The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-07 00:00:00

LON DON' , WEDNESDAY EVENING, "MA.A.r 7 1856 , .

Frain. the London Gazette of-Last Night,

BUCKINGHAM PALLCE, AtAT 3.
This clay had audience of her Majesty—The Baron de
Brnnnow, On a Spacial Mission from the Emperor of all
the Russias, to deliver a lettei front his Imperial Majesty,
notifying his accession tothe throne ; to which he was
introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by
Major-General the Hon, Sir Edward Cast, K.C.H., her
Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.

WAR DEPARTMENT. MAT S.
The Queen has, been graciously pleasedto give: orders
for the appointniont 'of Major Ge,nerals Henry William
Barnard, C. 8., an& flenry, Lord Rokeby, to be Ordinary
Members of the Military Division of the Second Chugs, or
Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath.

WHITE FIALL, MAY 3.
The Queen hag bi,en pleased to constitute and app3iat
the Itir'tht Hon It•Thert Montgomery, 'Lord Belhaven, to
~be her Majesty's High Commissioner to the Genaral As-
sembly of the Church of Scotland.
BOARD- OF TRADE; MAY 2.
A statement having been made by a witness at the in•
vestigation held at Liverpool, in the matter of the ship
Mermaid, relative to the depth of water on the bar of the
port of Pernambuco, which appeared to Mr. Cowper, her
Majesty's Consul there, to be injurious to the interests of
the port, as giving an. incorrect view of its capabilities for
the accommodation of shipping, the. following report has
boen obtained from the chief pilot there, and is published
for the information of mariners :

Most Illustrious Sir,—ln reply to the questions which
your lordship put to me yesterday, it is my duty to inform
yon,—__

let. That at spring tides the bar of the port of this city
has 24 feet of water, and the mall bar from 16 to 17, over
which vessels drawing from 14 to 15 foot of water can
enter, those drawing as much as 17 can do so no higher up
than the Poco.
2d. That as vessels come from the Mosquoira in going
out, and have to pass the inner bar near the lighthouse,
they can do so, only drawing from 14 to 15 feet, with a
favourable wind.
-34—Lastly, the great bar of which I first sPoke, beim,
ire a line with the Recipe, is'open to the swell ; that within
the harbour, which is the greater impediment, is in smooth
water.
I may aril, although the question was not put to me by
your Lordship, that in those mac:mu-ages called the Lam-
erno and Samenheos, vessels of any draft of water can load
and unload with facility.
God preserve your Lordship.
Pernambuco, March 12,1856.
(Signed) JOSE FAITSTINO POSTO,
Chief Pilot.
The Most Illustrious 11. Augustus
Cowper, Consul of England.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAY 5.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at. Stockholm, re-
porting that the following articles of food will be admitted
into Sweden, free of import duty, until the end of the pre-
sent year :

Grain of all kinds, bread of all kinds, grits and rice of all
kinds, maize, potatoes and potato meal, butter and cheese,
meat of all kinds. Animals—Oxen, cows, and young
cattle, caves, and swine. Fish, salted—Of all kinds, ex-
cept anchovies, sardines, and thornfish. Fish, dry or
smoked--All sorts, except salmon and eels. Tallow—Oil
and fat of all kinds. Candles—tallow, stearine, and
mazarin.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Mw 5.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Naples, report.
ing that the Neapolitan Board of Health has established an
absolute quarantine of ten days on all vessels arriving
from Malta.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Hampshire Regiment of Militia.—Ensign Edward Chas.
Forward to be Lieutenant, vice Brown, appointed to the
59th Foot.

Ist Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia.—Major Geo.
Palmer Evelyn to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Campbell,
resigned.

2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia.—To be Lieu-
tenants—Ensign Louis Perre Goodchap, vice Cerjat, pro-
moted; Ensign James Elyard, vice Sharpe, promoted ;
Ensign William Douglas Legge, vice Chaplin, appointed
to the Turkish Contingent.
Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty Regiment of
Rifle Militia.—Ensign William Sinclair Sutherland to be
Lieutenant, vice Godfrey Wentworth Davidson, pro-
moted ; Robert Douglas, Gent., to be Ensign.
MEMORANDUM.- -Aberdeenshire Royal Regiment of Mi-
litia—The resignation of Ensign William Grant's commis-
sion has been accepted by the Lord-Lientenant, from lcth
April, 1856.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Rowland Bateman and Robert Hardwicke, printers and
stationers, Carey-street, Lincoln's inn.
James Flood, junr., and Cornelius Robert Schaller, auc-
tioneers, &c., Charles-street, Middlesex-hospital.
BANKRUPTS.

James Welch, builder, York-grove North, Old Kent-
road, to surrender, May 15, at half-past one, and June 19,
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ball, official as-
signee, Coleman-street-buildings; Weatherfield, Basing-
hall-street.

Graham Phillipson, wine merchant, Stamford, May 20
and June 17, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Law, Stam-
ford ; Hodgson and Allen, Birmingham.
Robert Webb, ironmonger, Newport, May 19 and June
17, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official
assignee, Bristol ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
Samuel Isaacs, cigar dealer and tobacconist, Manchester,
May 22 and June 6, at eleven, at the Manchester District
Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Solo-
man, Borough-road, Southwark; Sale, Worthington, and
Shipman, Manchester.

Thoinas Horner, surgeon, chemist, and druggist, Hoz-
ton, May 17, at half-past eleven, and June 13, at half-past
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; Buchanan, Basinghall-street.
Thomas Bate, hat manufacturer, Birmingham, May 17,
and June 6, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Birmingham; Faulkner, Manchester; Reece, Ilirming-
ham.

Louis Adolph Here, confectioner, Albany-street, Re-
gent's-park, May 2, at two, and Hone 17, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Stubbs, Moorgate-street.
Harcourt Master Marley and Foster Reynolds, silkmen,
•ld Broad-street, Mby 16, at half-past eleven, and June
17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee ; Linklaters and Hackwood, Sise-lane.
John Lizars, general dealer, Birmingham, May 19 and
June 16, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; East,
Birmingham.
Henry Thornton, baker, Birmingham, May 19 and June
16, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee, Birmingham ; Ludlow, Birmingham.
Edmondson Aspinall and John Abraham Robinson, ma-
chine makers, Bolton-le-Moors, May 20 and June 10, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official
assignee, Manchester ; Richardson and Hinnell, Bolton ;
Higson and Robinson, Manchester.
Christopher Tuer, machine maker, Bolton-le-Moors,
May 20 and June 10, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Richardson
and Hinnell, Bolton.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
John M`Nab, grocer, Limekilns, Fifeshire.
John Main, grain merchant, Glasgow.
Win. Morrison and Co., merchants, Leith.
DECLARATION OF DIVIDENDS.
W. Renshaw, Liverpool brewer, first dividend of 3s. ld.
in the pound, payable at 9, South Castle-street, Liverpool,
on any Monday.
Old Change, City, straw hat manufacturer,
sec3ol. ndEtsliivnig dividend of 1114. in the pound, payable at 10, Ba-
singhall-street, City, on Thursday, May 8, and three fol-
eTieOP:BtrnEed:E;EßCeLrkAeißeyE.Dsciusre, J Hathaway, dividend of lilvd.
ailnlinthgeforpdo,uound,aupyaydaabyle
low.ingThursdays.
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DIVIDENDS
aonDptnestishv
Lincolnshire, licensed victualler,
payable at Mr. F. Up-
plohy's office, Silver-street, Lincoln, on any day.
fur-
rier May 29-V. Snook and J. T. Snook, King-street.
Hammersmith, linen.clrapers, stay 29-T. P. Courtenay,
Thames Ditton and East Moulsey, Surrey, cowkeeper,
Oldham, Lancashire,
e, Altrincham, Cheshire,
, Aldgate, provision
May 29-J. N. Smith, Jewry-street
May 28-S. Archer, Rochdale, Lancashire, woollen
cotton spinner,
nMzisi2a9y-23/I_.
vir Bradbury,clar Clarke,
jmoianneurfactnrer, May 27- D. W. Acraman, W. E. Acraman,
A. J. Acraman, W. Morgan, T. 1101royd, and J. N.
Franklin, Bristol, ship builders, May 27-E. Dawes, Wol-
verhampton, Staffordshire, licensed victualler, June 13--
F. D. Blyth, Birmingham, factor, May 30 -W. 11. Wilson
and R. Vause, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchants, May 28-
W. French, Bedlington, Durham, brewer. May 30--W.
Boscastle, Cornwall, grocer, May 29-R Gill
Ball and T. Ball, Totnes, Devonshire, millers, May 29-
)-R. Minifie, Honiton,
alin,
dHll.DEydere, St. Thomas by Launceston, Cornwall, buil-
ders, May -29-B. Vickers, Newton Bushell, Devonshire,
wine and spirit merchant, May 29-S. Rose, and It. W.
Rose, Tioniton, Devonshire, drapers, May 29 (and on the
W. Rose
D. Deacon, Kilburn, butcher, May 29-E. Gorton,
Dseepvaornatsehgeitl:btilscFeroffC3!Arß9TyES TO BE GRANTED.
Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square, music smith, May 29-
E Davis, Oxford-street, cabinet manufacturer, May 27-
RI Nicholson, Southampton-court, Holborn, carpet-bag
maker, May 27-W. Bennett, Margaret-street, Cavendish.
square, victualler, May 27-J. H. Evins, Abergavenny,
Monmouthshire' surveyor-J. P. Veysey, Exeter, hatter,
June 5-F. W. Emerson, Trereife Chemical Works, near
Penzance, Cornwall, manufacturing chemist, June 5-R.
Clark, Liverpool, miller, May 29-W. Stevenson, Leices-
ter, butcher, June 24-R. Greene, Lichfield, banker, June
12-H. Smith, Sedgley, Staffordshire, farmer, June 12-
R. Welsh, Huddersfield, woollen merchant-June 6-j.
Douglas, York, tailor, June 6-11. Baird, Sheffield, linen
draper, May 31.
INSOLVENTPETITIONER,S.

,
Staf-
J. Phillips, Maestag, Glamorganshire, Publican—E.
Morgan, Maestag Iron Works, Glamorganshire, miner—
J. Potts, Macclesfield, out of business M. Thompson,
Cambridge, cow keeper—J. S. Barnes, Manchester, out of
employment—F. Barber, Manchester, commercial travel-
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Tipton,C. Reynolds
fordshire, out of business —E. Derecourt, Tipton, Stafford.
shire, shopkeeper—J. Maddox, Tipton, Staffordshire,
Witton,er—E. Cheshire,lV°rrail
greengrocer—M. Shaw, Wellington, Shropshire, innkeeper
—T. Jarvis, Nailstone, Leicestershire, shoemaker—J.
Butt, Southampton, bailiff—T. Marsh, Southampton,
watchmaker—J. Wilson, Ipswich, grocer —W. powis,
Bilston, Staffordshire, butty collier—J. Powis, Waver.
hampton, fancy milliner.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
S. Mallory and G. H. Cowley, Warwick, grocers—R.
Steegmann, New York, America, E. Steegmann, and H.
T. ziinrooro, Nottingham, merchants (so far as regards

R. T. Zinnern)—S. Clarke and A. Taylor, Huddersfield,
joiners—J. Burgess and S. Eaton, Ronghtown, Yorkshire,
iron founders—J. Flood, jun., and C. R. Schaller, Charles-
-street, Middlesex Hdspital, auctioneers—G. Knowles and
.J. Korn, Newniiarn and Gloucester, wine merchants=
G. Foster and C. Wilson, Liverpool, coal dealers—W;
C Nicholson and S. P. Glerrnie,• the Market-place, Stoke
Newington, and Wapping, grocers—J. R. Scribner,• W.
Rowe, and E. Brown, Liverpool and Hayti—H.
Thompson and J. Beard—B. stonehewer and M. Stone-
hewer. Pilkiugton, Lancashire, bleachers—C. Day and W.
Day; Gate-street, Lincolu'a-inn-fields, lithographic printers'
—D. Barry and R. Halls Type-street, Finsbury, chicory
importers—J. Monks, le. Monks, T. Lindley, and B.
Monks, Worslev, Lancashire.; cotton manufacturers (so far
as regards B. Monks) -J. Nicholson and W. F. Room,
Liverpool, sail makers—C. Cannon and G. Horsman,
Love-lane, E cheap,-City, and Camberwell, ice merchants
—J. nartloY' and W. Kay, Bradford, woolstaplers—W:
Bryant, W. 'Burnoll, and Burnell, Plymouth, soap
1113 M2faCt

NOTICE OF TYTIEDED DISTRIBUTION OF
NAVAS PRIZE MONEY.

7 -
Department of the Aecotentent.General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Schuerset-honse, May 5.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma,
rincs, and to all persons interested therein, that the distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the Russian schooner
Pallas', captured on the 4th of July, 1855, by her Majesty's
ships Driver and Firefly, will commence on Monday, the
19th May, 1856, in the Prize Branch of the Departmentof "the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty,
SOrnerset-house."

Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney,
prig orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may ho legally entitled to claim the share
of any captor, serving in the above-named ships, are re-
quested to present the same at this office.
iWy officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may
desire to receive his share from the Collector of Customs
or of Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom, is re-
quired to intimate the same by letter to be addressed "On
Prize Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Lon-
don," in which letter 144 , of residence is to be
w
stated; as ait.,,kaTet ce °Me ginire*Colier,
for of Customs, or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would
be convenient to receive such share of prize money.
The following are the shares due to an Individual in the
several classes :

Flag share £2o 7 4
Captain
Commander
Second class
Third class 6 14 6
Fourth class

Fifth class .. £2 8. 1
Sixth class 2 3 2
Seventh class
Eighth class
Ninth class 0 9 8
Tenth class 0 4 9

Department of tho Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, May 5.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, searien, and ma-
rines, and to all persons interested therein, that the
distribution of proceeds arising from the Finnish barque
Fides, captured nn the Ist Aug., 1855, by her Majesty's
ship Firefly, will commence on Monday, the 19th May,
1856, in the Prize Branch of the Department of the
" Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-
House."

Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
of any captor, serving in the above-named ship, are re-
quested to present the same at this office.

Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may
desire to receive his share from the collector of customs or
inland revenue within the United Kingdom, is required to
intimate the same by le ',ter, to be addressed, " On Prize
Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London," in
which letter his own place of residence is to be precisely
stated, as well as the place of the nearest collector of cus-
toms or of inland revenue, from whom it would be con-
venient to receive such share of prize money.
The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :

Flag share ...
Captain

£47 2 10
..... ... 111 19 4

Second class 4l 10 8
Third class
Fourth class 22 18 0
Fifth class

Sixth class
Seventh class
Eighth class 3 16 4
Ninth class
Tenth class

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, May 5.
Notice is hereby given to the Officers, Seamen, and
Marines, and to all persons interested therein, that the
distribution of proceeds arising from the cargo of plank and
tar captured on the 30th and 31st August, 1855, at Rasso,
by her Majesty's ships Firefly and Dragon, will com-
mence on Monday, the 19th of M, 1856, in the Prize
Branch of the Department of the "Accountant-General of
the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house."
The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :

£ s. d.
Flag share
Captain 43 17 10
Second class ll 19 9
Third class
Fourth class 6 3 5
Fifth class 3 8 7

Sixth class
Seventh class
Eighth class
Ninth class
Tenth class ~

£ s. d.
3 1 8
2 1 1
1 0 6
0 13 8
0 6 10

Sporting Intelligence.

CHESTER SPRING MEETING,—TazaDAr.

The Grosvenor Stakes of 10 soya each, h ft, with 50
added, for three-yr-olds and upwards ; winners extra.
One mile and a quarter. 8 subs.
Mr. E. Parr's Stork, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Snowden) 1
Mr. Ridley's Hospitality, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b (Bates) 2
Mr. Wilson's Heir of Linne, 3 yrs, fist 121 b (Fordhare) 3
Mr. T. Parr's Saucebox, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (Wells) 4
Betting-6 to 4 agst Stork, sto 2 agst Saucebox, 4
to 1 agst Hospitality. Before going to the post Hospi-
tality jumped the rails near the railway arches. He also
showed much temper at the post. Stork made ail the
running, and won cleverly by a neck. Half a length
between the second and third, and a length between the
third and fourth. Immediately after the race offers
were made to take 10 to 1 about Stork for the Chester
Cup.
The Palatine Stakes, of 15 soya each, 5 ft, with 100
added ; for three-yr-olds ; fillies, Bst 71b each. Certain
penalties and allowances. Second to save his stake.
From the Castle-pole, once round and in. 14 subs.
Mr. J. M. Stanley's Theodora, Sst 91b (Bartholomew)
Mr. Parker's One Act, Bst (G. Mann) 2
Mr. A. Harrison's Spinster, Bst (J. Osborne) 3
Mr. S. Cass's La Victime, Bst 71b (Basham) 4
Betting-2 to 1 on One Act, and 7 to 2 agst Theo-
dora. One Act led to the distance, where Theodora
passed her and won in a canter by two lengths ; three
lengths between the second and third, and a length be-
tween the third and fourth.

After the race 100 to 6 was laid agst One Act for the
Chester Cup.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, for three-yr-
olds and upwards. The winner to be sold for 80 sovs,
&c. Once round round and a distance. 6 subs.
Mr. Saxon's Barrel, 5 yrs, B,t 31b (J. Formter) 1
Mr. Armstrong's Alcyone, 4 yrs, ist 31b (Wakefield) 2
Mr. T. Dawson's Double Mixture, 3 yrs, Est 21b
(Bullock) 3
The following also ran :—King Chat, Young Tiffany f,
and Petticoat.

Betting-5 to 2 each, ags King Chat and Alcyone, 3
to 1 agst Barrel. A tine race in ; won by a abort head ;
half a length between the second and third ; a length be-
tween the third and fourth. The winner was claimed by
Mr. Armstrong.

The Mostyn Stakes of 10 soya each, with 100 added, for
two•yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies and geldings, Bst
2lb ; the second to receive 20 sovs out of the stakes.
Winners extra. Three-quarters of a mile. 26 subs.
Mr. E. Parr's Lambourn, Bst 71b (Wells) 1
Mr. Copperthwaite's The Sprig of Shillelab, Bst 71b
(Aldcroft) 2
Mr.W. l'Anson'sßlink Bonny, Bst 31b(R. I'Anson, jun.) 3
The following also ran :—Double Glo'ster, Mountain
Daisy, lareca, Special Licence, colt by Touchstone—
Lady Godiva, Kenerdy, and Saunterer.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Special Licence, 4to 1 agst Sprig
of Shillelab, 4 to 1 agst Double Glo'ster, 6 to 1 against
Lambourn, 10 to 1 agst Saunterer. Won by a head.
Same between the second and third. Double Glo'ster
was fourth, Lady Godiva colt fifth, and Kenerdy sixth,
close together and well up. The rider of Sprig of Shil-
lelab objected to Lambourn, and the rider of Blink
Bonny objected to both Lambourn and Sprig of Shillelab.
After hearing evidence the stewards decided in favour of
Latubourn.

Chesterfield Stakes.

Fisherman
Prince of Orange ..................

Me..........................................
Thirteen ran. Won easily.
Wynstay Handicap.

Ellormire ..............................................
Ne0pt01emu5.....................^.................
Dame Judith ...... ...................................
Atheretone ...........................................
Ten ran. Won by a length.

Cold cloudy weather. The attendance, however, was
quite equal to an opening day's average. The success of
Stork and the defeat of One Act exercised a perceptible
influence over specuation on the Cup.
HARPENDEN HANDICAP.
—Weathercock and Sandboy
are scratched.

LATEST BETTING ON THE CUP.
6to 1 agst Yellow Jack
Bto 1 agst Imogene
9to 1 agst Yorkshire Grey
10 to 1 agst Stork
12 to 1 agst Typee
100 to 6 agst One Act
20 to 1 agst Hospitality
20 to 1 agst Fatalist
20 to 1 agst Early Bird
25 to 1 agst Lady Tatton
25 to 1 a,sit Courtenay
30 to 1 agst Hungerford
40 to 1 agst Simony
50 to 1 agst New Brighton
54 to 1 agst Mishap
50 to 1 agst Redan
£0 to 1 agst Poodle
100 to 1 agst Goorkah
Yellow Jack, Yorkshire Grey, and Lady Tatton in
good demand.

CRYSTAL PALACE,—ONH SHILLING DAT, Tue;da,7,
May 6.—Admissions on payment, 2,224; ditto by sea-
son tickets, 201; total visitors, 2,425.

Spirit of the Public Journals.

• .
(From• tits Morning Heragd of this day.)
The adjourned debate bn the address has not prodused
anything worthy of particular comment, excepting it be
the speeet'of Mr. Glad Stone. That the right hon. them-
her for the University should congratulate the house
upon the returns)! _peace is natural—as natural, irideed,
as-that the Uwe should congratulate itself that it is not
enviged in considering the terms of an address on. a
peace of :Kr. Gladstone's making. Itail 'the view 3 Of
the clique with which he acts upon the policy of the war
been adopted— had he suceeeded, 'eighteeit months ago,
in, impressing Parliament with the idea that the war was
an unmitigated disaster, the dread preliminary to•ria
tional ruin; we should have laid down our arms just as
Russia was beginning to feel their effects, and have de:
,libera,tely abandoned the only opportunity Which might
arise during the present century of curbing the ir.juri.
us
ambition of our recent fee. As it is, we ye consented
.to terminate the war-just as we were beginning to feed
and to put forth our strength—too soon for the solid peace
of Europe, as we shall yet •discover —too soon for our
own consequence, all things considered—almost too
soon for our honour. We have, with the co-opetation
:of oar steadfast ally, acoothplietied something ; but that
we have done so is dtie to our total disregard of the pitl-
;fin counsels of those statesmen under whose pacific au-
spices we entered upon a war that in the very nature of
things must have been costly and sanguinary.
Considering how resolutely the house set itself against
the persuasive influence of Mr. Gladstone, and that the
country was prepared, even after the fall of Sebastopol,
to prcaecute hostilities at all cost and hazard, until
Riissia, should succumb, the right hon. gentleman dis-
played last night some generosity in his review of the
terms o peace. The arrangements for the internal ad-
ministration of Turkey entirely meet his approval ; he
thinks, however, that' a Christian policy has sd far so-
vrae4d
.*ithin the Ottoman Empire the rule of she

Ferani;and--tiust-Ohaistiare ntenarchs have taught the
successor of the Caiiphs a lesson in civilisation ; but the
right hon. gentleman never once alluled to the revolt of
50,000 Arabs in consequence of the attempt of foreign-
ers to compel the enforcement of hatti-schireff, He
thinks, moreover, that the consolidation of the Princi-
palities, although contrary to.the wishes of their suzerain,
our ally, would have been a great blessing to those coun-
tries, and, of course, believes that another Otho on the
throne of Moldo-Wallachia would be a great improvement
upon the existing state of Government. There is one
point, howeve'-, in the treaty—not the least important
it will be confe-sed—which does not afford Mr. Glad-
stone satisfaction, and in this respect Mr. Gladstone is
not singular that point is the boastld neutralisa-
tion of the Black Sea. The provision for securing that
most desirable object Mr. Gladstone describes as pre-
senting a " succession of pitfalls." We regret the right
bon. gentleman did not further derelope the objection
which he thus happily described, although any one who
takes the trouble to consider those articles in the treaty
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who was disposed last year to make such concessions to
Russia, sees that there is a radical weakness in that
stipulation, which is supposed t) involve the most seri-
ous consequences to Turkey and to Europe. Lord
John does not consider Count Orloff's promise respect-
ing the Russian arsenals, although appearing in a pro-
tocol, as equivalent to the stipulation of a treaty.
Yet upon that promise the neutralisation really de-
pends. It is undoubtedly true, as was observed last
night by Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, that Russia is dis-
tinguished for the first time at the close of any war in
which she has been engaged by the cession instead
of the acquisition of territory; yet she has contrived,
partly by her own dexterity, but chiefly by the weakness
of those with whom she had to deal, to indemnify her-
self for any territorial losses on the margin of the Euxine
by the retention of those places which have enabled her
hitherto to dominate in those waters.
Lord Palmerston hardly anticipated the objection of
Mr. Gladstone to the most important portion of the
treaty ; and his reply to it betrays the consciousness
that it is really the weak point of the whole structure.
The supremacy of the Black Sea, in one shape or an-
other, was the point for which Russia was prepared to
make any sacrifice. The total abolition of that supre-
macy was impossible without a lengthened and sustained
struggle on the part of the Western Powers. To make
the Blabk Sea secure it would be indispensable to
drive Russia from every foothold on its margin, and
render her no longer a sea-bordering power, as
it is termed. Our Government was not prepared to
undertake this heavy task, and therefore they have con•
eluded a peace which leaves Russia where she was, and
by its imperfect conditions opens those future series of
embarrassments happily denominated "pitfalls" by Mr.
Gladstone. No one knows all this better than Lord
Palmerston, although in his speech against time last
night he affects a belief in the security afforded by the
treaty, a belief which he is the last person really to en-
tertain.

(From th 4 M.rning Advertiser of this day.)

If the debate on the treaty of peace has been produc-
tive of no other good, it has at least hal this beneficial
result—that it has thrown much additional light on what
this country has gained or lost by its alliance with the
ruler—not the people—of France. Even Mr. Layard,
who seems to have been suddenly seized with a violent
affection for the Government which he, more than any
other man, had formerly systematically assailed—even
he, amidst all the vehemence of his new-born love for
Lord Palmerston, could not help reproaching, by impli-
cation, the Government of the noble lord, for the dis-
honour done to the country by our servile submission to
the Chief Magistrate of France, and the spaniel-like
fashion in which we have fawned upon him. Speaking
of that alliance, which will, i❑ the end, be deeply de-
plored by this country, Mr. L.►yard said—" The French
alliance had proved a source of great embarrassment.
Now, he was one of those who would make every sacri-
fice for a French alliance, except a sacrifice of the
national honour. He confessed, however, that to his
mind, from the very commencement, our position with
regard to France had been a most anomalous ono.
For this the present Government was not to be blamed,
but those who originated and took the first steps in
the war. From the beginning he had been deeply
impressed with the equivocal position we had held
with regard to France, and he thought no one could read
these protocols and those of the Vienna Confereices, or
could have followed the events of the war, without being
persuaded that we assumed a false position as respected
France, placed ourselves unnecessarily in her power, and
took a line which could never be consistent with the true
interests and honour of this country."
The latter part of this extract from the speech of the
member for Aylesbury was received with loud cries of
" Hear, hear." We are glad to find that it was so. It
is an indication which justifies the hope that the Legis-
lature, as well as the people, is at length beginning to
open its eyes to the dishonour of the national character,
and the injury to the best interests of the country,
which our ignoble subjugation to the ruler of France has
already done to England.

Lord John Russell, too, made some pointed observa-
tions on the conduct of Louis Napoleon, in instructing
Count Walewski to demand the sanction of Lord Claren-
don to the adoption of measures for the extinction of a
free press in Belgium. This is another illustration of
the degradation entailed upon us by an alliance with the
present regime in France ; and it was a gratifying cir-
cumstance, that the house received Lord John Russell's
denunciation of the conduct of the governor of that
c.mntry, with loud and repeated cheers. "Having," said
his lordship, "made these criticisms, he would remark on
one or two questions which came under consideration in
the c mrse of the protocols. Towards the end of them,
the French Minister brought forward the state of the
Belgian press, and objected to what he had no doubt
were great excesses on the part of that press—lament-
able abuses of the freedom of the press—but which, so
far as our experience went, belonged to that freedom.
Lord Clarendon said that the press was like the air—at
perfect liberty. The Belgian press had the security, he
believed, of trial by jury for offences, according to the
Belgian Constitution, and he hoped that no Ministry
which the wise, prudent, and constitutional Sovereigu
who reigned over that country would ever have, would
be ready to propose or consent to any alteration of the
Constitution, for the purpose of subjecting that press to
a censorship, or to any mere summary mode of inter-
ference. He could not but think, therefore, that while
we were ready to fay that the Emperor of the French, in
his own dominions, might regulate the press as he
pleased, and put what restrictions he thought necessary
upon it, for the preservation of the peace of his own sub-
jects, without our having the least claim to interfere in.
the matter, yet he thought the Emperor should respect
similar rights in other countries, and not call upon the
Minister of England to take a step which must be so re•
puguant to the feelings of the English people, as to in-
terfere with the press of another country."
This spirited passage in Lord J. Russell's speech de-
served the loud cheers with which it was greeted. No
one, for the last four years, has ventured to express him-
self thus manfully, respecting the Emperor of the
French. Lot us hope that others will follow the example
of the Noble Lord, and that England will yet, in this
respect, recover her lost prestige. Were England tee
become a party to the extinction of a free press in Bel-
gium, in compliance with the wishes of Louis Napoleon,
the next inevitable step on the part of his Imperial Ma-
jesty would be to demand the destruction of the liberty
of the press in this country. And were that liberty gone,
every prestige of constitutional freedom would speedily
perish with it. he ruler of France asked, almost curls-
mended, Lord Palmerston, some months ago, to expel
all political refugees from our shores, and to destroy that
part of our Constitution which affords a safe and sacred
asylum to those who have sought our protection against
the vengeance of despotic Governments on the Con-
tinent.
Does any one doubt that the man who could
wic
Lord Palmerston to do this would hesitate at anything?
Assuredly ho would not—not even at seeking to make
England, to all intents and purpoces, a more province of