The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-18 00:00:00

. THE SAIN, LONDON MONDAY
$ 5 EVENING AUGUST 18, lB5 6.
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of the world, taking the place of ancient jealousy SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY. Naval and Military Intelligence. first-rate harvest weather. The corn, too, is veil much prospects of the deceived emigrants, but the finances of !
Spirit of the Public Journals.
and fear. The world could offer no better wish to _op_ of it deed-ripe, and there is a difficulty in finding hand, this colony, we may state that on one given day spec--
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There is much in the present movement for a Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, Commander-in-
ee the Czar on his coronation than that his new Se- thowreealpitittl
little doubt
uenbto enough. It
opinionslt he
arsipetnoeidmar
(Front the Daily News of this day.) of his whole re-7 universal Satil' al Chief at Portsmouth, visited the Sardinian corvettedino• the destitut, received Govern-
A
thousand years ago, when pilgrims from many bastopol might thus become a type . .ay half-holiday to excite the ad- andlvlessto ftainstiethwathiwche
3fi,el,lBBinsotThveBireiteuernue of the. select committee there were
d t 1
po s. uts t pon a popu
year by generated empire. miration of tike phile.uthropist, and to stimulate Dutch frigate at Spithead on Saturday afternoon, and are given by oer ciercseonclente would all be put at four went rations at the various ,
parts of Asia and of Europe were resorting, _ the zeal of those who expect things to be as they was received, with ali due honours by each, and saluted to ton &,ys earlier than they ate (Milted :.ere if they were lion of, at the time, about 87,000 or 83,000 persons. It • i
year, to Kiev-the holy city among the hills, to
(From the Morning Herald of this the
ought to be rather than as they are. The picture on leaving*. eiven again. The hot diy weather of Joly and Augrat is needless to Fay more.
which the capital cities of the world sent tribute-
It is of the utmost to trace the pro 'ms, however, been favourable to the crops, and OS .••••1.1••••••••11MIVe..........0.1••••=1, 9
Her Majesty's ship London, 90, Captain William H.
there was difficulty in providing resting
places for
of Russia parallel with the gradual inroads onrains which have fallen latterly have done more good pRIC.g 8 OF ii ARE S.
on the S t alafternoon,Jervis, is appointed to be unmasted at Devonport this
the companies which arrived from the north and Gress . practices of Great Bri-
of • d the ancient constitutional pleasure. aux ay that they may d
devote their whole Sunday to worship and medita- ay, and her crew to be paid off on Monday, the 25th than harm to the country generally as yet. We quite I IiTHER CO (-
north AND a s
north east. There was a confluence a river an
rain, and to remark that diplomacy-the modern inst. believe, therefore, that the yield of wheat will prove an I BANKS,
I
lion,
is so easy to (haw picturesquely
and colourunusually productive one. As to the other crops, we 1 PANIES' STOCK.
two brooks and a group of 200 ponds at one spot inused
term to cover infractions
attractively, that vee are afraid some disappoint may shortly say that of the returns of the barley
the steppe, which seemed suitable for the purpose ;
powerful in the hand of the Muscovite only . - Claude H. M. Buckle, was unmaetei at Davenport on
weapon in t may beex ected if the i
ci op, 30 put it as an average, 98 at over average, and
and ou that spot a little solitary chapel was erected,
tritest'England has laid aside her buckler of law. l tried la -P experiment s ever to Saturday ; her crew are orderel to be paid off to-mur- Front the Ujficial Inst.
(
and a pries • t was appointed to serve it. A few s. gave a brief historical Sketch Some time ago we , , eaou a :ge scale. That five hours' labour row. .
• can be abstracted from the week without causing The Des 63 as under average. Of the oat crop reports 20 put it
at average, 96 as over average, and 78 as under average. i
'"UBLISR ED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING ;
patch, gun-boat, was taken out of dock on LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1856.
roofs soon sheltered the pilgrims ; and the gardens,
f the gradual disuse of the functions of the Privy
corresponding adjustment between The acreable produce of the barley crop is tittle at least
went from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound , ..' GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
Which belonged to them showed how great was the °0 andexplained that although prior to
Council we a
capital is of course out of thequestion ; either as much above an average-and we beneve them both
on Wednesday.
fertility. That little chapel still exists, looking
the year 1700 attempts had been made by various ' ,to be unusually good-as that of oats ; but to the for- Dividend I Amount
~>< ter or workman must suffer, and all experience The screw steam-ship Conqueror, 101, Commander Paid. Price.
much as it did a thousand years ago, and much
Sovereigns to govern by favourites alone and with- 11 .mar must be added the cmsideration that so few acres Name of Company. per of
15,510ng since shown us that the capitalist will not. Charles Fellowes, from Queenstown, arrived at Plymouth Annum. Share. I
as it may do when all around it has crumbled into tt t he d always been
a council, yet such a emp s a ofthe barley lably b
ruin. That lowly little old-fashioned church is out.
A d. iv tit t tlth t • hof the
resistes, an t awas no un 1 e riunrip Friday, The competition of manufacture is too severe to leave on y' has been the case this year. The pulse crops are gen • Xs.d.X a. d.
tse margin sufficient to bear a diminutionThe crews of the screw steam-ship Cornwallis, 60
of- -
. relly geod, especially those of peas, and on the green British ••••••• • • • • • • • - l -
usually crowded with worshippers • and next White faction •
in r
1-05 that the Crown, with all its i store than. eight per cent, Ca • George G. CaptainWellesley, the paddlewheel steam- '
p at. upon production, which f • Leopard, • -
crop returns we may justly add that they refer exciu- • 1
month it will be as *full as it can 'hold, nightthe lads of
ewer and privileges, literally fell into hafrigate 18, Captain Courtenay O. Hayes, and 5/. 20 0 0 20 0 0 15
-Fould. assuming the men to Brighton • • • • • • • • • • • .
work ten hourssteely to turnips maugeed wurtz-1, &e not to grass er !100 0 0 leo 5 u -
and day. It stands under the shadow of the cache- Pa
one or two influential men, who could hold. to- , s. ensue, , .the troop-ship Belleisle, 6, Commander James Hosken, CRY of London -•• •• 41. os.
dral of the Assumption at Moscow, where the Czar
;:e'tYlaer, and by any means, however unscrupulous, a-day; sc stays in. the week ; and when it is re- were paid off at Plymouth on Wednesday ; the crew f hay, nor to p )tatoes. They are generally, it will be seen, Contineatal (4th Cap.) . - 15000 20 0 0 -
3 150 0 0 all , 35
Alexander is going to be crowned. Around that s, e a return of a favourable majority in the membered how many men take a holiday on the the Queen, 116, Captain Robert F. Stopford, were paid unfavourable, As to the hay crop, including the first E-Luitai ••• •••• 0: .• *.•
81 2t. log.
1 10 0 0 all 12
ToCUT I\ Lerida called Salo t Monda fbeen un recedentedly well t and ,-rear Central .••
all 90
little church have arisen seven cathedrals and six
PHouse of Commons, thus depriving the Sovereign • .y, . e yr _or this very reason, off on Friday, and the ship towed to her moorings in cut of clover, it has
have - g ' lmperial .. • • ........ 10/. & bonus. 50 0 0
it; will be seen that even that lar. . abundaut. The
opinions we had given us of the. independent
........• 51. i4O 0 0 t, , ...
~,e fi.ure does not ordinary by the Confianoe and Zephyr on Saturday.
hundred churches, most of which have five or
of his councillors, and engrossing to themselves the . . 50 0 0
d ,fine the extent of the ca ital p Mato crop are generally favourable. The disease is _
p ist s possible loss ; for The hired screw steam-transport Williain Hutt, from . i „ 125
more cupolas ; so that, judging by the appearance
of the
whole power
which it presents to the approaching traveller,
Prior to the year 1700 the present empire o.
, vrhere the men only work five days, the production C
_ onstantinople, July 21 ; Malta, 28 ; Gibraltar, Au- spoken of in a few places, aces, but by no means generally.- ~,,,e ..ix
.............
Agricultural Gazette. 41. per cent. ;60 0 0 52 0 0 1 -
5/. ,100 0 0 16 0 0 ' 16
Moscow should be the Holy City par excellence 1 to 1_
Russia consisted of a mere province, scarce y e
anould fall short by ten per cent., and there are no gust 6•; and Cadiz 8, wit provision stores for Ports- Ratcliff -• • • .. •• •• •
United General .• •• •• 21. 10s. 50 0 0 all I -
of the world. While these churches have arisen
designated kingdom called M - of which '
a, uscovy , refits? capable of bearing such a diminution as that. ,noubu, a
The alternative of requiring•5 Ru-sian cannon ut into
And 1. . , pPlymouth
Sound on Friday. ___ . __ _
Westminster Chartered 4f per cent. 50 0 0 ,' " I 53
50 0 0 10 0 0 10%
the men to work an Ditto, New .... • • • • -
round the antique nucleus, the oardeias have he -
1 M dwhich was scarcely -EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.
t, the capita was Moscow, an additional hour on the other fiveThe Ray. C. E. Yeo, chaplain of the screw steam-
days, so as toWATER-WORKS.
•me a thousand, and the little lakes have by de-
known in E
urope.ship James Waet, 91, has presented to the Re 1N I
ya ava • _
equalise the week'sproduction, unfortunat
ely is
g:ees been enclosed within parks and pleasure
The defiance of Queen Elizabeth's representative
(Front the Adelaide Observer.) Paid. Price
grounds •; so that Moscow is reasonably the boast
to the very person and presence of Ivan the Ter- Lae ' o jection that the men are mostlY 14e. 7d., subscribed by the officars of the Land Trans- Name of Company. per of
worked. u to their full available strength Among the official documents laid upon the table of Annum. Share.
of Russians, for its beauties and pleasures, as well
rible himself, and the admiration expressed by that p„, already, port Service, who embarked at the Crimea for passage
as for the sacred privileges which make it truly
fer • for the
ferocious savage Englishman's courage. ,
and that the few hours of leisure they have in the home in that ship. the Legialative Council was the report of the select corn- - X s. d. X S. d.
creek are
the holy city of the Muscovite. There will a new . insufficient, as it is, for anything in the The dinner to the members of the Artillery cope now mittea appointed on Mr. Blyth's motion to inquire into East London
should never be forgotten.o 0 all 78
shae of moral cultivation intellectual the .
excessive
female immigration, to e
g ether with the Grand Junction
p or improve- stationed at Ipswich, and lately returned from the Cri-SO%
Czar be presently crowned, encompassed. by dele-
At later • d the diaries of Sir John Finer, a period eKent.... • •
minutes of evidence and a pendix ertaining thereto. 95
gations from the powers of the world of our day.
Master of the Ceremonies to James 1., and that of i nen ,t or even intellectual recreatioia which to mea, passed off with great eclat. The High Sheriff of The' report itself has alreadypb P - Lambeth • • .... ••- . • - 100 0 0 -
been published in this jour- - -
New River Company 2l. 10s. -
All the pomp that the nations of Europe and Asia
Pepys, shows in whatsortof estimation the am-
epys,
nal, the evidence •
tau manifest through their representatives will be
held,an extraordinary
Dassalors were whom, on weary clerk, is probably the most effective form in inner which was on •
after the d , a liberal and handsome but - -
61 0 0 - 100
which the treasures of mind can be scale,f '
meats orming the appendix have net yet appeared in West Middlesex .. • SI. per cent.
tendered, and- .
there ; and close at hand, within the enclosure of
occasion, the Dukes of Muscovy had sent to the rint• The whole
Her Majesty's slop Algiers, 91, Captain Codrington, P • forms a bulky pamphlet of 70 folios, BRIDGES.
the Kremlin itself, there will be exhibited spectacles
Court of Britain. The former represents them as that. any further exertion of body or tension of C. 8., from and an
rom the Crimea but last from Soithead where presents overwhelming array of facts and figures,
more calculated to foster the pride of Russia than. d. ' I •t 1 b 1" • .
P in an ante-room, an imp ici y e ievin, mind might be detrimental to physical well-being. she arrived 'on Tuesday, and was instantly ordered off
• ' impeaching the conduct of the Emigration Commis- Dividend Amount
of Paid. Price.
all the magnificence which will be presented as the
that they, were highly honoured by being allowed ' d .
It is lamentable h bdeow o y and soul are alike ground to Queenstown, nut into Falmouth with strong westerly sinners. Name of Company. per
Annum. Share.
homage of the existing generation. In that range .
Term red view of the British Sovereign ; own in the great labour mill of this country, but winds and short of fuel on Thursiay and would take in The number of days on which the committee sat was
an unin p . s. d. .S s. d.
of galleries which all strangers will visit-that place with the thought that it is a fact, and must be dealt with as such. It 250 tons of coal before proceeding. 'The Algiers has on 15, and the number of witnesses examined eas 33. The _ -7%
and. the latter makes merry wi Ittneerford....•• .... -
in which are preserved all the crows, canopies, and suitsounds cold-blooded to say that the national great- board the entire of the 56th Regiment, and the left wing ,greater part of this number consisted of the female im- - 100 0 0 - -
had been supplied to the barbarous '
one court
marriage robes of all the Emperors-there are re- on leaving his country, which, as it had to mess is am to the national toil, and that the toilers of the ath Regiment, *umbering upwards of 1,100 men. migrants themselves, the other consisting of the officials New oeek p.c. le per cent. So 0 0 - -
lies which the Muscovites show to their guests with envoy g
his sire little cared for at the hands of thosewith whom The Esmeralda, Cl:titian Government steam-frigate, connected with the immigration and destitute establish- - 100 0 0 - -
used in rota- •
be worn out before return, was - -
throbbing hearts. The crown of the conquered ~hey are in closest contact, and whom chiefly they bound for Valparaiso, also remained at Falmouth, coal- meats, in Colonial Secretary, and one or two private 26
bthe ambassador his and his
ton y , secretory, Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 10s. 4d. 40 0 0
kingdom of Kasen is there, and beside it the crowns , • , aggrandise ; but this, though not existing at pre- ing. &c. gentlemen. The evidence, as is already known, estab- Vauxhall ...... -.. • • 965. 70 10 3 - 21
unclean suite. lishes the fact that the Emigration Commissioner; S S-
of Astrachan and Siberia. The symbols of the so- - , • i position The change in the relative ve oia of the two sent to anything like the serious extent which for- Tae Malacca, 17, Captain Arthur Farquhar, is at y
tersatically despatched large numbers of persons in direct DOCKS.
vereignty of Georgia are there too, and a plain
countries dates from the visit of Peter the Great t 0 . 3' e .
merl disgraced and endangered the manufactur- Chatham, refitting for sea.
The Calypso, 28, is in dock at Chatham for the pur- opposition to their instructions ; and also that they ship- Dividend Amount
crown of bright gold, with a cross in the centre, be- and the almost simultaneousdeprivation
England, 'tog interest, is but a corollary of the absolute ne-
ose of under • going extensive alterations and improve- Ped for Port Adelaide great numbers of persons who a•per
Name of Company.
Annum. of
Share. I Paid. Price
10Doina to a throne of blue
they
studded withcessity of getting a fair day's work for a fair day's
e f B'" h. Sovereign f ' •standing - - ci. sp
o the ntas o lie sal re asn-b • • di' ' her 1 tb Th.
manta
y receiving an a t Leon to eng . is yes- -
plied for passages to Sydney, Melbourne, and Geelong.
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golden stars-the crown and the seat of Casimir, . wage, and exemplifies the impossibility of recon- xs.d.lX s. d.
blcouncillors. •
si. e sal was built at Chatham and launched in 1845. The Some of the poor creatures thus shamefully entrapped
Stock. Stock.
ciling the dictates of humanity, not so much with Commercial •• - -.. •• 51. pr cent.
Sobieski, and Stanislaus Augustus. Gifts and. fro- t h.
The only seaport Peter possessed a is acces- dock in which the Calypso' ' lying •to be lengthened is is were given to understand that the Adelaide Government
East and West India.. 61, pr cent. Stock. 126-
the cupidity of the employers of labour as with would be bound to send there on to their destination ; - - -
pities are there from all royal cities from Pekin to
sion was Archangel, situated in the frozen regions 40 feet to enable vessels of a larger class to be docked. East Cinntry• • 2os. per sit.
Lisbon, from every country lying between Iceland
f the White Sea. He saw that an outlet by the the demands of very economical customers. The following vessels are now building at Chatham others that it was but a short distance from Adelaide to London .- .. ... ..- 5l. pr cent. Stock.
- I -
- 104%
-
and Madagascar. From the day when d.wellingsbegan
lc was an in ispensa e necessi y for Russian
of
' d.• bl 't On the other hand, if it be assumed that as the dockyard, and are in Various steges of progtless :-The Melbourne or Sydney ; a b
an- others were put on board Ditto Bonds 4l. per cent.
St. Katharine .. •• - 119
to rise round the chapel iu the desert to the acces-
as well for securing a foreign commerce,
advantage
is on the side of the employed so should Renown, 91, screw-steamer, -sin a forward state, and will ship like cattle, without their consent to the change in
ouths.mpton .• •• .. .• 3/. Os per C. 50 0 0! ea 0 0 , -
sion of the present Czar, every reign -has added advance, . - . be the loss, and that he should be mulcted of the be ready for launching early in the ensuing year ; this their destination being so much as asked or expected. In Victoria .......•• •• - I 51. percent. 20 00i10 0 0 I 2114
as for connecting Russia with Europe, and acting
something to the pride of Moscow. First, churcheshalf day's pay, or of one-twelfth of his income, the vessel is a few feet longer its broad facts this abominable prostitution of colonial
than the Orion, 90, and is the
the countries of the
that connection with
through
go funds for the purpose of kidnapping is already well JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
and palaces were multiplied, and then every sore- question at once arises, can he afford it? Let any
East. intended to be fitted with a screw. The Hood, 80, and known to our readers. But as the evidence now pub- Dividend Amount
reign desired and strove to contribute some memo- one read au account of the weekly expenditure of of Paid: Price.
Consequently, the Czar, in 1697, arrived in Lon- the Irresistible, 80, both fitting for a screw. The Racoon, lished supplies us with more precise details, and as it Name of Compahy. per
real of the annexation of a new state. From the
don, having visited Riga K• b Dt• „ , onigs urg„ an zic, with family,' - a man, a earning from 2as. to 30s. a impossible, un iwe securethe advantages of the new
20, screw-corvtte buildin • is CI
g on the same slip as that Annum. , Share.
time when St. Petersburg arose out of the swamps e
Hamburg, d Amsterdam,and h • prepared g, an an having prepare week, and he will see how little he can afford any from which the Cadmus, 20, was recently launched. Waste Lands Act, to give too much prominence to this --.
,
, X a. d. Z a. d.
it has been the ambition and the custom of Rus-deduction of income ; let him look at the ever-re- subject, we shall extract from the evidence of the female A.u5tra1a5ia........... 201, per cent. 40 0 0 all 103
the means for using the various powers of Europe The Charybdis, 20, screw-steamer, laid down in March
sian monarchs to add to the row of keys of con- • and Poland.H found cursing tea, 10d.; sugar, 7d.; milk, 7d.; soap, 6d.; last on the slip from immigrants themselves the unvarnished statement of commercialrfcan 61. per cent. 50 0 0 '0
which the Severn, 50, sailing fri-
against Sweden Turkey,
quered fortresses in the cathedral of the new capi-salt and pepper, 2d.; vegetables, is. 2d. ; and the gate was launched. In addition to the above a large their and our wrongs. Colonial - ... •• • ...... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 21
in England a "Minister' to his mind."
tai, and to the display of crowns and thrones in
The Earlof D b had been • ched by
Darn by impeached the humble weekly items that make up the poor man's vessel is ordered to be built on the new granite slip on Frances MgDowell came out in the Rodney, asked 61, per cent. 2520
00 0 25
au
g -22
the Kremlin of the old. comforts, to say nothing of the more important which the 'Etna, 16, floating battery
was constructed. •
tor a passage to Melbourne, but on getting herlembarka• Lond.Char. Bk. of Aus. -
Commons for " traitorously encroaching to him-London and County •• . 101. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 36!‘
It cannot be but that this aspiration must be innecessaries, bread, meat (unhappily not always), A detachment of the Scots Greys, consisting of four flog order found it was for Adelaide. Ellen Door carne
Lenart end Westminatr 114/. percent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 49
by treating •
self regal power, in matters of peace out in the _Australia, applied fora passage for herself
the memory of every witness of the approachin.clothes, and fire, and he will soon see how much officers and 83 men, will embark to-day at Liverpool for London Joint-Stock .•• 121., per cent. 50 0 0 105 0 0 32
and. war with foreign ambassadors and princes, and
coronation-from the Czar himself to the humble:t better the two shillings or half-a-crown, the half Dublin, end on Wednesday a similar detachment of the and sister to Sydney. Her sister was sect out here in Frovin:tf Ireland.: ! 81. per cent.i '7: 0o 0
all
giving instructions to his Majesty's amba.ssadors same regiment will sail for the same destination. On the Cressy, but there not being room for both she was 22 10 0 -
attache of the smallest legation present. The goes- day's pay, might be employed ; in fact, in many Naptlotttir,l of ifr.e.i.a.r:d.•...... ' 61. per cent. 50 0 0
abroad without communicating the same to the Saturday evening the steam-transport Pacific No. 8) sent out in the Australia,. She "cried a great deal, and
tion cannot but be in all minds whether Alexander cases, instead of being a boon it would be simply aNat Provincial of Eng. 8!. per cent. 102 g 0 0 3150 g g -__
Secretaries of State and the rest of his Majesty's arrived at Liverpool from Dublin with the depot of the said she would rather be sent home again than be sepa Ditto, New .. ••..•• i V. per
11. desires and designs to adopt and fulfil the ambi-
council." 15th Regiment, consisting of 13 officers and 356 men • and rated from her sister." Honor Kennedy applied fora 0 0 -
ft
tion of his ancestors, or whether he is capable of The Minister stood his ground when the King, the privation of the choice of what day in the week the depot of the 96th Regiment-13 officers and 243 ' men. passage to Melbourne, but was sent to Adelaide in the South Australia •• . jl4l per cent.
25 0 0
Union of Australia.... 30/. per cent. 25 69
the higher and better aspirations which it must be his ,lied. He • d •
master, was exp was raise in the the working man would indulge himself with aea Wednesday she will embark, at Liverpool, for Dub- Northern Light without her consent being asked. She Ditto .............. 301. per cent. - 2ib 0 -
reserved. for some sovereigns to entertain, sooner holiday. The cases of clerks, shopmen, ikc., Jac., lin, the depot of the 4th Regiment-29 officers and 864 "did not know the difference " between the two places. union of London. '2o.!. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 28M
dnext find that " while the Czar
peerage, an theinto
with Union of Madrid ..... 1 40 0 0 all
or later. The march of centuries must bring onwould. be still worse, inasmuch as they have to men ; and on subsequent days the following changee Jane Higgins "obtained an order for Melbourne, ' but
"n England he entered a treaty some '
the change in civilisation which makes it a disgrace
waslEnglishmerchants togive them a free keep up some sort of appearance ; but we refrain between Dublin and Liverpool will be effected through found, on arriving •at Plymouth, that there was ho ship CANALS.
considerable.. .
instead of a glory to carry off crowns and thronesfrom entering into them, preferring to treat the her instrumentality ; -From Dublin, 21 officers and 392 for Melbourne, and so came to Adelaide in the Thomas .
by the strong hand, as men used. to levy tit© cattle monopolyci. of tobacco into his dominions, on the matter as altogether a working-man's question. of the 41st, and 15 officers and 37 men of the 49th ; Arbuthnot. Thought it was "no use to object." Names of .' 1 Dividend Price Names of ~.,, .
4 Dividend
per
f • -s per hogshead to the Mar-
con. ition o paying . p . Companies. es . Price,
and the merchandise of the caravan, and to lay There is, however, another point of view, in which from Liverpool, 38 officers and 864 men of the 38th • Ellen Neal applied for a passage to Melbourne, and Companies. a
Annum.per,.,„ ..n...
Ins of Carmarthen.received an order for the Octavio, on the berth for Ade. _ _
we cannot help thinking that this proposition re- from Dublin, 21 officers and 335 men of the 30th, and
waste kingdoms as barbaric chiefs used to harry their
q H • thus secured English Minister and
Having. an24 officers 568 men of the 55th ; from Liverpool, 24 laide. Was told that Adelaide and Melbourne were X I
X I
neighbours' lands. Sooner or later the day must •quires the very gravest consideration. The Satur- I
f English Court b
having excited the fears o the y officers an i 864 men of the 77th • from Dublin 15 offi- only one day's walk apart. Mary Fitzgerald has an Ashtn &Oldh 93 71. p. et., 145 Macclesfield. 100 21. 10i. 51
come which will show to every potentate that the •day half-holiday, of course, implies the payment
e'
•the Swedish Monarchengaged •
representing as in cars and 380 men of the 51st, and 15 officers and 380 aunt living in Swanston-street, Melbourne, and obtained Banirecl;•l:, zi. g:fd:::::: iioog 161.
103
kingdom which most requires conquering is his own • • of wages on the Friday night, but it by no means men
withthe British Jacobites for the
conspiring
ileirrknnenehamgi 40! 4/. 93% Peak Forest. 78, 51. Os. 76
with its needs and its faults ; that the keys of his implies the expending those wages at market b
ration of the Stuarts; and having been victoriousby The 16th Lancers are under orders to march for tralie at Plymouth, bound for Adelaide, and as she Coventry.... 100, 251. - Regent's.... 30 11 16
own fortress are those which he had better hang
at Pultawa, Peter finally obtained the treaty of the wife on the Saturday afternoon. Human Longford immediately. They are at present stationed "could not help matters, consented to come on to Ade- Derby •
30. C. h-s
1(4) 2t'li 15cst.. 84 Rochdale.... es es' le ios. 76
up, and that the trophies of science art, and popu-
-1721, b which Russia gained the Swedish provinces astute is human nature after all. We may talk of in Dublin, and may be expected in Longford on Tuesday laide," but expressed her great disappointment to the E irlas n e
G ill drJunctn 100 31. pPr..ct. 43 Do. Lk FdSt 1t(2) - -
lar welfare, will shine more brightly in the eyes of of EsthY • I • and Livonia including the the dignity of labour • but the sons of labour or Wednesday next. person in charge at Plymouth. Mary Ring arrived by Do., 6 pr. Ct.! 10 61. pr. ct. 11% Stfird &Wore 140 281. 420
posterity than all the barbaric gold, ivory, and tow
towns
oofnsiat., nria,
Revel, stud Cronstadt. think of the delights Of drink, and it is much to the Australia, having applied for a passage to Melbourne, Grand Surrey; 100' 41. - Shrewsbury.. 125 - -
1100 11.0 s, - Stourbridge.. 5 121. 290
Petersburgso and thought she was going there, until she found out Grand Union ,
and' l4
gems that the famous Moscow galleries can show. be feared. that the possession of the week's wages
On the capture and execution of the Czar's envoy, her mistake on board ship. Bridget Broderick, by the Kennt & Avii 39 6s. Od. 6% revernl
i 26 2i. -
The coming of that day can no imager be altogether Baron Gertz b Swedish h officers after the death of
, y is . ,
.on the Friday night would lead many to make THE HARVEST. Europa, obtained an order for Melbourne, and never Lancaster . 100, - - Wye Rail.
Leeds &Livri 100! 251. 483% Warwick & 7
ignored. Nicholas talked as Alexander I. had talked Saturday a whole holiday, and that the money 21. 25
Charles XII at Frederickshall his loaners were ---as-. knew there was such a place as Adelaide until after Leicester-HMI 61. 49f6 Birming. 5 100
before him of the amazing deal he had to do for his ” - ' • - with which the wife ought to make her purchases Leicstr &Nth, 83 - -- Warwick & 1
seized. and published. The plan. he had brought Our contemporary, the Gardener's Chronicle, pub- nhe was on board ship. Elizabeth Cagney, by the 21. 10
people, and of the folly of sup posing therefore thathe f the
o needful food and groceries for the en-Loughborogh, 142 701. 550 Napton...s 100
from Peter to propose to the Swedish King con- lichee this week reports from upwards of 200 correspon- Glentanner, also applied for Melbourne, and only Monmouthshlloo - Worcstr &I '
78 Si, •
20
dreamed of any aggression beyond his ownfrontier; rained this amonest other conditions fora plan of suing week would. have found its way to the pub- dents in all the counties of England, and f • found out she was coming to Adelaide after embark- mntgmerysh'loo - - Birming.
and v.t. ho Ice.nt. sin two ftriniost_ one for home ...• e -es aele _.... a ,s. - -KT-43- -r -w.,...-- t lican before the ordinary marketing hours of the narts of Scotland_ Tnihi.rol •iiid 'L. ~.rO, from in g .
Margaret Duggan, whose brother had preceded Meltnlawbriloo! - - Wilts & arks -10 s. Od. ....

There is much in the, present movement for a
universal Sam- :day half-holiday to excite the ad-
miration of tl'.e philem thropist, and to stimulate
the zeal of those who expect things to be as they
ought to be rather than as they are. The picture
of the happy and contented family taking their
pleasure on the Saturday afternoon, that they may
devote their whole Sunday to worship and medita-
tion, is so easy to (haw picturesquely and colour
attractively, that we are afraid some disappoint-
ment may be expected if the experiment is ever to
he tried ou a la-:ge scale. That five hours' labour
can be abstracted from the week without causing
a correspond-mg adjustment between labour and
capital is, of course, out of the question ; either
piaster or workman must suffer, and all experience
liP,s long since shown us that the capitalist will not.
T he competition of manufacture is too severe to leave
t se margin sufficient to bear a diminution of
nore than eight per cent, upon production, which
ffOlllCl ensue, assuming the men to work ten hours
a-day- for six days in the week ; and when it is re-
msernbered how many men take a holiday on the
tonday, called Safilt Monday for this very reason,
it, will be seen that even that large figure does not
d afine the extent of the capitalist's possible loss ; for
vrhere the men only work five days, the production
rkrould fall short by ten per cent., and there are no
.?rofits capable of bearing such a diminution as that.
The alternative of requiring the men to work an
additional hour on the other five days, so as to
, equalise the week's production, unfortunately is
met by the objection that the men are mostly
worked up to their full available strength already,
and that the few. hours of leisure they have in the
ureek are insufficient, as it is, for anything in the
s hape of moral cultivation or intellectual improve-
vent, or even intellectual recreation, which, to
tle already overworked and tisk. worn artisan or
weary clerk, is probably the most effective form in
which the treasures of mind can be tendered, and
that any further exertion of body or tension of
mind might be detrimental to physical well-being.
It is lamentable how body and soul are alike ground
down in the great labour mill of this country, but
it is a fact, and must be dealt with as such. It
sounds cold-blooded to say that the national great-
n.ess is dim to the national toil, and that the toilers
Fire little cared for at the hands of those with whom
they are in closest contact, and whom chiefly they
aggrandise ; but this, though not existing at pre-
' sent to anything like the serious extent which for-
merly disgraced and endangered the manufactur-
ing interest, is but a corollary of the absolute ne-
cessity of getting a fair day's work for a fair day's
wage, and exemplifies the impossibility of recon-
ciling the dictates of humanity, not so much with
the cupidity of the employers of labour as with
the demands of very economical customers.
On the other hand, if it be assumed that as the
advantage is on the side of the employed so should
be the loss, and that he should be mulcted of the
half day's pay, or of one-twelfth of his income, the
question at once arises, can he afford it 7 Let any
one read as account of the weekly expenditure of
a man, with a family, earning from 255. to 30s. a
week, and he will see how little he can afford any
deduction of income ; let him look at the ever-re-
curring tea, 10d.; sugar, 71d.; milk, 7d.; soap, Gd.;
salt and pepper, 2d.; vegetables, ls. 2d. ; and the
humble weekly items that make up the poor man's
comforts, to say nothing of the more important
necessaries, bread, meat (unhappily not always),
clothes, and fire, and he will soon see how much
better the two shillings or half-a-crown, the half
day's pay, might be employed ; in fact, in many
cases, instead of being a boon it would be simply a
compulsory diminution of income, conjoined with
the privation of the choice of what day in the week
the working man would indulge himself with a
holiday. The cases of clerks, shopmen, Jac.,
would be still worse, inasmuch as they have to
keep up some sort of appearance ; but we refrain
from entering into them, preferring to treat the
matter as altogether a working-man's question.
There is, however, another point of view, in which
we cannot help thinking that this proposition re-
quires the very gravest consideration. The Satur-
day half-holiday, of course, implies the payment
of wages on the Friday night, but it by no means
implies the expending those wages at market by
the wife on the Saturday afternoon. Human
mature is human nature after all. We may talk of
the dignity of labour ; but the sons of labour
think of the delights of drink, and it is much to
be feared that the possession of the week's wages
on the Friday night would lead many to make
Saturday a whole holiday, and that the money
with which the wife ought to make her purchases
of the needful food and groceries for the en-
suing week would. have found its way to the pub-
lican before the ordinary marketing hours of the
lower classes commenced. Stack is known to have
been the case in many of the experiments of paying
wages on the Friday; and neither employer nor la-
bourer, wife nor child, can possibly benefit by such
a result. That many may unconsciously advocate
the Saturday half-holiday from a desire that a
Sunday may be spent according to their own views,
we do not doubt, nor do we blame them. The
proper observance of the Sabbath is ground upon
which all Christians may meet in principle, though
they may differ in degree. We merely warn
them that a custom which has been established
for hundreds of years must have some solid foun-
dation to rest upon ; that there were originally
good reasons for preferring Saturday to any
other day in the weeh ; and that when an alte-
ration is attempted these reasons will probably-
reappear in their original force—that the con-
ditions of capital are as inexorable as its
demands—that the duration of labourhours cannot
be controlled by sentiment, however amiable—that
the law of wages is a law of nature, and cannot be
abrogated or even strained to suit the most benevo-
lent intentions if not guided by the wisdom that
accepts the worldasit is—that in this, as in all other
attempts to step between labour and capital, the
first, last, and greatest sufferers are those that live
by their daily toil; and as philanthropic fashion is
powerless alike against the commerce of the world
and the smallest baker's bill, we would caution them
not to expect too much from this movement, or to
press it too hastily. There are few employers who
cannot from time to time give their men a half holi-
day without cost to them or loss to themselves.
This is an unmixed good, as cementing the links of
good feeling between employers and employed; and
a few such, judiciously accorded, may directly be-
nefit the employer, by the increased willingness of
the men, and the increase of his influence over them.
Each individual knowing his own circumstances
best is best able to judge for himself when and how
the relaxation shall be allowed ; but any injudicious
interference from without with the course of labour
is likely to do little else than produce disaster.—
Morning Post.

Dividend i Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X s. d. £ a. d.
British • • • • • • ... • • • • .. - - -
Ditto Provincial.. •• 71. 20 0 0 20 0 0 -
Brighton • • • • • • • • • • • . 51. 20 0 0 20 0 0 15
City of London ...... 41. Os. 100 0 0 100 6 u -
Continearal (4th Cap.) . - 60 0 0 20 0 0 -
Eluitable • •• •• •• •• 21. 103. j 60 0 0 all 35
,freat Central .. - .. . 81 per cent. 10 0 0 all 12%
Imperial • • - ........ 101.& bourn!. 50 0 0 all 90
Independent ......... 51. 40 0 0 t, •••
London.• ............ - 50 0 0 ++ -
Do., Pail. Preference 61. per cent. 25 0 0 ~, 25
P,lce• Ix ............. 41. per cent. ; 60 0 0 52 0 0 -
Ratcliff - •• • ....... 51. ,100 0 0 16 0 0 16
United General .• • • •• 21. 10s. 50 0 0 all , -
Westminster Chartered 4f per cent. 50 0 0 ~
Ditto, New • • • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 10%
WATER-WORKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
, Annum. Share.
- -
.£ a. d. £ s. d.
East London
Grand Junction
Kent.... • • - 30%
Lambeth • • - 100 0 0 - 95
New River Company 21.105. - -
Southwark & Vauxhall 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - -
West Middlesex • • • • - 100
BRIDGES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
'
. X s. d. X s. d.
lltingerford.... • • .... --- - -7%
Southwark ...... • ... -•120 0 0 - -
Ditto New of 7% p.c. 1/. per cent. 50 0 0 - -
Waterloo - 100 0 0 - -
Ditto Old Ann. of it 11. 14s. Bd. 60 0 0 - -
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 10s. 4d. 40 0 0 - 264
Vauxha11.......... • • 965. 70 10 3 - 21
DOCKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
---
X s. d. £ s. d.
, Commercial .• - - .. •• 51. pr cent. Stock. Stock. -
East and West India.. 61. pr cent. Stock. - 126
East Ciantry• • 2os. per sh. - ..... -
London .•• • • • •• ••-•• 51. pr cent. Stock. - 104%
Ditto Bonds .. - - -
St. Katharine - $9
outha.mpton •• • . .• .• 3/. Os per c. 50 0 0 56 o o , -
Victoria ...... • •
1
[ JOINT-STOCK BANKS. .
• Dividend Amount
Name of Compahy. per of Paid: Price.
Annum. Share.
r ----
3 --. ,
X s. d. X s. d.
3 Australasia.......... 20/. per cent. 40 0 0 all 103
f British North American 61. per cent. 50 0 0 ..-
, 2
Commercial of London. 10/.per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 31%
, Colonial .. ... • • • ...... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 21%
1 lonian.- .• • ....... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
. Gond. Char. Bk. of Ans. - 20 0 0 all 0 22
, London and County • • . 101. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 36%
',. Lculdn nod Westminatr 114/. percent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 49
l London Joint-Stock ... ,121. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 32
3 Provincial of Ireland•. 18t . per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
a Ditto, New..• ...... 81. per cent. 10 0 0 all -
I NatiOtif[a of Ireland.... 6l. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Nat. Provincial of Eng. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New .. • • .... ? V. per cant. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
a Oriental Bank Corpora. 84 p. ct.&bs. 25 0 0 all -
South Australia • • .... i 141 p.ct.& bs. 25 0 0 fil
a.--.
- Union of Australia.... 30/. per cent. 25 0 0 69
O Ditto .............. 301. per cent. - 2 ib 0 -
~ Union of London. '20.,.. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 2814
t Union of Madrid ... •• 1 - 40 0 0 all -
- ...

The number of days on which the committee sat was
15, and the number of witnesses examined e as 33. The
greater part of this number consisted of the female im-
migrants themselves, the other consisting of the officials
connected with the immigration and destitute establish-
ments, in Colonial Secretary, and one or two private
gentlemen. The evidence, as is already known, estab-
li,hes the fact that the Emigration Commissioners sys-
tematically despatched large numbers of persons in direct
opposition to their instructions ; and also that they ship-
ped for Port Adelaide great numbers of persons who ap•
plied for passages to Sydney, Melbourne, and Geelong.
Some of the poor creatures thus shamefully entrapped
were given to understand that the Adelaide Government
would be bound to send them on to their destination ;
others that it was but a short distance from Adelaide to
Melbourne or Sydney ; and others were put on board
ship like cattle, without their consent to the change in
their destination being so much as asked or expected. In
its broad facts this abominable prostitution of colonial
funds for the purpose of kidnapping is already well
known to our readers. But as the evidence now pub-
lished supplies us with more precise details, and as it
is impossible, until we secure the advantages of the new
Waste Lands Act, to give too much prominence to this
subject, we shall extract from the evidence of the female
immigrants themselves the unvarnished statement of
their and our wrongs.
Frances MgDowell came out in the Rodney, asked
for a passage to Melbourne, but on getting herlembarka-
' tion order found it was for Adelaide. Ellen Door came
out in the Australia, applied for a passage for herself
and sister to Sydney. Her sister was sect out here in
the Cressy, but there not being room for both she was
sent out in the Australia. She "cried a great deal, and
said she would rather be sent home again than be sepa
rated from her sister." Honor Kennedy applied for a
passage to Melbourne, but was sent to Adelaide in the
Northern Light without her consent being asked. She
" did not know the difference " between the two places.
Jane Higgins " obtained an order for Melbourne," but
found, on arriving at Plymouth, that there was ho ship
for Melbourne, and so came to Adelaide in the Thomas
Arbuthnot. Thought it was "no use to object."
Ellen Neal applied for a passage to Melbourne, and
received an order for the Octavia, on the berth for Ade-
laide. Was told that Adelaide and Melbourne were
only one day's walk apart. Mary Fitzgerald has an
aunt living in Swanston-street, Melbourne, and obtained
an order for that place, but was sent on board the Aus-
tralia at Plymouth, bound for Adelaide, and as she
"could not help matters, consented to come on to Ade-
laide," but expressed her great disappointment to the
person in charge at Plymouth. Mary Ring arrived by
the Australia, having applied for a passage to Melbourne,
and thought she was going there, until she found out
her mistake on board shin. Bridget Broderick, by the
Europa, obtained an order for Melbourne, and never
knew there was such a place as Adelaide until after
she was on board ship. Elizabeth Cagney, by the
Glentanner, also applied for Melbourne, and only
found out she was coming to Adelaide after embark-
ing. Margaret Duggan, whose brother had preceded
her a few weeks to secure a place in Melbourne, applied
for an order to follow her brother, and was sent to Ade-
laide, with the assurance that the commissioners here
would send her on to Melbourne. Elizabeth Downey
was similarly decoyed on board the same ship. Anas-
tasia Collins, by the Nashwauk, paid her money for
Melbourne, and on getting her sailing order found it was
for Adelaide. Her parents remonstrated, but were told
by the officials that it was " quite easy to get from Ade-
laide to Melbourne." Margaret Fitzgerald applied for a
passage to Melbourne, but on reaching Birkenhead was
put on board the Europa, for Adelaide. Elizabeth Wil-
liams and sister were sent on board the Aliquis, at Birk-
enhead, under precisely similar circumstances. Her ap-
plication was through Mr. Ellis, of Marlb irough•street,
Dublin. Ellen Power wanted to go to Melbourne where
she had friends ; she was therefore put with the Mel-
bourne girls, but at Southampton was put with the Ade-
laide girls. " On protesting against the change in her
destination she was brought before a thin gentleman in
spectacles, who said it was just as well to go to one place
as another, but that when she got to Adelaide she could
state her case to the commissioners if she did not like the
colony." She came out in the Oriental. Mary Riley came
out in the Nashwauk, having applied for a passage to
Sydney, where she had friends. On getting to Birkenhead
she found her destination was Adelaide. She protested
against the change, but was told there was no vessel for
Sydney, and she must go in the Nashwauk. " Many
others who paid their money for Sydney and Melbourne
came out in the Nash wauk to Adelaide." Mary Ann
O'Brien, by the Aliquis, thought ske was on her way to
Melbourne. where she had friends, until after embarking.
The Rev. D. Armstrong, from whom she got her "form,"
told her, in reply to her objection, that Adelaide and
Melbourne were " no great distance from each other,"
and that she could easily get from one to the other
Bridget Keogh came out in the Coromandel, having ap-
plied in Dublin to a relation of Dr. Blood's, of Keputela
for a passage to Melbourne, but he procured her ferme
for Adelaide. Jane Carolly " took out her forms for
Sydney, and paid her money for Sydney," but on arriv-
ing at Plymouth found the embarkation order was for
an Adelaide ship. On objecting she was told she could
get from Adelaide to Sydney in a week, and, not liking
to put her father to further expense, she resolved toe mie.
She was put on board the Thomas Arbuthnot.
The foregoing witnesses were all examined at some
length by the committee, and very many more might
have been added. We never remember hearirg of so
fl grant
thea
conviction
icotfion twholesaleat the
ho,e
kidnapping,aG ov cannotearnndment
o n yet
ob-
taining possession of the evidence elicited by the select
committee, will take steps to bring the offenders in this
business to merited punishment. We hardly know
which is worse—thes shipment of so many girls against
their wills or the extorting of consent from those poor
unfortunate creatures who, after travelling from various
Irish counties to Liverpool, were there told that Ade-
laide and Melbourne were only a day or two's journey
apart, and that if they got to one they could easily get
to the other. For the credit of England we hope the
inquiry which has been instituted here will be followed
by a corresponding inquiry there.
The total number of single women sent out to this
colony in 1855, at the expense of the Land Fund, was
4,049, of whom 1,887 were under 21 years of age ; 2,123
over 21 and under 45. 21 between 45 and 50, and 13
between 50 and 70. These immigrants came-857 from
England, 217 from Scotland, and 2,981 from Ireland.
Their occupations are roost unsatisfactory classed, being
adopted, in fact, from the representations of the girls
themselves, each girl describing herself as belonging to
that class in which she wished to obtain employment.
In this manner the 4,049 wee entered as—domestic ser-
vants, 3,481, farm servants, 3ft, sempetreseee, 47; cooks,
37; dairymaids, 58; laundresses, 36. With respect to
the 3,481 domestic servants and the 390 farm servants,
we now know well enough that it would have been
much nearer the mark had these numbers been ex-
changed. The education classification shows that of
those between 14 and 21 years of age, 569 could read,
911 in addition could write, and 397 were ignorant of
these attainments. Of those, from 21 upwards, 675
could read, 928 could write, and 966 were ignorant.
The total result shows that 1,839 could read, 1,244
could write, and 966 were ignorant. Bet it is needless
to say that of those entered as being able to read and
write, as little reliance can be placed upon the edu-
cational accomplishments they indicated as upon the
aptitude for domestic service of those who in-
scribed
themselves under that head. Of the reli-
gicus persuasions, 2,540 were Catholics, and 1,509
different denominations of Protestants. These immi-
grants arrived in 39 ships, of which 7 arrivel in the
month of April, 4 in May, 4 in June, 4 in December, 3
in January, 3 in February, 3 in July, 3 in August, 3 in
November, 2 in September, 2 in October, and 1 in
March. The largest number of single females in ono
ship, during 1855, was by the Aliquis, in Augnsr,
which brought 241 of this: class of passengers, the next
largest being by thd Grand Trianon, in June, bringing
225. The Fitzjemes, in December, brought the third
highest number—namely, 186, after which several ves-
sels range from 170 to 140. The Mallard and the Caro-
line, in May, brought 28 and 36 respectively, being the
lowest on the list., with the excentien of the Nile, in
February, which brought only 24 single females. Di-
viding the total number by the number of ships, we
find an average of 1291 to each of the 39 ships
arriving
throughout the year. At the time when the evidence
herein referred to ma taken, there were in the depot
311 girls, of whom only 158 had applied for orders
to Adelaide- the rest having been applicants fur
passages to Mellourne, Geelong, at d Sydney. As art sa
miniscence of the extent to which the injustice of the'
Emigration Commissioners has affected not only the

Consequently, the Czar, in 1697, arrived in Lon-
don, having visited Riga, Konigsburg, Dantzic,
Hamburg, and Amsterdam, and having prepared
the means for using the various powers of Europe
against Sweden, Turkey, and Poland. He found
in England a "Minister to his mind."
The Earl of Darnby had been impeached by the
Commons for " traitorously encroaching to him-
self regal power, by treating in matters of peace
and war with foreign ambassadors and princes, and ,
giving instructions to his Majesty's ambassadors
abroad without communicating the same to the
Secretaries of State, and the rest of his Majesty's
council."
The Minister stood his ground when the King,
his master, was expelled. He was raised in the
peerage, and we next find that " while the Czar
was in England he entered into a treaty with some
considerable English merchants to give them a free
monopoly of tobacco into his dominions, on the
condition of paying ss. per hogshead to the Mar-
quis of Carmarthen."
Having thus secured an English Minister, and
having excited the fears of the English Court by
representing the Swedish Monarch as engaged in
conspiring with the British Jacobites for the resto
ration of the Stuarts; and having been victorious
at Pultawa, Peter finally obtained the treaty of
1721, by which Russia gai ued the Swedish provinces
of Esthonia, Ingria, and Livonia, including the
towns of St. Petersburg, Revel, and Cronstadt.
On the capture and execution of the Czar's envoy,
Baron Gortz, by Swedish officers, after the death of
Charles XII., at Frederickshall, his papers were
seized and published. The plan he had brought,
from Peter to propose to the Swedish King con-
tained this amongst other conditions for a plan of
partition of Poland and the North of Europe.
" As to what relates to England, the two parties
take their measures to disable the Court from en-
gaging the nation in any proceedings contrary to
these schemes."
The method of Russia has from that day forward
been invariable as regards England.
The two first Sovereigns of the House of Bruns-
wick, knowing little and caring nothing about Eng-
' land, and deprived of any disinterested council-
lors who could enlighten them, became but as pup-
pets in the hands of successive Ministers, whose
policy was to strengthen themselves by the power
which they derived by their sole possession of state
secrets, and by keeping their compeers, like the
rest of the nation, entirely in the dark.
The struggles made by George lIL to emanci-
pate himself were unavailing, and during the latter
and gloomier years of his life the internal history
of England is but a record of the struggle between
two leaders of faction—the one of whom strength-
ened themselves by the possession of the reigning
Sovereign ; the other by their supposed ascendancy
over the future Regent.
During this time Russia had Europe as a field
open for her onward march, and we find her from
1721 to 1829 continually making new acquisitions.
In 1772 the first partition of Poland took place,
without a protest on the part of the English
Ministry.
In 1774 Russia gained, by the treaty of Kain-
ardji, the Sea of Azoff and part of Turkey.
In 1780, by a secret compact, she got virtual
possession of Oldenburgh.
In 1783 she gained the Crimea ; and in 1792, by
the treaty of Jassy, part of Turkey, including
Odessa.
In 1793 was the second partition of Poland.
In 1795 she gained Courland, and a coast line
on the Baltic.
In 1795 the third partition of Poland.
In 1800 Russia seized Georgia ; in 1802, Min-
grelia.
In 1804-5-6, she dismembered Persia..
In 1809 she seized Finland, and in 1812 Bessa-

It cannot be but that this aspiration must he in
the memory of every witness of the approaching
coronation—from the Czar himself to the humblest
attache of the smallest legation present. The ques-
tion cannot but be in all minds whether Alexander
IL desires and designs to adopt and fulfil the ambi-
tion of his ancestors, or whether he is capable of
the higher and better aspirations which it must be
reserved for some sovereigns to entertain, sooner
or later. The march of centuries must bring on
the change in civilisation which makes it a disgrace
instead of a glory to carry off crowns and thrones
by the strong hand, as men used to levy the cattle
and the merchandise of the caravan, and to lay
waste kingdoms as barbaric chiefs used to harry their
neighbours' lands. Sooner or later the day must
come which will show to every potentate that the
kingdom which most requires conquering is his own
with its needs and its faults ; that the keys of his
own fortress are those which he had better hang
up, and that the trophies of science, art, and popu-
lar welfare, will shine more brightly in the eyes of
posterity than all the barbaric gold, ivory, and
gems that the famous Moscow galleries can show.
The coming of that day can no longer be altogether
ignored. Nicholas talked as Alexander I. had talked
before him of the amazing deal he bad to do for his
people, and of the folly of sup posing therefore that h e
dreamed of any aggression beyond his ownfrontier;
and yet he kept up two armies, one for home
and another for foreign service ; a vast force for the
internal service of the country, and a yet vaster
force, the grand army always moving about on the
frontier where he erected a chain of fortresses, and
stored them with war material to an amount with
which that of Sebastopol itself cannot compare.
The professions of Alexander 11. resemble those of
his father. What will his actions be ? A series of
Czars, with professions of domestic pre-occupation
and peace upon their lips, have lived solely for
aggrandisement by war. Already the new Czar
has excited suspicion by certain movements in Asia
Minor, in the Black Sea, in the Baltic, and in Fin-
mark, While all his talk has been of internal im-
provements and the elevation of his people at home.
If he is already too like his predecessors in this dis-
crepancy between speech and action it can hardly be
hoped that the associations of Moscow will not be too
much for him—that the spectacle of the kingdoms
of the world and the glory of them, epitomised in the
Kremlin will not be au irresistible temptation to him.
It may be well that, as the moment of display—the
crisis, perhaps, of a choice between two methods of
ruling his empire—is drawing near, another spec-
tacle, equally impressive to those who know how to
regard it, is presented in another province of his
dominions.

Our contemporary, the Gardener's Chronicle, pub-
lishes this week reports from upwards of 200 correspon-
dents in all the counties of England, and from many
parts of Scotland, Ireland, aad Wales, of the prospects
of the harvest in their respective districts. The returns
of wheat and barley are almost uniformly favourable, and
and promise a result above the average. In many in-
stances a "great breadth" of wheat is reported—a fact
resulting of course from the high price of grain during
the last winter, and the prospect at that time of a con-
tinuance of the war. The reports of the state of the
green crops present a remarkable contrast, great com-
plaints being made from many districts. Want of rain is
generally mentioned as the cause of failure. The showers
of last week, however, will probably have caused some
improvement, without being sufficiently heavy or con-
tinuous to damage the cereal crops. Of 147 returns from
various parts of Z 9 English counties, 82 represent
the standing wheat as remarkably good, or over
average ; 57 return an " average" or " medium" crop ;
while 8 only are positively unfavourable. The neigh-
bourhood of Barnsley, Think, Tarvin (Cheshire), Dur-
ham, Doddenham (Worcester), Brook Wingham (Kent),
and Corfe Cestie, are the exceptional districts, the wheat
there being light and "under average," or " injured by
blight " and " Sly." Of the barley in the salve counties
82 out of 144 reports speak highly favourably, 39 men-
tion average or medium crop, and 23 are unfavourable—
including such answers as " not average " or "under
average," " ripe too soon," &c. In the neighbourhood
of Blakemore (Heretord), Branfield (Suffolk), and in
some parts of Nottinghamshire, the barley is said to be
" bad," "light," or "deficient." Coleford (Gloucester-
shire) alone reports "very bad." The results as regards
the oat crops are equally encouraging. Eighty-four re-
! ports employ the terms "good," " very good," " heavy,"
&c. ; 39 imply an " average crop," while 16 are less fa-
' vourable ; though none report in worse terms than
" light," "indifferent," or "under average." Peas and
beans, where reported, present results equally ~atisfact-
ory. With regard, however, to what are technically
celled "green crops," the replies, as we hare already in-
'Seated, yield a large proportion of complaints—the
northern arid some midland counties, however, appear-
ing in this respect to be more fortunate. The returns
from Cheshire, Derbyshire, and most parts of Yorkshire
speak in the highest terms ; in the two former counties
we have 52 reports, of which 18 are equivalent to au
" average," 6 unfavourable, and 28 good. Twenty-five
other counties show a great contrast ; in Worcester.
shire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wilts, Surrey, Hamp-
shire, dec., the accounts are generally bad. Ninety-five
reports from these 25 counties resolve themselves into
16 favourable, 26 average, and 53 bad. In Suffolk tur-
nips are reported to have failed.
The Scotch returns give similar results, the neighbour-
hood of Selkirk alone reporting the wheat "under
average." In Ross, Inverness, Aberdeen, and Elgin, the
crops are spoken of as heavy, luxuriant, or much over
average. Barley and oats in the same counties receive
a character scarcely less favourable. Twenty three re-
turns of the wheat in Scotland give one unfavourable,
six average, and sixteen highly favourable. Of barley,
twenty-two reports give two under average, or indiffe-
rent, eight average, and twelve favourable. Of oats (so
important to our Scottish brethren), thirteen out of
twenty-two returns are very favourable, eight average,
and one only under average. Of the green crops, the
accounts are various, save in the four counties first men-
tioned, which appear to be uniformly fortunate—the
green crops there being reported to be good or very pro•
seising.
The Irish returns are also similar. Wheat, barley,
and oats appear to be generally good. In the county of
Down a great extent of wheat is reported. Thirty-four
returns of the appearance of the wheat crops in Ireland
are composed of 29 highly favourable, four "average,"
and ono unfavourable ; the wheat in the neighbourhood
of Randall's Town, county Antrim, being reported to be
"rustel" Of barley, 16 out of 27 reports are very fa-
vaurable, 7 "average," and 4 return " short," ••
infe-
rior," or "under average." Of oats there are 36 reports,
of which 4 give " inferior" or " short," 4 " average,"
while 28 are very favourable. The Irish green crops
appear also to have suffered considerably-17 out of 36
reports being positively unfavourable. Beans and peas
appear to have been little cultivated.
A few Welsh reports present the same features. The re-
turns for the United Kingdom may be summed up thus :
Wheat--207 reports. Very favourable, 129 ; aver.
age, or terms equivalent to average, 68 ; bad, 10.
Barley--195 reports. Very favourable, 114 ; aver-
age, 54 ; had, 27.
Oats-200 reports. Very favourable, 128 ; average,
51 ; bad, 21.
Green crops-208 reports. Favourable, 59 ; average,
65 ; bad, 84.
Some districts remain still unreported ; but the above
abstract will sufficiently indicate the probable character
of the harvest in the United Kingdom.

INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount .
Name of Company. • per of Paid. Price:
Annum. Share.
1 £ a. d. £ a. d.
Albion .....• ...*. •• .. 3/. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86
Allianta Bri:. and For. 71. 14s. 6d.bs. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17%
Ditto Marine ....... 61. p.c. & be. 100 0 0 25 0 0 42
Anchor .............. 6 per cent. 5• 0 1 0 0 -
Atlas ..
Xrgus Life ......... • • 41. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 23
tlritish Commercial .. 71. 10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Clericl..lled.& Gen. Life spr ct. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
County .............. 4/. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Crown .............. 17s. Od 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle ..
Equity and Law...... 4% per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 5%
European Life ...... ... 1/. 20 0 0 an 182%
Genera 1.......... •. • • 6/. 5 0 0 If 51,6
Globe •......... 51. per cent. Stock. ~ 104
Guardian ............ 5?. per cent. 100 0 0 47 5 0 56
Imperial Fire... •• .... 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 --
Imperial Life -
Indemnity Marine.... 1/.3s & 3/. 100 0 0 20 .0 0 .-
Law Fire ............ 2s. & 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 3%
Law Lite••• •• - 100 0 . 10 0 0 61
Legal and General Life - 50 00, 2 0 0 5%
London ••••••••
London Ship.... -
Marine........ .. 18s.per share 100 0 0 25 0 0 57 4
Med•lnvlid& Gen. Life 4% /. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3%
Minerva ........ •• .. sp. et. & bs. 20 0 0 2 0 0 -
Monarch •• •• •• •• •• .. - 5 0 0 1 0 0 N.
National Loan Fund.. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
Palladiu:n Life ..
Pelican ~..•• •• .• .. • • - - - 50
Phoenix ..... ..... ..., - - - 180
Professional Life •• ••
Provident Life.......: 1/. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 35%
Rock Life ........ •• .„ 7s. 5 3 0 010 0 8%
Royal Exchange ....• • 101. per cent. Stock. all 275
Sun Fire ...... 6/. 10s. - ++ -
Ditto Life - . •• 11. 14s. - -
United Kingdom .. .. 41. p. ct. & bs. 20 00, 4 0 0 5
Universal Life .
Victoria Life ...... -5/. per cent. - 412 6 5%
LIST OF SCOTTIS a COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amo•lnt
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price,
Annum. • Share.
--_-.-..--......._,,-.-.
.£ a. d. 4 s. d.
Bank of Scotland .. - 71. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 200/03
British Linen Company 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 KO/Os
Caledonian Bank .. •.. 8/, per cent. 10 0 0 210 0 41. 38
City of Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 121 Os
Clydesdale Bank ...• 041. p :ant. '2O 0 0 10 0 0 13 115
CAninercial Bank - 71. per cent. ,500 0 0 100 0 0 235 /Os
Eastern Bank.. •..... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 121 Is
Edinb. & Glasgow.... 3%1. P cent. 5 0 0 5 0 05/ Os
Exchange Bnk of Scot.. - - - -
National Bank ...... 5% per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18710 s
North of Scotland Bank 51. per cent 20 0 0 210 08l Os
Royal Rank of 8 cotl. .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1441 i 0
Union Bank of Scot. ..8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 101/15
Western Bank - ...... 7/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 431 5s
Liar cent. 100 e 0 11 0 0 '16115s
Alliance Fire and Lire.. 8%
British Guarantee . •• 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 1/ 14s
Caledonian Fire Incur. 10, per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25/ Os
City of Glasgow Lite , 61. ent. 0 0 2 0 0 1/ 8s
Co onial Life ......... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 1 0 01 / Is
Edinburgh Life Dann, 61. Der cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 291 3s
En•-••• & Scot, Lam Life 51.0er cent. 50 0 0 d 5 0 1/ 8s
Life Assoc. o 3cotaand 61. per cent. 10 0 0 110 o'l lOs
Nationa, Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 / Is
North British insur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 36/108
Scottish Union Insrnc. 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 I/ 16s
Standard Life • • •..... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 201 Os
United nee Assurance Si. nor cent. 10 0 0 . 1 0 o -
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. , Share.
_____---- ----__
£ a. 0. £ a. d.
Assam Tea - ........ M. 50 0 0 20 0 0 -
Auctien Mart.• ...... 214 per cent 50 0 0 -
Australian Agriculturl 1/. Is. 100 0 0 17 10 0 26
cent
Australian Trust .• .. RI, pet - 25 0 0 -
Austradan Royal Mall 5/, 10 0 0 all 2%
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. los. 10 0 0 all -
British American Land 15s. - 40 0 0 -
Canada .•••••• • • •• •• 61. percent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 127%
Do. 5 per cent Bonds 5/. per cent. - - -
Ditte, 6 per cent. •• 61. per cent. - - 11414
City Navigation Bonds _ - - -
Electric Telegraph .. 6 per cent. 25 0 0 24 0 0 97
Ditto .• ••••• • • • • • - - - -
Equitable Rerersionry 71 pr. cent. 100 0 0 'lOO 0 0 -
Ditto New .. •• •• • • - 50 0 0117 10 0 -
Gen. Revers. & Invest. 5 p., c. & bs, 100 0 0 ,100 0 0 -
Gen.SteamNavigation 10 p. et. 15 00114 0 0 26
Hudson's 8ay........ _ Stock. - _
Hungerford .. •• .• •• .. 21. ss. 100 0 0 ,100 0 0 -
London institution ... - , - 1 -
.....,
London Reversionary 51per cent. 15 00 1 all _
Russell Institution.... - - 12 10 0 -
Pt lae's Patent Cand. Co 10/. per cent. 20 0 0 i 17 10 25%
Reversionary Int. Soc. 441. pr cent. 100 0 0 'lOO 0
Royal Mail Steam.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0, 60 0 0 ---
South Australian Land 6/. per cost. 25 00 ,i all _
1
Trust and Loan Comp.
Uppar Canada ..., - 20 0 01 • -

Seventy-three years ago Russia procured by con-
quest a treaty which put her in possession of an arm
of the sea which had been widely celebrated in an-
cient times for its commercial uses. Where the
Greeks had flourished by means of their great mart
of Kherson, there stood only the Tartar village of
Aktiar when Catherine IL acquired the Crimea.
Instead of restoring the ancient commerce, the
Czars have used the harbour of Sebastopol for

tart' purposes only. When Catherine visited it the
year after the treaty which transferred it to her, a
beginning of this preparation had been made ; and
the great decks were finished only a few months
before the late war began. The first ship was ad-
mitted into them in 1n53. Thus was Sebastopol
a sort of exponent of Russian government before
the eyes of the world, as long as the policy of
Peter was transmitted with the crown. At present
a crisis has intervened ; and the external present-
ment of it is most striking and touching. On the
21st of last month an archbishop of the Greek
Church, whose diocese comprehends Kherson and
Taurida, arrived by the Czar's order in Sebastopol,
for the purpose of consecrating the ground on the
southern shore of the harbour, preparatory to the
rebuilding of the city. Not long ago he would have
been welcomed by the bells of many churches, and
have passed between rows of decorated dwellings,
and through a multitude of kneeling worshippers.
But now all was desolate. There was not a church to
receive him, and he humbled himself to officiate in
the little Marine chapel—the only sacred building
left. That chapel had no altar, and a shelf of boards
was made to serve the purpose of one. There was no
remnant of a resident population, for there was not
a human dwelling left. A few marines and an
engineer or two, employed in the mournful work
of examining the sunken ships, a few soldiers,
marched there for the occasion, and a few spec-
tators from Simpheropol, were all who could be
collected to attend such a functionary on such a
celebration. Instead of the eager and joyful multi-
tude who usually throng to the spectacle of conse-
crating new ground for living uses, there was only
a group of mourners over the grave of Russian
prestige. The real multitude present was that of
the dead. To some clear-seeing eyes there they
must have swarmed tip from the waters of the har-
bour, the clefts of the ravines, the ruins of the
streets, and the turf of the plateau ; and if there
be deception in this new consecration—if Sebasto-
pol is again to be a centre of aggressive action—it
would scarcely have been unreasonable to listen
for voices from the grave to say that it must not
be. The Czar has pledged himself to use the har-
bour and city for none but pacific purposes. We
must hope that he is sincere. Whether he is so or
not, it would bo well that in the midst of the pomp
of his coronation he and his people and his foreign
guests should remember the forlorn ceremony of
last month. While the bells of Moscow are making
music everywhere within the wide horizon, and the
cannon aro firing, and the sunshine is flashed back
from millions of diamonds, and a flushed multitude
are shouting the name and titles of their Emperor,
and the whole pomp of a prodigious empire is ga-
thered into one dazzling show, it will be well if all
minds steal one glanecat the other scene of conse-
cration, where nothing was heard but the soli-
tary voice of the priest and the dash of
waves upon the beach--where the cannon lay burst
and overthrown, and the brook was dry, and the
stm shone on heaps of dusty ruins, and where, if
there was any multitude, it was that of si!ent
ghosts
upon the shore. Such is the result of the
last Czar's dreams of conquest ; and the next
should take warning. If he does so, Nod pursues in
sincerity a
pacific policy abroad, and a policy of de-
velopment at home, Sebastopol may rise from its
ruins,
as empires pass from barbarism into eivilisa-
lion, amidst the congratulations and good wishes

rab:a.
In 1814 she acquired possession of the Caspian,
and in 1828 she seized Erivan.
This brings us to the treaty of Adrianople and to
her subsequent action, when, having, early in his
career, acquired as a staunch ally a subordinate
Minister, she has since used him in furtherance of
her ends on a wider field, and having successfully
conducted him to the 'post of Prime Minister of
England, she looks, through his instrumentality,
to acquire, at no distant period, the full fruition
of her secular designs.
In all these instances she has made her acquisi-
tions by the sanction given by English Ministers
to the violatien of the laws of nations, and by the
sanction given by the English Parliament and
English people to the use made of the power of
the Cr( wa by individuals whom they have allowed
to conduct the affairs of the state without a council,
and so to place themselves above the law.
The success of Russia's purpose depends on the
continuance of this, and the frustration of her
design is certain if the moment shall arrive when
ignorance ceases and law is restored.

ATTACK OF THE RIFF PIRATES UPON
THE PRUSSIAN ADMIRAL.

By the arrival of her Majesty's ships Assistance and
Resolute (the latter bearing the flag of Rear• Admiral the
Hon. William F. Grey) at Portsmouth, yesterday, we
have intelligence of an outrage on the part of the Riff
pirates, quite of a crowning character to ail former out-
rages. it appears his Royal Highness Priace Adalbert,
Lord High Admiral of the Prussian Navy, who was at
Gibraltar on the 10th inst., in the Prussian frigate Dant-
zi,e was anxious to inspect r.ersonally the scene, on the
Riff coast, of an outrage sonic time since on a Prussian
ship, whose crew was MSS Icred by these ferocious and
blood-thirsty hordes, and accordingly proceeded in his
barge to the scene of the encounter a few days antece-
dent to the 10th inst., when his landing was not oely
opposed, but he was tired upon. This roused the spirit
of the ga'lant royal sailer, who returned to his frigate,
I manned and armed her hoats, and then again sought
the scene of his latent apposition. This time vast
numbers of the pirates bad collected and made a formi-
dable demonstration, but the prince admiral, nothing
daunted, but the rather having his valour whetted by
the force of the opposing army,
dashed ashore, charged
the RitEans up a steep hill, and, sword in hand, made a
bold and valiant front : the result, however, is disastrous
to describe ; the gallant prince was speedily struck down
with a ball in his thigh, his aide-de-camp (flag-lieute-
nant) was mortally wounded, the mate of the party shot
in the arm, seven men were killed, and 17 wounded ;
these were left in the field, being unable to get them off.
In fact, the whole of the prince's party were nearly cut
off. The survivors were ultimately got on board the
frigate, and subsequently to Gibraltar hospital. The
killed were interred with full military honours, and the
prince admiral's wound was doing well at the date of our
advices (the 10th inst).
H.M.S. Vesuvius was despatched immediately to the
Morocco authorities to demand an explanation and satis-
faction. The event caused the utmost indignation and
excitement in Gibraltar,— &nited Service Gazette.

We have collected riots-us of the wheat crop from 207
districts scattered over the United Kingdom, 196 re-
ports of the oat crop, 137 and 112 respectively of beans
and peas, and 209 reports of the green crops. Of the
wheat, barley, and oat harvest reports, 78, 63, and 78
respectively state the crop to be an average one ; 114.
98, and 96 respectively put it at above an average ; and
15, 30, alai 26 respectively at below an average. But
this term, " average" requires a word of explanation. A
reporter rally have honestly returned his crop as " avr•
rage" for a long series of yeav, while every succeeding
year has bean an improvement on the last. An " average
crop" i❑ 1856 means a good deal more than was meant by
"an average crop" in 1840. Takinginto account the extent
of land under wheat, which is undoubtedly much bayond
an average, along with the generally favourable opinion
of the crop, we may be satisfied that there is now as large
a quantity of home-grown wheat within the country as
there ever yet has been. To be sure, it is not all harvest ed
yet, and the weather ,of the last few days has not been