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THE FIELD 
LATEST 
intelligence. 
THE BOURSE. 
Paris, Friday. 
(By Submarine Telegraph.) 
The French Three per Cents, closed yesterday at 73f. 10c., 
and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents, at 99f. 50c., for the end 
of the month. 
THE ALAND ISLANDS. 
The Independence Beige publishes the following telegraphic 
despatch : — 
“ Stockholm, August 15th, 
" News from Bomarsund has been received to the 12th 
instant. 10,000 French and 2,000 English are established 
behind entrenchments west of the fortress. On the 12th the 
Russians made a vigorous sortie, but were driven back with 
considerable loss. The fortress was on fire.” 
TURKEY. 
Constantinople (vid Marseilles), Aug. 5. — Marshal de 
St. Arnaud returned on the 2nd inst. to Varna, after a 
conference with the Sultan. 
The Journal (le Constantinople states tliat a heavy can- 
nonade was opened upon Sebastopol during the last recon- 
naissance. Some shells fell even in the town itself. 
An action took place on the 29th ult., at Babadagh, 
between the Bashi-Bazouks, under Youssuf, and the Cossacks. 
The latter were repulsed. A French colonel received seven 
lance-wounds, but none of them dangerous. 
Constantinople {viA Trieste), Aug. 7. — The expedition 
against the Crimea, and, consequently, against Sebastopol, 
has commenced. 
Anapa and Ncvessitch are still occupied by the Russians. 
Accounts from Constantinople to the 7th speak of the 
expedition to the Russian coast as still in prospect. 
Mareclial de St. Arnaud returned on the 2nd instant to 
Varna. Negociations were carried on between the Circassian 
envoy and the Porte for a joint plan of action against the 
common enemy. The Circassians, it is said, in order to 
obviate future difficulty, desire that the Porte shall formally 
disclaim all pretension to resume the sovereignty over the 
mountain tribes of the Caucasus, which it surrendered in 
1830. It is not expected that any difficulty will arise on 
this score : indeed, it is said that a compact was completed 
on the 4 th instant, between Schamyl and the Porte, 
amounting to an offensive and defensive alliance. 
AUSTRIA— THE EAST. 
(By Submarine ami European Telegraph.) 
Vienna, Wednesday, August 16. 
The Austrian “ neutral" forces are now occupying Walla- 
chia. 
Sixty thousand Russians retain a position at Qalatz. 
‘ Offidjil. 
EGYPT. 
The following circumstances, not generally known, re- 
specting the poisoning of the Viceroy of Egypt, are extracted 
from the Osscrvatorc Triestino : — “ The Viceroy desired to 
drink. His two attendant Mamelukes presented to him a 
cup of water, which had been poisoned with diamond-dust ; 
but, fearing that the poison would fail in its effects, they 
strangled him. They then immediately left the palace, and 
after five hours' hard riding arrived in the principal square 
at Cairo. They here went into the shop of a baker, Testa 
by name, and, after having refreshed themselves, confessed 
to him that they had committed a crime, and offering him 
a ring of the value of £3,000 and a purse of 300 guineas if 
he would provide a place of concealment, at the same re- 
marking that a person of distinction had given them 200 
purses (about £750) five days previously. Testa refused to 
shelter them, and the result was the same at two inns where 
they applied. When they found that they could nowhere 
obtain a hiding-place, they bought two cars, and departed 
no one knows where. The physicians said Abbas Pasha died 
from apoplexy.” 
DIPLOMATIC MOVEMENTS. 
Berlin, August 16. — The Conference of Vienna is to re- 
assemble in about a week, on the invitation of Comte Buol. 
It is stated that the object of the Conference is to declare 
that the propositions of France and England are in con- 
formity with the protocol of Vienna ; and to ascertain the 
most fitting means to ensure the existence of Turkey, and to 
connect it with the general balance of power in Europe. 
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ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. 
By Electric Telegraph. 
Barnstaple, August 17.— Close of the PolL 
Laurie 333 
Guinness 323 
Tite 286 
Cambridge. 
Adair 758 
Mowatt 733 
Maidstone 708 
Slade 696 
So soon as the poll was closed, the Whig candidates re- 
turned to Parker's Piece, and each briefly thanked their 
supporters, who raised a literal forest of laurel. 
Hull and Canterbury. — The polling was concluded on 
Friday afternoon, and the result will be given in the second 
edition of The Field. 
Maldon (Thursday Evening). — The mayor declared the 
subjoined result of the poll which had taken place during 
lli V* 
Mr. G. M. W. Peacocke (Conservative) 406 
Mr. J. Bramley Moore (Conservative) 399 
Mr. T. B. Lennard (Liberal) 335 
Mr. T. MacEnteer (Liberal) 215 
Mr. Quintin Dick (Conservative) 34 
Mr. Peacocke, Q.C., and Mr. J. Bramley Moore, were de- 
clared duly elected. 
Suicide in a Railway Carriage.— On the arrival of the 
Manchester and Sheffield train at the Lincoln-station on 
Thursday afternoon, at 3.30, on opening a first-class carriage, 
the officials were horrified at finding in it a gentleman quite 
dead, and a bottle of poison by his side. His name is un- 
known. The body awaits an inquest. 
LATEST SPORTING. 
WATERLOO RACES.— Tuesdat, 15th August. 
The Marine Pune of 'l nova each, with 10 sova added. Two miles. 4 subs. 
M r. T. Price's b h Victory 1 
Mr, Parkinson's ch in Harriot 2 
Mr. Pcrcivol’s ch c Telegraph S 
The Waterloo Cup of 15 sovs lu specie, added to a handicap sweepstakes 
of 3 sova each. Mile and a half. C subs. 
Mr. Hell's l> c Criterion 1 
Mr. Powdrcll'sb m Andante 2 
Mr. Davies's b g Ploughboy 3 
The Wellington Stakes of 1 sov coch, with & sova added. Heats. About 
about a mile and a half. 6 subs. 
Mr. Hell's b c Criterion 1 
Mr. Davies's b g Ploughboy 2 
Mr. Johns's b h La Pello Wanie 3 
TUAM (CO. GALWAY) RACES.— Wednesday, Aug. 16. 
Selling Stakes, 5 sovs each, 10 sovs added. Weight forage, &c. One 
mile and a half. Heats. Won by Mr. Dillon's ch f Ariel, by Tear- 
away, 3 yifc (£120), 7st 4lb (D. Doyle), heating Mr. O'Connor's 
Balllnafnd, Sir Thomas Burke's Elofse, and Mr. Balfe's Alexia. The 
last-named fell and broke her rider's (Broderick) collar-bone. 
Handicap SicerpsUtkts, 3 sovs each, 25 sovs added. One mile and a 
quarter. Heats. Won by Mr. Irwin's ch f Eugenia, by Harkaway, 
C yrs Ost (Lynch), beating Mr. Flynn’s Landscape. Only two ran. 
AQUATICS. 
( Continued from page 774. ) 
Cowes, Thursday. — The first race on the card of the 
“ Cowes Town Regatta" was for four-oared boats belonging 
to yachts. The following boats started : — 
Names Owners. Flags. 
Fancy Rev. R. Hartopp Red. 
Eclipse M t. H. Fearon White. 
Julia Mr. W. l’eareth Blue. 
This was a well-contested race throughout, which was won 
cleverly by the Julia by about a length. The next race was 
for four-oared boats rowed by shipwrights or apprentices 
belonging to East or West Cowes. The following boats were 
entered : — 
Nnmes. Owners. Flags. 
Ellin James May Yellow and black. 
Gipsy Joseph Cato Nelson’s arms. 
Dove Henry Scudamore Blue. 
A very capital start was effected, and for a considerable dis- 
tance they kept scull and scull together ; but on the second 
round Gipsy took the lead, followed closely by the Dove, 
and so well matched were they together that for more than 
a mile before arriving off the flag-boat, it was impossible to 
say which bad the foremost position. This was continued 
up to the finish, when the committee declared it to be a 
dead heat. The result of this contest must be deferred until 
to-morrow. 
Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta, Thursday. — When 
our parcel left, neither of the four schooners, Alarm, Shark, 
Genevra, or Titania, had reached the goal. 
LIVERPOOL YACHT CLUB REGATTA. 
Wednesday, 23rd August. 
A race for yachts of all clubs, from 8 to 25 tons (being 
fixed keel), for a piece of plate, value £30. Time race — 
entrance £1. Cup of £20, for fixed keel yachts, of all clubs, 
from 3 to 8 tons. Time race. Shrimpers’ race for money 
prizes. A purse of £10, for pair-oared in-riggers, by gentle- 
men amateurs. 
Thursday, 24th August. 
1st Prize. — A cup, value £30, for all fixed keel yachts of 
the Liverpool Yacht Club, from 3 to 16 tons. Time race. 
2nd Prize. — A cup, value £20, for centre board yachts of 
all Yacht Clubs, from 3 to 8 tons. Time race. 
3rd Prize. — For river gigs. Same prize, course, and en- 
trance as shrimpers. 
4th Prize. — A purse of £15, for four-oared in-riggers. 
5th Prize. — For yachts punts. 
On the termination of the second day's racing, the mem- 
bers and their friends will dine together at Birkenhead Hotel, 
and in the evening a grand display of fireworks will take 
place, in the north garden of the hotel. 
Crystal Palace, Thursday. — One-Shilling Day — Ad- 
mission at the dooi‘8, 11,179 ; admission by season tickets, 
733; total, 11,912. 
The Cholera. — Death of Lord Beaumont. — We regret 
to announce the death of Lord Beaumont, which took place 
on Thursday morning at his residence, Bruton-street, from 
an attack of the prevailing epidemic. Miles Thomas Stapleton 
Lord Beavimont was, in the female line, the head of a very 
ancient Roman Catholic family in Yorkshire. 
^nrlinmintnni. 
Saturday, Acoost 12. 
In reply to nn Inquiry by Mr. HUME, 
Lord J . RUSSELL stated, that a communication having been made by 
the Emperor of Russia to the Austrian Government that it was his 
intention to evacuate the Principalities, the Austrian Minister for 
Foreign Affairs had intimated to the Ministers of England and France 
that his Government was, nevertheless, ready to interchange notes, as 
previously agreed upon, with a view to obtaining securities for future 
peace. The English and French Ministers had stated the general 
nature of the securities which would be required, and which were 
specified in the paper of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs 
recently published in the Moniteur. It would remain to be seen, lie 
added, whether the Austrian Government would put its armies in 
action to obtain those securities by force, if they could not be obtained 
by negociation. 
The LORD CHANCELLOR, kneeling, presented her Majesty with 
a copy of her royal speech, which the Queen proceeded to read in a 
clear and distinct tone of voice. 
Her Majesty's Speech is given elsewhere. 
Often os her Majesty has now addressed her Parliament, and greatly 
admired as her royal speeches have been for the purity of intonation 
and judicious emphasis which have characterised their delivery, never 
has a Queen's speech been more happily delivered than that which thus 
closed the session of 1654. Its least praise is that, without on effort, 
every syllable was heard in every pnrt of the lofty and nobly-propor- 
tioned hall by every person in it, and that this result was obtained by 
her Majesty without straining her voice. 
The LORD CHANCELLOR, falling upon one knee, received the 
royal speech from her Majesty, and then said: — " It is her Majesty's 
royal will and pleasure that this Parliament be prorogued to Thursday, 
the 19th of October, and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued until 
Thursday, the 1 9th of October next.” 
Her Majesty then rose, and giving her hand to Prince Albert, left the 
House, and returned to Buckingham-palace amid the cheers of her 
people. 
The Nemesis of Power. By James Augustus St. John. 
Chapman and Hall, Piccadilly. 
This extraordinary work the talented author has dedicated 
to his three sons : they are not the only ones to profit by its 
contents, if properly studied. The subject is a most important 
one. Nemesis is the personification of Justice, and is, there- 
fore, engaged equally in rewarding and in punishing. Her 
movements are slow, but irresistible; and Bhe is ever at work 
in human society, ensuring ultimate triumph to the good 
and perdition to the wicked. She may be regarded, therefore 
as the inseparable attendant on Power, to uphold and encou- 
rage it when exercised for the benefit of mankind, to repress 
and chastise it when perverted to their injury or destruction. 
The author says, “ A practical illustration of the results of 
unjust power has been given by my son Bayle, in his ‘ Purple 
Tints of Paris.’ Nemesis has often been at work in France, 
but her task is obviously not yet accomplished. When or 
how her next blow is to be struck is uncertain, but whenever 
it falls, it will probably be decisive.” 
We give one specimen of the author’s style of treating this 
subject, regretting that want of space will not allow us to 
treat it fully : — 
When, out of the vast aggregate, a small number of individuals are 
chosen, for their supposed competence, to regulate public affairs, they 
are not by this act segregated from the nation, hut continue always to 
make part of it ; so that, when by accident their will is opposed to the 
will of the greater body, it is for the lesser, and not for the greater, to 
succumb. In all communities there is a religion in politics which 
renders principles sacred, which reconciles men to the loss of property, 
of life, nay, even of fame itself, for the good of that abstract creation 
which we call “ country." 
This was embodied in the old poetical phrase— 
“ Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," 
But if by country we signified only so many roods of land, inha- 
bited by two-legged rational entities, how could it be sweet or 
honourable to die for a thing thus stripped of all the religion of politics ? 
By country we mean brotherhood ; that is, identifying ourselves 
with the whole nation as one united family ; wo fill and penetrate our 
whole being with the thought that it is glorious to die to promote their 
lasting welfare. What greater proof of love can a man give than to 
lay down his life for his friend ? and wlmt is friendship compared with 
the love of country — with that holy and pure principle of action which 
God has planted deepest in the human heart, and which always 
flourishes there till vice and sordid selfishness have dried up the last 
particle of warmth and nourishment ? Woe to that nation in which 
the love of country ceases to be a general sentiment — in which patriot- 
ism is sneered at — in which it is regarded as a mark of simplicity to 
labour disinterestedly for the good of others ! 
Routledge's American Handbook. Routledge and Co., 
Farringdon Street. 
In these days of rapid locomotion, when America is lite- 
rally almost as close to us as the Rhine or Paris, we hail with 
gladness what a few years since would have been thought an 
absurdity — “ A Handbook to America,” Almost a necessity 
to a very large portion of our own community, not merely to 
the tourist, but even to those who advertise their firms as of 
such a street, London, and New York, or Philadelphia ! So 
rapid is progress, that we must not be surprised, if in a short 
time these last-mentioned tell us seriously, when we call at 
their London establishment, that we shall get what we want 
at their other house. 
T his id not the least perfect of that very important class of 
literature — guide-books. The directions to the traveller are 
as concise as possible, and by the arrangement of the different 
routes from one great point, he may immediately find the 
route from that point to the State in which his place of 
destination is located; and from the capital, or principal 
commercial city of that State, to the interior towns. In doing 
this, New York is made the starting-point after crossing the 
Atlantic ; and from that city the various routes into the 
different States of the Union, and the interior routes of those 
States, are described. For example, if he desire to visit one 
of the interior towns of Georgia, he has only to turn to the 
table of contents, and find, “ From New York to Georgia; ” 
then turn to the page in the book, and see the remarks on the 
State, the different routes into the interior, hotels, fares, 
public buildings, places of amusement, &c. The work is 
adapted to the wants of the travelling community, and is not 
encumbered with useless matters. Many of the smaller towns 
are not noticed, nor do they lie sufficiently in the way of 
general travel to make their insertion an object. On referring 
to the map, places and routes will be found, not laid down in 
the book. The railroad lines described on the map are up to 
the latest date. 
Summer resorts, watering-places, best localities for hunting 
and fishing, &c., &c„ are described, together with the best 
means of reaching them. Another portion of the book is set 
apart for advice to mechanics and instruction to emigrants. 
As an advertising medium this work has peculiar ad- 
vantages. 
The City of the Sultan. By Miss Pardoe. G. Routledge and 
Co., Farringdon Street. 
The Messrs. Routledge have reproduced this delightful 
book in a cheap form, this being the fourth edition of ft 
work of which upwards of thirty thousand copies have been 
already sold. We congratulate that portion of the reading 
community whose means are limited on being able to obtain 
for eighteen pence, that which was originally published at 
two guineas. . . e 
It is not for us to praise the charming writings ot w** 
Pardoe ; her works possess an established fame : but all w “° 
desire information upon Turkey, its manners and custom?, 
can scarcely obtain what they wish without reading thes 
delightful chapters of travel. A lady travelling in 1 urK y 
has many advantages which would be denied to men, ana_ 
admitted to those sacred spots not to be desecrated by 
presence of the rougher sex ; and many of such scenes . 
1 amongst the most charming and interesting. Througn 
