The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1854, Page 2

“AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. ADDITIONAL BY Iuteresting Letter fr-m our London Correspondent. THE EUROPEAN CORN TRADE. SKETCH OF PARIS FASHIONS. ANGLO-FRANCO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE IN CHINA, &., t., &e, The conrersazione given by the Society for the Encouregement of Arts, Manufactures and Com- merce, to inangurate their centenary exhibition at St. Martin’s Hall, London, took place on Taesday evening, the 4thiastant. His Royal Highnews, the Prinoe, President of the Society, attended by the Marquis of Abercorn, Viscount Canning, and a nu- merous euite, was cord: cted through the rooms by Mr, H, Chester, the cbsirman and other members of the counoil, and the officers of the society, accom- panied by the Rev- Mu'rhexd Mitchell, one of Her Majesty's inspectors of Schools, The following commissioners, accredited by respective govern- ments to atter d this exhibition, were present: For France, M. Milne Edwards, F. B. §., Membre de l'Institut, Doyen de la Facults des Sciences ; for tho United States, the Hon. Henry Barnard, Super- tentenden of the State Schools, Connecticut, United States. A bust of the American statesman, Daniel Web- ser, ison view at Mesars. Graves’s,in Pali Mall, London. Itis by Mr. J. C. King, an English artist, who has lived and practiced his art in the United States, and does the English school of portrait sculpture no discredit. The head ia large and massive; the features of the face are sharp and hard in outline, lackingall nobility of form ani ideality of expression; 80 that they do not very readily lend themselves to the sculptor’s purposes. Nevertheless, | }, Mr. King has overcome his difficulties skilfally. ‘The work is @ commission, and was executed in America for Lord Ashburton. Our London Correspondence, Lonpon, July 6, 1854. The Russians will not Reeross the Pruth—The Czar Determined to Fight it Out to the Last Man— Approaching Campaign in the Crimea—The For- bfications at Cronstadt and Sebastopol not so Formidable as Supposed—Disquictude Caused by the Fast Extending Power of Louis Napoleon— The Intentwons of Austria Still an Enigma— Government Patronage in England—English Social Depravity— Misery of the Lower Classes— | The Sydenham Crystal Palace, &c. So it turns out that the Russians do not intend to reoross the Pruth, and that the telegraphic state- ment that the Czar had given orders for his army to do so, and that those orders were prompted out of respect for Austria, vere fictions of the Times newspaper for stock jobbing purposes. The Russian army has merely recrossed the Danube, and has ‘yetired from Wallachia into Bessarabia, to assume a hostile attitude towards Austria, and to draw the allied forces into the unhealthy Dobrudscha. The Czar says that he will fight his last man and spend his last rouble in the war. In England the despatch of troops to the seat of war is renewed with vigor, and the funds have drooped in consequence. Im- Mmense quantities of swords and ammunition are also now departing from Eogland for Omer Pacha’s army. Many are of opinion that the Russians never in- | tended to encounter the allied armies of English, French and Turks,on the right of the Danube, and that their object was to give the Western Powers. | the trouble to advance towards them, to get laughed at. Before retiring, the Rassians evidently wished to make a telling dash at Silistria, in which, unfor- tunately for themselves, they got the worst of it from the Turks. There appeara to be a general opinion that an attempt will now be made by the | allied forces to wrest the Crimea from the Russians, | and that Sebastopol will be taken ia the | rear. What the fortunes of Russia will be in this new move remains to be seen. A portion of the allied forces must be trans ported to the Crimea, where they will be landed, and have a hand-to-hand fight with the Roasians— when, if the latter are defeated, they will be driven into the sea and fal] an easy prey to the allied fleets of France and England. It shows how dangerous attacking Cronstadt and Sebastopol is believed to be,from scarcely the slight- est attempt having been made on those two fortress- es up to the present time. casemates at Cronstadt are too amall, and that in a heavy fire the Russians would be smothered in their own smoke, and that the stone of the fortifications at Sebastopol is friable. If so, they ‘will not prove so formidable to the ships as expect- ed ; still there has been great hesitation hitherto in attacking them, and nothing will probably be done ith them by ships alone. Sir Charles Napier was along time before Swea- borg, but did nothing of very great importance _ there. He bas now proceeded on to Cronstadt. He has left Helsingfors, it is believed, insufficiently guarded, for there is a powerful Rassian fleet there; and if it should break loose, in twelve days it would be ray the English coast, which is now com- pletely celess, French ti are, however, about to to the Baltic in English ships of. jar circumstance ; and all eyes ap; to be concentrated for the moment on the Gulf of place there. of England may be said to be in the hands of Sir Charles Napier, who is a thoroughly brave and honest man. Great events, however, cannot be far distant’in the Black Sea, and we shall soon hear of something worthy of tre great belligerents. Russia not given the slightest sign of giving in, She ae defies aud — the bp Li es 4 even alth Austria has apparently gone wi them. No vital blow has yet been struck at Russia, and it is a difficult matte to say where it should be strack to tell home. No proof has been shown that the allies are in thorough good earnest—or if they are, that their plans bave been wisely con «ived. Omer Pacha even up to the present time ccwplains of the tardiness of the allies, and appears *& picious of their good faith. The Austrian alli ance le most Ly amon with Eugland, for she is treacherous to the heart’s core, and those who have been ber greatest friends have most reason to com- ploin of her enmity. Kossath is about to commonce a crusade in England against the Austrian alliance, and this will not tend to make it more popular—for Spine other the Bago mind a to 8 inind as the cae Great Britain of the French alliance, end whether England will not be overreached in the long run by Napoleon If]. The armies of the latter are everywhere—his influence and armies are and sgicant fect. Hinglish stra, icant 7 se ee or cunning ph \ disquietade in ex fect the doubts and gur- border on the ladi- 2 ti i i i 2 ij : in Hf i r I } E g 3 : aasistance The English (erent seven to have taken the alarm about defenceless state of the North- in case of a reverse in the Baltic, and about to be formed immediately. the French ti now about ic, in el tran: , will im. Swedes to join the Western ers, which greatly to the troubles of Russia in that — aystem exists in Lae for intments. Every Srteee ones, wie 5 ice, and all other govern- , is in the gift of the government ¢o ensure as much influence in parliamentary elec- t.ons as possible. As soon as 8 vacancy occurs ia riment the head of it is bound to report it 4 SS iaens ry, the Secretory of which torthwith THE FRANKLIN. It is now said that the | | colony, its commercial prospects, &c. writes to the government member of the vacancy occurs, and he bestows on some one who has voted or him, or whose frieads have done 60. No questi-ns of honesty or fitness ave asked. This is the reason such tral dis honesty exists in such departments as the post of- fice, for instance, and which dishonesty requires a whole staff of officials in each department, who are | handsomely paid to detect. By a peculiar refine- ment of ingenuity, promotion in every govern- ment department is kept down as much ; a3 ible, so that the value of # member of { Parl nt patronage might not be depreciated in value. Thus, in the post office department, for ex- pont ps sonmuet carrier =e seoome a oe ago clerk can me a er, and a regalar tem of Egyptian Saee is thus established. This bribery b; aeons Se:te reel sacres S788 peree, Af convicted and punished in England for bribery in Parliamentary elections by money, The most wholesale and darin, bribery proved oftentimes to exist, before the frouse Commons, but the bribers openly at the house when de- tected. They know that government is gallty of'the same offence. The opposition candidates a1 members bribe with money, and the candidates and members bribe by pat The money is generally paid before the election, and the patronage is bestowed after the election; that is all the difforence, The Attorney General is at the head of the Eag- lish The present one, Sir Alexander Cockburo isa gay bachelor, and is looked upon asa bewigged co Juan. Whatever he has done formerly, he now Scorn delights, and live laborious days, iment his duty to hisclient as a paramount obligation, even above the claims of truth and humanity. Some years. ago Charles Phillips, a protege of the Bavkropts, was engaged to defend Courviedier, Swiss valet, wno murdered Lord William Raseell. Ocuvviedier confessed to Philips before the trial thot be. was the murderer, yet ois counsel endeavor- ed by all means in his power to prove his client’s innocence, and to fasten the guilt upon two poor iunocent maid servants who gave evidence on the resent Attorney General is member for some vwn in the South ef aged where politi- cal excitement, it is » runs high, The courts of justice have had to interfere in consequence of this excitement. Yet it has been foundinvariably that the Attorney General's oppo- nents have been beaten, owing, it is insin , to the barristers employed by those opponents having had valuable government briefs supplied to them by the Attorney General before or during the trials. So much for the honor and honesty of the English ar |. Infanticide is as prevalent in England as it is in some savage countries. A woman has just murder ed six of her young children ; she was the wet nurse to one of the Royal children, and has turned out o drunkard and an adulteress. The lives of handreds, if not thousands, of children in England are insured in death clubs, and nearly all these children die early. Ostensibly tbeir lives are inaured to enable their,parents to bury them decently, if it please iod to take them, as the phrase goes ; but it is proved that the real object ot insurance isto enable | the hidéous wretches of parents to make a profit- | able trade of murder. These children are killed by | neglect or slow poison. Poverty is, no doubt, the | cause of this fearful depravity. | est state of degradation, by being paid badly, to én- able England to preserve her manufacturing supre- macy and sell cheap goods. Some excuse, however, ome to the miserable destiny, that of servitude, of | the children of the poorer classes, female children. Female servitude here, in the fami- lies of the inferior classes, is the vilest slavery that | can be imagined. The English maid of all work, is a Rye lot upon English morale and humanity. | | The female drudge in the family of the English pet- ty tradesman, or lodgiug-house keeper, where there | is a large family of children, or coarse minded and | | peat lodgers, works harder, and is subjected to viler insults and degradation than the slaves of the ancient world. ‘Tens of thousands of these poor | | drudges seek a refuge in prostitution. \ English society is rotten to the core. No matter how prosperous the country is,a race of helots always Formerly, an English barrister used to consider | great Curran, acd who is tow a Commissioner of | trial. Times are now, it appears, changed. The | can almost be found for infanticide in Eq; land , particularly the | the place wherd Ife, giving character, by their to the ia examples, ‘The Eastern ; from especially, cater Ie and seem, a5 do in Ohina, to are seen our unrivalled clippers, and mep who command them, in proud trim. The bor, for safety, convenience and capacity, cannot be oe pth oe poy me “en juires ropbet +7 aD le no to foretell the fature of Austral A tree liberal government, independent like our own, ere long rear its cheerful bead. The cotony is most beeen and already de! all ite cluding eoldiers on destiny prospects of Al and its BE. ‘The Vincenres was lcome, bene pe before, when Commodore au the Exploring | Leaving Sydney, ! Duaily 2 the | islands to the eastward, rtion of the boundless | , with ite rocks, reefs and currents, was suc- ith 1 na es itecapabultie neumrioaion: It ess with reg a +e it was | here, in this remote sea, I believe, that the bottom | was reached in 2,500 fathoms, (and the line re- | gaineo) with interesting of its composition. | dele rapid] The English working classes are kept in the low- | Captain | ject up, and put it on a foot ; Angio-Franco American Alliance in China, | Epan, Consul ad interim of France, Vearels bound from to the ports of China must traverse this sea, and the of § caretal exaealese in ct Aetna ane bitherto un t’labarynth of pea, easy " navigation for the benefit of our countrymen. Many islands were visited, and. the most friendly intercourse cherished with the netives. La Perouse Island was, in its solitude, oe, and the respect of a salate of 16 minute guns |» With colors at half-mast, in honor and to the memory of the fa- com |, carefully ex- amined, and then the Ladrone Islands were touched at, and several whale ships communicated with. It is aremarkable fact, that, of the twenty-five ships Freep during the Laps were American, mostly woale chips. Some clippers from California were seen. The Cragg Captain Nichol, of the Flyi Firh, from hia heart presented the sbip wit! potatoes from fornia, sufficient for all hands for aweek. Here was an instance of noble-hearted Yankee character for you. His ship resembled Aurora, as she came down upon us about sunrise; files of recent papers were put on board. Our ship arrived at Macao on the 19th March, and the com- mander, Soding. a naval stores stanged to tois place, brought a) over, where we have been | caulking, refitting and provisioning ship, ready for a long voyege among the Japanese islands, ‘We have had very bad weather and much rain, | ig our progress materially. e commander found the Hon. Mr. McLane waiting to go to Canton; and Commodore Perry not having a ship here at the moment, offered his ship, to convey the Minister to his post. We went to work | to prepare her, as the Minister accepted Rin, ’s offer; but before Mr. McLane was | ready, the Susquehanna, Commodore Buchanan, returned from Japan, and in a day or two left for | Canton with him. Since then the Minister has gone | in his ship to Amoy or Shanghai, I learn. Yon have doubtless heard of the success of Com- modore Perry and the opening of certain Japanese ports—another achievement of our little and much- neglected nayy. When will Congress take the sub- g honorable and | Anaus. effective? ladustey and bright | seotation bs [From the North China Herald, April 22.) Swanouas, April 15, 1854. Axcocx, Consul of Great Britain, Murray, Consul of the United States, Issue the followmg nctice, in contradiction a | | exists, for the wealth is alsorbed by the capitalists, | and for want of room the lower order of workers | | are ground down. But even amongst a | better class of persons the misery and oppression | | that exists are frightful. Thousands of girls who | are tenderly brought up are apprenticed to dress- | makers and milliners to the aristocracy, in order to | enable them to get a better living than ne hows | servitude. These poor creatures are kept night avd day in miserable workrooms, where they are half starved, in order that the; by! enable vulgar mistresses, with their husbands, to live in extrava- gance and sensuality. Another feature of Euglieh society is the brutality | of husbands of the lower order to their wives. A | law has just been passed eepeclaly t> prevent this, but it has been ineffectual. Englishmen are not Jees kind-hearted perhaps than Other men, but the pendent of them, the difficulty they have in getting a living, sours their tempers. Their homes, like- wise, cannot be comfortable, where } and competition for labor so great, quence of all this is that the strong man wreaks his icritated temper and excited on the woman. English society is much altered from what it was. If you go into a country church you will see what | need to he “the bold peasantry, a country’s pride,” a timid dull and deteriorated race. All friendly in- tercourse between the squire and the peasant has | long since ceased. Still the aristocracy hate the | middle clasees more than they do the lower ordera, pn owes and thus all classes are isolated from other. There is as much pride, exclu- | siveness and hatred among the trades people, dif- fering from one another in the ion of income, of an English town, as there is between the aris- tocracy, middle classes and lower orders. Noth’ in England is thought of but wealth. Even rank subservient to it. Neither worthy condact or talent is thought of in com; with money. Parvennism all ranks and conditions of | Englishmen. The jeweller will not associate with | the draper, and the Jatter turns up his nose at the | shoe r and tailer. Snobbery reigns supreme in old England, The success of the Sydenham Cry tal ;Palace is fait accompli.. The Crystal Palace are about to create life subscriptions by | which they expect to raise at once a million | pounds sterling. The rise in the price of paper is alarming the my journalists; several proprietors have been obliged to raise the jee Of their jou 4. The advance in paper is o1 | frags. Cotton is now not so much worn as eer and owing to the spread of edncation more paper is required. The proprietors of the Times have offered $5,000 to whoever will inveat a substitute for rags | in the making of paper. It is expected that tne | vantege to their operations would result from the racti rise in the price of paper, and the number of un- stamped news, pers publisned, will drive the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer to abolish the penny stamp | on English newspapers. | Our Hong Kong Correspondence. | Hono Kona, April 25, 1854. | Crwise from the Cape of Good Hope—Matters at the | Cape—Movements of our Squadrcnin the South | Pacific—Sydney and Mebourne--Our Minister | at China, §c., §c. My last was from the Cape of Good Hope. mised to give you some items with reapect to the Americans | the trade with the United States. Wool has become largely, of late, an export, and there isa lucrative trade in goat skins. Since the settlement of the | Kaffir troubles, South Africa begins to pour out its | commodities, and settleinents have been made and | means taken to extend intercourse with the interior, | which must develope the resources of this remarkable country. A short visit to Contantia and the vineyards | around convinced me that the delicious nectar way produced in abundance, and needs only to be under stood at home to become an article of considerable export and consumption. Yankee notions are reachery > gteatly sought after, and were originally introduced | into the market by our honest and enterprising | Consul, the good Mr. Holmes. I can see but one impediment to a great expan- sion and activity at the Cape. It may be found in the change of route and trade to Australia via the isthmus of Panama and Pacific Ocean. The cli- mate of the Cape is ae, the roads are ex- Ricle, which may be considered as among Ws advan icles, whic! - tigi mene, tm OH iron, under Capt. left the C. onthe %h of November, a ‘porta taeees for the | Chinese Seas, while the Vincennes and the Porpoise traversed the great Southern Occan, touching at Australia, thence through the perilous Coral Sea, | with the laudable object of gaining experience with | rd to the winds, currents, dangers, difficulties and of the grest eastern route to the Pees x! Celestial dominions, They had a most exciting and | have secured important infor- | stormy , and “mation, which is now, as I have reason to believe, on its way home for the advantage of our citizens. Sydney was visited by the Vincentes. Since the discovery of wold vast changes have been going on, and the prosperity and importance of this fine co lony greatly enhanced. Americans are largely in- terested yod embarked in all the usefo! pursnits of | because the former ape their manners and approach | | | \ | i | tend protection, Marine rds were sooordiagly stationed at aierent point of the more inhabit to the scarcity of cotton | | | along the inner bank of which has been acquired I pro- | B | of nearly twenty thousand dollars, The troops en- | camped in its immediate vicinity baye made a prac- | tice of crowding in disorderly | have of late years given enterprise and impetus to | wes are low | by certain members of the Hung-man and the conse. | the majority of them natives of Kwang-tun and | to the bi-tael balance of the capital. The one an | the date of their arrival, their conduct towards { | at another, annoying persons idle sumors mi to be afloat, in order that | all misgivings thence arising may be laid aside: | Having been given to understand that the meas- | ures forced upon us on the 3d and 4th instant, have | roduced some alarm in the neighborhood of Sh: \ ae, amongst those unacquainted with the real ow { ‘in and extent of the proceedings referred to, we leem it advisable to reassure the patio mind by an | authentic statement of the facts of the case. It is to be remerubered that the fees communi: | ties reepectively subject to our jurisdictions, as well as all other foreigners here residing, have | been drawn to this port to trade, on. the faith of the treaties existing between our governments and the -| Chineze Empire. ‘Freedom from molestation” be- { ing therein specifically guaranteed, they have | brought hither their families, have purchased land, ond have erected dwelling houses, and warehouses for the reception of merchandise, within limits ori- dppression they etdure from masters who are inde- | cinally assigned to them by the Chinese authorities ecting in concert with our own. On the 7th of September last, this city was seized | ir stherhood, | Fub-keen, who, having subverted the local 50 nent, declared themselves no longer subject to the reisning pyensty. History tells us of above twenty dynasties, which have each one in its tarn, the throne. Bat | the ancients wisely taught that the revolution of empires are not in the band of man, and prematare | mn of such questions was rebuked by a states- man of the Chow. As to the foreigner, his recogui- | tion of dynastic change, a ey country whee he | may be residing, must be p: led by that of the | erpmment to which he owes allegiance. In } diseension which afflict the 5 { to remain neutral. “A ger,” says theproverb, | “can take no side in domestic quarrels.” It is | enough for him to act when he has a of | his own to redress. But again, when danger is at | hand, “ prevention is better than cure.” sub- version of authority, aud the disorder naturally con- | sequent Spon. the capture of the city, obliged us at | once to look to ourselves for security; more, | that the officials bad informed ua, before the above he, of their anxiety on behalf of the foreign | settlement, to which it was out of their power to ex- os : 3 portion of it, with o1 caer drive offall armed men, passing or repassing, their weapons. In on of time an imperial force approached, and nee of a speedy restoration of order led with joy by all the well-disposed. No was lost in sasuring their leacers of 2 ahey fect neutrality and of our desire for peace. were made acquainted with the measures we adopted for our own security, and acceded to our request that they would prohibit their soldiers en- tering the settlement h arms; as, while no ad- ice, it could not fail to be a source of appre- ension, if not of positive danger, to the foreign community. | The siege has now lasted above six months, dur | ing which time the army has been increased to | some eight or ten thousand men, and almost from | foreigners, and those dependent on them, has been 4 matter of unceasing complaint. The foreign position, as originally defined, is bounded on the west by a small stream, the ground and prepared as a place of recreation at an expense bands upon this riding ground, at one time driving off the workmen | employed on it; at another —- materials; king their exercise, by sesring their horses or blocking up the way, Individuals remonstrating with them under these circumstances have been drawn upon; in some in- stancea, without ef remark or known provocation they have been fired at. To say nothing of the ex- treme irksomene:s of such a state of things, wanton disregard of our safety was carried so far, that al- though the city now being besieged lies southward of the encampments, a target was put up in rear of them facing east, and fired which could not but find their way into the settlement. No one, it is true, been wounded by these, but, in some instances, bullets so directed have actually fallen within the precincts of foreign build ngs. Add to this th ce of armed men in the Sah Deamniete to the vil whose conduct both ‘orelga- face, no lan grsteftgeetrouite’ has been given 89 troul ven the fleet stationed inthe Hwang-p a The interception of supplies on their way to the city was an undoubted duty. Our laws prohibit cur countrymen from contributing aid to either of the belligerents in any way whatsvever, and extend a pea any one so acting, against the evil which may befal him at the hands of the party whom he is ing, should he be found by them in the act of assisting their euemies. No forel; could have complained had the proceedings fleet been limited to the attainment of so legitimate anend. But while there is only one instsace on record of a seizure by the fleet of any article des: tined for the use of the om ot although the latter have, beyond doubt receiv large pe of food ond arms—tbere has been, on the other hand, one continued their decds of robbery, poo. | Wistingniebable by the | tien committed sometimes in defiance of eo 8); by the Taoutae; or against the malt the crews of bests cither empty or no- thing objectionable. Bouts too have been tired into with reckless disregard of life, even after they had sbertened sail and were waiting to be examined; ard this notwithstanding the flag of on» of the Treaty Powers was fiying. Of oll thoge evils, ropre: , as the main or garden prospect, which | ae a jence having shown how be hoped from sim; je ‘representation, security of life alone demanded some measure more it than those heretofore resorted to. Yet, in co ion of the neutrality all along professed, nothing was insisted on but the re of the camps responsible for the disturbance, to gone which was equally favor- able to the siege, while the change in their Foctia would afford us some prospect of immunity from farther collision. The works in and about the Sze- ming Hwuy kwan,a soyper A near the city walls, were accordingly to by the troops: those in the om alo: Teeting ground wore out by three, or would be ex- to commence mov! ed by four o'clock; this was communicated fore one o'clock to the authorities. The junk ficet on the river face having been brought under the guns of a British man-of-war easlier in the day, about two o'clock on the oi the 4th inst.,@ body of British and Americau marinea and seamen landed , Where they waited Tien visible inthe campe, 1s waa evident nD Vi i) e it was contemplated ; and posited he indicated as above, the promise that was |. Little life was taken, and this will serve to show that, although our forbearance had long our object was not retribution, but the infliction of Wrcmerely designs to convince, the trope, and al ‘e mere! 2 Cont » beside, tbat there is nothing essential to oar safety thet we will not undertake, and that what we under- take we are prepared to 3 and we shall be rejoiced to find that wi on this occasion, exempts us from any fur ther molestation.. Sheuld it prove otherwise, we ou waste no more time in threata and remon- 6 ces. Be not, therefore, misled by the words and publi- cations of idle men. Take warning’ratherby the past, and for the time to come be cautious of exas- Maybe strangers, whose policy and inclination it is from interfering with you. New Financial Movement in China. BEGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT NOTE EXPERI- MENT AT PEKING. 1, It has been decided to put circulation in the capital, on ti their extension to the provinces. fc princes and nobles, Manchu and Chinese officere—the expenditures of (one a ahomry ~) the imperial household, and those of the public offi- ces, together with outlays on public works, and all other disBureements excepting only soldiers’ rations, xhall-be made from the treasury in notes an Lo cae parts of one, and eight parts of the other. 3. Payments into the trea: for land taxes, cus- toms and the like, and also ordinary and extraordi- nary patsy Shi, Te8y be made in notes in the same mn. roportion. * 4. All ungettled accounts of defaulters, may be cleared up by themselves or by their successors, or their sureties with government paper money and ail- ver in like manner. 5. The silver portion of psyments into and from the treasury be aci jing to the standard, and with the balance of the treasury; the silver repre- sented by the government notes is according to the stan ‘and balance of that de; 6. Officers who take oe nage notes to bankers to be exchanged for silver, shall huve them cashed according nation, in standard silver, or in copper cash at the market value of silver, without discount. 7. Persons into whose possession the notes may come, shall be allowed to write on their back the date of their and the name of the person from whom they were received; but no scribbling can be permitted. & When notesare presented to the treasury which have become torn or obliterated from long use, the shall be cent to the burean of the Board (which is chs: ged with making notes) for renewal; where one corner shall be torn off, aud another note of the same mark and denomination issued in its stead. 9. There shall be four kinds of notes, viz: of one, five, ten and fifty taela, ively, representiag filvcr of standard touch, to be reckoned accordio, ernment notes in , Preparatory to 2. The salaries aud allowances of all, below the | scorched in deals erether shall consist of the ten and fifty tacl notes. color and quality of the Ts) i pero. ‘The notes shall be made of Corean paper, tai- peper: thore of one and five taels shail be eleven inches long, and seven wide; the ten and fifty tac] notes fourteen inches long, and eight anda half wide [English measurements]. In the middle of each note hall be printed ‘‘Weighable by the Peking Bi-tael Balance; Silver-Taels,”’ Over the denominatio1 of of Revenue: above, the words, “Government Notes; Board of Revenue,” in Manchu and Chinese charac- On the right, the name and number ; and on , the date. On the line dividing the left the bill shall be stamped th: ed with its flourish. On margin eal be three denomination, name and fe ita root—from which it rane shout coethall of the lest LetEey ited Europeans. Photly printea on copper. A Russien Frigate on the Coast of Africa. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON TIMES. Sir:—The officers of the United States frigate Constitution, recently arrived here from Porto Praya, St. Jago, rej that a Russian and kept under sail in the of for a couple days, but did not anchor. At first she showed English colors. The American Consul, Mr. Morse, at the invitation of some of the officers, went on py cy Free od her ) pane is con order, and as ¢ na of large ; The po ba officers refused to say where they had come from, or where bound to, or to give the name of the ship. It is really high time that some English or French fiigate seeks an interview with this inimical stranger in these waters,or he will be relieving our Brazilfan mail steamers of their diamonds, the Australians of their gold, and, what is worse, English passengers of their liberty. Iam, Sir, your obedient servant, St. Vincent, Cape Verde, June 19. G. M. Pi ogress of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. (From the London Art Journal.) It is still cocfidently stated that the Crystal Pa- Jace will open on the 24th. It will be fex from com- pletion, at the same time there will be then more to see than Lea yet a justice gh Taine) visite, and subsequent oes ve wi present the engaging quali of progressive novelty. ler Majesty also has given her gracious consent ich. on the application for a bill in Par ea re Majesty and the Prince on this subject, it is not for us to predicate, ‘We noticed, however, that the Botanic Gardens at Kew were on Sundays for the first time last year. little explanation now enables as to ciate the t effect Cop ag Sarg interior ements. At either end of the nave, grouped in an ornamental basin, is to be a fountains, of which the architectaral and ect will be marble and bronze. contain various beautifal The sd plants ind rare fishea. The vista of the nave is to be open from end to cud be- tween these foun’ with the exception probably eventually of a grand fountain in the centre, where the pave crosses the transept. It will be de- corated on either with statues and sroape of plants srranged in connection with the itec- or meets bn A q where the ie nave, WH! be placed foe statues of size, probably the “Hercules Farnese,” and the “Flora,” as repre- senting colossal ancient art, and two modern pic. statues of ge rrery dimensions. The oven “ends of this transept form the two ent ga appears Pe as the carriage approach, and which facin; towards the west, now that the few trees ao the masa of brushwood have been cleared away, commands nearly as fine a view towar: 5 | | } | | | other seal of frigate called | | there about @ month since; she sent boata on eco | monise and enbance the! | of this doorway, and the Elizabethan | department,in which will be wern- | the five tail notes shall form one variety, while | the ¢ 1 ! i [i i Hl ; L F a ii HJ i i ia Ay i i | $ i 58 i i in Fe z H g i i { E i [ rf ofEE Hk ut zs 3? F a I if ith cestel §8 z a i ef iB it sf ek t ay F it { § f i} 8 ie iss ancients aright, such and white lions are not for He is, of the pictur transcends an; by the French, or time. We see Bernini standing him, but his efforts ended but in fi bast. What would be extra ce in any other, in Michae lo—such are the eloquence and power of speech of his art—become true grandeur. The Kilpeck doorway in the Byzantine court is illu- minated, and the Rochester doorway, in the Gothic court, is nearly completed. The figures introduced are proper, or colored according to life. It is de- in ecclesiastic Pomp, with blue, red, green, and elaborate gilding. The colors are very pure and powerful, and on the high key eo generally adopted in the medisval atyles. It is quite neces- to render these conscientiously, and in their full rer, but to be truly appreciated they require the toned and modified rays of painted light to har- effect. The decoration court, are erin es ‘hs Guikertt gates, from the Baptistr: les Ny 1e at Florence have been bronzed in imitation of the original. The decorative paintings after those in and French sculpture grou iD} 1, &c. &., under the direetion of various architects and decorators—Professor Semper, the janior Barry, John Thomas, Tite, Crace, &c. ‘Th ever, are not here confined to this but will also occupy a porion of that towards the wert. These courts, though by no means confined in their dimensions, bear no propo: and airy etrocture in which the: Indeed, the extreme lightness and great edifice cont parison being ye taining and contained, which is of great P nccerge advantage in avoiding any appearance harmony. This southern end of the building will contain, besides other attractions, the court of mu-ical in- +trumenta; also the ethnological and natural mtd resénted the inhabi- tants, custome, and scenes of and modes of life. There will bea large and x $F | 4 gs t [ i E g 5 H aseaesee? great neverth that ort is: tgedsguately cles, art jlegnately represented.’ The ontetion of our own sculptora the contribution of their works, seem to be various. In some cases we see several statues one studio, and other names wholly want- ing, without whose contributions no collection of B sculpture can be all We re- | as ve all al time and climes together, wi believe, to foster the interests and a department of art which has hitherto been much neglected in this country. The offered to British sculptors were identical with thoze under which the works of the living artists of po countries have been obtained, and although from Moe try in ccmmiesions g0 abroad consequence of the universal character tion, we believe it will have the effect of prodacing still greater cncourngement for our native artists. Sculpture requires in some degree popularising. Thus, although there are 1 courts set apart to the various countries and times, in which the choic- est specimens of the art of each are to be collected —say one or two choice works from each artist, by which be himself would prefer to be repreeented— other works will be distributed in a well studied architectural and sculptural , set off by gioups of beaatifal plants thro: the buildiag. We have our own doubts which of the two classes of situation will be most advantageous to the works in question. British works are, however, coming in #% 3s itt EREEEES colors of some solid character, which will gi better base to the structure and the columns, will relieve the eye, and prevent the ward re! 80 injurious to the due tive works of art. The roof is not with canvass, a8 was the case in fF nd build. ing. The light, therefore, will be better, and the effect more brilliant, ond we height of the structure and tion, will keep the int , eeable temperature. Peneath each, the fountains objents f interest, among fron tracery eurmounting mound near the southern art of the front, which has been lately added. This the temple of roses, in which ail varicties of that royal familly of flowers ate propovet to be gronped ak: y approachin, ati disports him his life to suppl: This feature of the Cr have much favor, doubt 5 recollect the interest with which we used to look at a little engraving, which served as a frontispiece to Mantell’s ‘‘Geology,” re; ting, in small,a group of these denizens of a former world, stretched out on their native ooze. In the illuatration at the CO tal Palace, we see. a far larger colle stion of breeds of the time in their true bulk, and full of life. The island on which they will be | png is to be surrounded by a lake. in 2 baie of the gardens, and not far from the Temple of Roses, the excavations and cuttings are extensive, leading in one ‘direction to the ter- minus of the C. ys' ‘alace railroad. This will be on a large scale. The new road between Sydenbam and Norwood, which forms the carriage western approach, of which we have before spoken, is near- ly completed. The reservoir at Sydenham is ea- larged 20 a8 to afforda sheet of water, adding to the agreeable effect of the building on that side, A contem tells us, that, “ to the most moderate calculation, the whole annaal receipts for rental of space for exbibition, will aid the income of the Palace in a sum not less than £45,000, the full amount that will be expended for the various the pay: ment of the Officials requireas The pended is £1,000,000; this, at 5 per cent, is £50, therefore, it will require be received , an amount which even in the F fle:tive “show. We are somewhat a) nsive that the very im- portant department ft coetpyo exhibition of rt-manufacture, and the illustration of its progress —has not been considered and bathe.sedheritien After all, this is really the chief o and hence ile great miity 3 public promenades or even can now nes offer. Indeed, if not been favoral have been Gay put forth some kind stoff, in order to diapley to the of the foreign ladies now left Among these new materials we gauze aile dange, which bas an immense success, This es is worn in the promenade ag wel] as in dress. It has the peculiarity of being perfectly dead in texture, being made from the beurre de » bat pos- » which does not shi eesees all the suppleness and richness of sitk, and has, moreover, that same power of receiving the brightest noance ef every color, which is peculiar to articles of silken manufacture. The Empreas has atly patronized the nile d’ange, an eases Were shown at Delisle’s during week manufactured according to her own des! i One of theee, of the most delicate vert he with violet, attracted the greatest The flounces were marked by violet, and the topmost floances hi three stripes, a i : 7 : H fie zi if EREEi i if E 6 i 5 s ' z transparent as patterns printed on the mousseline of the most exquisite Danas. 01 pone ae Gareiin, of trel , over which crspt, in mony, clusters of Le ay oo and Bo | £0 elegant lone were these, 7 plaved over "ihe stuff it seemed flowers were shaken by the breeze. vre was executed for the Empresa of Braz! ‘wos made ed Madame Camille in the new cailed a la mae ey and oy at ay , or acquiring favor eeS, adopted with a furcur we haw 50) wi ‘This fashion had its origin in a ball-iress the private bali at the Elysee Beurbon, by Paimyre. It consists in producing the singu! | fect througtout the whole facon of the dress be | plaited ip wide flat folds, Both body aad skirt are p'a‘ted Ti this roaaner, the skirt down to the knee, 2 i] EGE i Flr 5 & a x