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

DIED.

On the Gth inst., at 4, Camden-street, Camden•towns
Robert Johnston, Esq., of the Stock Exchange, aged 74.
On the 6th inat., the Rev. Thomas Sweet Escott, vicar
of Gedney, aged 55.
On the Gth inst., at g, Cleveland-row, Islington, the
Rev. William Groser, for 45 years minister of the Baptist
denomination, and editor of the " Baptist Magazine,
aged 65.
On the Gth inst., Francis, second son of Wm. Cresswent
of Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park.
On the 7th inst., at Kentish-town, Elizabeth, relict of
the late Walter Rocbfort, Esq., of Hampstead, aged 82-
On the sth inst., at Redhill, near Wrington, Somerset'
shire, John Elton, Esq., aged 72.
On tho 4th inst., at Kingston-upon-Hull, Mr. G. Jeff'
wine merchant, aged 46.
On the 4th inst., at 10, Kensington-park-terrace north,
Charlotte Augusta, wife of Captain Purcell, 50th Regt"
youngest daughter of Charles Ironside, Esq.

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at LOWTHER HOTEL, GRA SMF.RE.—This beautiful and
favourite resort of Tourists snd Visitors to the Lake District is now
open for the accommodation of the public.
The above house and EstabliShment will be found worthy of
notice, being conducted on economical principles, and in the centre
of the Lake District ; the views from which cannot be equalled.
The Mountains behind the house may be ascended through the
Plantations belonging to the Proprietor, in shout twenty minutes
from whence may also be seen Nine different Lakes and erns, ss
also most of the notable Mountalts in the locality, with Morecambe
Bay in the distance, which most of the guide books have omitted to
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MEXICAN and SOUTH AMERICAN
COMPANY.
MCP: IS ITERPBY ,VEs, hat the Directors have ma In a
Call of One Pound per share on the shares in this Company, and that
the same is to be paid to Messrs. Barclay, Revan, and Co., for account
of the Directors, on thP twenty.eighth day or August nest, or at
latest within three months from that dote, subject in that ease to a
Payment2oBftihnto7AstuLtste rate of 5 per cent. per annum, from and
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11Y1)E CLARKE, Secretary.
The banger,' receipt, with certificate of shares, is to be brought to
the Company's.olllce one clear day, to have the payment endorsed
thereon.
17, Gracechureh-street, 28th July, 1856.

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NEW SYSTEM OF LIFE ASSURANCE.
THE DIRECTORS of the NATIONAL
ASSURANCE and INVESTMENT ASSoCIA t lON invite
attention to the New Systeria of Life Assurance exclusively adopted
by this Association, viz., that of allowing Interest on all Pretniums
paid, instead of the remote and uncertain system of Bonuses usually
adopted.

By this plan the Policyholder will secure to himself a constantly
Increasing annual income during lire, as well as the payment of the
sum assured to his repre.entatives at his d.-ath.
Tables of Rates specially adapted to flits system of As,urance may
be ohtsined at the (MCA of the Company, 3, Pa 1-mall East, or for-
Warded free on application.
PETER MORRIPON, Managing Director.

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Policies effected with this LONDO
Societynow will PARTICIPATE TN
FOUR-FIFT,IS, or 80 per cent., of the Net Profits of the Society,
according to the conditions contained In the S •cletv's Prospectus.
The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives
are lower than in many other 614-estab'ished offices, and Insurers
are fully protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in
addition to the acctu..niated funds derived from the investments of
Premiums.

Policy stampspaid by the'nfilce.
_ Prospectuses may be obtained at thP Office in Tlareadneedle-street,
London, or of any of the Agents of the Society.
CHARLES HENRY- LIDDERDALE, Actuary.

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GUARDIAN PIKE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE CIikePANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street, London.

DIRECTORS.
FRANCIS, HART DYKE. Esq.. Chairman.
HENRY TIULSE BEREVQ, Esq., Detinty-Chairman.

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BeessureAfeloribaertiv Esq.-- •
IrW. M. T. Farquhar, Bart. John Martin, Esq., M.P.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Brt Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Thomson Mankey, Esq., M.P. James Morris, Esq.
John Harvey. Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
John G. Hubbard, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
George Johnstone, Edq. John Thornton, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq. James Tulloch. Esq.
John Loch, Esq. Remy Vigne, Esq.
Al7DlTose.
A. W. Robarts, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Lloydijun., Esq. 1 John Henry Smith, Esq.
George Keys; Esq., Secretary.
Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par-
11ament, this Company now otters to future insurers Four-fifths of
the Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rats of Premium
without participation of Profits.
The next division of Profits will he declared in June, 1860. when
all participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year
at Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to-sh Ore in the Profits.
At the five divisions of Profits made by this Company. the total
reversionary Bonnses added to the Policies have exceeded 913,000 .
At Christmas, 1854, the Assuran,es in force amounted to upwards
of 4,240,0001.; the Income from the Life Branch in 1854 was more
than 200,000/. ; and the Life Asswance Fund (independent of the
Guarantee Capital) exceeded 1,700,0001.
FOREIGN RISKS The Extra Premiums required for the East
and West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the
United states of America, have been materially reduced.
INVALID LIVES.---Persons who are not in such sound health as
would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums,
may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values. pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 501.
ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES:=-Written Notices of, received
and registered. •
MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge will be
made for l'olicy Stamps.
FIRE DEPART MENT.— Insurances effected upon every descrip-
tion of property, at moderate t a t es.
Losses caused by Ex melon of Gas are admitted by this Company.

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MIDLAND RAILWAY.-NOTICE, IS
HEREBY OMEN. That the next HALF-YEARLY
ORDINARY GENERAL NIEETING of the Proprietors of the 11I1)•
LAND RAILW AY COMPANY will be held at the station of the
said Company, at Derby, on wEGNESO •Y. the twentieth day of
Anaust instant, at half-past One o'clock in the afternoon, fur the
transaction of the general husine.s of the CompanY.
Dated this 6th day of Aurrust, 1856.
JOHN ELLT4. Chairman.
SAMUEL BEALE, Deputy-Chairman.
By order. JOSEPH SANDERS, Secretary.
Derby, August 6th, 1856.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY
TOURISTS' TICKETS, COMMENCING IST JUNE, AND TERMINATING

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30TII '4EPTnIKISER,
NORT %VAL K.
TiOcets. available for TFIREE WEEKS, enabling the holder to
stoD at Rhyl, Conway, Bangor, Caernarvon, and Holyhead, either
Roing or returning, re issued at the folloi7ii.g fares by the through
trains. The First-class Tickets are ava table by any train, and the
Second by such trains as have second-class carriages attached,

I 2d Class.
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Londox to Holyhead,and back...... £3st 10Class 0. .... ...t 2 10. 0
Oxford

Peteit;oron,h Ito ditto and hack .. .. 210 0 .... 115 0
Birmingham to ditto and back...... 2 0 0 .... 110 0
Wolverhampton to ditto ani back.. • . 115 0 .... 1 7 0

Toren TAKES OF WEiT%faith:L.A.Nl) A.ND CITNTBEELAVD
Tickets, available for THREE WEEKS, to the above Lakes, are
Issued at the followln% F.res by the throur,h Trains. The First
Class Tickets are available by any trAin, an 1 the Second by sach
frairal aS have second-class carriages attached :

- ist Clls3. 2d Clam.
London to Windermere and back £3 10 0 .... £2 10 0
oxford
~} to ditto and b tck 215 0 .... 20 0
Peterboroweo
Birmingham to ditto and back 2 5 0 .... 115 0
Wolverhampton ........ •• • •

0, 20,011.

VI Ic. ALBERT BMITII.'S MONT 131_,A ,
TO-NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING (except Saturday)
at 8 'clock, and Tuesday, Thursday, and aturday Mornings at 3.
italls, as. ; area. 2s. ; gallery, Is.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

OPAL SURREY GARDENS.-COLOSSAL
ai MUSIC HALL.—THIS EVENING, JULLIEN'S CON-
-O.ERTS. —Madame RuderselortT—Zottave Clarions of the Iniperial
Guards—Z,uave Quadrille—Danson's 'Yodelled Pictures of consi an-
tlnople and the Alps—Fairy Caverns—Turkish Kiosk and Illuminated
Terrace—Dioramic Views by Phillips—Novelly Illuminated Walks --
Magniflcent Pyrotechnic Display and Emblematic Tableau. • Con-
cert at Q even. Fire. orks at a Qtr:rter past Ten.
On WEDNESDAY neat, August 13, MEN DELSQOIIN NIGHT ;
and on SATURDAY. August 23, a GRAND MORNING CONCERT.
Concert at 2. Admission Is.

THE ZOITAVES.-ROYAL SURREY
GARDEN-4.-I%e public is informed that the ZOITA VZS,
from the 2d Regiment of the Imperial fluarel, will appear EVERY'
NIGHT fora month only, the permlssi.n from the French authorities
expiring po,itively on the sth September next.
6th August. 1856. WILLIAI4 ELLIS. Secretary.

ROYAL SURREY GARDEN S.—The
imndon General Omnibus Company wi I run Omnibuses from
Kingsland Gate and Highbury Station to the Royal Surrey Gardens,
half-past 5 o'clock daily, returning from the Gardens as Boon as
the amusemen's are over. Fare to or from the Gardens, 6d. each.

TAR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM,
7 4, Coventry-street, Leicesi er-square.—Open (for Gentlemen
DIY) from 1 i till 10, containing upw rds of one thousand models
nd preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in
ealth and disease. the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12,
, and half-past 7. by Dr. G. SExxost, F.R.G.S. ; and a new and
Ighly-interesting series of Lectures is now in emirs. of delivery
ty Dr. KAHN, at 4 p.m. precisely. Admission, One

(NANTERRE:PRY HALL, Westminster-road.
J —IPENT t VERY F.veNiso —The celehrited ITIINGA-
7IADT BAN, ), under t'e direction of Herr KALOZDY, w!ll perform
v- ry Ermine' a' 9 and 11 o'cl= ck, in addition to the usual Vocal
ntertainment. The fo lowing company of talented V. ealists are
, ermanently ngaged for =he performance of Selections froth all the
'opular ope a., Ma Irigals, Choruses. Duets, &c.; viz. :—M=s
'aulfleld, Miss Prunel, Miss Sommers, and e. iss Pearse ; Sam Cowell,
Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. donghmans S. Jones, T. Tarrant,
Melling. Barker. Russell Grover, AO P. Cortle; Masters E. Con-
n% Austin, and Bennett, and Mr. T. Mackney. Pianoforte Mr.
J. Harrnway, LA.. harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun ; kl=rector. Mr.
i. Caulfield. Commence at seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c
until twelve o'clock.

PUBLICATIONS.

[ PRICE 4D. STAMPED bD.

NEW NOVEL BY MRS. TROLLOPE.
Just ready, in 3 vols.,

LAW INTE,,LTIIRNCYI.-Avg 7.

FASHIONABLE LIFE;
or, Part. and London.

PREROGATIVE counr.
(84-ire Sir J. Dodson.)
This was the fir-t eareat day after Trinity Term.
IN THE GOODS or JOHN SAMEIR, ESQ. (A PEW DE SE.)
The Queen's A ivocate said that John Sadlejr, late of
Gloncester-square, Hy 'e-park, died on the 17th of Feb.,
1856, intestate. By an inquisition, taken at Hanipstead
on ttle 11th of March following, it we,= found that the
deeen.ed dill feloniously take his owe life, and a ver.fict
of felo de se was returned: By reason of such felony the
estate and effects of which the desuiased was possessed,
.ir t which he was then entitled, or to which he might
become entitled, became forfeited to her Majesty in right
of her Royal prerogative. Her Majesty, by warrant
under the Royal sLu manual bearing date the 2d ult,,
and countersigned by two of the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury, hail granted all the right, title, and
interest whatsoever of her Msjssty in and to the goods,
chattels, and credits of the eii ceased to Mr. Anthony
Norris, of Bedford-row, to the extent that he might ob-
tain letters of admiii-tr,iti-n of the goods, chattels, and
credits for the benefit of the creditors and next of kin to
the deceasei. He the (Queen's Advocate) moved the
Curt to decree administrathn to Mr. Norris accord-
ingly.
The Court granted the application.

WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT.

By Mrs. Taora.oPE.
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13,
Great Marlborough-street.

NOVEL CLAIM FOR SERVANTS WAGES.-BEOICLEY V. LORD

SOIITII4MPION.

TlllB day published,price, 3s.
MEMOIRS OF BARRY. LYNDON.
By W. hf. THACKF.RAY.
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Bradbury and Evans, 11. B uverie•street.

This day published. price Is. 6d.,
ALEGEND OF THE RHINE ;—REBECCA
AND ROWENA. By W. M. TRACK ERA.Y.
Bradbury and Evans, 11. Bouverie-street.

This day putalished, price Is.,
ALITTLE DINNER AT TIMMINS'S ;-
THE BEDFORD ROW CONSPIRACY. By W. M
THACKERAY.

Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-street.

This was an acion .brought by the plaintiff. Richard
Beckley, described as a lodgiog,-howe keeper, No. 37,
Green street, Grosveklor square, against the Right Mai.
Lird S.,utharaptop, to recover 311., under the following
circumstances.

Also just published,

Mic.llaynesein opening the case, after remarking that
it was one of the greatest importance to masters and
- domestics, said -- the reetion was brought fir the amount
named fer damages consequent on the breach of defen-
dant's contract ; for that the defendant, en the 16th of
November, 1855, engaged and hired the' plaintiff as
groom of the chambers at his country establishment,
Whillehury Lodge, front the 19th of that month to the
spring of the present year ; but, raAitritry to such agree-
ment, be, without cause, broke the seine.
The plaintiff being called, from his statement it ap-
peared that in June, 1855, residing where he now did,
he visited Mr. Cater, his lordship's steward, in GrdsVenor-
street, as an old acquaintance, when in the course of con-
versation the latter said that a gio:an of ' the chamber
would be wanted at Whit lehury Lodge about the
middle of November, when visitors and company coin-
'fleeced stayingthere ; that the engagement would last,
with the exception of a week or two at Ohristriias, for
which period the vi,iters left, till the Trine., which itti•-
tress ure.'erstood from the alminack to commence the
Lvt-r part of March. • Witness having filled a similar
situation with the Ilcriourable Spencer Cooper and
Lord /3..1•n,,r5t0n, from each of whom he received
10s. a day, inquired the terms. Mr. Cator replied
21. a week, and no doubt many perquisites, which,..
thinking the engagement, if entere3 adengthened
one, he said he would accept. On the 16-h November,
in conseqeence of a note previously teem Mr.
Cator, be went to Grosvenerstreet and saw hi- lordship.
by whom the previous arrangement by Mr Cator was
ratified in almost the same words as to the time he
should he was ted. Af er the lapse of fire weeks he wag
to'd his services were no long-r required, and was paid
101. by Mr. Ca•or, then due- to him, as also 1/ f,,r
his jlereey from and to Lon•ion, f.r which he "rote a
recopt on his leaving Mr. Cater, telling him that he
should he wanted again, the next • month. Fire
hoverer, he was not sent f-r, awl after sortie cerres-
pondence with Mr. Cater, u ,d-rstan.ling that he had
been finally disrni-sed, and fai ing in rec iving any
recompenca for the same, be instituted these pro-
needing'.
Crosn-examined by. Mr. Roberts—When with the gen-1
demon he had named he was not endaized for any
period, and was urry paid for the days he teas so.
Mi. Roberts, in reply, said be shoulil he agile to prov-
that the plaintiff was only an " ocCa,•ioual" servant, t
be paid, nut as a regular servant in the establishment of
hie lordship, but merely as a weekly servant.
His Lordship m ,st positively denied ever stating any
time he should require plaintiff for when he saw him on
the 16th Novemb?r, which arrangement he always en-
trusted to his house and laud steward,. Mr. Catty ; all
that passed being his saying to him, "Your name is
Beckley, is ? When can you come and he believed
he answered in three days' time.
Mr. Cator said that the conversation as related by the
plaintiff' in June was correct, but in the most direct
terns disavowed mentioning asto how long he was re-
quired. When he paid him the 11/, he considered his
hiring at an end, he being a weekly servant, ated some
days Wore he did leave he told him that after an en-
suing day rnentionel he would bet no4anger wanted.
Hit Honour having summed up, gild observed that
plaintiff, from his own showing, was only a weekly ser-•
rant, an 1, therefore, could not sub-te.....ntlaes..tes his claim,
The Jury returned a verdict for defendant.

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Tie Commissioners of ite s, vr,,, p„-;,-,
with the reorganisation of the, Pi-Mei,
,now assembling at Bucharesi,- much in ti
ter of ingenious political aribitects, who. a,
to raise a superstructure before they baye:laT,
basis. The Austrian and Russian Governments
appear to have hit' upon a most happy scheme, di-
rectly calculated to nullity the labours of the Com-
missioners, and totally to checkmate the Treaty of
Pitti'• Tinder a guise of the most vital distrust,
they seem to have entered into an arrangement
marked I,y the most &lei:Illy confidence. The in-
Ntitution cf a Liberal Government in Moldavia and
Wallachia would be directly onistic, not only
to their most cherished territorial arrogations on
the Danube, but to their fanatical crusades against
freedom on the confines of their sway. The Com-
missioners—or the five more liberal Governments
whom the five more liberal Commissioners repre-
sent—now challenge the Courts of Vienna b, n d St.
Petershu g to °(-rive effect to their promise of eva-
cuation. The Austrian Goyernmefilt appeals to
reply that so long as, in direct violation of the
Treaty o fParis, the Russians postpone the cession.
of Southern Bessarabia they must prolong the oc-
cupation ,of the Principalities. The Western
Powers then turn to St. Petersburg ; and they
there appear to be told that so long as, in direct
violation of the Treaty of Paris, the Austrians post-
pone the evacuation of the Principalities they
must defer the cession of Bessarabia. There is
something ludicrous in this reciprocity of causation
which reminds us of our resultless siege of Antwerp
in 1809, in which the martial ardour of the general
was said to have been held in check by the delay of
the admiral, and the impatient vehemence of the
admiral to have been neutralised by the unaccount-
able procrastination of the general. The practical
result, at any rate, is that the Austrian and
Russian commanders, entertaining no doubt the
most diabolical suspicious of each other, rule in
placid tranquillity on either side of the Pruth ; and
the international commission, like a species of poli-
tical Mahoinet's coffin, is suspended in the air,
midway between Bucharest and the clouds of
heavett• •

The-blunder thus committed by the negotiators
at Paris, iu failifig to fix peremptorily a period be-
yond which the military ooetipation should not be
maintained, ii but the analogue of the original
blunder which introduced into the. Principalities
the forces of Austria. It is' obvious, from many
concurrent considerations, that an attempt to
frame au organisation for Moldavia and Wallachia
during the presence of the Austrian army, aria for
the ceded territory of Bessarabia during the pre-
sence of the Russian, would be altogether abortive.
The Cominissioners—accorditor, at least, to the
theory ofalie Treaty of Peace--do not proceed to
the Wallachiau capital with their own preconceived
views of government. The Sultan undertakes, by
the terms of the 24th Article, to convoke a avan
in either PrinjOathy, with the most liberal and
comprehensive constitution ; and the Commission-
ers are charged with the formation of a scheme of
polity in consonance with the opinions expressed
by these Divans. Nothing, therefore, can be more
certain than that their popular organisation, which
is expressly set forth as the ground work of the whole
1 policy of the Cotnraiss:o:i, would be totally defeted
by the continuance of an Austrian military occupa-
tion. While the Commissioners sit at Bucharest
under military suffei ance•of the most despotic mon-
archy in Europe, no will of theirs can stand for law.
Those who are acquainted wi Ai the policy pursued
by Austria wherever her standard is planted, know
full well the wanner in which she will tamper with
therepre seutation which itis sought : ()obtain through
the instrumentality of the Dtvans. The same on-
, servations apply to the occupation of the ceded
district of Bessarabia by, the Russians, audit is cer.
tain that any representation obtained
during the
dominance of either army will only secure the as-
cendancylof that o'ions and rapacious oligarchy
which the Treaty of Paris had nude r alien to depress
and destroy.
M ire than four months have ab ea ly elapsed since
the couclusion of peace ; Ohl the period appears to
have been marked by a corresponding inertness on
the part both of the Austrian and the Western Go-
vernments. No attempt,- or at least no successful
endeavour, appears to have been made, either by
Lord Clarendon or by Mode Walewski, to dissipate '
the frivolous sophistry, on which Austria and Russia
attempt to justify their infraction of their own
terms. It is true that the Commissioners of the
Western Powers set out for the theatre of their
labours a considerable period ag I. But a diplo-
niatist charged with extraordinary duties such as
these, appears to be a political valetudinarian. who
is unequal to the Herculean labours of his position
until he has consumed a period sufficient tor ordi-
nary mortals to negodate the fa e of the world is
physical preparation at the West-German baths.
Si.complete is the mental and bodih' exhaustion
occasioned, either by ,the mere acceptance of his
otlieo or by the traditions of big previous trust,
that he sets off with laudable precipitation—not
indeed to the scene of his duties—but to Wiesba-
den, to Wildbad, or to Vichi. There he invariably
stops short, and after an incredible interval, when
the whole freshness of his story is gene, 1 e tinerges
like a giant refreshed,. somewhat in the fashion of
our imposing naval array which cougregated at
Petropaulovski after the Russiansthad sailed ! And
if it be said, on the one hand, that the intentional
procrastination of Austria and Russia has rendered
unimportant this corresponding delay, it may with
undoubted certainty be averred on the other that
it has offered a plausible pretext for that procras-
tination by those Governments.
Toe two cardinal aims, which, as w© apprehend,
the Coinmission isrequired to hold in view, are the
institution of a Government on principles of libe-
ralism antagonistic to the political encroachments
of Austria and Russia, and on a commercial basis
calculated to promote the material 'development of
• the Principalities. We are ourselves altogether in-
different whether the union of the two States be
resolved on, or whether their disjunction be perma-
nently maintained. There is enough of social con-
fortuity in the manners and interests of either to
ensure their moral cohesion under any phasis of
their civil polity. The main object to which we
trust the attention of the Commission will be even-
tually directed is the social and political exaltation
of the inferior classes, for the triple reason of ab-
stract justice, of national development, and of an
exclusion of Austro-Russian intrigue. It is through
the instrumentality of the territorial proprietors,
both ecclesiastic tl and lay, that this battle of in-
trigue has been so long maintained by Russia ; and
it will be waged successfully until the two Princi-
palities possess a strung popular organisation. It
is in like manner owing to the eclipse of the popular
party, that we have 'been so long subdued by the
illusion that the Russian dominion stood upper-
most, in the Moldo-Wallachiau mind. Under the
constitutions by which those States have been long
governed, a spirit of rapacious domination in the
higher classes has prevailed ; and this interest, de-
riving its mainspring from the support of Russia,
has been affected to the Russian rule in proportion
as the instincts of the mass of the population
involuntarily recoiled from its tyrannous oppres-
sion.

In a commercial point of view, the Principalities
posters this enormous advantage over every other
State which trades upon the Danube, that their
territory lies immediately at its mouth ; while the
accession of the ceded territory to the Moldavian
soil will add to that advantage an interest in the
sea-board of the Equine. If it will repay the Aus-
trian empire to transmit her exports to the Black
Sea through the thousand gyrations of that inter-
minable river, how much more remunerative will
be the commerce of the Euxine to the two Princi-
palities, with other facilities at least equal in pro-
portion ? Above all, be it remembered that the
results of the war have yet to be determined ; and
that their magnitude largely rests in the political
future of these States, which must conform to the
character of their organisation. And if the splendid
oppOrtunity which now presents itself be seized, we
shall have done much in lands that have bowed
beneath a traditionary oppression to promote the
cause
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