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London, England, 1858-07-08 00:00:00

supported. With Messrs. Dis:uni, "iTairotE;
and WHITESIDE, he might fairly challenge all
corners, and maintain his position in the political
arena against even those most " cunning of fence"
amongst the opposition. Lord ELLMERSTON was
thoroughly foiled on sundry occasions, and even
his most unscrupulous adherents are compelled to
admit that his day has gone by, and that his
star is no longer in the ascendant.

The veteran Viscount lost his head. He was
ruined by too great prosperity. He fancied that
he was really the head of the Liberal party, and
that they would be swayed by a mere name, vox
et preterce nihil. He indulged in sneers at any
one who dared to exhibit an inconvenient inter-
rogatory, and exercised the most despotic authc-
rity and stringent discipline over those who, as
he vainly supposed, owed him allegiance.
The overthrow of his Government did not dispel
this illusion. He imagined that he had only to
stretch forth his hand at anymoment to regain pos-
session of power—that the Ministers approved of
by the Crown and the People, and whose
admirable conduct and true liberality won golden
opinions from all manner of men, were bat mere
temporary occupants of Downing-street, whom he
could eject at any moment. But he has at length
discovered that he " reckoned without his host."
His intentions with respect to Reform were too
carefully concealed to enable the people to place
any reliance on the vague intimations respecting
a good time coming. The point which, of
all others, was nearest the public heart
—the most ardently desired and anxiously
looked for—was ostentatiously opposed. He would
not have "the ballot," that which could alone
give protection to the voter, and annihilate every
corrupt motive and undue influence, at any price
or on any terms. With his quondam adversary,
but recent ally, Lord JOHN, he put himself promi-
nently forward in resisting Mr. HENRY BERKELEY'S
motion ; and of course he cannot now suppose
that the independent Liberals, who look upon that
measure as essential to the points of election and
fair representation of the people, will go out
of their way to replace him in the position which
he so wantonly flung away. He had a grand op-
portunity, but it was partly wasted and partly
misapplied, and much time must elapse, and la-
bour be undergone, before such another may offer
itself. A few weeks more will conclude the
session, and the DERBY Administration will have the
satisfaction of knowing that they have given a
satisfactory Government to India, and removed
the unjust and demoralising property qualification,
which restricted the privilege of independent con-
stituenceies, and held out strongtemptation to the
making of false declarations, equivalent to au act
of wilful and deliberate perjury.

It yet remains, of course, to be seen what may
be the ulterior decision arrived at by the Paris
Coaiereaoc as to the future government of the
Danubian Principalities. That Conference will
have to perfect the work commenced months ago
in lassy and Bucharest by the six great European
Commissioners. It will then be learnt what
future has been prepared with solemn deli-
beration in conclave by England, by France,
by Russia, by Austria, by Turkey, by Sardinia,
fur the twin provinces of Moldavia and
Wallachia. Those provinces have long been bones
of contention between the " dogs of war"—" let
slip" upon them and upon each other, every now
and then by the Porte and the Autocrat. Their
position has been, if that is really possible, yet
more anomalous and yet more unenviable than that
occupied by the twin provinces of Schleswig-
Holstein between the Danish Kingdom and the
Germanic Confederation. During moro than
one whole century Nfoldo-Wallachia has never
known, beyond one fleeting momentary in-
terval, what it is to have a National Go-
vernment. For in 1731 began for the
ill-
fated Roumans then constituting the population of
those Danubian Principalities, the ebrete and galling
regime known as the rule of the Fanariots. Nay,
that rule alone lasted uninterruptedly for very
nearly a hundred years—in fact, for only nine
years short of an entire century, viz., from 1731
to 1822, atben the Hospodaral crowns were
at length taken from the Greeks and given by the
Porte to great privileged citizens, Boyards, in
short, of its own arbitrary selection. The exchange
was really, after all, something tantamount to
the substitution of King Stork for King Log—
the Turk-chosen hospodats having an inerradicalle
instinct for robbery and corruption, and an in-
satiable appetite for what all the haggling
and chaffering races bordering on the Levant
know by the one expression and magical
phrase of backshish. Half-a-dozen years,
however, have scarcely rolled over when King
Stork is replaced by Emperor Vulture—a hobgob-
lin ruler ravening for prey, and with a taste abso-
lutely omnivorous. In 1828, in short, the
Russian generals began to wield tlae sceptre of
the Principalities, and—lo ! when the popula-
tion looked up they found the sceptre was
transformed into the sword. Moldavia and
Wallachia were under the heels of an army
of occupation, The plea for its apparition beyond
the Pruth was the fatal article in the Treaty of
Adrianople confiding to the CZAR a right of Pro-
tectorate over the Principalities. Thenceforth
from 1828 inclusively up to the year of the last
great European War, 1854, the year, inaugura-
tive of the Crimean contest, the Hospodars of
Moldo-Wallachia were one after another notoriously
chosen at the instance or rather the dictation of
the Generals and Consuls representing the mighty
power of the Russian Autocrat. Dictators there
were, indeed, purely Muscovite, at the commence-
ment, suoh as RITCSAIA.NN or DATCRROFF, and
ultimately one extraordinary phenomenon—a
really tolerable, and, in some respects, even com-
mendable, Russian dominator ! General Krs-
SILEFF to wit—a man who has the glory
of giving to the Danubian Provinces the com-
parative bliss of five years' good and sound
organisation. But 1834 came at last, and
just ten years before the giant rupture already
spoken of. General KISSILEFF was replaced as
Governor of Wallachia by the Boyard GHICA in
the character of Hospodar, ALEXANDER GHICA,
the present Caimacan. At the same time MI-
CHAEL STRAUZ became Hospodar of Moldavia—
the hospodaral crown of the other province pass-
ing subsequently from the head of GHICA to
that of his successor, BIBESCO. Later on,
CONSTANTINE CANTAZENE became Caimacan
of Wallachia, but within a very few
months from the data of his elevation,
the brother of his immediate predecessor, the
brother of BIBESCO before-mentioned, became the
Wallachian Hospodar, another GIIICA.—GRE-
GORY, not ALEXANDER—becoming about the
same time Hospodar of Moldavia. Bt-
BESIO'S brother, however, was a man known
far more widely. Ho was no other than the now
famous Prince STIRBEY. And so chopping and
changing, from bad to worse, the sway of the
provinces—nominally held by Turkey, really
grasped by Russia passed from one
Boyard to another, to the grief and wretchedness
of a population of 5,000,000. Until, in fact,
the final crash in 1854. From that date hope

THE SUN, LOND ON,

has been dawning for Moldo-Wallachia. May
that hope--yet---in the fulness of time, ho
realised.

AuRIVAL OF THE COURT AT OSBORNE.—PORTS-
MOUTH, July 7.—Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort, and the Court, arrived by
special train on the South-Western Railway, at the
Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, Gosport, this after-
noon, shortly before 6 o'clock. On embarking on boa,:d
the Fairy, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, her Yfa-
jesty was saluted by the Victory flag-ship, Captain. F.
H. Seymour, the men-of-war in port—gaily dressed in
flegs—manning yards and cheering vociferously.
" Count de Chambord," says a Frankfort letter !in the
Augsburg Gazette, " occupies here, under the t'Ale of
Count de Morni, the whole of the splendid apartments on
the first floor of the Hotel de Russie. A. great nue aber of
his partisans have arrived from France to visit him."
According to a Genoese journal, the Sardinian Five
per Cent. Loan of 1,600,0001. has been taken at per
cent., with two per cent. commission.
SCOTTISH LAW APPOINTMENTS. —We believe that the
Lord-Advocate's appointment to the office of Lord Jas-
ties Clerk will be gazetted on Friday, and that his lord-
ship will present his commission to the court on Satur-
day. Mr. Baillie succeeds Mr. Inglis as Lord-Advocate,
and Mr. Mare will be the new Solicitor. General—
.

Tem MANSION-MOUEZ.—Yesterday evening the Lady
Mayoress gave an "at home" and received in the spa-
cious apartments of the Mansion house upwards of 1,800
of the aristocracy, diplomatic corps, members of the
HOMO of Commons, members of the corporation, of the
Stock-Exchange, and other public bodies, as well as
private friends. The Egyptian-ball, the saloons as well
as the grand entrance, were decorated with a profusion
of the most rare and beautiful flowers.
Five acres of freehold land, with other advantages,
having been offered for the purpose of founding homes
for aged and infirm actors and actresses, a public meet-
ing will be held on the 21st July, at the Princess's
Theatre, for the purpose of carrying into effect the ob-
ject contemplated, Charles Kean, Esq., in the chair.
THUNDERSTORM.—Yesterday afternoon the metropolis
and its environs were visited by a thunderstorm The
morning was close and oppressive, and about 2 o'clock
the rumbling of distant thunder was heard, which gra-
dually came nearer ; the lightning was incessant, and
flashed vividly, while the thunder rollei in crashing
peals. At half-past 3 o'clock a terrible peal followed a
vivid flash of forked lightning, and rain fell in torrents.
THE LOCOMOTIVE EsrLOSIoN AT MANCHESTER.—Mr.
Gajewski, the engineer badly scalded by the explosion
•f a locomotive engine, at Manchester, last Friday, died
yesterday, making nine deaths from this lamentable
occurrence.

Flexmore and his troupe of English danoers are per-
forming with great success at Amiens. According to
the L'Ami de l'ordre, the citizens flock in crowds to wit-
ness the feats of this "prodigy of strength and elasticity,
whose features, gestures, and motions excite the irrepres-
sible hilarity of the spectators." Madlle. Auriol is like-
wise highly commended as a first-rate dancer, and the
artistes of the company as commanding by their skill the
astonishment and admiration of the public.
LIVERPOOL, July 7.—Tne Liverpool, New York, and
Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw-steamer Kan-
gareo, Jeffrey commander, took her departure at 3.30
p.m. to day for New York. She had about 60 cabin
passengers, and a very large and valuable cargo. The
next vessel is the Asia, belonging to the Cunard line,
which sail e on Saturday for New York, with the Royal
mail, passengers, and cargo.
THE MAILS, &C.—SOUTHAMPTON, July 7.—The Pen-
insular and Oriental Company's steamship Tagus, Capt.
E. Christian, sailed hence to-day, with the Peninsular
mails, 33 passengers (among whom are Master Howard,
Sir Morton Peto and party, for Lisbon), 1,0091. in specie
and bar gold value 20,5001., for Lisbon, jewellery value
321. for Gibraltar, and a general cargo. The United
States' steamer North Star, Capt. A. G. Jones, left
Cowes today en route from Havre for New York, with
the French and English mails, passengers, and cargo.
The Arago, Captain Lines, is expected to-morrow from
New York with advises to the 26th ult.
FATAL TERMINATION OF A FIGHT.—On Monday night
last a man named Flannagan went into the Horse and
Groom public-house, Clumber-street, Nottingham and
challenged any of the company to fight him. Ife put
himself into a threatening attitude before a man named
Parer. e and in the scuffle knocked Flan-
nagan down, at toe same tin.e tl.rsr.v inn a table nprin
him. Flannagan was fearfully bruised. He was taken
to the Dispensary, but the blows he received were of so
fearful a nature that he expired at five o'clock on Tues-
day morning. An inquest was held upon the body of
Flannagan the same'day, when the jury returned a ver-
dict of manslaughter against Purss. He was apprehended
by the police, and taken before the magistrates, by
whom he is committed to take his trial at the Not-
tingham Assizes, on a charge of manslaughter.
RENEWAL OF THE EXETER HALL SERVICES.—Arrange.
meats, which have been for some time past in progress,
have now been completed for a series of twelve Sunday
Evening Services at Exeter Hall, by clergymen of the
established church—a series which were some months
since successfully prohibited by the Rev. A.G. Edouart,
M.A., the incumbent of St. Michael's Church, Burleigh-
street, the district parish in which Exeter Hall is
situate. The services, which will commence next Sun-
day evening, will be conducted by the following clergy-
men : —July 11, the Rev. Richard Burgess, 8.D., pre-
bendary of St. Paul's Cathedral and rector of Upper
Chelsea ; July 18, the Rev. Capel Molyneux.
minister of the Lock Chapel, Harrow-road ; July 25,
Rev. J. W. Reeve, MA., minister of Portman Chapel,
Baker-street, Marylebone ; August 1, the Rev. Emilius
Bayley, rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury ; August 8,
the Rev. Wm. B. Mackenzie, M.A., incumbent cf St.
James's Church, Holloway ; August 15, the Rev, Robt,
Maguire, M.A., incumbent of St. James's Church,
Clerken well ; August 22, the Rev. C. Dallas Marston,
M.A., incumbent of Christ Church, Dover; August 29,
the Rev. J. C. Ryle, , rector of Helmingham,
Suffolk; Sept. 5, the Rev. John Nash Griffin, M.A., in-
cumbent of St. Mary's Church, Spring-grove, near
' Hounslow • Sept. 12, the Rev. Wan Bruce, M.A ,
minister of St. James's Church, Bristol ; Sept. 19, the
Rev. Charles J. Goodhart, M A., minister of Park
Chapel, Chelsea; Sept. 26, the Rev. J. Bardsley,
rector of Si. Anne's Church, Manchester.
MIDLAND :RAILWAY CONPANY.— A special meeting
was held at the Derby station yesterday—Mr. Beale,
M.P., in the chair—fur the purpose of submitting to the
proprietors, for their approval, a bill to extend the time
for making the Worcester and Hereford Railway, and
for granting further powers with respect to that under-
taking, and a bill to authorise the construction of a rail-
way from Redditch to the Midland Railway. The ob-
ject of the first bill was to empower each of the follow-
ing companies—viz . the Newport, Abergavenny, and
Hereford Railway Company; the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Railway Company ; and the
Midland Railway Company—to subscribe towards
the Worcester and Hereford Railway to any extent not
exceeding. 37,500/. The second bill referred to a short
independent line which branched off from the Bristol
line about ten miles from Birmingham, to a plane called
Redditch. It was described as a rich mineral district ;
but the Midland Company did not propose to find any
money, bat merely agree to work the line by their re-
ceiving half of the receipts. The chairman moved the
formal resolution, which, after observations from Mr.
Hadley and others, was carried. The meeting was made
special for the purpose of approving and confirming an
agreement entered into by the directors with the several
companies above named for working the traffic on the
Worcester and Hereford Railway. The chairman showed
the great advantages to be obtained from such an
arrangement, and moved the formal resolution, which
was agreed to, This concluded the business.
AMERICAN MATES AND ENGLISH SEAMEN.—On Tues.
day Peter Johnson, second mate of the John Henry, a
barque belonging to the United State., was brought be-
fore the South Shields magistrates, charged with a brutal
assault upon Thomas Williams, an English sailor, a Lon-
doner, wieo had been induced by aJew to join that vessel
in the Tyne. in:le treatment Williams received is an illus-
tration of the toe-common brutality exhibited by officers
on board United Sti!;es vessels to seamen. Williams,
forward dand ,
then
who had been drinking, was sleeping in his bunk about '
hmidnight i
mo nou
t o iSaturday,tby
knocked the unfortunate sailor down, jumped on his
wthheeah jaiorhn of sotnhcea head. He
stomach, and kicked him violently about the head and
legs until he became unconscious. He then had him
dragged on to the deck, and having got a rope fastened
about his waist, he was dropped into a boat, which took
Lim to a landing, when he was pitched oa shore, and
left unconscious on the strand. Fortunately the police
received information of the man's condition, and had-
him removed to the station-house, where he was attended
by Mr. Coward, surgeon, who found him very much in-
jured by the brutal usage. There was a second charge
against Johnson of beating an American seaman named
Richard Bachalor about the head with a aliottod rope—
s thick piece of rope with a lump of lead at the end of it.
The magistrates informed Johnson that this sort of
thing could not be allowed in British ports, but inflicted
the somewhat mild penalty of 30s. and costs in Williams's
case, and 20s, and costs in that of Bachalor's.
ROBBERY OF 1201. BY A FOREIGN CLERK.—A tele-
graphic message from Hamburg, was received at West
Hartlepool, on Saturday morning, conveying the infor-
mation that a robbery had been committed at the esta-
blishment of M. Bernhardt Speiro, merchant of that
town, by Hermann Lazarus, a clerk in the counting
house, who had taken his departure on Friday evening
in the screw steamer Zingari, for West Hartlepool.
Measures were accordingly prepared for the apprehen-
sionofth
on Monday the
fugitive and on the arrival of the steamer at
Hartlepool she was boarded by Superin-
tendent Dixon, of the county constabulary, and Mr.
Peter Romyn, the consul for the Hanse Towns. The pri-
soner was immediately apprehended by Mr. Dixon, and
charged with the robbery, which he at first denied, but
immediately pulled out of his pocket a quantity of money,
and laid it upon a table; he then threw himself flat upon
the deck of the vessel, where he lay, refusing to rise till
she was brought alongside the dock wall. The money
consisted of American and English coin amounting to
1201. The prisoner wag taken before the magistrates, and
the :time evidence having been given he was di:charged,
is c.insequence if the non ex.i&tence cf as extradition
treaty between this country and Ilazobwg. The stolen
money was retained by Mr. Romyn on behalf of the pri-
soner's employer. The prisoner is a young man about
23 years of age, with a Jewish cast of countenance. He
had taken his paseage just before the departure of the
steamer in a very hurried and excited manner, which
caused some suspicion. He teplained his confusion by
stating that he had been drawn for the army, and that
disliking a military life, he had resolved to quit his coun-
try, and betake himself to America. After his capture he
stated that ill usage from his employer had caused him
to act as lie had done. When set at liberty he had only
eight dollars iu We possession.