The Morning Herald preferred, on Monday, a serious charge against

the Earl of Aberdeen and the Earl of Clarendon, and repeated it on Tuesday, in a condensed form- " The position that we laid down yesterday—that Lords Clarendon and Aberdeen were made acquainted with the intentions of Russia, and fully ap- proved of them, long before their attempted performance, is one from which we have not the slightest intention of shrinking. We know the fact to be so ; and those noble lords must abide the fate which public indignation and outraged national honour may award them." The Times of Thursday contained a semi-official explanation; stating that the sole basis of the demands of Russia at first was, that the Porte had offensively violated its engagements with respect to the Holy Paces, by reversing, at the instance of France, the firman obtained by Russia.

"A communication was accordingly made to this effect by Baron Brunow to the British Government early in the year, and before Prince Menschikoff had set out for Constantinople. This communication was addressed, not to Lord Clarendon, but to Lord John Russell, who was then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and who has on all occasions shown the greatest ardour in supporting the rights of the Ottoman Empire. The Russian Minister is said to have declared on this occasion, by order of his Court, that Prince Menschikoff was about to proceed to Constantinople to obtain redress for this

alleged violation of engagements ; that he would be instructed not to enter into negotiations with engagements

Effendi, then Turkish Minister for Foreign Af-

fairs, because that Minister was the very person to whom the Em- parer Nicholas attributed the breach of faith of which he complained; that-the object of his mission was to prevent further changes in the condition of the Greek Church in the East, and to settle the ques- tions which had arisen with a just forbearance towards France,— an expression clearly implying that it was to the question raised by France that the negotiation related; and, lastly, that as the former firmans had been revoked, Russia required an explanatory act of a more formal and solemn character to define the rights of the Greek Church for the future. To this communication Lord John Russell gave a frank and friendly answer : England had no direct interest in these firmans, and she merely expressed her readiness to promote an amicable arrangement of the dispute between Turkey and the other two powers. Far from offering any opposition to the demands of Russia on this point, which were so far reasonable and just, the British Embassy at Constantinople was instructed to support them ; and, in fact, Lord Stratford did subsequently give such effectual assistance to the Russian Envoy on:the question of the Holy Places that it was satisfactorily settled, and Prince Menschikoff himself addressed to Lord Stratford a letter of thanks for his support. Throughout this part of the transaction nothing was said of the general question, and much less of the treaty subsequently demanded ; and we shall perhaps be able to show on some future occasion that not only was nothing said of any such pretentious, but that they were uniformly, solemnly, and vehemently denied. "Upon the arrival of Prince Menschikoff at Constantinople, a further communication was made in London, purporting to convey the sense of his instructions, and some of the expressions used in the letter of credentials of which he was bearer from the Emperor of Russia to the Sultan. In this document the Emperor Nicholas appears to have stated, that in the present question he recommended to the Porte the maintenance of rights granted of old to the Christian population of Turkey, and enjoyed by them as members of a church which is also that of the majority of Russian subjects. Such a recommendation, applied to the question then pending, which was that of the Holy Places, had in it nothing offensive to the Porte, or unseemly in the mouth of a Russian envoy. But could anything be more inconsistent with a recommendation or request of this nature than the menacing demand of a treaty. to convert these rights into a matter of specific engagement ? On

this point, however, the most absolute silence was still observed The first knowledge which the British Government received of Prince Menschikoff's draught convention, and of that part of his propositions, was not from the Russian Minister at all, but from the British Ambassador at Constantinople, to whom it was communicated by the Turkish Ministers on or about the 5th May. Nor is there any reason to suppose that Baron Brunow himself had any knowledge of the existence of such a convention until after it had been transmitted by Lord Stratford himself to London."

The Herald rejoined yesterday with a long criticism of this contra- diction, which it ascribes to Lord Clarendon himself, and which it calls "a garbled account of the communications of the Russian Minister." The Herald reasserts its original statement : "After Prince Menschikoff arrived in Constantinople," "early in spring, Baron Brunow did com- municate to Lord Clarendon the demands proposed to be made upon the Porte, and Lord Clarendon assented to the making of those demands."

The screw fleet at Sheerness is believed to have been ordered to the Yarmouth Roads. It consists of the following ships—the Duke of Wel- lington, 131; the Blenheim, 60 ; the Hogue, 60; the Ajax, 58; the Edinburgh, 58 ; the Sidon, 22 ; the Encounter, 14; and the Simoom, 18. Other ships were expected on Monday. It is stated that Admiral Corry's squadron has been countermanded.

An arrangement has been made for a post-office at the Chobham Camp, with two deliveries and despatches daily, which will be in connexion with the post-town of Chertsey. It is recommended that all letters for the camp be specially addressed—" The Camp, Chertsey " ; otherwise delay may occur.

In the Government of India Bill, as now printed, we find two import- ant provisions which were not included in Sir Charles Wood's descrip- tion. By the 9th clause, six of the twelve Directors not appointed by the Crown, as well as the six appointed by the Crown, must be persons who shall have served ten years in India. By the 13th clause, byelaws are to be made to prohibit " any canvassing or solicitation of votes" for Di- rectorship : any proprietor offending will be liable, ce

fur the first offence,

to a penalty not exceeding 100/. ; for the second, to

forfeiture of his qua-

lification to be elected as Director or to vote in such election.

Leo, Prince of Armenia, has published in the London papers the trans- lotion of a proclamation of his own which has been distributed among the Armenians in Turkey, calling upon them to defend to the: last drop of their blood "the Sultan against the tyrant of the North" ; also to defend " our creed in its pure form." " Pull down your houses," he writes, "to make barricades; and if you have no other arms, break your furniture and defend yourselves with it." He hopes the Sultan will sanction his demand, and permit him the highest happiness of fighting among them.

The Prince of Schleswig-Holstein has written a letter to the Earl of Malmesbury complaining of an imputation of disloyalty contained in a speech of the latter delivered a fortnight since in the House of Peers. Lord Malmesbury, in reply, says he merely spoke of the fact that the Prince of Schleswig-Holstein had been attainted for bearing arms against his King, but that he did not intend to pronounce any opinion as to the justness of that attainder, and had no intention of prejudicing the Prince before public opinion.

It is reported that Lord Harris has consented to accept the post of Governor of Jamaica.

M. de Tengoborsky arrived at Vienna from St. Petersburg on the 11th June.

The King of Bavaria arrived at Vienna on the 10th June.

Count Giulio Strassoldo has been pensioned : it is supposed that his conduct at Milan during the insurrection was distasteful to the Austrian Court.

The demand of Mr. Marsh, the American Consul at Athens, that tho sentence on Mr. King, the missionary condemned to imprisonment for preaching against the Greek faith, should be reversed, has been refused. Compensation, however, has been given for a piece of ground that had been taken from Mr. King.

Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney has forwarded to the Times a letter signed by Professors Hann and King respecting the amount of heat coming from the lights above the glass ceiling of the House of Commons. They de- tail the results of an experiment before the House was lighted, when in all parts, except quite close to the ceiling, where it stood at 70', the ther- mometer stood at 69 degrees. They then had the House lighted, and for an hour and a half watched the result. It was the same • a delicate thermometer near the ceiling standing only at 70 degrees. ihis of course resulted from the warm air which always rises. They therefore concluded that "absolutely no heat passed from the illuminated roof to the atmo- sphere of the House."

The Parana, which arrived at Southampton from St. Thomas on Wed- nesday, left that port with a clean bill of health on the 31st May ; but during the passaoe homeward eleven cases of yellow fever occurred on board. The sick were " encamped" on deck as soon as they were seized, wetted with Sir William Burnet's disinfecting fluid, and carefully tended ; but four out of the eleven died. Eight of these had the black vomit, three recovered. There, was fever at St. Thomas, Trinidad, and Jamaica.

In the article of cloth exported to the United States alone, the Ameri- can import-tables show an increase of German cloth from 16,612 thalers in 1840 to 1,411,282 thalers in 1851 ; while Belgian cloth rose from 93,185 to 478,532 ; and English cloth actually sank from 4,490,380, in 1840, to 3,785,070 thalers. Probably the gentlemen of Leeds and the West of England will " search' carefully if these things be so" ; and if so, why so. The German clothiers attribute this success to the superior excellence of their blue-black dye, to their production of a firm close-woven body of cloth, mellow, and a short nap, bearing a natural gloss, not due to too much dressing and devilling, and affirm that the Americans prefer light cloths possessing the above desiderata to thick heavy goods.--Halifax Guardian.

A Northern paper states that "grievous accounts" are given of the pros- pects of the next grouse season. Nothing but old birds can be expected on the 12th of August." The snow destroyed so many that it is in contem- plation, in some parts, to give the grouse a year's " jubilee."

On Sunday, a burning schooner was fallen in with in the Channel, twenty- five miles East-south-east of the Start : she was burnt to the water's edge, and nothing was seen of the crew.

A man in humble circumstances lately produced at the Aylesbury branch of the London and County Bank a Bank of England note for 251., dated eighty years back. Upon being questioned, he stated that about twenty-five years since he married, and that his wife's mother gave them, among other trifles, some old books ; upon recently turning over which, he found in one of them the note. It was paid by the bank. At compound interest the 251. would have swelled in eighty years to 14001.

There is a curious collection of bones at Rothwell in Leicestershire. It was accidentally discovered about 160 years ago by a gravedigger, who, while at work in the churchyard, suddenly sank into a dark cavern. The vault which he thus unwillingly entered was a long cryptiform structure, with a low groined roof; and the bones were carefully packed in alternate strata of skulls, arms, legs, and so forth. It is calculated that there are here 3000 skeletons. Nothing is known with certainty as to how these remains of the dead were thus got together. Some are of opinion that a great battle was once fought here, and that they were gathered from the field and here deposited and the facts that they are all those of adults, that many of the skulls are fractured, as though they had received violent blows, and that many of the bones are of the largest size, would seem to favour this hypothesis. At the Eastern end of the vault is a rude representation of the Resurrection.