The Express. — London, England, 1856-03-26 00:00:00

RELIEF to the MIBARRASSED.—Mr. NARst iaLL, of Ilehaar sad Allarry MHe Os Mist lorohnel DeMalle. of Nom* et mad, i n."' lan ankle to mom yams sabre are MI WM 101111171._11) deft Imipsdiele rumor toN 1114407 PROPERTY fn. al Guar Puri sod caw mu sransal MllogeANd OMNI thabt bailor Qom! 11.• wart Met .Ni el ait* 1•11 at aw ill rod Ihrips, be Mid bf ate ex, regio. beewesmeatilaimedel Me "Te Izerameesleepapee, übst be at the 011ek le. Ileeberbeeinet Teeeek ea the et a Plibelelea. NIGH WATIR AT LONDON BRIDOI. ran DA,--11andag. 41. 40....—Attimass.411. Ms. 704/Mialitielitat. SO. IC= JAitracon. I. Vs. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26. A tiI'ESTION of no small consequence raised by the approaching return of peace is--How are the Militia to be disposed of ? Some appointments to this body have been criticised, not altogether without cause; and i.. some districts there have been disagreeable collisions ; but the conduct of the great mass of the Militia —now, as in former wars—has been extremely satisfactory. The conduct more especially of those corps whose services on foreign stations have been volunteered and accepted, has been admirable. Competent judges speak of the Militia in the lonian Islands and elsewhere as quite equal to the troops of the Lino. The far greater part of those eitisse so:diets must sow, within a very short time, return to their homes and former avocations; and justice, as regards them, and expediency, as regards the com munity at large, require that the task of disbanding them should be considerately set about. An absurd idea appears to bare taken posseesicia of some people, that as soon u peace is signed the Militia now embodied will be ipso facto disembodied. This is not the ease. Without the Qrazx's warrant not a regiment, not a single man, can be disem bodied. The disembodiment will take place grads. ally ; and thus the men will have time Co look about them, and prepare for the resumption of their civil pursuits, whilst all risk of deranging the labour market by suddenly throwing upon it a large nem her of additional candidates for employment will be avoided. The effect of the release of .50,000 well-trained and orderly men, cannot fail to be important, and will be watched with interest. Soon after the Militia were first called out, we directed attention to the rapid and marked change which a few weeks' drill pro duced upon the recruits from the rural dietriets. Stolid and uncouth louts were converted into intel ligent men, all whose movements and gestures evinced a new COOKiOIIIOIIII of their own worth. The change was not merely external. A certain degree of thought and reflection, as well se of mere mechanical aptitude, is required to muter even the simplest military evolutions. And in many of the Militia regiments encourage ment was given to the men by the commanding officers to attend evening schools. The *CIO of ideas of almost every man enrolled in the Militia was enlarged ; habits of subordination and regularity were impressed upon him. Even the greater atten tion he was obliged to pay to cleanliness and dress was a valuable practical education. The men who, after spending one or two years in each a school, return to industrial pursuits, will bring increased intelligence to the discharge of their daily tasks. They will have learnt the value of combined action, and the neemeity of submission to managers in order to make that action productive of results. They will be more intelligent and efficient citizens as well as more productive labourers. The recollection that they have for a time borne arms will add to their sense of self-respect, an important element in the citizen cha racter. There is nothing but good to be anticipated from the gradual absorption of such men among our industrial classes, which will be the 00IIK• queues of a judiciously gradual reduction of the Militia force. It is scarcely necessary to show that there can be no eager of this gradual disbanding of the Militia Wog too bog protracted; that no Ministry can con nive to impose a larger peace establishment on the cosatry then is necessary by keeping the Militia too long embodied. The money required for the main- Unease of this Porn wee voted only for a short pried. It le entirely is the power of the House of Oommens to determine when its services shall termi nate. ANAPA AND THE • • Ms Herald had g communication from Woes ▪ eat etAss" dated Feb. 29, treating of the great denwettnt whitest t L M ;artist destroction of that fort by the Foes* memo created mart the Circaeriaas, and kaglaillift as details of the Doke of Newcarl.'s visit. asisailbs exp'osioo, whiels physically Was nothing at Wags the writer, "moulty may be cansidered es leis Ots dyed el earatioa of all relat.ons of frisadablp halms the beach and toe Ciremaiate. The military sub hilmilast, Uvalde., sad M. J 1, doctor of the Trench seing, ass testify haw great was the sympathy of the sons tabors fee the Preach, 'specially before tots event, kir bent here had occasion t 3 wake a abort ;aurae, kite ths Wirier, mad they can speak from 'artists/4i. Bet EN, I repeat, tide. its greedy *lunged to this reepeet, sad so give yen ewe proof awes' a thinsaad, I tell yen that as the employes of tbe Freak Wisdoms were shad to retire, or rather to escape from Asap*, the Ctr easslime had *how* rock decided illhamonr that they de portees took pleas with the utmost precipitation, so that they aural, stiendoned sore thee 100 carriers ad a groat somber of beeves." Bitter complaints are mule olio from this ' user, wr, ef the total neglect os the part of the Turkish sotherittes at Con stastisoyle, of the representations addrewed t 3 then N. socetion the watt of ilea and material; and i: le farther alleged that Befit Path 6, upon a &maim sdopted by the "0 I Assembly of the arloa," made an ogee to Manhal Folksier through M. de Lanett*, Freak arlitary sulkateedest, of • *Nye of 40,000 asst, or ionic,' the maks geataatets 'he Isaiatsaaate as long as they should ba um -11.41, whether th the Caneesos or io the Crimea, b at Ithe la Maraud did act sera deign to rep:y to thin Assort ether stateurts relative to t►e Dart of New castle's shy at hasps, the observation le attributed to lair " Nat far WON Uas twirl-tong years put the Eng lish 'overseer had Nat int, Cannier Wearable agents, err, naisietevorstiag trig lastreetree, had done atter" bat compeerise their awn goverment by their ate. garottes these last words r brag sear." The house of Rotheshild at Paris has, it is maid, aadertskes ik. eonstrectu of 2 . 000 kilometres of forsiso railways, basis,: obtains.) tbs onesesioa of i t . Lombardia railways ud impvtast Imes is 111;als. COTTON MILL DRSTROTED By FIRE.-00 i4lOSdAy sigbt the eonon mill of Mr. Tetelfall, op'nner and m• wwfacturrr, Regent•roul, Salford. was discovered to be t• Are, mid the demos beret with prat fury. In addition le tbe Salford fire brigade, Mr. Rom, of Manchester, at leaded with a large force of Bremen sod fitellWW, nod saved an adj limits. brewery end some vt.ag.s, which were ion imasinest denier. The mill was totslly destroyed. end the lose is estimated at 14,0901, silvered by iosurseei■ in the Us, West of Reglaad, and Royal Rachaop fire Ohms- Abort 260 wakosen will be thrown cut of em ploy by the not rano* occurrence. The tr:gin of the Ire is not b 00... 134 me mechanics had ►een soaking re pairs op to 830 p.m. on Monday 'vesting, sod it ie pre liable Olt a spark mop have falls. from a light used by tow we In the mill, but nothing is know• with certainty. REGISTRATION Or Boogs AND OTERR PACKETS EMIR= LITTIIIII.-08 'he lst April neat, end tbeasefor ward, the regulation which forbids the registration of books end other printed matter, entail', in addition to the reel► Malice fee, the litter rat, of postage be paid, will be abo lished; and soy park•t silty be registered en which the ordinary postage is l r psld by stamps, together with a re gistralest fee of eirpecee.--Ily command of the Poltmeater- Onieral RowLA ND HILL, therVary.—Heatlll Yet-3fflai, Much 20, 1946. gbe Court. WINDSOR. Halos 26. Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cut arrived *a a visit gastarday 'Berson. la the evening the dilutor party iacladisd the King of the Belgians, the Dachas of Heat, Lady Fanny Bowud, St raws de Sprith. this Hoe. Sir Edward Cast, Colossi Ow How. N. sad Lady Mary Hood, Sir James Clark, air George Casper Colonel de llosykarka, Captain Prisms, and Dr. Tho head of the °matt Gaude performed daring dieser the hilowieg eetepositioas : • M. Delors Bright /The IreilMaii Dab of Ism Cobalt, Oak& VeT4L Ovirtar•—.. Drib—" I Bar Wejtatra Ovate ttri allarraeda attended in the Castle aad played the : Owsrtors—"Lestose car...—" Blesistto" Pelissiso limbs Mrs do Ballsi—..L'Latsat Pra Bolero do itytes Skein's*. ..... Oak,. Aran. Auer. The Queen and Prince, with Princess Alice, attended by the Countess of Desert, Major-General the Hon. Chute, Grey, sod C►ptaia the Hon. D. de Rcs, rode_ on bonds* this morning. Hu M►jesty the Ring of the Rslgisza, attended by Colossi de Mosekteks, left Windsor at 10 o'clock this morning by the Great Western Hallway for Londoe, proceeding feces the Paddington tormiens to Beckingbass Palace. Tim King visited the Duke of Cambridge et his residence in Bt. James's Palace. the Duchene of Gloucester at Glesc!ster House, and afterwards welt to Twisksabam to pay a visit to the Duke sad Duchess d'Annials. His Majesty returned to the Castle la the eftanoos. Lcri Dania has racammisi Lord Camoys u Lord la Waiting to harMajeity._ _ _ . Viscrant Polmeestco, left town with Vinonnten Palmer ston yesterday for his mat, Broadhead', Hanna Mr. fkontay Labonehere returned to town on Monday evening. The Chancellor of the Exchequer bit Loudest yesterday, for hie kat, Harpton Cook, Kiagtos, Hereford. Derpetchss from the damn on of Irtetoris, West Austra lia, Tumuli, New Zealand, sad Malts, were ressivid yesterday at the Colesdal-offlee. Despatches were Nat to ills Optima of the Caps of Good Heil. (FILOY LAST MORT'S 6AZITTI.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S -MICR, Mat= 13.—No ties is hereby gloss, that her Majesty will hold Drawler rooms at Bt. James's Pasco ow the fo:lowieg days, at two o'clock .—Thunday, 10th April Lest; Tuesday, 29th April next. LOAD CHAMBERLAIN'S-01710E, MARCH 13.—N0. ties is hereby given, that lier Majesty will hold levees at St. Janes'. Poises ea the following days, at two o'clock : Wedandsy, 16th April neat; Wodarodsy, 71A . May neat. FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 24.—The Queen has been pleased to apprcve of Mr. George Allen Everitt as consul at Birmingham for Ids Meiasty.ths King of Hanover; and Mr. Thomas Havers as oonsul at Port Stanley, for the For. Hanseatic city of Hamburg. WHITEHALL, MARCH Queen has been pleased to appoint James Duff. Eq., to be lieutenant and sheriff priudpal of the skies of Banff; in the root *flume, Earl of nh, resigned. Her Majesty mad the court are expected to revisit Osborne on or alint the 10. k proximo, when the salute by the diet will be a very istereetiag feature should the mu they prove as favourable for a spectacle es yesterday. When the gunboats are completed and commlesionsd we believe they will be teemed &to a oast blockade, should the war be ended sad their services sot required with the fleet. The lastamot blockade was abolished by Sir Imam Graham, whoa he was First Lord of the Admiralty, abut 1831._ His Excellency the Ambeasedor of Pasco and the Coasting& Passim will snivel In town this imbuing from Warwick, where they hays been staying kr a few days Pot Sir Jolla sad Lady Lister Kaye sad family have arrived at their reddsoce, in Portland-place. Ikon their mat, Darby Sheep, Yorkshire. We (Post) an aatbosiaad to contradict a paragraph ',tat* Shit "Mr. Ormsby Ogre, M.P., is .offering from magesdes of Om bras." Mr. Oars was very ill fa a few boon. bet is sow rapidly regaining stributb. The Hoe. Mee. Spencer Ponaonby give birth to a daughter an Sudsy lut. Yeatarday Mr. John Laird launched fron his Liveriool shipbuilding yeas two iron mortar baab. To day he will !attach two more, one boa Liverpool and the other from Birkenhead. Sir Robert Peel peeped through Turin on the 21st. The Earl and Countess of Orkney and the Ladies Fitaaaaurice ere placed in istsaralog try the death of the father of the Coasts's. ST. MARTINS'S DISTRICT SCHOOL OP ART, CASTLE-STREET, LONG-ACRE. An exhibition of the works of the students of the Proviccial and Metropolitan Schoch o f Desist was opened to a private view at the above room yesterdey. The ap- I panne, of the drainage generally taitattea ea increased watchfslawa ea the part et* the teashen with regard to sorrow taltattes of the swill sad winparadvely unbars tact geometrical forms is the orsameatal deportment, ant oath stage of study shows a sustained industry and • safe and gradual program tm the part of the pupils that is highly satitf intory. Is the evening, Mr. Bracithrr, the bead ranter of the School of Design is Loader', delivered an address implant tory of the growth of the metropolitan and provissial wheels. sad the ohjeeta for 'birth they wen bistitated. OMNIBUS PROGRESS. The flat instalment of the improvements promised to the public by the Leaden General Omaibes Company is to be paid forthwith. The company are about to put es lines of osurbuses fry short distances, starting free the Flower Pot, Biskopegatrstreet, or some Geer conveatest place fir correspondence with Charlatans.; thus rarer tag the whole of the eastern with the western sod of Lone don. The fares epon these lines will be reduced, and the vehicles of a much linger deerription than those la regent us. The additon of tree Bass to their prosiest naffs 'sables the repay to lairodates a desirable novelty Ia the systen of seadiactiog, without dispraise old servants, the ears of whom interests they kad arepted Is par chasing the property of the old proprietors. The Loudon General Omnibus Company farad to loafer the 'typist meats of endures to them manner (worth on an smogs Me. a week) as Crimean soldiers , tar not disabled tallish, bat worded in the service of the clouttry, and rebel pensiord off or discharged from their rinser. with geed skerscten. With this intent the directors of the etomplay lave lately bad several iaterviews with the Army sad Navy Possicsers' Ihsployiseat &Wel, from uhws list they ere tasking a Deludes, so well as with sows of the highest military anthoritiesorho have Graced mar grafi& ester at the projected arrangement. Sergeant Price, el the Sere Feeilisi Gains, whereon through the Crimean campaign, and whom Lectures to the militia have been r oguishly erred is the arepapers, his received the tint appolotiort is Inspector to the Load** General Guaira Company, at a sorry of 100/. per rare. The new style of maths's' foe the new nano M of meg silicone ressannee sad capacity. They are now berg built by Mr. Massie., of Edinburgh. The etempany have also gives orders to ara, of the first erriegrbuildere is London to bend three or four omnibuses for them, with the improvemers severally suggested in order that each may be originally tested. The mar receipts of the company are improving, the retorts of the tt t tat serniogs" for the resist week are seat Is at 6,6391. 13s. 64., an range of 171. 15s. Id. per emnittem. ea 374 omnibuses at work, or at the rate of 1144. per mile. The total number of omnibuses now Is reeession of the err p soy Is over 400, Wag erectly one-bslf of the whole preen proemial Gaffe of the greet isetroFoli. Sines the last return 7 outnibtsee, with 't Use " sad stock, ban bees purchased of Ide Mersin, brag from Claptoa both. Bank, and Chelsea and !tether -Irmo, and Crier and Moira, and Shorediteh and Bow. The pasesseirm of these us an ueryortest, as it places the crompeay in safe poestweir of the line. Iron Chelsea to Bethosltgrer sad from Chilies to Horton, and also of the Clayton and Hackney line, with the eareptioe of ore solitary comnibas. To vindicate the sturdiness of the English character, fear of the Iron. ditch aid Bow omnibus proprietors rare to sell. The Leaden Oeueral Omnibus Company is the merwhile wisely reline to eater spot an enmities sad leave the dkeentlents to come in at their own time. CRYSTAL PALACL—Otis SMILING DAT, MAIM 26.—Ainincas as main, 4,344; data by man ban, 437; total, 4,761. THE SIPREB6, WEDNESDAY EVENINO, ARC 28, 1858, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. TREATMENT OF MILITARY NEGLECT IN Much sensation has been produced at St. Peters burg by the followieg imperial order of the day, dated the 12th of this month, and published in the IsevaltWe Busse of the 16th : Ris Majesty the Emperor, having been informed that the battalioas of Depot of the Sixth Corps of laterite?, WM& in the cone of the year 1866 were Net as reinforee meats to the troops is the Crimea, wore sot at the time pro vided with the equipmente warm fee the long route w►ich they had to traverse, decrees : s seven reprisal% is %dieted am LintessaVGesseal Marine. Commander of the Divides, who neglected to see that the orders of the Government, Oven in writing, were wonted by his subsedisates—coadeet which gm tile to . _ . 1 the greatest disorders during the msrob. ♦ reprinted is also icflisted upon Major-Oeueral De Briar, Chief of the Staff of the Blurted Infantry, and of the Army Depos, sad of his Majesty's suite, for the last teatime and negligence with which he reviewed the abeve sasationed battalions, before their deportees from Moscow. His Weedy farther orders to be brought before a council of war Msjor.Osnenl Volkoff 11., ettashed to the troops of the depot, who, aeonspasylog the battalion on the road, is guilty of set having made to the chief of the troops of re eler' his report epos the insufficient eguipmest of the bat talions, sad of bar* allowed confusion to prevail is the victualling of the soldiers on the march. The following are also to be brought before a Council of Wu—all the superior officers attached to the battalions on the muck, who, according to inquiries made upon the subject, seem accountable for the confusion wh ch prevailed is the victualling arrangements, end for other illegal Fru/intim ; and the Cued! of War, examining the affair and the put whisk the commanders and Mein of the butallows of the divides of dejet of the sixth corps of Infantry have taken, will prom:cum egaiast them according to the degree of their culpability the punishmeat provided by the law. An Imperial shame removes from their functions of governors of provinces, Generals Kokasobldne and Prince °mussed, and calls them to the senate. The poets which they filled have been suppressed. Letters from Poland state that by order of the Russian government, the levy of recruits in Poland, which was to have taken place on the 17th inst., is postponed. THE BALTIC. KIEL, TIMIDLY. The English frigate Ampbion and the corvette Sampson have just quitted this roadstead to join the English squadron in the Baltic. The Clew and Majestic, ships of the line, have just arrived here to reinforce the English squadron. Other vowels are expected. We read in a letter from Hamburg of the 19th, in the baciapendasee Bilge: The Myles squadron seat it.to the Baltic by the Wish govirament remains at the Swedish nonage of Fare-Sued. Three mends, however, hams entered the Gulf of Elfsnab bee, whiskies, year served a long time as a plats of refuge ' to the third division of the Bret nadir Sear-Admiral &yam A great ameba of Rawl= nasals continua to paw to sad f.o upon the mete of Coulsad. Hitherto they ham been unmolested by the Eagliab fleet; and it is to be hoped that the marsh of war will remain as peaceably inclined until their return to England. The railway between Copenhagen and Roeskelde will be *pea for traffic in the souse of the present month. It will spare travellers (waist Irma the Continent to the capital of Denmark the prmage of the But. always fatiguing and painful. They will no longer be satjetted to a navigation of Mx boars, and the journey will be so much shortened that a traveller leaving Hantharg is the morning by the Kiel Railway will be able to tenth Copenhagen in twelve hours. THE CONFERENCES. IA No►d. of Yonlotdoe. has the following/ : Paris, Much M. The elavfenth Conhteset has been held tc-day. ilpdn this ocothioa uI tte plenipotenc.aties were prevent, and the draft of the treaty of peace, prepared by the woad pleat. pato:diaries, WY banded ia. Austria like raised new questions concerning the naviga tion, of the Dumb*. I have already informed you that the Prussian plenipoteutieries have not had no **mime op to this time to pram the pro andiegs if Austria. In fact, Count Boo', knowing that Bann de Mantonffel and Count Hat ofeld had arrived, and were awaitieg admission, wished to make kis new proposition in their ebonies, and the Prawns ple aipoteatisrioe were obliged to wait mon than an hour. You may imagine this prresedieg was not thought ray friendly. The Conference has had to ngelate the c attrition of Turkey by the Allied troops. This appears to hive bees Rued at the amount of 20,000, partly French and pertly Baillsb. Its duration it is nit possible to predict at pretest The &Ilia Goverment has lowered its tone consider ably with regud to Pr.aalet. The possibility of new ali ments must be kept in view. Another correspondent of the same journal. writ ing ea Monday evening, asserts that the sitting above referred to was long and animated. The Prussian plenipotentiaries wished to take part in the discossioa.bat this was opposed. Nothing was con cluded. and the second plenipotentiaries were re quested to revise the document they bad prepared. "This little Conference, as it is called," adds the oar. respondent," has bad a thankless task; it has been at work to day up to 5 o'clock ; to-morrow it will communicate the remelt of its labours to the great Conference.' The regiments In prrison in the environs of Paris ►ave mewed orders to hold themselves is medians for a greed mildew. A ptheriag of 160,000 sea is spoken of. On Sunday lut from 5,000 to 6,000 penons rw *Mud the coonsaisa et Notre Done from the hands of the Arehbishop of Parts. Abdel - Rader has been named a member of the Paris Zoological llooisty of Acclimatatioa. The Emir hav ing boom Whined dude( his sojourn at Brooms that the society was dmistms of acclimatising Allots goats, seta his a flock of these animals as a meant. _ _ M. Gander Pages, Minister of Francs ander the Bspeblie, is at prams% at Madrid. Some Austrian capitalists, says the Mereure de Sore's, propose to avail tkerseelvos of the right trendy grained to Eatopeass te acquire real estate is Turkey. A *misty se being formed to effeet vast acquieitiose of laud is the Baroness provisoes, senetially in YOusella. TUE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S BERVICS.—The fol lowing Galan of the Bast India Campuses army Mee been allow.d to votive frees the eertice :—M ajar J. W. Banat, Beagal let Sealers; Brent Major Job's Opines, Mara Ste Native Infantry; Serawn Sassed Col, M.D., Madras Medial Establishment; Brevet Major Edward Skipper, _ _ Bombay 7th Native lafaauy ; fiestas sat F. E. Hantar, Bombay 4th Native Ishtar, ; Liestassat H. E. Edli*, Indian Navy, Bombay Establishmest ; Mr. Joseph Welk, branch pilot, Isdian navy. 7h. foll)wirm sypointments es assistant °Upham, hsve keen made ;—The 1t.,. I , l2 ._ ari Dania James, M.A. of Magdalen Ball, Oxford, t o Etebisageel Establishment; ths Rev. Alexander Dn= Nicholson, M.A. of St. Peter's Wiese, Cambrid" is Beegsl Ilaletiastieal Bitablhhinest. Mr. Gerard Henry Duld has bees admitted a volantser for the India& Navy. Mr. Beinuel Augustus Glidden has bees appointed a esp. tsia's clerk ler the laths& Navy.—timsth IBM/ Bid is Over land Moil. THR AMERICAN MAILS, &C.-LIVERPOOL, TUES. DAT, 6 ~w.—No Odle's lime yet heap 140011re4 of the Canard Royal Mail stems ship America, Csptein Wickman, with the snails from the United States and Canada, &eel deities from New York to the 11th, Boston to the 12th, sad Halifax to tte 14. h last. Front the caution always evinced by the Canard eatheanden no ow &Awe is felt at bar nos-arrival, it being believed that Captain Wickman hes ram fir to the emetliwsrf, to sr Ad lee. The Calabria stainer will take the piths of the America, and earry the nails ow Saturday zest to Batas and Halifax. The Halted States mail Maser Balite is not expected till Thursday. POTATO PLANTIIIO.—The greatest activity is die. played is t►is part of the enantry In potato planting. The socaseaos of t h e bumbler classes is tbeir favourite atealent has boss folly restored, end the quantity already planted fait ezeseds any format yeas.— Shp lowlsal. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. --• MOM 01/1 owx 40112111111 , 011D11174 PARIB, TVISDAT Imams. This eventhg'i Pays says :—" The Congress, which held a melting yesterday, amembled again to-day at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The fact shows the activity of the plenipotentiaries, and, coupled with other cironntstanoes, appears to as to indicate a proximate solution." _ The ifou'tner of today announces that the state of her Majesty the Empress continuing to be a:- oiliest, no further bulletin of her Majesty's health will be bead. In the same publication it is stated that Prince Jerome Napoleon, being out of danger, and his state gradually improving, this bulletin will be the last. The Bourn was very inactive to-day. There was a feeling of disappointment at the silence of the Monteur on the subject of pesos. The Rents fell 150. for cash, and closed at yesterday's price for so count. There was scarcely a variation of a franc or two in railways. Credit ktobilier remained nearly stationary. A negotiation is going on between the Banks of England and France with a view to a simultaneous redaction of discount by the two establishments. The government has given orders to the assurance companies to invest their disposable capital in pur chases of stook or shares, and not in reports. The Debate, commenting upon an article by the favourite 'government writer, published in the last number of the Constitutions's', says: The Cotutififfiefotel of yeetardey contains, in referent* to M. de Morny's speech on behalf et the Corps Legislatif, ►od the Emperor's sumer thereto, a violent and declama tory article, such se, with few Clef phones, us all thou which proceed from the pen of M. Greaten de Caesarian. Certainly, If anything could destroy' the 'Cot of the very appropriate language of M. de Moray and the dignified and moderate reply of the Emperor it would be the commentary which M. Grimier de Cusegase t►iake fit to append. Frankly can any man imagine that he is serving a government when he alms that all its opponent' an people of a nature " more bully t►an human," sad us a prey to "hallu cination which deserves a madhouse?" Such language would dump the but canes. M. de Racy, the mdactsur of the Dibate, who signed the article in which the above paragraph is contained, was summoned to the police-office to-day. On the question of the amnesty the Presse con tain' the following very sensible reply to the argu ments of the Pays and Patrie : We are well costes tsd that the menesty should apply to all the refugees without distinction, bat we do sot agree with the oonclusioa of the Patt ie. That eonelusice is based upon as etrations prieeiple. The Petrie easomes that for a man to be subjected to the law, it is necesiary that he should have *sprawly recognised it, and that every one in cluded is on amnesty who did not bnitally submit to the law would be ezimptsd from its opersten. That is not st. The law of a eountryunvaila throughout Its utmost bounds, =Oa Medal spot the recalcitrants as well as upon those who willingly conform to it; every citizen, and eves in many amential pointsevery foreigner, recognise', or least submits to the law by the mere fact of setting his feet upon the soil. THE FRENCH ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. The Moniker of yesterday contains the following paragraph on the present condition of the French army in the Crimea: In Its impression of March 22, the Times, on the faith of Its French oorreepoodest, represents oar Crimean army es in want of provisions, clothe*, everything, and as abandoned by tbe government of the Emperor, who is supposed to have no longer any solicitude for his brave troops. The Tines goes se far as to say that our soldiers are so reduced as to go about and pick up for their subsistence the spoiled biscuit sad the broke' victuals thrown away by the English soldiers. With regard to this lest assertion we shall observe that, if the scarcity should make itself felt ia our camps, oar allies would hasten to share their resources with us, as we our esteem did with them; and that the generous offer they re cently made us at Constantinople, of placing their medical cores at our disposal, is a sullefeat proof for us of what they would do in the Crimea if mein reality were in want of provisions. But the Tinto, we have no doubt, will re pot that it wee sot better informed when it learns that the French army Is provisioned in such a manner u to receive fresh bend every day ; that it has in sure Roar for three msoths in advance ; and that the greater part of oar troops receive rations of fresh vegetables, meat out to them in put quantities from Coestautioople. As for the clothes it nay be affirmed that never, at any period, were the wants of ea army so amply supplied ; each soldier in the Crimea has received, in addition to his regimentals, a complete winter suit, consisting of a woollen felt cap, a short cloak with a ►ood, a pair of Bulgarian gaiters, • ' woollen or flawed belt, a pais of worsted stockings, a pair of wooden oboes, and a pair of II eves. It is true that, not withstanding the ears of which A has Incessantly been the °bleat, our army his been for some time visited with sick ness, which stems to spare our allies more fortunate than ourselves But if one considers that our troops are en atoprd around Sebastopol, en the very theatre of the struggle—that is to lay, on a posed which, having served as a tomb for so many victims, is far from offering those wadi:ions of healthiness which the English *ray finds at Balailers, it will be understood that the present thfiriority Of oar sanitary state may be the muumuu of unvoidable circumstances, and that this cannot be attributed to a went of solicitude. Let us add that they have now succeeded in improving this cooditioa,"aod doubtless before long they will have completely mastered it. We may hope for this happy reset with the return of the fine season, and from the men earn adopted for combating the disease, especially from the coosidera , ile drafts seat away to Constantinople, and from the establishment at this lain place of new barrack-amble laces., roomy and well ventilated. NICOLAIEFF. A letter from Nicolsidr o in the Mondeur de la Flails, gives soma details of what is going on at pre sent at that place: Two days beck a aommiasion, complied of five persons, aid presided over by one of tee heads of the Bard of Ad mirsity, arrived here from St. Petersburg *herded with the task of taking an inventory of all that the dockyards and eternal contained. It was received in due fora by Captain &big'', of the Russian navy, formerly secretary to the Board of Admiralty of the Blatk Ita, now dissolved, and at once commenced ita climatical. The Grand Duke Con stantine is, it is said, to arrive here in a few days to in spect the proceedings of the commission. The materiel lying is this establishment, coneidered capable of being turned to account, is to be transported to the Baltic, after having been classified end duly marked down la the bloke of the onimission, article by article. Already eli the utensils for manufacteriag gunpowder and the materials from the artillery depot have been loaded en carts Winging to the military bag pipe train, and ere to set out without delay. The navy school for the sena of de nobility, the school of maritime mincer., end that of the naval artillery, are already eva cuated. Bailer menses are to be applied to Rhinos. That pert, though shorn of its former splendour, still eon ;sins some gee eitablisheaents belonging to the imperial nary, which ore now to caste to emir. The commission has received orders to /reseed there, and to heeled* that place is its labours. In additions, is order to correspond with all them measures, the defences and ammials of Otchakoff, Ovidiolol, Tempel, and Veszesensk, and other fortified pinta of that sone established to co-operate with the idea is virtue of which Sebastopol and Nicolait fF were created, are shoat to be notably diminished. No one can precisely say spirit Nicelaiiff will become after its being thus aban doned by the war establishments. It is said that, in spite . . of Use reprn agitations of Odessa, it will be declined a free port, in order to attract Mere the trade of all nations. It is also said that a university is to be established there for t►e young men of the r ch families of the 'ramble. Already, t►e Academy of Scieneee if fit. Petersburg has proposed to establish thin en agronomical obsireetory of the second class, and a meteorological one of the Best, the connU7 being exceedingly faroarable for such establishments. Count Rodolphe d'Appony, the new Austrian Mi- Witer it oar Court, has orrivad at Manic% oa his way to London. POLAND. WARSAW, 14xson 11. Since I saw you the colour of things in 'world has changed. In this country everything is suffenag under the effects of hopes disappointed, which though always vague, are now considered as lost. The le v 7 of conscripts has been postponed until Easter. This is a momentary relief, for the kingdom is in the extremity of distress in consequence of a mortality never before equalled, eves during the pre valence of the most virulent epidemics. This is tensed by the bad harvests and by the divines among the cattle. Add to this the number of hands drawn from agriculture tor military service, and you will obtain very melancholy results. There are some people who will tell you that this country has made a great deal of money by the war. This is only true as regards the cornfutors, the Jews, and the intermediaries of the Russian trade in the divers articles which peas through this way, and as regards one part of the country only, viz , the government of Podlachia, which has, indeed, sold its produce at an enormous price. The price of provisions was, it is true, every where very high, but no one had any to sell, while everybody was obliged to boy. The mind of the public in the country has lately been occupied with the changes to be introduced in the administration, which seem, however, to be nothing more than changes of persons. Prince Pia kiewitch died in most excruciating agony. He is replaced by Prince Gortcbakoff, commander of the Cri mean army, andwho wu fora long time chief of Prince Pukiewitch's staff. As we are not to have a grand duke or a prince of the blood, as we were promised, nor a Pole, there are, perhaps, lets objection, to Prince Gortchakoff than to any other, except Kisieleu, the minister of the domains, but he will introduce nothing new. Education will be as much neglected as ever, the censorship as severe. However, venality may, perhaps, be less tolerated, for the prince is honest, though avowedly an enemy of this nation. During three months power has been held provi sionally by General Count Vincent Kresinski. This has sufficed to bring to light a number of cases of turpitude, of theft, of scandalous proceedings set aside by the late marshal. In his strong-box have been found sixteen millions of Polish florins, spoils of the city of Warsaw, derived from the surplus of the cash accounts of the commission charged with billeting soldiers in Warsaw, and who receive in money the contributions of those who desire to be exempted. After this can we wonder should the city be bankrupt? One fact of importance to commerce is the permis sion granted to the transports of Prussian trade, to come as far up as Warsaw. In the deplorable state of our railway, and of the waggons belonging to it, and considering the depredations made by the Coe. tom-house officers on the frontiers, this is a very lid measure. The first transports consisted ot coa traband of war; the centre of this commerce was at Berlin. The agents, Messrs. Freenket (married to an Englishwoman) and Luki, have made large fortunes. I transmit to you herewith a memorial in Russian (you will no doubt find some one to translate it), pre sented by the nobles of Vilna to the Emperor, who sent back the parcel without opening it. It is a request in favour of the Polish language and of a university. Translation of a petition addressed to his Majesty the Em peror of Rnesia by the Cc rpotation of MAW of the Go vernment of Vilna. Availing themselves of their cnvoca.ion for the 'porpoise of elections, the chinos of the g eeeee meat of Vilna, be longing to the Clam of the nobler, hasten to fulfil their first duty, end their most sacred obligation, by laying at the foot of your Maletty's throne the expression of their most re speettol sentiments. By an inrpiretion coming to them from God, nations behold in the descendants of their princes the foundations of their future prospects, and they devote themielves to them with all their tool and with inezprm sible lots. Such are our sentiments, great monarch. We behold in you our hope (or the present and the safeguard of our future destiny, and we venture, with filial love, to express to you, oar powerful fattier, our wants and oar de sire. In stardom*, with your 'salted will, Sire, his Ex cellency the Minister of the Interior, Lanakoi, has commu nicated to as the noble sentiments of your Majesty coaaern log the inviolable preservation of the laws which have been granted to lie. The words of your =framer have penetrated the depths dont souls. They have confirmed sad strength ened our hopes, end have emboldened as to take the liberty ' of respectfully laying at the feet of your Majesty the sub oined p.tition : lot. According to Article 78, heeding 3 of the collection of laws (itstato relitiog to public functions curetted by means of election), the citizens of the western government", belonging to the ems of the nobles, are deprived of the pri. alleges which are erjayed by all the nobles in the other governments cf Great Ba rri e. This results more parti cularly from the fJlowing regulation In order to be admitted by means of election to the exercise of the veriest' functions thtrain conferred, it is measlier, to have served the state ten years in a military or civil capacity." In addition to this, levant citizens of the class of the nobles having lost the confidence of the government for the lot fire-sad..wenty years, and *von previous to this epcch, they cannot be sleeted to exercise the duties which our ' elections impose upon us. Finally, the noble citizens of the government of Vilna are not always admitted to exercise the public functions, the appointments to which ere made directly by the government, while our sons ars obliged to fulfil their dative as citizens in the governments of Or.at Russia. These rerrictions considerably diminish the importance of the electioss of the wcrtby representativm of the corpo ration of nobles in the government of Vilna. Groat monarch, we are convinced that in your inethwast- PA* kindness towards your subjects, you consider as AI, mat powerful and gentraus father, as equally your chil dren, that you desire to leave to all liberty of action and of eonseisuce, top • molt sacred bond between man sad his duties, his faith, his language, and the customs of his forefathers. Under your benevolent sceptre several heterogeneous rases euj ty the lows which your crowned ancestors have bequeathed to them. Merciful monarch, we alto are your most faithful lab ' jeep. We, like the re t, make our taring' ecoording to our means. Our sone, with the molt perfect abnegation of themselves, are shedding their blood in the present war in the ranks of your warriors. In the civil service oar oompa triota are likewise proving themselves aseful servants of the common weal. Let, therafors, your supreme gruel dewed upon us, by coutsrriug upon us the right ' • ' ' of electing all thou It hs hays attained a certain grade,with oat limitatlos as to the number of year, of civil or of milt tart' service. Ccmtnand that tte functionaries sppinted directly by the government, shall in future be nominated without distinction of reiigion. Deign to grant to our eons the faculty of salving wherever local circumstances or family relations. shall render it most euy and advantageous (or them. god. The considerable distances which minute our government from all the towns of the empire, are the trin civil calm of many f our youog peopV being, for want of the oecessary means. deprived of the advantages of &higher education. Our e iuntry being preeminently agricultural, commerce, industry, and manufactures among as are in a state of absolute inferiority. Agriculture alto is far from hay.ng attained that degree of c evelopoteut, which can only be given to it by agricultural scasoce, applied practically to localities and climates. - • - -• --- The want c f ouchanicisor, of chemists, of medical pram , ' Wieners, sad members of other 'peels' profusion', is keenly felt. These neon forte as to supplicate your Mete►t, to re establish the Utile. rely of Vilna, which is so indispensable for the purpose of huaooi'iog the benevolent views of the government with the solicitude and hope' of the parents belonging to the corpor►tion of the noble". The progress of science, of the arts, and of industry, is trans- emitted from generic on to gecerati, n, and passes away, but the banediotioes of a whole people live for ever in the impe rishable remembrance which it retains of the geoerous and mobile solicitude of a sovereign who is the Maher of his people. Allow us, therefore, Sire, to solicit Ton to accept the truthful sad most crux ctinl assuranee that our mat mut thoughts are inspired by the love and devotion that we beer to you. In sir hearts, august monarch, dwells a hope of a comic- titre connelicso, and we trust that our faith—nay, even our prayers, ere bat a feeble retie" of your noble sentiments, and of your paternal and benevolent thoughts. We ire, &c., &o. Following up several questions which were die, unwed by the eaporation of the nobles of Vilna, and which are appended to this petition, we find the fol. - - parige: Finally, the corporation of the noble. disowned the ques tion relative to the Polish language, which, though spoken in private and family life, and though the language in which religion is taught, is not used in the scientific institu tions of the government of Fitts. This motive induces the corporation of nobles to solicit the chief of ihe government, in hie capacity of Curator-General of Studies and Instruc tion, to direct, or obtain that it be directed, that instruction la all the schools in the government of Vilna be imputed la the Polish language. HUNGARY. The Augsburg Gazetge states that the recent visit et Prince von Holtenlohe-Oehringen to Vienna and his in terview with the Emperor had reference to the existence of a project for rendering the corn.megasinee of Hungary available for commerce. The design is to erect large 'tore houses In Hungary itself, to which the corn-growers of the country can bring their produce for sale, and a chain of such granaries from the Lower Danube to the Rhine will give the facilities required fee the exportation of Hungarian corn, 1 1 proper means of transport by land and water being already prepared. 'The capital necessary fir the realisation of this plan is to be raised by shares. Herr Rigaud, a merchant of Frankfort, who is director of the steam-tug company on the Mains and the Rhine, and who, together with the Prince, had an audience of his Majesty, is ene of the patties inte rested in carrying out tta plan in question. AUSTRALIA. (FROM OVA OWN CORRESPONDINS.) MELBOURNE, Dcc. 25, 1855. The produce of this year's wheat harvest has com menced to come in, and the crop is reported of very favourably. The December sales of Crown Lauds have moved off very heavily, competition among bidders has bees quiet, and many lots for which there were no offers were withdrawn. Contracts for the erection of the New Houses of Parliament have been called for, and it has been made iraptrative that the portion of the work more imme diately required shall be completed by the let day of May next. The building may be said to consist of two parts—the outer and the inner ; the outer bear ing all the architectural and decorative features, and forming the necessary chambers, offices, and appur tenances; the inner being plain and inexpensive, and containing the two halls of assembly with some minor accommodation. The plan has been so laid down that the edifice can be erected by degrees, and this course it is now proposed to follow by the erection in the first place of the legislative esosrably chamber, the legislative council or representative house continuing to occupy St. Patrick's Hall. The style is the modern Roman, and the whole building, when complete, will cover an area of 305 feet by 250 feet. The grand façade will front Spring-street, and will be sixty feet in height. The exact site is between Spring-street and St. Peter's Church, almost facing the upper end of Bourke-street, one of the most airy and elevated situations to be found in the immediate vicinity of Melbourne. The Bile walls of the chamber will be divided into compartments by lonic c ilumns, and coupled columns of the same order are ranged along the ends. The apace between the pilasters will form panels, in which the heroes of our colonial history will find niches for their portraits. The opponents of the 53rd clause in the new Con stitution Act—the clause which grants 50,0001. an nually for the support of religion—have met with a signal defeat in the Legislative Council. A motion was introduced by au overzealous member for the purpose of defeating the clause, but it receit ed the support of but four members in a home of forty. The old grant was 30,0001.. and the vote of the Council increasing the sum to 50,000/. was carried by a majo rity of four to one. Alma 95 per cent. of the popu lation of Victoria are in the receipt of state support, and may therefore be said to be in favour of it, whilst those who do not receive the endowment are 7,000 protestant dissenters, 4.000 Baptists, 3,000 Lutherans, 1,180 Unitarians, and 281 members of the Society of Friends, or the very smallest fraction of the com munity. The import duty charged in England on articles of gold manufactured in this colony his excited consi derable discussion. The question has recently been brought before the Council, and the following motion adopted: ° That this house having learned that an import duty exceeding the duty of excise is levied in the ports of Great Britain and Ireland on articles manu factured in foreign countries from the precious metals, including thereby all such articles the manufacture of this colony, take s this opportunity of requesting his Excellency the Governor to bring the matter under the notice of the home government, with a view of placing the Victoria artist in precious metals on the same footing as the British manufacturer." The Melbourne and Hobson Bay Railway Company have obtained leave to bring a bill into the Council to enable them to extend their line to St. Kilda and Brighton. The government are pledged to support the bill, and the operations will commence so soon as it has paned the house. The foliowiog congratulatory addresses to her most gracious Majesty the Queen and the Emperor of the French on the success of the allied armies before the walls of Sebastopol have been passed by the Council : May it please your ;Majesty, we, your M•jetty's most loyal and dutiful subject., the members of the Legislative Council of Victoria, in council asremtltd, humbly beg to approach your Majesty's Orane with renewed expressions of loyalty and affection. The accounts of the Worious success mirth has attended the WWI of our fellow-rountrymen and their brave allies have lately :etched our shores, and we hasten ti offer to your II our emcee. ongratulations on the glorious remits which have attended the operations of the allied forces Toth by sea sad land, and more parties lsrly on the di structirn •-t Sebssiopol, aod the ant re anni hilation of the enemy's fleet in the Black Sea. At the same time we otter to your blejes7 our eungratulati.ms on this sums., we deeply sympatoise with your Majesty sad the whole British Empire in deplorir g the intones) sat rifica of life at which suzh lllCCeifti have been obtsised ; and we de sire enthusiastically to ezprees our admit ation at the unsnb deed courage and patient endurance wts,ch has so nobly characterised our brave fellow-countrymen and allies, wader the complicated hurt...real war, privation, and disease. (The address to the Emperor of the French was mutates mutandis a copy of this.) A motion has been introduced into the Council is reference to making the clown lands of the colony available for the purpose of rewarding meritorious soldiers is the Russian war, but the question is not yet decided. The other colonies in the Australian group have set apart a day of rejoicing on the same account; but the government of Victoria have dc elected to do so, alleging that they have not received ° official informatiou" of the fall of Sebastopol. About twelve months ego the same fact was announced by the same government in flaming placards, and now they appear to be shy of acting till assurance becomes doubly sure. The chief feature in trade claiming attention is the ' rapid decline which has taken place in the price of flour, which a fortnight back was at 381. and 401., and is now freely sold at 301. The new crop is coming forward in good grinding condition. As a sample of the value at which the Sydney sovereign is held in Victoria, a local bank has just received one bag of a thousand, seat by mistake among a shipment of British sovereigns, and they are now soliciting the government to allow them to send them back to Sydney duty free ; for the Sydney coin not being legalised here is liable, of course, to the gold export duty of 2s. 6d. per oz. It is to be hOped that our legislature will not sanction the cur. reucy of the Sydney mint, as we have always a euffi. ciency of British sovereigns for circulation, and abun. dance of raw gold to remit fur alt commercial pur poses. The diggings on the whole continue to yield favour ably; but concerning one locality which a short while back attracted considerable numbers of the popula tion, a local correspondent writee:—" Mount Black wood will soon be deserted. The diggers have fled from there, and in many instances have left their tools, tents, &c., behind them , not thinking them worth carrying away." But a few weeks back and this was one of the principal " rushee." December seems to he a fatal month for Ballarat. Last December, the rebellion, which cost numbers their lives, and this year the loss of about twelve or fourteen lives and an immense quantity of properly by fire and flood. Early in the month the largest fire which ever occurred in Ballarat took place; six