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London, England, 1856-08-06 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND OUTII-EASTERA RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Aug. 2, 1856 £25,871 7 2
Corresponding week last year 21,765 11 1

Increase in 1856 ............... 1'1,105 16 1
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND S9IITII COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 2,
1856 ................................................... £23,207 18 5
Corresponding week last year 22,190 16 4
Total of tho half-year to this date, 1856 93,014 5 1
Total of tho half-year to this date,lßss

GLASGOW AND bOIITH-WESTERN RAILWAY.--Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Ang. 2,1856 ... ,X 7,332 5 1
Corre3poncling week last yeat 6,526 16 5

Increase in 1856 £Bos 8 S

GREAT LUXEMBOURG RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
wet,ii Mtn Aug, 38 an, milimpt ~,,,,,,,,,,,, ,549i2 1 3

(Prom the Berlin Correspondent of the Times.)
BERLIN, AUG. 1.
In all probability the ceremonial to be observed
at the approaching coronation of the Emperor of
Russia will be assimilated as closely as possible to
that which was observed at the coronation of his
father, the late Emperor. The following account of
the latter will, perhaps, serve in anticipation to
give some idea of what the forms and ceremonies
will be at the coming coronation. The day even on
which the Imperial manifesto was issued announcing
the period of the coronation has been the same in
this case as in that of the late Emperor, exactly 30
years ago—viz., May the 3d, in consequence of
which the committee came together at once, for the
arrangement of the details. It is characteristic of
the state of the country that in each case the
first subject that pressed upon attention was the
means of locomotion for the increased traffic and
the increased numbers to be expected ; and
though, this time, the existence of the railroad to
Moscow relieves the committee of one of its most
onerous tasks, there remains the line from Warsaw
to Moscow to be cared for. The number of horses
spoken of as having been provided for the traffic
on this road on the former occasion is 800 at each
post station.
The Emperor will repair, on August the 20th,
to the Petrowski Palace, near Moscow, whence
he will make his solemn entry into the ancient
capital on the 22d, and the coronation itself will
take place on the 31st. The ceremony connected
with this solemn entry is the observance, on the
grandest scale, of the custom which prevails
throughout the country of presenting the guest
just arrived with bread and salt as a token of hos-
pitality extended towards him—this custom is
called Chleb-sob, which signifies simply bread and
salt. On this occasion of the Emperor's solemn
entry into Moscow, the Chleb-sob will be presented
to him on golden dishes by deputations of the
nobility and citizens, drawn up on the open space
in front of the Uspenski-Sobor, or Ascension Cathe-
dral of the Kremlin, immediately after he leaves
the cathedral and is about to enter his own palace.
At his first entrance into the fore-court of the
cathedral he is received by the entire body of the
clergy, the cross is held out to him to kiss, and he
is then introduced into the building ; the first ob-
ject to which he directs his attention and special
reverence are two pictures, the one a very ancient
picture of the Saviour, and the other representing
the blessed Virgin of Vladimir, said to be the work
of the Apostle and Evangelist St. Luke ; the reli-
gious service consists only of a short private prayer,
after which the Emperor leaves the cathedral for
his own palace.
The day of the coronation is proclaimed a few
days previously by two heralds attired in the pic-
turesque costume of the Court of the ancient Czars;
they proceed from the Kremlin and ride through
the streets of Moscow, accompanied by the High
Master of the Ceremonies in Ordinary, all in full
dress, with a number of trumpeters and two squa-
drons of cavalry of the Guards. Where any two
streets cross the proclamation is read aloud, and
printed copies of it are distributed among the peo-
ple, who stand there grouped in numerous crowds,
or eagerly follow the cavalcade, and join their
sweet voices with the braying of the trumpets.
On the eve of the coronation a special Divine
service is performed in all the 293 churches of the
city, while the bells of all are struck continuously ;
those who cannot at the moment obtain entrance
into the church wait patiently and reverentially •
with uncovered heads outside, until an opportu-
nity offers for their admission, so that, however late
it may be, they may join in the prayers for a pros-
perous reign and for a blessing on the Imperial
couple. The Emperor and Empress themselves
attend Divine service, together with the Imperial
family, in the Saviour Church, which is the church
that, properly speaking, belongs to the Palace ; it
is also called by the people solotaja reschotka—the
golden gate. At this time also the coronation in-
signia are brought into the grand audience saloon
of the palace, and guard held over them there till
they are used next day ; they consist of the chain
of the Order of St. Andrew • the banner of the Em-
pire, the Imperial Signet, the Sword of State, the
Empress's mantle, the Emperor's mantle, the orb,
the sceptre, and the smaller and the greater Impe-
rial crowns.
On the morning of the day of the coronation 21
guns give the signal to the troops to march, in part
into the Kremlin itself, in part to occupy the ap-
proaches to it ; 6,000 persons ar&admitted to places
inside the cathedral, and their admission com-
mences with early dawn. The common people, the
tschormei narod, literally black people, as we should
say the great unwashed, are permitted to approach
and surround the cathedral, but are not so placed
that they can see anything of what goes on in-
side. If all takes place on this approaching occa-
sion as it was on the last the Empress Mother will
precede the Imperial procession by a few minutes.
She will walk beneath a canopy, supported on 12
staves, wearing an Imperial mantle, embroidered
with double eagles. She will be surrounded and
followed by pages, chamberlains, ladies in wait-
ing, &c., and be conducted by the clergy into the
cathedral. The procession of the Emperor is opened
by garden du, corps, pages, officers of the Court,
deputations from the provincial nobility, heralds,
&c. The Emperor himself appears in full General's '
uniform, and walks in front of the canopy which is
borne over the Empress by 16 lieutenant-generals,
16 major-generals holding the cords. The Emperor
is surrouned by his sons and his brothers. The
troops present as the Imperial procession passes
between their ranks, and the highest dignitaries of
the church receive them at the door of the cathedral,
the Metropolitan of Novogorod reaches them the
cross to kiss, the Metropolitan of Kioff, bearing
an aspersorium, besprinkles with holy water the
ground they are about to tread ou, and the Metro-
politan of Moscow receives them with an address.
At the moment of the Imperial couple passing the
threshold the choir commence the musical portion
of the solemnity. The cathedral, which was built
by a Greek architect in the 15th century, is very
lofty in proportion to its extent ; its vaulted roof
is supported by four immense columns, which are
decorated with fresco paintings of saints the size of
life, and with pictures of others attached to the
masonry. The walls themselves contain more than
200 figures of saints and scenes from sacred history
painted in fresco, so that, on ordinary occasions, the
affect of these masses of colour, of gold and silver,
is very imposing. The high altar, called Icono-
stass, consists of a screen which divides the sanc-
tum from the rest of the building, and extends up
to the roof ; on it there aro pictures of saints, pro-
fusely gilded on five different fields.
In addition to the two pictures mentioned above,
the cathedral contains another article of some
arch seological interest—viz., the ancient chair of the
Czars. On the occasion of the coronation, how-
ever, three other seats of historical interest will be
user. That for the Empress Mother will be the
oldest of them—a stool presented by Shah Abbas
of Persia to the Czar Boris Godanoff in the year
1605. It is so covered with gold in sheets as to
appear to be of massive gold, and it is, moreover,
richly decorated with pearls and precious stones ;
it has no back to it, and it has all the appearance
of an ancient stool. The second seat, destined for
the reigning Empress, is called the Golden Throne,
and is in form of a high-backed armchair ; it is
decorated with no less than 1,500 rubies, 8,000
turquoises, two large topazes, and four therare ame-
thysts. This costly seat dates from _
grand-
father g -
father of Peter the Great, Czar Michael Feodoro-
witsch. The third, which is,
properly speaking,
is popularly the Emperor's throne, called the
Diamond Throne. It is richly decorted with pearls
and precious stones, and was presented to the Czar
Alexis Michaelowitsch, father of Peter the Great,
in 1660. On the back of the chair is the following
inscription :
"For the powerful and most invincible Alexis, Em-
peror of the Muscovites, that reigns prosperously on
earth. May this throne, which is built with the greatest
art and most refined skill, be a pledge to him of heavenly
and earthly bliss."
The latter two are placed side by side on an es-
trade opposite the Iconostass, with steps covered
with velvet leading down to it. The stool on which
the Empress Mother sits is placed against one of
the columns, a little to the side, and opposite to it
is the table on which the coronation insignia aro
laid in preparation for the ceremony. At the last
coronation Count Orloff, who at that time com-
manded a regiment of Cuirassiers that had been
arranged expressly for the occasion, had a place
assigned him between the seats of the Imperial
couple, where he stood during the service with his
sword drawn, as if holding a guard over them ;
this post of rare distinction the Emperor had as-
signed to him for the part ho had taken in putting
down the then recent insurrection of the niilitiry.
The ceremony itself consists of coronation and
anointment. After an address has been delivered
by the highest clerical person present, and a cer-
taaA Litany has been said or King, with all due r.e.

sponses, the Emperor seated on his throne orders
the Apostles' Creed to be handed to him, and hav-
ing read it audibly to the end he then proceeds, ac-
companied by the prayers and psalms of the clergy,
to indue himself with the insignia of the Imperial
power; The three highest metropolitans present
fetch the Emperor's mantle from the table men-
tioned above, and with the assistance of certain
members of his household, put it round him with
the words, "In the name of the Father, of the
Son, and the Holy Ghost." At the Emperor's
command the President of the Imperial Council
then brings him the crown. The Emperor then
i sets t himself on his own head, on which the Me-
tropolitan of Moscow addresses him in the follow-
ing form, which has remained unchanged at all the
Russian coronations :

"Most pious, most mighty, and great Emperor
of All the Russias,—This visible and palpable orna-
ment which now adorns thy head is the symbol of
the mysterious act by which Jesus Christ, the
King of glory, crowns thee at this moment to be
the supreme head of the entire Russian people, and
confirms thee by His holy blessing in thy most high
and unbounded power over thy subjects."
After the sceptre and the orb have been duly
handed to the Emperor, accompanied by an appro-
priate address from the Metropolitan of Moscow,
the Emperor seats himself in his full robes on his
throne, his coronation is completed, and the choir
sings, "Domine, salvum fac Imperatorem!" As soon
as this is at an end the Emperor proceeds to crown
the Empress, who approaches and stands before his
throne, he lays aside his sceptre and orb, and taking
his crown off his head he holds it a few seconds over
hers, and then resumes it himself ; the smaller
crown is then brought and is fastened on the Em-
press's head by her ladies, and at the same time she
is invested with the Imperial mantle and the collar
of the Order of St. Andrew. As soon as she has
resumed her seat on her throne the choir com-
mences singing " Domine, salvam fac Imperatri-
cem," all the bells are struck and. a salvo of 101
guns is fired.
During the music and the salute the Empress
Mother first (if she is present) approaches the Im-
perial couple and congratulates them ; she is fol-
lowed in this by the other members of the Imperial
family, and at the same time the clergy, the high-
est military officers, the corps diplomatique, and
all present give three cheers. Salvum fac Impera-
toren?, follows then and is succeeded by the Russian
hymn, Mucgaja Geta (" Give many long years"),
J.7.,c. When the congratulations are at au end the
Emperor reads aloud a long prayer from a missal
that is handed to him, after which all present
kneel down and repeat a prayer after one of the
deacons ; and this forms the conclusion of the
coronation, properly so called, and the anointment
then begins.
This is commenced by a Te Deum. The Emperor
removes the clown from his head, lays aside the
orb and sceptre, and kisses the Gospels, which are
handed to him. A crimson carpet with gold border
is now laid from between the two Imperial seats
down the steps under and behind the screen, or
iconostass, into the sanctum, and on the scarlet
carpet a somewhat narrower one of cloth of gold.
As soon as the carpets are laid the doors of the
screen open, and the metropolitans, in their mitres,
appear at them, and a procession forms itself from
the thrones to the screen ; the high officers who had
brought the insignia in procession to the cathedral
bear them now again, but walk on the crimson
margin left of the carpet ; the Emperor and Em-
press alone walk on the cloth of gold. On arriving
at the screen every one steps aside, and the Em-
peror alone is left in the doorway, when the
Metropolitan of Novogorod, who holds the vase
with the Chrysam, dips a golden twig in the
holy oil and anoints the Emperor on the
forehead, the eyelids, the nostrils, the lips,
the ears, and the breast. While so doing he
utter the words, Impressio Boni Spiritds Sancti,
and when he has concluded the Metropolitan of
Kieff wipes off the balsam with a napkin, The
Empress is also anointed, but only on the. forehead,
and the Metropolitan of Moscow officiates with the
napkin. While this anointment is going on all the
bells are struck again continuously, and another
series of 101 guns is fired.
The three above-mentioned metropolitans now
conduct the anointed Emperor through the doers I
of the screen into the sanctum and place him before
the altar ; the train of his mantle is now borne by
the metropolitans, as no layman is permitted to
enter. The Emperor now receives both elements of
the Lord's Supper at the hands of the Metropolitan
of Novogorod, another privilege that is accorded
only to the Emperor. The Empress in the mean-
time stands outside at the open door, where the
sacrament is administered to her, but not with the
actual elements, but simply in the symbolical man-
ner indicated iu the mass. This latter part is the
most impressive portion of the ceremony ; a per-
fect silence reigns throughout the vast cathedral,
broken only by the low muttering of the metropo-
litans engaged around the sanctum, and shut out
from the sight of the congregation ; outside, how-
ever, the bells are clanging loudly, and the win-
dows of the cathedral rattle with the report of the
artillery. And when these bells are struck for the
second time the crowd outside know that the
Eucharist is being administered to their Emperor,
and every word and gesture is stilled, and during
the time of bells sounding and the cannon firing
all assembled engage in prayer. When the cere-
mony of the anointment is over the Imperial
couple return to their thrones, resume their in-
signia, and the Emperor and Empress leave the
cathedral by the northern gate, which leads to
the graves of the bygone Czars. The Empress
Mother and all the rest of the participators in
the ceremony now leave the cathedral by
the door at which they had entered, and repair
to the Palace, where they await the return of the
Emperor and Empress, who in the meantime per-
form their devotions at the graves, and thence pro-
ceed to the Cathedral of the Annunciation. Here

they are again received by the clergy, and again
consecrated : the three churches lie very near to
each other, and the Emperor and Empress pass
from one to another in the same order as in the
procession to the first cathedral, with the sole dif-
ference that the Emperor is now invested with all
his insignia. From the last of the three churches
the procession moves to the Granite Palace over
the portentous "Red Steps ;" on passing these
steps a third series of 101 guns proclaims that tbo
coronation is over. At this Granite Palace the
Emperor shows himself to the multitude from a
balcony, and then proceeds to the coronation ban-
quet, which from time immemorial has been held
in a large saloon, the ceiling of which is support©d
by a single column ; around this column all the
silver vessels of the former Czars are arranged, and
special thrones erected for the Emperor, Empress,
and Empress Mother. The whole corps diplomatique,
and but few persons besides, are privileged to be
present at this banquet. Before the festival com-
mences the Foreign Ministers are presented, and
offer their congratulations, and the medals which
commemorate the coronation are distributed. All
the high officers of the Court, the High Steward,
&c., enter upon their functions when the Emperor
seats himself at the banquet ; the dishes are brought
in under escort of officers of the Chevalier Guard
with drawn sabres, and are presented to the Em-
peror by the proper officers on their knees. As
soon as the Emperor asks to drink for the first time
the corps cliplomatiptc takes its departure, and
those only who are so highly privileged seat them-
selves to partake of the banquet. The members of
the Imperial family and the foreign Princes present
are seated in a neighbouring apartment.
Illuminations, fireworks, balls, masquerades, and
amusements for the people close the day.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day.—August
5.
Admissions on payment, 11,725 ; do. by season tickets,
554. Total visitors, 12,279.
FATAL ACCIDENTS IN TIIE SERPENTINE.—Yesterday
morning Mr. Joseph Jones, a grocer of Great Peter street,
Westminster, proceeded with his brother to the Serpen-
tine for the purpose of bathing, and having swam across
the river nearly facing the ranger's boat-house, he was in
the act of returning, when he sank. A cry was instantly
raised, and the Royal Humane Society's men, under the
direction of Mr. Superintendent Williams, after the lapse
of about a quarter of an hour, succeeded in getting the
' unfortunate man out and conveying him to the receiving-
house. Everything was there done for him by Mr. Lattie,
surgeon, who was passing at the time, and also by the so-
ciety's men, but without effect. On Saturday night a fatal
accident occurred on the same river to a man named
Daniel Foy, a marble-polisher, who resided in the neigh-
bourhood of the Regent's-park. Deceased got into the
water after the Royal Human© Society's boats had been
withdrawn, and was noticed by some of those on the
banks to sink. The society's men were called, but nearly
half an hour elapsed before the poor fellow could be res-
cued. He was then taken to the Receiving-house, where
Dr. Christian attended, but life was gone. Both bodies
have been removed to the parish dead-house to await the
inquest,. which will be hell* this day (Wednesday). Ow-
ing to the great danger to persons bathing in the Ser-
pentine from the north side, Mr. Charlier, the secretary,
has communicated with the Board of Works and Sir R.
Mayne, and the police and park-keepers have received
orders to prevent any one from entering the water on
• that yid@ of tho Serpentine.

The project of a ship canal through the Isthmus
of Suez; if carried into execution, will be produc-
tive of results of the highest importance, not only
to the commerce of the country but to that of all
Europe ; and we propose, therefore, to lay before
the public such data as may enable them to form a
clear conception, not only of the mode in which it
is proposed to carry it out, but also of the steps
which have been taken towards its realisation.
The importance of such a route to the Indian
Ocean did not escape the penetrating mind of the
first Napoleon. During the campaign in Egypt,
he took the opportunity of examining the remains
of the canal from Suez to the Nile, attributed to
the Pharaohs, through its whole length, and
charged a commission, at the head of which was
M. Lepere, with the duty of surveying and of re-
porting on the feasibility of restoring the ancient
channel, or of constructing a new one. The com-
mission pronounced in favour of the former plan,
objecting to a more direct route between the two
seas, on the ground that the level of the Red Sea
was about ten yards higher than that of the Medi-
terranean, according to the imperfect levellings
which had been taken during the survey. The
evacuation of Egypt of course put an end to this
project, and it was not until the reign of Mehemet
Ali that the scheme was seriously revived. But
the shrewd old Paella, was averse to any plan which
should, while connecting the Nile with the Red
Sea, open a waterway through the heart of his
territories for the ships of Europe ; and the ge-
neral belief in the difference of the levels of the
two seas, although strongly combated by Laplace,
was a serious obstacle to the consideration of the
more direct route. In 1841, however, some English
officers confirmed the discovery previously made
by Major Chesney, that the levels of the two seas
were nearly identical, and a sort of company was
formed, including Linant Bey, a French engineer
in the service of the Viceroy, for the purpose of
perfecting the plans and surveys for a direct canal.
In 1847, A!. P. Talabot, one of the members of this
association, published the result of their operations,
establishing among other things that, save in their
tidal differences, the levels of the Red Sea and the
Mediterranean were alike. From that date the pro-
ject has been mooted with greater activity, and in
various forms.

M. Talabot suggested a canal starting from Alex-
andria and passing down the western side of the
Nile, which it crossed a little above Cairo, near th•
barrage ; thence, running north-east, it traversed
the Wady Toomilat, taking the general direction of
the canal of Trajan, and, passing through the Bitter
Lakes, debouched at Suez. A second plan, that of
Messrs. Barrault, also took Alexandria as its start-
ing point. Leaving that city by the eastern side,
or old port, it ran through the chain of lakes which
lie on the northern shore of the Delta, turning to
the south-east, near Damietta, and so through the
lakes Menzaleh, Ballah, Timsah, and the Bitter
Lakes to Suez. With this scheme was connected a
system of smaller canals for irrigation and local
traffic, intersecting the country in various directions.
A third plan, and that which appears to be the only
one that has any chance of being carried into effect,
is that for which a firnian has been obtained by
Monsieur F. Lesseps, and which is based on the
surveys of Linant Bey and Mongel Bey, and which
have been recently reported on by a commission of
engineers !from the principal States of Europe.
The line of Monsieur Lesseps runs from Suez,
through the Bitter Lakes and Lake Timsah, to the
Bay of Tineh, the site of ancient Pelusium. The
main objections to this line are the alleged defec-
tive conditions offered by the termini, as to facili-
ties for constructing the necessary harbours, and
the difficulty of establishing such channels there as
should not rapidly silt up, and become obliterated
or dangerous.

The northern mouth of the proposed canal opens
in the Gulf of Pelusium, which is bordered, accord-
ing to the report of the commission, by a belt of
fine sand, over which the sea breaks at some points
in heavy weather, and the bottom consists of a
similar sand, deepening gradually until the sound-
ings reach 30 feet, when the mud bottom of this
portion of the Mediterranean commences. It is
added that this belt of sand has evidently remained
unchanged as to form cr situation for ages. The
water shoals most rapidly about Tannis, where a
depth of 24 feet is reached at about 2,300 yards
from the shore, and this form of bottom continuo;
westward, with little variation, to Damietta. East-
ward, towards Pelusium, the increase of depth is
much less rapid, the soundings of 24 feet not be-
ing reached until about 7,500 yards from shore,
clearly pointing out Tannis as the locality for the
northern terminus of the canal. The commission
arrived at the conclusion that there is no danger of
silting up froin the sand or mud carried down by
the Nile, there being no trace of any change in the
present form of bottom forages, but some risk evi-
dently exists from the lateral motion of the sand
parallel to the coast, in heavy storms, and to ob-
viate this it would be necessary to run out two jet-
ties to the point where the sand ceases and the mud
begins. Their direction would be from N.W. to
S.E., leaving between them a channel 400 yards
wide, the northern jetty extending seaward 3,000
yards, the southern to the region of mud. They
would be constructed with stone brought from the
quarries on the shores of Syria, or from Cyprus,
Rhodes, or Scarpanto.
The southern terminus, that of Suez, appears to
offer no serious difficulties. The soundings vary
from five to thirteen yards, with a tenacious
muddy bottom, offering so good a holding ground
that the Zenobia, the coal depot, has been at
anchor in one of the most exposed parts of
the roadstead during three years, without the
slightest injury to her anchors or cables. The
two jetties at this spot would bo of 1,600 and
1,200 yards in length respectively, to reach the
required depth of 24 feet water. The mud bottom
of this harbour appears also to have suffered little
or no change for a long period. The opening of
the canal might nevertheless alter that important
condition, but the commissioners appeared to have
no apprehensions on that point ; and the accounts
of vast masses of mud held in suspension by the
waters on the Pelusiac shore, as well as the reported
insalubrity of the locality, they declare, from per-
sonal examination, to be chimerical.
The Ship Canal would be about 72 miles in
length, varying in width from 100 to 130 yare.ts,
and about 24 feet in depth. At either end would
be harbours, and an inland port would be created
at Lake Timsah, where would also be the mouth of
a fresh-water canal from the Nile, near Cairo,
through the Wady Toomilat, adapted not only for
irrigation, but for internal traffic.

The sum named in the prospectus for carrying
out this vast undertaking, including the payment
of interest on the capital during construction, is
8,000,0001., the term allowed for the completion of
the works being six years from the date of the fir-
man, Jan. 1, 1856. It has been objected that a
canal from Tannis to Suez would annihilate the

trade of Alexandria, which would thenceforward
be useless except as a military port; but it is doubt .
ful whether any important difference would be fe'At
except as regards the overland trade to India. T Ate
direct traffic between Alexandria and Cairo wo
probably remain in its present state, as the route
by the new channel would be both longer and ruore
expensive. As regards our own country, it is
stated that it would not only create a serious, com-
mercial rivalry between us and the nations border-
ing on the Mediterranean as regards our Indian
trade, but that it would also exposa our pos-
sessions there to a coup de main ou the part
of France. We attach little weight to the lat-
ter peril. It would require very considerable.
preparations in the Mediterranean ports, which
could neither be carried on secretly nor with
such rapidity as to prevent England from adopting
the necessary precautions ; and it is, moreover,
an
essential part of the proposed undertaking that it
shall be a strictly neutral canal—on the same foot-
ing, in fact, as the Dardanelles.
Doubtless the nations of Southern Europe would
largely profit by the facilities thus afforded them for
entering into active trade with the East; but we
have that faith in the energy and enterprise of our
own merchants, and in the advantages we possess
from their vast capital and admirable commercial
organisation, that we have little fear of any serious
injury being inflicted on our own trade, while that
of India would undoubtedly.. be largely benefitted
by the important facilities for communication with
every part of Europe which would be secured by
the completion of the Canal of the Isthmus of
Suez.—Morning Paper.

A GALLANT SOLDIER.—We gave in our last number
an extract from the speech of Lieut.-General Sir Harry
Smith, on the occasion of his presenting new colours to
the 25th Regiment at Manchester. In the instances he
gave of the gallantry displayed by soldiers in defending
regimental colours he referred to a late sergeant of the
63d Regiment at Inkerman ; but as he called the gallant
fellow by a wrong name, and also incorrectly stated the
reward he had attained, we are induced to refer to the
matter to correct the error into which the gallant'general
or his reporter fell. It was Sergeant Brophey, of the
63d, who, when the officer carrying the regimental Co-
lour was knocked down, seized it and rushed forward,
followed by the men. They were unsuccessful in the
attempted repulse, and the sergeant, while holding the
colour, was wounded. The regiment had to retreat, but
though left lying on the field he stuck to the colour, hid
it for a time in the heather,. and lay on it at night ; and
when. the regiment; by a !link movement, regained its
position, Sergeant Brophey was found bleeding and weak,
with the colour in his possession. His bravery was not
overlooked ; he was appointed lieutenant and paymaster
of the 3d Lancashire Militia, and afterwards one of the
yeomen of her Majesty's Guard. He left Preston for
Windsor this week, to discharge the duties of the lattor
oflea,—Preston Chronicle.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. Buckstons,

THIS EVENING,
MATCH MAKING.

After which
SECOND LOVE.

Followed by
THE CAPTIYF•

After which
A FASCINATING INDIVIDUAL.
To cowhide with

THE SPANI:.II SF.RJEANT.

ROYAL THEATRE ADELPIII.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Directress, Madame Celeek.
THIS EVENI/fO,

PAUL PRT.
Followed by
OUR GAL.

To conclude with
BORN TO GOOD LUCK.

BOY 4.L PRMICE,ATF, THEATRE, OX FOR D-3T RE ET.
Under the Nfanagement tee. CusaLze lEsAtt.
For the Benett of 3fiss Carlotta Leclerq.
THi ; EvKNIN't

MUSIC H I.TH CHARMS.

After which,
THE WINTER'S TALE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee ant Manner, Mr. Alfred Wigan.

THIS EVENING
Tar. GREEN-EYED NIONSTER.

After which.
M E D E A.
To nclude with
THE WELSH GIRL,

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPEIITHRATRE.
Lessee and Maurer, gr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENrs.TG ,
(First week) Shakespere's Trazedv of KT"TfI WTI ART) TH
THIRD ; or, the nettle of Posworti Feld. compressed into 3 acts
Mr. W. Cooke's snlendi I stud of horses effectively intro tuned. Grand
striking, and indescribable tableau of the Battle of Bosworth Field.
A er which,
The SCENES in the CIRCLE, and a variety of select entertain.
meats.
Box-office open tram Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
West. Rquestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke. Inn.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRID4
THIS DAT—Morn. 7 min. aft. 4—Evening 22 rain. aft. 5
To-Mounow-3f0rn.38 min. aft. s—Evening 55 min. aft.

TFLE WEATHEft—JUN OFFICE, AUGUST 6.
THERMOMSTER, IN TRIC SHAD&
77—!iighest singe noon yesterday.
57 —lowest this morning and dnrinQ the night.
71—this day at noon.

BA tom rrrn— 30 25.
WIND, Easterly.—Light, with fine weather.

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minish the power of the EMPEROR, and England
suffers herself to be hoodwinked and bamboozled
by the interested parties. Regarding themselves
safe under any circumstances, they are prepared
to go to the full extent of their tether, convinced
that, in any event or at any moment, a trivial
concession, and the temporary abandonment of
anticipated booty, will be the utmost they have to
dread.

Besides, the old Muscovite party is to be conci-
liated, at any risk, previous to the coronation.
That can only be effected by showing that Russia
is still bent on aggression, whenever and wherever
practicable—that she still clings with reckless
pertinacity to her ambitious scheme of universal
empire, and to the speedy annexation of Byzan-
tium, and the wielding of the sceptre of CONSTAN-
TINE by a Russian Potentate. This was the
objectjhat was so long looked forward to by the
Muscovite party, and which led to the aggression
by the late CZAR, whichterminated so disastrously for
himself and his people. The demonstrations at
Kars, Ismail, Reni, and the Isle of Serpents, as
well as the quibbles raised respecting the adjust-
ment of the new boundary with Moldavia, are
all matters tending to the same point, and which
should be carefully looked to by the other parties
to "the precious Treaty."

The treatment experienced by the poor Wal•
pole Islanders at the hands of the " smart'
speculator who brought them over for exhibition
to this country calls for something more than a
general expression of disgust, and the payment
of their passage homeward by means of the
charity of the benevolent.
If by any possibility the offender can be made
amenable to justice by outraged humanity he
ought to be so for the sake of example. Grievous
as his offence is, he is not alone in his misdoing ;
and but too many, there is reason to believe,
exist fully prepared to tread in his footsteps.
The spirit of speculation, perverted from its
egitimate aim, is but too rampant among us ;
but great as is the cruelty to which it has given
rise, other motives, and among a class from which
more might have been expected, have led to a
similar result. It is but the other day we read
)f a lady who brought over from India a woman
of the country, in the capacity of an Ayah, and
left her without the slightest scruple to make her
way as best she could, in a strange land,
in utter ignorance of the address of her victimiser.
And if the public call to recollection the pro-
ceedings ..
of our police courts, how frequently roust.
the plaints of the poor Laecar, set adrift by his
`leartless emplOyer, raise the indignant blush to the
cheek ? Unfortunately, in none of these instances
has the justice of the case been satisfied, and we
have but little hope of the victimisation of the
miserable Walpole Islanders being avenged by

any process of law.
This, assuredly, is not as it ought to be. The
honour of the country is, in point of fact, deeply
concerned that such offences should not be com-
mitted with impunity. Whatever may have been
the condition of these unfortunate beings in their
own country, that country was their home, and
to tempt them from it, by whatever means, and
then, when their services have no real or prospec-
tive value, to leave them to struggle, homeless,
homeless, and foodless, among strangers ignorant
..f their language, and incapable of understanding
anything but their mute appeals, is to be guilty of
an atrocity as great as that of the trader in human
flesh. In one respect even greater, for the slave
dealer transfers the captured African to a master,
whose interest it is to give him food and shelter,
and take such further care of him as is necessary
fur the preservation of his life. True in the case
i.O which we have referred the charity of the
metropolitan public has stept in and delivered the
poor creatures from the miseries of their position,
but this result cannot be admitted as a plea by
way of extenuation of the offence. So far as the
intention of these betrayers of their fellow-crea-
tures is concerned the presumption must he for
he worst, or, if a distinction is to be made, it
certainly should not be in favour of the heartless
betrayer of the helPlesi /Vali. The guilt in-
volved in her conduct makes one shudder.
Such an amendment of the law is wanted as
will suffice to protect these poor creatures in
the first instance alike from the speculator in
exhibitions, the unscrupulous shipowner, and the
heartless lady of fashion. The former-L.-say--
should be required to deposit in the hands of
some public officer an amount equal to that re-
quired for the return of his " monsters" to the
place of their nativity, before he is permitted to
offer them for exhibition. This, if it can be
'lone, while it would insure more discretion in
,he choice of objects on the part of the specula-
oor, would infallibly put a stop to the evil of
which we complain. The shipowner or the cap-
tain of his vessel should be required to make a
similar deposit in India, and if the same measure
be inapplicable in the third case—the return of the
poor Ayah at the expense or by the instrumen-
edity of the employer who brought her over
should be provided for by the enac .ment of a severe
pecuniary penalty, to be exacted in cases of proved
neglect, and applied in part to the payment of
he required passage. When the victim has been
turned adrift without the address of her or his
victimiser, imprisonment with hard labour should
be added. These suggestions, it is hardly neces-
sary to say, are thrown out from no desire to
be regarded as a reformer of our penal laws, but
from an anxiety to have removed a reproach to
the entire nation—a system of cruelty which
throws us back in appearance at least a couple of
centuries. If any better means can be devised
the sooner they are lot:the-Oren; the better.

Whoever enjoys the country, an Editor must
keep at his post. " Too hot to read a nem:-
mar," writes a correspondent from Paris ; he
will not, however, excuse us from providing him
one ; it must never be too hot to write, and,
worse than writing, to think—no, not when
FAHRENHEIT'S reaches 90 deg. in the shade.
Brains, pens, types, steam-presses, and all the
flesh-and-blood ministering attendants to the
Daily Journal, must stick to it, even when some
atmospheric dislocation, or convulsion as geolo-
gists would say, brings the tropics to the tempe-
rate zone.
country was Some geologists do tell us that our
once a Spice Island, and well do we
know that
fie have lived in the climate of the
Spice Islands this week. A breeze, too, there has
been ; and it has blown from almost every quarter,
but somehow has brought heat on its wings. It
has probably been an Angel of Mercy, to save us
from Cholera and Typhus ; and right glad have
',ve been to meet it, especially if we could escape
the relentless Sun at the same time. But
though it gave us change of air it would
not give us change of temperature.
.Her
MAJESTY and nearly all her servants early
took the alarm, and, with her Lords and
faithful Commons, have turned their backs
on the metropolis, and left u. 3 broiling in
rooms little better than huge ovens, or gasping;
along between rows of houses, in what may be
more fitly called fines than streets.
Yet wilatporato# axaAlt 144

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