The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-06 00:00:00

lished, the English being the official language.
The Times, which perhaps thinks it loyal to main-
tain the perfection of a government in distress,
defends the company by telling us, to translate its
remarks into plain English, that the said com-
pany is a sham; that it has no power whatever,

case. On the other hand, the evils are palpable '
to the most superficial observer. First, it will
prevent the creation and production of a consider-
able amount of national wealth, perhaps to the
amount of 1,000,0001. sterling. Secondly, it
will occasion serious privation and distress in
many humble families, all of whose exertions are
barely sufficient "to keep. the wolf from the
door." Thirdly, it will, in a large proportion of
cases, be misspent, will lead to riotousness,
drunkenness, and profusion, and be more likely to
offend than to conciliate and appease the DEITY.
Fourthly, even those who are determined t, act
up to the spirit of the proclamation—who will
make it really " a day of fast and humiliation
and prayer"—it may induce to avoid the earthly
means necessary to success. As the Puritan
General said, "Trust to GoD, but keep your powder
dry." There are, however, some who will think
that in observing strictly the fast, they have done
all that can be required at their hands. This is
a grave mistake ; but it is one which proceedings
such as above referred to may foster and en-
courage.

THE FRENCH PRESS AND THE INDIAN

MEETING.

While discussing—many in a friendly, some few
in a hostile spirit to England—the events and
chances of the Indian insurrection, none of the
Paris papers can refuse their admiration to the
heroic efforts of the few scanty battalions of
Europeans scattered among and making head
against tens of thousands of enemies. And wbile
acknowledging, some few of them unwillingly
enough, the oftan-proved gallantry and invincible
tenacity of the British soldier, they are also corn-
pelledto applaudthe energy and self-confidence with
which the British nation meets its disasters. " C
braves yens sont dignestretre Francais !" exclaimed
a French paper, the other day, when recording the
exploits of a handful of English opposed to a host
of Sepoys. Although this may excite a smile in
England, in a Frenchman's mouth, it is the very
highest form of praise. To-day a journal remark-
able for its hatred of Englin.d contains, in its
review of the financial week, the following para-
graph:—
"In London no business is doing. Nevertheless
Consols maintain themselves, notwithstanding the
gravity of the news from India. This is one of
the most curious phases of the English financial market,
and can be explained only by the national pride of a
country which will not avow fts embarrassments, or
perhaps even which is so convinced that the resist-
ance to its domination will be overcome that it awaits
with patience the hour of its definitive triumph.
What is quite certain is, that all the circum.tatices are
f irmally and incontestably productive of decay and
feebleness, and that by a moral energy for which one
cannot give too much credit (dont on ne peut savoir trop
gre) to the national spirit that inspires it, nothing is be
trayed outwardly of the effects of the gigantic struggle
n which England sees herself engaged."

that it is bound hand and foot by the Board of
Control, whose bidding it must do ; that it is a

mere Indian council to Mr. VERNON SMITH. Now

this is true and untrue. It is not a mere council,

since it practically retains the management of
nearly all the internal concerns of India, and of a
very large share of the subordinate patronage ;

indeed, it has nullified, as far as it could, the ad-

vantages of public competition, by transferring its

officers to the civil service, to the ruin almost of
the efficiency of the army ; but if the Company
be indeed a sham, why preserve it ? _ .

But far worse than this, the Board of Directors
is, as the Times well knows, the grand hindrance
to dispatch of business ; the buffer and the screen
at once, to save the Indian administration from
the shocks of public opinion, and to protect it
from the gaze of the British public. Setting aside
details, the indirect mischief done by the mere
existence of the East India Company is incalcu-
lable. But for such a device Mr, VERNON SMITH
dare not have ventured to accept the post of Pre-
sident of the Board of Control, even if it had
been offered him. With this grave old Council
in Leadenhall-street it is supposed that some
stripling of the aristocracy is quite good enough
to be the Cabinet and Parliamentary representa-
tive of the Government of India. What we pre-
sume the Calcutta petitioners desire is, not that
the Minister for India should not be aided by any
well-selected board of Anglo-Indians as his
advisers, but that he should be the head of that
board, and that the second board should cease to
exist. We know whom to look to in every other
great department of State, and whom to hold dis-
tinctly and solely responsible. We want the same
for India ; concede this, and with the attention
now awakened to India, the post of "Secretary of
State for India" will become only second to that of
Premier. It ought to be filled by some one practi-
cally acquainted with India, some one also of abi-
lity to command a Parliamentary position ; the
choice maybe limited, but the men are to be found.
The present system does not even make the best
of its present men. We believe that even Mr.
SMITH himself, or Mr. MANGLES, as a solely re-
sponsible minister for India, would be an infinitely
better man. But we repeat that the disgraceful
anomaly of the Double Government is tolerated
merely to keep in office at home and in Cal-
cutta a class of third or fourth rate needy aristo-
crats. The Minister for India and the Governor
General of India ought to be men quite equal to
the post of Prime Minister.
The open council—that is the admission o/
non-official persons to the Legislative Council of
Calcutta—is surely a portentous change, light as
the Times made of the whole mattsr. It is
scarcely possible to conceive a set of men more in-
competent as a whole than the present Council of
the Governor-General. Of course Lord CANNING
must be, at first, almost at their mercy ; and the
only wonder is that, with such advisers, be has
not done worse. We refrain from characterising
them individually, though they well deserve it ;
but their conduct must have shown even casual
readers that self-sufficiency and ignorance which
refused to be enlightened has workod a system of
routine till it has almost overthrown our Indian

The mischief has, however, occurred, and can-
not now be averted. We would therefore ear-
nestly advise every person to conduct himself
decorously and properly, and so far as in him lies
to avoid any thing that may occasion scandal to
the public or evil to himself or family.

An officer who was on board the notorious
Transit, during her last voyage, has written a
letter, which will be found in another pact of our
impression, and which. clearly indicates with how
much reason Sir CHARLES WOOD felicitated him-
self en her admirable performances. It will go
far to show whether her loss was really an acci-

The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, who left Brod-
rick Castle, Isle of Arran, early in the past week, for
Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire, arrived at Heaton Hall,
near Manchester, on Friday last, on a visit to the Earl

and Countess of Wilton, to meet their Royal Highnesses
the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have arrived at
Heaton Hall, to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duchess

dent, or the almost inevitable result of the unfit-
ness of the ill-fated vessel—whether it might not,

of Cambridge and the Pines Ma-ry, who are visiting
Ihe Earl and Cjunteaa of Wilton, from a tour of visits in

Scotland.

in fact, have been averted by foresight and jadi
cious arrangements on the part of " my Lords."

His Excellency the Austrian Minister, accompanied
by the Countess d'Apponyi, is expected early in the er.-
suing month to resume his diplomatic duties.
His Excellency the Turkish .Ambassadorand Madame
Musurus and family arrived at the Embassy in Bryan-
ston-scuare yesterday, fror St. Leonasds on-Sea.
The Marquis and Murchieness of Winchester have
been paying a visit to Mr. and Mrs. C. Wyndham, at,
their seat, the College, Salisbury.
Thera is no truth in the report circulated by some
Austrian journals that Napoleon 111. will shortly meet
Franeis Joseph.

The writer clearly considers the captain
and the master exempted from all blame.
He declares that "no men could have
displayed more vigilance and anxiety—painful
anxiety—from the hour they loft Portsmouth.
They.knew, what the others did not, the fearful
danger but always displayed so much cheerful-
ness as really to lead the passengers, at times, to
imagine that she was the finest vessel ever floated."
The following graphic description paints out
the state of the vessel, and her absolute un-sea-
worthiness. The writer says—and there is a
vraisemblance about it which induces us to yield
an easy credence :—" From the hour we left
Portsmouth we were in danger, as on
leaving the deck the fan of the screw,
which had not been raised, came into col-
lision with the dock. The fan was positively
broken, and the concussion caused a leak aft
which could not be stopped. The Transit, except
the wind was on the quarter or beam, would not
answer her helm the sails did not fit
her, and were very old. On the 22d and
23d we lost the foresail, foretopsail, the main-
sail, and maintopsail. The mainyard, made
of indifferent timber, broke in half like a rotten
stick, and one of the plates of iron of which the
ship is built broke in two below water mark. I
need not tell you that it was almost impossible to
prevent the vessel from foundering ; indeed, had
the gale not abated nothing could have saved us.
You cannot conceive the extent of that danger.
It may help you to do so when I toll you that on
the 24th we pumped out of the wretched ship
600 tons of water. 600 tons !"

SITTINGS OF THE INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.--The
eourt will sit on Saturday, the 17th inst., for bail cases
and motions, and shortly afterwards the sittings for the
hearing of cases will be resumed,
VACATION MASTER AT THE COMMON PLEAS.—Notice
has been given that the Vacation Master of the Court of
Cemrnon Pleas will attend on Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday, to transact business at chambers.
REPRESENTATION OP EAST KENT.—Mr. Rice, late
member for Dover, is spoken of as a candidate for the
vacancy in the representation of the eastern division of
Kent, occasioned by the retirement of Sir E. Dering.
Mr. Rice is a supporter of Lord Palmerston's Govern-
ment. Mr. Deedes, who was defeated at the last elec-
tion, has offered himself as a candidate on Conservative
principles.
len rnte latelycsh Bourse, Which'
At eh graphic message from St. Petersburg qnotes the
price of tallow at 175r0. on the spot and for all the
month.
The Royal mail steamer Australasian, to sail for
Alexandria on the 12th inst., will take out 300 troo; s
and 57 surgeons for India • conveyed by the Suez
route to Ceylon, they will be forwarded thence to Ca'-
cutta. Mr. C. Wetton, who has been appointed by the
tiaolyiaal, Mailproee
proceeds
mbypatniiyi
ii as
vesselthe itro superintendentthe scene
of hi i for Atis
labours.-
The Zeit, of Berlin, Says that a Fre, e'lman, who has
lived in Stuttgardt for the ltt,4 15 months, was arrested
on the day of the Emperor Napoleon's arrival for having
cried, " Vive la Republique Frangaise !”
We are fnablei to state that the total ascertained
subscriptions
duybf rsrtoceormpi
rob
reported
taadelrldi
in th e quarters
East. to the Indian Fund
Y 100,0001. This is exclusive of
attheomlto
than
me: amount
suar
an much grumbling and afforded a famous theme for the
that
wthheencabarartgiemfpoorseadd,mciasusi d
Charivari, was to be abolished, but the papers now say
that no such idea has been for a moment entertained.
A SMALL MISTAKE.—On Thursday the 3d West York
Militia mustered at Doncaster, between 800 and 900
strong. The lull News gravety announces that the
numerous and loyal force " mutinied" instead of mus-
tered. .
THE WIFE 'MURDER AT BOLTON.—On Saturday an
inquest was held, in the Borough Court, on the body of
Alice Mellor, the unfortunate woman who was murdered
by her husband on Thursday night. The evidence went
t ) prove the guilt of the prisoner, who briefly addressed
iusilttryialo
af
twtihl feu
nextll u rads se irz.. s .1 I e
tof o take hg
standse jury,
committed a n and wa s

kire.

" I have lost a day 1" The Roman Emperor,
who thus deplored his idleness, was fully alive to
the magnitude of the evil. He knew that he
could never regain that which he had heedlessly
relinquished—that the damage was, indeed, irre-
parable ; all he could do was to determine that
he would carefully avoid a similar mistake for the
future ; and it is recorded that he faithfully
maintained his resolution.

What can by a possibility be worse than this ?
Can anything more powerfully illustrate the abso-
lute inefficiency of the Department who thus
jeopardised the lives of a large body of her
MAJESTY'S troops, engaged in a most important
duty? During the entire voyage they were kept
in a state of the utmost peril and discomfort.
Their property was damaged in the first instance,
and eventually destroyed, and it waa through the

A TAM O'SHANTEII.—A miller in the vicinity of E'gin,
bad been indulging rather freely one evening lately in a
public house in town. "when the drink's in the wit's
out ;" so our hero, when opposite Gray's Hospital, in the
direction of his house, a mile off, fancied he saw his bed
on the way side, and a clear fire burning opposite. He,
therefore, doffed every article of clothing he had except
his shirt, and lay down at the dykeside, under the
drenching rain. How long he slept is not known, 1n;
no
jcooHvNerisnganbteEtißhisit7Dtivliinveuns.—.2Tnnvearaceisosnmeocui
on the following morning he found himself at home, with
Chronicle
has the fact upon undoubted authority. A writer in
that journal says The great vexata questio, 'is John
Sadleir alive,' will, we think, be aborly decided in
favour of those who feel convinced of his existence. By
the following extract of a letter received by a gentleman
resident in 'Tipperary, from a first cousin to the notorious
ex Treasury lord, it would appear that Vienna has now
become his habitat. The turning up of the supposed
suicide would be a fitting climax to this extraordiaery
career of public dupy. `The notorious John
Sadleir is now living in Vienna ; he was in America,
but oame over lately to the above-named city."
SCARCITY OF LABOUR IN THE OTTAWA. DISTRICT, CA-
NADA.—A. letter from Mr. F. Gernow, Government
Emigration Agent at Ottawa, dated Sept. 9, 1857, has
the following remarks in reference to the paucity of la-
bour in that part of Canada :—" The demand for agri-
cultural labour has been very great during the present
season, and the supply has not been at all adequate to
the wants of the country. In the early part of n- xt
spring, therefore, a large number of first-class agricul-
turalt
labourers would be certain of obtaining immedia'e
men at from 425. to 545. per month, with board,emp.oy
lodging, &c. The Ottawa country offers inducements to
steady and industrious agricultural labourers not to he
surpassed in Canada. Men with families can always be
be supplied with a house on or near the lot where they
are employed. The wives can be employed at fair equ
Ottawa country, the demand for female domestic ser-
valents for their services. In this city and throughout the
vants is unusually great, and a vast number of such as
have been accustomed to the ordinary duties of house-
work would be immediately engaged at from 15s. to 20 a.
per month; to cooks acquainted with their duties 255. to
30s. would be cheerfully paid. In addition to those re-
in the rural districon where those that have been accus-
tomedquired in the towns, a great many would be employed
to the duties of the dairy would be highly appre-
ciated and well remunerated. A moderate number of
mechanics, such as carpenters, blacksmith., &c., are
also in request, and to men of good character this part
of Canada offers permanent inducements highly advan-
tageous to their future interests. Land of capital qua-
lity can be obtained at moderate prices. This place is
easy of access at all times of the year by the Greed
Trunk Railway to Prescott, and thence by the Prescott
and Ottawa Railway."
AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS IN SU/TOLL—The early
period at which the harvest was finished has enabled the
farmers to get very fur ward with the agricultural opera-
tions. The autumn clearing of the stubble, the prac:iee
of which is every year extending,
is a system that has
only lately become common ; and there can be no doubt
that with favourable weather it is of very great ad-
vantage, as it saves a great amount of labour in the
spring. The weather has been very warm and growing
of late, and all descriptions of food for sheep and stuck
are in a moat growing state. In the middle of
August the prospect for both rape and turnips
was as bad as we ever -remember ; but the reel
has put everything to rights, and now there is an abund-
ance of feed. This has had a great effect upon the
price of stock, and at our late fairs sheep have brought
good prices. The corn markets have been rather flue
tuating, but we do not expect any material alteration
for some time to come. The quality and condition of
the wheat in thin county seem better than it is in
most other places ; and there is a considerablequantity
shipped away to the north nearly every
week. Our prices have also been 8,. per quarter lower
than many of the northern midland counties, and with
a demand from them, which is likely to continue for some
time, we are inclined to think we shall yet soon rally in
prices.—September 29.
A POACHER ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY HIS OWN GUN.—
Yebterday an inquest was held upon the body of Jame.;
Sutton, a notorious poacher, residing at Billington, near
Blackburn, who was killed on the previous Friday even-
ing by the accidental discharge of his own gun. On
pfiuoti
field
the night named Sutton left his home, in company with
another poacher named Robt. Thompson, to go shooting.
Suttona
Thompson took the gunthe occupiedig intoout of Sutton's ob
y his
ycro
.at pocket,
onyp otkandtreyieerzand
er,wvehe
when
into
got
over the hedge with it in pursuit of game. Not finding
any he returned to his companion, and, handing the
gun to him, at the same time pushed it through the
e
hedge muzzle forwards, keying, "Take thy gun."
Sutton seized hold of the barrel, and was drawing
it through the thorn fence when, the trigger being
catlght, the gun
noweand the contents lon
dg d
in the left side
aLdtitschrg
breast.
ona,sed, k
e up,
He
wasta
end conveyed to his parents' house, where he lingered
until the f 1 )wing morning. The deceased was 23 years
of age, and unmarried. A. verdict of accidentally killed
I was returned by the jury,

It would be well if our rulers would adopt a
similar course. The nation has virtually " lost
a day," and that at a time when the demands
on its resources are most onerous and urgent.

blessing of PROVIDENCE that they were spared a
similar fate. It could scarcely be expected that
she would arrive safely at her destination. The
writer thus speaks on that point :—" At home you

Mills are to be closed, looms stopped, agriculture;
labours suspended, shops unopened, and all the
operations of trade and commerce brought to a
stand still. Those who can barely contrive to
live with the most stringent economy are deprived
of one-sixth of their weekly earnings, and thereby
compelled to fast really. Many who occupy a
position but little higher in the social scale, but
who might be enabled to contribute their mites
towards the relief of the Indian sufferers, will be
prevented from doing so by the same cause. And
why ? Simply because througk the mismanage-
ment and political blunders of the Anglo-Indian
Government, the Bengal army have mutinied, and
perpetrated the most savage and outrageous
cruelties on those who have been so unfortunate
as to fall into their hands. " Quic quid delirant
reges plectuntur Achivi." In like manner the
People must suffer both in purse and perscfn for
the mistakes of, their rulers.
A week since we referred to the judicious an-
swer returned by Lord PA.LMERSTON to the de-
mand of certain Scottish Ministers and Elders
for a similar fast, in order to arrest the spread of
the cholera, which was then spreading destruction
throughout the land. His Lordship then showed
them that it was vain to petition the Deity, when
we did not adopt proper means to prevent the
evil. It was like the conduct of sailors who aban-
do.ned the pumps while the leak was gaining fast,
and the helmsman who let the frail bark steer
itself in place of directing her towards port, in
order that they might pray before the images of
their favourite saints—Aide toe, et Dieu Caldera,
was the purport of his Lordship's reply, and such
ought it to have been on the present occasiom.
As we have repeatedly stated, men " cannot be
made religious by act of Parliament," or by Royal
Proclamation. Nay, more, a vast number will
resent the attempt, more especially when accom-
panied by privation and inconvenience. Bit-
ter feelings will arise in many minds
which may more than counterbalance the
good effects produced on the piously disposed.
It will also be made by others a day of feasting
and enjoyment, in place of being one of fasting
and humiliation, and the loss of wages will be
more than doubled, we might perhaps say quad-
rupled by the additional outlay incurred in the
pursuit of pleasure and amusement.
Had Sunday been selected for the purpose, no
one could or would have complained. Those who
desired it might have fasted and humiliated them-
selve.T. Nay, more, there might have been a
QuEeres letter authorising collections in every
church and chapel, or other place of worship
throughout her dominions, for the relief of those
reduced to poverty and destitution by the terrible
outbreak. The call would have beep promptly
and liberally responded to, and the donations
. would have been " twice blessed," to the givers
and to the recipients. It was, however, a puri-
tanical triumph, a concession to the Mawworm
faction ! The good is, at least, very problematical.
It might be different if it was received in a
proper spirit by a majority of the people.
But, from previous experience, we fear
that there is but little prospect of that being the

will esteem it a most unfortunate and disastrous
occurrence that we should be lost. I believe there
is not a soul among us who did not thank GOD for
being wrecked where we were, as if we had pro-
ceeded to the Chinese Seas and met a typhoon, or
even a heavy gale of wind, the Transit must have
sunk, and all of us been lost. For my own part,
I esteem it a most merciful occurrence."
This cannot be suffered to pass by sub silentio.
Of course there must be a stringent and searching
investigation into the conduct of the responsible
officers. But it should not rest there. It should
extend to the conduct of the Board of Admiralty,
who neglected the most impressive warnings, and
with perverse obstinacy sent her forth to perish
on the journey. The conduct of the crew and
passengers was all that could be desired, other-
wise the calamity would have been of a far more
serious description.

THE SU. , LoNE ON)* TUES DIA Y EMI N G 5,1 0 C R 6, 1857

night.

ad interim.

LATE`nT NEWS.

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPFI,)

L IVERPOOL, TUESDAY MORNING.

The United States' mail steam-ship Baltic, Com-
stock, commander, is off the port, with advices
from New York -0 the 26th ult., being two days
later than those received per Europa.

BERLIN, OCT. 5.
The Empress of Russia arrived at Potsdam last

The King of Saxony has just arrived here.
The Emperor Napoleon is not expected here
any time this year.

MADRID, OCT. 4.
Marshal Narvaez has tendered his resignation.
The Queen has accepted it.

M. Lersundi is named President of the Council

Bravo Murillo has left Paris for Madrid.

The Cologne Gazette publishes a letter from
Vienna which says :—" The rumour appears to
gain strength that the Porte is decided not to
make any other concessions relative to the princi-
palities than those recommended by Lord Claren-
don, and which consist in a certain unity in the
judicial, military, and financial organisation of the
two. A note relative to that subject was last
week sent to the. courts of Vienna, Paris, and
London."

According to the well-informed Pera correspon-
dent of the Tricster Zeitung, Lord Stratford has
informed the Porte that vast quantities of weapons
are bought up by the ultra-Mahommedan party for
the use of their fellow believers in India. The
correspondent asserts that the substance of the
reply given by the Grand Vizier to his Lordship
was, that he could not possibly interfere with any
private speculation which was prejudicial neither
to the existence nor to the welfare of Turkey.

According to advices from Bagdad, the English
Commissarie., who were accompanied by a Yersian
employe, have been received at Herat with all the
cerenaenY and respect due to them.

The Ancona, correspondent of the Augsburg Ga-
zette wries that Austria is likely to have granted
to her by the Papal Government the right " al-
ways" to keep a small garrison in Ancona. It is
not probable that the news is correct, but if it
mlieuld be so, neither France nor England will
greatly approve of the arrangement between Aus-
tria and Rome.

If the Austrian papers are to be believed, Baron
Prokesch is now doing all in his power to persuade
the Porte to sanction the firman by which the Vice-
roy of Egypt authorized M. de Lesseps to form a
canal across the Isthmus of Suez.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.

Some grand manoeuvres, commanded by the Em-
peror in person, took place at the camp of Chalons
on Saturday. The Empress was present on horse-
back, accompanied by the Duchess de Montebello
and the Countess de Labedoyere. His Majesty
was escorted by Marshals Magnan, Baraguay
d'Hilliers, Duke de Malakoff, and Bosquet, and
General Lord Rokeby, who commanded the bri-
gade of Guards in the Crimea. Marshals Count de
Castellano and Count Randon, Governor-General
of Algeria, arrived on Sunday morning, and are,
with the_ other marshals, to pass some days at the
camp with their Majesties. This week is to be
employed as actively as possible, and on Sunday
next there is to b 3 a grand review, and on the fol-
lowing day a general inspection of the camp. The
weather is described as tine, and the sanitary state
of the troops is most satisfactory. A letter frxn
Chalons, dated yesterday, says : It is supposed
that a division of 5,000 men will pass the winter in
the camp."
The following telegraphic despatches have been
received to-day

" 4.—The Emperor of Russia left to-
day about noon with his family. The Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess accompanied them as far as Halle.
The Grand Duchess Marie is much better, and quite able
to travel."
4, BERLIN, Sept. 4.—At an extraordinary sitting held
yesterday evening the ceetsal committee of the Royal
Bank raised the rate discount on commercial paper to
gl per cant. Advances on securities remain at 6 per
cent., but it is possible that they will be subjected to
some restrictions."
BOURSE, Oct. s.—The following were the last
quotations :

- Cash. fr.
I. per Cents
3 per Cents 6B 25
Bank Shares 2,985 Credit RElncier ...... 555
Credit Mobilier 905 Roman ... ......... ... 87 -
Do. Account 9OO --Austrian ........... . !-0 -
tAigian 41 — Spanish Three
Piedmontese (5) — Home Debt
....

End of Month.
-fr. --;,D.

- .........
RAILWAYS—FOB CASH,—
tr. c.
Orleans 1,400 --Western .... Fr c.
...... 710 -
:NI- orthorn
Lyons and Med B:'s New Ditto
705
New Ditto 8771— Grand Central
610 ?
Geneva
Midi

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
It may be remembered that the Austrian mem-
ber of the European Commission in the Principali-
ties protested against the declaration of his col-
leagues of France, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia,
on the subject of the illegality of the first elections
in Moldavia. The following is the despatch ad-
dressed by Prince Gortohakoff the Russian Mini-
ster of Foreign Affairs, to Baron de Budberg, Rus-
sian Minist€r at Vienna, on the subject, dated Pe-
terlioff, Aug. 21 :
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Monsieur le Baron,—The information which we have
lately received gives hopes of the speedy and amica-
ble arrangement of the differences which have arisen
at Constantinople. The understanding re-established
between all the powers which signed the treaty
of Paris has given the most lively satisfaction
to our august master. We should have preferred
burying in oblivion all the previous disputes, if a
fact inserted in one of the protocols of the sittings of the
European commission did not compel us to make some
remarks on the subject. In that sitting the Austrian
commissioner, alluding to a declaration made by his col-
leagues of Russia, France, Prussia, and Sardinia, said
that they had acted in manifest contradiction with the
provisions of the treaty of Paris and the instructions of
the congress. We cannot allow such expressions to pass
unnoticed. During the whole of the discussions which
arose in the European commission, the imperial cabinet
has invariably kept to the faithful execution of the treaty
of Paris as regards the Principalities, and the words and
acts of its representative at Constantinople and its coin-
missioner at Bucharest have been guided by the same feel-
ing. It is, therefore, impossible for us to understand
what the Austrian commissioner means by the reproach
addressed to four of his colleagues. Does M. Liebman
suppose that, in presence of the irregularities corn-
witted in Moldavia under the authority of the Caimacan
—irregularities which now appear to be admitted by the
cabinets of London and V e inn them-elves—that the
commission could remain a silent spectator, and accept
a divan formed on such conditions as the legal organ of
the wishes of the country ? It is not in this light that
the imperial cabinet comprehends the task in which it
co-operates. In appointing a commissioner to take
part in these works, it wishes to take part in a con•
scientious work, and to carry it out with good faith end
in strict conformity with the ririnciples laid down by the
Congress, and the declaration against which M. Liebman
has protested is only a consequence of our respect fur
those principles'. We have not, Monsieur le Baron, the
elightest intention of recriminating, and it is not w:tisout
regret that we charge you to deliver a copy of this de-
spatch to Count de Buol. We are, moreover, willing;
suppose either that the Austrian commissioner has nut
fully understood the ideas of his court, or that he has
given a development and a character to them which wsre
not in the intentions of the Cabinet of Vienna. We do
not admit the part which M. Liebman assigns t ) he
commission. It certainly is not called on to interfere
in the administrative affairs of the Princip Utica ; it
has only to consult and raider an account of the wisher:
of the c )untry. But it feels perkua7ed that where the
elections, which ought to be a faithful expression of those
wishes, are carried on under the illegal prkssure of tee
local authorities, the commission only fultiis a strict
duty in pointing out tbia infraction of the principles laic
down in the treaty cf Paris. In our opinion,
any other
attitude would neither respond to the dignity of tne
powers which signed that ircaty, nor to the confidence
which they ought to inspire.—Accept, &c., •
GORTCHAKOFF.

TIIRKEY•
According 'to the c.,littue,lital correspondence of
the Independance Beige, the Ot+oman Government
11:s i.,sued a circulir note to its repiesentativea at
foreign courts, protesting against the union of the
Danubian Principalities. It Nandi its arguments
upon the indisputable rights of the Porte and the
maintenance of the integrity of the Turkish Em-