... Sir G. H. Seymour, lately our Ambassador at St. Petersburg, was at the Easter dinner this year, given by the Lord Mayor of London, and addressed the CCn, pf.-y2 at some length. On his health being drunk, he said that the compliment belonged rather to the system under which he had been brought up than to himself indivi- dually. That system was a remarkably simple one. It was in fact, nothing ...

... In the advt. to the Debtors and Creditors of the late Mr. Thomas Gri--g, for iantcup & Co.', substitute, as the correct designatioa, 'Ilartcup & Barlec. IPS?4Cllq ARI'A .NxIENTsr its DiN ?? the majority for b puljoutrnitg ithe debate upon the Settlemient and Riemo- ei Val Bill, we find the nansies of Sir F~tz-Roy Kelly, Mr. d B~ennert, Mr. Brarnston, Sir W1. Smijtli, Sir J. Ty'rrell, ix Mr, ...

... FOIREIGN INTELLIGENCE. THIE BALTIC FLEET. KInEi.. April 16.-The orders which Admiral Napier took with him when he left Kioge Bay last Tuesday in- 'tructed him to blockade all the Russian ports in the IBaltio. The despatches which it is understood the Dauntless brought to Copenhagen on the 12th stated that 18 Rus- sian Whips of the line wvere lyhig at Helsingfors, and might soon Ie attacked: ...

... It was finally decided on Saturday to send the ?? cavalry force destined for the East therug Frne, dd- yt barking it On the Mediterranean at Marseilles. No are F other portion of the British contingent proceeds by fo s that rouate. o The following is the list of staff appointmsents, but it oflS will be observed it is still incomplete 1pel COMMANDER-IN-C'HIEP OF' THE FORCES. the General Lord ...

... FRANCE. i The Meniijeur says ?? The public cannot be to an muich on their guard against the news wlich is invented sti, by malevolence or speculation. Thus it has been said as that the Government was about to send sin army of ob- ex servation on the Rthine ; that the Russien army would set be at Constantinople before the Fi'ench a .nd English ar . th, rules could be placed in line ; that the ...

... FOREIGN INTEILLIGE*NCE. FRANCE. The .4o1eiteur says,-' We have received fresh intel. ligence relative to the passage of the Danube by the Russian troops. It confirms fully the details given by Omar Pasha in his report to the Ottoman Government. The flotilla and numerous transports of which the Rus- sians could dispose enabled them to cross the river in three places-at Pot-Bachi, below Matschin ...

... GOTEIENBVRG, March 19.-The squadron under the - ordrs f Vce~dmial ir ?? weighed anchr ?? at p~. ofthe13th inst., under steam and caovass, with a light breeze froma the south. ig ward, and proceeded through the Gull ~stream, steering 8~ a rding ~ten to the following programme:- MG] xxxE COLUMN!~ CENTaAL COLUMN. WETEI OUN ahl, (Screws.) (S~cCW5.) (Paddle-wbcais.) sr Edinburgli, 5S Dueha of ...

... Lord Raglan, accompanied with a numerous staff will leave town on Friday for Constantinople. Major General Sir De Lacy Evans embarked on Tues- day at Woolwich, for the East, on board the London, wvlich is laden with military and commissariat stores, horses, and baggage. On Saturdav the Rifle Brigade and the 4th Regiment embarked on board the Golden Fleece, for Gallipoli- the 9th, on board the ...

... The following telegraphic despatch appeare in the - Lloyd newspaper:- For unknown reasons all the Russiae force is retir. ing from before Kalafat or Krajova. The evacuation of Lesser Wallachia hau been re. solved on, and the troops are retiring on Bucharest with their hospitals and munitions of war in L,0O0 wagq gons. CONSTANTI NOPLE, April 17.-Two palaces havebees prepared for the ...

... d (From the Gateehead Observer,) C It appears to us that the time has arrived when a little a more attention should be paid to the management of a matters at the British Museum than has hitherto been a the case; for seldom has regret been more general than ti that which is felt that the Faussett collection of Anglo. or Saxon Antiquities, which was recently offered to the a Museum, should have ...

... IyoME INTELLIGENCE. MIITARTY A 'PolENIANTS-Major.Gen Sir Joseph Thackwel!, G-C ?? is appointed inspecting general of cav~lryduinn idhe abience of his Royal Highness the Duke of Camul idge ia 'lurkey. Colonel Pringle Tay- lor, K.H., has been 'Lppointed to the staff at the Cape of Good Hope, in succession to -Major-General Yorke, who has succee ded to the office of military secretary at the ...

... Cia Eopuvi)r 30o11mal. SATURgDAY, APRIL 8, 1854. The protracted debates on Fridav night respecting the declaration of war, can scarcely be said to add any thing to the knowledge previously possessed by the public. It was admitted on all sides, with but one ex- ception, that the war alas just and necessary. That exception was Air Bright, who, however, did not argue the question upon the ...