up the Elbe to
the direction and the activity of its industrial Hamburg is saved. At Tonning the new railway
hepes• takes you on to Flensburg, the capital of Series-
Had an ambassador from France or Englandslis, wig, on its eastern coast..
_This rail) journey occu-
, embarked just at this season• six years ago, and pies two hours and a half, through a cour of
learned, as• he placed his foot on the broad granite alternate Moor, pasture, and tillage, and sparent yo you
300 miles of sea round the north of Denmark. Hero'''''';' '
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pavement of the clean, open, shiny, custom-house .
quay, opposite the Angliskara Nebrashnaya, that occurs thefirst and only defeat of the route. - Were - - •'e'= . ...."S.-
theebrarsell; 1 4-I'l- " tale
S,..;aeac.ses a• •wisaataag: utatne passengers' ' ._
the Emperor was not in St. Petersburg,
_in.'"g ai e a to start within a couple of hours of their
:have anticipated the reply to the -next query, -
arrival, I venture to assert that this line would be
which, indeed, would have been put in a leading
quickly preferred to all others. 'by travellers pre-
form somewhat thus : -4‘ Ah ! I presume he is at
ceeding from London to St. PetersiSiitg. But the. -
Krasnoe-Sefoe camp ?"- It would never have oc-
curred to-him to say " the Pekerhoff model fermi,' steamer waits. at Flees hurg for the cargo (often
very heavy) from Terming. ThecenseqUence is that,
Before • going to Aloscovr I hope to have a look at
arrived in Flensburg at half-past
•e 2
this agricultural experiment, and to give you some for example, I
... details about it. on Monday afternoon, and- the steamer did not
• •anchor
weigh till 8 o'clock' On the following Thurs-
The Conciliation will not take place till the end of
day morning: It- is but fair to add that this delay
Augast, old style (which will carry us into the se-
was greater than usual.. ,The steamer for St. Pe-
coud Week of Septeraber). The Emperor is not yet
tersburg generally starts' the nextday but one after
gone to Moscow, though every day the railway
the arrival of the passengers. The remainder of the
groans with tons ofcuriosityin the shape ofpassengers
distance up the 'Baltioand G•ilf of Finland, from
hurrying to lodge themselves cheaply, and, there-
Fiord; of -Flensburg► to Cronstadt, is exactly
fore, early; and tons of splendour in the shape of
furniture, housings, blood horses, plate,
811 miles. The whole • journey by this route ought
(h. His :
Majesty is at Peterhoffin the summer palace. Lord to occupy, and will, I.haya npedoubt, occupy, Judi
average; .sbni4times only 5 ; at pre-
same is in his pretty country house along the
6 days on "the
sent, with the delay in the cold Of Schist-swig, it •
same coast. Lord Granville has not arrived, but
•
was supposed yesterday to be off Cronstadt. Splen- is above 7, and no time is gained over the long sea • •
•,:
did preparations are made for his , brief sojourn passage. Why should not the travellers go on at
hero at DeMonth's Hotel, near the Politzeusky, or once by; the first steamer, and the freight always by
Police Bridge, off the Nevsky. M. de Moray is the next ? Thus the passengers would each til:nie
still also waited for. Their horses have come (two take with them the prevkmtsoourney'seargo, wbitlh
of M. de Moray's, which died at sea, excepted), must be thus delayed in any case.
I would strongly. recommend this route in sum,
and have unspeakably affected Russian enthu-
siasm. • I don't think the Ambassadors will be met in preference to the scramble from railway to
better appreciated. Sir Charles Napier was at the 'railway across the *hole breadth of Europe; and
review with the Grand Duke Constantine and the while it is capable of being made, as I have shown,
Emperor.
the quickest which the nature of things •
will admit
-
I cannot better occupy your spaee, or my own it is also full of charms both for the
eye which &-
lights in beautiful scenery, and for the mind which
time, at this moment than in- saying a few words
about the nature of the Northern trip to Russia, can muse with pleasure on thotheatre of great
events, and of great conditions and beginnings of
rious modes in which it is accomplished. There is
and the general 'comparative excellence of the va-
chenge, which are a little less hackneyed and less
vulgarised than most others by the profaning
every reason to believe that it will become widely
ecstacies of tourists and the pumped-up raptures of
popular and commonly used ; and that the charac-
diary-writers.
ter of the weather during the time of year when the
journey can be made with the most pleasure will
compensate passengers for the proportionably brief
season in which they can still command an abun-
dant choice of lines, converging ultimately in a
common destination. The summer of the north is
short ;• but it is so beautiful and respleadent, that
only those who have sojourned amidst its too fleet-
ing glories can 'ever picture to themselves anything
approaching the reality. Association has done as
much as nature to invest the classic regions of
Europe with the charms which, for nearly twenty
centuries, have drawn to the shores of the Medi-
terranean, in occasional visits, all who had the
leisure and the means. But if history has dwelt
chiefly in the south, it issued at least from the
north.
To leave, however, all old world ' reflections,e
it is enough that recent events have made
a now and permanent addition to the interest
of the Scandinavian coasts and waters, as well as
to that of the great empire of which they form on
one side the lodge-gates and avenues ; that another
and a still greater interest, the commercial, has
not only sprung into redoubled activity, in order
to recover the losses of an. in terrn Cintion, hnt. has
re ina.o.liew forms of aveippruent-i-
- this has occurred at a moment when
the means of transit, transport, and business are
so marvellously increased that, even in the ab-
sence of the vast reciprocal capabilities which pro-
duce traffic between one land and another, they
would induce the communication and allure the
intercourse which they render easy and assured.
So great, indeed, just 'at this instant, is the rush
towards Northern Russia (which is reached, of
course, with less expense than the opposite quar-
ter, now made so familar to millions by an expedi-
tion collected, in its civil and military composition,
from all the homes of France and England)—so
great is this rush that, for a while, certain com-
panies and capitalists among our all-undertaking
world of business contemplated establishing ex-
cursions to Russia. But even this age is unripe
for that as a paying speculation. Were it other-
wise, it were indeed an excursion worth making.
The change is inconceivable, and therefore the
mental shock or stimulus is complete. No very
great enlargement of the ideas—no very effective
rousing of the "dazed" and jaded faculties of the
individual, whom a stationary life and a monoto-
nous experience may have mesmerised into a species
of mechanical sleep-awake state—can be obtained
by journeying suddenly from the capital of a coun-
try to one of own towns a few hours distant,
presenting the same aspect in miniature, resound-
ing with the same speech, arranged, governed,
dressed, educated in the same manner ; nothing '
different except size,while language, liabi ts, customs,
looks, principles, in the smaller place are all pre-
cisely such as were left behind at the bigger. A
change of air, no doubt, is procured ; but the mind,
as well as the body, requires to change its atmo-
sphere
now and then.
Unluckily, the expense of a summer trip to Mos-
cow must remain considerable ; and the only
question in such a case is not what everybody would
like, or what would do anybody good—but what is
the state of one's purse. It is a very trifling mino-
rity who need not trouble themselves with that con-
sideration ; and knowing this, the traveller to
Moscow from England. or France, daring the last
week or two, cannot fail to have been struck with
the prodigious number; increasing as lie advanced,
who were hurrying to the same destination. The
approaching Coronation in the ancient capital of
Russia is the one great topic of conversation in
the steam-boat, on the railway, in the inn, along the
entire road or line from the German Ocean to the
frontiers of Poland. It is not only to be the most
splendid Coronation that ever occurred in Russia,
but the most splendid public ceremonial of any kind
ever held among a people singularly fond of spec-
tacles, and by a Government which unites in its
festivals the barbaric pcimp of Asia, and the skilful
taste of Europe, with the forms of the most gorgeous
church that has ever existed on earth, and the sub-
sidiary aids of military displays nowhere else exhi-
bited on so large a scale, or with such diversity of
costumes, uniforms, and equipments. All these
imposing elements are to be collected in a city
itself the most interesting in the empire, and the
link between the two oldest and greatest of conti-
nents ; where Asia, blazing in her jewels and her
gold, yet only just this side of the pathless
forest and of the sea-like steppe, emerges from
them to gaze upon Europe. No pains, no expense,
no circumstance of martial state, no engine of
religious excitement, is to lie spared by the Rus•
sian Government. But this is not all 1 The
embassies of foreign countries—and, above all, '
those of England and France—nay, the very mul-
titude of opulent private persons flocking in great
state to the scene will serve to render Alexander i
the Second's Coronation a subject of talk hereafter
among the Russian population, when old people
will relate that they witnessed it, "in the holy
mother-city of Russia," during the days of .their
childhood. Nor will the external magnificence and'
strangeness, which are undoubtedly destined to
characterise : this grand soleMnity, exhaust the
whole interest of it. it is to be the great "make-
up," not only after the late war, but after the inis 7
takes and cross-purposes of the last half century;
and over this " cloth of gold " Russia is to step
into the European circle, and take her place- puce
and for all as a valued, a pacific, a sincere member
of the general community. Finally, this Corona-
tion is not like the Great Exhibition, which would
remain long,' and might be visited at any time. On
the 'contrary, it will be soon over, and the like may
never be. seen again.
Such, very briefly, are some of the leading points:
which have occupied the. thoughts and tongues of
the travellers ono met, or overtook, or happened to
be overtaken by, while traversing the intervening
stages.. And one very commonly-expressed appre-
henaion ii&O, that Bicapw Would bo aci ovcrwhelua-

...
On Friday last Gen. Windham paid a visit to Bedale,
in the North Riding of Yorkshire, a town with which be
is.connected by marriage ties, his wife being the sister of
Mr. Henry Beresford Peirse, of Bedale.
On learning a short time since that". the hero of the
Redan" would 'Make a ternperarylitijourffat the town,
the inlvibitants decided oa giving thin a most hearty re-
ception, and a handsome subscription was raised for the
pu'rpose of carryitik out their arrangements. The Prepa-
.ratiofis were conducted with great spirit, and on the day
named the town presented' a very gay appearance, nut a
house scarcely being without its flags and banners, with
appropriate inscriptions. Triumphal arches were erected
at various points, and a tent was pitched in the market-
place capable of dining 600 persons.
General and Mrs. Windham arrived by special train
shortly after 11 o'clock, and were received at the railway
station by most of the nobility, gentry, and clergy of the
town, and neighbourhood, and amongst the number was
Captain Swir ~ the general'. aide-de-camp, •who, it a 1:1
be remembered, was severely wounded in the attack oa
the Redan. The station was decorated with flags an I
evergreens, and on itsphatform were arrang-d the hands
v,
,rus, I 1„. 1.,
~, ~,,,. , 0 J.v.. 4 41, 41rimmigart ,- 1_
fa.., 1,-.... ri lobular:ad, who. 9. en T.01).1-fig from the carriag-, struck up " See the conquering It. r )
tames." The guest of the day and Mrs. Witidharn were
enthesiastic illy cheered, and were drawn Into the town
in an ok.o carriage by the men. 4 1)4 form was erected. at the market-cress, which was fl led with ladies, and
from ttlis place Mr. M. Milbank, of Thorpe Perrow,
read an appropriate address to General Windham,
who briefly replied. The carriage was.- then drawn
to Mr. Peinea hall, and in about two ' hours after-
wards a numerous party from the ball proceeded to the
tent already referi.ed to. About 250.1adiet and gentle-
men partook of a cold collation, and nearly 400 heads of
families were gratuitously provided- at' the same time
r
with a hot dinner, Mr. Milbank occupied the chair,
and after grace proposed the usual loyal toasts. Lord
Bolton then gave, "Our brave allies ;" and,Lord Green-
ock (nephew of the late gallant s.ir George Cathcart)
followed with "The army and navy." This 't,a-t was
acknowledged by Admiral Wyvill, and Col. Wade, of
the North York Rifles. The Chairrryin then 'proposed
"The health of General Windham," in doing
which he
briefly noticed some of the events of the late war in which
the gallant general had been concerned. Tap 'toast was
drunk with enthusiiistic cheers, which were renewed
when the general rose for the purpose of responding.
In the course of his remarks he said he -took no great
credit to himself in what he bad done at the Redan,
though he had been called its-hero. He pointed to
Captain Swire as _haying done more ; for the latter bad
passed thrice through the fire, and fed w ,undo', while
he only passed through it once. -.At the close of his speech
three hearty cheers were given for Captain S wire. Lord
Teignrnouth next proposed "The .fallen heroes of the
late war," and deprecated the calumnioUs attacks
which bad been made on Lord Raglan and others by
a portion of the press. "The health of Mrs. Windham"
was next proposed by the Rev. J. 'J. T. Monson,
rector of Bedale. "The Committee," proposed by Iris-
countGal way, nextfollowed;after which Mr.. Wri,gh teen,
M.P. for Northallerton, gave ".Propo'ri:y to the town
of Bedale." Mr. B."Peirse concluded .the. toast list by
proposing the chairman's health._ .In, the ,akernoon up-
wards of GOO of the fair sex sat, down to teaiit the tent,
and the day's proceedings wereAcrminated-by a display
of fireworks and a ball.

L00.4L ARE MAR KET 3.

LIVERPOOL, AUGUST n.

3Toox ExcnANor.—Tho market to-day has not been
brisk, and there is no change to note in prices. The foil
lowing are the transactions :—North Union B; 168 —Sonti
Eastern, 22A I—London and North Westerns, 1074—
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 974—Shot:fields, 311 3 —Quebec
and Richmond. 25 ? Lancashire Insnrance, s p.—Great
Western of Canada, now, 21 p.--Mar,netie Telegraph,
45 ex d.

lIANCEESTER, AUGUST 12.-
STOCZ EXCRANGE.---Thi. market 'was quiet to-day,
and transactions wore at rather lower rates. Midlands,
St 3i—Eastern Counties. 10—Shoffields, 841. 31— Groat
Western, 64f— South Eastern and foyers, 22 3 16—
London Stock,...lo7i—East Lancashire, 213—Leeds, 97g.

_
BBIKINGIIA2I, AITGiJST 12.
STOCK EXOdANOIC.—The market was not,doing much
business to-day,
.but pricss were well supported. Great
Western Birmingham Pref., 101—London and North
Westerns, 107 :'—South Staffords, 24. dis.—North Staf-
fords, 0 dis.-2 Shropshire Unions, 49j—Crystal Palace
Shares, 2,i.